Don:
Come on mate. We shouldn't have to put up with all these long email
rants every day.
On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 00:03 +1200, Don Gould wrote:
Welcome to the ranks of people who feel it's important to tell me off
like I'm a child.
snip
I have to confess I've become complacent in recent
On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 13:09 +1200, Don Gould wrote:
I don't know who JT is, but I hope it caused you some amusement :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuttle,_Oklahoma#CentOS_Incident
Seriously... For those of you who my rant wasn't directed, I hope you
smiled and laughed. :)
Cheers Don
On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 14:54 +1200, Don Gould wrote:
TC only provide up to 10mbit within their nodes. I'm proposing 100mbit
on wire and 54mbit by wifi. That's ten times the capacity.
Good luck actually getting the full 54 Mbit in a real wireless network.
Even if you get 10 Mbit over WiFi
On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 19:18 +1200, Adrian.Mageanu wrote:
Hi, got some problems with kino, it crashes just after issuing the
command with a lot of error messages.
What am I missing?
... snip ...
Searching /usr/lib/kino-gtk2 for plugins
Registering plugin /usr/lib/kino-gtk2/libdvtitler.so
On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 22:52 +1200, Adrian.Mageanu wrote:
Great, it worked!
Thanks
Any idea how I can find what is wrong with those plugins?
Cheers,
Adrian
No idea sorry, I've never even used Kino. My suggestion to disable those
plugins was just a guess from looking at the error
Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
One year, one day, someone had a very small kinda notebook computer that
ran linux. It was a notebook-like construction, ie the lid folds up and
has a screen in it, but it was only about half the size of a typical
notebook. What are these things called, and can anyone
http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_article.asp?
id=13257cid=3cname=Technology
Someone should really help the author get his facts straight. He cites
the Microsoft Get the facts page regarding Linux vs Windows cost of
ownership..
Hugo
,
Hugo Vincent.
On 3/09/2005, at 8:58 PM, Paul Parkyn wrote:
On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 17:40, Isaac Devine wrote:
The 2.6 tty layer has started to have some major rework done on it
lately. Would drivers/kernel-version are you using? You could try an
earlier kernel version - something like 2.6.8 (highest
I bought a Dell Optiplex (small form factor corporate desktop) with a
Pentium 3 733 MHz for $40 (from a friend, no RAM or HDD).
I loaded it with an old 128 meg RAM stick I had lying around, and bought
a 200 gig hard disc for it. Total cost $200, and it is a very
respectable server. I use it
curl is quite similar to wget; it might suffer from the same problem,
but could be worth a try.
Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
So far I've been using wget as it's very simple: dump a bunch of
ftp/http/etc URLs on the command line or into some file, call wget,
done. Well until one of the files is 2GB.
On 3/04/2005, at 11:53 AM, Nick Rout wrote:
snip
Haven't tried it, but I may slide in there with my trusty Zaurus and
suss it out.
Nick, where did you manage to source your Zaurus from? I can't find
anywhere that will ship to NZ.
trademe.co.nz - its an sl-5500, unfortunatley not one of the
Back to the topic of this thread, the problem with Ubuntu on Johns
computer is actually a documented bug (in Bugzilla) of the Ubuntu
installer and has been fixed in Hoary. So he is just going to wait a
month for Hoary, and use Warty on his laptop.
Thanks for all the suggestions anyway :),
Sorry to do this, but anyway: **BUMP**
Someone must have some ideas? Please :)
-- Hugo.
On 5/02/2005, at 4:58 PM, hjv15 wrote:
Hi everyone,
Last weekend I tried to install Ubuntu on a friends PC without luck
(apparently the optical drive was unsupported...), and this weekend I
gave it
another go.
Hi Steve,
On 7/02/2005, at 2:49 PM, Steve Holdoway wrote:
Suggestions...
1. Are you booting a linux 2.6 kernel? ( Ubuntu users comments??? )
yep, the installer is running under 2.6, and Ubuntu would be under 2.6
when it installs - course it won't install.
2. Is the system bios up to date?
yep,
The drive is ATA, but I think the BIOS makes it look like SATA, which
Linux will see as SCSI, right?
Haven't tried the Knoppix live-cd on it, but the Ubuntu Live cd freezes
hard while booting (around the first tick of the progress bar - didn't
check on the console what it was doing then
On 1/02/2005, at 8:48 AM, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
There are a lot of computing needs which are definitely not met by
Linux. Speech recognition is one, and don't start arguing that there
isn't a *need* here unless you want to make a fool out of yourself.
Engineering applications are next on my mind.
Hi everyone,
Yesterday I tried to install Ubuntu on a friends PC - a much needed
conversion as I see it - he's a devout windows junkie (but keen to try
linux :)...
So it got about 20 seconds into the install process, chose language
and so on, then had a fatal error (still in the
Thanks Nick,
On 30/01/2005, at 9:35 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
snip
I thought we could try a network install (either over the internet or
off my laptop?) but i couldn't find any instructions on how to do
that.
can someone please point me in the right direction?
apparently there is no network install
I don't know if you changed it before posting, but I wouldn't have
thought that your username is username?
On 27/01/2005, at 4:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've just got a new slingshot dial-up but can't get authenticated.
Details of the attempt are in the log attached.
Modem dials, does
Check out www.bugmenot.com
You type in the URL, they tell you a log in you can use. Works for most
of the free registration required sites I look at.
