Carl Cerecke wrote:
John Ascroft wrote:
Isn't that a bit precious. The guy's in trouble, most of the list seem to
run a copy of windows for one readon or another, get over it.
Sure, the guy is in trouble, but I'd rather not see questions like that
here. The list has quite a number of people now
CF wrote:
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 12:30, Adrian Stacey wrote:
My point is - which was worse? his OT question, or the way he asked it?
Compare Can someone send me a copy of /usr/bin/pico - I deleted mine by
mistake to My machine is broken - fix it for me to I broke my
machine -...details... - what
Nick Rout wrote:
unplug it?
Not a good idea. well on your way to blowing out a keyboard controller
this way... :) Or at least, when you plug it back in...
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 17:23, you wrote:
The main cost will probably be getting RMA/city-council consents for the
transmitters.
If the antenna is under 30 metres high, not needed.
A friend on the hill is worth his weight in gold...
Adrian
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 23:32, you wrote:
If the antenna is under 30 metres high, not needed.
How long ago did they change this rule?
I don't think they ever did Chris, there has certainly ALWAYS been a lot
of confusion in this area. I was working with an Auckland
I'm guessing that Datacom will provide the Vaseline at no charge...
Jason Greenwood wrote:
Where do we get these people??
Mike Beattie wrote:
In fact, interestingly, the PowerPC chip was developed in partnership by
Motorola and IBM. Big Blue has its fingers in a lot of pies.
And there was even a version of OS/2 for it. IBM would happily supply
it if you knew how to ask.
Adrian
Love the Linux one :)
Suggesting the obvious first, is the modem set to stay connected or DOD,
the way you're using it requires the former.
Horror to suggest but a simple winders box may be the best option to
troubleshoot the connection...
I tend to think the firewall shouldn't cause the problem.
Adrian
Our hearts go out to the seven astronauts of the shuttle Columbia, our
thoughts are with their families.
The price of exploration and advancement has been high for many - we
salute them.
Adrian
May be just anecdotal but my feeling is Slack is experiencing a bit of a
revival. I use it because I always have but primarily on inet servers.
Just did a minimal CLI install on a Compaq 4000, all the usual inet
services at just over 185MB (Slackware 8.1)
I have had the complete install on a
Col wrote:
I have one ( trying to learn bash scripting )
Is there an easier/better way for a user to obtain ppp0 ip address than
IP=$(netstat -rn | grep UH | cut -d -f1 | head -n 1)
IP=$(netstat -rn | grep UH | awk '{print $1}')
Adrian
Gareth Williams wrote:
[and now for something a little less 'political']
Also, I understand it's not good to run sendmail if you don't have it properly
configured (even if it was configured as an open relay though, for argument
sake, it's behind a firewall). Still, this is my first time
http://wwws.sun.com/software/insidesun/0103_insidetrack.html
This is the commercial version of course but indicative of a commercial
world that might make me happier s
Adrian
If you want to spend $25 on the adapter kit (laptop to PC HD mount and
connections) from Dick Smith...
Use the cabling part to connect laptop HD to PC - Bob's yer uncle.
Adrian
Steve Bell wrote:
The laptop with 48 Mb Ram probably doesn't have the balls to run KDE... ?
Or am I wrong?
IMHO, pound for pound, laptops outperform PC's of the same spec...
Agree,
Hot days I just work nights...
C Falconer wrote:
Working on 3 january is not particularly enjoyable.
And the AC is shut down *sigh*
Joshua Collins wrote:
I have a copy of windows 98 that i bought floating round somewhere that
I could donate. Is that still lega? i dunno... but if u're interested
i'll try hunt it out
I have a Win 95 upgrade still in the box - still wrapped. I think it is
win95A though...
David Kirk wrote:
I have a Win 95 upgrade still in the box - still wrapped. I think it
is win95A though...
I don't think I can use an upgrade version unless you have a version of
Windows 3.1 to upgrade from.
