Re: Linux and RAM size

2009-07-22 Thread John Rye
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:25:11 +1200 (NZST) Derek Smithies wrote: > Hi, > Ok, let me put the actual number:: > > when I started with the zx81, I had 1K. > > This was "ok" for a bit, but soon ran out of space. > > The shop wanted $200 for 16k ram packs. >I happily forked over the money, and

Re: Linux and ModBus

2009-07-11 Thread John Rye
On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:17:37 +1200 Julian Warwick Bethell wrote: > I need Help > Now tell us what you need help with. :-) Machine details, Operating System and version, application. lspci, lsmod and any relavent bits from /var/log/messages John

Re: Linux and ModBus

2009-07-11 Thread John Rye
On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:17:37 +1200 Julian Warwick Bethell wrote: > I need Help > Me too? John

Re: generalized Net slowdown - or is it just me?

2009-04-07 Thread John Rye
On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:43:57 +1200 Wesley Parish wrote: > Hi, all > > This afternoon I was at the St Albans Community Centre downloading some > freely > available music and other stuff, and I noticed the download speed was at > about 56 KB per second, when it usually is faster, usually about 8

Re: testing...

2009-03-25 Thread John Rye
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:04:18 +1300 Nick Rout wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Eliot Blennerhassett > wrote: > > one... > > > > two, buckle my shoe. Three four, kick in the door

Re: Hardy 8.04 modem concerns

2009-02-24 Thread John Rye
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:58:59 +1300 chris wrote: > Hi Steve > Attached is the ppp log output of the last attempt to connect to xtra. > This was 5 mins after a successful download of mail etc using the same > modem from the xp partition > regards Chris After looking at your log ... have you run: '

Re: Hardy 8.04 modem concerns

2009-02-24 Thread John Rye
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:47:22 +1300 Rik Tindall wrote: > chris wrote: > > Hi Steve, > > Yes it is on ttys0, and I can hear the modem negotiate the connection. > > It then connects, and falls over at the exchange of user names and > > password. > > As this is a dual boot system, I know that the issu

Re: mandriva2009 & kde4

2009-01-22 Thread John Rye
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:48:50 +1300 Barry Marchant wrote: > Got it off apc dvd for jan. It looked very impressive as a live cd. I > installed it tonight on a new ptn... BUT > > No root login.(mandriva setup?) Root login is disabled by default. I think this is case for most distributions. However

Re: Create preconfigured installation image for Mandriva

2009-01-19 Thread John Rye
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:22:01 +1300 Tom Munro Glass wrote: > Although I am using Mandriva, I suspect this question would apply to many > distros. > > I need to install Mandriva on several machines, and each installation needs > to > be set up the same way with a number of packages installed, th

Re: New ISP Suggestions

2008-12-29 Thread John Rye
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:37:29 +1300 chris wrote: > Thank you, i will follow your suggestion and try it out. > I have been reading the wvdial man pages, but find that I do not have > the "vocabulary" need to understand enough of it to help > Regards Chris T > > PS can you expand on why I should add

Re: New ISP Suggestions

2008-12-29 Thread John Rye
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:59:04 +1300 chris wrote: > Can you explain please what is the difference between the ordinary > wvdial mode and stupid mode > I am assuming that gnome ppp uses chat? Gnome-ppp uses wvdial, the preferences tab allows you to enable 'stupid mode' is you need to use it. I sug

Re: test

2008-12-20 Thread John Rye
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:25:23 +1300 John Mallett wrote: > User-Agent: KMail/1.10.3 (Linux/2.6.27.7-134.fc10.x86_64; KDE/4.1.3; x86_64; > ; ) it's in your mail headers :-) John

Re: Mandriva questions

2008-08-14 Thread John Rye
On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:44:12 +1200 Nick Rout wrote: > >> > This is an old version of the package and it doesn't work with Qt4 4.3.4 > >> > > >> > Tom > >> > > >> > >> This is what I don't get about Mandrivel. How come if this is an > >> official package (as the path seems to indicate) you have to

Re: Mandriva questions

2008-08-13 Thread John Rye
On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:10:29 +1200 Nick Rout wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Tom Munro Glass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Barry Marchant wrote: > >> WHAT is wrong with the reference I gave you Its what you > >> asked for. > >> > >> Barry > > > > Here is

Re: Mandriva questions

2008-08-13 Thread John Rye
On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:43:49 +1200 Tom Munro Glass wrote: > On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, John Rye wrote: > > > > as root: > > > > urpmi qt4-database-plugin-ibase-lib > > > > John > > If only it was that simple - that package doesn't exist, at least not

Re: Mandriva questions

2008-08-13 Thread John Rye
On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:06:08 +1200 Tom Munro Glass wrote: > On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Barry Marchant wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have been running Mandriva since before mandrake 8. > > > > 1st question ... what is the app, is the src in a .mdk package? If so, > > install the pkg as per normal, it will go i

Re: Dates? Re: Printing woes...

2008-05-12 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 14 May 2008 09:29:48 +1200 Barry wrote: > Thanks, Please check that its ok now. Its the result of a new install > which caused me a lot of grief Nope still showing tomorrow at 0929 John

Re: Any Gimp Experts in the house?

2008-05-12 Thread John Rye
On Tue, 13 May 2008 00:39:59 +1200 Don Gould wrote: > In Photoshop there's a 'magic lasoo' tool that attaches 'selection' to > the outline of an object. It's really useful for clear tracing something. > > I can't find it in GIMP. Does anyone know if there's a control plug in > that does it?

Re: FOSS/Linux jpg to dwg converter

2008-04-18 Thread John Rye
On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:21:38 +1200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:49:01 +1200, Wesley Parish > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 18 April 2008 12:36, Andrew Errington wrote: > >> On Fri, April 18, 2008 06:15, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > >> > On Fri 18 Apr 2008 00:34:28

Skip candidate check request

2008-02-02 Thread John Rye
Hi all Having noted that this appears to be season during which skip candidates are offered for re-cycling. I'm on the hunt for a duplexer for a Lexmark 4039 laser printer as the magic smoke appears to have escaped from the circuitry on mine. Cheers John

Re: nvidia driver weirdness

2008-01-07 Thread John Rye
On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:15:43 +1300 Roger Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I have a Gutsy AMD64 install, and found the default driver to be > unstable (random lockups needing hard power cycling). So I installed > the latest driver from the nvidia site (100.14.19). The installation > rou

Re: XML Editors?

2007-12-04 Thread John Rye
On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:15:44 +1300 Wesley Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have any war stories about Linux FOSS XML editors? (I'm teaching > myself XML, and need a validating XML editor for Linux.) Furthermore, this > would make a good topic for next year's CLUG meetings. Bit

Re: urpmi

2007-10-07 Thread John Rye
On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 16:51:40 +1300 Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Nick, I was starting to wonder if you'd be run over by a bus, > you've been so quiet. > > Yes, lld would have been a good idea. > > Turned out that re/installing openssl fixed the problem. > > Why synaptic in MDV07

Re: Problems with suspend...

2007-09-24 Thread John Rye
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:02:00 +1200 Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Rye wrote: > >> I'm still having problems with suspend on my laptop. > >> > >> Before I post a bug report, thought I might create an info page: > >> > >> h

Re: Mandriva 2008 RC1 CD's

2007-09-18 Thread John Rye
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:49:15 +1200 Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > John Rye wrote: > > You would have been better off getting Mandriva Spring (2007.1) > > Ya, I'm undecided what I should do next. > > 08 didn't like some of my hardware and

Re: Mandriva 2008 RC1 CD's

2007-09-17 Thread John Rye
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:32:30 +1200 Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Rye wrote: > > No, and not a good idea unless you're a developer either. > > > > You would have been better off getting Mandriva Spring (2007.1) > > > I don't have wi

Re: SSH Problem goes on...

