[OCLUG-Tech] Stress-testing a troublesome Windows 7 system with a Kubuntu LiveCD

2012-07-28 Thread Bruce Miller
emory Controller Channel 2 Rank Registers (rev 04) ff:06.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon 5500/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller Channel 2 Thermal Control Registers (rev 04) root@kubuntu:/usr/local/bin# -- Bruce Miller br...@brmiller.ca Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: (613) 745-1151 Thoma

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Strange e-mail bounce message

2011-11-23 Thread Bruce Miller
  -- Bruce Miller, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada br...@brmiller.ca; (613) 745-1151 In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known. attributed to Thomas Pickering, retired US diplomat, born 1931 > > From: Bruce Miller >To: Technica

[OCLUG-Tech] Strange e-mail bounce message

2011-11-23 Thread Bruce Miller
account:   myacco...@rogers.com=   Please try to use this as infrequently as possible.   -- recipient, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada recipi...@recipient.com; (613) = 745-1151 In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the = known. attributed to Thoma

[OCLUG-Tech] Elementary graphics question (not directly Linux technical)

2011-09-09 Thread Bruce Miller
er a "virtual piece of wedding cake" and many thanks to anyone with the patience to help us past this task. With thanks in advance. Bruce Miller -- Bruce Miller, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada br...@brmiller.ca; (613) 745-1151 In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cove

[OCLUG-Tech] Elementary graphics question (not directly Linux technical)

2011-09-09 Thread Bruce Miller
ce of wedding cake" and many thanks to anyone with the patience to help us past this task. With thanks in advance. Bruce Miller -- Bruce Miller, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada br...@brmiller.ca; (613) 745-1151 In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known. attribu

[OCLUG-Tech] Simple web-based collaboration, project management: emphasis: small scope, simple

2011-07-06 Thread Bruce Miller
ng, note sharing apps (like Evernote, for example, or its Linux-based competitors) and have no idea whether they might (or might not) hit the sweet spot of functionality and simplicity. All ideas would be welcome. -- Bruce Miller, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada br...@brmiller.ca; (613) 745-1151 In

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] anyone out there experienced at cyanogenmod'ing their phone?

2011-05-05 Thread Bruce Miller
bulk of a physical keyboard (HTC G2 / Desire Z from expansys.ca), I have barely used the physical keyboard and use Swype >95% of the time. My previous favourite phone had been a Nokia E-62 from 2007; it combined Finnish build quality with Blackberry software and an excellent physical keyb

[OCLUG-Tech] Organizing a large CD collection on your computer

2011-04-16 Thread Bruce Miller
ng different performances of the same classical work; for others, it could be finding different releases of the same song by one artist or of finding "covers" of a particular song. And so on and so on. I am sorry for the length of this message, but I hope that it prompts you to consider

[OCLUG-Tech] Associating to a recent version Bell ADSL modem / router

2010-11-06 Thread Bruce Miller
with this line of modem/routers? Thanks in advance for your patience with so elementary a problem. Bruce -- Bruce Miller, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada br...@brmiller.ca; (613) 745-1151 Just when you think your software is idiot proof, somebody comes up with a better idiot Keyboard not found...

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Difficulty using Rogers Yahoo! WebMail with 3.5.x versions of Firefox

2009-12-05 Thread Bruce Miller
Brett, Thank you very much for the thoughtful and supportive reply. I will certainly take a look at the dslreports.com forum before I take this further. Bruce -- Bruce Miller, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada br...@brmiller.ca; (613) 745-1151 A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who

[OCLUG-Tech] Difficulty using Rogers Yahoo! WebMail with 3.5.x versions of Firefox

2009-12-03 Thread Bruce Miller
ated acknowledgement, I got an acknowledgement e-mail from a human with a promise that the follow-up, for what it will be (or won't be) worth, will come from the "Office of the President." -- Bruce Miller, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada br...@brmiller.ca; (613) 745-1151 A conservative is a man w

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Possible dying graphics adapter

2009-06-17 Thread Bruce Miller
follow-up bottom-posted |- Original Message |From: Bruce Miller |To: OCLUG Technical mailing List |Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 2:47:42 PM |Subject: [OCLUG-Tech] Possible dying graphics adapter |Last week, I indulged my fondness for Debian (-based distributions) and good coffee

