OK. This is interesting. I have now tried a variety of non-Debian, non-Ubuntu-based distros, including some built from scratch - tried with a variety of desktop shells. For all the current LTS or...
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OK. This is interesting. I have now tried a variety of non-Debian, non-Ubuntu-based distros, including some built from scratch - tried with a variety of desktop shells. For all the current LTS or...
Hi,
I am working on a lovely Windows-Vista-Era Asus Intel Core2-Duo notebook, preparing it for charity donation. It is in near-perfect condition, except for a weak battery.
I works well with...
You are most welcome.
@missmoondog
The distro has the Midori browser bundled because it is lean and small. But you can install pretty much anything, Chrome, Chromium, Opera, Vivalidi, Firefox ....
I don't know...
Wine, Wine Tricks, Play on Linux, Lutris
Hi,
Can anybody suggest an up to date overview of installing and working with Wine, Wine Tricks, Play On Linux, Lutris and the like?
I have only ever used Wine.
Can I install all of these? ...
A suggestion for trying to get older hardware to stream video at an acceptable level is the use of a blocking hosts file, such as the MVPS, there's no place like 127.0.0.1, hosts file - there are...
Hi. If you are desperately trying to get an OS for older hardware, I suggest that you have a look at the Ubuntu fork, Bhodi Linux.
The current version is based on 18.04. It is quite minimal,...
After careful consideration, I decided that this thread was the appropriate place to post this Youtube clip:
https://youtu.be/5Qj8p-PEwbI
The clip can probably be deconstructed in a number of...
AMD Speaks
Well spoke ... 4 days ago - the white paper:
...
Steve Gibson of GRC has recently released a utility analyse Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities on Windows systems and to toggle protection on and off.
https://www.grc.com/inspectre.htm
Hi,
Over the past few days, there have been many rumours about Meltdown and Spectre but far fewer facts. I am starting this thread as repository for good articles about the two CPU...
Hi,
Mr. Krebs is worth a read: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/10/what-you-should-know-about-the-krack-wifi-security-weakness/#more-41189
He tones down some of the hysteria which seems to be...
Hi again,
Mörgæs just pointed that Temüjin found a typo in the summary/tutorial I wrote up. Perhaps this is the source of the problem. Go back and look again. I have corrected the typo.
One...
Hi,
Mörgæs brought this to my attention. I will fix it in the two places the summary/tutorial exists.
Thx.
Hi,
Mörgæs and Temüjin helped me with this same problem earlier this year. Mörgæs directed you to a thread with a tutorial/summary that I wrote up at the end.
If things are not working, my...
Thanks guys.
LOL. No, not overly useful. I have looked at Roku boxes, but they are expensive here in Canada, and I have a nice old Shuttle PC that does a lot of (well ... some of) the same...
Hi,
Much of what is written about getting Netflix to work in Ubuntu, and there is much, is quite dated, pre-dating Google Chrome support for Netflix, pre-dating Firefox support for Netflix.
I...
Date 3-Feb-17
SIS 771/671 Video Chipset Driver Installation Guide
This post presents a solution for installing Linux SIS drivers on an Olidata U40SL1 notebook. This notebook is apparently...
After using Google translate to troll through Spanish language support forums and following up dead links at Wims BIOS, I see that this particular model of laptop has been plagued by BIOS problems -...
Curiously, if I boot up with the power adapter attached, unplug the power adapter, and then hot reboot, the notebook will complete the boot process successfully with only battery power.
If I...
Olidata U40SL1 notebook - won't complete boot on battery power
Preamble
I am refurbing an older Olidata U40SL1 notebook for charity. This notebook is apparently identical to ECS, Uniwill, and Olivetti units with the same model number.
I am stress...
Hi,
Thanks for the reply.
You are correct. It does not sound right, and networking services should always start.
What I was getting when I started up with the LAN cable unplugged was pretty...
Olidata U40SL1 notebook - Wireless NIC off at POST
Preamble
I am refurbing an older Olidata U40SL1 notebook for charity. This notebook is apparently identical to ECS, Uniwill, and Olivetti units with the same model number.
I am trying to...
Summary
This post presents a solution for installing Linux SIS drivers on an Olidata U40SL1 notebook. This notebook is apparently identical to ECS, Uniwill, and Olivetti units with the same model...
Hooray!
The SIS drivers are loaded. 1280x800 res. Better clarity. Better colour. Aspect ratio no longer slightly off.
Cool. Thanks, Temüjin.
In the next while, I will summarize what was...