Re: Mandrake 10-Official experiences

2004-04-30 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Hi Robert Try booting, off disc 2, the Community edition had some similar problems, with cd rom drives. Mahesh Hi all, I thought, with another Installfest coming up, that I would share my recent experinces with Mandrake. Hardware - 2 old Compaq servers, A 6000 with PII/300 and 128 Mb

Re: New Kernel

2004-04-04 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Hi Christopher You must have had to run genkernel or make menuconfig after the emerge or did you just copy the .config? Have you tried prelinking, i am hoping this will help increase the performace of my desktop. Mahesh Greets, I've just done:- ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~x86' emerge

LTSP via wireless?

2004-03-30 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Hey All, I want to explorer setting up some wireless client, to access LTSP on Gentoo. The server end looks straight forward(well from my research anyway) But the clients will be using wireless connections. Has anyone set up a wireless client before? i cannot use the etherboot as the wifi nic's

Re: LTSP via wireless?

2004-03-30 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Thanks to everyone who replyed off list, Has anyone setup a wireless node at all? Hey All, I want to explorer setting up some wireless client, to access LTSP on Gentoo. The server end looks straight forward(well from my research anyway) But the clients will be using wireless

RE: (Flame Bait) Qmail or Postfix?

2004-03-23 Thread Mahesh De Silva
and inflexible (more flamebait). webclient - squirrelmail you wil need an imap server to go under squirrel, I am using courier-imap. On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 08:48:07 +1200 (NZST) Mahesh De Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whats are people thoughts? I want to setup a e-mail server

(Flame Bait) Qmail or Postfix?

2004-03-22 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Whats are people thoughts? I want to setup a e-mail server for www.xsolutions.co.nz/rwc/ initally it will be for internal e-mail, via webclient(not sure which either!) then external, with spam filtering. I am running Gentoo 1.4 Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies.

Re: SATA drives and Woody...

2004-03-17 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Hi Chris Tried it under knoppix yet? it might give you some clues. Mahesh Hi-ho, Anyone on the list using an SATA motherboard with Woody? I'd be specifically intersted in anyone using an Intel 7210 chipset board, if anyones splashed out yet.. Cheers, Chris H. = For Linux

OT:Telecom Official Jetstart changes : 256K makeover

2004-02-08 Thread Mahesh De Silva
I found this in my daily trollings.. http://www.telecom-media.co.nz/releases_detail.asp?id=3006 Going the right way... just need to make NZ traffic free! = For Linux CD's check out http://www.xsolutions.co.nz http://greetings.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Greetings Send your love online with

Re: 100 Strands of Protected Fibre Ring in Riccarton

2004-01-28 Thread Mahesh De Silva
There is currently plenty of fibre around the place, tc offered us 100Mb full duplx to auckland for around 2k per month, no data limits. On another note, telecom's new ATM network (juiper) has become very unstable. So you planning on changing i would wait! Mahesh wrote At $250 for 2Mbs,

OT : Bulk buy of linux compatable pcmcia-pci adapters

2004-01-26 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Hi All, These are generally used for installing pcmcia cards in normal pc's. I need 4 for my next wireless project. The ten pack sound like the best deal any one else keen? http://www.star-os.com/prices.php model - PCM475II-SINGLE (works under linux) $85 landed + pp in nz each. E-mail me off

OT: FS -2 x Linksys wireless aps

2004-01-18 Thread Mahesh De Silva
I got 2 brand new (unopen) Linksys ap's forsale. model wap11 They are brand new and unopened nz editions so has the correct power adapters unlike some on the market. http://www.linksys.com/products/pro...cid=35prid=563 $130 each or $250 for both + pp e-mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if your

K12LTSP download mirror in nz/au?

2004-01-17 Thread Mahesh De Silva
http://personals.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Personals New people, new possibilities. FREE for a limited time.

Re: Kernel 2.6.0 suspiciously easy

2003-12-21 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Hi Nick Any increase in boot speed etc? emerged the source, went through and chose what config options to include (that was the hardest part, may need tweaking), make, make modules_install, copy the kernel to /boot, reboot, emerge nividia-dev and nvidia-kernel, every damn thing seems to

Re: Broadband, was RE: Redhat Vers?

