Re: Computer Locking up
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 ends nowthat the hard drive has returned to that box?what are the final messages on the screen before it will do no more?HappyEvilSlosh wrote: Thanks to Carl, Nick and Volker for the advice. Now an update. I swapped the hard drive with another PC which had a fully functioning install, after which the Hard drive worked fine. I swapped the cables in the PC with ones I knew worked. 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). --Slosh
Re: Computer Locking up
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, if you can't even press DEL to get into the BIOS, the motherboard isseriously stuffed. As pointed out, an insufficient power supply couldalso cause the same symptoms. Try with a different power supply on that mobo, then retire one of the two permanently.Sometimes I can, with enough reboots, however I have also had it crash while I was in BIOS. Careful: the other power supply has to match the mobo. With bulk Asiancomputer hardware, that has always been the case. However, some dipshitat one big American computer assembler (like Dell, Compaq, though Idon't recall who) decided to use the same power supply/mobo plugs with a different pinout in their own brand of computers. Mixing one of thosesupplies/mobos with a standard one will invariably let the smoke out.Late 90s vintage I think.That's handy to know, cheers. --Slosh
Computer Locking up
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 reinstalled (debian). Now my issues really start. The system will just randomly hang[1], although it seems to happen more often when runningdpkg --configure, which I'm sure you can imagine is a real hassle.fsck can detect no problems on the partitions in question. Would appreciate any and all advice on the matter! --Slosh [1] When I say hang I mean the whole system comes down, not just a ctrl+c fixable problem. PS Not currently at home.
Re: test .mpg / NZCS Win-OSS
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 on the list, about 2 or 3 years ago if I recall correctly. He ended up leaving because I don't think he really felt much on it applied to him... Don't quote me on it tho. --Slosh
Re: update notifier
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 as an option when I try to add stuff to the panel. How do I get it back? Update notifications appear in the notification area (probably alreadypresent up the top right somewhere). If not, under 5.04, at least:Right-click on panel, Add to Panel, scroll down to and click on Notification Area.Cheers,Roy. I'd forgotten I posted this. I came across it by accident yesterday, at any rate thanks anyway. :) --Slosh
Re: Telstraclear boo boo
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 cable modem found they couldn't login any more. Does anyone know any more? On the KAOS list and IRC channel there was an apology/warning from one of thepeople involved, if you like I can try and remember who it was and ask? Apologies, if I'd been awake at the time I could have forwarded the warning here. --Slosh
Re: qemu and windows browsing
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
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 using qemu from that?Possibly, but remember that there are very good reasons that nobody will buy
your copy of Win-ME
That was actually intended as nothing more than a joke :P. It's a phrase my flatmate often uses when he hears the words Win ME, along with Windows M(asochist) E(dition).
--Slosh
Harddrive Purchasing
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 purchaser so any advice would be handy. Also are there any shops in Christchurch that people would recommend as being either locally owned and/or linux friendly? --Slosh --Gmail headers in use, and curses I missed talk like a pirate day!
Re: Harddrive Purchasing
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 involves a60gb hd, either about 500M or 1G of ram (I think it's the latter),amd athlon... anything else important to know? One I can't advise on - PATA vs SATA. theres about at $20-$30 premium on the SATA versions of drives. Anyone else comment on this? Possibly you didn't check the g-mail headers? I'll forward it to the list when I reply ;) I like www.ascent.co.nz for hardware. Not the cheapest, but free freight.
Re: Sound disappearing (Was: Installfest)
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 yourdistro, reboot, re-enable it in your bios and boot into your distro (if your distro doesn't autodetect new hardware on booting, re-add itin your Add/Remove hardware tool)and reboot. *whew*Yes, it's a windowsy type solution but it worked for me. If you are using alsa I've found rerunning alsaconf fixes it too. Your better to run it from whatever pressing ctrl+alt+f1 is called while logged out than while logged into a gui tho, as some things that need sound (ie volume control) will die and ask to be reloaded. --Slosh ** WARNING to mailing list repliers **Gmail over-rides Reply-To: field. Check your To: address beforesending reply to this post.
