[Linux-users] Building GCC

I'm trying to set op an LFS systom but I have hit a problem bootstrapping GCC. >checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: in `/LFS/build/gcc-4.4.3/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libgcc': >configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile Can some please toll me if there i

Re: [Linux-users] Building GCC

On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 11:36:10 you wrote: > On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Ryan McCoskrie > > wrote: > > I'm trying to set op an LFS systom but I have hit a problem bootstrapping > > GCC. > > > >>checking for suffix of object files... configure: error:

[Linux-users] Has anyone done this before?

Hey has anyone tried using a virtual machine to install onto an unmounted hard disk? I've told qemu that /dev/sdb is an image that it can use as a virtual hard disk. As far as I can see it is a theoretically sound idea. Thought? -- Quote of the login: You will always find something in the last

Re: [Linux-users] Meeting 31 August + SFD

On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:08:28 Rik Tindall wrote: > Hi all, monthly notice: > > Next Tuesday 7.30pm is the monthly meet at the South Learning Centre > , (rear door) South > Christchurch Library, 66 Colombo Street, Beckenham (N.B. not on > Wednesday this

Re: [Linux-users] Meeting 31 August + SFD

On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:00:34 Nick Rout wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Ryan McCoskrie > > wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:08:28 Rik Tindall wrote: > >> Hi all, monthly notice: > >> > >> Next Tuesday 7.30pm is the monthly me

Re: [Linux-users] Biased geek hub

On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:33:14 Daniel Hill wrote: > Hey CLUGers > > My friend and I are doing a talk piece live on PlainsFM tomorrow night > (Thursday) between 10:30 and 11:30 for ten minutes or so > > we are going to be talking about free/open source software and > "advertising" software freedom

Re: [Linux-users] Biased geek hub

On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:54:05 Daniel Hill wrote: > > Name a couple of local companies that specialise in FOSS as well. That is > > bound to be nice and reassuring. > > could you list a couple, I'm not actually familiar with any? *feels > really ignorant* > I haven't actually dealt with these peop

Re: [Linux-users] Biased geek hub

On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:54:05 Daniel Hill wrote: > > Name a couple of local companies that specialise in FOSS as well. That is > > bound to be nice and reassuring. > > could you list a couple, I'm not actually familiar with any? *feels > really ignorant* > A wiki of *nix related bossiness, service

Re: [Linux-users] Caterbury Linux Wiki

On Thursday 02 September 2010 10:08:28 Hadley Rich wrote: > On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 10:03 +1200, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: > > A wiki of *nix related bossiness, services and products in Canterbury > > would be really useful. Is that possible? > > There's this; > > http

Re: [Linux-users] Quake

On Saturday 04 September 2010 15:36:03 Steve Holdoway wrote: > Don't *ever* want to go through that again! I heard that there is another coming at 6pm tonight. ___ Linux-users mailing list Linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz

Re: [Linux-users] Quake

On Saturday 04 September 2010 10:08:53 Jim Cheetham wrote: > Hi CLUG people, I hope that you are all OK and haven't suffered too > much with the recent quakes. Out here in Amberley we were all woken up and given a good scare but otherwise fine. Our cows didn't even seem especially bothered by the w

Re: [Linux-users] Quake

On Saturday 04 September 2010 11:46:20 Ryan McCoskrie wrote: > On Saturday 04 September 2010 15:36:03 Steve Holdoway wrote: > > Don't *ever* want to go through that again! > > I heard that there is another coming at 6pm tonight. Whoops. Not six PM, six on the Richter scale.

Re: [Linux-users] Quake

On Sunday 05 September 2010 12:24:04 Aidan Gauland wrote: > On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 12:15:24PM +1200, Kent Fredric wrote: > > Irony: When I first saw this thread in my inbox, despite having just > > survived that monster on a second story building where it shook like a > > leaf, my first reaction w

Re: [Linux-users] Software Freedom Days

On Wednesday 15 September 2010 12:14:22 Rik Tindall wrote: > Greetings All, > > This weekend is Software Freedom Day, the annual international > celebration of free and open-source software. > > The usual South Library, South Learning Centre PC lab venue will be open > - from 10am to 4pm at 66 Colo

Re: [Linux-users] Stallman crashes Computing Conference patent session

I don't agree with Stallman on everything but that is pretty cool. On 22/09/2010, Robert Fisher wrote: > May be of interest to you. > > http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/stallman-crashes-computing-conference-patent-session?opendocument&utm_source=topnews&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=topne

Re: [Linux-users] Fwd: LUG stuff

On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 21:20:55 Wesley Parish wrote: > It's a big plastic box full of power and network cables, a 24-node > hub?/switch?, and sundry bits and pieces, such as coffee and bikkies for > CLUG meetings. > > It survived the earthquake; now the question is, who should look after it? Depends

