Re: [PLUG] Linux distributions concern...

2009-09-02 Thread drew wymore
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Michael Robinson plu...@robinson-west.comwrote: I run CentOS 5.3, I try to keep updated because it's CentOS and CentOS sadly is way behind as far as Linux distributions go. People who run CentOS want something that just plain works and they don't expect to

Re: [PLUG] Linux distributions concern...

2009-09-02 Thread Larry Brigman
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Michael Robinsonplu...@robinson-west.com wrote: I run CentOS 5.3, I try to keep updated because it's CentOS and CentOS sadly is way behind as far as Linux distributions go. People who run CentOS want something that just plain works and they don't expect to

Re: [PLUG] Setting OO.o Writer Default

2009-09-02 Thread Joe Shisei Niski
John Jason Jordan wrote: Yet, in spite of the fact that there are no toolbars, the position of the text and objects in the document window jumps when I select a graphical object. It could be that OOo is respecting the position that the toolbar is supposed to go into if it was not turned off.

Re: [PLUG] Linux distributions concern...

2009-09-02 Thread Dan Colish
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 6:02 AM, Larry Brigman larry.brig...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Michael Robinsonplu...@robinson-west.com wrote: I run CentOS 5.3, I try to keep updated because it's CentOS and CentOS sadly is way behind as far as Linux distributions go. People

Re: [PLUG] Linux distributions concern...

2009-09-02 Thread Carl Karsten
will be running for much longer and need to be extremely stable. When you run CentOS you should thinking about uptime. (I wonder what distro google uses... ) I brought a ubuntu system to a google office to offload a few gig of video files. I'll boot our gobuntu cd will be able to read your

Re: [PLUG] Linux distributions concern...

2009-09-02 Thread Tim Wescott
On Wed, September 2, 2009 8:53 am, Dan Colish wrote: On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 6:02 AM, Larry Brigman larry.brig...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Michael Robinsonplu...@robinson-west.com wrote: I run CentOS 5.3, I try to keep updated because it's CentOS and CentOS sadly is

Re: [PLUG] Linux distributions concern...

2009-09-02 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Dan Colishdcol...@gmail.com wrote: run CentOS you should thinking about uptime. (I wonder what distro google uses... ) I was under the impression that Google largely uses its own customized Linux distro, though I'm not sure it can be called a distro if it isn't

Re: [PLUG] Linux distributions concern...

2009-09-02 Thread drew wymore
As a former Googler I can say we did use a custom Ubuntu called Goobuntu. No real secret sauce to it. Just bundled with some tools we used in house of course I can't say what because of that darned NDA :) Drew On 9/2/09, Tim Wescott t...@wescottdesign.com wrote: On Wed, September 2, 2009 8:53

Re: [PLUG] Linux distributions concern...

2009-09-02 Thread Nick Aubert
Where is Linux going in the future? Well, I'm pretty sure a direction it's *not* going is toward One Distribution to Bind Them All, though Ubuntu is about as close as it gets. We're a very fractured community. If something seems works well one one distro, it's likely to be taken up by the

Re: [PLUG] Linux distributions concern...

2009-09-02 Thread Robert Citek
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Nick Aubertnickaub...@gmail.com wrote: Burn yourself some LiveCDs.  Just about every major distribution has a LiveCD that will run the OS free of commitment. And then there are virtual environments where you can run them all. Regards, - Robert

Re: [PLUG] I hosed my WRT54GL, need JTAG help

2009-09-02 Thread Russell Senior
m0gely == m0gely m0g...@gmail.com writes: m0gely I don't want to purchase the cable and parts even though they m0gely aren't that expensive. I've flashed many of these and made one m0gely silly mistake on one doing some experimenting. Is anyone out m0gely there capable of providing this service

[PLUG] I hosed my WRT54GL, need JTAG help

2009-09-02 Thread m0gely
I don't want to purchase the cable and parts even though they aren't that expensive. I've flashed many of these and made one silly mistake on one doing some experimenting. Is anyone out there capable of providing this service for me that has had to do this before? I would gladly kick a few

