On Jan 8, 2015 6:27 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
wrote:
I am going to revive an old topic. I tried loading the latest ubuntu on
a P4 box, and it choked for 2 reasons.
Ubuntu is intended to be a user friendly Linux, and has the overhead to
achieve it. Something from the
On Jan 8, 2015 6:27 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
wrote:
I am going to revive an old topic. I tried loading the latest ubuntu on
a P4 box, and it choked for 2 reasons.
Ubuntu is intended to be a user friendly Linux, and has the overhead to
achieve it. Something from the
to move
to a different machine and have everything there for me..
-Curt
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Curly wrote:
I am going to revive
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I use Google for quite a lot. What are you wanting to know?
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 8:50 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
Anybody else using Google Docs? I know about the security concerns but the
stuff I'm putting up
Dan,
I know about compatibility mode. I tried it and a lot of other things.
It wasn't so much my programs as my wife's accounting software and old Lotus
apps that she still used. I even tried the virtual box with XP loaded to no
avail. These apps had been moved using PCMover. What
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I don't think the Mac RDC version has been updated in a long time. Last time I
tried using it I couldn't get it to work.
Dan
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On Jan 9, 2015, at 8:33 AM, Curt Raymond via
I'm running 10.8, works fine. RDC v 2.1.1
-Curt
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Maybe you didn't get the latest
installed.
-Curt
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I have used a version of Linux named SliTaz
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I suspect your daily use machine would be improved by a dose of RAM, that
processor should still
On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 11:29 PM, Curly McLain 126die...@gmail.com wrote:
Any distribution should have rdesktop, which should work fine as long as
you have the domain security stuff off.
What domain security has to be off? I tried connecting to the Winserver
from the ubuntu desktop. It
I think the Mac OS version was the issue. I was probably running 10.8 at the
time. I'm running 10.10 now, so I'm sure it wouldn't work unless they recently
updated it.
Not a biggie now, as we use VDI instead of Remote Desktop when we're working
remotely.
Dan
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Correction (albeit minor) Virtualbox is free from Oracle...
-Curt
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Sent: Friday, January 9, 2015 10:59 AM
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Dan,
I know about compatibility mode
I have used a version of Linux named SliTaz. It loads and runs entirely in
RAM. As a result it is blazingly fast, even on the PII laptop I tried it on. It
is very spartan, and may not be suitable for your needs. I was unable to easily
configure a usb wireless adapter with it, as I was
I figured you did, Roger. I was just pointing out that in a few cases I have
seen, the OS' ability to recognize some legacy apps doesn't always work, and
using Compatibility Mode to force it to recognize things resurrects the app.
It is amazing some of the really archaic Windows software I've
On Jan 9, 2015, at 8:55 AM, rogerhga--- via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
Craig,
If you have the choice, I'd recommend loading 32bit Win7 Pro.
On Fri, 09 Jan 2015 09:28:42 -0500 Dan Penoff via Mercedes
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When we migrated from XP to Win7 at
When we migrated from XP to Win7 at the school district, extensive testing
indicated that the 64 bit version of Win7 was problematic for a lot of legacy
(and) 32 bit applications. We went with the 32 bit version and had few, if any,
compatibility issues with applications that had previously run
I don't think the Mac RDC version has been updated in a long time. Last time I
tried using it I couldn't get it to work.
Dan
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On Jan 9, 2015, at 8:33 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
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I don't remember the exact reason but normal VNC won't
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On Thu, 8 Jan 2015 22:01:24 -0600 fmiser via Mercedes
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Yup. I don't pay much attention to MSWin
Sent: Thursday, January 8, 2015 11:01 PM
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Curly wrote:
I am going to revive an old topic. I tried loading the latest
ubuntu on a P4 box, and it choked for 2 reasons. 14.04 requires
a dvd... the installer sez the machine video
Craig,
If you have the choice, I'd recommend loading 32bit Win7 Pro. I have two
core2duo Dells that were running XP SP3. I loaded 32bit Win7 Pro and the PCs
actually seem slower than on XP. Also, some of my old programs no longer
wanted to work on a 64bit OS. I've found that
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Sent: Thursday, January 8, 2015 6:19 PM
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I am going to revive an old topic. I tried loading the latest ubuntu
on a P4 box, and it choked for 2 reasons. 14.04 requires a dvd, and
no player on the old box
Maybe you didn't get the latest version of the RDC for mac? Or maybe
your Mac OS was 10.7 or higher?
I installed it a couple years ago on 10.6 and it runs fine. If it
requires Rosetta, then it won't run on 10.7 or higher. I've never
checked if it is a powerPC version. It just runs, does
If you are running on older hardware, you might not get to use
any distribution or any desktop.
I put Wary Puppy on an old PC I was using to make a floppy
disk for card reflashing purposes. It worked.
