OT: NCD Xterminals

2004-01-12 Thread CF
Last year I onsold a bunch of NCD xterminals to a number of people on this list. If you bought some and found that you're not using them please email me off-list. -- C. Falconer

IBM's Linux nine y/o boy advert

2003-12-23 Thread CF
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20031217&mode=classic Theres nothing like a pisstake :) -- C. Falconer

Re: Kernel 2.6.0 suspiciously easy

2003-12-22 Thread CF
On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 10:38, Nick Rout wrote: > On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 09:17:23 +1300 > CF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > With ide-scsi you would have used something like this: > > cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,1,0 -data image.iso > > > > With straight IDE yo

Re: Kernel 2.6.0 suspiciously easy

2003-12-22 Thread CF
On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 09:05, Nick Rout wrote: > Actually haven't tried either yet, that may be a bit of an acid test. > > I want to cut a data cd tonight so will report back after that attempt. Well... I'll spoil it for you (if you want) With ide-scsi you would have used something lik

Re: PXE boot / tftp woes

2003-12-21 Thread CF
Whats in your dmesg output? I had issues with tftpd-hpa not sending data unless it was started as root, then it could change permissions. However if I started it as nobody from inetd then it simply didn't work, and a message like this appeared in syslog. "could not set group for user nobody" O

Re: 2.6 is out.

2003-12-18 Thread CF
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 18:10, Paul Swafford wrote: > If its any help I've put a copy on http://e-caf.com/linux-2.6-kernel > (Level 2/28 Worcester Boulevard, Christchurch, NZ) > (ph/fax +64 3 3656480 www.e-caf.com) Paul - why did you choose a .com for e-caf? Rather than a .co.nz or similar? --

Re: join mp3s

2003-12-15 Thread CF
On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 14:10, Paul William wrote: > > have become jumbled somewhere between brain and keyboard. > > I will try again ;) > > I have 2 mp3s > I want to join them > I don't want to convert them to wav > I tried catting which doesn't work (it cant hurt to try) > > To sum it all up I

Re: OT? Broadband; router

2003-12-15 Thread CF
On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 18:46, Don Gould - BVC wrote: > It would have made my life a little easier thou... with JS I'm going to have > to set the router up to do the pppoa then forward the required ports and > protocol. Telstra just supply a modem. No - Telstraclear supply a transparent ethernet

Re: smbfs and weird modified timestamps.

2003-12-11 Thread CF
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 18:26, John Carter wrote: > Just seen something weird. > > We have a fileserver here, (RedHat 7.2 I believe), which serves the > files via samba. > > Now we have some Linux boxen that mount some directories on this thing. > > Watch this... > cd /h;date;touch me;ls -l me > T

Re: small case PC + 3 NICs

2003-12-09 Thread CF
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 18:53, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > If I wanted to get a PC with a small case, preferably flat, which runs > Linux and sports 3 100M ethernet ports (by whatever means), what would > people recommend? I am aware of the Falcon CR51, but with only 1 PCI > slot which doesn't take full

Re: Redhat Vers?

2003-12-09 Thread CF
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 11:34, Luuk Paulussen wrote: > The thing with Debian is that if you want any recent software, you have to > run unstable or testing. Stable has been tested to death, so yes I would > expect bug reports to be responded to quickly, although the only updates > that are done a

Re: small case PC + 3 NICs

2003-12-04 Thread CF
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 18:53, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > If I wanted to get a PC with a small case, preferably flat, which runs > Linux and sports 3 100M ethernet ports (by whatever means), what would > people recommend? I am aware of the Falcon CR51, but with only 1 PCI > slot which doesn't take full

Re: Modems new v92 protocol

2003-12-04 Thread CF
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 21:07, Ross Drummond wrote: > While surfing I came across mention of this new dial up modem protocol. Looks good but its still dialup. Someone once said to me "if you're not at least doubling performance, then don't bother spending new money." -- C. Falconer

