Re: Netbook recommendations?

2010-01-08 Thread chris bayley
Roy Britten wrote: So, I've got some money burning a hole in my pocket and I'm quite keen on getting a netbook / small formfactor notebook. The big box retailers seem to have Acer Aspire Ones and some HP thing on the shelves. I've heard less than complimentary things said about HP's laptops and

Re: a do nothing shell ?

2009-05-21 Thread chris bayley
chris bayley wrote: Hi bods, I wish to create a guest account on a machine where that account exists purely for the ability to connect via SSH and create tunnels. There is no requirement for an interactive shell on the host machine. What then I can I specify as the guest accounts shell ??? I

Re: a do nothing shell ?

2009-05-21 Thread chris bayley
Craig Falconer wrote: chsh username /bin/false Will that allow ssh tunnels still ? chris bayley wrote, On 22/05/09 11:58: I wish to create a guest account on a machine where that account exists purely for the ability to connect via SSH and create tunnels. There is no requirement for an

a do nothing shell ?

2009-05-21 Thread chris bayley
Hi bods, I wish to create a guest account on a machine where that account exists purely for the ability to connect via SSH and create tunnels. There is no requirement for an interactive shell on the host machine. What then I can I specify as the guest accounts shell ??? I have noted various 'r

Re: OT: Cabling to a shed

2009-05-17 Thread chris bayley
Robert Fisher wrote: -Original Message- From: "Volker Kuhlmann" Yes. For starters, the power cables are legally required to be in conduit of their own, and with good reason. Not quite correct. Separation is mandatory and protection is recommended. "Protection" can be as simple as tana

Re: Home Automation Dealers in Chch?

2009-04-19 Thread chris bayley
Brett Davidson wrote: A long long time ago (in a galaxy near us however) Andrew Errington and John Carter corresponded about Home Automation in Christchurch. Andrew appeared to use dedicated microcontroller chips and John was pondering about X10 at that time (July 2007). I am building a new

Re: galleries on CD

2009-03-12 Thread Chris Bayley
Steve Holdoway wrote: Has anyone got any recommendations for software to generate CD's of images that have a nice browser interface. It would be nice if lightbox functionality were available, too. Unfortunately it'll need to be accessible through the evil empire as well, which is why I'm looki

Re: Social Net Work Sites

2009-03-10 Thread Chris Bayley
Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Jim Cheetham wrote: On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Geoff and Jude Marks wrote: can anyone help out in suggesting the best "social networking site" for a community youth group in New Zealand. I don't understand the scope of

Re: Hardy 8.04 modem concerns

2009-03-01 Thread Chris Bayley
Steve Holdoway wrote: On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:59:35 +1300 chris wrote: Installed the supplied dsl modem A Thompson speedtouch 510. Once the modem had connected to the adsl and the telltale lights were correct, plugged the machine in with no further issues. Blimey, there's still 2 of u

Re: Acer Aspire One netbook

2009-03-01 Thread Chris Bayley
Andrew Errington wrote: Hi all, In a previous email I mused at the wondrousness of being able to connect my new slimline DVD writer to my (very) old ThinkPad 600X running 4 year old Mepis. The drive was recognised and K3b worked properly. I burned all my photos to DVD as a backup and I was imp

OpenOffice calc programming

2008-11-18 Thread Chris Bayley
Hi peoples, I have task to populate a spreadsheet cell in OO.Calc with data scraped from a web page. Has anybody there the experience to point me toward the required reading ?? From a cursory look it appears as though I may be looking toward using PyUNO or OO-Basic, preferably the former.

Re: Listing user installed packages in Debian....

2008-03-12 Thread Chris Bayley
List all packages (not just libraries) -n List the lot, even if they are recommended --no-show-sectionOnly the package name, thanks Chris Bayley wrote: In Gentoo I can easily see which pac

Listing user installed packages in Debian....

2008-03-09 Thread Chris Bayley
In Gentoo I can easily see which packages I have deliberately installed from the command line using 'emerge foobar' by looking in the 'world' file - how do to I find the same information in Debian ? To be clear I do not want see all the installed packages on my system nor all the dependencies th

Re: Tip for the Day: Keeping multiple cores busy...

2008-03-07 Thread Chris Bayley
gkrellmd on the server, Kerry Mayes wrote: > Do you know of a command line program to watch the processor load on > multiple cores? (I've been using "top" but it just gives a single > figure. The other alternatives I've seen only give a point in time.) > > The machine I want to watch is a se

[SOLVED]Re: NFS exports with wildcards

2008-03-05 Thread Chris Bayley
.in-addr.arpa. Not close enough !!! Cheers all. Chris Bayley wrote: Hi team, I had a curious problem with an attempt to create NFS export using wildcard declared hosts. The man:exports page has this to say: wildcards Machine names may contain the wildcard characters * and ?. This can be used to

NFS exports with wildcards

2008-03-05 Thread Chris Bayley
Hi team, I had a curious problem with an attempt to create NFS export using wildcard declared hosts. The man:exports page has this to say: wildcards Machine names may contain the wildcard characters * and ?. This can be used to make the exports file more compact; for instance, *.cs.foo.edu matche

Re: sandboxes

2007-10-13 Thread Chris Bayley
I have had a 'good trip' with a hard disk (Debianised) install of DSL inside a 300M QEMU image. installs fast, is easy to handle, boots in a very few seconds, and lets you fool around to your hearts content and throw away the results whenever you wish . : ) ChrisB Aidan Gauland wrote: > Hello

Re: Project Management Software

2007-05-28 Thread Chris Bayley
I find WebCollab quite useful although it doesn't have gantt. ChrisB Mike Pearce wrote: > Hello, > > Any recommendations for some good & Free Linux based > Project managament software? > > I have googled and alot of Non-Free ones appear, and many so > called free ones are not actually free (Ti

Re: visibility memory useage in elf binaries

2007-05-22 Thread Chris Bayley
Thanks guys, this is exactly the kind of feed back I was looking for and confirms the the approach I have taken in coding up a small python script based the output of nm -S. Cheers all, Chris

Re: looking for the book "Understanding the Linux Kernel" by Bovet & Cesati

2007-05-22 Thread Chris Bayley
I have it and would be glad to lend it to you, contact me offline to arrange Regards, Chris Bayley Rohit Grover wrote: > Hello All, > > I'm looking for the book "Understanding the Linux Kernel" by Daniel > Bovet, Marco Cesati. The copies available through the libr

visibility memory useage in elf binaries

2007-05-21 Thread Chris Bayley
Hi team, I am looking for a utility that will give me a really powerful look into the memory usage of my elf binaries What I want to do is something like this: first extract all the symbols and size information using nm -S, then graph the information with an expression in section terms ie (

Re: tcl/tk(.h) on suse ?

2007-04-24 Thread Chris Bayley
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > If you installed via the net your install repo should already contain > the packages you're after. CHeck with yast installation sources what > repos you have configured, there must be a problem there. The packages > is in the oss repo (which is the base repo) > You we

Re: tcl/tk(.h) on suse ?

2007-04-20 Thread Chris Bayley
repos configured but for some reason can't locate tk-devel there - it may become clear one day. thx Chris Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > On Fri 20 Apr 2007 22:53:21 NZST +1200, Chris Bayley wrote: > > >> What I am missing that I cant locate the packages tcl-dev and tk-dev for &

Re: tcl/tk(.h) on suse ?

2007-04-20 Thread Chris Bayley
I can find neither -dev nor -devel, wracking my brains really - can't help thinking that I am missing something about install source packages on suse. CB Nick Rout wrote: > Chris Bayley wrote: >> What I am missing that I cant locate the packages tcl-dev and tk-dev fo

tcl/tk(.h) on suse ?

