Re: [Xastir] standards are wonderful...

2009-08-21 Thread Niall Parker
Alex Carver wrote: --- On Fri, 8/21/09, mark.rice wrote: Finally, I wondered if the serial ribbon cable had the proper pin-out for the motherboard header no, it didn't. It wasn't even close, and I kick myself for not checking that. But who would make their own standard, eh? That's a litt

Re: [Xastir] standards are wonderful...

2009-08-21 Thread Alex Carver
--- On Fri, 8/21/09, mark.rice wrote: > Finally, I wondered if the serial ribbon cable had the > proper pin-out > for the motherboard header  no, it didn't.  > It wasn't even close, > and I kick myself for not checking that.  But who > would make their own > standard, eh?  That's a little sur

[Xastir] standards are wonderful...

2009-08-21 Thread mark . rice
Standards are wonderful... there's so many to choose from. But I was really getting furious... I was given a slightly used motherboard and thought it was time to upgrade the OS and Xastir (was using Fedora Core 5 and Xastir 1.84). So I loaded Ubuntu 9.04 and things went pretty smoothly with X