Re: Fw: damn sound

2002-12-17 Thread Joshua Collins
Thanks but the only ones at 0 were 'mic' (which i don't own) and 'igain' (which i don't know what it is). All the rest were locked about 67% and i tried the modprobe thing and still not working :( From: Michael JasonSmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linux users [EMAIL

Re: damn sound

2002-12-17 Thread Joshua Collins
I just tried what you suggested I pumped all the bars to 100%, the little black box upto 100% and the stereo it's all connected to to 100% ... and when playing sound I here this slight distortion in the midst of the noise that imay/i be sound... but may not :( back to square one I guess

Re: Open Source Technology Centre

2002-12-19 Thread Joshua Collins
I have a copy of windows 98 that i bought floating round somewhere that I could donate. Is that still lega? i dunno... but if u're interested i'll try hunt it out --Slosh From: David Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Open Source

Re: Open Source Technology Centre

2002-12-19 Thread Joshua Collins
That's what i thought... but since i got a new computer which came with ME i would assume it's only on one pc... --Slosh and is only installed on one pc :-) On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 13:16:56 +1300 Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 13:00, Joshua Collins wrote: I

Re: Open Source Technology Centre

2002-12-19 Thread Joshua Collins
well i will keep an eye out for it... unfortunately it didn't turn up when i was moving out of the flat last month so it may never turn up... but when u do need it drop me a line and if i do find it by then i'll spin it over to u. --Slosh From: David Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To:

Re: FW: Software development tools

2003-03-31 Thread Joshua Collins
2c I like java a lot, mainly bacause it's realitively easy to pick up (unlike C *evils in it's direction*) and it provides a really nice way to design guis via JavaSwing. --Slosh Tom Munro Glass wrote: Thanks for the info guys, I've installed KDevelop overnight so will check that out later

Re: kppp problem

2003-07-19 Thread Joshua Collins
On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 00:08, Rob wrote: On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 23:59, Leighton Turner wrote: Hi Im running redhat 8.0 and was trying to change kppp so it didn't need the root password to run for users, however this didn't work and instead made it worse. I decided to uninstall the kppp

CD burner

2003-07-28 Thread Joshua Collins
but the main question I wanted here was which program is good for burning CDs? I'm running RH9 if it affects anything... -- Joshua Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OpenOffice

2003-08-15 Thread Joshua Collins
Up until now OpenOffice has been fine, the fonts were all fine. But just now I opened it up and it's all gone to a Teletype font (menus, cell entries, etc), all I've done since I last used it was to install XSPIM. How do I fix this? -- Joshua Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: modem prob

2003-08-21 Thread Joshua Collins
correctly but here goes. Try turning the sound down to about 75%. I find if I have the sound up to 100% I get a lot of noise other the speakers on the other end. -- Joshua Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tux

2003-08-29 Thread Joshua Collins
Jaco Swart wrote: Anybody interested in getting a Tux for your box/monitor? I *might* consider ordering one for myself. Go see at https://linuxcentral.com/catalog/index.php3?prod_code=G000- 001id=C1CjnnRWutBCf (or just search on linuxcentral for the 6-inch Tux) 1 Tux + shipping will be

Re: 2 gig limit (real newbie question...)

2003-08-30 Thread Joshua Collins
If you need to swap files between windows and linux, limit yourself to 2GB or go via a samba share set up on some Linux box (the same or another). Forking out for a bigger disk might also solve your problem. Volker This is probably excessive work but when I need to swap between the two :-

Re: MSN Messenger update joke...

2003-09-01 Thread Joshua Collins
Chris Wilkinson wrote: Hi there, I run Alvaros MSN Messenger Client for Linux, so I can instant message some friends around NZ and abroad. MS just emailed my Hotmail address saying that I cannot use Messenger anymore until I update it to a security fixed version! I'm seeking opinions on

OT tetanaus was: Re: Open Standards, archivists

2003-09-11 Thread Joshua Collins
those lines. -- Joshua Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Accessing NTFS

2003-09-25 Thread Joshua Collins
Assume I have Microsoft Windows XP using NTFS on one partition and RedHat 9.0 (2.4.20-20.9) on the other, how do I access the Windows partition? I used to simply run mount but now when I do I get: $ su -c mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows/ mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel -- Joshua Collins

Re: Accessing NTFS

2003-09-25 Thread Joshua Collins
: add ntfs to your kernel. but it is flaky for write support, it is likely to trash your ntfs partition if you write to it. you have been warned! On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 20:26:03+1200 Joshua Collins[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Assume I have Microsoft Windows XP using NTFS on one partition

Re: Accessing NTFS

2003-09-25 Thread Joshua Collins
On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 22:12, Philip Charles wrote: On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Joshua Collins wrote: I don't wish to read to it, the reason I'm after it is to get a file from Windows (namely an avi of Matrix: Reloaded) from Windows (where it won't play) to Linux (where it does) without having

Re: Debian emu10k1 alsa sound

2004-12-12 Thread Joshua Collins
On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 15:06, Joshua Collins wrote: Ok I got it working now :) Oh and while I remember if something says it can't find libao it does well to double check that it's actually installed :S --Slosh

