Re: Can't connect to mobile phone via Bluetooth

2010-06-14 Thread Paul Swafford
If its a reasonable smartphone you will be able to select the bluetooth key .. check your phone manual Almost certainly you'll need to have the phone open on the bluetooth pairing screen to accept the resquest from the PC Good luck! Steve Holdoway wrote: On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 17:52 +1200,

Various Hardware Available

2010-05-13 Thread Paul Swafford
Hi all .. the mrs says its gotta go! I have a garage full of linux capable gear .. I've been running Ubuntu 8.04 on some .. and tried out 10.04 - seems happy enough a number of older iPaqs .. 500mHz or 733mHz all have 256M RAM various sized drives .. They do not have CD/DVD or floppy drives

Re: laptop recommendations pls

2010-05-03 Thread Paul Swafford
I second Chris' sentiment .. Tinkpads just work .. I wonder where Chris got his from ?? Cheers Paul Christopher Sawtell wrote: Only one word needed: ThinkPad Everything just works. I got an unused ex-lease Z60t for $500 a month or two ago. ThinkWiki %20http://www.thinkwiki.org/ for

grepping the access log for hacker evidence

2010-04-14 Thread Paul Swafford
Hi there! basically what I'd like is to extract date / time / ip address from the log where a user has made a failed attempt. This is what I have tried... but its a bit too much info .. grep authentication failure /var/log/secure | awk '{print $0- $1 - $2 -- $12 - $14 - $15}' | cut -b7- |

OTish: Patent reform bill..

2010-04-02 Thread Paul Swafford
I must pay more attention to our beloved leaders' work in Wellywood! The proposal is to exclude software from patents .. whether this is retro-active is another thing entirely.. Interesting topic for CLUG to discuss? http://techdirt.com/articles/20100330/1852558798.shtml and

Re: Ditto: OT: Free external 56k modem

2010-03-16 Thread Paul Swafford
Craig Falconer wrote: yuri wrote, On 17/03/10 17:16: On St Paddy's Day at 13:15, Ross Drummond wrote: no matter what conditions the copper cables submerged below the water table for 30 years or Telecoms coal fired exchange threw at it. Pity the poor cable jointer who has to dig up a cable to

OT: Telecom Proxy servers?

2010-03-03 Thread Paul Swafford
I've started working more from home lately .. sadly I'm on Telecom DSL I've noticed a lot of caching going on .. particularly (but not only) when I update pages on a US server. I'm constantly fed old version of these pages rather than the new page I just uploaded. .. even demanding an

Re: OT: Telecom Proxy servers?

2010-03-03 Thread Paul Swafford
Thanks Craig .. Well there is an opt out .. its called find another provider .. I guess the next question is who? Craig Falconer wrote: Paul Swafford wrote, On 04/03/10 11:50: I've started working more from home lately .. sadly I'm on Telecom DSL I've noticed a lot of caching going

OT: Telecom Youtube

2010-02-04 Thread Paul Swafford
I'm having difficulty getting to youtube on multiple machines OS / browsers at my house .. Telecom is ISP restarted router etc .. Anyone using Telecom .. that can verify I'm not losing my mind here!? FYI I have no proxies in the way ..

Re: OT: Telecom Youtube

2010-02-04 Thread Paul Swafford
: Quoting Paul Swafford yom...@chch.planet.co.nz mailto:yom...@chch.planet.co.nz: I'm having difficulty getting to youtube on multiple machines OS / browsers at my house .. Telecom is ISP restarted router etc .. Anyone using Telecom .. that can verify I'm not losing my mind

Starter for 10 :)

2010-01-04 Thread Paul Swafford
sendmail (qmail) will send a php generated email to gmail and a number of other similar services .. but not to ISP email address. Your starter for 10 is why? Happy New Year! CLUGgers

Re: Wireless car in Christchurch?