SpamAssassin report

2003-12-03 Thread CF
I've seen so far is 72.1, and the email can be seen here http://staff.avonside.school.nz/cf/spamassassin-hits=72.1.txt The score limits are set at: >5 Nothing - is not spam 5-8 Accepted, but possible spam 8-25Spam, message is dropped 25+ Super-spam, and the sender is &qu

Re: Photo album

2003-12-02 Thread CF
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 11:53, Robert Fisher wrote: > I have an (urgent) request from a friend who is having a baby today. > > What recommendations do you have for programs (for Gentoo) which can take a > collection of photos and create an album for my web site? > > I know how to do it manually b

Re: hot-plug HDDs

2003-12-02 Thread CF
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 20:11, Jim Cheetham wrote: > On Dec 2, 2003, at 6:15 PM, chris bayley wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 05:00:30PM +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote: > >>> I've been playing with an IDE to USB2 unit, and trying to store about > >>> 50+Gb onto it, at reasonable speeds. > > > > What a

Re: [Fwd: [Full-Disclosure] [SECURITY] [DSA-403-1] userland can access Linux kernel memory]

2003-12-01 Thread CF
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 14:31, Jason Greenwood wrote: > Nick Rout wrote: > > well its very secure as long as you don't take the shrink wrap off. > I sure there's a joke in there somewhere =) Probably involving that butt picture that Reading Cinema's is using for advertising -- C. Falconer

Re: kernel - modules or built-in?

2003-12-01 Thread CF
On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 00:05, Sascha Beaumont wrote: > Print servers are a wonderful thing, smaller than your average paperback > and the average luser knows how to turn them off/on if they freeze up > without calling tech support. > > Even better is a decent printer with a network module.. until i

Re: kernel - modules or built-in?

2003-11-30 Thread CF
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 12:56, Jim Cheetham wrote: > On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 11:10, Rex Johnston wrote: > > >>>How can I discover the drivers present in a running kernel? > > > > alright then > > zcat /proc/config.gz > > & figure it out yer`self. > > I'd love to ... but I don't have one of those :-(

Re: Upgrading my PC, any pointers?

2003-11-25 Thread CF
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 10:50, Peter Elliott wrote: > well actully i was also looking at the ati radeon since the dri guys seem > to have got just about everything working for those cards, up to and > including the 9200 i think. > and blessedly there seems to be little confusion(in my mind) about get

freenode

2003-11-24 Thread CF
Okay... who killed freenode? (where the #nzlinux channel has been residing) I remember there was an alternate network, but what was it? -- C. Falconer

Old 386

2003-11-18 Thread CF
Who was it who wanted an old 386? Contact me off list please. -- C. Falconer

Re: Thoughts on user management?

2003-11-17 Thread CF
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 07:07, Andrew Sands wrote: > List dwellers, > > Whilst in the process of setting up another server 'gentoo based', I've > noticed that the adduser command creates the new username and puts it into > the 'users' group. This strikes me as being quite different to the every > us

Re: DVDs under Linux

2003-11-16 Thread CF
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 15:36, Chris Bayley wrote: > Interesting - I used to have to use ide-scsi for cdburning and reboot > _without_ ide-scsi to play dvds, but since CDRtools 2.0 introduced ATAPI > support I can now do both without ide-scsi. Thanks for the advice -- C. Falconer

Re: DVDs under Linux

2003-11-16 Thread CF
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 15:40, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > Yep - this problem is repeated a lot, and no answers are listed. As a final summary, I fixed almost all of this problem. The short answer is "you must used ide-scsi for dvd movies" Full explanation of method and error is at http://criggie.d

RE: Interesting use for embedded Linux

2003-11-12 Thread CF
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 08:40, Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote: > I implemented LTSP for the cost of some time and a floppy disk. > (Is it worth getting etherboot ROM's burnt?) Maybe - but I've got PXE working just dandy from the linux dhcp/tftp server. And PXE capable NICs are ~$25 each ($145 for