Re: Debian emu10k1 alsa sound

2004-12-12 Thread Joshua Collins
Ok I got it working now :) I got the lsmod stuff correct (don't ask me how, it happened without me realising it) and to get the stuff in /dev/snd all I needed to run in the end was modprobe snd-emu10k1; modprobe snd-pcm-oss; modprobe snd-mixer-oss; modprobe snd-seq-oss; modprobe snd-card-emu10k1

Re: Debian emu10k1 alsa sound

2004-12-12 Thread Joshua Collins
On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 21:14, Nick Rout wrote: not sure, but I would start with testing the ownership and permissions of /dev/dsp (or whatever /dev/dsp points to :-) Looked at that debian:/dev# ls -l /dev/dsp crw-rw1 root audio 14, 3 Mar 15 2002 /dev/dsp I believe this is

Ethernet setup

2005-01-05 Thread Joshua Collins
Greetings All Through an amazing oversight I appear to have not set up ethernet[1]. Now I haven't been in this position before, previously they have been automatically set up in RedHat, Yoper, And I believe Debian (although I don't think I've checked with prior debian installs), at any rate all

LTSP hangs at dhclient

2005-01-19 Thread Joshua Collins
Well as some of you may remember I tried getting LTSP running a while ago, and I recently decided to have another go at it. Fortunately I'm having a good deal more progress this time, however I've just hit a hurdle. From what i can tell it get's allocated the IP address and sent the kernel (or

Re: *HEADS UP* Meeting reminder TOMORROW Monday 24 Jan

2005-01-23 Thread Joshua Collins
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 20:57 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: Just a reminder of the meeting tomorrow 24 January 2004 at 7.30 pm at the Cashmere Club.[1] [1] according to the phone book the Cashmere Club is at 88 Hunter Tce, Cashmere, but the easiest way is to say its on Colombo Street, Cashmere end,

Re: Writing to FAT partition

2005-01-27 Thread Joshua Collins
On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 11:27 +1300, Dave wrote: Hi very interesting thread, wjich has got me thinking I have an ext3 (extended) partition (hda3) that I want to make mount/umount writable by all users As it stands only root can create folders but users can read and write to them

Re: kppp and permissions

2005-02-09 Thread Joshua Collins
On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 12:01 +1300, Andrew Errington wrote: Hi, I have a quick question on kppp. I am using Debian 3.0 r4, and kppp won't work for a 'normal' user, only root. To fix the problem I did the following two things: 1) Add user-who-wishes-to-dial to the 'dip' group. This

Jumpy DVD playback

2005-02-12 Thread Joshua Collins
Greetings all, I'm running debian unstable on 2.4.18 kernel and have to cd drives, one is a cd writer and the other is a dvd player. A while ago I was getting jumpy DVD playback but found (via a website) that 'hdparm -d1 /dev/dvd' solved it wonderfully. However, a while ago I needed to burn some

Re: Time for a new distro...

2005-08-15 Thread Joshua Collins
On 8/16/05, sirlancelot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you prefer Gnome or KDE? If a search for what you want is what you're after I thought this was nifty: http://distrowatch.com/search.php If you scroll down a bit you can search by distrobution criteria. It may not always produce a result tho.

Re: Mplayer plays DVD slowly

2005-08-28 Thread Joshua Collins
I've found using the flag -hardframedrop (or it's something like that anyway) to be helpful when mplayer is playing slowly. Sorry I'm not near a *nix machine atm to find out the exact flag. --Slosh Gmail headers, yadda yadda yadda On 8/29/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what is mplayer

Re: Debian Floppies

2005-08-31 Thread Joshua Collins
On 9/1/05, Richard Tindall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Collins wrote: On a related note would someone be able to burn (what's the correct floppy equivalent of that?) the two debian floppy images to floppy for me tonight? Woud be much appreciated just tell me what you'd like to do trade

Re: Debian Floppies

2005-08-31 Thread Joshua Collins
On 9/1/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en http://archive.progeny.com/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-i386/current//images/floppy/you wil need between 2 and four images depending what you are trying to achieve.you need boot and root

Re: Debian Floppies

2005-08-31 Thread Joshua Collins
On 9/1/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK I suggest you do all four floppies and try the following:after booting with the boot and root floppies, use the cd-driver floppy and if this produces a result I believe you can install fromthere.If that doesn't work use the net floppy and install

Re: Debian Floppies

2005-08-31 Thread Joshua Collins
I'm buying some on the way it looks like :) Y'know I remember back in the day when floppies used to happily last years. *nostalgia* --Slosh

Remote X login

2005-09-02 Thread Joshua Collins
Thanks Rick and those involved for the debian disks. They worked a charm :) However I seem unable to get a remote X login. According to ethereal after each query of the host the hosts sends back a 'Destination unreachable (Port unreachable)' message. Any ideas where I should be looking?

