Re: OS for RAID1 - wesley do you have lenny?

2008-10-15 Thread don
Steve Holdoway wrote: I think you need the alternate install disk to get it to install softraid, not the desktop version. Wesley should be able to fix you up ( plug, plug ). Is Lenny in the archive? Cheers Don -- Don Gould 31 Acheson Ave, Mairehau, Christchurch, NZ Ph +64 3 348 7235 or + 64

Re: OS for RAID1 - wesley do you have lenny?

2008-10-15 Thread Christopher Sawtell
Is Lenny in the archive? quote='http://www.debian.org/releases/' The next release of Debian is codenamed lenny — no release date has been set /quote Sorry, no. We only hold released versions. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell

Re: OS for RAID1 - wesley do you have lenny?

2008-10-15 Thread Robert Fisher
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:55:57 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Holdoway wrote: I think you need the alternate install disk to get it to install softraid, not the desktop version. Wesley should be able to fix you up ( plug, plug ). Is Lenny in the archive? Cheers Don I have debian

Wesley

2008-08-19 Thread Roy Britten
Many of us know that Wesley Parish was knocked off his bike a while ago. Things haven't healed as well as one would hope and he had a bone graft operation at Burwood hospital yesterday. As of this morning he was somewhat uncomfortable but was still going to be sent home today. Roy.

Re: Wesley

2008-08-19 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:45:01 +1200 Roy Britten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many of us know that Wesley Parish was knocked off his bike a while ago. Things haven't healed as well as one would hope and he had a bone graft operation at Burwood hospital yesterday. As of this morning he was somewhat

Re: Wesley

2008-08-19 Thread Don Gould
+1 Steve Holdoway wrote: On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:45:01 +1200 Roy Britten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many of us know that Wesley Parish was knocked off his bike a while ago. Things haven't healed as well as one would hope and he had a bone graft operation at Burwood hospital yesterday

Re: Wesley

2008-08-19 Thread Rik Tindall
Don Gould wrote: +1 Steve Holdoway wrote: On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:45:01 +1200 Roy Britten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many of us know that Wesley Parish was knocked off his bike a while ago. Things haven't healed as well as one would hope and he had a bone graft operation at Burwood hospital

Fwd: FYI: Wesley

2008-06-25 Thread Christopher Sawtell
Greetings CLUG listers, I have just received this mail from the St Albans Community Centre Office. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Wesley Date: Wednesday 25 June 2008 From: St Albans Community Centre Office [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CLUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, Thought you

Calling Wesley!!

2008-03-14 Thread Steve Holdoway
My emails are being bounced by paradise. Do you have another address I can contact you on?? -- Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-13 Thread Robert Fisher
Perhaps the Ubuntu users who want to try Qemu would like this link. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=39513 -- Regards, Robert -- Robert Fisher (aka - Rob, Bob, Robbie, Robbo, Fish) FishNet Computer Electrical Services

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-13 Thread Ralph Stoker
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 06:46, Robert Fisher wrote: Cashbook - for my business accounting. I tried Quasar but it was not really suited for NZ and I found it overly complicated. Robert, through a suggestion you kindly made some time back I started to run GNUcash for my Korfball accounting duties.

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-13 Thread Robert Fisher
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 23:29, Ralph Stoker wrote: On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 06:46, Robert Fisher wrote: Cashbook - for my business accounting. I tried Quasar but it was not really suited for NZ and I found it overly complicated. Robert, through a suggestion you kindly made some time back I

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-13 Thread Roy Britten
On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 17:32 +1300, Ross Drummond wrote: Progress report Downloaded and compiled qemu. I could not get qemu to compile. I managed to install win2k and get it to boot but it hangs during boot complaing that that a dll is missing. The installation is very CPU memory and

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-12 Thread Robert Fisher
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 17:47, Christopher Sawtell wrote: See above url, but I have yet to get a smb connection to work. There is mkore to it than meets the eye. Great. I do not feel so bad now if Chris cannot get it to work either. -- Regards, Robert

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-12 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Wednesday 12 October 2005 20:16, Robert Fisher wrote: On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 17:47, Christopher Sawtell wrote: See above url, but I have yet to get a smb connection to work. There is more to it than meets the eye. Great. I do not feel so bad now if Chris cannot get it to work either. My

