Re: Fedora 7 dvd image checksum

2007-08-07 Thread Steve Holdoway
I'll check I've still got one, and get back to you... \ On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:41:57 +1200 Adrian Mageanu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok if I'll come by tomorrow to pick it up? I'm kind of nervous to install it from my copy. Adrian On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 21:28 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote

Re: Fedora 7 dvd image checksum

2007-08-07 Thread Steve Holdoway
Sorry, my FC7 dvd image is corrupt as well. The best I can offer is an FC7 live cd.OR FC5 or FC6 dvd (: Steve On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:57:34 +1200 Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll check I've still got one, and get back to you... \ On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:41:57 +1200 Adrian Mageanu

Re: missing space??

2007-08-07 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:56:54 +1200 Reg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a fairly basic installation of Open Suse with KDE on a 40gig hard drive. When I say basic install I mean I have a few games and open office and Thunderbird etc. that installed when I installed Open Suse. I read somewhere

Re: missing space??

2007-08-07 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:15:19 +1200 Reg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Holdoway wrote: On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:56:54 +1200 Reg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a fairly basic installation of Open Suse with KDE on a 40gig hard drive. When I say basic install I mean I have a few games

Re: Red Flag Linux

2007-08-03 Thread Steve Holdoway
No, I didn't. In fact, I've just been reading exactly the opposite. http://www.osnews.com/story.php/18355/Microsofts-Big-Win-in-China Steve On Sat, 04 Aug 2007 11:08:50 +1200 Chevhq Car [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I would assume most people know by now that the Chineese Government has

Re: compaq laptop- install didnt go to plan

2007-08-03 Thread Steve Holdoway
So, it's all still there after all! You need up update your grub menu to provide the option to choose it: sudo vi +$ /boot/grub/menu.lst o ( at this point the kernel will be on a new line at the end of the file ) title Windows Vista rootnoverify(hd0,1) makeactive

Re: compaq laptop- install didnt go to plan

2007-08-03 Thread Steve Holdoway
Sorry, that should have been (hd0,0), not (hd0,1)! Steve On Sat, 04 Aug 2007 12:49:42 +1200 Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, it's all still there after all! You need up update your grub menu to provide the option to choose it: sudo vi +$ /boot/grub/menu.lst o ( at this point

Re: Advice on building PC?

2007-08-02 Thread Steve Holdoway
The only real problem with rolling your own is that it's prohibitively expensive, unless you're building a really top-end machine. The buying power of hardly normal, etc is really difficult to improve on. Alternatively, playing around in the bins in PC-unlimited may well be an option. The most

Re: Advice on building PC?

2007-08-02 Thread Steve Holdoway
...not in the last 20 years, no. Just ground yourself on the case before plugging anything else in. Steve On Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:51:08 +1200 Christopher D Maher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody actually use anti static wrist straps? CM Entrepreneur Pieroth Wine Executive XBox 360

Re: Advice on building PC?

2007-08-02 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:14:24 +1200 (NZST) Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, August 3, 2007 4:03 pm, Steve Holdoway wrote: ...not in the last 20 years, no. Just ground yourself on the case before plugging anything else in. Steve I use it more now that I have carpet. When we

mrtg/rrd

2007-08-01 Thread Steve Holdoway
Does anyone know of anything better than these tools to monitor server loads and the like? Not that I'm denigrating Tobias's work in any way, it's just that I've been using these for 10 years or so, and may have missed out on something newer! Cheers, Steve

Re: Internet without a phone?

2007-07-31 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 13:18:09 +1200 (NZST) Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to get the internet without paying for a voice connection in ChCh, or do we have to wait for unbundling to really bite? This is an enquiry on behalf of a friend who will be living in Sumner, with no

Re: Sabayon 3.4

2007-07-30 Thread Steve Holdoway
Your dhcp server should be providing the gateway as well. try route -n on both the server and client, and if no gateway is set on the client, route add default gw ip address Steve On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:22:05 +1200 Robert Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 30 July 2007 9:14 pm, Nick

Re: Sabayon 3.4

2007-07-30 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:51:43 +1200 Robert Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 30 July 2007 10:48 pm, Nick Rout wrote: /etc/resolv.conf nameserver x.x.x.x BUT if you are using dhcp it should be getting set! Yes it is and it is identical to the host. can you ssh to the

