RE: TEDxPhoenix tonight

2009-11-08 Thread Taylor, Kaia
That was a fun event! Thanks for the tip, Hans! Regards, Kaia Taylor DevSA group -- tis-dco-devsa - jumpword devsa http://dco-sps.schwab.com/sites/devsa/welcome desk 602-977-5157 pager 6025785...@vtext.com or white pages All e-mail sent to or from this address will be received by the Charles

Cheap Linux compatible video cards

2009-11-08 Thread Mike Bushroe
My old computer is stating to have trouble running some of the newer software. In particular, I am getting free training in SolidWorks to use when Mentoring Highschool teams in First Robotics and also Underwater Robotics Competition. Unfortunately, SolidWorks only works on Windows, and my Windoze p

RE: Cheap Linux compatible video cards

2009-11-08 Thread Sean Parsons
Nvidia cards seem to work for me in both windows and Linux, Fry's has a decent selection of cards for around $30-40. just don't ask the salespeople for help... Ever! J Sean Parsons From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On

Re: Cheap Linux compatible video cards

2009-11-08 Thread Stephen
P would look at 9500gt nvidia cards they are in the 60-70 range and should do well On 11/8/09, Mike Bushroe wrote: > My old computer is stating to have trouble running some of the newer > software. In particular, I am getting free training in SolidWorks to use > when Mentoring Highschool teams

RE: Cheap Linux compatible video cards

2009-11-08 Thread Bob Elzer
I know four people who have had top of the line Nvidia cards and all have been having trouble with them, mostly overheating. Three of them have already given up and switched to ATI, one of them yesterday. he had a 260 and exchanged it for a 4870. The cards were mainly for gaming on windows but

Re: Borked up multiboot system

2009-11-08 Thread Steve Phariss
I found the problem and a solution (no goat needed ). I did try to use supergrub, and while it is a good tool and partially worked, I was still have problems. the problem was that I was reusing a couple disks that had been set up as a raid 1 in a different system. I was under the wrong assumpio

Re: Cheap Linux compatible video cards

2009-11-08 Thread Nathan England
On Sunday 08 November 2009 15:42:39 Bob Elzer wrote: > I know four people who have had top of the line Nvidia cards and all have > been having trouble with them, mostly overheating. > > Three of them have already given up and switched to ATI, one of them > yesterday. he had a 260 and exchanged it

Re: Why has my Firefox quit working?

2009-11-08 Thread Ryan Rix
Jason Spatafore wrote: > Drop to a command line and type links www.google.com > > Is that working? Uhhh, I don't mean to sound like the "i told you so" guy, but he said that konqi and ftp both work... firefox -safe-mode or alternately just stick with konqi :) > > > On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 14: