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Comment on IBMers: Get a substantial discount off your AT&T Wireless Plan (including iPhone plans) by Salim Hamid

Salim Hamid — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:41:55 +0000

I have not been getting my IBM discount for the last few months. I’d like to reactivate it and get reimbursed for the months missing. I don’t know why the discount stopped.

Comment on Running Windows Server 2008 with KVM on Linux by evan

evan — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:05:08 +0000

im also trying to enable hyper-v.

did you get anywhere with it? im getting message about my processor not supporting it.

Comment on Quicken 2008 for Ubuntu Linux? by WL Collins

WL Collins — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:39:08 +0000

Re the import/export of Email and contact information . I would suggest you try Kmail as an intermediate step . It will import and export to many file types . I have used it to get my evolution contacts into a CSV file which I can use almost any where . Although I like Evolution, getting the contacts out is not supported natively, but with Kmail, I can pull them into Kmail and output into a variety of formats . The only caviat is to be aware of SCHEMA issues between the different programs . Hope this is of some value.

Comment on My First Programming Language: GW BASIC by khair

khair — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:45:04 +0000

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Comment on Running Windows Server 2008 with KVM on Linux by bk

bk — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:58:34 +0000

good write up. any chance you are also able to enable hyper-v in your config?
In my testing even if i use the ‘-cpu host’ args where my cpu is a phenomii i still get errors from msft about no hw virtualization support….

Comment on MBM: Sick of the Solaris FUD train on Linux scalability? DaveM has some thoughts… by vorker

vorker — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:22:45 +0000

@Michael Fremlins

Stop playing in straw man. There are many things NEW in Linux like RCU, dozens of improvements in many areas like memory fragmentation avoidance, security models etc. Just look at lwf page and find out.

Comment on Quicken 2008 for Ubuntu Linux? by Comprador

Comprador — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:31:39 +0000

Rich, so what did you think of Moneydance?

Comment on Quicken 2008 for Ubuntu Linux? by rich

rich — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:21:13 +0000

Im about to try this out:

http://moneydance.com/linux

Comment on Hello Winamp – we meet again by David Ball

David Ball — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:52:02 +0000

I never stopped using Winamp. Windows Media Player version 7 release featured playlists, Sonique looked cute, iTunes went Windows, but none of them ever made me happy. In fact, to this day I can not find one media player that sounds better than Winamp. Be sure to set the EQ to ISO-standard (I like the Constant-Q) and download and install in_mad.dll from the MAD MPEG Audio Decoder sourceforge site and the Studio Sound FX output plugin. Set MAD to decode 24-bit and auto-attenuate. Set Studio Sound FX to upsample to 32-bit, 192kHz (using medium to high quality and a balance value of 10.0) and you will absolutely LOVE Winamp forever!

Comment on Casio Exilim EX-S10 “Card” Review – the ultimate “slim” camera? by Momo R&B

Momo R&B — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:28:53 +0000

sorry lots of typo’s…i meant the casio exilim ex-s10 OR the casio exilim ex-s12…sorry…but i have to know soon because of shipping timeing…thanks

Comment on Casio Exilim EX-S10 “Card” Review – the ultimate “slim” camera? by Momo R&B

Momo R&B — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:45:39 +0000

ok i’m deciding or confused ,a lot, by which one i should get…the casio exilim ex-s12 or the ex-s12….both are the same and i don’t know if there is a diffrence but i still can\t chose…i will mostly be taking pictures not videos and mostly of people not places so i need a camera thats good in those…and i hope it doesn’t break because i’m shipping it from a long distance..so which is better??

thanks ((:

Comment on Ubuntu 8.04’s “Install inside Windows” option by Grover

Grover — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:52:26 +0000

You’re talking about two different things here. Ubuntu can be installed as an app under Windows for a quick looksee or it can be installed as an OS in its own right. The former doesn’t require “dual boot”. The latter does if you want to retain both OSs and setting up dual booting is hardly “fool proof”. Actually, nearly 2 years after your post it’s still a nightmare. The install routine is badly written and the dual booter, GRUB is a piece of twaddle.

Comment on Linux Command Line – Dealing with spaces in filenames by Fez

Fez — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:17:58 +0000

You can also use:

# cd “This Dir”

which works exactly the same as

# cd This\ Dir

Comment on NetworkWorld: “Red Hat Linux pulls as much as 12% less power than Windows 2008 on identical hardware” by Allen

Allen — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:32:54 +0000

You can get CaosLinux and get even better power savings than RedHat. Also, Roadrunner does not run Red Hat, hehe

http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/hpc/roadrunner/rrinfo/RR%20webPDFs/RRSysMgt-with-LAUR.pdf

RedHat only wishes they could scale like that. I would check out Caos Linux for HPC anyways as it includes Perceus that scales way better than anything and according to several docs, is used on systems like RoadRunner.

Comment on Batch Image Processing with Gimp by Gabi

Gabi — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:30:53 +0000

Thank you very much for this super tool!!! I use it with Windows and Gimp 2.6. That’s what I was lookink for and what is really helpful for Gimp! Now I am able to save a lot of time – and spend it for other things.

Many Greatings from Germany!

Comment on Quicken 2008 for Ubuntu Linux? by Mike Olsen

Mike Olsen — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:01:07 +0000

I exported all my contacts to Google mail, from Outlook and into Evolution. Then I setup Evolution to connect to Google for my calendar. Then, with my corporate email on my XP PC, which uses Exchange, I setup IMAP, and Copied all of my mail from my Exchange Folder or Off line Folders, into my IMAP Folders, so it had the same folder setup as my Outlook. Then I setup Evolution with my IMAP for my corporate email. Then installed Google Calendar Sync on my Windows PC to Sync my Outlook Calendar with my Google Account. Then I setup Evolution to connect to my Google Calendar, which was a simple task. Now I had Evolution setup to my Corporate Email though IMAP, and it had the exact same Folder and Email that my Outlook had. And It had all of my Contacts from Outlook. And it had all of the years of my Outlook Appointments in my Calendar. I got Evolution to handle all of my Outlook needs. Then I switched my Smart Phone to work with Google’s new Push mail and it Sync’s my Calendar, Email & Contacts. Then I also setup my Corporate Email via IMAP in my Smart Phone. Now, my Smart Phone is just like it was when it was hooked up to my Exchange server and I was able to Switch over to Linux and use Evolution for a complete replacement for Outlook. I do however have the same issue with Quicken or Quickbooks. GNUCash sucks and nothing compares. And no recent Intuit products in Wine have reached Platinum Status and I have found bugs in all Intuit Products in Wine. So I still have a PC setup for my bookkeeping, but I do love the freedom of Free and Open Source Software and having a more secure O/S. I have NEVER had a security issue with any of my Linux boxes.

Comment on Quicken 2008 for Ubuntu Linux? by Ted

Ted — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:17:54 +0000

For me it is wanting to do certain secure type functions such as online banking in an environment that is safer from malware. When you are up against things like Clampi which is potentially sitting on your windows box waiting to steal your banking credentials, it makes me think going through the pain of getting money management and banking off of the windows platform and onto something that is supposed to be a bit safer, is worth the effort. I do what I can in the windows environement to avoid being compromised but can never really feel that safe.

Comment on Running Windows Server 2008 with KVM on Linux by Rene Jochum

Rene Jochum — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:31:27 +0000

Hi,

@Dave: Use the driver from here:
http://www.linux-kvm.com/content/redhat-54-windows-virtio-drivers-part-2-block-drivers#comment-617

Comment on Using Linux KVM Virtualization on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 by nazri abdullah

nazri abdullah — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:51:59 +0000

Hi.

I’m running the kvm with option -serial
Is there any example of serial parameter

As i know ubuntu does not support /dev/tcp/localhost/port#

Any idea?

thanks

Comment on USB Audio / Speakers with Ubuntu Linux by Erik

Erik — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:31:48 +0000

Try this in your terminal

asoundconf set-default-card 1

Then either reset or close and re-open your browser.