Re: URGENT ASSISTANCE REQUIRED

2003-08-14 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Christopher Sawtell wrote: I suppose it's also a ( remote ) possibility that he's never seen a Nigerian / Zimbabwe Scam letter before. Do you _really_ think there may be such a person ? :-D -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager

SD - USB card reader ?

2003-07-21 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
/models of SD USB readers which would work ? TIA Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand ___ Zaurus-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: SD - USB card reader ?

2003-07-21 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
that it is standard and will work with Linux too ? (I have a no-name CF - USB reader exactly like this) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Shell Scripting, and Kernel Compiling Lessons at OSTC.

2003-07-09 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
and required CLI params.). Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

OpenOffice Basic

2003-07-08 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
:-) (Python is still a while away I I feel no compulsion to learn Java, not until I'll see a free and complete implementation anyway plus other don't like it) And I don't know of any books (on the OO Basic that is). Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager

Re: OpenOffice Basic

2003-07-08 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
and beyond So the only one left is the OO Basic. (and AFAIK it appears that 1.1 will have a macro recorder :-) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

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

2003-07-01 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: script help

2003-06-23 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
(other distros may have their own). Even then the auto-detection may fail. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Linux for Windows Programmers

2003-06-09 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
to look directly at the reference manuals, HOWTOs and similar. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Publicise open source?

2003-06-08 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
reality, not what an enthusiast is prepared to call usable. [...] I'll second that :-) And don't forget that those people most likely will need tons of support with Linux. Otherwise the deal can turn very sour amazingly fast. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer

Re: python Re: Sixpack installation (shell-script)

2003-05-31 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
package in the standard lib but well ... :-) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: CD's/speed

2003-05-27 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
them several times and compare the result. It may be that at higher write speeds you get higher level 1 errors and thus the artifacts you are hearing. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Benefits of packaging systems was: Cannot find right libstdc++.so.5...

2003-04-03 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
assembler programs. Same for the Spectrum. Back in the old days I had a book with the full BIOS/firmware dissasembled and well commented. Probbably the only system I could say I understood well from top to the very bottom :-) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems

Re: Server-Side Spyware: Red Sheriff

2003-04-02 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Andrew Errington wrote: AFAIK you can't turn java on/off site-specific, let me know if I am wrong. Err, Konqueror lets you do this... I stand corrected :-) (I had some very vague recollection, this is why I asked to be corrected if I am wrong). Cheers, -- Ryurick M

RE: Server-Side Spyware: Red Sheriff

2003-04-02 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
are using Privoxy: it is downloaded from imrworldwide.com (AFAIK). So a +block on '.*imrworldwide.com/' in user.action should stop it for now (until they change the site) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New

Re: Server-Side Spyware: Red Sheriff

2003-04-02 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
I go, please ? [...] Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Server-Side Spyware: Red Sheriff

2003-04-02 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Jim Cheetham wrote: On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 08:36:15AM +1200, Ryurick M. Hristev wrote: On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Surf elsewhere ? What if there isn't an elsewhere ? Google knows how many million pages? Sure there's an elsewhere... ;;) Right! So

Re: Email List membership

2003-04-02 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
the periphery toward the center (US) and from the workplace toward the home use http://lists.ethernal.org/cantlug-0205/msg00042.html Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Server-Side Spyware: Red Sheriff

2003-04-01 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
in javascript ? (I don't know enough javascript to know if it's feasible). Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Server-Side Spyware: Red Sheriff

2003-04-01 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
you have any pointers to this ? [...] Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Server-Side Spyware: Red Sheriff

2003-03-31 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
FYI http://www.cexx.org/sheriff.htm Unlike most conventional spyware, imrworldwide.com's Red Sheriff is loaded as a Java applet embedded in a Web page you visit. Once loaded, it sends information about your ... [...] Disturbing trends ... Cheers, -- Ryurick M

