Bob Miller wrote:
Rob Hudson wrote:
2. ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf (I had researched this so had the
forthought to know which files to copy from the Windows installer)
What kind of card/chip is it? Is it built-in?
It's a BroadComm BCM4306 802.11 b/g built-in. I guess that's probably
the chipset.
Rob Hudson wrote:
> 2. ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf (I had researched this so had the
> forthought to know which files to copy from the Windows installer)
What kind of card/chip is it? Is it built-in?
Anne's new HP laptop has a built-in IntelPro/Wireless 2200 which is a
boat anchor under Linux.
I'm very impressed with the state of Linux these days and am very happy
with my new Ubuntu install.
I recently purchased a Dell laptop (Inspiron 1150 for the google
crawler) and tonight took the plunge to scrap my Windows install and
start fresh. I partitioned Win to take up the first half and
MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
The Portland Linux/Unix Group
will meet
7 PM Thursday Apr 7, 2005
at
Portland State University
T. Joseph CARTER wrote:
> I could have five seed keys, but I don't need five keys and I
> don't have $500/year just to get the latest Apple stuff.. ;p
Do you expect us to believe that? You spend *way* more than $500/year
on the latest Apple stuff, Mr. Three-iPods-an-iBook-and-a-G5-Tower.
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B
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 02:49:49PM -0600, Andrew Stone wrote:
> No, I was looking for an open source resource-fork packer to add to it
> - I've just been somewhat consumed with, ahe, Tiger, recently ;-)
Tiger adds resource fork support to all of the UNIX tools. Too bad it
does not inherit so
Bob Miller wrote:
USB drives run at 20 MB/sec or better, and 100Mbit ethernet is 10
MB/sec.
USB 1.x ("Full-Speed") is 1.5 MB/s
USB 2.x ("Hi-Speed") is 60 MB/s but fall back to Full-Speed if the
device can't do Hi-Speed.
-Rob
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On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 02:14:14PM -0700, Rodney Mishima wrote:
> >Now see, I have it much easier because I run MacOS X on a Mac.
>
> When you wear your Mac end-user hat, do you consider yourself a
> Switcher as I do?
Not really. The parts of the Mac that make it a Mac are either mostly
unused
I installed it for Bend "by popular demand", but I wouldn't call it my favorite
CMS. I actually much prefer Scoop, despite the fact it is not a simple
install. I've run two different scoop sites and I've enjoyed them. The killer
feature for me is that you never need to edit any files on the s
I know I promised not to bash Microsoft, but this is funny. I'm
reading the April issue of EVO, an English car magazine. It has a
review of the Peugeot 907 concept car, from which I excerpt.
"Right now I'm watching [Peugeot designer Jean-Christophe]
Bolle-Reddat driving up and down a s
No, I was looking for an open source resource-fork packer to add to it
- I've just been somewhat consumed with, ahe, Tiger, recently ;-)
Apple's totally encouraging developers to be data-fork only, and Cocoa
is entirely standard unix. Sounds like you're working on something
useful!
On Apr
Max Lemieux wrote:
> Bob, this is great info. Thank you. I have one question, though... I've
> wanted to backup in the past by copying partitions, but found little
> obvious documentation on it. Is this something done with a basic tool
> like dd?
Yes, you can use dd or cat or cp or nc. Any on
On Apr 6, 2005 1:40 PM, Max Lemieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bob, this is great info. Thank you. I have one question, though... I've
> wanted to backup in the past by copying partitions, but found little
> obvious documentation on it. Is this something done with a basic tool
> like dd?
>
You
Ralph,
I attended the Corvallis MVLug meeting last night where I met Bob for
the first time.
At the meeting, John Secrest was asking of anyone could do a
presentation on Gimp.
I remember from quite some time ago, you were using Gimp to edit PDFs
for an Euglug flyer.
Would you be willing to dr
I don't currently have the content voting turned on, but it is possible
to do.
There are over 120 packages that are possible to install. I have
only taken about 30 of them. I would like to look at the amazon/powells
package as well as some of the collaborative task packages.
