Re: Have a laugh on telecom

2006-05-24 Thread John Rye
On Thu, 25 May 2006 15:46:25 +1200 Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > download it while you can! > > I got > > 7018444 2006-05-25 15:36:23 /tmp/Telecon.avi mmm, I got it from google: 10351086 May 22 21:25 Telecomcommercialspo.avi Plays fine on everything I've opened it with.

Re: Have a laugh on telecom

2006-05-24 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> I find that VLC plays almost anything. Thanks. I'll hunt around for it some other time. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.

Re: Have a laugh on telecom

2006-05-24 Thread Robert Fisher
On Thursday 25 May 2006 3:46 pm, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > download it while you can! > > I got > > 7018444 2006-05-25 15:36:23 /tmp/Telecon.avi The file I got is telecon.mp4 and it did not even play on Windows Media Player when I gave it to someone. I find that VLC plays almost anything.

Re: Have a laugh on telecom

2006-05-24 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Thursday 25 May 2006 15:46, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > download it while you can! > > I got > > 7018444 2006-05-25 15:36:23 /tmp/Telecon.avi > > now how do I play it? Kaffeine does nothing, quicktime says it can't > hack it, and mplayer (Microsoft's media player) 6.4 says it can't > understa

Re: Have a laugh on telecom

2006-05-24 Thread Robert Fisher
On Thursday 25 May 2006 3:46 pm, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > download it while you can! > > I got > > 7018444 2006-05-25 15:36:23 /tmp/Telecon.avi > > now how do I play it? Kaffeine does nothing, quicktime says it can't > hack it, and mplayer (Microsoft's media player) 6.4 says it can't > unders

Re: Have a laugh on telecom

2006-05-24 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> download it while you can! I got 7018444 2006-05-25 15:36:23 /tmp/Telecon.avi now how do I play it? Kaffeine does nothing, quicktime says it can't hack it, and mplayer (Microsoft's media player) 6.4 says it can't understand the format, realplayer barfs on something missing. What am I missi

Re: OT - 5km of Fibre quote prices...

2006-05-24 Thread Christopher Sawtell
Has anybody taken $250,000,000 and divided it by the length of the streets cabled by Telstra? This would yield the rough cost per km. On Thursday 25 May 2006 15:13, Don Gould wrote: > Yes. I've been told I'm light by a factor of 10. > > Cheers Don > > Craig FALCONER wrote: > >You forgot the fee

Re: Have a laugh on telecom

2006-05-24 Thread Robert Fisher
On Thursday 25 May 2006 2:15 pm, Andrew Errington wrote: > On Thu, 25 May 2006 14:02, you wrote: > > clearly telecon have no sense of humour: I couldn't help wondering how they felt when TVNZ showed the clip on Close Up the other night.

Re: OT - 5km of Fibre quote prices...

2006-05-24 Thread Don Gould
Yes. I've been told I'm light by a factor of 10. Cheers Don Craig FALCONER wrote: You forgot the fee to the owner of the poles to use their space. And the cost of the resource consent required for aerial cables and for traffic disturbances and to cross roads. I think your price estimate is l

Re: USB printer cables free to a good home

2006-05-24 Thread Don Gould
yes please Cheers don Robert Fisher wrote: I have 5 (surplus to requirements) USB printer cables free to a good home. They came with printers and may be good for other devices.

USB printer cables free to a good home

2006-05-24 Thread Robert Fisher
I have 5 (surplus to requirements) USB printer cables free to a good home. They came with printers and may be good for other devices. -- Regards, Robert -- Robert Fisher (aka - Rob, Bob, Robbie, Robbo, Fish) FishNet Computer Services w

RE: Have a laugh on telecom

2006-05-24 Thread Craig FALCONER
BWAHAHAHA telecom bought telecon.co.nz! That's amusing. -Original Message- From: Ross Drummond [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 25 May 2006 2:28 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Have a laugh on telecom On Thu, 25 May 2006 14:15, Andrew Errington wrote: > O

RE: OT - 5km of Fibre quote prices...

