Seeking Linuxy hardware to rejig my life to digital convergence....

2010-07-19 Thread John Carter
cabinet a 50m down the road Would it be worth replacing my DSE ADSL XH1175 router with an adsl2+ one anyway? Suggestions most welcome. -- John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch

Which Android?

2010-07-13 Thread John Carter
the thing and when I spoke to them, Telecom seems terrified of that prospect... Which Android would you recommend? -- John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : john.car

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2010-03-30 Thread John Carter
unsubscribe linux-users

Tip'of'the'Day : Inotifywait

2010-03-30 Thread John Carter
foo dir/private/ MODIFY foo dir/private/ CLOSE_WRITE,CLOSE foo dir/private/ DELETE foo It occurs to me this makes a lovely side channel way of profiling and optimizing the performance of a complex system. If it touches the filesystem in any way from any process... you can know about it! -- John

Re:

2010-03-30 Thread John Carter
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:13 PM, John Carter john.car...@tait.co.nz wrote: unsubscribe linux-users Oh the embarrassment. Sent to wrong address. We've just shifted to gmail / google calendar and @taitradio.com domain and I kept forgetting to switch back to the old domain (tait.co.nz) when

Tip'o'the Day: Don't name anything core!

2010-02-28 Thread John Carter
it didn't add the core directory so I lost all changes there. Moral of the story. Avoid the name core for anything other than core dumps. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch

Tip O'The Day : pigz and pbzip2

2010-02-08 Thread John Carter
Multicores are becoming more and more common. Compression is still something I need to do regularly. So some new tools that combine multi-core speed up with compression. pigz is a drop in replacement for gzip pbzip2 is a drop in replacement for bzip2 John Carter

Tip'O'The Day late extra : star, a faster tar

2010-02-08 Thread John Carter
There is a faster tar. It's called star. It's written by the same guy who did cdrecord, so it is, umm, how to phrase this? Ahh. er... It has opinions. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box

Re: Home finance programs

2009-12-06 Thread John Carter
... The devious or dishonest or incompetent or downright lazy can always... * create a slop bucket account * with a vaguely meaningful and useful sounding name, * to carry the anti-particle of any amount you wish to insert anywhere else! John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639

Re: Home finance programs

2009-12-03 Thread John Carter
. Sort of like pair-creation of particles. Money can only be created with an Anti-money pair. Add money somewhere and you have to subtract it from somewhere else. No exceptions. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64

Subtle Info Leak of the Year...

2009-11-30 Thread John Carter
of the year. Firewalls leak tiny bits of info at the mac level, even if they reject everything at the IP level. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : john.car

Re: Subtle Info Leak of the Year...

2009-11-30 Thread John Carter
know. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : john.car...@tait.co.nz New Zealand

Re: Subtle Info Leak of the Year...

2009-11-30 Thread John Carter
everything is working normally ... I _love_ ping and never willingly harm my very very helpful little friend. Alas... the out of the box defaults for more and more things are getting quite hostile. Sigh! John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics

Re: Change gnome mount point

2009-11-19 Thread John Carter
/Port-Docs John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : john.car...@tait.co.nz New Zealand

Linux Programming Tip'o'the day - Poll vs Select

2009-11-11 Thread John Carter
descriptors were ready. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : john.car...@tait.co.nz New

Re: PhotoRec - A story with a happy ending

2009-10-08 Thread John Carter
/manpages/jaunty/en/man1/wipe.1.html John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : john.car...@tait.co.nz New Zealand

Tip of the Day : Graphviz, digraphs in neato

2009-09-22 Thread John Carter
, but force the edges to have arrows! graph Pretty { edge [arrowhead=normal]; a--b--c ; d--c; } Then you can feed your digraphs to neato! John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch

Re: OT wallwarts/power adaptors

2009-09-13 Thread John Carter
there is this humming noise John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : john.car...@tait.co.nz New Zealand

Re: Pronounce sudo

2009-09-09 Thread John Carter
, unauthentic and fake! :-)) John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : john.car...@tait.co.nz New Zealand

Re: Perl Users?

2009-09-09 Thread John Carter
it was a maintenance nightmare. So I moved to Ruby a few years ago and I'm never going back. Do yourself a favour and move too. Sort of like There was one other Perl user in the village, but he/she changed sex and now won't speak to me. :-) John Carter Phone : (64)(3

Re: Pronounce sudo

2009-09-09 Thread John Carter
to whirr and click for the next fifteen minutes whilst inanely insisting you sit there all the time typing y y y y y y) AG VVOEERRRTSEK! John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch

Re: Pronounce sudo

2009-09-08 Thread John Carter
. [sudo] password for johnc: I'll take the rubbish out. [sudo] And bring in the washing while you're out there! John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : john.car

Re: Open Source Stock Images

2009-08-30 Thread John Carter
is http://openclipart.org/ Debian-a-likes can pull it in from synaptic. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : john.car...@tait.co.nz New Zealand

Re: OT: software or hardware problems

2009-08-30 Thread John Carter
. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : john.car...@tait.co.nz New Zealand

Re: OT: software or hardware problems

2009-08-30 Thread John Carter
can keep on working and still cause anything else on the bus to fail. Conclusion: Isolate possible causes. Make things really really simple, then start added things back. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359

Re: OT: software or hardware problems

2009-08-26 Thread John Carter
dramatically via something and test if it isn't going dippy because the overclocking is overheating it. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : john.car

Re: OT: software or hardware problems

2009-08-26 Thread John Carter
supplies. Disconnect two of the SATA drives and see if the problem goes away. ok so I'm 80% sure that it's the power supply, 3.3V is running at 3.09V (0.045V below ATX spec) That's why I suggested disconnecting the two extra drives quickest way of getting a little extra juice. John

Re: Can someone tell me why...

2009-08-23 Thread John Carter
the maintenance weight of it's huge catalogue of plugins. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : john.car...@tait.co.nz New Zealand

Re: Alpining

2009-08-23 Thread John Carter
up, I always configure it to use my upstream / ISP's smarthost. There are two places to configure that, one is when you install sendmail or exim or whatever your distro installs by default, and the other in the Alpine config.. Personal Name = John Carter User Domain

Re: Can someone tell me why...

2009-08-23 Thread John Carter
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Kerry Mayes wrote: As a gnome user, I just use exaile. Probably doesn't meet Rex' exacting demands but it plays all the formats I want and includes replaygain so that I'm not constantly adjusting the volume. Yip, exaile is what I'm currently using. John Carter

Re: Alpining

2009-08-19 Thread John Carter
... if I know the answer I'll reply, if I don't... hopefully someone else on the list will. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : john.car...@tait.co.nz New

Re: Linux on USB stick recommendations

2009-05-04 Thread John Carter
/title/Dibbler John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : john.car...@tait.co.nz New Zealand

Re: Are Linux netbooks becoming extinct?

2009-04-30 Thread John Carter
to bite them, in that people might start asking why they are paying so much for windows on a desk top when it is nearly free on a netbook... The other area that may save Linux on the netbook is the arrival of very low cost, high powered, high battery life Arm CPU based netbooks. John Carter

Re: Linux on USB stick recommendations

2009-04-28 Thread John Carter
. What about SD cards? If you bios understands the notion of booting from the sd card reader. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : john.car...@tait.co.nz

Re: computer shopping

2009-04-23 Thread John Carter
. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : john.car...@tait.co.nz New Zealand

Re: X-server runs but uses 50% to 90% of cpu after upgrade to 09.04(Jaunty ) Kubuntu.

2009-04-08 Thread John Carter
file, but it's at 800x600 and of course we don't get the nice compiz effects. A solution would be very welcome, 'cos the all important Skype video doesn't work properly TIA a million times over. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358

Tip for the Day : Benchmarking - cache effects dominate!

2009-04-02 Thread John Carter
/null;sync;sudo bash -c 'echo 3 /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches';time cat /bin/cat /dev/null real0m0.002s user0m0.000s sys 0m0.004s real0m0.172s user0m0.000s sys 0m0.008s 86x slower! John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics

Re: testing...

