On Friday 14 October 2005 14:38, Scott McFarlane wrote:
Hi there
can someone please point me to a bootable gentoo disto cd
Assuming you are asking for an image of a cd off the net rather than a
physical CD to pop in the drive.
Hi,
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Carl Cerecke wrote:
Second Moral: Backups or version control systems are a Good Idea.
yes,
I know of one commercial linux provider who has his entire /etc directory
in CVS.
=
One of those laws:
there are two times when you can test the quality of your backup
On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 19:12 +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Friday 14 October 2005 14:38, Scott McFarlane wrote:
Hi there
can someone please point me to a bootable gentoo disto cd
Assuming you are asking for an image of a cd off the net rather than a
physical CD to pop in the drive.
Perhaps the Ubuntu users who want to try Qemu would like this link.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=39513
--
Regards, Robert
--
Robert Fisher
(aka - Rob, Bob, Robbie, Robbo, Fish)
FishNet Computer Electrical Services
On Thursday 13 October 2005 19:37, Derek Smithies wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Carl Cerecke wrote:
Second Moral: Backups or version control systems are a Good Idea.
Which one do you recommend?
yes,
I know of one commercial linux provider who has his entire /etc directory
in CVS.
trick
trick type=further enumerated
Excellent idea Chris. I use this myself to protect important files from
accidental deletion. However using the command;
touch -i
to create a file named -i creates an error. This is easily solved by using the
double minus option. This tells the shell to interpret
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 20:13, Barry wrote:
I have again been put off [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc
Finally installed win98 after help from Wes - thanks Wes
Well I think that Windows (even the 10 year old version) installs fairly
easily IMHO.
But no cdrom access. What steps do I now take to access a
On Thu, October 13, 2005 8:13 pm, Barry said:
I have again been put off [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc
Finally installed win98 after help from Wes - thanks Wes
But no cdrom access. What steps do I now take to access a cdrom drive?
Found this page which some may find useful ...
On Oct 13, 2005, at 7:37 PM, Derek Smithies wrote:
yes,
I know of one commercial linux provider who has his entire /etc
directory
in CVS.
Not a bad idea. I tend to use CDR myself but I don't update anything
in /etc very often.
On the day I accidentally typed:
rm -rf /etc/*
when I
On Thu, October 13, 2005 10:11 pm, Robert Fisher said:
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 20:13, Barry wrote:
I have again been put off [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc
Finally installed win98 after help from Wes - thanks Wes
Well I think that Windows (even the 10 year old version) installs fairly
easily IMHO.
But
Nick Rout wrote:
On Thu, October 13, 2005 8:13 pm, Barry said:
.
Found this page which some may find useful ...
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Qemu
one other option, if network is not running use -dummy-net as the 1st
option to qemu
Barry
qemu -cdrom /dev/hdc (plus
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 06:46, Robert Fisher wrote:
Cashbook - for my business accounting.
I tried Quasar but it was not really suited for NZ and I found it overly
complicated.
Robert, through a suggestion you kindly made some time back I started to run
GNUcash for my Korfball accounting duties.
Ah nostalgia!
An evening of retro fun. I find it rather amusing to have Novell DOS 7, and
Win3.11 running on (Novell) Suse 10. QEMU seems to work really well! Here's a
shot of me running solitaire.
http://homepages./dale/snapshot1.png
Hmmm. The possibilities are endless,
Hi folks,
I'm just trialling Xandros (thx Paul S), but to keep using it easily I
need to overcome an install default.
Lilo wanted my MBR, and stopping it meant creating a boot floppy. I want
to shift these contents to /boot and point Grub from another
partition-distro-install at this /boot.
Hmmm. Don't know what happened to that link. The host for that url is
homepages dot maxnet dot co dot nz
Should you actually want to see Windows 3.11 in action.
Dale Ogilvie
OK well there doesn't seem to be a big problem as far as I can tell.
I have windows 2000 running on qemu, on a (gentoo) linux host.
