Re: OT 1TB pata drives?

2010-08-08 Thread C. Falconer
Nick Rout wrote, On 08/07/2010 10:57 AM: good point, there is nothing over 500G in the ide section. I've just checked with datastor, one of the larger disties in NZ "Just to let you know that all IDE HDD has gone EOLed for our vendors. That is why there is no drive listed under the (pata) cat

Re: Thunderbird 3.0 - huge system slowdowns?

2010-08-05 Thread C. Falconer
Phill Coxon wrote, On 08/06/2010 11:09 AM: On 06/08/10 10:32, Robert Fisher wrote: I do not completely agree - I find that have the mail stored locally helps with speed and traffice issues when email size is considered (attachements open much faster locally) I think Craig meant if the imap se

Re: Migration of linux-users to Mailman

2010-08-05 Thread C. Falconer
they put in our food these days?)) Aren't there a couple of maxims about not biting the hand that feeds you and not looking a gift horse in the mouth. I think we have a volunteer to wind the rubber bands AND shovel the coal! (spot the ObOldfart reference...) -- C. Falconer

Re: Thunderbird 3.0 - huge system slowdowns?

2010-08-05 Thread C. Falconer
Phill Coxon wrote, On 08/06/2010 08:02 AM: I just saw this page about thunderbird 3 using up to 100 times the level of cpu / disk resources beacause of the search index and offline imap indexing. We've found that "Keep messages for this account on this computer" under "Synchronisation & Storag

Re: Seeking Linuxy hardware to rejig my life to digital convergence....

2010-07-19 Thread C. Falconer
Christopher Sawtell wrote, On 07/20/2010 04:15 PM: Remember that the replacement should be free of $$$ cost and installation be available on Linux, Windows, and Mac O/S X. It _must_ be as simple to install as falling off the proverbial log, so Dear Old Aunt Tilly can make it go. Honest, I'm all

Re: Seeking Linuxy hardware to rejig my life to digital convergence....

2010-07-19 Thread C. Falconer
John Carter wrote, On 07/19/2010 09:08 PM: So what I need is... * A cordless voip phone or a way of tacking a standard cordless to, umm, something. * Access to a cheap gateway from the IP to Christchurch local telephone system * Something with cheap calls to South Africa / US / UK (diaspora

Re: Seeking Linuxy hardware to rejig my life to digital convergence....

2010-07-19 Thread C. Falconer
Christopher Sawtell wrote, On 07/19/2010 11:21 PM: * Something with cheap calls to South Africa / US / UK (diasporas tend to do that to you) http://www.skype.com/ Traffic costs only for computer to computer worldwide. Piffling for voice, and the quality far exceeds that of the POTS system.

Re: Handheld scanner recommendations

2010-07-11 Thread C. Falconer
Daniel Hill wrote, On 07/10/2010 01:10 PM: Yes, I've brought a USB cable for my ancient Nokia phone from them, well after the 5th one not working I gave up Did you ever consider your phone might be broken? -- Craig Falconer

Re: Handheld scanner recommendations

2010-07-05 Thread C. Falconer
Andrew Errington wrote, On 07/06/2010 01:01 PM: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.33756 Oh, and I've never bought anything from DealExtreme, although I *sooo* want to. I have. The quality is about what you'd expect from mail-order. It looks really good in the catalogue pictures, but

Re: Handheld scanner recommendations

2010-07-05 Thread C. Falconer
Aidan Gauland wrote, On 07/05/2010 08:32 PM: I would like to get a handheld scanner for academic research (i.e. digitising required reading for uni classes). Can anyone recommend any models (and tell of any to avoid)? I have given myself a headache searching, and handhelds seem to be wy

horse and webshell

2010-03-22 Thread C. Falconer
Hi all - with respect to horse, how many of the current users make use of the webshell running on port 443? If that makes no sense, https://shell.clug.org.nz/ Logs don't tell me who uses which mechanism for connecting. I want to run openvpn on port 443, and if noone uses webshell it can go awa

Re: OT: Telecom Proxy servers?

