Re: OT - Homeschooling.

2004-12-16 Thread Steve Bell
My son has been to three schools and still doesn't quite fit in. Just a thought, but perhaps this is a good thing. There's social skills that can be learnt though this that will set him up for a better life relating to people and situations where he doesn't feel comfortable. And God knows the

Re: What do I give my "parents" [OT.. Macs]

2004-11-28 Thread Steve Bell
Yeah, just make a shiny case. Gets them. Every time. Never mind the other stuff inside... Volker ROTFLMAO. You could prise my matt aluminium PowerBook from my cold, dead fingers.

Re: OT: Anyone else fell the slow rolling earthquake?

2004-11-22 Thread Steve Bell
Yep, just tried to check geonet.org.nz cos I thought I was dreaming, but geonet won't load. Maybe everyone else had same idea.

[Fwd: Re: ignorate priciple's]

2004-11-18 Thread Steve Bell
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say from a designer's perspective, I actually think the site's quite cool. Now before yall throw heavy objects to knock me off my limb, I did say 'design', not 'content'. Sometimes I worry all you geeks get too wrapped up in code and forget about those un

Re: Gimp question - how to make a white(ish) background transparent?

2004-11-16 Thread Steve Bell
I'm using Firefox on OS X, and I can't seem to suss it out either. I'm quite interested in seeing this scalable png transparency thing though... Jim Cheetham wrote: Zane Gilmore wrote: change the stylesheet to Ginga huh? I don't understand. His page comes with a set of alternative stylesheets -

Re: Gimp question - how to make a white(ish) background transparent?

2004-11-16 Thread Steve Bell
I'm sure you know this already, but on the off-chance you don't, you have to save as a transparent gif to get it to sit transparently over any colour in your web page. You'll get the transparency options as you save as .gif. So do what Michael said in Gimp to get a transparent background, then

Disabling PCMCIA in Suse live CD

2004-11-08 Thread Steve Bell
Just quickly, does anyone know if (how) I can disable (or bypass in bootup) PCMCIA? I'm trying to boot a Dell laptop with it, but it hangs at PCMCIA. I'm hoping it's as easy as typing something in at the boot options. Knoppix tries for 30 sec or so, then just skips, but Suse ain't so kind.

Re: Article: Linux is the least secure OS

2004-11-08 Thread Steve Bell
Cheers, didn't realise it was old news, as I don't hang around /. much. Apologies, as I was not looking to start more OT drivel or create more noise on the signal. Simply an interested outsider, looking for feedback on what I beleived was an on-topic issue. Let's call this case closed, so I don

Re: Article: Linux is the least secure OS

2004-11-08 Thread Steve Bell
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Let's just save the list bandwidth instead of wasting it on this drivel, shall we? Volker It's drivel that went out to hundreds of thousands of PC users worldwide. You lot are often posting articles on the secure wonder of Linux. Just interested in what yall thought of

Article: Linux is the least secure OS

2004-11-08 Thread Steve Bell
*Is Windows More Secure than Linux?* We've all been hearing from open source aficionados for years that Linux is much more secure than Windows, but is it true? mi2g, a British security company, recently released a study that concludes Linux is successfully exploited more often than Windows. Read

Dell was Re: Newbie

2004-10-18 Thread Steve Bell
I know we were talking desktops there, but FWIW, I've had reasonable success with two different Dell laptops, an high spec, and a low end one. Booted with knoppix, sound worked, network straight up, and on the internet, blah-de-blah. Couldn't give ya any technical details tho ;-) Isn't it jus

Re: Newbie

2004-10-18 Thread Steve Bell
Hi Andy FWIW, there was a fairly good Dell with 80gb and a decent graphics card in the Warehouse catalogue in my mailbox today for, I think it was about $1400. Or, get yourself last week's Buy-Sell-Exchange from any dairy or local petrol station, cos there'll be heaps of new and used pc's in t

Re: Posts takin' flippin ages

2004-10-14 Thread Steve Bell
...and wouldn't ya know it, it comes straight thru. It's playing with me. Okay, I'll shut up now.

