Re: OT: Help with Damaged data on a hard drive

2010-07-10 Thread Daniel Hill
On 11/07/10 10:31, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: On Sat 10 Jul 2010 12:37:22 NZST +1200, Daniel Hill wrote: Sounds to me like the disk is dead because it's got read error, do you reckon the USB-SATA adapter will be fine I couldn't use a direct connection to my computer because I didn't have a spare

OT: Help with Damaged data on a hard drive

2010-07-09 Thread Daniel Hill
my friend had a external hard (250GB) and the SATA plug broke he didn't know this for a while, so there is now corrupt data on the drive (broken partition table and some other stuff) I've finally backed up the data (69h copy time) with GNU ddrescue here's the problem, the best option is to

Re: CLUG meetings

2010-07-09 Thread Daniel Hill
On 06/07/10 15:45, Rik Tindall wrote: On 05/07/10 12:24, max podolian wrote: Hello everyone! Are there held any CLUG meetings? Best regards, Maksym Hello Maksym, Some local *nix users meet on the first Wednesday of each month (i.e. tomorrow) at 7.30pm-9.30pm in the South Learning Centre

Re: Handheld scanner recommendations

2010-07-09 Thread Daniel Hill
However, for scanning books, flatbeds have issues distortion in the center of thick books. Google solved this by calculating the curve and using some sort of 3D rendering to flatten out the image

Re: Handheld scanner recommendations

2010-07-09 Thread Daniel Hill
On 06/07/10 14:17, C. Falconer wrote: Andrew Errington wrote, On 07/06/2010 01:01 PM: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.33756 Oh, and I've never bought anything from DealExtreme, although I *sooo* want to. I have. The quality is about what you'd expect from mail-order. It looks

Re: why oh why...

2010-06-25 Thread Daniel Hill
DVD-player -- dmix (48 kHz) -- sample-conversion (48--44.1) -- dmix (44.1) -- sound card your system is redundant you don't need two dmix plugins my system is setup with: samplerate converter (called plug)-- dmix sound card [well it's a bit more complex ( http://pastebin.org/359575)] It

Re: why oh why...

2010-06-21 Thread Daniel Hill
And finally with the last few versions of Ubuntu there is a push for pulseaudio which I think is utter rubbish. It seems to me the real problem lies in ALSA's inability to work with more then one source. There are some workarounds that disable ALSA from locking the card to one app. I

Re: Recommendations for Linux hosting companies

2010-02-13 Thread Daniel Hill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm not sure how good these guys are but worth a shot http://www.asmallorange.com/hosting/shared/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/

Re: Amarok

2010-02-09 Thread Daniel Hill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christopher Sawtell wrote: 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

Re: Amarok

2010-02-09 Thread Daniel Hill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Lowe wrote: I recall (not having used it for a while) that if you set it to use MySql as the database, you have to enter credentials. maybe that's what you are seeing. That's not the default config though. But I would say that if you have

Linux Smart Phones

2009-11-17 Thread Daniel Hill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I remember a while ago some one started a website to gage the demand for the Openmoko NeoFreeRunner and since then the market has changed a lot we have different software like: OpenMoko, Android, Maemo, Palm webOS and lots of phones to match so I

OT, Re: Good broadband provider in Christchurch

2009-09-23 Thread Daniel Hill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You can do VOIP to somewhere like 2talk for $cheap. I've always had A problem with the idea of running VoIP, what happens when your internet is down? how do you ring customer service? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (MingW32)

Re: Good broadband provider in Christchurch

2009-09-23 Thread Daniel Hill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On a similar note and sorry to top the thread...but what are the contract terms like for broadband, are they all 12 months 24 months or are there any that offer short term, casual contracts? Usually you can do it casual if you pay for the

Re: OT, Re: Good broadband provider in Christchurch

2009-09-23 Thread Daniel Hill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 when your internet is down? how do you ring customer service? You spend some of that money you save on a cell phone call. Telecom phone = $50 a month, plus $3.95 for CID plus $10 for voicemail 2talk phone = $15 a month, includes CID and

Re: Good broadband provider in Christchurch

2009-09-22 Thread Daniel Hill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Wallis wrote: Hello I'm currently living in the UK, and am moving to Christchurch in January. Does anyone have any recommendations for a good ISP in NZ? When I was growing up (in NZ), Clear.net.nz were good, but that was back in the days of

Re: Allocating unused drive space to a root partition

2009-09-16 Thread Daniel Hill
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Re: Tri-boot system?

