Re: FW: Canterbury Linux Users Group

2004-03-24 Thread Bjorn Nilsen
Hi Margaret, Looks good, we are currently not running regular meetings, I think it would be best to change the "Times/Meetings" to "Meeting times are posted on the mailing list". Other members may have further input, so I have CC'd this to the mailing list. cheers, Bjorn > Hi, > > Are you able

Re: Gentoo Installfest

2004-03-24 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:51, Nick Rout wrote: > Frankly roberts garage sounds good for this. > > we used my box as a server for distfiles and rsync last time and we can > do that again. if Chris brings his box we can also rsync any otther > distfiles from it. > Should we wait for the 2004.2 release

Re: Gentoo Installfest

2004-03-24 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:51:21 +1200 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Should we wait for the 2004.2 release when there should be a whole swag > of newly compiled up to date binary packages available? oops 2004.0 is the current release so 2004.1 wil be the next one. i used the binaries to ge

Re: Gentoo Installfest

2004-03-24 Thread Nick Rout
Frankly roberts garage sounds good for this. we used my box as a server for distfiles and rsync last time and we can do that again. if Chris brings his box we can also rsync any otther distfiles from it. Should we wait for the 2004.2 release when there should be a whole swag of newly compiled up

Re: Gentoo Installfest

2004-03-24 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 15:53, Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote: > I can provide a couple of 2GHz P4 laptops for distcc My son Caleb can bring an AthlonXP-2500+ I can provide a p2 400 as well if needed, on which I could put about 2 GB of distfiles of various vintages, in particular the latest current k

URMPI sources for Mandrake 10 in NZ

2004-03-24 Thread david merriman
Hi there, I've installed Mandrake 10.0 Community, and I was wondering if anyone knows of a NZ mirror that I can point URPMI to, in order to minimize my international traffic ? Nothing leapt out at me when I Googled for 'urpmi nz' and 'urpmi zealand'. Thanks, David -- "Where are we going, and w

RE: Gentoo Installfest

2004-03-24 Thread Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)
I can provide a couple of 2GHz P4 laptops for distcc Regards, Robert Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windscreen. -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 25 March 2004 3:52 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Gentoo

Re: Gentoo Installfest

2004-03-24 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 15:01, Hamish McBrearty wrote: > I like the idea of a Gentoo installfest, however in my experiences so far > the source installs take to darn long!! The whole point of a specific G. installfest is that by having it as a community effort it then possible to set up a local archiv

Re: Gentoo Installfest

2004-03-24 Thread Nick Rout
1. you DEFINITELY need a fast internet connection to do this, so the sydenham hall is out (wireless? satellite?) 2. co-incidentally I just started working on another distcc boot-cd yesterday. will advise progress in due course. On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 15:08:21 +1200 "Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)" <[EMA

RE: Gentoo Installfest

2004-03-24 Thread Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)
I agree that Sydenham Hall would have more room for greater numbers but it will cost us (a little) and it is good to have a decent link to the www. Regards, Robert Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windscreen. -Original Message- From: InfoHelp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Gentoo Installfest

2004-03-24 Thread Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)
IMHO, once you get the base installation done (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook.xml?part=1) you can do the rest at home. Yes Xfree86 and KDE for example take a long time to compile but you could do emerge -f packagenames from the Installfest rsync server then emerge packagenames la

Re: Gentoo Installfest

2004-03-24 Thread InfoHelp
That's why Sydenham was being suggested for numbers 6+ : shops, , parking.. A poll of enthusiast numbers decides - add one for me. Robert Fisher wrote: I may live to regret this but here goes If the numbers for another Gentoo Installfest are small (say 4 to 6 at the most), and Nick or some

Re: Gentoo Installfest

2004-03-24 Thread Hamish McBrearty
I like the idea of a Gentoo installfest, however in my experiences so far the source installs take to darn long!! Even my 1.5GHz Celeron took over a day. Perhaps we should have a few GRP CDs on hand and do binary only installs for people, plus provide them with the source packages. That way they ca

Gentoo Installfest

2004-03-24 Thread Robert Fisher
I may live to regret this but here goes If the numbers for another Gentoo Installfest are small (say 4 to 6 at the most), and Nick or someone can set up an rsync server I would be prepared to have it in our garage at home. I have a switch and a Jetstart connection and everything is at groun

Re: Yast going GPL - CLUG Suse demo + Gentoo

2004-03-24 Thread InfoHelp
Hi folks, After much head-scratching, & consulting Volker's busy timetable, I have booked us in for the Sydenham Community Centre hall, 25 Hucheson St, for Thursday evening 6th May. Sorry Nick. Our next available date (including Volker) is Wednesday 30th June - I have booked that too. This giv

Re: sendmail magic

2004-03-24 Thread Carl Cerecke
Rex Johnston wrote: Dont edit sendmail.cf, use the m4 macro system and edit sendmail.mc. A much more sensible idea. Last time I edited it (quite a few years ago), there was no nice autogeneration from a sendmail.mc file. You had to get your hands dirty, so to speak. Cheers, Carl.