2009-11-25 Thread Paul Swafford
Craig Falconer wrote: Does anyone know anything about a blue Nissan TIIDA with the licence plate ETS847 ? I've seen it twice now, driving around Christchurch. The odd thing is, its got about five wireless ethernet aerials on the roof, and its been going up and down random side streets. Its

Re: Linux Meetup Groups near Christchurch

2009-05-24 Thread Paul Swafford
Maybe if they re-open Georgie Pie Riccarton we can start the CLUG meetings there! I distinctly recall Volker being there. Though if its in a McDonald's I think I'll pass. Cheers Christopher Sawtell wrote: 2009/5/23 Jim Cheetham j...@inode.co.nz mailto:j...@inode.co.nz On Sat, May 23,

Re: OT: Freeview EPG

2008-07-11 Thread Paul Swafford
Share .. after all a moral dilemma shared is a moral dilemma halved .. or even better Cheers Paul Kale Worsley wrote: Hi, Hypothetically, If I was snooping around on thee http://freeviewnz.tv website and came across an xml page that contained links to the EPG data of all the freeview

Re: Kmail goobling up read email

2008-01-15 Thread Paul Swafford
My initial reaction is that you have some encoding problem .. see if you can change the default encoding to read ISO 8859-1 .. good luck! oh and do change your system time to something like this week .. cheers! dave wrote: there are 9 different folders and to my understanding it's only

Re: Hard drive recorder vs myth-tv

2008-01-13 Thread Paul Swafford
Phil .. info on the hard drive recorder option. Sky digital decoders have the option to book programs from the guide - it works rather well .. if you're using a recorder connected to the decoder then just set the start time as per the program guide .. I have my HDD recorder set for line 1 ..

Re: distros and laptops

2007-12-19 Thread Paul Swafford
I just rushed an install of Mepis 7 Rc1 .. with a synaptic UG immediately .. flawless 15-20mins.. on a Dell 2200 all touchpad facility wireless etc .. for painless install mepis is very good. 2c .. Paul Chris wrote: I have had good success with Ubuntu Gutsy on Hp, Toshiba And Asus Laptops,

Re: December Meeting - venue ?

2007-11-27 Thread Paul Swafford
Cashmere ?? Nick Rout wrote: Just to let you know, I suggested that I might be able to do a short mythtv presentation before the quiz. However due to a clash of duties I won't be able to do that. As for venues, we once met at a Workig Mens Club (Shirley?) - if we have a CLUG member who is a

Open Suse Gear

2007-09-20 Thread Paul Swafford
I've been sent some Open SUSE DVD's (Linux Enterprise 10)and a few caps and soft toys (green lizardy things) Also some Mozilla stickers and Open Web wristbands So anyone interested contact me off list .. cheers Paul

Re: US web sites unreachable

2007-09-01 Thread Paul Swafford
Ross Drummond wrote: I have been having trouble connecting to US based web sites today. Has the Southern Cross cable been rammed by a sardine, or has Telecom redeployed the technicians responsible for Xtra-Yahoo to international networks? Cheers Ross Drummond __ NOD32 2497

Re: Things that waiting on Telecom's fault line made me think of...

2007-08-28 Thread Paul Swafford
John Carter wrote: Still trying to get telecom/xtra to fix the broadband line. Having spent a _lot_ of time listening to the team is still busy on previous calls and piped music. (Still going as I type this...) My mind starts wandering... About festival speech synthesizer and irritating voice

Re: CLUG Funds and SFD donation (was something else)

2007-08-15 Thread Paul Swafford
a_few_meaningless_comments Perhaps contact the Press technology team. One small article (heck CLUG could even write it!) or maybe a mention in whats on etc .. might be worth checking out? For that matter contact the Star to the same end. /a_few_meaningless_comments Rik Tindall wrote: Robert

OT: Help! need size 6 Torx

2007-06-29 Thread Paul Swafford
I need to do some hard drive surgery today/tomorrow .. and wouldn't you know it I can't find my size 6 TORX head if anyone has one they can lend me for a day or so .. that'd be great. failing that does anyone know where I can reliably obtain a new one? (even if I need to buy a whole kit)

Re: MS Office, Wine and iopl not enabled

2007-06-29 Thread Paul Swafford
Don Gould wrote: Has anyone had MS Office applications running in WINE? I can run mIRC, so I know wine is working, but I got this error iopl not enabled when I tried to run MSACCESS I tried googling but didn't fine any hits that explained it, so I thought I'd ask if anyone else has made

