On 06/08/10 10:32, Robert Fisher wrote:
I do not completely agree - I find that have the mail stored locally helps
with speed and traffice issues when email size is considered (attachements
open much faster locally)
I think Craig meant if the imap server is local to the same computer or
loca
On 06/08/10 09:10, Robert Fisher wrote:
I have had the same issues but only since I changed to LinuxMint.
I will read the article in anticipation.
Another thing to consider if you haven't already done so - disable the
Nepomuk Semantic Desktop search in KDE (Settings -> Advanced -> Desktop
S
On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 16:57 +1200, Solor Vox wrote:
> Yes, I remember you saying that. But I was pointing out that while
> the workaround was for people using ext4, the default for Ubuntu, it
> was added to things like dpkg which doesn't care/know about your
> filesystem. I've been testing 10.04
On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 12:46 +1200, Solor Vox wrote:
> Some of the slowdown could be due to a "workaround" in Ubuntu for
> ext4.
The old drive is running ext3 so that's not it.
I'm also installing the new drive with ext3 for the time being.
Thanks for the suggestion though.
On Sat, 2010-04-24 at 18:33 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> Could this have anything to do with this???
>
> http://www.greengecko.co.nz/node/21
A.
Not on this drive - it's a WD3200AAKS-0 Cavier Blue 320G. But I do have
a "Green" drive for backups so I'll be looking at that more closely.
On Sat, 2010-04-24 at 17:52 +1200, Wayne Rooney wrote:
> Bugger. Perhaps someone else has a fix for it.
Seagate? :)
Out of interest - did you find that your drive has gotten worse over
time or has it been fairly consistent with the IO issue?
I've been using this drive for about 3 years and it
On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 14:11 +1200, Craig Falconer wrote:
> You don't require 64 bit kernels to use 4GB physical ram... you can
> boot a PAE kernel and it'll find the memory okay.
Hmmm. That would have been good to know a year ago :)
> Still a 64 bit CPU works better in a 64 bit kernel.
Defini
On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 08:21 +1200, Solor Vox wrote:
> Hi Phill,
>
> You can use ionice -c 3 (idle) to reduce load of command, and with -p
> of an existing pid. However, I'd recommend that you check your dmesg
> / logs for drive errors. Sounds like it might be a drive going bad.
> If your drive s
On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 17:59 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> I use a d-link dsl-604t. No frills, no whistles. Just works. However, I
> may have a different outlook on wireless security than most: I assume
> it's going to be broken, and protect sensitive data accordingly. Because
> of this, I only us
On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 10:51 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> Greetings CLUGgers,
>
> I have been trying persuade an updated to the moment Linux lappie to
> connect to a Thompson ADSL to WiFi router as supplied 'free' by the
> Telebrats. Result - Singular lack of success. It very connected
> o
On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 08:04 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> Sorry, I thought it was inherent from my question that I don't have
> access to the router at work.
Sorry - I was in a rush last night so didn't pick that up.
> Besides I'd be pretty silly to allow vnc access to the web at large.
True. Alt
On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 16:08 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> At work: windows computer which runs putty and vnc server.
>
> At home: linux machines, one running openssh server.
>
> Therefore I can only initiate ssh from the office end.
>
> I can easily use putty to enable access to web servers on the h
On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 16:50 +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> Greets to CLUGgers
>
> Does anybody know why Amarok requires a login?
See here:
http://superuser.com/questions/64599/why-is-the-new-amarok-prompting-me-for-wallet-password-on-start
On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 16:50 +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> Greets to CLUGgers
>
> Does anybody know why Amarok requires a login?
> It's an ordinary app, just a sound player for goodness sake.
I seem to remember seeing this before.
I'm fairly certain it's not Amarok that requires the login
On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 16:11 +1300, John Carter wrote:
> Whilst wading through his blog [1] I came across his suggestion of "chattr
> +A".
This is pretty cool and may well be what I've been after for some time.
The single largest problem I've had with my computer is occassional
periods of disk
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 09:39 +1300, Craig Falconer wrote:
> For those who care
>
> Year Messages
> 2010 5 to date
> 2009 2355
> 2008 2758
> 2007 6124
> 2006 19031
> 2005 13809
> 2004 11225
> 2003 9514
>
> Is this a sign that linux is becoming more mature, and fewer problems
> arise?
