Re: video driver problems

2004-08-11 Thread Hamish McBrearty
driver to choose. > ----- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

File managers/browsers

2004-08-03 Thread Hamish McBrearty
Gnome, something I'd like to avoid. --------- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Apple Airport cards

2004-08-03 Thread Hamish McBrearty
pcmcia card. --------- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Schools

2004-07-25 Thread Hamish McBrearty
t to two family members computers and they never noticed. Perhaps these kinds of baby steps are the way to go, ala Munich > > - Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Slightly OT: Backup drives

2004-05-16 Thread Hamish McBrearty
00 I'm not that keen to simply replace it. Any other suggestions of high capacity (approx 300Gb) backup solutions that are reliable and don't cost multiple apendages? --------- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls

Re: Will my pc shut down? BTW what is 'linux'?

2004-05-02 Thread Hamish McBrearty
he inside that counts" Good price and a nice laptop too, almost tempted to pick on up for the other half ----- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Damn webserver scans

2004-04-14 Thread Hamish McBrearty
and say that's an IIS exploit and I'm Apache, and those who get annoyed by this an try to put a stop to it with iptables and the like. What do those of us in CLUG do? Laugh or fight back? --------- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer

Shell help

2004-03-30 Thread Hamish McBrearty
a script, is that possible? Or should I just be using perl/python to begin with? - Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Moving a large amount of data

2004-03-29 Thread Hamish McBrearty
neat trick and I'll look into it. Thanks all ----- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Moving a large amount of data

2004-03-28 Thread Hamish McBrearty
ter I've reformatted the drive? Rsync? scp? Huge tar file? ----- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Politics

2004-03-28 Thread Hamish McBrearty
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Re: SpamAssassin/Virus checking 'before' Exchange Server

2004-03-28 Thread Hamish McBrearty
You welcome to come look at my setup too. - Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: rsync with windows

2004-03-28 Thread Hamish McBrearty
) uses the cygdrive path to get to files, and doesn't like spaces so you're back to the win95 days of short directory names. > --------- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchu

Re: Gentoo Installfest

2004-03-24 Thread Hamish McBrearty
can run "emerge -e world" when they get home and have a usable system that is compiling everything with their custom optimizations in the background. Thoughts ----- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' Sc

Re: data projection

2004-03-23 Thread Hamish McBrearty
m as well ;o) > > ----- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: OT - laptop advice

2004-03-23 Thread Hamish McBrearty
is desk :o) ----- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Linux server options

2004-02-08 Thread Hamish McBrearty
iserfs vs Ext3 vs XFS. Thanks ----- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: reinstall of samba or extracting smb.conf

2004-02-01 Thread Hamish McBrearty
. > >http://localhost:901 > >Regards, Robert > >What Do Fish Say When They Hit a Concrete Wall? >Dam! > >for the successful configuration which i'll leave for the weekend . . . > --------- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network

Re: easy way to get to my documents

2004-01-28 Thread Hamish McBrearty
.net/Please do not CC list postings to me. ----- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

easy way to get to my documents

2004-01-27 Thread Hamish McBrearty
to call up the same set of files from either my home directory under Linux, or the My Documents folder under Windows. --------- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-

Re: urpmi sources for kdevelop

2004-01-26 Thread Hamish McBrearty
Do a google search on "plf" and look for the Penguin Liberation Front. They have an "easy urpmi" form you fill out. Just provide your MDK version and what kinds of repositories you want and they generate the commands o enter. ------

Re: Gentoo Install - portage src on another comp

2004-01-21 Thread Hamish McBrearty
hare the entire portage tree, but that was a miserable failure :o( [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >thanks everybody, > >i'll setup a apache virtualhost and serve them that way >i'll assume the entries in the VARIABLE space delimited > >cheers, > >tim -----

Re: CLUG social

2004-01-20 Thread Hamish McBrearty
y WMC to plan such a night out? Or simply as the night out? I'm happy to make bookings and sort out all the details, but it's your Clug as much as mine, tell me what you want :o) --------- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer

CLUG social

2004-01-20 Thread Hamish McBrearty
ant. What I'd like from this email is an indication of interest from members, and suggestions on where we could hold such as event. Obviously we'd like this evening to be kid and partner friendly. :o) Cheers ----- Hamish McBrearty MCS

Re: OT: Free Psion

2004-01-18 Thread Hamish McBrearty
Geez, maybe I should have been charging for the darn thing. Sorry all, gone now. I didn't think there would be that much interest in it!! :o) - Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Ch

