Re: Specifying mobos: was: To Tux or not to Tux

2016-04-20 Thread Steve Litt
Cool! SteveT On Wed, 20 Apr 2016 07:27:25 -0700 Stephen Partington wrote: > Option to turn it on or off, yes. > > On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 11:49 PM, Steve Litt > wrote: > > > Does your Dell Latitude enable you to turn off secure boot, thereby > > being accessible to all Li

Re: To Tux or not to Tux (VM's)

2016-04-20 Thread Nathan England
No doubt, as one of the main developers supporting the internal apps, I voice my opinion quite loudly, have no doubts! It was amazing IT let me run Fedora... On 2016-04-20 11:15, Michael Butash wrote: Find and mock the internal developers that don't know how to make standard-compliant code

Re: To Tux or not to Tux (VM's)

2016-04-20 Thread Michael Butash
Find and mock the internal developers that don't know how to make standard-compliant code, usually tends to begin at least some vague awareness for those crappy windoze-only devs that are unaware of a bigger world out there now. Tough love, but friends don't let friends run IE, or force others

Re: To Tux or not to Tux (VM's)

2016-04-20 Thread Nathan England
Sadly, my company is still stuck on IE 9, though some ramblings have been heard lately about IT upgrading to 11 across the board. Until then we must support 9. Several of our internal apps are used by many of those IE 9 users... And oddly enough, our primary website still has about 10% of it

Re: The Desktop is right again!

2016-04-20 Thread Nathan England
I had a lot of issues with 3 monitors and recently found most of the problems went away after hard coding an xorg.conf file the exact way I wanted it set up. Seems KDE has some problems recognizing the primary/preferred screen. -- what AMD are you using? I run Nvidia because I have grown to

Re: To Tux or not to Tux (VM's)

2016-04-20 Thread Michael Butash
Since microsoft seems to insist on keeping their browsers perpetually vulnerable for the government to exploit, seems sandboxing is about the only way to keep it from infecting your os. A full vm just to keep ie from infecting you though? Why not just NOT use IE? It's really not common anymo

Re: To Tux or not to Tux (VM's)

2016-04-20 Thread Michael Butash
I've not seen this issue with it, and I've had to have windoze enumerate some pretty extensive directories of files being forced to work with various data for a customer last year for several months, or even just my music directory. It's not uncommon I'm editing files between windoze in a conf

Re: The Desktop is right again!

2016-04-20 Thread Michael Butash
Funny you mention this - been struggling with KDE4 and 3x monitors when NOT using the binary drivers of late. I really liked KDE, using that predominantly for the past few years on 5-6 montiors just dandy, but with amd drivers setting up the screens that worked mostly ok. I moved to 3x 4k dis

Re: To Tux or not to Tux (VM's)

2016-04-20 Thread Nathan England
Just as a tip... The first thing I do after booting up a new Modern IE vm, disable windows updates. On 2016-04-20 10:18, Wayne D wrote: The images are win 7,8,10 THANKS NATHAN! On 04/20/2016 09:39 AM, Nathan England wrote: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms

Re: The Desktop is right again!

2016-04-20 Thread Stephen Partington
Facinating. Have to look at this. On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 9:48 AM, Nathan England wrote: > > I have been a KDE fan since the early days of 1.0. I have stuck with it > through the ups and downs and loved it when others hated it, and rallied > for it when people were jumping to Gnome or something

Re: To Tux or not to Tux (VM's)

2016-04-20 Thread Wayne D
The images are win 7,8,10 THANKS NATHAN! On 04/20/2016 09:39 AM, Nathan England wrote: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/linux/ --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubs

Re: To Tux or not to Tux (VM's)

2016-04-20 Thread James Dugger
Sorry QEMU ... stupid auto correction. On Apr 20, 2016 10:06 AM, "James Dugger" wrote: > In the past VBox's GuestAdditions plugin for file sharing between host and > guest systems has had latency issues and even file corruption when the > shared folders had a lot of files to manage. Is this stil

Re: To Tux or not to Tux (VM's)

2016-04-20 Thread James Dugger
In the past VBox's GuestAdditions plugin for file sharing between host and guest systems has had latency issues and even file corruption when the shared folders had a lot of files to manage. Is this still a problem in VBox. I don't recall this issue in QUEMC, though admittedly it has been a while

The Desktop is right again!

2016-04-20 Thread Nathan England
I have been a KDE fan since the early days of 1.0. I have stuck with it through the ups and downs and loved it when others hated it, and rallied for it when people were jumping to Gnome or something else. A couple of years ago I switched full time to Xfce with a full KDE SC install so I coul

Re: To Tux or not to Tux (VM's)

2016-04-20 Thread Nathan England
Microsoft provides versions of IE ready to go for VirtualBox. You select which version of IE you want and the version of Windows to emulate and they give you a zip file. 1) Download the zip 2) Extract the zip 3) Open VirtualBox and Import Appliance The images expire after 90 days. When that

Re: To Tux or not to Tux (VM's)

2016-04-20 Thread Stephen Partington
depends on the version/edition of windows. Most OEM copies are not sold with licencing to be run on a VM but some Enterprise editions do allow for such things. On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 7:17 AM, Keith Smith wrote: > Question : I have several Dell desktops and several Dell laptops that > came wit

Re: Specifying mobos: was: To Tux or not to Tux

2016-04-20 Thread Stephen Partington
Option to turn it on or off, yes. On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 11:49 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > Does your Dell Latitude enable you to turn off secure boot, thereby > being accessible to all Linuces and to custom kernels? > > SteveT > > On Tue, 19 Apr 2016 13:22:17 -0700 > Stephen Partington wrote: > >

Re: To Tux or not to Tux (VM's)

2016-04-20 Thread Keith Smith
Question : I have several Dell desktops and several Dell laptops that came with Windows. I've replaced almost all of them with Linux. I do have a need for Windows on occasion. I do have VirtualBox configured on my desktop and laptop. I'd like to install Windows in a guest on VirtualBox. C