Re: Robert, Volker or Rik
On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 06:22, stm23 wrote: hi, i've just discovered that i actually do need a copy of Redhat 9.0. are any of u still able to burn me a copy?, i'd really appreciate it :). i can either give u some blank discs (3 right??) or pay for them, whichever is easiest. also, what day, time... would suit u? any of u live close to riccarton?... I'm in Euston Street, Upper Riccarton and when cleaning up two days ago was wondering what to do with them. Come on over. -- Paul Wilkins
Re: Getting Debian
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 06:53, Adrian Robertson wrote: On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 17:28:35 +1300 Paul William [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The debian installer is pretty simple. Not for people that can only point and click :) Lots of people equate no gui as hard :\ It's not that it's hard. It's that it's harder because many people don't know the names of the programs they use, let alone the cli name for it, or how to find it. eg. What browser do you use? *blank look* For using the internet and looking at websites Uuh, Microsft . . . Office? And in my case, I have a linux box with a screen usually running at 1280x1024 with a cable modem and usb mouse. With that background, here's the situation I found myself in yesterday. I unplugged my linux box and took it around to my folks last night. The monitor wasn't able to display the video resolution I had on there so I had what appeared to be the top left 800x600 of a 1280x1024 workspace, the mouse at the location was a ps/2 so it wasn't responding, and to cap it all I had no internet connection. Now I'm okay at controlling the gui via the keyboard, but when trying to adjust the display resolution with mandrake control center, you don't appear to be able to navigate it with the keyboard. The standard keyboard controls don't appear to be of any use there. The mouse didn't work because it was previously a usb mouse and now here it's a ps/2, and to cap it all I now don't have a net connection. My point here is, restricted as I was, how was I supposed to have obtained the knowledge, possibly through gui help or cli info/man, on adjusting the screen resolution and on readjusting the mouse drivers. -- Paul Wilkins
Re: Linux case badges
On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 06:11, Caleb Sawtell wrote: On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 17:09, you wrote: Don't know of anywhere in [EMAIL PROTECTED], but you can get them from www.linuxshop.co.nz which is based in Auckland. I was kinda hoping to get it from chch so i don't have to bother dad for is credit card :/ Linuxshop accepts bank deposit transactions. -- Paul Wilkins
Re: restaurant update - CLUG social
On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 05:05, Rex Johnston wrote: Nick Rout wrote: Undeterred i have sought out and found their website. http://www.rajmahal.co.nz/ Interesting text layout. I presume it's that way to exercise ones eyes! :) Or your brain. Shrink the window width so it's all in one column. Anyway, the food there is great. Hear hear. -- Paul Wilkins
Re: Purpose of the CLUG
On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 05:32, Carl Cerecke wrote: Fixing of problems is the main use of this mailing-list. Although fixing things often works better face-to-face if you have someone who knows what they are doing, hte mailing list still serves as a very valid and useful forum for problem diagnoses and solution suggestions. Therefore, I would prefer meetings to consists of things that a mailing list doesn't easily provide: 1. Talks (guest speakers etc.) 2. Demos 3. Socialisation. rather than fix-it-up workshops, for which the mailing list can often be an effective substitute. I still wouldn't rule out a FixItFest though. Many people have trouble with coming out on a mailing list because everything is seemingly recorded for ever. What also gets in the way is that the written word of a mailinglist is more formal than a meet-and-greet which tends to be more of a social occasion. For reasons such as these, it can be a lot easier for people to bring forth such queries in a live situation at a FixItFest. -- Paul Wilkins
RE: Purpose of the CLUG
On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 22:27, Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote: Do a google search for finance packages for Linux I've already done that, which is why I'm coming forward with the query. WHat I'm after is other peoples experiences and reccomendations of Linux accounting programs. Even a pointer to a good website that covers such things. -- Paul Wilkins
Re: Purpose of the CLUG
On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 21:27, Carl Cerecke wrote: As a general rule of thumb, if you aren't close to the answer within 5 minutes of competent googling, then ask away. We certainly don't want to put newcomers off asking questions, otherwise it might turn in to some elitist linux-experts group. Nobody wants, nor benefits, from that. Alright then, here's a couple that I've failed to successfully google for. By way of background, I have recently provided a strategy guide for America's Army to many forums, (no answers, just guidelines), and have provided a patch so that the FirebirdHelp extension works properly with user profiles, but that means nothing. The system that I'm using is a homebuilt AMD 2.5G with 512 of ram, Geforce2 Ti, 60G+40G HDD, 52x52x52x LG CDRW, DVD, with cable modem. I don't know how much of that will be of any use, but there we go. After logging in I always receive three identical warning messages. They being Could not find mime type application/octet-stream. When the warning messages appear there is nothing showing on the desktop. After clearing the top two warnings the Home icon appears, when the last is cleared everything else loads as per normal. The same message appears whenever a new Konquerer task is created. It doesn't appear when doing a new window from an already existing window. How do I resolve this. I don't want to reinstall Mandrake because I most likely will perform the same tasks that I currently am, and with no knowledge of how this issue came to be I won't be able to prevent it in the future, nor provide answers for others with similar troubles. -- Paul Wilkins