2006-05-24 Thread Craig FALCONER
You forgot the fee to the owner of the poles to use their space. And the cost of the resource consent required for aerial cables and for traffic disturbances and to cross roads. I think your price estimate is low. -Original Message- From: Don Gould [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursda

Re: Have a laugh on telecom

2006-05-24 Thread Ross Drummond
On Thu, 25 May 2006 14:15, Andrew Errington wrote: > On Thu, 25 May 2006 14:02, you wrote: > > clearly telecon have no sense of humour: > > Indeed- I grabbed it from Google and laughed *so* hard (and I don't even > have a TV, but it's the same kids that appear on Telecom posters and > magazine ads)

Re: Have a laugh on telecom

2006-05-24 Thread Andrew Errington
On Thu, 25 May 2006 14:02, you wrote: > clearly telecon have no sense of humour: Indeed- I grabbed it from Google and laughed *so* hard (and I don't even have a TV, but it's the same kids that appear on Telecom posters and magazine ads). I am sure Telecon allowed itself a wry smile. Don't you

Re: Have a laugh on telecom

2006-05-24 Thread Nick Rout
clearly telecon have no sense of humour: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10383435 "Website ordered to remove ad lampooning Telecom Thursday May 25, 2006 By Anne Beston Telecom has stopped an international website from distributing a spoof advertisement that has chi

Re: OT - 5km of Fibre quote prices...

2006-05-24 Thread Nick Rout
poll? are we voting on something? On Thu, 25 May 2006 13:48:05 +1200 Don Gould wrote: > You guys are so helpful today :) > > I was just doing a simple price comparision... > > Fibre is ~$4/m. > > So, 5km span = 5,000m * 4 = $20,000.00 > > Then allow say ~$10 for fixings to attach the fi

Re: OT - 5km of Fibre quote prices...

2006-05-24 Thread Don Gould
You guys are so helpful today :) I was just doing a simple price comparision... Fibre is ~$4/m. So, 5km span = 5,000m * 4 = $20,000.00 Then allow say ~$10 for fixings to attach the fibre to each poll. Say that there's 1 poll per 30 meters = 167 sets of fixings = $1670.00 in parts. The

Re: any nfs gurus out there??

2006-05-24 Thread Rex Johnston
Neil Stockbridge wrote: i'm shooting from the hip a bit here and i've not tried this out but isn't NFS managed by portmap? portmap has a "-i" option that binds portmap only to the specified address. is that option any good? No. If the portmapper isn't contactable on 127.0.0.1, nfs doesn't s

Re: OT - 5km of Fibre quote prices...

2006-05-24 Thread Ross Drummond
On Thu, 25 May 2006 11:03, Don Gould wrote: > Hi All, > > I need to get some prices for a 5km span of fibre. > > Can anyone suggest someone to talk to? > > TIA > > Cheers Don 5km!! If your cable will cross other peoples properties or public land such as streets your biggest hassle will be obtain

Re: any nfs gurus out there??

2006-05-24 Thread Neil Stockbridge
i'm shooting from the hip a bit here and i've not tried this out but isn't NFS managed by portmap? portmap has a "-i" option that binds portmap only to the specified address. is that option any good? - neil On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 10:58 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: > ... I'm looking for a way to

RE: OT - 5km of Fibre quote prices...

2006-05-24 Thread Craig FALCONER
BACKHOE FADE! -Original Message- From: Steve Holdoway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 25 May 2006 11:05 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: OT - 5km of Fibre quote prices... On Thu, 25 May 2006 11:03:08 +1200 Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, >

Re: any nfs gurus out there??

2006-05-24 Thread David Kirk
Steve, How about using /etc/hosts.allow? I take that back. It will still listen on all interfaces, it just won't allow connections from anyone who is not allowed. You could do the same thing in /etc/exports anyway. Sorry, I don't know. -- Later David Kirk

Re: cisco help

2006-05-24 Thread Adrian Mageanu
I'm replying to my message to send a big Thanks to all who helped me on and especially off the list. I have it working now. Thank you guys, Adrian On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 23:15 +1200, Adrian Mageanu wrote: > Did I mention help will be rewarded? Say the price and have to be able > to issue an invo

RE: OT - 5km of Fibre quote prices...

