Re: >>> CLUG Meeting - Tomorrow - 7:30pm. <<

Cheers rik see you in a couple of hours then peter Rik Tindall wrote: ok, i'll get you on the way there, c7.10-15 ask again at the meet for a ride home (coz i'm near the last to leave).

Re: >>> CLUG Meeting - Tomorrow - 7:30pm. <<

andrew 21 hurley street peter Andrew Errington wrote: On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:02, you wrote: Greetings all I've lost the ride i'd organised to get to this SO can anybody help me out here by giving me a lift to tonights meeting? please? From where?

Re: >>> CLUG Meeting - Tomorrow - 7:30pm. <<

Nick Rout wrote: Where are you? 21 Hurley street in the avon loop there by the holiday inn peter

Re: >>> CLUG Meeting - Tomorrow - 7:30pm. <<

Greetings all I've lost the ride i'd organised to get to this SO can anybody help me out here by giving me a lift to tonights meeting? please? thanks peter The Monthly CLUG meeting is tomorrow 11 July 2006 at the usual start time of 7:30 pm. There is a temporary change of venue to the mai

Re: Last night's meeting - thanks to Volker & Barry

Nick wrote: Barry you are a shining example of how open source tools allow you to do exactly what you want with your computer, and achieve something to be proud of. Exactly! Proof once more of the value these tools have in making it possible for people to scratch that itch, as the saying goes.

Re: The real end of year bash...(Or is that the helix end of year zsh?)

Jim Cheetham wrote: On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 03:35:56PM +1300, peter elliott wrote: Nick Rout wrote: On Friday night, copious amounts of English Ale and fine foods will be ps: i hope this CLUG dual functionality is not symptomatic of a creeping veritable split within the body politic? Well

Re: The real end of year bash...(Or is that the helix end of year zsh?)

Nick Rout wrote: On Friday night, copious amounts of English Ale and fine foods will be consumed at The Twisted Hop ( see http://www.thetwistedhop.co.nz/, or the alternative low-tech map at http://www.rout.co.nz/pub.pdf) Kickoff when you get thirsty, or 5.30 pm, whichever is the earlier. hey

Re: Live CD & LaTeX

Ross Drummond wrote: Does anyone know of a live CD that has latex + latex tools and documentation installed? Cheers Ross Drummond Ross Keeping in mind the replies of Chris & Volker, i can offer you the use of Tex-Live! CD 7. That's 7 as in issue/release number seven, not disc 7 out of ...

Re: CLUG - End Year 'Do'

bummer same here too yuri. being totally broke doesn't help either. boo hoo. maybe next year -- when i *will* be making an effort at regular clug attendance, somebody can hold me to that if they like... cheers peter yuri wrote: A bit more notice would've been nice (or did I miss it?) Sorry - can

Re: Gentoo mini-installfest

hey now Chris not so fast - some of us aren't there to read mail on arrival. you can put me down as being very much interested in a gentoo day. any weekend is fine with me but i will need a lift if that's possible. cheers peter Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 15:32, Robert Fisher

Re: OT firefox print one frame only?

Nick Rout wrote: OT because I am actually using the windows versions, but both these programs do run in linux, so I assume the solution will be of interest to the list. In opera it is dead easy to just print one frame. However in firefox I cannot do it. I get all of the other frames on separate pag

Re: (OT) ihug/blink adsl :: experiences please

Zane Gilmore wrote: I've been with Ihug for nigh on 10 years. (originally with the predessor that they bought whose name escapes me) They do what they are supposed to do (... give them money each month and they give you bandwidth without hassle.) They've been OK. Am using that SkyMedia Ultra thin

(OT) ihug/blink adsl :: experiences please

well i'm just about to commit to getting the long dreamed of adsl connection. this is with ihug/blink BUT before signing up for a year i need to know is this an ok service for people living in chch? why them you ask? because a month long special offer is ending & i'll be saving a couple of hundr

