Fwd: Your removal from the LINUX-390 list [Incident:060208-001708]

2006-02-09 Thread Wesley Parish
What the H*** is going on at paradise.net? This is interference with my mail. I want an apology at the very least. Has anybody else had such offensively trite and stupid responses to such serious problems? Frankly, with such a track record, paradise.net doesn't have much of a future. Wesley

Re: Fwd: Your removal from the LINUX-390 list [Incident:060208-001708]

2006-02-09 Thread Andrew Errington
On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 21:25, you wrote: What the H*** is going on at paradise.net? This is interference with my mail. I want an apology at the very least. Has anybody else had such offensively trite and stupid responses to such serious problems? Frankly, with such a track record,

Re: Fwd: Your removal from the LINUX-390 list [Incident:060208-001708]

2006-02-09 Thread Steve Holdoway
...can I recommend ihug? Orcon's been getting a load of bad press lately, and I wouldn't recommend telstra to anybody - I'm still fighting for a link capable of supporting ssh after 9 months since we moved offices. I think you'll second that one now (: Mind you, this'll be the kiss of death to

Re: Fwd: Your removal from the LINUX-390 list [Incident:060208-001708]

2006-02-09 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 21:43:39 +1300 Andrew Errington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (But tell me, how bad is ADSL? Ihug have some very attractive offerings and I am *that close* let me tell you!!). Andy See other email. Satisfied ihug unbundled user of Diamond Harbour. ( It won't reach up the

Re: Fwd: Your removal from the LINUX-390 list [Incident:060208-001708]

2006-02-09 Thread Roger Searle
they are brightmail clients too. i'd join the list of people on the verge of moving, were it not so inconvenient to change email address . . . roger Steve Holdoway wrote: ...can I recommend ihug? Orcon's been getting a load of bad press lately, and I wouldn't recommend telstra to

Re: Fwd: Your removal from the LINUX-390 list [Incident:060208-001708]

2006-02-09 Thread Hadley Rich
On Thursday 09 February 2006 21:43, Andrew Errington wrote: (But tell me, how bad is ADSL?  Ihug have some very attractive offerings and I am *that close* let me tell you!!). I've just switched to Ihug last month from Orcon (a few issues with them) and am very satisfied. I get an extra 10GB

Re: Fwd: Your removal from the LINUX-390 list [Incident:060208-001708]

2006-02-09 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Thursday 09 February 2006 21:25, Wesley Parish wrote: What the H*** is going on at paradise.net? The mail system is unable to handle the spam and virus load, and as the company is being prepared for sale they are too mean to install sufficiently grunty hardware which can cope properly. --

Re: Your removal from the LINUX-390 list [Incident:060208-001708]

2006-02-09 Thread Olwen Williams
THere has been a discussion on the Webgrrls list about Paradise and email problems. Some people have been haing many emails rejected because of spam filters.Some of the members there are complaining about it to suitable organisations One said have just emailed consumer, netguide, pcworld

Re: Fwd: Your removal from the LINUX-390 list [Incident:060208-001708]

2006-02-09 Thread Steve Holdoway
'bout time you got your own domain then (: Freedom! On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 21:52:53 +1300 Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: they are brightmail clients too. i'd join the list of people on the verge of moving, were it not so inconvenient to change email address . . . roger Steve

Re: Fwd: Your removal from the LINUX-390 list [Incident:060208-001708]

2006-02-09 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 22:15:45 +1300 Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 09 February 2006 21:25, Wesley Parish wrote: What the H*** is going on at paradise.net? The mail system is unable to handle the spam and virus load, and as the company is being prepared for sale they

Re: Fwd: Your removal from the LINUX-390 list [Incident:060208-001708]

2006-02-09 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Thursday 09 February 2006 22:28, Steve Holdoway wrote: On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 22:15:45 +1300 Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 09 February 2006 21:25, Wesley Parish wrote: What the H*** is going on at paradise.net? The mail system is unable to handle the spam and

Re: Fwd: Your removal from the LINUX-390 list [Incident:060208-001708]

2006-02-09 Thread Roger Searle
well overdue! and just a couple of hours ago i saw an invoice for a 5 year domain registration through melbourneIT - works out at only $30 a year, problem is there are a dozen other things higher up the need and want list right now . . . could make a nice birthday present for me though -

Re: Should we be thinking of an InstallFest this year?

