I hope this isn't to off topic but I thought that it would be a good idea to
introduce my
self and make some warnings about what I'm like.
I suppose that I'm fairly close to the nerd stereotype.
I've been watching Star Trek since age four (and can still remember some of
those eps)
and started
On Wed, 20 May 2009 17:43:41 yuri wrote:
Ryan McCoskrie wrote:
I hope this isn't to off topic but I thought that it would be a good idea
to introduce my
self and make some warnings about what I'm like.
Welcome to the list.
WARNING:
One major thing to take into account when dealing
On Sun, 24 May 2009 18:31:14 Paul Swafford wrote:
Maybe if they re-open Georgie Pie Riccarton we can start the CLUG
meetings there!
I distinctly recall Volker being there.
Though if its in a McDonald's I think I'll pass.
Burger King is my bare minimum.
And even that is pushing it.
How
Note: I've posted this on comp.os.linux.setup as well but things are a bit
slow there.
After making some edits to my partition scheme with the latest edition of
GParted I've found that my machine
can no longer boot.
It gets as far as displaying the word GRUB but no further.
I've tried
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
On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:05:22 r...@slingshot.co.nz wrote:
My Acer Aspire 1703 Desk-Note is playing up. It suddenly and instantly
dies on an intermittent basis. It appears to occur more when under
heavy processor load. Sometimes a little warning sign is given by the
screen dimming for a fraction
On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:12:19 Cheetor wrote:
Ryan McCoskrie wrote:
On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:05:22 r...@slingshot.co.nz wrote:
My Acer Aspire 1703 Desk-Note is playing up. It suddenly and instantly
dies on an intermittent basis. It appears to occur more when under
heavy processor load
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:38:20 Aidan Gauland wrote:
Hello,
Are there any motherboard manufacturers who usually make motherboards that
work well with Linux, or any that Linux users should avoid?
Also, should I just disregard notices like this one?
Due to different Linux support condition
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:03:26 Jim Cheetham wrote:
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Barry Marchantbarr...@paradise.net.nz
wrote:
has anyone looked at the press co website today? I am having trouble with
it hogging cpu usage, in excess of 95% at times, and being unable to
scroll the site
Since this morning I have been unable to boot from either of my hard disks.
When I attempt to the BIOS seems to crash.
Has anyone seen this before?
...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes.
The dvd/cd are on a separate ide motherboard header from the hard
drives.
This would suggest that there is a problem with the hard drives and or
hard drive header which on modern boards is Sata not ide
Cheers Chris T
On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 18:33 -0400, Ryan McCoskrie wrote
2009/8/23 chris che...@gmail.com
Can you test either header using another boot disk?
that way you can eliminate mobo, and start looking into software
Once I find out what you mean by header, yes.
Hardware has never been my strong point.
On 22/08/2009, Col c...@paradise.net.nz wrote:
Ryan McCoskrie wrote:
For the last couple of months I have had both a SATA disk and an IDE disk
working.
The two things that I did last night that were a little unusual are
downloading a more recent kernel and using ktorrent.
Aside from my boot
On 23/08/2009, Ryan McCoskrie ryan.mccosk...@gmail.com wrote:
Since this morning I have been unable to boot from either of my hard disks.
When I attempt to the BIOS seems to crash.
seems to crash... seems...
It was GRUB going wrong after all. I've reinstalled it now and am now
grinning with non
KMail has been giving me grief lately.
Can somebody tell me if this has been received.
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On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:31:47 Andrew Errington wrote:
On Thu, September 17, 2009 12:54, Rik Tindall wrote:
Greetings,
Software Freedom Day 2009 is this Saturday, 19 September. The
international festival of free and open-source software (FOSS) is in its
fifth year, and of celebration
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:22:13 Kent Fredric wrote:
Hey, I'm bored.
I'm guessing there's not a lot of people on the ML who this applies to, but
I figured, Hey, if they're having a python *conference* here, maybe theres
enough of us Perl users to get into our own thing like. ( I also note its
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:16:16 Phill Coxon wrote:
On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 19:51 +1200, Ryan McCoskrie wrote:
KMail has been giving me grief lately.
Can somebody tell me if this has been received.
Pong.
[Breaths a sigh of relief]
I was wondering if the whole internet had kill filed me
On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:14:46 Robert Fisher wrote:
Xtra (Telecom) used to be difficult, especially when they were supplying
the connection for another ISP. I considered it anti competitive but got
nowher when I complained to the Commerce Commission.
Their call centre staff are trained to
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:35:07 Bryce Stenberg wrote:
Hi,
Can someone please give me a quick pointer to where I stop my machine
booting to the gui?
I installed Ubuntu server. Then also installed Ubuntu-desktop to get a
gui when I want one.
But now I can't find where to tell it not to
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:31:32 Roger Searle wrote:
steve wrote:
Which'll have nothing to do with the odd MP living over here,
in which way is he/she odd? or is it just the usual given their
occupation . . .
I think what Steve meant here is that there are multiple MP's in
his neighbourhood
Has anybody else taken a look at the Open-PC project?
They're trying to pull together a company to sell Linux
PC's in the same manner as an open source project.
