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I've been using various versions of Fedora on my laptop
for some time now and recently I upgraded to fc5.
I always used to have a firefox installed in /usr/local/firefox
and it was the non-RPM package downloaded from the Firefox
people (bypassing
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Erik:
telford:
Erik:
It should also be easy to prove by now that either Rob or Peter
has written more code than you, or anyone you can name that swears
off test driven developement. We say that (as long as you ignore
genuine knockoffs
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Erik:
It should also be easy to prove by now that either Rob or Peter
has written more code than you, or anyone you can name that swears
off test driven developement. We say that (as long as you ignore
genuine knockoffs with only one user) based
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Here's a link to Samsung's page:
http://www.samsung.com/au/products/printerfaxcopysolutions/printerfaxcopysolutions/clp_550n.asp
I'm thinking about buying one of these printers, they are available under $800
and they support Postscript and
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With regards to last night's Slug meeting and using automated testing,
I think everyone agrees that writing (and using) test cases produces
higher quality code with less bugs. My point is that higher quality
output doesn't come for free, it requires
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Benno:
On Fri Apr 28, 2006 at 20:18:15 +1000, Malcolm V wrote:
On Friday 28 April 2006 19:55, Adam Bogacki wrote:
snipped
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/27/schneier_infosec/
Call me cynical (or stupid), but software cannot offer hardware
One of those meaningless computer graphics outputs:
(about 8Meg download) -- http://bespoke.homelinux.net/wash_2006-04-25.avi
The rendering is too slow for a screensaver, but I wanted to figure out how
to make movies and stuff anyhow so it's a bit of a fun exercise...
How can you tell I'm really
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 09:33:47PM +1000, Steve Lindsay wrote:
On 3/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wrote an RSS to HTML translator because I couldn't see the value
in RSS (no doubt someone will explain it to me). Then I just click on
the links in the HTML and download
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 02:38:59PM +1100, Mary Gardiner wrote:
Hi all,
SLUG coders will be gathering together for a day of coding and talking
about coding.
Date: Sunday April 9 2006
Location: TBA, likely UTS Broadway
Time: Unfortunately this depends on the room booking, but
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 05:15:16PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote:
How do people listen to Podcasts from the ABC?
Sadly, as is usual for IT in the ABC, their help pages don't help (just
another example of why RTFM is not a solution).
I wrote an RSS to HTML translator because I couldn't see the
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 03:29:06PM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote:
as far as I recall, Asterisk docs state that a kernel 2.6 is needed for
Asterisk, I've just installed RHEL3 thinking that will be adequate for
Asterisk, but it seems RHEL3 is kernel 2.4x;
Asterisk will run on a 2.4 kernel, however
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 01:57:59PM +1100, Bruce Badger wrote:
I can hear sound picked up from the microphone through the onboard
speakers or via headphones. I can control the volume of the mic using
the Gnome volume control and Alsa mixer. I can also mute and un-mute
using the Gnome volume
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I've booked for 15 to 20 people at Ippon Sushi in Chinatown
(it is at 404 Sussex Street Haymarket). They said that $20 per
head fixed price is OK, people buy their own drinks for cash
as they go. They have seats *UPSTAIRS* but not really big tables
so
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 09:54:32PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Yeah, but I'm lazy. I just wanna to an apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade
and have the damn thing fixed :-).
Here are the test packages for warty, hoary and breezy:
http://people.ubuntu.com/~jbailey/glibc-tzupdate/
They'll
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 11:52:52AM +1000, Adam Todd wrote:
This is all OLD news (after i spent LAST night fixing it and advising EBAY
they had their wrong time for Australia too - which they haven't fixed yet
and no doubt people are missing out on bidding!)
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 08:18:13PM +1100, Del wrote:
Oh, and here's the good news:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/am-and-pm-not-ok-when-pcs-exit-aedt/2006/03/24/1143083999500.html
Quote:
For the next week, such software will be one hour behind.
People who conduct business with
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On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 07:25:12PM +1000, amanda wynne wrote:
Basically, I hate starting from a blank sheet of paper, almost as much as I
hate
re-inventing the wheel.
If you want something easy that saves you time then RS232 is much easier than
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 09:49:19AM +1100, Benno wrote:
But still at the end of the day your general consumer (i.e: target of
the desktop), doesn't know, or want to know, and often will just take
whatever the sales droid at the local Hardly Normal tells them, which is
most likely going to
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 04:33:41PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
SNUH. SLUG's Not Usenet.
