Re: [mhvlug] little additions to the Advanced Ubuntu talk

2008-01-04 Thread Joe Apuzzo
Chris Knadle wrote: Joe -- good talk. I learned a few things. Just wanted to pass along these other tidbits that I was talking about at dinner, and a couple of others I wanted to mention. aptitude text-based package manager that allows for downgrading packages. Installed by

Re: [mhvlug] little additions to the Advanced Ubuntu talk

2008-01-04 Thread Chris Knadle
Hey, Joe. On Friday 04 January 2008, Joe Apuzzo wrote: aptitude text-based package manager that allows for downgrading packages. This program is so horrible that I had/have a mental block when it come to it. Synaptic is the GUI version of aptitude they are twins yes, but aptitude is

Re: [mhvlug] little additions to the Advanced Ubuntu talk

2008-01-04 Thread Joe Apuzzo
I will most likely give the talk again to the New York Ubuntu group via VoIP and distributed VNC so keep tuned. Huh. Distributed VNC. Interesting! Voice = Astrix server conference call (SIP: 5000(at)sip.nerdsonlinux.com where (at)=@) VNC = using vnc-reflector to scale to 20-50 people

Re: [mhvlug] Stupid growisofs won't cooperate

2008-01-04 Thread matthew scouten
I hate to compile other people's code. There always seems to be some library I am missing or some dev package I need. And next time I 'sudo yum update' I lose the changes. Open source does not excuse user un-friendly programming. If I want to waste half a dual layer DVD on a small ISO, the

[mhvlug] Memory sticks

2008-01-04 Thread Mark Wallace
I hate to ask after all of the things that the people in the group have given me in the past, but does anyone have some memory sticks. I want to put Linux in a couple of old systems that I have but Linux now needs 256K in memory. I can pick them up. -- Mark Wallace PO Box 751 Plattekill, NY

Re: [mhvlug] Stupid growisofs won't cooperate

2008-01-04 Thread Chris Knadle
On Friday 04 January 2008, matthew scouten wrote: I hate to compile other people's code. There always seems to be some library I am missing or some dev package I need. Compiling source can be an adventure, yeah. And next time I 'sudo yum update' I lose the changes. Not following

Re: [mhvlug] Stupid growisofs won't cooperate

2008-01-04 Thread matthew scouten
On Jan 4, 2008 10:44 PM, Chris Knadle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 04 January 2008, matthew scouten wrote: I hate to compile other people's code. There always seems to be some library I am missing or some dev package I need. Compiling source can be an adventure, yeah. And next