On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 08:53 +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> This piece was brought to my attention by /. this morning. What it's a
> piece of, I'm not too sure. IMO Chapmann Tripp should be shot for
> using
> such inflammatory language, but I suppose that without any licenses to
> write, they'd be g
On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 19:21 +1300, Robert Fisher wrote:
...
>
> I am currently downloading the latest Mepis CD.
>
> I like Mepis. It is easy to install and good with hardware detection.
>
> Let me know if you want a CD burnt.
>
Yes, please. A hand up in this corner. If it is convenient to po
On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 7:13 pm, Ken McAllister wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 19:04 +1300, jd wrote:
> > Could anyone give me
> > recommendations ...?
> > Thank you again,
> > Josh.
>
> I like Ubuntu. I have a few CDs to give away but they're out of date.
> Are people in general receiving the latest
On Thursday 02 March 2006 19:13, HappyEvilSlosh wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 19:04 +1300, jd wrote:
> > Thank you for taking the time out to answer a paranoid novices
> > question. I would still would like to change distributions. Could
> > anyone give me recommendations and possibly sell me a di
On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 19:04 +1300, jd wrote:
> Could anyone give me
> recommendations ...?
> Thank you again,
> Josh.
I like Ubuntu. I have a few CDs to give away but they're out of date.
Are people in general receiving the latest mail-out of free discs?
On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 19:04 +1300, jd wrote:
> Thank you for taking the time out to answer a paranoid novices question.
> I would still would like to change distributions. Could anyone give me
> recommendations and possibly sell me a distribution.
Your average distribution is down-loadable from
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Thursday 02 March 2006 18:34, jd wrote:
cracklib_dict
This is the list of words which is used to tell the new user if (s)he has
selected a readily crackable password when setting up her account. It's
there for your protection.
Thank you for taking t
On Thursday 02 March 2006 18:34, jd wrote:
> cracklib_dict
This is the list of words which is used to tell the new user if (s)he has
selected a readily crackable password when setting up her account. It's
there for your protection.
--
CS
I meant to say not very discreet,I'll proof read from now on lol.
jd wrote:
Hello, my names Josh and I'm new to Linux and computers in general and
I thought you might be able to help me out on a few things.I was
trying to access G.U.I front for my firewall and couldn't also the
computer was ac
Dubious spelling to to sorry.I also meant to add that whoever done this
is very discreet.
jd wrote:
Hello, my names Josh and I'm new to Linux and computers in general and
I thought you might be able to help me out on a few things.I was
trying to access G.U.I front for my firewall and couldn't
Hello, my names Josh and I'm new to Linux and computers in general and I
thought you might be able to help me out on a few things.I was trying to
access G.U.I front for my firewall and couldn't also the computer was
acting strangely (more than usual, I'm running Fedore Core 4 and want
to switc
Ken McAllister wrote:
Who else here is from Nelson?
is that the one in Lancashire?
Nay, lad. 'Tis 10k from Pontypridd, half way to Merthyr Tydfil, well
away from the daft English.
Tasman (as in Able): an ex NSW-govt-consultant, north american. dedicated.
As is Don, to whom a
> matter... is software treated the same as hardware as far as the law
> is concerned?
In NZ, in theory, yes. In practice, ROTFL
It boils down to "does it do for the purpose it was bought", which means
the buyer would have had to specify the purpose (does anyone?), and I
guess nobody ha
Quoting David Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Mar 2, 2006, at 10:38 AM, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
>
> > He's wanting suppliers to warrant the performance of GPL software,
> > yet he
> > fails to note how (in)effective any supposed warrant of commercial
> and
> > propriety software actually is in
On Mar 2, 2006, at 9:45 AM, stringer wrote:
OK I'm no expert in this area, but as I understand it, even Windows
uses some OSS code (eg for its TCP/IP stack?) so clause 64 suggests
the government should refuse to use Windows unless the TCP/IP stack
is removed?
Not such a bad idea. It'd ce
On Mar 2, 2006, at 10:38 AM, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
He's wanting suppliers to warrant the performance of GPL software,
yet he
fails to note how (in)effective any supposed warrant of commercial and
propriety software actually is in practice? Anybody managed to get
a cent
out of a commerc
For what it's worth, I wrote the PM an Open Letter a few years ago on the
"cuddle-up-to-Microsoft" Government Shared Source policy, which I thought as
useful as the proverbial tits-on-a-bull.
My main points were security-related, and working with MS stuff on an almost
daily basis, I can see that I
lawyer="Chapman Tripp & Assoc"
if [$ADVICE_SOURCE == $lawyer]
while pontificating_about_open_source
do
open_mouth();
insert_foot();
done
fi
This code is released under the 'evil' licence.
If you
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Steve Holdoway wrote:
This piece was brought to my attention by /. this morning. What it's a
piece of, I'm not too sure. IMO Chapmann Tripp should be shot for using
such inflammatory language, but I suppose that without any licenses to
write, they'd be going out of business.
s/apache/linux/
They're running "E-Government Server" not apache.
I'll just pull my own foot from my mouth there.
-Original Message-
From: Craig FALCONER [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, 2 March 2006 11:02 a.m.