2007-04-20 Thread Chris Bayley
What I am missing that I cant locate the packages tcl-dev and tk-dev for suse 10.2. specifically I need both tcl.h and tk.h which I presume rightly or wrongly come from the aforementioned packages. cheers, ChrisB

Re: Linux device

2007-04-16 Thread Chris Bayley
; Would like to work with ppl who are interested in doing a weekend or > evening work shop, would perfer not to try in anger my self. > > Cheers Don > > Isaac Devine wrote: >> iPAQ's generally can be flashed to have a version of Linux on them. >> Don't kno

Linux device

2007-04-10 Thread chris bayley
Just a quick query, as I embark down the path of looking at PDA/smartphone type devices. Is anyone aware of a Linux powered PDA or smart phone that will calender/contact sync with Lotus Notes ? Me: linux nut, current employer Lotus user. Tying to to sort out summin useful. : ) Chris

Re: LAST NIGHTS MEETING

2007-04-01 Thread Chris Bayley
The link is posted... John Rye wrote: > On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:15:49 +1300 > Chris Bayley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Ok... >> >> Both John's exposition on the nature of linux and the audio transcript >> of the evening are now av

Re: sabayon 3.3

2007-03-18 Thread Chris Bayley
So..if one ultimately wanted a gentoo box does it make sense to use sabyon for the install in order to cut down on the time required ? Does saby use the std gentoo repos ? ChrisB Nick Rout wrote: > On Mon, March 19, 2007 9:35 am, Brett Davidson wrote: > >> What're the benefits of Sabayon ove

Re: free speech, lawyers, and the nature of source code, etc. (was Re: AAC licence)

2007-03-15 Thread Chris Bayley
There exists a facinating exploration of these issues @ http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/ which came into being after the while DeCSS debacle and subsequent legal rulings. Source vs. object seems a legal argument that is far from settled - the introduction reads: / / /Judge Kaplan subs

Re: IMAP Server that supports sub folders

2007-03-14 Thread Chris Bayley
courier-imap supports that and was a no-brainer to set up Don Gould wrote: > I'm currently using dovecot > > It doesn't support folders within folders but is easy to set up. > > Can anyone recommend what I should set up on my new debian server that > will do subfolders in folders and be easy f

Re: LAST NIGHTS MEETING

2007-03-14 Thread Chris Bayley
John handed out some pages of google triggers, mine was pinched (such was the demand for John's wisdom! ) but he may be so kind as to post them to the list ? He also had a rather nice exposition on 'what is Linux' designed for corporates which he promised to post to the CLUG wiki. I have an audio t

Re: Alcatel Speedtouch Pro (ADSL Router)

2007-03-12 Thread Chris Bayley
I am currently running a PRO - have been for years. The difference to the HOME is the addition of a NAT router on the PRO. If you use it in this mode then there is nothing to setup in linux other than basic network configuration ie. a valid dhcp client server relationship or manual ip config etc. T

Re: Resignation

2007-03-08 Thread Chris Bayley
Thanks for all your hard work these past few years Zane! CU Tuesday Chris Zane Gilmore wrote: > I've just realised that I haven't told you guys on the list. > > Today is my last day as an employee of the University of Canterbury. > > This means that I will no longer be looking after the working o

Re: Wifi access to dial-up

2007-02-15 Thread chris bayley
I have sent him forth like an arrow from a bow to bid on a airport/modem combo. Thanks for all the suggestions.. Chris chris bayley wrote: > I am just thinking about some wifi solutions for my father who lives in > a rural setting and is limited to dial-up access to his ISP. > He want

Wifi access to dial-up

2007-02-14 Thread chris bayley
I am just thinking about some wifi solutions for my father who lives in a rural setting and is limited to dial-up access to his ISP. He wants to have wifi internet access around the farmhouse but the only connection point is via dial-up over a radio linked telephone - way slow!. 1/Of course fi

Re: can xp be loaded by default and not opensuse?

