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EFGA, whatever happened to it?

Geoffrey — 2008-12-01T13:29:22

Anyone know what ever happened to Electronic Frontier of GA? I still get email list notices from their mail server, but when I try to go to the subscription page to unsub, the domain is parked.

LTSP in Ubuntu

Daniel Howard — 2008-11-30T22:53:33

I just installed Ubuntu/LTSP on a classroom server, and overall it was a total pleasure. Worked out of the box with two NIC server, was able to add all the educational titles with ease (couldn't add some in CentOS-K12LTSP, e.g.), applications that used to fail unless I launched them in a window (Childsplay, GCompris) worked flawlessly, and most importantly Flash sound worked automatically after installing the flash plugin; just had to go to a site with Flash, it pointed me to Flash 10 for Linux, and sound on the client worked flawlessly. One nag however: video is noticeably slower on the 128 MB HP thin clients with the Ubuntu based LTSP compared to the Fedora/Centos based LTSP, both Flash video like on YouTube/SesameStreet, as well as video for highly animated games like CircusLinux, e.g. I tried switching the desktop to Xfce, that seemed to speed it up a little, but still noticeably slower than under Fedora/Centos. I suspect this is just the Ubuntu folks being behind the curve on LTSP compar

Re: DJGPP questions

Ken Arromdee — 2008-11-30T17:28:53

Simpler than that. I was just looking for something that can provide me with ls, less, gzip, etc. in Windows; I'm not planning to develop applications at all. Anyway, I switched to cygwin, which lacks a couple of quirks djgpp has. (For instance, djgpp only accepts screens of a size valid in DOS, so each time you run bash in a command prompt window it resizes it to one of those sizes.) Also, I did find my shell prompt problem: I created my bashrc using DOS linefeeds and I ended up with a prompt containing an embedded linefeed. The ls problem was solved by writing a batch file which calls ls --color. It's ugly but it works.

Re: will a Bluetooth adapter work with a Linksys Wireless B router ?

Jeremy T. Bouse — 2008-11-30T16:06:02

I had a Iomega USB bluetooth adapter that worked fine on my Fedora laptop. I've since upgraded my laptop to have an internal bluetooth device so I don't use it any longer. I think I paid $20 for it at Wal-mart a good while back. You do realize Bluetooth and the Linksys 802.11b wireless router use totally different protocols. You could use Bluetooth and setup a PAN between a couple computers or use Bluetooth DUN connection. Until I upgraded from my Treo 650 to the Centro I was using BT DUN to connect my laptop to the internet while commuting. Unfortunately Sprint in their infinite wisdom disabled the BT DUN profile on the Centro. Courtney Thomas wrote:

will a Bluetooth adapter work with a Linksys Wireless Brouter ?

Courtney Thomas — 2008-11-30T15:49:55

I want to connect another computer to a wireless lan the least expensive way possible and see Bluetooth USB adapters for $1. Can I just plug a USB Bluetooth adapter into a Bluetooth compatible windows machine though no Bluetooth hardware devices have been installed into said machine, and have it served by a Linksys Wireless B router ? And can I also similarly install an identical Bluetooth adapter into a Linux machine as well though no drivers come with the said adapter ? As always, thanks, Courtney

Re: DJGPP questions

Michael B. Trausch — 2008-11-30T07:04:35

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Re: DJGPP questions

Ken Arromdee — 2008-11-30T06:06:53

ls is fileutils. I got it from http://www.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/ and 4.1 is the most recent. I have LS_COLORS but it doesn't help. It has to have --color before the LS_COLORS affects it. Bash is there as bsh204br2.zip dated May 2008; I don't see a 3.2. I think the solution is not to use djgpp. I'm trying cygwin now...

Re: DJGPP questions

Michael B. Trausch — 2008-11-30T00:44:35

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Re: Pros & cons on encrypting disks

Jim Kinney — 2008-11-30T00:03:19

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Re: ALL-in-one Printer religion?

Jim Kinney — 2008-11-29T23:47:14

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Re: Pros & cons on encrypting disks

Christoper Fowler — 2008-11-29T23:25:36

Encrypting disks makes me nervous. In the old days, data recovery was simple. One could mount a file system in R/O mode and even use dd if necessary. Now, what if you lose the key or even the password? When I played around with a 40GB USB disk, I encrypted it. One system could read it immediately and another one I had to do some work to get it working. To me, encryption is good when needed. Maybe on a USB dongle that is password protected with sensitive financial data. On the OS's drive, with things like pictures and music, not so much. Just my $0.02

DJGPP questions

Ken Arromdee — 2008-11-29T21:52:13

This isn't strictly Linux, but djgpp is related and I hope there's some expertise here. I have two problems, both under Windows XP: 1) Using bash in djgpp, when I look at the command history (^P, or esc-K with set -o vi), the history is printed in a garbled fashion; for instance, if my previous commands were pwd and ls, it might show "pwdls" instead of clearing the line. Putting ansi.sys in config.nt doesn't help. 2) How do I specify that ls should use colors, *without* running bash, and without typing --color each time? (Short of making "ls" a batch file which calls the djgpp ls with the --color option). I'd think there should be something I can put in djgpp.env but I can't find anything. Versions are: H:\djgpp>bash --version GNU bash, version 2.04.7(1)-release (i386-pc-msdosdjgpp) Copyright 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. H:\djgpp>ls --version ls (fileutils) 4.1 Written by Richard Stallman and David MacKenzie.

