Re: any xfce users out there? can't change display res
What card is it trying to drive? As Nick pointed out many cards don't get probed correctly - e.g. intel bios doesn't keep track of all modes available and needs a hack installed. On 04/03/07, Don Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. Found out from neil this afternoon that vesa won't run 24 bit
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Re: any xfce users out there? can't change display res
Hi Kerry, Thanks for the effort... the problem is largely sorted now. http://www.tcn.bowenvale.co.nz/content/view/58/45/ 1mb card won't do 1024... opps, my bad for not even spotting the ram on the card. vesa won't do 24bit. Neil got 800*600 out of it over the weekend, this will do for now. Cheers Don Kerry Mayes wrote: What card is it trying to drive? As Nick pointed out many cards don't get probed correctly - e.g. intel bios doesn't keep track of all modes available and needs a hack installed. On 04/03/07, Don Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. Found out from neil this afternoon that vesa won't run 24 bit -- Don Gould www.thinkdesignprint.co.nz - www.tcn.bowenvale.co.nz - www.bowenvale.co.nz - www.hearingbooks.co.nz - www.crra.org.nz - www.justhelicopters.co.nz - www.buxtonsquare.co.nz - skype:ThinkDesignPrint?add - Good ideas: www.solarking.co.nz
Re: ..workshop Thurs - report
dave wrote: stringer you forgotthis bit don't you know Not as we know it Captain. :) pulling head in again. dave. On Friday 02 March 2007 16:18, stringer wrote: At 15:40 2/03/07 +1300, Nick wrote: Rik Tindall wrote: 1 March Sydenham FreeNix Workshop went well: 5 Ubuntees, 3 on Fedora. That's a sustainable range of distro's for us to support. If there is a Fedora user or two here willing to assist a user for whom staying with Fedora is the best option (he has a raid array set up already), then please let us know - for the forwarding of contact details. It's all linux Rik. Yes but not as we know it, Jim er, Nick! Regards, pp Sydenham GNU/Linux Users STRINGER SON per: David J H Stringer STRINGER SON, - For all your legal work; P O Box 1386 CHRISTCHURCH NEW ZEALAND Phone 64 - 3 - 366 1152 FAX 64 - 3 - 366 1151 Earth to Linux-Users. Earth to Linux-Users. Cannot decrypt your signal. Please relanguage the helpfile, and resend. Repeat, manual is unintelligible. Please relanguage the helpfile, and resend. Over.
Re: OpenOffice - replace paragraph marks
On 05/03/07, Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find myself having to use Word just to find and replace several dozen paragraph marks in several documents - represented by the character ^p in Word. I can't locate an OpenOffice equivalent, Ian Laurenson's FindReplace macro doesn't seem to cover this. Anyone know how to do this without resorting to windows/word? Edit - Find Replace More Options Regular expressions Search for $ Replace with whatever you're replacing the paragraph markers with or ctrl-F alt-O alt-X alt-S $ alt-P replacement-text
Re: OpenOffice - replace paragraph marks
In the help on regular expressions it carefully ignores the $ for paragraph mark but does have: ^$ for empty paragraphs and \n for new line characters (shift enter) The description of \n is a bit confusing too: Represents a line break that was inserted with the Shift+Enter key combination. To change a line break into a paragraph break, enter \n in the Search for and Replace with boxes, and then perform a search and replace. I think that also means that if you want to replace with a paragraph mark you would use \n. On 05/03/07, Roy Britten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Edit - Find Replace More Options Regular expressions Search for $ Replace with whatever you're replacing the paragraph markers with But this is way over my head! or ctrl-F alt-O alt-X alt-S $ alt-P replacement-text
Re: OpenOffice - replace paragraph marks
Thank you Roy, and Kerry, My answer, given I wanted to put a few characters immediately before every instance of a paragraph mark and retain the paragraph mark was to search for $, and then replace with characters \n. Agreed with Kerry's comments that some of the help descriptions are somewhat unclear, it may well be that Ian's macros do indeed help and I will put that on my list of things to do. Kerry, the ctrl+F alt+O line from Roy's reply is the keyboard shortcuts to perform the task without needing to touch the mouse. In general (any application) the alt key plus the underlined character in a dialog box provides this functionality. Kerry Mayes wrote: In the help on regular expressions it carefully ignores the $ for paragraph mark but does have: ^$ for empty paragraphs and \n for new line characters (shift enter) The description of \n is a bit confusing too: Represents a line break that was inserted with the Shift+Enter key combination. To change a line break into a paragraph break, enter \n in the Search for and Replace with boxes, and then perform a search and replace. I think that also means that if you want to replace with a paragraph mark you would use \n. On 05/03/07, Roy Britten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Edit - Find Replace More Options Regular expressions Search for $ Replace with whatever you're replacing the paragraph markers with But this is way over my head! or ctrl-F alt-O alt-X alt-S $ alt-P replacement-text
Re: How do I find my DHCP IP address?
hi gaby, Gabriella Turek wrote: Can't remember where to look for it, obviously not in /etc/hosts... gaby which distro? -- Rik
Re: How do I find my DHCP IP address?