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Cc: 'linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz'
Subj
The document published at
http://www.e.govt.nz/policy/open-source/open-source-legal is pure and utter
drivel.
There is a complete failure to recognise that Application Software is not
the same as Data.
No licence other than the author's copyright would apply to a document saved
in any application
Apparently there's a lot of discussion of this over at NZOSS-openchat,
which might be a more appropriate forum.
-jim
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 10:38:23AM +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> On Thursday 02 March 2006 08:53, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> > This piece was brought to my attention by /. this
On Thursday 02 March 2006 08:53, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> This piece was brought to my attention by /. this morning. What it's a
> piece of, I'm not too sure. IMO Chapmann Tripp should be shot for using
> such inflammatory language, but I suppose that without any licenses to
> write, they'd be going
On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 8:59 am, Robert Himmelmann wrote:
> Thanks, but I was more worring about the profile. It seems as if that
> part does not get updated automatically.
>
The only thing I update when a new version comes out is my Grub file when the
splash themes are updated.
* media-gfx/splash-t
OK I'm no expert in this area, but as I understand it, even Windows uses
some OSS code (eg for its TCP/IP stack?) so clause 64 suggests the
government should refuse to use Windows unless the TCP/IP stack is removed?
LOL
At 08:53 2/03/06 +1300, you wrote:
This piece was brought to my attention
On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 18:50, you wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a 3 or 4U rackmount case/supplier that'll take 4
> hard disks and a DVD? I can only get Advantech, and they only do 3 disks?
Hmm. Many 1U cases will accept two disks, but even if they take only one
then you could stack two or four 1U c
On Thu, March 2, 2006 9:06 am, Craig FALCONER wrote:
> www.procase.co.nz can do most anything in that line, but they charge for
> it ~$800 for a bare cheap 5U case from memory.
Thanks, I'll look into that one.
>
> I'm using some boring tower cases in my rack - two take up about 9 U side
> by
www.procase.co.nz can do most anything in that line, but they charge for
it ~$800 for a bare cheap 5U case from memory.
I'm using some boring tower cases in my rack - two take up about 9 U side by
side. Or I can fir four desktop cases in the same space (but less
accessible)
Do you need it
Thanks, but I was more worring about the profile. It seems as if that
part does not get updated automatically.
Robert Fisher wrote:
On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 2:22 am, Robert Himmelmann wrote:
How would I upgrade to the new version? Is the following enough?
rm /etc/make.profile
ln -s /usr/porta
> > > > Regards, Rik
> > >
> > Who else here is from Nelson?
> >
> > =Andrew
>
> is that the one in Lancashire?
Nay, lad. 'Tis 10k from Pontypridd, half way to Merthyr Tydfil, well
away from the daft English.
This piece was brought to my attention by /. this morning. What it's a
piece of, I'm not too sure. IMO Chapmann Tripp should be shot for using
such inflammatory language, but I suppose that without any licenses to
write, they'd be going out of business. Altruism isn't a word they
understand in this
On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 2:22 am, Robert Himmelmann wrote:
> How would I upgrade to the new version? Is the following enough?
>
> rm /etc/make.profile
> ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2006.0/ /etc/make.profile
> emerge -uDav world
emerge -uDv world keeps you up to date.
But if you wa
Steve Holdoway wrote:
http://www.gentoo.org/
Interesting to note that it's not gone for gcc 4 yet. Must look into that
one.
Steve
How would I upgrade to the new version? Is the following enough?
rm /etc/make.profile
ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2006.0/ /etc/make.profile
Steve Holdoway wrote:
http://www.gentoo.org/
Interesting to note that it's not gone for gcc 4 yet. Must look into that
one.
Steve
How would I upgrade to the new version? Is the following enough?
rm /etc/make.profile
ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2006.0/ /etc/make.profile
I use ANTEC. I have in it 4xHDD, 1xFloppy, 1xDVD and 5 bays free. It is
a tower case.
On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 18:50 +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a 3 or 4U rackmount case/supplier that'll take 4 hard
> disks and a DVD? I can only get Advantech, and they only do 3 disks?
>
>
On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 21:11:16 +1300
"Andrew M. Packer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 17:02 +1300, Rik Tindall wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
>
> >
> > + someone travelling from Nelson to join in! :)
> >
> > > Regards, Rik
> >
> Who else here is from Nelson?
>
> =Andrew
is
Not me, I'm from BlenheimOn 01/03/06, Andrew M. Packer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 17:02 +1300, Rik Tindall wrote:> Hi folks,>>> + someone travelling from Nelson to join in! :)>> > Regards, Rik>Who else here is from Nelson?
=Andrew(PS - Thanks Wesley for the comments at the
I was born there - does that count?
Andrew M. Packer wrote:
On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 17:02 +1300, Rik Tindall wrote:
Hi folks,
+ someone travelling from Nelson to join in! :)
Regards, Rik
Who else here is from Nelson?
=Andrew
(PS - Thanks Wesley for the comment
On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 17:02 +1300, Rik Tindall wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
>
> + someone travelling from Nelson to join in! :)
>
> > Regards, Rik
>
Who else here is from Nelson?
=Andrew
(PS - Thanks Wesley for the comments at the last meeting re my wife's
peculiarly unstable system. We gave up
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