2007-02-14 Thread chris bayley
If you are using the 'grub' boot loader then simply change the 'default=?' line in /boot/grub/menu.lst to indicate your XP entry in the same file. If you use the 'lilo' bootloader then wait until a lilo user chimes in. Chris Reg wrote: > > Can XP be loaded up at startup by default rather than Ope

Re: xinerama

2007-02-11 Thread chris bayley
Sax is a SuSE linux thingy wnich configures X for you.. It just a set up tool Chris Kerry Mayes wrote: > Hi Derek > > Thanks for the file. It appears that you are using something called > SaX that wrote your xorg.conf. It's quite confusing, there are > references to twinview as well as xinerama

Re: module loading suse 10.2

2007-02-06 Thread chris bayley
Baby your the one... That was just what I needed, it probably should have occurred to me before. Now the module loads when appropriate - it just doesn't behave - but that's an issue for the author! ; ) Thanks! Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > [good stuff] > > >>4. modprobe -c will list the conte

Re: module loading suse 10.2

2007-02-06 Thread chris bayley
Nick Rout wrote: >On Tuesday 06 February 2007 22:45, Nick Rout wrote: > > >>http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/doc/suse/sles9/adminguide-sles9/ch14.htm >>l >> >>The above may be helpful, given that it is for suse. OTOH it is for an >>older version and the kernel has made significant progress ove

Re: module loading suse 10.2

2007-02-06 Thread chris bayley
Nick Rout wrote: >On Tuesday 06 February 2007 21:50, chris bayley wrote: > > >>Nick Rout wrote: >> >> >>>On Tuesday 06 February 2007 17:22, chris bayley wrote: >>> >>> >>>>When I insert new hardware into my suse10.2

Re: module loading suse 10.2

2007-02-06 Thread chris bayley
Nick Rout wrote: >On Tuesday 06 February 2007 17:22, chris bayley wrote: > > >>When I insert new hardware into my suse10.2 system, which is the process >>that is responsible for detecting this and determining which is the >>appropriate module to load ? and how d

Re: procmailrc

2007-02-04 Thread chris bayley
Your destination folder depends on the type of IMAP server you have - there are several formats: Traditional Unix mbox format maildir format --

Re: Linux as a firewall server

2007-01-30 Thread chris bayley
As a firewall box, I would think that the critical component is IPtables/Netfilter to do all your NAT and port filtering, after that squid as a caching proxy and squidguard/dansguardian for content filtering and set up IPtables to force transparent proxying though squid so that the kids can't side

Re: Pros and cons of rescue systems (Was: missing codecs)

2007-01-30 Thread chris bayley
Christopher Sawtell wrote: > It's not in the kernel basically because Linus and Hans are, in effect, a > pair of non-communicating entities. Certainly that is the case currently! > > I should think that with his recent activities Hans has isolated himself from the majority of the worlds open

Re: Dell sells computers without Windows preinstalled

2007-01-24 Thread chris bayley
I did just that recently, and ended up with a Thinkpad T43, and so far I have not found one thing that does not work with linux, and with suse(10.1) 95% of that was right out of the box(suspend hibernate networking etc). I have installed the ATI driver and also found a driver to get extended inform

Re: curious amavis/spamassassin issue

2007-01-21 Thread chris bayley
situation is now much improved after I have explicitly declared all my domains in '@local_domains_maps =' in amavis.conf Chris chris bayley wrote: > I run amavis on postfix to virus and spam scan all my mail. I merely > add spam headers to the spam and let procmail sort out

Re: Gear for swap....

2007-01-19 Thread chris bayley
d requires firmware upload), color me impressed! I am mourning my Gentoo a bit, but 3 years after with it on my older thinkpad I still did not have as many laptop bits that worked right : ) Chris Bayley Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > Hi Chris, > > >> Up for Grabs: >> >>

Gear for swap....

2007-01-18 Thread chris bayley
Up for Grabs: PIII 600Mhz MB +CPU ATI Rage Pro video AGP 512 Mb SDRAM CDROM ATX p/s Want I want for it: A SUSE 10.2 dvd delivered to my door in Lyttelton Any takers ???

nVidia teething issues

2006-12-18 Thread chris bayley
I have recently moved over from a long tradtion with ATI to my first nVidia card (GeForce 7100GS) and I have noticed the functionality of 'X -configure' is somewhat less than I am accustomed to with the ATI cards; i.e. with the ATI cards when I issue the above command X gives me a config with my mo

wanted: NCD Explorer...

