Re: 2.6 stuff working...!

2003-10-21 Thread Tim Wright
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 03:47, Tim Wright wrote: managed to get it going :) I had to enable devfs support (it must have been something different that was broken last time) and enable UNIX98 TTY support (my xterms weren't working after getting the system to boot). Now it's all go (apart from ACPI

Goodbye

2003-10-21 Thread Tim Wright
Hi guys, just thought I'd say Goodbye. I'm off to Wellington for summer (and perhaps longer), so will be signing off the list in a few days. And on a different note, our esteemed poster Carl Cereke is now Dr Carl Cereke. He got his Ph.D. :) -- Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department

Re: Goodbye

2003-10-21 Thread Tim Wright
BTW, Tim, what about your Ph.D.? Finished? Relocating? Abandoning? Suspending? Going to remote country location and writing... (My parents apple orchard in the middle of the Wairarapa --- just north of Wellington) -- Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University

OT: Re: Goodbye

2003-10-21 Thread Tim Wright
--- and closed the www.swingers.co.nz website (it's probably gone into other hands now;) -- Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury Language, like terrorism, targets civilians and generates fear to effect political change. -- Collateral Language John Collins

Re: Kernel 2.6-test

2003-10-20 Thread Tim Wright
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2.6 stuff working...!

2003-10-20 Thread Tim Wright
...as usual:) -- Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury Language, like terrorism, targets civilians and generates fear to effect political change. -- Collateral Language John Collins and Ross Glover ed. signature.asc Description

Re: Kernel 2.6-test

2003-10-19 Thread Tim Wright
). -- Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury Language, like terrorism, targets civilians and generates fear to effect political change. -- Collateral Language John Collins and Ross Glover ed. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: ntsysv on Debian

2003-10-18 Thread Tim Wright
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 23:30, Nick Rout wrote: ntsysv is a gui (curses) to control what services are started in a runlevel. I have ksysv (in Debian package: ksysv). It is a Kde frontend to control services. -- Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University

Linux in Government...

2003-10-16 Thread Tim Wright
, even if it does mimic the look of Microsoft's Windows, and would like the Government to ditch its use of Microsoft systems and move to Linux. He considers Microsoft a scary company and an evangelist of the thinking that people need new software all the time. -- Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer

Re: Linux in Government...

2003-10-16 Thread Tim Wright
it then there's a chance the public will perceive Linux as being easy to use --- the article mentions him doing every-day things on Linux which is, IMHO, good. -- Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury Language, like terrorism, targets civilians

Re: ACCPAC software for Linux

2003-10-13 Thread Tim Wright
an installfest :) A committee could help make decisions like this --- or at least then we'd have 3 or 4 people who felt like they had to come up with ideas :) -- Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury Language, like terrorism, targets civilians

Re: ACCPAC software for Linux

2003-10-13 Thread Tim Wright
It's Michelle, not Michael. My bad. Sorry Michelle. In my defence I've been marking all morning and names are starting to all blur. Only about a hundred to go... -- Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury Language, like terrorism, targets

Re: Dual booting XP and debian

2003-10-07 Thread Tim Wright
single-key delay=100 timeout=100 image=/boot/2.4.21-netfilter alias=1 label=Linux read-only append=idebus=66 root=/dev/hda2 other=/dev/hda3 alias=2 label=Windows -- Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer

Re: why no tv on tvout?

2003-10-06 Thread Tim Wright
about a month ago so it might be worth upgrading... -- Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury Language, like terrorism, targets civilians and generates fear to effect political change. -- Collateral Language John Collins and Ross Glover ed

Re: *.com and *.net now resolve ...

2003-09-17 Thread Tim Wright
On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 15:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suppose that if enough Internet users DDOSED asdj49w8ucfosci8cfuserkctmwildfjksdfkg.com then verigsign may rethink its policies. Alternatively, sign this petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/icanndns/petition.html -- Tim Wright

Re: Redhat Kernel modules

2003-09-16 Thread Tim Wright
directory that contains the version number. Try using 'find' and 'grep' to find it and change it :) -- Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury Language, like terrorism, targets civilians and generates fear to effect political change. -- Collateral

Re: Debian: reusing apt cache?

