RE: OT 1TB pata drives?

2010-08-08 Thread Bryce Stenberg
side - a year or so back was around $40. Regards, Bryce Stenberg. DISCLAIMER: If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by reply email, facsimile or collect telephone call to +64 3 9641200 and destroy the original. Please refer to full DISCLAIMER at http

LiveCD on a flash drive - make it updatable?

2010-07-29 Thread Bryce Stenberg
instead? (would this still let me boot any pc with it?). Thanks for ideas or suggestions. Bryce Stenberg. DISCLAIMER: If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by reply email, facsimile or collect telephone call to +64 3 9641200 and destroy the original. Please

RE: LiveCD on a flash drive - make it updatable?

2010-07-29 Thread Bryce Stenberg
? Use USB-Creator in ubuntu which gives you the option to have a data partition. On 30/07/10 09:36, Bryce Stenberg wrote: Hello everyone, I've got a 1GB flash drive on which I have placed the Ubuntu Desktop

RE: Ubuntu 10.04 server: Setting to stop upgrades to later versions?

2010-05-05 Thread Bryce Stenberg
-Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:nick.r...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 4:47 PM I don't think it will update to a new release unless you specifically tell it to. But also I think you can edit /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades and set Prompt=lts Thanks

Ubuntu 10.04 server: Setting to stop upgrades to later versions?

2010-05-04 Thread Bryce Stenberg
). This setting is so version stays at the LTS version. Does anyone know where to set this without a gui interface as when I get updates I want this server to stay on the LTS version? Or have I got it wrong and nothing can change unless I run 'do-release-upgrade' manually? Regards, Bryce Stenberg

RE: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS released

2010-04-29 Thread Bryce Stenberg
' or do I download it and do it from cd? What is the best way to upgrade this server to 10.04 lts? Thanks, Bryce Stenberg. DISCLAIMER: If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by reply email, facsimile or collect telephone call to +64 3 9641200 and destroy

RE: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS released

2010-04-29 Thread Bryce Stenberg
-Original Message- From: Hadley Rich [mailto:h...@nice.net.nz] Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 2:51 PM On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 14:44 +1200, Bryce Stenberg wrote: What is the best way to upgrade this server to 10.04 lts? `sudo do-release-upgrade` is the supported way. Cheers - thanks

RE: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS released

2010-04-29 Thread Bryce Stenberg
this might not be working for me, or where to look for solution? Thanks, Bryce Stenberg. DISCLAIMER: If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by reply email, facsimile or collect telephone call to +64 3 9641200 and destroy the original. Please refer to full

RE: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS released

2010-04-29 Thread Bryce Stenberg
deb http://nz2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic main restricted deb-src http://nz2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic main restricted Worth trying the other one (: Thanks Steve - changed all entries to the 'nz2' and now appears to want to work. Cheers - Bryce. DISCLAIMER: If you have

RE: Connecting to a Thompson WiFi router.

2010-04-14 Thread Bryce Stenberg
mind is how it should be if they replace with a brand new item... Anyway - don't buy a WAG160N. -Bryce Stenberg. DISCLAIMER: If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by reply email, facsimile or collect telephone call to +64 3 9641200 and destroy the original

RE: md RAID

2010-04-08 Thread Bryce Stenberg
: http://www.miracleas.com/BAARF/RAID5_versus_RAID10.txt Regards, Bryce Stenberg. DISCLAIMER: If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by reply email, facsimile or collect telephone call to +64 3 9641200 and destroy the original. Please refer to full DISCLAIMER

RE: Moving /var - problem with /var/lock and /var/run?

2010-04-08 Thread Bryce Stenberg
-Original Message- From: Wayne Rooney [mailto:wroo...@ihug.co.nz] I don't think your /etc/fstab is quite right. Can you post the file so we can see it. Fstab: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique

RE: Moving /var - problem with /var/lock and /var/run?

2010-04-08 Thread Bryce Stenberg
-Original Message- From: Barry [mailto:barr...@paradise.net.nz] Could you move /var to where you want it, /new_pos/var,then make a soft link to it from /var.Then alter fstab to mount the ptn, then reboot I'm not sure I understand - the new partition will mount as /var. What is

RE: Moving /var - problem with /var/lock and /var/run?