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Possible dying graphics adapter

2009-06-14 Thread Bruce Miller
|- Original Message |From: Bart Trojanowski |To: Bruce Miller ; linux@lists.oclug.on.ca |Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 3:08:10 PM |Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Possible dying graphics adapter |* Bruce Miller [090614 14:54]: |> I would be surprised if this image were over-taxing my graph

[OCLUG-Tech] Possible dying graphics adapter

2009-06-14 Thread Bruce Miller
pciexpress bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0 module=nvidia Should I be talking to the vendor about the graphics card? The machine is still under warranty. Thanks in advance Bruce -- Bruce Miller, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada br...@brmiller.ca; (613) 745-1151

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] colour laser printer: any recommendations

2009-04-25 Thread Bruce Miller
http://reviews.cnet.com/multifunction-devices/brother-mfc-9440cn/4505-3181_7-32571641.html?tag=rnav Brother printers have Linux drivers. -- Bruce Miller, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada br...@brmiller.ca; (613) 745-1151 Ubuntu: an ancient African word meaning "can't inst

[OCLUG-Tech] Using Linux at the University of Ottawa

2009-02-19 Thread Bruce Miller
al pain in the ***. Does anyone have recent and reliable experience? My preferred distribution is Kubuntu. I tend to newer distributions on laptops, simply because there has been considerable recent progress on hibernate/suspend/resume in recent kernels. I would welcome advice on Linuxifying life at

[OCLUG-Tech] Installlation failure: SuperKaramba Oxygen System Monitor

2009-02-19 Thread Bruce Miller
uce/temp/oxygen/oxygen.theme failed." To the best of my ability to double-check all these things, I have installed all the dependencies and configured all the preliminaries, including lm-sensors and hddtemp. Is there further testing I can do to trace the failure of this SuperKaramba theme t

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Window resizing problem in a Java application

2009-01-10 Thread Bruce Miller
that FOSS coders need some recognition. Please send me private e-mail stating which FOSS project to which you would like me to offer a symbolic donation. The Jean-François beer fund is a perfectly valid option. Thank you again. Bruce Miller -- Bruce Miller, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada br...@brmill

[OCLUG-Tech] Window resizing problem in a Java application

2009-01-09 Thread Bruce Miller
rvice) and my current one (as a student of translation). But this is not the time for me to take on learning a programming language. The package in question is called bitext2tmx. It can be found at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitext2tmx -- Bruce Miller, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada br...@brmil

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Ubuntu

2008-11-18 Thread Bruce Miller
Kubuntu -- Bruce Miller, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED]; (613) 745-1151 Traduttore traditore From: Eric Brackenbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: linux@lists.oclug.on.ca Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 11:46:38 AM Subject: [OCLUG-Tech] Ubun

Fw: [OCLUG-Tech] netbook

2008-10-21 Thread Bruce Miller
-- Bruce Miller, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED]; (613) 745-1151 Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. - Hobbes the tiger - Forwarded Message From: Bruce Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Fw: [OCLUG-Tech] netbook

2008-10-20 Thread Bruce Miller
-- Bruce Miller, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED]; (613) 745-1151 Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. - Hobbes the tiger - Forwarded Message From: Bruce Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[OCLUG-Tech] How to map Super and Menu keys onto a PC-101 keyboard

2008-06-12 Thread Bruce Miller
s than the tank and every bit as durable. Many people regard them as the finest PC keyboards ever built. Similarly, I have heard of the "ratpoison" DE for people like me who hate mice, but I am addicted to KDE eye-candy.) There is interesting background on Wikipedia: http://en.wikiped

[OCLUG-Tech] Where to buy Linux-friendly wireless adapter for desktop PC

2008-06-11 Thread Bruce Miller
using Linux and the other is close to allowing Dad to install Linux on his machine. I therefore need Linux-friendly wireless for them both. Does anyone know of reliable local availability --- or a mail-order supplier in Canada or who ships reliably into Canada? -- Bruce Miller Ottawa ON

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Partition renumbering ??

2008-06-09 Thread Bruce Miller
nux /dev/sda72892419610482381 83 Linux /dev/sda841974209 104391 83 Linux /dev/sda94210551410482381 83 Linux /dev/sda10 55155527 104391 83 Linux /dev/sda11 5528 60801