On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:40:40 -0800
Bill Barry b...@billbarry.org dijo:
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 7:52 PM, John Jason Jordan
joh...@comcast.netwrote:
Fedora 16, x86_64 on Thinkpad T61 using nVidia drivers. All updates
applied.
I require Virtualbox to run Windows 2000 in which I run Quickbooks
On Tue, 7 Feb 2012 11:22:18 -0800 (PST)
Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com dijo:
On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, John Jason Jordan wrote:
I have such a USB stick. I was even able to find it. It is only 512
MB, because I made it a long time ago when that was the sweet spot
for prices of USB sticks.
I
On Sun, 5 Feb 2012 13:56:38 -0800 (PST)
Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com dijo:
I'm trying to update the BIOS on my Dell Latitude E5410. The only firmware
files I can download from Dell come in .exe format. I have installed
'dellBiosUpdate-compat' which works with a .hdr file, not an .exe
On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:19:44 -0500
website reader website.read...@gmail.com dijo:
Intel Linux Open Source developers say that the code now works great,
so do I have to attempt to pull linux v3.1 into Ubuntu 10.04 ?? I
really don't want to go to the new Unity desktop since looking at
animated
On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:30:32 -0500
website reader website.read...@gmail.com dijo:
This is a brain-storming request.
I just purchased an Asus P8H61-M rev B3 motherboard which uses the
Intel H61 chipset. I attached an Acer G205HV lcd monitor which says
that it is capable of running 1600x900 vga
It used to be that to go to eBay all I had to type in the URL bar was
ebay (Firefox or Opera), and the browser would assume I wanted to
add .com to the URL. Of course, if I wanted pdxlinux it would assume I
wanted pddxlinux.com, so you could leave off the .com only with sites
that were really .com
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:14:29 -0800
Rogan Creswick cresw...@gmail.com dijo:
Is this another usurpation of the web by the giant that I love to
hate? Has anyone else noticed this? Or is it my fault again?
See Chris's message for placing blame where it's due, and for the
record, this is a change I
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:56:26 -0800
dfhubbard dfhubb...@freegeek.org writes:
dfhubbard This is not a Linux question and may not even be a computer
dfhubbard question, but I think I will get better opinions here than
dfhubbard anywhere else I know.
dfhubbard What is the least expensive longterm
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:00:59 -0800
Robert Munro ramu...@speakeasy.net dijo:
Hell, let Free Geek get a liquor license and put in the State of
Oregon video poker machines. I hear those make each bar about $100k
every year.
Hmm, wonder what it would take to install them in my house?
On a more
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:00:05 -0800
dfhubb...@freegeek.org dijo:
Is this a hint that more people would come to the Linux Clinic if we
tried to follow the example set by Nevada? (at least in one area)
Since there are usually more males than females present, perhaps such
an offer would bring
On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 06:22:38 -0800 (PST)
Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com dijo:
This is probably a hardware issue, but the system runs xubuntu-11.10 so I
think it's on topic for this list.
We have a Toshiba Satellite laptop about 2-3 years old that is heavily used
every day. Most used
On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 08:05:36 -0800 (PST)
Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com dijo:
I tried to use the synaptic package manager to install opera to try in
lieu of seamonkey, but it cannot be found. Strange. Perhaps I need to
do this via the CLI.
If I recall correctly, Ubuntu doesn't keep Opera
On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:29:05 -0800
Bruce Kilpatrick kd7...@gmail.com dijo:
Check the consumer satisfaction with the Lenovo...I have two Ideapads
and can't recommend them. They run Linux well, but the board is
broken under one of my hinges. They are many people out there very
unhappy with
Tenants left this behind. It is an HP Pavilion System 6460:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=bph04810tmp_track_link=ot_faqs/top_issues/en_us/bph04810/loc:4cc=usdlc=enlc=enproduct=59943#N22
All I have is the box; no keyboard, mouse, monitor or other goodies. It
was designed for
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:05:28 -0800
Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtm...@gmail.com dijo:
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Denis Heidtmann
denis.heidtm...@gmail.com
wrote:
Is there anything to watch for in a CD/DVD burner? Brands? My
LiteOn is on the way out, so a replacement is in order. How
On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 15:18:07 -0800
Victor Soich vso...@gmail.com dijo:
I went to a plug clinic to get my Logitech web cam to work a while
back. Now, when I bring up Skype, the camera doesn't come on. When I
test it in Skype, the camera comes on, and I can see an image of
myself on the test
On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 15:46:34 -0800
Victor Soich vso...@gmail.com dijo:
A friend of mine burned two videos onto a DVD for me. My friend is
not into linux. These are the files on the DVD
There is a folder that is entitled VIDEO_TS
In the folder are the following files...
VIDEO_TS.BUP
On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 15:31:17 -0800
John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net dijo:
On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 14:35:32 -0800
Dale Snell ddsn...@frontier.com dijo:
I just tried to set my mailto:; default in Firefox 8 on Fedora 16,
and it worked just fine. I went to Preferences and clicked on the
Applications
On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 11:19:31 -0600
Bill Barry b...@billbarry.org dijo:
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 12:48 AM, John Jason Jordan
joh...@comcast.netwrote:
On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:17:53 -0800
Bruce Kilpatrick kd7...@gmail.com dijo:
In Firefox, Edit-Preferences-Applications-mailto
That's what I tried
On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 14:35:32 -0800
Dale Snell ddsn...@frontier.com dijo:
I just tried to set my mailto:; default in Firefox 8 on Fedora 16,
and it worked just fine. I went to Preferences and clicked on the
Applications icon. Selected mailto in the list, and used the
drop-down menu to select Use
On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 14:35:32 -0800
Dale Snell ddsn...@frontier.com dijo:
I just tried to set my mailto:; default in Firefox 8 on Fedora 16,
and it worked just fine. I went to Preferences and clicked on the
Applications icon. Selected mailto in the list, and used the
drop-down menu to select Use
Since upgrading to Fedora 16, which included an upgrade to Firefox 8.0,
I can no longer click on an e-mail address on a web page and have it
open a Compose window in Claws Mail. At first it insisted on Evolution,
but I finally got it to use Claws Mail, except that now clicking on a
mail link in a
On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:17:53 -0800
Bruce Kilpatrick kd7...@gmail.com dijo:
In Firefox, Edit-Preferences-Applications-mailto
That's what I tried to do, but it's broken.
It is set to Evolution (default). Clicking on the drop-down I can
select Other, which opens up a file browser window. I can go
On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 12:38:35 -0800
Jason Barnett jason.barnet...@gmail.com dijo:
The exception to this are the long term support versions. You are able
to go from one LTD version to another directly. The next LTD version
will be 12.04 and come out every two years.
He meant to say LTS. :)
On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 13:09:29 -0800 (PST)
Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com dijo:
Well! As some point during file download the OS decided that there was
something wrong with the screensaver but did not offer options to fix
it or turn it off. Since I had no way to see the display and determine
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:17:45 -0800
Russell Johnson r...@dimstar.net dijo:
On Nov 28, 2011, at 6:49 AM, Cummings, Roger wrote:
I don't own any Macs, but I frequently need to work with people who
do. If their Mac can't read my flash drive that's a serious problem.
Can Macs read/write ext3 or
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:04:34 -0800
wes p...@the-wes.com dijo:
If no one wants it then it goes to Free Geek.
if no one has claimed it before the next clinic, I'd like to look at
it and see if I want it.
OK, here's the plan. Unless someone pops up before the next Clinic
desperately in need of a
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:45:17 -0800
Benjamin Kerensa bkere...@ubuntu.com dijo:
Mac OSX can read NTFS but not write to it... There is a app called
MacFuse that makes writing to NTFS possible.
If you don't have USB 3.0 ports then your not going to benefit from the
speed of a USB 3.0 device and if
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823126174
Wireless USB mouse and keyboard combo. Keyboard
even has a battery in it, but I stole the batteries out of the mouse.
All you have to do is clean the dust off the keyboard and it will work
like new.
This mouse/keyboard combo's
I went to Fry's today because I needed a new mouse with blue teeth.
While there I found a Patriot brand 32 GB USB 3.0 flash drive for $20.
When I got it home and plugged it in I found that it works fine, but
Palimpsest says it is formatted NTFS.
The packaging makes much of its claimed up to 60
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:23:31 -0800
C W elcas...@gmail.com dijo:
I have been using the KDE version of Mint 9 since it came out over a
year ago, I haven't had any of these problems with it. Maybe the
GNOME version of Mint 9 has more bugs?
Also, I'm very careful when I burn optical disks to burn
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:59:34 -0800
chris (fool) mccraw gen...@gmail.com dijo:
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 18:03, Russell Johnson r...@dimstar.net
wrote:
2. Vmware or Virtualbox?
i've never used vmware, though, so i don't know which is better. but
i'd say both work. i do know a fair amount about
I usually do package stuff on my Fedora x86_64 laptop (now version 16)
with Yumex, but I can't seem to solve this problem from the command
line either.