I've been posting this and that on the forums hoping in the
vain hope that the project gets of the ground but I suspect
that it's
This morning a magnitude 8.3 earthquake in Samoa caused
a tsunami.
A one meter wave has already hit the east cape in the North
Island and is expected to hit Lyttelton at 11:55 am today.
It is doubted that it will affect the South Island's east coast
but be prepared for the possibility and stay
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:26:07 David Lowe wrote:
...and the link to Linux is...
- if the North Island gets washed away, the damage to corporate NZ and
therefore Microsoft's profitability will be such that FOSS will be all that
survives...
- the Tsunami warning system is served by Linux
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:29:03 Andrew Errington wrote:
On Wed, September 30, 2009 08:26, David Lowe wrote:
...and the link to Linux is...
- if the North Island gets washed away, the damage to corporate NZ and
therefore Microsoft's profitability will be such that FOSS will be all
that
I'm currently building a firewall box for my parents but I have run into
the issue that it's security is actually far to tight.
It's current rejecting all request on any port[1].
I've added the desktop computers on the network into its hosts.allow
file, enabled sshd, told sshd to accept the PCs
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:00:11 Roger Searle wrote:
seems almost silly to suggest, but just in case, here goes...
http://www.clarkconnect.com/help/ ?
and
http://www.clarkconnect.com/help/pdf/CC-Quickstart.pdf ?
The either the quick start guide is out of date or the installer has
a bug.
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:59:34 Aidan Gauland wrote:
Hello,
Short, yet not byanymeans simple question:
What's the simplest way (on Debian, in particular) to compile, on an
amd64 system, for i386 (that is, compling for 32-bit Linux on 64-bit
Linux of the same architecture)?
I've tried the -m
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:00:55 Aidan Gauland wrote:
Ryan McCoskrie wrote:
Are you setting the archtitecture flag while compiling _as well as_
linking?
Ah, yes, that would be helpful, wouldn't it? Now that I *really* have that
option set for the gcc, and not just ld, ld is complaining about
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:34:58 Wesley Parish wrote:
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
On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:29:37 you wrote:
Is this any use to someone:
K6-233, 64M RAM, 2.4GB hard disk, 3 network cards (1 of them ISA).
Used to run pfsense, functional when turned off some time ago, don't
remember when - kept it as a spare.
Free, pick up in Hoon Hay.
Sounds tempting...
Is
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 Robert Fisher rob...@fisher.net.nz wrote:
I totally agree - which is why I closed my business. People seem happy to
pay for a plumber or an electrician but they hate seeing a computer
fixer do his work on the keyboard - they think that they should be able
to do that and
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 Brett Davidson br...@net24.co.nz wrote:
My Aunt lives out there and I'm a little too busy to fix her Windows
machine at present.
The guys in the I, PC shop are quite good in my experience.
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On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:08:11 Nick Rout wrote:
I went into specsavers the other day to get a copy of an invoice for
my insurance company. Sat down at computer with assistant and she went
through several screens, it soon became apparent that she was not
using windows.
Invoice info etc was all
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:57:01 Tom Smith wrote:
What's the difference between kde and gnome? is it purely cosmetic? Eye
candy works better in kde? Is one less resource hungry?
KDE aims to give as many configuration options as possible while
the GNOME team are terrified of including anything
I know that this is a very OT but is anyone else sick the assumption that all
computer enthusiast are and _only_ are gamers?
I'm an amateur software engineer, I dabble in 3D imaging, I just passed the
LPIC 101 and people ask me for my informed opinion on computer games.
If I'm really, really
On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:32:21 Nick Rout wrote:
OK we had tip of the day, now joke of the day:
Ubuntu is an ancient African word, meaning can't configure Debian
No it means Slackware is to hard for me. Everyone knows that.
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On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:49:41 Christopher Sawtell wrote:
Many Linux user groups have mogrified into geek oriented social clubs
which meet informally in licensed premises. Christopher's suggestion is
that we follow that horde.
Would it be possible to go in the other direction and do workshops
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:11:47 Derek Smithies wrote:
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
What about settling on the 17 of the month. That's Wednesday next week
to start it off.
Sigh - - a group of geeks can surely come up with a better number than
17.
My first thought was for
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:01:49 Nick Rout wrote:
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Christopher Sawtell csawt...@gmail.com
wrote:
Greets to CLUGgers
Does anybody know why Amarok requires a login?
It's an ordinary app, just a sound player for goodness sake.
If anybody knows how to disable
I had a dream on Sunday that I found the O'Reilly In A Nutshell manual on
child raising written by Linus and Tove Torvalds. I was strangely disappointed
when I woke up.
Has anyone got thoughts on this odd event?
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On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:40:03 Nick Rout wrote:
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Ryan McCoskrie
ryan.mccosk...@gmail.com wrote:
I had a dream on Sunday that I found the O'Reilly In A Nutshell
manual on child raising written by Linus and Tove Torvalds. I was
strangely disappointed when I
If you don't want any of the gnome environment, then you may be able to
select failsafe with xterm or similar. This will drop you into a plain
xterm where you can run your WM of choice. I'd recommend putting a copy
in your home folder since your usb drive won't work nicely without
On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:15:45 Olwen Williams wrote:
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Ryan McCoskrie
ryan.mccosk...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:40:03 Nick Rout wrote:
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Ryan McCoskrie
ryan.mccosk...@gmail.com wrote:
I had a dream on Sunday
On Tuesday 02 March 2010 09:49:26 pm Nick Rout wrote:
I have run a couple of cat5e cables and I am trying to terminate them,
unsuccessfully at present.
... What is your terminating process like? I've done a little for my Dad and
it's dead easy (about half of a room at Lincoln High). Has
On Thursday 04 March 2010 02:28:11 pm you wrote:
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Ryan McCoskrie
ryan.mccosk...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tuesday 02 March 2010 09:49:26 pm Nick Rout wrote:
I have run a couple of cat5e cables and I am trying to terminate them,
unsuccessfully at present
On Tuesday 02 March 2010 10:19:45 pm you wrote:
Peter Glassenbury (CSSE) wrote:
(vi works all the time :-) )
That is one of vi's biggest advantages over Emacs, but then Emacs can act
as much more than just a text editor. I still want to learn how to use vi
efficiently. ...some day. :-)
After my ancient PPC box died, last month, in a power surge, the insurance
company gave me an Intel Mac[1] as a replacement.
This machine holds no technological interest to me so I thought I'd sell it.
Brand new, never been out of the box. For sale at $1700.00.
Also, I'm looking for a non
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:38:28 Jeff Mitchell wrote:
I've also got a couple of recent Linux books if anyone wants to buy them.
What are they and what price?
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:25:50 C. Falconer wrote:
Hi all - with respect to horse, how many of the current users make use
of the webshell running on port 443?
That webshell looks really cool! What do people use it for?
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On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:53:34 Craig Falconer wrote:
Ryan McCoskrie wrote, On 23/03/10 10:42:
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:25:50 C. Falconer wrote:
Hi all - with respect to horse, how many of the current users make use
of the webshell running on port 443?
That webshell looks really cool! What
On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:47:57 Bryce Stenberg wrote:
Hi,
Sorry, I don't seem to be able to grok the linux filesystem properly.
I have two hard drives on this server.
Everything except /home is on the first drive.
/home is on the second drive, as configured during the install.
On Tue, 04 May 2010 11:34:04 you wrote:
Hi all,
A change of employment leads me into the laptop market, with gnu/linux
compatibility
Okay, I think someone needs to start making an FAQ list for the CLUG.
I'm willing to spend some time on it if someone more experienced is willing
to help.
On Tue, 04 May 2010 12:36:35 Steve Holdoway wrote:
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 12:12 +1200, Ryan McCoskrie wrote:
On Tue, 04 May 2010 11:34:04 you wrote:
Hi all,
A change of employment leads me into the laptop market, with gnu/linux
compatibility
Okay, I think someone needs to start
On Mon, 17 May 2010 13:03:35 you wrote:
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 12:47 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On 17 May 2010 12:32, Solor Vox solor...@gmail.com wrote:
Are you going to have a tux on the table? =)
He and I have had a wee conversation.
Initially. he stated that he is
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
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
Okay there have been a few misunderstandings about what I meant in my
original post on this thread. After some thinking I believe that I can clarify
myself properly
On Sat, 29 May 2010 13:02:30 you wrote:
Are there any desktop centered distros whose primary aim is to have as few
surprises as
On Mon, 31 May 2010 12:27:38 you wrote:
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Ryan McCoskrie
ryan.mccosk...@gmail.com wrote:
Okay there have been a few misunderstandings about what I meant in my
original post on this thread. After some thinking I believe that I can
clarify myself properly
On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:27:07 you wrote:
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Ryan McCoskrie ryan.mccosk...@gmail.com
wrote:
You do if you have a neurotic need to configure every detail but lack the
time and bandwidth for Gentoo/Slackware/LFS.
well give it a root password then. What the hell
Knowing a handful of extremely visual thinkers who dread the command
line I have been thinking over the possibility of an application that uses
a drag and drop interface to visually represent the concepts of piping and
redirecting. At the moment I'm just in the day dream stage of development but
On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 14:39 +1200, Ryan McCoskrie wrote:
Knowing a handful of extremely visual thinkers who dread the command
line I have been thinking over the possibility of an application that
uses a drag and drop interface to visually represent the concepts of
piping and redirecting
On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:40:08 Christopher Sawtell wrote:
Indeed it does, but would it not be a better idea to create a program
which helped people improve their language and reeading skills,
instead of creating a program which only made the unix command line
environment available to the
[Note this Email originally went to the OP instead of the list. Sorry if it
dose not go into the thread smoothly]
Hello CLUG,
I'll be moving to Chch from Greymouth around early September, and would
like to meet fellow LINUX folk.
Will visit Chch from 1 to 4 August in the mean time.
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:21:24 you wrote:
Hi Everyone,
My apologies for being bossy and pushy:
There seems to be a fair interest from a lot of you, over a few
CLUG-related topics.
(I STILL don't know if I can be free on the eve of the 2nd or the 3rd,
and Ryan has hassles with evenings.)
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