On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:17 AM, stu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not much of a gamer myself, but Ultimate Linux (based on Ubuntu) has
their Gamer Edition that uses something called Wine Doors that pretty much
installs Eve, WOW, and a bunch of other games with a few clicks. I have the
64 bit
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Joshua Zeidner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If this is as I am reading it here, I think this is a first for
America. Laws that congressmen don't even get to read (and they
support them anyway! ). As if the notion of retroactive immunity was
not absurd enough. So
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Thomas McGoldrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Help! I just converted from XP and do enjoy the lack of viruses and all the
resulting reformat and reinstall of program exercise.
However, I am experiencing a few frustrations.
Recently trying to do a resume upload
is an article on the acpid daemon that seems to interface with the
power button.
http://www.hscripts.com/tutorials/linux-services/acpid.html
Hope that is of some use.
Harold
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From: Dazed_75 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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plug-discuss
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Lisa Kachold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, we had about 26 people show up through the day. 12 problems were
brought.
i) Ubuntu: Building USB keys - we all refreshed our understanding of loop
mounting ISO files, vmlinuz and initrd.gz as well as boot
Historically most BIOS's have a way to set whether the power button is
an instant off or one that requires you to hold the button depressed
for a number of seconds (usually 15). So you might want to check
yours. Personally, I think the default should require holding the
button in for a time.
On
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:21 PM, der.hans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
moin moin,
thus far I have seen no interest on the list for the InstallFest this
Saturday.
Alexander will be out of town, so we need someone else to make sure to
check in and out with UAT. UAT doesn't ask much of us and
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Interesting demo of what you can do with a WII remote and a tenner.
http://blip.tv/file/897059
Johnny Lee TED demo
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Thanks for the reminder. I had seen another demo from Johny Lee
yes, though it says it is 6 hours old. I just logged in and it is here
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Josef Lowder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wednesday, June 4, 2008 at 9:40 am
Just testing to see if this message gets delivered to plug.
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On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Donn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have seen the same issue. You are not imagining anything.
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Josef Lowder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a new top posted message to test sending to PLUG from Gmail.
This message is being sent at
Seems like the more I hear, the more I do not want firefix 3. Yes
that was a typo but when I went to correct it I realized it was really
correct as I see so many stories about how to fix firefox so it works
like it used to. I know I uninstalled it until such time as
googlesync will work with it.
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 8:09 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quoting Rhune Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Guys I have taken the plunge after reading Alan Daley's interview and
I have a notebook with the following hardware but no sound.
try running alsamixer in a terminal or I think there is a
But if you really want it, http://freshmeat.net/projects/rtf2htm/
which I found by using the I'm Feeling Lucky button on the Google
main page after entering rtf2htm as the search term. Easy!
--
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only
animal that is struck with the
Sorry, I misread the initial post. This may not be what you need at
all. My apologies for seeing a simple request and not fully reading
the post.
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Dazed_75 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But if you really want it, http://freshmeat.net/projects/rtf2htm/
which I found
Very cool. Thanks for the info!
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Shawn Badger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For those people who listen to NPR while sitting at there computers.
http://digg.com/linux_unix/NPR_news_station_WBUR_is_now_streaming_in_Ogg_Vorbis
Continuing the top post format here ...
I'd like to hear if Dan's answer was the right one and the solution
worked. It sounds like the right answer to me. If not, another
possibility is the change from the OS owning the USB driver at the
beginning of a restart to the BIOS using it's method of
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 11:55 PM, der.hans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
moin moin,
In April the west side meeting will start going through the Ubuntu desktop
class.
Pizza might or might not be available this month.
Topic: Ubuntu desktop class - course welcome and introducing Ubuntu
Day:
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Rhune Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
II feel stupid,
I tried editing or grabbing code for the ipwconfig of an Intel 3945
mini-pci wlan card. However, everything I have tried has failed.
Dell Inspiron 640m
Ubuntu 7.10
2GB of Ram
120GB HDD
Ubuntu
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 6:44 PM, Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 19:27 -0600, Josef Lowder wrote:
.
Recently, I have been experiencing strange dsl problems,
which I have been unable to either solve or even pin down.
