Re: 16 mb problem
On 02/11/05, Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > LOL. Actually, I don't think Windows 98 will run in 16MB - but I know for a > fact that Win95 will. CDs are pretty easy to find in any decent sized > corporate or government office. Whenever I feel a real need for one I can > find one in the office. Odds are, they'd even be legal (at least you'd get > a disk complete with license key, and the computer it was originally sold > with is now scrap). Careful. Many OEM Windows licenses "live and die" with the hardware. They're non-transferrable, and are thus invalid if used on a machine other than the one it was originally supplied on. As an aside, the old OEM license used to allow for refunds, but they've taken that out now too. If you buy a PC now with Windows (XP) pre-installed, you cannot get a refund for Windows only, you have to return the OS and the hardware together. Not sure what the license is for shop-bought (non-OEM) Windows licenses as I've never bought one and thus haven't read it. Cheers, Al.
Re: uptime
On 09/11/05, Joseph Manning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2005-Nov-09 (Wed) at 07:54 (-0600), Willie McKemie wrote: > > >> This is not laptop specific, but. > >> > >> -- > >> Willie, ONWARD! Through the fog! > >> http://counter.li.org Linux registered user #228836 since 1995 > >> FOUL! My uptime counter "rolled over" to 0 at about 497 days 11/6/2005 > >> Actual uptime is about 497 days plus amount listed below > >> Debian3.0/GNU/Linux system uptime 2 days 18 hours 34 minutes > > Willie, > >Yes, this has happened to me also. > >Note that 2^32 hundredths-of-a-second = 497.1027 days, >which seems like a plausible explanation of what happened. > >It's also the case that the CPU time of a process rolls over >after the same period of time (497+ days). Yes, this has happened >to me. Really. > >Hah! -- whoever designed such short time limits? >O they of little faith! > It does actually say on the site.. http://counter.li.org/reports/uptimestats.php "NOTE: The Linux kernel (at least up to 2.4.2) has a flaw: It computes the result of the "uptime" based on the internal "jiffies" counter, which counts the time since boot, in units of 10 milliseconds. This is typecast as an "unsigned long" - on the Intel boxes, that's an unsigned 32-bit number. " Cheers, Al.
Re: list rule
On 2/23/06, OguzY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to send mail including attachment to the list? I had > mailed my logs as attechment insted of including them to the mail. > Probably best not to. Could you paste them to some public place and email a link to it? Something like pastebin [1] would be good if you don't have any web space. Cheers, Al. [1] http://pastebin.com/
Re: DVD not playing
On 04/04/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good day everyone, > > I recently installed Ubuntu 5.10 in my IBM Thinkpad > T1830. The problem is when I try to play a DVD in the > DVD player, the machine sends the following error message: > 'No docoders found to handle the stream, you might need > to install the corresponding plugins'. There is a section about DVD playback on the Ubuntu wiki [0]. I'd guess it's the lack of CSS decoder that's causing the issue. Have a look at the link below. Cheers, Al. [0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats
Re: Laptop and Distro Recommendations?