2006-02-09 Thread Rik Tindall
Thanks for the endorsement of SFD Jim, which has unlimited potential worldwide and for 2006 locally now that NZOSS has it as a focus date. Thanks to Jim, Nick, Warwick, and David, for contributing time to SFD 1 and 2. It is good to see the area of FOSS/Linux promotion work raised early in the

Re: Fwd: Your removal from the LINUX-390 list [Incident:060208-001708]

2006-02-09 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
well overdue! and just a couple of hours ago i saw an invoice for a 5 year domain registration through melbourneIT Ex domainz - the people repeatedly under investigation by comcom for sending out fake invoices to lure peoples' money? I'm sure there are better registrars in NZ. Volker --

qmail-ldap or qmail with Vpopmail and OpenLDAP, what do you recommend

2006-02-09 Thread Avdija Ahmedhodzic
Hello, I'm thinking of switching from postfix to qmail. Users data are stored in OpenLDAP and they should stay there :) I have created succesfull installation of qmail-ldap, connected it to OpenLDAP and installed CourierIMAP. It works perfectly. Now I'm thinking that I might be better with

ctrlaltdel problem

2006-02-09 Thread Barry
In inittab I can set CtrlAltDel to 'shutdown -h now' but everytime I reboot it is over-written to 'shutdown -t3 -r now'. Distro is mandriva le. It is being over-written during the startup process and I can not find the script which is doing it. This appears to be occurring before (this part

Re: qmail-ldap or qmail with Vpopmail and OpenLDAP, what do you recommend

2006-02-09 Thread Hadley Rich
On Friday 10 February 2006 00:06, Avdija Ahmedhodzic wrote: I'm thinking of switching from postfix to qmail. Users data are stored in OpenLDAP and they should stay there :) You can use Postfix with LDAP too. Incase you didn't know. hads -- If you have to hate, hate gently.

Re: ctrlaltdel problem

2006-02-09 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:24:02 +1300 Barry wrote: In inittab I can set CtrlAltDel to 'shutdown -h now' but everytime I reboot it is over-written to 'shutdown -t3 -r now'. Distro is mandriva le. It is being over-written during the startup process and I can not find the script which is doing

Re: qmail-ldap or qmail with Vpopmail and OpenLDAP, what do you recommend

2006-02-09 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Fri, February 10, 2006 9:33 am, Hadley Rich wrote: On Friday 10 February 2006 00:06, Avdija Ahmedhodzic wrote: I'm thinking of switching from postfix to qmail. Users data are stored in OpenLDAP and they should stay there :) You can use Postfix with LDAP too. Incase you didn't know.

Re: X server

2006-02-09 Thread Robert Himmelmann
HappyEvilSlosh wrote: When starting xserver-xorg to run a thin client in debian all I have to do is run the command /etc/init.d/xserver-xorg start On most distros including Ubuntu you either use /etc/init.d/[x/g]dm. Depending on your display manager. xdm usually starts KDM and gdm as one

Re: qmail-ldap or qmail with Vpopmail and OpenLDAP, what do you recommend

2006-02-09 Thread Jim Cheetham
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 11:06:53AM +, Avdija Ahmedhodzic wrote: I'm thinking of switching from postfix to qmail. Users data are stored in OpenLDAP and they should stay there :) I've used all MTAs for large-ish volumes of mail (thousands of accounts), and I cannot recommend qmail for

Linux and ipod issues

2006-02-09 Thread bossman
Hi, Can members give me an idea of issues relating to the use of ipod's and linux? This is so that music etc can be transferred between the 2. many thanks. dave. ps will be googling this matter too.

