RE: New RedHat Updates at ftp.phys.canterbury.ac.nz

2001-11-04 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
(there is one but due to routing commercial quirks it sees UOC as an overseas site) It's only people with machines on the 'front line' who should be watching patches with an eagle eye, I personally assume NO firewall is cracker proof. I've seen some strange occurrences. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev

Re: New RedHat Updates at ftp.phys.canterbury.ac.nz

2001-11-04 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
option. (note however that this site is open only to *.nz) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: [Fwd: Wu-FTP glob heap corruption vulnerability]

2001-11-29 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
the RedHat updates) even before it became widely known. But one never know when and what it may miss ... Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: [Fwd: Wu-FTP glob heap corruption vulnerability]

2001-11-29 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
running servers? Ah yes right. And the day have about 40h. ;-) -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: unpacking compressed files

2002-02-25 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
not a Mac user so I don't know). Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Linuxcare Bootable Toolkit

2002-02-27 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Mahesh De Silva wrote: have look at www.blankcd.co.nz he is in halswell (chch) and his prices are quite good. Question: the toolkit have 47 Mb while those business card CD are rated at 35 Mb. Are there larger ones or am I missing something ? Cheers, -- Ryurick M

Re: Linuxcare Bootable Toolkit

2002-02-27 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
that there are 2 sizes: 30(35 ?) and 50 Mb. I assume the 50 Mb would work (at least) in most (not ancient) CD readers. Now if I can find a supplier Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Re: Linuxcare Bootable Toolkit

2002-03-01 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
...? Because it fits the pocket/wallet and you can carry a reliable toolkit at all times ? Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: For those of you not paying attention to Microsoft

2002-03-06 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

RE: Why Linux won't suffer from viruses like Windows/Outlook

2002-03-13 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
convince your sysadmin to create a group for each user manually. At least then you don't have to continually bug him/her. (Of course a BOFH would balk at this delegation of power :) I hope I'm not a BOFH :-) and I would certanly balk at this one. -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Why Linux won't suffer from viruses like Windows/Outlook

2002-03-13 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
work or I am missing something. Which one ? [...] I hope I'm not a BOFH :-) and I would certanly balk at this one. Come on, there's a bit of BOFH in all of us ;) CN|K Point well taken! :-) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University

RE: Why Linux won't suffer from viruses like Windows/Outlook

2002-03-14 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
could easily use their ACL without any problems. Apparently there was some effort to create a Posix ACL standard but it was abandoned. Maybe somebody else who knows better can comment on this. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury

Re: Cron Daemon

2002-04-07 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
the above line could be rewritten as 1/dev/null 21 Or you could send just the output to the big bit bucket and keep the error messages. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: testing list

2002-04-21 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Zane Gilmore wrote: Is there an archive? There is supposedly one here but last time I looked it wasn't working http://christchurch.lug.net.nz/ Maybe someone else can point you at one I have the mails, starting Jul 1999 Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL

Linux friendly hardware vendors in ChCh ?

2002-04-28 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
Hello, Subject says it all. Are there some Linux friendly hardware vendors in Christchurch ? I am after some stuff. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

OpenOffice 1.0 and other goodies at ftp.phys

2002-05-01 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
Hello, Just downloaded OpenOffice 1.0 Available now at ftp://ftp.phys.canterbury.ac.nz/ I've also uploaded many other goodies (been too lazy till now :-) so it may pay to check the other directories as well. Enjoy! Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems

SECURITY: Apparently serious bug in Netscape 6 Mozilla

2002-05-01 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
, a fact not mentioned in the release notes. When trying to use it, either nothing happens or the browser crashes. The proof-of-concept works just fine in Mozilla 0.9.9 (and NS6.1+), and would work fine in moz1rc1 if the XMLHttpRequest object could be used at all. Cheers, -- Ryurick M

Re: Why Linux isn't on the desktop yet

2002-05-01 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
interesting to follow this development. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Why Linux isn't on the desktop yet

2002-05-01 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
on the premises that you will steal whatever you will need when you will retire. I personally don't recommend you this path ;-) As for MS is everywhere: yes it is _now_, so what is your point ? Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics

Re: Why Linux isn't on the desktop yet

2002-05-01 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
...that much is certain. I personally doubt that you can teach an old dog too many new tricks. It will happen probably over such a long time that you will have a generation rollover at the same time (which takes roughly ~25 years). Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer

Re: Why Linux isn't on the desktop yet

2002-05-01 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
some back-doors in unregistered software ? There are probably other reasons but I can't think of them right now. And from businesses it will trickle down to home users. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy

Re: cd writers

2002-05-11 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
with any _compliant_ ATAPI or SCSI writer. I don't know about USB (not recommended anyway as is slow) or 1394. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

RE: RH 7.2 to 7.3 upgrade

2002-05-16 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
upgrades (but that was at least 6 years ago!) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Name resolution and DHCP

2002-05-19 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Mon, 20 May 2002, Rex Johnston wrote: On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 10:47, Mark Carey wrote: I am trying to get lpd going on my machine, what can I do? Use CUPS. :) I second this, unless you need accounting or other fancy stuff. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Name resolution and DHCP

2002-05-19 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
going. An example is a sendmail install without a permanent connection. (you _could_ make sendmail to ignore/set the domain elswere but the hack is non-trivial) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New

Re: Name resolution and DHCP

2002-05-20 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
not been able to write a satisfactory one for my notebook, without the localdomain. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: cdrecord issues with 700 MB burns

2002-05-20 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Tue, 21 May 2002, V K wrote: Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling That's stoneage, or? AFAIK cdrecord 1.10 is the latest stable release cdrtools 1.11 is still beta. In what sense is stone-age ? Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Ending Microsoft FUD

2002-05-20 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
the road. There are other much more important benefits starting day 1, like being fully in control of your IT environment, having your data in open standards formats, etc. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy

Re: Kernel Module?

2002-05-21 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
about cd writing. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Openoffice network installation

2002-05-26 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Mon, 27 May 2002, Carl Cerecke wrote: [...] For system-wide install you have to use the '/net' CLI switch. Then run the setup again for each user individually. Unfortunately AFAIK it is currently undocumented, it was IIRC in the StarOffice 5.2 Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Open Office Menu fonts

2002-06-06 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
== Andale Mono edit family += Monotype.com; match any family == Monotype.com edit family =+ Andale Mono; I don't pretend to be the best or even good, it just works for the time being. 5. Be careful how you mess with the font substitution config file. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto

Digital TV recorder

2002-06-09 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
Hello, Has anybody experimented with digital tv recording under Linux ? (i.e. something to replace a vhs tape recorder) I know that some projects do exists but they seem either too sophisticated (require dvb cards) or don't have on-screen menus, etc. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto

Re: Digital TV recorder

2002-06-09 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
was thinking more in terms of recording mainly for time shifting viewing. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

RE: Digital TV recorder

2002-06-09 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Chris Hellyar wrote: Use a VCR? :-). Yeah, but: - low resolution - can't watch and record at the same time. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Digital TV recorder

2002-06-09 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Nick Rout wrote: Look for something called the Tivo Yes, I know about TiVO and others ... but have anyone atempted a simple DIY project ? Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept

Re: Digital TV recorder

2002-06-10 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, V K wrote: Use a VCR? :-). - can't watch and record at the same time. ??? The _same_ broadcast I mean: i.e. you start recording from 18:00 to 18:30 Start viewing at 18:15 end at 18:30 (skip commercials ;-) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Digital TV recorder

2002-06-10 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
as a DIY ? Are the tools available ? That would require among others an remote and an OSD. at is not even _my_ idea of a home entertainment system, nevermind my wife and others. I.e. something like this: http://www.cadsoft.de/people/kls/vdr/index.htm Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Digital TV recorder

2002-06-10 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
. The tv tunner card is the least of my worries. The main problem is a decent human interface i.e. reasonable OSD + remote. And DVD integration would be a big bonus. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New

Re: Linux Terminal Server

2002-06-10 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
what kind of apps you want to run (which decides how much data is pushed down the wire). For normal usage we have heaps of nfsroot terminals quite happy with 10Mbs. OTOH if you want to stream video or huge data across (videogames ?) than it might be another matter. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev

Re: Digital TV recorder

2002-06-12 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Vik Olliver wrote: [...] so if I can get my DivX file convertet to MPEG+audio, I can play it on my PS2. If your PS2 can play (S)VCD then this may be a better solution. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University

Re: Trapped Mouse

2002-06-12 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
where the mouse will hang with some on-board PS/2 until something is being read from the port. I.e. gpm would work fine but XFree 4.0.x won't until one either uses the mouse under console or uses something like head -c 1 /dev/psaux /dev/null 21 (don't know about XFree 4.2, etc.) Cheers, -- Ryurick M

Re: Apt-get enabling for uni redhat mirror?

