Re: Meeting with the Dark Side

2005-10-28 Thread Wesley Parish
of .NET, but it sounds like fun. Time/Date? Cheers, Carl. Wesley Parish P.S. What do you expect? ;) I've always got my hands in something, my foot embedded in my mouth, and ... ;^) -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what

An interesting site I discovered today

2005-10-26 Thread Wesley Parish
http://www.chuckherrin.com/hackthevote.htm All about how closed-source companies run by convicted felons can not be trusted when it comes to counting votes ... get your local friendly politico to read this and related sites. This is toe-curling stuff. Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung

Qemu and MS Win2k3 Server (Evaluation)

2005-10-26 Thread Wesley Parish
I have succeeded in getting it to not only install but also to run (correction - waddle). As yet, I haven't got anything running on it, and having more memory would definitely be an advantage. ;) But still, it's running (correction - waddling). Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung

FWIW, OpenDarwin+Qemu

2005-10-18 Thread Wesley Parish
It's actually installing. I'd once miserably failed to install an earlier version on real hardware. It's good to see it installing on Qemu. Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing

Re: [OT] Re: qemu and windows browsing

2005-10-14 Thread Wesley Parish
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 09:56, Joshua Collins wrote: On 10/14/05, Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 14 October 2005 09:34, Joshua Collins wrote: Sorry I missed the meeting and for the most part haven't been following the thread. I have a rescue disk with Win ME

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-12 Thread Wesley Parish
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 13:51, Wesley Parish wrote: Quoting Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 12 October 2005 12:01, Wesley Parish wrote: Quoting Ross Drummond [EMAIL PROTECTED]: snip Quick questions: snip 1) Is qemu supposed to take 98% - 99% of cpu even while it's

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-12 Thread Wesley Parish
with Planet (OT - Where is this sig from? It sounds like it might be from that midnineties SF series that ended after one season. :-) Thanks Wesley Parish Sharpened hands are happy hands. Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge I me. Shape middled me. I

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-12 Thread Wesley Parish
opinion, faces less reasons to stay loyal to Win. no, games games and games. I've installed Doom2 on my home MS Win98-in-Qemu setup; I'll let you know of any Microsoftisms - ie, inexplicable weird behaviour. Wesley Parish Cheers Ross Drummond On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 20:56, Christopher

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-12 Thread Wesley Parish
Quoting Hadley Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thursday 13 October 2005 11:37, Wesley Parish wrote: Quoting Hadley Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A couple of other things that are useful (excuse my if these were covered in the talk, I'm too far away to make it) I never got around to covering

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-11 Thread Wesley Parish
don't doubt Fabrice will get onto that problem sooner or later. Share and Enjoy! Wesley Parish Sharpened hands are happy hands. Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot! I from the spicy that day

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-11 Thread Wesley Parish
is to upgrade, because you do get better performance, even without kqemu. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wesley Parish Sharpened hands are happy hands. Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot! I

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-11 Thread Wesley Parish
Quoting Volker Kuhlmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: snip I have heard a few wow!s about the qemu in SuSE 10, which I will definitely try out as soon as I get the box media. Great for software testing I've heard. As for the talk, I'm afraid I was a bit disappointed, because it was a bit

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-11 Thread Wesley Parish
Sorry. I should have indicated they are boot-time options. Contact me off-list if you need a hand. Wesley Parish Quoting Robert Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I read the stuff below too but I could not get it to work. I am guessing though that my interpretation may be incorrect. I really would

Re: qemu Wesley - addendum

2005-10-11 Thread Wesley Parish
Quoting Wesley Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Wesley Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Volker Kuhlmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: snip peripheral support (USB, printer, typical doze-only fax/scanner/etc, sound!!!), From the documentation: http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu

Re: Meal at Caledonian

2005-10-10 Thread Wesley Parish
I think I'll join you. Wesley Parish Quoting Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tuesday 11 October 2005 13:52, Ross Drummond wrote: I will be dining at the bistro restaurant at the Caledionian Hotel prior to this evenings meeting. Please fell free to join me. From 6:40PM

Re: Repost:- == CLUG Meeting Tomorrow October 11 ==

2005-10-09 Thread Wesley Parish
Quoting Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Greetings to the list. The next meeting on October 11th. ( tomorrow ) is going to be a double-barrelled affair. 1) We are going to hear Wesley Parish expound on virtualisers emulators. He is going to demonstrate the qemu emulator running

Re: Something funny happening?

