Re: UPSes - MinuteMan, others?

2006-08-10 Thread Mike Medai
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You definitely take an efficiency hit. However, in this case (extremely dirty power and extremely expensive and sensitive equipment), I believe we don't have much choice. We need something that can handle frequent severe sags as well as all sorts of distortions. A

mouse wheel ..

2006-01-14 Thread Mike Medai
I'm having problems getting my mouse wheel to work again. I killed my X-server in the process of changing my monitor (I guess I picked a bad resolution or something), and ended up having to run XF86Config to rebuild and copy it resulting in a semblance of booting Kde again. (Major victory

Re: Firefox goodies

2005-12-31 Thread Mike Medai
For those interested in simply tweaking or configuring their versions of Mozilla, Firefox, Communicator, or Netscape .. I've been always getting most of my info from: www.ufaq.org Plugin info can be found at: http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html And for those of us that like to

Tux magazine ..

2005-06-17 Thread Mike Medai
Stumbled across this somehow or another .. price is right, and it just might be right for others that are lurking (ahem .. carefully reading to glean information) this list and like me trying hard to become familiar with this great OS: http://www.tuxmagazine.com/ Mike

Re: now I did it ..

2005-03-20 Thread Mike Medai
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The reason I said the disk group is that that is the group associated with your CD devices, not CD or Audio Though, it's probably also helpful on a desktop system for you to be in those groups as well. Oops, forgot to mention that I had also chosen Disk .. but since I

Re: now I did it ..

2005-03-20 Thread Mike Medai
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But, that then also means that I somehow set up Lame or CDparanoia to work somewhat? Exactly. If root can do it, then you know things are at least configured properly. You only need a permissions adjustment somewhere. Did you try it with yourself in the disk

Re: now I did it ..

2005-03-19 Thread Mike Medai
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I eject and close with a music disk in, the icon changes to reflect that there is a music cd in the drive, but I still cannot access it through Konqueror or the terminal. Okay, I guess I wasn't clear enough: this is -expected behavior-. There is *NO WAY* to access

Re: now I did it ..

2005-03-19 Thread Mike Medai
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: do you recall playing with these files' permissions before? Nope .. not to my knowledge. But then again, I am groping in the dark with all this. G Anyway, this ought to correct matters... as root: # chown root /dev/sr0 # chmod 664 /dev/sr0 # chmod 664 /dev/scd0 # ln

Re: now I did it ..

2005-03-19 Thread Mike Medai
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the up side, if you did take these actions, pam_console /should/ fix them for you after you log out... I took those actions except my system balked at the adduser mikem disk command complaining that it couldn't find the adduser command. My CD problem was not

Re: now I did it ..

2005-03-19 Thread Mike Medai
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # adduser mikem disk The adduser command does not work. I get this as a result .. even if I go back all the way to the root directory: That command is intended to add your username to the disk group. I don't know what distribution you're using, so I just

Re: now I did it ..

2005-03-18 Thread Mike Medai
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 16 March 2005 07:49 pm, you wrote: Looking through my devices, it seems to be listed under the SCSI area. The Kernel version is 2.4 (as returned via the kernelversion command). Just a guess, you're probably using an IDE CD-ROM drive with SCSI

Re: now I did it ..

2005-03-16 Thread Mike Medai
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 16 March 2005 06:03 pm, Mike Medai wrote: How do I fix this? Well, I have a few questions then... First, is the drive an IDE drive or a SCSI drive or an IDE drive using SCSI emulation? And what kernel version (2.4 or 2.6 is enough for me

convertor ..

2005-03-13 Thread Mike Medai
Does anyone know of a good convertor to change .wav files to .mp3? I'm building a music list and am having to pull down the music off CD(s) as .wav .. and it is happily starting to eat loads of space. Looked through Tucows and didn't find anything. And on top of that .. does anyone know how to

internet radio

2005-02-26 Thread Mike Medai
Does anyone here know of a good internet/web radio player. I'm trying to listen to some radio while tinkering with all of this new stuff and wasn't able to find anything definitive to fill that niche. Btw, preferably something that will interact nicely with Windowmaker too. Thanks in

game server ..

2005-01-09 Thread Mike Medai
Hey there .. Is anyone out there on this list/group running a Call of Duty: UO server? If so, I could really use some assistance. sigh Tinkering with my new box and trying to run a part-time COD:UO server for some games for friends. But I keep running into a scripting error on line 37 when

looking for SCSI cable ..

2004-12-28 Thread Mike Medai
for something like that even if they are cheap as dirt. Thanks for any assistance. Mike Medai Every question has an answer. Sometimes it's Huh? ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug

Re: Nashua Linux dinner tomorrow

2004-08-24 Thread Mike Medai
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, While we won't be having a meeting tomorrow, we're going to try to get together for dinner at Martha's Exchange and chat about Linux and open source software. As usual, dinner will start at 6:00. Please RSVP if you're going to show up. If nobody RSVPs,