Re: Celestia

2003-04-06 Thread Jason
sndconfig is the standard method for ISA PnP cards, even MDK says this. Cheers Jason PS, glad you got it going. Chris Wilkinson wrote: Hi there, Martin Baehr wrote: On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 07:54:05AM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: Thanks to Chris W for mentioning this program. I just reinstalled

Re: Mandrake on Low Spec box

2003-04-06 Thread Jason
Glad you got it going. Evn MDK states that sndconfig should be used for ISA cards. Cheers Jason Robert Fisher wrote: Sound Card is ISA ESS 1869 chip (on board) I had to manually get it going using sndconfig I do remember now that I gave up with it on Gentoo and used another (PCI) card so

Re: Telstraclear cable: 128kb - 256kb no extra charge in May?

2003-04-06 Thread Mahesh De Silva
noo,... i just moved house and thus had to sadly give up my cable connections!!! Hi, I was at the teltraclearn website and fond out that they do not offer 128k anymore but offer 256k with 5gig cap for the same price(?) They also state that on the 1st of

Re: sound cards

2003-04-06 Thread David Mann
Chris Wilkinson wrote: If you're looking for a cheap new 19, Dick Smith sell theirs for a snip under $400. Its a DSE badged Proview...not state of art, but certainly good-value-for-money... For less than that you could buy a cheap standalone DVD player and watch on your TV... but your

Re: font2pcl.ps

2003-04-06 Thread Rex Johnston
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 14:22, Helmut Walle wrote: On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Rex Johnston wrote: If you know a bit of Postscript you should be able to see what it interesting language, no ? RPN ? really does. It also contains heaps of comments. You can run gs with the CLI (by just starting gs in a

Re: sound cards

2003-04-06 Thread Nick Rout
I already have a dvd player for the lounge. With a 7 year old its handy to have two. eventually i would like to build a multimedia centre using some low noise setup (mini itx anyone?), so working on the dvd software and good sound on my desktop is all background. On Sun, 06 Apr 2003

Re: Telstraclear cable: 128kb - 256kb no extra charge in May?

2003-04-06 Thread G. M. Bodnar
Ben Aitchison is on permanent record as saying: :The central city isn't even cabled up yet! sigh ADSL is really really :annoying. Oh and Paradise ADSL is more variable than Paradise Cable. :Often national pings are in excess of 150 msec. You'd really think they :could at least cable up

Re: adsl ISP's. was: Telstraclear cable: 128kb - 256kb no extra charge in May?

2003-04-06 Thread Ben Aitchison
On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 12:59:46PM +1200, Mahesh De Silva wrote: Dam i was thinking of switching to paradise dsl, hoping to get the same performance as cable. Is the speed issue with telecom/ADSL? Any one recamend a good ISP. I was with Net4u, but there fait is uncertain. %

Re: Telstraclear cable: 128kb - 256kb no extra charge in May?

2003-04-06 Thread Ben Aitchison
On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 07:06:05PM -0700, G. M. Bodnar wrote: Ben Aitchison is on permanent record as saying: :The central city isn't even cabled up yet! sigh ADSL is really really :annoying. Oh and Paradise ADSL is more variable than Paradise Cable. :Often national pings are in excess of

RPM History - via Cooker

2003-04-06 Thread Jason Greenwood
Hi All, Great discussion on list that is very enlightening. Thought this would be helpful re RPM. Cheers Jason Original Message Subject: Re: [Cooker] Document review request: RPM devel package dependency problem Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 18:44:24 -0800 From: Andi Payn [EMAIL

EU MS purchase - Ouch

2003-04-06 Thread Jason Greenwood
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/30105.html EU investigates MS, EU buys scads more Windows servers By John Lettice Posted: 04/04/2003 at 13:28 GMT The European Commission is currently deciding what it can do to stop Microsoft using its dominant position on the desktop to carve itself a

Re: Telstraclear cable: 128kb - 256kb no extra charge in May?

2003-04-06 Thread David Miles
The easiest way is to call them up, as each household has a connection status. The easiest way to check is to look for the little green PED out the front of your house, or cable on the poles - you cant miss them! Ben, at the moment there is no new build happening anywhere in Christchurch. The

Re: Using Gimp

2003-04-06 Thread Herb Petrie
Tim Wright wrote: On Sun, 6 Apr 2003, Herb Petrie wrote: In load Image, I am unable to go down to the directory the files are in. Could you try starting the Gimp from a terminal window: type gimp filename (replace filename with a file you want to edit) and tell us what error messages you

Re: sound cards

2003-04-06 Thread Chris Wilkinson
Hi there, David Mann wrote: Chris Wilkinson wrote: If you're looking for a cheap new 19, Dick Smith sell theirs for a snip under $400. Its a DSE badged Proview...not state of art, but certainly good-value-for-money... For less than that you could buy a cheap standalone DVD player and watch on

Re: Using Gimp

2003-04-06 Thread Gareth Williams
On Monday 07 April 2003 16:33, Herb Petrie wrote: The error message is Gtk - Warning **:cannot open Display: This message shows when I either enter the file name, or the full directory path to it. type: export DISPLAY=:0 then try again :-)

Re: Using Gimp

2003-04-06 Thread Nick Rout
is this from within an xterm? and is it from the same user as the user logged in to X? this happens typically when another user, eg root, tries to run something on the desktop. On Mon, 07 Apr 2003 16:33:02 +1200 Herb Petrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim Wright wrote: On Sun, 6 Apr 2003, Herb

Create tape backup script (was: How to mount a scsi tape drive?)

2003-04-06 Thread Bryce Stenberg
Thanks Nick - I now have the mt-st package installed. Does anyone have a script showing simple use of 'mt' to get a backup job done? Just something I could use as an example to get me started. I have run 'erase' successfully but not sure where to go to now - so many options for the command -