Craig Falconer wrote:
Barry Marchant wrote, On 14/09/09 23:58:
When I attempt to start it from a terminal all I get is VNC server
running on `127.0.0.1:5900'. this is the same whether or not I give
it a win.img file to open. Google and the qemu wiki are not being
helpful. The start
Hi All
I have d/l and compiled qemu-0.11.rc1 without any errors that I noticed.
When I attempt to start it from a terminal all I get is VNC server
running on `127.0.0.1:5900'. this is the same whether or not I give it
a win.img file to open. Google and the qemu wiki are not being helpful.
Round here, when I am already root, and want to run dolphin which for
some strange reason barfs up if I forget the sudo it is pronounced 'bugger'
Robert Fisher wrote:
Today I came across a reminder of the meaning of sudo
super user do
So how should it be pronounced?
soo-doo or soo-dough
Hi all,
Just upgraded?? kopete to 4.2. There does not seem to be provision now
to connect to msn. Does anyone have an answer to this omission?
TIA
Barry
Robert Fisher wrote:
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:03:16 Barry Marchant wrote:
Hi all,
Just upgraded?? kopete to 4.2. There does not seem to be provision now
to connect to msn. Does anyone have an answer to this omission?
Yes it has changed its name to WLM - Windows Live Messenger plugin
Rob
Barry Marchant wrote:
Hi all,
Just upgraded?? kopete to 4.2. There does not seem to be provision now
to connect to msn. Does anyone have an answer to this omission?
TIA
Barry
What a complete bummer etc etc etc . Kopete 0.70.4 has a bug which
crashes it when trying to add a contact. Plenty
steve wrote:
On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 10:03 +1200, Barry Marchant wrote:
Barry Marchant wrote:
Hi all,
Just upgraded?? kopete to 4.2. There does not seem to be provision now
to connect to msn. Does anyone have an answer to this omission?
TIA
Barry
What a complete bummer etc etc etc . Kopete
Hi python experts
After lots of suggestions I have as last tried programming in python. I
have the following code snippet which when called displays a selected
image using qiv.
def file_ok_sel(self, w):
print %s % self.filew.get_filename() # displays file name on
xterm
, Barry Marchant wrote:
My problem is that the python code hangs until the image (qiv) is
killed whereas I wish the image to stay displayed while the python app
continues running.
Without knowing what you are trying to do, adding an ampersand to the
end of your command line will work.
hads
I have waited about 5 mins for 1 of telstras own sites to come up!
sending speed +- 23 B/s av
Receiving speed abt 200 B/s av
Is this normal / what should i expect? from telstra cable
Are all the kiddies playing causing problems
Barry
A tip here for those, like me , frustrated users of skype
If your camera does not produce an image check 'xvattr -a
XV_AUTOPAINT_COLORKEY' in a xterm. Options are 0 or 1. If the result is
0 rerun the cmd with -v 1 on the end to reset it. Some dirty apps,
mplayer is 1 of them reset the
Hi All,
has anyone looked at the press co website today? I am having trouble
with it hogging cpu usage, in excess of 95% at times, and being unable
to scroll the site because the scrollbar is locked up. Last time i tried
over 130 images were d/l. Mouse response when trying to change apps is
Thanks for the replies, I fixed my problem by turning off every optional
extra in opera. Perhaps someone with greater knowlege than me should
tell them??
Barry
Barry Marchant wrote:
Hi All,
has anyone looked at the press co website today? I am having
oops, 120 gig from dove
Craig Falconer wrote:
Barry Marchant wrote, On 15/06/09 16:30:
had 1 ptn on a 6 mth old 12G hd go belly up.
12 GB and 6 months old? Did you get it from a time warp or something?
Steve Holdoway wrote:
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 07:19 +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote:
SAMSUNG HD753LJ s/n S13UJ1NQB01779 was the one that failed. Failure
was more than just the filesystem, I was unable to read or write to
the partition table.
That comment was aimed at Barry, the OP who restored
Hi all,
had 1 ptn on a 6 mth old 12G hd go belly up. Of course it was my main
bootable ptn. All data was on other ptns and backed up so no major
problems there.
