Re: Cannot get Powernow working under Gentoo 2007.0

2007-06-04 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Nick Rout wrote: Jamie Dobbs wrote: I have recompiled my kernel as per the Powernow HOWTO at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_PowerNow! but cannot seem to get any Powernow or frequency scaling support. A dmesg | grep powernow returns nothing , it is enabled in the BIOS of the machine

Re: lcd screen problems

2007-05-14 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Make sure the refresh is no higher than 60HZ and that you are running at the native resolution of the panel. Kia ora, so, my screen went bung and I had to get it replaced. Would just go completely blank i.e. black screen, nothing at all. Checked all the cables which were firmly in place.

Nvidia nfroce 4 motherboard and forcedeth driver

2007-05-04 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I have noticed that my Gigabit ethernet runs about half as fast under Ubuntu (approx. 1.5MB/s) using the forcedeth driver as it does in Windows using the Nvidia driver (approx 3.1MB/s). These figures are at a known network state copying the same files to and from the same location. Is there

Re: Hello and.....

2007-05-02 Thread Jamie Dobbs
On Thu, May 3, 2007 9:14 am, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: On Thu 03 May 2007 08:51:32 NZST +1200, Campbell McKenzie wrote: Mepis and Ubunutu are great for new users because if they want new software they can use Synaptic (aka apt-get) New users means they'd want a desktop. You want to put Linux

Re: Converting MS .pub files

2007-04-25 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Robert Fisher wrote: On Thursday 26 April 2007 7:14 am, Roger Searle wrote: another complication here is that you also need the same version of publisher, there is no compatibility between versions I think that they are backward compatible though. nope... Publisher 2007 will open all

SATA DVDRW Compatibility

2007-03-09 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I'm looking to replace my current ATA DVDRW with a SATA LG GSA-H30N Black 18x Dual Layer DVD Rewriter. Is there anything I need to be aware of before doing this? I am already running 2 SATA HDD's with no issues so know that my SATA controller is supported (I am running Ubuntu 6,10), and just

Re: [help] ISO file too large

2007-01-01 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Ken McAllister wrote: snip Anybody: What's the point of a 760 iso? Does anyone make 800 mb CDs? Yes, I have some I purchased from Warehouse Stationary a year or so ago (but that said I haven't looked lately). Melody branded 790MB/90 mins. in capacity. A quick search of blankcd.co.nz shows

SNMP monitoring of Netgear DG834

2006-11-06 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I've been tearing my hair out for the last 24 hours trying to get one of the various snmp tools available on Linux to be able to extract data from my Netgear DG834 ADSL router. Tools in Windows can access the device fine and get stats (and is doing so at the moment), but in Linux I do not seem

Re: SNMP monitoring of Netgear DG834

2006-11-06 Thread Jamie Dobbs
On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 09:29:40 +1300, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 09:14:16 +1300 Jamie Dobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been tearing my hair out for the last 24 hours trying to get one of the various snmp tools available on Linux to be able to extract data

OT: PC Upgrade Time

2006-11-05 Thread Jamie Dobbs
The time has come to consider a new PC. At this stage I am think of a Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 based system and am looking for recommendations on motherboards and RAM. I haven't kept up with the play lately and have no idea how DDR2 works ie. single stick/pairs of sticks etc. so basically just

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Re: OT: ADSL/ADSL2

2006-10-30 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I believe all current plans are still ADSL as Telecom have not yet installed an ADSL2 compatible network. Max speed on ADSL is 8Meg, ADSL is (from memory) something in the opder of 24Meg. Your exisiting router should handle the plan upspeed fine. On 10/30/2006, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OT: ADSL Routers

2006-09-11 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I am looking at replacing my ADSL router with a new one that supports ADSL2 and wireless (so I can network the (modded) XBox from the lounge using wireless so that I can access Samba shares etc). I am considering either the Linksys WAG54G or Netgear DG834G and would welcome feedback from people

OT: ADSL Routers

2006-09-11 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I am looking at replacing my ADSL router with a new one that supports ADSL2 and wireless (so I can network the (modded) XBox from the lounge using wireless so that I can access Samba shares etc). I am considering either the Linksys WAG54G or Netgear DG834G and would welcome feedback from people

Re: bash script query - echo date

2006-02-04 Thread Jamie Dobbs
try the line: echo Daily Backup Successful: `date` /home/dave/.daves_backup.log the ` (back-ticks) not ' (single quotes) are very important, I have several scripts that use this kind of output and they work fine when using a line like the one above HTH Jamie Dave G wrote: Hi all I'm

Re: OT: Are you a nerd??

