On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Volker Kuhlmann
wrote:
> On Fri 06 Aug 2010 18:37:50 NZST +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
>
>> What gives? Can anyone point me to a source (chc preferably, nz
>> otherwise) of 1TB (or bigger) pata drives?
>
> Maybe they can't satisfy
I looked a month or so and could find local sources of 1 TB pata
drives (should have splashed out then). Now the maximum I can find is
500GB.
What gives? Can anyone point me to a source (chc preferably, nz
otherwise) of 1TB (or bigger) pata drives?
Linux connect? mythtv needs more space and the b
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Volker Kuhlmann
wrote:
> On Wed 04 Aug 2010 14:28:44 NZST +1200, Dan Hawke wrote:
>
>> The main visible user change will be the addition of:
>> [Linux-users]
>> To the subject line of all emails.
>
> Can you turn this nonsense off in mailman, please? It means changi
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Dan Hawke wrote:
> Good afternoon,
>
> The University is currently undertaking to remove all existing lists from
> our PMDF gateway and either destroy unused lists or migrate active lists to
> a more suitable long-term solution.
>
> For linux-users we've selected Ma
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Bryce Stenberg wrote:
> Cheers Kevin, running it now - just to make it trickier for novices to find
> they called it 'Startup Disk Creator' off the menu when booted with live cd
> - I had just assumed that created some sort of rescue disk like under
> windows. I
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:20 AM, C. Falconer wrote:
> For those who care, acer now has a dual-boot windows and android netbook.
>
>
> http://pinoytutorial.com/techtorial/acer-aspire-one-d260-android-netbook/
>
> Its got windows 7 starter and "google android" installed, 10 inch screen at
> 1024x600
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Roger Searle wrote:
> vmware server was originally configured with bridged networking, and I
> didn't configure NAT or host-only. For the guest machine neptune that is
> being incorrectly connected to, the console reports the correct DNS name,
> and correct IP ad
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Ryan McCoskrie
wrote:
> [Note this Email originally went to the OP instead of the list. Sorry if it
> dose not go into the thread smoothly]
>> Hello CLUG,
>>
>> I'll be moving to Chch from Greymouth around early September, and would
>> like to meet fellow LINUX fol
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Tom Smith wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 13:45 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
>> On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 13:27 +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote:
>> > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Carl Turney
>> > wrote:
>> > > By the way...
>> > > http://clug.net.nz/index.php/Helpers
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 9:08 PM, John Carter wrote:
> So my home life is getting sufficient twangled that having some more advance
> facilities (voicemail / caller id / ...) would be good.
>
> I was looking at Xnet VFX Fusion. But that means I'd have to replace my
> router to have a phone plug.
>
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Daniel Hill
> wrote:
>> On 06/07/10 15:45, Rik Tindall wrote:
>>> 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 at South L
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Ryan McCoskrie wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:40:08 Christopher Sawtell wrote:
>
>> Indeed it does, but would it not be a better idea to create a program
>> which helped people improve their language and reeading skills,
>> instead of creating a program which only
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Ryan McCoskrie wrote:
> Knowing a handful of extremely visual thinkers who dread the command
> line I have been thinking over the possibility of an application that uses
> a drag and drop interface to visually represent the concepts of piping and
> redirecting. At t
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 12:24 PM, max podolian wrote:
> Hello everyone!
> Are there held any CLUG meetings?
>
>
> Best regards,
> Maksym
There is a pub night once a month on the 17th. Usually at the Twisted Hop.
I don't know if anyone actually attends?
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Barry wrote:
> Barry wrote:
>>
>> What am I missing??
>>
>> I have an iso of a dvd on my hd.
>>
>> mplayer and vlc both play the iso but without sound. However if I mount
>> the iso the vob files all play correctly. GGR!