Re: External Dial-up Modem

2007-06-22 Thread Paul Swafford
yuri wrote: On 22/06/07, Aaron Christensen wrote: Hi, I am currently in the market for an external dial-up modem that will work with Linux (Ubuntu Linux in this case), for those that are using or have used external dial-up modems do you have any recommendations for the type (brand, chipset)

Re: Xtra/Yahoo email services

2007-05-18 Thread Paul Swafford
dave wrote: anyone having trouble accessing this from within NZ?? I go and login get asked my p/w and while getting transferred to nz.blahblah. it dies. then when i go to like the yahoo search site it says welcome dave as if i am online (which i suppose i am just that i cannot get

slashdot article ..

2007-05-14 Thread Paul Swafford
The Japanese government wants to go open source, as a way to rely less on a single vendor IT software infrastructure. And plenty of vendors are lining up to help make this happen. from http://www.linuxworld.com/newsletters/linux/2007/0507linux2.html When a government this powerful moves to

Re: lcd screen problems

2007-05-14 Thread Paul Swafford
Matthew Whiting wrote: Kia ora, so, my screen went bung and I had to get it replaced. Would just go completely blank i.e. black screen, nothing at all. Checked all the cables which were firmly in place. Occasionally it would flash back to life, then die again. So, I phoned Philips since it was

Re: Real-Time 'bus timetable

2007-05-03 Thread Paul Swafford
Checked with XP / ie firefox .. no good also under Vista ie7 .. also no good .. so its broken Cheers Maurice Butler wrote: windoze xp 2002 sp2 IE7 broken -Original Message- From: Christopher Sawtell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 3 May 2007 7:43 p.m. To:

OT: Linux/Web/Php/Database Programmer

2007-05-03 Thread Paul Swafford
The firm I work for are on the lookout for someone with Web/Php (the alternatives are also welcome) and database skills for contract work on a project by project basis. If you are or know of anyone (student types particularly welcome) who has a resume/cv they would like to submit, please

Re: ADSL modem

2007-04-29 Thread Paul Swafford
Ross Drummond wrote: Can anyone on the list reccommend an ADSL modem with better than normal features? I know the default answer would be to bridge an ADSL modem to an ipcop or pfsense box, but the circumstances where the modem will be deployed this is not a viable suggestion. What I want

Re: Linksys router?

2007-04-21 Thread Paul Swafford
yuri wrote: My brother wrote: I am thinking about getting a Linksys router (by Cisco). It has an input for the modem (when we get TelstraClear) and four network ports (desktop, laptop, xbox and printer). Apparently the firewall can provide timesettings to limit access to the internet to

Re: sabayon 3.3

2007-03-18 Thread Paul Swafford
I've been playing with a copy on my Dell Inspiron 2200 .. a pretty basic lappie .. I have Xandros on it currently .. Sabayon 3.3 is pretty nice .. the graphics acceleration seems to work well. All the peripherals and networking no issues. I'll try an install on something else and report back.

Re: Semi OT: IP Routing

2007-03-17 Thread Paul Swafford
Step 1. take the firewall out of the loop .. connect directly to the modem. Use DHCP .. establish what IP addresses and masks and dns are issued .. next step .. configure firewall with that information (I would start off using DHCP) if that doesn't fix it then the problem is your firewall

Re: The CIA has Internet!

2007-03-13 Thread Paul Swafford
Christopher D Maher wrote: CIA Please explain. On 13/03/07, Don Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It took 3 hours in the rain. I am happy to report that the CIA is a step closer to being a reality! Cheers Don -- Don Gould www.thinkdesignprint.co.nz - www.tcn.bowenvale.co.nz -

OT - kinda commercial - but we're using linux to do it.

