[SLUG] Tiled windows

2015-02-18 Thread Kevin Shackleton
s, or semi-commercial interest? Thanks, Kevin. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Linux Exchange Alternative

2014-01-29 Thread Kevin Fitzgerald
HI Edwin I have started using the new sent yap community server (www.zentyal.org) with openchange built in.. It rocks! Sent from my iPad > On 30 Jan 2014, at 2:32 pm, Edwin Humphries > wrote: > > G'day all. > > Some time ago I had a look at a Linux alternative to M$ Exchange - I seem to

Re: [SLUG] TCP/IP over I2C

2013-06-03 Thread Kevin Shackleton
Wouldn't Modbus be a more suitable framework for out-of-band management? It's normally used over RS-485 "networks" - a single pair multi-drop configuration with a single master. It would have far lower overhead than TCP/IP. You might start at www.modbus.org/tech.php . Ch

Re: [SLUG] Welcome to the new command line for linux

2013-04-03 Thread Kevin Saenz
The developers of Enlightenment are very freaken awesome. It won't take long for the copy cat WM developers to replicate this functionality. On 04/04/2013, at 2:10 PM, David Lyon wrote: > Sorry for double posting but here is the homepage to Terminology: > > - http://www.enlightenment.org/p.

[SLUG] Linux Fax Server

2012-03-21 Thread Kevin Fitzgerald
Hi Guys and Gals I have a customer that wants a little Fax server to receive faxes from two lines and send them to email as PDF. I have suggested external services such as UT Box but the customer does not want this Is Hylafax still the way to go? What Modems/Fax cards have people used successfull

Re: [SLUG] The 'nanny state' and freedom of choice

2011-06-28 Thread Kevin Saenz
It has everything to do with the tracks and the guage of the tracks. NSW tracks in particular are rated around 110Kms/hour. But with the extreme temperatures (definable difference between seasons) we experience the tracks would require more frequent realignment. Rather than the once or twice a y

Re: [SLUG] Article, Linux, APC.

2011-06-23 Thread Kevin Shackleton
But they do - employers do pay you to use MS, otherwise their IT manager might have to shoulder some responsibility. Kevin On 24/06/2011 6:24 AM, "David Lyon" wrote: > and late model Ubuntu releases run very nicely on 8 core machines... > > somebody would have to pay me to

Re: [SLUG] Subscription-based netfiltering (parentally speaking)

2011-06-21 Thread Kevin Saenz
LOL > I believe the main motive for keeping 'adult' material away from children is > to try and prevent them from embarrassing their parents with questions like: > "Daddy, what does it mean when two people do THIS?" > > Jon. > >> >> Being 18 doesn't have much to do with it either. That's a v

Re: [SLUG] Subscription-based netfiltering (parentally speaking)

2011-06-21 Thread Kevin Saenz
I am assuming that the computer is in the loungeroom/family room. I guess with a subscription based tool you might need to use an authentication based system which could be very annoying with the number of popups you'd get if you require a user based internet filter. about 10 years ago I used S

Re: [SLUG] new cluster install

2011-06-02 Thread Kevin Saenz
A lot of those questions you have raised are usually answered in documentation for the virtual environment you are running. Let me add a disclaimer that I have ceased supporting organisations that are smaller than 2000 staff. So my head may be in the clouds The issue you have is you limit your

Re: [SLUG] ADSL download speed/settings.

2011-05-10 Thread Kevin Shackleton
Silicon Chip mag this month suggests some ADSL routers are line-polarity sensitive. Try swapping around the incoming phone wires to see. Kevin On 10/05/2011 3:27 PM, "GeraldCC" wrote: > On Tuesday, May 10, 2011 11:14:35 AM gonzo01 wrote: >> I'm using Linux Mint 10.0 64 b

Re: [SLUG] spelunkers of the world ...

