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Pleasant surprise I have a nasty WiFi dead spot at home, so to solve the problem of poor signal I bought a pair of Devolo 'HomePlug' AC Ethernet devices. To give you some degree of security, they must be configured with an encryption key and the set of devices that can join your local net. Imagine my surprise to find a Linux dire... 25 Dec 2007 04:33
Fixed column width in Thunderbird Chris wrote: A slight annoyance, but one I'd like to get sorted. When composing messages in TB I can specify how to wrap the lines to a certain length, but it seems this is just for appearance's sake. For when the posting appears on the ng the wrapping has gone. Is there a way to get TB to use ... 10 Dec 2007 02:26
[slightly OT] Fixed column width in Thunderbird A slight annoyance, but one I'd like to get sorted. When composing messages in TB I can specify how to wrap the lines to a certain length, but it seems this is just for appearance's sake. For when the posting appears on the ng the wrapping has gone. Is there a way to get TB to use hard breaks when 'wrapping' ... 10 Dec 2007 02:26
Newbie needs linux advice [choice of distro] ac <"aec$news"@candt.waitrose.com> writes: [...] I favour Ubuntu (or Kubuntu) version 7.10 is current and this would be a good initial starting point - the forums and support community is good. Derivatives include Mint. Also consider http://www.dynebolic.org/ - it is aimed at media users I think. ... 10 Dec 2007 02:26
Newbie needs linux advice Rapidly becoming disillusioned with Microsoft, especially after the release of Vista and all the built-in restrictions, I think it's time to look at the alternatives. I know nothing about Linux, some of the screenshots in the mags look good. I am into video capture and editing, sound files, photography, and use th... 10 Dec 2007 02:26
What's accessing my hard disc? gkrellm tells me how busy my hard disk and CPU are. top tells me what's using my CPU time and memory. Are there any programs (GUI or command line) that will tell me which programs are reading from and writing to my disks? Every now and again the HD will burst into life, with nothing obvious showing on top, and ... 10 Dec 2007 02:26
OT: In-car Ogg player Just noticed in the latest Lidl flyer they've got in-car Ogg players from �50. Can't find it on Lidl's site however. -- <http://ale.cx/> (AIM:troffasky) (UnSoEsNpEaTm(a)ale.cx) 11:36:18 up 11 days, 14 min, 2 users, load average: 0.51, 0.40, 0.30 50,000 watts of funking power ... 10 Dec 2007 02:26
DVD burner with verify option? Hello all, does anyone know of a convenient drag 'n' drop DVD burner package like Gnome Baker but one that has a verify facility? Given that I find DVD to be the most dodgy of all the storage mediums I'm surprised that there's no verify facility on all DVD burning software. BTW I know about programmes like diff ... 10 Dec 2007 02:26
Activating XDMCP server under Ubuntu 7.10 Hi Folks, I'd like to run XDCMP around home (don't worry - I know it's horribly insecure). All the guides I can find say that I should use gdmsetup and tick "Enable XDCMP". Unfortunately, they changed the look of gdmsetup after 6.04, and that option isnlt there any more. I have made sure that the login screen ... 10 Dec 2007 02:26
File permissions help! Trying to get my ipod nano working with gtkpod but get the following error message: Could not open "iTunesDB.ext" for reading extended info. Extended info will not be used. Pretty sure this is a file permissions issue. How do I change the file permissions on "iTunesDB.ext" to allow non - root users read wri... 10 Dec 2007 02:26 |