2007-09-17 Thread John Rye
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:22:35 +1200 Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ssh: symbol lookup error: ssh: undefined symbol: EVP_Cipher Have you run ssh-keygen on Sarah's machine? John

Re: Mandriva 2008 RC1 CD's

2007-09-17 Thread John Rye
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:09:47 +1200 Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just downloaded the 3 RC1 cds. > > If anyone wants a copy then yell out. > > Is anyone using RC1? No, and not a good idea unless you're a developer either. You would have been better off getting Mandriva Spring (2007.1

Re: urpmi

2007-09-16 Thread John Rye
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:57:26 +1200 Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For MDV 2007.0 (fully updated) you should see this: (Thanks for prompt Christopher) [EMAIL PROTECTED] main]# ssh -V OpenSSH_4.5p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8b 04 May 2006 and: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007-0]# ldd `which ssh`

Re: urpmi

2007-09-16 Thread John Rye
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 22:00:04 + Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Rye wrote: > > > > /var/lib/urpmi for the file lists - have fun :-) > > > > > Any idea which file is the list of rpms I've already got installed? > > > Find the

Re: urpmi

2007-09-16 Thread John Rye
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:10:11 + Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone know where the list of installed packages is stored? (Mandriva 2007) > > I know I can use the package manager, but it crashes on the machine. /var/lib/urpmi for the file lists - have fun :-) Find the rpmdrake files

Re: Adobe Reader

2007-09-06 Thread John Rye
On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:55:52 +1200 barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All > > Does anyone Have a rpm or tar copy of Adobe Reader for Linux prior to > version 7.0.8.(it requires Mandrake 10.1 or later or a pile of libraries) > > I am setting up an older box with Mandrake 10 in the hope of inf

Re: ipcop to linksys ag241 vpn

2007-09-05 Thread John Rye
On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:45:18 +1200 Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If the end point of the vpn is behind the router, is said router a) set up to > allow for vpn passthrough, and b) forwarding udp/500 ( and sometimes tcp/500) > traffic to the correct device? > And last gasp yo

Re: LAST NIGHTS MEETING

2007-04-01 Thread John Rye
On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 23:16:01 +1200 Chris Bayley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The link is posted... Thanks Chris, getting it now John

Re: LAST NIGHTS MEETING

2007-03-31 Thread John Rye
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:15:49 +1300 Chris Bayley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok... > > Both John's exposition on the nature of linux and the audio transcript > of the evening are now available via the clug wiki > http://clug.net.nz/index.php/PreviousPresentations. > the audio is in ogg and weighs

Re: mailing list

2007-03-16 Thread John Rye
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:14:18 -0400 Charles Beneby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How does a person get off of this mailing list One starts by reading the headers of the mail from the list in question

Re: Slick new Windows (Vista) feature

2007-03-08 Thread John Rye
On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 07:52:31 +1300 Robert Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wow, windows vista now has a great new feature called UAC. > > "If you use Vista, then you're probably aware that it has a new security > feature called User Account Control (UAC). This feature enables you log in as >

Re: Davids Mdv2007 problem with x... Update

2007-02-24 Thread John Rye
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 14:37:20 +1300 Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is just a bit of an update for those interested in the sarga. No > need to comment unless you really are bored or feel strongly. > > :) > > I've discovered that not only is it a documented problem, but it's also >

Re: Can someone help this guy please. UPDATED

2007-02-22 Thread John Rye
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:39:23 +1300 Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Welcome to the list John, Thanks, but been here for several years :-) > > I note with interest that my suggestions as to how to make sure that > there are alternative (potential) solutions to this kind of problem

Re: Can someone help this guy please. UPDATED

2007-02-21 Thread John Rye
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:54:35 +1300 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:07:40 +1300 > Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thursday 22 February 2007, Don Gould wrote: > > > David is going to come here to 2/59 Peverel Street at 1pm on Saturday > > > afte

Re: Can someone help this guy please. UPDATED

2007-02-21 Thread John Rye
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:00:50 +1300 Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Isn't this cause for a quick 'how to setup remote access using no-ip or > similar, and get IM up and running at the same time' article on the wiki? > That way, no end of us could fix this in our coffee break, and tell