2006-05-24 Thread Craig FALCONER
Telecom or telstraclear... That's all. What do you want that for? -Original Message- From: Don Gould [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 25 May 2006 11:03 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: OT - 5km of Fibre quote prices... Hi All, I need to get some prices fo

Re: OT - 5km of Fibre quote prices...

2006-05-24 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Thu, 25 May 2006 11:03:08 +1200 Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I need to get some prices for a 5km span of fibre. > > Can anyone suggest someone to talk to? > > TIA > > Cheers Don Man with digger??? (: Steve

RE: Telstra cable usage downloader

2006-05-24 Thread Craig FALCONER
Segmentation at work - I can say that 192.168.150.anything is a computer in room M110, and 192.168.151.* is J105 etc That way I can tell squidguard to allow "search engines" for 192.168.11.* in lunchtime, but not the classrooms. At home? I guess I was just showing off :) -Original Message-

OT - 5km of Fibre quote prices...

2006-05-24 Thread Don Gould
Hi All, I need to get some prices for a 5km span of fibre. Can anyone suggest someone to talk to? TIA Cheers Don

Re: any nfs gurus out there??

2006-05-24 Thread David Kirk
Steve, On 5/25/06, Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... I'm looking for a way to start up the relevant processes so they only listen on one of many ethernet interfaces. Is there a way to do this without firewalling the interfaces I don't want to use? How about using /etc/hosts.allow

Re: Telstra cable usage downloader

2006-05-24 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> > 172.16.0.31:138 -> 172.16.0.255:138, hmmm. > > This is in the non-broadcast class b address range... 172.16.0.0/12. > Are you sure this interface is a /24 subnet? No, no way of knowing. Come to think of it, as they need one 172. per customer, they probably used all the available space. And the

Re: Telstra cable usage downloader

2006-05-24 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> Yeah - unfortunately I use the 192.168./16 range both at work and at home. Why'd you make it /16? I mean, do you have more than 254 boxes at home? And then I never understood why people willingly type 1 9 2. bummer what was that number again, when they could just be typing 10.0.0 > Got to wond

any nfs gurus out there??

2006-05-24 Thread Steve Holdoway
... I'm looking for a way to start up the relevant processes so they only listen on one of many ethernet interfaces. Is there a way to do this without firewalling the interfaces I don't want to use? Cheers, Steve

Re: Telstra cable usage downloader

2006-05-24 Thread Steve Holdoway
> Put a non-log rule in [1]. I get IGMP from 172.16.0.5, which is > in the 172.16/16 of my cable modem's HFC address [2], but not in its > 172.../24. I assume it's from Telstra, if it's from a sad customer, > Telstra shouldn't be routing it. But then I get udp > 172.16.0.31:138 -> 172.16.0.255:1

RE: Telstra cable usage downloader

2006-05-24 Thread Craig FALCONER
Yeah - unfortunately I use the 192.168./16 range both at work and at home. One of these days I'll renumber horse from 192.168.1.2 which is the same IP as a machine here at work... Which leads to interesting ssh errors :) Got to wonder if I can vpn data between cablemodems using the 172.* address

RE: Telstra cable usage downloader

2006-05-24 Thread Craig FALCONER
Everyone on cable has a fixed static IP - so there is no need for DHCP. However the 172.16/12 range is used for TCNZ's internal modem control. -Original Message- From: Andrew Errington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 25 May 2006 9:14 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Sub

Re: Telstra cable usage downloader

2006-05-24 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> My home IP is 203.97.119.201 so anything outside of 203.97.119 should be > charged. Looks like their upstream router allows layer2 (arp etc) through > without charging, and probably broadcast layer 3 (dhcp/bootp) Yes, and IGMP. Probably all the lower level "glue" protocols are uncharged. Hmm, h

