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no negative billing here! Dell - Dimension XPS Desktop (fwd)
by blanco-S8qYAnHmZTt34ZA5RureAJ4VBq8PJc8F＠public.gmane.org 28 Aug '03

28 Aug '03

On 28 Aug 2003, Matthew Rice wrote: > Max Blanco <blanco-S8qYAnHmZTt34ZA5RureAJ4VBq8PJc8F at public.gmane.org> writes: > > I wonder if CLIC will recommend against buying from dell.ca for the > > reasons outlined above? (Aren't advocacy groups great?) > > Only when there's enough volunteers to promote these actions ;) > > Shouldn't be too hard to set up. Have you got wiki? I'm sure we can come up with a list of under five "checklist" items. Then rate vendors on how they stack up. This is where wiki comes in handy: many hands make short work. Then we can go public... -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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Dual-Booting Linux
by linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ＠public.gmane.org 28 Aug '03

28 Aug '03

Hi all, I have setup dual-boot windows/linux machines many time but now I want to dual/triple boot linux distros (Redhat, Mandrake, Debian) on one machine. How do I avoid conflicts with things like /root, /ver, etc... Has anyone one this before? Thank you!! Madison -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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Konqueror and Yahoo Groups
by fcsoft-rxKNY4w4koG3ikBYyZqyVg＠public.gmane.org 28 Aug '03

28 Aug '03

It does indeed, but none of the obvious candidates I tried seemed to make a difference to the Yahoo Groups server. The weirder part is that if I change the view from KHTML to KMOZILLA I can occasionally get a Yahoo Groups page to render. As I understand what view does, it is just changing the look of the browser interface buttons, icons etc. Why that affects what the Yahoo Groups server is sending is beyond me. As I said in my previous posts the KMOZILLA skin usually only works one layer in. ie. if I click on a link which requires that I fill in a info form the Yahoo Groups server seems to behave as if it never saw the info ... almost like I'm dealing with a browser cache problem ... I tried all the cache settings I could find to no avail. The true Mozilla browser doesn't seem to have any problems with this site. Mozilla doesn't seem to want to participate in simple cut, copy and paste clipboard operations (in KDE anyway) which is why I'd like to be able to use Konqueror. On August 28, 2003 09:37 am, you wrote: > On Thursday 28 August 2003 09:14, Max Blanco wrote: > > A very useful program called "snarf" can show you how to spoof. > > Check snarf-2.0.9/http.c, and options.c ("-m" spoofs IE) for how to. > > Remember to add that to the konqeueror tree, if you can get access. > > Or maybe kq already has this feature? Check the command line options. > > It does. At home, under Konq's Tools menu I have "Change browser > identification" which provides a bunch of preset browser IDs. If you don't > have that menu item you can customize the toolbars to add it. -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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Windows refund experience?
by lists-tZhE6lH4Esk+k03BA+Hq9g＠public.gmane.org 28 Aug '03

28 Aug '03

Hi, > > Well Dell certainly isn't the company to deal with. They seem to sell > Only intel hardware and only MS software. They wouldn't want to offend > their suppliers and risk loosing their special deals. Their must be > someone (other than IBM) that sell laptops without windows. http://www.emperorlinux.com advertise in Linux Journal and appear to have a special deal with Dell whereby they get windows-less machines. Not sure how the prices match up and whether they ship to Canada, but maybe worth a look? Oliver -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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Windows refund experience?
by lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys＠public.gmane.org 28 Aug '03

28 Aug '03

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 05:44:49PM -0400, Ian Goldberg wrote: > They in fact give a "Re-installation CD", including SP1. They've got to > present you with a EULA at *some* point, though. [Possibly after > bootup.] Likely on first boot when you are supposed register/activete and such. > But then we don't get to impress on Dell that they really should offer > to sell machines without the "Microsoft tax" included automatically. I > don't really like that I'm enriching Microsoft just because I bought > some hardware. Well Dell certainly isn't the company to deal with. They seem to sell Only intel hardware and only MS software. They wouldn't want to offend their suppliers and risk loosing their special deals. Their must be someone (other than IBM) that sell laptops without windows. Lennart Sorensen -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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Drive Imaging with dd
by lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys＠public.gmane.org 28 Aug '03