2011-02-18 Thread Kevin Shackleton
27;t need to have a diode in series, only if you have to guard against reverse connection of your 24 V. Maybe the 24 V is AC? In which case there should be no diodes and the switch is a triac, generally driven by a trigger device, normally an optocoupler. hth Kevin. On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 13:36

Re: [SLUG] REMINDER: SLUG Monthly Meeting: 4th February 2011 - Lightning Talks!

2011-02-06 Thread Kevin Waterson
Where are SLUG meetings held these days? K On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 11:20 +1100, Tim Ansell wrote: > Just a reminder that SLUG is going ahead this Friday. > > There where a lot of awesome stuff at Linux.conf.au, if you went > please give a lightning talk! > > Tim > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 6:06 P

Re: [SLUG] Federal Gov Open Source Policy

2011-02-06 Thread Kevin Saenz
any > bugs or features that the government finds or requires would be given back > to the community as well. > > Anyway, at least it something, and in general I think that Kate Lundy has > her head screwed on and is pushing in the right direction > > On Fri, Feb 4, 2

Re: [SLUG] Federal Gov Open Source Policy

2011-02-03 Thread Kevin Saenz
It's been a while since I have responded to slug emails. You need to put this in to perspective. There are a number departments that actually use open source, to some extent. You must bear in mind that there are others who have a strictly microsoft. I know of one department 6 years ago require

Re: [SLUG] So slow...

2010-11-25 Thread Kevin Shackleton
Doesn't it actually get colder for a while after winter solstice? k. On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 12:36 +1100, elliott-brennan wrote: Maybe you should try it on January 2nd > > mark adrian bell Wed, > > on January first, -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscrip

Re: [SLUG] Fax to Email server

2010-11-02 Thread Kevin Fitzgerald
on the PSTN line rental, calls, and another box to >>> administer. >>> There are many of these services. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Ben Donohue >>> donoh...@icafe.com.au >>> >> Ok, someone else already mentioned it, so I'll sh

[SLUG] Fax to Email server

2010-11-02 Thread Kevin Fitzgerald
Hi all I have a customer who wants a fax server, to take in 3 PSTN fax lines (Currently going to Original Fax hardware) and send the recieved faxes to an email and to a local printer. A quick look suggests to me that Hylafax would fit the bill but I've never worked on Hylafax before so my questio

Re: [SLUG] Firefox 4.0

2010-09-19 Thread Kevin Shackleton
on TX710 (ok - I haven't tried hard). But no broken dependencies either. Kevin. On Sun, 2010-09-19 at 18:41 +1000, Peter Rundle wrote: > Hi Sluggers, > > does anyone on this list, who isn't running the latest version of Ubuntu and > doesn't re-build their Linux d

Re: [SLUG] Logic Analyser

2010-09-15 Thread Kevin Shackleton
Arduino programming environment works just fine on my Debian, as it probably does under Windows. And it's good practice in C. Cheers, Kevin. On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 14:10 +1000, Mark Pearson wrote: > On 15/09/10 11:03, james wrote: > > It causes a warm glow when someone makes a produ

Re: [SLUG] Is the Internet Filter Australia's Berlin Wall

2010-09-05 Thread Kevin Waterson
resting reading. The above > seems to be a good read. > Nothing new there, rehash of the same old... -- Kind regards Kevin Chant Hare Krishna and be happy!! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Gr

[SLUG] RAID5 Woes

2010-04-17 Thread Kevin Fitzgerald
Hi All I need advice. In a nutshell I have a customer with a 5 Disk Software RAID 5 on an old Fedora Box (The Archive Box). Recently, after a power failure, Two of the drives did not re-join the Array when the machine came back up. DMESG tells me that they are Not Fresh. So the Drives are wor

Re: [SLUG] Overheating

2010-02-02 Thread Kevin Shackleton
eware - the white stuff is supposed to be carcinogenic, keep it off your hands. Use silver stuff by preference. Kevin. On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 14:35 +1100, Jake Anderson wrote: > you only need the grease if you have taken the heatsink off. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailin

Re: [SLUG] Wireless Broadband?

