Re: Celestia
sndconfig is the standard method for ISA PnP cards, even MDK says this. Cheers Jason PS, glad you got it going. Chris Wilkinson wrote: Hi there, Martin Baehr wrote: On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 07:54:05AM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: Thanks to Chris W for mentioning this program. I just reinstalled it (gentoo ;-) i think i heared about it, but never tried it before. it's amazing, lets you look at the solar system from the outside. Heres one for ya! I assume you have the gtk interface? If so, goto Render-> Options, and switch Eclipse shadows 'on'... Then setup Celestia's time and date to 11th Nov 1997, 16:43:00 NZDT. Use the Celestial Browser to goto the Jupiter moon Io, and swing your posiion around so you can see Jupiter in the background...neat huh! A double eclipse! Not a thing you'll see everyday!! :^) now i'd like the tourguide to include pointers to the star-trek universe You sound like my brother-in-law, who honestly believes that Star Wars is a load of tripe because it isn't "real", unlike Star Trek! ;^) His home is full of Trek paraphernalia, mags, videos, and I think he even has books on how to learn klingonese etc... I must admit that I don't mind watching Trek when 7 of 9 is on... hehe! ;^) Kind regards, Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch.
Re: Mandrake on Low Spec box
Glad you got it going. Evn MDK states that sndconfig should be used for ISA cards. Cheers Jason Robert Fisher wrote: Sound Card is ISA ESS 1869 chip (on board) I had to manually get it going using sndconfig I do remember now that I gave up with it on Gentoo and used another (PCI) card so maybe this card is the problem. On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 11:29, Jason wrote: PS, what is the hardware??? PCI or ISA Soundcard etcf etc Robert Fisher wrote: Well I got Mandrake 9.1 on the PII-400, with 390Mb ram and KDE seems to run OK I would like to switch my son from Win2k which worked fine on the box. Sound needs improving to make him happy though. I can play mp3's with XMMS but it is very jerky. System notifications do not go. Any advice before he asks me to reinstall windows? Hardware should not be too much of a problem because this box has had RedHat 8, Gentoo and Win2k all working OK before.
Re: Telstraclear cable: 128kb -> 256kb no extra charge in May?
noo,... i just moved house and thus had to sadly give up my cable connections!!! > Hi, > > I was at the teltraclearn website and fond out that > they do not offer 128k > anymore but offer 256k with 5gig cap for the same > price(?) They also state > that on the 1st of May the 5 gig cap will be > increased to 10 gig. Does that > mean us 128kers will be able to upgrade for free? Or > have I got it totally > wrong. > > 5GB (until April 30th 2003), 10GB (from May 1st > 2003) of international monthly > traffic > > The link is as follows: > > http://www.telstraclear.co.nz/products/internet/broadband/ > > -Paul > > PS I apologize if I got anyones hopes up of a free > upgrade if I am wrong. > > > = For Linux CD's check out http://www.xsolutions.co.nz http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Mobile - Check & compose your email via SMS on your Telstra or Vodafone mobile.
Re: sound cards
Chris Wilkinson wrote: > If you're looking for a cheap new 19", Dick Smith sell theirs for a snip > under $400. Its a DSE badged Proview...not state of art, but certainly > good-value-for-money... For less than that you could buy a cheap standalone DVD player and watch on your TV... but your suggestion is a very good excuse to buy a bigger monitor. I'd suggest getting something halfway decent though. > Only low quality Dolby Digital stuff is cheap, and I'd rather just fire > the 5.1 channel sound out a coax or optical cable to my 'proper' home > theatre, complete with 12" 'trouser-filler' subwoofer! ;^) Perhaps you haven't seen the Bladder Buster... (I'm not associated, etc) http://www.worldsbestspeakers.com/bladder.htm Cheers, - Dave http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
Re: font2pcl.ps
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 14:22, Helmut Walle wrote: > On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Rex Johnston wrote: > If you know a bit of Postscript you should be able to see what it interesting language, no ? RPN ? > really does. It also contains heaps of comments. You can run gs with > the CLI (by just starting gs in a terminal window). That allows you to > enter Postscript commands line by line and to see what happens (what > gs thinks of your commands)... Yes, the last thing i tried before i posted was something like gs -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=/tmp/font -soutfile=/tmp/font2 -- /usr/share/gs/6.51/font2pcl.ps < code39.t1a > Hope this helps, let us know how you get on, Hmm, Oh well. I emailed the last guy who checked changes into CVS for this file, but no answer. Rex
Re: sound cards
I already have a dvd player for the lounge. With a 7 year old its handy to have two. eventually i would like to build a multimedia centre using some low noise setup (mini itx anyone?), so working on the dvd software and good sound on my desktop is all background. On Sun, 06 Apr 2003 21:40:10+1200 David Mann<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you're looking for a cheap new 19", Dick Smith sell theirs for a > > snip under $400. Its a DSE badged Proview...not state of art, but > > certainly good-value-for-money... > > For less than that you could buy a cheap standalone DVD player and > watch on your TV... but your suggestion is a very good excuse to buy a > bigger monitor. I'd suggest getting something halfway decent though. > > > Only low quality Dolby Digital stuff is cheap, and I'd rather just > > fire the 5.1 channel sound out a coax or optical cable to my > > 'proper' home theatre, complete with 12" 'trouser-filler' subwoofer! > > ;^)
Re: Telstraclear cable: 128kb -> 256kb no extra charge in May?