2006-11-29 Thread chris bayley
Anybody got one of those NCD Explorer (451 or like) that you could bear to part with ? There were a few circulating on the list a coupe of years back - perhaps there are 1 or 2 that have been retired since then : ) Chris

Gentoo -> Ubuntu ???

2006-08-28 Thread chris bayley
every package I have ever had need for I am sure that a fresh 700Mb install would probably do half of what I need today. So to those of you who have spent time as a Gentoo patriot, and now find yourselves in Ubuntu land, what is you experiance of the move ??? what lead you to jump camp ?? : ) Chris BAYLEY

Re: Need help with Spamassassin rules....

2006-07-26 Thread chris bayley
>find what you're after. > >Now, if you used sendmail/qmail, then I'd be trying to sell you a really nice >bridge at this time (: > >Steve > >On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:22:46 +0200 >chris bayley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Thanks Stev

Re: Need help with Spamassassin rules....

2006-07-25 Thread chris bayley
y wrote: >To answer your question by ignoring it (: > >Are you using rbls?? > >We use > > bl.spamcop.net > sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org > relays.ordb.org > combined-HIB.dnsiplists.completewhois.com > >And it makes a big difference. > >Steve > >On Mon

Need help with Spamassassin rules....

2006-07-24 Thread chris bayley
match add LOTS of points to the spam score Does anyone know if a spamassassin rule can be this sophisticated or is it necessary or is there even a way to break out into some script for this test ?? Regards, Chris Bayley

Re: In over my head with bash scripting....

2006-03-06 Thread chris bayley
Christopher Sawtell wrote: >On Tuesday 07 March 2006 12:31, chris bayley wrote: > > >>Hi team >> >>I have been whipping up a wee bash script to empty out the photos of my >>digital camera to my storage device. >> >> > >You can mou

Re: In over my head with bash scripting....

2006-03-06 Thread chris bayley
Yup, it appears that I have some howework to do! C Steve Holdoway wrote: >man expect may simplify this task. However, be warned - people have >written books on expect alone! > >Steve > >On Tue, March 7, 2006 12:31 pm, chris bayley wrote: > > >>Hi team >

In over my head with bash scripting....

2006-03-06 Thread chris bayley
Hi team I have been whipping up a wee bash script to empty out the photos of my digital camera to my storage device. It runs from ivman when the camera is plugged in and the idea was to have as little user intervention as possible. It started off as a small bash script that was all right if yo

module load order

2006-02-20 Thread chris bayley
When my gentoo(kernel 2.6.14) system boots up coldplug detects the pcmcia-usb card attached and loads both ohci_hcd and ehci_hcd in that order as the usb host drivers. Now the problem is that if the attached usb peripherals are USB1.0/2.0 compatible they are first bound to the ohci_hcd(USB1/full_sp

Re: Jumpy DVD playback

2005-02-14 Thread chris bayley
I had the same thing recently, IIRC it was a kernel version bump that disabled several kernel configs including BLK_DEV_(your chipset_here) after rebuilding I was again able to enable DMA HTH Chris Bayley Joshua Collins wrote: Greetings all, I'm running debian unstable on 2.4.18 kerne

Re: DCOP and MPlayer

2004-12-31 Thread chris bayley
If you use KDE screensavers tick the box marked 'make aware of power managment'. When xine (I sure other player as well) plays a movie it disables DPMS and now it disables your sceensaver well !! : ) Chris Hadley Rich wrote: I use MPlayer as my chosen video application and KDE as my desktop env

WOT: The picture says it all...

