Re: MS at it again ....

2004-01-22 Thread Wesley Parish
advertising, etc. The question of whether or not Microsoft was vaporwaring XML as its _new_ _innovation_, hardly counts - except for the fact that OO.org has been using it for the last two years minimum. While Microsoft is still in Cloud-Cuckoo-Land with its XML vaporware. Wesley Parish On Thu, 22 Jan

Re: MS at it again ....

2004-01-21 Thread Wesley Parish
OpenOffice.org's been around since 2001. If this was filed in 2003, Microsoft are committing fraud, submitting a misleading claim like this. There are laws, are there not, to protect consumers from this sort of activity? Wesley Parish On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:32, Brad Beveridge wrote

Re: Linux

2004-01-20 Thread Wesley Parish
Will try again and it appears to be Dos! but what work has KOFFICE etc Uncle David oh UNCLE WES -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in 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

Re: Mandrake 9.2 - things missing?

2004-01-18 Thread Wesley Parish
is people getting grumpy about the complexity and unworkability of alsa...and to think they included it the 2.6.0 kernel!! -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in 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

OT - Hardware Problem

2004-01-17 Thread Wesley Parish
-cataloging library books on the CTF and doing voluntary work because employers seem to have a bad attitude about employing people - so if you're going to tell me I need a new motherboard, please have the decency to offer me a job so I can afford it.) -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung

Re: pgAccess question

2004-01-14 Thread Wesley Parish
would like to know if there is a way to install pgAccess without having to compile all the components? If there isnt, do I need to purchase Visual C++ just to compile this application? Regards, Wesley Brinkman IT Manager New Image International -- Wesley Parish

Re: Some help needed with tcp/ip config

2003-11-27 Thread Wesley Parish
First things first: Quoting Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 23:19, you wrote: This is the results I got - and I still couldn't connect to any site. Wesley Parish Would you be so kind as to remind me of a few pertinent facts:- Which distribution you

Re: Fw: [nzlug] Maori language for KDE

2003-11-26 Thread Wesley Parish
Yes. I'll just have to get my full Internet connectivity back, then I'll take it up. Wesley Parish Quoting Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]: wasn't someone on this list interested in this? Speaking. Forwarded by Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Original

Re: Some help needed with tcp/ip config

2003-11-25 Thread Wesley Parish
This is the results I got - and I still couldn't connect to any site. Wesley Parish ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:44:25:70:7F UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

Re: Some help needed with tcp/ip config

2003-11-24 Thread Wesley Parish
No. I've tried, but it doesn't seem to be able to get through. Wesley Parish Quoting Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]: can you ping by ip address? (paradise dns is 203.96.152.4, it should be up and close to you) On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 23:16:57 +1300 (NZDT) Wesley Parish [EMAIL

Some help needed with tcp/ip config

2003-11-23 Thread Wesley Parish
pop3 or any http or whatever servers. I've done what the kde manual tells me to do, ie, give the full dns of my ISP, put in the multi on, bind, etc, but still no dice. I can't for the life of me think of what I chould do next. Any hints, anyone? Wesley Parish I me. Shape middled me

Re: dns, bind site urls wanted

2003-11-12 Thread Wesley Parish
the topics, one of these days ... ;) Wesley Parish On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 10:27, you wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 23:10, you wrote: I need some of the sites - I've got some questions I want to pose. The canonical source of BIND knowledge. http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind9.html The BIND 9

Re: FEDORA (RH Yarrow)

2003-11-11 Thread Wesley Parish
lined up two by two. Performance went to the dogs, alright! I eventually killed the entire system and vowed a: not to play around with window managers at random; and b: not to let the neighbour's kid around my desk while I was using the computer. Wesley Parish On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 22:22, you

dns, bind site urls wanted

2003-11-11 Thread Wesley Parish
I need some of the sites - I've got some questions I want to pose. Any help gratefully received. Wesley Parish -- Clinesterton Beademung - in all of love. 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: FEDORA (RH Yarrow)

2003-11-10 Thread Wesley Parish
olvwm is one of the nicest experiences I've ever had in searching for a decent windows manager - but at the moment I'm satisfied (reasonably) with kde. Wesley Parish On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 09:18, you wrote: Martin Wehipeihana wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 11:04, Paul Swafford wrote: FYI

