Re: [Eug-lug] Making geeks look bad

2007-11-02 Thread Mr O
Flippin' perfect for all those times I hear "why does Windows do that?". --- Michael Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think I have figured out what the supposed techs used to > diagnose > the PC issues in that video. > > http://www.slashgear.com/pc-dice-keeps-your-diagnosis-creative-0283

Re: [Eug-lug] install problems

2007-11-02 Thread Ron Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Garl, you mention that the long, blank loading is a common issue in Ubuntu 7.10, and you have the fix for it. Would you mind posting it whenever you find the link or whatever? I installed 7.10 for my friend recently, on his laptop, and just told him

Re: [Eug-lug] install problems

2007-11-02 Thread Mike Cherba
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 16:53 -0400, Knoppix UseAlan crandall wrote: > I am down loading Kubuntu 7.10 on my laptop right > now as I prefer KDE and will see what happens with that install.Will > have to > install some thing other than Knoppix as I can not see my XP install > during > the boot option

Re: [Eug-lug] install problems

2007-11-02 Thread Knoppix UseAlan crandall
On Friday 02 November 2007 16:57, Garl Grigsby wrote: > Alan, >You say when you reboot you have no screen. Can you elaborate? What > is the last thing you see? Do you get the grub boot loader? If so, is > that when it goes black? If so, be patient. There is a bug in 7.10 that > causes a VERY lo

Re: [Eug-lug] Making geeks look bad

2007-11-02 Thread Garl Grigsby
Alan wrote: On Fri, November 2, 2007 3:53 pm, Garl Grigsby wrote: Now, about the 'clean room' guy. Here again, we don't know what was said initially. They claim he said that it *may* be the hard drive. So assume, again, that the 'customer' is pressuring him for a cause. So he starts rattling

Re: [Eug-lug] Making geeks look bad

2007-11-02 Thread Alan
On Fri, November 2, 2007 3:53 pm, Garl Grigsby wrote: > > Now, about the 'clean room' guy. Here again, we don't know what was said > initially. They claim he said that it *may* be the hard drive. So > assume, again, that the 'customer' is pressuring him for a cause. So he > starts rattling off pos

Re: [Eug-lug] Making geeks look bad

2007-11-02 Thread Garl Grigsby
Alan wrote: On Mon, October 29, 2007 11:03 am, Mike Cherba wrote: This is sad, but true. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxSr2W6YjGc I like the "clean room" guy. That's some upsell right there! Ok. I'm going to come in on the other side of this issue and say we don't have enoug

Re: [Eug-lug] U of Oregon on Slashdot

2007-11-02 Thread Ben Barrett
http://www.2012.com.au/mayan.html "The end of artificial 12:60 time signals the beginning of the return to natural time," also see: http://zapatopi.net/metrictime/ I've done a lot of my own research on the topic, and I think there was never anything "natural" about 12:60 systems other than b

Re: [Eug-lug] U of Oregon on Slashdot

2007-11-02 Thread Fred James
Garl Grigsby wrote: Mike Cherba wrote: "Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal, if you don't use your thumbs." --— Tom Lehrer. So that would make counting in binary just like counting in decimal, but you ONLY use your thumbs. --Garl Silly thought perhaps, but - a foot has

Re: [Eug-lug] U of Oregon on Slashdot

2007-11-02 Thread Ben Barrett
Yay! I can count to ((2^n)-1)! ;) On 11/2/07, Garl Grigsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Cherba wrote: > > "Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal, if you don't use > > your thumbs." --— Tom Lehrer. > > > So that would make counting in binary just like counting in decimal, but >

Re: [Eug-lug] U of Oregon on Slashdot

2007-11-02 Thread Garl Grigsby
Mike Cherba wrote: "Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal, if you don't use your thumbs." --— Tom Lehrer. So that would make counting in binary just like counting in decimal, but you ONLY use your thumbs. --Garl ___ EUGLUG mailing lis

Re: [Eug-lug] install problems

2007-11-02 Thread Garl Grigsby
Alan Crandall wrote: I am still a Linux newbie but consider myself well enough versed in installs to be up to the task.I have been using Mandriva and when 2008 come out I dled/burned/installed/rebooted/installed the updates.Rebooted ok but I no longer had the reboot options, just the end session

[Eug-lug] install problems

2007-11-02 Thread Alan Crandall
I am still a Linux newbie but consider myself well enough versed in installs to be up to the task.I have been using Mandriva and when 2008 come out I dled/burned/installed/rebooted/installed the updates.Rebooted ok but I no longer had the reboot options, just the end session option.OK, just reinst

[Eug-lug] U of Oregon on Slashdot

2007-11-02 Thread Mike Cherba
Looks like U of O told the RIAA to go away and got the Oregon Attorney General involved. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/02/1317240 "Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal, if you don't use your thumbs." --— Tom Lehrer. ___ EUGL

Re: [Eug-lug] eeePC

2007-11-02 Thread Mike Cherba
On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 20:00 -0700, RK R wrote: > Definitely... being a parent who has had to replace 5 motherboards in > a year all on kids computers the price would be a nice thing. Also > you can max it out with 2GB RAM. >From my perspective, the fact that it is made by Everex is a reasonably g

[Eug-lug] Fwd: Fwd: [sf-uk-discuss] GNU/Linux users - sign petition to say you use BBC web site!

2007-11-02 Thread Edward Craig
This, too, looks to be a good place to forward this... -- Forwarded message -- From: Sridhar Dhanapalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Nov 2, 2007 7:42 AM Subject: Re: Fwd: [sf-uk-discuss] GNU/Linux users - sign petition to say you use BBC web site! To: Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Eug-lug] Making geeks look bad

2007-11-02 Thread Michael Miller
I think I have figured out what the supposed techs used to diagnose the PC issues in that video. http://www.slashgear.com/pc-dice-keeps-your-diagnosis-creative-028306.php#more-8306 -Miller ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/