About the SCO Group and FSF
SCO's Subpoena to the FSF Is Now Online http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040519123021191 /* 3. All documents and communications concerning alleged, potential or actual violations of the GPL asserted or known by The Free Software Foundation against any entity or person since January 1, 1999. 4. All guidelines, policies, procedures, documents, memoranda, notes and/or manuals relating to the enforcement and enforceability of the GPL. */ Nick, can you advise me? I've sent two emails to the FSF, asking them to clarify GPL details for a couple of software projects I was aware of, that were getting near the borderlines of acceptable ... Naturally I can't get at the saved versions of the emails I sent, since my PC's in storage - thank the fscking realestate feeding frenzy of the last few months for that, and the fascist land speculators ... Thanks Wesley Parish "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon.
RE: DOS emulator
Also runs MS Word (DOS) and Wordperfect 5.1. Quoting Brad Beveridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I recently have been playing with dosbox, which is quite good - runs > lots of old 1985+ games. I expect there is a RH package for it. > > Brad > > > -Original Message- > > From: Don Gould [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 3:03 PM > > To: CLUG (E-mail) > > Subject: DOS emulator > > > > > > Hi All, > > > > Having got samba doing what I want it to this afternoon I'd > > now like to muck > > about with a dos emulator. > > > > What's the easist thing to get running under RH9? > > > > Cheers Don > > > > > "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon.
Re: OT but wotthehell ... Accomodation
Okay, first things first - get yourself a IBM TN5250 emulator - they're available on the net somewhere. And the LinuxSNA (or SNA for Linux) package - that may be stable - it's something to ask about. I suppose I could ask when I get myself a decent place to stay at, and so get back online. The LinuxSNA package may come as a loadable module. I've got the thicknet adaptor at home, it adapts from thicknet to rj45, so drop around and pick it up when you feel like it. That should allow you to connect to it from Linux. Apart from that, I don't know too much about it - best place to ask would be at the IBM place in town - and there are a few businesses in town that use AS/400. Of course, do what you like with it! :-) Thanks for taking it off my hands anyway, Andy. It's much appreciated. Wesley Parish On Wed, 12 May 2004 20:57, you wrote: > The gent that removed the AS400 had a trick removing it fromt he Rover's > BOOT... then on wrestling the monster inside (it was still raining then), > discovered that the only thing he could manage was to turn it on... Does > it DO anything? Hell, I dont even know what this boy *is* > > ...from what I glean out of the internet, it's an IBM AS/400 Advanced 36. > the Machine itself says it's an IBM AS/400 model 9402 > > Maybe I buy a big thick piece of glass for it, and throw coffee, and > avante-guarde, trendy magazines > The kids love climbing all over it anyway... Thanks! > > - Original Message - > From: "Wesley Parish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 8:08 PM > Subject: Re: OT but wotthehell ... Accomodation > > > First things first - it was "First come, first served", and so > > everything's > > > gone, apart from the 486s which nobody wants, and an X-Terminal, which > > likewise nobody wants. Thanks for taking a load off my mind, folks. > > It's great. > > > > And would the gent who took the AS/400 consider making himself known to > > CLUG > > > and maybe we could organise some sort of AS/400 Learners' Association? > > Paying perhaps $??.00 per month for the privilege of logging into the > > AS/400 > > > and learning its grosser and finer points? That was one of the things I > > had > > > in mind when I rescued it from Molten Media a coupla years ago - but I > > never > > > got a Round Tuit - those things are essential these days. ;-) > > > > On Tue, 11 May 2004 21:16, you wrote: > > > Firstly, the good news - to cut down on the amount of gear I'll need to > > > shift, I'm offering my spare PCs free to good home to whoever wants to > > > brave a chilly 6pm or later tomorrow and pick them up. There's two > > 486s, > > > > two Pentiums, one Acorn, and one C64. And if anyone really wants it, > > > there's also an AS/400. > > > > > > > > > And is anyone able and willing to help me move the stuff? (I don't > > > have > > a > > > > car of any description. Only a pushbike.) > > > > > > Thanks > > > > And thanks for everyone who volunteered their help on this matter too. > > It's > > > great to get help on it. With any luck I'll be back!!! ;) > > > > Thanks for restoring my faith in human nature. > > > > -- > > Wesley Parish > > * * * > > Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish > > * * * > > Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" > > You ask, "What is the most important thing?" > > Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." > > I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people." -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish * * * Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: OT but wotthehell ... Accomodation
First things first - it was "First come, first served", and so everything's gone, apart from the 486s which nobody wants, and an X-Terminal, which likewise nobody wants. Thanks for taking a load off my mind, folks. It's great. And would the gent who took the AS/400 consider making himself known to CLUG and maybe we could organise some sort of AS/400 Learners' Association? Paying perhaps $??.00 per month for the privilege of logging into the AS/400 and learning its grosser and finer points? That was one of the things I had in mind when I rescued it from Molten Media a coupla years ago - but I never got a Round Tuit - those things are essential these days. ;-) On Tue, 11 May 2004 21:16, you wrote: > Firstly, the good news - to cut down on the amount of gear I'll need to > shift, I'm offering my spare PCs free to good home to whoever wants to > brave a chilly 6pm or later tomorrow and pick them up. There's two 486s, > two Pentiums, one Acorn, and one C64. And if anyone really wants it, > there's also an AS/400. > > > And is anyone able and willing to help me move the stuff? (I don't have a > car of any description. Only a pushbike.) > > Thanks And thanks for everyone who volunteered their help on this matter too. It's great to get help on it. With any luck I'll be back!!! ;) Thanks for restoring my faith in human nature. -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish * * * Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: OT but wotthehell ... Accomodation
Great that the acorn's got a home - call around tonight around 6pm-ish and pick it up. Check out the AS/400 while you're at it as well. I ideally would like to be out by this Saturday. But I'e got till the 25th officially - it's just that the later I leave it, the worse it feels. And I don't wish to need to be certified and put away in Sunnyside because I've been locked into a : 10 GOTO 20 15 PRINT "I'M GOING MAD - WHAT COULD BE SANER?" 20 GOTO 10 over housing and storage and stupid land speculators. I've got a storage unit already booked. Thanks Wesley Parish Quoting Andy George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Sorry for snowing on your reply, and on the main list, but... > > Found a home for the acorn, and I might ask you a few serious questions > about the AS400 too > > On the moving front... What day are you leaving? > > > > Wesley Parish wrote: > > > > >Firstly, the good news - to cut down on the amount of gear I'll need > to > shift, > > >I'm offering my spare PCs free to good home to whoever wants to brave > a > > >chilly 6pm or later tomorrow and pick them up. There's two 486s, two > > >Pentiums, one Acorn, and one C64. And if anyone really wants it, > there's > > >also an AS/400. > > "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon.
OT but wotthehell ... Accomodation - Addendum Corrigendumque:
Firstly, the good news - to cut down on the amount of gear I'll need to shift, I'm offering my spare PCs free to good home to whoever wants to brave a chilly 6pm or later tomorrow and pick them up. There's two 486s, two Pentiums, one Acorn, and one C64. And if anyone really wants it, there's also an AS/400. Addendum Corrigendumque: My current place - the one that's been sold and which I have to get out of - is 112 Forfar St, St Albans. It's got a cream-yellow picket fence out the front. Some extra bad news - I'll have to store my PC, because I don't think slumlandlord's bedsit's are exactly secure. So I'll be perforce offline for at least three months. Now when was the Installfest? Somebody bring me a date on a sheet of paper if and when you call around for your free PC. Thanks -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish * * * Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
OT but wotthehell ... Accomodation
Firstly, the good news - to cut down on the amount of gear I'll need to shift, I'm offering my spare PCs free to good home to whoever wants to brave a chilly 6pm or later tomorrow and pick them up. There's two 486s, two Pentiums, one Acorn, and one C64. And if anyone really wants it, there's also an AS/400. Then there's the somewhat good news - I've got a place to stay. I've submitted to the Beast and gotten myself tied up with a slum landlord's bedsit for 3 months, hoping I can find something better in the meantime. I've got feelers out with Housing NZ and the City Council, so maybe I will be able to ... fingers crossed. Now the bad news - I've got a lot of books, along with some other gear. I need them stored elsewhere - because a bedsit's not exactly made to serve as a personal library. Does anyone have any free space in their garages or so, that I could use? Say for example half a double garage that's not being used anymore? Or should I go for the commercial storage units? What sort of cost am I looking at there? And is anyone able and willing to help me move the stuff? (I don't have a car of any description. Only a pushbike.) Thanks -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish * * * Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: Meet With MS: Was: RE: Just for Rodger...
FireFox and Longhorn: Meant For Each Other? http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/04/05/08/1049218.shtml?tid=126&tid=154&tid=185&tid=190&tid=201&tid=95 Because Microsoft is making an attempt to _seem_ polite and friendly these days. It's realized that bad PR is PR, but it's negative and sets people against you. Too much bad PR and people will stop believing what you say, merely because you said it. And that would impact quite heavily on the bottom line. So by opening up the source without restriction, they would be not only making interesting noises, they would be backing them up with action. Wesley Parish On Sun, 09 May 2004 00:52, you wrote: > On Sat, 08 May 2004 22:40, you wrote: > > When is Microsoft going to release the full, non-encumbered specs for > > WinML, their Office2003 file specification, for the purpose of > > compatibility with OpenOffice.org and AbiWord? > > > > Has Microsoft ever considered the brownie points it might garner by > > releasing under the MIT/X11 license, the Microsoft-owned source code to > > Win NT 4.0, Win95, and Office97? > > > > Is Microsoft going to license its patents that directly affect Mono and > > Samba, on the same basis as IBM with Linux? Ie, blanket coverage. > > Good questions. I have one for you - why would MS do any of the above? > All ethics and ideologies aside - if you were an MS shareholder, would you > want them to do any of the above? Brownie points do not always yeild > profit, short term or long term. > > Yuri -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish * * * Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: Meet With MS
On Sun, 09 May 2004 18:39, you wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Wesley Parish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2004 10:41 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Meet With MS > > > > > > When is Microsoft going to release the full, non-encumbered > > specs for WinML, > > their Office2003 file specification, for the purpose of > > compatibility with > > OpenOffice.org and AbiWord? > > This I agree with 100% > > At the same time I've been spending some time looking at what people are > actually using in their office applications. > > Frankly most of the new features I've seen in the MS offering seem to be > little more than visual noise. > > > Has Microsoft ever considered the brownie points it might > > garner by releasing > > under the MIT/X11 license, the Microsoft-owned source code to > > Win NT 4.0, > > Win95, and Office97? > > Why do we want to see this? > > I'm not saying that we don't want to see them but I'm unclear as to what > advantage would be gained? See below. Microsoft can either learn to play nicely while it's still got time, or it can face continuing loss of goodwill. And I do have some respect for Microsoft as a software company from my MS Word-on-Mac days in 1990-91, just none whatsoever for its management. > > > Is Microsoft going to license its patents that directly > > affect Mono and Samba, > > on the same basis as IBM with Linux? Ie, blanket coverage. > > What is Mono? One of two GPL'ed versions of .NET - DotGNU is the other, much less well known. > > What are the spicifics of this license and we want to see carried forward > and does anyone have details of the current issues? IBM stated in 1999 - if I could remember who said it, one of the Linux/390 guys, if I remember correctly - that IBM wouldn't treat the use of its patents in Linux as a matter of infringement. Then Linux insisted on an explicit patent license before he would accept a certain piece of IBM code - the details are available on the kernel hackers list, if I remember correctly. > > On the Samba front, do we have enought technical information out of MS to > keep moving forward? Samba are amongst the world's leading reverse-engineers. In 1999, if I remember correctly, the Samba team was alledged to be saying that Microsoft was using their source code to debug NetBEUI. I don't know the truth of that. > > I was recently reading about WinFS which I understand is going to be > powered by MS SQL Server. Do the samba guys have full details of the specs > to interface with the new technology that's comming? > > It seems to me that OSS is constantly playing catch up. Gates has been > reported as writting OSS off as little more than a catch up team. On the gripping hand, we have VinodV - in the Halloween Papers - talking about Open Source as the quickest way for a research topic to reach production status. It's only in compatibility with commercial products that that occurs. > > Linux is pushing off the net and into business as a back end / front end / > interface system. > > By 2006 when Longhorn is due for release does MS want IT people out there > telling people not to upgrade because it's not fully compatible with their > OSS systems. > > Now before anyone suggests that this would be in MS interest because then > MS can play the "don't bother with OSS then because you can't garanttee > compatibility" card, think again. > > MS systems are protected from the internet by OSS systems. If MS systems > aren't compatible with those systems then don't use them at all. Which is part of the reason I want Microsoft to release the MS-owned source code for obsolete software products and systems. We can have Microsoft degrade gracefully, or implode suddenly. The first option implies they've learnt to live with their competition, the second is the result of pushing barrows made of clay through a waterfall. > > What's more important?... The ability to have a pretty wizard flash on > your screen while you write a letter that you'll then print and post or the > ability to get an email from point a to point b? > > Cheers Don -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish * * * Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: Meet With MS: Was: RE: Just for Rodger...
