big mail problem
Hi I've got a big mail problem - as in moby of mobies unto the unttermost moby - yesterday I downloaded my mail as per usual, and as required by my agreement with TelstraClear. There was one email - no. 159 - that was clearly over 5MB, that took most of an hour to download. When I came to look for it, intending of course to send its author a thick ear, I couldn't find it anywhere in kmail. You'd think that an over-5MB file would be easy to find. Except it has disappeared. Firstly, is there a handy grep script that can search through MBOXes? Secondly, this smells like an attack vector. Download an invisible file through a visible email that deletes itself Does kmail have the kind of vulnerability that would allow the installation of a privilege-excalating binary? Thirdly, I was going directly in downloading my email, because of the major problems I have had with Telecom's lines being unreliable, thus making it difficult to sanitise my email by looking through the webmail interface. I regard Telecom's gratuitous line unreliability as the teleco equivalent of a gratuitous buffer overflow, and naturally, would like to see Telecom pay the consequences. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - George Kelischek - To impress those high-tech computer types, tell them what an Ocarina really is: an animal-activated-solid-state-multi-frequency-sound-synthesizer. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: Telecom kills Bigtime plan
So, on one hand they have all this infrastructure, and all these massive profits; on the other hand they cannot update their own infrastructure to keep their customers happy and unbothered. So where did all those profits go? They've just confirmed my belief that they were never plowed back into maintaining and developing the infrastructure. Far from being too big to fail, I'd say they're too big to succeed. Wesley Parish On Mon, 24 May 2010, ke...@katipo.net.nz wrote: I just got sent the following email from Telecom: Update from Telecom Important news about the Big Time Broadband plan Hi Kerry You may have heard that the Big Time Broadband plan is coming to an end. The decision was not made lightly and we're sorry that we cannot continue to provide a plan with no monthly data allowance. However, the ongoing traffic management challenges involved with maintaining an innovative plan like Big Time have now made it unsustainable. To minimise the inconvenience, all Big Time customers will be recommended suitable broadband plans based on their recent broadband usage. We'll be sending a letter in the coming weeks setting out your options, including what you need to do if you choose to disconnect your broadband. Yours sincerely Ralph Brayham Director of Home Telecom On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Craig Falconer cfalco...@totalteam.co.nz wrote: True flat-rate starts at $1k/month. Â There will not be a real domestic all-you-can-eat connection for double-digits/month. That may be true in most of NZ, and it's probably related to the physical infrastructure monopolies. But down here in Dunedin I'm connected to WIC via wireless; flat-rate 1Mbps for $75/month. I don't get things so fast, but I don't have to keep track of how much data I'm using. So it can be done, all you need is an ISP run by someone who cares about what the Internet really is ... -jim -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - George Kelischek - To impress those high-tech computer types, tell them what an Ocarina really is: an animal-activated-solid-state-multi-frequency-sound-synthesizer. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Open-Source movie file repair utilities was Fwd: Gidday
Hi, I've got a request from my brother-in-law Tony, about movie file repair utilities, and permission to pass it on to the CLUG. Does anyone know of any FOSS ones? And I suspect, just as important, does anyone have any experience in using them, that he could pass on to Tony, off-list naturally? Thanks Wesley Parish -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Gidday Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 From: Tony Kristensen r0wdy...@maxnet.co.nz To: Wesley Parish wes.par...@paradise.net.nz Hey Wes, I wonder if you have found any mov repair apps in your travels across the far lands of the internet. I lost all the files on my camera card whenI took it out and put into my DSE card reader. Thankfully the nice people at Colin Kirk Photo graphics in Wellington where it came from said they could help. I got back the photos and video. But the video wont play. I have read about different applications like Prism, QT Atom, VLC, iSquint . . but alas not much good. QT atom seems like the most likley one but there is much to learn about the codec and editing the video in hex. I would appreciate it if you have any contacts that could help me in my quest. Thanks very much. How are your studies going? Regards, Tony --- -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - George Kelischek - To impress those high-tech computer types, tell them what an Ocarina really is: an animal-activated-solid-state-multi-frequency-sound-synthesizer. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: I have a dream of promiscuous sharing...
It's quite feasible. It shares a certain number of features with TCOS systems, and as such should be quite well understood - I mean, even I was able to block out the general characteristics of a RCO in 1998 working from scratch with no previous experience of such a device. Let's see, fping, a modernized finger to swap playlists and preferences, and a small Gaussian-or-Matrix solution engine to find the highest mutually rated track ... I could leave the Bluetooth details to those of you who know what is involved, and anyways, I don't have the money to buy the documentation, or even to download it ... ;) - let alone the device of which we speak!!! No, I don't know of any current project that does that, though I haven't been looking for the past few years ... I'd suggest starting it off in C, as it's still the Highest Common Denominator for most geeks, and while Java is nice, and even C# is nice, I wouldn't want to tie the device to a virtual machine - the exchange protocols, yes! - but playback, no. Just my 0.02c, and don't spend it all at once!!! Wesley Parish On Wed, 03 Feb 2010, cy...@xnet.co.nz wrote: I watch my daughter who, (totally unlike me), is a fantastic people person. When she meets anyone, she embarks on an exploration of common ground, seeking common tastes putting aside her own to learn those of the other. But so many people have detached themselves from our community by walling themselves in a closed garden of sound. Ear Phones In, Volume Up. Tiny embedded linux devices are becoming so common, so cheap these days... ...my dream is nearly here. What I want to create is this.. An ogg music player with blue tooth that comes packed to the brim with a random selection of Creative Commons Licenced music. Jamendo would be my first port of call to find that music... http://www.jamendo.com/ The UI allows you express your liking or disliking for the current track playing. (Click up arrow or down once or several times.) Whenever you meet _anybody_ else with one of these devices, they pair immediately and promiscuously and without asking begin exchanging the highest rated tracks, deleting negatively rated tracks if space is needed. The highest mutually (A x B) rated track currently on both devices will begin playing on both devices providing an instant talking point. (If no common favoured tracks exist, the track currently being exchanged will play.) Instant Party! An app on a PC will automagically do the same. Anyone want to play with? The todo list is something like this... * Start spreading the idea and getting feedback and suggestions. (Where I'm at now). * Search for compatible/similar FOSS projects / components. * Start savanna / sourceforge site. * Define the blue tooth discovery and automatic pairing protocol. * Define implement the track exchange protocol. * Find (and purchase) suitable embedded device(s) to implement this on. - Need audio out. - enclosure battery. - display - a few keys. (maybe android, but a bit too expensive.) * Tweak an existing playback app to record preferences. * Define the preferences / checksum / path database format. I envisage making all these items as loosely coupled and redeployable as possible. It'd perhaps be nice to make the odd buck from selling the hardware... but I'm not fussed. I aim to make the protocols and implementations completely open and GPL'd. The purpose of the project is create roving and merging and splitting and spreading communities of sound. Further applications can be imagined like... * Set your player to play whatever anybody near me is playing. * Set everybodies player in 3 or more person groups to play on simultaneously on their speakers the mutually highest rated track. Instant dance party! * Bands planning on touring a location can inject their best track into the region a month or so before to drum up enthusiam. John Carter cy...@xnet.co.nz -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - George Kelischek - To impress those high-tech computer types, tell them what an Ocarina really is: an animal-activated-solid-state-multi-frequency-sound-synthesizer. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
linux isos on Caledonian at St Albans
Hi. In reply to Adrian's request for a list of the isos available on the Linux box in the St Albans community centre, here is the list of the files and directories. As you can see, in some areas it's definitely outdated. I've got the latest Ubuntu - I'll update the Ubuntu directory next week. Share and enjoy! Wesley Parish linuxisos/: total 695344 2 drwxrwsrwt 46 root 18 4096 Mar 24 2009 ./ 1011841 drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 Apr 30 2008 ../ 2064385 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody 18 4096 Oct 23 2007 ArchLinux/ 9289729 drwxr-sr-x 2 nobody 18 4096 Oct 30 2007 BG-Rescue/ 13713409 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody 18 4096 Nov 13 2007 Books/ 1130497 drwxr-sr-x 2 nobody 18 4096 Jan 27 2009 CentOS/ 15007745 drwxr-sr-x 2 root 18 4096 Mar 31 2008 Clonezilla/ 5226497 drwxr-sr-x 2 nobody 18 4096 May 26 15:40 Debian/ 2850818 drwxrwsr-x 2500 18 4096 Feb 4 2008 DesktopBSD/ 4227073 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody 18 4096 Oct 20 2007 DreamLinux/ 2768897 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody 18 4096 Oct 20 2007 DSL/ 278529 -rw-r--r-- 1500 18 711131136 Dec 11 2007 elive-gem-1.0-iso 2080769 drwxrwsr-x 3 nobody 18 4096 Nov 23 23:56 Fedora/ 2850817 drwxrwsr-x 2500 18 4096 Feb 4 2008 FreeBSD/ 10715137 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody 18 4096 Oct 20 2007 GeexboX/ 327681 drwxr-sr-x 2 nobody 18 4096 Oct 30 2007 Gentoo/ 4046849 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody 18 4096 Oct 20 2007 GoboLinux/ 4194305 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody 18 4096 Oct 20 2007 Gparted/ 11632641 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody 18 4096 Oct 20 2007 HURD/ 9371649 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody 18 4096 Dec 4 2007 IPCop/ 4325377 drwxrwsr-x 2500 18 4096 Nov 13 2007 KDE-Four-Live/ 11649025 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody 18 4096 Oct 20 2007 Kernels/ 11681793 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody 18 4096 Apr 28 2009 Knoppix/ 11 drwx-w 2 root 18 16384 Oct 18 2007 lost+found/ 9388033 drwxrwxr-x 2 root 18 4096 Jan 27 2009 mandriva2008/ 12599297 drwxr-sr-x 2500 18 4096 Jul 22 2008 Mint/ 5783553 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody 18 4096 Oct 20 2007 OLPC/ 7618561 drwxrwsr-x 2500 18 4096 Mar 31 2008 OpenBSD/ 7405569 drwxr-sr-x 2 root 18 4096 Dec 4 2007 OpenDisk/ 2244609 drwxr-sr-x 2 nobody 18 4096 May 26 17:11 openSUSE/ 5586945 drwxr-sr-x 2 nobody 18 4096 Jan 27 2009 PC-BSD/ 13615105 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody 18 4096 Oct 20 2007 PCLinuxOS/ 13631489 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody 18 4096 Oct 20 2007 pfSense/ 491521 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody 18 4096 Oct 20 2007 Plan9/ 1064961 drwxr-xr-x 4 nobody 18 4096 Oct 7 2008 Puppy/ 1081345 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody 18 4096 Nov 11 2008 Sabayon/ 6930433 drwxr-sr-x 2 nobody 18 4096 Mar 24 2009 Slackware/ 6160385 drwxrwsr-x 2500 18 4096 Nov 13 2007 Slax/ 14581761 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody 18 4096 Oct 20 2007 SMEserver/ 4145153 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody 18 4096 Oct 20 2007 SourceMage/ 7733249 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody 18 4096 Oct 23 2007 Syllable/ 4161537 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody 18 4096 Mar 31 2008 SystemRescueCD/ 1327105 drwx--S--- 4500 18 4096 Apr 6 2008 .Trash-500/ 10059777 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody 18 4096 Nov 3 2007 TU-DOS/ 12894209 drwxr-sr-x 2 nobody 18 4096 Mar 24 2009 Ubuntu/ 6455297 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody 18 4096 Oct 20 2007 Voyage/ 8863745 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody 18 4096 Oct 20 2007 Zenwalk/ linuxisos/ArchLinux: total 536376 2064385 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody 18 4096 Oct 23 2007 ./ 2 drwxrwsrwt 46 root18 4096 Mar 24 2009 ../ 2064387 -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nogroup 548694016 Sep 30 2007 Archlinux-i686-2007.08.1-Dont-Panic.current.iso 2064386 -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nogroup82 Oct 23 2007 Archlinux-i686-2007.08.1-Dont-Panic.current.iso.md5 linuxisos/BG-Rescue: total 2896 9289729 drwxr-sr-x 2 nobody 184096 Oct 30 2007 ./ 2 drwxrwsrwt 46 root 184096 Mar 24 2009 ../ 9289730 -rwxr--r-- 1 nobody 18 2949120 Oct 22 2007 BG-rescue-0.4.1.img* 9289731 -rwxr--r-- 1 nobody 18 54 Oct 21 2007 BG-rescue-0.4.1.img.md5* linuxisos/Books: total 123760 13713409 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody 18 4096 Nov 13 2007 ./ 2 drwxrwsrwt 46 root18 4096 Mar 24 2009 ../ 13713414 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4083875 Nov 13 2007 013047116X_pdf.zip 13713416 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2651136 Nov 13 2007 0131407333.pdf 13713417 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6179937 Nov 13 2007 0131408828.pdf 13713415 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root15040718 Nov 13 2007 0131423436_pdf.zip 13713418 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3383066 Nov 13 2007 013143697X_book.pdf 13713419 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4812800 Nov 13 2007 0131453556.pdf 13713420 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9850805 Nov 13 2007 013147149X_book.pdf 13713421 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3136388 Nov 13 2007 0131472216_book.pdf 13713422 -rw-r
DNS-misdirection on a grand scale
Hi I went to check out http://beginningruby.org/what-ive-earned-and-learned/ I got directed to http://www.cancer.org/docroot/don/don_0.asp I even tried going through http://www.google.com/search?q=http%3A//beginningruby.org/what-ive-earned-and-learned/ie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8 I found http://www.cancer.org/docroot/don/don_0.asp among the list of sites that google considers relevant to the book Beginning Ruby. Has anyone else had this happen to them when looking for an article slashdot comments on? I don't have any malice towards US citizens with cancer - but I would appreciate the organizations seeking donations not to spam my web searches. Or I might conceivably wind up with a great deal of malice towards them. Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - George Kelischek - To impress those high-tech computer types, tell them what an Ocarina really is: an animal-activated-solid-state-multi-frequency-sound-synthesizer. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: nzviddl - download video from NZ news sites
FWIW, has anyone written a script to translate from flv or swf to mp4 or an ogg format? I know you can do it with ffmpeg, but the options, etc, look hairy to me. Thanks Wesley Parish On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Lee Begg wrote: Hi all I have uploaded a series for scripts I use to watch the videos from NZ news sites to my public github. http://github.com/llnz/nzviddl The scripts work similar to youtube-dl which downloads the videos from YouTube so they can be watched. Basically, you pass the argument of the url of the webpage with the video on it, and the script downloads the flv video file so you can watch it with your favorite video player. Handy for those of us that for whatever reason don't have a flash player. For example: tvnz-dl http://tvnz.co.nz/technology-news/helping-blind-see-light-in- christchurch-3078178/video (without the obvious email line wrapping) They currently cover these sites: www.tvnz.co.nz (news and on-demand in separate scripts) www.3news.co.nz www.nzherald.co.nz www.primetv.co.nz www.ch9.co.nz (Dunedin local channel) I'm currently looking at TV3 on-demand, but it appears much more complex than the sites above. Hopefully others find them useful. Over time, I may refactor them to have more features and maybe bring them into one program. Suggestions are welcome, as are patches. Later Lee Begg -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - George Kelischek - To impress those high-tech computer types, tell them what an Ocarina really is: an animal-activated-solid-state-multi-frequency-sound-synthesizer. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: Uni contact for an RMS talk
On Tue, 06 Oct 2009, Tim Buchanan wrote: 'fraid so. Hi all, Just tuned in halfway thru this conversation, is this at Cant Uni? Cheers Tim On 10/6/09, Rik Tindall a...@infohelp.co.nz wrote: David Merrick wrote: A pity about the time. As A1 is a big lecture theatre you could sneek in the back stairs without causing too much interruption True. http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/theuni/maps/ Room: A1 Lecture Theatre [Arts block] Date(s): Tuesday, 13/10/2009 Time: 17:00-19:00 Booked For: Richard Stallman talk Event Name: Richard Stallman talk More tour info: http://info541.sim.vuw.ac.nz/blogs/rms-2009-new-zealand-visit-schedule/ http://www.iscr.co.nz/n526.html http://www.lianza.org.nz/events/conference2009/speakers.html http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday with Kim Hill 8am - Midday, Audio from Saturday, 03 October 2009 Richard Stallman: digital freedoms http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/national/sat/2009/10/03/richard_stallman_ digital_freedoms Software freedom activist and developer, visiting here for events including delivering the keynote address on copyright vs community at the LIANZA conference. (duration: 39'23) Download: Ogg Vorbis http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/sat/sat-20091003-0905-Richard_Stallman_digi tal_freedoms.ogg -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - George Kelischek - To impress those high-tech computer types, tell them what an Ocarina really is: an animal-activated-solid-state-multi-frequency-sound-synthesizer. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: measurement software for electrical networks?