Re: compaq laptop- install didnt go to plan

2007-07-29 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:10:29 +1200 thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello fellow linux users I just tried to install ubuntu 6.06 on my partners laptop to run with its vista system but now no vista... when is the next gathering so maybe I could get help to redeem my self. as with

Re: compaq laptop- install didnt go to plan

2007-07-29 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:05:43 +1200 Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But surely (I'm guessing) the laptop come with a boot disk for situations where the start menu entry for a restore can't be used? That may be all that is needed. What vendors now do is to provide you with the ability

Re: compaq laptop- install didnt go to plan

2007-07-29 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:29:15 +1200 Robert Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 30 July 2007 5:03 pm, Robert Fisher wrote: If the recovery partition is still there, F11 (on a Compaq laptop) at boot time will probably allow you to return the laptop to the factory settings. (I just

Re: compaq laptop- install didnt go to plan

2007-07-29 Thread Steve Holdoway
Does it install as a live dvd? I must admit to only having checked one of the copies I made ): On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:41:21 +1200 Robert Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 30 July 2007 5:31 pm, Steve Holdoway wrote: We seem to have made an awful lot of suggestions, but the OP's gone

Re: What distributions should I download tonight?

2007-07-28 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 11:16:55 +1200 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Holdoway wrote: On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:00:18 +1200 Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:10:50 +1200 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Holdoway wrote

Re: What distributions should I download tonight?

2007-07-28 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 11:54:24 +1200 Robert Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 29 July 2007 11:34 am, Steve Holdoway wrote: Yup, that's what I've downloaded. There's a copy for you in the office... I'll drop it off tomorrow. Have you moved??? Steve PS. I recommend running

Re: Clug domain renewal time

2007-07-27 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:21:37 +1200 Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Agreed, but please could somebody with more appreciation of the DNS system than I elucidate on why we need two domain names? the .net (.nz) domains were originally intended for the exclusive use of isps,

Re: IM service of choice?

2007-07-26 Thread Steve Holdoway
gaim is now pidgin... http://sourceforge.net/projects/pidgin/ if not directly supported by your distro. Steve On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:51:41 +1200 (NZST) Chris Hellyar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi-ho, This is only 'sorta' a Linux question, but I thought the learned clug crowd would have a

Re:

2007-07-26 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 03:04:18 +1200 Raffael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, my name is Raffael and I am a studying comp. science at the UC. For a postgrad. research project I would like to investigate the use of open source software for secure communication in a business

Re: Clug domain renewal time

2007-07-26 Thread Steve Holdoway
The Green Gecko's happy to sponsor a couple of year at freeparking... on condition that the 5 line footer rule is reinstated. I support those companies ( especially Kiwi ones! ) that provide me with exemplary service, and Freeparking is one of them ( in all of it's webfarm guises ). Not

Re: Clug domain renewal time

2007-07-26 Thread Steve Holdoway
lines of guff at the end of an email, especially when it's advertising irrelevant sites and services. It makes more sense when top-posting is banned, of course, but that's another kettle of fish, and the top post nazis really hack me off too! Steve and the rule is ?? Steve Holdoway wrote

Re: What distributions should I download tonight?

2007-07-25 Thread Steve Holdoway
I've got CentOS 3.8, 4.4 and 5.0 ( IIRC 5.0 in 64 bit too ), and am currently downloading Sabayon 3.4 x86 dvd if anyone's interested. On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:26:58 +1200 Wesley Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 24 July 2007 18:01, Phill Coxon wrote: Hi everyone, I have 9Gig of

Re: What distributions should I download tonight?

2007-07-25 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:00:18 +1200 Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:10:50 +1200 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Holdoway wrote: Sabayon please (again). When was 3.4 released? A couple of days ago... July 24th, to be exact. It'll

Re: What distributions should I download tonight?

2007-07-25 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:10:50 +1200 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Holdoway wrote: Sabayon please (again). When was 3.4 released? A couple of days ago...