Ben Aitchison is on permanent record as saying: :The central city isn't even cabled up yet! ADSL is really really :annoying. Oh and Paradise ADSL is more variable than Paradise Cable. :Often national pings are in excess of 150 msec. You'd really think they :could at least cable up everywhere between the four avenues. Is there an actual coverage map? I was looking around for one earlier today and couldn't find anything. Greg --- -
Re: adsl ISP's. was: Telstraclear cable: 128kb -> 256kb no extra charge in May?
On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 12:59:46PM +1200, Mahesh De Silva wrote: > > Dam i was thinking of switching to paradise dsl, > hoping to get the same performance as cable. Is the > speed issue with telecom/ADSL? > > Any one recamend a good ISP. I was with Net4u, but > there fait is uncertain. % /usr/local/sbin/mtr --report www.nzherald.co.nz HOSTLOSS RCVD SENTBEST AVG WORST 202-49-70-51.plain.net.nz 0%16 160.620.750.85 202-0-60-254.paradise.net.nz 0%16 16 50.40 51.29 52.66 192.168.253.225 0%16 16 51.30 59.58 74.63 kelly.ipnet2.paradise.net.nz 0%16 16 52.95 72.35 120.33 fa7-0.bertha.paradise.net.nz 0%16 16 53.84 70.36 113.17 g1-0-1042.u21.tar.telstraclear.net0%16 16 57.16 66.38 92.56 fa0-1.b1.lqy.wlg.tsnz.net 0%16 16 57.11 77.86 265.02 fa4-0-0.b2.sxb.akl.tsnz.net 0%16 16 68.35 78.67 184.59 wilsonh.b2.sxb.tsnz.net 0%16 16 68.47 80.08 103.87 whgc7.wilsonandhorton.co.nz 0%16 16 67.56 75.44 92.58 nzherald.co.nz0%16 16 69.07 73.70 83.68 They're variable. Right now they're not too bad. But there's still congestion on 192.168.253.225. The first hop's confusing, because when using ADSL I'm natting internet ip numbers. Anyway, look at 192.168.253.225 .. that ip number sometimes rises to 150 msec. And you can't get anywhere useful without traversing it. In the evening or weekend it's worse. With cable there was only a few msec of congestion unless things were really screwed, like over second pings, but I noticed that less than once a week. Even Christchurch to Christchurch ADSL seems to hit it... Paradise seems to have national traffic routing via Sydney occasionally - but other than that, their core network seems pretty decent. Paridse ADSL actually had a period of time when it took like an hour to connect, with frequent disconnections. But now the connection seems to last for days. (I'm hoping this will move to months, damn dynamic IP) Ben.
Re: Telstraclear cable: 128kb -> 256kb no extra charge in May?
On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 07:06:05PM -0700, G. M. Bodnar wrote: > Ben Aitchison is on permanent record as saying: > :The central city isn't even cabled up yet! ADSL is really really > :annoying. Oh and Paradise ADSL is more variable than Paradise Cable. > :Often national pings are in excess of 150 msec. You'd really think they > :could at least cable up everywhere between the four avenues. > Is there an actual coverage map? I was looking around for one earlier > today and couldn't find anything. Not that I know of. They won't say when your area will be covered, even. I tried to push, and they said that they'd ring me back in a few days about when it's likely to be available. They never returned my call. Ben.
