[SLUG] Linux video editors - any good ?

. Is there any fully-usable free Linux editor yet ? thanks Rod -- 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] Re: Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks

crucial. Rod On 02/09/12 17:00, Patrick Elliott-Brennan wrote: Rod wrote: I originally asked whether there was any important functionality that Android-based phones lacked compared to the competition, and whether they struggled with any file formats. I then added that this appeared to me

Re: [SLUG] Re: Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks ?

the questions in terms of their pet hobbyhorses and wandered off into moral philosophy. Closest we got was some facts about techniques for extending battery life, which is important and relevant, but I still don't know how Android compares in this area to the competition. Rod -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks ?

, the opposite occurs - when people discover that I am a vegetarian indirectly without my adding any value judgment or opinion, many ask for more information such as benefits and even my views on associated morality. I can leave them to change their own minds if they choose. Rod -- SLUG - Sydney

[SLUG] Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks ?

. Are there any things they can't do or can't connect to/interface with, which other proprietary systems can ? Any serious comparison documents I can study ? thanks Rod -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

Re: [SLUG] Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks ?

doesn't bother me so long as the function is possible. Also, are there any commonly-used file formats that Android apps struggle with ? thanks Rod -- 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] Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks ?

I'm not at the cutting edge, I just need to have a smartphone that can do most things and is open-source without participating in holy wars. Can you clarify your comments ? thanks Rod On 02/03/12 14:30, Zenaan Harkness wrote: The most important app to me is that Libre app. Called Freedom

Re: [SLUG] Re: Alternatives to Gnome3

to disappear. I also hope to hack/configure XMonad a little more so that it gets a little more gloss and a few more of the features of Gnome2. Erik Does this mean you see Gnome as dying ? I have had the feeling for a while that the community supporting it has dropped below a sustainable level. Rod -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] Re: Alternatives to Gnome3

Quoting James Linder j...@tigger.ws: On 14/11/2011, at 9:00 AM, slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: The problem here is that with Gnome3 (and they started this attitude in Gnome2), they make it very difficult to do things any way other than the default. I work in tech support, doing a

Re: Unit - (was [SLUG] Ubuntu 11.10)

managed to do it... this happens with commercial software for financial reasons which should not apply to opensource. Rod On 10/20/11 16:55, elliott-brennan wrote: Ken Foskey Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:35:51 +1100 Wrote to Jeremy Visser Can someone run through Unity at Slug in detail as a talk

Re: [SLUG] Cheap Linux/Windows wireless home networking options ?

, if I am to get employable skills out of the exercise... thanks for all the feedback, I will report back when I have something working. Rod On 10/14/11 08:14, Jeremy Visser wrote: On 13/10/2011, at 22:14, Rod Butcher wrote: My budget for this is tiny, $100 max for the whole setup, as it's only

Re: [SLUG] Cheap Linux/Windows wireless home networking options ?

be possible for wifi-based LAN. ?? thanks Rod On 10/13/11 10:48, Ken Wilson wrote: I have seen them at Reverse Garbage in Addison Rd Marrickville, where whole computing setups have been discarded including routers, their price is always not much. Ken On 12/10/11 22:17, Heracles wrote: -BEGIN

Re: [SLUG] Cheap Linux/Windows wireless home networking options ?

wireless NIC needs to support Master mode. Now my task appears to be to chaseup chip specs for the cheap NICS available to me ! I will report back when I have it all working. cheers Rod On 10/13/11 23:28, Kevin Shackleton wrote: Rod, Seems to me that pages like: http

Re: [SLUG] Cheap Linux/Windows wireless home networking options ?

local PC shop, how realistic is the setup I will be training on ? I will be configuring the PC as the router, along with security, encryption, iptables etc... how closely do the skills involved relate to those involved in a realword business setup ? thanks Rod On 10/12/11 17:05, Kevin Shackleton

