Re: Clug poster in Coma

2007-05-10 Thread John Carter
. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand

Re: Clug poster in Coma

2007-05-10 Thread John Carter
On Fri, 11 May 2007, John Carter wrote: Dang. That was meant to be private direct to Wesley. Sorry. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Clug poster in Coma

2007-05-09 Thread John Carter
wrong there... John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand

Re: Clug poster in Coma

2007-05-09 Thread John Carter
On Thu, 10 May 2007, Robert Fisher wrote: On Thursday 10 May 2007 10:49 am, John Carter wrote: If anyone has contact with him and his family, keep us posted as to how things are going. Ben's brother Isaac is also a CLUG member who has been to several meetings. My son is a friend of Isaac's

Ubuntu Feisty Fawn upgrade.

2007-04-22 Thread John Carter
messages. tr.v. To engage in a pastime similar to banging one's head against a wall, but with fewer opportunities for reward. Like it is so nice when you stop banging your head? John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3

Re: Ubuntu Feisty Fawn upgrade.

2007-04-22 Thread John Carter
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, John Carter wrote: ...upgrading ones distro is like plugging a strange chemical into ones cybernetic alter ego and observing the pretty colours... Ooh. Trippy trippy. Shiny Things!! Oh the Time Sink!! I've just pulled in this Beryl stuff and enabled the desktop effects

Re: OT - Linux Distros Timeline

2007-04-17 Thread John Carter
remember the Wow, Great! What do I do now? feeling I had when I first booted SLS linux in 1993... Don't worry kids, the What do I do now? feeling goes away, the Wow! Great! keeps coming back with every new release. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics

Sun Ultra 5

2007-04-16 Thread John Carter
So someone dropped a Sun Ultra 5 on my desk. Although I'm a power hungry CPU hogging mips freak I can't think of anything sane to do with the thing Any suggestions? * Backup storage? * ...? John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics

NZ Ranked 22nd in Network Readiness...

2007-03-29 Thread John Carter
, Singapore and Finland currently lead the world. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand

Re: OT: John Backus died

2007-03-22 Thread John Carter
++ globals are enabled by the exactly the same ummfeature of the linker as FORTRAN common blocks, and possess many, but not all of the painful attributes.) John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645

Re: LAST NIGHTS MEETING

2007-03-14 Thread John Carter
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, John Carter wrote: On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Rik Tindall wrote: John's html John never mentioned the licensing of his presentation material, which he'd made for other use(s). Isn't it fair to leave him with the option of whether it is 'free/open' or otherwise, rather than

vm strace Re: LAST NIGHTS MEETING

2007-03-13 Thread John Carter
) = ? # Done John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand

Re: LAST NIGHTS MEETING

2007-03-13 Thread John Carter
and politic in this particular instance and say Creative Commons License Normally I would use my bugroff license. (Ask google) John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail

Re: How to use mod_rewrite - Example...

2007-03-12 Thread John Carter
, but still voodoo. '' -- Brian Moore People don't recall voodoo syntax. Not even damn cool voodoo. Sometimes even with the docs in front of me I don't recall mod_rewrite syntax. :-)) John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics

Re: learning about Linux

2007-03-12 Thread John Carter
. Getting screamingly frustrated doesn't help. Not trying it yourself doesn't help. A mix of giving it a good go yourself and then asking works amazingly well. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box

Re: Backup system for grandma - discuss.

2007-03-11 Thread John Carter
in detail the state of health of all the family, except her own. I'm not sure I could write a crontab to do all this Ps. Waah! I want my Mommy! John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645

Re: Monotone

2007-03-07 Thread John Carter
some of the guys about svn) You say you did this as a Summer of Code thing? Are you still a student? What year doing what? Thanks! John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch

TinkerToy development.

2007-03-04 Thread John Carter
The idea has been slashdotted. http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/07/03/04/1555258.shtml http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-localwebsrv.html?ca=dgr-lnxw01CGI-Best John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics

Re: linuxchix.org.nz

2007-02-26 Thread John Carter
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Olwen Williams wrote: I'm more an old hen than a chix Strange. That's exactly what she said... On 26/02/07, John Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I forwarded the link to my wife, however I wait in trepidation over the response I will get. I suspect she won't welcome

Re: A few more interesting Firefox extensions - Image Zoom

2007-02-26 Thread John Carter
of mouse buttons and scroll wheel. Handy to see the finer details of smaller pics or to make very large pics fit within your screen Page Zoom - Zoom all images on a web page with a single command or make all images on a page zoom with the browsers text zoom feature . John Carter

Re: Bright Monday - Linux to Population Stats in Authors Pass NewZealand..

2007-02-25 Thread John Carter
even see a window when I really want to be in the Alps John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand

Monotone

2007-02-25 Thread John Carter
in the Southern Hemisphere. ...keeping sane when there isn't just one true repository. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand

Re: linuxchix.org.nz

2007-02-25 Thread John Carter
welcome the implication that she's any form of chix, linux or otherwise. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand

Tip of the Day - fish

2007-02-22 Thread John Carter
-synthesis-driver(Executable, 20kB) festival_client (Client access to festiva; text-to-speech server mode) fetchmail (Fetch mail from a POP, IMAP, ETRN, or ODMR-capable server) Cool! I'm sold! John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait

Re: Getting way way OT: A pedant's rant...

2007-02-21 Thread John Carter
of the advantages of an expanded lexicon It had a disclaimer something like ... This document is incomplet, incorrekt and just plain rong. Now isn't that better than lines and lines of legalese? John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics

Ubuntu Acroread Tip for the Day

2007-02-21 Thread John Carter
Solution: su cd /tmp wget http://remi.collet.free.fr/files/acroread.patch cd /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin patch -b /tmp/acroread.patch John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch

Re: IT resources

2007-02-19 Thread John Carter
/excuse_me.jpg When a really dumb question arises from doing something really really stupid.. http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/1162263969848.jpg Or just general pre-coffee fog... http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/stoned.jpg John Carter

Re: Google Summer of Code (NZ Winter of Hacking?)

2007-02-19 Thread John Carter
that and has value? John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand

Google Summer of Code (NZ Winter of Hacking?)

2007-02-18 Thread John Carter
, ... Of course standard disclaimers apply... (I will give it a try, can't promise success, this is my personal view...) John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : [EMAIL

Re: Remotely on topic....

2007-02-15 Thread John Carter
location marks to it. That's the point. They is anyone, including you. Hence the wiki in the name. If you think it is poorly described, don't be poor netizen, click on it, edit it and put it right. Wikimapia. http://www.wikimapia.org/#y=-43514199x=172492905z=11l=0m=av=2 John Carter

Re: Not even Remotely on topic....

2007-02-15 Thread John Carter
authentic then. Clearly original entry had been done after visiting the Wunderbar. Silly Answer 3: It is called the Wunderbar, perhaps there's a reason (apart from the view deco and music.) Quick! Taxi! Follow that Bar! Ok, I'll shut up now. John Carter Phone

Re: Carter's ramblings... / Git / Monotone

2007-02-14 Thread John Carter
and are from more or less the same dictionary. The fact that darcs is written in Haskell and Monotone in C++ probably says quite a bit about the not kith bit. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645

Remotely on topic....

2007-02-14 Thread John Carter
in the sense that it is Canterbury, Freeish, Linux down there somewhere and just plain cool... Wikimapia. http://www.wikimapia.org/#y=-43514199x=172492905z=11l=0m=av=2 John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3

Re: Linux and SeniorNet

2007-02-13 Thread John Carter
default and you're done. Grins. Ducks. And Runs like ruddy hell for cover. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand

Carter's ramblings...

