guess is not)?
Can anyone recommend from experience any modem whos fax (which class)
and voice parts work well under Linux?
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, you could always just take the lid off, instead of being
a total couch potato...
> And don't ask me to lift the lid, the machine is remote!
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ly on the market and faxing?
Any better choices (NZ, preferably not too expensive)?
Any experiences with voice capabilities - and which modem?
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malfunctioning "supported" software?
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lem.
Without knowing their exact network setup it's somewhat difficult to
say.
> The whole issue of this traffic would make for an interesting read in
> technology page of The Press would it not?
Doubt it. That page is aimed at Joe Bloggs, and the issue in question
does not result i
h a bad thing?
Because Telstra can't charge for it?
But check you can exchange traffic first, I haven't seen any port 13X
traffic on my subnet for the last 5 days (in fact, very little of that
traffic is even from NZ).
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augh anyway...
One wouldn't think it to be true, but it's not yet 1 April.
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id mode". Most of the NZ ISP don't seem
to need it, but when it's necessary to go "stupid", you'll get a
connection failure without, so always try it out.
> So what are the incantations, etc, that I need to get those apps talking to
> the
> ISP server?
A
On Sun 26 Feb 2006 08:16:47 NZDT +1300, Peter Robinson wrote:
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> Some appliances (including dishwashers?) are not suitable to run off RCDs.
What's the reason given for this?
Anything involving water would be the first thingeme I'd spend an RCD
on.
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> > > Ideally, I'd like a CMS or wiki so that the burden of site updates
> > > isn't solely mine.
> > >
> > > It needs to be cheap.
Run your own Linux box on your broadband connection? Have the
Toastmasters foot some of the cost.
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le traffic I doubt I'm paying for it,
so I should just change the firewall to dump it without logging.
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am aware). That was for hard disks. For burners, do
they still all work, given that many of them require special "treatment"
in the low-level command department?
These converters may well be useful, but I wouldn't expect them to
magically solve all problems.
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oing the lookup. This is probably only meaningful
together with norock and map=normal. (Default: check=strict.)
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> Anybody know if there is a 'make file-names case insensitive' mount
> option for iso9660 CDs?
I thought this was the default for joliet? I'm sure there is some code
for this somewhere in the iso9660 driver. Try mounting with norock.
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ot in use.
Some sort of BIOS/kernel ACPI problem. Try different BIOS settings
related to this? Try a different kernel?? Does it work with only one CPU
used?
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at indicate? A disk having been taken offline?
Just a disk I/O error shouldn't cause this.
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ster to get a 30day vmware license?
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put is vital.
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your disk
space.
> the very least. And it's still within warranty.)
So? Hard disks are expendible, unreliable, mechanically sensitive and
complicated, evaporate-at-zero-notice items.
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l do too, but expect small differences
in supported hardware between distros.
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> BTW I have purchased an 8 port switch for the CLUG locker. It was
> $49.00.
What was the reason you paid 49 when they've been selling for 35 for the
last 2 years, with auto-sensing (straight/crossover) ports? Time?
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> I have second-hand indications that it will expire on 7/13/06.
From memory, you can make that first-hand information by RTFW vmware.com
- because it is a beta product, it expires after 6 months ;)
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ut "which is better/bigger/whatnot", but characteristics
and situations in which one might want to deploy one over the other.
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not imply in any way
that its completely new port to Linux on x86 is as reliable or as well
tested.
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you have a decent (and safe) $PATH instead.
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bash names are case-sensitive.
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would work, but requires the person running the shell to start
script first.
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Possible confusion? The grub config file is menu.lst, which contains
things like
title xxx
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/md0
Some distros may call this grub.conf, and it's ultimately located under
/boot.
What I called /etc/grub.conf contains something like
setup -
t in grub it isn't. You are thinking of lilo.
Correct, the [1] was in the lilo part of the sentence...
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> I guess we're all too nerdy to have Valentine's Day dates, then?
LOL... Are you looking for a new gf? :))
Maybe we're too old for that and well settled.
Grinning,
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -l /etc/grub.conf
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Aug 6 2004 /etc/grub.conf ->
> ../boot/grub/grub.conf
> In all cases, it does need to be under /boot.
Are you sure? I don't think it needs to be anywhere, as grub.conf is
only read by grub when you install the grub boot l
arries more weight than an
individual.
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which is in grub.conf, whereever that is located, and it wouldn't be in
menu.lst.
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feeling they use ext2. I
> know Oracle recommend it for similar ( few, big files ) reasons.
