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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.

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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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.

--
Michael J. Ryan - http://tracker1.info/

... FRA #239: Never be afraid to mislabel a product.

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

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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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

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.

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