2002-07-01 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
with apt on Debian up to 3 years ago but I've since switched to Redhat. What exactly do you need for enabled for apt ? Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: playing movies

2002-07-02 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
/restore the video state as it should. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: playing movies

2002-07-03 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Stephen Nicholas wrote: On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 03:10:58PM +1200, Ryurick M. Hristev wrote: On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Stephen Nicholas wrote: [...] My guess: This is a Xv/Xshm driver issue. 1. make sure you load the Xv driver in XF86Config-4 (presumably your video

Re: mathematica

2002-07-03 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
(and about 2k better off). SuSE 8.0 contains both scilab and octave. Yes. With respect to Scilab, make sure to use the ATLAS lib (compiled specifically for your machine) and the ATLAS patch for Scilab. It can boost performance by up to 8 times! Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: playing movies

2002-07-03 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
and not suspend-to-ram ? Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: playing movies

2002-07-03 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
seemed to be a lemon APM was, and probably still is, a lemon on many laptops. Reason: tons of BIOS bugs. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: jammed CDROM drive

2002-07-16 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
? 'fuser -muv dir' will tell you who is using what. Ocasionally you may get a hang in the kernel, if so then you are out of luck (i.e. need rebooting) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Install Fest Post Mortem

2002-07-21 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Tim Wright wrote: On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Ryurick M. Hristev wrote: This may be a bad idea on some laptops, in particular Dell Inspiron (the reason is the save-to-disk/hibernation feature) This could be why save-to-disk doesn't work on my Acer laptop. It saves OK

Re: Boot problems: init not found

2002-08-21 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Carl Cerecke wrote: [...] Any suggestions on how to fix the problem so I can continue to work on the talk I'll be giving at the next meeting? Note that the latest Redhat requires now the /initrd dir (AFAIK unlike the previous ones) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto

Re: Newbies problems

2002-08-25 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
answering a newbie's post. These acronyms are very, very common. If one really have difficulty then go to http://www.acronymfinder.com/ Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: CD Writers

2002-08-27 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
Rainier and apparently Linux already supports it (but I have no hands-on experience so I couldn't comment further, maybe somebody else ...). Also from memory, there was a pointer to a high-speed cd recorders on Slashdot recently, Liteon was included in the review. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto

Re: Suppressing Advertising: was Re: Network censorship

2002-09-04 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
/ banner ads etc. Both browser and proxy/firewall approaches. Privoxy: http://www.privoxy.org/ (junkbuster nextgen) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Suppressing Advertising: was Re: Network censorship

2002-09-05 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
but much, much improved. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: C or C++?

2002-09-19 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: C or C++?

2002-09-19 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Carl Cerecke wrote: Ryurick M. Hristev wrote: I'll second this. C and C++ are worlds apart: C- functional programming (paradigm of the '70-es ?) C is *imperative* style language Haskell is *functional* style language Prolog is logical Java is OOP Doh! Sorry

Re: C or C++?

2002-09-19 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
*ever* programming language and it shows. http://www.byte.com/art/9509/sec7/art19.htm Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Gui problem in Redhat 7.3

2002-09-26 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
/psaux on it or start gpm) The network card have nothing to do with it. Please forget the other os frame of mind (I know is difficult, it took me more than a year when I started :-) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics

Re: Best distro for 133mhz pc

2002-09-28 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
will want to optimize for low memory consumption (e.g. don't start any daemons you don't absolutely need) - if you want X choose a light window manager Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Experimental up2date server