I still have 5 invites left.
Email me your google email address off list if you like one.
On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 19:51 +1200, Ryan McCoskrie wrote:
> KMail has been giving me grief lately.
> Can somebody tell me if this has been received.
Pong.
On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 16:53 +1200, Daniel Hill wrote:
> you could try Sub domains
> eg, www.examplesite.com for live site (and examplesite.com would
> redirect to it)
> and testing.examplesite.com would be the dev site
The thing I forgot to mention is that it's a wordpress based site.
WordPress
I have no idea if this is possible so thought I'd ask those for more
knowledgeable here.
I'm doing some work on a client website. I've set up a virtual site
locally using apache 2 so that I can have a mirror copy of the site to
make changes and test before uploading to the live site.
At the m
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 08:38 +1200, Craig Falconer wrote:
> Nick Rout wrote, On 14/08/09 07:40:
> > restart the modem/router.
Did that numerous times.
> >
> > Is there water in the line? It was raining hard yesterday. Perhaps its
> > not just a co-incidence.
Nope it was a fault. From what I'v
n for about an hour this afternoon)
- it's just the PPP authentication that keeps trying over and over without
success. Makes me wonder if I didn't have a static IP whether I'd be back
online already.
15 hours and counting... :(
--- On Thu, 13/8/09, Phill Coxon wrote:
Received:
I do have a static IP so that's good to know for future.
Thanks!
--- On Thu, 13/8/09, Craig Falconer wrote:
The one exception is if you have a static IP - you won't get your one unless
you do have the right username/password. You'll still get a dynamic IP though.
Okay - I'm back online now after doing another reset of the modem.
Thanks for the feedback.
H.
Yeah, ADSL is fine, it's just the PPP connection that won't log in.
I'll go hassle somebody now. Thanks!
--- On Thu, 13/8/09, Craig Falconer wrote:
From: Craig Falconer
Subject: Re: Anyone else in Chch with broadband down?
To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz
Received: Thursday, 13 A
Anyone else with Telecom ADSL down in Christchurch at the moment?
According to some Telecom person I spoke to somebody managed to cut a fibre
optic cable on Wakrakei Road this morning at about 7:30am. We're still down in
Opawa (currently using mobile broadband).
Very annoying.
On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 15:33 +1200, Bryce Stenberg wrote:
> It mostly goes except the display sometimes has issues.
>
> Icons often become fuzzy scratches instead of nice pictures.
>
> Fonts, especially in firefox, start to become blobby and run into each
> and eventually unreadable.
>
I don't t
On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 09:37 +1200, Robert Fisher wrote:
> Actually I found 4.2.4 really stable for me but 4.3 has some improvements.
4.2.4 was horrible for me on my lenovo notebook - plasma crashing every
few minutes, widgets not working, weird stuff happening.
So far 4.3 is working great.
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 20:39 +1200, Robert Fisher wrote:
> Any opinions about KDE 4.3?
>
> I am loving it?
I upgraded my laptop last night. So far it looks really nice - many of
the things that were breaking under 4.2 are now working.
It looks promising so far.
On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 12:54 +1200, Aidan Gauland wrote:
> I'd suggest telling Apple to get stuffed, and take your business
> elsewhere. If enough people took that attitude, instead of
> subscribing to Apple's dictatorship, then perhaps they would no longer
> have so much control over this particu
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 15:52 +1200, Jim Tittsler wrote:
> Have you tried using SSH's ControlMaster feature? ('man ssh_config')
> You can establish an initial SSH connection and subsequent connections
> to the host will reuse the master connection instead of initiating new
> ones.
Jim - just wan
On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 10:52 +1200, steve wrote:
> 1. Install openvpn on a linux ( well, actually it works just as well on
> windows! ) server. OpenVPN have just redesigned their site, but the
> stuff you want is the 2.1 rc ( I've just checked it's at 2.1_rc19 ) from
> http://openvpn.net/index.php/
On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 09:59 +1200, Craig Falconer wrote:
> I agree with Steve - look at some kind of permanent VPN. OpenVPN might
> be okay (what I use at home) or for real true two-way routing you'd want
> an ipsec tunnel.
I'm after a simple solution so I can set up and access a VPN from my
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 15:45 +1200, steve wrote:
> DSL 504T is fine. I've got a company with a satellite office on NI
> connected via OpenVPN / Samba, and keep stuff in sync over it. Both ends
> use these. I've given up getting decent ADSL kit, and just use consumer
> - level stuff, but with a spar
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 16:07 +1200, Hadley Rich wrote:
> What I actually meant was; try the command line client, if that works
> then perhaps it's your GUI that is the problem.
Ok, I get what you're saying now.
It's definitely the GUI (konqueror).
When I select 5 files on the remote server and
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 15:52 +1200, Jim Tittsler wrote:
> > I really need some way to force the same ssh session to be used...
>
> Have you tried using SSH's ControlMaster feature? ('man ssh_config')
> You can establish an initial SSH connection and subsequent connections
> to the host will reus
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 different client, I'd try the command l
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 14:46 +1200, steve wrote:
> Knowing nothing whatsoever about hostgator, is it possible to set up
> your own private vpn and use that instead???
Hmmm. It's unlikely given this I'm working with clients on shared
hostgator accounts with jailshell ssh rather than a dedicated ser
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 16:55 +1200, Robert Fisher wrote:
> All of the above.
+ showing a little appreciation for help already received would go a
long way.
On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 22:45 +1200, Kerry Mayes wrote:
> I'm wanting to connect up my shed for power (3 phase), water and data
> (phone & network). I have (with significant help) dug the trench to
> the shed and will be organising the connections in the next few weeks.
>
> However, if I run the ne
On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 11:09 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> I think Andrew is right about kubuntu being the bastard sibling. The
> main effort goes into ubuntu, stuff just seems to get missed in
> kubuntu, plus theres the hassle of kde's 4 branch still seeming to be
> unfinished.
Unfortunately true. I'
On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 05:51 +1200, Roger Searle wrote:
> "4L-cli enumerate" does not show this particular drive to be one capable
> of light scribe, I'll be trying the same thing on another box and maybe
> swapping round drives later today and looking forward to seeing a
> finished disk. Thank
On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 13:46 +1200, Roger Searle wrote:
> Hi, I am thinking of making use of "light scribe" to label some CDs for
> a project I am working on, and wondering if anyone on the list has
> experience with doing this in linux, which I don't recall ever seen
> mentioned on any lugs. Go
On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 11:46 +0900, Andrew Errington wrote:
> Not exactly. The wiring maintenance fee is to cover the wiring *inside*
> your home. Telecom will provide service to the demarcation point at your
> address (may be the boundary, may be the box on the eaves, may be the
> entry point in
On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 00:24 +1200, Tim wrote:
> Can anyone point me to a webcam, easily available in NZ, that supports
> GNU/Linux flawlessly, without the need for proprietary drivers?
I have a quickcam pro 9000.
Overall, a very good webcamera - at the top end of Logitech's range.
Under linux
On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 11:27 +1300, Don Robertson wrote:
> Phill Coxon wrote:
> > I'm trying to figure out how to update the bios on an old Compaq
> > Presario that I'm using for FreeNAS (www.freenas.org).
> >
>
> I would be interested to hear your experiences
On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 08:16 +1100, ke...@katipo.net.nz wrote:
> I've flashed the bios from linux on an old compaq presario desktop
> computer before, so I know it's possible, it was just so long ago I
> can't remember what I used to do it or how I went about it.
>
> Just googled "flash bios fr
On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 10:59 +1300, Roger Searle wrote:
> I'm sure google will tell you how to get to 4.2 and would be worth the
> effort.
http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kde-4.2
On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 08:33 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Volker Kuhlmann
> wrote:
> > On Wed 14 Jan 2009 20:01:49 NZDT +1300, Navdeep Singh Sidhu wrote:
> >
> >> I would like your help in blocking some websites like YouTube and Bebo from
> >> our staff computer.
Two
On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 11:47 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> My approach (which doesn't answer your question, but avoids locking
> issues) is to:
>
> 1. deliver to maildirs (I use fetchmail, but your choice is valid too)
>
> 2. install a imap server that also access maildir (dovecot is good)
>
> 3. ge
Anyone using KDE4?
The last couple of times I've tried installing kubuntu with KDE 4 the
result has been a horrible experience. Non stop crashes, errors, core
functionaltity missing.
However, with Kubuntu 8.10 running KDE 4.2 beta 2 on my laptop I'm
pleased to find that it is getting somewh
Nick Rout wrote:
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Brenda Wallace wrote:
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Christopher Sawtell
wrote:
On Wednesday 07 January 2009 18:44:27 Brenda Wallace wrote:
There is no "Copyright Amendment Act" it is the "Copyright (New
Technologies) Amendment Act 2008".
m
On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 15:48 +1300, Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote:
> You can't setuid root scripts, you would need to setuid the
> interpreter, or wrap it in a small C program. That seems like overkill
> for this.
>
> Why not just run the command in /etc/rc.local which is executed during
> boot,
1) One option is to use a splitter cable on line out which you plug into
both the headphones and line in.
2) I tried this a while back but it just wouldn't work for me:
http://porpoisehead.net/hi/?q=node/23
3) There was also a script called Skype-Rec floating on Source Forge -
not sure how up
On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 12:29 +1300, Craig Falconer wrote:
> Did you bother googling?
Yep.
> http://nznathan.blogspot.com/2008/08/telecom-tstick-on-opensuse-11.html
> http://www.sierrawireless.com/faq/ShowFAQ.aspx?ID=1232
Didn't find either of those links though. Ah... I searched for ubuntu
inst
On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 19:38 +1200, David Merriman wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm looking for a way to cache website addresses to speed up page
> finding and loading. I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.14 on SuSE 10.3, with a
> D-Link DSL-502T broadband modem and D-Link DI-524UP wireless router
> (though I'm
On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 22:41 +1200, Graeme Kiyoto-Ward wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am looking to buy a new printer. My wife has a Vista Laptop and I want
> her to be able to print via our Ethernet hub (which has a port for a USB
> printer). Has anyone heard of that arrangement working for Linux?
>
> Has a
The official Ubuntu home page has a press release talking about 8.04
being released:
"LONDON, April 21, 2008 – Canonical Ltd. announced the upcoming
availability of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop Edition for free download on
Thursday 24 April. In related news, Canonical also announced the
simultaneous re
On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 10:39 +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> htop
Brilliant!
Wish I'd known about that years ago.
Thanks :)
I'm trying to track down an old AT type 400w desktop power supply for a
DVD duplicator tower.
I'm posting this here because these are quite hard to come by at the
moment and I think there's a good chance someone on this list may have
one lying around.
Does anyone have an old AT power supply or t
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 12:29 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Mon, February 11, 2008 12:16 pm, Robert Fisher wrote:
> >
> >> Yes it has been answered. Any device that is a standard usb-audio device
> >> will work, and most of them are.
> >>
> > Ah yes I remember now.
> >
> > What about the question - do
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 12:47 +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> For our collection:
> http://www.sysresccd.org/Download.en.php
Downloaded.
> Hopefully *BSD is included in the definition of Linux?
> If so:
> ftp://ftp7.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/6.3/
On the way. All 1.9Gb Should be
I've been thinking about getting a hard drive recorder to record stuff
on TV.
But I wanted to get some feedback from the resident mythtv experts on
whether it would be better to build a MythTV media box instead.
I'd like to:
* Record TV from my Sky decoder.
* Have some way to schedule and au
On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 15:02 +1300, Vik Olliver wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 14:15 +1300, Phill Coxon wrote:
> > The cool thing about Envy is that it just "works". It seems to do an
> > extraordinarily good job of sorting out problems and dependancies.
>
>
On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 10:36 +1300, Vik Olliver wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 06:45 +1300, Roger Searle wrote:
> > As I did this last thing yesterday and was then in a hurry to leave,
> > I
> > will report the success or otherwise when I am back at that computer
> > on
> > Monday.
>
> I await w
On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 14:36 +1300, Glenn Cogle wrote:
> I read about "Envy" today, which might be an easy way of installing
> and configuring Nvidia drivers on Debian?
>
> PC World Article:
> http://blogs.pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/tux-love/2007/12/hidden_linux_graphics_envy.html
>
> (but you might n
On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 12:22 +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> OTOH & IMHO, It's nearly always disk and filesystem speed which is the
> bottle-neck for day to day computing, thus - unless you are runnimg
> heavy-duty number-crunching processes, such as rendering picture
> frames - in practice the
This may be a silly / obvious question.
I'm very soon switching from 32bit to 64bit Ubuntu on my dual core intel
box.
Are all packages in Ubuntu 64bit compiled for 64bit, or just some of
them - i.e.: applications that actually take advantage of the 64bit
processor.
In other words - is there an
For those if you that choose to / have to use skype the long awaited
video conferencing is here.
http://share.skype.com/sites/garage/2007/11/skype_20_beta_for_linux_the_great_revolution.html
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 21:01 +1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> Any SATA drive will work in that swappy caddy.
Good to know.
> > Anyone else on this list hot-swapping drives?
>
> Yes. IDE via USB converter, SATA goes on straight. Neither show a
> difference to a keyring USB gimmick in handling by
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 13:37 +1300, Michael Fincham wrote:
> IIRC, the SATA standard always supports hotplug. The drivers don't
> always, but the support has improved massively in recent Linux kernels.
>
> That said, I won't be responsible for your data loss / hardware damage ;)
>
> FWIW, I hotpl
I just bought one of these nifty hot swappable esata drive bays:
http://icute.com.tw/english/iSwap201.htm
I want to use it for off site backups i.e.: backup to the drive, pop it
out to take off site and replace with another drive.
Can anyone here confirm I'm right in thinking that I'll need to
USB external hard drives are great - just plug them in and they appear
on your desktop.
Firewire is faster but I believe there are more issues with some
firewire cards being better than others.
Another option is estata which is faster still (transfer rate up to
3Gb / s - 6 times faster than US
I've had a strange problem since I upgraded from Ubuntu 7.04 to 7.10.
All of a sudden my Samba network stopped working - specifically,
computers in the workgroup stopped being visible, no longer appearing in
Windows networking, or on linux clients.
After a very large number of hours trying to f
On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 22:50 +1300, Graeme Kiyoto-Ward wrote:
> As for generating stats, I'm more interested in the overall OS and browser
> use. ACC is a site that probably has a broad range of 'appeal' for normal
> users and especially businesses.
Hmmm. If you wanted really good across the b
On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 14:01 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> It seems to me that what St Albans needs is the iso files. I know you can
> convert the CD/DVD back to an iso file, but that is fraught with error and
> a bit of a PITA. Subject to anything Chris has to say on it, can I suggest
> you write the
On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 19:37 +1300, dave wrote:
> I have both Desktop 386 versions, Checked them via MD5Sum from the console
> and
> then burned them to CD and verified them after burning to ensure a good burn.
> It is these CD's i'll be passing onto St Albans.
I've downloaded, checked and burn
Has anyone downloaded the 64bit versions of Ubuntu & Kubuntu 7.10?
If nobody posts back by mid-Saturday I'll download both and contribute
copies.
Anyone know what extras are on the Ubuntu / Kubuntu DVD versions?
On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 20:14 +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> Thank you so much.
Thanks for the detailed and helpful feedback Volker and to everyone
else who replied.
I'll do some testing and see if I can salvage the scanner.
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 19:44 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> The computer case is earthed, so you should be seeing the same sparking
> when touching
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 19:49 +1200, paul schulz wrote:
> I've seen this where touching the metal shield on the outside of the
> plug, i can feel 50Hz, and measure about 100volts open cct. The
> scanner still worked though, and i put it down to a cheap power supply
> in the scanner. As Rex says
This is pretty much off topic except that it has to do with connecting a
USB scanner under linux.
But I know there are some good hardware people on this list so...
I just bought a second hand Epson USB scanner.
When plugging the usb cable in I bumped the end of the cable against the
metal plat
Hi,
I'm running a two monitor twinview setup in Xorg (ubuntu 7.04).
Works great except that when I start X for the first time it always
defaults to the wrong metamode when I log into gnome - with one of the
monitors switched off.
