Re: ISP

2008-10-30 Thread Owen Townend
2008/10/30 Dave Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 14:10 +1100, Owen Townend wrote: [snip] I am on a 'Naked' plan which counts uploads as well but is balanced against included national fixed-line calls (voip) and no line rental. $30 line rental + $20 telstra budged plan + internet

Re: Change Partition Name

2008-10-08 Thread Owen Townend
2008/10/9 Simon Ives [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello All. Hey, I've got two partitions on my notebook, one that houses Ubuntu and another that I use for storage, backups and temporary files. Both partitions are in ext3 format. To have the second partition mount at boot I've added the following

Re: What is the command(s) to uncompress tar archive?!?

2008-10-07 Thread Owen Townend
2008/10/7 Peter Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi All, I have a tar archive user_backup_20080918.tgz -- which is 19.4 GB of data which was previously my home folder, with many sub-folders, for my (old) user name 'user'. I have since reinstalled Linux... actually a new installation of Linux

Re: Hardy Heron for the eeepc

2008-09-28 Thread Owen Townend
2008/9/29 JeanW [EMAIL PROTECTED]: :-) Yes, and I do often d/l at night. But the gremlins have a nasty habit of disrupting the d/l in various creative ways, so I leave it unattended only as a last resort. At least I no longer have a cat to sneak into the room when I'm not looking and curl

Re: Ubuntu and PVR / Digital Television

2008-08-13 Thread Owen Townend
2008/8/13 James Purser [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 19:36 +1000, Nick wrote: [snip] Was wondering if anyone has had success in using linux/ubuntu for this purpose? Is there a guide or kit list online that anyone can endorse? I myself use a winfast dtv1000 digital card. Software

Re: iinet users

2008-07-03 Thread Owen Townend
On 03/07/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would someone using the iinet mirror please post a line from their sources.list file so that I can get the syntax exact. Alternatively answer question #38066 in Launchpad. Andre Hey, Here's a line from mine which is working: deb

Re: broadband with linux mirror

2008-07-01 Thread Owen Townend
On 01/07/2008, Paul Gear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Owen Townend wrote: ... I was previously with OptusNet Cable when living with my parents: the noticable (so far) mirror that Optus has that iiNet doesn't is Sourceforge. I don't know how it goes when you're an Optusnet customer

Re: broadband with linux mirror

2008-07-01 Thread Owen Townend
On 02/07/2008, Martin Visser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you might find that Optusnet no longer hosts a Sourceforge mirror - the only Aussie one is Internode Hey, That might explain it... cheers, Owen. -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: broadband with linux mirror

2008-06-30 Thread Owen Townend
On 01/07/2008, Sebastian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I recently moved and now I have to look into a new broadband connection. Until now I was with AAPT but I consider a new carrier. Which ISPs can you recommend in the Sydney area who have a not counted Linux mirror for updates? I

Re: Misc Ubuntu Troubles

2008-06-19 Thread Owen Townend
On 14/05/2008, Tim Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All I've recently inherited [for work] a very nice Vostro notebook, which was wiped clean and set up with Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy w/ Reiserfs. This machine is primarily a development laptop, using a secondary widescreen monitor and networked to

Re: Reformat USB stick with a CD ISO9660 FS

2008-06-14 Thread Owen Townend
On 14/06/2008, Bevin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've given up on trying to remove the cd component. On reflection, the fact that it shows up as two separate devices (scd and sdd) implies that it is something in the hardware. I've also had a go with MS Vista and XP with the same result.

Re: Digital TV hardware?

2008-04-13 Thread Owen Townend
Sorry for entering this so late, but Daniel can you give me an idea of what sized machines you're talking about? To be able to record 2 channels at once and view a recording? I have bought 2 Topfield PVR devices, the first was brilliant till the main board died and we were told it was