On Sunday 10 March 2002 11:04 pm, Johnno wrote:
I am running postfix here and now that i have got it to where i want it..
I am now wanted to do virus scan of all incoming mail for the users i have
on the mail server...
You should really ask this question on the postfix list.
There are some
systems which are not
Microsoft and are perfectly capable of doing all the things that most people
need to do.
From: Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2002/03/10 Sun PM 10:23:21 GMT+12:00
To: Johnno [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Mail Virus Scanners
Belt
interesting features is very
good indeed at displaying non-latin character sets.
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell
that
you are usually much better off compiling new packages from the ground
up. This is particularly true if said rpm is not instrinsically part of
the distribution you have installed.
hth.
--
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell
Michael Pearce wrote:
Go to:-
http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-backends.html
and pick one from the list.
Can anyone suggest an affordable (cheap) scanner that just works without
to much hassel in setting up.
I am running RH7.1 with USB Fire-wire support enabled and working.
My current
of squid without delay anyway.
--
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell.
Chris Hellyar wrote:
Never fear...
The only detailed bit I'm going to be doing is the 'basic networking 101'
bit, which will hopefully give people enough knowledge to be dangerous..
disappearing into fireproof bomb shelter
Please could you take a mere moment to demonstrate Win9x tcp
correctly not yet.
--
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell.
Adrian Stacey wrote:
Well I tried to get the CD in but those floopy drives are too small ;)
http://www.toms.net/rb/
Works a treat!
think of anything more off the top of my head.
--
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell.
Mark Carey wrote:
My question for the list; Is there an app that takes input from a .png .eps etc and
gives me the text back in ascii form? Or even in a tex formatted file (crosses
fingers and hopes real hard)?
It depend to a huge extent how good the text image is and how many fonts
the ocr
say is what a waste of a C Class :(
Johnno
- Original Message -
From: Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Jeremy Bertenshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: gjw49 [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 11:38 AM
Subject: Re: MS / Open Source
Jeremy
Vik Olliver wrote:
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
Vik Olliver wrote:
Peanut, hmm that reminds me. Is anyone using micro-distributions? I'm
thinking of the kind of distro that'll install on a PDA or a truly
ancient 32MB HD.
http://www.lnx-bbc.org/
45MB
That's just the .iso disk image file
Mark Carey wrote:
How much does a 802.11 card and high gain antenna cost? (antenna reqd for increased
range?)
A lot of $$$.
More to the point is that in Christchurch there is a local by-law which
requires that you get planning permission to erect a transmitting
antenna of any kind, including
Gavin Treadgold wrote:
I've been contemplating setting up a proxy and a firewall for quite a while.
Would it be best to set them up on one machine, or separate the duties?
There are two, of many, distributions which do this very well on an old
'[345]86 or whatever.
http://www.smoothwall.org/
C Falconer wrote:
Gidday all... a random thought occured to me before.
I have a classroom of Mac Classics, with an old LCII as a server. They
speak appletalk over phonenet cable, and the server runs waterloo
Macjanet as a server OS. Theres a couple of appletalk laser printers
there too.
/cops.txt
file:///usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/ltpc.txt
On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 14:21, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
C Falconer wrote:
Gidday all... a random thought occured to me before.
I have a classroom of Mac Classics, with an old LCII as a server. They
speak appletalk over phonenet
Michael wrote:
'ello gurus,
I'm using an external 56k d-link modem. pppd asks wvdial to hook into
the internet when permitted traffic comes along. However, the
connection seems really slow, perhaps 0.7K, although I'm not sure how to
measure that on the linux box itself (which is a
Adrian Stacey wrote:
Ben Aitchison wrote:
For instance, I want to figure out what country an AS number is in,
without
doing mass whois querys.
Like for instance:
% whois -h whois.apnic.net AS9800
Will tell me that that AS number is in China. I'd like to be able to
(say)
block
Just wait, see:-
http://www.beehive.govt.nz/ViewDocument.cfm?DocumentID=14030
Chris Bayley wrote:
IHug Ultra Satellite should be available pretty much anywhere, if you're
game to play with Ihug, (worth it if it's the only option)
Chris
-Original Message-
*From:* Adam
Ben Aitchison wrote:
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 09:36:00AM +1200, Zane Gilmore wrote:
Most of us programmers/geeks love to expound our knowledge ;-)
and we definitely need people who are not afraid of
asking questions.
Because there are often so many ways of solving a problem, all of
us often
Jeremy Bertenshaw wrote:
If anyone's interested, I have a Compaq Armada 4120 laptop for sale, it's a pentium
150 w/ 16Mb ram and a 250Mb harddrive, the small harddrive is due to the original 1Gb
one dying a while ago and me using up whatever I had lying around, it comes with a
case and psu
Mark Carey wrote:
Is there a router HOWTO available?
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Firewall-HOWTO.html
http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialNetworkGateway.html
Yuri de Groot wrote:
Hi all,
In my new job for a tolls provider, I'm getting lots of customers calling about
toll calls on their bills to overseas numbers. When I try the number they always
turn out to be modems.
I ask the customer if they have a computer, and explain that some websites
Jeremy Bertenshaw wrote:
I've used Visual Route on windows in the past which has
the ability to draw on a world map where your packets are
travelling on a traceroute, kinda cool and I see they have
a unix version available.
http://www.visualware.com/visualroute/
Looks like they look up
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Shouldn't Linux companies be all over this one?? How can
we/Openz/whatever help to encourage them to use Linux?
quote
The initial expressions of interest closed yesterday,
/quote
Tough, you have missed the boat.
Needless to say it's a great pity.
The O/S SAP
Never use the word cheap in an advert because the readers will always
subconciously add the rest of the phrase i.e. and nasty.
you say economical
Also, imho the phrase legacy computers is too jargonistic too.
pre-owned, or elderly might be better.
How about Come and see the economical
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Shouldn't the proper noun Linux be capitalised in all references below??
Absolutely.
=
http://test.linuxnut.co.nz/faq.php#dualboot
Similarly the word saturday on the last line of the second para.
Also I feel that it would be a good idea to
Carl Cerecke wrote:
I recently had to return my borrowed power supply and get my old one
back. The borrowed PS was working fine in my computer. My PS was
working fine in somebody else's computer. Problem is, when my PS
goes in my computer I get spontaneous reboots. The power cycling
becomes
, no responsibility. :-)
--
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell.
Yuri de Groot wrote:
Any chance of some old 386s
No.
486s
Faster ones yes.
I've used a 80MHz '486 reasonably well as an X-terminal
not for highly interactive games though.
Use a simple Window Manager.
--
C.S.
Bill Wilson wrote:
Hi
Has anyone had experience with installing vmware on RH7.3.
I have just downloaded the 30 day trial version of vmware 3.1 workstation
and tried to install it. As the vmware package does not include a module
for RH7.3, you have to run the vmware-config.pl program that
Nick Rout wrote:
do you want to really do gentoo if we have limited outside download
resources? It has to download all the sources then compile them. It
takes a lot of time (X alone is something like 50-60 MB). There is also
nothing automatic about it, quite tricky, it will take a
Bjorn Nilsen wrote:
May be the list should be cut down to the following as do we really want to
install any thing else for new people to Linux? Debian is my distro of
choice but I would never set it up for a newbie, unless I was prepared to
hand hold them for the next few months.
The big
Adrian Stacey wrote:
Jeremy Bertenshaw wrote:
Undoubtedly, this would make the coolest linux box ever!
Hehehe, luved it! On a serious note:
http://www.bdt.co.nz/computer/docs/ezgo/414010.asp
Bit pricey but...
What's pricey?
--
C.S.
Yuri de Groot wrote:
Thus spake Adrian Stacey on this Thu, 13 Jun 2002 :
] Christopher Sawtell wrote:
]
]
] What's pricey?
]
] The entry level unit is around $1450 +GST then you have to add CPU, RAM
] and HD. I baulk at anything over $1000 for a complete PC vbg
]
] Adrian
Good
Damien Bateman wrote:
On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 16:50, Chris Bayley wrote:
How do I capture the error output of 'make' i.e. stderr ?
simple redirection i.e. 'make results' captures stdio right ?
make results 21
or
make 21 results
If you are doing a build which takes significant
Dion Bonner wrote:
Hey - another burner related question (sorry)...
What class of machine is required to use a CD burner effectively?
I don't really want to shell out ~$250 if I am going to me making piles
of coasters due to buffer underruns.
My current system is a Cyrix P200 with 32
Chris Bayley wrote:
Anyone a fan of SlickEdit ? It appears to be the closest thing to the
editor I am used (CodeWright) and one of the few that support 'Brief'
key strokes, although I promise to be a good little hacker and learn vi
and emacs! ;) Nedit too seems quite good.
Anyway I would like
Barry wrote:
I have wine-20010305-1.mdk installed and loading a graphics prog which
came with my scanner. Prog is ipplus.exe. So far it will load, save a
file under its original name but will not 'save as' a new name, or save
data from the clipboard.
File Save is working from ctl-s and from
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I've been trying to access files from a sco-unix formatted floppy disk,
in linux, and so far am unable to do so.
I know that the floppy is good, ie has no errors, but linux tells me
it cannot recognise the format type, and I don't have access to the machine
that
/gentooppc-quickstart.html
I am a convert to gentoo linux. For me, having several years of unix and
Linux experience, it's just what I need and want.
I will get a PPC install .iso disk prepared.
Christopher Sawtell
Silly me
I'm stuck in Auckland this week so I didn't think I could download
Chris Hellyar wrote:
A, that'll be just the ticket for something I want to do as well...
It's not been maintained for over 4 years and appears to be based on a
2.0.0 kernel. Goodness only knows where the sources are after all this time.
Also the chap who turned up with a Toshiba T1200
Zane Gilmore wrote:
On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 21:14, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
Barry wrote:
Well what a day, thanks be that Saturday night Sunday were time to
relax.
Indeed!
The day was a roaring success. But my feet have only just recovered.
It would be nice
Nick Elder CLUG wrote:
Hi again,
The Amature radio club rooms has alot going for it. Large, phone,
teamaking facilities, adjacent rooms (for burning maybe), own car parking.
On the other side of town from the uni. The only possible downer is that it
is tucked away off retreat rd in
Nick Rout wrote:
Of course one point for next time is that there may not be so many
punters. We may have soaked up a large part of the pool of
interested people out there in ChCh.
On the other hand, word of mouth spreads like wild fire. As we had so
few dissatisfied customers I have the
to have a knock-off copy on account of the value for
money, I'm not sure if my concience would allow it.
Please think carefully about the ramifications of what is proposed.
--
Christopher Sawtell.
Nick Rout wrote:
I made enquiries with the Digital Print Centre on Victoria street just
now.
Based
Peter Cornelius wrote:
What a tin of worms I've opened up. All I wanted was some documentation
which would tell me, amongst other things,
But you asked the question in a general way, not telling us exactly what
you wanted to know.
Therefore you got a general discussion about linux
Tried Molten Media?
They have bits of metal falling out of their ears.
C Falconer wrote:
Gidday all - sorry for doing an OT post, but I'm searching for a
backplane from an ATX case... By that I mean the piece of metal that
the motherboard bolts onto.
I could go out and buy a case, but I'd
and we can set up a time.
Please feel free to 'phone. Number's correct in the latest 'phone book.
Here endeth the Lesson. :-)
--
Christopher Sawtell.
Jeremy Bertenshaw wrote:
Has anyone seen this?
http://www.lycoris.com/products/desktoplx/
Earlier .iso versions available from:-
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/redmondlinux/redmond/iso/
Looks like a competitor to Lindows, very XP'ish,
would be a good environment for people
Chris Hellyar wrote:
It's now at http://cam.selwyn.govt.nz for a few hours...
It's sitting on a shelf in the office at work,
Looks remarkably homely for a 'work' place.
btw1, why are there three clocks, all saying the same time, over the
'sink bench' in to which the plumbers seem to have
dishes for miles.
All in jest, I hope you appreciate that.
Cheers, me.
-Original Message-
From: Christopher Sawtell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, 2 August 2002 11:26 a.m.
To: Chris Hellyar
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Webcam, moved.. :-)
Chris Hellyar wrote:
It's now
stringer wrote:
You probably have the Mouse Protocol setting in your XF86Config file
incorrect.
%
# **
# Core Pointer's InputDevice section
# **
Huan Yee Chew wrote:
Thanks to everyone that replies. I guess I know which direction to
head to now.