2007-02-13 Thread John Carter
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Rik Tindall wrote: John Carter is to speak on a presently unknown topic (next month?). Can we have details John? Very keen to hear more from John's idiosyncratic and insightful approach to *nix. I posted a list of available topics but as far as I remember (correct me

Re: Carter's ramblings... / Git / Monotone

2007-02-13 Thread John Carter
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Wednesday 14 February 2007, John Carter wrote: Version Control - Flying Time Machines to make you Brave. Please. Could you show us the git and cogito stuff? Alas, I have only worked with / supported RCS/CVS/SVN and would have based

OpenMoko

2007-02-04 Thread John Carter
provider gets clueful enough to import such things. Indeed I get the strong impression they would regard such phones as A Very Bad Thing. So.. The Question. Is anyone in Canterbury planning on importing these things? If not, anyone want to work with me on this? John Carter

Re: OpenMoko

2007-02-04 Thread John Carter
in creating value added on the phones themselves. (ie. I see these things as great enablers with the potential for becoming my dreamed of Universal and Excellent UI Security token for embedded systems.) If I said to you What's your price for two OpenMoko phones, what would your response be? John

Re: OpenMoko

2007-02-04 Thread John Carter
on their cellphone as a transparent and despicable attempt to gouge extra cash from them. Those blessed customers look at an ugly / hard to use embedded device UI and are starting ask awkward questions that won't go away... Perhaps, Shlock Horror, it is time to make the customers happy... John Carter

Re: procmailrc ARE THE TROLLS AWAKE?

2007-02-04 Thread John Carter
me of winding up the kids when shes trying to get them to sleep...) John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand

Re: Stand-alone Executables

2007-02-01 Thread John Carter
exclude the rest. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand

Re: Stand-alone Executables

2007-02-01 Thread John Carter
... * statically linked. or * Install all libraries in a subdirectory of thier own installation directory and use the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to choose select their versions of the DLLs. Maybe the developers are just more clueful. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait

Tangentially On Topic - Anti-Eula

2007-02-01 Thread John Carter
meant in Common Usage, Get Lost you Frustrating Clueless Bunch of @%$#! After reading endless streams of guff about limitations, jurisdictions, blah blah blah.. Oh! How sweet it is to simply read.. There is no warranty. If it breaks, you get to keep both pieces. John Carter

Re: Stand-alone Executables

2007-01-31 Thread John Carter
-static is the one you want. A small bonus to compensate you for the Fat size of the executable... It runs a teensy bit faster. (So long as you have the RAM) John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632

Re: Compatibility between distros

2007-01-31 Thread John Carter
in rpm format. Give it a go. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand

Alien Technology and Rat Holes.

2007-01-30 Thread John Carter
... I feel they would go nicely next the yammering one. I will pin both them up, along with... http://dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070122.html ...on the cloth walls of my cubicle. :-) John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics

Wow! On Meta Topic

2007-01-14 Thread John Carter
in terms of People Skills. We all can learn from this guy. (I know I am, I have filed this one as an example to use later, when inevitably, I stuff up again.) John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645

Re: electric bike

2007-01-08 Thread John Carter
, not an afterthought. * Metric or standard, not both. * Schematics shall be included. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand

Re: Awake? Tech question...

2006-12-18 Thread John Carter
00:00:00:00:00:00]; then * LINE 22* Seriously, anybody who designs a language with the *sh langauges really weird expression syntax is pleading for sorrow. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO

Handy Open Source Library of the Day...

2006-12-17 Thread John Carter
range single image. Fun. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand

Re: ISP choice

2006-12-04 Thread John Carter
on Cheap Small plan until somebody anybody wakes up to providing a cheap medium speed unlimited plan. ie. Accepts that DDOS's are not something the average consumer can do anything about. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics

Re: CT - what does fork mean?Re: [OT] Perl Question

2006-12-03 Thread John Carter
children, you will accumulate zombies. Now you know what is wrong with schooling today... (man fork is actually more helpful...) John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch

Editor Flamewar Fodder Laugh of the Week...

