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Tue Jul 25 01:39:19 UTC 2006

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>    1. Re: digital rights management (Chris Lemire)
>    2. Re: Webmin (Chris Lemire)
>    3. Re: dapper on a slow pc (ac)
>    4. Re: dapper on a slow pc (Qiuli Han)
>    5. (no subject) (Chris Lemire)
>    6. windows vista (Chris Lemire)
>    7. windows vista (Chris Lemire)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:26:05 +0000
> From: "Chris Lemire" <linux.user400354 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: digital rights management
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> try running a virtual machine windows xp in vmplayer. i dont have windows xp
> anymore. i use it in a vmware when i need it.
> 
> On 7/12/06, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
>> Duncan Lithgow wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 12:42 +0200, Albin Blaschka wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I don't know how to activate those mp3s but maybe a short term solution
>>>> would be to try wine...it is installable over universe, as far as I
>>>> remember...
>>>> For further information see http://www.winehq.com/
>>> Wine is _very_ unstable and hard to use.
>> Actually, I'd disagree.  Wine is quite stable and easy to use - but hard
>> to
>> get configured correctly in the first place.  After much crying (basically
>> something like 3 years, off and on) trying to get Quicken to work, I now
>> have a system that works reliably on most programs I try (including
>> Quicken).
>>
>>> Can I suggest you either use
>>> wine + one of the configuration utilities or you try crossover office
>> Well, I _did_ have to use ies4linux to get a good configuration - and even
>> then there was messing about after the ies4linux install.
>>
>>> for free and then buy it if it works, it's not expensive and the
>>> advances go back to the wine project.
>> Which is the easy way.  I did try Crossover, and had it working well, but
>> I
>> didn't like not understanding _how_ Wine was working. I think I understand
>> it now, but please don't ask me to explain :-)
>>
>> otoh, sound support seems chancy, so I'm not convinced it would work for
>> converting sound files.
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:28:30 +0000
> From: "Chris Lemire" <linux.user400354 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Webmin
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> Let us know when the problem is fixed and the deb works correctly in Ubuntu.
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> On 7/14/06, Albert Charron <acharron at videotron.ca> wrote:
>> OOzy Pal wrote:
>>> On 7/10/06, Chris Lemire <linux.user400354 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> did you get webmin installed? ive been trying to get it also. did you
>>>> have
>>>> any problems installing it?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 7/9/06, OOzy Pal < oozypal at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> How can I install Webmin? Where can I find in deb.
>>>>
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>>> Sorry Chris for the late reply. I never had time to install webmin.
>>>
>>> Anyhow, webmin works fine with me.
>>>
>>> I downloaded the source then at the webmin directory I wrote
>>>
>>> ./setup.sh
>>>
>>> then everything is installed perfectly.
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>>
>> Now, there's a .deb file available from Webmin, but be careful... it
>> doesn't support sudoers right now and will install configuring itself
>> with the root user and password... Webmin developpers are aware of the
>> problem (there was a thread on webmin's mailing list) and the situation
>> should be fixed soon...  Until the problem is fixed, you should download
>> and install from sources.  It's working perfectly...
>>
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> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 20:31:29 +0100
> From: ac <"aec$news"@candt.waitrose.com>
> Subject: Re: dapper on a slow pc
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> Dimitri Mallis wrote:
>> hi
>>
>> i am trying to install dapper on a P3, 500mhz, 128mb, 8gig hdd, sis
>> 8mb graphics, sound blaster (old card), bt*** tv card (it is
>> supported, i checked)
>>
>> i put the shipit cd in & it starts a normal install. then when it
>> starts launching gnome, it takes for ever. eventually the screen
>> blanks (as i guess it tries to load a screen saver). there are no
>> icons on the screen at this point, not even the top & bottom panel
>>
>> there didnt seam to be a text based install in the boot menu. how can
>> i get around this so i can install. i dont need to go into the live cd
>> version. i just want to do a straight install
> 
> I use an old Dell  desktop PC which reports as PII 350MHz, with 384MB
> ram, and a 120 GB HD that I use as a demo PC. It has 'doze, suse 10,
> ubuntu, kubuntu, edubuntu, PCLinux OS, DSL, all multi boot. It is
> rather slow, yes, but it does install ok. I had a slower PII 266,
> which seemed much slower than the numbers suggested though.
> 
> Note of course that the loading of the live cd (Desktop live,install
> etc) is entirely in ram, and it will probably be ok if you wait even
> longer. And the CD drive may not be very fast either. However, once it
> is installed, you are likely to have a very normal (if slow and
> relaxed) PC.
> 
> How sure are you that it is not worth just waiting a longer time, and
> then do a default install. I should mention that the manual install
> (which I use for obvious reasons) can be confusing because of the long
> delays in the installer processes with no progress indication at
> certain occasions......... I found success when I decided to make lots
> of cups of tea. :-)