The crap ptn was recovered using fsck -b 32something and produced lots
of inode an size problems. It now boots, I have not
works for me using opera but slow to get started. Its on BBC radio4
Barry
David Lowe wrote:
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Payne, Owen owen.pa...@ccc.govt.nz wrote:
Covering a lot of safe ground and nothing out of the ordinary, but good
coverage
an interestin 29 minutes listeming, has anyone saved it?
Barry
David Lowe wrote:
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Payne, Owen owen.pa...@ccc.govt.nz wrote:
Covering a lot of safe ground and nothing out of the ordinary, but good
coverage
Some might find this item about ms addons interesting
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/01/ms_firefox_extension_row/
Barry
Andrew Errington wrote:
On Sun, May 31, 2009 12:56, Derek Smithies wrote:
On Sun, 31 May 2009, Andrew Errington wrote:
On Sun, May 31, 2009 06:04, Derek Smithies wrote:
The most surefire way of fixing this?
Use skype.
Seriously, you can fiddle for hours getting this to work.
Except
Hi All,
I have been trying for some days to get ekiga-2.0.12 to operate. Iget
connected to the Ekiga OK but test calls to 5...@ekiga.net fail with an
error msg reading ' STUN could not create RTP/RTCP socket pair;'.
google reports plenty of instances of this but I have not found
asolution yet.
Derek Smithies wrote:
On Sat, 30 May 2009, Barry Marchant wrote:
Thanks for the replies, it now works.
The problem was in the original configuration druid which set NAT to
STUN when it was not required. I have just altered it to None and now
get a test reply. now to test it with Chris
Hi All,
I am playing with kde and ekiga but am having trouble reading the
miniscule serif text of the ekiga help file. I have looked at text sizes
set by kcontrol to no avail, and anyway all text is set up as sans-serif
fonts so it does not follow kcontrol fonts.
Any idea how I can change
Replying to myself . I have now solved the problem!!!
Barry Marchant wrote:
Hi All,
I am playing with kde and ekiga but am having trouble reading the
miniscule serif text of the ekiga help file. I have looked at text sizes
set by kcontrol to no avail, and anyway all text is set up
, Barry Marchant
barr...@paradise.net.nz wrote:
Replying to myself . I have now solved the problem!!!
Barry Marchant wrote:
Hi All,
I am playing with kde and ekiga but am having trouble reading the
miniscule serif text of the ekiga help file. I have looked at text sizes set
by kcontrol
Gold wrote:
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Nick Rout nick.r...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Gold g...@evolved.net.nz wrote:
And wifi?
I dunno, but we are talking about a SOCIAL gathering!
_Without_ wifi? ;) How do you function without a net connection? ;)
Craig Falconer wrote:
http://icanhascheezburger.com/
http://icanhascheezburger.com/about/
Anyone else having problems with the 2 links above? From netscape messenger
the browser opens but will not go full screen or shut down. I have had
to use
xkill to get rid of the on screen display then
I am trying to set up grub, 2 of the entries in /boot/grub/menu.1st being...
title linux-2008
kernel (hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux-2008
root=UUID=21f45c8c-0029-4450-bc80-9c8de0584966
append=resume=/dev/hda11 vga=788
initrd (hd0,5)/boot/initrd.img
title linux-2007
kernel
Has anyone any experience of running skype for windows in an emulator?
Why do it you ask?
In order to run the latest version
tia
Barry
Could someone please advise what readers are available for ms docx
(xml) files.
Barry
John Rye wrote:
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:04:18 +1300
Nick Rout wrote:
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Eliot Blennerhassett
li...@blennerhassett.gen.nz wrote:
one...
two, buckle my shoe.
Three four, kick in the door
five six, I live in the styx
anyone out there using skype? Currently when testing video under options
the webcam activates but i only get a black, or white screen, no image.
If i kill skype, then try mplayer -fps 14 tv:// i get a green screen and
the camera is not activated. Something seems to block Xv but no msgs to
Nick Rout wrote:
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Stephen Irons stephen.ir...@tait.co.nz wrote:
Canon have shown themselves to be pretty moronic
Or perhaps other movie player software pretends that the audio sample rate
is 11025, and adjusts the frame rate to 30.0027 fps by repeating
HI all,
Whenever I open a terminal now I get the following 3 msgs
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
This
message. With the previously mentioned locales installed into /usr/lib/locale,
LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8
is my default. This is a 'master' definition, and the LC_* variables are for
more fine-grained control, which is rarely necessary...
Steve
On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:05:29 +1300
Barry Marchant barr
I tried kubuntu out of queriosity about a month ago, ended up scrambling
x while trying to change the colours of kde4 and have yet to reinstall.
For your movies I recently used kino for the 1st time, very pleased with
the result but would like to add a menu to the next one. There are
however
Got it off apc dvd for jan. It looked very impressive as a live cd. I
installed it tonight on a new ptn... BUT
No root login.(mandriva setup?)
How do I get root access to dolphin/konqueror to do some customising?
(kde problem I think)
Only sees an ethernet card, not the usb connection to
Hi all,
I wish to create an avi file which kino will fully recognise. the
following code
mencoder -o ./intro2.avi -noidx -ovc copy -oac copy -audiofile
./trambell5sec.wav ./intro002.avi
creates intro2.avi which plays correctly with mplayer and xine but the
sound portion does not
Nick Rout wrote:
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Lee Begg l...@paradise.net.nz wrote:
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:42:16 Barry Marchant wrote:
mencoder reports
Video stream: 28800.000 kbit/s (360 B/s) size: 1800 bytes
5.000 secs 125 frames
Audio stream: 352.800 kbit/s (44100 B/s
I have a problem in that the video in side will not work after i have
viewed a wmv file even though 2 Xv ports are available. To fix the
problem it is necessary to restart X.
Is there a way to monitor X or reset Xv or to find out what has blocked
or not released its connection? top does not
A!!
So you've got a little gnome, nuff sed.
Congratulations to you both.
Barry
---
yuri wrote:
On 2008-11-15 at 14:53 the newest Penguinista arrived:
Marijke Aroha Anne de Groot
3.47kg (don't ask about lbs and Ozes - ~$ man units)
Mother and baby are both happy.
I reckon
Next years fine
Barry
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Zane Gilmore wrote:
There did not appear to be a reply to my suggestion the other day for
the meeting next Tuesday.
Steve and Roger...
Are you guys going to be able to do your thing?
Derek and Barry... do you have any objection to doing your talks next
4.20 pm Just checked my usage using Brett's suggested url, no problems
Barry
Brett Davidson wrote:
Nick Rout wrote:
Anyone else having problems with this page:
http://telstraclear.co.nz/customer-zone/internet-usage-meters/usagemeter/
which is pointed to here
Hello cluggers,
Those of you who know Chris and Caleb Sawtell will be saddened to hear
that Chris lost his Partner of 20 years, and Caleb his Mother last Saturday.
I am sure all cluggers will join with me in offering you both our
sincere sympathy.
Barry
) features.
This approach is moderately brutal, but it was effective on another
distro.
Derek.
=
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Barry Marchant wrote:
Hi all, I have a compaq nx9040 which I wish to use for a continuous
slide show this weekend but I can not stop the screen
Hi all, I have a compaq nx9040 which I wish to use for a continuous
slide show this weekend but I can not stop the screen blanking.
I am using kde, running on mains power, Display power control not
enabled, blank screen saver selected set to start after 500 mins (over
8 hrs)
What have i
Listening to a speaker with practical experience (and horror stories?)
is more interesting than pure theory Steve.
Anyway the pre meeting meeting at Salas Thai Cuisine is on at 6.00 pm.
Please let me know so I can make a booking.
Barry
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Steve Holdoway
HI,
is anyone using krita for image manipulation? The handbook says it can
import xcf images, the import options will not permit [EMAIL PROTECTED]
An alternative for me will be any lossless format which is common to
krita gimp and saves layers, or do I have to save each layer as a
separate
Nick Rout wrote:
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Barry Marchant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
HI,
is anyone using krita for image manipulation? The handbook says it can
import xcf images, the import options will not permit [EMAIL PROTECTED]
An alternative for me will be any lossless format
Hi all,
Can anyone tell me how to change the scrollbar colors so that the are
readily visible?