2003-12-10 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Hi Kerry Are you keen on selling your router? I am in the market for one. Mahesh I appear to (again) have only one choice for broadband and it's BCL's Extend (I'm moving to West Melton) Rates appear to be okay c.f. jetstream (I'm intending going through ICONZ) but the $400 install and

ot Opps - please ignore my previous post!! Re: Broadband, was RE: Redhat Vers?

2003-12-10 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Hi Kerry Are you keen on selling your router? I am in the market for one. Mahesh I appear to (again) have only one choice for broadband and it's BCL's Extend (I'm moving to West Melton) Rates appear to be okay c.f. jetstream (I'm intending going through ICONZ) but the $400 install and

Re: OT - quality media (Verbatim?)

2003-11-09 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Hi Yuri I have long since given up on the old floppies,(hugs USB pen drive.) but CDR can be 50/50. There arn't many cdr manufacture in the world. I think 5 at last count and they basicly compete on price per unit. So the low price one's like transonic/mr data etc can vary like the sea tide and

lan problems...

2003-10-10 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Hi All, My mind has gone mushy mushy.. trying to solve this problem. I have 2 rigs. One running XP pro, the seccond running Knoppix 3.3 HD install. 3com nics in each. Setup on 192.168.0.1(xp) 192.168.0.2(knoppix) via 10mbit hub. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet

Good list of Nic's and there linux drivers

2003-09-25 Thread Mahesh De Silva
http://www.smoothwall.net/support/hcg/?id=4 I thought i would share it, as it has got my out some jams in the past. http://search.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Search - Looking for more? Try the new Yahoo! Search

Re: OT : Grrr Telescums new adsl pricing is worse than before!!!

2003-08-27 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Hi Andrew I had cable untill i moved to rolleston.. oh how i miss my cable!. Hey Mahesh, you're in Christchurch! Get cable, it's great! Andy On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 21:27, Mahesh De Silva wrote: Dam it.. i was at least hoping for better national traffic!!! http://www.telecom

OT : Grrr Telescums new adsl pricing is worse than before!!!

2003-08-24 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Dam it.. i was at least hoping for better national traffic!!! http://www.telecom-media.co.nz/releases_detail.asp?id=2915page=index http://aardvark.co.nz/daily/2003/n082201.shtml = For Linux CD's check out http://www.xsolutions.co.nz http://search.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Search - Looking for

Re: Gentoo mirror on jetstreamgames.co.nz

2003-08-23 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Hi Robert ftp2.jetstreamgames.co.nz Has a gentoo mirror Mahesh Anyone know what has happened to the Gentoo mirror on jetstreamgames.co.nz (ftp://203.96.92.95/gentoo) -- Robert Fisher www.fisherfamily.orcon.net.nz = For Linux CD's check out http://www.xsolutions.co.nz

yoper 1.1 and gentoo portage.

2003-08-14 Thread Mahesh De Silva
http://www.yoper.com/1.1.txt = For Linux CD's check out http://www.xsolutions.co.nz http://search.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Search - Looking for more? Try the new Yahoo! Search

Re: RE: looks like gentoo 1.4 is out.

2003-08-14 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Great article, sums up my experience and opinions of installing Gentoo almost perfectly. I think I learned more about the inner workings of Linux during my Gentoo install than I did during the rest of my time using Linux I actually found the same thing, linux from scrach should be your

Re: looks like gentoo 1.4 is out.

2003-08-14 Thread Mahesh De Silva
I actually found the same thing, linux from scrach should be your next goal :) This emerge stuff is getting boring. I was thinking the same thing about LFS. What comes after that? Col. make your own distro, well LFS is that. Make your own kernel :) = For Linux CD's check

looks like gentoo 1.4 is out.

2003-08-11 Thread Mahesh De Silva
http://www.gentoo.org = For Linux CD's check out http://www.xsolutions.co.nz http://personals.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Personals - New people, new possibilities! Try Yahoo! Personals, FREE for a limited period!

Re: Someones againts me???

