Installfest with an application theme...

2004-01-20 Thread Synco Reynders
I agree an installfest is good, especially for luring in the newbies. Although I believe there is a growing demand for making people aware of the applications available, and then helping them install it. For example my ratio of installed programs to downloaded packages is pretty grim. Sometim

Re: CLUG social

2004-01-20 Thread Yuri de Groot
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:37, you wrote: > OK. Let's book a room at the Shirley WMC. > Shall I do that? > If so when? > 4th Febuary be ok? > That's in 14 days exactly. That works for me. Yuri

Re: Help Needed

2004-01-20 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 05:14:58 + (GMT), you wrote: >Hi Guys!! >I am new to this group.I need your some help!! >Although my query is not related with any technical Issue but i'd appreciate if you >help me. > >I have done master in Computer from Leeds University and working here from last four

Help Needed

2004-01-20 Thread Leena joy
Hi Guys!! I am new to this group.I need your some help!! Although my query is not related with any technical Issue but i'd appreciate if you help me.   I have done master in Computer from Leeds University and working here from last four  years.My skills is in Linux Device Driver, Porting between d

Re: CLUG social

2004-01-20 Thread Vik Olliver
On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 12:20, Jason Greenwood wrote: > If you know what a 'Scotch Bonnet' and a 'Habanero' are, then count me > in! =) They is things I grow in my hydroponics garden... Vik :v) -- This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has forged the e-mail headers on some

Re: CLUG social - Purpose of the CLUG

2004-01-20 Thread Douglas Royds
I know - I sent that in html. Won't happen again, promise. Douglas.

Re: CLUG social - Purpose of the CLUG

2004-01-20 Thread Douglas Royds
Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:06:25 +1300 Douglas Royds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Christopher Sawtell wrote: Mandrake virtually installs itself in 20 mins or less on current hardware. ... if you know what you're doing, which I didn't. O

Re: Fortunes

2004-01-20 Thread Timothy Musson
anton, 2004-01-20 21:44:21: > Hiya, > Can anyone explain to me how I make fortune run and put a comment at the > bottom of my Mozilla emails?(as a signature?) I have already tired of my > present textfile-based signature! Here's a little script that uses fortune in a way that might be useful to

Re: CLUG social

2004-01-20 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 16:12, you wrote: > nah, if we want indian we go to the specialists. my secretary's extended > family own an indian restaurant, i'll see if we can get a good deal. Absolutely splendid!! -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparen

Re: CLUG social

2004-01-20 Thread Nick Rout
nah, if we want indian we go to the specialists. my secretary's extended family own an indian restaurant, i'll see if we can get a good deal. On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 16:11:00 +1300 Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 16:03, Hamish McBrearty wrote: > > >I like Nick's

Re: CLUG social

2004-01-20 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 16:03, Hamish McBrearty wrote: > >I like Nick's mention of indian, though. I'd heartily support that > >option. > > OK, I've gotten the feedback I was after. Indian is certainly a good > choice by me as well. > > The question now is, was Chris Sawtell proposing we hold an infor

Re: CLUG social

2004-01-20 Thread Hamish McBrearty
> > >I like Nick's mention of indian, though. I'd heartily support that >option. > OK, I've gotten the feedback I was after. Indian is certainly a good choice by me as well. The question now is, was Chris Sawtell proposing we hold an informal meeting at the Shirley WMC to plan such a night out? O

Re: CLUG social - Purpose of the CLUG

2004-01-20 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:06:25 +1300 Douglas Royds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > >Mandrake virtually installs itself in 20 mins or less on current hardware. > > > ... if you know what you're doing, which I didn't. Overall, it took me > about two weeks in what little

Re: CLUG social

2004-01-20 Thread G. M. Bodnar
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 01:37:35PM NZDT, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 12:51, you wrote: > > I'll drink to that :-) > > OK. Let's book a room at the Shirley WMC. > Shall I do that? > If so when? > 4th Febuary be ok? > That's in 14 days exactly. Timing is nearly critical for me

Re: CLUG social - Purpose of the CLUG

2004-01-20 Thread Douglas Royds
Christopher Sawtell wrote: Mandrake virtually installs itself in 20 mins or less on current hardware. ... if you know what you're doing, which I didn't. Overall, it took me about two weeks in what little spare time I have, plus two hours of Greg's time. Finally, once I had everything successful

