Re: ./configure - what am I missing?

2004-05-19 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 19:41, Dale Anderson wrote: > gentoo's broken to start with a few root install's aint going to hurt ;p care to explain? then the flames may proceed... > > /me adorns flame suit > > Dale. > > On Wed, 19 May 2004 19:20, Col wrote: > > Slosh wrote: > > >On Wed, 2004-05-19 a

Re: vnc desktop...

2004-05-19 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 19:53, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Wednesday 19 May 2004 18:56, Don Gould wrote: > > I want to be able to view it from my win98 laptop. > > Score -1: Off Topic! How? he wants to view his linux desktop.

Re: different vnc question (on topic!)

2004-05-19 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 20:34, Roger Searle wrote: > Hi, hope you'll see this different vnc question as being on topic... I > am running vnc on my fedora notebook The other machines I want to > connect to all run win2k or xp, and I have a policy of always requiring > ctrl alt delete for logons.

Re: Suse 9.1 announced

2004-05-19 Thread Nick Rout
sorry, wrong thread, but i say go with the 30th I am happy to talk on gentoo maintenance etc. chris s and robert f can butt in when i get it wrong. alternatively, or as well, we can do a workshop, although they are not very informative to the general populace. On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 21:05, Info

Re: the YaST bit

2004-05-19 Thread Nick Rout
sily fragmented into other less well maintained repositories. > > On the gripping hand, I understand that projects like PLF are maintaining > internally-consistent and sizeable RPM collections ... > > So it's not the system, it's the package provider(s) that need to be > evaluated. > Its both ;-) you need a decent system first, along with maintainers who know what they are about. > -jim -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: vnc desktop... better solution

2004-05-19 Thread Nick Rout
ect via vnc. No mess, no fuss, no local latency problems :) > > > > http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/ > > > > Sascha > > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > > > iD8DBQFAq2THL43IewNc8hIRAkcQAJ9dLcSJ4VJFqxcCkDfuNn09F7oZqACffF8P > > 3ed/XoO8/dCodQNbayyvJs4= > > =UEnE > > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: the YaST bit

2004-05-19 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 20 May 2004 10:11:05 +1200 InfoHelp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nick Rout wrote: > > >On Thu, 20 May 2004 09:32:27 +1200 > >Jim Cheetham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>On the gripping hand, I understand that projects like PLF

Re: vnc desktop... better solution

2004-05-19 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 20 May 2004 10:41:21 +1200 Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Thats because you fundamentally misunderstand the way vnc > > works on linux. > > Hummm. > > > Actually if you read my org

Re: vnc desktop... better solution

2004-05-19 Thread Nick Rout
e libvncserver > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFAq2THL43IewNc8hIRAkcQAJ9dLcSJ4VJFqxcCkDfuNn09F7oZqACffF8P > 3ed/XoO8/dCodQNbayyvJs4= > =UEnE > -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: vnc desktop... better solution

2004-05-19 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 20 May 2004 11:44:21 +1200 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 20 May 2004 01:44:46 +1200 > Sascha Beaumont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Don Gould wrote: > &g

Re: Xorg and LTSP

2004-05-19 Thread Nick Rout
t it to go? > Is it worth the effort needed? > > -- > Sincerely etc. > Christopher Sawtell > > NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, > it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. > Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

MSI motherboards?

2004-05-20 Thread Nick Rout
Any news/views/reviews on these MB's? They seem to be at the cheaper end of the spectrum, and that makes me suspicious. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: MSI motherboards?

2004-05-20 Thread Nick Rout
yet. > > I have an nvidia Asus mobo and it seams stable and has a nice lot of > features :D > > > > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, 21 May 2004 1:11 p.m. > > To:

Gentoo afterfest tips, Part two: Gentoolkit

2004-05-20 Thread Nick Rout
sensible, and /don't/ run them as root unless there is a clear need! -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Mail server alterations

2004-05-21 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 18:53, Andy George wrote: > I wonder if it wouldnt be possible to alter the mail server for those of us > who are subscribers to a whole swathe of mailing lists... > > All the mailing lists I subscribe to, Rover, German Shepard, Ham Radio, and > so forth all have the name of

Re: Problems with RH9 800*600 screen

2004-05-21 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 21:57, Don Gould wrote: > Thanks, > > I haven't fixed the graphic problem yet. > > At present I'm looking at a very stretched screen which is very > annoying. > > Is vmware gpl/free? > www.vmware.com for licensing costs. > Cheers Don > > On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 21:47,

Re: Problems with RH9 800*600 screen - XConfig? Progress...