2007-02-20 Thread Paul Swafford
The company I now work for is doing wireless hotspots. Using linux for both the front and back ends. If anyone is interested take a look at this page http://www.the-online-assistant.com/offer/ /OT Kinda Commercial Regards Paul Swafford

Re: Unwanted mail

2007-02-10 Thread Paul Swafford
Robert Fisher wrote: On Sunday 11 February 2007 8:47 am, Vik Olliver wrote: On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 08:18 +1300, Robert Fisher wrote: I seem to be getting a lot of spam lately which my normal filters do not identify (neither does the normally very good filtering of my ISP). They have

Re: missing codecs

2007-01-30 Thread Paul Swafford
2 words .. Speed Kills Paul Steve Holdoway wrote: ... I've also got an mpeg of this weeks UK Top Gear if anyone wants a copy (: On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:02:57 +1300 Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got FC6 ( a million users can't be wrong! ) for i386, Knoppix 5.1.1, and

Re: keed spills

2007-01-30 Thread Paul Swafford
: Steve Holdoway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 31 January 2007 7:30 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: OT: keed spills On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 23:01:22 +1300 Paul Swafford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2 words .. Speed Kills I'd have thought that if you can survive

Re: More free boxes

2007-01-15 Thread Paul Swafford
Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Tuesday 16 January 2007 11:39, Don Gould wrote: I would also like to know if it's possible to install Linux on the sun machine, that would make an interesting lesson. Yes,

Re: BBC NEWS | Business | Oracle attack hits Red Hat shares

2006-10-26 Thread Paul Swafford
An article on this Oracle Linux .. here http://www.linspire.com/linspireletter regards Paul Steven Kesler wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6088896.stm --- Steven Kesler [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://walbatross.blogspot.com

Re: Apache monitoring

2006-10-24 Thread Paul Swafford
Hi there .. while researching something else (M$ Monitoring tools) I came across this wee article .. maybe of some use http://www.netadmintools.com/art507.html regards Paul Craig FALCONER wrote: Awesome wee util - apachetop In debian its packaged as apachetop -Original Message-

Re: My mail is not going through

2006-10-07 Thread Paul Swafford
Don Gould wrote: Pinging mail.orcon.net.nz [219.88.242.10] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 219.88.242.10: bytes=32 time=74ms TTL=60 Reply from 219.88.242.10: bytes=32 time=77ms TTL=60 Reply from 219.88.242.10: bytes=32 time=72ms TTL=60 Reply from 219.88.242.10: bytes=32 time=69ms TTL=60 Ping

Re: Apt-get - dumb question

2006-10-03 Thread Paul Swafford
Robert Fisher wrote: I have googled but not yet found the apt-get command to show the version of an installed package. Help please. Rob dpkg -l package

Re: Those unlimited dls... and talking of the wonderful Wife!

2006-09-21 Thread Paul Swafford
You'd think ISPs would adopt/offer a model like the now you don't need to guess (the Hula Hoop Kids) plan offered by telecom for their mobiles. this paying overage is a crappy system. thoughts? Paul PS my linux desktop system is Xandros .. its rather good being debian based and all ..

Re: Ubuntu update has done weird things to my laptop

2006-09-12 Thread Paul Swafford
Kerry wrote: Hi All, First post here... I've been using ubuntu on my Acer Travelmate 2310 latop for around a year now using 6.06 presently. Monday last week I preformed an update and when I went to use my laptop again I found it's shrunken my screen size - I've taken a pic of it:

Re: OT - the noise

2006-09-11 Thread Paul Swafford
Roger Searle wrote: totally ot... wtf? everyone heard it? what was it? Meteor / Sonic Boom from same .. happy landings! Paul

Re: OT - the noise

2006-09-11 Thread Paul Swafford
Craig FALCONER wrote: I've heard 20 km south of Hinds as the impact point and breaking up over rangiora/kaikoura. Watch the news tonight I guess. None of these immediate reports can be trusted chinese whispers etc. -Original Message- From: Roger Searle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

FYI

2006-08-09 Thread Paul Swafford
ages ago I was playing with Linspire .. formerly something else err .. Lindows yeah thats it .. welp they have a community version the announcement is here http://www.linspire.com/lindows_news_pressreleases_archives.php?id=202 .. feel free to have a play. regards Paul

M$ to support Linux

2006-04-04 Thread Paul Swafford
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/03/ms_virtual_free/ In case you missed it

Re: Suggessted Linux workgroup server

2006-03-14 Thread Paul Swafford
Yeah the 206 is a great base model .. sata is also an option on these now. base model 80G sata from about $800 Regards Paul Dan Coe wrote: I was thinking of an actual server box rather than DIY e.g Compaq IBM etc. with somewhere around these specs; - Mid-level processor e.g P4 rather

Re: Straw poll a[EMAIL PROTECTED]

2006-03-12 Thread Paul Swafford
put it this way I've never seen one .. and I've been emailing since a long time before the net .. so yeah yes for some local email services .. but no for external email services. I've checked with some guru types on this and the answer is categorically NO valid = a-z, A-Z, 0-9, -_ thats

Re: OT: Leaving Paradise?

