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D. Hugh Redelmeier | 24 May 20:11

: Rogers DHCP server

One more reason to hate Rogers cable internet: they changed my IP number 
today while my DHCP lease was still alive.  I wondered why networking 
wasn't.
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Mike Kallies | 24 May 18:10
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: Small Business Accounting Software

Hey Everyone,

I'm curious about experiences and recommendations with small business
accounting/bookkeeping software.  This is a new area for me, so packages
or services with pointers to good documentation and a community of
Ontario small business people using it would be a huge plus.

I'm thinking FOSS of course, but online services work too.

Thanks,

-Mike

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Bob Jonkman | 23 May 21:04
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: Ubuntu Hour(s) at Linuxcaffe, Sunday 27 May

Hi all:  I'm going to be wast^H^H^H^H spending some time at Linuxcaffe 
on Sunday afternoon, 27 May.  Starting maybe as early as 2:00pm; ending 
maybe as late as 6:00pm (anybody know what the actual Sunday hours are?)

Thanx to Canonical, Ubuntu-Canada and Darcy, I'll have some shiny new 
Precise Pangolin (Ubuntu 12.04) CDs to give away.

Hope to see you there!

Linuxcaffe
326 Harbord St (corner of Grace St.)
Toronto, ON M6G3G8

Map: http://osm.org/go/ZX6BaIRO--?m

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Giles Orr | 23 May 17:17
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: Hugin improves

Great news for fans of photography who use Linux or FOSS: Hugin has
improved dramatically since I last used it.  Hugin is a
photo-stitcher/panorama-maker.  In my previous experiences with it
(which go back about five years), it was initially incomprehensible
and unusable, then tricky and in desperate need of hand-holding (you
had to point out to it every place where two photos matched), then
crash-prone and still in need of hand-holding.  But this morning,
having not used it in perhaps a year, I handed it four photos and it
said "is this what you wanted them to look like?"  It got it in one.
And it did it twice more, no hand-holding.

That's not a long enough session for me to feel sure it's no longer
crash-prone, but it's seriously got its stuff together on matching
pictures.  The next big test is to pass it a vertical pano, or a
horizontal pano composed of vertical ratio images (I could never get
that to work in the past).  Or a bunch of overlapping images in both
directions.  But the ease of use on basic panoramas was spectacular.
Take a look if you have the slightest interest.

The panoramas I created this morning are from a recent trip, and they
aren't on my website yet.  Back when it still needed hand-holding, I
made this: http://www.gilesorr.com/travels/Rome2009/Rome2009panos.trevi_pano.html
- you can do good things with Hugin.  The thing about the Trevi
fountain ... it turns out that it's in a rather small square, and you
simply can't back up far enough to take a single shot of the place
without a fisheye lens.  Another good moment from Hugin:
http://www.gilesorr.com/photography/200906/200906.guild_pano.html .
The trick with people is you need them not to be crossing the image
join-lines.  :-)
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torfree | 23 May 16:46
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: [OT For Sale] Motorola 6120 Cable Modem


Offers

NO REASONABLE OFFER REFUSED
First reasonable offer takes it.

Telephone
647 974 2769

Email
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Scott Sullivan | 22 May 19:26

: ARM PC/HTPCs are getting interesting! (Via's APC (Android PC) announced).

# Via APC

Via has just recently announced a Neo-ITX form factor (drops into any 
miniITX or microATX) Android PC board. It is expected to retail around 
the $49 price point.

http://apc.io/about/
http://www.viagallery.com/Subcategory/apc.aspx

While the lack of SATA and/or miniPCIe leaves a something to be desired, 
I find it interesting to see a major board designer getting into this 
low cost ARM system market.

