On Jun 12, 2006, at 1:23 PM, Robert Fisher wrote:
Today we are frequently having to cycle the power off then on again
on our
DSL-302G ADSL modem.
Is it likely to be the weather / power or maybe our modem?
Anyone else having the same problem?
Our power has not gone off but several times it
On May 30, 2006, at 5:29 PM, Hadley Rich wrote:
And on cable you might actually get those speeds :) My 3.5/512 ADSL is
actually 2.5/384
On a good day I'm getting about 900kbps download on an up to 2Mbit
connection. The phone wiring might be a bit soggy in this area :)
- Dave
On May 26, 2006, at 11:29 AM, Nick Rout wrote:
given this string (all one line):
Tracker Load: (9 %)table class=main border=0 width=400trtd
style='padding: 0px; background-image: url(pic/loadbarbg.gif);
background-repeat: repeat-x'img height=15 width=36 src=/pic/
loadbargreen.gif
On May 24, 2006, at 4:33 PM, Craig FALCONER wrote:
Another issue - at home I have a continual background noise level
of 100
kbit/sec.
This data is mostly ARP traffic from a bunch of misconfigured
windows boxes,
plus IPP advertising and just plain crap.
This traffic is not accounted for
I went the other way and am taking daily stamps of traffic in and out
of the eth1 interface (yes, I use the ethernet port on the DSL
modem). Rather than look for a ready-made solution, I threw
something together which puts the data into MySQL then formats a
basic chart using PHP for the
On May 18, 2006, at 1:17 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
5m, thats the info i was trying to remember while chatting to Don. He
was busy trying to splice usb plugs onto cat5 cable to make a usb
extender, seems a recipe for disaster perhaps.
It might work: the impedances are 90 ohm [USB] and 100 ohm
On May 17, 2006, at 1:12 PM, Craig FALCONER wrote:
We get 90% of our upload speed, and anything from 18% to 74% of our
download.
Going by the times shown in your listing, other people are likely to
be using the cable at the same time (unless you're a BOFH), which may
interfere with the
On Mar 28, 2006, at 6:31 PM, Steve Holdoway wrote:
...and you usually send mail from your PC, or via your ISP's smart
host. This won't be affected either. The ISP sees no difference
between your PC sending mail, and your local mail server. You may
have a problem if you're using one of your
This has been talked about for a while... looks like they're actually
going to implement it.
http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_article.asp?
id=14776cid=3cname=Technology
- Dave
On Mar 28, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Tuesday 28 March 2006 13:05, Craig FALCONER wrote:
Both good and bad Helps to contain infected machines, but makes
life harder for the geeks who want to run a mail swerver.
Not really, I expect the deal will be a monthly fee to
On Mar 28, 2006, at 4:07 PM, Steve Holdoway wrote:
You normally access those accounts via pop, imap or a dedicated web
interface ( secure or clear ). None of these use port 25.
I do like to be able to send mail too :)
I'll have to check to see what my host supports...
- Dave
On Mar 16, 2006, at 3:28 PM, Lee Begg wrote:
before doing mput *, try
recursive
prompt
With ncftp you can use mput -R. I suspect most clients would have
this feature (help mput).
- Dave
On Mar 15, 2006, at 11:03 AM, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
If you use a USB harddisk as a backup system for Linux and store more
than just iso images or tar files, any fat filesystem is obviously
totally useless. Reformat with something useable. Added side benefit:
the Microsofties don't accidentally
On Mar 2, 2006, at 10:38 AM, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
He's wanting suppliers to warrant the performance of GPL software,
yet he
fails to note how (in)effective any supposed warrant of commercial and
propriety software actually is in practice? Anybody managed to get
a cent
out of a
On Mar 2, 2006, at 9:45 AM, stringer wrote:
OK I'm no expert in this area, but as I understand it, even Windows
uses some OSS code (eg for its TCP/IP stack?) so clause 64 suggests
the government should refuse to use Windows unless the TCP/IP stack
is removed?