Re: definition files for colours

2006-05-24 Thread Stephen Irons
John Carter wrote: > On Mon, 22 May 2006, Wesley Parish wrote: > >> I'm just not sure where I should look for the definitions >> (hexadecimal, 12 bit >> and 24 bit, etc) of colours. Any hints, pointers? > > > Pity I didn't see this earlier. > > The one true answer can always be found at... > > /us

OT: More on cable dropping (Resolved, maybe)

2006-05-24 Thread Andrew Errington
Following up from my message regarding my regularly dropped connection: - The WAN connection was being dropped by my router every 6 to 8 hours. - Internal LAN connections via the router (4 ports) were unaffected - Logging in to the router was unaffected - The WAN connection could be reinstated by

Re: Telstra cable usage downloader

2006-05-24 Thread Andrew Errington
On Thu, 25 May 2006 09:01, you wrote: > Well its most definitely not in my /24 > > My home IP is 203.97.119.201 so anything outside of 203.97.119 should be > charged. Looks like their upstream router allows layer2 (arp etc) > through without charging, and probably broadcast layer 3 (dhcp/bootp) >

RE: Telstra cable usage downloader

2006-05-24 Thread Craig FALCONER
Well its most definitely not in my /24 My home IP is 203.97.119.201 so anything outside of 203.97.119 should be charged. Looks like their upstream router allows layer2 (arp etc) through without charging, and probably broadcast layer 3 (dhcp/bootp) Interestingly, there are dhcp answers being hand

RE: Telstra cable usage downloader

2006-05-24 Thread Craig FALCONER
Dwoops sorry http://criggie.dyndns.org/pfsense/2hours.png -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 24 May 2006 4:43 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Telstra cable usage downloader On Wed, 24 May 2006 16:33:10 +1200 Craig FALC

Re: Telstra cable usage downloader

2006-05-24 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> Not really. mrtg was originally designed to monitor ethernet ports. > There's no difference between monitoring the outgoing port on the > switch/server or the incoming port on the cable modem. If the modem is transparent, you're right. However, that number is of literally no use - it includes al

Re: Telstra cable usage downloader

2006-05-24 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> volker i belong to the nz adsl/broadband mailiong list, although i > rarely read it. I'll scan my archives for you, see if anyone has > mentioned this. Thanks but no need, I'm subscribed too. The broadband hadn't had a post in a year, the adsl one doesn't usually discuss cable, it's fairly quiet

Re: Telstra cable usage downloader

2006-05-24 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 24 May 2006 22:24:37 +1200 Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 24 May 2006 21:57:21 +1200 > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 24 May 2006 20:58:44 +1200 > > Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > ... if you're that worried, look at the thresh

Re: Telstra cable usage downloader

2006-05-24 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Wed, 24 May 2006 21:57:21 +1200 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 24 May 2006 20:58:44 +1200 > Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ... if you're that worried, look at the thresholding options in mrtg/rrd, > > and shut it down automatically. > > > begin chicken egg r

Re: Telstra cable usage downloader

2006-05-24 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 24 May 2006 20:58:44 +1200 Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... if you're that worried, look at the thresholding options in mrtg/rrd, and > shut it down automatically. begin chicken egg repeat volker needs to get the data first. volker i belong to the nz adsl/broadband mail

Re: Telstra cable usage downloader

2006-05-24 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> Another issue - at home I have a continual background noise level of 100 > kbit/sec. > > This data is mostly ARP traffic from a bunch of misconfigured windows boxes, > plus IPP advertising and just plain crap. This, up to the last electron on the "i", is exactly how I would describe it too. The

Re: Telstra cable usage downloader

2006-05-24 Thread Steve Holdoway
... if you're that worried, look at the thresholding options in mrtg/rrd, and shut it down automatically. On Wed, 24 May 2006 16:05:39 +1200 Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I went the other way and am taking daily stamps of traffic in and out > > of the eth1 interface (yes, I us

Re: Telstra cable usage downloader

2006-05-24 Thread David Mann
On May 24, 2006, at 4:33 PM, Craig FALCONER wrote: Another issue - at home I have a continual background noise level of 100 kbit/sec. This data is mostly ARP traffic from a bunch of misconfigured windows boxes, plus IPP advertising and just plain crap. This traffic is not accounted for as