I have been endeavouring to start a Non Profit Group or organisation in Sydney Australia for some time, there are a few things happening and as I find people who can help and can get on board I have found no other distro that can not only run successfully on the machines donated, but also attract favour with those who use these re-employed machines, Many of which in my view are excellent every day work horses that can do the Facebook/word processing/email stuff, but also play high def video or even create something without a problem, even that would be resource heavy when a Windows App is used within Windows, on machine no more endowed than a p4 2ghz 1 gig ram or equivalent.

By the way, if anyone in the Sydney Australia region wants to get involved in the creation of a group such as this, let me know, it will hopefully become something that will bring about some employment and be a lot of fun for those at the grass roots of this venture..

J

I have an old HDD that has some data I'd like to access.  I've installed it in an external enclosure but I can't find it on the computer.  (Yes.  I've plugged it in.  )  Where do I find it?  In Windows, I could look under "Computer" but I don't see anything like that here.  I'm sure there's a simple answer but like my brother Forrest said, "I'm not a smart man.".

TIA

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Hello, All!

Some of my older laptops have only one USB port, or support only USB 1.1. For the Dell Latitude C640, both of these apply. At the same time, the C640 also has one or two unused PCMCIA slots available.

Having found a cheap used PCMCIA 2.0 card at my local computer surplus store, I stuck it into the C640. The Linux kernel recognizes and supports these cards, or at least the one I purchased - a Zonet ZUN2200.

This card adds two USB 2.0 slots.  This offers a 10X increase in the USB data transfer rate, and allows the use of newer USB 3.0 devices at USB 2.0 speed, as many USB 3.0 devices won't work on USB 1.1 ports.

For high demand accessories, the card also supports a plug-in cable to power the new slots from the USB 1.1 port, or an external 5 VDC power supply...

73 DE N4RPS
Rob

Linux Lite: 2.0
I'm trying to reinstall LL on my hard drive after losing wifi due to installing updates. When I go to install LL using the CD, I have the option to install LL alongside Windows XP. I've already installed LL alongside XP. I don't want two LL operating systems & XP installed. I want to reinstall LL over the existing LL. I believe, I have to delete one of the partitions (number 5) but it won't let me. I need to know which partition to delete. Below are my partitions on my hard drive. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks

AZ

linux@linux:~$ sudo parted -l
Model: ATA WDC WD600UE-22KV (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 60.0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number  Start  End    Size    Type      File system    Flags
1      32.3kB  47.3GB  47.3GB  primary  ntfs            boot
2      47.3GB  60.0GB  12.7GB  extended
5      47.3GB  58.5GB  11.3GB  logical  ext4
6      58.5GB  60.0GB  1473MB  logical  linux-swap(v1)


Warning: Unable to open /dev/sr0 read-write (Read-only file system).  /dev/sr0
has been opened read-only.
Error: Invalid partition table - recursive partition on /dev/sr0.       
Ignore/Cancel?

Ok. I have no sound or playback from Amarok when I try to use it. Now when I try to get information from the sound Icon on the trayit shows me that there is VLC and Amarok, I am assuming that only one of them can run at a time. How do I shut down the VLC? just Kill it? Then I can run Amarok?

thanks,
ohjrson

I recently was trying out the Elementary OS distro. Whay I liked was that the desktop is disabled by default. Is it possible to disable the desktop in Linux Lite?

Hi all Linux Lite users!

I have just installed the Linux Lite in my home server, and also installed my HP DAT 72 SCSI tape drive, which apparently, Linux Lite can 'see it' via the information on SCSI controller, but not visible so as I can use it.

My idea is to activate such device and share it on a Windows network so as I can access it for backups from a Windows 7 workstation.

Any ideas on how to 'activate' the drive and to share it on the network?


All the best!

Hello,

I am looking for some advice on choosing a text editor that has an option to allow me to change the page colour to a specific hex colour.
If the editor uses different colour fonts on the page for functions I would need it to either, alter those to contrast with the new page colour automatically, or have separate colour controls for each font function set so I can edit manually to contrast.

After looking at some of the messages posted on this forum it's apparent that others are having the same problem as me. After installing the LL updates & rebooting we are losing our wifi. Some people are reinstalling LL. My questions are: Is there a way to just remove the updates without having to reinstall LL? What is the best way to reinstall LL, is it with the CD, or is there a better way? Thanks.

AZ