Re: Gentoo Installfest Bookings

2004-03-30 Thread Roger Searle
Nick Rout wrote: On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 18:06, Roger Searle wrote: Roger Searle, 1 notebook 2GHz Celeron, 384MB, 20GB hdd with 3.5GB partition currently running mandrake 9.2. (Is that partition large enough? I can downsize another one if needed). I'd probably do that if I was you. bah

Re: Mozilla Mail/Thunderbird

2004-03-30 Thread Jaco Swart
Thunderbird is up to 0.5 stable (have a look at the source of this message). jay! I'm downloading it now, thank you! There is an offline extension in Tbird which I have installed. Having moaned about it, I went to have a look after my posting, and installed it this afternoon :-) I have also

Re: Gentoo Installfest Bookings

2004-03-30 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 20:02, Roger Searle wrote: Nick Rout wrote: On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 18:06, Roger Searle wrote: Roger Searle, 1 notebook 2GHz Celeron, 384MB, 20GB hdd with 3.5GB partition currently running mandrake 9.2. (Is that partition large enough? I can downsize another one if

Re: Gentoo Installfest Bookings

2004-03-30 Thread Roger Searle
Probably won't be doing a great deal on it - Mozilla, Evolution, Bluefish, OpenOffice, and something like TightVNC will just about cover it in the short term. And to move files from home to work and back. I can get all that going on my desktop under mandrake, it's the notebook's network card

Re: Floppy trouble

2004-03-30 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 21:23, Slosh wrote: I'm trying to get linux installed on a Toshia Satellite 2550CDT. So far there have been very few hitchs. In fact it's pretty much good to go. The only problem I am having is the floppy drive. As follows # mount floppy /dev/fd0: Input/output error

Re: Can't see entire 160GB drive under Mandrake 10

2004-03-30 Thread Patrick Dunford
Wesley Parish wrote: Would that be the suggested thing to do for a motherboard that refuses to recognise my new DVD/CDRW? The Bios or the operating system you are running on it? I know that IDE HDD detection in the Bios doesn't detect CD drives, what does the OS detect?

Re: Mandrake 10.0

2004-03-30 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Rowan Trau'e wrote: Just a quick question. Can anybody give an opinion of mdk 10.0 ? All I have heard so far has been good but I will hold off upgrading from 9.1 until I know a little more. I decided against going to 9.2 after hearing adverse reports about it. Rowan Mandrake 10 just plain

Re: Can't see entire 160GB drive under Mandrake 10

2004-03-30 Thread Wesley Parish
Would that be the suggested thing to do for a motherboard that refuses to recognise my new DVD/CDRW? Wesley Parish On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 18:52, you wrote: On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 14:00, you wrote: Hi, I'm using Mandrake 10.0 Community, with the 2.6 kernel. I've just installed a 160GB Maxtor

Floppy trouble

2004-03-30 Thread Slosh
I'm trying to get linux installed on a Toshia Satellite 2550CDT. So far there have been very few hitchs. In fact it's pretty much good to go. The only problem I am having is the floppy drive. As follows # mount floppy /dev/fd0: Input/output error mount: you must specify the filesystem type

Re: Gentoo Installfest Bookings

2004-03-30 Thread Roger Searle
Compiling?!? Now I'm getting worried... Didn't you know that Gentoo is a source code distribution? Excepting Mozilla and OpenOfficeOrg, all applications are compiled on your computer. Or am I having my leg pulled? no yanking of limbs happening here... seems that yet again i'm

Re: Gentoo Installfest Bookings

2004-03-30 Thread Robert Fisher
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 05:54, Roger Searle wrote: But am I being too ambitious with a (supervised) gentoo install ??? Roger Well I was probably at the same level as you when I started my Gentoo experience. If you have a relatively fast internet connection (not dial-up) then the downloads do

Re: Can't see entire 160GB drive under Mandrake 10

2004-03-30 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 22:04:33 +1200, you wrote: Wesley Parish wrote: Would that be the suggested thing to do for a motherboard that refuses to recognise my new DVD/CDRW? The Bios or the operating system you are running on it? I know that IDE HDD detection in the Bios doesn't detect CD drives,

