Re: External Hard Drives and Linux
I run an ex-laptop 30GB HD via USB which is mounted as /personthingy and is used as personthingys home. /home/everyone_else is on internal HD. I've bounced between most major distros with this idea, and it works perfectly. The only disadvantage to this is that i have to make sure nothing else that would be treated as hard storage , such as my camera, is plugged in when i boot up the computer. On Wednesday 07 November 2007 12:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am looking to purchase an external hard drive to keep family videos on (these things fill my personal hard drive and I have no backups). My main system is Ubuntu Linux. These things seem to have UBS2 or Firewire interfaces. Is there anything I need to be aware of or look out for when purchasing one primarily to use with Linux? Any experiences? Regards Graeme Kiyoto-Ward 03 982 6844 -- Is there really a need for a signature?
Re: Slightly OT - Getting Telstra to admit there is a problem :(
I've emailed your @team.telstra. address There's a message on your answer phone too. Seems you left work by the time i returned from my work :( On Monday 05 November 2007 22:03, you wrote: Hi If you have the ticket number send that (or the account number). I'm still happy to send it to the transition team, it my end up there anyway but I can get it there faster. I have them lined up and they are expecting to have a look. We are working to improve the service that we provide and I don't think that our helpdesk should force users to ping the gateway every minute for two days to prove they have a problem. I'm really keen to us this as an example because this is the sort of thing we are trying to get better at. Regards Graeme Kiyoto-Ward Chris AKA personthingy wrote: Sorry, i did read it/them this morning, but i had to go play in the park across the road all day.. I'm a roadie, and we are setting up for a wee gathering under the name of Southern Amp, it's using all of the AMI (Jade) stadium ground.. Should be fun, it is for us :) For reference, the fault is worse now than it was, so i risked a another 19 minute wait to talk to the help desk, got someone a bit more helpful than i got on the first call, and have a ticket number now. The fact i logged the fault with a script that pings my gateway (203.97.119.1) and paradise.net.nz and then reports my ability to (not)see the world meant i could quote downtime at the help staff. This seemed to make a huge amount of difference.. It could not be denied that the fault was real :) Unfortunately i'll be playing roadie in the park across the road all this week, so we probably won't have it sorted till sometime next. I pity the poor people who use the chatroom hosted from my house! On Monday 05 November 2007 16:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have sent a couple of responses to 'personthingylinux-list- [EMAIL PROTECTED]'. I work for TelstraClear and I have one of the people on our transmission team who will look into this. I need some contact details so that we can identify your connection. If you call me on 03 982 6844 or e-mail me at work ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and provide your phone and account number we will get the problem looked at. I will also raise this with the Contact Centre to make sure these types of calls are better managed in future. Regards Graeme Kiyoto-Ward 03 982 6844 Quoting Michael Fincham [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Don Gould wrote: NZNOG is the place to go to find someone more helpful. NZNOG isn't really the right place for customers to complain... you're likely to be flamed to a small crisp if you try ;) -- -Michael Fincham Unleash Technology Solutions www.unleash.co.nz Phone: 0800 750 250 Mobile: 027 666 4482 -- Is there really a need for a signature?
Re: Slightly OT - Getting Telstra to admit there is a problem :(
Sorry, i did read it/them this morning, but i had to go play in the park across the road all day.. I'm a roadie, and we are setting up for a wee gathering under the name of Southern Amp, it's using all of the AMI (Jade) stadium ground.. Should be fun, it is for us :) For reference, the fault is worse now than it was, so i risked a another 19 minute wait to talk to the help desk, got someone a bit more helpful than i got on the first call, and have a ticket number now. The fact i logged the fault with a script that pings my gateway (203.97.119.1) and paradise.net.nz and then reports my ability to (not)see the world meant i could quote downtime at the help staff. This seemed to make a huge amount of difference.. It could not be denied that the fault was real :) Unfortunately i'll be playing roadie in the park across the road all this week, so we probably won't have it sorted till sometime next. I pity the poor people who use the chatroom hosted from my house! On Monday 05 November 2007 16:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have sent a couple of responses to 'personthingylinux-list- [EMAIL PROTECTED]'. I work for TelstraClear and I have one of the people on our transmission team who will look into this. I need some contact details so that we can identify your connection. If you call me on 03 982 6844 or e-mail me at work ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and provide your phone and account number we will get the problem looked at. I will also raise this with the Contact Centre to make sure these types of calls are better managed in future. Regards Graeme Kiyoto-Ward 03 982 6844 Quoting Michael Fincham [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Don Gould wrote: NZNOG is the place to go to find someone more helpful. NZNOG isn't really the right place for customers to complain... you're likely to be flamed to a small crisp if you try ;) -- -Michael Fincham Unleash Technology Solutions www.unleash.co.nz Phone: 0800 750 250 Mobile: 027 666 4482 -- Is there really a need for a signature?
