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2012-09-07 Thread Dave Hall
thought it might be of interest to people on this list. -- Dave Hall Principal Engineer Technocrat -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Re: GCC _ no command found - Ubuntu 7.10

2012-08-27 Thread Dave Hall
On 27/08/12 21:07, Josh McFarlane wrote: Hi Juan, I would recommend trying an apt-get purge gcc. Given he is running 7.10 which was EOL in more than 3 years ago that will mean that he loses gcc - which I don't think is Juan's aim. I would recommend trying to upgrade to 8.04, 10.04 and

Re: Recommendations for a home (vm) server

2012-06-21 Thread Dave Hall
Try staticice.com.au On 22/06/12 06:03, Stephen Rees-Carter wrote: Thanks David, sounds like that could be what I'm after. Do you know a good place to get one? :) Thanks, ~Stephen On 22 June 2012 00:31, David Shawcrossdavid...@wcross.info wrote: HP Proliant N40L approx $260 with 4 bays you

Re: virus phone call scam: question/wacky replies

2012-06-20 Thread Dave Hall
On 20/06/12 22:20, Tom Sparks wrote: 'We have been getting phone calls say your computer has a problem... Most time I just hand up. But I've been think of give these caller a 10 question or some wacky replies ... I am wondering what question or wacky replies would you come up with? One

Re: Kies for Linux (was Printer HP P1005 Problem in 12.04)

2012-05-20 Thread Dave Hall
On 20/05/12 15:06, WasserLand wrote: Dave calling Dave, Thanks for that. I don't like Kies or having to fire up Windows just for the sake of it. I tried to transfer some photo's in Ubuntu to the phone, but couldn't. I must be doing it wrong. I use the G+ photo sync feature to sync my

Re: Good IRC client

2012-05-19 Thread Dave Hall
On 20/05/12 09:54, Stephen Rees-Carter wrote: Hi all, I'm thinking about becoming more active on IRC, but I don't really know what IRC client I should be using. I've tried XChat in the past and it's ok but kinda clunky, I'm currently using both Empathy and the Freenode Webchat, but neither are

Kies for Linux (was Printer HP P1005 Problem in 12.04)

2012-05-19 Thread Dave Hall
Hi Dave, On 20/05/12 13:43, WasserLand wrote: Is there a Linux program to to replace the need for Kies for Samsung Galaxy S2 phone? I have an SGS2 and I am yet to need Kies. I upgraded to ICS OTA and I use Rhythmbox to send music to my phone. I have Google Apps integrated with Thunderbird

Re: Doing work experience - suggestions in Brisbane?

2012-02-23 Thread Dave Hall
On 23/02/12 18:25, Boden Matthews wrote: Hey all, I've got work experience at the end of next term and end of term 4, and Mum wants me to find a place to apply for work experience (apparently if I don't do it more than a term in advance, I won't get a place anywhere). Anyway, does anyone have

Re: Thumbnail generator program

2012-02-22 Thread Dave Hall
On 23/02/12 00:44, Geoffrey wrote: I have written a website in html and css which requires the presentation and selection of a gallery of images as thumbnails that can be enlarged individually to view. Synaptic Package Manager has programs listed (e.g. photon, webmagick) that will generate the

Re: Softphone for 10.04LTS

2012-02-09 Thread Dave Hall
On 10/02/12 11:40, opm595 wrote: Hi Guys, Any Pennytel subscribers out there tell me of the best Softphone, codedecs, and config etc, to install on 10.04LTS. My actual VoIP system is going to be out of order for a few days, while I'm doing some reno's, and thought the soft phone idea might be

Re: Brisbane Install Fest

2011-12-30 Thread Dave Hall
On 31/12/11 11:23, Chris Robinson wrote: *From:* Jared Norris jrnor...@gmail.com *To:* Chris Robinson fabricat...@yahoo.com *Cc:* ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com *Sent:* Friday, 30 December 2011 10:36

Re: Brisbane Install Fest

2011-12-30 Thread Dave Hall
On 31/12/11 12:46, Chris Robinson wrote: *From:* Dave Hall dave.h...@skwashd.com *To:* ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com *Sent:* Saturday, 31 December 2011 11:16 AM *Subject:* Re: Brisbane Install Fest With a bit of iptables

