Re: CLUG Meeting Notes 30th October 2001

Just another thought. How about a financial inducement for a library to subscribe to some of the Linux magazines which are available at considerable cost to the person in the street? They would then be available to all. Barry --- Chris Hellyar wrote

kghostview problem - xllalpha

ideas please anyone. Barry - Text only replies please No RTF or MS Word docs -

Re: Stupid MDK Modem

using the generic 2 button mouse driver I have been told there are a few problems in M8 whis have been fixed in M8.1 but I have not noticed any, I must be lucky Barry

OT - Power supply required

Does anyone in Chch have a spare 15 volt 1 amp power supply they are not using please, the one which ran my scanner has died permanently. Tried the scanner on a 12 volt one I have but the resulting images are no good. TIA Barry

Meeting 28/02/2002

Could those of you coming to the meeting please email me off list so I can get a head count for supper etc Thanks, Barry

Error msg - file size limit exceeded

When I enter su followed by my password in a terminal (Konsole rxvt) I now get the above error message. This occurrs immediately after rebooting starting kde, with the terminal being the only app running. I can su to root if kde is not running Any ideas how to fix the problem please? Barry

Re: GMC and thumbnail images

data and add your own comments to exif jpg files but i don't think it handles the graphics. Source code is available from the author. If anyone knows of others please lets know of them Konqueror creates its own thumbnails - slow to load and does not save them. Barry

Re: GMC and thumbnail images

Mark Rowe wrote: Barry wrote: Oops Konqueror creates its own thumbnails first time the directory is accessed. They are then saved in the dir in a .pics/large|med sub directory according to the icon size. Next time the directory is accessed the loading is lots faster. Barry Out

Re: default umask settings

Thank you for the replies, umask shows 077 so this is not the problem. I am now checking with the author of the app Barry --- Barry wrote: I am having a problem with temporary files required by a new app I am trying. Where/how do I set default permissions for root, user please

Re: Linux distros for installfest

Hi Zane Is my P100 with 48meg ram the sort of old dunga you are thinking of? I can boot W95, Caldera 2.2, Mandrake8, and Peanut in a dos ptn. I would also like help with a compile or 2. M8 disk 1 is on my hd somewhere, should also t/f disk 2. kpackage finds it when I need it. Barry

Orinter not working

as the 1st task. How do I check what is using the port? My printer is connected via the scanner which I have not used since rebooting. Could the connection be the problem? TIA Barry

wine - file save as

menu Can someone point me in the direction to get this working please, Barry

MYSQL HTML OUTPUT

is:- TRTD field 1 /TD/TR this line should be /TDTD TRTDmaking this line redundant field2 /TD/TR field1 /TD/TR etc What do I do to get a multi column table correctly described in the output file? can anyone help please Barry

Re: MYSQL HTML OUTPUT

Thank Jeremy Read a different part of the instructions this morning = problem solved by using a bash script to read the db and write a html file to pass via html2ps to the printer. With the aid of another script the whole lot runs in the background very nicely so far. It does not use php. Barry

OT - Small hard drive required

educating the main users. If anyone can donate a surplus drive it would be much appreciated. TIA Barry

Re: Mandrake 9.0

in the colour of one's choice? Barry

Re: Trouble shooting evening

suggested BlueFish as an alternative, Ihave installed it and its looking good. Thanks again for the help guys. Barry - Nick Rout wrote: I got the impression that last night's meeting was a success. I hope it becomes a regular event as its an opportunity for a different

Attachments:

is text attachments which could have been typed directly in the email and Netscape tries to open them in a browser but. Please, what do I read the following with? TIA Barry Name: winmail.dat

Re: CLUG funds update (balance as of 15th October 2002)

but producing something along these lines that is self booting and with plenty of free games included may get non believers interested in looking at what else is on the cd. Barry -Original Message- From: Zane Gilmore Sent: Tuesday, 15 October 2002 11:08 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

OT - book - Computer Programming made Simple

I have a copy of this book by J Maynard M.B.C.S dated 1972 which is about to go in the rubbish. It deals with the basics and Cobol. If anyone would like to add it to their museum collection email me direct - 1st one in gets it. Barry

Re: OT - book - Computer Programming made Simple

The book now has a new owner. Thanks for the enquiries Barry --- Barry wrote: I have a copy of this book by J Maynard M.B.C.S dated 1972 which is about to go in the rubbish. It deals with the basics and Cobol. If anyone would like to add it to their museum