Free to good home, well any home.
I have 3 boxes of Linux Journal and the like, and a desire to enjoy a long forgotten luxury commonly known as free floor space. Any takers? Come and get them, or they are fire starter! -- Is there really a need for a signature?
Re: Free to good home, well any home.
Sold to the man who put his hand up... I'll contact you off list so you can take them away ASAP Thank you for giving me half a square metre of floor space! On Monday 05 November 2007 18:26, Don Gould wrote: I'll put my hand up. Cheers Don Chris AKA personthingy wrote: I have 3 boxes of Linux Journal and the like, and a desire to enjoy a long forgotten luxury commonly known as free floor space. Any takers? Come and get them, or they are fire starter! -- Don Gould 2/59 Peverel Street, Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand Phone: +64 3 348 7235 - Mobile: +64 21 114 0699 www.thinkdesignprint.co.nz -- Is there really a need for a signature?
Re: Small / low power Linux device/PC
I'm interested... i have a need to have a 12volt recreational computer set up soon... Something to do with gypsy life and a large housetruck. I don't want to be mains dependant for a Debian-etch box. On Monday 05 November 2007 19:34, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: I can dig up details if you're interested. Sold by various outlets in NZ. Soekris will work too and has probably a lower power consumption, but it's pretty special, uncommon, expensive, and not sold in NZ. Volker -- Is there really a need for a signature?
Re: Slightly OT - Getting Telstra to admit there is a problem :(
I dought if traceroute would help too much. when it's dead it's dead :( However, i'll suggest this to the person who helps administer meinserver. I couldn't script my way out of a paper bag myself On Saturday 03 November 2007 20:50, Don Gould wrote: IMHO you need to change your script to do a traceroute when you get a fail so that the location of the fault can be seen. NZNOG is the place to go to find someone more helpful. But really, you need to log a fault ticket with the helpdesk first and then ask for it to be esculated past level one. You need to ask to speak to the team leader. HTH Cheers Don -- Is there really a need for a signiture?
Re: Slightly OT - Getting Telstra to admit there is a problem :(
We are now pinging my gateway (203.97.119.1) AND paradise.net.nz every minute, and logging simply OK and FAIL it will be interesting to see what that shows after a few more FAIL blocks have been logged, something to check in the morning. Your idea has helped. See later entries in log file :) http://www.something.net.nz/img/server/pinglog On Saturday 03 November 2007 20:50, Don Gould wrote: IMHO you need to change your script to do a traceroute when you get a fail so that the location of the fault can be seen. -- Is there really a need for a signature?
Re: Slightly OT - Getting Telstra to admit there is a problem :(
Signal to Noise Ratio 39 dB Power Level 3 dBmV The Downstream Power Level reading is a snapshot taken at the time this page was requested. Please Reload/Refresh this Page for a new reading UpstreamValue Channel ID 1 Power Level 31 dBmV I'll contact you off-list about moving files about.. On Sunday 04 November 2007 12:58, Christopher Sawtell wrote: It's interesting to note that even though I use the same gateway, I have not noticed dropouts like you have. That doesn't mean that they don't happen for me, just that I havn't noticed them, but if I was losing the connection with the same frequency that you seem to be, I suspect that either my son or I would have done so. Have you looked at the signal report page as presented by the Cable Modem? http://192.168.100.1/RgSignal.asp I get these valies:- Signal To Noise Ratio: 39.0 dB Power Level:4.9 dBmV btw, seeing that you are on the same class C net, I'd be very interested to discover both the bandwidth offered at the local level and whether T/C charge for the traffic. Care to do an experiment some time? Anybody else on the same class C net? A comparison might well be very instructive! -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell -- Is there really a need for a signature?
Slightly OT - Getting Telstra to admit there is a problem :(
Seems cable modem land isn't what it used to be with help-desk suggesting that as i only have 13 cable modem reboots in my history, that there isn't any real connectivity issue, and failing to see why regular drops in connectivity might be a problem, or that they might happen without cable modem reboots being done to fix the issue. We're running a script that pings paradise.net.nz every minute, and reports the result as either OK or FAIL on a log that can be viewed here. http://www.something.net.nz/img/server/pinglog Of course the concept of a log that showed without question the exact times of the otherwise denied faults went down like a cup of cold stuff with the help-desk person who really seemed to just want me to go away.. So as i'm sure i'm not alone with this dropout, i feel it would be good to get telstras more capable techs to see that there is a problem, or better still, actually fix it (whatever it is) Any ideas who to hassle? -- Is there really a need for a signiture?
Re: Fixed wiring with stranded core cable
I'm hoping that the question referred to data wiring, not power I always use ready made flexible cables cause it's cheaper on the scale of wiring my own house. I just buy once twice the required length, cut them in half, and the key bit, relevant to the question is that i twist them at the end so there is no stray bits as i push them into the sockets as if a solid wire I don't see the extra twist needed as a big drama over the less flexible stuff i'm told is normally used. On Wednesday 31 October 2007 08:13, Robert Fisher wrote: On Wednesday 31 October 2007 8:00 am, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Does anyone have experience with using stranded core cable for fixed wiring? It would be easier to pull through the walls and corners, but all the sockets and patch panel etc equipment would be made for solid core cables. If I am careful pushing the wires into the sockets, will it work reliably? Anything in particular to watch out for? The only solid core cable is 1.0 square mm (used for lighting circuits). Above that size and you have 1.5 mm which is 3 strand and then most sizes above that are 7 strand. Do you mean flex? Legally you cannot use flex for fixed wiring other than from a permanent connection unit to a fixed appliance. I am an ageing electrician (not practicing) so I could be corrected. Yuri? Rob -- Is there really a need for a signiture?
Re: PCLinuxOS - a few comments - I forgot to mention.........
That was supposed to be offlist, but never mind :) ipaq may be i386, but it is still a POS, hence the slugs name It really shouldn't IMHO be used as anything other than a fileserver. On Wednesday 24 October 2007 10:38, Chevhq Car wrote: Uhm, I started in the days of CPM, and rememeber when the IpAq was the latest and greatest. Does that qualify me for a walking stick? Actually I began before CPM to be clinically acurate However the Ipaq is still a i386 architecture (or was it a 286?) cheers Chris T = = = Original message = = = I forgot to mention. The machine i am running came at the right price. It was rescued from being recycled, and with minor shame i will admit that it is an Ipaq by Compaq. If you can remember when they came out you can wave your walking stick about, complain about the youth of today, and apply for a pension shortly. :) The fact that it runs at all with the full GUI of a system built for modern machines with some grunt is miraculous, so the fact that bleeding edge PClinuxOS tends to make it fall over is not that shocking really. On Saturday 20 October 2007 13:44, you wrote: Hi, I am replying off list. Could I ask please, what you meant by unstable? I am seeking knowledge here, as unstable can mean different things to different people? regards Chris T = = = Original message = = = I found PCLinuxOS swish, all the bells and whistles were there BUT as it was unstable on my POS, i went back to Debian - Etch. I'm so conservative :) - Show quoted text - ___ Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com. -- Is there really a need for a signiture? ___ Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com. -- Is there really a need for a signiture?
Re: PCLinuxOS - a few comments
I found PCLinuxOS swish, all the bells and whistles were there BUT as it was unstable on my POS, i went back to Debian - Etch. I'm so conservative :) = = = Original message = = = Hi Cluggers, For a few months I have been using PCLinuxOS. I did something to stuff up Gentoo so I grabbed a computer magazine from the supermarket and installed whatever distro featured on the cover disk - which happened to be PCLinuxOS. Impressions: Overall good. All codecs where there right at the start, without having to add repositories and manually apt-get/emerge/urpmi them. KDE default - my preferred desktop (although there's nothing wrong with gnome if that's what works for you). I read somewhere that it's RPM based, but uses Synaptic as the package manager. Synaptic seems to work okay. Meets my needs. Can't compare with other distros coz I haven't kept up with the latest trends. So this distro meets all my needs for now. Nice and easy. I'd recommend it to anyone wanting to give Linux a go. Yuri ___ Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com. -- Is there really a need for a signiture?
Re: What's up with the list mail server?
I've been getting severely delayed emails from the last 2 or so days. I'm with paradise, but that's irrelevant as my email picked up directly from it's host, register-direct (net24 in disguise)
Re: sandboxes
Bet this lad going to graduate to a firm Debian user :p On Wednesday 10 October 2007 16:52, Steve Holdoway wrote: I applaud your [Aidan Gauland's] paranoia, it makes a welcome change from the 'must have the newest and shiniest NOW!' brigade (:
What does it take to make my Debian-etch system aware of the change in daylight savings?