After the upgrade to Fedora 16 Yumex listed over 800 packages to
update. It took the better part of a day to get them all updated due to
missing
On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 14:13:39 -0800
John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net dijo:
I forgot to mention that when I try to update it with Yumex I get this:
14:13:50 : ERROR: Error in yum Transaction : [u'ERROR with transaction
check vs depsolve:', 'libparted.so.0()(64bit) is needed by
qtparted-0.4.5
On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:43:40 -0800
Dan Young danielmyo...@gmail.com dijo:
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 2:13 PM, John Jason Jordan
joh...@comcast.net wrote:
However, I have one stray package that nothing can touch:
qparted 0.4.5-26.fc15.
Yumex insists that this package needs to be updated
On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 17:28:53 -0800
John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net dijo:
On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:43:40 -0800
Dan Young danielmyo...@gmail.com dijo:
Can you try:
yum install yum-utils
package-cleanup --problems
Hmm. There may be more problems than I thought:
snipped
I think I'll work
During the recent melée of trying get X running again after upgrading
from Fedora 14 to Fedora 16 I somehow lost my root password. That is,
it no longer works.
Sudo still works, and I can sudo su to a root # prompt, but if I type
su and enter the root password it won't take it. I've poked in all
On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 21:28:35 -0800
Daniel Johnson tekno...@gmail.com dijo:
sudo -i
On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 21:23:11 -0800
Larry Brigman larry.brig...@gmail.com dijo:
sudo su -
passwd root
I understand there are differences between sudo and actually being
root. Do these make me really root? 'Cause
On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:26:06 -0800 (PST)
Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com dijo:
I'll bring my new Jetway Atom-based system, the external USB optical disk,
and a couple of hard drives on which I want to install
Slackware-13.37/64-bit. I have the DVD with the distribution on it,
but I don't
On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:04:30 -0800
Marvin Kosmal mkos...@gmail.com dijo:
I plan on coming Sunday and bringing two old computers. I would like
to install Mint 9 on one of them.
I always maintain the latest releases of various distros, including
Mint. But that means I just have Mint 11. There
On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:55:54 -0800
Marvin Kosmal mkos...@gmail.com dijo:
I would like to try Mint 9 gnome 32 bit...!!
Downloaded. I did both the CD and the DVD, since the DVD was barely 100MB
bigger.
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On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:59:12 -0800
Richard C. Steffens rst...@comcast.net dijo:
Does anyone know of a tool that let's me inspect the cookie collection
and decide what to keep and what to get rid of?
I was always of the impression that cookies are basically just text
files. For many of them
I had Fedora 14 x86_64 working fine on my Thinkpad T61. Last night I made a
full backup and today I upgraded to Fedora 16. The upgrade proceeded withoui
error. I can boot into Recovery Mode (gives me terminal as root), but I can't
get X to come up.
Probably unrelated but, while at the command
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:24:38 -0800 (PST)
Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com dijo:
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, John Jason Jordan wrote:
The error message (echoed in /var/log/Xorg.o.log) is:
Fatal server error: no screens found.
John,
Back up xorg.conf to a different name (I made
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:59:28 -0800
John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net dijo:
Probably unrelated but, while at the command line as root, I have no network.
I did ifconfig eth0 up and then I could see eth0 in the list of interfaces,
but I still cannot go anywhere. I can't even ping my
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:56:30 -0800
Richard C. Steffens rst...@comcast.net dijo:
On 11/16/2011 07:10 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:59:28 -0800
John Jason Jordanjoh...@comcast.net dijo:
Probably unrelated but, while at the command line as root, I have no
network
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:59:58 -0800
Richard C. Steffens rst...@comcast.net dijo:
On 11/16/2011 06:41 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:24:38 -0800 (PST)
Rich Shepardrshep...@appl-ecosys.com dijo:
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, John Jason Jordan wrote:
The error message
In anticipation of upgrading my Fedora 14 laptop to Fedora 16 I decided
to switch from Gnome. I spent a long time trying to get KDE to work
properly, but eventually gave up and moved on to XFCE. After several
hours of tweaking and fixing it the way I wanted it I decided to log
out and back in
On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:08:09 -0800 (PST)
Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com dijo:
On Mon, 14 Nov 2011, John Jason Jordan wrote:
I suspect it's just an entry in some login settings file, but I
don't know where to look or why it disappeared. I hope there is
someone out in PLUG-land who
On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:45:00 -0800
Daniel Hedlund dan...@digitree.org dijo:
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 15:51, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net
wrote:
And when the login screen came up my only choices were Gnome and
KDE. XFCE is gone, disappeared into the ether, like a soft vapor on a
summer
On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:09:25 -0800
Rogan Creswick cresw...@gmail.com dijo:
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 15:51, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net
wrote:
And when the login screen came up my only choices were Gnome and
KDE. XFCE is gone, disappeared into the ether, like a soft vapor
on a summer
On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:03:37 -0800
MJang m...@linuxexam.com dijo:
I'm just starting to notice the how to save Fedora thread on the
associated users list. The number of messages on the subject is pretty
intense. I had thought it was flame bait until seeing the attention
given by notable Fedora
I just started shopping. Does anyone have any recommendations? Any
gotchas to watch out for?
