Re: grub issue

2012-11-07 Thread michael miller
of the screen were missing. Mike On Thu, 2012-10-25 at 21:48 -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:22 PM, michael miller k4...@comcast.net wrote: I get a normal command line login prompt and can log in. Everything appears completely normal until booting halts at the command line login

Re: grub issue

2012-10-28 Thread michael miller
is that one day it won't recover, although I guess that would make debugging a bit easier. I'll let you know the outcome next time it happens. Mike On Thu, 2012-10-25 at 21:48 -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:22 PM, michael miller k4...@comcast.net wrote: I get a normal command

Re: grub issue

2012-10-23 Thread michael miller
uname -a cat /proc/cmdline yield the same (correct) result in normal failed boots. I'll try comparing the lsmod and log files in both situations. I'm usually cold starting when I see this problem. There is one thing that I could try. My cpu has built in graphics, but I am using an external

grub issue

2012-10-20 Thread michael miller
I was happy with ubuntu 10.04, but built a new computer (intel i5, msi mb) and was having trouble finding drivers for some of the hardware so I upgraded to 12.04. Everything works fine, except that frequently it boots to a command line instead of the gui. One to three reboots later it's back to

Re: Am I 32-bit, or 64-bit?

2012-04-05 Thread michael miller
The '60s vintage CDC machines like the 3600 6500 used 48 bit OSs. Mike Miller Thu, 2012-04-05 at 12:25 -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: Brian St. Pierre br...@bstpierre.org writes: On 04/05/2012 09:20 AM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: But... i386 seems to be missing as a possible

open office base

2012-03-27 Thread michael miller
Any suggestions on reference material for open office base? I've read the open office 3 guide and a couple of on line tutorials which cover the basics. Nothing that tells me how to deal with the nonspecific often nonfatal error messages that pop up or help me understand how things really work.

Re: Accessing partitions in drive images

2012-01-29 Thread michael miller
The number of columns on a hollerith card. Why are there 80 columns on a hollerith card? Mike On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 15:38 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: I've always wondered: why do the little USB flash sticks, SD

Re: [OT] Generator testing

2009-09-10 Thread michael miller
Sounds like a good explanation, but doesn't fit with my experience. Several years ago I had a problem with my UPS refusing to let the generator take over. It was a high quality (Honda) generator with more than enough capacity and both 120 and 240 output. I suspected that the problem was related

Re: Ethernet NICs w/ USB host attach?

2009-01-23 Thread michael miller
I put a linksys usb nic on my wife's computer (ubuntu) 2 years ago and it worked right out of the box Mike Miller On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 08:19 -0500, Alex Hewitt wrote: Ben Scott wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Jim Kuzdrall gnh...@intrel.com wrote: I would bet that all of these

Re: buying a laptop either bare or with Ubuntu

2008-11-26 Thread michael miller
About 2 mo ago I needed to upgrade my wife's laptop computer. I saw an Acer for just under $400 at Best Buy that looked interesting. I'm not an Acer fan, but at that price for a 15.5 LCD laptop with an Intel dual core 2GHz T3200, 2GB DDR2, 160GB HD, DVD DL burner and wlan I thought it was worth

Re: Laptop external power from batteries (DC/DC)

2008-08-21 Thread michael miller
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Re: Laptop external power from batteries (DC/DC)

2008-08-21 Thread michael miller
On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 10:02 -0400, Ben Scott wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 9:52 AM, michael miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The internal battery nominal voltage is 14.4 (4 x 3.6v cells in series). FYI and FWIW, two Dell laptops I just checked indicate 11.1 volts on the battery label

Re: Laptop external power from batteries (DC/DC)

2008-08-18 Thread michael miller
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RE: System Recovery

2008-07-17 Thread michael miller
About two years ago I had an equally frustrating hardware problem that seemed to come out of nowhere that finally resolved after about the 10th reinstall of both XP and FC6. About 6 mo later I had a recurrence and was able to figure out that the device names of my two sata hard drives had been

Re: Reformat an NTFS disk to FAT32?

2008-04-20 Thread michael miller
When I was setting up this computer to dual boot Win XP and FC8 I initially thought that I would have to convert the hard drive with my win xp files from ntfs to fat32 in order to have them accessible both to linux and win xp. I quickly found out that fc8 has no trouble reading and writing ntfs

new glitches

2008-03-23 Thread michael miller
With no changes in hardware or software other than a string of updates to FC8 I started getting some boot messages that make no sense to me and don't seem to affect operation. The first was: pnpacpi: exceeded max number of memory resources: 12. A few days later this changed slightly to:

Re: [GNHLUG] MerriLUG Nashua, Thur 18 Oct, Putting LPs, tapes, 45s on digital media

2007-10-18 Thread michael miller
I'm planning on being there. Mike Miller On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 07:11 -0400, Jim Kuzdrall wrote: Who : Charlie Farinella What : Convert old LPs and tapes to CDs Where: Martha's Exchange Day : Thur 18 Oct **Tomorrow** Time : 6:00 PM for grub, 7:30 PM for discussion :: Overview Do