Re: Starting MySQL

2009-11-03 Thread Dave Hall
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 16:29 +1100, David Bowskill wrote: Thanks every one for the fantastic help. No worries. The ubuntu-au-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com really works very well. I think you mean ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com The address you posted is for unsubscribing user cos their mail bounces

Re: Ubuntu and virus protection

2009-11-03 Thread In the scrub
Hello Geoffrey As the other posters have mentione very little need Although there is a belt and braces approach I have at times installed called clamav If you go into synaptic and enter virus in the search box a few apps come up in addition to clamav You may wish to google clamav first to get

Re: Ubuntu and virus protection

2009-11-03 Thread Paul Gear
Barry Williams wrote: ... In my opinion Ubuntu and linux in general has little need for virus protection more information can be found here http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/items/viruses/index.php?lang= Ryan Ralph wrote: Hi Geoffrey, I'm a fairly simple user of ubuntu and use it mainly for

Re: Ubuntu and virus protection

2009-11-03 Thread Stewart Johnston
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 19:26 +1000, Paul Gear wrote: Barry Williams wrote: ... In my opinion Ubuntu and linux in general has little need for virus protection more information can be found here http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/items/viruses/index.php?lang= Ryan Ralph wrote: Hi Geoffrey,

Re: Mobile broadband connection 9.10 Huawei E1762

2009-11-03 Thread Slawek Drabot
That explains annoyance 1. Can you suggest tools to manually check/enable DNS to circumvent annoyance 2? --- On Tue, 11/3/09, Dave Hall dave.h...@skwashd.com wrote: From: Dave Hall dave.h...@skwashd.com Subject: Re: Mobile broadband connection 9.10 Huawei E1762 To: Slawek Drabot

Re: Mobile broadband connection 9.10 Huawei E1762

2009-11-03 Thread Paul Gear
Slawek Drabot wrote: That explains annoyance 1. Can you suggest tools to manually check/enable DNS to circumvent annoyance 2? Run a local DNS cache? :-) Paul attachment: paul.vcf smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Ubuntu and virus protection

2009-11-03 Thread Bevin Watson
Geoffrey, Welcome. And welcome to the world of lots of people providing helpful advice. In my opinion, every piece of advice you have been given to date has been great. First off, DO NOT GO BACK TO WINDOWS for internet access just because it has an anti-virus program. Even without anti-virus,

Re: Mobile broadband connection 9.10 Huawei E1762

2009-11-03 Thread Dave Hall
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 02:09 -0800, Slawek Drabot wrote: That explains annoyance 1. Can you suggest tools to manually check/enable DNS to circumvent annoyance 2? I have seen this happen with both optus and vodafone. Last time I used 3 they didn't seem to have this problem, neither does

Re: Mobile broadband connection 9.10 Huawei E1762

2009-11-03 Thread Dale
2009/11/3 Slawek Drabot sdra...@yahoo.com: That explains annoyance 1. Can you suggest tools to manually check/enable DNS to circumvent annoyance 2? Hi Dave, I use wvdial on my Debian firewall/gateway/router and what I have done to stop the changing of DNS stuff changing is: quote # cat

Re: Brisbane Release party Reminder

2009-11-03 Thread James Beake
I'll second that. We talked about trying to get together more regularly so Brisbane region Ubuntuers keep an eye out for our next meetup around Feb. On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Cary Bielenberg c...@bielenberg.id.auwrote: Well our 1st release party has happened! It was great to meet

Re: Starting MySQL

2009-11-03 Thread IKT
What's the name of it? I'm interested in learning more as well, but would prefer to download if I could. thanks On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Andre Mangan andreman...@gmail.com wrote: Hello David, I have a DVD containing video-training for MySQL. If you would like it, I will send it to

Re: Starting MySQL

2009-11-03 Thread karmic
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 01:08:06 +1030 IKT noname...@gmail.com wrote: What's the name of it? I'm interested in learning more as well, but would prefer to download if I could. thanks i've got a 'Sams teach yourself sql in 10 minutes' book, 3rd edition, includes coverage of mysql and postgresql,

Re: Ubuntu and virus protection

2009-11-03 Thread Harms Consulting IT support desk
Just thought I'd mention virtual machines. They are so cheap (OS free (ie linux), app free (Virtualbox for personal use)) that it is feasible to have a VM hosted on nearly any operating system running a Linux guest that has the single purpose of Internet banking. Cheers, Josh Geoffrey

Re: Syncing Evolution to Nokia E Series phone.

2009-11-03 Thread Dale
2009/11/4 Aryan Ameri i...@ameri.me: On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 09:38 +1000, Jared Norris wrote: On to the real reason for the message. I'm starting to look into syncing contacts and calendar events with my nokia e51 phone and evolution via bluetooth I would very much like to know the answer to

Re: Starting MySQL

2009-11-03 Thread Andre Mangan
2009/11/4 IKT noname...@gmail.com What's the name of it? I'm interested in learning more as well, but would prefer to download if I could. thanks Hello IKT, The name is: 4-hour video-training by VTC - MySQL. The DVD sports the Debian logo. Published by Linux+. It is no longer in my

Re: Dual Boot SATA and PATA?

2009-11-03 Thread Paul Gear
The Wassermans wrote: I currently have Ubuntu 8.04 loaded on a SATA and dual boots with Windows XP. Because I needed a clean install of XP, I decided to take the opportunity to install XP on a spare PATA drive, Fully expecting to be able to simply redirect the dual boot instruction to fire

Ubuntu and virus protection

2009-11-03 Thread Geoffrey
Thanks to all who gave advice. It is reassuring to learn that, as I suspected, Linux was generally virus free. Nevertheless, like most, I use Internet banking that I would like to keep secure as much as I can in my terminal. I have made text files of all replies and will be looking at all the

Shutdown button broken on karmic

2009-11-03 Thread Paul Gear
Hi folks, I upgraded my kids desktop to karmic over the weekend, and i'm really not happy with what they've done with the power button. I know how strange this sounds coming from a 15-year Linux user, but i really want the power button to act just like it does on Windows XP. In XP, unless two