Re: resolution Problem Ubuntu 10.4
As a footnote to this I've been told right or wrong that the xorg.conf should be put in /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d directory. At least that's where I put my xorg.conf for a touch screen monitor I've got. but suppose it wouldn't matter too much if it's put in /etc/X11 directory either. Take what you want from this posting. Dave. - Original Message Follows - On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 00:48 +1200, aaron wrote: i think something like this: Section Monitor Identifier DVI-0 # or whatever yours is Option PreferredMode 1680x1050 EndSection Many thanks, I shall try that today. get back to you regards Chris T
Re: Telecom kills Bigtime plan
Good luck taking that one to any court :) even better if you won but then the legal fees (if you got a lawyer in) might make it not worth while. Dave. - Original Message Follows - On 24 May 2010 16:12, ke...@katipo.net.nz wrote: I just got sent the following email from Telecom: we're sorry that we cannot continue to provide a plan with no monthly data allowance. Seems to me that we (as consumers) would have to pay a early contract termination fee if we backed out of the contract. I read one post who said there telecom wouldn't charge us a ECT fee if we leave telecom... (how kind of them) Yet seeing as they are the ones pulling the plug early, my contract isn't up, they should be on the hook for the same fee they would have charged us. sV
Re: This years format.
- Original Message Follows - On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 12:24 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: [snip] Unfortunately illness at home is going to stop me from coming into town tomorrow evening. Could someone have a pint of twisted ankle on my behalf?? Cheers, Steve +1 Hope patient gets better. cheers, Dave.
Re: Where have you seen linux today?
Was in auckland last week and the kiosk free internet PC i was on locked up. I 3 finger saluted it (thinking windows box) but was surprised to see it go down with a linux display and then rebooted with Ubuntu - using Opra for the browser. I was very surprised to say the least. my 2c worth. Dave. - Original Message Follows - I volunteer at Trade Aid, and they use Red Hat on their server in Auckland. For one reason or another, we need real time access to this server when processing a sale - so it's essential and used by everyone. We still have XP on the computer behind the counter though.
Re: Linux and RAM size
HA reminds of someone famous who once said 640Kb is more than enough for anyone way back when... Now why wouldn't 60MB be enough well right now i can't answer that but as user interfaces gets better/worse (depending on ones views) and move perhaps to voice/audio Recognition then 640MB may seem too low. - Original Message Follows - On Wed, July 22, 2009 19:48, yuri wrote: What kind of performance boost should I expect when upgrading from 256MB of RAM to 640MB? 640MB should be enough for anyone. :) A
Re: Screencasting software
Schalk, Thanks I was wondering about horse power, I've got an AMD 3000+ with 1gig ram. will wait bit longer as i know someone had used cinderalla (if that is the right spelling) and will also do some digging in the archives when i get home tonight. thanks for your insights. Dave. - Original Message Follows - On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 23:53 +1200, dave wrote: I am looking at installing Istanbul screencast software. Has anyone here used such a program and what was your experience? How easy was it to edit and the specs of your PC you used. From my brief search it looks like Istanbul is one option. in my repositories i have 3. - recordmydesktop which is gnome based - Byzanz which i understand uses gif files - Istanbul would appreciate the lists input and I do know from the brief search that there are other but war stories etc from the list on the 3 above (as they are in my repository would be appreciated). Dave. Hi Dave, I tried to use Istanbul on Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10) 64 bit, but found that it was buggy and poorly maintained, especially sound. It seems like you can't record sound. If you use compiz, you also have to tick the record 3d option before it works at all. recordmydesktop however worked out of the box (default sudo apt-get install recordmydesktop) - no extra settings or anything. Even the sound worked perfectly. I cannot comment on Byzanz, but if you want my advice, go with recordmydesktop first and see if you like it. Seems like the least effort. My laptop has 4Gb of RAM and a Intel Core2 Duo (2.10GHz) processor and I use the nvidia driver - I did not pick up any sluggishnes while recording, but having said that, I did not test it with intense graphic programs so far... Schalk
Re: OT- FAT head doco on documentary channel last night
Yes you are SO RIGHT Nick! Question I am wanting to view the HOLE documentary. I missed the start both Sat Sunday (and it was by chance that i came across both boardcasts, I shall now check out to see if it's going to be on again and record it). THE subject Line does say Ot as in it's off topic! Explain what the difference is between me getting (copying myself)/asking for a copy or video taping? OR using anyother form of copy-left (i presume that's what this is called) act. Isn't both a form of copyright infringement? regardless of the person recording to view later and erasing the recording? We're all in violation of copyright in some form or other at some stage of our lives be it for only a short period of time. I was wanting to use a re-writable disc so i could watch it then reuse te Disk. MY oppinion is that what the guy has to say *is* very important and says alot about US Government/Lobbiests involvement in areas of our lives. I.E. Just because the US Govt says something is okay DOESN'T mean it is but i would think that our Govt and the Dr's in NZ take those reports as being valid without looking critically at such reports. there was a piece in the documentary where in the 50's a group of Dr's attended a Govt. review on health and what's accepted as healthy eating. The Dr's told the chairman that what he was proposing (i think it was a low-fat high carb diet was nonsense) but he and his staffers said they where paid flukies of the meat industry and looked around for like minded Dr's to agree with his views. But this is by memory and i stand to be corrected on what was actually said/meant in that piece. My only hope was someone on list HAD recorded it and would've been able to provide a copy so i could watch it from start to end. No offence was intended by myself to those who see these sorts of requests as being copyright infringements or noise. I also applogise to the list as i had replied to Chris via the list and not personally where it should've gone. End of thread as far as i'm concerned. dave. - Original Message Follows - On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:19 PM, dave dave.lil...@clear.net.nz wrote: was on again today but only saw what i'd seen last night, could i trouble you for a copy? can stop round with disc for a copy to be put to. dave This is not a clearing house for copyright infringement! Nor is this topic relevant to linux.
