I have plugged a digital camera into my usb port and mounted it using
the popup displayed from the auto detect via konqueror (this annoys me
as well). When konqueror is launched it displays the contents via
Camera:/ which is okay, but subsequently I can't find any entries under
/run that repres
On 10/24/14 11:58, jd1008 wrote:
>
> On 10/23/2014 09:11 PM, Kevin Cummings wrote:
>> on 10/23/2014 03:10 PM, jd1008 wrote:
>>
>>> With 8 gig of RAM, the 32 bit version will only make use of the first 4GB.
>>> So, I am still debating whether to install the 32 bit or the 64 bit.
>> Unless you are ru
On 10/23/2014 09:11 PM, Kevin Cummings wrote:
on 10/23/2014 03:10 PM, jd1008 wrote:
With 8 gig of RAM, the 32 bit version will only make use of the first 4GB.
So, I am still debating whether to install the 32 bit or the 64 bit.
Unless you are running a 32-bit PAE kernel which can address more
Allegedly, on or about 23 October 2014, jd1008 sent:
> Libreoffice can create PDF?
Yes, it can. And you can install a PDF printer, if it isn't already
installed, so that *any* application can print a PDF. However...
You get very little control over how they're created, so your quest for
a fully
Joe Zeff:
>> As you can see here,
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format it's an open
>> format.
Tom Horsley:
> Which is a good thing because most 3rd party viewers render
> pdf files faster and more accurately than the official
> acrobat reader software from adobe :-).
Nor a
on 10/23/2014 03:10 PM, jd1008 wrote:
> With 8 gig of RAM, the 32 bit version will only make use of the first 4GB.
> So, I am still debating whether to install the 32 bit or the 64 bit.
Unless you are running a 32-bit PAE kernel which can address more than
4GB of RAM
--
Kevin J. Cummings
kj
On 10/23/2014 08:06 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
On 10/22/2014 07:17 PM, Fulko Hew issued this missive:
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Kevin Cummings
mailto:cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net>> wrote:
On 10/22/2014 08:31 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
>
> Back in the day (late 70's), we had a "
On 24/10/14 12:35, Fred Smith wrote:
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 05:06:42PM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
On 10/22/2014 07:17 PM, Fulko Hew issued this missive:
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Kevin Cummings
mailto:cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net>> wrote:
On 10/22/2014 08:31 PM, Rick Stevens wrote
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 05:06:42PM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 10/22/2014 07:17 PM, Fulko Hew issued this missive:
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Kevin Cummings
> > mailto:cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net>> wrote:
> >
> > On 10/22/2014 08:31 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > >
> >
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 04:34:52PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> People running servers on a distribution other than a server setup
> (ie. workstation). How often does someone's desktop get a server
> dropped on it during development, then moved to production?
> Developers have done that since the
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 8:21 PM, Roger wrote:
> On 23/10/14 09:16, Tom H wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 6:42 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Don't know what an LUV is, but in any case this seems very specific to
>>> Yosemite, which has nothing to do with Linux (MacOS is based on BSD)
On 10/22/2014 07:17 PM, Fulko Hew issued this missive:
>
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Kevin Cummings
> mailto:cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net>> wrote:
>
> On 10/22/2014 08:31 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> >
> > Back in the day (late 70's), we had a "VCC". Clever reuse of the
> > no
On 10/24/2014 12:07 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
On 10/22/2014 05:04 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
Hi Michael,
Thankyou for your response. I do have the share mounted and XBMC
doesn't
present that either. It presents every mount point I have except that
one.
You will need to navigate to t
On 10/23/2014 12:40 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
but there are (some) 686 libs for those common 32-bit apps that need 'em.
Look at "yum list available | less" then search for "[356]86".
There is a barebones set of 32-bit binary libraries. No development packages.
Calling this an environment is dubiou
Tom Horsley wrote:
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 11:53:42 +0300
Gilboa Davara wrote:
I'd personally go with CentOS 7.0 (if all the required software is
there) or Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
Or if you find the horror that is the Ubuntu Unity interface too
much to bear, Linux Mint is essentially Ubuntu with a diff
Tom Horsley wrote:
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 12:35:58 -0500
Michael Cronenworth wrote:
There is no 32-bit environment. This is a feature of RHEL 7.