Re: Hi There

not be able to access your modem. For me this problem is normal, others may comment. Hope this helps with the camera. Barry --- Nick Rout wrote: digital cameras appear to fall into two camps: 1. those that require a special driver to download into linux, for those see

Re: Help Files

file. hth Barry -- Kevin Wilkinson wrote: Out of interest has anyone tried to create a help file for a linux application if so what have they used to create it Merry Christmas to All... Regards, Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Strangeness in Paradise - Conclusion

and alterations. I have never had any problems. Barry

Re: Strangeness in Paradise - Conclusion

John Carter wrote: On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Barry wrote: I have a dialup connection to paradise through telstra-clear and have no problems connecting through the 08--- number. Ah, interesting. I had no problems connecting either. When last did you upload something of 50kb or more? Last

Re: [Installfest] Modem probs in Linux

with a #. Also are you running xsane as root. The author advised me that this is necessary on lp0, don't know about usb. HTH Barry.

OT - Alps printer

Does anyone own or know the whereabouts of an Alps microdot printer in the Christchurch area please Barry

OT? tcl/tk exec command

but lost it when my box crashed. Backups are wonderful in hindsight!!! Any ideas please on how to pass the argument for multiple files (*.jpg) within tclsh. TIA Barry

Re: OT? tcl/tk exec command

Thanks Jim I added the -fts parameters to give 'eval exec qiv -fts {glob *.jpg}' It works a treat. 1 more part of my execise now works Barry Don't forget that at the tclsh, you pobably have auto_noexec unset, which means if you enter an un-recognised command, it'll be treated

Meeting 14-08-2003

I wish to have iptables and firestarter set up please. Both are installed but all access is blocked at present with the firewall running. Barry

mounting cd-rw

or in Rute about this. I understand that cdrecord only writes iso9660 fs. What do I do/need to write to a udf formatted cd in linux please? TIA Barry

Re: grep and a few other questions

in it to id it. Barry

Quanta query

function will display correctly? (mysql is running) Help F1 bring up the KDE help files, there is nothing at all about quanta other than the name TIA Barry

Re: easy way to get to my documents

may have a back door to full root access, I have'nt tested it, I only use it for jpg files. HTH Barry -- Hamish McBrearty wrote: Hi all Up until recently I've been dual booting my laptop because I needed to be able to use Dreamweaver. That's no longer the case thanks

Knoppix raid controller

, D: is about 1/2 full shows as 20g, if his size is correct, where is the other 10g?. 512k ram. Drive C possibly has some nasties in it. TIA Barry

Re: Knoppix raid controller

Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 12:39:28 +1300 Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone tell me the boot option to run Knoppix on a box with a raid controller. you don't say what variety of raid? there is an article here on knoppix with ata raid http://rcswww.urz.tu

Meeting Subject

be of interest to new users as well. An immediate question is - where are the logs? is it var/log/kernel/warnings? TIA Barry

Re: FAT32 READ/WRITE ACCESS

that linux will set the a attribute if it has been cleared under dos/win. In a terminal 'mount' (ret) will tell you whether the ptn is mounted, make sure it is rw, not ro. 'mount /c' or 'mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /c' should mount it HTH Barry -- Col wrote: That should have

Re: Meeting Subject

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

Re: Lexmark X215 MFP

are almost zigzag. Support was very polite and useless. I suggest you look at another make. Barry -- Jason Greenwood wrote: Hi All, Anyone gotten this printer to play nice with mandrake/Linux (any Laser MFP's for that matter)? If so, how?? Their product PDF shows

Re: How do I see the Fat32 patition?

increase. See Sect19.4 for an explanation of mount, also try 'man mount' in a terminal. Barry Don Gould wrote: The first patition on the disk is Fat32. How do I see (mount?) that within rh9? Cheers Don

Writing cd's

please? TIA Barry

Re: Writing cd's

? On Mon, 24 May 2004 16:14:58 +1200 Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to get cdrecord working without any success. I have trolled through the Rute manual, and implemented procedures from the cd-writing howto, then rebooted. The cdrw is on hdb. It works in Windows. it has

Re: Writing cd's

I altered something earlier this evening, but no joy then. Not sure what I altered but tried again just now with xcdroast and it worked. Thanks Chris Nick for your help. Barry

Re: A serial2serial question

drdos disks.. Barry --- Wesley Parish wrote: Anyone know how to connect an old DOS 2.4 machine, a Panasonic JB-2000 I think it is, with 8 inch disks, with a more modern machine? The purpose is to copy all the files on 8 inch from the old machine to the new machine

Open Office splash screen

Is there a way to stop the Open Office splash screen taking over all 4 desktops while Oo is loading? -- Barry Please do not send messages to me in HTML or MSword formats. Try Opera for fast trouble-free browsing.