OT: Free Psion

2004-01-18 Thread Hamish McBrearty
Hi all In tidying up my work area I discovered a Psion Revo laying around here. Would anyone like it? No charge, I have the cradle, cables, software on CD and manual. Email me off list, first in first served. - Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA

Konsole Q's

2003-11-26 Thread Hamish McBrearty
very limited range availible to me from the settings -> font -> custom menu. Thanks in advance --------- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 C

IPCop logs

2003-11-10 Thread Hamish McBrearty
y I'm paying for the traffic (thanks Telecom!) and I'd quite like it to stop. Suggestions will be greatly appreciated ----- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 0

OT Server room temperatures

2003-10-29 Thread Hamish McBrearty
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? Cheers --------- Hamish McBrearty MCSE M

Re: Strange Lilo error message

2003-10-28 Thread Hamish McBrearty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Hamish McBrearty wrote: > >> Hi there >> >> Well I was feeling a bit adventurous tonight and have successfully >> upgraded my Gentoo box to 2.6.0-test9. Everything's very sweet, and >seems >> quicker but

Strange Lilo error message

2003-10-28 Thread Hamish McBrearty
'm not too concerned but I'd love to figure it out. Here's there error. Warning: Kernel & BIOS return differing head/sector geometries for device 0x80 Kernel: 65535 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors BIOS: 1024 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors -----

Re: festering crock of trouble.

2003-10-16 Thread Hamish McBrearty
accounts. >> >> My questions: >> 1) How to interface with the pcounter database server running on windows >> server? >> 2) Should I be using IP Accounting, or processed squid logs? >> 3) What rates to charge? >> 4) Is there a better way to do it?

Couple of IPCop questions

2003-09-29 Thread Hamish McBrearty
a good idea to turn this off? Or is that more trouble than it's worth? Cheers ----- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: OT - JetStream and JetStart

2003-09-28 Thread Hamish McBrearty
place to >>yours. LOL >> >> > ----- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: help required for movie night

2003-09-22 Thread Hamish McBrearty
I'm back at school tomorrow if I can do a projector for you. I probably can as it is holidays. - Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: anyone running kde 3.1.3

2003-09-10 Thread Hamish McBrearty
ng it Tuesday night, and my work laptop finished sometime last night. Seems to be fairly stable, altho haven't noticed much difference yet. ----- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchu

Re: Rights to windows shares

2003-08-25 Thread Hamish McBrearty
t; or you might want to try smbmount //servername/foldername /home/robert/foldername -o username=robert Works for me to copy stuff back and forth from my laptop ----- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewi

Re: Linux in schools

2003-08-21 Thread Hamish McBrearty
o most of that on Windows, but there are times when Windows just ignores these settings. For instance, if I click a link in an MSN conversation it opens in IE despite the fact that Mozilla is my default browser. Thanks Microsoft! :o( > - Hamish Mc

Re: Tripwire, AIDE and firehol

2003-08-21 Thread Hamish McBrearty
with the domain in header >http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. - Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Spam filter training stuff

2003-08-21 Thread Hamish McBrearty
>> Hmm. I get heaps of russian stuff. >> I have a rule in kmail that trashes any email with >> a header specifying a cyrrillic char-set - that seems >> to fix it. >> I wonder if they thing I'm russian because of my first name? >> >> Yuri (dutch, not

Re: RE: looks like gentoo 1.4 is out.

2003-08-14 Thread Hamish McBrearty
>> >>> >>>>Released with an easy installer I'm sure. ;) Just kidding.. >>>> >>>> >>>Local mirror. >>> >>>wget --continue >>>ftp://203.96.92.95/gentoo/releases/x86/1.4/livecd/i686/i686-1.4-20

Re: Is there a meeting this Thursday?

2003-08-14 Thread Hamish McBrearty
figures lilo for you. --------- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Realtime firewall notification?

2003-08-14 Thread Hamish McBrearty
) > >Kind regards, > >Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch. > - Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: DVD playing - not there yet...

