On Thursday 15 May 2008, Justin wrote:
> Didn't they made a low cost version for the far east market? Perhaps
> they saved the money by reducing such things!?
> I think Mick's explanation is plausible.
The released a low-cost, cut-down, crippled version for places where
piracy was rampant. I thi
On Sunday 11 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> It's more like a magnificent hand-made piece of fine Italian
> machinery.
All Italian machinery I've had the misfortune to be acquainted with (from
cars to washing machines) have turned out to be rust buckets (literally).
Italians should stick to m
On Friday 09 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote:
> 1) Is there a way for me to read the bootable ISO image into a
> directory on my machine
> 2) Edit the files
> 3) Make a new ISO image from the directory (mkisofs?)
>
>This seems 'relatively' straight forward. I haven't built it yet
> but I found iso
On Thursday 03 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> That's for the K-menu, I'm looking to populate Go on Konqueror's menu
> bar, which is something else entirely.
Silly me, I mis-read your question :-/
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On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Short question: What determines how the Go menu in Konqueror is
> populated?
have you fiddled with:
right-click (on the taskbar menu button) ->
[Panel Menu] ->
[Configure Panel] ->
[Menus]
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On Sunday 02 March 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> "What supports what" is a good reason for non-filesystem backups. For
> example partimage has trouble with XFS (still...after all these
> years...). A program like dd doesn't care the fs. Call it a device
> backup if you like. This is your bas
On Saturday 17 November 2007, Bryan Whitehead wrote:
> As an example, it looks like the Firefox/Mozilla people want to
> enforce the "first way". So people like me (who love highlighting and
> clicking) get pissed off because the behavior is changed in JUST
> firefox. It doesn't feel consistent.
On Friday 16 November 2007, Bryan Whitehead wrote:
> This is the default behavior of X. Highlighting IS copying to the
> clipboard.
My point is that text which I did not *specifically* highlighted should
never be placed in the clipboard (whether primary/secondary/whatever).
Real life example:
On Friday 16 November 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If so, then it seems that for me mouse-selection and Ctrl-c write into
> the same buffer. Can anyone give me a hint, where to look for the
> possibility to change this behaviour?
I use Klipper and have it configured so that both clipboard buf
On Thursday 27 September 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> wu-ftpd has very strong "virtual" configuration option:
It is not virtual hosting, it is merely presenting different directories
depending on the user/password (the domain plays no part) - although that
not mean it's not useful. IOW it i
On Thursday 27 September 2007, Jarry wrote:
> Crayon Shin Chan wrote:
> > You can't do virtual hosting using domain names in ftp
>
> I think wu-ftpd does support virtual ftp-hosting using domain-names.
I would love to know how it does the impossible - since the ftp protocol
d
On Wednesday 26 September 2007, Daevid Vincent wrote:
> the example /usr/share/doc/vsftpd-2.0.5-r3/examples/VIRTUAL_HOSTS only
> talks about how to do this with separate IP addresses, is there a way
> to have ftp.daevid.com and ftp.company.com all work from the same
> server IP but have different
On Saturday 18 August 2007 06:30, Philip Webb wrote:
> I've successfully mounted the stick & copied a file onto it:
> it seems you have to 'umount' it before the file is really stored.
For performance reasons a write-cache is used - changes to the filesystem
aren't effected immediately. Issuing
On Monday 23 July 2007 23:14, Mick wrote:
> If your local Dell distributor can't/won't get it for you, can't you
> import it from the US? Of course, it may take a tad longer to arrive
> and you will have to pay some import tax.
I had been considering the Inspiron 1520 which I believe is (or will
On Tuesday 24 July 2007 04:21, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> I broke a GB stick in a couple of months by writing 700MB
> files to it.
For reference, when it broke, what happened? Does it die outright, or do
you get intermittent failures?
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On Sunday 22 July 2007 22:53, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> I've had very good luck with my dellbuntu system.
Which model is this? Presumably it is a "standard" model but with Ubuntu
pre-installed instead some wannabe OS. According to this:
http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/05/01/1
I'm looking for a new notebook (to run Gentoo of course). I don't want the
latest nor the best (too expensive), but it needs to have Core 2 Duo. Are
there any particular manufacturers/models where "it just works" in terms
of driver support? 2 items that I would like for it to "just work" with
t
On Sunday 22 July 2007 15:20, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> Hmm, why is this a problem? As long as you always umount before pulling
> the USB stick your data will be save. You may also try to sync
> manually.
In fact it is an advantage, because apparently the "sync" option causes
unnecessary extra wri
On Thursday 19 July 2007 01:28, Anno v. Heimburg wrote:
> I remember a rather old (mid-90s) study done by WD which concluded that
> a start-up poses wear on the HD equivalent to 30h of idling. I can't
> find it any more, and it's been ten years, so things might be different
> these days, but the p
On Sunday 15 July 2007 12:48, Thufir wrote:
> Why does depclean "want" to remove the pwdb package?
Maybe because it's no longer needed? FWIW I've removed it from two of my
systems with no ill effects - so far.
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On Tuesday 26 June 2007 03:31, Bertram Scharpf wrote:
> That will _enable_ Ctrl-S/-Q but it will not _disable_
> ScrollLock. I already tried that.
You could use "Control Centre > Regional and Accessibility > Input
Actions" to map the ScrollLock key to some program which does "nothing".
That'll
On Saturday 23 June 2007 03:04, Dale wrote:
> Little off topic but my Kopete does that too. Works fine until I log
> out of KDE then I have to reenter my password. Makes me wonder. ??
> These related somehow??
No idea. But it's odd that out of my 15 pop/imap accounts only the gmail
one had th
On Friday 22 June 2007 21:43, Mick wrote:
> BTW, a couple of weeks ago I *did* have problems accessing Gmail, which
> I attributed to the gmail pop server. It only lasted a couple of days
> and since then popping Gmail has been trouble free.
I had a similar problem about a month or so ago. Kmail
I have a gateway machine with a single NIC but several virtual IP
addresses. I have several instances of apache running, each bound to
listen on their own virtual IP address. All the instances of apache are
running in proxy mode. What is happening now is that all the apache
instances use the 'm
On Friday 11 May 2007 18:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Poor security of bind is imho similar superstition as it is
> for sendmail: once in the past this software had some problem,
> so now a lot of people think they should forever avoid using it...
If the OP doesn't need any bind-specific featur
On Friday 11 May 2007 04:29, Grant wrote:
> Hello, I've been using everydns.net as my site's nameserver but they
> were down for a long time yesterday and are currently down again
> today.
I've used zoneedit.com for years and have never had a problem.
> If this remote machine is my only web and m
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