On Monday, June 13, 2011 10:00:03 AM slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
I have been using evolution for years now and its been OK but now i want
to know is there a better email client then evolution, that do you think
of Thunderbirds?
OK before you send me an email asking what i want to do with
On Tuesday, June 14, 2011 10:00:02 AM slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
IMHO thunderbird is completely unusable ...
Try to reply to an issue (eg this one) when you get digest mail and
you will get a deep and clear understanding of stress.
kmail is pretty nice but has some show
On Tuesday, June 14, 2011 10:00:02 AM slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
Scenario:
* Ubuntu presently installed without LVM.
* New hard drive formatted with:
/boot ext3 partition (empty so far)
LVM group containing ext3 LV
I want to copy the original root partition onto the new LV
On Thursday, June 09, 2011 09:30:55 PM slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
Hi, haven't used a linux box in many a years and am tossing up to run
either OpenSUSE 11.4 or CentOS 5.6 due to specific software requirements.
If you had to choice an OS which one would it be?
Since I'm gonna be a hack
On Thursday, June 02, 2011 10:00:02 AM slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
Finally running OSX in a VM looks as though it utterley complies with
the license. (I have done it: a working vbox OSX 10.6
(5?6?latest) running on my desktop)
Every new Mac comes with a fully licensed copy of OSX.
G'day
It's a *long* story, I'm considering getting one of the new imacs to run
linux (some of the howtos say dual boot OSX in case you need to update the
firmware)
So
Has anybody done it, what experiences?
I want to wake on lan. BIOS (EFI) available enough to do that?
I want to build an run
On Saturday, May 14, 2011 10:00:04 AM slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
Does anyone have on hand an xorg.conf modeline for a DELL U2410
running at max resolution of 1920x1200?
Or otherwise how can I calculate such a modeline from the monitor specs?
I've tried the 1920x1200 modelines from
G'day
short version:
Please any pointers to how xorg uses event devices
long version:
I need to configure a microchip/hampshire/tshark touch panel.
The (no source) drivers from hampshire do not work
The 2.6.35 hampshire module does nothing. Why would it with no configuration.
How/where does it
On Wednesday, April 13, 2011 10:00:02 AM slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
Is it just me or does anyone else on this list find the unity desktop in
11.04 beta a PITA.
The workspace switcher is stuck in the side panel that is hidden when
anything is on the screen. Nothing is truly
On Thursday, March 31, 2011 09:00:03 AM slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
January 19th, 2011 at ubuntuforums.org thread 1259082, someone posted
that Evolution works fine with mircosoft ecxhange 2007.
(http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1259082page=3)
Has anyone on this list gotten it to
On Tuesday 11 January 2011 09:00:02 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
Hi David
All the linux big boys are moving fast to KVM. Redhat and IBM have
abandoned Xen completely, making it an out of kernel patch set
maintained by Citrix and perhaps code from Oracle. Youll find that
Debian has
On Wednesday 29 December 2010 09:00:03 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
Cute and true, but this does NOT enable the service it starts it [once]
It should be enabled by default on installation, I thought the question
was just how to start it as a one-off. The best way I've found to
manage
On Tuesday 28 December 2010 09:00:01 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
t seems to have disappeared. I now use (on Ubuntu) the package
'tofrodos'. The two programs are
fromdos [ options ] [file...]
todos [ options ] [file...]
vim does easily and without fuss dos-unix-mac back
On Tuesday 28 December 2010 09:00:01 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
I'm pretty sure I remember seeing Services as a menu option in earlier
versions of Ubuntu
There is more than one way to do it. Open up a shell and type:
sudo /etc/init.d/apache start
Familiarise yourself with shell
inside 32C cpu clocked normally and doing 'normal' stuff (a
couple of VMs, some mythbackend, a firefox or two, kmail, gnome desktop) is
idling along at 1G and 37C
[haycorn] /home/jam [1999]% cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 15
model
On Wednesday 22 December 2010 09:00:04 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
Using apt-get, you can automagically install memcached. It's great as
it starts a daemon and that daemon will start on boot.
Though for Christmas I need two daemons running on different ports:
11211 and 11212.
On Monday 06 December 2010 09:00:03 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
Bugger. It was too late when I noticed the time.
Is there somewhere one can download it from?
Yeah. I also had MythTV scheduled to record it, but slept in that
morning. Surely it's on somebody else's MythTV
On Monday 06 December 2010 09:00:03 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
Bugger. It was too late when I noticed the time.
Is there somewhere one can download it from?
Yeah. I also had MythTV scheduled to record it, but slept in that
morning. Surely it's on somebody else's MythTV
Wunz upon a tyme
I fiddled with about:config to prevent ANZ internet banking from opening a
window fullscreen, as they do.
I have THAT setup, but I've trashed other stuff and a clean slate (mv .mozilla
othername) made it easy to fix. I did not note what I did, and trying to
rediscover is
On Saturday 17 April 2010 10:00:04 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
Autologin and I get invited to enter the wallet password to enable
the wireless. How do I do away with that, to have nm automatically
start?
Applications Passwords and Encryption Keys
Right click on Passwords: login,
Guys
I've just setup an eeepc for my wife that runs karmic notebook remix
Minor fun-n-games to get the wireless to work, but all sorted except this PIA
If anybody has wise words it'll save me ages ...
Autologin and I get invited to enter the wallet password to enable the
wireless.
How do I do
I'm not sure if this belongs here, sorry if it doesn't.
Well looks like the government got it's way. Our Internet will be
censored next year.
http://www.minister.dbcde.gov.au/media/media_releases/2009/115
I wrote to Conroy talking about proxies and ssh tunnels and received back many
On Thursday 03 December 2009 09:00:08 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
in the past I found Thunderbird Evolution were not satisfying my
needs. Eventually I found Claws Mail http://www.claws-mail.org/ and I
have been extremely happy with the way it handles mail. It is plain
text only, images
On Thursday 03 December 2009 14:09:00 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
Meryl thanks
I'll look at that. I've discovered that later editions of kmail (svn) do
not send html (when you don't want). Building was a big deal, but suse's
build service helped that problem. We'll try and may well
On Tuesday 01 December 2009 09:00:04 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
Every now and then I get sent a Word document that I can't
just ignore, or ask the sender to resend as plain text or PDF or
something.
Most of the time wvMime can translate the doc so I can read it and
convert to
She-who-must-be-obeyed has just become the club secretary and sends mail to
the committee most of whom are winders users and here starts the saga:
kmail which she used (and is arguably the nicest GUI mailer) can't be
configured to not send plain AND html mail. It then wraps every quoted line
On Saturday 21 November 2009 21:37:14 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
I'm going to get a new desktop at work and was wondering whether it's
worth moving to 64-bit.
I confess that I still dual boot 32-bit for one legacy application:
Vuescan. But with enough tinkering with ia32-lib or
On Friday 20 November 2009 05:57:09 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
32bit is dead
Not on subnotebooks.
It'll have 4Gb RAM, which should be enough for my work needs.
Which is a good enough reason to move to 64 bit.
If you want to address more than 2GB of RAM in a single process reliably
On Friday 20 November 2009 05:57:09 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
FWIW, the things that affect me using 64 bit on a given machine are:
more than 3GB of RAM or
need more than 2GB in a single process or
doing 64 bit math (nb this isn't strict, you can get at the opcode in
32-bit installs,
On Monday 16 November 2009 09:00:05 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
a) I'd run back and front end of different machines
I'd thought of doing that, but because the TV and aerial cable are in
the same room, I'd still have to make this machine both fron and back
end, so I don't see any great
On Saturday 14 November 2009 23:05:47 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
Has anybody tamed the grub2 beast?
I uncovered a link joyrapture
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275
James
Whatever the technical merit, the lack of even basic documentation is
overwhelming.
I'm trying to:
On Saturday 14 November 2009 02:26:52 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
I'm planning to build a MythTV box have come up with what I think is
suitable hardware to run it on, but I'm hoping that those of you with
MythTV experience will point out anything I've got wrong.
The box will be both back
Has anybody tamed the grub2 beast?
Whatever the technical merit, the lack of even basic documentation is
overwhelming.
