Hear, hear. Thank you Carl.
You can't fight the adoption of a name (dare I say brand) by the
public at large. Once it's embedded in the collective conscious, it's
there to stay. Witness Aspirin. Did you know that the name Alison was
once a boy's name (son-of-Al)?
To most of the world it's just
Douglas Royds wrote:
BTW, which 3rd meaning of free did you mean? Free to move? Free of
rants? Uninhibited? Available for the next punter?
It was an allusion to the Buy 1 and get another one FREE! type of
statement.
This meaning of free is not free-as-in-freedom, and not really
free-as-in-cost
C. Falconer wrote:
I looked at the cgi script, and thought this is bollocks
All that information is a quick command away, and you've probably got an
xterm running on any important machine in the network anyway.
Ah, but that's the difference. BB tells you something's gone wrong, not
the other
InfoHelp wrote:
I read the thread - it proves my point.
Unchanged uname means an fsck-lot more than your anti-RMS
vendetta.
Get a life. Please.
Down boy! This isn't a vendetta. It's just a lot of folks
weary of silliness.
No-one starts out as being anti-RMS. The man brings it out
in
I have just set-up a computer running Mandrake10 Official and would like
to be able to print to Novell print queues, but haven't been able to
work out how to set it up. I have mounted volumes ok and can print using
nprint -q but how do I set up cups (or alternative) to print to the
Novell print
Hi,
I am selling my Pentium III if anyone here is interested.
Specs:
Pentium III - 733MHz
128MB RAM
15GB HDD
52x CDROM
Intel 82815 chipset graphics
Intel i810 chipset sound
Ethernet card
USB
15 Monitor
with keyboard and mouse
I'm thinking around $320 for it but i can be flexible.
If you're
On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 22:25, Ian Laurenson wrote:
I have just set-up a computer running Mandrake10 Official and would like
to be able to print to Novell print queues, but haven't been able to
work out how to set it up. I have mounted volumes ok and can print using
nprint -q but how do I set up
On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 23:00, Nick Rout wrote:
I suspect that you need a package called ncpfs and that the program
therein called nprint is the key to this. As I do not have a novell
print queue handy I cannot test.
Thanks Nick - I have ncpfs installed and can run nprint to print a file.
What
Hi,
On Radio NZ this morning (2004-07-08), just after 10 AM, there'll be a
short item about the upcoming changes to copyright law in NZ.
(It's somewhere around 101 on the FM tuner.)
Tim
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Timothy Musson wrote:
Hi,
On Radio NZ this morning (2004-07-08), just after 10 AM, there'll be a
short item about the upcoming changes to copyright law in NZ.
Would somebody like to post a summary for those of us without radios?
Thanks.
I think this could be what you need.
http://prope.insa-lyon.fr/~ppollet/netware/lin2nds/docs/trucsastuces.ssi
Regards, Robert
-Original Message-
From: Ian Laurenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, 8 July 2004 9:13 a.m.
To: clug
Subject:Re: Printing to
I will try it when I get to Lincoln Uni later today.
Thanks, Ian
On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 09:37, Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote:
I think this could be what you need.
http://prope.insa-lyon.fr/~ppollet/netware/lin2nds/docs/trucsastuces.ssi
Regards, Robert
-Original Message-
I don't think that Robert's suggestion should be necessary on mandrake.
You will see that a netware cups backend is already in the mandrake 10
rpm. The file is /usr/lib/cups/backend/nprint. Its a bash script.
It seems from my investigations that:
(a) the netware backend is not part of the
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Douglas Royds wrote:
Jim Cheetham wrote:
I'm not especially happy about that, though, as I didn't to see an
aggregate editing/blog style of wiki, but a
(Pushing the SuSE barrow again)
In SuSE YaST Printer simply select Print via IPX Network Server then
enter the relevant details.
Regards, Robert
-Original Message-
From: Ian Laurenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, 8 July 2004 10:09 a.m.
To: clug
Subject:
Carl Cerecke wrote:
Timothy Musson wrote:
Hi,
On Radio NZ this morning (2004-07-08), just after 10 AM, there'll be a
short item about the upcoming changes to copyright law in NZ.
Would somebody like to post a summary for those of us without radios?
Thanks.
Of late I have been tuning out the
Posting this to the both lists in an effort to catch the right people.
There are at least two registrations for Mac's at the installfest. This
brings to mind two things:
1. Who has experience with installing on a mac? Your experience would be
valued.
2. What distro? Yellowdog, Mandrake, Debian
2. What distro? Yellowdog, Mandrake, Debian and Gentoo are known to have
ppc versions.
It seems that YD is somewhat maintained, at least for embedded ppc
systems (great for routers). De facto you might (will?) end up having
to compile Debian yourself. Dunno about Mdk, SuSE has by the looks of
On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 22:25:57 +1200
Ian Laurenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have just set-up a computer running Mandrake10 Official and would like
to be able to print to Novell print queues, but haven't been able to
work out how to set it up. I have mounted volumes ok and can print using
Nick Rout wrote:
1. Who has experience with installing on a mac? Your experience would be
valued.