2010-01-23 Thread Kevin Shackleton
u have to know it's going to work, which is never a problem with the network devices. Kevin. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Wireless Broadband?

2010-01-21 Thread Kevin Shackleton
t a single Windows machine hanging off it, causing all sorts of driver heartache. Now it runs through a wireless hub with several people using it trouble-free. In my book USB is in the same camp as Bluetooth as a 'solution' to avoid. Kevin. On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 20:44 -0800, j blrow

Re: [SLUG] Australian government to censor your internets

2009-12-17 Thread Kevin Shackleton
ut because they should. Kevin. On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 17:46 +1100, meryl wrote: > Heracles is right. The Filtering problem is more about stifling freedoms > of speech and censoring the Net than it is about blocking child porn, > and it is bound to be extended into other areas so freedom of s

Re: [SLUG] Data Redundancy, RAID5/LVM backup decisions

2009-11-12 Thread Kevin Shackleton
s were built before the Atom. With either whatever the CPU is (cpuid won't apt-get) or the Atom, power (sorry, slaps wrist, I mean _energy_) consumption is largely the discs. Big difference on the meter (http://www.altronics.com.au/index.asp?area=item&id=K4600) when they spin down. Kevin.

Re: [SLUG] Data Redundancy, RAID5/LVM backup decisions

2009-11-07 Thread Kevin Shackleton
feature you may want that the Duo doesn't have but some boxes do is a 2nd Ethernet adapter. I presume with 2 adapters you can use the box to do some firewalling / DMZ sort of stuff. Cheers, Kevin. On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 15:51 +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > 2009/11/8 Kevin Shackleton : &

Re: [SLUG] Data Redundancy, RAID5/LVM backup decisions

2009-11-07 Thread Kevin Shackleton
Save the environment - buy a NAS. (my mirrored 2-disc NAS averages about 20 W) Cheers, Kevin On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 15:01 +1100, Mike Andy wrote: > Ok so i'm trying to figure out what to do with all my data when I > upgrade and i've got more options and ideas than i know w

[SLUG] Using a Linux live CD to recover a Windows installation DVD

2009-10-30 Thread Kevin Shackleton
ty. (of course having access to the recovery option in Windows is no assurance of achieving a stable system some time in the future!) I've done a bit of googling for some hints without success. Any ideas? Thanks, Kevin. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http:

Re: [SLUG] Vanilla kernel headers

2009-10-24 Thread Kevin Shackleton
Daniel, You explain quite excitingly what happens when your headers don't match your kernel. I've never actually studied what the any-any script does - perhaps you have an equally interesting summary of that? Thanks, Kevin. On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 20:25 +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote:

Re: [SLUG] Vanilla kernel headers

2009-10-23 Thread Kevin Shackleton
look in communities.vmware.com/thread/26693 and http://symbolik.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/vmware-any-any-update116/ hth Kevin On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 17:03 +1100, Ashley Glenday wrote: > Guys, I've tried googling this so please don't solve it too easily and > embarass me. >

Re: [SLUG] Dual monitor emulation on a single monitor]

2009-10-21 Thread Kevin Shackleton
In my view "wide-screen" is weasel-speak for "squat-screen" (especially for notebooks). But that's because I mainly do mapping where square (or better still round) is the ultimate. Kevin. On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 10:59 +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > Is there a

Re: [SLUG] attaching lots of disks to PowerEdge 860?

2009-09-29 Thread Kevin Shackleton
or there is: http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/ 45 discs, 67 TB, under US$8k, in one box on SATA port multipliers. 50% over the cost of raw drives. I don't suppose blazing speed was their primary goal, but security was up there.

Re: [SLUG] setting up squid proxy

2009-08-18 Thread Kevin Shackleton
- like a politician's promise". Kevin. On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 18:38 +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > What's "transparent" about it? It's just "reverse proxy" as far as I know. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Cheap 3G mobile internet broadband plans ... what they don't have!