2006-02-02 Thread Jamie Dobbs
97% on that one, and 90% on the Geek one from the same site... oh well I guess that I can be proud of something :-D On 2/2/2006, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.nerdtests.com/ft_nq.php?im 94% Supreme Nerd ( more than everyone in the office and their partners... added

Re: Gentoo sound card problems

2006-01-31 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Ross The instructions at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml are relatively fool-proof (i.e. they worked for me) - if you follow them thoroughly I am sure you will be fine. Cheers Jamie Ross Drummond wrote: I am experimenting with a Gentoo install. It is all going fine except for

Re: Hacking attempt - how can I spot this earlier?

2006-01-12 Thread Jamie Dobbs
The simplest way to give so some form of security is by port obfuscation (i.e. using a different, non-standard port number) and translate it on either your ADSL router or by running SSH on a different port eg. make port 54202 the port you SSH in on from the outside world and map it to port 22

New Case Time

2006-01-01 Thread Jamie Dobbs
My trusty old 3R Santafe is starting to show its age so it's time for a new case. Basic requirements are: Black (as all my drives are black ) 120mm fan front and rear (to enable use of lower speed fans thus reducing noise) Good build quality Budget limit is probably around the $200 mark, can

Reporting from mail logs

2005-12-18 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Is there anything available for produce a report from the logs in my Maildir and put them on a web page? I'm specifically after the total number of emails received plus I'd like ti be able to break down the number of email received on particular mailing lists as well, in both cases the number of

Re: Reporting from mail logs

2005-12-18 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Good point Nick, I'm currently using Exim but when I move the mail server back to Gentoo (from Debian) I will no doubt switch back to Postfix what email server are you using? pflogsumm is quite good for postfix On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 16:34:45 +1300 (NZDT) Jamie Dobbs wrote

Procmail recipies

2005-12-06 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I am trying to set up a filter to do 2 things to an incoming mail message, specifically I want to run a script on it, then have a copy of it placed into a folder. I have tried this: :0 * ^Subject:.*subject_i_want* { :0 c |sh script :0 .anotherfolder/ } but this does not work, I know I have had

Re: very small linux portable

2005-11-05 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Volker Another option worth investigating are the Fujitsu Notebooks. They do a small unit such as the one here http://www.pbtech.co.nz/index.php?item=NBKFUJ0257 - very nice looking screens and definately smaller that your average notebook. Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Thanks all, yes it was a

Parsing Mail log files

2005-10-27 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I am trying to parse my mail log files to find out the number of messages received per day and the total size of the messages received. The format of the log files is: From x Fri Oct 28 14:25:12 2005 Subject: FW: Emailing: super_cop_1_.wmv Folder: ~/Maildir/new/1130462726.5627_0.xxx

Re: Telstraclear boo boo

2005-10-18 Thread Jamie Dobbs
snip There's nothing in the TC about announcing outages, so there's no reason to expect any notification. In fact the only thing they say they will send to you is an account for services used. There used to be an option to subscribe to such announcements before they became part of a large

OT: CPU Temperature

2005-10-12 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Following on from my 64-bit Linux thread [thanks for the replies guys, I think I'll stick with Gentoo. again!:-)... compile times are FANTASTIC! I note that the monitoring of CPU core temperature (from BIOS) states that the core is running at 65 degrees celsius and case temperature is at 29

Re: OT: CPU Temperature

2005-10-12 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Cheers for that Dale, I thought that might be the case as the temperature of the air exhausting from the case feels only about 23-25 degrees to me! At least I know not to panic now... but I think I'll try and avoid BIOS upgrades after my last little episode! Hi Jamie, my AMD-3000+ Newcastle

64-bit Linux

2005-10-11 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Having just built myself a new AMD64 3200+ machine I've been playing around with Gentoo for AMD 64 and must say that I am pretty impressed with the overall speed, but a little concerned about the lack of applications that have been ported to 64bit (no Openoffice yet for example). What other Linux

Re: Mail Server setup

2005-09-20 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I have done something similar but have a dedicated box to be my mail server running the setup decribed here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Email_System_for_the_Home_Network is works very,very well and is based on Gentoo. Right I'm looking for a little advice on how to set up a mail server. I've

Re: HD advice.