[SLUG] Cheap Linux/Windows wireless home networking options ?

anybody recommend cheap Linux-compatible solutions available in Sydney ? thanks Rod -- 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] Which Virtualisation, and why?

data crunching. Are the benefits of KVM related to its production throughput capabilities ? RedHat to me looks to be pushing it as part of branding - it needs flagship technologies to differentiate itself. Any pointers to articles on the subject ? thanks Rod On 01/10/11 21:03, Dean Hamstead wrote

Re: [SLUG] Value of Red Hat certification ?

employers view this - do they assume that serious admins make sure they are familiar with multiple distroes, and see RHEL certification as a bonus (i..e. the person knows More), or do they assume that Red Hat cert means a person knows Less ? thanks Rod On 05/01/11 12:22, onlyjob wrote: Why Get

Re: [SLUG] Value of Red Hat certification ?

courses 6 inches thick, is similar for REDHAT available ? thanks Rod On 04/01/11 10:04, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: Hi, Rod. You may find this lopsa-discuss thread of use: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss@lists.lopsa.org/msg00097.html Good luck with your career! Aleksey (Unix/Linux sys admin

[SLUG] Value of Red Hat certification ?

proper qualifications and am considering couses : Red Hat System Adminstrator + Network Security Adminstration + Certified Engineer. Total cost = $AU 9100. Any opinions out there about how good an approcah this is - can I get a better return on my retraining investment ? thanks Rod -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] Auntie excludes us

click to download mp3 file is all that anybody wants/needs. Rod Rod James On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one time, at band camp, James Purser wrote: With regard to your query regarding a Linux version - due to the technical requirements

Re: [SLUG] Auntie excludes us

Bruce Bruen wrote: On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:30:33 pm Rod Butcher wrote: This reminds me of the problems St George Bank had using Java applets and acres of bad javascript to allow online banking. After thousands of complaints they dropped the Java applet and javascript and reverted to (gasp) html

Re: [SLUG] do I need /dev/snd for ALSA, if so how to create it ?

I found out that udev is now required to correctly setup /dev for all devices, including sound cards. Apparently it doesn't startup correctly on boot, so I've added udevstart to my logon script and all devices are now correctly setup. ALSA now works. Rod On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 15:48 +1100, Rod

[SLUG] do I need /dev/snd for ALSA, if so how to create it ?

really need it for ALSA, and why was it automagically there for my old kernel ? Any doco around on this that goes into nuts and bolts ? thanks Rod -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] do I need /dev/snd for ALSA, if so how to create it ?

this mean my udev is broken ? It worked OK for my 2.6.18 kernel - apart from my USB printer, for which I had to use mknod to setup /dev/lp0. I tried mknod to create /dev/snd, but no luck. thanks Rod -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs

Re: [SLUG] How do I mount an audio Cd ?

. vfat, but to the user it's all the same. What I'm getting at is, it's what it means to the user that matters, not what's going on behind the scenes. MS grasped this brilliantly. cheers Rod On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 12:25 +1100, Benno wrote: On Sun Mar 13, 2005 at 01:32:58 +1000, QuantumG wrote: Jeff

Re: [SLUG] Re: How do I mount an audio Cd ?

the command list its contents ? So.. if you really want to help be constructive, otherwise keep quiet. I have no time for petty nitpicking. Rod On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 16:09 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 04:01:49PM +1100, Rod Butcher wrote: What I'm getting at is, it's what

[SLUG] [Fwd: How do I mount an audio Cd ?]

As usual, right after posting I discovered that cdparanoia allows me to transfer an audio file to disk as wav. Rod Forwarded Message From: Rod Butcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: slug@slug.org.au Subject: How do I mount an audio Cd ? Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 20:35:34 +1100 I have

[SLUG] How do I mount an audio Cd ?

as files in the file browser. thanks Rod --- Brought to you by a penguin, a gnu and a camel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

Re: [SLUG] security different on vfat compared to ext ?

the owner, hence creator, can even read it. Correct ? thanks to you all for your patience Rod Brought to you by a thunderbird, penguin, gnu and a camel Peter Chubb wrote: Rod == Rod Butcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rod Apache

[SLUG] security different on vfat compared to ext ?

don't have this problem if I copy the webserver directory to another ext3 partition - seemingly proving that I'm changing the necessary conf info. So - is there something different about ext and vfat security, necessitating some more sophisticated directory copy process ? Thanks Rod

Re: [SLUG] security different on vfat compared to ext ?

intended to get bogged down with security issues... thanks Rod Brought to you by a thunderbird, penguin, gnu and a camel Shaun Butler wrote: Phil Scarratt wrote: Michael Lake wrote: Rod Butcher wrote: Hello sluggers, I've moved

Re: [SLUG] Re: Stupidest law of the year candidate!

down to a crawl, and lose its current anarchic status, leaving only the mass-media feelgood crap on the new legal web : What moronicity do you want to enhance your download experience with today ?. Rod On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 08:34 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically, it makes Australian ISP's

Re: [SLUG] FC Boot problem

outage (millisecond outages seem to occur frequently, would otherwise cause a reboot). The real problem is the monitor, not enough juice to provide 100 watts to a 17 crt for very long, as last Saturday. Any recommendations of a low-wattage monitor that isn't financially crippling ? thanks Rod On Wed

[SLUG] libtool problem ?

Hello sluggers, can anybody tell me what would cause libtool to create a .la file with __LIBGL_PATH__/libGL.la in it instead of /usr/X121R6/lib ? I thought such values were internal system variables. Glibc, faulty build script, macro, ??? A pointer in the right direction would help ! thanks Rod

Re: [SLUG] list of distros

ookelfoo could not load flugelbar.so, invalid vorplethreep and your box would freeze up. cheers Rod On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 13:18 +1000, QuantumG wrote: Dean Hamstead wrote: sorry, i just didnt like the tone of the email. im 100% debian and bsd Wow, I'm being chastised for things I *didn't* say

[SLUG] C newbie seeks directions

modules ? thanks Rod -- --- Brought to you by a penguin, a gnu and a camel -- 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] C newbie seeks directions

I'm confused by what you mean here. An application programming interface (API) has little to do with a text editor. d'uh... I meant IDE or programmers workbench. thanks for responding Benno, James, Trent . cheers Rod On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 14:39 +1100, Benno wrote: On Thu Feb 17, 2005 at 14:32

Re: [SLUG] Timezone and Daylight Savings Time

then becomes 3 a.m. summer time.. Maybe we should call it New South Wales Summer Daylight Saving Time or NSWSDST so we know we're not on Queensland Curtain Fading Time. Rod On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 14:36 +1100, Jesus M. Salvo Jr. wrote: Christopher JS Vance wrote: On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 01:43:11PM +1100

[SLUG] revovery of deleted file ?

to have been deleted. So.. can I recover such a deleted file ? thanks Rod -- --- Brought to you by a penguin, a gnu and a camel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http

Re: [SLUG] Linux and SATA drives - any particular problems?

Sata (they started going to sleep after a few months... could be an issue with their power save feature)... no problems with Western Digital. cheers Rod On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 07:45 +1100, Elliott-Brennan wrote: Hi all, I'm considering upgrading to a newer computer. I've noticed some people

Re: [SLUG] St George Internet Banking

on the website, and in future continue to support at least this combination. Rod Brought to you by a thunderbird, penguin, gnu and a camel John Clarke wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 11:13:43 +1100, Mary Gardiner wrote: Note

Re: [SLUG] St George Internet Banking

Indeed, I checked again and It now works with Firefox 1, Sun Java 1.5.. no spoofing or suffixes at the end of the redirect URL needed. As I said my previous message, we could approach StGeorge as group and get them to commit to supporting this combination officially. Rod

Re: FIXED: Debian 2.6.8 kernel not loading device drivers for / (Re: [SLUG] /dev/console not found)

Sounds like you've made some great progress on the 2.6.8 Sata front.. I'm a Mandrake muppet and don't have /etc/mkinitrd/modules... can you suggest what this might be called in Madrake / Redhat-speak ? Can you attach a copy of the file ? thanks Rod (who is still stuck with the sata-ide kludge

[SLUG] where do xyz-config scripts get created ?

