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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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Linux Mint LXDE Anyone?
by Simon Royal 21 Jul '10

21 Jul '10

Hi Im still trying out new distros for my aging ThinkPad. As you know I prefer buntu based distros and am currently using Lubuntu and am very impressed with it. Out of all the distros I have tried so far it is by far the fastest - except Puppy Linux but I didnt really like that. I tried Xubuntu with LXDE instead and it wasn't anywhere near as fast as Lubuntu. I quite like LXDE too. Lubuntu is a little rough around the edges and is still in Alpha stage. Ive been looking at Linux Mint LXDE. I tried the standard Linux Mint a few months ago - which is Gnome based - and it didnt run well on my hardware but an LXDE version might be different. Has anyone used Linux Mint LXDE? Do you know how it compares to Lubuntu in terms of memory usage? Is it any good? Simon Royal --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. --- IBM ThinkPad 600 running Windows XP & Lubuntu 10.04 & 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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Lubuntu/OpenBox Theme Problems
by Simon Royal 20 Jul '10

20 Jul '10

Hi Im in Lubuntu and was playing around with the theme/appearance settings under Preferences/OpenBox Configuration Manager. I can change the theme, so it changes the colour of menu bars etc... but it only does half a job. It shows you a menu which looks the same as the menu bar/colours but mine doesnt change. Also the main LXDE menu stays as it was before, same fonts and colours. Anyone know why? I tried rebooting but no change. Simon Royal --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. --- IBM ThinkPad 600 running Windows XP & Lubuntu 10.04 & 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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Lubuntu/Open Box Theme
by Simon Royal 20 Jul '10

20 Jul '10

Hi Im in Lubuntu and was playing around with the theme/appearance settings under Preferences/OpenBox Configuration Manager. I can change the theme, so it changes the colour of menu bars etc... but it only does half a job. It shows you a menu which looks the same as the menu bar/colours but mine doesnt change. Also the main LXDE menu stays as it was before, same fonts and colours. Anyone know why? I tried rebooting but no change. Simon Royal --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. --- IBM ThinkPad 600 running Windows XP & Lubuntu 10.04 & 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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Re: [ALUG] 256MB RAM Sticks
by mark fernandes (IFR) 20 Jul '10

20 Jul '10

>From Thinkpad wiki (http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Unofficial_maximum_memory_specs) Note last two lines. Hope that this helps, Mark (Who used to have a Thinkpad 240 :)) ------------------------------------------------------------- ThinkPad 600 ? 288MB ? ? * 416MB = 256MB low density PC100 SODIMM + 128MB PC66 SODIMM + 32MB PC66 on-board. It matters which SODIMM you put in which slot. This was first reported working on the Thinkpad Mailing List, and it worked error-free for me. The 600E (2645-8A0) with Bios INET36WW accept two modules of 256MB. The ram modules have 8 chips on each side. That results in 544MB. (RAM Typ: Micron MT16LSDF3264HG-133E4 PC133 CL3 sync). Processor is an Intel PII 366 PE, installed platform is Windows XP Pro with SP3. ------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Lubuntu vs Crunchbang
by Simon Royal 20 Jul '10

20 Jul '10

Hi Quick question, which would run better on my TP600, Lubuntu or Crunchbang. I've been running Lubuntu for a few weeks and loving it. LXDE is very nice and a good alternative to Xfce. I did run Crunchbang a few months ago and liked it even though its desktop is a bit minimal. I need to settle on a good buntu based lightweight distro. Ubuntu is too heavy, Xubuntu is too heavy, didnt like Mint or Fluxbuntu. Simon Royal --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. --- IBM ThinkPad 600 running Windows XP & Lubuntu 10.04 & Apple iBook G3 running OSX 10.4. _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013117/direct/01/

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Newbie Crunchbang Question
by Simon Royal 20 Jul '10

20 Jul '10

Hi. Newbie question. Im giving Crunchbang another look. I used it before and it is pretty fast on older hardware like my ThinkPad 600. Crunchbang 9 is based Ubuntu however 10 is going to moved to Debian. Will that affect the hardware base. I use Ubuntu and its derivatives because it supports my hardware like my wireless card out of the box. Will moving to Debian affect this. Simon --- http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - http://www.tinyurl.com/macspectrum (sent using Sony Ericsson P990i)

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SFD2010 in East of England, round 2
by MJ Ray 20 Jul '10

20 Jul '10

OK, I've lost the plot again. Sorry about that. Three questions: 1. is the meet happening? 2. SFD is about getting new people into free software. What can be done to encourage that? While LUGgers love kit meets, it may need a bit more than tech and beer to attract new people out to Syleham. 3. Registration has just opened! http://cgi.softwarefreedomday.org/register.html If you want the SFD materials, register in the next 10 days! Who'll do that? Thanks for any answers, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster and developer for hire at | software www.software.coop http://mjr.towers.org.uk | .... co IMO only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html | .... op

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256MB RAM Sticks
by Simon Royal 19 Jul '10

19 Jul '10

Hi. Does anyone have any 256MB stick PC66/100 kicking around? I have a ThinkPad 600 at present and have just picked up a 600E which is missing drives and RAM. I am going to transplant all the bits from the 600 to the 600E. My 600 has 2x128MB sticks of RAM, the most it can take and some of the reason for switching to the 600E as the 600E can take 2x256MB sticks. Does anyone have any spare 256MB sticks of PC66/100 so I can max out this beauty? Simon -- http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - http://www.tinyurl.com/macspectrum (sent using Sony Ericsson P990i)

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OpenOffice Writer errors out when saving ODT files with error saving styles.xml
by Srdjan Todorovic 19 Jul '10

19 Jul '10

Hi All, Got this nasty problem where OpenOffice 3.1.1 has stopped being able to save .odt files. Earlier this morning, things were saving fine, but now I get: Error saving the document $document_title: error in writing sub-document styles.xml I have googled for a bit and some other people have had similar problems, where it seems that some files are corrupted. I have tried this: 1) opened ODT file -> save to another dir = fail with same message 2) Opened ODT file -> save as .doc = success 3) open the saved .doc file -> save as .odt = fail with same message 4) close all openoffice instances, fire up soffice from command line, new Writer document, type a few words -> save as .odt = fail with same message 5) Open the ODT file I had originally created and saved earlier -> error message "Error reading file" 6) moved ~/.ooo3/ to a different location, start openoffice and save new file = error as before about styles.xml 7) find /usr -iname styles.xml returns nothing 8) Inspected the styles.xml file in the odt file and seems ok, but is too long for me to inspect properly. What to do now? Seems the original file is now borked, and no one in #Openoffice.org has been helpful. Can anyone please suggest something I can do? Or should I start using the Word format? Thanks, Srdjan

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