2005-08-24 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I've had the Samsung drives recommended to me as reliable, quiet and cool by a workmate who has one in a PC at home As per last thread, time for a new drive. The drive is 120G. Of the comparable sized drives, all from the same store, which are recomended? Seagate barracuda (5 yr warranty)

RE: Looking for recommendations for a good value laser printer

2005-08-22 Thread Jamie Dobbs
for recommendations for a good value laser printer On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 15:46 +1200, Jamie Dobbs wrote: The old Laserjet 4P in my 'office' at home is on its last legs and I'm looking for advice on a good value replacement that will work under both Linux and Windows. I've fairly much decided

Looking for recommendations for a good value laser printer

2005-08-20 Thread Jamie Dobbs
The old Laserjet 4P in my 'office' at home is on its last legs and I'm looking for advice on a good value replacement that will work under both Linux and Windows. I've fairly much decided to stick with a laser as the cost per page is substantially less than that of an inkjet so if anyone can

Re: Problems installing on DeskPro EN Small Form Factor

2005-08-19 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Why not just use a Y-splitter on the HDD power cable? The PSU will handle it, I've done it many times in the past on the Deskpro EN SFF's Carl Cerecke wrote: So, I've got myself a P3 600 DeskPro EN SFF. Problem is, there is only one HDD power connector, and, guess what, it is connected to

Re: Problems installing on DeskPro EN Small Form Factor

2005-08-19 Thread Jamie Dobbs
wrote: Yeah, I would. If I had one. On 19/08/05, Jamie Dobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not just use a Y-splitter on the HDD power cable? The PSU will handle it, I've done it many times in the past on the Deskpro EN SFF's Carl Cerecke wrote: So, I've got myself a P3 600 DeskPro EN SFF

Time for a new distro...

2005-08-15 Thread Jamie Dobbs
This is not meant to cause a distro-war, I mearly want some opinions on the pros and cons of various Linux distributions. I have been a keen Gentoo user to this point but find that I am tiring if the time it takes to actually get software installed. The options I am considering for my new disro

Re: Time for a new distro...

2005-08-15 Thread Jamie Dobbs
snip IMHO this is what may keep you with gentoo. Most distros are scared to include mp3 and win32codecs and dvd cracking stuff for legal reasons. They do not want to distribute potentially illegal software, especially as the USA with its DMCA is one of the major markets. Gentoo doesn't

Wanted: Gentoo 2005.1 ISOs

2005-08-14 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Does anyone have ISOs of the Gentoo 2005.1 Universal Install CD and Athlon XP Packages CD's (i486 packages would be nice too if its not too much trouble) that they could send to me in Wellington? Now that I'm on UBS downloading from JetstreamGames appears to be unbearably slow (and I think also

Re: locate command without case sensitivity

2005-08-07 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I have googled a little but have not found how to use the locate command without case sensitivity. e.g. locate filename does not find the file named Filename You could do locate `[F\f]`ilename Can anyone tell me how to do it (or a better way)? -- Robert Fisher (aka - Rob, Bob,

Re: locate command without case sensitivity

2005-08-07 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I have googled a little but have not found how to use the locate command without case sensitivity. e.g. locate filename does not find the file named Filename You could do locate `[F|f]`ilename Can anyone tell me how to do it (or a better way)? -- Robert Fisher (aka - Rob, Bob,

Re: locate command without case sensitivity

2005-08-07 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I have googled a little but have not found how to use the locate command without case sensitivity. e.g. locate filename does not find the file named Filename You could do locate `[F\f]`ilename Sorry, type here, this should read locate `[F|f]`ilename ... sorry about that (and sorry for the

Re: openSUSE

2005-08-04 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Very cool! I just got my SuSE 9.3 DVD in the mail yesterday, haven't had the chance to install it yet, with this happening I can hope for more software to run on it too :-) Well, SuSE + Novell managed to drop a bombshell: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/62400

Re: Invitation to participate in discussion about a national Linux body

2005-08-01 Thread Jamie Dobbs
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 11:46 +1200, Craig Box wrote: Recently discussion has taken place in a number of forums around the creation of a national Linux body in New Zealand. troll level=0.1 *He he he he he he he* That is the second funniest Linux-related thing I have seen today, after

Re: tvtuner problems

2005-07-30 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Barry I had a myriad of problems with my saa7134 card and finally got it to work with the following: add to /etc/modules.d/saa7134: options saa7134 card=26 tuner=5 oss=1 dsp_nr=1 mixer_nr=1 oss_rate=32000 (Your card number is likley to be different and should be found from the output of

