Re: Missing Ethernet Port

2011-07-16 Thread David Whyte
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Tom Sparks tom_a_spa...@yahoo.com.au wrote: tell us a little the make and model of your friends computer What dose lspci and lsusb report on his computer? send us the dmesg file from his coomputer? All of this will help to determine whether the hardware has

Re: Ubuntu and e-tax

2010-03-31 Thread David Whyte
Hi Geoff, Last year, I got e-Tax working on my netbook using Wine. I certainly had success in doing all the sections but I didn't try two vital things: 1) That pre-roll thing. 2) Submitting the actual claim. I ended up going to an accountant. There was some work I had to do to get Wine working

Re: Entry Level Network Printer

2009-06-01 Thread David Whyte
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Paul Gear p...@libertysys.com.au wrote: Paul Gear wrote: ... With those models, you would need to either connect them to your server (cheap easy) or get a networked version ... Brother do cheapo network printers. I have an older one and Ubuntu detects it

Re: Ubuntu Netbook Remix and Maximus

2009-04-03 Thread David Whyte
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Simon Ives si...@simonives.info wrote: Thanks for the suggestions. There is one other application, added by default, under exclude_class in gconf-editor /apps/maximus which is Totem media player - listed as Totem. I added VLC to exclude_class and it still

Re: Ubuntu Netbook Remix and Maximus

2009-04-02 Thread David Whyte
2009/4/2 ch...@adebenham.com: Actually - just realised that maximus my be checking the 'WM_CLASS' setting. You can find that by running xprop | grep WM_CLASS but not all applications set that xproperty These are the instructions that I got from the developer when Eclipse was doing the same

Re: Remote notification of reboot required?

2008-09-29 Thread David Whyte
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Paul Gear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way i can tell without logging in on the console if an automatic update on a Hardy desktop system requires a reboot? I have a desktop machine in a remote office that i usually access via ssh, and i'd like to check

Installed from USB stick now can only but *from* the USB stick

2008-09-25 Thread David Whyte
Sorry for the long and technical post. I installed Ubuntu Intrepid Alpha 6 on my new Dell 910 netbook. To do this, I used a USB memory stick with the mini.iso on it and installed by sucking the packages from the net. I did it this way rather than using a full disk image because I use approx to

Re: MythTV - program guide info

2008-06-06 Thread David Whyte
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Slawek Drabot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: last time I took a look at shepherd I realized it was just a wrapper around my existing tv_grab_au script (which uses yahoo as I mentioned before) any progress done in the way shepherd works in the last year or so? It

Re: Myth TV Back-end on my file server

2008-06-05 Thread David Whyte
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This talk of MythTV has reignited my interest in setting up a MythTV system at home. Before I dive in though I was wondering if anyone has had any experience, or knows if it's possible, to set-up the MythTV back-end on a headless

Re: Myth TV Back-end on my file server

2008-06-05 Thread David Whyte
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am I able to connect to myth-setup via ssh -X? To be honest, I don't know. The best place for these sorts of questions is on the mythtv.org mailing list, http://mythtv.org. I can guarantee it has been asked before though so a

Re: MythTV - program guide info

2008-06-05 Thread David Whyte
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Chris Debenham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use 'shepherd'. It is kept up to date and grabs the data from multiple sources (so it handles site problems well) It also grabs extra details from imdb/tvrage for programs. Check it out at

Wireless network card won't connect to router

2008-02-01 Thread David Whyte
Hi, I installed Gutsy on my brothers laptop tonight and everything went OK, except the wireless network card doesn't seem to work too well. It can detect my network and when I select my router using Network Manager it pops up the encryption key dialog. I enter the key (i use 64Bit Hex) and the

Re: Firefox crash when accessing ANZ internet banking

2008-01-29 Thread David Whyte
On Jan 29, 2008 8:07 PM, Dave Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried clearing all *.anz.* cookies and your browser cache? snip PS - I always go straight to https://www.anz.com/inetbank/bankmain.asp to login to ANZ's internet banking. I removed the one anz cookie I had then went to

Re: [chat/mel8ourne] Firefox crash when accessing ANZ internet banking

2008-01-29 Thread David Whyte
On Jan 30, 2008 7:00 AM, Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Going direct over the LCA network it is sluggish at best, though it hasn't actually caused iceweasel to crash. Who is LCA? -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Re: Firefox crash when accessing ANZ internet banking

2008-01-29 Thread David Whyte
On Jan 30, 2008 7:03 AM, Daniel Mons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using ANZ's website plus Linux/Firefox for 5+ years now with no problems. I've never had any of the issues mentioned thus far. Hi Dan, Have you tried accessing ANZ lately? It was working fine for me for a week and then

Upgraded to Gutsy but wrong kernel is being booted

2008-01-28 Thread David Whyte
Hi, I did the upgrade to Gutsy from the Update Manager on the weekend and whilst everything seems to be running just fine, I do notice that when the default boot kernel is still the old 2.6.20 one from Feisty. The new 2.6.22 kernel is installed however. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux myth

Re: Local support

2008-01-23 Thread David Whyte
On Jan 24, 2008 9:57 AM, Tony Addis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have loaded 7.10 (which looks great) on my computer but need help on getting Internet access with my D-Link ADSL router; a Is this your router or modem? Is it connected via USB, wireless or ethernet? -- ubuntu-au mailing list

Re: Bigpond Ubuntu Respository

2007-12-30 Thread David Whyte
On Dec 22, 2007 3:06 PM, Les Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4. Do this for all Ubuntu repositories you use except multiverse, which for some reason is not mirrored by Bigpond. If you use the multiverse repository just leave it's line(s) as it is. Grrr, I use approx to cache/mirror/whatever