Rich Shepard wrote:
Other than /etc/host* and /etc/cups/* are there other configuration files I
ought to transfer from the old laptop to the new one to ease the transition?
Thanks,
Rich
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Russell Johnson wrote:
However, I do know of one person from Redondo Beach (loosely a suburb
of LA) that didn't know Oregon was on the coast. He actually tried to
tell me I had to drive through Idaho to get to the coast.
Perhaps all the L.A. smog has clouded his mind.
Michael Robinson wrote:
If anyone knows how to get the plugins necessary for totem to play
anything including DVDs for any Redhat style environment, I'd love
to hear it. I use vlc instead of totem, but it's a pain to have to
manually redirect all the time.
If you're using Gnome you can
Jason Dagit wrote:
I could be mistaken, but I was thinking that car batteries (slowly) produce
toxic fumes as they work. Something that is not a problem under the hood of
your car, but worth considering in homes. You might want to research this.
My car battery is located under the rear
Denis Heidtmann wrote:
A friend uses Inmotionhosting.com and finds that Comcast is rejecting
all mail from this host claiming high incidence of spam from Inmotion.
Anybody here have information about this? Is Comcast just trying
harass the small hosting outfits, or is there some substance
Long story short, I found a way to make a laptop power down when the lid
is closed and no one is logged in. When the lid is closed, the acpi
script /etc/acpi.lid.sh (called by /etc/acpi/events/lidbtn) tests for
the active user, and runs a screenblank script. If no one is logged in,
the test
Erik Lane wrote:
Yeah, that sounds good, but at the moment I don't have access to an IR
camera.
Neither did I back then. I didn't want to suggest fingers for obvious
safety reasons. However, I would hover my hand over the card. If I
found some heat I'd hover my finger until I found the
Dale F. Victor wrote:
Hello!
Sorry I was not plain, I do get excited.
The battery is fine, I know that.
The hard drive could be bad.
It does not run long enough to get into the bios. I tried.
Well, if you're sure the battery has a good charge, and you're sure the
power supply is
wes wrote:
DOH! I lose the race again!
Sorry. :)
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Rich Shepard wrote:
Similar lack of truth with the water landing instructions.
Oh, I don't know. Those complimentary seat cushions do float.
:)
Larry
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Robert Kopp wrote:
I'm about to get a new laptop
I've found that WiFi support also depends upon the Linux flavor you
install. For example, my Daughter has a Gateway with Vista. Using only
live CDs, I found that Ubuntu supported all the hardware. All my
RPM-based OSen (PCLOS, Fedora and
Donkyhotay wrote:
Depends on your customer and most likely when dealing with servers you'd
probably get a better answer but in my experience whenever I ask what
happens when you try to [whatever they are complaining about not being
able to do]? I'm usually answered with I just told you it
Denis Heidtmann wrote:
gnome-terminal -e alsdjfla (or any non-command)
It caused the error as suggested, but did not bork X. The terminal
window has no prompt and is unresponsive, but could be easily closed.
CPU loads are minimal.
This is an HP a1700n, AMD 64, Ubuntu 9.04 x86_64.
I also
Rogan Creswick wrote:
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Larry W lar...@holbrookmasons.org wrote:
/tmp/vbox.1/SUPDRV.h:99:30: error: asm/semaphore.h: No such file or
directory
Do you have the kernel headers installed?
(package: linux-headers-`uname -r`, I think.)
I forgot
Thanks to Bill suggesting that Vbox needed to be updated, I checked and,
indeed, I had installed version 1.6. My bad, since I have a copy
locally and that's what was installed. Replacing it with the current
version solved my problems. Now to delete that old file...
Thanks all,
Larry
I've installed Jaunty on a Latitude D610 and pretty much everything
works out of the box except Virtualbox. This is not the OSE version,
and it's failing to recompile when I invoke /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup.
Bits from /var/log/vbox-install.log:
make -f scripts/Makefile.build
Michael wrote:
Bill Barry wrote:
With a bit more truth in advertising fewer widescreen monitors
would be sold.
I'm not so sure about that. My nephew's #1 criteria for a laptop was have to
play my music. Meaning it had to work seamlessly with his iPod. #2 criteria
was watch
Daniel Johnson wrote:
From my experience google/yahoo groups are a form of vendor lock
in. They aren't designed with the idea of getting your data out.
For Yahoo, there is yahoo2mbox. But over time as a group member with
email enabled you would have received all those messages anyway and
MJang wrote:
One thing I do to deal with the upgrade cycle is have a separate
partition for my /home directory.
Oh, yes. In fact, the old-timers on this list will remember the early
days of Unix, you know, when they had manuals and one was required to
read them, that multiple filesystems
Michael Robinson wrote:
Copyrighting something beyond the
lifetime of it's author and/or the owning company is also
ludicrous. The trouble is, the current copyright regime in
the U.S. and around the world creates permanent monopolies.
If memory serves, Walt Disney Productions was a
John Jason Jordan wrote:
On Ubuntu, does anyone know a command to launch Network Manager?
...
I have lost the GUI launcher, but I can't recreate it until I can
figure out what the app is called.
I think you're looking for network-admin, part of the
gnome-network-admin package. Assuming
Larry W wrote:
Ubuntu Breezy (also 2005)
Oops, sorry. Slackware 8 is much older than 2005.
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Rich Shepard wrote:
I've no idea. When I switched from Red Hat I subscribed to receive a
set of disks each time an upgrade was released. I don't recall
explicitly subscribing to an announce list, and I don't remember the
headers on the patch notification messages. What I like is that
Tim wrote:
After 2 weeks of running my mail server on their line, they blocked
port 25.
Their contract, even B2B, prohibits customer-end servers of any kind. I
suppose blocking the port is akin to measures up to termination.
For my own experience, my only dislike is the cost. I don't measure
Michael Robinson wrote:
I haven't
Please take your discussion off list. If you need to discuss anything
with the list owner or with any individual list member, please respect
the other readers and discuss it privately, off list.
Thanks ever so much,
Larry
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