Re: ubuntu-au Digest, Vol 51, Issue 35

2010-05-19 Thread Christopher Lees
On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 23:37 +0100, Norm wrote: > > Message: 6 > Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 08:31:28 +1000 > From: "Norm, VK3XCI" > Subject: Re: 701SD wireless > To: ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com > Message-ID: <4bf466c0.7070...@aanet.com.au> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed >

[Two-Birds-One-Stone] Re: 3 Prepaid Dongles and Credit Card Payments

2010-04-30 Thread Christopher Lees
Prepaid 3 Dongles: My dongle is an E160G that was offered for prepaid last year, I believe it's still being offered. Works well. Credit card payments: Paypal can also process credit card payments even if the customer doesn't have a Paypal account. Have a look in the settings for your merchant acco

Re: media centre build

2010-04-19 Thread Christopher Lees
On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 20:40 +0100, Hugh Do Nascimento wrote: > From: Hugo Do Nascimento > Subject: Re: media centre build > To: bryn mitchell > Cc: ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > I also was thinking about building a media c

Re: question re mobile internet connection

2010-04-17 Thread Christopher Lees
On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 02:03 +0100, richardmalter wrote: > Hey folks, warm hello, > > Just wondering if anyone has experience connecting to a mobile Telstra > broadband account - with a plug-in USB chip. Ubuntu is recognizing the > chip but doesn't connect, anyone have any ideas? I am in VIC. >

Re: E160 wireless internet modem with 3

2010-02-09 Thread Christopher Lees
On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 12:00 +, Peter Kukums wrote: > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:20:54 +1000 > From: Peter Kukums > Subject: Re: E160 wireless internet modem with 3 > To: ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com > Message-ID: <1265584854.4249.4.ca...@soprano> > Content-Type: text/plain; charse

Re: E160 wireless internet modem with 3

2010-02-07 Thread Christopher Lees
On Sun, 2010-02-07 at 12:00 +, Daniel wrote: > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 04:37:22 -0800 (PST) > From: Daniel > Subject: E160 wireless internet modem with 3 > To: ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Has any body been abl

Re: Ubuntu not working

2009-12-24 Thread Christopher Lees
On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 12:00 +, Derek Smith wrote: > Hi, > because we are unable to have ADSL we have to use Wireless Broadband. > I am with 'Three' > Problem - I can access the Internet easily with 8.10 but Skype and my > printer (HP C5380)does not work with this OS. Skype for Linux exists

Re: Team roadmaps - UDS Dallas

2009-12-16 Thread Christopher Lees
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 12:00 +, Bob Weis wrote: > Why not use the medium? Do an agreed content mailout to everybodies > address books with encouragement to recipients to do the same. Viral > marketing > > Sent from my iPhone > > Bob Weis > > > > Yes Scott, we need to start at the grass ro

Re: Ubuntu-based malware

2009-12-14 Thread Christopher Lees
On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 02:59 +, Paul wrote: > Just a quick follow-up from our previous discussions about viruses on > Linux. This is why we still need to be careful: > > * > http://digitizor.com/2009/12/10/ubuntu-malware-for-ddos-attack-found-in-screensaver/ > * > http://www.omgubun

Re: Team roadmaps - UDS Dallas

2009-11-28 Thread Christopher Lees
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 12:00 +, 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. > > This

Re: DAAP and DNLA

2009-11-15 Thread Christopher Lees
On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 12:00 +, > From: db > Subject: Re: Topic Change: Does everyone like the Koala > Cc: ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com > Message-ID: > <25ae2d690911150055v22628395i854cb1921dbf5...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > try mt-daapd. Thanks; I'm u

Re: Topic Change: Does everyone like the Koala

2009-11-15 Thread Christopher Lees
I love the little points of Karmic. The Dust Sand theme - apparently it was available in Jaunty too, but this is the first time I've noticed it. It does look a little like OS X which I usually hate, but it's a very nice theme that integrates with everything well. I also like the fade-in, fade-out

Re: Creating A Linux Distro - Need Programmers, Designers etc

2009-11-14 Thread Christopher Lees
On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 20:18 +, Julius Papz wrote: > Hey all, > > We need people who can create us a linux distro were planning > to bring to the market! we need anyone who wants to help out > > we attached a document regarding our project! And we will have a website > about t

Re: 9.10 daily live

2009-11-09 Thread Christopher Lees
On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 08:51 +, Slawek Drabot said: > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 15:54:04 -0800 (PST) > From: Slawek Drabot > Subject: 9.10 daily live > To: ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com > Message-ID: <256969.5706...@web50706.mail.re2.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-asc