2005-10-08 Thread Wesley Parish
if my punning is pundamentally misunderstood. Even worse is the few genuine emails from people I know overseas that get shoved into SPAMFOLDER. It's just not good enough. Wesley Parish Further, the ISP is in a good position to determine the spam from the non spam - they have access

OT but wotthehell - Giant Quid Caught on Camera

2005-09-28 Thread Wesley Parish
or not, as the case may be! http://science.slashdot.org/science/05/09/28/0032255.shtml?tid=99tid=14 Mind you, I'm still hanging out for first sighting of the Giant Pygmy Dwarf ... Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui

Re: Fwd: Re: Hint for Emacs users for the Day...

2005-09-27 Thread Wesley Parish
), instead of just having a funny dig... ;) Volker Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people

Re: expand for linux?

2005-09-21 Thread Wesley Parish
Well, it should be called barf, there's ample reason for it. cabextract http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ If I remember correctly, the file extract.exe in MS Win[whatever] extracts them. So cabextract should do the honours in Linux. Wesley Parish Quoting Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Windows

Re: expand for linux?

2005-09-21 Thread Wesley Parish
You could try wine -winver=[NT|XP] expand -[whatever] (shrugs.) It might work. But you'd need to have a copy of the expand.exe somewhere in wine's path. :-) Wesley Parish Quoting Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 13:16:36 +1200 (NZST) Wesley Parish wrote: Well

Re: [OT] Recommendations for CV/Resume Writers

2005-09-20 Thread Wesley Parish
in the day! Don't believe the hype about school! If they couldn't get you interested, you'll never learn from them. So much depends on two factors - were your teachers dorks? And what sort of reaction did they bring out in you? Just my two cents - inflation, of course! ;) Wesley Parish On Thu

Re: [OT] Recommendations for CV/Resume Writers

2005-09-15 Thread Wesley Parish
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:20, Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 18:31, Steve Holdoway wrote: On Thu, September 15, 2005 3:49 pm, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: grave action=dig owner=self You might want to investigate the use of apostrophies between the letters it and s... ;)

Re: [OT] Recommendations for CV/Resume Writers

2005-09-15 Thread Wesley Parish
, or so I heard ... ;) Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.

Re: [OT] Recommendations for CV/Resume Writers

2005-09-15 Thread Wesley Parish
point precisely I think. Actually, I thought Grammer was an English Midlands dialect word for grand-mother, the other being Gramps for grand-father. ;) I could be wrong ... ;) Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask

Re: CLUG toolbox

2005-09-14 Thread Wesley Parish
! Electrolyte bikkies! (You can see I've read far, far, far too much Stanislaw Lem! Cyberiad pleads guilty. ;) Wesley Parish but if you're organised and pack the food up sensibly the RJ45 sockets will be thankful. Volker -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish

Re: CLUG toolbox

2005-09-14 Thread Wesley Parish
I'll be going that way tomorrow. You want I should drop by and pick it up? Wesley Parish On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 17:37, Steve Holdoway wrote: I've got a straight through cable made up that's at least 10m long. You'll need a big box for it, though. I can bring it into the CBD, but I travel by bus

Re: Horse reboot on Friday night

2005-09-04 Thread Wesley Parish
If I'm not mistaken, horse is named after the character in Footrot Flats. The big cat who don't take no nonsense from anyone, and who rescues The Dog at a crucial point in the movie of the same name. Wesley Parish On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 10:47, Martin Bähr wrote: On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 08:19

RE: Horse reboot on Friday night

2005-09-04 Thread Wesley Parish
You could have chosen rhinoceros! Or hippopotamus. Or mammoth, or andrewsuchus, or ... ;) Wesley Parish Quoting Craig FALCONER [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Actually it was named for the original machine, which was a compaq proliant 6500. It was going to be a quad CPU, hence a four legged name