SUSE Rik Tindall wrote: hi gaby, Gabriella Turek wrote: Can't remember where to look for it, obviously not in /etc/hosts... gaby which distro? -- *** ** Gabriella Turek [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** ** National Institute of Water Atmospheric Research (NIWA) ** ** PO Box 8602 Christchurch New Zealand +64-3-348-8987x3724 ** ***
Re: How do I find my DHCP IP address?
From the command line, use ifconfig. eth0 has the address 192.168.0.2 ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:8B:D7:74:92 inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::250:8bff:fed7:7492/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:587502 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:513349 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:376122678 (358.6 MiB) TX bytes:331684284 (316.3 MiB) loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:139005 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:139005 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:136810938 (130.4 MiB) TX bytes:136810938 (130.4 MiB) Cheers, Carl. On 05/03/07, Gabriella Turek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can't remember where to look for it, obviously not in /etc/hosts... gaby -- *** ** Gabriella Turek [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** ** National Institute of Water Atmospheric Research (NIWA) ** ** PO Box 8602 Christchurch New Zealand +64-3-348-8987x3724 ** ***
Re: How do I find my DHCP IP address?
On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:28:06 +1300 Gabriella Turek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can't remember where to look for it, obviously not in /etc/hosts... gaby -- *** ** Gabriella Turek [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** ** National Institute of Water Atmospheric Research (NIWA) ** ** PO Box 8602 Christchurch New Zealand +64-3-348-8987x3724 ** *** /sbin/ipconfig -a
Re: How do I find my DHCP IP address?
On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:41:15 +1300 Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:28:06 +1300 Gabriella Turek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can't remember where to look for it, obviously not in /etc/hosts... gaby -- *** ** Gabriella Turek [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** ** National Institute of Water Atmospheric Research (NIWA) ** ** PO Box 8602 Christchurch New Zealand +64-3-348-8987x3724 ** *** /sbin/ipconfig -a B*gger - too much of this mickey stuff! /sbin/ifconfig -a
Which distro ?
Hi, After years of being a redhat (hatred) fan, and then moving to suse, I feel the need to make another distro change... As always in the pre distroy change period, one is required to think about what the wish list. Wants: = I want to be able to get any package and install it and run it without too many hassles - which means the distro has up to date repositaries. I want to be able to install and use any codec, so any video sucked of youtube, or kids Cd will play just fine. Eric Raymond summed up this codec thing in his article on Fedorra: http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-devel-list/2006-March/msg01286.html (and on that post, many electrons were consumed debating the point) I want to spend my time using the box to produce sellable product, or using the box to watch video. Spending hours maintaining it is tiresome. Thus, the gentoo forum article http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-313315.html was interesting, and not a good look for gentoo. = Debian? Or is that Deviant? I have no desire to spend oodles of time managing my system so it works ok. Spending time managing the box is expensive. You see, if the box did not need management - I can write code that earns money. And with money - I can buy next years newer/faster/bigger quad cpu monster.. Suse: - similar issues perhaps to Fedorra - updates did cause problems on 10.0, 10.1. I run 64 bit boxes, and suse does not seem to handle this well. Derek. -- Derek Smithies Ph.D. IndraNet Technologies Ltd. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph +64 3 365 6485 Web: http://www.indranet-technologies.com/
Re: Which distro ?
On Monday 05 March 2007 1:50 pm, Derek Smithies wrote: Hi, After years of being a redhat (hatred) fan, and then moving to suse, I feel the need to make another distro change... I have stuck with Gentoo for our headless server but the other 3 linux boxes at home have all gone back to Mepis (after trying SuSE for a while and finding it very slow at boot time because it wanted to check repositories which were sometimes unavailable). I think Mepis meets all of your requirements. Certainly meets mine. Rob
Re: Which distro ?
