Re: Question for GCC programmers

2010-10-08 Thread Lisa Milne
#ifdef _WIN32 /* do windows specific code here */ #else /* do Linux/Unix/Posix code here */ #endif -- Lisa Milne -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Re: Question for GCC programmers

2010-10-08 Thread Lisa Milne
o compile the code to run under MSWindows (ugh!) > > for friends to use, so the solution must satisfy this. > > Thanks again for your invaluable help. > > > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au > > > Please don't recommend mono, it's just

Re: Question for GCC programmers

2010-10-08 Thread Lisa Milne
return ch; } int main(int argc, char** argv) { set_tty_raw(); unsigned char ch = getch(); printf("\nyou pressed %c\n",ch); set_tty_cooked(); return 0; } HTH -- Lisa Milne -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Re: Team Appointment Process - Poll

2010-06-09 Thread Lisa Milne
s a say in who is appointed to the leadership > team. > > > Andrew G. > > > -- > ubuntu-au mailing list > ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au This poll wasn't discussed or suggested at the meeting, therefore I'm

Do you want to see an official Australian Ubuntu LoCo?

2010-05-13 Thread Lisa Milne
h a thing to exist, there may be varying opinions on what the structure should be, who should be in charge, etc. etc. But lets get down to basics, regroup, and see who's willing to get involved: Do you want to see an official Australian Ubuntu LoCo? yes or no? (yes from me) -- Lisa Miln

Re: Ubuntu-AU Digest

2010-03-21 Thread Lisa Milne
01) > > -- > ubuntu-au mailing list > ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au This is probably the result of people clicking 'reply to all' or similar, rather than 'reply', when responding to the mail list. --

Re: Team roadmaps - UDS Dallas

2009-11-27 Thread Lisa Milne
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 12:08 +1000, James Beake wrote: > Something for everyone in this video from UDS Dallas. (about 45 min > duration) > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpDRaQbOm7k&feature=player_embedded#at=12 > > > It's about planning and executing on ideas generated by Ubuntu teams. > >

Re: My experience with Ubuntu...not great

2009-11-07 Thread Lisa Milne
On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 20:13 -0800, Microbe wrote: > Maybe that's it. > > I can now see why someone described this whole process as dependency > hell. > > It is a frustrating tail chasing exercise. > > Bye Bye Linux. > > I'll be back when you are ready. I tend to think it is more a case of you

Re: My experience with Ubuntu...not great

2009-11-04 Thread Lisa Milne
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 04:00 -0800, Microbe wrote: > Hey folks, > > I thought I would share my experience installing Ubuntu. As > background, I am the guy friends, family and neighbours call when they > have trouble with their Windows PC and am pretty good at it. I can > also find my way around a

Re: Ubuntu and virus protection

2009-11-02 Thread Lisa Milne
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 12:49 +1030, Barry Williams wrote: > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Geoffrey wrote: > > I am a new (2009) user of Ubuntu and I now have an excellent list of > > applications making me almost independent of MS Windows. Hooray! > > For MS Windows I use a purchased Anti-virus

Re: usb bluetooth dongles

2009-09-21 Thread Lisa Milne
Thanks everyone, Looks like MSY are just down the road from me, so I'll pay them a visit later on. Nice to know there's good support for these devices too. Ta, Lisa On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 13:58 +1000, Scott Evans wrote: > This is one i picked up from Big-W a while back it was about $17 but I >

usb bluetooth dongles

2009-09-21 Thread Lisa Milne
Hi everyone, Just wondering if anyone can recommend a good usb bluetooth dongle, if there's one from Disk Smith or anywhere that works with 'nix/ubuntu etc. Haven't used the things before but need one now, so any help would be appreciated. Ta, Lisa -- OzeeCommunity Your Land, Your Community ht

Re: Linux support in schools & universities

2009-09-15 Thread Lisa Milne
My only experience with Linux in school/uni was at tafe. The teachers let me install Ubuntu on a number of desktop machines in several rooms, as long as it was dual boot and I told them the password. I had better network access than the windows systems (although they did eventually manage to stop m

Re: Mobile Broadband for 9.04?

2009-08-17 Thread Lisa Milne
Regardless of what they say, most mobile broadband works out of the box, plug in the modem, network manager pops up a configuration dialogue, select provider, give login details, click connect and you're online. At the moment I'm using 3 and my girlfriend is using bigpond nextG. The only tricky t

Re: Upgrading from 8.04 to 9.04

2009-05-20 Thread Lisa Milne
Not at all, I've done that numerous times when swapping distro's, you don't even need to delete anything, just jump straight into the install and let it reformat the partition (and make sure it's not formatting the /home partition!). Lisa On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 19:04 +1000, Rob Farquhar wrote: > H

Re: Internet Setup Problem

2009-04-09 Thread Lisa Milne
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Re: Telstra Next-G Wireless Broadband

2009-03-31 Thread Lisa Milne
What kind of modem is it? If it's a USB modem it should be pretty much plug and play. At least it is with my 3 mobile broadband; plug it in, answer a few questions about the account, and you're online. On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 15:08 +1030, LinuxDan wrote: > Hi all, > > Have been receiving the mail o

Re: Lightweight Email Client

2009-03-29 Thread Lisa Milne
How lightweight do you want? I usually just use telnet for sending/receiving email on my laptop. Or a step up from that would be Mutt or Pine which are both command line clients. If you want something with a GUI though, Sylpheed is good. Lisa On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 12:41 +1000, Simon Ives wrote

Re: Netbooks

2009-01-24 Thread Lisa Milne
I've got an Acer Aspire One, I love it. 1.6Ghz Intel Atom, 512Mb RAM, 8GB SSD, similar specs to the eee I think. I don't run Ubuntu on it though, but I did use an Intrepid Live USB as a host to install Gentoo. Everything I tested worked out of the box with Ubuntu though, SDCard/wireless/sound3D, d