Re: Gentoo Installfest (in Robert's garage)

haha i like that ambi-whatsit at the end. i'm a bit uncertain when it comes to some things nowdays and would feel better having hands(or tails) there for the holding thereof if necessary so may well bring a box along for ipcop-ing on the day. thanks peter Nick Rout wrote: Personally I prefer the

Re: Gentoo Installfest (in Robert's garage)

Nick Rout wrote: A few people expressed interest in coming along to Robert's Rooomy Garage [1] to have gentoo installed.[2] kersnip There may be others interested? Those that do want to come, please post the architecture of your machine, ie what sort of processor. Some basic specs (Ram, spare HD sp

Re: Fix-up evening - call for volunteers

Douglas Royds wrote: This is a call for volunteers to assist at the fix-up evening at the St. Albans Community Centre on: Wednesday 27th October 2004 at 7:30pm We have the following requests for assistance so far: [.] Jaco: RH7.3 I never got my CD-writer to work properly. After a write, whe

Lift Possible ?

Greetings Having just rejoined the list after an absence of some eight months or so it was a nice surprise to see that there's a meeting tonight. sadly i'm not able to use my pushbike for getting around at the moment - hence the subject line - so is anyone able to give us a lift tonight? i'm st

Serendipitydoda Re: [OT] RE: gently flambe? - Re: Agencies...

hey there it is (strangely) appropriate then that this article should happen along just now. MyDoom and you it's by the man in question and really good. enjoy. cheers peter == On Mon, 23 Feb

Re: [OT] RE: gently flambe? - Re: Agencies...

greetings in total agreement like, i think that's pretty well it zane - rms is one of those people with a really neat(? well interesting) side effect, in that how people react to him (what they say about him and their take on his work/words) can tell you lot more about them than most anything el

dohomer alert

hey all hell i hope i wasn't the only one here who just got to see billy boy's "guest-spot" on the simpsons - what? you don't think i got rich by writing a bunch of cheques do you? he quips as a couple of beefy cube rats set about trashing homers internet startup. (homer earlier on: oooh they ha

Re: gently flambe? - Re: Agencies...

e of its proponents like to think otherwise. cheers peter On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 12:41:36 +1300 Michael JasonSmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 12:35, Peter Elliott wrote: > > well i don't think it requires any twisting at all - surely openness(sp?) >

gently flambe? - Re: Agencies...

On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:54:42 +1300 Jason Greenwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I disagree, so do i snipt > This is a flame war waiting to happen yes. unfortunately yes - but it doesn't *need* to become one. > but Robert did warn > us... LOL I am trying to find out how this can be t

Re: Upgrading my PC, any pointers?

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 11:02:32 +1300 Chris Bayley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a radeon 7500 M7 going fairly well on a stinkpad, good 3d, dvd > etc. but no tv out yet though > required a DRI section in XF86Config and and emerge xfree-drm after a > kernel rebuild. > but pretty mechanical

Re: Upgrading my PC, any pointers?

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 09:55:13 +1300 Luuk Paulussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >take a few things as given and you will see that nvidia are the best > >choice (maybe the best of a bad bunch, but we are talking practicalities > >here) > Can I beg to differ on that point (I have an ATI card) > >

Re: Upgrading my PC, any pointers?

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 10:01:41 +1300 "G. M. Bodnar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 09:58:34AM NZDT, Luuk Paulussen wrote: > > > > >Maybe - but I'd bet every new card that comes out gets bought up by the > > >other guy & completely pulled apart in a lab. > > > > I'd like to se

Re: Upgrading my PC, any pointers?

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 23:11:39 +1300 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 20:17:35 +1300 > Peter Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Chris > > > > i've been considering doing something like this myself but was stalled >

Re: Upgrading my PC, any pointers?

Chris i've been considering doing something like this myself but was stalled wondering about the GeForce card(s) - as in don't they use an nvidia chipset & doesn't this present problems/hassles for linux users who want to get full use of the card(3D acceleration wise)? i checked out what i could

Re: [OT, but geeky] IBM Model M keyboard

hi there Curiously enough Sean McGrath's latest newsletter touches on this very subject - somewhat elliptically perhaps, but it *is* on the same subject. It can be read here - http://www.itworld.com/nl/ebiz_ent/11042003/ and speculates on when "QWERTY meets ABCDEF" - or what happens whe

Re: Time Zone wrong Was paradise spam

On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 14:57:44 +1200 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > read the bloody files peter, as i pointed out Pacific/Auckland is the > new name fror NZ > > as already posted (yawn) > > i have finally sigh cheers peter still to swear

Re: Time Zone wrong Was paradise spam

On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 11:53:58 +1200 Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: chris thanks for the source extract which, returning to my original point, clearly shows that pacific/auckland is a distinctly different *location* to that of nz. using the rule of thumb which seems to be operating

Re: Time Zone wrong Was paradise spam

On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 13:14:51 +1200 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 02:40:43 +1200 > Peter Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > shane > > > > I think that this refers to the auckland islands, no? > no, auckland as in nort

Re: Time Zone wrong Was paradise spam

shane I think that this refers to the auckland islands, no? they are somewhere in the pacific ocean what you want to choose is NZ - and not NZ CHAT either as this refers to the chatham islands & not the internet gossip protocol. at a guess i'd say that nz is going to be above where your pict

Re: less html2text and w3m (Re: converting html pages to text)

Hi there Sorry for delay in replying but still unwell (cue sadness and despondancy to descend on list) On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 19:19:13 +1200 Matthew Gregan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 07:03:38PM +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > > doesn't make it looke like I want to

less html2text and w3m (Re: converting html pages to text)

Volker, A couple of days late but First less is rather clever at viewing (and saving) html files these days - have you looked at or tried it for doing this? secondly there is html2text and w3m. I have used and found both of these tools to be alright - for my purposes anyway. html2text is a

Torvalds Slams SCO

greets more on sco vs a_better_world, this time from the man himself. link to print- therefore eye friendly(?) - version : http://www.eweek.com/print_article/0,3668,a=49608,00.asp it's not very long but worth a read, best bit - Torvalds: Hey, until they can be bothered to show something

Re: not a linux success story

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 18:03:34 +1200 Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [busy_scissors_thing] > > Adding insult to injury, after the reboot it turned out that > download.microsoft.com doesn't support restarting of http downloads (at > least wget -c spat a dummy). And I thought they

Re: OT: Huge number of http requests.

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 19:48:59 +1200 Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > This isn't the only thing doing the rounds - email is going crazy too, > probably related. Who cares > > Volker and that's for sure - over the past 36 or so hours i've seen 6 different notification

Re: laughing my a** off

sorry found it at - http://www.tui.co.nz - of course. apologies peter On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 12:01:08 +1200 Peter Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 09:52:36 +1200 > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > apparently the tui site lets y

Re: laughing my a** off

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 09:52:36 +1200 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > apparently the tui site lets you make them and where is that pray tell?

Re: even closer to our hearts...

hi nick ah but is it true or is it fud? he's most likely just trying to get some cessation of hostilities by pretending to be dead. well that's how my nasty suspicious mind reads the situation, especially as my mailbox is still being bombarded with offers for his penile aids(no pun intended). cheer

Re: Paul Griswald(sp?) just made my night!

nice. and then there was linda clarke talking to "the scotsman"[1] on national radio's nine to noon yesterday morning at about 11:55am. she asked if other operating systems were more secure than MS and he said well, yes, at least they claim to be and specifically mentioned linux in this regard -

Re: OT but close to our hearts

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 15:11:30 + Shane Hollis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One simple piece of legislation would slow it down ... if you send it, you > must be able to receive a reply to it. make it illeagel to forge headers and > addresses. If people don't want it they send you an email optin

Re: OT but close to our hearts

hi all sticking with the (ot)subject matter the following two were also in today's mail: first was this outfit offering me the chance to do it(spam that is) for free - http://www.broadcastemailadvertising.com/email6/ and this one, from eweek, on why current efforts to legislate against it are fr

Re: More on Copying Audio CDs

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 11:39:59 +1200 "Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Peter, > > I had a look at gcdmaster and see that it is a Gnome GUI for CDRDAO hey i wouldn't let that stop you - it doesn't mean that you need to have gnome installed. all it means is that a few

Thanks (Re: Gentoo and debian users.)

