Re: [Linux-users] Is anyone out there?

Yup, still here - just compiling the x48 emulator for the HP 48G ... done. Thinking of which, it's almost a bit scary to see that compiling the emulator doesn't take all that much longer than it takes the original HP 48 hardware to add two integers - ok, ok, I may be exxagerating slightly

Re: [Linux-users] something filling up my system partition

on / this probably is not an issue here. What does df tell you after keeping it running over night? Kind regards, Helmut. -- ++ | Helmut Walle | | helmut.wa...@gmail.com | | +64-3-388 39 54| ++ On Thu, 17 May 2012, Bevan wrote

Re: [Linux-users] Monitoring data usage by network

iptables ? On Sunday, 24 June 2012, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: On Mon 11 Jun 2012 09:22:10 NZST +1200, C. Falconer wrote: ntop.org http://ntop.org So far I seem to be missing the point about ntop. I want the accumulated data volume, not a snapshot one for when I run ntop. Seems a bit

Re: [Linux-users] Installing virtual box

On Thu, 11 Oct 2012, David Merrick wrote: HI. I am to install Oracle virtual box on windows 7 but the exceution gets stuck 3/4 the way through. Any sugestions? [...] Strange - I have installed, and have been using 4.1.20 on both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7 systems without problems -

Re: [Linux-users] Chit chat Re: Testing List - please delete

On Fri, 12 Oct 2012, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: On Fri 12 Oct 2012 21:50:47 NZDT +1300, chris wrote: gmail accepts imap... using dialup? Yes. Dialup is a method to connect to the Internet. How you connect to the Internet is totally irrelevant for how you connect to your mail server. I don't

Re: [Linux-users] A performance question

Could be a shared-resource or thread management issue caused by that user's application. It does sound like it at least: * App running ten threads was getting 1000 % = 10 CPUs bandwidth. * After something has been changed in the app, the ten threads only get 300 % = 3 CPUs. Some speculation on

Re: [Linux-users] wifi advice sought

On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: On Thu 08 Nov 2012 20:16:56 NZDT +1300, Nick Rout wrote: Not all he needs though. He also needs a (linux compatible) wireless card in his desktop to connect to the AP. TP-Link, with Atheros chip, PCI card, cheap (appr $60 I think). With 3 pig

Re: [Linux-users] Command-line screenshots

xwd might be relevant in this context, too - should be part of any X Window installation. Kind regards, Helmut. On 20/11/2012, Douglas Royds douglas.ro...@taitradio.com wrote: Take a screenshot using `import` from ImageMagick: $ import screenshot.png --- Click on the

Re: [Linux-users] What I want from a package manager

As an alternative, you could clone the system into a virtual machine, and then make any of these one user modifications there. I have been doing this from time to time as a way to manage the risks around experimental system changes - if you mess it up or don't like the configuration, simply

Re: [Linux-users] Software Freedom Day - Sat 21 Sept

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.

Re: [Linux-users] House / Garage ethernet wiring

The silicone is not the issue. The point Yuri has been making possibly was the simple old principle that applies to any sealed cavity: somehow water will get in, possibly quite slowly, and it may take a long time. But once it is in there, it will start accumulating at the bottom, and there is

Re: [Linux-users] Linux/Android heaven?

On 27/02/14 11:41, C. Falconer wrote: Volker Kuhlmann wrote, On 27/02/14 11:27: On Thu 27 Feb 2014 09:14:28 NZDT +1300, C. Falconer wrote: Pffft. My home server started in June 2000 as Debian Slink (that's version 2.1 in imperial measurements) Metric was useable numbers with decimal point

Re: [Linux-users] DSL connection testing

Ok, just to clarify a couple of points, a 3-minute ADSL crash course in some relevant points only: * The subscriber lines used for ADSL are simply the already existing phone lines. This usually is one twisted pair per subscriber (with a 1:1 mapping of a line to a phone number). This means

Re: [Linux-users] Adobe Air on Ubuntu 14.04

If you don't care too much about the new features in Scratch 2, you could use Scratch 1.4 instead of the 2.x beta version. 1.4 does not require Adobe Air. http://scratch.mit.edu/scratch_1.4/ From memory, Scratch 2 can import Scratch 1.4 files, but you might want to check first. Kind

Re: [Linux-users] anyone on Voda ADSL?

On 30/09/2014 12:13 p.m., Steve Holdoway wrote: I'm having massive delays with web based traffic today. I use voda adsl services. As an example, a wget of the homepahe of a reference site in Sydney took over 40 seconds. However, a repeat attempt then took under half a second. Is it just me?

Re: [Linux-users] Box is locking up

-users mailing list Linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Kind regards, Helmut. -- +--- + Helmut Walle + 021-446 137 +---___ Linux-users mailing list Linux-users

[Linux-users] HP ProLiant DL380 G4 servers going cheap

quickly here but would try to recover a little bit more than for desktop PCs of the same vintage... that being said, if you need something for the CLUG itself, or charity or school we would donate some of the hardware for a good community purpose. Kind regards, *Helmut Walle - Network and CPE

Re: [Linux-users] Trouble with Wireless internet under GNU/Linux

On 3/03/2015 3:31 p.m., Davin Pearson wrote: I am living at Hillmorton Hospital so I have no access to an Ethernet Cable. All I have is wireless internet. [...] Use a mobile phone in tethered mode (either USB or Bluetooth) to establish the initial connection for the computer required to

Re: [Linux-users] Data security and privacy (Re: PATA drives - 80/40G)

On 18/08/15 14:21, Adrian Mageanu wrote: [...] I can't remember where I read but there are ways to retrieve data after a dd fill with zeroes or something else by using photorec and some hardware forensic techniques. [...] photorec is only for recovering deleted (as opposed to wiped) files, or

Re: [Linux-users] Trouble with Wireless internet under GNU/Linux

On 22/08/15 20:25, Julian Visch wrote: Was there a happy ending to this email back in march? As I have the same situation with no easy access to wired internet. My thoughts are to either borrow someone elses really really long cable or visit a friend and use their internet to upload. But

Re: [Linux-users] setting the root password

On 09/08/15 20:06, Kent Fredric wrote: On 9 August 2015 at 17:48, Ross Drummond r...@ashburton.co.nz wrote: This will prompt you to enter a password and the confirm it. You should the be able to change you login to root by issuing the su (switch user) command. That will of course require

Re: [Linux-users] Reliable way of determining CHS info from Compact flash card

Hi Peter, have you tried 'hdparm -g' ? That reports the geometry, but as you have pointed out it will only show it as it is being presented... now the geometry of flash media does obviously not really exist in its original sense of physical cylinders, heads and sectors, and therefore these

Re: [Linux-users] spammers on linux list

On 28/10/15 19:48, criggie wrote: [...] They may also be digging through the list archives at http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/pipermail/linux-users/ where the addresses are obfusicated, but not really hidden. The only obfuscated email address there is that of the individual, which does help

Re: [Linux-users] More than 10, 000 problems fixed through‘Improve Detroit’ cell phone app

On 12/10/15 12:42, Roy Britten wrote: On Oct 12, 2015 11:51 AM, "Volker Kuhlmann" > wrote: [...] > Did it get solved/fixed? They may prefer to fix something instead of > sorting out a back channel for communication. There are

Re: [Linux-users] Dual booting Windows 10 with Linux Mint

On 28/06/16 11:36, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: [...] I'm not having my Linux run on top of any doze system, thank you very much for the suggestion... Volker What's wrong with that? From my experience Linux VMs on Windows hosts run just fine. I have been using this kind of configuration for years

Re: [Linux-users] fsck advice please

Nice process or not, the completion time of fsck on any disk and any FS varies greatly depending on the options used. In particular, using -c for a surface check (where it is available) comes at the expense of orders of magnitude longer completion times in comparison to usage aiming at only

Re: [Linux-users] File system query

On 1/03/2016 3:13 p.m., Barry wrote: Probably a very basic question but it has me puzzled I have copied a directory with a dozen or so subdirectories and 4000+ files from an Ext3 filesystem to a Dos (fat32) filesystem on another drive. I then checked the properties of each and found that

Re: [Linux-users] Document generation

Hm, it's not quite as simple as that... LyX in the end just uses LaTeX under the hood. While LyX allows you to get some output quicker than starting with LaTeX itself, its functionality is limited in some regards. In particular, if you need to use any LaTeX packages that are not part of the

Re: [Linux-users] Document generation

Yes, that works in principle - if you want to automate it use make to define the exact command and any commandline arguments. I have seen a number of people including myself using the various outputs of LaTeX (and also external tools like ps2pdf, dvipdf, etc.) in this way. However, LaTex is a

Re: [Linux-users] Document generation

I'll second that one! asciidoc is quite neat, and easy to learn! On 24/07/16 21:42, Jim Cheetham wrote: On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 5:00 PM, Ross Drummond wrote: I have an acquaintance who who maintains some reference document in various forms. He produces identical

Re: [Linux-users] Topposting Was: Re: Document generation

On 26/07/16 21:56, Jim Cheetham wrote: On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 8:51 PM, Miles Rout wrote: Offtopic: when the hell did people start topposting around here? Since Gmail became the dominant MUA ... :-( -jim (using Gmail) ___

Re: [Linux-users] Thunderbird mailbox problems

Hi Barry, Just copying the .thunderbird folder is not supposed to work, because TB will create a new profile with a different sub-folder name on a new computer. Have you been following the instructions here?

Re: [Linux-users] OT: Home wifi blocking 2Degrees?

On 16/04/18 12:12, Criggie wrote: After 2Degrees discontinued 2G coverage my android phone became unable to detect their 3G network within range of my home wifi. I somehow fixed this for a couple of days last week but then went to Christchurch and it stopped working again. Do you guys have a

Re: [Linux-users] About to partition My Windows P.C.

Have you considered just leaving the Windows system and partitioning as is, and setting up a Linux VM running on VirtualBox, for example? Depending on the kind of diagnostics that you need to run, that could possibly do the job, too, but would have the advantage of being able to run both OSs at

Re: [Linux-users] About to partition My Windows P.C.

Not sure what you have on that USB drive, but if it just is a downloaded image, they usually come with a blank root password. So to login as root, you just enter "root" at the username prompt if there is one at all, and hit Enter if it prompts for a password at all. If you are already logged in

Re: [Linux-users] About to partition My Windows P.C.

it. Also note - the method proposed by Slosh, by adding options to the GRUB boot line is easier and quicker, as long as GRUB still loads and works all right. Kind regards, Helmut. On 24/11/2019 08:53, Davin Pearson wrote: > On Sat, 23 Nov 2019 at 16:51, Helmut Walle <mailto:hel

Re: [Linux-users] Boot help, in-person if possible

Hi Steve, sorry to hear about health and energy - all the best for improvements in that regard! (U)EFI dual boot can become tricky with some combinations. Which Windows version do you have? And can you still boot the Linux system? Why does the error message read "Failed to load image

Re: [Linux-users] Strange GIMP behaviour

That sounds like it may be a GIMP input devices configuration issue. Go into the menu: Edit -> Input Devices You will see all available input devices in the left pane. You can configure the behaviour of each of them in the right pane after selecting the respective device on the left. The mode of