>>
>> Other iso files play ok in
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> Is there any point in converting a 720p .mkv image to burn onto a
> standard DVD as opposed to SD?
not sure what you are asking. I think you are asking "When making a
DVD is it better to start with a 720p file and transcode it down to
DVD
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Don Robertson wrote:
> On 16/06/10 09:43, Steve Holdoway wrote:
>>
>> Just no output on either device. Can anyone point me to a decent, up to
>> date ( this is ubuntu 9.10 ) troubleshooting guide.
>>
>
> I was having problems with audio on a Kubuntu system updated
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 12:56 AM, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 12:36 AM, David Lowe wrote:
>> Would the history log in Synaptic do the job? That's what I've used before
>> for this purpose.
>>
>> - David
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 12:36 AM, David Lowe wrote:
> Would the history log in Synaptic do the job? That's what I've used before
> for this purpose.
>
> - David
>
> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Andrew Sands
> wrote:
>>
>> Guys,
>>
>> Google foo is not working well for me today, I know that I
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 8:03 PM, chris wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 19:29 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Christopher Sawtell
>> wrote:
>> > On 18 June 2010 19:17, Nick Rout wrote:
>> >> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 6:54 PM, ch
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> On 18 June 2010 19:17, Nick Rout wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 6:54 PM, chris wrote:
>>> Greetings Clugers,
>>> I am hopeful someone on the list can assist me with this issue.
>>>
>>&g
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 6:54 PM, chris wrote:
> Greetings Clugers,
> I am hopeful someone on the list can assist me with this issue.
>
> Hardware HP Workstation P4
> Video Card Sapphire Radeon x300se
> Viewsonic led Monitor native resolution 1600x1200
>
> Under Ubuntu 8.04 I had no graphics issue
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> ... cant linux get it's sound sorted out properly?
>
> I've lost mine again... I know it works as I get a 'click' when a new
> window opens. But playing anything at all - forget it.
>
> System says everything's fine.
> Gnome sound preferenc
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:04 AM, wrote:
> Peter Glassenbury (CSSE) wrote:
>> Sorry not even at a university lab... If someone wants to brute force
>> our root account, they obviously have not enough work to do.
>> Our logging should find the attempts...
>> Like Volker, I have yet to be convinced
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Ryan McCoskrie wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:27:07 you wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Ryan McCoskrie
> wrote:
>> > You do if you have a neurotic need to configure every detail but lack the
>> > time and bandwidth for Gentoo/Slackware/LFS.
>>
>> well gi
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Ryan McCoskrie wrote:
> You do if you have a neurotic need to configure every detail but lack the time
> and bandwidth for Gentoo/Slackware/LFS.
>
well give it a root password then. What the hell has bandwidth to do
with configuration?
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Hadley Rich wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 12:23 +1200, Derek Smithies wrote:
>> Even more useful is
>> sudo sux
>>
>> which gives root the ability to open gui tools.
>
> Be careful with using sudo in this mannor. You run the risk of creating
> problems for yoursel
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Ryan McCoskrie
wrote:
> Okay there have been a few misunderstandings about what I meant in my
> original post on this thread. After some thinking I believe that I can clarify
> myself properly
> On Sat, 29 May 2010 13:02:30 you wrote:
>> Are there any desktop cent
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 16:49 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
>
>>
>> And PLEASE don't set your reply-to when posting to the list!
> Properly configured list manager should handle that!
Tell the university!
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> On 29 May 2010 16:41, Nick Rout wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Christopher Sawtell
>> wrote:
>> > On 29 May 2010 15:03 chris wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Sat, 2010-05-2
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 3:24 PM, dave wrote:
> Yes I do too when i first started using it it was defaults all the way just
> add
> smtp & pop server settings.
> But I've had a couple of crashes ( one being a case of deleting indexes and
> recreating them, two another case of index corruption and
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> On 29 May 2010 15:03 chris wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 14:38 +1200, Ryan McCoskrie wrote:
>> > On Sat, 29 May 2010 13:44:11 you wrote:
>> > > On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 13:02 +1200, Ryan McCoskrie wrote:
>> > > > I just want a very g
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Wesley Parish
wrote:
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
You might be more inclined to get help if you restricted your .sig to
3 lines or so,
In the meantime I suggest you look at your mail server's logs and see
if you can find out what happened.