Re: Digital Certificates for VPN

2011-10-31 Thread Dave Hall
Hi Tom, On 01/11/11 10:56, Tom Sparks wrote: I am wondering what is the easy way to create some Digital Certificates for VPN setup I am looking at one server, two or more clients If you want a GUI to manage the certs, checkout tinyca - http://packages.ubuntu.com/tinyca As for a VPN

Re: Hello, Im looking for a reliable Linux Hosting Provider

2011-08-06 Thread Dave Hall
On 06/08/11 19:45, Martin wrote: Hello, Im looking for a reliable Linux Hosting Provider, can someone please make a suggestion? You haven't specified if you are after dedicated, vps or shared hosting. Personally I don't bother with shared hosting these days. I have a couple of legacy

Re: Hello, Im looking for a reliable Linux Hosting Provider

2011-08-06 Thread Dave Hall
On 06/08/11 20:06, Boden Matthews wrote: I am getting a VPS with www.jumba.com.au http://www.jumba.com.au, they've got pretty damn good value, but it's like having a server in your own house - you set up the webserver or whatever you want in it. I'm going to use mine for a Minecraft server :D

Nicaraguan LoCo

2010-10-20 Thread Dave Hall
Hi all, I thought people might be interested in this. Looks like they are doing some great stuff in Nicaragua. More info at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NicaraguanTeam/ReApproval2010 Cheers Dave -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Keyboard issues

2010-08-07 Thread Dave Hall
On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 14:58 +1000, Boden Matthews wrote: On 07/08/10 13:47, Martin Visser wrote: Spraying quantities of isopropyl alcohol into the key switch might dislodge or clean corrosion or gunk that is between the contacts. Prise the keytop off and spray while hammering on the

stickers update

2010-07-30 Thread Dave Hall
Hi all, I am planning on mailing out all the stickers on monday. I still have a few sets left if you're interested. The delay in posting them is some people have had issues with PP so it is taking some time for the payments to come and I'd like to do this all in 1 hit. The previous email is

ubuntu stickers looking for homes

2010-07-26 Thread Dave Hall
Hi all, I recently ordered some sheets of mixed ubuntu stickers from the Canonical store. The stickers are the sheet of different shaped ones shown at http://shop.canonical.com/product_info.php?products_id=125 The way the shipping works meant I could order 13 sheets instead of 1 for a similar

Re: How many linux users?

2010-07-25 Thread Dave Hall
On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 05:01 -0700, Tom Sparks wrote: if there are 12 million ubuntu users How many linux users are there? How many people have a computer which connects to the internet? Somewhere along the way they will use Linux. Cheers Dave -- ubuntu-au mailing list

Re: CalDAV/WebCal Server

2010-07-16 Thread Dave Hall
Hi Boden, On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 17:06 +1000, Boden Matthews wrote: Just a quick question. Do you guys think we should setup a CalDAV or WebCal server with dates of our IRC meetings? It means anyone can find out when our meetings are and what time they are at. I know Evolution has support for

Re: wifi for ubuntu

2010-07-10 Thread Dave Hall
On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 06:14 -0700, wahin wrote: Hello there, Bandwidth/Download limit isa big problem for me in melbourne. So i was wondering if there are any free wifi hotspots availble for my linux netbook to download updates and ofcourse recently installed miro tv, so i would like to

planet listing on planet ubuntu users and ubuntu universe

2010-07-02 Thread Dave Hall
Hi all, Tiago Faria has added the Planet Ubuntu Australia to the planetarium listings on Planet Ubuntu Users ( http://ubuntuweblogs.org/ ) and Ubuntu Universe ( http://ubuntuweblogs.org/universe/ ). This may attract some additional readers to the planet. My blog has been added to both the

Re: ubuntu for Internet cafe

2010-06-19 Thread Dave Hall
to Newstead, give me some notice and we can meet up if I am around and not too busy. Cheers Dave On 18/06/2010 13:45, Dave Hall wrote: Hi Tom, On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 18:47 -0700, Tom Sparks wrote: I am the only one who is want a ubnutu system at the internet cafe, and the only way