2010-04-08 Thread Bryce Stenberg
to 0 and all should be well. Thanks Steve, I set it to '1' to force it to be checked (as per Hadley's comment) and it appears to have booted up fine without errors. Cheers everyone, Bryce Stenberg. DISCLAIMER: If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by reply

Moving /var - problem with /var/lock and /var/run?

2010-04-07 Thread Bryce Stenberg
from the beginning (although then I don't learn why it is screwed up but it might at least work)? Thanks for any insight you can provide me. Regards, Bryce Stenberg. DISCLAIMER: If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by reply email, facsimile or collect

2 hard drives - filesystem question?

2010-03-31 Thread Bryce Stenberg
drive, not sure what to do in linux. Thanks, Bryce Stenberg. DISCLAIMER: If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by reply email, facsimile or collect telephone call to +64 3 9641200 and destroy the original. Please refer to full DISCLAIMER at http

RE: 2 hard drives - filesystem question?

2010-03-31 Thread Bryce Stenberg
was trying to get it all in one LV to simplify backup/restore procedures, but looks like it can't be done without going via a 'horrible answer' :) Thanks Craig. Regards, Bryce Stenberg. DISCLAIMER: If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by reply email, facsimile

RE: Hi I need a disk for ubuntu 9.10

2010-03-21 Thread Bryce Stenberg
Can anybody help in sparing ubuntu9.10 disk pl. I work in Lincoln Rd and can burn one for you if that is handy to you? Is only 32bit version (although could download 64bit if you require). Regards, Bryce Stenberg. DISCLAIMER: If you have received this email in error, please notify us

Good SSH client for windows?

2010-03-18 Thread Bryce Stenberg
these colours so... I need a good SSH client to use on my windows machine. Any recommendations? Thanks, Bryce Stenberg. DISCLAIMER: If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by reply email, facsimile or collect telephone call to +64 3 9641200 and destroy

RE: Good SSH client for windows?

2010-03-18 Thread Bryce Stenberg
So PuTTY it is. But I may need more pointers. I keep getting 'Network error: connection refused' I've added the username to auto-login. No keys are involved, using ssh. I modified server sshd_config file to not restrict to specific users and allow admin login but still no go. (However,

RE: Good SSH client for windows?

2010-03-18 Thread Bryce Stenberg
-Original Message- From: Roy Britten [mailto:roy.brit...@gmail.com] However, I suspect the problem isn't the SSH client, but the settings on your remote machine. Have a look at http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=ls_colors and maybe http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=vim+colors Thanks

RE: UBUNTU 9.10 Server Install - LVM problem?

2010-03-14 Thread Bryce Stenberg
for moodle to help with industry training. Thanks for all your help and discussion. Regards, Bryce Stenberg. DISCLAIMER: If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by reply email, facsimile or collect telephone call to +64 3 9641200 and destroy the original. Please

UBUNTU 9.10 Server Install - LVM problem?

2010-03-11 Thread Bryce Stenberg
as the installation can proceed? Regards, Bryce Stenberg. DISCLAIMER: If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by reply email, facsimile or collect telephone call to +64 3 9641200 and destroy the original. Please refer to full DISCLAIMER at http://www.hrnz.co.nz

RE: UBUNTU 9.10 Server Install - LVM problem?

2010-03-11 Thread Bryce Stenberg
From: Steve Holdoway [mailto:st...@greengecko.co.nz] Not done this on 9.10, but with all (older) debian'esque services I've set up with LVM, you need to partition manually, and the options you need can be hidden off the bottom of the screen, expecially if you're in text mode. But you can set

Ubuntu server: no network after restore to new hardware?

2010-01-26 Thread Bryce Stenberg
, or missed something off? I was hoping someone could give me ideas of what to look at to locate the problem as I really haven't got my head around how linux handles things like network cards and how the drivers fit in... Thanks in advance. Regards, Bryce Stenberg. DISCLAIMER: If you have

RE: Ubuntu server: no network after restore to new hardware?

