Re: [SLUG] Laptops with Linux pre-installed?

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Craig Ayliffe wrote:

> If you go to a product and click on Build Your Own, their is an
> Operating System option where you can select Ubuntu OS Preloaded.

Found it.

Its rather well hidden and the window logo to the left hurt my eyes.

Thanks.

Erik
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Re: [SLUG] Laptops with Linux pre-installed?

[Craig Ayliffe]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo
 wrote:
> meli...@meldraweb.com wrote:
>
>> Well, I know pioneercomputers.com.au do offer Ubuntu preinstalled on quite
>> a lot of their range.
>
> I do know this was true at one stage, but I can't find anything about
> pre-installed Linux on their current sire.
>

If you go to a product and click on Build Your Own, their is an
Operating System option where you can select Ubuntu OS Preloaded.

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Re: [SLUG] Laptops with Linux pre-installed?

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

Hi all,

Does anyone here in .au actually ship higher end laptops with Linux
pre-installed? Dell does in  the US, but not here. I've also searched
the  HP website, but that is even harder to navigate than the Dell
site.

Erik


The guy at JB Hifi in Leichhardt said that he thought it was possible to request
Linux on an the higher end eeePCs, from other computer outlets.. He suggested
trying some of the smaller independent stores.

The question has been asked before and any information would be of interest to 
me.
A place you could try:


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Re: [SLUG] Laptops with Linux pre-installed?

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

meli...@meldraweb.com wrote:

> Well, I know pioneercomputers.com.au do offer Ubuntu preinstalled on quite
> a lot of their range.

I do know this was true at one stage, but I can't find anything about
pre-installed Linux on their current sire.

> They have stuff fitting into most price ranges, and
> are highly customisable, but I don't know if you'd consider any of their
> stuff 'higher end'.

What I'd really like is the Dell XPS Studio 13, with Ubuntu  pre-installed,
but Dell does not offer than in .au.

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Re: [SLUG] Laptops with Linux pre-installed?

[melissa]

> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone here in .au actually ship higher end laptops with Linux
> pre-installed? Dell does in  the US, but not here. I've also searched
> the  HP website, but that is even harder to navigate than the Dell
> site.

Well, I know pioneercomputers.com.au do offer Ubuntu preinstalled on quite
a lot of their range. They have stuff fitting into most price ranges, and
are highly customisable, but I don't know if you'd consider any of their
stuff 'higher end'.

>
> Erik
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Re: [SLUG] That problem with Evince.

[Martin Barry]

$quoted_author = "Amos Shapira" ;
> 
> If you want the window to be as large as possible while still
> cooperating with other windows/apps then maybe you should consider
> "maximize" button (next to the "X" button on top right corner in
> default theme, I don't remember the shortcut key).

alt-F10

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Re: [SLUG] That problem with Evince.

[Amos Shapira]

2009/4/17  :
> Many thanks to those who posted suggestions.
>
> I solved the problem by accident (nothing surprising there).
>
> The solution is this:---
>
> when I go to the command line, I use F11 to enlarge the display.

I'm not sure there is a bug here - F11 is "full screen mode" on
Ubuntu/Gnome, which I interpret to mean "forget about anything else
and behave as if you are the only application on that screen".

If you want the window to be as large as possible while still
cooperating with other windows/apps then maybe you should consider
"maximize" button (next to the "X" button on top right corner in
default theme, I don't remember the shortcut key).

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[SLUG] Laptops with Linux pre-installed?

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Hi all,

Does anyone here in .au actually ship higher end laptops with Linux
pre-installed? Dell does in  the US, but not here. I've also searched
the  HP website, but that is even harder to navigate than the Dell
site.

