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| Srgnt Billko 2006-11-19, 4:29 pm |
| Thanks to all who replied to my monitor question. I was going to pick up
the 19" widescreen Hanns-G but switched at the last minute when I saw Office
Depot now has a regular 17" Hanns-G for $110 after rebate. I hate rebates
but my lady said she would handle this one. The fact that the 19"
widescreen was 1" less in height that a regular 17" was a deciding factor
along with the lower price. Hanns-G seems to be rated pretty good.
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| Mark Warner 2006-11-19, 4:29 pm |
| Srgnt Billko wrote:
> Thanks to all who replied to my monitor question. I was going to pick up
> the 19" widescreen Hanns-G but switched at the last minute when I saw Office
> Depot now has a regular 17" Hanns-G for $110 after rebate. I hate rebates
> but my lady said she would handle this one. The fact that the 19"
> widescreen was 1" less in height that a regular 17" was a deciding factor
> along with the lower price. Hanns-G seems to be rated pretty good.
Yeah, I was in there the other day and saw that sale. Pretty tempting.
Problem for me is I gotta buy two.
Maybe when the after Christmas sales hit... I'd rather go with a pair of
19-20"... then prolly have to buy a new vid card to make it worthwhile.
Switching gears...
You know those Russian nesting dolls, the ones that have a little one
inside a bigger one inside a bigger one and on and on? I just got done
running a little experiment...
Laptop running Ubuntu. Inside that, a virtual machine running Windows
2000. And in that Windows virtual machine, a customized PCLinuxOS Jr.
Live CD running in RAM.
It works. It's slow than pondwater (PIII 700MHz/512MB), but it works.
--
Mark Warner
....goin' mobile with Ubuntu
Registered Linux User #415318
....lose .inhibitions when replying
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Mark Warner wrote:
> Srgnt Billko wrote:
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> Yeah, I was in there the other day and saw that sale. Pretty tempting.
> Problem for me is I gotta buy two.
>
> Maybe when the after Christmas sales hit... I'd rather go with a pair of
> 19-20"... then prolly have to buy a new vid card to make it worthwhile.
>
> Switching gears...
>
> You know those Russian nesting dolls, the ones that have a little one
> inside a bigger one inside a bigger one and on and on? I just got done
> running a little experiment...
>
> Laptop running Ubuntu. Inside that, a virtual machine running Windows
> 2000. And in that Windows virtual machine, a customized PCLinuxOS Jr.
> Live CD running in RAM.
>
> It works. It's slow than pondwater (PIII 700MHz/512MB), but it works.
>
> --
> Mark Warner
> ...goin' mobile with Ubuntu
> Registered Linux User #415318
> ...lose .inhibitions when replying
That reminds me of my great work experiment........well kinda. My
machine at work has a network drive were my data is stored. When I'm
out and about, some other folks may need access, but they can't get to
my network drive. So, I use old MS Briefcase to sync to the local C
drive. Well that got me interested in remote backup. So I Briefcased
it to a memory stick so I could Briefcase it to my laptop. This is
important so I can Brieface it to my off site office network and my
external HD at home. Keeps updates to a minimum and if I keep in time
using the Arthur Murry school of sequential file xfer, life is good!
No briefcase full of blues.......
JimB
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| Chronocidal Charlie 2006-11-19, 4:29 pm |
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Mark Warner wrote:
> Srgnt Billko wrote:
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> Yeah, I was in there the other day and saw that sale. Pretty tempting.
> Problem for me is I gotta buy two.
>
> Maybe when the after Christmas sales hit... I'd rather go with a pair of
> 19-20"... then prolly have to buy a new vid card to make it worthwhile.
>
> Switching gears...
>
> You know those Russian nesting dolls, the ones that have a little one
> inside a bigger one inside a bigger one and on and on? I just got done
> running a little experiment...
>
> Laptop running Ubuntu. Inside that, a virtual machine running Windows
> 2000. And in that Windows virtual machine, a customized PCLinuxOS Jr.
> Live CD running in RAM.
>
> It works. It's slow than pondwater (PIII 700MHz/512MB), but it works.