Posts takin' flippin ages

2004-10-14 Thread Steve Bell
Hi Dunno what's up but the list server or something hates me. My posts are taking a small eternity to show up, making me look like a dumbarse. Dunno when this one will show up. Could be tomorrow. So if you think I'm not reading threads properly before commenting, yeah, you're probably right

Re: WYSIWYG HTML editor?

2004-10-14 Thread Steve Bell
Okay, don't all jump on me about that one below! I posted it like over a day ago, and it's only just flippin showed up now, when the thread's developed somewhat!!! "Frikkin x-tra, Mr Bigglesworth" Yes: don't use a "WYSIWYG" editor for a non-WYSIWYG medium. Hwha? Maybe I haven't follow

Re: WYSIWYG HTML editor?

2004-10-14 Thread Steve Bell
Michael JasonSmith wrote: On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 10:52, Douglas Royds wrote: Any recommendations? Yes: don't use a "WYSIWYG" editor for a non-WYSIWYG medium. Hwha? Maybe I haven't followed the thread closely enough, but Mr Blogg's web is not WYSIWYG?

Re: Wine on Darwin

2004-10-05 Thread Steve Bell
Duh, sorry, I didn't read the last word of your post - x86. Ignore previous second paragraph of stupidity. Steve Bell wrote: Yay, Jim - that's the bit I didn't understand. That is the page that originally got me questioning (hmm, maybe I should have offered that link in

Re: Wine on Darwin

2004-10-05 Thread Steve Bell
app? And that soon it won't even need X11? Thanks all for your input so far - I'm tryna take it all in! Steve Jim Cheetham wrote: On Oct 4, 2004, at 11:23 PM, Lee Begg wrote: On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 23:08, Steve Bell wrote: Does this mean with the X11 window system thingie installed on OS

Re: Wine on Darwin

2004-10-04 Thread Steve Bell
case with WINE that there's two layers of system calls to be translated, first to port WINE from running on X86 to PPC, then to have software to pretend the PPC is an X86? Dang, I think I'm outta my depth. Thanks! Steve Lee Begg wrote: On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 23:08, Steve Bell wrote:

Wine on Darwin

2004-10-04 Thread Steve Bell
Hi I wonder if someone could explain this for me... *Is the Darwin/Mac OS X release of Wine currently able to run Windows executable (.exe)? * No. We are currently working on integrating an x86 emulator in wine in order to run Win32 exe on a PowerPC Box. But on Darwin-x86 a Win32 .exe shou

Re: *nix to PC network printing - mission partly accomplished.

2004-09-27 Thread Steve Bell
Woohoo! I downloaded and installed Ghostscript and hpijs-foomatic from http://www.linuxprinting.org/macosx/hpijs/ and she's rockin and rollin. Successfully printing from Powerbook to NT4 HP Laserjet 2100. Sorry this is not a more technical explanation of the solution, but if it helps someone

*nix to PC network printing

2004-09-27 Thread Steve Bell
Hi Guys I don't know if this is an open-enough-source question to ask here, so if you tell me to get lost, I'll try to understand... I've just got a Powerbook, OS X, freeBSD, you know the drill. I'd like to be able to print from it to our reception Laserjet 2100 which is connected via Parallel

Re: FireFox!

2004-09-27 Thread Steve Bell
I second that. I just got a Powerbook, and have stuck with Firefox and Thunderbird on OS X, cos they're just great. Plus, it was easier to copy my Thunderbird profile from PC to Mac, and have my mail all just appear, than to have to try import it into mac mail. I've sold a few other people on

Re: Jetstream...? Out where?

