Daniel Hill wrote:
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Jack_(plugin)
Ooh, i can has cheezburger?
Thanks Daniel, i'll give it a whorl.
Cheers, Rex
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Kerry Mayes wrote:
As a gnome user, I just use "exaile". Probably doesn't meet Rex'
exacting demands but it plays all the formats I want and includes
My exacting standards are
1) doesn't crash, or if it only infrequently does, reloads its playli
If i had time i'd volunteer to maintain xmms. Oh well.
Cheers, Rex
cides to create another
instance when the song changes, so i'm replumbing jack all the time.
Those are the main suck points.
No, i can't use alsa or pulse or any of the other outputs, my open
baffle desktop speakers need shelving EQ, for which i'm using jack-rack.
Yeah, OK, i'm an unreformed ex-audio geek.
Rex
xmms went away and it's replacement, audacious, sux soo much it isn't
funny. xmms2 is a music server, and nothing like xmms.
Rex
oblem you were having with too many open
conenctions.. sshfs.
Cheers Mate.
Rex
Phill Coxon wrote:
The main reason I've been using KUbuntu is for sftp: access in konqueror
so I can copy and edit files on remote sites live.
I'm guessing Nautalis must do the same thing these days - can anyone
confirm?
Yep.
Cheers, Rex
d up version of fedora that was there.
Anyway, what was the last thing in that error file?
You might also try logging in using failsafe and into a terminal, type
gnome-session.
Cheers, Rex
.d for the script that runs *after* wicd (they are run
in ascii string order), chuck an "exit 0" at the top of it.
OK, that's enuf for now.
Cheers, Rex
Kerry Mayes wrote:
I can ctrl+alt+F1 to get a terminal screen and I can log in via ssh.
What's in ~/.xsession-errors ?
Cheers, Rex
otherwise stick
with vim (apparently it's crunchy).
Rex
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
2009/2/2 Wesley Parish :
Yes, my turntable's part of a single-unit stereo outfit.
So, presumably it hasn't got a line output socket?
Or even a headphone socket.
Rex
Question: if he does this to a friend - what happens to the people this
guy does not like?
stty intr ^M
B^)
Rex
Robert Fisher wrote:
Well I am on the opposite side of town to Dave so if I am closer and anyone
would like any of:-
And i have mythbuntu 8.10 Alternate for AMD64 if anyone is up Murchison
way (an hour south of Nelson).
Cheers, Rex
el modules for usb/serial converters, nfs, ... that should have been
there but were missing and more. I still haven't figured out what keeps
clobbering /etc/hosts, it's probably that stupid network manager thing.
I wish _that_ came with ubuntu installed.
Rex
from it. yum is
no substitute for apt*, package dependencies on files were always a bad
idea and messing about with an old rpm based distro is more than merely
annoying.
There, _THAT_ is flamebait.
Rex
t now
kIll (send SIGKILL to all processes),
Unmount (remount all filesystems read-only)
reBoot
Cheers, Rex
Roger Searle wrote:
Do you also have the libflash-mozplugin package installed?
Roger
Derek Smithies wrote:
Hi,
On Sat, 3 May 2008, Rex Johnston wrote:
Derek Smithies wrote:
I have just updated two machines at home to HH. Now, some of the
neopet pages and games don't work. You ha
there done that. You'll have to raise some skinny elephants :)
Cheers, Rex
that license.
.
Homepage: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/FlashPlayer9
Npp-Applications: ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384,
92650c4d-4b8e-4d2a-b7eb-24ecf4f6b63a, aa5ca914-c309-495d-91cf-3141bbb04115
Npp-Mimetype: application/x-shockwave-flash
Npp-Name: Adobe Flash Player (installer)
Bugs: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Origin: Ubuntu
Cheers, Rex
You are better off doing this...
ping -c 1 $SYNHOST
if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
...
fi
Cheers, Rex
Kerry Mayes wrote:
I'm having difficulty with the following script:
SYNHOST=caalt04
if echo `ping -c 1 $SYNHOST` | grep -q "1 received"; then
echo 'Synergy connected';
John Carter wrote:
The nz.archive.ubuntu.com mirror seems to be down
Not for me.
Cheers, Rex
ipe sign symbol '|' immediately to the left of
cdrao has he?
I could be wrong, but i don't think so. It's been years since i used
vcdimager. I use devede these days.
Cheers, Rex
Barry wrote:
vcdimager -t vcd2 -l "Muddleton-4" -c Muddleton.cue -b Muddleton.bin
muddleton-4.mpg cdrdao write --device 1.0.0 Muddleton.cue
Looks like you have 2 commands in there. Try splitting off cdrdao ...
into a separate command.