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Don Robertson wrote:
> On 23/05/10 22:01, Andrew Errington wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 23 May 2010 18:31:56 Julian Visch wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Have a huge audio tape collection and think it is high time I started
>>> converting them into some form of digital format while tape
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> On 16 May 2010 14:37, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
>>
>> On 16 May 2010 14:22, Steve Holdoway wrote:
>>>
>>> Who's up for this month's meeting??
>>
>>
>> Me. Thanks for the reminder.
>
> Seeing as there were only three of us there, I fe
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Bryce Stenberg wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've got my Ubuntu server running now with 10.04 LTS.
> One of my manuals on using Ubuntu mentions a gui setting under 'Software
> sources -> updates' for 'Release upgrade: Show new distribution
> releases' -> 'Long term support re
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Robert Fisher wrote:
> On 04/05/10 16:29, Nick Rout wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Christopher Sawtell
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 4 May 2010 13:20, Paul Swafford wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Ryan McCoskrie
wrote:
> On Tue, 04 May 2010 12:36:35 Steve Holdoway wrote:
>> On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 12:12 +1200, Ryan McCoskrie wrote:
>> > On Tue, 04 May 2010 11:34:04 you wrote:
>> > > Hi all,
>> > >
>> > > A change of employment leads me into the laptop market,
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
>
>
> On 4 May 2010 13:20, Paul Swafford wrote:
>>
>> I second Chris' sentiment .. Tinkpads just work ..
>>
>> I wonder where Chris got his from ??
>
> The PC shop which is in what was the Edmonds "Sure to Rise" factory front
> office. Ne
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:57 AM, Roger Searle wrote:
>> To: ubuntu-annou...@lists.ubuntu.com
>>
>>
>>
>> The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Long-Term Support).
>> This r
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Bryce Stenberg wrote:
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Hadley Rich [mailto:h...@nice.net.nz]
>> Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 2:51 PM
>>
>> On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 14:44 +1200, Bryce Stenberg wrote:
>> > What is the best way to upgrade this server to 10.04 lts?
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:57 AM, Roger Searle wrote:
> To: ubuntu-annou...@lists.ubuntu.com
>
>
>
> The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Long-Term Support).
> This release incorporates the Desktop Edition and the Server Edition. The
> Server Edition can be used on p
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 9:15 AM, chris wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 17:43 +0900, Andrew Errington wrote:
>> On Sat, 01 May 2010 05:33:45 chris wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 17:57 +1200, Robert Fisher wrote:
>> > > On 29/04/10 17:47, Rik Tindall wrote:
>> > > > Ubuntu is the default distro use
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Barry wrote:
>> 'mplayer -vo null file.avi' plays the sound track ok.
>> 'mplayer -vo x11 file.avi' plays the sound and video ok.
>> 'mplayer -vo xv file.avi' locks up keyboard, no mouse, mplayer screen but no
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 14:07 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
>
>> The other thing to try is xvinfo and see what it says.
>
> I'm sure there's a mandriva 2010.0 available. That'd be my startng
> point...
>
&g
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Barry wrote:
>> Nick Rout wrote:
>>>
>>>
>> There are no problems with video when running Mandriva 2009.0 either live or
>> installed
>>
>> No I do not w
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Barry wrote:
> Nick Rout wrote:
>>
>>
> There are no problems with video when running Mandriva 2009.0 either live or
> installed
>
> No I do not want to change distros, I want both boxes similar as possible.
>
> ram in the lappie
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Barry wrote:
>> after many failed attempts to view movies I am at a complete loss on
>> where to search next for a cure to my problem.
>>
>> Every time I try to view any movie X cras
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Barry wrote:
> after many failed attempts to view movies I am at a complete loss on
> where to search next for a cure to my problem.
>
> Every time I try to view any movie X crashes requiring a restart and
> sometimes locks the kbd. This happens with mplayer and vl
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Barry wrote:
> Nick Rout wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Barry wrote:
>>>
>>> Nick Rout wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Barry wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Barry wrote:
> Nick Rout wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Barry wrote:
>>>
>>> I understand it may be possible to connect 2 boxes using a usb cable
>>> instead
>>> of ethernet.
>>>
>&
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Barry wrote:
> I understand it may be possible to connect 2 boxes using a usb cable instead
> of ethernet.
>
> Is this possible?, if so what hardware / software is required, and possible
> problems.
>
> TIA
>
> Barry
>
does this help? (Google found it i haven't re
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Bryce Stenberg wrote:
>
>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Craig Falconer [mailto:cfalco...@totalteam.co.nz]
>> My folks got a linksys WAG54G2 - new about $150 at the time. Does
>> everything and has fair wireless range despite having no external
>> aerial
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Craig Falconer
wrote:
> Dave G wrote, On 04/10/2010 08:00 PM:
>>
>> I got this one from Jaycar for about 30 bucks: Jaycar Electronics Tiny
>> Bluetooth Adaptor CAT. NO. XC4892
>>
>> And this on Trademe for about $10: Bus 003 Device 004: ID 0a12:0001
>> Cambridge
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Aidan Gauland
wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> First of all, thanks to everyone's advice and opinions (and silliness)
> on netbooks.
>
> Next, are most USB Bluetooth dongles Linux-friendly, or do I have to
> be careful about which one I choose?
I think they all should w
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Ross Drummond wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 April 2010, you wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a birthday coming up, and up for grabs is a netbook. I have heard
>> good things about the Eee PC family from CLUGers a while ago, so I would
>> like to hear any opinions on thi
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Ross Drummond wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 April 2010, you wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a birthday coming up, and up for grabs is a netbook. I have heard
>> good things about the Eee PC family from CLUGers a while ago, so I would
>> like to hear any opinions on thi
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Ryan McCoskrie
wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:53:34 Craig Falconer wrote:
>> Ryan McCoskrie wrote, On 23/03/10 10:42:
>> > On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:25:50 C. Falconer wrote:
>> >> Hi all - with respect to horse, how many of the current users make use
>> >> of the we
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:25 AM, C. Falconer wrote:
> Hi all - with respect to horse, how many of the current users make use of
> the webshell running on port 443?
> If that makes no sense, https://shell.clug.org.nz/
>
> Logs don't tell me who uses which mechanism for connecting.
>
> I want to run
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Patelkhana Mohan Rao
wrote:
> Can anybody help in sparing ubuntu9.10 disk pl.
http://www.ubuntu.com/GetUbuntu/download
??
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Craig Falconer
> wrote:
>> Bryce Stenberg wrote, On 19/03/10 15:11:
>>> I need a good SSH client to use on my windows machine.
>>
>> PuTTY. It works, its free, and it works.
>
> Agreed. But it's "just" a term
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
>
>
> On 15 March 2010 16:29, Nick Rout wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Ross Drummond
>> wrote:
>> > The date(17th) for monthly drinks is fast approaching.
>> >
>> > I
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Ross Drummond wrote:
> The date(17th) for monthly drinks is fast approaching.
>
> I was wondering is there any interest in Tuxer's in the Ashburton area getting
> together for a tipple?
>
> Cheers Ross Drummond
(Likes drinking alone)
But it is St Paddy's day (on
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Steve Holdoway wrote:
>
> As Jim mentioned, there is loads of jargon with logical and physical
> volumes and groups but it does make sense, sorta. It's all based on the
> (old?) HP implementation, which is really handy if you used to
> administer HP-UX servers (:
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Craig Falconer
wrote:
> Steve Holdoway wrote, On 05/03/10 11:17:
>>
>> What do people recommend? I'm sick of gtwitter crashing for no apparent
>> reason! Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit platform...
>
> nothing.
>
> Twitter is so insanely pointless.
and I thought I was the only
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Craig Falconer
wrote:
> Nick Rout wrote, On 05/03/10 13:28:
>>
>> Now for the upstairs connection, which cable had an even harder time on
>> the run!