2005-11-14 Thread Paul Swafford
Just to repeat IMHO the best offering currently is ihugs .. 40G for $90 they have a bunch of offerings a less speed than 2G .. there is a 256K true uncapped http://www.ihug.co.nz/products/broadband/ regards Paul reminder I'm not affiliated with ihug ... and am not a current customer.

Re: OT New Paradise Plans

2005-11-09 Thread Paul Swafford
Best offering at the moment - ihug http://www.ihug.co.nz/products/broadband/ 40G for roughly the same money as telecom has 10G even business deals aren't too bad $5 / Gb http://www.ihug.co.nz/business/broadband/index.html seriously thought of changing .. but its a bugger to drop a used email

KNOPPIX 4.0 DVD Available

2005-08-22 Thread Paul Swafford
hey all .. just to let you know I have this available now .. for those who were asking about the latest Knoppix. regards Paul Swafford

Re: gmail invitation

2005-08-14 Thread Paul Swafford
done Robert Fisher wrote: Would someone be so kind as to give me a new Gmail invitation for a border? Thanks, Rob

Re: ADSL link problems

2005-08-02 Thread Paul Swafford
run your own dns server? Paul Carl Cerecke wrote: On 03/08/05, Volker Kuhlmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem with adsl connections is a recurring one. All it takes is some checking - very simple to do at the completion to see that it is working as expected. I guess it's cheaper to

Re: ADSL link problems

2005-07-28 Thread Paul Swafford
yeah .. plan .. 5 sockets you need some extra gear I'd go with only master might save you $150 again good luck! Paul Carl Cerecke wrote: On 29/07/05, Paul Swafford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: step 1 unplug ALL phones in the house .. step 2 plug ONLY your modem in .. if it still fails

Re: Recent knoppix anyone?

2005-07-28 Thread Paul Swafford
Nick I have 3.9 .. cheers Paul Nick Rout wrote: A recent booting crisis at the office made me realise that I don't have an up to date knoppix on hand, and that the ubuntu CD's loathe my cd drive, or maybe my ide chipset, or something like that., I could download a knoppix, but if anyone is

Re: ADSL link problems

2005-07-28 Thread Paul Swafford
use that cable .. plug a phone in .. if it goes .. you're sweet P Carl Cerecke wrote: On 29/07/05, Jamie Dobbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those cables for your old modem are the same so should work. Not necessarily, there are 2 distinctly different pinouts on RJ11 to BT converter plugs, one

Re: ADSL link problems

2005-07-28 Thread Paul Swafford
Carl mentioned in an off-list comment .. that some previous guy had done an amateur job of wiring the place with extra sockets .. that sound the issue here .. step 1 check the cabling .. P Roger Searle wrote: Oh - so maybe this is Carl's problem? If this is eliminated / confirmed, and a

Re: ADSL modem/switch/wireless combo with Linux

2005-07-18 Thread Paul Swafford
Linksys are all good I have two myself and friends who have quite a number .. especially with the satori firmware .. you can easily mesh them into a wireless distributed network. Think neighbourhood wireless LAN. Regards Paul Carl Cerecke wrote: I'm looking at buying one of these

Re: ADSL modem/switch/wireless combo with Linux

2005-07-18 Thread Paul Swafford
Yeah sorry missed the model .. wrt54g's ARE all good .. and cheapish too P Bjorn Nilsen wrote: That firmware is for the WRT54G not the WAG54G Paul Swafford wrote: Linksys are all good I have two myself and friends who have quite a number .. especially with the satori firmware .. you can

Re: Wednesday meeting

2005-07-06 Thread Paul Swafford
start with how to adjust your system date/time :D Paul jocknz wrote: Hi I would like to thank the orginizers of last nights very informative evening special praise to Sir Lancelot for installing MEPIS is my machine, every thing up and running, modem,sound,scanner,cdwriter,printer,usb