Re: CLUG social

2004-01-20 Thread G. M. Bodnar
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 12:20:47PM NZDT, Jason Greenwood wrote: > If you know what a 'Scotch Bonnet' and a 'Habanero' are, then count me > in! =) I keep a bag of dried scotch bonnets on hand in case of emerencies. :) Greg --- - pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: CLUG social

2004-01-20 Thread Nick Rout
Nice offer, but i think somewhere central might be better. open to other thoughts though unfortunately lyttelton isn't central either. On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 14:20:33 +1300 Yuri de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's always my place for a beer & BBQ. > We've got this big lawn (the lawn is

Re: CLUG social

2004-01-20 Thread Yuri de Groot
There's always my place for a beer & BBQ. We've got this big lawn (the lawn is about a third of an acre) which is ideal for a BBQ. It's in West Melton, so those wanting to quaff copious quantities of ale will need a designated driver (taxi is about $45 - you can buy a modem for that). The weekends

Re: from the clug webpage...

2004-01-20 Thread Bjorn Nilsen
Yes this is last year, I will remove them and put up "to be scheduled" until someone sends me some new dates. cheers, Bjorn - Original Message - From: "anton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 10:51 PM Subject: from the clug webpage... > > Upc

Re: CLUG social

2004-01-20 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 12:51, you wrote: > I'll drink to that :-) OK. Let's book a room at the Shirley WMC. Shall I do that? If so when? 4th Febuary be ok? That's in 14 days exactly. An idea of the number of members who are coming would be appreciated. Let's consider the changes in the Linux world

RE: OT: Windows 98 laptop can't connect to internet through IPcop box.

2004-01-20 Thread Luuk Paulussen
Hi all, I finally managed to fix the problem, thanks for all the suggestions. I had already tried most of them without any success. We also reinstalled all the networking protocols etc. I did some more searching on the internet and found out that certain things can corrupt winsock somehow.

RE: CLUG social

2004-01-20 Thread David Kirk
> I'll drink to that :-) Make mine a double. Later David Kirk

Re: CLUG social

2004-01-20 Thread Zane Gilmore
I'll drink to that :-) On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 01:26, Nick Rout wrote: > maybe we can discuss future club activities over a beer and a meal, > nothing like a bit of alcohol to get everyone saying what they really > think LOL -- Zane Gilmore, Analyst / Programmer Information Services Section, Inf

Nice to see linux getting in there...

2004-01-20 Thread Nick Rout
My son made (or remade) friends with a kid he used to know at a previous school over the holidays. He got invited to this kid's house after they had met at the pool a few times. I had to drop him off. Before we went he told me this other kid's parents were software developers and that a microsoft b

Re: CLUG social

2004-01-20 Thread Nick Rout
maybe we can discuss future club activities over a beer and a meal, nothing like a bit of alcohol to get everyone saying what they really think LOL hell what am i saying On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 12:23:10 +1300 Jason Greenwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Interested. =) > > Hamish McBrearty wrote

Re: CLUG social

2004-01-20 Thread Jason Greenwood
Interested. =) Hamish McBrearty wrote: Hi all I know this topic has been raised on a few occasions but never seems to get past the "raised" stage. So I'm going to take the bull by the horns here. Who would be interested in a Clug social evening? I'm thinking a meal and a few drinks at a nice fam

Re: CLUG social

2004-01-20 Thread Nick Rout
how about indian? they can usually do from mild to waho (not that i am chicken, but we want to cater to all tastes) On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 12:20:47 +1300 Jason Greenwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you know what a 'Scotch Bonnet' and a 'Habanero' are, then count me > in! =) > > Yuri de Gr

Re: CLUG social

2004-01-20 Thread Jason Greenwood
If you know what a 'Scotch Bonnet' and a 'Habanero' are, then count me in! =) Yuri de Groot wrote: I'd like to take part in something like this. I can't realy offer many suggestions, though, given that my preference of food generally leaves normal people writhing in chili-induced agony... Greg

Re: from the clug webpage...

2004-01-20 Thread Yuri de Groot
> Upcoming Meetings / Events > > Meeting times scheduled for 2003 > Wednesday 29th January > Thursday 13th Febuary > Monday 31st March > Wednesday 30th April > > > Has this just not been updated, or should that read 2004? > I can't remember what last year's dates were... > Cheers > Anton Must

Re: CLUG social

2004-01-20 Thread Yuri de Groot
> I'd like to take part in something like this. I can't > realy offer many suggestions, though, given that my > preference of food generally leaves normal people writhing > in chili-induced agony... > > Greg It's gotta burn twice to be any good

Re: CLUG social (warning: Top Post(tm) reply)

2004-01-20 Thread Yuri de Groot
Count me in (work roster permitting) Just yesterday my wife Julia said "You haven't been to one of your linux things for a while ..." > What I'd like from this email is an indication of interest > from members, and suggestions on where we could hold such > as event. Obviously we'd like this evenin

Recovering the Fun. Re: from the clug webpage...

