Dirk L. posted an article on The Wheatland Linux User’s Group Weblog - Jun 4, 2008, 12:53 am
     Pretty well actually. The system was stable, I had few problems, except for the fact that I always had to run PC-BSD in safe mode. I wonder what the difference between starting up normally and starting up in safe mode is? I also managed to fail in installing the Nvidia graphic driver, so I ...
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Dirk L. posted an article on The Wheatland Linux User’s Group Weblog - May 22, 2008, 9:27 pm
For a few short weeks I was doing a few tasks that required me to use Windows, but I am finally using Linux again. I am currently running Ubuntu 8.04 on a laptop, the Toshiba Satellite 1135-S125. It runs pretty well, I should hope so considering that most of the hardware in this computer is from Int...
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Dirk L. posted an article on The Wheatland Linux User’s Group Weblog - May 9, 2008, 12:59 am
I am so glad that I got Packet Tracer 4.11 to run in Wine. That gives me one less reason to have to use Windows. I am guessing that many of you reading this do not know what Packet Tracer is, so I shall explain it to you. Packet Tracer is a network simulator put out by Cisco for free. Here are a few...
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Dirk L. posted an article on The Wheatland Linux User’s Group Weblog - May 5, 2008, 12:24 am
It was a few weeks ago that I decided to use Xubuntu just to play around with it some more. It works well, all of the programs work, yet I cannot get Xubuntu 8.04 to go into standby mode. But since I can get Ubuntu to use almost as few resources as Xubuntu does I see no reason not to just use Ubuntu...
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Dirk L. posted an article on The Wheatland Linux User’s Group Weblog - May 4, 2008, 4:32 pm
I am soon be using oxyhost.com. If you want to see it go to ccna01.oxyhost.com/blog. For now it is the same but the Oxyhost servers have far fewer restrictions so it may be worthwhile to make the switch.
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Dirk L. posted an article on The Wheatland Linux User’s Group Weblog - May 3, 2008, 2:46 pm
A few days ago I stumbled onto this website called Planete Beranger, and read some of this man’s mostly accurate problems and criticisms of Linux. You can read his post here, but I think that I can accurately sum up most of it. I would also be very grateful if you either leave a comment of your th...
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Dirk L. posted an article on The Wheatland Linux User’s Group Weblog - Apr 29, 2008, 12:47 am
There are many (not all are very good) chess games in Linux. There is the one installed by default with the small game packages that come with Ubuntu and most versions of Linux that use Gnome, but I do not like this one very much. It is ok for basic play, but it is really not that good. Another che...
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Dirk L. posted an article on The Wheatland Linux User’s Group Weblog - Apr 22, 2008, 12:54 am
I had some problems with my HP Deskjet F4180 All-in-One, the scanner part anyway. I downloaded the HPLIP utility through Synaptic, installed it, and set up my printer using “sudo hp-setup“. The printing part worked fine, but scanning to my computer always failed in Ubuntu 8.04. There was no such...
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Dirk L. posted an article on The Wheatland Linux User’s Group Weblog - Apr 13, 2008, 3:18 pm
I have been using Kubuntu 8.04 KDE4 for a week now it runs better than Kubuntu 7.10. Kubuntu 7.10 was so horribly slow and full of bugs. I fail to understand how anyone could have used it. But the newest version of Kubuntu is actually nice. For the most part it runs well, but sometimes the KDE 4 pro...
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Dirk L. posted an article on The Wheatland Linux User’s Group Weblog - Apr 2, 2008, 11:55 pm
    Based upon some of the search terms that have been used to reach this site I guess I should write up a short post on how to get Java working in Ubuntu 8.04. One way is to symbolically link the proprietary version of Java you are using to your web browser. The other option is to install the op...
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