Re: Advice on 8MB Graphics card

2005-03-15 Thread Wesley Parish
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:12, C. Falconer wrote: Fork out for a new one... I'm thinking I'll have to. Even if you had more video ram it'd still be about the same speed. Or maybe its time for a new CPU/motherboard too. Oh, no, not that far. The new box I got is specifically for Xen - with

Re: performance tuning mandrake - ps

2005-03-15 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 18:32 +1300, Don Gould wrote: Performance of Ximian is very slow after the machine has been in screen saver mode. Mozilla gets slower and slower to the point that I have to kill the process and run it again. Graphics seem ok (thou all I'm doing is surfing and email

icewm background color/image

2005-03-15 Thread Barry
Does anyone know what has been done in Mandrake 10 to cause icewm to ignore the background color setting as set in iceprefs? Google has not helped me on this one. I have found that the color can be altered by altering the xsetroot command in /ext/X11/xinit/xinitrc on a global basis when running

Re: performance tuning mandrake

2005-03-15 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:06, Don Gould wrote: Are there any tools for improving performance? I've done a google but couldn't find much in the way of useful links. Any recommendations? More RAM, and check that you have a big enough swap partition. If you are running OOo you'll need 256k RAM to

Re: MS Patent Objection - List Call to Action!

2005-03-15 Thread Ross Drummond
A 'Notice of Objection to Grant of Patent' may be lodged with Intellectual Property Office New Zealand. This is submitted on form PAT15.pdf[1]. A fee of NZ$337.50 is required. A further fee of NZ$843.75 is required from each party should the matter proceed to a hearing. Under Section 22 of

Re: Howl!!! Urgent advice needed on Wireless Keyboards for Linux

2005-03-15 Thread Phill Coxon
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 16:08 +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote: Go to your Dr. and get a scrip for some prescription strength Diclofenac Sodium. ( Voltarin or Flameril ) You can get the weak dose over the counter, but it's not much cop if you're in absolute agony. And after you've taken care

Re: Fix Up evening - 12 March.

2005-03-15 Thread Douglas Royds
Robert Himmelmann wrote: (By the way: Has anybody Knoppix 3.7? I could bring a disk) Send me an email closer to the date, and I'll burn a copy for you. Where do you live and work? I could drop one off before the 12th, if you're not too far off my route. Douglas.

Re: performance tuning mandrake - ps

2005-03-15 Thread Derek Smithies
Hi, On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Nick Rout wrote: well these days thats a really low spec machine, you need principally more RAM. Double it and you will notice a difference. On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 18:24, Don Gould wrote: It's my Sony VAIO laptop (128mb, 400mhz, p3, 8gb)

Re: No ethernet access

2005-03-15 Thread Douglas Royds
Sorted. Too embarassed to admit what the problem was. Just don't ask. Douglas. === This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended addressee. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be the subject

RE: No ethernet access

2005-03-15 Thread C. Falconer
Awww go on... We'll award you the wooden spoon award for... missing the obvious Mind you - if it was really obvious we all missed suggesting it too... (makes note) take a bunch of wooden spoons to next meeting -Original Message- From: Douglas Royds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: performance tuning mandrake - ps

2005-03-15 Thread Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)
The other thing which has not been mentioned in this thread is that comparisons should be between apples and apples. That is, the comparatively old hardware Don has will perform equally as slowly on similarly modern operating systems. (Windows XP is much more resource hungry than Win2000 which is

RE: No ethernet access

2005-03-15 Thread Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)
No way! You don't get off that lightly. That's like telling a joke and missing out the punch line. Come on. We won't tell anyone. Regards, Robert -Original Message- From: Douglas Royds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 16 March 2005 9:56 a.m. To:

Re: Howl!!! Urgent advice needed on Wireless Keyboards for Linux

2005-03-15 Thread dave
i've got an old ihug wireless keyboard/set-top box at home here if you want it . On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:16, John Carter wrote: My shoulder hurts like mad I can hardly type! So I'm looking for a wireless keyboard / mouse pair (for Linux) to give me a bit more freedom of movement. Any

Re: MS Patent Objection - List Call to Action!

2005-03-15 Thread Carl Cerecke
Ross Drummond wrote: A 'Notice of Objection to Grant of Patent' may be lodged with Intellectual Property Office New Zealand. This is submitted on form PAT15.pdf[1]. A fee of NZ$337.50 is required. No way I can pay 337.50 to complain about a lousy patent. Bizarrely, it costs less to apply for a

Re: MS Patent Objection - List Call to Action!

2005-03-15 Thread Andrew Errington
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:10, you wrote: Ross Drummond wrote: A 'Notice of Objection to Grant of Patent' may be lodged with Intellectual Property Office New Zealand. This is submitted on form PAT15.pdf[1]. A fee of NZ$337.50 is required. No way I can pay 337.50 to complain about a lousy

Re: MS Patent Objection - List Call to Action!

2005-03-15 Thread dave
Jason, I'll be in for $20.00 if you want to press a head. GOD MS does like to try it on. I am also putting in an email to the office too this morning. On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:05, Jason Greenwood wrote: Hi All, See the article here: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=5ObjectID=10115247

Re: MS Patent Objection - List Call to Action!

2005-03-15 Thread dave
My email to IPONZ, Also sent an email to a robin cover aurthor/editor of SGML website. hope this helps in convincing the IPONZ to turn the appicaltion down. Sir, After being alerted to this application and reading the article in the NZ Herald I wish to express my concerns about the company

Re: Howl!!! Urgent advice needed on Wireless Keyboards for Linux

2005-03-15 Thread Eliot Blennerhassett
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:16, John Carter wrote: My shoulder hurts like mad I can hardly type! So I'm looking for a wireless keyboard / mouse pair (for Linux) to give me a bit more freedom of movement. Any suggestions? Hi John, I got my first episode of OOS while working at Tait doing a lot

VNC viewer to windows machine.

2005-03-15 Thread Eliot Blennerhassett
Being frustrated with having to give vncviewer an IP address for my micros~1 windows machine, I came up with the following little script. I'm sure members of this list can improve on it... Give the name of the machine as the script paramter... #!/bin/bash vncviewer `nmblookup $1 | awk '/^1/

Re: MS Patent Objection - List Call to Action!

2005-03-15 Thread Carl Cerecke
dave wrote: My email to IPONZ, Also sent an email to a robin cover aurthor/editor of SGML website. hope this helps in convincing the IPONZ to turn the appicaltion down. Unless you have filled out PAT form 15 and paid your $337.50 they won't consider it. I rang and asked if there was any other

Re: MS Patent Objection - List Call to Action!

2005-03-15 Thread dave
just got this from Robin... Re: Microsoft asking for a patent cover in New Zealand for XML From: Robin Cover [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Today 12:09:48 Hi Dave.  See: http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2004-01-27-a.html (yes, people

web page broken

2005-03-15 Thread Derek Smithies
Hi, Who controls the page at http://christchurch.lug.net.nz/ It seems to be broken. === I went to: http://christchurch.lug.net.nz/ clicked on the button to review the list archive, and at the When I was a newbie post. All links to the contents of the list

Re: web page broken

2005-03-15 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 13:33 +1300, Derek Smithies wrote: Hi, Who controls the page at http://christchurch.lug.net.nz/ It seems to be broken. Jolly good question. If you can contact Bjorn, please let us know. The web page for CLUG is http://clug.org.nz and/or http://clug.net.nz

Re: icewm background color/image

2005-03-15 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 10:55 +1300, Barry wrote: Replying to my own query.. Aaaagh - spend ages trying to fix the problem, ask google, send off query to list, then find the answer. Screen colors/background now handled by icewmbg which must be started before icewm. Best way

Re: VNC viewer to windows machine.

2005-03-15 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 11:30 +1300, Eliot Blennerhassett wrote: Being frustrated with having to give vncviewer an IP address for my micros~1 windows machine, I came up with the following little script. I'm sure members of this list can improve on it... whats wrong with vncviewer

Re: MS Patent Objection - List Call to Action!

2005-03-15 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 12:02 +1300, Carl Cerecke wrote: dave wrote: My email to IPONZ, Also sent an email to a robin cover aurthor/editor of SGML website. hope this helps in convincing the IPONZ to turn the appicaltion down. Unless you have filled out PAT form 15 and paid your

Re: ps -A --- is this output normal?

2005-03-15 Thread Michael JasonSmith
On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 18:27 +1300, Don Gould wrote: Do I need so many instances of httpd? Neh, depends on your load :) Would it be having much impact? Not really. If you use gnome-system-monitor to look at the processes you will see that most of the memory used by each httpd is shared with

Re: web page broken

2005-03-15 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:33, Derek Smithies wrote: Hi, Who controls the page at http://christchurch.lug.net.nz/ It seems to be broken. === I went to: http://christchurch.lug.net.nz/ clicked on the button to review the list archive, and at the When I was a

Re: VNC viewer to windows machine.

2005-03-15 Thread Eliot Blennerhassett
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:50, Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 11:30 +1300, Eliot Blennerhassett wrote: Being frustrated with having to give vncviewer an IP address for my micros~1 windows machine, I came up with the following little script. I'm sure members of this list can improve on

Re: MS Patent Objection - List Call to Action!

2005-03-15 Thread Carl Cerecke
Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 12:02 +1300, Carl Cerecke wrote: Unless you have filled out PAT form 15 and paid your $337.50 they won't consider it. I rang and asked if there was any other way. There wasn't. Sucks, doesn't it? Feel free to ring them and ask why it is so expensive. 0508

Re: VNC viewer to windows machine.

2005-03-15 Thread nordkyn
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:19:45 +1300 Eliot Blennerhassett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Windows machines are getting the IP by DHCP from ADSL router...so it changes now and then. I don't know which adsl modem/router you have but even some cheap ones can do 'dns masquerading' (ie your dhcp assigned

Re: web page broken

2005-03-15 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
If there's a problem with lists.ethernal.org, then Mike Beattie is the one to contact. He's had a disk failure in Feb, my guess is it's either not running again or the new machine is misconfigured. I doubt he'd just pull the plug. Which is probably why Mike Beatty is now longer hosting the

Re: web page broken

2005-03-15 Thread Jim Cheetham
Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 13:33 +1300, Derek Smithies wrote: Who controls the page at http://christchurch.lug.net.nz/ It seems to be broken. Jolly good question. If you can contact Bjorn, please let us know. I do not control the site, but I do control the webserver it runs on. I

Re: web page broken

2005-03-15 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 17:17 +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote: Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 13:33 +1300, Derek Smithies wrote: Who controls the page at http://christchurch.lug.net.nz/ It seems to be broken. Jolly good question. If you can contact Bjorn, please let us know. I do

[NEW FIRMWARE RELEASE] DSE ADSL Routers - Rel10v1

2005-03-15 Thread Chris Day
Just a short note to advise new firmware has been released for the following DSE ADSL Routers: * XH7916 - DSE ADSL Router UTP USB (PTC 272/02/024) * XH1149 - DSE ADSL Router UTP USB (PTC 272/03/005) * XH1169 - DSE ADSL Router UTP USB (PTC 272/04/012) * XH1173 - DSE ADSL Router UTP 1x LAN (PTC

Re: web page broken

2005-03-15 Thread Derek Smithies
Hi, If no-one admits to knowing anyone, I'll take up the task of poinging everything to the wiki, which was the intention at the end of last year. Thanks for your offer.. But, is that the right thing to do - like will it make the clug archive publically searchable ? Put it another way, If