Re: help with mencoder/kino
Have you tried Avidmux or mix? this will take AVI, DVD, CD video, SCD video and reencode it to another format. No Sorry i tell a lie it's DeeVeeDee. Avidmux or mix allows you to edit the video clip. HTH. dave. - Original Message Follows - On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Lee Begg l...@paradise.net.nz wrote: On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:42:16 Barry Marchant wrote: mencoder reports Video stream: 28800.000 kbit/s (360 B/s) size: 1800 bytes 5.000 secs 125 frames Audio stream: 352.800 kbit/s (44100 B/s) size: 220500 bytes 5.000 secs Kino reports Impossible frequency?? Impossible frequency?? Impossible frequency?? Any ideas welcome Kino is fairly specific to DV video (ie, video from Digital Video Cameras). One thing about the audio in DV is that it is not 44100 Hz, but is 48000 Hz (16bit @ 48kHz). Try using a higher sampling rate for the audio. Barry Hope this helps. Regards Lee Begg What he said, but also kino converts on import of .avi file. How about importing the original avi into kino and then adding the sound file as soudtrack, and let kino do the muxing?
Re: OT: Section 92 of the Copyright Amendment Act assumes Guilt Upon Accusation
This is *very* political!! the aim of said act is to get the free trade agreement with the US (aka get to the same customer base as american private business have within america without traffifs or other red tape) end of story. Now do you honestly think any (NZ) politician will care if someone in NZ gets their internet connection pulled due to an unproven claim? then here's a couple of hints: - Lay a charge against a (NZ) politican and see what happens yep nothing even if you can prove the claim - Lay a charge against a non politican yep they've lost the connection How could one possibly do so against a politican? err, by illegally placing the content on the site yourself (then laying the charge), or by knowing that what has been claimed is TRUE . Yes i know - in regards to the 1st part your asking for all sorts of things to come down on you as well. And for the second part well who is going to believe you? politicians are self serving (helen proved that with winnie). and the next election isn't due for another 2 years! Now fire away i know what i've said is full of holes BUT the essences of it is true. dave. - Original Message Follows - On Wed 07 Jan 2009 20:23:06 NZDT +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote: None, but as soon as your introduce the idea of a fail trial you bring the whole Justice and Corrections departments in on the Act. Do you _really_ want criminal convictions recorded against naive minors who are proven to have downloaded a few flicks and songs. I would not want that at all. Wasn't the issue ISPs disconnecting customers, not court trials against anyone? This whole discussion can be boiled down to the question:- No it does not. That question is already answered in the affirmative. The issue is the copyright mafia subverting the process of enforcement away from the established channels and on to non-accountable private business. Should people who devote a lot of time, effort, and financial investment, which is not without risk, producing something either for the benefit or entertainment of other people receive a financial reward for so doing? In this connection note that the producers of the film Sione's Wedding ended up without any financial benefit whatsoever because spivs and shysters made illicit copies of the DVD and sold them in South Auckland flea markets. Stay on the floor. For starters I fail to see how disconnecting Internet customers impacts on flogging DVDs on Auckland flee markets, and then you haven't established said flogging being the *cause* of said financial disappointment or whether the movie may have been just boring. In any case the correct response would be to deal with flee marketeers, not ISPs. But you won't be able to share your contemplations on copyright holder business revenue much longer with us Chris, because as due process is skipped, you can get on with your life outside of the Internet after someone sets up their cron to send the same complaint several times to your ISP (of a country reputed to be a lapdog to the Americans). Whether the complaint is at all factual or you did appropriately pay for your viewing of Sione's Wedding is not something anyone will be asking... Have a nice day ;) Volker -- Volker Kuhlmannis list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/Please do not CC list postings to me.