Re: Can someone help this guy please. UPDATED

2007-02-21 Thread John Rye
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:34:30 +1300 Rik Tindall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don Gould wrote: > > Guess this one's mine as I'm running mdv2007? > > Maybe.. It's complex for people to support lots of distros, and urging > people onto the more-used ones is but one solution for that. > > Someone Ma

Re: Can someone help this guy please. UPDATED

2007-02-20 Thread John Rye
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:26:55 +1300 Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 20 February 2007, John Rye wrote: > > > /etc/Inittab adjusted, system boots through to cli logon without > > problems. > > > > Monitor is Proview 786N. > > &g

Re: Can someone help this guy please. UPDATED

2007-02-19 Thread John Rye
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:22:32 +1300 John Rye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:43:53 +1300 > Philip Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have just been on the phone to David Jarman 03 322 9811 (ChCh). He is a > > Mandriva user who has

Re: Can someone help this guy please.

2007-02-19 Thread John Rye
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:43:53 +1300 Philip Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have just been on the phone to David Jarman 03 322 9811 (ChCh). He is a > Mandriva user who has run into problems with 2007 (2006 was okay). > > He has no email at present and not much in the way of Linux skills.

Re: Radio/Wireless Internet Services - www.scorch.co.nz/

2007-02-14 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:02:16 +1300 Robert Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 14 February 2007 8:48 pm, John Rye wrote: > > > Hi Rob, remember where Newall School was? Way up from there :-) > > > Sure do. My Mum used to teach there. Ahh, spawn of Joce

Re: Radio/Wireless Internet Services - www.scorch.co.nz/

2007-02-13 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:21:35 +1300 Robert Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 14 February 2007 7:20 pm, John Rye wrote: > > > What they're offering is very attractive for my location (Western > > slopes of Mt Egmont) > > (Out of interest) Wher

Radio/Wireless Internet Services - www.scorch.co.nz/

2007-02-13 Thread John Rye
Does anyone know if these people still exist? They are/were Chch-based (3 Madras St from memory) but the webpage appears to be down since I last checked on Monday I've left several messages on an answerphone but have had no response. What they're offering is very attractive for my location (Weste

Re: MDV2007 - USB Key unmount when lid closed on T21

2007-02-11 Thread John Rye
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:52:42 +1300 Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone played with mdv2007 and the power suspect, hibernate and USB > key unmounting when you close the lid? I'd be trying the Mandriva-specific lists for a question of this nature http://www.mandriva.com/en/mailing_l

Re: Adobe Reader

2007-01-11 Thread John Rye
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:02:33 +1300 Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 11 January 2007 21:10, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > > Installation is mandriva LE 2005 > > > Package is AdbeRdr70_linux__enu.tar.gz from adobe > > > > Ouch. Always install the distro-supplied package if t

Re: Dynalink Modem

2006-09-01 Thread John Rye
On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 11:33:35 +1200 Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK Andrew you are right again, I set up to usae the new modem and was > querying it fine and getting the right responses but > dummy me when i went back to the dialling box I didnt think to change > the modem in that box > (ac

Re: Have a laugh on telecom

2006-05-24 Thread John Rye
On Thu, 25 May 2006 15:46:25 +1200 Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > download it while you can! > > I got > > 7018444 2006-05-25 15:36:23 /tmp/Telecon.avi mmm, I got it from google: 10351086 May 22 21:25 Telecomcommercialspo.avi Plays fine on everything I've opened it with.