2009-08-06 Thread Kevin Shackleton
apped plan. Telstra == being shafted. Kevin. On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 09:41 +0800, jam wrote: > I just setup one for a customer on telstra: -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] linux firewall/vpn devices wanted

2009-08-06 Thread Kevin Shackleton
Jumping substantially out of the $500 ceiling, are there any opinions on the Seagate BlackArmor NAS devices? They are Linux, have 2 Ethernet ports, so should have some potential for firewall plus various server functions, all in a relatively low-power package. Kevin. On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 16:49

Re: Motorolla U9 was Re: [SLUG] Kogan Agora Netbooks, getting OT . .

2009-07-28 Thread Kevin Shackleton
able.html You'll find all sorts of useful information such as the meaning of botanic names and correct spelling eg Indigifera: Latin indigo + fero, to bear (two species are sources of the dye) [1]. Cheers, Kevin [1] F.A. Sharr "WA plant names and their meanings" UWAP 1978 -- SLUG - Sy

Re: [SLUG] where to get an Ethernet hub (NOT a switch)

2009-07-19 Thread Kevin Shackleton
el? All hubs these days are "switching hubs" to which of course reduce the visibility of packets to third parties on the LAN. When you're in a hurry you say "switch" but it's still a hub. Kevin. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://

Re: [SLUG] Synchronizing from Windows to Linux

2009-05-26 Thread Kevin Shackleton
bandwidth (therefore also time) that might be consumed otherwise. If it works against an rsync daemon at the other end. Kevin. On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 12:11 +1000, Morgan Storey wrote: > Windows has the archive bit built in. You could simply xcopy/robocopy any > files with the archive bit to a s

Re: [SLUG] FINALISED - HD ( 1920 x 1080) monitor and Linux - advice pls.]

2009-05-14 Thread Kevin Shackleton
nd width of the screen. No-one said the pixels have to be square. 2c? Kevin. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Burn .ISO to install USB

2009-05-08 Thread Kevin Shackleton
s were doing wrong - I didn't bother to do that. Of course that would be a problem for you if it was Ubuntu you were trying to set up . . Regards, Kevin. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Debian!!!

2009-03-28 Thread Kevin Shackleton
ll let you know that Debian 5.0 is called "lenny" and it's the "stable" release - I'll leave it to you to explore other avenues. It didn't take me very long to find that, even though my satellite ISP is providing me about 4 KB/s at the moment. Kevin. On Sun, 200

Re: Insulting racial terms (was Re: [SLUG] Re: [chat] Version control)

2009-03-24 Thread Kevin Saenz
LMAO gold. On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Daniel Bush wrote: If only Robert had said "whoa there kemosabe!" Everything would have been just dandy. http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/7286/RANGERFARSIDE.GIF -- Michael Davies "Do what you think is interesting, do somethin

Re: Insulting racial terms (was Re: [SLUG] Re: [chat] Version control)

2009-03-21 Thread Kevin Saenz
We are Not Political Correctness R Us. thus can we all Drop this Political Correctness Nightmare and start discussing Linux related topics? On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 01:07:08PM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote: Alan L Tyree writes: On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:29:32 +1100 Sonia Hamilton wrote: PS

Re: Insulting racial terms (was Re: [SLUG] Re: [chat] Version control)

2009-03-21 Thread Kevin Saenz
[...] PS You might want to lookup what "tonto" means [1] before you go around calling people it. It was a term of disrespect for Amerindians on the US/Mexican border in the 1800's. At least be grammatically correct, and call me "tonta" :-p [1] http://www.spanishdict.com/translate/tonto F

Re: [SLUG] NAS storage compatibility

2009-03-14 Thread Kevin Shackleton
storage so that you have some sort of fire protection. Kevin. On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 20:46 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > what sort of performance do you get from it ? > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] NAS storage compatibility