Can somebody point me to info on how xyz-config scripts get created ? I have a gimp compile wanting gimpprint-config, but the gimprint build doesn't generate it.. some developer-fu required here ? thanks Rod Brought to you

[SLUG] how to get shell script to supply password ?

script to feed it the password yy I've tried | , to no avail. Read the manpages. no dice. pointers greatfully received thanks, Rod --- Brought to you by a thunderbird, penguin, gnu and a camel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List

Re: [SLUG] St George Internet Banking

change banks every six months. So, I'm still available to cooperate with any of you who want to get on StGeorge's case in an organized fashion. cheers Rod Brought to you by a thunderbird, penguin, gnu and a camel Stuart Guthrie

Re: [SLUG] StGeorge online banking Linux

. cheers Rod --- Brought to you by a thunderbird, penguin, gnu and a camel Ben Stanley wrote: Hi Sonia + all, I think the simplest advice is to install Sun Java 1.5.0, as that seems to work from at least two browsers without user agent spoofing

[SLUG] Cups print output disappearing

? Any other things to look for ? I have gnughostscript-8.01 installed.. + latest version of cups gimpprint from Mandrake 10.1... what difference should ESP Ghostscript make ? Thanks Rod --- Brought to you by a penguin, a gnu

Re: [SLUG] St George Internet Banking

I've just paid my rent online at StG - this week I had to spoof as I.E.5 Mac.. using Firefox 0.93. You need to prove to them that you're not a communist using FREE SOFTWARE. cheers Rod On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 23:02 +1100, Ben Stanley wrote: Hi, I had St George Internet banking working fine

Re: [SLUG] Resolved - Cups print output disappearing

I resolved this by installing ESP Ghostscript rather the standard version. All I can find is that ESP Ghostscript used to be included with CUPS in recent version, but EasySoftware, the makers of CUPS, decided to separate the two. Mysterious. Rod On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 22:04 +1100, Rod Butcher

[SLUG] Newline after last record ?

the last data byte at the end of a KDE-created file. Or is the chop thing a dangerous lazy practice ? I suppose the question is, where do I find the Unix text file standard, if there is such a thing. thanks Rod --- Brought to you

Re: [SLUG] Newline after last record ?

Thanks Ken and Matt, sounds like the last newline is a must-have. The fact that the Gnome editor forces it automatically adds to my enthusiasm for Gnome. cheers Rod On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 22:08 +1100, Ken Foskey wrote: On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 19:27 +1100, Rod Butcher wrote: Is there a standard

[SLUG] Macquarie Uni vs StGeorge Bank logons in Linux

between these 2 organizations ? One is to the left of Stalin, one to the right of Genghis Khan. regards Rod --- Brought to you by a penguin, a gnu and a camel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] RTA, Premier's Department and Linux

RTA are already rolling-out (okay, I'm a public servant - we're not allowed to say implementing :)a Linux-based office system in some of their locations (if my sources are right). Hi Patrick, do you know what office software (email, w/p, spreadsheet etc.) they're using ? cheers Rod On Sun

Re: [SLUG] Macquarie Uni vs StGeorge Bank logons in Linux

a company can't force its customers to use a particular product before it does business with them ? cheers Rod On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 12:50 +1100, Mary Gardiner wrote: On Sun, Jan 02, 2005, Elliott-Brennan wrote: I don't know that I'd EVER change banks because I had to do some extra work to access