2009-09-03 Thread Daniel Hill
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Re: Open Source Stock Images

2009-08-30 Thread Daniel Hill
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Re: Open Source Stock Images

2009-08-30 Thread Daniel Hill
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Re: OT: software or hardware problems

2009-08-27 Thread Daniel Hill
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Re: clug domains - renewal time again

2009-08-26 Thread Daniel Hill
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Neat, Crazy, Cool, scripts

2009-08-26 Thread Daniel Hill
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Re: Neat, Crazy, Cool, scripts

2009-08-26 Thread Daniel Hill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is just weird in a coupla ways... 1. Why use sed to remove the /dev/ of the device name, then manually put it back every time you use it? I think at one point before the final version I wanted to use it with out /dev/ oh well I learnt how to

Re: clug domains - renewal time again

2009-08-26 Thread Daniel Hill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Its a shell server - nothing flash. Most users here have linux boxes of their own, but sometimes a host outside the network can be helpful for testing, or some users like James just don't have a linux box. More news in the new month. that

OT: software or hardware problems

2009-08-26 Thread Daniel Hill
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Re: OT: software or hardware problems

2009-08-26 Thread Daniel Hill
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Re: OT: software or hardware problems

2009-08-26 Thread Daniel Hill
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Re: Can someone tell me why...

2009-08-24 Thread Daniel Hill
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Re: Can someone tell me why...

2009-08-22 Thread Daniel Hill
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Re: Resolving domain name to different IP based on port?

2009-08-21 Thread Daniel Hill
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Re: Resolving domain name to different IP based on port?

2009-08-20 Thread Daniel Hill
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Backing up PGP keys

2009-08-16 Thread Daniel Hill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wondering if there is a safe way to back my public and private keys any ideas? - -- python -c print \\.join([ \\x79\x71\x6Du\056vgp\x40ae\142nr\.decode(\\x72o\164\x5F_13\)[i] for i in [1, 12, 9, 5, 13, 0, 4, 3, 5, 0, 0, 8, 11, 10, 7, 11, 9, 4, 9,

Re: Backing up PGP keys

2009-08-16 Thread Daniel Hill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Errington wrote: 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

Re: Backing up PGP keys

2009-08-16 Thread Daniel Hill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Craig Falconer wrote: Daniel Hill wrote, On 17/08/09 01:30: Andrew Errington wrote: http://dansdata.com/gz094.htm must get a printer and scanner some time You have two of each, generally printers on the end of your arms, and two scanners

Re: Backing up PGP keys

2009-08-16 Thread Daniel Hill
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Re: Words Re: Which Distro for learning linux and server

2009-08-16 Thread Daniel Hill
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Re: ubuntu 9.04 on notebook: display not quite right?

2009-08-16 Thread Daniel Hill
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Re: Reset desktop?

2009-08-13 Thread Daniel Hill
Right click on a free area on the panel click add to panel then drag and drop the User Switcher to the desired location Daniel Bryce Stenberg wrote: Hi, Continuing my little battles with Ubuntu… After trying out KDE to see if it helped my display issue I have subsequently removed all

Re: Which Distro for learning linux and server

2009-08-13 Thread Daniel Hill
Robert Fisher wrote: but if you want to learn more about Linux as you go and are really prepared to get your hands dirty, go for Gentoo. getting my hands dirty is exactly what I want to do just don't know if I can be bothered with the 8h compile time, wondering if there is another distro that'll

Re: Which Distro for learning linux and server

2009-08-13 Thread Daniel Hill
Install time has been much much easier for folks the past 2 years, with stage3 being the default instead of stage1, and stage 1 now being officially unsupported. Stage 1 imho gives you a much closer look at how things work. ( I've become a bit of a masochist on the deal, and have installed

Re: Which Distro for learning linux and server

2009-08-13 Thread Daniel Hill
Kent Fredric wrote: For minimal pain, don't unmask the ~ ( testing ) versions of things during stage 1. You'll find if you do you'll find a fun gcc cyclic dependency :) ( that is, don't set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS= to ~amd64 or ~x86 leave them at amd64 or x86 ) Once you get to stage 3 of the

Re: python coding problem

2009-08-12 Thread Daniel Hill
Have you tried running it in another thread? http://linuxgazette.net/107/pai.html Hi python experts After lots of suggestions I have as last tried programming in python. I have the following code snippet which when called displays a selected image using qiv. def file_ok_sel(self, w):

Re: Anyone else in Chch with broadband down?

