this. I've just sent email to the
WHOIS contact, but I'm not expecting a helpful response.
-jim
Are we going to keep clug.org.nz going... I see it's up for renewal in a
month or less. And maybe do something with it?
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that it uses 100% of the available CPU for no discernable
reason, even when you're not using it? Or the fact that it will abuse
your firewall until it can find a way around it?
I have* to use it, but wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
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converted a
PC into a fairly sophisticated communications device (:
I don't use video - for reasons we discussed over a beer - so can't
really comment on alternatives.
In this case free comes at a real price.
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the right thing.
so it must be offering a simpler solution!
I'd go the propietary fglrx driver route, hopefully just selecting the
ATI accelerated graphics driver via the Restricted Driver Manager.
Good luck (:
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reason...
X :1 -query remote ip
then Ctrl-Alt-F8 and ..F7 to swap displays was so simple in a pure *nix
environment.
vnc is also another alternative. I do have a KVM switch lying around,
but it's analog...
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Anyone up for it? I don't get out much (:
Cheers,
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On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 11:23 +1200, Craig Falconer wrote:
Steve Holdoway wrote, On 06/16/2010 09:43 AM:
... cant linux get it's sound sorted out properly?
Now I have that damn nursery song in my head... over and over.
Thanks, Steve.
Any time, young man (:
Eventually, a Microsoft solution
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 14:26 +1200, Robert Fisher wrote:
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 11:23 +1200, Craig Falconer wrote:
Steve Holdoway wrote, On 06/16/2010 09:43 AM:
... cant linux get it's sound sorted out properly?
I see there was an update to pulseaudio on Linuxmint/Ubuntu today so
, it doesn't ask again.
Does anyone have any idea why I can not connect to my phone?
Thanks,
Aidan
P.S. Thanks again to Steve for the Bluetooth dongle. :-)
I invoke pay-forward on that... (:
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On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 20:47 +1200, Ryan McCoskrie wrote:
[snip]
You know Ryan, I still haven't got a clue what you're actually wanting!
TBH, any linux, freebsd, Solaris, HP-UX, etc, etc, etc - they all
provide a platform for you to run your applications upon. They all talk
to each other in the
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 21:20 +1200, Aidan Gauland wrote:
Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
Ok so can you make do without a root password, but I still don't see why
I have to and remain not to be interested. Each to their own.
I think you really want to disable root login (entirely) for, say, a
, the sudo's audit trail gets rid of
all those sloping shoulders... and we all make mistakes after all!
My $0.02,
Steve
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are developing.
Regards,
Andre
I've got some low voltage diff stuff lying around that may or may not
still work...
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On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 20:58 +1200, Solor Vox wrote:
On 31 May 2010 20:31, Volker Kuhlmann list0...@paradise.net.nz wrote:
And it's the very first thing I always fix on those systems, as I refuse
to be forced to prefix everything I do with sudo.
$ sudo su -
#
=)
sV
Even though you
On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 22:05 +1200, Aidan Gauland wrote:
Steve Holdoway wrote:
Don't forget user toor!
OK, this is really a BSD thing. :P
Ah, the ugly viking, as an Irish cow-orker of mine used to call him (:
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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 generic distro.
Whay do you mean? I'd've called most of those you mentioned 'generic',
as opposed to - say -
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 13:02 +1200, Ryan McCoskrie wrote:
I just want a very generic distro.
Whay do you mean? I'd've called most of those you mentioned 'generic',
as opposed to - say - myth, voyage, etc.
Are you after minimal, like a vanilla debian net install?
Cheers,
Steve
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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!
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On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 16:56 +1200, John wrote:
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I found I could not get through to the piratebay so I did a trace route
on it and got this.
# traceroute thepiratebay.org
traceroute to thepiratebay.org (194.71.107.15), 30 hops max, 60 byte
to my pocket as
the evening progresses.
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That's pretty wimpy behaviour from an ex IBM stress-Tux...
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some time on it if someone more experienced is willing
to help.
We used to run a wiki, but that sort of died. Maybe now that there are
no longer regular meetings it maay be of more use.
Happy to host it if there's enough interest.
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Christopher Sawtell wrote:
Only one word needed: ThinkPad
Everything just works.
I got an unused ex-lease Z60t for $500 a month or two ago.
ThinkWiki %20http://www.thinkwiki.org/ for support
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On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 14:50 +1200, Hadley Rich wrote:
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?
`sudo do-release-upgrade` is the supported way.
hads
... after a full backup (:
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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...
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On Sat, 2010-04-24 at 18:04 +1200, Phill Coxon wrote:
On Sat, 2010-04-24 at 17:52 +1200, Wayne Rooney wrote:
Bugger. Perhaps someone else has a fix for it.
