Re: need laptop advice

2008-12-07 Thread jdawg
) is this a 64 bit processor or 32 bit? On 12/7/08, jdawg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok. I missed the 399.00 thing at best buy. they were out the very day it was announced. I am looking at another one. An Asus N80v Intel T5800 Core 2 Duo Nvidia GeForce 9300M GS Intel Wifi Link 5100 AGN Intel

need laptop advice

2008-12-05 Thread jdawg
I am in the market for a reasonable laptop. I went to some local places, and I think I can get more laptop for the money online. Background: After about 10 years, I will be forced to do a dual boot situation instead of scrapping windows and just install linux. Linux will be my main OS 99% vs.

Re: need laptop advice

2008-12-05 Thread jdawg
sheet you provided. On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 14:55 -0700, Stephen wrote: There is also the netbook option, newegg has a specific category for them. Linux compatability has been good so far. On 12/5/08, jdawg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in the market for a reasonable laptop. I went

encryption again

2008-11-20 Thread jdawg
with all the other stuff that's on my plate at work, I don't have the time to study encryption techniques or implement them. so I need help from the group. on my laptop, I am told I have to encrypt my /home directory. this is for redhat, not another flavor. 1) has anyone done this in the

tar czf xxx question

2008-11-10 Thread jdawg
I have a job that runs every Saturday morning on one of our Servers. It job is to backup all of our vobs. The job is getting longer and longer My question to you: the tar cz command, (or tar gzip combo), in your experience, is it more I/O bound or CPU bound, or both? My guess is that it is I/O

Re: looking for a quick way in for english-spanish translator

2008-11-10 Thread jdawg
Tuna wrote: Kurt Granroth wrote: jdawg wrote: I am wanting to do a quick way to get english-spanish/spanish-english translation ultimately from the command line. As a first step, I tried this: wget 'http://translate.google.com/translate_t#es|en|pavimentado' and I got

looking for a quick way in for english-spanish translator

2008-11-09 Thread jdawg
I am wanting to do a quick way to get english-spanish/spanish-english translation ultimately from the command line. As a first step, I tried this: wget 'http://translate.google.com/translate_t#es|en|pavimentado' and I got this back: -- error --- --08:49:36--

Re: looking for a quick way in for english-spanish translator

2008-11-09 Thread jdawg
Tuna wrote: Kurt Granroth wrote: jdawg wrote: I am wanting to do a quick way to get english-spanish/spanish-english translation ultimately from the command line. As a first step, I tried this: wget 'http://translate.google.com/translate_t#es|en|pavimentado' and I got

Re: looking for a quick way in for english-spanish translator

2008-11-09 Thread jdawg
-- Thanks and best regards, Ryan Rix TamsPalm - The PalmOS Blog And just when you thought you've seen it all, along comes a Lambda four foot tall On Sun November 9 2008 09:29:03 pm jdawg wrote: Tuna wrote: Kurt Granroth wrote: jdawg wrote: I am wanting to do

Re: Gedit/text editor question

2008-11-08 Thread jdawg
Josef Lowder wrote: On 11/7/08, jdawg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if you use konsole (i.e. kde's terminal) you can just do CTRL-SHIFT-N to create a new terminal tab then use CTRL-right or CTRL-left to go between the tabs (i.e. terminal sessions) Interesting idea. News to me

Re: Gedit/text editor question

2008-11-07 Thread jdawg
Paul Mooring wrote: I've beening using emacs for java programming the last couple weeks and like being able to open multiple windows at once. I recently started using gedit mostly because it has a plugin the let's me embed a terminal window in the bottom pane that I can use for

Re: OT: remember

2008-09-11 Thread jdawg
I will say here, that there are skeptics everywhere. There are still people out there (one of them including my 24 year old son, unfortunately), that believe we never went to moon in 1969 either. Josh Coffman wrote: Charles is right. Pics or no (and I do believe him) people have mostly

ubuntu 8.04 install

2008-08-23 Thread jdawg
Well, I finally, after 3 years, upgraded my laptop to ubuntu 8.04 I was very dissapointed in the printing. I have an HP Photosmart 7760, and it printed beautifully under ubuntu 5-something (which is what I had) I couldn't do a lpr -o landscape or portrait, and when I printed pdf files they were