Not such a bad idea. It'd
On Feb 21, 2006, at 1:38 PM, Andrew Errington wrote:
I have found a Windows utility that might work to reset the
counter, and
allegedly the old ink well sponges can be washed and re-used. Has
anyone
tried this? Is there a Linux utility for this (since I know Epson is
reasonably well
On Feb 15, 2006, at 10:27 AM, Hadley Rich wrote:
Did you all see the new regarding Telecom the other night? (See
[2]) The
almighty Telecom have decided to give us some more speed.
[...]
[2]http://www.telecom-media.co.nz/releases_detail.asp?id=3280
Thanks for the link - I'd heard about the
On Feb 3, 2006, at 11:21 AM, Steve Holdoway wrote:
http://www.nerdtests.com/ft_nq.php?im
84% High-Level Nerd. You are definitely MIT material, apply now!!!.
Lowest so far, I think. I'm happy with that :)
- Dave
On Jan 31, 2006, at 10:49 AM, Nick Rout wrote:
SP0667.ZIP ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/sp0501-1000/sp0667.zip
11K 08 December 93
TITLE: NO_F1.COM allows operation without a keyboard of those
models of Compaq computers that do not support network server mode.
I might download that at
On Jan 22, 2006, at 9:53 AM, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
taking about 45 mins per slide for scanning, retouching and entering
its info into a database.
What sort of data base setup do you use?
Something I put together myself using MySQL and a bunch of php scripts.
The best method I can think
On Jan 20, 2006, at 3:45 PM, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
First off, no matter how you look at it and how you do it, it's
going to
cost you money. More money if you don't want to do it manually
yourself
spending two weeks full time nonstop.
2.000 slides is certainly going to take a long time.
If you're running Squid or equivalent, that may be caching the bad
result for too long (I had that problem a couple of years ago).
negative_ttl
negative_dns_ttl
are the items you could look at in squid.conf.
- Dave
On Jan 13, 2006, at 1:23 PM, Steve Holdoway wrote:
Does anyone know how to
On Jan 13, 2006, at 1:20 PM, Jim Cheetham wrote:
Port knocking is just silly - it's security by obscurity.
Everything is security by obscurity if you think about it. That's
why social engineering is supposedly so effective.
- Dave
On Nov 28, 2005, at 2:04 PM, John Carter wrote:
Ah! I have long been thinking that there is a huge amount of room
for an iPod killer device
Imagine an mp3 player that you can plug another mp3 player into and
the two players exchange songs until both are full or they have the
same
On Nov 24, 2005, at 9:21 AM, John Carter wrote:
I have already bound 14 of our developers PC's into a 14 way distcc
compile farm. Grreat! Works very well.
At my last job I always wondered about doing that, but the desktops
were Windows-only due to corporate-mandated software. The build
On Nov 19, 2005, at 11:18 AM, Andrew Errington wrote:
ISTR reading an
article recently that concluded that having your own photo printer
is not
actually cost-effective when compared to taking the files to a
photo shop.
I guess it comes down to whether you *want* your own photo printer
It turns out that cdparanoia (on my old workstation) grabbed the
tracks first time but the studio had added those deliberate errors
for copy protection, so the music is full of clicking. The CD drive
in my server won't even accept the disc.
My next plan was to fire up Audacity and record
On Nov 10, 2005, at 10:30 PM, Julian Visch wrote:
Has anyone got these copy protected CDs to actually play on Linux?
Or are they just a waste of money?
As someone else mentioned, most of the copy protection schemes embed
some Windows software in a data track. Many are now incorporating
On Oct 13, 2005, at 7:37 PM, Derek Smithies wrote:
yes,
I know of one commercial linux provider who has his entire /etc
directory
in CVS.
Not a bad idea. I tend to use CDR myself but I don't update anything
in /etc very often.