Re: [Linux-users] Historical systems

On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 17:13:46 Steve Holdoway wrote: > When I worked for Philips Medical Systems, we used VMS, but that was for > the bodyscanners. How long ago was that? ___ Linux-users mailing list Linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz http://lists.canterb

Re: [Linux-users] Historical systems

On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:42:42 Zane Gilmore wrote: > And I'm sorry but I do not mourn it's loss in "normal" systems it was a > seriously weird OS. In his autobiography Linus Torvalds said something along the lines of it being a good OS but clearly not intended to be used by humans. _

[Linux-users] The Visual Shell

[1] Read actual work as opposed to hobbies. -- Ryan McCoskrie North Canterbury, New Zealand sourcelinksnotes.comyr.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Linux-users mailing list Linux-users@lis

Re: [Linux-users] The Visual Shell

There is a working copy now available at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/visualshell/ I can email a couple of command profiles to anyone who wants to try it out. -- Ryan McCoskrie North Canterbury, New Zealand sourcelinksnotes.comyr.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [Linux-users] The Visual Shell

On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:48:22 Jim Cheetham wrote: > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Ryan McCoskrie > > wrote: > > There is a working copy now available at: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/visualshell/ > > Please package your files with a parent directory, rath

Re: [Linux-users] Previewing fonts

ich file > the font I'm looking at is. > > Can anyone offer any advice? > KDE4 is good for this (possibly 3 as well). The file manager can be configured to give a simple font preview and there is a dedicated font viewing application. -- Ryan McC

Re: [Linux-users] Saving large videos from firefox cache - help?

[Apologies in advance with any oddities, I'm not posting from my own machine] Try the download helper plugin. It's pretty flexible and user friendly. On 26/01/2011, John Carter wrote: > Usually using -f requires root privilege, just sudo'ing then runs the code > as root, with sometimes unwated c

Re: [Linux-users] Recent Documents aggregation in OpenOffice apps

e. It just does the job simply and easily. I'd have to put a warning on that one. KWord 1 is a nice little thing built for KDE 3.5 but for the moment KWord 2 (for 4.x) can do some sevrely brain damaged formatting, one letter per page sort of brain

[Linux-users] Strange HTTP behavior on Fedora with KDE

the 'Complete Story' link will give me a readable page. Can someone tell me if it is possible to turn this off please? -- Ryan McCoskrie North Canterbury, New Zealand sourcelinksnotes.comyr.com ___ Linux-users mailing list L

Re: [Linux-users] Silly question re meetings

y in the sense of "Virtual" and "Free as > in". Oi! I would be going along if it wasn't for how far the group meetings are! -- Ryan McCoskrie North Canterbury, New Zealand sourcelinksnotes.comyr.com ___ Linux-users mailing list Linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

[Linux-users] VisualShell pre-alpha 0.3

This is just a note to say that I have updated my little graphical command line again. Some people showed interest when I first announced that I was doing this so I thought you might want to know that I'm still going at it. The latest version is pre-alpha 0.3 and can be found at http://kde-apps.org

[Linux-users] Two projects.

In spite of my inability to get projects going properly I have started two that might interest people on this list. The first is to try to get the idea of a hacker space in Amberley out. I haven't a clue how the actual space will be built but getting a few keen engineers together to talk engineerin

Re: [Linux-users] Two projects.

I've just joined their list to ask them about it. Do you think it might be bit of a trip for them though? ___ Linux-users mailing list Linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

[Linux-users] This years Software Freedom day

gain willing to put on a penguin costume and give balloons to small children if someone can get me the costume and helium. BTW, would it be a faux pas to bring some copies of my CV? -- Ryan McCoskrie North Canterbury, New Zealand sourcelinksnotes.comyr.com signature.asc Description: This is a d

Re: [Linux-users] SFD discs

On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 19:00:22 Philip Charles wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jul 2011, Rik Tindall wrote: > > Noting that SFD registrations have still not opened, that Ubuntu no > > longer give out free CDs (a major support of SFD viability), and that > > this year is therefore looking very different. > > I ha

[Linux-users] SFD Registration is now open.

bunch of people who don't even know about FOSS culture but I'm keen to help any teams north of Cathedral square. -- Ryan McCoskrie North Canterbury, New Zealand sourcelinksnotes.comyr.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [Linux-users] sfd11 info

few Linux manuals on the primise and the general area could do with something of their own. -- Ryan McCoskrie North Canterbury, New Zealand sourcelinksnotes.comyr.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Li

[Linux-users] I got a job interview with Google.

ed to think that I might be able to work on a team experimenting in making Linux more reliable on large scale server farms. The only problem though was that I would have to move to another country which is simply out of the question at the moment. -- Ryan McCoskrie North Cante

Re: [Linux-users] I got a job interview with Google.

