Re: [SLUG] Overheating

2010-02-02 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 14:24 +1100, Mark Walkom wrote: Well the grease is needed as it facilitates a higher efficiency of heat transfer from the chip to the heatsink. Is this a laptop or a desktop PC? What are the CPU and GPU chips? Desktop. The CPU fan has been removed and replaced twice.

[SLUG] IE on Ubunto

2010-02-02 Thread Chris Allen
I have Ubuntu 9.10 installed and use Firefox for browsing the web. Every so often some one tells me You must look at this but this is coded for IE only. I am not inclined to buy another PC just to look at the occasional web site in IE Is there a simple solution (cheap) to this dilemma? Chris

Re: [SLUG] IE on Ubunto

2010-02-02 Thread Harrison Conlin
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Chris Allen ch.al...@ozemail.com.au wrote: I have Ubuntu 9.10 installed and use Firefox for browsing the web. Every so often some one tells me You must look at this but this is coded for IE only. I am not inclined to buy another PC just to look at the

Re: [SLUG] IE on Ubunto

2010-02-02 Thread Jeremy Visser
On 02/02/10 21:13, Chris Allen wrote: Every so often some one tells me You must look at this but this is coded for IE only. I am not inclined to buy another PC just to look at the occasional web site in IE Is there a simple solution (cheap) to this dilemma? You can either dual-boot Windows

Re: [SLUG] Overheating

2010-02-02 Thread Kevin Shackleton
I disagree - though I don't have hard data to demonstrate :-(. The thermal-conductive paste on middle-aged machines is often very dry. Any time I service a machine (dust blow-out, more RAM etc) I check the CPU paste and usually renew it. You can buy the stuff from electronics places. Beware -

Re: [SLUG] fstab and removable drives

2010-02-02 Thread david
Jeremy Visser wrote: On 30/01/10 16:42, David wrote: The second on-board drive now mounts, but as well as mounting at the point indicated, I also get a hard drive icon - in other words the drive is duplicated on the Desktop - once in the folder called 500mb and once in an icon with the label

[SLUG] Re: IE on Ubunto

2010-02-02 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Tuesday 02 February 2010 10:13:01 Chris Allen wrote: Is there a simple solution (cheap) to this dilemma? http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page -- Richard www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [SLUG] Re: IE on Ubunto

2010-02-02 Thread James Polley
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Richard Ibbotson richard.ibbot...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tuesday 02 February 2010 10:13:01 Chris Allen wrote: Is there a simple solution (cheap) to this dilemma? http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page Supports IE 5, 5.5 and 6. Last updated 6th

Re: [SLUG] Re: IE on Ubunto

2010-02-02 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Tuesday 02 February 2010 10:46:18 James Polley wrote: On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Richard Ibbotson richard.ibbot...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tuesday 02 February 2010 10:13:01 Chris Allen wrote: Is there a simple solution (cheap) to this dilemma?

Re: [SLUG] Overheating

2010-02-02 Thread Chris Watkins
Have you noticed a difference when you run or don't run certain programs? I had big overheating problems, which I finally solved by installing Flashblock on Firefox. It was a case of too many tabs plus flash not running well in Linux. Before I discovered Flashblock, I took to stopping whatever

[SLUG] fstab and simultaneous mount points

2010-02-02 Thread david
Scenario: Removable SATA drives in a caddy, used for back up. I have two backup disks - one to be kept on the machine, the other off-site and I cycle them weekly. I've written a script to rsync the system onto the backups. Obviously the two drives have unique UUID's. Does fstab allow for

Re: [SLUG] shopping carts?

2010-02-02 Thread Del
Rodolfo Martínez wrote: Hi, Have you tried osCommerce? http://www.oscommerce.com/ Anyone who has looked inside the PHP code for either would have to agree with me in strongly recommending OpenFreeway over osCommerce. The rest of this discussion can be taken off-list if anyone's

Re: [SLUG] shopping carts?

2010-02-02 Thread david
Del wrote: Rodolfo Martínez wrote: Hi, Have you tried osCommerce? http://www.oscommerce.com/ Anyone who has looked inside the PHP code for either would have to agree with me in strongly recommending OpenFreeway over osCommerce. The rest of this discussion can be taken off-list if

Re: [SLUG] fstab and simultaneous mount points

2010-02-02 Thread Peter Hardy
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 22:07 +1100, david wrote: Does fstab allow for two UUID's having the same mount point thus: UUID=2e7c5578-933a-4b09-a89d-14b6be718fe5 /mnt/BACKUP ext4 defaults 0 0 UUID=b007bc41-0280-48d5-b958-9160092e3d44 /mnt/BACKUP ext4 defaults 0 0 Yes. Have you tried it yet? :-)

Re: [SLUG] IE on Ubunto

2010-02-02 Thread james
On Tuesday 02 February 2010 18:34:34 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: I have Ubuntu 9.10 installed and use Firefox for browsing the web. Every so often some one tells me You must look at this but this is coded for IE only. I am not inclined to buy another PC just to look at the occasional

[SLUG] RE: IE on Ubuntu 9.10

2010-02-02 Thread gonzo01
Install Wine-Doors. Among the programs it will allow you to install is IE -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] IE on Ubunto

2010-02-02 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 22:17 +0800, james wrote: Wunz upon a tyme ANZ would accept IE for internet banking and they told me that their app worked with IE only. Fiddling with about:config I had firefox (or whatever it used to be) ID as IE on Winders. And the app worked. When confronted by

Re: [SLUG] On making a hotkey.

2010-02-02 Thread wbennett
I'm running Karmic Koala on a Fujitsu laptop. Is it possible to make a shortcut key (hotkey?) to speed up repetitive tasks? For example--- Go into external hard drive, open a new file = F3 Feeble example, I know, but I'm backing up the CD collection and anything's a help. I'm told it

Re: [SLUG] shopping carts?

2010-02-02 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
http://www.oscommerce.org/ On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 21:53 -0800, Dini wrote: Hi, I'm going to run a shopping cart on my web site. Is there an Open Source Shopping Cart that is idoit friendly and is ok for Au banks? thanks. D Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is

Re: [SLUG] no speaker sound

2010-02-02 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
Hi had the same problem ... until last night. Number of things to try first: You could check whether the audio works in the headphone jack You could kill pulseaudio (use ps, then kill) run alsa-mixer and check whether speaker isnt muted yum install pavucontrol (more powerful mixer) Then