2010-01-26 Thread Bryce Stenberg
-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Ubuntu server: no network after restore to new hardware? Bryce Stenberg wrote, On 27/01/10 13:14: I've been continuing my experimentation with backup and restore using Ubuntu server 9.04. Today I restored my system to completely different hardware

RE: Ubuntu server: no network after restore to new hardware?

2010-01-26 Thread Bryce Stenberg
Cheers Hadley - exactly my problem. Regards, Bryce. -Original Message- From: Hadley Rich [mailto:h...@nice.net.nz] Sent: Wednesday, 27 January 2010 1:31 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Ubuntu server: no network after restore to new hardware? On Wed, 27 Jan

RE: Ubuntu server: no network after restore to new hardware?

2010-01-26 Thread Bryce Stenberg
: no network after restore to new hardware? On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Bryce Stenberg br...@hrnz.co.nz wrote: After restoring the only thing not going seems to be my network connection. In my /etc/network/interfaces I still have the lines: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp Your new

RE: Point-in-Time Backup and Restore - any gotchas?

2009-12-22 Thread Bryce Stenberg
an exclude file - I may try that. Once I have 'real' data on this machine I'll look at using truecrypt - we already use truecrypt on some of our windows servers for external backup. Regards, Bryce Stenberg. DISCLAIMER: If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately

RE: Point-in-Time Backup and Restore - any gotchas?

2009-12-21 Thread Bryce Stenberg
a multi-character value and assign it to a variable? Also, is there an equivalent of the DOS 'pause' command under bash? Cheers, Bryce Stenberg. DISCLAIMER: If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by reply email, facsimile or collect telephone call to +64 3

RE: Point-in-Time Backup and Restore - any gotchas?

2009-12-21 Thread Bryce Stenberg
-Original Message- From: Christopher Sawtell [mailto:csawt...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 9:50 AM echo -n What is V: ; read V; echo $V Cool... Remember that bash has a help system for the builtin commands. help read help echo Wow, I didn't know that. Cooking

RE: Point-in-Time Backup and Restore - any gotchas?

2009-12-21 Thread Bryce Stenberg
-Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:nick.r...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 10:42 AM Just remember that linux/unix scripts are supposed to be small and do one thing well. snip Thanks for the additional info Nick. -bryce. DISCLAIMER: If you have

Point-in-Time Backup and Restore - any gotchas?

2009-12-20 Thread Bryce Stenberg
' to get numbers echo You are changing the uuid values to point to the boot partitions uuid - /dev/sda5 in our case # end. Thanks and Regards, Bryce Stenberg IT Department Harness Racing New Zealand Inc

Downgrade Ubuntu?

2009-11-03 Thread Bryce Stenberg
to get it working. But is still not good, and won't hibernate anymore... So, does anyone know an easy way to downgrade the installation back to Ubuntu 9.04? Thanks, Bryce Stenberg DISCLAIMER: If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by reply email

Backing up server?

2009-10-07 Thread Bryce Stenberg
until Monday now as off home - thanks for your opinions. Regards, Bryce Stenberg IT Department Harness Racing New Zealand Inc DISCLAIMER: If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by reply email, facsimile or collect telephone call to +64 3

RE: stop booting to gui?

2009-09-27 Thread Bryce Stenberg
The correct answer is sudo update-rc.d gdm remove this will remove gdm (which starts X) from startup. I love the rich number of options to do anything under Linux. This answer from Nick above (with -f flag) was the one that worked for me in the end. Thanks everyone, Bryce Stenberg

stop booting to gui?

2009-09-24 Thread Bryce Stenberg
. Regards, Bryce Stenberg IT Department Harness Racing New Zealand Inc DISCLAIMER: If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by reply email, facsimile or collect telephone call to +64 3 9641200 and destroy the original. Please refer to full

RE: Networking - equivalent of windows 'alternate configuration' setting?

2009-08-24 Thread Bryce Stenberg
-Original Message- From: steve [mailto:st...@greengecko.co.nz] Sent: Monday, 24 August 2009 6:58 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: RE: Networking - equivalent of windows 'alternate configuration' setting? On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 15:02 +1200, bryce wrote: ... I've got to

RE: Networking - equivalent of windows 'alternate configuration' setting?