2003-09-10 Thread Tim Wright
home page... -- Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury Language, like terrorism, targets civilians and generates fear to effect political change. -- Collateral Language John Collins and Ross Glover ed. signature.asc Description

Re: meeting ideas: keysigning

2003-09-09 Thread Tim Wright
www.keyserver.net/ and can't find you there. -- Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury Language, like terrorism, targets civilians and generates fear to effect political change. -- Collateral Language John Collins and Ross Glover ed. signature.asc Description

Re: What is the correct place for data?

2003-09-04 Thread Tim Wright
work fine with Linux. I've got one with a DVD drive inside it, hooked up to my laptop with a USB 2.0 PCMCIA card. Everything auto-detected and just worked under Linux (Debian Unstable). Windows required a couple of drivers and a reboot or two (XP Pro). -- Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department

Screen Snapshots

2003-09-03 Thread Tim Wright
Hay, Does anyone out there know how to take a screen snapshot that will capture the mouse cursor as well as the active window (or the whole desktop---I can crop)? Gimp and ksnapshot seem to ignore the mouse cursor in their snapshot making. Sigh. -- Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department

Re: Screen Snapshots

2003-09-03 Thread Tim Wright
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 14:27, Nick Rout wrote: draw it on with gimp?? Looks like I might have to do this --- both Gimp and ksnapshot are *brainy* enough to hide the cursor when taking the shot. (I can see it disappear for a bit when using a software cursor) -- Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer

Re: Screen Snapshots

2003-09-03 Thread Tim Wright
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 15:34, Rex wrote: Clutching at straws, but you might want to try xwd -id XYZ. nah. It manages to miss the mouse cursor as well. It might actually be X that's giving a pre-cursor pixmap back to the screenshot program. -- Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department

Re: Tux Case Badges

2003-08-27 Thread Tim Wright
need to order 50. Hay Bjorn, Can I get 5? (I actually only need 2, but know of some friends who would like them:) Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury Language, like terrorism, targets civilians and generates fear to effect political change

Link to this email from CLUG homepage

2003-08-21 Thread Tim Wright
the staff. Any suggestions would be great. Cheers Terry Cole Rotorua, New Zealand mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cole.gen.nz http://www.websnz.com -- Sascha Beaumont [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury

Re: Ximian Desktop 2

2003-08-20 Thread Tim Wright
directory that the rpms are installed in? Your problem might be solved by simply moving the rpms to a different directory. Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury Language, like terrorism, targets civilians and generates fear to effect political change

Re: Ximian Desktop 2

2003-08-20 Thread Tim Wright
I've got a couple of ideas of things to try. I guess last time you just ran the installer program with no arguments? All of my comments assume you're using bash BTW. It shouldn't matter what proxy server you're using because you're doing an install from local media. If you want, try changing the

Re: Dual boot Linux + Windows 2000 using Lilo?

2003-08-20 Thread Tim Wright
Label=Windows (of course, triple check what I've just sent. You can't be too paranoid when dealing with boot loaders.) Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury Language, like terrorism, targets civilians and generates fear to effect political change

Spam filter training stuff

2003-08-20 Thread Tim Wright
--- so the filter learns to tell the difference). Happily, all my spam is now being correctly diverted to my spam folder. Guess this means it's OK to use a database of known spams as long as you use lots of your own email for the good examples. Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer

Depreciated by Common Sence

2003-08-14 Thread Tim Wright
shoulder. You almost just got put in my block list --- and in fact you would be if I could be arsed creating a block list. /rant Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury Language, like terrorism, targets civilians and generates fear to effect

Re: Mounting USB camera

2003-08-14 Thread Tim Wright
mount and unmount removable devices (amognst other things --- the devices must have a /etc/fstab entry tho) Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury Language, like terrorism, targets civilians and generates fear to effect political change

Re: Script help - upper to lower case filenames

2003-08-14 Thread Tim Wright
it recursively you might need something like: for f in `find . -type f -print` :) Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury Language, like terrorism, targets civilians and generates fear to effect political change. -- Collateral Language John Collins and Ross

Re: depreciated deprecated

2003-08-14 Thread Tim Wright
email after sending it...perhaps I should sit the COSC204 writing test (that's the course I teach :) p.s.: English not english ;p Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury Language, like terrorism, targets civilians and generates fear to effect political

`command` depreciated?

