[whoops, forgot to say beware gmail reply-to, sorry :) does anyone
know if there's a reliable fix for that yet?]
On 5/25/05, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think it's probably the fact that you did it at an installfest, where
all those 'what do I do here' questions are instantly
About 6 months ago, I sat down to install gentoo using only the
resources available on that site. Even ardent admirers like Nick agreed
that this is impossible to do. The docs missed out too many really
important things - just took them for granted. ( and pointing out
alternative third party
Hey all,
I've decided I need a computer that's less powerful but more portable, so I'm
planning to sell my desktops [1] and buy a second hand laptop. I really want
to get one roughly around the order of 700mhz, 256MB ram... but it needs to
work with linux of course. Specifically, I need it to
On 5/15/05, Rob Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings,
I could suggest what to avoid. I bought a new Fujitsu Siemens which has
pathetic online support, a virtually worthless worldwide guarantee, very
poor and limited bios setup facility and no updates in the 12 months
since I bought it, so
On 5/15/05, Rob Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings,
I could suggest what to avoid. I bought a new Fujitsu Siemens which has
pathetic online support, a virtually worthless worldwide guarantee, very
poor and limited bios setup facility and no updates in the 12 months
since I bought it, so
[oops, forgot to mention - beware the dreaded gmail reply-to. I'll
copy these two messages back to the list in case they're of use to
someone else in future...]
On 5/15/05, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm extremely happy with my tosh satellite 5205 - although you'll never
get the
xhost (on Gentoo) gives
access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect
I suppose I have to allow anybody to connect to make this work. How do I
do this?
Try saying
xhost localhost
to give all users on the local machine access to the X server.
Alternatively replace localhost
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:52:54 +1200, Kim Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am trying to do one internet connection and two private lans, but
there is some crap ie viruses etc on one lan and I don't want that to
come through easily. Therefore I want to have one commection for my
private local
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:13:45 +1300, Andrew M. Packer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
But in extracting the CPU heatsink/fan assembly, I
noted that the top of the CPU was dry. Is there supposed to be some
sort of heat-conductive grease there?
snip
Almost certainly. Most heatsinks come with a
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 15:29:02 +1300, HappyEvilSlosh
Or pointers for that matter.
I understand that it's more you can't see them rather than they aren't
there, hence the pointer exceptions java sometimes throws.
Java lacks explicit pointers. You can't use them yourself, but they're
used by
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:11:18 +1300, Jason Greenwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You are right, I have 'unchecked' the link box and it still does not
embed them properly as it should. =( I am using OO 1.1.3 on SUSE 9.2 Pro.
Cheers all,
Jason
A .sxw file is really just a zip file with a bunch
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:25:56 +1300, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 09:16:02 +1300
Douglas Royds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a colleague who wants to put Linux on a laptop with 64Mb of RAM. Is
this
enough for a normal distribution such as Ubuntu or Suse,
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 17:09:18 +1300, Lindsay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Informed by a friend, there is/are programs that allow Linux users to
use some Windows based software on thier systems. I have produced
software in Visual Basic that I would like to be able to run on Linux if
I can.
Does
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 18:27:57 +1300, Robert Himmelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
clip
Is it possible to set graphical sessions to 10-12 and the rest
to text-sessions?
take a look in /etc/inittab :)
mv Fred\ Bloggs.htm fredbloggs.html
the backslash character \ tells the shell that the next character is taken
literally, not as the command line delimiter.
That worked - thanks Nick
It's worth noting that if you don't know which characters need to be
escaped in a long filename (or
Suppose I have written a small chat application for websites and
wish to release it under the GPL as open source. I grab a sourceforge
page for my project (http://sdesk.sourceforge.net/ if anyone's
interested :) and post the code up, no problems.
But now what? The whole exercise is fairly
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:53:16 +1300 (NZDT), Derek Smithies
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gareth,
I think you have taken the right approach.
Mention it on some maillists, and let people have a look at it.
I thought it looked interesting, and gave the link to two colleagues.
