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heiowge — Sat May 25, 2013 9:15 am

Author: heiowge

Posted: Sat May 25, 2013 9:15 am

I'm more concerned about them patching the little error with my activation timer...

RMS Speech

reklan — Thu May 23, 2013 3:16 pm

Author: reklan

Posted: Thu May 23, 2013 3:16 pm

I stopped listening to him years ago..

Transfering entire system and files to new HDD

catgate — Thu May 23, 2013 12:42 pm

Author: catgate

Posted: Thu May 23, 2013 12:42 pm

I was just going to start on this job when I suddenly realised that I had another question.
Do I need to format the new HDD before cloning on to it? Or will Clonezilla look after that?

Ubuntu: Has it lost it?

Oh well! — Wed May 22, 2013 11:17 pm

Author: Oh well!

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 11:17 pm

Posed as a dilemma, Ubuntu's problem is this: If hardware manufacturers are getting cheesed off with the control possessed by operating system vendors by virtue of their closed source software, then Ubuntu is no better on this front than the others if it goes down the closed source route; and if it goes down the open source route, there is little to stop hardware manufacturers using the code without the paying Canonical for the privilege. There are low barriers to entry for competitors.

Of course, the weakness of this point of view is in the premiss, i.e. that hardware manufacturers are cheesed off with the market power held by operating system vendors. If they're not, though, what's Ubuntu's advantage over Android? Moreover, why would any of them pioneer Unity, which hasn't even proved popular with the Linux community?

New NAS - Cant mount/see HDD drives

Ram — Tue May 21, 2013 11:22 pm

Author: Ram

Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 11:22 pm

You need to either edit your fstab and replace Hoth with its IP or put a line in your /etc/hosts file mapping the IP to the hostname.

192.168.xxx.xxx Hoth

Looking at the spec of the NAS I don't see NFS as option, unless you have set it up on the NAS.

In your browser try

smb://192.168.xxx.xxx or smb://Hoth

Lorem Ipsum

Narendra — Tue May 21, 2013 8:55 pm

Author: Narendra

Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 8:55 pm

Hello,

I have created a Lorem Ipsum Generator on the toolbar.
And when I try to to create A Lorem Ipsum text in a frame on a LibreOffice Writer document it shows an error and crashes but otherwise it does create the text without a frame.
Please advise.

Thank you.

USB to go on Nexus 7

nelz — Sun May 19, 2013 5:02 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 5:02 pm

Two years? Ypu'll have replaced it with something shinier by then

Incidentally, Nexus devices are the easiest of all to root. While Google may not actively encourage it, they don't try to stop you doing it. The Nexus devices are intended to be used as developer systems, so they are as open and vanilla as possible.

digital subscription to LXFvia zinio on android

beerstein — Sat May 18, 2013 4:53 pm

Author: beerstein

Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 4:53 pm

since nobody can help me - I will post here what I experienced so far.

The ZINIO digital version of LFX magazine can only be read on Apple I-stuff, Android and WIN 8 tablet-phone. It can not be displayed by Linux machines at all. Makes no sense to me. The .pdf files are protected. One needs a password to display on a desktop PC.
No one is willing to tell me where I can buy such a password.

Who put that password protection into the .pdfś ?
ZINIO or Linux Format or is ZINIO forced to put it in.

So far I bought a GBP 50.00 ZINIO subscription, which I will never renew,
I had to buy the back issues on top of it mailed to California, another GBP 50.00

I would like to see a complete how to on getting digital content, view and print on desktops.

OMG. What software patents?

normanHLinux — Wed May 15, 2013 7:46 pm

Author: normanHLinux

Posted: Wed May 15, 2013 7:46 pm

guy wrote

Quote:

Can anybody explain to me how software embodying my algorithm is supposed to differ from a mechanical or electronic device embodying that same algorithm?

Yes, this is an area for copyright not patent.

With a patent you are registering/protecting a tangible object tht does something. Copyright protects the specific expression of an idea.

For example, Edgar Allen Poe's 'Murders in the Rue Morgue' is frequently cited as the first detective novel (Wilkie Collins' fans claim 'The Woman in White').

If patents can be applied to an idea in software, why not in a novel? In which case nobody else would be allowed to write a detective novel without paying fees to Poe's estate.

This is what the Americans have done to software with the ridiculous application off patents to something that was sufficiently protected by copyright - especially as the US led the way with their Mickey Mouse extension to the life of copyright while Cliff Richard et al are trying to extend it ludicrously here as well.

error: out of disk.

Bazza — Wed May 15, 2013 6:39 pm

Author: Bazza

Posted: Wed May 15, 2013 6:39 pm

Now that you have found a solution repost a full description of your solution to the "Hints and Tips" forum...

TIA...

Logging into trisquel - LXF 171

Ben — Wed May 15, 2013 11:35 am

Author: Ben

Posted: Wed May 15, 2013 11:35 am

Hi,

The system should log you in automatically with no need to enter a username or password. However, there seems to be a problem affecting a few people where this doesn't work. At the moment, we're not sure exactly what's causing it and we haven't been able to replicate it here.

It's possible that there are a few faulty discs. The MD5sum of the disc I have that works is 1c9747758906617adf73a6b266f325f1 . If yours is different, contact discsupport@futurenet.com, they'll be able to send you a new disc.

It's also possible that there is a problem with some hardware configurations. If you have another computer available, could you try it on that and let me know if it works please?

Ben

File indexer suggestion

mm2ps — Wed May 15, 2013 8:18 am

Author: mm2ps

Posted: Wed May 15, 2013 8:18 am

I am looking for a program that will provide a list of my files and I can add comments to. An index list (maybe data base) of my files that I can add things like authors, description etc.

When the indexer is run it would try to match the previous comments with the correct file, even if it has moved.

I would not mind having to guarantee a degree of unique file naming.

Please, do you have any application suggestions?

All the best,

Douglas

One does not simply...

towy71 — Tue May 14, 2013 6:19 pm

Author: towy71

Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 6:19 pm

Alkmaar looks like a nice town to me, not very forbidding. Mind you I'm not sure that The Netherlands has anything that could be described as mountainous

Cron configuration file Readynas

pk_fox — Mon May 13, 2013 1:44 pm

Author: pk_fox

Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 1:44 pm

Ok, so if I edit the crontab with crontab -e and enter what you suggest I'll be good to go ? Thanks for your help

nelz wrote:

There are plenty of site that put man pages online, such as http://linux.die.net/man/5/crontab

Cron sends an email of the job's output automatically, as long as you tell it where to send it by setting MAILTO=you@your.email at the top of the crontab. If the job gives no output on successful completion, which is usually desirable, you only want to know when something is wrong, you can call the command from a script

Code:

#!/bin/sh
yourcommand
echo "Command finished"

and have cron run that script.

switching to Ububtu from W8

normanHLinux — Mon May 13, 2013 12:01 pm

Author: normanHLinux

Posted: Mon May 13, 2013 12:01 pm

Frying pans and fires come to mind?