Re: [OT] Recommendations for CV/Resume Writers
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 Japanese people I was talking to apparently using chopsticks is a dying skill amongst young people over there. --Slosh
Re: [OT] Recommendations for CV/Resume Writers
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 and they all spoke better English than I number of people* I know in New Zealandand were studying a book, which I can't remember the name of, of which all I remember is that guaranteed every 10 words would contain at least 1 I'd never heard of before, and they were reading it fine. :S Along the lines of this tho I understand it is not uncommon in certain areas to come across txt shorthand in CVs (ie 'hope 2 hear from U soon') and I'm going to suggest it's an unwise idea should you be tempted. ;P --Slosh* Needless to say I mean people who speak English as a first language.
Re: [OT] Recommendations for CV/Resume Writers
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 that it does then? This is one of my arguments when I'm trying to tell someone they should learn a foreign language, particularly if it's one of the indo-european branch. e.g. who under the age of 30 on this list can tell us what a gerund is -- without looking it up. It looks _really_ familiar.. it involves verbs right? --Slosh
Remote X login
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? --Slosh
Re: Remote X login
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 root won't be allowed.) Done. Albeit not called evilslosh :P I take it that you can ssh to it? If not, then it points to a connectivityissue. I can indeed ssh to it. --Slosh
Re: [Fwd: Re: Remote X login]
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 open display: --Slosh
Re: [Fwd: Re: Remote X login]
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: Debian Floppies
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 for. --SloshIf Slosh or someone knows exactly where to get the desired imagesonline, and Slosh brings the disks, we can use dialup to do stuff like this on the spot. I have disks, I'll go have a hunt for the images. --Slosh
Re: Debian Floppies
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 as a minimum, then cd-drivers or net-driversdepending where you want to go from there.what is your aim? what is your reason for choosing floppies? generallythey are the last choice after all the others. sometimes though they really are the only way.but don't ask to use the same one in a month or two, it'll be corrupted.and out of date, and mislabelled, and lost.or is that just me? I have aPC which is totally blank and I need some sort of starting point, this seemed the most obvious. Basically I have my main use computer currently running debian with a DVD player and a CD writer (separate), and aspare CDROM (that I ended up trying to stick in the other one, see later)and a non working floppy drive, and the P1 has only a (I assume) working floppy. I tried puttingthe afore mentionedCDROM in but it didn't seem to be able to tell it was there, and I have NO idea how to get into the BIOS to see what's there. According to websites I visitedI should be able to just hold down F10, but that didn't work. Nor did esc or del or any of the other ones I thought would be worth a try. So I decided the next best thing (and I got some advice from someone else, credit where credit's due and all that) would be to try and get a floppy installation. It's hooked upto the net so once that's working it shouldn't be a problem. It's just the first step that's keeping me back. Hopefully that makes sense. --Slosh
Re: Debian Floppies
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 from the network.The first choice wold be to install from your desktop over the lan, ie use your desktop as a server to serve up the installation files.Do you have a debian cd set or dvd to use? I have debian woody cd set floating around home, yes. *Mental Note: Must note delete this e-mail* Force of habit is a hard thing to break. --Slosh
Re: Debian Floppies
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
Re: Mplayer plays DVD slowly
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 outputting to? there are various options, you can see what options are compiled into your system with: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mplayer -vo help MPlayer 1.0pre7-3.3.5-20050130 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon Thunderbird (Family: 6, Stepping: 2) Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes MMX2 supported but disabled 3DNowExt supported but disabled CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX 3DNow Available video output drivers: xvmcXVideo Motion Compensation xv X11/Xv x11 X11 ( XImage/Shm ) xover General X11 driver for overlay capable video output drivers gl X11 (OpenGL) gl2 X11 (OpenGL) - multiple textures version sdl SDL YUV/RGB/BGR renderer (SDL v1.1.7+ only!) svgaSVGAlib aa AAlib vesaVESA VBE 2.0 video output xvidix X11 (VIDIX) cvidix console VIDIX nullNull video output mpegpes Mpeg-PES file yuv4mpegyuv4mpeg output for mjpegtools png PNG file jpegJPEG file gif89a animated GIF output pnm PPM/PGM/PGMYUV file md5sum md5sum of each frame you really want it to be using Xv if possible. you can usually tell by running mplayer from the command line and watching the output. you can force xv (if available) by running: mplayer -vo xv [plus other options you usually use] On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:05:17 +1200 Douglas Royds wrote: ... then fails with: Too many video packets in the buffer Sound plays at full speed, but the picture runs slowly. The DVD in question is not encrypted, being one that I burnt myself (under OSX). It plays OK under OSX and WinXP. I enabled DMA with: hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc This helped enormously, but didn't solve it completely. Sound slowly dropped out of synch, then the Too Many Video Packets error. There should be plenty of horsepower - PIII 1150 with 128Mb RAM. I installed mplayer-586. It is a laptop, so I don't know whether NEC has strangled it somehow. Ubuntu Hoary === This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended addressee. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be the subject of legal or other privilege, none of which is waived or lost by reason of this transmission. If the receiver is not the intended addressee, please accept our apologies, notify us by return, delete all copies and perform no other act on the email. Unfortunately, we cannot warrant that the email has not been altered or corrupted during transmission. === -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Time for a new distro...