I am using user-mode networking, with qemu getting the ip address
10.0.2.15. The host machine is 192.168.1.10 on a lan with windows and
linux machines.
I posted
On Thursday 13 October 2005 23:29, Ralph Stoker wrote:
Also, what in your estimation was the NZ in-compatibility with Quasar?
I've spent a day or two fiddling around with Quasar and came to the following
conclusions:-
1) It is far too comprehensive and complex for the normal Kiwi 'One Man plus
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 23:29, Ralph Stoker wrote:
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 06:46, Robert Fisher wrote:
Cashbook - for my business accounting.
I tried Quasar but it was not really suited for NZ and I found it overly
complicated.
Robert, through a suggestion you kindly made some time back I
On Thu, October 13, 2005 11:39 pm, Xandros Desktop OS User said:
Hi folks,
I'm just trialling Xandros (thx Paul S), but to keep using it easily I
need to overcome an install default.
Lilo wanted my MBR, and stopping it meant creating a boot floppy. I want
to shift these contents to /boot and
On 13/10/05, Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
trick type=geriatric unix hacker's
putting an empty file named -i in a directory will save your sanity, and the
possible amputation of your rh thumb, if you, by mistake, issue the command
rm * .o
^
note the erroneous space
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 00:01, Nick Rout wrote:
OK well there doesn't seem to be a big problem as far as I can tell.
I have windows 2000 running on qemu, on a (gentoo) linux host.
I'll see you and raise you to WinXP Pro
In win2k in qemu, I start explorer (windows exp not internet exp) and can
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 08:26, Robert Fisher wrote:
No need. I believe you.
And I can add that I have a 1280x1024 Qemu WinXP display
and the delays and intermittent nature of Win98 semm to not be present with
WinXP
--
Regards, Robert
On Friday 14 October 2005 07:36, Carl Cerecke wrote:
On 13/10/05, Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
trick type=geriatric unix hacker's
putting an empty file named -i in a directory will save your sanity, and
the possible amputation of your rh thumb, if you, by mistake, issue the
Jamie Dobbs wrote:
Having just built myself a new AMD64 3200+ machine I've been playing
around with Gentoo for AMD 64 and must say that I am pretty impressed with
the overall speed, but a little concerned about the lack of applications
that have been ported to 64bit (no Openoffice yet for
On Fri, October 14, 2005 7:36 am, Carl Cerecke wrote:
On 13/10/05, Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
trick type=geriatric unix hacker's
putting an empty file named -i in a directory will save your sanity, and
the
possible amputation of your rh thumb, if you, by mistake, issue the
On Friday 14 October 2005 09:00, Steve Holdoway wrote:
On Fri, October 14, 2005 7:36 am, Carl Cerecke wrote:
On 13/10/05, Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
trick type=geriatric unix hacker's
putting an empty file named -i in a directory will save your sanity, and
the
possible
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:04, Robert Himmelmann wrote:
I have Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo, Fedora and SuSE (not yet SUSE) on my
laptop. Debian does work but there have been no updates for almost half
a year, so I do not recommend it.
Debian-amd64 moved servers about 6 months ago. There is now a good
Sorry I missed the meeting and for the most part haven't been following the thread.
I have a rescue disk with Win ME ('cos no-one wil buy me) on it. Would I be able to install windows using qemu from that?
--Slosh
On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 17:32 +1300, Ross Drummond wrote:
Progress report
Downloaded and compiled qemu.
I could not get qemu to compile.
I managed to install win2k and get it to boot but it hangs during boot
complaing that that a dll is missing.
The installation is very CPU memory and
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 ('cos no-one wil buy me) on it. Would I
be able to install windows using qemu from that?
Possibly, but remember that
Lee Begg wrote:
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:04, Robert Himmelmann wrote:
I have Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo, Fedora and SuSE (not yet SUSE) on my
laptop. Debian does work but there have been no updates for almost half
a year, so I do not recommend it.
Debian-amd64 moved servers about 6 months
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Thursday 13 October 2005 19:37, Derek Smithies wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Carl Cerecke wrote:
Second Moral: Backups or version control systems are a Good Idea.
