On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
>
> Those controls are in windows too, but not as poorly named sometimes.
>
>
Also, often hidden from the volume mixer by default to stop confusing the
newbs.
--
Kent
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
> I am running virtualbox on a windows xp machine with slax linux as guest.
>
> windows host is running 1024x768 which sounds pathetic but I am
> comfortable with it.
>
> slax client starts at 1280x1024, which means its in a scrollable
> window. I
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Aidan Gauland
wrote:
> Ryan McCoskrie wrote:
>
>> Are you setting the archtitecture flag while compiling _as well as_
>> linking?
>>
>
> Ah, yes, that would be helpful, wouldn't it? Now that I *really* have that
> option set for the gcc, and not just ld, ld is com
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Andrew Errington <
a.erring...@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>
> With PHP it's more a case of "not much point developing code you
> *shouldn't* deploy anywhere".
>
>
I'm inclined to agree, but still, minimising the suck that I may one day
have to encounter, or some poo
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Roy Britten wrote:
> I'm working on a PHP app running on a server running an older version
> of PHP (4.1.something IIRC)
I'm guessing its intentional. Its a ReallyBadIdea™ developing *new *PHP
apps in a version of PHP that is now
1. Note-worthily old.
2.
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Andrew Errington <
a.erring...@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, September 17, 2009 12:54, Rik Tindall wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> >
> > Software Freedom Day 2009 is this Saturday, 19 September. The
> > international festival of free and open-source software (FOSS)
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Craig Falconer
wrote:
> Eliot Blennerhassett wrote, On 09/09/09 20:45:
>
> Is it just me, or has telstra cable in got a rusty pipe somewhere?
>> Not everywhere, but to/from a number of places in the US at least.
>>
>> I.e. using speedtest.net
>> Local CHC speed 2
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Roger Searle wrote:
> Only because it was a long time until I heard anyone pronounce it as
> etcetera, having always thought of it internally as the letters. I have no
> knowledge of the origins of the folder name.
> So to borrow Robert's question from this morn
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Abhinav Keswani wrote:
> 2009/9/10 Adrian Mageanu :
>
> In terms of ETL, the only reason I have used it is because I was
> forced to help in an emergency situation where something needed to be
> done yesterday, and certain 'architects' still feel that 'persisting
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Brett Davidson wrote:
> Kent Fredric wrote:
>
>> Hey, I'm bored.
>>
>> I'm guessing there's not a lot of people on the ML who this applies to,
>> but I figured, "Hey, if they're having a python *conferenc
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 8:58 AM, John Carter wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, Kent Fredric wrote:
>
> I've been toting a Little-Brittain esque "I'm the only Perl user in
>> my village" line on the various IRC networks for a while now, and I
>> figure it a
Hey, I'm bored.
I'm guessing there's not a lot of people on the ML who this applies to, but
I figured, "Hey, if they're having a python *conference* here, maybe theres
enough of us Perl users to get into our own thing like". ( I also note its
sponsored by catalyst.net.nz, who seem to have /some/ P
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Robert Fisher wrote:
> Today I came across a reminder of the meaning of "sudo"
> "super user do"
>
> So how should it be pronounced?
>
> soo-doo or soo-dough
>
I pronounce it somewhat akin to
pseudo
( That is , with a silent p )
Which I guess was part of th
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Kerry wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
I like morguefile.com
There's slightly less dicking around required to get photos, ( like on
sxc.hu, there is a lot of rubbish you have to wade through once you've found
what you want ), and the search results aren't laden with photos t
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 1:43 PM, chris wrote:
> <>
> however it doesn't rule out things like a flaky northbridge etc.
> swap things around and see
>
>
It also doesn't rule out "You got a power spike that cooked your
hard-drives"
May not seem likely that 2 hard drives would go out, but humans are
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Daniel Hill wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Wondering if there is a safe way to back my public and private keys
> any ideas?
>
> - --
> python -c "print \"\".join([
> \"\x79\x71\x6Du\056vgp\x40ae\142nr\".decode(\"\x72o\164\x5F_13\")[i]
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Ross Drummond wrote:
> On Friday 14 August 2009, Daniel Hill wrote:
> > Kent Fredric wrote:
> > > For minimal pain, don't unmask the ~ ( testing ) versions of things
> > > during stage 1. You'll find if you do you'
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Daniel Hill wrote:
> Kent Fredric wrote:
> > For minimal pain, don't unmask the ~ ( testing ) versions of things
> > during stage 1. You'll find if you do you'll find a fun gcc cyclic
> > dependency :) ( that is, don
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Daniel Hill wrote:
>
> > Install time has been much much easier for folks the past 2 years,
> > with stage3 being the default instead of stage1, and stage 1 now being
> > officially unsupported. Stage 1 imho gives you a much closer look at
> > how things work. ( I'
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Daniel Hill wrote:
> Robert Fisher wrote:
> > but if you want to learn more about Linux as you go and are really
> > prepared to get your hands dirty, go for Gentoo.
> getting my hands dirty is exactly what I want to do just don't know if I
> can be bothered with t
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Daniel Hill wrote:
> I'm about to acquire a old computer from my friend (AMD 1.6GHz 80GB HDD)
> and want to eventually set it up as a webserver, game server, wireless
> router and any other servers that I mite want to play with
> I also want to learn linux properly
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Craig Falconer
wrote:
> Craig Falconer wrote, On 14/08/09 08:38:
>
>> Co-incidence, there's a big fibre/CID outage in Christhchurch since 0810
>> this morning.
>>
>
> ...and separately there's a failure at Mayoral Drive in Auckland which is
> affecting DSLs nationw
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Stephen Irons wrote:
> The DVD-RW drive in my laptop is partially faulty:
>
> * It cannot read or write CDs -- it just sits there going clonk
> every two seconds -- pre-recorded music CDs, recorded data CD-R,
> blank CR-R, makes no difference. It does th
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Kerry wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm in the market for a mid-priced graphic tablet say $200-$350 and I need
> it
> to play nice with linux - kubuntu 9.04 and was wondering if anyone has had
> experience with them?
>
> I'd like one that I can source in NZ and one that ju
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Phill Coxon wrote:
>
> I recently joined Quest Healthclub in Ferrymead to improve my fitness
> again.
>
> All of the carido equipment - treadmills, biks etc - have screens with
> an ipod av input so I can plug an ipod in and watch videos. I've tested
> this with
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Derek Smithies wrote:
> * drink more coffee..
>The easiest way of fixing sound is to try to have just one sound card
>on the box, which means, no usb sound, no bluetooth.
>Yes, you can "futz" around with pulse/alsa etc and get sound to work
> with
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Hadley Rich wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 15:58 +1200, Phill Coxon wrote:
> > I'm using the GUI for a reason - it saves a massive amount of time.
>
> That's what shell expansion is for.
>
>
last time I used the standard sftp client ( ages ago , before I switched
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Phill Coxon wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 15:32 +1200, Hadley Rich wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 14:40 +1200, Phill Coxon wrote:
> > > I use sftp:// in konquorer to copy files back and forth between the
> > > server and my local computer.
> >
> > Try using a d
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Volker Kuhlmann
wrote:
>
> And drop your notion that all this (mobo, chips, ...) is vendor
> dependent. Every vendor makes paperweights as well as useful stuff.
>
They also make great doorstops.
--
Kent
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Aidan Gauland
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Are there any motherboard manufacturers who usually make motherboards that
> work well with Linux, or any that Linux users should avoid?
>
> Also, should I just disregard notices like this one?
> "Due to different Linux support con
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Douglas Royds wrote:
> Having convinced Totem to play both DVDs and DV-AVI just fine, I find that
> Mplayer is struggling a bit.
>
> Totem
>
> DVD 31% idle (worst case)
> DV-AVI 16% idle (worst case)
>
> Mplayer
>
> DVD 21% idle (worst case)
> DV-AVI 0% <--
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Douglas Royds wrote:
> Oops. Those numbers were a bit adrift. Here is mplayer playing miniDV:
>
> mplr 60%
> Xorg 22%
> pulse 10%
>
> Eventually it settled down to the 45/45 that I showed below, which might
> have more to do with kernel load-sharing than an
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 20:45 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> Warning: device does not support Error Logging
> Error SMART Error Log Read failed
> Smartctl: SMART Error Log Read Failed
> Warning: device does not support Self Test Logging
> Err
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:08 AM, chris wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 00:07 +1200, Wesley Parish wrote:
> > I discovered that problem some time in April when a friend called me up
> to go
> > around to her house to fix her Internet router.
> >
> > It pinged slashdot, microsoft, google, and even x
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Wesley Parish
wrote:
>
> It pinged slashdot, microsoft, google, and even xtra okay, it just wouldn't
> let http traffic through. I gave up in the end, as there was nothing I
> could
> see to do without having the router password, and she didn't know it.
>
Genera
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Kerry wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> How do you change the default browser within KMail? At the moment if I
> click
> on a link emailed to me it opens Konquerer, and I would like it to open
> into
> firefox instead
>
> Kerry
>
It might be governed by KDE's concept of a de
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 12:59 PM, John Collis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Last time I had to do this, I simply wrote a simple command in C, that
> would wait for a character and then exit. It doesn't have to be too
> complicated. You could easily print a simple prompt (to alert any user who
> looks at a ter
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Kerry Mayes wrote:
>
> Also, this is on a lifestyle block so set up is a little different to
> a suburban situation.
>
If you're out of the city and likely to have electric fences I'd want even
more reason to properly insulate things properly. I don't know about
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Andrew Errington <
a.erring...@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> I would run 2 cat5e cables through irrigation tube and keep this 50mm away
> from the electrical conduit all along the trench.
>
>
I'd probably go for Cat6 ( or in extreme cases, cat7) these days, its
prob
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:56 AM, John Williams wrote:
> I gave this disk to my son to use as a backup. It had a Linux distro on it
> but that was removed, or so we thought. (He formatted the disk with Win2000
> "format") For some time my son says he could access the disc and he put all
> his dat
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 8:16 PM, David Lowe wrote:
> For some reason all the web filtering that our IT department runs (to
> prevent anyone having fun at work) is ignored by Linux (but don't tell them
> please) ... anyway, it all felt so cool. Xubuntu on a stick is highly
> recommended.
>
> - Da
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Hadley Rich wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 17:35 +1200, Kent Fredric wrote:
> > I'd love to know of any make and models of modern routers that have
> > been proven to not have these problems, especially on an office
> > configurati
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Dale DuRose wrote:
> Ive ever had any trouble with linksys routers.
>
> Kent Fredric wrote:
>
>
I thought they were supposed to be good, however, the model we had was one
of the ones that needed constant rebooting :(
Probably a result of getting
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Craig Falconer
wrote:
>
> You're generally better with a router IMO. (as long as its not a sodding
> thomson POS (long story which will end with an axe and fire once I get a
> replacement))
>
> --
> Craig Falconer
>
>
The current routers available on the market ha
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Ben Aitchison wrote:
>
>
> I've been using 64 bit Windows 7 and 64 bit Ubuntu for a while now. I've
> had more concerns with 64 bit support in Windows than Linux by far. And in
> Windows I have *one* 64 bit application that I use that doesn't come with
> Windows
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Kent Fredric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> --
> Kent
> ruby -e '[1, 2, 4, 7, 0, 9, 5, 8, 3, 10, 11, 6, 12, 13].each{|x|
> print "enNOSPicAMreil [EMAIL PROTECTED]"[(2*x)..(2*x+1)]}'
> Trustworthiness:
> Vendor
> Note 5. Any suggestions for music sorters / play sync packages for linux?
>
>
Amarok is good for me. I have a large collection and it helps me run through
things more analytically. My friends think I'm crazy for using statistics
to help guide my play tastes, but I can't stand repeats.
It has g
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Roy Britten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm looking for web hosting options. Linux-friendly, obviously.
>
> Anyone have any recommendations (or horror stories)?
I recommend RimuHosting.com .
New Zealand operated with servers internationally.
I was set up with
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Aidan Gauland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Now that I think about it, you're all right, and I don't need to go to
> all that trouble. What I had in mind was a sort of interactive
> world/game to use as a desktop environment, but I could just put that IN
> a restr
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I wonder if you would be so kind as to explain exactly what relevance
> this posting has to Linux, and why you prefer the advice of a bunch of
> unknown Linux geeks to that of a qualified professional who is
> proper
Many thanks to all contributions :)
I went to my bank today and sorted some stuff out with them, seems they
suggest following route:
1) Set up a foreign bank account
2) Have your employers pay into that
3) Periodically wire transfer to NZ bank account with swift codes etc.
( this is apparently b
Hi,
I've been stalking this ML for quite a while, but alas, my first post needs
to be off topic.
I would go through the more 'official' channels, but for this subject..
well.. there are none, and the official parties seem to be lobotomised.
I'm trying to find information as to how I organise ( f
On 2/28/07, Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed 28 Feb 2007 12:53:19 NZDT +1300, Kent Fredric wrote:
Btw smartmontools will tell you what the disk thinks the damage is.
I find smartmontools uncircumstantial at best, most of the time.The
best use I've had for it wa
If anybody gets a copy, I'd be interested in a DVDRW roast of it, I
currently am stuck with dialup & library comps :(
On 2/28/07, Brett Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hell - maybe I should host it... :-)
Brat.
I'll take a look at it tonight... :-)
-Original Message-
From: Wesley P
On 2/28/07, Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ( and always make sure to have a quality PSU, long story
> short, bad ones kill hard drives).
How do they kill hard drives?
Sometimes power supplies blow up, frying the lot - not restricted to
disks, hard or otherwise.
Experiential Circ
On 2/27/07, Phill Coxon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What is the best recommendation for processors these days? Does Dual
Core or Core 2 Duo have any major performance advantages yet?
Its good, but bang-for-buck AMD is still cheaper, at least it was last I looked.
My current motherboard has VIA
On 2/23/07, Joseph Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...until someone in the middle unplugs their T-piece, and brings the whole
network down :P
Christopher Sawtell wrote on 23/02/07 12:06:
> Sometimes one appreciates the olden days of CAT2 co-ax when adding another
> host was simply a matter of
On 2/26/07, Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[11:40:59 a.m.] Al Yard says: .. I found an internet cafe in Arthur's
Pass. they had 10 machines 8 were linux..
[11:41:10 a.m.] Don Gould HP Laptop says: really, fantastic!
[11:41:45 a.m.] Al Yard says: ... and only 10 people live there
On Sunday 25 February 2007 23:17, Chris Hellyar wrote:
> Ssh tunnel with compression enabled? If a windows client, cygwin-X will
> work for ssh tunneled X apps.
putty + Xdeep ( http://www.pexus.com/Download/download.html ) works
good for me :). Xdeep is nice and light and supports more X featur
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