Hi, After years of being a redhat (hatred) fan, and then moving to suse, I feel the need to make another distro change... As always in the pre distroy change period, one is required to think about what the wish list. Wants: = I want to be able to get any package and install it and run it without too many hassles - which means the distro has up to date repositaries. This is hard to achieve on an ongoing basis. Try Arch, gentoo, freebsd if you want up to date package repositories. I want to be able to install and use any codec, so any video sucked of youtube, or kids Cd will play just fine. Eric Raymond summed up this codec thing in his article on Fedorra: http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-devel-list/2006-March/msg01286.html (and on that post, many electrons were consumed debating the point) gentoo does fulfil your codec wish, but apparently mepis does too. From what i hear mepis is ubuntu with: a. out of the box codecs b. KDE instead of gnome c. some of its own quite good config tools. I want to spend my time using the box to produce sellable product, or using the box to watch video. Spending hours maintaining it is tiresome. Thus, the gentoo forum article http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-313315.html was interesting, and not a good look for gentoo. A little old, I hear things have got better. For a quick preview, try sabayon (live dvd/cd with installer, gentoo system, nicely polished precompiled system.) Sorry I keep coming back to gentoo freebsd and arch, with maybe mepis (although I fear it's ubuntu repositories are getting too old for your up to date repositories requirement.)
Re: Which distro ?
On Mon, 05 Mar 2007, Derek Smithies wrote: Thus, the gentoo forum article http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-313315.html was interesting, and not a good look for gentoo. PostPosted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 5:35 am Two years ago!! That's now totally out of date. A Gentoo binary install off the install disk, and an emerge of the extra packages you need is not exactly a time consuming or brain numbing exercise. Sabayon is a Gentoo reimplementation which takes the principle to an art-form:- http://www.sabayonlinux.org/ -- CS
Re: Which distro ?
On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:51:35 +1300 Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sabayon is a Gentoo reimplementation which takes the principle to an art-form:- http://www.sabayonlinux.org/ -- CS Personally, I found it to be a complete pile of poo. Mind you, if people cut up sheep and call it art... (: Steve
Re: Which distro ?
My $120.00's worth. MANDRIVA 2007 I'm starting to like Mandriva 2007 more and more now that I've got all the repositaries set up. Out of the box it was a pig. If you don't know about PLF then you may as well pack up shop and go home... It did like my wifi card, but so far I haven't been able to make sense out of bluetooth. I've got the driver working, I think, but none of the applications. As it comes from the Redhat farm, you're going to find the move from Fedorra easier. I can't speak for the video codec side of things but I'm happy to do a bit of testing if you want to converse. DEBIAN FARM This farm means learning about a new package management system - apt. I liked playing about with Mepis. Of the current Debian assortment I liked this one the best so far. However it didn't like my wifi card on my laptop which is why I ended up with MDV2007 on this machine. Ubuntu is something you can just keep as far as I'm concerned (sorry Rik) my experience with it has done nothing to thrill me. Debian Sarge - there is a growing number of debian geeks on list and it will continue to grow this year as it's what I'm pushing in to the LES class and other places. No idea what the video support is like, but this is an issue that Neil and I have been playing with more and more recently. Derek I'm with you on this support thingo... personally I find maintenance quickest when you've got the best bunch of people to help out. So what ever the most vocal list members are using is often best? Cheers Don Derek Smithies wrote: Hi, After years of being a redhat (hatred) fan, and then moving to suse, I feel the need to make another distro change... As always in the pre distroy change period, one is required to think about what the wish list. Wants: = I want to be able to get any package and install it and run it without too many hassles - which means the distro has up to date repositaries. I want to be able to install and use any codec, so any video sucked of youtube, or kids Cd will play just fine. Eric Raymond summed up this codec thing in his article on Fedorra: http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-devel-list/2006-March/msg01286.html (and on that post, many electrons were consumed debating the point) I want to spend my time using the box to produce sellable product, or using the box to watch video. Spending hours maintaining it is tiresome. Thus, the gentoo forum article http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-313315.html was interesting, and not a good look for gentoo. = Debian? Or is that Deviant? I have no desire to spend oodles of time managing my system so it works ok. Spending time managing the box is expensive. You see, if the box did not need management - I can write code that earns money. And with money - I can buy next years newer/faster/bigger quad cpu monster.. Suse: - similar issues perhaps to Fedorra - updates did cause problems on 10.0, 10.1. I run 64 bit boxes, and suse does not seem to handle this well. Derek. -- Don Gould www.thinkdesignprint.co.nz - www.tcn.bowenvale.co.nz - www.bowenvale.co.nz - www.hearingbooks.co.nz - www.crra.org.nz - www.justhelicopters.co.nz - www.buxtonsquare.co.nz - skype:ThinkDesignPrint?add - Good ideas: www.solarking.co.nz
Re: Which distro ?
Don Gould wrote: My $120.00's worth. MANDRIVA 2007 ..so far I haven't been able to make sense out of bluetooth. I've got the driver working, I think, but none of the applications. Ditto. Anyone care to run a klug nite on bluetooth? I've had one liveCD test success, however - kubuntu. Ubuntu is something you can just keep as far as I'm concerned (sorry Rik) my experience with it has done nothing to thrill me. That is the point. - Vanilla functionality, less toy. ;-) Debian Sarge - there is a growing number of debian geeks on list and it will continue to grow this year as it's what I'm pushing in to the LES class and other places. See above comment re 'what works'; also, 'knowing what you are talking about'. Derek I'm with you on this support thingo... personally I find maintenance quickest when you've got the best bunch of people to help out. So what ever the most vocal list members are using is often best? Condition met. -- Rik Tindall, InfoHelp Services http://www.infohelp.co.nz on virus-free Ubuntu GNU/Linux 6.06 freeOS, 2.6.15-28-686 kernel, GNOME 2.14.3 desktop OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 suite, Mozilla.org Firefox 1.5.0.9 web browser and Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 email, gEdit 2.14.4 web editor, gFTP 2.0.18 fileXfer
Re: Which distro ?
Rik Tindall wrote: ..so far I haven't been able to make sense out of bluetooth. I've got the driver working, I think, but none of the applications. Ditto. Anyone care to run a klug nite on bluetooth? I'd be in. Chris, do you want to add this to the list of topics people would be interested in hearing about? Anyone on list actually using it? Cheers Don -- Don Gould www.thinkdesignprint.co.nz - www.tcn.bowenvale.co.nz - www.bowenvale.co.nz - www.hearingbooks.co.nz - www.crra.org.nz - www.justhelicopters.co.nz - www.buxtonsquare.co.nz - skype:ThinkDesignPrint?add - Good ideas: www.solarking.co.nz
Re: Which distro ?
Don Gould wrote: Rik Tindall wrote: ..so far I haven't been able to make sense out of bluetooth. I've got the driver working, I think, but none of the applications. Ditto. Anyone care to run a klug nite on bluetooth? I'd be in. Chris, do you want to add this to the list of topics people would be interested in hearing about? Anyone on list actually using it? Cheers Don Shouldn't we actually find someone who has got it to work first?
Re: Which distro ?
Nick Rout wrote: Shouldn't we actually find someone who has got it to work first? No. We should add it to the list of things people are interested in as soon as people become interested. If Rik and I are the only people interested then we know it's not a topic, that anyone interested in researching something to talk about, is worth the trouble. If it proves to be something that a bunch of us are interested in, then it might encourage a small bunch of us to put more effort into making it work and then do a presentation on. Cheers Don -- Don Gould www.thinkdesignprint.co.nz - www.tcn.bowenvale.co.nz - www.bowenvale.co.nz - www.hearingbooks.co.nz - www.crra.org.nz - www.justhelicopters.co.nz - www.buxtonsquare.co.nz - skype:ThinkDesignPrint?add - Good ideas: www.solarking.co.nz
Re: Which distro ?
On Monday 05 March 2007 7:43 pm, Don Gould wrote: Nick Rout wrote: Shouldn't we actually find someone who has got it to work first? No. We should add it to the list of things people are interested in as soon as people become interested. Well if you want to gauge demand then add me to the list of interested people. Rob
VMWare Server
There is a new version of the free VMWare Server available. To upgrade can I simply run the installation script ./vmware-install.pl and install over my existing installation or should I uninstall the present version? And I suppose I should ask if it is worth upgrading? Rob
Re: Which distro ?
Robert Fisher wrote: On Monday 05 March 2007 7:43 pm, Don Gould wrote: Nick Rout wrote: Shouldn't we actually find someone who has got it to work first? No. We should add it to the list of things people are interested in as soon as people become interested. Well if you want to gauge demand then add me to the list of interested people. Rob Yes me too. Now to find the expert. I am hamstrung by a lack of any bluetooth devices, but the info is always welcome.
Re: Which distro ?
Nick Rout wrote: I am hamstrung by a lack of any bluetooth devices, but the info is always welcome. I've got 3 at present and soon to be 4 -- Don Gould www.thinkdesignprint.co.nz - www.tcn.bowenvale.co.nz - www.bowenvale.co.nz - www.hearingbooks.co.nz - www.crra.org.nz - www.justhelicopters.co.nz - www.buxtonsquare.co.nz - skype:ThinkDesignPrint?add - Good ideas: www.solarking.co.nz
