Re: Yast going GPL

2004-03-23 Thread InfoHelp
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 16:45:03 +1200, Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 11:54, InfoHelp Services wrote: If so, the committee might like to take it from there, or co-opt an organiser. You volunteering? I hope you're aware that it's harder than herding cats! Should I

Re: OT - laptop advice

2004-03-23 Thread anton
Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 20:48, anton wrote: As we are shortly going overseas we want to get a laptop. I'd have thought that you would do better buying your lappie overseas. I thought so too for a while but after some considerable searching I find that is not so! I am

Re: Yast going GPL

2004-03-23 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
Are there any public suse mirrors? Heaps listed on suse.com, but I know of none in NZ. As it's not the most of my traffic and I'm only using a fraction of my quota, I don't really mind. There are several mirrors which even have rsync servers - double neat!! If people are free to put it on

RE: (Flame Bait) Qmail or Postfix?

2004-03-23 Thread Mahesh De Silva
thanks for reply's, i think i will go with postfix. I will keep you guys posted. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used this... http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=56633highlight=mail+server+howto Regards, Robert Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windscreen.

RE: Recommendations for ADSL modem/switch

2004-03-23 Thread Peter Murray
I used one for a company that I support, it seems to work alright most of the time, but occasionally it will stop working and requires the power to be reset. There does not seem to be a reset option from the web interface. There is a limit of 10 port forwardings that can be defined which can be a

Re: Wanted: Advice on PDAs

2004-03-23 Thread Michael JasonSmith
On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 18:37, Paul William wrote: Unistrokes can take a while to get used to, but it is fairly fast. The but much slower than single stroke 'funny' letters :( Unistrokes *is* the single-stroke funny letters. The original paper was called Touch Typing with a Pen IIRC, and was

Re: Yast going GPL - CLUG

2004-03-23 Thread InfoHelp
Thanks Volker, no problem. We'd be glad to hear you speak whenever it suits you. Those of us who've never seen Suse running would be quite happy with an 8.2 demo, as it's your insight into Suse's ongoing innovations that we are most interested in. That said, once some hardware a projector are

Re: Wanted: Advice on PDAs

2004-03-23 Thread Nick Rout
someone showed me their newish palm the other day and some of its graffitti strokes were quite different to the original palm (first model) that i own. On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 09:46:17 +1200 Michael JasonSmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 18:37, Paul William wrote: Unistrokes

Re: Wanted: Advice on PDAs

2004-03-23 Thread Michael JasonSmith
On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 09:49, Nick Rout wrote: someone showed me their newish palm the other day and some of its graffitti strokes were quite different to the original palm (first model) that i own. I think that has something to do with the court settlement between Palm and Xerox. -- Michael

Re: Yast going GPL - CLUG

2004-03-23 Thread Nick Rout
no go for it, is this to be a demo of an installation, or a running system? If the latter then I guess it will focus on stuff that is peculiar to SuSE, as we have obviously all seen a running linux distro before Having said that there is plenty to show off on a running SuSE distro, the

Fwd: Re: OT - laptop advice

2004-03-23 Thread Christopher Sawtell
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: OT - laptop advice Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 10:03 From: Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 07:34, Vik Olliver wrote: On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 13:39, Nick Rout wrote: odd, maybe i was misinformed

Re: OT - laptop advice

2004-03-23 Thread Nick Rout
Its biggest deficiencies are battery life, and the lack of pcmcia. The latter cuts you off from most of the better priced lappie peripherals like wireless etc. also doing these peripherals via a usb is, IMHO, a recipe for disaster. pcmcia is neatly almost entirely inside the case. usb dongles

Fwd: Re: OT - laptop advice

2004-03-23 Thread InfoHelp
Hi Anton, For 512MB onboard at sale (+ wifi fdd touchscroll 56k conexant pcmcia eth ... ), now c$2K, I settled on a Compaq P4 grunter (2.66-2.8 GHz) from Powerstore - have you checked them out? (work still to do) http://www.infohelp.co.nz/lnxlaptop.html Cheers, enjoy your travels ~/rik

Re: OT - laptop advice

2004-03-23 Thread Hamish McBrearty
If long battery life (up to 6 hours!!) and bells and whistles is what you're after I could suggest an Apple iBook. If you know a secondary school teacher you can get the basic G4 model for $2150. They are lovely to look at, have everything you need bar wireless (an Airport card is worth about

Re: OT - laptop advice

2004-03-23 Thread Nick Rout
yes those have scored really well in a couple of tests i have seen published. theres an ibook 12 or something like that, with a 12 inch screen i believe. (most of the x86 lappies you buy these days have 14-15 inches). it featured in the under $2.5k pcworld feature this/last month. On Wed, 24