Re: Purpose of the CLUG
On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 12:19, Lee Begg wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 23:07, pmw57 wrote: After logging in I always receive three identical warning messages. They being Could not find mime type application/octet-stream. OK, so you a loading KDE or Konqueror when you get this message. To solve this problem: create octet-stream file association That should fix it. If it doesn't then you may need to reinstall the package that has the MIME type files for KDE. It is not common to get that error. Hope this helps Way-hey! it's easy when you know how. But that's the trouble. Finding out how to know when you don't in the first place, there's the rub that first time experiences with troubles brings you in to. For example, I'm having trouble getting GNUCash to work something like MYOB, so what other business accounting programs are there out ther for Linux that are suitible for an office situation? -- Paul Wilkins
Re: from the clug webpage...
On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 11:51, anton wrote: snip Upcoming Meetings / Events Meeting times scheduled for 2003 Wednesday 29th January Thursday 13th Febuary Monday 31st March Wednesday 30th April /snip Has this just not been updated, or should that read 2004? I can't remember what last year's dates were... As the 29th of January is a Thursday during 2004, I'd say that the website hasn't been updated for quite some time. -- Paul Wilkins
Re: OT: Free Psion
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 00:14, Hamish McBrearty wrote: Hi all In tidying up my work area I discovered a Psion Revo laying around here. Would anyone like it? No charge, I have the cradle, cables, software on CD and manual. Email me off list, first in first served. Ooh, yes thanks. -- Paul Wilkins
Re: grep and a few other questions
On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 01:37, Nick Rout wrote: (astute readers who do not delete my posts as a matter of course will see the relevance of this to my undelete thread ;-) 1. grep -b is supposed to give me byte offsets into the file where the pattern occurs. however: sf root # egrep Exif -b /dev/hdb3 Binary file /dev/hdb3 matches no byte offsets. why? Pass 2. how do i use grep to find a hex pattern, eg FFD9 (which marks the end of a jpeg file). I guess I have to escape it somehow, can anyone tell me? (sorry i feel i should know this one, but i don't) I think you'll be be needing something like ngrep http://ngrep.sourceforge.net/ 3. how do i truncate a file to n bytes long? I thought there was a truncate command, but I may have the wrong name. That's the head command. I've been using head to cut a downloaded video file before the corrupt parts, then continue the download. The following will take the first 2 megabytes of file1 and write it out to file2 head -b 2m file1 file2 -- Paul Wilkins
Re: Problem getting K3b to see my CD-RW drive...
On Fri, 2003-12-26 at 10:02, pmw57 wrote: I've found an article that should be of lots of help. CD Writer as a SCSI Device http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/CD_Writer.html Even better, as I suspect that the above may be Debian specific, check out the following HOWTO. Setup the Linux-system for writing CD-ROMs http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO-2.html -- Paul Wilkins
Re: kernel compile q
On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 09:53, anton wrote: Hey all, I am going to try and step into the realm of the big boys (and girls) and compile me a kernel. However, I have been googling for a bit and there don't appear to be any nice wee howtos for 2.6.0 for newbies. In fact, I can't actually find any proper howtos at all, for newbies or other. Well there's always HowTo Upgrade To The 2.6 Kernel http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/799 the lovely chappies at the tldp have gone and removed their kernel howto... Anyone got any idea where I could get a copy? psst. hey bud, you can still get it http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/Kernel-HOWTO.html Cheers Anton ps why did they take it down? Why can't it be reviewed while still sitting there? Did/does it have secrets? lies?... It does actually make good policy to downline such install guides until you've confirmed that it's not going to break anything. Why? Here's the payoff matrix of online vs trouble online trouble - Everybody installing thinks what crack're they on? online no trouble - how things should be offline trouble - Updated docs now reflect and resolve such issues offline no trouble - annoy a few people The potential for damage, expecially reputational damage, is becoming of such issue these days that it makes sense to take it down for a few days. -- Paul Wilkins
Re: kernel compile q
On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 12:29, anton wrote: While I wait (already waiting 45mins on my athlon 2000xp...;-0), I thought I might ask you night owls about the fact that I don't have a /usr/src/linux at all... I am newbie. I have a mdk9.2 install and everything (almost) is installed from rpm. I am assuming this is how it should be (ie not /usr/src/linux) and am not worrying... When I was using Redhat I was told when compiling something or other when it required something of /usr/src/linux Now that I'm using Mandrake 9.2 (1 week) I see that /usr/src/linux isn't there. You'll find taht if you go to Configuration - Packaging - Install Software you will find the kernel source that you can install. -- Paul Wilkins
Re: That Logo...
