[Eug-lug] D-Link Routers

2008-08-20 Thread Robert M. Solovay
I am thinking of purchasing a D-Link DIR-665 Extreme N Gigabit Router. When I called D-Link's 800 number, they sdaidf the router was not compatible with the Linux operating system. Has anyone on the list been able to make this router work with Linux (more specifically Ubuntu)? _

Re: [Eug-lug] Trouble with sound system

2007-08-09 Thread Robert M. Solovay
Yes. I had three users; call them A, B, C. A was getting sound. I added B to the audio group and suddenly both B and C [which had not been getting sound before] started getting sound. {And at least on B which I added there was a new icon indicating that sound was up and running at the display b

Re: [Eug-lug] Trouble with sound system

2007-08-09 Thread Robert M. Solovay
hu, 9 Aug 2007, Robert M. Solovay wrote: I am running Kubuntu Feisty Fawn. One of the usuer accounts on my machine has sound. The other two do not. When I go to the Sound System System Settings it is identical on the two accounts I am currently working on. One of the accounts on which sound is

[Eug-lug] Trouble with sound system

2007-08-09 Thread Robert M. Solovay
I am running Kubuntu Feisty Fawn. One of the usuer accounts on my machine has sound. The other two do not. When I go to the Sound System System Settings it is identical on the two accounts I am currently working on. One of the accounts on which sound is not working is the one originally instal

Re: [Eug-lug] Getting Rid of Magazines Again

2007-07-23 Thread Robert M. Solovay
Can you say what this "NextStep" is? I've never heard of it. --Bob Solovay On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Alan Crandall wrote: On Sunday 22 July 2007 10:15:00 pm Quentin Hartman wrote: My Linux magazine collection has reached critical mass again and it is time to clean house. I have a stack o

Re: [Eug-lug] Ubuntu LTS upgrade policy

2007-03-17 Thread Robert M. Solovay
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Quentin Hartman wrote: I keep hearing these horror stories of going from dapper to edgy. I've upgraded at least a dozen installations from d->e and not one went sideways. All of them were "desktop" installations with the usual mess of binary drivers, restrictced codecs, e

Re: [Eug-lug] weird Comcast issue

2005-02-09 Thread Robert M. Solovay
I can reach both the sans and the dictionary sites. {I have Comcast broadband.} --Bob Solovay On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Hal Pomeranz wrote: > Sending this out to the list in the hopes that I'm not going insane... > > My home Internet connection is Comcast (I'm currently addressed in > their

Re: [Eug-lug] Weird RedHat box request

2005-01-20 Thread Robert M. Solovay
Bob, I have a RedHat 8.0 box which has the words Gnome in small print on the back. [In a list of updated components.] If that will do the trick you are welcome to it. {I'll even get it to you in appreciation of all your help to me on this list.} --Bob Solovay [who lives in Eugene des

Re: [Eug-lug] Re: [lug] Compiling 2.6 kernel with Debian

2004-11-17 Thread Robert M. Solovay
Shannon, Thanks for the informative reply. Can I just downgrade the kernel to 2.4 and expect other things not to break? --Bob Solovay On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Shannon C. Dealy wrote: > On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Robert M. Solovay wrote: > > > On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Shannon C.

Re: [Eug-lug] Re: [lug] Compiling 2.6 kernel with Debian

2004-11-17 Thread Robert M. Solovay
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Shannon C. Dealy wrote: . Now if they could > just fix the [EMAIL PROTECTED] problems with USB in the latest 2.6 kernels. What are these problems? I was planning to upgrade to Fedora Core 3 [so that I can use Firefox.] But if one can't use USB 2.0 that's a showsto

[Eug-lug] Installing Firefox 1.0?

2004-11-10 Thread Robert M. Solovay
When I try to do this, I get the following error message: DLError: /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0: version `GLIBC_2.3.2' not found (required by ./libnspr4.so) Where can I snarf the correct version of libpthread.so.0 I am running Redhat 8.0. Is it safe to just swap in the new version of this file or

Re: [Eug-lug] source of ssh scanner

2004-08-25 Thread Robert M. Solovay
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, larry price wrote: > OTBFAH: > I did think about stripping the passwords out and making a CGI that > would let people test their passwords online... ;-) OTBFAH?? Acronym finder [a web site] hasn't heard of it. What does it mean? --Bob Solovay ___

Re: [Eug-lug] Gentoo Tip o' the Day

2004-08-07 Thread Robert M. Solovay
but why is this happening? On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, T. Joseph CARTER wrote: > On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 11:00:54AM -0700, Rob Hudson wrote: > > Why the "\\d" instead of just "d"? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps x | grep irssi > 1739 p2 S+18:42.95 irssi > 10840 std S+ 0:00.01 grep irssi > [EM