Re: [clug-talk] Newbie question

2014-08-12 Thread Bogi
Sure i guess :-) On August 12, 2014 Tuesday 13:34:45 Don Clayton wrote: > Greetings, I am new to CLUG. Can I post here to find a resource to assist me > Is that within the scope of this discussion? ___ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://c

Re: [clug-talk] Newbie question

2014-08-12 Thread Anand Singh
The scope is basically anything related to Linux or the user group. This includes asking for help or posting useful tips. Anand. On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 7:34 AM, Don Clayton wrote: > Greetings, I am new to CLUG. Can I post here to find a resource to > assist me Is that within the scope of t

[clug-talk] Newbie question

2014-08-12 Thread Don Clayton
Greetings, I am new to CLUG. Can I post here to find a resource to assist me Is that within the scope of this discussion? ___ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://cl

[clug-talk] Newbie

2014-04-13 Thread Henry A
Howdy there. Pretty quiet message board. ___ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying

Re: [clug-talk] newbie seeking Ubuntu netbook

2008-10-06 Thread Gustin Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pat Roche wrote: > Hi, > > I am a non-techie who wants a netbook running Ubuntu Linux. (I know > Ubuntu is pre-installed on the Dell Mini 9, but I've ruled it out > because of the keyboard configuration. ) > > I'm thinking of buying on an MSI Wind ne

Re: [clug-talk] newbie seeking Ubuntu netbook

2008-10-05 Thread Omnistegan
Hello, I'm currently using a EEEPC 1000H sual boot windows and Ubuntu Eee ( http://www.ubuntu-eee.com/). This distro works well because it was designed specifically for the Eee with drivers and everything ready to go after install. I find everything works fabulous except that my battery life is di

Re: [clug-talk] newbie seeking Ubuntu netbook

2008-10-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
times with good results. HTH Dave Email on the go, sent by TELUS -Original Message- From: "bogi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 10:10:01 -0600 To: "CLUG General" Received: 05-Oct-2008 12:11:32 -0400 Subject: Re: [clug-talk] newbie seeking Ubuntu netboo

Re: [clug-talk] newbie seeking Ubuntu netbook

2008-10-05 Thread Andrew Anderson
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Jardine Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 10:46 AM To: CLUG General Subject: Re: [clug-talk] newbie seeking Ubuntu netbook Hi Pat, I bought my wife an Asus EeePC awhile ago. She is quite happy with it and has not asked for any 

Re: [clug-talk] newbie seeking Ubuntu netbook

2008-10-05 Thread John Jardine
Hi Pat, I bought my wife an Asus EeePC awhile ago. She is quite happy with it and has not asked for any 'upgrades'. Several other CLUG members have EeePCs with various degrees of hardware/software upgrades. Again, aimed at the EeePC, you can check here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EeePC f

Re: [clug-talk] newbie seeking Ubuntu netbook

2008-10-05 Thread bogi
First of all, welcome to the Linux user's community. A few corrections: All major Linux distributions make Linux installation very very easy and simple. So don't feel limited to Ubuntu when it comes to installation, unless of course Ubuntu is your distribution of choice. Since you do not have a

[clug-talk] newbie seeking Ubuntu netbook

2008-10-05 Thread Pat Roche
Hi, I am a non-techie who wants a netbook running Ubuntu Linux. (I know Ubuntu is pre-installed on the Dell Mini 9, but I've ruled it out because of the keyboard configuration. ) I'm thinking of buying on an MSI Wind netbook. This is a tiny 10-inch-wide notebook with a 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor

Re: [clug-talk] Newbie Clustering Question

2005-10-07 Thread Mark Lane
On 10/7/05, Shawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: After the presentation last night, I did some cursory digging into openMosix,and have a couple of questions.As I understand things, I *should* be able to setup my primary server as thehead node, and then join my secondary servers/workstations into the cl

[clug-talk] Newbie Clustering Question

2005-10-06 Thread Shawn
After the presentation last night, I did some cursory digging into openMosix, and have a couple of questions. As I understand things, I *should* be able to setup my primary server as the head node, and then join my secondary servers/workstations into the cluster. But, I'm curious if this woul

Re: [clug-talk] Newbie-Advanced Dichotomy @ CLUG meetings

2004-11-05 Thread Aaron Seigo
On November 5, 2004 13:18, Curtis Sloan wrote: > > It might be sacrilege to say on such a tech oriented site, but email > > does not, and cannot replace face to face kontact. > >^-- > > Little Freudian slip there? C'mon, Kevin -- admit it! You run fat