Re: ubuntu for Internet cafe

2010-06-18 Thread Dave Hall
On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 21:27 -0700, Tom Sparks wrote: --- On Fri, 18/6/10, Dave Hall dave.h...@skwashd.com wrote: I run an ubuntu powered internet cafe for a small town in country Victoria. They are currently running Hardy on 3 P4s. snip I am only there two day a week, and currently

Re: ubuntu for Internet cafe

2010-06-17 Thread Dave Hall
Hi Tom, On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 18:47 -0700, Tom Sparks wrote: I am the only one who is want a ubnutu system at the internet cafe, and the only way is to demo it in the wild, but I don't want to keep repeating the same steps (download this, download that) so what about a custom liveCD

TL-WN422G USB WiFi dongle (was TL-WN422G Modem USB)

2010-06-16 Thread Dave Hall
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 18:30 -0700, Billsh wrote: Hi... just installed Ubuntu and Im wondering how to get my TP-LINK TL- WN422G usb modem to work. Do I need Linux drivershope not as they apparently they don't exist. I have no experience with that usb wifi device. There is a thread on the

Re: Ubuntu-AU wiki page

2010-06-05 Thread Dave Hall
Hi Jared, On Sat, 2010-06-05 at 21:13 +1000, Jared Norris wrote: Good morning/afternoon/evening Ubuntu-AU'ers As I have been going through and cleaning up a lot of the wiki lately (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam) I have had quite a few people coming to me suggesting that the front

Re: setting up a user group

2010-05-26 Thread Dave Hall
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 23:41 -0700, Tom Sparks wrote: --- On Wed, 26/5/10, Andre Mangan andreman...@gmail.com wrote: From: Andre Mangan andreman...@gmail.com Subject: Re: setting up a user group To: ubuntu-au lists ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com Received: Wednesday, 26 May, 2010, 3:19 PM

LUGs

2010-05-17 Thread Dave Hall
Hi all, For those of you proposing face to face meetings, I would suggest that you check out your local Linux User Group (LUG) first. These groups offer a diverse mix of users. Linux Users Victoria (LUV) run monthly (?) beginners workshops and monthly meetings with talks too. To find your

A Transition Plan

2010-05-16 Thread Dave Hall
Hi all, I know some people on the list would like to see drastic actions being taken to change/fix/revive/whatever the LoCo. I think now is the time for cool heads and respectful discussion. I would propose that for the time being Melissa remain as team contact. I would also propose that Peter

Re: Results of IRC Meeting Poll

2010-05-15 Thread Dave Hall
On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 22:46 +1000, Scott Evans wrote: Hi... OK the result of the poll held for what night/time would suite most has now ended, the results is... We only had 30hrs starting at COB Friday to respond? I think 2 clear business days would be far more appropriate. Peter's

Re: Results of IRC Meeting Poll

2010-05-15 Thread Dave Hall
Hi Scott, On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 00:15 +1000, Scott Evans wrote: On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 00:04 +1000, Dave Hall wrote: I would suggest that we stick to the regular meeting cycle as proposed by Peter and in the intervening 3 weeks or so we try to develop some consensus around the issues

Re: Getting reapproved

2010-05-15 Thread Dave Hall
On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 22:55 +1000, Tony H.G Candito wrote: On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Jared Norris jrnor...@gmail.com wrote: This same small group of people then flooded the mailing list with email after email essentially just rehashing the same thing over and over again. Lot's of

Re: Do you want to see an official Australian Ubuntu LoCo?

2010-05-14 Thread Dave Hall
On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 14:24 +0930, Robert Farrar wrote: Do you want to see an official Australian Ubuntu LoCo? yes or no? (yes from me) Probably. I think a lot of the work can be done without an official loco. At the same time the official status is important for some things. Yes

Re: Standard Document Formats

2010-04-19 Thread Dave Hall
On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 22:25 +1000, Simon Ives wrote: I would like to know if anyone on this list is aware of any, however obscure, QLD State government policy that deals with electronic document formats. I had a good poke around http://www.qgcio.qld.gov.au/ and couldn't find anything.