Re: dns, bind site urls wanted

2003-11-12 Thread CF
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 00:44, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > Finding that dnrd site was excellent - thanks a million for that because I am > > partway into the throes of setting up a small home network > Just having a look at it, and its argument for existance is "DNRD was > designed for home networks

Re: DVDs under Linux

2003-11-11 Thread CF
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 14:13, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > Most errors look similar to this, so I suspect the problem lies with > > libdvdcss and friends. > > Entirely possible. Can you try a few other disks and see whether at least > one of them works? Yes - I'll hire a couple and see if that help

Re: DVDs under Linux]

2003-11-11 Thread CF
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 13:45, Chris Bayley wrote: > Try first a no-region (or Region 0) disc first - that will eliminate > that problem for now. Most documentatries and 'adult' films are Region 0. Thanks - haven't got any, so I'll have to hire one. I have only Matrix, Highlander, and Harry Potter2

Re: DVDs under Linux

2003-11-11 Thread CF
BTW - its kernel 2.6.0-test9 and the dmesg output is here http://criggie.dyndns.org/network/tramadol1-dmesg.txt

DVDs under Linux

2003-11-11 Thread CF
Yes - its a nasty can of worms. I've got a standard IDE DVDROM drive (cos it was about $15 more expensive than a new CDROM drive) and I can't get it to play DVDs. The machine is a celeron 1Ghz with a budget motherboard, via chipset, and trident graphics. The DVD is slave on the second IDE bus (/

OT: Model M keyboards

2003-11-03 Thread CF
> Model M keyboards If anyone is interested I have two model M IBM keyboards in the spares pile. Bring me a four-pack of V and one is yours.

Re: year-old laptop pricelist

2003-11-03 Thread CF
I've had a look in my pricing folder but can't find anything. Why do you want it? An insurance claim? On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 11:08, Carl Cerecke wrote: > I would be grateful if anyone could point me to a year-old laptop > pricelist in $NZ.

Re: [OT, but geeky] IBM Model M keyboard

2003-11-03 Thread CF
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 14:10, Carl Cerecke wrote: > After hearing the Slashdot geeks rave about the IBM Model M keyboard, > when I saw one today for sale for $5, I couldn't resist buying it to try > out. They wouldn't be quite so cool if they were AT plugs IBM did a good thing there. > This

RE: OT Server room temperatures

2003-10-30 Thread CF
On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 09:04, Steve Brorens wrote: > Interesting link, but it's not clear what their reason is for this suggestion: > > "...On larger systems, you should consider Redundant Array of > Independent Disks (RAID) or mirrored disk units, for better > performance at h

Re: OT Server room temperatures

2003-10-30 Thread CF
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 23:40, Chris Hellyar wrote: > 'Ideal' is the nirvana where your computers are happy and you are as > well. Check with the computers, if you're happy, and they are too, it's > all good :-). > > The again, you might be like us at work and only ever go in the room to > change ta

Re: xmbase-grok font trouble?

2003-10-29 Thread CF
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 16:05, Helmut Walle wrote: > No, I cannot throw out X 3.3.6, because my old graphics > card is not supported by X 4.x. Can't help with the problem, but what is the existing video card?

Re: OT Server room temperatures

2003-10-29 Thread CF
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 16:19, Hamish McBrearty wrote: > Hi all > > Just having a bit of an arguement with some people. What do people have > their server rooms cooled to? We're told 21 is good enough, but I don't > think that's right. What's ideal? "Room Temperature" Remember the inside of the s

Re: Chooping up text files, my solution

2003-10-28 Thread CF
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 15:14, Ross Drummond wrote: > Comments, improvements appreciated > echo -e "\nType in the name of the file you wish to extract lines from. \nThen > press " > read FileName > > echo -e "Type the number of the line where you want to start.\nThen press > ." > read StartNumber