2004-05-21 Thread Nick Rout
Don, there will be useful information in /var/log/XFree86.0.log On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 17:56, Don Gould wrote: > Last night I got in to some late night googleing and turned up some > info... > > see: http://www.oceanpark.com/notes/sony_vaio_pcg-z505js.html > > (search for heading: Day 2 ) >

Re: Problems with RH9 800*600 screen - XConfig? Progress...

2004-05-22 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 20:31, Matthew Gregan wrote: > At 2004-05-22T175659+1200, Don Gould wrote: > > HorizSync31.5 - 37.9 > > You need to increase the maximum hsync. Try 48.5, or go find out > exactly what your display supports. > > Cheers, > -mjg I concur, It is quite obvious from the

Re: MSI motherboards?

2004-05-22 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 21:41, Caleb Sawtell wrote: > On Fri, 21 May 2004 21:48, Matthew Gregan wrote: > > At 2004-05-22T081213+, Caleb Sawtell wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, 21 May 2004 10:09, Don Gould wrote: > > > > Why does the date on your mail message show up as Satu

Re: MSI motherboards?

2004-05-22 Thread Nick Rout
Caleb, I assume you are still running gentoo ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Auckland /etc/localtime then set the clock with date or ntp -q On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 02:49, Caleb Sawtell wrote: > On Sun, 23 May 2004 00:46, Matthew Gregan wrote: > > At 2004-05-22T231932+, Caleb Sawtell wrote

Re: MSI motherboards?

2004-05-23 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 19:38, Matthew Gregan wrote: > At 2004-05-23T192918+, Caleb Sawtell wrote: > > On Sun, 23 May 2004 06:20, Nick Rout wrote: > > > ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Auckland /etc/localtime > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 May 23 11:09 /etc/

Re: calebs time problem was (Re: MSI motherboards?)

2004-05-23 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 08:20, Caleb Sawtell wrote: > On Sun, 23 May 2004 07:57, Nick Rout wrote: > > On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 19:38, Matthew Gregan wrote: > > > At 2004-05-23T192918+, Caleb Sawtell wrote: > > > > On Sun, 23 May 2004 06:20, Nick Rout wrote: > &

Re: Performance Tuning... Performance sux! How do I find out what's using what?

2004-05-23 Thread Nick Rout
crap from the kernel up. > > Are there any good wizard tools or do I need to use a set of complex CLI > commands? > > Cheers Don > > Ps: Still loving this mail reader. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 update?

2004-05-23 Thread Nick Rout
ng has bug in it (everytime I email > CLUG (as an entry in my address book) the message bounces). > > Thoughts? Comments? (return to Windows :p :) > > Cheers Don -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 update?

2004-05-23 Thread Nick Rout
ybe you have the wrong address in the address book? what is the bounce message. sounds more like a spelling error than a bug. > > Thoughts? Comments? (return to Windows :p :) > > Cheers Don -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 update?

2004-05-23 Thread Nick Rout
; > > > Obviously I want the most current usable version. > > > > Is there an NZ mirror for this Ximian? > > > > Is there a community forum? > > > > Is this an oss community development or one of those things that Novell > > is working on (and

Re: How do I see the Fat32 patition?

2004-05-23 Thread Nick Rout
tition on the disk is Fat32. > > How do I see (mount?) that within rh9? > > Cheers Don -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Sweeping generalizations Re: calebs time problem was (Re: MSI motherboards?)

2004-05-23 Thread Nick Rout
; > box > > with Gentoo at home 18 months ago I do not recall having one lockup. > > The guy was telling me that in the same period he has rebuilt his > > Windows > > box several times. > > > > Rob > > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Sweeping generalizations Re: calebs time problem was (Re: MSI motherboards?)