Re: [clug-talk] Newbie-Advanced Dichotomy @ CLUG meetings

2004-11-05 Thread Curtis Sloan
On Fri November 5 2004 10:32, Kevin Anderson wrote: > Just a suggestion, but since we cannot realistically do a presentation > which appeals to everyone, (and the reality is, we can't). Lets look at > other value adds we can provide. I'm listening... ;-) > It might be sacrilege to say on such

Re: [clug-talk] Newbie-Advanced Dichotomy @ CLUG meetings

2004-11-05 Thread Kevin Anderson
The thing is, Computers are good for so many things these days that it's hard to guess what people care about, and it's impossible to narrow it down to beginner/advanced, or server/desktop. Some of us use computers at work, some are retired. Obviously our concerns differ greatly. Small 10-15

Re: [clug-talk] Newbie-Advanced Dichotomy @ CLUG meetings

2004-11-05 Thread Kevin Anderson
Just a suggestion, but since we cannot realistically do a presentation which appeals to everyone, (and the reality is, we can't). Lets look at other value adds we can provide. Personally, I think networking is the largest. That could be networking for the purpose of bouncing ideas off each ot

Re: [clug-talk] Newbie-Advanced Dichotomy @ CLUG meetings

2004-11-05 Thread Dany Allard
I think that if we can get two rooms and enough people to attend each presentation (no one wants to give a presentation to just one or two people) we should proceed with the split presentations. If not, then I think we should post the experience level with the presentation on the CLUG site. Ex

Re: [clug-talk] Newbie-Advanced Dichotomy @ CLUG meetings

2004-11-04 Thread Shawn
On Thursday 04 November 2004 23:10, Aaron Seigo wrote: > ok, there'll be some people who are interested in both. but if we're having > two presentations, why can't they be in parallel? gives more time for each > and lowers the % of bored people (hopefully ;) Can we run two (or more) parallel prese

Re: [clug-talk] Newbie-Advanced Dichotomy @ CLUG meetings

2004-11-04 Thread Aaron Seigo
On November 4, 2004 20:59, Jim Suydam wrote: > On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 20:14:47 -0700, Shawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 04 November 2004 19:29, Aaron Seigo wrote: > > > the idea i've tossed out there is to have multiple tracks at each > > > meeting. > > Another way to handle the multipl

Re: [clug-talk] Newbie-Advanced Dichotomy @ CLUG meetings

2004-11-04 Thread Goran
On November 4, 2004 07:29 pm, Aaron Seigo wrote: > personally, i was hoping to get a mix of people at each meeting that spans > the knowledge/skill/experience range. the idea being to allow for knowledge > transference and to play a stronger role in supporting the larger local > Free / Open Source

Re: [clug-talk] Newbie-Advanced Dichotomy @ CLUG meetings

2004-11-04 Thread Jim Suydam
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 20:14:47 -0700, Shawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 04 November 2004 19:29, Aaron Seigo wrote: > > the idea i've tossed out there is to have multiple tracks at each meeting. Another way to handle the multiple tracks is to have 2 presentations at each meeting. Since

Re: [clug-talk] Newbie-Advanced Dichotomy @ CLUG meetings

2004-11-04 Thread Shawn
On Thursday 04 November 2004 19:29, Aaron Seigo wrote: > the idea i've tossed out there is to have multiple tracks at each meeting. We have at least 2, "divisions" in the group - advanced users, and newer users. Four, if you consider server versus desktop. So, how do we split the meetings to

Re: [clug-talk] Newbie-Advanced Dichotomy @ CLUG meetings

2004-11-04 Thread Aaron Seigo
On November 4, 2004 19:11, Tom Weniger wrote: > I think that the advantage would provide the membership an opportunity > to attend the meeting that they want to hear a presentation at their > interest level and that there would be enough time to make a thorough > presentation. Would this not provid

Re: [clug-talk] Newbie-Advanced Dichotomy @ CLUG meetings

2004-11-04 Thread Tom Weniger
On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 17:28, Aaron Seigo wrote: > what are, in your mind, the advantages of this plan? it's hard to comment on > an idea/opinion without understanding some of the "why" behind it ... =) > > seems to me that alternating as you suggest would make every meeting suck for > someone, p

Re: [clug-talk] Newbie-Advanced Dichotomy @ CLUG meetings

2004-11-04 Thread Aaron Seigo
On November 4, 2004 17:24, Tom Weniger wrote: > I gave some more thought to the discussion that started at the > get-together last night and would like to pick it up on the list if the > Directors do not mind. > I like the idea of alternating between a newbie-centric presentation one > month and a

[clug-talk] Newbie-Advanced Dichotomy @ CLUG meetings

2004-11-04 Thread Tom Weniger
Greetings All, I gave some more thought to the discussion that started at the get-together last night and would like to pick it up on the list if the Directors do not mind. I like the idea of alternating between a newbie-centric presentation one month and a moderate-to-advanced presentation anothe