2009-08-23 Thread Bryce Stenberg
a 'lease' to this in dhclient.conf without success. Someone else suggested I try 'ifplugd' which may allow me to script it, but I haven't gone down that path yet. Regards, Bryce Stenberg DISCLAIMER: If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by reply email, facsimile

RE: Networking - equivalent of windows 'alternate configuration' setting?

2009-08-23 Thread Bryce Stenberg
success. Someone else suggested I try 'ifplugd' which may allow me to script it, but I haven't gone down that path yet. Regards, Bryce Stenberg Let me know if it works... Steve DISCLAIMER: If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by reply email, facsimile

RE: Networking - equivalent of windows 'alternate configuration' setting?

2009-08-20 Thread Bryce Stenberg
configuration when I have to. Regards, Bryce Stenberg -Original Message- From: steve [mailto:st...@greengecko.co.nz] Sent: Thursday, 20 August 2009 4:33 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: RE: Networking - equivalent of windows 'alternate configuration' setting? On Thu

Networking - equivalent of windows 'alternate configuration' setting?

2009-08-19 Thread Bryce Stenberg
to 'automatic (dhcp)' losing previously entered manual address. I just thought there must be a way for this to be all automatic... Regards, Bryce Stenberg IT Department Harness Racing New Zealand Inc. DISCLAIMER: If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately

RE: Networking - equivalent of windows 'alternate configuration' setting?

2009-08-19 Thread Bryce Stenberg
-Original Message- From: jim.cheet...@gmail.com [mailto:jim.cheet...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Jim Cheetham Sent: Thursday, 20 August 2009 10:55 a.m. So, edit /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf, and look at the commented-out stuff at the bottom :-) I've been trying this out using 'lease' but can't

RE: Networking - equivalent of windows 'alternate configuration' setting?

2009-08-19 Thread Bryce Stenberg
(or whatever it is called) without a reboot? Right clicking and choosing enable/disable doesn't do trick. Is there a way to see the output or parsing of the dhclient.conf file to see what it is not happy with? Thanks, Bryce Stenberg. DISCLAIMER: If you have received this email in error, please notify

RE: Networking - equivalent of windows 'alternate configuration' setting?

2009-08-19 Thread Bryce Stenberg
: info (eth0): deactivating device (reason: 40). After that I can't keep trying until I reboot pc to reactivate the device. So, is there command to activate a device once it has been 'deactivated'? Restarting dhcp client is not sufficient. Regards, Bryce Stenberg DISCLAIMER: If you have

RE: ubuntu 9.04 on notebook: display not quite right?

2009-08-16 Thread Bryce Stenberg
correctly. Regards, Bryce Stenberg. DISCLAIMER: If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by reply email, facsimile or collect telephone call to +64 3 9641200 and destroy the original. Please refer to full DISCLAIMER at http://www.hrnz.co.nz/eDisclaimer.htm

Reset desktop?

2009-08-13 Thread Bryce Stenberg
isn't very satisfactory. Thanks. Bryce Stenberg. DISCLAIMER: If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by reply email, facsimile or collect telephone call to +64 3 9641200 and destroy the original. Please refer to full DISCLAIMER at http

RE: Reset desktop?

2009-08-13 Thread Bryce Stenberg
-Original Message- From: steve [mailto:st...@greengecko.co.nz] Sent: Friday, 14 August 2009 1:52 p.m. Du you mean the user switcher... red with white circle thingy? Adding that back to the toolbar is simpler... right click whilst over the panel Thanks Steve - that was it - I didn't know

RE: ubuntu 9.04 on notebook: display not quite right?

2009-08-12 Thread Bryce Stenberg
-Original Message- From: Craig Falconer [mailto:cfalco...@totalteam.co.nz] Sent: Wednesday, 12 August 2009 12:27 p.m. Could be the Ubuntu-provided Xorg driver for this chipset. Check out /var/log/xorg.0.log (or similar) and look for errors (lines with ee at the start) No error lines in

RE: ubuntu 9.04 on notebook: display not quite right?