RPM History - via Cooker
Hi All, Great discussion on list that is very enlightening. Thought this would be helpful re RPM. Cheers Jason Original Message Subject: Re: [Cooker] Document review request: RPM devel package dependency problem Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 18:44:24 -0800 From: Andi Payn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sunday 06 April 2003 13:26, Stefan van der Eijk wrote: Hello, I've written up on an issue with rpm dependencies in -devel packages. I'm not sure if the story is 100% accurate (I'm not a programmer), so if you've got a moment to spare, feel free to review it. This is pretty much completely wrong. The history is wrong, the description of the problem is wrong, and the proposed solution won't work. The proposed solution might have some benefits anyway; I'll get to that. Rather than explain what's wrong, let me try to give a more accurate history, with some rationales along the way, and then explain the actual problem, and why it can't be solved automatically. This is probably going to be a very long email, as there's a lot to go over. In the old days, Mandrake worked the same way Redhat did (and, along with most of the RPM-based world, still does): The typical source package mything-1.0.srpm, if it contained libraries or other development files, would build two packages, mything-1.0-i586.rpm and mything-devel-1.0-i586.rpm. The mything package would contain the application binaries, shared libraries (libmything.so.1.0.0), shared library symlinks needed for normal use (libmything.so.1), and user documentation. The mything-devel package would contain the static libraries (libmything.a), shared library symlinks needed for building other code (libmything.so), header files, and developer documentation. This split long predates the Mandrake policy; it came long before the numbering of libraries. Also, this split has no effect whatsoever on the ability of multiple versions to coexist. For example, mything-1.0 can't coexist with mything-1.2, because they both try to provide the same files, such as /usr/bin/myapp. Likewise, mything-devel-1.0 can't coexist with mything-devel-1.2, because they both try to provide the same files, such as /usr/include/mylib.h. Naming them differently wouldn't solve this problem; it would just make it harder for RPM to catch the problem immediately (it has to go through the "preparing" phase--which, for urpmi/rpmdrake, means it has to download the packages). The reason for splitting off the -devel packages was that most people don't need them. Why waste download time, space on the CD, space on the user's hard disk, and/or other resources for header files if most users will never compile anything that requires those header files? In a few cases, packages were further split: -static-devel, -doc, -devel-doc, -utils, -tools, etc. may be split off. This was pretty rare in the early days, and on most distros (including Mandrake and Redhat), it's still pretty rare, but a few distros went overboard with this (PLD' policy is to create separate -static, -static-devel, and, where appropriate, -docs and -docs-devel, for example, and Conectiva goes about half-way there). Sometimes this is because the static libraries end up being 80% of -devel and even most developers will never need them--so again, it saves space/bandwidth/etc. to separate them out. Sometimes it's because the original program came in multiple separate tarballs and it's easier (both initially and for maintenance) to organize the RPMs the same way. Sometimes it's because the developer puts a specfile in each tarball, which makes this even more compelling (especially when the specfile is designed for your distro). Often it's because whoever had the package first split off -static-devel and everyone else just followed suit (this is especially true when developers make Mandrake packages and Redhat redhatizes them). Now, on to the multiple-version issue. This was a problem from the beginning of the shared library days, before RPM. Let's say that lots and lots of packages link to mything's shared libraries. Now, 1.0 comes out, and it's incompatible with 0.2. Let's look at the library version numbering system used by linux/glibc. When a user upgrades from mything-0.2.1 to mything-0.3.0, /usr/lib/libmything.so.0.2.1 goes away, /usr/lib/libmything-0.3.0 gets installed, and the existing /usr/lib/libmything.so.0 link now points to the new version. Since programs link against libmything.so.0, all existing programs still work, and programs that require new 0.3 features also work. (This assumes that minor-version upgrades are backwards compatible, which they're supposed to be, but some developers disagree, or just aren't perfect.) When the user later upgrades to mything-1.0.0, which may be incompatible with 0.3.0 (major-version upgrades can be incompatible), libmything.so.0.3.0 stays in place, and libmything.so.0 continues to point at
EU MS purchase - Ouch
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/30105.html EU investigates MS, EU buys scads more Windows servers By John Lettice Posted: 04/04/2003 at 13:28 GMT The European Commission is currently deciding what it can do to stop Microsoft using its dominant position on the desktop to carve itself a similar monopoly in the server market. But at the same time, the European Commission's IT purchasing policies are supporting that very process. The Commission uses Windows clients, is upgrading these to Windows XP, and has just invested in a large number of Windows 2000 Advanced Server application servers to support them.
Re: Telstraclear cable: 128kb -> 256kb no extra charge in May?