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. Hours of fun awaits :P Also when I first made the big leap to linux it wasn't really gradual. It took windows not working, and staying that way for quite a while and leaving me with no other choice to actually get my A into G and get things working and set up. Not that I'm saying your as unmotivated as I am, but a good way to motivate you might be to install linux, remove windows, then set things up :P --Slosh
Jumpy DVD playback
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 CDs so I found a walkthrough that had me adding a SCSI module (I believe) and now when I try to run the above command I get amancha:/home/slosh# hdparm -d1 /dev/dvd /dev/dvd: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Invalid argument and needless to say the DVD playback is jumpy again. What do I need to do? --Slosh
Re: kppp and permissions
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 is the group associated with /usr/bin/kppp On my pc I added the user to 'dialout' to use the modem (check whatever group is on the end of the link at /dev/modem) and for some reason to 'uucp' too... but don't quote me on the second one because my memory is a bit sketchy on it. --Slosh
Re: Writing to FAT partition
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 once created currently the fstab entry looks like this: /dev/hda6 /mnt/hda6 ext3 auto,users,exec 0 0 Is it a mask issue that prevents ordinary users creating/deleting the folders or is there chmod issue? have you tried umask=000? --Slosh
Re: *HEADS UP* Meeting reminder TOMORROW Monday 24 Jan
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, ie somewhere on this map: http://www.ccc.govt.nz/maps/Wises/map18/MAP18.asp http://www.wises.co.nz/map/default.asp?svctype=1street=suburb=town=christchurchsttype=-1cname=cashmere+clubrecent_searches=0|0 may also help --Slosh
LTSP hangs at dhclient
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 whatever you call the vmlinuz file), however from ethereal output after that the server tries finding the terminal and fails and the terminal just hangs. I have checked the IP address and various settings and as far as I can tell they are correct and the output of what I can see on the terminal is: TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2040 blind 2040) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory 716k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) [Slosh: I believe the server is running ext3] Freeing unused kernel memory: 192k freed === Running /linuxrc Mounting /proc linuxrc: installing tulip driver modprobe tulip /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.4.18-ltsp-1/kernel/drivers/net/tulip/tulip.o Using /lib/modules/2.4.18-ltsp-1/kernel/drivers/net/tulip/tulip.o Symbol version prefix '' Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre9 (Nov 6, 2001) PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:04.0 tulip0:21041 Media table, efault media 0800 (Autosense). tulip0: 21041 media #0, 10baseT. tulip0: 21041 media #1, 10base2. tulip0: 21041 media #2, AUI. tulip0: 21041 media #3, 10baseT-FDX eth0: Digital DC41041 Tulip rev 17 at 0x1000, 21041 mode, 00:00:F8:02:07:0D, IRQ 11 Running dhclient (apologies for any typoes in the above) I guess it is worth pointint out that I couldn't get it to work If I used /tftpboot/lts as a softlink to /usr/lib/lts so I copied the directory there. I'm running Debain unstable on 2.4.18... ask for any other info. --Slosh
Ethernet setup
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 the pages I've googled have either returned how to set up Debian by ethernet :S or been immensely complicated guides. I was wondering if I could just dpkg-reconfigure, or apt-get a package or kernel module or something. Or if someone can point me to a blow-by-blow description. --Slosh [1] I found this out when I went to try and set up Samba
Re: Debian emu10k1 alsa sound
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
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 I found a few sources that referenced either having to use devfs or doing it manually, and rediscovered a tutorial that well yes... is here at anyrate http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?module=emu10k1 *shrugs* Thanks for help to those applicable :) Onto next thing... --Slosh
Re: Debian emu10k1 alsa sound
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 correct? --Slosh
Accessing NTFS
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Accessing NTFS
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 to burn it to CD. Thanks for the advice tho :) --Slosh On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 21:12, Nick Rout wrote: 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 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Joshua Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Accessing NTFS
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 to burn it to CD. Thanks for the advice tho :) What you can do is create a FAT32 partition which you can use to r/w with both os's. That's next on my list of things to do, I need a common directory sort of thing like that to keep music on so I can play from both OSs. Will Probably wait until the holidays when I can spend hours messing about with it :). I was really just looking for a quick and dirty solution for the interim. -- Joshua Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT tetanaus was: Re: Open Standards, archivists
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 16:05, Nick Rout wrote: How can you prove they last 100 years, only by waiting seeing :-). Reminds me of getting tetanus shots and the doctor saying when these first came out they recommended getting a booster every 5 years, cos we thought thats how long it would last, now we believe its 10 years and in another five they will extend it to 15 years. Even then I get a nasty reaction to tetanus... or it could be the needles. Regardless, the last time I had one the comment from the doctor was Don't worry, it's possible one shot lasts a lifetime. or something along those lines. -- Joshua Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MSN Messenger update joke...
