On 05/07/10 20:32, Aidan Gauland wrote:
I would like to get a handheld scanner for academic research (i.e.
digitising required reading for uni classes). Can anyone recommend any
models (and tell of any to avoid)? I have given myself a headache
searching, and handhelds seem to be wy
On Sun, 23 May 2010 18:31:56 Julian Visch wrote:
Have a huge audio tape collection and think it is high time I started
converting them into some form of digital format while tape decks still
exist. What would people recommend, SoundStudio seems to be able
to record but these files will be
On Tue, May 4, 2010 08:34, Rik Tindall wrote:
Hi all,
A change of employment leads me into the laptop market, with gnu/linux
compatibility the prime requisite (0):
1. Economy - can be new / 'on special' or ex-lease.
2. Wireless that goes (bluetooth too? - have yet to cross that bridge).
On Sat, 01 May 2010 05:33:45 chris wrote:
On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 17:57 +1200, Robert Fisher wrote:
On 29/04/10 17:47, Rik Tindall wrote:
Ubuntu is the default distro used, and release 10.04 LTS is just a
number of hours away, so we may get to check this out next Weds:
I've been
On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:47:26 Aidan Gauland wrote:
Steve Holdoway wrote:
I've got an older Acer One, with just an 8GB SSD+SD. It works fine
( currently running the pre-release Ubuntu 10.10 happily ), although the
SSD has been replaced once, and write performance does seem rather slow.
Does
On Fri, March 19, 2010 11:11, Bryce Stenberg wrote:
Hi,
snip
I need a good SSH client to use on my windows machine.
Any recommendations?
PuTTY
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
HTH,
A
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:00:15 Nick Rout wrote:
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Stephen Irons stephen.ir...@tait.co.nz
wrote:
snip
However, I did find a very small micro SD card reader, where the micro SD
snip
Can you point to where you got the reader?
Something like this, perhaps?
On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:04:05 Solor Vox wrote:
Hi guys,
My apologizes if this has been asked before. I'm in search of
recommendations for a Linux hosting company where I can park/buy a domain.
I plan on using the domain mostly for email and maybe a wee personal web
site. Virtual private
On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:46:16 Nick Rout wrote:
No choice was taken away. The government paid for licenses for every
school. That didn't force the school to use MS products. It made it
zero cost.
No choice was taken away. We all paid Microsoft for licenses for every school.
That didn't force
On Tue, February 9, 2010 12:27, Nick Rout wrote:
OK I have been collecting media files for ages and have:
snip
Anyone got any suggestions to restore sanity to all this?
You need a SheevaPlug.
Or not.
A
On Thu, December 3, 2009 08:27, Euan Clark wrote:
What's the GST handling like on these?
I assert that that is irrelevant. When handling GST you should split any
transaction into net and GST portions, perhaps even GST_recd and GST_paid,
then just treat the GST portion as a reportable category.
On Mon, October 19, 2009 08:44, Nick Rout wrote:
I have PDF forms that I want to populate with data. I want to be able
to save the data and change it, and reprint the form with the updated data.
snip
Any tips or pointers would be valued highly.
Last time this cropped up (somewhere else) I
On Mon, October 19, 2009 11:17, steve wrote:
On a slightly different tack, and possibly not cost effective, it is
easy enough to generate PDF documents on the fly from ( for example ) PHP.
So if the filling in of a standard HTML form to create a static PDF
would functionally support the
Hi everyone,
I am trying to figure out where my locale is set. Here are some key points:
1) My laptop has a fresh Mepis 8.0 install on the root partition
2) /home is on a separate partition
3) My home directory has been copied from an historical location (i.e. I
move the whole thing to a new
On Thu, October 8, 2009 03:01, Steve Holdoway wrote:
On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 02:14 +1300, Kent Fredric wrote:
For the love of sanity for yourself and your peers, do please seek out
migrating to the Lastest And Greatest and Least Vulnerable PHP 5.3.
