Re: ISP's / RIP ADSL Router - 2003-2005

2005-04-12 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 16:15, C. Falconer wrote: > Heh - yeah see the good points on cable TV.. > > 1)You get exactly the same programming as sky > 2)You pay about the same as for sky > 3)You get adverts anyway > 4)No big dish on the roof to show how well off you are. > 5)And there

Re: ISP's / RIP ADSL Router - 2003-2005

2005-04-12 Thread John Carter
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Rob Wood wrote: The only recommendation I can make is give Telecom a miss. I was more or less planning to do that when the capacitor suddenly ceased to capacitate, suddenly giving me an excuse to spend money on an (alas, unavailable) alternate tech. As a matter of interest,

Re: ISP's / RIP ADSL Router - 2003-2005

2005-04-12 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 16:39, Robert Fisher wrote: > C. Falconer said: > > 4) No big dish on the roof to show how well off you are. > > Have you seen how many dishes there are in Hampshire Street? The long suffering 'rest of us' pay the major portion of their rent for them so they can afford it. --

RE: ISP's / RIP ADSL Router - 2003-2005

2005-04-12 Thread Robert Fisher
C. Falconer said: > 4)No big dish on the roof to show how well off you are. Have you seen how many dishes there are in Hampshire Street? Almost every house has one. -- Robert Fisher FishNet Computer Services www.fisher.net.nz

RE: ISP's / RIP ADSL Router - 2003-2005

2005-04-12 Thread C. Falconer
Heh - yeah see the good points on cable TV.. 1) You get exactly the same programming as sky 2) You pay about the same as for sky 3) You get adverts anyway 4) No big dish on the roof to show how well off you are. 5) And theres 64 channels of pure crap on. Honestly - theres

Re: ISP's / RIP ADSL Router - 2003-2005

2005-04-12 Thread Rob Wood
Greetings, The only recommendation I can make is give Telecom a miss. As a matter of interest, what model ADSL router was it? Woodsey John Carter wrote: My DSE ADSL modem / router/hub has died. I need to change my ISP service plan anyway, now would be a Good Time for an Alternate Magical Techno

Re: ISP's / RIP ADSL Router - 2003-2005

2005-04-12 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 14:30, John Carter wrote: > I looks to me as if telstra merged with clear and then totally completely > and utterly stopped rolling out cable. True, They are waiting for the local loop lines to be unbundled. Telecom is, naturally enough, fighting this tooth and nail. > So much

RE: ISP's / RIP ADSL Router - 2003-2005

2005-04-12 Thread John Carter
Hmm, googling telecom, xtra and telstraclear pretty closely, I find 0, nil, nada, niks, no, and nothing on the the subject of ADSL2. However, www.ascent.co.nz is selling adsl2, adsl2+ ready modems claiming 12mb/sec rates. I looks to me as if telstra merged with clear and then totally completely

RE: ISP's / RIP ADSL Router - 2003-2005

2005-04-12 Thread Steve Holdoway
Where's adsl2 in all of this?? On Wed, April 13, 2005 12:37 pm, C. Falconer said: > I wish they had throttle on cap, like the new DSL plans That'd make > stuff so much safer :-\ > > > -Original Message- > From: Christopher Sawtell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 13 April

Txt2regex, another regular expression tool

2005-04-12 Thread Ross Drummond
From the readme file; Program: txt2regex Summary: A Regular Expression Wizard, written with bash2 builtins Author : Aurelio Marinho Jargas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) License: GPL Homepage : http://txt2regex.sourceforge.net Description: txt2regex$ is a Regular Expression "wizard", all w

RE: ISP's / RIP ADSL Router - 2003-2005

2005-04-12 Thread C. Falconer
I wish they had throttle on cap, like the new DSL plans That'd make stuff so much safer :-\ -Original Message- From: Christopher Sawtell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 13 April 2005 12:35 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: ISP's / RIP ADSL Router - 200

Re: ISP's / RIP ADSL Router - 2003-2005

2005-04-12 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 12:17, John Carter wrote: > My DSE ADSL modem / router/hub has died. > > I don't know why. Perhaps the kids tripped over the cord one too many > times, perhaps the bluetooth access point I plugged into fried it, I > don't know. > > I need to change my ISP service plan anyway, no

ISP's / RIP ADSL Router - 2003-2005

2005-04-12 Thread John Carter
My DSE ADSL modem / router/hub has died. I don't know why. Perhaps the kids tripped over the cord one too many times, perhaps the bluetooth access point I plugged into fried it, I don't know. I need to change my ISP service plan anyway, now would be a Good Time for an Alternate Magical Technolo

Re: KRegExpEditor

2005-04-12 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 11:13:56 +1200 Ross Drummond wrote: > Jim's talk last night on regular expressions was very interesting. > > For those of us who are just getting started with regular expressions I > recommend KRegExpEditor. > > This application is a regular expressions builder. It is part

KRegExpEditor

2005-04-12 Thread Ross Drummond
Jim's talk last night on regular expressions was very interesting. For those of us who are just getting started with regular expressions I recommend KRegExpEditor. This application is a regular expressions builder. It is part of the kdeutils package. It may launched as an application in its ow

Re: Fix-up evening, tonight

2005-04-12 Thread Lindsay
Thanks Nick. Done that now and all looked ok. Mysterious! On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 23:56 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > I see you are using evolution 2.02 > > with the message showing, click the view menu|message display|show full > headers. Read them. They willl show you the piece of mail;'s progress

Re: Fix-up evening, tonight

2005-04-12 Thread Nick Rout
I see you are using evolution 2.02 with the message showing, click the view menu|message display|show full headers. Read them. They willl show you the piece of mail;'s progress through various email servers. On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 23:52 +1200, Lindsay wrote: > I'm afraid I dont know how to do th

Re: Fix-up evening, tonight

2005-04-12 Thread Lindsay
I'm afraid I dont know how to do that Nick!! On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 23:38 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > Lindsay, I got the message at 12.35 or thereabouts. Check the headers, > it will tell you where the delay was. > > On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 21:36 +1200, Lindsay wrote: > > I just received this at 21:34

Re: Fix-up evening, tonight

2005-04-12 Thread Nick Rout
Lindsay, I got the message at 12.35 or thereabouts. Check the headers, it will tell you where the delay was. On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 21:36 +1200, Lindsay wrote: > I just received this at 21:34 Christopher. Is your PC time correct? > > On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 12:35 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: >

Re: Fix-up evening, tonight

2005-04-12 Thread Lindsay
I just received this at 21:34 Christopher. Is your PC time correct? On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 12:35 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 12:10, Ross Drummond wrote: > > Will there be a phone line available for modem testing? > Yes, It's charged at business rates so it's only for 't

Re: Ride to and from? WAS Re: Fix-up evening, tonight

2005-04-12 Thread Richard Tindall
i can help, but are we too late? Timothy Pick wrote: Hi everyone, I live on Studholme St, if anyone is going to and from this area (Somerfield) could I get a lift? Girlfriend has to take the car to work... Don't go too far out of the way though, and I can probably find some petrol $ for the luck