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file permissions on remote server
by Glenn Stuart Morrissey 07 Feb '09

07 Feb '09

hey I changed the location of my files to the 'public folder' and when I checked my file permissions and they are set to rwxr-xr-x. When I try and change those permission settings, they dont change. Can anyone tell me why? cheers Glenn Morrissey

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WLUG Fixit Meeting is today!
by Meeting Reminder bot 06 Feb '09

06 Feb '09

A reminder, the WLUG Fixit Meeting is today. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday February 7th, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm First SaturdayWorkshop for 2009 at Te Whanau Pūtahi (http://zoomin.co.nz/map/nz/hamilton/fairfield/-te+whanau+ptahi/) 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 Fixit Meeting tomorrow
by Meeting Reminder bot 05 Feb '09

05 Feb '09

A reminder; the WLUG Fixit Meeting is tomorrow. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday February 7th, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm First SaturdayWorkshop for 2009 at Te Whanau Pūtahi (http://zoomin.co.nz/map/nz/hamilton/fairfield/-te+whanau+ptahi/) 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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Feb 7th, First SaturdayWorkshop for 2009
by Bruce Kingsbury 05 Feb '09

05 Feb '09

Saturday February 7th, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm First SaturdayWorkshop for 2009 at Te Whanau Pūtahi, 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. -- This email is for the intended recipient only. If you are not the intended recipient you must burn your computer, while standing on one foot and chanting the entire jabberwocky. The opinions expressed here are not necessarily the opinions of the person who expressed them.

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(no subject)
by Glenn Stuart Morrissey 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

does anyone know how to ftp files to a webserver? Im lost... Glenn.

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Perl for noobs
by James Pluck 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

Hi all. I'm working on SEOing a website for a client and part of the site is perl based. I have need of a good reference/tutorial/beginners-guide-to book on perl for a short term borrow (I prefer hard-copy manuals to the web where possible) to get me up to speed so that I can optimise this site without causing headaches for the client. Can anyone help out? I've had a quick glance through the WLUG library and can't seem to find anything (I'm gonna have another in-depth look but I don't recall seeing any books on Perl in there and I know I haven't ordered any recently. J -- James Pluck PalmOS Ergo Sum Laurence J. Peter - "It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week."

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Fwd: New Features in OpenOffice.org 3.1, an Early Look
by Ian McDonald 31 Jan '09

31 Jan '09

To me this looks bigger than from 2.4 to 3.0 and looks like heading in the right direction. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald(a)jandi.co.nz> Date: Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 6:25 AM Subject: New Features in OpenOffice.org 3.1, an Early Look To: ian.mcdonald(a)jandi.co.nz Sent to you by Ian McDonald via Google Reader: New Features in OpenOffice.org 3.1, an Early Look<http://www.osnews.com/story/20818/New_Features_in_OpenOffice_org_3_1_an_Ear…> via OSNews <http://www.osnews.com/> on 1/21/09 OpenOffice.org 3.1 is 65 days away, and developers are finishing up more than 1000 issues targeted for this Microsoft-Office-killer packing an army of new features, enhancements, and bug fixes. Major new features include antialiased drawings, solid dragging, translucent selections in Writer, improvements in Chart axes and labels, improved grammar checking, macros and full support for SQL including syntax highlighting in Base, and many more. Things you can do from here: - Subscribe to OSNews<http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.osnews.com%2Ffile…>using *Google Reader* - Get started using Google Reader<http://www.google.com/reader/?source=email>to easily keep up with *all your favorite sites* -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4/, http://www.jandi.co.nz Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz

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Installing Open Office 3.0
by Glenn Stuart Morrissey 30 Jan '09

30 Jan '09

hi there all I have just downloaded Open Office version 3.0 (64bit) onto my acer (Im running Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy). I was expecting a program that would install the applications on my computer but there wasn't one. I attempted to run synaptic Package Manager to pick up the downloaded DEBS packages, but it doesn't appear to have recognised the newer packages, only the older 1:2.4.1 packages. There is a update script, but I cant even begin to understand it. Is there anyone who has experienced this? Glenn Morrissey.

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Re: [wlug] FW: Ubuntu Pocket Guide - for free
by Peter Reutemann 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

Please post to the mailing list, when you reply. > I am using Adobe Acrobat 5. Which is the one that works - I would be glad to > know? Should be fine. What did you use for unzipping the file that you downloaded from the web page? Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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nut and virtualbox
by Glenn Ramsey 28 Jan '09

28 Jan '09

Hi, Recently on my Ubuntu 8.04 box the UPS monitor 'nut' stopped working. I just tracked down the problem and thought I'd mention it in case anyone else has the same issue, and hopefully someone might suggest a better solution than mine. I had installed Sun's version of virtualbox and it made vboxusers the group of all the /dev/bus/usb/* nodes (not sure if the standard version also does this). This meant that my UPS which is a USB type was not accessible to nut since it expects the group to be nut. I have worked around this by adding the nut user to the vboxusers group. I assume the issue is caused because in /etc/udev/rules.d/ the nut rule is at 52 but the virtualbox rule is at 60, which reconfigures what the nut rule did. I could also fix this by commenting out the USB rule for virtualbox but I don't really like having non standard configuration because inevitably some future update will break something. Is there some other way to fix this or should I report it as a bug? Glenn -- Glenn Ramsey <glenn(a)componic.co.nz> 07 8627077 http://www.componic.co.nz

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