2002-09-29 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
redhat-7.3-i586 redhat-7.3-i686 redhat-7.3-athlon 3. server CA available at ftp://ftp.phys/pub/misc/CURRENT-CA-CERT Enjoy, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Redhat 8.0 at ftp.phys.canterbury.ac.nz

2002-09-30 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
Check it out at ftp://ftp.phys.canterbury.ac.nz/pub/redhat :-) Enjoy, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

HOWTO for up2date server at www.phys

2002-10-01 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
up2date Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Logrotate is misbehaving

2002-10-01 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
/logrotate The config file is in /etc/logrotate.conf If the logrotate is the problem see what's causing it. It is certainly a very useful tool. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

RedHat 8.0 Usefull link

2002-10-08 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
http://www.mplug.org/phpwiki/index.php/RedHat8.0TipsTricks -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

RedHat 8.0 updates now live at ftp.phys

2002-10-10 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
Ditto. First packages are already in ;-) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: RedHat 8.0 updates now live at ftp.phys

2002-10-10 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Michael JasonSmith wrote: On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 11:37, Ryurick M. Hristev wrote: Ditto. First packages are already in ;-) I'm a bit new to RedHat, so how would I go about getting a list of the updated packages? Even though I prefer Debian I run RedHat at home

XML Editors

2002-10-10 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
Hello all, Could anyone recommend a good XML editor ? (with comments) (my idea of good would be first open source and well maintained) Or pointers ? (from what I've dug up there are either too many or too few) TIA Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems

Re: Open Office / Postgresql / Redhat 8

2002-10-13 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
: jdbc:postgres://127.0.0.1/PgSQL DB name 5. driverclass is: org.postgresql.Driver 6. fill other fields as required Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: HTML editors - one more?

2002-10-15 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Reading mail

2002-10-29 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
- client At this point I am beginning to be short on ideas. Of course you could add some fluff here and there like archivemail to auto-delete old mail, etc. _The mail must flow_ Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:ryurick.hristev;canterbury.ac.nz

Re: Reading mail

2002-10-29 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
somebody wrote: [...] Don't get too much carried away. The whole post was sort of tongue in cheek :-D Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:ryurick.hristev;canterbury.ac.nz Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: ps experts ...

2002-11-04 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
. Or did you wanted to say text ? You might be able to recover _some_ structure _if_ you know well the postscript generator (e.g. dvips) but you'll have to be quite clever here. (and this is not the _general_ case). Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:ryurick.hristev;canterbury.ac.nz Computer

Re: ps experts ...

2002-11-04 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
the fact that is machine-generated code, meant to be easy to generate and being read only by machines. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:ryurick.hristev;canterbury.ac.nz Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Sharp Zaurus SL 5500

2002-11-06 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
Hello, Does anybody know if there is any chance to get the beast in NZ ? TIA Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:ryurick.hristev;canterbury.ac.nz Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Sharp Zaurus SL 5500

2002-11-06 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
this alternative it it's reasonably doable. TIA Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:ryurick.hristev;canterbury.ac.nz Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Sharp Zaurus SL 5500

2002-11-06 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
: I bought once some books from Amazon, over 400NZ$, and I had to wait for ~4 _months_ instead of the usual 2-3 weeks. Maybe it was an accident but ... Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:ryurick.hristev;canterbury.ac.nz Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics

Re: Sharp Zaurus SL 5500

2002-11-06 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
to package values over 400NS$ I have no problem with this but if it takes several months to process it ... then it's another story. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:ryurick.hristev;canterbury.ac.nz Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Partitioning

2002-11-06 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Michael JasonSmith wrote: [...] Ok. I need a simple solution that preserves XP, and has the least room for error. Maybe take a look at http://rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de/~feyrer/g4u/ I have 0 clues on it so don't ask :-D Just seen it recently. Cheers, -- Ryurick M

Re: Sharp Zaurus SL 5500

2002-11-07 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
. [...] My current plan is set it up with wireless and use it as a home automation controller :-) (Dial up music etc from the garden) As it does have an USB port I would assume at worst one could set an USB modem to it. Presumably there is no other solution ? Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev

Re: Bad things to do with rm (was: Re: MS networks (was Re: Partitioning))

2002-11-07 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
playing with fire: [ ${DIR} != '/' ] rm -rf ${DIR} Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:ryurick.hristev;canterbury.ac.nz Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Bad things to do with rm (was: Re: MS networks (was Re: Partitioning))

2002-11-07 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: [...] Cool, I love that! Make that DIR=/ hahahaaa... [ ${DIR} != '/' ] rm -rf ${DIR} and haste la viste baby. Boy, this group is picky. OK, point taken :-D Next time I'll type slower :-) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:ryurick.hristev

Re: Linux Video Editors.