2004-09-02 Thread Steve Bell
Hwah? Is jetstream out? I'm in St Albans and all is well. Must be only partial city? Touch wood. begin:vcard fn:Steve Bell n:Bell;Steve email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel;work:+64 3 3557514 tel;fax:+64 3 3556427 tel;cell:021 687776 version:2.1 end:vcard

RE: CD burning - long track with multiple track count???

2004-08-11 Thread Steve Bell
Thank you! I will try this out and report back. Regards Steve > -Original Message- > From: Sascha Beaumont [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 7:54 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: CD burning - long track with multiple track count??? >

CD burning - long track with multiple track count???

2004-08-10 Thread Steve Bell
Hi Is there a Linux CD burning programme anyone knows of that can take a long sound file, and put track markers on it while burning, which I believe is called being able to edit the PQ subcodes. I've googled to no avail. If yes, is there an OSX port? TIA!!! Steve

Sort myself out boy

2004-08-08 Thread Steve Bell
And to top off my OT post, I can't even get the subject line right. Think I better get ready for a good old fashioned flaming. Please forgive!

RE: Freakin' chipmunks!

2004-08-08 Thread Steve Bell
I hope this ain't too OT as to tick any of you off. What do you make of this? Sorry, here's the link. It's supposed to be a high compression "faster than broadband" service, but as they say if it sounds too good to be true... www.juiceboosted.com

OT: have any of yall heard of this?

2004-08-08 Thread Steve Bell
I hope this ain't too OT as to tick any of you off. What do you make of this

RE: Viewsonic OSD lock

2004-08-03 Thread Steve Bell
This is for Viewsonic LCD, but it's probly pretty similar for you... OSD and Power Button Lock Modes OSD Lock This mode locks all current control settings and prevents access to the control menus until this mode is unlocked. • OSD Lock: Press and hold [1] and the up arrow  for 10 seconds. If any

RE: Schools - photoshop

2004-07-27 Thread Steve Bell
Forget about the lawyer bit fellas. Along with the vibe bit, it only makes sense if you've seen The Castle. I'm not a lawyer. Or a hippie.

RE: Schools - photoshop

2004-07-26 Thread Steve Bell
> What's missing in gimp? If any of you have seen "The Castle", I would have to say it's "just the whole vibe of it". It's the feel. A better lawyer than me has written a review which I pretty-much agree with here: http://tingilinde.typepad.com/starstuff/2004/05/gimp_vs_photosh.html > And once

RE: Schools - photoshop

2004-07-26 Thread Steve Bell
FWIW, Photoshop was one of the things that has stopped me switching to Linux (yet!). That and some Macromedia products. The Gimp is okay, I've tried the Win version, but there's no way hosea that you could say they're in the same ball-park (yet). I've tried Adobe Elements in place of Photoshop,

RE: USB2Ethernet connectors

2004-06-29 Thread Steve Bell
Hi I bought one of these from tricky dickies a while ago for my boss's win98 laptop. Runs merrily. http://www.dse.co.nz/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/40e22f790cf2bbf8273fc0a87f99077f /Product/View/XH8144 Supports Linux Kernel 2.4.22+, so grab yer knoppix, and good luck. > -Original Message- >

RE: ADSL Modem/Router Choices

2004-05-18 Thread Steve Bell
Got a D-Link 500, we've had it for about 3 years, and it's definately given 3 years worth of problems. Big phase of locking up the ADSL line, solved by firmware upgrades when available. It's latest trick is to lock up all the Network Neighborhoods (yes, winblows, a mix of 98, NT, and XP), so nobo

RE: Installfest - Posters

2004-04-20 Thread Steve Bell
gt; > Robert Fisher > SI Operations Support Manager > Fuji Xerox NZ Ltd > > Phone: 03 374 4709 > Mobile: 027 477 3356 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Some days you are the pigeon, some days you are the statue. > > > -Original Message- > From: Ste

RE: Installfest - Posters

2004-04-20 Thread Steve Bell
Just in regard to those install-fest posters, if it's of any help to you, Colourtech at the Bush Inn Centre print full colour A3 on Xerox for $1 per A3. Ask for James. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.661 / Virus Dat

RE: List Policy Questions

2004-04-18 Thread Steve Bell
Read the thread, and I'm putting in my vote in Jason's favour.

RE: unsubscribing

2004-04-05 Thread Steve Bell
> I'm not going to my local supermarket anymore, because they have too > many products that don't interest me at all and I have to spend too much > time going through them. What a good idea, Carl. I think I shall quit reading the newspaper too, as it has too many articles and adverts that don't i

RE: autorespond thing

2004-04-01 Thread Steve Bell
Sorry Don, I didn't mean to be a PITA, really!! > -Original Message- > From: Don Gould [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 2:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: autorespond thing > > > Ok, back on list... > > Steve and Craig have just identified that the probl

autorespond thing

2004-04-01 Thread Steve Bell
Gidday all, but 'specially Don... Far be it from me to moan, but Don, with all due respect, and blah, blah, would you consider turning off your autoresponder (or whatever that PITA thing's called) for list posts? My highly configurable, late model email package (yeah, there you all go to check th

slashdot

2004-03-30 Thread Steve Bell
might be a virus. ;-)

RE: NZ mirror for Mandrake 10

2004-03-30 Thread Steve Bell
Maybe I'm missing seeing MDK10community, but the latest I can find there is MDK10RC1, which didn't really play nice with my pc. Thanks tho, Caillyn -Original Message- From: Caillyn Benbow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 11:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: N

RE: NZ mirror for Mandrake 10

2004-03-30 Thread Steve Bell
ftp.redhat.co.nz still has MDK 10 RC1, maybe someone could talk nicely to the appropriate ppl about updating? > -Original Message- > From: Zane Gilmore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 11:37 AM > To: CLUG > Subject: NZ mirror for Mandrake 10 > > > The subject say

RE: [OT] Telecom campaign backfires, may cost millions

2004-03-17 Thread Steve Bell
> http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2848102a10,00.html > > Ring 123, 4, then 4 to get your discount, "Your call cannot be connected at present due to overloading. Please... try again later."

RE: Mandrake 10 Community

2004-03-09 Thread Steve Bell
Thanks Paul. Could you post and let us know when you've got it? Cheers! > -Original Message- > From: Paul Swafford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 10:19 AM > To: Canterbury Linux Users > Subject: Mandrake 10 Community > > > Hi there - general notice. > I hav

RE: Mandrake 10 Community Released

2004-03-04 Thread Steve Bell
So is that like the final version, or is it like an RC2? Will it get modified again before the Offical release in May? RC1 got on my wick a bit, so I might d/ld this if it's the final and giver a burl. Cheers Steve

Mandrake 10 install question

2004-02-26 Thread Steve Bell
Hi I installed (kind of) MDK10 RC1 at home last night, on dual boot XP PII350 320MB RAM. Has anyone else on list installed this? Reason I ask is the sucker did a text based install on me (yuk). Did it do a graphical install for you? Next thing was I chose "internet computer" and "Multimedia co

RE: Church opensource. Getting OT here...

2004-02-25 Thread Steve Bell
I reckon it's just that the church is viewed as out-of-date and out-of-touch. To me it ain't about keeping up with anyone, it's providing people with an opportunity to worship that is relevant to them in their culture. Just like there's nothing wrong with Hymns, but modern pop/rock styled worship

RE: What do you use Linux for?

2004-02-24 Thread Steve Bell
I use Linux a little more occasionally than most of you. At work: Celeron 500 running 98SE. At home: PII-350, 320MB RAM (don't laugh!) Dual boot XP and Lycoris (very soon to be MDK10 RC1) My wife doesn't like linux, or it'd get used more at home. She especially doesn't like "that horrible clock

RE: vCard... Troll - Fair Call...

2004-02-24 Thread Steve Bell
> -Original Message- > From: Patrick Dunford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 12:46 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: vCard... Troll - Fair Call... > > > Well I just want to say WHAT THE HELL DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH LINUX > because I've had 60 messa

Church opensource.

