On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 11:04, Mike Beattie wrote:
*snip*
A lot of folks miss one of the most discouraging facts about mplayer.. the
authors are quite happy to completely disregard copyright law, and steal
codec information,
*snip*
IMO the word steal does not apply here. Possibly plagiarise
The permissions on a directory mounted as vfat are normally rwxrwxrwx
and this will follow for most of the subdirectories/files. A dos/win
directory entry does not hold linux type permissions, only the dos rash
attributes. The w may not apply to some windows system files and I know
from testing
In MHO, we have a PC war going on as follows:
- Dell wants market share so tries the red shed as an outlet
- Tosh also wants market share so tries the blue shed
- Acer wants to lead the pack so adds another retailer to widen its grasp
and backs existing partners.
- And now, Packard Bell is
Sorry Nick, I am looking for some guidance, however I could probably run
through the Guarddog procedure, its set out quite clearly apart from 2
gotchas. That would take about 15 mins and then someone else could
explain what it did to iptables etc
Barry
Nick Rout wrote:
excellent, having
I personally use in these settings in fstab and have a special windows
group.
/dev/hda1 /mnt/c vfat
gid=windows,umask=0070 0
which gives these permissions on a directory/files.
drwxrwx--- 46 root windows 16384 Nov 15 16:39 windows
Thanks, I just
Paul William wrote:
2) the price of Windows(tm) to PC manufacturers is close to $0.00
I saw XP pro selling for $600 @ DSE a couple of days ago .. I dont think
they are giving it 2 OEM manufactures for next too nothing.
http://www.qmb.co.nz/p.aspx?100255
And qmb are definitely up there in
On Feb 10, 2004, at 8:48 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
so how is steal morally different to illegally use
Stealing something (physical) deprives the original owner of it's
use/value.
Illegally using it only deprives the owner while you are using it.
However, the duplication of software/data only
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 22:04:21 +1300
Jim Cheetham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Feb 10, 2004, at 8:48 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
so how is steal morally different to illegally use
Stealing something (physical) deprives the original owner of it's
use/value.
Illegally using it only deprives the
Hi there,
I'm having trouble mounting a USB 2.0 'Travelling Disk' memory stick.
I've followed many Google leads, including these:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1256701,00.asp
http://www.scotsnewsletter.com/forums/index.php?act=STf=14t=503st=206
but none of the instructions I've
Hi-ho all...
This is marginally OT, but as the installfest website currently lives on
the above domain I don't feel so bad. :-).
Anyone feel like taking it over? I'm considering taking the server it
lives on offline.
If someone on the list wants to take it over for hosting the installfest
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Hi there,
I'm having trouble mounting a USB 2.0 'Travelling Disk' memory stick.
I've followed many Google leads, including these:
snip
but none of the instructions I've followed have resulted in a
Sorry, I should have said. I've already tried mounting it, but it
always fails with this message:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] david]# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdrive
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
or too many mounted file systems
[EMAIL PROTECTED] david]#
I've
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On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 23:58, David Merriman wrote:
Sorry, I should have said. I've already tried mounting it, but it
always fails with this message:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] david]# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdrive
mount: wrong fs type, bad option,
Lee Begg wrote:
Ahh... i think i've had this problem before.
try mounting /dev/sda
Yes, a drive with no partition table, just a raw vfat file system on it. I've
only seen it once.
Anothing thing to try would be ntfs (unlikely) or the other partitions (2-4).
Sorry, Lee, tried both of those
Er - what version of MDK are you using? Also worth considering - some of
these drives only support FAT file systems - its to do with some hardware
flash controllers - may not be related though...
-Original Message-
From: David Merriman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 11
Hi Sam, I had a similar problem, here's the line from my file (I have
no problems with read/write access now)
/dev/hda1 /mnt/c vfat
auto,user,defaults,umask=0,rw 0 0
hth...
Roger
stm23 wrote:
hi, yes i tryed that but it still doesn't allow me to read or write
Hi everyone,
I've got Mandrake 9.2 installed on my Acer Travelmate and am very happy
to have got it going ! ! ! A few problems though, and many questions
to be answered. The most pressing one being the onboard network card.
On first booting, it fails at the line bringing up interface eth0
1 Has anyone played with some form of Stream broadcasting software for
Linux? I found ICECAST, and instantly HATE it... The downloads fail, the
two downloads I *did* get arent complete, and subsequently tar doesnt wanna
know, so I was wondering if there's a mirror (to www.icecast.org) or an
David Merriman wrote:
Sorry, I should have said. I've already tried mounting it, but it
always fails with this message:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] david]# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdrive
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
or too many mounted file systems
4 Just bought a Play Station 2 with Gran Turismo 3. The reason I
4 bought a
PS2 over an XBox is that someone told me that you can buy a
Linux kit for it, and it'll run a 'butchered' version of
Linux quite tidily... Anyone have any information about this?
Apparently you can buy a kit for
If someone hasn't already dropped a huge wad of cash off to you or hasn't
come up with hosting to meet your parameters (which would be my prefered
option) then let me know if I can help.
Cheers Don
-Original Message-
From: Chris Hellyar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday,
4 Just bought a Play Station 2 with Gran Turismo 3. The reason I bought a
PS2 over an XBox is that someone told me that you can buy a Linux kit for
it, and it'll run a 'butchered' version of Linux quite tidily... Anyone
have any information about this?
You would have been able to get a much
From: Chris Day [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
In MHO, we have a PC war going on as follows:
snip snip snip
Hey... PC's are a damb sight beter than bombs, stones or sticks - bring on
the PC war --IMHO... :)
Chris, thanks for the fantastic round up of the market place. Don't know if
I agree or
Hi guys...
People have been talking lots about installfests... this is what I'd be
interested in doing...
