Re: Slightly OT - Getting Telstra to admit there is a problem :(

2007-11-27 Thread lyndon sutherland
Nope. Seeing the same. Cheers L Jonathan Bell wrote: > Robert Macdonald wrote: >> >> -- >> Sent from my T-Mobile Sidekick® > Am I the only one to get nothing from these messages? >

Re: Feisty to Gutsy upgrade : Notes to self...

2007-10-23 Thread lyndon sutherland
Hi, Kerry Mayes wrote: > 1. smbfs is uninstalled and not replaced. Easy fixed. Didn't happen to me, things keep right on keeping on. > 2. VMware Server from the feisty repos has not been upgraded. Only > solution was to uninstall and install from a download from vmware. > Relatively easily fi

Re: Feisty to Gutsy upgrade : Notes to self...

2007-10-23 Thread lyndon sutherland
I guess I am fortunate that I use transparent caching and had no issues, though seems to be some issues with the repos since with packages failing to download and requiring a second or sometimes third attempt to get them. Still, overall I was happy with the upgrade results. Cheers L John Carter

Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon - Results on upgrade

2007-10-17 Thread lyndon sutherland
Hi, Took the plunge this morning and did an upgrade from 7.04 to 7.10 using the 'update-manager'. It delivered one error during the upgrade but it doesn't appear to have caused any issue. Box rebooted fine after upgrade and everything appears to work. I was using Beryl-Emerald prior to upgrade an

Re: Pre-Order Official Gutsy CDs Now

2007-10-09 Thread lyndon sutherland
Yep, just ordered mine and noticed that. I think the last release (7.04) also reduced the number of CDs able to be ordered from the number available at the previous release. Like most people, I download the .iso but it is always handy to have a few known good copies of the CD around. Also handy to

Re: eBay: Phishers getting better organised, using Linux

2007-10-08 Thread lyndon sutherland
The comments that seemed accurate in the original article were those from Symantec. That the botnet zombies are almost (if not) all Windows machines whereas Linux machines tend to be favored as C&C hosts for the botnets. That sounds reasonably accurate to me. Cheers L Steve Holdoway wrote: > O

Re: Interesting wiki spam

2007-10-01 Thread lyndon sutherland
OT perhaps, but a wonderful little story none the less. A very similar storm erupted some time ago over a vulnerability in wireless drivers. IIRC and ironically enough, George Ou was involved in that one too (though I think he was actually trying to be one of the good guys). As to being sloppy, if

Re: PFSense

2007-06-05 Thread lyndon sutherland
Hi, One LAN and one WAN only I think. The WAN interface has some special settings for various services, the LAN interface is I suspect more a matter of simplicity and is in part only a name. Setting up other interfaces is certainly possible, they come up as OPT1 (Optional) etc and can be configure

Re: Why I went back to Mepis

2007-06-05 Thread lyndon sutherland
Yep, I agree. After upgrading my edgy box to feisty, I was curious at how a clean install would go, and did one on a drive with two existing partitions, one windows, and the other, a previous install of dapper. Feisty asked me would I like to resize the linux partition and install into the space c

Re: You're all no doubt hackers

2007-05-24 Thread lyndon sutherland
Carter wrote: On Fri, 25 May 2007, lyndon sutherland wrote: http://stuff.co.nz/4071776a28.html "SYDNEY: There are more computer hackers per head of population in New Zealand than anywhere else apart from Britain, a new report on "cybervandalism" across 10 countries has found."

You're all no doubt hackers

2007-05-24 Thread lyndon sutherland
http://stuff.co.nz/4071776a28.html "SYDNEY: There are more computer hackers per head of population in New Zealand than anywhere else apart from Britain, a new report on "cybervandalism" across 10 countries has found." Must be a slow news day, it also seems like a crock to assert the high num

Re: M$ FUD or Patent Armageddon Now?