# Mele A1000/A2000

Personally, I just received last week my Mele A1000.

http://www.dealextreme.com/p/mele-1080p-android-2-3-internet-tv-set-top-box-w-wifi-optical-3-x-usb-hdmi-av-lan-sd-119913

It's got a very full feature set at a reasonable price. Allwinner, the 
makers of the A10 SoC are open-source friendly and have released all the 
source code. There are now workable Debian and Ubuntu Images for this 
device.

http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/hacking_the_mele_a1000/

The A2000 is the same main=board with a smaller case and no HDD 
enclosure. The specs for it on Dealextreme are just wrong so I'm not 
posting the link.
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Stephen | 22 May 14:39
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: Connecting to memory card in printer

Using Ubuntu 12.04, Gnome GUI and Nautilus, I can browse the network and 
see the memory card that is in my network printer.

I click on the icon and I am prompted for a password.

When I do the same from my Windows 7 box, there is no prompt for a 
password and I can access the files.

How do I get rid of the password prompt?

Thanks
Stephen
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Marcelo Cavalcante | 20 May 16:26
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: [TLUG] OT: QUestionnaire for Developers - Development Platforms (Cloud Computing)

Hello guys,

I am doing an academic research focused on software development using
cloud computing platforms.

Despite not having a direct link to Free Software, I think it is an
interesting research because I know that several projects, some of
which I also participate, make use of cloud platforms for development.

I would like to share with you a basic form that I designed to compare
the use of  3 of the main platforms.

It is a simple questionnaire, with only multiple choice questions,
which takes no more than 5 minutes to respond.

Feel invited to respond:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFh4N1B5dTBNS2hVZlZQUVowcGVtQVE6MQ

Grateful in advance for help.

best regards,

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Marcelo Cavalcante Rocha - Kalib

Graduando em Sistemas de Informações - ESTÁCIO/FIC
Usuário Linux #407564 | Usuário Asterisk #1148
Fortaleza - Ceará - Brazil
Celular: +55 085 87620983
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Walter Dnes | 17 May 10:03

: Can root mount a partition and allow users to write to it?

  I've managed to get automount under mdev sort of working, but it's not
quite ready for primetime yet.  E.g. when I insert a USB stick, a
hotplug event triggers a script, which creates a new device (/dev/sdb1,
etc). I've modified the script to also mount the new device when it's
created.  So far so good.  Unfortunately, since it's mounted by root, my
regular user account can't write to it... oops.

  I also need to unmount it as aregular user, before yanking it out.  An
idea might be a script with sudoers access that lets me unmount anything
on the /media directory.  Manual mounting/unmounting on fstab-listed
devices works as per normal, but some people prefer automounting.  Any
ideas on mounting?

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William Park | 17 May 00:09
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: Anything other than "mc"?

Hi,
Do you know any console program that has drop-down menu

or subwindow menu.  I know about "mc" (Midnight Commander).
Anything else?
Most terminal programs that I use will replace entire screen
with help infos or menu choices.  I guess they call this
"modal".  Personally, I sort of prefer this.  But...

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D. Hugh Redelmeier | 16 May 07:18

: Ubuntu 12.04 won't install due to odd partitioning

I have a notebook on which I previously installed Ubuntu 8.04 and
10.04 and I want to install 12.04 (over 8.04).  See a pattern?  I want
the latest LTS and the one before.

When I try to install 12.04, and ask to configure the partitions, the
installer sees none.  And gives no explanation!

I exited the installer (this is a live DVD of Ubuntu 12.04 for AMD64)
and run parted from the console, it prints a terse message to stderr:
    ======================
    libparted : 2.3
    ======================
    Can't have a partition outside the disk!

A hint.  But not too explicit: it doesn't say what partition.

Here what fdisk says (decorated with labels from the partitions):

    Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
    Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
    I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
    Disk identifier: 0x17a417a4
     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
    /dev/sda1               1        1020     8193116   27  Unknown
    Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
    /dev/sda2   *        1021        6368    42957804+   7  HPFS/NTFS
    /dev/sda3            6369        7388     8193148   83  Linux: Ubuntu8.04
    /dev/sda4            7389       14594    57882195    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
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