Re: Booking system

2005-06-28 Thread Paul Swafford
programmer. regards Paul Swafford Craig FALCONER wrote: No sorry - Any user could and would overwrite another user's entries. A wiki offers nothing more than a word document saved in a globally writeable place :-) The booking system must be better than that, else the users will get put off

[OT] Public Liability - was Re: telecom outage

2005-06-20 Thread Paul Swafford
First .. this list has been a bit quiet lately.. Second .. As it seems Telecom is not directly responsible for this massive outage, who is? More importantly what level of public liability are they accountable for? Third .. why isn't there another Internet access method - heck even bi

Gentoo on Xbox

2005-06-17 Thread Paul Swafford
Hi .. here is a wee project for folk with access to an Xbox http://gentoox.shallax.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=440 something for the Gentoo crowd to show off @ a meeting Cheers Paul

Re: PCMCIA modem very slow

2005-05-26 Thread Paul Swafford
I've seen this issue with softmodems (In my cases running debian based distros, fixed with a patch) .. does Hoary see it as a 56K capable modem ? regards Paul Nick Rout wrote: grep CONNECT /var/log/messages I think this should give you the connect speed as reported by the modem on

Re: starting firefox as normal user

2005-05-08 Thread Paul Swafford
If I recall .. there might be an issue with the firefox identity do you have a preferences etc set for the non-root user ?? such things usually live in the user's home directory good luck Paul Roger Searle wrote: I am dual booting my work machine, and have succeeded in installing thunderbird so I

Re: Thank you firefox

2005-04-25 Thread Paul Swafford
bwahaha !! .. nice one .. urm what site do we test it on .. www.r00depics.cx ?? /me wonders how many viruses you're being saved from daily? VBG Paul Nick Rout wrote: Recently seen on my screen: Firefox prevented 4077 popup windows

Re: win4lin question

2005-04-16 Thread Paul Swafford
Robert have you tried any of those games under wine? Ideally another 128MB RAM would be nice Regards Paul Swafford Robert Fisher wrote: I have just rebuilt a fairly new PC for a customer and then learnt that they had a PIII - 800Mhz machine with 128 Mb of RAM sitting in the garage doing nothing

Re: ISP's / RIP ADSL Router - 2003-2005

2005-04-13 Thread Paul Swafford
thats either an oxymoron / proxy moron or moron by proxy BTW the new Knoppix 3.8.1 rulez all.. unionfs #1 regards Paul Swafford John Blance wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 13/04/2005 3:14:51 p.m. intelligent government regulation. ROTFL!! Intelligent government!! You were kidding weren't you? John

the challenges of daylight savings

2005-03-19 Thread Paul Swafford
I see a few people are suffering .. please check your timezone and clock .. some of us reject mail based on impossible time parameters. Regards Paul

Re: No ethernet access

2005-03-14 Thread Paul Swafford
more info required ... eg the results of route pleas post such results .. once you have established that the physical wiring works .. ir the light on the hub shines forth when you have the machine on and running. good luck! Douglas Royds wrote: $ ping 202.37.97.11 connect: Network is unreachable

Re: FW: UBS Broadband connection delays

2005-02-16 Thread Paul Swafford
Robert .. in a word YES go to the media .. BIG companies hate bad publicity... Paul Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote: If I do not get some satisfaction regarding this issue I may need medication. It is making me so angry. Commerce Commission has not replied. Telecommunications Minister has not

Re: Evolution Junk filter

2005-01-16 Thread Paul Swafford
Richard mail such as this def gets caught as | impossible future date/time = JUNK regards Paul Richard Graham wrote: On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 17:23 +1300, Michael JasonSmith wrote: On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 17:04 +1300, Vik Olliver wrote: On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 09:18 +1300, Michael JasonSmith wrote: On

Re: Pioneer 6 disk cd changer

2005-01-12 Thread Paul Swafford
I have one sitting in the garage .. I'll try it with MEPIS and report on how it goes .. might be a day or so though. Regards Paul Swafford Gary Durey wrote: It does not list them and I tried mknod /dev/sr0 b 11 42 but did nothing, I thought that would give me sr0 to sr42, but no luck Gary

