On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 8:38 PM, larry price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> extra points for robots, ray guns or missile launchers.
>
> No points for anything that has a hello kitty label.
>
> Post pictures if you'd like.
That would probably have to be an M-Audio Midi to USB interface.
Similar to htt
Not quite sure what you're asking:
Do you have a bootable Windows installation which you need to preserve data on?
Do you have a bootable Linux installation on the same drive?
but no bootloader?
"fdisk /mbr" will almost certainly leave you with a non-bootable system; if you can boot into Linux
Bob Miller wrote:
larry price wrote:
I'm somewhat determined that I will listen to this as ogg or mp3 first
mostly out of stubbornness and the desire to learn a few
practical lessons about ripping bitstreams apart.
BTW, I was delighted to see that KDE 3.4's file browser displays audio
CDs w
Patrick R. Wade wrote:
T. Joseph CARTER wrote:
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 02:48:02PM -0800, Bob Miller wrote:
I haven't used it enough to know... can you use apt-get and
(synaptic or kynaptic or kpackage) interchangeably?
I have been switching among aptitude, synaptic, and adept without
probl
TA: San Andreas - Yes, I have the hot coffee patch and No, it really
isn't all that special...
Never Winter Nights
F.E.A.R.
I also use the Adobe stuff as well as MS Office a lot.
I will make the switch in a hot minute though if I can continue to play
my games. :)
Ron
On 11/22/05, *
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In a related note, I did a dist-upgrade from hoary to breezy last week and it was a very pleasant
experience.
The ALSA configuration which was helplessly broken under Hoary automagically fixed itself during the
upgrade, and my sound card which has only recently been supported in Alsa upstream n
Pretty much all the Java devs where I work use Eclipse, for what it's worth. When I ask questions
about some part of the codebase, their first response is "do you have Eclipse installed?" It is a
significant boon to working on Java projects, especially larger ones, for the reasons Ralph
mentions
Try "which kcookiejar". On my system, kcookiejar is at /usr/bin/kcookiejar,
your mileage may vary.
Note that I don't know anything about its usage, but that seems to be the app you're looking for.
Make sure all the "extra" packages are installed if you don't see it.
-Max
Bill Essig wrote:
I
Great! *puts chicken feathers and bat grease candle back in drawer*
>:)
Sort of on topic: I find KDE's screen lock/screensaver combination (kdesktop_lock + klorenz.kss, or
whichever) to be quite unstable with a dual head X config. It launches many many lock processes
which forced me to "killa
/08/16/computer.worm/index.html
Jeff
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within the application (i.e., a place where I am
> supposed to be able to run terminal sessions). Hope that helps. Thank
> you in advance for any help you may be able to offer.
> Regards
> Fred James
Fred James wrote:
Max Lemieux wrote:
I'm assuming you are getting these err
I'm assuming you are getting these errors on runtime when running an application. Can you post the
complete output from your console, please? That will let us figure out what packages you need...
-Max
Fred James wrote:
All
I cannot find these 3 shared objects libXm.so.3, libssl.so.2,
libcryto.
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then 4 GHz?
Intel is running into the physical limits of silicon. Moore's
Law is screeching to a halt.
To get significantly faster computers we will need a fundamentally
different approach. It is not a coincidence that the silicon
industry is financially depressed.
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A note on the Savage XFree86 drivers... when booting that celeron system last night with Knoppix
3.7, we couldn't get it to display in X until passing the "fb1024x768" parameter at boot time, to
use framebuffer mode instead. The "savage" driver just didn't want to play nice.
Conversely, the sa
Ooh excellent. Yeah, I've got a Radeon Mobility 9200 which also works well with the "radeon" driver.
It even does dual head with Twinview and all that jazz, though not 3D-accelerated.
I think the upshot is that open source drivers work fine :D
-Max
Bob Miller wrote:
Max Lem
ut Linux drivers any more.
I now run Debian. No proprietary drivers. I bought an
ATI FireGL X1. ATI could go belly up tomorrow, but the
2.8 kernel released in 2007 would support it.
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Agreed, any Nvidia card made in the last 5 years should be adequate, anything in the last 3 years
will fly compared to any on-board video or antique card. ;)
GeForce2 or better will let you run a lot of modest-spec'd new games, or fancy screensavers, or what
have you... 5x00 series will let you
I am running an Nvidia GeForce4 MX4000 (if that is the right alphabet soup) on a Via chipset. No
problems, equivalent 3D performance in Linux and Windows.
Even that GeForce2 MX-400 will give quite decent performance. I can't speak to your motherboard
though, I'm edging towards the unhelpful "th
Note that Fedora Core 4 was just released a few hours ago... you may want to install it instead of
Core 3.
http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/05/06/13/1433254.shtml?tid=110&tid=106
On Debian, I've had wonderful luck playing DVDs with Xine; it "just worked".
-Max
Bob Miller wrote:
Jim Darrough w
I looked at the screenshots and this game looks really really purty. I will give a performance
report after running it on my aging "games machine" (GeForce4, Athlon XP1600, etc). Doom 3 gave me
about 5 FPS on that box, with settings turned down I got 10-12... we'll see how Nexuiz compares.
Inci
dated so much, I really
wouldn't say it all comes from NeXT anymore, either.
On 6/6/05, Max Lemieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
And while we're on the topic of Jobs' ego, OS X is largely descended from his
old NeXT system, along
with the other bits pointed out below. T
But, the leading "G" still stands for "GNU"... GIMP expands to "GNU Image
Manipulation Program"...
*ducks*
Bob Miller wrote:
Jacob Meuser wrote:
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 04:54:52PM -0700, Bob Miller wrote:
GTK is the GNU Toolkit.
it's the _GIMP_ Toolkit.
Oops, you're right. Sorry.
My god. They are going to be shipping fat binaries AGAIN (according to the link
below).
Let me scrape my jaw off the ground, one sec.
-Max
Rodney Mishima wrote:
http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/06/06/liveupdate/index.php
The rumors are true: Intel will be inside (the Mac) according to the
And while we're on the topic of Jobs' ego, OS X is largely descended from his old NeXT system, along
with the other bits pointed out below. The OS X non-spatial Finder, Mail.app, the whole .app
framework, all of it comes from NeXT.
-Max
Rodney Mishima wrote:
I don't know much about MacOS. But
I find it hard to believe that Apple would break binary compatibility with existing PowerPC-targeted
OS X software.
So, to roll out x86 or other non-Power CPUs, I would expect Apple to plan full binary compatibility
with PowerPC binaries. And once that step is taken, they might as well throw in
video or continues booting.
This is the IBM PC300 GL from the call center graveyard, FWIW.
-Max
Allen C Brown wrote:
Max Lemieux said the following on 05/24/2005 04:30 PM:
I will definitely let you know. I'll even pull things one by one
so that I know which part was the off
oints.
Either you wandered into an alternate timeline where the meeting
didn't happen or you were the first one there and weren't assertive
enough with the belly dancers.
On 5/27/05, Max Lemieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So, unless my reality distortion field is peculiarly skewed in
So, unless my reality distortion field is peculiarly skewed in a
direction several dimensions removed from y'alls, the space at 228 Main
with all the call center systems stacked up is being used for belly dancing.
I was there between about 6:30 - 7:00 last night, listening for the
characterist
I will definitely let you know. I'll even pull things one by one so that
I know which part was the offending one :)
Pictures don't go through to this list as I understand it, but you
should see it at the next meeting parked on Main St. It's an 86 Subaru RX.
-Max
Allen C Br
day keep a
machine from POSTing even though it powered on. Hardware is fun
:)
--- Max Lemieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Speaking of childish, I attempted to OC the IBM PC300 GL to
300Mhz and
hasn't been able to boot it at all ever since. It won't output
to the
display adapte
cutting a trace on the cpu. Its been a long
time since those were new, and overclocked, but I recal something about
cutting a trace to get slot 1 cpu's to overclock.
Jamie
On Friday 20 May 2005 11:12 am, Max Lemieux wrote:
I removed the battery and tried a few combinations of the BIOS res
as working fine before...
thanks
Max
Linux Rocks! wrote:
On Friday 20 May 2005 10:36 am, Max Lemieux wrote:
Speaking of childish, I attempted to OC the IBM PC300 GL to 300Mhz and
hasn't been able to boot it at all ever since. It won't output to the
display adapter, though it'll see
Speaking of childish, I attempted to OC the IBM PC300 GL to 300Mhz and
hasn't been able to boot it at all ever since. It won't output to the
display adapter, though it'll seek cdrom, hd (2 clicks). 266Mhz was
stable... boo hoo
Tried everything, all the BIOS reset tricks I know, no dice.