2009-08-12 Thread Daniel Hill
Phill Coxon wrote: Anyone else with Telecom ADSL down in Christchurch at the moment? According to some Telecom person I spoke to somebody managed to cut a fibre optic cable on Wakrakei Road this morning at about 7:30am. We're still down in Opawa (currently using mobile broadband). Very

Re: D-Link DSL-G604T Gen ][ firmware?

2009-07-30 Thread Daniel Hill
I've got OpenWRT running on a 502T, I'm not sure the wireless works on the G604T there's a page that's a bit out of date here http://oldwiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs(2f)Hardware(2f)D(2d)Link(2f)DSL(2d)G604T.html it's a little hacky but mite be worth a try, I can give you pointers and I'm sure you

Re: D-Link DSL-G604T Gen ][ firmware?

2009-07-30 Thread Daniel Hill
Nope didn't even know routertech.org existed steve wrote: Thanks for that Daniel, You haven't tried out any of the stuff at routertech.org, have you?? Cheers, Steve On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 12:37 +1200, Daniel Hill wrote: I've got OpenWRT running on a 502T, I'm not sure the wireless

Re: ADSL/router recommendations?

2009-07-29 Thread Daniel Hill
Roy Britten wrote: I'm about to make a burnt sacrifice of my D-Link DSL-504T - no matter what options I set it consistently leaves itself open to the world for SSH, web admin, and telnet access. The only thing that will save it is someone pointing me to some decent (Linux) firmware that I

Re: The linux ipod dilemma - what do you suggest?

2009-07-29 Thread Daniel Hill
Kent Fredric wrote: 8G nano works for me, you need libgpod, but outside that its reasonably well supported. I don't think Libgpod works with the classic or the touch model line I could be wrong though

Re: Motherboard selection

2009-07-23 Thread Daniel Hill
Aidan Gauland wrote: Hello happy Linux users, I am (still) trying to choose a motherboard for a new machine. Instead of asking for general advice, this time I ask if anyone has had any experience, good or bad, with any of these motherboards (or something similar) which I am considering. *

OpenWrt and D-link DSL-502T gen II

2009-06-26 Thread Daniel Hill
The other day I atempted put OpenWrt on the D-link DSL-502T gen II (telecom issue model) It worked, and is running fine http://oldwiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs(2f)Hardware(2f)D(2d)Link(2f)DSL(2d)502T.html gives intrutions for the gen I model only difference is that it has a different mtd layout

Re: New ISP Conclusions

2009-01-06 Thread Daniel Hill
Jim Cheetham wrote: On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Bernard Frankpitt frankp...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: In the end I went for the cable modem option: It is the option offered by my Telstra, and I already have a cable connected to my house. ... When you go to a broadband connection, the

Ubuntu, ATI fglrx, AIGLX, and Xv

2008-10-26 Thread Daniel Hill
I've been having problems with Xv while using AIGLX on an ATI card ( X800XL ) using the fglrx driver has anyone else? have you been able to fix it?

Re: Slightly OT: ADSL routers...

2008-08-09 Thread Daniel Hill
OK.. So my ADSL router died, and my spare is useless.. I had a Dlink 504G outside my pfsense firewall, (Note, FOSS reference...) with a bunch of servers inside the firewall, ie: multiple pinholes in the ADSL router. The spare I had sitting here, a Dlink 504T only supports one IP address

Re: Slightly OT: ADSL routers...

2008-08-09 Thread Daniel Hill
On Saturday 09 August 2008 6:37:13 pm yuri wrote: 2008/8/9 Daniel Hill wrote: The spare I had sitting here, a Dlink 504T only supports one IP address for a virtual server/pinhole.. ARGH. how is a router suppose to portward the same port to two (or more) different IP addresses? or am

Re: OT: NSS, Outer Space and such Geek Extreme Sports

2008-08-06 Thread Daniel Hill
NSS as is the national space society? I read some stuff about the now defunct L5 Society http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L5_Society actually they were merged so, I'm interested Hi. I've just sent off a request to the NSS in the States to become a member and set up a Chapter in Christchurch.