Re: Inconvenient check forced

2007-07-23 Thread Steve Holdoway
man tunefs - you will have to check *before* umounting, though (: On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:01:28 +1200 Kerry Mayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to bypass the sdb1 mounted 30 times check forced? I took my machine to a client today and was forced to wait five minutes while it

Re: Inconvenient check forced

2007-07-23 Thread Steve Holdoway
Sorry, tune2fs - this is a solution for ext2 / ext3 partitions. On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:13:18 +1200 Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: man tunefs - you will have to check *before* umounting, though (: On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:01:28 +1200 Kerry Mayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: deleting oldest files

2007-07-23 Thread Steve Holdoway
Sorry, that should be ls -ltr to put them in reverse time order. Of course, you can use ls -lt and head as an alternative (: Steve On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:03:13 +1200 Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ls -1r | tail -n xxx | xargs rm -f should do it ( or similar - the tail -n syntax

Re: deleting oldest files

2007-07-23 Thread Steve Holdoway
Need more coffee. ls -1tr - 1 entry per line, t ime order, r eversed. 3rd time lucky? On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:04:37 +1200 Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, that should be ls -ltr to put them in reverse time order. Of course, you can use ls -lt and head as an alternative

Re: Tech bookstore in Chch?

2007-07-23 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:38:40 +1200 Andrew Errington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:05, you wrote: Hi As new citizen of Christcurch I was looking for programming, and tech-stuff books in the varies bookstore I happened to sumbeleupon. Little - none books did I find. Is

Re: [OT] Can anyone recommend a computer repair shop

2007-07-20 Thread Steve Holdoway
if it's a full size pwu, i've got a few 20 pin ones at work if you want to try... On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 16:13:28 +1200 Timothy Musson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Yesterday a friend of a friend asked me to take a look at his computer, a HP Pavilion 510a (~5 years old), which does absolutely

Re: Speaking of Amarok

2007-07-19 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:45:15 +1200 Chris Downie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] was rumoured to say: Amarok seems to need the file extensions, so rename auberge to auberge.ogg and see if it appears. Col Ah ha. Of course it would have to be something as simple as that. And

Re: sharing a printer / Open Suse / KDE / with XP computers

2007-07-19 Thread Steve Holdoway
samba will do that for you... On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:27:39 +1200 Reg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just added a local printer to my Open Suse Computer via Yast and all was straight forward, works fine locally. How do I go about sharing this printer on my XP based computers on my local

Re: sharing a printer / Open Suse / KDE / with XP computers

2007-07-19 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:26:47 +1200 (NZST) Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, July 20, 2007 1:19 pm, Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, July 20, 2007 12:27 pm, Reg wrote: I have just added a local printer to my Open Suse Computer via Yast and all was straight forward, works fine locally.

Re: Using a laptop to extend the X display

2007-07-18 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:29:04 +1200 Kerry Mayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Synergy has been a hit with the IT guys at work, it shares the keyboard and mouse across multiple machines connected by a lan. They can be linux or windows as well - nice to copy text from a window on the windows machine

Re: Reminder: CLUG Installfest SFD

2007-07-18 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:57:45 +1200 Jim Cheetham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19/07/07, Rik Tindall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very happy to put up an http://www.infohelp.co.nz/clug too, in the interim, if required. Anything we can do for http://www.clug.net.nz Jim? ETA? - Its absence is

Re: Copying bootable CD's

2007-07-13 Thread Steve Holdoway
Err... that's *all* I use. I have no problem. I usually save an iso image and them burn it, but only because I find that storing stuff in that format is simpler than anything else. Steve On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:14:55 +1200 Robert Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I usually use K3B for CD

Re: html forms coding

2007-07-12 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:07:43 +1200 barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for an interesting talk last tuesday Zane.Are you making your sample scripts available anywhere? Now my query...I am writing a script which uses a form to pass variables to another html file display selected data

Re: html forms coding

2007-07-12 Thread Steve Holdoway
Easiest way is a href=javascript:window.close();Clese/a or a href=# onclick=javascript:window.close();Close/a Steve On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:47:51 +1200 barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Holdoway wrote: On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:07:43 +1200 barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: html forms coding

2007-07-12 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 06:25:05 +1200 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Holdoway wrote: Easiest way is a href=javascript:window.close();Clese/a This one appears to be fawlty :-) Well, I'll not haggle about that, even if I'm supposed to.