This wa
I believe this should be hwclock --systohc.
-Max
Christoph Otto wrote:
Note that there's also a battery-powered hardware clock on most (all?)
computers that's not necessarily in sync with the system clock. After
using rdate, run
hwclock --systoch
to get the hardware clock in sync with the (rece
I got wireless working over the weekend, on the old call center box.
The PCI 802.11g card uses a Broadcom BCM4306 chipset. The wireless tools
in the OS, Ubuntu, don't work very well with it, but good old
ndiswrapper, iwconfig and dhcpclient did the trick.
Anyone else pull off any useful upgrades
And of course Ctrl-K for "Google Search" field, Ctrl-L for Location, F11
for full-screen display.
-Max
Mr O wrote:
Let's not forget "Ctrl +" and "Ctrl -" to increase and decrease
page size. "Ctrl T" for new tabs. On a non hyperlinked address
I'll highlight with mouse then do "Ctrl C T V Enter" to
, since
my eyelids are calling for inspection time.
Btw, no one said if it was here in Eugene or if it was in Springfield
tonight for the meeting?
Jeff
Max Lemieux wrote:
It sure does. We're getting very warm now.
Check your K menu > System > [Synaptic Package Manager] or [KPacka
y want to install a more modern distro to get the new
features/speed of the new KDE.
-Max
Jeff Newton wrote:
Max, does KDE 3.2 ring any bells?
Jeff
Max Lemieux wrote:
OK. It actually looks like Guarddog is a KDE-specific package. If you
already are running the KDE desktop, you can do this to ge
what are your security
needs?
-Max
Jeff Newton wrote:
I know, I'm running debain on the box, but distro, I'm not familier with
Max.
- J
Max Lemieux wrote:
How to get it depends on what distro you're running. Guarddog happened
to come with SimplyMepis 3.3, so I used it as an examp
Where can I find this file
and where?? Btw, I suppose the meeting is in Springfield tonight, right??
Jeff
Max Lemieux wrote:
Most of the virii/worms tie into specific known MS vulnerabilities.
You are beautifully immune on Linux. Security concerns are more to do
with unauthorized access than th
Most of the virii/worms tie into specific known MS vulnerabilities. You
are beautifully immune on Linux. Security concerns are more to do with
unauthorized access than the bot/worm/virus stuff.
To that end, most Linux distros do come with a software firewall, based
on the iptables package. Look
r from the power supply as you can.
--- Max Lemieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yeah, I tried the jumper... both on the other position, and
off
entirely, for a couple minutes each time. No luck. Same with
the CMOS
battery, 5 minutes out didn't clear it...
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ards (even
proprietary crap) there's a jumper near the CMOS battery to
clear it which takes about 15 seconds. Hope that helps you next
time around or anyone else dealing with a similar PC.
Ze' Hardware Guru,
Mr O.
--- Max Lemieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
1) Curse at BIOS password
This is more or less what I was trying to do at the meeting last week
with the Tomsrtbt disk and the PII box. It turns out the README did have
instructions for getting the kernel off the floppy...
however, I'm not so sure that I could bootstrap it up to Debian at that
point. Here's what I did e
I propose that we follow up yesterday's meeting with a "challenge":
If you received one of the PII/233/64MB/6GB boxen, bring it back next
week (headless, natch) and show us your old-new-again modern Linux
installation on it!
D'oh! That means I need to go find a CD-ROM drive...
Cheers,
Max
larry
d/correct me on this... it's been a while
since I've really cracked it's cover. :)
-Max
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What is morals and dogma?
J.F
On 4/25/05, Max Lemieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That's striking - the Freemasonry l
That's striking - the Freemasonry literature I've read says that in
order to join, the potential member must ask a current member for
consideration; that there are traditionally no invitations given out.
Perhaps this methodology has changed over the decades.
Anyone else have their hands on a cop
This is great news. I think a stable meeting place (no, not the kind
with hay and dust) is crucial to growing steady attendance. I know
personally it's been rough keeping track of where the meetings are held
(not that I've made many, but...)
