FC 3

2004-11-14 Thread Steve Holdoway
Sick of slackware ( too much 'lets be different because we can' attitude for me ), so thought I'd install FC3 on the laptop. A word of warning... there's over 600MB of updates already waiting for you! I'm looking at putting them on CD and making some kind of install script if anyone's thinkking

Re: cdrom mount problem

2004-11-14 Thread Gareth Williams
On 14 Nov 2004 22:41:00 +1300, Rowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 18:13, Gareth Williams wrote: > > > > > ah, you mean when you press the eject button the tray doesn't come > > out? Some random ideas come to mind... (in no particular order) > > No - they do open when I push

Re: FC 3

2004-11-14 Thread Philip Charles
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Steve Holdoway wrote: > Sick of slackware ( too much 'lets be different because we can' attitude > for me ), so thought I'd install FC3 on the laptop. A word of warning... > there's over 600MB of updates already waiting for you! I'm looking at > putting them on CD and making s

Even spammers know about MS

2004-11-14 Thread Nick Rout
I just got "special offer on Microshit Plus 95" -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ***HK free for 5 days***

Re: Fedora Core 3 & udev

2004-11-14 Thread Michael JasonSmith
On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 16:16, Daryn Hanright wrote: > Now am not sure what steps above where neccessary or not - maybe someone far > more intelligent than me can explain...but anyway it seems to work! Bit more > pissing about than in the old days thats for sure! For now, there will be a bit of piss

Re: evolution-2 bits missing?

2004-11-14 Thread Michael JasonSmith
On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 18:17, Nick Rout wrote: > I used to like the "summary page" in evolution 1.4, it saved me looking > out the window to see what the weather was doing, but more importantly > it had nice views of rss/rdf news feeds. They dropped the summary page because aggregators such as Straw

Re: evolution-2 bits missing?

2004-11-14 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:14:18 +1300 Michael JasonSmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 18:17, Nick Rout wrote: > > I used to like the "summary page" in evolution 1.4, it saved me looking > > out the window to see what the weather was doing, but more importantly > > it had nice v

Re: evolution-2 bits missing?

2004-11-14 Thread Michael JasonSmith
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 12:18, Nick Rout wrote: > Thanks for clarification. the weather thing i can handle by observation. > I am using liferea for rss/rdf/atom feeds, i see i have straw on the > system as well and will give it a go too. Straw has quite a nice little Biff-like feature, as it puts an

Re: evolution-2 bits missing?

2004-11-14 Thread Chris Darby
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 12:18 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > will straw connect to your gmail account and get new subject lines? Perhaps not quite what you're after, but I really love the GMail Notifier extension for Firefox: http://www.nexgenmedia.net/extensions/ It's convenient, and out of the way. W

Re: evolution-2 bits missing?

2004-11-14 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:31:30 +1300 Michael JasonSmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 12:18, Nick Rout wrote: > > Thanks for clarification. the weather thing i can handle by observation. > > I am using liferea for rss/rdf/atom feeds, i see i have straw on the > > system as well

Re: evolution-2 bits missing?

2004-11-14 Thread Nick Rout
Its a relatively simple exercise to parse the output of: curl -u username:password https://gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom and get the subject lines etc. well it is if you know how to work with xml, which I really don't to any great degree. try it on the command line, it is pretty nifty. perh

Re: evolution-2 bits missing?

2004-11-14 Thread Dale Anderson
Kinda interesting , Kontact is becoming more and more like what evolution originally tried to be (and good at it) and evolution is getting to be more of just a mail client and less a PIM style app . Cheers Dale. On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 12:14 +1300, Michael JasonSmith wrote: > On Sat, 2004-11-13 a

Wirelessweb

2004-11-14 Thread Ian Laurenson
Does anyone have experience with WirelessWeb? Any problems with using it via Linux? http://www.wirelessweb.co.nz/ Thanks, Ian Laurenson

Re: Wirelessweb

2004-11-14 Thread Nick Rout
It says damn all about the technology, except you need a network card and windows 98-xp. i'd be interested to know more, keep us posted! On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 15:09:08 +1300 Ian Laurenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have experience with WirelessWeb? > Any problems with using it via Li

RE: Wirelessweb

2004-11-14 Thread C. Falconer
Sodding expensive when compared to cable or dsl, that's obvious. No other info sorry. -Original Message- From: Ian Laurenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 15 November 2004 3:09 p.m. To: clug Subject: Wirelessweb Does anyone have experience with WirelessWeb? Any problems with

RE: Wirelessweb

2004-11-14 Thread Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)
Well I do not think much of their web page. It does not work well in Mozilla (on WinXP with Shockwave & Flash installed). OK in MSIE though. Regards, Robert -Original Message- From: Ian Laurenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 15 November 2004 2:09 p.m. To: clug Subje

Re: Wirelessweb

2004-11-14 Thread yuri
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 15:30:08 +1300, Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote: > Well I do not think much of their web page. It does not work well in Mozilla > (on WinXP with Shockwave & Flash installed). > > OK in MSIE though. Works for me in Firefox, on whatever version of Windows they have here at work.

Initial Thoughts on Fedora Core 3

2004-11-14 Thread Michael JasonSmith
Some Initial thoughts on Fedora Core 3. * No surprises with the installer. As usual I trashed the old install rather than rely on any fancy âupgradeâ. All went well with the install. * GNOME 2.8 is also devoid of surprises. Nautilus is sane. The panels are sane.

Re: Wirelessweb

2004-11-14 Thread Ben Devine
wirelessweb Is run by the people that run Yobbo. They are real nice guys. > On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 15:46:27 +1300, yuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 15:30:08 +1300, Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote: > > > Well I do not think much of their web page. It does not work well in > >

Re: evolution-2 bits missing?

2004-11-14 Thread Matthew Gregan
At 2004-11-15T12:51:26+1300, Nick Rout wrote: > perhaps an exercise for the list, write a script to get your gmail > atom feed and display a nicely formatted list of the emails. > 3 lines or less? perl one liner? Do you _really_ want to see it as a one-liner? $ curl -u user:pass https://gmail.g

Re: Initial Thoughts on Fedora Core 3

2004-11-14 Thread Steve Holdoway
Michael JasonSmith wrote: Some Initial thoughts on Fedora Core 3. * No surprises with the installer. As usual I trashed the old install rather than rely on any fancy âupgradeâ. All went well with the install. * GNOME 2.8 is also devoid of surprises. Nautilus is sane. The