That helps a little - I think! There is a local Linux user in this small
village and I hope to be able to get some help from him.
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:54, Nick Rout wrote:
> I recon Lindsay might need something a bit more explicit.
>
> > # represents the root prompt
> by which he means the a
Barry wrote:
Hi
I recently downloaded source code for kxstitch and worked my way through
configure, make and make install successfully .
Thanks for the replies. I uninstalled, then ran ./configure prefix=/usr
and all now works.
I had a quick read through the documentation, loaded
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:54, Nick Rout wrote:
I recon Lindsay might need something a bit more explicit.
> # represents the root prompt
by which he means the account for the privileged system administrator who can
write to files anywhere in the file-system. Don't use this account unless you
actuall
Hey,
I have had a similar problem. Playing dsl tennis with ihug and Telescum. One
guy always points the finger at the other. Ihug by the way have maybe the
worst customer support I have had the misfortune of dealing with. I have
never had any CSR call me 'ignorant' before.
This is beside the poin
# represents the root prompt
$ represents an ordinary user prompt
thats if they are at the start of the line, you don't type them, if you
look at a terminal (console or xterm) you will see them :-)
if they are in the middle of a command you probably need to type them in.
but there are dangers
Just a reminder of the meeting tomorrow 24 January 2004 at 7.30 pm at
the Cashmere Club.[1]
There will be a presentation by a German visitor Ruediger Berlich who
will talk on Grid Computing Research & inside 'SuSE Linux'.
Please support this meeting as we are not often able to arrange talks by
ov
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 10:53:31PM, Nick Rout wrote:
> the cure for the program not being where you want it is the mv command.
I have found that some programmes will not run if moved from their installed
location, the use of a soft link was a quick fix.
'ln -s /usr/kde/bin/kxstitch /usr/bin/kxst
hmm you mean like the "emerge openoffice" that my gentoo box at home has
been doing all morning?
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:08:03 +1300 (NZDT)
John Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Priority 19 is special, the linux scheduler knows about it and has special
> code to handle it.
>
> Use it for bat
I printed out some info this arvo on installing Ubuntu on a system with
small RAM (32-64mb).
I am afraid I dont even understand what the # & $ signs are used
for. I am afraid I dont have time to go to the library and explore this
info, so can I have some newbie help with this?
When the
Nick Rout wrote:
This looks like a good intro too :-)
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/home-router-howto.xml
Excellent tech link.
gentoo | asap
Cheers,
Rik
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Nick Rout wrote:
I've used nice before, in fact the gentoo emerge system has an
environment variable specifically for setting the niceness level on
emerges.
I usually set it for 10, as that was the example given to me at the time.
Do I take it from what you are saying that 19 i
On 24/01/05 14:22, I wrote:
>>Now is probably a good time to check your memory;
> It's a debian sun box, installed off floppy/net. The rescue/install disk
> doesn't appear to have a memory check option in the menu, and googling hasn't
> revealed anything relevant so far. Suggestions?
Found memtes
I've used nice before, in fact the gentoo emerge system has an
environment variable specifically for setting the niceness level on
emerges.
I usually set it for 10, as that was the example given to me at the time.
Do I take it from what you are saying that 19 is a special case? not
just a bit les
On Mon 24 Jan 2005 14:50:55 NZDT +1300, Jamie Dobbs wrote:
Obviously Telstra is only an option if you can get it. Equally obviously
you can get adsl only from Telecom - you don't have to use Xtra though.
> compared to Telecoms $3. We regularly call Australia so Telecoms $3
> calling is great - I
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Nick Rout wrote:
hmm you mean like the "emerge openoffice" that my gentoo box at home has
been doing all morning?
Yes, exactly that.