Re: ADSL link problems

2005-07-28 Thread Jamie Dobbs
The modem didn't come with a telecom-style phone plug, so I'm using the same one from my dial-up modem: male telecom - male rj-11 (or whatever number that is). The splitter is male rj11 - (female rj11 phone/female rj11 ADSL). I've also got a male rj11 - male rj11. You need the filter as it

Re: ADSL link problems

2005-07-28 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Those cables for your old modem are the same so should work. Not necessarily, there are 2 distinctly different pinouts on RJ11 to BT converter plugs, one of which moves the inner cable pair to the outside the other doesn't.

Re: ADSL link problems

2005-07-28 Thread Jamie Dobbs
On 29/07/05, Jamie Dobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The modem didn't come with a telecom-style phone plug, so I'm using the same one from my dial-up modem: male telecom - male rj-11 (or whatever number that is). The splitter is male rj11 - (female rj11 phone/female rj11 ADSL). I've also

Re: ADSL link problems

2005-07-28 Thread Jamie Dobbs
connection to the jackpoint won't result in a connection, then it's got to be a Telecom problem? And as David points out, surely they can't charge you for fixing something they didn't have right in the first place (though might try). Jamie Dobbs wrote: Those cables for your old modem are the same

Re: ADSL link problems

2005-07-28 Thread Jamie Dobbs
in the first place (though might try). Jamie Dobbs wrote: Those cables for your old modem are the same so should work. Not necessarily, there are 2 distinctly different pinouts on RJ11 to BT converter plugs, one of which moves the inner cable pair to the outside the other doesn't.

Re: ADSL link problems

2005-07-28 Thread Jamie Dobbs
On 29/07/05, Jamie Dobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/07/05, Jamie Dobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The modem didn't come with a telecom-style phone plug, so I'm using the same one from my dial-up modem: male telecom - male rj-11 (or whatever number that is). The splitter is male

Backing up to a SCSI tape drive

2005-07-23 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I have recently been given an external SCSI DLT drive that I have hooked up to my machine and can use from Windows but would also like to be able to use it from Linux. The details from dmseg are: i91u: PCI Base=0xEC00, IRQ=18, BIOS=0xFF000, SCSI ID=7 i91u: Reset SCSI Bus ... scsi0 : Initio

Re: Linksys NSLU2 goes debian

2005-07-20 Thread Jamie Dobbs
You only just bet me to posting that Nick! Its getting more tempting to pick one up now as with Debian I could replace my mail server with one of these. Further to discussion in the last day or so, this story is now on slashdot:

Re: ADSL modem/switch/wireless combo with Linux

2005-07-19 Thread Jamie Dobbs
you could try a linksys nslu2, about $165. It has two USB ports and you can attach USB2 hard drives. IE an enclosure plus any size drive you like. Runs linux, very hackable with new firmware. http://www.nslu2-linux.org/ especially:

Re: ADSL modem/switch/wireless combo with Linux

2005-07-19 Thread Jamie Dobbs
you could try a linksys nslu2, about $165. It has two USB ports and you can attach USB2 hard drives. IE an enclosure plus any size drive you like. Runs linux, very hackable with new firmware. http://www.nslu2-linux.org/ especially:

Re: clug.tv

2005-07-13 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Sounds good Nick. Some thing like that would be worth doing in my opinion. It would be nice if they could be put somewhere for out of towners to download too :-)

Re: Nick's MythTV presentation

2005-07-12 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I for one was thoroughly impressed with Nick's MythTV presentation last night. Was that the presentation, the presented software, or both? ;-))) (I'd say both.) I only wish I could have been there, but unfortunately I live in Wellington (at the moment). I'm in the process of trying to get a

Re: Nick's MythTV presentation

2005-07-12 Thread Jamie Dobbs
://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=forumid=10threadid=260926 On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:48:06 +1200 (NZST) Jamie Dobbs wrote: 1/ With the Pinnacle PCTV Stereo (now saa7134 based) I can get picture but no sound in Xawtv, kdetv etc. but nothing at all in MythTV. ** THIS IS MY MAIN PROBLEM, after all

Re: FC4 download

2005-07-11 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Does anyone know where I can download the DVD ISO of FC 4 from (preferably NZ)? Does this even exist? Yup, you can get it at http://linux.jetstreamgames.co.nz/fedora/4/i386/iso/ - CD and DVD ISOs