To confuse the issue, I'll just toss in the fact that a Telstra/Saturn
Cable is $99 for a they do everything connection, and you get a very
much larger traffic ration. I have had the
Yes I'd be happy for OpenOffice to be removed. KWord is still there
imho is much nicer than OpenOffice, but let's not start a flammage over
that. However that will only save you ~ 150Megs or so. You will have to
drop another 200Megs and that will really detract from the quality of
the demo
Nick Rout wrote:
I have built a little kit from DSE (part no K2805) that connects to the
parallel port and allows control and reading of of external circuits
(Digital/Analog conversion, etc). The instructions in the kit are for
QBASIC and the general idea is to read and write directly to/from
Gerald Young wrote:
Hi all,
need to do the below and am hoping someone can explain in a line or two.
4 servers nt and linux not networked connected to the internet through a firewall
box running redhat7 squid and ipchains.
how can i temporarily deactivate access to 1 server say
P.S If I was setting up my own business now I probably would go for
star/open office on linux, but now its too hard to change.
--
Nick Rout
Has anybody had a chance to evaluate Kword in a resonably true to life
setting?
Apart from the MS Word compatibility, which btw, as Nick so corretly
Andrew J Sands wrote:
Apologies for off-topic post, BUT as usual you guys(gals) are very
knowledgible(?) :-)
Firstly, what do you intend to use your little interface board for Nick R?
Are we going to see the out come at an upcoming meeting?? ;-) I shouldn't
talk my one has been assembled
Yuri de Groot wrote:
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] on this Thu, 22 Aug 2002 :
] If anyone knows how to make these interactive pdfs let me know - I have
] reason to make one.
]
] Buy Adobe Acrobat is the short, but expensive, answer.
]
] Not true, I create them using latex and ps2pdf.
Nick Rout wrote:
From Amazon.com just now.
It's the size of a decent um--- computer book. Theres a CD
in the back I shall report further. It came to about $85NZ.
I wonder if you would be so kind as to bring it to the next meeting?
--
C.S.
Gerard van Antwerpen wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking for the combination of shell commands that will give me the
combined size of a number of files.
Like the dos dir command gives: 34 files, 390kb.
I want to know the size of a directory, with all its files, and sub-dirs
if applicable.
Must be
Nick Rout wrote:
Although this book is about 10 years old it is the one from which I
learnt my way around the unix beast.
http://librarydata.christchurch.org.nz/web2/tramp2.exe/goto/A00kl2r2.002?screen=Record.htmlserver=1homeitem=8item_source=1home
It's readable, informative, and available
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
Nick Rout wrote:
Although this book is about 10 years old it is the one from which I
learnt my way around the unix beast.
http://librarydata.christchurch.org.nz/web2/tramp2.exe/goto/A00kl2r2.002?screen=Record.htmlserver=1homeitem=8item_source=1home
Sorry
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now THAT'S proper Flamebait... =)
No, no, that's just so insufferably bland. What you really need is
something more like this to really stir them up:-
I have just spent a very pleasurable afternoon at a primary school with
a 10 year old girl playing around with a
This is a good as trout fly fishing. :-)
Peter Cornelius wrote:
We programmed Pink Rabbit today, I'll introduce Alice, the Butterfly and
the Cheshire Cat next week.
Sorry, Chris, I'm not actually into Pink Rabbits at the moment, but will
make a mental note for when I advance to that stage
Peter Elliott wrote:
greetings all
massive favour to ask here.
some few people have mentioned that they have bandwidth available for the
downloading of .iso images, so:
would somebody be kind enough to grab these two for me and bring them along to the
meeting on thursday?
i can sling you
I'll have my webcam at the meeting, so you can drop in and spy on Carl as he
gives his presentation..
That's a nice gesture.
No audio though.
Pity, Is it technically possible?
--
C. S.
Bill Evans wrote:
Thanks Steve
Looks like I will have to get myself a CD burner.
No, I beg to differ, you dont _have_ to have a CD burner, but it sure
does make things a bit easier. You can install quite a few of of the
Linux distributions either directly from a hard-drive, or over a local
Peter Cornelius wrote:
Capital P, please Gareth. Linux very particular with CLI use.
I know pico and nano but never had the pleasure of going out with Vi.
Not surprising. Linux very particular with CLI use!
[chris@berty chris]$ Vi
bash: Vi: command not found
:-)
I well know that Chris
Carl Cerecke wrote:
Hi all,
The slides from the talk are only on the machine that was at the meeting
last night.
The slides were lovely, I'd be very grateful if you could tell me how
you made them?
--
C. S.
Carl Cerecke wrote:
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
Carl Cerecke wrote:
Hi all,
The slides from the talk are only on the machine that was at the
meeting last night.
The slides were lovely, I'd be very grateful if you could tell me how
you made them?
A lecturer (who has since left
.
--
Sincerely etc.
Christopher Sawtell.
--
C.S.
Nick Elder wrote:
CLUG Meeting Notes 29th August 2002
[ ... ]
Chris Sawtell (out of formal meeting) said he would like to give a talk/demo
to the children of CLUG members on linux applications for 'kids' some time.
Small correction.
What I thought I suggested was that we give our children
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry about the last post,
I have set up postfix and I can recieve mail through it but I cant send. Do I have
to set up a separate SMTP server? or what.
Thanks
Postfix _is_ your SMTP server, you have to have a route to the upstream
server though. Can you ping
of products.
Take care.
--
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell
too.
I really enjoyed the evening out at the Pegasus Arms. Let's have more of those
kind of outings from time to time.
Cheers,
--
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell
On Sun, 08 Sep 2002 18:22, Michael wrote:
Well, since I last asked, 0 people have generously offered me copies of the
latest version of RedHat, Mandrake and Caldera. I want to send them to a
linux-newbie so he can try them out.
A newbie only needs Mandrake disks one and two.
of the hugely expensive but
semi-literate and delightfully information-free works which are dumped on the
market by sharp operators in the publishing business. What may be legal is
not always the right thing to do from a moral standpoint.
On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 12:13, Christopher Sawtell wrote
Hours: 6pm to 9pm Tuesday Thursday nights
9am to 1pm Saturday
Of course Chris may have changed that.
He hasn't.
--
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell
our trouble-shooter/workshop in there, next meeting? I think we
could!
Nick E
--
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell
already been pointed out.
--
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell
166 MHz machine.
Se the cdrecord web page for setup details.
--
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell
and bit-for-bit copy it to a floppy _using a known good machine_ i.e. either
use rawrite.exe or the unix command dd
Boot the recalcitrent machine using the floppy you have just made.
It will report memory and address errors
--
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell
to offer?
Man, I have too many computers already :(
I know the feeling ;}
What kind of Sparcstations are they?
Sparcstation Is, Sparcstation I+s, Sparcstation IIs.
Take your pick.
Monitors?
Colour?
Do they work?
--
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 09:41, Ben Devine wrote:
Hi all,
Generally what time do the meetnigs start and finish?
7:30 until you drop
--
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell
that going with the Telecom solution
means that you don't have to carry the responsibility when the inevitable
happens.
--
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell
of the scale a
floppy-firewall diskette. We are going to be playing with them at Avonmore on
Saturday, so there is just an off-chance that I might remember what I did to
get them going.
--
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 15:40, Ben Devine wrote:
Hi all,
I was browsing the Dunlug site and they have quite a book collection I
was wondering if we have one or if we should start one.
How do you propose the exercise be financed?
--
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell
this up, and some instruction on how to burn a CD under a gui such as
CD
roast or simular please?
cheers,
Nick Elder
.
.
--
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell
. :-)
Therefore I have created 3 on-line discussion groups situated at:-
http://berty.dyndns.org/forums/index.php?f=28
Vote on its usefulness with your keyboards.
If you don't like it don't use it, and it will fade away.
--
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell
only.
Got any idea how short term is defined?
--
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell
in the forum.Sought of like a web interface which
people can submit Questions
Your code contribution will be received with alacrity.
--
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell
fine.
It's the writeable ones I'm keen to know about.
jeremy.
From: Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2002/09/29 Sun PM 10:03:35 GMT+12:00
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Philip Charles
[EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Canterbury Linux Users Group
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Harvey Norman CD
to make sure the correct fs module is on the rescue diskette )
--
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell
--
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell
of the later models good homes, but that's all I
can honestly offer.
Ferrymead Museum might be interested in one as a gift.
--
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell
!
Yuri
--
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Christopher Sawtell
on expensive
connections that can be of some consequence.
--
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell
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