Re: [PLUG] I hosed my WRT54GL, need JTAG help

2009-09-02 Thread Jameson Williams
I thought I'd hosed one of those back in the day... are you able to tftp / telnet to it at all? I forget where, but someone had posted a good howto on the matter. some of this networking firmware lives separately from that which you'd flash via the GUI. Good for fubars. On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at

Re: [PLUG] Distro concerns

2009-09-02 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Michael Robinson wrote: I have been trying to build a local repository of the Fedora 10 updates, but now there is Fedora 11. Yikes! I wish there was an attempt to take a stable distro like CentOS which works without updates and add modern features to it. I realize that CentOS is an

Re: [PLUG] I hosed my WRT54GL, need JTAG help

2009-09-02 Thread m0gely
Jameson Williams wrote: I thought I'd hosed one of those back in the day... are you able to tftp / telnet to it at all? I forget where, but someone had posted a good howto on the matter. some of this networking firmware lives separately from that which you'd flash via the GUI. Good for fubars.

Re: [PLUG] I hosed my WRT54GL, need JTAG help

2009-09-02 Thread m0gely
Russell Senior wrote: m0gely == m0gely m0g...@gmail.com writes: m0gely I don't want to purchase the cable and parts even though they m0gely aren't that expensive. I've flashed many of these and made one m0gely silly mistake on one doing some experimenting. Is anyone out m0gely there

Re: [PLUG] Distro concerns

2009-09-02 Thread wes
I believe the Ubuntu Long Term Support editions do exactly what you state: a linux distribution that is supported for a long time, and you are expected to go to the internet to get packages for it. It does not, however, do the other thing you asked for, which is to add modern features. I'm afraid

Re: [PLUG] USB Camera Driver

2009-09-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Rich Shepard wrote: Tried an earlier version of CamStream and that built and installed just fine. The application starts, the blue light on the camera turns on, but all I see the little window with a black background, but no image from the camera. In the virtual console

Re: [PLUG] USB Camera Driver

2009-09-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009, Bill Barry wrote: You can start with this wiki http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Thanks, Bill. Reading the wiki section on webcams I'm pointed back to Ekiga. And it's interesting that the Logitech model I have is a newer version of one of those mentioned on

Re: [PLUG] USB Camera Driver

2009-09-02 Thread Bill Barry
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Rich Shepardrshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote:   Can anyone suggest a mail list, Web forum, or other resource where I could get some help in resolving this problem? Thanks, Rich You can start with this wiki http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page and

Re: [PLUG] Distro concerns

2009-09-02 Thread Matt McKenzie
Hello, On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Michael Robinson plu...@robinson-west.comwrote: I have been trying to build a local repository of the Fedora 10 updates, but now there is Fedora 11. Yikes! Yes Fedora 11 is out, with 12 on the way. It is a 6 month cycle. If that is too fast for you,

Re: [PLUG] Distro concerns

2009-09-02 Thread Tim
I wish there was an attempt to take a stable distro like CentOS which works without updates and add modern features to it. I realize that CentOS is an enterprise distribution that tries to follow RHEL, but the problem is that there needs to be something between CentOS and Fedora. [...]

Re: [PLUG] USB Camera Driver

2009-09-02 Thread drew wymore
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.comwrote: On Wed, 2 Sep 2009, Bill Barry wrote: You can start with this wiki http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Thanks, Bill. Reading the wiki section on webcams I'm pointed back to Ekiga. And it's

Re: [PLUG] KDE Reset - Real Solution

2009-09-02 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 06:56:45PM -0700, Eric Wilhelm wrote: # from Michael Rasmussen # on Wednesday 26 August 2009 20:25: I'd like to reset KDE so it doesn't start up any applications on startup.  Where is the clean place to do that? I think it's ~/.kde/share/config/ksmserverrc And

[PLUG] CPU Usage

2009-09-02 Thread John Jason Jordan
I have a Thinkpad T61 with Intel Core2 Duo at 2.00 GHz on which I have Jaunty x86_64. At the moment I am trying to print a couple of pages of a PDF from Okular and it is taking forever to image. While I watch the progress in System Monitor I note that the CPUs switch back and forth. That is, for a