Oracle would be certifying the commercial version of a whole distro,
with whatever installation choices they specify. In particular, they
would be certifying a kernel/fs combination, not just a fs.
Volk
> I recall their were problems with grub and reiser at one point - one
> version of grub didn't properly support a version of reiser and booting
> would be borked.
Never heard of it. A situation you would never encounter on your distro
anyway, as $vendor would have sorted it for you.
> Well i ha
e a practical issue in favour of one or another filesystem -
how long does a fsck take after a sudden powercut? Less than 5 seconds
on 350G of disk with reiser3. Anybody got numbers for other fs?
Volker
[1] Actually I can't remember about the 486.
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What's so nice about it? I mean, what the other filesystems don't do?
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yesterday" means nothing by
itself), for speed tests you'd need to run it side-by-side on the same
hardware under same conditions. That leaves "other factors" for making
your choice...
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ormat it?
Yes, reiserfs ;)
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inux and Macintosh users"). Official
recognition comes before official support, and awareness that there is a
good-sized base might prevent something stupid that doesn't work with
Linux at all, like the "latest red-hot-deal with Redmond for all valued
customers".
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gh, it's already included." That'll save me
a few dollars I said. "Yes, and glad to see you're a Linux user.".
Either the call centre is faking it well, or Linux is more on the radar
than I thought. Perhaps it's a good time to let them know how many Linux
u
after displaying the "Press [F1] to
continue" message.". If that's true, you have nothing to worry. You can
always clear the CMOS.
Comments also say that this program is originally from Compaq.
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x27;t actually solve the problem, just alleviates the
> symptoms.
Yes it does fix the problem - the problem is a bios with a d'ohh!! "no
keyboard present - press f1 to continue".
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ng PVC tape is cheaper though.
If the resistor trick doesn't work, your next best solution is to cut
the electronics out of an old keyboard and repacking that touchproof.
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[1] Well if it works
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at least partially understanding, the
TeX-Book.
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e. on a DVD+R and a DVD-R. In my
ad-hoc non-scientific estimation the risk of loosing fiels due to bad
media, bad burning, or bad storage is a lot higher than the risk due to
the house burning down.
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ave to?
The other negative is that the typical pcd file (and the prices I gave)
only have 6MP, which is probably less than what you're looking for.
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r 2 minutes, but it took full-time organisation and
concentration.
The shop on Riccarton Rd is Copyland. Make sure they aren't giving you
the proprietory Kodak Photo CD(TM) stuff!!! That image format is
undocumented and there are no guaranteed functional open source programs
to unpack
in
the argument "Got **ed by IE? Just use firefox..."
spring to mind with <10s of thinking as alternatives for developers to
better spend their time on. ;)
At stake is not only this ping thing, but also firefox's
trustworthiness.
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nt of firefox?
2) To what extent are industry puppets allowed to contribute to
security critical open source software?
Oh and btw, my static IP does not tell the site I visit on which of
their links I clicked!
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[1] Actually, not my browser.
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Someone pinch me please:
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?lp=de_en&url=http%3A//www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/68508
(sorry for the translation)
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> > Perhaps you should reassess your overall setup?
> Don't you think that this might be what I am doing?
There was no reason to think that. People often want to do X and get
stuck with implementation A, when implementation B is altogether easier.
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lar, read "... will
be executed with root privileges..." another 3 times for some ideas of
what might happen to those who try to pull tricks on /etc/procmailrc...
Read the warnings section of man procmail.
Perhaps you should reassess your overall setup?
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ey've purchased a static IP address.
Still much better to allow a /24 than a /0 ...
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thinking this increases your security.
* Run rcsshd stop
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> In the days of RH9, kde would make you want to slit your wrists!
Perhaps you mean "would make you want to nuke RH". KDE was quite usable
for me back then.
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> gdmsetup will (in theory) do this. In practice, gdmsetup will do this for
>any user other than root.
Then there must be some check in there for the root user. Can you
comment that out and recompile?
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but it's anywhere you go and ready to use at an instant. No power
required. No security against accidental loss though. Combining the two
methods is theoretically possible, but the synchronisation between
computer and paper (transcribing changes, printing again) adds a lot of
dead
> I am sure a few of you use web based forums from time to time for
> support and will enjoy this:
Yep, give me a mailing list any day...
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nu failed to
show up, but I'll have to test it again.
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Has anyone tried KDE with the equivalent of two sound cards? I.e. one is
on the mobo, the other in a PCI slot. kmix sees both, but I can't find
any control over which card is used to get the sound. Are two sound
cards in a system at all supported, and if so, how?
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tween interfaces in the same class. It's
trivial to configure by editing a few variables in between the big
comments. Bash syntax.