One wrote back:
Robert,
Have you tried assigning the interface an IP manually, using ifconfig, like so:
# ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2
and seeing if it then has one? Does doing this give you any error
messages? And could you please post the output of ifconfig :) (or
ifconfig eth0 if eth0 isn't up... seems kinda
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 16:33:14 +1300, Michael JasonSmith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Once hyperthreading is disabled the only major difference I can think of
is the model of the GPU. Maybe Volker is right and the GPU is the
problem. Thoughts?
In case you're interested in a comparison, I actually
Thanks very much to everyone who replied to this thread, and for the
kind offers to supply copies :-)
I have passed all your helpful comments and tips on to my friend.
In the meantime it seems he has come across www.copyleft.co.nz and
decided to order himself a DVD from there, seeing as it's
Hey all,
I have a friend who just messed over his gentoo install rather badly.
Putting gentoo zealotry aside for the moment, he's looking to install
a different (gasp) distribution...
Anyway, he's quite keen to have his auto* tools, which puts MDK out of
the question ;)
I told him that suse has
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 20:10:52 +1300, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
do the ftp.
sorry Nick, could you be a little more verbose please? I'm not sure I follow...
I think you're suggesting I go find suse's ftp site, or track down a
local mirror, and discover which CDs I can download from
On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 19:34:33 +1300 (NZDT), Derek Smithies
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Adding to the problem is if you want 3d hardware acceleration to work.
Some distros will not get the optimum out of your video card. Given that
cards such as Nvidia require proprietary drivers for 3d hardware
On 14 Nov 2004 22:41:00 +1300, Rowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 18:13, Gareth Williams wrote:
ah, you mean when you press the eject button the tray doesn't come
out? Some random ideas come to mind... (in no particular order)
No - they do open when I push eject. When
On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 11:25:34 +1300, Rowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
clip
Anyway, I am unable to get either of my rom drives to play music or
read any cds, data or music, that I put in. I have them both as
supermount.
Can you post the results of the following commands (as root) please:
ls
On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 17:29:11 +1300, Rowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
With reference to my query of this morning I have noticed that both rom
drives appear to be locked, making them inaccessable
Is this possible and how do I unlock them ?
ah, you mean when you press the eject button the tray
Sadly I have to admit... luke, leia, kenobi, vader, chewie.
However, by far the coolest naming system I've heard of (and one I
think mentioned briefly in the RFC Michael posted) is names of
elements.
This has the two advantages, besides having cool sounding names - the
name space is fairly big,
On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 23:42:59 +1300, Ralph Stoker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
clip
What should I backup (apart from my personal
data) bear in mind I am limited to CD data storage capacity.
It's always handy to keep a backup of your /etc tree :) should it come
to reinstallation, you'll be glad
On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 20:47:48 +1300, eBhakta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Yes, it's Debian based... At what stage of the boot process should
ctrl-alt-F1 be applied? Did get to the cursor, and typed in apt-get...
but it wouldn't recognise the command. Serious newbie stuff... :$
oops, I
So, how to get a console? Thanks for the input... ;)
As I previously posted, press CTRL-ALT-F1. does this not work for you?
you will need to login after you have done so.
You may wish to use an xterm actually - a console within X (the window
system), so you can execute things like kdeinit that
So your system does in fact boot up? It appears you have simply
stuffed up KDE. Can you get a text console login? (press ctrl-alt-F1).
You might want to try removing your KDE packages and reinstalling them
with apt-get (unbuntu is debian based isn't it?).
Cheers,
Gareth
ps. beware the gmail
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:10:08 +1300, Steve Brorens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, I do know that moving to a 'meta-distribution' like Gentoo would
solve this problem, but I'm a bit hazy on how I might remotely upgrade a
stack of sites from RH9 to Gentoo over ssh :-)
FWIW
wget your stage
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 16:45:56 +1300, Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)
Gareth might disagree 'cos I think he runs a minimalist Gentoo laptop on
similar specs.
Indeed. A P166 with 32MB of ram should go just fine with a light
window manager :) When I started using linux this was a relatively
good
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 19:38:55 +1300, Robert Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 18:25, Nick Rout wrote:
Or we just ignore Rik, vote for a committee and move on to the main
course, which is linux support and encouragement.
