Re: Seeking Linuxy hardware to rejig my life to digital convergence....
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:08:38 +1200 John Carter john.car...@taitradio.com wrote: So my home life is getting sufficient twangled that having some more advance facilities (voicemail / caller id / ...) would be good. I was looking at Xnet VFX Fusion. But that means I'd have to replace my router to have a phone plug. This seems... unnecessary. Googling (gargling?) for voip and openwrt turns up Asterix running on a Linksys WRT54GL... just so happens I have a WRT54GL running Openwrt Backfire. So what I need is... * A cordless voip phone or a way of tacking a standard cordless to, umm, something. i use this to connect to my asterisk system: http://nicegear.co.nz/analog-telephone-adaptors/linksys-pap2t/ never had any problems * Access to a cheap gateway from the IP to Christchurch local telephone system * Something with cheap calls to South Africa / US / UK (diasporas tend to do that to you) i use 2talk but ive never really looked around... http://www.2talk.co.nz/ 2000 mins/mth free with each local number for local calls So carry on with the digital convergence... After buying, trying and returning to the #...@$#! red shed under gaurantee two TV's... and having similar problems with DSE TV's... I'm very reluctant to waste money on a TV again... Yet the Sprats want TV and a place to plug their game consoles into. Dang. Now with netbooks being cheaper (and better quality) than many TV's... what I need is... * Some way of getting TV game console inputs on to the display. Hmm. There is an ADSL2+ to city block cabinet a 50m down the road Would it be worth replacing my DSE ADSL XH1175 router with an adsl2+ one anyway? Suggestions most welcome. -- aaron m
Re: resolution Problem Ubuntu 10.4
I will however download the fglrx driver and install that. An overnight job by modem. im fairly shure you card is only supported by the legacy version of fglrx also i generally recommend avoiding it like the plague... i think something like this: Section Monitor Identifier DVI-0 # or whatever yours is Option PreferredMode 1680x1050 EndSection in xorg.conf should do the trick
Re: OT: Telecom Proxy servers?
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 15:04 +1300, Neil Stockbridge wrote: Telstra subject their cable customers to a transparent proxy as well. Their proxy behaves when told to get the uncached version of an object thankfully. - neil and if you gather evidence of it stuffing up things they will put that site on a bypass list (it took some convincing though... ) aaron m
Re: gnome file managers, workspaces and windows
Roger Searle wrote: Nautilus lacks support for tabs which is a feature of konqueror I make frequent use of, and while I can still run konqueror it seems much slower to load on a gnome desktop, so while not wanting to start anything resembling a file-manager-holy-war am interested in what others like to use these days for file management. Nautilus 2.24.1 has tabs
Re: Recording Skype conversations?
Christopher Sawtell wrote: Greets folks, Anybody know a useful dodge to record Skype conversations? considered jackd? ive use it to do all kinds of wacky audio routing
Pre-Order Official Gutsy CDs Now
Hey Everyone, for those without broadband or just want those official looking discs you can pre-order your official gutsy CDs now!! https://shipit.ubuntu.com/ I'm sure many of us will be downloading it anyway (I definitely will be), so if you don't want to order I'm sure people on this list will offer to burn a disc for you. Aaron
Re: Pre-Order Official Gutsy CDs Now
Yes, I noticed that as well, however you can still do a special order and get more than 2 if you are organising an event (or something similar). It might be good if someone orders a bunch on behalf of the CLUG to give away at the meetings. Aaron
Re: ADSL VPN Router combo?
found this in the CLUG wiki http://clug.net.nz/index.php/XH1137onIPCop DSE still have some of these on clearance on their site, or you could try trademe to get one of these cards. Aaron
Re: Image files of Linux and Unix on St. Albans Neighbourhood Resource Centre computers.
Canterbury University has repo of various Linux distros available on the uni network. If you are interested in what they have e-mail me and I'll get a list of what's there. Aaron On 9/19/07, Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings CLUGgers, The recent thread which bemoaned the absence of a Definiitve Source for Linux in Christchurch has triggered Wesley and I to set up an archive of Linux Distros. In conjuction with the St. Albans Neighbourhood Resource Centre - That's the place where we meet each month - we have created a goodly, but by no means complete, collection of Linux and Unix disks. The Centre is open for business between 11:00am and 3:00pm every weekday and 1:00pm till 3:00 pm. on Saturdays. Go here for the list of Distros:- http://berty.dyndns.org/NN_Images.txt and here for a Street map:- http://tinyurl.com/ytbmb4 This is neither a download mirror, nor a Linux by post service - You have to turn up in person with loose change in your pocket to buy a CD/DVD. Alternatively a USB device with a Windows compatible file-system and sufficient free space is also possible. As this is all new to the Centre, I suggest a slow start. They won't be able to service dozens of CLUGgers turning up at lunchtime on Monday. It might be best to wait until Tuesday when Wesley is working there. Donations of other distributions to add to the collection would be welcome. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
Re: Microsoft letter todays Christchurch Press re Open XML
Apparently we voted no to OpenXML getting it's ISO certification, here is the link http://www.builderau.com.au/news/soa/NZ-rejects-Microsoft-OOXML-Sweden-confused/0,339028227,339281682,00.htm
Re: Ubuntu Studio - anyone like a copy?
You could install it from a USB key, so if you have a spare 1GB pen drive handy (about $25 from ascent.co.nz), you can install it from there. Assuming your computer/laptop can boot from these devices that is. Just google 'feisty usb key install'. Cheers Aaron
Re: OT: Telstra usage meter
You have now used 3,706 additional block[s] of usage, on your TelstraClear HighSpeed Internet plan for the period to 16/05/2007. Additional usage blocks are charged at $2.95 per block of 2,048 megabytes, regardless of the number of megabytes you use from that block. Thats $10,932.70.. heart almost stopped when I saw this. Cheers
Re: VMWare Player...
Don Gould wrote: I want to run a linux instance on my xp box. QEMU does this (thou seems to have bugs and is very slow). Late to the thread, but hypervisor-based Parallels parallels.com - although non-free-as-in-speech-and-beer(USD50 for Winders, Linux; USD80 OS X macintels) - is worth a mention here: easy to install product that seems to just work, and at native or near-native speeds. Parallels provides a free trial; give it a try, its impressed the hell out of me running XP as guest on Linux host, or FC5, Dapper, Damnsmall, Puppy, Knoppix as guest with Win2K or XP hosts, and it really is near-native speed. Aaron.
Re: Booking system
Craig FALCONER wrote: MRBS looks like a dog. How so? MRBS is easy to install, easy to set up, easy to customise, and offers very flexible options e.g. authentication via LDAP, POP3 and IMAP servers, DB etc., permissions and auth levels work well enough, and given its use in some reasonably large Universities, it probably scales pretty well. In addition to rooms, MRBS is easily adapted for equipment and resource booking. MRBS is definitely worth a nudge. Aaron.
