IDE PCI card / 4 IDE busses

2005-03-30 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
Ok I got a card with another 2 IDE busses on it. Nuisance: the drives are rearranged, so I get card primary: hda, hdb secondary: hdc, hdd mobo primary: hde, hdf secondary: hdg, hdh Never mind, so I swapped all the cables around to make my boot disk hda. The $10^6 question is: how d

Re: Fax over broadband

2005-03-30 Thread Rob Wood
Robert Well that is very interesting and maybe it won't be too long before a similar thing arrives here. My high school German of (40ish years) is a little rusty but I might get away with it in the meantime, now let me see: "Ich bin Englander aber Ich wohne hier auf New Zealand. Zwei bieren bitt

Re: Fax over IP was fax over broadband

2005-03-30 Thread Nick Rout
You guys should read this page: http://www.savetz.com/fax/ The first one under the "free" services is the one I was thinking of. TPC.INT In basic terms it is reasonably trivial to take a fax file (which is a close relative of .tiff or tagged image file format) and route it around the net. It is a

[Tenuous] Website design tips... please

2005-03-30 Thread Steve Holdoway
Me and the boss've taken over the community website for Diamond Harbour, and have completely rebuilt it. The thing is, between us, we're a bit short on any kind of artistic knowledge ( and, in my case, talent ). Here's the tenuous bit. The whole site is run using the etomite cms ( http://etomit

Re: [Tenuous] Website design tips... please

2005-03-30 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 21:05 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: > The Weather > image is info taken from the metar info on the noaa site decoded with > some php wot I wrote ( it's a really good scripting language as well, > you know ), and then embedded into a webcam image ( ftp'd from the > camera )

Re: [Tenuous] Website design tips... please

2005-03-30 Thread Andrew Errington
> > Can anyone give any constructive advice - my skin's pretty thick - on > how to make it look better? I've got versions with menu bars across the > top ( selected in bold doesn't work as the options then keep moving cos > it's wider... ) instead of down the side, all kinds of permutations lik

Re: [Tenuous] Website design tips... please

2005-03-30 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 10:35 +0100, Andrew Errington wrote: > Also, font increase and decrease in Konqueror doesn't work does here (kde 3.3.2) > , but > font sizing in Mozilla does. firefox...wait for it...loading - yes Firefox (on linux) scales the fonts fine too. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Tenuous] Website design tips... please

2005-03-30 Thread Steve Holdoway
Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 21:05 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: The Weather image is info taken from the metar info on the noaa site decoded with some php wot I wrote ( it's a really good scripting language as well, you know ), and then embedded into a webcam image ( ftp'd from the

Re: [Tenuous] Website design tips... please

2005-03-30 Thread motivated
The links you sent load fast enough and look fine, I'm using IE. Weather page was not so good. Kinda hoping you were working on it as it loaded properly the second time. I would be interested to see how you did all the weather stuff at some stage if you could find the time to show me. I'm color bl

Re: Fax over IP was fax over broadband

2005-03-30 Thread Rob Wood
Nick Rout wrote: > You guys should read this page: http://www.savetz.com/fax/ That looks useful as I only need a receive facility, (which appears to be free) to get some communication from my mate in the UK who only has to look at a computer and it freezes up, but he can send a fax. Strange how

Re: Fax over IP was fax over broadband

2005-03-30 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 22:10 +1200, Rob Wood wrote: > Nick Rout wrote: > > You guys should read this page: http://www.savetz.com/fax/ > > That looks useful as I only need a receive facility, (which appears to > be free) to get some communication from my mate in the UK who only has > to look at a

Re: [Tenuous] Website design tips... please

2005-03-30 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 21:05, Steve Holdoway wrote: > Can anyone give any constructive advice 1)The Picture. It's been taken a the wrong time of year. It's got b*all contrast, and the brown hills are just so _boring_. It takes up too much vertical space. Is it possible to add on some more of the pan

Re: Fax over IP was fax over broadband

2005-03-30 Thread Robert Fisher
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 22:20 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > Which brings me to a favourite rave - why don't secretaries know how to > use a computer? Its like a builder coming to do some work and holding > the wrong end of the hammer. > As a manager, one of the best courses I ever attended was called "

Re: Fax over IP was fax over broadband

2005-03-30 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 22:20, Nick Rout wrote: > Which brings me to a favourite rave - why don't secretaries know how to > use a computer? Because they have never been taught. 1) It's only in the last year or three that the education department has seen the need for decent computer use training in

Re: [Tenuous] Website design tips... please

2005-03-30 Thread Andy Leach
Steve Holdoway wrote: Me and the boss've taken over the community website for Diamond Harbour, [...] Changing the fonts to em instead of px should help with the sizing issue - if you set the entire body to 80% and then use h2#whatever: 1.2em etc it should work pretty well on just about every (?

