On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 13:56 +1200, Ross Drummond wrote:
Subscribers to this list contemplating using the services provided by
Discount Domains or Digiweb are requested to give them their
favourable consideration.
I use Discount Domains for all our .nz domain registration needs and can
second
On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 09:20 +1200, C. Falconer wrote:
The biggest downside I can see is that the brand is still stinky acer.
And it's still got Windows on it.
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On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 23:21 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
Traffic costs only for computer to computer worldwide. Piffling for
voice, and the quality far exceeds that of the POTS system. I have
used it for far too many hours to be able to say how many. It works a
treat. Linux version
On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 09:53 +1200, David Kirk wrote:
I'm very happy with my Nexus One. I just upgraded it to Android 2.2
(Froyo) and it's great.
A second vote for the Nexus One, very happy with it.
hads
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On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 20:31 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
And it's the very first thing I always fix on those systems, as I
refuse to be forced to prefix everything I do with sudo.
People that don't understand sudo often say these sorts of things.
`man sudo` shows that you can use `sudo -i`
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 12:23 +1200, Derek Smithies wrote:
Even more useful is
sudo sux
which gives root the ability to open gui tools.
Be careful with using sudo in this mannor. You run the risk of creating
problems for yourself. The same goes for running graphical programs with
sudo like
On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 14:44 +1200, Bryce Stenberg wrote:
What is the best way to upgrade this server to 10.04 lts?
`sudo do-release-upgrade` is the supported way.
hads
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On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 15:57 +1200, Bryce Stenberg wrote:
# do-release-upgrade
Checking for a new ubuntu release
Failed Upgrade tool signature
Done Upgrade tool
Done downloading
Failed to fetch
Fetching the upgrade failed. There may be a network problem.
Is there a proxy in the way of your
On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 18:20 +1200, Phill Coxon wrote:
The D-links I've used I've always found to be pretty flakey.
Me too, but I've also heard people who are happy with them such as
Steve.
It seems very hard to find a source that compares / reviews ADSL
modems unfortunately.
I've had good
On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 19:17 +1200, Craig Falconer wrote:
Personally I don't mind a venerable linksys WRT54GL but its only an
ethernet router, you still need a DSL modem and then you're in the
realms of double NAT.
I still use one of these myself, they're great. Behind a Draytek modem
doing
On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 09:39 +1200, Craig Falconer wrote:
Another variable here is fsck time. We found jfs to have the most
consistent fsck times (not the shortest, but never the longest)
However that was for backup drives with lots of files.
JFS is my favourite.
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On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 11:03 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
The last colum in fstab is marked pass. This defines in what order
partitions are mounted. You must mount /var in the first pass, as
software needs it there immediately. So change the root and /var pass
values to 0 and all should be
On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 11:17 +1200, Solor Vox wrote:
Geez, you'd think I posted about using a windows box or something, so
many people going after the thing I didn't ask. O.o
You'd think you weren't grateful for the help either.
On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:13:49 +1200
Aidan Gauland aidal...@no8wireless.co.nz wrote:
As for buying a netbook with Linux, I would love to if it wasn't more
expensive. I'd rather retailers would offer OS-less machines, but I
guess nobody wants that.
It's not that nobody wants it, it's that the
On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 15:01 +1200, Vik Olliver wrote:
'Course, if you just want something small with a keyboard that runs
Linux try the Nokia N900. I luvs it. Runs X apps and you get root :)
The N900 is cool, though it is a *lot* smaller than a netbook.
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On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 21:55 +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote:
no - still being prompted for a password...
A denied or not allowed user will still get prompted for a password, it
will just never work.
hads
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On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 11:50 +1300, Paul Swafford wrote:
I've started working more from home lately .. sadly I'm on Telecom DSL
It's not that sad. I had to switch to Telecom since there aren't really
any alternatives with decent International bandwidth.
I've noticed a lot of caching going on ..
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 19:43 +1300, Ryan McCoskrie wrote:
Dad (who has been doing this as a living since I was born) says to
talk to Shane at Rexel.
