Using a Vodem in Linux

2007-07-21 Thread Andrew Packer
I sent the following about 7 days ago, but it appears never to have arrived on the CLUG server, and meanwhile I lost contact with CLUG - some incompatibility of Clear's and Farmside's mail servers. Apologies if you've all read the following already. === Some months back there

Re: [OT] Can anyone recommend a computer repair shop

2007-07-21 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On 7/21/07, Timothy Musson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Yesterday a friend of a friend asked me to take a look at his computer, a HP Pavilion 510a (~5 years old), which does absolutely nothing when switched on (...no LEDs light up, no fans, no beeps, no blue smoke, no sign of life whatsoever).

Re: [OT] Can anyone recommend a computer repair shop

2007-07-21 Thread Nick Rout
Christopher Sawtell wrote: On 7/21/07, Timothy Musson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Yesterday a friend of a friend asked me to take a look at his computer, a HP Pavilion 510a (~5 years old), which does absolutely nothing when switched on (...no LEDs light up, no fans, no beeps, no blue smoke,

Re: Just sent a fax

2007-07-21 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Sat 21 Jul 2007 10:58:04 NZST +1200, Nick Rout wrote: Distinctive ring is about $4-5 per month on the phone bill. $2.45. Much less than a second phone line. It gives you a second number with a different ring. Suitable hardware (look for claims of faxability) can distinguish the ring and

Re: Just sent a fax

2007-07-21 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Sat 21 Jul 2007 12:55:03 NZST +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: Hylafax is an enterprise grade faxing solution. FWIW, Some years aga I found Gert Doering's mgetty+sendfax to be a superior package. http://mgetty.greenie.net/ I found hylafax overkill once and tried to use mgetty+sendfax.

Re: [OT] Can anyone recommend a computer repair shop

2007-07-21 Thread Christopher Sawtell
bin the power supply or bin the computer? Unless thje fault is something glaringly obvious which can be fixed in just a few minutes, it's just not worth futzing around with machines more than about 5 years old. You can get a younger and thus better working replacement for the same price as

Re: Just sent a fax

2007-07-21 Thread Ross Drummond
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 10:58, Nick Rout wrote: Distinctive ring is about $4-5 per month on the phone bill. It gives you a second number with a different ring. Suitable hardware (look for claims of faxability) can distinguish the ring and answer if it likes the ring. If your hardware won't do

Re: [OT] Can anyone recommend a computer repair shop

2007-07-21 Thread Timothy Musson
Christopher Sawtell, 2007-07-22 00:22:41: bin the power supply or bin the computer? Unless thje fault is something glaringly obvious which can be fixed in just a few minutes, it's just not worth futzing around with machines more than about 5 years old. You can get a younger and thus better

Re: [OT] Can anyone recommend a computer repair shop

2007-07-21 Thread Timothy Musson
Timothy Musson wrote: Christopher Sawtell, 2007-07-22 00:22:41: bin the power supply or bin the computer? Unless thje fault is something glaringly obvious which can be fixed in just a few minutes, it's just not worth futzing around with machines more than about 5 years old. You can get a

Re: [OT] Can anyone recommend a computer repair shop

2007-07-21 Thread Rik Tindall
Timothy Musson wrote: Christopher Sawtell, 2007-07-22 00:22:41: bin the power supply or bin the computer? Unless thje fault is something glaringly obvious which can be fixed in just a few minutes, it's just not worth futzing around with machines more than about 5 years old. You can get a

Re: sharing a printer / Open Suse / KDE / with XP computers

2007-07-21 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Sat 21 Jul 2007 15:47:27 NZST +1200, Reg wrote: I tried with the suse firewall off and still no go. Good, you have eliminated the firewall from the suspect list :) If to make it go I would have to open up a whole lot of ports and rules to make firewall ineffective then maybe I will flag

Re: Just sent a fax

2007-07-21 Thread Robert Fisher
On Saturday 21 July 2007 11:53 pm, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: fullstop. That scanner/pdf/everything else machine you've got is superb in a law office where it's used every 5 minutes, but it's not justifiable for the occasional use. But businesses love them (almost demand them). I install at

Re: [OT] Can anyone recommend a computer repair shop

2007-07-21 Thread Robert Fisher
On Sunday 22 July 2007 12:22 am, Christopher Sawtell wrote: bin the power supply or bin the computer? You can get a younger and thus better working replacement for the same price as paying a technician for two or three hours work. Read my lips. I have a tool which plugs in to the power

Re: Using a Vodem in Linux

2007-07-21 Thread Don Gould
Thanks Andrew I have a vodem as well. I've had enough trouble getting it to run under windows Andrew Packer wrote: I sent the following about 7 days ago, but it appears never to have arrived on the CLUG server, and meanwhile I lost contact with CLUG - some incompatibility of

Re: Just sent a fax

2007-07-21 Thread yuri
On 21/07/07, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: I'd like to think that faxes have had their day, and could be replaced by scanners and email. I very much disagree. The print quality of faxes is shocking, but they are protected by privacy laws (pertaining to the telephone system) and are reasonably

Re: Using a Vodem in Linux

2007-07-21 Thread Eliot Blennerhassett
Andrew Packer wrote: Subsequent to all the above I've written a shell script to unmount the Vodem as a CD-ROM, change the usb modules as above and launch the Vodem driver. I'd like to be able to run it other than in a terminal but haven't got that sussed out yet. Google for udev Huawei_E220,