On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:02:24 Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On 19 August 2011 19:37, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: > > The following cam into my inbox yesterday. It took me a little while to > > believe however. > > > >> I wanted to speak with you regarding Engineering

[Linux-users] SFD Rangiora

On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:58:41 Rik Tindall wrote: > On 09/08/11 15:04, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: > > On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:55:26 Rik Tindall wrote: > >> Link-notes re 17 Sept SFD11 event to share with FOSS friends: > >> > >> http://bethere.co.nz/communi

Re: [Linux-users] SFD Rangiora

I just need to know this sort of thing for planing ahead. -- Ryan McCoskrie North Canterbury, New Zealand sourcelinksnotes.comyr.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Linux-users mailing list Linux-users@lists.can

Re: [Linux-users] SFD Rangiora

The Gimp $PACKAGEMANAGER and whatever else may be impressive. Showing a directory of programming would be good as well. Just to show who we are as a community. -- Ryan McCoskrie North Canterbury, New Zealand sourcelinksnotes.comyr.com signature.asc Descr

Re: [Linux-users] SFD Rangiora

On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:52:06 Ryan McCoskrie wrote: > Finally I am deeply tempted to get some one page quick guides made at a > nearby printing and copy business to give out. I just started writing a leaflet for people who don't want to change OS. Can anyone think of further entrie

Re: [Linux-users] SFD Rangiora

On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:05:16 Nick Rout wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Ryan McCoskrie > > wrote: > > My big personal concern is how many changes we can make to someone else's > > machines we will be allowed to make for the sake of showing off. I was > &g

Re: [Linux-users] SFD Rangiora

On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:57:47 Ryan McCoskrie wrote: > On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:52:06 I wrote: > > Finally I am deeply tempted to get some one page quick guides made at a > > nearby printing and copy business to give out. > > Okay I just started on a simple leaflet for people wh

Re: [Linux-users] SFD Rangiora

On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 22:05:42 Kevin and Litesha wrote: > Another one you may want to add to the list, Ryan, is VLC media player - > http://www.vlcmediaplayer.net/ > Unique or alternative? -- Ryan McCoskrie North Canterbury, New Zealand sourcelinksnotes.comyr.com signature.asc De

[Linux-users] Last call for volunteers

at least three or four other people. BTW, if enough people insists I'll move it to Saturday on the 17'th. -- Ryan McCoskrie North Canterbury, New Zealand sourcelinksnotes.comyr.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. _

Re: [Linux-users] Last call for volunteers

On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:18:13 Ryan McCoskrie wrote: > Okay, I still have no clue how many people can make it to the Rangiora > SFD. If you intend on coming please reply on-list with how long you can be > at the Rangiora Library next Wednesday and during what times. > > > Like I

Re: [Linux-users] Server for free

b SCSI drives. > > http://www.core.net.nz/index.php?productID=547&PHPSESSID=31eda25481d11447c3 > 14548a660d1227 I'll put my name in to. I'm looking to build some skills in managing servers. -- Ryan McCoskrie North Canterbury, New Zealand sourcelinksnotes.comyr.com signature.asc

[Linux-users] Can't get this year's email.

For complicated reasons I have started downloading all of my email on my gmail account from scratch using POP via KMail. The problem is though that it isn't getting anything from after around August of last year. Could I please be given some pointers on this? I have already set the account to send

Re: [Linux-users] Can't get this year's email.

abeling can go horribly wrong when being used to process tens of thousands of emails. I spent a few hours today sorting NZLUG messages appart from amarok bug reports. -- Ryan McCoskrie North Canterbury, New Zealand sourcelinksnotes.comyr.com ___ Linux-user

Re: [Linux-users] Can't get this year's email.

to learn how to use fetchmail properly. That's one of the things that I haven't learnt to do at the command line properly. I found the issue however. I was cutting KMail of while it was negotiating with pop.gmail.com over the date from which further emails should be downloaded. Did tha

Re: [Linux-users] Can't get this year's email.

On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:49:11 Keith McGavin wrote: > On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 17:24:41 +1300, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: > > Definitely going to have to learn how to use fetchmail properly... > > Fetchmail reads the .fetchmailrc config file, see the bottom of the man > file for conf

Re: [Linux-users] Dennis Ritchie Dead

On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:29:45 Ross Drummond wrote: > Dennis Ritchie co-founder of Unix and the C programming language has died. > I'd kind of been quietly and irrationally that Dennis and the rest of the orriginal Unix team put out a call for help in makeing Plan 9 usable. -- Rya

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

On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:04:40 Nick Rout wrote: > Is this list still around? > Still lurking. ___ Linux-users mailing list Linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: [Linux-users] Is it just me or...

On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:38:51 Phill Coxon wrote: > I love Firefox but find myself using Chromium more and more often. > I tried Chromium for a while and apreciated it's speed and general polish but then crawled back to FireFox for the sake of the Vimperator plugin. All vi addicts must try FireFox

Re: [Linux-users] Arch Linux here I come...

On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:06:13 Nick Rout wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 3:10 PM, John Carter wrote: > > So having gone around and around and around the Ubuntu Oneiric / Precise > > / ... install, and grub grubbing and (quite promising boot-repair) > > root > > > > I have got nowhere due that

Re: [Linux-users] Atheros wifi not working [SOLVED]

On Thu, 17 May 2012 08:01:55 yuri wrote: > On 16 May 2012 21:56, Derek Smithies wrote: > > My view - it is a bug - the driver "should" warn that the hardware is off > > - or the network manager should > > state that the switch is off - so the interface cannot work.. > > > > If linux "truly" is rea

[Linux-users] OT: The masses will never be ready for computer (was Atheros wifi not working)

les and much more all meet the technical requirements to be thought of as computers but don't get thought of as such because they're not meant to be used as such. Those are what the masses are prepared for. Machines that get marketed as "computers" are at heart built

Re: [Linux-users] OT - LOGIN BEEFS

On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 12:40:42 Adrian Mageanu wrote: > Can be worse. Some sites censor based on the OS you're coming from too, > not only the browser. > > On the national linux list (NZLUG) a poster mentioned POLi (Pay Online) > used by Air New Zealand - and probably other sites - that on their site

Re: [Linux-users] It's finally happened...

pt periodically deleting $HOME/. (I can't remember why that was desirable) and then one day having it mistakenly run as root and it was on a machine where ~root was set to / rather than /root. -- Ryan McCoskrie North Canterbury, New Zealand sourcelinksnotes.comyr.com ___

[Linux-users] Building an ADSL2+ router

similar HTTP cache) etcetera. So far a micro ATX board and case, the lowest powered Intel Atom CPU available and a 8GB+ flash drive to boot from looks like my best options but if anyone can point out an obscure option that I haven't thought of that would be well appreciated. -- Ryan McCo

[Linux-users] [SPAM: 5.000] Re: [SPAM: 8.000] Some programming languages

t comes out of the Brony fandom. -- Ryan McCoskrie North Canterbury, New Zealand http://sourcelinksnotes.comyr.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Linux-users mailing list Linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz http:/

Re: [Linux-users] [SPAM: 5.000] Re: [SPAM: 8.000] Some programming languages

On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:31:39 C. Falconer wrote: > Ryan McCoskrie wrote, On 12/13/2012 02:38 PM: > > _Friendship_ _Is_ _Magic++_ http://fimpp.wikia.net Technically this > > one is actually an even more needlessly verbose dialect of Java but it > > counts as "truly bizarre&

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

type services. 0 It seems over kill to give someone temporary root access to install a package that only one user will use. Are there any managers support this? If not does anyone think that there could be enough demand to justify writing such a manager? -- Ryan McCoskrie North Canterbury

[Linux-users] EARTHQUAKE!!!

Everyone good? ___ Linux-users mailing list Linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: [Linux-users] EARTHQUAKE!!!

Shaken in North Canterbury but unharmed. On Nov 14, 2016 1:00 AM, wrote: All good in Wellington On 14.11.2016 00:32, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: Everyone good? ___ Linux-users mailing listlinux-us...@lists.canterbury.ac.nzhttp://lists.canterbury.ac.nz

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

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 clue what's going on? I can't find

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

On 16/04/18 10:49, finn turner wrote: that's very very weird. What model of phone do you have? A Samsung SM-G318ML. I'm not sure what the common name is but it's the poor man's version of the galaxy. ___ Linux-users mailing list Linux-users@lists.

[Linux-users] Starting a group a Huruinui tech club

I'm working on building a site for listing clubs/charities in the Hurunui district. Part of this is solving the bus problem by getting a user-group / general technology club the area. Currently the only other member is abroad so feel free to contact me off list if you are interested. __

[Linux-users] Testing a website for North Canterbury

I have been working on an open source web-app called Vicinitude for creating locally focused social media websites. If you live North of Christchurch feel free to create an account for the official Beta test at http://vicinitude.ryanmccoskrie.me If you find any bugs or want to request a feature pl