Re: Acer Aspire One - 1024x600, 8G flash, NZ$600

2008-08-04 Thread Daniel Hill
On Saturday 02 August 2008 3:21:44 pm Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Daniel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I wonder is how long it will take till some one gets pissed that these various lockdowned devices don't comply with GPL then we mite see how well GPL stands

Re: Acer Aspire One - 1024x600, 8G flash, NZ$600

2008-08-01 Thread Daniel Hill
What I wonder is how long it will take till some one gets pissed that these various lockdowned devices don't comply with GPL then we mite see how well GPL stands in a Court of Law The good: Nice screen, 95% keyboard, 1kg The bad: Poor battery life (only 2 hours, not a patch on Asus Eee). The

Re: CherryPal

2008-07-24 Thread Daniel Hill
the OS/firmware probably lacks DMA which wouldn't help the DSL-502T(which I've got) runs linux on it, and I've now ported it to OpenWRT, and I remember reading some where that they don't have dma, or at least dma for usb working yet Don't. Further reading has revealed that this class of device

Re: CherryPal

2008-07-24 Thread Daniel Hill
last time I looked at building a Geode router it was gona cost $500, that's alot cheaper Cheap, fast, good. Choose any two. Seriously though, mini-ITX boards are a good base to build your own small, fanless, Linux appliance. Yeah, but then you've got the hassle of mini-ITX powersupply

Re: CherryPal

2008-07-23 Thread Daniel Hill
Work in progress on openwrt, well that's only for the first revistion http://wiki.openwrt.org/TableOfHardware#head-23aceae4ab1f4a2fe1e171cd55b5875b624dc2eb Oh and does it even work with Linux? I don't see that mentioned.

Re: OpenMoko Open Source / Linux / Hackable cellphone is on sale now.

2008-07-10 Thread Daniel Hill
This is was intended to state that you should be able to use the Neo FreeRunner on the telecom network On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 04:55:05PM +1200, Daniel Hill wrote: I've been to the telecom shop in the palms and asked if it was possible to change a vodafone phone to their network

Re: OpenMoko Open Source / Linux / Hackable cellphone is on sale now.

2008-07-09 Thread Daniel Hill
I've been to the telecom shop in the palms and asked if it was possible to change a vodafone phone to their network and the guy said not yetand that was on the 6th of july

Re: screensaver on my tosh...

2008-07-06 Thread Daniel Hill
sounds like it's gone in to suspend and doesn't come out, I have the same problem with the fglrx Proprietary ATI drivers first test suspend if it happens again you mite have to disable suspend in ubuntu and/or BIOS or find what's making it crash I've just upgraded my old Tosh lappie to Ubuntu

Re: Ubuntu server

2008-07-01 Thread Daniel Hill
I've never used the server edition but I'm sure it doesn't come with X The Desktop version would probably need more configuration disabling the desktop features and would take more HDD space up Quote form the website On the desktop you have a full set of productivity, internet, drawing and

Re: Ubuntu server

2008-07-01 Thread Daniel Hill
the desktop kernel is configed tickless so the 250Hz setting means nothing, any one know if the server version has tickless kernel?? $ cat /boot/config-2.6.24-19-generic | grep HZ # CONFIG_HZ_1000 is not set # CONFIG_HZ_300 is not set CONFIG_HZ=250 # CONFIG_HZ_100 is not set

Re: Openmoko

2008-06-13 Thread Daniel Hill
doesn't telecom work with GSM now? On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 8:43 AM, John Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After many delays... the SMT lines are rolling and the OpenMoko open linux phone has gone into mass production. Sales to open shortly. Finally the vapour around Open Linux mobile phones

EEPROM and coreboot

2008-06-06 Thread Daniel Hill
anyone know where to get an EEPROM for a backup BIOS chip?

Re: Slow performance from Dell Laptop

2008-05-29 Thread Daniel Hill
Biggest users of the processor are exaile (30%%) pulseaudio (13%), how well does Amarok run? in comparison since exaile is basicly a GTk copy of amarok funny thing is I already got sound working perfectly with out pulseaudio

Re: uBrowser

2008-05-19 Thread Daniel Hill
it looks to me like a standard web page rendered (using gecko) as a texture to a cube, not a 3D web page doesn't look much different than compiz fusion's cube effect. quote from the page Its primary purpose is to help me integrate Gecko into my company's software - a 3D virtual world called

Re: Streaming wma on Hardy Heron?