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-12 Thread Ross Drummond
The applications that keep users loyal to Win, in the corporate environment at least, are; Outlook and the features such as calendering when coupled with the Exchange mail server. Excel, if a hypothetical accountant was both a crack addict and excel user, he would probably prefer to go cold

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-12 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 21:09 +1300, Ross Drummond wrote: The applications that keep users loyal to Win, in the corporate environment at least, are; Outlook and the features such as calendering when coupled with the Exchange mail server. Excel, if a hypothetical accountant was both a

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-12 Thread Wesley Parish
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 13:51, Wesley Parish wrote: Quoting Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 12 October 2005 12:01, Wesley Parish wrote: Quoting Ross Drummond [EMAIL PROTECTED]: snip Quick questions: snip 1) Is qemu supposed to take 98% - 99% of cpu even while it's

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-12 Thread Robert Fisher
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 20:56, Christopher Sawtell wrote: What's the single must-have windows app? The list wisdom might be able to suggest a replacement. Cashbook - for my business accounting. I tried Quasar but it was not really suited for NZ and I found it overly complicated. -- Regards,

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-12 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, October 13, 2005 6:46 am, Robert Fisher said: On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 20:56, Christopher Sawtell wrote: What's the single must-have windows app? The list wisdom might be able to suggest a replacement. Cashbook - for my business accounting. I tried Quasar but it was not really suited

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-12 Thread Robert Fisher
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 07:32, Nick Rout wrote: Is that the Acclaim Software product? Yes it is. I use it too. It looks like the sort of app that may work under wine. I have never used Wine so maybe I should give it a try. -- Regards, Robert

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-12 Thread Hadley Rich
On Wednesday 12 October 2005 12:33, Christopher Sawtell wrote: How well does it work running XP[Pro]? After taking a look in my qemu directory I discovered that I have 98, 2000 and XP images in there (I had forgotten). The only one I use semi-regularly is 98 to test websites in IE, because it

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-12 Thread Wesley Parish
with Planet (OT - Where is this sig from? It sounds like it might be from that midnineties SF series that ended after one season. :-) Thanks Wesley Parish Sharpened hands are happy hands. Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge I me. Shape middled me. I

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-12 Thread Wesley Parish
opinion, faces less reasons to stay loyal to Win. no, games games and games. I've installed Doom2 on my home MS Win98-in-Qemu setup; I'll let you know of any Microsoftisms - ie, inexplicable weird behaviour. Wesley Parish Cheers Ross Drummond On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 20:56, Christopher

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-12 Thread Hadley Rich
On Thursday 13 October 2005 11:37, Wesley Parish wrote: Quoting Hadley Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A couple of other things that are useful (excuse my if these were covered in the talk, I'm too far away to make it) I never got around to covering those, I'm sorry. No need to apologise, I

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-12 Thread Wesley Parish
Quoting Hadley Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thursday 13 October 2005 11:37, Wesley Parish wrote: Quoting Hadley Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A couple of other things that are useful (excuse my if these were covered in the talk, I'm too far away to make it) I never got around to covering

qemu Wesley

2005-10-11 Thread Ross Drummond
Top talk Wesley. Your presentation has enticed me to try it myself. Cheers Ross Drummond

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-11 Thread Robert Fisher
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 00:10, Ross Drummond wrote: Top talk Wesley. Your presentation has enticed me to try it myself. Me too. -- Regards, Robert -- Robert Fisher (aka - Rob, Bob, Robbie, Robbo, Fish) FishNet Computer Electrical

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-11 Thread Robert Fisher
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 06:56, Robert Fisher wrote: .and now Windows 2000 is installing. Seems to be hogging resources during the install though. Hold all bets. Seems to be stuck for a long time on Installing Devices -- Regards, Robert

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-11 Thread Nick Rout
There is mention in the man pages of an option to get around some win2k bug, but not sure if it applies: -win2k-hack Use it when installing Windows 2000 to avoid a disk full bug. After Windows 2000 is installed, you no longer need this option (this option slows down the IDE transfers).