Re: Music sharing not working in Jaunty

2009-10-23 Thread Christopher Lees
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 12:00 +0100, Aryan Ameri wrote: > > Here is a screenshot of my desktop, running Rhythmbox. As you can see, > DAAP plugin is clearly activated, but there is no 'sharing' tab in the > preferences menu. I also captured the version number of Gnome and the > output of 'uname -a' f

Re: Music sharing not working in Jaunty

2009-10-22 Thread Christopher Lees
That's rather odd. Rhythmbox should have a DAAP plugin that is installed by default, that can either share or browse DAAP shares. You do need to enable it in the Plugins window. Also, if you have a home server and you want to share music from it, I recommend installing Tangerine on the server to do

Problem with digests and Re: Dick Smiths Webcam

2009-09-29 Thread Christopher Lees
I noticed recently that I hadn't been getting my digests from ubuntu-au; well, today they all came at once. One big long e-mail with 106 messages on it. Anyone else had this problem? One of those messages requested that I link to a picture of the Dick Smith's webcam that advertises Linux compatibi

Easy-to-find plug 'n' play Linux webcam!

2009-09-10 Thread Christopher Lees
Hi all, yesterday when I was in Dick Smiths I noticed they have their own brand of miniature notebook webcam. On the back, it actually advertises Linux compatibility with kernel 2.6.28! And it really does work. The quality is better than my older camera AND it works with Flash. (It's a UVC device)

Re: Mobile Broadband for 9.04

2009-08-18 Thread Christopher Lees
On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 05:14 +0100, opm595 wrote: > Message: 7 > Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:12:43 +1000 > From: opm595 > Subject: Mobile Broadband for 9.04? > To: ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com > Message-ID: <1250565164.4251.9.ca...@opm3nt> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi Guys, >

Re: WUBI

2009-08-18 Thread Christopher Lees
On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 05:14 +0100, Jeff Spargo wrote: > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:16:02 -0700 (PDT) > From: Jeff Spargo > Subject: WUBI > To: ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com > Message-ID: > <56513260-d10b-4910-8dc4-3b12335ed...@f20g2000prn.googlegroups.com> > Content-Type: text/pl

Re: Converting .MOV files

2009-06-02 Thread Christopher Lees
On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 12:00 +0100, Rob wrote: > > G'day All, > I have some old video files that are in .MOV. I can of course play them > with Ubuntu, but can anyone tell me if there's a way to convert .MOV > files to say .MPEG, .OGG or, even better, straight to DVD format so I > can watch them on

Re: Gnome Popup Messages

2008-11-18 Thread Christopher Lees
You could use the notify-send command (man notify-send) for this task as well, if you put it into the script instead of the zenity line: notify-send -t 5 "Message from Simon Ives" "$1" This gives you one of the popup balloon messages, so it won't eat your clients' keypresses or interrupt thei

Re: Evolution bug - #273736

2008-11-15 Thread Christopher Lees
There is a new version of Evolution in Intrepid-Proposed now :-) -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Re: Evolution bug - #273736

2008-11-14 Thread Christopher Lees
On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 12:00 +, Peter Kukums wrote: > Hi Folks, > > after upgrading to Intrepid my Evolution often will not offer to open > attachments with the right application, i.e. only offers to save the > attachment. I see that on Launchpad this bug has already been logged and > it is s

Re: ubuntu-au Digest, Vol 33, Issue 11

2008-11-11 Thread Christopher Lees
On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 12:00 +, David Ryder wrote: > Hi, > I need the wav format to play in some of my cd players that do not > accept mp3. Audio CDs use CDA format, not WAVE. Remember that audio CDs were on the market for years before Windows came along (that's what the W stands for in WAVE).

Re: Ubuntu in Western Australia

2008-11-02 Thread Christopher Lees
On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 12:00 +, phils linux box <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Subject: re ubuntu in western Australia > To: ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Any one over in this part of the world ? > Australia see

Re: WinFast DTV2000H on Kubuntu 8.04

2008-10-06 Thread Christopher Lees
On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 12:00 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 18:51:16 +1100 > From: "Frode Egeland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi all, > > I'm hoping someone has one of these cards, as I think I'm stuck. > I've added the cx88-dvb module to my modules.conf, and the card now is

Re: Hardy Heron for the eeepc

2008-09-28 Thread Christopher Lees
I'm surprised they didn't decide to call it "Hardeee"... If I hadn't just been made redundant, I'd buy an EeePC for this. I might try it in virtualisation or on live USB on my normal computer. -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-