2003-07-30 Thread Mahesh De Silva
incompatable HD? in this day and age? My advice keep good back ups :) see you at clearwater. I get the feeling that my upgrade is not meant to be First I had faulty (new) RAM Then I had an incompatible Hard drive Got over the hardware issues, (impressed with new speed -

Re: Bulk Soekris order? [was Re: ADSL modems or routers with IPCop - war stories and medals??]

2003-07-29 Thread Mahesh De Silva
I'm very tempted to get a couple and experiment with them. If you or anybody else is seriously interested, we could look at placing a bulk order. If we were able to order around five, the total cost of each Soekris would be approximately $365. US$? and do they some with PSU?

Re: wordpad.exe for W982E

2003-07-28 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Off topic for this list. Get it off your windows cab files in your install media. hi, could somebody please email ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) me a copy of wordpad.exe for windows 98 2nd Edition. i've deleted mine and can't seem to recover it thanx, sam = For Linux CD's check out

Re: mail problem Mandrake 9.1

2003-07-23 Thread Mahesh De Silva
check the firewall settings.. On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 07:26:34 +1200 Rowan Trau'e [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: II have been trying to configure my mail and browser but I can't get them to work. I have done all the obvious things (I think) but it wont recognise my POP host. Has anybody else

Re: Port blocking

2003-07-21 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Hi Hamish You got a couple of options, 1. terminal services/citrix, for web access and lock it down. (Personal Fav, I don;t even let my users right click. :) ) 2. A managed router/switch to block tcp/udp to proxy IP, from there network. 3. A reg key which sets and locks the proxy settings via

Re: NZ linux store

2003-07-21 Thread Mahesh De Silva
http://www.linuxstore.co.nz/ ?? Hi all, I was just surfing around in linux land and came across an online store in NZ selling linux stuff - then the browser crashed, does anyone have an url for this site?? Kerry http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Mobile - Check compose your email

OT: NZ linux store

2003-07-21 Thread Mahesh De Silva
--- Carl Cerecke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He is a co-signer of http://www.openz.org/co-signers.php and listed as a Chemistry Student, University of Waikato. Of course, as the 170th signer, he is way behind those of us in the top 10 :-) You just snuck in at 10 :) Me on the other

Re: Stopping IE usage

2003-07-20 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Anyone got ideas for a rewrite rule or somesuch that'll stop Internet Exploiter users accessing my Apache proxy? A problem you might strike is with people who set there linux browser to impersonate IE, to help with compatabilty. = For Linux CD's check out http://www.xsolutions.co.nz

RE: How would you feel?

2003-07-17 Thread Mahesh De Silva
make sure the disk is setup correctly in the BIOS, ghost the machine and then setup the system correctly. Is there a utility on Knoppix which can try to recover a hard disk? I do not need to recover the data just make the disk useable again. Symptoms: Sometimes will not even boot

Re: Random File Deletion

2003-07-17 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Apps like apt-get can cause strange things being uninstalled. In my cause KDE being removed, when removing xcd roast. On the laptop, xmms and oowriter seem to have disappeared from /usr/bin (mdk 9.1). I have no idea why. I don't know if any other executables have gone. xmms and oowriter

Re: Who does this remind you off

2003-07-16 Thread Mahesh De Silva
If its a win modem, this link might help you out. http://www.pcworld.co.nz/PCWorld/PCW.nsf/ArchiveAuthor/2F32F1EAB74E7830CC256D500015C2AC?OpenDocument Hi All Me by the time I get my modem working:( Bob Bernard = For Linux CD's check out http://www.xsolutions.co.nz

Now Jason is famous!!

2003-07-16 Thread Mahesh De Silva
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003-07-16-013-26-NW-RH-LL http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Mobile - Check compose your email via SMS on your Telstra or Vodafone mobile.

redhat and our 15mins of fame....

2003-07-15 Thread Mahesh De Silva
http://computerworld.co.nz/webhome.nsf/NL/FEA5148AE2814F7BCC256D63001072A9 = For Linux CD's check out http://www.xsolutions.co.nz http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Mobile - Check compose your email via SMS on your Telstra or Vodafone mobile.