2004-05-23 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 24 May 2004 10:35:06 +1200 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I read somewhere that on your nforce chipset board you should disable > either apic or acpi. > > now if i could find where i saw it. i'd be really useful! got it, it was a response from the gentoo-

Re: Now: Sweeping generalizations Re: calebs time problem was (Re: MSI motherboards?)

2004-05-23 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 23 May 2004 22:50:00 +1200 steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Rout wrote: > > > [snip] > > > >you shouldn't need to ever reboot unless you get a new kernel, but > >nevertheless I think it might help this time. > > > > > &g

Re: How do I see the Fat32 patition?

2004-05-23 Thread Nick Rout
st be a basic concept idea that I'm missing here but why can't I > just see the volume at /dev/hda1 ? > > Why do I have to mount it? > > Sorry if this is a dumb ass question. > > Cheers Don > > On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 10:33, Nick Rout wrote: > > f

Re: Performance Tuning... Performance sux! How do I find out what's using what?

2004-05-23 Thread Nick Rout
> I have 27 services running (most of which I have no idea what they are), > is this normal? > > Are there any got'yas that I should know about and be looking for? > > How do I get a basic list of the services that are running? chkconfig --list service --status-all > Below is my top output, doe

Re: calebs time problem was (Re: MSI motherboards?)

2004-05-23 Thread Nick Rout
lock to be set to localtime, so if you dualboot you should choose the localtime option in /etc/rc.conf, so the time will be the same in linux and windows. [1] If you think about it, it doesn't matter to linux whether you store the time on the hardware clock as local or UTC, as it can w

Re: How do I see the Fat32 patition?

2004-05-23 Thread Nick Rout
es of your time to save many minutes of someone elses - > that's what USEnet and SIGs are about. I have spent many hours helping people > understand my specialities, and I don't regret a minute of it. > > by the same token a bit of your own reading can save a lot of time for everyone. It is a question of degree. > > Alasdair -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Mail server alterations

2004-05-23 Thread Nick Rout
an't escape 'doze you can still use something like > > Mozilla. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Zane Gilmore, Analyst / Programmer > > Information Services Section, Information Technology Dept, > > University of Canterbury - Te Whare Waananga o Waitaha > > Private Bag 4800, > > Christchurch New Zealand Phone +64-3-364 2987 extn 7895 > > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Capture Card Driver

2004-05-23 Thread Nick Rout
ROTECTED]> wrote: > I am new to Linux and am looking for a driver for my capture card. I > have tried the Leadtek site but to no avail > Can anyone help me to a site where I may be able to get one from. > > My capture card is a Winfast VC100 made by Leadtek > Ciao > Kev -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Writing cd's

2004-05-23 Thread Nick Rout
, section 2 Quickstart. The > modules.config has been altered as per Rute section 42.6.11 > > cdrecord -scanbus reports the following errors: > no such file or directory > cannot open '/dev/pg*' > Cannot open SCSI driver > > I am now at a dead end. Any suggestions please? > > TIA > > Barry -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Writing cd's

2004-05-24 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 19:47, Barry wrote: > Nick Rout wrote: > > > > I assume you are still on a series 2.4 kernel with that distro? > yes 2.4.18-6mdk > > > > > are you sure you are running the ide-scsi driver? you need to boot your > > kernel with the o

Re: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 update?

2004-05-24 Thread Nick Rout
an get an update directly from the Ximian website. I'm running > > 1.4.4 under RH9, dowloaded directly from there. > > > > Herman > > > > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 update?

2004-05-24 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 25 May 2004 10:33:15 +1200 Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 10:08, Nick Rout wrote: > > Don, the problem you started with was to do with bounce messages when > > you sent to an address in the address book. Have you checked that > >

Re: calebs time problem was (Re: MSI motherboards?)

2004-05-24 Thread Nick Rout
BTW did we get Caleb's time problem fixed? NR

Re: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 update?

2004-05-24 Thread Nick Rout
version of something similar, i'm not sure. On Tue, 25 May 2004 11:20:21 +1200 Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunatly (or perhaps fortunatly) I don't know of a simple way to do > a screen print to show/prove exactly what I was seeing. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 update?

