Re: stretched screen

2011-12-01 Thread mz
On 11/30/2011 08:37 PM, Michael Havens wrote: I was playing a game and after I closed the game the screen was stretched. I tried 'system settings' but it was too basic. I googled 'linux mint 12 screen stretch' But that didn't tell me anything... Then I figured I would restart it and see if

Re: firefox 8.0--home page

2011-11-26 Thread mz
On 11/26/2011 09:55 AM, Michael Havens wrote: How do you set a webpage to the home page in Firefox 8.0? Woo-hoo! Here's something I know the answer to. 1. Surf to the page you want to use as the Home Page. 2. Drop down Edit and click on Preferences. 3. Under General you'll see at the top

Re: someone figured out my email address

2011-11-22 Thread mz
On 11/22/2011 12:43 PM, Technomage Hawke wrote: welcome to the united socialist states of america (or at least it feels that way these days). you might want to look at ebay for a possible place to get work. they are looking for several system admins (OS X, linux, windows and oracle DB) I

Firefox woes - Follow up

2011-08-30 Thread mz
On Thursday 25 August 2011 08:28:11 you wrote: I'm having trouble viewing embedded flash videos in Firefox 6.0 and could use some advice. I've got a dozen extensions for FF, including NoScript 2.1.2.7rc2, Flashblock 1.5.15.1, Adblock Plus 1.3.9, Ghostery 2.5.3, and others. I'm also using

Firefox woes

2011-08-25 Thread mz
I'm having trouble viewing embedded flash videos in Firefox 6.0 and could use some advice. I've got a dozen extensions for FF, including NoScript 2.1.2.7rc2, Flashblock 1.5.15.1, Adblock Plus 1.3.9, Ghostery 2.5.3, and others. I'm also using Shockwave Flash 10.3 as the plugin to view flash

Re: Firefox woes

2011-08-25 Thread mz
On Thursday 25 August 2011 10:18:20 azlobo73 wrote: Firefox 6, and their new version (or lack thereof) model is just broken. It isn't working right with Quicktime plugin, has various rendering issues and is getting dropped from e-learning systems all over the place (as is in some cases v5,

Re: Firefox woes

2011-08-25 Thread mz
On Thursday 25 August 2011 12:40:38 Stephen wrote: I have seen alot of similar issues with 4.x and later. Sadly ie 9 is proving more functional. Chrome is still my winner however. I downgraded to Firefox 3.6.20, and the problem remains. So I'm downloading Chrome now and will try it out. IE9

Re: Using KDE but want something different

2011-02-25 Thread mz
On Sunday 20 February 2011 11:12:38 mz wrote: I'm looking for a replacement desktop. Currently I'm using KDE v4.4.4. It has way too many bells and whistles for my needs, and there doesn't seem to be a way to turn them off. I keep an extremely clean desktop with almost nothing

Using KDE but want something different

2011-02-20 Thread mz
I'm looking for a replacement desktop. Currently I'm using KDE v4.4.4. It has way too many bells and whistles for my needs, and there doesn't seem to be a way to turn them off. I keep an extremely clean desktop with almost nothing on it. There are a few links to frequently accessed files or

Re: northern arizona lug--- NAiL

2010-09-29 Thread mz
On Wednesday 29 September 2010 16:06:48 Michael Havens wrote: I live in cottonwood. anyone around there want to get together? We could start NAiL The Northern Arizona Linux users grroup. Cool; huh? Seriously though anyone know of a users group up here? Does LUNA (Linux Users of

Re: serial port 56k modem

2010-01-21 Thread mz
On Thursday 21 January 2010 02:24:03 pm Technomage wrote: this is my 2nd e-mail to the list looking for one of these. does anyone happen to have one in storage or just laying around? I am in need of one to setup a ppp server for my lan so I can dial into my network from any phone anywhere.

Re: OT: Cheapy Mc Cheap Cheap cell phone?

2009-10-22 Thread mz
On Wednesday 21 October 2009 11:35:28 pm Ryan Rix wrote: Thanks everyone for the feedback; I'll be pointing my dad at this thread tomorrow evening to see what he thinks. Ryan A bit late to the party, but this might be useful. My cellular phone usage is similar to your dad's, mostly for

Re: OT Threads

2009-04-04 Thread mz
On Saturday 04 April 2009 01:16:55 am der.hans wrote: Am 03. Apr, 2009 schwätzte Alan Dayley so: On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Bryan O'Neal bon...@cornerstonehome.com wrote: Same here. I also filter out topical subjects I have little to no interest in. The problem with filters is

can't sign in on PLUG home page

2009-04-04 Thread mz
Sooo, speaking of everything ending up on the discussion list, I can't get signed in on the home page. First, I got: Sorry, unrecognized username or password. Have you forgotten your password? Thinking this might be the case even though I dug out the hard copy of my passwords, I attempted to

Re: can't sign in on PLUG home page

2009-04-04 Thread mz
On Saturday 04 April 2009 08:49:50 am Alan Dayley wrote: On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 8:39 AM, mz m...@infomagic.net wrote: Sooo, speaking of everything ending up on the discussion list, I can't get signed in on the home page. First, I got: Sorry, unrecognized username or password. Have you

Re: Is my DVD burner beginning to fail?

2009-03-14 Thread mz
On Friday 13 March 2009 09:35:12 pm Dazed_75 wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 8:17 PM, mz m...@infomagic.net wrote: On Friday 13 March 2009 03:22:57 pm Dazed_75 wrote: I have also had some problems recently with the burner in my HP laptop. The most recent was using K3B in ubuntu 8.10

Is my DVD burner beginning to fail?

2009-03-13 Thread mz
I burn copies of music CDs to take to the office or traveling. This past week, I burned half a dozen different titles. Half were bad. Subsequent attempts were inconsistently successful, and I discovered some of the good ones played on only some players. Overall, a number of them play on only

Re: Is my DVD burner beginning to fail?

2009-03-13 Thread mz
On Friday 13 March 2009 09:55:46 am Bob Elzer wrote: Have you tried verifying the cd after the burn ? (copy the files back and compare them ?) Doh! Not yet (feeling a little sheepish). CD-R substrate does this mean different vendor CD's ? If not, could you have a bad batch of CD's I meant

Re: Is my DVD burner beginning to fail?

2009-03-13 Thread mz
On Friday 13 March 2009 03:22:57 pm Dazed_75 wrote: I have also had some problems recently with the burner in my HP laptop. The most recent was using K3B in ubuntu 8.10 to burn a DVD .iso and each attempt would fail with a write error. Then I let the default Brasero try and was successful

Re: Google Problem 1/31

2009-02-01 Thread mz
On Sunday 01 February 2009 01:26:25 pm Tameek Henderson wrote: I'm starting to believe hating Microsoft and/or Apple are prequisite for this Linux Groups. Anyway, my name is Ty, I'm a noob, also just moved to Arizona. Good day to you all. Tameek Henderson Howdy Tameek, I only switched to