RE: Gentoo Installfest Bookings

2004-03-30 Thread Don Gould
Hi All, Machine: Sony PCG-Z55JE. It has Win98 installed already with about 6gb free. I'd like to patition it so I can boot from either. I'd also like to see Win98 running within linux so I don't have to reboot to run a simple little windoz app. I also have a couple of wireless cards that I'd

RE: Gentoo Installfest Bookings

2004-03-30 Thread Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)
Chris wrote.. Didn't you know that Gentoo is a source code distribution? Excepting Mozilla and OpenOfficeOrg, all applications are compiled on your computer. Not quite right Chris: from http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook.xml?part=1chap=1 1.b. Prebuilt or Compile-All? What is the

Re: Gentoo Installfest Bookings

2004-03-30 Thread Derek Smithies
Hi, having never done anything with Gentoo, I will add my comment. The way we all learnt about computers was trial and error. Get in, give it a go, and you end up learning. Simply reading a set of instructions teaches you a bit. Actually doing it (+ read book) teaches you a lot more. Yes,

RE: Gentoo Installfest Bookings

2004-03-30 Thread Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)
You will need to supply specs not just a model. I tried a Google search for Sony PCG-Z55JE and found nothing. Perhaps even loading Knoppix and doing lspci and posting the results would help. Regards, Robert Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windscreen. -Original

Re: Gentoo Installfest Bookings

2004-03-30 Thread Patrick Dunford
Don Gould wrote: Hi All, Machine: Sony PCG-Z55JE. It has Win98 installed already with about 6gb free. I'd like to patition it so I can boot from either. I'd also like to see Win98 running within linux so I don't have to reboot to run a simple little windoz app. Buy another HDD and install

Re: Gentoo Installfest Bookings

2004-03-30 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 20:02:38 +1200 Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Compiling?!? Now I'm getting worried... Thanks for the partition size suggestion, Nick, I'll do that. I'd love to go 100% linux tomorrow, but my reality at both home and particularly work won't allow that. In the

Re: Mozilla Mail/Thunderbird

2004-03-30 Thread Patrick Dunford
Jaco Swart wrote: Thunderbird is up to 0.5 stable (have a look at the source of this message). jay! I'm downloading it now, thank you! There is an offline extension in Tbird which I have installed. Having moaned about it, I went to have a look after my posting, and installed it this

Re: Gentoo Installfest Bookings

2004-03-30 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 09:29:50 +1200 Patrick Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don Gould wrote: Hi All, Machine: Sony PCG-Z55JE. It has Win98 installed already with about 6gb free. I'd like to patition it so I can boot from either. I'd also like to see Win98 running within

Re: Gentoo Installfest Bookings

2004-03-30 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 05:54, Roger Searle wrote: I'm pretty good with windows, now trying to get good with linux. I'm very keen to learn and am not going to give up. But am I being too ambitious with a (supervised) gentoo install ??? If you can understand about half of this, then you can cope

Re: Gentoo Installfest Bookings

2004-03-30 Thread Patrick Dunford
Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 09:29:50 +1200 Patrick Dunford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don Gould wrote: Hi All, Machine: Sony PCG-Z55JE. It has Win98 installed already with about 6gb free. I'd like to patition it so I can boot from either. I'd also like to see Win98 running within

RE: SpamAssassin/Virus checking 'before' Exchange Server

2004-03-30 Thread Steve Brorens
Jamie, Beware that a lot of the material on this topic tends to assume that you're running a Linux/Unix email system. For the 'gateway in front of Exchange' that you need, you should find the following link to be about as good as it gets. http://www.geocities.com/scottlhenderson/spamfilter.html

Re: Mozilla Mail/Thunderbird

2004-03-30 Thread Jaco Swart
Patrick Dunford wrote: With the online/offline extension, you can configure it to send all unsent automatically when you go online. This is the setting I use. Yes, that is what I use too, but this is my wife we're talking about here :-) When she wants to save messages to continue working on

Re: Mozilla Mail/Thunderbird

2004-03-30 Thread Nick Rout
Most modern mailers have a save to drafts' feature which saves to a special folder, stored either locally or on your imap server. consigning something to the send queue and hoping it will be there later is IMHO not good practice, for obvious reasons (but then again this is, as you say, your