When is Microsoft going to release the full, non-encumbered specs for WinML, their Office2003 file specification, for the purpose of compatibility with OpenOffice.org and AbiWord? Has Microsoft ever considered the brownie points it might garner by releasing under the MIT/X11 license, the Microsoft-owned source code to Win NT 4.0, Win95, and Office97? Is Microsoft going to license its patents that directly affect Mono and Samba, on the same basis as IBM with Linux? Ie, blanket coverage. That's just for starters. I may do some more - if I can find a new flat in record time - I've got to be out of this one by 25 May. If not, all my gear, including my computers, goes into storage, and maybe I get tossed out onto the street. Wesley Parish On Sat, 08 May 2004 10:24, you wrote: > What questions would you ask Wesley? > > Perhaps we should work up a quick list then email them to some of the guys > that are going to the Auckland event or email them to Brett and ask him to > arrange something here. > > Cheers Don > > > -----Original Message- > > From: Wesley Parish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 9:27 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Meet With MS: Was: RE: Just for Rodger... > > > > > > I say, go for it. I do have some questions I'd like to ask > > Microsoft - don't > > worry, I'll keep them non-confrontational. > > > > Wesley Parish > > > > On Fri, 07 May 2004 11:28, you wrote: > > > Hi Nick, > > > > > > The orginal posting from NZOSS is below. > > > > > > I'll leave you all to come up with your own ideas against > > > > and just throw in > > > > > some quick 'for' thoughts > > > > > > Here's a copy of my response on NZOSS to start with: > > > > > > Brett, > > > > > > How about coming to visit us in Christchurch as well. > > > > > > While I've enjoyed some of the more humorous comments about > > > > this idea I > > > > > actually see many benefits for both OSS and MS. > > > > > > You MS guys have very serious problems all around the world > > > > right now. > > > > > Your problems are slowing us all down from getting more and newer > > > technology out there in to the community. > > > > > > MS needs real help from OSS and I think that paying for the > > > > drinks is the > > > > > very least MS should do. > > > > > > Cheers Don > > > > > > Benefits to OSS (MS can work out their own, they're paid to! :) > > > > > > * Identifying key points of difference in focus. > > > > > > Both sides want to push their technology in to the market > > > > for different > > > > > reasons. > > > Both sides need each other for different reasons. > > > > > > OSS are silly to try and take MS on head on. All that > > > > happens is we end up > > > > > in a 'mine is better than yours' war and no one wins > > > > because anyone with > > > > > half a brain just goes 'oh look, geeks doing geek war > > > > again, what ever > > > > > back to my sky tv'. > > > > > > I can think of a range of places that OSS and MS both stand > > > > to gain from > > > > > identifying clear points of difference that should be > > > > focused on and I know > > > > > I'd like to sit down with someone like Brett and hear his views. > > > > > > * Credibility in industry leads to credibility in community. > > > > > > The Linux community in NZ is tiny. The fact that MS are > > > > even interested in > > > > > talking says a lot. > > > > > > OSS can benefit from this sort of attention in many obvious ways. > > > > > > * Media Event > > > > > > This is a media event. While it's not really a big issue > > > > it is an issue > > > > > that the tech pages of any local paper should be writting > > > > something about. > > > > > Any reason to get OSS in the press is something worth > > > > giving an evening to > > > > > especially is MS are buying the drinks. > > > > > > > > > Cheers Don > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > > > From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004
Re: Meet With MS: Was: RE: Just for Rodger...
I say, go for it. I do have some questions I'd like to ask Microsoft - don't worry, I'll keep them non-confrontational. Wesley Parish On Fri, 07 May 2004 11:28, you wrote: > Hi Nick, > > The orginal posting from NZOSS is below. > > I'll leave you all to come up with your own ideas against and just throw in > some quick 'for' thoughts > > Here's a copy of my response on NZOSS to start with: > > Brett, > > How about coming to visit us in Christchurch as well. > > While I've enjoyed some of the more humorous comments about this idea I > actually see many benefits for both OSS and MS. > > You MS guys have very serious problems all around the world right now. > > Your problems are slowing us all down from getting more and newer > technology out there in to the community. > > MS needs real help from OSS and I think that paying for the drinks is the > very least MS should do. > > Cheers Don > > Benefits to OSS (MS can work out their own, they're paid to! :) > > * Identifying key points of difference in focus. > > Both sides want to push their technology in to the market for different > reasons. > Both sides need each other for different reasons. > > OSS are silly to try and take MS on head on. All that happens is we end up > in a 'mine is better than yours' war and no one wins because anyone with > half a brain just goes 'oh look, geeks doing geek war again, what ever > back to my sky tv'. > > I can think of a range of places that OSS and MS both stand to gain from > identifying clear points of difference that should be focused on and I know > I'd like to sit down with someone like Brett and hear his views. > > * Credibility in industry leads to credibility in community. > > The Linux community in NZ is tiny. The fact that MS are even interested in > talking says a lot. > > OSS can benefit from this sort of attention in many obvious ways. > > * Media Event > > This is a media event. While it's not really a big issue it is an issue > that the tech pages of any local paper should be writting something about. > > Any reason to get OSS in the press is something worth giving an evening to > especially is MS are buying the drinks. > > > Cheers Don > > > -Original Message- > > From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 11:11 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Just for Rodger... > > > > > > no. not sbscribed to nzoss. can you (briefly) summarise the purpose of > > such meeting and the arguments for and against/ > > > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Peter Harrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 6:34 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [NZOSS-OpenChat] Drinks with MS People > > > > > > Brett Roberts and company of Microsoft have offered to get > > together with us > > Linux/OSS people over drinks on Thursday, May 27 in Auckland. > > > > This is really just an informal get together to discuss our relative > > positions. Its an opportunity to meet some of the people in > > MS, and to ask > > all those questions about MS you have always wanted to. I'm > > not looking for a > > confrontation or anything - just some passionate and lively > > discussion. Its > > also a chance for some of us OSS people to get out on the > > town for a night > > and socialize together a bit. > > > > Background: Brett has been at virtually every event I have > > been to. While we > > disagree with each other he has always been respectfull and > > intelligent in > > his addresses. He is a very interesting person to talk with. > > To be honest > > having someone to work against makes presentations more interesting. > > > > > > Let me know if you are interested in attending... > > > > > > > > - > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish * * * Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: su not working
It's the case in FreeBSD - I just checked. It's bound to be the case in the other *BSD as well. I've never heard of it being so in Linux. On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 18:07, you wrote: > On Saturday 10 April 2004 16:41, Andrew Tarr wrote: > > su: Authentication Failure > > Sorry. > > On ye olde Unix, and some Linux distributions, you have to be a member of > the wheel group to be able to su. I'm now sure if this is current Debian > policy, but it's worth a try. -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish * * * Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Xnest works!
I've just tested Xnest, something I read about in Linux Journal, and I've got WindowMaker running in a window on my KDE system! Xnest :1 -ac & wmaker -display :1 Kewl! I do need more video RAM, though - running WindowMaker's a little easier because it's lighter than something like KDE; if I try running GNOME in Xnest while running KDE, I think I'm going to have a few problems. -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish * * * Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: NZ Mirror for Best Web browser for Windows
When I'm on Windows - happens regularly - I'm one of the people on the St Albans Neighbourhood Network - I try to use Mozilla, or Firefox. http://www.mozilla.org/ Unfortunately I don't know of any NZ mirrors. Sorry. Wesley Parish On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 18:09, you wrote: > Ok, I'm sick of IE again :) > > Time to install something better to tide me over. > > Recommendations and please provide an NZ mirror url. > > Thanks guys :) > > Cheers Don -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish * * * Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: Gentoo Installfest Bookings
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 08:40, you wrote: > Hi All, > > Machine: Sony PCG-Z55JE. > > It has Win98 installed already with about 6gb free. > > I'd like to patition it so I can boot from either. I'd also like to see > Win98 running within linux so I don't have to reboot to run a simple little > windoz app. I can assure you that bochs does run Win98, though hardly at any decent speed. I haven't tried VMWare or Win4Lin; qemu is much too unpolished to satisfactorily run Win98, and I don't know of any others. > > I also have a couple of wireless cards that I'd like to see running as > well. > > Do you think we'll have time to do the PDA thing if I bring that as well? > (I think most of you have read about what I'd like to see running there.) > > Cheers Don -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish * * * Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: Can't see entire 160GB drive under Mandrake 10
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 07:06, you wrote: > On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 22:04:33 +1200, you wrote: > >Wesley Parish wrote: > >> Would that be the suggested thing to do for a motherboard that refuses > >> to recognise my new DVD/CDRW? > > > >The Bios or the operating system you are running on it? > > > >I know that IDE HDD detection in the Bios doesn't detect CD drives, what > >does the OS detect? > > Try one of the 80 connector cables? I suppose it wouldn't hurt to try. -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish * * * Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: Can't see entire 160GB drive under Mandrake 10
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 22:04, you wrote: > Wesley Parish wrote: > > Would that be the suggested thing to do for a motherboard that refuses to > > recognise my new DVD/CDRW? > > The Bios or the operating system you are running on it? > > I know that IDE HDD detection in the Bios doesn't detect CD drives, what > does the OS detect? Linux doesn't detect the DVD/CDRW; I suspect that's because I haven't got the appropriate driver. The BIOS doesn't either, and I've tried it with two of the most likely options. -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish * * * Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: Can't see entire 160GB drive under Mandrake 10
Would that be the suggested thing to do for a motherboard that refuses to recognise my new DVD/CDRW? Wesley Parish On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 18:52, you wrote: > On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 14:00, you wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm using Mandrake 10.0 Community, with the 2.6 kernel. I've just > > installed a 160GB Maxtor DiamondPlus IDE drive (currently as 'hdb'), but > > Mandrake can only see 128GB of it. XP Pro on the same machine can see > > all 160GB fine. > > > > Googling suggests that the usual solutions appear to be: > > > > 1) Upgrade the BIOS > > 2) Install a new drive controller card > > > > My BIOS appears to be up-to-date AFAICT, and correctly reports the drive > > size. > > It's an Asus A7A266 motherboard, BIOS version 1012. The Asus site > > didn't show any later versions (though the site was so difficult to > > navigate, I might have missed it...). > > > > Since both the BIOS and XP can see the whole drive, wouldn't that > > indicate that the drive controller is OK ? > > > > From what I've read, the 2.6 kernel is supposed to handle drives over > > 160GB, whereas the 2.4 kernel doesn't. If I'm wrong about that, please > > correct me. > > > > I tried installing several different distros on the drive (erasing it > > completely each time), just to try them and the drive out. They were > > Lycoris, Turbo Linux, MEPIS, and Fedora Core 1 (all using the 2.4 kernel > > AFAIK). Turbo, MEPIS and Fedora all fell over and spat the dummy when > > trying to partition and format the drive. Lycoris succeeded, but still > > couldn't see the whole drive. I haven't had a chance to try installing > > a fresh copy of Mandrake 10 yet (well, I tried, but it insisted on > > installing on the blank 10GB on my original drive, despite me telling it > > not to...). > > > > Can anyone offer any pointers as to how I can resolve this ? > > > > Many thanks, > > David > > I had a similar problem with installing windows 98 on a machine. > > The bios correctly identified the hard drive and reported its correct size. > but fdisk on the windows 98 boot floppy could only see part of it. > > I assumed that if the bios could see it then fdisk could see it as well. I > was advised to update the bios, did so and all was well. > > My experience was similar, that bios updates were hard to track down, so I > recommend that you persevere. > > Cheers Ross Drummond > > PS. A bios update changes all your custom bios settings back to the > defaults. Benefit from my painful experience and note any custom bios > settings before the upgrade. -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish * * * Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: usind dd to clone hard drive
Actually, there's a NetBSD-based Ghost-clone out there. http://rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de/~feyrer/g4u/ Take a look. It certainly sounds as if it'll do the job. Wesley Parish On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 01:14, you wrote: > thanks everyone for the suggestions. > > I ended up doing a > > cp -x -a / /mnt/new_root > > The -x stops cp from copying files which are mounted on another file > system. > > The -a is for archiving. Its keeps permissions and dates of the files it > original files. It also copies recursively. > > It worked great. dd was taking way too long and I didn't really need all > 60 gigs copied over. > > Paul William wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Is a simple dd: > > dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hdx > > capable of 'cloning' hdc into hdx? hdc is nearly dead so I will be > > getting a replacement tomorrow and I don't fell like reinstalling > > everything. > > > > Cheers > > > > Paul -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish * * * Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: Yast going GPL - CLUG
I'd love to see the other major European distro. Count me in. On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 19:05, you wrote: > Nick, you're onto it again ;) > > Thurs 6 May sounds good to me, with 9.1 if I can source a copy at least > 2 days before, otherwise 8.2. Whether it'd be worth waiting until end > Jun to have 9.1 is something the audience would have to decide. > > There's no point in showing "Linux", we've all seen it, so focussing on > suse specifics would be a good idea. That's mainly the installer, the > system config, and a few bits of desktop stuff (not including open > office or the latest KDE - that's the same everywhere). A demo-install > would be good. Does anyone have a spare fast computer (> Duron 600) for > that? Watching the progress bar for 15-20min can get a tad boring, > though I could answer questions if I have the/an answer. > > Question: is there enough interest? > > Volker -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish * * * Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
dihydrogen monoxide - let's get a petition started!
http://www.snopes.com/toxins/dhmo.htm -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish * * * Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
query on cdroms, cdrs
I've now got one of each - one's also a dvdrom. Do they work well or at all, if they're on the same P-ATA channel? If they share the same cable? Thanks -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish * * * Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: Mandrake 10 install question
I found the same with my last install. On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:26, you wrote: > Another "trick" I have found with Mandrake (certainly helped my success > rate) is at the end of the full installation you get the option to > "configure" several options - I always click every one now and it seem to > help. > > Once again, the upgraded video card was all that I needed to get the > graphical installation. > > My problem with rc1 may be related to the fact this box has only scsi > drives - although Beta 2 installed. > > Regards, Robert > > Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windscreen. -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish * * * Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: "Everyone" uses it Was:Church opensource.