About Linux Migration Incentives Planned by SCO

2003-11-08 Thread Wesley Parish
on their generous offer, particularly when one factors in the remote control aircraft, the spacecraft and the fully-armed robots, and the full year's contract with IBM. Some people just don't know when to stop, do they? Wesley Parish --- Darl McBride The SCO Group Dear Darl McBride About

Re: OnT - database filesystems (was: Longhorn and MS Shenanigans)

2003-10-31 Thread Wesley Parish
here is very much the Johnny-come-lately. Wesley Parish On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:02, you wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 02:27:25PM +, Jason Greenwood wrote: It covers MS plans for Longhorn and it's 'kernel level' inbuilt search ability. As if the NT kernel was not bloated enough already

Re: WOW! Wesley Parich makes LinuxWorld!!

2003-10-27 Thread Wesley Parish
Just saying something that I felt had to be said. Now it's up to BGjr and SB! Thanks. Wesley Parish On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 00:36, you wrote: I may have missed this onlist but - way to go Wesley! http://www.linuxworld.com/story/35659.htm -- Mau e ki, He aha te mea nui? You ask, What

Re: CLUG Meeting

2003-10-26 Thread Wesley Parish
would be grateful. It's for OpenBSD, which I'm intent on trying out. Wesley Parish -- 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: New distro for me to play with...

2003-10-18 Thread Wesley Parish
too many of them have, of not wanting to play nice with other RDBMSs. Wesley Parish On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 08:56, Vik Olliver wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 22:10, Brad Beveridge wrote: Well, after a little under 4 months my Toshiba Laptop's hard disk has died in a fit of squealing agony. Luckily

Re: OT american patents

2003-10-13 Thread Wesley Parish
For that you need a set of truly ignorant and/or corrupt Patent Office people and likewise a set of truly stupid (and probably vicious) Patent Attorneys. And a pile of cash. The which appears to be prevalent in much of modern America. Sadly. Wesley Parish On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 08:48, you wrote

Fwd: scribus note

2003-10-02 Thread Wesley Parish
Just so as you can tell me to shut up - a port of an open-source wysiwyg DTP to Windows - probably better for your health (mental health I think) than MS Publisher - to the best of my knowledge you can't script anything in Publisher... ;) Wesley Parish -- Forwarded Message

Re: Slightly OT - lunchtome wanderings.

2003-10-01 Thread Wesley Parish
with this, I would be grateful. Wesley Parish -- 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: nasties to the list

2003-09-22 Thread Wesley Parish
be buying Win2k3 Server on this showing of the general shoddiness of MS products. Wesley Parish On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 15:09, you wrote: On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 14:38:48 +1200 Volker Kuhlmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who says it wasn't sent by a subscribed list member? It's an open list, even

Re: meeting ideas: keysigning

2003-09-10 Thread Wesley Parish
I for one would be extremely interested in that question - in generating keys, starting over again when you've stuffed up, publishing the keys, etc. Wesley Parish On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 23:33, you wrote: With talk of topics for future meetings popping up, this might be a good time to bring up

Re: An interesting article

2003-09-08 Thread Wesley Parish
Reo Maori dictionary for it. But sure, let's get together and work something out. It would be interesting and useful as well if we could get some of the other Polynesian languages supported - but I've got no idea about who to approach for that. Wesley Parish On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 08:07, you

An interesting article

2003-09-07 Thread Wesley Parish
http://mozillaquest.com/Linux03/Linux_In_Schools-01_Story01.html It's about increasing the use of linux and other FOSS in schools, techs and Unis. Good read. Wesley Parish -- 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

Re: Dual boot Linux + Windows 2000 using Lilo?

2003-08-30 Thread Wesley Parish
It's more likely that Windows boot.ini can't abide being separated from the MBR. I would say that is indeed likely to be the issue - if LILO or GRUB points to boot.ini on hda, it works - and in your circumstance, boot.ini on hd[bc] doesn't. Wesley Parish On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 21:17, you wrote

ocw.mit.edu - any ideas?

2003-08-29 Thread Wesley Parish
and the University of Canterbury. Wesley Parish -- 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: Paul Griswald(sp?) just made my night!

2003-08-20 Thread Wesley Parish
- inevitable because most people have got Windows already on their computer - it does get a little bit more difficult - but you don't need to remember a serial number, and you're given a lot more choice of just where to place it. Just my 0.02c - and that's inflation for you! Wesley Parish On Wed, 20

Re: Dual boot Linux + Windows 2000 using Lilo?

2003-08-20 Thread Wesley Parish
as the place to put lilo. And yes, Linux and Win2k can operate very handily on two different, separate hard drives - that's how I've got mine set up. If you want some help, just let me know, and I'll be happy to help you. Wesley Parish On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 23:01, you wrote: All my searching

Re: Spam filter for Gentoo

2003-08-19 Thread Wesley Parish
Someone should remind him that if he has a phone and is connected to the phone network, he can't complain about unsolicited phone calls. It just goes to show that his phone is working. Wesley Parish On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 10:58, you wrote: Did you see Shane Atkinson on Holmes last night crying

Re: Attn Nick Rout - SCO

2003-08-19 Thread Wesley Parish
/ Wesley Parish On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 17:18, you wrote: Hi there, Jason wrote: Ok Nick, you wanted your reason for inititating legal action - here it is (I think): I think the answer for Linux is to remove the code, add a different code that accomplishes the same thing, and give the big fat

Re: URGENT ASSISTANCE REQUIRED

2003-08-14 Thread Wesley Parish
I got a couple of those scam emails the other day, so I forwarded them to each other, with advice that they should marry each other, and offering my services as a Certified Marriage Commiserant. They haven't replied - they don't know what they're missing! Wesley Parish On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 10

Re: List help requested - response to govt position on Open Source

2003-08-14 Thread Wesley Parish
I made a few suggestions myself, being in his electorate. It seemed that he would be interested. Wesley Parish On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:24, you wrote: Hi All, I have just recently had a meeting with Tim Barnett (MP) on a few issues including OSS/Open Format use and adoption at the government

Re: Request for meeting summary

2003-08-06 Thread Wesley Parish
I would've put my hand up, if and only if I could've afforded it. But seeing as there is no such thing as work in New Zealand Wesley Parish On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 18:12, you wrote: On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 12:53, you wrote: - Christopher S and David K discussed that LPI Linux course thing

Re: OS/2 cdrom disk formats

2003-08-04 Thread Wesley Parish
And that's the version I installed on a superannuated 486 I've got. It's nice, a trifle slow on 20 MB, but ... Wesley Parish On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 16:42, you wrote: bought it? it was free on some australian pc mag a few years back (maybe 2 years) along with redhat approx 6.2 and the giveaway

Trade Practices Act Is Basis for Australian Complaint Against SCO

2003-07-31 Thread Wesley Parish
Well, Nick Rout, what do you think? And everybody else? Wesley Parish http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7037mode=order=0 -- 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

The Civil Society - Open Letter to PM about the NZ Govt's recent agreement with Microsoft

2003-07-31 Thread Wesley Parish
- and if someone could pass it on to the other LUGS in NZ, that would be par for the course. Wesley Parish Wesley Parish Christchurch The Rt. Hon. Helen Clark Prime Minister Dear Prime Minister It is with some dismay and indeed disgust that I read that New Zealand had entered into a contract

Re: SCO and Nick Rout =)

2003-07-24 Thread Wesley Parish
to run on it, by the simple expedient of overcharging due of overhigh royalties they were being charged themselves. There were more than that one, of course, and most of them went to the wall under the gentle administration of MS Win NT's hype. And in that way the West was lost ... Wesley

Fwd: Re: It does get cold in Tomsk .....

2003-07-24 Thread Wesley Parish
Just thought people might like to know what the Russian Penguin is wearing this winter... Wesley Parish -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: It does get cold in Tomsk . Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 20:22 From: Waite, Dick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Grand Day

Have a look at what Microsoft is eating ...

2003-07-10 Thread Wesley Parish
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10413 Is it humble pie, crow or their own dog sh*t? (Dog Sh*t is a very, very highly processed form of dog food. Not currently stocked or sold in supermarkets - to the best of my knowledge, that is.) Wesley Parish -- Mau e ki, He aha te mea nui? You ask

Job, anybody?