Re: [Tenuous] Website design tips... please

2005-03-30 Thread Barry
Steve Holdoway wrote: I've given up on the sub-800 pix wide bit, and sized it at 900. Maybe I should just fix it at 90% of your screen width for those with biiig screens? Simple enough, but I'd have to do something a bit clever along the way with javascript ( yeuch ). I think that this could

serial hardware detection software

2005-03-30 Thread Wesley Parish
anyone know where on the 'Net it might be? Slackware 2.8 came with setserial; what sort of software is there these days? Thanks Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, h

Dual Network/Internet Connection - Advanced Routing

2005-03-30 Thread Kim Robertson
Hi, Ok the subject is a little misleading, what I am looking to do is have an internet connection on one ethernet card, an external network on another card and the internal network on yet another card. -- |

Re: serial hardware detection software

2005-03-30 Thread Wayne Rooney
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:57, Wesley Parish wrote: > anyone know where on the 'Net it might be? > > Slackware 2.8 came with setserial; what sort of software is there these > days? > > Thanks > > Wesley Parish Kernel boot messages: $ dmesg|grep tty ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x0

Re: Dual Network/Internet Connection - Advanced Routing

2005-03-30 Thread Steve Holdoway
Kim Robertson wrote: Hi, Ok the subject is a little misleading, what I am looking to do is have an internet connection on one ethernet card, an external network on another card and the internal network on yet another card. --

Re: Dual Network/Internet Connection - Advanced Routing

2005-03-30 Thread Robert Fisher
On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 00:44 +1200, Kim Robertson wrote: > Hi, > Ok the subject is a little misleading, what I am looking to do is have > an internet connection on one ethernet card, an external network on > another card and the internal network on yet another card. IPCop? > -- Robert Fisher Fi

Re: [Tenuous] Website design tips... please

2005-03-30 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 21:48 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: > >where is the weather info?? I cannot find the link? > > > > > Under local info... 'tis dark now, had to display in white when that > happens. Try in daylight... it's a bit more interesting. Well its light now and the weather pic is sti

Re: [Tenuous] Website design tips... please

2005-03-30 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 07:25 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 21:48 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: > > >where is the weather info?? I cannot find the link? > > > > > > > > Under local info... 'tis dark now, had to display in white when that > > happens. Try in daylight... it's a bit

Re: Dual Network/Internet Connection - Advanced Routing

2005-03-30 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 00:44 +1200, Kim Robertson wrote: > Hi, > Ok the subject is a little misleading, what I am looking to do is have > an internet connection on one ethernet card, an external network on > another card and the internal network on yet another card. >--

RE: [Tenuous] Website design tips... please

2005-03-30 Thread C. Falconer
The only thing I'd comment on is The global network for Diamond Harmour? Surely you should be a .net.nz ? -Original Message- From: Steve Holdoway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 30 March 2005 9:06 p.m. To: CLUG Subject: [Tenuous] Website design tips... please Me and th

RE: [Tenuous] Website design tips... please

2005-03-30 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Thu, March 31, 2005 8:55 am, C. Falconer said: > The only thing I'd comment on is > > The global network for Diamond Harmour? > > Surely you should be a .net.nz ? > > [snip] Indeed. However, the first para of my post stated something like 'we have *taken over* ...' or some such. Apart fro

Re: Dual Network/Internet Connection - Advanced Routing

2005-03-30 Thread Kim Robertson
Hi Robert, I was originally using IPCop but trying to get the equivalent to two red interfaces was to difficult. I want the full firewall on both connections. If you can work out a way to use IPCop that would be great, but I think to make it easier I will stick with slackware. By the way is 17

Re: Dual Network/Internet Connection - Advanced Routing

2005-03-30 Thread Robert Fisher
Kim Robertson said: >> I was originally using IPCop but trying to get the equivalent to two > red interfaces was to difficult. Ah sorry. I misunderstood. I thought that you were after the equivalent of red, orange and green. -- Robert Fisher FishNet Computer Services www.fisher.net.nz

Re: Dual Network/Internet Connection - Advanced Routing

2005-03-30 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:59:33 +1200 Kim Robertson wrote: > Hi Robert, > I was originally using IPCop but trying to get the equivalent to two > red interfaces was to difficult. > I want the full firewall on both connections. If you can work out a way > to use IPCop that would be great, but I thin