2003-08-14 Thread Tim Wright
substitutions may be nested. To nest when using the backquoted form, escape the inner backquotes with backslashes. If the substitution appears within double quotes, word splitting and pathname expansion are not performed on the results. /quote Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer

Re: kernel panic??

2003-08-14 Thread Tim Wright
. I'd advice upgrading your kernel. Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury Language, like terrorism, targets civilians and generates fear to effect political change. -- Collateral Language John Collins and Ross Glover ed.

Jury Rules Against Microsoft in Patent Case

2003-08-14 Thread Tim Wright
Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury Language, like terrorism, targets civilians and generates fear to effect political change. -- Collateral Language John Collins and Ross Glover ed.

Re: DVD player installation problems :-(

2003-08-14 Thread Tim Wright
and mplayer harder to install as they need heaps of dependancies to play so many bloody formats --- ogle just does DVDs. Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury Language, like terrorism, targets civilians and generates fear to effect political change

Re: resetting IDE bus

2003-08-06 Thread Tim Wright
without any extra errors. Unfortunatly I don't have root access to the machine to do any decent diagnostics. Am using the Computer Science department's modified RedHat distro. Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury Language, like terrorism

Re: A real Newbe

2003-08-04 Thread Tim Wright
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Zane Gilmore wrote: What I suggest is that you join up with the DunLUG which is the Dunedin Linux Users group. They are a lot closer. http://dunedin.lug.net.nz/ Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury Language, like

Re: DVD players

2003-08-04 Thread Tim Wright
. I exclusively use ogle --- it handles DVD menus superbly. Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury Language, like terrorism, targets civilians and generates fear to effect political change. -- Collateral Language John Collins and Ross Glover ed.

RE: 13 - unlucky for some

2003-08-03 Thread Tim Wright
differently :) Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury Language, like terrorism, targets civilians and generates fear to effect political change. -- Collateral Language John Collins and Ross Glover ed.

Re: Newbie shell coding question - local variables not set

2003-07-22 Thread Tim Wright
script is called 'somecommands.sh' you can execute this command: . somecommands.sh and local variables and path changes will be propagated back to your current shell. I just tested this, so am confident it works :) Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University

Re: Timesheet software recommendations?

2003-07-21 Thread Tim Wright
customer, and per employee - Running under Linux - Open source preferred. Any experience reports or pointers would be appreciated. I *think* the KDE time tracker tool can do most of these. It's called 'karm'. Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury

Re: defrag + order filesystem by copying

2003-07-20 Thread Tim Wright
top copy :) Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury Language, like terrorism, targets civilians and generates fear to effect political change. -- Collateral Language John Collins and Ross Glover ed.

Re: 6 yr-old's programming language

2003-07-17 Thread Tim Wright
I just realised the most obvious one that we've all forgotton...and it works under *any* operating system. You can even use it without a computer (and that's how it's designed to be used:) http://unplugged.canterbury.ac.nz Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University

Re: 6 yr-old's programming language

2003-07-16 Thread Tim Wright
Unfortunatly, no Linux stuff that I'm aware of :( hmm, except for Hands, but you'll have to ask John Pane for that (Hands is written in Java). I've used it, and it's quite good. Try one of these: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~NatProg/ http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~pane/ Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer

Re: LRP help

2003-07-13 Thread Tim Wright
. Or use the 2.4.20 you have. hmm, why do you need 2.4.19? Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury Language, like terrorism, targets civilians and generates fear to effect political change. -- Collateral Language John Collins and Ross Glover ed.