2009-08-12 Thread Bryce Stenberg
-Original Message- From: Hadley Rich [mailto:h...@nice.net.nz] Sent: Thursday, 13 August 2009 1:46 p.m. There are some issues with some Intel Xorg drivers in Ubuntu 9.04. I don't know if this effects your chipset but if so, you've basically got three options. 1. Try fixing/working around

RE: ubuntu 9.04 on notebook: display not quite right?

2009-08-11 Thread Bryce Stenberg
-Original Message- From: Craig Falconer [mailto:cfalco...@totalteam.co.nz] Sent: Tuesday, 11 August 2009 1:45 p.m. It sounds like its powersaving which is causing the problem. Is there a difference in the video between screen blanking and suspend? Suspend does not work under ubuntu on

RE: ubuntu 9.04 on notebook: display not quite right?

2009-08-10 Thread Bryce Stenberg
-Original Message- From: Phill Coxon [mailto:phi...@xtra.co.nz] Sent: Sunday, 9 August 2009 7:23 p.m. If the display starts off ok and gets worse over time getting increasingly blobby it might possibly be an over-heating problem. If it's an older notebook check the fan vents on the side

RE: ubuntu 9.04 on notebook: display not quite right?

2009-08-10 Thread Bryce Stenberg
able to be blanked is good on a notebook. Any other suggestions welcome. Regards, Bryce Stenberg. DISCLAIMER: If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by reply email, facsimile or collect telephone call to +64 3 9641200 and destroy the original. Please refer

ubuntu 9.04 on notebook: display not quite right?

2009-08-06 Thread Bryce Stenberg
, Bryce Stenberg IT Department Harness Racing New Zealand Inc. DISCLAIMER: If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by reply email, facsimile or collect telephone call to +64 3 9641200 and destroy the original. Please refer to full DISCLAIMER at http

Installing application supplied with .run file?

2009-07-09 Thread Bryce Stenberg
something as that doesn't fire it up. What application do I tell it to use to install the .run file? I tried dpkg but I can't make that launch the application installer like the right click - open in terminal did. Can anyone give me a clue please? Regards, Bryce Stenberg. DISCLAIMER: If you have

RE: Installing application supplied with .run file?

2009-07-09 Thread Bryce Stenberg
Sorry for late reply - evolution keeps locking up on me... back in windows now.. Anyway, Thanks for that Steve - that got my app installed. Next week I'll hopefully get it running the way I want. Regards, Bryce Stenberg IT Department Harness Racing New Zealand Inc. -Original

Ubuntu 9.04 install - direct it to empty hard drive?

2009-06-18 Thread Bryce Stenberg
, it seems to want to install itself to my second partition on disk1 - adding extra partitions and resizing. I don't want this partition touched. Can anyone please tell me how to get it installed to Disk2? Thanks, Bryce Stenberg. DISCLAIMER: If you have received this email in error, please

RE: Ubuntu 9.04 install - direct it to empty hard drive?

2009-06-18 Thread Bryce Stenberg
9.04 install - direct it to empty hard drive? Have you tried the manual partition method??? Steve On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 14:28 +1200, Bryce Stenberg wrote: Hi, As part of keeping our options open I have been permitted to play with linux on Friday afternoons at work to become

RE: Ubuntu 9.04 install - direct it to empty hard drive?

2009-06-18 Thread Bryce Stenberg
I have not yet installed ubuntu. Maybe it is going wrong as when it gets to the 'Prepare disk space' page it says This computer has no operating systems on it while showing a disk graph for /dev/sdb1 (which is my terabyte disk). The default option is set at Install them side by side, choosing

RE: Ubuntu 9.04 install - direct it to empty hard drive?

2009-06-18 Thread Bryce Stenberg
miss the obvious :-). And I'll look out for that alternate ubuntu for when we come to setting up servers. Thanks, Bryce Stenberg DISCLAIMER: If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by reply email, facsimile or collect telephone call to +64 3 9641200 and destroy

RE: Ubuntu 9.04 install - direct it to empty hard drive?