You'll really thank yourself later.
Given
On Thu, October 8, 2009 13:30, Douglas Royds wrote:
My partner had accidentally deleted a wanted photograph from her camera.
Enter PhotoRec:
snip
That'll be handy to remember!
I wonder, would it be possible to 'dd' the contents of the filestore and
run PhotoRec on the dd image? This would
On Wed, September 30, 2009 08:26, David Lowe wrote:
...and the link to Linux is...
- if the North Island gets washed away, the damage to corporate NZ and
therefore Microsoft's profitability will be such that FOSS will be all
that survives... - the Tsunami warning system is served by Linux
On Wed, September 30, 2009 08:34, Ryan McCoskrie wrote:
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:29:03 Andrew Errington wrote:
On Wed, September 30, 2009 08:26, David Lowe wrote:
...and the link to Linux is...
- if the North Island gets washed away, the damage to corporate NZ
and therefore Microsoft's
On Wed, September 30, 2009 12:27, Craig Falconer wrote:
Yep those photos are worth a phenomenal amount to license. It was quite
a shock when google put fair quality photos out for free.
A screen scrape is generally not going to be as good a quality as a full
res version either, but could be
On Wed, September 23, 2009 14:55, Stephen Irons wrote:
Stephen Irons wrote:
I don't know the complete solution to your problem, but I think
'Fluidsynth' is what you want for playing the midi. I discovered on my
Mepis (Debian-derived) box that fluidsynth was easy to install, and there
were two
On Wed, September 23, 2009 15:44, Andrew Errington wrote:
http://www.lesbell.com.au/Home.nsf/b8ec57204f60dfcb4a2568c60014ed0f/c4b39482154feb03ca256f8100150ad9?OpenDocument
Actually, that article mentions Rosegarden, which I think is probably what
you need. Here's why:
http
On Thu, September 24, 2009 12:49, steve wrote:
On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 15:22 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
OK I am on phone plus 40G @ 10Mbps for $146.90 at present.
That's pretty comparable with what I get on adsl from Voda/ihug, except
that I average nearer 7-8Mbit ( in practice, quiet times -
On Thu, September 17, 2009 12:54, Rik Tindall wrote:
Greetings,
Software Freedom Day 2009 is this Saturday, 19 September. The
international festival of free and open-source software (FOSS) is in its
fifth year, and of celebration locally.
Arr! Shiver me timbers! That tharr Software
On Mon, September 14, 2009 08:04, Nick Rout wrote:
I need to replace a power supply for my squeezebox classic. The specs
on the website say:
* 5.0V DC, regulated
* Center positive, sleeve ground
* Connector: 2.5mm ID, 5.5mm OD, 11mm long
* Min supply rating: 1000mA
On Mon, September 14, 2009 08:40, Nick Rout wrote:
snip
Good point which I suppose explains why the supplied one is rated
double the minimum...
Yes, but you don't know if the manufacturer has added a safety margin too...
Anyone know where to find a higher rated switchmode 5v ower supply?
On Mon, September 14, 2009 10:07, Nick Rout wrote:
I'd like to be able to gather and log some stats about my swimming
pool, and perhaps turn the pump on and off either remotely (via a web page
or similar) or automatically based on temperature (the pump not only runs
water through the filter,
On Sun, September 6, 2009 15:13, Steve Holdoway wrote:
Not being familiar with python, I'd use PHP SOAP libraries, but this
looks like it'll help...
http://www.opensourcetutorials.com/tutorials/Server-Side-Coding/Python/py
thon-soap-libraries/page1.html
Thanks. The 'how' is not really
On Sun, September 6, 2009 17:25, Abhinav Keswani wrote:
Andrew
In a nutshell...
snip
Hi,
Thanks for your suggestions. I will try them out and let you know if I
succeed (or get stuck).
Best wishes,
Andrew
Replying to my own email...
It seems my hosting provider uses cPanel, which has a tool for configuring
password protection on directories with .htaccess and .htpasswd
I am going to try it, since the tool should do the Right Thing. However,
thanks again for the offers of help, as I now
Hi all,
I have written an HTML form which calls a cgi script written in Python.
The Python script looks at the data in the form and produces an XML data
file. Next, I have an XSLT file that operates on the XML data to make an
HTML webpage (why, yes, it uses CSS too. How many more Web 2.0
On Mon, August 31, 2009 06:56, John Hyde wrote:
Here is a good one that I use a lot. They claim 400,000 photos online.
http://sxc.hu/
Also many Flickr contributors put there stuff up with CC or otherwise free
licences. Worth a trawl. If you're looking for clipart for teaching then
have a
On Fri, August 21, 2009 12:37, Nick Rout wrote:
Not at my linux box now but can't you save named configurations in
network manager and switch between them?
I don't know either, but you can with 'wicd'.
A
On Sun, August 16, 2009 21:39, Daniel Hill wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Wondering if there is a safe way to back my public and private keys
any ideas?
Here's an idea:
http://dansdata.com/gz094.htm
HTH,
A
On Fri, August 7, 2009 14:58, steve wrote:
Doesn't work on my one, uptodate ubuntu netbook respin either, and
never has...
That's too bad. Mepis was (until now) quite awesome on my Aspire One.
I think it's hal.
lshal gives me this:
Dumping 98 device(s) from the Global Device List:
Ah, the lid switch gave me an event!
17:15:36.477: computer_logicaldev_input_2 property button.state.value = true
17:15:36.489: computer_logicaldev_input_2 condition ButtonPressed = lid
But it only happens once, no matter how often I close the lid. There is
no 'lid open' event (maybe it isn't
Thanks to the help from the MepisLovers forum I have this working.
The solution for me was to install uswsusp
Originally, the installation advice for Mepis 8.0 on an Acer Aspire One
said not to use this package, so I removed it. Now it's okay apparently,
and reinstalling it made everything well
Hi all,
I just did an apt-get update/upgrade on my Acer Aspire One running Mepis
8.0 and the suspend function has ceased to work.
Until now the system has worked flawlessly, and I can shut the lid of the
laptop to suspend and open it and hit a button to wake it up. Now it's
broken and I'm sad.
On Fri, August 7, 2009 13:20, Andrew Errington wrote:
Hi all,
I just did an apt-get update/upgrade on my Acer Aspire One running Mepis
8.0 and the suspend function has ceased to work.
It seems I can manually suspend using
hibernate-ram
or
acpitool -s
but the suspend-on-lid-close doesn't
On Thu, July 23, 2009 06:58, Derek Smithies wrote:
Hi
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Andrew Errington wrote:
640MB should be enough for anyone.
Hmm..
Your children will be saying in a few years something like,
Dad had only 1gb ram on his box - dunno how he managed.
Do you hear that whoosing
On Wed, July 22, 2009 19:48, yuri wrote:
What kind of performance boost should I expect when upgrading from
256MB of RAM to 640MB?
640MB should be enough for anyone.
:)
A
On Fri, July 10, 2009 17:58, yuri wrote:
Does anyone on this list know anything about controlling ModBus relay
boards from a linux box?
???
Google gives plenty of hits for linux modbus, so what exactly do you
want to know?
Do you have a specific ModBus relay board (make and model, please),
On Wed, July 8, 2009 12:21, Bry Ashman wrote:
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Craig Falconercfalco...@totalteam.co.nz
wrote:
Bry Ashman wrote, On 08/07/09 15:02:
Blow that marketing fluff - they're gigabytes. If one drive maker
would have the testicles to quote actual capacity in
On Wed, June 17, 2009 08:14, Stephen Irons wrote:
Some one on Trademe is selling little Bluetooth adapters for $10 + $2
postage [1]. It is the size of the tip of my thumb. Just right for plugging
into one of the USB holes of your netbook.
