Re: Social Net Work Sites
This is really off topic but bebo or facebook would be your best bets. On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Geoff and Jude Marks jgma...@xtra.co.nzwrote: Hi All can anyone help out in suggesting the best social networking site for a community youth group in New Zealand. we have started a group here in Little River called the Emergency Service Kadets and want a young person safe site. Any suggestions - thanks in advance.
Re: wireless connecting - network manager problem?
Personally I found that connecting to wireless was alot more reliable in ubuntu 8.10 :) On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Andrew Errington a.erring...@lancaster.ac.uk wrote: Could be deteriorating hardware. Try a USB wireless dongle and disable the built-in wireless. See if the exact same issues persist with the new hardware (everything else is the same). A On Fri, February 20, 2009 11:09, Roger Searle wrote: Hi, over the last month or so I have experienced increasing problems getting the wireless connection to connect. This is an ubuntu 8.04 with gnome, network manager 0.6.6. Only changes have been any updates via apt-get update/upgrade. Connections are to 2 separate wrt54gl routers (home, work), set up essentially the same. I know they function OK based on other laptops connecting without issue. Going back a month, connections would just work on logging on to the gnome desktop. Then I would occasionally experience a problem connecting, and manually intervene via network manager. 2 weeks or so ago I began to be prompted for the passphrase and could then successfully connect. Now I am often unable to connect at all, or can connect after 2 or sometimes 3 or 4 times entering the passphrase. Sometimes I'm having to resort to an ethernet cable :-( Turning on and off the wireless switch on the laptop, or disabling then re-enabling wireless via network manager, or a reboot, or resetting the router, have all been tried in an attempt to resolve with any consistency, but generally it's random if it is successful. Removing and recreating the passphrase entry in the Passwords and Encryption Keys tool (where the password is usually shown in what appears to be a hex format) hasn't helped. I'm at a loss to explain what I am describing, so seeking any suggestions on how to resolve this or where to look. Cheers, Roger
Re: Promotional event for the average person
Sorry sent to to Christopher rather than the list On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Caleb Sawtell gamingg...@gmail.com wrote: I'm gonna go out on a limb here and not recommend kde. Gnome has put a lot of effort into making a very intuitive user interface. Kde has only recently started to put the effort into sensible user interface design, but IMHO it has been played as second fiddle to glitz and glamour because, lets face it, that's more fun. My second point is that Mac OS X has proven that people can cope with another user interface that isn't windows. Plus the default gnome setup in opensuse has removed the top bar and put everything down the bottom just like windows. On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Christopher Sawtell csawt...@gmail.comwrote: On Friday 16 January 2009 06:43:28 Robert Fisher wrote: On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:48:49 pm Volker Kuhlmann wrote: On Thu 15 Jan 2009 13:12:44 NZDT +1300, Tim Buchanan wrote: I've recently been helping my co-workers with their laptops. When I have suggested that they might try to try a Linux OS, they tell me that they would like to stick with what they know how to use (ie window$ xp). Time to drop Ubuntu and go for one of the KDE distros?? My thoughts exactly. There can be no doubt that it is easier for a Windows user to learn KDE than Gnome. But be certain that you know exactly how to use the desktop of choice before you install it on the computer belonging a friend or client. Note that while KDE-4 is visually appealing, it is not only very different from that which came before, but also some applications are not, imho, particularly stable when running under KDE-4. As it stands at the moment, I'd be very cautious before installing KDE-4.x on dear old Aunt Tilly's computer, particularly if said aunt has had some exposure to a different user interface. -- With Sincerity, Christopher Sawtell
Re: Question: Web-Cam for Linux.
http://www.quickcamteam.net/hcl/linux/ On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Greets folks, I have a need to attach a web-cam to my ThinkPad. Any one got to work under Linux? I would prefer one which I can just plug in and use, but I would not be too unhappy to have to compile an out of tree kernel module should that be necessary. I am running KUbuntu-4.1.2 using kernel 2.6.27-9-generic. War stories would be very welcome. TNX a 10^6 -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
Re: just to show it's not just redhat...
Er Actually flash 10 has been out of 32bit for a while... the 64 bit support is just new. On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Vik Olliver [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 09:33 +1300, Derek Smithies wrote: flash plugins do not exist for 64 bit. They expect you to run the browswer in 32 bit mode, with 32 bit flash plugins, for optimal performance. Adobe, for a change, have launched Flash 10 64-bit on Linux before anything else: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/ Vik :v)
Re: just to show it's not just redhat...
oh right, well the linux community have been the most vocal about 64 bit support :) On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Vik Olliver [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 10:52 +1300, Caleb Sawtell wrote: Er Actually flash 10 has been out of 32bit for a while... the 64 bit support is just new. Yes, but for a change, Linux gets the 64-bit version first. Other operating systems have to wait. Usually it's the other way around. Vik :v)
Re: Very OT: Online storage space
I used to use pages.google.com for storing my files. On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:57 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the offer John, I got it sorted. I must have been having a non-obvious moment, I just tarballed the files then emailed them to myself. Sometimes the most obvious answer is the easiest. Kerry 2008/11/4 John Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [ ... ] Can I recommend Warehouse Stationery $38 deal on 8Gb USB pens? I call it a Poor Man's Laptop since you can put a full featured bootable live linux system on it _and_ all your data. IIRC he said that he couldn't use a USB memory stick. Another possibility might be to set up an SSH server on the home machine on Port 80, which the school _has_ to have open for web browsing. ( There is a setting for the port number to use in the sshd run conditions file, which, on my distro is: /etc/ssh/sshd_config Just change the number 22 to 80 restart the ssh daemon ) You will then be able to log into your home machine and use scp. If you still need it I could set you up a temporary account. 50 megs is fine. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
Re: Ubuntu, ATI fglrx, AIGLX, and Xv
What is your problem? Are you using open source drivers or the closed source ones? On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Daniel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I've been having problems with Xv while using AIGLX on an ATI card ( X800XL ) using the fglrx driver has anyone else? have you been able to fix it?
Re: Ubuntu, ATI fglrx, AIGLX, and Xv
Sorry I see now your using fglxr On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Caleb Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is your problem? Are you using open source drivers or the closed source ones? On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Daniel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I've been having problems with Xv while using AIGLX on an ATI card ( X800XL ) using the fglrx driver has anyone else? have you been able to fix it?
Re: Laptops? Sony Vaio?
I personally have an inspiron 1525 aswell, I had some problems with hardy and a buggy graphics and wireless drivers. But with the beta of intrepid I have no problems with the hardware and would recommend it On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 7:36 PM, David Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as noted in an earlier thread, I have just installed Ubuntu on a Dell inspiron 1525. Works great. and my daughter likes it because she was able to choose the colour - a nice deep red was her choice. A few dramas getting it working because it needed to download latest updates before it would connect to the internet (which was a challenge...) but as long as you install everything new, you should be fine. - D PS your economic analysis appeals. I'm thinking of a new widescreen TV for the same reason... On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: 2008/10/10 chris [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, i am running ubuntu 8.04 on an HP nw9440, with no issues that I can detect. it supports the built in card reader lan network wireless etc. It doesn't support the fingerprint reader. it also supports the mouse-pad, which you can turn on or off in the preferences regards Chris T On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 16:43 +1300, John Carter wrote: The current sorry state of the financial world has convinced the wife to hedge our savings by converting some NZ dollars into different units. eg. buying a laptop so we can own the means of production. Translation : I wish to buy a laptop that will happily run Linux. The last which laptop thread here was in May... The latest PC World editors choice was a Sony VAIO VGN CS13GQ (which is a bit weird since google knows nothing about such a device!) Any counter recommendations? ThinkPads, The Gentleman's Laptop, run Linux faultlessly. Kubuntu just works on mine. Sony VAIOs, The Ladies Laptop, run Linux pretty well too. As I understand it, they are much better nowadays than they used to be. Sony VAIOs are essentially fashion statements, and come in a wide range of co-ordinated colours. ThinkPads are black. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
Re: problems with encrypted dvds
on ubuntu open on the terminal and run sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh this will enable the decription On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Matthew Whiting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *The source seems encrypted, and can't be read. Are you trying to play an encrypted DVD without libdvdcss?* Anyone know why I'm getting these error messages whilst playing DVDs? I have the package libdvdcss installed. Not sure how to fix this. I thought it seemed to occur more when trying to play a DVD I'd ripped to the hard drive, but happens quite frequently while I'm playing the actual DVDs. Gets frustrating when I have to go watch the DVD on a windows laptop.. arggh!
Re: Run application pop-up
get gnome-do On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Vik Olliver [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 15:24 +1200, Douglas Royds wrote: Close, but no cigar. It has its own built-in tab completion, for executables only. I want to be able to do something like: evince ~/stuff/some.pdf With tab completion. Sorry, that was my best guess. I hear the new KDE4 run box will do it though. I was given a demo of the prototype at LCA earlier this year. Vik :v)
Re: meeting Tues 7.30pm?