I hope not, because Usenet is pretty much dead after the spammers trashed it.
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/
Subscription info and FAQs:
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On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 12:14:30PM +1100, Terry Collins wrote:
And the really important question that has not been answered is can any
of them be throttled and NOT require java?
The last time I ran a bittorrent client, it clagged my computer and
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On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 08:36:59AM +1100, Benno wrote:
We have a chicken-egg problem here of the desktop community not being
big enough that every printer is tested and provides drivers for
Linux, but it is exactly reasons like that that hinder
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On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 06:47:55PM +1100, Bohdan S wrote:
I dont like how all these Linux users bag Windows S much.
You are entitled to like or dislike whatever you choose.
If it wasent for windows how many of us would own a computer right
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I accept my nomination as Ordinary Committee Member.
Mostly what I have done this year is carry the coffee and tea into the meetings.
I am planning to move West when housing prices have crashed sufficiently
which will hopefully be later this year.
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On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 09:25:26PM +1100, Pia Waugh wrote:
We could even show some demos of non-commercial FOSS that just inspires
the imagination.
Why non-commercial? Is it a condition of getting a stand at m8s r8s?
I'm pretty partial to
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 11:27:45AM +1100, Craige McWhirter wrote:
Depending on the date for Linux World, count me in for all three.
http://www.linuxworldexpo.com.au/
28 - 30 March 2006
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/
Subscription info and
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On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 10:55:08PM +1100, Voytek Eymont wrote:
BROADCAST=10.1.1.255
NETMASK=255.0.0.0
NETWORK=10.1.1.0
GATEWAY=10.1.1.1
It's a bit unusual to use a broadcast that is lower than the top
address in the network range. In theory it
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On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 11:53:01AM +1100, Simon wrote:
Hi all,
AT the risk of starting a flamewar.I am being advised by consultants
that I need to 'upgrade' my Fedora Core servers to RH Enterprise as it
is 'more robust', 'better supported',
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On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 12:09:23PM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote:
also, a really savy consultant would recommend a move to debian.
No doubt there will be plenty of paying work in such a changeover.
- Tel
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On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 12:11:22PM +1100, Peter Rundle wrote:
I have a serial device that works at 2400 baud and I need to access it
from a script. How can I set the baud rate of my serial port before
accessing the device?
I've tried setserial
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On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 11:20:27PM +1100, Ben Stringer wrote:
I'm surprised to hear this. What higher level configuration tools do you
use to set the baud rate of the serial port from a script talking
directly to an arbitrary device on a serial
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Despite the exodus to New Zealand, there will still
be a Slug meeting in Sydney for those who are interested.
See the web page:
http://www.slug.org.au/events/detail.html?id=257
We still have no idea about what the Spice Boys are doing,
I'm
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On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 05:53:24AM +1100, Tess Snider wrote:
What's totally crazy is that once you've been programming a while, and
really understand this recursion stuff well, you have to then learn to
stop using it. It's very sad, because
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 02:21:41PM +1000, QuantumG wrote:
Dist thou not knoweth how thee shalt speak?!
Prescriptive grammer is domain of the historically ignorant.
Language changes, this is a good thing, deal with it.
Spelling is one of those new fangled fads that will
die out before
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On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 11:11:42AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
Well, the only bugs I've found to date that cannot be effectively tested
for are concurrent operation bugs - threads and co-processes
specifically.
None of which are detected by
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On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 10:42:54PM +1100, Del wrote:
Less is a measure of quality not quantity.
If I have less money than you do, the quality of my money
is still exactly the same as yours.
So by saying there are
less bugs what you are
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On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 06:42:07PM +1000, Russell Davie wrote:
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 08:44:49 +1000
Michael Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
James Purser wrote:
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 13:28 +, l cheung wrote:
Get a life, get a power book.
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On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 11:23:06AM +1000, David Gillies wrote:
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Does anyone out there have any recommendations for Linux friendly flash
mp3 players?
I can recommend the omni music-stick which is
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On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 10:57:51PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Mike MacCana wrote:
openssl can do this easily.
It can? How? Its certainly not obvious from the man page.
Is anything obvious from the man page?
- Tel
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On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 11:32:36PM -0700, Angus Lees wrote:
Since you dared me, here's some (untested) perl5 code that will parse
a TCP header, including network byte order conversions and bitfields:
my ($source, $dest, $seq, $ack_seq,
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On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 11:29:56AM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Hi all,
Does anybody have any recomendations for a program that can be used
to store passwords, bank account details etc in an encrypted file?