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> Using the text selection tool, after you select an area the context menu
> gives you an option to 'Speak Text'
Neat! Not for me though, and festival is installed. The context menu is
the one popping up when I relese the mouse button from text selection?
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functions put into it. Pity it's missing that chance about now...
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or repeat
editing. That mighn't work with pdf, use a separate file then, though
single-file is more user-friendly.
Oh yes,
13) Make coffee ;)))
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an obsolete version of ghostscript.)
> Neither could I. Even testing and suggestions are welcome.
Will do.
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> > Try again while it asks on exit whether to turn on javascript.
> I would but it doesn't do that EVER.
Well, you gotta turn it off in the preferences first...
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n in that mode.
Minor. For the odd pres I guess acrosh... will do.
> I'd like to suggest to Volker et al. that kpdf would be a very good project
> with which to get involved. imho, a much better use of time than
> attempting to decipher the Acroread machine code.
Couldn't agr
> Go to $HOME/.adobe/Acrobat/7.0/JavaScripts and remove
> "glob.settings.js". Create a symbolic link with that name to
> "/dev/null".
Goodiegoodiegood - works. Thanks Nick!
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Why? Everyone just packs up the binary from adobe.com into
$DISTROPACKAGEFORMAT. There's no other choice about it!!
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e rubbish for screen
rendering. http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=140100
I'll put Carl's suggestion on the holiday todos.
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ting a bug report. Gawwd I
wish I could sock it to those Adobe Dorks.
The persistant (and persistantly annoying) "try adobe acrobat" button at
the top right of the Linux version, which only ever leads to the
Mickeyversion of acrobat, is tame in comparison.
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return for my tax dollars?
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d news is that the R200 is fully
supported by TurboPrint, turboprint.de. Well worth the money. Otherwise,
you can only hope that support improves in the future. The gimpprint in
SUSE 10.0 is the same as in 9.3.
Good luck ;)
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nothing will ever come out of the mobo
speaker. On the positive, one can turn any mix of 3 possible bells on...
Oh and btw, the pitch/duration of this speaker beep is controlled by K
control centre -> sound & multimedia -> system bell. Double d'oh!
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loader to hook in a different
function instead?
Thanks for pointers,
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ituations which Joe Average
app programmer doesn't bother with - like when your partition table is
stuffed and you may potentially have more than one fat partition on the
device. There were one or two other programs both not worth mentioning,
and then there's a big lack of alternatives.
red thickness of the vertical
intercolumn line.
The numbering is achieved with \begin{enumerate} \item ... \item ...
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Knoppix 4.0.2 CD, but not DVD. Actually, you definitely want
tetex 3, not 2.
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, except that you can't
choose enscript's options. Admittedly it's not quite the same as ls >
/dev/printer (which will also work with virtually any printer).
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paper. If you want any control, use the
system's print system.
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The 2005 edition (released prob about October) is still advertised as a
CD. You don't need to be a TUG member, but that gives you a 10%
discount. The CD is US$40, with US$2 shipping.
http://www.tug.org/store/
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itch between
them. It was designed for handling system configuration on computers
which are taken different places.
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> Does anyone know of a live CD that has latex + latex tools and documentation
> installed?
The TeX-Live! CD should fit your bill, though I never used it myself. As
usual, I'd start at CTAN.
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Me thinks it's time for another trip to DSE for a simple 8ohm speaker.
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quot;terminal bell" implies a
terminal emulator...
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values on that mobo are, so I can work out
suitable formulae to insert in sensors.conf... ;)
I don't think it's quite as simple as changing a multiplier.
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> connecting via ethernet, i can ping out or use a browser. via the
> wireless card only, can't get beyond the router.
That sounds more like a routing issue, probably caused by having 2
interfaces on the same subnet.
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> ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"rnsRouter" Nickname:"notebook"
> Mode:Managed
Didn't "managed" mean that you have to supply a static IP yourself?
Try a different mode to see what happens?
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> I need to do some 'ls' commands which need to include the full path as well.
find / ... print0 | xargs -0 --no-run-if-empty ls -ld | sort
I have a script for this sort of thing:
listall /
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gentoo forum only works fractionally
better.
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> :0
> * ^Subject:.*subject_i_want*
> {
> :0 c
> |sh script
> :0
> .anotherfolder/
> }
:0
* ^Subject:.*subject_i_want
{
# filter header + body (or remove h or b flag, to filter only one)
:0 fhbw
|sh script
:0
.folder/
}
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point making another site about it, surely there are heaps already at
the FSF.
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