On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 20:27, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
I am protected by the Brightmail product installed at Paradise.
It catches about 90% or so. Leaving me to deal with about 10 at the most
per day. So that means that pre-filtering I get of the order of 100 per
day. A fair few of the
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 21:40, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 21:07, Nick Rout wrote:
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 20:27, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
I am protected by the Brightmail product installed at Paradise.
It catches about 90% or so. Leaving me to deal with about 10 at the
MNF is now at 8.2. and weight's in at about 200MB.
Here's a review for it.
http://www.open-mag.com/01863583279.htm
MNF also uses urpmi as it's update tool so it's quite easy to set it to auto
update once a day, once a week, once a month what ever you prefer.
Also Mandrake releases security
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 19:37, you wrote:
snip
^
Cool Ten
Is actually nearer the mark!
It does not cover the Win O/S itself. Re-cycling machines which are still
in good working order but ex=lease a site contract is not
Jim Cheetham wrote:
On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 10:04, Patrick Dunford wrote:
The reason why cost saving is not a big deal is that most people I know
in church circles aren't that tight.
Although in practice that's a fine answer, and it's quite likely the
right answer for you, there's a fine
FYI, I get about 200 spams per day. ~50% of my mail.
Phil.
--
Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand
+64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I sell GNU/Linux
I will let you know what the pricing is when I recieve the email from DSE.
Mike
--
Linux Rocks!
On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 19:05, anton wrote:
I don't know much about digital cameras but would prefer it to be able
to work as a webcam and possibly take video as well. Is this unrealistic
for the price? Are there issues with linux drivers?
The Canon A series work good with gphoto2.
Any
Reading the archives told me someone managed to get Ihug Ultra drivers working under
2.4 kernel. Is that or anyone else who did the same thing still here and if so could
you tell me how you did it?
Thanks
on a debian system, how do I
1. find out what package a file belongs to
(equivalent rpm command rpm -qf /etc/passwd, gentoo command qpkg
-f /etc/passwd)
2. find out what version of a package is installed
(equivalent rpm command rpm -q postfix, gentoo command etcat -v postfix)
Sorry no man
On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 06:22, Roger Searle wrote:
Pings not being absorbed locally by zonealarm pro - I can ping between 2
desktops, one running xp, the other running mandrake. Can't ping the
notebook from either.
No, i meant installed on the laptop. Try, as root, iptables -L on the
Just heard that there'll be a short item about Open Source software on
National Radio this morning, at 11am. Not 100% sure I heard right, so it
might pay to tune in a little earlier (say, 10:45am) if you're
interested.
Tim
--
Timothy Musson - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi folks, sorry to be a bit ot, but I'm trying to get the casing of a
Thompson speedtouch 510 ADSL router apart so I can screw it to the
wall, but I'm having problems working out how to do this!
I've got the silver bit that covers the network connections off, but
it looks like brute strength to
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/NL/C904D73068F79AD4CC256E46000F1A00
Regards,
Robert Fisher
SI Operations Support Manager
Fuji Xerox NZ Ltd
Phone: 03 374 4709
Mobile: 027 477 3356
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windscreen.
On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 08:07:25AM +1300, Rex Johnston wrote:
2. find out what version of a package is installed
dpkg -l
Use:
COLUMNS=150 dpkg -l package
so that the whole version string fits. (it chops bits so that the output
looks good on $COLUMNS columns.)
Mike.
--
Mike Beattie [EMAIL
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 10:45:56PM +1300, Philip Charles wrote:
FYI, I get about 200 spams per day. ~50% of my mail.
I'd see the same proportion, but I get more mail... perhaps about 1000 spam a
day.
Mike.
--
Mike Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZL4TXK, IRLP Node 6184
Nice. I wonder what the price pointing would be? With only a Crusoe
processor, this laptop will only be a lightweight in the performance
category, but could possibly do quite well with battery life.
Anybody have details of what model the latop is?
Brad
-Original Message-
From:
see product number XC3394
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 09:37:12 +1300
Michael Pearce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I will let you know what the pricing is when I recieve the email from DSE.
Mike
--
Linux Rocks!
--
Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi
I installed (kind of) MDK10 RC1 at home last night, on dual boot XP PII350
320MB RAM.