On the day I accidentally typed:
rm -rf /etc/*
when I
On Oct 10, 2005, at 4:41 PM, Craig FALCONER wrote:
I've got files going to and from tape using simply tar, and the
tape drive
has hardware compression on already. Whats the best way to use the
changer
functionality?
According to the manpage 'eject' can do this with IDE devices using
That's much more informative than the response I once had from the NZ
agent of a well-known printer manufacturer when I was having some
frustrating driver issues.
I'd hazard a guess that the adaptor voltage will need to be the same
as the total battery voltage.
Looking out the window, I
On Oct 5, 2005, at 9:11 PM, Derek Smithies wrote:
On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Nick Rout wrote:
Make the end user filter their own spam, at least then the
processing is
distributed, ie my cpu filters my mail rather than forcing ot
through a
bottleneck at $ISP.
Personally, I prefer the isp to
On Oct 3, 2005, at 9:30 PM, Anthony Brown wrote:
And how would I decide to install Redhat, or Debian? what would be
best for
a web programming environment?
I really don't think the distro is what matters for that. They're
all going to come with basically the same stuff.
Stick with the
On Sep 29, 2005, at 12:57 PM, Steve Holdoway wrote:
RedHat, Fedora, Mandriva, SuSE... can anyone think of any other x86
distros that use them?
Slackware can use them but their own packages are distributed as tgz.
- Dave
On Sep 5, 2005, at 1:27 PM, Martin Bähr wrote:
hmmm, now that's a category of hostnames i have not seen before,
words i can't spell...
let's see i would have to choose: abvious, depreciated,
interresting...
I suppose that spelling a word correctly while attempting to
deliberately misspell
Sorry, hit the wrong hotkey
Begin forwarded message:
From: David Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: September 5, 2005 3:59:42 PM
To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz
Subject: Re: Horse reboot on Friday night
On Sep 5, 2005, at 1:27 PM, Martin Bähr wrote:
hmmm, now that's a category of hostnames
On Aug 25, 2005, at 2:16 PM, Jim Cheetham wrote:
Seagate does it for me. They're all fine enough for non critical work.
I can second Seagate as I've been using Barracuda drives for a few
years now with no problems. I was highly impressed by how quiet the
ATA IV drives were a few years
On Aug 18, 2005, at 6:57 PM, Hadley Rich wrote:
It's much the same as using MySql, just replace mysql_ with pg_ i.e.
mysql_fetch_array() becomes pg_fetch_array()
You're basically right but you've omitted an important point: the
order of parameters is often different.
eg
On Aug 18, 2005, at 8:52 PM, Steve Holdoway wrote:
Why not use a function to wrap the mysql_... functions and swaps the
parameters around to correctly call the pg_ functions? That way, the
search and replace option becomes viable.
I thought about doing that, and I almost did it, but I have a
On Aug 17, 2005, at 2:54 PM, yuri wrote:
It's time to teach myself a bit of PHP and MySQL.
For $20 I can get a P166 with 64MB RAM and a few gigs of HD from
Molten Media.
My first project will be a little addressbook webapp (that's not too
ambitious is it?)
Depends on what kind of feature
On Aug 17, 2005, at 9:19 AM, david merriman wrote:
FWIW, Enlightenment does this, with a Remember feature that lets
you specify the desktop, screen location, window size, sticky-
ness, etc. I use it myself. Don't know if you can actually rename
the desktops, though.
I used to use E when
On Aug 17, 2005, at 3:24 PM, Roger Searle wrote:
but hopefully only need to do so once...
And again when you upgrade later ;)
I just replaced my old fileserver with another machine that can take
more memory, and I took the opportunity to do a fresh OS install
followed by the latest
On Jun 9, 2005, at 7:59 PM, dave pasted:
Apple agreed to switch from processors made by IBM to
special processors made from Intel over the next two years -
that's it. This
is only slightly more significant than Apple choosing to change
the hard
disk or memory supplier it puts into its
On May 24, 2005, at 10:34 PM, Wesley Parish wrote:
Anybody else just had a power cut, courtesy of the City Council and
what
passes for Power Companies these days?