Re: [SLUG] swap space limit on ia32?

patches, and Team Barry's patches which fix what the mm patches broke in nVidia and includes the no-himem patch. Result is a multipurpose system that handles multimedia editing, games and business (sometimes all at once). cheers Rod On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 15:31 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi

[SLUG] Fonts broken after KDE 3.3 install

at to correct this ? thanks Rod -- --- Brought to you by a penguin, a gnu and a camel -- 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 vs. Windows TCO Comparison

The SMH ran the story , and the online article ( http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/12/13/1102786990788.html ) appears with an ad for MS Small Business Server 2003 embedded in it. Wonder if MS asked for their money back ? Rod On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 14:16 +1100, Rick Welykochy wrote: Culled from

Re: [SLUG] /dev/console on

Isn't PIIX the Intel driver ? I understand you need the driver appropriate to your board / controller. In my case it's CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_VIA=y ... or have I not understood something here ? In fact, I believe my first compile included all the drivers, still no dice. thanks Rod On Tue, 2004-12-07

Re: [SLUG] /dev/console on

the system root. Messages are :- VFS - Cannot open root device sda1 or unknown-block (0,0) Please append a correct root= boot option Kernel panic - unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (0,0) thanks Rod On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 18:05 -0500, O Plameras wrote: Rod Butcher wrote: Isn't PIIX the Intel

[SLUG] Audio noise removal tool ?

Sluggers, anyone know of a good audio noise removal tool (i.e. tape hiss) ? I use Audacity for most stuff, but its noise remover leaves people sounding like Klingons. Or am I using it incorrectly ? thanks Rod -- --- Brought

Re: [SLUG] /dev/console on

The new driver-thingie is libata. But I never got it working, even though it claimed to load Ok. I had to use the old driver to use Sata. Ran out of time and interest to pursue it further. cheers Rod On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 22:39 +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Mary

Re: [SLUG] Re: Goals

user. There IS QA in the Free / Opensource world. But I would agree that the Linux software install process, logical as it may seem to a computer professional, is not up to the needs of the non-technical user. my .05 c Rod On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 14:57 +1100, Rick Welykochy wrote: Matthew Palmer

Re: Photoshop in Linux WAS [SLUG] Newbie -when is next slug meet?

type of background would you like today ?), but geared towards push this button to..., and another for the serious user who can justify the time investment to fully utilize the app. You can't keep blaming the user for being too lazy to learn an app, this argument was lost years ago. cheers Rod

Re: Photoshop in Linux WAS [SLUG] Newbie -when is next slug meet?

you see white space in this here image, I want it to be transparent. ? From memory, in PS I specified an index value for transparency. cheers Rod On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 20:22 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 06:03:35PM +1100, David wrote: On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Craige McWhirter

[SLUG] Gimp outcome

occasionally but not often enough to justify learning much about it - I need to be able to fire it up, do the job and get on with other stuff. IMHO a lot of desktop work is like this - the infrequency of use doesn't justify any learning curve, it has to be usable right from fireup. cheers Rod

Re: Photoshop in Linux WAS [SLUG] Newbie -when is next slug meet?

, though a professional tool, felt intuitive to me. my .05 c Rod On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 20:31 +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: i would have to agree, i find gimp to be vastly superior. im sure there are some features photoshop has over gimp but like all applications 90% of users only use 10% of features

Re: [SLUG] Compile tutorial

Thanks Ian, the link you provided at http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_toc.html is exactly what I was looking for. cheers Rod On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 09:48 +1100, Ian Wienand wrote: On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 12:27:00AM +1100, Rod Butcher wrote: Sluggers, can somebody point me

Re: Photoshop in Linux WAS [SLUG] Newbie -when is next slug meet?

Hi Patrick, can you spare a minute to give me a brief overview of what's required to achieve this ? I can't stand Gimp, and would love to be able to run Photoshop (I have V 4). thanks Rod On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 12:50 +1100, Elliott-Brennan wrote: Chris is right. I've got Photoshop running

[SLUG] Compile tutorial

. thanks Rod -- --- Brought to you by a penguin, a gnu and a camel -- 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] guessing compile variables from binary rpm

don't have the time or resources to worry about.. a thing which I've read that MS have spent an awful lot of effort on ... but they had to, as their source is closed. cheers, Rod -- --- Brought to you by a penguin, a gnu and a camel

[SLUG] What is libnsl ?

. thanks Rod -- --- Brought to you by a penguin, a gnu and a camel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Solved - libnsl

Sorry, as usual I was too hasty, googling to Syney Uni tells me I already have libnsl courtesy of glib and it's a network services library. so I need to fix the link script... and figure out why it creams my USB keyboard (broken hotplug ?). cheers Rod Email message attachment, Forwarded message

[SLUG] guessing compile variables from binary rpm

Sluggers, can anybody tell me how to find out what libs, compiler options etc went into building a binary in an rpm ? Specific example is, I'm trying to find out how Mandrake compiles audacity to get it to work with wxwindows and gnome themes, I can't. thanks Rod

[SLUG] configure questions

from Mandrake's rpms.. this is a oneoff to acquaint myself with software builds on Linux. thanks Rod --- Brought to you by a thunderbird, penguin, gnu and a camel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription

Re: [SLUG] configure questions

Turns out xml2 has its own rules it plays by.. I needed to set --with-libxml-prefix=/usr/local/Gnome2.8.1 for config to pick up the xml2 configuration. cheers Rod -- Brought to you by a thunderbird, penguin, gnu and a camel Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Rod Butcher

[SLUG] Multiple versions of Gtk2

their features. Is this a problem with libpixbuf ? I suppose this is a general question about how to handle multiple versions of a library on the same box. thanks Rod -- --- Brought to you by a thunderbird, penguin, gnu and a camel -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] Multiple versions of Gtk2

. Very minor in itself, but I'd like to understand the concepts. I think gdk-pixbuf handles this stuff, am I right ? That's been upgraded. thanks Rod --- Brought to you by a thunderbird, penguin, gnu and a camel Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Rod

Re: [SLUG] Multiple versions of Gtk2

I copied the old /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.2.0/engines into /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/engines and this worked a treat, but it seems like a bit of an administrative atrocity :- Many thanks cheers Rod --- Brought to you by a thunderbird, penguin, gnu

[SLUG] How to rename partitions

Hello sluggers, if I want to change the name of a drive partition from say hda1 to sda1, what do I need to do in addition to updating /etc/fstab ? If I just change fstab and try to boot a kernel using libata to access SATA drives, it can't find /dev/sda. thanks Rod

Re: [SLUG] How to rename partitions

the question is how do I rename my partitions to sda* ? Changing the grub files and fstab didn't work. I've asked this question before but still no luck. man fstab didn't help me.. I'll RTFM if I can find what FM to RT. cheers Rod --- Brought to you

Re: [SLUG] DVB Cards and MythTV

the 0.5 version to go again? Cheers -Rod -- 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] Bootup with 2.6.8 9 sorted out

with 2.6.8 or 9 could send me a copy of their fstab file, and tell me whether it was installed fresh or as an upgrade from 2.6.7. Thanks Rod --- Brought to you by a thunderbird, penguin, gnu and a camel Peter Hardy wrote: On Sun, 2004-10-31

Re: [SLUG] December meeting - Tenpin Bowling

The Cobol bowling ball would cause a data exception because the number of holes was redefined as packed decimal by an outsourcer. The Pl/1 bowling ball would disappear into an array of pointers. Rod --- Brought to you by a thunderbird

[SLUG] Bootup message display

to boot 2.6.9 (which is failing). thanks Rod -- --- Brought to you by a thunderbird, penguin, gnu and a camel -- 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] Swap file performance tuning ?

