Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu friendly monitor

2009-05-18 Thread Michael
Bill Barry wrote: With a bit more truth in advertising fewer widescreen monitors would be sold. I'm not so sure about that. My nephew's #1 criteria for a laptop was have to play my music. Meaning it had to work seamlessly with his iPod. #2 criteria was watch movies. Widescreen is good for

[PLUG] Configuring Opera Browser to Report as IE

2009-05-18 Thread Rich Shepard
A long time ago, and an earlier version of opera than the current 9.64, I was able to find the configuration option to report itself as IE. This was useful for those MS servers in remote locations who did not like firefox, particularly on linux. I ran into this situation last week in the

Re: [PLUG] Configuring Opera Browser to Report as IE

2009-05-18 Thread wes
apparently there is a file ua.ini in the Opera profile directory which you can edit to change this. http://scss.com.au/family/andrew/opera/browserids/ -wes On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.comwrote: A long time ago, and an earlier version of opera than the

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu friendly monitor

2009-05-18 Thread Larry W
Michael wrote: Bill Barry wrote: With a bit more truth in advertising fewer widescreen monitors would be sold. I'm not so sure about that. My nephew's #1 criteria for a laptop was have to play my music. Meaning it had to work seamlessly with his iPod. #2 criteria was watch

[PLUG] Search Firefox bookmarks by tags?

2009-05-18 Thread Michael M. Moore
I feel like I'm being dense, so I hope someone can help. A while back I switched from using del.icio.us to xmarks (formerly foxmarks) for bookmark syncronization. One thing I really like about del.icio.us is the tag-based search, which I find more convenient and easier to manage than dividing

[PLUG] I need someone to take over Advanced Topics

2009-05-18 Thread Alan
I have been organizing Advanced Topics for over eight years now. I have a whole bunch of things that are eating my time and my brain. I just realized that the meeting is this Wednesday and I had not gotten a speaker. My commute is 2 hours each way to and from work. Other parts of my life are

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu friendly monitor

2009-05-18 Thread Dale Snell
On Mon, 18 May 2009 09:09:15 -0700 Larry W lar...@holbrookmasons.org wrote: There is truth in advertising, but we apparently aren't interested in it. Widescreen displays appear to be based upon XGA standards, so your vertical resolution is very near 768 or 800 pixels. Having become used to

[PLUG] wmv files

2009-05-18 Thread linux-yug
What do I need to get wmv files to play? I downloaded VLC... That gives me audio...No video... TIA Linux-yug.. ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug