Re: ethereal's icon

2005-03-23 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Unfortunatly only with necessary security updates. That is why I am still running kernel 2.6.8. But once they even gave us a KDE3.3 upgrade for free. Don't worry Chris, so does SuSE -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants

Re: ethereal's icon

2005-03-23 Thread Roger Searle
ahhh look at that the ethereal icon on my desktop at last !!! Roger Searle wrote: indeed i do know. thanks for doing that for me. roger Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:23, Nick Rout wrote: I will email them off list later. I've sent him a 64x64, I hope he

Re: Gentoo Installfest (in Robert's garage)

2005-03-23 Thread Robert Fisher
Robert Himmelmann said: Am I right in thinking that you mean 9PM? No no. 9 am. With decent hardware and a pre read of the install docs (to give you an understanding) you should have a decent system running by mid afternoon. -- Robert Fisher www.fisher.net.nz

Re: ethereal's icon

2005-03-23 Thread Robert Himmelmann
The difference is also that on GNU/Linux you get very often new versions. Just consider KDE: About 3 new versions in a year. I will not try to count all the new kernel-version. On windows on the other hand there were six versions within the past ten years: 95, 98, NT, ME, 2000, XP. The same is

PC problem

2005-03-23 Thread Wesley Parish
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 that the CPU's fan is actually going, which it is; that may have something to do with it. But

Re: PC problem

2005-03-23 Thread Nick Rout
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 that the CPU's fan is actually going, which it

Re: PC problem

2005-03-23 Thread Andrew Errington
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 21:34, you wrote: 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. It would be worth running memtest86 overnight (or other suitably long period). That would remove suspicion from RAM and

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
Quoting Andrew Errington [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 21:34, you wrote: 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. It would be worth running memtest86 overnight (or other suitably long

Re: PC problem

2005-03-23 Thread Nick Rout
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): DeviceBoot Start End Blocks ID System /dev/hda1 * 1

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 Nick Rout
On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 22:28 +1200, Wesley Parish wrote: Quoting Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]: the complete output? please? // Disk /dev/hda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot

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

Re: PC problem

2005-03-23 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
It would be worth running memtest86 overnight (or other suitably long period). That would remove suspicion from RAM and CPU. Memtest would only be testing a very minor part of the CPU, and that's only a side-effect. It's not a CPU tester. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is

Re: Gentoo Installfest (in Robert's garage)

2005-03-23 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Which install docs? Robert Himmelmann said: Am I right in thinking that you mean 9PM? No no. 9 am. With decent hardware and a pre read of the install docs (to give you an understanding) you should have a decent system running by mid afternoon. -- Happy Hacking, Robert Himmelmann A classic is

Re: Gentoo Installfest (in Robert's garage)

2005-03-23 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 07:45 +1200, Robert Himmelmann wrote: Which install docs? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/index.xml Robert Himmelmann said: Am I right in thinking that you mean 9PM? No no. 9 am. With decent hardware and a pre read of the install docs (to give you an

Re: Gentoo Installfest (in Robert's garage)

2005-03-23 Thread Robert Fisher
Robert Himmelmann said: Which install docs? Go to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/index.xml I will be printing these for the day too. -- Robert Fisher www.fisher.net.nz

Re: PC problem

2005-03-23 Thread Derek Smithies
Hi, Assumptions are a dangerous thing. you poppped the lid, and the fan is going. But is the fan going at the normal speed ? Does the fan have dust in it, and is operating at 25% of normal speed? What is the mechanism for the disk drive partition table causing the cpu to overheat? At worst,

Re: PC problem

2005-03-23 Thread Andrew Errington
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 00:06, you wrote: It would be worth running memtest86 overnight (or other suitably long period). That would remove suspicion from RAM and CPU. Memtest would only be testing a very minor part of the CPU, and that's only a side-effect. It's not a CPU tester. That's as

Red Hat 9 (Shrike)

2005-03-23 Thread sirlancelot
A quick inquirey. One of the chaps in out IT department here at work is looking for a copy of Red Hat 9 (shrike). He has tried downloading it but it apparantly keeps stalling. Does anybody have a copy that he could duplicate if that is permissable, or buy if need be? Thanks Lance

Re: Red Hat 9 (Shrike)

2005-03-23 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
Does anybody have a copy that he could duplicate I can cut you a copy of the 5 CDs, including the updates up to a certain point. 1 DVD. Permissable is a non-issue. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/

Re: Red Hat 9 (Shrike)

2005-03-23 Thread sirlancelot
Thanks Volker. Could I get you to cut it to DVD for me please - I'll get a replacement disc for you - any preference of brand? Lance B - Original Message - From: Volker Kuhlmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 10:47 AM Subject: Re: Red