On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 05:57, Martin Bähr wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 01:56:42PM +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote: What are the rules about using the penguin? Is he free for anyone to bash about with Yes. or are there rules? Start from one of the originals, not somebody else's derivitive. why? starting with a derivative only raises the chance of the result being more different from the original. and there is no rule that the original may not be changed, on the contrary i'd like to see more variety in penguins out there. I suspect that the reason for starting from the original is so that a level of consistancy is maintained, and in order to achieve that you want people to relate your logo with Linux. If your project is an offshoot of someone else's work, then it's fine to offshoot from there. The danger is that if you start with a derivative and someone else then starts from your derivative, by the time a 4th person gets in to the mix the logo may not be recognisable as being Tux, or Linux related at all. Keep it simple stupid. It works better that way. -- Paul Wilkins
Re: That Logo...
On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 12:38, Martin Baehr wrote: On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 12:17:39PM +1300, pmw57 wrote: The danger is that if you start with a derivative and someone else then starts from your derivative, by the time a 4th person gets in to the mix the logo may not be recognisable as being Tux, or Linux related at all. that is the point i disagree about. in a lot of cases a completely unrelated penguin is used to represent linux. to the extend that to me any penguin now reminds me of linux. the penguin does not need to be recognizable as tux. Unfortunately that's not the case all over. For example, Bluebird use their own penguin for chips, and if I were to find one of those Bluebird penguins on any Linux software, not only would I be confused about this, but I'm sure the lawyers will be having a field day, making preperations to turn up with their thin briefcases and even thinner watches, to make not so thin threats. To the general public penguins are different, which is why a recognisable mascot is being advised to be used. -- Paul Wilkins
Re: ftp stuff
On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 11:56, thereisnospoon wrote: i don't know much about linux or even ftp but anywho:: snip now, when i typed in http://miraclesinvain.port5.com/index.html into my browser address bar, the updated page loads. but when i type http://miraclesinvain.port5.com without specifying the file it loads the old tester page which was supposed to be deleted. i looked again on my ftp browser and the tester file was indeed gone. but apparently not gone. There appears to be nothing there now. Can you put the page up that should be there, so that some of us can get some testing done for you? -- Paul Wilkins
Re: join mp3s
On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 03:10, Paul William wrote: have become jumbled somewhere between brain and keyboard. I will try again ;) I have 2 mp3s I want to join them I don't want to convert them to wav I tried catting which doesn't work (it cant hurt to try) To sum it all up I am looking for program that joins mp3s that runs on linux and that can be used non-interactivity (from the command line). To get categorical on this, you will not be able to successfully join the two mp3s without decoding/recoding them. This is one of those unfortunate facts of life, and rallying against it is just going to cause more pain. Pain for you, because you're not able to get what you want, and pain for those dealing with you, beacuse they can't give you what you want. If you do hear of some program that claims to join two mp3s, it'll just be doing the decode/join/recode on them. Your best bet is to decode them yourself. That way you can use the best decoder that's out there and ensure the greatest level of quality remains in what you're doing. -- Paul Wilkins
RE: OT? Broadband; router
On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 15:56, Don Gould - BVC wrote: In other news... I tried to get Telstra to connect me to cable... they wouldn't... I got a second JetStart connection... oh well... sux to be them. They seem to have put an indefinate halt on fresh cable rollout, in favour of some future plan they have. I think they've realise that they would otherwise have to lay out cable to damn near every house in the country. -- Paul Wilkins