Re: OT: Section 92 of the Copyright Amendment Act assumes Guilt Upon Accusation
This is *very* political!! the aim of said act is to get the free trade agreement with the US (aka get to the same customer base as american private business have within america without traffifs or other red tape) end of story. Now do you honestly think any (NZ) politician will care if someone in NZ gets their internet connection pulled due to an unproven claim? then here's a couple of hints: - Lay a charge against a (NZ) politican and see what happens yep nothing even if you can prove the claim - Lay a charge against a non politican yep they've lost the connection How could one possibly do so against a politican? err, by illegally placing the content on the site yourself (then laying the charge), or by knowing that what has been claimed is TRUE . Yes i know - in regards to the 1st part your asking for all sorts of things to come down on you as well. And for the second part well who is going to believe you? politicians are self serving (helen proved that with winnie). and the next election isn't due for another 2 years! Now fire away i know what i've said is full of holes BUT the essences of it is true. dave. - Original Message Follows - On Wed 07 Jan 2009 20:23:06 NZDT +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote: None, but as soon as your introduce the idea of a fail trial you bring the whole Justice and Corrections departments in on the Act. Do you _really_ want criminal convictions recorded against naive minors who are proven to have downloaded a few flicks and songs. I would not want that at all. Wasn't the issue ISPs disconnecting customers, not court trials against anyone? This whole discussion can be boiled down to the question:- No it does not. That question is already answered in the affirmative. The issue is the copyright mafia subverting the process of enforcement away from the established channels and on to non-accountable private business. Should people who devote a lot of time, effort, and financial investment, which is not without risk, producing something either for the benefit or entertainment of other people receive a financial reward for so doing? In this connection note that the producers of the film Sione's Wedding ended up without any financial benefit whatsoever because spivs and shysters made illicit copies of the DVD and sold them in South Auckland flea markets. Stay on the floor. For starters I fail to see how disconnecting Internet customers impacts on flogging DVDs on Auckland flee markets, and then you haven't established said flogging being the *cause* of said financial disappointment or whether the movie may have been just boring. In any case the correct response would be to deal with flee marketeers, not ISPs. But you won't be able to share your contemplations on copyright holder business revenue much longer with us Chris, because as due process is skipped, you can get on with your life outside of the Internet after someone sets up their cron to send the same complaint several times to your ISP (of a country reputed to be a lapdog to the Americans). Whether the complaint is at all factual or you did appropriately pay for your viewing of Sione's Wedding is not something anyone will be asking... Have a nice day ;) Volker -- Volker Kuhlmannis list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/Please do not CC list postings to me.
Oh my GOD - is Obama serious - LOL
We have a new president elected, and Change is coming to America. One of the first things the US government will change is the methods by which terrorists use computers to destroy targets. Once Obama gets into office in January 09, Linux will be banned by the Federal Government. Linux is a threat to national security, and is most often used by terrorists to detonate bombs. Obama has already enacted a law to entirely ban Linux in the United States. Anyone who continues to use Linux after a specified date, will be prosecuted and charged as a felon for threatening the American government. Linux is a bigger threat to National security than Osama Bin Laden. The reason that Linux is used to anhilate nations is because Linux has too many variations, and contains secret embedded codes which are too difficult to crack by authorities. Additionally, all versions of Linux contain subliminal anti-American messages, which is proof in itself that Linux has been authored by terrorists and terrorist organizations. If you are currently using Linux, now is the time to begin to use another operating system before the ban on Linux becomes law. Linux users are anti-American. If you want to continue to use Linux, please leave America and move to any foreign nation where terrorism thrives. America, Love it, or Leave it !!!
Re: Redhat support subscriptions
- Original Message Follows - dave wrote: On Tuesday 04 November 2008 23:34:02 Christopher Sawtell wrote: 2008/11/4 Zane Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Funnily enough, the one time support would have been welcome (this issue took months to resolve) both Oracle NZ and RedHat were absolutely useless. Wandering through source code eventually highlighted the issue which was resolved quite effectively once the cause was found. Yes, I think that is my experience too. If you are a reasonably knowledgeable sysadmin or whatever, any support you want is going to be for a relatively obscure problem which is unlikely to be something a phone-support person is able to deal with. You might also care to consider one of the *BSDs. FreeBSD is _very_ stable for server use. if so then OpenBSD would be even better wouldn't (I mean it's the server version so to speak) FreeBSD is the desktop version so to speak i mean. eg netbsd = network server, OpenBSD = web server, FreeBSD = desktop etc. I stand to be corrected on this tho. dave. Similar code - different foci. PcBSD is the desktop version. Nice but I still prefer thought this was another fork of FreeBSD by another group who where trying to remove some of the complexity (read like ubuntu or Linsipre did/do) of the installation/usage. again i stand to be corrected. Linux. FreeBSD is the server version. I run this both at work and home for my servers. OpenBSD is the paranoically secure version. Never needed this. hth Brett.