Re: html forms coding

2007-07-12 Thread Steve Holdoway
Hey, I was at work by then (: On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:17:10 +1200 barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Geeez, don't you guys sleep???. Thanks Steve the 2nd one works just fine. Its the 1st time i've use javascript btw. Thanks, Barry --- Steve Holdoway wrote: Easiest

Re: Web site to build

2007-07-10 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:08:13 +1200 Brenda Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recommend this crowd: http://silverstripe.com They built their own CMS, then opensourced it. good home grown kiwi FOSS project Hmm, shame it's php 5. There's plenty of servers still not offering that. And their

Re: Web site to build

2007-07-10 Thread Steve Holdoway
, 10 Jul 2007 23:48:35 Christopher Sawtell wrote: Looks posh in firefox 3 to me. On 7/10/07, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:08:13 +1200 Brenda Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recommend this crowd: http://silverstripe.com They built their own

Re: NFS shares

2007-07-09 Thread Steve Holdoway
Personally, I'd never hard mount them. This can cause all sorts of timeout errors if the share goes awol. Here's an example from my main server, Ubuntu Edgy /etc/exports: /home/mm*.greengecko.co.nz(rw,no_root_squash) 10.0.0.0/24(rw,no_root_squash) 192.168.10.0/24(ro)

Re: GRUB fix

2007-07-09 Thread Steve Holdoway
minutes and identify some of the partitions. I presume the root device you list item 3. would be my hdc1 windows NTFS partition? Cheers Ralph Quoting Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1. Boot off a live linux cd 2. mkdir /target 3. mount /dev/root-device /target 4

Re: NFS shares

2007-07-09 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:36:00 +1200 Kerry Mayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get: 10 2 tcp 111 portmapper 10 2 udp 111 portmapper So from this I should conclude that the nfs ports on the server aren't open? And to fix it would be to do with portmap on the server?

Re: chroot to 64 bit... followup

2007-07-08 Thread Steve Holdoway
, Steve Holdoway wrote: Weird though - grub starts up, then bang. Bust be a 32 bit application. At that point the available program memory is measured in bytes, no space for detecting CPU capabilities. The consequence of failure are dire and I'd use only 80386 instructions

Re: chroot to 64 bit... followup

2007-07-06 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:01:44 +1200 Matthew Gregan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 2007-07-06T15:31:40+1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: Anyone know how to chroot to a 64 bit boot partition from a 32 bit host? I've just upgraded the motherboard/cpu/memory on this machine and it crashes on boot. Pain

Re: chroot to 64 bit... followup

2007-07-06 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Sat, 07 Jul 2007 10:08:11 +1200 Volker Kuhlmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat 07 Jul 2007 09:40:24 NZST +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Looks to me like you're getting hit with something like this: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2007-07/msg6.html Volker -- Volker

Re: no sound - browser plugins

2007-07-05 Thread Steve Holdoway
I had problems on my home PC ( an old shuttle ) when I enabled the on-board sound, but also used a PCI sound card for the 'all round' experience (the sound card failed and all I ended up with was the bass channel). It got confused, and when I disabled the sound in the bios, all then worked...

Re: GRUB fix

2007-07-05 Thread Steve Holdoway
1. Boot off a live linux cd 2. mkdir /target 3. mount /dev/root-device /target 4. (if you've got a separate boot device ) mount /dev/boot-device /target/boot 5. chroot /target /bin/bash 6. grub grub root hd(0,0) [ assuming first partition - adjust the second 0 accorgingly ] grub setup hd(0,0)

chroot to 64 bit...

2007-07-05 Thread Steve Holdoway
Anyone know how to chroot to a 64 bit boot partition from a 32 bit host? I've just upgraded the motherboard/cpu/memory on this machine and it crashes on boot. Pain... who needs it?

Re: chroot to 64 bit...

2007-07-05 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:58:10 +1200 Rex Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:31:40 +1200, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know how to chroot to a 64 bit boot partition from a 32 bit host? I've just upgraded the motherboard/cpu/memory on this machine

Re: Test your C knowledge here.

