KCLUG January 2006

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RE: where to shove the spare machines
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 13 Jan '06

13 Jan '06

Also look into mulinux. It was small before either of those. Now on http://mulinux.dotsrc.org/ version 14r0. Not under active development, but will work on a 386. There is also Tom's rootboot and many others. -----Original Message----- Monty J. Harder wrote: | On 1/4/06, *David Nicol* < | | If only there was a boot floppy that would turn the dust magnet into | something | that would be of use. | | http://www.linuxrouter.org/ ...which has been fairly dead for a while. … [View More]

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Re: OT: Happy birthday to me! (not really happy, I guess)
by Jon Pruente 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

let me try again, as I hit the SPAM filter again. Maybe I should put a bit more text into this? Or is it just that I can't start new topics? On 1/9/06, Jon Pruente <jdpruente(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Ever wonder what it's like to have a run-in with the KCPD, literally? > > http://www.applefritter.com/node/10153 > > >

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wireless cards for laptop
by curt 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

Hi All, I've been searching for info on supported pcmcia wireless cards for my laptop. A Thinkpad T23... As yet I have found little info other than some comments regarding the chipset. I would really prefer to simply purchase a card, plug it in and be done with it. The problem seems to be that no manufacturer seems forthcoming with chipset info. Can someone suggest a card that they have had success with and tell me the "Retail" brandname and model number? Beats the hell out of buying one, … [View More]

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RE: wireless cards for laptop
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 06 Jan '06

06 Jan '06

www.linux-wlan.org/ links to a list http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz and additional info, http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Wireless.html and http://at76c503a.berlios.de/devices.html That's where I refer people all the time to look. -----Original Message----- From: kclug-bounces(a)kclug.org [mailto:kclug-bounces@kclug.org] On Behalf Of curt Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 11:04 AM To: kclug(a)kclug.org Subject: wireless cards for laptop Hi All, I've … [View More]

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RE: Anyone have a spare machine?
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

Except for the customization that is possible. i.e. plugins -----Original Message----- From: On Behalf Of Luke-Jr Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 12:08 PM On Wednesday 04 January 2006 17:37, Frank Wiles wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 17:25:42 +0000 Luke-Jr <luke(a)dashjr.org> wrote: > > Aww, cmon. Firefox is for Windows lusers... Those of us who use > > Linux-based OS have better browsers, namely Konqueror. > > Heh that's really funny. You're the first person … [View More]

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RE: Anyone have a spare machine?
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

One thing that I see that could cut down on ram useage is using all KDE-based or gnome-based apps. I found out a while back that on me system with KDE and mostly K-apps, when I launched something like X-Chat or other GTK apps, the system crawled for a bit at 384MB of ram. So I switched to Konversation for IRC. End of problem. I mostly do web-based email now, and do RSS thru my Google homepage. Some of the other stuff I don't use. A big system killer if you have ram below 1GB, is bit … [View More]

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RE: Anyone have a spare machine?
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

KDE 3.4 is supposed to fix this memory problem. -----Original Message----- From: kclug-bounces(a)kclug.org [mailto:kclug-bounces@kclug.org] On Behalf Of Luke-Jr Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 10:57 AM On Wednesday 04 January 2006 06:25, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > I am looking for something that would run KDE / GNOME well enough that I > don't misinterpret its performance as a bug. I suspect video card + 900 MHz > machine would do the job. Although, beggers are not choosers. + a … [View More]

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Re: Linux on older laptops
by Luke-Jr 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

On Tuesday 03 January 2006 19:43, you wrote: > Luke-Jr wrote: > > On Tuesday 03 January 2006 00:19, Richard Piper wrote: > >> Just curious Luke, how far do you take this belief? Do you only run > >> computers which work with a free-as-in-freedom BIOs as well? > > > > If I had that choice, I certainly would. Ditto for firmware and hardware. > > I'm sorry, but at this point, you fall off the edge of your own world. > You claim it's immoral for an … [View More]

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Linux on older laptops
by curt 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

Hi All, This should start a raging debate! Are there any opinions regarding a good choice of distro for an older laptop? Thinkpad T22 w/384MB ram and Thinkpad T23 w/512MB ram. My only priorities are quick boot times, wireless support, firefox or opera web browsers and a decent word processor that can save files in .doc format. I've considered DSL, but would prefer reiserfs support. Thanks, Curt

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Taking a poll on mail client reply
by Tom Bruno 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

I'm tired of hitting reply and then realizing my reply went directly to the person and not the list. It doesn't make sense to _ME_ to default replying to off list because the whole point of the list is to see the questions and the answers. So i propose that we change the mailing list to put kclug(a)kclug.org first in the list of whom to reply so that when people hit reply they reply to the list since technically the list sent them the message. If nobody wants this, that's fine. I know … [View More]

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