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I have an old Dell desktop (PIII-933, I believe, w/ 512MB RAM, running Hardy) with a fried NIC. I need to press this machine into temporary service as an internet/email machine for my mom, so I'm...

Hm. I actually used an install script (osxwinebuilder) to build from source. Fink had a missing dependency that couldn't be filled (arts-shlibs).

I've seen several reports that Unetbootin/Wine...

This is a little out there, but since this thread is linked as a "support forum" directly from Unetbootin's sourceforge page, I'll give it a shot: What font does Unetbootin use?

Here's the deal:...

Solved:

Operator error. :oops: I had formatted my USB sticks as ext2 instead of FAT32. Doh!

I have tried unetbootin, ubuntu's USB disk creator, and a simple dd.



F12. I don't bother with modifying the boot order in BIOS.

Honestly, I don't know if this issue begins with hardware, software, BIOS, GRUB, or something else. There's a lot of detail here, in hopes that one of you old hands will have some ideas.

I have an...

I started to do that in the first place, but the ubuntu wiki (among other sources) suggested it was easier to do it the other way around: server first, then desktop packages. This is my first...

There has been a lot of debate in the bowels of the interwebs about whether servers need GUIs or not. There are plenty of people who come down on both sides of the issue, depending on what the...

insert huge logical leap here



I'm trying to be nice, arrrghhh. I don't think you need to know why I want to do something to deal with why the packages aren't working correctly. If you don't...

Fine. These are not the droids you're looking for. 'preciate you bumping my thread for me. :D

Lots of people install desktop packages on top of servers for lots of different reasons.

Is this in the right forum to get some traction? Do I need to move it up to General Support? Bueller?

I don't know quite how to title the thread, and I did a quick search, but I'm not even sure enough of what's going on to formulate effective search terms. So, here's the situation:

I did a fresh...

I just had a "live chat" tonight with "Jacob". He said their engineers are working on it "high priority". No timeline, though.

You'd think somebody in the linux community would come up with a...

I found neither an explanation nor a solution. Even installing xfce4-power-manager was an imperfect solution, but it was better than having the machine just drop dead with no notification...

As far as that goes, since I'm formatting/repartitioning (for a dual-boot, OS X and Karmic-Gnome), I might as well go ahead and set up a few different partitions, for /Users (OS X) and /home (linux),...

Hey, all,

I've been toying with linux for about a year and a half, and just got a new 13" MacBook in July. I'd like to carve out a partition for Karmic on the MacBook, but neither Disk Utility nor...

Ok, I've been piddling with it (naturally), and I've made some headway, but I'm still not there. That is, some things are working like I want them to, but I have a new set of errors, too.

First,...

I'm using feh to set the desktop, and it's already centered. Weird stuff. And no, I'm not a Dave; just thought it was cool.

Thanks!
jeff

I'm almost there... having copied/pasted, trimmed and tweaked my way to a pretty cool conky. But the output from my weather script is kinda funky.

I'm learning, but I don't know nearly enough...

Openbox in Karmic, with tint2.

I've got tint2 attached to the system tray, at the bottom of the screen, and it's set to autohide. It's supposed to be transparent. When I mouse over the tray,...

Actually I was using xfe, but I couldn't find a lightweight volume manager for it (quickly), so I just installed thunar and thunar-volman. Fixed it right up, it did.

Thx.

Ok, I have another (what may prove to be a) dumb question:

I'm running a minimal 9.10 install, on my Acer Aspire One 110L, with openbox and xfe (amongst a few other things) built on it. When I...

Ok, I think I've got it solved. I added a tint2 panel, so I can actually use the applet. It finds the network, gives me the option to connect automatically. Rebooted, and it connected. So, unless I...

This works... sort of. The connection seems to drop out after a little while.

Ideas?


$ sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid home
[sudo] password for jeff:
jeff@Karma:~$ sudo dhclient wlan0
Internet...