Thanks Will do. Wesley Parish On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, Craig Falconer wrote: Wesley Parish wrote, On 10/09/09 01:19: I dropped the speed from 115200 to 57600 and it's a little bit more reliable now, but only by a fraction, not at all by a magnitude. That's your DTE/DCE speed, between modem and computer. The recommendation was to use AT commands to limit the connect to 33.6 http://www.modemsite.com/56K/x2-linklimit.asp might help. -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - George Kelischek - To impress those high-tech computer types, tell them what an Ocarina really is: an animal-activated-solid-state-multi-frequency-sound-synthesizer. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
free tertiary textbooks
for anyone who's interested - bookboon.com has free ebooks for students. Someone might find it useful (and disclaimer - no, I'm not affiliated in any way to bookboon.com. A database researcher, Hugh Darwen, mentioned his new book on this site, and I naturally was interested.) Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - George Kelischek - To impress those high-tech computer types, tell them what an Ocarina really is: an animal-activated-solid-state-multi-frequency-sound-synthesizer. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: measurement software for electrical networks?
Thanks - it may have helped. I'll take a look at the logs much later today. I dropped the speed from 115200 to 57600 and it's a little bit more reliable now, but only by a fraction, not at all by a magnitude. Thanks everybody for your help. Wesley Parish On Tue, 08 Sep 2009, Ross Drummond wrote: On Tuesday 08 September 2009, Wesley Parish wrote: Well, for what it's worth, it's not getting any better; and I have disproved a couple of contentions of the amateurs I've talked to so far at Telecom and Paradise.net.nz - I've used the second jackpoint in the flat, and it's still falling over like a drunk with half a keg of vodka inside of him; and I've just upgraded the PC - and the connection's still falling over like aforementioned drunk. Wesley Parish I see you have a Paradise email address. This means that your connections will be through Telstra Clear's Lucent remote access server. Go to this archived message and apply the work around suggested there; http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz/msg50654.html If that fails to work append the line debug to your /etc/ppp/options file. This will output a lot of stuff to your /var/log/messages file and may give you a clue about what is going on. Cheers Ross Drummond -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - George Kelischek - To impress those high-tech computer types, tell them what an Ocarina really is: an animal-activated-solid-state-multi-frequency-sound-synthesizer. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: measurement software for electrical networks?
Well, for what it's worth, it's not getting any better; and I have disproved a couple of contentions of the amateurs I've talked to so far at Telecom and Paradise.net.nz - I've used the second jackpoint in the flat, and it's still falling over like a drunk with half a keg of vodka inside of him; and I've just upgraded the PC - and the connection's still falling over like aforementioned drunk. I'm starting to think I deserve broadband purely on the demerits of Telecom's performance, as compensation for Telecom's lack thereof. At any rate, having to open ten tabs of slashdot to guarantee getting even one, is a bit much. And if I have to use a 526k DSL thingee to solve the problems with a dial-up connection - at a measly 5k6 (if I'm lucky) - perhaps the problem isn't with me. On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Wesley Parish wrote: I'm just wondering if there are any for Linux, that I could use to get hard copy of actual voltage and amperage levels on my Internet connection via Telecom's oh-so-wonderful lines. They cycle from useable to useless in between half=a=minute to a quarter of an hour, and I'd like to document that. I may well decide to start a class-action suit against Telecom for defrauding the general public, and having hard evidence is likely to be vitally important. Oh, and by the way, Google is indeed my friend in this - when Telecom's lines permit me to ask. Telecom's mastered the art of punishing people for preferring to use someone else, after it mastered the art of punishing them for using Telecom. Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - George Kelischek - To impress those high-tech computer types, tell them what an Ocarina really is: an animal-activated-solid-state-multi-frequency-sound-synthesizer. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
OT: Ron needs new flatmate soon
A friend of mine, Ron, will be needing a new flatmate within a couple of weeks or so. This is the specifications of the room he's offering. One room, 2m x (3 to 3.5 approx.)m, $60.00pw plus expenses in a furnished flat Broadband plus wireless router, TV, DVD, kitchen, bath/shower, laundry, etc. Suitable for a student His contact details are: pcg...@orcon.net.nz Ph. 379 3061 Cell 021 0243 7398 Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - George Kelischek - To impress those high-tech computer types, tell them what an Ocarina really is: an animal-activated-solid-state-multi-frequency-sound-synthesizer. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: measurement software for electrical networks?
Might be bleeding obvious to an ADSL user, but I am on dialup. It should be working perfectly, since it apparently either shares a line that was replaced in 2005; but it started palying up last year, about the time we had quite a lot of precipitation, and hasn't stopped. In the meantime, Telecom has decided it's entitled to charge me extra for features I don't use, for a line I am unable to use for any prolonged length of time. Back to the 1930s, it seems. On Saturday 22 August 2009 01:47, Euan Clark wrote: Might be bleeding obvious but I get identical symptoms when a phone's been plugged in directly to the socket somewhere oin the house rather than an ADSL filter. Wesley Parish wrote: I'm just wondering if there are any for Linux, that I could use to get hard copy of actual voltage and amperage levels on my Internet connection via Telecom's oh-so-wonderful lines. They cycle from useable to useless in between half=a=minute to a quarter of an hour, and I'd like to document that. I may well decide to start a class-action suit against Telecom for defrauding the general public, and having hard evidence is likely to be vitally important. Oh, and by the way, Google is indeed my friend in this - when Telecom's lines permit me to ask. Telecom's mastered the art of punishing people for preferring to use someone else, after it mastered the art of punishing them for using Telecom. Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - George Kelischek - To impress those high-tech computer types, tell them what an Ocarina really is: an animal-activated-solid-state-multi-frequency-sound-synthesizer. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
measurement software for electrical networks?
I'm just wondering if there are any for Linux, that I could use to get hard copy of actual voltage and amperage levels on my Internet connection via Telecom's oh-so-wonderful lines. They cycle from useable to useless in between half=a=minute to a quarter of an hour, and I'd like to document that. I may well decide to start a class-action suit against Telecom for defrauding the general public, and having hard evidence is likely to be vitally important. Oh, and by the way, Google is indeed my friend in this - when Telecom's lines permit me to ask. Telecom's mastered the art of punishing people for preferring to use someone else, after it mastered the art of punishing them for using Telecom. Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - George Kelischek - To impress those high-tech computer types, tell them what an Ocarina really is: an animal-activated-solid-state-multi-frequency-sound-synthesizer. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: Nine open-source mobiles on the way
By the way, does anyone know the types of PDA and cellphone that are in use in Africa and India? (And for that matter, South America?) And the software they run? Thanks Wesley Parish On Wednesday 12 August 2009 13:19, Adrian Mageanu wrote: http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/technology/2743757/Nine-open-source-mobile s-on-the-way The good news here - as I see it - is that the small players in the application development arena will have the support of the big guys of the likes of Vodafone. I have to say that in the past while working for a company who developed mobile apps on another platform, Vodafone was pretty supportive, providing some of their network services almost free of charge, and most important, they answered all my emails and returned almost all my phone calls (I used to co-ordinate the development process for that company). They also have several international programs whereas if they think your application is good - some tests are involved - they can promote it on various markets themselves. Never had the chance to work on mobile apps on Linux but, knowing their company culture, I think they'll be equally supportive for Linux platforms. It will be interesting to see how they will adapt to the FOSS business model. Disclaimer: I don't work for Vodafone, I don't have any business relation with them, nor do I use their services (by choice). Adrian -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - George Kelischek - To impress those high-tech computer types, tell them what an Ocarina really is: an animal-activated-solid-state-multi-frequency-sound-synthesizer. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: Internet shortages
I discovered that problem some time in April when a friend called me up to go around to her house to fix her Internet router. It pinged slashdot, microsoft, google, and even xtra okay, it just wouldn't let http traffic through. I gave up in the end, as there was nothing I could see to do without having the router password, and she didn't know it. A real bummer, that! Wesley Parish On Sunday 14 June 2009 09:57, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: Does this sound familiar to anyone? Your router, network cards and ethernet cables are all in working order and all report that they are connected to each other and the internet but you can't actually access anything online? I've just reset the router and it's all working now but I'd like to know if anyone has had this problem recently (withen the last week) and knows what it is. -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Are couch potatoes good to eat? A nose by any other name would smell as sweet. (By Bacon under the pseudonym of Shakespeare) - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: Have a safe trip Chris...
