Re: can't change desktop wallpaper

2008-01-22 Thread Christopher Sawtell
I suspect that there is some daemon ( kde has lots ) or other running which has locked some file or other in your ~/.kde directory tree. I'd suggest logging out of your account. logging in again as root Assuming that you're on a machine over which you have full say-so as the root user. go to singl

Re: 10 gig of bandwidth to use up - requests?

2008-01-22 Thread Graeme Kiyoto-Ward
Hi I have the three FreeBSD 6.3 install disk for i386 downloaded and will send through to the archive. If you are looking at FreeBSD, as a way to using up the bandwidth, I would recommend the AMD64 version. Regards Graeme Kiyoto-Ward Regards Graeme Kiyoto-Ward Phill Coxon wrote: I have 1

Re: can't change desktop wallpaper

2008-01-22 Thread Roger Searle
Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, January 23, 2008 4:16 pm, Roger Searle wrote: aaahh - cool that you can do that! done. and still can't change the background. i think i'll just leave it, luckily it's stuck on a nice enough colour :-) it's really not worth having spent the time i have already on i

Re: Spare Bandwidth...CC Licensed Content freebies.

2008-01-22 Thread John Carter
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Nick Rout wrote: Imagine every smart NZ bloke and blokess having a recentish Jamendo torrent mirror Well while you are about it how about a nifty guide on how to get good upload speeds and unlimited traffic at a reasonable price in NZ. And the other thing is that b

Re: can't change desktop wallpaper

2008-01-22 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, January 23, 2008 4:16 pm, Roger Searle wrote: > aaahh - cool that you can do that! done. and still can't change the > background. i think i'll just leave it, luckily it's stuck on a nice > enough colour :-) > > it's really not worth having spent the time i have already on it but > never

Re: can't change desktop wallpaper

2008-01-22 Thread Roger Searle
aaahh - cool that you can do that! done. and still can't change the background. i think i'll just leave it, luckily it's stuck on a nice enough colour :-) it's really not worth having spent the time i have already on it but never mind, it has been an interesting exercise anyway. Cheers, R

Re: Spare Bandwidth...CC Licensed Content freebies.

2008-01-22 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, January 23, 2008 3:53 pm, Nick Rout wrote: > > On Wed, January 23, 2008 3:44 pm, John Carter wrote: >> I'm probably too late for that "what to do with 10Gb of bandwith in >> 48hrs" thing, but as a gnice freebie for free software day >> >> How about CD's or DVD's just packed to the brim

Re: Spare Bandwidth...CC Licensed Content freebies.

2008-01-22 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, January 23, 2008 3:44 pm, John Carter wrote: > I'm probably too late for that "what to do with 10Gb of bandwith in > 48hrs" thing, but as a gnice freebie for free software day > > How about CD's or DVD's just packed to the brim with CC licensed > music? > > With perhaps a nifty guide f

Spare Bandwidth...CC Licensed Content freebies.

2008-01-22 Thread John Carter
I'm probably too late for that "what to do with 10Gb of bandwith in 48hrs" thing, but as a gnice freebie for free software day How about CD's or DVD's just packed to the brim with CC licensed music? With perhaps a nifty guide for setting yourself up as an NZ local bittorrent source for them.

Re: 10 gig of bandwidth to use up - requests?

2008-01-22 Thread Phill Coxon
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 12:47 +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > For our collection: > http://www.sysresccd.org/Download.en.php Downloaded. > Hopefully *BSD is included in the definition of Linux? > If so: > ftp://ftp7.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/6.3/ On the way. All 1.9Gb Should be

Re: 10 gig of bandwidth to use up - requests?

2008-01-22 Thread Christopher Sawtell
For our collection: http://www.sysresccd.org/Download.en.php Hopefully *BSD is included in the definition of Linux? If so: ftp://ftp7.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/6.3/ Should we be starting to think about a Saturday afternoon to have a small InstallFest? That's not going to take up 10

Re: can't change desktop wallpaper

2008-01-22 Thread Steve Holdoway
sudo vigr sudo chgrp -R /home/roger Steve On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:43:56 +1300 Roger Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, user IDs are the same, group IDs are not. Can the ID numbers be > changed? I've not yet located anything on how to do so - therefore the > answer may be "no" or "why wo

Re: can't change desktop wallpaper

2008-01-22 Thread Roger Searle
Hi, user IDs are the same, group IDs are not. Can the ID numbers be changed? I've not yet located anything on how to do so - therefore the answer may be "no" or "why would you want to". I guess this is not really a big deal and is no more than a distraction from work I should be doing, and g