WSIS + NZ Government Initiatives

2003-06-20 Thread John S Veitch
Hello All Some help please if you are interested in World Summit on the Information Society, or in the work the NZ Government is doing (or not doing) to promote ITC use in NZ. Regarding WSIS I think there is far too much emphasis on the growth of the telecommunications industry and far too little

Linux v Windows Wars

2003-06-20 Thread John S Veitch
From: "Horace Mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [CI] Re: Principles of strategic information technology Wrote in part > I always wonder to what extent the largely uncritical promotion of Linux is to do with its excellence, to what extent to

Re: Some questions on Gentoo

2003-06-20 Thread Chris Wilkinson
Hi there, Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 16:40, you wrote: Goodness only knows. gimp-1.2.4.tar.bz2 80134 more bytes, havn't had a chance to look at Changelog I'll take a peek at it sometime. It isn't like I'll be ever able to learn/use everything in Gimp in this lifetime anyway, b

Re: re Hyperstudio

2003-06-20 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 10:40, you wrote: > For those of you who don’t know the program - Hyperstudio uses a GUI > format to create “stacks” of information. These can be in graphic, > text, video or hyperlinked form. Its power comes from its ease of use > and the way children can manipulate these ele

re Hyperstudio

2003-06-20 Thread Turner
For those of you who don’t know the program - Hyperstudio uses a GUI format to create “stacks” of information.  These can be in graphic, text, video or hyperlinked form.  Its power comes from its ease of use and the way children can manipulate these elements in a graphical way (they can see

Re: Linux Version of Hyperstudio or similar

2003-06-20 Thread Chris Hellyar
What does it do? On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 09:42, Turner wrote: > Many primary schools use a popular Mac / windoze program Hyperstudio – > does anyone on the list know of a version that runs under linux or a > linux program with similar features?

Linux Version of Hyperstudio or similar

2003-06-20 Thread Turner
Many primary schools use a popular Mac / windoze program Hyperstudio – does anyone on the list know of a version that runs under linux or a linux program with similar features? Keith & Chris Turner 167 Innes Rd St Albans Christchurch 8005 New Zealand ph 64-3-355-8908 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: vmd.ms-tnef (Was: Linux mousepads...)

2003-06-20 Thread Peter Elliott
hey brilliant! just gotta love that emerge - even the name is ultra, what with chaos theory and emergent behaviour/systems etc. cheers peter On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 21:43:53 +1200 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > bash-2.05b# emerge -s tnef > Searching... > [ Results for search key : tnef ] > [

Re: Minor prob with paradise.net.nz

2003-06-20 Thread Paul
I have no problems

Re: vmd.ms-tnef (Was: Linux mousepads...)

2003-06-20 Thread Nick Rout
bash-2.05b# emerge -s tnef Searching... [ Results for search key : tnef ] [ Applications found : 2 ] * dev-perl/Convert-TNEF Latest version available: 0.17-r2 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 11 kB Homepage: http://www.cpan.org/modul

Re: vmd.ms-tnef (Was: Linux mousepads...)

2003-06-20 Thread Peter Elliott
ah ha now - before i go a-googling - can anyone tell me how we (ie linux users) can 'get at' the contents of stuff that has been packaged in this damnable excresence? normally i wouldn't bother but a friend is stuck with ms exchange(?) at his work and everything he passes on is bundled in this wa

Re: Minor prob with paradise.net.nz

2003-06-20 Thread Chris Hellyar
Hi-ho, I'm on paradise (Jetstart) and I'm not having problems... Although I don't use their DNS servers... It's probably working now, but one thing you can do when you suspect resolution (DNS) problems is to try and dig some addresses, and try another ISP's DNS servers... ie: dig www.yahoo.com

Re: WAP / WML / PHP / Apache...

2003-06-20 Thread Chris Hellyar
dogs.selwyn.govt.nz at the moment... On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 17:45, C Falconer wrote: > Is this on a live site? If so, whats the address? > > On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 17:10, Chris Hellyar wrote: > > Hi-ho, > > > > Basically the problem I have is getting a simple form to work, I want to > > ask the u

Minor prob with paradise.net.nz

2003-06-20 Thread Wesley Parish
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 tang