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Kiwi VOIP interconnect
by Simon Anderson 20 Apr '04

20 Apr '04

G'day, I read in your Wiki some details on Asterisk, notably from Nathan Ward and Matt Riddell, but my quick search of the last two years' postings to this list didn't turn anything else up, so forgive me if this message is coming to the wrong place. Matt R and I are already in touch with one another, working on an Asterisk<->Asterisk interconnect arrangement. Matt is in Dunedin and I'm in Wellington. I wonder if there is there an Asterisk operator (or a prospective operator) in the Waikato who would like to interconnect? In the spirit of quid pro quo, I will terminate calls in the Wellington free calling area in exchange for my calls being terminated in the Waikato, with a view to setting up a peering arrangement between all willing Asterisk operators in this country as and when the opportunity arises, down the line. Note that I am not proposing a commercial venture of any sort - I'm an enthusiast looking for other enthusiasts who enjoy messing with this technology and might be interested in providing a small scale solution to others out of a sense of altruism. Talk to me about it or request an account here; iax2://guest(a)gateway.anderson.gen.nz Regards, Simon

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RE: [wlug] Pentium 200, free to a good home.
by DrWho? 19 Apr '04

19 Apr '04

It is tempting.. but I all ready have a good collection of old PCs... Sadly the 286 has gone to silicon heaven. At 09:02 20/04/2004, you wrote: >content-class: urn:content-classes:message >Content-Type: multipart/alternative; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-23701A9B; >boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C42651.9C081870" > >There you go Dr. Who... > >How can you refuse this ? >You won't need to run Linux on your 286 anymore... >-----Original Message----- >From: Oliver Jones [mailto:oliver(a)deeper.co.nz] >Sent: Monday, 19 April 2004 20:54 >To: Waikato Linux Users Group >Subject: [wlug] Pentium 200, free to a good home. > >Pentium 200, 64MB SIMM RAM, AT Case & Motherboard. Free to a good >home. Take it now or I chuck it. > >Regards >-- >Oliver Jones » Director » ><mailto:oliver.jones(a)deeperdesign.com>oliver.jones(a)deeperdesign.com » +64 >(21) 41 2238 >Deeper Design Limited » +64 (7) 377 3328 » ><http://www.deeperdesign.com>www.deeperdesign.com > >_______________________________________________ >wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz >Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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RE: [wlug] Pentium 200, free to a good home.
by Lindsay Druett 19 Apr '04

19 Apr '04

There you go Dr. Who... How can you refuse this ? You won't need to run Linux on your 286 anymore... -----Original Message----- From: Oliver Jones [mailto:oliver(a)deeper.co.nz] Sent: Monday, 19 April 2004 20:54 To: Waikato Linux Users Group Subject: [wlug] Pentium 200, free to a good home. Pentium 200, 64MB SIMM RAM, AT Case & Motherboard. Free to a good home. Take it now or I chuck it. Regards -- Oliver Jones > Director > <mailto:oliver.jones(a)deeperdesign.com> oliver.jones(a)deeperdesign.com > +64 (21) 41 2238 Deeper Design Limited > +64 (7) 377 3328 > <http://www.deeperdesign.com> www.deeperdesign.com

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Pentium 200, free to a good home.
by Oliver Jones 19 Apr '04

19 Apr '04

Pentium 200, 64MB SIMM RAM, AT Case & Motherboard. Free to a good home. Take it now or I chuck it. Regards -- Oliver Jones » Director » oliver.jones(a)deeperdesign.com » +64 (21) 41 2238 Deeper Design Limited » +64 (7) 377 3328 » www.deeperdesign.com

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3 * EDO 128MB sticks
by Drew Broadley 18 Apr '04

18 Apr '04

Does anyone have 3 for sale ?

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RE: [wlug] Dual Booting for the install-fest [long]
by Lindsay Druett 18 Apr '04

18 Apr '04

FFS Man !!! Which part don't you understand about WLUG not wanting to use Ghost or Partition Magic ? Licensing costs and issues are not the only reason behind this... I personally wouldn't paint myself into a corner backing up peoples computers, there are a lot of issues, what if the back up failed ? What is the content I'm backing up ? What about disposing of the data once finished ? Believe it or not, there are a lot of legal issues there... The other issues (which I thought was very obvious) is that here we are promoting a suite of software ranging from the OS right up to end user applications that is for starters free, open source, an alternative to Microsoft, and we are going to use what? to partition hard drive space, and we are going to use what? to backup the data. Hey if you want to use at home (or whatever) is fine to me, but what you are suggesting here is as appropriate as suggesting that you consume alcohol at church... Personally, Hard Drives are not expensive, people should consider installing a new hard drive in their machine and install the going distro. If they are newbies, things *will* go wrong somewhere along the line, and at least they can reformat the drive and start all over again without losing any sleep. > -----Original Message----- > From: DrWho? [mailto:x_files_(a)ihug.co.nz] > Sent: Sunday, 18 April 2004 19:20 > To: Waikato Linux Users Group > Subject: Re: [wlug] Dual Booting for the install-fest [long] > > > At 17:56 18/04/2004, you wrote: > > > > >>I think the idea of asking Symantic if they would do some sort of > >>sponsorship with Ghost would be a great idea. > > > >Great. Where can I download the source code? > > > You cant, but sometimes you need to spend a bit of money to > get the job > done <grin> and if a commercial pay for it product will do > the job a hell > of allot better than any free product then so be it <grin>. > > Also if symantic would be willing to give away some copies > then take it!! > it will do a good job, better than any oss solutions <grin> > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > >Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > > >

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Re: [wlug] Install fest
by DrWho? 18 Apr '04

18 Apr '04

At 15:49 15/04/2004, you wrote: > > I would think, providing something like Partition Magic is available ( > > which I have and no doubt others ) to do the job it could be offered as > > an option for those who are not competent with doing it themselves or > > installing new hardware. > >Oh? Does the license allow that? >Even so, it's still far more risk/hassle than we need I believe. It can run from a boot disk, no install on target PC needed. > > I have resized MANY NTFS and FAT partitions with PQMAGIC and never had a > > problem, not to say there have not or will not be any problems, but > > there is also the option of ghosting their HDD before the resize. > >To what? Are you providing the disk space? >Remember this is an afternoon workshop. Good question, that is one minor problem with ghost.... perhaps a spare 40G HDD?? Or setup a ghost server on a PC with some disk space and ghost over a network? >-- >Greig McGill > > >_______________________________________________ >wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz >Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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WLUG Meeting is one week away
by Meeting Reminder bot 18 Apr '04

18 Apr '04

The WLUG meeting is one week away ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Linux as a Personal Video Recorder ([PVR]). In particular, looking at [MythTV], although I'll investigate the other options if I have time. Date: Monday 26 April 2004%%% Time: 7:00pm onwards - __Please note new time!__ %%% Location: Probably at CrawshawSchool%%%

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[installfest] Hard Disk Repartitioning
by Matt Brown 18 Apr '04

18 Apr '04

In light of the recent frenzy of discussion regarding hard disk partitioning and the InstallFest I would like to clarify what the official position of the WLUG Committee on this issue is. WLUG (and it's representatives) will not be responsible for repartitioning or backing up hard disks at the InstallFest. All data backup and disk preparation tasks (such as ensuring there is sufficient unpartitioned space) are the responsibility of the owner of the computer and should be completed before attending the InstallFest. The minimum requirements that we have specified for hard disks for the install fest are either a) You are willing to wipe the entire disk (which is at least 5GB in size) and have Linux installed. OR b) There is at least 5GB of UNPARTITIONED space available on the disk. The rationale behind this position can be found on the InstallFest wiki page at http://www.wlug.org.nz/InstallFest along with other information related to hardware requirements. If people have further general comments on Free hard disk partitioning tools that are available for use in Linux then you are most welcome to post them to the list, however I would suggest that any disk partitioning issues related solely to the InstallFest have already been well and truly flogged and any more discussion would be counter productive. Questions or concerns about any aspect of the position stated above can be directed to myself or any other member of the committee. Regards -- Matt Brown Email: matt(a)mattb.net.nz GSM : 021 611 544

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Re: [wlug] Install fest
by Wayne Rooney 17 Apr '04

17 Apr '04

>Also, to Wayne, who decided that because a process "works for him" it's >infallible, and 100% safe for all, I've seen plenty of PM partitioning >problems in my time, and it's the benchmark. I didn't say it was infallible. I said it was designed to fail safe. qtparted resizes NTFS partitions with ntfsresize. Part of "man ntfsresize" says: KNOWN ISSUES No reliability problems are known or has been reported. If you need help please try the ntfsresize FAQ first (see below) and if you dont find your answer then send your question, comment or bug report to <linux-ntfs-dev(a)lists.sourceforge.net>. No subscription is needed but the mailing list is moderated and it can take some time to approve your post. There are some very rarely met limitations at present: filesystems having bad sectors, highly fragmented Master File Table (MFT), relocation of the first MFT extent and resizing in the middle of some metadata in some cases arent supported yet. These cases are detected and resizing is refused, restricted to a safe size or the closest safe size is displayed. --------- I like the words "no reliability problems are known" The fact that you've seen problems with OTHER software doesn't mean that THIS software is no good, does it? If you've had problems with qtparted then do share them so we know what to look out for. >So forgive me if I don't >really want to see the WLUG put its balls on the block guaranteeing the >safety of the user's data. That's why you get them to sign a waiver. Why would you want to guarantee somebodys data? That's asking for trouble. An installfest should be all care and no responsibility. Check out this waiver: http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/sigunix/installfest/waiver.shtml Wayne

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