RE: Horse reboot on Friday night

2005-09-04 Thread Wesley Parish
for their LUG is strictly minimal ... ;) Wesley Parish Quoting Craig FALCONER [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I can't spell to save myself - caffeine is one I've learned to spell correctly simply because it’s a hostname on my home metwork :) -Original Message- From: Wesley Parish [mailto:[EMAIL

A nightmare on Shell Street ;)

2005-08-28 Thread Wesley Parish
http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/ Quote: [lcamtuf::asmsh] What your mother warned you of! Assembler (s)hell was born as a silly joke, but the idea took off, and may actually end up being a real program. In short, the idea is to strip the common unix shell of all the bloat and abstraction levels,

Re: A nightmare on Shell Street ;)

2005-08-28 Thread Wesley Parish
Quoting John Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, 28 Aug 2005, Wesley Parish wrote: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/ Assembler (s)hell was born as a silly joke, I thought that was what those early non-symbolic debuggers were. A silly joke? Probably. In fact, I see it still exists

Re: Connecting to SourceForge

2005-08-19 Thread Wesley Parish
So my recent experience with trying to download some largish files and having to restart the download again and again and again, isn't just _my_ problem!? That's a relief! ;) Wesley Parish On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 20:07, Robert Fraser wrote: Yeah, me too, and someone else on the same Paradise

Re: Gamer's GPLed fun

2005-08-18 Thread Wesley Parish
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 07:04, Timothy Pick wrote: On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 01:42 +1200, Wesley Parish wrote: I've just had another look at the Quake ftp site, and compared the file sizes quake2.zip=1.4MB nexuiz11.zip=158.3MB nexuiz was derived from quake2. It's put on some weight! ;) I'd

Re: FWIW (OpenSolaris 10)

2005-08-18 Thread Wesley Parish
. Steve I wonder just how old that tar is! GNU tar's used gzip as a library for as long as I've had Linux - SLS was distributed as *.tgz -, and undoubtedly longer. Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what

Re: Boot problem

2005-08-18 Thread Wesley Parish
else will be able to correct me. Wesley Parish On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 15:46, Ralph Stoker wrote: My PC froze and after a 'dirty' shutdown I am encountering problem with boot to KDE. Error messages: Could not read network connection list //.DCOPserver_ralph_0 //.kde/share/config/krootimagerc

Re: FWIW (OpenSolaris 10)

2005-08-17 Thread Wesley Parish
replaced by the GNU one, which _does_ work. Glynn Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people

Re: Database choice?

2005-08-17 Thread Wesley Parish
, Zane BTW, you might like looking at Ingres Release 3, the one CA released under its own Open Source license. It's available as source or as rpms, many little mangy rpms that clutter up a hard drive! ;) Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Mau e ki, he

Re: Gamer's GPLed fun

2005-08-17 Thread Wesley Parish
Parish On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 04:55, Caleb Sawtell wrote: Wesley Parish wrote: Just a little word of warning Nexuiz is highly GPU dependant if you want the nice effects eg lags on my geforce fx 5600XT :-( http://www.nexuiz.com/index.php All of Nexuiz is licensed under the GPL, including the core

FWIW (OpenSolaris 10)

2005-08-16 Thread Wesley Parish
I've successfully installed OpenSolaris 10. It works. Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people

Re: August Meeting.

2005-08-16 Thread Wesley Parish
compiler, I think it means - public domain Unix spreadsheet). and of course SIMH - the pdp11, vax, z80, etc, emulator. After a while it begins to look like the geek equivalent of the axman's competitions that I saw a number of times when I was a kid visiting Showdays. Wesley Parish So

Gamer's GPLed fun

2005-08-16 Thread Wesley Parish
by the average citizen. The Sicillian Option allows one to murder your political opponents; the Congressional Option allows you to bribe them; the Taiwan Option allows you to mug them whether in or out of Parliament. It looks as if it'll take the next eight hours for nexuiz to download ... ;^) Wesley

Re: FWIW (OpenSolaris 10)

2005-08-16 Thread Wesley Parish
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 21:00, Glynn Foster wrote: Hey, On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 20:41 +1200, Wesley Parish wrote: I've successfully installed OpenSolaris 10. It works. Cool - what combination did you do? o Download Solaris Express, then bfu [1] OpenSolaris? o Download Solaris

