dissable the "enhanced" 3d graphics (I forget the term)... odds are your 3d
drivers aren't working properly...

On 10/14/2009 7:34 PM, William L. Miller wrote:
>
>
> John:
> I have just run the latest Ubuntu update.
> I do not have the symptoms you mentioned.
>
>
> Bill Miller
>
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> To: lugy@yahoogroups.com
> From: john@...
> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:02:13 -0700
> Subject: [lugy] Latest Ubuntu update - bug?
>
>
> I just updated Ubuntu in the 9.04 release. I now find that none of my
> applications have the ability to resize the window. There is no border
> around the window. Some windows are actually positioned over the menu
> bar at the top making it impossible to select another application or
> whatever.
>
> Anyone else have this problem? Or is there a preference that I need to
> set to get the application frame back?
> --
> John Carter
>
>
>
>
>

--
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... FRA #111: Treat people in your debt like family ... exploit them.

I just woke up this morning and realized I missed last Tuesday's
meeting at the Library.
What happened?
--
John Carter

I tried to get the Prescott Public Library Founders Suite room
reserved for the fourth Tuesday night of April 2010, but didn't get
it. So I reserved the room for Saturday afternoon on April 24 from 1
to 3:30 PM. We actually have the room reserved from 12:30 to 4 PM, but
some time is needed for setup and tear down.
--
John Carter

I had a meeting with the Prescott Public Library (PPL) mentors
yesterday afternoon.

For those who don't know, there is a volunteer group of people who
show up at the library and give free mentoring on the use of PCs.
Recently, two members of the Mac User Group have joined the mentoring
program (I am one of them) to offer free tutoring on the Mac, and the
library graciously purchased a Mac laptop that anyone can check out
for use at the library.

At the meeting I offered to do Linux mentoring, and the library
consented to purchase Parallels to install on one of their IBM laptops
which will be used to run Ubuntu in parallel with Windows. This
purchase will happen sometime late December or early January.

If anyone else in the LUGY group wants to volunteer to be a Linux
mentor at the Library, please step forward. The only obligation is to
be reliable and courteous. Mentors do not have to commit to any
specific hours or days. In fact, between myself and the other Mac
mentor Jim Hamm we do our best to fulfill all requests for Mac
mentoring.

The library rules for mentoring are that one person can only request
mentoring once a week and all mentoring sessions are for one hour.
Currently, the library is backlogged up to ten days for PC mentoring,
hence more PC mentors are needed. There is no backlog for Mac
mentoring; Jim and I often give the "students" up to two hours each.
All students must register for mentoring with the library in advance.

Mentoring can take place at the library (a conference room can often
be reserved for privacy), or at the Adult Center in Prescott, or at
the library extension at the Gateway Mall. All mentors are given a
library volunteer badge to wear during the mentoring sessions.

The pay is great and it is doubled every week.

If you have any questions, I will be more than happy to provide
answers, or you can call the library (777-1300) and ask for Margaret.

And all this is in addition to our "free" meetings at the library once
a month.
--
John Carter

Hi: You might also know that there are Mac SIGs taught by volunteers
every Friday at the Library. I think it is a great idea. I would
volunteer if i knew more about Linux, but are you going to concentrate
on UBUNTU which is a Mac/Windows (?) type OS or terminal (Shell if you
want to be technical)  commands as well.

You would  have two levels of audience mental/memory capabilities
here:). Those learning UBUNTU and its "what you see and what you do
menus" for example might (an understatement) be lost in one of our
monthly sigs that concentrate on commands and scripts.

Which different version of UBUNTU and revisions,  or other variants of
LINUX,  would we concentrate on?  I think people will be confused when
they find out about all these. (recall. the various versions and costs
of Windows) vs the ONE current version of Mac OS.

(Everyone involved should get and read the book Future Shock published
many years ago; particularly the section on OVERCHOICE (if it was bad
then; think of today:( ).

David

El Charro
120 N Montezuma St.
Prescott, AZ 86301
928-445-7130
Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 7:00 P.M.

I've upgraded three machines to 9.10. The upgrade solved a problem I had with
one of my machines. I'm quite happy with the result so far.

If anyone is interested (maybe just the newbies), I have taken photos of the
different images during the upgrade process and added notes as a guide through
the upgrade process. You can access the PDF file here ->
http://www.jrcarter.com/Ubuntu-9.10-Upgrade.pdf
--
John Carter

Members of LUGY,

We are continuing to meet at different venues each month for the 'social' gathering of LUGY.  For the November gig, we decided to try El Charro:

El Charro
120 N Montezuma St.
Prescott, AZ 86301
928-445-7130
Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 7:00 P.M.