My main Linux box which is ethernet
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 7:20 AM, Matt Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Kristian Erik Hermansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Bob Holtzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can use export server name and run my
news reader immediately after with no problem. As soon as
On Feb 18, 2008 11:52 AM, Joshua Zeidner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Craig,
I've actually done a bit of work in the area of web-to-print media
and the situation is somewhat complex. While the inertia of habit
certainly has a lot to do with peoples tendency to favor print, there
are
Sorry, but I must beg to differ. I will not paint anything with such
a broad brush. I will continue to use it and to form my own
judgements. Of course I will err on the side of no trust when it
comes to economic, socio-political, and other soft subjects. Of
course I also do not trust the
Personally, I love wikipedia, use it frequently and agree with Alan's
assessments.
That said, I have two qualifications:
1) I trust it hugely more for technical and purely factual information
than I do for anything soft such as biographies, history, social
events.
2) If an article even seems to
On Feb 11, 2008 11:02 PM, Kevin Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dazed_75 wrote:
I was working on a friend's systems today and saw something I did not
understand. Yes, they were windows boxes, but my question is purely a
networking question. Basically he has a desktop machine with a wired
I was working on a friend's systems today and saw something I did not
understand. Yes, they were windows boxes, but my question is purely a
networking question. Basically he has a desktop machine with a wired
connection to a wireless AP/router (Airport brand I think) and a
laptop using a
We have someone with a laptop dual booting XP and Kubuntu. In order
to work the Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Training course we used adept to
install gnome-desktop. That was a mistake with nasty consequences.
We should have installed ubuntu-desktop. If we use adept to remove
gnome-desktop, it does not
On Jan 12, 2008 9:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've writing a fresh install of Ubuntu 7.10 (the only major change
being the nVidia drivers, because scaling on LCDs makes my eyes bleed).
The system uses an 802.11g card which can be supported by the rt61
wireless drivers. It connects to a
Marvin Fretwell and I have been looking into this. I did a fair
amount of research today and wrote a rather speculative paper to
describe what I found. It is clearly a draft and not ready for prime
time. But it is only 2 pages so I will send you a copy off list. Let
me know if it is helpful or
On Dec 10, 2007 10:43 AM, Alan Dayley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a older notebook computer that we wanted to make useful. No CD
drive and will not boot USB. And the PCMCIA CD drive we have will not
boot for some reason. Here is what I did so far:
- Remove the 20GB hard drive.
-
You should be able to reassign the icon if you know where to find it.
So on the command line, do a 'which kmix' and the check that directory
for the icon. If the applet is still on your panel but with the wrong
icon, right click, select properties and change the icon. If it is
not still on the
On Nov 9, 2007 9:30 AM, Alan Dayley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Craig White wrote:
When Fedora 8 gets released and not a single person comments...
It was discussed a the East Side Meeting yesterday.
Alan
I musta slept through that part :)
I was surprised to read about it on a news feed when
Kurt, I really wanted to thank you for your clear and in-depth
explanation. While I had understood the other explanations, yours
both brought it home and will stick better. Thank you very much!
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PLUG-discuss mailing list -
I could spend a few minutes talking about running ubuntu within
another OS using wubi/lubi/... This is not virtualization BTW (at
least not is the usual sense).
On Nov 7, 2007 12:23 PM, der.hans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
moin moin,
we don't have any topics scheduled for tomorrow.
Anyone have
On 10/28/07, Dennis Kibbe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Larry,
Actually, we were rather busy with some interesting challenges. (Anyone
know of a good Linux program to help learn Chinese characters?)
Every time I went to check my email someone would ask a question.
Dennisk
--
Member Free
well pardon me for bringing this up. If you all want to be so
absolute that ONLY a totally free solution is possible we can all go
back to the dark ages where the only choice for non-geeks is M$ and
A$.
I am not going to apologize for thinking that people having 99% of a
freedom is a good thing.
On 10/27/07, Dan Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As a rule of thumb, if an answer is needed in 12 hours or less then
email is not a good medium.
I've learned that through the years.
Unless
1) it is the only means available, or
2) you know that there are frequently people at the location who
Don't shoot the messenger, but see below:
On 10/28/07, Chris Gehlker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Oct 28, 2007, at 10:56 AM, Dazed_75 wrote:
Thats why I don't quite understand the lack of work to give them
statement. OTOH, existing driver support is hugely better than it was
a few years
Actually, I have been mis-stating something due my mis-reading of two
articles on this subject.
In fact, it IS a primary goal of the project to create a proper GPLv2
Linux kernel driver as an end result. That may not be inconsistent
with signing an NDA to get information on which to build such a
OK, cleanup is done and have not seen a response in the hour so I will
not be coming down. Sorry about that, I enjoy installfests as a rule.
On 10/27/07, Dazed_75 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alexander (or anyone present at UAT today),
I got busy with a problem and lost track of time. Would take
On 10/24/07, Craig Brooksby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Installed ubuntu gutsy -- fresh install.
Delighted that it configured itself with nvidia, 1680 x 1050 from the
first boot!
None of the hard work that Feisty required to get that.
Sweet. Until last night, when it inexplicably (did I apply
On 10/24/07, betty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
is there an ubuntu book (real book, not on-line notes or user groups)
that anyone likes a lot?
i like to have a REAL book when i'm learning something new. any
recommendations?
Beginning Ubuntu Linux: From Novice to Professional (Paperback)
by Keir
On 10/21/07, Mike Storke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
NO, REALLY, I'M JUST ABOUT TO START PULLING MY HAIR OUT!
Anyway, I just moved to Phoenix and can get internet access where I
live via wireless only. But I've never set up a wireless NIC and am
having a nightmare with it, so I want to turn
On 10/19/07, jordi laforge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anyone recommend a good usb wifi adapter for use with Linux?
For what Linux? And are you looking for it on a Desktop (pci card) or
laptop (pcmcia or cardbus)? These might help get a better answer.
BTW, ubuntu 7.10 released yesterday is
I constantly see advice that for using a torrent I should set my
router to port forward a number of ports to the using computer.
Problem is that there may be more than one computer on the LAN using
torrents now that they are so prevalent. For example, I have an old
and a new gaming machine with
On 10/18/07, Dazed_75 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I constantly see advice that for using a torrent I should set my
router to port forward a number of ports to the using computer.
Problem is that there may be more than one computer on the LAN using
torrents now that they are so prevalent
On 10/16/07, David Bendit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just a shot in the dark here, but did you try running qemu under
sudo? Could be that kqemu requires root privileges to run. You should
also check dmesg for any erroneous messages related to kqemu. I
haven't worked with it in over a year, so
I have been trying to get kqemu working and Dennis gave me a pointer
where to find some info. But the problem I had looks kinda off so I
am re-asking about it here
Just noticed something but I am not sure what to do about it. See below
On 10/15/07, Dazed_75 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/13
Thanks guys. It is as I thought. Fortunately the 5gb /dev/sda4 only
contains the Linux From Scratch stuff I played with last year and never
finished. I do have good notes so can safely dump it.
Actually, I was thinking to do a backup of what little I need to save and go
back to just having the
this is a really interesting listen. It is an mp3 file containing a talk by
James Vasile of the Software Freedom Law Center. Apparently he was one of
the lawyers involved in crafting GPLv3. What makes it really interesting is
where he talks about what GPL does not do, common misconceptions, and
On 10/1/07, betty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just put ubuntu on my office computer, got it to connect o.k. to the
internet, BUT it doesn't recognize my outgoing or incoming email servers
and for some reason, the firefox won't connect. although i can see on
the ext. modem (and hear on the
I do remove the quiet but I also remove the splash. Interesting that I
never even tried leaving the splash option. I just assumed that was for the
splash graphic and that if I left it there I would not see the messages I
want.
BTW, I also add a vga=773 (I think that was the mode) and a verbose
On 9/23/07, Josh Coffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm having serious problems with my desktop. It starts with we need to
use ms office 2007. So, I figured I would make it dual boot windows so
it would be easier on my wife.
when I boot the machine with any bootable disc, the keytboard doesn't
On 9/21/07, Bryan O'Neal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Indeed PS-1 is the best place to park, it's free until the football
people show up so plan on arriving before ~3pm.