2009-03-13 Thread Kevin Shackleton
PC sucking up power all day to function as NAS. Thanks, Kevin. . On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 11:05 +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > * Kevin Shackleton [2009-03-14 08:04:44 +0900]: > > Any thoughts on multi-disc NAS devices, firmware capability and drive > > formats? Looking at a mirror

[SLUG] NAS storage compatibility

2009-03-13 Thread Kevin Shackleton
Any thoughts on multi-disc NAS devices, firmware capability and drive formats? Looking at a mirroring dual-drive device for reliability, but what happens if the box dies - are the drives ext2/vfat/proprietary? Are they all SMB/ftp or do some require Windows-only client software? Thanks, Kevin

Re: [SLUG] Apache reverse proxying with MS

2009-03-09 Thread Kevin Saenz
I think you might be missing some other key config options can you send your reverse proxy config? if it's sensitive protect any sensitive data. does your reverse proxy settings work using standard www ports? On 10/03/2009, at 9:52 AM, Hongduc Nguyen wrote: Hi Slug, I'm trying to get Ap

Re: [SLUG] Lightweight Distro For Aging Laptop?

2009-02-26 Thread Kevin Shackleton
f-topic to the publishers and no doubt is a cheaper article to put together than an electronic project. Kevin. On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 10:15 +1100, Nigel Allen wrote: > Hi All > > Can anyone suggest a lightweight distro suitable for a Toshiba 1730 that > will support a Netgear WG511 Wi

Re: UPDATE [SLUG] Mythbuntu box shutting down at random

2009-02-20 Thread Kevin Shackleton
;d strip the components down (remove cards, RAM and CPU) and re-seat them all. Though it does sound like a mobo problem I wonder if the power supply unit is doing it's job properly. Maybe you could swap that out with another? Kevin. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Mythbuntu box shutting down at random

2009-02-20 Thread Kevin Shackleton
m you get more dust stuck down. Kevin. On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 22:24 +1100, Jake Anderson wrote: > elliott-brennan wrote: > > On the odd occasion the machine decides to reboot, > > > Anything interesting in the logs? > otherwise, potentially ram, or given its a little old, mo

[SLUG] installing eeebuntu from thumbdrive

2009-02-19 Thread Kevin Shackleton
tion as to the difference in end product (I don't have two thumbdrives). Regards Kevin. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] NAS device for home?

2009-01-13 Thread Kevin Shackleton
inside the unit and the fan now runs at full speed permanently. Fortunately nothing died (so far). Cheers, Kevin. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] NAS device for home?

2009-01-12 Thread Kevin Shackleton
blew up on me [the board got > fried] :( > I picked up a 1 TB SATA drive and a 5 1/4" USB / external housing with fan for about $205. This is roomy around the drive and runs nice and cool - a must for disc life. I passed by the "disc sauna" offerings. Kevin. -- SLUG - Sydney

[SLUG] setting up to install eeebuntu via thumbdrive

2009-01-06 Thread Kevin Shackleton
if I could install it but it says that the i386 version is 64 bit). Can someone please point me to a URL that might let me achieve Nirvana? Thanks, Kevin. btw - the reason I'd be interested is that Xandros has clagged out my network connections and I can't see why - probably parallel con

Re: [SLUG] How do you un-partition a HD

2008-12-22 Thread Kevin Shackleton
moments of weakness such as these. Good luck. Kevin. On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 09:41 +1100, Daryl Thompson wrote: > Help Help Help > > Last night a copied all my data onto a external Hard disk. then precoded to > install Linux forgetting to remove the external Hard disk. > > Now h

[SLUG] Garmin GPS

2008-12-04 Thread Kevin Shackleton
SLUGers I apologise for a couple of emails I just bashed out. On wrapping up this topic I realise I should have first asked SLUG if the group was OK with the attack I made on Garmin Support before I launched it. Kevin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.o

[SLUG] Garmin data

2008-12-04 Thread Kevin Shackleton
ther PC (w2k at workplace). The process within the Garmin domain focussed on licensing the data to the specific GPS unit number rather that any "tunnel" device, which is the angle I'd want to push back to them. Kevin. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http:/

[SLUG] Installing City Navigator under Linux

2008-12-04 Thread Kevin Shackleton
sta", "Mac" and "Universal", one would imagine that buying this imagery meant your $200 product would be readily usable under any OS that could verify licensed ownership through an open protocol such as a web logon. Could you please detail the process by which I can access my p

Re: [SLUG] Re: Which wireless data service should I signup to?

