Hey Brad,
Please let us know if it works :)
Brad Beveridge wrote:
Hi guys, I am looking for a PCMCIA-IDE converter, basically I want to
plug an IDE harddisk into a CF slot on a PDA. From what I can see on
the web this is just a direct pin conversion because CF runs on the IDE
standard, but I
On May 28, 2004, at 5:50 PM, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Fri, 28 May 2004 17:24, Don Gould wrote:
Ok Chad when my wife lets me use my pc again (I'm now on offical
weekend pc ban time) I'll get to it :)
You can always work around a PC ban by getting a MAC. :-)
I whole-heartedly agree. Darwin
On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 17:50, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Fri, 28 May 2004 17:24, Don Gould wrote:
Ok Chad when my wife lets me use my pc again (I'm now on offical
weekend pc ban time) I'll get to it :)
You can always work around a PC ban by getting a MAC. :-)
I'll pass on your
I seem to remember that my Firefox installation was fairly
straightforward - with one annoying bit.
1. Downloaded firefox-0.8-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz and saved it to
/home/js/programs/mozilla
2. Extracted contents into /home/js/programs/mozilla/firefox
3. Added
On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 19:36, Jim Cheetham wrote:
You get the seamless it just works Apple stuff, and you get everyone
else's applications under X windows. It probably would suit you, Don,
seriously ...
Spent about a year working with OS7.1-5... not much fun as everyone was
getting to play
On Fri, 28 May 2004 20:26, Don Gould wrote:
Wouldn't buying into the Mac world just be as bad? Sure Mac's don't
have the 22% of the market that they had in 1987 (Compaus Hobby report)
but they are just as closed as Microsoft aren't they?
No, see:-
http://www.apple.com/opensource/
Also look
I cut you one, if you still want it.
On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 17:47, mike wrote:
Hey there..
I'm back!
(woo)
So, about those gentoo cd's..
I was thinking I could just pop into ecafe over the weekend and grab them..
Paul, does that sound ok?
If not, or if someone has a better idea, just
Hi again, here's the answer to my problem earlier in the week, and a new
question
Well it took only 3 days for my .xsession-errors file to grow back to
8.3GB and fill my partition again, and (as tangible evidence that I'm
slowly learning) have found the errors to be coming from a [EMAIL
Non authoritative suggestion;
sync
From the man page;
sync - synchronize data on disk with memory
Cheers Ross Drummond
On Sat, 29 May 2004 10:24, you wrote:
is there a command i can run to make the
computer realise that there's a whole lot of free space there?
Hey nick
Do you have the athlon-xp install disc?
Nick Rout wrote:
I cut you one, if you still want it.
On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 17:47, mike wrote:
Hey there..
I'm back!
(woo)
So, about those gentoo cd's..
I was thinking I could just pop into ecafe over the weekend and grab them..
Paul, does that
Rex needs an answer here, so I'll kick off a Wiki-style minute/update
that others can enhance or correct. This will help keep things moving
towards 17 July.
*CLUG Installfest2004 meeting #1*
held Uni Canterbury Maths/CompSci bldg Rm101 26May04 8pm.
About 15 showed, David Kirk led off by
InfoHelp wrote:
Rex needs an answer here, so I'll kick off a Wiki-style minute/update
that others can enhance or correct. This will help keep things moving
towards 17 July.
I would like to be one of the installers this time around.
What are my qualifications? I am an advanced Windows user with
On Sat, 29 May 2004 10:48, mike wrote:
Hey nick
Do you have the athlon-xp install disc?
The live cd or install disk is 'universal'.
See, for example:-
ftp://ftp2.jetstreamgames.co.nz/gentoo/releases/x86/2004.1/livecd/
Make sure you get the correct 'packages' cd.
oh.
:)
thanks!
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Sat, 29 May 2004 10:48, mike wrote:
Hey nick
Do you have the athlon-xp install disc?
The live cd or install disk is 'universal'.
See, for example:-
ftp://ftp2.jetstreamgames.co.nz/gentoo/releases/x86/2004.1/livecd/
Make sure you get the correct
Sounds like you're just the kind of 'grunt' we need Paul, to keep our
'guns' in support for troubleshooting the hard stuff! My skills are
similarly 'developing'. Correct us if wrong, guys..
Rik
Paul Wilkins wrote:
InfoHelp wrote:
Rex needs an answer here, so I'll kick off a Wiki-style
Mike, before you went away I cut you an athlon-xp packages cd as you
requested, it is sitting here at home. I can do you a universal install
cd or a minimal installl cd as well (i recommend universal, it simply
has more stuff)
Let me know if you want them. I am in Lyttelton, work in town.
On
Lets take this conversation to the installfest mailing list - saves
confusion.
On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 12:01, InfoHelp wrote:
Sounds like you're just the kind of 'grunt' we need Paul, to keep our
'guns' in support for troubleshooting the hard stuff! My skills are
similarly 'developing'.
