January 2008 - wlug - list.wlug.org.nz

Nokia buys Trolltech (Qt/Main KDE developers)
by Ian McDonald 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

I personally think that this is good news: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080128-nokia-buys-trolltech-will-bec… -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4/ Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz

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Good interview with Linus Torvalds at LCA
by Ian McDonald 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;444282619 -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4/ Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz

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WLUG Fixit Meeting tomorrow
by Meeting Reminder bot 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

A reminder; the WLUG Fixit Meeting is tomorrow. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday February 2nd, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm We will be holding our SaturdayWorkshop at Te Whanau Pūtahi (http://zoomin.co.nz/nz/hamilton/enderley/-te+whanau+ptahi/?place/full_map) the community church at the end of Oxford Street. We'll have the usual tables, power, various ISO's, Internet, coffee and light lunch, etc.

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WLUG wiki site errors
by graham dixon 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Hi John, >From memory there were several - I do not recall others but one which is 100% reproducible is www.wlug.org.nz/rsh(1) and the ?nocache option is not making it work for me. (I may be applying that incorrectly.) As an extra piece of information - I notice this morning that the URL appears to be trying to draw the page for ssh when I was asking for rsh. Hope this helps. cheers Graham ===================================== Message: 2 Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:26:14 +1300 From: "John R. McPherson" <jrm(a)wlug.org.nz> Subject: Re: [wlug] WLUG wiki site errors To: Waikato Linux Users Group <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Message-ID: <20080126032614.GA18484(a)wlug.org.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 {snip} > Over recent days I have had several of > ================================== > Fatal PhpWiki Error lib/CachedMarkup.php (In template 'browse' < 'html'):257: Error: Pure virtual > Hi, do you know which page(s) you were on that caused this? It seems that a previous version of phpwiki has made some cached pages that the current version doesn't like, for some reason. If you can figure out the page again, try it again but add a "?nocache" argument to the url and let me know if that fixes it. If it does, then it's definitely a problem with phpwiki's own caching, and I guess we can just remove all the cached pages from the database... John McPherson Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com

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We run them in! French police deal blow to Microsoft
by Michael McDonald 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

An interesting switch to Ubuntu by the Gendarmerie http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iU4Lq7tOR_WVOJLZ3IeRaIH03x6w Perhaps not too surprising as the EU and Microsoft are not the best of buddies. Michael

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Putty.exe vs. VNC vs. XWindows
by Zientek, Selene 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

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New features in Gnome 2.22
by Ian McDonald 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=980&num=1 Roll on Ubuntu 8.04! -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4/ Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz

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WLUG wiki site errors
by graham dixon 26 Jan '08

26 Jan '08

Hi, Not sure who this should be send to and I can't see any suitable contact on the WLUG site - so can someone please forward to a relevant person. Over recent days I have had several of ================================== Fatal PhpWiki Error lib/CachedMarkup.php (In template 'browse' < 'html'):257: Error: Pure virtual ================================== when searching on the wlug site. cheersGraham Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com

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Calendar/file view
by Ian McDonald 24 Jan '08

24 Jan '08

I found this quite interesting: http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2008/01/23/project-nemo-when-file… Who says opensource doesn't innovate? -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4/ Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz

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KDE 4 review
by Ian McDonald 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

There is a very thorough review and article on KDE 4 here: http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/kde-40-review.ars/1 -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4/ Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz

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