I do believe that I am doing a talk about inkscape topday On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 6:46 AM, Robert Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:56:01 am Rik Tindall wrote: Some posters are needed, notices to put places, any other ideas? Are the posters prepared? What size are they? I can probably print some if they are no bigger than A3 Rob
Re: Playing streaming videos in NZ
if your using a distro that uses pulseaudio get the latest flash 10 beta for linux seemed to fix my flash streaming problems On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Robert Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 7:37:23 am Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote: You're not using nspluginwrapper, are you? It's pretty notorious for instability in certain situations. No I am not. Thanks. Rob
Re: suitable router and video card
I have an nvidia 6600 sitting in my cupboard its AGP so if it works for you $40 On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:34 AM, David Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have a look on Trade me for a Asus WL-520GU, Wireless Router. As Nick says, 40-50 bucks should do the trick. There was a guy in Chch selling them but I cant find his details right now. I imagine it will connect to your Telstra thingee. It will give you household-wide wireless and cabled connections if you run a few ethernet cables around the room. Really simple reliable in my experience. For a few more dollars there's a version that includes a Print server which is great - just plug in a USB printer and you get print connections from anywhere. No problems networking up linux, XP Vista machines. - David On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: switch $40 ish old computer $nil from the junk pile ipcop $free On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Matthew Whiting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kia ora everyone, I live in a household with four computers and funnily enough, we've been making do without a router and connecting to the internet one at a time. Unsurprisingly, this is getting increasingly frustrating! So, I've started looking for a second-hand router but am unsure what to look for - something that'll be easy enough to setup. We have two machines running ubuntu, one mac and one laptop running xp. If it makes a difference, we have telstra cable broadband, but I'm thinking of switching to xnet (any recommendations here as well?). I also would like to suss a graphic card for my machine. Again, doesn't have to be anything flash and I'd rather not throw much cash at it. Not a hardware person myself, so grateful for any help here :) Cheers Matt
Re: usb headset...
Because he asked for help not freedom crusading. There are other limitations in the real word like the fact that the people he is taking too are comfortable to skype and dont want to change. or maybe the opensource implamentations are limited or unfinished and he wants something that will just work. I can understand wanting to champion open source and open standards but sometimes you just have to be a little tolerant On Feb 9, 2008 1:08 PM, yuri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 09/02/2008, Nick Rout wrote: pardon me but why are people on this list supporting proprietary skype when open standards are so important to linux users (not to mention life the universe everything)? What he said! The industry wide standard VoIP protocol is SIP, which is an open standard well support by all serious players in the VoIP market. You can even get SIP phones that plug straight into your router, so you can use the service even when your computer is turned off. Give it some thought. Yuri
Re: Format shifting DVD to HDD
acidrip is the program that I use it is a front end to mencoder and produces a decent result On Dec 18, 2007 8:23 PM, yuri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, assuming it is legal to format shift a DVD which I have bought to my hard disk for convenience and not for allowing others to view /disclaimer How? Which apps do I need to install? TIA Yuri
Re: VCD images
After a bit of googling I found this http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/linux-newbie/40124-how-copy-files-vcd.html#post258201 On 11/3/07, robert vickerstaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have some old VCDs (video CDs) which I would like to save as MPEG movies on my HDD. I can read the disk images using: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=image_file But I have been unable to play the resulting .dat movie files from these images. I suspect part of the problem may be that dd is not reading all the information required from the disk. Apparently VCDs don't use a standard CD filesystem, in order to cram more data onto each disk. In a forum a read that the bin/cue disk image format extracts more data than iso images (i.e. the bin file is larger than the equivalent iso file), and that this is required for getting proper VCD images. Does anyone know how I can extract a bin/cue format image from my VCDs? Cheers, Rob
Re: Gentoo on Dell lap top
is there anything particularly wrong with that your laptop should not have any problems handling the tiny extra load of having extra stuff in the kernel On 10/20/07, Ross Drummond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sabayon 3.3 will load a live CD without problems. I am loath to use the Sabayon /usr/src/linux/.config because of THROW_IN_KITCHEN_SINK=y approach taken.
Re: Generating avi's
What OS does your mate bill use? you could try -ovc xvid or mpeg2 On 9/17/07, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me a better way of generating an avi from frames taken every minute from my webcam. This works great for me, but my mate bill can't find the proper codec. Is there a more commonly available one than mpeg4 that anyone could suggest?? mencoder mf://Temporary/*jpg -mf w=352:h=288:fps=25:type=jpg -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -oac copy -o 2007-09-17/Weather.avi Cheers, Steve
Re: Hello Help
Hello there Aidan When ever you play around with wine its best to have a look at the appdb appdb.winehq.org on there you can see how well an app runs under wine and any config changes or patches you might need to apply Caleb Sawtell On 9/13/07, Aidan Gauland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I should probably introduce myself. My name is Aidan (the same one asking about PC shopping, and Linux distributions), and I am using Debian on an Intel machine now, but use my mother's iMac for using the Internet. I'm playing around with C++ (more for generic CS studies right now), Python, and looking at some Lua. I have also played (less seriously) with HTML and CSS, but I still have to do some of that (using FONT tags instead of CSS) for a brain dead distance course (don't ask). Now I need a Wine hacker. I have tried several games with Wine, and none work too well. I got to the end of one adventure game (The Neverhood, if anyone's heard of that), but the closing movie plays with no sound. And I had to muck with the settings to get that far, because it kept crashing at a pervious point in the game. Another, Where in time is Carmen Sandiego, plays well enough, with some annoying sound and graphic malfunctions. Four games from the same company can't run the installer even. And Riven, one of Cyan's Myst adventure games, has some fixable sound problems, and crashes almost right after the opening movie, you can move one step, and then when you try to move another step, Wine spits out the same error message for a terminal few screens saying to expect deadlock, and crashes when you click in the window. With more debugging output, is says something about a bad handle, when you do the same thing. I have tried mucking around with Wine's configuration, and overriding some DLLs, but it still does EXACTLY the same thing. I COULD run all these games, except The Neverhood which I borrowed, in SheepShaver, but I would like to know if there is something I could do to get these to run properly in Wine. I know there is Cedega, which has better support for games, but it's not free (of charge). Thanks in advance, Aidan
Re: bus info browser compatibility
firefox can load svgs in 2.0 it is quite naff but compatibility has been improved in the new version On 9/10/07, Rik Tindall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Errington wrote: If you use the page intended for use with 3-g mobiles you can get the information you want in any browser. Alternatively a simple bash script using the 'nc' utility could retrieve the info. Generation of same is left to the ingenuity of the previous poster. I wrote a Python script to retrieve the arrival times for a stop from the WAP page. A How does one discover bus stop numbers from this page please? It isn't obvious. Also, what FOSS SVG alternatives would be best employed to improve this graphical system in total? Cheers, Rik
Re: Changing refresh rates on Ubuntu
Sounds like your not running you LCD at its native res and it is not scaling try setting it to its native res On 8/30/07, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doubtful that any of this should really be neeeded as most reasonably modern lcd screens should give all the required info to X via EDID. Take a look at the log file /var/log/Xorg.0.log and see if edid data is being received. A better description of the hardware and the actual problem may lead to further help. Christopher Sawtell wrote: This is thee ultimate mode line calculator:- http://amlc.berlios.de/ On 8/30/07, Kerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The HorizSync and VertRefresh lines are both missing so I'll have to track them down Google will know those numbers. What's the make and model of your lappie? On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 15:46 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: /etc/X11/xorg.conf is the ultimate screen definition file if that's any help. Get the screen properties from the manufacturers website, and look for the following sections: Section Monitor Identifier Generic Monitor Option DPMS HorizSync 28-96 VertRefresh 43-60 EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen 0 Device Graphics Adapter 0 MonitorGeneric Monitor DefaultDepth 24 SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes1400x1024 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 EndSubSection EndSection You'll be wanting to change the HorizSync, VertRefresh and Modes in the above section to support your lappie. hth, Steve On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:18:11 +1200 Kerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had issues with my screen resolution with the screen not filling the entire screen of my laptop. I went to System - Preferences - Screen Resolution the refresh rate drop box has only one setting 0 hz which I'm assuming is causing my problem. I remember there's a text file to alter these settings but can't remember where it is. Any pointers? Kerry
Re: New Members
Well it created a new one on gmail On 8/29/07, Zane Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jamie McCloskey wrote: snip I made a new thread, to avoid getting too off-topic on the previous one. err... No you didn't. You hit reply to a message in this thread and replaced the the subject line. That will not create a new thread. You need to Create a new email from scratch to start a new thread. -- __ Zane Gilmore: Analyst/Programmer Cellphone: 0276 319 206 Telephone: +64-3 943 5447 Facsimile: +64-3 379 4886 Address: Level 1, 179 Tuam St, Christchurch, New Zealand Post: PO Box 13300, Christchurch 8011, New Zealand NZS.com : Your map of New Zealand Web space Web: http://www.nzs.com/ __
Re: CT: Applicaiton War - we should have one...
I think instead of an install fest we should have a day where we show of linux and its applications On 8/23/07, Don Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think we should show off our applications. I also think we should consolidate more info on why we think Linux rox over Windows. I think we're poor at marketing Linux in New Zealand, we could do more, I know I'd like to. I'm also interested in distributed technology's like sans. I'd like to see applications where we leverage the power of more than one machine to speed up performance. Anyway, just random thoughts after having read the whole distro war threed.