I'm trying to: (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BootToRAM)
title RAM Session
kernel /casper/vmlinuz boot=casper toram splash
initrd /casper/initrd.gz
by editing ...
j...@dvr:~$ cat
On Monday 09 November 2009 08:12:14 you wrote:
On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 01:09:00PM +0800, jam wrote:
Hi
on the various distros log-out-switch-user prompts for a password as the
second user logs out and the first user is exposed again. Tried for weeks
to disable this anal fettish but I
On Tuesday 10 November 2009 09:00:20 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
I upgraded to Karmic last night but I prefer one panel at the top of my
screen so I removed the bottom panel and the workspace switcher in that and
added another applet to the top panel.
But now I can't switch between the
On Tuesday 10 November 2009 09:00:20 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
We can't help you unless you tell us what you want to do, *to what*.
Is this in GNOME? XFCE? Some other interface?
This is just annoying noise
a) The question has been answer before
b) No matter what sort of session if your
On Tuesday 03 November 2009 20:49:58 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
I will soon be replacing a Windows 2003 server in a small business with
some Linux variant. Traditionally I have used Debian or Centos, I have been
wary of using Ubuntu (whether justified or not, I was not confident with it
On Friday 30 October 2009 09:00:04 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
Thanks everyone for the advice.
Following the KISS principle I am going to:
1. Live within the RAM can access now (just over 3Gb)
2. Use a single Linux partition (besides boot) on the larger drive
I find it useful
On Wednesday 28 October 2009 18:37:16 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
jam j...@tigger.ws writes:
[snip]
Based on what you have said do yourself a favour and don't do LVM.
LVM is a wonderful idea but it requires that you understand
statistics related to disk failure
On Wednesday 28 October 2009 09:00:06 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
I am about to upgrade a HP notebook to a larger hard disk (replace the 90Gb
disk with 500Gb) and double the RAM (from 2Gb to 4Gb). In addition, to
complicate matters, I would like to LVM on the larger disk to manage the
[snip]
Based on what you have said do yourself a favour and don't do LVM. LVM
is a wonderful idea but it requires that you understand statistics
related to disk failure and the consequences of that.
This comment makes no sense to me: in what way does LVM change the risks
associated with
On Thursday 08 October 2009 08:36:45 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
I've read that sinking it in an oil bath reduces the noise and gets rid
of the heat quite well...
Sunflower oil is OK but pure Aceite De Oliva Espanol Moro Pure Olive oil
is best.
Make sure it's the 100% pure (no
On Thursday 01 October 2009 10:00:04 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
Does anyone know a good freeware for tv so you can schedule tv recording
online and so on.I was using Mythtv on Ubuntu doesnt have those features
like icetv has. Any recommendation?
I'm not being being a myth advocate ... but
On Thursday 01 October 2009 10:00:04 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
We use Westnet Huawei e169 usb drives on 701 EEEPC's
I guess any reseller that uses Optus as a carrier will be the same.
We use Mint and it has worked on Puppy and Ubuntu
The default E program wont find 3g networks for us.
On Tuesday 01 September 2009 10:00:04 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
[snip]
The GUI paradigism allows people who have not learned to talk to
computers to communicate using pictures.
This picture mode is slow and cumbersome (imagine talking to a Russian,
but using pictures to convey your
On Friday 28 August 2009 07:20:35 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
[snip]
and another aspect of Unix, which seems to have repeated
itself (or not?) with unix-like linux is the different flavours:
Solaris, BSD, AIX, Ultrix (now apparently known as HPUX).
[snip]
These are legal issues not
On Friday 28 August 2009 07:20:35 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
I've tried Kubuntu 8.04, Xubuntu 9.04 and LinuxMint7 (Ubuntu 9.04 I
think) on different PCs with different DVD-RW drives.
All drives will copy a double layer DVD to an .iso file, but none will
record the .iso to an 8.4 gb
On Wednesday 26 August 2009 10:00:06 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
The point about shells has already been made, but some people have got a
bit sidetracked. Shells are command-interpreters; they mediate between the
user and the kernel. Applications in Unix, as has already been said, get
to
On Tuesday 25 August 2009 10:00:05 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
Can you throw light on the demise of the unix shell?
[snip]
Respectfully, I disagree with your assumptions here:
[snip]
See old fart mode that is my disclosure of biased, old fashioned opinion.
See where it says '40 Years of
On Sunday 23 August 2009 16:38:37 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
Can you throw light on the demise of the unix shell?
Marghanita
I'm guessing 'contextually', that you're asking about the demise of the
original Thompson shell that shipped with Unix? Since replaced by Bash,
Csh et al?
On Sunday 23 August 2009 10:00:05 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
quote who=Marghanita da Cruz
Can you throw light on the demise of the unix shell?
Demise?! :-)
I have to agree with Jeff: the only places I have really seen the shell
vanish it has been moving — albeit painfully slowly
On Friday 07 August 2009 10:00:05 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
That's a given, mobile internet or not!
2009/8/6 Kevin Shackleton kev...@reachnet.com.au
Telstra == being shafted.
Could not agree more .. the masters of If on the first rainy tuesday of a
leap year you stand with one foot in
On Thursday 06 August 2009 09:22:35 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
How much better are the more expensive 3G plans over the cheaper plans?
I have just tried out a 3G broadband dongle on linux
Model : E160
I tried to get it to work on Centos 5.3 but failed. couldn't get
On Tuesday 28 July 2009 05:59:39 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
I have a n000b question.
I found a neat housework script to change case space but
I'm wondering is it possible to run it recursively?
If so where do I put the -r in it?
#!/bin/bash
for f in *; do
file=$(echo $f
On Wednesday 15 July 2009 09:18:46 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
This is mostly a 'wot hoppen?' and 'wot's going on' -- but advice what
to do about it would be very welcome.
I was using a bash script with convert (from ImageMagick) to convert a
lot of big tiff files, I mistyped a /
On Tuesday 14 July 2009 10:00:06 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
have a curious situation. I have a Sound Blaster Live card in my
Ubuntu64 9.04 system and have turned the internal card off in the bios.
The volume control tells me it is set for the Sound Blaster but does not
control the
On Tuesday 14 July 2009 10:00:06 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
This is mostly a 'wot hoppen?' and 'wot's going on' -- but advice what
to do about it would be very welcome.
I was using a bash script with convert (from ImageMagick) to convert a
lot of big tiff files, I mistyped a / for a x
Wearing my I wish somebody had said this, useful, sharing cap and not my
dragons and swords one I declare that, except for those interested in pages-
n-pages of python stack traces or very simple systems, rdiff-backup is
unmentionably awefull.
I backup daily 4 systems with a couple of 100s G
On Tuesday 19 May 2009 07:28:23 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
What a mess this is!
Found this skype forum:
http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=334081
I'd like to follow the advice of one of the posters at the end but my sound
settings aren't the same.
Seriously thinking about
On Tuesday 19 May 2009 09:05:41 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
The mythtv folk are bitching that you can't nuke pulseaudio in 9.04 it is
entrenched.
Of course you can remove it -- just 'apt-get remove pulseaudio'. Sure, that
will prompt to remove the ubuntu-desktop meta-package, but that
On Friday 15 May 2009 21:03:06 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
Lessons learnt:
- a journalling file system is bigger than what you see, 3Tb is really
3.3Tb when doing a direct copy.
- Get lots of harddisk in the beginning. 750G drives really only give
you 698G. It is annoying to
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 07:34:12 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
Not having a digital set top box at the present, I'm wondering if
anyone has any experience connecting one to a mythbuntu box with SD
PCI tuners?
I have a Mythubuntu 8.04 box with two PVR-150s and a telly cable
splitter running
On Saturday 02 May 2009 10:00:04 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
Anyone know of (or how to find) an Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon mirror?
Yes, way old (at 2 years...), but I'm trying to maintain an old
machine that I don't want to upgrade. Gutsy has dropped out of the
Ubuntu mirrors, and
On Sunday 19 April 2009 00:16:35 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
I've decided to increase the RAM on my home CentOS server. As best I can
recall, the accepted wisdom is to have SWAP approx.~ 2 x RAM. Or was
that approx.~ 50% of RAM?