What does it take to make my Debian-etch system aware of the change in daylight savings? I've updated, upgraded, and still my clock is firmly of the belief that it is NZST. Even changing the hour manually has proved futile, as the system fixes this error every boot up. Is there a file somewhere to edit that effectively says knock the clock forward an hour between x-day and y-day if your using kiwi-land time?
Re: What does it take to make my Debian-etch system aware of the change in daylight savings?
Yip, it is. Pacific/Auckland doesn't seem to fix the daylight savings issues though. I'll give the link a decent read when i get back from the mornings work. Hopefully that sorts it. :) ~~~ On Monday 01 October 2007 07:17, Steve Holdoway wrote: On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:06:38 +1200 Chris AKA personthingy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does it take to make my Debian-etch system aware of the change in daylight savings? I've updated, upgraded, and still my clock is firmly of the belief that it is NZST. Even changing the hour manually has proved futile, as the system fixes this error every boot up. Is there a file somewhere to edit that effectively says knock the clock forward an hour between x-day and y-day if your using kiwi-land time? http://www.geekzone.co.nz/barf/3483 make sure /etc/timezone contains Pacific/Auckland Steve
Re: What does it take to make my Debian-etch system aware of the change in daylight savings?
That was too easy :) Thanks for that. I must say i feel better about adding to or altering my system deliberately with CHOSEN non-stable add ons, than adding volatile to my repository list, and risking it with every upgrade. On Monday 01 October 2007 09:03, paul schulz wrote: sudo dpkg -i tzdata_2007f-3ubuntu1_all.deb
Re: Social engineering phone support.
Sad but true, and as far as i can tell, it's the best option! :-/ On Tuesday 04 September 2007 18:22, yuri wrote: So you're buying phone and internet from a cable TV company :-) On 04/09/07, Chris AKA personthingy wrote: This may be true, but doesn't explain why telecom phones, and ihug (dish pointing at the hill) pushed me towards Telstra so many years ago for a combined service. IIRC, i ended up with more for about half the price.. On Monday 03 September 2007 22:29, Don Gould wrote: You buy wine from a beer company and what do you expect you'll get? You buy beer from a wine company and what do you expect you'll get? You try to by internet from a telephone company... (we know what you got). You by internet from an internet company and you'll get internet.
Re: Social engineering phone support.
This may be true, but doesn't explain why telecom phones, and ihug (dish pointing at the hill) pushed me towards Telstra so many years ago for a combined service. IIRC, i ended up with more for about half the price.. On Monday 03 September 2007 22:29, Don Gould wrote: You buy wine from a beer company and what do you expect you'll get? You buy beer from a wine company and what do you expect you'll get? You try to by internet from a telephone company... (we know what you got). You by internet from an internet company and you'll get internet. With respect to 'phone support', if you've got a good ISP then you don't need good support do you? I just about never call Orcon
Re: annoying sound
I have to wonder what you where listening to music with? If it were amarok, i suspect you wouldn't have had that problem, allthough of course amarok is a resourse hog in it's own right, but it does give prioriy to keeping the music tidy and unbroken, even at the cost of corretly displaying what you are listeng to, should you be critically low on resourses. On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Zane Gilmore wrote: I went to listen to my (legal) music just now and discovered that there a sound recurring in a reasonably random way. It sounds like a dripping tap and it happens at a random interval between approx 1 second to about 10 seconds. This makes listening to music impossible. Can anyone think of a way of tracking down it's source? Cheers, Zane -- __ Zane Gilmore: Analyst/Programmer Cellphone: 0276 319 206 Telephone: +64-3 943 5447 Facsimile: +64-3 379 4886 Address: Level 1, 179 Tuam St, Christchurch, New Zealand Post: PO Box 13300, Christchurch 8011, New Zealand NZS.com : Your map of New Zealand Web space Web: http://www.nzs.com/ __
Re: new recipient address?
I think i'd be less confused if i saw an unexpected vogon constructor fleet.
Quite simply, i look at the script below and think, What The Photon is that?
I'm a computer user, not a programmer.
If you don't mind i'll hang the basic rule, and do what almost always works
for me, that being filtering on to in this case.
Out of KMails filter options, to seemed to be the most consistent in this
case, apart from when things got tweaked/upgraded recently, but even so, that
was just 10(?) messages that flew into my inbox out of several thousand, so
i'll consider that a good enough strike rate not to write off to filtering
yet.
For the record, i usually filter on from and drop frequent emailers messages
into designated folders, leaving the inbox for messages that are unexpected,
BCC addressed, or one offs.
I only use to in this case, because it's a list that has ever varying
senders and subjects, but has (had) a 100% constant recipient.
