Some of you are already aware that I've claimed a Red Hat 9 laptop to be my main Linux laptop. And that's still true. I'd remove it from its docking bay at...
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Feb 3, 2012 2:02 pm
... heh.. i had almost forgotten about the old gnome-panel's tendancy to forget the position and order of it's applets. and, i also remember breaking a brain...
On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:31:00 -0000, "thad_floryan" <thad@...> ... Hehe -- happy memories! I remember writing a page about X ModeLines and how to use...
... Among other things, yes. How to rip an audio CD is another one that would have got me into trouble. It's amazing how short-sighted lawmakers can be. They...
... Hi Alanna, I'd have to check (system is off at the moment and I have to do some errands), but I never changed it from the default so it'd have to be ...
... Surely in France they have something like the House of Lords who can yay or nay new legislation. Thankfully I don't hear much about people being convicted...
... Hi Godwin, that's great info at the URL; I just saved the URL for future reference. I'm a firm believer in having something and not needing it than to...
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Feb 3, 2012 11:33 pm
... [scratches head] metacity was 9 years ago? funny, that's what i'm running on this computer this very moment. best window manager ever (other than it's...
... Hi Alanna, I just checked; the Red Hat 9 from 2003 used metacity. Metacity first appeared in 2002 and was, in fact, developed by the Gnome team per: ...
... Sort of. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_France#Legislation_adoption_procedures Trouble is, most of the people involved in this law were easily ...
... Which is pretty much what happens here in the US as well--had not google and a few others made some noise about SOPA, our politicians would have been...
Jonathan Riddell, jriddell at ubuntu.com Mon Feb 6 23:27:25 UTC 2012 " Today I bring the disappointing news that Canonical will no " longer be funding my work...
... Heh. Might give it some thought after another 5 years or so..... Is it really worth a thought? There is other ubuntu-based distro's with kde interface. I...
On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:33:07 -0000 ... My initial reaction? Why in Azathoth's name would I want to make my desktop look like a mobile phone? Apparently some...
... desktop ... But that is pretty much already what unity and gnome shell look like. It's just a matter of deciding if you like android better. Plus, there ...
... Yes, it's really remiscent of what's on the news. While they talk of the Kardashian's and Anthony's Weiner, under pressure from the drug companies, both...
... Without a "true" crystal ball, we can only speculate. But the fact that KDE developers deliberately ignore bug reports and think their users are the great...
... Interesting quote from von Braun. My Dad brought the von Braun rocket team to the USA after WW-II, and thanks to him (my Dad) I sat next to von Braun...
... Expletive deleted. Expletive deleted, ... ad infinitum. Poeterring again? Everything he puts his grubby hands is crapola, and reading or hearing his...
A problem was posted to a local (Silicon Valley) group regarding the desire to expose a security camera system to the Internet. It appears to be a junk system:...
Though FreeNAS is based on FreeBSD, it interoperates well with Linux. NAS = Network Attached Storage Description here: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeNAS> ...
An interesting question was posted to Usenet's comp.os.linux.security group earlier today [9-FEB-2012]: " Any hints on how to prevent a tmpfs file system to be...
... Interesting... But what is the advantage of freenas over, say a regular *nix server? Is it just that is makes RAID configurations a simple clickable...
... Nah... it's just putting everything together in a nice, easy to configure package. You could do the same thing with any *nix machine, you just may have to...
... That's sort of what I thought, but there is really not much leg work once you know what you are doing. Course I still recall the first time I set my ...
... Heh... yeah, me too... only my experience involved several re-installs because I kept changing my mind on the partitioning, screwing up the config files to...
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Feb 11, 2012 1:42 am
http://goo.gl/UQ5fc yeah, thought so. :) -- @-}-- alanna...