Amen to that! Wesley Parish On Wednesday 10 June 2009 20:13, Steve Holdoway wrote: ...and best wishes for the future. Thanks for all you've done for us, and please keep in touch. Cheers, Steve -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Are couch potatoes good to eat? A nose by any other name would smell as sweet. (By Bacon under the pseudonym of Shakespeare) - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Fwd: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] SerialICE - QEMU based x86 firmware debugger
This turned up today. Anyone doing any work with x86 embedded development, well, this looks to be just up your alley! Wesley Parish -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] SerialICE - QEMU based x86 firmware debugger Date: Saturday 06 June 2009 08:30 From: Stefan Reinauer ste...@coresystems.de To: Coreboot coreb...@coreboot.org, qemu-de...@nongnu.org Dear x86 hardware and low-level software developers and enthusiasts! coresystems GmbH is proud to release the first version of our Integrated Circuit Emulator over Serial, short SerialICE. This piece of software consists of two parts: - a serial console rom shell compiled with romcc, with minimal footprint. (Due to romcc the image is still 128k because it did not fit in 64k but this can be optimized later) - a patch to Qemu 0.10.4, which adds a new SerialICE machine. Short description: SerialICE is a BIOS/Firmware debugging tool. It allows you to run and observe BIOS images (such as coreboot®: http://www.coreboot.org/) written for real hardware in Qemu (http://www.nongnu.org/qemu) for debugging purposes. Thanks to Qemu's compelling feature set, it's also possible to debug this BIOS code with GNU GDB. SerialICE can be downloaded from http://www.coresystems.de/download/SerialICE-1.0.tar.bz2 With qemu -m serialice -serialice /dev/ttyS0 -L path-to-your-bios.bin-dir -hda /dev/zero you can run an arbitrary BIOS binary written for your target hardware in Qemu, thus logging all IO and memory accesses. Those operations will additionally be transmitted to the target system's shell and are executed there, while their results are submitted back to Qemu. Operations sent to the target: - memory reads/writes (some of them) - IO reads/writes - MSR reads/writes - CPUID calls (the bios code path might rely on this) Note: The code is very experimental and still buggy, but it was already useful in some debugging scenarios we had and was able to reveil information that would normally only be available with a hardware debugger of the price of a new car. Don't expect SerialICE to completely replace a ICE/JTAG/ITP device, but it might just work for your case, as it did for us. The code needs minimal board/chipset specific setup in order to have serial console operational for communication with Qemu. See mainboard/* for an example. This release contains demo code for two mainboards with Intel® CPUs. Also, some hardware accesses have to be caught in the Qemu code (hw/serialice.c) in order to prevent the system from locking up (ie. by disabling the serial console). Known issues: - The code is ugly, and the Qemu part is light years from a state where integration would be possible. - infrastructure for compiling with gcc + xmmstack is there, but it still fails with some odd assembler errors. This should push the SerialICE rom shell clearly below 64k again. - microcode updates from within emulated ROM code will fail. - some rarely used calls of cpuid will not give the correct information (those using two registers for input) Special thanks go to * Alex Graf for listening to my odd ideas while embedded world and supporting this project from early on. * Paul Brook for helping me find the last bug that prevented surviving all of RAM initialization on one board. * Patrick Georgi for Development and Testing. * Ron Minnich for advice and encouragement. * Eric Biederman for romcc Comments and patches are of course very welcome! Best regards, Stefan Reinauer -- coresystems GmbH • Brahmsstr. 16 • D-79104 Freiburg i. Br. Tel.: +49 761 7668825 • Fax: +49 761 7664613 Email: i...@coresystems.de • http://www.coresystems.de/ Registergericht: Amtsgericht Freiburg • HRB 7656 Geschäftsführer: Stefan Reinauer • Ust-IdNr.: DE245674866 --- -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Are couch potatoes good to eat? A nose by any other name would smell as sweet. (By Bacon under the pseudonym of Shakespeare) - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
OT Work and Innovation : Pedal Steel Next Generation Re: OT: stepper motors, etc
Just a thought - to actually make this Pedal Steel The Next Generation, I'm going to need a bit more cash than the taxpayer is willing to dole out (and under protest, it would seem from various comments in the likes of the Press etc, that I've seen over the years). I'm undergoing a Diploma in Business System (Programming) course at Computerpower, which is intended to give me the certification to say I can do what I already know how to do, just to get my foot in the door, so as far as the No one gets fired for [insert variable here...] goes, businesses should feel safe. I know a bit of C and Pascal, and can look at assembler and Cobol without freaking out; the closest I have come to gaining complete degree-level depth of knowledge is when, immediately after a Traumatic Brain Injury in 1988, I - in order to find out about it - sat down with some neuroscience books - AR Luria's The Working Brain, Dr Muriel Lezak's Neuropsychological Assessment, Guyton's Basic Neuroscience: Anatomy and Physiology, etc, and worked my way through, in order to understand and work out survival strategies for myself. I later realized that the books were the basis for second and third year University courses in neuroscience, and I'd never touched the subject prior to that accident I regard the certificates/diplomas in Organizational Psychology most HR seem to have, as little more than witch-doctoring ... I think I have my reasons. Are there any employers on this list ready and willing to allow me to work, initially part-time? (Sorry, I regard any use of the word attitude without suitable qualification and definition, as little more than random witch-doctoring ... and again, I think I have my reasons.) I have thought that maybe someone with skill in programming and knowledge of the neurosciences would be considered useful at at least one wheelchair manufacturer's, but I'm withholding judgement. And again, my thoughts are now out in public, and it would not take much for someone overseas to take them up and run with them. In innovation the key is speed, not (patent) fortifications; I would like to think that in that song of Dave Dobbyns' Loyal, there is an ounce of truth in the way it was used for the America's Cup campaigns ... but I'm withholding judgement. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090601/0007575076.shtml#comments Wesley Parish On Tuesday 02 June 2009 23:27, Wesley Parish wrote: On Tuesday 02 June 2009 13:37, Craig Falconer wrote: Wesley Parish wrote, On 02/06/09 13:11: Sorry to be so off-topic, but are there any stepper motor suppliers in Christchurch? I'm wondering if there are any small enough to fit in a cramped location, yet powerful enough to change tension on a wire already under considerable tension? And electrically robust enough to handle regular on-off switching, while using as minimal an amount of current at as low a voltage as possible? This is for my Pedal Steel Guitar The Next Generation ;) You want to make it self-tuning or something ? No. The pedal changes the tuning of a string from say B to C or C#, while you play it; it gives you all sorts of nice effects, eg, the strings BDEF# get changed to ACEG or ADEF or BDFG which are totally different chords. My idea is to make the changers electrically-powered and use the amp to power them, instead of using the bulky rodding system they have now. It wouldn't be the first time the changer system's changed - the first ones used cables, the current ones use rods. Possibly need some kind of reduction gear instead of making the stepper do it all. That could make sense. But you'd have to do it for every motor on every string. And the distance between B and C or C# or Bb or A isn't that great when you've got strings this thin and under this sort of tension. And it would have to lock still under no-power, else the string would pull back to slack. Probably need some other controlled clamp to hold the string once its been tensioned. There is a working system for that already in place; it's called the all-pull changer system and it is a thing of technical beauty. The only movement it allows is to pull on the changer finger: the changer finger is a lever and to raise the string it pulls on one side of the lever while to lower it it pulls on the opposite side of it; the default position is the basic tuning of the string. A thing of technical beauty. The only thing I'm proposing to change is the means of making the changes. The biggest challenge I can see is ensuring that one can use the one motor to make all the raises and lowers, no matter whether they are a mere semitone or something drastic like a couple of tones. And that's where the control offered by the stepper motor comes in - you want to be able to turn it in both directions to specific positions, controlled by the voltage and amperage you feed it. I think you'd be wanting short woven-metal
Re: OT: stepper motors, etc
On Tuesday 02 June 2009 13:37, Craig Falconer wrote: Wesley Parish wrote, On 02/06/09 13:11: Sorry to be so off-topic, but are there any stepper motor suppliers in Christchurch? I'm wondering if there are any small enough to fit in a cramped location, yet powerful enough to change tension on a wire already under considerable tension? And electrically robust enough to handle regular on-off switching, while using as minimal an amount of current at as low a voltage as possible? This is for my Pedal Steel Guitar The Next Generation ;) You want to make it self-tuning or something ? No. The pedal changes the tuning of a string from say B to C or C#, while you play it; it gives you all sorts of nice effects, eg, the strings BDEF# get changed to ACEG or ADEF or BDFG which are totally different chords. My idea is to make the changers electrically-powered and use the amp to power them, instead of using the bulky rodding system they have now. It wouldn't be the first time the changer system's changed - the first ones used cables, the current ones use rods. Possibly need some kind of reduction gear instead of making the stepper do it all. That could make sense. But you'd have to do it for every motor on every string. And the distance between B and C or C# or Bb or A isn't that great when you've got strings this thin and under this sort of tension. And it would have to lock still under no-power, else the string would pull back to slack. Probably need some other controlled clamp to hold the string once its been tensioned. There is a working system for that already in place; it's called the all-pull changer system and it is a thing of technical beauty. The only movement it allows is to pull on the changer finger: the changer finger is a lever and to raise the string it pulls on one side of the lever while to lower it it pulls on the opposite side of it; the default position is the basic tuning of the string. A thing of technical beauty. The only thing I'm proposing to change is the means of making the changes. The biggest challenge I can see is ensuring that one can use the one motor to make all the raises and lowers, no matter whether they are a mere semitone or something drastic like a couple of tones. And that's where the control offered by the stepper motor comes in - you want to be able to turn it in both directions to specific positions, controlled by the voltage and amperage you feed it. I think you'd be wanting short woven-metal straps to link the motor with the changer finger. (BTW, this must be the strangest discussion ever seen on a LUG - discussing a quite technical matter relating to a twentieth-C. musical instrument, the sort of discussion that Yamaha or Fender or Gibson would be having behind closed doors and with lawyers at ten paces at dawn, and that sort of thing! But LUGs are more civilized, it would appear! ;) Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Are couch potatoes good to eat? - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
OT: stepper motors, etc
Hi, folks Sorry to be so off-topic, but are there any stepper motor suppliers in Christchurch? I'm wondering if there are any small enough to fit in a cramped location, yet powerful enough to change tension on a wire already under considerable tension? And electrically robust enough to handle regular on-off switching, while using as minimal an amount of current at as low a voltage as possible? This is for my Pedal Steel Guitar The Next Generation ;) Thanks Wesley Parish Sharpened hands are happy hands. Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot! I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
Re: OT: Telecom (Monopoly) Problem
Thanks everybody. I'll take a look at the jack point. I suspect it's the problem, but until I've opened it, I can't be sure. If it is, I'll put a call through to Telecom, and ask if they really want untrained poeple fiddling around with their jack points - I do pay the line maintenance fee, and it's recently gone up. It's time for them to earn their money. BTW, I don't have DSL - I'm on dialup, and at times I've had download speeds at the dizzying speed of 4 bytes a second, which puts NZ among the few nations warranting the full-time use of the Interplanetary Internet Protocol. http://www.ipnsig.org/ Perhaps I should make an online petition for New Zealand to adopt the Interplanetary Internet Protocol, since it appears to be the only way I'll ever be able to download my email with a reasonable expectation that I'll actually get it downloaded before the Universe ends. Wesley Parish On Monday 11 May 2009 16:39, Phill Coxon wrote: On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 11:46 +0900, Andrew Errington wrote: Not exactly. The wiring maintenance fee is to cover the wiring *inside* your home. Telecom will provide service to the demarcation point at your address (may be the boundary, may be the box on the eaves, may be the entry point into your house). If the fault is 'downstream' of that point, i.e. in the house wiring, you have to pay to fix it (unless you have paid the maintenance fee). If it is 'upstream', i.e. in the street wiring, they should fix it. Last year about this time I was having significant voice / ADSL line noise issues in wet weather. I got the usual down play and brush off when I first called faults (have you checked all your phones and equipment blah blah) So I waited until the line noise showed up, put the phone on speaker, recorded it on mp3 called back the operator and played it LOUD :) They agreed there was a problem and immediately sent out a technician to check it out. In the end I had two technicians come out. The first time they found an old telecom socket in the house which was faulty. The second visit they changed something up the street pole which cured it 100%. So just keep the pressure on and if you can record some noise or screen shots of the ADSL modem being disconnected etc it can help. A lot of ADSL modems will show the signal to noise ratio and if you time it right and refresh during some static you can get a massive figure for the noise :) -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Are couch potatoes good to eat? - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
OT: Telecom (Monopoly) Problem
Telecom has a problem with my landline. To wit: whenever it rains or the temperature drops precipately, it cuts out the connection from me to them. Last Wednesday, for example, when I arrived home from town and picked up the receiver, I got no dial tone. However, when I ring 125 directly, it connects immediately and dial-tone is there. And when I get around to contacting them - during the day, usually when it's dry - they cannot reproduce the problem. A friend in town suggests that it's either the line itself open like a sieve, or the local junction box is leaking. Does anyone have any ideas why Telecom cannot reproduce the problem - apart from careful maintenance of their own lines and non-maintenance of everybody else's? I'm getting sick of having the weather provide me with the switchboard-in-the-sky to /dev/null/. Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Are couch potatoes good to eat? - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Hall hire canceled
Hi. I've told Alison at the Hall that since she hasn't heard anything to the contrary from CLUG, the hall hire is canceled. Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
NZ Copyright law matter
Just came across this on Techdirt: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090430/1400034708.shtml New Zealand Officials To Scrap Copyright Law; Start From Scratch Now that's an interesting result from the hoo-haa over the guilty-as-alleged-sans-proof law we were almost saddled with. (I don't care to be ridden by morons, thank you! :) Any comments? Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: Linux on USB stick recommendations
On Tuesday 28 April 2009 17:39, Steve Holdoway wrote: On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:02:05 +1200 Ross Drummond r...@ashburton.co.nz wrote: Does the group have any suggestions for what to run on a USB stick as a live Linux system? What I am after is likely to run on any $RANDOM computer, offers a browser and capability of connecting to the internet, has a small writable space, and as a bonus is able to use a $RANDOM printer it encounters. I have a USB stick with System Rescue on it which works well, but it is not designed for desk-top type tasks. Cheers Ross Drummond Knoppix gets my vote... stuff the DVD version on one. FWIW, I've just put the Knoppix 6.1 DVD on the St Albans Linux PC; so if you want to try it, just drop on in and ask to copy it. The Linux PC is the one called Caledonian, and it runs PC LinuxOS 2007. Wesley Parish Steve -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
St Albans Hall?
I've just been asked by Christoph what the CLUG is going to do with the St Albans Hall, since the monthly meetings seem to have fallen through; he asks we cancel the bookings if we aren't going to be using the Hall. Thanks Wesley Parish Sharpened hands are happy hands. Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot! I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
generalized Net slowdown - or is it just me?
Hi, all This afternoon I was at the St Albans Community Centre downloading some freely available music and other stuff, and I noticed the download speed was at about 56 KB per second, when it usually is faster, usually about 80 KBps and sometimes well into the 100-plus KBps. I shrugged it off as the effects of being on a shared braodband connection. I come home to my dialup connection, and discover that downloading my email from TelstraClear's Paradise.net.nz is at an all-time slow. At the rate it is downloading my email, the Universe will suffer a heat death long before it reaches a quarter of the way. It appears that the St Albans broadband and my dialup may share the same affliction. Am I the only one? Or is this a universal experience? Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: generalized Net slowdown - or is it just me?
Quoting John Rye jrt...@clear.net.nz: On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:43:57 +1200 Wesley Parish wrote: Hi, all This afternoon I was at the St Albans Community Centre downloading some freely available music and other stuff, and I noticed the download speed was at about 56 KB per second, when it usually is faster, usually about 80 KBps and sometimes well into the 100-plus KBps. I shrugged it off as the effects of being on a shared braodband connection. I come home to my dialup connection, and discover that downloading my email from TelstraClear's Paradise.net.nz is at an all-time slow. At the rate it is downloading my email, the Universe will suffer a heat death long before it reaches a quarter of the way. It appears that the St Albans broadband and my dialup may share the same affliction. Am I the only one? Or is this a universal experience? I'm on TelstraClear dsl and currently downloading a 4gb iso via ftp from a server in France. Throughput is varying between 20kb/s and 86/kb/s on a theoretical half meg bandwidth, and it's been this way since about mid-afternoon John So it's not just me. The St Albans connection is with xnet, and my dialup connection - in Sumner - is with TelstraClear's Paradise.net.nz. I suspect, based on that minimum sample, that the problem is with the Telecom copper network. Wesley Parish Sharpened hands are happy hands. Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot! I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
current state of linuxisos on Caledonian
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Re: Canterbury Linux Users' Group monthly meeting reminder: Tuesday 10th March @ 7:30pm
FWIW, there's a copy of the complete (and FOSS) Pentaho Business Intelligence suite on Caledonian at St Albans. It's about a cdrom's worth of files, and it's free, so if anyone wants a copy, feel free to bring along a cdr for next meeting and burn yourself a copy. Wesley Parish On Tuesday 03 March 2009 07:44, Adrian Mageanu wrote: Yes, business intelligence. On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 06:07 +1300, Robert Fisher wrote: On Monday 02 March 2009 23:15:46 Adrian Mageanu wrote: Hi, I have received significant interest off list about the proposal I made for a BI solution implementation using FOSS - both technical and non-technical questions - so I could do a short talk, 30 to 45 minutes top, about elements of BI and the role of Linux and FOSS in this space. BI? Business Intelligence? -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: serious Mozilla design bug
On Saturday 21 February 2009 09:15, Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Wesley Parish wes.par...@paradise.net.nz wrote: snip I call that artificial stupidity. or perhaps operator error? seriously if you are right clicking and trying to choose open in new tab then sometimes I find on a slower computer that somehow all the clicking chooses something random from the popup menu before I really meant to. In that case, it should be spelled out that certain operations are undefined for computers below a certain capacity. Heck, OpenOffice.org spells out that more current versions aren't suitable for Win95 PCs, and I've found that out the hard way on my father's Win95 PC before it went belly-up and died. I'm finding that I'm using Dillo quite seriously now, after having had Firefox do things to my browsing that I hadn't asked for. And since it doesn't include all the bells-and-whistles that modern websites take for granted, I'm thinking of porting S60 or something of the sort, rather than putting up with this sort of nonsense any more. Does anyone know how to turn it off, and bury it so deep it can't come back and haunt me? (I am really angry about this - this is a classic design error that I would've expected from Microsoft, not Mozilla - assuming that if something is done once, it will always be done that way, and enforcing it minutely.) The offending Mozilla Firefox is 3.0.6. Wesley Parish Sharpened hands are happy hands. Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot! I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
serious Mozilla design bug
Does anybody else have to put up with Mozilla Firefox deciding that instead of opening a web page in a new tab, you actually, secretly, unbeknown-to-oneself, want to save it? Or when you're trying to read webmail in a new tab, it decides to open it up in a new window? I call that artificial stupidity. Does anyone know how to turn it off, and bury it so deep it can't come back and haunt me? (I am really angry about this - this is a classic design error that I would've expected from Microsoft, not Mozilla - assuming that if something is done once, it will always be done that way, and enforcing it minutely.) The offending Mozilla Firefox is 3.0.6. Wesley Parish Sharpened hands are happy hands. Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot! I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
Re: USB turntables, anyone?
Only too true. It was cheap. Quoting Rex Johnston g...@sclnz.com: Christopher Sawtell wrote: 2009/2/2 Wesley Parish wes.par...@paradise.net.nz: Yes, my turntable's part of a single-unit stereo outfit. So, presumably it hasn't got a line output socket? Or even a headphone socket. Rex Sharpened hands are happy hands. Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot! I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
USB turntables, anyone?
I've got some vinyl that I'd like to transfer to one or t'other digital medium. Is it true that there is a USB turntable for percisely this purpose? If so, and someone's got a copy of it, please let me konw. I want to get the likes of Sneaky Pete Kleinow, Buddy Emmons, Winnie Winston etc, onto something I can listen to on a regular basis. thanks Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: USB turntables, anyone?
Thanks. That's what I needed to know. Yes, I've got a turntable, with stereo output; I've got an amplifier - a nice little Fender Harvard. I just don't know how to connect the two together and then to my soundcard. Wesley Parish Quoting Stephen Irons stephen.ir...@tait.co.nz: Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Andrew Errington a.erring...@lancaster.ac.uk wrote: Hi Wesley, As others have pointed out, if you have a record player already then you can hook it up to the audio input of your PC sound card and record the sound that way. Actually you are far better off with a preamp. IIRC levels (impedance?) from turntables don't match well with line-in on a sound card. There are at least three factors to consider when hooking up a turntable to a sound card: * signal level -- some turntable cartridges give very low output, often lower than microphone levels * impedance -- some turntable cartridges have high output impedance, which needs an amplifier or preamp of high input impedance * equalisation -- records are recorded with high-frequencies boosted and low frequencies cut; during playback, you need an RIAA equalisation filter to correct this Your best solution is as recommended: plug a turntable into a amplifier with a 'phono' input and record using a sound-card connected to the tape-recorder outputs. You could try connecting a turntable output to a microphone input and apply the equalisation in software after recording (Audacity has an RIAA equalisation filter), but you would probably do better to use a real hardware preamp to ensure that the levels and impedance are correct. Stephen Irons = == 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. = == Sharpened hands are happy hands. Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot! I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
Re: USB turntables, anyone?
Yes, my turntable's part of a single-unit stereo outfit. That's why it's got a two speaker output setup. And I suspect overdriving the Fender Harvard might work on some of the blues albums I've got, but not on my Renaissance Broken Consort ones ... ;) Wesley Parish Quoting Craig Falconer cfalco...@totalteam.co.nz: Wesley Parish wrote, On 02/02/09 20:08: Yes, I've got a turntable, with stereo output; I've got an amplifier - a nice little Fender Harvard. I just don't know how to connect the two together and then to my soundcard. Nice - but that's a valve-based guitar amp, not a home stereo amp (aka receiver And from memory... it goes up to 12. Eat that, Spinal Tap! -- Craig Falconer Sharpened hands are happy hands. Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot! I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
Re: Anyone have a copy of Fedora Core 10 already downloaded
Thanks, but I'll be in Tauranga over the Christmas-New Year period, and St Albans opens on the 12th Jan. I expect to be back by the 16th Jan. Let me knwo then and we'll sort something out. Thanks Wesley Parish On Wednesday 17 December 2008 15:47, Adrian Mageanu wrote: I have the following images downloaded: Fedora 10 i686 Live Fedora 10 source DVD Fedora 10 i386 DVD Fedora 10 source CDs Fedora 10 i386 CDs Fedora 10 i686 Live KDE I am yet to install it myself so although the check sums check I haven't verified any of the images. Which one do you want? I'll be in town Friday morning, contact me off list for details and to make a time and place to meet. Wesley, Chris, I can put these in the archive when you have time. Adrian On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 15:21 +1300, Payne, Owen wrote: I'm only on mobile broadband at the moment and downloading may take an excessive amount of time so wonder if anyone has any of the images already downloaded that I can get a copy of? Thanks ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz ** -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: OT: CLUG Get together next week?
And any moment now we hear the tread of jackboots ... ;) but that is confusing capability with intention, isn't it, ossifer? (It's similar to the way I'd like to take down the spam botnets - hash the values they have in the master computers, assign hashes to days, and when both coincide, the spam gets dumped on the master computers where it originates.:) Wesley Parish On Sunday 07 December 2008 21:19, dave wrote: On Saturday 06 December 2008 23:47:49 Wesley Parish wrote: Sounds too much like hard work. No, what you'd want to do is advertise and set up a few large-scale deathmatches at Uni and Polytech, etc, hash the identities of the players with the monsters and opponents they're fighting, assign the hash values to the various traffic lights, and ... let the games begin! That's a lot more elegant way of causing chaos than doing it manually! Wesley I ment and intended to say that you manually controlled the phasing of the lights so you decided at random when they'd all go red or green or Flashing yellow. But hell you came up with a good idea, I just wanted to keep in the CLUG family so to speak. Wesley Parish On Saturday 06 December 2008 18:32, dave wrote: On Saturday 06 December 2008 17:16:39 Steve Holdoway wrote: On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:23:59 +1300 Zane Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what are we going to do next week? Are we just going to the pub on Thursday night or what? How about PAINTBALL! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/05/bofh_2008_episode_39/ Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your Sick(in a funny sorta way) !!! Loved the story so i think your wanting to have one in an urban setting? God i can see it now CLUG members showing up a the grumpy mole or some such place all cam'd up and bellachavered with the paintball guns and taking out all the other patrons in site, then with the alert out and Wesley pluged into the CCC traffic system creating haoc on the roads to slow down the AOS (armed offenders squad) and Rob patched into the CCTV system to assist Wes, steve having hacked into the air force's system creates some critical emergency that grounds all choppers and finally those who attacked the patrons settle down for a few pints before slipping away uncaught. well the story leads down this path (Iknow i'm sick also - hahaha) -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: OT: CLUG Get together next week?
Sounds too much like hard work. No, what you'd want to do is advertise and set up a few large-scale deathmatches at Uni and Polytech, etc, hash the identities of the players with the monsters and opponents they're fighting, assign the hash values to the various traffic lights, and ... let the games begin! That's a lot more elegant way of causing chaos than doing it manually! Wesley Parish On Saturday 06 December 2008 18:32, dave wrote: On Saturday 06 December 2008 17:16:39 Steve Holdoway wrote: On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:23:59 +1300 Zane Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what are we going to do next week? Are we just going to the pub on Thursday night or what? How about PAINTBALL! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/05/bofh_2008_episode_39/ Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your Sick(in a funny sorta way) !!! Loved the story so i think your wanting to have one in an urban setting? God i can see it now CLUG members showing up a the grumpy mole or some such place all cam'd up and bellachavered with the paintball guns and taking out all the other patrons in site, then with the alert out and Wesley pluged into the CCC traffic system creating haoc on the roads to slow down the AOS (armed offenders squad) and Rob patched into the CCTV system to assist Wes, steve having hacked into the air force's system creates some critical emergency that grounds all choppers and finally those who attacked the patrons settle down for a few pints before slipping away uncaught. well the story leads down this path (Iknow i'm sick also - hahaha) -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: another C problem
FWLIW, I'd put only the initial M | F and final enumeration into IF statements.
And then I'd put the largest IF ... THEN ... ELSE into a SWITCH ... CASE
instead: it's easier to read.
while(!EOF) {
/* read file into array */
if (M ){
switch(etc)
do whatever
break;
[...]
switch(etc)
count++
else if
switch(etc)
else
switch(etc)
count++
}
Just my 0.02c worth - don't spend it all at once - we _do_ have a financial
ongoing crisis. ;)
Wesley Parish
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I hope people don't mind me posting these here, let me know if you do
and
I'll find a more appropriate geek list to post them.
The C program I'm working on at the moment is taking a list from a data
file and populating an array to either be outputted either to screen,
file
or printer. the foo.dat file is like this:
F 26 5
F 64 4
F 29 2
M 12 3
M 40 1
...snip...
So I need to populate (using count++) a two-dimensional array based on
whether the first column is M or F the second column is within a range
and
whether the thrid column is either 1,2,3,4or5
This is the part that's doing my head in, I could do it using a very
convoluted if-else-if loop which would end up giving me a massive and
hard
to maintain piece of code
ie:
if line == (F 25) 1)
then count++ to array[0][0]
else if line == (F 25) 2)
then count++ to array[1][0]
etc,
etc,
etc,
(code won't compile - made it more human readable for mostly my
sake...)
doing it this way I would end up with 25 if-else-if statements. is there
a
way to take the 1) section read the number from the third coloumn
from
the foo.dat file and minus one from it? This would give me the x axis
of
the array - or am I barking completly up the wrong tree?
Or is there a better way to do this? any pointers would be appreciated.
Kerry
ps, I hope I'm making some kind of sense with all of this.
Sharpened hands are happy hands.
Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands
- A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge
I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!
I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the
other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
Re: Newest Penguinista
Congratulations! Wesley Parish On Saturday 15 November 2008 18:43, yuri wrote: On 2008-11-15 at 14:53 the newest Penguinista arrived: Marijke Aroha Anne de Groot 3.47kg (don't ask about lbs and Ozes - ~$ man units) Mother and baby are both happy. I reckon she'll probably chose kwrite over both vi and emacs. She definitely looks like a kde user. Yuri -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: dhcp st. albans..
Quoting Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/11/10 Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can anyone tell me which range the ip addresses are allocated from at st. albans? I'm really hoping it's not from 10.0.0.0/8 iirc, I believe that I do remember correctly, a range within 192.168.1.1 That's what I remember. Wesley Parish -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell Sharpened hands are happy hands. Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot! I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
next step for mail clients
treating all mail messages like any other ordinary downloads, and making it possible to halt and restart them - for New Zealand-quality copper networks. Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
kubuntu-8-10 md5sum results
These are the results from the md5sum run I did on the kubuntu iso image placed on Caledonian's desktop. It appears to be a corrupted image. Wesley Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desktop]$ md5sum ./kubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso\ Please\ do\ a\ MD5sum\ on\ this\ to\ ensure\ it\'s\ a\ good\ iso 82c02dc7386dfb6858a9ec09a5059e1e ./kubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso Please do a MD5sum on this to ensure it's a good iso [EMAIL PROTECTED] Desktop]$ md5sum -c ./kubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso\ Please\ do\ a\ MD5sum\ on\ this\ to\ ensure\ it\'s\ a\ good\ iso md5sum: ./casper/filesystem.manifest-desktop: No such file or directory ./casper/filesystem.manifest-desktop: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./casper/initrd.gz: No such file or directory ./casper/initrd.gz: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./casper/filesystem.squashfs: No such file or directory ./casper/filesystem.squashfs: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./casper/vmlinuz: No such file or directory ./casper/vmlinuz: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./dists/intrepid/Release: No such file or directory ./dists/intrepid/Release: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./dists/intrepid/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz: No such file or directory ./dists/intrepid/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./dists/intrepid/restricted/binary-i386/Release: No such file or directory ./dists/intrepid/restricted/binary-i386/Release: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./dists/intrepid/Release.gpg: No such file or directory ./dists/intrepid/Release.gpg: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./dists/intrepid/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz: No such file or directory ./dists/intrepid/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./dists/intrepid/main/binary-i386/Release: No such file or directory ./dists/intrepid/main/binary-i386/Release: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./pics/blue-upperright.png: No such file or directory ./pics/blue-upperright.png: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./pics/blue-lowerleft.png: No such file or directory ./pics/blue-lowerleft.png: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./pics/blue-upperleft.png: No such file or directory ./pics/blue-upperleft.png: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./pics/logo-50.jpg: No such file or directory ./pics/logo-50.jpg: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./pics/red-upperright.png: No such file or directory ./pics/red-upperright.png: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./pics/red-upperleft.png: No such file or directory ./pics/red-upperleft.png: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./pics/red-lowerright.png: No such file or directory ./pics/red-lowerright.png: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./pics/red-lowerleft.png: No such file or directory ./pics/red-lowerleft.png: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./pics/debian.jpg: No such file or directory ./pics/debian.jpg: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./pics/blue-lowerright.png: No such file or directory ./pics/blue-lowerright.png: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./.disk/casper-uuid-generic: No such file or directory ./.disk/casper-uuid-generic: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./.disk/release_notes_url: No such file or directory ./.disk/release_notes_url: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./.disk/info: No such file or directory ./.disk/info: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./umenu.exe: No such file or directory ./umenu.exe: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./autorun.inf: No such file or directory ./autorun.inf: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./install/README.sbm: No such file or directory ./install/README.sbm: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./install/sbm.bin: No such file or directory ./install/sbm.bin: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./install/mt86plus: No such file or directory ./install/mt86plus: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./preseed/kubuntu.seed: No such file or directory ./preseed/kubuntu.seed: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./preseed/cli.seed: No such file or directory ./preseed/cli.seed: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./pool/restricted/d/drdsl/drdsl_1.2.0-1_i386.deb: No such file or directory ./pool/restricted/d/drdsl/drdsl_1.2.0-1_i386.deb: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./pool/main/n/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-utils-1.9_1.52-1ubuntu1_i386.deb: No such file or directory ./pool/main/n/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-utils-1.9_1.52-1ubuntu1_i386.deb: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./pool/main/n/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-common_1.52-1ubuntu1_all.deb: No such file or directory ./pool/main/n/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-common_1.52-1ubuntu1_all.deb: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./pool/main/h/hwtest/hwtest_0.1-0ubuntu10_all.deb: No such file or directory ./pool/main/h/hwtest/hwtest_0.1-0ubuntu10_all.deb: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./pool/main/b/build-essential/build-essential_11.4_i386.deb: No such file or directory ./pool/main/b/build-essential/build-essential_11.4_i386.deb: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./pool/main/b/bpalogin/bpalogin_2.0.2-12_i386.deb: No such file or directory ./pool/main/b/bpalogin/bpalogin_2.0.2-12_i386.deb: FAILED open or read md5sum: ./pool/main/b/b43-fwcutter/b43-fwcutter_011-4ubuntu1_i386.deb: No such file or directory ./pool/main/b/b43-fwcutter/b43-fwcutter_011-4ubuntu1_i386.deb: FAILED open
Re: Condolences
My sympathy and condolences to Chris and Caleb Sawtell. Wesley Parish Quoting Barry Marchant [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello cluggers, Those of you who know Chris and Caleb Sawtell will be saddened to hear that Chris lost his Partner of 20 years, and Caleb his Mother last Saturday. I am sure all cluggers will join with me in offering you both our sincere sympathy. Barry Sharpened hands are happy hands. Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot! I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
Re: crossover fully unlocked build available
Lame Duck Soup for the Ghoul! That CEO's got a dry sense of humour! ;) Wesley Parish On Wednesday 29 October 2008 16:51, Kerry Mayes wrote: If you search for news on Lame Duck Challenge you'll see that they are giving it away free (as in beer) today only. (Thanks to petrol prices!) 2008/10/29 chris [EMAIL PROTECTED]: PS I am also not sure how much money they want for the programme -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: CLUG meeting
Actually, listening to the theorists argue tends to be a bit of a blood sport for techies! I'm in - as always - for Salas Thai Cuisine. Wesley Parish Quoting Barry Marchant [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Listening to a speaker with practical experience (and horror stories?) is more interesting than pure theory Steve. Anyway the pre meeting meeting at Salas Thai Cuisine is on at 6.00 pm. Please let me know so I can make a booking. Barry - Steve Holdoway wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:27:42 +1300 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] ok no way can i commit to organising meetings, but i can offer my apalling presentation skills at short notice at the moment. Skillset is system/database/network admin - from practical rather than theoretical experience, and oldschool systems analysis and design. I've spent the last 4 years fighting spam. Let me know if i can be of any use and when the meeting is... as ever political correctness is not an option (: Steve Sharpened hands are happy hands. Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot! I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
Strictly OT: [ReactOS-related] Anyone know where to get Win32s API documentation?
