is almost 15 and I know I started linux when he was
very small (which he certainly ain't no more, what the hell do they
put in our food these days?))
Aren't there a couple of maxims about not biting the hand that feeds
you and not looking a gift horse in the mouth.
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to say how many. It works a
treat. Linux version available.
Small charge for computer to POTS phone.
0.017 Euros per min NZ to the UK
0.055 Euros per min NZ to South Africa
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On 20 July 2010 08:50, C. Falconer cfalco...@totalteam.co.nz wrote:
Christopher Sawtell wrote, On 07/19/2010 11:21 PM:
* Something with cheap calls to South Africa / US / UK (diasporas tend
to do that to you)
http://www.skype.com/
Traffic costs only for computer to computer worldwide
On 20 July 2010 15:51, Steve Holdoway st...@greengecko.co.nz wrote:
On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 15:14 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On 20 July 2010 08:50, C. Falconer cfalco...@totalteam.co.nz wrote:
No no no! Skype is evil and nasty and CLOSED.
Apart from the fact that it is proprietary
of documentation would be required.
Remembering your target audience, you'll have to produce a visual show
instead of the more normal printed documentation.
http://www.debugmode.com/wink/
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-r30554-4.4.2 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
There is also the question of the codecs.
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reconfiguring xorg reading the man pages for xorg, and
xrandr, all to no avail.
Also googled extensively with out any workable answers
Any help greatly appreciated
most of the X ugliness is revealed in /var/log/Xorg.0.log
http://amlc.berlios.de/
It just works.
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On 16 June 2010 13:21, Roy Britten roy.brit...@gmail.com wrote:
On 16 June 2010 09:46, Steve Holdoway st...@greengecko.co.nz wrote:
Anyone up for it? I don't get out much (:
Sounds good.
I'll be there
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enough time and effort, to get most of the
more recent ones to go under Linux. You might also find this page
useful.
http://www.linuxant.com/
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On 14 June 2010 17:52, Aidan Gauland aidal...@no8wireless.co.nz wrote:
Hello,
I am unable to connect to my mobile phone from my netbook over
Bluetooth.
Can you connect to any other Bluetooth device?
Somebody else's 'phone for example.
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Does anyone have any of these floating around? Please contact me
off-list if you do.
I hope this isn't too far off topic - it peripherally relates to Linux
via the Linux-based SCSI device we are developing.
Regards,
Andre
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stopped me .
I'm pretty sure I can still lay my hand on it.
I believe it was the first ever LiveCD for linux.
You may have it if your want it.
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gratuitous line unreliability as the teleco equivalent of
a
gratuitous buffer overflow, and naturally, would like to see Telecom pay
the
consequences.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
np
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. I
don't need or want the stress.
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sure some of us would be prepared to set up our machines as hosts in a
compiler farm for you.
Volunteers CLUGgers?
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On 29 May 2010 16:41, Nick Rout nick.r...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Christopher Sawtell csawt...@gmail.com
wrote:
On 29 May 2010 15:03 chris che...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 14:38 +1200, Ryan McCoskrie wrote:
On Sat, 29 May 2010 13:44:11 you wrote
://mail.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?hl=entopic=12913
This saves you all the hassle of administering your own server and you also
save on the electricity bill by not running a server locally.
And PLEASE don't set your reply-to when posting to the list!
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and war stories would be very welcome.
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On 16 May 2010 14:37, Christopher Sawtell csawt...@gmail.com wrote:
On 16 May 2010 14:22, Steve Holdoway st...@greengecko.co.nz wrote:
Who's up for this month's meeting??
Me. Thanks for the reminder.
Seeing as there were only three of us there, I feel I am flogging a dead
horse trying
/may/17/pirate-bay-offline
Read the comments carefully.
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Greets to CLUGgers,
It's the 17th today, so it's a gathering at the Twisted Hop.
Tux and I be there from approx 7:00.
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him to stop be so darned silly.
He has therefore, very reluctantly, agreed to do his duty as a mascot.
So, Yes, Tux will be on view - initially anyway, but I have compromised with
him, and he will be allowed to retire to my pocket as the evening
progresses.
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On 17 May 2010 13:03, Steve Holdoway st...@greengecko.co.nz wrote:
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 12:47 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On 17 May 2010 12:32, Solor Vox solor...@gmail.com wrote:
Are you going to have a tux on the table? =)
He and I have had a wee conversation
On 16 May 2010 14:22, Steve Holdoway st...@greengecko.co.nz wrote:
Who's up for this month's meeting??
Me. Thanks for the reminder.
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Only one word needed: ThinkPad
Everything just works.
I got an unused ex-lease Z60t for $500 a month or two ago.