2007-07-01 Thread Steve Holdoway
Looks valid to me, but the real question is why anyone would ever want to? It would take a pretty disgruntled employee to leave stuff like that for their successor (: Well, they wouldn't write code like that if they had to maintain it themselves, would they? Steve On Sun, 01 Jul 2007

Re:

2007-06-24 Thread Steve Holdoway
I've got kubuntu 7.04 DVD and ubuntu alternate CD if either are any use? Steve On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:41:41 +1200 David Merrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I am currently updating my computer does anyone have the latest full version of Ubuntu on disc they can give me? -- David Merrick

Re: hardware queries

2007-06-21 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:51:07 +1200 Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am purchasing some hardware for a server on a small network and am a little unclear on a couple of points. It seems to be a popular suggestion in the windows world to NOT get 4GB of ram for a windows box due

Re: External Dial-up Modem

2007-06-21 Thread Steve Holdoway
Any external modem will work well, as you're just communicating serially. My favourite used to be USRobotics. The main problem may now be the lack of serial port on the pc - it seems to be a luxury on many motherboards these days! Steve On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:52:01 +1200 Aaron Christensen

Re: new recipient address?

2007-06-20 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:14:49 +1200 Kerry Mayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see. Comment field is still not available to me to filter on so that's nothing to do with the update. It's my use of gmail thats the issue with this one. I'll pull my head in now :-) On 21/06/07, Nick Rout [EMAIL

Re: Unable to access repositories for SimplyMEPIS 6.5

2007-06-19 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:22:16 +1200 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Holdoway wrote: This isn't really a good solution. 4.2.2.2 is level 3's own dns server. You really should be using the ones that your ISP provides instead. Can't you set the dhcp server on the router to set

Re: SQL and PHP

2007-06-18 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 01:04:53 +1200 Zane Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick Rout wrote: snip It sounds like the same talk you gave last year. I have never given a talk about PHP or programming (except that Perl 10 min thing) Last year was about database design and SQL .. (I

Re: SQL and PHP

2007-06-18 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:18:14 +1200 David Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zane, I am giving a talk about SQL and possibly PHP at the next CLUG meeting. In an attempt to provide what people want, could you give me some indication of what you want to hear about? I'm looking forward to

Re: acessing files on a windows drive from linux

2007-06-15 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:57:29 +1200 Robert Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 15 June 2007 5:50 pm, Reg wrote: Nick Rout wrote: Well it is clearly mounted read/write (rw) so it is more likely a permissions thing. Who owns the files? Try ls -l /music and see who owns the files.

Re: acessing files on a windows drive from linux

2007-06-15 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 10:13:21 +1200 Reg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Fisher wrote: On Saturday 16 June 2007 9:14 am, Reg wrote: Tried that and got the following result: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ id uid=1000(reg) gid=100(users) groups=16(dialout),33(video),100(users) [EMAIL

Re: Out of network ports - what to do?

2007-06-14 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:55:00 +1200 (NZST) Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am out of ports at home on my 8 port switch (don't ask). 16 port switches seem disproportionately expensive. Is there a disadvantage in getting another 8 port switch and linking them together? I know I then end

Re: Out of network ports - what to do?

2007-06-14 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:47:12 +1200 Robert Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 15 June 2007 1:14 pm, David Kirk wrote: Robert's point about only being able to daisy chain up to 2 switches is incorrect. No I said 3 (three) but I cannot find documentation to back up what I had

Re: acessing files on a windows drive from linux

2007-06-14 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:17:43 +1200 Reg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have some music files on a windows drive on my dual boot suse / xp system . I can access these files and play them etc in Amarok, but I cant rename them from Suse. Am I meant to be able to do that? And if so what might be

Re: Reminder - meeting tomorrow, Video Editing DVD Production

2007-06-13 Thread Steve Holdoway
Sorry I couldn't make it Nick, it was one I wanted to see. Are there any notes available? Cheers, Steve On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:59:13 +1200 (NZST) Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a reminder that I will be presenting some info on Home Video Editing and DVD Production tomorrow night at

Re: UUIDs and ubuntu.