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Fedora 14, x86_64.
Having a frustrating time trying to find where the buttons are for
configuring appearance options. For seasoned KDE users, here are a
few dumb questions:
1) There is a quarter circle in the upper right corner of the screen
that says it is a Tool Box. How do I get rid of it?
On Mon, 7 Nov 2011 05:34:23 -0800
Michael Rasmussen mich...@jamhome.us dijo:
On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 12:00:45AM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
2) The panel is solid medium gray with black fonts. How can I change
the color of the panel so I can read the text?
K-Menu - System Settings - Style
On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 08:34:14 -0800
Scott Garman sgar...@zenlinux.com dijo:
So I dunno if any of you care much for GNOME Shell, but I tried it for
a couple of weeks and had to give it up (switched to XFCE). However, a
co-worker of mine recently pointed me to a Linux Mint announcement
that they
On Mon, 7 Nov 2011 09:48:48 -0800
John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net dijo:
4) Is there a widget that I can add to the panel to allow me to
change network configurations, like finding wifi access points and
connecting to them?
Yes, normally installed by default. In any case.
Click in blank
On Mon, 7 Nov 2011 11:54:07 -0800
Matt McKenzie lnxkni...@gmail.com dijo:
It was not clear to me from the article if the new shell options will
be available to all users of Gnome 3, or just users of Gnome 3 on
Mint 12.
From my reading of it, it seems like it is a feature of Linux Mint 12.
One
On Mon, 7 Nov 2011 11:02:47 -0800
John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net dijo:
I've been installing widgets and adding them to the panel. So far every
one has resulted in the following error message:
Unable to load the widget. Could not create a python
ScriptEngine
On Wed, 2 Nov 2011 15:58:07 -0700 (PDT)
dfhubb...@freegeek.org dijo:
The Multnomah County Library has offered for 2 years down-loadable
e-books to every one EXCEPT those who use any form of LINUX!!! I have
just spent 5 hours in the library to learn how to download a library
book. Most of the
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:00:21 -0700
Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. w...@pacifier.com dijo:
Have you considered setting it up as a generic PCL6 or PCL5e
printer? You could probably use a PPD for a duplexing LaserJet
model (e.g. 5D).
Not only had I not considered it, I wasn't even aware such a
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:51:55 -0700
Tim Wescott t...@wescottdesign.com dijo:
I've been using GIMP, gradually getting better at retouching photos
with it and such, but I am nowhere near being able to do the sort of
things I see as example GIMP work.
What's your best recommendation for a good book
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 01:37:54 -0700
Russell Senior seni...@aracnet.com dijo:
I was helping someone recently deal with a HP flatbed scanner,
scanning from Ubuntu. The problem is, the scans come out too light,
not saturated. E.g., if you print out the image from the scan, there
is a noticable and
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:55:47 -0700
Russell Senior russ...@personaltelco.net dijo:
It is an HP G3010 scanner. I twiddled knobs today, I was not getting
a faithful image. The blacks came through with a blue-ish tint.
Googling implied that I needed an ICC or ICM file. Google has been
less
On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:02:22 -0500
Richard Owlett rowl...@pcnetinc.com dijo:
Puppy, Damn Small Linux, et. al.
They are small but lacking tools I want.
SLAX _seemed_ to have the ideal combo of very small base
package, but ability to add whatever I needed/wanted with
negligible fuss/bother.
YES,
On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 07:51:16 -0700
Marvin Kosmal mkos...@gmail.com dijo:
This release party is THIS Saturday or was last Saturday
It was last Saturday. You must have missed the announcement here.