Windows 3.0 or later AND DOS 3.3 or later OR OS/2 2.0 or later. Of
course, IBM
Nick Rout wrote:
I almost thought win 3.11 was now freely available to download, although
I'm not sure of the license.
If so, it will be available from IBM and is more likely to be win 3.1
windows for workgroups (3.11) is still controlled by M$ _*I believe*_
This was the reason OS/2 Warp4 was
Google, use linux mail signature generator to search, it pulls up a few :)
There are still some winders ones but you can skip those s
Adrian
Mark Carey wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to write a simple perl script, that writes a text file in my
home directory for evolution to pick up as an email
cha93 wrote:
www.maxnet.co.nz $32 + Telecom fee. No Data or Bandwidth cap.
The latest from Compass is 5GB cap and $30 per month from 1/1/2003
Unlike their radio performance currently in Christchurch, ADSL is
excellent...
Adrian
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
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
About a year ago the Auckland equivalent of the Polytech disposed of several
hundred.
These could have well been the ones, about the right time and they
originated in AK.
Adrian
Nick Elder wrote:
I got some more this morning.
regards,
Wot? More Kids? That was quick!
David J Porter wrote:
Thay are also a constant source of stress, and their up time after booting is
way worse than even my windows box!
According to W C Fields (I think) they taste nice; broiled...
Hi Peter,
Hmmm, yes I am seeing updates with ntpdate... The messages in the log
for ntpd don't seem to show any problems, maybe I should rtfm again...
Adrian
Michael Beattie wrote:
There aint nuttin' that can make light go faster than the speed of light.
Sadly, it's a fact that traversing the pacific is going to take a little
time.
Nothin' to do with it! The holes in the wires are getting smaller and
smaller and this is REALLY slowing down the
Nick Rout wrote:
I took them home. my son played with them, he thought they made good movie tickets when his mates came round to watch some vids or something.
IIRC it was $1.00 for the book. I'll reimburse you :-)
sorry about that chief.
This is why I never had kids; they keep you poor :)
Nick Rout wrote:
actually more than half of them had been used, so presumably we wouldn't get another night out of them !
Half the Kids?
Nick Rout wrote:
Ok, I'm pleased you've had agood experience with upgrades. Its not the
impression I have had. Its good to see.
Maybe cos I'm an old fart and I use Slack but I still avoid upgrades
like the plague... New HD plus new install - only way to go s
Adrian
Ryurick M. Hristev wrote:
Just look on this list for CD burning requests.
Tangentially speaking, just picked up some Dick Smith CD-R's, spindle of
10 for $8.00 Must confess, I didn't do a big search to find the best
price but that seemed good to me...
Dick Smith branded Imation 700MB 48x
Michael Beattie wrote:
Don't get me wrong, I think using CD's is a perfectly valid activity, I just
find the concept boring, and a little wasteful. ok, CD-RW has fixed that a
little.
A! CD-RW, CD's burnt/burned...
So Mike, you don't wanna pay for bandwidth and you don't wanna buy CD
Johnno wrote:
The old 300 Baud that was one of my fast modems on a comodore 64 then a 386,
then went to 1200 baud, 2400 baud, 33.6 baud...
Those was the good old bbs days.. :)
And what about 1200/75 and Deskview on a SINGLE floppy...
AD
Michael Beattie wrote:
No, I see it as more of a personal attack about being some form of tight
ass. perhaps it's a bit late, and I'm shitty cos ST:TNG is late on prime
tonight. Late as in, 15 minutes so far, after scheduled start. I hate The
Bill.
Now me being a Trekker from way back, I just
Yuri de Groot wrote:
No company will ever lay cable to rural areas
unless bound to do so by some contract with the
gummint (e.g. kiwishare).
Telecon won't bother with adsl in rural areas.
TelstraClear wouldn't be able to justify laying
hundreds of km of cable per potential customer.
TC
Just thought, isn't Telecom doing something re: broadband in conjunction
with some Farmers' Group or other?