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 19:37, you wrote: >^ > >Cool Ten > > Is actually nearer the mark! > > It does not cover the Win O/S itself. Re-cycling machines which are still > in good working order but ex=lease a site contract is not allowed. New > licences for the underlying O/S have to purchased retail. > > It covers the client and office packages, but not the server products. > > It's a monumental rip-off imho and hopefully is not going to be repeated > when the agreement comes up for renewal relatively shortly. > > South Africa got MS Licences for every school computer in the Republic > absolutely gratis. > > Why can't we? We weren't quick enough to trot out the probability that Microsoft was going to lose out big to Linux. It worked for a British municipality; they got a _HUGE_ reduction in licensing fees. Fact is, in NZ, we're MS patsies. -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish * * * Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Anyone heading TGA way?
In their car, that is? I've got a pair of computers I want delivered to my mum and my oldest sister in Tauranga. If anyone's going that way and could deliver them for me, I would be very grateful. Thanks. -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish * * * Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: [OT] RE: gently flambe? - Re: Agencies...
Having waded through the "Communist Manifesto" and read Malatesta's "Anarchism", I would wholeheartedly agree. But I think that RMS is even more closely connected to the earlier European artisan-socialists like William Morris, author and wallpaper manufacturer - not to forget, typographer. Wesley Parish On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 13:18, you wrote: > On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 12:53, Carl Douglas wrote: > > Yes - RMS is absolutely pro Freedom. I guess the analagy to > > immigration then is that the world ought be a Free place and anyone > > ought to have the Freedom to travel and look under the hood of any > > society/culture/commnuity and contribute to it, just as they would a > > Free piece of software. > > The biggest mistake you could make with RMS is to think that he is a > communist. He is not. He is an anarchist. -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish * * * Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Just a question
Does anyone know the standard, canonical CHAR/STRING size of the names, and other details in various online government documents? I've got a F/LOSS project at the back of my mind that requires that sort of info. Any assistance gratefully accepted. -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish * * * Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: HEADS UP DINNER tomorrow! change of venue. numbers required.
I'm at a friend's place. Sorry. Wesley Parish On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 18:08, you wrote: > Sorry, I will not be able to make it as it is being held on a Wednesday > night. You all have fun tho! > > Cheers > > Jason > > Nick Rout wrote: > >OK so the useless so and so's at Raj Mahal cannot take us tomorrow night, > >so I kept to the Indian theme at the Two Fat Indians. > > > >I have a table for 20 booked tomorrow Wednesday 4th (the previosly > >agreed date) at 7.00 pm at Two Fat Indians on Manchester St > >(http://twofatindians.co.nz/) I can change numbers up or down, but do > >not want to turn up with 4 or 40 unannounced! > > > >This is between Lichfield and Tuam. The prices look broadly similar to > >Raj Mahal. > > > >PLEASE, I need firmer numbers. I am not going to trawl through the > >archives to find out who is on and off. If you want to be there, send an > >email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do this once and once only (unless you are > >changing your mind). Please include the number attending on the subject > >line so I can scan the folder and get an idea. > > > >something like > > > >Subject: 2 attending dinner wednesday; or > >Subject: 2 cancelling dinner wednesday ; or > >Subject: Bring some mates, now 10 coming. -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish * * * Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: OT - Hardware Problem
I opened the case, fooled around with the cable and it seems to have solved the problem - or at least, for the current moment. Thanks! Wesley Parish On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 22:41, you wrote: > > Ie, sometimes I boot the computer, and POST doesn't recognise the cdrom, > > and Linux doesn't either, other times I boot it and it does. > > Sounds like a hardware problem. Could be mobo, cable, or drive, or bad > contacts. Carefully remove the cable, then insert it again properly. > Repeat 3-5 times (yes that's right). Might clean the contacts a bit. > Those ribbon cables can also go dodgy, particularly if handled often > (catch 22). When pulling on the ribbon, do so carefully and spread the > load over the connector a bit (i.e. don't just pull on one edge). > There's no fix to cables but to replace ($8 at tastech). Could be bad > contact on mobo or drive, or an aging chip on mobo or drive. Mobo or > drive can't be repaired (note I didn't say get a new one ;) ). Chances > for a cable problem are reasonably high. > > HTH, > > Volker -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish * * * Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: MS at it again ....
But there is also the fact, pointed out in the article, that XML was put through the standardisation process, and the goal of that standardisation process was to come up with an open derivative of HTML that could be used for precisely such a purpose. To take part in such a standardisation process and then turn around and attempt to patent it, is in violation of the usual patent process. Patents in common law, if I remember correctly, are to reward the development of a unique proprietary product which has been developed behind closed doors - ie, not in the open cut-and-thrust of the standardisation process - by awarding the developers of such a product a legally-enforceable monopoly on its manufacture for a period of time in which the manufacturer has a reasonable chance of recouping the losses involved in its development, and being able to write them down as investment expenses, repaid by the product's sales. It is also to ensure that the processes concerned, the design developments, etc, have a chance to percolate outwards via licenses, etc, until it becomes standard knowledge and the industry concerned develops and improves. (This is information that I got when I enquired about patenting an electronic guitar pickup design in 1992 - I expected it to be common knowledge. Evidentally not.) Microsoft fails that test on several counts - firstly, XML is a standard, not a product, and as such, has _NOT_ been developed behind closed doors, but out in the open. Why should IBM, SUN, etc, be expected to subsidize Microsoft's extravagances? Secondly, patenting something like that goes against the grain. Patents are to ensure that a valuable technological improvement gets disseminated broadly while repaying its developers for developing it and for making it widely available. If something has been developed in a broad standards-making process, then it has already been disseminated broadly, it is hardly a proprietary secret in urgent need of defending against rivals. Thirdly, Microsoft is intending to use this as a rod to beat Linux, OpenOffice.org, etc. This again goes against the grain of patents, which are to reward an inventor for allowing rivals to see and make use of his invention while enforcing his rights on it, not for him to punish rivals. As such it falls under the area of anti-competition laws, misleading advertising, etc. The question of whether or not Microsoft was vaporwaring XML as its _new_ _innovation_, hardly counts - except for the fact that OO.org has been using it for the last two years minimum. While Microsoft is still in Cloud-Cuckoo-Land with its XML vaporware. Wesley Parish On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:42, you wrote: > > sorry when did MS start on xml as a format for office docs? > > before OO I do believe! > > I'm not familiar with patent law (and it's different everywhere), and > I'm not about to disagree with a lawyer about this :) But, just because > they were first to start doing something doesn't mean they can get the > patent by default later on after everyone has done it. In this case, > their own product is the prior art. As an aside, I think that in NZ > prior art is determined from the time of the patent filing, where in the > US you can file a patent up to a year after the invention & still claim > the patent. Am I correct in saying that? > > Cheers > Brad > > > > Wesley Parish > > > > > > On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:32, Brad Beveridge wrote: > > > > If it was only filed last year, surely there is plenty of > > > > prior art > > > > > > in OpenOffice? > > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > > > > From: Dale Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 11:42 PM > > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Subject: MS at it again > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi All > > > > > > > > > > Just noticed this interest snippet . > > > > > > > > > > http://www.nzoss.org.nz/portal/modules.php?name=News&file=arti > > > > > cle&sid=284 > > > > > <-- kinda a worry . > > > > > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > Dale. > > > > > > -- > > > Wesley Parish > > > * * * > > > Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish > > > * * * > > > Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" > > > You ask, "What is the most important thing?" > > > Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." > > > I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people." -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish * * * Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: MS at it again ....
OpenOffice.org's been around since 2001. If this was filed in 2003, Microsoft are committing fraud, submitting a misleading claim like this. There are laws, are there not, to protect consumers from this sort of activity? Wesley Parish On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:32, Brad Beveridge wrote: > If it was only filed last year, surely there is plenty of prior art in > OpenOffice? > > > -Original Message- > > From: Dale Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 11:42 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: MS at it again > > > > > > Hi All > > > > Just noticed this interest snippet . > > > > http://www.nzoss.org.nz/portal/modules.php?name=News&file=arti > > cle&sid=284 > > <-- kinda a worry . > > > > Cheers > > Dale. -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish * * * Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: Linux
Uncle David Yes, Lycoris is as true a Linux as any other distribution on the market. You've got the command line I see. There should be something to get the X Window System up and running. I'll see if anyone in the Christchurch Linux Users Group knows anyone in the Auckland Linux Users Group who can give you a hand at getting it installed and set up. Wes On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 19:18, you wrote: > Hi Wes > My PC User has Lycoris desktop/LX > I load this and wipe a disc by error but have istalled now > IS this True Linux?? > I have no Internet or modem as some how miss the file loading > Will try again and it appears to be Dos! but what work has KOFFICE etc > Uncle David oh UNCLE WES -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish * * * Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: Mandrake 9.2 - things missing?
BTW, what do you do when you lose your taskbar? On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 22:41, you wrote: > Hi there, > > Chris Wilkinson wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > Just installed 9.2, but I cannot find two things I used often > > in 9.1 - namely the 'Run Command' option found when you right > > click on the KDE desk, and the SuperUser file manager normally > > found in 'K-menu/Applications/File tools'... > > > > Anyone else using 9.2 miss these items? > > Mandrake 9.2 (at least on my PC) is also missing sound, and > xine will not work either (maybe sound related). I've trawled > the net comprehensively, and all I can find is people getting > grumpy about the complexity and unworkability of alsa...and to > think they included it the 2.6.0 kernel!! -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish * * * Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
OT - Hardware Problem
I've got a problem with a cdrom that is and isn't there. Ie, sometimes I boot the computer, and POST doesn't recognise the cdrom, and Linux doesn't either, other times I boot it and it does. If this is a hardware problem and I need to get a new motherboard, I would be grateful if the people so advising could also get me a job. (I've had over ten years of being talked down to by the state and the business sector, advising me what I needed to do to get a job and then having them turn on me and do exactly the opposite. I've had too many years working for a pittance computer-cataloging library books on the CTF and doing voluntary work because employers seem to have a bad attitude about employing people - so if you're going to tell me I need a new motherboard, please have the decency to offer me a job so I can afford it.) -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish * * * Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: pgAccess question
Actually, if you go to http://www.openwatcom.com , there's a F/LOSS version of the Watcom C/C++ compiler. On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:06, you wrote: > There is an F/OSS C/C++ compiler for windows. > > DJGPP I think it's called. Or something similar. > > Cygwin also has one also. > > On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 03:18, Wesley Brinkman wrote: > > I have a machine running postgres on Linux. I would like to access > > that machine from a windows 98SE machine using PGAccess. > > > > > > > > I have downloaded the tkl software which is source code. I have also > > downloaded the pgAccess files (which seem to be dllâs). > > > > > > > > I would like to know if there is a way to install pgAccess without > > having to compile all the components? > > > > > > > > If there isnât, do I need to purchase Visual C++ just to compile this > > application? > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > > > Wesley Brinkman > > > > IT Manager > > > > New Image International -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish * * * Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: Some help needed with tcp/ip config
First things first: Quoting Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 23:19, you wrote: > > This is the results I got - and I still couldn't connect to any site. > > > > Wesley Parish > Would you be so kind as to remind me of a few pertinent facts:- > Which distribution you are using? Mandrake 9.2 > Did these problems suddenly start one day after everything worked fine? No, I installed it after getting into my machine one day and putting in one disk while taking one out. I had problems with the file systems, etc, but that was simply a misstep on my part. I've been unable to connect to the paradise http and pop3 sites ever since. > Or have you never had networking going propherly at all? Networking was going fine with 9.0 and 9.1 - apart from that time this year when I couldn't connect to slashdot.org, etc. > Did you install with the security level set to paranoid? I started installing to Higher, but switched back to Normal. > > > > ifconfig -a > > > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:44:25:70:7F > > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > > TX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > > collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 > > RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:2394 (2.3 Kb) > > Interrupt:10 Base address:0x4000 > I notice that you have not allocated an address to this interface. > It is therefore strange that it claims to be UP. > I realise that you probably are not using it, but you _might_ get a > solution > to the problem if you were to give it a number from one of the private > netblocks perhaps something like 10.11.12.13 > The command to do this is:- > ifconfig eth0 10.11.12.13 > > That command will give the interface the number until you reboot. > To make the change permanent you will have to alter the config files for > you > dist. in the time honoured way using a text editor or alternatively the > GUI > gizmolackey which comes with your distribution. I tried this, still no luck. > > > > cat /etc/resolve.conf > > > > domain paradise.net.nz #kppp temp entry > > ##search net.nz > Could you, in addition, try these commands;- > ping -c2 127.0.0.1 # This proves that networking is installed > ping -c2 localhost # This proves that local name resolution works it works. The rest didn't - or at least, not yet. > > ping -c2 > > i.e. quoting from the ppp0 config above > inet addr:210.246.28.17 but we want the new number which is given to you > for > the current session. > > ping -c2 . > P-t-P:202.0.46.83 but you should use the new number which is given to > you for > the current session. > > ping -c2 session> > > You will find this in the /etc/resolve.conf file > > Once you have got this far, you have an ip network route to the outside > world. > > Test with full names instead of the numbers:- > > ping -c2 rachel.paradise.net.nz > ping -c2 kirsty.paradise.net.nz > > or, if your allegeancies lie elsewhere:- > > ping -c2 alien.xtra.co.nz > ping -c2 terminator.xtra.co.nz > I've just recently bought myself a somewhat bigger hard drive anyway, so I think I might well move home over to it, and reinstall 9.2, and take it from there. With any luck, it'll be up and running as good as new. Thanks for all the help you've been - I appreciate it. Anyone got any ideas on how well BTC Combos work under Linux? Wesley Parish > > > > Quoting Chris Bayley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Wesley, could you post for us the output from the following commands > - > > > other wise we're flying blind. > > > > > > ifconfig -a > > > route > > > cat /etc/resolve.conf > > > ping 203.4.152.4 > > > -- > Sincerely etc. > Christopher Sawtell > > NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, > it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. > Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks. > > "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon.