Re: Redhat support subscriptions
Snipped as the criteria? Have I gone too OT here?... No you didn't. ( at least you didn't suggest BSD :-/) Zane you do know how to offend don't you (hahahaha) *snipped*
Re: devede - dvd
bit different but same issue (AVI to video CD) I converted the file from AVI to a Video CD and got it on the CD size was 813Megs now i want to copy it but haven't suceeded yet (tried disk copy, burning the original think i have to shrink it first this is a project i *must* do for wife). hth - Original Message Follows - Click Adjust disc usage and will work. It worked for me for up to 130% space adjusted. Cheers, Adrian On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 16:54 +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote: If devede says it needs 103% of a dvd, will it fit??? Cheers, Steve
Re: devede - dvd
Should've said i had used k3b to try this but failed (that that used vcimager). think the process i used originally was devede to convert file to videoCD resulting mpeg file burnt to cd-r result was a good clean burn. have tried this again to no luck. Will go to the link when i get home (at work at moment - shhh). thanks for the pointer nick. dave. - Original Message Follows - On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:32 AM, dave lilley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bit different but same issue (AVI to video CD) I converted the file from AVI to a Video CD and got it on the CD size was 813Megs now i want to copy it but haven't suceeded yet (tried disk copy, burning the original think i have to shrink it first this is a project i *must* do for wife). hth IIRC video-cd does not have a regular file system on it, so disk copy may not work. The reason you can get 813MB on a video cd is because you aren't clogging up a great chunk of the CD with an ISO filesystem's redundancies (which are important for data integrity on regular files, but not used on videoCD) However google does assist with this page: http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/Copy_Video.html To copy a Video CD (these use audio CD disks--the common CD-R) the following should do the trick: $ cdrdao read-cd --paranoia-mode 2 --read-raw data.toc To then write it to another CD-R: $ cdrdao write data.toc There are other tools including readvcd, vcdimager, and vcdgear.
Re: kubuntu-8-10 md5sum results
Wes, this was why i thought you should do a check on the validity of the file. Chris how was the copy you got from me? Gave chris S a copy of the same file i left on the desktop, how is that? from wesley's email 82c02dc7386dfb6858a9ec09a5059e1e this is from citylink 82c02dc7386dfb6858a9ec09a5059e1e *kubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso So with my MKI eye balls they are the same code (or am i going blind)? dave. - Original Message Follows - These are the results from the md5sum run I did on the kubuntu iso image placed on Caledonian's desktop. It appears to be a corrupted image. Wesley Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desktop]$ md5sum /kubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso\ Please\ do\ a\ MD5sum\ on\ this\ to\ ensure\ it\'s\ a\ good\ iso 82c02dc7386dfb6858a9ec09a5059e1e /kubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso Please do a MD5sum on this to ensure it's a good iso [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desktop]$ md5sum -c ./kubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso\ Please\ do\ a\ MD5sum\ on\ this\ to\ ensure\ it\'s\ a\ good\ iso md5sum: ./casper/filesystem.manifest-desktop: No such file or directory ./casper/filesystem.manifest-desktop: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./casper/initrd.gz: No such file or directory ./casper/initrd.gz: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./casper/filesystem.squashfs: No such file or directory ./casper/filesystem.squashfs: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./casper/vmlinuz: No such file or directory /casper/vmlinuz: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./dists/intrepid/Release: No such file or directory ./dists/intrepid/Release: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./dists/intrepid/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz: No such file or directory /dists/intrepid/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./dists/intrepid/restricted/binary-i386/Release: No such file or directory ./dists/intrepid/restricted/binary-i386/Release: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./dists/intrepid/Release.gpg: No such file or directory ./dists/intrepid/Release.gpg: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./dists/intrepid/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz: No such file or directory ./dists/intrepid/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./dists/intrepid/main/binary-i386/Release: No such file or directory ./dists/intrepid/main/binary-i386/Release: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./pics/blue-upperright.png: No such file or directory ./pics/blue-upperright.png: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./pics/blue-lowerleft.png: No such file or directory ./pics/blue-lowerleft.png: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./pics/blue-upperleft.png: No such file or directory ./pics/blue-upperleft.png: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./pics/logo-50.jpg: No such file or directory /pics/logo-50.jpg: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./pics/red-upperright.png: No such file or directory ./pics/red-upperright.png: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./pics/red-upperleft.png: No such file or directory ./pics/red-upperleft.png: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./pics/red-lowerright.png: No such file or directory ./pics/red-lowerright.png: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./pics/red-lowerleft.png: No such file or directory ./pics/red-lowerleft.png: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./pics/debian.jpg: No such file or directory /pics/debian.jpg: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./pics/blue-lowerright.png: No such file or directory ./pics/blue-lowerright.png: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./.disk/casper-uuid-generic: No such file or directory ./.disk/casper-uuid-generic: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./.disk/release_notes_url: No such file or directory ./.disk/release_notes_url: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./.disk/info: No such file or directory /.disk/info: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./umenu.exe: No such file or directory /umenu.exe: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./autorun.inf: No such file or directory /autorun.inf: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./install/README.sbm: No such file or directory /install/README.sbm: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./install/sbm.bin: No such file or directory /install/sbm.bin: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./install/mt86plus: No such file or directory /install/mt86plus: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./preseed/kubuntu.seed: No such file or directory /preseed/kubuntu.seed: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./preseed/cli.seed: No such file or directory /preseed/cli.seed: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./pool/restricted/d/drdsl/drdsl_1.2.0-1_i386.deb: No such file or directory ./pool/restricted/d/drdsl/drdsl_1.2.0-1_i386.deb: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./pool/main/n/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-utils-1.9_1.52-1ubun tu1_i386.deb: No such file or directory /pool/main/n/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-utils-1.9_1.52-1ubunt u1_i386.deb: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./pool/main/n/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-common_1.52-1ubuntu1 _all.deb: No such file or directory /pool/main/n/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-common_1.52-1ubuntu1_ all.deb: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./pool/main/h/hwtest/hwtest_0.1-0ubuntu10_all.deb: No such file or directory
Re: Kubuntu 8.10 i386
Where when? You place? can drop off to Edgeware community centre for their repository if you like. - Original Message Follows - Please. 2008/11/2 dave [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have this if anyone is interested dave. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
Re: OT Learning 'C' - any pointers?
