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Re: A Linux USB keyboard/mouse question
by cragos＠gmail.com 23 Sep '07

23 Sep '07

>> Do most Linux distributions boot up and immediately recognize a USB >> keyboard/mouse? (That is, they work automatically without the need for any >> special boot parameters/options.) >If you have PS/2 ports, you should use those with your keyboard and mouse. >Especially if the kb/m already have adapters for them. There is less to go >wrong with the PS/2 ports than there is with USB. Some BIOSes will not >recognize USB keyboards. If you have USB-to-PS/2 emulation available, and >enabled in the BIOS, the USB keyboard will be translated to i8042 (PS/2) in >hardware, and will appear to the BIOS, and whatever OS you load, as a >standard keyboard. It is best though to physically use the PS/2 port for >your PS/2-capable devices. Actually, even that's not normally necessary. I've used some old Super 7 motherboards that required that be enabled to have the BIOS respond to the keyboard, but Linux could care less - it Just Worked. The only time when I've ever, ever found it necessary for Linux's operation to set the legacy BIOS options was when I was using an early kernel (2.4.x) and a new, somewhat eccentric keyboard that wasn't recognized. ( http://www.notestation.com/flex_keyboard.htm ) -Sean

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Online Voting
by Roger Maalouf 23 Sep '07

23 Sep '07

Can anybody recommend an easy and simple online voting script? Thanks, r. -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze

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A Linux USB keyboard/mouse question
by cwgee9801＠kc.rr.com 22 Sep '07

22 Sep '07

Maybe someone with more history in Linux than I have can answer this question: Do most Linux distributions boot up and immediately recognize a USB keboard/mouse? (That is, they work automatically without the need for any special boot parameters/options.) Or does this vary from distribution to distribution, something that you have to figure out case by case? Thanks, Will ___________________________________________________________ Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com.

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Hardware request - CPU heatsink/fan
by Jon Pruente 21 Sep '07

21 Sep '07

I'm piecing together an AMD system from odds and ends. I just got a Duron 1.4Ghz chip when I swapped in a Thoroughbred Athlon XP 2100+ in my dads machine. I have a somewhat broken Azza KT133XT mobo that might work with the Duron at 266DDR FSB (as the manual hits at being possible for "future processsors"); it is missing a heatsink clip nub. It's missing the center one on the non-overhang side (ie opposite from the side that has "Socket 462" imprinted on it). Thus, I am looking for a late generation Duron spec'd heatsink that clips on to the larger two (outer) clip nubs. Or, a mobo&heatsink/fan to use that is capable of 266DDR FSB. I could trade something or pay a little bit for a heatsink from a LUGer to save a bit of hassel before I go digging through the bins at Comp. Swap&Shop or Surplus Exchange.. Best to ask here first! Thanks, Jon. (of course I'll be running Linux on the finished machine, if I find enough functional parts...)

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Say "Bye-Bye SCO!"
by Julie 20 Sep '07

20 Sep '07

Check this out: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&art… Julie @};- --------------------------------- Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games.

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anti-office XML as iso standard petition
by David Nicol 20 Sep '07

20 Sep '07

http://www.noooxml.org/petition

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Linux backup and restore server project- several particulars needed.
by Oren Beck 19 Sep '07

19 Sep '07

Let me start by saying I know there are packages to do much if not all of this already. Concise statement of a non-trivial larger concept is to have a Linux server make timed backups of several windows systems in a zero user interaction format- and be able to remote restore those boxes equally "no user assist" required. Expanding the short concept as : Backups being BOTH data AND drivers etc. Restore as being from a file up to a drive wipe and reload using some image system. The simple explanation is to make supporting windows boxes a bit less painful. The expanded explanation is as "life support" while beginning a migration to Linux. The reason is that having such a system in place also becomes a pre-migration tool. Imagine doing a ms to LNX migrate where the majority of system users would already have server resident current recently checked backups before you arrive onsite? This is one way to make that possible. OR the much more mundane target of being a data resurrection for non geeks Here's where it gets potentially real rewarding. CAN this group we make up work together on making such a beast? My initial project vision is to break it down to baby steps. One bite ones. First bite being a method of scripting the backups and archiving them. That means defining WHAT gets grabbed from where when etc rules and namespace conventions to make admin less painful. Since many windows users are schiziod in their file naming we have to be mindful of that. Second Bite being creating the restore method/s. Ranging from a web menu to ? Third is assembling a crude demo tabletop setup for degubbing. While it's quite psychotic to even joke about- what a mindblower it would be at ITEC if we had a demo going. Just how fast CAN a network "drive image restore" of Ubuntu with the data from a typical windows cubicle farmer's level be run? that's to say - power up with formatted blank drive to fully usable Ubuntu with local copies of files? Showing that we can image up a Ubuntu workstation and have productive work restared faster than one could restore windows would be a kudo for Linux eh? Oren

