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broadcom; ndiswrapper; hp zv6130us 5 16 (9/22/2005 7:23:53 PM) comp.os.linux.hardware greets! by mistake (long story!) I got an hp pavillion zv6130us with one of the broadcom chipsets identified by lspci as 'bcm4306'. (the mistake was, of course, forgetting to ask hp about the wifi, the long st... felmon

OpenOffice and 'empty' rtf docs 0 36 (7/30/2005 6:22:03 AM) comp.os.linux.misc greets, this is weird. I have a document written in OpenOffice 1.1.4 (Suse 9.1) that is about 75 pages long. I came back to it after a week and find that when I open it in OO, it is only one blank page! howe... felmon

konqueror hang on dead keys 0 42 (6/8/2005 5:38:38 PM) comp.os.linux.misc greets! I am running SuSE 9.1 using KDE. for some reason Konqueror absolutely freezes if I use a double quotation sign in any input, at least in the location bar and in the input line to Google. (I imagine el... felmon

Conexant HSF soft modem (from linuxant). 6 52 (6/25/2004 8:48:45 PM) comp.os.linux.misc I was quite happy to discover drivers for my Conexant soft modem, everything works fine but there is a little problem, well it's actually a very annoying one! I don't seem to be able to modprobe the drivers. Af... hrv

resolv.conf with 600 permisions. How come??? 7 44 (6/25/2004 8:20:46 PM) comp.os.linux.misc After about 3 years of happy life with my trusty cable I recently had to return to a modem nightmares :(, it was long since I used ppp so here come my troubles. I spent about an hour trying to figure out why I ... hrv

Smart card readers and Linux ? 0 48 (6/23/2004 10:12:07 PM) comp.os.linux.misc Hi, I got this Dell Precision M60 laptop with built in smart card reader and am trying to figure out whether I can make any use of this smart card slot at all. It's not that I urgently need it - just pure curi... hrv

Client software for Windows 14 12 (9/27/2003 1:19:58 PM) comp.mail.imap Hi. I run my own mail server (sendmail) and access it via IMAP from a number of different windows machines on my LAN. I currently use Outlook Express to read my mail, as it's free and it was there already. ... smb

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broadcom; ndiswrapper; hp zv6130us 5 16 (9/22/2005 7:23:53 PM) comp.os.linux.hardware greets! by mistake (long story!) I got an hp pavillion zv6130us with one of the broadcom chipsets identified by lspci as 'bcm4306'. (the mistake was, of course, forgetting to ask hp about the wifi, the long st... noone5 (73)

Toshiba 5205-S705: Neeed Recovery CD 6 19 (9/25/2005 2:22:07 PM) comp.sys.laptops Lost my original boot disk for my laptop (Toshiba 5205-S705), which I purchased new two years ago. Toshiba says they don't make it anymore. My hard drive failed, so I had to BUY a retail version of Windows XP f... marcus1531 (19)

From a technophobe: "I prefer Linux." 38 11 (10/6/2005 6:00:28 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy OK, so I gave this guy the choice - Windows ME for �70, no extra software, office would cost him another �300 for a start off. He was ok with that, then he asked what his other options were. I told him, one-... james199 (2535)

Downloading to an MP3 player 10 24 (10/8/2005 7:09:07 PM) comp.os.linux.misc My daughter has a new MP3 player -- and want's to know how to download tunes -- I imagine using a USB cable, and the USB port on one of our Debian linux "woody" computers at home. Info greatly appreciated; a... lubkin (13)

SUSE 10 Sux. 22 18 (10/10/2005 4:33:49 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy I don't know about others, but for me SUSE 10 is a huge let down. 1. It didn't automount/recognize my 3 FAT hard disks like 9.3 did. 2. Amarok just plain sux. It skips like crazy and please tell me where I ca... chef1912 (5)

Why I hate Linux 26 43 (10/20/2005 11:00:48 PM) comp.os.linux.misc On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 19:07:05 +0100, win_not_lin wrote: > If I had to sum up why I hate desktop Linux, this is what I'd say. > > Quality (or rather, the complete lack of it) The desktop Linux experience > is ... bobbingbob (2)

Linux Banned At My School 79 56 (11/1/2005 4:10:03 AM) comp.os.linux.misc The powers that be have banned Linux useage at my high school and also at the college because they claim it is responsible for the hacking virus that we get all the time. I like Linux and while others think it... Weal (2)

Windows insecurity 45 14 (11/4/2005 7:09:46 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy I have been taking potential computer buyers to the Mac store. Being the resident geek in my circle of friends, they all ask what they should buy. I tell them to forget Windows and buy a Mac. With some of my ... mlw3 (1033)

Pishing mails on the increase? [OT] 43 31 (11/13/2005 10:05:24 AM) comp.os.linux.misc Hi! Lately read some articles about pishing mails gaining tremendously and people deceived. Wasn't aware getting one at all, so checked my spam filer which is cleared nightly from cron. And really a bunch of ... USENET22 (5462)

Attempted Linux Break-in 45 17 (11/22/2005 5:44:14 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Last night I watched someone in Russia trying to break into my Linux system. I was configuring a mult-card flash reader and decided to look at /var/log/messages to see if it was being autodetected correctly wh... thad012 (1555)