Re: Fw: [nzlug] Maori language for KDE
Yes. I'll just have to get my full Internet connectivity back, then I'll take it up. Wesley Parish Quoting Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > wasn't someone on this list interested in this? Speaking. > > > Forwarded by Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- Original Message --- > From: Peter Hewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 19:13:51 +1300 > Subject: [nzlug] Maori language for KDE > > > Anyone know who could help with maintaining the Maori language for KDE? > > This posting from nz.comp ... > -- > Maori translation KDE/Linux > From: Heiko Evermann > Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 11:28:51 > Groups: nz.comp > no references > > Hi everyone, > > quite a long time ago someone started a translation of KDE into Maori. > ( http://i18n.kde.org/teams/ and > http://i18n.kde.org/teams/index.php?action=info&team=mi ) > > This translation has been abandoned a long time ago. I was wondering > if, maybe, someone from New Zealand might be interested in restarting > this. After all Maori is your second official language. Having a good > and complete translation of KDE into Maori might be > 1) good for the state of the Maori language > 2) good for Linux as having that translation might be a competitive > advantage for Linux. > > Or is it not just the KDE translation into Maori that has been > abandoned, but the whole Maori language altogehter? (When I was on > holiday in NZ two years ago, I did not see a single Maori newspaper in > the shops.) > > Greetings from Germany, > > Heiko Evermann > > > -- - > To remove yourself from this list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe" in the body of the message. > > > - Original Message Ends > > -- > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon.
Re: Some help needed with tcp/ip config
This is the results I got - and I still couldn't connect to any site. Wesley Parish > ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:44:25:70:7F UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:2394 (2.3 Kb) Interrupt:10 Base address:0x4000 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:1196 (1.1 Kb) TX bytes:1196 (1.1 Kb) ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:210.246.28.17 P-t-P:202.0.46.83 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1524 Metric:1 RX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 RX bytes:342 (342.0 b) TX bytes:87 (87.0 b) > route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 202.0.46.83 * 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo default 202.0.46.83 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 ppp0 > cat /etc/resolve.conf domain paradise.net.nz #kppp temp entry ##search net.nz nameserver 203.96.152.4 nameserver 203.96.152.12 nameserver 203.96.152.4 # ppp temp entry nameserver 203.96.152.12 # ppp temp entry nameserver 203.96.152.4 #kppp temp entry nameserver 203.96.152.12#kppp temp entry > ping 203.4.152.4 PING 203.4.152.4 (203.4.152.4) 56(84) bytes of data. >From 210.246.28.17 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable >From 210.246.28.17 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable >From 210.246.28.17 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable >From 210.246.28.17 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable >From 210.246.28.17 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable >From 210.246.28.17 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable >From 210.246.28.17 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable >From 210.246.28.17 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable >From 210.246.28.17 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable >From 210.246.28.17 icmp_seq=5 Destination Host Unreachable >From 210.246.28.17 icmp_seq=6 Destination Host Unreachable PING 203.96.152.4 (203.96.152.4) 56(84) bytes of data. >From 210.246.24.99 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable >From 210.246.24.99 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable >From 210.246.24.99 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable >From 210.246.24.99 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable >From 210.246.24.99 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable >From 210.246.24.99 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable >From 210.246.24.99 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable >From 210.246.24.99 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable >From 210.246.24.99 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable >From 210.246.24.99 icmp_seq=5 Destination Host Unreachable PING 210.246.24.99 (210.246.24.99) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 210.246.24.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.159 ms 64 bytes from 210.246.24.99: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.138 ms 64 bytes from 210.246.24.99: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.137 ms 64 bytes from 210.246.24.99: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.140 ms 64 bytes from 210.246.24.99: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.137 ms 64 bytes from 210.246.24.99: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=0.142 ms 64 bytes from 210.246.24.99: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=0.138 ms 64 bytes from 210.246.24.99: icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=0.135 ms 64 bytes from 210.246.24.99: icmp_seq=9 ttl=64 time=0.131 ms 64 bytes from 210.246.24.99: icmp_seq=10 ttl=64 time=0.138 ms 64 bytes from 210.246.24.99: icmp_seq=11 ttl=64 time=0.135 ms 64 bytes from 210.246.24.99: icmp_seq=12 ttl=64 time=0.135 ms 64 bytes from 210.246.24.99: icmp_seq=13 ttl=64 time=0.135 ms 64 bytes from 210.246.24.99: icmp_seq=14 ttl=64 time=0.140 ms 64 bytes from 210.246.24.99: icmp_seq=15 ttl=64 time=0.138 ms Quoting Chris Bayley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Wesley, could you post for us the output from the following commands - > other wise we're flying blind. > > ifconfig -a > route > cat /etc/resolve.conf > ping 203.4.152.4 > > > /cb > > Wesley Parish wrote: > > >No. I've tried, but it doesn't seem to be able to get through. > > > >Wesley Parish > > > >Quoting Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > >
Re: Some help needed with tcp/ip config
No. I've tried, but it doesn't seem to be able to get through. Wesley Parish Quoting Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > can you ping by ip address? > > (paradise dns is 203.96.152.4, it should be up and close to you) > > > On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 23:16:57 +1300 (NZDT) > Wesley Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've just installed Mandrake 9.2 and after having fun and games with > fdisk, > > e2fsck, mke2fs, and fstab, I got the thing up and running. > > > > Now I can't connect to the Net in any meaningful way except through > Knoppix. > > > > My /etc and /etc/ppp seem to be screwed up somehow, because I can't > access my > > pop3 or any http or whatever servers. > > > > I've done what the kde manual tells me to do, ie, give the full dns of > my ISP, > > put in the "multi on, bind", etc, but still no dice. > > > > I can't for the life of me think of what I chould do next. Any hints, > anyone? > > > > Wesley Parish > > > > "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" > > I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of > the > > other horizon. > > > > > "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon.
Some help needed with tcp/ip config
I've just installed Mandrake 9.2 and after having fun and games with fdisk, e2fsck, mke2fs, and fstab, I got the thing up and running. Now I can't connect to the Net in any meaningful way except through Knoppix. My /etc and /etc/ppp seem to be screwed up somehow, because I can't access my pop3 or any http or whatever servers. I've done what the kde manual tells me to do, ie, give the full dns of my ISP, put in the "multi on, bind", etc, but still no dice. I can't for the life of me think of what I chould do next. Any hints, anyone? Wesley Parish "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon.
Re: dns, bind site urls wanted
Well, firstly, thanks for all the replies. Finding that dnrd site was excellent - thanks a million for that because I am partway into the throes of setting up a small home network - I've got a potential Linux client, I've got a potential Win98 client, and am hoping to get a box for an SELinux/XenLinux setup to run various major (and complex) RDBMSs without them running all over each other, as they are wont to do. Plus of course the OpenBSD firewall ... And of course, when and if I can afford to get it running, my AS/400 ... <:^) I hope to be able to afford the requisite books on all the topics, one of these days ... ;) Wesley Parish On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 10:27, you wrote: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 23:10, you wrote: > > I need some of the sites - I've got some questions I want to pose. > > The canonical source of BIND knowledge. > http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind9.html > > The BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual is included with the source > distribution in DocBook XML and HTML format, in the doc/arm directory. > > There is also a .pdf rendition of the above. > http://www.nominum.com/content/documents/bind9arm.pdf > > O'Reilly has got into the act with the 'Cricket Book' at:- > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dns4/ > > Imho, the authors of the above all make the assumption, like most computer > book authors, that you are already fully au fait with not only the subject > matter but also the unix computer lore, and are thus fairly opaque. > > For something slightly more down to earth there is a Linux HOWTO at:- > http://www.ibiblio.org/Linux/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO.html > > For a small home or office network the above is severe overkill and I'd > suggest:- > http://users.zoominternet.net/~garsh/dnrd/ > > For completeness only, you might care to know about:- > http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html -- Clinesterton Beademung - in all of love. Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
dns, bind site urls wanted
I need some of the sites - I've got some questions I want to pose. Any help gratefully received. Wesley Parish -- Clinesterton Beademung - in all of love. Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: FEDORA (RH Yarrow)
I must confess to an interesting experience with it on my old machine, a 486 with 8 MB - having a neighbour's kid playing around while I was trying to do something with it, and I got distracted by something he was doing around my desk, and the next thing I knew, I had about twenty desktops all lined up two by two. Performance went to the dogs, alright! I eventually killed the entire system and vowed a: not to play around with window managers at random; and b: not to let the neighbour's kid around my desk while I was using the computer. Wesley Parish On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 22:22, you wrote: > > olvwm is one of the nicest experiences I've ever had in searching for a > > decent windows manager - but at the moment I'm satisfied (reasonably) > > with kde. > > Agreed, the only "old" window manager which looks good and is > low-resource (it beats all the new low-mem and whatnot window > managers). One of the reasons I dumped Red Hat was because they dumped > openlook (of which olvwm is part), and olvwm was/is the only acceptable > window manager which runs well on a 486 (twm is puke). It took 4 hours > to compile openlook on a 486 with 32MB RAM. SuSE still ships olvwm too, > but now that I have a faster box I use KDE. > > Volker -- Clinesterton Beademung - in all of love. Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: FEDORA (RH Yarrow)
olvwm is one of the nicest experiences I've ever had in searching for a decent windows manager - but at the moment I'm satisfied (reasonably) with kde. Wesley Parish On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:18, you wrote: > Martin Wehipeihana wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 11:04, Paul Swafford wrote: > >>FYI following a request from a list member we have RH Yarrow available > >> > >>3CD set .. BTW I have been experimenting with Solaris X for i386 and I > >>like it a lot - requires fairly standard hardware but comes with CDE > >> (very nice) or Gnome 2 (yech). > > > > I thought Sun had dropped support for Solaris on X86? > > They did for a bit, but there was such a backlash organised in the > US that it was brought back. It now seems to be stronger than ever > with a commercial basis to it and Sun support. > > The main drawback it has is in the application area. Reasonable > number of commercial apps but the "free" apps are not as plentiful > or as uptodate as a linux version. > Driverwise is not too much of a problem ... you buy what works... > It is less likely to run on any old piece of HW you just happen to > have lying around. > > Sun have shifted to gnome but CDE and all the others are still available > (olwm anyone ?)We still have a few on twm -- But this would just start > a desktop war. > > > Pete -- Clinesterton Beademung - in all of love. Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
About "Linux Migration Incentives Planned by SCO"
This is my reaction to the above article. http://www.cbronline.com/latestnews/3752ef9c5fdf36b480256dd7001e4767 I am a contented Linux and Free/Libre Open Source Software user, and expect to be using it for the foreseeable future, as I doubt SCO would be able to take me up on taking them up on their generous offer, particularly when one factors in the remote control aircraft, the spacecraft and the fully-armed robots, and the full year's contract with IBM. Some people just don't know when to stop, do they? Wesley Parish --- Darl McBride The SCO Group Dear Darl McBride About "Linux Migration Incentives Planned by SCO" http://www.cbronline.com/latestnews/3752ef9c5fdf36b480256dd7001e4767 - A proprietary Operating System? Of course, I've always had a hankering for Big Iron. Yes, now you come to think of it, Linux really isn't all that good - not when you consider the alternatives. I think a cluster of z990s with z/VM with a source code license, with source code licensed z/OS and VSE/ESA running as guests, would be fine, just fine. And of course, I was forgetting, a 32-cpu Alpha running OpenVMS for the terminal. I mean, I have to have a _serious games machine_, don't I? Everybody'll laugh at me if I don't. And that takes _serious_ _IO_, to control all the remote control aircraft and spacecraft and robots that one needs to _play_ _DOOM_ in a _totally_ _satisfactory_ _manner_; and once again, thanks for offering. Linux'd never fit the bill, would it? And once again, thanks for the offer, and I take it that once having declared my intentions to take up your offer in good faith, you cannot now refuse to carry it out. And I gave my full postal address when I applied for the Free Unix Licenses, so you don't have any excuses, do you now? I've never owned a mainframe before - and I owe it all to SCO! Wesley Parish -- Clinesterton Beademung - in all of love. Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: OnT - database filesystems (was: Longhorn and MS Shenanigans)
Actually, the IBM (and related) mainframe file systems were built on the same basis as their earlier (non-RDBMSs) databases, and their VM/ESA SFS and BFS (Shared File System and Byte-oriented File System respectiviely) are clients/front-ends to a backend based on the SQL/DS RDBMS. Microsoft here is very much the Johnny-come-lately. Wesley Parish On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:02, you wrote: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 02:27:25PM +, Jason Greenwood wrote: > > It covers MS plans for Longhorn and it's > > 'kernel level' inbuilt search ability. As if the NT kernel was not > > bloated enough already... > > that's skewing it abit. > the kernel level search ability is related to the fact that the > filesystem has more database capabilities. > > finding a file on disk is what a filesystem is about. > linux has filesystems. > linux finds files. > linux has a kernel level search ability. > (or where do you think does the path to a file get interpreted?) > > this is not a question if the kernel has search abilites, but only how > good they are. the better they are, the more flexible you can lay out > your data. > > the idea of a database like fs is not new, BeOS already had it. > > and i'll take a filesystem that supports files with arbbitrary metadata > which is efficiently searchable any day over todays offerings. > (now of course with linux userland fs capabilities it is probably not > necessary to build support for such a database fs into the kernel, but > would you install linux on a filesystem that is not supported by linux > natively? i am not so sure) > > greetings, martin. -- Clinesterton Beademung - in all of love. Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: WOW! Wesley Parich makes LinuxWorld!!
