Re: Question for GCC programmers

2010-10-08 Thread Lisa Milne
(); unsigned char ch = getch(); printf(\nyou pressed %c\n,ch); set_tty_cooked(); return 0; } HTH -- Lisa Milne l...@ltmnet.com -- 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
again for your invaluable help. https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au Please don't recommend mono, it's just a Bad Idea: http://www.fsf.org/news/dont-depend-on-mono -- Lisa Milne l...@ltmnet.com -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com

Do you want to see an official Australian Ubuntu LoCo?

2010-05-13 Thread Lisa Milne
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 Milne l...@ltmnet.com -- ubuntu-au

Re: Ubuntu-AU Digest

2010-03-21 Thread Lisa Milne
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. -- Lisa Milne l...@ltmnet.com -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au

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=kpDRaQbOm7kfeature=player_embedded#at=12 It's about planning and executing on ideas generated by Ubuntu teams. This is

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'll be

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 gcomb...@bigpond.com 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

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

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

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

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:

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 on

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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: 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: 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 them