28 Aug '03

On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 09:36:03AM -0400, Kareem Shehata wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I'm trying to image the XP partition on my laptop using Knoppix and an > external 1394 drive. I've gotten both drives up and running, and checked > that both drives are running at full speed using hdparm: > root at ttyp0[knoppix]# hdparm -t /dev/hda > > /dev/hda: > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.19 seconds = 20.06 MB/sec > root at ttyp0[knoppix]# hdparm -t /dev/sda > > /dev/sda: > Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.87 seconds = 22.30 MB/sec > root at ttyp0[knoppix]# hdparm /dev/hda > > /dev/hda: > multcount = 16 (on) > I/O support = 1 (32-bit) > unmaskirq = 1 (on) > using_dma = 1 (on) > keepsettings = 0 (off) > nowerr = 0 (off) > readonly = 0 (off) > readahead = 8 (on) > geometry = 4864/255/63, sectors = 78140160, start = 0 > busstate = 1 (on) > > > When just dump the files directly from one drive to another, the > performance is spot on: > root at ttyp0[test]# dd if=/dev/hda1 of=shuttlepod.hda1 > 2260624+0 records in > 2260624+0 records out > 1157439488 bytes transferred in 64.225880 seconds (18021388 bytes/sec) > > But the moment I stick gzip in the middle, is slows down by at least half: > > root at ttyp0[test]# dd if=/dev/hda1 | gzip -1 > shuttlepod.hda1.gz > 2563337+0 records in > 2563336+0 records out > 1312428032 bytes transferred in 203.288912 seconds (6455975 bytes/sec) > > Any ideas on how to speed this up? I've played with block size and > compression levels, but I can't seem to do better than 10M/s. > BTW: Anyone looking for motivation, my company is mainly a microsoft shop > at the moment. Ghost doesn't support 1394, and our laptops have USB1.1 > only. Imaging used to be a pain (e.g. > 3 hours). Not only would > efficient imaging allow me to install linux on my laptop, it would prove a > valuable tool. Have you looked at top while running dd with gzip? Might be CPU limited. Lennart Sorensen -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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Help! Disk space error
by lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys＠public.gmane.org 28 Aug '03

28 Aug '03

On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:10:36AM -0500, Andrew Malcolmson wrote: > Yeah, try out this BootitNG, which looks pretty good, or burn a copy of > Knoppix and you'll have disk related utilities such as: > ntfsresize (as already mentioned - I think the fact that it's on Knoppix > is a vote of confidence for this program) > qtparted (graphical parted - no console version for some reason) > partimage and partimaged - partition imaging client and server > install-mbr > sfdisk > cfdisk > Logical Volume Manager tools > etc. > etc. > > I own Partition Magic 7 but hardly use it anymore. Only supports ext2 > and I'm not spending $50 US to ugrade to PQM 8 to get ext3 but not > ReiserFS support. Also, some people report problems with Linux > partitions made by PQM. I haven't seen any, but there may be. I don't create partitions with partition magic. Using tune2fs to change ext3 to ext2 before resizing and back is not that big a deal. But if a free tool will do it too, then that is even better. Lennart Sorensen -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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no negative billing here! Dell - Dimension XPS Desktop (fwd)
by matt-s/rLXaiAEBtBDgjK7y7TUQ＠public.gmane.org 28 Aug '03

28 Aug '03

Max Blanco <blanco-S8qYAnHmZTt34ZA5RureAJ4VBq8PJc8F at public.gmane.org> writes: > I wonder if CLIC will recommend against buying from dell.ca for the > reasons outlined above? (Aren't advocacy groups great?) Only when there's enough volunteers to promote these actions ;) -- matthew rice <matt-s/rLXaiAEBtBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> starnix inc. phone: 905-771-0017 x242 thornhill, ontario, canada http://www.starnix.com professional linux services & products -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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Help! Disk space error
by andzy-bYF1QM81rroS+FvcfC7Uqw＠public.gmane.org 28 Aug '03

28 Aug '03

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 16:04:57 -0400 (EDT), "Keith Mastin" <kmastin-PzQIwG9Jn9VAFePFGvp55w at public.gmane.org> said: > > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 02:42:38PM -0400, Kareem Shehata wrote: > >> Shoot... I was hoping to use that to squeeze the XP partition on my > >> laptop to fit in Gentoo. Any ideas as to what I can use instead? I > >> really don't want to have to go through re-installing XP, not to > >> mention everything else I have. > > > > Unfortunately the best I have used is partitoin magic, which well is > > commercial, costs some $60 or 70, but really does work well and is worth > > having around for just such stupid emergencies (or bad planning on the > > part of the original installer). I don't think anything else will > > resize NTFS at this time. > > Yup.. its called BootitNG, and you can get it here > http://www.bootitng.com > > It does a lot of things, but one of them is resize NTFS (and other) > partitions. Yeah, try out this BootitNG, which looks pretty good, or burn a copy of Knoppix and you'll have disk related utilities such as: ntfsresize (as already mentioned - I think the fact that it's on Knoppix is a vote of confidence for this program) qtparted (graphical parted - no console version for some reason) partimage and partimaged - partition imaging client and server install-mbr sfdisk cfdisk Logical Volume Manager tools etc. etc. I own Partition Magic 7 but hardly use it anymore. Only supports ext2 and I'm not spending $50 US to ugrade to PQM 8 to get ext3 but not ReiserFS support. Also, some people report problems with Linux partitions made by PQM. ------------------- Andrew Malcolmson -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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Konqueror and Yahoo Groups
by fraser-Txk5XLRqZ6CsTnJN9+BGXg＠public.gmane.org 28 Aug '03

28 Aug '03

On Thursday 28 August 2003 09:14, Max Blanco wrote: > A very useful program called "snarf" can show you how to spoof. > Check snarf-2.0.9/http.c, and options.c ("-m" spoofs IE) for how to. > Remember to add that to the konqeueror tree, if you can get access. > Or maybe kq already has this feature? Check the command line options. It does. At home, under Konq's Tools menu I have "Change browser identification" which provides a bunch of preset browser IDs. If you don't have that menu item you can customize the toolbars to add it. -- Fraser Campbell <fraser-Txk5XLRqZ6CsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org> http://www.wehave.net/ Halton Hills, Ontario, Canada Debian GNU/Linux -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml

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