Just a big dip followed by a short brownout in Hoon Hay.
The USB interface in my keyboard stopped working (which consequently
On May 25, 2005, at 10:40 AM, Carl Cerecke wrote:
Apparently there was a car on fire in Bromley, which caused a huge
explosion (prob. LPG tank) at about the same time as the power cut.
There were bits of burning rubber flung far and wide. There are
some power pylons round there somewhere,
On May 10, 2005, at 11:33 AM, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
Right, good reason for going optical, but because of secondary
reasons,
not because it's optical.
I suspect that optical cables would be helpful if you have troubles
with earth loops. This is one reason why studios use AES/EBU (which
is
On May 4, 2005, at 8:06 PM, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
The actual line connect speed is the number following the word CONNECT
which is ejected by the modem when the connection is made. You can
see it
in the chat sequence. If you set the connection software to verbose
you will see the speed
On Apr 30, 2005, at 10:23 AM, Jason Greenwood wrote:
Microsoft, based in Redmond, Washington, reported a net profit of
$US2.56 billion, or 23 cents a share, for its fiscal third quarter
ended March 31, compared with $US1.32 billion, or 12 cents a share,
a year earlier.
Well they don't stand
On Apr 24, 2005, at 6:00 PM, Richard Tindall wrote:
What are otherfolk running lately?
Gee, I don't even remember. My server has 2.4.something.
Oh yeah, 2.4.5. Must be about time I upgraded. I have a Slackware
10.0 CD here somewhere...
Cheers,
- Dave
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
On Apr 20, 2005, at 10:47 AM, Jason Greenwood wrote:
In my experience they deserve each other. They also are both extremely
arrogant companies that don't give a meaningful toss about Linux -
they've said as much at the conferences I've been to. Maybe this
consolidation will change things???
I
On Apr 19, 2005, at 12:02 PM, Steve Holdoway wrote:
As this is a multi-cpu box (IIRC), then this is extremely high, but not
unexpected if there's any java running (:
A friend of mine sent me the following xload graphs:
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/temp/load/
I'm not sure at what load the red
On Apr 18, 2005, at 10:34 AM, Steve Holdoway wrote:
The Gigabit LAN points to there being a suitable network already
present.
It's been a vary long time since I came across a lan that linux didn't
support - except for early D-link gigabit adapters which lock up.
I was thinking of going gigabit
On Apr 11, 2005, at 4:56 PM, C. Falconer wrote:
I'm on the scrounge. Does anyone have a Dell PA-6 power supply that I
can do a short test with?
Short as in time or short as in circuit? :)
- Dave
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
On Apr 11, 2005, at 7:04 PM, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 16:38, C. Falconer wrote:
Likewise, I have a jetdirect 170x unit that will go on trademe later
in the
week, unless anyone emails me with an offer.
I have absolutely no idea how much this is worth, but I'd find it very
On Mar 10, 2005, at 1:06 PM, Shane Hollis wrote:
If the insecurity is the keyboard then drop the keyboard.
Exactly. If you don't mind the inconvenience you could bring up an
on-screen keyboard and use the mouse to type. I could think of
theoretical ways to pick that up, though... and
Rex Johnston wrote:
No-one is perfect. If you absolutely need to patch something without
affecting another service, then modules are the only way to go.
For some peripherals I've found that modules really are the only way. I
had all sorts of trouble getting joystick ports to work when
Dave wrote:
Any suggestions or current bargans would be appreciated
Photo Video in Merivale Mall are having their expo this weekend
(actually it started today). You might find something there at a good
price. They have some of their specials on their website at photo.co.nz
and they had a
Peter Elliott wrote:
i was referring to the hassles of actually getting the things to run. i'd
deliberatly not made any mention to or about anything to do with closed or
opensource.