Is this CPIT? if so thought cobol had been scrapped sometime ago. I started on BBC basic - cobol - vb 1-3, delphi 1-3 (self taught), VERY little on java, some Ruby 1.8.6 (V. good online site www.rubylearning.com satish kumar runs it FOC!!!). but think this is for intro course he now does an ¨intermediate and advanced¨ courses too but the site will explain all that. it#347; 3 months online interaction so it#347; your discrection as how fast you go (each module/chapter/lesson is 1 weeks worth of learning) you can fall behind but you cannot jump ahead as each week is sat - sat STD India time. for what it#347; worth. dave. - Original Message Follows - On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 19:50 +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:38:22 +1300 Kerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently learning my first real language (outside of various web-based languages) as part of my studies. I'm keen on bringing some of my work home to expand on it but the compiler/debugger we use is windows based and I'm keen on using something on my Ubuntu box that has a nice GUI interface as at the moment I'd rather spend my time learning C and not mucking around learning how to use command line compilers/debuggers (I'll save that for later...). Also does anyone know of any sites online that have good (basic/intermediate) howtos on C - I kinda prefer real world pointers rather than hello world type pointers Cheers, Kerry I learnt C from Kernigan and Ritchies 'An introduction to C programming', and it was my reference book for years. Now that's good for book - both a teaching aid and a reference. I think there'll be a load of people suggesting you learn an objective language. YMMV, Steve. Thanks Steve, Our manuals are actually pretty good for a learning institution, but I'll keep your recommendation in mind - I picked up Programming in C 3rd ed. by Stephen G. Kochan from the library today, the seemed pretty thin on the ground when it came to C programming. I get no choice in the programming languages as part of my course, (learning C, COBOL, Java and .NET) and choose one as my elective (which will probably be C) Kerry
Re: vertual managers
i tried unsuccessfully to remove directories and files at the time. and always got something during startup (prior to getting GUI loaded) that implied i hadn't removed *all* config files but wasn't sure where to look and Now i'm looking at starting afresh (wiping the user home dir etc) thought it would be good to get lists views on VM s/w. - Original Message Follows - would it then just be a matter for him to locate and delete the relevant remaining directories? or is it likely to have caused a bigger mess? in your opinion / experience . . . Kerry Mayes wrote: Sometimes it works perfectly. Sometimes it leaves stuff behind. Sometimes, the stuff it leaves behind prevents another version of vmware from installing. 2008/10/20 Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [note reply-to of original post is brokeden] what happens if you do: sudo vmware-uninstall.pl ? Cheers, Roger
importing an old Kmail folders to a new HD
Again got a question for one all. got a fresh install of mepis and would like to import the old Kmail file structure across. old syetem was/is Kubuntu 7.10 i have tried Kmail import tool (within mepis) with no luck. copy folders from old location across into new location so joy with some sadness (some messages popup with no subject (aka index errors me thinks as i came across some of these in old system). did have some issues with this and wanted to kill the indexes off too see if this would solve the problem but didn't have disk capacity to do this until now. Not sure if i've used mbox format or not!! Hope this helps ... Each message has some funny lettering (e.g. Fdfhhgvde34rff) and you have a directory stucture like this .kde/.../kmail-mail-inbox, outbox, sentbox in each of these you have 3 directories named cur temp new. hope this help folks sort out the type of mailbox i have in the old one. the boss is getting narly at me, and i might have my rations cut (aka no tea cooked for me at nights if this isn't sorted soon). my tummy might be largish but i'm afraid i'll thin down too much and then be forced to cook for myself (and no one wants me doing that - 1 pot man and was dangerous when single). rgds, dave - the thinning man...
vertual managers
HI ho all, Like to get a feel for what folks who are using these managers which is the best approach in using them and the most preferred one (taking into account the ease of setup etc). I'm thinking a long the of A) have a partition of x gigs set aside for 1 or N images to sit in. B) have these sitting within the home partition. the object would be so that i could install and run various distro's (as in a sort of sandbox). So the ability to setup a image and destroy it without affecting others will be a must. I did install and run a VMware image but did something and screwed it up comepletey (not being able to reinstall the server or player again). currently playing with Mepis 7.0. cheers, dave.