Re: Tcl - wish

to /usr/bin. leave your downloaded app as was. Barry - Ross Drummond wrote: I have downloaded an old app (last updated 1998) that uses tcl, through the front end wish. I can not find wish on my computer or in the installation disks I changed the line in the script; #!/usr

Re: Mandrake 10 2.6.3-7 modem install

m8.2 cured this problem but I never got connected. I have installed M8.2 on the new hard drive, downloaded driver source code for the 2..4.18 kernel and compiled it and the modem just went. no probs. Barry (sorry about the html, still sorting out problems after the crash on the new box

Problem reading group messages

to kill the mail client (netscape 4.7) and reload it. To send this msg I had to reboot Is it possible to avoid this problem or do I unsubscribe Barry

Re: [Fwd: Re: meeting reminder - Thurs 14 Oct 7.30pm]

+ 1 for me Barry

OT - tcl/tk coding

in the already existing instance of gimp? TIA Barry

Re: OT - tcl/tk coding

Thank You, my photoutils script has suddenly become immensely more useful. Barry - Carl Cerecke wrote: Barry wrote: if I run the tcl command 'eval exec gimp $filename1 ' gimp opens with filename1 displayed, all is ok. If I run the same command with $filename2 I get a 2nd

Re: OT - tcl/tk coding

a hd crash also allowed me to view all exif data, and add/alter selected exif fields and also allowed it to be used as a very basic text editor. It also runs in Windows but is not yet fully cross-platform. Barry Barry wrote: Thank You, my photoutils script has suddenly become immensely more

Re: OT - tcl/tk coding

Jaco Swart wrote: I must admit that I would love to test-drive it, as it will make an excelent companion to my scanning and page-building scripts (Perl and Perl/Tk). Have you GPL'ed it? ;-) Jaco No, see it at the next meeting 27/10/2004 Barry Barry wrote: Jaco Swart wrote: tell more, tell

OT - file recovery assistance wanted

weeks (one of those 'must do that' disasters) tia Barry

Re: Mounting a USB drive

the directory tree? tia Barry --- Douglas Royds wrote: (Unhijacked - I had accidentally hijacked the Fix-up thread) Nick Rout wrote: if you want the device to be mountable by a user (ie non root) then i believe the option user in /etc/fstab does the trick. I have this, and it works

Time display

, timezone is set to nz, no-one has queried the date in my emails, so is cups just being clever/confusing??? Do I need to alter any settings for the benefit of cups? TIA Barry

Re: SUSE, YaST and dial-up failure

Can you revert to the old kernel, then try the modem. If this works looks like the modem drivers need updating to match the kernel Barry - Andy Leach wrote: Hi All, I am running SUSE 9.1 and until yesterday my winmodem was working fine,.overnight I ran YaST which failed part

Re: Computer names, was RE: Opinions re choice of CPU; marginally on topic

thread hijacked??? Barry Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote: Reminds me of a thread a couple of years ago - uname -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] robert $ uname -a Linux beast 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 #2 SMP Tue Oct 26 09:10:04 NZDT 2004 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Computer names, was RE: Opinions re choice of CPU; marginally on topic

Sorry, can't read the small print Barry Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote: Reminds me of a thread a couple of years ago - uname -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] robert $ uname -a Linux beast 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 #2 SMP Tue Oct 26 09:10:04 NZDT 2004 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Re: locate , updatedb (was Lost icons..)