I would like to table a motion:
That the
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 17:59:00 +1300, Jim Cheetham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
clip
(The Gentoo world would say emerge apache, but your machine won't
have the guts to do much compiling. Gentoo has a binary option, rather
than a source option ... but I don't know anything about that)
Basically you
Robert Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /devsda4 or too many
mounted filesystems
The first place you want to look is /etc/fstab. You might have a
broken entry in there.. ?
Also, I noticed in the quote above, it's called /devsda4 - I presume
Robert Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Everything seems to work even though I get the error message
.
.
.
beast root # mount -t ext3 -o sb=16 /dev/sda4 /mnt/share/
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda4,
or too many mounted file systems
beast root # mount -t
Wahoo. Thank you Nick :-) I'm grabbing the torrent right now...
On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 10:38:30 +1200, Robert Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 10:20, Gareth Williams wrote:
I am not suggesting that it is a faulty disk. I am interested to know
if you can actually mount /dev/sda4, that is all. The errors above
look like fatal errors to me
On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 12:59:01 +1200, Christopher Sawtell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Be sure to check that you have either got the kernel module for the filesystem
loaded, or the driver compiled into the kernel?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ zcat /proc/config.gz | egrep -i 'reiser|ext3'
# CONFIG_EXT3_FS
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 17:25:24 +1200, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
thats very odd, because fb's are so common these days.
frankly i've never used a combination of framebuffer and lilo, i am a
grubby myself.
i'm sure i've seen append=vga=788 in lilo configs before though.
clip
try
On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 17:32:00 +1200, Jim Cheetham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Paul William wrote:
I'll be caught out when an upgrade happens, won't I?
Not as long as your package version does not conflict with Debian
packages i.e. create a package with the version x.ab-zy_jim such as
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:48, Douglas Royds wrote:
Key buying criteria for me would now be:
1. Price (as always)
2. Has anyone published a success-with-this-laptop page (see
www.linux-on-laptops.com, and do a general Google search)? Will the
modem work? Will the ACPI (power management) work?
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 11:50, Luuk Paulussen wrote:
Although, the guy who made the post has only made one post on the
forum, so I wouldn't put to much faith in him. I would expect the
score to be much higher...
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 23:17:38 +, Caleb Sawtell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On
On Mon, 24 May 2004 19:37, Michael wrote:
There wasn't a follow-up to this thread that gave a yes or no. I'm
interested to know whether anybody has ever got this working. I think it
is possible since the kernel supports console over serial and usb-to-serial
adapters are cheap and easy to
On Tue, 18 May 2004 10:57, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 10:16, Nick Rout wrote:
Today 10:16:39
Occasional tips as a follow up to the installs we did on Saturday.
It worries me somewhat that other people might be getting upset by all our
Gentoo oriented traffic on the
On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 18:53, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
The IPCop needs 32 meg, but freesco runs in much less.
My IPCop (1.3) machine has 16MB and runs fine. I recall that's all I needed
for the installation too.
Cheers,
Gareth
On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 02:21, anton wrote:
Hey,
I might not agree with Don on everything but here I've got to put in a
word. I am sick of that real programmer BS. It is just an excuse for
people who have nothing else in their lives. Sure, I want to be able to
programme only using vi and gcc but
One more thing to do when installing linux for someone - point them somewhere
where newbies can get ongoing support from the community (ie. this list :-)
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 08:43, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 07:37, Paul William wrote:
Hi all,
Is a simple dd:
dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hdx
capable of 'cloning' hdc into hdx?
if the two devices are identical, unconditionally, yes.
if hdx is smaller than hdc, then
On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 11:19, Mike Beattie wrote:
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 11:09:24AM +1300, Michael JasonSmith wrote:
Program used to encode binary data as ASCII. Uuencode was
originally used with uucp to transfer binary files over serial
lines which did not preserve
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 23:31, David Taylor wrote:
[snip]
An alternative that looks promising is the Netboz firewall. It runs from
the CD and loads config from floppy, there is a hack to load onto a hard
drive, but it is made to run from a CD. That way there is no media that
can be written to
i thnk yr kybrd is brkn sam. i suggest u rip yr capslock key off and utilise
the 'shift' key instead 2 strategically place your capital leters where thay
r needed most, such as at the beginning of sentences :)
Also, kernel is spelt with an 'e'. Sorry I'm in a pedantic mood, no harm
intended
My $0.02 -
As things currently stand we have a committee who primarily look after the
small amount of money CLUG* has aquired, and the avenues through which that
money is spent / aquired (read: meetings, workshops, installfests). This a
valuable role (espeically as far as money is concerned,
, and the discussion continues.