Can someone point me in the direction of an explicit
On Sunday 19 April 2009 10:00:03 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
On Sunday 19 April 2009 00:16:35 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
I've decided to increase the RAM on my home CentOS server. As best I
can recall, the accepted wisdom is to have SWAP approx.~ 2 x RAM. Or
was that approx.~ 50%
On Thursday 16 April 2009 10:00:06 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
htmlbody
EMBED SRC=noise.wav autostart=0/EMBED
/body/html
I'm trying to use this snippet of code to embed a sound. I can't persuade
FF or Epiphany to respect the autostart attribute. I've tried variations
such as
On Saturday 11 April 2009 00:06:56 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
[snip]
What am I missing?
find(1), which is used to locate a list of files matching a given set of
criteria, allowing you to do something like this:
chmod -R 644 `find -name '*.jpg'`
(Note the single-quotes around the
On Saturday 11 April 2009 10:00:04 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
On Saturday 11 April 2009 00:06:56 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
[snip]
What am I missing?
find(1), which is used to locate a list of files matching a given set
of criteria, allowing you to do something like
experiment ? ... cause I tried it ! exactly as posted
Maybe I should have posted this
[eeyore] /home/jam/slug [60]% ll
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 jam users0 2009-04-11 07:51 silly name
drwxr-xr-x 2 jam users 4096 2009-04-11 07:51 slug/
[eeyore] /home/jam/slug [61]% find . -type d -exec chmod 775
On Friday 03 April 2009 14:21:42 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
Does anyone have any experience here with the Beagle?
http://beagleboard.org It looks very nice and it looks as if it's
supported in Angstrom.
I'm about to try Jaunty.
but cannot give feedback yet.
If you are about to purchase,
On Wednesday 01 April 2009 09:00:06 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
Recently I had a Pentium 4 Celeron installed in my PC. Although it
replaced an AMD Athlon, the machine rebooted without problem and functions
fine, except for the sound. The Pentium came, I understand, with its own
On Wednesday 18 March 2009 21:19:08 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
Well XenServer 5 would do it, but it's not FOSS.
Virtualbox *might* if it's Solaris 10 (I haven't gotten 9 working yet),
pretty sure the others will work - Windows will and I find it faster on
my laptop than on bare metal.
On Thursday 19 March 2009 10:00:05 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
I have not been able to get VMWARE to keep time on my dual AMDs
despite trying all the solutions I could find. (Guest loses 5min
/hour !)
I vaguely remember a long time ago doing some rtc pokery to get this
going.
On Thursday 19 March 2009 11:29:41 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
Looking for some advice. I have used RCS version control for
writing LaTeX documents for some time, but am looking at the
advantages of using a distributed version control system.
Is there any reason why you want
On Saturday 21 February 2009 02:31:08 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
I'm running a brand new Zalman CNPS7700 CPU fan
along with a brand new Seasonic S12II 430W PSU
with a 120mm fan in the machine.
I checked the box when it keeled over while my
wife was watching the telly and it was rather
On Saturday 14 February 2009 10:00:06 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
Computer A, an old computer, was running Fedora 9. It had two hard
drives. Unawares, when I installed Fedora 9, I set things up using
Logical Volume Management.
Computer A will no longer boot up. I suspect it has something
On Saturday 14 February 2009 10:00:06 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
Thanks for replying so quickly, Jake.
After posting, I kept looking. I found a document on the web called
Accessing a Fedora Logical Volume from Ubuntu.
You were right about the need to install software. I did.
The
On Monday 09 February 2009 10:00:09 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
It's been a while since there's been a thread like this, so I thought
it would be fun :)
so, have you got any?
I've got 2 to share today:
alt and then
alt
for interactive shells, works kinda like
On Saturday 07 February 2009 10:00:05 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
It's been a while since there's been a thread like this, so I thought it
would be fun :)
so, have you got any?
I've got 2 to share today:
alt and then
alt
for interactive shells, works kinda like ctrl r or !$ - that
On Thursday 29 January 2009 10:00:05 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
I'm looking for some ideas to help me complete my
installation set-up.
I've just installed Myth on top of Ubuntu 8.04.1.
Out of curiosity, how does the price of an SD or HD
do it yourself pvr-style setup, e.g. MythTV
On Friday 23 January 2009 10:00:03 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
I'm using Subversion for the first time (for a website). I would really
like to preserve the original (pre-svn), but svn import doesn't seem to do
this. Have I missed something?
use-commit-times option only applies to new
On Thursday 22 January 2009 10:00:06 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 11:15 +1100, david wrote:
I have a directory tree, plus an approximate copy of the same tree.
du reports 35mb for one and 36 for the other. They are quite complex
trees.
My task is to figure out
On Wednesday 14 January 2009 00:08:10 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
Actually, temperature has very little relationship with disk life, at
least when Google studied their consumer grade disk failure metrics.
