Re: Linux on USB stick recommendations
I have been using Puppy Linux for several years - it just works. Very easy to install on USB stick, SD card, or live CD. I use it on my home desktop, laptops, eeePC, and work desktop when I get pd off with our LAN security. ...and its fast! Try this link: http://www.puppylinux.org/ cheers, Edwin PS. of course if you lose the USB key - everything's gone :-( This email uses 100% recycled letters.
Kubuntu on Vista machine
1. Download M$ Virtual PC (its free) 2. Install Virtual PC on your Vista machine 3. get rid of as much Vista crapware as you can - this only slows you down. 4. Or you could use Vista Business which has a lot less crapware, but also no Media Player. 5. Run virtual PC 6. Create a virtual machine, and install Ubuntu in it. Worked for me on a Vista (preinstalled) laptop with Vista Business, VPC running both Kubuntu and XP machines. Although I haven't had time to stress test Kubuntu yet. Cheers, Edwin This email uses 100% recycled letters. David Merrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/09/2008 6:10 p.m. What is the best way to run Ubuntu on a Windows Vista machine? -- David Merrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph 03 3590 343 Cell 027 3089 169 Scanned by Bizo Email Filter
Re: Eee PC/ Xandros and CUPS
The following worked for me: We are using a Gentoo fileserver. I connect my eeePC to our network via wireless. Our network has both linux and other OS boxes connected, and use both wired and wireless connections. We have a HP laserjet1020 attached to our fileserver which we use to print from all computers in the house. On the eeePC, I go: Settings(tab) Printers(icon) Add (button) Network printer (radio button) Next(button) Network type: Other (radio button) in Name:whatever name I want Connection: Internet Printing Protocol (http) Path: http://fileserver:631/printers/Laserjet fileserver - this is the name of our fileserver, really! 631 - printer port ( CUPS? ) printers - this is the name of sharable directory (really!) that has our printer as seen from wis Laserjet - this is the name of the printer ( we're objective - not very creative ) Under set printer model, I used: Manufacturer: HP Model:Laserjet 1020 Driver: Foomatic + foo2zjs (recommended) and then print a test page. I hope this works for you, As for the ASUS eeePC, the kids haven't pried it off my lifeless fingers yet :-D Cheers, Edwin, Sr. Vik Olliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a remote CUPS printer, a hplip-supported printer as it happens. My daughter has an Eee PC. Trying to get the two to communicate over the network is proving to be an issue. There is a very limited range of HP Printers in the Xandros distro, and remote CUPS support is minimal to say the least. Anyone had experience with setting up said situation under Xandros? I could always blow away all the Xandros printer stuff and put in honest-to-goodness Debian, but if it goes wrong crucifixion by daughter may result. She's become attached to Eep. Vik :v)
Re: Somewhat OT - OS-less Boxen... maybe less OT?
What kinda thing do you have in mind? Edwin On Nov 20, 2007 4:24 PM, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe there's an opportunity here to extend the services offered by the St. Albans gang??? I know there's a games-centric version of Fedora 8 just come out ( sorry, couldn't get away with downloading *that* one at work (: ), and with Christmas around the corner. Christopher/Wesley/Edwin + any others who I've unintentionally left out... wocher rekkon?? Steve. On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:55:22 +1300 (NZDT) Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Computer Broker will sometimes discount their ex lease boxes if you don't want the OS, and many of them come in OS and OSless options straight off the floor. Even the ones without an OS seem to have a license sticker, which presumably means you can install the licensed OS, although i note the opinion of someone on NZLUG who had read the licence who said that after the second owner, the license was no longer transferable (ie the third owner had to buy another licence). Anyway there is more than one MS license and I guess you need to read the actual one that pertains to the actual machine. In buying ex-lease gear I look at the hardware price in the knowledge that I don't give a rats thingamy what version of windows i can run on it. If the vendor will take a few dollars less without the OS on board, thats cool, but I look first and foremost at whether the hardware is worth the price. One time the broker did discount me a box with no OS. The guy was going to reformat the hard drive to remove whatever abomination had been installed on it, and I said I'm in a bit of a hurry, theres no way I am going to run that piece of crap, I promise I'll take it off as soon as I get home He grinned and handed me the box (and of course I kept my word, its now running mythtv). Nick On Tue, November 20, 2007 3:30 pm, Edwin F wrote: There was a discussion on the NZLUG recently about the availability of OS-less ex-lease boxen - apparently, most of them suffer from the MS tax due to their old licenses being no longer transferrable, or something to that effect. I thought I would throw it out there that I am in the process of starting a small ex-lease thing, and I would gladly supply cheap, OS-less boxen if the demand is there, and perhaps somebody would like to contact existing ex-lease sellers around Christchurch about supplying OS-less boxen for a lower price and compile a Linux-friendly supplier list on the CLUG wiki? Hope nobody minds, but... == blatant plug time == I have a bunch of these boxen, currently: Intel Celeron 2.0GHz 512MB DDR RAM 40GB HDD Broadcom GigE CD-ROM Drive Floppy Drive (remember those? -- neither do I) They came with 17 CRTs, too, so those can be had providing it is being picked up or the extra shipping is paid (for... uh... across town) These I can supply for ~$200 each, give or take. == blatant plug time ends == Thoughts? Cheers, Edwin. -- Nick Rout -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT - xtra email on tcl connection
Could your guest not just go to http://xtramail.xtra.co.nz HTH, Edwin From: Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/06/10 Sat PM 07:32:35 GMT+12:00 To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: OT - xtra email on tcl connection Hi, we have someone staying with us for a while who has a laptop with a $10 xtra account (therefore no doubt doesn't live on the internet) so thought she'd just dial up to check her email etc. Obviously I can just plug her into our lan (or give her access to the wireless network if it has wireless) for general internet access. Given we are with telstra clear/paradise, can anyone tell me if she's going to have problems connecting to the xtra smtp and pop servers via our adsl connection? Can I just configure her email client to use smtp.paradise.net.nz? Some other trick? Or are we stuck with her needing to dial up for email? Cheers, Roger
Re: Current Gentoo NZ mirrors?
Hi all, I don't really know what you mean by Wellington loop, but I did a download just the other day from ftp://ftp.citylink.co.nz/gentoo/ HTH Edwin From: Carl Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/04/28 Fri PM 01:16:28 GMT+12:00 To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Current Gentoo NZ mirrors? Hi, I have been using the http://gentoo.recoil.net.nz/gentoo/; gentoo mirror, which was mostly great, but has since died I have been thinking about setting one up here, but in the interim does anyone know of a local NZ gentoo mirror (thats NOT on the wellington loop...) ta Carl. -- Carl Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MDK 10 Patition magic
Try: System - Configuration - Hardware - Harddrake - enter your superuser password - highlight your harddrive, it should display some properties in the window at right. - Click on Run config tool button HTH Edwin From: Don Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/12/16 Fri PM 05:00:49 GMT+13:00 To: clug linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: MDK 10 Patition magic I'm playing round with a laptop for a mate who likes GEO Works. I've already repatitioned the disk with mdk10 and xp on it and set up some unformatted patitions. How do I get back to the graphical patition magic like screen in the installation screens of MDK10? Or is there a better tool. I want to end up with xp, dos, win98 and mdk10 on the machine. Cheers Don -- Don Gould
Re: ASB Bank disabling Firefox access - anyone else confirm?
Works fine from here. From: Phill Coxon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/11/18 Fri PM 08:23:09 GMT+13:00 To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: ASB Bank disabling Firefox access - anyone else confirm? Has anyone else struck this yet? I went to log into my ASB Business account this afternoon and my username / password were refused. After a few attempts I called ASB and was told that due to upgraded security measures only IE and Netscape browers will be supported. This upgrade happened today sometime as I was able to log in this morning. With much amusement I discovered that logging in via Konqueror still works fine and shows how stupid this policy is. Somehow banning Firefox is supposed to decrease phishing attacks. Rght. I'll be sending an annoyed email to ASB.
[OT] Reminiscing (Was: Control K B-for-block (Was Joe editor))
Yup - Long live the Apple ][ with Wordstar, Lotus 123, dbase II, and I forget the name of the presentation software. I have a unit in my office gathering dust, maybe I'll fire it up just for the heck of it. From: yuri [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/11/14 Mon PM 10:06:35 GMT+13:00 To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: [OT] Reminiscing (Was: Control K B-for-block (Was Joe editor)) On 14/11/05, Ken.McAllister wrote: On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 11:52 +1300, Mike Pearce wrote: Text Cut/Paste etc - Also known as block commands To mark the Beginning of the text use^KB To make the End of the text use ^KK To Move marked block to current location ^KM To copy to current location use ^KC To delete marked block ^KY It's all coming back to me! WordStar, circa 1980. The Kaypro Portable (15 cm green screen, 10 mb hard drive) was something like $10 000. Only used car dealers and sheep farmers could afford them. Yup. I remember WordStar on Dad's old ICL running Concurrent C/PM-86. One 8086 processor chugging at about 4MHz could support several users on serial terminals. We still used it up to the early to mid nineties. It was replaced by a 486 running OS/2 warp in 1995. Yuri -- ** WARNING to mailing list repliers ** Gmail over-rides Reply-To: field. Check your To: address before sending reply to this post.
Re: My screw up
If you're on Mandrake 10 official, try this: System - Configuration - KDE - System - Login Manager You'll be asked for your root password. Click on the User tab, and then untick root in the Hidden Users box. Logout, and voila! you should have root on the login screen. Of course, I'm assuming you're using KDE desktop. If this doesn't work, I shall sit quietly till I come up with another smartass idea to annoy the list. Cheers, Edwin From: Ross Drummond [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/09/14 Wed PM 03:13:08 GMT+12:00 To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: My screw up Um no. One of the oddities of Mandrake 10, Kelvin's distro, is that it does not have file manager super user mode One of my previous posts to the list details a work around for this deficiency. Go to; http://lists.ethernal.org/cantlug-0505/msg00255.html Cheers Ross Drummond On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 14:09, Roger Searle wrote: If you are needing to browse through the directory structure as a root user, you will have File Manager - Super User Mode somewhere on your menu. (On my suse laptop, I go System File Manager. I'm not sure where it is in Mandrake but I'm sure it is there and similar) Roger
[Fwd: Problems installing on DeskPro EN Small Form Factor]
Try http://www.dse.co.nz/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/43065c2d0c71a958273fc0a87f9906c2/Product/View/Z8102 From: Carl Cerecke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005/08/19 Fri PM 09:32:53 GMT+12:00 To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Problems installing on DeskPro EN Small Form Factor So, I've got myself a P3 600 DeskPro EN SFF. Problem is, there is only one HDD power connector, and, guess what, it is connected to the HDD. I tried to do a floppy boot (SUSE 9.1), but no go. Is it electrically sensible to connect a CD drive to the DeskPro, where the CD drive is powered by another computer's power supply? Or will I risk the magic smoke escaping from various parts? Cheers, Carl.
Re: Wirelessweb
For elcheapo wireless antennas, try this link, or look up the Silicon Chip magazine of September 2004. http://www.siliconchip.com.au/cms/A_102507/article.html From: dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/11/17 Wed PM 09:28:05 GMT+13:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Wirelessweb I seem to remember them having an area where they showed examples of people creating a dish out of various items ( woks, etc) they showed them setup with a jerry rig that went out 3kms to an island in wellington harbour ( shore - island). So i think it could be done for less, How much less depends on your engineering electronics know-how. On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 09:34, C. Falconer wrote: http://www.yobbo.co.nz/sales.htm PCI Card, aerial, some cable $499 inc. And you need that setup at all ends. I'd love to do some sort of connection from home to work (only 900 metres!) -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 17 November 2004 9:23 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Wirelessweb where do you get $500 from? are you talking about the hardware costs? On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 09:07:09 +1300 C. Falconer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I'm having a man's look - but theres no mention of internet access other than We're thinking about it in the future And ~$500 is a lot of bling per site to talk to other local people. -Original Message- From: dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 16 November 2004 9:49 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Wirelessweb checkput http://www.yobbo.co.nz/WirelessCommunity.htm it´s the chch free community wireless network. they have just made it a commercial operation for internet use. On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 15:09, Ian Laurenson wrote: Does anyone have experience with WirelessWeb? Any problems with using it via Linux? http://www.wirelessweb.co.nz/ Thanks, Ian Laurenson -- Dave Lilley -- Dave Lilley
Re: Re: A serial2serial question
Have you tried Fastlynx? I remember using it on DOS3.3 (yeah I'm that old) Cheers, Edwin From: Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/06/02 Wed PM 07:38:44 GMT+12:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: A serial2serial question I would use dos apps xtree/ xtlink if you can get xtree on both machines. An alternative would be a neat little transfer app which was part of drdos many years ago. It ran over a null modem cable and had the ability to install itself on the 'slave' machine over the cable. Now if i can find my drdos disks.. Barry --- Wesley Parish wrote: Anyone know how to connect an old DOS 2.4 machine, a Panasonic JB-2000 I think it is, with 8 inch disks, with a more modern machine? The purpose is to copy all the files on 8 inch from the old machine to the new machine. Anyone know what serial2serial works with DOS 2.4? Anyone with the requisite assembler skills? Thanks Wesley Parish 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.
Re: Mandrake 10 NZ mirror
You can try ftp://ftp2.jetstreamgames.co.nz/pub/dist/mandrake/official/10.0/iso/i586 Enjoy! From: Paul Wilkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/06/01 Tue PM 11:06:40 GMT+12:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mandrake 10 NZ mirror Does anyone know if there is yet a NZ mirror for Mandrake 10 Official? -- Paul Wilkins
Re: ADSL Modem/Router Choices
I got a PLANET ADSL Modem Router from DragonPC $129 works great - even with all three computers sharing the single line. I just wish I had full-rate Jetstream. From: David Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/05/18 Tue PM 04:36:14 GMT+12:00 To: CLUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ADSL Modem/Router Choices I am about to get connected via JetStream - TelstraClear is not available in my area. Consequently I need to purchase a suitable modem. There is a bewildering choice, some are remarkably cheap, but are they any good? I'm of Scottish heritage and don't want to spend any more than I have to. A quick search of local suppliers shows a range of cheap ADSL modem/routers that all look as though they will do the job. Three examples: - Puretec PT-3812 $100 http://www.puretek.com.tw/product/adsl%20modem/adsl%20products%20.htm#router - Billion BIPAC-7100S $110 http://www.billion.com/product/adsl/bipac7100s.htm - Planet ADE-3000A$120 http://www.planet.com.tw/product/product_dm.php?product_id=185menu_id=12 Any comments/recommnedations welcome. David