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SCO meets Karma.
by Oren Beck 17 Sep '07

17 Sep '07

http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS7338075434.html

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(no subject)
by Jared Smith 17 Sep '07

17 Sep '07

>Can anybody recommend an easy and simple online voting script? No one is answering, so: Assuming that you are referring to the online voting which is common on web portals, here is a link or two which might help. If not, go to sourceforge or freshmeat and search/browse for entirely free options, or hotscripts.com for some which are free and some which you will pay for. I like hotscripts because they review and rank the entries, and have a comprehensive listing. Good place to start for a request like yours. However, sponsored items show up first when you search; scroll down to see the free software. Haven't seen these work, but they look to be "easy and simple": http://hypersilence.net/silentum_poll.php http://www.stadtaus.com/en/php_scripts/voting_script/ Found these on hotscripts within 120 seconds, whereas sourceforge was a little less fruitful in the same amount of time. . . -Jared :)

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Re: Have you seen this!?! Burning saltwater
by Joe Fish 15 Sep '07

15 Sep '07

Not saying it's impossible, BUT, as a friend of mine on this list often used to say to me, I'm from Missouri. Ya gotta show me. I do *hope* this is a viable solution, though the reality is (notwithstanding claims from people trying to sell you on the idea of something they want to sell you someday) hydrogen in gaseous form is KNOWN to leak from WHATEVER container it's put in at a somewhat-alarming rate -- and this site doesn't even MENTION anything about leakage, at least not that I found in a quick perusal. Car companies think plugging your car in is too much hassle for Americans? How do they think we'll react, then to letting it sit for 3 days and coming back to find a full tank half-emtpy? I think if there's a solution to be had, its in storing hydrogen in the vehicle in some chemical form in which its far easier to separate out than it is in water. There's been some progress in research on this front, storing the hydrogen in some sort of solid (?!?) pellets (maybe combined with magnesium somehow? I forget, but you can Google and find it, I'm sure.). But its still just that ... RESEARCH. The other problem is that the site doesn't go into how much detail about just how many solar panels you're gonna need to create enough electrical power to electrolyze enough hydrogen to power a SINGLE one-family car, much less to think of doing for hydrogen as some sort of large-scale infrastructural solution. The fact that they're NOT talking about this HUGE stumbling block to their "near-zero-cost" transportation energy solution makes me a bit skeptical of their other claims ... to say the least. I forget the number, but you can look up the square footage for the Honda FCX one-family pilot project in California -- I think its something like 1700 square feet (!) of solar panels to create enough hydrogen to power that one family's car (they fill up about once a week). This isn't a function of how you store it or any of that crap, its simply that it takes a HUGE amount of electrical power to electrolyze a quantity of hydrogen sufficient for pushing a 2000-pound car around for a week using fuel cells -- power that could be put on the grid and stored in batteries much more efficiently, at least with technology available TODAY. If the tech from the OP greatly reduces the amount of energy required for this process, then maybe we're onto something, though we STILL have the problems of infrastructure (platinum for fuel cells is a biggie) and storage. The point is, like the saying goes, this stuff has all been 30 years away from being viable for the last 30 years, kinda like computer AI ... except a longer time period. My opinion is that, in the short-to-near term, our only viable big-ticket-item solution that stands ANY chance of getting us through this go-around of the energy crunch is CONSERVATION, much as we Americans (and our over-inflated senses of entitlement) might not like to think about what that entails. JOE On 9/12/07, Geoffrion, Ron P [IT] <Ron.Geoffrion(a)sprint.com> wrote: > > >> And don't even get me STARTED on how impractical hydrogen-as-a-fuel is > in terms of STORAGE losses ... > > Umm...from http://unitednuclear.com/ Research and Devlopment site. > > http://www.switch2hydrogen.com/h2.htm > > Quoting the site: > May 22nd, 2007: > > > Our Hydrogen Fuel System is not yet available for sale. There are legal > problems with several components of the unit which is preventing its sale. > Until the legal proceedings are complete, we won't be moving forward > the system. > Thank you all for your emails & support. The legal action is due to the > actions of the CPSC (Consumer Product Safety Commission) attempting to > remove the necessary chemicals used in this system from public use. > > > > > "Those willing to give up a little liberty for a little security deserve > neither security nor liberty." > > -Benjamin Franklin > > Unquote. > > > > Thanks, > > Ron Geoffrion > 913.488.7664 > > > > >

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