RE: Gentoo Installfest Bookings

2004-03-30 Thread Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)
One thing to remember is that with Gentoo there is no bloat. You only install what you want, nothing extra. Regards, Robert Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windscreen. -Original Message- From: Patrick Dunford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 31 March 2004

RE: Gentoo Installfest Bookings

2004-03-30 Thread Michael JasonSmith
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 09:56, Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote: One thing to remember is that with Gentoo there is no bloat. You only install what you want, nothing extra. trollSounds like Debian ;P /troll -- Michael JasonSmith http://www.ldots.org/

Re: Gentoo Installfest Bookings

2004-03-30 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 10:11:44 +1200 Michael JasonSmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 09:56, Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote: One thing to remember is that with Gentoo there is no bloat. You only install what you want, nothing extra. trollSounds like Debian ;P /troll

RE: Gentoo Installfest Bookings

2004-03-30 Thread Jim Cheetham
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 10:11, Michael JasonSmith wrote: On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 09:56, Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote: One thing to remember is that with Gentoo there is no bloat. You only install what you want, nothing extra. trollSounds like Debian ;P /troll trollSo it always does a 'make

Re: Mozilla Mail/Thunderbird

2004-03-30 Thread Jaco Swart
Nick Rout wrote: consigning something to the send queue and hoping it will be there later is IMHO not good practice No, its not... I aggree. But her way of working was encouraged by PMail's way of doing things. Actually, the Thunderbird implementation of Unsent Messages is quite save. -J

RE: Gentoo Installfest Bookings

2004-03-30 Thread Don Gould
Hi All... Sorry, that should have read SONY PCG-Z505JE - yes there was a '0' missing. There is something wrong with the OS on this pc at present... the keyboard and mouse keep locking up for some reason (hence the reason for interest in getting linux installed).

RE: Gentoo Installfest Bookings

2004-03-30 Thread Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)
Google tells me that it is probably a P3-500Mhz with 64 Mb RAM expandable to 192 Mb max. While 64Mb will be OK for Win98 you will probably want at least 128 Mb for Gentoo (IMHO) How much ram do you have Don? Regards, Robert Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windscreen.

RE: Gentoo Installfest Bookings

2004-03-30 Thread Don Gould
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NZ mirror for Mandrake 10

2004-03-30 Thread Zane Gilmore
The subject says it all really. I've been asked to see if there is a NZ mirror to download Mandrake 10. There's nothing here: http://www.wlug.org.nz/NewZealandLinuxMirrors That Orcon one looked hopeful but is refusing connections. If there is one then we should probably put it in. -- Zane

Re: Comprehensive digital image management software for linux

2004-03-30 Thread Nick Rout
have you looked at http://digikam.sf.net/ ? On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 09:25:53 +1200 Carl Cerecke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking for more than just an album clone. Something like iOta (http://www.varp.net/photos/iOta.html), except: * Easy to install (i.e. packaged properly) * User interface

RE: NZ mirror for Mandrake 10

2004-03-30 Thread Steve Bell
ftp.redhat.co.nz still has MDK 10 RC1, maybe someone could talk nicely to the appropriate ppl about updating? -Original Message- From: Zane Gilmore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 11:37 AM To: CLUG Subject: NZ mirror for Mandrake 10 The subject says it

Re: Comprehensive digital image management software for linux

2004-03-30 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 11:40:30 +1200 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have you looked at http://digikam.sf.net/ ? oh and a lot of the sample shots are of NZ :-) On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 09:25:53 +1200 Carl Cerecke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking for more than just an album clone.

Bash-2.05b

2004-03-30 Thread John Williams
Hi, After I uninstalled OpenOffice (and installed the latest release 1.1.1r3, which seems to work much faster than the last one) the bash prompt on my user terminal screen has reverted to displaying bash-2.05b$ instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] ']# and also I have lost the use of user defined

RE: NZ mirror for Mandrake 10

2004-03-30 Thread Caillyn Benbow
You can also find a mirror at www.debian.co.nz they have copies of most major linux and BSD distro's Caillyn BenbowElectronics TechnicianChristchurch PolytechnicPhone: 64 (03) 940-8183Mobile: 64 027 245-4754 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 31/03/2004 11:43:03 a.m. ftp.redhat.co.nz still has MDK 10 RC1,