Steve Bell wrote:
I have heard of a something under testing and development (in NZ) at
present - I heard it referred to as darklining, which I understand is
using power lines to carry high speed internet access with the purpose of
supplying high speed access cheaply to rural customers.
I am
Justin Soong wrote:
I wen to the compass website, nothing about radionet service. I'm on
Jetstart but want to escape datacaps and i would like more speed. Ihugs
ultra lite plan went down, and i'm still waiting for thier 2 way satellite
service.
Me neither, if you go to www.radionet.net.nz, I
Michael Beattie wrote:
But all that is about MacOS 10.0 (Yes, I agree, MacOS stinks. OSX on the
other hand, kicks royal booty - I still prefer linux though)
I agree. Actually I like Macs... OS8 was/is fine...
Missed the chance at getting an ex-lease G3 for around $500 sd.
Patiently
Jeremy Bertenshaw wrote:
I've been using them for a while now, no coasters, seem
quite nice, only can get them to write at 32x for some
odd reason.
Well my grunty old semi-commercial CopyStar Duplicator only writes at 4x
anyway...
I see in todays junkmail that Harvey Norman are still dirt
Nick Rout wrote:
Aren't you missing something?
Like the time it takes to download the iso before writing it to cd?
Hey I forgot one point... It takes three days for Slackware to send me
4 CD's s
Adrian
Justin Soong wrote:
I'm already on jetstart, why is NZ broadband plans sooo high. I'm a home
user who wants a flat rate high bandwith and no caps!
Don't we ALL want that, remember, your high bandwidth, no cap traffic is
going to gost someone up stream about 10 cents per MB :)
So you're on
Paul wrote:
actually jetstart is limited to 5GB a month ..
Depends on the ISP... Which one are you quoting?
Lance BLACKLER wrote:
Should all be doable - but may be costly
Most things are - most things are
:(
Helmut Walle wrote:
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 06:00:35PM +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
Actually, you can choose between flushing your mailbox, or keeping the
retrieved messages on the server with POP, too. The big difference is
that with POP you have to retrieve a complete message to obtain
David A. Mann wrote:
Yes you're exactly right.
I had rather a nasty shock last year when I ended up closing the circuit
across nearly 20,000uF still charged to somewhere around 400VDC.
No harm done, but its the kind of thing
that makes you sit up think.
Many years back, on board ship, I
Tomo Brown wrote:
Hi list users,
Please share all experiences ( I know I have a few ;-) ! ).
Well I'm still a sucker for Slackware s
Currently using 8.1, install is a breeze though still text based, no
problems to report but that may change as I try installing on a Thinkpad...
Adrian
Yuri de Groot wrote:
Currently using 8.1, install is a breeze though still text based,
nothing wrong with text-based, and text-based is in _no_ way inherantly more
difficult than gui.
Never said there was, I prefer it, don't even use GUI in Slack yet,
starting to look at it for the TP
Nick Rout wrote:
whats wrong with your ISP? Many provide more than one pop account
these days. Enough for the whole family!
Well the good ones do s I give five for a flat-rate account...
Zane Gilmore wrote:
REPORT SAYS LINUX HAS MORE SECURITY FLAWS THAN WINDOWS
Well I just loved this bit:
Microsoft applications have made significant progress in avoiding virus
and Trojan horse problems, according to CERT. The number of such
advisories peaked in 2001 at six, but none were
Paul wrote:
Diamond Multimedia Systems Supra express 56e Pro
Now I am pretty damn sure this is an external modem... So no driver
needed. The driver for extenal modems (and the earlier ISA modems)
was really just a file of AT commands. S
Adrian
Ben Devine wrote:
128MB PC133 SDRAM 8-Chip
SAVE $20.00 (normally $87.00)
Offer valid for a limited time only.
