I realise that my thoughts at this point and time are probably of little
value, but I really think a mailserver and forum would be a good use.
Seems Dave doesn't want it on his dialup connection (cant see why not) , I
will offer my cable connection 24/7 and I would be prepared to pay for a
domain
On Sun, March 13, 2005 10:45 pm, motivated said:
> I realise that my thoughts at this point and time are probably of little
> value, but I really think a mailserver and forum would be a good use.
>
a mail server for what? so that we can all have another email address to
keep track of? [EMAIL PROTE
Mail server - to keep our own mailing list. Nothing wrong with the one we
have already, but "it.canterbury.ac.nz" is more to do with a polytech or
university than a Linux Group.
DNS Server - to keep and maintain our own domain name for the above (and
anything else we wanna throw in there... l
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 07:43 +1300, Andy George wrote:
> Mail server - to keep our own mailing list. Nothing wrong with the one we
> have already, but "it.canterbury.ac.nz" is more to do with a polytech or
> university than a Linux Group.
unnecessary to change, the list address is well known and
Don't forget to factor in the cost of a resource consent from the regional
council, plus whatever fees the city council wants to stick you for.
-Original Message-
From: Ben Devine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, 13 March 2005 7:38 p.m.
To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz
Subject:
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 09:49, you wrote:
> Don't forget to factor in the cost of a resource consent from the
> regional council, plus whatever fees the city council wants to stick you
> for.
That is so like The Man.
Uhhh - thanks... I think...
-Original Message-
From: Andrew Errington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, 14 March 2005 10:06 a.m.
To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz
Subject: Re: Wireless in the square
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 09:49, you wrote:
> Don't forget to factor in the cost of a
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 10:05:57 +1300
Andrew Errington wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 09:49, you wrote:
> > Don't forget to factor in the cost of a resource consent from the
> > regional council, plus whatever fees the city council wants to stick you
> > for.
>
> That is so like The Man.
now playin
From: Nick Rout
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 10:05:57 +1300 Andrew Errington wrote:
> > That is so like The Man.
> now playing: "School of Rock"
A movie definitely worth watching.
On Sunday 13 March 2005 16:52, Robert Fisher wrote:
> Well does someone want to take the plunge on CLUG's behalf and do something
> with one of these machines?
Seems you've stirred up quite a debate with what to do with the old PC Robert.
For my $0.02 I'll put my hand up on behalf a 'not for profi
Having made a number of negative comments about the idea of putting a
server online for unknown people with unknown agendas and unknown
abilities to play DNS/IRC/HTTP/SMTP meister with, I'd like to say that I
would really favour setting up (or extending an existing) wireless
network, not necessaril
Sorry Ralph, this is a headless machine.
Regards,
Robert
-Original Message-
From: Ralph Stoker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, 14 March 2005 10:22 a.m.
To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz
Subject:Re: Free to good home
On Sunday 13 March 2005 16:52, Robert Fishe
Nick Rout wrote:
agreed
snip/
Hi Nick,
thats what I had in mind a private bittorent wireless net, perhaps with
dial in upload only access
(as per your suggestion)?
the bandwidth should take care of itself via torrent sharing, no
internet access for security
Regards
Michael
Well the winner is (drum roll)...
Nick, do you want to pick the box up (and check out the venue for the Gentoo
Installfest - and have a glass of Marlborough's best) or would you rather
have me bring it to work?
Regards,
Robert
-Original Message-
From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PRO
I gather the term is "WISP" - Wireless Internet Service Provider. Nice :-)
I'd be interested to hear more about this. I'm also interested in
whether anyone's considered doing a sort of a neighbourhood WISP in the
suburbs. Taking it a step further, I was thinking about the idea of
having a neighb
Just found this one, although to some it may be old hat.
Most people are probably aware of the lspci command to list out what is
on the PCI bus. Very handy during setup for those hard to configure
devices.
In the same package (pciutils) is a handy command: pcimodules. This
command lists kernel
Hotplug (running as root) mounts my usb drive, so only root can umount it.
Is there any way I can allow the normal user to umount it?
I do have the "user" option in /etc/fstab, but that's only useful if the
user mounted it in the first place.
I do also have a usb-storage.remover script, which w
> Hotplug (running as root) mounts my usb drive, so only
> root can umount it. Is there any way I can allow the
> normal user to umount it?
>
> I do have the "user" option in /etc/fstab, but that's only
> useful if the user mounted it in the first place.
Can you add the "users" option instead?
> /media/usb if I just pull it out, but I want to unmount it before pulling
> it out.
You don't really need to unmount before pulling the thing out, a sync
should do (and then give it a second or two). Has always worked for me.
No data loss.
Volker
--
Volker Kuhlmann is possibl
> > /media/usb if I just pull it out, but I want to unmount
> > it before pulling it out.
>
> You don't really need to unmount before pulling the thing
> out, a sync should do (and then give it a second or two).
> Has always worked for me. No data loss.
Actually, you could also try to set it to m
>
> > > /media/usb if I just pull it out, but I want to
> > > unmount it before pulling it out.
> >
> > You don't really need to unmount before pulling the
> > thing out, a sync should do (and then give it a second
> > or two). Has always worked for me. No data loss.
>
> Actually, you could also t
> Actually, you could also try to set it to mount with the
> "sync" option, so all writes are done synchronously.
I thought this is pretty much the default for hotplug devices like
cameras and memory sticks, because the system never knows when the user
"pulls the plug", so to speak. (For big hard
Daniel Grant wrote:
Hotplug (running as root) mounts my usb drive, so only
root can umount it. Is there any way I can allow the
normal user to umount it?
I do have the "user" option in /etc/fstab, but that's only
useful if the user mounted it in the first place.
Can you add the "users" option ins
I have checked the SANE page and these models:
Epson Expression 1680 USB Scanner
CanoScan LiDE20
HP ScanJet 7450c
look well supported. Anyone have first hand experience with any of them?
Cheers
Jason
Ok, I just found out that the other 2 are thousands of dollars so I
think I'll go with the CanoScan LiDE20. =)
Unless people have suggestions of reasonably priced new scanners that
are well supported under Linux (Suse 9.2 pro)??
Cheers
Jason
Jason Greenwood wrote:
I have checked the SANE page a
> think I'll go with the CanoScan LiDE20. =)
>
> Unless people have suggestions of reasonably priced new scanners that
> are well supported under Linux (Suse 9.2 pro)??
LiDE30! You'll need to use trademe though, and they sell fast. The
LiDE35 is utterly useless (linuxilly speaking). There are a
The differences between the 20 and 30 model??
Cheers
Jason
Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
think I'll go with the CanoScan LiDE20. =)
Unless people have suggestions of reasonably priced new scanners that
are well supported under Linux (Suse 9.2 pro)??
LiDE30! You'll need to use trademe though, and they se
I see now, big difference in max resolution...
Cheers
Jason
Jason Greenwood wrote:
The differences between the 20 and 30 model??
Cheers
Jason
Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
think I'll go with the CanoScan LiDE20. =)
Unless people have suggestions of reasonably priced new scanners that
are well supported u
$ ping 202.37.97.11
connect: Network is unreachable
I have the ethernet plugged into my PCMCIA adaptor (which has worked
before, under a different distro). I don't know where to start
trouble-shooting. Suggestions?
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