Re: syncing files of FTP

2003-07-07 Thread Tim Wright
then. ftp -options `find . -anewer timestampfile -print ; touch timestampfile` or: for file in find . -anewer timestampfile ; touch timestampfile ; do echo $file ftp -options $file done (sorry, I don't have ftp installed so can't tell you the options to use) Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer

Re: Toy library software

2003-07-05 Thread Tim Wright
with the flu, and while building a toy library in one day with the flu might be possible, it's not a task I want to do :) I'm gonna try to do it next weekend. Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury Language, like terrorism, targets civilians and generates

Re: Toy library software

2003-07-01 Thread Tim Wright
will write a toy library. I'll demonstrate it to anyone who cares...perhaps at a CLUG meeting sometime. It will be a PostgreSQL/Apache/PHP4 (not PHP5:) solution. I'm going to modify existing library software I've already written. That's the main reason I can do it in a day. Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer

Re: knoppix hd install root user suddenly german

2003-07-01 Thread Tim Wright
. Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury Language, like terrorism, targets civilians and generates fear to effect political change. -- Collateral Language John Collins and Ross Glover ed.

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

2003-07-01 Thread Tim Wright
a problem. I was quite impressed. Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury Language, like terrorism, targets civilians and generates fear to effect political change. -- Collateral Language John Collins and Ross Glover ed.

Re: Toy library software

2003-06-30 Thread Tim Wright
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Carl Cerecke wrote: http://www.toylibrary.co.nz/whatisa.htm If you give me a list of specs for the library, I'll write one over the weekend. It'll be a PostgreSQL/PHP/Apache solution. Hope that's OK :) Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University

Re: Toy library software

2003-06-30 Thread Tim Wright
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Michael JasonSmith wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 09:31, Tim Wright wrote: If you give me a list of specs for the library, I'll write one over the weekend. It'll be a PostgreSQL/PHP/Apache solution. Hope that's OK :) If it was anyone else but you, Tim, I would not believe

Re: Huge Telecom Bill

2003-06-27 Thread Tim Wright
through jetstream in a month? On a different note, could list members please remember to delete unnecessary parts of emails that they're replying to? Makes things faster when downloading through a modem. As a general rule you should write at least as much as you quote. Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer

Re: ftp sync tool

2003-06-25 Thread Tim Wright
another distro. Because I only have root access on one of the two machines. That's why I needed to do a user-install from source. Unfortunately the other machine doesn't have objective caml either, so I've given up and will just use rsync :) Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science

Re: truncate file with shell

2003-06-24 Thread Tim Wright
it. You'll need to do something like this to the attachment: gcc -Wall -o truncate truncate.c (assuming you save the attachment in a file called truncate.c :) Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury Language, like terrorism, targets civilians

Re: ftp sync tool

2003-06-24 Thread Tim Wright
of the discussion I installed unison today (it seems to fit my needs slightly better than rsync), and quickly discovered it must be installed on both machines. sigh. Now I've got to debate whether to download the unison source and do a user installation on the other machine. Tim Wright Assistant

Re: view a man page?

2003-06-18 Thread Tim Wright
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Nick Rout wrote: how do i view a man page thats not in my man database, its in a source tree. man xxx.1 does not work. Try man -l xxx.1 Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury Language, like terrorism, targets civilians

Re: Gentoo Installfest

2003-06-15 Thread Tim Wright
to be compiling software. Surely you can have the screens turned off to save power and draw significantly less from the power outlets... Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury Language, like terrorism, targets civilians and generates fear to effect

Re: Linux for Windows Programmers

2003-06-08 Thread Tim Wright
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, John Carter wrote: Anybody know of any good Linux for Programmers tutorial material. Or Linux, not for Dummies. hmm. The Rute tutorial is probably your best bet...and it's free :) http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/ Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer

RE: installing Mesa

2003-06-04 Thread Tim Wright
On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, stm23 wrote: gcc lab.c -lGL -lGLU -lglut -lm -o lab; lab i get output: bash: lab: command not found Try: gcc lab.c -lGL -lGLU -lglut -lm -o lab; ./lab If that works then you'll need to add the directory . (the current directory) into your path. Tim Wright Assistant

Re: setting path

2003-06-03 Thread Tim Wright
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know which file should be edited to change the path string? I always modify ~/.bashrc to change my path (under bash) so try: /root/.bashrc Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury Language

Re: argtable

2003-06-02 Thread Tim Wright
code. Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury Language, like terrorism, targets civilians and generates fear to effect political change. -- Collateral Language John Collins and Ross Glover ed.

