Townsville Linux Users Group

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Being that I work full time for a local engineering consultant as a design drafter and do contractors shop drawings from home at night I rely on Autocad fairly heavily.

If you are a Gentoo and Ruby user and you have decided to try out rvm you might end up having trouble using gems.

Xorg has decided to dramatically change the way input devices are handled again. Without too many gory details basically input device configuration has moved back into the xorg.conf file.

How to generate locales: don't use set-language-env. don't use locale-gen (it works, ... Select an additional non-UTF8 locale for your standard language, ... HOWTO: Make HP PrecisionScan LT work under Windows 2000 (multiuser environment) ... Now, finally I found a way this damn thing works browsing some Ubuntu ...

Hello to all,

 my name is Kai and I am currently studying IT. I have been a Linux advocate for a lot of years now and would like to get more actively involved in my local Linux community. I am a user of Kubuntu and as most of us are aware, a new release is just days away, which is always an exciting and daunting time for all distro supporters.

You know, if there's one thing that Linux needs way above anything else, it needs to have better printing. The problem is that Linux works best with Postscript-style printing, and that unfortunately means that printer manufacturers must pay a tax to Adobe for the licensing of the latest version of that protocol, right? That brings the cost up, and thus you don't see so many Postscript-ready printers in the low-end of the market. It also takes a pretty darn sophisticated printer chip to be able to print that. So, they come up with a cheap, proprietary protocol that gets the job done, minus some features that Postscript gives people. But then the problem is that the Linux guys have to jump through hoops to "clean room" this logic (of sorts) and get a working driver that won't land them in jail.Therefore, I'd like to propose two initiatives to the Linux community:   1. Create a new printing protocol not even remotely based on Postscript so there's no chance of copyright or software patent infringement. Work with the Linux-friendly guys at IBM to make this happen and to get widespread support for it. IBM can then lean on their relationship with Lexmark to get those guys to support it too.   2. Figure out how to reprogram the circuitry on many of the popular printer brands so that they run the other half of this new printing protocol (the other half being on your PC). Share the plans with people on the web so that they can reprogram their own printers. Because you can purchase a cheap inkjet printer for like $35 USD these days, it seems like an easy thing to experiment with and yet not be an expensive bit of experimentation as well.It seems inevitable that this would be a natural direction for the Linux community. I mean, if IBM is really serious about promoting Linux, it seems to me that this would be an obvious change. 

This tutorial will explain how to create a Transparent Terminal in Gnome Background using alltray.With AllTray you can dock any application with no native tray icon (like Evolution, Thunderbird, Terminals) into the system tray. A high-light feature is that a click on the “close” button will minimize back to system tray. It works well with Gnome, KDE, XFCE 4*, Fluxbox* and WindowMaker*. (*) No drag ‘n drop support. Enable with “-nm” option

Seahorse is a Gnome front end for GnuPG - the Gnu Privacy Guard program. It is a tool for secure communications and data storage. Data encryption and digital signature creation can easily be performed through a GUI and Key Management operations can easily be carried out through an intuitive interface.