Re: From the scsh FAQ

2005-07-24 Thread Wesley Parish
Oh well, is it possible to get all of you who are speaking on scripting languages at the next CLUG meeting, to come up with a comparison script? ;) Wesley Parish On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 11:11, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: The following code snippets aim to provide an idea of how scsh compares

From the scsh FAQ

2005-07-23 Thread Wesley Parish
-splitter :) (getenv PATH // End Enjoy! Wesley Parish P.S. Oh yes, I am tempted by scsh. Lisp is such a nice language (lost in stupid parentheses! though ;), and I do know a little from fooling around with AutoCAD's AutoLisp ... ;) -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James

Re: C as a scripting language: TCC

2005-07-13 Thread Wesley Parish
I'll certainly take a look at pike. Thanks. That's a scripting language I don't know _anything_ about at present. Wesley Parish On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 04:20, Martin Bähr wrote: On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 12:32:18AM +1200, Wesley Parish wrote: TCC can also be used to make C scripts, i.e. pieces

C as a scripting language: TCC

2005-07-12 Thread Wesley Parish
, just as shell scripts. You just need to add #!/usr/local/bin/tcc -run at the start of your C source: #!/usr/local/bin/tcc -run #include stdio.h int main() { printf(Hello World\n); return 0; } Not bad, eh? Wesley Parish Of course, that's not the only minimal C compiler available

Re: LinuxTag 2005

2005-07-05 Thread Wesley Parish
in charge of a computer was of the same order as putting a deaf, dumb and blind kid in charge of a fully-loaded Boeing 747. -jim Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he

Re: LinuxTag 2005

2005-07-05 Thread Wesley Parish
I keep looking for the lost 'T' - perhaps they were using Russian-speakers speaking English when the time came to name it, and not having an equivalent of The in Russian, it wound up as Shut Fsck Up! ;) Wesley Parish On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 09:23, Craig FALCONER wrote: the first hit is free

Re: LinuxTag 2005

2005-07-04 Thread Wesley Parish
off support for MS Win9x. Of course, I don't expect we'll ever get it - that would be very nice if they did, but ... we're going to be putting in a Linux box for a trial soon. Perhaps I should mention that on Matusow's blog? Maybe it would light a fire underneath their [donkeys]. Wesley

Just a little something to lighten your Sunday

2005-07-02 Thread Wesley Parish
Managerium: The Heaviest Element Known to Science http://www.netjeff.com/humor/item.cgi?file=Managerium -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I

Re: telecom outage

2005-06-21 Thread Wesley Parish
It's the price we pay for having stupid policies regarding monopolies. And no, I'm not offended. The density seems to be that of the policy makers though. Wesley Parish On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 23:40, Martin Bähr wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 10:16:49PM +1200, Richard Tindall wrote: The price

Re: Slightly On TopicRE: [OT] Public Liability - was Re: telecom outage

2005-06-21 Thread Wesley Parish
everything else, and rats in a cage with a seemingly inexhaustible supply of food does as well. Wesley Parish John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail

OT: Cat Vacuuming

2005-06-17 Thread Wesley Parish
Hi folks cat vacuuming Just a phrase for goofing off, lazing about, taking time out? Some people don't think so! http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/hall/slides/Feline Abuse.html Share and Enjoy! :-) Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Mau e ki, he

Re: Now it all becomes clear... (:

2005-06-16 Thread Wesley Parish
Gandalf. ;) Wesley Parish On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 02:17, Martin Bhr wrote: On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 08:23:10PM +1200, dave wrote: by the way not trying to upset anyone, as the saying goes business is business. right or wrong, with or without a social conscience. it's about time for that to change

memory getting filled - stuffed

2005-06-16 Thread Wesley Parish
it impacting usage? Thanks Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.

Re: Now it all becomes clear... (:

2005-06-15 Thread Wesley Parish
not pass go! Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.

Re: OT: Zen Garden of CSS

2005-05-31 Thread Wesley Parish
On Tue, 31 May 2005 13:08, Richard Tindall wrote: Steve Holdoway wrote: ... more like what you're smoking then :) None of that either. But I agree that the early draft was poor shouldn't have been released. Good night, too. Shame they can't win lineouts as well! Yes, well done 'the

Re: Windows nearly usable (for those of you who don't read Slashdot)

2005-05-28 Thread Wesley Parish
. It's a g_dam toy! Wesley Parish ;) On Sat, 28 May 2005 15:30, Nick Rout wrote: This article is an amusing take on the Linux not ready for the desktop mythmakers: http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/05/18/2033216 As someone whose windows world slowed at 98 and barely acknowledges 2k

Re: Invitation from IBM -- the launch of IBM eServer OpenPower

2005-05-26 Thread Wesley Parish
On Thu, 26 May 2005 14:57, Michael JasonSmith wrote: On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 14:36 +1200, Craig FALCONER wrote: One thing that would be cool - a laptop based on one of these power5 CPUs. It wouldn't be capable of running windows! It could *almost* run Windows. The dev-kit for the XBox 360 is

OT: Power Cut, Sumner

2005-05-24 Thread Wesley Parish
Anybody else just had a power cut, courtesy of the City Council and what passes for Power Companies these days? Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he

Re: LINUX study books

2005-05-23 Thread Wesley Parish
On Sun, 22 May 2005 20:28, yuri wrote: On 22/05/05, Wesley Parish wrote: My first Linux book was the Yggdrasil Linux Bible - which kinda shows my age, doesn't it?! Essentially a conglomeration of the Guides then available, and the HOWTOs then available, it did me for quite some time. One

Re: LINUX study books

2005-05-22 Thread Wesley Parish
My first Linux book was the Yggdrasil Linux Bible - which kinda shows my age, doesn't it?! Essentially a conglomeration of the Guides then available, and the HOWTOs then available, it did me for quite some time. Wesley Parish On Sun, 22 May 2005 17:29, Nick Rout wrote: My intro to linux

Re: Scripting talks (new thread)

2005-05-18 Thread Wesley Parish
I was wondering when someone was going to mention tinycc. ;) Wesley Parish On Wed, 18 May 2005 17:59, Carl Cerecke wrote: Steve Holdoway wrote: Is that the well known scripting language c? You really can script it. With a #! and all! www.tinycc.org Cheers, Carl -- Clinersterton

Re: scripting vs dynamic languages (was: Scripting talks) (new thread)

2005-05-17 Thread Wesley Parish
got this interesting syntax ... the difference here is mostly that reading stdout from another application is trivial in glue languages, and reading a socket is harder, while in pike it is the other way around because reading from other apps is not done as often. -- C. S. Wesley Parish

Re: apt-customise

2005-05-17 Thread Wesley Parish
that Windows does not (and therefore was not originally present in SMB) -jim Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people

Re: Pike Python perennial

2005-05-15 Thread Wesley Parish
of evolving options. Actually, if you were so inclined, you could pick up a copy of Jsoft's 4os/2 - released under a 4-clause BSD license - and recompile that for Linux, which would allow you to run DOS batch files on Linux. Not very pretty, but hardly impossible. ;) Wesley Parish Vik :v

Definitely off-topic Re: Linux for Mainframes...

2005-05-11 Thread Wesley Parish
: On Wed, 11 May 2005 14:20:15 +1200 (NZST) Wesley Parish wrote: Sounds like my cup-o'-tea! Looks like I'll have to visit Northlands A.S.A.P. ;) Wesley Parish This is what we all love about Wesley, lives in Sumner, only transport is a bike, yet he is dedicated enough to contemplate going

Re: Definitely off-topic Re: Linux for Mainframes...

2005-05-11 Thread Wesley Parish
On Wed, 11 May 2005 19:15, Wesley Parish wrote: Aaargh! Is there something loveable about me? Aaargh! Where's the Wicked Witch of the West when you need her? Mirror, mirror on the wall ... aaargh, forget it! The Monster from the Black Lagoon a.k.a. Beowulf (there's a book about me! 3/8

Re: Linux for Mainframes...

2005-05-11 Thread Wesley Parish
also runs Linux on the modern AS/400, in a separate partition to OS/400 - since OS/400 is a virtual machine's guest OS, all that is needed is to IPL (Initial Program Load) Linux and OS/400 in different virtual machines. Have I bored you to tears yet? ;) Wesley Parish On Wed, 11 May 2005 22:26

Re: Linux for Mainframes...