:)
On Thursday 21 June 2007 22:20, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
Is this a permanent change, and do i therefore need to change my filter
settings or no?
My procmail filter coped just fine. The basic rule is: *never* filter on
To:, simply because it doesn't work. If your filter is intelligent and
examines both to: and cc: when the sender uses cc: to you, you're lucky,
but it'll never work if the sender uses bcc:.
Here's my procmail snippet:
# CLUG
:0
* ^Comments: University of Canterbury Linux Users
* 1^0 ^TOlinux-users@(|(it|its|cantva|csc).)canterbury.ac.nz
* 1^0 ^List-Subscribe:
*mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
* -0^0 .
{
# PLONKers
#:0
#* ^From:.* [...]
#/dev/null
# save what's left
:0:
$THISLISTS/Linux-users-Chch-List
}
Oops so I am filtering on to:, but it's an alternative. The only other
headers
one can filter on are comment: and list-subscribe:. Before someone
points out that there is list-unsubscribe: too, that's not going to be
any more stable than list-subscribe.
Volker
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http://volker.dnsalias.net/Please do not CC list postings to me.
new recipient address?
Hey what gives? the recipient address has changed from linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz to Recipients removed: ; Has some-one done some tweaking? Is this a permanent change, and do i therefore need to change my filter settings or no?
Re: Out of network ports - what to do?
Why not just run 2 to each room close to the switch, and 1 to each room that the cable lengths outweigh the cost of another switch? I have a 55 metre length from my main switch to the sleepout where my son has his branch of the network. He has his own switch out there. This is much cheaper then running a second cable, and also uses but one hole in the the main switch. I expect to do the same should anyone require to run more than one machine in my lounge (20 metre run) or the other sleepout (30 metre partly underground run) Perhaps this approach will reduce costs, and free up a hole or 2 on the main switch for you?
Re: feisty sounds
I have a similar issue with POS running etch, however i decided that it wasn't a bug, but a feature, as it means that if i browse the web while running amarok, i don't get talking emoticon adds and other annoyances interrupting the desired sound. I was going to fix it, but have decided that it is better off broken Interestingly etch is the only distro i have used so far that has produced this issue. I'd like to know if there was a way to switch on the media player sound, and more importantly switch off everything else at whim. On Friday 08 June 2007 08:27, Roger Searle wrote: Sounds are partially working on this feisty install. Amarok goes great so at least I know that I have codecs for mp3 files and that the onboard sound is working in some way. I have installed via automatix all the available multimedia codecs, mplayer and firefox plugins, and non-free audio and dvd codecs. Yet any random youtube video has no sound, nor do I hear anything if I go to system settings sound system and click the test sound button, where I have tried either ALSA or auto detect as the audio device. Any tips on how to properly test and resolve this would be appreciated. Cheers, Roger
Re: feisty sounds
POS is what i call my machine. I hope no explanation is needed. On Friday 08 June 2007 11:03, Chris AKA personthingy wrote: I have a similar issue with POS running etch, however i decided that it wasn't...
Re: unsubscribe
Perhaps one or two lines could be put on the group emails, something along the lines of : Unsubscription and other info here: http://volker.dnsalias.net/linux/lists-nz.html On Sunday 27 May 2007 21:12, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: On Sun 27 May 2007 21:04:41 NZST +1200, Christopher D Maher wrote: I agree people who fail to read clear instructions are nothing but useless! Clear instructions are here: http://volker.dnsalias.net/linux/lists-nz.html -- Volker Kuhlmannis list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/Please do not CC list postings to me.
Re: unsubscribe
Actually... good point On Monday 28 May 2007 11:34, Nick Rout wrote: PS I am not in favour of email list programs adding footers to every message. Unless people religiously trim their replies, it soon degenerates into miles of repeated footer, all saying the same thing. Thats a reason its in the headers.
Re: unsubscribe
It amazes me the amount of people here that: A. Bother to read the headers on the list emails. and/or B. Expect everyone else to read the headers on the list emails! _^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_ Having the instructions in the headers is a bit like having the instructions for operating the car CD player written on a plate beside the engine, just so that mechanics can muse them selves at the stupid clients who don't know how to turn the back speakers off. The instructions are clearly available in a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory in the cellar of the display department where the lights and stairs have both gone. :) ~ On Sunday 27 May 2007 14:00, Phill Coxon wrote: It's in the headers for every email sent to the list. Send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe linux-users in the message body.
Re: Southern Institute of Technology--non-MS alternatives for coursework?