I've just had an interesting experience on the ReactOS mail list, which has got me volunteering to work out a Win32s and Win9x subsystem. And starting off with Win32s seems to be the easiest option. Anyone got any such obsolete documents lying around? Thanks Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: paradise dicey
Hi, Thanks Wesley Parish On Sunday 21 September 2008 16:56, Derek Smithies wrote: Hi, Even better, try traceroute This reports the time for each leg of the route taken by the icmp packets. This verifies there is (or is not) a problem in your setup. Derek. == On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, Ross Drummond wrote: On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Wesley Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 64 bytes from 203.96.152.127: icmp_seq=1458 ttl=55 time=4608 ms 64 bytes from 203.96.152.127: icmp_seq=1459 ttl=55 time=3615 ms 64 bytes from 203.96.152.127: icmp_seq=1460 ttl=55 time=2623 ms 64 bytes from 203.96.152.127: icmp_seq=1461 ttl=55 time=1644 ms -- Wesley try this; ping -c 1 -R paradise.net.nz -R Record route.Includes the RECORD_ROUTE option in the ECHO_REQUEST packet and displays the route buffer on returned packets. Note that the IP header is only large enough for nine such routes. Many hosts ignore or discard this option. If your ISP supports this you can see the hop's taken to reach paradise,then you can test each hop with a ping to check latency. Cheers Ross Drummond -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: paradise dicey
On Sunday 21 September 2008 00:29, Christopher Sawtell wrote: But I've already lost two goes at downloading the zarafa source code - a mere 2 megabytes. And it's starting to piss me off royally. I'll probably ring up both telstraclear and telecom in the morning and give them rockets about their incompetence. But it was mentioned on either /. or LWN earlier today, I can't remember which. So I'm not at all surprised that the connection is flakey. I'll get it for you if you want. Thanks for the offer, but I managed to download it successfully some time later. On 9/20/08, Wesley Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:09:24 +1200 Wesley Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 203.96.152.127: icmp_seq=36 ttl=55 time=13589 ms 64 bytes from www.paradise.net.nz (203.96.152.127): icmp_seq=37 ttl=55 time=14956 ms Anybody else getting this sort of crap from paradise.net.nz? I've been getting it for two nights now, and I'm getting sick of it. Wesley Parish Does ifconfig show any errors, or does a 3 fingered salute to the router help?? I'm on dialup - one of the people supporting telstra-clear's gambling on the investment markets and government bailouts, I expect. ifconfig: ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:210.246.27.44 P-t-P:202.0.46.83 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1159 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1379 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 RX bytes:641637 (626.5 KiB) TX bytes:196778 (192.1 KiB) Looks okay to me. I'm thinking it's probably also telecom's gambling on the investment markets and government bailouts - ie, their total lack of interest in maintaining their copper megamiles for which they are so happy to take an arm and a leg for. But I've already lost two goes at downloading the zarafa source code - a mere 2 megabytes. And it's starting to piss me off royally. I'll probably ring up both telstraclear and telecom in the morning and give them rockets about their incompetence. Wesley Parish -- Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sharpened hands are happy hands. Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot! I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
paradise dicey
64 bytes from 203.96.152.127: icmp_seq=1458 ttl=55 time=4608 ms 64 bytes from 203.96.152.127: icmp_seq=1459 ttl=55 time=3615 ms 64 bytes from 203.96.152.127: icmp_seq=1460 ttl=55 time=2623 ms 64 bytes from 203.96.152.127: icmp_seq=1461 ttl=55 time=1644 ms -- 64 bytes from 203.96.152.127: icmp_seq=26 ttl=55 time=5928 ms 64 bytes from www.paradise.net.nz (203.96.152.127): icmp_seq=27 ttl=55 time=4480 ms 64 bytes from 203.96.152.127: icmp_seq=28 ttl=55 time=3487 ms 64 bytes from www.paradise.net.nz (203.96.152.127): icmp_seq=29 ttl=55 time=7652 ms 64 bytes from www.paradise.net.nz (203.96.152.127): icmp_seq=30 ttl=55 time=7016 ms 64 bytes from www.paradise.net.nz (203.96.152.127): icmp_seq=31 ttl=55 time=6888 ms 64 bytes from www.paradise.net.nz (203.96.152.127): icmp_seq=32 ttl=55 time=5341 ms 64 bytes from www.paradise.net.nz (203.96.152.127): icmp_seq=33 ttl=55 time=4452 ms 64 bytes from www.paradise.net.nz (203.96.152.127): icmp_seq=34 ttl=55 time=8980 ms 64 bytes from 203.96.152.127: icmp_seq=35 ttl=55 time=13389 ms 64 bytes from 203.96.152.127: icmp_seq=36 ttl=55 time=13589 ms 64 bytes from www.paradise.net.nz (203.96.152.127): icmp_seq=37 ttl=55 time=14956 ms Anybody else getting this sort of crap from paradise.net.nz? I've been getting it for two nights now, and I'm getting sick of it. Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: paradise dicey
Quoting Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:09:24 +1200 Wesley Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 203.96.152.127: icmp_seq=36 ttl=55 time=13589 ms 64 bytes from www.paradise.net.nz (203.96.152.127): icmp_seq=37 ttl=55 time=14956 ms Anybody else getting this sort of crap from paradise.net.nz? I've been getting it for two nights now, and I'm getting sick of it. Wesley Parish Does ifconfig show any errors, or does a 3 fingered salute to the router help?? I'm on dialup - one of the people supporting telstra-clear's gambling on the investment markets and government bailouts, I expect. ifconfig: ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:210.246.27.44 P-t-P:202.0.46.83 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1159 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1379 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 RX bytes:641637 (626.5 KiB) TX bytes:196778 (192.1 KiB) Looks okay to me. I'm thinking it's probably also telecom's gambling on the investment markets and government bailouts - ie, their total lack of interest in maintaining their copper megamiles for which they are so happy to take an arm and a leg for. But I've already lost two goes at downloading the zarafa source code - a mere 2 megabytes. And it's starting to piss me off royally. I'll probably ring up both telstraclear and telecom in the morning and give them rockets about their incompetence. Wesley Parish -- Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sharpened hands are happy hands. Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot! I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
Re: GNU/Linux Debian Lenny 5.0 86 and 64 isos
On Tuesday 16 September 2008 20:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do I need for Lenny 5.0? How many CD's? It's a DVD. Cheers Don Wesley Parish wrote: now on Caledonian, at the St Albans NN room. And, FWIW, I installed the Kubuntu from a disc I burned from the linuxisos collection on Caledonian, so it is getting some use. Wesley Parish Sharpened hands are happy hands. Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot! I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: artifacts on kubuntu screen
On Tuesday 16 September 2008 16:16, Nick Rout wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Wesley Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I've just installed Kubuntu 7.10 desktop on an Asus laptop (c. 2008 vintage) for someone at St Albans. It's got an Intel graphics chipset, and unfortunately, it's come up with multiple triple-dash artifacts on the screen. Has anyone come across this sort of problem before? What sort of advice do people have? Why 7.10? Recent hardware often needs recent drivers. Try 8.04. The most recent isos in the repository were 7.10. I could've chosen another iso, but since Ubuntu's one of the better-known recent distros, I thought it was a safe bet. what driver is kubuntu choosing for the X server? (grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf, or if it is autoprobing peruse /var/log/Xorg.0.log). Never got around to doing that. I installed it, led the person I did it for through a few basic details, then she went away. Does it have artifacts on the live cd? Or just on an installed version? Just on the installed version. i told her, that it probably would get in touch with the Ubuntu home site and ask her to install the updates. google for the specific chipset and or model number, or look here http://www.linux-laptop.net/ or here http://tuxmobil.org/asus.html for the specific hardware, which will give you user experience based tips. Thanks. I'll do that, and if I get any emails from her about the installation, I'll see what I can do. Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: artifacts on kubuntu screen
Hi, Steve On Tuesday 16 September 2008 15:00, Steve Holdoway wrote: Hi Wesley, How's the war wounds??? tolerable - except when I stretch the thumb somewhat, and it lets me know!!! There are restricted drivers available under (k)ubuntu for the i810, etc intel chipsets. Alternatively, if it's a modern one ( like the G43 embedded stuff on my - failed yet again - server motherboard ), then you may need to take more drastic action. http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org/install.html is what I was working from - just after the 2D drivers. Got it working once, then couldn't create and use /dev/agpgart. ( And then, like I said, it broke again... are gigabyte mobos really this bad? ). And resorted to vesa drivers. This was on a ubuntu 8.04.1 server build. Thanks hth, Steve On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:44:47 +1200 (NZST) Wesley Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I've just installed Kubuntu 7.10 desktop on an Asus laptop (c. 2008 vintage) for someone at St Albans. It's got an Intel graphics chipset, and unfortunately, it's come up with multiple triple-dash artifacts on the screen. Has anyone come across this sort of problem before? What sort of advice do people have? Thanks Wesley Parish Sharpened hands are happy hands. Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot! I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
artifacts on kubuntu screen
Hi. I've just installed Kubuntu 7.10 desktop on an Asus laptop (c. 2008 vintage) for someone at St Albans. It's got an Intel graphics chipset, and unfortunately, it's come up with multiple triple-dash artifacts on the screen. Has anyone come across this sort of problem before? What sort of advice do people have? Thanks Wesley Parish Sharpened hands are happy hands. Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot! I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
GNU/Linux Debian Lenny 5.0 86 and 64 isos
now on Caledonian, at the St Albans NN room. And, FWIW, I installed the Kubuntu from a disc I burned from the linuxisos collection on Caledonian, so it is getting some use. Wesley Parish Sharpened hands are happy hands. Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot! I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
Re: meeting Tues 7.30pm?
Good. I was wondering if anyone was going to be turning up, and if, whether I should shove off home. Anyone going to the restaurant? Wesley Parish Quoting Zane Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thank you Caleb, Yes I am a slack b*st**d Caleb has rescued me from further ignominy. See you at the St Albans Community Resource Centre http://clug.net.nz/index.php/MeetingSchedule at 7:30 pm (BTW the CLUG wiki is running very slow) -- - Zane Gilmore Development and Web Infrastructure Team Leader DDI: 325 9631 Cell:0276 319 206 Crop Food Research : Mana Kai Rangahau http://www.crop.cri.nz -- On 9/09/2008 at 9:15 a.m., in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Caleb Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do believe that I am doing a talk about inkscape topday On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 6:46 AM, Robert Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:56:01 am Rik Tindall wrote: Some posters are needed, notices to put places, any other ideas? Are the posters prepared? What size are they? I can probably print some if they are no bigger than A3 Rob Visit our website at http://www.crop.cri.nz __ CAUTION: The information contained in this email is privileged and confidential. If you read this message and you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of all or part of the contents is prohibited. If you receive this message in error, please notify the sender immediately. Any opinions or views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not represent those of their employer. Sharpened hands are happy hands. Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot! I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
Re: OT: NSS, Outer Space and such Geek Extreme Sports
NSS is the National Space Society, and it was merged from the L5 Society and another one. I'll let you know when the stuff arrives from the States. Wesley Parish On Wednesday 06 August 2008 22:59, Daniel Hill wrote: NSS as is the national space society? I read some stuff about the now defunct L5 Society http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L5_Society actually they were merged so, I'm interested Hi. I've just sent off a request to the NSS in the States to become a member and set up a Chapter in Christchurch. It's a geek extreme sport, or so it would appear from reading all the stuff on Slashdot, to pontificate about the exploration of Outer Space, the big bad governments messing it all up, etc., and I decided I'd join up and do something in concert with others. Is there anyone else who would be interested in joining with me and setting up this proposed NSS chapter? (FWIW, I'm going to join as a student, because that is what I am at the present. ;) At the very least, we could have pleasant evenings at restaurants and prolonged discussions over beer ... Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
OT: NSS, Outer Space and such Geek Extreme Sports
Hi. I've just sent off a request to the NSS in the States to become a member and set up a Chapter in Christchurch. It's a geek extreme sport, or so it would appear from reading all the stuff on Slashdot, to pontificate about the exploration of Outer Space, the big bad governments messing it all up, etc., and I decided I'd join up and do something in concert with others. Is there anyone else who would be interested in joining with me and setting up this proposed NSS chapter? (FWIW, I'm going to join as a student, because that is what I am at the present. ;) At the very least, we could have pleasant evenings at restaurants and prolonged discussions over beer ... Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: what a email
Huh~ Everybody knows teh poper word, teh reel frase to make everybody fall for it, is Mother Bored Contol Painel!!! Everybody, everycarcase~ This email shows signs of an unusual intellect - find someone with an intellect of this quality with a truckload of money, and your begging days are over~ According to PT Barnum~ On Wednesday 25 June 2008 07:46, dave wrote: have a read of this paragragh I received this tonight and well it's a very poor attempt at getting me to give them my bank account details or other personal info. Dear CLEAR Net Webmail Subscriber, We the Mother Board Control Panel of your CLEAR Net Webmail, advice you reply to this email immediately with your PAYMENT/REF CODE: EFE001. I think it was the MotherBoard Control Panel that told me they where wannabe scammers. I just see this as being more humourous than anything. thought you all might like some light humour at a scammers expense. dave. -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: A quick quiz for fun
On Monday 12 May 2008 21:16, Christopher Sawtell wrote: Your score: 100 out of 100. I only scored 100/100. Guessed the month Linux was released, as well. The question of Wang VS versus S/390 amused me - those Wangs are museum pieces by now, surely! ;) Wesley Parish Not too terribly difficult imho I too guessed the the month Linux was released. I just tied it in to the Northern academic timetable, surprise surprise. On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 8:17 PM, Ross Drummond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 12 May 2008, Nick Rout wrote: http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/survey/9 Post back your results, I got 90/100. I got 90/100 which surprised me as some of my answers were no more than wild guesses. Cheers Ross Drummond -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: The Linux Distro A
These's several approaches I can think of, right off the top of my head: The Community newspaper approach - we talk to someone at the local community newspapers, about how this group of techies and geeks are working together to offer these resources to the various parts of the community, if they want it and if they know about it. The Computer page in the Press approach - we talk to someone at the Press about how the Linux Users Group has teamed up with the St Albans Neighbourhood Net to offer a freely available resource. The Community Organizations approach - we get volunteers in various parts of the city to go around to various Community Groups/volunteer organizations/etc and offer to help them with their computers, on top of any arrangements they may already have, and point them in the direction of St Albans for a completely free set of software, etc ... The Schools approach - those of us who aren't terrified of Schools, go around varous schools - preferrably the ones in your own neighbourhood; it looks good that way - and talk to them about the benefits of FOSS software, and point them in the direction of St Albans, etc. The City Council approach - anyone with City Council somewhere in their personal filing cabinet, goes around to their local friendly City Council organization that they are part of, and talks to them about the benefits of FOSS, and points them in the direction of St Albans, etc ... it strikes me that if you're going to be talking to the City Council about FOSS, one of the most important things to point out is the licensing freedom aspect - if there is a natural disaster in Christchurch, and the software licenses are stored on computer which then falls over and loses track of the licensing arrangements, the City Council is going to choke. Just my 0.02c - and that's heavily inflated! ;) Wesley Parish On Tuesday 29 April 2008 20:53, Steve Holdoway wrote: On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:08:11 +1200 Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah yes, but did they actually use it? -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell I hope so. I would feel rather sad if all of (especially) your and Wesleys efforts aren't appreciated. Unfortunately, I'm so busy that I can only offer the odd (!) distro. BTW ubuntu hh live + 2 x kubuntu live cd's any use?? Anyone out there with ideas to promote the resource??? Steve. -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: FOSS/Linux jpg to dwg converter
Thanks. I found autotrace last night doing a google search. It looks as if it might do the job; I've also found, reading one of the AutoCAD books in the library, that there are some workarounds for it in that part of the woods. There are also Windows programs that do the job, and I might test them under Wine, but that's not exactly what I was looking for :( Wesley Parish On Friday 18 April 2008 00:34, Christopher Sawtell wrote: These two _might_ be able to help http://autotrace.sourceforge.net/ http://www.pstoedit.net/pstoedit Many more using Google gpl free raster to vector On 4/17/08, Wesley Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone seen any such program? I'm looking for something to convert schematics/outline plans scanned in jpgs I've found on the Internet to dwg files that I can assign dimensions to in a CAD program, and thus get the computer to do all the hard work of dimensioning and scaling for me. -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: FOSS/Linux jpg to dwg converter
On Friday 18 April 2008 12:36, Andrew Errington wrote: On Fri, April 18, 2008 06:15, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: On Fri 18 Apr 2008 00:34:28 NZST +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: Many more using Google gpl free raster to vector Having the schematic in vector format is one thing. Do you also want it in a format suitable for a schematic editor? That's probably a no-hoper. Might not be quite so bad. KiCad (for example) is a free, open-source schematic capture and PCB layout tool. I'm not sure of the documentation for the schematic file format, but here's something: http://stawoo.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=ecld:kicad:schematic The tricky part would be getting the raster-to-vector software to recognise the difference between a bunch of lines joining the nodes and the lines that make up a component symbol. When the jgp is describing a 3d part, it gets hairy ... real hairy. IMHO it would be easier to print the original JPG and use KiCad to draw the schematic again from scratch. All I need, since the jpgs I'm talking about describe boats' lines, is to get the CAD I decide to use, to place the lines along the defined axes at the defined points - eg, one set of lines I'm playing with, the Spray, has its waterline and station points at 6 inch to 2 foot distances. It's impossible with the minimal amount of information a jpg file stores, to derive that from the jpg file itself - I would need to add it using the CAD program itself. What i want is to be able to turn the jpg into a set of lines in a CAD file that I can take and use as necessary. But thanks Wesley Parish A -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
FOSS/Linux jpg to dwg converter
Has anyone seen any such program? I'm looking for something to convert schematics/outline plans scanned in jpgs I've found on the Internet to dwg files that I can assign dimensions to in a CAD program, and thus get the computer to do all the hard work of dimensioning and scaling for me. Thanks Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: DMCA now law in NZ
_I_ know what copyright covers - but reading some of the weird cases in the States about the RIAA for example, and knowing that the RIAA (and the MPAA) is the source of much of what passes for copyright law these days - much as the big computer companies in the States are the source of what passes for patent law these days, I would not put it past people to attempt to game the system in that way. The system is built to be gamed. Wesley Parish On Thursday 10 April 2008 10:26, Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, April 9, 2008 9:14 pm, Wesley Parish wrote: And what happens if I write a story where that happens, and decide that the government has infringed my copyright by enacting a fictitious happening in real life? Without receiving a license from the author to do that a la a movie adaption agreement? You can't reason with some people, can you? Some people have some weird odeas on what copyright covers! -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: DMCA now law in NZ
And what happens if I write a story where that happens, and decide that the government has infringed my copyright by enacting a fictitious happening in real life? Without receiving a license from the author to do that a la a movie adaption agreement? You can't reason with some people, can you? Wesley Parish On Wednesday 09 April 2008 11:26, Douglas Royds wrote: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5objectid=10502960 The Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Bill ... introduces an offence, carrying a sentence of a maximum fine of $150,000 or up to five years imprisonment, or both, for commercial dealings in devices, services or information designed to circumvent technological protection measures Five years! Get some perspective, people. The word commercial has interesting implications for open source, though. http://blogs.nzherald.co.nz/blog/griffins-tech-blog/2008/4/9/format45shifti ng-legal-audio-anyway/?c_id=5 As internetNZ points out: We believe that if a consumer has legally purchased a licence to the rights to a copyrighted work, they should be able to store it any format they like, so long as it remains for their personal use ... the Act enshrines a notice and takedown system to deal with alleged copyright violations. This means a copyright holder can contact an ISP and request they remove from their servers, content they believe is breaching their copyright. They believe. If someone doesn't like what you've put up, or if there is any dispute, your ISP must take it down. It's just gone. === 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. === -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Linux kiosk PCs?
Just found this on JWZ's website: http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/src/kiosk/ And thought, if there's anyone who wants or needs to set up a diskless Linux kiosk network, this appears to be a useful site. Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
current status of Linux iso repository
This is the current ls -ailR. Might I suggest that it mightn't be a bad idea to suggest to various schools in the city, etc, that if they want quality freely-redistributable software for classes and general use, that they make use of our iso repository? Wesley Parish ./linuxisos/: total 4761716 2 drwxrwsrwt 46 root lnxdisk 4096 Mar 31 16:00 ./ 277441 drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 Oct 18 06:12 ../ 2064385 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 23 07:04 ArchLinux/ 9289729 drwxr-sr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 30 02:44 BG-Rescue/ 13713409 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Nov 13 06:35 Books/ 1130497 drwxr-sr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Mar 31 14:55 CentOS/ 15007745 drwxr-sr-x 2 root lnxdisk 4096 Mar 31 15:16 Clonezilla/ 5226497 drwxr-sr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Nov 13 10:15 Debian/ 2850818 drwxrwsr-x 2 nn lnxdisk 4096 Feb 4 13:04 DesktopBSD/ 4227073 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 20 14:01 DreamLinux/ 2768897 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 20 13:51 DSL/ 278529 -rw-r--r-- 1 nn lnxdisk 711131136 Dec 11 01:32 elive-gem-1.0-iso 2080769 drwxrwsr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Dec 11 03:21 Fedora/ 2850817 drwxrwsr-x 2 nn lnxdisk 4096 Feb 4 14:35 FreeBSD/ 10715137 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 20 14:13 GeexboX/ 327681 drwxr-sr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 30 03:20 Gentoo/ 4046849 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 20 14:03 GoboLinux/ 4194305 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 20 14:21 Gparted/ 11632641 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 20 14:20 HURD/ 9371649 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Dec 4 01:38 IPCop/ 4325377 drwxrwsr-x 2 nn lnxdisk 4096 Nov 13 05:55 KDE-Four-Live/ 11649025 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 20 20:02 Kernels/ 11681793 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 20 13:55 Knoppix/ 11 drwx-w 2 root lnxdisk 16384 Oct 18 06:01 lost+found/ 540673 -rwxr--r-- 1 nobody lnxdisk 4159897600 Oct 13 21:07 LXF-DVD-96.iso* 9388033 drwxrwxr-x 2 root lnxdisk 4096 Nov 13 08:54 mandriva2008/ 12599297 drwxr-sr-x 2 nn lnxdisk 4096 Dec 11 03:14 Mint/ 5783553 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 20 14:19 OLPC/ 7618561 drwxrwsr-x 2 nn lnxdisk 4096 Mar 31 15:23 OpenBSD/ 7405569 drwxr-sr-x 2 root lnxdisk 4096 Dec 4 02:31 OpenDisk/ 2244609 drwxr-sr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Nov 13 07:56 openSUSE/ 5586945 drwxr-sr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Mar 31 15:06 PC-BSD/ 13615105 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 20 12:09 PCLinuxOS/ 13631489 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 20 14:15 pfSense/ 491521 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 20 14:21 Plan9/ 1064961 drwxr-xr-x 4 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Dec 11 02:29 Puppy/ 1081345 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Feb 4 13:28 Sabayon/ 6930433 drwxr-sr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Dec 11 01:55 Slackware/ 6160385 drwxrwsr-x 2 nn lnxdisk 4096 Nov 13 05:14 Slax/ 14581761 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 20 14:22 SMEserver/ 4145153 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 20 14:17 SourceMage/ 7733249 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 23 16:19 Syllable/ 4161537 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Mar 31 15:25 SystemRescueCD/ 1327105 drwx--S--- 4 nn lnxdisk 4096 Oct 30 02:45 .Trash-500/ 10059777 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Nov 3 23:13 TU-DOS/ 12894209 drwxr-sr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Dec 4 02:31 Ubuntu/ 6455297 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 20 14:05 Voyage/ 8863745 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 20 14:40 Zenwalk/ ./linuxisos/ArchLinux: total 536376 2064385 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 23 07:04 ./ 2 drwxrwsrwt 46 root lnxdisk 4096 Mar 31 16:00 ../ 2064387 -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nogroup 548694016 Sep 30 2007 Archlinux-i686-2007.08.1-Dont-Panic.current.iso 2064386 -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nogroup82 Oct 23 07:04 Archlinux-i686-2007.08.1-Dont-Panic.current.iso.md5 ./linuxisos/BG-Rescue: total 2896 9289729 drwxr-sr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk4096 Oct 30 02:44 ./ 2 drwxrwsrwt 46 root lnxdisk4096 Mar 31 16:00 ../ 9289730 -rwxr--r-- 1 nobody lnxdisk 2949120 Oct 22 23:15 BG-rescue-0.4.1.img* 9289731 -rwxr--r-- 1 nobody lnxdisk 54 Oct 21 21:41 BG-rescue-0.4.1.img.md5* ./linuxisos/Books: total 123760 13713409 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Nov 13 06:35 ./ 2 drwxrwsrwt 46 root lnxdisk 4096 Mar 31 16:00 ../ 13713414 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4083875 Nov 13 06:31 013047116X_pdf.zip 13713416 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2651136 Nov 13 06:34 0131407333.pdf 13713417 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6179937 Nov 13 06:35 0131408828.pdf 13713415 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root15040718 Nov 13 06:31 0131423436_pdf.zip 13713418 -rw-r--r-- 1 root
Re: DNS poisoning
Because the SSL certificates I kept getting while attempting to access paradise.net.nz on a LAN hosted by another ISP, were either yahoo or google. And when I clicked on them to try to get through - purely out of frustration - the sites I was sent to _were_ yahoo or google sites. Either that or the capacities of the router we are using are sadly overestimated and it runs out of cache (or something) whenever I tried to access another NZ ISP's webmail through it. Or perhaps it is a function of the vast overload that the NNet internet connection has had on the 18th-20th and the 25th. Gordon Taylor of the NNet thinks the wifi was cracked ... anyway, NNet's down to dialup rates now. Wesley Parish On Tuesday 25 March 2008 15:42, Nick Rout wrote: Here (on an orcon connection) paradise.net.nz comes up fine as does the webmail client when i click on the mail icon. what makes you think it is dns poisoning? what ip address was www.paradise.net.nz resolving to? Here it is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ host www.paradise.net.nz www.paradise.net.nz has address 203.96.152.127 (and without www. it is the same) On Tue, March 25, 2008 1:54 pm, Wesley Parish wrote: Here I am, at the NN room, trying to do something with my Paradise.net webmail, and I keep getting SSL certificates for yahoo and google. Is anybody else having similar problems with what seems to be a case of DNS poisoning? For what it's worth, I eventually got my Paradise.net webmail operational again by searching google for paradise.net.nz, and no, I am not impressed with either google or yahoo. Wesley Parish Sharpened hands are happy hands. Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot! I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
DNS poisoning
Here I am, at the NN room, trying to do something with my Paradise.net webmail, and I keep getting SSL certificates for yahoo and google. Is anybody else having similar problems with what seems to be a case of DNS poisoning? For what it's worth, I eventually got my Paradise.net webmail operational again by searching google for paradise.net.nz, and no, I am not impressed with either google or yahoo. Wesley Parish Sharpened hands are happy hands. Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot! I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
Re: The case for and against OOXML
On Thursday 13 March 2008 12:53, david merriman wrote: There's a couple of articles in the latest Computerworld NZ magazine, where Brett Roberts from Microsoft and Don Christie from NZOSS discuss the OOXML document format. Brett Roberts, for OOXML: http://tinyurl.com/2uxebu Don Christie, against OOXML: http://tinyurl.com/2sxpt3 The articles themselves are interesting, but what I found fascinating was the difference in writing styles between the two protagonists (assuming they wrote the responses themselves). Brett Roberts used rather more vague, PR-style prose: The OOXML specification empowers developers to create a host of new innovations for customers. whereas Don Christie was more straight-forward in his responses: [If OOXML is rejected as a global standard, what will it mean for businesses and the public?] Nothing much. I guess it points to the different backgrounds and environments the two come from. Brett probably came from a marketing background, and Don probably was (or still is) a programmer or some such. I could be (read: probably am) wrong. From discussing OOXML (amongst other matters) with the likes of Brian Jones and Jason Matusow, this vague PR-speak seems to be the default amongst 'Softies, except when there is a serious technical issue, when they become as down-to-earth and straightforward as one could wish. (Mind you, when IBM broke up with Microsoft in the early nineties and brought IBM OS/2 on its ownsome, when I tried to discuss OS/2 with them, I found their language was also vague and unconvincing. I think its endemic with big companies.) When you're not speaking to people and to one's superiors at one and the same time, you can just speak. Just my 0.02c Wesley Parish I thought it was interesting, anyway :) David -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Caledonian (Linux Repository) at St Albans with inoperative network
Hi. Caledonian - the Linux repository machine at St Albans NN - has a serious disfunctional network connection. It could be that the network cable is bad, though I've tested it with another cable and had exactly the same results. So it may be the network card, though it was picked up the last time I checked - a fortnight ago. Any clues? Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: Thai meal before meeting
Could someone make sure that they arrive at the Hall before the Wu Tao people leave? I have to be at Civil Defense training tonight, and so I can't be around to open the door. Thanks Wesley Parish Quoting Ross Drummond [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A group of us will be having a meal before tonight's meeting at a Thai restaurant just around the corner from the St Albans Community Centre. If you want to join us you are welcome. Sema's Thai Cuisine 76 Edgeware Road Cnr. Sherbourne Street Edgeware Road St Albans Christchurch A 6:00 start to the meal allows sufficient time without being rushed to finish before the meeting. http://www.zoomin.co.nz/?search/indextype=ADDRESSq=76_Edgeware_Road/St_Albans/Christchurch Cheers Ross Drummond Sharpened hands are happy hands. Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot! I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
Re: [FreeCulture] linux distro archive Firewire?