Re: sendmail magic

2004-03-24 Thread Nick Rout
alternatively another mta may have easier hooks to do this sort of thing. http://www.postfix.org/rewrite.html have not read it in full, I was merely attracted to its title (yes I only read the headlines in the newspaper too). I'll leave it to Vik to see if it meets his needs. On Thu, 25 Mar 200

Re: sendmail magic

2004-03-24 Thread Rex Johnston
On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 10:07, Carl Cerecke wrote: > Matthew Gregan wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 08:38:38PM +1200, Vik Olliver wrote: > > >>Is this magic too dark for mere mortals? Do I need a ring of some > >>sort, or a glowing sword and paucity of footwear perhaps? > > > > > > No, just the

Re: sendmail magic

2004-03-24 Thread Carl Cerecke
Matthew Gregan wrote: On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 08:38:38PM +1200, Vik Olliver wrote: Is this magic too dark for mere mortals? Do I need a ring of some sort, or a glowing sword and paucity of footwear perhaps? No, just the ability to read. My 6 year old can read. From my experience, editing a send

RE: Yast going GPL - CLUG

2004-03-24 Thread Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)
Presbyopia is an age-associated progressive loss of the focusing power of the lens. This results in difficulty seeing objects close-up. Regards, Robert Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windscreen. -Original Message- From: Zane Gilmore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: Yast going GPL - CLUG

2004-03-24 Thread Zane Gilmore
Doh! I was looking at June :-/ I need to be more careful looking at that little calendar thingy in KDE InfoHelp wrote: Zane Gilmore wrote: Errr.. According to my calculations 6th May is a Sunday...and approx 5 weeks away. Do you mean the 6th of April? (2 weeks away) No. Is that a 2004 cale

Re: A quick test.

2004-03-24 Thread Michael JasonSmith
On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 07:02, Slosh wrote: > I'm not sure, but recently someone told me I had the whole HTML tag > thing enabled. Is someone here able to verify this, and if so tell me > how to turn it off in Ximian Evolution. I was having a look to see where > in the options it would be turned on b

RE: Yast going GPL - CLUG

2004-03-24 Thread Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)
Hey Zane, forget the calculations, just look at a calendar. Regards, Robert Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windscreen. -Original Message- From: Zane Gilmore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 24 March 2004 7:49 p.m. To: Linux_list Subject:Re: Ya

RE: Yast going GPL - CLUG

2004-03-24 Thread Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)
I am interested. Regards, Robert Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windscreen. -Original Message- From: Volker Kuhlmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 24 March 2004 7:06 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Yast going GPL - CLUG Nick, you're

Re: A quick test.

2004-03-24 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 07:02:19 +1200, you wrote: >Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 07:02:19 +1200 >From: Slosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: A quick test. >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Organization: >MIME-version: 1.0 >X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (

A quick test.

2004-03-24 Thread Slosh
I'm not sure, but recently someone told me I had the whole HTML tag thing enabled. Is someone here able to verify this, and if so tell me how to turn it off in Ximian Evolution. I was having a look to see where in the options it would be turned on but didn't see anything. --Slosh

Re: OGG MP3 Player Available Now

2004-03-24 Thread Jason Greenwood
BTW, if any CLUGGERS want one, then contact me offlist and I will do you a special deal on it. The factory specs page is here: http://www.iriver.com/product/info.asp?p_name=iHP-120 Cheers Jason Jason Greenwood wrote: Hi All, Just wanted everyone to know that we (www.flashcards.co.nz) just land

OGG MP3 Player Available Now

2004-03-24 Thread Jason Greenwood
Hi All, Just wanted everyone to know that we (www.flashcards.co.nz) just landed a shipment of the iRiver MP3 Players that support OGG out of the box. We currently have the 20GB version in stock and online for $698.00. A bit steep but this unit is pretty sweet and looks the part to boot. Cheers

Re: The reason they called it OPEN Office

2004-03-24 Thread Jaco Swart
Helmut Walle wrote: Yes, neat. However, this file format was already introduced by StarOffice in version 6. So, if I am not mistaken, the credit for the introduction of this file format goes to Sun / StarOffice. Yes, without doubt.

Re: (Flame Bait) Qmail or Postfix?