2010-03-06 Thread C. Falconer
aaron mcewan wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 15:04 +1300, Neil Stockbridge wrote: Telstra subject their cable customers to a transparent proxy as well. Their proxy behaves when told to get the uncached version of an object thankfully. - neil and if you gather evidence of it stuffing up things t

RE: Horse running fine

2005-04-18 Thread C. Falconer
From: IT Support NZ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Any idea? > A load average of 15-16? Shouldn't there be a decimal place in that > somewhere? e.g. Load average of 0.15 to 0.16? Nope - 15.xx to 16.xx > What was your top process in terms of cpu usage? Is it apt-getting > stuff and trying to comp

Horse running fine

2005-04-17 Thread C. Falconer
I have searched and found no cause for horse to go belly up last week. Evidence included A load average of 15-16 A number of processes in state D, including a bunch of apt-extracttemplate processes Giving a reboot command from remote hung the machine. I recently configured

RE: OT: Wireless networks

2005-04-17 Thread C. Falconer
like that, and noone will thank you for it, and they'll bitch and moan whenever theres a problem. Bitter sounding? -Original Message- From: Jim Cheetham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 18 April 2005 9:28 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: OT: Wireless net

RE: OT: Wireless networks

2005-04-17 Thread C. Falconer
4-16 at 10:57 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 16:40, C. Falconer wrote: > > > >http://staff.avonside.school.nz/cf/gps/2005-04-15%20Wireless%20Chch%20Map.j > >p g > > > > This map is the graphical result of me having access to a GPS, >

RE: OT: Wireless networks

2005-04-15 Thread C. Falconer
1) gpsdrive for present position kismet to sniff wireless gpsmap (from kismet) to plot map and cos gpsmap doesn't have any good map sources for New Zealand I used photoshop to overlay the track on an aerial photo I have. 2) `cos I'm a `tard. It was late on Friday, and outlook defaults to

OT: Wireless networks

2005-04-14 Thread C. Falconer
Title: Message http://staff.avonside.school.nz/cf/gps/2005-04-15%20Wireless%20Chch%20Map.jpg   This map is the graphical result of me having access to a GPS, 802.11 wireless, a laptop and a bike or car.  This represents several weeks of trips.   Comments?

RE: computer upgrade

2005-04-14 Thread C. Falconer
What chipset is the video card? PINE is a pretty nasty brand. I'd be looking for an ATI or nvidia card. Otherwise its all good. Quality of PSU is unknown (I've never heard of them) -Original Message- From: Dave G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 15 April 2005 4:04 p.m. To: Ca

RE: ISP's / RIP ADSL Router - 2003-2005

2005-04-12 Thread C. Falconer
Heh - yeah see the good points on cable TV.. 1) You get exactly the same programming as sky 2) You pay about the same as for sky 3) You get adverts anyway 4) No big dish on the roof to show how well off you are. 5) And theres 64 channels of pure crap on. Honestly - theres

RE: ISP's / RIP ADSL Router - 2003-2005

2005-04-12 Thread C. Falconer
I wish they had throttle on cap, like the new DSL plans That'd make stuff so much safer :-\ -Original Message- From: Christopher Sawtell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 13 April 2005 12:35 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: ISP's / RIP ADSL Router - 200

RE: OT: Dell PA-6 PSU.... anybody got one?

2005-04-11 Thread C. Falconer
t one? On Apr 11, 2005, at 4:56 PM, C. Falconer wrote: > I'm on the scrounge.  Does anyone have a Dell PA-6 power supply that I > can do a short test with?  Short as in time or short as in circuit? :) - Dave http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/

OT: Dell PA-6 PSU.... anybody got one?

2005-04-10 Thread C. Falconer
Title: Message I'm on the scrounge.  Does anyone have a Dell PA-6 power supply that I can do a short test with?    Please email me off list if you can help.

