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Problems booting from live cd

Posted 10-26-2009 at 03:28 PM by 4restg

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Originally Posted by lhorace

You should verify the iso after you downloaded it (md5sum or sha256sum), you can take some extra precautions and verify data is written to the CD and on the Dell do a medium test.

Thanks for the tip, and I'd love to try your advice, but I'm very new to linux and, honestly, I have no idea what you just said. Can you help walk me through the process you're describing a bit more?

Thanks.

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Howto Install Dropbox in Ubuntu 9.10(Karmic)/9.04(Jaunty)/8.10(Intrepid)/8.04(Hardy)

Posted 10-26-2009 at 06:28 AM by sridhar11

Dropbox is a storage application and service operated by Evenflow, Inc. The service enables users to store and sync files online and between computers.Dropbox has a cross-platform client (Linux for x86 and x86_64, Mac, Windows and the iPhone) that enables users to drop any file into a Dropbox folder that is then synced to the web and the users’ other computers with the Dropbox client. Files in the Dropbox folder may then be shared with other Dropbox users or accessed from the web. Users may also...

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Lusus gets first music tracks!

Posted 10-26-2009 at 03:10 AM by CoderMan

Finally getting the first minor game in the series to a semi-attractive state. I've got one title screen music track and one in-game music track. I still need to add game-level capabilities (for variable difficulty), to make the interface much more colorful, and to add more words. But everything seems to be moving a long at much better a pace than my previous projects.

http://indicium.us/cgi-bin/pages/get?view=lusus

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txt msg

Posted 10-25-2009 at 04:23 PM by rich_c

My thanks to Silverbear on the MepisLovers forum for bringing to my attention a genius analogy! It concerns using the CLI.

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Suggestion: forget the old farts who are afraid to type. Tell a young person that using the command line is faster, because it's directly text-messaging the operating system.

I'll certainly use that one!

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The same GTK project with a bug fix

Posted 10-25-2009 at 03:28 PM by radiodee1
Updated 10-25-2009 at 03:56 PM by radiodee1

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There was this bug in my GTK project. The correct version number for a package didn't always show up. I fixed that in the most recent version.

Here's the link.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gaptsearch/

GAPTSEARCH
The idea behind this project is to have a way to search and display package information on a debian system, in a graphical way, without having to become root user.

As a consequence, the program...

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