If you have a dos/vfat/windows ptn, don't forget to check/edit the last? line of /etc/updatedb.conf and make sure vfat is NOT in the list of filesystems to exclude. Caused a lot of muttering around here until I edited the conf file and reran updatedb. Barry - Steve Brorens

What corrupted lilo?

and ran lilo. As I have not had this problem previously and did not run lilo while running M10 on hda11 I am wondering how lilo got to be altered. Any ideas please anyone TIA Barry btw the LTmodem drivers for the 2.4 kernel do nor work with the 2.6 kernel

Re: What corrupted lilo?

to locate.'. As root, opera works fine, also as user for local files. I can not find a setting in Opera which could affect this, any help on this would be appreciated. TIA Barry Barry wrote: Have just finished reloading lilo, but what caused it to be altered in the 1st place

Re: OT Rute User's Tutorial - Paul Sheer

remember correctly Barry - C. Falconer wrote: Yep - we've had this discussion on this list before... If person on this list says please print me a copy then that initiates the process of converting to hard copy All I've done is say that its possible, which has not initiated

Re: Lexmark z615 printer

From my experience with Lexmark, run like hell. I never got mine going properly and Lexmarks support is zilch. Go for a HP if you want a cheapie, my old Deskjet 690C goes well and was very easy to set up. Barry Brendan Greer wrote: hi people I have no expierence

Selecting a window manager

there is a . file controlling this action but I can not locate it. .wmrc in my home dir contained 'icewm' but removing this file did not affect the loading. I have tried completely uninstalling then reinstalling all kde packages without success. Any ideas please Barry

Re: Selecting a window manager

Thank you for the replies, I played around with the Mandrake setup and got a gui startup screen this time. Selecting kde crashed kde but with a msg 'no write authority for .ICEauthority'. I started icewm, changed my permissions and restarted X and kde = success. Barry -- Barry

Re: Allowing a normal user to run a command (shutdown) as root

Just done a test on my M10 install with level 3 startup and icewm. 1. ctl-alt-del to kill X 2. ctl-alt-bs to reboot. 3. you may have to shut down progs first if you wish to keep settings, or if confirmation is required. with M8.2 only 2 and 3 apply Will test with KDE later KIS Barry

Re: Allowing a normal user to run a command (shutdown) as root

Steve Holdoway wrote: Barry wrote: Just done a test on my M10 install with level 3 startup and icewm. 1. ctl-alt-del to kill X 2. ctl-alt-bs to reboot. I think I'd swap these two around if I were you (: Steve Ooops - you are correct, sorry Tested kde for M10 this morning. ctl-alt-del 1st time

make install help - kxstitch

but crashes on pressing button3 2nd problem is that the help button can not find the documentation which is in /usr/local/kde/doc/HTML/en/kxstitch 3rd problem is. what do I use to read docbook files. I installed into Mandrake10 How do I correct these problems please Barry

Re: make install help - kxstitch

Barry wrote: Hi I recently downloaded source code for kxstitch and worked my way through configure, make and make install successfully . Thanks for the replies. I uninstalled, then ran ./configure prefix=/usr and all now works. I had a quick read through the documentation, loaded

Where is my camera mounted?

using to download photos? Barry

icewm background color/image

startx icewm, removing xsetroot sets the background to default to blue. I have also tried altering the xsetroot commands in Xsession and Xsetup_0 without success. No wonder some of you have gone off Mandrake Barry

Re: drive mount error

=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0 Is the problem caused by having 'utf 8' instead of 'utf8' in your /etc/fstab? HTH Barry

Re: [Tenuous] Website design tips... please

over screen width because the container is not resized. Works the same in Netscape. HTH Barry

Re: Fix-up evening, Tuesday 12th April

bittorrent running. I may need a java runtime module for opera tia Barry

Compile problem - kx stitch

, are no KDE headers installed. This will fail. So, check this please and use another prefix! I have tried ./configure ./configure --prefix=/usr/lib/kde3 Any ideas please Barry

Re: Compile problem - kx stitch

Thanks, now fixed. I have spent ages looking for the old filename -kdelib-devel It is now libkdecore-develGGRR! Abhinav Keswani wrote: I believe you need the kde libs development package installed. Should sort it out for you. checking for KDE... configure: error: in the

Re: Quasar

Review coming in Tux Issue 3 being emailed today, did you subscribe? Barry Robert Fisher wrote: Anyone here tried Quasar Accounting? I have been looking for a small bussiness accounting package suitable for use in NZ.