For interactive tasks you want the CPU to juggle them to present the
sleight of hand appearance that the CPU is always paying attention to you,
Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
While Telstra may behave in Oz like telcom&xtra do here, this side of
the pond Telstra plays second fiddle and has to behave themselves. They
also happen to have the better technology, though their marketing has
become somewhat questionable as of late. Choosing between
On 24/01/05 09:32, Matthew Gregan wrote:
>>kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:235!
>>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
>
>
> What kernel version are you using?
uname -a
Linux grunt 2.4.26-sparc32 #1 Sun Jun 20 02:18:47 PDT 2004 sparc GNU/Linux
> Now is probably a good time to check your
Priority 19 is special, the linux scheduler knows about it and has special
code to handle it.
Use it for batch jobs that you want to get a big fat time slice, but never
ever at the cost of an interactive job.
eg.
nice -19 BigFatBatchJob &> log.file&
John Carter Phon
> I must admit to finding it strange that all are avoiding supporting xtra,
> whilst being quite happy to recommend lining the pockets of the Oz
> government.
While Telstra may behave in Oz like telcom&xtra do here, this side of
the pond Telstra plays second fiddle and has to behave themselves. Th
From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, 24 January 2005 12:00 p.m.
To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz
>On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 10:18:40 +1300
>Bryce Stenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Two hours before technician due to turn up he phones to check that I do
>> live at Leithfield
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 10:18:40 +1300
Bryce Stenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Two hours before technician due to turn up he phones to check that I do
> live at Leithfield Beach - says I can't get JetStream there as too far from
> exchange (at Amberley, 8km) - telecom needs to lay fibre to the
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 10:18, Bryce Stenberg wrote:
> What's a good way to pressure telecom to make it happen?
By far the best way to get action out of any huge organisation is to write to
the top boss of the outfit. You can get his name from the Companies Office
register. The effect of a well con
Steve Holdoway wrote:
I must admit to finding it strange that all are avoiding supporting xtra,
whilst being quite happy to recommend lining the pockets of the Oz
government.
Steve
Perhaps the fact that Telecom have been holding the country to ransom
and holding up the availability
and the perf
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 18:21 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> Just a reminder of the meeting tomorrow 24 January 2004 at 7.30 pm at
> the Cashmere Club.[1]
>
> There will be a presentation by a German visitor Ruediger Berlich who
> will talk on Grid Computing Research & inside 'SuSE Linux'.
>
> Please su
Jetstream was down here also.
I've once had through put issues, after my plan was capped for a few
days the next billing period started and the speed didn't increase to
full speed. A restart of the router and all was fine. I consistantly
get 250kps from my connection, and generally have had fe
Greetings,
Did anyone in Christchurch get any downtime on xtra Jetstream last weekend.
Here in Auckland it was off for a large part of Saturday morning. I got a
voice on the helpline to confirm the system was down but no advice was
offered or estimated downtime, certainly no apology, just a load
Hi, just reporting back as suggested (to do with router behind DSL Modem
and would it all work together )...
Well, it was a complete debacle... not due to the hardware but due to
telecom. If your not signed up with Xtra you get the complete run around:
I started with setting up my dsl modem but
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 09:45, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> I must admit to finding it strange that all are avoiding supporting xtra,
> whilst being quite happy to recommend lining the pockets of the Oz
> government.
Points to consider.
Internet over POTS lines, TV Cable, and ADSL are all kludges, but the C
I must admit to finding it strange that all are avoiding supporting xtra,
whilst being quite happy to recommend lining the pockets of the Oz
government.
Steve
On Mon, January 24, 2005 9:37 am, yuri said:
> On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 20:33:51 +1300, dave wrote:
>> Got a couple of places for you to start
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 20:33:51 +1300, dave wrote:
> Got a couple of places for you to start you off with
> 1) TelstraClear Homeplan (url below)
TelstraClear Homeplan (resale of Telecom lines) is not available
within 100m of TelstraClear's own network.
That said, cable provides lower latency and
At 2005-01-24T09:21:40+1300, Roy Britten wrote:
> Boy, it sure does consume RAM. And it's the only software that has
> managed to crash my debian box:
> kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:235!