I've seen bio-drives for sale
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On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 01:50:20AM -0700, Angus Lees wrote:
At Thu, 29 Sep 2005 18:38:31 +1000, Oscar Plameras wrote:
Is their equivalent codes for ff in perl 6 ?
Sure, perl6 (just as in perl5) has coderefs. In fact, these can be
references
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On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 10:13:34AM +0800, James wrote:
tick-tock-tick-tock-bing! 64 bit ints are touted as being an easier fix than
re-org'ing the epoch, so 64bit ints WILL happen and 64bit machines are better
equipped to handle this
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On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 09:26:45AM +1000, Benno wrote:
I know, but I don't agree with him. If the language is good, there is no
reason why it *shouldn't* be used for device driver programming.
Device drivers are, in general, buggy pieces of crap,
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On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 10:10:25AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 07:58 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How about writing a network protocol stack. You get a packet and all
you know about it is that here is a block of memory.
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On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 10:23:16PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
QuantumG wrote:
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
You will notice that something like the Array.mapi function is
much less likely to contain errors than the C for loop.
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On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 07:59:01PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
For just about everything you can do with a pointer in C there is
a better, easier, less error prone way to do the same thing in
O'caml and write less lines of code to do it.
How
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On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 09:59:26PM +1000, O Plameras wrote:
I am now not sure because I don't have a 64-bit machine.
It is easy to check if one has a 64-bit machine. I'm curious to know.
Actually, just checking one 64 bit machine would not be
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On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 10:35:22PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
The very existance and popularity of Python is a perfect counter
example.
Python only got popular because Europe was so very desperate to write
code in something that was not
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On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 10:40:47PM +1000, O Plameras wrote:
This means that there is going to be minimal improvements from
a 32-bit to 64-bit PCs.
Since all your pointers are now twice as large, any data structure
that uses linked lists (or
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On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 07:44:01AM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
In addition, C is used for low level programming where the programmer
needs to be able to address 32 bit hardware registers. If int was
64 bits, what would you use for accessing
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On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 08:12:53AM +1000, Peter Rundle wrote:
Compiled on a Dec Alpha running OpenVMS 7.2
VMSrun test.exe
size of a char is 1
size of a short is 2
size of a int is 4
size of a long is 4
size of a float is 4
size of a double
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 02:50:13PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
One thing thats been bugging me for a while about Perl is the
lack of a butfirst keyword. This would be *really* useful for
constructs like:
{
# Huge chunk of code
}
butfirst
{
# Second
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On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 08:28:55PM +1000, Sam Couter wrote:
telford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you do not want to go the whole hog and run a fully isolated virtual
machine then you MIGHT be able to recover SOME of the time but think about
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 10:05:40PM +1000, QuantumG wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don't forget that a microkernel introduces communication overhead and
usually some extra scheduling overhead which in turn eats into performance.
I seem to remember there was a big squabble over who had the
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On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 08:37:21PM +1000, QuantumG wrote:
Sam Couter wrote:
No, what I said is correct. The kernel is largely irrelevant to the
end-user experience.
Whether or not the kernel has real time scheduling or not makes one heck
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On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 08:48:41AM +1000, QuantumG wrote:
I didn't say it was impossible. I said it was insane. Yes, you can
hack real time scheduling into Linux. Yes, we do have a kernel threads
and kernel re-entry in Linux. Does Linux have
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 01:26:06PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Are you doing 'save' or 'save as'? With 'save as', you will have more
control over how compressed you want the image to be, etc.
One of the gimps hides some of the JPEG options and you have to click
an advanced option button
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On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 08:21:27AM +1000, Paul Trevethan wrote:
While I believe that Lindow^H^H^Hspire is a wart on the face of free
software, I was shocked to see Ubuntu seemingly taking the same
path. Am I missing something?
Yep - the
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On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 10:50:17AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Font servers are irrelevant these days, as modern tookits use client side
font selection and rendering (fontconfig and Xft). Once upon a time, it was
handy to have a font server running
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On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 10:04:07AM +1000, Voytek wrote:
what is the best way to turn html mail into text, preferebaly before it
ends in my inbox ?
lynx -dump foo.html output.text
if procmail, is there a ready made recipe for that ?
You might
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On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 07:35:11PM +1000, Adam W wrote:
Hi,
Can anyone put a name to the following type of design...
