On 8/3/07, Christopher D Maher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don't get me wrong I haven't had much to do with hardware over the years, but
I have had a little.
I didn't even think the techs used a wrist strap. But I may be wrong.
Any other ideas?
Take it from bitter and expensively gained
Hi,
Those that want reliable computers - and minimal warranty claims - the one
and only pc I assembled without strap (working at home and they were all
else were) had problems six months down the track when the on sound failed
(got lazy and fitted sound card) then an other 9 months later the
I reckon your son's effort to 'roll his own' should be encouraged.
An easy option, to begin with, is to get a working second-hand PC off TradeMe.
Last I heard, you need at least a 500MHz CPU and 256 MB RAM to run Ubuntu...
which might cost $50-$70.
To build a working PC, from scratch, might
On Jul 31, 2007, at 17:15, Col wrote:
I am considering learning subversion as a possible solution to
guard against accidental edits and deletes. Or am I on the wrong
track there?
rdiff-backup is an interesting tool for backups. Like the rsync
solution, it makes the destination a copy of
Well thanks for letting me know. I didn't actually know that.
CM
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From: Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz
Sent: 8/3/07 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: Advice
Roger Searle wrote:
I like building systems myself though have a good amount of experience
now. First time was a little scary, if you want to play around do so on
some cheap second hand gear first and do some upgrades.
Any one who wants some help with building up machines and wants to
Hi,
In a moment of temptation yesterday I bought a computer game for the
kids (LEGO Star Wars). Unfortunately, none of the computers here have
the graphics abillity to run the game. I was wondering if anyone had a
spare AGP DirectX 9 capable graphics card I could buy off them? Oh,
and it has to
Hi all
I would assume most people know by now that the Chineese Government
has adopted red Flag Linux as the offical software system for
Chinea.
This morning on Chineese Comunity Tv, which is their english language
propoganda public broadcasting service, there was an anouncment that
Vista prices
No, I didn't. In fact, I've just been reading exactly the opposite.
http://www.osnews.com/story.php/18355/Microsofts-Big-Win-in-China
Steve
On Sat, 04 Aug 2007 11:08:50 +1200
Chevhq Car [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all
I would assume most people know by now that the Chineese Government
has
hello sorry for the late responce.
I appreciate your help :)
I have below printed the fdisk command readout
On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 19:47 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On 7/29/07, thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hello fellow linux users
I just tried to install ubuntu 6.06 on my
So, it's all still there after all!
You need up update your grub menu to provide the option to choose it:
sudo vi +$ /boot/grub/menu.lst
o ( at this point the kernel will be on a new line at the end of the file )
title Windows Vista
rootnoverify(hd0,1)
makeactive
Sorry, that should have been (hd0,0), not (hd0,1)!
Steve
On Sat, 04 Aug 2007 12:49:42 +1200
Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, it's all still there after all!
You need up update your grub menu to provide the option to choose it:
sudo vi +$ /boot/grub/menu.lst
o ( at this point
Interesting,
My news came over TVF about 8:30 NZ time thismorning
Wonder where the truth lies
Chris T
On 8/4/07, Steve Holdoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No, I didn't. In fact, I've just been reading exactly the opposite.
http://www.osnews.com/story.php/18355/Microsofts-Big-Win-in-China
Hi I've got an acer travelmate 2310 running Ubuntu 6.06. I've had an
issue with some of my keyboard keys not working I've just
pulled the
top off and found that one of the keyboard locking pins wasn't
locked,
so I sorted that out and my keyboard is
try g or q synaptics in the repositories
cheers Chris
On 8/4/07, Kerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi I've got an acer travelmate 2310 running Ubuntu 6.06. I've had an
issue with some of my keyboard keys not working I've just
pulled the
top off and found that one of the
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