Re: Rob's Project: Getting Ubuntu Doing What He Needs

uple of weeks so haven't given it a real test yet. Be interesting to know other folk's experiences 73 de Norm, VK3XCI Mildura, Australia The Wintersun City QF15bt. On 13/08/2010 20:43, Rob Farquhar wrote: > Hi, everybody. Sorry for not posting in a while. > > A month ago,

Re: ubuntu for Internet cafe

Dave, Where in country vic... reply offlist if you wish? Can you document what you did? I'm sure there aremore people than me interested. I'm ramping up my own (very) small business at the moment and it sounds like something to run with! 73 de Norm, VK3XCI Mildura, Aus

Re: irc meeting

Looks OK to me 73 de Norm, VK3XCI Mildura, Australia The Wintersun City QF15bt. On 3/06/2010 16:06, peter baker wrote: > hey fellow ubuntu lovers > > according to the team meeting wiki page at > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/Meetings?action=show&redirect=Austr

Re: firefox on Ubuntu 10.04

Cheers Rob, Disabling ipv6 in Firefox did it for me 73 de Norm, VK3XCI Mildura, Australia The Wintersun City QF15bt. On 30/05/2010 12:26, Rob Dawson wrote: > Hi Norm, > > I had the same issue in an earlier version and my problem was in the > ipv6 settings. Here is some info

firefox on Ubuntu 10.04

refox won't download https pages. I get a "server taking too long to respond" error. Chromium connects just fine. I've been through all the privacy and encryption settings and I can't find a problem. Anyone got a clue? -- 73 de Norm, VK3XCI Mildura, Austr

Wireless 701SD SOLVED

is almost as insecure as no encryption, it's probably not a big problem. However, it did work in 9.04 and now it doesn't, so there has been some sort of regression. Is it worth filing a bug? -- 73 de Norm, VK3XCI Mildura, Australia The Wintersun City QF15bt. -- ubuntu-au ma

Re: 701SD wireless

a couple of old PCs out but hey, I can "blue wire" them for the moment. 73 de Norm, VK3XCI Mildura, Australia The Wintersun City QF15bt. On 20/05/2010 11:51, Scott Evans wrote: > > The Realtek is the onboard LAN ;-) > > Scott Evans VK7HSE > Phone: +61362291658 >

Re: 701SD wireless

omething took it to work, there are some non-encrypted wireless nets at the TAFE. Connected perfectly??? Next stop McDonalds. Wonder if there's a protocol problem with my gateway? I'll set it up open /no encryption and try later! 73 de Norm, VK3XCI Mildura, Australia The W

Re: 701SD wireless

ee package. Tries to connect but fails with no error message. Off to work, more later 73 de Norm, VK3XCI Mildura, Australia The Wintersun City QF15bt. On 20/05/2010 08:18, bwright wrote: > Could you find out the model of wireless card which is really > important for diagnosing. Run the lspci

Re: 701SD wireless

OK, tried that but no joy :( Worked perfectly under 9.04 too. Might have to regress! 73 de Norm, VK3XCI Mildura, Australia The Wintersun City QF15bt. On 19/05/2010 20:00, Cary Bielenberg wrote: > > > If memory servers me correctly I installed the linux-firmware-nonfree to get >

701SD wireless

's the lowest common demoninator for some OLD hardware). The hardware is realtek RTL 8187SE. Anyone got a clue? -- 73 de Norm, VK3XCI Mildura, Australia The Wintersun City QF15bt. -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Formal v Informal structure

Webmaster/Wikimaster, mailing list Moderator and a Coordinator. Your milage will undoubtably vary! Okay, enough from the Greybeard. There's my hat in the ring, let's see how many bullet holes it gets :) -- Norm, VK3XCI Mildura, Australia The Wintersun City QF15bt. -- ubuntu-au mail

Re: Logs for IRC meeting 17-05-2010

and Linux? Do you have 10.04 0n your 701SD yet? I never managed to get Wireless networking to work under 9.10. Hopefully 10.04 is better. 73 de Norm, VK3XCI Mildura, Australia The Wintersun City QF15bt. On 17/05/2010 22:43, Scott Evans wrote: > Hello fellow ubuntu-au members... > >

X server Memory Leak

Any one know any more about this "The Ubuntu 10.04 release candidate contains a "major" X-Server memory leakage bug that "causes the computer to get slower and slower over time." http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/26/ubuntu_xserver_memory_leak_bug/ -- 7

Re: elections

This is getting tiresome and filling my trash can. Can we just focus on the task in hand... whatever that was??? 73 de Norm, VK3XCI Mildura, Australia The Wintersun City QF15bt. David Fawcett wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Rand Al Thor > <mailto:randalth

