Re: unsubscribing

2008-06-15 Thread John S Veitch (OFL)
I think this is the needed information Subscribing:_ send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with *SUBSCRIBE LINUX-USERS* in the *body* of the email. (in upper case) John -- *John S Veitch * Network Ambassador [EMAIL PROTECTED] ATE Work : + 64

RealContacts Users

2008-05-04 Thread John S Veitch (OFL)
Hello Everyone Just calling in for a short time. Trying to help a young man find some Linux based WORK, even as a volunteer. If you have any ideas an off list reply might be best. Also if you are a RealContacts member, a link to myself would be appreciated. Regards John

Re: How many spam a day?

2004-02-25 Thread John S Veitch
Nick Wrote: "yeah I’m still nervous about the false positive thing." I solved that using the word processor and a macro. Important for me because my ISP, Cyberxpress is killing 250+ every day for me. About 3pm I get the abbreviated headers of the killed mail. Sender and subject line essentially.

OT: Internet Literacy - Knowledge Society

2004-02-24 Thread John S Veitch
Hello Everyone This relates to my new business. Stop reading now if you choose. Where else can I find a group of skilled users to do a test drive? I'm concerned that the internet skills of most people are weak. To highlight that I have developed a survey which is online at this address. http:/

Re: Email formats

2004-02-04 Thread John S Veitch
Rowan asked about getting email with strange characters. The little boxes are almost certainly Tabs. The most likely thing Rowan is that someone wrote a letter in a word processor and did a copy and paste into the email client. The word processor has all sorts of special formatting and instr

CLUG meetings-the future

2004-02-03 Thread John S Veitch
Hello All Nick said: " It has been roughly a year since CLUG had a general meeting. At that meeting" That means it must be two years since I came along fresh and green but seeing a need for structure if CLUG was ever going to be effective in the community. But as people told me then, CLUG meeti

(OT) Sharing a Business Idea - See my Ryze Network

2004-02-02 Thread John S Veitch
Hello All I'm looking of general support and understanding for a business idea at the moment. You may or may not have ideas or expertise to offer at the moment, that's OK. I'm just quietly extending the network of people who know what I'm thinking. In particular from the Linux group I'm loo

OT Waste a Perfecly Good Hour

2004-01-24 Thread John S Veitch
http://www.mlnm.org//games/pinguin.swf Don't stay up too late Click to load and click to strike. 555.7 is my best.

OT Community Development

2003-12-07 Thread John S Veitch
Hi Guys Did any of you have an input or connection with of did you attend the Connecting Communities Conference in Wellington during the first week of December. I got this letter today from the organiser: Hi John Perhaps we should meet. I read the first two lines of your email and was really

Firewall Attacks

2003-11-19 Thread John S Veitch
What do you guys make of this? There have always been a few but today over 900 lines in this file. PC-cillin 2002 Log List Type, Time, IN/OUT,Protocol,Source IP Address,Source Port,Destination IP Address,Destination Port,Description Firewall,02:41:21,IN,ICMP,205.232.30.252,N/A,202.49.65.252,

Re: westpactrust Online banking

2003-08-14 Thread John S Veitch
Hello Christopher I think their policy is IE and Netscape Only, anything else is a lottery. I'm mostly in win95, until recently I could use IE and Mozilla but not Opera 6. Opera 7 works fine. With opera 6, I could open the site, enter my details, prepare a transaction, but the last phase

RE: Meeting Summary - Information Literacy

2003-08-03 Thread John S Veitch
It is my belief that the lack of information literacy is a problem in Christchurch. People buy computers but are not properly supported to become competent users. Hope you find this useful. Feedback would be appreciated.

Re: Meeting Summary - WSIS

2003-08-03 Thread John S Veitch
The World Summit on the Information Society is organised by the United Nations and preparatory conferences and meetings are occurring now. The WSIS will be held at Geneva in December 2003, and in Tunis in 2005. The key idea was to create plans to reduce the "digital divide" and so enhance econom

OT Information Literacy

2003-07-31 Thread John S Veitch
I've had half a dozen off list comments on this topic. Anyone who missed the meeting or was at the meeting but wants a set of notes, can get an update from me. John

Re: The Civil Society - List of topics under discussion

2003-07-31 Thread John S Veitch
There is no agreed position for Civil Society in NZ. There is a list anyone can join. Contact me if you are interested. It's a list for the willing as Zane said. On the world stage the following topics are being discussed. A global knowledge commons Many cultures and languages on the Internet

OT Information Literacy

2003-07-30 Thread John S Veitch
Zane and I assume that virtually everyone in this group would qualify as being "information literate". But maybe that's not correct. I'd be interested to hear from anyone who has a different insight into what the ":behaviours" of people who are "information literate" may be. Ian Thomson of

The Internet under Surveillance

2003-07-29 Thread John S Veitch
The Internet under Surveillance Obstacles to the free flow of information online By Vinton G. Cerf Truth is a powerful solvent. Stone walls melt before its relentless might. The Internet is one of the most powerful agents of freedom. It exposes truth to those who wish to see and hear it. It is

Re: Short talk this Wed

2003-07-28 Thread John S Veitch
I promise, short and informative. Even people named Julia will be able to understand it, I think Paul, Sam and Samantha are OK too. The debate may go on for weeks but what I have to say will not. What you must know about the WSIS. Are your Information Literate? Is your family? Cheers Joh

Re: Short talk this Wed

2003-07-27 Thread John S Veitch
If the meeting is short of juicy topics on Wednesday I can offer. 5 Minutes on WSIS. It could be that somebody's quietly stealing the Internet from under your nose. There's a lot of government and commercial pressure to do things that you are opposed too. 10 Minutes to quite a bit more if yo

WSIS List Open

2003-07-07 Thread John S Veitch
ICH, Steven (IPD) 9: ICT Capability Training and Content Dev. 7 Jul 2003 John S Veitch 10: NZ Government and ICT 7 Jul 2003 John S Veitch 11: Re: NZ Government and ICT7 Jul 2003 LULICH, Steven (IPD) 12: Re: NZ Government and ICT7 Jul 2003 Purcell, Tai 13: R

OT - WSIS List now open

2003-07-06 Thread John S Veitch
Ian Thomson, from the 2020 Communications Trust, today opened a list to discuss the Information Society and to contribute to the civil society debate about issues that should be discussed at the World Summit later this year. To subscribe to the list, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

WSIS + NZ Government Initiatives

2003-06-20 Thread John S Veitch
Hello All Some help please if you are interested in World Summit on the Information Society, or in the work the NZ Government is doing (or not doing) to promote ITC use in NZ. Regarding WSIS I think there is far too much emphasis on the growth of the telecommunications industry and far too little

Linux v Windows Wars

2003-06-20 Thread John S Veitch
From: "Horace Mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [CI] Re: Principles of strategic information technology Wrote in part > I always wonder to what extent the largely uncritical promotion of Linux is to do with its excellence, to what extent to

Connecting Communities

2003-03-08 Thread John S Veitch
Behaviour Connecting Communities Links to the Real World Cultural Diversity How People Learn The Information Age Appropriate Communities 7 full pages of text. Reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you want a copy sent as an attachment. Cheers John John S. Veitch mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Photo Available

OFF TOPIC - Students needed

2003-03-03 Thread John S Veitch
John S. Veitch mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Photo Available on WWW http://www.ate.co.nz/johnsveitch.jpg Adapt to Experience URL http://www.ate.co.nz/ for Virus Protection http://www.ate.co.nz/trend/

There Will be a CLUG - (was "There is no CLUG")

2003-01-30 Thread John S Veitch
and the organisation is controlled by it's members. You don't have to join, but if you would like to join I'm sure someone will make you welcome. Regards John John S. Veitch mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Photo Available on WWW http://www.ate.co.nz/johnsveitch.jpg Adapt to Experience URL http://www.ate.co.nz/ for Virus Protection http://www.ate.co.nz/trend/

Re: HTML vs WYSIWYG

2003-01-29 Thread John S Veitch
to my site for a how to do it example. Almost no work there for 18 months, full of redundant pages and broken links (most of which you won't be able to find I hope) It needs six weeks work. I have not got six weeks, although thanks to Leo and Zane I did give it a couple of hours la

Mozilla and Style Sheets - XHTML v HTML4

2003-01-29 Thread John S Veitch
sheets are then read by Mozilla. Now my validator says that pages shouldn't have two document type definitions, but even if it's not pretty it does work. John John S. Veitch mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Photo Available on WWW http://www.ate.co.nz/johnsveitch.jpg Adapt to Experience URL

The "Run the Meeting Programme"

2003-01-29 Thread John S Veitch
Look after the money New Programme: Publicity for the Install Fest. New Programme: Supper and meeting setup. New Programme: The CLUG website and email archives. It's untidy guys. It won't get better if we avoid thinking about it. You know what happens to a programme that's convol

Re: executive committee - ideas for discussion

2003-01-27 Thread John S Veitch
new ideas and gets the energy flowing. It comes down to how much time people have, but if you want to build a feeling of community quickly, that's one way to do it. Lets have a big attendance at the meeting. John (New to Linux - Long on Organisations and Committees) John S. Veitch