2009-06-18 Thread Bryce Stenberg
Thanks Kerry - testing server setup will be some time off for now. -bryce. -Original Message- From: 164qv.a...@gmail.com [mailto:164qv.a...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Kerry Mayes No, no, there's a different disc again for servers! 2009/6/19 Bryce Stenberg br...@hrnz.co.nz

RE: Internet shortages

2009-06-15 Thread Bryce Stenberg
will get me a brand new replacement unit with only one month of warranty!). Is this right for them to be able to do this - dodgy manufacturers can just keep giving out cheap dodgy replacements until the warranty runs out... Regards, Bryce Stenberg. DISCLAIMER: If you have received this email

command to change a volume label?

2009-05-06 Thread Bryce Stenberg
back to TRK - their updater looks like it was initially written for running from a CD. Thanks, Bryce Stenberg

RE: command to change a volume label?

2009-05-06 Thread Bryce Stenberg
Thanks for that Eliot. I finally got it work, once I'd added a mtools.conf file - good tip :) Regards, Bryce Stenberg IT Department Harness Racing New Zealand Inc. -Original Message- From: ewb...@gmail.com [mailto:ewb...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Eliot Blennerhassett Sent

RE: computer shopping

2009-04-23 Thread Bryce Stenberg
in NZ. -Regards, Bryce Stenberg.

RE: OT: Hardware help (Athlon socket 939)

2007-02-14 Thread Bryce Stenberg
I suspect anti-static strap won't help unless hooked up to a good earth - someone please correct me if this wrong and I'm not sure what you do with some motherboards these days that don't completely power off until you disconnect the power cord. Regards, Bryce Stenberg.

RE: OT: Hardware help (Athlon socket 939)

2007-02-14 Thread Bryce Stenberg
be damaged by the charge now on the earth rail? I guess I don't understand where this charge goes to if you are not earthed? Can you offer insight into this? Thanks, Bryce Stenberg. Personally, I find these things highly overrated, and consciously touching the equipment before working on any part

RE: Virtual firewalls

2006-11-13 Thread Bryce Stenberg
Hi, Are you now plugged into a hub instead of a switch? Or somehow listening in promiscuous mode on the network adapter? Otherwise, your network adapter, if into a switch should only be seeing traffic destined just for it, and some broadcast traffic. Regards, Bryce Stenberg

Restore default panel on gnome desktop?

2006-10-23 Thread Bryce Stenberg
logout. I see she still gets her right and left mouse clicks confused so probably hit the delete context menu item off the panel. Anyway, is there an easy way to get the default panel back again? Regards, Bryce Stenberg.

RE: Restore default panel on gnome desktop?

2006-10-23 Thread Bryce Stenberg
desktop? On 24/10/06 16:48, Bryce Stenberg wrote: On the weekend I let my daughter (age 6) try her hand at the games installed with OpenSUSE 10.1. It is running the gnome desktop. Now somehow she managed to delete all those nice panel items like Applications - there were two others but I

RE: Restore default panel on gnome desktop?

2006-10-23 Thread Bryce Stenberg
on gnome desktop? Hey, Bryce Stenberg wrote: Hi, On the weekend I let my daughter (age 6) try her hand at the games installed with OpenSUSE 10.1. It is running the gnome desktop. Now somehow she managed to delete all those nice panel items like Applications - there were two others

RE: Connect to Internet - where's the dial-up button?

2006-08-27 Thread Bryce Stenberg
computer at home is the non-functional linux one so I have to try to send mails from work and recall what's actually going on . Thanks, Bryce Stenberg.

RE: Connect to Internet - where's the dial-up button?

2006-08-15 Thread Bryce Stenberg
Thanks Andrew, I installed the gnome interface, I'll see how I get on with that extra info you supplied. I did see a thread labelled 'kppp' or something but had deleted them, not realizing it was discussing dial-up, I shall look that up on web archive as well. Regards, Bryce Stenberg

RE: Connect to Internet - where's the dial-up button? - who cares

2006-08-15 Thread Bryce Stenberg
know your stuff. I will try to stay on top of answers (should flow much easier when the machine I email from is in the same location as the one I'm trying to get support for, or even better, is the one I am trying to get support for). Regards, Bryce Stenberg. winmail.dat

Connect to Internet - where's the dial-up button?