NZ entire education system provides qualifications These are there so people can look, and see that a person is qualified, and therefore can assume, with varying inaccuracy, that the qualified person has some idea what they are doing. So if using front-page provides qualification, then so be it. From qualification, we can gain a foot in the door, and from that we can gain qualified experience, and then forget about front-page and the likes. 5 years ago, dream-weaver shat all over front page, and all though i have lost touch, i suspect that there are now many web design standard apps that are fat far better than FP... They just fail to be Microsoft approved. :(
Re: M$ FUD or Patent Armageddon Now?
Perhaps not on the verge of financial failure, but they haven't released a product that people generally like for a few years now, and aren't blind to the fact that being little more than a cunning marketing machine is not enough to keep them with the market share they once enjoyed... It seems some bloody bastards are cutting into the not quite as safe M$ market, and cutting in rapidly A reaction to threat is obvious. Microsoft aren't hiding their fear well. On Monday 14 May 2007 19:36, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: On Mon 14 May 2007 19:01:55 NZST +1200, Wesley Parish wrote: Microsoft is putting itself in precisely the same position The SCO Group put itself in in 2003 - broad allegations without specificity. And of course, The SCO Group did what it did partially because it was on the point of financial collapse. Are you hinting M$$$ is on the point of financial collapse? Well, dreams are free... :) Volker -- Volker Kuhlmannis list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/Please do not CC list postings to me.
Re: M$ FUD or Patent Armageddon Now?
Sounds to me like someone is starting to get nervious. :) ~~~ On Monday 14 May 2007 15:32, Carl Cerecke wrote: On 14/05/07, lyndon sutherland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm only surprised it has taken MS this long to actually foist a law suit. It's taken them a while to build up a big enough patent portfolio/warchest. Like the internet, they were a bit late to the software patent game. Cheers, Carl.
Re: OT: Telstra usage meter
http://pressf1.pcworld.co.nz/showthread.php?p=550229#post550229 It appears to be happening all over the place, all though my meter is fine On Thursday 10 May 2007 23:16, Aaron Christensen wrote: You have now used 3,706 additional block[s] of usage, on your TelstraClear HighSpeed Internet plan for the period to 16/05/2007. Additional usage blocks are charged at $2.95 per block of 2,048 megabytes, regardless of the number of megabytes you use from that block. Thats $10,932.70.. heart almost stopped when I saw this. Cheers
Re: OT: Telstra usage meter
I'll amend that- It appears it took me 13 hours to use 11 grands worth of data... unless... surely not, unless the meter is wrong? ~~ High Speed Service: HighSpeed Service x Account number: You have now used 3,532 additional block[s] of usage, on your TelstraClear HighSpeed Internet plan for the period to 10/06/2007. Additional usage blocks are charged at $2.95 per block of 2,048 megabytes, regardless of the number of megabytes you use from that block. We will endeavour to send you another reminder email if you use additional usage blocks. Regards TelstraClear Internet Services Team ~ On Friday 11 May 2007 08:03, Chris AKA personthingy wrote: http://pressf1.pcworld.co.nz/showthread.php?p=550229#post550229 It appears to be happening all over the place, all though my meter is fine On Thursday 10 May 2007 23:16, Aaron Christensen wrote: You have now used 3,706 additional block[s] of usage, on your TelstraClear HighSpeed Internet plan for the period to 16/05/2007. Additional usage blocks are charged at $2.95 per block of 2,048 megabytes, regardless of the number of megabytes you use from that block. Thats $10,932.70.. heart almost stopped when I saw this. Cheers
Re: Clug poster in Coma
Sheesh... I got an email from him a few weeks ago when i accidentally left www.millerton.co.nz on my signiture, he was asking if i was www.millerton.co.nz, and if so informing me that he lives a couple of houses down from me (it).. I still haven't figured out exactly where a couple of houses down from me actually is, but it just brings home what a small world it is... I also sometimes have work for the owner of the Edgeware Road house. Shrinking bloody planet! I'd rather have small world syndrome bought home in more positive ways than hearing about people in a coma On Thursday 10 May 2007 09:59, Carl Cerecke wrote: I just read in the paper that Ben Devine, a clug-list poster is in a coma at Chch hospital. He was one of those hit by the car at the party in edgeware road on Saturday night. http://www.stuff.co.nz/4054073a11.html Hoping he recovers fully, Carl.
