Re: [SLUG] (no subject)

2011-12-07 Thread Peter Abbott
Sharon, Have you got the broadcom-wl driver installed? I believe this driver came about as a fix for a range of broadcom devices mainly used in Dell laptops? Just a guess. -- Regards, Peter On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 14:49 -0800, Sharon Doig wrote: > HI Slug, > Can you please help me diagnose and fi

Re: [SLUG] NVIDIA and Fedora 14

2011-02-13 Thread Peter Abbott
Hi Heracles, This guide appears to do the trick. http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/fedora-14-nvidia-drivers-install-guide-disable-nouveau-driver/ Regards, Peter. On 02/14/2011 08:56 AM, Heracles wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Guys and Gals, My daughter has

Re: [SLUG] Yum on Fedora 10 is wedged

2009-04-30 Thread Peter Abbott
Hi Erik, I ran into this problem using preupgrade some time ago. The preupgrade left a few orphaned F9 packages which prevented the installation of the equivalent F10 packages. I use yumex (yum install yumex if you want it). The graphical interface displays both the F9 & F10 packages one above t

Re: [SLUG] Laptops with Linux pre-installed?

2009-04-20 Thread Peter Abbott
Erik, I bought one of Pioneer's higher range laptops in May 2006. At this stage Pioneer sold with or without an MS operating system & like you I refused to pay the tax. If memory serves me correctly it was called a Dreambook and has a 64 bit AMD cpu, 1G of ram (since upgraded to 2G), a 17" screen

[SLUG] Perl Question

2008-04-01 Thread Peter Abbott
Thanks to all who replied. I am the wiser now. - Regards, Peter. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Perl Question

2008-04-01 Thread Peter Abbott
Can anyone with greater knowledge than myself explain this regex behaviour. This code segment works as intended: if ( $_ =~ m/^Box(\d) ([A-Z]+(\. | ?)[A-Z]* ?[A-Z]*).*?(\d).*?(\d\d\.\d \d).*?(\d*\.\d\d)L/) { $box = $1; $name = $2; $place = $4;

[SLUG] Humour @ M$'s expense

2001-05-02 Thread Peter Abbott
Found this little gem. Just thought someone might be interested. FOOT-AND-MOUTH BELIEVED TO BE FIRST VIRUS UNABLE TO SPREAD THROUGH MICROSOFT OUTLOOK Researchers Shocked to Finally Find Virus That E-mail App Doesn't Like Atlanta, Ga. (SatireWire.com) - Scientists at the Centers for Disease Con