Re: paradise.net security tips

I'm on paragise but did not get the good word. Was it to clear customers only? Barry Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Anyone else had a laugh about the Telstraclear security reminder today? Basically a waffle on how to keep a PC safe. All sent as html (and without a plain text part), haha... Volker

rpmdrake not working

from the Mandriva distro. This failed so I reinstalled Gimp1.2 from Mandrake10. I have tried restarting X, also rebooted the box to no avail. Any ideas please Barry

mythtv

a source for local programs I believe, Could you point me to it please, also any special setup needed. TIA Barry

tvtuner problems

This is a new installation on a newly formatted ptn lspci finds the card and module saa7133 is loaded with options tuner =5 and card =3 Under linux I get the following msgs when trying to run tvtime... [EMAIL PROTECTED] barry]# tvtime [2] 3204 Running tvtime 0.9.12. Reading configuration from

Re: tvtuner problems

Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 00:51:41 +1200 Barry wrote: The chip is a Phillips SAA7135HL on a Dick Smith Card and info on the web indicates that it runs without problems with Mandrake 10 This is a new installation on a newly formatted ptn lspci finds the card and module

Re: tvtuner problems

: no signal Google brings up a number of sites for this problem. I have yet to find an answer. Running ls -l /dev/v4l produces crw--- 1 root video 81, 64 Jan 1 1970 radio0 crw--- 1 barry video 81, 224 Jan 1 1970 vbi0 crw--- 1 barry video 81, 0 Jan 1 1970 video0

Mandriva CDs wanted

Does anyone in Chch have Mandriva on CDs I could borrow please. Barry

Warning - xfe-0.84-1 file manager

to then uninstall then reinstall XWC to get its text viewer and editor functioning. Barry

Re: qemu win98 install/boot problems + cdrom

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

qemu file transfer.

without any problem, but I need the -dummy-net option unless I am on line. File print sharing is enabled. Tcp/IP is installed for dialup (automatic IP) for ethernet(10.0.2.20 255.0.0.0). What gateway do I set? Your ideas on what to try next are wanted TIA Barry

Re: qemu file transfer.

Thanks for the reply Rob. I went back to that page I found. It seems to presume that a network and file server are already set up which is not so. I have installed proftpd but am not sure about it being setup correctly. It is running Robert Fisher wrote: On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 19:26, Barry

Re: Qemu - weird problem solved

lock as well (in w98) Barry

Re: qemu file transfer.

This reply has been written serial fashion as I tested various things. I want to t/f files from windows to linux. I can t/f from linux to windows by creating temp iso files. Printing would be ok but I could print to disk the t/f the file. Nick Rout wrote: Barry: please do the following

Re: modem

Nick Rout wrote: Yes I think for 2.6 the secret is to get the ltmodem-2.6-alk-7.tar.bz2 file. recompiled it for the 2.6.12.5 kernel and it works fine. If you change the kernel, recompile it. I have 2 compiled versions for 2 different kernels Barry

Re: modem

Barry wrote: Nick Rout wrote: Yes I think for 2.6 the secret is to get the ltmodem-2.6-alk-7.tar.bz2 file. recompiled it for the 2.6.12.5 kernel and it works fine. If you change the kernel, recompile it. I have 2 compiled versions for 2 different kernels Barry In my setup based

line spacing mistery

kernels are involved. So much for interchangeability. Any thoughts please on causes, cures, etc TIA Barry

Open Office - paragraph numbering

Help (yes I'm now screaming...)how do I turn off automatic paragraph numbering globally. I want to lay out numbered paragraphs manually but each time i start a new paragraph oo over-rides my previous settings. TIA Barry

Re: MDK 10 Patition magic

not running, mount the .img file and t/f data files in the normal way. 2 alternative setups should handle win98 xp, dos should also be possible It puts windows in its 2nd best place - another linux application. Barry Don Gould wrote: I'm playing round with a laptop

Re: Open Office - paragraph numbering

Thanks Ian, this has solved the immediate problem, and other formatting ones. Have now found it in the help index, but it is well hidden. Barry --- Ian Laurenson wrote: On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 13:45 +1300, Barry wrote: Help (yes I'm now screaming...)how do I turn off automatic

ctrlaltdel problem

of) inittab is read. Any ideas please. Barry

Re: ctrlaltdel problem

Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:24:02 +1300 Barry wrote: In inittab I can set CtrlAltDel to 'shutdown -h now' but everytime I reboot it is over-written to 'shutdown -t3 -r now'. Distro is mandriva le. It is being over-written during the startup process and I can not find

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