Regards,
Hugo
On 25/01/2005, at 5:19 PM, John Carter wrote:
I'm peeved.
Too many web sites are hiding behind %$#% free registrations. They
invite
On 21/01/2005, at 2:57 PM, C. Falconer wrote:
BTW - my laptop draws 24W while not charging and 33W while charging.
I could run 11 laptops at once off this, or 9 charging laptops.
Is that _measured_ consumption or what the manual/label on the laptop
says it should use? Also is this on the
Hi everyone,
Is it possible to change the default UI fonts of commercial proprietary
applications like Acroread, VMware or Eagle PCB-CAD? The defaults in
these apps are HUGE (especially Eagle), as in twice the size of the
Gnome fonts. My distro is Ubuntu Warty.
Cheers,
Hugo.
Just following this up, does ANYONE on this list use anti-virus
software on their linux systems (excluding any filtering on email
gateways and the like)?
Hugo.
To Woodsey: Linux is not windoes :-/
In a PC magazine I saw, they had the shortest one in 4 minutes and the
longest in 4 hours - they
for i in `ls`; do wc $i; done
or some variation there of ? there is probably a better way :-/
On 11/01/2005, at 7:14 PM, John Rye wrote:
Mental blockage!!
Lots of googling hasn't helped much.
Could someone show me how to count the total number of words in a
group of
files which are located in the
Hi everyone,
What RSS aggregator do you recommend? I would prefer a GNOME/GTK-based
client. I have looked at the websites Straw, Blam and Liferea but they
all look quite immature - I would be surprised if there is not a more
mature RSS client for GNOME!
Thanks,
Hugo.
I don't like the idea of easy programming languages. Something you
can use later and for useful programs is better. I think that's more
encouraging than some nice output or games and creating something
usefull is what programming is mostly about.
And Python isn't a useful language I find
OK this worked! Thanks.
Hugo.
On 5/01/2005, at 8:10 AM, Robert Himmelmann wrote:
Use chmod u+s /sbin/shutdown then everyone can use /sbin/shutdown
-h 0 or something.
On 6/01/2005, at 10:15 AM, Derek Smithies wrote:
There is a holy war brewing here - what language to learn? Is it
python,
C++, pike, D, perl, bash, Ruby, (memory failing here - the list is
endless).
Yep, its Python :)
Hugo.
Hi everybody,
I set up a PC for my parents to do their email on, with Mandrake 10 and
Firefox/Thunderbird, but for some reason, their is no Shutdown item on
the menu. I can't remember how to allow the normal user to run
/sbin/shutdown as root (something in /etc/sudoers perhaps)? Can someone
HI John,
On 5/01/2005, at 9:29 AM, John Rye wrote:
On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 22:45:53 +1300
Hugo Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi everybody,
I set up a PC for my parents to do their email on, with Mandrake 10
and
Firefox/Thunderbird, but for some reason, their is no Shutdown item on
the menu. I
Hi everyone,
Just wondering if anyone uses Linux PDAs - Zaurus or iPaq converted to
Linux?
Is there a user group/mailing list for that?
Cheers,
Hugo.
You can get so-called 'baluns' to send unbalanced signals like consumer
AV signals over a balanced media like twisted pair wiring. Although I
think they are designed more for security cameras so the quality may
not be that great. Try Jaycar, Dick Smith, Global PC / Altronics and
places like
Get them a Mac.
On 29/11/2004, at 12:09 PM, Derek Smithies wrote:
Hi,
For the sake of the discussion, I will use the phrase, my parents.
In fact, I am referring to a potential new linux user, who maybe
any age. The reason I ask, is that I have had this conversation with
many people, and wondered
,
the implication from your suggestion, Get them a Mac
is that
a) I have lots of money (false)
b) Mac is superior in many ways to linux
What are you doing on the clug group?
Derek.
On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Hugo Vincent wrote:
Get them a Mac.
On 29/11/2004, at 12:09 PM, Derek Smithies wrote:
Hi,
For the sake
Derek,
On 29/11/2004, at 1:22 PM, Derek Smithies wrote:
However, (in my defense) I note a certain sadness.
We read often of comments, linux is ready for the desktop and the
like.
Yet, if people on the linux list are advocating that my parents
get a mac, then clearly
those comments on the
On 8/07/2004, at 5:56 PM, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Thursday 08 July 2004 13:12, Nick Rout wrote:
Posting this to the both lists in an effort to catch the right people.
I have read / skimmed the whole thread.
Sorry I have been out this afternoon.
There are at least two registrations for Mac's
On 6/07/2004, at 2:28 PM, Andrew Turner wrote:
InfoHelp wrote:
As a means of progressing this issue towards useful closure, please
go to a terminal console.
Issue these commands:
$ uname -s (--kernel-name)
$ uname -o (--operating-system)
$ uname -s
FreeBSD
$ uname -o
uname: illegal option -- o
On 25/05/2004, at 10:57 PM, Bart Hanson wrote:
On 25/05/2004, at 10:10 AM, Gareth Williams wrote:
Out of interest, does this usb-to-serial adapter you speak of:
a) help your serial device (eg. mouse) fake being a usb device, OR
b) help your usb port fake being a serial port
My little dumb adaptor
Hi everybody,
This is my first post to this list (but some of the names of people
here are familiar from other lists etc)
I am not exactly sure what was meant by the original question:
Do you want
1) to connect a serial terminal to you linux box that (say) has USB
ports but not serial ports. Or
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