Re: this mornings updates

2009-01-15 Thread Lisa Milne
Oh well, I'll just have to see what's up with my system then, at least it's at work so I get paid to fix it. thanks all On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 15:58 +1100, David Ryder wrote: > OK here ..David > On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 09:44 +1000, Lisa wrote: > > Is anyone else getting dpkg segfaulting on the acpi-

Re: Wireless Modem Problems

2009-01-11 Thread Lisa Milne
download ndiswrapper-common and install it too, I just checked and that should be all you need... but if you get the dependency error again just download the package it says and install it... keep going till no more are needed. Once you are connected to the net dependency checking will be taken ca

Re: Wireless Modem Problems

2009-01-10 Thread Lisa Milne
ndisgtk depends on ndiswrapper-utils, therefore you have to install that before you can install ndisgtk On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 10:53 +1000, Michael Harold wrote: > Hi the List, > > The story is; I have a USB wireless modem (actually from Optus) > that only works on Windows XP Home. > In

Re: Problem unmounting drive

2008-12-28 Thread Lisa Milne
nd. I also note the > error log leaves out the first / > > Many thanks > David > > On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 13:26 +1000, Lisa Milne wrote: > > Alright see if you can get some output from the script when it runs > > then. > > > > in gnome schedule for the task

Re: Problem unmounting drive

2008-12-28 Thread Lisa Milne
Ryder wrote: > > I've set it up as root - it mounted OK. I am waiting 'til 1p.m. (half an > > hour) for the second script to run so I can be sure the password > > requirement has timed out ... > > Thanks - I'll post the results. > > David &g

Re: Problem unmounting drive

2008-12-28 Thread Lisa Milne
t what you mean by setting the cron job or have I misinterpreted > you? > Many thanks, > David > On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 10:28 +1000, Lisa Milne wrote: > > How are you setting the cron job? > > Are you setting it as root? > > As I don't see this working if you were to

Re: Problem unmounting drive

2008-12-28 Thread Lisa Milne
How are you setting the cron job? Are you setting it as root? As I don't see this working if you were to set it as a normal user. On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 11:23 +1100, David Ryder wrote: > Hi, > Hardy 8.10 > > Please can anybody in the list help with this? It is driving me nuts. > > I hava a physi

Re: Rockbox, iPod nano, and Ubuntu 8.10

2008-12-27 Thread Lisa Milne
can you access it as root from Nautilus? before or after remounting? gksudo nautilus On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 15:20 +1000, Simon Ives wrote: > Hi All. I'm having a little issue with my iPod nano running Rockbox and > its interaction with Ubuntu 8.10. > > *Hardware* > The hardware in question is:

pacific.net mirror not updating?

2008-11-25 Thread Lisa Milne
Just wondering if anyone else is using the pacific.net mirror and has it not showing any updates? Just flipped over to the iinet mirror after noticing no updates for a few days, despite getting them at work... now downloading the 90 updates I didn't get from pacnet. I'm running 64bit Hardy, not s

Re: Remove Windows Thumbs.db Files

2008-11-07 Thread Lisa Milne
try this: find /path/to/directory -name "Thumbs.db" -delete or this: find /path/to/directory -name "Thumbs.db" -print | xargs rm Lisa On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 21:36 +1000, Simon Ives wrote: > I've just copied a directory from my wife's Windows XP box to my Hardy > file server in preparation to r

Re: IE in wine

2008-07-20 Thread Lisa Milne
Hi David, try using ies4linux, it'll take care of the install for you (ie5, 5.5, 6, 7) and will install various plugins too if you want... http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page hth Lisa On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 12:32 +1000, david wrote: > Hello all > I am wanting to do etax. > I am

Re: [OT] Optus: Why does cutting a cable bring down the entire network?

2008-07-16 Thread Lisa Milne
Just realised I didn't send this to the whole list... oops. I ran a traceroute on a friend a little while ago, which showed packets going from Brisbane to Sydney and back. Despite her living less than a kilometre away. Wouldn't surprise me if everything does the same. While we're off topic, did

Re: How to I get rid of this Update Manager error message?

2008-06-29 Thread Lisa Milne
APT is trying to find the installation CD to check for updates... it's not finding it so it reports an error. Just disable the cdrom in software sources. Go to System-->Administration-->Software Sources enter password uncheck the box next to "Hardy Herron CDRom" (or whatever it is: toward the

Re: Flash - it hurts! Make it stop! :-(

2008-05-04 Thread Lisa Milne
Can you install Gnash and Gnash-plugin (or whatever its called) for flash playback? Lisa On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 11:59 +1000, Paul Gear wrote: > Does anyone know a way to stop Firefox asking about installing missing > plugins? Facebook is driving me nuts since they switched their status > app to

Re: Ubuntu Stickers

2008-05-02 Thread Lisa Milne
I'd definitely be interested in a few of these... maybe some of the others too if anyone knows what they look like? On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 19:53 +1000, Frode Egeland wrote: > That reminds me - I have a bunch of aluminium (not paper or plastic) > "Powered by Ubuntu" stickers - I meant to offer the

Hardy is out!

2008-04-24 Thread Lisa Milne
Have a look at the main site: Hardy Herron has been released! -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Re: DVD menu support

2008-04-03 Thread Lisa Milne
I think libdvdnav is what you need for menus to work. On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 17:25 +1000, Paul Gear wrote: > Hi folks, > > Any idea what package i need to enable to get DVD menu support? My > wife's desktop plays them fine, but my laptop doesn't, and i can't see > any difference in the dpkg -l l