2004-12-21 Thread chris bayley
Sorry, but being in europe makes this my fav... http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~shane/stasj/pics/humor/div/205.html ; ) Nick Rout wrote: I thought this one was not bad either ;-) http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~shane/stasj/pics/humor/div/556.html On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 23:24:16 +1300 david merriman <[E

Re: Home wiring

2004-12-16 Thread chris bayley
wonder why proper home cinema is expensive! ; ) Chris Bayley Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote: Yes, I went to see the guys at South Island Components on Antigua St. They were very helpful. I have 3/4 of a drum of steel core coax cable left (already used heaps with a multi-channel aerial, Sky dish, 6

Re: Home wiring

2004-12-16 Thread chris bayley
France: yup it's starting to get chilly - most days -3 to +3, but I am waiting for it to get a bit more exciting yet with the arrival of the white stuff, maybe this weekend - fingers crossed. However I am making the most of the frosts by riding my motocycle throughout the winter! ; ) CB perhap

Re: Home wiring

2004-12-15 Thread chris bayley
The home automation industry is full of products which facilitate this kind of thing. But like everything in this industry nothing is cheap and the quality of the interfaces/baulns can make a big difference. By my experiance I can suggest that _without_ the appropriate baluns the results are qu

Re: OT: Laptop Battery Care

2004-12-05 Thread chris bayley
As an adjunct topic to battery care there are other areas to watch as the number of hours on your laptop get higher:- For example my thinkpad is now nearly 3 years old, both LiIon batteries have recently been replaced after 300 cycles or so, but more surprising was the development of an overheat

readcd and audio cds

2004-12-04 Thread chris bayley
does readcd normally make an .iso from an audio CD ? I was sure I had done this in the past but at present it giving me a hard time. chris

K3B and soft links

2004-11-19 Thread chris bayley
I have noticed when dragging soft links into the project window of K3B it reports them as broken but in the other 3 windows it follows them just fine ?!?!? Also is there any easy way to rearrange the order of the folders once they have been added to a project ? Cheers Chris Bayley

Re: A marginal topic

2004-11-08 Thread chris bayley
My IBM thinkpad is one of those! Cris Bayley Nick Rout wrote: some windows recovery disks will only work if they greedily take the entire hard drive. trippy. corpoate capitalism at its worst. sign of an unhealthy society. backup recommended. :~;;?--$$$% On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 14:15:08 +1300 Ralph Stok

linuxy news from france

2004-11-05 Thread chris bayley
net linux mags on it shelves, and 2 or 3 in _every_ german magazine seller. Heres somthing else I saw in Basel(Switzerland) on a recent excursion:- http://thebayleys.net/gallery/abstract/linuxcafe1 http://thebayleys.net/gallery/abstract/linuxcafe2 Eat yer heart out... : ) cheers all Chris Bayley

Re: Setting up an "all-in-one" printer in SuSE...

2004-11-05 Thread chris bayley
rint and cups and you will be up and running within a few short hours. : ) Chris Bayley

Re: OT: scalling photographs

2004-03-28 Thread chris bayley
Jaco Swart wrote: This message is Off-Topic, and I apologise for that. But I know that I can get fast and meaningful answers on this group, so here goes: I have a friend who wants to batch-convert scanned photographs from hi-res (400KB or larger – wel, maybe med-res) down to e-maileble size (a

Re: Wanted: Advice on PDAs

2004-03-22 Thread chris bayley
Jamie Dobbs wrote: I'm thinking about getting a PDA and want the following features: Colour/HiRes screen MP3 Playback Ability to Sync to Linux(home)and Windows(work) I don't really want to spend much more than about $500-$700 on such a device and would welcome any first hand experience and advic

Re: Linux friendly computer retailers.

2004-03-19 Thread chris bayley
I have dealt with Computer Broker quite a bit this year and it is quite simply the best PC retail experiance I have had !! : )- /chris Christopher Sawtell wrote: Greets List New Thread! You can get new o/s free computer kits from:- Computer Future, Cnr Gasson Street and Washington Way. Y

Re: Knoppix

2004-03-10 Thread Chris Bayley
I'm thinking that you could use LTSP to do that, only I wonder what you would gain in booting knoppix over the LTSP kernel ? - perhaps better local hardware support. You could get serious and hack knoppix to net boot in the same way LTSP does, or you boot LTSP and X connect to a Knoppix server (