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-11 Thread Robert Fisher
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 08:09, Nick Rout wrote: There is mention in the man pages of an option to get around some win2k bug, but not sure if it applies: -win2k-hack Use it when installing Windows 2000 to avoid a disk full bug. After Windows 2000 is installed, you no longer need this

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-11 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, October 12, 2005 8:26 am, Robert Fisher said: Are you using kqemu (the proprietary kernel module to speed things up)? Yes but I just realised that it is not working as user (only as root) I get the message. Could not open '/dev/kqemu' - QEMU acceleration layer not activated How

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-11 Thread Robert Fisher
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 08:43, Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, October 12, 2005 8:26 am, Robert Fisher said: Are you using kqemu (the proprietary kernel module to speed things up)? Yes but I just realised that it is not working as user (only as root) I get the message. Could not open

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-11 Thread Robert Fisher
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 09:23, Robert Fisher wrote: I had to do... mknod /dev/kqemu c 250 0 to create the device again. (and now I still have the same problem.) Sorted now (thanks Nick) I also had to remove kqemu from modules.autoload then do modprobe kqemu major=0 and now it is fine as user.

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-11 Thread Robert Fisher
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 09:31, Robert Fisher wrote: Another progress report:- The accelerator (kqemu) is working fine as user now. Win98 is installed and I can browse the internet without changing any settings. I have not yet figured out how to browse my home network yet though. Obviously the

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-11 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 09:31:13 +1300 Robert Fisher wrote: On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 09:23, Robert Fisher wrote: I had to do... mknod /dev/kqemu c 250 0 to create the device again. (and now I still have the same problem.) Sorted now (thanks Nick) I also had to remove kqemu from

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-11 Thread Robert Fisher
Changed that wiki already I see Nick. http://gentoo-wiki.com/Windows -- Regards, Robert -- Robert Fisher (aka - Rob, Bob, Robbie, Robbo, Fish) FishNet Computer Electrical Services www.fisher.net.nz Phone: 03 383 5807 Mobile: 027 477

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-11 Thread Nick Rout
I added something to that gentoo wiki: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Windows On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 09:39:59 +1300 Robert Fisher wrote: On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 09:31, Robert Fisher wrote: Another progress report:- The accelerator (kqemu) is working fine as user now. Win98 is installed and I can

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-11 Thread Ralph Stoker
On Wednesday 12 October 2005 00:10, Ross Drummond wrote: Top talk Wesley. Your presentation has enticed me to try it myself. Here, here. After piquing my attantion with the posts prior to the talk I downloaded some relevant info off the web and tried on the night installing the relevant

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-11 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:36:48 +1300 Ralph Stoker wrote: After piquing my attantion with the posts prior to the talk I downloaded some relevant info off the web and tried on the night installing the relevant .rpms from the QEMU website and following the Novell:Cool Solutions website 'How To

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-11 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:36:48 +1300 Ralph Stoker wrote: Your presentation has enticed me to try it myself. Here, here. After piquing my attantion with the posts prior to the talk I downloaded some relevant info off the web and tried on the night installing the relevant .rpms from the

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-11 Thread Wesley Parish
Quoting Ross Drummond [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Top talk Wesley. Your presentation has enticed me to try it myself. Cheers Ross Drummond Thanks. I enjoyed giving it and dealing with the feedback. AFAIK, MS Win9x and kqemu don't mix particularly well, which is why I haven't bothered - but I

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-11 Thread Richard Tindall
Ralph Stoker wrote: On Wednesday 12 October 2005 00:10, Ross Drummond wrote: Top talk Wesley. Your presentation has enticed me to try it myself. Here, here. Yes, thanks Wesley. After piquing my attantion with the posts prior to the talk I downloaded some relevant info off

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-11 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 12:23:19 +1300 Ralph Stoker wrote: On Wednesday 12 October 2005 11:44, Nick Rout wrote: So first thing to determine - did the rpm install the kqemu module? rpm -qil qemu |grep kqemu Typed the above in a console as user and su and no output returned on entering

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-11 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
relevant .rpms from the QEMU website and following the Novell:Cool Solutions website 'How To install on SuSE 9.2'...but ran into SDL dependency conflicts when installing via YaST. I have found that article. One wonders why Novell is pushing an article that goes outside the