Re: Fwd: Re: Who does this remind you of?

2003-07-15 Thread Mahesh De Silva
clone... CS, is that you? No, see:- http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofileu=12687 http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofileu=18131sid=46693b4e 8a c5a6eb7275bce226e32402 This one is a fake. A latter day impostor. -- Sincerely etc.,

yoper in trouble?

2003-07-10 Thread Mahesh De Silva
http://www.yoper.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=326 This could be good or bad... time will tell. = For Linux CD's check out http://www.xsolutions.co.nz http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Mobile - Check compose your email via SMS on your Telstra or Vodafone mobile.

Re: yoper in trouble?

2003-07-10 Thread Mahesh De Silva
a nz based distro does have a can do feel about it. Hopefully it will keep going. If so, no big loss to be honest. When I used it, I was less than impressed... Cheers J Mahesh De Silva wrote: http://www.yoper.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=326 This could be good or bad... time

Re: OT: Jetstream Xfer Rates (was Re: Huge Telecom Bill)

2003-07-09 Thread Mahesh De Silva
We are converting from ADSL to DSL over Frame shortly and it has a 4Mbps connection, with Unmilited Nat and 20 gig international. On our current ADSL we max out around 400k down. I think the speed issues is due to the distance from the exchnage. I didn't think ADSL suffered the same problems as

Re: OT: Jetstream Xfer Rates (was Re: Huge Telecom Bill)

2003-07-09 Thread Mahesh De Silva
yup thats right nick, the same copper thats used for the phones which just plugs into a dslam, which telecome installs at the exchange when they setup the line. Thats why people who have fibre cannot have ADSL, they need Fibre multiplextor which not cheap. My digital answer phone can record

Re: areeee redhat is turning into M$!!!

2003-07-03 Thread Mahesh De Silva
linux! eg [electro]lux, xerox, etc. hoover vnc nmap ...any others? (note - all lowercase letters to avoid trademark infringement :) = For Linux CD's check out http://www.xsolutions.co.nz http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Mobile - Check compose your email via SMS on your

Re: areeee redhat is turning into M$!!!

2003-07-02 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Fair call. Bad burns, dud media can be replaced relatively quickly, 99% of the time its the drive optics that needs a clean. The problem i have is 95% of the code on these are not developed by redhat staff. But a army of developers working on there own time. Does this action not violate the

Re: Thanks: USB mouse under Gentoo...

2003-07-01 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Hi Steve here is jasons link again to help you out with the winmodem. http://www.pcworld.co.nz/PCWorld/PCW.nsf/ArchiveAuthor/2F32F1EAB74E7830CC256D500015C2AC?OpenDocument Mahesh Thanks for those who helped get me up and running with my USB mouse. In the process I learnt a lot about

areeee redhat is turning into M$!!!

2003-07-01 Thread Mahesh De Silva
This also has implecations for using red hat at our install fests!! Dear Sir/Madam: I am writing on behalf of Red Hat, Inc. with respect to its trademark matters. Red Hat, Inc. is the owner of several trademark registrations in the United States and in foreign countries for the mark RED

Re: areeee redhat is turning into M$!!!

2003-07-01 Thread Mahesh De Silva
not sure.. i am now going to call it linux 9 or edhat 9 unbelievable are we allowed to still use powered by redhat logos on web pages? On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 13:24:42 +1200 (NZST) Mahesh De Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This also has implecations for using red hat at our install

Re: areeee redhat is turning into M$!!!

2003-07-01 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Hi Michael do you have link for the trademark register? Thanks Mahesh - Just checked the Trademark register. they are registered in NZ!!! otherwise you could have pulled a swifty and registered the mark your self. Label it as RH 9.x to get around it. Mike. Linux

Re: areeee redhat is turning into M$!!!

2003-07-01 Thread Mahesh De Silva
on web pages? On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 13:24:42 +1200 (NZST) Mahesh De Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This also has implecations for using red hat at our install fests!! Dear Sir/Madam: I am writing on behalf of Red Hat, Inc. with respect to its trademark matters. Red Hat

Re: areeee redhat is turning into M$!!!

2003-07-01 Thread Mahesh De Silva
ta. http://www.iponz.govt.nz/ Quoting Mahesh De Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Michael do you have link for the trademark register? Thanks Mahesh - Just checked the Trademark register. they are registered in NZ!!! otherwise you could have pulled

Re: areeee redhat is turning into M$!!! ethics

2003-07-01 Thread Mahesh De Silva
snip, the yast system is not released under GPL is it?, so it would make distribution very hard without it. Mahesh The network install situation with SuSE is no worse than that with Debian. The ftp-install from the SuSE ftp server is current, so is the live eval CD. Nobody is stopping

Re: Trouble with network card

2003-06-25 Thread Mahesh De Silva
long shot but you have you tried the ne200 driver? I have some success with that driver in the past. A quick google came up with this... http://www.tux.org/hypermail/linux-vortex/2002-Dec/0054.html Hi all I've just got a new box to play with but I can't seem to get the network card

Re: Wireless lan

2003-06-18 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Nicks right on this one, the cables have about a 0.4dbm loss per meter, and around 1db for the connectors. plus some AP can be powered by power over ethernet or USB. For the first node/demo, a single PC would be fine .. although probably not a laptop. Later on each site would

Re: good ftp site?

2003-06-10 Thread Mahesh De Silva
opps.. typo... Don't you mean debian.paradise.net.nz? And they only have Debian on there these days, or so it seems Cheers, me... On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 16:20, Mahesh De Silva wrote: ftp.paradise.net.nz = For Linux CD's check out http://www.xsolutions.co.nz http

Re: good ftp site?

2003-06-09 Thread Mahesh De Silva
ftp.paradise.net.nz Hi Sorry to interrupt the Gentoo vs BSD vs Mandrake fight, I just have an unrelated question... Where's a good place to download MDK 9.1 iso's? I tried leaving the Jetstart 128k going over the weekend to planetmirror.com.au, but not reliable. Can someone

Re: Telstraclear cable: 128kb - 256kb no extra charge in May?

2003-04-06 Thread Mahesh De Silva
noo,... i just moved house and thus had to sadly give up my cable connections!!! Hi, I was at the teltraclearn website and fond out that they do not offer 128k anymore but offer 256k with 5gig cap for the same price(?) They also state that on the 1st of

Re: Julia's Laptop/winmodem - update (Was: Good News for winmodems: mandrake 9.1)

2003-04-02 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Hi Yuri The Exact error from kppp log will helpus find the problem. Mahesh Hi Folks I found a driver at www.linmodems.org, which created the following device: /dev/modem - tty/LT0 I then used the Mandrake Internet thingy wizard to set up a connection to ClearNet. I had to choose

Re: Email List membership

2003-04-02 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Can the old VMS box take load! For anyone who is interested: The membership of the email list is over 260 on 3 April 2003. This is a pretty big jump in the last few months. -- Zane Gilmore, Analyst / Programmer Information Services Section, Information Technology

Re: Email List membership

2003-04-02 Thread Mahesh De Silva
You mean auckland lug! thats more than nzlug! On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 10:47:37 +1200 Zane Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For anyone who is interested: The membership of the email list is over 260 on 3 April 2003. This is a pretty big jump in the last few months.

Paul Swafford at e-cafe? where is the e-cafe?

2003-04-01 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Can you please conact me? at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or does any one know where e-cafe is? Thanks Mahesh = For Linux CD's check out http://www.xsolutions.co.nz http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Mobile - Check compose your email via SMS on your Telstra or Vodafone mobile.

Re: Good News for winmodems: mandrake 9.1

2003-04-01 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Set her up VNC / Xfree desktop share. Mahesh I saw the option during set-up, so I thought Great - this'll get my wife's laptop going at last. So then I installed mdk 9.1 on Julia's lappie, and when it came to the configure winmodem part it told me: This winmodem is not supported - see

Any one usd this p2p system?

