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From: Chambers
Subject: Well, *that* was a waste of time...
Date: 19 Apr 2008 19:26:01
Message: <480a7f89$1@news.povray.org>
This morning I downloaded Ubuntu 7.10 to try out.  After booting, I 
would select the option to install, and it would drop me to a terminal, 
with the system running off a RAM drive (ie, a live CD system).  No X 
server, no apps, just the built in shell commands.

After searching the forums quite a bit, it seems that some people have 
solved this by updating their BIOS.  Unfortunately, this didn't work for me.

Rather than trying the release candidate forrrrr 8.04, I'm now 
downloaded Fedora 8.  We'll see if that works better.

-- 
...Ben Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com


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From: Ben Chambers
Subject: Re: Well, *that* was a waste of time...
Date: 22 Apr 2008 01:11:59
Message: <480d739f$1@news.povray.org>
And this is me posting from Fedora 8 :)

...Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com


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From: Doctor John
Subject: Re: Well, *that* was a waste of time...
Date: 22 Apr 2008 08:15:04
Message: <480dd6c8@news.povray.org>
Ben Chambers wrote:
> And this is me posting from Fedora 8 :)
> 
> ....Chambers
> www.pacificwebguy.com
> 
...and this is me replying from my own LFS build ;-)

John

-- 
I will be brief but not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the
world's shortest speech. He said, "I will be so brief I am already
finished," then he sat down.


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From: Chambers
Subject: Re: Well, *that* was a waste of time...
Date: 22 Apr 2008 22:28:13
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Doctor John wrote:
> Ben Chambers wrote:
>> And this is me posting from Fedora 8 :)
>>
>> ....Chambers
>> www.pacificwebguy.com
>>
> ...and this is me replying from my own LFS build ;-)
> 
> John
> 

Yeah, I tried LFS a few years ago, but I'm really thinking I want a 
supported system with proper package updates & such.

----
...Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com


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From: Doctor John
Subject: Re: Well, *that* was a waste of time...
Date: 24 Apr 2008 08:38:46
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Chambers wrote:
> 
> Yeah, I tried LFS a few years ago, but I'm really thinking I want a
> supported system with proper package updates & such.
> 

Whatever works for you is fine by me as long as it's Linux ;-)

John

-- 
I will be brief but not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the
world's shortest speech. He said, "I will be so brief I am already
finished," then he sat down.


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From: Nicolas Alvarez
Subject: Re: Well, *that* was a waste of time...
Date: 24 Apr 2008 09:24:27
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Doctor John escribió:
> Chambers wrote:
>> Yeah, I tried LFS a few years ago, but I'm really thinking I want a
>> supported system with proper package updates & such.
>>
> 
> Whatever works for you is fine by me as long as it's Linux ;-)

Some people say:
Whatever works for you is fine by me as long as it's not Windows.


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From: Chambers
Subject: Re: Well, *that* was a waste of time...
Date: 24 Apr 2008 23:45:11
Message: <481153c7$1@news.povray.org>
Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Doctor John escribió:
>> Chambers wrote:
>>> Yeah, I tried LFS a few years ago, but I'm really thinking I want a
>>> supported system with proper package updates & such.
>>>
>>
>> Whatever works for you is fine by me as long as it's Linux ;-)
> 
> Some people say:
> Whatever works for you is fine by me as long as it's not Windows.

Well, for almost everything it *will* work.  There are just two problems...

1) iTunes.  I can't get it to work in any version of Wine or Crossover. 
  Are there other media players that can interface to the iPod?

2) SimCity 4.  My wife works hard, and doesn't play many games, so I 
feel bad not supporting the few that she does.  I'll probably have to 
keep the Windows partition around just for this.

I'm considering contributing to Wine myself, but it's not like I've got 
excess amounts of free time as it is.

Other than that, I've gotten Compiz to work (sweet!), and I've spent the 
last few days getting used to things in Linux again.  I've compiled POV, 
but I haven't gotten around to the Beta yet.

----
...Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com


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From: Warp
Subject: Re: Well, *that* was a waste of time...
Date: 25 Apr 2008 05:31:51
Message: <4811a507@news.povray.org>
Chambers <ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> wrote:
> 1) iTunes.  I can't get it to work in any version of Wine or Crossover. 
>   Are there other media players that can interface to the iPod?

  Try google? I found eg. this: http://www.gtkpod.org/about.html

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                                                          - Warp


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From: Chambers
Subject: Re: Well, *that* was a waste of time...
Date: 26 Apr 2008 15:02:06
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Warp wrote:
>   Try google?

Egads!  I'm Andy!

-- 
...Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com

Note to Andy: I wouldn't make fun of you this way if I didn't like you.


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From: Nicolas Alvarez
Subject: Re: Well, *that* was a waste of time...
Date: 5 May 2008 17:40:42
Message: <481f7eda@news.povray.org>
Chambers wrote:
> 1) iTunes.  I can't get it to work in any version of Wine or Crossover.
>   Are there other media players that can interface to the iPod?

Amarok can. And, after jailbreaking and mounting manually, it can interface
iPhone/iPod touch too.


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