2002-11-12 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
to subscribe to the linux 1394 mailing list for advice/news on the subject). Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:ryurick.hristev;canterbury.ac.nz Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: linus, god and operating systems. (was: Meeting reminder)

2002-11-17 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
have caught on. In other words: this kind of project was floating in the air, awaiting just a trigger. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: PHP IDEs

2002-12-01 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
code like that. Debug code is still the best. (i.e. peppering your code with echos or prints to track what is happening to a variable and that sort of thing) http://www.akbkhome.com/Projects/Phpmole-IDE/ Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University

Re: Distributions

2002-12-01 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
people forget that not everybody is on a 1Mb/s connection. ;-) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Distributions

2002-12-01 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Mon, 02 Dec 2002 14:01, Ryurick M. Hristev wrote: On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Christopher Sawtell wrote: [...] My advise to a complete newbie to get quality help to install either one of the source distros or Debian or one of its offspring

Re: Distributions

2002-12-01 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Michael Beattie wrote: On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 03:08:41PM +1300, Ryurick M. Hristev wrote: I though you were talking about upgrades ... you know ... when you download about 1-2 GB (binary only and compressed). Oh, wait, you did, you did :-) How many Debian

Re: Distributions

2002-12-01 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
(by someone somewhere along the line), some handle big upgrades more gracefully than others. Precisely. Nobody's perfect :-) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Distributions

2002-12-01 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Michael Beattie wrote: On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 03:55:41PM +1300, Ryurick M. Hristev wrote: [...] Need to get 294MB/379MB of archives. After unpacking 24.3MB will be used. ^ ok, so it's 379 on my laptop. as you can see, I havent

Re: Distributions

2002-12-01 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
on this list for CD burning requests. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Distributions

2002-12-02 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Michael Beattie wrote: On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 06:50:02PM +1300, Ryurick M. Hristev wrote: I can certainly understand your particular situation. Incidentally I also have a laptop at home and 100 Mb to my desktop and still find CD's more convenient, but that's me. Heh

Re: Bandwidth [OT] (Was: Distributions)

2002-12-03 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Nick Rout wrote: u what data caps? I get 10G per month and thats pretty hard to use up. Unless you get hit with a DOS attack. And basically this is my main problem with caps. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University

Re: Win2k cheaper TCO than linux

2002-12-03 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=281 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/23348.html Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Re: Win2k cheaper TCO than linux

2002-12-03 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
experience which makes me agree with the IDC study. This is interesting, because Microsoft _itself_ doesn't seem to agree. I suggest again to read this article (is a summary but contains a pointer to the original): http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28226.html Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto

Re: Re: Win2k cheaper TCO than linux

2002-12-03 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
on and in particular easy to troubleshoot (and no, without rebooting the machine). Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Re: Win2k cheaper TCO than linux

2002-12-03 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Jeremy Bertenshaw wrote: Win2k is pretty simple like that, plus theres heaps of cool free apps you can add on if you really find it requires looking under the hood. OK then, stick with Windows. :-) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems

Re: ext2 fs mishap

2002-12-04 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Helmut Walle wrote: more than ten years of using Linux. Wow! When did you start using it ? Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: tuxracer

2002-12-04 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Mahesh De Silva wrote: Nivida.. have there own closed source drivers.. i have got these going but still no joy with tux for me.. I also have simiar spec machine.. You also have to enable DRM (or whatever is called) in XF86Config Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto

Linux otimization tips for beginners

2002-12-04 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
-up time for programs who link toward many libs. The classical example is OpenOffice. In RedHat 8.0 you can setup prelinking easily. See the RELEASE-NOTES for details. In other distors it should be quite the same. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems

Re: graphics drivers was Re: tuxracer

2002-12-04 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
... but ...) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

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