2006-11-26 Thread John Carter
of the Story: His problems _did_ arise because he wasn't using Emacs! :-)) ducks and runs for cover John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New

Re: Linux users owe Microsoft?

2006-11-23 Thread John Carter
, the text books explained at great length exactly what was wrong with Capitalism and why it was very Bad. Then when the reforms came, he complained, the Big Bosses proceeded to implement Capitalism strictly according to their own text books. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358

Re: Threads - was Re: === 2007 Meetings ===

2006-11-19 Thread John Carter
latency requirements to meet their deadlines. That's where the other posters comment about Gui responsiveness fits in. And yes, if he designed it properly, ie. With the business logic seperated from the UI, processes instead of threads would work fine. John Carter

Re: Threads - was Re: === 2007 Meetings ===

2006-11-19 Thread John Carter
and then fork the new little program. O.k, now here is the challenge. I have laid out my solution. Would the no threads people like to lay out their solution? John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box

Acceptable Response Policy?

2006-11-19 Thread John Carter
. Personally I wish people would concentrate on the Acceptable Response. Delete is always an Acceptable Response, even in the politest of company. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch

Re: Threads - was Re: === 2007 Meetings ===

2006-11-15 Thread John Carter
from, This is a very unlikely event, to Murphy's Law is actively hostile, to designing threaded systems that are robust against _all_ and every possible sequence of events. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359

RE: Threads

2006-11-15 Thread John Carter
...) John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand

Re: === 2007 Meetings ===

2006-11-13 Thread John Carter
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Christopher Sawtell wrote: So I need some help. Here are the meeting dates, and spaces to fill in. Date Speaker Subject -- 13/03/07 |John Carter | You take your

A Box called Horse?

2006-11-08 Thread John Carter
Please tell me more of the nature and use of the box called Horse? I can't lay my googly hands on the info and if I'm not confusing it with another decade and different hemisphere, I suspect it may be useful to my wife now. Thanks John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358

Re: Semi-OT: Cheap, hackable Linux smartphone due soon

2006-11-08 Thread John Carter
and programmable) I do indeed want one, we will have to import them ourselves. David -- Some days it's not even worth chewing through the restraints... I _love_ your .sig... John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3

RE: Semi-OT: Cheap, hackable Linux smartphone due soon

2006-11-08 Thread John Carter
down, legislated, proprietary and Digital Rights managed to the nth degree convergence yes. Open, hackable, phreakable, convergence gives them the willies. It will come... But not without a big big fight. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics

Re: Can you see this... http://bowenvale.pointclark.net/o

2006-11-07 Thread John Carter
session_id FROM mosH_session WHERE session_id=MD5('1142943a05062e68802fdc9a4b44b921') SQL = SELECT session_id FROM mosH_session WHERE session_id=MD5('1142943a05062e68802fdc9a4b44b921') John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax

Re: Citylink mirrors down? AGAIN?

2006-11-05 Thread John Carter
On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Eliot Blennerhassett wrote: John Carter wrote: Weird. I can see ftp://ftp.citylink.co.nz, but http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com (same ip) seems to be dead. Oh dearie me. I'm trying to set up a apt-cacher (which only speaks http), so is there another nz ubuntu mirror? Seem

Re: top logfile

2006-10-31 Thread John Carter
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Don Gould wrote: I'm reading the man but not sure if I can cron a top logfile. vmstat 5 logfile Either that or install sar. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box

Re: The distro upgrade thing still doesn't go well

2006-10-30 Thread John Carter
night I was moaning that xtra broadband was the slowest it had ever been, so my wife said, It's been unleashed, and it's not coming back! John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch

Citylink mirrors down?

2006-10-26 Thread John Carter
Weird. I can see ftp://ftp.citylink.co.nz, but http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com (same ip) seems to be dead. Oh dearie me. I'm trying to set up a apt-cacher (which only speaks http), so is there another nz ubuntu mirror? John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait

Re: Citylink mirrors down?

