Phillip Hellewell wrote:
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 07:45:51PM -0500, Adam Johnson wrote:
Hi Unix User Group. I'm going to be a new freshman in Fall. I'm an
avid Linux user(Ubuntu 7.10 right now). I've been looking around the
Speaking of incoming freshman and new leadership, here is a
On Sat, 17 May 2008 22:00:17 -0600, Michael Torrie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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But, MySQL is easier to set up and maintain,
I've never understood this claim. Probably it was true ten years ago in
the postgresl 6.x days but that is ancient history now. (The earliest
version I used was 7.0.) What
I agree. A good balance is key. Bring this up on the 29th.
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 12:51 AM, Eduardo Sanz-Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Phillip Hellewell wrote:
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 07:45:51PM -0500, Adam Johnson wrote:
Hi Unix User Group. I'm going to be a new freshman in Fall.
I'm repartitioning today and reinstalling Ubuntu, but I'd like to have a
windows partition too for the rare occasions when I need to update firmware
or otherwise need direct hardware access that I can't easily get through
Virtualbox.
I figure I'll continue to run XP in a VM when I need IE or MSO
On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 16:36 +, AJ ONeal wrote:
I figure I'll continue to run XP in a VM when I need IE or MSO or
whatever, but being that Vista generally requires too much RAM to run
in a VM I'd like to give it it's own partition.
How much RAM is too much? I've run Vista Business in
I only have 1gb RAM in my system and when I'm got firefox with 20 tabs open,
OOo, gnucash, elcipse etc (I'm not a big fan of the red x in the corner of
the window, I like to leave stuff open until the time I use it) sparing
384mb for a VM slows down my system. I guess I could close apps that I'm
but as to why a VM won't due - I still need direct hardware access from
windows on occasion. I.E. the other day a wireless bridge I had which only
blinked I was able to un-brick-ify using the windows-only firmware restore
utility from my room-mates computer (I couldn't get the linux tftp method to
Jonathan Ellis wrote:
On Sat, 17 May 2008 22:00:17 -0600, Michael Torrie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
But, MySQL is easier to set up and maintain,
I've never understood this claim. Probably it was true ten years ago in
the postgresl 6.x days but that is ancient history now. (The
AJ ONeal wrote:
I'm repartitioning today and reinstalling Ubuntu, but I'd like to have
a windows partition too for the rare occasions when I need to update
firmware or otherwise need direct hardware access that I can't easily
get through Virtualbox.
I figure I'll continue to run XP in a
On May 18, 2008, at 11:01, AJ ONeal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I only have 1gb RAM in my system and when I'm got firefox with 20
tabs open, OOo, gnucash, elcipse etc (I'm not a big fan of the red x
in the corner of the window, I like to leave stuff open until the
time I use it) sparing
sold-my-car-to-pay-summer's-tuition means: I'm broke.
Besides, I don't think I need 2gb to do the kind of stuff that I do. 1gb is
more than I thought I'd ever need. I upgraded from 512mb by mistake when I
ordered RAM for someone's system that only supported 256 modules. If it
weren't that VMs are
Actually, would anyone be interested in bartering a Linksys WAP54G for a
measly gig of old slow DDR-1?
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 11:27 PM, AJ ONeal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
sold-my-car-to-pay-summer's-tuition means: I'm broke.
Besides, I don't think I need 2gb to do the kind of stuff that I
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Adam Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Unix User Group. I'm going to be a new freshman in Fall. I'm an
avid Linux user(Ubuntu 7.10 right now). I've been looking around the
IT department's page and I'm curious about the best way to deal with
the wireless
Okay, this is RETARDED: Vista doesn't support SATA out-of-box. LAME!
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 5:28 PM, AJ ONeal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, would anyone be interested in bartering a Linksys WAP54G for a
measly gig of old slow DDR-1?
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 11:27 PM, AJ ONeal [EMAIL
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Michael Torrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some of us UUG'ers run OS X. As such, I've been asked to announce that
a new Cocoa user's group has formed on BYU campus. If you're interested
in Cocoa programming using Cocoa on OS X or the iPhone, or GnuStep on
AJ ONeal wrote:
Okay, this is RETARDED: Vista doesn't support SATA out-of-box. LAME!
In what way? I've never had any problems installing 2k or XP (sp2) off
of a generic cd. Are you using an on board controller card or one on a
daughter card?
--
Jon Wilson
BYU Unix
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Michael Torrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jon Wilson wrote:
I was wondering what everyone's take on the differences between mysql
and postgresql - the benefits / advantages to both, as well as the
disadvantages. (ie, if you were setting up a new server system
Onboard controller. It doesn't recognize my ethernet card either (but
surprisingly did detect my wireless).
I'm pretty put off. I've been spoiled by Linux (I had just gotten into
it about 6 months before 2.6 was released so I don't have much personal
experience with the old Linux is complicated
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 12:51 AM, Eduardo Sanz-Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have, as a newbie, some suggestions too...
I think that the club should support a broad degree of technical abilities:
from very skillful users to newbies as me. Linux is for everybody, including
people that are
Just an FYI: Vista is dangerous. Don't attempt a dual-boot without backing
up your data first. You know all of those jokes about Windows eating Linux?
Well, Vista eats what it pleases. My / just disappeared, /home and /boot are
fine.
Apparently this is a known feature. (I can't wait for the
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Adam Findley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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raised in Unix and those that are recent converts. I mean there are
so many music players, I would say there isn't one true music player
(unlike Foobar 2000 on Windows). Also I think each young padawan
needs to be
yay google summer of code!
apt-get sbackup
(simple backup - very simple)
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 5:27 AM, Alex Esplin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Adam Findley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
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raised in Unix and those that are recent converts. I mean there are
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