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I have a small netbook (MSI U130) that runs on win 7 basic.
So if anyone can recommend a site that can help, or has any ideas, I'd be grateful. Everything else works including the bluetooth - which I hardly ever use.
Camy -- Take a look here: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/95245
I did not read it all but it does look as if this might work.
scroll down to:
Mark Rijckenberg said on 2009-12-26:
Step 1: Open Terminal from "Applications->Accessories->Terminal"
Step 2: Enter the following command to start editing the sources.list file in the gedit editor:
gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Step 3: In the gedit editor, scroll down and add the following 2 lines to the end of the /etc/apt/sources.list file:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/markus-tisoft/rt3090/ubuntu karmic main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/markus-tisoft/rt3090/ubuntu karmic main
Step 4: Save the change to the sources.list file
Step 5: Enter the following commands to install the driver:
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install rt3090-dkms
Step 6: Reboot and retest wireless
I found this with a Google search for your 'MSI U130 ubuntu wireless'"
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Hmmm, see if there's some solutions here:
WOW!!! That's really awesome.
I have found the 'CUPS' drivers to be very Linux friendly
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I have been using USB external drives -- I've had my problems with them too. These docking stations look really interesting. Have to give them a try.
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The real problem is keeping track of the most recent version across multiple computers and multiple drives. Especially when it comes to writing. USB drives are a nightmare too. I'd almost like to go back to the time when I had one zip disk with all my work on it.
I think most responders are missing the point that these files span multi computers and drives.
This fact requires the combining of ALL FILES onto ONE DRIVE! Be it flash drive zip drive or another moveable drive. Combined file size will dictate the external drive size required. Comparison of files requires they all be on the same drive -- or at least on the same computer.
The Zip drive you mention IS the answer to your current problem, All files need to be in one place -- only! -- ESPECIALLY when changing files such as your story files.
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Blimey! THAT is a lot of data, but I'm thinking it's probably not as many files, just much, much bigger ones.
The real problem is keeping track of the most recent version across multiple computers and multiple drives. Especially when it comes to writing. USB drives are a nightmare too. I'd almost like to go back to the time when I had one zip disk with all my work on it.
I use drop box (cloud storage) for some stuff, and that works really well: one set of data accessed by whatever ... but I'm frightened the cloud might vanish. And broadband isn't near fast enough (in the UK) to store large media files up there.
Camy -- I'm thinking you really do have a major problem. What with files on multi drives and computers I'm not very hopeful that any software will help.
I think the only way to correct this is to get all files onto ONE 'EXTERNAL/ZIP' hard drive. During this process any true duplicate files will be flagged and NOT moved to the external drive (this will require your best judgement ~~ if a file is questionable - rename that file and save it to the external drive. Once they are ALL on the external drive then at least the true duplicates are handled.
Once this is done you will need to go file by file based on title search and date/time search to come up with the latest file time stamp on the external drive.
A lot of work -- YES. But the only way as I see it. In the future NEVER save a 'multi use file' to anything but your 'EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE'. That way the latest file is ALWAYS on the external.
Zip drives are similar to external drives in that they are both movable - as in take your work with you. It's the ONLY way to avoid duplicate files all over the place.
You must also do a backup of the external hard drive on a REGULAR basis. Just in case!!! You will be most unhappy if you don't -- shit happens!!!
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Hello Awesomedude Forums posters & lurkers. It's been a few years since I've shown my shell here or anywhere else so I'll give you a brief rundown of what's been happening.
Peace, TheEggman
It's really great to see you back Eggman. I was saddened when you folded up camp and disappeared. I still have your story files in a 'hold' directory and look forward to reactivating them.
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ROFLMAO. Yes, but just unplugging it is cheaper.
Cheaper but not as deadly
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You're welcome.
Actually, I had a similar problem with The Mustard Jar some time back. No matter how often I returned there, no new pages showed up. Turned out that I needed to Refresh the page, although technically coming to the site from 'nowhere' should have automatically given me the latest version. I should have just tried doing a page refresh.
Don't you just love computers -- sometimes I would just love to cut the power cord!
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Now I'm REALLY confused. The original post, the one that seemed to have disappeared, is now again visible to me. I have no idea what is going on. Anyway, I have the Chapter and will email it to Mountain Dude. Thanks, and I don't feel disrespected anymore, just puzzled as heck.l
Treb did in fact send me Ch 20 and I do so much appreciate his effort. I have no idea what might have happened with my post disappearing before. I didn't check for new mail 'til this morning.
Thanks again Treb
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There was a final chapter written, a whopping 165 pages long. Hopefully the Dude will get it for AD.
So I went and downloaded ch 1 - 19 from 'way back' and am only an hour or so from finishing ch 19. I am already going into withdrawal lacking the final chapter!
Does anybody have a copy? I wrote John yesterday, but no response yet.
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I concur! This is a beautiful story -- as can only be done in keeping with Cole Parker's history of well written stories!
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I have only read the first 30 lines of this story and really enjoyed the story to that point.