On Saturday 23 February 2008 09:52, Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, February 22, 2008 11:43 pm, Christopher Sawtell wrote: On 2/22/08, Raffael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher Sawtell wrote: Sorry, forgot to mention that the room is open on Saturday afternoon, but I will not be there. I guess I will try it tomorrow then and see how many dvd's I can burn :-) Please note that Afternoon is defined as between 11:00am and 03:00pm. You will need to take your own disks and be prepared to pay for your computer time at the rate of $2.00 per hour. This conversation is silly. No one wants to get 80G via DVD, You and I and David control the funds and you asked me about spending money for a USB2 card ages ago and I approved it. Its not a fortune, its beneficial in spreading FLOSS and I don't see the eed to piss about any longer. I will go to DSE and get one and take it to St Albans. Will someone boot me out if I turn up with a screwdriver and wrist strap? Good, I've been waiting for this for some time - my session at St Albans is Tuesday 1-3pm, and they're used to my friends from CLUG turning up every now and then. Wesley Parish Should I leave images of the stuff below somewhere? Labelled and on the shelf above the Caledonian computer. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Fwd: Document Freedom Day
Just thought you might like to see this. Wesley Parish -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Document Freedom Day Date: Thursday 21 February 2008 06:20 From: Matija Šuklje [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I suppose most of you already know about this, but I on FSFE [Free Software Freedom Europe] I found this nice page/project: http://www.documentfreedom.org/ Cheers, Matija -- gsm: +386 41 849 552 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://matija.suklje.name aim: hookofsilver icq: 110183360 jabber/g-talk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] yahoo: matija_suklje --- -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: Tomorrow night at St Alban's
I won't be able to be there - I've got a training session with Civil Defense starting at 7 and finishing at 9. I can turn up afterwards and close the place up. But you'll need to get it open yourselves. Sorry Wesley Parish On Monday 11 February 2008 18:40, yuri wrote: Hi all, Some housekeeping about tomorrow night. 1) Can I assume projector will be there? I'm not sure who organises that. 2) What time is the earliest that I will have access to the venue for setting up etc? 3) Have folks told their Linux-curious friends and clients about this talk? Thanks Yuri -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: Cross-compiling hosted on Linux
The short of it is it is possible to cross-compile on linux using gcc, though it depends on whether or not the gcc on your Linux is compiled to permit cross-compiling. The long of it is I don't know anything about MacOSX's development environment, nor about how well gcc is integrated into it. And I don't know if MacOSX is one of the supported targets in gcc, though I suspect it is. The non-X Window System environment I am passingly familiar with - Win32 - requires its own libraries and headers, and I use the version known as MinGW instead of Cygwin; I assume there is something comparable for MacOSX? Eg, libraries for the various Macintosh operating system environments, Cocoa, etc? I do know gcc includes Objective C - *.m files - but I have never used gcc's Objective C myself, and would not know about its support for MacOSX. Likewise I don't know if Apple has made available a MacOSX cross-compiling development environment for Linux. Just my 0.02c Wesley Parish On Friday 08 February 2008 19:12, A Thomas wrote: Hello, Short version: I have the source for a cross-platform program. It comes with a make file for Linux, and the files for Xcode, (for compiling on Mac and Linux respectively). I want to compile the program for Mac OS X, from Linux. Is this possible? I need a .app file, not just an executable. Long version: I use Linux at home (duh), and the school I go to uses Mac OS X (some Intel, some PPC), and I want to be able to use this program at the school, but it would be a pain to compile it on the school computers (mainly because I would have to puzzle out Xcode), also if I need a new feature or bug fix in a new version, I would have to go through this all again. So if I could compile this program for Mac, from Linux, that would save a lot of time. Thanks, Aidan -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Linux and BSD distros at St Albans NN
These are the distros as of today (all the books in the book section are freely redistributble - some are from Bruce Perens' Open Source series) : /var/linuxisos: total 8960116 2 drwxrwsrwt 45 root lnxdisk 4096 Feb 4 14:34 ./ 277441 drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 Oct 18 06:12 ../ 2064385 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 23 07:04 ArchLinux/ 9289729 drwxr-sr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 30 02:44 BG-Rescue/ 13713409 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Nov 13 06:35 Books/ 1130497 drwxr-sr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 30 03:04 CentOS/ 5226497 drwxr-sr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Nov 13 10:15 Debian/ 2850818 drwxrwsr-x 2 nn lnxdisk 4096 Feb 4 13:04 DesktopBSD/ 4227073 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 20 14:01 DreamLinux/ 2768897 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 20 13:51 DSL/ 278529 -rw-r--r-- 1 nn lnxdisk 711131136 Dec 11 01:32 elive-gem-1.0-iso 2080769 drwxrwsr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Dec 11 03:21 Fedora/ 2850817 drwxrwsr-x 2 nn lnxdisk 4096 Feb 4 14:35 FreeBSD/ 10715137 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 20 14:13 GeexboX/ 327681 drwxr-sr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 30 03:20 Gentoo/ 4046849 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 20 14:03 GoboLinux/ 4194305 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 20 14:21 Gparted/ 11632641 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 20 14:20 HURD/ 9371649 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Dec 4 01:38 IPCop/ 4325377 drwxrwsr-x 2 nn lnxdisk 4096 Nov 13 05:55 KDE-Four-Live/ 11649025 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 20 20:02 Kernels/ 11681793 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 20 13:55 Knoppix/ 11 drwx-w 2 root lnxdisk 16384 Oct 18 06:01 lost+found/ 1064968 -rwxr--r-- 1 nobody lnxdisk 4294967295 Nov 6 17:07 lxf99.iso* 540673 -rwxr--r-- 1 nobody lnxdisk 4159897600 Oct 13 21:07 LXF-DVD-96.iso* 9388033 drwxrwxr-x 2 root lnxdisk 4096 Nov 13 08:54 mandriva2008/ 12599297 drwxr-sr-x 2 nn lnxdisk 4096 Dec 11 03:14 Mint/ 5783553 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 20 14:19 OLPC/ 7618561 drwxrwsr-x 2 nn lnxdisk 4096 Nov 13 05:49 OpenBSD/ 7405569 drwxr-sr-x 2 root lnxdisk 4096 Dec 4 02:31 OpenDisk/ 2244609 drwxr-sr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Nov 13 07:56 openSUSE/ 5586945 drwxr-sr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Dec 4 02:11 PC-BSD/ 13615105 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 20 12:09 PCLinuxOS/ 13631489 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 20 14:15 pfSense/ 491521 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 20 14:21 Plan9/ 1064961 drwxr-xr-x 4 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Dec 11 02:29 Puppy/ 1081345 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Feb 4 13:28 Sabayon/ 6930433 drwxr-sr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Dec 11 01:55 Slackware/ 6160385 drwxrwsr-x 2 nn lnxdisk 4096 Nov 13 05:14 Slax/ 14581761 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 20 14:22 SMEserver/ 4145153 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 20 14:17 SourceMage/ 7733249 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 23 16:19 Syllable/ 4161537 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 20 13:59 SystemRescueCD/ 1327105 drwx--S--- 4 nn lnxdisk 4096 Oct 30 02:45 .Trash-500/ 10059777 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Nov 3 23:13 TU-DOS/ 12894209 drwxr-sr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Dec 4 02:31 Ubuntu/ 6455297 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 20 14:05 Voyage/ 8863745 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 20 14:40 Zenwalk/ /var/linuxisos/ArchLinux: total 536376 2064385 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Oct 23 07:04 ./ 2 drwxrwsrwt 45 root lnxdisk 4096 Feb 4 14:34 ../ 2064387 -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nogroup 548694016 Sep 30 18:19 Archlinux-i686-2007.08.1-Dont-Panic.current.iso 2064386 -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nogroup82 Oct 23 07:04 Archlinux-i686-2007.08.1-Dont-Panic.current.iso.md5 /var/linuxisos/BG-Rescue: total 2896 9289729 drwxr-sr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk4096 Oct 30 02:44 ./ 2 drwxrwsrwt 45 root lnxdisk4096 Feb 4 14:34 ../ 9289730 -rwxr--r-- 1 nobody lnxdisk 2949120 Oct 22 23:15 BG-rescue-0.4.1.img* 9289731 -rwxr--r-- 1 nobody lnxdisk 54 Oct 21 21:41 BG-rescue-0.4.1.img.md5* /var/linuxisos/Books: total 123760 13713409 drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody lnxdisk 4096 Nov 13 06:35 ./ 2 drwxrwsrwt 45 root lnxdisk 4096 Feb 4 14:34 ../ 13713414 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4083875 Nov 13 06:31 013047116X_pdf.zip 13713416 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2651136 Nov 13 06:34 0131407333.pdf 13713417 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6179937 Nov 13 06:35 0131408828.pdf 13713415 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root15040718 Nov 13 06:31 0131423436_pdf.zip 13713418 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3383066 Nov 13 06:35 013143697X_book.pdf 13713419 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4812800 Nov 13 06:35
Fwd: [Zippy the Pinhead] Penguin Awareness Day, 1/19/2008, 12:00 am
Worth remembering! - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:52:18 + From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Zippy the Pinhead] Penguin Awareness Day, 1/19/2008, 12:00 am To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reminder from: zippythepinhead Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/zippythepinhead/cal Penguin Awareness Day Saturday January 19, 2008 All Day (This event repeats every year.) All Rights Reserved Copyright © 2008 Yahoo! Inc. http://www.yahoo.com Privacy Policy: http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us Terms of Service: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ - End forwarded message - Sharpened hands are happy hands. Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot! I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
Re: laptop recommendations
Quoting Dave G [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chris Hellyar wrote: Insist on seeing it boot either a SystemRescueCD or Knoppix before parting with your hard won cash if buying privately. snip A a question for Dave G, what sort of spec are you looking for? I've snip Cheers, Chris H. Chris it doesn't have to be all that flash at all as I want it as a bit of a knock around but I need to running some $windoze only mapping software GPS using VMware so I probably need 500mb min. ram and better than 1-1.5 gig processor I guess?? GIS and GPS? I suspect, running on top of Windows and in a virtual machine, a mere 516MB isn't going to cut it. Get at least 1GB - GIS is in that specialized Graphics/CAD region where the more memory you have, the happier you will be. Just my - illegal now in NZ currency - 0.02c worth! Wesley Parish -- cheersDave G Mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == Thunderbird Mail 2.0.0.6 - Gnome 2.20.0 Ubuntu Linux 7.10- Kernel 2.6.22-14-generic == Sharpened hands are happy hands. Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot! I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
distros and laptops
[not to start any 'distro-wars' but] Can anyone recommend any particular distro as being particularly laptop-friendly? Ie, plug-n-play installation on most laptops, etc? Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: Linux coverage on Stuff
Take it from me, you're absolutely right. I once threatened the Editor to take the Press to the Press Council over their one-sided approach to a certain conflict, and since he paid no attention, I did. Since the Press Council upheld his absurd argument that devoting 85 percent of the coverage to one group on one side of a complex conflict, was fair coverage, I've kind-of written them off - except for occasional flashes of briliance like that recent article about Olver Sacks, author of The man who mistook his wife for a hat, etc. I think the graceless degradation of quality occured after the Fairfax buy-out. Just my 0.02c Wesley Parish On Tuesday 11 December 2007 13:44, stringer wrote: Don't believe everything you read in the paper - its often wrong - I should know!! The Press used to be good paper once - not any more, in my opinion. At 12:59 11/12/07 +1300, you wrote: Read it in The Press this morning. Made my blood boil. Must.calmdown.before.emailing.Dave Thompson! On Tue, December 11, 2007 12:39 pm, Michael Fincham wrote: http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4319987a11275.html What do we make of this one? ;) -- -Michael Fincham Unleash Technology Solutions www.unleash.co.nz Phone: 0800 750 250 -- Nick Rout D J H STRINGER Barrister For all your legal work; P O Box 1386 CHRISTCHURCH NEW ZEALAND Phone 64 - 3 - 366 1152 FAX 64 - 3 - 366 1151 -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Any Sages present?
