Re: [OT] Re: workstation power consumption

2007-09-25 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Wed 26 Sep 2007 15:31:09 NZST +1200, Eliot Blennerhassett wrote: > My first measurements gave me a bit of a surprise. (homebuilt machines, > one with supposedly good PSU). > > With switch on PSU in OFF position, power consumed approx 10 watts !? Which switch, the one at the back of the PSU? A

Re: [OT] Re: workstation power consumption

2007-09-25 Thread Eliot Blennerhassett
Don Gould wrote: > > > Eliot Blennerhassett wrote: >> Yep they have them, I just got one. > What did it cost you Eliot? $48 http://jaycar.co.nz/productView.asp?ID=MS6115 I'm not ready to lend mine out just yet ;) -- Eliot

Re: [OT] Re: workstation power consumption

2007-09-25 Thread Don Gould
Eliot Blennerhassett wrote: Yep they have them, I just got one. What did it cost you Eliot? Cheers Don

Re: OT - Genealogy help wanted

2007-09-25 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On 9/25/07, barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Is anyone in Chch running Family Tree Maker? I have been sent a data > file which is in some proprietory format (possibly foxpro) which I want > to view. Can you get the other party to export the data to a GEDCOM file? If so, that would al

Re: LaTeX problem with boxes

2007-09-25 Thread Christopher Sawtell
You might find "The (Not So) Short Introduction to LaTeX2e" useful http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/ On 9/26/07, Ross Drummond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am having trouble with boxes in LaTeX. > > I can create a framebox with specified dimensions. I can create a colorbox >

[OT] Re: workstation power consumption

2007-09-25 Thread Eliot Blennerhassett
Christopher Sawtell wrote: > As Don says "It all depends". My first measurements gave me a bit of a surprise. (homebuilt machines, one with supposedly good PSU). With switch on PSU in OFF position, power consumed approx 10 watts !? (Its at the bottom end of what the meter can measure, but certain

Re: List of 35 Free and Open Source Linux and Unix distributions

2007-09-25 Thread Brett Davidson
Christopher Sawtell wrote: Greets CLUGgers, Here's the list of some 35 Free and Open Source Linux and Unix distributions available to members at our meeting venue. Do please use this resource - if you don't use it, you'll lose it. http://berty.dyndns.org/NN_Images.txt Many thanks to the traff

Re: LaTeX problem with boxes

2007-09-25 Thread Roy Britten
On 26/09/2007, Ross Drummond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I want to do, but can not achieve is to have a box with a specified > dimensions and background colour. How do I do this? A 5x10cm grey rectangle: \colorbox[gray]{0.85}{\rule{5cm}{0cm}\rule{0cm}{10cm}} Or are you after something else?

LaTeX problem with boxes

2007-09-25 Thread Ross Drummond
I am having trouble with boxes in LaTeX. I can create a framebox with specified dimensions. I can create a colorbox with a specified background colour. What I want to do, but can not achieve is to have a box with a specified dimensions and background colour. How do I do this? Examples of each b

List of 35 Free and Open Source Linux and Unix distributions

2007-09-25 Thread Christopher Sawtell
Greets CLUGgers, Here's the list of some 35 Free and Open Source Linux and Unix distributions available to members at our meeting venue. Do please use this resource - if you don't use it, you'll lose it. http://berty.dyndns.org/NN_Images.txt Many thanks to the traffic volume donors. You know wh

Re: ADSL VPN Router combo?

2007-09-25 Thread Robert Fisher
On Tuesday 25 September 2007 9:56 pm, Steve Holdoway wrote: > OT: Is there a well supported NZ legal ADSL card anyone could recommend for > ipcop/pfense?? I'm still using usb ones that really aren't up to the job. > I had one once which I gave to Nick Rout who then got it working in an IPCop box

Re: ADSL VPN Router combo?

2007-09-25 Thread Aaron Christensen
found this in the CLUG wiki http://clug.net.nz/index.php/XH1137onIPCop DSE still have some of these on clearance on their site, or you could try trademe to get one of these cards. Aaron

Tesseract, was CAD software

2007-09-25 Thread Philip Charles
On Tuesday 25 September 2007 22:55, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > Free, donated by HP... good overview at > > http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2006/tc20060907_732 > >714.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_technology > > I discovered Tesseract in Debian so it is probably ava

Re: CAcert

2007-09-25 Thread Raffael
Hey there, Steve Holdoway wrote: > On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:57:48 +1200 > Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] >> You see, I have at least met and vagely know the said Volker Kuhlmann, >> and although it's probably not much to do with being a CA he's got a >> great sense of humour

Re: CAD software

2007-09-25 Thread Christopher Sawtell
Spent time looking to see if it was worth using with the first wave of image spam, but the cpu cost made it impossible to use in that context. Just use a bot-net. :-) Oh. The irony! On 9/25/07, Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:16:49 +1200 > Kerry <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: ADSL VPN Router combo?

2007-09-25 Thread Steve Holdoway
I had terrible problems with that software. The startup / shutdown scripts broke the firewalling and interface initialisation. I dropped it and used vpn passthrough to an openvpn server... this was about 18 months ago so (if they are still going) they should have addressed that by now. The curs

Re: CAD software

2007-09-25 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:16:49 +1200 Kerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Interesting one of the posts touched on the point that floss does some > things well ie: Apache. One of the reasons I took a long time moving > (almost entirely) to linux is the lack of decent OCR software. > > Regards, > K

Re: CAcert

2007-09-25 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 20:57:48 +1200 Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you look in the file /etc/ca-certificates.conf you will see the > names of all the Cert Authorities which your browser will recognise. > Adding a certificate yourself is not exactly mind-boggling science. > > i

Re: CAD software

2007-09-25 Thread Kerry
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 20:02 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > On Tue 25 Sep 2007 16:41:28 NZST +1200, Kerry wrote: > > > I'm looking into some CAD software for some work I'm doing. I need to do > > up some 2D architectural drawings of specific construction techniques. I > > need something that's fai

Re: CAcert

2007-09-25 Thread Christopher Sawtell
If you look in the file /etc/ca-certificates.conf you will see the names of all the Cert Authorities which your browser will recognise. Adding a certificate yourself is not exactly mind-boggling science. imho, this whole CA lark is just that. A lark to wrought money out of the ignorant and innocen

Re: ADSL VPN Router combo?

2007-09-25 Thread Christopher Sawtell
I know it's not a "hardware solution", but IPCop fits the bill. You can use either the builtin IPSec stuff, or the OpenVPN addon from ZERINA. http://www.zerina.de/zerina/ But surprise-surprise that url is not answering. If you want to go that route I have a copy of the software. On 9/25/0

Re: CAD software

2007-09-25 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Tue 25 Sep 2007 16:41:28 NZST +1200, Kerry wrote: > I'm looking into some CAD software for some work I'm doing. I need to do > up some 2D architectural drawings of specific construction techniques. I > need something that's fairly straight forward to learn and use but is > precise down to 1mm.

Re: ADSL VPN Router combo?

2007-09-25 Thread Don Gould
Netcomm do such a beast. I don't know if you can get them in NZ. www.netcomm.com.au I would put a post on www.whirlpool.net.au asking people to suggest other brands that do the same thing - I'm sure you'll find one that is available in NZ. HTH Cheers Don Robert Fisher wrote: Is there suc

Re: ADSL VPN Router combo?

2007-09-25 Thread Kerry Mayes
The linksys ag241 says it does this, not sure of pricing though. However, I've had no success connecting to it from an ipcop box. On the other hand, I had a vpn between two vm ipcop boxes connect first attempt. I think it's only gurus with the appropriate incantations that can get vpns between di

Re: CAcert

2007-09-25 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Tue 25 Sep 2007 16:28:42 NZST +1200, Brenda Wallace wrote: > > Their website suffers from a common problem: it seems to have a lot of > > content, but doesn't tell me in 2 sentences what it is all about and > > what it does for me. Perhaps you could summarize? I note their site cert > > isn't r