[SLUG] Back installation problem.

I've Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon installed on the laptop. And, as I'm fed up with it, I've decided to reinstall Feisty Fawn, which, though an earlier version, didn't give me the aggro that I have with the Gibbon. However. I'm having trouble installing Feisty. A friend says it's probably due to my trying

Re: [SLUG] Back installation problem.

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 at 20:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon installed on the laptop. > > And, as I'm fed up with it, I've decided to reinstall > Feisty Fawn, which, though an earlier version, didn't give me the aggro > that I have with the Gibbon. > > However. I'm having troub

Re: [SLUG] Back installation problem.

> Speaking for myself, there were a few things about gutsy that drove me > bananas, but I found some workarounds and everything is peachy now. A pirate walks into a bar, with a steering wheel attached to the front of his pants. The barman says, "Excuse me sir, do you realise you have a steering

[SLUG] [OT]Facebook app

Hi All, I just wrote a facebook application for playing Sudoku. Those interested.. http://apps.facebook.com/sudokusolver/ For non-facebook users: http://www.sudoku-solver.net/ Regards Deepan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and

[SLUG] Re: Back installation problem.

> > Speaking for myself, there were a few things about gutsy that > drove me bananas, but I found some workarounds and everything is > peachy now. > > A pirate walks into a bar, with a steering wheel attached to the > front of his pants. The barman says, "Excuse me sir, do you realise > you hav

Re: [SLUG] f-spot and the tags, will it get messy?

Sebastian Spiess wrote: Hi all, lately I was playing with fspot and a couple of pictures from two or tree events. I started tagging the pictures. People > Family > Brother People > Family > Sister People > Friends ... Places > AUstralia > ...Uluru Places > Germany > ... Events > holiday 1

[SLUG] HP Laptop Mic

Hi All, I have Fc 6 on a HP Pavllion dv 6000. I am able to listen to music on the built in speakers.The inbuilt mic doesn't work and when connecting external speakers I don't get the sound on the external speakers thought my built in speakers continue to work. After searching on the internet, came

Re: [SLUG] how to verify time zones are corrected for new DST ?

On Sat, March 15, 2008 12:19 pm, Rick Welykochy wrote: > Voytek Eymont wrote: > This was found as follows: > > > google for "linux %subject%" and click I'm Feeling Lucky. thanks, Rick, I did try to search 1st, I guess I need revise my search methods -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

[SLUG] mplayer full screen

Hi All, I am running Fedora core 7. When I play movies with mplayer, it does not play in full screen. Even if I press f for full screen, it plays the movie only in the center portion of the screen. I also tried mplayer -vo xv movie.avi .. It plays in full screen, but dies after sometime saying my

Re: [SLUG] Repartitioning XP to support dual booting...

Quoting jam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Insert ubuntu CD, boot live, choose install, manual partition, shrink partition ... Ok thanks for that... (everyone) I haven't installed it that way for a long time and didn't know it worked. David -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://

[SLUG] Re: mplayer full screen

Hi Deepan, Is this when you're playing movies from a CD/DVD player in the machine, or from a file on the machine? Can you check to see if there is any difference between the performance of either? If it's only from DVDs playing on the machine, there may be changes necessary to make in the s

Re: [SLUG] Boot problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Try the super grub disk if you can get a copy. It should let you boot the system. Heracles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I have LinuxMint KDE 4.0.44 installed | | My system has suddenly decided not to boot, giving the following error | from /var/log/fs

Re: [SLUG] mplayer full screen

Deepan Chakravarthy wrote: > When I play movies in my Fedora 8 system using mplayer, the movie is > rendered only in a small portion of the screen. Even with full screen > option, it does not render in full screen. How do I fix it ? in ~/.mplayer/config, you'll want to add the following line:

Re: [SLUG] mplayer full screen

Deepan wrote: > Hi All, > I am running Fedora core 7. When I play movies with mplayer, it does not > play in full screen. Even if I press f for full screen, it plays the > movie only in the center portion of the screen. I also tried mplayer -vo > xv movie.avi .. It plays in full screen, but dies af

[SLUG] How to capture image?

On my blog, I've done a couple of posts with "then and now photos": http://stumblng.tumblr.com/post/27897855 (about The Astor on Macquarie Street); http://stumblng.tumblr.com/post/27796124 (about looking East on Bridge Street from near Pitt Street). For those two posts, I got the "then" easily.