Which one do you recommend?
pdumpfs. It uses hardlinks for multiple backups.
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 ('cos no-one wil buy me) on it. Would I be able to install windows
On Friday 14 October 2005 10:56, Robert Himmelmann wrote:
pdumpfs. It uses hardlinks for multiple backups.
Hey, that looks really good. Many thanks!
--
CS
Got a box yesterday. It's got 1 printed manual in it, and 6 disks:
installation CD 1-5 for x86, and a dual-layer installation DVD for x86
and AMD64/EMT64. The sources DVD is missing, probably to do with the
fact that the cost of the box is now less than half.
The disks in the box contain various
As a follow up - mtx seems to do everything needed for changers.
And the exabyte has a barcode reader ?! Seems that you barcode your tapes
:)
-Original Message-
From: David Mann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, 10 October 2005 5:56 p.m.
To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz
On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 23:55 +0200, Robert Himmelmann wrote:
I am actually not sure where some of my applications are running and
wheter they are 32 or 64bit.
cosc4110:~$ file /bin/ls
/bin/ls: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for
GNU/Linux 2.2.5, dynamically linked
On 13/10/05, Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 13 October 2005 19:37, Derek Smithies wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Carl Cerecke wrote:
Second Moral: Backups or version control systems are a Good Idea.
Which one do you recommend?
In most cases, both :-)
On Friday 14 October 2005 11:18, Carl Cerecke wrote:
On 13/10/05, Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 13 October 2005 19:37, Derek Smithies wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Carl Cerecke wrote:
Second Moral: Backups or version control systems are a Good Idea.
On Friday 14 October 2005 11:29, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Friday 14 October 2005 11:18, Carl Cerecke wrote:
On 13/10/05, Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 13 October 2005 19:37, Derek Smithies wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Carl Cerecke wrote:
On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 11:32 +1300, Hadley Rich wrote:
Subversion to rule them all.
I looked at a number of free version-control systems early this year and
came to the conclusion that Subversion was the best of the commonly
available (free) systems.
--
Michael JasonSmith
Hey,
On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 11:48 +1300, Michael JasonSmith wrote:
On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 11:32 +1300, Hadley Rich wrote:
Subversion to rule them all.
I looked at a number of free version-control systems early this year and
came to the conclusion that Subversion was the best of the commonly
I've had mine installed at home for a couple of days. I was up and running
pretty quickly - no install issues, as expected these days. I was a little
disappointed they didn't refresh the look from 10RC1, IMHO Suse 9.3 looks
nicer coming up. Basic blue is just that - basic. The box is
On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 12:16 +1300, Glynn Foster wrote:
Dunno about that - baz-ng is looking pretty interesting.
http://www.bazaar-ng.org/
Obviously very early stages of development though.
I was evaluating the systems to determine which should be used by the
third-year students, so the
On Friday 14 October 2005 13:16, Dale Yvonne Ogilvie wrote:
2. I was trying out a couple of the kde games kolf and another, and the
desktop went into molasses mode. 2 seconds of unresponsive desktop, move
the mouse a little, two more seconds of unresponsive desktop etc...
Sounds to me as if
On Fri, October 14, 2005 2:38 pm, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Friday 14 October 2005 13:16, Dale Yvonne Ogilvie wrote:
2. I was trying out a couple of the kde games kolf and another, and
the
desktop went into molasses mode. 2 seconds of unresponsive desktop, move
the mouse a little, two
was a little disappointed they didn't refresh the look from 10RC1,
I liked it - guess you can never cater for all tastes.
The box is definitely cut back from 9.3 days.
True. So is the price...
I guess they do have a point - how many people really use the source
packages?
The stick works
Peter Glassenbury wrote:
I didn't realise until recently that there was the command
/usr/bin/sensors but it gives interesting info.
Useful, thanks. Do many distros have it? Xandros=not.
Rik, testing..
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 16:39:21 +1300
rik-Xandros wrote:
Peter Glassenbury wrote:
I didn't realise until recently that there was the command
/usr/bin/sensors but it gives interesting info.
Useful, thanks. Do many distros have it? Xandros=not.
Rik, testing..
Probably in lm-sensors
I had strange freeze ups in Suse 10 while playing kolf...
I'll have a look at the glxinfo | grep 'direct rendering' later. The card is a
NVidia FX5200, I've done the standard Suse fetchnvidia stuff to install the
nvidia drivers.
Out of memory? I've got 2G of RAM so I would certainly hope
Helped a neighbour set up his winmodem last night. Of course he has been
putting off sorting the modem for so long that he now has Mandrake 9.2 -
probably really needs a whole new distro! Still he is keen so thats
good.
The sm56 rpm package for mandrake 9.x series worked very well. Its a bit
On Friday 14 October 2005 16:39, you wrote:
Peter Glassenbury wrote:
I didn't realise until recently that there was the command
/usr/bin/sensors but it gives interesting info.
Useful, thanks. Do many distros have it? Xandros=not.
Provided you have acpid running try the command:
find
Volker's Sounds like 9.2 USB plug to me... goes over my head... Que?
Just a dig... Up to 9.2, a plug event starts up a complete hardware
scan, in the process of which 150% of CPU is consumed, the interrupts
are turned off half of the time (lost key strokes, frozen system), and
it takes rather a
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
Provided you have acpid running try the command:
find /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0/ -type f -exec echo {} \; -exec cat {} \;
Nice -v :
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo find /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0/ -type f
-exec echo {} \; -exec cat {} \;
We trust you have
Try /proc/acpi/thermal_zone instead. My tosh's detail is under THRM.
Steve
On Fri, October 14, 2005 5:27 pm, rik-Xandros-test wrote:
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
Provided you have acpid running try the command:
find /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0/ -type f -exec echo {} \; -exec cat {}
\;
direct rendering is on it would seem
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ glxinfo | grep 'direct rendering'
direct rendering: Yes
Dale
Aha!..
rik-Xandros-test wrote:
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
Provided you have acpid running try the command:
find /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0/ -type f -exec echo {} \; -exec
cat {} \;
P4-Xandros3-0:/home/rik# find /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/ -type f
-exec echo {} \; -exec cat {} \;
On Friday 14 October 2005 17:40, Steve Holdoway wrote:
Try /proc/acpi/thermal_zone instead. My tosh's detail is under THRM.
I didn't need the sudo stuff either. Those parameters should be readable by
ordinary users.
On Fri, October 14, 2005 5:27 pm, rik-Xandros-test wrote:
Christopher
Joshua Collins wrote:
On 10/14/05, *Christopher Sawtell* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
remember that there are very good reasons that nobody will buy
your copy of Win-ME
That was actually intended as nothing more than a joke :P. It's a
phrase my flatmate often
Nick Rout wrote:
Peter Glassenbury wrote:
/usr/bin/sensors gives interesting info.
Probably in lm-sensors IIRC.
P4-Xandros3-0:/home/rik# find lm-sensors
find: lm-sensors: No such file or directory
P4-Xandros3-0:/home/rik# which lm-sensors
P4-Xandros3-0:/home/rik# locate lm-sensors
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Friday 14 October 2005 17:40, Steve Holdoway wrote:
Try /proc/acpi/thermal_zone instead. My tosh's detail is under THRM.
I didn't need the sudo stuff either. Those parameters should be readable by
ordinary users.
Ok, however my question was a simple one
On Friday 14 October 2005 18:39, rik-Xandros-test wrote:
Ok, however my question was a simple one of 'in which distro(s) is
/usr/bin/sensors ?'
And I still don't know which one(s).
As Nick said, it's in the lm-sensors package.
hads
--
Let's just say that where a change was required, I
On Friday 14 October 2005 18:39, rik-Xandros-test wrote:
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Friday 14 October 2005 17:40, Steve Holdoway wrote:
Try /proc/acpi/thermal_zone instead. My tosh's detail is under THRM.
I didn't need the sudo stuff either. Those parameters should be readable
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