OT: First dibs RE: OT - hp laser 6? anyone interested

2005-04-10 Thread C. Falconer
Fair enough - it's a linux compatible item, so that makes it vaguely on-topic. Likewise, I have a jetdirect 170x unit that will go on trademe later in the week, unless anyone emails me with an offer. It's a single parallel port print server, and has a single 10baseT ethernet port. You put your p

Horse rebooting

2005-04-10 Thread C. Falconer
Horse is confused again... seems theres a load average of about 16, and lots of processes in uninterruptible sleep. I've done a restart, but it hasn't come up. I will check it out tonight. Sorry about this.

RE: Write access to samba shares

2005-04-10 Thread C. Falconer
Use NFS - it lets you have groups and everything working as for a local file system. Otherwise look at making a "can write to share1" group, then setting the permisisons to 775 on mounting. -Original Message- From: Robert Fisher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 11 April 2005 2:05

RE: Odd memory usage

2005-04-10 Thread C. Falconer
Maybe you're measuring the wrong thing... Memory unused is memory wasted, so linux uses spare memory as a disk cache. socks:/junk# free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 1011877133 0 0476 -/+ buffers

RE: Odd memory usage

2005-04-10 Thread C. Falconer
Heisenberg may have been here Another option is the command top, then press M for Memory sort man top for lots of things - did you know z turns on colour support? -Original Message- From: Michael JasonSmith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 11 April 2005 2:01 p.m. To: linux use

RE: BlueTooth, IrDa, Mobiles & Linux, I'm making a bet.

2005-04-06 Thread C. Falconer
Dude - that's a PCI gigabit wired NIC. Its in the category "Network - wireless & bluetooth" -Original Message- From: IT Support NZ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 6 April 2005 9:24 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: BlueTooth, IrDa, Mobiles & Linux, I'm

RE: Debian Newbie - network Q 'hard'

2005-04-05 Thread C. Falconer
localhost doesn't need a route to it in linux. The device lo is 127.0.0.1, but the netmask is 255.0.0.0, and the device responds to 127.*.*.* horse:/tmp/cs/hsw4# ping 127.123.45.67 -c 1 PING 127.123.45.67 (127.123.45.67): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 127.123.45.67: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.2 ms ..

RE: php search engine recommendation?

2005-04-04 Thread C. Falconer
A little form that searches: http://www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en&q= Search String +site%3A www.yoursite.com &btnG=Google+Search&meta= ...is great - leverage the power of google (but its only as up to date as the last trawl) -Original Message- From: Ian Laurenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

RE: Baycorpadvantage imposes MS Explorer hegemony

2005-04-03 Thread C. Falconer
Can't try it sorry Whats your username and password? -Original Message- From: Ross Drummond [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 4 April 2005 5:02 p.m. To: CLUG mailing list Subject: Baycorpadvantage imposes MS Explorer hegemony I have just signed up to the credit reference com

RE: OT: IBM 'Clicky' Keyboard FYI

2005-04-03 Thread C. Falconer
@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: OT: IBM 'Clicky' Keyboard FYI C. Falconer wrote: > Just remember - in another 10 years it'll be wireless sometechnology, > and this USB stuff that needs Actual Physical Work will be laughed at > too :) > > ...and the model M will still be

RE: OT: IBM 'Clicky' Keyboard FYI

2005-04-03 Thread C. Falconer
'Clicky' Keyboard FYI On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 11:39 +1200, C. Falconer wrote: > Why not Steve? The PS/2 plug is the work of El Diablo. It is a round plug - like a RCA, RF or 3.5mm mini-pin. However, unlike those plugs, there is only one way to plug in a PS/2 p

RE: OT: IBM 'Clicky' Keyboard FYI

2005-04-03 Thread C. Falconer
Why not Steve? IBM made PS/2 models that were XTs and 286s with PS/2 keyboards. (hence the name) I'd buy a dozen if I liked them, but I prefer the compaq ones now. Its just whatever you're used to. -Original Message- From: Steve Holdoway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 4 April

RE: Dual Network/Internet Connection - Advanced Routing

2005-03-30 Thread C. Falconer
Maybe its that, but I'm guessing that its two distinct networks sharing one internet connection Maybe a couple of flatmates or something. Rather than being on the same lan, they're wanting to segment it tidily. -Original Message- From: Gareth Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: problem with isa sound card