On 17/04/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I installed Ubuntu on a friend's machine and regretted it. Ubuntu's package > selection is pathetic. > That's just not true. There's thousands of packages if you enable the universe and/or multiverse and/or backports repositories. It's all well [0] documented [1] on the Ubuntu wiki [2]. Cheers, Al. [0] http://help.ubuntu.com/starterguide/C/index.html [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareManagement [2] http://wiki.ubuntu.com/
Re: Problems with ACPI and ethernet Sis900
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 22:47:59 +0100, Hugo Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem with my ethernet card (sis900). I don't have connection > to the network until i put in grub "ACPI=off" > Now my ethernet works, but i don't have acpi, because if i put it on, > the connection to the network doesn't work. > I have the same problem with a desktop PC. > How can i put acpi working? > I think your only option may be to add a separate network card, either a PCMCIA one or a USB one. Cheers, Al. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: linux compatible video card with dual head mode
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 10:08:17 +0100, Antonio Expósito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is dual head mode? > Two screens attached to one computer. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Xinerama-HOWTO/
Re: setting up network
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 18:37:02 +, Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am planning to stay at a hotel which has Internet access but I know nothing > about the IP addresses they use. I am assuming they use dhcp. If I know > nothing of their network, what is the most convenient way to get my laptop > connected? I am using KDE on a Debian Sarge system and my laptop is a > Thinkpad (an old one) using a PCMCIA NIC. > I have yet to stay in a hotel that *didn't* use DHCP! > I have pump and dhcp-client installed and also guessnet, but I have never used > either of them. So you currently use static IP addresses? Have you got the card working on your laptop? If so, you can just type "dhclient eth0" where eth0 is your network inteface. You can run ifconfig to find out what the network interface is.. Cheers, Al. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Digital Photos
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:36:34 -0800, Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know a few people here work with a digital camera. I'm often off > with my camera and my laptop and I'm wondering how people manage their > photo collections. > I use digikam on ubuntu (and debian on my wifes pc). It's pretty good for downloading, sorting, simple image manipulation.. Cheers, Al. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Laptop safe for flight in planes?
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 08:42:49 +0100 (CET), Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > my former Laptop had no internal WLAN card so I was safe that it is no > source of any radio frequencies. But my new laptop has a cantrino chip > with WLAN and I will go for a quite long flight. How can I ENSURE that > the WLAN module is completely silent? Is it enough to use a Kernel which > just does not contain the WLAN modules? Many modern laptops have a physical switch to turn off the wireless network device. Not loading the kernel module should do it also, but I'm only guessing from the fact that on mine I get no lights, and nothing else in the room can see the wireless card if the module isn't loaded. Cheers, Al. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Laptop safe for flight in planes?
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:56:28 -0500 (EST), Syd Alsobrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > If you cannot find one, then, the chances are good that the WLAN will > > not do anything without some sort of initialization, i.e. loading > > modules. However you can only be sure if you have access to a > > spectrum analyzer :-) > > I have used several laptops with internal WLAN cards on airplanes. I have > never > experienced a problem, and I was traveling every week. I have even ran in irc > server > that that my fiance and I could communicate during a flight where we had to > sit apart. Just because it works doesn't make it right. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please HELP ME
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 21:29:10 -0800 (PST), khuram shahzad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello sir, > I have a NEC pc9821 nr 13 laptop that it's BIOS is in japanese language. > i'm not a japanese user and i want to update it to english mode. > where can i download the update program? > Using 30 seconds of time and the magic of google I found http://www.theoldcomputer.com/Libarary's/Emulation/BIOS_Roms/BIOS_roms_summary.htm 68k NEC_PC9821_BIOS.zip NEC PC9821 BIOS Cheers, Al. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cabling and color code of utp cable
On 05/05/05, Veekay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear sir > > pls sent the cable color code and how to connect cable and connector rg45 > > reg > arun > > Mb: e-mail add : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Google is your friend. http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ethernet+cable+colour+code http://www.dragon-it.co.uk/files/cat5_colour_codes.htm
Re:
On 13/05/05, Brandon Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Derek Broughton wrote: > >On Friday 13 May 2005 13:34, robert wrote: > >>help me... notebook sony vaio model PCG-9N1M, DRIVER ATI RADEON IGP > >>345M---PLEASE!!! > >Do you have the slightest clue how likely it is that anyone will even try? > > > >No subject... > > > >No problem description... > > > >And I'm betting it isn't even linux related. If I'm wrong, _please_ repost > >with a subject AND a problem description. > > > > > I bet that I can tell u the problem cuz I had the exact same problem > with my sony laptop which is a model pcg-nvr23. For some reason X won't > load into sony laptops. I don't know why but for some reason it won't. > So don't ask me how to fix it. Hope someone can help this poor guy though. > Uhm, forgive me but you're very wrong. Many laptops run X just fine. Yours will to. I just typed your model number into google and the *first* hit is a guy who runs linux on his. http://www.hpcc.uh.edu/~tonyc/sony/ Hope that helps. Al.