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 this...should I razz the hell out of them for preventing me access to messenger services? Its obvious that the same security issues they have with the original MSN client do not apply to this linux clone!! Kind regards, Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch. I get the same message on Trillian but not using the security fixed version hasn't stopped it connecting to MSN. GAIM is also still running iirc, maybe the is an Alvaros MSN clone problem? --Slosh
Re: 2 gig limit (real newbie question...)
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 :- - getting files into linux: I simply mount windows - getting files into windows: I use a program called explore2fs which hasn't let me down yet and iirc is under the GPL --Slosh
Re: Tux
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 NZ$ 24.64 5 Tux'es + shipping just NZ$ 18.42 each at current exchange rate rgds Jaco ps threat intensity=very high Those who order but do not pay up will get their addresses fed to the spammers /threat So much for replying off-list, doesn't seem to work I'm interested, if you can get 5 people. --Slosh
Re: modem prob
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 11:20, uttam wrote: Hello Everyone, I am uttam from india and living in CHCH now. On 14 Aug I attended the CLUG meeting at sydenham but i could not meet many of you. Lately i realised an anotther problem in my computer that is with the sound (noise) all the time from the speakers and particularly more when loading something. My PC is a DUAL boot(XP and RH Linux 9) Specs: 1.7 GHz, 256 RAM, Internal MODEM is TM-IP5600 from TP-LINK (WWW.TP-LINK.COM) Any help Please? Best Regards uttam I'm not sure if I understood you 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]
OpenOffice
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]
CD burner
Due to forcibly being expunged totally from the windows partition on my PC (long story, much pain) I've been forced to burn CDs on my linux partition, however, having never tried before, I have no idea where to start. I will google shortly to find out what sort of stuff I need supportwise 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]
Re: kppp problem
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 rpm but the process crashed half way through. Now when I try to find all the rpm's on the system the progress bar crashes in an analogous posistion to where the kppp header would have been. So im left in the middle with not being able to delete it fully and not being able to reinstall, and with no internet. Ive tried using command similar to those in sheer for removing the rpm but they seem to do nothing. please reply in laymans english :) Ouch! No Internet! You could try doing a file system check using fsck on the root partition to make sure the filesystem hasn't been corrupted. Have you considered an upgrade to RH9? I upgraded to 9 over top of my, heavily modified (read I messed with it), RH8.0 with no problems. I haven't looked back. forgive me for typos for I have just come home from a party half drunk, and touch typing whilst drunk is not fun (even with a spell check). I've had some problems with RH9 particularly with compatibility, eg wine doesn't seem to run as well and some other odds and ends needed re-setting up, if you have all but the current problem working fine I don't recommend re-installing it at least for say another couple of months when all current programs are compatable and stuff :) Although RH9 was the _first_ RedHat distro to successfully get my sound working so kudos to the developers on that. If it's an rpm and iirc if you type rpm -f stuff where stuff is what you are trying to install it should force it to install on what ever's already there... if it's not -f it's some other flag. Good luck getting it going, on the whole I've found RH resonably good, in fact I'm using it now. Good nite to all, pity me for my hangover tomorrow :S -- sincerely Slosh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FW: Software development tools
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 along with some of the other suggestions. I would find switching to Kylix quite easy, but I wonder about its future. What's the consensus, or is there a consensus, about Java? I used to think it was too slow, and I heard a number of less than favourable comments about it when I mentioned it at InstallFest. And what about C#, .NET and things like the Mono project, any comments? Finally for now, how about UML / CASE tools with code generation and reverse engineering capabilities? Any recommended packages? Cheers, Tom Munro Glass
Re: Open Source Technology Centre
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 Technology Centre Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 10:40:47 +1300 If it is open-source we should have the likes of free-bsd aswell. That is very true. That is why it is called the Open Source Technology Centre instead of the Linux Technology Centre. It can also include Open Source Software on closed source operating systems. I'd like to get some legal copies of Windows so we can show businesses/schools how to integrate Open Source Software in to a Windows desktop environment. Later David Kirk _ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail _ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