The easiest way is to call them up, as each household has a connection status. The easiest way to check is to look for the little green PED out the front of your house, or cable on the poles - you cant miss them! Ben, at the moment there is no new build happening anywhere in Christchurch. The contact centre have no real information to give out regarding that. General coverage ideas: Addington Aranui Avondale Avonside Bexley Bromley Cashmere Riccarton (South of Riccarton Rd) Dallington Ferrymead Heathcote Valley Hei Hei Hillmorton Hoon Hay Hornby Linwood Lower Riccarton (South of Riccarton Rd) Mairehau Middleton New Brighton (selected areas) Linwood Opawa Philipstown Richmond Shirley Sockburn Sommerfield Spreydon St Albans (East of Colombo St) St Martins Sydenham Upper Riccarton Wainoni Waltham Wigram Woolston Hope that helps! -d - Original Message - From: "G. M. Bodnar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 2:06 PM Subject: Re: Telstraclear cable: 128kb -> 256kb no extra charge in May? > Ben Aitchison is on permanent record as saying: > :The central city isn't even cabled up yet! ADSL is really really > :annoying. Oh and Paradise ADSL is more variable than Paradise Cable. > :Often national pings are in excess of 150 msec. You'd really think they > :could at least cable up everywhere between the four avenues. > > Is there an actual coverage map? I was looking around for one earlier > today and couldn't find anything. > > Greg > --- - >
Re: Using Gimp
Tim Wright wrote: On Sun, 6 Apr 2003, Herb Petrie wrote: In load Image, I am unable to go down to the directory the files are in. Could you try starting the Gimp from a terminal window: type "gimp " (replace with a file you want to edit) and tell us what error messages you get? That'll help us determine what's going wrong :) Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tnw13 The error message is Gtk - Warning **:cannot open Display: This message shows when I either enter the file name, or the full directory path to it. Herb Petrie.
Re: sound cards
Hi there, David Mann wrote: Chris Wilkinson wrote: If you're looking for a cheap new 19", Dick Smith sell theirs for a snip under $400. Its a DSE badged Proview...not state of art, but certainly good-value-for-money... For less than that you could buy a cheap standalone DVD player and watch on your TV... but your suggestion is a very good excuse to buy a bigger monitor. I'd suggest getting something halfway decent though. Its still a good budget conscious choice...if I were a graphics pro I'd be using something that costs twice what my current entire system costs, but my choice of linux was made for budgetary, as well as curiosity reasons... Only low quality Dolby Digital stuff is cheap, and I'd rather just fire the 5.1 channel sound out a coax or optical cable to my 'proper' home theatre, complete with 12" 'trouser-filler' subwoofer! ;^) Perhaps you haven't seen the Bladder Buster... (I'm not associated, etc) http://www.worldsbestspeakers.com/bladder.htm Arvus do make some interesting stuff, but price is a bit too high for my liking. I did see a project where a guy in the UK turned most of his basement (located under his lounge) into a sub-box, complete with 16 (no this ain't a typo!), yes 16x 15" long-throw drivers, driven by about 4k of amp, and ported into his lounge from what appeared to be open grates of an underfloor heating system! Frequency response was measured in-room at 8Hz -> X-over freq, +/- 3dB at over 120dB SPL. Not so-much trouser-filler, more like trouser destroyer! He had to improve structural stability of his house just to crank the thing up a bit!! My beast isn't so powerful but it manages to scrape under the 20Hz mark just at lower SPL...its homemade with a long-throw Philips driver, with a 35kg MDF ported cabinet. My port tuning can stress the 12" a bit, especially under load, but its not bad for a $300 dollar project! Kind regards, Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch.