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-11 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Wednesday 12 October 2005 12:01, Wesley Parish wrote: Quoting Ross Drummond [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Top talk Wesley. Your presentation has enticed me to try it myself. Cheers Ross Drummond Thanks. I enjoyed giving it and dealing with the feedback. AFAIK, MS Win9x and kqemu don't mix

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-11 Thread Wesley Parish
is to upgrade, because you do get better performance, even without kqemu. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wesley Parish Sharpened hands are happy hands. Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot! I

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-11 Thread Hadley Rich
On Wednesday 12 October 2005 12:33, Christopher Sawtell wrote: Quick questions: 1) Is qemu supposed to take 98% - 99% of cpu even while it's supposedly quiesent? ( Without the accellerator ) Are you using Windows 98? If so then there is a patch for WIN98 which makes it understand the HLT

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-11 Thread Wesley Parish
Quoting Volker Kuhlmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: snip I have heard a few wow!s about the qemu in SuSE 10, which I will definitely try out as soon as I get the box media. Great for software testing I've heard. As for the talk, I'm afraid I was a bit disappointed, because it was a bit

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-11 Thread Robert Fisher
Hadley Rich wrote: P.S For anyone wondering, AFAIK WIN98 still doesn't work with kqemu yet. Well I am sure that it speeds things up for me. I will do some time trials when I get home. -- Robert Fisher FishNet Computer Electrical Services www.fisher.net.nz 03 3835807 027 477 3356

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-11 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Wednesday 12 October 2005 13:07, Robert Fisher wrote: I read the stuff below too but I could not get it to work. I am guessing though that my interpretation may be incorrect. I really would like this to work so if someone wants to hold my hand I would appreciate it. ok you've tipped the

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-11 Thread Wesley Parish
Sorry. I should have indicated they are boot-time options. Contact me off-list if you need a hand. Wesley Parish Quoting Robert Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I read the stuff below too but I could not get it to work. I am guessing though that my interpretation may be incorrect. I really would

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-11 Thread Robert Fisher
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:32, Wesley Parish wrote: Sorry. I should have indicated they are boot-time options. Contact me off-list if you need a hand. Why don't you confirm that you can do it first then offer help if you can? -- Regards, Robert

Re: qemu Wesley - addendum

2005-10-11 Thread Wesley Parish
Quoting Wesley Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Wesley Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Volker Kuhlmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: snip peripheral support (USB, printer, typical doze-only fax/scanner/etc, sound!!!), From the documentation: http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-11 Thread Ross Drummond
of a teaser here; http://www.inet.net.nz/~rossd/promising.png Cheers Ross Drummond On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 00:10, Ross Drummond wrote: Top talk Wesley. Your presentation has enticed me to try it myself. Cheers Ross Drummond

Re: qemu Wesley

2005-10-11 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Wednesday 12 October 2005 13:51, Wesley Parish wrote: Quoting Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 12 October 2005 12:01, Wesley Parish wrote: Quoting Ross Drummond [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Top talk Wesley. Your presentation has enticed me to try it myself

Re: WOW! Wesley Parich makes LinuxWorld!!

2003-10-28 Thread Paul William
Good job Wesley. On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 00:36, Jason Greenwood wrote: I may have missed this onlist but - way to go Wesley! http://www.linuxworld.com/story/35659.htm -- .''`. Paul William : :' :Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than

Re: WOW! Wesley Parich makes LinuxWorld!!

2003-10-28 Thread Trev
Jason Greenwood wrote: ...- way to go Wesley! Ditto! Trevor http://www.linuxworld.com/story/35659.htm

WOW! Wesley Parich makes LinuxWorld!!

2003-10-27 Thread Jason Greenwood
I may have missed this onlist but - way to go Wesley! http://www.linuxworld.com/story/35659.htm

Re: WOW! Wesley Parich makes LinuxWorld!!

2003-10-27 Thread Wesley Parish
Just saying something that I felt had to be said. Now it's up to BGjr and SB! Thanks. Wesley Parish On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 00:36, you wrote: I may have missed this onlist but - way to go Wesley! http://www.linuxworld.com/story/35659.htm -- Mau e ki, He aha te mea nui? You ask, What