2007-06-13 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:38:52 +1200 Dave G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Fisher wrote: On Monday 11 June 2007 7:07 pm, Steve Holdoway wrote: A mixture of UATA, SATA and ( worst of all ) soft raid/SATA! Here is a link to a thread which is now up to 54 pages. I stopped

Re: Reminder - meeting tomorrow, Video Editing DVD Production

2007-06-13 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:00:40 +1200 Robert Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 13 June 2007 8:36 pm, Robert Fisher wrote: You missed a god and interesting presentation Steve. Actually, although I hold Nick in the highest regard, I did not mean to call him a god. Beat me to

Re: Networking With Suse and Samba

2007-06-12 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:49:46 +1200 (NZST) Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, June 12, 2007 3:13 pm, Roger Searle wrote: Robert Fisher wrote: On Tuesday 12 June 2007 2:17 pm, Reg wrote: You can also restart samba using SWAT How do you do that? I do not have SWAT

Re: Favourite online C resources

2007-06-12 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:15:41 +1200 (NZST) John Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Alas, when I began I used the Vax C and Borland Turbo C reference manuals. I don't believe they are online, I don't know. ... bad memories of writing interfaces into sys$quio's with C, when they were designed

Re: Networking With Suse and Samba

2007-06-11 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:26:35 +1200 Reg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I thought I had finally got my network totally setup and working, but today I find that although I can access both my XP computers shared files form my Linux one I cant access the Linux one from the XP ones. I have

UUIDs and ubuntu.

2007-06-11 Thread Steve Holdoway
Has anyone else had this problem - it's bitten me a couple of times now. Ubuntu now prefers to mount using a UUID rather than a mount point, but the B)%^(#%^y numbers change at random intervals, including at reboots. Is there any method of controlling this? I'm seriously considering scrapping

Re: UUIDs and ubuntu.

2007-06-11 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:58:02 +1200 Robert Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 11 June 2007 6:46 pm, Steve Holdoway wrote: Has anyone else had this problem - it's bitten me a couple of times now. Ubuntu now prefers to mount using a UUID rather than a mount point, but the B)%^(#%^y

Re: Networking With Suse and Samba

2007-06-11 Thread Steve Holdoway
there's a command called testparm which will validate the syntax, but I don't think that swat is capable of generating that... On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:16:12 +1200 Reg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Below is my smb.conf file: If anyone can tell me where my error is I would be very thankful. Regards

Re: Favourite online C resources

2007-06-11 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:08:54 +1200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm sure that this question has been posted previously, but I reckon it's safe to assume that the answer will not be perennially the same. I want to check out some C programming resources, but I do not necessarily want to

Re: == Meeting 12 June 2007 ==

2007-06-05 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 21:57:56 +1200 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No I am not. i am talking on editing DV video and writing DVD's. Pay attention Chris! But will it tell me why I can't talk to my ageing Canopn MV30 with kino, and what alternatives are available??? (: Steve

Re: == Meeting 12 June 2007 ==

2007-06-05 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:05:05 +1200 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Holdoway wrote: On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 21:57:56 +1200 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No I am not. i am talking on editing DV video and writing DVD's. Pay attention Chris! But will it tell me

Re: Why I went back to Mepis

2007-06-05 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:40:06 +1200 lyndon sutherland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What was an issue, nvidia drivers and that seemed to be a weirdity, usual process simply didn't work, but I suspect it was me rather than feisty as installing 'automatrix' and using it to install the nvidia drivers

Re: Feeling particularly stupid - secure updating web doc

2007-05-30 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Wed, 30 May 2007 22:00:27 +1200 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to have a script updating a web page. Basically it downloads a podcast file, amends some tags and saves it to a directory in apache's htdocs, (and from there I have other podcast reading software read it.) It

Re: Feeling particularly stupid - secure updating web doc

2007-05-30 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Thu, 31 May 2007 06:00:11 +1200 Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 May 2007 22:00:27 +1200 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to have a script updating a web page. Basically it downloads a podcast file, amends some tags and saves it to a directory in apache's

Re: GRUB hangs

2007-05-29 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Tue, 29 May 2007 17:47:47 +1200 Rohit Grover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Can you post the entry for the default kernel build ( there'll be a line, probably default 0, which is the first definition ) in /media/root/boot/grub/menu.lst? The default is set to 1 (the second entry in

Re: Dual Monitors WAS: Hardware graphics acceleration

2007-05-28 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Mon, 28 May 2007 19:49:56 +1200 Volker Kuhlmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon 28 May 2007 16:17:44 NZST +1200, Carl Cerecke wrote: Most of the time, if I can get back to a console, I can get X restarted without reboot. This is using an intel chipset on my laptop. In theory,