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
What kernel version are you using?
Now is probably a good ti
Thanks Nick and Volker for the pointers to ImageMagick and its various ways of
doing things.
On 22/01/05 01:00, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> ImageMagick!
>
> Beware though, it's the buggiest software I can't do without.
Boy, it sure does consume RAM. And it's the only software that has managed to
cr
Rob,
> David, thanks for that; it will be useful on the day. Is the last line of
> your message the entry to be added to /etc/exports?
No. That is a list of the different types of installations you can
do. In your case I am recommending either NFS from another Linux box,
or SMB from a Windows h
On Sun, January 23, 2005 11:25 pm, Christopher Sawtell said:
> On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 22:19, Barry wrote:
>
>> It starts but crashes on pressing button3
Once everything is installed in the right place mine no longer crashed.
>>
>> 2nd problem is that the help button can not find the documentation
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 22:19, Barry wrote:
> Hi
>
> I recently downloaded source code for kxstitch and worked my way through
>configure, make and make install successfully (all foreign territory
> for me, tried it because the rpm would not install).
>
> 1st Problem is that the executable is in /
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 20:57 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
> Just a reminder of the meeting tomorrow 24 January 2004 at 7.30 pm at the
> Cashmere Club.[1]
>
> [1] according to the phone book the Cashmere Club is at 88 Hunter Tce,
> Cashmere, but the easiest way is to say its on Colombo Street, Cashmere
>
*sigh* i think i may have got to the bottom of this :-)
(believe me I am not sitting up this late just to do this, I forgot to
cook the bread tonight so I am sitting up to do it, might as well fix
Barry's problem while I am waiting...)
OK I think the crash problem is related to the program being
On Sun, Jan 23, at 10:19:51PM, Barry wrote:
> I recently downloaded source code for kxstitch and worked my way through
> configure, make and make install.
> 1st Problem is that the executable is in /usr/local/kde/bin instead of
> /usr/bin.
You can uninstall kxstitch with- 'm
On Sun, January 23, 2005 10:19 pm, Barry said:
> Hi
>
> I recently downloaded source code for kxstitch and worked my way through
>configure, make and make install successfully (all foreign territory
> for me, tried it because the rpm would not install).
>
> 1st Problem is that the executable
Thanks for doing this Nick,
Nick Rout wrote:
Just a reminder of the meeting tomorrow 24 January 2004 at 7.30 pm at
the Cashmere Club.[1]
There will be a presentation by a German visitor Ruediger Berlich who
will talk on Grid Computing Research & inside 'SuSE Linux'.
What I've found out this eve
> 2. let it be made plain that i am not a cross-stitcher, or ever likely to be.
Why? Would doing some cross-stitching be against being a real man(TM)?
:)
Volker
--
Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header
http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do no
On Sun, January 23, 2005 10:19 pm, Barry said:
> Hi
>
> I recently downloaded source code for kxstitch and worked my way through
>configure, make and make install successfully (all foreign territory
> for me, tried it because the rpm would not install).
>
> 1st Problem is that the executable
Hi
I recently downloaded source code for kxstitch and worked my way through
configure, make and make install successfully (all foreign territory
for me, tried it because the rpm would not install).
1st Problem is that the executable is in /usr/local/kde/bin instead of
/usr/bin. It starts but
Greetings,
David, thanks for that; it will be useful on the day. Is the last line of
your message the entry to be added to /etc/exports?
Woodsey.
- Original Message -
From: "David Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: SuSE 9.2 Disks
Rob,
On Sun, January 23, 2005 5:46 pm, Nick Rout said:
> On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 15:56 +1300, Rik Tindall wrote:
>> Mostly the direction of the current late-thread points up a clear
>> conceptual and language gulf:
>>
>> 1. Newbie to Harvey Norman: "I want a PC (Internet appliance) to put
>> my
>> home ne
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