Reminder from the Calendar of lugy http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lugy/cal User Group Meeting Tuesday June 13, 2006 All Day (This event repeats on the second...
lugy@yahoogroups.com
Jun 11, 2006 6:59 am
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I'll be there. Is everybody ready to b*tch about Dapper (Ubuntu 6.06) and Mepis 6.0 beta 5? Jeff...
... I just loved Firefox 1.08 when it first came out! So glad to see it again! </sarcasm>...
comtaco
comtaco@...
Jun 11, 2006 10:20 pm
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Hi, For those of us who were at the LUGY meeting, earlier this evening, I want to correct an incorrect math calculation that I did there, in my head, while...
Rick Horsley
rhorsley@...
Jun 14, 2006 7:09 am
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Hi Guys. I'm trying to install the driver for my printer in Ubuntu 6.06. Found the terminal and tried to run the command for the first step. Got the message...
It looks like you need to execute the command with SUDO as the Ubuntu locks the root user. Ubuntu has this documented at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RootSudo ...
also you can use the command: sudo passwd root when it ask for a password give you current user accout password then it will ask for the new root password...
... Hmm, I really didn't want to know this, but I'm guessing my 9 opteron and 3 Athlon cores are like 20X that. Opterons have 150W power requirement, ISTR....
I wonder if you can give me a little more guidance on my install problem. I have downloaded two driver files as suggested by the manufacturer and put them in...
That error message is somewhat vague but here are a couple things to try: * Make sure you are in the folder containing the *.deb package. * Call out the...
Reminder from the Calendar of lugy http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lugy/cal User Group Meeting Tuesday July 11, 2006 All Day (This event repeats on the second...
lugy@yahoogroups.com
Jul 9, 2006 6:59 am
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comtaco
comtaco@...
Jul 19, 2006 5:33 pm
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Hi: I attended the last user group meeting and several members suggested I send a message to the group. I am the program director of the Computer Networking...
Hi All... I'm the new kid on the block- from the wilds of Lake Havasu City. I am in the process of migrating from Windows to SuSE Linux... I am doing this...
Don: HP tends to be friendly to Linux. Some of their machines overseas are sold with linux as the operating system. Unless you are a computer geek, or want...
... I like this one.. :) http://nix.synchro.net/404 -- Michael J. Ryan - tracker1(at)theroughnecks(dot)com - www.theroughnecks.net icq: 4935386 - AIM/AOL:...
Dan- Thanks for the input- I have settled on Suse for a couple of reasons- I have used Novell stuff in several different settings and, if set up properly, it...
Suggestions on Ubuntu, in add/remove programs, check the unsupported and commercial boxes.. install the Java 5 JVM, Flash, and MP3 support.. from there,...
I need a little help with Ubuntu 6.06 two questions First how do I log in as root to edit -ect/apt/ source list. second ? I have lexkmark Z700 series printer...
Don't know about the second, but you can get a root terminal somewhere under applications. It can be a pain to find so I just do this: sudo su - which prompts...
comtaco
comtaco@...
Jul 21, 2006 2:36 pm
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Regarding second point. I had similar problems and found solutions by going to http://monkeyblog.org/ubuntu/installing/ which claims to help with any...
There is only the one password in Ubuntu. ... __________________________________________________________________ Switch to Netscape Internet Service. As low as...
Unlike almost all other Linux distributions, in Ubuntu the root account is deactivated by default. They expect the user to use the sudo command instead. If...
Rick Horsley
rhorsley@...
Jul 21, 2006 11:32 pm
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You could also grant yourself specific sudo priviledges. Check out the 'visudo' command: http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/man/visudo.html It is a bit safer to...
Also, We discussed the Ubuntu sudo stuff a month or so ago. I looked back and found this link: Ubuntu has sudo documented at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RootSudo...
Thanks all I could not edit ect/apt list/ source. list after loging in as root. I just reinstalled , still working on the printer no linux drivers on lexmark...
sudo gedit Ubuntu is setup to never login as root, you have sudo acs to everything you would normally need.. :) note: this was probably already mentioned.. :) ...
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