Re: Using Gimp

2003-04-05 Thread Tim Wright
determine what's going wrong :) Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tnw13

Re: ide-scsi

2003-04-03 Thread Tim Wright
the command line so that it updated the boot sector with the new parameter. Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tnw13

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

2003-04-03 Thread Tim Wright
mind occasional downtime while installing them ... then you're probably running a workstation on an office LAN. In which case, you'll probably be completely happy with urpmi :-) and Mandrake ... -jim -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department

Re: Cannot find right libstdc++.so.5...

2003-04-02 Thread Tim Wright
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Chris Wilkinson wrote: I'm having trouble finding libstdc++.so.5 (from glibcpp_3.2.2) Do you have any files that start with libstdc++.so? If you do, you can use a quick hack that usually works: Create a symbolic link in the directory you found the libstdc++.so from

Winmodem Info

2003-04-02 Thread Tim Wright
You might want to try here as well: http://www.linmodems.org/ Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tnw13

Re: Cannot find right libstdc++.so.5...

2003-04-02 Thread Tim Wright
*is* version 5. I now suspect that it's simply in the wrong directory, and 'ld' can't find it. If libstdc++.so.5 isn't in /lib or /usr/lib (where it is on my machine) you'll need to add the directory that it is in to /etc/ld.so.conf (and then possibily run 'ldconfig' to update ld.so.cache :) Tim Wright

Re: Server-Side Spyware: Red Sheriff

2003-04-02 Thread Tim Wright
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: No, sorry, it's an empirical observation. E.g. one was a German Is there such a thing as an emperical observation? (I'm sure this will start one of those 'interesting' CLUG discussions:) Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science

Re: Cannot find right libstdc++.so.5...

2003-04-02 Thread Tim Wright
as Chris (I assume i386)? Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tnw13

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

2003-04-01 Thread Tim Wright
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, [iso-8859-1] Mahesh De Silva wrote: or does any one know where e-cafe is? The e-cafe is the internet cafe across from the beads shop in the Arts Centre. Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz

Re: Newbie Joining

2003-03-31 Thread Tim Wright
: (or E:, F:, etc). Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tnw13

Re: Single click / double click niggle on mandrake 9.1

2003-03-30 Thread Tim Wright
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Yuri de Groot wrote: I can't find any setting to change it. In the KDE control centre I've looked under look'n'feel and behaviour, and can't find any single/double click option. Peripherals - Mouse Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University

Re: Finished program

2003-03-29 Thread Tim Wright
a separate partition then you can upgrade/change your distro and not loose any files you installed (like making /home a separate partition saves your files sometimes). I'm feeling less coherent today than usual, but hopefully what I typed makes sense. Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department

Dick Smith MP3 Player

2003-03-28 Thread Tim Wright
(autoclean) unix 15304 105 (autoclean) Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tnw13

Got it...

2003-03-28 Thread Tim Wright
Upon waking this morning, I had a brainwave and manually installed the scsi disk module: sd_mod Now my cheap mp3 player from good old Dick Smith all works fine (creates the appropriate files that I can mount:). I'm gonna email dick smith to tell them to update their documentation. Tim Wright

Ogg to MP3 Conversion

2003-03-28 Thread Tim Wright
Well, the next stage for using my MP3 player is converting some ogg vorbis files to MP3. I have all the command line tools (that I'm using now), but was wondering if anyone had a nice GUI I can play with? Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury

Re: Dick Smith MP3 Player

2003-03-28 Thread Tim Wright
that's supported under Linux is pretty good. Cheers for the compliment...and while it might be true about some aspects of Linux, there are other aspects of Linux that other people on this list (you included Nick:) know far more about than me. Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer

Re: Help with code

2003-03-27 Thread Tim Wright
faster. For more info about the debugger...look at the man page :) Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tnw13

Re: GNOME or KDE

2003-03-27 Thread Tim Wright
. Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tnw13