Re: getting usb to work

2003-10-28 Thread CF
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 10:50, Mike Beattie wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 09:38:42PM +1300, Paul William wrote: > > The output of lsmod follows. > ... > > ide-core 97656 7 (autoclean) [ide-scsi ide-detect > > via82cxxx trm290 triflex slc90e66 sis5513 siimage serverworks sc1200 > >

Re: Various Linux questions

2003-10-28 Thread CF
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 09:39, Jaco Swart wrote: > 1. To prevent his PC from booting when he receives telephone calls: Can this be > changed in the BIOS? Turn off "Wake on Ring" or "Wake on Serial port" or "wake on IRQ4/IRQ3" (or whereever the modem is set to) > 2. Can KWord be set up to use the i

Re: It's a blond moment - chopping up text files

2003-10-27 Thread CF
On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 04:48, Martin Baehr wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 03:26:43PM +1300, Gareth Williams wrote: > > You could cat file | head -n 96 | tail -n 33 :) > > cat is almost always unnecessary: ~~~ Obviously Martin is a dog person

Re: OT: errant keyboard behaviour

2003-10-21 Thread CF
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 15:46, Carl Cerecke wrote: > Todays useless bit of information. > > My keyboard, both at home and at work has the behaviour that, when I > hold down left-shift and press t and r keys simultaneously (or nearly > simultaneously), neither (or only one) of T and R appears, but

Re: Goodbye

2003-10-21 Thread CF
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 10:49, Carl Cerecke wrote: > > (My parents apple orchard in the middle of the Wairarapa --- just north > > of Wellington) > > Apple orchard? What happened to the golf course/driving range? Same place... more hazzards... :)

OT Paradise Cable [Fwd: Paradise Mirrors alternative]

2003-10-19 Thread CF
Those on cable connections might be interested in this. The debian mirror is still poked for sid and sarge, but woody and potato files are still there. -Forwarded Message- > Subject: Paradise Mirrors alternative > Date: 20 Oct 2003 15:12:37 +1300 > > Finally I have an answer for you on

Re: Kernel 2.6-test

2003-10-19 Thread CF
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 15:00, Brad Beveridge wrote: > Well, since I need to reinstall I was thinking that it may be worth > going to the 2.6 series. Apparently it is stable, any thoughts or > experiences with the 2.6 range of kernels? I had a lot of problems getting PCMCIA to play ball... but the

[Fwd: Re: Linux comments]

2003-10-19 Thread CF
FWOAH - they listen! -Forwarded Message- > From: Digitallife Digitallife <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Linux comments > Date: 20 Oct 2003 13:43:31 +1300 > > Many thanks for your comments, we've had a few along a similar theme and plan to > include some of th

Re: Way OT: whats NT4 for fuser

2003-10-16 Thread CF
Thank you gentlemen! I've managed to figure out that its caused by APC's Powerchute UPS monitoring software. On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 15:46, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:16, you wrote: > > I just nmapped a NT4 server, which claims that lots of ports are open. > > > > On a unix

Way OT: whats NT4 for fuser

2003-10-16 Thread CF
I just nmapped a NT4 server, which claims that lots of ports are open. On a unix machine I'd do a fuser -n tcp 12345 but how do I do that on NT ?

Re: IPCOP

2003-10-16 Thread CF
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 20:22, Roger and Sandi wrote: > All has gone well until I installed Fixes3 on it. Following the reboot the > ethernet connection does not work so I am unable to access the box from my > browser. Is it possible the md5sum of the patch was wrong? This is what fix 3 is suppos

festering crock of trouble.