2008-05-19 Thread Daniel Hill
have you got w32codecs installed? grab them from here medibuntu.org or add this to your sources.list file deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ hardy free non-free 1. Try and open it in totem and totem should downlaod any necessary codecs; or 2. use mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile mystream [url]

Re: uBrowser

2008-05-19 Thread Daniel Hill
Processingjs looks pretty cool still slower than flash tho even in firefox 3 On Mon, 19 May 2008, Aidan Gauland wrote: Anyone heard of this: http://www.ubrowser.com/ And I thought the blinktag/blink was irritating! A whole raft of things are emerging that make one say, oooh, cool... at

Re: lightweight linux distros

2008-05-19 Thread Daniel Hill
Steve Holdoway wrote: On Tue, 20 May 2008 16:27:04 +1200 Kerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm after a fairly specific *nix distro. I want to run a server/test machine and would like a disto with the following attributes Small (the machine only has a 2gb hd) Runs the kde desktop Uses RPM

Re: Mixed-mode CD

2008-05-18 Thread Daniel Hill
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Daniel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri 16 May 2008 17:05:37 NZST +1200, Douglas Royds wrote: I tried burning an audio + data CD with the following command: cdrecord -v -eject dev=/dev/cdrw -audio -pad *.wav -data filename.iso

Hardy USB Storage Problems

2008-05-03 Thread Daniel Hill
anyone else having this problem? $ dmesg [ 4006.463410] ohci_hcd :00:02.0: leak ed f7fa9280 (#81) state 2 [ 3605.284548] usb 2-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5 [ 3605.417679] usb 2-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [ 3605.424095] scsi13 :

Re: Hardy USB Storage Problems

2008-05-03 Thread Daniel Hill
I mean SAMEthing happens also something happens with an iPod and a DSE flash drive

Re: Hardy USB Storage Problems

2008-05-03 Thread Daniel Hill
$ sudo mount /dev/sdc /media/mp3player/ seams to work actually $ sudo mount /dev/sdd1 /media/flash-stick/ and now to see why I get a window that says Cannot mount volume. Invalid mount option when attempting to mount the volume... comes up

Re: Hardy USB Storage Problems

2008-05-03 Thread Daniel Hill
I snooped around gconf-editor and in this key /system/storage/default_options/vfat/mount_options it had an option called usefree. I search through the mount man page and came up with nothing about it, so I removed it and it now is working, weird Now to visit s1mp3.org and start hacking my mp3

Re: Asus Eee PC 900 - first impressions

2008-05-01 Thread Daniel Hill
I was wonder where did they put the speakers? I just managed to get hold of an Asus Eee Pc - one of the new ones with a 20gig SSD (Linux version) a 8.9 1024 screen. Just arrived yesterday. Got it from a eBay seller in Hong Kong - goes by the name of cc-electronicshk. I probably paid through the

Re: Linux Jobs

2008-04-29 Thread Daniel Hill
I'm actually doing a course in Network Engineering at Computer Power, but I'm off on sick leave and contemplating weather I should carry it on, or just get a job. I was also thinking perhaps part time job and course. but getting a good part time job is hard ^ What John said. Spot on. (

Linux Jobs

2008-04-28 Thread Daniel Hill
Hi, My name is Daniel I'm 19, I'm a Linux geek, I have no formal qualifications I'm kinda lost at the moment. anyone got any ideas for what I could do for a job? I'm willing to learn, I know a little bit of C#, and willing to learn other languages rather not go back to school I know Hardware

Re: I'm officially grumpy! Audiobooks for visually impaired.

2008-04-21 Thread Daniel Hill
should have provided a link. http://wiki.s1mp3.org/Swan_proposal#Users.27_Interface sorry Rock Box has voice support http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/VoiceHowto and the cheap DSE mp3 players have a opensource firmware that mite have Voice in the future

Re: I'm officially grumpy! Audiobooks for visually impaired.