Re: Ongoing Ubuntu-AU debate.

2010-04-18 Thread Dave Hall
On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 09:30 +1000, Tony H.G Candito wrote: I've spoken to a a bunch of people through email last week this week, including a few people who contacted me off-list regarding a response I made RE: ACC. Most of them are so tired of banging their heads again the wall thy can't

Re: Ongoing Ubuntu-AU debate.

2010-04-18 Thread Dave Hall
On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 11:48 +1000, Andre Mangan wrote: Watch the door on the way out. You call that respectful, Dave? Seems like arrogance and insulting to me. Definitely not in keeping with the CoC. Where are the moderators? I thought it was quite appropriate in the circumstances.

Re: less talk more action

2010-04-13 Thread Dave Hall
On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 20:20 +1000, Tony H.G Candito wrote: Why is this a separate email? Why didn't you just hit reply under the relevant message? It wasn't a reply to any particular message in that thread it was a general comment on the discussion. A: Because it messes up the order in

Re: Ubuntu 9.10 laptop

2010-03-28 Thread Dave Hall
Hi Chris, On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 22:11 +, Chris Taylor wrote: Hi I'm off on a holiday soon overseas and I don't know the first thing about setting up a Dialup internet can some kind person help me out The modem in your laptop is most likely a winmodem, and either need nonfree software or

Re: Ubuntu 9.10 laptop

2010-03-28 Thread Dave Hall
On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 03:32 +, Chris Taylor wrote: I'm off to the Philippines to visit my wife's family. they only have a dialup prepaid service in the house Ah ok, that makes sense then. Unless you want to hack ppp scripts yourself and start it from the command line, gnome-ppp is

Re: help loading Ubuntu

2010-03-24 Thread Dave Hall
On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 01:11 +1100, David Fawcett wrote: I just responded to David off list I did too. but out of curiosity for the future is it OK for IT companies to reply on this list with their rates and services? I have no issue with people doing it, so long as it is in directly

RE: elections

2010-03-21 Thread Dave Hall
On Sun, 2010-03-21 at 16:18 +0800, Rand Al Thor wrote: IMO google guys, informal way of referring to either sex. No offence was intended. If you chose to take offence then that's your prerogative. I don't think things need to be changed because of one persons dislike for a particular term.

Re: Ubuntu-AU Digest

2010-03-21 Thread Dave Hall
On Sun, 2010-03-21 at 01:47 -0700, Michael wrote: I am subscribed to the digest, I thought it was part and parcel of joining the mailing list via the Ubuntu site, so I read it when I get the digest email if I don;t gt into th mailing list. However, sometimes I'm also getting subsequent emails

Re: Ubuntu-AU Digest

2010-03-21 Thread Dave Hall
Oops sorry, forgot to double check it before sending it to you and the list :( On Sun, 2010-03-21 at 23:22 +1100, Dave Hall wrote: On Sun, 2010-03-21 at 02:41 -0700, Michael wrote: Then may I humbly request people only reply via the list and not to my personal email. My email is visible, I

Re: Save the Planet!

2010-03-20 Thread Dave Hall
Hi Paul, On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 17:14 +1000, Paul Gear wrote: Melissa Draper wrote: Do you have a blog? Does it occasionally mention Ubuntu? If you answered yes to both of those questions, then congratulations! Your blog qualifies for a listing on the Ubuntu Australian Team blog

Re: Governance New Thread!

2010-03-09 Thread Dave Hall
Hi Melissa, On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 11:02 +1100, Melissa Draper wrote: On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 08:51 +1000, Andrew Gaydon wrote: I agree that going down an incorporated association is a hard path and should be avoided. (however it does preclude us from carrying out certain activities, like

me and the loco

2010-03-08 Thread Dave Hall
Hi all, Rather than try to find the right place in the thread/s to put this post I thought it easiest to start a new thread. As a bit of background, I started using ubuntu back in the days of warty - when you wouldn't tell your Debian purist friends that had even tried it. I have been hanging