Re: CT: Applicaiton War - we should have one...
Indeed, although the install part of the installfest is becoming less and less relevant with the modern distros On 8/23/07, Don Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Caleb Sawtell wrote: I think instead of an install fest we should have a day where we show of linux and its applications In some respects, that's what an install fest should be about anyway. my 2c on install fests
Re: OT - reading an iso in windows
I was looking at daemon tools but it looks like it win2000 + only On 8/20/07, Kerry Mayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use daemon-tools. Mounts CD and DVD isos on a virtual drive. Pretty sure I used it back in win98 days. On 20/08/07, barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, In linux I can simply mount the iso and read it. What software / how do I do the same thing in windows (98)? I am already using the iso in linux. TIA Barry
Re: putting arrows on pictures
To make a nice line in gimp draw a dot with the brush hold shift and click again where you want the line to end and you will have a nice line hopefully how you want it. On 8/19/07, Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OTOH if you don't like the canned versions Steve talks about, you could make exactly what you want using one of the svg drawing packages: Karbon; Inkscape; or sodipodi I'm currently installing Karbon. You export the image as a .png from the svg package for import into the gimp. On 8/19/07, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think all of your questions should be answered here... untar the arrow brushes and place in /usr/share/gimp/2.0/brushes. http://www.gimphelp.org/ Steve On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:27:42 +1200 Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am putting together some articles on a wiki, and including some screen shots on which I want to draw an arrow to point to a particular part of the screen. I thought this would be a really simple task but am yet to find some cool tools to help with this. I can use gimp to draw 3 lines to make an arrow but really my drawing skills still suck badly as they have all my life. Does anyone know of a package that has a tool to draw arrows? Or a method via gimp to draw a proper arrow? Cheers, Roger -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
Re: Distribution advice
I personally like Ubuntu, but he might like mint Linux with xfce or if he is crazy he can try Gentoo with e17 On 8/13/07, Robert Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 13 August 2007 1:33 pm, Gauland, Michael wrote: So, here's your chance to (politely) evangelise your favourite distro, and perhaps win a convert (or two) in the bargain. Have at it! AntiX Spartacus, Lightweight Version of MEPIS is my recommendation for you. http://www.mepis.org/node/13830 I have a CD for you if you want. Rob
Re: Booking for Microsoft Talk
What is with all the blank messages personaly I would be interested to see what the other story is. On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 08:47 +1300, Carl Cerecke wrote:
Re: viewing linux files in windows
Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Monday 08 May 2006 17:47, Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, May 8, 2006 5:41 pm, Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Monday 08 May 2006 15:58, Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 15:56 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Monday 08 May 2006 15:01, Nick Rout wrote: If your linux filessystem is ext2 or ext3 you can use IFS: http://www.fs-driver.org/ The way most people do it is to have a small 'port-hole' partition formatted in vfat which can then be used by both Linux and Windows. If you disk is fully partitioned you might find using a USB memory stick convenient. Otherwise either run 'Captive' by Jan Kratochvil [1] or temporarily run Windows in a qemu environment and transfer the files to and fro with the Linux host environment using Samba and Windows using the Network Neighbourhood. Very convenient, but rather difficult to set up. [1] http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/ [2] http://us5.samba.org/samba/ you are back to front, he wanted to access a linux filesystem from windows, not the other way around. Option 2 is bi-directional, and you can use any filesystem you like on the Linux side. But then don't you end up with the files on the windows side in a qemu virtual file system, which is just an image file on your linux partition? Can you tell me how Bernard booted to windows would access that data? He can't from a booted windows, but he can if windows is running in a qemu host by using the Network Neighbourhood on the Windows side and Samba on the Linux - host - side, because it is possible to make network connections between the host and and windows in its qemu environment. ftp is another possibility. iirc, Wesley showed this off some months ago. I wouldn't recommend that Bernard tries to set this up, because the 'letter-box' or 'port-hole' vfat file system method is far simpler. Then I think you missed the point there. He wants to get at his linux files from windows. If anyone is using ReiserFS there I some tools too use, although I have not tried them myself so use at your own risk. http://yareg.akucom.de/ looks like you can see them though a file browser or http://rfsd.sourceforge.net/ which IIRC is a driver so you can view your files just like its a windows hard drive.
Re: Linux help
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reading that help information that you posted, it seems nick has given you the wrong option. Try gphoto --auto-detect in the terminal also the dmesg out put looks like it is telling you that you should try to reboot because it has tried fixed something. P.S Thunderbird has a real time spell checker so it tells us if we have misspelled a word good for us you can't spell ;) Ok i have now managed to pick the camera up as a USB ptp class camera, but get failed to connect message on it... Output from terminla looks like this ERROR: Bad option --autodetect: ERROR: unknown option gphoto2 2.1.6 Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Lutz Mueller and others gphoto2 comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. You may redistribute copies of gphoto2 under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the files named COPYING. This version of gphoto2 is using the following software versions and options: gphoto2 2.1.6gcc, no popt, exif, cdk, no aa, jpeg, readline libgphoto22.1.6gcc, EXIF, no ltdl, /proc/meminfo libgphoto2_port 0.5.1gcc, USB, serial without locking, no ltdl Usage: Short/long options ( argument)Description --debug Turn on debugging -q --quiet Quiet output (default=verbose) -v --versionDisplay version and exit -h --help Displays this help screen --list-cameras List supported camera models --list-ports List supported port devices --stdout Send file to stdout --stdout-sizePrint filesize before data --auto-detectList auto-detected cameras --port path Specify port device --speed speedSpecify serial transfer speed --camera model Specify camera model --filename filename Specify a filename --usbid usbid(expert only) Override USB IDs -a --abilities Display camera abilities -f --folder folder Specify camera folder (default=/) -R --recurseRecursion (default for download) --no-recurse No recursion (default for deletion) --newProcess new files only -l --list-folders List folders in folder -L --list-files List files in folder -m --mkdir name Create a directory -r --rmdir name Remove a directory -n --num-files Display number of files -p --get-file range Get files given in range -P --get-all-files Get all files from folder -t --get-thumbnail rangeGet thumbnails given in range -T --get-all-thumbnails Get all thumbnails from folder --get-raw-data range Get raw data given in range --get-all-raw-data Get all raw data from folder --get-audio-data range Get audio data given in range --get-all-audio-data Get all audio data from folder -d --delete-file range Delete files given in range -D --delete-all-files Delete all files in folder -u --upload-file filename Upload a file to camera --config Configure --list-configList the configuration tree --get-config nameGet a configuration variable --set-config nameSet a configuration variable -F --frames count Set number of frames to capture (default= infinite) -I --interval seconds Set capture interval in seconds --capture-previewCapture a quick preview --capture-image Capture an image --capture-movie Capture a movie --capture-sound Capture an audio clip --show-exif rangeShow EXIF information --show-info rangeShow info --summarySummary of camera status --manual Camera driver manual --about About the camera driver --shell gPhoto shell [Use double-quotes around arguments][Picture numbers begin with one (1)] [EMAIL PROTECTED] dmesg|tail -n 20 [c0143901] unmap_region+0x7d/0xf2 [c0143b6c] do_munmap+0xcd/0xec [c0143bc4] sys_munmap+0x39/0x54 [c0102be9] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is
Re: Which Distro...
Nate Walker wrote: I have a P3 800, 128MB RAM, 40GB HDD I want to turn it into the main download box for the people in my flat What distro would be good, considering that I might well put it into a 10gig drive for the OS and a 30gig for downloads… and that it would probably need a bandwith limiter and ability to access it remotely… Also, what DC++, torrent and sharazaa clients would I want/need? Nate Is this going to be a server or a client box? I would be tempted to say debian if its going to be a server or ubuntu/kubuntu if it is going to be a client computer. I know that azureus is a good bittorrent client although might be a bit heavy for that computer if hot azureus the default client will do the job For DC++ There is a DC++ client for linux around somewhere. I'm sorry I dunno about sharazaa these are ofcause all going to be used to get linux distros so that the load is taken off the servers isn't it :P
Re: New monitors, font problems...