2005-03-30 Thread C. Falconer
Check your bios settings for IRQ, and your dmesg on boot for any errors. Cat /proc/interrupts too to see if theres anything amiss. Failing that, get a PCI card :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 31 March 2005 12:37 p.m. To: linux-user

RE: Dual Network/Internet Connection - Advanced Routing

2005-03-30 Thread C. Falconer
M0n0wall would be perfect for what you want. {internet} | [ firewall ]-{one network} | {another network} And the two networks can only see what you allow to pass through. This setup is identical to how horse the CLUG shell server is configured. Kim - check out www.m0n0.ch/wal

RE: Dual Network/Internet Connection - Advanced Routing

2005-03-30 Thread C. Falconer
M0n0wall does lots of good stuff, but it does not do two WAN (aka red) connections. You can bridge or route all sorts of stuff, but only one default route to the internet is supported. You could look at pfsense which is a development of m0n0wall... Its been on FreeBSD since it forked, and defini

RE: [Tenuous] Website design tips... please

2005-03-30 Thread C. Falconer
The only thing I'd comment on is The global network for Diamond Harmour? Surely you should be a .net.nz ? -Original Message- From: Steve Holdoway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 30 March 2005 9:06 p.m. To: CLUG Subject: [Tenuous] Website design tips... please Me and th

RE: Almost free to a good home

2005-03-22 Thread C. Falconer
Another printer up for snags... one Apple Select 360 Laser. Works perfectly, but the toner is almost out. It has a parallel port input. Email me back off list please.

RE: internet performance...

2005-03-22 Thread C. Falconer
Of course it doesn't help that it's a fairly bust 256 K connection serving several web sites as well as the clug server. -Original Message- From: Christopher Sawtell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 23 March 2005 9:40 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: intern

RE: Gentoo Installfest (in Robert's garage)

2005-03-21 Thread C. Falconer
I can volunteer a 386 DX 25 with 10 Mb ram and two 1Gb scsi drives and 100 Mbit isa ethernet and an ISA ET4000 video card. -grin- -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 22 March 2005 1:57 p.m. To: CLUG Subject: Gentoo Installfest (in Robert's garage)

RE: PC Sellers WAS Duelling Mice was Re: Howl!!! Urgent advice needed on Wireless Keyboards for Linux

2005-03-21 Thread C. Falconer
Yeah - we as end customers drive some retailers into the floor, simply by trying to save every last dollar on the purchase price. Even BCL (http://www.bcl.co.nz/) went the "cheap cheap PC" road, and hit the wall after 31 years of trading. -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMA

RE: Configurating Samba

2005-03-16 Thread C. Falconer
Post your smb.conf file and we'll see what you need. BTW - did you format that paragraph like that on purpose? Or was it an accident? -Original Message- From: Bryan Frechette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 17 March 2005 5:05 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: C

RE: [Fwd: [IPCop-Announce] Announce release IPCop v1.4.3/v1.4.4]

2005-03-16 Thread C. Falconer
> With small disk less than 900 MB, it may be particulary difficult to apply the... *floored* m0n0wall runs in 8 Mb... I run it off a CF card

Naming RE: web page broken

2005-03-16 Thread C. Falconer
And we really need to solve this identity crisis... Is the group called Canterbury LUG or Christchurch LUG ? Which members are in Canterbury but not Christchurch? -Original Message- From: Jim Cheetham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 16 March 2005 5:17 p.m. To: linux-users@it

RE: No ethernet access

2005-03-15 Thread C. Falconer
Awww go on... We'll award you the wooden spoon award for... missing the obvious Mind you - if it was really obvious we all missed suggesting it too... (makes note) take a bunch of wooden spoons to next meeting -Original Message- From: Douglas Royds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Se

