Off-topic: strategy board games / war games

2009-12-22 Thread Kirk Bauer
Sorry for the off-topic post, please reply only to me directly (k...@kaybee.org). I have noticed a high correlation between Linux geeks and Boardgame/Wargame geeks. So I wanted to send out a one-time feeler to see if anybody on this list lives in my neck of the woods and might be interested in

Re: Trying to Convert a Windows XP disk to VirtualBox

2009-12-22 Thread Stephen
W7 needs about 20GB of space to install. but runs in less than that. On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:41 AM, gm5729 gm5...@gmail.com wrote: I tried with K/Qemu to set up I believe it was W7 Premium, my laptop is a dual core 1.6Ghz with 3 gb RAM. I allocated 10GB of virtual hdd space and 1.5 GB RAM

Re: west side mtg?

2009-12-22 Thread Lisa Kachold
Generally, each meeting (West Side, East Side, HackFest, InstallFest) assigns one person to do the web updates and Hans sets up access for them. Who is your designated representative for the website? I can do any updates to the website needed for the meetings until you get this straightened out?

Re: network woes

2009-12-22 Thread Eric Shubert
Trent Shipley wrote: Somewhere my connection to the Internet is borken. Load times take forever. It doesn't seem to effect the wireless client routers, but I have had trouble on both the wired machines under Ubuntu 9.10 and Windows Vista. Sometimes the Linux machine effectively looses

Re: network woes

2009-12-22 Thread Trent Shipley
Eric Shubert wrote: Trent Shipley wrote: Somewhere my connection to the Internet is borken. Load times take forever. It doesn't seem to effect the wireless client routers, but I have had trouble on both the wired machines under Ubuntu 9.10 and Windows Vista. Sometimes the Linux

Re: network woes

2009-12-22 Thread Mark Phillips
Trent, I ran into a similar problem today - my network slowed waay down on me. All I used was ping to methodically to check all the connections and found that a switch was reseting itself and dropping packets. Basically, I turn everything off, reset all the routers, cable modems, etc,

Help Resizing Windows 7 Partition for Debian Install

2009-12-22 Thread Mark Phillips
I have a new Dell Vostro laptop and I want to add Debian to it. It has Windows 7 Home Premium on it. When I went into the Windows 7 disk manager all I could get was 1/2 of the C partition - 143 GB for Debian, and it reserved the other 143 GB for Windows 7, even though it is only using 16GB of the

Re: network woes

2009-12-22 Thread Benjamin Francom
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Mark Phillips m...@phillipsmarketing.biz wrote: Trent, I ran into a similar problem today - my network slowed waay down on me. All I used was ping to methodically to check all the connections and found that a switch was reseting itself and dropping

Re: network woes

2009-12-22 Thread Trent Shipley
Benjamin Francom wrote: On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Mark Phillips m...@phillipsmarketing.biz wrote: Trent, I ran into a similar problem today - my network slowed waay down on me. All I used was ping to methodically to check all the connections and found that a switch was

Re: network woes

2009-12-22 Thread Eric Shubert
Trent Shipley wrote: Benjamin Francom wrote: On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Mark Phillips m...@phillipsmarketing.biz wrote: Trent, I ran into a similar problem today - my network slowed waay down on me. All I used was ping to methodically to check all the connections and

Re: network woes

2009-12-22 Thread Trent Shipley
Eric Shubert wrote: Trent Shipley wrote: Benjamin Francom wrote: On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Mark Phillips m...@phillipsmarketing.biz wrote: Trent, I ran into a similar problem today - my network slowed waay down on me. All I used was ping to methodically to check all