Re: Robert, Volker or Rik

2004-02-05 Thread pmw57
On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 06:22, stm23 wrote: hi, i've just discovered that i actually do need a copy of Redhat 9.0. are any of u still able to burn me a copy?, i'd really appreciate it :). i can either give u some blank discs (3 right??) or pay for them, whichever is easiest. also, what

Re: Getting Debian

2004-02-03 Thread pmw57
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 06:53, Adrian Robertson wrote: On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 17:28:35 +1300 Paul William [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The debian installer is pretty simple. Not for people that can only point and click :) Lots of people equate no gui as hard :\ It's not that it's hard. It's

Re: Linux case badges

2004-01-31 Thread pmw57
On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 06:11, Caleb Sawtell wrote: On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 17:09, you wrote: Don't know of anywhere in [EMAIL PROTECTED], but you can get them from www.linuxshop.co.nz which is based in Auckland. I was kinda hoping to get it from chch so i don't have to bother dad for is

Re: restaurant update - CLUG social

2004-01-28 Thread pmw57
On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 05:05, Rex Johnston wrote: Nick Rout wrote: Undeterred i have sought out and found their website. http://www.rajmahal.co.nz/ Interesting text layout. I presume it's that way to exercise ones eyes! :) Or your brain. Shrink the window width so it's all in one column.

Re: Purpose of the CLUG

2004-01-23 Thread pmw57
On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 05:32, Carl Cerecke wrote: Fixing of problems is the main use of this mailing-list. Although fixing things often works better face-to-face if you have someone who knows what they are doing, hte mailing list still serves as a very valid and useful forum for problem

RE: Purpose of the CLUG

2004-01-23 Thread pmw57
On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 22:27, Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote: Do a google search for finance packages for Linux I've already done that, which is why I'm coming forward with the query. WHat I'm after is other peoples experiences and reccomendations of Linux accounting programs. Even a pointer to

Re: Purpose of the CLUG

2004-01-22 Thread pmw57
On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 21:27, Carl Cerecke wrote: As a general rule of thumb, if you aren't close to the answer within 5 minutes of competent googling, then ask away. We certainly don't want to put newcomers off asking questions, otherwise it might turn in to some elitist linux-experts

Re: Purpose of the CLUG

2004-01-22 Thread pmw57
On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 12:19, Lee Begg wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 23:07, pmw57 wrote: After logging in I always receive three identical warning messages. They being Could not find mime type application/octet-stream. OK, so you a loading

Re: from the clug webpage...

2004-01-20 Thread pmw57
On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 11:51, anton wrote: snip Upcoming Meetings / Events Meeting times scheduled for 2003 Wednesday 29th January Thursday 13th Febuary Monday 31st March Wednesday 30th April /snip Has this just not been updated, or should that read 2004? I can't remember what last

Re: OT: Free Psion

2004-01-18 Thread pmw57
On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 00:14, Hamish McBrearty wrote: Hi all In tidying up my work area I discovered a Psion Revo laying around here. Would anyone like it? No charge, I have the cradle, cables, software on CD and manual. Email me off list, first in first served. Ooh, yes thanks. -- Paul

Re: grep and a few other questions

2004-01-14 Thread pmw57
On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 01:37, Nick Rout wrote: (astute readers who do not delete my posts as a matter of course will see the relevance of this to my undelete thread ;-) 1. grep -b is supposed to give me byte offsets into the file where the pattern occurs. however: sf root # egrep Exif

Re: Problem getting K3b to see my CD-RW drive...

2003-12-25 Thread pmw57
On Fri, 2003-12-26 at 10:02, pmw57 wrote: I've found an article that should be of lots of help. CD Writer as a SCSI Device http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/CD_Writer.html Even better, as I suspect that the above may be Debian specific, check out the following HOWTO. Setup the Linux

Re: kernel compile q

2003-12-19 Thread pmw57
On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 09:53, anton wrote: Hey all, I am going to try and step into the realm of the big boys (and girls) and compile me a kernel. However, I have been googling for a bit and there don't appear to be any nice wee howtos for 2.6.0 for newbies. In fact, I can't actually find

Re: kernel compile q

2003-12-19 Thread pmw57
On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 12:29, anton wrote: While I wait (already waiting 45mins on my athlon 2000xp...;-0), I thought I might ask you night owls about the fact that I don't have a /usr/src/linux at all... I am newbie. I have a mdk9.2 install and everything (almost) is installed from rpm. I

Re: That Logo...

2003-12-19 Thread pmw57
On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 05:57, Martin Bähr wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 01:56:42PM +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote: What are the rules about using the penguin? Is he free for anyone to bash about with Yes. or are there rules? Start from one of the originals, not somebody else's

Re: That Logo...

2003-12-19 Thread pmw57
On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 12:38, Martin Baehr wrote: On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 12:17:39PM +1300, pmw57 wrote: The danger is that if you start with a derivative and someone else then starts from your derivative, by the time a 4th person gets in to the mix the logo may not be recognisable as being

Re: ftp stuff

2003-12-16 Thread pmw57
On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 11:56, thereisnospoon wrote: i don't know much about linux or even ftp but anywho:: snip now, when i typed in http://miraclesinvain.port5.com/index.html into my browser address bar, the updated page loads. but when i type http://miraclesinvain.port5.com without

Re: join mp3s

2003-12-15 Thread pmw57
On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 03:10, Paul William wrote: have become jumbled somewhere between brain and keyboard. I will try again ;) I have 2 mp3s I want to join them I don't want to convert them to wav I tried catting which doesn't work (it cant hurt to try) To sum it all up I am looking

RE: OT? Broadband; router

2003-12-14 Thread pmw57
On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 15:56, Don Gould - BVC wrote: In other news... I tried to get Telstra to connect me to cable... they wouldn't... I got a second JetStart connection... oh well... sux to be them. They seem to have put an indefinate halt on fresh cable rollout, in favour of some future