Yay thankyou nick that'll be much appreciated(as in apprecated?) cheers peter On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 19:18:51 +1200 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have that set if you want to grab it off me tomorrow night > > or whenever > > On Wed, 13 > Aug 2003 19:22:

More on Copying Audio CDs

Yo Robert well i knew there had to be something out there and there is: cdrdao homepage is at: http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/ and there is a gentoo package of it: http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/pkgs/app-cdr/cdrdao.xml also has a GUI (thought you'd like that): http://cdrd

Re: Are there only two problem machines coming tonight?

On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 14:20:30 +1200 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > Peter Elliott, are you bringing your box to install gentoo on, or do you > want to take the cd's home and do it? Do you need a lift? I know you are > short on transport. > hi

Re: Gentoo and debian users.

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:17:03 +1200 "Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is the site I pointed out last week (ftp://203.96.92.95/ ) > > I can confirm that it is fast - I got up to 420Kbs downloading the 2 cd > Gentoo set. > > Rob > Rob would that happen to be the 2 cd s

friday afternoon access - Re: Gentoo Installfest (aka etc.)

On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 20:32:24 +1200 Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 11:41, you wrote: > > Peter, > > > > > i understand that we can take machines in to the ostc on > > > friday afternoon - is that correct? > How do you define "afternoon" please? > um, eerr, we

Re: Gentoo Installfest (aka ditch RedHat (TM))

On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 11:41:35 +1200 David Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter, > > > i understand that we can take machines in to the ostc on > > friday afternoon - is that correct? > > I did offer to open the doors on Friday night if anyone wanted to bring some > stuff in early. I can open

Re: Gentoo Installfest (aka ditch RedHat (TM))

On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 11:22:09 +1200 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 11:20:33 +1200 > Peter Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > sorry nick > > it is me again. > > > > already asked for (as of 10 minutes ago)

Re: Gentoo files...

On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 10:36:22 +1200 Steve Brorens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A couple of things that people would generally expect in a Linux: > > vim > mc > oh, nick - will these be available? cheers peter

yikes big ooops - Re: Gentoo Installfest (aka ditch RedHat (TM))

nick, big oops sent below message too soon don't worry about dev-python request silly of me but i do not need all of those only about a third of them. i can do the install of them from home next week. apologies for silly noises peter ps other four requests still stand == sorry nick it

Re: Gentoo Installfest (aka ditch RedHat (TM))

sorry nick it is me again. already asked for (as of 10 minutes ago) - icewm - sylpheed new requests: - kernel: ac-sources - wvdial (in net-dialup) and - um how much of dev-python have you got? it's 73 pkgs. not sure how long that'd take to install via dial-up but it's doable yes? but that's it

two requests (small ones) - Re: gentoo installfest requests please

mr rout sorry nick but i've just realised i forgot to ask you on monday whether or not icewm is available - ie is it one of the pkgs you've got the gentoo sources for? i'd really appreciate it if it were as it's the only window manager i'm happy with. (others please note: *not* wanting to start a

Re: Redhat TM issues on website

best solutin yet! > > Just sell it as "Dead Rat" until Red Hat grow some sense glands. > > Vik :v) > >

Re: CLUG Clinic Meeting - Monday 30 June 2003

more recent or > patched kernel. Help from someboody familiar with kernel builds and laptops > would be welcome. > > Peter Elliott: Is that you? > it seems so. it should be noted however that i'm not at all familiar with laptops but i'm sure that, if necessary, there wi