Just saying something that I felt had to be said. Now it's up to BGjr and SB! Thanks. Wesley Parish On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 00:36, you wrote: > I may have missed this onlist but - way to go Wesley! > > http://www.linuxworld.com/story/35659.htm -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: CLUG Meeting
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 20:04, you wrote: > Greetings Cluggers, > > The next meeting is this coming Wednesday, 29 October 2003 > > 7:30 pm at the Sydenham Community Centre Hall > 25 Hutchison Street Sydenham > Off East side of Columbo Street 40 metres South Brougham St. > > As shown on the map:- > http://christchurch.lug.net.nz/map.jpg > > This is to be a fixups meeting. So far we have one user with problems:- > > 1) Uttam >Needs to get a Smart Link software modem to go properly on a Mandrake > 9.1 machine which dual boots. Software can be installed but forgets it's > settings on reboot. > > Any others? I've got a 486 with a SCSI card and a SCSI cdrom. I don't have a clue as to whether or not I have got the cdrom jumpered right, and don't want to risk frying it, so I haven't turned it on or done anything to it. If anyone could help me with that, and also with giving me a lift to the meeting, I would be grateful. It's for OpenBSD, which I'm intent on trying out. Wesley Parish -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: New distro for me to play with...
I got xendemo - a virtual machine with Linux ported to it - recently, and am testing it - the idea is to have a home server with several Linuxes and maybe even some BSDs running on it. That way I can play around with learning various superleague RDBMSs without worrying about the nasty habit too many of them have, of not wanting to play nice with other RDBMSs. Wesley Parish On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 08:56, Vik Olliver wrote: > On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 22:10, Brad Beveridge wrote: > > Well, after a little under 4 months my Toshiba Laptop's hard disk has > > died in a fit of squealing agony. Luckily I managed to save my photos. > > Anyhow, when I get a new disk I'll be putting linux on it, and thought I > > might branch out to try other distros. > > After using Red Hat, LFS, Mandrake and Knoppix, I settled on Knoppix. > Quite happy with it. Handles my WiFi card, the bloody awful SiS video, > and subsequently my youngest daughter's PC and now my PC at work. > > Vik :v) -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: OT american patents
For that you need a set of truly ignorant and/or corrupt Patent Office people and likewise a set of truly stupid (and probably vicious) Patent Attorneys. And a pile of cash. The which appears to be prevalent in much of modern America. Sadly. Wesley Parish On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 08:48, you wrote: > Can they patent it if other people are already using it? > > > From: Paul William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: CLUG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: OT american patents > >Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 18:14:29 +1300 > > > >Hi guys, > > > >I read on /. that MS has patented the > >user-is-typing-a-message-notification IM feature used by jabber and > >other IM systems. If a US patent is taken out can it be enforced in NZ? > > > > > >I an NOT asking for legal advice - just interested > > > > > >I would really miss the user-is-typing-a-message-notification > > > >Cheers > > > >Paul > > _ > Find your perfect match @ http://personals.xtramsn.co.nz with XtraMSN > Personals! -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Fwd: scribus note
Just so as you can tell me to shut up - a port of an open-source wysiwyg DTP to Windows - probably better for your health (mental health I think) than MS Publisher - to the best of my knowledge you can't script anything in Publisher... ;) Wesley Parish -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: scribus note Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 08:31 From: "Ralf Habacker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi, an additional note about a KDE application which uses more and more the kde-cygwin port. "Other examples: On the Win2k box which I test built versions of Scribus, The screen display was overall sharper and less flickery than the Linux box I have at home - and they have the same monitors with the same refresh rate. It simply has a superior video card and very stable updated Win2k drivers. Even with the beta ports of Qt and KDE on Win2k with the slower I/O from way POSIX sockets are handled , the display is excellent and redraw is snappy both with Scribus and KDE3. You can see the screen shots on the kde cygwin page on line with the docs. " For the whole text see http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2003-August/001802.html Ralf ___ kde-cygwin mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-cygwin --- -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: Slightly OT - lunchtome wanderings.
On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 14:29, you wrote: > I went for a walk at lunchtime and discovered the following, which may > be of use/interest to fellow cluggers (clugites? ) > > 2. Small bookshop in Chancery Lane selling run-outs of computer books. > These are mainly copyrighted 2000/2001 so are oldish in technology terms, > but may still be useful. New Riders & Sams mainly. Spotted books on > Python, Perl, Apache, Linux Security, Redhat, SuSE, and lots more. > Prices around $30-45. This is cheap for Big Thick Computer Books (tm), > worth a look perhaps. I've had a look there, and wished I had the money to buy the php-mysql book - I need it at the moment. Does anyone have an odd job of some sort that needs doing, something that'll give me the $45.00 necessary to buy it? I'm not incapable of swinging a hammer, digging up the garden, or swinging an axe - or suchlike. If you could help me with this, I would be grateful. Wesley Parish -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: nasties to the list
This is the worst Microsoft-bourne illness the 'Net has seen ever since I got on it. Is there any chance, now that Microsoft has put its money behind SCO in a declaration that indemnifying users is a principle that appeals to it, in dragging Microsoft before the Small Claims Court on account of its bad faith in implementing security? And trashing other operating systems that might have made the Internet ecosystem rather more secure? I am a legal customer of Microsoft's MS DOS 5.0, Windows 98 and an certified evaluator of Windows 2003 Server, after all. And no, I doubt I'll be buying Win2k3 Server on this showing of the general shoddiness of MS products. Wesley Parish On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 15:09, you wrote: > On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 14:38:48 +1200 > > Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Who says it wasn't sent by a subscribed list member? It's an open list, > > even Microsofties are allowed to subscribe and post. > > I appears it was, just the FROM: address didn't look like it. I guess > the envelope address is what the list software looks at. -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: meeting ideas: keysigning
I for one would be extremely interested in that question - in generating keys, starting over again when you've stuffed up, publishing the keys, etc. Wesley Parish On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 23:33, you wrote: > With talk of topics for future meetings popping up, this might be a good > time to bring up the idea of using the meeting to do some PGP/GPG > keysigning. > > This has been mentioned/discussed in the past (see > http://lists.ethernal.org/cantlug-0201/msg00021.html), and was received > with a mild response. I know of a few clug members who have keys > available, and would like a chance to expand my web of trust. If your > eyes are glazing over already, you might want to skip the rest... > > I've currently got the key IDs and fingerprints of my two keys in my > wallet, with both Canadian and New Zealand issued identification. All > that is required is for the person signing the key to verify that I am > who I say I am (with the identification) and that the fingerprint I give > you matches the fingerprint stored on the key, which is available on the > public keyservers. Having satisfied those conditions, my key can be > signed by the person verifying my information. > > It's a pretty simple and straightforward procedure, however please be > responsible with your keys and strictly follow procedure when > authenticating people for keysigning. The more careful we are in > checking the validity of each identity, the stronger the web of trust > is. > > Details are available in the GNU Privacy Handbook, at > http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual/book1.html I'd recommend reading > through it before generating any keys and uploading them to a keyserver. > > If you're interested in having a key signed, be sure to bring along > photo idea (government issued) and a copy of your key ID and fingerprint > (or have several printed off and ready to hand out, which may help save > copying errors (I tend to reverse numbers easily)). No electronic copy > is needed. That part happens when I get home, retrieve the key from the > keyserver and verify the fingerprint. If it's all good, I'll send the > key back to the server signed by my key. > > I'm willing to field questions, but I reserve the right to question > others with more experience/knowledge in the case that I'm unsure of the > answer. And if anyone isn't planning on attending the meeting but is > interested in just meeting up to exchange details, I'm fairly easy to > find. Especially if you happen to be rollerblading around Hagley Park > on a pleasant day. :) > > Greg > --- - -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: An interesting article
Well, as it happens, I'm partway literate and somewhat fluent in Te Reo Maori. I would enjoy the challenge. The only problem I face is the various dictionary formats, etc, are not always usefully explained - I had this problem with OpenOffice.org as well when I was considering providing a Te Reo Maori dictionary for it. But sure, let's get together and work something out. It would be interesting and useful as well if we could get some of the other Polynesian languages supported - but I've got no idea about who to approach for that. Wesley Parish On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 08:07, you wrote: > There was maori i18n module for kde at one stage, don't know if there > stll is. > On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 06:44:17+1200 Timothy Musson > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wesley Parish, 2003-09-07 22:01:58: > > > http://mozillaquest.com/Linux03/Linux_In_Schools-01_Story01.html > > > It's about increasing the use of linux and other FOSS in schools, > > > techs and Unis. > > > > Hey, Wesley. That (and your signature, which I've snipped) reminds > > me... is anyone on this list interested in translating GNOME into > > Maori? That'd be a great (not to mention d*mn worthwhile) way to get > > Free software into schools here. > > > > http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gtp/ > > > > I don't know Maori myself (g, me), but I can offer basic > > help/advice getting set up and involved with translating... > > > > > > Tim > > -- > > Timothy Musson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~trmusson/ > > Q:How do you keep a moron in suspense? -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
An interesting article
http://mozillaquest.com/Linux03/Linux_In_Schools-01_Story01.html It's about increasing the use of linux and other FOSS in schools, techs and Unis. Good read. Wesley Parish -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: Dual boot Linux + Windows 2000 using Lilo?
It's more likely that Windows boot.ini can't abide being separated from the MBR. I would say that is indeed likely to be the issue - if LILO or GRUB points to boot.ini on hda, it works - and in your circumstance, boot.ini on hd[bc] doesn't. Wesley Parish On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 21:17, you wrote: > Deleated the first posting. > > I suspect that windows cannot cope with being on hdb(c) and is franticly > looking for files on hda. > > If I am wrong would someone correct me please. > > Phil. > > On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Julian Visch wrote: > > If it makes any difference windows 2000 is installed on ntfs rather than > > vfat32. > > -- > Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand >+64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I sell GNU/Linux & GNU/Hurd CDs. See http://www.copyleft.co.nz -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
ocw.mit.edu - any ideas?
I've just been reading the linuxtoday http://linuxtoday.com/developer/2003082701926OSCY comments on it, and the Wired article http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/mit.html which gives ocw.mit.edu as the operative web site - and paradise.net isn't interested in resolving it for me, the fscckwits! Is it possible, since the commercial ISPs are being defunct in their duties after taking our money, for the University of Canterbury IT to mirror the MIT's OpenCourseWare site? Even then I hold out no faith in paradise.net's ability to maintain an open contact between me and the University of Canterbury. Wesley Parish -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: Dual boot Linux + Windows 2000 using Lilo?
As a matter of fact I've been able to set Linux up to dual boot with Win2k quite successfully. lilo indeed can go in the MBR, and how you do that if you want to dual boot with Win2k - or any Windows for that matter - is, install the Windows first. Then you install Linux and designate the MBR as the place to put lilo. And yes, Linux and Win2k can operate very handily on two different, separate hard drives - that's how I've got mine set up. If you want some help, just let me know, and I'll be happy to help you. Wesley Parish On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 23:01, you wrote: > All my searching on Google implies that one can't dual boot using just lilo > and that you can't install lilo on the MBR. Is this true? If not does one > just proceed as one would with dual boot Linux + Linux? > If it makes any difference, they are on separate hard drives. -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: Paul Griswald(sp?) just made my night!