2003-07-05 Thread Wesley Parish
what is offered via the Loans Scheme's exiguous handouts; I would also like to imagine that NZ employers would be supportive of people willing to study. And in addition I would like to be able to afford more backup than what the PC's floppy gives me. Please let me know if you can help. Wesley

Jetstream bill was : Re: Test run for Gentoo install fest

2003-06-27 Thread Wesley Parish
their accounting procedures. Ask about the software they used to keep tally. Ask about the likeliehood that they messed up but good. Don't let the Fsckwits get away with it. Or they'll do it again. Wesley Parish Cheers all, Chris (the soon to be bankrupt) Brad Beveridge wrote: Safety - generally

Fwd: RE: About your NeTraverse LUG Sponsorship program

2003-06-24 Thread Wesley Parish
as a valuable way of getting the foot in the door, so to speak. If companies can get the stability of Linux and keep their office systems running without pause, we may just get a few more of them on our side. So, it's up to us - what do we want to do with it? Wesley Parish -- Forwarded

Gentoo Linux booting

2003-06-24 Thread Wesley Parish
I've got Nick's Gentoo Linux 50 MB cdrom booting in bochs. A bit slow, but then, I haven't got the plex86 add-on synced with bochs - or at least that's what I think the problem is. Wesley Parish -- Mau e ki, He aha te mea nui? You ask, What is the most important thing? Maku e ki, He tangata

rpc.ypxfrd - considered harmful?

2003-06-23 Thread Wesley Parish
I just did a ps axe on my Mandrake 9.1 box, and discovered this: rpc.ypxfrd Is it considered harmful? I must confess, the thought of having a rpc.* running on my machine does worry me. Thanks in advance. Wesley Parish -- Mau e ki, He aha te mea nui? You ask, What is the most important thing

Re: desktop publishing

2003-06-21 Thread Wesley Parish
good - but so far I haven't been doing terribly much with it - I've got some experience with MS Publisher, though, and I find it easy to transfer my skills across. Wesley Parish On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 19:42, you wrote: Can anyone recommend any simple desktop publishing programs The missus likes

Minor prob with paradise.net.nz

2003-06-20 Thread Wesley Parish
slashdot.org, seems to have faded away, yahoo.com won't resolve, and likewise debian.org ... ditto a good number of others Anyone got any hints, ideas? Thansk in advance Wesley Parish -- Mau e ki, He aha te mea nui? You ask, What is the most important thing? Maku e ki, He tangata, he tangata

Re: Web Page Authoring Software

2003-06-13 Thread Wesley Parish
know I've got to redo it. Wesley Parish On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 19:33, you wrote: Hi there, David Mann wrote: BTW the tutor who taught the DW course I went on last year was of the opinion that you should only bother writing for MSIE. And he's done pages for several high-profile businesses

Re: Linux for Windows Programmers

2003-06-09 Thread Wesley Parish
Then there's that monumentally thick Wrox book, Professional Linux Programming. Covers practically everything from cvs to GTK and QT to Postgres to php, etc ... I don't know if it's still being printed though - Wrox was reported to be going through some difficult times. Wesley Parish On Mon

Re: Hardware

2003-06-09 Thread Wesley Parish
How much are they going for? And where would you be - I can't travel outside of CHCH - ain't got no car. Wesley Parish On Mon, 09 Jun 2003 12:24, Adam wrote: Hello all, Apologies if this sort of post is not allowed I have about 15 boxes that I want to get rid of, brought them awhile

Re: Gentoo (was Re: Mandrake 9.1)

2003-06-06 Thread Wesley Parish
Well, why not! I was thinking, if I ever got started with an selinux port to s/390, I'd call it the Emperor Penguin - able to withstand the most frigid of environments, the fiercest winds, and still survive on last summer's fat! Wesley Parish On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 14:28, you wrote: Fisher

Re: A question I asked before

2003-06-06 Thread Wesley Parish
button. I think I'll have to take that up with the kde people. But thanks to everyone who replied. Wesley Parish On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 00:45, you wrote: I am having hassles with Mandrake 9.1's ideas of how it should inconsistently handle the right mouse button - I asked if anyone had any idea

