Free hardware: Vintage (OLD!) hard disks, 2 x 640 MB
Hello All, Just in case anyone wants these: two Western Digital Caviar 2635, 640 MB each (yes, that's M, not G!), 3.5 inch HDs, free to good home. As mke2fs -c -c has assured me, they are in perfectly good working order. First come, first serve; if they are not taken by end Feb they will go into recycling. Kind regards, Helmut. -- ++ | Helmut Walle | | wa...@ww.co.nz | | 03 - 388 39 54 | ++
Re: serious Mozilla design bug
On Saturday 21 February 2009 09:15, Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Wesley Parish wes.par...@paradise.net.nz wrote: snip I call that artificial stupidity. or perhaps operator error? seriously if you are right clicking and trying to choose open in new tab then sometimes I find on a slower computer that somehow all the clicking chooses something random from the popup menu before I really meant to. In that case, it should be spelled out that certain operations are undefined for computers below a certain capacity. Heck, OpenOffice.org spells out that more current versions aren't suitable for Win95 PCs, and I've found that out the hard way on my father's Win95 PC before it went belly-up and died. I'm finding that I'm using Dillo quite seriously now, after having had Firefox do things to my browsing that I hadn't asked for. And since it doesn't include all the bells-and-whistles that modern websites take for granted, I'm thinking of porting S60 or something of the sort, rather than putting up with this sort of nonsense any more. Does anyone know how to turn it off, and bury it so deep it can't come back and haunt me? (I am really angry about this - this is a classic design error that I would've expected from Microsoft, not Mozilla - assuming that if something is done once, it will always be done that way, and enforcing it minutely.) The offending Mozilla Firefox is 3.0.6. Wesley Parish Sharpened hands are happy hands. Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot! I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: Updating compaq bios from linux
I've flashed the bios from linux on an old compaq presario desktop computer before, so I know it's possible, it was just so long ago I can't remember what I used to do it or how I went about it. Just googled flash bios from linux this brings up a heap of howto's which might help Kerry Quoting Phill Coxon phi...@xtra.co.nz: I'm trying to figure out how to update the bios on an old Compaq Presario that I'm using for FreeNAS (www.freenas.org). Trouble is... the bios update utility from Compaq is Windows only. Arrrgh. I have managed to extra the bios image from by running the windows installer in wine just far enough that it extracted the bios image file into the temporary directory. So now I have the bios image but I'm at a loss as to how exactly to burn it and thought I'd ask those with greater knowledge on this list. Is there a standard dos based bios flash utility I can use, or are bios flash tools specific to each motherboard or bios manufacturer? Any suggestions about how to proceed from here would be greatly appreciated. The computer is a Compaq Presario S6030AN Phoenix - AwardBios (V3.05 currently) Thanks!
Re: Kubuntu - good bad and ugly
yuri wrote: 2009/2/21 Phill Coxon wrote: On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 10:59 +1300, Roger Searle wrote: I'm sure google will tell you how to get to 4.2 and would be worth the effort. http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kde-4.2 Those instructions include adding a repository with the word experimental as part of the URL. I believe this sort of thing is what hosed my PCLinuxOS install (which prompted me to switch in the first place). I am a bit reluctant to use 'experimental' software as well -but in this case I made an exception. It also warns that 4.2 is beta and may break things. I don't want to break things again. I'd rather go to bed early tonight and enjoy my wife than stay up late fixing things again. It broke some 'plasmids', and I finally accepted I would have to do without Quanta+ - but I use kate mostly anyway. I do not remember if it broke anything else. Had a lot of problems getting sound to work with flash - but I don't think that is a KDE problem. I'd tell you what I did but I tried so many 'fixes' I am not sure now what worked. Hey, I'll probably cave in to peer pressure and give 4.2 a try. I'm coming to the next meeting with a big rubber mallet if it turns to custard though. Yuri begin:vcard fn:Don Robertson n:Robertson;Don adr:;;;Christchurch;;;New Zealand email;internet:d...@robertson.net.nz tel;cell:64 021 294 1452 version:2.1 end:vcard
Re: Updating compaq bios from linux
Phill Coxon wrote: I'm trying to figure out how to update the bios on an old Compaq Presario that I'm using for FreeNAS (www.freenas.org). I would be interested to hear your experiences with freenas. begin:vcard fn:Don Robertson n:Robertson;Don adr:;;;Christchurch;;;New Zealand email;internet:d...@robertson.net.nz tel;cell:64 021 294 1452 version:2.1 end:vcard
Re: Updating compaq bios from linux
On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 08:16 +1100, ke...@katipo.net.nz wrote: I've flashed the bios from linux on an old compaq presario desktop computer before, so I know it's possible, it was just so long ago I can't remember what I used to do it or how I went about it. Just googled flash bios from linux this brings up a heap of howto's which might help I wans't sure if there was supposed to be a specific dos flash utility to use. In the end I picked a random util called awdflash.exe, created a bootable CD disk with the rom image and ran it. The bios flash worked perfectly. Unfortunately, while the new bios added Wake On Lan it only added an option for S4 mode which I understand is hibernation / sleep. So still no WOL from power off. Even though the motherboard supports it, it appears that Compaq's crippled bios doesn't offer the option. The plan was to have a remote backup server that I could wake remotely, rsync some backups and then shut down again. Ah well, it was worth a shot. Will have to look for a new motherboard. FreeNAS is amazing though - I highly recommend checking it out if you want a backup / network attached storage system. My $50 FreeNas server beats a friends $2000 ReadyNas hands down in terms of features.
Re: Updating compaq bios from linux
On Sun, 2009-02-22 at 11:27 +1300, Don Robertson wrote: Phill Coxon wrote: I'm trying to figure out how to update the bios on an old Compaq Presario that I'm using for FreeNAS (www.freenas.org). I would be interested to hear your experiences with freenas. Awesome so far. It is only 34Mb so requires a very low end PC to work. I have it booting directly from a 128Mb usb drive plugged into the back of a 2.7Gz Celeron with 512Mb RAM. Once it's booted (around 2 mins) you can control everything through the easy to use web interface. Very CPU easy - I copied a 450Mb file to the FreeNAS via SMB and CPU load peaked at 9%. It has a huge number of configuration options and features. The interface is very intuitive. Adding storage disks and formatting them is a breeze. You can also have raid configurations and encrypted disks. After your storage is set up you decided what services you want to offer: CIFS/SMB FTP TFTP SSH NFS AFP RSYNC Unison iSCSI Target UPnp iTunes/DAAP Dynamic DNS SNMP UPS Webserver BitTorrent Each service can be configured and running in seconds. Easy to configure users and groups to control access. You can enable S.M.A.R.T. for drives so that drives will spin down after a specified number of minutes if not being used, run in quiet vs performance mode, send email alerts if drive temperatures get too far out of range and schedule automated drive tests. All this and a bunch more running in 32Mb. I'm very impressed.
OT: Up for grabs...............
One:- Gateway 450:- Intel Pentium III Processor 448mhz, 128 MB of RAM 256MB of memory MAX (PC100). 13Gb HDD, DVD Rom Lan card, Sound, Video Note this was an ex internet cafe pc so they removed the power button but the switch is still there (Electrically Safe) http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~mysticboy/grabs/DSC00340.JPG (1mb photo) http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~mysticboy/grabs/DSC00341.JPG (1mb photo) Two:- Gateway 450:- Intel Pentium III Processor 448mhz, 128 MB of RAM 256MB of memory MAX (PC100). 13Gb HDD, CD Rom Modem, LanCard, Sound, Video. Note this was an ex internet cafe pc so they removed the power button but the switch is still there (Electrically Safe) http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~mysticboy/grabs/DSC00342.JPG (1mb photo) http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~mysticboy/grabs/DSC00343.JPG (1mb photo) Three:- HP Brio 71XX 333mhz 256mbram 2 Lan Cards CD ROM does not work. Currently has ipcop on, runs super quite http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~mysticboy/grabs/DSC00336.JPG (1mb photo) http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~mysticboy/grabs/DSC00339.JPG (1mb photo) Please direct all questions to me personally @ craig.molloy (AT) paradise()net()nz Any donations accepted not required, just need to get rid of them.
Re: Kubuntu - good bad and ugly
On Saturday 21 February 2009 10:58:04 Nick Rout wrote: Robert F says he installed kde and upgraded to kde 4.2. Better ask him how he did it? See... http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kde-4.2 -- Regards, Robert -- Robert Fisher (aka - Rob, Bob, Robbie, Robbo, Fish) www.fisher.net.nz Phone: 03 383 5807 Mobile: 027 228 4698