2006-08-14 Thread Bryce Stenberg
it be obvious? Or is not obvious because I picked the wrong port for the modem maybe or modem is not going or similar? Can someone please instruct me on how to dial-up. Thanks. Regards, Bryce Stenberg.

RE: Edit xorg.conf file, root logon

2006-08-10 Thread Bryce Stenberg
Hi Rik -Original Message- From: Rik Tindall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 5:41 PM To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Edit xorg.conf file, root logon Bryce Stenberg wrote: Thanks all for your help so far, but I'm still struggling

Edit xorg.conf file, root logon (was: Newbie questions - Ubuntu...)

2006-08-09 Thread Bryce Stenberg
Bryce Stenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I edit it with 'sudo -e xorg.conf' to get root I still can't save it. I can't login as 'root' - should I be able to in Ubuntu? (I don't recall specifying a password for root during install). sudo vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf will let you edit it. sudo

RE: Newbie questions - Ubuntu...

2006-08-07 Thread Bryce Stenberg
Hi, -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 9:36 AM To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Newbie questions - Ubuntu... On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 09:01:21 +1200 Bryce Stenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Screen refresh

RE: Newbie questions - Ubuntu...

2006-08-06 Thread Bryce Stenberg
- a gigabyte GA-6VEML - google indicates under windows it would use a Trident 8500 vga driver. Does this have any bearing on anything? I'm still looking at the modem issue... (and sorry for top posting - using outlook ). Regards, Bryce Stenberg -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto

Ubuntu - package manager?

2006-08-06 Thread Bryce Stenberg
can anyone please tell me the program names and where to find them, or do I need to download them from somewhere. The installer seemed to be looking for gcc and make or makefile by default I think. Many thanks, Bryce Stenberg.

Ubuntu - software updates query?

2006-08-06 Thread Bryce Stenberg
to copy what I just downloaded to a CD and have my home machine get its updates from this instead? (Im not sure but it looks like maybe the files it downloaded went to /var/cache/apt/archives would this be correct? Would I just copy all the files here to a CD?) Thanks, Bryce Stenberg.

RE: Have a laugh on telecom

2006-05-25 Thread Bryce Stenberg
Hi, Very funny but I missed out on saving the ad - initial site I played it from used embedded player in my browser and I couldn't see how to save it - and now I can't find a working link to it anywhere. I thought I had saved it from google's site yesterday, but turned out to be some google video

RE: Have a laugh on telecom

2006-05-25 Thread Bryce Stenberg
Thanks everyone. Now have it and have learnt a lot more about google options, embedded players and streaming in the process. Regards, Bryce. http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~nickr/Telecon.mp4 -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: very small linux portable

2005-11-06 Thread Bryce Stenberg
Could maybe look for HP Jornada 720? People have tried running linux on it - don't know what success rate. Is clamshell, can plug in external monitor, not sure about keyboard (possibly through usb port). Google for Jornada and linux. Regards, Bryce Stenberg. -Original Message

RE: ot: lappie batteries.

2005-08-31 Thread Bryce Stenberg
). I guess my point is that how you use your battery has a big influence on it's lifespan. Regards, Bryce Stenberg -Original Message- From: Douglas Royds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 1 September 2005 9:17 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: ot

RE: OT: DSL Modem and Router question - New Jetstream connection .

2005-01-23 Thread Bryce Stenberg
houses of my place there are three people who definitely want JetStream, and probably much more across the whole community of Leithfield and Leithfield Beach (200 - 300 houses at a guess). What's a good way to pressure telecom to make it happen? Regards, Bryce Stenberg. -Original

RE: OT: DSL Modem and Router question - New Jetstream connection .

2005-01-23 Thread Bryce Stenberg
From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 24 January 2005 12:00 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 10:18:40 +1300 Bryce Stenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Two hours before technician due to turn up he phones to check that I do live at Leithfield Beach

RE: OT: DSL Modem and Router question - New Jetstream connection .