Re: Using Gimp
On Monday 07 April 2003 16:33, Herb Petrie wrote: >The error message is Gtk - Warning **:cannot open Display: > This message shows when I either enter the file name, or the full > directory path to it. type: export DISPLAY=:0 then try again :-)
Re: Using Gimp
is this from within an xterm? and is it from the same user as the user logged in to X? this happens typically when another user, eg root, tries to run something on the desktop. On Mon, 07 Apr 2003 16:33:02 +1200 Herb Petrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tim Wright wrote: > > On Sun, 6 Apr 2003, Herb Petrie wrote: > > > > > >>In load Image, I am unable to go down to the directory the files are in. > > > > > > Could you try starting the Gimp from a terminal window: type > > > > "gimp " > > > > (replace with a file you want to edit) > > > > and tell us what error messages you get? That'll help us determine what's > > going wrong :) > > > > Tim Wright > > > > Assistant Lecturer > > Department of Computer Science > > University of Canterbury > > > > http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tnw13 > > > >The error message is Gtk - Warning **:cannot open Display: > This message shows when I either enter the file name, or the full > directory path to it. > > Herb Petrie. > >
Re: Using Gimp
and i will ask again, where is the file you want to edit (full path) and which user is running gimp? On Mon, 07 Apr 2003 16:33:02 +1200 Herb Petrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tim Wright wrote: > > On Sun, 6 Apr 2003, Herb Petrie wrote: > > > > > >>In load Image, I am unable to go down to the directory the files are in. > > > > > > Could you try starting the Gimp from a terminal window: type > > > > "gimp " > > > > (replace with a file you want to edit) > > > > and tell us what error messages you get? That'll help us determine what's > > going wrong :) > > > > Tim Wright > > > > Assistant Lecturer > > Department of Computer Science > > University of Canterbury > > > > http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tnw13 > > > >The error message is Gtk - Warning **:cannot open Display: > This message shows when I either enter the file name, or the full > directory path to it. > > Herb Petrie. > >
Re: Using Gimp
ah... good point. In which case he should (from an xterm on the same display, as the same user logged into X) type: xhost localhost and then hopefully any user can connect to his X server from the local machine... Cheers, Gareth On Monday 07 April 2003 16:59, Nick Rout wrote: > is this from within an xterm? and is it from the same user as the user > logged in to X? > > this happens typically when another user, eg root, tries to run > something on the desktop. > > On Mon, 07 Apr 2003 16:33:02 +1200 > > Herb Petrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tim Wright wrote: > > > On Sun, 6 Apr 2003, Herb Petrie wrote: > > >>In load Image, I am unable to go down to the directory the files are > > >> in. > > > > > > Could you try starting the Gimp from a terminal window: type > > > > > > "gimp " > > > > > > (replace with a file you want to edit) > > > > > > and tell us what error messages you get? That'll help us determine > > > what's going wrong :) > > > > > > Tim Wright > > > > > > Assistant Lecturer > > > Department of Computer Science > > > University of Canterbury > > > > > > http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tnw13 > > > >The error message is Gtk - Warning **:cannot open Display: > > This message shows when I either enter the file name, or the full > > directory path to it. > > > > Herb Petrie.
Re: Telstraclear cable: 128kb -> 256kb no extra charge in May?
David Miles wrote: > The easiest way is to call them up, as each household has a connection > status. The easiest way to check is to look for the little green PED out the > front of your house, or cable on the poles - you cant miss them! FWIW I have one out side my place but on enquiring about cable modem install was told the "network needed an upgrade" and can we take your name and number... Richard. ... > > Is there an actual coverage map? I was looking around for one earlier > > today and couldn't find anything. > > > > Greg > > --- - > >
Create tape backup script (was: How to mount a scsi tape drive?)
Thanks Nick - I now have the mt-st package installed. Does anyone have a script showing simple use of 'mt' to get a backup job done? Just something I could use as an example to get me started. I have run 'erase' successfully but not sure where to go to now - so many options for the command - which do I need? I read the man pages for mt which happily lists all the commands but gives no examples of usage to help one get an idea of how to hang it together (in fact I've noticed that in lots of man page - as in no examples - really reduces their usefulness). Do I have to pass a single file for backup (eg. a tarred file of everything) or can I somehow just iterate though all directories backing up everything as it goes? And once backed up to tape, is there an index created or do I have to handle that myself also? And I just love to try out Mandrake 9.1 but don't have the international bandwidth (can get 2Mbit/sec within NZ do does anyone know of a New Zealand site for downloading from? I'll get back to kdat some other time once I'm sure I can get everything working from the command line. Thanks for the help, Bryce Stenberg. > -Original Message- > From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 2 April 2003 10:14 a.m. > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: How to mount a scsi tape drive? > > > no i mean you have to install the package mt-st > > to see if it is installed: > > rpm -qa|grep mt-st > > if its not then > > urpmi mt-st > CAUTION: This email message and accompanying data may contain information that is confidential and subject to legal privilege. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message or data is prohibited. If you have received this email message in error please notify us immediately and erase all copies of the message and attachments. ALSO, unless expressly stated otherwise, the contents of this message represent only the views of the sender as expressed only to the intended recipient, do not commit Harness Racing New Zealand (HRNZ) to any course of action and are not intended to impose any legal obligation upon HRNZ.