2004-02-24 Thread Steve Bell
Just thinking out loud here, but there's a big opportunity for the open source community within churches. Many churches use Powerpoint and a data projecter to project song lyrics for the congregation. And those who don't already, want to. Small churches often have a desire to grow, but a very sm

immigrating/jobs (OT)

2004-02-19 Thread Steve Bell
I'd be the first to agree with your post Robert. Until I go overseas and try to get a job. Then I reckon it'll be the most unfair law mankind has ever made. Know what I mean? Peace Steve

RE: Mandrake mirror on inspire.net.nz

2004-02-17 Thread Steve Bell
> Is that a new site? > I have asked on this list before about an NZ Mandrake mirror. The Wellington LUG wlug.naos.co.nz, lists a number of NZ links for different distros. All the following have Mandrake 9.2 iso's, and some have older vers also. ftp.debian.co.nz (NZ) ftp.redhat.co.nz (NZ) ftp.city

RE: Need advice on tape backup options...

2004-02-15 Thread Steve Bell
Hi To put in my 2c worth, we have a DAT tape backup unit, which I think was the same model Noah used on the Ark. It stores 4 gig on a 120 minute special high-quality DAT. Backups that we haven't accessed for 5 years are still good, which is something in these days of dubious archiving longevity.

RE: HTML; was modem help

2003-12-03 Thread Steve Bell
> You will get on much better on most > mailing lists (espec linux ones), your messages will be shorter so you > will save bandwidth. Just as an aside, two thoughts... Are not most geeks on broadband now... Well, a majority of you anyway? And, Linux is purporting itself to become a viable des

RE: modem help

2003-12-03 Thread Steve Bell
Hi Mike Taking a step back from the other replies, I just wanted to make sure you understood some fundamentals. You probably do, and if so, please disregard this, but just making sure... Lots of internal modems are softmodems, and rely on Windows to drive the hardware. Without Windows, the mode

RE: OT - Re: digital camera

2003-11-26 Thread Steve Bell
Can you post your url for that stuff? Cheers > Agree'd and we have them for $44 online. Being in the business, I might > also suggest a camera that support Compact Flash as you'll get the most > bang for the buck with that format. It's not the smallest format (thus > why Memory Stick, SD

RE: DVB cards in nz? Sky, getting OT.

2003-10-22 Thread Steve Bell
> > you may be thinking of terrestial sky, which is a different encryption? Yes, I think I may well be. IIUC, it's the "Sky" that you get on your standard rabbit ears telly with the audio, but no pictures. Right, I think I'm wy OT. Let's call that a wrap. Cheers Steve

RE: DVB cards in nz? Sky, getting OT.

2003-10-22 Thread Steve Bell
> not unless someone has hacked videoguard, which of course is likely to > be illegal. Yes, someone has cracked it so it decodes the encrypted sky signal. And no, I don't have one!!! I have only read about it.

FW: DVB cards in nz?

2003-10-22 Thread Steve Bell
Sorry Dale, I meant to post this to the list, caught again by the reply to... > Sky have free to air channels ?? Not exactly. I know what you mean Nick, there was an advert in the Buy Sell & Exchange last week, a full page one, with them advertised for $99, but I can't for the life of me remember

RE: FW: installing Mandrake - KPPP peeve

2003-10-16 Thread Steve Bell
Thanks lots Carl, that's really helpful. I will have to read it at least twice more tonight to get the picture completely though ;-)! I have come across chmod before, with uploading web pages, esp with feedback forms, etc, but I only knew what to change it to (chmod 355 or something like that) to

RE: FW: installing Mandrake - KPPP peeve

2003-10-16 Thread Steve Bell
nt: Saturday, October 18, 2003 3:13 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: FW: installing Mandrake - KPPP peeve > > > Just change the permissions on the executable to be user executable. > That fixes things. You can even do it througn Konqueror in Super User > (root) mo