Re: truncate file with shell

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 21:40:24 +1200 Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 20:52, you wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 08:22:13PM +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] chris $ ./truncate testfile 51 > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] chris $ ls -l testfi

Re: vmd.ms-tnef (Was: Linux mousepads...)

hey brilliant! just gotta love that emerge - even the name is ultra, what with chaos theory and emergent behaviour/systems etc. cheers peter On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 21:43:53 +1200 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > bash-2.05b# emerge -s tnef > Searching... > [ Results for search key : tnef ] > [

Re: vmd.ms-tnef (Was: Linux mousepads...)

ah ha now - before i go a-googling - can anyone tell me how we (ie linux users) can 'get at' the contents of stuff that has been packaged in this damnable excresence? normally i wouldn't bother but a friend is stuck with ms exchange(?) at his work and everything he passes on is bundled in this wa

Re: Web Page Authoring Software

On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 16:52:06 +1200 Chris Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > [SNIP] > As a result I actually put notices on the pages saying that "due to the > minor abberations from the W3C standards that MS used, this page will > not display as intended in any version of

Re: Gentoo Installfest

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 16:41:05 +1200 Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK. How does Saturday 05/july/03 suit folks? > That's the Saturday immediately after the next CLUG meeting on Monday > 30/june/2000. > this is fine with me thanks peter

Re: Web Page Authoring Software

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 11:56:10 +1200 Michael JasonSmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...snip...] > The tools work best if you > know how the system works, and you are not fooled into believing in a > WYSIWYG Web. > exactly. this persistent delusion that site creators can (and should) control how 't

More News Re: laptop acpi

hi nick & Nick more news on the kernel front. have just read this mail from mandrake security: MDKSA-2003:066 - Updated kernel packages fix multiple vulnerabilities. They've included the following amongst the various fixes &c: * Support for more machines that did not work with APIC i t

Re: Gentoo Installfest

apologies for earlier handwaving noises desired information below thanks peter On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 11:59:10 +1200 Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > PC's to be Gentoo'ed > We do need to know what kinds of machines are coming. > the commands:- > cat /proc/cpuinfo > cat /proc/pci

Re: Gentoo Installfest

consider hand raised and madly waving here cheers peter On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:26:03 +1200 "Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well that is a good question Carl. > > Call you put your hands up please punters? > > Regards, Robert >

Re: Gentoo Installfest (was Re: OpenBSD)

On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 19:28:11 +1200 Chris Bayley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter Elliott wrote: > > >a query re maintainability - how often is it necessary to do updates of key parts > >of the system? or big beasts like kde & co? > > > >cheers >

Re: Gentoo Installfest (was Re: OpenBSD)

On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 11:27:12 +1200 Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, the question is, what can be reasonably expected from a <8hr > > session? > > I'd expect that everybody could go home with a working system created from the > stage3.tar.bz2 archive file. They would then go

Re: laptop acpi Re: CLUG Clinic Meeting - Monday 30 June 2003

On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 23:06:05 +1200 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what you say is correct BUT doing without the mandrake patches is likely > to break something. a two edged sword really. > > anyway, i understood acpi is in the kernel isn't it? is it necessary to > patch? > > where do i

Re: Gentoo Installfest (was Re: OpenBSD)

On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 10:44:24 +1200 Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, First things first:- > > How many people on the list would be seriously interested in this? yes. me too please. this is a really neat idea. i'm sure lots of us have been held back from trying gentoo because

Re: Gentoo Installfest (was Re: OpenBSD)

> - things to do while we wait on compilers :) > read the error messages watch stack traces go to the races cheers peter

Re: laptop acpi Re: CLUG Clinic Meeting - Monday 30 June 2003

On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 22:04:23 +1200 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I suspect he is better to download the kernel source for his distro and > kernel version - otherwise other things may break. > > um yes and no (irish blood) we could try it that way but a common problem here is that d

Re: laptop acpi - BIG OOOPS!!

