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

2010-08-30 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
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 http://www.library.christchurch.org.nz/South/, (rear door) South Christchurch Library, 66 Colombo Street, Beckenham (N.B. not on Wednesday this time).

Re: [Linux-users] Biased geek hub

2010-08-31 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
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 day,

[Linux-users] The Visual Shell

2010-11-20 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
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@lists.canterbury.ac.nz http

Re: [Linux-users] The Visual Shell

2010-11-21 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
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

2010-11-21 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:48:22 Jim Cheetham wrote: On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Ryan McCoskrie ryan.mccosk...@gmail.com wrote: There is a working copy now available at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/visualshell/ Please package your files with a parent directory, rather than just

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

2011-03-05 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
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 damage. -- Ryan McCoskrie North Canterbury, New Zealand sourcelinksnotes.comyr.com

[Linux-users] VisualShell pre-alpha 0.3

2011-04-20 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
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

[Linux-users] Two projects.

2011-05-29 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
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

Re: [Linux-users] Two projects.

2011-05-29 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
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

Re: [Linux-users] SFD discs

2011-07-16 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
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 have

[Linux-users] SFD Registration is now open.

2011-07-23 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
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. ___ Linux

Re: [Linux-users] sfd11 info

2011-08-08 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
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. ___ Linux-users mailing list Linux-users

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

2011-08-19 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
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 Canterbury, New Zealand sourcelinksnotes.comyr.com

Re: [Linux-users] SFD Rangiora

2011-08-22 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
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Re: [Linux-users] SFD Rangiora

2011-08-22 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
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 Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [Linux-users] SFD Rangiora

2011-08-22 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
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 entries or better

Re: [Linux-users] SFD Rangiora

2011-08-22 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:05:16 Nick Rout wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Ryan McCoskrie ryan.mccosk...@gmail.com 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 thinking

Re: [Linux-users] SFD Rangiora

2011-08-29 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
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 who won't change OS yet. Feel

Re: [Linux-users] SFD Rangiora

2011-08-29 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
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 Description

[Linux-users] Last call for volunteers

2011-09-06 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
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. ___ Linux

Re: [Linux-users] Last call for volunteers

2011-09-08 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
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 said when I first bought

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

2011-10-01 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
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-users mailing list Linux

Re: [Linux-users] Dennis Ritchie Dead

2011-10-17 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
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. -- Ryan McCoskrie, Nort

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

2012-03-01 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
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] Atheros wifi not working [SOLVED]

2012-05-18 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
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 ready for the

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

2012-05-18 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
to be used as such. Those are what the masses are prepared for. Machines that get marketed as computers are at heart built for programmers. That is why they are sold as such. -- Ryan McCoskrie North Canterbury, New Zealand sourcelinksnotes.comyr.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: [Linux-users] OT - LOGIN BEEFS

2012-06-27 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
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...

2012-10-17 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
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 mailing list

[Linux-users] Building an ADSL2+ router

2012-11-08 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
(or 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 McCoskrie

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

2012-12-12 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
/education only machine architectures that each have a single (imlplicit) operation. _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 since it comes out of the Brony fandom. -- Ryan

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

2013-03-05 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
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!!!

2016-11-13 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
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!!!

2016-11-13 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
Shaken in North Canterbury but unharmed. On Nov 14, 2016 1:00 AM, <j.vi...@snap.net.nz> wrote: All good in Wellington On 14.11.2016 00:32, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: Everyone good? ___ Linux-users mailing listlinux-us...@lists.canterbury.ac.

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

2018-04-15 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
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?

2018-04-16 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
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] Starting a group a Huruinui tech club

2020-02-24 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
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.