Cheers, Rex
elf destruct in such a way as to
pass that spike right through. The transformer has little core metal
and is designed to operate at high frequencies, reacting to the fast
rise time of the spike, passing it on.
Cheers, Rex
st of times.
An interesting thread thanks.
Same thing crossed my mind. Last one i installed used openupsmartd
listening on a serial line. I think i'll suggest it.
Cheers, Rex
PS. Thanks Steve. My lesson LILO + kernel on a raid partition == BAD.
I didn't even realise it was using a RAID.
27;m going to do. As not that many distros use lilo any more, I'll
be chrooting to the old system first. After fscking it all of course (:
Let's hope it's a quickie, and back to the GBI for dinner and a pint (:
Hope so.
Cheers, Rex
PS, what's up with the list? My first messag
in Chch, so i'm asking if anyone who is comfortable
booting off a CD drive, mounting the drive, chrooting into it and
rewriting the MBR, is able to visit a children's home in the area.
It's their mail and file server, it runs Mandrake 10.
TIA, Rex
Steve Holdoway wrote:
Don't forget /etc/motd too. Both of these files can be modified manually, so
don't treat them as gospel!
Heh, motd is meant to be modified. Anyone who alters /etc/issue has,
er, issues. :)
Cheers, Rex
Barry wrote:
Can someone point me to an app which will display/compare 2 text
files, much like the compare utility which came with xtree/xtpro years
ago.
My vote goes to tkdiff for general text files, gvimdiff for code.
Cheers, Rex
SunOS, Solaris, hpux, *bsd, irix and linux and probably
others i'd
rather not remember, in fact definitely others i'd rather not remember).
You've got to login in somewhere, right?
Cheers, Rex
Kerry wrote:
I have often wondered how to do this myself, one question however. After
running to command:
cat /etc/issue
I get the following output:
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS \n \l
Any idea what the \n \l means?
The answer lies in the getty man page.
Cheers, Rex
el version. Googling
for a command gives me so much info about "ubuntu versions" or command
line commands, but not for the 2 together. Where is the easy way to see?
Have a look in /etc/issue.
Cheers, Rex
Steve Holdoway wrote:
wonder what's going to happen on the database front? Massive new interest in
postgres I hope!
That would be nice. Using postgresql after a bout of putting up with
MySQL is like a breath of fresh air.
Rex
Josh James wrote:
did any one see this the DSE website doesn't say that it has
ubuntu it's kinda cheap whats the rest of you guys thoughts.
No stock in the South Island :(
Rex
Kerry Mayes wrote:
The following shell script is producing an error saying that
"basename" is not found:
try
which basename
in Ubuntu it is part of coreutils.
Cheers, Rex
Nick Rout wrote:
On Thu, November 22, 2007 6:30 pm, Vik Olliver wrote:
I use it to stop my wget's saturating slow links.
Vik :v)
On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 18:25 +1300, Rex Johnston wrote:
I've always meant to have a play with 'trickle'.
also its slightly concerning that
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
http://w3.linux-magazine.com/issue/62/Traffic_Shaping_With_Trickle.pdf
Hmm, LD_PRELOAD. Very good.
I use it to stop my wget's saturating slow links.
wget has an option '--limit-rate='
scp has a '-l' option.
Cheers, Rex
Matthew Whiting wrote:
I'm trying to suss a way to simulate a slow internet connection.
I've always meant to have a play with 'trickle'.
Cheers, Rex
t can
cause a significant jump in traffic (and your bill).
Cheers, Rex
ut it didn't run
like I thought it would, and does not seem to be what it's intended for.
Like apparmor?
Cheers, Rex
'geekjob'. I'm sorry, but anyone who could produce such twisted
and broken code is probably best avoided.
Besides, it's all windoze AFAICT.
Rex
e sort
of javascript disinfecting web proxy. Not sure.
Rex
probably won't hurt anyone.
Cheers, Rex
probably won't hurt anyone.
Cheers, Rex
Don Gould wrote:
Last year I need some, this year I've got them coming out my ears... If
anyones needing an extra one, then please yell.
Will you hear, with monitors in your ears? :Q
Rex
#x27;Bulletin Board'. It says
Invalid Direct Reference via the MAPI interface (not IMAP, nor webmail).
The connector isn't open source, debug files are useless and no-one has
answered my query on their forum yet.
So, yeah, OK but not great. Not quite sure if it's really primetime yet.