Has anyone else on list installed this? Reason I ask is the sucker did a
text based install on me (yuk). Did it do a graphical install for you?
Next thing was I chose internet computer and Multimedia
Another trick I have found with Mandrake (certainly helped my success
rate) is at the end of the full installation you get the option to
configure several options - I always click every one now and it seem to
help.
Once again, the upgraded video card was all that I needed to get the
graphical
OK immediate thoughts: see product number XC3394 on
http://www.dse.co.nz/
price $1500, not bad. one of the cheaper laptops around. but see below.
transmeta crusoe 1GHz - not the fastest, but should be ok
no floppy (do we care any more?)
cdrw/dvd - great
video - no mention of chipset, it works
They've cleaned up the menu a fair bit and it's alot smaller than it used to
be. Most stuffs still there just in various sub menu's.
It is possible that the menu's weren't updated properly I'd suggest running
update-menus
as root or normal user and then log out and back in.
Also if your missing
I'd tend to agree. I'd like to see a link to a non-DSE site that has a
howto a review of that laptop. Or even details of the manufacturer so
you could do your own research on what people think of that machine.
Though, I can see this machine fitting nicely into the category where
I'd recommend
Seems more like keep costs down by supplying something cut down with
no ability to upgrade the memory, and no ability to use the very good
and cheap collection of available, linux compatible pcmcia gear out
there. I can't see where the no OS discount applies. Add $200 for Win XP
and you are at
On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 09:17, Timothy Musson wrote:
Just heard that there'll be a short item about Open Source software on
National Radio this morning, at 11am. Not 100% sure I heard right, so it
might pay to tune in a little earlier (say, 10:45am) if you're
interested.
11.30 am, Linda Clark
But it has KDE 3.2 without Kontact
Regards, Robert
Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windscreen.
-Original Message-
From: Chad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 27 February 2004 10:36 a.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: Mandrake 10 install
Cheers! =) Tuned in now...
Linux Shop wrote:
On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 11:20, Jason Greenwood wrote:
Ok, what's the station/frequency/FM/AM??
Nationwide tuning details at:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/index.php?nav=1section=tune#freq
Linux Shop wrote:
On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 09:17, Timothy Musson
Any recommendations for Linux-based tool for checking the
availability/integrity of a web site? I don't want to just check
for the existence of a service on port 80, I want to, at a
minimum, check for appropriate/correct page content, and
preferably be able to script up some navigation, form
On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 11:32, Roy Britten wrote:
Any recommendations for Linux-based tool for checking the
availability/integrity of a web site? I don't want to just check
for the existence of a service on port 80, I want to, at a
minimum, check for appropriate/correct page content, and
Pretty good review od OSS by and large - apart from the part about about
it automatically wiping out windows!
Does Red Hat do this?
I haven't installed it for a long time, but I know the last couple of
time I installed mandrake it always set up my machine for dual boot, and
understand it even
OK, now that I've got a digital camera (thanks Jason), I'm going to need
some software to manage all those photos, and present them in nice HTML
for uploading to a website.
Any recommendations?
Re zonealarm, I have an ip range covering these IP addresses in the trusted zone.
I see that on a windows machine, I can see the workgroup name that the mandrake
notebook is in, but can't do anything with it.
No, i meant installed on the laptop. Try, as root, iptables -L on the
laptop.
I get
BTW I asked a similar question in December.
Here is the start of the thread
http://lists.ethernal.org/cantlug-0312/msg00079.html
Regards, Robert
Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windscreen.
-Original Message-
From: Carl Cerecke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
You're welcome. =)
Kalbum - Prt of most KDE installations, nice app.
JAlbum - http://www.datadosen.se/jalbum/
Digikam - http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=9957 another nice
KDE integrated app.
Gallery - http://gallery.menalto.com/
Album - http://marginalhacks.com/Hacks/album/
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 13:46, you wrote:
OK, now that I've got a digital camera (thanks Jason), I'm going to need
some software to manage all those photos, and present them in nice HTML
for uploading to a website.
Any recommendations?
I use igal. Creates thumbs in an index web page. Uses Perl
album
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 13:46:08 +1300
Carl Cerecke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, now that I've got a digital camera (thanks Jason), I'm going to need
some software to manage all those photos, and present them in nice HTML
for uploading to a website.
Any recommendations?