Re: Dual Network/Internet Connection - Advanced Routing

2005-03-30 Thread Nick Rout
actually i just thought you might want to take a look at monowall, its BSD based and from a very quick look at it the other day it might be flexible enough for this. Translation, you will have to do more work :-) On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:59:33 +1200 Kim Robertson wrote: > Hi Robert, > I was origi

[OT] Staff Training (Was: Fax over IP was fax over broadband)

2005-03-30 Thread yuri
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 22:44:43 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > 3) Staff expect the boss to not only pay for the lessons but also to allow > them to attend lessons in the firms time. Understandably the boss has other > ideas on the matter. For small businesses I can understand the bosses' point o

RE: Dual Network/Internet Connection - Advanced Routing

2005-03-30 Thread C. Falconer
M0n0wall does lots of good stuff, but it does not do two WAN (aka red) connections. You can bridge or route all sorts of stuff, but only one default route to the internet is supported. You could look at pfsense which is a development of m0n0wall... Its been on FreeBSD since it forked, and defini

GLU workshop #3 next Thurs

2005-03-30 Thread Richard Tindall
Hello List, Forward notice of the 3rd monthly GNU/Linux User workshop: *Thursday April 07, 7.30pm, Sydenham Community Association Hall, 25 Hutcheson Street, Christchurch.* It's early days still, so now's the time to come along and help shape this new workgroup to suit your specific learning and

Re: Dual Network/Internet Connection - Advanced Routing

2005-03-30 Thread Gareth Williams
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:52:54 +1200, Kim Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to do one internet connection and two private lans, but > there is some "crap" ie viruses etc on one lan and I don't want that to > come through easily. Therefore I want to have one commection for my > privat

RE: Dual Network/Internet Connection - Advanced Routing

2005-03-30 Thread C. Falconer
Maybe its that, but I'm guessing that its two distinct networks sharing one internet connection Maybe a couple of flatmates or something. Rather than being on the same lan, they're wanting to segment it tidily. -Original Message- From: Gareth Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

===>> Gentoo 2005.0 << ===

2005-03-30 Thread Christopher Sawtell
Greets List, People who receive a discount for domestic IP traffic will be interested to know that the Gentoo 2005.0 files are now available locally from:- ftp://linux.jetstreamgames.co.nz/pub/gentoo/releases/x86/2005.0/ The file set includes the 'universal' install LiveCD and a single .iso fil

Re: IDE PCI card / 4 IDE busses

2005-03-30 Thread Jim Cheetham
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Can anyone share a deep philosophical analysis of what's going on here? Errm, many BIOSes I've played with allow you to say whether you "prefer" the card IDE or the mobo IDE as a boot provider. Hackish answer - put a grub or lilo on hde that boots to whatever hda would be

Re: IDE PCI card / 4 IDE busses

2005-03-30 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> Errm, many BIOSes I've played with allow you to say whether you "prefer" > the card IDE or the mobo IDE as a boot provider. That would be an excessively neat function, but I can't find it. What is it called? In order for the box to boot at all from hda (= card), either the third boot device has

Re: (OT) ihug/blink adsl :: experiences please

2005-03-30 Thread peter elliott
Zane Gilmore wrote: I've been with Ihug for nigh on 10 years. (originally with the predessor that they bought whose name escapes me) They do what they are supposed to do (... give them money each month and they give you bandwidth without hassle.) They've been OK. Am using that SkyMedia Ultra thin

Re: IDE PCI card / 4 IDE busses

2005-03-30 Thread nordkyn
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:29:47 +1200 Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Errm, many BIOSes I've played with allow you to say whether you "prefer" > > the card IDE or the mobo IDE as a boot provider. > > That would be an excessively neat function, but I can't find it. What is It is *usu

Re: Dual Network/Internet Connection - Advanced Routing

2005-03-30 Thread Col
> > Because the way I read your description above, it sounds like a stock > standard DMZ setup. You can do it out-of-the-box with IPCOP, just put > your "good lan" on green, public internet on red, and your "bad lan" > with the "crap" on orange, the DMZ. No? > IIRC ipcop 1.4 added an extra zone

RE: Fax over IP was fax over broadband

2005-03-30 Thread Jason
Most modern photocopiers have internet fax built in. Most users however don't take this onboard and spend a fortune on toll calls when they could be sending the fax for free! Ahhh ignorance is bliss. And expensive. -Original Message- From: Christopher Sawtell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: [Tenuous] Website design tips... please