On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 21:00:22 +1200 Peter Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: YIKES!! my bad ... > we just want the plain vanilla tarball from kernel.org (for version 2.2.20). ^ i meant to say 2.4.20 so

Re: laptop acpi Re: CLUG Clinic Meeting - Monday 30 June 2003

On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:04:22 +1200 Nick Brettell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:17:55 +1200 > > Nick Rout wrote: > > > >> It may need acpi turned on in the kernel. I assume you have done the > >> usual google searches? and the linux laptops page? > > > > Yes, but I'm

laptop acpi Re: CLUG Clinic Meeting - Monday 30 June 2003

On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:17:55 +1200 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 09:13:02 +1200 > Nick Brettell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Its a (fairly new) Dell Inspiron N2800X (I think its called) P4 processor... > > It may need acpi turned on in the kernel. I assum

Re: Mice

On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 20:20:02 +1300 Julian Visch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are linux users using in the way of mice these days? > I use a standard 3 button logitech mouse but was wondering if any are using > any of the more fancier mice available these days and good the support is for > t

Re: My presentation at the meeting 31 March 03

On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 17:15:48 +1300 Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jason Greenwood wrote: > > > Hi Chris, > > > > Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > [snip] [snip] > > Anyway for me it's morally wrong to steal the product of somebody else's > hard work [...] and sell

Re: I am playing with a Mandrake 9 Preview

On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 21:43:44 +1300 Vik Olliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 21:09, Kevin Wilkinson wrote: > > I am using a preview of Linux Mandrake 9 at the moment > > (still will require the full os) > > > > Are there any good database programs that work with Linux? > > O

Re: linus, god and operating systems. (was: Meeting reminder)

On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 11:23:43 +0100 Martin Baehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 10:37:36AM +1300, Mark Tomlinson wrote: > > > Whoa! He made an OS, not a universe. sheesh - perspective :-) > > And I thought he only made a kernel. I'd rate the gnu tools/compiler as > > being a m

Queries Re: OS/2 & Linux

On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:42:21 +1200 Yuri de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had same mag - OS/2 license seemed to be: if you got the mag with the disk > you can have the s/w. > > >An Australian mag had BeOS, Redhat 6.1 and OS/2 on 3 cd's a year or so > >back. I have the cd's. I'm not sure of

Re: dsfgsdfg

On Sat, 09 Nov 2002 19:06:13 +1200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > sdfgsdf > > > really? cheers pete -- Of all the forms of hidden persuasion, the most implacable is that imposed by the way things are ~Pierre Bourdieu

Re: Sendmail 8.2.16 Contains Trojan Horse

On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 09:29:39 +1300 Jeremy Bertenshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sure, in a corporate environment, but sendmail is still > the smtp mailer of choice for linux distro's, it's installed > by default on redhat and probably others, millions of > normal users will be runnning it. >

Re: BBC Article .. was Re: Linux Birthday

On Sun, 06 Oct 2002 09:55:35 +1300 (NZDT) Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all had a wee chuckle over this article/interview with Linus > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2300267.stm > hey paul & all, did anyone else checkout this other news story that was linked to at that page?

Re: Sparcstations

On Fri, 04 Oct 2002 11:21:07 +1200 Wesley Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I went in today to Molten Media and was told by one of the staff members that > Monday evening's the final day and then if they haven't been sold, the > Sparcstations will be scrapped. > > So this is the final warnin

Re: Modem troubles and ISPs

On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 10:26:58 +1200 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > also you might like to try wvdial, it is brilliant and may sort you out. > It is available in packages for most distros. http://open.nit.ca/wvdial/ > -- yes! it is double plus good at sorting problematic dial-up connect

Nice!! (Was - Re: thanks and apologies)

On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:07:39 +1200 Bjorn Nilsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can burn most distros for people on request as can quite a few people on > this list. With the price of cd blanks and how quickly things change > maintaining a library would just be annoying, burning on request is much

thanks and apologies (Was - tex anybody?)