Re: Help! apt-get on redhat

2003-03-19 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Nick Rout wrote: running apt-get update apt-get upgrade concludes with the following: [...] On a side issue: heve you looked at autorpm ? Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept

Re: 3d editing (was: CLUG tux)

2003-03-11 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
. Then, if you move to the more complex program all the time spent on learning the simple one goes to waste. OTOH you don't have to learn all the features of the complex one. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept

Re: @!#$#% rpm's

2003-03-02 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
possible features which is a double edged sword: it may be that there are some feature which are never used by most people. In this case I suspect some streaming video. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept

Re: devfs and initrd

2003-02-26 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
to debug such things is to replace the /sbin/init with something you know it should load, e.g. a statically linked shell in an obvious and no tricks place. I forgot the kernel boot param but you can find it easily. Then you can start debugging the problem. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL

Re: I hate bash

2003-02-21 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Nick Rout wrote: how do i do a simple for...next loop [...] Beyond what anybody else said, get this: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html (and don't be put off by the advanced part) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager

Python questions

2003-02-12 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
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Re: Musicians on board ?

2003-02-11 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
may get in your way above some level. We shouldn't be stubborn and pretend the CLI is best in all situations. Neither is a GUI. Neither life or computing comes in black white. Only various shades of gray. Nothing is perfect :-) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer

Re: Musicians on board ?

2003-02-11 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Chris Wilkinson wrote: Tim Wright wrote: [...] What I'd really like is a Linux-Musician mailing list... I'd be keen to see that I think me too :-) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics

Re: Musicians on board ?

2003-02-11 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
? Are there any others ? Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Musicians - Ardour/ProTools

2003-02-11 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
work, but it is not true the other way around) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Musicians on board ?

2003-02-10 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
/planetccrma/software/ Note here that RedHat 8.0 (at least) does already include the lowlatency patch but it seems it is not enabled. I've recompiled and enabled the sysctl control. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy

Re: Musicians on board ?

2003-02-10 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
prices have dropped dramatically in my area ... I wonder :-) :-) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Musicians on board ?

2003-02-09 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
Hello, Are there any Linux musicians on this list ? In particular I am interested if there is any editor able to cope with the Yamaha style files. Also XG aware sequencers (the only one I found was Jazz++ which didn't quite worked). Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Touchpad, was Re: The next meeting / workshop / clinic.

2003-02-03 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
to date, e.g. firewire) You may be surprised :-) [...] It might be worth updating the whole distribution soon. But I usually find that opens up a whole new can of worms... :-) Mmmm ... yeah :-) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University

Touchpad, was Re: The next meeting / workshop / clinic.

2003-02-02 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
are still moving at a fast pace. Laptops are notoriously hairy and very specific. Good Luck! Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: KDE login manager on RedHat 8

2003-01-27 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
the time, seems they are pushing gnome very hard. /etc/sysconfig/desktop should read: DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE Keep an eye on it as it may change _again_ in the future releases. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy

Re: Microsoft OS on new PCs

2003-01-16 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
these prices ;-) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: VCD Slideshow

2002-12-27 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
suggest a good utility for this or am I going to have to go the long way round? See http://www.vcdimager.org/ Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Zaurus's and Other Linux PDA's in NZ

2002-12-23 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
value on the box. I don't think any US company will ship them outside the states. The problem is the charger, I think. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Yoper ?

2002-12-19 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
YAD ? (Yet Another Distro) http://www.yoper.com/ Apparently it's a New Zealand company. Anybody knows more ? Have tried it ? Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: RedHat 8.0 preference-setting questions

2002-12-10 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
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Re: RedHat 8.0 preference-setting questions

2002-12-10 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
options so it was easier to document and fewer support calls would be made. Ah, I understand now. However the question is at what point too plain generates more trouble than is worth ? (another rhetorical question) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager

Re: fixing a dos/windows partition with linux?