Fwd: Gentoo Selinux demo machine

2003-06-05 Thread Wesley Parish
Here's something for all the Gentoo users out there - you know you want to do it! Wesley Parish -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Gentoo Selinux demo machine Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 15:53 From: Joshua Brindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] As many of you probably know

A question I asked before

2003-06-05 Thread Wesley Parish
? I've gone into konqueror's set-up details, I've gone into the kde setup details, nothing seems to work. I much prefer having the right mouse button bring up the local menu - I'm used to it. Any help would be gratefully accepted. Wesley Parish -- Mau e ki, He aha te mea nui? You ask, What

Problem with Mandrake 9.1 and mouse

2003-06-03 Thread Wesley Parish
me up the wall. Wesley Parish -- 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 C programming (Re: Help with code)

2003-03-28 Thread Wesley Parish
matters like the debugger, etc. Anyway, that's just my observation. Everybody else writes perfect code, I assume ;) Wesley Parish On Friday 28 March 2003 12:07 am, you wrote: Hi Daniel, Get a good book on C or C++ programming, and learn to use the debugger and step through your programs and take

Re: OSTC Library

2003-03-26 Thread Wesley Parish
assorted Slackware sets. Enough for a hysterical raisons setup? Wesley Parish On Wednesday 26 March 2003 11:40 am, you wrote: On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 11:24, David Kirk wrote: If you have something else that you think should be in the library, let me know. I have slackware 3.0, redhat 2.1

About Basilisk II and Mac ROMs

2003-03-25 Thread Wesley Parish
running, including a web browser in Contiki running on VICE, the C64 emulator) Any help would be gratefully received. Wesley Parish -- 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: OSTC Courses

2003-03-24 Thread Wesley Parish
I am interested in learning Perl. The which meaning of course I am hardly in a position to teach it. Wesley Parish On Monday 24 March 2003 03:04 pm, you wrote: We had the Samba course last Tuesday night. It seemed to go quite well. There were four of us there. Nobody has posted any feedback

making use of old equipment

2003-03-22 Thread Wesley Parish
? Or alternatively, does anyone know about suitable recent-era BIOSes and how to replace them? Any help would be gratefully accepted. Wesley Parish -- 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: Lost and Found

2003-03-15 Thread Wesley Parish
I count it a success that my RedHat install actually finished. That though it seemed to take all day to get under way, once the partitioning issues were sorted out, it just went ahead and installed. Wesley Parish On Saturday 15 March 2003 09:17 pm, you wrote: My RedHat installs went OK

Re: OSTC Courses

2003-03-12 Thread Wesley Parish
I'm interested in learning Perl. Wesley Parish On Wednesday 12 March 2003 12:32 pm, you wrote: Hey, There is a SAMBA course tonight at 6:00pm. It's not to late to sign up if you are interested. We have a teacher for the PHP course. For those people who were interested in this course

Re: OSTC Courses - Attn : Jason Greenwood.

2003-03-12 Thread Wesley Parish
I suppose I may as well bite the bullet. With a Win95 - OS/2 machine connected to my Linux Machine, I may as well know how to connect the two. Wesley Parish On Wednesday 12 March 2003 04:06 pm, you wrote: Jason and Mahesh, Thanks Mahesh, much appreciated. If that's cool, I'll be keen

Re: This morning's Press / MasterTrade

2003-02-27 Thread Wesley Parish
of a self-taught AS/400 sysadmin/programmer be worth to the likes of MasterTrade? Midrange sysadmins and programmers don't come in Weetbix packets. Wesley Parish On Thursday 27 February 2003 09:08 am, you wrote: I have some information about that Chris - I work for MasterTrade

Re: apparent file system bloating

2003-02-18 Thread Wesley Parish
On Tuesday 18 February 2003 01:52 am, you wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 12:48:59PM +1300, Wesley Parish wrote: I've just checked, and there is a file mvs38j.tar.gz, and it clocks in at 407.2 MB, but the mvs38j directory clocks in at 419.2 MB. So much for gzip's compression ratio - I am