Or, to be closer to the truth, anyone making use of Sage: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071206145213.htm It sounds interesting. Any academic from the U of Canterbury or Lincoln U making use of it? Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: Required - 1 * Round To It - USB 2 Card
I'm guaranteed to be there on Tuesday afternoon. You could drop it off in an anti-static bag and tell Alison at the front desk it's for the Linux box in the Neighbourhood Net room. Wesley Parish On Wednesday 05 December 2007 12:05, Don Gould wrote: Yes Ross, there was a USB 1 card in the box that wasn't being used. Someone gave it to me to use in the CIA. As it happens, it's still sitting there somewhere. I also have a USB2 card sitting in a machine down there doing nothing. I'm happy to dig the card out of the machine and put it in the St Albans machine (or give it to who ever to put in the machine), I just haven't 'got round to it'. I might get my skates on as there seems to be some list demand for it. Cheers Don Ross Drummond wrote: On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:07, Christopher Sawtell wrote: It has gone through my mind to suggest that we should buy a USB-2.x one. I bought one for myself from DSE a few seeks ago, it cost me $39.98. I have been reminded that people who have wholesaler accounts can get things cheaper. Volunteer? There was a pci usb card in the clugs box of bits in the store cupboard. Not sure if it is usb2, but worth a check. Cheers Ross Drummond -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
XML Editors?
Does anyone have any war stories about Linux FOSS XML editors? (I'm teaching myself XML, and need a validating XML editor for Linux.) Furthermore, this would make a good topic for next year's CLUG meetings. Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: XML Editors?
Not that I'm aware of. The purpose of xml, as far as I know, is to make formatting a human-editable characteristic of whatever text it is used on. Or at least, that's one of its major purposes - another being to simplify the development of filters to edit text automatically and as part of a workflow. My 0.02c - no longer legal tender ... ;) Wesley Parish On Tuesday 04 December 2007 13:44, Nick Rout wrote: On Tue, December 4, 2007 12:50 pm, Zane Gilmore wrote: Any old text editor should do. I've found kate to do at least syntax highlighting. snip Isn't it the case that the purpose of xml is to be machine readable and writable, but its not really for human writing reading - except in the simplest of cases? -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: OT: Paradise.net shooting itself in the foot
Well, for what it's worth, it is used, by some - I got really pissed off at some 419er back in 2003, and attempted to spoof the email header so the 419er wouldn't get the idea that my email was active; I put myself somewhere in Argentina. It got bounced, with a comment that the alleged header and the actual address didn't match. So it's apparently possible; but if so, it would be greatly appreciated if it was one more obstacle for spam-phishers ... Wesley Parish On Wednesday 21 November 2007 10:07, Steve Holdoway wrote: On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:53:52 +1300 Jim Cheetham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 20, 2007 10:52 PM, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All headers bar the last one can be extremely simply faked, so they are pretty useless to use to identify the email's provenance. Because of this, some ISPs are clamping down on this. The Sender Policy Framework ( eg http://www.openspf.org/ ) is an attempt to cut down on spam. This defines where an email has to be sent from to be treated as valid. Surely SPF doesn't cut down on spam, it merely cuts down on address spoofing? Admittedly a lot of spam uses spoofed addresses at the moment ... but there's not a direct relationship _per se_ between an address-spoofed message and a spam message ... -jim OK, call it a beneficial side effect if you want. In real world terms it does help. Steve -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: Somewhat OT - OS-less Boxen... maybe less OT?
Well, we certainly could use a games-centric version of Fedora 8 at the St Albans NN - advertise it right, and word would definitely get around ... ! ;) Wesley Parish On Tuesday 20 November 2007 16:24, Steve Holdoway wrote: Maybe there's an opportunity here to extend the services offered by the St. Albans gang??? I know there's a games-centric version of Fedora 8 just come out ( sorry, couldn't get away with downloading *that* one at work (: ), and with Christmas around the corner. Christopher/Wesley/Edwin + any others who I've unintentionally left out... wocher rekkon?? Steve. On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:55:22 +1300 (NZDT) Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Computer Broker will sometimes discount their ex lease boxes if you don't want the OS, and many of them come in OS and OSless options straight off the floor. Even the ones without an OS seem to have a license sticker, which presumably means you can install the licensed OS, although i note the opinion of someone on NZLUG who had read the licence who said that after the second owner, the license was no longer transferable (ie the third owner had to buy another licence). Anyway there is more than one MS license and I guess you need to read the actual one that pertains to the actual machine. In buying ex-lease gear I look at the hardware price in the knowledge that I don't give a rats thingamy what version of windows i can run on it. If the vendor will take a few dollars less without the OS on board, thats cool, but I look first and foremost at whether the hardware is worth the price. One time the broker did discount me a box with no OS. The guy was going to reformat the hard drive to remove whatever abomination had been installed on it, and I said I'm in a bit of a hurry, theres no way I am going to run that piece of crap, I promise I'll take it off as soon as I get home He grinned and handed me the box (and of course I kept my word, its now running mythtv). Nick On Tue, November 20, 2007 3:30 pm, Edwin F wrote: There was a discussion on the NZLUG recently about the availability of OS-less ex-lease boxen - apparently, most of them suffer from the MS tax due to their old licenses being no longer transferrable, or something to that effect. I thought I would throw it out there that I am in the process of starting a small ex-lease thing, and I would gladly supply cheap, OS-less boxen if the demand is there, and perhaps somebody would like to contact existing ex-lease sellers around Christchurch about supplying OS-less boxen for a lower price and compile a Linux-friendly supplier list on the CLUG wiki? Hope nobody minds, but... == blatant plug time == I have a bunch of these boxen, currently: Intel Celeron 2.0GHz 512MB DDR RAM 40GB HDD Broadcom GigE CD-ROM Drive Floppy Drive (remember those? -- neither do I) They came with 17 CRTs, too, so those can be had providing it is being picked up or the extra shipping is paid (for... uh... across town) These I can supply for ~$200 each, give or take. == blatant plug time ends == Thoughts? Cheers, Edwin. -- Nick Rout -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
OT: Paradise.net shooting itself in the foot
This isn't the first day I've received an email purporting to be from Paradise.net requiring me to verify my webmail/email details to prevent said account from being closed down. I wish they'd get their act together. Permitting this sort of infringement makes them look very, very bad. Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: OT: Paradise.net shooting itself in the foot
What I'm expecting them to have is some filter that looks at the purported address of the sender and at the actual history of the email, and dumps it if they are incompatible; I expect them to protect their own identity and thus their reputation even more than some other poor sod's, because their business lives or dies by their reputation. By not doing this, they are in fact permitting infringement of what is called goodwill, and goodwill isn't something to lightly throw away. Wesley Parish On Tuesday 20 November 2007 00:36, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: On Mon 19 Nov 2007 20:57:52 NZDT +1300, Wesley Parish wrote: This isn't the first day I've received an email purporting to be from Paradise.net requiring me to verify my webmail/email details to prevent said account from being closed down. Yeah, I've been getting that hogwash too. The text isn't even a laugh ... just enter your username and password here. Yawn. And Telstraclear have a big warning up someplace. I wish they'd get their act together. Permitting this sort of infringement makes them look very, very bad. Why do you assume they permit it? The one I looked at came from optusnet in Oz. They could make an effort to have that account shut down, but more likely they wouldn't be able to keep up. The only thing they could do is train their filters better. Other than that, it's easy to impersonate someone, spammers have been doing it for years. Volker -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: === Meeting Tuesday 13 November 2007 - That's Tomorrow! ===
On Monday 12 November 2007 11:23, Ross Drummond wrote: On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:35, Christopher Sawtell wrote: The November meeting is tomorrow Tuesday 13 November 2007. I will be having a pre meeting meal at Sema's Thai Cuisine around the corner from the St Albans Community centre. Sema's Thai Cuisine 76 Edgeware Road Cnr. Sherbourne Street Edgeware Road St Albans Christchurch It is located in a mini mall with a post shop on the the corner. http://www.zoomin.co.nz/?search/indextype=ADDRESSq=76_Edgeware_Road/St_Al bans/Christchurch I will arrive a little after 6PM. Please feel free to join me. The Thai Green Curry is excellent and the place has BYO licence for those that want something to accompany their meal. Sounds good to me! The Distro Archive is now more or less functional. If you want a CD or DVD just ask. I have downloaded the Mandriva 2008.0 i586 DVD iso and will bring it on my laptop for adding to the archive and burning discs for those that want it. I've burned three cds - the Free Mandriva 2k8 - so I can verify the cdburning part works - I used GnomeBaker, as K3B didn't seem to want to burn isos, though I might've been ignorant of some finer point or other ... ;) My attempt to copy a DVD failed because the DVD I had was already coaster material, so I can't say yea or nay on the DVD aspect. Please bring your own cds or DVDs, as I don't have the key for the office, where the cds are kept. Wesley Parish Cheers Ross Drummond -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: Linux Group
On Friday 02 November 2007 13:43, Mal R Ellis wrote: Was wondering whereabouts the Linux group has it's shop for persons being able to get hold of some Fedora 7 Disks. I know it is over in St Albans somewhere 1047 Colombo St St Albans opposite a fish'n'chips shop; near Hardie Thompson Ltd., timber merchants It'll be open from 1pm to 3pm Saturday; not on Sunday; open 11am - 3pm Monday = Friday. I'll be there from 1 - 3 on Tuesday. Wesley Parish Thanks for help . Mal Ellis -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
An abandonware request
Does anyone have, or know someone who has, an unused copy of Lotus Improv? (Even the manuals would be useful.) I'm starting up my OfficeMiniatures project again, after a hiatus of over a year, and want to make a spreadsheet better than a mere 1-2-3/Excel clone. Thanks Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: Is this the list?
I'll pick it up this Tuesday. Wesley Parish On Friday 26 October 2007 21:22, Steve Holdoway wrote: Well, I offered, and it's still sitting on my desk, waiting for someone to pick it up (: Steve. On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:07:23 +1300 Wesley Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, could someone tell me what has happened with the DVD burner that CLUG was going to buy for Caledonian, the Linux PC at the St Albans NNet? I'd like to get it up and running before the next meeting, thanks. And, FWIW, I've got the new /var/linuxisos disk owned by the group lnxdisk and it's supposed to be writable by the user nn, which is also part of the group lnxdisk, but I wasn't able to write anything on it. drwxrwxr-x root lnxdisk What should I have done? Wesley Parish On Friday 26 October 2007 08:49, Christopher Sawtell wrote: On 10/25/07, Don Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://clug.net.nz/index.php/LinuxDistributions Chris, Is this the list of distros that are on the St Albans server? No, there are more. I have had a series of domestic health problems ( Lynda has just had 4 rotten teeth out and then the bleeding didn't stop we had to get her into the Dental Dept. at the hospital. So that blew away my visit to St. Albans on Tuesday. Then to cap it all off, my laptop has thrown a seriously intermittent heat sensitive sickie. Fortunately just a few days before the guarantee period runs out. However, I have a put all the Distros on my lappie and an external drive. I intend to get them all over there asap, where asap is not fully defined. :-) If not, is PC Linux on there? After all of that, Yes PCLinuxOS is in the set of Distros which will be on the machine. Very nice too if my half hour of playing is anything to go by. Please find the list of Distro files in the attachment. There may be a few more, because I don't know what Wesley had done. -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people. -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: Is this the list?
Quoting Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 10/27/07, Wesley Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll pick it up this Tuesday. What time do you normally get to St.Albans? My time slot is from 1pm to 3pm in the afternoon - I intend to pick it up between 11.30am and 12.30pm. But it won't go in Caledonian until the session's finished - that way I won't be arguing with Caledonian and neglecting my customers at one and the same time. ;) Wesley Parish -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell Sharpened hands are happy hands. Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot! I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
Re: Is this the list?
BTW, could someone tell me what has happened with the DVD burner that CLUG was going to buy for Caledonian, the Linux PC at the St Albans NNet? I'd like to get it up and running before the next meeting, thanks. And, FWIW, I've got the new /var/linuxisos disk owned by the group lnxdisk and it's supposed to be writable by the user nn, which is also part of the group lnxdisk, but I wasn't able to write anything on it. drwxrwxr-x root lnxdisk What should I have done? Wesley Parish On Friday 26 October 2007 08:49, Christopher Sawtell wrote: On 10/25/07, Don Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://clug.net.nz/index.php/LinuxDistributions Chris, Is this the list of distros that are on the St Albans server? No, there are more. I have had a series of domestic health problems ( Lynda has just had 4 rotten teeth out and then the bleeding didn't stop we had to get her into the Dental Dept. at the hospital. So that blew away my visit to St. Albans on Tuesday. Then to cap it all off, my laptop has thrown a seriously intermittent heat sensitive sickie. Fortunately just a few days before the guarantee period runs out. However, I have a put all the Distros on my lappie and an external drive. I intend to get them all over there asap, where asap is not fully defined. :-) If not, is PC Linux on there? After all of that, Yes PCLinuxOS is in the set of Distros which will be on the machine. Very nice too if my half hour of playing is anything to go by. Please find the list of Distro files in the attachment. There may be a few more, because I don't know what Wesley had done. -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from Schoolboy Howlers - the collective wisdom of the foolish. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
