Re: [PLUG] Upgrade Xubuntu Distribution

2011-08-24 Thread Tim Wescott
On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 12:55 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: Well, my friend has managed to yank xfce4's undies into a wedgie. No window manager running so there's only one frameless window and the settings manager will not let me invoke xfwm4. There's more that's torqued, too. So, despite my using

Re: [PLUG] Upgrade Xubuntu Distribution

2011-08-24 Thread Joe Shisei Niski
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Joe Shisei Niski Portland, Oregon, USA 至誠 On 08/22/2011 12:55 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: Back to the distribution upgrade. It keeps telling me that 10.04 is up to date but I cannot find a menu option to upgrade the

Re: [PLUG] Upgrade Xubuntu Distribution

2011-08-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011, Joe Shisei Niski wrote: sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Joe, That looks like what I vaguely recalled from long ago. I'll save it for the next time. Thanks, Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org

Re: [PLUG] Upgrade Xubuntu Distribution

2011-08-24 Thread chris (fool) mccraw
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:42, Joe Shisei Niski joeni...@easystreet.net wrote: sudo apt-get dist-upgrade out of curiosity, why is anyone still using apt-get on ubuntu? i use aptitude exclusively these days. favorite feature: /var/log/aptitude.log second favorite feature: dependency

Re: [PLUG] Upgrade Xubuntu Distribution

2011-08-24 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011, chris (fool) mccraw wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:42, Joe Shisei Niski joeni...@easystreet.net wrote: sudo apt-get dist-upgrade out of curiosity, why is anyone still using apt-get on ubuntu? Or Debian, for that matter. i use aptitude exclusively these days.

Re: [PLUG] Upgrade Xubuntu Distribution

2011-08-24 Thread Jameson Williams
On 08/24/2011 02:20 PM, chris (fool) mccraw wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:42, Joe Shisei Niskijoeni...@easystreet.net wrote: sudo apt-get dist-upgrade out of curiosity, why is anyone still using apt-get on ubuntu? i use aptitude exclusively these days. favorite feature:

Re: [PLUG] Upgrade Xubuntu Distribution

2011-08-24 Thread Russell Senior
Paul == Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com writes: i use aptitude exclusively these days. favorite feature: /var/log/aptitude.log Paul +1 Paul aptitude rocks -- though the curses-based interface you get when Paul calling aptitude without arguments pretty much defines the word Paul ugly.

[PLUG] Can't call out FXS port...

2011-08-24 Thread Michael C. Robinson
No matter what I dial on phones hooked to the FXS ports, I get a busy signal. [root@robin ~]# dahdi_scan [1] active=yes alarms=OK description=Wildcard TDM410P Board 1 name=WCTDM/0 manufacturer=Digium devicetype=Wildcard TDM410P location=PCI Bus 02 Slot 05 basechan=1 totchans=4 irq=201 type=analog

[PLUG] Dirk Dashing 2 Fedora 15...

2011-08-24 Thread Michael C. Robinson
The games author is at a complete loss as to why the game crashes on Fedora 15. If it isn't available yet, it should be on the 26th from http://www.mygamecompany.com. I was forced to upgrade to Fedora 15 to run HandBrake. Uge! I wish the Fedora team would release an update that unbreaks this.

[PLUG] Personal Telco is doing a PC Engines group order, anybody interested?

2011-08-24 Thread Russell Senior
We need to replace some devices that we sold to a local nerd last winter, and also I'd like to get a spare Alix for myself. I order directly from Zurich, which is cheap on parts but expensive on shipping. Amortizing across a larger order should help mitigate the shipping costs a bit. In the

Re: [PLUG] 6 bit VS 8 bit DVI

2011-08-24 Thread Wayne E. Van Loon Sr.
Galen Seitz wrote: Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. wrote: I have both DVI and VGA outputs on a video card. When I blissfully switched to a DVI cable on my Hanns-G flat panel, the sharpness of the screen was noticeably reduced. I was told that there was a 6 bit DVI cable and a later 8 bit DVI

Re: [PLUG] Dirk Dashing 2 Fedora 15...

2011-08-24 Thread Michael C. Robinson
On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 15:40 -0700, Michael C. Robinson wrote: The games author is at a complete loss as to why the game crashes on Fedora 15. If it isn't available yet, it should be on the 26th from http://www.mygamecompany.com. I was forced to upgrade to Fedora 15 to run HandBrake. Uge!