Re: NZ mirror for Mandrake 10

2004-03-30 Thread Nick Rout
They only seem to have mandrake 10.0-rc1 On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 11:54:45 +1200 Caillyn Benbow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can also find a mirror at www.debian.co.nz they have copies of most major linux and BSD distro's Caillyn Benbow -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: NZ mirror for Mandrake 10

2004-03-30 Thread Steve Bell
Maybe I'm missing seeing MDK10community, but the latest I can find there is MDK10RC1, which didn't really play nice with my pc. Thanks tho, Caillyn -Original Message- From: Caillyn Benbow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 11:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE:

Re: Bash-2.05b

2004-03-30 Thread Michael JasonSmith
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 11:48, John Williams wrote: the bash prompt on my user terminal screen has reverted to displaying bash-2.05b$ instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] ']# and also I have lost the use of user defined aliases. Can you re-source your .bashrc file $ source ~/.bashrc --

Re: Comprehensive digital image management software for linux

2004-03-30 Thread Carl Cerecke
Nick Rout wrote: have you looked at http://digikam.sf.net/ ? I thnk KimDaBa is more what I'm after: http://ktown.kde.org/kimdaba/ Cheers, Carl.

Re: Comprehensive digital image management software for linux

2004-03-30 Thread Nick Rout
emergeing now, having done digikam already. I have been under pressure from shwhomustbeobeyed to sort our digital cam pics. Your post has spurred me to look at some of this software. If you see anything cross-platform, so shewho... can use it off windows too, let me know. On Wed, 31 Mar 2004

LTSP via wireless?

2004-03-30 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Hey All, I want to explorer setting up some wireless client, to access LTSP on Gentoo. The server end looks straight forward(well from my research anyway) But the clients will be using wireless connections. Has anyone set up a wireless client before? i cannot use the etherboot as the wifi nic's

Gentoo installfest distcc-bootcd.

2004-03-30 Thread Nick Rout
Some may recall that last year I prepared a boot-cd that had gcc and distcc on board so that people could boot their power boxes and chuck them into the server farm for helping compile gentoo. To use distcc successfully the servers need to run the same version of gcc, distcc, and the rest of the

Shell help

2004-03-30 Thread Hamish McBrearty
I'm sure there's a better way to do this, but I've learned heaps doing it this way. I'm trying to generate yesterday's date and then pass it as an arguement to a command. To get the date I'm using: date '+%D' | sed 's/\// /g' | awk '{ yes = $2 -1; print $1,yes,$3}' | sed 's/ /\//g' And yes I

Re: Shell help

2004-03-30 Thread Daniel Grant
I'm sure there's a better way to do this, but I've learned heaps doing it this way. I'm trying to generate yesterday's date and then pass it as an arguement to a command. date -d 'yesterday' and format as required Regards Daniel

Re: Shell help

2004-03-30 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 12:35:23PM +1200, Hamish McBrearty wrote: I'm sure there's a better way to do this, but I've learned heaps doing it this way. I'm trying to generate yesterday's date and then pass it as an arguement to a command. To get the date I'm using: date '+%D' | sed 's/\//

Re: Shell help

2004-03-30 Thread Jim Cheetham
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 12:35, Hamish McBrearty wrote: And yes I know that won't work on the 1st of the month. How do I pass the resulting string from this to another command as an arguement eg --date=arguement command --date=$(date '+%D'|sed 's/\// /g'|awk '{yes=$2 -1; print $1,yes,$3}'|sed 's/

RE: Bash-2.05b

2004-03-30 Thread Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)
Try this. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-tip-prompt/ Regards, Robert Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windscreen. -Original Message- From: John Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 31 March 2004 11:48 a.m. To: [EMAIL

Re: Gentoo Installfest Bookings

2004-03-30 Thread Patrick Dunford
Don Gould wrote: Hi All... Sorry, that should have read SONY PCG-Z505JE - yes there was a '0' missing. There is something wrong with the OS on this pc at present... the keyboard and mouse keep locking up for some reason (hence the reason for interest in getting linux installed). That could be

Re: Gentoo Installfest Bookings

2004-03-30 Thread Patrick Dunford
Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote: One thing to remember is that with Gentoo there is no bloat. You only install what you want, nothing extra. I'm using Debian