2005-05-10 Thread Wesley Parish
Sounds like my cup-o'-tea! Looks like I'll have to visit Northlands A.S.A.P. ;) Wesley Parish Quoting John Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm amused to find that mainframes have become such a consumer commodity that The Warehouse at Northlands has a copy of Linux for Mainframes on special

Re: Linux for Mainframes...

2005-05-10 Thread Wesley Parish
. And the Win32 API MinGW32 compiler suit - based on gcc and a PD win32 supstructure - is also hostable on Linux.) LOL :-) Possibly more valuable specials are a bunch of CD's of Cuban music by the stars of Bueno Vista Social Club movie. Wesley Parish Sharpened hands are happy

Re: command line to find a file

2005-05-08 Thread Wesley Parish
Thanks, Chris, Nick and Steve. I'll try and see which one works best. Wesley Parish On Sun, 08 May 2005 08:49, Steve Holdoway wrote: Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 23:58 +1200, Wesley Parish wrote: I need a command line script to find a file with a specific regular expression

command line to find a file

2005-05-07 Thread Wesley Parish
a ZIPped file - if it was gziped I'd be using zless at some point in the command line above. Thanks Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he

Fwd: Re: [Freedos-user] Edlin 2.5 is out!

2005-05-03 Thread Wesley Parish
Any time you feel that ex is not exciting enough, you can port edlin to Linux and enjoy a GPLed clone of Micosoft's most advanced text editor! ;) Wesley Parish - Forwarded message from Jim Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 16:25:57 -0500 From: Jim Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Yahoo email

2005-04-29 Thread Wesley Parish
Privacy Policies, that surely must do so!!! Wesley Parish On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 16:45, Robert Himmelmann wrote: dave wrote: to let everyone know Yahoo has a 1GB email storage too now. ... and Gmail has 2139MB. If anyone wants an account: I have 50 invitations left and nobody to give them

Re: Boa problem

2005-04-28 Thread Wesley Parish
Depends what you call embedded ... I've seen no-frills httpds in C and assembler that were about twelve to 35 kbytes in size uncompiled. Busybox has one of them; asmutils has the assembler one. Wesley Parish On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 13:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 13:01:34

Re: Remap keyboard

2005-04-26 Thread Wesley Parish
into fooling around with mentally replacing key values by key values - ie, this is / on my keyboard, but under Minilinux it's something else entirely . YMMV Wesley Parish On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 19:15, Robert Himmelmann wrote: Hello, I have a German keyboard but I never use the German keys such as ä

Re: Firefox - E-mail links

2005-04-22 Thread Wesley Parish
sys$qio looks like a VMS system command or configuration file! On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 22:06, Steve Holdoway wrote: Zane Gilmore wrote: [snip] I'm going to have to stop trying to reply intelligently in the evening after a hard day over a keyboard :-/ I'd recommend a dose of either the

Re: [OT] Hitchhiker's Guide

2005-04-21 Thread Wesley Parish
Sounds like fun. I'm always onto HGTG stuff. Count me in. Wesley Parish On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 17:03, Andrew Errington wrote: Andy, Yes, sorry David, I was going to take my wife. Oh well, I had to try :-) You've been a smashing audience. I'll be here all week! But seriously though

Completely OT Re: OT: software and IP law in NZ

2005-04-20 Thread Wesley Parish
giants, the Poles. You wouldn't want to go there anyway. Most of them drive on the wrong side of the road for a start (: I have a hankering to see Krakow one of these days - someone connected with my father's family came from there. ;) Cheers, Steve Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung

Re: Patents

2005-04-11 Thread Wesley Parish
property' system generally is flawed, and needs urgent overhaul. Most importantly disputes between parties in different countries need to be held in international courts. Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask

Re: News:Hitachi eyeing 1TB desktop drives with new technology]

2005-04-05 Thread Wesley Parish
than punched cards, etc) - and the next thing you know, those TeraBytes will have vanished. (One of the jokes in Dark Star was that the entire starship was being run off a MicroComputer - I forget what it was, anyone know?) Wesley Parish On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 20:07, Robert Himmelmann wrote: Wow

Re: GeNToo installfest l ( long )