what sort of overhead is involved here ? If it's significant I'll look at implementing the patch.. but it seems to me that if its such a problem-solver why isn'ty it in the stock kernel ? cheers Rod --- Brought to you by a thunderbird

[SLUG] Linux Memory tuning

gets the ram rather than going straight into swap ? I could kill these other apps (like Web Browser, email, etc) but it would be better to just prioritize their call on ram. thanks Rod --- Brought to you by a thunderbird, penguin, gnu

Re: [SLUG] Linux Memory tuning

Thanks James ! I'll study up on this. cheers Rod -- Brought to you by a thunderbird, penguin, gnu and a camel James Gregory wrote: Please always reply to the list. On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 09:54:09AM +1000, Rod Butcher wrote: dunno if that's a micky-take

[SLUG] Multiple swap partitions update

,pri=3 0 0 (both SATA drives) /dev/hda5 none swap sw,pri=3 0 0 Thans Roger others for responding. Rod -- 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] Swap file performance tuning ?

...Houston... uh... we have a problem.. swap file is uh.. full... sheeit, I told you to make it bigger... whoa.. watch that crater... --- Brought to you by a thunderbird, penguin, gnu and a camel Roger Barnes wrote: Reduce your SWAP to

Re: [SLUG] Swap file performance tuning ?

swapsw,pri=30 0 This should cause the system to use both in parallel because they have the same priority, and apparently go like blazes. The sw,pri=3 seems OK according to man swapon, but it's dated 1995. Do these options look sane ? thanks Rod

[SLUG] Banks colluding with Microsoft ?

/ cartel / wirefraud investigation. Anybody got any real facts on this ? regards Rod --- Brought to you by a thunderbird, penguin, gnu and a camel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs

Re: [SLUG] Banks colluding with Microsoft ?

the technical stuff now and do other things. I'll let it drop here. cheers Rod --- Brought to you by a thunderbird, penguin, gnu and a camel Roger Barnes wrote: Verging on OT, so posting to chat instead ... Sluggers, I started off having

[SLUG] Swap file performance tuning ?

hardware budget for the next 3 years so no more ram). thanks Rod --- Brought to you by a thunderbird, penguin, gnu and a camel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] St George Internet Banking

I had the same problem yesterday... eventually got in by spoofing as IE 5 Mac... using Firefox 0.9 and the Mozdev Prefbar from http://prefbar.mozdev.org/ to set the browser type. cheers Rod --- Brought to you by a thunderbird, penguin, gnu

[SLUG] Keyboard error with X.org server

I compiled installed X.org 6.8.1 as per the instructions. On reboot I get a X6.8.1 failure message 'Failed to load module Keyboard '. I included keyboard and mouse in the XInputdrivers #include in host.def. Any pointers ? thanks Rod -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

[SLUG] Fixed - Keyboard problem with X.org 6.8.1

Seems the keyboard module starts with k in X.org, whereas with XFree86 it must have started with K. So I just edited XF86Config and Hey Presto - Linux graphics that are now as good as or better than windows. Marvellous. Rod --- Brought

[SLUG] USB Flight yoke recommendation ?

I'm looking at getting a basic USB flight yoke to use with FlightGear flight simulator. Any recommendations - I have 2.6.7 kernel - presumably I'd need to recompile it to include the appropriate driver, or are they generic ? thanks Rod

[SLUG] moving /usr partition

I need to move my /usr partition from one hd to another... any suggestions as to best practice here ? thanks Rod -- --- Brought to you by a thunderbird, penguin, gnu and a camel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

[SLUG] Sharing SATA disk

is far more than just the sum of the 2 processes). Is this a consequence of low-latency patches ? Internet download at 56k won't be writing very fast to the disk, and copy from a CDROM on the separate IDE channel should only take a few seconds rather than minutes for 650 meg. ??? thanks Rod

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