2003-10-15 Thread CF
I've got a problem. According to various government and ministry circulars, schools cannot charge for internet access. Schools can charge for items that have a take-home component (ie, food for cooking class, or paper for printing) We're not allowed to disadvantage those who can't/won't pay for

Re: Process ID pedantry (was Re: Perl question)

2003-10-13 Thread CF
I hereby nominate Carl for the next Pedantic Person award. On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 12:02, Carl Cerecke wrote: > Matthew Gregan wrote: > > > Without getting too detailed about how it works, the allocation scheme > > in Linux[0] gives you a monotonically increasing PID until the bitmap (32 > > bits)

Re: Perl question

2003-10-13 Thread CF
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 10:30, Nick Rout wrote: > > Will try it tonight. Is there any way that I can test to see if the background > > task has completed? > > interctively, try jobs > from wthin a script, i'm not sure. the bash shell variable $! gives the > pid (process id) of the most recently ba

Re: The Gimp for Windows

2003-10-12 Thread CF
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 14:32, Robert Fisher wrote: > Has anyone on this list tried The Gimp on Windows 2000? > If so, is it OK? Yes - goes well, and its a metric truckload cheaper than photoshop etc. Its a non-intuitive way to access all the menus though... students etc don't think of the right mo

Re: Paradise spam/virus filter + webmail

2003-10-12 Thread CF
> > options: waste a lot of your download bandwidth (no problems as long On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 19:09, Paul William wrote: > I have a cable connection. I dont think that they charge us to dload our > mail. They dont charge when you listen to paradise Internet radio > streams and if they did it woul

Re: Help with awk

2003-10-07 Thread CF
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 17:49, Tom Munro Glass wrote: > I'm trying to parse a log file, very similar to /var/log/messages, where there > are some quite well defined fields at the start of the line, but then some > free form text at the end. I can extract and process the first few fields > quite ea

Re: Web Cam under Linux, what brand?

2003-10-07 Thread CF
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 21:12, Julian Visch wrote: > What brand do people recommend and where is there documentation on > installation, the only thing I have found is for Phillps Webcam which I can't > find anywhere. Philips no longer make webcams, so you'll only find second hand ones. However the

Re: transcoding dvd - how long should it take?

2003-10-02 Thread CF
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 12:30, Nick Rout wrote: > On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 12:01:57 +1200 > Paul William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 6 hours... > > you could try speeding it up with nice. > I'm not sure nice would speed it up. as i said theres not much else > happenning cpuwise on the box anyway. W

Re: Fwd: scribus note

2003-10-02 Thread CF
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 22:14, Wesley Parish wrote: > Just so as you can tell me to shut up - a port of an open-source wysiwyg DTP > to Windows - probably better for your health (mental health I think) than MS > Publisher - to the best of my knowledge you can't script anything in > Publisher... ;)

Re: Linux Distribution for Sun Sparc Box

2003-10-01 Thread CF
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 10:18, David Stephen wrote: > Can anyone provide Linux for a Sparc machine (preferrably Debian but > anything will do)? Unfortunately I am not blessed with high speed internet > connection. What sort of sparc machine? Some are and some aren't supported.

Re: Slightly OT - lunchtome wanderings.

2003-09-30 Thread CF
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 14:29, Nick Rout wrote: > 2. Small bookshop in Chancery Lane selling run-outs of computer books. > These are mainly copyrighted 2000/2001 so are oldish in technology terms, > but may still be useful. New Riders & Sams mainly. Spotted books on > Python, Perl, Apache, Linux Secu

Re: mail co-op? (was Re: unix server co-operative?)

2003-09-29 Thread CF
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 09:59, Carl Cerecke wrote: > Jim Cheetham wrote: > > Does anyone know of an NZ unix server co-operative? > > I'd settle for a decent stable long-term email address that I can access > using secure POP/IMAP. Maybe something easy like [EMAIL PROTECTED] That > way, I don't nee

Re: Why can't ET phone home

2003-09-28 Thread CF
On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 17:26, Nick Rout wrote: > My alcatel speedtouch home (home) is at 10.0.0.138. > ipcop has two nics, 10.0.0.1 (attached home) to and 192.168.2.254 > (attached to the lan of course). When I had jetstart I had the modem as a straight IP on the network. All the workstations used

Re: AMD chips

2003-09-28 Thread CF
On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 13:43, Anton wrote: > There are a couple of different temperature measures but I > can't seem to figure out what they are really doing, as one looks like > it should be cutting out at 72deg, but is fine at 75, and when set to 75 > also seems to cut out at 72. I do, of cours

RE: NZ Mirror

2003-09-24 Thread CF
On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 11:27, Steve Bell wrote: > Never mind, answered my own question from the Wellington LUG. Cheers! Post the answer, so that we may be enlightened too. (and the web archive can file it for anyone else with the same question.)