This is one big thing which is driving me away from GNU/Linux. Things
don't just work. There are too many
Hi all,
A friend needs to get his mp3 collection written onto CD to free up some
drive space. I figured I could just hook his laptop onto the network
here and copy the files off to burn them on one of my machines.
When I plugged it into my switch nothing happened. The lights didn't
even
Matthew Gregan wrote:
It's quite likely that the laptop doesn't have a network card at all.
Five seconds with Google turns this up:
[snip massive URL]
Thanks for the info. My Google searching didn't turn this one up but I
didn't specifically search the newsgroups.
I'll try Chris's
Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
Can't comment on floppies (anyone still use those other than for
sneakernet?)
I had to pull some old files off a floppy a few months ago. Took me a
while just to find it but it read just fine. It was Verbatim Datalife,
about 10 years old. I was a little worried as
CF wrote:
Fair enough - but how many other keys are there on the keyboard that you
don't use PrntScrn/SysRq? the entire numeric keypad? etc etc. The
standard keyboard layout just keeps growing and growing because no
manufacturer is keen on removing a potentially useful key.
They're
Chris Wilkinson wrote:
Would it be safe to add the insmod
command to rc.local or similar?
Thats exactly what I did. No problems.
Cheers,
- Dave
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
Jim Cheetham wrote:
Now, in the case of a home PC, you're generally not worried about
setting up such a system, and you definately don't need to worry about
speeding-up or slowing-down the clock - jumping it is probably the right
thing to do.
One thing to watch out for is that some software
Jim Cheetham wrote:
That is the main reason that I run a Mac OS X machine at home -
networking, printing, peripherals in general, email and web will just
work.
I went to the Apple show at the convention centre today. I've been
getting p---d off at both Windows and the various XFree86
Tim Wright wrote:
Looks like I might have to do this --- both Gimp and ksnapshot are
*brainy* enough to hide the cursor when taking the shot.
(I can see it disappear for a bit when using a software cursor)
I'll suggest using the oldest *nix imaging program I've used: xv.
I can't guarantee
Chris Wilkinson wrote:
Yes it is true. Some distros have an installation that makes
climbing K2 seem like a picnic! A linux distro that is simplified
massively just for home use is urgently required to capitalise
on the current doubt people must feel about Windows.
Or other vendors could
Armstrong wrote:
personally i use slackware, its fast and lightweight, love the package
system because its so basic and never gets in the way. no one here seems
to mention it much though.
I use it as well. Just got Slackware 9.0 but found to my dismay that it
doesn't come with kernel source
Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote:
The Dell Optiplex GX1 was connected to 230V with the power supply switch
set to 110V so the power supply, hard drives and mobo were fried with the
spike.
Bummer... I set a couple of these to 110V last week to test an inverter
we're designing (computers are
Hamish McBrearty wrote:
Considering the eight letters I currently have after my name cost me over
$10,000 this is a pretty good price.
You got a bargain. I paid about that for just two letters :)
Cheers,
- Dave
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
Vik Olliver wrote:
I don't want her installing dubious plugins that violate my privacy,
decide they'll upgrade my computer, or spy on my systems.
Incidentally I've heard that Spybot Search Destroy is quite good. It
didn't pick up much on my system but I keep my computer to myself :)
Vik Olliver wrote:
My eldest daughter. She has been told not to but persists in doing it.
Just out of curiosity, why must she not use IE?
Cheers,
- Dave
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
C Falconer wrote:
Theres another word that is synonymous, like xerox What
alternatives are there (for any OS) ?
Apple have Keynote (not sure if this has been released yet). I think
Macromedia Flash would be excellent for presentations. Pity I haven't
gotten around to learning it yet.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've never used grub, I use syslinux instead, it boots from a bootable
msdos (FAT16) partition and you only need to drop kernel and initial
ramdisk image, no need to re-run anything. (you need to have a FAT16
partition though)
On my server I'm still using that old
Paul wrote:
Finally the beta for PHP 5 http://www.php.net is out. Its
fully OO. Looks great.