Yeah, I buy all that sort of stuff off Rexel too.
hads
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On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 21:04 +1300, Solor Vox wrote:
My apologizes if this has been asked before. I'm in search of
recommendations for a Linux hosting company where I can park/buy a
domain. I plan on using the domain mostly for email and maybe a wee
personal web site. Virtual private servers
On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:36:27 you wrote:
What I want to create is this..
[..goodstuff..]
Great stuff, really cool idea. I'd been happy to help out if I can.
hads
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VoIP and Linux compatible hardware
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:22:53 you wrote:
You might need to twiddle the contents of
/etc/modules or /etc/modules.conf if the old one has been explicitly
specified there.
Or try doing anifconfig -a because plain ifconfig only shows
interfaces that are up.
dmesg | grep -i eth
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 17:15 +1300, ke...@katipo.net.nz wrote:
I've got around 1700+ images that are a mixture of .jpg and .JPG
extensions and they are for a number of online slideshows now I need to do
a batch rename on the extensions so they are all in lower case, leaving
the rest of the file
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 10:05 +1300, ke...@katipo.net.nz wrote:
I just bought myself another USB external hard drive and this one like
the last one I bought has at the end that plugs into the PC a double
USB end. Now I was wondering if plugging in both of these plugs
affects the speed that data
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 16:24 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
Whats the best linux alternative? I know KMyMoney and GnuCash exist,
but what do people recommend/use?
KMyMoney the best that I've found.
hads
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On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 07:45 +1300, Karl Fimm wrote:
My problem is that after a reboot, I need to login using the local
keyboard, before I can remote in.
Probably the easiest way around this is to make your user automatically
log in at boot.
You can do this through the dialog on the top menu;
On 02/11/09 Nick Rout wrote:
IMHO if you want an intel processor go for an intel chipset, they are
very well supported. Couple that with a nVidia grahics card and you
get the advantages of accelerated hardware for video playback.
I'd have to agree with Nick on the Intel CPU and chipset,
On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 13:57 +1300, Vik Olliver wrote:
Tried a dist-upgrade to Karmic yet?
I've done about 10, no major issues so far.
hads
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On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 15:21 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
In ubuntu if i type an uninstalled command that the system 'knows'
about, I get told what package to install, eg
n...@media:~$ sensors
The program 'sensors' is currently not installed. You can install it
by typing:
sudo apt-get install
On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 10:08 +1300, Peter Glassenbury (CSSE) wrote:
Have had this before
quick fix on old systems was to have your FDQN first in the
list in your /etc/hosts file.
but not usually in the localhost line though...
So I think Steve's fix to the setup of opera is probably
the
On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 12:09 +1300, Peter Glassenbury (CSSE) wrote:
The fix that steve pointed out was editing ~/.opera/mail/accounts.ini
but I wouldn't have thought a user could overide the hostname
when sending mail... but it sounds like it is a fix.
I understand what you're saying but in
On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 12:44 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
I have PDF forms that I want to populate with data. I want to be able
to save the data and change it, and reprint the form with the updated
data.
[...]
Any tips or pointers would be valued highly.
It sounds like pdftk is the way to go for
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:11:51 Nick Rout wrote:
The correct answer is
sudo update-rc.d gdm remove
this will remove gdm (which starts X) from startup.
What he said. You may need a -f in there too?
hads
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On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:28:25 Daniel Hill wrote:
I've always had A problem with the idea of running VoIP, what happens
when your internet is down? how do you ring customer service?
Use your mobile :)
VoIP isn't for everyone of course, and a reliable Internet connection is
needed. However if
On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:25:22 Dan Wallis wrote:
I'm currently living in the UK, and am moving to Christchurch in
January. Does anyone have any recommendations for a good ISP in NZ?
When I was growing up (in NZ), Clear.net.nz were good, but that was
back in the days of dial-up. Is the
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:47:51 Steve Holdoway wrote:
The answer depends on the virtualisation software you choose.
Indeed. If you're using Ubuntu with KVM and Virtual Machine Manager then
it's called a virtual network. Basically it provides a DHCP server to your
virtual machines on a separate
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:15:41 steve wrote:
That's exactly how I do my development work. I have a low power quad
core server with 4GB memory ( resources like this get important if
you're going to run a few of them ) for this. I don't really recommend
running the following on a single core
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:58:15 Craig Falconer wrote:
Try an atom board with a CF card or a netboot, and run something like
Thinstation, which is a bootable linux install.
You can get cheaper Intel Atom boards which may be all you need if you don't
want fancy graphics.
hads
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On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:15:57 steve wrote:
Any idea if/how I get it recognised... an index file or similar? I'd do
it manually, but there's just under 10,000 tracks need doing!
Sounds like you're missing ID3 tags (embedded data in the MP3 file). Check out
Easytag which will allow you to fill
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 11:04 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
I need to replace a power supply for my squeezebox classic. The specs
on the website say:
* 5.0V DC, regulated
* Center positive, sleeve ground
* Connector: 2.5mm ID, 5.5mm OD, 11mm long
* Min supply rating: 1000mA
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:40:58 Nick Rout wrote:
Anyone know where to find a higher rated switchmode 5v ower supply?
The Linksys PA100 adapter (designed for their VoIP stuff) is 2A from memory and
should be the same pin type - they are all pretty standard.
hads
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VoIP and
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:07:29 Nick Rout wrote:
I'd like to be able to gather and log some stats about my swimming
pool, and perhaps turn the pump on and off either remotely (via a web
page or similar) or automatically based on temperature (the pump not
only runs water through the filter, but
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:41:23 Mike Gauland wrote:
More than twenty years ago, my operating systems professor pronounced it
'et-see'. I found it grating at first, but it's so much shorter than
etcetera, and I found myself picking it up. Now, it sounds just as
normal as 'grep', 'awk', 'sed', and
On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 13:12 +1200, David Kirk wrote:
Hey guys.
I have installed Trac on Ubuntu 9.04 Server. I'm using Apache2 and
mod_python to connect to Trac and it's connecting to our Active
Directory to authenticate users.
Along with the other good suggestions it also sounds like it
On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 14:15 +1200, Bryce Stenberg wrote:
Is there a way to restart the networking service (or whatever it is
called) without a reboot? Right clicking and choosing enable/disable
doesn't do trick.
At a terminal;
sudo invoke-rc.d networking restart
Is there a way to see the
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 12:29 +1200, Maurice Butler wrote:
That's why opendns is so popular
It's also quite a long way away - 200ms from me.
hads
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On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 20:42 +1200, Barry Marchant wrote:
My problem is that the python code hangs until the image (qiv) is
killed whereas I wish the image to stay displayed while the python app
continues running.
Without knowing what you are trying to do, adding an ampersand to the
end of
On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 13:39 +1200, Bryce Stenberg wrote:
I'll keep searching and see what I can figure out.
There are some issues with some Intel Xorg drivers in Ubuntu 9.04. I
don't know if this effects your chipset but if so, you've basically got
three options.
1. Try fixing/working around
On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 18:05 +1200, steve wrote:
Now I've recognised this with
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ?id=(37)
RewriteRule index\.php /current-weather [R=301,NC,L]
and it redirects to the mew page fine, but it's still got the get
value
on the end. Does anyone have any idea on how to
On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 10:31 +1200, Craig Falconer wrote:
OpenVPN is what you want. Go for it.
I agree, OpenVPN is great. It even uses real routing :)
hads
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On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 14:40 +1200, Phill Coxon wrote:
I use sftp:// in konquorer to copy files back and forth between the
server and my local computer.
Try using a different client, I'd try the command line client to start
with.
hads
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On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 15:58 +1200, Phill Coxon wrote:
I'm using the GUI for a reason - it saves a massive amount of time.
That's what shell expansion is for.
What I actually meant was; try the command line client, if that works
then perhaps it's your GUI that is the problem.
hads
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On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 16:16 +1200, Kent Fredric wrote:
last time I used the standard sftp client ( ages ago , before I
switched to lftp ) , it neither supported shell expansion or even
readline support :/
My apologies, I was thinking of scp, which works fine with shell
expansion.
hads
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On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 21:20 +1200, yuri wrote:
I want to be able to turn things on and off from a linux server.