2008-04-21 Thread Daniel Hill
Rock Box has voice support http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/VoiceHowto and the cheap DSE mp3 players have a opensource firmware that mite have Voice in the future

Re: mount misbehaving

2006-02-19 Thread Daniel Grant
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 10:16 +1300, Daniel Grant wrote: What is the output of these: grep hdb1 /etc/mtab Nothing, grep hdb1 /proc/mounts And nothing. I belive mount checks mtab, which could possibly get out of sync... How does mtab fit into the picture with fstab, et al.? mtab

Re: Parsing Mail log files

2005-10-28 Thread Daniel
Daniel

Re: dhcp client name problem

2005-05-19 Thread Daniel Grant
pass the -cf flag to change the config file): [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# cat /etc/dhclient-eth0.conf send host-name cherry; man dhclient.conf for all the options to put in /etc/dhclient.conf. Can't say what your ADSL modem will make of it, but it works fine to a DHCPD server. Regards Daniel

Re: This post will not save you any money

2005-05-01 Thread Daniel Grant
white tags in the middle of the GNs on the artwork and decided not to shop there. Maybe that is what the This page left intentinally blank page is for? Also, what is the size of the computer books selection compared to say Whitcoulls in town? Is it worth going back in? Daniel

OT: Re: ihug webmail

2005-04-21 Thread Daniel Grant
then, lets see. Sending from ihug webmail. Oh, and just to be sure, do you have either of the save copy to self or send cc to self options turned on? Regards Daniel

Re: Samba - User Permissions Thing

2005-04-17 Thread Daniel Grant
directory anymore as the force user/group create modes won't be applied. If you have to you will probably have to map up a samba share to itself on the local machine and access via that. All commands listed under man smb.conf Regards Daniel

Knoppix 3.8.1 Was: ISP's / RIP ADSL Router - 2003-2005

2005-04-13 Thread Daniel Grant
is hot kernel swapping... Regards Daniel

Re: How to monitor CPU/Memory/Disk usage

2005-04-05 Thread Daniel Grant
will record values for the local machine, but you would have to figure out how to graph the data yourself. Regards Daniel

Re: IMAP server and web mail access?

2005-04-04 Thread Daniel
for messing with the LDAP address book because few other things will (and I am lazy.) The mail client (Imp) is often too much for my needs. Regards Daniel

Re: disk problems / kernel lockups

2005-03-29 Thread Daniel
to the store and get them to replace the disk if it under warranty rather than having them just do a low level format or something. Regards Daniel

Re: disk problems / kernel lockups

2005-03-29 Thread Daniel
, or just randomly. As solution I ordered a PCI IDE card to give each disk its own cable. Fingers crossed... Just remember that it may reorder your hard drives (I know mine did). I believe you can pass a kernel boot parameter to stop it. Regards Daniel

Re: Hotplug - How to unmount

2005-03-13 Thread Daniel Grant
? It will allow any user to mount/umount the device. Daniel

Re: Hotplug - How to unmount

2005-03-13 Thread Daniel Grant
with the sync option, so all writes are done synchronously. You may notice the delay while it makes sure the operations are done however. Daniel

Re: Hotplug - How to unmount

2005-03-13 Thread Daniel Grant
(but not every file system actually honors them - e.g., the sync option today has effect only for ext2, ext3 and ufs): Ha ha. Well, you could be like me and format your usbkey for ext2 :) Daniel

Re: spamassassin - how do i find what weights are attributed to various factors

2005-03-03 Thread Daniel Grant
=specificorder=relevance+descbug_status=__open__product=content=ALL_TRUSTED Regards Daniel

Re: Googlebounce

2005-02-08 Thread Daniel Grant
. This is an apparent reaction to recent PHP web-application based malware using Google to find targets, and I can't say I disagree with their tactics in this case. What do the ISC readers think? What are you searching for? Regards Daniel

Re: Hint for the Day - sux doesn't

2005-01-30 Thread Daniel Grant
DISPLAY=:0. Not hard, but it is nicer to have it automatically done properley for me (not that I have to do it often). Daniel

Re: slingshot dialup not authenticating

2005-01-26 Thread Daniel Grant
again. I doubt your username is username (unless you've censored it.) Regards Daniel

Re: OT a good laugh at MS

2005-01-19 Thread Daniel Grant
for Blue Screen of Death - Microsoft Granted Patent for Creating Insecure Software - Microsoft Bundles Worm with IIS Daniel

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