Re: I just bought the Dell Inspiron 1420

2007-09-01 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 19:59 -0700, Phillip Waclawski wrote: I called Dell to see if there was a way to avoid the Vista Tax on one of the 1520's, but no go. So, using the educational discount, I ordered one of the Dell Inspiron 1420's with Ubuntu. I should get it by the end of September. Oh,

[Fwd: [PLUG-Devel] Ann: Devel Meeting, Thursday, September 6th]

2007-09-01 Thread Alan Dayley
From the plug-devel email list. Virtualization is probably a topic that more than just us developers are interested hearing about. Alan Original Message Subject: [PLUG-Devel] Ann: Devel Meeting, Thursday, September 6th Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 11:16:49 -0700 From: Alan Dayley

Firefox Java Plugins

2007-09-01 Thread Harold Michels
I am running Fedora Core 6. Core 6, coming out of the box runs Firefox version 1.5 I up graded it to version 2.0 This was early days in my use of the system. I did not know how to upgrade properly, and probably still do not as I have to let yum do it automagically. I found out afterward that

Re: JOB: Ruby on Rails Developer

2007-09-01 Thread Joshua Zeidner
On 8/31/07, Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 18:53 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Derek Neighbors [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JOB TITLE: Rails Developer I've been in an outbound sales position since December of 2006, and I have made my revenue numbers

Good (printed) USA Linux Magazines?

2007-09-01 Thread Patrick C
Does anyone know of any good Linux magazines printed and distributed in the US available for less than the $15-per-issue that imported European ones cost? I really enjoy being able to sit down and read about Free Software in a printed format and read the interviews, try the DVDs I never heard of

Re: Free Software for m$ repository

2007-09-01 Thread JT Moree
On Wednesday 29 August 2007 01:44:58 der.hans wrote: moin moin, anybody have suggestions for a Free Software for m$ platforms repository? I looked for one a few years ago. It's good to see some have come about since then. This is really a political problem. When I use Ubuntu or Debian or

Puppy LInux WAS new Distro

2007-09-01 Thread JT Moree
On Wednesday 29 August 2007 17:14:01 Patrick P wrote: I am working on a project to create a lightweight Linux workstation distro for older hardware, mainly PII and PIII machines. The goal is a functional I used Puppy Linux for my desktop for the last few weeks and I can say I'm very happy

Re: multimedia keyboards

2007-09-01 Thread JT Moree
On Thursday 30 August 2007 16:02:44 Nathan Aubrey wrote: I just acquired a new keyboard and its got some nice fancy keys on it, volume control and whatnot. How to I configure these to work in KDE? Its also got a bunch of extra buttons like back,forward,refresh,stop mail,mycomputer,home and I'd

Re: I just bought the Dell Inspiron 1420

2007-09-01 Thread JT Moree
On Friday 31 August 2007 19:59:39 Phillip Waclawski wrote: And, on the Ubuntu note. I have not played with it much, but I do know that it uses Sudo instead of su and a root account. How hard is it to set up a root account/su, and also install the server support software (apache, mysql, python,

Re: Good (printed) USA Linux Magazines?

2007-09-01 Thread JT Moree
On Saturday 01 September 2007 14:10:56 Patrick C wrote: Does anyone know of any good Linux magazines printed and distributed in the US available for less than the $15-per-issue that imported European ones cost? I really enjoy being able to sit down and read about Free Software in a printed

RE: Puppy LInux WAS new Distro

2007-09-01 Thread Patrick P
Yeah, I have looked at it a fw times, but haven't tried it yet. I once would download every distro I could find but have gotten to the point where I have settled on a few major ones. I still try something new every so often just to see what it is like.

Re: Firefox Java Plugins

2007-09-01 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 11:39 -0700, Harold Michels wrote: I am running Fedora Core 6. Core 6, coming out of the box runs Firefox version 1.5 I up graded it to version 2.0 This was early days in my use of the system. I did not know how to upgrade properly, and probably still do not as I have

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2007-09-01 Thread Darrin Chandler
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