2004-05-24 Thread Nick Rout
is last time i used it it didn't even refer to ISO's - it'll burn them, but it never mentions the term ISO in the extensive gui. > -- > Michael JasonSmith http://www.ldots.org/ -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: console via usb

2004-05-24 Thread Nick Rout
>>>>Hey all, > >>>> > >>>>Anyone know if you can get a 'Serial' Console using usb instead of a > >>>>serial port? I don't really care about having a console at boot up but it > >>>>would be a bonus. > >>>> > >>>>The only documentation I can find is about using the serial port. > >>>> > >>>>Cheers > >>>> > >>>>Paul > > > > > > --- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Message generated in webmail. > > > > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: What's going on, if anything? " Returned mail: User unknown"

2004-05-25 Thread Nick Rout
Its commom these days for virii to grab addresses out of the victim's address book and send mails to them. Whats more it uses another address out of the address book as the sender address. That means that when the mail bounces, the bounce message comes to you. There are many variations, and by th

Re: partition 100% full

2004-05-25 Thread Nick Rout
you need to find out where it is all stored. du is your friend. du=disk usage. get into a terminal and change to root user with su run the following command: du --max-depth=1 |sort -n this will determine how much is in each subdir, one depth down and sort it. if the largest dir is roger, cd t

Re: partition 100% full

2004-05-25 Thread Nick Rout
re-reading your message, is it your /home partition, or your / (root) partition? if it is the root partition, and you don't have any separate partitions for other parts of the file system, then an obvious candidate is your logs (in /var/log) growing out of control. Thats why servers usually have /

Re: How do I see the Fat32 patition?

2004-05-25 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 21:09, Brendan Greer wrote: > >The Rute manual is free and is a good newbie resource. > > > > > > The what manual? its a linux manual. google it.

Re: list FAQ

2004-05-25 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 21:38, Brendan Greer wrote: > Is there a FAQ for this mailing list some where? > no > > Brendan

Re: Dumb Ass Question - Was: Re: How do I see the Fat32 patition?

2004-05-25 Thread Nick Rout
How big is it Chris (the book I mean) On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 00:06, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Tue, 25 May 2004 00:45, Sascha Beaumont wrote: > > Don Gould wrote: > > | bb. Books. > > | > > | I have read just about every book in the public library on Linux now. > > | > > | I have found most to

Re: Dumb Ass Question - Was: Re: How do I see the Fat32 patition?

2004-05-25 Thread Nick Rout
I meant the online book. Chris, like other paradise users, has a free web page at homepages.paradise.net.nz. It could be a good place to house it (although his htdig may not be able to be used, depending what paradise allow) > > Andy -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Good bye and thank you.

2004-05-25 Thread Nick Rout
st, it has been a rewarding experience. > > I have though decided to un-subscribe as I cannot afford the time to keep up with > the emails, I will instead look up the archives from time to time. > > Aurevoir > > Lance Blackler > Registered user # 281213 -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Good bye and thank you.

2004-05-25 Thread Nick Rout
want to read. > > It's also why threadjacking is so annoying and also email clients that > trash threads. > > > > Nick Rout wrote: > > This is interesting and a little sad. One of Don's justifications for > > persistently asking questions which s

Re: Now: Procmail Was: Re: Good bye and thank you.

2004-05-25 Thread Nick Rout
; it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. > Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Now: Procmail Was: Re: Good bye and thank you.

2004-05-25 Thread Nick Rout
sorry that "yes" was in relation to procmail not gpg On Wed, 26 May 2004 13:56:10 +1200 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can > > but I am sure there are people who know more than me. > > in other words i will do it if there are no other volunteers.

Re: Dumb Ass Question - Was: Re: How do I see the Fat32 patition?

2004-05-25 Thread Nick Rout
ld also be hyperlinked to the spash screen of > >distributions - especially CD based distros like Knoppix that are > >specifically designed for newbies. > >What a find! Thanks, guys. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Now: Performance - Progress Update. Re: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 update?