2003-08-14 Thread Hamish McBrearty
monitor, as it is larger and clearer than our TV, and I haven't >figured out how to do TV out anyway. > >Cheers, >Carl. > > - Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

RPM on Gentoo

2003-08-14 Thread Hamish McBrearty
e? Or extract an RPM? I have no interest in trying to satisfy the dependacies via RPM - Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999

Re: IPCop problems

2003-08-11 Thread Hamish McBrearty
ms. Have you been able to run memtest86 on the >machine? > >Remember that you access the internal Apache server on an IPCop using >port 81, >or 445 for the https protocol. > >-- >Sincerely etc., >Christopher Sawtell > - Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: RPM on Gentoo

2003-08-11 Thread Hamish McBrearty
l continue their efforts to port the server and up development on the client. Not a big task according to the lead developer since the Mac OSX port is done. And thanks to Nick for the --nodeps idea, worked perfectly! It's been too long since I've touched an RPM based system -----

Nvidia drivers and Toshiba laptop

2003-08-08 Thread Hamish McBrearty
know it's an option within the Nvidia driver --------- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

IPCop problems

2003-08-04 Thread Hamish McBrearty
start over, but last night it did the exact same thing, kernel panic (sorry don't have the exact error handy), and now can't get into the web interface at all, but I can still browse the web. How can I fix this? What could be causing it? ------

Gentoo Games

2003-07-31 Thread Hamish McBrearty
nything else to play this over the network? Or should I just burn 20 Counter Strike CDs and install them under Windows? I'd rather use a live cd for obvious reasons. Cheers --------- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls

IPCop

2003-07-30 Thread Hamish McBrearty
Speaking of IPCop, I'm in the process of setting up mine. Can anyone point me to how one sets this up with an Alcatel Speedtouch ADSL modem? I know I just need to setup a PPTP tunnel thru the modem, but not quite sure where to start - H

Re: RE: Motherboard recommendations

2003-07-27 Thread Hamish McBrearty
--- >From: Michael Pearce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, 28 July 2003 12:02 p.m. >To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Motherboard recommendations > > >The ALSA snd-intel8x0 drivers work fine with that mobo. > >Mike >-- >Linux Rocks!! -

Re: Motherboard recommendations

2003-07-27 Thread Hamish McBrearty
e nic is a 3Com SOHO, can't remember exactly. I just threw an Intel card I had handy into mine, rather than mess around with that. Did you do an lspci? ----- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewit

Re: LPI Certification

2003-07-22 Thread Hamish McBrearty
e for money too. You could have a look at my copy >at >the next CLUG club night next week if you want. > >-- >Sincerely etc., >Christopher Sawtell > - Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' Sc

Re: LPI Certification

2003-07-21 Thread Hamish McBrearty
d in a LPI >> >Certification Preparation Course? > >-- >Sincerely etc., >Christopher Sawtell > - Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Port blocking

2003-07-21 Thread Hamish McBrearty
house network and the rest of the network. I was thinking an IP Cop firewall which will allow all traffic from the boarding house thru except port 8080. Will this work? Is there a better way of doing it? Cheers - Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Ne

Re: Silent / Fanless options ??

2003-07-20 Thread Hamish McBrearty
gt;-- >Michael JasonSmith http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~mpj17/ > ----- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Silent / Fanless options ??

2003-07-20 Thread Hamish McBrearty
Sun 3/60 :). > >If you can get "education" status you will be able to pick up an eMac >fairly cheep as well --- essentially a new iMac in an old iMac case. > > >-- >Michael JasonSmith http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~mpj17/ > -

Re: Silent / Fanless options ??

2003-07-20 Thread Hamish McBrearty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >url? http://www.dgdigital.co.uk/acatalog/Computer_Cases.html > >nz avail ? Definately, our proxy server here at school is one. > >/cb > >Hamish McBrearty wrote: > >>I personally like the Shutte-X cases. Very small, (think toaster size) &

Re: RE: Silent / Fanless options ??

2003-07-20 Thread Hamish McBrearty
into an exotic case >> modding silent >> project with exotic parts so something more or less off the >> shelf would >> be ideal. >> Silent box / LCD display. >> >> Any leads / pointers appreciated. >> >> : ) >> /chris.b >> >

Linux security apps

2003-07-06 Thread Hamish McBrearty
Tripwire which seems to be a neat little app. What else do people use? --------- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Gentoo USE flags

2003-07-06 Thread Hamish McBrearty
tely wrong about that. ----- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: D'oh!!! (was Re(2): NVidia Drivers and Gentoo)

2003-07-06 Thread Hamish McBrearty
Mandrake box with no hassles, and on my Knoppix laptop, I just wasn't aware of that trap when I installed it under Gentoo. At least now I know. > > > > >On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 12:37:42 +1200 >Hamish McBrearty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Who's the idiot who

D'oh!!! (was Re(2): NVidia Drivers and Gentoo)

2003-07-06 Thread Hamish McBrearty
Who's the idiot who didn't rerun lilo after recompiling his kernel with mtrr support??? Hey, at least I can say I learned something from this. :o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 23:24, you wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 09:56:42PM +1200, Hamish McBrearty wro

