OT: Mailing list host for clubs?

2003-08-27 Thread Matt Agnew
Sorry for the OT post - I'm starting a small club (*) and need a mailing list server as not everybody can or remembers to cc: the entire group. What's involved in setting up one and where can I have it hosted? Or am I better just to do a Yahoogroup? Note that I am not interested in hosting i

Re: OT but close to our hearts

2003-08-16 Thread Matt Agnew
Johnno wrote: There is must be many in his pills.. Speaking of which, how does this man go about selling "medicine" with unproven claims? As a former American, I can assure you that someone this bold in the States would draw the attention of the Food and Drug Administration rather quickly. US

OT - DSL, home networking, phone questions (long, rambling)

2003-03-20 Thread Matt Agnew
Sorry to ramble here, but any feedback would be greatly appreciated... I'm shifting to a new (old) house next week, and have been thinking about how to set up internet access there. I have as existing hardware: -Homebuilt 1.6G box dual-booting win2k and Mandrake (thanks Wesley) with LAN card

Re: Unsubscribe instructions please

2003-02-19 Thread Matt Agnew
Rex Johnston wrote: Every one of those messages contains the information you require. Look at the headers. _His_ headers say he's using Outyuck Express, in which case he'll have a bear of a time reading the headers. He can therefore click on the following link: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?bod

Was Re: Colour ink printers, now digital imaging

2002-12-07 Thread Matt Agnew
David A. Mann wrote: I would expect a print shop to be able to handle zip disks and CD-R for bigger files. From my limited experience, if you're going to use CD, go CDR not CDRW. Imagelab had no problems with my CDR, but couldn't read my CDRW on either of the two boxes they tried it on. Th

Re: Security Cameras

2002-11-19 Thread Matt Agnew
Here's another thing to think about - what are you going to do with the images of the perp? The police will show very little interest even if you bring them a videotape with nice clear images of someone breaking into your car. The store I work in has some great footage of shoplifters in the a

Re: Lexmark toner carts (was Re: Auction Catalog online)

2002-10-17 Thread Matt Agnew
Carl Cerecke wrote: Matt Agnew wrote: They have scads of 300 and 333Mhz PII dekstops, Dell laptops, Sony 21" monitors, and, what I'm interested in, a passel of Lexmark 1855 laser printers. I hope they're cheap because toner carts are $400+. But they last for 17,600 page

Re: Large WAV / Raw file editor...

2002-10-17 Thread Matt Agnew
Chris Hellyar wrote: I'm looking for a Linux app to work on large (300Mb+) Audio files, that can do some basic copy'n'paste, playback, mix type stuff... Check out Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net. I've only used the windows port - and only briefly - but it sounds (ha!) like it'll do

Re: Auction Catalog online

2002-10-16 Thread Matt Agnew
C Falconer wrote: > Saturday's auction catalog is now online. Its 800+ Kb of html. Sorry, I already deleted the address, and it's hard to find on their site. Where is it again? They have scads of 300 and 333Mhz PII dekstops, Dell laptops, Sony 21" monitors, and, what I'm interested in, a pas

permissions in GUI interface, RAID, others

2002-10-09 Thread Matt Agnew
Is there an equivalent to "su" in a GUI? F'rexample, I'm logged in to KDE, and am using Kedit to edit my lilo.conf. Unfortunately, I can't save it as I don't have permission to write there. I suppose I could save it elsewhere, go to a terminal windowe, su, and copy the file over to the /etc

Was Re: Need help with fstab, now red herrings

2002-10-01 Thread Matt Agnew
Nick Rout wrote: > By the way, have you typed "man fstab" at a command prompt? Yes, but there wasn't anything in there about "none" or "supermount" in there. man supermount works, tho :) HOWEVER... This is not the problem. I happened to log on using Gnome instead of KDE and suddenly the zip

Re: [OT, hardware] recommendations for quiet Athlon/Duron CPU cooler ?

2002-09-30 Thread Matt Agnew
On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 09:44, Andrew Kemmy wrote: >>The CPU cooler on my Duron CPU sounds like a plane taking off. Been there, heard that. I have one of the hotter-running chips out there (Tbird 1400) and have tried three different fans. There is definitely an inverse relationship between noi

Need help with fstab

2002-09-28 Thread Matt Agnew
Hello all, I am recently up and running with Mandrake 9.0 (very pretty!) and am having trouble accessing my floppy, cd and Zip drives. In my fstab I have three lines like this: none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,- -,iocharset=iso8559-1,codepage=850, unmask=0 0 0 I'm clueless a

Re: 2/10 meeting - t-shooting workshop?

2002-09-26 Thread Matt Agnew
Keith McGavin wrote: > Hi Matt, > sounds like you did not install lilo/grub. Have you got > a boot disk? The problem is mostly that I installed BootMagic as well - IIRC, I had lilo working, but this was all six months and half a planet ago. Thanks to all the folks who offered to some ove

2/10 meeting - t-shooting workshop?

2002-09-24 Thread Matt Agnew
There was talk at the last meeting of a troubleshooting session for the next meeting - is this still on, and is there a signup sheet? I've installed Mandrake alongside Win2k and Win98 and can't get into the Linux partition. Alternatively, is someone willing to come to my house and help me in