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/509373
Do you need additional proof?
That article explicitly says they will continue to support
32 bit libraries,
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
HI
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
bitlord wrote:
This is about Fedora 21 which is still not released!!! Please read
carefully. And it is only default on Workstation image (that is what I
know)
Thank you for the warn
On 10/23/2014 12:57 PM, Pete Travis wrote:
At first, there were a lot of "How do I do this thing I don't already
know how to do" questions. I had to set up the machine with flash and
rpmfusion codecs for her. With that out of the way, 'support requests'
are rare; it just works.
My older sist
On 10/23/2014 12:37 PM, jd1008 wrote:
>
> On 10/23/2014 11:35 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
>> On 10/23/2014 11:55 AM, Steven Rosenberg wrote:
>>> There are i586 Skype packages for CentOS 7 in the Nux repo:
>>>
http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el7/x86_64/skype-4.2.0.13-1.R.i586.rpm
>>>
andhttp
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 12:32:43 -0700
Joe Zeff wrote:
> As you can see here,
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format it's an open format.
Which is a good thing because most 3rd party viewers render
pdf files faster and more accurately than the official
acrobat reader software from
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 01:13:09PM -0600, jd1008 wrote:
>
> On 10/23/2014 12:46 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> >On 10/23/2014 11:37 AM, jd1008 wrote:
> >>>
> >>The primary apps she will need on a linux installation are a high
> >>quality (and full functionality)
> >>of a pdf reader/creator.
> >
> >There ar
On 10/23/2014 12:13 PM, jd1008 wrote:
Libreoffice can create PDF? Rightly or wrongly, I have been under the
impression
that the pdf format was copyright'ed by Adobe???
As you can see here,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format it's an open format.
--
users mailing list
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On 10/23/2014 12:46 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 10/23/2014 11:37 AM, jd1008 wrote:
The primary apps she will need on a linux installation are a high
quality (and full functionality)
of a pdf reader/creator.
There are several .pdf readers that come with most Linux distros. I'm
almost certain tha
On 10/23/2014 12:47 PM, Doug wrote:
On 10/23/2014 02:37 PM, jd1008 wrote:
On 10/23/2014 11:35 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
On 10/23/2014 11:55 AM, Steven Rosenberg wrote:
There are i586 Skype packages for CentOS 7 in the Nux repo:
http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el7/x86_64/skype-4.2.0
On 10/23/2014 02:37 PM, jd1008 wrote:
On 10/23/2014 11:35 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
On 10/23/2014 11:55 AM, Steven Rosenberg wrote:
There are i586 Skype packages for CentOS 7 in the Nux repo:
http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el7/x86_64/skype-4.2.0.13-1.R.i586.rpm
andhttp://li.nux.ro/d
On 10/23/2014 11:37 AM, jd1008 wrote:
The primary apps she will need on a linux installation are a high
quality (and full functionality)
of a pdf reader/creator.
There are several .pdf readers that come with most Linux distros. I'm
almost certain that LibreOffice can create them, but if tha
On 10/23/2014 11:35 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
On 10/23/2014 11:55 AM, Steven Rosenberg wrote:
There are i586 Skype packages for CentOS 7 in the Nux repo:
http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el7/x86_64/skype-4.2.0.13-1.R.i586.rpm
andhttp://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el7/x86_64/skype-4
On 10/23/2014 11:08 AM, Doug wrote:
On 10/23/2014 08:25 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 11:53:42 +0300
Gilboa Davara wrote:
I'd personally go with CentOS 7.0 (if all the required software is
there) or Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
Or if you find the horror that is the Ubuntu Unity interface
On 10/23/2014 10:30 AM, Steven Rosenberg wrote:
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 1:53 AM, Gilboa Davara wrote:
I'd personally go with CentOS 7.0 (if all the required software is
there) or Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
CentOS will most likely out-live Windows 7 and maintains a very strict
update policy (you'll have
On 10/23/2014 12:46 AM, Tim wrote:
On Wed, 2014-10-22 at 19:11 -0600, jd1008 wrote:
Any ideas what linux to use for such a person?