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On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:46:00 -0700
C W elcas...@gmail.com dijo:
Yes, but Porteus is still maintained, it is IMHO, a great distro.
I maintain dozens of distro ISOs on my laptop hard drive, mostly so
that I will have them handy at the Clinic. These include Slax,
ArchLinux, DSL, Fedora, Knoppix,
On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:54:54 -0700
C W elcas...@gmail.com dijo:
Speaking of Unity/GNOME 3, don't forget that KDE 4 is much faster than
GNOME 3 (with or without Unity). From what I've seen, most people
(myself included) find KDE 4 to be more intuitive user friendly than
Unity.
I have used
On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 07:39:34 -0700
Richard C. Steffens rst...@comcast.net dijo:
On 10/23/2011 10:17 PM, Russell Senior wrote:
Here's the first thing I found that works:
xrandr --prop | grep current
I am sure there are other ways.
Not knocking the command line but another way with Ubuntu is
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 06:13:28 -0700
C W elcas...@gmail.com dijo:
Wouldn't your setup work a lot better if you use one router, instead
of two? Use your wired router, then configure your WRT54G to act as
an access point, instead of a router. Also, You can unplug the power
from the acess point when
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 14:42:35 -0700
Richard C. Steffens rst...@comcast.net dijo:
My wife decided she'd like to know more about the hardware on her
machine without opening up the box. So we booted the Ubuntu 10.04 live
CD in try it out mode. I successfully ran lshw -html and saved the
output to
On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 06:11:00 -0700 (PDT)
Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com dijo:
Its in the Pittock Building (SW 10th and Washington), if anyone is
interested.
I worked for a consulting company with offices there. Nice building and
convenient location ... except for the parking. Probably
On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:11:23 -0700
Neal nsed...@gmail.com dijo:
I believe there's a separate checkbox to enable management from a WLAN
connection on one of the configuration pages.
Try hooking the cable back up to the laptop and accessing it at
192.168.0.x.
If that won't work there's also a
My new Samsung Galaxy S2 comes with Gingerbread, 2.3.4. My Linksys
WRT54G router is set to 192.168.0.103. It is connected to a port on my
ethernet switch. Everything in the house is connected by ethernet; the
only purpose of the WRT54G is to provide wifi for the phone.
My previous phone ran
On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 01:19:42 -0700
Bill Barry b...@billbarry.org dijo:
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 12:12 AM, John Jason Jordan
joh...@comcast.netwrote:
I could use some clues.
If this thing you are calling an ethernet switch is actually a router
or is connected to a router, then you have two
On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:17:36 -0700
Bill Ensley b...@bearprinting.com dijo:
Thoughts?
The Galaxy Tab will be several orders of magnitude more popular than
the Aonia. Popularity alone does not impress me, but future
compatibility, support, and resale value do.
Also, check on whether it can be
On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:17:33 -0700
mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) dijo:
T-Mobile == T-Mobile Contacts joh...@comcast.net writes:
T-Mobile Testing new phone.
Test failed... you emailed a public mailing list. Don't. Do. That.
Randall,
K9 mail on my old Android phone could e-mail
On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:40:32 -0700
MJang m...@linuxexam.com dijo:
Drawbacks -- that means you wouldn't have access to the CD labelers
that laser the label right on top of the media, and USB keys are more
expensive.
Are there CD labelers other than LightScribe? I have a LightScribe
drive and it
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 23:59:42 -0700
Dale Snell ddsn...@frontier.com dijo:
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:08:47 -0700
John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote:
The only other clue I have found is the following from
Xorg.0.log, which appeared right after the last time I had to
restart the Input
On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:48:32 -0700
John Meissen j...@meissen.org dijo:
I'm going to have to put them in the recycle bin if I can't find a
home for them.
Have you checked libraries? They may not be able to take them, even if
they want them, for lack of storage space. But it's worth a couple of
Except for a period about a year ago (resolved) it always worked
perfectly, but after upgrading my Fedora 14 x86_64 computer to
2.6.35.14-97.fc14.x86_64 a week ago it dies periodically. To get it
started again I have to (using the GUI) right-click on the mouse
(Logitech Travel Mouse), select Input
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:57:04 -0700
Dale Snell ddsn...@frontier.com dijo:
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:20:58 -0700
John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote:
There remain three possibilities:
1) The card reader in the Thinkpad is flaky
2) The adapter is flaky.
