RE: OT: Laptop power supply

2010-05-28 Thread Maurice Butler
If it is a standard two wire brik one of the same voltage and at least the same amps will be fine. If the wire between the brick and the laptop is the only bit damage a person handy with a soldering iron would be able to sort it for you. After market relacements on trademe are about $90

big mail problem

2010-05-28 Thread Wesley Parish
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

Re: big mail problem

2010-05-28 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On 28 May 2010 20:27, Wesley Parish wes.par...@paradise.net.nz wrote: 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

Re: big mail problem

2010-05-28 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Wesley Parish wes.par...@paradise.net.nz wrote: Any help would be greatly appreciated. You might be more inclined to get help if you restricted your .sig to 3 lines or so, In the meantime I suggest you look at your mail server's logs and see if you can find out

Re: big mail problem

2010-05-28 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Fri 28 May 2010 20:27:08 NZST +1200, Wesley Parish wrote: 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

Kmail not loading

2010-05-28 Thread dave
I have an on going issue with kmail. it's got to the point of divorce if I don't get it sorted :( When did this first occur sometime ago (yes I'm a slack bugger) I had an updates done then bang! Since then I've had other updates and upgrade to Kubuntu 10.04. This week with violence looming and

Re: Kmail not loading

2010-05-28 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Sat 29 May 2010 11:06:47 NZST +1200, dave wrote: OS starts and I've signed in load kmail once loaded it tries to connect to the server. at some point it crashes! sig 6 pid whatever it was Signal 6 is abort, something tells kmail to abort. Could also be a network issue. And is the crash

Re: Kmail not loading

2010-05-28 Thread dave
Thanks for the reply. Can advise that with those threats of discord in my domestic life I've been able to avert them (well for the moment) I thought I'd just do it got nothing to loose and go and back up the /.kde/share/kmail/mail data to another location. Started kmail and it been up and

Re: Kmail not loading

2010-05-28 Thread Ross Drummond
On Saturday 29 May 2010, you wrote: On Sat 29 May 2010 11:06:47 NZST +1200, dave wrote: Series of posts reguarding where email is stored. I run kmail as my mail application. I choose whatever the default was for mail storage. My maildir is ~/.Mail Cheers Ross Drummond

Is there such a distro?

2010-05-28 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
Are there any desktop centered distros whose primary aim is to have as few surprises as possible for people who are already accustomed to Linux? So far all of the distros I have seen (old Knoppix, Red Hat, Linspire, Ubuntu, Fedora, Kubuntu, Slackware, Mandriva, Open Suse, Gentoo, Debian and a

Re: Is there such a distro?

2010-05-28 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On 29 May 2010 13:02, Ryan McCoskrie ryan.mccosk...@gmail.com wrote: Are there any desktop centered distros whose primary aim is to have as few surprises as possible for people who are already accustomed to Linux? So far all of the distros I have seen (old Knoppix, Red Hat, Linspire, Ubuntu,

Re: Is there such a distro?

2010-05-28 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 13:02 +1200, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: I just want a very generic distro. Whay do you mean? I'd've called most of those you mentioned 'generic', as opposed to - say - myth, voyage, etc. Are you after minimal, like a vanilla debian net install? Cheers, Steve -- Steve

Re: Is there such a distro?

2010-05-28 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
On Sat, 29 May 2010 13:44:11 you wrote: On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 13:02 +1200, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: I just want a very generic distro. Whay do you mean? I'd've called most of those you mentioned 'generic', as opposed to - say - myth, voyage, etc. A distro aiming at as few surprises as

Re: Is there such a distro?

2010-05-28 Thread chris
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 13:02 +1200, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: Are there any desktop centered distros whose primary aim is to have as few surprises as possible for people who are already accustomed to Linux? So far all of the distros I have seen (old Knoppix, Red Hat, Linspire, Ubuntu, Fedora,

Re: Is there such a distro?

2010-05-28 Thread chris
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 14:38 +1200, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: On Sat, 29 May 2010 13:44:11 you wrote: On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 13:02 +1200, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: I just want a very generic distro. Whay do you mean? I'd've called most of those you mentioned 'generic', as opposed to - say -

Re: Kmail not loading

2010-05-28 Thread dave
Yes I do too when i first started using it it was defaults all the way just add smtp pop server settings. But I've had a couple of crashes ( one being a case of deleting indexes and recreating them, two another case of index corruption and most recently this crashing). I've had kmail up and

Re: Is there such a distro?

2010-05-28 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On 29 May 2010 15:03 chris che...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 14:38 +1200, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: On Sat, 29 May 2010 13:44:11 you wrote: On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 13:02 +1200, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: I just want a very generic distro. Whay do you mean? I'd've called most of

Re: Is there such a distro?

2010-05-28 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Christopher Sawtell csawt...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 May 2010 15:03 chris che...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 14:38 +1200, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: On Sat, 29 May 2010 13:44:11 you wrote: On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 13:02 +1200, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: I

Re: Kmail not loading

2010-05-28 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 3:24 PM, dave dave.lil...@clear.net.nz wrote: Yes I do too when i first started using it it was defaults all the way just add smtp pop server settings. But I've had a couple of crashes ( one being a case of deleting indexes and recreating them, two another case of

Re: Is there such a distro?

2010-05-28 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On 29 May 2010 16:41, Nick Rout nick.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Christopher Sawtell csawt...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 May 2010 15:03 chris che...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 14:38 +1200, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: On Sat, 29 May 2010 13:44:11 you wrote:

Re: Is there such a distro?

2010-05-28 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Christopher Sawtell csawt...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 May 2010 16:41, Nick Rout nick.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Christopher Sawtell csawt...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 May 2010 15:03 chris che...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 2010-05-29

Re: Kmail not loading

2010-05-28 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On 29 May 2010 16:49, Nick Rout nick.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 3:24 PM, dave dave.lil...@clear.net.nz wrote: Yes I do too when i first started using it it was defaults all the way just add smtp pop server settings. But I've had a couple of crashes ( one being a case

Re: Kmail not loading

2010-05-28 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 16:49 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: And PLEASE don't set your reply-to when posting to the list! Properly configured list manager should handle that! Steve -- Steve Holdoway st...@greengecko.co.nz http://www.greengecko.co.nz MSN: st...@greengecko.co.nz Skype: sholdowa