Re: HTML vs WYSIWYG

2003-01-30 Thread David A. Mann
John S Veitch wrote: I've re-written pages from several sites where the government paid big money to top web design companies. It's rare to find pages that were not written in a WYSIWYG editor. It's cheap and easy to employ a relatively unskilled person to do. It even works quite

mailing-lists

2003-01-30 Thread Tim Wright
Perhaps we need two. linux-users and linux-users-list-politics (I'd only subcribe to the first :) miT

Re: PCI Modems

2003-01-30 Thread Simon Hansman
gee...just trying to help On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 09:50, Nick Rout wrote: read the question, he wants pci not external! On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 08:19:44 +1300 Simon Hansman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think as long as you avoid win-modems you'll be fine. External modems are usually (if always?)

Re: PCI Modems

2003-01-30 Thread Slosh
In his defence it would be lax of him if it would have been favourable to get an external and the person buying the moden had no idea... what's the saying... knowledge is power? --Slosh - Original Message - From: Simon Hansman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday,

RE: There is no CLUG

2003-01-30 Thread Bjorn Nilsen
Will do as soon as it propagates to the archive. Wow I bugger off to Auckland for a few days and CLUG gets a organised! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'll second Carl's comment. I will add that now people have wanted to organise meetings a little better, there are

Re: HTML and Standards [was Dreamweaver]

2003-01-30 Thread Wesley Parish
Certainly doing it yourself can help avoid letting the world know your computer's OS and application details - a security detail that Microsoft HTM violates with glee. Wesley Parish On Thursday 30 January 2003 10:18 am, you wrote: My understanding was in order to create high standard web

Re: MS troll

2003-01-30 Thread Wesley Parish
On Thursday 30 January 2003 05:14 pm, you wrote: Ok, I can understand MYOB, the stubbord bastards refuse to port to Linux but an open source program is the works to replicate its functionality from what I hear. Now, as for Excel, what about gnumeric?? I can open excel spreadsheets with it just

Re: Mozilla and Style Sheets - XHTML v HTML4

2003-01-30 Thread Timothy Musson
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 12:16:13PM +1300, John S Veitch wrote: [...] none of the pages in my site display properly in Mozilla because Mozilla doesn't read the style sheets. The question is why? [...] http://www.ate.co.nz/ When I go here:

Re: There is no CLUG

2003-01-30 Thread Jason
Replies quoted below Jason, here http://lists.ethernal.org/cantlug-0208/msg00606.html you offered to talk on one of those subjects that interested you, what happenned? maybe you felt you needed to be asked. HAving the dubious honour of being on the meeting committee I'm gonna get you along

RE: There is no CLUG

2003-01-30 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Will do as soon as it propagates to the archive. Wow I bugger off to Auckland for a few days and CLUG gets a organised! Arr.. there's the first problem.. you went to auckland.. :) = For Linux CD's check out http://www.xsolutions.co.nz http://movies.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Movies - What's

RE: HTML vs WYSIWYG

2003-01-30 Thread Steve Bell
David A. Mann said... When people pay for web designers they get web *designers*. Not coders. The emphasis is on design, layout and navigation which is why a lot of web designers have a background in graphic design. WYSIWYG tools are there to abstract the design from the code. As such, the

Re: There is no CLUG

2003-01-30 Thread Tim Wright
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Jason wrote: I still think a meeting in 2 halves is best. First half GUI and app based discussions/presentations. Second half, CLI/programming oriented discussion. We start the halves at preset times, then, if people didn't want to stay for the second half they could

Re: mailing-lists

2003-01-30 Thread Lance BLACKLER
I was just thinking the same thing - there is an awful lot of mail to wade through at the moment - hopefully just a temporary glitch! Lance B From: Tim Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mailing-lists Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 21:33:08 +1300

Re: There is no CLUG

2003-01-30 Thread Jason Greenwood
Thanks Tim =) What does the list think of this idea?? Cheers J Tim Wright wrote: On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Jason wrote: I still think a meeting in 2 halves is best. First half GUI and app based discussions/presentations. Second half, CLI/programming oriented discussion. We start

Re: There is no CLUG

2003-01-30 Thread Lance BLACKLER
It gets my vote Lance B From: Jason Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: There is no CLUG Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 09:03:25 +1300 Thanks Tim =) What does the list think of this idea?? Cheers J Tim Wright wrote: On Fri, 31 Jan

Re: There is no CLUG

2003-01-30 Thread Carl Cerecke
Jason Greenwood wrote: What does the list think of this idea?? The list thinks that the meeting after next has no speaker, and you are volunteering to do a half-meeting talk :-) Thanks. Now we need another speaker for the other half. Cheers, Carl.