Cat No. XH7429
NZ$67
Better price is $63.73 for 3 or more, $59.99 for 5 or more and $56.03
for 10 or more, (all inclusive) vbg
Adrian
Vik Olliver wrote:
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 08:09, Ben Devine wrote:
I'm very positive about the Terminator, and I'm sure you'll understand
that I'm doing this on its merits as a Linux product. While you and I
can go out and put something similar together at a slightly lower cost,
the general
Michael Beattie wrote:
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 03:48:46PM +1300, Chris Hellyar wrote:
I've got the front porch for it already, and a nice shady courtyard if the
sun is too hot :-).
Hmm. I have all of that except the porch oh, and the server isnt really
that grunty. I'll go one
Chris Hellyar wrote:
I'll play this game...
Me too vbg
Linux ragnarok 2.4.18 #4 Fri May 31 01:25:31 PDT 2002 i586 unknown
Paul wrote:
On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 08:21, Paul wrote:
Oh, I see. I think it's measured in beers...
Ah the Universal Currency of non-Islamic nations.
One or two Islamic nations too vbg
Adrian
Peter Cornelius wrote:
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 23:21:15 +1300
I paid more than that
to upgrade an old PC so that I could have a play with Linux.)
Upgrade! To play with Linux! What was it, a 286? VVBG
Paul wrote:
Linux noname.nodomain.nowhere 2.2.5 #1 Sat Apr 3 21:49:22 MST 1999 i686
unknown
Well, at least it works, which is more than the NT box did s
Adrian
Vik Olliver wrote:
On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 11:38, John Stephens wrote:
You'd be surprised how many hits on my distillation-without-a-still site
are from that part of the world!
http://olliver.family.gen.nz/schnapps.htm
Schnaps doesn't need to be aged,but it is wise to at least let it cool!
I
Peter Cornelius wrote:
Adrian followed up with:
I have said before here, wanna see OS/2? Get XP...
It's what one might expect since M$ wrote OS/2.
Well, M$ stole OS/2 :) Remember the OS/2 boot loader error messages in NT?
If OS/2 was so much easier to use than Linux, and OS/2 didn't
Jeremy Bertenshaw wrote:
Multi-tasking doesn't imply multi-user, OS/2 did a fine
job of multi-tasking, was stable as hell, I would wager more secure than linux and as far as cost is concerned I
bought Warp 3 for $30 when I was a student at Uni, doesn't
get much cheaper than that. Plus it'll run
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
I tried to load a genuine licenced Warp-4 onto an old '486 the other day, and
it bombed.
It should run OK, I had Warp4 on a 486 running three BBS nodes...
Andrew Errington wrote:
Actually, most of the Kiwis are pretty bad at speaking English. I mean
what's with the funny accent...
/ducks
It's not a freakin' accent, it's a freakin' dialect... :)
Adrian
(Who is getting bored waiting for Radionet to fix their freakin' network...)
Jeremy Bertenshaw wrote:
Microsoft stuff is only bloated because people demand
backwards compatibility with ancient dos apps and new
features that no one will use... thankfully with 2K and
XP they're starting to drop a lot of that crap and now
their stability has come up dramatically.
Only
Ronald Highet wrote:
I have just purchased a 20gig drive for my laptop and need some info on
how to transfer my Linux partition onto the new drive.
Do you have a desktop you can use? If so - physically easier.
OR can you fit both HD to notebook? Some have room for two. Some you
can dangle
Nick Rout wrote:
Agreed, look in the obvious places before you ask. I know of someone on
this list that posted a question recently. He told me at the last
meeting that he hadn't yet looked anywhere for the answer as he was far
too busy. He obviously thought other people had time to do his
Andrew Kemmy wrote:
Assuming that :
route add -host [mail_relay] [gateway] isn't what you want
Nope, we mail direct not through a relay..
there is a possible solution at :
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Adv-Routing-HOWTO/lartc.netfilter.html
- uses ipchains to mark all outgoing port 25
Jeremy Bertenshaw wrote:
If you can use your isp's smtp server for relaying, configure a smart
host in your sendmail.cf, create a static route to the ip of that smtp
server via your preferred default.
