Avonmore Linux Course

2002-12-05 Thread Scott Ealam
Hi everyone I would just like clear up a few details about the Linux Course that is supposedly running at Avonmore in the third week of January. This week long course is not being run by Avonmore nor was the idea of running this course ever 'floated' by Avonmore. My understanding is that

Re: Still using Debian? Gentle bout of Distro War

2002-12-05 Thread Michael Beattie
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 08:56:22PM +1300, Rex Johnston wrote: You are going to fit testing onto a floppy ? ... Yes, perhaps i mean't that it's not that obvious how to download the testing distro onto CD/DVD/floppy(?) *sigh*. You can fit the installer on a floppy or two, and point it at the

Re: Still using Debian? Gentle bout of Distro War

2002-12-05 Thread Rex Johnston
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 21:13, Michael Beattie wrote: What has happened to the progeny install system ? *shrug* - I'm not working on the installer. I believe the main reason it isnt being used, is that the installer that is developed, needs to work on all 11 architectures released. Aeee,

Fwd: [discuss] Autorun CD with Menu ISO available for distributors etc

2002-12-05 Thread Wesley Parish
Just thought some of us might be interested. Wesley Parish -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [discuss] Autorun CD with Menu ISO available for distributors etc Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:35:57 +1100 From: Justin Fitzgibbon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL

Re: Colour ink printer experience with Linux?

2002-12-05 Thread Mark Tomlinson
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 4:40 PM Subject: Re: Colour ink printer experience with Linux? DONT BUY AN EPSON PROBLEM PRONE!!! Clogged Nozzles,unresponsivness,motor failure!! Is this an observation of yours, or

Re: Colour ink printer experience with Linux?

2002-12-05 Thread C Falconer
My wife is a printer technician. She comments: 1) The more popular a type of printer is, the more of that model which need repair, so lots of epsons need repair only implies that there are a huge number of epson printers out there. 2) Cheap nasty printers are cheap because they're nasty 3)

Re: Colour ink printer experience with Linux?

2002-12-05 Thread Nick Rout
That was quite a good post until we got to the spam^h^h^h^h plug On Fri, 06 Dec 2002 09:10:56 +1300 C Falconer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 8) Shop around - if buying new please let NZ Toner quote you a price. Phone number is 3666515 -- All that was needed was to parse the cat root slash dev

Re: Colour ink printer experience with Linux?

2002-12-05 Thread Andrew Errington
I had my HP 948c working with CUPS under peanut linux. I got as far as printing a full-colour test page, then I reformatted and installed Debian. Andy

OT: Hardware Sale/Giveaway

2002-12-05 Thread agr49
= Original Message From Alan Greenstreet [EMAIL PROTECTED] = HO HO HO! Christmas has come early... I have a few bits and bobs to shift and anyone interested should please contact me off list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2 x Sun Sparcstation 1's - Sun Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse, No Disks - $25 each

Re: Colour ink printer experience with Linux?

2002-12-05 Thread Benjamin Devine
This is an observation i have made. *Old Fable Voice ON, (old withered man)* Once in the house I live lived an epson stylus 440 this epson work like a gem until the heads clogged up one month after the warrarnty expired. Using the software provided on the Evil platform. Gave a temporary sigh of

Anybody want a Travan tape drive?

2002-12-05 Thread Theuns Verwoerd
Greetings Would anybody be interested in a Travan tape drive unit (400/800MB per tape, comes with original box, cables, 3 tapes, DOS software, connects as a floppy device). It's fully functional, but only of geek value to me ( 8) ) (Ideally I'd swap it for something more directly useful)

Re: Anybody want a Travan tape drive?

2002-12-05 Thread Benjamin Devine
YES |Ben Devine P.S When will i come and pick it up!! Theuns Verwoerd said: Greetings Would anybody be interested in a Travan tape drive unit (400/800MB per tape, comes with original box, cables, 3 tapes, DOS software, connects as a floppy device). It's fully functional, but only of

[OT] Printer Jams

2002-12-05 Thread Michael JasonSmith
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 10:57, Benjamin Devine wrote: Once in the house I live lived an epson stylus 440 this epson work like a gem until the heads clogged up one month after the warrarnty expired. Using the software provided on the Evil platform. Gave a temporary sigh of relief but then paper

OT: More Hardware for Sale

2002-12-05 Thread Peter Glassenbury
agr49 wrote: = Original Message From Alan Greenstreet = HO HO HO! Since we have a for sale column :-) Here is a Spam^H^H^H^Hplug for some second hand machines we are selling off. So if anyone knows of a school or someone to take the lot, it would make my life a bit easier :-)

Re: Colour ink printer experience with Linux?