Tried gimp 2.3.14, 2.4.0-rc2. No response to changes in kde or icewm
changes
google no help.
TIA
Barry
Hi,
I use firestarter without any problems. It runs as a service which has a
gui frontend which may or may not be displayed. I have dhcp-client
dhcp-common pkgs installed only. The service runs continuously unless
you stop it using the gui.
If you are swapping the 1 ethernet port between
Hi Tom,
I sent an earlier reply to mysellf! Oops
What I meant to say follows.
Sorry, I missed the fine print. Looks like the matching qt4 version has
been pulled.Try a query to mandrivaclub with the problem
Barry
Tom Munro Glass wrote:
On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Barry Marchant
Just found this. Looks like its distro qt version independent.
http://rpmseek.com/rpm-pl/qt-st-plugin-ibase.html?hl=comcba=0:Q:80:::3
No dates though
Barry
Tom Munro Glass wrote:
On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, John Rye wrote:
as root:
urpmi qt4-database-plugin-ibase-lib
John
It is available on this page, I just d/l it
http://ftp.pld-linux.org/dists/2.0/PLD/i686/PLD/RPMS/
lots of broken links,changed names addresses etc
Barry
Tom Munro Glass wrote:
On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Barry Marchant wrote:
Just found this. Looks like its distro qt version independent.
http
You may need a different version of qt etc to run it
Barry
Tom Munro Glass wrote:
On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Barry Marchant wrote:
Just found this. Looks like its distro qt version independent.
http://rpmseek.com/rpm-pl/qt-st-plugin-ibase.html?hl=comcba=0:Q:80:::3
No dates though
Barry
Hi
I have been running Mandriva since before mandrake 8.
1st question ... what is the app, is the src in a .mdk package? If so,
install the pkg as per normal, it will go into /usr/src/whatever.
If it is a tar or similar pkg unpack it to /usr/src/... Konqueror is
excellent for this. Open 2
What version of Mandriva are you running, The package is available for
2007 and 2008. looks like 2008.0 and 2008.1.
Go to rpm.pbone.net advanced search select mandriva2008 and enter
'qt4-database-plugin-ibase-lib'
HTH
Barry
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Tom Munro Glass wrote:
On Thu, 14 Aug
Hi all,
I keep getting a popup (fromkde?) which says
Could not find mime type
application/octet-stream
It started when i loaded dolphin, also with a jpg file.
Any ideas what is missing please
Barry
Thanks Nick for a very interesting evening
Barry
Nick Rout wrote:
I will put my slide show on the wiki later but thought I would put the
list of links from the last couple of pages here on the list for those
who want a quick information fix:
General:
MythTV Homepage
http://www.mythtv.org
Someone would need to bring a TV as well.
After all the browsing testing I have done I do not think this is
worth persuing further .
Thanks for your thoughts. Anyway Nick your presentation is going to be
far more interesting.
Barry
Nick Rout wrote:
do you mean VGA to Composite? I thought you had S-Video. Now I am confused.
Anyway this one seems to do both:
http://www.dse.co.nz/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/en/product/XH8624
xrandr -q tells me I have 3 ports...
vga discollected
LVDSconnected
TMDSdiscollected
Nick Rout wrote:
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Barry Marchant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Come on Barry tell us some more info. What video card is it? What
driver dies it use?
lspci (part) gives...
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor
to I/O
Hi All,
Can someone tell me the magic incantations needed to get a signal out of
the the s-video port on my new box please. I presume alts are needed to
xorg.conf followed by a reboot.
I have had a 2nd monitor running as a clone so far I am running
mandriva2008.0 on this box.
TIA
Barry
Nick Rout wrote:
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 10:52 PM, Barry Marchant
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All,
Can someone tell me the magic incantations needed to get a signal out of the
the s-video port on my new box please. I presume alts are needed to
xorg.conf followed by a reboot.
I have had
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