And to those thinking of bussing it w/bikes, the #11
If you have a Windows machine handy, you could download and burn a
Knoppix live Linux CD (knoppix.org), boot your Windows machine from it,
then plug in the external USB enclosure and use commands like this to
view the contents of the disk, assuming it is viewable at all:
In a terminal, run:
mkd
I noticed the info page advertises WLAN support with ndiswrapper. Have
you tried it with 802.11g cards? Any other extra-nifty features to tell
us about?
thanks,
-Max
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http://kanotix.com/info/index.php JF
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I've been using the versions of gaim and kopete in Debian
testing/unstable, on and off, with a Yahoo! account, no trouble for the
last year or so although I haven't used gaim for a few months. For
versions, I have:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ kopete --version
Qt: 3.3.3
KDE: 3.3.2
Kopete: 0.9.2
[EMAIL
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
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
Jason, if you care to bring your Visio discs to tonight's meeting I will
be bringing CrossOver Office and we can find out for sure how it works
for you... ;)
-Max
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can't tell the difference between this and on
a Mac/Windows box. :D
-Max
Jason Van Cleve wrote:
Quoth Max Lemieux, on Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:39:06 -0800:
http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxoffice
It's not free (hey, neither is Visio) but there is a 30 day unlimited
trial, so you won&
I just installed that demo, and Visio is in the list of applications
CrossOver presents upon clicking "Install Software". So it would appear
that support is pretty good. Lots of reports from users that had it
working well in Wine, too, years ago...
-Max
Max Lemieux wrote:
You
You might try Codeweavers' CrossOver Office. It's a slick wrapper for
Wine that lets you run MS Office, Photoshop, etc. on Linux. It is
rumored that Visio works OK through this tool.
http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxoffice
It's not free (hey, neither is Visio) but there is a 30 day unlimite
I've used a KVM switch, of the "hit-scroll-lock-twice-to-switch"
variety, with no problems between Linux and Windows. I don't know of any
reason this wouldn't work, assuming same peripheral bus (VGA, PS/2, USB,
whatever). It should be transparent to each system. PS/2 to USB
translation dongles
I have an "Ultra-SCSI Wide" 20GB drive that would love to meet your
Ultra 1. I've been looking for a new hobby computer, and I will be happy
to take it off your hands.
-Max
Tim Howe wrote:
I'll be in town next week, all week. Is there a meeting? Does anybody want an
Ultra 1? I have two, but
Try registering without it. If they tell you it's required, and you
can't register without it, don't register there.
ICQ is an instant-messenger service like AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, etc.
Nothing wrong with it but there is no good reason for you to need it to
sign up at this website. ;)
-Max
wal
While trying to get installation at my new residence, I was transferred
to something like a "1.5 tier" agent who was able to secure a discount
for service due to the misrepresentation of installation date by another
rep. I don't think that counts though, since networking was never mentioned.
Se
estion? I apologize
in advance.
Brian
On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 09:24, Max Lemieux wrote:
In Firefox (and Mozilla) "Favorites" are called "Bookmarks". In Firefox,
go to the Bookmarks menu, and choose "Bookmark this Page..."
By the way, I think you're thinking of
In Firefox (and Mozilla) "Favorites" are called "Bookmarks". In Firefox,
go to the Bookmarks menu, and choose "Bookmark this Page..."
By the way, I think you're thinking of Internet Explorer, not Hotmail.
Hotmail is the Microsoft email website. Firefox will take you to Hotmail
too (although the
ses a
question, the next answers it, and the next trumps it all with a better
answer! Everybody learns something.
-Max
Bob Miller wrote:
Max Lemieux wrote:
I don't want to dampen your enthusiasm for that project, but let me
tell you what I did instead.
cookies.txt is a text file. Han
A noble cause indeed. And yes I'd be writing it to work with Firefox.
Send me email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the names of the websites
you want to save cookies from, and I'll send you a custom version of the
script if I ever get it together. :)
-Max
walter fry wrote:
Neato. I suppose you could
Allen Brown wrote:
Max Lemieux wrote:
Cookie removal:
2) Go to the Tools menu. Choose "Internet Options". In the resulting
dialog window, there is a "Delete Cookies" button. Click it. Agree to
the following message.
Under "Internet Options" are 6 tabs: General,
Cookie removal:
1) Open your web browser. I'll assume you are using Internet Explorer,
the one with the big blue "e" logo.
