Speaking of stuff laying around... Does anyone keep a repository of old
stuff? I've got a few cables and other little things that I keep meaning
to toss. But, they continue to stay in the box just in case. It would be
nice to be able to take them somewhere that they might be used by anyone
I would like to have seen Comcast do this in some more gentle way. In my case,
I got the message that I was a spammer last March. I was helping with
communications right before my daughter's school play. Just days before the
show, when we were making last minute tweaks to the schedule, BAM! My
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sidenote, but.. It's running Windows XP, it can write/record a data
DVD or CD.
I've never gotten the built-in CD writer feature of Win XP to work
for DVDs of any kind. CDs, yah, but not DVDs.
That said,
About a month ago, when I was cleaning out an old cabinet, I found an
unopened Imation RT-1 400MB Mini Cartridge. I'm guessing this is for an old
tape backup drive that I used to have but haven't used in years. Is
this something that's worth even giving away (anyone want it?) or is it
This isn't exactly a Linux-specific question, but hopefully someone here can
help...
On Saturday, I grabbed an old laptop that I thought I'd take down to the Boston
Linux InstallFest, so that I could get Ubuntu and the wireless card working on
it. This is a decent HP laptop that stopped being
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Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: Laptop Key Problem
On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 09:33 -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
On Nov 13, 2007 9:25 AM, Tech Writer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I actually tried to remove the Print
Subject: Re: Laptop Key Problem
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Oh. Sorry, I forgot not everybody is going to have a bunch of
floppies full of old software. :-)
What? So, what do people keep at the back of all their closets? What
do you do with all that room if you don't keep
Has anyone gotten further information about the Give 1 Get 1 program on the
One Laptop Per Child site? I know they have a reminder program to that's
supposed to start sending out emails before Nov 12th. I'm just curious if
they've actually activated this yet.
I agree that the main reason to get something like this would be for
portability. With kids in middle and high school, it would be really
convenient to have something that is light and easy to carry around. There
are plenty of times when we are between activities and near enough to a
Panera
to work, as well.
Peg
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From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 12:40 AM
Subject: Re: XEN - unbind/bind a PCI device
On 9/26/07, Tech Writer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You're right. The rmmod command
for me.
echo -n :00:0b.0 /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ENS1371/unbind
Peg
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From: Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Tech Writer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: XEN - unbind/bind a PCI
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- Original Message -
From: Flaherty, Patrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Tech Writer [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 12:48 PM
Subject: RE: XEN - unbind/bind a PCI device
Speaking with little Xen experience.
My first
for the
tips.
Peg
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From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 9:25 PM
Subject: Re: XEN - unbind/bind a PCI device
On 9/25/07, Tech Writer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It turns out that the echo to another PCI device
This is (very likely) NOT a Linux question. But, since this mailing list is
such a good resource for Southern New Hampshire technical resources, I'm
guessing one of you could easily answer my question...
Does anyone know of a resource in the SNH area where I could get some old 8mm
3 reel
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From: Tech Writer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 11:23 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Office Open XML (OOXML) format
Can someone
This web page also contains the note:
IT IS URGENT THAT YOU CONTACT YOUR STANDARDISATION BODY IN YOUR COUNTRY AND
EXPLAIN THEM WHY OOXML IS BROKEN; SENDING A NICE LETTER TO YOUR
STANDARDISATION BODY IN YOUR COUNTRY IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN SIGNING THE
PETITION
Is this really useful? If so,
For those of us in the US, ANSI [2] is the organization you'll want to
contact.
[1] http://www.noooxml.org/delegations
Interesting... did anyone else notice that this site doesn't display the
same in IE or Firefox? As a matter-of-fact, it looks a little goofy in each
on my XP system!
I've got a Compaq 17 monitor, PE1160, that I don't need any more. This
monitor is only about four years old. But, when I put CentOS on an old
desktop, for some reason it didn't work with this monitor. I had another that
works okay, and this is just taking up space now. If anyone wants it,
If you were looking for an new (not refurbished) inexpensive Linux laptop, that
would be used primarily to run Firefox, OpenOffice and a DVD player, where
would you get it?
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I haven't been to one of these meetings before. If I want to pop in for the
presentation, where do I head?
Peg
Subject: Re: [GNHLUG] MerriLUG Nashua, Thur 17 May,Icon-ize your boss! Linux
graphics demonstration
Who : Máirín Duffy, Interaction Designer, Red Hat Engineering
What : Linux
Reading some of the replies, I wanted to clarify my initial problem just a
little... I realize this isn't a setup anyone would put together in the
real world, but it seemed to fit the environment I needed. Let me try to
explain just a little bit...
My task (as a technical writer) was to take
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Cc: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 4:58 PM
Subject: Re: Private in-house domain
On 5/17/07, Tech Writer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I did this in my own home network environment. But when it's working, I
will be duplicating
my current
configuration, I've updated the files in: http://www.handspun.com/review/
Peg
- Original Message -
From: Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Tech Writer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 8:53 AM
Subject: Re: Private in-house
I am trying to create a small domain within my house, strictly for the purpose
of getting more familiar with setting up DNS and Sendmail. Before any of my
changes, I started with the following configuration:
* Linksys router connected to my incoming cable internet line
* The router uses
Thanks for all of the suggestions, so far. I'm going to look at them more
carefully, and see if I can fix this by changing my routing table.
Both replies suggested that I change my internal domain to a 192.168.1.x IP
range (to match the Linksys) or change my Linksys router to the 10.25.1.x
Andrew and Stephen,
Thanks for the tips! Your combined suggestions seemed to do the trick. I
edited my rc.local file and added the lines:
echo Set up IP alias interfaces
/sbin/ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.1.30
echo Set up routes
/sbin/route add -host 127.0.0.0 dev eth0
Have you checked out the:
Debian GNU/Linux Desktop Survival Guide
Available from http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/
Peg
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From: Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: gnhlug-discuss gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 11:44 PM
Subject: Suggest
Were there notes for this virtual machine presentation that was given April
19? If so, I wonder if I can get a copy from someone.
Thanks,
Peg
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I just discovered that Netflix is starting a new on-demand feature that will
allow you to watch videos from your home computer, without waiting for them to
arrive in the mail. This seemed like a cool concept, so I went to select a
movie, but it wouldn't play on my Firefox browser. I sent a
I'm using Firefox in Red Hat EL5, and trying to run a web application that
requires a Java Virtual Machine. When I start my application, I get an
informational message that additional plugins ar required. When I click the
Install Missing Plugins button, it directs me to the java web site,
I've found the following two sites helpful for introductory information:
http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/
http://www.linuxhotbox.com/adminguide/index.html
Also, I was briefly looking at this to satify my requirements:
http://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/
Andy
On Mon, 2007-01-29
I'm trying to update a chart of simple commands, using several flavors of
Linux. I'm familiar enough the Red Hat and SuSE to get those done quickly.
But, now I'm trying to install Debian (which I've never used before). It isn't
going as easily as the others, and I'm trying to figure out if
I just got around to splitting my large ISO image file, and put it onto the
portable USB drive. How do I rejoin it to ensure I still have a valid ISO
image? Does cat do the trick?
Peg
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Can anyone suggest somewhere in the greater Southern New Hampshire area that
can perform a simple laptop repair? I've got an older HP Pavilion that I
just finished loading Linux onto. It was working great until the dog ran
by, and yanked the power cable out. The connection is now loose and
I'm trying to physically carry a large (4.5GB) iso file from home, over to a
coworker's office. Although I can burn the image back to a DVD, I get an
error that the file is too large when I try a straight copy to the DVD. So,
I hooked up a FIRELITE usb disk, and did a copy to a directory
This old Gateway 2100 Solo laptop doesn't hold much memory, and I'm not
exactly sure what type of memory module it is. This is what I've gathered
so far...
Page: http://www.memoryx.net/gaso21seme.html
States that the Gateway Solo 2100 system can only take 80MB:
Gateway Solo 2100 Series
maddog... you seem to be right about the Xwindows system needing the
memory... I actually got Xubuntu (alternate version:
xubuntu-6.06-alternate-i386) to get through a complete install onto the
1.34GB hard drive. It appears to reboot okay, but then I get the error:
Failed to start the X
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From: Bill Ricker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Tech Writer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: GNHLUG User Group gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 9:57 PM
Subject: Re: Linux on old laptop in two stages
Ubuntu is a great desktop Linux distro, but I'd suspect it's not going
to perform
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From: "Bill Ricker" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Tech Writer" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: "GNHLUG User Group" gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org;
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Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: Linux on old laptop - still
trying...
CDrom boot
on old laptop - still trying...
On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 21:06 -0400, Tech Writer wrote:
At this point, I just hear a lot of disk spinning for MANY MANY
minutes... then the screen clears, and still more disk spinning... but
nothing appears to be happening... eventually, it all just stops.
I just
I've got an old Gateway Solo 2100 laptop with 150 MHz
Pentium processor, 40MB RAM and 1.34 GB hard vdrive. It's been sitting in the corner
collecting dust, and still contains Windows-98. Some of my son's friends have decided to
learn Java this summer, so I was hoping I could install a
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