Hehe! Overlook the obvious s as an ISP I tend to forget that my
upstream is actually MY
johnrose-simpson wrote:
John Simpson butting in:
At the risk of starting another of those tedious I remember when
sagas. I can recall loading the a program into the 16 kb of ram in my
TRS80 from an audio casette recorder took so long that I could mow the lawn
while I waited, only to
Can any of the list's networking experts suggest how I might configure
so that sendmail (for instance) will route outgoings via a route OTHER
than the default?
The sendmail deamon is used for outbound mail only and should route via
a.a.a.a while all other deamons/processes should use default
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
Why don't we explicitly invite said mother along for the evening?
She'd then see that we are not the kind of people who would do her son any
harm, and she just might have an interesting evening out.
Now that's desperate... g,dr
Dean McIntosh wrote:
Safe??!? You are talking about Women here. Thank somebody (God maybe) that
my partner doesn't read these things.
I found the only true answer was divorce... It had almost been so long
that I had forgotten what freedom was s.
Now that I can spend my money on any kit I
Nick Rout wrote:
My vote (registered in previous discussions too) was for setting the
reply to the list. I am aware of the arguments to the contrary, but
thats my preference ok?
Me too :) Though it is no big deal using reply all and deleting, I'd
rather not have to do it...
Adrian
Peter Cornelius wrote:
Oxford Concise Dictionary, 1925 - which also mentions 'computers', but I'm
not sure how they were programmed. Some things were even before my time!)
Something to do with Kindly Cabbages I believe...
David A. Mann wrote:
Back in my day all we got was Slackware on 3.5 floppies... if we were
LUCKY!
I dream of usin' Slackware s I see that that which will be Slackware
9 is available :)
Adrian
Yuri de Groot wrote:
Back in _my_ day we had to enter it in as 1s and 0s.
Sometimes we didn't even have 0s and had to make do with Os.
Mind you, we had to walk thru fifty miles of snow ...
I had to etch it onto a ferrous oxide coated platter with a magnetized
needle :(
Adrian
Andrew Tarr wrote:
Right.
We had to get up at half-past midnight, half an hour before we went to
bed...
And tell the young'ns o' today that - and they won't believe ya...
C Falconer wrote:
On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 05:18, Andrew Tarr wrote:
We coded in minix using paper tape which we would have to make out of
our own reference manuals, which management would buy for us yearly,
but only if we denigrated ourselves in front of them
From Webster's Revised
Peter Cornelius wrote:
I had to etch it onto a ferrous oxide coated platter with a magnetized
needle :(
Linux? Unix? Paper tape? What's wrong with cutting the holes in a card with
a penknife? (And that's actually what I was actually doing one New Year's
eve until the operator took pity on
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
with a possible appearance of the rotund gentleman in a
red suit one afternoon during December.
So after having to put up with the Evil Empire from Redmond, you now
want to foist the Coca-Cola mascot on us vbg
In the interest of those with the Linux filosofie
Nick Rout wrote:
BOFH excuse #377:
There is/was a newsgroup (sorry, can't remember what it was), frequented
by the best of Sys Admins s As long as you don't actually show your
ignorance by posting, reading it is quite entertaining - endless BOFH
and luser stories...
If you do post, you get
Jeremy Bertenshaw wrote:
Undoubtedly, this would make the coolest linux box ever!
Hehehe, luved it! On a serious note:
http://www.bdt.co.nz/computer/docs/ezgo/414010.asp
Bit pricey but...
Yuri de Groot wrote:
Good to see I'm not the only dutch guy on this list :-)
Worse, I'm a Brit... close enough to learn from the Scots :)
Nah! Lo rabble...
Michael Beattie wrote:
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 01:01:22PM +1200, Adrian Stacey wrote:
Hmm... I suppose if I really try I could get us noticed vbg
Hi Echelon!