2003-03-31 Thread Mahesh De Silva
any one else use this p2p system? http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/rh9.html I am just trying it out at work.. there goes the 10gig limit. :) = For Linux CD's check out http://www.xsolutions.co.nz http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Mobile - Check compose your email via SMS on your

Linux downloadling tip was: Yet Another Knoppix release

2003-03-30 Thread Mahesh De Silva
I get very furstrated with knoppix and there minor releases every couple of days or even daily. Its good because the systme is uptodate, its bad becuase its another 650mb download! I am going to try there rsync servers, using the following idea. http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/rsync-mandrakeiso.html

Re: Wireless networks

2003-03-19 Thread Mahesh De Silva
around my house in lyttelton I am, all on linux. I basically use it so i can ssh to my desktop from my 486 laptop in front of the tv , continue to chat on msn (centericq) and see emails (pine) while watching tv. I can also do X to the desktop, but its not much fun on a greyscale640x480

RE: OSTC Courses - Attn : Jason Greenwood.

2003-03-11 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Just two of us. Me and Mahesh. I suppose if Mahesh agrees (if he's reading this), we can put it off until next week (that would give me a chance to set up the new 29 TV, DVD and Home Theatre system my wife just won :-) I agree, i am willing to wait for jason, if you are david. Is

Re: IMHO, etc.

2003-03-02 Thread Mahesh De Silva
http://www.dict.org/ ha.. great.. i no longer need to spell dictionary.com Mahesh = For Linux CD's check out http://www.xsolutions.co.nz http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Mobile - Exchange IMs with Messenger friends on your Telstra or Vodafone mobile phone.

Re: This morning's Press / MasterTrade

2003-02-26 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Hi Jason Cirtix is not all bad, there linux support is excelent. Me and my co-worker use it on our linux work stations and is very good. There support for linux is NZ anyway is great. You do realise that citrix originaly developed the multiuser windows system.. (called multi win) which they sold

citrix linux

2003-02-26 Thread Mahesh De Silva
inexpensive terminals. Mahesh Damn reply to headers... =) Hate that reply all thing Yup, I do know a LITTLE of the Citrix history but didn't it just get bought by MS?? If so, we can assume they'll embrace and um, extinguish it. Cheers J Mahesh De Silva wrote: Hi Jason

Re: WORKSHOP FULL

2003-02-11 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Hi All, I will help out with the mandrake install.. i have done it enough times... :) Mahesh Ok with Rik Tindall's problem we are now full! (providing Slosh gets a lift!) I'm hoping now we get at least 8 people with the skills to help these poor souls! I've posted the problems,

Re: Affiliation?

2003-02-09 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Any volenteers to do some investigating? very good point! On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:10:41 +1300 (NZDT) Mahesh De Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the the canty uni clubs are the same setup as the lincoln once, then we could get bank account through as well.. -- Nick Rout

Re: Affiliation?

2003-02-09 Thread Mahesh De Silva
) Mahesh De Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the the canty uni clubs are the same setup as the lincoln once, then we could get bank account through as well.. -- Zane Gilmore, Analyst / Programmer Information Services Section, Information Technology Dept, University of Canterbury - Te

Re: Sendmail

2003-02-01 Thread Mahesh De Silva
snip Does anyone speak /etc/sendmail.cf ? ;-) Many'o'sol have prished looking into that file.. http://movies.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Movies - What's on at your local cinema?

Re: The next meeting / workshop / clinic.

2003-02-01 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Wow.. thats somthing i always wanted to know... cat /proc/interrupts Other ideas anybody? Here's that: [rob@localhost rob]$ cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0:5357998 XT-PIC timer 1: 70881 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC

RE: There is no CLUG

2003-01-30 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Will do as soon as it propagates to the archive. Wow I bugger off to Auckland for a few days and CLUG gets a organised! Arr.. there's the first problem.. you went to auckland.. :) = For Linux CD's check out http://www.xsolutions.co.nz http://movies.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Movies - What's

Re: PCI Modems

2003-01-29 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Far as i can tell all external USB modems are win modems. The same applies for internal PCI ADSL modems, support is getting better but not really main stream. Mahesh External Serial modems are always hardware modems. External USB modems are not necessarily hardware modems. Beware! =

Re: Linux on a 486

2003-01-26 Thread Mahesh De Silva
bugger.. my name is in there as well.. whats really scary is what you get when you search for your e-mail address on google.. Thus spake Nick Rout on this Mon, 27 Jan 2003 : ] avoid smoothwall. the developer is an ass. use ipcop, its a friendly ] fork of smoothwall. Even google knows

this is not good..

2003-01-15 Thread Mahesh De Silva
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/briefs?n=/mandrakesoft/news/2405 hmhm wonder if it can recover? I sure hope so.. they were on to a good thing.. I guess they just grew to fast for there own good. Mahesh = For Linux CD's check out http://www.xsolutions.co.nz

Re: Some Quick Questions

2003-01-05 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Sorry its www.p2p.net.nz there is java client for direct connect.. for www.p2p.co.nz. Are you sure that's the right address?? i tried it and the page wouldn't open --Slosh = For Linux CD's check out http://www.xsolutions.co.nz http://movies.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Movies - What's

Re: Some Quick Questions

2003-01-04 Thread Mahesh De Silva
there is java client for direct connect.. for www.p2p.co.nz. And does anyone know if you can get KaZaA or something like it running in Linux... kinda like apt-get but something u can get movies and other shite from too... --Slosh = For Linux CD's check out

OT Re: What sort of ram is this

2002-12-21 Thread Mahesh De Silva
EDO and fast page.. depends on the mb mostly.. You could also get 30pin stuff.. but monstly on 486's and slower.. 72-pin SIMMs They needed to be fitted in matched pairs... Regards Steve Dunford What is the name of the ram that was around in p133's and cyrix 686's

Re: Playing DVDs under Red Hat 7.3

2002-12-21 Thread Mahesh De Silva
This link might help.. its for mandrake... but it worked for me. :) http://www.trylinuxsd.com You could try vlan-client, I just installed it on win2k and it works fine. On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 11:15:31+1300 Vik Olliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone done this? I've got xine-ui installed

Re: Knoppix NZ mirror

2002-12-13 Thread Mahesh De Silva
And the change log is in german, but all version have the hd install script. Just rysenc the iso to get the differences.. it works a treat.. but the rsync mirror i was using is now off line. Mahesh I stuck with KNOPPIX_V3.1-31-10-2002-EN.iso up to now. It works and has English

nz linux distro?

2002-12-06 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Hey all.. Is this the first nz based linux distro? http://www.yoper.com/ mahesh = For Linux CD's check out http://www.xsolutions.co.nz http://www.yahoo.promo.com.au/hint/ - Yahoo! Hint Dropper - Avoid getting hideous gifts this Christmas with Yahoo! Hint Dropper!

Re: tuxracer

2002-12-04 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Nivida.. have there own closed source drivers.. i have got these going but still no joy with tux for me.. I also have simiar spec machine.. Mahesh On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Paul wrote: I have just installed tuxracer and was shocked to find that it was VERY VERY slow. I have a Althon XP 1800+,

Re: ext2 fs mishap

2002-12-04 Thread Mahesh De Silva
snip Serial ATA to the rescue, it has such a clip.. but still about 1 year away from being in the mass market and offering any sort of performance boost.. other than tidier cases via smaller cables. mahesh So this was the first time I wished they were using connectors with safety clips

Re: tuxracer

2002-12-04 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Do you mean change the driver in the config file from nv to nivida? I have followed the instructions the drivers came with but still no joy. Mahesh Nivida.. have there own closed source drivers.. i have got these going but still no joy with tux for me.. I also have simiar spec

Re: Xmas meeting

2002-12-04 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Hi Nick Maybe another dinner after the installfest.. but yeah.. the christmas diary is looking very full.. Bring the bucket.. its not going to do any harm in having people contribute to the event.. we might need the money later.. eg the install fest.. Mahesh Personally I think alcohol might

Re: What do you use BroadBand for?