On Sun, 08
Feb 2004 22:16:41+1300 Gareth Williams[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
My $0.02 -
As things currently stand we have a committee who primarily look after
the small amount of money CLUG* has aquired, and the avenues through
which that money is spent
imho, we _DO_ need to have an AGM to attempt to decide whether we want the
CLUG to become a formal entity, or revert to a strictly mailing-list
affair, or indeed something in between, i.e. carry on as we are.
Well, if people want to be all formal and move motions and what have you, I
doubt I
My point here is, restricted as I was, how was I supposed to have
obtained the knowledge, possibly through gui help or cli info/man, on
adjusting the screen resolution and on readjusting the mouse drivers.
Both are configured in your XF86Config file. Had you not always relied on a
gui to set
woah, hold on a minute. I just checked your earlier posting, and you said you
found the official ez-ipupdate.com. Freshmeat pointed me to ez-ipupdate.org.
Hmmm. ez-ipupdate.com looks identical, but doesn't have the b8 version.
You're right. My mistake.
I think I'll grab b7 from that site and
My apologies for posting on this topic 3 times in a row. But I thought I'd
better share one last thing, in case anyone else besides me is interested.
I notice at the official http://www.ez-ipupdate.com; site there is a link to
subscribe to the mailing list for ez-ipupdate,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I renamed the ez-ipupdate binary on my IPCOP machine (which is the one Nick
Rout posted a few days ago) to ez-ipupdate.bak, and then installed the
official fixes6. However there is a considerable difference in size between
the new (official IPCOP) binary, and the one Nick compiled (now called
On Tuesday 23 December 2003 11:59, Nick Rout wrote:
errr the difference could be (and i picked this up off the ipcop-dev
mailing list0 that the ipcop folks may use strip to get rid of a whole
lot of stuff in the binary.
using strip on the binary i created reduces it to 57056 bytes
ah, a very
Well spotted Col, I've had my dyndns for ages and hadn't updated my email
address with them so didn't recieve the email. And thanks for the binary
Nick, as I'm not sure I have the facilities to compile it myself. Normally I
wouldn't use any old random binary posted to a mailing list, especially
My dyndns (gacrux.homeip.net) seems to be broken. Anyone else noticed this?
I can manually update it via their webpage, and it works. But when IPCop tries
to do it, it doesn't work. I haven't touched the settings, it just randomly
stopped working the other day (at least, that's when I noticed).
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 19:08, Benjamin Devine wrote:
snip
I did the normal fixers mounted the problem device in write mode then I
ran fsck2fs (I think cant remember) as fsck is not on my system. After I
manually went through and fixed it. I rebooted my system and I kernel
panic on boot. I
On Sunday 23 November 2003 20:54, Rowan Trau'e wrote:
Hello Chris and Chad
Thanks for your advice. Chris I tried what you suggested and it did
nothing as a command line - well nothing happened and I got no response
so I am reluctant to go down that line of operation.
In the world of Unix,
Can you better define LTSP environment? I've set my (computer illiterate /
naieve) father up with an old pentium machine, no hard drive etc, connected
up to my good Debian box ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), and booting off a floppy with
etherboot. It's been ages since I set it up, but from memory I have
There are no handy waterfalls around (and I have no generator),
The river's flow volume and speed would easily drive a turbine.
Great, so now we just need to figure out a way to lug a big-ass turbine and
generator in there, instead of a battery ;-) Not to mention the dish. I'm
inclined to
[apologies in advance for the long post; if you're sick of this thread just go
for the 'delete' button ;) ]
ooh, a flamewar! I want in.
puts on flame proof suit
First things first. Seriously, hasn't this thread gone on long enough? This
list has a relatively high volume of OT posts these
You could cat file | head -n 96 | tail -n 33 :)
On Saturday 25 October 2003 14:04, Vik Olliver wrote:
I can't figure out what command-line utility I used to output lines 63
to 96 of a text file last time. OK, I can write it in sed/awk/perl in no
time flat, but isn't there a command to do
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 15:46, Carl Cerecke wrote:
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 not both.
Right shift has no
On Friday 10 October 2003 13:52, Jaco Swart wrote:
This woman is fed-up:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/2003-10-07-msftsuit_x.htm
and I wish her well!
rgds
Jaco
I'm sorry, but I don't agree. So microsoft make lousy software; it's her
choice to use it. I think saying she
On Friday 10 October 2003 15:48, Jaco Swart wrote:
The problem is not the lack of security in software, but companies that
create the impression that their software is perfectly secure. If I sell
you a house, and tell you that it has first class locks, but in truth they
are pretty lousy, -
On Thursday 09 October 2003 11:21, david merriman wrote:
Running DevFS daemon Started device management daemon V1.3.25 for /dev
unknown group: video, defaulting to GID=0
** CRITICAL **: unknown class dri at line 80 in
/etc/security/console.perms
Unmounting initrd:
Loading default keymap:
Ah, after reading Mike's post I see that I am confusing devfs and devfsd (the
devfs daemon). But the conclusion is the same; something that makes /dev/hda8
exist isn't getting started.
Perhaps another thing you could try would be (when dropped to a shell during
boot failure) to see if the
On Thursday 09 October 2003 13:59, Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote:
Gareth,
I wonder if the fact that Dave has only been using Linux for a month would
mean that your advice might be above his head.
Dave
Oops, sorry, I didn't realise :-/ When someone posts an intelligently worded
Has anyone else got one of these? (the $99 DSE deal). I just got one today,
coincidentally. Installed xawtv and so far FM radio works, and TV kinda
works, only it's black and white. Any tips? I'm using the aerial that came
with the card, and yes it is tuned to the station (TV3 atm).
Cheers,
Thanks for the reply; yep, it's set to PAL.
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 21:12, Col wrote:
Gareth Williams wrote:
Has anyone else got one of these? (the $99 DSE deal). I just got one
today, coincidentally. Installed xawtv and so far FM radio works, and TV
kinda works, only it's black
ps. I'm using the saa7134 driver. Incidentally, I didn't have the appropriate
devices in /dev, specifically /dev/video and /dev/radio - I'm using the old
major/minor numbers, not devfs. So I just downloaded bttv and ran the
'MAKEDEV' script that comes with that ;) was that a dumb move? I
Problem solved. Opps, I shouldn't have posted so hastily, sorry :)
For those who are interested / encounter something similar, xawtv seems to
default to the Capture: setting being overlay - I changed it to
grabdisplay, and I get full colour, yay :-)
Cheers,
Gareth
Windows solution:
- create a linux boot floppy
- install windows on a new partition / drive, as per usual windows installation
- windows will overwrite your MBR so that only it boots
- boot from your linux floppy, edit /etc/lilo.conf to have an entry for your windows
partition
- rerun lilo
And I
oh, WTF. That is just plain wrong. I didn't believe you until I tried it for
myself :-/
Nice article btw, thanks for the link.
Cheers,
Gareth
On Wednesday 17 September 2003 12:31, Jim Cheetham wrote:
FYI, I see in my DNS today that every possible .com and .net address now
resolves, and goes
Um... seems to me that if you only want students to have access to the www
thru the squid proxy, then the best setup would be to have nothing providing
internet access to the student machines at all, only provide them with the
proxy. Then only the proxy machine needs access to the internet. ie.
IANAIPCOPU but does that suggest the modem is at fault, or at least not
^ translation required please.
It's a mutation of the popular IANAL - I am not a lawyer. I parsed this as
I am not an IPCOP user.
Back to the topic, thanks to all those who replied. I'm not sure if it'd be
If you're exectuting the command(s) from a file, and specifying that file with
the -f option for 'at', then maybe try putting:
export DISPLAY=:0
(or whatever display you wish to use) at the start of the file, to be executed
before the command that requires the display.
Cheers,
Gareth
On
IPCop has a built in client for updating dyndns. I can't access my IPCop
from work, but look throught the web interface and you should find it in
there somewhere. Just give it your dyndns user name and password and it
will take care of the rest.
oh sweet! cheers very much :-)
Later
Or I could just have everyone manually disconnect the modem socket when going
to use the phone, which is often what people do anyway (bastards :) -
unfortunately however, this does not change the behaviour of IPCOP.
