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Opti 741 power supply 0 29 (11/23/2004 11:56:05 PM) comp.sys.laptops I've recently acquired an old Opti 741 laptop, but it has no battery or power adaptor. Does anyone know what type/rating of power adaptor this needs to run? Thanks for any help! Ben ... bengee

Can't send mail to local users 9 53 (10/14/2004 10:51:49 PM) comp.mail.sendmail Hi I'm having a problem with sendmail (8.12.8-4) on my Redhat 9.0 box. When i send mail to a local user, e.g... echo test message | mail -s "test" ben .... the message is never received. I dont receive any ... bengee

Fink/Darwin Ports 1 29 (1/12/2004 4:56:25 AM) comp.sys.mac.system Is it possible for Fink and Darwin Ports to coexist peacefully? I've been using Darwin Ports, but I'd like to install GNUCash and that requires an installation via Fink. ... Dirt

Panther X11 Default Shell 0 24 (12/21/2003 9:16:56 AM) comp.sys.mac.system Every time I start an xterm in Apple's X11 I get bash as the shell even though I changed my default shell to /bin/tcsh using NetInfo (which is actually reflected in the terminal app). Is there some other con... Dirt

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The insanity of so many different Distro's 16 16 (8/20/2008 4:46:09 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy I am trying to install some software on Ubuntu. I have read the instructions. They want me to configure, check all the dependencies, and then compile. I am thinking: just have one distro, and lots of options... psycgeeks (480)

CUPS horror stories 49 18 (8/26/2008 11:43:38 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy I've seen them posted by trolls here on cola, going back several years, and ESR wrote a scathing criticism once. Personally, I've never had trouble with CUPS, especially lately, the Ubuntu printer tool is easy... nessuno (2193)

Goodbye Linux - R.I.P. 152 23 (8/30/2008 11:42:16 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy It's true I'm afraid guys. The end is nigh. Find yourselves a new O/S Forget the "Year of Linux" stuff. Over this next 10 months it all goes - dead - deceased - kicks the bucket. It's all over. The lot - L... bbgruff (6628)

Linux: Made with TRUE User Friendliness in mind 41 18 (9/2/2008 1:15:07 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Over the weekend my laptop hardware went South. As I do all my work with my "Linux Laptop" it was a bit annoying. But as I use Linux it was not a disaster. I grabbed an old server machine and installed Ubuntu ... nospam244 (1541)

Debian kernel echoing networking related messages to the PC screen 46 30 (9/3/2008 7:00:47 AM) comp.os.linux.misc I am using Debian Testing ("Lenny"). Since I upgraded, I notice that during bootup all of the boot up messages are prefixed with a number in boxes as follows: [nnnnnnn,nnnnn] This did not used to happen in ... markhobley550 (897)

Looking for a wysisyg html editor for linux 45 16 (9/7/2008 8:58:10 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Just something simple to create basic web pages. It will be used with debian. A .deb package is needed. Thank you for any suggestions. ... mix (30)

dose ISR could be PREEMPTIVED in linux-2.6 ? 10 26 (10/3/2008 4:16:03 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy we know, a kernel task could be preemptived in 2.6, but i'm not sure that does a ISR routine could be preemptived in 2.6. any one have practice with this problem? thanks for hare the description on it. ... lion3875 (2)

A Debian stinker 27 20 (10/3/2008 4:14:12 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Our honorable (see the sig below) trolls would have us claim that all open-source projects or Linux distros are perfect, while they claim that they are mostly crap. Well, in the interests of fairness, here's o... linonut (8349)

Debian Stable: another Linux oxymoron 15 26 (10/6/2008 1:43:58 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy "I installed debian etch. Ran fine for a while, then the same freezing problem." #148 at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=412125&page=15 ... nospam11 (18352)

Linux Likes to Erase iPod's for some odd reason.... 9 17 (10/7/2008 12:58:13 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Imagine the 'horror when I plugged my 80G iPod Classic into the cradle in my Mustang and discovered instead of having about 50G of tunes, I had nothing. Nada... Just the prompt for language. The only things th... brick.n.straw (6130)