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Anyone heard of UltraViolet?

Bazza — Sat Jul 31, 2010 12:44 pm

Author: Bazza

Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 12:44 pm

Hi Rhakios...

What was the error then?

Why does open source work?

jjmac — Sat Jul 31, 2010 11:10 am

Author: jjmac

Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 11:10 am

Howdy All,

guy, you forgot to tag the quote ...

johnhudson wrote:
[quote]
>>
It also tells you why paying exorbitant salaries to company directors and civil servants and bonuses to bankers is a complete waste of money and the underlying cause of the financial mess the country is in.
>>

Not to worry though ... And yes, a person should be paid what there worth, of course. But i tend to think that to many people carry a form of 'father knows best' type of belief with regard to the upper executive bunch. Which is often consciously exploited on their part. And, as the responsibility they carry is extensive , and the rewards lucrative, so to should the penalties for its' abuse.

But, how to measure 'worth' ... the share price can't be it as it's an ultimately flawed benchmark. So ... certainly not an easy one to solve at all ... (scratch_head.png)

jm

Mobile Broadband (UK)

Philip Bedford — Sat Jul 31, 2010 10:55 am

Author: Philip Bedford

Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 10:55 am

DanteA wrote:

It depends entirely upon the modem in question; most modems 'flip flop' between being a modem and can flip over to act as storage, which contains an automated installer program for Windows (and some for Mac).

Others, mostly the older series of modems out there, are just modems which require software installed from the CD to operate.

I am using a Huawei E156G.

I have no trace of Windows on my machine.

Using Ubuntu (10.04) Netbook Edition.

So far as i am aware, please fell free to correct me, the flip occurs

at instillation.

At plug-in, the device is configured as a standard USB memory stick.

It automatically initiates.

Once it has installed itself,

it is then seen as two separate spaces by Disc Utility:

1) An ordinary USB area.

2) As a Virtual CD Drive.

I presume the Virtual CD has replaced the real CD in this process.

So far as i can tell, this initialisation is independent of whatever OS might be available.

It judge that initialisation is managed at the BIOS level, since each of the two separate spaces appear on the BIOS boot choice menu, before the OS is invoked.

........

eco disks

jjmac — Sat Jul 31, 2010 10:52 am

Author: jjmac

Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 10:52 am

Howdy All,

Rhakio wrote:

>>
How many ecodiscs equal one new drive?

The environment's doomed, I tell ye!
>>

Possibly the the industry could launch a serious research initiative on whats wrong with the eco discs. And cap the costs of the investigation to no more than $50 million, inclusive with magazine advertising etc ...

And where are they going to dump all the old drives ?.

>>
The environment's doomed, I tell ye!
>>

It had better be sure well watching its' back, at the very least, i think.

jm

Latest C*ck Up.. Help :)

DaveS — Sat Jul 31, 2010 6:15 am

Author: DaveS

Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 6:15 am

Dutch_Master wrote:

Where did you fail? The commands above need to be issued as root, did you precede each with the sudo command?

Yes I did, but at the end I got an error message saying in effect sda was not mounted. I will try again this eve and if I fail again I will post the exact output.

British Computer Society attack FOSS

khakilang — Sat Jul 31, 2010 5:31 am

Author: khakilang

Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 5:31 am

Dutch_Master wrote:

/me has now visions of Mike and Neil in armor on horseback

Hope their armor is tick enough to withstand those bashing. May the FOSS be with you.

PHP Coding Academy - MySQL question

chriswadams — Sat Jul 31, 2010 2:48 am

Author: chriswadams

Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 2:48 am

Hey all --

Hudzilla wrote:
[quote]It's possible that you had some components installed previously, or maybe just hit Enter at the wrong time? [/quote]

Yes, I think that's what happened. But I had tried to 'Completely Uninstall' MySQL before, and still couldn't get it to ask me for a password.

Tonight, I did a 'Complete Uninstall' on mysql-server, mysql-server-5.1, mysql-server-core-5.1, and mysql-common, then rebooted, then reinstalled them -- and that worked!

Thanks for the advice guys! javascript:emoticon('')
chriswadams

E-Book readers/tablet computers?

DanteA — Sat Jul 31, 2010 1:01 am

Author: DanteA

Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 1:01 am

Hmmm, well, if e-ink does not work with backlights (kind of obvious, actually, considering what it is ) this does sound like my kind of device!

I'm hoping that image only PDFs (scanned books; really just an image a page) will be fine (though I'd appreciate it if you could confirm that)

So, what model is it and where can I get one? All the ones I've seen seem to be around the �230 mark

Thanks.

Subscriptions renewals

Dutch_Master — Sat Jul 31, 2010 12:28 am

Author: Dutch_Master

Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 12:28 am

A renewal is a follow-up to the running sub-period: if you renew after 10 issues in a one yr sub, a one yr renewal will automatically include another 13 issues, so 16 issues left in total.

Sudoers and Groups

PCNetSpec — Fri Jul 30, 2010 11:52 pm

Author: PCNetSpec

Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 11:52 pm

I wasn't saying sudo requires PAM, just that use of both sudoers *and* PAM might be another way of achieving your goals, but a very complex one and probably not advisable.

ie. removing the root authentication requirement or adding their group for certain services *may* remove the need to give root access at all.

Now I'm no PAM guru, and I'd be fairly sure you'd run into all sorts of problems, which is why I kinda advised against it.

Unwanted Pop-up.

nelz — Fri Jul 30, 2010 9:06 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 9:06 pm

Philip Bedford wrote:

Should i have used the 'startup disk creator' program in the system/administration section rather than the 'Install ubuntu netbook' program on the first boot page ?

That depends on whether you want to create a USB startup disk (a live CD on a USB stick) or do a standard hard disk install, but to a USB disk. In most cases you want the former.

Copying DVD's on to Hard drive?

leke — Fri Jul 30, 2010 6:44 pm

Author: leke

Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 6:44 pm

Thanks for introducing me to vobcopy. Tis an awesome tool.

openSUSE 11.3 released

Ram — Fri Jul 30, 2010 6:11 pm

Author: Ram

Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 6:11 pm

Head over here for a review from Tuxradar.

CardFile for Linux

grazzer — Fri Jul 30, 2010 6:10 pm

Author: grazzer

Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 6:10 pm

Thank you all for this information!

Having installed Wine, I can now use cardfile.exe as wanted!

As a bonus, Treeline looks like a simple Jot+ from the old days, and I have uses for it's simplicity, too!

Two for the price of one, and some alternatives to play with

Thank you all again, I am indeed a happy bunny!

PHP coding academy Page 25

leke — Fri Jul 30, 2010 4:56 pm

Author: leke

Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 4:56 pm

I'm not so good at programming, but maybe it could be...

Quote:

PHP Warning: scandir(): (errno 13): Permission denied in /home/sean/PHP/project1.php on line 3

Something to do with the set file permissions for that particular file or folder?
If this is the case, then it could lead to the foreach error because PHP expects something other than none in the loop.