Re: Shell help

2004-03-30 Thread Jim Cheetham
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 13:08, Daniel Grant wrote: date -d 'yesterday' Woo, that's nice ... I should look at the man pages every few years or so to see what's new! date -d yesterday --iso date -d yesterday --iso=sec -jim

RE: NZ mirror for Mandrake 10

2004-03-30 Thread Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)
As far as I remember, the Community Edition is available via bittorrent to the Mandrake Community (those who have paid for membership) MD10 final will be available to the general public in May I think. Regards, Robert Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windscreen. -Original

RE: Comprehensive digital image management software for linux

2004-03-30 Thread Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)
What, you still have windows at your house? Regards, Robert Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windscreen. -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 31 March 2004 12:24 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re:

RE: Shell help

2004-03-30 Thread Craig FALCONER
socks:~# date -d yesterday Tue Mar 30 13:34:24 NZST 2004 Try that -Original Message- From: Hamish McBrearty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 31 March 2004 12:35 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Shell help I'm sure there's a better way to do this, but I've learned heaps

Re: LTSP via wireless?

2004-03-30 Thread Andrew Errington
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 12:30, you wrote: Are there other options other than fdd boot? Compact Flash, Disk-on-module, USB drive? Andy

RE: Gentoo installfest distcc-bootcd.

2004-03-30 Thread Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)
I can test it on a few different Toshiba Laptops. Regards, Robert Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windscreen. -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 31 March 2004 12:30 p.m. To: CLUG Subject:Gentoo installfest

Re: Comprehensive digital image management software for linux

2004-03-30 Thread Nick Rout
Sue does On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 13:32:51 +1200 Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What, you still have windows at your house? Regards, Robert Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windscreen. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Comprehensive digital image management software for linux

2004-03-30 Thread Ian Laurenson
I use Gthumbs and now my other half kicks me off my machine to use it! Cheers, Ian On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 13:53, Nick Rout wrote: Sue does On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 13:32:51 +1200 Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What, you still have windows at your house? Regards,

Re: Shell help

2004-03-30 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
Sure enough, someone had to suggest a monster to kill a fly... Note that the BSD date(1) solution doesn't work with GNU date(1). No, but there are other ways with GNU date (which should work with any date which can give the number of seconds): date -d jan 1 1970 00:00:$(( $(date +%s) - 86400 +

RE: SpamAssassin/Virus checking 'before' Exchange Server

2004-03-30 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Steve Thanks, this looks like exactly what I want! I appreciate it! Jamie, Beware that a lot of the material on this topic tends to assume that you're running a Linux/Unix email system. For the 'gateway in front of Exchange' that you need, you should find the following link to be about as

Re: Gentoo installfest distcc-bootcd.

2004-03-30 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 12:30, Nick Rout wrote: Let me know if you are able to give it a try. no sweat. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. Please do not notify me when

slashdot.org

2004-03-30 Thread Christopher Sawtell
I'm getting horrible withdrawal symptoms. Anybody know what's happend to them? -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks.

Re: slashdot.org

2004-03-30 Thread Andrew Errington
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:08, you wrote: I'm getting horrible withdrawal symptoms. Anybody know what's happend to them? ??? Been working for me for several years now, right up to about a minute ago. Andy

RE: slashdot.org

2004-03-30 Thread Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)
http://slashdot.org/ Works for me. Is that the page you are after? Regards, Robert Some days you are the pigeon, some days you are the statue. -Original Message- From: Christopher Sawtell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 31 March 2004 4:09 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LTSP via wireless?

2004-03-30 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Thanks to everyone who replyed off list, Has anyone setup a wireless node at all? Hey All, I want to explorer setting up some wireless client, to access LTSP on Gentoo. The server end looks straight forward(well from my research anyway) But the clients will be using wireless

Re: slashdot.org

2004-03-30 Thread Paul Swafford
urm .. working fine for me ?? SCO Uses 3rd Parties To Spread Claims In Germany latest headline I see dns issues ? Cheers Paul (Manager, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arts Centre) (Level 2/28 Worcester Boulevard, Christchurch, NZ) (ph/fax +64 3 3656480 www.e-caf.com)

Re: slashdot.org

2004-03-30 Thread david merriman
Good, so it's not just me ! I wish I knew too. David Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket ? Christopher Sawtell wrote: I'm getting horrible withdrawal symptoms. Anybody know what's happend to them?