Re: Installfest

2003-03-23 Thread Tim Wright
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Jason Greenwood wrote: Would it be good if we sent a follow up email to all those that attended?? That seems like a really good idea...show that we're friendly and ready to help :) Tim

Re: Broken system

2003-03-22 Thread Tim Wright
(called nautilus if you are running Gnome) probably has a similar problem. Try looking in the .nautilus directory. Hope that helps, Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tnw13

Re: Broken system

2003-03-22 Thread Tim Wright
KDE anyway). My guess would be one of the XML files is corrupt. They define things like how big windows are for each directory, where they are and stuff like that. Try moving them to a different directory and restarting Nautilus (that way you can move them back if necessary). Tim Wright Assistant

Hubs, Routers, Switches, and Bridges

2003-03-21 Thread Tim Wright
address..uses higher level information to be more precise. A Bridge connects two different types of networks...for example Ethernet and Token Ring. Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tnw13

Re: Help! apt-get on redhat

2003-03-18 Thread Tim Wright
). Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tnw13

Re: install-fest

2003-03-16 Thread Tim Wright
. Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tnw13

RE: OSTC Courses

2003-03-12 Thread Tim Wright
. Could be useful and interesting. What do other CLUG users think? Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tnw13

Re: Mice

2003-03-11 Thread Tim Wright
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Julian Visch wrote: What are linux users using in the way of mice these days? I use a unbranded USB optical mouse with a scroll wheel. Works perfectly and I'll never use PS/2 mice again. I also love the scroll wheel --- most applications support it now. And it cost $30 to

Having problems posting to List

2003-03-11 Thread Tim Wright
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 21:51:42 +1300 From: Slosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tim Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: geek.co.nz Ok having just tried posting 3 times to 3 different messages and failing all three times can you post this message to the mailing

Re: Mice

2003-03-11 Thread Tim Wright
especially noticeable when moving the mouse in circles, and very very noticeable when playing games like Quake. Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tnw13

Re: Mice

2003-03-11 Thread Tim Wright
, that's better than Acroread, which doesn't support the scroll wheel at all. Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tnw13

geek.co.nz

2003-03-10 Thread Tim Wright
Cool. I just read the article and realised that the guy who proposed it went to uni with me (we did computer science together). How's this for an impressive CV (his one): http://deanpemberton.com/cv/ Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury http

Re: geek.nz (was: geek.co.nz)

2003-03-10 Thread Tim Wright
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Zane Gilmore wrote: Umm do you mean .geek.nz? ummm, yes. Just checking for activity out there in clug-land :) (gotta hate it when you forget to check the email subject) Tim

Re: OT: NZSIS security clearance (was Re: geek.co.nz)

2003-03-10 Thread Tim Wright
a guess that he taught the course, and had to be checked out by NZSIS before telling the government how to build secure systems. Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tnw13

Re: postfix log and/or how to make sure that an email has been sent

2003-03-01 Thread Tim Wright
sensibly) You'll see the log scroll as it changes on the top of the screen using see-through text. really funky. Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tnw13

xhost +

2003-02-25 Thread Tim Wright
on the end) This means that either he's logged into one of the consoles, has telnetted (or sshd) into his box, or done a 'su -' to get root privileges (i.e. the DISPLAY environment variable is not set. He probably needs to do a EXPORT DISPLAY=machinename:0 before running the mandrake update program. Tim

Re: New Plymouth IT Decisions

2003-02-23 Thread Tim Wright
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Slosh wrote: Actually while on the subject... what OS are they using this year for the cosc students, still RH7.3 or something else? RedHat 8.0 Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tnw13

Re: Tim Wright about?

2003-02-15 Thread Tim Wright
it, but doubt they consider it a real prority. Yes my machine does do stuff with mail. I run exim to send queued messages from Pine, and to deliver local messages that I get using fetchmail. Does that make me a mailhost? I have no idea. Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science

Re: Musicians on board ?

2003-02-11 Thread Tim Wright
aliases, tutorials, documentation, shell level environment variables for multi-media linux/unix workstations, and a library of powerful templates and macros (Csound, I never thought I'd say this, but...I'd prefer a GUI to command line stuff. (ROTFL) I'll look into it :) Tim Wright Assistant

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