Re: National Radio, 11am, item on OSS

2004-02-26 Thread Chris Bayley
Pretty good review od OSS by and large - apart from the part about about it automatically wiping out windows! Does Red Hat do this? I haven't installed it for a long time, but I know the last couple of time I installed mandrake it always set up my machine for dual boot, and understand it even sh

Re: Compaq presario 1400xl laptop

2004-02-19 Thread Chris Bayley
Pop in a Knoppix or LNX-BBC and have a look at your HD with fdisk and chkfs... /chris Madan wrote: Hello Friends, Last night I was browsing/chating over the internet from my Compaq Presario 1400XL Laptop, suddenly everything went blue (hanged), I have forced the laptop to reboot, but for my e

jpg previews in KDE

2004-02-15 Thread chris bayley
When I look at my Dig camera shots in KDE (Kongquer,Kuickshow, & Kview) previews appears for some shots and not others, I can not see what distinguishes them. Anyone else had this ? : ) /Chris

Re: usb external hardrive

2004-02-07 Thread chris bayley
Craig Falconer wrote: I would like to purchase a usb external 5.25" hardrive bay. The ones DSE sells are linux compatible (2.4.19). Anyone had any problems with these? Comments? Yeah - USB 1.1 is sodding slow at about 950 kbytes/second. You will need wither a lot of patience, or a USB 2 syst

Re: easy way to get to my documents

2004-01-27 Thread Chris Bayley
I mount an ext2 /home partion in both windows and linux, that costs $30 I think but you could use fat for free... /chris Hamish McBrearty wrote: Hi all Up until recently I've been dual booting my laptop because I needed to be able to use Dreamweaver. That's no longer the case thanks to Crossove

choice of switch for ltsp network

2004-01-27 Thread Chris Bayley
I am about to choose a switch for a primary school network that I am building, the network has 14 LTSP clients + 4 standalone off a sever with GBIC (1000Mbps). Since this is the 'biggest' switch I have purchased and I am spending someone elses money, it couldn't hurt for me to hear some advice/

Re: Email server for Home Network - why?

2004-01-23 Thread Chris Bayley
Matthew Gregan wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 10:25:31PM +1300, Chris Bayley wrote: I have > 1GB of mail sitting on my IMAP server, do you think they would let me away with that ??? For the right price, sure. -mjg h

Re: updatedb affecting performance

2004-01-23 Thread Chris Bayley
Carl Cerecke wrote: Hi, updatedb is set to run about an hour after I boot up in the morning. that might be your problem, I find the effect is much less noticeable at 1 in the morning. And I am still up at that time my brain has slowed to an equivalent crawl anyways. /chris

Re: Email server for Home Network - why?

2004-01-23 Thread Chris Bayley
Nick Rout wrote: well 1. you may have many client machines (even two is enough to be a pain), so you don't want pop mail, because u end up with half your email on machine a and half on machine b. imap solves this. isp's in general do not do imap. ergo do it yourself. 2. if you have dialup you ca

Re: Email server for Home Network - why?

2004-01-23 Thread Chris Bayley
Robert Fisher wrote: Apologies to those who consider this a dumb question... I can think of two reasons why one would set up an email server at home. 1/ Mail is readily "served" to workstations from an always on server 2/ Mail can be accessed elsewhere without using "webmail" Neither of thes

Re: Email server for Home Network - why?

2004-01-23 Thread Chris Bayley
Matthew Gregan wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 12:50:15PM +1300, Nick Rout wrote: email on machine a and half on machine b. imap solves this. isp's in general do not do imap. ergo do it yourself. Well, if the users don't ask for it, they won't provide it... Having said that, I was doubtful

Re: Purpose of the CLUG

2004-01-22 Thread Chris Bayley
Lance Blackler wrote: Talking of fixits and stuff - I'd like an opinion on the following. I have been given a 486 (DX475) Digital HiNote laptop - no CDROM 20mb of RAM 1.3gb hard drive. I would like to load Linux of some flavour on it so that I can use it for word processing (Abiword) and checking

Re: Purpose of the CLUG

2004-01-22 Thread Chris Bayley
Lance Blackler wrote: Talking of fixits and stuff - I'd like an opinion on the following. I have been given a 486 (DX475) Digital HiNote laptop - no CDROM 20mb of RAM 1.3gb hard drive. I would like to load Linux of some flavour on it so that I can use it for word processing (Abiword) and checking

Re: Remote floppy...