Re: HP OfficeJet Pro L7380 on Ubuntu

2008-09-06 Thread Christopher Lees
On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 12:00 +0100, Paul Gear wrote: > Hi folks, > > I thought i'd just share a success story with some new hardware we > bought. The device is an HP OfficeJet Pro L7380. RRP is $299 but we > picked one up for considerably less than that on eBay. > > After doing all of the usua

ABC Shop DRM and Silverlight

2008-08-08 Thread Christopher Lees
at previews on Linux. Mac users can look at the previews but can't buy downloads. I'm currently writing to the ABC to complain, if you feel strongly about this you could write to them too. The address is www.abc.net.au. Cheers, Christopher Lees -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-

Re: IE in wine (eTax 2008)

2008-07-22 Thread Christopher Lees
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 12:00 +0100, Null Ack wrote: > It seems to be poor architecture. The client OS should not be a > factory into the systems functionality - it should be a thin client > multi platform with no real client dependencies other than basic web > functions. True, but judging by th

Re: workspace behaviour

2008-07-02 Thread Christopher Lees
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 12:00 +0100, James Takar wrote: > Hi Guys > > Been noticing something interesting on one of my ubuntu pc's. It's the only > one on 24/7. Basically if left alone for some time it switches workspaces by > itself. It did it this morning as I watched. No intervention from me.

Re: Reformat USB stick with a CD ISO9660 FS

2008-06-15 Thread Christopher Lees
Bevin Watson wrote: > Failed. > It seems to see them as different devices (scd and sdd) > I tried again, writing zeroes to scd but it didn't seem interested in > me. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/scd > dd: writing to `/dev/scd': No space left on device > 514929+0 recor

Re: Reformat USB stick with a CD ISO9660 FS

2008-06-13 Thread Christopher Lees
On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 00:41 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Subject: Reformat USB stick with a CD ISO9660 FS > To: ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > A couple of days ago the nice people from MBF handed out 512 Mb USB > sti

Re: linux = windows dictionary

2008-03-11 Thread Christopher Lees
On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 12:00 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:05:54 +1100 The Wassermans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Thank you David, > > > > mounted ? samba share? > > Mounting is a UNIX (includes Linux) thing: in order to access a mass > storage volume, usu

Re: Flying gParted

2008-02-14 Thread Christopher Lees
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 12:00 +, The Wassermans wrote: > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:06:54 +1100 > From: The Wassermans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Flying gParted > To: "ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com" > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

Re: Forgotten name of program

2008-02-07 Thread Christopher Lees
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 10:08 +, "Mark M Lambert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Subject: Forgotten name of program > Hi folks, > > I've had a mental blank and forgotten the name of a program I used to > use quite a bit. It is a command line program that makes a .deb package > from a directory wi

Re: Ipod support in Gutsy

2008-01-25 Thread Christopher Lees
On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 00:01 +, Junin Toiro wrote: > On Jan 24, 2008 12:47 PM, Trisha Cupra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Try Floola at http://www.floola.com/modules/wiwimod/ > > > > Interestingly when I try and manually encode with ffmpeg following the > suggestions in the above threads

Re: Can I use Debian DVD's to install on Ubuntu

2008-01-21 Thread Christopher Lees
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 04:58 +, squareyes wrote: > Hi all, > I have a 3 DVD set of Debian 4 "Etch", and was wondering if I can use > them to > install applications like Scribus, Inkscape etc. on Ubuntu 7.04 ? > > I have friends who have Ubuntu running on machines with no Internet access, > and

Re: ubuntu-au Digest, Vol 23, Issue 17

2008-01-12 Thread Christopher Lees
On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 07:25 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:39:45 +1100 > From: Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Have been doing some more research after reading what has been posted > here. I am looking at the following: > > Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-P35-D

Re: ubuntu-au Digest, Vol 23, Issue 6

2008-01-05 Thread Christopher Lees
On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 12:00 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: Daniel Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Multimedia with ubuntu / kdenlive > > Geek tips: > > * Kdenlive is a great iMovie equivalent, but it's still essentially > alpha. Make use of the autosave feature. Set it to 1

Re: ubuntu-au Digest, Vol 22, Issue 26

2007-12-31 Thread Christopher Lees
On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 12:00 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 10:41:05 +1100 > From: "The Wassermans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Chicken and Egg > To: > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Having only recen

Re: ubuntu-au Digest, Vol 22, Issue 25

2007-12-28 Thread Christopher Lees
On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 12:00 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:32:51 +1100 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Telstra was one of these ISPs after their email system > ground to a halt when they were inundated with spam both incoming and > outgoing just a few years a