Re: White balance for the whole X desktop
On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Dan Ritter d...@tao.merseine.nu wrote: There are proprietary things that can be done with NVidia or Radeon's closed drivers, but the only native all-X11 color change system I know about is xgamma. Yep, I was aware that some tools exist attached to binary blob X video drivers, but in my case I'm using the open source Intel GPU driver and I don't see anything similar NVidia's control panel. :^( I found xgamma too. I wonder if it can be extended to allow specifying three separate channels and correction curves that aren't a simple exponential function. I'll look into it (after checking that xgamma actually works as-is on my system). If I get anywhere with that I'll put it up on launchpad and report my progress here. On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Tom Metro tmetro-...@vl.com wrote: Brendan Kidwell wrote: - my new Dell Vostro v130 with a decidedly blue backlight that's rather depressing Is this a trend? My ASUS VW266H also has a cold color temperature. Something I saw noted in several reviews. Easily noticeable when placed along side my laptop's display and a window spans across both displays. I think it's a tradeoff among reliability, cost, and color temperature. The blue color probably comes from an array of white LEDs that provide more even, longer-lasting and lower power illumination than the old electro-fluorescent backlights. And unfortunately their color temperature is ugly, but they probably tested well enough with focus groups to warrant the change considering all the upsides. At first I found it objectionable, and tried adjusting the monitor's built-in settings, which I was never able to get to match the laptop's display. Now I've gotten used to it, and by comparison the laptop now appears unnaturally yellow (warm). My issue really became obvious when I used my laptop next to my family's desktop PC over the weekend while doing some troubleshooting and cleanup there. Their 7-year-old free-standing LCD display is quite yellow/red, but I find it less objectionable than the blue tint of the LED-lit one I have. Brendan Kidwell ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
network issues
i recently acquired an acer aspire and installed fc14. neither wlan0 or eth0 shows up from dmesg, so the networking gui can't make any connection. the wireless is there and was used successfully in the original windows7 installation, now gone. any suggestions? ole dan ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: network issues
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 11:34:21AM -0400, j. daniel moylan wrote: i recently acquired an acer aspire and installed fc14. neither wlan0 or eth0 shows up from dmesg, so the networking gui can't make any connection. the wireless is there and was used successfully in the original windows7 installation, now gone. any suggestions? lspci to see what the hardware is. Then start googling for driver compatibility. -dsr- -- http://tao.merseine.nu/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference. You can't defend freedom by getting rid of it. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: network issues
Dan == Dan Ritter d...@tao.merseine.nu writes: i recently acquired an acer aspire and installed fc14. neither wlan0 or eth0 shows up from dmesg, so the networking gui can't make any connection. the wireless is there and was used successfully in the original windows7 installation, now gone. any suggestions? Dan lspci to see what the hardware is. Then start googling for Dan driver compatibility. What I did with mine was just try linux distributions until I found one that seemed to work. I think I stopped on Easy Peasy Linux. I'm mostly just using it as an ebook reader for PDF's that need a bigger screen than my Nokia N810, though, so what distribution I use isn't very important. -- Laura (mailto:lcon...@laymusic.org) (617) 661-8097 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 http://www.laymusic.org/ http://www.serpentpublications.org Hard to know whether to file this under excessive government spending, loss of civil liberties (nearly full day detention due to carrying honey), or runaway health care costs. Philip Greenspun, commenting on a report that two bottles of honey set off explosives detection systems, and led to a gardener being detained and two TSA agents being hospitalized. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: network issues
Ubuntu or Ubuntu Netbook (http://www.ubuntu.com/netbook) should work. Hsuanyeh From: Laura Conrad lcon...@laymusic.org To: discuss@blu.org Sent: Mon, April 4, 2011 11:58:48 AM Subject: Re: network issues Dan == Dan Ritter d...@tao.merseine.nu writes: i recently acquired an acer aspire and installed fc14. neither wlan0 or eth0 shows up from dmesg, so the networking gui can't make any connection. the wireless is there and was used successfully in the original windows7 installation, now gone. any suggestions? Dan lspci to see what the hardware is. Then start googling for Dan driver compatibility. What I did with mine was just try linux distributions until I found one that seemed to work. I think I stopped on Easy Peasy Linux. I'm mostly just using it as an ebook reader for PDF's that need a bigger screen than my Nokia N810, though, so what distribution I use isn't very important. -- Laura (mailto:lcon...@laymusic.org) (617) 661-8097233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 http://www.laymusic.org/ http://www.serpentpublications.org Hard to know whether to file this under excessive government spending, loss of civil liberties (nearly full day detention due to carrying honey), or runaway health care costs. Philip Greenspun, commenting on a report that two bottles of honey set off explosives detection systems, and led to a gardener being detained and two TSA agents being hospitalized. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
mysql and access
Hi people, I believe the answer to my question is yes, but hearing it from one of you guys will give me the warm fuzzies... At work, one of the people here setup an MS access database application which is quickly turning into a nightmare because it does not use a real database as a back end. So I'm thinking that perhaps I can help them by setting up some tables in my mysql database server I have running which would ease up the data entry problems they are having. So the question is, is it feasible to have a mysql database running on Linux be used as the back end to a MS access database application running on windows? If it is, any gottachas that one needs to be careful of? Thanks! Steve. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: mysql and access
I've googled this in the past, and I found several HOWTOs that appeared to indicate that it's fairly straightforward. I never got around to trying it, though. On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Stephen Adler ad...@stephenadler.com wrote: Hi people, I believe the answer to my question is yes, but hearing it from one of you guys will give me the warm fuzzies... At work, one of the people here setup an MS access database application which is quickly turning into a nightmare because it does not use a real database as a back end. So I'm thinking that perhaps I can help them by setting up some tables in my mysql database server I have running which would ease up the data entry problems they are having. So the question is, is it feasible to have a mysql database running on Linux be used as the back end to a MS access database application running on windows? If it is, any gottachas that one needs to be careful of? Thanks! Steve. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux Unix AIM abreauj / JABBER j...@jabber.blu.org / YAHOO abreauj / SKYPE zusa_it_mgr Email j...@blu.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: mysql and access
I've configured this before and yes, the process was fairly straight forward. There was just one main gotcha that I found, which was something to do with the autonumber value access uses to create primary keys. Forgive me, it's been probably 5 years and the exact nuances escape me at present. I like Access a lot and think that an Access/MySQL solution makes a lot of sense. I'll dig around my documentation and see if I can find it. Best of luck, Chris On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 4:56 PM, John Abreau j...@blu.org wrote: I've googled this in the past, and I found several HOWTOs that appeared to indicate that it's fairly straightforward. I never got around to trying it, though. On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Stephen Adler ad...@stephenadler.com wrote: Hi people, I believe the answer to my question is yes, but hearing it from one of you guys will give me the warm fuzzies... At work, one of the people here setup an MS access database application which is quickly turning into a nightmare because it does not use a real database as a back end. So I'm thinking that perhaps I can help them by setting up some tables in my mysql database server I have running which would ease up the data entry problems they are having. So the question is, is it feasible to have a mysql database running on Linux be used as the back end to a MS access database application running on windows? If it is, any gottachas that one needs to be careful of? Thanks! Steve. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux Unix AIM abreauj / JABBER j...@jabber.blu.org / YAHOO abreauj / SKYPE zusa_it_mgr Email j...@blu.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: mysql and access
Stephen wrote: At work, one of the people here setup an MS access database application which is quickly turning into a nightmare because it does not use a real database as a back end. So I'm thinking that perhaps I can help them by setting up some tables in my mysql database server I have running which would ease up the data entry problems they are having. So the question is, is it feasible to have a mysql database running on Linux be used as the back end to a MS access database application running on windows? If it is, any gottachas that one needs to be careful of? It would never have occurred to me to set up a MySQL (or PostgreSQL) backend yet still retain Access as the front-end, but no doubt you have your reasons. I have, on the other hand, migrated numerous business applications from Access to GAPP (GNU/Apache/PHP/PostgreSQL) architectures and can probably help with a problem you'll soon encounter: migrating Access data to a different DBMS. Unless Microsoft recently fixed it (and why would they?), the export feature in Access is broken. Details, and a workaround, are at: http://www.tux.org/~tbr/database-conversion/ more specifically, http://www.tux.org/~tbr/database-conversion/#Microsoft Granted, I haven't had occasion to use the cited scripts in years, so you may find you need some changes (feel free to email questions or fixes) but in general they should do the job. And of course, since you're importing the data to MySQL rather than PostgreSQL you'll need to make some syntax adjustments. Speaking of that, If you happen to write a html2mysql.sh script that does for MySQL what html2pgsql.sh does for PostgreSQL, please share and I'll be happy to add it to the webpage and give you credit. HTH Ted ps. If you happen to discover that the Access export feature is no longer broken, please let me know! tbr ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: Computer Died
I bought another PS, but my PS has 1 20/24 MB power, 1 M/B or CPU Power 4 pin, and 1 8 pin CPU power. The PS I got has 1 20/24 pin MB Power and1 4+4 pin. So I'm missing the 4 pin. The Than MB manual says it needs all 3 connectors. So I need to find a solution. I will return to Microcenter and either exchange or totally return and mail order a PS with the correct connectors. My power supply is a Silencer 610 EPS12V, the one I bought was a Corsair GS600 that is currently on sale. -- Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org Treasurer, Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: Computer died
After a little research the Silencer 610 EPS12V is really a PC Power Cooling power supply. The generic designation is EPS12V. You might ask Microcenter if they have one. It looks like there are some available on-line vendors. PC PC version is in the $80 bracket. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