Rex
is updated periodically to
reflect changes made by political bodies to time zone boundaries, UTC
offsets,
and daylight-saving rules
Cheers, Rex
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:29:36 +1200, John Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Did the box say anything about automated toast spreading?
Dunno, i tried reading FTM, but the chenglish gave me a headache. :)
Rex
--
Eschew Obfuscation.
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:49:01 +1200, John Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Sometimes saying RTFM isn't enough...
http://xkcd.com/293/
Spooky. I just brought a new toaster.
Rex
--
Eschew Obfuscation.
u are SOL unless you happen to have a 32 bit lib/bin etc and
can
set $PATH, $LD_...
Good luck.
Rex
--
Eschew Obfuscation.
On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 21:28:35 +1200, Derek Smithies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
2["abcde"]
=== "abcde"[2]
== 'c'
Rex
--
Eschew Obfuscation.
Hi Roy,
Using these drivers?
http://intellinuxgraphics.org/download.html
Rex
PS, i haven't.
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't got DRI disabled in xorg.conf.
Section "Module"
...
Load"dri"
...
EndSection
Bios settings? Have you got enough ram set aside as video ram?
Rex
--
Eschew Obfuscation.
luding
"you should have googled for you idiot" welcomed.
man i810
Cheers, Rex
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On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:20:42 +1200, Robert Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
t-twang, Message for you Sir.
Bingo!
I've got an sound clip of "Oh i see you've got the machine that goes PING"
somewhere around here (see other thread).
Rex
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On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:46:41 +1200, Robert Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
And that's THG.
:-)
A chocolate fish to first person who can guess the sound clip which
plays when
I receive an email message.
t-twang, Message for you Sir.
Rex
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Jim Cheetham wrote:
I'd like to be able to switch the power on and off remotely. So I'm
looking for a networked power management switch ...
Jaycar have one, CAT. NO. KV3595
Rex
they won't, but he won't need them).
Cheers, Rex
your box and run your programs. They'll talk to the X server
running on your workstation. Any version of ssh that understands -X will set
up the proxy.
Cheers, Rex
mmand.
.
In order to unpack and build Debian source packages you will need to
install the developers' package `dpkg-dev' as well as this one.
Cheers, Rex
It's hardly ideal, but how does
xset m 1/10 1
work?
What sort of mouse is this?
Cheers, Rex
hat I'm after. I want to make the pointer cover less distance
when moved slowly, not cover more distance when moved fast.
One being the converse of the other...
What are the current settings?
Already at 1/1 ?
Cheers, Rex
Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
Any other avenue which can be persued?
'xset' is what you are after. Both KDE & Gnome have interfaces
which control this.
Cheers, Rex
me SeaMonkey), an F or a down arrow will go to the
next message.
Cheers, Rex
uppy kennel.
[...]
Cheers... Rex
are
Foundation.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Lawrence+Lessig
[...]
Cheers... Rex
Eric Raymond has joined the board at Linspire/Freespire motivated by the
idea Linux on the deskstop has to jump into the 32 to 64 bit
transition. His reckoning is; the transition will be done by 2008 and if
Linux misses the bus it will be relegated to a _desktop_ minority. Since
joining the boa
The Tech Savvy Educator has links to simple tests for accessing your
Multiple Intelligence "smarts".
Quoting the site:
"I was reintroduced to the concept again this summer during our
whole-staff in service based on brain research and differentiated
instruction. The presenter gave us all a small
A quote from a Mandriva Club article "To GUI or Not to GUI, That is ...
Illogical, Captain ..."
"Hardly a day seems to go by when I don't encounter some pointless troll
ranting on about why KDE users should switch to GNOME, why all of the
available Linux GUIs are crap for Windoze-addicted zombi
ade release of ReiserFS. Reiser4 is
> a _completely_ different animal, to be sure using lessons learnt
> from the earlier ReiserFS exercise.
Yes, I understood that point.
> http://www.namesys.com/
Thanks. I've sat through viewing a dry presentation on Reiser4 that Hans
gave at -
I have a little
reservation, Mepis on ReiserFS has been an OK exercise?
HTH... Rex
Why didn't this one turn up or am overlooking the arcane?
-- Forwarded Message --
Subject: Re: Arch CD?
Date: Friday 27 October 2006 09:58
From: Rex Teague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz
Nick... I've been distracted.
On Thursday 26 Oc
ion will be hampered. Viva la
differences, more to come!
Cheers... Rex
sual learners'
depending on what other intelligences impinge, which will account for
the GNOME/KDE/WHATEVER preferences. I'm keenly interested in your
conclusions, our Linux/FOSS advocacy has often been stonewalled and
we are seriously asking the same question(s).
