Re: A trick I just found (or how to suck eggs)

2006-03-05 Thread dave
just put mine over the time and got different time zones. Moscow, japan, us, europe Tho i think i did find this out sometime ago and thought cute but so what. my 2cents worth. On Friday 03 March 2006 19:11, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Friday 03 March 2006 19:04, Robert Fisher wrote: > > On

Re: Can someone please fix the mailing list archives

2006-03-05 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:50:39 +1100 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Nick Rout writes... > ["Please quote properly. I suggest a new client, after all it is pretty > odd posting to this list using: > > > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1506 > > I know that many have to use that other

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

2006-03-05 Thread ww
Nick Rout writes... ["Please quote properly. I suggest a new client, after all it is pretty odd posting to this list using: > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1506 I know that many have to use that other OS from time to time, but its really no excuse for using OE, and even less excus

CUJ Gone

2006-03-05 Thread John Carter
A rock in the Universe has Gone. The C/C++ User Journal is no more. It has melted into Dr Dobbs. I'm shocked. Strange, neither website seems to admit it yet. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO B

Re: A giggle for a Monday

2006-03-05 Thread John Carter
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Hadley Rich wrote: I thought the list might get a laugh out of this; http://www.bemroses.net/images/curves.jpg Missing from the emacs diagram is a third dimension. That spiral is going zooming way off into the third dimension of learning to do all your work in Elisp. i

Re: A giggle for a Monday

2006-03-05 Thread bossman
think someone might have stolen some maroi design ideas on the emacs curve. LOL Quoting Hadley Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I thought the list might get a laugh out of this; http://www.bemroses.net/images/curves.jpg From a post on the Asterisk users list. hads -- Meekness: Uncommon patience

Re: update on dying disk

2006-03-05 Thread Roger Searle
I find that I can fit all my data and email on to a DVD and still have room to spare. A single dvd is still (though only just) enough for me to back up the photos that have accumulated at home. Would be more than enough if we ever got around to deleting the ones with closed eyes etc. My stra

RE: update on dying disk

2006-03-05 Thread Craig FALCONER
I can't really speak authoritively, but here are some points. 1) Tape is dead. Really dead. The only reason for using tape is if you have a tape drive already. Work has an Exabyte VXA2 tape drive that cost around $2000, and the 210 metre tapes are $155 each. So 110 Gb of storage costs aro

Re: update on dying disk

2006-03-05 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Mon, March 6, 2006 2:23 pm, Ross Drummond wrote: > As part of any talk I would be happy to do a short show & tell about my > bash > backup script. > > It uses bash to wrap MySql dump, tar mkisofs & cdrecord to write a backup > cd. > > As an incidental question does anyone know of some code I ca

Re: update on dying disk

2006-03-05 Thread Ross Drummond
As part of any talk I would be happy to do a short show & tell about my bash backup script. It uses bash to wrap MySql dump, tar mkisofs & cdrecord to write a backup cd. As an incidental question does anyone know of some code I can use to test if there is a blank cd in the proper drive? Cheers

Re: update on dying disk

2006-03-05 Thread Derek Smithies
Hi, and then there is the comment: There are two times to test your backup: a)before disaster b)after disaster Derek. = On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, John Carter wrote: > On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Steve Holdoway wrote: > > > Now, about your backup strategy.. (: > > "

Re: update on dying disk

2006-03-05 Thread John Carter
On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Steve Holdoway wrote: Now, about your backup strategy.. (: "Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it." - Linus Torvalds John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics

Re: SCO Unixware, does anyone want it. (Free)

2006-03-05 Thread John Carter
On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, sirlancelot wrote: If you want it give me a yell, it's a freebie. If you can work out how to scan it for stolen Linux code, that would be a laugh... John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3)

Re: update on dying disk

2006-03-05 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Mon, March 6, 2006 10:58 am, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: >> Yep! And part of that is, what is the best backup (sub)system? CDs? >> DVDs? >> Tape? > > Answer yourself these questions: > * How much data volume to back up? > * How often? > * What's your budget? > * What's your loss if you lose the da

Re: OSS policy recommendations to the NZ govt

2006-03-05 Thread John Carter
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Wesley Parish wrote: 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. At least there is one party that has the right attitude on th

Re: update on dying disk

2006-03-05 Thread Philip Charles
On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 10:58, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > Yep! And part of that is, what is the best backup (sub)system? CDs? > > DVDs? Tape? > > Answer yourself these questions: > * How much data volume to back up? > * How often? > * What's your budget? > * What's your loss if you lose the data, ex

Re: update on dying disk

2006-03-05 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> Yep! And part of that is, what is the best backup (sub)system? CDs? DVDs? > Tape? Answer yourself these questions: * How much data volume to back up? * How often? * What's your budget? * What's your loss if you lose the data, expressed in dollars? This gives you most of your own answer.

A giggle for a Monday

2006-03-05 Thread Hadley Rich
I thought the list might get a laugh out of this; http://www.bemroses.net/images/curves.jpg From a post on the Asterisk users list. hads -- Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while. -- Ambrose Bierce

Re: Dynalink RTA-230 bridging to IPCop

2006-03-05 Thread Richard Smart
On 5 Mar 2006 at 11:33, Hadley Rich wrote: > Hi all, > > I remember a brief discussion on the list a while back about the Dynalink > RTA-230 ADSL Modem/Router so thought someone may be doing this. > > At home I run an old Alcatel ADSL modem with IPCop behind it doing the PPP > auth etc. but th

Re: update on dying disk

2006-03-05 Thread Wesley Parish
Quoting Robert Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 11:54 pm, Wesley Parish wrote: > > > Now that is techie practice no school will ever give you! > > And the next lesson for Wesley? > > Backup strategy! Yep! And part of that is, what is the best backup (sub)system? CD

Re: update on dying disk

2006-03-05 Thread Wesley Parish
Quoting Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I tried 'dd_rescue if= of=' but didn't > succeed. > > It told me repeatedly that wasn't a device or file. I > don't know > > why! > > The partition table couldn't be read at boot during the first attempt, > but ... But it did read it

Re: SCO Unixware, does anyone want it. (Free)

2006-03-05 Thread Carl Klitscher
Don't you mean: If you don't want it give me a yell and it's a frizbee? Carl sirlancelot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 03/05/2006 12:42:54 AM: > If you want it give me a yell, it's a freebie.