3) Linux is flaky
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:21:03 -0600
Bill Barry b...@billbarry.org dijo:
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 2:43 PM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net
wrote:
Fedora 14, x86_64 on Thinkpad T61.
The other day I found a deal on a Sandisk 32 GB micro SD card, so I
bought it. Like the Transcend, it came
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:23:45 -0700 (PDT)
Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com dijo:
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011, John Jason Jordan wrote:
I find it very strange that my phone has no problem with it; it's
just my Thinkpad that can't write to it.
John,
Wasn't it you who wrote a few months ago about
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:19:58 -0700
Paul Mullen p...@nellump.net dijo:
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 09:03:49AM -0700, Paul Mullen wrote:
It's possible the write-protect switch on the adaptor is not quite
right for the reader in your laptop.
You might also try puting a few layers of electrical tape
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:03:49 -0700
Paul Mullen p...@nellump.net dijo:
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 06:23:45AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011, John Jason Jordan wrote:
I find it very strange that my phone has no problem with it; it's
just my Thinkpad that can't write
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:01:49 -0700
John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net dijo:
It would be interesting to try it in laptops running other distros.
However, I did try live CDs of Lucid and Knoppix with and it was always
read-only. And my GRML rescue CD also saw it as read-only.
By the end
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:14:52 -0700
Mark Phillips m...@phillipsmarketing.biz dijo:
I heard on a radio interview that the new India tablet only last 1-2
hours on a charge, and the screen is not very responsive to touch
commands.
There has been discussion of it, uniformly unfavorable, on the
On Sat, 8 Oct 2011 12:22:57 -0700
John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net dijo:
Long discussion of details snipped
Today I spent a couple hours trying everything I could think of,
including live CDs of Lucid, Knoppix, and the utility/rescue CDs GRML
and The Ultimate Boot CD. I used mkfs, parted
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:47:36 -0700
Fernando Freire freir...@up.edu dijo:
This may seem silly to suggest, but have you could attempt to throw up
a quick Windows VM and see if you have RW access to the drive then.
May not be optimal, but at least it'll get you support from SanDisk?
Oh, I already
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:17:22 -0700
Patrick J. Timlick p.j.timl...@ieee.org dijo:
sudo fdisk -l
Shows formatted disks, even those unmounted, including sdcards, in my
experience. No SD cards on my system, but here is example output:
The fdisk -l command sees the hard disk, but not the SD card.
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 23:44:09 -0700 (PDT)
Robert Kopp iconoklas...@yahoo.com dijo:
I now have what seems like a trivial problem, but I expect to
encounter similar situations in the future. I have an account on
vkrugudruzei, a Russian-language social site. I am able to type in
either English or
On Sat, 8 Oct 2011 07:09:24 -0700 (PDT)
Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com dijo:
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, John Jason Jordan wrote:
Maybe I broke the card while ejecting and reinserting?
I doubt it. Do you have a bunch of /dev/mmc... whatevers? I'm
completely unfamiliar with what sort of device
Fedora 14, x86_64 on Thinkpad T61.
About six months ago I bought a Transcend 32 GB SD card for my (then)
new Android phone. Foolishly I bought the mini size, not the micro
size. Before returning it I tried it in my laptop, only to discover
that it mounted read-only. I tried various things (now
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 15:03:28 -0700 (PDT)
Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com dijo:
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, John Jason Jordan wrote:
I suspect I need to add it to fstab and specify somehow that it is
to be mounted read-write. In the process, I'd like to name it
something other than mmcblk0p1. I
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 22:24:05 -0700
John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net dijo:
Create a mount point for it; e.g., /mnt/tinycard/. Then, as root,
tail and
follow /var/log/messages (tail -f /var/log/messages) and insert the
card and adapter in a USB port. You'll see the name of the device
On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:57:31 -0700
Scott Garman sgar...@zenlinux.com dijo:
* An overview and comparison of RPM vs. DEB packaging formats
That would be interesting to me. It might also be interesting to hear
something about distribution-specific alternatives, even though they are
not as
On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:58:46 -0700
Keith Lofstrom kei...@kl-ic.com dijo:
Probably some kind of Android tablet. Amazon just announced
the $200 Kindle Fire, based on Android - while that probably
has the appropriate hardware, it may be locked as a walled
garden media platform.
I have been reading
Test
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On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 23:49:17 -0400
C W elcas...@gmail.com dijo:
yep, it's workin.
Allow me to apologize for the test messages. I have been having a devil
of a time getting my Android phone to send a message to the PLUG list.
The native app and the most popular alternative, K9 mail, send the
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