Re: Ubuntu 11.10 CDs

2011-10-25 Thread Paul Schulz
Hi Jared, I'm in the process of cleaning up around the house and have lots of old Ubuntu CD's... I'm thinking that rather than throw them all out, the printed sleeves can be reused (maybe with a suitable 'updated' sticker on the outside for CD's that are burnt on demand. Would you like them?

Re: South Australia (Adelaide) release party for Maverick?

2010-09-05 Thread Paul Schulz
been to a Ubuntu Release Party. I make no apologies :-) Regards, Paul On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Sam thelando...@gmail.com wrote: G'day all, I am thinking it'd be swell for any Adelaide based LoCo members to get together for a 10.10 release party. I noticed Paul Schulz ran one for Lucid

Re: ubuntu for Internet cafe

2010-06-14 Thread Paul Schulz
You can install Ubuntu on a USB stick and boot from that. - unetbootin - General tool for putting an ISO image onto a USB stick - usb-createor-gkk (or -kde) - Ubuntu specific tool. so.. if you have an iso (CD or DVD) that does what you want, you can get to boot from from a

Re: Australian Digital Education Revolutionbeing a BIG blow for Linux.

2010-05-25 Thread Paul Schulz
Greetings, On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Ubuntu Lists kar...@scentient.com.au wrote: On Tue, 25 May 2010 05:25:31 -0700 (PDT) bwright bwright...@gmail.com wrote: I believe that you are not allowed to change the operating system in the contract with the DET until you leave school. I go to

Re: Review of the Projects Page

2010-05-19 Thread Paul Schulz
Greetings, On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 3:26 PM, bwright bwright...@gmail.com wrote: As we move towards restructuring our Loco and creating a more active community I thought we could take at least some time to reconsider the current projects page for our team see (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/

Query: 3 Prepaid Mobile Broadband USB Dongles..

2010-04-29 Thread Paul Schulz
Greetings, I would like to know if anyone can recommend any of the Wireless USB Modems currently available from 3's prepaid service. I currently have a Internst Key Modem - MF627. It works on a laptop, but it has a 'shared' card slot, which needs to be unmounted, and the device reset, before

Re: Any Adelaide people on this list?

2010-04-13 Thread Paul Schulz
Hi Steve, Welcome.. Yes there are a few Adelaide people about. :-) As mentioned,lookout for the Lucid release party. Cheers, Paul On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Steve Thomas st3v3th0...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I'm new to this list. Just wondering if there are other members in or near

Re: Ubuntu and e-tax

2010-04-03 Thread Paul Schulz
Hi Geoff, (and others) I've just had a go at installing e-tax 2009 (etax2009_1.msi) under Ubuntu 9.10 and wine (wine-1.0.1-0ubuntu8), and unfortunately it doesn't work.. For those that might be interested.. - Opening the msi goes through the installation process OK, but then running etax

Re: Ubuntu and e-tax

2010-04-03 Thread Paul Schulz
/content.asp?doc=/content/32234.htmpc=001/002/014/014/002mnu=mfp=st=cy=1 - Make the file executable.. chmod 775 etax2009_1.msi - Click on the icon.. and run it. I don't have my 2009 file handy to test futher.. (on a Windows Box) but it runs. Cheers, Paul On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Paul Schulz

Re: Ham Radio Stuff

2010-03-11 Thread Paul Schulz
Hi Norm, No personal experience, but have a look at qemu.. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsXPUnderQemuHowTo http://www.debian-administration.org/article/Running_Microsoft_Windows_inside_Debian_qemu It's a little dated.. but should work. On newer/faster machines, I would recommend

Re: Reapproval time

2010-03-06 Thread Paul Schulz
Almost forgot.. (thanks to Scott Evan for remonder) In 2009: - 'Organised'(announced/coordinated) Ubuntu release party for Jaunty Karmic in Adelaide. On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Paul Schulz p...@mawsonlakes.org wrote: Hi Melissa, In the last year:  - Manned a booth for Ubuntu

Re: (Business) Applications software

2010-02-19 Thread Paul Schulz
Hi Brett, Norm, (and Hamish if you're on this list), and everyone else. Brett..thank you for your follow up email. There is also a good list here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_accounting_software I would list to follow-up on a couple of things. I have used GNUCash in the past,

Re: Thanks

2010-02-03 Thread Paul Schulz
Hi Dave, If you are up to it, it would be excellent f you could blog about your experience. If there is one thing we need it's more voices from people 'starting down' the Ubuntu road. Cheers, Paul Schulz On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Dave Powell davepowell...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks heaps

Re: Information

2009-09-10 Thread Paul Schulz
Hi Peter, Re. Genealogy programs.. 'gramps' seems to be the 'best of breed' $ apt-cache show gramps (snip) escription: Genealogical Research and Analysis Management Program GRAMPS, the Genealogical Research and Analysis Management Programming System, is an Open Source genealogy program