Re: GRUB hangs

2007-05-28 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Tue, 29 May 2007 17:18:35 +1200 Rohit Grover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm requesting help about a GRUB hang at boot. The Manifestation: The last couple of lines I see upon boot: GRUB Loading stage1.5. GRUB loading, please wait... The screen then fades out and comes back

Re: Dual Monitors WAS: Hardware graphics acceleration

2007-05-27 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Mon, 28 May 2007 15:57:40 +1200 Carl Cerecke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 28/05/07, Kerry Mayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, should have warned you! On 28/05/07, Roy Britten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow. Everything went black and I had to perform a power-off and restart in

Re: Project Management Software

2007-05-27 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Mon, 28 May 2007 17:35:37 +1200 Mike Pearce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Any recommendations for some good Free Linux based Project managament software? I have googled and alot of Non-Free ones appear, and many so called free ones are not actually free (Time limited and not

Re: grub with multiple linuxes and upgrades

2007-05-24 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Fri, 25 May 2007 17:07:10 +1200 Eliot Blennerhassett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, Lets say I have a bunch of partitions, one of which contains a working linux installation that uses grub to boot. linux1 Now I install another linux2 on another partition. In a friendly way, it

Re: grub with multiple linuxes and upgrades

2007-05-24 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Fri, 25 May 2007 17:25:40 +1200 Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Sorry hit the send key too soon... brain fading. With feisty ( and other debian releases at least ), all entries after that magic line are kept over upgrades to address this annoying problem. If this isn't

Re: IBM AIX 6.1 Open Beta

2007-05-23 Thread Steve Holdoway
You mean Slowlaris 8, 9 or 10??? Very little has really come out of the OpenSolaris programme, apart from a decent new debugger, really. IMO it's no more than a publicity stunt. I just wish it wasn't thus ): Steve On Wed, 23 May 2007 19:52:51 +1200 (NZST) Wesley Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IBM AIX 6.1 Open Beta

2007-05-23 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Wed, 23 May 2007 20:52:09 +1200 Wesley Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oops, I forgot the URL: http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/aix/6/beta.html [snip] I was just about to start downloading to play at work tomorrow, then... Participants can install the open beta version of AIX 6 on IBM

Re: Could we have a warning next time...???

2007-05-21 Thread Steve Holdoway
: Did the rest of us miss something? On 21/05/07, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know how many others have been un/resubscribed to the list, but it would have been nice to have been warned first!!! Steve -- CM Entrepreneur, Pieroth Wine Executive

Re: Could we have a warning next time...???

2007-05-21 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Mon, May 21, 2007 7:36 pm, Michael wrote: Steve Holdoway wrote: Sheesh! Forcibly unsubscribed... and I thought I was a drama Queen ;-) Dunno what else to call it really... and that's the first time I've ever been called that! Hippo in a tutu is probably the closest I'd get. (: Steve

Re: having trouble setting up php for apache2

2007-05-21 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Sun, 20 May 2007 21:53:08 +1200 Jim Cheetham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Basically, in the real world, fast patching is not a panacea. -jim Sure, but I said that you need the ability to patch immediately if necessary, which does not mean indescriminately, or without your own

Re: having trouble setting up php for apache2

2007-05-20 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Sun, 20 May 2007 20:15:35 +1200 Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] A tiny amount of googling/research would have told you that the config file changed drastically when version 2 was released. I suspect that this is one of the most significant reasons that version 2 hasn't been

Could we have a warning next time...???

2007-05-20 Thread Steve Holdoway
I don't know how many others have been un/resubscribed to the list, but it would have been nice to have been warned first!!! Steve

So there some benefits from the Novell/Microsoft alliance after all!

2007-05-20 Thread Steve Holdoway
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070518124020691 Save them vouchers!!!

Re: having trouble setting up php for apache2

2007-05-19 Thread Steve Holdoway
libapache2-mod-php5 Do an apt-cache search libapache2 for a list of all the precompiled modules for apache. Alternatively, you can build from scratch - not that I recommend it. Steve On Sun, 20 May 2007 15:03:51 +1200 Rohit Grover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have recently

<    2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   >