Re: su root - replies appreciated

2003-08-26 Thread Ken McAllister
Thank you Julian and Greg for "sudo" and "fakeroot"

Re: OT : Grrr Telescums new adsl pricing is worse than before!!!

2003-08-26 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> > HTF did you get a 10 Gb cap at 256 Kbit? Simple. At the time the 128kbit disappeared, the cap on the 256kbit was raised to 10GB. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to

Re: OT : Grrr Telescums new adsl pricing is worse than before!!!

2003-08-26 Thread Chris Hellyar
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 09:59, CF wrote: > > > ...but is cable cheaper? > > Yes. > > Yes - I agree. Only cable has the "national traffic costs 1/10 of what > international traffic costs" U, I'm on Jetstart (128k symetrical) with paradise as my ISP and I have the 10Gb cap with national at 1/10

Re: OT : Grrr Telescums new adsl pricing is worse than before!!!

2003-08-26 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 18:39, you wrote: > Christopher Sawtell wrote: > >Took them up on their offer when it was announced. > >"Double your speed, for an extra $4.00 per month, Interested"? > > > >So I said "Yes please", and it just happened. > > This thread got me motivated yesterday to email telstra

whats wrong with my regex?

2003-08-26 Thread Nick Rout
I am trying to use grep to match a sequence of characters followed by a tab character (hex 09, I have looked at the file in hex) so whats wrong with this? grep "nick\t" file ; or grep nick\t file ; or grep nick\x09 file ; or any other damn variation I try!

Re: whats wrong with my regex?

2003-08-26 Thread Andrew Errington
Don't you need the -e flag? (No I don't know for sure) Andy On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 22:03, you wrote: > I am trying to use grep to match a sequence of characters followed by a > tab character (hex 09, I have looked at the file in hex) > > so whats wrong with this? > > grep "nick\t" file ; or > grep

Re: whats wrong with my regex?

2003-08-26 Thread Nick Rout
no difference i'm afraid On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 22:15:50 +1200 Andrew Errington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't you need the -e flag? > > (No I don't know for sure) > > Andy > > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 22:03, you wrote: > > I am trying to use grep to match a sequence of characters followed > > by

Re: whats wrong with my regex?

2003-08-26 Thread David Zanetti
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Nick Rout wrote: > I am trying to use grep to match a sequence of characters followed by a > tab character (hex 09, I have looked at the file in hex) > > so whats wrong with this? > > grep "nick\t" file ; or Might need to pass

Re: whats wrong with my regex?

2003-08-26 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 22:03, you wrote: > I am trying to use grep to match a sequence of characters followed by a > tab character (hex 09, I have looked at the file in hex) > > so whats wrong with this? > > grep "nick\t" file ; or > grep nick\t file ; or > grep nick\x09 file ; or > > any other damn v

Re: OT : Grrr Telescums new adsl pricing is worse than before!!!

2003-08-26 Thread Adrian Robertson
Christopher Sawtell wrote: Took them up on their offer when it was announced. "Double your speed, for an extra $4.00 per month, Interested"? So I said "Yes please", and it just happened. This thread got me motivated yesterday to email telstra about getting bumped up to 256kbps from my current

Re: whats wrong with my regex?

2003-08-26 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:03:18PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > I am trying to use grep to match a sequence of characters followed by > a tab character (hex 09, I have looked at the file in hex) > so whats wrong with this? > grep "nick\t" file ; or > grep nick\t file ; or > grep nick\x09 file ; or

Re: whats wrong with my regex?

2003-08-26 Thread Nick Rout
Thanks to Christopher S and Matthew G for the correct ctrl-v answer :-) On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 23:00:20+1200 Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 22:03, you wrote: > > I am trying to use grep to match a sequence of characters followed > > by a tab character (hex 09, I

Re: whats wrong with my regex?

2003-08-26 Thread Nick Rout
hmmm \W was not suitable as the same characters followed by a space were also in the file. On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 23:02:10+1200 Matthew Gregan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:03:18PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > > I am trying to use grep to match a sequence of characters followe

Re: Tux Case Badges

2003-08-26 Thread Chris Downie
Don't forget to check www.trademe.co.nz as there are various Linux badges available almost all the time. Cheers, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I want to order some Tux Case Badges from the web site below I can order 25 for $25.99 USD and free delivery. This works out to be be around

Power Supply Koozed?

2003-08-26 Thread Chris Downie
Hi, Went to turn on my folks Compaq Deskpro P2/333 and all that happened was: the HDD led started flashing slowly but then got faster, a clicking sound from the internal speaker matched the speed of led, PS fan and case fan started slowly and built up speed (but not full speed) in time with led