2006-10-26 Thread John Carter
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Roy Britten wrote: On 27/10/06 13:40, John Carter wrote: I can see ftp://ftp.citylink.co.nz, but http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com (same ip) seems to be dead. Oh dearie me. I'm trying to set up a apt-cacher (which only speaks http), so is there another nz ubuntu mirror

Re: Citylink mirrors down?

2006-10-26 Thread John Carter
They are back on the air again! On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Roy Britten wrote: On 27/10/06 14:05, John Carter wrote: What's more, it's down from google translators point of view. ;-) http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnz.archive.ubuntu.comlangpair=en%7Cdehl=enie=UTF8 I wonder

Re: Larry's on the warpath!

2006-10-25 Thread John Carter
conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist's couch to ask What kind of person is it? Concluding this point-by-point analysis, a disturbing diagnosis is delivered: the institutional embodiment of laissez-faire capitalism fully meets the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria of a psychopath. John

Re: Recursive file diff?

2006-10-23 Thread John Carter
to appropriately raise it's rank on the search engines.) John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand We have more to fear from The Bungling

Good game for Kiddies...Wesnoth

2006-10-19 Thread John Carter
of players, put your self and Kid on the same team, and tweak things to give appropriate advantage / handicap. Play together. After awhile kid can play by himself. ps: Good Creative Commons Licensed (mostly French / Belgian) music @ http:///www.jamendo.com (I love the Ehma albums.) John Carter

Re: Multihead on the Cheap

2006-10-18 Thread John Carter
machines. It's called dmx. Distributed Multihead X. Unfortnately I couldn't get Xdmx running reliably, probably because Xming is a version or two behind the Ubuntu X server. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3

Re: The perennial top vs bottom posting debate.

2006-10-18 Thread John Carter
, the Ruby list, the XP list AND NONE OF THEM EVER RESOLVE IT! RGH! We don't have to scroll through all that verbiage to see the new content. (Ps: I don't top or bottom post. I Intertwingle post.) John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics

Multihead on the Cheap

2006-10-17 Thread John Carter
and is duct taped together via the X xinerama trick. And then to display the virtual one on the 17 using windows vncviewer. I wonder if I will succeed... John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645

Re: Multihead on the Cheap

2006-10-17 Thread John Carter
. And without touching the rt, this sentence is typed using the linux keyboard!) Almost where I want to be... John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : [EMAIL

Re: Multihead on the Cheap

2006-10-17 Thread John Carter
On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, John Carter wrote: I'm looking at Xdmx at the moment combined with Xming. Hokay. Xdmx is what I want Except it seems buggy. Falls over with segfaults. Ah well, I can get 90% of what I want by.. * Putting Xming on the Windows box. * Putting WinVNCServer

Re: Database Design Tools

2006-10-08 Thread John Carter
/ John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand We have more to fear from The Bungling of the Incompetent Than from the Machinations

ftp.nz.debian.org status?

2006-10-08 Thread John Carter
I've been using the ftp://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/unstable repository for awhile now... Trouble is it has been weeks(months?) since it last updated Is the upstream not updating? Or is that mirror not mirroring? Or is there a fresher local debian mirror anywhere? John Carter

Re: OT: pretent/hijacked robots?

2006-09-27 Thread John Carter
anyone else seen similar behaviour??? http://www.tech-recipes.com/_tips1135.html It's a nice alternative to bugmenot. Instead of wade through screamingly irritating free registration require screens, just pretend you're a search engine and walk right in... John Carter

Re: Samba Shared Directories Won't Delete

2006-09-13 Thread John Carter
I don't know the answer, but try this for a wild and woolly guess... Make sure nothing, neither Windows explorer, nor application, nor cmd, nor bash shell, etc. etc. has that directory as it's current working directory. On the linux side try... fuser -vu /my/strange/directory John Carter

Re: A Million Martians RE: OT - the noise

2006-09-13 Thread John Carter
You could fit quite a few martians into one of these http://www.nfi.org.za/Tswaing/images/what%20is%20tswaing.jpg http://www.hartrao.ac.za/other/tswaing/tswaing.html Quite a few million can fit in this one... http://www.hartrao.ac.za/other/vredefort/vredefort.html John Carter

Usenet Groups?