Seagate? :)
Out of interest - did you find that your drive has gotten worse over
time or has it been fairly consistent with the
On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 20:38 +1200, Barry wrote:
and I have internet connection as this email testifies. ping works both ways
OK, so you have a network. Now you need to set up some services to use
it!
What are you trying to achieve? If you'retrying to access the internet
from the other macine
On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 11:08 +1200, Ross Drummond wrote:
On Sunday 18 April 2010, you wrote:
I interpreted Barry's words to mean: I have got it to go, thanks folks.
I have been talking with Barry on the phone.
We cannot determine what the problem is, ifconfig and route are set up OK.
sensitive data accordingly. Because
of this, I only use WEP.
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| awk '{print $0- $1 -
$2 -- $12 - $14 - $15}' | cut -b7- | sort | uniq -c hack.log
Any hints / tips ?
.. thanks in advance
Paul
Which logs? I don't use secure, but it would be best to look for
specific ( eg ssh, http ) hacks.
Cheers,
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On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 12:55 +1200, 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?
Thanks,
Aidan Gauland
as an example ) drivers, so
some research is a good idea.
Enjoy your weekend!
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of files.
JFS is my favourite.
I note that most* of these NAS boxes use xfs, although that is the only
file system that has completely blown up in my face in the last 10
years!
Steve
* OK, I've only seen about half a dozen of them (:
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change the root and /var pass
values to 0 and all should be well.
Once that is changed, there's no need for any of these weird /.var,
symbolic liks, etc solutions.
hth,
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On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 11:10 +1200, Hadley Rich wrote:
On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 11:03 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
The last colum in fstab is marked pass. This defines in what order
partitions are mounted. You must mount /var in the first pass, as
software needs it there immediately. So change
you install in your kernel, and
which modules you blacklist.
Steve.
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On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 12:06 +1200, Bryce Stenberg wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Steve Holdoway [mailto:st...@greengecko.co.nz]
The last colum in fstab is marked pass. This defines in what order
partitions are mounted. You must mount /var in the first pass, as
software needs
On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 15:47 +1200, Aidan Gauland wrote:
Steve Holdoway wrote:
I've got an older Acer One, with just an 8GB SSD+SD. It works fine
( currently running the pre-release Ubuntu 10.10 happily ), although the
SSD has been replaced once, and write performance does seem rather slow
On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 15:55 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
TBH the ubuntu network stuff is more about best use of a limited display
area than different drivers. I can switch between full-blown gnome
desktop and netbook on login.
Steve
Sorry, s/network/netbook/
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( currently running the pre-release Ubuntu 10.10 happily ), although the
SSD has been replaced once, and write performance does seem rather slow.
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On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 12:19 +1200, Robert Fisher wrote:
( currently running the pre-release Ubuntu 10.10 happily ),
10.04 ?
Good catch! Yes, I'm not wishing the whole year away yet!
Steve
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On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 23:06 +1300, Roy Britten wrote:
Can't you do this with postscript... - anymap - ps - play with
ghostscript / output to lpr?
eg
pngtopnm myimage.png | pnmtops -dpi 300 myimage.ps
Tried, with and without -equalpixels. Got a corrupt or incorrectly
encoded .ps
- ps - play with
ghostscript / output to lpr?
eg
pngtopnm myimage.png | pnmtops -dpi 300 myimage.ps
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the always up testing functionality, then maybe look at DJB's
daemon tools.
Tom
I can't believe I've just recommended some of Dan's software. Off for a
lie down!
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On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 08:25 +1300, 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 Sun, 2010-03-21 at 13:37 -0700, Patelkhana Mohan Rao wrote:
Can anybody help in sparing ubuntu9.10 disk pl.
mohan
Cue Wesley...
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Yuri
I'm up for a fairly early one...
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On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 21:38 +1300, Robert Fisher wrote:
Steve Holdoway wrote:
yup, getting a response now (:
Steve
If you're going to leave port 22 open, then I'd install something like
denyhosts, and disable root login over ssh. If you're taking a lappie
with you then installing
On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 00:56 +1300, Hadley Rich wrote:
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 21:55 +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote:
no - still being prompted for a password...
A denied or not allowed user will still get prompted for a password, it
will just never work.
hads
Denyhosts adds addresses to /etc
On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 10:24 +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote:
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Steve Holdoway st...@greengecko.co.nz
wrote:
no - still being prompted for a password...
Steve, I hope you're testing with ssh -v so you can see all the
methods the ssh server is advertising.
Rob, I
On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 11:17 +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote:
s,
and a key is around 700 typeable characters ... set up keys, not
passwords!
... or passphrases, not passwords?
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implementation, which is really handy if you used to
administer HP-UX servers (:
Steve
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on live systems
performance... and no matter how cumbersome they are, I reckon they
should always be a part of your backup strategy (:
Just my $0.02...