2002-12-09 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
at any time anyway. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: ext2 fs mishap

2002-12-04 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Helmut Walle wrote: more than ten years of using Linux. Wow! When did you start using it ? Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: tuxracer

2002-12-04 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Mahesh De Silva wrote: 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.. You also have to enable DRM (or whatever is called) in XF86Config Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto

Linux otimization tips for beginners

2002-12-04 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
-up time for programs who link toward many libs. The classical example is OpenOffice. In RedHat 8.0 you can setup prelinking easily. See the RELEASE-NOTES for details. In other distors it should be quite the same. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems

Re: graphics drivers was Re: tuxracer

2002-12-04 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
... but ...) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: graphics drivers was Re: tuxracer

2002-12-04 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, C Falconer wrote: On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 11:20, Ryurick M. Hristev wrote: ... However, the best to do long term is to vote with your wallet. :-) (not always possible ... but ...) Yes - but at least nvidia actually have a manufacturer supplied driver even

Re: Bandwidth [OT] (Was: Distributions)

2002-12-03 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Nick Rout wrote: u what data caps? I get 10G per month and thats pretty hard to use up. Unless you get hit with a DOS attack. And basically this is my main problem with caps. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University

Re: Win2k cheaper TCO than linux

2002-12-03 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=281 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/23348.html Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Re: Win2k cheaper TCO than linux

2002-12-03 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
experience which makes me agree with the IDC study. This is interesting, because Microsoft _itself_ doesn't seem to agree. I suggest again to read this article (is a summary but contains a pointer to the original): http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28226.html Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto

Re: Re: Win2k cheaper TCO than linux

2002-12-03 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
on and in particular easy to troubleshoot (and no, without rebooting the machine). Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Re: Win2k cheaper TCO than linux

2002-12-03 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Jeremy Bertenshaw wrote: Win2k is pretty simple like that, plus theres heaps of cool free apps you can add on if you really find it requires looking under the hood. OK then, stick with Windows. :-) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems

Re: Distributions

2002-12-02 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Michael Beattie wrote: On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 06:50:02PM +1300, Ryurick M. Hristev wrote: I can certainly understand your particular situation. Incidentally I also have a laptop at home and 100 Mb to my desktop and still find CD's more convenient, but that's me. Heh

Re: PHP IDEs

2002-12-01 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
code like that. Debug code is still the best. (i.e. peppering your code with echos or prints to track what is happening to a variable and that sort of thing) http://www.akbkhome.com/Projects/Phpmole-IDE/ Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University

Re: Distributions

2002-12-01 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
people forget that not everybody is on a 1Mb/s connection. ;-) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Distributions

2002-12-01 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Mon, 02 Dec 2002 14:01, Ryurick M. Hristev wrote: On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Christopher Sawtell wrote: [...] My advise to a complete newbie to get quality help to install either one of the source distros or Debian or one of its offspring

Re: Distributions

2002-12-01 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Michael Beattie wrote: On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 03:08:41PM +1300, Ryurick M. Hristev wrote: I though you were talking about upgrades ... you know ... when you download about 1-2 GB (binary only and compressed). Oh, wait, you did, you did :-) How many Debian

Re: Distributions

2002-12-01 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
(by someone somewhere along the line), some handle big upgrades more gracefully than others. Precisely. Nobody's perfect :-) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Distributions

2002-12-01 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Michael Beattie wrote: On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 03:55:41PM +1300, Ryurick M. Hristev wrote: [...] Need to get 294MB/379MB of archives. After unpacking 24.3MB will be used. ^ ok, so it's 379 on my laptop. as you can see, I havent

Re: Distributions

2002-12-01 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
on this list for CD burning requests. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: linus, god and operating systems. (was: Meeting reminder)

2002-11-17 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
have caught on. In other words: this kind of project was floating in the air, awaiting just a trigger. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Linux Video Editors.