2002-12-05 Thread Yuri de Groot
6) Do you need colour? A second-hand laser might do you better over and 7) How much printing do you do a week? less than one page a week means you don't really need a printer Hmmm, print to file. cp output.pdf /mnt/floppy bring disk to copying shop print out pdf in full blown colour (much

Re: FW: [OT] Printer Jams

2002-12-05 Thread Michael JasonSmith
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 11:57, Fisher, Robert wrote: I cannot reply to the list from work but I thought I would pass on some knowledge as someone who knows much about paper. A cool dry location is better for paper than warm and dry because when the paper cools it tends to absorb moisture. I

Re: OT: More Hardware for Sale

2002-12-05 Thread Drew Whittle
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 12:06, Peter Glassenbury wrote: 17 iMac computers, 333MHz, 96MB RAM, 6GB disk. $1100 6 Itec Asus Pentium 200Mhz,64Mb, 2Gb disk, 15monitor, ethernet, No operating system. $200 60 Itec Asus 233Mhz P2L97S PC with Ultra scsi, 128Mb RAM, 2Gb disk, 10/100 ethernet,17

Re: Colour ink printer experience with Linux?

2002-12-05 Thread Nick Rout
you can always email it to said print shop, or put it on cd. On Fri, 06 Dec 2002 12:07:06 +1200 Yuri de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 6) Do you need colour? A second-hand laser might do you better over and 7) How much printing do you do a week? less than one page a week means you don't

Re: OT: More Hardware for Sale

2002-12-05 Thread Theuns Verwoerd
Greetings 60 Itec Asus 233Mhz P2L97S PC with Ultra scsi, 128Mb RAM, 2Gb disk, 10/100 ethernet,17 monitor, No operating system. $300 I'll poke my nose in, since I can 8). I think I've got one of these; for mine, video is Matrox Millenuim II (4mb) (PCI), network card is Intel EtherExpress

RE: OT: Hardware Sale/Giveaway

2002-12-05 Thread agr49
Sorry everyone the printer has gone - about ten times at the last count ;0) Everything else must go so no reasonable offer refused! Alan = Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] = = Original Message From Alan Greenstreet [EMAIL PROTECTED] = HO HO HO! Christmas has come

Re: Colour ink printer experience with Linux?

2002-12-05 Thread Adrian Stacey
Nick Rout wrote: That was quite a good post until we got to the spam^h^h^h^h plug Why no smiley there, Nick? I thought after supplying that much GOOD info, he was entitled to a little plug for his missus... :) Adrian

Re: Colour ink printer experience with Linux?

2002-12-05 Thread Peter Cornelius
That was quite a good post until we got to the spam^h^h^h^h plug 8) Shop around - if buying new please let NZ Toner quote you a price. Phone number is 3666515 They deserve a plug. Good service, very helpful staff, good quality products at cheap prices and printer/copier technicians who know

Fwd: Re: Colour ink printer experience with Linux?

2002-12-05 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Wed, 04 Dec 2002 22:24, you wrote: Hi CLUG members, Does anyone here have experience using colour printers with Linux? I read from various sources that Windows might be required to get really good results printing photos, but the gimp-print pages say that many colour printers work

Found at the meeting

2002-12-05 Thread Nick Elder
There were two ISA cards left behind at the meeting last night. One is a IO serial. And the other an IO parallel card. Let me know if they are yours regards, NIckE

newbies info

2002-12-05 Thread Will Pilvio
Hi all, These might be considered to the growing collection of newbies info: Three reasons for newbie-centric culture shock Summary Ever since his own jump to open source, Joe Barr has been hearing complaints from Linux newbies and never really bought into any of them. Until now. Joe points

Re: Colour ink printer experience with Linux?

2002-12-05 Thread David A. Mann
Yuri de Groot wrote: print out pdf in full blown colour (much nicer than any printer I could afford) for a few bucks. Only works if the resulting pdf file is less than 1.44Mb. I would expect a print shop to be able to handle zip disks and CD-R for bigger files. Cheers, - Dave

Re: Colour ink printer experience with Linux?

2002-12-05 Thread David A. Mann
Mark Tomlinson wrote: Many professional photographers use Epson printers. This should read: Many professional photographers use *good* Epson printers. I have heard from several photographers (including a couple of guys who run digital-capable labs) that the cheap Epsons are unreliable and