Re: High load average and high "waiting" time

2006-03-03 Thread Nick Rout
Thanks to all who replied, mostly confirming my own thoughts, but adding a few wrinkles I hadn't thought of or realised. I was pretty sure already that lack of ram/heavy swapping was the issue. Now thanks to a member of this list who emailed me offlist I have 256M of RAM instad of 64M, and the mach

Re: 172.20.18.55 port 67

2006-03-03 Thread dave
On Thursday 23 February 2006 17:25, Andrew Errington wrote: *** snipped *** Settle down for the night, I have a 18 month yarn to tell you with TC NZ. Settled ? Lets start, My wife in her infinate wisdom decided to pay TC extra for the month of Dec (think '03). In Jan we got an account that

RE: OT - 172.20.18.55 port 67

2006-03-03 Thread Craig FALCONER
Quoting Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tuesday 28 February 2006 08:31, Craig FALCONER wrote: > > I have to admit - I sat for about five minutes last night staring at the > > orange Activity light on my cable modem. > > > > Not once in that ~5 mins did it go off for even a blink. >

Re: 56k modem choice?

2006-03-03 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Saturday 04 March 2006 11:31, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > Can anyone recommend from experience any modem whos fax (which class) > and voice parts work well under Linux? See:- http://mgetty.greenie.net/ I have used this s/w with a now old external modem to great effect for data and fax in both di

Re: 56k modem choice?

2006-03-03 Thread Andrew Errington
> > Can anyone recommend from experience any modem whos fax (which class) > and voice parts work well under Linux? Err, no. I have a SpeedCom+ 56SP, bought about 4 years ago. It was about $80 and has voice and fax capabilities. It's now listed at Ascent for $64, but you can borrow mine and ha

Re: 56k modem choice?

2006-03-03 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> I have an ISA mwave modem that you can have. The thought is appreciated, but I have an ISA modem already which works (sort of, fax class 1 only, no voice), alas - no ISA slots. They went extinct about 1999. > I have an Intel536 hardware accelerated pci modem sourced from Dick Smith > (stock co

Re: envelopes

2006-03-03 Thread Andrew Errington
On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 09:20, you wrote: > I often need to print envelopes and find it difficult to do this > correctly from Linux applications. > > These applications are not as easy to use to print envelopes as MS Word. > > Can anyone offer tips tricks or recommend applications? The only tip I can

Re: 56k modem choice?

2006-03-03 Thread Ross Drummond
I have an ISA mwave modem that you can have. It is a softmodem with drivers in the kernel source and also has sound card capabilities. Volker let me know if you are interested and I will bring it to the next meeting. I have found old ISA [1]modems work well as fax capable modems. In particular

envelopes

2006-03-03 Thread Ross Drummond
I often need to print envelopes and find it difficult to do this correctly from Linux applications. These applications are not as easy to use to print envelopes as MS Word. Can anyone offer tips tricks or recommend applications? Cheers Ross Drummond

Re: Can someone please fix the mailing list archives

2006-03-03 Thread Nick Rout
Sorry to top post but its hard to know where to start. I am not going to compare my email archive (ie my imap store) with those online archives to find out what you are talking about. If you think some emails are missing from the archives, and you are really really worried about it I suggest that y

Re: Can someone please fix the mailing list archives

2006-03-03 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Friday 03 March 2006 22:14, Wilber Washbucket wrote: > Christopher Sawtell writes... > It's an open Wiki, feel free to make any change. > > Thanks. > > Wow! It certainly is an *open* Wiki. I didn't even have to register to > make changes :D Sometimes security is just a meaningless PITA set up b

Re: How man memory slots are occupied?

2006-03-03 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 17:30:59 +1300 Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have seen somewhere in linux the details of how many memory slots are > > used in the machine. > > dmidecode excellent. what a great program!

Re: Can someone please fix the mailing list archives

2006-03-03 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 20:14:09 +1100 Wilber Washbucket <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christopher Sawtell writes... > It's an open Wiki, feel free to make any change. > > Thanks. > > -- > CS > > > Wow! It certainly is an *open* Wiki. I didn't even have to register to make > changes :D > > BTW Ch

Re: How man memory slots are occupied?

2006-03-03 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 17:30:59 +1300 Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have seen somewhere in linux the details of how many memory slots are > > used in the machine. > > dmidecode > > It not only tells you how many of your mem slots are taken, but also how > many are still free. >

>>> CLUG Meeting - Tuesday, 14th March 2006 <<

2006-03-03 Thread Christopher Sawtell
Greetings to the CLUG listers, There will be a CLUG meeting at the St. Albans Neighbourhood Resource Centre Hall on Tuesday 14th. March 2006 at 19:30. 1047 Columbo Street, St. Albans. ( Old Library building ~200m south of Edgware Road on west side o

Re: make file query

2006-03-03 Thread Wesley Parish
Happy Windsday, everybody! :-) Thanks Volker, Steve and Hadley. I'm doing test compiling of the more modern stuff - as is where is - to work out that it's sufficiently uptodate. Then I'll try out the 'diet gcc' to work out any gotchas there. The older stuff I'll work on separately. I'll

Re: Gentoo 2006.0 released at last (:

2006-03-03 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Robert Fisher wrote: On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 9:30 am, Robert Himmelmann wrote: rm /etc/make.profile ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2006.0/ /etc/make.profile emerge -uDN world should do the job. Unfortunatly the site is Spanish (I think). I did not know that one can understand

Re: Re: Can someone please fix the mailing list archives

2006-03-03 Thread Wilber Washbucket
Christopher Sawtell writes... It's an open Wiki, feel free to make any change. Thanks. -- CS Wow! It certainly is an *open* Wiki. I didn't even have to register to make changes :D BTW Christopher... Was your reply email to DiG private or to the clug list?

Re: Can someone please fix the mailing list archives

2006-03-03 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Friday 03 March 2006 21:50, Wilber Washbucket wrote: > Also can someone please fix this page also: > http://clug.net.nz/index.php/EmailListFAQ > ["What are the CLUG email lists? > The main CLUG list is linux-users at canterbury dot ac dot nz"] > That should be linux-users at it dot canterbury do