I am competent with the wiring side of things from the relay to the
appliance. I know nothing about the control side from the computer to
the relay board.
I don't really know much
On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 11:07 +1200, yuri wrote:
Anything more complex than
echo Relay 1 On /dev/ttyS3
is more than I'm prepared to put time and effort into.
Perhaps Arduino is not what you want then, it does involve some sort of
script/code writing.
hads
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New
On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 22:08 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
Please tell me they weren't wd greens. I've had a 1TB fail within 5
minutes... in fact I've had more fail this year than in the last 10.
Always interesting. I've had several quick Seagate failures lately, and
have been having a good run
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 09:57 +1200, Bryce Stenberg wrote:
Is this right for them to be able to do this - dodgy manufacturers can
just keep giving out cheap dodgy replacements until the warranty runs
out...
Unfortunately yes.
hads
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On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 08:05 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
Any idea why the onboard doesn't come up as eth0 as one would normally expect?
Confused me when I first ran across that too. If you remove the file;
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
then it will start from eth0 again.
hads
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On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 11:56 +1200, chris bayley wrote:
I wish to create a guest account on a machine where that account exists
purely for the ability to connect via SSH and create tunnels. There is
no requirement for an interactive shell on the host machine. What then I
can I specify as the
On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 21:23 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
I have to say that everything I see about jaunty is unimpressive,
mythbuntu seems to be failing a lot.
Everything seems to be working fine here, very well actually.
hads
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On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 10:29 +1200, Kerry Mayes wrote:
Now I'll just have to hope that nothing else critical is missing.
(Perhaps it's time to sort out the partitioning so I can do a
re-installation on this machine.)
Make sure ubuntu-desktop is installed, this meta-package pulls in the
standard
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 23:51 +1200, Tom Carrollton wrote:
Whilst surfing:
Are Linux netbooks becoming extinct?
I know that they are frustratingly becoming increasingly hard to get
through the official distribution channels. It seems more and more that
the distributors are only bringing the
On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 20:18 +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote:
Ubuntu -- 9.04 (and possibly earlier) has a menu option
System|Administration|USB Startup Disk Creator that puts a bootable
distro onto a USB key, including an optional section for permanent
document storage.
It's in 8.10 and possibly
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 17:35 +1200, Kent Fredric wrote:
I'd love to know of any make and models of modern routers that have
been proven to not have these problems, especially on an office
configuration with 10+ users.
I'd recommend looking at the Draytek range (disclaimer, yes we sell
them).
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 14:19 +1200, Brett Davidson wrote:
This approach interests me. I gather then that you run the Arduinos
locally in each room/area with sensors attached to these and then use
Zigbee and/or ethernet to connect the Arduinos back to your Linux
server.
That's correct. A
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:46:05 yuri wrote:
I need to force the installation of a file
cnijfilter-common_3.00-1_i386.deb
Seems this isn't in the official repositories, that's probably your problem.
but it complains that it needs libcupsys2
The functions of libcupsys2 are now taken over by
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:25:40 Brett Davidson wrote:
Tie in to Linux - I would prefer that this be Linux (via embedded or
not) control as I want as little proprietary content as possible.
As of late I've been playing with sensors and control here. I've been using
Arduino boards for input/output
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:10:17 Jim Cheetham wrote:
Otherwise you'll always have multi-socket bars hanging
around. However only one cat6 for data per room should be sufficient,
as wireless gets more reliable and commonplace you can operate most
equipment directly onto 802.11*.
Except if you want
KMail with KDE 4.2+ has changed, it's even better than before.
You can now set up threading using the Aggregation drop down list. On my
install this is the second icon in from the right (above the message list to
the right of the search box).
hads
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On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:09:53 Andrew Errington wrote:
That sounds great!
When you have some stock, please announce it on the Christchurch Robotics
Group mailing list (or tell me and I'll do it).
Hi Andrew,
We now have stock of the Arduino kit available at;
http://nicegear.co.nz/arduino/
if
On Monday 02 March 2009 20:30:54 Andrew Errington wrote:
Dell's new mini Inspiron is available in NZ, with Linux, but can only be
ordered online.
It is? That's great news, last I heard it was only available with Windows
here. I can't seem to find it on their site easily.
hads
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Steve Holdoway wrote:
Where's Hads when you need him (:
Hi all,
My ears were burning yesterday (okay, Criggie pointed out this conversation)
so I thought I'd re-subscribe and say hello. Hello.
We've actually been arranging to bring in some Arduino hardware over the past
couple of weeks and
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:19:32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I found a place that is completely wrong, about 2 blocks out. (wunderbar
in Lyttelton) - is there a way to move a place?
You need to register and after a few (three?) days you get privileges to do
things like move/delete etc.
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On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:27:42 Peter Glassenbury (CSSE) wrote:
Just a short note of warning... to check all the specs on the
ports on the cards
Something that has bitten us is the dual port video cards connecting
to dual LCD monitors (using nVidia chipset cards).
We have LCD's with the
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 12:52:00 Don Gould wrote:
How do I do it?
Get a new laptop with decent accelerated graphics?
GE is dragging... it just sits there refreshing the map all the time.
How do I lighten it up?
GE Linux, Mandriva 2007, Ibm T23, 256mb ram, Telstra Clear 2mb
Cheers Don
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On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 10:43:44 John Carter wrote:
It looks like this is fairly squarely in your market niche already. (I
bet I could fairly trivially add the appropriate packages to the thing
to add Voip handset to it's list of capabilities.) And you have the
import infrastructure up and
On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:17:02 Kale Worsley wrote:
Do 'major' distros have an update mechanism
like Windows Update? For example, I have some Ubuntu 6.06 LTS LiveCD's, If
I install Ubuntu on my computer, will I be able to automatically update to
version 6.10 without having to reinstall and/or
On Thursday 11 January 2007 09:16, Steven Kesler wrote:
This could be a great way to encourage folks to use linux - buy one
for you and one for someone in a developing world.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6246989.stm
Chris Blizzard talked about this at LCA, it's a possibility, but not
On Monday 22 January 2007 14:46, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
I have a Debian 3.1 system,but am forced to upgrade the kernel to something
newer, so I added
[snip]
Question: why doesn't it work? Aptitude is supposed to be good at resolving
dependencies, and there's nothing special with a stable
On Monday 01 January 2007 20:49, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
Search for the words
postfix mail transfer sending
and get back a
Google Error
We're sorry...
I get this quite often, I'm not sure why, maybe I search for strange things.
Anyway, I use Konqueror as my browser and if this ever
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 08:50, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 00:53, Edwin F wrote:
Separate the square bracket and the $Mac with a space character.
That is: if [ $Mac -ne 00:00:00:00:00:00 ]; then
use != instead of -ne
man test for the gore.
Be aware that
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 11:12, Don Gould wrote:
ThisMacUsage=($ThisMacUsage+($IPMax-$IPMin));
returns...
./CheckDLimit.sh: line 47: syntax error near unexpected token `('
./CheckDLimit.sh: line 47: `
ThisMacUsage=($ThisMacUsage+($IPMax-$IPMin));'
I guess this is not how you're meant
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 11:18, Don Gould wrote:
Hadley Rich wrote:
Use a scripting language.
And that will help me learn shell stuff how?
It won't, but it might help you learn how to use the right too for the job.
hads
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On Tuesday 19 December 2006 17:10, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
use != instead of -ne
man test for the gore.
Be aware that `test` is an external program whereas the standard `if [ ]`
construct is built into your shell. There may be inconsistencies with the
type of tests that they
On Monday 18 December 2006 18:56, Nick Rout wrote:
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:51:47 +1300
Reg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I guess my only questions now are more general ones about speeds. If a
person supposedly has a 256kilo bits per second connection, why does it
only ever do at most 30 kbs off
On Friday 15 December 2006 22:47, Christopher D Maher wrote:
I was wanting to know everyone's thoughts regarding the value of
formal education in today's world. Specifically of course refering to
IT.
For example Joe Bloggs comes to turns up to an interview with
ABCComputers with a brand new
On Friday 15 December 2006 14:42, Brett Davidson wrote:
Distributed Database that allows Bittorrent users to source file pieces
from each other as well (or other than) the tracker.
Brat.
[snip lots of headers]
WTF is DHT ?
On 12/14/2006, Reg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In Kmail, why is DHT
On Thursday 07 December 2006 21:31, Don Gould wrote:
See: http://www.regular-expressions.info/examples.html
According to this I should be able to use regular expressions in grep.
I just don't quite understand what I'm doing wrong.
Using the wrong tool, from man grep: print lines matching a
On Friday 08 December 2006 07:33, Nick Rout wrote:
Volker Kuhlmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am still waiting for someone to answer my core question: what
conditions need to be met to get a GNU md5sum installed as
/usr/bin/md5sum on Debian 3.1, i.e. what are the steps to achieve this.
A
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 21:12, Nick Rout wrote:
Reg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At the moment I am playing with Ktorrent, but it seems very slow compared
to other torrent things I have had.
ktorrent is a bit odd, i have had issues with it. rtorrent is my
current favourite.
what version
On Wednesday 06 December 2006 15:37, Andrew Errington wrote:
Can anyone endorse or otherwise recommend a hosting service (off-list is
fine if you don't want your words to live here forever)? Any pitfalls I
should be aware of?
I have found the Digiweb (based in Christchurch) guys to be very
On Wednesday 06 December 2006 18:44, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
Do they offer ssh access?
Very very few shared hosting providers do. Which is understandable but
unfortunate.
I wouldn't get hosting without it, but that's just me.
hads
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On Wednesday 29 November 2006 13:07, Steve Holdoway wrote:
I'm wanting to transfer VoIP functionality from a dedicated PC to my
server. However, I would really like to keep the great gui interface that
aah offers.
You can install FreePBX (the GUI from [EMAIL PROTECTED]/Trixbox) onto your
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 11:10, Don Gould wrote:
Save: ?= $_POST[Save]?
Gives me: Save:
Notice: Undefined index: Save in /var/www/html/o/MACOwner.php on line 15
Clearly I need to test that it's defined first. How do I do that in php?
Cheers Don
There is a NZ PHP users group --
On Friday 03 November 2006 20:30, Andrew Errington wrote:
I think it's a good time to point out one of the fundamental differences
between Linux and, say, MS Windows. The Linux OS is essentially a
text-based OS (much like a command window in XP). In fact, Linux works
perfectly well in
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 21:51, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
It's really about time I installed a decent backup procedure for my
linux box.
Any other suggestions?
rsync, bash.
Bonus: does the job *exactly* as you want it done.
Negative: no GUI. But then, a GUI is doing you a fat load of
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 04:21, Neil Stockbridge wrote:
concur concurrently. here's another example of an rsync script
:)
[
#!/bin/sh
BACKUP_TO=$YOURSERVER:$PATH_ON_YOURSERVER
THIS_HOST=`hostname`
OPTS=
OPTS=$OPTS --archive
OPTS=$OPTS --delete
OPTS=$OPTS --delete-excluded
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 18:38, Christopher D Maher wrote:
I am new to the list, my name is Chris Maher and I'm an undergraduate of
Information Science @ Massey. The reason I've subscribed to the list is
that I'm really interested in programming and also Linux networking. Look
forward
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 12:42, Steve Holdoway wrote:
Now that Ihug have released their new plans, I'm looking at upgrading.
However, there may be some hidden costs ( apart from having completely
forgotten the password ).
It's my understanding that the new 7600/800kbit plan is ADSL2.
Nope,
On Wednesday 25 October 2006 19:42, Don Gould wrote:
Does anyone know what you set the default value of a field to if you
want it to default to the current time and date?
NOW()
hads
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On Wednesday 25 October 2006 10:26, Ben Ford wrote:
I agree with you about arch... I use it on my desktop machine, and I'm very
seriously considering putting it on my main laptop too (as opposed to
kubuntu at the moment). The pacman system puts apt completely in the shade
in my opinion, the
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