Re: [brlug-general] Plasma vs. LCD

2009-01-17 Thread Jonathan Helis
warranty though the manufacturer. Since it's a Magnavox, it's easy to get it fixed if needed. -- 73, Jonathan Helis, KB5IAV Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA ___ General mailing list General@brlug.net http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net

Re: [brlug-general] General Digest, Vol 63, Issue 4

2008-09-05 Thread Jonathan Helis
rators from the home improvement TV show "Ron Hazelton's House Calls." http://www.ronhazelton.com/newsletters/homegenerator.html -- 73, Jonathan Helis, KB5IAV Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA ___ General mailing list General@brlug.net http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net

Re: [brlug-general] gustav power outage

2008-09-05 Thread Jonathan Helis
I'm in Baton Rouge off O'Neal near Old Hammond Hwy and my power came back up Thursday night around 8PM. -- 73, Jonathan Helis, KB5IAV Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA ___ General mailing list General@brlug.net http://mail.brlug.net/mailma

Re: [brlug-general] OS Poll Time

2008-08-29 Thread Jonathan Helis
t; What is your primary desktop OS? > 1. At home > 2. At work At Home: Main PC(1.583GHZ AMD Sempron): Dual boot Windows XP Home/Linux Mint 4.0 Dell Laptop(2.6GHZ): Windows XP Pro Old 400mhz AMD clunker(currently down due to dead power supply): Xubuntu At Work: Windows

Re: [brlug-general] BR-LUG: new guy in Lafayette

2008-07-08 Thread Jonathan Helis
> wrote: >> >> http://acadianaos.org/ >> > Another group you might want to check out, since they aren't too far from Lafayette, is the Lake Chalres Linux Users Group. http://www.lclinux.org. According their website, they meet at Kirkman Hall at McNeese on ev

[brlug-general] Pinnacle PC HDTV Pro USB tuner

2007-08-29 Thread Jonathan Helis
ting em2880_dvb (/lib/modules/2.6.18.8.tex5/kernel/drivers/media/video/em28xx/em2880-dvb.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) [ Anyone have any idea where to go from here? -- 73, Jonathan Helis, KB5IAV Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

[brlug-general] new Distro

2007-08-29 Thread Jonathan Helis
o many Linux distros out there it's hard to keep track of them all. If you want to find out what your up against in the Linux distro world, check out http://www.distrowatch.com All I can say is if you think you can do it better than the other small PC Linuxes out there, give it a shot. -- 73, Jonathan Helis, KB5IAV Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

[brlug-general] Pinnacle PCTV HD Pro Stick under Linux

2007-07-10 Thread Jonathan Helis
;m running Kubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn. If anyone has had any luck making this work, please post. Thanks. -- 73, Jonathan Helis, KB5IAV Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

[brlug-general] Xubuntu Experiment

2007-07-07 Thread Jonathan Helis
e equivalent of the Start button in Windows. However, it did have some trouble shutting down on that machine. The Xubuntu logo would come up on a black screen and it would just hang and I either had to pull the power cord or use the power button to shut down. Another, more modern machine

[brlug-general] "Chat feature?"

2007-04-30 Thread Jonathan Helis
very helpful users. They can be found or irc.freenode.net at #Ubuntu, #Kubuntu, and #Xubuntu. I downloaded the latest Kubuntu, 7.04 Feisty Fawn, and so far it's pretty good. Anyone else here tried it? -- 73, Jonathan Helis, KB5IAV Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA