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Puppy Linux as a Primary OS for daily use. It's been working for me
by Oren Beck 23 May '11

23 May '11

I've been very happy to discover that Puppy 5 has been a quite stable overall "Just works" daily use distro. Less so from trying HD installs on some hardware, but running from CD/DVD or Flashdrives seems to be a winner. Which seems nicely in keeping with my preferred mode of having the OS and Userdata on separate devices. Oh- there's a zone of having "some" archival stuff on the slack space of an OS device, but NEVER as the "only copy" of anything worth worrying about losing. That concept is incredibly NEAT to use easily due to how Puppy's Pmount utility displays drives on the desktop with a prominent green DOT to indicate a drive's mounted. Yeah- that's a small trivial seeming thing but it's an example of how Puppy's methods work for me. I keep a shoebox of older ~20- 250 gig drives around as archived buckets of "if I missed something" history and using the IDE>USB cable trick allows me to painlessly take a drive from the box-copy whatever is needed for a mule 'puter around here onto the drive and NOT worry about leaving space for an OS etc. Boring stuff like pictures of Catfish contests etc get set up as a slide show on a guest computer running Puppy from CD or an internal Flashdrive. For me personally, booting Puppy from a Flashdrive makes whatever 'puter I am sitting at closer to "Mine" than many other tricks I've used with "less" chance of leaving traces of even trivial data on whatever HD's are in the machine I'm using. Last I checked- writing to an UNMOUNTED drive's not a worry eh? More details going up on my blog..

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Hardware
by Jonathan Hutchins 23 May '11

23 May '11

So what level of hardware (and expenditure) do I really need to get smooth, full-screen, HD playback of flash video? (I've been chasing this since the 90's, and the answer has always been MOAR!)

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Gnome configuration question
by Haworth, Michael A. 10 May '11

10 May '11

OK, so I have a desktop and a laptop that are both running 64-bit Fedora 14. The desktop has three screens and is using Xinerama, the laptop only has one... I would really like to copy my gnome configurations from the desktop to the laptop - allowing me to (hopefully) have a seamless experience between the two machines. If possible, I would even like to copy the packages (and their configs) from one machine to another and then set up some way to sync them during the day... I'm not looking to make a major project out of doing this, just wanting to know if either part is feasible and if there are any (relatively) simple ways of going about it w/out totally borking one machine or the other. Thanks, Michael Haworth ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email message and any attachments are for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain proprietary, confidential, trade secret or privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited and may be a violation of law. If you are not the intended recipient or a person responsible for delivering this message to an intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.

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Job Opening - Linux Systems Engineer
by Kyle Sheumaker 09 May '11

09 May '11

We're looking to fill a couple of System Engineer positions at Advanced Clustering Technologies. We are a local small business that focus on building high performance computer clusters to higher education, government, and large corporations. It's a full-time position with benefits (insurance, vacation, 401K with matching). Job requires a high-level of Linux skills, and interaction with customers, including some travel. You can check out the full details of the job (and company) at: http://www.advancedclustering.com/company-info/systems-engineer.html If interested please send me a resume. Thanks! Kyle Sheumaker Advanced Clustering phone: 913-643-0305 skype: ksheumaker email/xmpp: ksheumaker(a)advancedclustering.com

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by Oren Beck 01 May '11

01 May '11

Oren Beck 816.729.3645 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gnail Team <Gmailalertteam(a)in.com> Date: Mon, May 2, 2011 at 7:22 AM Subject: Gmail! Active Alert .. To: Did you log into your Account from another Location ? Yes/ No

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Regular call for software engineering assistance
by David Nicol 28 Apr '11

28 Apr '11

Who would like to help with my project? I'm still looking for someone who would enjoy regularly hanging out and coding on Sunday afternoons, including discussion of architecture, starting with what I've already got set up. No this is not an employment offer -- there's no budget for that yet.

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Sound Recording Issue in Fedora 14 with MythTV 0.24
by Peter Cross 28 Apr '11

28 Apr '11

I have been experiencing a sound issue in F14 with MythTV 0.24. The sound is similar to something out of an old radio (non-stereo). This issue did not exist in F12 with 0.23. I have attached a 9MB clip for those that care to offer suggestions and opinions (all are welcome). http://pjcrux.amahi.me/Public/The%20Ten%20Commandments-1.mpg I have checked the settings in alsamixer as well as the settings in MythTV and everything appears correct. Is there somewhere else I could be looking or haven't thought to look? This machine is the backend for all of my frontends in the house. My HW setup is as follows: Fedora 14 DVD x86_64 MythTV 0.24 (via RPMFusion) AMD Phenom x3 2.3GHz 8GB DDR2-800 Asus M3N78-Pro WD 160GB (for OS) Seagate 1.5TB (for videos) Samsung 1TB (For files) PVR-500 Hauppauge Looking for any kind of help. I've cross posted this to a few other LUG's I'm a member of and have received no bites. -- Cheers! Peter J. Cross San Antonio, TX "Experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions" -James Madison, Federalist Paper No. 51 Please consider the environment before printing this email

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TV Tuners on GNU/Linux
by Joe Holloway 28 Apr '11

28 Apr '11

I'm wanting to put a TV Tuner in my desktop at home. Initially, I'd like to be able to watch and record shows over TWC from my desktop, but maybe long term have some kind of media center rig that I could use to serve media out to other devices in the house. Anyway, I'm having some analysis paralysis going over MythTV FAQs and the like. Was wondering if anyone had recommendations or experience with a well-supported TV Tuner card on the more popular GNU/Linux distros? Can I pretty much pick from any of the newer Hauppauge hardware? I understand that to decode most HDTV I'd probably need a cable receiver feeding into the tuner. That's not a huge deal, but would obviously be better without it. I'd like to be able to watch and record at the same time (I think), so I'd either need two cards or a dual tuner, right? Any general pointers? I found some KCLUG discussions from a few years back, but thought it might be worth asking again to get some more current information. Thanks, Joe

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Re: Buying a New Laptop
by Glenn Robuck 27 Apr '11

27 Apr '11

I dont find that the adjustment to 16x9 is such a big deal, it does change the size of my windows and I have to have them a bit higher up though. I am planning on buying three 16x9 screens in the near future but I plan on using two of them in portrait mode on each side of the middle one in landscape mode. Works great for video and photo editing as well as coding. On Apr 23, 2011 12:16 PM, "Joe Holloway" <jholloway7(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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imap setups
by Jonathan Hutchins 23 Apr '11

23 Apr '11

We're having some trouble getting a MacBook Pro and a Palm Pre connected to a mailserver. We're using plain-text password authenticatioport with ssl on port 993, and both systems complain of an ssl error. I've installed the certificate on each device and told it to trust it. Has anybody had problems like this with Mac Mail or Palm devices? How did you solve it? Does anybody know what the limitations on what kind of imap configuration will work with these?

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