RE: Howl!!! Urgent advice needed on Wireless Keyboards for Linux

2005-03-14 Thread C. Falconer
"All" is rather overstated. Swmbo has a cordless mouse and keybaord that have been on the same set of batteries since November last year... So that's four months use and counting. And its an optical mouse too! I don't think three sets of batteries a year is gobbling. Maybe you had an older mod

RE: Howl!!! Urgent advice needed on Wireless Keyboards for Linux

2005-03-14 Thread C. Falconer
You should probably be looking more at your chair and desk, and how the computer is laid out on the desk rather than how the keyboard/mouse plug in. Are the keyboard/mouse cables the cause of the pain? -Original Message- From: John Carter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 15 Mar

RE: Advice on 8MB Graphics card

2005-03-14 Thread C. Falconer
Fork out for a new one... Even if you had more video ram it'd still be about the same speed. Or maybe its time for a new CPU/motherboard too. Do you play games? -Original Message- From: Wesley Parish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 14 March 2005 11:16 p.m. To: CLUG Subject: Adv

RE: Linux Scanner Support

2005-03-14 Thread C. Falconer
The HP 7400 series is not very nice... Neither scsi nor USB work with sane. -Original Message- From: Jason Greenwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 14 March 2005 3:28 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Linux Scanner Support I have checked the SANE page and these

RE: Wireless in the square

2005-03-13 Thread C. Falconer
From: Nick Rout > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 10:05:57 +1300 Andrew Errington wrote: > > That is so like The Man. > now playing: "School of Rock" A movie definitely worth watching.

RE: Wireless in the square

2005-03-13 Thread C. Falconer
Uhhh - thanks... I think... -Original Message- From: Andrew Errington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 14 March 2005 10:06 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Wireless in the square On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 09:49, you wrote: > Don't forget to factor in the cost of a

Wireless in the square

2005-03-13 Thread C. Falconer
Don't forget to factor in the cost of a resource consent from the regional council, plus whatever fees the city council wants to stick you for. -Original Message- From: Ben Devine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 13 March 2005 7:38 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject:

RE: Tip of the day: Alt-. at the command line

2005-03-08 Thread C. Falconer
You need to add "This is a bashism" somewhere in the whole thing. -Original Message- From: Carl Cerecke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 9 March 2005 8:41 a.m. To: CLUG Subject: Tip of the day: Alt-. at the command line When using the command-line, often the last argument to t

RE: Server down?

2005-03-07 Thread C. Falconer
Python is definitely installed - python and python2.3 Java is being installed now... -Original Message- From: Robert Himmelmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 8 March 2005 3:08 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Server down? Did you install Java or Python

RE: Server down?

2005-03-07 Thread C. Falconer
Yes - it's a shell box, and you can host a web page there too if you want. The web page is at http://shell.canterbury.lug.net.nz/ Users can do basically anything within reason... Testing your own firewalls from the outside, and comparing traceroutes. Unfortunately I'm still on cable, so a lot

RE: install a server-router

2005-03-07 Thread C. Falconer
I'd look a a pII or original pentium machine as the router... No point wasting a semi-decent machine on that. Then a distro like ipcop, or my favourite m0n0wall (www.m0n0.ch/wall) which is really nice. Or you could use one of those for the firewall and server in the same machine, using clarkconne

RE: Horse working

2005-03-07 Thread C. Falconer
horse:/usr/bin# host 203.184.22.37 37.22.184.203.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer 37.reserved.callplus.net.nz. horse:/usr/bin# host 37.reserved.callplus.net.nz Host 37.reserved.callplus.net.nz not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) Looks like callplus have one-way name resolution only... Ie, you can go from hos

RE: Server down?

2005-03-06 Thread C. Falconer
It was, but its been up since about 1400 Sunday -Original Message- From: Shane Hollis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 7 March 2005 5:34 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Server down? I read somewhere the 'horse'??? Server is down. Is that the one you have on the

Horse working

2005-03-05 Thread C. Falconer
Horse is now up and working. If anything is wrong, please let me know. -Original Message- From: C. Falconer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 4 March 2005 9:00 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: RE: Horse dead I'm on the road to resurrecting the horse. I&#

RE: Horse dead

2005-03-03 Thread C. Falconer
compaq job. It has 256 Mb ram and a single 9 Gb UW scsi drive (maybe more later) I cannot reuse any of the drives from the old horse cos they're all 80 pin SCA. -Original Message- From: C. Falconer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 15 February 2005 1:59 p.m.