ThinkWiki %20http://www.thinkwiki.org/ for support
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on account of
not wanting Windows (re)-installed. Its got a CoA sticker though
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do I, but I have not found anyway of getting dialup to work on it.
Any ideas greatly received
Read and digest between the ears:-
http://www.linmodems.org/
in particular:-
http://132.68.73.235/linmodems/index.html#scanmodem
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system.
You will - It's called Linux.
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.
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a ethernet switch
until Caleb comes home from Wellington for the Summer.
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and the incantations for success would be most
gratefully received.
Thanks.
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*, not a net*top*. :)
I got an 'uncontaminated' IBM Z60t from the PC shop in the old Edmonds
'Sure-to-rise' building on Aldwins Road near Ferry Road for $500. I thought
it a bargain especially as it was virtually unused. I'm very happy with it.
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://www.tug.org/texlive/
( The easiest way to get pstopdf is to install a _full_ TeX system )
Each one has its own different plusses and minusses.
Deciding which is best for a particular purpose is left as an exercise
for the reader.
HTH
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for it.
I've tried to find them on trademe, but they are just too old for people
to bother I think.
On a linux related front, we need this to test our Linux based SCSI device.
Please contact me off-list.
Regards,
Andre
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of
that vital project you have written. e.g your thesis etc.
You also get given a public_html area which is extremely useful as a
staging-post for sharing pictures etc. with family and friends.
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St. Paddy's with music and dancing.
Significant others very welcome.
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://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-inotify.html
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for a tipple?
Cheers Ross Drummond
(Likes drinking alone)
But it is St Paddy's day (on the 17th I mean)!
Does that mean we want a different date?
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of all ages.
No need for you to fuss yourself over it.
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Stop - first check you have plugs that match your cable. RJ45 plugs for
solid do not work well on stranded and vice versa.
How do you tell the difference?
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Poplar Street, ( South off Litchfield St. East of
Manchester. )
All list members welcome.
The T.H. management have requested that you reply to me by Monday 15 March
2010 if you are coming.
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About 7.30 is it?? sorry I searched through the posts but only
recognised the day. If you see a guy with a guiding cane that looks
lost that is going to probably be me.
Cheers
Tom
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being hacked.
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On 9 February 2010 20:21, Ryan McCoskrie ryan.mccosk...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:49:41 Christopher Sawtell wrote:
Many Linux user groups have mogrified into geek oriented social clubs
which meet informally in licensed premises. Christopher's suggestion is
that we follow
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Greets to CLUGgers
Does anybody know why Amarok requires a login?
It's an ordinary app, just a sound player for goodness sake.
If anybody knows how to disable the need for a login I'd be very grateful to
hear the secret incantation.
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All fixed now by removing all the selections to Internet services in the
configuration widow.
Many thanks to everybody who replied.
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to other CLUG list members?
Christopher has no particular preference for a date, except that he will be
otherwise occupied on the 15th. of this month.
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, seamonkey, chrome and IE.
Kerry
Works ok for us. Telstra cable.
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having trouble
mounting external storage to copy the output off the box.
In what way?
I think we'll call in the cavalry on this one.
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On 5 February 2010 10:29, steve st...@greengecko.co.nz wrote:
On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 10:07 +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On 5 February 2010 09:48, Roy Britten roy.brit...@gmail.com wrote:
On 4 February 2010 19:51, Steve Holdoway
st...@greengecko.co.nz wrote
On 5 February 2010 12:12, steve st...@greengecko.co.nz wrote:
On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 11:47 +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
[snip]
sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade
If that doesn't fix the problem it might be worth trying a manual
install of the avahi stuff.
sudo apt-get
.
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filesystems.
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++
is it purely cosmetic?
No.
Eye candy works better in kde?
imho, yes, but it is endlessly debatable.
Is one less resource hungry?
GNOME, probably. It makes no difference now-a-days.
Much Thanks
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was definitely *nix, it had var opt and dev directories (I
couldn't linger as the printer wasn't far away.)
She knew nothing about what was underlying the software she used. It
may have been any unix variant, but it was great to see something that
wasn't windows!
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2010/1/13 Brett Davidson br...@net24.co.nz
My Aunt lives out there and I'm a little too busy to fix her Windows
machine at present.
What appears to be wrong with it?
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://www.flickr.com
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Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.
It's faulty, toss it and buy a new one.
Don't plug the heater into the new one.
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For a pretty good scripting guide, I'd suggest:
The Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
HTH
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node appropriately.
otoh for a quick and very dirty fix you could put a chmod or chown command
in your rc.local file.
Your distributor needs to be told about the bug provided you are using a
very recent version of Linux.
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- and a fix would be most welcome.