I can load nvidia-settings and select the correct metamode whic
After many years of using Mandrake / Mandriva and the never ending
dependency nightmares of RPM package management, I finally upgraded my
desktop & server to Ubuntu.
Didn't like the default Ubuntu much - missed too many of the KDE
applications + look & feel.
So I installed kubuntu desktop and.
Hi everyone,
I have 9Gig of bandwidth left for the month which ends midnight
tonight.
Any recommendations on distributions or interesting open source ISOs to
download tonight?
If you're wanting something in particular that's interesting let me know
and (if I agree :) ) I'll download it.
On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 11:34 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> PS I am not in favour of email list programs adding footers to every
> message. Unless people religiously trim their replies, it soon degenerates
> into miles of repeated footer, all saying the same thing.
That's a generalisation. I'm on 10+
It's in the headers for every email sent to the list.
Send an email to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
with "unsubscribe linux-users" in the message body.
On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 13:09 +1200, Terry Cole wrote:
> How do I unsubscribe?
>
> Cheers
>
> No virus found in this outgoing message.
> Checked by A
Yesterday at around 3pm somebody at Xtra decided to cancel the fully
paid up xtra email account I have been using for the last 7 years
without any notice or explanation.
G.
I had to wait until this morning to get it reinstated, so if any emails
bounced back to the list yesterday & this
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 12:55 +1200, lyndon sutherland wrote:
> As a matter of curiosityWhen using 'fish', do any of you enter your
> username and password...like fish://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ?
I have the browser prompt me for it each time.
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 09:36 +1200, Zane Gilmore wrote:
> Occasionally being on this list really pays off :-)
>
> I had never heard of fish (except a vague recollection from the deep past)
>
> It looks very very useful.
>
> Thank you.
> Zane
It's incredibly useful when dealing with remote comput
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 15:02 +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> I'm not sure quite what the right name for them is, but fish is a
> desktop-environment-specific virtual filesystem; it's specific to KDE.
> (Yes, there are real differences between KDE and GNOME and "everything
> else")
>
> However, there
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 10:29 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> Firefox is designed to be strictly a web browser, not a file manager and
> a few other things as well. That's for example why it doesn't have an
> "up" button, only "forward" and "back" (although I use up for websites
> all the time too).
Can someone give me an idea of why there seems to be no equivalent to
the fish: protocol for firefox?
Having fish: in konqueror is such an incredibly useful tool - I just
don't understand why something similiar and / or equivalent hasn't been
developed for firefox.
Searches on google for discus
On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 16:27 +1200, Matthew Gregan wrote:
> You should look into using version control, then this would be much easier.
I know. :(
I outsourced some programming work and the programmer doesn't use CVS or
SVN. It's driving me nuts.
> > What I want is to get is the filenames of th
On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 12:42 +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> On Friday 09 February 2007, Neil Stockbridge wrote:
> > i got myself a 25GB data plan with Slingshot and now i can't use it all
> > up. does anyone want any ISOs or other large files downloaded from the
> > Internet?
> A current knopp
On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 16:00 +1300, Don Gould wrote:
> Thanks. I knew that you could label things, didn't realise that 1-5 did
> is so quickly.
That's the advantage over Evolution where you have to use Right Mouse
Button -> Label - > Select. Much more convienient with a single key
press.
On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 15:33 +1300, Don Gould wrote:
> Interesting features Phill, care to share how you set those up in 20
> words or less?
Edit Menu -> Preferences -> Display -> Labels
On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 12:16 +1300, Roy Britten wrote:
> On 24/11/06 11:29, Reg wrote:
> > If you have a maximised e-mail on screen
> > in thunderbird, how do you jump to the next unread message ?
>
> n
As an aside, one really great feature of thunderbird is the ability to
define your own labels
Does anyone local have a copy of the Mandrake 2007 PowerPack DVD that I
can get a copy of for a reasonable fee?
I'm a MandrakeClub.com member and happy to show this.
Reply off list.
Thanks!
Thanks for the suggestions everyone.
BackupPC looks great.
An rsync based system that uses hard links definitely seems to be the
way to go.
Thanks everyone!
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 16:12 +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 October 2006 15:45, Phill Coxon wrote:
> > projectA/ & projectB/
> Simple, try:-
>
> diff --recursive projectA/ projectB/
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