Put together a poster for the event. Bit rough but time is another one
of those annoying 'limited resources' we keep hearing about. Honestly -
we can put a man on the moon, but ...\
Anyway - a copy is available at http://www.robertson.net.nz/sfd.
Comments welcome. I'd like to finalise it
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Don Robertson d...@robertson.net.nz wrote:
Anyway - a copy is available at http://www.robertson.net.nz/sfd. Comments
welcome. I'd like to finalise it tomorrow.
Just one thing: it does kind of read as if it's an X11 installfest,
with the Xs like that. If they
Thank you to those who offered advice.
I took the procrastinate option. I masked recent versions Kmail and installed
an older known-good version(1.13.7).
Unless Kmail stabilises I have only put off the day of reckoning.
Cheers Ross Drummond
On Fri, 06 Sep 2013, Ross Drummond wrote:
I am
On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 21:11:25 Nick Rout wrote:
Clearly kmail encourages top posting...
Never did for me.
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On Thu 12 Sep 2013 21:12:14 NZST +1200, Ryan wrote:
On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 21:11:25 Nick Rout wrote:
Clearly kmail encourages top posting...
Never did for me.
Neither. It's pure passing the buck to defenseless SW...
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On 12/09/13 18:02, Don Robertson wrote:
Put together a poster for the event. Bit rough but time is another one
of those annoying 'limited resources' we keep hearing about. Honestly
- we can put a man on the moon, but ...\
Anyway - a copy is available at http://www.robertson.net.nz/sfd.
I am bucking the orthodxy regarding top posting.
I recently sent a reply to a person who uses a smart phone for emails. When
asked if he had recievied my reply he said no, the email he got from me wes a
bounce of his original email. Further faffing about established that the
original email
On Thu 12 Sep 2013 21:46:57 NZST +1200, Ross Drummond wrote:
To avoid a repeat of this I am now using top posting.
If you're too lazy/whatever to trim your replies, you're not worth being
read...
And if the smart phone is smarter than its user, nuff said.
Volker
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Miles Rout wrote, On 09/12/2013 06:34 PM:
Oh, and it says 10:000am at the top
That means 10 AM precisely. Doesn't specifically say which timezone or
DST offset though.
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Volker Kuhlmann wrote, On 09/12/2013 10:04 PM:
And if the smart phone is smarter than its user, nuff said.
I do enjoy the English turn of phrase sometimes... Was reading
something from a Pom and the word cleverphone was used, and I thought
that was very well said.
Could have been
I've interestingly noted that thunderbird (favoured by many of us)
encourages bottom posting by it's default setting, but every time I set
it up for someone (or myself) I always change that.
I'd add that if I am coming in to a thread as the 2nd or subsequent
reply, to follow what the method
On 12/09/2013 21:07, Nick Rout wrote:
Will there be an antenna to plug into? That was always my major
dilemma in demoing mythtv.
Do you have a combined back/front end? That would make it easier too.
My backend and frontends are separate.
XBMC would also be good to show off.
Not sure if
Nick, you can also claim to have introduced me (and several others) to
Gentoo and MythTV.
Although this List/Group gets quiet sometimes it certainly has helped many
like me over the years.
Rob
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Nick Rout nick.r...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Robert Fisher rob...@fisher.net.nzwrote:
Nick, you can also claim to have introduced me (and several others) to
Gentoo and MythTV.
I think your first install was redhat in your lounge, somewhere you were
living temporarily while building. Ethernet cables all
On Fri 13 Sep 2013 11:55:33 NZST +1200, Robert Fisher wrote:
Do not run rsync to backup files to a portable drive without first checking
that the drive is mounted.
Yep, BTDT.
Filling up the root partition is not easy to fix.
Why? Unless you made some really silly use of mount points and
Roger Searle wrote, On 09/13/2013 12:03 PM:
I learnt from someone here, think it was Jim from memory, that I can
do something like this in my script:
# don't proceed if usb drive not mounted as/where expected:
if [ -e /media/truecrypt1/STOP ]
then
...
which of course assumes you know the
On 13/09/13 12:49, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
On Fri 13 Sep 2013 11:55:33 NZST +1200, Robert Fisher wrote:
Do not run rsync to backup files to a portable drive without first checking
that the drive is mounted.
Yep, BTDT.
Filling up the root partition is not easy to fix.
Why? Unless you made
On 12/09/13 21:36, Helmut Walle wrote:
On 12/09/13 18:02, Don Robertson wrote:
Put together a poster for the event...
a copy is available at http://www.robertson.net.nz/sfd. Comments
welcome. I'd like to finalise it tomorrow.
Nice work, Don!
It might be worthwhile adding the street
On 2013-09-13 14:18, Don Robertson wrote:
http://www.facebook.com/TeamChristchurchSFD
Rats - set up an event on Facebook. I'll redirect it to this. Just
emailed the owner of softwarefreedomday.org.nz to see if they would
point it somewhere.
don
An event is good - it's a one-off with an
On 13/09/2013 12:44, Nick Rout wrote:
One thing that used to come up regularly was modems.
Ha! I remember PC users pulling machines to bits and muttering about
ICQ's trying to get modems to work. Then they'd say my Mac was too hard
to use. I got a Global Village modem and plugged it in.
Volker Kuhlmann wrote, On 09/13/2013 01:44 PM:
On Fri 13 Sep 2013 13:15:36 NZST +1200, C. Falconer wrote:
Does bottom posting in reply to aDon't
top post make it better or worse?make
Bottom posting always makes things me
better. Just delete any posting of
On 13/09/2013 14:36, Rik Tindall wrote:
On 2013-09-13 14:18, Don Robertson wrote:
http://www.facebook.com/TeamChristchurchSFD
Rats - set up an event on Facebook. I'll redirect it to this. Just
emailed the owner of softwarefreedomday.org.nz to see if they would
point it somewhere.
don
An
Rik: Need contact details, and I can change this if you want to be
quoted. You've worked on 9, I've helped on a couple.
Everyone: Comments?
I've emailed a couple of people to let them know to expect this. Canta
is published on Wednesday, The Star has a Friday edition, and the Mail
is on
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