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2009/11/26 Jim Cheetham j...@gonzul.net
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Christopher Sawtell csawt...@gmail.com
wrote:
Has anybody got Skype ( ver. 2.1.0.47 ) video to work on (K)ubuntu Kosmic
Koala ( or what ever it is that they are callling the 9.10 version - I
forget ) ?
My logitech
2009/11/26 Robert Fisher rob...@fisher.net.nz
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
iirc My webcam is a Logitech 3500. ( usb id number:- 046d:09a4 )
Same as mine.
More help solicited.
Well this is weird. I just checked mine and got the same result (single
click on test and nothing happens
/usr/sbin -iname '*vnc*'
( include the asterisks and single quotes on the command line ) will
definitely find it for you.
HTH
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be interested in the package sysv-rc-conf, a nice ncurses-based
tool for futzing with the startup scripts (whatever they're called).
--Aidan
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to the port and IP
address mentioned?
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your line fixed.
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to be provision now to
connect to msn. Does anyone have an answer to this omission?
TIA
Barry
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some sort of isolation and attenuator between the 'phone
line and your sound card.
Others can fill you in on the electrical engineering aspects.
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by the 'development version' in its configuration file.
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://www.sabayonlinux.org/
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Arrived safely.
2009/6/11 Wesley Parish wes.par...@paradise.net.nz
Amen to that!
Wesley Parish
On Wednesday 10 June 2009 20:13, Steve Holdoway wrote:
...and best wishes for the future. Thanks for all you've done for us,
and please keep in touch.
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Greetings Cluggers
2009/6/10 Steve Holdoway st...@greengecko.co.nz
...and best wishes for the future. Thanks for all you've done for us,
and please keep in touch.
And from me: Thanks for being such a good bunch of friends.
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Anybody know how to move a podcast file from the local file system to a
player using the Amarok GUI?
Sure one can mount the device using mtpfs and copy it by hand, but I'm sure
that's not the real game.
TIA
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?
TIA
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2009/6/10 Robert Fisher rob...@fisher.net.nz
On Wednesday 10 June 2009 21:00:42 Christopher Sawtell wrote:
I have been doing Kubuntu upgrades, via the update button in Adept, since
Lord only knows when, but the picture viewer and the dictionary GUI
applets
will not install since KDE-4
(Mepis 8.0).
Perhaps it is too simple to document? Yes I could chop the file at the
boundaries of the attachment, but what tool to decode it? Even if it's
simple, please put me out of my misery.
Thanks,
Andrew
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a regular date in the month.
Perhaps I might be able to attend virtually via Ekiga or Skype on the 2
July?
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YES!
2009/6/2 Roy Britten roy.brit...@gmail.com
Checking in to confirm we're farewelling Chris from 6:30pm tonight at
the Twisted Hop.
See you there.
Roy.
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I have a few loose and various stepper motors, also a couple of old printers
which will have some in as components.
Molten media have a nearly continuous supply out of scanners, printers, old
disks, etc etc.
If mine are no good, I'd suggest you try there.
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and
forwarding correctly.
A possible way might be to use the netcat tool to test that you can connect
using the ports and protocols ekiga wants from your machine to another one
on the outside of your firewall and vice versa.
We could do this tomorrow afternoon.
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2nd. June 6:30pm onwards @ Twisted Hop.
6 Poplar St. City.
2009/5/25 dave dave.lil...@clear.net.nz:
Yes need a time too.
will try and squeeze some $$ out of she who bosses
So that everybody knows: All the She who must be obeyeds would be
very welcome too.
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2009/5/25 David Kirk davidrk...@gmail.com
Hey everyone,
Christopher Sawtell will be abandoning us soon to go to Aberdeen.
No, not entirely. I intend to stay on the list, for a while anyway, to keep
an ear to the ground as it were.
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change my understanding and we'll have the
gathering on that day.
2009/5/25 Nick Rout nick.r...@gmail.com
Chris I have inserted it in my diary, but I'll need a time.
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Christopher Sawtell
csawt...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/5/25 David Kirk davidrk...@gmail.com
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OK then well have it on the 2nd. June 6:30pm onwards @ Twisted Hop.
Folks should take the above line as the 'Official Announcement'.
I'll book a table.
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2009/5/23 Jim Cheetham j...@inode.co.nz
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Christopher Sawtell csawt...@gmail.com
wrote:
By all means feel very free to re-start the monthly meetings.
...
Be warned however that finding competent free of charge orators who live
nearby and know about any
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Christopher Sawtell
or
http://www.cpit.ac.nz/subjects/community_studies/programmes?a=24897
or, more to the point
0800 24 24 76
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if they are looking at their own computer
screen instead of at a data-projector.
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the network configuration at
the user level, but it's very useful to be able to choose the network
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