Re: Dyslexia & IRC

it myself? Meanwhile... keep all sentences short with one subject and one predicate (look it up :) ) use lotsa dot points for questions leave plenty of white space to break up the chaos. If yu carnt undastand it, reed it owt lowd. :) 73 de Norm, VK3XCI Mildura, Australia The Wintersun City QF

Re: A local Shipit service for regional users

principal or small business owner. PS... Sorry I wasn't "at" the meeting. I'm dyslexic and found the random postings VERY hard to follow. Ended up printing out the log and going through it with a couple of hi-lighters. No way I could do it in real time! 73 de No

Ham Radio Stuff

nil experience here, what are the options? -- 73 de Norm, VK3XCI Mildura, Australia The Wintersun City QF15bt. -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Governance New Thread!

s the relationship with the "Mother Company"? ...How is it all funded? ...What are the legal obligations. -- 73 de Norm, VK3XCI Mildura, Australia The Wintersun City QF15bt. -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Re: (Business) Applications software

Concur, Gnucash is at best a double entry version of MSMoney, and not as intuitive Norm McMillan Mildura, Australia. The Wintersun City Brett wrote: >> I need to find business applications that run on Linux. >> Can someone suggest where I can find suppliers of such apps >&g

Old stuff. Was-Re: Topic Change: Does everyone like the Koala

could only add. Remember 1's complement and add, or was it twos compliment?? Running the CP (Cathode Poison)routine every week to make sure no registers got bit-stuck ALL THOSE PRETTY NEON LIGHTS! Sheesh Norm McMillan Mildura, Australia. The Wintersun City Phil in the scrub wrote: ...

Re: Topic Change: Does everyone like the Koala

to dump Windows, but unfortunately runs some custom enterprise software which is Windows centric. The irony is that it's a Windows build of a very old Unix (green screen!) app! And no, the developer isn't interested in doing a Linux build of the GUI. The expertise has long gone. En

Re: Topic Change: Does everyone like the Koala

keep going back to Hardy for a "good experience" Perhaps an "update pack" every six months and stick with the current LTS schedule for mainstream releases? Norm McMillan Mildura, Australia. The Wintersun City Phil in the scrub wrote: > Snip > > It has its go

Re: I'm leaving also...

Guys (and Girls) Please don't be so precipitate... I simply added the topic and a couple of the correspondents to my junk filter and quick as a flash, no more problems. Rather than leave the list, why don't you do the same? Perhaps the Mod might think about the same?? Nor

Gpredict... bad keps

This is one for you hams you know who you are :) Just downloaded the latest keps of the internet and I'm getting some crazy "Next Pass" predictions for ISS. Anyone else??? -- Norm McMillan Mildura, Australia. The Wintersun City -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@l

Tonites meeting

Thought I'd sent this... dunno where it went tho' it didn't appear in my own inbox Subject: Re: ubuntu-au team meeting tues 14th july From: Norm Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:13:03 +1000 To: ubuntu-au-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com G'day all, Don't often get the chance to joi

Re: Application problem

s > Main Menu and follow the prompts. Pretty similar to the Windows Create Shortcut dialogue Norm McMillan Mildura, Australia. The Wintersun City Geoffrey wrote: > I recently downloaded a Linux (Ubuntu?) program called Xlog (it's a ham > radio logging program). This seemed

Re: ALT+LEFT_CLICK + Drag doesn't work

Thank you Scott, The install isn't quite how I wanted it anyway. I wanted to to put /home and swap on the SD card. I'll do a fresh install, apply the patches and then reboot. Norm McMillan VK3XCI Mildura, Australia. The Wintersun City Scott Evans wrote: > > Hi Norm..

ALT+LEFT_CLICK + Drag doesn't work

ons. NOT fixed. Now it may be that they are related and I have simply hidden the underlying problem. Alas, I have no clue where to start loking. All help appreciated. PS. Just rebooted the Live version, it works OK so no hardware problem -- Norm McMillan Mildura, Australia. The Wintersun City

Ham Radio Echolink client

Does anyone know of an Echolink client for UBUNTU, or GNU Linux at all for that matter. Seems to be strangely absent -- Regards from Norm Norm McMillan Mildura, Victoria. Australia -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Amateur Radio Software qsstv

Has anyone had any success with this? I can't get it to sync. The sync pulse is very attenuated compared to MMSSTV on that other system. Same File, same audio source Is it my soundcard, mixer or the software? -- Regards from Norm Norm McMillan Mildura, Victoria. Australia -- ubun

Re: Reformat USB stick with a CD ISO9660 FS

have a look here http://www.u3.com/uninstall/ I've used it a few times to remove the bootable CD partition Norm Bevin Watson 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 >

multi soundcards

of the Creative. I'm off to find a Howto right now, but some guidence would be appreciated Norm -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Linux In Federal government

office. It would be great if more people put in the two cents worth. Conical should also be encouraged to have a go because it is in there interest as well. Regards Norm -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au