Have you got the fonts AA set for and LCD screen? Steve Holdoway wrote: On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:38:28 +1200 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:26:27 +1200 Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Tuesday 18 April 2006 14:00, Steve Holdoway wrote: On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:50:03 +1200 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 13:44 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: Any KDE experts out there able to give me pointers as to how to optimise my display after upgrading to dual LCD monitors from CRT? It almost looks like I need anti-aliasing enabled - bright halos around dark characters when typing. Monitors are 19 LCD, 1280x1024, displa is an ATI 550 something. KDE is 3.5 Wish I were bragging, but this is at work, not home (: Steve LCD monitors always seem to go best at their native resolution, ie their highest supported. What res are they capable of and what are you running them at? Unfortunately 1280x1024, and 1280x1024 (: make sure the X-11 server is actually running at that resolution. This is helpful # cd ~/ # X -configure Now have a test run using:- # X -config xorg.conf.new It creates a new xorg.conf file as a basis for extra work using:- http://amlc.berlios.de/ You don't mention which dist. you are using. The anally-retentive ones don't install the full set of fonts by default, particularly the nice ones for some strange reason. Ensure that some of the fonts available are scalable. ( Type1 or ttf ) I like BitStream Vera Sans. -- CS Although reading between the lines, the fonts were working fine before the new monitor was installed. to actually check what res the server is running at the magic is: xwininfo -root certainly I have founnd the best way to get X to recognise a new monitor is to do as Chris says and run X -configure. Most modern monitors probe well, older ones like the crappy little 14 inch jobbies don't. The xorg.conf.new file is located in the current dir and needs to be moved (after judicious inspection and backing up) to /etc/X11/ -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, I updated it by hand as the second monitor is a real pig to get the refresh right ( and that's a *real* problem with crt's as I'm sensitised to 60Hz after all these years of staring at them - practically an instant migraine ). Both are fine. Both are set up to *only* run at 1280x1024, and both are doing so. I'm running debian testing, and my partner in crim has the same problem with gentoo. I'll try gnome tomorrow, although I'm being forced to use the KDE IDE for development at the moment. Anything else you're after? I have no problem whatsoever here at home with an old Acer 1280x1024 monitor with fc4 and an nvidia card. It's almost like the fonts need to be bolder. Steve
Re: My linux multimedia talk
This looks promising, http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=27528 would be interested is Nick would cover that app. Volker Kuhlmann wrote: I'd like to know how to convert the format of the recorded file so that it can be viewed on a standard DVD player. That's a DVD burning question more than anything. The file format is quite simple, mpeg3 video or something like that, the crucial bits are: 1) creation of navigation menu files (control and bitmap image files) 2) directory layout on the DVD 3) file names mkisofs will master a video DVD for you, but will neither check nor warn nor enforce the requirements. For music DVD you're totally out of luck, that functionality is missing in mkisofs, from memory no-one has implemented it because the relevant standards are available only at significant cost. Software which does 1-3) above would be interesting to hear about, but I fear Linux is found lacking somewhat. A well-researched talk on this would probably fill at least half an evening by itself. Volker
OT: upgraded computer selling computer bits.
Hello all please tell me if what I am doing is annoying anyone. Well I have one 40 gig hard drive 20 dollars and a cd burner 20 dollars as well also a geforce fx 5600XT will be for sale later when I upgrade that (runs XGL like butter not to grate for gaming though) I appologise if this has anoyed anyone please send any complaints or anything OFF LIST we don't want this to start a flame, might wanna send anything off list too. Caleb Sawtell
Re: What to do with an old mac
Nick Rout wrote: I have been given an old Mac - a performa 6100 i think. It's in the boot of my car, and i am not so details are fuzzy. Can i run linux on this thing? is it just a (yellow) dog? Can anyone point me to system requirements for, say, ubuntu ppc? Has anyone got ubuntu for ppc disks? (I gave all mine away) What do you do with an old mac? You get a sledge hammer and have fun thats what you do *puts on his flame suit*
Re: MPlayer running slowly
Douglas Royds wrote: Have you tryed doing what mplayer tells you to do when it detects that your system is running slow? Some success, some failures: When I launch MPlayer simply as mplayer dvd://1, then it plays the DVD fine, crusing along at about 50% of my CPU time (compared to Totem-xine's 33%). Using gmplayer dvd://1 also launches the nice GUI controller, but CPU usage rockets to about 95%, and MPlayer fails to keep up. Output from MPlayer below. Douglas. /proc/cpuinfo reports: processor: 0 vendor_id: GenuineIntel cpu family: 6 model: 11 model name: Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU 1133MHz stepping: 1 cpu MHz: 1136.417 cache size: 256 KB fdiv_bug: no hlt_bug: no f00f_bug: no coma_bug: no fpu: yes fpu_exception: yes cpuid level: 2 wp: yes flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse bogomips: 2260.99 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ gmplayer -dvd-device /dev/hdc dvd://1 MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.3.5 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Tualatin (Family: 6, Stepping: 1) Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes MMX2 supported but disabled CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX SSE vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (:0.0 = local display) Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied Try adding echo 1024 /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq to your system startup scripts. Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0 Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directory Can't init input joystick Setting up LIRC support... mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing dvd://1. libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access Reading disc structure, please wait... There are 1 titles on this DVD. There are 6 chapters in this DVD title. There are 1 angles in this DVD title. libdvdread: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keys libdvdread: This can take a _long_ time, please be patient libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VIDEO_TS.VOB at 0x012b libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Get key for /VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB at 0x00013f2d libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 libdvdread: Found 1 VTS's libdvdread: Elapsed time 0 DVD successfully opened. Cache fill: 1.56% (16384 bytes)MPEG-PS file format detected. VIDEO: MPEG2 720x576 (aspect 2) 25.000 fps 8000.0 kbps (1000.0 kbyte/s) == Trying to force audio codec driver family libmad... Opening audio decoder: [dvdpcm] Uncompressed DVD/VOB LPCM audio decoder AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x20), ratio: 192000-192000 (1536.0 kbit) Selected audio codec: [dvdpcm] afm:dvdpcm (Uncompressed DVD/VOB LPCM) == == Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES) Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale... Opening video filter: [scale] The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec. VDecoder init failed :( Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:libmpeg2 (MPEG 1 or 2 (libmpeg2)) == Checking audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/16bit - 48000Hz/2ch/16bit... AF_pre: af format: 2 bps, 2 ch, 48000 hz, big endian signed int AF_pre: 48000Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Big-Endian) alsa-init: got device=0, subdevice=0 alsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: default alsa: 48000 Hz/2 channels/4 bpf/65536 bytes buffer/Signed 16 bit Big Endian AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch Signed 16-bit (Big-Endian) (2 bps) Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/16bit - 48000Hz/2ch/16bit... Starting playback... VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred csp: Planar YV12) VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. VO: [x11] 720x576 = 768x576 Planar YV12 SwScaler: using unscaled Planar YV12 - BGRA special converter A: 4.9 V: 4.4 A-V: 0.500 ct: 0.412 104/104 22% 53% 1.2% 73 0 38% Your system is too SLOW to play this! Possible reasons, problems, workarounds: - Most common: broken/buggy _audio_ driver - Try -ao sdl or use the OSS emulation of ALSA. - Experiment with different values for -autosync, 30 is a good start. - Slow video output - Try a different -vo driver (-vo help for a list) or try -framedrop! - Slow CPU - Don't try to play a big DVD/DivX
Re: it's amazing where they're putting Linux
Zane Gilmore wrote: Nick Rout wrote: On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:22:51 +1200 Zane Gilmore wrote: Some serious bragging rights if you get this going :-) particularly as I imagine badgers are banned from being inported into NZ (dead, alive or otherwise) Other animals of family Mustelidae can be used in place of a badger, but an adapter may be required. See Appendix II for details. Possibly a weasel or fitch :-) I wonder if a possum would work might not take a binary distro though *goes off to find gentoo possum live cd*
Re: Gamer's GPLed fun
Wesley Parish wrote: Just a little word of warning Nexuiz is highly GPU dependant if you want the nice effects eg lags on my geforce fx 5600XT :-( http://www.nexuiz.com/index.php All of Nexuiz is licensed under the GPL, including the core engine, the textures, maps, sounds, and models. It is extremely modder friendly. Because of its GPL license status, it can be included in any Linux distros or packages and is entirely free. Nexuiz is built on the power of the Darkplaces engine, which is a heavily modified version of the original Quake. Darkplaces features realtime lighting and stencil shadows, bumpmapping, gloss, bloom, and totally rewritten network code that supports up to 64 players on a single server. While quality gameplay was our primary goal, it's graphics technology and artwork allows the game to compete with the current quality of commercial games. And Quake 3 Source Release Coming! http://www.planetquake.com/ Hot off the presses folks, just announced moments ago, we've got awesome news out of camp QuakeCon where Pappy-R has just left the QuakeCon Keynote with John Carmack. The Quake III Arena source code will be released as soon as they can put it all together! It was also noted that the release will not include any PunkBuster stuff in it. Watch for more news on the Q3 source release as it comes in! I'm seriously thinking of a first-party plotter to be called The Methane Reclamation Act, starring various politicians plotting and planning to pass a law to be called in short form, The Methane Reclamation Act, to recover - for fuel and greenhouse gas uses - the methane emitted daily by the average citizen. The Sicillian Option allows one to murder your political opponents; the Congressional Option allows you to bribe them; the Taiwan Option allows you to mug them whether in or out of Parliament. It looks as if it'll take the next eight hours for nexuiz to download ... ;^) Wesley Parish
Re: Acorn Drop blender Game
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 17:31 +1300, Caleb Sawtell wrote: ok to make people actually play this game lets have a little challange everyone post their high scores here eg: mine is 100 (but I am suposed to be good at it cause I have to test it ;) -- Caleb Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Acorn Drop blender Game
The Game demonstrated by me during my blender talk. some of the more imporant bugs that where very apparent have been smoothed over and is avalable to download from: http://shell.canterbury.lug.net.nz:8080/~caleb/acorn-drop-0.2.1.tar.bz2 Minamum System Requirements: 1 ghz Pentium or AMD equiverlant 128 meg of ram geforce 2 3d accelerator card or better (with working drivers). Keyboard and Mouse Recomend system Requirements: 2ghz Pentium or AMD equiverlant 256 meg of ram geforce 4 MX 3d accelerator card or better (with working drivers). Keyboard and Mouse Knowen Issuse: There have been some problems getting this game to work corectly on ATI cards. Once you have collected 40 or more acorns and you collect a golden acorn, the required acorns goes into minus's. Celeron Procesors have trouble keeping the gameplay speed at an acceptable rate. If anyone finds any bug's please report them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Caleb Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Make your desktop snow!!!!