Re: ShipIt Local

2009-04-28 Thread Paul Schulz
Hi Chris, How about a 'postage paid' shipping service? eg. First CD set is free + postage Subsequent CD sets are free if the cd shipper is returned with a reply paid envelope or credit. You would need to come up with a suitable cd shipper (cardboard? plastic?) As mentioned, you could also

Re: Laptops

2009-03-20 Thread Paul Schulz
Hi David, On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 6:49 AM, David Ryder dava...@bigpond.net.au wrote: (snip) So, I ask the list, is it true that all notebooks will work with Ubuntu 8.04 (+?) including the camera, mic, Skype for Ubuntu, Ekiga, ethernet adapter to my router, Seagate FreeAgent 500 usb drive,

Re: Hard links

2009-02-08 Thread Paul Schulz
Hi David, On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 2:54 PM, David Ryder dava...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Hi, I have not been able to find an explanation why: 1. hard links are not allowed for directories, and At a file system level, a directory contains a list of inodes, which then point to file data. A hardlink

Re: Gramps Genealogy

2009-01-04 Thread Paul Schulz
Hi Anthony, I have used Gramps, but only to view the .ged file produced on a program on a Windows machines. There should definitely be a way to do what you're asking.. I believe that there is some 'trick' to make it work. Sorry, I couldn't be more helpful. ( I am interested in the answer as

Re: New partition

2009-01-02 Thread Paul Schulz
Hi Simon, Have you installed the drive yet? Specifically, what device does it come up as? To list available disks, use.. # fdisk -l It should be something like /dev/sdb The steps to setup what you're after are: 0. Partition new drive (fdisk /dev/sdb) 1. Format new drive (mke2fs) 1a. Adjust

Re: Optus wireless broadband

2008-08-05 Thread Paul Schulz
Hi Glenn, (Not exactly the answer you're after but..) It worked easily with the EEEPC configuration tool With the 3G USB dongle, should be detected up as a GPRS/UMTS modem. Use: Username: web Password: web You could probably even waltz into a Optus store plug in a demo unit and get

Re: Questions about Fonts (in particular: can I use M$ Windows True Type Fonts) with Linux Kubuntu?

2008-07-27 Thread Paul Schulz
Hi Peter, To make a new TrueType font available in Ubuntu, just copy the ttf file into a '.fonts' directory in your home directory. It them becomes available to you in Inkscape, OpenOffice and (I assume) other Gnome applications. Cheers, Paul On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Peter Williams

Re: Workstation Productivity

2008-07-09 Thread Paul Schulz
Simon, One 'work flow' that I recently heard about for doing reasonably complicated diagrams (from Glen Turner, via LinuxSA) - draft in Dia - annotate in Inkscape - present in OpenOffice. There would probably be other cases where a chain of tools could be used a better job that any

Re: GRUB breakdown

2008-02-11 Thread Paul Schulz
in Windows. When i restarted my computer it stopped at that signal: error Loading Operating System. I hope this will help. thanks again, Victor On Feb 11, 2008 9:33 AM, Paul Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Victor, Just a quick question.. do you know at what point the system stopped

Re: GRUB breakdown

2008-02-10 Thread Paul Schulz
Hi Victor, You don't (shouldn't) need to reinstall grub. Boot into Ubuntu. - do you know which partition your Wondows OS is on? Have a look at /boot/grub/menu.lst You need to edit this file, and add something like the following. - title Windows 95/98/NT/2000 root (hd0,0)

Re: GRUB breakdown

2008-02-10 Thread Paul Schulz
password yet accepted. Andre sent me a tar.bz format of the Boot/Grub, that I transfered it to a floppy, I will try that starting my computer and Let's see what happens. I let you know. Again thank you, Victor On Feb 11, 2008 12:56 AM, Paul Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Victor

Re: Downloading Ubuntu 7.10 To EHD New User.

2008-02-09 Thread Paul Schulz
Greetings Tatian, A couple of questions? - Is EHD - External hard drive? - Can you boot from this harddrive? (This would be a BIOS setting. Most modern computers can.) - What sort of computer do you have? If you have ordered the 32bit 7.10 CDRom you can boot from the CD itself, and have a play

Re: Urban Terror friendly clan!

2008-02-06 Thread Paul Schulz
Hi Toma, On Feb 7, 2008 3:05 PM, Toma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (snip) We're mostly new to the game aswell so dont worry if youre terrible :) If youre interested, reply here or simply to my mailing list so I can get an idea of numbers. o/ /| /\ Thanks! Toma. -- ubuntu-au mailing list

Re: Multimedia with ubuntu / kdenlive

2008-01-04 Thread Paul Schulz
Hi Daniel, Would you be able to give a brief list of the software you used, codec's and/or any tips,lessons or pointers? :-) I know there are lots of other people who would find this a very useful (known) starting point. Cheers, Paul On Jan 5, 2008 1:13 AM, Daniel Morrison [EMAIL PROTECTED]