Re: Funding question

2010-03-08 Thread Dave Hall
Hi Benjamin On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 00:58 -0800, benchen70 wrote: snip / Hang on, I forgot to ask one question: are we allowed to fundraise on behalf of the community, or are there specified people for this kind of job? Or do we not funsraise at all? I mean, do we fundraise for the social

Re: Packaging for Debian Ubuntu

2010-03-08 Thread Dave Hall
Hi Paul, On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 20:44 +1000, Paul Gear wrote: Hi folks, I thought i'd ask a technical question here to give us a bit of relief from the leadership structure and all that. :-) I have previously maintained my own software repository for my Debian systems, but it fell into

Re: Packaging for Debian Ubuntu

2010-03-08 Thread Dave Hall
On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 22:49 +1000, Paul Gear wrote: Karl Bowden wrote: On 8 March 2010 22:00, Dave Hall dave.h...@skwashd.com wrote: I can't help with the build side of things, all my package building isn't automated. What do you use for your package building

Re: digital HDTV tuner card's

2010-02-26 Thread Dave Hall
On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 13:05 +1100, Giles Richardson wrote: was looking at getting a tv but have nowhere to put it and cant rely afford one as have just bought a new computer so i was wondering if anyone can recommend a HDTV card that works straight out of the box with MithTV under karmic. If

[OT] emails from Peter Williams

2010-02-19 Thread Dave Hall
Hi all, I am not sure how many of you have received emails from Peter Williams (aka pew) in the last couple of days, but I have received 2, 1 via facebook and the other from Picasa. I really don't appreciate list users using my email address for mass invites for online services. Not only do I

Re: TV Tuners

2010-02-01 Thread Dave Hall
Hi Peter, Given that the analogue tv network starts being switched off this year, I would recommend you invest your money in a digital tuner. The mythtv tested list is pretty extensive. http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Tuner_Card#Cards_tested_with_MythTV Cheers Dave On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 22:07

Re: linux.conf.au open day

2009-12-10 Thread Dave Hall
On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 21:47 +1030, Daniel Sobey wrote: I'll be going to linux.conf.au See you there. and on the saturday there is an open day. I would like to organise a booth there. I will need people to help man the booth and have things like burnt cd's. It would be good if we could

Re: Solving a Klog program error

2009-12-10 Thread Dave Hall
Hi Geoffrey, On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 08:15 +1000, Geoffrey wrote: I use Klog, an amateur radio logging program which I installed initially under 9.08. When I upgraded to Karma 9.10 this program was updated evidently because it added a ? button after the call sign entry field. Clicking ? while

Re: Distro?

2009-12-08 Thread Dave Hall
Hi Geoffrey, It is a shortened version of distribution. As Linux is just a kernel, a distro is when someone assembles the kernel with a collection of applications and tools, such a the GNU utilities which are commonly used by all distros, X for the GUI, GNOME for a desktop environment, firefox

Re: [OT] Google Wave

2009-11-27 Thread Dave Hall
Hi people, Can we now please end the Google Wave thread? There are many other avenues for people to obtain/offload GWave invite/s if they wan to. I would hate to see this list descend into a offer/request list for things only vaguely linked to ubuntu. Cheers Dave On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 18:40

Re: Topic Change: Does everyone like the Koala

2009-11-16 Thread Dave Hall
On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 22:05 +1100, Norm wrote: You know, This may sound a little like heresy, but is a new release every 6 months sustainable? Or even necessary? Is it just me or is each new release becoming just a little more buggy? It just seems like they're coming out of a sausage

Re: phpMyAdmin and MySql Query Browser Passwords

2009-11-15 Thread Dave Hall
Hi David, On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 22:38 +1100, David Bowskill wrote: Hello All I have the need to construct a database for a voluntary association and wish to use MySQL Query Browser and/or phpMyAdmin. Depending on their requirements it might be easier to find an existing webapp which does

Re: Creating A Linux Disro - Need Programmers, Disginers etc!

2009-11-14 Thread Dave Hall
On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 03:28 -0800, Julius Papz wrote: Hey all, We need people who can create us a linux distro were planning to bring to the market! we need anyone who wants to help out we attached a document regarding our project! And we will have a website about this

Re: Creating A Linux Disro - Need Programmers, Disginers etc!

2009-11-14 Thread Dave Hall
not agreeing with the opening poster or his methods, but lets break down some people here: Dave Hall - A person who clearly never ever considered ever helping out on this project went on to criticize it. Why? God knows. He found points he didn't like and made them out to be critical flaws

Re: Creating A Linux Disro - Need Programmers, Disginers etc!

2009-11-14 Thread Dave Hall
Hi Scott, Whoops, I should have read this before sending my last message to the list. At the same time I stand by both of my previous posts in this thread and firmly believe that they comply with the CoC. I also believe the personal attacks contained in Skythra's email are far worse than

Re: Need Programmers - Creating a Linux Distro

2009-11-06 Thread Dave Hall
On Fri, 2009-11-06 at 00:30 -0800, Julius Papz wrote: Hello, All Just to Let you all know, i need Programmers which could assist me and the new team im creating to create a New Linux distro which will be Unix-Like. Aren't they all? if you guys are interested please reply

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: 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: Starting MySQL

2009-11-02 Thread Dave Hall
On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 22:19 +1100, Scott Evans wrote: Another useful package to use when starting out with MySQL is PHPmyadmin, this is a PHP based web interface that you can setup on the PC hosting the MySQL... then if this is on your PC the you access that at http://localhost/phpmyadmin

Re: Mobile broadband connection 9.10 Huawei E1762

2009-11-02 Thread Dave Hall
On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 22:55 -0800, Slawek Drabot wrote: I have exetel mobile broadband using Huawei E1762 modem on 9.10. A couple of issues: 1. On a clean boot with the modem plugged in, 9.10 does not recognise the modem. It recognises the storage part of the modem, but not the modem

Re: Upgrading to Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10

2009-10-19 Thread Dave Hall
On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 15:09 +1100, Tim Mullins wrote: I understand your points, and your right. I'm sorry i didn't meant to argue. Its cool. I am happy for people to disagree with me, but you need to debate the _issue_ with a well reasoned argument. I'v just never had a stable Ubuntu Linux

Re: Ubuntu-Au Forum

2009-10-19 Thread Dave Hall
and anyone else who wants to set this thing up should do it and we can see how it goes. If it doesn't work out, so be it, it isn't like it is days of work involved in setting it up. Cheers Dave On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 17:33 +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: 2009/10/19 Dave Hall dave.h...@skwashd.com

Re: Upgrading to Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10

2009-10-18 Thread Dave Hall
On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 03:18 -0700, Timmy wrote: You would be better off doing a clean-install of Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala because you need to do a clean install to get the better performance from the enw file system it uses as default. You can upgrade to ext4 in place. See

Re: Ubuntu-Au Forum

2009-10-18 Thread Dave Hall
On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 19:29 +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: 2009/10/18 Dave Hall dave.h...@skwashd.com: On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 17:35 +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: That is why I proposed the compromise plan - use a forum with a mail interface and link it to the relevant lists. It would

Re: Ubuntu-Au Forum

2009-10-12 Thread Dave Hall
Hi, On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 21:39 +0200, Dave Hall wrote: If you really want to setup a forum, I would suggest using FUDForum and its email sync functionality. This way everything which gets posted on the list ends up in the forum and vis versa. I think anything else will cause things

Re: Ubuntu-Au Forum

2009-10-10 Thread Dave Hall
Hi, On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 03:23 -0700, The Bronze wrote: Opinions please. I create websites as a past time. Some for businesses. Some for community groups. I think this qualifies as the later and have been wondering how I can give back to the Ubuntu (and edubuntu) / Linux community in

Re: Where can I find an online anti-virus...

2009-09-24 Thread Dave Hall
On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 12:16 +0930, Paul Shirren wrote: On 24/09/09 10:04 AM, mike james wrote: sucker = me :) Not at all. It would be terrible if we were all so cynical that we didn't respond to calls for help. Online communities rely on goodwill and these people abuse it. Lots of great

Re: Where can I find an online anti-virus that doesn't install on your PC?