I need to be able to modify the amount/names of data fields stored
for an entity so instead of representing the data stored
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On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 09:22:24PM +1000, Ken Foskey wrote:
Got this one today, strange one:
Do you know if it is possible to setup a Linux redhat server to require
two passwords to gain root access? The responsibilities for the server
are going
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On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 01:26:07PM +1000, purserj wrote:
Seems pretty simple, which is good, but considering the size of the
book, I thought there was more in it.
Nope that's pretty much it in a nutshell. Podcasting is a simple idea whos
time
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On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 12:38:17PM +, Sam Couter wrote:
Ben Buxton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How can one go about ensuring that certain USB mass-storage devices
always get linked to the right /dev node, irregardless of the order that
they're
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 12:19:09PM +1000, O Plameras wrote:
ldbm - uses neutral storage interface which could wrap Berkeley DB
(www.sleepycat.com)
or GNU DBM (www.gnu.org). Only sleepycat is considered
reliable, though.
I've found gdbm very reliable but it has a few limitations.
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I have yet to find a good website talking about security cameras
and Linux (the hardware side that is). There are lots of software
packages and various odds and ends that work with v4l such as
frame grabbers, etc.
I recently bought a Logitech
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On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 12:12:02PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My wife has asked me set up an online shop for her small craft supplies
store.
I'm a bit confused about why people are so hung up on internet payment
options. We already have a
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 04:58:10PM +1000, David wrote:
Does htdig go to the server (thereby parsing includes?). The site
navigates perfectly from a browser.
Yes, in my experience it does, there are entries in the access_log.
Beware if you are running virtual servers because usually it
Couldn't help noticing the JeffWaugh - Storage Dream Team
topic added to the wiki here:
http://wiki.slug.org.au/wiki/SpeakerWannabe
I added a list of everything I could think of just to make for
a bit of a challenge, explaining that lot should be a fun
exercise for any speaker :-)
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In the trend of our square/rectangular/round table discussions,
I'm proposing something like this:
We all know that there is more than one way to get the job done
and when it comes to email that most certainly applies.
Describe your favourate clan
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On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 07:41:27PM +1000, Jamie Honan wrote:
My thinking is that I should use one IDE boot/root non raid
disk, and three SATA drives for the raid.
Is there a good reason for that?
I would be thinking to make a small boot partition
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 08:36:43PM +1000, Lindsay Holmwood wrote:
At the June Slug meeting we're going to have a distribution roundtable!
We need a representative for distributions to give a breif summary of
how their distribution handles package management. Once we're done with
the
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On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 09:37:58PM +1000, Ashley wrote:
I'd offer to talk about YAST but it is so simple and user friendly that
it hardly needs more than Here it is, the most user friendly system of
them all! ;-p
I think we want each of the
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 12:23:51PM +1000, DaZZa wrote:
It also allows you to delete files remotely - not sure about anything
else. It's useful for tracking stolen laptops etc if whoever steals it is
stupid enough to connect to the internet.
If he doesn't reinstall first...
I remember talking
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 01:09:04PM +1000, DaZZa wrote:
Apparently, this product does just that. Those are the claims, anyway. The
only way to stop it working is to physically replace the hard drive which
is in the machine.
Pretty strange when you consider that they say they don't support
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 01:27:11PM +1000, Michael Lake wrote:
Yes. There are readable and writable areas on the physical platter that
are not normally accessable by the OS or BIOS. They are usually reserved
by the hard disk manufacturer for their use. By working with the HD
manufacturer
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 12:02:44PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Another issue is how easy is it to set up multiple sources, so that if
one is broken or incomplete another is used, and so on. Easy with
apt, hard (or at least I couldn;t work out how to do it) with yast.
So you are going
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On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 09:39:16AM +1000, Peter Rundle wrote:
Perhaps something like login as peter then su - matlab ; newgrp
peter? When I do this it prompts for a group password, where is this
kept and how do I set it? (man newgrp tells me
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On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 01:26:00PM +1000, Peter Rundle wrote:
Ok so far I've discovered the gpasswd command which allows me to set a
password for the group and apparently apoint an administrator of the
group though my idea is to have the user su
which
stands for Robust Markup Language which should have the following
Don't be bashful here, Telford. I suggest TOTRML: Telford's One True
Robust Markup Language.