2005-04-03 Thread Wesley Parish
it or not! Wesley Parish Quoting Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 18:19, Nick Rout wrote: Is only a week away at Robert's, but there has been some interesting developments. If anyone wants to run some free/open software on their windows box, they might want

Re: Yet Another Basic-on-Linux E-mail

2005-04-01 Thread Wesley Parish
, it's just that BASIC's not the language to teach graphics programming in. ;) Wesley Parish On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 21:25, Robert Himmelmann wrote: I have used SmallBASIC on my 16Mhz Palm. There it is running well. In other words: I have no idea why they made a port of this language to a multi

Yet Another Basic-on-Linux E-mail

2005-03-31 Thread Wesley Parish
.[...] // Share and Enjoy! Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.

serial hardware detection software

2005-03-30 Thread Wesley Parish
anyone know where on the 'Net it might be? Slackware 2.8 came with setserial; what sort of software is there these days? Thanks Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki

Re: PC problem

2005-03-24 Thread Wesley Parish
as an experimental subject. ;) Dreamer, you know you are a dreamer, Can you put your head in your hands, oh no! ;) Thanks for your help, Nick and Andrew. Wesley Parish On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 23:22, Wesley Parish wrote: Quoting Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 22:28 +1200, Wesley

Re: PC problem

2005-03-24 Thread Wesley Parish
? That is a possibility. Thanks. I'll have to check that one out. Derek. Wesley Parish snip -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people

a different 404 ;)

2005-03-24 Thread Wesley Parish
http://www.eskimo.com/notfound.html File Not Found. The file is deceased. It is no longer. It has passed on. You can not have that file in this life! The file is dead, lifeless, departed, demised, late, extinct, no more. It has broken on through to the other side. -- Clinersterton

PC problem

2005-03-23 Thread Wesley Parish
Wesley Parish Sharpened hands are happy hands. Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot! I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x

Re: PC problem

2005-03-23 Thread Wesley Parish
Quoting Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, March 23, 2005 9:34 pm, Wesley Parish said: I've got a problem. I thought at first it was a hardware problem - my Linux box's CPU getting overheated - but I'm not so sure now. To be truthful, I've popped the lid off the side to check

Re: PC problem

2005-03-23 Thread Wesley Parish
period). That would remove suspicion from RAM and CPU. Thanks. That sounds useful. I've just done fsck -t relevant fs-types /dev/hda* on all the partitions, and cleared up all doubts about that. Andy Wesley Parish Sharpened hands are happy hands. Brim the tinfall

Re: PC problem

2005-03-23 Thread Wesley Parish
Quoting Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 21:54 +1200, Wesley Parish wrote: what do you mean the same entity? how about fdisk -l /dev/hda please fdisk gives this when I ask for the partition table (working from Knoppix of course): Device Boot Start

Re: PC problem

2005-03-23 Thread Wesley Parish
Quoting Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 22:28 +1200, Wesley Parish wrote: Quoting Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]: snip Well something is royally screwed up there isn't it! I am not sure what to do about it. hda2 is stuck in the middle of the extended partition

Getting root-ed

2005-03-22 Thread Wesley Parish
also got to thinking about base stations, etc, at control towers, and what they would need. This sounds like just the sort of thing I would've needed. I don't know how cluttered European and American airspace is, but it's bound to be a few magnitudes larger than New Zealand. Wesley Parish

On the patentability of

2005-03-22 Thread Wesley Parish
? Wesley Parish Sharpened hands are happy hands. Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot! I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press

Re: Getting root-ed

2005-03-22 Thread Wesley Parish
Quoting Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 22:20, Wesley Parish wrote: Anyone seen this before? http://root.cern.ch/root/Mission.html I was looking for a C interpreter, when I chanced upon Cint at CERN. The Cint page told me in all seriousness

Re: cross-compile advice

2005-03-17 Thread Wesley Parish
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 21:14, Steve Holdoway wrote: Wesley Parish wrote: Has anyone ever set up gcc to crosscompile itself for another platform? I've mentioned on the ReactOS list that I intend fooling around with ReactOS (a Windows NT-class operating system, an NT Clone) on the IBM S/390

cross-compile advice

2005-03-16 Thread Wesley Parish
on Microsoft!) Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.

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