Cheers... Rex
ids have stayed with Kubuntu, however I'm looking seriously at Arch
via Underground, the packages are more bleeding edge and once
installed there is no new version reinstall required.
http://archlinux.org/
http://archlinux.org/about/
http://underground.geekcode.info/portal/posts/view/about
[...]
Cheers... Rex
ole reply has been devalued by forcing me to read all
of which you are replying to, and trying to work out your point.
> It becomes a real pain to scan through a thread if one has to scroll to
the bottom to see the new content. Did you get to this line?
Yes, but you need to work on trimming your replies.
Rex
Phill Coxon wrote:
Can anyone tell me where 'mail' stores mail and how, if possible, I can
important it back into my mail file so I have access to my old emails?
~/mbox perhaps?
Cheers, Rex
Roger Searle wrote:
totally ot...
wtf? everyone heard it? what was it?
I looked around, couldn't see any smoke plumes.
Nothing has appeared on geonet yet.
Rex
On Monday 11 September 2006 17:10, John Carter wrote:
> I want to follow a usenet group
>comp.arch.embedded
nntp.aioe.org is a passable freebie and currently has 251 posts in the
above newsgroup.
[...]
HTH... Rex
ay.
what does
tune2fs -O^has_journal /dev/
do?
It appears that the journal starts at block 0 and debugfs won't let you
touch block 0 so I can't just remove the inode and/or the journal file.
hmm. could be fubar.
Cheers, Rex
Andrew Errington wrote:
I have to ask, why not use 'nut' (Network UPS Tools)?
`cos it doesn't talk the protocol... :(
Rex
(wt);
didnolog++;
}
if (needwarning(wt)) warn(wt);
hardsleep(60);
wt--;
}
before installing.
Cheers, Rex
e cud about Mepis Linux!! ;-))
Cheers... Rex
te customers with
the real money. However, [...] behind those faceless corporations
there are thousands of system administrators who now use Ubuntu Linux
rather than Red Hat Linux.
[...] Good luck, Red Hat. Thank you Mark for Ubuntu."
Read the full article Rex
manual was my salvation, all the other books
were so despairingly obtuse!! There is a very readable Norton Manual
for Linux, a little dated though eg. no talk of GRUB. I believe I've
seen it in the Christchurch libraries, it is for sure in our local
Waimakariri library system.
HTH... Rex
;newshost",
"cvshost", ...
Couldn't agree more.
Cheers, Rex
on the download page(s). In other words they are tailored
to the Mepis kernel build - there are free versions available.
[...]
HTH... Rex
lia. 'dingo' (stole my
baby) is a local test server. fish - 'moki', 'parore' (John Carter,
didn't you inhert this
machine?).
Onto 'The Holy Grail' characters now - 'lancelot', this machine.
Cheers, Rex
hlight the
Account>Modify>General (Tab)
[...]
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d to
get it to open up the disk structure).
Cheers, Rex
Nick Rout wrote:
Did anyone here besides me actually use KDE 1.x?
I tried, but next to GNUstep it was pretty ugly, and compared
with enlightenment, it was just a joke.
In fact, even next to CDE it was average looking.
Pretty snappy now tho`.
Cheers, Rex
with Linux on
the desktop is currently growing rapidly because those of the
predominate visual/spatial intelligence (myself for example) are now
being catered for.
Cheers... Rex
How long has this crap been going on?
Can anyone unsub this twit?
Grr, Rex
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set sm
set ts=4
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set ai
map! {{ { ^M}^[O
set backupdir=~/tmp
and a bunch of other code formatting macros.
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Caught up with this one via a Mepis RSS feed - skip it if eye candy
causes you consternation!
http://raldztech.blogspot.com/2006/07/simplymepis-60-linux-desktop-on.html
Mepis RSS feed at http://www.mepis.org/node/feed
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nd Gnome based programmes and strung them together with a
slick installation package. Of course you have to go off and install a
British dictionary!
Cheers... Rex
Rik Tindall wrote:
But I shall review http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/ once the
Ubuntu package becomes available, thanks Rex.
Who knows? - It might just retain the ~/.mozilla/* filesystem layout.
It does.
Cheers, Rex
t is smaller than Firefox + Thunderbird, and my laptop
can't cope
with the latter.
2) Right click on URL in email - "Open in new Tab".
Cheers, Rex
Don Gould wrote:
Does anyone know how to force make to recompile all the .o files?
Without reviewing your makefile, i can only guess.
try
make clean && make
Cheers, Rex
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