I bought one. Plugged it in. It Just Worked.
Up
Hello,
I have snagged a mailbox file from another user, and I wish to extract an
attachment contained within it.
The file has a long cryptic name, and I can see the headers, body and
attachments within it:
Content-Type: application/msword; name=interestingfile.doc
Content-Transfer-Encoding:
On Sat, June 6, 2009 14:37, Delio Brignoli wrote:
snip
base64 should do what you need.
cheers --
Delio
Thanks! It really was simple! Now it's done.
Best wishes,
Andrew
On Sat, June 6, 2009 14:45, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
munpack part of the mpack package.
sudo apt-get install mpack
Thanks Chris. I had discovered munpack, but I didn't know that the
package was mpack. (apt-get install munpack didn't work, and my brain
is working too slowly today).
A
On Wed, June 3, 2009 15:43, Gauland, Michael wrote:
snip
This doesn't need to be a flash system. Mostly, it will be used for web
browsing, e-mail, light word processing, and photo cataloguing (any
recommendations that an iPhoto user would be happy with?), though a key
requirement is a
On Tue, June 2, 2009 12:37, Craig Falconer wrote:
Vik Olliver wrote, On 02/06/09 15:02:
You probably want to drive the tensioner through a worm gear, which
automatically ratchets.
How do you slack off the tension later, if there's some kind of one-way
ratchet in there? With a manual
Actually (and I am replying to the OP, not my own message) you might be
better off with a grunty servomotor. Some R/C servos are capable of very
high torque and rapid and accurate positioning. In fact, since a servo is
often used to give a 180 degree output range it might suit this project
On Sun, May 31, 2009 20:37, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
On Sun 31 May 2009 16:16:17 NZST +1200, Andrew Errington wrote:
Hmm. apt-get install skype, and, err, that's it.
That is presumably not what Derek is talking about. If your sound driver
or hardware doesn't work (because it's a mess under
On Mon, June 1, 2009 06:43, Derek Smithies wrote:
specious argument snipped
See - it is simpler to just install Skype and use it.
Actually, from what you are saying, it is simpler just to install Windows
and use it.
A
On Sun, May 31, 2009 06:04, Derek Smithies wrote:
snip
The most surefire way of fixing this?
Use skype.
Seriously, you can fiddle for hours getting this to work.
Except that Skype is proprietary and closed. SIP is the Right Answer, so
it's worth persevering.
A
On Sun, May 31, 2009 12:56, Derek Smithies wrote:
On Sun, 31 May 2009, Andrew Errington wrote:
On Sun, May 31, 2009 06:04, Derek Smithies wrote:
The most surefire way of fixing this?
Use skype.
Seriously, you can fiddle for hours getting this to work.
Except that Skype is proprietary
Did anyone read about this?
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/05/26/0155209/Microsofts-Bulk-Deal-With-New-Zealand-Collapses?art_pos=2
Posted by some guy called Vik :) so *he* knows about it.
A
On Mon, May 25, 2009 08:46, David Kirk wrote:
snip
Unfortunately I can't go, but I would like to thank Chris for all his
work with the CLUG and wish him the best of luck for the future.
Hear, hear!
I can't be there either, but I echo your sentiments. Thanks Chris, and
all the best!
Andrew
On Tue, May 19, 2009 10:30, Julian Warwick Bethell wrote:
Do have a video setting up DMZ
I can haz cheezburger?
Please read your email yourself before posting it, and make sure it is
clear. Everyone here is keen to help, but it's a little difficult to
parse your meaning.
Let me reiterate
On Sun, May 17, 2009 19:45, Kerry Mayes wrote:
I'm wanting to connect up my shed for power (3 phase), water and data
(phone network). I have (with significant help) dug the trench to
the shed and will be organising the connections in the next few weeks.
However, if I run the network cables
On Mon, May 18, 2009 09:09, Leif Keane wrote:
Hi.