--
Nick Rout
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 13:55:54 +1300
Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I use Imagemagick for resize and rotations then Album for a very quick
gallery
Album automatically creates a page with thumbnails but IMHO they are a bit
large.
changeable. RTM
Regards, Robert
On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 14:23, Carl Cerecke wrote:
Which produces the nicest output?
is most flexible?
is easiest to use?
http://gallery.sf.net runs on a PHP-enabled apache server, and provides
great facilities for managing photos c on a website.
It doesn't help you with managing them on your
Haven't tried them all yet but I like Kalbum myself. =)
Cheers
J
Carl Cerecke wrote:
Jason Greenwood wrote:
You're welcome. =)
Kalbum - Prt of most KDE installations, nice app.
JAlbum - http://www.datadosen.se/jalbum/
Digikam - http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=9957 another
nice
Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote:
But it has KDE 3.2 without Kontact
Regards, Robert
Did kontact install as it should have been on the first two CD's. Try using a
terminal to see if you can run it. On my system it's under internet email.
The package will be on the first cd.
On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 15:08, Patrick Dunford wrote:
However, I'd consider hard disk to be the most durable safe storage
medium, see recent discussions about the long-term storage capabilities
of CD, DVD etc. So every few years, read in your data, and write it out
to something different :-)
However, I'd consider hard disk to be the most durable safe storage
medium
Don't be foolish. Your statement may be correct only while the disk is
stored outside of any computer in suitable environmental conditions.
Even then, bearings have been known to dry up / seize up by extended
periods of
On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 02:34:40PM +1300, Don Gould wrote:
Linux Open Source Users: I belong to the Canterbury Linux User Group
Mailing List - It took me 10 years to learn to be productive with Outlook -
How many installfests do you think it will take to become productive with
Linux?
The first PIM I used with Linux was Evolution.
Because I was already proficient with Outlook too, I was proficient with
Evolution after the 1 or 2 minute setup procedure.
Regards, Robert
Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windscreen.
-Original Message-
From: Nick Rout
anton wrote:
Hi,
My partner and I are going overseas and want to get a digital camera. We
would be looking to spend in the $400 to $600 bracket, and that would
probably need to include a reasonable memory chip/card (or whatever it
is, either packaged with or bought separately). I will, of
Hi,
My partner and I are going overseas and want to get a digital camera. We
would be looking to spend in the $400 to $600 bracket, and that would
probably need to include a reasonable memory chip/card (or whatever it
is, either packaged with or bought separately). I will, of course, be
On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 02:34:40PM +1300, Don Gould wrote:
Linux Open Source Users: I belong to the Canterbury Linux User Group
Mailing List - It took me 10 years to learn to be productive with Outlook -
How many installfests do you think it will take to become productive with
Linux?
I smell
Well I have gone back to 9.2 now - with sound.
I think I will wait until a stable version is available for 10.
Regards, Robert
Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windscreen.
-Original Message-
From: Chad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 27 February 2004 3:16
Jim Cheetham wrote:
On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 14:23, Carl Cerecke wrote:
Which produces the nicest output?
is most flexible?
is easiest to use?
http://gallery.sf.net runs on a PHP-enabled apache server, and provides
great facilities for managing photos c on a website.
It doesn't help you with
This is just a quick note to say thanks to everyone who helped last week
with questions and answers.
Please don't be offended if I didn't respond to some things.
I'm now a bit over loaded with information again.
Keep up the fantastic work guys! :)
OT: If you know anyone at City Care
Jason Greenwood wrote:
You're welcome. =)
Kalbum - Prt of most KDE installations, nice app.
JAlbum - http://www.datadosen.se/jalbum/
Digikam - http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=9957 another nice
KDE integrated app.
Gallery - http://gallery.menalto.com/
Album -
Try dmesg | grep -A 10 8139
[EMAIL PROTECTED] roger]# dmesg | grep -A 10 8139
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xd88f7000, 00:00:e2:9c:46:72, IRQ 3
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
inserting floppy driver for 2.4.22-10mdk
Floppy drive(s): fd0
I use Imagemagick for resize and rotations then Album for a very quick
gallery
Album automatically creates a page with thumbnails but IMHO they are a bit
large.
Regards, Robert
Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windscreen.