Windows XP converted to MEPIS in 15minutes - Customer Unhappy

2005-01-10 Thread Paul Swafford
in 15minutes well 13 actually .. everything work flawlessly first time. Why was mr customer not happy? In the mean time his car got clamped .. hehe so come up with a moral for this story if you dare Regards Paul Swafford -- (E-CAF, 301 Montreal St, Christchurch, NZ) (ph/fax ++64 3 3656 480 : www.e-caf.com)

Re: Funny Error Message

2004-12-27 Thread Paul Swafford
version? Q3. are the applications compiled from source or are you just using them out of the box? thats enough for starters regards Paul Swafford Robert Himmelmann wrote: On my system (SuSE 9.2 64 bit) sometimes programs (abuse, Thunderbird with wrong configuration) crash down. When I start them

Re: WEb site

2004-12-25 Thread Paul Swafford
urm .. which appropriate box? fire me the code you have ... cheers Paul Judy Lindsay Roberts wrote: A little bit of help required. We have a new site on Geocities - www.geocities.com/judenlinz I am having difficulty in making a photo appear in the appropriate box. Can anyone assist? I can send

Re: Anyone got Debian 3.0 on CD's?

2004-12-22 Thread Paul Swafford
I suggest mepis or knoppix .. fastest way to a debian desktop .. then apt-get whatever else you want mepis = about 10mins to install knoppix about 20mins .. alternatively the vector linux I mentioned earlier today. Or if you really want vanilla debian I have some regards Paul Swafford [EMAIL

Vector Linux SOHO 5 rc1

2004-12-21 Thread Paul Swafford
hardware. I partuclarly liked the pendrive support and lan browsing right there as an icon. here's the announcement page http://www.vectorlinux.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4149 If anyone is keen pop down and take a look / better yet take a copy home for a play. regards Paul Swafford -- (E-CAF

Re: OK to advertise Linux PC's Forsale here?

2004-12-18 Thread Paul Swafford
chuck OT in the subject .. most long timers have filters for such things setup :) Regards Paul Swafford Chris Wilkinson wrote: Hi there, Its official...I'm skipping the country to seek (fame and) fortune in Brisbane Horsetralia... That means I'll have 2 PC's currently running Linux to sell

Re: KNOPPIX 3.7

2004-12-13 Thread Paul Swafford
and is getting good reviews. Ciao Lance B -Original Message- From: Paul Swafford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:42:28 +1300 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: KNOPPIX 3.7 Is now available - for anyone interested in a rescue CD or a quick and fairly painless way to a debian / kde

Re: DNS and Ping problems at home

2004-12-12 Thread Paul Swafford
Rob .. Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote: I do not know enough about these topics to even ask the right questions. Problem: I cannot ping from my home network to the outside world. (Internal pings work fine) It's possible that IPcop is blocking these - check in some advanced networking section

Re: OT: Monitor hardware fixing?

2004-12-06 Thread Paul Swafford
as a 21 CRT. I was in ComputerBroker yesterday they have some 2nd hand 19 Philips for $199 - a tad high I thought but might be useful to someone. Regards Paul Swafford C. Falconer wrote: Gentlemen! Support the linux-friendly businesses in Your Area! Talk to Nick Elder at Ascot www.ascot.net.nz

Re: mandrake 10.1 cds

2004-11-24 Thread Paul Swafford
Thanks to Paul William's generosity .. I have downloaded these ISOs .. so to all those who've been asking for it .. they'll be available (4CDs or 3) from tomorrow morning. Paul I'll have a set sitting there with your name on - 9AM. Snip Regards Paul Swafford E-CAF 301 Montreal St. .. right next

Re: OT: Xtra broadband

2004-11-07 Thread Paul Swafford
. Regards Paul Swafford -- (E-CAF, 301 Montreal St, Christchurch, NZ) (ph/fax ++64 3 3656 480 : www.e-caf.com)