RE: Dual video cards

2005-03-01 Thread C. Falconer
on the web. Below is the working (now) XF86config file. -Original Message- From: C. Falconer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 2 March 2005 11:14 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Dual video cards I'm having massive weirdness with two video cards under X.

Dual video cards

2005-03-01 Thread C. Falconer
I'm having massive weirdness with two video cards under X. The cards are :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11DDR [GeForce2 MX 100 DDR/200 DDR] (rev b2) :03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 85) The nvidia is about three years ol

RE: Hello and a question re IP Accounting statistics

2005-02-24 Thread C. Falconer
Heya Shane. We use a combination of methods to limit access. Firstly, install an ident server on each workstation, and configure squid to do ident lookups. This will put the current username in the logs. Then install an app called sarg http://sarg.sourceforge.net/sarg.php which will produce su

RE: OpenOffice.org SI contact person

2005-02-22 Thread C. Falconer
Yes - the MOE supplied eTrust from computer associates. Theres a folder on the CD called eAV.Lnx which contains a tar file of stuff. >From the Readme... -- 2.0 Operating System Support Linux releases: Red Hat 6.2, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3; SuSE 6.3, 6.4, 7.0

RE: OpenOffice.org SI contact person

2005-02-22 Thread C. Falconer
Nope - it'll not happen because the software is free. The whole MS/schools deal thing came around because the incumbent political party want something to show "hey we just spend $xx million on YOUR kids" They don't get the votes for helping give away free stuff. -Original Message- From:

RE: Email ettiquette rant

2005-02-21 Thread C. Falconer
What if you as a retained lawyer send an email to a client at their workplace? Does the workplace have any ownership of the message? Same question - client at home and their ISP. -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 22 February 2005 9:57 a.m. To:

RE: daily apt-get (auto download)

2005-02-20 Thread C. Falconer
My version... One line from /etc/crontab 20 1* * * root/usr/bin/apt-get update -qq && /usr/bin/apt-get dist-upgrade -qq --download-only

RE: Home on a FAT partition

2005-02-20 Thread C. Falconer
Yes - it's a very bad idea. Mostly because FAT has no concept of permissions on a file. That means that your files are all owned by root (probably) and will all be mode 777. You can't create pipes or any special files or symlinks on FAT either, so some apps mysteriously fail. UMSDOS was a files

RE: DSE XC3532 Laptop and Linux Compatability

2005-02-20 Thread C. Falconer
Download the latest knoppix, wander along to a shop and boot it. I do recommend asking permission from a sales type before inserting the CD. If knoppix finds the equipment okay, then you can do it under linux somehow. Otherwise you may need to look at bleeding edge drivers (ie, not in the kernel)

Printer giveaways was RE: NEC scriptwriter superscript 610

2005-02-20 Thread C. Falconer
Likewise I have an A4 lexmark 4039 10+ to give away. It worked perfectly last time it was used, but there is no toner cartridge with it. A recycled toner is $179 +GST, a new toner is $629. It has a parallel port input only, but has a 500 page second paper tray and a really big front panel screen

RE: Linux experience with Canon CanoScan LiDE 20 scanner

2005-02-16 Thread C. Falconer
Also Be very wary of printers that offer a "long life drum with separate toner bottle" The kyocera and brother lasers tend to get a grey cast on the page after x0,000 pages, and look terrible. My advice is to hold onto those printers with standardised cartridges. Most of the HP series of

RE: Horse dead

2005-02-14 Thread C. Falconer
: Tuesday, 15 February 2005 1:08 p.m. To: C. Falconer Cc: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Horse dead On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 09:18:48AM +1300, C. Falconer wrote: > Something seems to have killed horse in a terminal way. I'll look > into it more tonight after work and let you all

Horse dead

2005-02-06 Thread C. Falconer
Something seems to have killed horse in a terminal way. I'll look into it more tonight after work and let you all know whats happening.

RE: 2nd hd HD and lappies

2005-02-03 Thread C. Falconer
You mean www.ezypc.co.nz -Original Message- From: dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 3 February 2005 9:34 p.m. To: CLUG Subject: 2nd hd HD and lappies just remembered . Bloke called name escapes me (think chris) runs a computer recycling business. had heaps of sound, ne

RE: Damn windows passwords - SOLVED

2005-01-30 Thread C. Falconer
h cough ). Does it work any better through samba? As my disks aren't even 80GB, I can't comment on your nfs problem! Cheers, Steve On Mon, January 31, 2005 1:29 pm, C. Falconer said: > I have set up a new backup server here, and I'd managed to save a > password into XP'

RE: USB 2.0 IDE Cartridge drive

2005-01-30 Thread C. Falconer
Yeah - they're very good. Most laptop drives can be powered fine from a USB port (my 10 Gb hitachi works fine) However I could not power it from an unpowered USB hub, even with nothing else in the hub. The answer was to plug the drive directly into a USB port on the machine. And even a 2 Gb la

Damn windows passwords - SOLVED

2005-01-30 Thread C. Falconer
I have set up a new backup server here, and I'd managed to save a password into XP's password list. Unf the password was incorrect. I searched everywhere to find and remove the saved password from the XP box. It no longer saves them in pwl files in c:\windows. In the end I had to run rundl

RE: Vmware any-any patch, was RE: VMWARE LUG offer ......

2005-01-26 Thread C. Falconer
To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Vmware any-any patch, was RE: VMWARE LUG offer .. Looks like it's working better so far, thanks. But where's this patch come from? I can't find a thing on the vmware.com site about it. Cheers, Steve On Thu, January 27, 2005

Vmware any-any patch, was RE: VMWARE LUG offer ......

2005-01-26 Thread C. Falconer
Awww you just suck ;-) I had this same issue when I went to 2.6.10 under Debian testing. What you need to do is patch the source to vmware with the any-any patch. I have the latest version (88) at http://staff.avonside.school.nz/cf/vmware-any-any-update88.tar.gz Its 257 Kb, and it's a doddle t

RE: SOT: Car Inverter

2005-01-20 Thread C. Falconer
users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: SOT: Car Inverter On 21/01/2005, at 2:57 PM, C. Falconer wrote: > BTW - my laptop draws 24W while not charging and 33W while charging. I > could run 11 laptops at once off this, or 9 charging laptops. Is that _measured_ consumption or what the manual/label on the l

RE: SOT: Car Inverter

2005-01-20 Thread C. Falconer
Importance: Low On Fri, January 21, 2005 2:27 pm, C. Falconer said: > I now own a 300 Watt 12V to 240V inverter. > > If anyone has a desire to run their laptop in a car for long trips > then email me for a loan. > > BTW SOT: Semi Off Topic - my laptop runs linux. > > >

SOT: Car Inverter

2005-01-20 Thread C. Falconer
I now own a 300 Watt 12V to 240V inverter. If anyone has a desire to run their laptop in a car for long trips then email me for a loan. BTW SOT: Semi Off Topic - my laptop runs linux.

RE: sed How do I replace whole word.

2005-01-18 Thread C. Falconer
.nz Subject: Re: sed How do I replace whole word. C. Falconer wrote: > Why the \b ? So that echo "catastrophe" | sed s/cat/dog/g doesn't output "dogastrophe" :-) -jim

RE: sed How do I replace whole word.

2005-01-18 Thread C. Falconer
Why the \b ? echo "apple cat dog" | sed s/cat/pussy/g Works fine for me. echo "apple cat dog" | sed [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED] echo "apple cat dog" | sed s-cat-pussy-g echo "apple cat dog" | sed szcatzpussyzg In fact almost any character can be used as long as its not in either st

Spoiler RE: strace and easter eggs (was Re: TIP: What files does this command try to open (was ...))

2005-01-11 Thread C. Falconer
Alright - for those who can't figure it out... socks:~# strace -p 26320 strace: I'm sorry, I can't let you do that, Dave. (where 26320 was likely to be the next pid) -Original Message- From: Carl Cerecke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 12 January 2005 4:53 p.m. To: linux-us

RE: TIP: What files does this command try to open (was Re: Changing UI fonts of commercial X11 apps)

2005-01-11 Thread C. Falconer
From: Matthew Gregan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Process A would is then forced to prepare the file descriptors before > Oops; s/would // Theres that damn sed syntax coming back again...

RE: IPCops good but...

2005-01-11 Thread C. Falconer
From: Wayne Rooney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 11:30, C. Falconer wrote: >> They could have chosen a less Controversial name for it ;) >Freesco has been around longer than the SCO controversy. The name Freesco is >a contraction of "Free Cisco (route

RE: OT Horse activity summary

2005-01-10 Thread C. Falconer
It's a sed string... Meaning is something like this s for search and replace / as a separator (any char will do, but the one after s becomes the separator) a\ few string to search for ( the backslash is to stop the shell from separating the two words) / separator two string

RE: OT Horse activity summary

2005-01-10 Thread C. Falconer
I'm quite prepared to offer the hardware a home :) -Original Message- From: Volker Kuhlmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 11 January 2005 12:06 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: OT Horse activity summary > Anyone remember cantva and cantua ? Yep! Both sti

RE: OT Horse activity summary

2005-01-10 Thread C. Falconer
wrote: > On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 10:40 +1300, Carl Cerecke wrote: > >>C. Falconer wrote: >> >>>For those who care - here's a summary of all the commands entered on >>>horse. >> >>There's a few f-words that have been tried once that

RE: IPCops good but...

2005-01-10 Thread C. Falconer
They could have chosen a less Controversial name for it ;) -Original Message- From: Wayne Rooney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 11 January 2005 12:48 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: IPCops good but... On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:55, C. Falconer wrote

OT Horse activity summary

2005-01-10 Thread C. Falconer
For those who care - here's a summary of all the commands entered on horse. Parameters were stripped off, so all pings are counted together. ls 169 w 67 cd 61 who 40

RE: Cheap way to get into embedded linux

2005-01-09 Thread C. Falconer
s what you had in mind. Could play raw audio happily (I believe, haven't actually got a USB audio card to confirm that). Andre On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 12:52 +1300, C. Falconer wrote: > Interesting - what do you intend to use it for? > > Whats the PSU? > Does it have audio? > How po

RE: IPCops good but...

2005-01-09 Thread C. Falconer
m0n0wall I know its not linux, but it's also not windows ;) The distro is under 8 Mb, can boot off a CF/IDE adapter and supports all sorts of cool router and VPN endpoint functions, as well as hostap mode for wireless. Its three big faults are no support for dialup (not necessarily a bad thing),

RE: Cheap way to get into embedded linux

2004-12-26 Thread C. Falconer
Interesting - what do you intend to use it for? Whats the PSU? Does it have audio? How powerful is the CPU in effective terms? I'm thinking car computer btw :) -Original Message- From: Andre Renaud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 23 December 2004 11:38 a.m. To: linux-users@it

RE: Lexmark z615 printer

2004-12-20 Thread C. Falconer
My lexmark works perfectly... That said it's an 18 ppm laser with ethernet and postscript. You get what you pay for :) Have you considered looking around for a used laser with ethernet? HP 4 series at molten media for about $200 - but that's black only. Brendan Greer wrote: > hi people > >

RE: CD burners & .ogg files

2004-12-16 Thread C. Falconer
Make a directory and copy all the files you want on the CD there Make an iso image with mkisofs -r -o ralphs_oggs.iso /somedirfullofstuff/ Burn said ISO to disk with: cdrecord -tao -v driveropts=burnfree dev=ATAPI:0,1,0 -data ralphs_oggs.iso IMHO YMMV HTH HAND etc. -Original Message-

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