User-Mode-Linux booting

2003-02-12 Thread Wesley Parish
with some other password combo to get out. Wesley Parish -- 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: Ugh

2003-02-12 Thread Wesley Parish
at all. Well, start with Free/Open Source Software that runs on Windows, stuff like OpenOffice.org and OpenWatcom, etc. Wesley Parish -- 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: MandrakeLinux-8.2-CD1.ppc.iso

2003-02-05 Thread Wesley Parish
computer. Wesley Parish ta dave. -- 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: Clug meetings

2003-02-01 Thread Wesley Parish
?) if anyone's truly interested. Wesley Parish I support this idea, I have much to learn about many things, from both the GUI CLI sides. Nicks suggestion of multimedia topics would be good, also demonstrations of some of the more common / awesome Linux apps that was spoken about last year. I

Re: HTML and Standards [was Dreamweaver]

2003-01-30 Thread Wesley Parish
Certainly doing it yourself can help avoid letting the world know your computer's OS and application details - a security detail that Microsoft HTM violates with glee. Wesley Parish On Thursday 30 January 2003 10:18 am, you wrote: My understanding was in order to create high standard web

Re: MS troll

2003-01-30 Thread Wesley Parish
could report back to the users group on its strengths and weaknesses so you would know what to expect. Wesley Parish for the rest of the office, Linux should more than suffice IMHO. Regards, J DSA wrote: -Original Message- Now I'm not a bigot here, and I'm always ready to listen

Re: Open Source Technology Centre

2002-12-20 Thread Wesley Parish
I've got a coupla cdroms with PC-DOS 7 and Win3.1 on them, one of which I've used to install Win3.1 on bichs. Wesley Parish On Friday 20 December 2002 02:34 pm, you wrote: I have a Win 95 upgrade still in the box - still wrapped. I think it is win95A though... I don't think I can use

Re: Go Vik!! - The ultimate D-I-Y PC

2002-12-12 Thread Wesley Parish
And if you go to opencollectors.org, you'll find details about a bunch of electronic engineers busily beavering away at writing the source code (in vhdl, verilog and others) for the CPUs, memory chips, et al. Wesley Parish On Thursday 12 December 2002 09:58 am, you wrote: *The ultimate D-I-Y

Fwd: [discuss] Autorun CD with Menu ISO available for distributors etc

2002-12-05 Thread Wesley Parish
Just thought some of us might be interested. Wesley Parish -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [discuss] Autorun CD with Menu ISO available for distributors etc Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:35:57 +1100 From: Justin Fitzgibbon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: What do you use BroadBand for?

2002-12-04 Thread Wesley Parish
frame relay! As a home user, I'd _love_ to be on frame relay! I have as much chance of that as I have of growing wings and flying to the moon. Wesley Parish -- 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

Re: OT: Quiet day - want an Xterminal

2002-11-29 Thread Wesley Parish
On Friday 29 November 2002 03:59 pm, you wrote: Right - I have a total of 22 x Thinstar 300 WinCE terminals with built-in PSU P133 based thin client with 10/100 Mbit TP ethernet One cooling fan (quiet) Requires standard VGA monitor and PS2 keyboard and mouse These are

Re: For what it's worth

2002-11-20 Thread Wesley Parish
On Wednesday 20 November 2002 07:01 pm, you wrote: Wesley Parish wrote: I did a brief OO.org-install.HOWTO (Windows) for the course I'm doing, and handed it around to the rest of the staff at Molten Media. They seemed to think it had merit. They also liked the idea that with it you

For what it's worth

2002-11-19 Thread Wesley Parish
is ugly. With any luck that means they'll be offering it to customers. Wesley Parish -- 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: linus, god and operating systems. (was: Meeting reminder)

2002-11-18 Thread Wesley Parish
/C++ compiler springs to mind - http://www.tendra.org/ - that would be languishing in some dark governmental dungeon if someone hadn't seen what was happening with gcc. Wesley Parish Cheers, -- Mau e ki, He aha te mea nui? You ask, What is the most important thing? Maku e ki, He tangata, he

Re: Installfest Mail-list

2002-11-16 Thread Wesley Parish
I might as well join in the fun ...! [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wesley Parish (Install experiences with Mandrake, RedHat, Slackware, SLS! Yippee!) -- 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: Dick Smith Linux Systems

2002-11-13 Thread Wesley Parish
and His Merry Men the IDF, was that they had also trashed at least one promising microbrewery there. Oh the humanity! Wesley Parish -Original Message- From: Yuri de Groot [mailto:yuri;clear.net.nz] Sent: Wednesday, 13 November 2002 10:18 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re

Re: OS/2 Linux (Was: yada yada short-cut yada Microsoft OS's for free?)

2002-11-12 Thread Wesley Parish
it is by far the best DOS-model OS I've ever come across. Wesley Parish On Tuesday 12 November 2002 12:42 pm, Yuri de Groot wrote: I had same mag - OS/2 license seemed to be: if you got the mag with the disk you can have the s/w. An Australian mag had BeOS, Redhat 6.1 and OS/2 on 3 cd's a year

Re: CLUG funds update, etc.

2002-10-16 Thread Wesley Parish
. And they are a community trust. I'm sure they would be delighted. Wesley Parish We probably don't have enough to equip a small school with LTSP?? A desktop machine for some community group? -- 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

Re: Talks/teachings for the CLUG meetings...

2002-10-11 Thread Wesley Parish
enough - if anything about setting up a DNS server/link, etc. I tried once, and couldn't contact the 'Net at all. Incredibly frustrating. Wesley Parish Maybe even going into the Flashier side of Apache (what it's capable of), Sendmail Vs Exim or other such email servers, The New Directory

Re: Sparcstations

2002-10-05 Thread Wesley Parish
On Saturday 05 October 2002 02:46 am, Peter Elliott wrote: On Fri, 04 Oct 2002 11:21:07 +1200 Wesley Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I went in today to Molten Media and was told by one of the staff members that Monday evening's the final day and then if they haven't been sold

Re: Need help with fstab

2002-09-30 Thread Wesley Parish
of the problem might be that there is no leading / in =dev/scd0 That would indeed throw things out of kilter. Wesley Parish Bill Hello all, I am recently up and running with Mandrake 9.0 (very pretty!) and am having trouble accessing my floppy, cd and Zip drives. In my fstab I have

Re: Booting after Hard drive's reconfigured

2002-09-28 Thread Wesley Parish
/hdb? then go into /etc and edit lilo.conf to accept the changes. then run lilo and it will install itself onto the MBR. That's always worked for me. Wesley Parish cheers Paul -- Mau e ki, He aha te mea nui? You ask, What is the most important thing? Maku e ki, He tangata, he tangata, he

Re: Sparcstations and Linux

2002-09-27 Thread Wesley Parish
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 23:46, Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 23:32, Wesley Parish wrote: snip What kind of Sparcstations are they? Sparcstation Is, Sparcstation I+s, Sparcstation IIs. Correction: There is an SLC and an ELC as well. The ELC has had its motherboard ripped

Re: Sparcstations and Linux

2002-09-26 Thread Wesley Parish
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 23:46, Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 23:32, Wesley Parish wrote: On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 21:49, you wrote: Wesley Parish wrote: The question is, is anyone in the Linux community in Christchurch or surrounding countryside, interested in a Sun

Sparcstations and Linux

2002-09-25 Thread Wesley Parish
. and I'll get on to arranging it with Molten Media. Wesley Parish -- 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: Sparcstations and Linux

2002-09-25 Thread Wesley Parish
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 21:49, you wrote: Wesley Parish wrote: The question is, is anyone in the Linux community in Christchurch or surrounding countryside, interested in a Sun Sparcstation running Linux? And how much would you be prepared to offer? Man, I have too many computers already

Re: Not Booting with Reiserfs

2002-09-24 Thread Wesley Parish
of a power supply slowing dying. I've had that happen to me twice; I presume that means I know what I'm talking about. My advice - buy a new power supply and test the performance with it in - if it's the power supply, you'll find your problem solved. Wesley Parish tim http

Re: Not Booting with Reiserfs

2002-09-23 Thread Wesley Parish
. A lot of problems with computers are actually caused by misbehaving power supplies. Wesley Parish Trevor -- 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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