Along with other suggestions, consider the support aspect. If they
can't do it themselves, it's going to be you. Which distro can you put
up with? Either workin
On 10/23/2014 12:33 AM, ny6...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 09:39:17PM -0400, Doug wrote:
On 10/22/2014 09:11 PM, jd1008 wrote:
Have a friend who wants to try getting away from windows, which,
in spite of all the AV software the vendor had installed on her
windows 7, it was plagued
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 12:35:58 -0500
Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> There is no 32-bit environment. This is a feature of RHEL 7.
>
> https://access.redhat.com/solutions/509373
>
> Do you need additional proof?
That article explicitly says they will continue to support
32 bit libraries, they just ar
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 12:35:58PM -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> On 10/23/2014 11:55 AM, Steven Rosenberg wrote:
> >There are i586 Skype packages for CentOS 7 in the Nux repo:
> >http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el7/x86_64/skype-4.2.0.13-1.R.i586.rpm
> >andhttp://li.nux.ro/download/nux/de
Just to add my tuppence worth.
If it's purely viruses that are the problem then, as mentioned in
another post, you can't beat a little education on browsing habits,
combined with a damn good AV package.
If there are other reasons for switching (e.g. that Windoze quickly gets
bloated and
On 10/23/2014 11:55 AM, Steven Rosenberg wrote:
There are i586 Skype packages for CentOS 7 in the Nux repo:
http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el7/x86_64/skype-4.2.0.13-1.R.i586.rpm
andhttp://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el7/x86_64/skype-4.3.0.37-2.R.i586.rpm
They provide the 32-bit librarie
On 10/23/2014 08:25 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 11:53:42 +0300
Gilboa Davara wrote:
I'd personally go with CentOS 7.0 (if all the required software is
there) or Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
Or if you find the horror that is the Ubuntu Unity interface too
much to bear, Linux Mint is essent
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> The only problem you'll have with CentOS (or RHEL) 7 will be the lack of a
> 32-bit environment. If you need to run any Win32 or proprietary 32-bit apps
> (Skype) you're SOL.
There are i586 Skype packages for CentOS 7 in the Nux repo:
On 10/23/2014 11:30 AM, Steven Rosenberg wrote:
I'm also thinking about CentOS in this use case. It's still a bit
early for CentOS 7 in terms of both stability and extra repos, but
if/when I use CentOS in this manner, I will be using the El Repo and
the Nux Dextop repos --http://li.nux.ro/repos.h
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 1:53 AM, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> I'd personally go with CentOS 7.0 (if all the required software is
> there) or Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
> CentOS will most likely out-live Windows 7 and maintains a very strict
> update policy (you'll have to work hard to break it) and once
> instal
On 10/22/2014 05:04 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
Hi Michael,
Thankyou for your response. I do have the share mounted and XBMC doesn't
present that either. It presents every mount point I have except that one.
You will need to navigate to that mount point. Start at root (/) and navigate
down
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 11:53:42 +0300
Gilboa Davara wrote:
> I'd personally go with CentOS 7.0 (if all the required software is
> there) or Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
Or if you find the horror that is the Ubuntu Unity interface too
much to bear, Linux Mint is essentially Ubuntu with a different
UI plugged in
On 23 October 2014 02:11, jd1008 wrote:
> Have a friend who wants to try getting away from windows, which,
> in spite of all the AV software the vendor had installed on her
> windows 7, it was plagued by viruses that rendered it unusable.
>
> So, since she is not technically savvy, I was thinking
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 4:11 AM, jd1008 wrote:
> Have a friend who wants to try getting away from windows, which,
> in spite of all the AV software the vendor had installed on her
> windows 7, it was plagued by viruses that rendered it unusable.
>
> So, since she is not technically savvy, I was th
Instead of replying with one's own favourite distro,
The answer should be (as to be expected), "that depends on "
a) Which distro has all the software that she needs?
there might be distro's that are very user friendly install/maintenance, but if
essential software is missing and has to be do
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