Re: Meeting announcement This Tuesday 12 July

2005-07-09 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Per my recent thread, the next meeting this Tuesday will be a demo and exploration of MythTV. MythTV is a personal tv viewer and video recorder, and much much more. (www.mythtv.org) Ever wanted to pause your TV when the phone goes? Ever wanted to rewind a minute to see that significant

Re: OT - DVD writer recommendations

2005-07-05 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I need a new cd writer, and at the prices i may as well get the ability to write dvd as well. so, what should I look for? avoid? I assume that I would want dual layer, with support for dvd-r dvd+r dvd-rw dvd+rw Yep, I would recommend the LG drives - very reliable and very quiet. Another

Re: OT - DVD writer recommendations

2005-07-05 Thread Jamie Dobbs
snip Cheers, who round this dump of a town stocks them? Sorry, I have no idea (I'm in Wellington unfortunately). I got mine from Ascent (www.ascent.co.nz) and I would thoroughly recommend them as a dealer.

Re: OT. After effects of thunderstorm.

2005-07-04 Thread Jamie Dobbs
So does anybody know of a competent repair shop who could replace the Network I/O chip for a more resonable cost? Not very likely as the componentry will all be surface mount, and not economical to repair. You would be better to use a PCMCIA or USB based LAN adapter in its place.

Re: IMDB info

2005-06-22 Thread Jamie Dobbs
At a recent meeting someone (was it Ben?) told me that they had a script to query imdb based on a file name or other movie info. Can whoever that was let me have some details please? I'd be very interested in this too. FYI imdb.com is the Internet Movie DataBase -- Nick Rout

Re: Spare gmail invite?

2005-06-08 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Why not. Now that Slosh has shown how to normalise an account, for list purposes. Yes please. Where can I find this information?

Need to find the correct MIB for a Cisco837 Router

2005-06-04 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I'm trying to get MRTG to graph the ADSL throughput (bps) of a Cisco837 router. I've searched but haven't been able to find a MIB that work, I have tried: Dialer0:public@ip ATM0:public@ip ATM0.1:public@ip but none of these appear to return any data. Can anyon offer any assistance? Cheers

WTD: Sun 13W3 to HD15 converter

2005-05-18 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I've managed to score a Sun 17 monitor from work, but it has the Sun 13W3 connector on it so I need a converter to enable me to use it on my PC. Does anyone have one of these they want to get rid of?

Re: WTD: Sun 13W3 to HD15 converter

2005-05-18 Thread Jamie Dobbs
On Thu, 19 May 2005 11:16, Jamie Dobbs wrote: I've managed to score a Sun 17 monitor from work, but it has the Sun 13W3 connector on it so I need a converter to enable me to use it on my PC. Does anyone have one of these they want to get rid of? Try Computer Dynamics A-VGAF13W3M

Re: Root password not accepted by su command

2005-05-11 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Hi, I'm able to log in on my Gentoo system as root using the correct password. Previously I have been able to change to root using su and the same password from my normal user. Now however, it doesn't accept the same password when I try to use su. I'm not sure exactly what I have done to

Re: Continuous disk access when running kde-3.4

2005-04-28 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Hi list folks, I have recently installed kde 3.4 and now the disk indicator LED is winking very briefly yet continuously approximately twice a second even when there are no windows open. Does anybody else see this? I'm using KDE3.4 and haven't noticed this, but I have been using it for a

SATA with Linux

2005-04-28 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I am running Gentoo with kernel 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 and want to add an SATA controller and drive(s) to my PC (as I am out of IDE interfaces!). The SATA controller I am looking at is the Sunix SATA2000, which uses a Silicon Image Sil3112a chipset (Silicon Image SataLink Sil3112CT144 according to

Trying to get Dual Head working

2005-04-20 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I am trying to get Dual Head working using x.org 6.8.2 and the xorg ATI driver on Gentoo. My xorg.conf can be seen at http://drgnfire.orcon.net.nz/xorg.conf.DUAL-HEAD In particular I am trying to get Monitor 0 to be running at 1600x1200 and Monitor 1 at 1024x768 but I've looked at how-to's,

Re: Trying to get Dual Head working - SOLVED

2005-04-20 Thread Jamie Dobbs
By adding the lines: Option Clone off Option Xinerama on In the ServerLayout section. I now have Dual head working. - Thanks - Steve Holdoway wrote: Jamie Dobbs wrote: I am trying to get Dual Head working using x.org 6.8.2 and the xorg ATI driver on Gentoo. My xorg.conf