2004-01-20 Thread John Carter
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Nick Rout wrote: > but seriously, what do we want? more tech talks? demos (a la Jason's > talk on multimedia) ? installfests? workshops? * Networking opportunities. (Who is doing what in ChCh?) * Technical Excitement. (Look what computers are doing.) Way back when when th

Re: from the clug webpage...

2004-01-20 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:13:59 +1300 pmw57 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 11:51, anton wrote: > > > > Upcoming Meetings / Events > > > > Meeting times scheduled for 2003 > > Wednesday 29th January > > Thursday 13th Febuary > > Monday 31st March > > Wednesday 30th April > > >

RE: MS at it again ....

2004-01-20 Thread Brad Beveridge
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 i

Re: from the clug webpage...

2004-01-20 Thread pmw57
On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 11:51, anton wrote: > > Upcoming Meetings / Events > > Meeting times scheduled for 2003 > Wednesday 29th January > Thursday 13th Febuary > Monday 31st March > Wednesday 30th April > > > Has this just not been updated, or should that read 2004? I can't > remember what last

Re: Windows 98 laptop can't connect to internet through IPcop box.

2004-01-20 Thread Wayne Rooney
>I recently set up an IPcop box for my Dad with a dialup connection. I also >set it up as a DHCP server for his network. The first four PC's (all >running windows 98 se plugged into the network had no problems accessing the >internet, but when we tried to plug my sister's laptop in (also win98se)

MS at it again ....

2004-01-20 Thread Dale Anderson
Hi All Just noticed this interest snippet . http://www.nzoss.org.nz/portal/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=284 <-- kinda a worry . Cheers Dale.

Re: Linux

2004-01-20 Thread Wesley Parish
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

Re: CLUG social

2004-01-20 Thread G. M. Bodnar
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:11:11PM NZDT, Hamish McBrearty wrote: > What I'd like from this email is an indication of interest from members, > and suggestions on where we could hold such as event. Obviously we'd like > this evening to be kid and partner friendly. :o) I'd like to take part in someth

from the clug webpage...

2004-01-20 Thread anton
Upcoming Meetings / Events Meeting times scheduled for 2003 Wednesday 29th January Thursday 13th Febuary Monday 31st March Wednesday 30th April Has this just not been updated, or should that read 2004? I can't remember what last year's dates were... Cheers Anton -- Sent by the lovely Mozilla ru

Re: CLUG social

2004-01-20 Thread anton
What I'd like from this email is an indication of interest from members, Interest. ''-) Cheers Anton -- Sent by the lovely Mozilla running MDK9.2 on an Athlon2000XP

Re: Large Hard-drive not detected by BIOS/Linux

2004-01-20 Thread Michael
Out of curiosity how long did you wait for the HDD to be detected by the BIOS? I have a machine that takes about 3 to 5 minutes every reboot just detecting the 80GB drive before booting. In fact, I can't boot off it either and so I have to use a grub boot disk (floppy) to start linux. I shoul

CLUG social

2004-01-20 Thread Hamish McBrearty
Hi all I know this topic has been raised on a few occasions but never seems to get past the "raised" stage. So I'm going to take the bull by the horns here. Who would be interested in a Clug social evening? I'm thinking a meal and a few drinks at a nice family friendly restaurant. What I'd like

RE: Windows 98 laptop can't connect to internet through IPcop box.

2004-01-20 Thread Turner Family
Having just upgraded my mother's computer to Win98se a couple of things you could look at: 1 In IE look in Tools - Internet Options - connections. Make sure the proxy server boxes is unchecked. 2 Check in the TCP/IP area for the network card what is configured for DNS resolution. We use our IPCop

Fortunes

2004-01-20 Thread anton
Hiya, Can anyone explain to me how I make fortune run and put a comment at the bottom of my Mozilla emails?(as a signature?) I have already tired of my present textfile-based signature! CIA ;-0 Anton -- Sent by the lovely Mozilla running MDK9.2 on an Athlon2000XP