2009-03-26 Thread John Carter
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Steve Holdoway wrote: ... I'd just check if there's life out there (: There's life Jim, but not as we know it. :-) John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch

Re: Totally OT Re: Regarding Chris

2009-03-12 Thread John Carter
wish Chris the very best for the future. Now that's a Good Reason for going to Scotland! Congratulations and great happiness to the both of you! John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645

Programmer's bookmark for the day...

2009-03-11 Thread John Carter
. Applications are expected to use fsync() or fdatasync(), and if that impacts their performance too much, to use a single berkdb or other binary database file, and not do something stupid with hundreds of tiny text files that only hold a few bytes of data in each text file. John Carter

Re: OT: C.S's Destination.

2009-03-08 Thread John Carter
in alpine (the text based mailer I use). Well, Good Luck to you and enjoy! Keep in contact! John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : john.car...@tait.co.nz New Zealand

[no subject]

2009-03-03 Thread John Carter
? Getting something like LPI certification along the way would be a bonus. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : john.car...@tait.co.nz New Zealand At first I

Linux/Ipv6/Router/Mobile IP/Wireless training (resend) Was: No subject.

2009-03-03 Thread John Carter
of. Where is the best place to find formal courses on such stuff? Getting something like LPI certification along the way would be a bonus. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch

Re: Benchmarking under Linux - A very black art. Was Re: eeePCdiskspeeds. Was Re: Acer Aspire One netbook

2009-03-02 Thread John Carter
) with a dual core. And depending on what happens when exactly, you can get working code completing out of sequence! Although the Atom in the EEE 901 is hyperthreaded, not multicore, so that isn't one of the gotchas biting Craig. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait

Re: Benchmarking under Linux - A very black art. Was Re: eeePCdiskspeeds. Was Re: Acer Aspire One netbook

2009-03-02 Thread John Carter
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Craig Falconer wrote: John Carter wrote, On 02/03/09 17:19: On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Craig Falconer wrote: time dd if=/dev/zero of=/file.dd bs=16k count=16k onto sda (4GB) that took 11.34 seconds (27.9 MB/sec) However onto sdb it took 55.93 seconds (4.8 MB/sec) time dd

Re: Benchmarking under Linux - A very black art. WasRe:eeePCdiskspeeds. Was Re: Acer Aspire One netbook

2009-03-02 Thread John Carter
standardized on MByte, previous_message.gsub!( /\bmb\b/i, MByte) The hardware types around here tend to speak bits for some strange reason. The MB abbreviation is coughed up by dd and hdparm. Sorry. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics

Re: intermitant stalls with move

2009-03-01 Thread John Carter
not currently using them so why have them running? still other areas? dave John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : john.car...@tait.co.nz New Zealand

Tip for the Day : Temporarily revert to old style bash filenamecompletion.

2009-03-01 Thread John Carter
version. Yay! John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : john.car...@tait.co.nz New Zealand

Re: Acer Aspire One netbook

2009-03-01 Thread John Carter
the general idea.) John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : john.car...@tait.co.nz New Zealand

Re: eee PC disk speeds. Was Re: Acer Aspire One netbook

2009-03-01 Thread John Carter
/dev/sdc: Timing cached reads: 1754 MB in 2.00 seconds = 877.34 MB/sec 4) I can't think where I got the notion that the 4gb was faster... but I got the impression the author knew something about it. I'll post the link if I find it again. On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Craig Falconer wrote: John Carter

Benchmarking under Linux - A very black art. Was Re: eee PC diskspeeds. Was Re: Acer Aspire One netbook

2009-03-01 Thread John Carter
. (But nothing was running on my machine! A yes there was, every minute or two the web server spat a new fat flash and javascript ad at you!) Remember, Linux tries _hard_ to make use of _all_ your Ram _all_ the time. It doesn't let it sit there idle and without value. John Carter

Re: laptops without Winblows

2009-03-01 Thread John Carter
doesn't know what to look for when shopping for a computer (I'm helping with that), and doesn't want to pay for software that will never be used (i.e. Windows). Thanks, Aidan John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3

The Next Dr Dobbs, the Replacement for Byte,the natural home for CUJ readers.