>
Sheesh! Did having my attention temporarily diverted to Altruistic
Activities and Social Redemption Raids on Fellow Man, damn near cause
me to miss a chance to get...
*Even* as I pulled along in the equality lane?
You're engaged in some really *sick* *shit* Mark.
CC
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Putting a gnu monitor in place to replace one out of a quad head array
that is growing fuzzy.
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| Mark Warner 2006-11-19, 4:29 pm |
| Chronocidal Charlie wrote:
> Mark Warner wrote:
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> You're engaged in some really *sick* *shit* Mark.
Thanks, Charlie. Coming from you, that's a real compliment.
Been working on a machine this week: cheapo eMachine with a blown
psu/mobo combo. Got it running a couple nights ago, and got everything
loaded and all set up last night.
Delivered it this evening. Got a call from the owner later -- no mouse,
he says. Had him do a couple things, to no avail, so I went down there.
Sure 'nuff, no mouse. Even took a couple others to test with.
Brought it home, planning on double checking with a live cd of some sort
(to make sure my preliminary diag of lost driver/controller was right)
before doing a Repair Install of Windows. Hooked it up, and it's fine now.
These critters is spooky, I tell ya.
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Mark Warner
SimplyMEPIS 6.0
Registered Linux User #415318
....lose .inhibitions when replying
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| Mark Warner 2006-11-19, 4:29 pm |
| Mark Warner wrote:
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> These critters is spooky, I tell ya.
And on top of that, it looks like
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
just borked my MEPIS install.
Oh well, I haven't done any installs for a while.
Hope I remember how...
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Mark Warner
lose .inhibitions when replying
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| Chronocidal Charlie 2006-11-19, 4:29 pm |
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Mark Warner wrote:
> Mark Warner wrote:
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> And on top of that, it looks like
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> apt-get update
> apt-get upgrade
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> just borked my MEPIS install.
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> Oh well, I haven't done any installs for a while.
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> Hope I remember how...
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How kin one fergit something thet harrowing. ;-)
Only problems I've had recently with two Ubuntu Eft and two Deb Etch,
and I do a daily upgrade on each, has been either Firefox or one the
plugins keeps forking my proper playing of the CNN videos with mplayer.
Seems I'll lose video or voice, but seeming neither both simultaneously.
Tweak and/or reinstall mozilla-mplayer and fiddling with the gresemonkey
scripts so far each time has brought it back. I had to re-alias
sound-slot-0 on the Deb last night 'cause it was giving the
snd-usb-audio the slot, and I'd come up with no sound from my via system
till I rerun alsaconf. Same with my Logitech quickcam IM which was
getting the sound for the microphone in it, was getting /dev/video0 and
slagging off /dev/video1 on TvTime which default wants /dev/video0.
Minor day to day irritations. ;-)
Nutten got kilt lately by upgrade. Yet. XP grabbed four this morning and
Vista did also, but they both pulled through OK.
Got a noisy HV power supply on the monitor I gotta change out. It's the
oldest KDS I have and it's been through quite a few years of hard usage.
I been expecting it to go for some time now.
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Chronocidal Charlie wrote:
> Mark Warner wrote:
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> How kin one fergit something thet harrowing. ;-)
>
> Only problems I've had recently with two Ubuntu Eft and two Deb Etch,
> and I do a daily upgrade on each, has been either Firefox or one the
> plugins keeps forking my proper playing of the CNN videos with
> mplayer.
This is a kernel issue. Absolutely dead. I think I know what happened --
the MEPIS repository was down, so I disabled it, 'cause I wanted to get
an update of a different repo I had just added (looking to install
ntfs-3g, just cause I can, or so I thought). In the process,
update/upgrade installed a new kernel and headers from the Ubuntu repos.
I never even gave it a second thought when it asked permission. Must be
some sort of real conflict or inconsistency, 'cause she's deader than a
hammer.
Not even gonna try and do anything right away. If the MEPIS repo is
still down, I won't be able to do anything with it anyway besides doing
the base install. Heck, that's the easy part.
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Mark Warner
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