Re: The St Albans box and USB2

2008-02-24 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On 2/25/08, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, February 25, 2008 2:47 pm, Raffael wrote: > > Andrew Errington wrote: > >> Why not have the box boot up with a randomly-chosen distro from the > >> archive it is holding? > >> > >> :) > >> > >> Andrew > >> (No, really, I'm just kidding. I

RE: Open Source Computer Operating Systems v. The Fire Service and St John

2008-02-24 Thread David Lowe
The Hall of Shame on this page should make the NZ Government feel at least a little less lonely. http://webtips.dan.info/brand-x/useragent.html I'm using the new Firefox 3 beta 3 at present and striking lots of 'you can't come in' messages (even from Firefox's own add-ons). So thanks Euan fo

Re: Open Source Computer Operating Systems v. The Fire Service and St John

2008-02-24 Thread Euan Clark
Uh - what browser(s) are you personally using on this Intranet Jeff / Jude? Is it only IE? If it works in Firefox on MS Win it'll most work with Firefox-On-Linux. If the site is expressly redirecting to a lockout message based on browser you could just change the User Agent String so to the serve

Re: A locked down system

2008-02-24 Thread Stein Magne
On 23. feb.. 2008, at 03.13, Jim Cheetham wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 3:38 AM, Stein Magne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a Linux box that are going to monitor some SNMP traps, and display line-status on a screen. I don't want users to be able to minimize, close, move etc the applicatio

Re: The St Albans box and USB2

2008-02-24 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, February 25, 2008 2:47 pm, Raffael wrote: > Andrew Errington wrote: >> Why not have the box boot up with a randomly-chosen distro from the >> archive it is holding? >> >> :) >> >> Andrew >> (No, really, I'm just kidding. It's not a challenge.) >> > I like that idea! Really :D > > By the w

Re: The St Albans box and USB2

2008-02-24 Thread Raffael
Andrew Errington wrote: > Why not have the box boot up with a randomly-chosen distro from the > archive it is holding? > > :) > > Andrew > (No, really, I'm just kidding. It's not a challenge.) > I like that idea! Really :D By the way, today I was more successful in downloading some distros to

Re: The St Albans box and USB2

2008-02-24 Thread Andrew Errington
Why not have the box boot up with a randomly-chosen distro from the archive it is holding? :) Andrew (No, really, I'm just kidding. It's not a challenge.)

Re: The St Albans box and USB2

2008-02-24 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, February 25, 2008 11:39 am, David Taylor wrote: > == Nick wrote on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:25:37 +1300 (NZDT) == > > > What version and what kernel are you running? That latest for mdv2008.0 is > 2.6.22.18-1mdv issued 12 Feb. > > I can't actually recall, it was something like 2.6.12 or 14 I t

Re: ==> Extra CLUG talk by Mike Culver Mon. 18 Feb 2008 <==

2008-02-24 Thread Roy Britten
Thanks to Chris for organising this. Nice to see him acknowledged http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2008/02/new-zealand-tri.html

Re: The St Albans box and USB2

2008-02-24 Thread David Taylor
== Nick wrote on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:25:37 +1300 (NZDT) == >I got a DSE USB2 PCI (xh9738) card on Saturday and installed it in the St >Albans linux repository machine in the hop that people will be able to >take their external hard drives or flash drives in and take a copy of what >they want. > >T

Re: The St Albans box and USB2

2008-02-24 Thread Steve Holdoway
Sounds good to me... after all, you've got all the sources you could possibly need (: Steve On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:25:37 +1300 (NZDT) Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I got a DSE USB2 PCI (xh9738) card on Saturday and installed it in the St > Albans linux repository machine in the hop tha

The St Albans box and USB2

2008-02-24 Thread Nick Rout
I got a DSE USB2 PCI (xh9738) card on Saturday and installed it in the St Albans linux repository machine in the hop that people will be able to take their external hard drives or flash drives in and take a copy of what they want. There have been a few problems with it though. We kept getting this