>
> Cable is actually pretty tough stuff. I once helped someone lower a hefty
> old
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Maurice Butler
> wrote:
>>
>> Most of the electrical wholesalers stock satelite, audio, network gear now
>> days
>>
>> Maurice
>
> Even Bunnings stock the stuff!!
>
&g
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Maurice Butler
wrote:
>
> Most of the electrical wholesalers stock satelite, audio, network gear now
> days
>
> Maurice
Even Bunnings stock the stuff!!
DSE becomes the default because they are open in the weekends!
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Craig Falconer
wrote:
> Christopher Sawtell wrote, On 04/03/10 14:42:
>>
>> > Stop - first check you have plugs that match your cable. RJ45 plugs
>> for
>> > solid do not work well on stranded and vice versa.
>> How do you tell the difference?
>
> Without trying
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
>> Stop - first check you have plugs that match your cable. RJ45 plugs for
>> solid do not work well on stranded and vice versa.
>
> How do you tell the difference?
Dunno, the dse page doesn't say what they are for, but they are the
same
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Craig Falconer
wrote:
> Nick Rout wrote, On 04/03/10 14:28:
>>
>> Having now cross-examined the cable layer (she who must be skinny
>> enough to crawl under the house) I suspect the cable may have been
>> damaged going around some brick w
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Ryan McCoskrie
wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 March 2010 09:49:26 pm Nick Rout wrote:
>> I have run a couple of cat5e cables and I am trying to terminate them,
>> unsuccessfully at present.
>>
>
> ... What is your terminating process like? I&
I have run a couple of cat5e cables and I am trying to terminate them,
unsuccessfully at present.
Will a cable tester help me? I suspect that each time I put a plug on
the end one or more of the wires is in the wrong place, or not quite
long enough to make the connection. Coupled with this I am on
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Glenn Cogle wrote:
> Box is in DMZ behind a pretty tight firewall, so not really touching the
> 'net.
>
> The box can't even get out to the net (http or FTP) to do an apt-get update,
> which is another reason it doesn't get dist-upgraded.
>
How critical is it? Can
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Stephen Irons wrote:
> A few weeks ago, I reported that the 8G SSD on my Acer Aspire One netbook
> had failed, and asking for recommendations about where to buy a replacement.
> I could not find anything within my budget ($0), or less than my comfort
> level ($10),
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Barry wrote:
> Nick Rout wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Barry wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> This may be off topic, but there are plenty of gurus who read this list
>>> and are inte
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:09 PM, Barry wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This may be off topic, but there are plenty of gurus who read this list
> and are interested in tv.
>
> My tuner is a Sommet, Code: SHDNZ1. It appears to be a specialised
> computer.The code running it is held in flash memory, and update
Well for god's sake can someone nominate a time??
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Brett Davidson wrote:
> I shall not be eating but will pop in briefly and say hello.
>>>
>>> About 7.30 is it?
>>>
>>
>> I am hoping to have a bite to eat, and will be there a bit earlier than
>> that.
>> --
>> Sin
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Ryan McCoskrie
wrote:
> I had a dream on Sunday that I found the O'Reilly "In A Nutshell" manual on
> child raising written by Linus and Tove Torvalds. I was strangely disappointed
> when I woke up.
>
> Has anyone got thoughts on this odd event?
Yes I'd like to k
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Aidan Gauland
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am about to start university next week, and I do not like either KDE or
> GNOME, which is all that is available in Canterbury's C.S. computer labs. I
> would like to put my favourite window manager on my memory stick, and run it
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Phill Coxon wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 16:08 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
>> At work: windows computer which runs putty and vnc server.
>>
>> At home: linux machines, one running openssh server.
>>
>> Therefore I can only initiate
At work: windows computer which runs putty and vnc server.
At home: linux machines, one running openssh server.
Therefore I can only initiate ssh from the office end.
I can easily use putty to enable access to web servers on the home
machine, but can I set something up so that I can connect to t
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 17:46 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
>
>> No choice was taken away. The government paid for licenses for every
>> school. That didn't force the school to use MS products. It made it
>> zero cost.