I've installed OSX multiple times onto a real Mac, and both Darwin and
OSX into a pearpc emulator. But that's all ...
2. What distro? Yellowdog, Mandrake, Debian and Gentoo are known to have
ppc
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
2. What distro? Yellowdog, Mandrake, Debian and Gentoo are known to have
ppc versions.
It seems that YD is somewhat maintained, at least for embedded ppc
systems (great for routers). De facto you might (will?) end up having
to compile Debian
Carl Cerecke, 2004-07-08 09:25:27:
Timothy Musson wrote:
On Radio NZ this morning (2004-07-08), just after 10 AM, there'll be
a short item about the upcoming changes to copyright law in NZ.
Would somebody like to post a summary for those of us without radios?
Linda Clark hosted a short
Nick Rout wrote:
Posting this to the both lists in an effort to catch the right people.
There are at least two registrations for Mac's at the installfest. This
brings to mind two things:
1. Who has experience with installing on a mac? Your experience would be
valued.
I just spoken to one of the
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 01:32:22PM NZST, Jim Cheetham wrote:
Well, I guess it depends on the hardware spec. I don't know how boot
is managed on older Macs, and I really don't know why someone who has
never installed OSX on a newer machine would want to put a Linux on -
i.e. they should
Philip Charles wrote:
I could get the first three Debian Testing (Sarge) CDs for you.
How easy is the install for this?
Also how long to install?
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Information Services Section, Information Technology Dept,
University of Canterbury - Te Whare Waananga o Waitaha
G. M. Bodnar wrote:
disclaimer: this information may be outdated.
Older can be tricky. The 601 based PowerMac (6100, 7100, 8100 Series)
aren't supported by the linuxppc distributions. Instead, you're stuck
with MkLinux, which was the linux kernel run on top of the Mach
microkernel. (It was, in
sorry both models so far seem reasonably up to date, i should hae said
that.:
one is running macos x 10.3
t'other is a 1.5GHz machine with 1G Ram
On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 14:26:49 +1200
Andrew Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
G. M. Bodnar wrote:
disclaimer: this information may be outdated.
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 02:26:49PM NZST, Andrew Turner wrote:
G. M. Bodnar wrote:
disclaimer: this information may be outdated.
Older can be tricky. The 601 based PowerMac (6100, 7100, 8100 Series)
aren't supported by the linuxppc distributions. Instead, you're stuck
with MkLinux, which
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Zane Gilmore wrote:
Philip Charles wrote:
I could get the first three Debian Testing (Sarge) CDs for you.
How easy is the install for this?
If it is like i386 it should be quite easy.
Also how long to install?
1 -2 hours.
Warning, I have no experience with powerpc.
I don't know whether this is the best approach but I did get it to work thanks
to Robert's URL.
http://prope.insa-lyon.fr/~ppollet/netware/lin2nds/docs/trucsastuces.ssi
I found I had some other things wrong along the way like not having .nwclient
with mod 0600 - it simply ignored the file.
Thanks for the feedback Ian.
As printing is our business (Xerox) I was very interested in your question
and wether my answer worked or not.
Regards, Robert
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, 8 July 2004 3:01 p.m.
To: [EMAIL
was there something wrong with the mandrake supplied script?
if so i am sure mandrake would like to know.
On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 15:00:55 +1200 (NZST)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't know whether this is the best approach but I did get it to work thanks
to Robert's URL.
Could you please specifically ask him asap what the story is with
non-destructive repartitioning. I suspect dual booting will be requested
(well one has mentioned it specifically in fact)
I have seen one comment that the mac os X cd will non destructively
shift and shrink a partition. We need to
Nick Rout wrote:
sorry both models so far seem reasonably up to date, i should hae said
that.:
one is running macos x 10.3
t'other is a 1.5GHz machine with 1G Ram
I think we should probably speak to them before we start and ensure they
know what they're getting themselves into.
We need to find
yes i intend to do that, and will do that, i need to be able to speak
to them about backing up and partitioning, hence my most recent post ;-)
On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 16:06:24 +1200
Zane Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nick Rout wrote:
sorry both models so far seem reasonably up to date, i
Just replying to myself :-/
because I have a reply back from the AppleMac guy.
he said:
Zane,
No sure about the partitioning issue but I will look into it.
I recommend Yellow dog linux as this distribution is officially endorsed by
Apple. Terra Soft Solutions are the only company that Apple
Hi,
I have a Pentium laptop here that i am selling
Specs:
Pentium I
16MB ram
around 750MB hdd
28.8k Modem
CDROM
External Floppy
I haven't tested it with linux and it's currently running Win95 and has
random software ie: IE5, ACDsee, and a bit of other stuff. I'm selling
it for $200 ono. I have
On Thursday 08 July 2004 13:12, Nick Rout wrote:
Posting this to the both lists in an effort to catch the right people.
I have read / skimmed the whole thread.
Sorry I have been out this afternoon.
There are at least two registrations for Mac's at the installfest.
One of them - the ibook - got
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