Re: OT: testing psus
Chap in a unit beside where i work *might* be able to help. He does PCB designs from scratch and makes up controller cards for remote gates and doors etc. call me at work Monday 3482506 (i'll be the one who answers) will ask him if he'd be interested in looking at the PSU at least and how much if anything he'd charge for the service work. if you'd like me to dave. - Original Message Follows - Does anyone know of a place in Chch that can test and potentially fix PSUs? I'd usually just chuck it, but in this case is's out of a 2U server box, and has pretty specialised wiring to run 6 removeable hdd bays. The server itself is running fine on an old AMD socket 478 board which was becoming a bit flakey after the best part of 3 years constant use in a dusty environment. I have spent about 2 months trying to replace it with a new quad core replacement, and after spending a month on the first one, my supplier admitted that the memory didn't really work with the modo I was using. So I replaced this with an Intel equivalent, which was a real pain due to the new intel graphics stuff not really being supported in the mainstream kernels, and other things. Anyway, the first board never even passed POST, and the replacement lasted less than a week. In this situation, my supplier is blaming my PSU ( which is still working fine as far as I can see ), and I'm blaming shoddy goods. I really do need to be sure that they are not wrong before trying to put another replacement mobo, etc into the server. I can temporarily lift the bonnet and run a standard sized PSU in the meantime. All I've done is to open the unit up and clean the dust out of it. Can anyone suggest a local company to service it??? As usual the tenuous link is that this is out of my linux server (: Cheers, Steve -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: testing psus
Chap in a unit beside where i work *might* be able to help. He does PCB designs from scratch and makes up controller cards for remote gates and doors etc. call me at work Monday 3482506 (i'll be the one who answers) will ask him if he'd be interested in looking at the PSU at least and how much if anything he'd charge for the service work. if you'd like me to dave. - Original Message Follows - Does anyone know of a place in Chch that can test and potentially fix PSUs? I'd usually just chuck it, but in this case is's out of a 2U server box, and has pretty specialised wiring to run 6 removeable hdd bays. The server itself is running fine on an old AMD socket 478 board which was becoming a bit flakey after the best part of 3 years constant use in a dusty environment. I have spent about 2 months trying to replace it with a new quad core replacement, and after spending a month on the first one, my supplier admitted that the memory didn't really work with the modo I was using. So I replaced this with an Intel equivalent, which was a real pain due to the new intel graphics stuff not really being supported in the mainstream kernels, and other things. Anyway, the first board never even passed POST, and the replacement lasted less than a week. In this situation, my supplier is blaming my PSU ( which is still working fine as far as I can see ), and I'm blaming shoddy goods. I really do need to be sure that they are not wrong before trying to put another replacement mobo, etc into the server. I can temporarily lift the bonnet and run a standard sized PSU in the meantime. All I've done is to open the unit up and clean the dust out of it. Can anyone suggest a local company to service it??? As usual the tenuous link is that this is out of my linux server (: Cheers, Steve -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeView7 - internet debate
really wanted to watch this via the net as i don't get TV7. Had tried to no avail to get the bloody stream but kept having to load a plugin for FF which there was none available. when i tried from TVNZ it told me (forget the exact words) that it wasn't available. ask in the Chat room but that didn't allow me to choose Mplayer or other media streaming s/w. didn't want to go through the hassle of installing a flash or some such s/w either last night. - Original Message Follows - On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 8:53 AM, dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Been trying to get it on tvnz with no luck! watching some of the live chat room feeds anyone able to point me to an archive of this debate? dave it will be repeated on TVNZ7 today just after midday and tomorrow just after 10.00 pm.
Re: Postgres Training
I'd like to add myself as being interested in this! Chris H (if your reading) didn't you work with this??? dave L. - Original Message Follows - I have had a request for a source of Postgres training. (probably admin and client programming) Does anyone know of any reputable source of training for Postgres? Possibly even someone with the requisite skills maybe to offer it. Cheers, Zane Visit our website at http://www.crop.cri.nz __ CAUTION: The information contained in this email is privileged and confidential. If you read this message and you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of all or part of the contents is prohibited. If you receive this message in error, please notify the sender immediately. Any opinions or views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not represent those of their employer.
Re:
i'm will to do this and burn a copy for the resource. dave. - Original Message Follows - It's actually several list members. I have very gratefully received many gigabytes on DVDs and CDs from several traffic volume donors. All I have done is a bit of talking, a lot of typing, and a some nicely exercising leg-work. All we need now is, for members to demonstate that it's all been worthwhile, by voting with their feet and getting distros from the archive, which I will be maintaining for at least 6 months. We do realize that folks with good broadband connections and large volume caps don't really need to be involved. It's specifically aimed at people who are on dial-up access or who have tiny volume caps imposed on them by fiat. p.s. If list members with big pipes could get the 'Gutsy Gibbon' release version in a co-ordinated way when he breaks out of his zoo in a few days time, that would be most appreciated. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