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Tom Smith wrote:
> Hi People
>
> I found this on The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #178
>
> NZ school ditches Microsoft and goes totally open source
>
> A New Zealand high school running entirely on open source software has
> slashed its server requirements by a factor
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Don Robertson wrote:
> St Patrick's Day? I'll have to think about that. The 17th would 10001,
> which has a certain symmetry. Or , the product of 11 and 101. 11
> would of course be a secret meeting we'd all have on our own, and
> you'd need to go to the publi
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:50 PM, 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 secret inca
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Ryan McCoskrie
wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:11:47 Derek Smithies wrote:
>> On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
>> > What about settling on the 17 of the month. That's Wednesday next week
>> > to start it off.
>>
>> Sigh - - a group of geeks can surel
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Derek Smithies wrote:
> Hi,
> On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Ryan McCoskrie wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:11:47 Derek Smithies wrote:
>>>
>>> My first thought was for the 42nd of the month, but it is a bit large.
>>> The 24 would work though.
>>>
>> 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 all
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Dave G <9gerk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> my home wifi router has packed up and my attemts to reconfigure/reset
> it have been in vain
>
> the eth0 ports are all working fine and I have confirmed that the
> wifi on my lappy is all
> working as I can see othe
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
>
>
> On 9 February 2010 20:21, Ryan McCoskrie wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:49:41 Christopher Sawtell wrote:
>> > Many Linux user groups have mogrified into geek oriented social clubs
>> > which meet informally in licensed premise
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Ryan McCoskrie wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:32:21 Nick Rout wrote:
>> OK we had tip of the day, now joke of the day:
>>
>> Ubuntu is an ancient African word, meaning "can't configure Debian"
>
> No it means "Sl
OK I have been collecting media files for ages and have:
2 compaq small form factor boxes, one freebsd and one linux, each with
a 300G hard drive for videos. (PATA)
2 external usb hard drives with 300 SATA and 250G PATA respectively.
(each has a brick power supply)
1 mythtv backend box in a towe
OK we had tip of the day, now joke of the day:
Ubuntu is an ancient African word, meaning "can't configure Debian"
I saw a thread somewhere else that suggested peering arrangements (or
lack thereof) were to blame.
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 8:45 AM, wrote:
> It's up and running for me now, different location and machine, Telecom ISP.
>
> Kerry
>
>> Yep .. its a Telecom proxy issue .. who knows when they'll get a
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Roger Searle wrote:
> steve wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 15:12 +1300, Roger Searle wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi, I have mediawiki running and want to link to an html file sitting on
>>> a different machine, I have resolved this for windows machines running both
>>> I
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Michael wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> Use Samba to share the music from your Ubuntu PC. Setting up the smb.conf is
> actually dead easy. There is nothing wrong with Samba, in fact it has
> particular advantages over NFS for example as well as linux and windoze
> friendly.
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Rik Tindall wrote:
> Nick Rout wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Rik Tindall wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> ..8. Let's not forget the perfect integration of this little gem with
>>> Gnome:
>>>
>>&
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Rik Tindall wrote:
> Davin Pearson wrote:
>>
>> I have installed Wamp to the following location: c:\WAMP and I am
>> trying to load c:\WAMP\WWW\index.php to Mozilla Firefox using the
>> following location: http://localhost/ but all that it shows is a blank
>> page.
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Rik Tindall wrote:
> Robert Fisher wrote:
>
> sudo aptitude install ubuntu-deskto
I did not realise that it could be that simple.
Rob
>>
>> Thanks Nick,
>>
>> I just tried this on a VM here at work and it is that simple.
>>
>
> ..8.
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Robert Fisher wrote:
>> Why not simply:
>>
>> sudo aptitude install ubuntu-desktop
>>
>> and you can log into whichever you want.
>>
> I did not realise that it could be that simple.
>
> Rob
>
>
sure is, there is also xubuntu-desktop and mythbuntu-desktop. May be
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