Re: OT: Xtra broadband

2004-11-07 Thread Paul Swafford
with yours! Paul Tom Munro Glass wrote: On Monday 08 November 2004 13:37, Paul Swafford wrote: Telecom's 2M/192K deal is excellent .. although rumours of it being an automatic upgrade to the 256k/128k customers might not be true .. I didn't trust that so I requested the change and sure enough it happened

Re: OT: Xtra broadband

2004-11-07 Thread Paul Swafford
so in paradise its tomorrow eh?? ... sets a filter to erradicate timeslip email ... Andy George wrote: Here here. Andy George Using Paradise to boycott Telecom On Monday 08 November 2004 10:38, C. Falconer wrote: If you can get cable, get cable. The 1:10 international break means that national

Re: SUSE 9.2 KDE version

2004-10-28 Thread Paul Swafford
Fred .. a small cheque would be nice .. I'm not in it for the money but its nice to cover costs. Which one did you want the KDE-CD version or the DVD one? cheers Paul Fred Wyatt wrote: Hi Paul, I live in Nelson; can I send you some writable CD's? Or would you prefer a small cheque?

SUSE 9.2 KDE version

2004-10-24 Thread Paul Swafford
Hey all I have this available now .. will do some DVD versions on request. Unless someone is really keen on the Gnome version I don't intend getting it down. Regards Paul Swafford -- (E-CAF, 301 Montreal St, Christchurch, NZ) (ph/fax ++64 3 3656 480 : www.e-caf.com)

Re: Dick Smith USB 802.11

2004-09-25 Thread Paul Swafford
I'll chuck knoppix at one and report back ... BTW I have Knoppix 3.6 3.7 PC_welt which has a firewall on CD option (tiz the german version but shift + 0 is your lang=en friend) Cheers Paul -- (E-CAF, 301 Montreal St, Christchurch, NZ) (ph/fax ++64 3 3656 480 : www.e-caf.com)

Re: Hello

2004-09-16 Thread Paul Swafford
Paul Swafford -- (E-CAF, 301 Montreal St, Christchurch, NZ) (ph/fax ++64 3 3656 480 : www.e-caf.com) Jayne Glynn wrote: I joined this list a few days ago and thought I should stop lurking and say hello. Im a total newbie so is it ok for me to join in here or is this list just for people who

Interesting Auction

2004-09-13 Thread Paul Swafford
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Computers/Other/auction-15529388.htm for anyone in the Linux business .. worth considering BTW NO I'm not the seller or affiliated in anyway nor will I be bidding - thanx Dr Cullen! Cheers Paul -- (E-CAF, 301 Montreal St, Christchurch, NZ) (ph/fax ++64 3 3656 480 :

Re: GMailFS

2004-09-10 Thread Paul Swafford
Haven't tried it personally but reports from people who have say its freekin slow even on broadband. YMMMV Paul Edwin F wrote: Now here's something interesting to do with GMail... Found it on the yoper forum and thought a few people with spare invites might like to try it out. I've tried it but

Re: jetstreamgames ftp

2004-09-10 Thread Paul Swafford
Rik its fine for me .. in DSL Paul Rik Tindall wrote: So is the original ftp://ftp2.jetstreamgames.co.nz/dist/gentoo only available to those of us on dialup now (tested, portage current), not adsl? - has Knoppix, Mdk, Fedora, Suse, Yoper, ... too. rik David Kirk wrote: gentoo appears to have

Xandros 2

2004-09-07 Thread Paul Swafford
Hey all, this is for the chappie who was after Xandros - yesterday. I downloaded it (the Open Circulation version NOT 2.5) So its here if you're still keen. Regards Paul Swafford -- (E-CAF, 301 Montreal St, Christchurch, NZ) (ph/fax ++64 3 3656 480 : www.e-caf.com)

Re: Skype

2004-09-06 Thread Paul Swafford
Linksys/Cisco are bring out a few bottom end VoIP devices. SIP is the obvious use for this type of tech where your traffic is already paid for ie no local-call charges. plenty of stuff out there in the tech web .. try google to begin with. regards Paul Swafford Nick Rout wrote: ok i have paid my

finally back online

2004-09-02 Thread Paul Swafford
now contactable using [EMAIL PROTECTED] cheers Paul Swafford (E-CAF, 301 Montreal St, Chch) (e-caf.com : ph/fax 3656480)

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