2008-12-04 Thread Kevin Shackleton
ese and the antennae through our Telstra rep. Kevin. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[Re: [SLUG] xargs with files with spaces]

2008-11-21 Thread Kevin Shackleton
gs, then it worked. Daniel's solution was a tidy alternative that did work. Regards, Kevin Forwarded Message > From: Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: slug@slug.org.au > Subject: Re: [SLUG] xargs with files with spaces > Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01

[SLUG] xargs with files with spaces

2008-11-21 Thread Kevin Shackleton
I'm having trouble finding the right syntax for using xargs to extract multiple zip files that have space characters in the name. Using null delimiters (eg like: find *.zip -print0 | xargs -0 unzip ) is not doing it for me. Kevin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing L

Re: [SLUG] eee pc 900 (20080709)

2008-07-13 Thread Kevin Shackleton
erent from a raft of actual notebook PCs. Kevin. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] usb automount problem with multiple logons

2008-07-09 Thread Kevin Shackleton
aps a setting should be "global" not "user"? Thanks, Kevin. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] more RS232: USB-RS232, PCI ?

2008-06-28 Thread Kevin Shackleton
onnection. You should be able to see all ports in Linux - there used to be specific drivers for DOS, needed because it had very crude IRQ handling on it's serial ports. hth, Kevin. On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 08:14 +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote: > On Thu, June 26, 2008 12:41 pm, Jobst Schmalenbac

Re: Compromised Linux box stories (Re: [SLUG] upgrading complicated installs)

2008-06-02 Thread Kevin Saenz
So how would you develop such a system whilst also allowing for the freedom and low barrier to entry that signifies the Free and Open Source Software movement? I expect that when regulation is forced upon us, barriers to entry will be the whole point. Unless we get in first. Will the parall

Re: [SLUG] opening com port in terminal

2008-05-25 Thread Kevin Shackleton
I would use minicom, which is quite easy to set up as a serial terminal and you can turn logging on and off. I used minicom today on my eeepc at our cattle yards to look at what was happening when our electronic weighing scales indicated to draft left or right - the dearly beloved vendors have upd

[SLUG] nfd probs

2008-05-25 Thread Kevin Shackleton
crash done in a simulator - no pain at all! Kevin. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] setting up nfs

2008-05-23 Thread Kevin Shackleton
On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 14:43 +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: > post your exports file? > As in "exportfs -ra"? Had done that. Perhaps I can get a log of why access isn't allowed? k. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.

[SLUG] setting up nfs

2008-05-23 Thread Kevin Shackleton
sponds to my default desktop logon ids but with a different username. I have tried "all_squash" as an option in the entries, which should allow anyone in, but that hasn't helped. The eeepc is on the same subnet and /etc/hosts.allow lets anyone on this subnet have access. Somethin

Re: [SLUG] Disk Full Message - help pls

2008-04-15 Thread Kevin Shackleton
like: find / -size 10M and work down in size. You ought to prefix these commands with "sudo" to give you rights to access all directories. Delete with caution! Kevin. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] DST in debain

2008-03-29 Thread Kevin Shackleton
ersion of Linux as old as Windows 2k. Though I don't think the DST methodology has changed in the 'nix environment in that time. Kevin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Citrix client fails to open app

2008-03-18 Thread Kevin Shackleton
ll the software, which turns out to be the linuxx86.tar.gz installation package. My understanding of reading the install manual and the many internet postings is that the web service is the role of npica.so. The web access seems to promise an almost configuration-free way to go so I'm keen to

Re: [SLUG] Citrix client fails to open app

2008-03-15 Thread Kevin Shackleton
her end of the versions, 10.6 says it can't connect and wants to retry after 30 seconds. Perhaps I need to work through a couple of bootable DVDs and see what Just Works and what Just Doesn't Work . . Cheers, Kevin. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.