Re: [clug-talk] Newbie Konqueror question (SOLVED)

2004-08-18 Thread Curtis Sloan
On Tue August 17 2004 22:20, you wrote: > On Tue August 17 2004 19:03, you wrote: > > On Sat August 14 2004 15:59, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > > > > > > yes, it's a mime type issue. find the mimetype for it, open up the file > > > associations control panel, open up that mimetype and then go to the

Re: [clug-talk] Newbie Konqueror question

2004-08-17 Thread Curtis Sloan
On Tue August 17 2004 19:03, you wrote: > On Sat August 14 2004 15:59, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > > > yes, it's a mime type issue. find the mimetype for it, open up the file > > associations control panel, open up that mimetype and then go to the > > embedding tab and set an embedded viewer. > > >

Re: [clug-talk] Newbie Konqueror question

2004-08-17 Thread Curtis Sloan
On Sat August 14 2004 15:59, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > yes, it's a mime type issue. find the mimetype for it, open up the file > associations control panel, open up that mimetype and then go to the > embedding tab and set an embedded viewer. Well, I thought I couldn't be happier since the prev

Re: [clug-talk] Newbie Konqueror question

2004-08-17 Thread chris wallace
For those using apt4suse, the packages have been available for a couple weeks now--starting from Beta 2 (I believe it was). I'm currently running KDE 3.3.0 (I'm thinking it's a packaged RC2) on my laptop and I just noticed that there are updated packages available for kdebase3 and a host of oth

Re: [clug-talk] Newbie Konqueror question

2004-08-16 Thread Aaron Seigo
On Sunday 15 August 2004 00:46, Curtis Sloan wrote: > Where do I get this so-called "3.3"? Alas, I shall just have to wait like > the other mere mortals for a public release. ;-) you can get it from cvs.. it's been tagged... we're just waiting for binaries before we go uploading and announcing.

Re: [clug-talk] Newbie Konqueror question

2004-08-14 Thread Curtis Sloan
On Sat August 14 2004 15:59, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > (if using 3.3) or else select File Associations (i think that's what is was > called prior to 3.3... it's been a while ;) and set it there. Where do I get this so-called "3.3"? Alas, I shall just have to wait like the other mere mortals for a

Re: [clug-talk] Newbie Konqueror question

2004-08-14 Thread Curtis Sloan
On Sat August 14 2004 15:59, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Saturday 14 August 2004 01:00, Curtis Sloan wrote: > > I have a very newbie question (feel free to send RTFM replies if > > warranted ;-). If I try to open a text file from the a link on a web > > page (e.g. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/ke

Re: [clug-talk] Newbie Konqueror question

2004-08-14 Thread Curtis Sloan
On Sat August 14 2004 15:39, Neil Bower wrote: > On Sat August 14 2004 13:00, Curtis Sloan wrote: > > I have a very newbie question (feel free to send RTFM replies if > > warranted ;-). If I try to open a text file from the a link on a web > > page (e.g. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6

Re: [clug-talk] Newbie Konqueror question

2004-08-14 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Saturday 14 August 2004 01:00, Curtis Sloan wrote: > I have a very newbie question (feel free to send RTFM replies if > warranted ;-). If I try to open a text file from the a link on a web page > (e.g. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.8) I get > prompted to either "Save

Re: [clug-talk] Newbie Konqueror question

2004-08-14 Thread Neil Bower
On Sat August 14 2004 13:00, Curtis Sloan wrote: > I have a very newbie question (feel free to send RTFM replies if > warranted ;-). If I try to open a text file from the a link on a web page > (e.g. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.8) I get > prompted to either "Save" or

Re: [clug-talk] Newbie Konqueror question

2004-08-14 Thread Neil Bower
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat August 14 2004 13:00, Curtis Sloan wrote: > I have a very newbie question (feel free to send RTFM replies if > warranted ;-). If I try to open a text file from the a link on a web page > (e.g. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeL

Re: [clug-talk] Newbie Konqueror question

2004-08-14 Thread Neil Bower
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat August 14 2004 13:00, Curtis Sloan wrote: > I have a very newbie question (feel free to send RTFM replies if > warranted ;-). If I try to open a text file from the a link on a web page > (e.g. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeL

[clug-talk] Newbie Konqueror question

2004-08-14 Thread Curtis Sloan
I have a very newbie question (feel free to send RTFM replies if warranted ;-). If I try to open a text file from the a link on a web page (e.g. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.8) I get prompted to either "Save" or "Open with 'KWrite'". I would like to simply display