2005-01-11 Thread Bryce Stenberg
George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 11 January 2005 5:33 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: OT: DSL Modem and Router question - New Jetstream connection. Bryce Stenberg wrote: Hi, I see a number of you are very familiar with using Jetstream type services so hope you

OT: DSL Modem and Router question - New Jetstream connection.

2005-01-10 Thread Bryce Stenberg
- it was part of special promotion they had last month with free modem. Can anyone please advise me? Thanks, Bryce Stenberg. DISCLAIMER: http://www.hrnz.co.nz/eDisclaimer.htm

OT -ADSL router capable of multiple VPN connections to same serve r?

2003-09-23 Thread Bryce Stenberg
know what telecom did with all the Nokia M1122 routers that they use to rent to people in the early Jetstream(?) days, and then took them back as people purchased their own routers? (maybe their is a warehouse somewhere full of them?). TIA. Regards, Bryce Stenberg (Harness Racing New Zealand

RE: OT -ADSL router capable of multiple VPN connections to same s erve r?

2003-09-23 Thread Bryce Stenberg
know why they are so limited). Thanks, Bryce Stenberg. -Original Message- From: CF [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 24 September 2003 11:08 a.m. To: Linux Users Group Subject: Re: OT -ADSL router capable of multiple VPN connections to same serve r? On Wed, 2003-09-24

RE: OT -ADSL router capable of multiple VPN connections to same s erve r?

2003-09-23 Thread Bryce Stenberg
and that other one over there and turn it on. They don't want yet another computer just to get a connection. However, we have now purchased one of the Nokia M1122's from Trademe. Thank you. Bryce Stenberg. -Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 24

Create tape backup script (was: How to mount a scsi tape drive?)

2003-04-06 Thread Bryce Stenberg
bandwidth (can get 2Mbit/sec within NZ do does anyone know of a New Zealand site for downloading from? I'll get back to kdat some other time once I'm sure I can get everything working from the command line. Thanks for the help, Bryce Stenberg. -Original Message- From: Nick Rout

Re: How to mount a scsi tape drive?

2003-03-31 Thread Bryce Stenberg
directory and a locale directory.) Regards, Bryce Stenberg. Original Message- From: David Zanetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject:Re: How to mount a scsi tape drive? Reply-To: [EMAIL

How to mount a scsi tape drive?

2003-03-30 Thread Bryce Stenberg
, Bryce Stenberg CAUTION: This email message and accompanying data may contain information that is confidential and subject to legal privilege. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message or data is prohibited. If you

RE: MandrakeUpdate - found no updates??

2003-02-18 Thread Bryce Stenberg
updates)? I'm away for the next five days but when I get back I'll double check kde's current version - maybe I already have it - although the install was done back in November/December last year so is unlikely. Thanks, Bryce Stenberg. -Original Message- From: C Harland [mailto:[EMAIL

MandrakeUpdate - found no updates??

2003-02-16 Thread Bryce Stenberg
have any ideas on why this would be? I was at least expecting the latest KDE packages to be listed for update. Thanks for any insights. Regards, Bryce Stenberg. sorry about lengthy disclaimer following - can't get rid of it CAUTION: This email message and accompanying data may contain

Sound works intermitently? Mandrake 9 with KDE

2002-12-17 Thread Bryce Stenberg
please? Regards, Bryce Stenberg. CAUTION: This email message and accompanying data may contain information that is confidential and subject to legal privilege. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message or data

RE: http://www.somebody.GEEK.NZ

2002-12-10 Thread Bryce Stenberg
Hi, Haven't seen the '.cri.nz' domain before, wondering who uses it - is it short for 'criminals.nz' maybe? - Bryce Stenberg. -Original Message- From: C Falconer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 10 December 2002 10:27 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Linux Users Group

RE: Strangeness In Paradise

2002-11-21 Thread Bryce Stenberg
size accordingly (from memory). Regards, Bryce Stenberg. Harness Racing New Zealand computer department, emailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Rex Johnston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 21 November 2002 11:29 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re

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