Re: Distros... can anyone hear me?
Peter Cornelius wrote: Oxford Concise Dictionary, 1925 - which also mentions 'computers', but I'm not sure how they were programmed. Some things were even before my time!) Something to do with Kindly Cabbages I believe...
Re: Rute Manual
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 12:35, C Falconer wrote: Don't forget I can print you one at cost for $19. Thats bound in a spiraly plastic binding, with laminated covers. (and it is within the terms of the RUTE licence, because you are instituting the printing of the book.) Thanks for your offer which I will decline with grace mainly because: 1) I can't read the small print of your 2-up print format very well, now that the eyes are not in the flush of youth anymore; 2) Personally, I find that while the strictly legal interpretation of the word initiate may allow commissioned printing, my personal feelings are that the author has put an enormous amount of effort into writing the tome, and he should be rewarded for those efforts. It's by far the best out there as far as I can tell. At $86nz the cost of the printed book is actually quite reasonable especially when compared with some of the hugely expensive but semi-literate and delightfully information-free works which are dumped on the market by sharp operators in the publishing business. What may be legal is not always the right thing to do from a moral standpoint. On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 12:13, Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 11:24, Tim Wright wrote: Well, I'm back..and unfortunatly didn't find a bookstore that stocked it. However, their RRP (they could have ordered it) was US$40. So the Amazon cost of $86nz looks pretty good. btw, Has anybody had a chance to have a good look at this yet? A paraphrased comment from a newby was that it's Completely over my head, total waste of money. I've been at this Linux game for a fair while now so tend to disagree with the newbie's feelings on the subject, but I am wondering what other folks think? The reason for the question is that I would be grateful for the list's wisdom so that I can give these Avonmore students a wider opinion than just my own, which btw is Good reference and learning resource, possibly too deep too soon. It seems to go from computing sub-basics to pretty solid stuff in just a page or two. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
Re: Rute Manual
Fair enough - I prefer to consult it on screen personally. On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 00:25, Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 12:35, C Falconer wrote: Don't forget I can print you one at cost for $19. Thats bound in a spiraly plastic binding, with laminated covers. (and it is within the terms of the RUTE licence, because you are instituting the printing of the book.) Thanks for your offer which I will decline with grace mainly because: 1) I can't read the small print of your 2-up print format very well, now that the eyes are not in the flush of youth anymore; 2) Personally, I find that while the strictly legal interpretation of the word initiate may allow commissioned printing, my personal feelings are that the author has put an enormous amount of effort into writing the tome, and he should be rewarded for those efforts. It's by far the best out there as far as I can tell. At $86nz the cost of the printed book is actually quite reasonable especially when compared with some of the hugely expensive but semi-literate and delightfully information-free works which are dumped on the market by sharp operators in the publishing business. What may be legal is not always the right thing to do from a moral standpoint. On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 12:13, Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 11:24, Tim Wright wrote: Well, I'm back..and unfortunatly didn't find a bookstore that stocked it. However, their RRP (they could have ordered it) was US$40. So the Amazon cost of $86nz looks pretty good. btw, Has anybody had a chance to have a good look at this yet? A paraphrased comment from a newby was that it's Completely over my head, total waste of money. I've been at this Linux game for a fair while now so tend to disagree with the newbie's feelings on the subject, but I am wondering what other folks think? The reason for the question is that I would be grateful for the list's wisdom so that I can give these Avonmore students a wider opinion than just my own, which btw is Good reference and learning resource, possibly too deep too soon. It seems to go from computing sub-basics to pretty solid stuff in just a page or two. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
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Hello all, I have just installed RH7.3 on a PC and am having trouble with the sound card. sndconfig detected it, installed it but the audio test was way sped up (Linus sounded like a bird chirping) The i810 AC'97 audio is detected, but reports an audio rate of 16053 instead of the 48000 that it is running at (i.e. reporting 1/3 actual rate). Forcing KDE to use 16053 it works - but chip monked. Does anyone have any ideas where to look / how to force the correct reporting etc Note: the audio works fine under W2K Mike. - Linux Rocks -
IRC Chat Invitation
Hi all .. you can use any irc client to get to the #clug channel on the irc.linux.com network - its actually hosted on slashnet.org open the client then use /server irc.linux.com ... upon connection use /join #clug see you there .. bring your tales of woe .. maybe someone will care (oops!) uh might have an answer ... Paul Swafford (Manager, E-caf@The Arts Centre) (Level 2/28 Worcester Boulevard, Christchurch, NZ) (ph/fax +64 3 3656480 www.e-caf.com)
Re: IRC Chat Invitation
At the risk of starting a client war, I would like to recomend xchat for any newbies to IRC or mIRC if you are still useing windows. (xchat has also been ported to windows so you could get used to it, ready for when you switch to linux (noticed I said when)) Bitchx is for the command line user I think. see: www.slashnet.org/connect.php for a list of clients (I know xchat is on Redhat 7.3 and on Mandrake 7.x/8.x install disks, and may have been installed by default) One reason why I like xchat is because I can open a new server window and be on two networks at once. That way I can be in #clug on the irc.linux.net network and in #nzlinux channel on the undernet network at the same time! cheers, Nick Elder On Wednesday 11 September 2002 4:10 pm, Paul wrote: Hi all .. you can use any irc client to get to the #clug channel on the irc.linux.com network - its actually hosted on slashnet.org open the client then use /server irc.linux.com ... upon connection use /join #clug see you there .. bring your tales of woe .. maybe someone will care (oops!) uh might have an answer ... Paul Swafford (Manager, E-caf@The Arts Centre) (Level 2/28 Worcester Boulevard, Christchurch, NZ) (ph/fax +64 3 3656480 www.e-caf.com)
Re: IRC Chat Invitation
On Wednesday 11 September 2002 5:41 pm, Nick Elder CLUG wrote: At the risk of starting a client war, I would like to recomend xchat for any newbies to IRC or mIRC if you are still useing windows. (xchat has also been ported to windows so you could get used to it, ready for when you switch to linux (noticed I said when)) Bitchx is for the command line user I think. see: www.slashnet.org/connect.php for a list of clients (I know xchat is on Redhat 7.3 and on Mandrake 7.x/8.x install disks, and may have been installed by default) One reason why I like xchat is because I can open a new server window and be on two networks at once. That way I can be in #clug on the irc.linux.net network and in #nzlinux channel on the undernet network at correction make that irc.linux.com not net! * the same time! cheers, Nick Elder On Wednesday 11 September 2002 4:10 pm, Paul wrote: Hi all .. you can use any irc client to get to the #clug channel on the irc.linux.com network - its actually hosted on slashnet.org open the client then use /server irc.linux.com ... upon connection use /join #clug see you there .. bring your tales of woe .. maybe someone will care (oops!) uh might have an answer ... Paul Swafford (Manager, E-caf@The Arts Centre) (Level 2/28 Worcester Boulevard, Christchurch, NZ) (ph/fax +64 3 3656480 www.e-caf.com)