2002-12-03 Thread Mahesh De Silva
snip My question for the group is if you had unlimited data at say 500K symmetric (send/recieve) what would you do with it? hmhm PORN. = For Linux CD's check out http://www.xsolutions.co.nz http://www.yahoo.promo.com.au/hint/ - Yahoo! Hint Dropper - Avoid getting hideous gifts

Re: Bandwidth [OT] (Was: Distributions)

2002-12-02 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Net4u.co.nz has no jetstart limit.. and one called neuron.net.nz i think is the same as well.. On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 04:35:26PM +1300, Paul wrote: actually jetstart is limited to 5GB a month .. Actually, Xtra's Jetstart is limited to 5GB a month. My ISP has 7. Paradise is 10.

ADSL is uncaped right now.

2002-12-02 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Hey.. Also has anyone else noticed adsl is uncapped right now? I am in hornby/islington exchnage.. Mahesh = For Linux CD's check out http://www.xsolutions.co.nz http://www.yahoo.promo.com.au/hint/ - Yahoo! Hint Dropper - Avoid getting hideous gifts this Christmas with Yahoo! Hint Dropper!

Re: LPI

2002-12-01 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Hi Simon and All.. I am sort of working on this at the moment, via executrain.. seems good.. Not really sure if it will increase the old pay packet tho.. :) Redhat one is good.. (every expensive tho) The problem is with the web interface for the onlune course runs on shockwave 8.31.. so i need

Re: LPI

2002-12-01 Thread Mahesh De Silva
for that, it might be a holiday mission to do one of them :) Later Simon On Mon, 02 Dec 2002 16:24, Mahesh De Silva wrote: Hi Simon and All.. I am sort of working on this at the moment, via executrain.. seems good.. Not really sure if it will increase the old pay packet tho

RE: Re: Question - Installing Programs

2002-11-21 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Use su then type in your root password. You would have set the root password when installing your distro. But beware you can really damage your system while in root. Mahesh How do I go about setting up user as being a superuser? Kevin Original Message --- the

Re: network surgestions (or odd networking request)

2002-11-20 Thread Mahesh De Silva
and don't forget to put spliters at each end. :) On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 03:25:38PM +1300, Jeremy Bertenshaw wrote: Okay, two options, if you only wanted to run 10Mb you could build / buy a UTP splitter as 10Mb only uses 2 of the 4 Actually, you can run 100MBit on 2 pair too. I

Re: network surgestions (or odd networking request)

2002-11-20 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Hi Paul If you ask really nicly.. i will give you a pair for FREE. :) Contact me off list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] country we live in. Mahesh How much do these UTP splitters cost? On Thursday 21 November 2002 05:38 pm, Mahesh De Silva wrote: and don't forget to put spliters at each end

Re: Idea for next CLUG meeting

2002-11-20 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Hey all.. Are we at risk of scaring off a lot newbies? Good topic idea tho.. just need to keep it to a overview tho... IMHO. Mahesh On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Paul wrote: Maybe others could talk on Shell Scripting, Perl, Ruby, Awk, Tcl/Tk and any others. I can talk on

was Ham modem, Now DSE Linux PC's.

2002-11-17 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Hey all.. Call me crazy.. but i thought mandrake had all the dial up settings etc... for most major NZ ISP's? I think its time i checked into the Alan Cox's Distro clinic. I cannot remember which distro had what.. Mahesh. It's a good job that the general public stand a fair chance at using

Re: Ot: El Cheapo Ram 128mb $67

2002-11-17 Thread Mahesh De Silva
512Mb SDRAM 168pin $118.13 + gst .. off www.pricespy.co.nz 512 Mb PC133 at www.bcl.co.nz $160 + GST http://shop.bcl.co.nz/BCLCommodity.php3?lookupcode=MEF On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 07:37, Ben Devine wrote: 128MB PC133 SDRAM 8-Chip PC133 128MB SDRAM memory module (8 chip)

Re: cheap RAM and other stuff - CLUG Store?

2002-11-17 Thread Mahesh De Silva
Hi Steve This is a good idea.. i am keen helpout. But the idea might be too formal for current clug structure.. Mahesh. If someone can give me a set of Mandrake 9 Redhat 8 CDs then I'll sell them a 512Mb PC133 DIMM at cost, which is considerably better than $160 + GST... I'll even drop

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