FW: installing Mandrake - KPPP peeve

2003-10-16 Thread Steve Bell
Just as an aside to that, when I last had MDK on my system it annoyed me that I had to type in the admin password to run KPPP. Small, I know, but small things bug small minds, I guess. How do/can you (of course you can, that's why we all love Linux) change that? (newbie instructionset probably r

RE: Earthquake

2003-10-13 Thread Steve Bell
Didn't feel a thing. > -Original Message- > From: Carl Cerecke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 3:09 PM > To: CLUG > Subject: OT: Earthquake > > > Reference Number: 2128373/G > Universal Time:2003 Oct 14 01:43 > NZ Daylight Time: 2003 Oct 14 1

RE: transcoding dvd - how long should it take?

2003-10-02 Thread Steve Bell
My Mac G4 867Mhz takes about 3-4 hours to transcode about 1.5 hrs from .mov or .avi too mpg for VCD in OS X... Hope this helps... > -Original Message- > From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 11:22 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: transcoding dvd -

Beer/speech

2003-09-30 Thread Steve Bell
Ha! I see it now! Thanks guys!

RE: LINUX QUESTIONS

2003-09-30 Thread Steve Bell
> knoppix won't put any non-free (speech) stuff on the cd. I've never understood this free speech/free beer thing. If someone has the time and inclination to enlighten me I'd be very very grateful. Steve PS - I get that it's in relation to OSS and all, just not the difference...

RE: LINUX QUESTIONS

2003-09-30 Thread Steve Bell
Ralph, I understand having a laptop can sometimes be a PITA (www.acronymfinder.com) as far as linux goes. Mike, just to explain that a little further, you might be aware of the difference between a winmodem and a hardware modem. Winmodems (as the name implys) rely on Windows to make them go, as

RE: LINUX QUESTIONS

2003-09-30 Thread Steve Bell
Hi again Mike Just thought to ask, does your hard drive have some empty unpartitioned space for a linux install? Do you know how to do that? If no, can someone give Mike heads up on how it goes with Mandrake and partitioning? I can't remember...

RE: LINUX QUESTIONS

2003-09-30 Thread Steve Bell
Hi Mike I'm pretty new to the game myself, and have found either Redhat (9 is latest ver) or Mandrake (9.something!!) pretty easy to use, though others on this list may have other ideas. First, I'd recommend trying Knoppix to make sure your hardware is happy. Knoppix is a linux distro which runs

NZ Mirror list.

2003-09-24 Thread Steve Bell
> Post the answer, so that we may be enlightened too. > (and the web archive can file it for anyone else with the same > question.) Of couse, how selfish of me! http://www.wlug.org.nz/NewZealandLinuxMirrors has a good list. ftp.tranzpeer.net was the one I had in the back of my brain though. Jus

RE: NZ Mirror

2003-09-24 Thread Steve Bell
Never mind, answered my own question from the Wellington LUG. Cheers! > -Original Message- > From: Steve Bell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 10:08 AM > To: Linux > Subject: NZ Mirror > > > Hi > > I've been looking

NZ Mirror

2003-09-24 Thread Steve Bell
Hi I've been looking in the archives for a NZ mirror for Redhat, but can't find anything that still seems to be active. Could anyone throw me a bone here? Reasons: using mdk9.1, doesn't like my new HP2300c scanner. Recognizes, but says "not supported in this ver of mdk". Thought I'd try somet

News article today on Tellycom's broadband stance...

2003-08-27 Thread Steve Bell
Thought you lot might be interested in this, in light of recent gripes... New Zealand is near the bottom of the ladder of developed countries with high-speed telecommunications – and Telecom is to blame, according to Ewen Sutherland, executive director of the International Telecommunications Users

RE: ADSL modems or routers

2003-07-28 Thread Steve Bell
One word - "no." Sorry to hear they got you too. If you ever find a solution, please do let me know!!! > This is exactly the same as my experience. Do you think Telecom will get > their act together? > > Rob > -Original Message----- > From: Steve B

RE: ADSL modems or routers

2003-07-28 Thread Steve Bell
We have a D-link DSL 501, which worked sweet as with maybe one disconnection for over a year. Then smellycom changed their (nokia I think) old hardware to new Alcatel stuff at the exchanges, and ever since then we've had issues with it disconnecting and needing powering down at least once a week,

RE: Linux Applications

2003-06-22 Thread Steve Bell
Hi Adam You might know this already, so please 'scuse me if you do... Lots of distros like Mandrake come with lots of applications, word/excel compatible stuff, graphics editors, and a dozen or so games. Is this what you need, or what other types of apps and stuff are you looking for? Steve -

RE: ISO question?

2003-06-19 Thread Steve Bell
> If dey donna match den you gotta problemo!! What a PITA. I give up. As someone said yesterday, sneakernet to ecaf. Cheers all

RE: ISO question?

2003-06-19 Thread Steve Bell
> Check that the md5sum on the file which you downloaded is correct > making sure > that you get the said md5sum from the Mandrake site. Thanks for your advice... I dloaded the md5sum from ftp.debian.co.nz that was with the MDK9.1 files. I googled for what the heck to do with it, and ran "md5sum

ISO question?

2003-06-19 Thread Steve Bell
Hi All I've downloaded MDK9.1 twice now, the first one from ftp.tranzpeer.net and just now from > > http://debian.co.nz/?page=download and the ISO seems to not like me. I am dling on a PC using CuteFTP, and was hoping to use Nero to burn, but nero doesn't recognize it as a proper iso. I tried t

RE: good ftp site?

2003-06-09 Thread Steve Bell
Thanks! Like a charm. > ftp.tranzpeer.net > > |ben > > Steve Bell said: > > Hi > > > > Sorry to interrupt the Gentoo vs BSD vs Mandrake fight, I just have an > > unrelated question... > > > > Where's a good place to download MDK 9.1 iso&

good ftp site?

2003-06-09 Thread Steve Bell
Hi Sorry to interrupt the Gentoo vs BSD vs Mandrake fight, I just have an unrelated question... Where's a good place to download MDK 9.1 iso's? I tried leaving the Jetstart 128k going over the weekend to planetmirror.com.au, but not reliable. Can someone suggest a good free d/l site? Thanks he

RE: Inkjet printers - Recommendations?

2003-06-03 Thread Steve Bell
Hi Lance The Canon S520 has 4 seperate ink tanks (CMYK), and is economical. I have the Canon S4500, which is the (slightly older) A3 version. It's fantastic. The print head is separate to the ink cartridge, (as opposed to built in, like many other brands, including older Canon's). The colour pr

CD's/speed

2003-05-27 Thread Steve Bell
FWIW, I occasionally send CDs to Stebbings or Software Images to be duplicated onto pressed CD's. They accept CD's written at only 1-2x. They 'clover check' (whatever the heck that is) all CD's before making the glass master, and they find that 4x+ contains too many errors. I also find with the

RE: Julia's Laptop/winmodem - update (Was: Good News for winmodems: mandrake 9.1)

2003-04-02 Thread Steve Bell
> Then when it got to "Logging onto network", it spat the dummy, I uncheck "logon to network" on my windows box, and it connects much faster. I don't know the ins and outs of that, I just know it does. (Sorry in advance if this is a dumb answer).