I have a small scale laptop with a 23cm (just about) screen.
It is capable of resolutions up to 1024 X 600.
The devise, however doesn't have a VGA out and I want to plug the thing
into a data projector.
There are USB to VGA adapters, but I'm
On Sat, May 16, 2009 20:01, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
The primary job at hand: what's the gui tool to configure eth0? Manual
configuration, static IP, DNS, gateway, and all in a way I can teach a
non-techie. Plus saving it as a profile, then handling multiple profiles
for traveling.
Any kubuntu
On Sun, May 17, 2009 09:00, Phill Coxon wrote:
On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 11:09 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
snip
plus theres the hassle of kde's 4 branch still seeming to be unfinished.
Unfortunately true. I've been testing KUbuntu 9.04 on my laptop to see
if I want to upgrade my Desktop and things
On Sun, May 17, 2009 10:01, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
On Sun 17 May 2009 01:09:27 NZST +1200, Andrew Errington wrote:
snip
Anyway, I can recommend wicd for networking.
Thanks! apt-get works, I'll see if I can get it to work. Nope. wicd
daemon doesn't start, googling shows dbus must be restarted
On Sun, May 17, 2009 11:24, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
On Sun 17 May 2009 13:48:18 NZST +1200, Andrew Errington wrote:
Sorry. That's too bad.
Yeah, sounds otherwise exactly what I'm looking for. I need profiles
too.
Well, if you have the time I'd suggest it would be worthwhile persevering
On Thu, May 14, 2009 10:46, Roger Searle wrote:
Hi, I am thinking of making use of light scribe to label some CDs for
a project I am working on, and wondering if anyone on the list has
experience with doing this in linux, which I don't recall ever seen
mentioned on any lugs. Goes without
When I lived in Japan we had a problem with the phone line, which meant
that voice was unintelligible and ASDL was severely borked. It started
after a very severe rainstorm.
I called the service number, but of course they could barely hear me. On
top of that, my Japanese is quite awful.
On Mon, May 11, 2009 11:12, Nick Rout wrote:
snip
I assume you pay for wiring maintenance. So start mumbling about
breaches of the Fair Trading Act (taking money and not providing the
service) and the Commerce Act (abuse of monopoly position). Mention the
next call is to the Commerce
On Wed, May 6, 2009 15:31, Kerry wrote:
Hi all,
I'm after some Open project control software, a group of us are
collaborating on an open publishing news website using Drupal and as we
are spread out in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Australia we need
something to co- ordinate our
On Thu, April 30, 2009 19:06, Roger Searle wrote:
Robert Fisher wrote:
On Thursday 30 April 2009 21:43:57 Roger Searle wrote:
Maybe there is another way, I've not found anything in System
Settings -
personally I always want the numlock keys on. This is about as easy as
it gets:
On Wed, April 8, 2009 10:35, Nick Rout wrote:
snip
I have had no real problems with ubuntu/mythbuntu 8.04 or 8.10 using
atheros chipsets, using the standard network manager and no extra packages.
Indeed, I am using Mepis 8.0, which is based on Debian Lenny, and the
stock utilities 'just work'.
On Tue, March 17, 2009 04:58, Nick Rout wrote:
I agree Circuit Cellar is fun, but so is this site:
http://blog.makezine.com/
Yes, Circuit Cellar is awesome (and I have met Steve Ciarcia). All issues
are available on CD in a set for a high, but not unreasonable, price.
Regarding Make
Just to finish off my thread, I'm nearly done with my Mepis install. The
install went well, but I literally have no time to put my data back on and
set it up as I want.
I had to install from the CD three times (bacause I am an idiot). Thank
you to everyone who made suggestions for partitioning.