2007-05-13 Thread lyndon sutherland
I'm only surprised it has taken MS this long to actually foist a law suit. Patent litigation in itself is big business in the US but in the case of MS there is probably a dual purpose, either profit from, or attempt to end the creeping encroachment of Linux on their revenue. They have been thre

Re: Thank you

2007-05-13 Thread lyndon sutherland
As a matter of curiosityWhen using 'fish', do any of you enter your username and password...like fish://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ? If so, does the browser history show the password in clear text? I was just playing with Firefox using ftp://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED] and sure enough, the browser

Re: OT: Telstra usage meter

2007-05-10 Thread lyndon sutherland
You have now used 1,790 additional block[s] of usage, on your TelstraClear HighSpeed Internet plan for the period to 05/2007. Additional usage blocks are charged at $2.95 per block of 1,024 megabytes, regardless of the number of megabytes you use from that block. About $5700 worth here. A fri

Re: [Fwd: Re: broadband with ubuntu]

2007-05-09 Thread lyndon sutherland
I am using 'Tiger', use the terminal, icon found in 'Applications/Utilities'. 'ifconfig en0' will get you the ethernet interface details 'netstat -r' will get you routing 'scutil --dns' will show the dns resolvers configured Cheers L Matthew Whiting wrote: i'm keen to solve this problem, rega

Re: BBC NEWS | Technology | Linux evolves for mobile phones

2007-05-08 Thread lyndon sutherland
Indeed. While not strictly related to Ubuntu. Does the general public really have any idea of the impact Linux has had on the IT industry in general? How many startups are using Linux as the base operating system for their appliances for example? In my experience, lots. Linux (IMHO) pave

Re: Ubuntu upgrade to 7.04 gone to sleep

2007-05-03 Thread lyndon sutherland
There's been quite a few issues with that, the ubuntu forums provide much info it. http://ubuntuforums.org/search.php?searchid=19429995 URL is to the forums searching for "update-initramfs" If it doesn't work, just use ubuntuforums.org and search for it. Cheers L PS, my upgrade to Feisty app

Re: Real-Time 'bus timetable

2007-05-03 Thread lyndon sutherland
Works with IE 6 (on XP) sort of, after installing the SVG viewer. No luck with Firefox under Windows. Cheers L Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Thursday 03 May 2007 19:26:05 Kerry Mayes wrote: But SVG doesn't seem to work under Feisty either. At least, it won't run that site that started this t

Re: Hello and.....

2007-05-02 Thread lyndon sutherland
ted things), seeing IE on the Linux desktop seems somehow, perverse. Cheers L Eliot Blennerhassett wrote: lyndon sutherland wrote: If only it were that simple. But there are users and there are users who are less than users ;) But seriously, you really expect a Linux neophyte to grasp Synapti

Re: Hello and.....

2007-05-02 Thread lyndon sutherland
owning the desktop is about, not having to know, a la Windows or double click the executable installer? Have you never met people who really don't even know what a zip file, let alone a .tar.gz or .deb file, is? Cheers L Robert Fisher wrote: On Thursday 03 May 2007 10:55 am, lyndon suthe

Re: Hello and.....

2007-05-02 Thread lyndon sutherland
In regard to Dell making Ubuntu an option, end users really have little (if anything) to do as most common packages will be installed, Ubuntu configured for the hardware and lcd etc etc. Synaptic might be a little bit much (read too complex) for new users, but there is the simplistic applicat

Re: BBC NEWS | Business | Dell to use Ubuntu on Linux PCs

2007-05-01 Thread lyndon sutherland
Oddly enough, there's an OS X version floating around on some torrent sites that will reputedly install onto PC's with Intel and AMD CPUs that support SSE2 or SSE3. You can find more information on such things here: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page I have spoken with one p

Re: A newbie to the list

2007-04-30 Thread lyndon sutherland
Hi, Roger Searle wrote: Hi Lyndon, welcome to the CLUG list. Which stands for what ever you like. There are a couple of hundred people subscribed to the list, I believe, though only 10 or 15 % ever post messages. Plently of people use k/ubuntu here, and I know there are plenty of others usin

A newbie to the list

2007-04-30 Thread lyndon sutherland
Greetings all, I'm new to the list so saying "Hi". I've played with Linux for a few years, currently using at home an Ubuntu desktop (XFCE) and also a machine running the Ubuntu server version. I quite like Ubuntu. As a matter of curiosity, I just upgraded the desktop machine to Feisty (7.04)