Bookmarked for a return visit.
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Not everyone is equally impressed.
Two of the Heathers?
They have no sense of talent -- that kid has an awesome voice and talent!
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Just proves what I keep saying, everyone is really gay. Well maybe one in 20 is straight...maybe.
Spot on Des -- they just love to go with the flow.
I am amazed that a person engaged with his professed leanings would even attempt an excursion with a web rentboy --- which head was he thinking with???
And he does foster care too? And adopts a 16 year old boy?
Totally unbelievable!
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I don't know.... The story was completed on Tuesday and I read it at one sitting, based on VWL's recommendation. It is complete at twelve chapters with the entire story taking place in a hospital room but I found the story entertaining... romantic and enlightening... especially Chapter Eleven.
Our religious faith is something we can choose or change or ignore. Sexual orientation is not. But I found the dialogue between the priest and Dermot quite interesting and informative. Of course, it is obvious the author -and by transference, the protagonist Dermot- to be well read and possessing intellectual curiousity. As the story explains, the kid was not a low class street urchin but a good student who fell upon bad luck.
Let's face it, approximately one in ten Catholics, Mormons, Baptists, Jews & Muslims are are gay. And the number among Catholic priests is possibly even higher. To deny that there are people who are both religious and gay would be a mistake. I think that the author making a case for reconciling Catholicism and homosexuality here is fine and can't find anything wrong with that.
I liked the story so much, in fact, that it will be coming to the pages of AwesomeDude as a complete novel in 12 chapters in the near future. AwesomeDude tries to be a diverse site and I think the story was written well and would fit in nicely.
Along these same lines, I'm looking at a novel set in Egypt about a young gay couple which also carries a Muslim religious theme.
Come on, let's lighten up and be more diverse!
I agree with Dude, I have only gotten to ch 7 yesterday and was pleased to see part ll appear today.
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Windows 7
Yes, I will be first to condemn Windows 7 as time wasting software.
Worse still it is engineered to stop you from finding files. And yes I have switched all the Aero, UAC and DEP, off.
Oh I worked out how to add 'Search' to the Explorer context menu, but the results were still not displayed after 20 minutes, and this was for a file on the start menu. (I was testing).
The Libraries are useless and get in my way. The look and feel is anaemic, and I have to say, not being able to switch back to the Classic look is really unfair to older users who might not have enough years left to learn how to cope with this new faux challenge.
Is it better than Vista? Well in one sense Vista was better because you knew instantly, you would never use it in a fit.
Windows 7 is sneakier in that it looks like it might be great. Certainly I think many of the reviewers who have praised it, must be very superficial users, never delving into the file structure for productivity purposes.
Is Windows 7 unusable? Not in the Vista sense, no, it can be used, but it is not friendly, with many conveniences either missing or hidden.
Of course if you get one of the versions that can be run in XP mode, it might be better, but that is not a long term solution.
If Google's expected forthcoming Operating System tries to imitate Windows 7, we are all lost.
Microsoft seems intent on making the end user adopt what it considers is the way we should want to work on our computers.
Ever since Widows 95 we have seen various features lost or replaced with less functional ones.
Indeed there were things I could do on Windows 3.11 that were not possible in Win 95, but at least there was sufficient means remaining to make it possible to adapt with some advantage in some areas.
Windows 7 gives you the same promise. It is lying in my opinion. Where the Aero transparency could not be applied to needed operating facilities, it seems like they were removed instead.
Windows 7: it shouldn't be this difficult.
Personally I think it is a corporate plot to make us all waste our lives on trying to find a way to use a computer.
And that is why I said goodbye to m$m when XP ended. Linux is sooooo much better!
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Coming soon to AD! This weekend if all goes according to plan.
Tracy
This is AWESOME news!!!
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You know... I thought after over 30 years, when i went through this same crap in high school, maybe we were getting past it... maybe tolerance and acceptance were becoming more universal.... I guess i was wrong..
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/...8335&page=1
hugz all...
Rick
Younger adults these days seem to be much more tolerant and understanding. Those students 8 through 12 still seem to have some students that thrive at being bullies. It seems to be peer want-to-be butt heads conflicting with the reasonable mass of students. By the time college comes everybody seems to snap out of it.
Teaching tolerance and understanding needs to start during their first year of school (k-12) and school administrations need to have a zero tolerance of bully mentality.
These things should NOT be happening!! PERIOD!!!
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PS I find it really, REALLY hard to imagine someone can go through life without having eaten pizza. Oh, the suffering, the suffering! We need to save Trab, soonest.
I agree Camy!! It's just shameful. I have to have one every week - homemade of course. A white pizza (pesto with olive oil and fresh garlic) thin sliced tomatoes, mushrooms and artichokes topped with GOOD italian cheeses --- YUM!
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VERY good advice!!
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This issue also happened a year or so ago but don't remember what the cure was
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AWESOME!!!
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WOW Camy! I hadn't seen this site before. You would never see this kind of info attached to a MS product.
GO Ubuntu!!