Re: There is no CLUG

2003-01-30 Thread Jason Greenwood
Done, I volunteer for the first half. I wil be putting a selection of topics together in the next couple of days. As I doubt there will be time to discuss them all, I will ask that the list vote for a couple of them so I can select the ones people want to hear about most. Once that is done, I

Re: There is no CLUG

2003-01-30 Thread Nick Rout
man as that came thru i was writing to the other committee members suggesting we arrange just that! good on you jason. On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 09:31:24 +1300 Jason Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Done, I volunteer for the first half. I wil be putting a selection of topics together in the next

Re: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

2003-01-30 Thread Jason Greenwood
I keep getting this when I post to the list. Looks like someone on the list hasn't emptied their hotmail box in a while and this is prompting the autoresponse. Can Zane remove the address please?? Cheers Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is an automatically generated Delivery Status

Re: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

2003-01-30 Thread Zane Gilmore
Yeah I've just been speaking to another list member about this. I discussed how much I dislike Hotmail :-/ and also stated the fact that I am wary about just deleting people from the list arbitrarily. My rule of thumb is 48hrs of the address misbehaving then I will remove it. There are some

Install Fest Mailing List

2003-01-30 Thread glenn . r
Does anyone know the install fest's mailing list? I seem to have missed it (or misplaced it)?? Glenn.

Re: Install Fest Mailing List

2003-01-30 Thread Nick Rout
http://www.linuxnut.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/installfest On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 10:45:05 +1300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know the install fest's mailing list? I seem to have missed it (or misplaced it)?? Glenn. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

2003-01-30 Thread Jason Greenwood
Good policy. Seems like it has worked well thus far. I was just a bit annoyed at the constant autoresponse... ;) Cheers J Zane Gilmore wrote: Yeah I've just been speaking to another list member about this. I discussed how much I dislike Hotmail :-/ and also stated the fact that I am

OSTC Opens Tomorrow

2003-01-30 Thread David Kirk
Hi all, I am just about ready to open the Open Source Technology Centre. There are still a few things to do, but I have decided to open and do the rest of the setup as training courses for those who are interested. I know it is short notice if you are interested, but this is what I will be

Re: There is no CLUG

2003-01-30 Thread Gareth Williams
Jason, I think, from memory, I was one of the participants in that 'GUI vs CLI' flamewar (and not on your side either ;) However that's long forgotten, I just wanted to say I think your idea of meeting topics being oriented in 2 halves is a good one, and I'm sorry if I didn't speak up at the

Re: There is no CLUG

2003-01-30 Thread Jason Greenwood
No worries mate. A bit of friendly banter keeps the heart (and mind) in shape!! I look forward to seeing how things work at the next (actually I think it's 2 meetings away, since the next meeting is a help and troubleshooting meeting right?) meeting. Regards, Jason Greenwood Gareth Williams

RE: OSTC Opens Tomorrow

2003-01-30 Thread Kevin Linux account
Original Message --- Hi all, I am just about ready to open the Open Source Technology Centre. There are still a few things to do, but I have decided to open and do the rest of the setup as training courses for those who are interested. I know it is short notice if you are

RE: OSTC Opens Tomorrow

2003-01-30 Thread David Kirk
Kevin asked: Do the courses cost anything tomorrow Yep, the prices are on http://ostc.dyndns.org/join.html. Later David Kirk

RE: OSTC Forum

2003-01-30 Thread David Kirk
Glenn wrote: Can somebody point me to the OSTC Forum? I think I may have missed it somehow. Sorry, I haven't had time to set the forum up yet. I will be doing that tomorrow. Later David Kirk

There Will be a CLUG - (was There is no CLUG)

2003-01-30 Thread John S Veitch
Hello Everyone It's clear that there is no CLUG, but many people before me have expressed surprise at that and like me have looked to improve the function of the local Linux community by doing some very obvious things. Nick Elder : I MOVE THAT THE CLUG MEETING THIS COMING WEDNESDAY BE A

Re: There Will be a CLUG - (was There is no CLUG)

2003-01-30 Thread Nick Rout
For heavens sake John, if you read the list properly you would know that the people on this list (ie CLUG to the extent that it exists) don't feel the need for anything more formal than we now have. What unfulfilled need are you trying to address, apart from a (perceived) need for structure?

RE: There Will be a CLUG - (was There is no CLUG)

2003-01-30 Thread David Kirk
John wrote: There should be nothing controversial in the above suggestion. All the power of the Executive Committee is in the hands of the five people already appointed who group members already know, respect and trust. Since we are doing some new things it might be beneficial to use

Fwd: Re: There Will be a CLUG - (was There is no CLUG)

2003-01-30 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 13:52, John S Veitch wrote: Nick Elder : I MOVE THAT THE CLUG MEETING THIS COMING WEDNESDAY BE A GENERAL MEETING AND THAT AT THIS MEETING WE FORM AN EXECUTIVE ! Christopher Sawtell: I second that! While I did indeed write that, I want to make it perfectly clear to

Re: Fwd: Re: There Will be a CLUG - (was There is no CLUG)

2003-01-30 Thread Carl Cerecke
Christopher Sawtell wrote: Personally, I have got neither the time nor the emotional energy to get involved with either a strictured, or a structured organisation. I'll just have to walk away from it if that happens. I hope not. Funnily enough, the 5 people elected to the committee probably

Re: Fwd: Re: There Will be a CLUG - (was There is no CLUG)

2003-01-30 Thread Michael JasonSmith
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 16:12, Carl Cerecke wrote: Anybody have any Linux questions? GNOME or KDE? :-P -- Michael JasonSmith http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~mpj17/

Re: Fwd: Re: There Will be a CLUG - (was There is no CLUG)

2003-01-30 Thread Carl Cerecke
Michael JasonSmith wrote: On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 16:12, Carl Cerecke wrote: Anybody have any Linux questions? GNOME or KDE? For you, Michael, twm. Cheers, Carl.

Re: Fwd: Re: There Will be a CLUG - (was There is no CLUG)

2003-01-30 Thread C Falconer
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 16:29, Carl Cerecke wrote: Michael JasonSmith wrote: On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 16:12, Carl Cerecke wrote: Anybody have any Linux questions? GNOME or KDE? For you, Michael, twm. socks:~# ps auxw | grep twm criggie 763 0.0 0.1 3228 1464 ?SJan30 0:02

Sendmail

2003-01-30 Thread Gareth Williams
[and now for something a little less 'political'] I am setting up mutt on my laptop (low specs, so I want to use as many text based apps as possible). It gets mail from the pop server fine (specified one in the mutt config file). But when I send mail, it seems to want to send it thru the local

[ignore this message]

2003-01-30 Thread Paul
i am testing the list

Re: Fwd: Re: There Will be a CLUG - (was There is no CLUG)

2003-01-30 Thread Col
Carl Cerecke wrote: Christopher Sawtell wrote: Personally, I have got neither the time nor the emotional energy to get involved with either a strictured, or a structured organisation. I'll just have to walk away from it if that happens. I hope not. Funnily enough, the 5 people elected to the

Re: Sendmail

2003-01-30 Thread Rex Johnston
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 17:49, Gareth Williams wrote: [and now for something a little less 'political'] Amen. Does anyone speak /etc/sendmail.cf ? ;-) Err, yup. I have never seen a config file such as this - obfusticated is an Oh come on. It's not *that* bad. At least its 7 bit. :)

Kazaa [lite] on Linux/WINE

2003-01-30 Thread Paul
Hi, I am trying to run kazaa on linux but I keep getting the error Couldnt load TopSearch.dll . I have tried kazaa lite versions 1.7.x, 2.0.0,2.0.2 . I am running mandrake 9.0. Thanks

Re: There is no CLUG

2003-01-30 Thread Robert Fisher
Sounds good to me On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 09:03, Jason Greenwood wrote: Thanks Tim =) What does the list think of this idea?? Cheers J Tim Wright wrote: On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Jason wrote: I still think a meeting in 2 halves is best. First half GUI and app based

Re: OSTC Opens Tomorrow

2003-01-30 Thread David Kirk
Robert wrote: Damn! I am interested in this stuff but cannot make it tomorrow. Yeah, sorry about the short notice. When the forum is up and running, you should post a message saying you want to learn about it. I can probably teach it again if nobody else offers. Later David Kirk

ip address

2003-01-30 Thread John Carter
I have one ( trying to learn bash scripting ) Is there an easier/better way for a user to obtain ppp0 ip address than IP=$(netstat -rn | grep UH | cut -d -f1 | head -n 1) perl -le 'print `/sbin/ifconfig eth0`=~/inet addr:(\S+)/' John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358

SANE, Mplayer install problems...