Re: Linux and ipod issues

2006-02-09 Thread Steve Holdoway
I put some stuff up on the wiki a while back, and Nick added to it for podcasts. Basically, it all works fine, including setting up your own iTunes server on linux. Steve On Fri, February 10, 2006 1:04 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Can members give me an idea of issues relating to the use

Re: Should we be thinking of an InstallFest this year?

2006-02-09 Thread Don Gould
On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 13:46, Nick Rout wrote: Maybe something along the lines of an installfest with the opportunity for people to bring their computers for fix ups combined with some sort of demonstration area. Agreed. I'm in. Let me know a date. Rik was talking to me about sponsor ship

Re: Should we be thinking of an InstallFest this year?

2006-02-09 Thread Don Gould
What about some 'kewl' applications as well? For business I'm happy to show a mambo set up and how easy it is to edit your own web site... What about a tv set up with pda remote controls... I see some of you have been talking about this on list recently and it's something that I've yet to see

Re: ctrlaltdel problem

2006-02-09 Thread Barry
Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:24:02 +1300 Barry wrote: In inittab I can set CtrlAltDel to 'shutdown -h now' but everytime I reboot it is over-written to 'shutdown -t3 -r now'. Distro is mandriva le. It is being over-written during the startup process and I can not find the

Re: Should we be thinking of an InstallFest this year?

2006-02-09 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Fri, February 10, 2006 1:15 pm, Don Gould wrote: On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 13:46, Nick Rout wrote: Maybe something along the lines of an installfest with the opportunity for people to bring their computers for fix ups combined with some sort of demonstration area. Agreed. I'm in. Let me

Re: ctrlaltdel problem

2006-02-09 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Friday 10 February 2006 13:42, Barry wrote: Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:24:02 +1300 Barry wrote: In inittab I can set CtrlAltDel to 'shutdown -h now' but everytime I reboot it is over-written to 'shutdown -t3 -r now'. Run this from the command line as the 'root' user:- sed

Re: ctrlaltdel problem

2006-02-09 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:42:19 +1300 Barry wrote: Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:24:02 +1300 Barry wrote: In inittab I can set CtrlAltDel to 'shutdown -h now' but everytime I reboot it is over-written to 'shutdown -t3 -r now'. Distro is mandriva le. It is being

Re: ctrlaltdel problem

2006-02-09 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:13:18 +1300 Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:42:19 +1300 Barry wrote: Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:24:02 +1300 Barry wrote: In inittab I can set CtrlAltDel to 'shutdown -h now' but everytime I reboot it is over-written to

Re: ctrlaltdel problem

2006-02-09 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Fri, February 10, 2006 2:20 pm, Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:13:18 +1300 Nick Rout wrote: The Mandriva Linux Security package is designed to provide generic secure level to the Mandriva Linux users... It will permit you to choose between level 0 to 5 for a less - more

Re: ctrlaltdel problem

2006-02-09 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:35:33 +1300 (NZDT) Steve Holdoway wrote: On Fri, February 10, 2006 2:20 pm, Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:13:18 +1300 Nick Rout wrote: The Mandriva Linux Security package is designed to provide generic secure level to the Mandriva Linux users...

Re: ctrlaltdel problem

2006-02-09 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Fri, February 10, 2006 2:38 pm, Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:35:33 +1300 (NZDT) Steve Holdoway wrote: On Fri, February 10, 2006 2:20 pm, Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:13:18 +1300 Nick Rout wrote: The Mandriva Linux Security package is designed to provide

Re: Should we be thinking of an InstallFest this year?

2006-02-09 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:20:21 +1300 Don Gould wrote: What about some 'kewl' applications as well? For business I'm happy to show a mambo set up and how easy it is to edit your own web site... What about a tv set up with pda remote controls... I see some of you have been talking about

Re: Should we be thinking of an InstallFest this year?

2006-02-09 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Friday 10 February 2006 13:20, Don Gould wrote: Is there anything else that people can think of that's really kewl that nix can do? I recon that the tiny bootable CD which played any media file was in that category. It was mentioned on the list recently, but I can't remember either its name

Re: Should we be thinking of an InstallFest this year?

2006-02-09 Thread Don Gould
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 15:22, Nick Rout wrote: ... or whether the aim was simply to show that linux could do kewl things just like windows can. Just things that Linux can do that are kewl... not even that some other os can do them as well. We seem to be focusing on 'install linux'... but we

Re: Should we be thinking of an InstallFest this year?

2006-02-09 Thread Hadley Rich
On Friday 10 February 2006 15:22, Nick Rout wrote: Andrew Errington wrote: Another thing on my list is an active picture frame - basically an old laptop in a picture frame, showing photos pulled from the (Linux) home server. I think you can buy them, not sure of the price differential

Re: Should we be thinking of an InstallFest this year?

2006-02-09 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:14:54 +1300 Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Friday 10 February 2006 13:20, Don Gould wrote: Is there anything else that people can think of that's really kewl that nix can do? I recon that the tiny bootable CD which played any media file was in that category. It was

Re: Should we be thinking of an InstallFest this year?

2006-02-09 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:37:58 +1300 Hadley Rich wrote: On Friday 10 February 2006 15:22, Nick Rout wrote: Andrew Errington wrote: Another thing on my list is an active picture frame - basically an old laptop in a picture frame, showing photos pulled from the (Linux) home server. I

Re: Should we be thinking of an InstallFest this year?

2006-02-09 Thread Hadley Rich
On Friday 10 February 2006 15:43, Nick Rout wrote: Far too expensive! You can buy a whole portable DVD with a screen about that size for $350 odd. Indeed. I thought it would be a cool project too, using a gumstix or something. does gumstix have any sort of video out? Heh, no. I must have

Re: Should we be thinking of an InstallFest this year?

2006-02-09 Thread stringer
My .02c worth - most businessmen have never heard of linux. What they need to see is a box running typical business apps - say Open/Star Office for the lawyers, accountants, managers etc And a fax driver so that those reports can be faxed out And a simple database to maintain client lists

Re: Should we be thinking of an InstallFest this year?

2006-02-09 Thread stringer
Nick, I rather liked the Wallace Grommit DVD you played at one instalfest - I'm sure that'd wow a few people - simple but eyecatching. Nothing fancy, but shows the punters that Linux can do the things they take for granted with windows. Without having to be a guru, either!! At 15:40

Re: Should we be thinking of an InstallFest this year?

2006-02-09 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Friday 10 February 2006 15:40, Nick Rout wrote: Back On topic, what is an application that has a real WOW factor on a demo day? I am not sure that it is enough to say Look at linux, it will do the same things as your windows machine - people want a reason to go through the (greater or

Re: Should we be thinking of an InstallFest this year?

2006-02-09 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:17:23 +1300 Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Friday 10 February 2006 15:40, Nick Rout wrote: Back On topic, what is an application that has a real WOW factor on a demo day? I am not sure that it is enough to say Look at linux, it will do the same things as your windows

Re: Should we be thinking of an InstallFest this year?

2006-02-09 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Friday 10 February 2006 16:39, Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:17:23 +1300 Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Friday 10 February 2006 15:40, Nick Rout wrote: Back On topic, what is an application that has a real WOW factor on a demo day? I am not sure that it is enough to say Look

We're all geeks now

2006-02-09 Thread Andrew Errington
Well, actually, we all are on this list. I'm a bit concerned that Skype is eating my bandwidth, which, because I am on a capped cable plan, is suboptimal. I'm not sure, but I turned it off today and I'm going to check my bandwidth usage once Telstra pull their fingers out and get the usage

Re: Should we be thinking of an InstallFest this year?

2006-02-09 Thread Wesley Parish
Don't you mean, the windows hoon user? MS Windows XP Hoon... ;) Wesley Parish On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:39, Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 16:17:23 +1300 Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Friday 10 February 2006 15:40, Nick Rout wrote: Back On topic, what is an application that has a