2009-03-01 Thread John Carter
time you see one. (Dsiclaimer: I have nothing to do with Circuit Cellar, I just do embedded device / linuxy things) John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail

Notes for netbook users...

2009-02-25 Thread John Carter
. Treat netbook as merely a notebook (that just happens to hold all the relevant documents and sourcecode) for the duration of the meeting. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch

Re: Migrating to a new hard drive

2009-02-25 Thread John Carter
to a new distro. I try static link / stash all the dll's with the stuff in /opt so in principle it should survive a new distro so in principle it could go in /home or in its own partition. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax

Re: Swap was Re: Migrating to a new hard drive

2009-02-25 Thread John Carter
On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Craig Falconer wrote: John Carter wrote, On 26/02/09 13:04: Swap usually 2 * ram, although disk is _so_ very very very much slower than ram these days and ram is getting so much larger. I'd perhaps drop that to swap == sizeof ram. Spot the old fart! Try sudo swapoff

Re: Remove a watermark from a PDF

2009-02-18 Thread John Carter
. :-) But I did read all (content) in my camera manual. :-) John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : john.car...@tait.co.nz New Zealand

Going off on a wild tangent.. was Re: Remove a watermark from a PDF

2009-02-18 Thread John Carter
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, John Carter wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Stephen Irons wrote: [1] Does anyone else read instruction manuals cover to cover? For pleasure? For devices you don't own, but are thinking of buying? For devices you aren't even thinking of buying? Of course the flip side is I

Adventures in netbook distros continued.

2009-02-16 Thread John Carter
, it just started happening and before I was consciously aware of what was happening, my fingers were using it! Talk about exceptionally good UI design! I'm really starting to like this likkle gadget. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics

The mechanics car - the new world of netbook distros.

2009-02-15 Thread John Carter
. I'm on EasyPeasy at the moment, hacking the network config files by hand but I'd like to move to Intrepid. I have crashbang linux d/loading at home at the moment. I'll try it tonight. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax

Asus eee pc 901 Linux

2009-02-12 Thread John Carter
install sshd so I can administer the thing from my desktop... I'll tell you more as I find out more about the thing. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : john.car

Re: Asus eee pc 901 Linux

2009-02-12 Thread John Carter
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, John Carter wrote: It runs Xandros linux, which seems to be a heavily kludged Debian distro that someone has tried very very hard to make look like a very easy to use windowsy type thing for very dumb users. Those who know me will understand how I felt, and get a good

Re: Asus eee pc 901 Linux

2009-02-12 Thread John Carter
to absorb whilst I'm at work... I can tell tonight will be spent eeexploring what is eeevailable and setting it up. At a casual glance my guess is eeebuntu netbook edition. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359

Re: Asus eee pc 901 Linux

2009-02-12 Thread John Carter
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Craig Falconer wrote: John Carter wrote, On 13/02/09 10:45: Fortunately Asus packed the thing well enough that it looks as if it survived... although I haven't been able to get the wireless working yet. Wireless was a doddle for me - are you doing something funky

RE: Asus eee pc 901 Linux

2009-02-12 Thread John Carter
and pretend to be a latex wearing whip cracking dominatrix vi. :-) John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : john.car...@tait.co.nz New Zealand

Re: en_nz dictionaries?

2009-02-10 Thread John Carter
that wordlist and the British one. Should be fun! John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : john.car...@tait.co.nz New Zealand

Free Shoppers Manifesto - was converting Windows Netbooks.

2009-02-08 Thread John Carter
store on Manchester Street anytime during weekend with the Linux distro that you want to run, and we can see if it runs or if it gives any issues. We do have other pc's with net access so if needed we can download patches or lookup information. [ ... ] John Carter

Acer Aspire Linux Netbooks?

2009-02-04 Thread John Carter
enough of streaming media / mount DVD on Big Grunty desktop DVD drive and view via wireless (or USB 8Gb pen drive) on netbook? Any opinions on these (or similar) things from those who have one? John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics

Re: Acer Aspire Linux Netbooks?