2003-01-30 Thread Chris Wilkinson
Hi there, I'm relatively new to Linux, and I've got three wee problems right now. 1. I cannot get SANE to talk to my Epson Perfection 1260 USB scanner. It can be seen easily by USB Devices, I have trouble installing the appropriate backend... 2. I cannot install Mplayer (RPM versions from

Re: Fwd: Re: There Will be a CLUG - (was There is no CLUG)

2003-01-30 Thread Adrian Stacey
Col wrote: I have one ( trying to learn bash scripting ) Is there an easier/better way for a user to obtain ppp0 ip address than IP=$(netstat -rn | grep UH | cut -d -f1 | head -n 1) IP=$(netstat -rn | grep UH | awk '{print $1}') Adrian

Re: Sendmail

2003-01-30 Thread Adrian Stacey
Gareth Williams wrote: [and now for something a little less 'political'] Also, I understand it's not good to run sendmail if you don't have it properly configured (even if it was configured as an open relay though, for argument sake, it's behind a firewall). Still, this is my first time

Re: SANE, Mplayer install problems...

2003-01-30 Thread Michael JasonSmith
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 19:08, Chris Wilkinson wrote: 2. I cannot install Mplayer (RPM versions from net). There are a few dependency issues, although I believe I already have the right libs needed already. I'd like to get this one going since the video apps supplied by my MDK 9.0

Re: There Will be a CLUG - (was There is no CLUG)

2003-01-30 Thread Paul
I completely agree. On Friday 31 Jan 2003 5:19 am, Robert Fisher wrote: Thanks Nick. Here here! On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 14:12, Nick Rout wrote: For heavens sake John, if you read the list properly you would know that the people on this list (ie CLUG to the extent that it exists) don't

Re: ip address

2003-01-30 Thread Col
John Carter wrote: I have one ( trying to learn bash scripting ) Is there an easier/better way for a user to obtain ppp0 ip address than IP=$(netstat -rn | grep UH | cut -d -f1 | head -n 1) perl -le 'print `/sbin/ifconfig eth0`=~/inet addr:(\S+)/' John Carter

PCMCIA settings

2003-01-30 Thread Isaac Devine
hello all, I am wanting to replace redhat 7.3 on my laptop with Slackware 8 and I have prickly PCMCIA settings. Does anyone know where the pcmcia settings are kept so I can copy them over when slackware is installed. (i.e. put on floppy then put back on laptop). Also opinons on Slackware

Re: Sendmail

2003-01-30 Thread Gareth Williams
Look for this # Smart relay host (may be null) DS And fill in the blank bit after DS with the fqdn of your upstream relay. Thanks very much, that was what I was looking for. Works perfectly now :-) Cheers, Gareth

Re: Kazaa [lite] on Linux/WINE

2003-01-30 Thread Gareth Williams
Assuming you do actually have the required dll file, and the case matches (it could well be case sensitive) then... the first thing that comes to mind is to look in your ~/.wine/config file - I don't have one to check against atm, but I seem to remember something about dll load order

Printer Problems

2003-01-30 Thread Benjamin Devine
Hi all, otCouldn't be bothered reading the threads there is no clug blahh blahh blahh Seems Like Someones Angry so didn't even bother opening0/ot Well anyway I installed mandrake 8 on a box with 256 m ram and p11 330mhz (i think thats right) well i installed cups because it seems to be the only

Question - Wine

2003-01-30 Thread Kevin Linux account
How many versions of Wine are there and what is the difference? Regards, Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SANE, Mplayer install problems...

2003-01-30 Thread Gareth Williams
Nah, there's nothing wrong with mplayer, and it works better than xine in my experience. If you're having trouble with the precompiled binaries, try downloading and compiling from source, worked fine for me :-) (almost straight off from memory ;-) Cheers, Gareth On Friday 31 January 2003

Clug meetings

2003-01-30 Thread Graham Barnett
I still think a meeting in 2 halves is best. First half GUI and appbased discussions/presentations. Second half, CLI/programming orienteddiscussion. We start the halves at preset times, then, if people didn'twant to stay for the second half they could leave. Conversly, they couldcome ONLY

Re: Fwd: Re: There Will be a CLUG - (was There is no CLUG)

2003-01-30 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 18:01, Col wrote: Is there an easier/better way for a user to obtain ppp0 ip address than IP=$(netstat -rn | grep UH | cut -d -f1 | head -n 1) Quoting the pppd man page /etc/ppp/ip-up A program or script which is executed when the link is