The details: http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf
Regards,
On Monday 12 January 2009 20:18:39 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
A quick set of three basic guidelines for comments. I find these get
my through most situations.
1. The code says what you are doing, the comments say WHY you are doing it.
2. The code is there to teach people who aren't you
On Friday 09 January 2009 10:00:08 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
I'm looking to setup a pc with an output to a tv (big flatscreen) to
play video files. Sort of like home theatre.
or video files over a lan connection from a server.
recording tv is not necessary but may be good.
Is
On Thursday 08 January 2009 10:00:05 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
I'm looking to setup a pc with an output to a tv (big flatscreen) to
play video files. Sort of like home theatre.
or video files over a lan connection from a server.
recording tv is not necessary but may be good.
Is there
On Wednesday 07 January 2009 10:00:06 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
I don't know if it's just because I'm running Gnome with amarok, but
the OSD has some serious issues.
I run a dual monitor setup using nVidia binary drivers and twinview
with compiz enabled.
I run amarok on AMD-X2 with
/support/edocs/systems/dimE520/en/SM_EN/specs.htm
Under drives-Available Devices it reads: Serial ATA drives (4),
floppy drive, USB memory devices, CD/DVD drive, and Media Card
Reader. The CD-ROM is SATA too (from visual inspection).
Is anyone else here feels the same as Jam that it's unlikely
On Tuesday 30 December 2008 10:00:04 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
My own desktop is about 18 months old and I don't see mention of PATA
controllers in its lshw or lspci output.
Does anyone know where can I borrow (or maybe rent?) a PATA-usb box
to allow me to access the disks and salvage
On Tuesday 30 December 2008 10:00:04 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
just opened my desktop and indeed there are no PATA controllers
there. That's why I mentioned that it is 18 months old.
I use the term PATA for exactly the reason you mentioned - to
distinguish from SATA.
Thanks, and
On Thursday 18 December 2008 09:41:48 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
I'm running Xubuntu on an Eeepc. I don't run a web server or an ssh server
or telnet or ftp or rsync or anything like that. Am I correct in assuming
that I don't need a firewall, or should I install Firestarter just in case?
On Saturday 29 November 2008 10:00:05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the
partial inspiration for the talk), although rsync doesn't save older
data, which I definitely recommend.
Very minor nitpick, rsync can save older data, and put them in
whatever dir
you want.
before rdiff-backup i used
On Friday 28 November 2008 21:58:01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My two-week-old sole hard drive has failed.
I know this is more than a software thing, because the drive's not found
either during boot-up or by fdisk. The clincher is that it keeps making a
sound like the sound that you hear from
On Monday 24 November 2008 10:00:09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10 (from 8.04) and now I'm losing my search
domain on reboot. I'm using a static address.
If I edit resolv.conf everything is good until I reboot, then resolv.conf
is re-created without the search domain.
On Monday 24 November 2008 10:00:09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've recently upgraded from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 (Ibex).
I've noticed that Firefox now has this annoying habit of automagically
going into a semi-fullscreen mode, that causes Alt-Tab to flash nastily
whenever Firefox is selected or
On Tuesday 18 November 2008 10:00:09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday 17 November 2008 10:00:07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
am [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[snip]
Not a trivial question :-) and not as simple as -X
I'm sitting in front of THIS machine, and logged in
I run a program
On Monday 17 November 2008 06:10:16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ask SLUG and you end up with 5 different ways of doing it. :-)
Thanks all. I should be able to get at least one of those working.
Daniel,
most common problem I come across doing it the remote X11 way is no
display setup. And
On Monday 17 November 2008 10:00:07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
am [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Monday 17 November 2008 06:10:16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ask SLUG and you end up with 5 different ways of doing it. :-)
Thanks all. I should be able to get at least one of those working.
On Wednesday 12 November 2008 10:00:07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Regardless of which distro or distro version you are using, replacing
the distro installed package with something you compile yourself is
almost always a bad idea, especially when you are downgrading
Do qualify your
On Tuesday 11 November 2008 10:00:09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
so what is a correct way of getting a back level of something ?
There isn't a correct way. Every time you try to down rev
a different package, a different kind of hammer will be needed
and your system is likely to break in a
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