Re: unix server co-operative?

2003-09-24 Thread CF
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 16:28, Jim Cheetham wrote: > I co-admin ourshack.com, which runs in the UK, and there we have about a Who pays for the service? > I'm looking for a NZ-based service in the same vein - I am aware of some > private servers that would be available to the right people, but > won

RE: OT -ADSL router capable of multiple VPN connections to same s erve r?

2003-09-23 Thread CF
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 12:06, Bryce Stenberg wrote: > >So is each workstation making a separate PPTP connection to the router? > No, the pptp tunnel is from the client's PC through to the server on the > internet, the router has to do network address (and port?) translation. > >Or are they making

Re: OT -ADSL router capable of multiple VPN connections to same serve r?

2003-09-23 Thread CF
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 10:13, Bryce Stenberg wrote: > This is quite off topic but as a number of people reading this list seem to > have wide experience I thought I'd give it go Always worth a try. > I need to find a multiport ADSL router (for connecting to phone line) that > has the ability t

Re: OT - DHCP with cable modem

2003-09-23 Thread CF
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 09:42, Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote: > I have offered to help set up a friends home network but I want some info > before I go to his house so I am prepared. > > Does anyone on list know if the S5100i cable modem connected via > Paradise/Telstra Clear can use dhcp? Not in

Re: Debian: reusing apt cache?

2003-09-10 Thread CF
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 14:54, Tim Wright wrote: > On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 14:48, Jim Cheetham wrote: > > How can I re-use all the wonderful .deb files in /var/cache/apt? Can I > > make them available as an apt-source to other machines? > The quick and easy one is to copy them all to the same place o

Re: RTL8139

2003-09-09 Thread CF
Reply_to: ignored On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 13:40, elvis wrote: > has anyone got this realtek chip going normally (drivers) for > kernel 2.4.20-8? > my pc won't recognise the card, using pIII network card is from > dicksmith (retails for $28). > i thought it had something to do with plug and play but

Re: [Fwd: RE: Debian mirror]

2003-09-09 Thread CF
Reply_to: Ignored On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 17:34, Sascha Beaumont wrote: > More interestingly, there is a debian, gentoo and slackware mirror on > ftp2.jetstreamgames.co.nz. Yes, there is. > By the look of things, its up to date (debian is less than 24 hours old) > although I'm still using ftp.nz.d

Re: IPCOP

2003-09-09 Thread CF
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 17:22, Col wrote: > >IANAIPCOPU but does that suggest the modem is at fault, or at least not > ^ translation required please. > I Am Not An IPCOP User :-) IAN. is generally I Am Not (a/the/...) I suppose since Ipcop is a name it should have been a single I...

Re: HELP! How do I make more inodes

2003-09-08 Thread CF
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 13:22, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 11:53, Nick? wrote: > > umount /var/log > > mke2fs -j -N 65536 /dev/harddisk3 > Might be an idea to make a quite few more than that. > Here is the o/p from df -i on my IPCop > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # df -i > Filesystem

Re: Talk at a future meeting.

2003-09-08 Thread CF
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 13:06, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > Eight Megabytes And Continually Swapping. > Can't let that sort of thing go on without suggesting > the viable alternative > > I volunteer a short one on "beginners guide to vi" > or "how to use vi to get the job done" > Nothing fancy

Re: HELP! How do I make more inodes

2003-09-08 Thread CF
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 10:08, Nick Rout wrote: > Help!! my ipcop box has run out of inodes on the /var partition, which > has an ext3 filesystem? >From memory, inodes are set at format time, so its a backup then mkext2fs -j /dev/hdblah for you :-\ Now is the time to fit a larger drive if

[Fwd: RE: Debian mirror]

2003-09-08 Thread CF
t; > Regards, > > Shay Fuimaono > paradise.net [http://www.paradise.net.nz/] > TelstraClear Ltd. > 0800 467272 > > [ When replying to this, please include a copy of the original message. ] > > > > -Original Message- > > From: CF [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

Re: IPCOP

2003-09-08 Thread CF
On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 18:47, Col wrote: > >The point is that whenever the connection is dropped, I suspect it makes no > >difference from which end (ie. the ISP can and does drop me after extended > >periods), IPCOP should detect that the RED interface has gone down and go > >back to it's "waiti

Re: An interesting article

2003-09-08 Thread CF
On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 22:10, Nick Rout wrote: > what is the maori for Peripherals? Digital Camera? Configure Window > Behaviour? (just a random selection of menu options in a few places on > my box,) >From memory its some bollocksy maorification of the english... like motorcar translates to moto

Re: [OT] I should've used an emoticon (Was: Time Zones)

2003-09-07 Thread CF
Replyto: ignored On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 15:15, Yuri de Groot wrote: > > > I didn't know before I read this thread that there > > > exists a place > > > called "Auckland Islands" (although I have heard of Las > > > Islas Malvinas). > > > > For the last time Pacific/Auckland timezone HAS NOTHING TO

Re: IBM TV ad kicks ass

2003-09-07 Thread CF
On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 12:00, Nick Rout wrote: > you nered to look at the script, one is known as Mr Gates > http://www-3.ibm.com/e-business/doc/content/ondemand/prodigy_transcript.html Hehehe I thought Mohammad Ali was Italian... he sounded like the mafia!

Re: Linux and Wireless Lan/Internet

2003-09-07 Thread CF
On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 01:55, Jason Greenwood wrote: > Ok all, I have decided to ditch the wires and go wireless for my ADSL > Modem/router/Accesspoint and NIC at home. What is the guts of it?? Its cool... but there are drawbacks... > Nowadays adsl modems and nic's almost always work with Linux

Re: IBM TV ad kicks ass

2003-09-07 Thread CF
On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 19:05, Nick Rout wrote: > Laughably, one of the characters is Mr Gates. Watch the movie and you'll > see why Bill can't complain that it is supposed to refer to him > ROTFLMAO. Ummm - if one of those people is supposed to be Gates theres no physical resemblance at all... whi

Re: OT: sms gateway

2003-09-07 Thread CF
On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 17:10, Adam Martin wrote: > Hi all, > hopefully someone can help me. > I am running my own email server at home, and want to be able to send a text > message to myself ( and others) when I receive a new email message. > > Does anyone know of a email to sms gateway I could us

RE: auto poweroff

2003-09-07 Thread CF
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 21:37, Bjorn Nilsen wrote: > When you run "halt" does you computer shutdown the turn off? If so then > this is easy just use "at" to schedule the "halt" command. > > > From: antonovich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > is there any easy way for me to set a timer (via an > > ins

Re: tcsh vs bash (Re: Command history for multiple shells)

2003-09-04 Thread CF
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 10:14, Martin Baehr wrote: > i find it terribly annoying that filename completion uses -d in tcsh > and only works at the end of the buffer. Thats cos ^D is delete char too. To do command completion in the middle of a command do ^D

Re: Sharing a proxy

2003-09-02 Thread CF
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 09:52, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > covert > n 1: a flock of coots -grin- describes the lot of us quite well I thought...

Re: OT. Re: Command history for multiple shells

2003-09-02 Thread CF
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 09:53, Philip Charles wrote: > On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Nick Rout wrote: > > sick of distro wars, desktop wars, lets do shell wars :-) > Bash them. > Phil. Phil... just sh!

