Peter
and Google earth - I did have it working a couple of versions ago of
Kubuntu, but not any more. Something for me to occupy my time with when
the kids have gone back home on Tuesday.
See Google Earth offers 32 and 64 bit downloads for Debian/Ubuntu and
Fedora/OpenSUSE as default Linux
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:29:20 +0100, t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk said:
mount.cifs in Debian Squeeze requires entries in /etc/fstab.
Use libpam-mount (unless I've misunderstood what you are trying to do).
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Hi Keith
On 29/08/11 16:59, Keith Edmunds wrote:
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:29:20 +0100, t...@ls83.eclipse.co.uk said:
mount.cifs in Debian Squeeze requires entries in /etc/fstab.
Use libpam-mount (unless I've misunderstood what you are trying to do).
I looked at libpam-mount a couple of
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 22:02 +0100, Mark Elkins wrote:
Peter
Have in the past discussed scanner issues on the DLUG. It seems to me now
that as a 2nd hand scanner that Linux supports is so cheap it is probably
better to avoid the attempt at a full scale software engineering project to
try
On Wednesday 24 Aug 2011, Peter Merchant wrote:
How good is your linux installation?
Well. Not bad by and large, but to answer your three queries:
I still have three problems that are preventing me from getting rid of M
$.
1. I need XP for my scanner, which is so old and odd that it is
Hi Terry,
3. Downloading library ebooks. They come as an ascm XML file, that
is used by Adobe to download the epub document, that I can then
import into Calibre. But under linux I cannot get the epub document.
That seems to be something that has not been done in linux yet.
Hmmm; I'm
On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 11:19 +0100, Sean Gibbins wrote:
On 24/08/11 10:36, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote:
If I were in that position, with an A4 1200dpi scanner costing less
than £50 I'd be tempted to buy a new one, since the money spend would
soon be saved through not having to dual boot and
Hi Peter,
2. I cannot get Google Earth to work. Nearly there, application is
running, but no earth.
I had the same problem. Excuse me for a bit of vagueness on but this was 18
months ago. If I remember right the problem was down to 'googleearth'
installing the data files to the first user to
Hi,
Kevin Giles wrote:
I believe that the CORRECT 'nix solution would be to setup a
googleearth group, move the data to the /opt directory with
'googleearth' group permissions? Any cooments?
If Peter's on Ubuntu then there's a googleearth-package package, SGTNIT,
that has
Alternatively there is almost certainly a more compatible, better
spec'ed free scanner lurking unloved and unused somewhere in a loft of
garage. Sean
Briefly, my experience is that a lot of the older SCSI scanners
work well, but the nasty-cheap-scsi-adapters they came with
were a
Hi John,
Peter, you wrote
my scanner, which is so old and odd that it is not supported in
Linux
What model of scanner? There are some generic scanner drivers, one of
these may just need a bit of fiddling to make it serve your scanner.
If it's the one I'm thinking of, it's a Umax Astra
On 24/08/11 08:55, Peter Merchant wrote:
I still have three problems that are preventing me from getting rid of M
$.
1. I need XP for my scanner, which is so old and odd that it is not
supported in Linux.
If I were in that position, with an A4 1200dpi scanner costing less than
£50 I'd be
On 24/08/11 10:36, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote:
If I were in that position, with an A4 1200dpi scanner costing less
than £50 I'd be tempted to buy a new one, since the money spend would
soon be saved through not having to dual boot and maintain two OSs.
Heh, I agree with the solution if not the
On 24/08/11 08:55, Peter Merchant wrote:
How good is your linux installation?
My biggest gripe is with networking in a mixed environment. Samba has
been fantastic for around 8 or 9 years now. I think it is also the best
option for networking even in a Linux only environment. However with
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