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    Re: How many of you completely switched to Linux?

    That sounded like it might be something to try, so I installed and ran it.

    Got a few error messages related to .NET which is required by NI software.

    Unforunately, now WINE won't install...
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    Poll: Re: Do you participate in random polls?

    Shouldn't this be merged with whatever sort of Humor thread that exists around here? :rolleyes:

    At least I'm ROTFLMMFAO at some of this. :lolflag:
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    Poll: Re: Do you participate in random polls?

    Up to 14 liars on the forum now? (Those that selected NO on a random Poll):rolleyes:
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    Re: If money were no object what would be doing

    Well I suppose I'd continue pursuing my college Gunsmithing program and become a gunsmith.

    Since, well, I'm retired and "money is no object". :D
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    Re: How many of you completely switched to Linux?

    Until and unless WINE eventually supports the National Instruments installer so that I can at least try to get LabWindows and Test Stand to run on Linux, I'm stuck with occasionally booting *******...
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    [ubuntu] Re: ACPI / Thermal problems - Karmic

    Neither of these fixed anything on my Toshiba P105 that the fans run TOO SLOWLY on.

    Lots of people worried about fan noise and wanting them to be oof, heck I'd love to have that problem.

    I'm...
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    Re: Fan not working in Karmic

    I have similar questions...

    Where does ACPI get the information for "registering" this "device" and the name cooling_device3.

    I have different details but see the same sorts of things and can...
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    [ubuntu] Re: I need help with pvm sensors

    I have the same problem . Nothing seems to address this issue.
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    Re: anyone using a speedfan program?

    Thanks, so that works and shows the same data the the kSensors panel shows.
    So I think that lm-sensors is working OK, but my system seems to have very few sensors?

    But nothing allows me to...
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    Re: anyone using a speedfan program?

    That's what I get for copying text from a quote box! :(

    Thank you!


    Oops got too excited too quick!


    root@mhousel-laptop:/var/run# apt-get install sensors-applet
    Reading package lists......
  11. [ubuntu] Re: Fan Only Running at Minimum in 9.10... Need Help NOW!!!

    I've been fighting this since installing 9.10 on my Toshiba Satellite laptop.

    Posts to a number of threads related to lm-sensors, pwmconfig, ACPI, etc. None give any help that matches what I'm...
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    Re: anyone using a speedfan program?

    #sudo apt-get install sensor-applet
    Reading package lists...Done
    Building dependency tree...
    Reading state information...Done
    E: Couldn't find package sensor-applet
    #

    Now what?
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    Re: HOWTO: Fancontrol

    Same boat here...

    Can't figure out fancontrl, nothing works like the examples.
    Can't figure out pwmconfig either, nothing works like the examples.

    From another thread I tried:

    Re: HOW TO:...
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    Re: HOW TO: Install and configure lm-sensors

    I've tried all of this and still nothing will allow me to kep the fans running on my Toshiba satellite laptop.

    The lm-sensors and sensor-detect do not work as shown here on this particular laptop...
  15. Poll: Re: LVPM: Upgrades Wubi installs to dedicated-partition Ubuntu installs

    OK, so I finally got it all to work.

    Several problems that didn't seem to be addressed by re-partitioning and moving the WUBI installation to the new partition.

    1. In my case I had to wipe the...
  16. [ubuntu] Re: [SOLVED] where does kernel update pkg get drive UUID?

    What should fstab look like? This is what is in mine.

    union / unionfs rw 0 0
    tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nosuid,nodev 0 0
    /dev/sda4 swap swap defaults 0 0

    Also, the UUID's look totally different.
    ...
  17. [ubuntu] Re: [SOLVED] where does kernel update pkg get drive UUID?

    I have a similar problem, I think,

    I re-partitioned and moved Ubuntu to a new partition using LVPM but now Ubuntu won't start up and ends up at initramfs

    I see that the mounting of the root...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Can Someone Rescue My XP Install

    I have re-partitioned my HD, moved Ubuntu to it's own partition and then everything seemed to be going OK. I could still boot my damaged WinXP and Ubuntu just fine.

    But, when I restored my...
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    Re: Recover ubuntun in boot.ini

    First part works and now I can select Ubuntu, but of course it fails to boot.

    Where do we get this if we cannot see the partition that Ubuntu is installed on from Windows?
  20. Poll: Re: LVPM: Upgrades Wubi installs to dedicated-partition Ubuntu installs

    OK, so now I restored ******* XP to the first partition but no longer am able to select from multiple OS to boot from.

    How do I recover from this??

    BTW, the recovery disk completely re-wrote...
  21. Poll: Re: LVPM: Upgrades Wubi installs to dedicated-partition Ubuntu installs

    The combination of partitionmanager (PARTEDMAGIC) and the LVPM worked to allow me to successfully partition my HD, move my WUBI installation to a new partition. It also seemed to automatically use...
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    Re: windows xp wont boot

    This is the exact problem I have had except there was no "hard Reboot", I shut down Ubuntu and re-booted XP only to have it wake up dead as described in the first post.

    My ******* installation is...
  23. Poll: Re: What's the single biggest barrier to Ubuntu and Linux adoption?

    For me at least, it is that the tools that I use for my work are from National Instruments and they don't run under Linux (LabWindows/CVI, LabVIEW, Teststand, etc.)

    I think that this would fall...
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    [gnome] Re: nautilus gets tired when copying large files?

    Not sure if it's related but the problem with cp was when I also had Nautilus open and the target directory was currently selected.

    Part way through the copy that window grayed out. Sometimes the...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Can Someone Rescue My XP Install

    thanks adrian,

    From Linux. Yes, I installed 8.04 using the WUBI method without creating a separate partition. I did that because I was concerned about the effect of re-partitioning the drive with...
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