Re: slashdot.org

2004-03-30 Thread Jim Cheetham
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 16:08, Christopher Sawtell wrote: I'm getting horrible withdrawal symptoms. Anybody know what's happend to them? Nothing? Seems to work OK from here, last posted story was Wednesday March 31, @02:08AM

slashdot

2004-03-30 Thread Steve Bell
might be a virus. ;-)

RE: slashdot.org

2004-03-30 Thread David Kirk
Chris, I'm getting horrible withdrawal symptoms. Anybody know what's happend to them? I have no problems connecting. Maybe it is a problem with your ISP. They even have an article about optimising distcc. http://www.csh.rit.edu/~benjamin/articles/distcc.php Later David Kirk

Re: slashdot.org

2004-03-30 Thread david merriman
I haven't been able to see Slashdot for the last day or so: F:\Documents and Settings\davidping slashdot.org Pinging slashdot.org [66.35.250.150] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 66.35.250.150: Destination port unreachable. Reply from

Re: slashdot.org

2004-03-30 Thread Carl Cerecke
Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote: http://slashdot.org/ Works for me. Is that the page you are after? Doesn't for me. Didn't yesterday either, but at home last night, I could see them OK (with ISP maxnet). Traceroute can find them from work (ADSL line) though: traceroute to slashdot.org

Re: slashdot.org

2004-03-30 Thread Warren Stuart
It's working fine for me why not touch up on your japanese and visit http://slashdot.jp/ Christopher Sawtell wrote: I'm getting horrible withdrawal symptoms. Anybody know what's happend to them?

Re: slashdot.org

2004-03-30 Thread Zane Gilmore
Looks like both of you are with Paradise. david merriman wrote: Good, so it's not just me ! I wish I knew too. David Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket ? Christopher Sawtell wrote: I'm getting horrible withdrawal symptoms. Anybody know what's happend to them? --

Re: slashdot.org

2004-03-30 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:32, david merriman wrote: Good, so it's not just me ! I wish I knew too. The Paradise proxy must have caught a pox, and slashdot have blocked us. Anybody on the list know if Paradise lurk here? -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find

Re: slashdot.org

2004-03-30 Thread Paul Swafford
Not being able to ping something isn't a sign that a website is necessarily down. try connecting to http://66.35.250.150/ and see how that goes. Regards Paul Swafford (Manager, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arts Centre) (Level 2/28 Worcester Boulevard, Christchurch, NZ) (ph/fax +64 3 3656480

Re: slashdot.org

2004-03-30 Thread Jim Cheetham
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 16:51, david merriman wrote: I haven't been able to see Slashdot for the last day or so: F:\Documents and Settings\davidping slashdot.org Why do you expect to be able to ping a website? What happens if you telnet to port 80? -jim

Re: slashdot.org

2004-03-30 Thread Michael JasonSmith
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 16:56, Carl Cerecke wrote: Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote: http://slashdot.org/ Works for me. Is that the page you are after? Doesn't for me. Didn't yesterday either, but at home last night, I could see them OK (with ISP maxnet). There is currently an

Re: NZ mirror for Mandrake 10

2004-03-30 Thread Jason Greenwood
Really? Where? I haven't found one. Cheers Jason Philip Charles wrote: On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote: As far as I remember, the Community Edition is available via bittorrent to the Mandrake Community (those who have paid for membership) MD10 final will be available to

Re: slashdot.org

2004-03-30 Thread Andrew Errington
Suspicions are correct. Works fine at work (don't know who our ISP is), does not work at home (Telstra Cable/Paradise). Andy

Re: slashdot.org

2004-03-30 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 17:08, Paul Swafford wrote: Not being able to ping something isn't a sign that a website is necessarily down. try connecting to http://66.35.250.150/ and see how that goes. Doesn't make any difference. Their DNS name resolves to the numeric address ok. I fear that

Re: slashdot.org

2004-03-30 Thread Paul Swafford
try using telescum/xtra dns 203.27.184.3 or .5 instead of the paradise ones .. I found them unreliable put in my own dns server and use telecom/xtra to parent it. regards Paul Swafford (Manager, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arts Centre) (Level 2/28 Worcester Boulevard, Christchurch, NZ) (ph/fax +64 3