On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 17:00 +1300, Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote: I'd like to make my desktop just work at the moment. I have a feeling that the lightning storm at lunchtime, which seemed to be centred near home, may have fried my motherboard or at least the onboard NIC. OUCH!!! Lighting and computers do not mix well : It is a bit hard to diagnose from work but it does not sound good from the info my son has given me. I am kinda hoping it is hardware (other than my hard drives) because they are under warranty still. Fault finding tonight after basketball might be tricky too. Regards, Robert -Original Message- From: Caleb Sawtell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 22 December 2004 5:37 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Make your desktop snow Hi I found this cool app while searching though the gentoo forums and can be downloaded from http://www.euronet.nl/~rja/Xsnow/ and it is in portage for you fellow gentooers : -- Caleb Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: shortcut keys in gnome
ok what about Terminal? On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 14:18 +1300, Carl Cerecke wrote: Steve Holdoway wrote: Just wondering, is it a good idea(tm) to remap ctrl-m? Ctrl-m is usually a synonym for the Enter key, i.e. it sends a newline character. Try this in a shell (% indicates the terminal prompt) % cat foo Then type Ctrl-m followed by Enter followed by Ctrl-d Ctrl-d sends end-of-file. You have just created a two-character file with the character generated by a ctrl-m and the character generated go the Enter key. Now, to examine the characters in the file: % od -c foo 000 \n \n 002 We see that both Ctrl-m and Enter added a \n character to the file. And: % man ascii shows us that \n is the line feed character, with a decimal value of 10. Cheers, Carl. -- Caleb Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
shortcut keys in gnome
I was wondering how I could make shortcut keys like I go ctrl-m and it opens my mail client? -- Caleb Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ignorate priciple's
This is the priciple of my school ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) he thinks linux is a peice of shit. feel free to drop him a line. -- Caleb Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ignorate priciple's
On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 21:25 +1300, Jude Reid wrote: His email is [EMAIL PROTECTED] and its spelt Ignorant :P. OHHH ok sorry -- Caleb Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ignorate priciple's
On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 21:34 +1300, David Merriman wrote *blush* It's also spelt 'principal' :) David No trees were harmed in the sending of this email, though a large number of electrons were severely inconvenienced Jude Reid wrote: His email is [EMAIL PROTECTED] and its spelt Ignorant :P. -- Caleb Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux...
On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 21:47, eBhakta wrote: Hmm... Would you prefer a more sinister side of those involved with Hare Krishna...? It can be arranged (quite easily). Tread VERY carefully. :| You are stepping into very dangerous waters. There are no dumbass people involved with Hare Krishna. There are all ways going to be dumbass people in this world no matter what god or being they worship. - Original Message - From: Daryn Hanright [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 8:54 PM Subject: Re: Linux... On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 03:37:40PM +1300, Phill Coxon wrote: I'll put forward my evil capitalist vote for kicking this dumbass off the list. Count me in for this as well. I can't believe the crap he's written the last few weeks. And he's not listening to anyone. So really he's wasting all our time bandwidth. == The PalmHeads http://www.planetnz.com/palmheads With regards, Bhaktavatsala Dasa (Vatsala) @ http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~vatsalaji - Hare Krishna!
Re: Linux...
On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 12:57, eBhakta wrote: May I suggest you switch to Mac OS X it is nicely newbie oriented, requires hardly any computer literacy which you obviously don't have. Hi, In trying Linux, it seems that it is an enormous task just to get it set up nicely, and with all kinds of people giving all kinds of advice, that leads to where...? Advice that they don't even know if it works, or not. Rascals! Basically, if it cannot be set up nicely, then forget it! Well basicly, _NOT EVERY ONE HAS THE SAME BRAND OF COMPUTER AS YOU HAVE!_ Better stick with the present system (best stick with the ORIGINAL system). Word of advice... filter out those who are involved for destructive purposes. Ultimately, the best is simple living, and high thinking. Those who are on the side of greed, will only be rewarded with their inevitable destruction, as greed NEVER pays, nor triumps, ultimately, and fortunately. Wishing well, always... Then why are you going to go back to windows? Caleb Sawtell (Linux Gamer)
Re: indebted to spamassassin / ..oops
On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 10:28, Rik Tindall wrote: Sorry Caleb, I thought the meeting planning content was simply put. Viz., would you like to do your Blender presentation at the new CLUG venue in St Albans? How much time do you need to finish preparing it please? Once you have a timeframe, please can you ask your Dad to book the venue for us. It would be good if we were able to have an end-of-year/Xmas social that evening too, so we will need to make such a booking soon. Thankyou for input, Yes I would like to like to be at the new venue I would not mind having january cause that means I have some time in the holidays to prepare :D Rik Caleb Sawtell wrote: On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 16:37, Rik Tindall wrote: Hi Will do. Must we assume Robert's request for Tuesday meetings has foundered? Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 15:30, Rik Tindall wrote: Chris will soon be able to attach dates to the offerings there. Pencil in the third Wednesday of the month, starting January? It'd be good if we could have something in St Albans this year,.. this month?.. btw, I had intended that my demos of some interactive applications, e.g ( OOo ), Scribus and LyX, etc. be followed by Michael Jason-Smith's exposition on SGML and [La]TeX. Caleb tells me that 'Blender is huge' and would need half an evening. I had thought putting the two of you on together would imbue Caleb with more of the confidence required of a first-time speaker. That will not be needed. Great. Just trying to be helpful. Thats of but I am 15 now you know. Nothing is fixed at yet, however. ..for CLUG's new venue, this year. Regards, Rik PS: Rick can you please speek in english so us meer mortals can desifer you texts - speak, English, mere, decypher, your.
Re: indebted to spamassassin / ..oops
On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 16:37, Rik Tindall wrote: Hi Will do. Must we assume Robert's request for Tuesday meetings has foundered? Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 15:30, Rik Tindall wrote: Chris will soon be able to attach dates to the offerings there. Pencil in the third Wednesday of the month, starting January? It'd be good if we could have something in St Albans this year,.. this month?.. btw, I had intended that my demos of some interactive applications, e.g ( OOo ), Scribus and LyX, etc. be followed by Michael Jason-Smith's exposition on SGML and [La]TeX. Caleb tells me that 'Blender is huge' and would need half an evening. I had thought putting the two of you on together would imbue Caleb with more of the confidence required of a first-time speaker. That will not be needed. Nothing is fixed at yet, however. Regards, Rik PS: Rick can you please speek in english so us meer mortals can desifer you texts
Re: asus my logo and wine
Nick Rout wrote: often programmes that touch the bios run from a dos floppy, and will often run on freedos or drdos. i get nervous about bioses though. so do I thats why I asked and this paticular ap has a nice gui thats why it need windows On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:42:16 +1300 Dale Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anything that touchs the bios directly via the OS in that manner is a bad thing (tm) imho , I seriously would not recommend using wine to run such apps which are potentially dodgy even running under thier native platform . Dale. Caleb Sawtell wrote: Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 11:18, Caleb Sawtell wrote: Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 11:02, Caleb Sawtell wrote: Hi has anyone got asus mylogo2 to work under wine? I want to change my boot up picture for my Mother Board but I ddon't want to screw my bios at the same time. has anyone got it working because I REALLY don't want to have to get windows : and yes I have done my google. :) think laterally. stop rebooting what are you on about I don't have windows and I don't want to have to get windows. i mean don't reboot and you will not need to see the boot logo screen :) OH well you se I want to have a piccy of tux there so that the few times that I do reboot I can see tuxy and also so when I take my box out of the house I can show my friends the 31337 linux box 8-)
Re: Blender 3D Modeller
Douglas Royds wrote: I'm interested. WOO Christopher Sawtell wrote: Hi Clugers There was some discussion about Blender at last nights meeting. If anyone is interested I could do a small talk sometime about how to model a and colour a penguin in blender. :-) === This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended addressee. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be the subject of legal or other privilege, none of which is waived or lost by reason of this transmission. If the receiver is not the intended addressee, please accept our apologies, notify us by return, delete all copies and perform no other act on the email. Unfortunately, we cannot warrant that the email has not been altered or corrupted during transmission. ===
Re: Blender 3D Modeller
Caleb Sawtell wrote: Douglas Royds wrote: I'm interested. WOO No Sarcasium intended BTW :-[ Christopher Sawtell wrote: Hi Clugers There was some discussion about Blender at last nights meeting. If anyone is interested I could do a small talk sometime about how to model a and colour a penguin in blender. :-) === This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended addressee. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be the subject of legal or other privilege, none of which is waived or lost by reason of this transmission. If the receiver is not the intended addressee, please accept our apologies, notify us by return, delete all copies and perform no other act on the email. Unfortunately, we cannot warrant that the email has not been altered or corrupted during transmission. ===
Re: Blender 3D Modeller
Vik Olliver wrote: On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 21:46, Christopher Sawtell wrote: There was some discussion about Blender at last nights meeting. If anyone is interested I could do a small talk sometime about how to model a and colour a penguin in blender. :-) Blender may have all the headlines, but I find ArtOfIllusion a helluva lot easier to manage: http://www.artofillusion.org well tackling the monster is the fist step to become a blender mast (I am still not a blender master but I at least know how to use it and make a nice render come out of it but I still have heaps to learn) Vik :v) To err is human. But to really stuff things up you need a computer.
