[OT] Source 19 inch racks in Chch?

2004-09-01 Thread Eliot Blennerhassett
Hi all, can anyone suggest where I can get a 19 inch rack cabinet or frame in Chch? Anything from 1 to 2 metres tall, full cabinet or just a frame would do... 2nd hand would be OK too thanks Eliot

RE: Mandrake Applications + ADSL

2004-09-01 Thread Peter Burke
Hi Dave, I'm on the same plan using Paradise as my ISP. Traffic runs through a Dynalink RTA220 Router to a D-Link 8-Port switch thence to the various machines on the LAN. The Dynalink's not cheap (abt $230 retail), but has built-in kitchen sink (firewall etc). HTH Peter Burke -Original Mess

Re: Mandrake Applications + ADSL

2004-09-01 Thread TF
Dave Mateer wrote: Many thanks to everyone who replied about applications! I´m running XMMS now as a music player, and using GRIP for putting music on my machine (music is important!) Will try: evolution as a mail client (seems very popular) Mozilla as a browser (I am getting rendering errors us

Re: missing drives and partitions -- quick correction

2004-09-01 Thread Sascha Beaumont
Got Debian kernel 2.6.8-1-686 installed last night, along with 6111 drivers compiled from the debian source packages, still haven't managed to get udev working (I really wanna give gnome-volume-manager a look) but everything else is fine. Sascha On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 11:33:41 +1200, Nick Rout <[EMA

RE: Mandrake Applications + ADSL

2004-09-01 Thread Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)
I reckon it is worth spending a little more to get a router with NAT and the ability to create pinholes. If you are using KDE I would recommend using Kontact for your PIM. I have used both Kontact and Evolution with KDE and now prefer Kontact. (Personal preferences may differ) Regards, Robert -

Re: Mandrake Applications + ADSL

2004-09-01 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, > > Im running XMMS now as a music player, and using GRIP for putting music on > > my machine (music is important!) > > Try rhythmbox [iTunes clone] or muine [new C# app, with focus on > usability] for music players - they're both pretty excellent! ;) Oh, sound juicer also quite nice for b

Re: Mandrake Applications + ADSL

2004-09-01 Thread Jim Cheetham
Dave Mateer wrote: I am getting ADSL installed on Monday through Telecom... 256/128 and 10GB package. I don´t have an ADSL router yet (there are 3 computers in the house). I have looked at a Web Excel router for NZ$110 that has 4 ports. It doesn´t have a built in firewall is the only thing t

Re: Mandrake Applications + ADSL

2004-09-01 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, > Im running XMMS now as a music player, and using GRIP for putting music on > my machine (music is important!) Try rhythmbox [iTunes clone] or muine [new C# app, with focus on usability] for music players - they're both pretty excellent! ;) Glynn

Mandrake Applications + ADSL

2004-09-01 Thread Dave Mateer
Many thanks to everyone who replied about applications! I´m running XMMS now as a music player, and using GRIP for putting music on my machine (music is important!) Will try: evolution as a mail client (seems very popular) Mozilla as a browser (I am getting rendering errors using Mambo CMS... th

Re: missing drives and partitions -- quick correction

2004-09-01 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 10:37:04 +1200 Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > C. Falconer wrote: > > >:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11DDR [GeForce2 > >MX 100 DDR/200 DDR] (rev b2) > > > >socks:~# ps auxw | grep udev > >root73 0.0 0.0 1508 372 ?

RE: missing drives and partitions -- quick correction

2004-09-01 Thread C. Falconer
No idea but Linux socks 2.6.8.1 #4 SMP Mon Aug 23 09:53:20 NZST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux Works perfectly with (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation" compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.6111 on debian testing for me. -Original Message- From: Steve Holdoway [mailto:[E

Re: smbmount weirdness

2004-09-01 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> suspenders:/mnt# umount aghs-server > drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Sep 2 10:05 aghs-server That's the mount point (unmounted). smbmount has some funny ideas about what permissions the mount point must have, e.g. you have to have write access. Any change if you use 755? > Now - the weirdest

Re: Konqueror broken thumbnails

2004-09-01 Thread Douglas Royds
Doh! That's it all right. I haven't tried it yet, but I remember seeing that setting. Thanks, all. === This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended addressee. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and ma

Re: missing drives and partitions -- quick correction

2004-09-01 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> btw anyone successfully got 2.6.8.1 kernel to work with nvidia 6111 and > fedora 2? There seem to be quite a few significant changes in 2.6.8, breaking this that and the other. Prob best to stick with vendor-supplied kernels. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 wit

Re: missing drives and partitions -- quick correction

2004-09-01 Thread Steve Holdoway
C. Falconer wrote: :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11DDR [GeForce2 MX 100 DDR/200 DDR] (rev b2) socks:~# ps auxw | grep udev root73 0.0 0.0 1508 372 ?S Module Size Used by nvidia 4820852 12 Works fine for me --

smbmount weirdness

2004-09-01 Thread C. Falconer
Gidday all - I'm having some very strange behaviour with smbmount. What I have been doing in the past is to mount a share from a windows 2003 server, then do a du on each directory and store the output. However something has changed and the smbmount no longer works. --

RE: Konqueror broken thumbnails

2004-09-01 Thread Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)
Yes! You need to go into Tools/Configure Konqueror. Go into the Previews & Metadata section and increase the Maximum File Size. It's not displaying the images because they are too big for the current setting. Vik :v) [Robert Fisher] Ah! This will probably be the answer for me too. Upgrading to

Re: Konqueror broken thumbnails

2004-09-01 Thread Andrew Errington
On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 08:38, you wrote: > I downloaded a number of images from my camera. Konqueror only generates > thumbnails for about half of them. Konqueror has a setting which dictates which images will be thumbnailed, and which won't. In earlier versions of Konq it is fixed (at 1Mb I think)

Re: Konqueror broken thumbnails

2004-09-01 Thread Vik Olliver
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 08:38, Douglas Royds wrote: > I downloaded a number of images from my camera. Konqueror only generates > thumbnails for about half of them. > > I've tried removing the ~/.thumbnails directory to force it to > regenerate - it failed again with exactly the same images. I've c

RE: Konqueror broken thumbnails

2004-09-01 Thread Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)
Yes I have the same problem. I am fairly sure that it used to work OK before I went to KDE 3.2.3. (KDE 3.3 still has the problem on my box) Regards, Robert -Original Message- From: Douglas Royds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 2 September 2004 8:39 a.m. To: CLUG Subjec

Re: missing drives and partitions

2004-09-01 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 23:56, steve wrote: > Christopher Sawtell wrote: > >On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 18:47, steve wrote: > >>>Anybody got any good ideas as to how to make a partition and filesystem > >>> on the pendrive which will mount as a vfat? ( want something which will > >>> cope with long filenames a

RE: missing drives and partitions -- quick correction

2004-09-01 Thread C. Falconer
:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11DDR [GeForce2 MX 100 DDR/200 DDR] (rev b2) socks:~# ps auxw | grep udev root73 0.0 0.0 1508 372 ?Smailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 1 September 2004 5:29 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: missing driv

Konqueror broken thumbnails

2004-09-01 Thread Douglas Royds
I downloaded a number of images from my camera. Konqueror only generates thumbnails for about half of them. I've tried removing the ~/.thumbnails directory to force it to regenerate - it failed again with exactly the same images. I've copied one image file to multiple directories, and it fails

Re: missing drives and partitions

2004-09-01 Thread steve
Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 18:47, steve wrote: Anybody got any good ideas as to how to make a partition and filesystem on the pendrive which will mount as a vfat? ( want something which will cope with long filenames and be portable across Linux, Win, and MacOS ) Make i

Re: missing drives and partitions

2004-09-01 Thread Sascha Beaumont
Theres a nice article on automounting USB drives on http://www.greenfly.org/tips/usb_drive.html It was updated a couple of months ago to include info on using multiple USB devices, nice n flexible. On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 20:23:59 +1200, Alasdair Tennant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For those of us

Re: missing drives and partitions

2004-09-01 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 18:47, steve wrote: > >Anybody got any good ideas as to how to make a partition and filesystem on > > the pendrive which will mount as a vfat? ( want something which will cope > > with long filenames and be portable across Linux, Win, and MacOS ) > > > >   > > Make it a single l

Re: [OT] gmail reply-to/mailing list test

2004-09-01 Thread Ben Devine
On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 17:41:50 +1200, Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 17:01, Sascha Beaumont wrote: > > And lets see if a gmail reply-to-a-reply breaks it > > It appears to work correctly. > Now all we have to do is to persuade certain folks who are stuck wit

Re: missing drives and partitions

2004-09-01 Thread Alasdair Tennant
For those of us with 2.4 kernel and NO OTHER SCSI DISK, Here's the beginning of an idea; (Pardon my naff bash skills): fdisk -l | grep "Disk /dev/sd" | cut -d" " -f2 | sed s/:/1/ returns the device that has grabbed the flash drive. so I guess mount `fdisk -l | grep