2004-03-24 Thread Hugh McColl
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 08:48, Mahesh De Silva wrote: > Whats are people thoughts? > > I want to setup a e-mail server for > www.xsolutions.co.nz/rwc/ initally it will be for > internal e-mail, via webclient(not sure which either!) > then external, with spam filtering. I'm an amateur (ab)user of both

Re: The reason they called it OPEN Office

2004-03-24 Thread Helmut Walle
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Jaco Swart wrote: > Somewhere, I heard that sxw-files (OpenOffice equevalent of Word's > doc-files) contains standard xml files. To put this to the test, I tried > a little experiment, which you can try out if you have OpenOffice installed. [...] Yes, neat. However, this file

Re: data projection

2004-03-24 Thread Patrick Dunford
InfoHelp wrote: Thanks Patrick, & Hi (CPIT) We had a mutual friend (on course) living at 75 Pages Rd, an address I pass frequently on my way into town. What is he up to now? There is a very wide range of product available from all kinds of manufacturers. The key factors influencing price will

Re: Yast going GPL - CLUG

2004-03-24 Thread Wesley Parish
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

Re: Yast going GPL - CLUG

2004-03-24 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
I can make it any day of the week. 15 Apr is very likely too early for me. I picked May to increase the chances of having 9.1. You find a date ;) Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list

Re: sendmail magic

2004-03-24 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 08:38:38PM +1200, Vik Olliver wrote: > I'd like to be able to alias the "From:" field in my sendmail > configuration somehow for outgoing mail to conceal internal usernames > etc. The ``genericstable'' feature should suit your needs. > Is this magic too dark for mere morta

Re: Yast going GPL - CLUG

2004-03-24 Thread InfoHelp
We are voting in support of an upcoming date for a meeting - 6th May, or later.. Nothing in March, sorry. Madhusudhan Rajagopal wrote: Hi chaps, I am getting a bit confused here. Are we having a clug meeting tomorrow on this or sometime later? Cheers Madhusudhan InfoHelp wrote: Hi Nick, Ni

Re: Yast going GPL - CLUG

2004-03-24 Thread Madhusudhan Rajagopal
Hi chaps, I am getting a bit confused here. Are we having a clug meeting tomorrow on this or sometime later? Cheers Madhusudhan InfoHelp wrote: Hi Nick, Nick Rout wrote: 6 may is a thursday and i just realised i cannot be there on that date. If thats an immovable date i won't rock the boat,

Re: Fwd: Re: OT - laptop advice

2004-03-24 Thread InfoHelp
Looks good to me. Can vouch for h/ware quality. anton wrote: Jason Greenwood wrote: This looks like about the best deal going: http://www.pricespy.co.nz/pno_2276.html Cheers And what about this one! Jeez Wayne! I think there is a bit of a price war! Cheers Anton http://www.pricespy.co.nz/pn

Re: Fwd: Re: OT - laptop advice

2004-03-24 Thread anton
Jason Greenwood wrote: This looks like about the best deal going: http://www.pricespy.co.nz/pno_2276.html Cheers And what about this one! Jeez Wayne! I think there is a bit of a price war! Cheers Anton http://www.pricespy.co.nz/pno_3301.html

Re: data projection

2004-03-24 Thread InfoHelp
Thanks Patrick, & Hi (CPIT) This is very helpful. Patrick Dunford wrote: InfoHelp wrote: Hi folks, With forthcoming CLUG meetings in mind, may I ask List's advice please, on the best purchase options for a professional data projector? Variables include: brand, power rating, price, supplier..

Re: data projection

2004-03-24 Thread Patrick Dunford
InfoHelp wrote: Hi folks, With forthcoming CLUG meetings in mind, may I ask List's advice please, on the best purchase options for a professional data projector? Variables include: brand, power rating, price, supplier.. I have S-video & VGA outputs on my lappie - any others to be considered?

Re: Yast going GPL - CLUG

2004-03-24 Thread InfoHelp
Hi Nick, Nick Rout wrote: 6 may is a thursday and i just realised i cannot be there on that date. If thats an immovable date i won't rock the boat, but if it can be another day i'd like to make it. We're working round Volker's timetable. His options are: Thurs 15 April, Thurs 6 (13th, 20th

Re: Yast going GPL - CLUG

2004-03-24 Thread Nick Rout
6 may is a thursday and i just realised i cannot be there on that date. If thats an immovable date i won't rock the boat, but if it can be another day i'd like to make it. On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 20:03, InfoHelp wrote: > Zane Gilmore wrote: > >Errr.. > > > >According to my calculations 6th May is a

Re: Yast going GPL - CLUG

2004-03-24 Thread InfoHelp
Zane Gilmore wrote: Errr.. According to my calculations 6th May is a Sunday...and approx 5 weeks away. Do you mean the 6th of April? (2 weeks away) No. Is that a 2004 calender you're viewing Zane? -- InfoHelp Services http://www.infohelp.co.nz/linux.html i686 2.4.20-8

Re: Yast going GPL - CLUG

2004-03-24 Thread Zane Gilmore
Errr.. According to my calculations 6th May is a Sunday...and approx 5 weeks away. Do you mean the 6th of April? (2 weeks away) On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 19:43, InfoHelp wrote: > Thanks Volker, > > I'll nab that booking for CLUG tomorrow. > > I'd be glad to have the installation (esp 9.1) on my