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Problem with mouse buttons 6 19 (10/31/2008 5:18:51 PM) comp.os.linux.misc Since upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10 the mouse buttons on my Logitech wireless mouse no longer work properly (i.e. as they did before the upgrade). The reason seems to be that the mouse section of xorg.conf has been... Richard

cron #2 7 27 (4/25/2007 4:37:42 PM) comp.os.linux.misc Is there a way of setting up cron jobs so that a different program is run each friday, say. This would be easy if crontab allowed the numbering of weeks, but it doesn't - Richard -- http://www.psr.keele.ac.u... Richard

nvidia settings information 5 28 (4/18/2007 5:07:27 PM) comp.os.linux.hardware Does anyone know, or have a view on, how reliable the information reported by the nvidia driver via nvidia-settings is? I'm particularly asking about the GPU temperature. Mine (Gigabyte 7600GT silent pipe rev... Richard

graphics card question 1 26 (4/5/2007 4:06:52 PM) comp.os.linux.hardware More upmarket graphics cards offer better 3D acceleration. Do they also offer better 2D performance? E.g. does an nVidia 7600GS offer snappier normal 2D performance than, say, a 6200? - Richard -- http://ww... Richard

help needed with apache config 7 21 (3/25/2007 4:37:36 PM) comp.os.linux.misc I have a website on my home workstation (Ubuntu 6.10) that is served by apache2. Everything works fine on my machine. I also have a laptop and a wireless router. The laptop can access the outside world via th... Richard

bash script problem 9 27 (2/12/2007 9:36:40 PM) comp.os.linux.misc I have a script that has apparently worked well for ages. However, I have just upgraded from Ubuntu 6.06.1 to 6.10 and I now get an error. the relevant part is:- ......... CHECK=`/usr/local/bin/bogofilter -T ... Richard

apache2 configuration question 7 30 (9/3/2006 2:09:40 PM) comp.os.linux.misc I run apache2 on my home network. I don't want apache2 to accept requests from outside this network. However, not all the machines in the network are switched on at any given moment. I have Listen 127.0.0.1:80... Richard

Gaining write access to Zip drive 3 40 (8/28/2006 11:46:20 AM) comp.os.linux.misc I have a USB zip drive that gets mounted in /media as:- drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2006-08-27 18:37 zip I am using Ubuntu 6.06, how do I configure things so that I can have write access to this device? It ... Richard

X and mouse buttons questions 0 35 (2/20/2006 2:04:18 PM) comp.os.linux.misc I have an Acrox PS2 mouse being used with Xorg 6.8.2, and 2.6.12-10-amd64-k8-smp The InputDevice section of xorg.conf includes:- Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" Option ... Richard

wifi question 18 31 (1/18/2006 6:22:34 PM) comp.os.linux.misc I'm trying to configure my laptop so that it can communicate with my wireless router. So far I've installed ndiswrapper and the relevant driver and iwconfig gives: eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:"" Nickname... Richard

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nvidia settings information 5 28 (4/18/2007 5:07:27 PM) comp.os.linux.hardware Does anyone know, or have a view on, how reliable the information reported by the nvidia driver via nvidia-settings is? I'm particularly asking about the GPU temperature. Mine (Gigabyte 7600GT silent pipe rev... rkimber (114)

cron #2 7 27 (4/25/2007 4:37:42 PM) comp.os.linux.misc Is there a way of setting up cron jobs so that a different program is run each friday, say. This would be easy if crontab allowed the numbering of weeks, but it doesn't - Richard -- http://www.psr.keele.ac.u... rkimber (114)

ASUS M2N-E mobo and openSUSE 10.2 15 37 (4/28/2007 3:24:10 AM) comp.os.linux.hardware This will be my first PC build. I have read the reviews on Newegg and did some research showing that Ubuntu 6.x and Fedora Core 6 have been used with this motherboard. I'm not particularly fond of the hardware ... whirlworkr (5)

sensors (I2C) names 8 38 (5/6/2007 5:08:00 AM) comp.os.linux.hardware Hi. I've got an Asus M2N-E SLi motherboard and I put lm_sensors on it. gkrellm could already get the sensor data (I don't know how), but there was no way I knew of to get at it via command line. Anyhow the out... ebenZEROONE (419)

sensor identification 6 41 (5/11/2007 5:08:01 PM) comp.os.linux.hardware So I've got a question. I set up lm_sensors, and now I can see temperatures, fan speeds, and voltages. But some of them are not identified, or IDed with a low confidence. I see: eben@pc:~$ sensors it8716-is... ebenZEROONE (419)

can pan2 filter on arbitrary headers? 11 34 (8/21/2007 10:07:54 AM) comp.os.linux.misc I'm trying to configure pan 0.119 (which has new format config files in ~/pan2) to ignore the current crop of spam by looking at the X-Complaints-To: field. I've added the following to my ~/News/Score: %BOS [c... john.stumbles (147)

permuted index generator 3 22 (9/25/2007 9:55:13 PM) comp.os.linux.misc Long, long ago I worked on a Silicon Graphics Iris machine. They had what I call a permuted index, a huge paper book where each word was shown in context, with a few words around it: blue *sky* above 25 the ... yan (1418)

Printing a CD label / rant 7 34 (11/22/2007 3:47:07 PM) comp.os.linux.misc Is there a simple way to print a CD label? The only gui app I've found is kover, which is unbelievably broken. The fonts are screwed up, it clobbers k3b files, and it won't print times. And the labels are ... yan (1418)

UGH, TOO MUCH SPAM 26 40 (1/25/2008 5:48:03 PM) comp.os.linux.misc After adjusting my killfile I found that only 95 of the last 9999 articles in this group were legitimate, that is not spam. UGH. At this level of spam it's like a denial of service attack. UGH.... -- PLEAS... nobody6759 (345)

Problem with mouse buttons 6 19 (10/31/2008 5:18:51 PM) comp.os.linux.misc Since upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10 the mouse buttons on my Logitech wireless mouse no longer work properly (i.e. as they did before the upgrade). The reason seems to be that the mouse section of xorg.conf has been... rkimber (114)