Well having installed a fair few Windows, a few OS/2s and even a coupla Macs in my time, as well as Mandrake, Red Hat, Slackware and SLS, I would have to say that Mandrake and Red Hat can install a lot easier than most Windows. Of course, once you factor in the inevitable partitioning - inevitable because most people have got Windows already on their computer - it does get a little bit more difficult - but you don't need to remember a serial number, and you're given a lot more choice of just where to place it. Just my 0.02c - and that's inflation for you! Wesley Parish On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 18:37, you wrote: > strangely there a number of reviews about that say distros like > mandrake have easier installs than XP. > > I certainly find gentoo an easier install to get _working_ than any > version of windows, but i'm not a newbie. (tongue in cheek only > slightly) > > seriously though Chris, did you find mandrake that hard? > > On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 17:25:38+1200 Chris > > Wilkinson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > Peter Elliott wrote: > > > his only caveat was that the installation might be beyond > > > > > > the capabilities of some listeners (this is true... > > > > Yes it is true. Some distros have an installation that makes > > climbing K2 seem like a picnic! A linux distro that is simplified > > massively just for home use is urgently required to capitalise > > on the current doubt people must feel about Windows. > > > > Distributors should be keeping an ISO of 'simpler' distros like > > Lycoris or Lindows, rather than keeping just the biggies like > > RH, MDK, DEB, etc... > > > > That way a bigger demographic of people could get hold of a > > copy of a friendlier distro... > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch. -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: SCO = FUD
SCO + FUD = SCUD (SCUD = DUD) 'nuff sed? On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 19:41, you wrote: > http://lwn.net/Articles/45019/ -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: Attn Nick Rout - SCO
I think SCO are well ovedue for the finger. And no, I can't see Linux as being the guilty party - closed source _does_ have a lot more hiding space, after all. It's far more likely that SCO is the infringing party: "Is there Linux code in SCO's UnixWare?" http://radio.weblogs.com/0120124/ Wesley Parish On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 17:18, you wrote: > Hi there, > > Jason wrote: > > Ok Nick, you wanted your reason for inititating legal action - here it > > is (I think): > > I think the answer for Linux is to remove the code, add a different code > that accomplishes the same thing, and give the big fat finger to SCO... > > Kind regards, > > Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch. -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: Spam filter for Gentoo
Someone should remind him that if he has a phone and is connected to the phone network, he can't complain about unsolicited phone calls. It just goes to show that his phone is working. Wesley Parish On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 10:58, you wrote: > Did you see Shane Atkinson on Holmes last night crying because he has had > unsolicited phone calls, threats etc. since the article in The Press on > Saturday? > My heart bleeds!!! -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: OT but close to our hearts
Good to hear it. Wesley Parish On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 22:39, you wrote: > On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 17:52, you wrote: > > Johnno wrote: > > > There is must be many in his pills.. > > > > Speaking of which, how does this man go about selling "medicine" with > > unproven claims? As a former American, I can assure you that someone > > this bold in the States would draw the attention of the Food and Drug > > Administration rather quickly. US spammers keep a MUCH lower profile to > > avoid such attention. They'd be idiots for allowing themselves - their > > PICTURE especially - to be front-page material. Especially with US gun > > laws being what they are :) > > It's almost unbelievable to me that no spammer has yet deflected the > trajectory of a small piece of metal. > > > If we lowered him by his toenails into a cesspool would that be > > considered a crime here? > > Unfortunately, I'm sure it would be. > > However it looks as if something interesting is going to happen. > > http://www.aardvark.co.nz/daily/2003/n081501.shtml -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: Fwd: Re: OT but close to our hearts
I'd say the fact that you can't bounce back to a sender, that spam harrassers tends to misrepresent their identities in their alleged email addresses, is definitely illegal, considering that they are trying to sell something to you. I'm sure there's something about that in commercial law - I suppose I should make use of the fact I'm now at Uni and pester the Law professors until they dig the relevant provisions out. I'm sure that would also allow some suitably enraged user/s to make the Police force one Mr Atkinson to divulge the identies of his email harrassement team. Wesley Parish On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 11:11, you wrote: > > Making it illegal would not affect his efforts, which all emanate from > > overseas. > > I'm not going to argue legalities with you, not being a legal type, but > surely the same sort of restrictions that apply to child porn adn offensive > material being sent from over seas would still make it possible to > prosecute some one if they were originating stuff from NZ. > > What I mean is this, if I were to send child porn from Pakistan to here I > would still get arrested surely. Why wouldn't a law change make spamming > just as liable to prosecution. > > > other jurisdictions make it illegal, without a jot of difference to the > > spam load. > > Can you expand on that comment? What other jurisdictions? Am interested to > know. > > I personally would love to see the law changed to include an opt in, opt > out option. On my letter box I can place notices regarding who can drop > what in it ( said notices unfortunatley don't apply to the IRD, bills and > Property sales people ) and they are reasonably enforcable if I want to go > about enforcing it. Electronic mail should be the same, even if it is less > tangbly physical. > > Cheers, > > Shane -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: List help requested - response to govt position on Open Source
I made a few suggestions myself, being in his electorate. It seemed that he would be interested. Wesley Parish On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:24, you wrote: > Hi All, > > I have just recently had a meeting with Tim Barnett (MP) on a few issues > including OSS/Open Format use and adoption at the government level. He > is VERY open to the idea and is slowly becoming a keen OSS supporter > (albeit quietly). This is the second such meeting I have had with him > and he now understands the benefits of OSS/Open Formats (especially at > the government level)more clearly. > > He has asked me to formulate a response to the rather week stance on OSS > adoption by the NZ government found here: > http://www.e-government.govt.nz/docs/open-source-200303/chapter1.html > > Remember, this is the "official" position of the NZ government in > relation to OSS. Sad isn't it? It's can be summed up with another poular > quote "don't ask don't tell." The recommendations: > http://www.e-government.govt.nz/docs/open-source-200303/chapter1.html#Recs > IMHO are based on very flawed thinking and weak pre-suppositions. I will > be forming a letter based around my own thoughts on this particualr > government document and wish to invite all of you to relate any salient > points I may miss, so I can incorporate them into my response. Here is a > potential chance for us to be heard. Much as Tandoor has been asking > good questions, now Tim Barnett can start asking tough OSS questions in > parliament. I feel we will have achieved something if the right > questions start getting asked because the answers will make politicians > squirm. MS has plenty of shills in our government, now it's time for us > to do some "educating" of our own. It beats the brainwashing that most > politicians have recieved at the hands of MS. > > Anyway, I welcome any and all of your thoughts but either way I will be > going ahead with the creation of this document ASAP. > > Regards, > > Jason Greenwood > > PS, Tim is very keen to speak at a NZOSS meeting ASAP, to assist in > getting the OSS word out. He is prepared to share his thoughts on how to > bea heard at the government level more effectively. It will also be a > chance for him to see the level of OSS support that is already out there. -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: URGENT ASSISTANCE REQUIRED
I got a couple of those scam emails the other day, so I forwarded them to each other, with advice that they should marry each other, and offering my services as a Certified Marriage Commiserant. They haven't replied - they don't know what they're missing! Wesley Parish On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 10:18, you wrote: > On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 09:30, you wrote: > > some people just don't get the joke do they? > > I suppose it's also a ( remote ) possibility that he's never seen a > Nigerian / Zimbabwe Scam letter before. > Shall we expose him to some? > I've got several in the spam corpus. > > > On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 09:11:46 +1200 > > > > Luuk Paulussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > DEAR SIR/MADAM > > > > > > MAY I SUGGEST THAT IN YOUR NEXT E-MAIL YOU DON'T WRITE IN CAPS IF YOU > > > WANT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY. ALSO, CORRECT USE OF CAPS MAKES THE > > > MESSAGE MUCH EASIER ON THE EYES > > > > > > REGARDS > > > LUUK PAULUSSEN > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _ > > > Need more speed? Get Xtra Jetstream @ > > > http://www.xtra.co.nz/products/0,,5803,00.html ! > > > > Nick Rout > > Barrister & Solicitor > > Christchurch, New Zealand > > http://www.rout.co.nz -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: Request for meeting summary
I would've put my hand up, if and only if I could've afforded it. But seeing as there is no such thing as work in New Zealand .... Wesley Parish On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 18:12, you wrote: > On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 12:53, you wrote: > > - Christopher S and David K discussed that LPI Linux course thing > > that they want to get going thru the OSTC (looks good if you want to > > be a sysadmin) > > We now have 6 clients/students who have said they want to be on it. > So that makes it a goer, and we will be starting on 1st. Sept. > There is however still space for one more person. > > Thanks to CLUG for the opportunity to plug. -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: OS/2 cdrom disk formats
And that's the version I installed on a superannuated 486 I've got. It's nice, a trifle slow on 20 MB, but ... Wesley Parish On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 16:42, you wrote: > bought it? it was free on some australian pc mag a few years back (maybe > 2 years) along with redhat approx 6.2 and the giveaway verion of BeOS, > all in one edition! > > On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 16:32:56 +1200 > > CF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 16:17, Michael JasonSmith wrote: > > > I just remembered that I have copies of OS/2 next to my desk, so for > > > > I think I've got warp on CD somewhere - I know I bought it > > > > Thinking of setting it up on a vmware client, jsut for a laugh. -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: OS/2 cdrom disk formats
Well, I do still have an OS/2 installation running, and it does have a CD-ROM drive. I'm open to trying them out for you - but it'll have to be on Tuesday or Wednesday, after 7pm. reply privately if you want to come around and we'll work something out. Wesley Parish On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 22:51, you wrote: > Hello Wesley, > > Thanks for your reply, the disks are probably about a year old, I have > tried reading them on 3 different cdrom drives but every one comes up with > invalid media. Trying with Linux doesn't give much info at all and I never > bothered to hunt through the logs to try and find out. I was hoping maybe a > list member might be running os/2 and could try them out for me. regards > Paul. > - Original Message - > From: Wesley Parish > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 10:00 PM > Subject: Re: OS/2 cdrom disk formats > > > While I'm reasonably familiar with OS/2, I am totally unfamiliar with any > CD-ROM reading or writing stuff that may have come with it - I got into - > and out of - OS/2 before CD-ROMs became popular. > > That being said, how old are the discs? Most CD-ROMs these days are in > some form of the iso9660 file system format, with either Rock Ridge or MS > Joliet extensions to handle directory structures that are deeper than the > mandatory 8 subdirectories deep. (Or is it 16? I've forgotten.) While > Apple has their HFS CD-ROM directory structure. > > Perhaps the problem isn't with the file formats as much as with the > recording type - I've encountered problems with drives refusing to read or > write to certain colours. > > That's all I can do for the time being. > > Wesley Parish -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: OS/2 cdrom disk formats
While I'm reasonably familiar with OS/2, I am totally unfamiliar with any CD-ROM reading or writing stuff that may have come with it - I got into - and out of - OS/2 before CD-ROMs became popular. That being said, how old are the discs? Most CD-ROMs these days are in some form of the iso9660 file system format, with either Rock Ridge or MS Joliet extensions to handle directory structures that are deeper than the mandatory 8 subdirectories deep. (Or is it 16? I've forgotten.) While Apple has their HFS CD-ROM directory structure. Perhaps the problem isn't with the file formats as much as with the recording type - I've encountered problems with drives refusing to read or write to certain colours. That's all I can do for the time being. Wesley Parish On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 11:48, you wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to read some cdrom disks which I believe were created using > os/2, I have tried various file formats using Linux to no avail. I seem to > remember there are some list members familiar with OS/2 who may be able to > help me out. > > cheers Paul -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
The Civil Society - Open Letter to PM about the NZ Govt's recent agreement with Microsoft
In the light of what was said on Wednesday night on the Civil Society, this is my contribution to part of the debate. I think my points are valid - if the government wishes to gain instead of lose on the IT front, they had best start by using software that can be used in _all_ facets of training, and where a vulnerability may be fixed on the spot instead of relying on the goodness of a convicted predatory monopolist. If anyone wants to copy my ideas and _also_ roast the guvmint for its idiotic ideas, feel free - just amke sure you recast it so it's not a word-for-word copy - and if someone could pass it on to the other LUGS in NZ, that would be par for the course. Wesley Parish Wesley Parish Christchurch The Rt. Hon. Helen Clark Prime Minister Dear Prime Minister It is with some dismay and indeed disgust that I read that New Zealand had entered into a contract with Microsoft (The Government Security Program) that allowed the New Zealand Government access to the source code files of the latest Microsoft operating system.*1 I am disgusted because a government, in these times, not only has to use technology responsibly, it has to adopt technology that can be in some way, streamed into the training and education of its people. And I have read the Microsoft Shared Source licenses including the GSP, and they may be succinctly expressed as "Look but don't touch". In other words, they open the source code so that government computer scientists and technicians may see that there are or are not external vulnerabilities that may imperil the nation's security. But they deny said computer scientists and technicians the right to do their own fixing of any such vulnerability. And in the world of state security, a vulnerability recognized or fixed too late, is as bad as one not recognized. And also, as this "Shared Source" may not be freely shared among the universities and polytechnics the way that SELinux and OpenBSD may be, this program is extremely inefficient in training New Zealanders to take care of New Zealand's own problems. As such it constitutes a gratuitous waste of taxpayers' money. I ask you to rectify this as soon as possible, by adopting something that fits the two criteria I identified - empowering the users by allowing feedback and on-site fixing of vulnerabilities; and empowering universities and polytechnics in the training of students to fit New Zealand's computer security requirements. Or by demanding changes in Microsoft's licensing regime to make it fit the above criteria, for example, by releasing the source code under the BSD/MIT license. Yours Sincerely Wesley Parish P.S. The two alternatives I mentioned - SELinux and OpenBSD - are suggested for starters, though they are not the only two that fit the criteria. *1 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2574863a28,00.html "Microsoft lifts its skirts" -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
"Trade Practices Act Is Basis for Australian Complaint Against SCO"
Well, Nick Rout, what do you think? And everybody else? Wesley Parish http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7037&mode=&order=0 -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: Excuse to install linux (Was: wordpad.exe for W982E)
Actually, since there now is a kde-cygwin project http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/ he can run kwrite on his badly-misbehaving MS Win98 SE setup - or setdown as the case may be. That done, he can then sit back and enjoy a few more precious years of cursing the &*()(*&^% Windows, and the ^(*&%^ Microsoft programmers ... Just my 0.02c - and it's probably inflation! Wesley Parish On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 11:26, you wrote: > To bring this thread back on topic ... > > When windows loses/currupts an important file/program, > that is when I usually step in and suggest an alternative OS. > > The equiv for wordpad would probably be something like kwrite, kword or > LyX. > > > I know that's not what you asked for, but you *did* post to a *linux* forum > > :) > > Yuri > > >hi, could somebody please email ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) me a copy > > of > > >wordpad.exe for windows 98 2nd Edition. i've deleted mine and can't seem > > to > > > >recover it > >thanx, sam -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Fwd: Re: It does get cold in Tomsk .....
