Re: Microsoft CDs

2008-07-03 Thread Les Gray
The Wassermans schrieb: Err. What does BSD mean please? Dave W It's another family of Unix-like operating systems. The acronym is 'Berkeley Software Distribution', because it originated in the University of California, Berkeley (I think). In business contextxs 'BSD' also has a more

Re: [OT]Re: Microsoft CDs

2008-07-03 Thread Les Gray
Null Ack schrieb: Its not lunacy at all. I do own a 360, but I consider the PC gaming experience to be superior to a console. As well, there is many use cases of having cool uses for linux gaming - such as on mobile media devices or mobile phones. There is no technical reason why Linux

Re: DVD menu support

2008-04-04 Thread Les Gray
Am Donnerstag, den 03.04.2008, 17:25 +1000 schrieb Paul Gear: Hi folks, Any idea what package i need to enable to get DVD menu support? My wife's desktop plays them fine, but my laptop doesn't, and i can't see any difference in the dpkg -l list that would be significant. Paul AFAIK it

Re: RAID software raid... confusion easy ubuntu method ?

2008-02-06 Thread Les Gray
Am Donnerstag, den 07.02.2008, 16:45 +1100 schrieb Gabriel Noronha: snip Is there a linux software raid which is nicer than the one which has to work with windows ? Yes. There are a few good howtos out there. I found this one on the Ubuntu forums -

Re: nVidia Widescreen no longer working

2008-02-05 Thread Les Gray
Am Mittwoch, den 06.02.2008, 15:35 +1000 schrieb Simon: snip The issue I'm now having is that on every restart the login window and my desktop default back to a poor 800x600 resolution. I can reset this to 1280x800 by selecting System - Administration - Screens and Graphics but is there a

Re: Thunderbird address book/email recovery

2008-02-01 Thread Les Gray
Am Samstag, den 02.02.2008, 07:09 +1100 schrieb The Wassermans: I am attempting to recover a Thunderbird (Windows version) address book and emails from a HDD which has been installed as a slave. The HDD comes from a system where XP crashed. I can access all of the files on the HDD but

Re: Firefox crash when accessing ANZ internet banking

2008-01-29 Thread Les Gray
Am Dienstag, den 29.01.2008, 20:41 +1030 schrieb mike james: snip Commonwealth works fine though. You could change banks. I heard thats meant to be easy these days ?? ;) I've never had any trouble with CBA. At least not with their internet banking site. :D -- ubuntu-au mailing list

Re: Ie conflict with Mozilla downloads?

2008-01-29 Thread Les Gray
Am Mittwoch, den 30.01.2008, 14:04 +1100 schrieb The Wassermans: snip So I figured that I should download Firefox and use it to download my requirements but IE jacks up at that too! I'm not quite sure what you mean by this. Are you saying that IE didn't allow you to download the Firefox

SDHC card unmount issue on eeePC

2008-01-25 Thread Les Gray
Hi, I have eeeXubuntu installed to the 4GB solid state drive on my eeePC, with /home and swap on a 4GB SDHC card, which is referenced in /etc/fstab. The trouble is that when I restart/shutdown the SDHC card doesn't get unmounted cleanly, as reported by fsck during the startup messages. I've

Re: SDHC card unmount issue on eeePC

2008-01-25 Thread Les Gray
Am Freitag, den 25.01.2008, 21:01 +1100 schrieb Les Gray: I have eeeXubuntu installed to the 4GB solid state drive on my eeePC, with /home and swap on a 4GB SDHC card, which is referenced in /etc/fstab. I've decided to resolve this issue by - 1. Moving /home to the eeePC's internal drive 2

Re: SDHC card unmount issue on eeePC

2008-01-25 Thread Les Gray
Am Samstag, den 26.01.2008, 12:43 +1100 schrieb Mark M Lambert: Les, I have a slightly different setup to you but have not had the unmounting issue. As the eeePC belongs to the missus I am not allow to break it so I installed eeeXubuntu to a SD card, with only GRUB being installed on the

Re: eeePC

2008-01-24 Thread Les Gray
Am Freitag, den 25.01.2008, 13:44 +1100 schrieb Blindraven: What about the Ipod touch? Now that really is too small, plus I think you'd have too much of a hard time getting other OSes onto it, assuming that's even possible. -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Ubuntu on Dell laptops here in Aus?

2008-01-18 Thread Les Gray
Am Donnerstag, den 17.01.2008, 22:10 -0800 schrieb Dov: G'day Andrew, I just checked out the Good Guys webs, and found not only an Acer, but a tiny little Asus laptop with the OS marked as Linux. Very nice to see... Dov That's the ASUS Eee PC, which was briefly discussed on this list