hey all well thanks to paul(swafford) chris(topher sawtell) and possibly nick(rout) i've a surfeit of tex coming my way. this is not a complaint but is by way of acknowledging the generosity and helpfullness of this groups members. it's also an acknowledgement of the way i managed to mismanage

tex anybody?

greetings all massive favour to ask here. some few people have mentioned that they have bandwidth available for the downloading of .iso images, so: would somebody be kind enough to grab these two for me and bring them along to the meeting on thursday? i can sling you blank discs etc, and massiv

Re: Fwd: NZCS - Linux in Business

hi there just wondering if anyone else is thinking of going? i'm quite tempted. by the way what is nzcs? cheers peter On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:40:43 +1200 (NZST) Mahesh De Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Figured the list might be interested in this. > > I am a member and am going to be th

Re: mathematica

On Tue, 02 Jul 2002 07:30:35 + Andrew Kemmy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > scilab is at http://www-rocq.inria.fr/scilab/faq/index.html > it's a matlab clone but might understand mathematica expressions. > if not the code could be transposed from mathematica -> matlab ? > > Andrew > thanks for

mathematica

hi all this might seem a strange request but i'm desperate, well um kind of urgent, to get a copy of mathematica which will run on linux. reason is that i've just taken delivery of wolfram's "a new kind of science" and now discover that the only way i'm really going to be able to follow it is b

Slackware 8.1 Anybody?? Please??

greetings all well as the subject said to the kingdom: has anybody here already got an iso of slackware 8.1?? and can this poor slow-modem peasant get a copy from you? please? pretty pretty please? else i'll have to spend the weekend draaaggging it across. sighs. anyway cheers peter (back from t

Survey of Linux User Group Members

Greetings all first - apologies for this cross-posting but i reckoned on this being something that we all would want to have heard about. >From LWN this morning, http://lwn.net/daily/ru-survey.php3> a survey of people who belong to internet-based LINUX groups such as mailing lists, websites

Re: konto

On Sun, 07 Apr 2002 08:14:50 +1200 Nick Elder CLUG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If anyone has time, I wonder if they could try out this little program? at: > http://halfdans.net/index.py?p=konto > I can unzip/untar it but thats about as far as it goes. I see it is supposed > to work in

S3 Savage (Was - Re: Monitor spacing)

On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 15:25:59 +1300 Rex Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ...snip..snip... > > (Oh, and while I'm at it: can anybody recommend a cheap video card that > > behaves itself under Linux?) > > Anything but an S3 Savage. > > Rex > but why? i ask as i've been u

Re: Konqueror on RH 6.2

On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 07:40:34 +1300 Vik Olliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Downloading the Konqueror source and using that is possible, but the > reason I use RPMs is that the installation can be automatically checked > and verified without having to install Tripwire on every machine. > > One

Re: Konqueror on RH 6.2

and so what about the ways i suggested you *can* do it? not acceptable for any particular reasons ... just curious cheers pre On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 21:40:14 +1300 Vik Olliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > > > > Anyone know where I can get a Konqueror RPM for RH6

Re: Konqueror on RH 6.2

On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 23:06:49 +1300 Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone know where I can get a Konqueror RPM for RH6.2? > > Would it be wise to install the lot of KDE from a recent distro on that box? > > Volker > wisdom quotient unknown but if you can cope with getting all th

Fw: Linux Documentation Author Werner Heuser threatened with 6 months imprisonment or 250.000.- EURO penalty for supposed tradmark infringment

hi all i think that this is really quite an important story, hence the cross posted forwardings. if you're not of the same opinion, or have already heard about this 'outrage' then please accept my apologies. cheers peter Begin forwarded message: Date: Wed, 09 Jan 200

Holiday Reading

Greetings all for anybody interested. Here's a Chaos Manor piece on Linux and OSS. http://www.byte.com/documents/s=2292/byt1010015968256/0107_pournelle.html i always used to enjoy reading this guy way back - haven't really had a Byte since about '93/'94 - it just got too thin on content - bu

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