Re: Fwd: Re: OT - laptop advice

2004-03-23 Thread Jason Greenwood
This looks like about the best deal going: http://www.pricespy.co.nz/pno_2276.html Cheers J Christopher Sawtell wrote: -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: OT - laptop advice Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 10:03 From: Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On

The reason they called it OPEN Office

2004-03-23 Thread Jaco Swart
Somewhere, I heard that sxw-files (OpenOffice equevalent of Word's doc-files) contains standard xml files. To put this to the test, I tried a little experiment, which you can try out if you have OpenOffice installed. 1. Create a new OpenOffice text document. 2. Paste 'n graphic from the

Re: The reason they called it OPEN Office

2004-03-23 Thread Nick Rout
This has been referred to in a number of articles i have read online and in magazines lately. A couple of LJ's ago there was an article on manipulating the xml files in ruby, eg searching for styles in the text etc. You don't need to change the format to .zip. just unzip file.sxw works. In

data projection

2004-03-23 Thread InfoHelp
Hi folks, With forthcoming CLUG meetings in mind, may I ask List's advice please, on the best purchase options for a professional data projector? Variables include: brand, power rating, price, supplier.. I have S-video VGA outputs on my lappie - any others to be considered? It would be a

Re: data projection

2004-03-23 Thread Hamish McBrearty
Without this I will be seeking a loaner for the CLUG Suse session. As always, I am happy to provide a data display should one be required. Just need a couple of days warning to ensure no-one else books it. Of course there are certain advantages to controlling to booking system as well ;o)

Re: data projection

2004-03-23 Thread InfoHelp
Great, thanks Hamish. Consider any date confirmed by Volker as needing to be pencilled in for us. Will keep you posted. Cheers, ~/rik Hamish McBrearty wrote: Without this I will be seeking a loaner for the CLUG Suse session. As always, I am happy to provide a data display should one be

Re: OT - laptop advice

2004-03-23 Thread InfoHelp
Hi Anton, For 512MB onboard at sale (+ wifi fdd touchscroll 56k conexant nic ...), now c$2K, I settled on a Compaq P4 grunter (2.66-2.8 GHz) from Powerstore - have you checked them out? (work still to do) http://www.infohelp.co.nz/lnxlaptop.html Cheers, enjoy your travels ~/rik anton

Re: data projection

2004-03-23 Thread Patrick Dunford
InfoHelp wrote: Hi folks, With forthcoming CLUG meetings in mind, may I ask List's advice please, on the best purchase options for a professional data projector? Variables include: brand, power rating, price, supplier.. I have S-video VGA outputs on my lappie - any others to be considered?

Re: Yast going GPL - CLUG

2004-03-23 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
Nick, you're onto it again ;) Thurs 6 May sounds good to me, with 9.1 if I can source a copy at least 2 days before, otherwise 8.2. Whether it'd be worth waiting until end Jun to have 9.1 is something the audience would have to decide. There's no point in showing Linux, we've all seen it, so

Re: Yast going GPL - CLUG

2004-03-23 Thread dave
On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 19:05, you wrote: I´d be interested in attending. time 7:30pm ??? dave. Nick, you're onto it again ;) Thurs 6 May sounds good to me, with 9.1 if I can source a copy at least 2 days before, otherwise 8.2. Whether it'd be worth waiting until end Jun to have 9.1 is

Printer interals (writing drivers)

2004-03-23 Thread dave
Big topic . anyone here on the list have any exposure to doing one be interested in finding out the howto´s of development. regards, dave.

sendmail magic

2004-03-23 Thread Vik Olliver
I'd like to be able to alias the From: field in my sendmail configuration somehow for outgoing mail to conceal internal usernames etc. Is this magic too dark for mere mortals? Do I need a ring of some sort, or a glowing sword and paucity of footwear perhaps? Vik :v) -- This PC runs Linux. If you

Re: Yast going GPL - CLUG

2004-03-23 Thread InfoHelp
Thanks Volker, I'll nab that booking for CLUG tomorrow. I'd be glad to have the installation (esp 9.1) on my lappie, so long as current partitions are preserved. P4-2.66G 512MB. How much space req'd max? Any hardware declines? (This is the big Q.) Yes Dave, 7.30pm is the usual start time -

Re: Printer interals (writing drivers)

2004-03-23 Thread Michael JasonSmith
On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 19:27, dave wrote: Big topic . anyone here on the list have any exposure to doing one be interested in finding out the howto´s of development. The closest I have ever come is writing a small Python program to send JCL commands to a Kyocera/Mita