Typical; I finally got around to installing PHP4 on Sunday.
Cheers,
- Dave
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
Yuri de Groot wrote:
Exactly. In a low margin business, that 1-3% of non MSIE customers can
make or break a business. With more people using non-windows boxes or
windows with opera or mozilla, the % of customers getting annoyed will
rise.
But how do we get this message across? I used to
Chris Wilkinson wrote:
Sounds like an MS Certified puppet. He might know how to run DW and
Frontpage and all the other 'pro' apps, but could he peruse HTML
syntax in a text editor and know if its gonna work?
Actually he could. An introduction to HTML was the first half-day of the
course.
Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
None of the DW pages I've examined in the past passed the basic w3c
compliancy test. However, given the choice I'd use DW over FP any day.
My page at http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/ is valid HTML 4.01
Transitional (but not strict). Created with Dreamweaver. It is an
Hi all,
Noticed yesterday that Jaycar are using Linux on their point-of-sale
system.
Cheers,
- Dave
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
Chris Wilkinson wrote:
If you're looking for a cheap new 19, Dick Smith sell theirs for a snip
under $400. Its a DSE badged Proview...not state of art, but certainly
good-value-for-money...
For less than that you could buy a cheap standalone DVD player and watch
on your TV... but your
Hi all,
Are there any utilities available which can concatenate several small
postscript files onto a single page?
The reason I ask is that I get my CAD package (Eagle) to generate .ps
files for printing via GSView. I'd like to be able to:
a) put several copies of the same PCB layout onto a
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 20:10, David Mann wrote:
Hi all,
Are there any utilities available which can concatenate several small
postscript files onto a single page?
psnup from the psutils package written by Angus Duggan.
http://knackered.knackered.org/angus
Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
Try PCB instead.
http://bach.ece.jhu.edu/~haceaton/pcb/
I don't think it even comes close to eagle. Last time I looked it was some
flat-locking athena app which would do the job about as well as xfig.
For the record, I am very happy with Eagle and am not willing
Zane Gilmore wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is now removed
from the list.
Thanks. At least his software was intelligent enough not to reply to its
own replies.
Cheers,
- Dave
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
Daniel Fone wrote:
(snip)
I wrote a more detailed reply but most of my points have been covered by
others. I think all thats left is that you should fclose() your file
after you've finished reading it.
printf(Quote file not found!);
Just a silly nitpick; its a good idea to
Carl Cerecke wrote:
And always use the -Wall flag to gcc. It would have warned you about it.
Are you sure?
It may have warned about the incorrect 'if' statement, but this would not
have caused a segfault. I've made this mistake many times :(
The runtime problem would have been caused by
Yuri de Groot wrote:
I've decided and internal IDE writer is my best bet (thoughts on this?) I
remember reading somewhere that I need to pass a kernel parameter that
makes the kernel treat that IDE drive as a SCSI drive, and after that it
should work. Is there anything else you guys think I
Andrew Packer wrote:
Can anyone recommend a drawing tablet for use in digital photo
retouching with the GIMP? I get contradictory advice, and there's not
much in the shops here (Nelson) to look at. I don't want to buy something
that's said to be usable on a Linux system but turns out not to
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
I'm starting to consider setting up an X11 server package so I can
remotely run X apps to display on my Windows machine.
Does anyone have any recommendations for good packages?
Being slightly cheeky, have you considered either vnc or just re-booting
the W
Hi all,
I'm starting to consider setting up an X11 server package so I can
remotely run X apps to display on my Windows machine.
Does anyone have any recommendations for good packages? The only
requirement is that it must be free, and preferably as lightweight as
possible.
Cheers,
- Dave
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