There is a project m
Now see, I have it much easier because I run MacOS X on a Mac.
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Joseph,
When you wear your Mac end-user hat, do you consider yourself a
Switcher as I do?
I tried to install Linux to coexist with OS X on my 17" aluminum G4
Powerbook and had the foll
Hey Andrew,
Does your PackUpAndGo program handle resource forks ala hfstar? As you
probably know, Panther's tar does not support them, and one too many
Carbon apps still prefer to write type/creator instead of an extension.
Others will ignore files with the right extension if they lack the proper
Bob, this is great info. Thank you. I have one question, though... I've
wanted to backup in the past by copying partitions, but found little
obvious documentation on it. Is this something done with a basic tool
like dd?
-Max
Bob Miller wrote:
As for whether to copy partition images or just copy
Right, some would just boot in windows to run Gentoo:
http://wiki.colinux.org/cgi-bin/GentooDeluxHowto
On 04/06/05 12pm, Bob Miller wrote:
> Not for us hair-shirted Gentoo users it isn't. Fortunately, dual-
> booting Windows is not something we'd do. (-:
>
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T. Joseph CARTER wrote:
> The leadership of the MUG probably got a lot more than you did. When I
> looked at EMUG, I kept noticing that software and the like was donated to
> the group, snagged by someone, who would use it for awhile, give a
> presentation on it, and then keep it. And I kept see
I went to the MWVLUG's (aka Corvallis LUG) monthly meeting last night.
John Sechrest presented the Drupal content management system.
Drupal is very cool. Both MWVLUG and BendUG are using Drupal for
their web sites. I wonder if we should succumb to peer pressure and
install it on www.euglug.org t
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:58:20PM -0700, Rodney Mishima wrote:
> >Those members of euglug who consider themselves to be UNIX people will not
> >enjoy EMUG much, it's the wrong sort of venue for a UNIX user. The EMUG
> >meetings are lecture format, targetted toward end-users, and the meetings
> >a
Max Lemieux wrote:
> Regarding laptops, I've been unable to use the OEM WinXP System Recovery
> CD for this Vaio since creating new partitions on the drive. This was a
> pain because it didn't come with any other XP disc. The only option for
> reinstalling the (corrupted keyboard driver) Windoz
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 09:52 am, Max Lemieux wrote:
> Regarding laptops, I've been unable to use the OEM WinXP System Recovery
> CD for this Vaio since creating new partitions on the drive. This was a
> pain because it didn't come with any other XP disc. The only option for
> reinstalling the (
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 07:28 am, Rob Hudson wrote:
> > Now that my laptop is out of warranty, im happy to say, I no longer have
> > XP on it.
>
> So if I do this on a new laptop it voids the warranty?
Ive never read that installing software voids a warranty, I put linux on it,
but I kept a co
John,
Thanks for forwarding Andrew's reply.
I have gotten feedback from some Eugene Lug members that a Unix
person would NOT feel welcome at a MUG meeting.
My own personal experience(s) with the Portland MUG tend to support
this assertion. Specifically the FREE exchange of helpful advice,
which
Regarding laptops, I've been unable to use the OEM WinXP System Recovery
CD for this Vaio since creating new partitions on the drive. This was a
pain because it didn't come with any other XP disc. The only option for
reinstalling the (corrupted keyboard driver) Windoze side of the system,
was t
Windows will clobber the MBR, but some distros like Mandrake and Red
Hat and Fedora when you boot the first cd in the set have a rescue mode that
will recover the MBR for lilo or grub, tthen from within linux you can add
windows onto lilo or grub. Also, if when installing linux or afterwards
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 05:43:02 -0700
To: perdurabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: Rodney Mishima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Mac OS X developer scheduled presentation next week
Cc: euglug@euglug.org
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I guess I should have announced Andrew's appearance(s) to the LU
Now that my laptop is out of warranty, im happy to say, I no longer have XP on
it.
So if I do this on a new laptop it voids the warranty?
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