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: Let the Distro Flame Wars begin ...

2002-10-25 Thread Drew Whittle
On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 14:12, Yuri de Groot wrote: In the blue corner we have Mike Debian Beat-me ... In the red corner we have Volker Soo-Say Cool-man .. ding ding ding ... Getting confused and thinking its the WWF, Drew 'Distro Slut' Gentoo, and MrG Slackware double team on Debimon and

Re: Let the Distro Flame Wars begin ...

2002-10-25 Thread Drew Whittle
On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 02:38, Philip Charles wrote: On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Andy George wrote: Linux is Linux is Linux ::shrugs:: But it is not pure GNU like GNU/Hurd (third corner). Hurd, thats that thing that has been in Alpha stage for longer than Linux has been in existence and still is

Re: VAX 3800's

2002-08-13 Thread Drew Whittle
On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 20:15, Vik Olliver wrote: I've got a friend with a couple of VAX 3800's doing nothing. Anybody know of a good home and/or if they can run a Linux? /me is a good home How much for shipping to Dunedin? :D

Re: VAX 3800's

2002-08-13 Thread Drew Whittle
On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 20:15, Vik Olliver wrote: I've got a friend with a couple of VAX 3800's doing nothing. Anybody know of a good home and/or if they can run a Linux? Ooops missed the bit about running linux, there are some vax machines that can run linux, checkout

RE: A small suggestion...

2002-07-23 Thread Drew Whittle
On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 21:29, JJ :: MixingSoup.com wrote: I quite understand, and I mustn't have made myself clear enough, the mailing list is the best asset for this area, I just thought that you could help a greater amount of people, as well as have a bigger web community if you

Re: How do you join CLUG?

2002-07-11 Thread Drew Whittle
You just did ; :D On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 22:18, Ben Devine wrote: I was wondering how does one go about joining CLUG? thanks

Re: IP to Country Mapping

2002-06-04 Thread Drew Whittle
On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 08:56, C Falconer wrote: Whats the format for coordinates ? (I just got a GPS receiver and want to locate every IP at work ;) IN LOC 45 53 00.000 S 170 30 00.000 E 30.00m 1.00m 1000 0.00m 10.00m If you don't know what each number is, then go read a bind

RE: IP to Country Mapping

2002-06-03 Thread Drew Whittle
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 terrorists. :D On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 10:43, Eddie Correia wrote: Don't feel bad. South

Re: stopping spam

2002-05-22 Thread Drew Whittle
I've been running it for a while, only had 1 or 2 false positives, a number of spam's that have escaped detection (but not that many). Last month spamassassin + razor trapped over 2,000 spams for me. It is definately worth spending the time setting up. :D On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 11:56, Nick

Re: 802.11 and distributing linux around chch

2002-05-14 Thread Drew Whittle
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 13:15, Adrian Stacey wrote: Yes but VERY short range, Nick. Don't forget, I'm talking 5km here... In reference to cantenna's: (From http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448) Over a clear line of sight, with short antenna cable runs, a 12db to 12db can-to-can shot

Re: RE: Why Linux won't suffer from viruses like Windows/Outlook

2002-03-12 Thread Drew Whittle
On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 13:31, Jeremy Bertenshaw wrote: Theres no need to get personal Drew, usually thats left for situations when you don't have anything as a useful counter to someones aregument... I have little tolerance for people I consider to be fools and if I wish to call someone a moron

Re: RE: Why Linux won't suffer from viruses like Windows/Outlook

2002-03-12 Thread Drew Whittle
On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 13:55, Jeremy Bertenshaw wrote: Oh dear, the thing I find most concerning about the linux community is it's closed-mindedness to other technologies, I don't believe microsoft is better, I don't believe linux is better, all are good tools for different tasks, don't knock

RE: RE: Why Linux won't suffer from viruses like Windows/Outlook

2002-03-12 Thread Drew Whittle
On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 14:24, Paul Vaughan wrote: You guys are like children throwing sand at the beach. Perhaps if you go and cry somewhere else we'll all feel a bit better. It's waste of bandwidth threads like this that make me seriously consider unsubscribing from this list ... I guess

RE: CLUG Meeting Notes 30th October 2001

2001-11-01 Thread Drew Whittle
Or you could get the companies to give you these things for nothing, as DunLUG has, checkout whats in our library at http://dunedin.lug.net.nz/library.html most of this stuff has been donated by the companies that produce it. (oh and what you won't see here is the LJ issues :) :D On Fri,