Re:
I agree, it's important for this group to show appreciation on such a matter in a formal way. dave. - Original Message Follows - I propose a vote of thanks to: a) the list member b) the St. Albans Resource Centre c) Chris and all the others who have worked so hard towards this project. and that this be put in writing by someone for the SRC who presumably are not list members! At 13:34 17/10/07 +1300, you wrote: Greeting to CLUGgers, The St. Albans Resource Centre has, without being commissioned to do so by CLUG, purchased a 120GB hard drive for us at a cost of $40. The disk is to be used to host the .iso file collection on the machine housing the distro archive we have established there. The machine runs linux (dual booted with windows) and will have a donated DVD-writer installed soon. This will enable us to house more distros and give us an independent drive that we can remove and situate elsewhere if need be. A list member, who is on a very limited budget, has given them this amount of money out of his own account. The CLUG's bank account signatories would like the group's permission to reimburse said list member. If anybody objects to this use of CLUG funds please could they make their wishes known to us promptly. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell D J H STRINGER Barrister For all your legal work; P O Box 1386 CHRISTCHURCH NEW ZEALAND Phone 64 - 3 - 366 1152 FAX 64 - 3 - 366 1151
Re: Xtra/Yahoo email services
am a yahoo user so it's [EMAIL PROTECTED] but when i login i get redirected to a NZ or australian server eg http://nz.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/dc/launch?action=welcomeYY=1466038659.rand=4u7jdq4at65c2. and all's i get is a blank screen with done on the bottom left corner as if all data has been transmitted. current been on the phone with TC for @ 45 minutes trying to fix this fault. they are curently trying a different IP range incase mine is being rejected for some reason by the HTTPS service at yahoo. Also imported flash and Shockwave (all this under winders in an attempt to get access again. G dave. - Original Message Follows - Are you trying to use the [EMAIL PROTECTED] email or [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 18/05/07, dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyone having trouble accessing this from within NZ?? I go and login get asked my p/w and while getting transferred to nz.blahblah. it dies. then when i go to like the yahoo search site it says welcome dave as if i am online (which i suppose i am just that i cannot get to my email account. sent the buggers an email (not that i think it'll do much good). Now i'm asking the community if anyone esle has experianced the same problems. dave. -- CM Entrepreneur, Pieroth Wine Executive and XBox 360 freak! www.myspace.com/agent_mcgee
MS and it's FUD
wouldn't it be interesting to see the NZ commerce commisions reaction to the article. Okay it's US based but they have an office in NZ and that office has to do as the World head office says (until the head office say's don't or we'll be caught doing a SCO). So the rumblings from the US potentially affects us here in NZ. Ergo potential business and consumer problems here in NZ and anti-competitive issues arise. Right okay so we'd have months of commerce commission wring it's hands because some smart arse raised a prickly issue with them (think Boardband here and how toothless and clawless they were on that - okay govt didn't want telecon to lose too much profit). We'd (who ever raised the issue) probably get hammered by comm comm for annoying them and putting 'em in a pile of s**t and or have a big stick waved as a way of keeping things quite and gagging the person/company from reveling anything specific. But and a big but if MS was forced by comm comm to show it's hand on the Violations in court then the rest of the world could hammer MS based on the declared violations here. So one person dies for the common good :) upshot Don't pick me!!! but it'd be good to stick it to MS over this issue. and the FAME the FAME Global celeb over night. Movie rights (dam RMS would probably claim 'em i want mel brookes to be Steve B.). Chat show offers speaking engagements a chin wag with Paul Homes (so i can't spell what's new). a chin wag with 60 minutes oh and PCuser oh and computerworld list could be endless. but what after the 60 seconds of fame dave.
Re: converting a Avi movie to burn to CD (VCD/SVCD)
yup you did mention any2dvd before. dave - Original Message Follows - dave wrote: many thanks for your help on this but after looking at the info in the first link you sent me last night i think i'll obtain by fair or foul means a usb dvd burn work has and burn a dvd disc as you sugested in the first place. you will still need to convert the video to dvd compliant mpeg. As I think I said earlier in the thread (or did I?) any2dvd works well, creates a DVD with chapters every 10 minutes, 5.1 ac3 soundtrack and has a few other nice features.
beers
sorry i've now been given some duties to do (painting around the house) to be done by friday. and i've not started yet! haha.
Re: Where would the kontact addressbook be found ?
Magic :) did troll around the .kde and saw the vcf files but thought they were vcf's files of a mate of mine. thanks muchly. ps i did troll google briefly on this topic. Robert Fisher wrote: On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 05:56, dave lilley wrote: moved off mandrake to ubuntu and from kmail to thunderbird. Would like to get the address imported into the thunderbird addressbook. thanx for any pointers. I asked a similar question back in September - slightly different in that I wanted to transfer from one computer to another. I suspect the answer (my own answer) would do what you want. Export from Kontact contacts then import into Thunderbird. http://lists.ethernal.org/cantlug-0409/msg00510.html Having a look after a Google search I found:- /home/robert/.kde3.4/share/apps/korganizer/std.ics (iCalendar file) and /home/robert/.kde3.4/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf I think that this is the one you want.
Where would the kontact addressbook be found ?
moved off mandrake to ubuntu and from kmail to thunderbird. Would like to get the address imported into the thunderbird addressbook. thanx for any pointers.
Re: dual utp cable-end
what about a laplink type arrangement ? eg booting up under dos and trying out laplink / fast wire (i have this program if you want to try it ( fits on a 1.44 floppy so could email to you ) but then you'd need a box at both ends running dos or win9x. dave. Nick Rout wrote: On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 20:23 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: dse xh4248, although described as a voice data splitter will do this I believe hmm looking closer I am not so sure now, maybe it was a similar thing but wired for two data. looking now at jaycar... On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 20:18 +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote: I have a small cabling problem, and a thought for a solution - but no actual tools to test it out ... I have a long run of a single UTP cable from the garage to the study at home. No opportunity to run a second cable (we tried a second one at the time the first was put in, but there was no way it was going to fit through the cable run that has been made). Now, for purposes of network segregation, I need to have two classes of network at both ends of that single cable. I'm not able to VLAN the switches at either end (which is the 'expensive equipment' way to solve problems of sharing things). However, it's an 8-core cable with all 8 wired up, and utp signals only over 4 wires. So I should be able to basically have two RJ45s at each end, and therefore have two independent signals. I don't know if there's an official wiring spec for this usage - any references welcome. However, even if I pick a 'bad' way to use the cable, I'll still get useable signal out of it. Now, because the cable in question is physically pretty much stuck where it is, and I'd hate to stuff it up, I'm proposing leaving it entirely untouched. But what I can do, I hope, is to get a couple of double-headed extension cables ... a single socket at one end, and a pair of plugs at the other end. If the socket bit is difficult to sort out, I could use a plug and then one of those double-socket extenders to join on to the original. Now, has anyone tried a double-headed cable? Care to whip up a couple for me? ;-) -jim
Re: Gentoo Installfest (was Re: OpenBSD)
I've only got the one box linux is on a 15gig Hd but wanted to see if gentoo was okay on the 2gig (push goes to shove i'll use the 15 gig drive). uses... normal pc stuff word processing, Programming (eg kylix). On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 20:28, Nick Rout wrote: depends what he wants to run on it and whteher he has other machines to distcc to. On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 17:14:14+1200 Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 16:30, Dave Lilley wrote: i'd be in on this. got a 2gig hd (spare) and a p200 96meg ram (my pc). I'm a bit worried that you may find that updating and generally maintaining a Gentoo machine with that speed of processor would be somewhat, shall we say, tiresome. To completely update the base of KDE on a PII/400 takes from Saturday morning until some time on Wednesday. While we will be able to compile applications for you on the much faster machines which folk are bringing, I'm a bit concerned that we might be landing you with a machine which is - in practice - unmaintainable. What do others think? where when ??? Not known yet, depends how many people want to come. -- C. S. --
RE: Gentoo Installfest
Snipped lots out OK. How does Saturday 05/july/03 suit folks? That's the Saturday immediately after the next CLUG meeting on Monday 30/june/2000. I think we need some time at the meeting to try out the distcc 5 July 2003 is a goer for me. dave.
RE: Gentoo Installfest (was Re: OpenBSD)
i'd be in on this. got a 2gig hd (spare) and a p200 96meg ram (my pc). where when ??? dave. On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 09:37, gjw49 wrote: I also think this is a good idea, but maybe not as a public installfest like the Mandrake/RedHat ones. Just a small gathering of everyone on the list who wants to try Gentoo (*puts up hand* ;-) or who wants to get updated packages quickly for their current system (if they're on a modem connection at home). If you can share the portage tree... and you can share the compiling... Could we have, say, everyone who gets an install up and working leave their machine running to help others who are still installing? Is it just me, or would that be _damn_cool_? ;-) Cheers, Gareth = Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] = I think this is a good idea, though I expect it to be far more complex than a standard (Redhat/Mandrake) installfest. As such, I would suggest that the organisers have a practise run with a few experts who are willing to give Gentoo a try - so that some of the issues can be ironed out earlier. Personally I'm willing to come along help out, and I'll bring my box to help out with the distcc compile effort. Brad -Original Message- From: Christopher Sawtell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 10 June 2003 11:16 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Gentoo Installfest (was Re: OpenBSD) On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 11:22, you wrote: Gentoo is looking more feasible by the minute...I am running out of excuses not to at least try it. =) Does all theis interest in Gentoo mean that we are going to have to organise a Gentoo Installfest? Not as silly as it might at first seem because it would then allow the sharing of the portage tree. Mine is now at something of the order of ~1.7GBytes. Some of it might be old files, but I did have a big purge not so long ago. That fileset could be shared around to minimise download bother, also gentoo can now use the distributed compiling idea, so a group could probably get it all going pretty quickly - In a living memory time-span anyway :-) Remember that the installation of Gentoo is not for the total newb, but getting new packages and doing upgrades is totally ( 99.999% :-) free of problems. Note that the Gentoo Weekly News reports today that the Gentoo system has been ported to the the Darwin Kernel on PPC. You can now have all your X11 based toys _and_ Photoshop etc on the same machine without rebooting! -- C. S.
Re: Gentoo Installfest (was Re: OpenBSD)
Ya well from some of the messages i too think that but maintainability is a concern (want to be able to update OS packages without too much hassle - missing support files etc as i'e found with m'drake 8.2). dave. ps have a bigger drive too (15gig). On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 17:14, Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 16:30, Dave Lilley wrote: i'd be in on this. got a 2gig hd (spare) and a p200 96meg ram (my pc). I'm a bit worried that you may find that updating and generally maintaining a Gentoo machine with that speed of processor would be somewhat, shall we say, tiresome. To completely update the base of KDE on a PII/400 takes from Saturday morning until some time on Wednesday. While we will be able to compile applications for you on the much faster machines which folk are bringing, I'm a bit concerned that we might be landing you with a machine which is - in practice - unmaintainable. What do others think? where when ??? Not known yet, depends how many people want to come. -- C. S.
OpenBSD
Hi there folks, Anyone played or using OpenBSD ?? What's your opinion of it ??? interested in it. dave.