2009-09-23 Thread Dave Hall
On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 11:30 -0700, fevrerippe96539 wrote: I've got 5 PCs that I'm trying to use to train disadvantaged young people. The problem is they are riddled with viruses and a firewall blocks me from updating them. The people in charge of maintaining the PCs won't fix them or give me

Re: Modem Router

2009-09-12 Thread Dave Hall
Hi Martin, On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 08:55 +1000, Martin Visser wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Dave Hall dave.h...@skwashd.com wrote: The ugly Linksys aren't so FOSS friendly since Cisco took over. Cheers I think your view

Re: Modem Router

2009-09-11 Thread Dave Hall
On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 19:09 +0930, Greg McNamara wrote: Can anyone recommend a Wireless ADSL /ADSL2+ Modem /Router for Ubuntu. My DLINK has a well reported problem with disconnects. The good Billion make good kit at a good price. TP Link are cheap, but I don't have anything from them that

Re: channels.lst

2009-08-28 Thread Dave Hall
On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 13:16 +1000, dean wrote: Hi Guys, Wondering how I go about getting an australian channels.lst for where I am. Where is where I am? -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Re: Pt2 - Mobile Broadband for 9.04

2009-08-22 Thread Dave Hall
Hi Rob, On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 12:56 +1000, opm595 wrote: On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 08:15 +1000, Dave Hall wrote: Did you install usb modeswitch? It doesn't sound like it. See my earlier email about that, then try the instructions below again Ok . . . We did it! I'm mobile with Vodafone

Re: Pt2 - Mobile Broadband for 9.04

2009-08-20 Thread Dave Hall
message from My Disc Did you install usb modeswitch? It doesn't sound like it. See my earlier email about that, then try the instructions below again On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 10:58 +1000, Dave Hall wrote: Do you get the network manager wizard when you plug in the device? If not try this: Right

Re: Pt2 - Mobile Broadband for 9.04

2009-08-19 Thread Dave Hall
Hi Rob, On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 15:25 +1000, opm595 wrote: Hi Guys, The Mobile Broadband for 9.04 using Vodafone saga continues . . . and I'm not too sure if I'm beating a dead horse or not here. So, anyway, I ended up buying the modem, and after reading a fair bit on various forums and Google

Re: Pt2 - Mobile Broadband for 9.04

2009-08-19 Thread Dave Hall
On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 04:28 +1000, opm595 wrote: Thanks Dave, Unfortunately, it's still no go after doing everything exactly as your instructions. It now seems more so an issue with device detection now then anything. However when I do a lsusb I receive the following: o...@rob2:~$ lsusb Bus

Re: Pt2 - Mobile Broadband for 9.04

2009-08-19 Thread Dave Hall
On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 10:07 +1000, opm595 wrote: What does ls -l /dev/ttyUSB? give you? Yep, as follows: o...@rob2:~$ ls -l /dev/ttyUSB? crw-rw 1 root dialout 188, 0 2009-08-20 09:43 /dev/ttyUSB0 crw-rw 1 root dialout 188, 1 2009-08-20 09:43 /dev/ttyUSB1 o...@rob2:~$ The other

Re: the most basic OS

2009-06-12 Thread Dave Hall
On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 06:35 +1000, David Johnson wrote: Hi all I have been using Ubuntu only for a few years and love it even though I struggle sometimes. My dad is a stubborn old farmer who holds only contempt for technology and computers. I would like to know if there is an absolutely

Re: Upgrading from 8.04 to 9.04

2009-05-20 Thread Dave Hall
On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 19:42 +1000, Scott Evans wrote: I tend to agree with the suggestion to start afresh and go with a clean install. When I updated my 8.10 to 9.04 due to the amount of stuff I have on my desktop PC the upgrade was around 2Gb of downloaded data! as compared to just 700Mb for

Re: Mounting Remote Share @ Boot

2009-05-19 Thread Dave Hall
Hi Simon, On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 12:59 +1000, Paul Gear wrote: Simon Ives wrote: I've got a NFS share on my file server that I mount at boot on my client computers. The share mounts without issue, except on the clients that connect to the network via a wireless connection. On these