Steve
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On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 18:19 +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote:
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Steve Holdoway st...@greengecko.co.nz
wrote:
I wouldn't do that with the backups personally. If you're after backing
up important production databases, then I'd look at replicating them
( to another
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 20:16 +1300, Robert Fisher wrote:
Steve Holdoway wrote:
Getting no response from that ssh on port 22 on that ip address from
Diamond Harbour... ):
Steve
Could you try again please Steve - PC was off for a little while.
Rob
yup, getting a response now
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 20:35 +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote:
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 20:16 +1300, Robert Fisher wrote:
Steve Holdoway wrote:
Getting no response from that ssh on port 22 on that ip address from
Diamond Harbour... ):
Steve
Could you try again please Steve - PC
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 20:00 +1300, Robert Fisher wrote:
I am going on holiday soon and want to have ssh access to my desktop PC
at home.
I have tested from another PC at home and it works fine...
rob...@dell-d410:~$ ssh 192.168.10.13
rob...@192.168.10.13's password:
rob...@beast:~$
it to the
approprite person?
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What do people recommend? I'm sick of gtwitter crashing for no apparent
reason! Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit platform...
Cheers,
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On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 11:35 +1300, 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.
I agree, but I've got some
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 11:35 +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote:
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Steve Holdoway st...@greengecko.co.nz
wrote:
What do people recommend? I'm sick of gtwitter crashing for no apparent
reason! Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit platform...
What, besides just not twittering? Or using
perform a dist-upgrade to etch, then to stable
if you're going that route.
But, tbh, I'd do a clean install of lenny (stable) in preference.
Cheers,
Steve
AKA Mr. Cautious (:
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Thanks WD. I like the concept of your green hardware range, but I don't
really think I'll be supporting you any more. I need what little sanity
I have left kept intact!
Cheers,
Steve
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On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 16:10 +1300, Glenn Cogle wrote:
I can't justify building a new box either. I want less servers to
administer, not more.
Hmmm... I want more to administer. I'm sure we could come to an
arrangement (:
Steve
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are testing restore regularly I hope ... :-|
-jim
As long as you can't see through them they'll be ok (:
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On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 20:04 +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote:
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 19:52 +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
[snip]
I have an old IBM penguin that I'll try to get into the mix...
Cheers, Steve
OK, Chris is now the official owner of my IBM stress Tux.
Hopefully to be seen
Cntrl-c and that's plenty!
Steve
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in
(pre-created) subdirectories, which means some work to /etc/skel.
However, once up and running it's something you can just forget.
I would also recommend updating, as etch ( 4.0 ) was end of lifed a week
ago!
hth,
Steve
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On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 19:52 +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
[snip]
I have an old IBM penguin that I'll try to get into the mix...
Cheers, Steve
The only workable option I can see is to use a boot USB if allowed. I
know the latest 10.04 ubuntu allows for your own data area.
In reality, you seem to be creating a lot of extra work for yourself. I
expect the course will be hard enough without this!
Steve
On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 21:02
On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 12:24 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
[snip]
Unfortunately illness at home is going to stop me from coming into town
tomorrow evening.
Could someone have a pint of twisted ankle on my behalf??
Cheers, Steve
The problem with using a small hosting company is getting mail delivered
to xtra/yahoo. So make sure whoever you choose has a reputable - in
their eyes - smarthost.
If you want to take pot luck, I can offer you space - debian
lenny/virtualmin.
Cheers,
Steve
On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 21:04 +1300,
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.
Wasn't there a school in Dunedin that attempted to get the value of the
licenses instead and
On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 21:36 +1300, cy...@xnet.co.nz wrote:
I watch my daughter who, (totally unlike me), is a fantastic people
person.
When she meets anyone, she embarks on an exploration of common ground,
seeking common tastes putting aside her own to learn those of the other.
But so
what does
sudo ifconfig -a
cat /etc/network/interfaces
sudo dpkg -l | grep avahi
show?
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 17:22 +1300, Roy Britten wrote:
A debian server for which the previous administrator has disappeared
is playing up. When bringing up networking we see something like
(copied by hand;
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 17:07 +1300, Robert Fisher wrote:
steve wrote:
Personally, I'd try Fedora 12 first, but then I'm not into KDE at all,
which may affect my perception.
I just detest YaST(2) ):
Hope you haven't got a Gigabyte mobo
Steve
Well yes I have. Why do you
On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 16:03 +1300, Vik Olliver wrote:
On 26/11/09 Christopher Sawtell wrote:
Has anybody got Skype ( ver. 2.1.0.47 ) video to work on (K)ubuntu
Kosmic Koala ( or what ever it is that they are callling the 9.10 version -
I
forget ) ?