The acronym has to remain vaguely pronounceable,
RML can be spoken as rummel without too much confusion.
desirable
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 08:58:38PM +1000, Ian Wienand wrote:
XML is so useful because it provides such good abstractions. You can
define it with a DTD, whack all your data in it, walk it with XPath
and display it with XSLT and some CSS.
That's not really an intrinsic property of XML, that is
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So JJJ is offering an RSS newsfeed for the Hack program and
the URL is here:
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hack/podcast/podcast.xml
So here we have data made available to the whole world, put the
data into XML format, perfect for compatibility,
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On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 09:13:49PM +1000, Jamie Honan wrote:
I think the key is 'validating'...
If you checked my perl example, I specifically turn validation off
in an attempt to get the data to load. It didn't help.
I've got three answers to
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On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 02:14:05AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED]
?xml version=1.0?rss version=2.0
Keep in mind that all forms of RSS are absolute abominations, most feeds are
completely broken, and it has not encouraged
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On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 08:34:53PM +1000, Jan Newmarch wrote:
Don't confuse the language with the parser. By this criterion even TeX
doesn't make it as a markup language - I have had many, many files fail to
parse over a single error.
TeX is a
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On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 07:55:55PM +1000, Leslie Katz wrote:
The documentation that came with the driver did refer to a program,
spcagui, that can be used to test the driver, but I'm told that to install
it, I need libjpeg, libsdl and SDL_image
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On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 09:48:12AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
Uhm. Sure. Heres a Gig of download, your 500K of usable detail can be
found spread throughout it.
I think that even with perfectly well formed XML you will find that the
ratio of
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On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 11:04:07AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
The problem with XML isn't that it's a crap language, it's that people are
very poor at following instructions. When a spec says thou MUST do it this
way, instead of doing it this
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On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 01:56:54PM +1000, Rowling, Jill wrote:
Systems Engineering used to be a compulsory subject at both UNSW EE/CS and
UTS EE; clearly it isn't compulsory everywhere!
Unfortunately most small businesses (includes many telcos,
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On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:02:34AM +1000, Grant Parnell - slug wrote:
Essentially we agree on only looking at times of the day where packing
activity is occurring. The jury is out on whether you can assume the
orders were processed sequentially
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There was a question last meeting with regards to
PostgreSQL and the consensus seemed to be that it wasn't
up to the job of handling GIS. I did a few performance
tests on my laptop and didn't find it all that bad,
I guess it would be interesting to
Not hassling out the job or anything, it seems like a good offer.
Just one thing I can't help commenting on...
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 11:48:09AM +1000, Steve Waddington wrote:
Ideal Candidate
- Is fanatical about system administration
- Has
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 02:31:59PM +1000, James Gray wrote:
I've been called many things where I work:
Security Nazi
RFC Zealot
Unix Pig
Linux Whore
Rack Monkey
Packet Sniffer (I jest you not!)
Sneaky Little Bastard
Hey you!
...
Never been called a fanatic though...maybe I'm not
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On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 09:13:20AM +1000, Angus Lees wrote:
At Fri, 27 May 2005 13:04:21 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
What's the most sensible and reliable way to record a phone conversation,
assuming a standard phone, using Free Software (and
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On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 12:49:51AM +1000, Simon Males wrote:
I need some advise regarding Australian VoIP providers. I've spent a
good couple hours researching. Eventually I will go to a hardware
solution but I wish to try a software solution
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 02:21:38PM +1000, David Gillies wrote:
I'm currently using Ubuntu Hoary (top distro btw), but I have one minor
annoyance. Up until I moved to Ubuntu, I'd been using Redhat/Fedora.
The clipboard, regardless of whether I selected the text or ctrl+c the
text, it ended up
I'm just comparing the spec against my Toshiba A10 which is probably
obsolete but no doubt similar models are available. My main criteria
were price and Linux compatibility.
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 09:46:13PM +1000, Michael (Micksa) Slade wrote:
- good linux compatibility. I want to be able to
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Subject: [CTTE] Sebastian Rahtz - UK Open Source policy maker - in Australia!
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On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 12:30:00PM +0930, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This works fine the first time, then times out when running consecutive times.
Does anyone know what is happening and why it times out if I run it twice or 3
times in a row?
It may not be cleaning up properly the first time
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 12:26:29PM +1000, Peter Rundle wrote:
Sluggers,
Is there a tool on Linux that allows you to test if ntp services are
available at a particular server?
You can do a fair bit with the ntpq program. Unfortunately,
the usage of this program can be a bit complex, you will
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