Re:
On 14/05/05, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 14 May 2005 2:51 am, Brandon Richards wrote: > > I did try knoppix and it did work but i dont know how to use knoppix to > > install debian. I need some help? > > > > Thanks > > > > brandon > > Install knoppix, understand the config files and the way Debian works. Once > you feel confident, wipe it out and install Debian. > > The other way is to upgrade the installed Knoppix to Debian but that would > require a little trick. > ..and yet another way would be to install another debian based distro such as Ubuntu. Ubuntus installer is very nice, detects most hardware and for the most part (on every machine I've tried it on) it "Just Works (tm)". Cheers, Al.
Re: Attaching to a remote desktop?
On 29/06/05, Jorge Tomé Hernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, June 29, 2005 11:34, Arjen Verweij said: > > L.S., > > > > I'm looking for a mechanism to connect to a machine that runs Debian. My > > client (laptop) runs Debian SID. Basically I want some sort of VNC that > > will give me the desktop the user at the workstation is seeing, not a > > fresh one. > > > > I only have experience with VNC/rdesktop to Windows machines, and didn't > > stop to think that it might not work the same way when the VNC server > > was on a Debian box. > > > > Can anyone point me in the right direction? > > VNC works in Linux in the same way that in MS Windows. I think that it is > all you need. > It doesn't actually On windows it grabs the desktop, on linux it connects to an already running vnc/x session. This means that on windows you will get access to the desktop as it is seen at the local machine, but on linux you get to see a different desktop. e.g. on a linux box you locally connect to desktop :0, but when you start vnc server you will start it on desktop :1, which you connect to remotely, a different desktop. Cheers, Al.
Re: RAM upgrade?
On 04/07/05, Marco Calviani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Debian, > i would like to upgrade the RAM of my Acer Travelmate 8005 running > with Sid: is there a linux program to see what kind of RAM is it > installed (PC2700, PC3200??) ? Is it possible to install two modules > with different size, like 512+256 MB? > dmidecode can give you some information, within the "Memory Module Information" section. Also worth checking the crucial memory website [1] as this often tells you what you can put in a machine. Here [2] is the page for your laptop. Cheers, Al. [1] http://www.crucial.com/ [2] http://www.crucial.com/store/listparts.asp?Mfr%2BProductline=Acer%2BTravelMate&mfr=Acer&tabid=CR&model=TravelMate+8000+Series&submit=Go
Re: Screen sometimes goes black during Xscreensaver
On 14/07/05, Kevin Zhao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi here is my strange problem. Generally the xscreensaver is running > very well on may laptop. But sometimes the screen turns black(it is > not off, as I can see the "background light") and I could never turn > it back. I have tried the Fn keys, switching to console terminal but > nothing happened. I guess the laptop itself is ok, as I could easily > reboot it by ctrl-alt-del and then after reboot the screen is ok. > I have had this in the past on my machine. I turned off all the intensive 3d screensavers and it stopped happening. Cheers, Al.
Re: GNOME applet to display uptime for testing dist?
On 23/07/05, André Wendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello there, > > looking for an applet to display uptime on my laptop w/ Debian testing, > I found the package uptime-applet (duh!). However, it seems to be > orphaned and is only available for Woody. I'd install it anyway if it > weren't for all those dependencies... > > Does anyone know of an applet with similar functionality I can use? > http://freshmeat.net is a good source for this kind of thing.. I just did a search for "uptime" and found (amongst others).. http://freshmeat.net/projects/uptime_applet/ "uptime_applet is a Gnome applet which will display your system uptime." http://freshmeat.net/projects/uptimepeak/ "UptimePeak is a program that captures and records uptime peaks between sessions. The 'uptime' command is used to retrieve uptime data allowing any user to use this program. Designed to be executed manually or from crontab, uptime snapshots are taken as often as the command is executed. The uptime value from each snapshot is stored until the machine is rebooted, at which point the uptime peak is archived. Various output formats are implemented for on-demand reports and HTML pages." There's a lot more to choose from though. Cheers, Al.