Erik
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Re: [SLUG] Clients accessing web server

[Rick Phillips]

> > I have never allowed FTP, SFTP nor SSH access to the server for security
> > reasons (other than myself) but this customer wants to directly edit his
> > new web site from time to time. 
> 
> We had a very similar prob on a machine running many guest hosts on
> Linux Vserver.
> 
> It was trivial to set up vsftpd to handle the odd client who required
> direct FTP access to their own virtual. The sandboxing capabilities and
> security of vsftpd are claimed to be second to none (famous last words?)
> 

Thanks to all who replied.  I have had "fun" looking at the suggestions
and trying some of the cpanel type replacements.  VHCS http://vhcs.net/
is very good and very complete from what I can see but like a lot of
open source stuff, very lacking in documentation.  I would have opted
for that except that in the absence of really good detailed
documentation, I decided that the customers would be as confused as one
could possibly get.  If I had the luxury of time, I would have put it on
a spare machine and written some docos myself, and that may happen yet,
but not right now.

In the end, I opted for vsftpd in a chrooted environment.

Thanks again.

Rick

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Re: [SLUG] That problem with Evince.

[Ishwor]

Hello,

Daniel Pittman wrote:
> wbenn...@turing.une.edu.au writes:
> 
>> Many thanks to those who posted suggestions.
>> I solved the problem by accident (nothing surprising there).
>>
>> The solution is this:---
>> when I go to the command line, I use F11 to enlarge the display.
>> That's what's the matter: if I *don't* enlarge, then
>> evince filename.ps works.
>> If I do, then no dice.
>> If I click on the desktop icon of the .ps file, then evince works.
>> Obviously, it's taken offence to F11.
>> I'd like to report this to someone. Any suggestions?
> 
> Your distribution should provide a bug reporting tool, which would be
> the appropriate place to submit this.

Sorry, this would be my first approach (distribution) and then take it
upstream. Apologies.

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Re: [SLUG] That problem with Evince.

[Daniel Pittman]

wbenn...@turing.une.edu.au writes:

> Many thanks to those who posted suggestions.
> I solved the problem by accident (nothing surprising there).
>
> The solution is this:---
> when I go to the command line, I use F11 to enlarge the display.
> That's what's the matter: if I *don't* enlarge, then
> evince filename.ps works.
> If I do, then no dice.
> If I click on the desktop icon of the .ps file, then evince works.
> Obviously, it's taken offence to F11.
> I'd like to report this to someone. Any suggestions?

Your distribution should provide a bug reporting tool, which would be
the appropriate place to submit this.

Regards,
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Re: [SLUG] That problem with Evince.

[Ishwor]

Hello Bill,

wbenn...@turing.une.edu.au wrote:
> Many thanks to those who posted suggestions.

[...]

> I'd like to report this to someone. Any suggestions?

Why not file a bug report at Evince's upstream?

I was thinking your postscript file was corrupt. o_O

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[SLUG] That problem with Evince.

[wbennett]

Many thanks to those who posted suggestions.

I solved the problem by accident (nothing surprising there).

The solution is this:---

when I go to the command line, I use F11 to enlarge the display.

That's what's the matter: if I *don't* enlarge, then

evince filename.ps works.

If I do, then no dice.

If I click on the desktop icon of the .ps file, then evince works.

Obviously, it's taken offence to F11.

I'd like to report this to someone. Any suggestions?

Regards,

Bill Bennett.
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Re: [SLUG] firefox/embed problem

[david]

Rick Welykochy wrote:

jam wrote:


On Thursday 16 April 2009 10:00:06 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:





I'm trying to use this snippet of code to embed a sound. I can't 
persuade

FF or Epiphany to respect the autostart attribute. I've tried variations
such as autostart=["0"|0|"false"|false|etc] but to no avail.

BTW, the same code works correctly for both IE and Firefox on Mac and
Windows, so it really looks like a Linux problem :(

Otherwise, what am I doing wrong?


The world got complicated and you may not 'just do' this, also
Watch your syntax! http://www.w3schools.com will take you on a journey the end of which 
is blurred. This DOES work on linux-firefox
  autostart="false" loop="false">


BUT the validator bitches!


We discussed the task of embedding a sound cue (ding!) in HTML files here:



But did not touch specifically on Linux/FF. Rather, all sorts of different
ways to do it were discussed.



Thanks Rick.. interesting discussion and I'm surprised it's not easier to do! 
But the problem was autostart=0 not being respected. In your case autostart=1


I liked your comment about "flash-creep". Yuk.

David.
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