Odd memory usage

2005-04-10 Thread Jamie Dobbs
The attached MRTG graph shows the memory usage pattern for one of my Linux boxes. (Pentium II/400m with 320MB memory and 40GB Disk with a 512Meg swapfile on it that according to my other graphs is not being used at all) This pattern of memory usage repeats itself on a daily basis but I cannot

Re: Odd memory usage

2005-04-10 Thread Jamie Dobbs
snip ps -ef will give you a list of what's running. Test ni and out of this period, and subtract one from the other? Cheers, Steve PS. options growright keeps you saner! Yeah, I will implement growright now as it will make it a bit easier on the brain. I have found the culprit as soon as

RE: Odd memory usage

2005-04-10 Thread Jamie Dobbs
is disk cache that will be freed up if the system starts to need it. So if the disk cache was freed there would be 400 Mb used and 610 Mb free. -Original Message- From: Jamie Dobbs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 11 April 2005 2:04 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz

Re: Get Size

2005-04-07 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Robert Himmelmann wrote: I am looking for two comand-line-tools: One to list the size of a directory (As the sum of all the files it contains, not what you get from ls -l) df -x -h from within the directory you want the information on and one to show the used, unused and total volume of a

Re: Get Size

2005-04-07 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 20:55, Jamie Dobbs wrote: Robert Himmelmann wrote: I am looking for two comand-line-tools: One to list the size of a directory (As the sum of all the files it contains, not what you get from ls -l) df

MRTG issues

2005-04-06 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Can anyone suggest why the config below doesn't appear to produce any stats for memory, swap or disk but is fone with its CPU Idle? WorkDir: /var/www/mrtg ThreshDir: /var/www/mrtg LoadMIBs: /usr/share/snmp/mibs/UCD-SNMP-MIB.txt, /usr/share/snmp/mibs/TCP_MIB.$ NoSpaceChar: ~ Options[^]: noinfo,

How to monitor CPU/Memory/Disk usage

2005-04-05 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I'm a little worried that my 'mail server' PC is getting overloaded and I am losing emails etc., or that I am having delays in outgoing mail. How can I set up some sort of monitoring to look at CPU, memory and disk usage - preferably in a graphical format. I seem to recall that cricket and/or mrtg

Re: Gentoo 2005.0 release

2005-03-27 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I'm currently downloading the athlon-xp packages CD and would be happy to send you down a CD of it from Wellington if you want one. I will most likely also do the Pentium 3 packages as well, if that is the right one for a Celeron 1.3GHz... Nick Rout wrote: For those interested: I am

Re: Gentoo 2005.0 release

2005-03-27 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Nick Rout wrote: snip Let me know when you have anything downloaded, I'll arrange to replace your cd's and pay postage etc. Actually I would rather have a copy of the iso, rather than a cd cut from it. as in what beginners often do with ISO's, but in this case I have my reasons :) Thanks for

Need advice on baking up files

2005-03-26 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I would like to set up a simple backup script that will tar/gzip the contents of the ~/Maildir directories of several users on one of my Linux boxes. What is the best way to do this so that I preserve ownership/groups etc. so that when I need to restore it is a trivial process? Keep in mind

Gentoo 2005.0

2005-03-25 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Has anyone heard any updates on when this will be released? I have a spare box I want to put it on when it comes out and wonder how much longer I will need to wait.

Re: Gentoo 2005.0

2005-03-25 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 08:59 +1200, Jamie Dobbs wrote: Has anyone heard any updates on when this will be released? I have a spare box I want to put it on when it comes out and wonder how much longer I will need to wait. "Real Soon Now"

Not everyone pleased with new Mandrake renaming/release schedule

2005-03-21 Thread Jamie Dobbs
According to a recent post on Slashdot.org Mandrake are changing their release cycle once again... Linzer writes Mandrakelinux just issued this press release presenting (1) a new one-year release cycle, with a year-based naming scheme and (2) their updated development roadmap. In a nutshell:

Re: How do I allow remote connections to X under SuSe 9.2?

2005-02-28 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Robert Himmelmann wrote: VNC might be better for you. You can use TightVNC for windows. On SuSE 9.2 there are three VNC packages thightvnc, kdenetwork3-vnc (This is probably not what you want), xorg-x11-Xvnc as well as some other tools. There is also a menu in Yast under 'Network Services

NVidia vs. ATI

2005-02-28 Thread Jamie Dobbs
hich do people find performs better under Linux? I'm currently running an ATI9600 and find that its performanace under Linux is substantially below how it runs in Windows. Are peoples experiences with the Nvidia cards the same, or is it only the ATI cards that suffer like this?

How do I allow remote connections to X under SuSe 9.2?

2005-02-27 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I seem to recall I have to edit one of the configuration files but for the life of me (and despite Googling) I can't find which one to edit to allow me to connect to my SuSE 9.2 box from Cygwin under Linux. Anyone care to put me out of my misery? Cheers Jamie -- No virus found in this outgoing

Re: Telecom cutting my throat

2005-02-01 Thread Jamie Dobbs
We are shifting house this week. Telecom will hopefully change the phone connection to the new address on Friday. My ISP tells me that Telecom will not arrange the new ADSL connection until the new POTS line is running and then it will take up to 5 days to reconnect ADSL. Service! What

Re: Broken Gentoo :-(

2005-01-29 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Nick Rout wrote: On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 13:20 +1300, Jamie Dobbs wrote: I can't get X to work any more. I have an ATI card and am running the latest drivers which require xorg 6.8. Everything is installed but when I try to run X it just crashes. If I try and do an emerge -uD

Re: Broken Gentoo :-(

2005-01-29 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Nick Rout wrote: OK, I'll check the discussions out and see if I can find some way of fixing the darn thing. Now I just have to remember where to find the archived lists. http://gmane.org http://marc.theaimsgroup.com Cheers Nick :) No virus found in this outgoing

Re: Broken Gentoo :-(

2005-01-29 Thread Jamie Dobbs
. Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 13:20, Jamie Dobbs wrote: To be able to help you effectively we need a few more details. I can't get X to work any more. Which version exactly? $ X -version will produce the details. I have an ATI card and am running

Re: Looking for an ISP recommendation

2005-01-23 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: While Telstra may behave in Oz like telcomxtra do here, this side of the pond Telstra plays second fiddle and has to behave themselves. They also happen to have the better technology, though their marketing has become somewhat questionable as of late. Choosing between

Looking for an ISP recommendation

2005-01-21 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I'm increasingly having issues with Orcon as an ISP. They started of great but over the year or so I have been with them have started to be less and less reliable. Their email servers are unreliable (I have had quite a number of emails not deliver to me over recent months), their NNTP server is

Re: suse

2005-01-16 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Gareth Williams wrote: 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

Re: Mandrake 10.1 Official and autoconf/automake

2005-01-12 Thread Jamie Dobbs
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, John Rye wrote: automake-1.4-23.p6.mdk autoconf-2.13-19mdk Yes, we didn't have this problem on 10.0, I suspect the marketing droids at Mandrake decided that 10.1 should be crippleware. Just another example of what used to be a great Linux version going down the drain.

Websites/Content Management Systems

2005-01-11 Thread Jamie Dobbs
I'm having a bit of a play around with Mambo as a CMS on my website (http://drgnfire.no-ip.com - please don't hit it too hard as its on my ADSL connection) and it appears to be pretty good as a CMS. What are some other good options for Content Management, preferably with support for adding other

Regular update to Gentoo

2005-01-07 Thread Jamie Dobbs
At the moment my (semi)regular update process consists of: emerge sync emerge -UDpv worldto see what is available and how much data is going to be downloaded, followed by an emerge -UD world

Regular updates to Gentoo

2005-01-07 Thread Jamie Dobbs
At the moment my (semi)regular update process consists of: emerge sync emerge -UDpv world to see what is available and how much data is going to be downloaded, followed by an emerge -UD world to do the actual update Is this s a good way to do this or should I look at some other emerge

The only things keeping me using Windows...

2005-01-07 Thread Jamie Dobbs
The only software keeping me using Windows is: DreamWeaver - I just love its ease of use and power. All the stuff from www.popcap.com as I love fun, quirky little games. Yes I guess I could play the flash versions of the games - is there any way these can be 'downloaded' so I don't have to

Re: The only things keeping me using Windows...

2005-01-07 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Robert Fisher wrote: On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 12:05, Jamie Dobbs wrote: The only software keeping me using Windows is: DreamWeaver - I just love its ease of use and power. I use NVu although I know it is not as advanced as Dreamweaver it does allow you to create pages

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