Hi all,
I still haven't had time to set up my Aspire One with Mepis 8.0, but
incremental progress is being made. I booted Mepis from CD and used
GPartEd to resize the XP partition from 146Gb to 12Gb, and I want to
install Mepis on the space I a freed up. The resize worked, so now I have
about
On Fri, March 13, 2009 10:32, Roy Britten wrote:
This morning either my monitor died or something has gone sad in the
video hardware (weird on-mobo stuff). I currently have a black screen.
Should it be a mobo issue I'll replace the whole desktop box with
something appropriate. I'm dithering
On Wed, March 11, 2009 07:13, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
The monthly meeting in the hall is now very much over to people other
than me. My posting last week explains, so you all know why now.
Best of luck, Chris. If you are flying Air New Zealand for any part of
your trip (which I thoroughly
On Mon, March 2, 2009 20:40, Hadley Rich wrote:
On Monday 02 March 2009 20:30:54 Andrew Errington wrote:
Dell's new mini Inspiron is available in NZ, with Linux, but can only
be ordered online.
It is? That's great news, last I heard it was only available with Windows
here. I can't seem
Hmm.
I think if you want a netbook you should buy one. Seriously, there's no
better answer. You can have a quick play with them at Dickie's or Noel
Leeming, and some of them are available with Linux pre-installed (but not
from there). Having said that, the Linux on the Aspire One is Linpus,
Hi all,
In a previous email I mused at the wondrousness of being able to connect
my new slimline DVD writer to my (very) old ThinkPad 600X running 4 year
old Mepis. The drive was recognised and K3b worked properly. I burned
all my photos to DVD as a backup and I was impressed that it just
snip
Just a word of warning, and I am sure most of know this already:
writeable DVDs and CDs make a very poor backup medium for periods
exceeding 5Yrs. There are numerous sources of reference for this
statement on the net but my personal experience comes from creating 13
CDs of mp3 about
On Mon, March 2, 2009 11:14, John Carter wrote:
I don't know if Acer have followed same strategy as the Asus 901
EEE...
On the 901 it has 20Gb SSD, but as far as I can determine that is
split into two logically, if not physically, distinct drives.
A faster 4Gb partition for the root /
On Mon, March 2, 2009 14:05, wgsil...@ihug.co.nz wrote:
Hello,
Could anyone here recommend a place in (or around) Christchurch that
sells laptops WITHOUT Windows (it doesn't matter if it comes with Linux or
not). I'm asking on behalf of someone who doesn't know what to look for
when shopping
This seems related:
http://www.linux.net.nz/pipermail/aucklug/2007-March/001508.html
Can the changes selected by Yast (the configuration tool in Suse) be made
in Ubuntu?
HTH,
A
Well, it seems to be an external serial modem, so it ought to work.
Common problems are:
Modem not switched on
Modem not connected to PC
Modem not connected to phone line
Misidentifying the serial port (/dev/ttyS?)
Permissions on the serial port device
Mis-typing the ISP phone number, username,
Err, of course, if it's a dual-boot PC and it was *just working* with the
other OS then of course the first three reasons I suggest are moot.
A
On Tue, February 24, 2009 16:39, Andrew Errington wrote:
Well, it seems to be an external serial modem, so it ought to work.
Common problems
Could be deteriorating hardware. Try a USB wireless dongle and disable
the built-in wireless. See if the exact same issues persist with the new
hardware (everything else is the same).
A
On Fri, February 20, 2009 11:09, Roger Searle wrote:
Hi, over the last month or so I have experienced
Mostly they sem to contain drivel about interference with other
devices, the evils of inserting your VCR in a bathtub or leaving your 46
inch TV outside in the rain.
And never clean anything with benzene!
A
(Actually, I do like reading manuals. From cover to cover.)
On Fri, February 13, 2009 11:20, Derek Smithies wrote:
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, John Carter wrote:
Hokay, Xandros is doomed no emacs, not even in the repository.
That is criminal - how can you call it a linux distro when emacs is not
installed?
Because it has vi instead. D'uh!