-Original Message-
From: Carl Cerecke
It looks like this years instalfest might be a bit later in the year
this time 'round as I have been under more stress than usual at
enrolment and there appears to have not been any other venues sorted out.
Will try to get something under way in a month or so.
Unless someone else can get a
Does this guy have a clue??
Did he do research? Notes? Sounds like he'd doing it off the cuff. BAD
BAD. He is doing a very bad PR job IMHO. I am cringing now...
Ok, here goes, she asks Why use Linux, this should be good...
Cheers
J
Linux Shop wrote:
On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 11:20, Jason
On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 09:34:32AM +1300, Craig Falconer wrote:
Well I thought this thread was going to be boring... But there have been
some interesting commments.
Indeed...
Here's the special stuff I use linux for (in addition to all the standard
stuff mentioned already)
I'll do the same:
On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 11:20, Jason Greenwood wrote:
Ok, what's the station/frequency/FM/AM??
Nationwide tuning details at:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/index.php?nav=1section=tune#freq
Linux Shop wrote:
On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 09:17, Timothy Musson wrote:
Just heard that there'll be a short
Ok, what's the station/frequency/FM/AM??
Cheers
J
Linux Shop wrote:
On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 09:17, Timothy Musson wrote:
Just heard that there'll be a short item about Open Source software on
National Radio this morning, at 11am. Not 100% sure I heard right, so it
might pay to tune in a little
PLEASE email DSE these comments, PLEASE. =) I think they might listed to
a well versed series of arguments like that...
Cheers
Jason
Nick Rout wrote:
OK immediate thoughts: see product number XC3394 on
http://www.dse.co.nz/
price $1500, not bad. one of the cheaper laptops around. but see
You'd defect if an RC didn't work?!? It's not supposed to work
perfectly, thus the RC designator. I have installed RC1 and did not have
the problems you had. Actually, I installed over my latest Cooker
install when the kernel borked unstable on me. I had a graphical
installer and it detected
I had a couple of spam e-mails this month on one e-mail adderss out of 4.
Not quite sure why I get none - please don't sign me up though... I think
all my e-mail addresses have filters at the ISP end. I don't get any in my
hotmail account in my junk mail folder either though...
From: Mike
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 18:54, you wrote:
Without wanting to sound to offensive... I haven't found logic to the
the strong suit of most church-goers...Evil is what the
minister/priest/pastor says it is.
Anton
I'd leave a church like that.
The minister at my church is very open to people
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 14:52, you wrote:
But I reckon the real question is... What OS Would Jesus Do? ;-))
FreeBSD - but only after exorcising the mascot :-)
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 10:51, you wrote:
Wasting money is a moral crime. If your church has excess cash, I
presume it spends it on doing good for the community. The more excess it
has, the more it can spend on doing good. Therefore the less it has, the
less good it can do. Therefore the choice of
forwarded from nzlug yesterday
Forwarded by Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- Original Message ---
From:Chris Day [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date:Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:54:31 +1300
Subject: RE: [nzlug] Pre-installed Linux PC Vendors
If this is the same as the alcatel seppdtouch i beoive i saw
instructions on the web once. In fact I have hed mine open without
breaking it. google?
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 09:21:06 +1300
Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi folks, sorry to be a bit ot, but I'm trying to get the casing of a
In Gentoo I use the command
emerge -s packagename
-s = search - Shows latest versions available and version installed
Just another example of the many different ways to do things with Linux.
Regards, Robert
Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windscreen.
-Original
On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 07:54, Nick Rout wrote:
on a debian system, how do I
1. find out what package a file belongs to
dpkg -S
2. find out what version of a package is installed
dpkg -l
Sorry no man pages on this debian install, its pebble, a cut down version,
made small by stripping
At 03:39 a.m. 27/02/2004, I wrote:
Reading the archives told me someone managed to get Ihug Ultra drivers working under
2.4 kernel. Is that or anyone else who did the same thing still here and if so could
you tell me how you did it?
Forgot to mention, if anyone got them working under 2.6 I'd be
Rex Johnston wrote:
Roger Searle wrote:
Notebook IP address 192.168.0.9/255.255.255.0. It has an onboard
realtek RTL-8139 network module, the hardware control centre
correctly identifies it and lists the 8139too module (driver?).
I can ping localhost and ping the IP address on the notebook
70 matches
Mail list logo