-- Jim
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Curly wrote:
I am going to revive an old topic. I tried loading the latest
ubuntu on a P4 box, and it choked for 2 reasons. 14.04 requires
a dvd... the installer sez the machine video won't support 14.04.
I though one major selling point was that it did not require the
latest hardware?
I am going to revive an old topic. I tried loading the latest ubuntu
on a P4 box, and it choked for 2 reasons. 14.04 requires a dvd, and
no player on the old box. So I put in a dvd. Then the installer
sez the machine video won't support 14.04.I though one major
selling point was that
On Jan 8, 2015 6:27 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
wrote:
I am going to revive an old topic. I tried loading the latest ubuntu on
a P4 box, and it choked for 2 reasons.
Ubuntu is intended to be a user friendly Linux, and has the overhead to
achieve it. Something from the
Curly wrote:
I am going to revive an old topic. I tried loading the latest
ubuntu on a P4 box, and it choked for 2 reasons. 14.04 requires
a dvd... the installer sez the machine video won't support 14.04.
I though one major selling point was that it did not require the
latest
On Thu, 8 Jan 2015 22:01:24 -0600 fmiser via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
Yup. I don't pay much attention to MSWin - but there is not
software claiming it needs at least Win7 to run... One of
these days I'll actually have to abandon XP. *sigh*
I went to update the maps on our
On Thu, 8 Jan 2015 21:11:48 -0500 Tim Crone via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
On Jan 8, 2015 6:27 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
rant 7 is no improvement,
I love W7 (professional, never used home). On the same machine it
booted faster, and did about
I just can't go any further until I understand why you want to run PuTTY on
a *NIX box?
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
I am a total newbie.
I've been dabbling with Ubuntu running as a VM in VirtualBox, which for
various reasons had no
On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 21:00:38 -0600 fmiser via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
TIP: If you don't like having to type sudo over
and over again, type sudo su and _become_
root for a while.
Or type su - and then enter root's password. The hyphen will tell su
that you want to
On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 21:08:37 -0600 fmiser via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
Slackware, linux-from-scratch, and Gentoo are also a bit
different. The rest of the Linux kernel distributions can be
grouped into two package management methods - Debian-type that
use .deb files and
On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 21:08:37 -0600 fmiser via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
Curly wrote:
I am thinking locked down in this case may be a good thing. The plan
is to use the client box as a dumb terminal, even though they are
smart terminals.
X2Go works very well for this. It
I need to set up a Linux system on a laptop so I can run a Linux VM, probably
VirtualBox. I'm thinking Ubuntu, but I'm not partial to any one particular
distro.
This is just for training purposes, nothing long term. I need it to be simple
and easy to set up.
Suggestions from the resident
Dan wrote:
I need to set up a Linux system on a laptop so I can run a Linux
VM, probably VirtualBox. I'm thinking Ubuntu, but I'm not
partial to any one particular distro.
This is just for training purposes, nothing long term. I need it
to be simple and easy to set up.
Suggestions
I am a total newbie.
I've been dabbling with Ubuntu running as a VM in VirtualBox, which for
various reasons had no internet access.
I found it beyond my meager IT skills to add any software beyond what came
in the Ubuntu download. In other words, I wanted to load PuTTY from a CD
vice a
- Best Linux Distro
I am a total newbie.
I've been dabbling with Ubuntu running as a VM in VirtualBox, which for
various reasons had no internet access.
I found it beyond my meager IT skills to add any software beyond what came
in the Ubuntu download. In other words, I wanted to load PuTTY from
I find Ubuntu very locked down. I've had better luck with Mint,
Mepis and Puppy which is what I'm typing this on right now...
-Curt
Tell us more. locked down how, or in respect to what? I am planning
to replace 4 windows xp desktops at a small company with ubuntu, then
have them run an
Meade wrote:
I am a total newbie.
I've been dabbling with Ubuntu running as a VM in VirtualBox,
which for various reasons had no internet access.
I found it beyond my meager IT skills to add any software beyond
what came in the Ubuntu download. In other words, I wanted to
load PuTTY
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Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 6:33 PM
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I find Ubuntu very locked down. I've had better luck with Mint,
Mepis and Puppy which is what I'm typing this on right now...
-Curt
Tell us more. locked down how
Curt wrote:
This was a few years ago but due to licensing issues Ubuntu
didn't come with the capability to play most video files, this
was a big problem for me as I wanted to use it for a media
machine. IIRC at one point it couldn't even play mp3 files. With
other distros there was a very
Curt wrote:
I find Ubuntu very locked down. I've had better luck with Mint,
Mepis and Puppy which is what I'm typing this on right now...
Curly wrote:
Tell us more. locked down how, or in respect to what? I am
planning to replace 4 windows xp desktops at a small company with
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