2) Go to the Tools menu. Choose "Internet Options". In the resulting
dialog window, there is a "Delete Cookies" button. Click it. Agree to
the following message.
3) That's
As Far As I Know, the Free Software Foundation reflects much thinking
that is In My Opinion.
The Jargon File (http://www.faqs.org/docs/jargon/) is invaluable for
decoding Netspeak. It's organized alphabetically, even!
-Max
walter fry wrote:
newbeeFreihube here... what does a AFIK look like ? H
the latest mac, said he spent about $2000 on
it. It looked shiny and all. My Bad!
BTW thanks for the pointer to ndiswrapper. I should get it working in a
few weeks.
Brian
On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 09:57, Max Lemieux wrote:
Tell me where your neighbor bought a G5 laptop and I'll buy the both of
y
Tell me where your neighbor bought a G5 laptop and I'll buy the both of
you beers. :)
-Max
Brian Gallagher wrote:
I am going to make a wicked guess that it would be hard to beat the
Mac-Mini on price / features, namely Firewire. My expert Linux using
neighbor just bought a G5 laptop and he says
From what I read on the site, electra uses a filesystem structure for
its registry tree.
-Max
Allen Brown wrote:
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, larry price wrote:
I had two reactions:
1. This could be truly useful
I like the idea of standardization. But it really matters what
standard you pick.
Ok, this works. Enter gives me a ? but line number + enter displays a line.
What practical uses do you find for ed? seems specialized enough that it
could be very handy.
-Max
Jacob Meuser wrote:
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 02:52:39PM -0800, Max Lemieux wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ed Robert.txt
261
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ed Robert.txt
261
Yikes! I even RTFM ed, and no mention of a display mode (what am I
missing?). The substitution looked handy, though...
-Max
Jacob Meuser wrote:
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 01:01:14PM -0800, Max Lemieux wrote:
Agreed, vi seems to be the universally present
Agreed, vi seems to be the universally present editor. I haven't used
emacs so can't comment on it; with vi the main learning curve was
getting used to the "insert mode, overwrite mode, command mode"
paradigm. After that it seems pretty straightforward.
For a new user who is working on only one
Walter,
Allow me to suggest "nano" as a gentler introduction to the world of
console text editors.
All the commands (copy, paste, save, quit, find, etc) are visible
on-screen, and you can just type and use arrow keys as expected.
True, it doesn't have ANY of the power of vi or emacs, but for ba
Bob Miller wrote:
Max Lemieux wrote:
The "apt-cache search [keyword]" command, sometimes piped to "grep
[keyword]" filter is very useful for me in these situations.
Do you also know about "apt-cache search --names-only $keyword"?
I didn't, but now
Hey, awesome, I finally have the right answer! :) Glad to help.
The "apt-cache search [keyword]" command, sometimes piped to "grep
[keyword]" filter is very useful for me in these situations.
-Max
Allen Brown wrote:
Max Lemieux wrote:
Here's what I found searching apt
Here's what I found searching apt for rsh, minus noise (I'm running
SimplyMepis which is pinned to Debian testing/unstable, your results may
vary):
[EMAIL PROTECTED] apt-cache search rsh|grep rsh|sort
cook-rsh - Remote execution scripts for cook
fsh - Fast remote command execution over rsh/ssh/l
Hey all,
Here's a forward from the kde-quality mailing list which may be of interest:
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to kde-quality
Subject: Human Aspects of Software Engineering
Date: 7:30am (6 hours ago)
Dear KDE Users and Developers:
We are conducting empirical research on the quality and interface a
see response below, please...
T. Joseph CARTER wrote:
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 06:08:48PM -0800, Bob Miller wrote:
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:10:58AM -0800, Bob Miller wrote:
BTW, the current KNOPPIX (v3.7, 12/8/2004) still defaults to a 2.4
kernel and XFree86 too. What's up with that?
Yikes! That's kind of scary. I've not tried to cohabitate Xandros with
other Linux distros...
If the behavior you describe is by design (not unimaginable), hopefully
they corrected that in the 3.0 release. You may want to report the bug
to the xandros folks, or on the xandros user forums, as th
FWIW, I think SimplyMepis is great, I'm using it on 2 machines and have
no intention of looking further for a Linux distro... it has replaced
Xandros as my "polished Debian" of choice, although that may change in
March with Xandros 3.0 Open Circulation... right now, the only things I
can't do w
I read that story a while back, laughed till I cried. I noticed just now
it has over 5000 comments! Possibly the most successful troll I've ever
seen. :D
-Max
Linux Rocks! wrote:
This led me to this:
http://www.adequacy.org/public/stories/2001.12.2.42056.2147.html
Which also was pretty funny!