[SLUG] Citrix client fails to open app

2008-03-14 Thread Kevin Shackleton
er plugin, so I made a symlink from $HOME/.mozilla/plugins to this file in /usr/lib/ICAClient - permissions are ok, but still no go. Any ideas on what remains to be done or on finding why the browser plugin does not seem to be found? Thanks, Kevin. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

OT - [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] open source management...]

2008-03-05 Thread Kevin Shackleton
Forwarded Message > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > My point is that even as the technical guys get older and > slow down, they bring in young people to fill in the gaps > and then concentrate on the precision components themselves. > > That enhances business growth and they pull in t

Re: [SLUG] USB - RS232 Adapters

2008-02-17 Thread Kevin Shackleton
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 10:21 +1100, Nigel Allen wrote: > Naturally the rack box only had one serial port. I'd bet there are two serial ports but only one available at the backplane. It's unfortunate that many motherboard facilities go to waste because vendors don't supply the little lead and back

Re: [SLUG] Data Leakage Prevention and Detection

2008-02-12 Thread Kevin Saenz
Sorry about coming into this discussion late in the day Let me see if I understand your requirements. You want to ensure that your data has been appropriately classified and if classified at a certain level you want the system to stop anyone sending the data out of the environment. if that

Re: [SLUG] Trying to create 'brady bunch-style' video

2008-02-02 Thread Kevin Shackleton
Sounds a bit like surveillance (multi-camera) software. k. On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 16:56 +1100, elliott-brennan wrote: > If I take four separate video streams of my > children and create four separate collections of > still images: -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slu

Re: [SLUG] File server

2008-01-02 Thread Kevin Shackleton
in the lounge (should I want to do media) and will take 6 * 3.5" drives eg Silverstone LC17. Enough for a new RAID array and a legacy drive or two. Any thoughts on a mobo that's clearly at the low power end of the spectrum but can still keep the drives and network humming? Thanks, Kevin

Re: [SLUG] mt-daapd

2007-12-24 Thread Kevin Shackleton
Thanks Jeremy - I'll run on that basis. K. On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 10:44 +1100, Jeremy Visser wrote: > On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 15:45 +0900, Kevin Shackleton wrote: > > I guess I could remove this install and compile a source. > > I would advise you to do that. I have had many

[SLUG] mt-daapd

2007-12-22 Thread Kevin Shackleton
- according to some web posts, sharing the Rhythmbox library ought to let the directory show up on the Sagem (though I'd rather have a daemon do the job). Any ideas on tracing out his problem? (I would like to solve it by 25th!) Thanks, Kevin. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

RE: Sharing files between guests and hosts (Was: Re: [SLUG]virtualisation and wine on ubuntu gutsey for adobe photoshop flashpremier etc)

2007-11-29 Thread Kevin Shackleton
orkstation? Kevin. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] null-modem cable

2007-11-27 Thread Kevin Shackleton
nues to work for simple tasks like interfacing to microcontrollers. Kevin. On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 00:09 +1100, Voytek Eymont wrote: > so how do you control say some industrial device (if not through a serial > port)? > > whilst perhaps they're somewhat past on a pc, I think they&

[SLUG] batch rename

2007-11-02 Thread Kevin Shackleton
suggestions to rename multiple files in a single directory to individual shorter names? eg proj1file1 proj1file2 . . . to file1 file2 . . . Thanks, Kevin. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.a