2004-05-25 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 26 May 2004 15:18:58 +1200 Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've also got the indexing option set within Ximian and I'm wondering if > that might be impacting on things as I get about 1000 mail items each > day. I assume you mean in evolution? turn it off

Re: list FAQ - Questions about Mailinglist

2004-05-26 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 22:55, Brendan Greer wrote: > Jim Cheetham wrote: > > > Nick Rout wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 21:38, Brendan Greer wrote: > >> > >>> Is there a FAQ for this mailing list some where? > >> > >> no &

Re: Safety of the list (was Re: Good bye and thank you.)

2004-05-26 Thread Nick Rout
ome problems. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Gentoo Linux partition repair? - Reiserfs

2004-05-26 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 27 May 2004 11:14:46 +1200 InfoHelp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > thanks Nick for looking at the fault yesterday. > > Out of my Drafts folder comes where the install left off last week.. > > > Nick Rout wrote: > > >unmount the p

Re: Mozilla message threading

2004-05-26 Thread Nick Rout
> >> threads are correctly sorted by their last message. However when a > >> new message arrives I expect the thread that it belongs to to get > >> resorted to the top of my mailbox. This isn't happening. Am I doing > >> something wrong, or am I misunderstanding the way message threading > >> works? > >> > >> Cheers > >> Brad > > > > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: list FAQ - Questions about Mailinglist

2004-05-26 Thread Nick Rout
tc. > Christopher Sawtell > > NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, > it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. > Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: My MDK10 Install on Sony VAIO

2004-05-26 Thread Nick Rout
the error emssages around > them. "$ dmesg | grep -A 3 -B 3 eth" will give three lines either side > of the matches ... as will grep -C 3 A=after B=before C=context, ie A and B -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

ipcop static route

2004-05-27 Thread Nick Rout
the startup scripts, but if ipcop has the facility already, i will use that. startup scripts have a habit of being over-ridden on an upgrade. thanks. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: ipcop static route

2004-05-27 Thread Nick Rout
hotocopier scanner etc etc. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: ipcop static route

2004-05-27 Thread Nick Rout
Its promising. The ipcop-devel list seems to be telling me that they are on the verge of a final beta, so its a way off yet. > > Cheers, > -mjg > -- > Matthew Gregan |/ > /|[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: ipcop static route

2004-05-27 Thread Nick Rout
wo? You're also forgetting the installation and downtime > costs of adding an additional interface. > > -mjg > -- > Matthew Gregan |/ > /|[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Gentoo 2004.1 x86 athlon-xp cd's

2004-05-28 Thread Nick Rout
I cut you one, if you still want it. On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 17:47, mike wrote: > Hey there.. > > I'm back! > (woo) > > So, about those gentoo cd's.. > I was thinking I could just pop into ecafe over the weekend and grab them.. > Paul, does that sound ok? > > If not, or if someone has a better i

Re: Gentoo 2004.1 x86 athlon-xp cd's

2004-05-28 Thread Nick Rout
t; > >> > >The live cd or install disk is 'universal'. > >See, for example:- > >ftp://ftp2.jetstreamgames.co.nz/gentoo/releases/x86/2004.1/livecd/ > > > >Make sure you get the correct 'packages' cd. > >ftp://ftp2.jetstreamgames.

Re: Installfest Meeting tonight - minutes

2004-05-28 Thread Nick Rout
Lets take this conversation to the installfest mailing list - saves confusion. On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 12:01, InfoHelp wrote: > Sounds like you're just the kind of 'grunt' we need Paul, to keep our > 'guns' in support for troubleshooting the hard stuff! My skills are > similarly 'developing'. Cor

Re: Gentoo 2004.1 x86 athlon-xp cd's

2004-05-28 Thread Nick Rout
where are you, I am about to go to town actually. On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 12:08, mike wrote: > Yes please, a universal cd would be perfect ;) > > I could probably drive out there to pick them up also, its a good day > for it :) > > Nick Rout wrote: > > >Mike, before

Re: Installfest Meeting tonight - minutes

2004-05-28 Thread Nick Rout
http://trash.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/installfest_trash.co.nz On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 12:09, Jason Greenwood wrote: > How does one go about joining the installfest list again? Been a while > since I been on it... > > Cheers > > J > > Nick Rout wrote: > > Lets