2002-11-12 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
to subscribe to the linux 1394 mailing list for advice/news on the subject). Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:ryurick.hristev;canterbury.ac.nz Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Sharp Zaurus SL 5500

2002-11-07 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
. [...] My current plan is set it up with wireless and use it as a home automation controller :-) (Dial up music etc from the garden) As it does have an USB port I would assume at worst one could set an USB modem to it. Presumably there is no other solution ? Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev

Re: Bad things to do with rm (was: Re: MS networks (was Re: Partitioning))

2002-11-07 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
playing with fire: [ ${DIR} != '/' ] rm -rf ${DIR} Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:ryurick.hristev;canterbury.ac.nz Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Bad things to do with rm (was: Re: MS networks (was Re: Partitioning))

2002-11-07 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: [...] Cool, I love that! Make that DIR=/ hahahaaa... [ ${DIR} != '/' ] rm -rf ${DIR} and haste la viste baby. Boy, this group is picky. OK, point taken :-D Next time I'll type slower :-) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:ryurick.hristev

Sharp Zaurus SL 5500

2002-11-06 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
Hello, Does anybody know if there is any chance to get the beast in NZ ? TIA Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:ryurick.hristev;canterbury.ac.nz Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Sharp Zaurus SL 5500

2002-11-06 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
this alternative it it's reasonably doable. TIA Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:ryurick.hristev;canterbury.ac.nz Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Sharp Zaurus SL 5500

2002-11-06 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
: I bought once some books from Amazon, over 400NZ$, and I had to wait for ~4 _months_ instead of the usual 2-3 weeks. Maybe it was an accident but ... Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:ryurick.hristev;canterbury.ac.nz Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics

Re: Sharp Zaurus SL 5500

2002-11-06 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
to package values over 400NS$ I have no problem with this but if it takes several months to process it ... then it's another story. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:ryurick.hristev;canterbury.ac.nz Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Partitioning

2002-11-06 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Michael JasonSmith wrote: [...] Ok. I need a simple solution that preserves XP, and has the least room for error. Maybe take a look at http://rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de/~feyrer/g4u/ I have 0 clues on it so don't ask :-D Just seen it recently. Cheers, -- Ryurick M

Re: ps experts ...

2002-11-04 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
. Or did you wanted to say text ? You might be able to recover _some_ structure _if_ you know well the postscript generator (e.g. dvips) but you'll have to be quite clever here. (and this is not the _general_ case). Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:ryurick.hristev;canterbury.ac.nz Computer

Re: ps experts ...

2002-11-04 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
the fact that is machine-generated code, meant to be easy to generate and being read only by machines. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:ryurick.hristev;canterbury.ac.nz Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Reading mail

2002-10-29 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
- client At this point I am beginning to be short on ideas. Of course you could add some fluff here and there like archivemail to auto-delete old mail, etc. _The mail must flow_ Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:ryurick.hristev;canterbury.ac.nz

Re: Reading mail

2002-10-29 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
somebody wrote: [...] Don't get too much carried away. The whole post was sort of tongue in cheek :-D Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:ryurick.hristev;canterbury.ac.nz Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: HTML editors - one more?

2002-10-15 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
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Re: Open Office / Postgresql / Redhat 8

2002-10-13 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
: jdbc:postgres://127.0.0.1/PgSQL DB name 5. driverclass is: org.postgresql.Driver 6. fill other fields as required Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

RedHat 8.0 updates now live at ftp.phys

2002-10-10 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
Ditto. First packages are already in ;-) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: RedHat 8.0 updates now live at ftp.phys

2002-10-10 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Michael JasonSmith wrote: On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 11:37, Ryurick M. Hristev wrote: Ditto. First packages are already in ;-) I'm a bit new to RedHat, so how would I go about getting a list of the updated packages? Even though I prefer Debian I run RedHat at home

XML Editors

2002-10-10 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
Hello all, Could anyone recommend a good XML editor ? (with comments) (my idea of good would be first open source and well maintained) Or pointers ? (from what I've dug up there are either too many or too few) TIA Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems

RedHat 8.0 Usefull link

2002-10-08 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
http://www.mplug.org/phpwiki/index.php/RedHat8.0TipsTricks -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

HOWTO for up2date server at www.phys

2002-10-01 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
up2date Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Logrotate is misbehaving

2002-10-01 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
/logrotate The config file is in /etc/logrotate.conf If the logrotate is the problem see what's causing it. It is certainly a very useful tool. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Redhat 8.0 at ftp.phys.canterbury.ac.nz

2002-09-30 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
Check it out at ftp://ftp.phys.canterbury.ac.nz/pub/redhat :-) Enjoy, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Experimental up2date server

2002-09-29 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
redhat-7.3-i586 redhat-7.3-i686 redhat-7.3-athlon 3. server CA available at ftp://ftp.phys/pub/misc/CURRENT-CA-CERT Enjoy, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Best distro for 133mhz pc

2002-09-28 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
will want to optimize for low memory consumption (e.g. don't start any daemons you don't absolutely need) - if you want X choose a light window manager Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Gui problem in Redhat 7.3

2002-09-26 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
/psaux on it or start gpm) The network card have nothing to do with it. Please forget the other os frame of mind (I know is difficult, it took me more than a year when I started :-) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics

Re: C or C++?

2002-09-19 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: C or C++?

2002-09-19 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Carl Cerecke wrote: Ryurick M. Hristev wrote: I'll second this. C and C++ are worlds apart: C- functional programming (paradigm of the '70-es ?) C is *imperative* style language Haskell is *functional* style language Prolog is logical Java is OOP Doh! Sorry

Re: C or C++?

2002-09-19 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
*ever* programming language and it shows. http://www.byte.com/art/9509/sec7/art19.htm Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Suppressing Advertising: was Re: Network censorship

2002-09-05 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
but much, much improved. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Suppressing Advertising: was Re: Network censorship

2002-09-04 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
/ banner ads etc. Both browser and proxy/firewall approaches. Privoxy: http://www.privoxy.org/ (junkbuster nextgen) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: CD Writers

2002-08-27 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
Rainier and apparently Linux already supports it (but I have no hands-on experience so I couldn't comment further, maybe somebody else ...). Also from memory, there was a pointer to a high-speed cd recorders on Slashdot recently, Liteon was included in the review. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto

Re: Newbies problems

2002-08-25 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
answering a newbie's post. These acronyms are very, very common. If one really have difficulty then go to http://www.acronymfinder.com/ Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: Boot problems: init not found

2002-08-21 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Carl Cerecke wrote: [...] Any suggestions on how to fix the problem so I can continue to work on the talk I'll be giving at the next meeting? Note that the latest Redhat requires now the /initrd dir (AFAIK unlike the previous ones) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto

Re: Install Fest Post Mortem

2002-07-21 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Tim Wright wrote: On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Ryurick M. Hristev wrote: This may be a bad idea on some laptops, in particular Dell Inspiron (the reason is the save-to-disk/hibernation feature) This could be why save-to-disk doesn't work on my Acer laptop. It saves OK

Re: jammed CDROM drive

2002-07-16 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
? 'fuser -muv dir' will tell you who is using what. Ocasionally you may get a hang in the kernel, if so then you are out of luck (i.e. need rebooting) Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics Astronomy Dept., New Zealand

Re: playing movies

2002-07-03 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Stephen Nicholas wrote: On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 03:10:58PM +1200, Ryurick M. Hristev wrote: On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Stephen Nicholas wrote: [...] My guess: This is a Xv/Xshm driver issue. 1. make sure you load the Xv driver in XF86Config-4 (presumably your video

Re: mathematica

2002-07-03 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
(and about 2k better off). SuSE 8.0 contains both scilab and octave. Yes. With respect to Scilab, make sure to use the ATLAS lib (compiled specifically for your machine) and the ATLAS patch for Scilab. It can boost performance by up to 8 times! Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

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