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Linux On Umax Laptop
by Simon Royal 23 Jul '10

23 Jul '10

Hi Does anyone have any experience of using Linux on a Umax laptop. I am awaiting the arrival of a Umax ActionBook 347T of which I will run Linux Mint 9 LXDE and Windows XP. I can find very little information about them in general nevermind with Linux. Simon Royal --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. --- IBM ThinkPad 600E running Linux Mint 9 LXDE & Windows XP & Apple iBook G3 running OSX 10.4. _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/197222280/direct/01/ Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now

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Freelance work - what price
by Ian Porter 23 Jul '10

23 Jul '10

Hi All, I have been doing some work for a old company, but because of the current climate I am going to start looking for freelance work. So the main question is since I am not a hardened freelance person, what sort of prices per hour / per day are the base / mid / high for such ? I am more than capable of developing in most languages and also systesms, if the job was web developer software developer service developer kernel developer etc what sort of prices has anyone on this list charged ? or been charged as such. -- King regards Ian Porter www: www.codingfriends.com

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Freelance work - what price
by Ian Porter 23 Jul '10

23 Jul '10

Hi All, I have been doing some work for a old company, but because of the current climate I am going to start looking for freelance work. So the main question is since I am not a hardened freelance person, what sort of prices per hour / per day are the base / mid / high for such ? I am more than capable of developing in most languages and also systesms, if the job was web developer software developer service developer kernel developer etc what sort of prices has anyone on this list charged ? or been charged as such. -- King regards Ian Porter www: www.codingfriends.com

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Echo New Line
by Richard Parsons 22 Jul '10

22 Jul '10

I'm trying out edbrowse. I've been looking for an easy to script browser with full javascript support for a long time, and it looks like it may be the ticket. I want to script it like this, but I don't know how to echo a new line: echo "e http://yahoo.com\n1,$n" | edbrowse How do I properly echo a new line? I'm sure that the answer will no doubt make me slap my own head... Thanks, Richard

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Bash Templating
by Richard Parsons 22 Jul '10

22 Jul '10

Hi, Can anyone recommend to me a commandline templating system? I want to be able to store information about clients and cases in simple text files and then merge that information into precedent documents. I'll then save and print those documents. My perfect script would be something like this: echo "name='Richard Parsons'\naddress='10 Green Hill etc'" > me.txt echo "name='Miles Davies'\naddress='14 Jazz Road etc'" > miles.txt echo "Hey $to.name of $to.address,\nGreat album!\nTake care,\n$from.name of $from.address" > precedent.txt magic-template-script -from me.txt --to miles.txt < precedent.txt > letter.txt I'm thinking of using Cheetah (http://www.cheetahtemplate.org/) but am not particularly attached to it. I want something that I can run straight from bash if possible, but if scripting is necessary I most prefer python. Any comments or thoughts? Thanks, Richard

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Sound in Ubuntu 10.04
by James Bensley 22 Jul '10

22 Jul '10

My motherboard has onboard sound (how original!), it's a Foxconn ELA (ICH10 I believe). It has a digital out but in Ubuntu 10.04 I can only get stereo out no surround out? The box used to be dual boot with Windows and under Windows I could get my much loved 5.1 kit a 5.1 feed out from the box but now it cries in stereo. I suspect this is because of this (http://i43.tinypic.com/nn5lq1.png) This is a screen shot of my sound preferences, as you can see only stereo over digital is an option, why is this? Can I change this? -- Regards, James. http://www.jamesbensley.co.cc/ There are 10 kinds of people in the world; Those who understand Vigesimal, and J others...?

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Re: [ALUG] 600E Track Point
by Simon Royal 22 Jul '10

22 Jul '10

Wayne Just looked at the track point and no its no detechable. It is attached via a flat cable that runs up the keyboard and is connected to the broken main keyboard connector. >From what I can see it would be very awkward to peel away. I think its time for a new top or a new laptop. Simon --- http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - http://www.tinyurl.com/macspectrum (sent using Sony Ericsson P990i)

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600E Track Point
by Simon Royal 22 Jul '10

22 Jul '10

Hi I am having a nightmare of a day with my 600/600E project. I bought a 600E which was fully working but missing hard drive, cd drive, power supply and ram. It arrived today and I took the above out of my 600 and booted the 600E. All good except the trackpoint does some weird things. I decided to replace the whole top panel with the one from my 600 as it is in mint condition (well was). In doing so the top connector for the speakers fell off. The one from the 600E also fell off. Not good. Oh well its only sound. Can hack around this later. Then there is another connector - a larger one at the top just under where it says 600/600E, well the end came off this too and try as I might I cannot get it back on. So I am stuck with a 600 top with working trackpoint but broken connector and a 600E top with faulty trackpoint but connector in tact. At present I am using the 600E top as it works. How can I disable the trackpoint or preferably fix it. I have plugged in a USB mouse but every so often the trackpoint goes mental and takes over the cursor. Simon Royal --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. --- IBM ThinkPad 600E running Linux Mint 9 LXDE & Windows XP & Apple iBook G3 running OSX 10.4. _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013117/direct/01/ We want to hear all your funny, exciting and crazy Hotmail stories. Tell us now

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600 To 600E... Oops.
by Simon Royal 21 Jul '10

21 Jul '10

Hi My ThinkPad 600E arrived today. Two minutes after its arrival, the CD drive, hard drive, RAM and CMOS battery was taken out of my 600 and installed in the 600E and it was booting. A working machine except the mouse pointer was broken. Would only go up and down. Pressing it left or right sent it into a frenzy. I decided to take the top from my 600 and put it on the 600E, and in the process broke the cable that leads down to the built in speakers, the connector came off. No worries, I had the other cable from the other top... oops... nope that broke too. Seems they are rather flimsy. So I have a 600E 366Mhz P2 laptop which is slightly faster than my 600 300Mhz P2, but it now has no sound. Under XP it detected the audio card so I am assuming it it just the speakers out and nothing else. Might try a hack of attaching a 3.5 jack to the end of the speaker wires and run it out of the body and into the headphone socket to get audio working through the built in speakers. Will test the socket out later. Simon Royal --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. --- IBM ThinkPad 600E running Linux Mint 9 LXDE & Windows XP & Apple iBook G3 running OSX 10.4. _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/197222280/direct/01/ We want to hear all your funny, exciting and crazy Hotmail stories. Tell us now

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Another Distro for Simon?
by mark fernandes (IFR) 21 Jul '10

21 Jul '10

See review of Pinguy OS - a Mint-y Ubuntu re-spin at http://jeffhoogland.blogspot.com/2010/07/pinguy-os-distro-review.html I'm with Simon on LXDE - have just set my 6-year old son up with a Edubuntu 10.04LTS/LXDE-installed Compaq Ipaq desktop which seems to cope with most things despite P3&512Mb spec. Lost l33t points in that I wound up using ndiswrapper for Safecom USB wireless... He seems happy enough though with educational (and not-so educational) games. Regards, Mark Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton: Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.

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