Re: Remote X login

2005-09-02 Thread Joshua Collins
On 9/3/05, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For a start, ensure that Enable is set to true in the [xdmcp] section of/etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf on your new system, then X :1 -query newsystemshould bring you up a new X session. Done and double checked. (You have created an evilslosh user... as

Re: [Fwd: Re: Remote X login]

2005-09-02 Thread Joshua Collins
On 9/3/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: netstat -an|grep 177 udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:177 0.0.0.0:* unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 22177 try the following to see if it works:ssh -Y 192.168.0.3then run an xclient like xclock, it should appear on your screen. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xclock Error: Can't

Re: [Fwd: Re: Remote X login]

2005-09-02 Thread Joshua Collins
Ignore me I just got it. Simple as /etc/init.d/xserver-xorg start *sigh* At least I know I've got my blonde thing out of the way for today. --Slosh

Re: [OT] Recommendations for CV/Resume Writers

2005-09-14 Thread Joshua Collins
I regularly receive CV's from Germans looking to spend their threemonth elective working in a law office in NZ. Their spelling and grammar are usually perfect. Having attended an English class at a German school I don't find that surprising. I attended the equivalent of a 7th from level class

Re: [OT] Recommendations for CV/Resume Writers

2005-09-14 Thread Joshua Collins
On 9/15/05, Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah. But they are actually taught the grammar of the English Language in all it's glorious detail as part of of their curriculum. It just doesn't happen in most of the English speaking world. Perhaps the curriculum should be extended so

Re: [OT] Recommendations for CV/Resume Writers

2005-09-15 Thread Joshua Collins
On 9/16/05, Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would be interesting is to know whether schools in countries which useother languages similarly fail to teach the grammars of their Mother Tongues? Dunno about that but (interesting _totally_ OT stuff to follow)according to some

Re: Sound disappearing (Was: Installfest)

2005-09-20 Thread Joshua Collins
On 9/21/05, yuri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20/09/05, Christopher Sawtell wrote: My sound has suddenly disappeared and I have absolutely no idea why. Mine did that once.Try removing your soundcard altogether in your distro's Add/Removehardware tool, reboot, disable it in the bios and boot into

Harddrive Purchasing

2005-09-21 Thread Joshua Collins
I seem to vaguely remember this coming up recently, but I don't recall the results. What is the advice on a harddrive that is linux compatible. One that's about 100Gb would be nice :) Is there anything I should be wary of should a shop assistant try to swindle me. I'm not a huge hardware

Re: Harddrive Purchasing

2005-09-21 Thread Joshua Collins
On 9/22/05, Craig FALCONER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: seagate barraccuda is sex-on-toast. maxtor isn't. Do you need maximum space or maximum speed? space I should think. What spec machine is the drive going into? Oh dear :S Don't quote me on any of this but I believe the current setup

Re: qemu and windows browsing

2005-10-13 Thread Joshua Collins
Sorry I missed the meeting and for the most part haven't been following the thread. I have a rescue disk with Win ME ('cos no-one wil buy me) on it. Would I be able to install windows using qemu from that? --Slosh

[OT] Re: qemu and windows browsing

2005-10-13 Thread Joshua Collins
On 10/14/05, Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 14 October 2005 09:34, Joshua Collins wrote: Sorry I missed the meeting and for the most part haven't been following the thread.I have a rescue disk with Win ME ('cos no-one wil buy me) on it. Would I be able to install windows

Re: update notifier

2005-10-18 Thread Joshua Collins
On 10/19/05, Roy Britten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 21:09 +, HappyEvilSlosh wrote: Yesterday I installed ubuntu to give it a try. On the whole I'm very impressed. However in blindly copying my /home directory from debian I lost the update notifier thing and I can't see it

Re: Telstraclear boo boo

2005-10-18 Thread Joshua Collins
On 10/19/05, Volker Kuhlmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Telstraclear killed my internet at 1:52 this morning, and it's stilldead. Apparently they did some scheduled network upgrade with Sky etc (it annoys me they never bother to tell anyone), and when they finishedat 6 or so, people with a Surfboard

Re: test .mpg / NZCS Win-OSS

2005-10-27 Thread Joshua Collins
On 10/28/05, Richard Tindall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick Rout wrote:Another plug I know, but I can also say that i've only been able to get most media to play since I used gentoo.A noteworthy corollary from last night's NZCS meeting:The hyper-informed Chris Noel (tho unknown to CLUG; ... He was

Computer Locking up

2006-05-14 Thread Joshua Collins
OK about a week ago, seemingly without warning my MBR/partition tables did a runner.I have no idea what happened or why, it appeared as though the partition boundaries had gotten confused, I don't know, at any rate I just wiped the hard drive (there wasn't anything overly important on it) and

Re: Computer Locking up

2006-05-15 Thread Joshua Collins
There are no final messages per se... it just stops, with a reboot it sometimes gets a little further.. And I'm 80% sure the cables are secure but I'll double check on returning home. On 5/16/06, Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you sure the hard drive and cable is properly seated at both

Re: Computer Locking up

2006-05-15 Thread Joshua Collins
On 5/16/06, Volker Kuhlmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However I'm unable to run any additional tests as I'm now lucky if the computer boots past whatever the part of booting that allows you into BIOS is called, let alone completing an operating system start up (this goes for LiveCD's as well).Ok,