Guns don't kill people. Microsoft Windows kills people. Trying to get it
to support legacy hardware nearly killed me.
On 08/04/2014 07:09 AM, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 12:15:39AM -0700, Michael Dexter wrote:
What: Open Sourcing the Modern Battle Rifle: Legal and technical
On 11/24/2012 02:06 PM, Dale Snell wrote:
On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:39:27 -0800
C W elcas...@gmail.com wrote:
Is it wise to add other DEs once Ubuntu 12.04 is installed?
Hey Everybody,
I have a friend who installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on his work desktop PC.
He's spent the last month or more
On 11/24/2012 04:26 PM, C W wrote:
Thanks for the replies, everybody. Does restoring from a backup work
reliably?
Just about every time so far for me. Some points to remember:
IMAGE backups of a drive partition are much larger than backing up just the
data that comprises the system.
On 05/18/2012 03:57 PM, Brian Martin wrote:
I'm considering a FreeNAS installation for a client. FreeNAS is *really*
built around the idea of separating it's software from the data, to the
point that it needs a dedicated disk for itself. The FreeNAS folks were
really thinking of this as
I have never had reliably good luck installing XFCE LXDE or KDE on top
of the basic Gnome or Unity Ubuntu. Going all the way back to at least
Ubuntu 9.04 KDE in particular seems to corrupt something in Gnome fonts
while its own fonts are clearly screwed up versus a Kubuntu Mint or
Mepis KDE
Linux vs Windows and others
My work and hobbies are a mixture of tech support, tech documentation,
creative and political opinion writing. Though I started out in tech in
the 80s' on a Unix System V at PCC Sylvania and my first internship and
initial employment was in a Unix engineering
Some thoughts on the Unity/Gnome 3 change
I migrated to Ubuntu Linux about 6 years ago after being alienated by
the total mess that Windows XP/Vista had become. The Gnome2 desktop was
easy to master, not all that dissimilar from Windows. Then Ubuntu
introduced Unity about the same time that
How ironic! I had been under the impression that WAS my problem when was
I trying to make Windows Vista work for me!
On 03/22/2012 03:26 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Russell Senior
russ...@personaltelco.netwrote:
Word == Word Wizardword.wiz...@comcast.net
Pacific Solutions , SE Division 52nd. I've even bought reconditioned
drives and other equipment ( video cards, MoBos) there and they never
ever fail. Superb technical advice, free of charge
http://www.pacificsolutions.com/
Where would be the cheapest place to get a SATA HDD? Doesn't have to
I'm not a big fan of the new landscape monitors. I use an older 4:3 20
inch LCD because I like the vertical space for text reading/writing
work. I dread the day it gives out because only the band-aid form-factor
monitors seem to be available now. They don't deliver the vertical size
I like
Update on Ubuntu 11.4 install
Regarding my previous fine whines about the bugs in the latest Ubuntu
release, Natty 11.4, out of fairness I felt I should present my
subsequent experiences with the Unity desktop version.
The display bugs and performance disappointments I encountered upon
first
/The best thing about Linux. If you don't like one flavor, there are 50
others. Whereas with Windows, the user is stuck with whatever Steven
Ballmer deems they should have. Linux has about a dozen desktops, Unity,
Gnome Shell, KDE, lxde, xfce and more, two package management systems,
several
The installer had the correct resolution, possibly because I edited the
boot-loader menu with the vga=795 command line addition. However, the
installation came up 640x480 with 320x240 as the only option,
regardless of any command line edits. I managed to download and
install the latest
I run Maverick (Ubuntu 10.10) w/Gnome and the Avant panel. It is
absolutely perfect in every aspect, so far superior to Windows I would
not run W7 even if it were free. I use some KDE apps like the K3B
burner and I even ran the pre-release Gnome3/Gnome shell with not one
problem. Fast,
Therein lies the rub.
Either the OS is designed for newcomers or Linux or veteran users.
Right now Natty seems totally hostile to the former while a pain in the
backside from at least some veteran users. I'm no MS/CS sys-admin but
I'm not a Linux or Ubuntu newbie either. I love the ease of
An absolutely HIDEOUS release! And I say that as long time Ubuntu fan,
converted from Windows XP/Vista by Gutsy Gibbon
The Kubuntu (KDE 4.6) version is totally unusable for NVidia cards.
Kubuntu installs in 640x480 video mode and refuses to allow the upgraded
driver NVidia administrative
Oh LORD!
Talk radio-style political correctness and argument. Even here.
I have one word of advice for those naive if courageous Arabs fighting
to install American-style democracy in their homeland:
DON'T!
On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 11:05 -0800, Alex Young wrote:
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 10:42
Feedback from a non-nerd
I'm not a Linux nerd or any kind of computer or technology nerd. I have
nothing against nerds; I just don't want to be one. Or even be thought
of as a nerd. I migrated to Ubuntu Linux years ago after mounting
problems with Windows XP and total frustration with the basket
On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 11:14 -0800, Paul Heinlein wrote:
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Word Wizard wrote:
Feedback from a non-nerd
I'm not a Linux nerd or any kind of computer or technology nerd. I
have nothing against nerds; I just don't want to be one. Or even be
thought of as a nerd. I
On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 13:18 -0800, Russell Senior wrote:
Word == Word Wizard word.wiz...@comcast.net writes:
Word Feedback from a non-nerd
Word
Word I'm not a Linux nerd or any kind of computer or technology
Word nerd. [...]
Word I might have been more of a nerd code-wise with Windows
I had a feeling it was something simple and basic I was missing. That
was what I needed.
Thanks!
On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 19:23 -0800, Sam Hart wrote:
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Word Wizard word.wiz...@comcast.net
wrote:
I can't find a way to output a list of ALL Ubuntu repositories
missing something really basic here. Any help?
Thanx
Word Wizard
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Don’t use very old hardware?
I thought one of Linux' selling points was that unlike Windoze Linux
supported legacy hardware.
I'm using a 14 year old HP scanner fed by a Adaptec SCSI card even
older. No need to change them out as long as they meet my needs. I was
initially lured to try
Tried systemsettings?
On KUbuntu that's the swiss army knife system configuration app.
Desktop is the module that customizes fonts I believe. Or maybe
Appearance
On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 13:57 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
On Sat, 1 May 2010 11:17:15 -0700
Ali Corbin ali.cor...@gmail.com
You may want to try Mepis 8.5
http://www.mepis.org/
I've sampled just about every major distro and Mepis 8.5 seems to more
closely approximate Windows install-and-play friendliness than any
other. It has by far the best KDE implementation, great fonts, useful
user GUI tools and it comes loaded
Have you any archives/backups of your prior HOME directory under any
previous Linux versions/distros?
If you do, copy that /home/username/.mozilla directory to your newly
installed /home/username directory. That should implant your prior
Firefox settings, as well as a working flash plugin
On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 22:45 -0700, Matt McKenzie wrote:
Get the UUID of the disk...
ls /dev/disk/by-uuid -lah
Word Wizard
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fulfills all
my needs and is literally within walking distance I stick with them.
Just one customer's opinion but as I have building my own systems since
the late '80s it should count for something.
Word Wizard
On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 06:22 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Thu, 7 May 2009, Denis
the menu
bar.
Word Wizard
On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 22:19 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
Don't.
I am sending this from a KDE desktop, because my Gnome desktop won't start. I
get my desktop background, but no Gnome panel. Kind of hard to run
applications when you have no panel. And Alt-F2
-user mode (init 1). Should that make a
difference?
Thanks
Word Wizard
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I thought the partition information resided on the MBR and backing that
up would cover it all. I guess I misinterpreted the MBR reference
materials.
Thanks for the help,
Word Wizard
On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 14:55 -0700, Larry Brigman wrote:
sfdisk /dev/sda -O sda-partition-sectors.sav
One of the reasons I adopted Linux (Ubuntu Intrepid) was that, unlike
Windows, it SUPPOSEDLY allowed one to fully back up the entire system,
system files and all, and restore them. So if you installed files or
configured your system and made mistakes, you revert to a previous
system. That's the
Thanks for the advice on my trial Clear WiMAX aservice. I still haven't
made up my mind yet but now I have some good knowledge to help. So far
the service seems blazingly fast with no interference problems due to
weather (or anything else). Maybe because I can hit the broadcast tower
with an
I doubt that very much. Why I switched to Linux and won't switch back
I was a confirmed Windows user. Windows 2000 did everything I wanted in
its day. Much better than NT 4.0. After Win2K got a little behind the
curve for me I moved up to Windows XP Pro. That's when it started.
I had a 64 bit
Maybe but,
I'm no Linux Guru and I've found Ubuntu Gutsy/Hardy/Intrepid to be as
easy or even easier to work with than Win XP Pro. Granted, it helps to
pretend you have never operated a PC before and NOT make certain Windows
OS assumptions. I've heard that PC newbies can get kneecapped by Linux
On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 09:46 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
Karmic Koala?
You bet!
Ubuntu: Karmic Koala to make cloud 'dance'
Feb 23, 2009 6:45:39 AM
Extensive cloud-computing functionality will be built into Karmic Koala,
the next version but one of Ubuntu, Canonical has announced.
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