Re: modem woes

2006-03-10 Thread John Rye
Matthew Whiting wrote: > I tried using your options file but didn't have any luck. Contents of my > options file: > > asyncmap 0 > noauth > crtscts > lock > hide-password > modem > debug > proxyarp > lcp-echo-interval 30 > lcp-echo-failure 4 > noipx Matthew, I'm not sure if I sent this to you ea

Re: modem woes

2006-02-23 Thread John Rye
Matthew Whiting wrote: > Okay, from /var/log/syslog: > > Feb 24 13:27:42 localhost kernel: [4300481.877000] PPP generic driver > version 2.4.2 > Feb 24 13:27:42 localhost pppd[9069]: pppd 2.4.3 started by matthew, uid 1000 > Feb 24 13:27:42 localhost pppd[9069]: Using interface ppp0 > Feb 24 13:27

Re: Modern disconnect compressed data

2006-02-18 Thread John Rye
Ross Drummond wrote: > Has anyone had the same problem or able to offer a solution? Ross, don't know if you found a solution but I had this problem about 6 months ago, I solved it (I think) by making /etc/ppp/options look like this: === cut here === lock noauth defaultroute ipcp-max-configure 65

Re: OTish: ISPs

2006-02-16 Thread John Rye
Ross Drummond wrote: > A digression regarding Telecom Govt and betrayal. > > Do you recall studying the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact[1] in history. > > This treaty was between the two most mean unprincipled sharks in history. > Hitler and Stalin in which they agreed not to attack one another. We all

Re: OTish: ISPs

2006-02-16 Thread John Rye
Nick Rout wrote: > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:23:05 +1300 > John Rye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> BCL already have a broadband offering. >> >> http://www.bclnz.co.nz/index.php/pi_pageid/23 >> >> Cheers >> >> John > > the only one of t

Re: How do I watch a DVD in Mdk?

2005-12-14 Thread John Rye
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Don Gould wrote: > What application am I meant to install/use to watch a DVD? > > Cheers Don vlc works well for me. Get libdvdcss2 from the plf repositories Cheers John -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDn+H

Re: Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 lm_sensors config

2005-12-09 Thread John Rye
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Volker Kuhlmann wrote: >>I emailed the lm_sensors list and with an example and was told >>you should configure your sensors.conf and change the multipliers >>for the fans and whatever that are out of range. > > > Yes, configuring sensors.conf is the

Re: Full path file listing

2005-12-08 Thread John Rye
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Volker Kuhlmann wrote: >>I need to do some 'ls' commands which need to include the full path as well. > > > find / ... print0 | xargs -0 --no-run-if-empty ls -ld | sort > > I have a script for this sort of thing: > > listall / Thanks Volker D

Re: Full path file listing

2005-12-08 Thread John Rye
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 19:52, John Rye wrote: > >>Would someone jog my memory please? >> >>I need to do some 'ls' commands which need to include the full path as >>well. >> &

Full path file listing

2005-12-07 Thread John Rye
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Would someone jog my memory please? I need to do some 'ls' commands which need to include the full path as well. Eg an 'ls -l ' but with output similar to the following (wrapped by t'bird): - -rw-r--r-- 1 bob bob 166595 Dec 8 19:30 /home/bob/Docum

Re: How to find out what's causing high disk activity?

2005-11-02 Thread John Rye
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Phill Coxon wrote: > Occassionally on my new server (Mandrake 2006) something starts a *lot* > of disk activity causing the desktop to get very sluggish for 5 minutes > or so. Very likely some database indexing files on the drive. > > CPU load remain

Re: [OT] Re: NEC Powermate clearing CMOS

2005-09-07 Thread John Rye
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > I'm starting to suspect that "reset to factory defaults" sets some > default password. Stellar-sized doh. Anyone got a few common factory > bios password to try? try some of these and variations j262 AWARD_SW AWARD_PW lkwpet

Re: News:Hitachi eyeing 1TB desktop drives with new technology]

2005-04-05 Thread John Rye
Steve Holdoway wrote: Eee when I were a lad, hard disks were 5 or 10MB... Steve Eee when I were a lad, it cost $15,000 to shift from 5 to 10MB John

Re: Ubuntu install & dialup [SOLVED]

2005-01-22 Thread John Rye
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 17:14:58 +1300 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 13:05 +1300, John Rye wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 15:05:04 +1300 > > Rik Tindall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I finally used the the "Other_OS"

Re: Ubuntu install & dialup [SOLVED]

2005-01-22 Thread John Rye
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 15:05:04 +1300 Rik Tindall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I finally used the the "Other_OS" solution to my "Why won't it do what I want" situation and made a clean start. I'm not entirely certain what I did differently during the install itself the second time but I was able to ac

Re: Ubuntu install & dialup

2005-01-20 Thread John Rye
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 22:23:53 +1300 Rik Tindall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Rye wrote: > > >How the hell are new users supposed to be able to get this > >distributiion > >going on a dial-up modem if one with 5 years of Linux experience >

Re: Ubuntu install & dialup

2005-01-19 Thread John Rye
OK guys and gals, I'm at the end of my tether!!! How the hell are new users supposed to be able to get this distributiion going on a dial-up modem if one with 5 years of Linux experience (admittedly with Mandrake) can't !!! ??? Hell! Do I miss those MDK wizards! I have spent most of the last two

Re: Mandrake 10.1 Official and autoconf/automake

2005-01-12 Thread John Rye
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:48:16 +1300 (NZDT) John Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Someone in our company has installed Mandrake 10.1 Official, but > curiously enough on none of the 3 CD's nor the Mini CD is there an rpm > for the autoconf automake tools. > > This seems remarkably broken. > >

Re: Word Count Help

2005-01-11 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 07:41:32 +1300 Carl Cerecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Holdoway wrote: > > John Rye wrote: > > >> Could someone show me how to count the total number of words in a > >> group of > >> files which are located in the sam

Re: Word Count Help

2005-01-11 Thread John Rye
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 20:13:30 +1300 Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >

Word Count Help

2005-01-10 Thread John Rye
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 same directory? Cheers John pgpmd30nYfxzd.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2005-01-07 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 13:20:14 +1300 Hugo Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: {snip} > > You young fellers have gotta start remembering that your parents' "new > > idea" processing skills are no way near as capabable as yours any more > > that your own can match the those capabilities if a say 5 yea

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

2005-01-04 Thread John Rye
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 can't remember how to allow the normal us

Re: Selecting a window manager

2004-12-24 Thread John Rye
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 12:16:01 +1300 Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A while ago I set up my Mandrake8.2 to automatically start Icewm. > > I have now decided to revert to a runlevel 3 startup so I can start a > selected wm with 'startx','startx icewm' or 'startx kde'. Now only > icewm will

Re: What's going on here?

2004-11-10 Thread John Rye
On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 12:46:06 +1300 eBhakta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm... :| > > First try yourself, before expecting others to follow anything you > say. This forum needs some serious Linux heavyweights, to deal with > those trying to corrupt/destroy the system (such as in this case). No >

Re: Ubuntu problem...

2004-11-03 Thread John Rye
On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 08:35:40 +1300 Jim Cheetham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks Jim, > On Nov 3, 2004, at 11:45 PM, John Rye wrote: > > Does Ubantu use run-levels? > > Of course it does, it's a Linux :-) > > But "everything" runs at all available ru

Re: Ubuntu problem...

2004-11-03 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 20:47:42 +1300 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nick, Does Ubantu use run-levels? If the system is dual-booting surely lilo or grub will permit logging on in text mode? Cheers John (The NI Lurker) pgpGWwoRJXOQS.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Getting connected with Linux...

2004-10-31 Thread John Rye
On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 09:56:52 +1300 Michael JasonSmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 20:02, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 19:54, eBhakta wrote: > > > Module...? > > Kernel file system driver. > Or to put it another way: you can think of a module as small pr

Re: setting up dialup

2004-10-10 Thread John Rye
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 12:36:47 +1300 Roger Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't even know if my modem is supported or what type it is, except > it's an onboard thing, Acer Travelmate, I'm running SuSE 9.1. Can > someone get me started on setting up a dialup connection? Ahhh there is another

Re: MDA that stores mail in a database

2004-10-06 Thread John Rye
On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 13:57:54 +1300 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Its been done > > can't remember the name of the package. > > actually cyrus and courier do maintain a database of mails, but not in > sql format. > > there is another imap package (well at least one) that stores mail in