A
I presume you have found this site:
http://forum.eeeuser.com/
Full of useful info (and backbiting and sniping).
A
On Fri, February 13, 2009 10:44, John Carter wrote:
So I could find no Canterbury local meatspace dealer who had one of
these gadgets so I ordered it from Expert Infotech in
Hi Hadley,
That sounds great!
When you have some stock, please announce it on the Christchurch Robotics
Group mailing list (or tell me and I'll do it).
Here are the list details (and anyone else interested in hobby robotics is
welcome to sign up or come along to a meeting- next meeting
I know I shouldn't be too surprised, but I am always happy when things
'just work'.
In a previous email I said that I have bought an Acer Aspire One netbook.
I want to put Linux on it, but I am sort of waiting for distros to
untangle themselves. I want KDE, but I hear KDE 4.0 is not so good, so
Hi John (and list),
I have one. It's running XP right now, but I plan to install Mepis 8.0
when it exits RC status.
There are many models in the range, but not all are available in NZ. I
suggest you head to PriceSpy www.pricespy.co.nz and search for Aspire
One. You will get two subcategories-
There's also the HP MiniNote (or something like that), the MSI Wind, and
something from Toshiba, just to muddy the waters a little.
They're all very similar, since they're all based on the Intel Atom
reference platform.
Your choice is guided by
a) How they look (size, shape, screen)
b) How they
Well... there seems to be a new hype word in the market these
days. netbook, sub notebook, mini notebook.
Absolutely. I've been using junkers for years now, and I decided the new
'netbook' format would be better for travelling. Having travelled with
two 'regular' notebooks I know I'm right.
On Thu, February 5, 2009 16:29, Craig Falconer wrote:
Andrew Errington wrote, On 05/02/09 15:20:
I like my Aspire One. I think I will like it more with Linux, but that
entails investing some effort into the process, plus outlaying cash
for an external DVD drive. Oh, and an external hard
Hi Wesley,
As others have pointed out, if you have a record player already then you
can hook it up to the audio input of your PC sound card and record the
sound that way.
If you don't have one then they are easily found at Jaycar (stock codes
GE4056, GE4057, GE4059 are the obvious ones, about
Hi all,
I'm buying one these, with a 160Gb hard drive and Windows XP. Anyone else
bought one (either 120Gb HD or 160Gb HD) and put Linux on it (which is
what I want to do)? What distro, what caveats? How did it work out?
Thanks,
Andrew
. The Acer has a better keyboard and a Synaptics touchpad, so
that's all good.
Thanks,
Andrew
On Mon, January 26, 2009 14:27, Craig Falconer wrote:
Andrew Errington wrote, On 26/01/09 13:53:
I'm buying one these, with a 160Gb hard drive and Windows XP. Anyone
else bought one (either 120Gb HD
This problem is invariably due to posting from a different account to that
which you originally subscribed.
Every time.
Vik's address that bounces:
Vik Olliver v...@diamondage.co.nz
Most recent successful post in my CLUG folder from:
Vik Olliver v...@olliver.family.gen.nz
Coincidence? I think
On Thu, January 8, 2009 17:30, David Lowe wrote:
My only issue has been that I have found it troublesome to connect to
corporate network shares. Dolphin has its pluses but browsing networks is
not one of them. I found a thing called smb4k which helped.
Apart from that, I'd be happy to
Hi,
The list unsubscribe headers seem to be missing from list postings. Can
it be fixed please (esp. as I need to temporarily unsubscribe).
Thanks,
Andrew
On Wed, August 13, 2008 09:36, 192.168.0. wrote:
snip Amazing whats really still in use these days.
Indeed. Such as punctuation, for example.
A
On Fri, August 8, 2008 12:04, Dave G wrote:
Andrew
you are dead right about python being the way to go I agree entirely
the only reason for doing it this way is a lack of python knowledge but I
hope to correct this in the future
currently I have a range of simple bash stuff for various
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