Rex wrote:
Roger Searle wrote:
Hi, trivial question for the day: I fired up a laptop that I don't
often use, that I have a kubuntu distro installed on, and am not sure
if it is feisty or gutsy. It's not obvious where I should look to
see distro version. I can easily find my KDE or kernel ver
Further to comments at last night's gathering on home automation... Andrew
(and anyone else with an interest in such things) you might enjoy this.
OHM SWEET OHM: LINUX VERSUS VISTA SMART HOMES
http://s0.tx.co.nz/at/tep34n864113j156212i221960f2c280148a4t9s4z
The only thing that annoys me is that
Roger Searle wrote:
Hi, trivial question for the day: I fired up a laptop that I don't
often use, that I have a kubuntu distro installed on, and am not sure
if it is feisty or gutsy. It's not obvious where I should look to see
distro version. I can easily find my KDE or kernel version. Googl
Hi, trivial question for the day: I fired up a laptop that I don't often
use, that I have a kubuntu distro installed on, and am not sure if it is
feisty or gutsy. It's not obvious where I should look to see distro
version. I can easily find my KDE or kernel version. Googling for a
command gi
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, yuri wrote:
Is there any advantage to using samba in a Linux-only environment?
At the moment if I want to browse any other machine on the LAN I use
the "fish:" url in konqueror.
1) from a user's point of view, is "smb:" any easier to use than
"fish:" in konqueror?
2) from
On Tue 11 Mar 2008 11:49:14 NZDT +1300, Derek Smithies wrote:
> The actual complaint is very simple.
>
> The windows box gracefully coped with the presence of a KVM
>
> The linux box required specialist input (editing of modelines) to get it
> to go at higher resolutions.
Not to be wanting to
On 3/11/08, yuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there any advantage to using samba in a Linux-only environment?
It obeys symbolic links correctly, but the price you pay is that it is
slower than to NFS.
> At the moment if I want to browse any other machine on the LAN I use
> the "fish:" url in ko
On Tue, March 11, 2008 8:51 pm, yuri wrote:
> Is there any advantage to using samba in a Linux-only environment?
> At the moment if I want to browse any other machine on the LAN I use
> the "fish:" url in konqueror.
>
> 1) from a user's point of view, is "smb:" any easier to use than
> "fish:" in
On Sun, March 9, 2008 11:23 am, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 11:13:45 +1300 (NZDT)
> Derek Smithies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> xorg.conf is, in my view, broken as it does not allow the user to force
>> a
>> higher resolution, except by manually fixing the modeline. The bit that
On Sun, March 9, 2008 11:13 am, Derek Smithies wrote:
> Hi,
> On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
>
>> > Install a KVM (keyboard video monitor) switch and have two computers
>> > connected to the same keyboard/video/monitor.
>>
>> Good point. The KVMs don't bother to pass the ID info throug
On Sat, March 8, 2008 7:36 pm, Derek Smithies wrote:
>
> On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, Nick Rout wrote:
>
>> X shouildn't need modelines these days. If the monitor gives out edid
>> info
>> then X should automatically operate at all available resolutions with
>> the
>> highest being the default.
> Not true.
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 8:51 PM, yuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there any advantage to using samba in a Linux-only environment?
> 1) from a user's point of view, is "smb:" any easier to use than
> "fish:" in konqueror?
> 2) from an admin's POV, is samba any better than running sshd on ever
Is there any advantage to using samba in a Linux-only environment?
At the moment if I want to browse any other machine on the LAN I use
the "fish:" url in konqueror.
1) from a user's point of view, is "smb:" any easier to use than
"fish:" in konqueror?
2) from an admin's POV, is samba any better
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