Re: NZ mirror for Mandrake 10

2004-03-30 Thread Chad
Try ftp://mirror.inspire.net.nz/mandrake/ Chad Zane Gilmore wrote: The subject says it all really. I've been asked to see if there is a NZ mirror to download Mandrake 10. There's nothing here: http://www.wlug.org.nz/NewZealandLinuxMirrors That Orcon one looked hopeful but is refusing

Re: Gentoo Installfest Bookings

2004-03-30 Thread Roger Searle
nick, i would be ecstatic if the notebook network card magically started working under mandrake. as i mentioned previously, my goal isn't necessarily getting an install of gentoo on a machine, but to be generally using linux far more than currently. outputs of those commands will follow a

Re: Gentoo Installfest Bookings

2004-03-30 Thread Roger Searle
ok, i've stopped being worried after reading the first 4 chapters of this, i'm quite comfortable with all the material i've seen in there. just shows me i have learnt a thing or 2 in my tinkering so far... roger Christopher Sawtell wrote: If you can understand about half of this, then you

Re: NZ mirror for Mandrake 10

2004-03-30 Thread Philip Charles
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Jason Greenwood wrote: Really? Where? I haven't found one. Try looking at Mandrake's mirror page. Phil Philip Charles wrote: On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote: As far as I remember, the Community Edition is available via bittorrent to the

Re: slashdot.org

2004-03-30 Thread Patrick Dunford
Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:32, david merriman wrote: Good, so it's not just me ! I wish I knew too. The Paradise proxy must have caught a pox, and slashdot have blocked us. Can't see it either. On paradise... email to their helpdesk, don't bother ringing the number

Re: Moving a large amount of data

2004-03-30 Thread Patrick Dunford
Paul Wilkins wrote: Just a straight cp -R or the huge tar file would do for that, wouldn't it? Your computer is a month fast :)

Re: slashdot.org

2004-03-30 Thread greg mckenzie
Patrick Dunford wrote: Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:32, david merriman wrote: Good, so it's not just me ! I wish I knew too. The Paradise proxy must have caught a pox, and slashdot have blocked us. Can't see it either. On paradise... email to their helpdesk, don't

Re: slashdot.org

2004-03-30 Thread greg mckenzie
greg mckenzie wrote: Hmm - It just started working immediately after I posted an email to slashdot asking them to investigate. Perhaps the problem was with Paradise?

Re: Comprehensive digital image management software for linux

2004-03-30 Thread Chad
Perhaps KimDaBa (Kde Image DataBase)? Not sure if it's exactly what you want. I think it's part of kde 3.2 and seems to have a fair few options for sorting, storing and linking images togeather. Chad Carl Cerecke wrote: Looking for more than just an album clone. Something like iOta

Re: Bash-2.05b

2004-03-30 Thread John Williams
On Wednesday 31 March 2004 12:13 pm, you wrote: On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 11:48, John Williams wrote: the bash prompt on my user terminal screen has reverted to displaying bash-2.05b$ instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] ']# and also I have lost the use of user defined aliases. Can you re-source

md5sum mdk 10 community

2004-03-30 Thread dave
hi, compared check sum data from 2 md5sum files (1 the nz site the other from overseas) they donĀ“t match ??? why ?? dave.

Re: Bash-2.05b

2004-03-30 Thread Michael JasonSmith
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 19:25, John Williams wrote: Can you re-source your .bashrc file $ source ~/.bashrc bash-2.05b$ source ~/.bashrc bash: /home/jkiwi/.bashrc: No such file or directory Ah. Doing: bash-2.05b export PS1=[EMAIL PROTECTED] # from the Prompt Basics per Robert

RE: SpamAssassin/Virus checking 'before' Exchange Server

2004-03-30 Thread Steve Brorens
No worries, with all the benefits of Open Source comes a fearsome amount of choice/confusion at times and it can be a trial finding the right bit of info. Let me know how you get on... - steve PS: This 'walkthough' is based on RH but there's an active team producing alternative versions for

Re: slashdot.org

2004-03-30 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 19:08, greg mckenzie wrote: greg mckenzie wrote: Hmm - It just started working immediately after I posted an email to slashdot asking them to investigate. Thanks so much. Getting my fix once more. Perhaps the problem was with Paradise? imho, Part of the problem is that