Re: Acroread Update Error

2009-04-17 Thread Dave Hall
On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 08:25 +1000, Simon Ives wrote: Hi all. I'm having an issue updating the package acroread. All other updates this week have functioned fine but when it comes to acroread I get the following error: An error occurred The following details are provided: E:

Re: Acroread Update Error

2009-04-17 Thread Dave Hall
On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 22:25 +1000, Simon Ives wrote: Thanks all. I removed the acroread package and reinstalled it...worked fine. @Dave - I do use evince, and think everyone should. The main reason that I use acroread is for the browser plugin. Centrelink and my Bank use PHP generated

Re: Acroread Update Error

2009-04-17 Thread Dave Hall
On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 00:17 +1000, Simon Ives wrote: Thanks! I removed acroread and setup mozplugger...works a treat. Now why isn't this the default option for Firefox in Ubuntu? If I had been into space and had millions to spend on building a distro it would be :) -- ubuntu-au mailing

Re: EEE PC shallow screen blanks some information

2009-04-15 Thread Dave Hall
On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 19:04 -0700, macsta wrote: I can't read the bottom of the screen when some windows open. Specifically I am trying to set up the wireless connection but when I open Edit Connections and then Edit Wireless Connection 1 the window extends below the bottom of my screen and I

Re: Router Question

2009-03-29 Thread Dave Hall
On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 22:41 +1030, squareyes wrote: Thanks for the suggestions, unfortunately cannot use Internode for broadband, no access here, can access Telstra NextG wireless, but don't feel like mortgaging my house to pay for it. Extremely expensive. After my dial up

Re: Lightweight Email Client

2009-03-29 Thread Dave Hall
On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 22:53 +1030, Ishwor wrote: Hello, Simon Ives wrote: Hi All. Can anyone recommend a lightweight email client that I can use with my EEE PC running Ubuntu 8.10 and Ubuntu NBR? Evolution is too bulky and Thunderbird doesn't play well with the NBR interface.

Re: Vmware on 64bit ubuntu

2009-03-16 Thread Dave Hall
On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 10:23 +1030, mike james wrote: Hi all, Can anyone tell me if its possible to run Vmware workstation on 64 bit Ubuntu using more than 4 gig of RAM? Sorry for the vagueness of the question, but Im doing some research for a friend who is currently a windows user but

Re: beta-live CD vs daily live CD

2009-03-16 Thread Dave Hall
On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 14:46 +1100, Sebastian wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I thought about this a bit and while I wanted to give my mum the latest bling of jaunty I honestly don't think she will care that much. So 8.10 it will be - at some stage she will need to

Re: [SLUG] Firewall Distributions, Questions.

2009-03-05 Thread Dave Hall
On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 07:30 +1100, Dave Kempe wrote: Blindraven wrote: Based on my set-up, which of the following would you recommend and why? pfSense, MoNoWaLL, Clark Connect. (Do you know any others?) ubuntu-server and shorewall. the documentation for shorewall two-interface

Re: Thank you!

2009-03-05 Thread Dave Hall
On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 00:24 -0800, SuperGeek wrote: If I must liken the operating systems to cars, Mac is a Prius (Environmental fashion statement) I think that is what the Apple marketing dept would like you to believe - Greenpeace see it a little differently. I think Macs are like the Smart

Re: Replacement computers for bushfire victims

2009-02-11 Thread Dave Hall
On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 12:28 +1100, Stewart Johnston wrote: Just heard a lady on the abc talking all the computers that will have been lost in the bushfires (and all the kids wanting to check facebook for support). While it's not the top priority for people just now, I imagine that it may

Re: Help!!! Something is using most of my HDD space!!!

2009-02-11 Thread Dave Hall
Hi, Can you please run df -h (without the quotes) and post the output to the list. Also please don't cross post, ask your question to one place, it wastes resources having multiple people answering the same question in multiple places. Dropped yahoo group from CC Cheers Dave On Thu,

Re: Help!!! Something is using most of my HDD space!!!

2009-02-11 Thread Dave Hall
GUI frontend for du -- Regards Morgan Storey,A+, MCSE:Security. IT Security Specialist. On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Dave Hall dave.h...@skwashd.com wrote: Hi, Can you please run df -h (without the quotes) and post the output to the list

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