Re: Gentoo video modules - ATI

2004-05-28 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 15:32, InfoHelp wrote: > Thanks Chris, > > Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > >On Sat, 29 May 2004 14:59, InfoHelp wrote: > > > > > >>on we go.. > >> > >> > >:-) > > > > > > > >>I now know that I have the wrong ATI driver set in place. > >> > >> > >How do you know th

Re: Gentoo video modules - ATI

2004-05-28 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 17:11, InfoHelp wrote: > InfoHelp wrote: > > > Nick Rout wrote: > > > >> In this case if you want a newer version it is time to rsync and emerge > >> the new version. Assuming it is a later version. what version do you > >> have

Re: Gentoo video modules - ATI

2004-05-29 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 20:09, InfoHelp wrote: > Nick Rout wrote: > > >On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 17:11, InfoHelp wrote: > > > > > >>InfoHelp wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>Nick Rout wrote: > >>> > >>>

Re: Gentoo test mail

2004-05-29 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 21:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > LiveCD boot, net-setup eth0 > chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash ... why? it was booting from grub? > Lynx, webmail > > Hi guys, if we can read this, Gentoo trial box has contact with WWW > > - maybe that's all it will ever do! ;-) > > I'll st

Re: ntfresize

2004-05-29 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 15:21, Don Gould wrote: > On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 22:07, Paul Wilkins wrote: > > > What? You mean put in new drive, copy old drive partition(s) across, > > that sort of kidney? > > No. > > I was asking about putting in a new disk for Linux only. > > I wouldn't suggest t

Strategies for installing - no floppy or cd

2004-05-30 Thread Nick Rout
I want to get linux up and running on a fujitsu stylistic 2300 touchpad device. These things have a hard drive, screen, usb port, twin pcmcia, serial, parallel, ps/2. modem, irda, audio line in/out and modem (not telepermitted), no floppy drive, no cd. I could take the hard drive out and use a 2.5-

Re: Strategies for installing - no floppy or cd

2004-05-30 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 21:57, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Sun, 30 May 2004 20:20, Nick Rout wrote: > > Any bright ideas? > Assuming that you can load files yes windows 95 works with the wired pcmcia card I have. > -- it would seem so because you have loaded > a browser.

Re: Strategies for installing - no floppy or cd

2004-05-30 Thread Nick Rout
for pcmcia and the pcmcia wired network card, so that was sweet :-) when i find the wireless card i'll try that too, the problem with miniaturisation is remembering where you put things down! On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 22:43, Nick Rout wrote: > On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 21:57, Christopher Sawte

Re: Smoothwall express

2004-05-30 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 31 May 2004 10:02:43 +1200 Carl Cerecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and the smoothwall > creator is (reportedly) rude and obnoxious. definitely! -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Licenses (was Re: Relative Mac benefits)

2004-05-30 Thread Nick Rout
uot; choice, especially if your project won't be as > > popular as Apache, MySQL or Mozilla ... > > Sounds like a good topic for a talk at a meeting. > > Any volunteers? are you thinking of a talk from a developer's perspective or a user's perspective? > > Cheers, > Carl. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Wiki for CLUG

2004-05-30 Thread Nick Rout
gt; In the meantime, have a play with the wiki, let me know of any problems > with it, and *enjoy*! > > http://clug.inode.co.nz > > -jim -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Licenses (was Re: Relative Mac benefits)

2004-05-30 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 31 May 2004 11:56:54 +1200 Carl Cerecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Rout wrote: > > On Mon, 31 May 2004 11:40:01 +1200 > > Carl Cerecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>>Although I think I understand the differences betw

Re: Smoothwall express

2004-05-30 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 31 May 2004 10:50:48 +1200 Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 31 May 2004 10:06, Nick Rout wrote: > > On Mon, 31 May 2004 10:02:43 +1200 > > > > Carl Cerecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > and the smoothwall > &

Re: Smoothwall express

2004-05-30 Thread Nick Rout
> > True, but Richard Morrel is (reportedly) now no longer part of the Smoothwall > > Team, but that does not induce me to change back from the excellent IPCop. > > Indeed Mr Morrell seems to post with some regularity to IPCopDevel. > > Now theres an irony. > actually i take that back, i misin

