Re: Roll-your-own boot CD

2006-07-30 Thread Hugo Vincent
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

Re: Roll-your-own boot CD

2006-07-29 Thread Hugo Vincent
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

Re: HELP RFC Community Node Network...

2006-07-24 Thread Hugo Vincent
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

Re: kino

2006-06-20 Thread Hugo Vincent
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

Re: kino

2006-06-20 Thread Hugo Vincent
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

Re: very small linux portable

2005-11-05 Thread Hugo Vincent
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

NBR article about Linux in govt.

2005-10-24 Thread Hugo Vincent
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

Re: Comms program

2005-09-03 Thread Hugo Vincent
, 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

Re: Minimum hardware for LAMP server.

2005-08-16 Thread Hugo Vincent
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

Re: wget, but for 2GB

2005-05-30 Thread Hugo Vincent
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.

Re: free wifi hotspot

2005-04-02 Thread Hugo Vincent
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

Re: Ubuntu install failed - CD drive not supported!!

2005-02-07 Thread Hugo Vincent
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 :),

Re: Ubuntu install failed - CD drive not supported!!

2005-02-06 Thread Hugo Vincent
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.

Re: Ubuntu install failed - CD drive not supported!!

2005-02-06 Thread Hugo Vincent
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,

Re: Ubuntu install failed - CD drive not supported!!

2005-02-06 Thread Hugo Vincent
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

Re: linux on the desktop making inroads...

2005-01-31 Thread Hugo Vincent
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.

Ubuntu install failed - CD drive not supported!!

2005-01-30 Thread Hugo Vincent
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

Re: Ubuntu install failed - CD drive not supported!!

2005-01-30 Thread Hugo Vincent
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

Re: slingshot dialup not authenticating

2005-01-26 Thread Hugo Vincent
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

Re: Dressing up as Google - A Spider suit of my very own.

2005-01-25 Thread Hugo Vincent
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

Re: SOT: Car Inverter

2005-01-20 Thread Hugo Vincent
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

Changing UI fonts of commercial X11 apps

2005-01-11 Thread Hugo Vincent
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.

Re: Ubuntu queries

2005-01-10 Thread Hugo Vincent
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

Re: Word Count Help

2005-01-10 Thread Hugo Vincent
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

Which RSS aggregator/reader?

2005-01-08 Thread Hugo Vincent
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.

Re: OT: Python book Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner

2005-01-07 Thread Hugo Vincent
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

Re: Allowing a normal user to run a command (shutdown) as root

2005-01-05 Thread Hugo Vincent
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.

Re: OT: Python book Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner

2005-01-05 Thread Hugo Vincent
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.

Allowing a normal user to run a command (shutdown) as root

2005-01-04 Thread Hugo Vincent
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

Re: Allowing a normal user to run a command (shutdown) as root

2005-01-04 Thread Hugo Vincent
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

Linux PDAs

2004-12-27 Thread Hugo Vincent
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.

Re: Home wiring

2004-12-13 Thread Hugo Vincent
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

Re: What do I give my parents

2004-11-28 Thread Hugo Vincent
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

Re: What do I give my parents [OT.. Macs]

2004-11-28 Thread Hugo Vincent
, 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

Re: What do I give my parents [OT.. Macs]

2004-11-28 Thread Hugo Vincent
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

Re: Installfest - Macs /Linux ppc

2004-07-08 Thread Hugo Vincent
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

Re: GNU-less linux distributions

2004-07-05 Thread Hugo Vincent
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

Re: console via usb

2004-05-25 Thread Hugo Vincent
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

Re: console via usb

2004-05-21 Thread Hugo Vincent
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