2005-03-30 Thread Steve Holdoway
Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 21:05, Steve Holdoway wrote: Can anyone give any constructive advice 1)The Picture. It's been taken a the wrong time of year. It's got b*all contrast, and the brown hills are just so _boring_. It takes up too much vertical space. Is it possib

Re: [Tenuous] Website design tips... please

2005-03-30 Thread Timothy Pick
3) There should be a very definite contrast between the hue and saturation of the links and the background. I try to make the visited link a different colour too. While the default purple is just vile, imho it is a good idea to have a different colour. I've used red in the past quite successfu

Re: disk problems / kernel lockups

2005-03-30 Thread yuri
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 22:20:21 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > It's not something simple like them being jumpered wrong, is it? > > They're all on cable select (so they can be moved around). Putting > hda/hdb on master/slave made no difference. Cable select actually works? I remember the first ti

(OT) ihug/blink adsl :: experiences please

2005-03-30 Thread peter elliott
well i'm just about to commit to getting the long dreamed of adsl connection. this is with ihug/blink BUT before signing up for a year i need to know is this an ok service for people living in chch? why them you ask? because a month long special offer is ending & i'll be saving a couple of hundr

Re: Dual Network/Internet Connection - Advanced Routing

2005-03-30 Thread Kim Robertson
On 31/03/2005, at 10:17 AM, Nick Rout wrote: Still trying to fathom what you are doing here... Is this like two connections to the internet and one private lan, or two private lans and one connection to the internet? Hi Nick, I am trying to do one internet connection and two private lans, but the

Re: Dual Network/Internet Connection - Advanced Routing

2005-03-30 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:52:54 +1200 Kim Robertson wrote: > > On 31/03/2005, at 10:17 AM, Nick Rout wrote: > > > Still trying to fathom what you are doing here... > > > > Is this like two connections to the internet and one private lan, or > > two private lans and one connection to the internet?

RE: Dual Network/Internet Connection - Advanced Routing

2005-03-30 Thread C. Falconer
M0n0wall would be perfect for what you want. {internet} | [ firewall ]-{one network} | {another network} And the two networks can only see what you allow to pass through. This setup is identical to how horse the CLUG shell server is configured. Kim - check out www.m0n0.ch/wal

problem with isa sound card

2005-03-30 Thread j . visch
Sounds like a skipping record, searched google which says it is due to interrupt problem but am unsure of how to fix. Using Suse 8.2 Any suggestions appreciated.

Re: problem with isa sound card

2005-03-30 Thread yuri
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 00:37:04 + (GMT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sounds like a skipping record, searched google which says it is due to > interrupt problem but am unsure of how to fix. Using Suse 8.2 > > Any suggestions appreciated. Please post output of cat /proc/interrupts (I think, I'm not

RE: problem with isa sound card

2005-03-30 Thread C. Falconer
Check your bios settings for IRQ, and your dmesg on boot for any errors. Cat /proc/interrupts too to see if theres anything amiss. Failing that, get a PCI card :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 31 March 2005 12:37 p.m. To: linux-user

Re: problem with isa sound card

2005-03-30 Thread Nick Rout
cat /proc/interrupts and see if there is a conflict. also dmesg|grep irq On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 00:37:04 + (GMT) j.visch wrote: > Sounds like a skipping record, searched google which says it is due to > interrupt problem but am unsure of how to fix. Using Suse 8.2 > > Any suggestions app

RE: problem with isa sound card

2005-03-30 Thread Derek Smithies
Hi, and what sound system are you using? Derek. == On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, C. Falconer wrote: > Check your bios settings for IRQ, and your dmesg on boot for any errors. > Cat /proc/interrupts too to see if theres anything amiss. > > Failing that, get a PCI card :) > > Sounds like a ski

Re: (OT) ihug/blink adsl :: experiences please

2005-03-30 Thread Zane Gilmore
I've been with Ihug for nigh on 10 years. (originally with the predessor that they bought whose name escapes me) They do what they are supposed to do (... give them money each month and they give you bandwidth without hassle.) They've been OK. Am using that SkyMedia Ultra thing for a few years.

Re: ===>> Gentoo 2005.0 << ===

2005-03-30 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:14:06 +1200 Christopher Sawtell wrote: > Greets List, > > People who receive a discount for domestic IP traffic will be interested to > know that the Gentoo 2005.0 files are now available locally from:- > > ftp://linux.jetstreamgames.co.nz/pub/gentoo/releases/x86/2005.0/