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...
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Jul 9, 2006 6:59 am
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comtaco
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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
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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
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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.. :) ...
Reminder from the Calendar of lugy http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lugy/cal User Group Meeting Tuesday August 8, 2006 All Day (This event repeats on the second...
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Aug 6, 2006 6:57 am
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I'll be there and will bring Mepis 6.0 for anyone who wants it. This version is based on the Ubuntu repositories and my distro comes on 4 CDs which gives all...
Great, I Really want to go to a Meeting. I am a new member to LUGY and haven't been able to go to meetings because I always ended up with a class on Tuesday,...
Hi Gang- Been away for a bit as I had to roll out Suse on my desktop earlier than planned. The other day I got a message on XP startup that one of my essential...
... Cool, switched to Ubuntu about a month ago myself... I like it okay so far, sometimes it seems klunky, I think it's related to ndiswrapper, and the ...
Don't know about Crossover Office, and why use it when OpenOffice is available? I'd try that first to see if it will work for your programs. Dan T ... ...
Anyone familiar with two things? 1. I have SuSE 9.3 running on an HP AMD 64. When I bring it up and thereafter the keyboard has a rapid repeat factor and I...
Dan- I have been using OpenOffice for a while now and love it- Crossover Office, as far as I can see, is a turbocharged Wine that allows you to run Windows...
Reminder from the Calendar of lugy http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lugy/cal User Group Meeting Tuesday September 12, 2006 All Day (This event repeats on the...