Re: OT: online photo storage sites
Is this for private use, or public access? Either way, a myspace account allows the storage, and online display of 300ish photos, which can be organised into folders IIRC you have the choice of 100% private, friends only or public Maybe this will meet your needs? ~~ On Thursday 10 May 2007 10:50, Kerry Mayes wrote: Does anyone know of an online photo storage site that would allow an upload of 300 pics at once? i have used photobucket in a limited way, but to upload in bulk you have to use their special browser i.e. not linux based (ooh, back on topic!) I have these photos I took at a recent family wedding and would like the rest of the family to have access to see if they want me to send them some full size versions. I used gThumb to rename and resize them all to something a little larger than thumb nails and am ready to go! Kerry.
Re: disk partitioning and format scheme
Not always My server would not boot it 250Gb HDD, but by altering the HDDs jumpers, the machine could be fooled into thinking that it was a 32Gb disk, and would then boot up, where upon the unseen reality's like the final 200GB+ /home partition could be used by etch. A separate /boot partition was essential in fooling the machine that the HDD i chose was well within its BIOS support. Or so i'm told by the clever bastard that set it up for me. ~~ On Thursday 10 May 2007 12:19, Nick Rout wrote: A separate /boot is a moot point, probably not necessary
Re: SimplyMEPIS
If you can't got one from someone closer, i could burn you a copy What version would you like? i have 3.4.3 and 6 plus 3 CDs of extras for simplymepis6 sitting on HDD Happy to swap you for blank CDs. I live near Jade Stadium tho. This might be a little far from you. On Thursday 10 May 2007 14:18, david merriman wrote: Hi all, Could I please obtain a copy of the latest SimplyMEPIS from somebody ? I've read good things about it here and elsewhere, and thought I might give it a go. I work in Riccarton (near Mandeville St), and live in Parklands (Mairehau Rd). Thanks in advance, David Merriman -- Before you criticise someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticise them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
Re: Gnome keyring question
If it becomes essential to type your user password with such frequency as many fanatics would have it, it also becomes easier to slip a fake log in screens in front of people, as logging in yet again becomes something done with progressively more annoyance and less question or caution. Wait.. that's already done. Hence why phishing sites have as high a success rate as they do. One user login process enabling everything that user normally does within a given session within the users usual network seems much more secure to me than having to log in for the upteenth time just to connect to the office coffee machine. One assumes logging into the network is a normal part of the days start up procedure? :) On Monday 07 May 2007 09:00, Jonathan Bell wrote: b) if he does it every time _anyway_ then it's a usability issue rather than a security issue I authenticate myself on my workstation when I get to work. If I had to type in my password to connect to the network then the network shares... then the coffee machine... I'd get a little annoyed.
Re: Hello and.....
Actually, you get a desktop that works (usually) with Debian etch as well. My personal machine (POS) is the only machine i know of which proved the exception, although that was while etch was still deemed an unstable release. Etch worked, but lived up to it's development status. Am awaiting my next allocation of bandwidth before trying the current STABLE etch release. Granted one has to install etch before trying it, which is slightly less exciting than booting of o CD and trying the distro live frist, and THEN clicking install. but anyways, new users get a working desktop, with most if not all of the things they may want, and either synaptic or the dead easy apt-get install whatever command will help a new user try new stuff with ease when/if they so choose. Lets face it, installing from the debian repository's is far easier than say, installing legitimate programs on windows box from the CD! (although slightly harder than installing windows viri) Nothing new here of course, other than Dells use of Ubuntu, suggesting that Linux will be an option for future mainstream users in the very near future. I have had an old friend of mine, an intelligent woman who works editing video and so forth use my mepis-laptop a couple of years ago to check email and the likes, and NOT REALIZE IT WAS A LINUX SYSTEM, till i asked her what she thought of it. She was under the shared misconception that *nix was exclusively mystic command line stuff. We've come a long way since then. ~ On Thursday 03 May 2007 09:35, Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, May 3, 2007 9:14 am, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: On Thu 03 May 2007 08:51:32 NZST +1200, Campbell McKenzie wrote: Mepis and Ubunutu are great for new users because if they want new software they can use Synaptic (aka apt-get) New users means they'd want a desktop. You want to put Linux on the desktop with apt-get? Perhaps next Millennium. Until then you'd have to come up with something better, i.e. graphical, to break the Linux is only for geeks association. Well frankly this is crap. synaptic is a user friendly front end to apt-get, just as yast tries to be a user friendly front end to rpm. With ubuntu, or mepis (both apt based) you get a desktop that works. Its a fact, live with it. -- Nick Rout
Re: Hello and.....
Ey? How can it be simpler than doing a search for a program, and/or reading the descriptions, and then hitting install? Come on... even i can do it! ~~ On Thursday 03 May 2007 10:55, lyndon sutherland wrote: Synaptic might be a little bit much (read too complex)
Re: Hello and.....