Yes please, a universal cd would be perfect ;)
I could probably drive out there to pick them up also, its a good day
for it :)
Nick Rout wrote:
Mike, before you went away I cut you an athlon-xp packages cd as you
requested, it is sitting here at home. I can do you a universal install
cd or a
where are you, I am about to go to town actually.
On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 12:08, mike wrote:
Yes please, a universal cd would be perfect ;)
I could probably drive out there to pick them up also, its a good day
for it :)
Nick Rout wrote:
Mike, before you went away I cut you an athlon-xp
http://trash.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/installfest_trash.co.nz
On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 12:09, Jason Greenwood wrote:
How does one go about joining the installfest list again? Been a while
since I been on it...
Cheers
J
Nick Rout wrote:
Lets take this conversation to the installfest
On Sat, 29 May 2004 10:17, Ross Drummond wrote:
At the preliminary meeting for the install fest repartitioning ntfs disk
partitions was discussed.
I have just reinstalled Windows 2000 so decided to test the ntfsresize
utility.
I have good news and bad news;
The good news: It works
The
On Sat, 29 May 2004 12:09, Jason Greenwood wrote:
How does one go about joining the installfest list again? Been a while
since I been on it...
http://trash.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/installfest_trash.co.nz
--
Sincerely etc.
Christopher Sawtell
NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus
InfoHelp wrote:
Sounds like you're just the kind of 'grunt' we need Paul, to keep our
'guns' in support for troubleshooting the hard stuff! My skills are
similarly 'developing'. Correct us if wrong, guys..
Not to mention I want the t-shirt.
I'm just looking for some WinXP partition resizing
At 2004-05-29T102425+1200, Roger Searle wrote:
The question: I deleted the .xsession-errors file in konqueror - not
the move to trash option, but the delete option. the machine
continued to think it had zero available space on that partition until
I restarted. (that is based on my
Man I'm really sorry for the late reply. I spent a week without looking at
CLUG email.
I buy the BAFO BF-810 through Computer Dynamics but you have to have an
account with them to deal with them. They cost $18.50 + GST.
Michael.
At 04:41 p.m. 25/05/2004 +1200, you wrote:
The BAFO BF-810
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Hash: SHA1
Roger Searle wrote:
| The question: I deleted the .xsession-errors file in konqueror - not
| the move to trash option, but the delete option. the machine
| continued to think it had zero available space on that partition until I
| restarted.
As long
Hey there
Thanks to nick for the universal / packages cd..
I'm off to begin the install now :D
Mike
(sorry robert, i think i sent this to you individually instead of the list)
Nick Rout wrote:
Mike, before you went away I cut you an athlon-xp packages cd as you
requested, it is sitting here at
On Sat, 29 May 2004 12:21, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
This operation took 3 hours to complete.
This is obviously unacceptable!
Have you _any_ idea why?
More thoughts.
(I know Our Emily disapproves of following up to ones own postings)
a) Antique, slow disc?
what do:-
hdparm -T /dev/hdX have
on we go..
I have the LiveCD smp kernel running the P4 laptop, chrooted to Gentoo
(ReiserFS) partition, online thru a gateway.
I have previously played with X from the hdd install boot ( seen it
running Gnome poorly - using SuSE's XF86Config), having used the ATI
utils to write
On Sat, 29 May 2004 14:59, InfoHelp wrote:
on we go..
:-)
I now know that I have the wrong ATI driver set in place.
How do you know that?
These are the only ones in Portage:-
media-tv/atitvout
Latest version available: 0.4
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of
The huge time consumption will be due complex reading/rewriting/deleting
from one part of the disk to another, across the new partition line.
Much quicker ( safer, no doubt) is to truncate the XP partition beyond
all of its stored data (NB including unmoveable files, as XP can
describe after
After my tests a couple of days ago with qtparted on Knoppix and the
Mandrake partitioning tools I would say that we should not need to use
ntfsresize anyway.
On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 10:17, Ross Drummond wrote:
At the preliminary meeting for the install fest repartitioning ntfs disk
partitions
On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 12:21, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
Other people - robert - report 35 minuites.
Which version of ntfsresize did you use?
The 35 minutes was from Booting the Mandrake CD #1 and installing all
(ALL) packages on the 4 CD's and repartitioning of the 80 Gb Windows XP
(ntfs)
Haven't people been reading my posts?
Read my lips
Mandrake's own repartitioning tool and Qtparted on Knoppix performed
flawlessly and fast over WinXP ntfs disk in my documented tests.
On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 12:29, Paul Wilkins wrote:
InfoHelp wrote:
Sounds like you're just the kind of
InfoHelp wrote:
Nick Rout wrote:
In this case if you want a newer version it is time to rsync and emerge
the new version. Assuming it is a later version. what version do you
have at the moment? emerge -s ati-drivers to find out.
3.2.8-r1
this also told me that there was an ati-drivers-extra
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