Just thought people might like to know what the Russian Penguin is wearing this winter... Wesley Parish -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: It does get cold in Tomsk . Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 20:22 From: "Waite, Dick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Grand Day, A friend in Tomsk sent me this one http://koti.mbnet.fi/jahuusko/kuvat/hauskat/ruslinux.jpg Regards, Dick Waite Senior R&D Consultant (Special Projects), Software AG, 64297 Darmstadt, Germany Email:<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: SCO and Nick Rout =)
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 16:35, you wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 15:32, Yuda wrote: > > Pardon my ignorace, whats SCO? > > The Santa Cruz Organization. It made its name making a version of Unix > (in conjunction with Microsoft) called Xenix for the Intel 8086 and 8088 > processors. Microsoft dropped its support for Xenix, which was > eventually replaced by SCO Unix. (SCO Unix is based on Unix System V > rather than System III that Xenix was based on.) Throughout its history > SCO has competed with a number of other Unix-like operating systems for > the Intel-Unix market (in the order that I think if them): > * BSD > * Minix > * HURD > * Linux > * Solaris > * QNX You're forgetting the number of SVRx vendors like ESIX - who missed out on selling me a Unix SVR4 when they were still around and I had just got myself a 486 in 1991 and was looking for an appropriate OS to run on it, by the simple expedient of overcharging due of overhigh royalties they were being charged themselves. There were more than that one, of course, and most of them went to the wall under the gentle administration of MS Win NT's hype. And in that way the West was lost ... Wesley Parish > SCO Unix has usually done quite well, having a strong position in the > Point of Sale market (SCO runs the McDonalds POS system, for example). > Most of the above operating systems have had poor marketing, poor > support, and were not particularly interested in the Intel market, which > also helped SCO sales quite a bit. > > Caldera, which made a Linux distribution, took over SCO in 2000. Quite > quickly Caldera dropped its Linux focus, its name, and its CEO: Ransom > Love. (I think Ransom Love is a fantastic name for a CEO, which is the > only reason I mentioned him at all.) In the last three months, SCO has > become prominent by suing IBM for intellectual property theft, claiming > that IBM took parts of the Unix code-base (which it owns, though some > dispute this) and used it in Linux. No evidence has been brought > forward. > > [I hope that was balanced history :)] -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Have a look at what Microsoft is eating ...
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10413 Is it humble pie, crow or their own dog sh*t? (Dog Sh*t is a very, very highly processed form of dog food. Not currently stocked or sold in supermarkets - to the best of my knowledge, that is.) Wesley Parish -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Job, anybody?
I'm intending to restart my postponed degree - B.A.(Classics: Latin and Greek) - soon. I am considering widening it to include a B.Sc. in Computer Science. I've been working at Adept creating training resources using MS Publisher; I know some C and Pascal and am working on my Lisp; I have some AutoCAD 11.0 skills, which I can transfer to any other CAD platform easily enough - I've tried it with Qcad - see http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/wes.parish/cooling-design.html/*.dxf I also know a bit about how a database should be arranged - ie, I can do normalization - not up to 5th Normal Form, but 1st is easy, and I don't doubt I could manage 2nd just as easily. SQL - I've got some, but not all. I've got some experience with various Library Catalog Management Systems and have a long history of knowing my way around MS Word. I would prefer some more comfort while studying than what is offered via the Loans Scheme's exiguous handouts; I would also like to imagine that NZ employers would be supportive of people willing to study. And in addition I would like to be able to afford more backup than what the PC's floppy gives me. Please let me know if you can help. Wesley Parish -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Jetstream bill was : Re: Test run for Gentoo install fest
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 20:25, you wrote: > I am begining to see the benfits of a seperate partition for /var & > /home or both. > twice now my system has ground to a halt when /var has filled up ! > > Oh and this will make you all laugh or cry (both happened in this > household I assure you ) - my latest jetstream bill - wait for it: > $60, last month! - 291GB! (about 1G of which I can account for) > So if anyone thinnks they can help me get to the bottom of the > 'situation' or if anyone has a better bill than that I would be most > anxious to speak with then on monday night! Ask to see their accounting procedures. Ask about the software they used to keep tally. Ask about the likeliehood that they messed up but good. Don't let the Fsckwits get away with it. Or they'll do it again. Wesley Parish > > Cheers all, > Chris > (the soon to be bankrupt) > > Brad Beveridge wrote: > >Safety - generally (under gentoo) /boot is not mounted, or only mounted > > RO. So you will always be able to boot. However, since I have > > (repeatedly) dumped bzImage files into /boot _without_ it being mounted, > > I now mount my /boot partition in fstab. So much for safety. So I spose > > you can get away with a single partition, as long as your boot loader > > functions. What I mean, if you are using GRUB as a bootloader, your boot > > partition must be a filesystem it understands. > > > >Brad > > > >>-Original Message- > >>From: Conrad Wolf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Sent: Thursday, 26 June 2003 11:57 p.m. > >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Subject: Re: Test run for Gentoo install fest > >> > >> > >>What is the advantage of having a small boot partition. I > >>boot my Debian > >>system from a 5.4 GB partitions without any problems. > >> > >>Cheers, > >>Conrad. > >> > >>Brad Beveridge wrote: > >>>I began installing gentoo on a laptop last night, my partitions are > >>>/dev/hda1 - ntfs (gah) /dev/hda2 - ext3, boot region, 30Mb > >> > >>(only needs > >> > >>>to be large enough to fit 1 bzImage really) /dev/hda3 - > >> > >>500Mb swap (you > >> > >>>can use your Debian swap) /dev/hda4 - reiserfs for the rest. > >> > >> - reiser > >> > >>>or ext3 is reccommended > >>> > >>>Brad > >>> > >>>>-Original Message- > >>>>From: Conrad Wolf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>>Sent: Thursday, 26 June 2003 11:49 p.m. > >>>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>>Subject: Test run for Gentoo install fest > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>Sorry, but I won't make it to the meeting on Monday. This is > >>>>particularly bad, because I won't be there for the test run of our > >>>>Gentoo install fest next Saturday. My laptop is booting > >>>>Nick's CD and I > >>>>can get my NIC working. Is there anything else that could > >> > >>go wrong or > >> > >>>>that I should check? > >>>> > >>>>Chris mentioned in one of his posts that 3 partitions are > >>>>needed for the > >>>>Gentoo install. What do they have to look like (size, type) > >>>>and what're > >>>>they used for. On my current Debian system I've 1 swap and > >> > >>1 ext2 (/) > >> > >>>>partition. For data I've got a FAT32 partition that I access > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>from Linux > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>and Windows. > >>>> > >>>>Cheers, > >>>>Conrad. > >>>> > >>>>Nick Rout wrote: > >>>>>/etc/init.d/net.eth0 start > >>>>> > >>>>>please don't post html to the list if you can help it. > >>>>> > >>>>>Its odd that the /etc/init.d/local script does not load the 3c59x > >>>>>module. > >>>>> > >>>>>the script cycles through all the available net modules > >> > >>and tries to > >> > >>>>>insmod them. If one (perhaps the de4x5) hangs then it may give the > >>>>>symptoms you observe. > >>>>> > >>>>>can you give me the output of lsmod before and after you > >>>> > >>>>l
Gentoo Linux booting
I've got Nick's Gentoo Linux 50 MB cdrom booting in bochs. A bit slow, but then, I haven't got the plex86 add-on synced with bochs - or at least that's what I think the problem is. Wesley Parish -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Fwd: RE: About your NeTraverse LUG Sponsorship program
CLUG members, as some will know, I am a fan of the emulation systems, etc. A short time ago I checked out the NeTraverse web site and discovered that they have a LUG sponsoring setup. I sent them a letter to enquire about it, and received a reply. This is it. I see the use of Win4Lin as a valuable way of getting the foot in the door, so to speak. If companies can get the stability of Linux and keep their office systems running without pause, we may just get a few more of them on our side. So, it's up to us - what do we want to do with it? Wesley Parish -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: RE: About your NeTraverse LUG Sponsorship program Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 05:25 From: "Mark R. Hinkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Wesley Parish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wesley, I am including our standard informational letter to interested LUGS. NeTraverse Recruitment Letter I would be glad to help out, if you send me the information for your LUG I will be glad to send you software. What I am looking for is the following information: LUG Name City State Administrative Contact Name Administrative Contact Email LUG URL Here is our standard recruitment letter detailing the program. We have seen Linux grow, in large part, from the work and evangelism thathas occurred in computer user groups like yours. We would like to help sponsor these efforts by donating software and support to your LUG, coupled with a special member-only offer. NeTraverse would like to offer you a free license for our Win4Lin Workstation Edition 5.0 software (an $89.99 value) - the best way to bridge Windows to Linux, especially for those hard to replace applications. In addition, we would like to offer your membership a discount of $20 off the retail price of Win4Lin Workstation Edition 5.0. To take advantage of the member discount, we ask that you notify your membership by email, or announce at your monthly meeting, that NeTraverse is now sponsoring you and that members are entitled to the special benefits described in the welcome letter. We would like to list all sponsored LUGs on our LUG page (http://www.netraverse.com/LUG/) and continue to make special offers to all LUG members. This would be done by sending you an email so you can decide whether to include it in your normal user group communications (NeTraverse does not want to, and will not, SPAM you with junk mail). We are very excited about this chance to help the communities that have helped us. If you would like to sign up for this offer please reply to this email with the following information so we may update our records: LUG Name City State Administrative Contact Name Administrative Contact Email LUG URL We will reply with our welcome letter and an electronic certificate with a Win4Lin license code. You will also be informed on how to help your members take advantage of our LUG sponsorship discounts. Regards, Mark R. Hinkle Vice President NeTraverse [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netraverse.com/LUG/ -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
rpc.ypxfrd - considered harmful?
I just did a ps axe on my Mandrake 9.1 box, and discovered this: rpc.ypxfrd Is it considered harmful? I must confess, the thought of having a rpc.* running on my machine does worry me. Thanks in advance. Wesley Parish -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: desktop publishing
You could always try out Scribus: http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/ http://www.atlantictechsolutions.com/scribusdocs/scriscreen.html I've got it compiled, so if you're not confident in doing that, I can always send you a copy (it's GPLed) or pop around to your place and do it for you. It's good - but so far I haven't been doing terribly much with it - I've got some experience with MS Publisher, though, and I find it easy to transfer my skills across. Wesley Parish On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 19:42, you wrote: > Can anyone recommend any simple desktop publishing programs > > The missus likes to make up birthday cards, flyers and stuff like that > > I'm using the gimp for most of my stuff but i was thinking of a nice simple > GUI like (dare I say it!) windoze MS publisher or Corel Print Office?? -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Minor prob with paradise.net.nz
slashdot.org, seems to have faded away, yahoo.com won't resolve, and likewise debian.org ... ditto a good number of others Anyone got any hints, ideas? Thansk in advance Wesley Parish -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: Web Page Authoring Software
Which is why I use emacs as my HTML editor and konqueror, Galeon and Mozilla as the test browsers - I'd use the IE that came with my box's Win98, but I can't be bothered with installing it under wine. konqueror is very strict - if konqueror and Mozilla give the thumbs down to a web page, I know I've got to redo it. Wesley Parish On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 19:33, you wrote: > Hi there, > > David Mann wrote: > > BTW the tutor who taught the DW course I went on last year was of the > > opinion that you should only bother writing for MSIE. And he's done > > pages for several high-profile businesses. > > Sounds like an MS Certified puppet. He might know how to run DW and > Frontpage and all the other 'pro' apps, but could he peruse HTML > syntax in a text editor and know if its gonna work? > > > BTW2 the problem with standards is not only getting the web > > designers/developers to follow them, but also getting the web browsers to > > format the same HTML in a consistent manner. Oh and actually having > > complete standards helps (I never want to use frames again). > > The problem with standards is that M$ don't like not controlling them. > Just look at Javascript..."lets write a slightly compatible thing, call > it JScript, and encourage web authors to use that instead of the real > McCoy", is how M$ went about that one. > > As a result people who want to write dynamic websites often will only > do so for MSIE, which again renders websites slightly differently from > the W3C HTML 4.x Consortium standard. I have seen Javascript code in > M$ sponsored websites that executes a Javascript window.close() upon > detecting a non-MSIE browser... > > I created a CV for myself using strict HTML 4.x/DHTML/CSS/Javascript > on a Windows PC once. I had to make some 'alterations' to the small > Javascripts to get them to work properly with MSIE, but once I got > them working I then had to transfer the CV to my new linux PC. I > found the Javascripts didn't work as expected in Moz/NN, and I had to > change them back to the standard. Guys who use Frontpage or DW will > not know that their software is creating non-strict code, because the > code is automatically generated and therefore mostly hidden from the > end-user (not that any guys who are certified in Frontpage/DW etc will > actually know how the syntax -should- look...) > > It really sucks... > > Kind regards, > > Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch. -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: Hardware
How much are they going for? And where would you be - I can't travel outside of CHCH - ain't got no car. Wesley Parish On Mon, 09 Jun 2003 12:24, Adam wrote: > Hello all, > Apologies if this sort of post is not allowed > > I have about 15 boxes that I want to get rid of, brought them awhile ago > and realise that They aint quite what I need. > > Digital PC3000 > 200MHZ MMX > 64MB RAM > 10/100 NIC > FDD > 2Gig HDD > Keyboard > Mouse > > Just wondering what they are worth, and if anybody wants any. > Would make good firewalls, proxy servers etc. Even dumb terminals. > > Cheers > Adam -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: Linux for Windows Programmers
Then there's that monumentally thick Wrox book, "Professional Linux Programming". Covers practically everything from cvs to GTK and QT to Postgres to php, etc ... I don't know if it's still being printed though - Wrox was reported to be going through some difficult times. Wesley Parish On Mon, 09 Jun 2003 16:39, you wrote: > I have a SAMS book entitled "C for Linux". I can't remember just how > advanced/basic it is so I will have a look tonight when I get home and > let you know (ISBN number etc). > > Alan > > John Carter wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 14:47, Carl Cerecke wrote: > >>John Carter wrote: > >>>We have a bunch of highly experienced programmers migrating from > >>>Windows-ish world on to Linux. > >> > >>What programming language? > > > > C -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: OSS bloatware on old hardware (Was: Publicise open source?)