Re: NVidia Drivers and Gentoo

2003-07-03 Thread Hamish McBrearty
idea from Nick, but that might have to wait until tomorrow. Friends don't let friends drink and compile :o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 18:15, you wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Hamish McBrearty

NVidia Drivers and Gentoo

2003-07-02 Thread Hamish McBrearty
using the pfeiffer-sources if that's of any consequence. - Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: mounted harddrives showing

2003-07-02 Thread Hamish McBrearty
> >--- > >-- > >cheers.dave > >Reply to: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > >- >KMail on Davesmachine >Linux Mandrake release 9.1 (Bamboo) i586 >Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdksmp i686[ELF] >- > - Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: areeee redhat is turning into M$!!!

2003-07-01 Thread Hamish McBrearty
dispensor. Anyhow, the moral of the story was Sellotape were defending their trademark so they did not lose it. > > >-- >C. S. > ----- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchu

Re: RE: CLUG Clinic Meeting - Monday 30 June 2003

2003-06-29 Thread Hamish McBrearty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> >> In my terminal program I get bash-2.05b$ where I used to get (I think) >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh good, then it's not just me :o) Do tell me if you fix that --------- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Netw

Re: CLUG Clinic Meeting - Monday 30 June 2003

2003-06-29 Thread Hamish McBrearty
get back to the people producing it. --------- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Trouble with network card

2003-06-25 Thread Hamish McBrearty
Latest Knoppix (6-6-03) which is 2.4.20-xfs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 01:43:34PM +1200, Hamish McBrearty wrote: > >> I've just got a new box to play with but I can't seem to get the >> network card going. According to lspci it is a 3Com Soho1

Trouble with network card

2003-06-25 Thread Hamish McBrearty
g? Neither Gentoo or Knoppix find it. ----- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Gentoo installfest

2003-06-22 Thread Hamish McBrearty
saying Gentoo has not support for rpm's and the like. School's groupware client is only availible as an rpm, anyway I could install it under Gentoo? ----- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Ro

Appology

2003-06-18 Thread Hamish McBrearty
this week. ----- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Postfix and IMAP

2003-06-17 Thread Hamish McBrearty
, Courier, Binc and Cyrus. Which is the easiest to set up? Are there any gotchas I should know before I try this? Cheers --------- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03

Postfix and IMAP

2003-06-17 Thread Hamish McBrearty
, Courier, Binc and Cyrus. Which is the easiest to set up? Are there any gotchas I should know before I try this? Cheers --------- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03

Re: Web Page Authoring Software

2003-06-11 Thread Hamish McBrearty
. Jason has suggested Mozilla Composer, >Screem or Quanta. Anything else I should look at while looking around? > > I think Bluefish still comes with MDK 9.1, so there's another one > > >Peter van Hout > ----- Hamish Mc

Re: Gentoo Installfest

2003-06-11 Thread Hamish McBrearty
gt;On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 09:00:35 +1200 >Hamish McBrearty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have the latest Knoppix installed on my hard drive and it certainly >have >> distcc. I would imagine it's there on the live boot cd as well. > > -------

Re: Gentoo Installfest

2003-06-11 Thread Hamish McBrearty
is the same everywhere, or use a version-qualified compiler >> name, such as gcc-3.2 or i386-redhat-linux-gcc-3.2.2. >> >> Which seems to make good sense to me. >> So all the helpers / installer need to have the same version of gcc. >> The 'gcc --version' co

Re: [Fwd: Re: Publicise open source?]

2003-06-08 Thread Hamish McBrearty
ery fruitful)?? Is there a DL of it?? > >Cheers > >Jason > >Hamish McBrearty wrote: > >>Just a quick thought here, they should take a look at the Tux4Kids live >>CD. It's based on Knoppix but aimed at kids with all kinds of games and >>neat stuff for t

Re: [Fwd: Re: Publicise open source?]

2003-06-08 Thread Hamish McBrearty
nsed >copies of Windows 98 and Microsoft Office software. We have been given >5 computers for children and staff but lack the software. Can you >help? Please contact Alison on 338 5468" > > - Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Meeting on Thursday

2003-05-27 Thread Hamish McBrearty
ty of Canterbury - Te Whare Waananga o Waitaha >Private Bag 4800, >Christchurch New Zealand Phone +64-3-364 2987 extn 7895 - Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Meeting on Thursday

2003-05-27 Thread Hamish McBrearty
lly we will >> have another speaker. I won't announce him yet as he hasn't confirmed >> but the subject matter sounds interesting. >> >> But need to beg for a projector and (Linux) laptop with OOo. >> >> Chris H. can you help with the projector? >> >

