Re: [Dorset] Linux Limitations
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 run it. I naturally installed as 'root' and then went on to run the programme while still logged in as 'root'. So all the data files were set up in roots home directory with root access permissions. If I remember correctly the solution was as simple as 'rm -rf /root/,googleearth'. I don't think /opt/googleearth/ needed any attention at all. Then run GoogleEarth as your normal user and it will reconfigure itself and run properly. If this doesn't work then I'm pretty certain that 'uninstall, reinstall, exit root, and run as normal user' will do the trick. 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? However, this seems a bit complicated for the average desktop system now that mine is working I'm invoking 'if it ain't broke, then don't fix it'. Cheers, Kev Giles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-09-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Linux Limitations
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 make-googleearth-package(1) which downloads stuff from Google and builds a .deb. That .deb could then be installed. (Haven't tried it.) $ pkg sh googleearth-package | sed -n '/^Desc/,$p' Description: utility to automatically build a Debian package of Google Earth Google Earth is a 3D planet viewer that lets you interactively navigate satellite imagery, maps, terrain, and so forth. Google Earth is available for GNU/Linux from their web site, but is non- free software and is undistributable. It also does not integrate well into a Debian system. This utility makes it possible to build your own personal Debian package of Google Earth. The packaging itself is Free Software, but the Google Earth program is governed by the copyright holder (Google), so you may be limited as to what you can do with the resulting package (i.e. no redistribution, etc). This package will simply help you create the package --it is your responsibility to use the resulting package responsibly. Google Earth's homepage is located at http://earth.google.com/. $ Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-09-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Moving one LUG over - hello from a new user in Dorchester
On 24 August 2011 16:31, Ralph Corderoy ra...@inputplus.co.uk wrote: Hi Dan, By the way, does the LUG have an IRC channel perchance? Yep! http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=irc :-) Cheers, Ralph. Ah yes, it's in the footer of the list emails! I should have spotted that. I'll womble in later and say hello. Dan -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-09-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Moving one LUG over - hello from a new user in Dorchester
Hi Dan, I'm a Java and Python developer by trade, currently as a freelancer, and have been using Linux for a few years now. I'd still consider myself reasonably newbie though. We've quite a few developers on the list, Java and Python among them. Day to day I use Ubuntu on my desktop machines and Debian on the servers, but I'm trying my hand at Arch at the moment in an effort to learn a little more. And I know there's a few Archers too; they're very vocal about it. :-) Hopefully I'll be able to come to a meeting sometime soon and meet people. Our pub meets tend to be in Bournemouth these days We did use to have Dorchester and Blandford Forum ones but numbers dropped away with people moving, etc. Bournemouth Tuesday 2011-09-06 20:00The Broadway http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub Are you aware of Dorset Digital? We're an informal community of web and software professionals. http://www.dorsetdigital.co.uk/ As it happens, their next pub meeting is in Dorchester on 15th September, I think at Tom Browns. They tend to finalise nearer the time on the list. http://groups.google.com/group/dotdorset/browse_thread/thread/87c9226087acdf2d Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-09-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
Re: [Dorset] Linux Limitations
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 hit-and-miss-affair. I have a nice HP and Epson SCSI, that work beautifully with sane, and hence with all the different tools gscan2pdf / simple-scan / xsane / etc... I happened to get a very cheap adaptec SCSI card that works well. Whereas, the Windows drivers for such nicely-made SCSI-scanners, are often no longer supported etc etc. The only snag is that you may need to add something to set the right permissions on the /dev/sg? device as that permission-setting doesn't seem to be well-maintained anymore. --Simon (a lurker, not from Dorset ;-) ) -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-09-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
