Re: Best Vista Error EVAR, gaming, and software requests, and an Ubuntu gripe

2008-05-22 Thread storkus
OMG, I didn't know that! I'm willing to bet a lot of people on the list didn't, either! I guess I'm just lucky as, since I don't need it, I don't run it. Mike On Wed, 21 May 2008 11:32:08 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Quoting der.hans [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am 20. Mai, 2008 schwätzte Erich

Re: Lost text input on command line

2008-05-22 Thread Matrix Mole
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Jon M. Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try typing reset without the quotes to see if that helps. Thank you for this answer. This does resolve the issue I was experiencing. OranRoot1000: I use rtorrent for cli and it works great. ctorrent hasn't been

Re: Best Vista Error EVAR, gaming, and software requests, and an Ubuntu gripe

2008-05-22 Thread Jon Ernster
FreeBSD, and I would have to assume OpenBSD have root login via ssh disabled by default. It doesn't make much sense why linux distros don't change this, but it doesn't make sense why MySQL is shipped without a root password either. I guess someone thinks it's a good idea, or doesn't think

Re: Microsoft joins OLPC

2008-05-22 Thread Dennis Kibbe
Ted Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 21:01 -0700, Dennis Kibbe wrote: I agree with everyone else that this is a sad day. Following on the ISO fiasco I can't see it as any other than more of M$ Embrace, Extend and Extinguish. No, I think this is much simpler. MS

Re: Best Vista Error EVAR, gaming, and software requests, and an Ubuntu gripe

2008-05-22 Thread Dan Lund
Pretty much it's assumed that if you can login to a machine in any way, you know the password and you change it regularly. It's just a bad thing when it's decryptable in my opinion. Otherwise, there's a huge problem with SSH in general and should be avoided like the plague. (in 2 occasions or so

Re: Microsoft joins OLPC

2008-05-22 Thread Dan Lund
That was a serious concern? Man, I thought it was standard practice to use a usb hub with power plugin when using 2 items of relatively high power usage. On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Dennis Kibbe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was at the FSF office in Boston in March when Richard, Justin and

Re: ubuntu vs fedora vs mandriva...

2008-05-22 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 12:37 -0700, Josh Coffman wrote: Hi, It's been a while since I took a few distro's recent releases for a test drive. I've stuck with Ubuntu not because I love it but because it was a lot easier to get a working desktop with than my favored Fedora. With recent

Re: ubuntu vs fedora vs mandriva...

2008-05-22 Thread Josh Coffman
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 12:37 -0700, Josh Coffman wrote: Hi, It's been a while since I took a few distro's recent releases for a test drive. I've stuck with Ubuntu not because I love it but because it was a lot

Re: ubuntu vs fedora vs mandriva...

2008-05-22 Thread Donn
The latest Mandriva 2008 Spring has been a joy to install and use. All multimedia capabilities you would expect are easily installed and configured. The nVidia drivers are offered to be loaded at install if applicable. Compiz sets up with a few clicks. Respositories setup easily and program

Re: ubuntu vs fedora vs mandriva...

2008-05-22 Thread Josh Coffman
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Donn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The latest Mandriva 2008 Spring has been a joy to install and use. All multimedia capabilities you would expect are easily installed and configured. The nVidia drivers are offered to be loaded at install if applicable. Compiz sets

Re: ubuntu vs fedora vs mandriva...

2008-05-22 Thread Donn
I don't remember actually installing it, but about:plugins in Firefox reports version 9.0 r48 and the Adobe Flash site, youtube, and flash on every site I have visited works fine. The Mandriva Documentation says that Flash can be installed directly from the Flash site via RPM. On Thu, May 22,

URL paste in firefox 3

2008-05-22 Thread der.hans
moin moin, this might be just a change for Ubuntu. For a long time Firefox allowed pasting a URL via the middle mouse button. Firefox would then open that URL. The Firefox 3 beta in hardy no longer allows using the middle button to paste a URL to open. I constantly use this, so it was dearly