What was the reference to Vbasic? Is that Microsoft's visual basic, 
or another basic. In any case, is there a good basic compiler for Linux?

Thanks
JK

At 03:10 PM 9/3/2010, you wrote:
>This is what I thought, but I could say for sure as I have personally
>installed Ubuntu in a long time.
>
>In any case, Craig wrote back to say he had solved the problem.
>
>Thank you everyone.
>
>David Mandel
>
>On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Daniel B. Herrington
><[email protected]> wrote:
> > David,
> >
> > If he installed Ubuntu, the installer would have prompted him for a
> > username and password. That's what he would use to login. If he's using
> > the livecd, then there shouldn't be a username and password, at least
> > not in the most recent builds (~since 8.04?). I'm not familiar with
> > earlier versions than 8.04.
> >
> > --
> > Daniel B. Herrington
> > Director of Field Services
> > Robert Mark Technologies
> > [email protected]
> > o: 651-769-2574
> > ho: 503-419-6464
> > m: 503-358-8575
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 00:34 -0700, David Mandel wrote:
> >> Craig Wojcik <[email protected]> sent me the following question.
> >> I don't use Ubuntu very often and don't know the answer off hand and
> >> don't have time to do research on this at the moment.
> >>
> >> Would some Ubuntu user answer Craigs question for me.
> >> Send the answer directly to Craig as he isn't (yet) a PLUG member.
> >>
> >> THE QUESTION IS:
> >>
> >> David,
> >>
> >> I am the person that spoke to you at the fair today about VBasic,
> >> parallel port control of step motors etc.  I just installed Ubuntu on
> >> a Win 7 computer to run as a choice on the initial startup.  It comes
> >> up with a window for a name and password entry.  I tried to enter a
> >> password of my choice and used my name but I can not get anything to
> >> go forward from that point.  Is there an initial name/password
> >> combination that I need to get things going?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Craig
> >>
> >>
> >> Thank you,
> >>
> >> David Mandel
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