Email Peeves, was Re: "Reply tos"

2003-09-02 Thread CF
On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 14:51, Carl Cerecke wrote: > No! If you start a new subject, compose a new message. > And no complaining about not remembering the clug list > email - that's what your address book is for. True - but some topics simply evolve of their own nature... theres nothing keeping a t

OT Printer search

2003-09-01 Thread CF
Gidday all - I'm after an HP Laserjet 4000 or similar to buy. Why? I know they work perfectly with my print charging software. On the other side, I have two Lexmark Optra S 1855 printers to sell. They work perfectly, except that they don't like PCounter. I have one of these at home, and it run

Re: Paradise spam + virus filtering

2003-09-01 Thread CF
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 17:50, Mike Beattie wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 03:13:01PM +, Shane Hollis wrote: *mega-snippage* Mike's right.

Re: VNC for remote support...

2003-09-01 Thread CF
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 14:46, Chris Hellyar wrote: > Is there a way I can use the vncviewer/Xvnc/vncserver to view and > interact with a remote clients desktop while they are using it? Yes, but you have to use http://xf4vnc.sourceforge.net/ Thats the only way to use VNC to the current display.

Re: Paradise spam + virus filtering

2003-08-31 Thread CF
On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 21:56, Shane Hollis wrote: > > In short, it is not possible to opt out of the filtering between 8 Sep > > and 8 Oct, but is after 8 Oct. "Hit-mails" are quarantined into a > > separate folder which is only accessible via webmail (and that won't > > change). > > I for one am n

Re: Sharing a proxy

2003-08-31 Thread CF
On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 10:53, Vik Olliver wrote: > Assume there is a community with a LAN backbone. Individual members are > nto allowed to give others access to the internet via their own private > Internet connections but freely share LAN access. > > A member accesses the web via a local proxy th

Re: Paradise spam + virus filtering

2003-08-31 Thread CF
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 18:13, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > The Paradise announcement about their new spam ad virus filtering > contained heaps of markespeak but little info, so I asked some more > questions, which others might be interested in too. > > In short, it is not possible to opt out of the fil

Re: Power Supply Koozed?

2003-08-28 Thread CF
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 19:33, Robert Bernard wrote: > Hi Cris > Same happened to me last week,power supply packed up, after scouting around > found the best buy was from Molten media, smart new cases 400w transformer > $90.00. cheaper than the power supply on its own. And you'll probably find that

Re: OT : Grrr Telescums new adsl pricing is worse than before!!!

2003-08-27 Thread CF
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 17:18, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > > HTF did you get a 10 Gb cap at 256 Kbit? > > Simple. At the time the 128kbit disappeared, the cap on the 256kbit was > raised to 10GB. Yes, and the price went up by $10/month Paradise High Speed Starter* $59.95 per month + $17 per month f

Re: OT : Grrr Telescums new adsl pricing is worse than before!!!

2003-08-27 Thread CF
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 18:39, Adrian Robertson wrote: > Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > >Took them up on their offer when it was announced. > >"Double your speed, for an extra $4.00 per month, Interested"? > > > >So I said "Yes please", and it just happened. > This thread got me motivated yesterday

Re: OT : Grrr Telescums new adsl pricing is worse than before!!!

2003-08-25 Thread CF
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 10:31, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > HTF did you get a 10 Gb cap at 256 Kbit? > Took them up on their offer when it was announced. > "Double your speed, for an extra $4.00 per month, Interested"? > > So I said "Yes please", and it just happened. Thats the major problem with

Re: OT : Grrr Telescums new adsl pricing is worse than before!!!

2003-08-25 Thread CF
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 17:18, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 16:40, you wrote: > > ...but is cable cheaper? > Yes. Yes - I agree. Only cable has the "national traffic costs 1/10 of what international traffic costs" > > Faster? > Probably not, it all depends on how fast you expec

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