2006-09-10 Thread John Carter
I want to follow a usenet group comp.arch.embedded apparently xtra has dropped support for Usenet. (Is this true?) Is there any publically available NZ usenet news host? (apart from Google Groups) Alternatively which embedded systems discussion group would you recommend? John Carter

Fun bug description of the day...

2006-08-13 Thread John Carter
From man 2 unlink BUGS Infelicities in the protocol underlying NFS can cause the unexpected disappearance of files which are still being used. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO

Re: Bash script to check if a file exists?

2006-08-08 Thread John Carter
temporary files or something. Anyhoo, do tell us what it was when you find out. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand Carter's

Cute Emacs Sawfish Hack for the day....

2006-08-03 Thread John Carter
thing then exits... exec( EMACS_CLIENT, --no-wait, *ARGV) # Doesn't get here end puts No emacs server socket '#{EMACS_SERVER_SOCKET}' Invoking '#{EMACS}' directly # Pop an emacs session into the background. fork do exec( EMACS, *ARGV) end John Carter Phone

Dual booting

2006-08-01 Thread John Carter
the windows (I think using imaging techniques, not sure), but I will suggest it to them. Thanks, John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New

Tools for Skipping Threadjacks

2006-08-01 Thread John Carter
and pine is free enough for now The critical feature here to look for is thread aware mailer or sort by thread. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : [EMAIL

Re: Addressbook etc import - Thunderbird from Mozilla

2006-08-01 Thread John Carter
to export and import your saved passwords and rejected sites between computers. Your passwords will be exported to an XML or CSV file and can be encrypted. Supports Firefox 1.5 - 3.0a1, Thunderbird 1.5 - 3.0a1, and Flock. https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2848/ John Carter

Re: Addressbook etc import - Thunderbird from Mozilla

2006-08-01 Thread John Carter
button. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand Carter's Clarification of Murphy's Law. Things only ever go right so

Reprogramming USB Pen Drives Re: CLUG is dying

2006-07-31 Thread John Carter
how to reprogram your USB Pen drive! Shouldn't be hard, it must be a little CPU in there with a bit of RAM, a USB port and a ton of flash. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch

That was an interesting evening...

2006-07-27 Thread John Carter
and decentralized unreliable P2P mesh of communicating devices.) So give the guy a break, give him a hand or see if you can do better! John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch

TUANZ Innovation Award - How about nominating Don?

2006-07-11 Thread John Carter
waffle. - No meaty description of what Don is actually doing. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand Carter's Clarification

Re: TUANZ Innovation Award - How about nominating Don?

2006-07-11 Thread John Carter
? Maku ki ana, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, It is people, it is people, it is people. Yip, that is what it is all about. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch

Re: GooglEarth4Linux

2006-06-29 Thread John Carter
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Rex Johnston wrote: John Carter wrote: Somehow missed the announcement for this. http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth for Linux Nope. I merely get a splashscreen Then a crash screen Google Earth has caught signal 11. Which is probably

GooglEarth4Linux

2006-06-28 Thread John Carter
Somehow missed the announcement for this. http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth for Linux John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail

Re: How to determine monitor frequencies?

2006-06-25 Thread John Carter
of lines vsync == refresh rate dot clock ~ ((N cols +some smallish overshoot) * M rows + smallish sweep back time) * refresh rate I may well be misunderstanding things, but that is my vague memory of how it all works... John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639

Re: How to determine monitor frequencies?

2006-06-25 Thread John Carter
20060114230205 David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Release Date: 21 December 2005 John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand Carter's

Re: M$ Controlling the snow to stop students on Linux?

2006-06-21 Thread John Carter
good snow fight, and built a snow man and all that much more important good clean Real Life stuff. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : [EMAIL PROTECTED

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