SUSE Linux 10.1 alpha released

2005-09-29 Thread Roy Britten
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS4748350059.html The OpenSUSE team has announced through its mail list that SUSE Linux 10.1 Alpha1, codename "Auckland," is ready for download and testing by those wanting to live on the bleeding edge of Linux. "Alpha1 will be followed by Alpha2 in four weeks," t

Re: AUI to 10baseT adapter

2005-09-29 Thread Steve Holdoway
I might have some cable and t pieces lying around. Also thick to 10base-2? Steve On Fri, September 30, 2005 4:15 pm, Craig FALCONER wrote: > Does anyone have one of these floating about spare? > > I've got an old sparc IPC (major thanks to Shane) I'd like to get on the > network, and it only has

AUI to 10baseT adapter

2005-09-29 Thread Craig FALCONER
Title: Message Does anyone have one of these floating about spare?   I've got an old sparc IPC (major thanks to Shane) I'd like to get on the network, and it only has AUI ethernet.

Re: RAID 1 question

2005-09-29 Thread Carl Cerecke
Thanks to a generous donation of an IDE cable, my two drives are now hda and hdc. Interestingly, the speed tests with the drives on separate cables yield the same results (within experimental error) as the two drives on a single cable. This is only hdparm -t, real-world results may be different. O

Re: Read this before trying control-alt-backspace

2005-09-29 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> As a desktop user, the computer crashes and loses my work. I really > don't care whether it is the kernel, X or Open Office that failed Agreed. > As a desktop user, one thing I definitely do not want is a combination > of keystrokes that will guarantee that I lose my work. History is all > v

Re: Read this before trying control-alt-backspace

2005-09-29 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> If Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is bad then Ctrl-Alt-Delete must be worse > because it will reboot your whole computer. Ctrl-alt-del doesn't work on the X11 console. On the text consoles, I'm quite sure I'll be leaving it as it is. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the

Re: Read this before trying control-alt-backspace

2005-09-29 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Fri, September 30, 2005 10:31 am, John Carter wrote: > On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Stephen Irons wrote: > >> Volker Kuhlmann wrote: >> >>> I'm afraid the ctrl-alt-bacjspace has been a feature of Linux X11 for >>> well over a decade, and at times a very useful one too. > > I dare say it has been. > > I'

Re: Broken Mirror ?

2005-09-29 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> I've been using ftp://fast.co.nz/suse/i386/ as a local SuSE mirror, but > it's been offline for the last few days. Yeah, just when I decided it's actually daily up-to-date... > Alternatively, are there any other NZ mirrors for SuSE that I can use ? None but the ones you referred to. Planetmi

RE: Broken Mirror ?

2005-09-29 Thread Craig FALCONER
Yeah - the fast.co.nz mirrors have been broken for about a week. I can't comment on any other suse mirrors though. -Original Message- From: david merriman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 30 September 2005 9:54 a.m. To: CLUG Subject: Broken Mirror ? Hi there, I've been using ftp

Re: A quick plug...

2005-09-29 Thread Martin Bähr
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 11:38:13PM +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > I enjoy reading Linux weekly News, (http://www.lwn.net) every week. > Yes, it's probably the best news e-zine specifically for Linux. it may probably be, but lxer.com surely is the best. :-) started by the co-founder of linu

Re: Broken Mirror ?

2005-09-29 Thread david merriman
John Carter wrote: Ooo. Broken Mirror! 7 years Bad luck for You! Oh no, not again... David -- The night resembled nothing so much as the nose of a giant Labrador in excellent health: cold, black, and wet.

Re: Broken Mirror ?

2005-09-29 Thread John Carter
Ooo. Broken Mirror! 7 years Bad luck for You! She walked toward him, her dress billowing in the wind -- not a calm and predictable billows like the sea, but more like the billowing of a mildewed shower curtain in a cheap motel where one has to dance around to avoid touching it while trying t

Re: Read this before trying control-alt-backspace

2005-09-29 Thread John Carter
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Stephen Irons wrote: Volker Kuhlmann wrote: I'm afraid the ctrl-alt-bacjspace has been a feature of Linux X11 for well over a decade, and at times a very useful one too. I dare say it has been. I'm also sure I read about it a decade ago. What I probably stored in my mi

Re: Read this before trying control-alt-backspace

2005-09-29 Thread David Kirk
If Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is bad then Ctrl-Alt-Delete must be worse because it will reboot your whole computer. If you don't like that idea, then comment out this line in /etc/inittab: # what to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -r -t 4 now Personally I am leaving m

Broken Mirror ?

2005-09-29 Thread david merriman
Hi there, I've been using ftp://fast.co.nz/suse/i386/ as a local SuSE mirror, but it's been offline for the last few days. Does anyone know whether this is likely to be permanent, or just a glitch in the system ? Alternatively, are there any other NZ mirrors for SuSE that I can use ? I'm awar

Re: Read this before trying control-alt-backspace

2005-09-29 Thread Stephen Irons
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Ah yes, cntrl-shift-backspace AND alt-backspace under emacs is delete last word. Somehow my mind munged the two and did cntrl-alt-backspace to do delete a word _harder_. Just goes to show that editor operating systems are evil... ;)) I'm afraid the ctrl-alt-bacjspa

Re: New guy says: Hi all!

2005-09-29 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 23:31 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 22:00, Joshua Malcolm wrote: > > Hi everyone just subscribed (finally). > > Could someone tell me if the last clug meeting with > > the gento guy on compiling programes and your kernnal > > is going to be continued?

Re: A quick plug...

2005-09-29 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 22:34, Dale & Yvonne Ogilvie wrote: > I enjoy reading Linux weekly News, (http://www.lwn.net) every week. Yes, it's probably the best news e-zine specifically for Linux. I think the relatively small subscription is well worth it. One of the few 'Net publications which actually d

Re: New guy says: Hi all!

2005-09-29 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 22:00, Joshua Malcolm wrote: > Hi everyone just subscribed (finally). > Could someone tell me if the last clug meeting with > the gento guy on compiling programes and your kernnal > is going to be continued? > > I understood he was thinking of doing another seminar > on a follow

A quick plug...

2005-09-29 Thread Dale & Yvonne Ogilvie
I enjoy reading Linux weekly News, (http://www.lwn.net) every week. Perhaps some of you others might too... Dale Ogilvie

New guy says: Hi all!

2005-09-29 Thread Joshua Malcolm
Hi everyone just subscribed (finally). Could someone tell me if the last clug meeting with the gento guy on compiling programes and your kernnal is going to be continued? I understood he was thinking of doing another seminar on a following saturday? Thanks all Joshua __

Re: rpms

2005-09-29 Thread Richard Tindall
Philip Charles wrote: Unfortunately Mandrake was named after the magican (Lothar was not included) and not the plant. Hurst owns the magican. More info @ CLUG http://clemsonlinux.org/article.php/20050407180611827 Seriously! :) - Rik