2009-02-04 Thread John Carter
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Christopher Sawtell wrote: 2009/2/5 John Carter john.car...@tait.co.nz: I have totally given up trying to buy a laptop. How about one of these then? http://aleutia.com/ or http://www.linutop.com/linutop2/index.en.html or http://www.fit-pc.com/new/ Hmm. Close, very

Linux Netbooks...

2009-02-04 Thread John Carter
can go wron, rong, wrung, I prefer local suppliers I can waltz up to on a saturday morning and say fix / replace. Anyone compared the three and come to any useful conclusions? John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359

Re: Acer Aspire Linux Netbooks?

2009-02-04 Thread John Carter
- type 'dban' at the boot prompt. The trouble is every company pool laptop that I have ever used has started to get more than a bit flaky with age... low battery life, dodgy hinges etc. etc. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics

RE: Hi from South Africa

2009-01-26 Thread John Carter
. Christchurch's skyline may be dominated by an even larger volcano... but it has have been soothingly contoured by glaciers, removing the sense of edginess about it. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632

Re: Ubuntu apt-get issue

2009-01-26 Thread John Carter
an inconsistent snapshot of the upstream repository. I remember once shifting my upstream repository to the ubuntu main site, doing apt-get update twice and off I went. I don't think it nz.archive.ubuntu.com that doing this to you, I think its upstream of them. John Carter

RE: Promotional event for the average person

2009-01-15 Thread John Carter
, tainted and gut level deeply feared words. (Bloody Commie/Terrorist!) http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Perhaps we should shift to talking about collaborative, unhindered, unencumbered, always available, groupware, batteries included, digital rights included software. John Carter

Searchable web comics

2009-01-15 Thread John Carter
,-mm-dd) pairs. A very brief attempt (2 seconds) with gocr didn't spit out anything readable. I suspect one actually needs to (Gasp! Schlock! Horror!) read the man page and tweak options. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics

Problems posting to the list (fwd)

2009-01-08 Thread John Carter
Ubunto ISO's again? You know they don't like it ;-)) John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : john.car...@tait.co.nz New Zealand -- Forwarded

Here is some pretty On Topic Paranoia for you...

2009-01-08 Thread John Carter
. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639

Windows vs Linux Jobs....

2009-01-08 Thread John Carter
the matching data for NZ is? John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : john.car...@tait.co.nz New Zealand

Re: Windows vs Linux Jobs....

2009-01-08 Thread John Carter
On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, John Carter wrote: http://www.simplyhired.com/a/jobtrends/trend/q-Windows%2CLinux Very GNice! http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=Windows%2CLinuxl=relative=1 John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax

Re: OT: Section 92 of the Copyright Amendment Act assumes GuiltUponAccusation

2009-01-07 Thread John Carter
. Is it legit? How would you know? Is aliceinvideoland.co.nz legit? I believe it is, but how would you know? As a mere consumer, can you prove it to me one way or the other. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359

Re: OT: Section 92 of the Copyright Amendment Act assumes GuiltUponAccusation

2009-01-07 Thread John Carter
copy and tweak the config for those. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : john.car...@tait.co.nz New Zealand

Re: Something for .bashrc file

2008-12-10 Thread John Carter
. Probably need to set autoflush buffers on the pipes, but I bet it could be done. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand

Re: OT: Google street view live in NZ

2008-12-04 Thread John Carter
tracks on the Canterbury Plains. I wonder if there is a program that I can get to download a stream of side images through a scenic part of the country and stitch them into a video? John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64

Re: Wee C program issue - Pointers?

2008-11-09 Thread John Carter
the economy attitude. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand

Chch, the sociopath capital of the world.

2008-10-15 Thread John Carter
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1objectid=10537526 Home to those who don't give a shit about anything or anybody. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch

Laptops? Sony Vaio?

2008-10-09 Thread John Carter
thread here was in May... The latest PC World editors choice was a Sony VAIO VGN CS13GQ (which is a bit weird since google knows nothing about such a device!) Any counter recommendations? John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax

Re: OT: Happy Millionth Moore Day to Me!

2008-09-14 Thread John Carter
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Douglas Royds wrote: John Carter wrote: State Machines are the embedded development flavour of the month? year? (god forbid) decade? but are nothing more than multi-threaded tangle of computed goto's with a roll your own scheduler in drag. :-)) (Oh dear... I have probably

OT: Happy Millionth Moore Day to Me!

2008-09-10 Thread John Carter
| doSomethingWithTheBitIcareAbout() end May you all live to enjoy your (next)? Millionth Moore Day. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : [EMAIL

Re: OT: Happy Millionth Moore Day to Me!

2008-09-10 Thread John Carter
insufficient RAM to create a stack for each thread / State Machine. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand

Re: OT: What will people end up doing for a job?Re: Vic Oliveronradiolive now.

2008-09-04 Thread John Carter
exterminators. Committee organizers (See fortune -m Bromide) for details. If builder's built the way programmer's wrote, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy all civilization. - G Weinberg To which one of the guys here said, Ah but NZ builders _do_ build the way programmers write! John

RMS on National Radio

2008-08-07 Thread John Carter
On the drive to work I thought I heard them say they will be chatting to Richard Stallman on National Radio tomorrow morning. I may have the time wrong I was paying more attention to the traffic... John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics

Re: RMS on National Radio

2008-08-07 Thread John Carter
On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Roger Searle wrote: Rik said on the 4th: NB news: Saturday Morning with Kim Hill (radioNZ 8:15am this Saturday!) Doh!! So he did. And I can't even blame the traffic. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics

Re: OpenMoko Open Source / Linux / Hackable cellphone is on sale now.

2008-07-08 Thread John Carter
soon. More details on price etc shortly... -Jasper On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 06:04:21PM +1200, Andrew Sands wrote: On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:00:33 John Carter wrote: Question 3 to the Group: I'm planning on ordering one for myself, and would be prepared to go for a 10 pack if enough others

Re: OpenMoko Open Source / Linux / Hackable cellphone is on sale now.

2008-07-08 Thread John Carter
in anyway - if you can't compete without forcing others out of the marketplace using unfair tactics, you don't deserve to compete at all. Cheers, Jasper On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 02:06:28PM +1200, John Carter wrote: On the surface, given that OpenMoko doesn't have the 900 in stock at the moment, it would

Openmoko

2008-06-09 Thread John Carter
After many delays... the SMT lines are rolling and the OpenMoko open linux phone has gone into mass production. Sales to open shortly. Finally the vapour around Open Linux mobile phones is dispersing and I'll soon be able to get my sticky fingers on one. John Carter

Re: Openmoko

2008-06-09 Thread John Carter
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Nick Rout wrote: On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 8:43 AM, John Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After many delays... the SMT lines are rolling and the OpenMoko open linux phone has gone into mass production. Sales to open shortly. Finally the vapour around Open Linux mobile phones

Re: DOH....

2008-06-02 Thread John Carter
with the screwdriver. It stays on (unless you do something silly) and everything just works. Now what I really need is a monitor mounted (and heated) cat basket with glass keyboard protector. (So cat can stand on keyboard and demand a stroke without causing fatal and/or embarrassing keypushes.) John Carter

Tip for the Week; oowriter's Navigator.

2008-05-22 Thread John Carter
documents sections and allows you to raise and lower the chapter levels, move chapters up or down in the doc. etc. etc. Very very handy. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch

Re: Grepping the kernel source online?

2008-05-22 Thread John Carter
was initially targeted at the Linux source code, but has proved usable for a wide range of software projects. lxr.linux.no is currently running an experimental fork of the LXR software. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3

Re: Grepping the kernel source online?

2008-05-22 Thread John Carter
On Fri, 23 May 2008, John Carter wrote: http://lxr.linux.no/ I wondered if they still had the printer on fire error message... they do. They also have a CPU on fire one too.. http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.24/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/p5.c#L26 I wonder whether it's even in principle

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