On Monday 08 September 2003 17:07, Col wrote:
However - if someone picks up
On Monday 08 September 2003 17:18, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 17:15, you wrote:
Or I could just have everyone manually disconnect the modem socket when
going to use the phone, which is often what people do anyway (bastards :)
- unfortunately however, this does not change
Mine has an address book via the Tools - Address Book menu item. Maybe this
is what you are looking for?
Cheers,
Gareth
On Sunday 24 August 2003 17:30, Warwick Ian wrote:
I recently set-up a machine for a Green party researcher running
Mandrake 9.1 and thought that k-mail would be easier
Personally, I never run 'make install' as root. If it's in debian testing, I
trust it, and apt-get install it. If it isn't, and I'm compiling it from
source myself, I often don't know or trust it that much. So what I do is:
./configure --prefix=/opt/package_name/
(Yuri, all the 'prefix'
On Wednesday 20 August 2003 19:21, Chris Wilkinson wrote:
I certainly didn't have to fork out $$$ for the nVidia driver, only the
means to download it...
same as you'd have to for an open source one :)
(in disagreement with Volker's position here btw, not Chris's)
While Volker's ease of
Cool. Thanks for the info. Let me know if you get it going :-)
Incidentally, what do you mean by 'partly working'?
Cheers,
Gareth
On Wednesday 20 August 2003 06:16, Col wrote:
Gareth Williams wrote:
ps. I see dragon (www.dragonpc.co.nz) have a Lifeview FLYVIDEO 3000 card
that looks
Nobody doubts this, least of all SCO. Which is why they haven't, to date,
actually said _what_ the offending code is. Just that there is some.
Somewhere. Apparently. ;-)
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 17:18, Chris Wilkinson wrote:
Hi there,
Jason wrote:
Ok Nick, you wanted your reason for
tcpdump may be what you are after.
or if you are thinking of / looking for a graphical app, ethereal is good.
Cheers,
Gareth
On Wednesday 20 August 2003 08:32, Shane Hollis wrote:
Hi,
My network has slowed down for some reason, and I know there is a command
to allow you to see allpackets
they're counting on spreading FUD and trying to
get money out of people first. Not making a valid claim, or proving it. Just
scaring people with lawyers. Which is what this is all about.
Cheers,
Gareth
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 21:12, Chris Wilkinson wrote:
Hi there,
Gareth Williams wrote
Nick Rout wrote:
the capture card is the cheapie from
DSE, it has no tuner, just captures the composite video output from my
sky box.
Which card, and how cheap? :)
I've been considering getting a TV card for some time. But this would be just
as good - it just takes standard A/V input? ie. if
Well, NZers haven't heard from SCO _yet_, but it's looking like they're going
to. I'll be watching this space closely. Thanks for the link Jason.
Cheers,
Gareth
On Monday 18 August 2003 23:24, Jason wrote:
Ok Nick, you wanted your reason for inititating legal action - here it
is (I think):
, but you
knew this!
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 12:18:20 +1200
Gareth Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nick Rout wrote:
the capture card is the cheapie from
DSE, it has no tuner, just captures the composite video output from my
sky box.
Which card, and how cheap? :)
I've been considering
Thanks, I will remember that. I use rm to remove files all the time. If a
small typo caused me to be presented with emacs... *shudder*
too horrible to even think about ;-)
On Monday 11 August 2003 12:54, Carl Cerecke wrote:
Don't alias em to emacs.
em filename and rm filename are one small
I'll second that!
(sorry, couldn't help myself ;-)
On Thursday 14 August 2003 15:45, Carl Cerecke wrote:
Rik Tindall wrote:
Maybe it's time we had some reporting back on CLUG's evolving
organisatonal / accountability structure,
There is (basically) none.
Let's not open that issue again
On Monday 11 August 2003 10:15, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
It decided to run at
1024x768, although I run at 1280x1024 all the time, so the hardware
sure does it. There is no obvious way to fix that - the KDE size-config
changes resolution only within of what X allows. There's no
X-configurator in
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