I got a "publisher's edition" of RedHat 6.0 with "Mastering Linux" a while back, and it has Wordperfect 8 for Linux on it. I would be interested in letting someone copy the discs, if it would help. Let me know. Wesley Parish On Mon, 09 Jun 2003 14:13, you wrote: > > WP8 cannot be given to the charity in question because it's not free > > AFAIK. > > Correct, but there are abundant copies on old Linux distros. And one > could copy those distros... (It's on SuSE 6.2, 6.3, 7.0, not on 7.2 on; > the pay section of SuSE's ftp server doesn't seem to have it though - > maybe copying the distribution said it was subject to copy conditions of > some of the commercial software - damn) > > Volker -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: A question I asked before
I found out that after I had reselected the buttons' actions in the Control Centre, I had to restart the X Window System and kde. So it's back to the way it should be, but I'm annoyed because a: it took so long for me to figure it out; and b: kde should apply changes when you press the "apply" button. I think I'll have to take that up with the kde people. But thanks to everyone who replied. Wesley Parish On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 00:45, you wrote: > I am having hassles with Mandrake 9.1's ideas of how it should > inconsistently handle the right mouse button - I asked if anyone had any > idea of how to fix it so it would work the way I was accustomed to having > it work right from mandrake 8.0 right up to mandrake 9.0. > > Does anybody have any idea? > > I've gone into konqueror's set-up details, I've gone into the kde setup > details, nothing seems to work. I much prefer having the right mouse > button bring up the local menu - I'm used to it. > > Any help would be gratefully accepted. > > Wesley Parish -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: Gentoo (was Re: Mandrake 9.1)
Well, why not! I was thinking, if I ever got started with an selinux port to s/390, I'd call it the Emperor Penguin - able to withstand the most frigid of environments, the fiercest winds, and still survive on last summer's fat! Wesley Parish On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 14:28, you wrote: > Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote: > > Ahh ADSL!! > > > > Gentoo!! > > Gentoo. > > Odd name, I thought, until a few months ago, > when I realised it is the name of a species of > penguin. > > I wonder if we'll see yellow-eyed/hoiho, > chinstrap, blue, white-flippered, > fiordland-crested, or rockhopper linux? > > Personally, I think Rockhopper has the > best ring to it. And the best hairstyle too: > http://www.penguin.net.nz/rock/rockhopper.jpg > > That's even spikier than Jason's hair. > > Cheers, > Carl. -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
A question I asked before
I am having hassles with Mandrake 9.1's ideas of how it should inconsistently handle the right mouse button - I asked if anyone had any idea of how to fix it so it would work the way I was accustomed to having it work right from mandrake 8.0 right up to mandrake 9.0. Does anybody have any idea? I've gone into konqueror's set-up details, I've gone into the kde setup details, nothing seems to work. I much prefer having the right mouse button bring up the local menu - I'm used to it. Any help would be gratefully accepted. Wesley Parish -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Fwd: Gentoo Selinux demo machine
Here's something for all the Gentoo users out there - you know you want to do it! Wesley Parish -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Gentoo Selinux demo machine Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 15:53 From: "Joshua Brindle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> As many of you probably know us on the Hardened Gentoo have been working hard to bring you superior security implementations. We have done quite a bit of work on the SELinux implementation in Gentoo and have gotton a significant amount of work done. Thanks to Chris PeBenito on our team for all his hard work with the SELinux policies we are now very excited to offer a demonstration machine for everyone's enjoyment. This machine is hardened with SELinux, no other security precautions have been done so that you can see the power of SELinux. With no further ado please visit http://selinux.dev.gentoo.org for root login information. Please enjoy the machine, but don't DoS it or try to cause problems for others who also wish to check it out. For questions, comments or help please join #gentoo-hardened on irc.freenode.net or look at the project webpage at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened Thanks from the Hardened Gentoo team. Joshua Brindle -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message. --- -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Problem with Mandrake 9.1 and mouse
It used to be with Mandrake [89] that clicking on the right mousse button, brought up an apps-related menu. Not so with Mandrake 9.1, or at least, with the one I've got. Which area in the control centre or /etc/* do I go to fix that - right-button clicking is now inconsistent and it's driving me up the wall. Wesley Parish -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: Newbie Joining
PC Authority April has Partition Magic 6.0 on its obligatory CDROMs. (So now I've got Partition Magic 5.0 from Personal Computer World, Partition Magic 6.0 from PC Authority, and Partition Magic 7.0 from the Installfest.) Whoopee When will the excitement cease??? Wesley Parish On Tuesday 01 April 2003 04:59 pm, you wrote: > PartitianMagic is a Windows Program and IMHO really good, however you still > run the risk of loosing data while you move it from the area you are giving > back to windows > --Slosh > > - Original Message - > From: "Brad Beveridge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 4:37 PM > Subject: RE: Newbie Joining > > > you should be able to use cfdisk to resize your partitions - however it's > not very graphical, or particularly friendly & you could possibly trash > your partition :) > > Brad > > > -Original Message- > > From: Chris Downie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, 1 April 2003 4:36 p.m. > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Newbie Joining > > > > > > Hi Guys, > > > > I have taken advise and will now pester the list for help. My > > long term goal is to be MS > > free, my short term goal is to go longer than 25 days without > > a BSOD (or equivalent). > > I'm afraid I can't impress you with a flash system, all I > > have to play with is a Cyrix > > 233MMX, 224Mb and 4.3Gb. I took Jason's advise at the > > installfest and got another > > HDD for Linux (the aforementioned 4.3Gb). I have previously > > being running Mandrake > > 8.0 and 9.0 on a 1Gb partition with Win2k on the primary HDD. > > > > I wish to start from scratch again on the new HDD. Please > > assume I have a very basic > > understanding of Linux. > > > > So my first two questions are: > > > > How do I give back the 1Gb partition to Windows? > > > > Other than root, swap and home, should I have any other > > directory on a seperate > > partition? > > > > Cheers, > > Chris -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: Server-Side Spyware: Red Sheriff
Not completely - they haven't yet killed Kenny. Just give them time, though ... ;) Wesley Parish On Tuesday 01 April 2003 03:53 pm, you wrote: > bastards > > On Tue, 01 Apr 2003 15:52:15 +1200 (NZST) > > "Ryurick M. Hristev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FYI > > > > http://www.cexx.org/sheriff.htm > > > > Unlike most conventional spyware, imrworldwide.com's Red Sheriff is > > loaded as a Java applet embedded in a Web page you visit. Once loaded, it > > sends information about your ... > > [...] > > > > Disturbing trends ... > > > > Cheers, > > -- > > Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Computer Systems Manager > > University of Canterbury, Physics & Astronomy Dept., New Zealand -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: FW: Software development tools
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 12:09 pm, you wrote: > Thanks for the info guys, I've installed KDevelop overnight so will check > that out later along with some of the other suggestions. I would find > switching to Kylix quite easy, but I wonder about its future. > > What's the consensus, or is there a consensus, about Java? I used to think > it was too slow, and I heard a number of less than favourable comments > about it when I mentioned it at InstallFest. And what about C#, .NET and > things like the Mono project, any comments? I've been thinking of getting started playing around with Mono, but getting the relevant C# books is currently beyond my budget. Same deal with Clisp. Wesley Parish > > Finally for now, how about UML / CASE tools with code generation and > reverse engineering capabilities? Any recommended packages? > > Cheers, > > Tom Munro Glass -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: OT C programming (Re: Help with code)
Actually, it's more the debugger than the language itself that I have problems
with.
Everybody's all over themselves to tell you how to program, whether it be in
Pascal, Modula 2, C, C++, Java, C#, Prolog, Scheme, whathaveyou, but they're
a little shy I find, when it comes to explaining matters like the debugger,
etc.
Anyway, that's just my observation. Everybody else writes perfect code, I
assume ;)
Wesley Parish
On Friday 28 March 2003 12:07 am, you wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> Get a good book on C or C++ programming, and learn to use the debugger
> and step through your programs and take a close look at what is
> happening!
>
>
> On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Daniel Fone wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > if(myfile = NULL)
>
> if(myfile == NULL)
>
> While it is technically possible (and also quite useful) to do
> assignments inside the argument of a conditional operator, you
> probably mean to check whether there is a file ...
>
> [...]
>
> > char * sQuote;
>
> Now, this will lead to trouble: you have defined a pointer to char,
> but you have not allocated any memory for storing a certain number of
> chars. That means you can happily set your pointer somewhere, as long
> as you do not try to store any chars.
>
> If you use this one
>
> char sQuote[256];
>
> you will also have a pointer to char, but at the same time the space
> is allocated.
>
> > fgets(sQuote, 256, myfile);
>
> So here it happened: you were trying to write data to some memory
> location. That would cause a memory access problem.
>
> > printf(sQuote);
>
> Or printf("%s\n",sQuote);
>
> This is just from memory, I have not debugged the thing. But I hope it
> helps you a bit further.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Helmut.
>
> ++
>
> | Helmut Walle |
> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
> | 03 - 388 39 54 |
>
> ++
--
Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?"
You ask, "What is the most important thing?"
Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata."
I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: OSTC Library
As a certified (and certifiable) sls 1.0 beginner - check up the distros at the bochs.sourceforge.net disk image section - it sounds quite interesting, perhaps a little later than the copy I sent off into the wild blue yonder. I've also got Infomagic and Yggdrasil 5 (or more) disk sets and some assorted Slackware sets. Enough for a "hysterical raisons" setup? Wesley Parish On Wednesday 26 March 2003 11:40 am, you wrote: > On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 11:24, David Kirk wrote: > > If you have something else that you think should be in the library, let > > me know. > > I have slackware 3.0, redhat 2.1, debian 0.93R6, SLS 1.06, Xdenu 2.0 and > BLADE 0.3 for dec alpha on CD if you want :) > > Just right for the historical section! -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
About Basilisk II and Mac ROMs
I was wondering, does anyone have a Mac II xxx or a working Mac Classic I could copy the ROMs of? I've got Basilisk II (a Mac emulator), and a version of CopyROM, and I want to run MacOS on my Linux machine. (Along with various PC OSes I've got running, and the few S/370 and C64 OSes I've got running, including a web browser in Contiki running on VICE, the C64 emulator) Any help would be gratefully received. Wesley Parish -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
Re: OSTC Courses
I am interested in learning Perl. The which meaning of course I am hardly in a position to teach it. Wesley Parish On Monday 24 March 2003 03:04 pm, you wrote: > We had the Samba course last Tuesday night. It seemed to go quite well. > There were four of us there. Nobody has posted any feedback on the forum > (hint), but they all left with a smile on their face. > > The PHP course has been re-scheduled for 7th April at 6:00pm so it won't > clash with the next CLUG meeting. I hope this suits everyone. > > The following new classes have been requested. Please post to the forum if > you want to join in or are willing to teach any of these classes. > > * Netscape 7.0 (on Linux) > * Editors (vi and joe) > * VMWare > * KDE > > For the Centralised User Management class, I am thinking LDAP might be > better than NIS. Is there anyone out there who has set this up who might > like to show us how it is done? > > Nobody has replied about the Perl course. Is anyone interested in teaching > or learning Perl? > > We are still looking for more people for the Filtering Mail Server class. > Sign up now. > > Jason has started up a poll asking if people think the OSTC should have our > own mailing list. He has also suggested that it might make a good training > course (although he hasn't posted that to the Training Courses section > (another hint)). > > If any of these classes are of interest, or you want to teach any of them, > please post to the forums at http://www.ostc.org/forum/. Please don't > reply to this e-mail for OSTC business. > > > Later > > David Kirk > Share the Knowledge -- Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