So if one arrives in the morning, parks there, but does not leave until 5
or 7, was it still free?
--
The nice part about
You want to use the native resolution of the monitor. Unlike CRTs, an LCD
really does have one cell per pixel and you want your resolution to match
that. Also, LCDs all run at 60 Hz so you really want to drive it that way.
Yes, the DVI cable might help, but should not be necessary. I notice you
On 9/9/07, Austin Godber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Darn, I forgot to add that to my presentation. That is something called
S5. Its HTML/CSS and Javascript.
http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/
Gives you a fairly decent HTML indexable presentation. Looks good on
screen, on the web, and if
On 9/9/07, Austin Godber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Darn, I forgot to add that to my presentation. That is something called
S5. Its HTML/CSS and Javascript.
http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/
Gives you a fairly decent HTML indexable presentation. Looks good on
screen, on the web, and if
On 9/6/07, Matt Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After a long battle with technology, Dazed_75 wrote:
I'd like to be able to draw on my screen, have that show on the
projected
screen and have the option to save that annotated slide for myself.
- Is there a Linux (or Linux utility
Toady I downloaded a .iso file and wanted to burn it to a CD. I started K3B
as usual and while it was loading (takes a while from gnome), I got out a
blank CD and went to insert it in the drive. I got no response to the open
button on the drive and tried a number of things (see below) before
On 9/2/07, Phillip Waclawski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
When is the next meeting again?
(Oh, and thanks for the sudo su suggestion on ubuntu, I'll keep it in
mind)
Phil W.
Not sure which meeting you are asking about, but look on
http://plug.phoenix.az.us/ for an answer. NOTE: Use the
early'
questioning that. Sunday or today would have been much
better timing in my opinion to start that thread.
There WAS a thread with Sept in it, but it was
separate re's and even tho on the same subject, still
wasn't in every post AND it was during an ongoing
installfest.
--- Dazed_75
2. ASU is big, has more parking and more entrances into the campus,
and more room for people. I was planning on promoting the 29th
Installfest a bit at my current job (tech support for Dell), but if
there's going to be an Installfest at ASU, that makes it easier to
advertise, everyone knows
On 8/29/07, Jeremy C. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, der.hans wrote:
anybody have suggestions for a Free Software for m$ platforms
repository?
pkgsrc for Interix (Windows Services for Unix)
http://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/platforms.html#interix
Does anyone know a local source for A4 paper in ream quantities. Staples
will order but charges shipping as well. Two reams would run $13 plus $8
shipping plus tax. Ridiculous!!!
--
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being
either proven right or pleasantly
On 7/16/07, David Bendit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That would have been better off than what Microsoft ended up with.
Remember the Longhorn betas before they did the code dump? It was
pretty awesome. What we have now is New! and Rebuilt From The Ground
Up! Probably not the best idea
I dunno
Dump aol and get a real ISP and I suspect most of those problems will go
away. Aol truly expects you to be running windows where they can install
their own network drivers and other stuff. Aol can be accessed by
non-subscribers but they want their subcribers in environments they are
willing to
Actually, Joseph has a much better handle here. I hot buttoned on the aol
because of history I have had with people recovering from aol addiction and
learning how hard it was to clean up their systems to make em work
normally. I should have done a better read of your email and not given the
On 7/1/07, Jerry Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rubber bands break. One other way of sequencing the cards (which I used),
was
writing the seqno on the back of the card in pencil. If you inserted a
card
somewhere, like seqno 30, just make it 30.1, if you delete a card, say
seqno
22. On card 21,
to the passive node. (I would have preferred GFS or SAN, but that
was outside of the budget.)
So - whether it's server1 sync'ing to server2, or the other way around,
the log entries look the same.
George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
623-203-1760
Dazed_75 wrote:
On 6/24/07, *George Toft* [EMAIL
PROTECTED] wrote:
test
On 6/12/07, Dazed_75 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a test of an option for the discuss-list. The test will be
useless af anyone replies to it before Friday 6/15
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matter and those who matter don't mind
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