I want to set up a solution that will run on my home server that will do
what I can already do on my MS platform.
WARNING: I've outlined what I want to do below in a less chattie and more
I assume you are looking for the groupware features of outlook/exchange
server, like shared contacts/calendars etc. Connecting outlook to an
imap server for *mail* is trivial afaik.
1. you can interface outlook to an imap server with insight connector,
http:/www.bynari.net (not free, only
I have a similar problem with a zip drive.
Current zludge is:
mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/zip - fails with error
followed by
mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip - works silently
Note this does not work if I try only the last step. Haven't had a chance to look at
it in any depth yet.
Have you
Interesting. I'll try that out when I get home tonight...
No, I don't have a Knoppix CD. I might d/l a Knoppix ISO, burn it and
try that.
David
Scientists estimate that one out of every four people is crazy. Check three friends - if they're ok, you're it...
John Blance wrote:
I have a
So you want to convert your MS machines to linux? You've only listed the
one application in the body of the email, and Exchange/Outlook in the
subject - but then said linux doesn't have to interface back to them?
Opengroupware emulates to an extent the Exchange WebDAV protocol, so
Outlook thinks
Sascha Beaumont wrote:
For your linux clients, Evolution is a great mail client - will talk to
Exchange and share contacts, calendar, etc if you shell out some $$ for
Ximian Connector.
Apparently kontact kde3.2's new PIM suite has groupware support that seems the
equivalent to evolution. It
the real point i think, is - can you share calendars and contacts, and
store them on the server (so you can access them from any machine)
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 14:38:57 +1300
Chad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sascha Beaumont wrote:
For your linux clients, Evolution is a great mail client - will
i thnk yr kybrd is brkn sam. i suggest u rip yr capslock key off and utilise
the 'shift' key instead 2 strategically place your capital leters where thay
r needed most, such as at the beginning of sentences :)
Also, kernel is spelt with an 'e'. Sorry I'm in a pedantic mood, no harm
intended
Don Gould wrote:
From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
the real point i think, is - can you share calendars and contacts, and
store them on the server (so you can access them from any machine)
Correct - that is the real point.
Cheers Don
Yes and Kontact does support that. It adds
great, i must look into that!!
and i thought kde 3.2 was just prettier ;-)
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 15:32:19 +1300
Chad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don Gould wrote:
From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
the real point i think, is - can you share calendars and contacts, and
store them on
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 09:25:10 +1300
John Blance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a similar problem with a zip drive.
Current zludge is:
mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/zip - fails with error
followed by
mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip - works silently
if you boot with a disk in the zip,
From: Sascha Beaumont [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
So you want to convert your MS machines to linux?
No. I will want to make some dual boot, but that's not the focus of my
mission :)
Opengroupware emulates to an extent the Exchange WebDAV protocol, so
Outlook thinks its talking to an exchange
Nick,
At dinner you were talking about a tool you're playing with for building a
news site (news item, comments, few pic's, etc)
Can you tell us what the tool was? (I know... I should have written it
down... so much good stuff happened over dinner I'm bringing a take recorder
next time! :)
Thanks to everyone who's ventured 10cents today.
I'm off to do some more research on my own now to learn a little bit more
about all the things people talked about.
Thanks again
Cheers Don
http://www.drupal.org
it now runs http://www.linuxgazette.com (as opposed to the real linux
gazette at http://www.linuxgazette.net )
it also runs http://www.linux.net.nz
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 16:46:22 +1300
Don Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nick,
At dinner you were talking about a tool
If no one is interested I would be happy to host any installfest stuff
on startlinux.co.nz .
On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 23:26, Chris Hellyar wrote:
Hi-ho all...
This is marginally OT, but as the installfest website currently lives on
the above domain I don't feel so bad. :-).
Anyone feel
stm23 wrote:
hi, thanx paul, col, roger, barry etc - i've got the shared drive now set up -
yr suggestions were alot easier than my plan to reinstall the kernal! now
that i've got the touchpad shared drive setup, all i need now is to get
internet access. i've used the internet configuration
Nick you're the bomb!
That's just what I've been looking for to do something else that I've been
wanting to do!!!
How easy was it to get up and running?
Would you like to present your book report on 'Nick's first time with
drupal' ? :)
Cheers Don
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From: Nick Rout
if you boot with a disk in the zip, doing the second one (only) will do;
when booting without a disk in linux is unable to load the partition table
from the device and your first mount attempt forces it.
for the usb drive I'd stick to the plain /dev/sdX device (no partition table number)
and
I'm using Mandrake 9.1. I reformatted the stick (under XP) as a FAT
drive (not FAT32), but still no joy...
Dave
Cunningly disguised as a responsible adult
Chris Day wrote:
Er - what version of MDK are you using? Also worth considering - some of
these drives only support FAT file systems -
OK - can't be sure this will fix it, but have a read of the following stuff
I found in my files for an old USB drive DSE used to sell - I would have
tested it on an old version of MDK that supported USB AND its written for
the average non-Linux person:
The xxx is considered to be a Mass
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: Generic Model: USB Flash Disk Rev: 1.00
Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02
The kernel recognises the disk, if you can't get it to go, I suspect
your're doing something silly. You expect it to be /dev/sdb, you can
Hi-ho,
Rex Johnston beat everyone with an offer to host it, so the installfest
stuff will stay on linuxnut for the time being...
Cheers, Chris H.
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 17:04, Paul William wrote:
If no one is interested I would be happy to host any installfest stuff
on startlinux.co.nz .
Thanks Chris.
I can't find a file called usbmgr.conf, or usb*.conf for that matter.
There is a script call /etc/init.d/usb, though. Should I look for
something else instead ?
Something I just thought of: The drive is a USB 2.0 device, but my USB
ports are USB 1.1 (AFAICT). Could this be
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