Re: [SLUG] Sun video connector

2007-11-02 Thread Kevin Shackleton
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 14:00 -0700, Sergio Monteiro wrote: > Hi there. > I wonder if there is anyone there that is familiar with the Sun computer > video connector. I'm sure this came through SLUG maybe 2000 or 2001. IIRC it takes a few resistors soldered in the backshell. You'll need to g

Re: [SLUG] downloading camera

2007-10-20 Thread Kevin Shackleton
Problem solved - it was a security problem running gthumb - not the target directory at all. Cheers, Kevin. On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 15:01 +0800, Kevin Shackleton wrote: > Some investigation hasn't shown me how the Gnome camera photo download > mechanism works. The problem is I have

[SLUG] downloading camera

2007-10-20 Thread Kevin Shackleton
emovable drive has to be a member of the plugdev group. gconf-editor did not show me a path for photo saving, and the configuration path mentioned in messages is a mess of little xml files which I wasn't keen on searching and editing outside gconf. Any pointrs to a good howto? Thanks, Kevin.

Re: [SLUG] Lost directory

2007-10-04 Thread Kevin Shackleton
that something that should be reported to their bugzilla? Kevin. On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 10:20 +1000, Tony Sceats wrote: > what sort of file does 'file' say it is? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Lost directory

2007-10-03 Thread Kevin Shackleton
r. Cheers, Kevin. On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 22:15 +1000, Ken Foskey wrote: > I doubt you have lost it, rename the Desktop file and then look in > trash for the original. If not there then hunt for the directory in the > place moved with mouse moves. > > Ken Foskey > FOSS develope

[SLUG] Lost directory

2007-10-03 Thread Kevin Shackleton
My fault - my 5 year old was playing games using my logon while I had a terminal window open and somehow now the Desktop directory is an ordinary file. Any ideas on how to set the directory attribute? Thanks, Kevin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.o

[SLUG] Compiling vmmon in Etch

2007-10-01 Thread Kevin Shackleton
broken symbolic links (eg to "../linux-kbuild-2.6.18/scripts". The more I try out different solutions the worse I seem to be making the problem! Perhaps the clearest step forward would be to compile a newer kernel? TIA, Kevin Shackleton. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mail

[Fwd: Re: [SLUG] Wireless router with Optus broadband cable]

2007-09-27 Thread Kevin Shackleton
ong as you match to an antenna that's not too high gain - the rubber duck is way short of being illegal. They are in WA not Sydney but I think couriers do the run east. I don't know anything about ssh'ing to them but you could contact the vendor. Kevin Shackleton. -- SLUG - Sydney L

[Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] xmms won't play for non-root]]

2007-09-20 Thread Kevin Shackleton
anything useful. Etch doesn't install xmms by default but Rythymbox works (it didn't in FC) Cheers, Kevin. Forwarded Message > From: Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Slug > Subject: Re: [Fwd:

[Fwd: Re: [SLUG] xmms won't play for non-root]

2007-09-20 Thread Kevin Shackleton
ool. Maybe it's time to mess about with drives and go to Etch . . Kevin. Forwarded Message From: Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kevin Shackleton wrote: > Creating an audio group, assigning /dev/dsp to the audio group and > adding myself to the audio gr

[Fwd: Re: [SLUG] xmms won't play for non-root]

2007-09-20 Thread Kevin Shackleton
Creating an audio group, assigning /dev/dsp to the audio group and adding myself to the audio group made no difference. It seems that I've applied a solution without knowing what the problem was. Any clues as to how to identify the problem? From: Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Most like

[Fwd: Re: [SLUG] xmms won't play for non-root]

2007-09-19 Thread Kevin Shackleton
Erik, This machine does not have an "audio" group. I'll try out that concept after work. Thanks, Kevin. Forwarded Message From: Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kevin Shackleton wrote: > Any ideas about looking for the problem? Most likely c

[SLUG] xmms won't play for non-root

2007-09-19 Thread Kevin Shackleton
re in /var/log/messages. Any ideas about looking for the problem? (solution-wise I do have Etch discs ready to go . .) Thanks, Kevin. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

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