Re: Perl to C translation

2003-03-10 Thread Hamish McBrearty
. > >Ah.. I see whats going on now.. I don't read perl, however, what do the >splice() and unshitf() functions do? splice() removes a number of elements from an array. In my example, $a is the position, and 1 is the number of elements. unshift() places an element into the begi

Re: Article and followup

2003-03-10 Thread Hamish McBrearty
ays of extracting revenues like >> "Software Assurance"... which provides those clients with... nothing. >> >> As for becoming smarter about licensing and asset management, that's a >> red herring - how hard is it to manage something with a license that >&

Perl to C translation

2003-03-09 Thread Hamish McBrearty
splice(@array, $a, 1); unshift(@array,$b); #print "$times\n"; $times++; } foreach $stuff (@array){ print $stuff; print "\n"; } --------

Re: Spamassassin

2003-02-25 Thread Hamish McBrearty
t;On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 11:30:33AM +1300, Hamish McBrearty wrote: >> OK, I asked this one on www.justlinux.com but didn't get any takers. I'm >> trying to get my many email addresses organised. I've setup Gotmail to >> forward all my mail to a pop account, whi

Spamassassin

2003-02-24 Thread Hamish McBrearty
i-Clug, you're my only hope :o) --------- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Networking weirdness

2003-02-11 Thread Hamish McBrearty
00 02 2d 43 3e b0 wvlan_cs: MAC address on eth1 is 00 02 2d 43 3e b0 wvlan_cs: MAC address on eth1 is 00 02 2d 43 3e b0 > > >On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 12:09:16 +1300 >Hamish McBrearty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi there >> >> After much tweaking, I've

Networking weirdness

2003-02-11 Thread Hamish McBrearty
s anything that doesn't begin with 172.16.1 almost like I'm on a class C subnet. Can anyone help me out here? I'm horribly confused, stuff that shouldn't work does, and stuff that should work doesn't! --------- Hamish McBrearty MCSE

Re: SANE, Mplayer install problems...

2003-01-31 Thread Hamish McBrearty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Hi there, > >Chris Wilkinson wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> Hamish McBrearty wrote: >> >>> Just set up your software sources list either from the command line, or >>> from the Software Sources Manager on the Mandrake

Re: SANE, Mplayer install problems...

2003-01-31 Thread Hamish McBrearty
messages a newbie >like me cannot fathom... > >Does anyone in the LUG have mplayer on CD, with ALL dependants? That >would theoretically be a better option for me... > >Kind regards, > >Chris Wilkinson, Middle Earth, New Zealand. > >MICRO$LOTH FREE ZONE! > -

Re: RE: Wine (Windows Emulation under linux)

2003-01-23 Thread Hamish McBrearty
arious drives. Other tips for Wine, actually install the program as you would under Windows, make sure the directory is read and write, and try accessing it from the command line. eg: wine /home/hamish/windows/programs/Kazza/Kazza.exe --------- Hamish McBrearty

Re: Wine (Windows Emulation under linux)

2003-01-23 Thread Hamish McBrearty
;ve used, Wine is capable of the most spectacular crashes. --------- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Freevo

2003-01-13 Thread Hamish McBrearty
stions and experiences from any who have tackled this. Shame Sky don't offer the TiVo yet :o( Cheers --------- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-60

Re: Conflicts While installing Glibc package

2003-01-05 Thread Hamish McBrearty
t, altho not quite as powerful. http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2002/12/03/mandrake_9_getting_more_software.html > > - Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Cross platform stuff (slightly OT)

2002-12-11 Thread Hamish McBrearty
y are quite happy with Squid tho. Can Squid act as part of an NT domain ala Samba? Are there any other products out there that will authenticate users against an NT domain? Cheers - Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls&#x

Re: perl scripting

2002-11-21 Thread Hamish McBrearty
g. Having said that, I find http://www.coderforums.net a fantastic place to exchange code and get help from those more learned than myself. Remember, TIMTOWTDI! --------- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' Sc

SSH

2002-11-21 Thread Hamish McBrearty
ad it points to being about to run XWindows as a thin client, is this right? --------- Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEALAND Ph 03 355-6099 Fax 03 355-6027 CELL 021 999770 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Couple of apps q's

2002-11-12 Thread Hamish McBrearty
ppily but was told by our networking guy that the Linux client was very buggy and could wreak havoc on your system. Any experiences? - Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA Network Engineer Rangi Ruru Girls' School 59 Hewitts Road Christchurch NEW ZEA

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