2003-12-26 Thread chris bayley
Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 00:01, you wrote: Hi guys, I'm stuck on formulating a command to access to a remote floppy drive. The setup: I've got the LTSP running and currently the client machine boots from floppy. Unfortunitly the floppy drive came from my main server mach

PXE boot / tftp woes

2003-12-19 Thread chris bayley
I am trying to get a suit of worksations network booting LTSP via PXE/etherboot for the local school I have DHCP configured and they pick an ip ok, but something is amiss in the tftp transfer of the etherboot code I am using tftp-hpa. logs show: Dec 19 21:27:53 [in.tftpd] RRQ from 192.168.0.101

Re: hot-plug HDDs

2003-12-02 Thread chris bayley
Jim Cheetham wrote: On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 09:55, Dave Lane wrote: I have tried removable USB drives (Dick Smith sells the caddies for about $160 which take any 3.5" IDE drive), but had major problems with USB driver support (USB2 led to consistent crashes, USB1.1 was flakey and so slow as to

Re: hot-plug HDDs

2003-12-01 Thread chris bayley
Matthew Gregan 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. Any details of a working configuration would give me hope ... I've heard lots of similar s

Re: Upgrading my PC, any pointers?

2003-11-25 Thread Chris Bayley
I have a radeon 7500 M7 going fairly well on a stinkpad, good 3d, dvd etc. but no tv out yet though required a DRI section in XF86Config and and emerge xfree-drm after a kernel rebuild. but pretty mechanical now. 1200 odd fps in GLXgears IIRC /chris Peter Elliott wrote: On Tue, 25 Nov 2003

Re: Upgrading my PC, any pointers?

2003-11-25 Thread Chris Bayley
Force the card vendors to open source thier drivers and they'll take their IP and stick it back into hardware so that what you buy is what you get - warts and all - and the ability to update/bug fix later (for free) dissapears BTW didn't ATI used to do OS drivers ? with what model

Re: Some help needed with tcp/ip config

2003-11-24 Thread Chris Bayley
Wesley, could you post for us the output from the following commands - other wise we're flying blind. ifconfig -a route cat /etc/resolve.conf ping 203.4.152.4 /cb Wesley Parish wrote: No. I've tried, but it doesn't seem to be able to get through. Wesley Parish Quoting Nick Rout <[EMAIL PRO

Re: DVDs under Linux

2003-11-16 Thread Chris Bayley
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. : ) CB CF wrote: On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 15:40, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Yep - this problem is repeated a lot

Re: DVDs under Linux]

2003-11-11 Thread Chris Bayley
I first got mplayer going in console with framebuffer and then worked my way through the X players. Play with the switches in mplayer and try playing the audio only or the video only... CF wrote: On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 13:45, Chris Bayley wrote: Try first a no-region (or Region 0) disc first

Re: DVDs under Linux]

2003-11-11 Thread Chris Bayley
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. Make sure you have DMA enabled on that drive, although you should already have jerky video if that where your only issue. Check gentoo forums for some of

Re: Rescue Disks was Partition Tables

2003-10-28 Thread Chris Bayley
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: My new fav rescue disk is LNX-BBC which lives in my wallet. Good point, I had one of those many years back. Downloading now... Question of how to burn it though: Do corpcons sell to Joe Bloggs? In what quantities? TasTech min qty is 20 for $30. Enough interest for 20? I

Re: Rescue Disks was Partition Tables

2003-10-27 Thread Chris Bayley
My new fav rescue disk is LNX-BBC which lives in my wallet. Good hardware detection and networking, good quick boot, memtest86, even framebuffer and X for the so inclined. BC-CDRs are avail from corpcons.co.nz : ) Chris Nick Rout wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 13:04:59 +1300 Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAI

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