Mike.
Hmm... I suppose if I really try I could get us noticed vbg
Drew Whittle wrote:
Errr, I'm glad NZ isn't on the list:
In the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, iDEFENSE compiled a list
of IP addresses mapped to countries that the US Department of State
identified as harboring
V K wrote:
One could argue that IBM blew it :)
Even now I do not exactly get the impression that IBM is interested in
taking on Microsoft. Megabigservers maybe, but that's not exactly MS's
core business. I don't see IBM offering anything up to scratch on the
desktop market (yet anyway,
C Falconer wrote:
One word - unsubscribe
I've always felt that the amount of OT traffic is minimul, at leaset you
target like-minded folk.
I see no problem with it - just at the moment, I wish I had some spare
cash vbg
Adrian
Robert Fisher wrote:
snip
Well I've always believed there is no such thing as a stupid question,
only stupid answers. I know it's old and hairy but if you don't ask,
you don't learn.
I am sure I speak for most here if I say that no one objects to
answering even the most basic of queries.
Julian Carver wrote:
Personally I really like new users with new (and old) questions. There
are so many reasons:
Well, I normally hate, 'me too' posts but this one deserves it :)
Adrian
Given the speed of your reply, Nick, I wonder if steering my daughter
toward studying for a law degree was a good idea...
H... maybe it was vbg
Adrian
Nick Rout wrote:
Well, I normally hate, 'me too' posts but this one deserves it :)
Adrian
me too
(hell Adrian, you asked for that
Ben Aitchison wrote:
For instance, I want to figure out what country an AS number is in, without
doing mass whois querys.
Like for instance:
% whois -h whois.apnic.net AS9800
Will tell me that that AS number is in China. I'd like to be able to (say)
block all of China from
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 15-May-2002 C Falconer wrote:
Those putting up antennae might be wise to consider the effect of lightning on
their thousands of dollars worth of sensitive interconnected computer gear.
There doesn't even have to be a direct hit - the EMP and large ground
Ryurick M. Hristev wrote:
In 8 years of working with Linux I had to reinstall only in the
very old days of Slackware which didn't know about upgrades
(but that was at least 6 years ago!)
I tend to reinstall my Slackware systems, for basic inet servers it
doesn't take too long and it is
Ian Burgess wrote:
actually 182.88 metres.
the older people would appreciate that this standard was ratified years ago.
10base2 is 200 yards.
10base5 is 500 yards
I've told you millions of time, 2 decimal places is NOT enough... :)
As an ISP, I'd probably have to kill you.
But as an aside, would Jetstream Startup be applicable? $29.95 to
Telecom and shop around for an ISP, lowest cap is 5GB I believe with
some at 7GB and 10GB... Uncapped even but I keep those secret :
Adrian
Chris Hellyar wrote:
Hi-ho,
Just
Chris Hellyar wrote:
From: Adrian Stacey
As an ISP, I'd probably have to kill you.
:-)...
As a customer I'd have to say that it is an 'all I can eat'
Heheh, that's why I have an abuse it and lose it clause :)
Must read the Xtra Terms of Service and see what they say...
I believe
See my musings to Chris, could be some of the ISP's won't be around too
long. I believe one in Kapiti Coast has just gone down, I am guessing
the Jetstream Starter did for them.
Adrian
Nick Rout wrote:
But as an aside, would Jetstream Startup be applicable? $29.95 to
Telecom and shop
Drew Whittle wrote:
Over a clear line of sight, with short antenna cable runs, a 12db to
12db can-to-can shot should be able to carry an 11Mbps link well over
ten miles.
24/7/365 in all weather... I'm not really interested in what can be
acheived at a pinch with the wind behind me,
Heheh, and you can have some fun doing it! I was once going to give my
neighbours a direct cat5 connection vbg
At the other end though... At least one company went bust in
Christchurch trying to do a radio network on the cheap, Walker Wireless
took over the mess and dumped all the gear (I
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