Allen,
What is your email client? Packages like mutt are common in Debian.
You shouldn't need anything very special, AFAIK... Is your
firewall/iptables configured to let mail through?
-Max
Allen Brown wrote:
What packages/daemons to I need to receive email over the LAN?
I have a RedHat7.2 system
see below for my responses inline...
Ken Barber wrote:
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 3:07 pm, Max Lemieux wrote:
2 questions about the PPC CD's:
1) is there a torrent?
2) does it boot on Old-World G3? (i.e. beige 233/desktop rev1 G3)
Ken Barber wrote:
Longer answer: You CAN boot an O
larry price wrote:
On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 15:07:35 -0800, Max Lemieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Larry,
2 questions about the PPC CD's:
1) is there a torrent?
http://ftp.cs.umn.edu/pub/ubuntu-releases/warty/warty-release-install-powerpc.iso.torrent
2) does it boot on Old-Wor
Hi Larry,
2 questions about the PPC CD's:
1) is there a torrent?
2) does it boot on Old-World G3? (i.e. beige 233/desktop rev1 G3)
I used Ubuntu for a little while and found it to be solid, friendly and
full-featured (although lacking the hardware detection I've been spoiled
by in other distros..
I'd highly suggest the ndiswrapper package
(http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/). You configure it to point to the
Windows driver file, and it interprets it for the Linux networking
system. Works great for my 802.11g wireless card (D-Link even, I think.
Gotta go check).
This thread on linuxque
Are there icons on your screen, after logging in, which represent your
computer, or hard drive, floppy drive, etc? If you double-click the most
obvious one, do you get a "Windows Explorer"-like file browser? That
will be your best bet for file management... command-line mounting,
copying, etc i
mporting WordPerfect
files. Or save as RTF so anything can open it.
Try hitting "Alt + F2" and seeing if a little "Run Program" box
comes up. If so, type in "xterm" or "konsole". When that comes
up type "dmesg |grep /dev/fd" . Remember to not type any
I would suggest using a different word processor (or even text editor)
such as is included with Fedora. OpenOffice.org is a great replacement
for MS Office, and probably even reads/writes WordPerfect format. You
can save your file to your home directory (/home/walter or whatnot) then
copy the f
Or I can go with
# make gconfig
*
* Unable to find the GTK+ installation. Please make sure that
* the GTK+ 2.0 development package is correctly installed...
* You need gtk+-2.0, glib-2.0 and libglade-2.0.
*
# apt-cache search gtk+-2.0 glib-2.0 libglade-2.0
Try installing these packages (listed as
ax
Allen Brown wrote:
Max Lemieux wrote:
Mozilla plugins are often in a hidden directory called
".mozilla" in the user's home directory, like
/home/nyal/.mozilla/plugins
Sometimes different distros put this plugins directory in /opt
or /usr or elsewhere, follow the
instructions on
Mozilla plugins are often in a hidden directory called ".mozilla" in the user's home
directory, like
/home/nyal/.mozilla/plugins
Sometimes different distros put this plugins directory in /opt or /usr or elsewhere, follow the
instructions on the other response to find it...
In general, opening a
e
and function. Gmail's search features, as you might expect, are easier to use
than the mail clients I'm familiar with. Plus I don't have to store 1GB of mail
on my hard drive :)
Regards,
-Max
Bob Miller wrote:
Max Lemieux wrote:
Personally, the subject of my latest e
Personally, the subject of my latest email test has been Gmail. I've been using
it for a month or so, and I think it's pretty slick. If anyone wants an invite,
please email me off-list.
*on-topic hijack complete*
-Max
Mr O wrote:
What fun would it be if we didn't start senseless threads about
te
OK... to me that looks like a UFO!
Pardon my ignorance, but... What TF is an iridium flare?
-Max
Mike McCool wrote:
http://www.efn.org/~mikemcoo/iridium.html
OK, straight up, this ain't linux-related--but I figure y'all might dig it
anyway.
Shot this in my front yard yesterday evening at 8:32,
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