Is that really a hurdle? When my sons mother complained at me that all the games she proudly found on the net to amuse ziggy wouldn't install on my stupid Linux laptop, i was more than a little relieved at my laptops stupidity! On Thursday 03 May 2007 11:03, Jim Cheetham wrote: On 03/05/07, Chris AKA personthingy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ey? How can it be simpler than doing a search for a program, and/or reading the descriptions, and then hitting install? Come on... even i can do it! Just training people out of the habit of surfing to a random website and downloading the exe file will be a big hurdle.
Re: Hello and.....
Or how about my friend who allowed me to set up her machine as a windows/mepis dual boot a year or 2 ago, and whose kids just can't break Mepis 3.4, or Linux as she calls it, however the windows side of her machine is a write off, something to do with the ease of installing new programs , viri, and stuff... Funny thing is she now like the linux side more, just because it turned out to be family proof, where as the other operating system. It quite simply meets her needs, which are mainly watching/listening to media, trademe, and Gmail... On Thursday 03 May 2007 13:40, Jonathan Bell wrote: You want simple users?
Re: Hello and.....
There's a reason for that. Apt-get grabs software from a repository, eg: http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/ and the standard repository's are said to be safe where as the .debs you see around the place are somewhat more experimental, probably not as deadly as installing randomly found .exes on doze, but have the same potential to be something other than what they seem. Anyway... here's your apt packages, or the nearest you'll get to it. :) ~~ On Thursday 03 May 2007 15:32, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: And I haven't seen an apt package yet, but there are plenty of .debs around.
Re: Hello and.....
Yip I'm a great fan of Mepis... perfect for someone who is used to windows and terrified of anything new :) Etch has been desktop ready for a while now me thinks.. and Mepis is debian-etch based ~ On Wednesday 02 May 2007 16:30, Campbell McKenzie wrote: HI Everyone Just a quick message to say Hello! I am a long time lurker of the CLUG and WLUG. Currently running a multitude of OS's mainly Mepis 6.5 RC3 and Puppy 2.15CE. I'm loving the current Vista gossip and the fact that Linux might hit the desktop tops soon! Has anyone considered teaching Windows users transitioning to Linux to use Mepis? It uses KDE (easy transition for Windows Users) Hardware recognition is through the roof, Very easy to set up (its already set up), Great support forums and is Based on Ubuntu LTS www.mepis.org http://www.mepis.org/ Hopefully will meet some of you soon at a meeting or two. Look forward to your replies! Thanks cAm Campbell McKenzie ICT Broker NZGlobal Consulting PO Box 19770 Woolston Christchurch 8241 T: 03 977 9619 F: 03 977 9617 M: 021 2255 025 0800 NZGlobal W: www.nzglobal.com
Re: software install on suse~~~ was~~~Re: OT: telstra clear is pinging me repeatedly.
So how does one install whois using suse 10.2? On Thursday 26 April 2007 18:25, Steve Holdoway wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:07:44 +1200 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ apt-get whois install bash: apt-get: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ As I pointed out earlier, that wouldn't work even if you had installed apt ( and personthingy would need to be superuser ). Just because SuSE is different isn't a reason to dismiss it. You'd do well to keep an opener mind. You'll not I'm keeping my personal feelings out of this conversation! Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get whois install E: Invalid operation whois [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~#
Re: software install on suse~~~ was~~~Re: OT: telstra clear is pinging me repeatedly.
Um... Ok, i assume you mean the computer tab on the start menu thing? There's no install option, and entering whois on the search bar i do see lets me find a variety of things, including the email i am replying to here, but no install option. It occurs to me this may be because i have removed the CDrom, and the option to install software from CD. I'm shutting down and putting a CDrom in before i myself disappear of the the humble grind of hoping to be paid one of these years :) ~ On Friday 27 April 2007 08:53, Steve Holdoway wrote: OK, now I'm at work, and have booted up a vanilla SuSE 10.2 install. computer-install software type in whois into the search box at the top of the gui, amd click 'Install' The necessary resources are on the install dvd Steve On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:34:38 +1200 Chris AKA personthingy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So how does one install whois using suse 10.2? On Thursday 26 April 2007 18:25, Steve Holdoway wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:07:44 +1200 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ apt-get whois install bash: apt-get: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ As I pointed out earlier, that wouldn't work even if you had installed apt ( and personthingy would need to be superuser ). Just because SuSE is different isn't a reason to dismiss it. You'd do well to keep an opener mind. You'll not I'm keeping my personal feelings out of this conversation! Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get whois install E: Invalid operation whois [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~#