asus my logo and wine
Hi has anyone got asus mylogo2 to work under wine? I want to change my boot up picture for my Mother Board but I ddon't want to screw my bios at the same time. has anyone got it working because I REALLY don't want to have to get windows : and yes I have done my google. :)
Re: asus my logo and wine
Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 11:02, Caleb Sawtell wrote: Hi has anyone got asus mylogo2 to work under wine? I want to change my boot up picture for my Mother Board but I ddon't want to screw my bios at the same time. has anyone got it working because I REALLY don't want to have to get windows : and yes I have done my google. :) think laterally. stop rebooting what are you on about I don't have windows and I don't want to have to get windows.
Re: asus my logo and wine
Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 11:18, Caleb Sawtell wrote: Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 11:02, Caleb Sawtell wrote: Hi has anyone got asus mylogo2 to work under wine? I want to change my boot up picture for my Mother Board but I ddon't want to screw my bios at the same time. has anyone got it working because I REALLY don't want to have to get windows : and yes I have done my google. :) think laterally. stop rebooting what are you on about I don't have windows and I don't want to have to get windows. i mean don't reboot and you will not need to see the boot logo screen :) OH well you se I want to have a piccy of tux there so that the few times that I do reboot I can see tuxy and also so when I take my box out of the house I can show my friends the 31337 linux box 8-)
Re: Clug new domain
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 03:08, Nick Rout wrote: from the OK your committee does do something department, we have registered a domain name clug.org.nz. At present it is pointing to our existing web page (which can still be also found via the rather longwinded canterbury.lug.net.nz and the even longer to type christchurch.lug.net.nz) You can expect the content to change to something more dynamic and up to date sometime within the life expectancy of most of us, so we'll post when we get any further. er... An error occurred while loading http://canterbury.lug.net.nz/: Timeout on server Connection was to canterbury.lug.net.nz at port 80
Re: proposal for publicity
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 02:52, Michael JasonSmith wrote: [1] I am excluding educational programing systems for the tertiary sector (such as Matlab). [2] Yes, Tux Racer is fun. Yes, UT will run on Linux (out of the box). Yes, the entire Doom and Quake series runs under Linux. Yes, Neverwinter Nights runs under Linux. But there are more games that *don't* run under Linux than do. Don't forget the loki stuff and all of the open source games :D
Re: morphix
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 13:58, Wayne Rooney wrote: On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 12:36, caseyk wrote: has anyone tried the morphix distro?the gaming one looks interesting? would like to hear any reviews http://www.morphix.org/modules/news/ the gaming one is cool has ever free (beer speech) you could ever want :D bu it your nvidia you better get used t mesa :D It works well. The kids of my Windows-using boss now have a copy and they often boot his home computer off it. And their granddad's computer too when they are around at his place. One convert at a time, or in this case, three converts. Wayne
Re: nvidia-settings
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 05:41, Chris Wilkinson wrote: Seemed nice and smooth to me few jitters but hey games are playable and it looks decent :D Hi there, Caleb Sawtell wrote: glxgears isn't a very good test of OpenGL capabilities for such a card anyway. I've got a demo called 'glexcess' which should better 'test' that card...and look prettier doing it! :-) may I ask where you got that app? www.glexcess.com is where. There is a link to download a linux port of it. Its a hefty file, but on broadband it'll be fine... You can compile for your arch too, with the included makefile, and I've noticed that I get better results using k7, instead of vanilla i386, on my AthlonXP... why not athlonxp?? There are no stats or sounds, you can just tell from the smoothness of the demo if your card is liking it! :-)
Re: nvidia-settings
On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 04:15, Chris Wilkinson wrote: Hi there, Caleb Sawtell wrote: On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 05:41, Chris Wilkinson wrote: Seemed nice and smooth to me few jitters but hey games are playable and it looks decent :D Yes, the chrome spaceship does it for me! very nice...that and the nice 'facescape'... :-) You can compile for your arch too, with the included makefile, and I've noticed that I get better results using k7, instead of vanilla i386, on my AthlonXP... why not athlonxp?? K7 and AthlonXP/Duron are one and the same architecture...you will often see motherboards for AthlonXP/Duron labelled similar to mine, which is a K7VM4... OH /me me feels dumb
Re: nvidia-settings
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 04:59, Chris Wilkinson wrote: Hi Caleb, Caleb Sawtell wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 05:46, Robert Fisher wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 17:22, Chris Wilkinson wrote: Very good and very quick...for those with an nVidia card I would suggest its invaluable for them to fine-tune their card for the best use... on the subject of nvidia has anyone here got a geforce fx 5600xt cause I only get 6114 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1222.800 FPS in glx gears and I want to know if its my cheap chip set or a deeper prob... My FX5600 EQ (Albatron special) gets 2550fps, but without any antialias. Try without that and you should get a better result...if I use antialias I start to see the results you indicate (or worse), depending on how severe I smooth the jaggies... glxgears isn't a very good test of OpenGL capabilities for such a card anyway. I've got a demo called 'glexcess' which should better 'test' that card...and look prettier doing it! :-) may I ask where you got that app?
Re: nvidia-settings
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 07:01, Matthew Gregan wrote: At 2004-07-15T07:18:42+, Caleb Sawtell wrote: may I ask where you got that app? You could. Alternatively, you could try helping yourself. Use Google. Search for 'glexcess'. It's the first freakin' hit. Sorry man I completely for got to google sorry :/ -mjg
Re: nvidia-settings
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 07:38, Nick Rout wrote: go easy man he's only a kid (no offence Caleb, a young adult?) none taken, yes I am a young adult (sorta) On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 19:01, Matthew Gregan wrote: At 2004-07-15T07:18:42+, Caleb Sawtell wrote: may I ask where you got that app? You could. Alternatively, you could try helping yourself. Use Google. Search for 'glexcess'. It's the first freakin' hit. -mjg
Re: nvidia-settings
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 11:59, Luuk Paulussen wrote: I have a radeon 9600pro - should be similar speed and I get approximately 4300 FPS... If you have anti-aliasing etc turned on in the drivers, it might be slowing it down. nope no AA On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 11:05:21 +, Caleb Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 05:46, Robert Fisher wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 17:22, Chris Wilkinson wrote: Very good and very quick...for those with an nVidia card I would suggest its invaluable for them to fine-tune their card for the best use... on the subject of nvidia has anyone here got a geforce fx 5600xt cause I only get 6114 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1222.800 FPS in glx gears and I want to know if its my cheap chip set or a deeper prob... Just installed it and I too am impressed.
Re: glxgears (was Re: nvidia-settings)
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 22:40, Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote: Caleb's time problem was discussed in depth beginning 21st May (I just checked the archives). Maybe you should bring your box to the installfest Caleb, or get your Dad tom have a look, or let some ssh to your box. I am coming to the install fest (my computer too) so people can muck around with it then.. Regards, Robert -Original Message- From: Carl Cerecke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 14 July 2004 10:33 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: glxgears (was Re: nvidia-settings) PS. Caleb, your date and/or TZ is incorrect. I know it mucked up again I am going to reinstall soon...
Re: nvidia-settings
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 22:19, Luuk Paulussen wrote: This link shows somebody getting similar speeds (same card) with a reply that the result is fine. http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=ad13ddb1c8153c306463d62b76 a97665p=339920#post339920 That means I was totaly ripped off with this card :'( On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 22:37:52 +, Caleb Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 11:59, Luuk Paulussen wrote: I have a radeon 9600pro - should be similar speed and I get approximately 4300 FPS... If you have anti-aliasing etc turned on in the drivers, it might be slowing it down. nope no AA On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 11:05:21 +, Caleb Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 05:46, Robert Fisher wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 17:22, Chris Wilkinson wrote: Very good and very quick...for those with an nVidia card I would suggest its invaluable for them to fine-tune their card for the best use... on the subject of nvidia has anyone here got a geforce fx 5600xt cause I only get 6114 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1222.800 FPS in glx gears and I want to know if its my cheap chip set or a deeper prob... Just installed it and I too am impressed.
Re: Writing to disc
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 20:00, rowan wrote: Hello all I have been trying to write info and music to cds but have been having very little luck. I am using Mandrake 10 and have tried to use both K3b and Nautilus but the instructions for Nautilus are vague ( or maybe I am stupid ) and there are no instructions on how to use K3b. I did manage to burn a small test file using K3b but it will not accept anything more and I can't find any option to just 'write to cd'. Is there any way that I can just 'write to cd' using K3b without 'burn' (and so closing the cd to other input) ? Why do you not want to burn? Rowan
Re: MSI motherboards?
On Sun, 23 May 2004 06:20, Nick Rout wrote: Caleb, I assume you are still running gentoo ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Auckland /etc/localtime lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 May 23 11:09 /etc/timezone - /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Auckland seams fine to me... then set the clock with date or ntp -q On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 02:49, Caleb Sawtell wrote: On Sun, 23 May 2004 00:46, Matthew Gregan wrote: At 2004-05-22T231932+, Caleb Sawtell wrote: ^^ Ok is it fixed now??? *sigh* Nope. It looks like you've changed the system clock rather than fix the problem. Instead of fixing the problem, you've made it worse. *sigh* I did! Before, your system clock was correct, but your timezone was wrong. Now, your system clock is wrong and your timezone are wrong. Try following Nick's suggestions for troubleshooting the problem. Cheers, -mjg
calebs time problem was (Re: MSI motherboards?)
On Sun, 23 May 2004 07:57, Nick Rout wrote: On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 19:38, Matthew Gregan wrote: At 2004-05-23T192918+, Caleb Sawtell wrote: On Sun, 23 May 2004 06:20, Nick Rout wrote: ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Auckland /etc/localtime lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 May 23 11:09 /etc/timezone - /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Auckland seams fine to me... /etc/timezone != /etc/localtime ah [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /etc/localtime lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 May 23 20:18 /etc/localtime - /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Auckland [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ok is it fixed?? to be fair I think I put him wrong earlier in the thread. just to finalise this, on gentoo, the link is called /etc/localtime and in this part of the world should point to /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Auckland http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml code listing 1.4 Sorry for the confusion. nrr -mjg
Re: calebs time problem was (Re: MSI motherboards?)
On Sun, 23 May 2004 09:26, Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 08:20, Caleb Sawtell wrote: On Sun, 23 May 2004 07:57, Nick Rout wrote: On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 19:38, Matthew Gregan wrote: At 2004-05-23T192918+, Caleb Sawtell wrote: On Sun, 23 May 2004 06:20, Nick Rout wrote: ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Auckland /etc/localtime lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 May 23 11:09 /etc/timezone - /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Auckland seams fine to me... /etc/timezone != /etc/localtime ah [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /etc/localtime lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 May 23 20:18 /etc/localtime - /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Auckland [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ok is it fixed?? well not according to this email message, but you might need to reboot... you shouldn't need to ever reboot unless you get a new kernel, but nevertheless I think it might help this time. Ok fresh reboot it says the right time on my kde clock (but it has done this whole time) soo if it is not fixed my dad said tha he will help get this prob fixed to be fair I think I put him wrong earlier in the thread. just to finalise this, on gentoo, the link is called /etc/localtime and in this part of the world should point to /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Auckland http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml code listing 1.4 Sorry for the confusion. nrr -mjg
Re: MSI motherboards?
On Fri, 21 May 2004 21:48, Matthew Gregan wrote: At 2004-05-22T081213+, Caleb Sawtell wrote: On Fri, 21 May 2004 10:09, Don Gould wrote: Why does the date on your mail message show up as Saturday? Dunno because it says sat now... Your timezone is wrong. Its all ok here :/ -mjg
Re: MSI motherboards?
On Sat, 22 May 2004 22:28, Nick Rout wrote: On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 21:41, Caleb Sawtell wrote: On Fri, 21 May 2004 21:48, Matthew Gregan wrote: At 2004-05-22T081213+, Caleb Sawtell wrote: On Fri, 21 May 2004 10:09, Don Gould wrote: Why does the date on your mail message show up as Saturday? Dunno because it says sat now... Your timezone is wrong. Its all ok here :/ well here are your headers: Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 09:41:26 + From: Caleb Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MSI motherboards? I know your father is from jolly mother england, but you shouldn't have your timezone set to + unless you live there :-) what is the result of the date command? Ok is it fixed now??? *sigh* what is the result of ls -l /etc/timezone (it should be pointing to /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Auckland) The other thing is, what email client are you using? evolution seems to want to be told separately where you are living (why it doesn't use your system settings is beyond me). -mjg
Re: MSI motherboards?
On Fri, 21 May 2004 10:09, Don Gould wrote: Why does the date on your mail message show up as Saturday? Dunno because it says sat now... Cheers Don On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 03:21, Caleb Sawtell wrote: On Fri, 21 May 2004 01:17, C. Falconer wrote: They're very definitely budget... Right down there with jetway (shivver) Depends what you want it for... Thousands of hack machines have boards of similar quality, and work mostly. For important machines I'd go Asus, Gigabyte, maybe intel, and I've always wanted to try nvidia based boards but haven't yet. I have an nvidia Asus mobo and it seams stable and has a nice lot of features :D -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 21 May 2004 1:11 p.m. To: CLUG; NZLUG Subject: MSI motherboards? Any news/views/reviews on these MB's? They seem to be at the cheaper end of the spectrum, and that makes me suspicious.
Re: MSI motherboards?
On Fri, 21 May 2004 01:17, C. Falconer wrote: They're very definitely budget... Right down there with jetway (shivver) Depends what you want it for... Thousands of hack machines have boards of similar quality, and work mostly. For important machines I'd go Asus, Gigabyte, maybe intel, and I've always wanted to try nvidia based boards but haven't yet. I have an nvidia Asus mobo and it seams stable and has a nice lot of features :D -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 21 May 2004 1:11 p.m. To: CLUG; NZLUG Subject: MSI motherboards? Any news/views/reviews on these MB's? They seem to be at the cheaper end of the spectrum, and that makes me suspicious.
Re: Will my PC shut down? BTW what is 'linux'?
On Mon, 03 May 2004 06:59, Don Gould wrote: -Original Message- From: Christopher Sawtell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 03 May 2004 16:54, Don Gould wrote: We want machines to keep flowing out of retailers like the warehouse with MS products all over them and nothing but. With these headers X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) in your mail you may well want that, because it gives you a place in the market, but I'd suggest that many of the rest of us really do not want that for one minute. Personally I want to see Linux available pre-installed and supported by the retailers so my fellow citizens can experience what I believe to be a superior computing environment at a lower cost. aa. Unlike some computer people I don't just dump one system and jump to another without doing some home work. Well tell us your findings and if you are not willing to at least try linux please unsubscribed because we are not willing to help you if you don't even use linux!! bb. I will highlight my key words for you retailers like the warehouse. if you can't use a vacuum cleaner you will not be able to use a computer cc. I agree that we want to see the likes of DSE delivering dual boot boxes to market. Dual boot?! they used to sell them with linux only. Now they sell linux ready computers with no os (where is that homework now eh?) so if you have the brains you can install Mandrake, red hat or whatever If the machine doesn't have a choice of OS pre-installed then don't purchase. It will take time for people to learn new systems. To transition they need to have the choice of both. What other retailers do we want to see delivering oss to market? ALL OF THEM!! What we do want to see is retailers who have staff who can and will support the systems. linux is easy if you are only using it for OOo and kde games... kids at school are using it for that very purpose Give linux to the warehouse and all you'll see is customers bringing them back in droves going 'errr ok I'll pay more for windows now... sorry :)' Well there you go they get more money that way :D People will do this because Linux is still a very step learning curve. So is windows The fact that we, as a nation, could have that superior computing environment without having to export anything like as many sheep carcasses is a very real beneficial side effect. Notice that the flippin' Minister of Ed. has just blown ~$24 million pissing in Bill Gates' pocket. Makes me hopping mad. What are you saying? The government blow the $24 million dollar budget or just that they've comitted $24 million to software in education over the next year? And the software that they have got SUCKS trust me I know :D It would be much better if they went open source and paid the teachers more. The warehouse is a suppermarket. what supermarket?? how old are you? I am 14 and can spell that word it's easy it's phonetic (you sound it out) Really? I was in there only yesterday, and there wasn't a crumb to be seen. What ever. what no sense of humour?? You know, you really should install a decent mail user agent. Kmail has an interactive spellchecker which I find absolutely invaluable. Is there a windows version? I like interactive spelling checkers. No you twit K* is a kde trait. How many machines have you guys pulled windows off and thrown linux on to get some more value out of hardware that was otherwise going to just collect dust in some old store room? Lots. But I would like to point out that windows 98 se works fine on them so why put linux on such a inferior hardware? And doesn't the fact that it makes you look like a good guy with your customers give you added incentive? I would not put linux on a user desktop with anyting less than a p3 600 Cheers Don BTW I am looking to earn a few bob how about 25 dollars for a mandrake install and yes I will make it so you can keep or presious windows.
Re: Will my PC shut down? BTW what is 'linux'?
On Mon, 03 May 2004 08:58, dave wrote: flame suit on Don´t know about you others but this thread i think needs to be put to sleep so to speak. from the messages placed to date maybe ¨WE¨ the clug need to be more forthcoming in offering help but then again DSE could stick a note in here and ask for help too (it´s a 2 way street). and to you young Caleb sir, I use a p200mmx quite happily with Mandrake 9.1. I use gentoo and have to compile heaps of stuff G on that hardware you can't do much on the old movie watching and game playing front but writing programs is a nother matter but I was meaning for the generial public not a linux geek who is patient :D flame suit off and i take no offence to the statement, just stating a fact from my own personal view g. *** snipped *** I would not put linux on a user desktop with anyting less than a p3 600 regards Dave Lilley.
Re: Wanted: Advice on PDAs
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 9:55, Jamie Dobbs wrote: I'm thinking about getting a PDA and want the following features: Colour/HiRes screen Zaurus!!! MP3 Playback Zaurus!! Ability to Sync to Linux(home) Zauras!! and Windows(work) I think a Zauars does I don't really want to spend much more than about $500-$700 on such a device and would welcome any first hand experience and advice. Links to reviews/specs etc. would also be very handy (as would some kind of keyboard input as I never can get the hang of those special ways of writing for input!). http://www.sharpusa.com/products/ModelLanding/0,1058,1016,00.html Amazon has some for $280 us!!! Thanks Jamie
Re: Wanted: Advice on PDAs
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 9:07, anton wrote: Caleb Sawtell wrote: On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 9:55, Jamie Dobbs wrote: I'm thinking about getting a PDA and want the following features: Colour/HiRes screen Zaurus!!! MP3 Playback Zaurus!! Ability to Sync to Linux(home) Zauras!! and Windows(work) I think a Zauars does I don't really want to spend much more than about $500-$700 on such a device and would welcome any first hand experience and advice. Links to reviews/specs etc. would also be very handy (as would some kind of keyboard input as I never can get the hang of those special ways of writing for input!). http://www.sharpusa.com/products/ModelLanding/0,1058,1016,00.html Amazon has some for $280 us!!! But won't ship (computers/electronics) to NZ!!! AAARRRGGGHHH! :( Cheers Anton -=-=- ... Lemmings don't grow older, they just die.
Re: artsd
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:35, Nick Rout wrote: This has just started happenning for me, I think since I upgraded from kernel 2.6.0 to 2.6.3. I think I may have fixed it by setting the audio device to Alsa instead of automatic in the alsa config thing. define config thingy On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 08:13:53+1300 Caleb Sawtell[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Anyone els found that artsd gobbles up half of you cpu in 3.2 and I mean this cpu is no push over athlon xp 2500+ , so I have know idea what is going on. Caleb
Re: artsd
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 18:05, Nick Rout wrote: ok in front of kde now :-) K-menu|settings|control panel|sound and multimedia|sound system|Hardware Tab|Select the audio device. it probably says Automatic. Change it to Advanced Linux Sound Architecture WOO thanks man On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 16:53:08 +1300 Caleb Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:35, Nick Rout wrote: This has just started happenning for me, I think since I upgraded from kernel 2.6.0 to 2.6.3. I think I may have fixed it by setting the audio device to Alsa instead of automatic in the alsa config thing. define config thingy On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 08:13:53+1300 Caleb Sawtell[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Anyone els found that artsd gobbles up half of you cpu in 3.2 and I mean this cpu is no push over athlon xp 2500+ , so I have know idea what is going on. Caleb
Re: artsd
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 20:03, Nick Rout wrote: i take it that worked then? yeah On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 20:04, Caleb Sawtell wrote: On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 18:05, Nick Rout wrote: ok in front of kde now :-) K-menu|settings|control panel|sound and multimedia|sound system|Hardware Tab|Select the audio device. it probably says Automatic. Change it to Advanced Linux Sound Architecture WOO thanks man On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 16:53:08 +1300 Caleb Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:35, Nick Rout wrote: This has just started happenning for me, I think since I upgraded from kernel 2.6.0 to 2.6.3. I think I may have fixed it by setting the audio device to Alsa instead of automatic in the alsa config thing. define config thingy On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 08:13:53+1300 Caleb Sawtell[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Anyone els found that artsd gobbles up half of you cpu in 3.2 and I mean this cpu is no push over athlon xp 2500+ , so I have know idea what is going on. Caleb
artsd
Hi Anyone els found that artsd gobbles up half of you cpu in 3.2 and I mean this cpu is no push over athlon xp 2500+ , so I have know idea what is going on. Caleb
Re: artsd
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 09:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yup, Well at least I am not alone Only occasionally though (seems to have a penchant for doing that after a system notification bell is sounded). Not quite sure what the story is mind you... Bummer Chris Hi Anyone els found that artsd gobbles up half of you cpu in 3.2 and I mean this cpu is no push over athlon xp 2500+ , so I have know idea what is going on. Caleb
Linux case badges
Hi Anyone know where I can get a linux case badge from here in chch? thanks Caleb
Re: Linux case badges
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 17:09, you wrote: Don't know of anywhere in [EMAIL PROTECTED], but you can get them from www.linuxshop.co.nz which is based in Auckland. I was kinda hoping to get it from chch so i don't have to bother dad for is credit card :/ On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 05:45, Caleb Sawtell wrote: Hi Anyone know where I can get a linux case badge from here in chch? thanks Caleb
Re: Gimp colour icons on Toolbar?
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 13:53, you wrote: er try using 1.3 that has colour icons Hi there, This query goes to all list members, but particularly Caleb Sawtell! :-) I installed Mandrake 9.2 a few days ago now, but on running Gimp 1.2.5 for the first time I notice the tool icons are monochrome. At the last CLUG meeting I attended young Caleb was demostrating Gimp, but he had colour icons in the toolbox...I think his version was 1.2.5... Do I need to do something 'special' to enable these colour icons? Its not life-threatening, but I'm curious! :-)
Re: PCI _real_ modem Re: IPCop rocks
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 10:04, you wrote: ah I gotcha now :) What about that Linux modem dick smith was selling a we while ago or have I got the wrong end of the srick :-/ DSE have sold Linux-capable internal modems for some while. None of them were real hardmodems, to my knowledge. The odd one may have been a hardware assisted soft modem, which means it takes a little less load from your CPU (irrelevant these days) but it still needs a *@#$* driver for it. A real modem needs no(!) driver other than those provided by the kernel for 16550A UARTs for serial ports. In other words, it looks identical to an external modem from the kernel's point of view. I coudln't conclusively work out which category the lucent venus chipset belongs to. I am awaiting Yuri's report with interest. Volker
Re: UT2003 in linux
On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 10:41, Benjamin Devine wrote: anton said: I Currently Running Debian-Stable and I hired out the UT2003 discs from GameStation(Which is behind Dennys) to see how well it will run under Linux I will post my success shortly. lets hope that it works for me UT 1 dose not work for me :(
Re: UT2003 in linux
sorry on reread that did not make any sence I ment to say: I hope that it goes for you, my UT 1 does not whant to work right for me :(
Re: hey I need some help with ut it dose not seem to be anything about it
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 08:49, Ross Drummond wrote: I have had cursor problems in the past which I resolved by editing my XFree86 configuration file. Your problems are not the same as mine so this solution may not work. However it is easy enough to implement so worth a try. Add the line Option sw_cursor to the device section of your XFree86 configuration file. Hope that helps Cheers Ross Drummond Thanks dad is doing that now(I don't want to muck it up and hurt the computer ;) ) On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:19, you wrote: On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 17:57, you wrote: Ask Dad... There's not a lot that Chris Sawtell (teaches Linux) cant show you about the OS Thanks for the compliment, but there is an awful lot I don't know about Linux. It's huge, there is a simply enormous amount of unwritten lore, and I am totally flummoxed by this one. We have a matrox 200 video card and Caleb bought himself a pair of UT CDs yeaterday. Unfortunately the cursor fpr the game never appears. Currently I'm trying to fix the problems by installing a 2.6.0-test9 kernel. Goodness knows if it will provide a solution. We'll see. - Original Message - From: Caleb Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 7:01 AM Subject: hey I need some help with ut it dose not seem to be anything about it there is no mouse of such it reises it being there and you can go into the menus but know cuser :( anyone know how to fix it ??
Re: hey I need some help with ut it dose not seem to be anything about it
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 12:06, Yuri de Groot wrote: Add the line Option sw_cursor to the device section of your XFree86 configuration file. Thanks dad is doing that now(I don't want to muck it up and hurt the computer ;) ) Please let us know if it works (so we can add it to our easy solutions file :) Oh .. and sorry for dissing your english the other day. Yuri Thats ok :) It sucks anyway :) and sorry my name can't go on to that list :( that did not go but dad is doing the X11 gentoo patch I think so lats hope that works... Caleb
Re: hey I need some help with ut it dose not seem to be anything about it
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 17:16, Dale Anderson wrote: I take it you are running it natively not via wine/winex ? its the loki patch thing via emerge
hey I need some help with ut it dose not seem to be anything about it
there is no mouse of such it reises it being there and you can go into the menus but know cuser :( anyone know how to fix it ??