My version of Firefox is 3.5.2. It is running in Mepis 8.0, a Debian distro, on
an AMD64 dual processor machine. It refuses to display properly Facebook pages.
It also fails on some Amazon pages, and has recently begun failing on U-Tube.
Several LUGY members have reported "no such problems". A forum at the Firefox
web site contains many complaints of the same kind. Windows IE has no problems,
but I use Linux to AVOID Windows!
I need help in getting Firefox to work like others report. I need onsite
troubleshooting and repairs that are beyond my capabilities. Please respond via
email (alhawley@...) if you can help; I expect to pay normal
consulting fees to anyone who can rescue me from this situation.
Al Hawley

alhawley85 wrote:
> My version of Firefox is 3.5.2. It is running in Mepis 8.0, a Debian distro,
> on an AMD64 dual processor machine. It refuses to display properly Facebook
> pages. It also fails on some Amazon pages, and has recently begun failing on
> U-Tube. Several LUGY members have reported "no such problems". A forum at the
> Firefox web site contains many complaints of the same kind. Windows IE has no
> problems, but I use Linux to AVOID Windows! I need help in getting Firefox to
> work like others report. I need onsite troubleshooting and repairs that are
> beyond my capabilities. Please respond via email (alhawley@...) if
> you can help; I expect to pay normal consulting fees to anyone who can rescue
> me from this situation. Al Hawley
>

You're sure it's not a flash plugin issue?  I generally have had to go to
the adobe site and just download and stuff the plugin into the firefox
plugins dir:

/usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins/libflashplayer.so

That is, when I use whatever is the default flash player ISTR being in a
world of hurt similar to what you describe.

This is 64 bit of course.

But surely this came up in LUGY before.  At any rate, the current
flash plugin that I'm using, for many days without a restart, without a crash
or even silent weirdness, is

libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

Russell

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Howdy Jim

Decided to build a similar system.  Is the utility to unlock the cpu the "AMD
Overdrive" or is it some other software from Gigabyte?

Thanks,
Gary

--- On Tue, 10/6/09, James C. Bevier <jbev@...> wrote:

From: James C. Bevier <jbev@...>
Subject: Re: [lugy] New Computer Recommendations
To: lugy@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 7:12 PM












                   Gary,



Here is one I built for ~$400.  I has my own monitor and keyboard/mouse.

Here are some links:



N82E16819103680 CPU AMD|PH II X2 550 AM3 3.1G RT 1 102.99

       N82E16813128392 MB GIGABYTE | GA-MA770T-UD3P AMD770 1 79.99

       N82E16820134792 MEM 2Gx2|KST KVR1333D3K2/ 4GR R 1 64.99



Item Number: Item Description: Quantity: Price:

       N82E16814161262 VGA HIS H465FS512P HD4650 512M RTL 1 39.99

       N82E16817371004 PSU ANTEC|BP500U 500W RT 1 54.99

       Item Number: Item Description: Quantity: Price:

       N82E16811129042 CASE ANTEC|THREE HUNDRED BK RT 1 59.95



You should be able to add a 1 TB disk for $70.00 or so.  The motherboard

allows you to unlock the dual processor into a quad processor with a

firmware update.  Read the reviews Newegg reviews.  I changed the video card

later to an Nvidia one that would allow me to run Windows 2000.  It runs Win

XP up and most Linux systems.



Jim

On 11/15/2009 9:13 PM, G W wrote:
> Decided to build a similar system.  Is the utility to
> unlock the cpu the "AMD Overdrive" or is it some other
> software from Gigabyte?

CPUs are generally multiplier locked, the only way to change this, is to
physically bridge the pins in question.  AMD sells "Black" edition CPUs that
aren't multiplier locked.  Intel sells "Extreme Edition" CPUs that aren't
multiplier locked.

With a multiplier locked CPU, you can only raise the Front Side Bus (FSB)
speed, not a combination of multiplier and FSB.

AMD Overdrive is likely a utility that can be used (with windows) to
automagically overclock the CPU's FSB speed (usually needing other ratios
adjusted, as well as the CPU voltage increased slightly.

To be honest, pretty much any CPU you can buy today is a speed deamon that
likely doesn't need any overclocking, unless you REALLY want to, or do a
crap-load of video encoding.

--
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alhawley85 wrote:

My version of Firefox is 3.5.2. It is running in Mepis 8.0, a Debian distro,
on an AMD64 dual processor machine. It refuses to display properly Facebook
pages. It also fails on some Amazon pages, and has recently begun failing on
U-Tube. Several LUGY members have reported "no such problems". A forum at the
Firefox web site contains many complaints of the same kind. Windows IE has no
problems, but I use Linux to AVOID Windows! I need help in getting Firefox to
work like others report. I need onsite troubleshooting and repairs that are
beyond my capabilities. Please respond via email (alhawley@...) if
you can help; I expect to pay normal consulting fees to anyone who can rescue
me from this situation. Al Hawley

You're sure it's not a flash plugin issue? I generally have had to go to
the adobe site and just download and stuff the plugin into the firefox
plugins dir:
/usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins/libflashplayer.so
That is, when I use whatever is the default flash player ISTR being in a
world of hurt similar to what you describe.
This is 64 bit of course.
But surely this came up in LUGY before. At any rate, the current
flash plugin that I'm using, for many days without a restart, without a crash
or even silent weirdness, is
libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
Russell

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Members of LUGY,

We are continuing to meet at different venues each month for the 'social' gathering of LUGY.  For the December gig, The first choice was Porky's BBQ, but they close at 7:00 P.M.  So, we are going with an alternate suggested, The Palace:

The Palace Restaurant and Saloon
120 S Montezuma St.
Prescott, AZ 86303
928-541-1996
Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 7:00 P.M.