Re: ntfresize

2004-05-30 Thread Nick Rout
ard disk space is cheap. I say to installees "buy another drive. you are getting a free OS, free install help, we can't be expected to also squeeze a cat into a balloon." -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Urgent for Rex Johnston

2004-05-30 Thread Nick Rout
ould tell him to get check his email. > > > > -- > Zane Gilmore, Analyst / Programmer > Information Services Section, Information Technology Dept, > University of Canterbury - Te Whare Waananga o Waitaha > Private Bag 4800, > Christchurch New Zealand Phone +64-3-364 2987 extn 7895 -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Urgent for Rex Johnston

2004-05-30 Thread Nick Rout
or, dare i say it, looking up his web page, which has his cell phone number on it. his email is @sclnz.com. so try www.sclnz.com On Mon, 31 May 2004 14:12:08 +1200 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > why not ring chris hellyar at t the selwyn district council in leeston? > &

Re: Wiki for CLUG

2004-05-30 Thread Nick Rout
"save" ... don't bother to preview if you're confident. Job done. > > One of the downsides of a wiki over more traditional storage is the > speed of changes ... :-) > > -jim -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Slightly OT, Gentoo 2004.1 up and running! :)

2004-05-31 Thread Nick Rout
emerge nvtv read the docs thatit installs under /usr/share/docs/nvtv-version On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 22:53, mike wrote: > Hey, just wanted to thank nick for the gentoo cd's and to say i've got > things up and running nicely now.. > > (running on an nforce2 board, with nvidia geforce fx 5200 agp g

Re: A serial2serial question

2004-05-31 Thread Nick Rout
t; > Wesley Parish > > "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" > I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the > other horizon. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: XH6822 - Will it work with Linux?

2004-05-31 Thread Nick Rout
gt; /|[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Slightly OT, Gentoo 2004.1 up and running! :)

2004-05-31 Thread Nick Rout
compiling) In either case, when you log in to X just choose kde from the login manager. > > - put it all down to being rushed over kernel > - i hope the unregistered fest installees are enjoying what they got! > > cheers > > rik > > Nick Rout wrote: > >

Re: Installation from ftp share

2004-05-31 Thread Nick Rout
> folder? > -- > Robert Fisher > www.fisher.net.nz > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: erroro correction Slightly OT, Gentoo 2004.1 up and running! :)

2004-05-31 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 14:06:18 +1200 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 13:46:44 +1200 > InfoHelp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > further to this, > > > > am making good headway, having revisited kernel compilation many a t

Re: erroro correction Slightly OT, Gentoo 2004.1 up and running! :)

2004-05-31 Thread Nick Rout
if there are problems. if you boot off the cd again, write down the modules it picks up and follow the same procedure. On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 14:45:56 +1200 InfoHelp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Nick Rout wrote: > > >On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 14:06:18 +1200 > >Nick

Re: ????@? @

2004-05-31 Thread Nick Rout
a separate partition. > > Never EVER! run fsck in other than check mode, as opposed to correct mode, > with the file-system mounted. > > > All I have is 3 Mandrake CDs. > Time you had a Tom's Root and Boot floppy and a Knoppix CD to hand. > > -- > Sincerely etc. > Christopher Sawtell > > NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, > it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. > Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: What time server should I use?

2004-05-31 Thread Nick Rout
D] > >>Sent: Tuesday, 1 June 2004 4:05 p.m. > >>To: clug > >>Subject: What time server should I use? > >> > >> > >>I'm just setting up RH9 to use a time server (from KDE using the Date/Time > >>Properties dialog). > >> > >>What time server should I use given I'm using an xtra connection? > >> > >>Does xtra have a time server does anyone know? > >> > >>Cheers Don > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: ????@? @

2004-05-31 Thread Nick Rout
Read my lips. The mandrake cd can be used for rescue! On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 18:08, Douglas Royds wrote: > Thanks, but I meant physically. Downloading whole CDs over 56k is not my > idea of a good time, though it does at least stop unwanted telemarketers. > > Anyone got copies that I can copy? >

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