Krashing Koala, I find. Hopefully
On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 22:20 +1300, Roger Searle wrote:
Thu Nov 19 19:34:33 2009 TLS Error: TLS key negotiation failed to
occur
within 60 seconds (check your network connectivity)
Thu Nov 19 19:34:33 2009 TLS Error: TLS handshake failed
It is a networking problem somewhere along the line. Is
On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 19:28 +1300, Chris Downie wrote:
Out of the blue my mail client (Opera) has stopped sending messages. I did a
clean install of Mepis 8.0.1 and Opera 10 and sending just stopped. Receiving
messages is fine and sending via another client (KMail) is fine so it is not
the
On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 20:05 +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote:
Can you try to set up a mail to yourself the hard way using telnet...
telnet ananke.wxnz.net 25
ehlo localhost
mail from: 9...@xnet.co.nz
rcpt to: 9...@xnet.co.nz
quit
Can you post the responses to the above commands??
Cheers,
Steve
On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 20:31 +1300, Chris Downie wrote:
st...@greengecko.co.nz was rumoured to say:
Can you try to set up a mail to yourself the hard way using telnet...
telnet ananke.wxnz.net 25
ehlo localhost
mail from: 9...@xnet.co.nz
rcpt to: 9...@xnet.co.nz
quit
Can you post the
I've just received, in one lump, the last few days posts to the list...
23 emails. Does the list owner read the list, and can he tell me what's
happening?
Cheers, Steve
On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 02:14 +1300, Kent Fredric wrote:
For the love of sanity for yourself and your peers, do please seek out
migrating to the Lastest And Greatest and Least Vulnerable PHP 5.3.
You'll really thank yourself later.
Given that CentOS 5 delivers 5.1.6, and even Ubuntu 9.04 only
On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 19:24 +1200, Aidan Gauland wrote:
Nick Rout wrote:
One must ask why - the network is the computer after all :)
If you are doing this at home, do you mistrust the other users on your LAN?
If you are doing it at school or similar I can understand.
The answer to that
Not being familiar with python, I'd use PHP SOAP libraries, but this
looks like it'll help...
http://www.opensourcetutorials.com/tutorials/Server-Side-Coding/Python/python-soap-libraries/page1.html
hth,
Steve
On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 14:55 +0900, Andrew Errington wrote:
Hi all,
I have written
On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 07:34 +1200, Daniel Hill wrote:
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Hash: SHA1
So I was reading over the old archive of xkcd's blag, and found this:
http://blag.xkcd.com/2009/04/27/a-problem/
(read the comments lots of bash tips)
just wondering if anyone know's any
On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 15:40 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
Is there really some point to this? Just because no one posts to the
list for a couple of days doesn't mean people have to prod the server.
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Roy Brittenroy.brit...@gmail.com wrote:
ping
I have lost
Apart from threadjacking, what on?
On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 21:17 +1200, Julian Warwick Bethell wrote:
I need Help
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PC Technician
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Riccarton
Christchurch
New Zealand
tel: (03) 348-5875
mobile: +64211643666
On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 13:06 +0900, Andrew Errington wrote:
In my opinion the kibi-, mibi-, and gibi- prefixes are lame. I
think it's better to use the conventional kilo-, mega- and giga- prefixes,
since they sound good, and to actually know what you are talking about.
After all, these are
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 19:15 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
I don't believe this thread goes on for that long. You buy a toaster
with 1y warranty and after 2 months half of it stops working. Is anyone
stupid enough to ask whether to return it?!??
Volker
If you go through the possible
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 20:45 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
bold_statement reason=3 glasses of fermented grape juice
Any Linux user spending real dosh on M$-only products for analysing disks
instead of donating that to smartmontools does not deserve a free copy
of smartmontools.
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 22:16 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
On Tue 16 Jun 2009 21:27:10 NZST +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
PS Did I say smartmontools?
Hmmm let's take this machine and have a look...
The question was regarding a 120GB hard disk drive. There are none of
those that don't
On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 21:27 +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote:
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Volker
Kuhlmannlist0...@paradise.net.nz wrote:
Any disk with bad sectors within warranty goes back to maker. Period.
Agreed, I received two 750GBs about three months ago (with consecutive
serial
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 07:19 +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote:
SAMSUNG HD753LJ s/n S13UJ1NQB01779 was the one that failed. Failure
was more than just the filesystem, I was unable to read or write to
the partition table.
That comment was aimed at Barry, the OP who restored his filesystem
using an
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 08:14 +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote:
Ah, OK. Down here in Dunedin I was probably too busy listening to the
list of school closures due to snow, and didn't check the comment
trail properly :-)
-jim
Heh - not here... yet (:
Steve
On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 09:57 +1200, Ryan McCoskrie wrote:
Does this sound familiar to anyone?
Your router, network cards and ethernet cables are all in working
order and all report that they are connected to each other and the internet
but you can't actually access anything online?
I've just
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