Pros & cons on encrypting disks

Scott Castaline — 2008-11-29T17:42:52

Just want to get a feel for the pros and cons of encrypting my disk(s). I just created a VM to install Fedora 10 before upgrading my system. I chose to use the encryption option to see how it worked in the install process and how it behaves once installed. I did notice that the boot partition cannot be encrypted. Is this just a Fedora thing or is that the encryption key is not present until the initial boot process is completed? So what are the pros and the cons to this? TIA Scott

OT cheap nvidia 9600 at FRYs $90 before mail in rebate

Atlanta Geek — 2008-11-28T23:42:34

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Linux making good headways, in my family at least

Daniel Howard — 2008-11-28T18:39:13

Two great stories to relate: First, my daughter's Apple iBook finally died, and we said no way to another $1200 laptop; the first required many repairs going to and from school, but was required by Atlanta Girl's School, and we got it for $1100 on volume discount. So we started looking at Netbooks for her. Settled on the ASUS eeePC 901 with Linux (Xandros, IIRC) with 20 GB solid state HD and 2 GB of RAM, 8.9" screen. Compared to the other options we considered (Dell Mini 9" w/ Ubuntu, MSI Wind--only conventional HD, not solid state, Acer, etc.) the biggest selling point for me and my wife was was the physical assembly of the eeePC: the eeePC 900 we looked at at Best Buy was really solid (2nd or 3rd generation I think for them), while reviews online of the others all had concerns for the loose assembly, flimsy plastic, etc. This is for a teenager to take to and from school every day. Best part was that Best Buys had a WinXP version next to the Xandros Linux version, (she played with the 900

Fwd: [OT] Help with burning recovery disks from HP

Stephen Cristol — 2008-11-28T15:42:27

Robert, Thanks for your assistance. I'll pass along your advice. S

ALL-in-one Printer religion?

Jack Schneider — 2008-11-28T15:25:29

Re: [OT] Help with burning recovery disks from HP

Robert Reese~ — 2008-11-28T10:04:28

It sounds like you have a hardware problem. That machine should still be under warranty, so contact HP and let them walk you through the steps they'll require. They'll make a determination, and probably either send you a brand-new harddrive preloaded or have you send the machine back to them in the box they'll ship to you. They'll pay for shipping both ways. Phone: 800-474-6836 HP Support Chat: https://wimpro2.cce.hp.com/ChatEntry/Chat.aspx?productOID=3623529&productLine=6J &productSNI=hppavilion3623523&productName=HP+Pavilion+a6228x+Desktop+PC&productC ategory=12455&SCOID=82702&h_cc=us&h_lang=en&lc=en&PSOID=3548186&lang=en&cc=us If your friend really doesn't need the data, just set her up with a loaner until it gets back or the replacement drive arrives. ;c) At this point that really is the best way to go. Cheers, Robert~

Re: [OT] Help with burning recovery disks from HP

Stephen Cristol — 2008-11-28T06:01:00

I had tried this many times before my original posting, but today I made a more aggressive attempt. In one of many attempts today, I reached a recovery dialog box that I had not seen before and that did not respond to the PS2 keyboard or mouse. (Inserting a USB mouse and keyboard did not help at this point.) Many other attempts terminated in a blue screen (not BSOD) similar in shade to that seen as a background to the dialog box, though I cannot say with certainty that it was the same shade. In these cases, I had control of the mouse with both a PS2 and USB mouse. While the response to the Esc key (boot menu) and F10 key (setup) are pretty deterministic, it seems like the response to the F11 key is random. I'd welcome any thoughts on what sort of incantation coupled with pressing the F11 key might get me to the recovery dialog with a working mouse. It is an HP Pavillion a6228x http://reviews.cnet.com/desktops/hp-pavilion-a6228x-athlon/ 4507-3118_7-32787360.html?tag=mncol;psum T

Re: PHP hates JPG

Jim Kinney — 2008-11-28T03:23:39

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Re: PHP hates JPG

Barlow, Jim D — 2008-11-27T18:08:41

One will get only about 3G with the amount of address space PCI-e[xpress] plus other peripherals chews up just for being in the chipset. A 32 bit OS without physical address extensions loses nearly a gigabyte of address space. That doesn't solve your image failures, but may explain the memory availability. One will see a lot of laptops now being sold with 3GB of RAM, once channel 2GB and one 1GB for this reason. http://www.polywell.com/us/support/faq/4GB_Rev1.pdf Shows an example on how a 4GB system and 3GB system may both end up showing 2.84 as what is left over. - Jim ________________________________ From: ale-bounces-S6NtOCTnm14< at >public.gmane.org [mailto:ale-bounces-S6NtOCTnm14< at >public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Jim Kinney Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:45 PM To: ale-S6NtOCTnm14< at >public.gmane.org Subject: Re: [ale] PHP hates JPG Hmm. I moved the code to another vanilla f9 machine and it works. I also noticed the failure is a sequenced, repeatable one - every 5th image fails. bad ram is