RE: Server-Side Spyware: Red Sheriff

2003-04-02 Thread Steve Bell
For my 2c worth, even Macromedia Freehand's webbrowser based help needs Java to run properly. I reckon the 'governing bodies' (whoever the heck they are) should make rules about what is ethcial with java. (the same guys who make rules about unsubscribes/spam, I mean.) >From my limited understand

RE: OT - Clothing ID tags

2003-03-12 Thread Steve Bell
I burnt a pair of socks drying them in the microwave. 1 min is fine. 2 min cooks them. Microwave smelled for a week or two. Haha, what an idiot! > -Original Message- > From: Wayne Rooney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 13 March 2003 10:53 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject:

RE: Splitting an AVI file

2003-03-11 Thread Steve Bell
Does VirtualDub run under WINE? Might do it. > -Original Message- > From: Vik Olliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 12 March 2003 16:28 > To: CLUG > Subject: Splitting an AVI file > > > I need to split an AVI or MPEG file up into individual frames in > JPG/PNG/TGA format.

RE: Anyone on CLUG tried Flash booting?

2003-02-16 Thread Steve Bell
> Very cool - but I'd want a sound output for what I want :) > And a 12 V PSU (can anyone guess what I want to do?) Hmm. Does it involve wheels? I've thought about that too, but mp3 players for cars are getting real cheap. Guess there's nothing like doin' it yourself though.

RE: Is the antichrist one of us? (getting more OT...)

2003-02-13 Thread Steve Bell
> ps: stop searching for the antichrist, for christ himself has returned > more then 150 years ago. And who was that, praytell?

RE: My presentation at the meeting 31 March 03

2003-02-13 Thread Steve Bell
Come on Christopher, many of us copy tracks onto the HDD quite legally, for completely legit purposes. Not everyone is dark and conniving. Someone is really thinking about newbies and what they might want to learn! If this keeps up, I might actually come to a meeting. Cheers, Steve

RE: Ardour with Gentoo or SuSe

2003-02-12 Thread Steve Bell
Volker, do you happen to have that vers of SuSE? > The version on SuSE may be from August, but you'll have it running in a > minute. Good enough for a first look.

RE: Ardour with Gentoo or SuSe

2003-02-11 Thread Steve Bell
What is Apt Get? (If it's CLI, please don't answer that qn!)

compiling Ardour

2003-02-11 Thread Steve Bell
I think I'll skip on SuSE if it's so old. Sooo, if I installed RH8 or Mandrake how tricky is it (for a beginner) to install Jack, libsndfile, & LADSPA? Could the list talk me thru an Ardour compile. Or am I dreaming unless I've done a computer science degree? Cheers Steve

Ardour with Gentoo or SuSe

2003-02-11 Thread Steve Bell
So, Nick and Volker, are you saying that if I install Gentoo or SuSe, I get Ardour installed too? Can I do that as straight from the install CD, or do I still need to "compile" it somehow? Maybe install from source and compile as it goes? Really sorry if this is a dumb qn, as you can see, I reall

Musicians - Ardour/ProTools

2003-02-11 Thread Steve Bell
Woohoo. Some of those music links look excellent. Muso's, I work in a studio on ProTools, and I would be very keen to try out Ardour http://ardour.sourceforge.net/ on Linux. However, I'm not the world's best linux user. In fact, I suck, frankly, frustrating even myself. Is anyone in Chch who c

RE: HTML vs WYSIWYG

2003-01-30 Thread Steve Bell
David A. Mann said... > When people pay for web designers they get web *designers*. Not coders. > The emphasis is on design, layout and navigation which is why a lot of > web designers have a background in graphic design. WYSIWYG tools are > there to abstract the design from the code. As such, t

HTML vs WYSIWYG

2003-01-29 Thread Steve Bell
To me, trying to code a visually stimulating website in HTML compares to trying to code a glossy brochure layout. That "unnecessary" html that DW sticks in is necessary for one reason: To make the web (web design) accessible to Joe Average, like me. Heck, sorry I'm still continuing this OT debat

RE: Dreamweaver

2003-01-29 Thread Steve Bell
Just to put in my 2c worth, I have used Dreamweaver for several versions. And in the midst of a list of programmers, gurus, and geeks, I'm taking a risk saying this ('specially with a lynching mob on the loose), but I *hate* code. I can work it out basically when I HAVE to. And I know this is wa

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