Re: Open Source Technology Centre
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 have a copy of windows 98 that i bought floating round somewhere that I could donate. Is that still legal? As long as it comes with the ownership cert, then it's legal. 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 Technology Centre Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 10:40:47 +1300 If it is open-source we should have the likes of free-bsd aswell. That is very true. That is why it is called the Open Source Technology Centre instead of the Linux Technology Centre. It can also include Open Source Software on closed source operating systems. I'd like to get some legal copies of Windows so we can show businesses/schools how to integrate Open Source Software in to a Windows desktop environment. Later David Kirk _ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail _ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell -- All that was needed was to parse the cat root slash dev etcetera file for eth0 and pugle the forward identity-locking rehooliginator and symlink it to the libgc perl humongisooler module after a kernel decompile and basic repatch update. - theregister.co.uk _ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemailxAPID=42PS=47575PI=7324DI=7474SU= http://www.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/getmsgHL=1216hotmailtaglines_addphotos_3mf
Re: Open Source Technology Centre
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Open Source Technology Centre Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 13:25:37 +1300 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 If it has the 'Certificate of Authenticity' with the product key on it and it is an original (not copied) CD then it should be legal. I have a copy here and it is printed on the cover of the 'Getting Started' book. As long as it is not still installed on any of your computers, then I'd be glad to have it. No hurry though. I'm still busy making sure this is a viable project. Later David Kirk _ MSN 8 limited-time offer: Join now and get 3 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialupxAPID=42PS=47575PI=7324DI=7474SU= http://www.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/getmsgHL=1216hotmailtaglines_newmsn8ishere_3mf _ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemailxAPID=42PS=47575PI=7324DI=7474SU= http://www.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/getmsgHL=1216hotmailtaglines_addphotos_3mf
Re: Fw: damn sound
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 PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Fw: damn sound Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 15:42:07 +1300 On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 12:29, Slosh wrote: P.S. before someone suggests it... yes the speakers are plugged in as it goes fine when i boot into windows :) Excellent. Did you try turning the volume up? Linux starts with the volume at zero, so you may have to run a mixer to turn it up. Under Red Hat 8.0 you will find it under GNOME Menu - Sound Video - Volume Control I've been burnt so many times by the volume being at zero... -- Michael JasonSmith http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~mpj17/ _ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus
Re: damn sound
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 -- Slosh From: Andy George [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: damn sound Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 17:20:23 +1300 I had no sounds as well, even after the Autodetect thing... I found that the volume was not set to 100%... it was set to about 70% which I discover is woefully inadequate... Only when I hoiked it up to 100% could I hear anything... Andy George ZL3ST - Original Message - From: Slosh To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 12:29 PM Subject: Fw: damn sound I was running RedHat7.3 on my computer and well to cut a long story short I never got the sound working. I installed the ALSA stuff, and according to that it was all going fine... but I eventually gave up. Anyways my prayers were answered when RH8 came out and someone told me it automatically detected the soundcard. So I got my hands on a copy, installed it and it told me to use emu10k1 (which is also right according to ALSA 'cos the card is a Soundblaster Live! Value) but same problem... Still not getting any sound. Can anyone out there give me suggestions on how to fix/remedy it short of building the kernel (cos i'm no where near brave enuff to do something that scary :P - no really!) -- Slosh P.S. before someone suggests it... yes the speakers are plugged in as it goes fine when i boot into windows :) _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus
