Posts by ollywompus

Quote: Originally Posted by mike27 Now this is odd...I rebooted and was running through the commands again to see if maybe something would give me some more information, and it has. I did the commands: rmmod...

I personally hate gnome for customizing options... KDE is so much more customizable, but for a TRULY custom experience, 'non-standard' WM's are way better. A lot of people like e17 (I personally don't love it), but if you want to get...

Quote: Originally Posted by seablade there is a catfight going on over the logo which debian views as non-free(As in speech) and thus hasn't included it. Lol, there always seems to be some kind of catfight in...

Quote: Originally Posted by RyanK You might want to try getting Opera running on the 233 MHz instead of Dillo as Dillo lacks a lot of features needed for browser. For the use my mom does with this laptop...

Argh, ok, I need help here. I had my laptop sitting on the couch with my headphones plugged in because I was watching a DVD. My 6 month old lab puppy, being the crazy dog that she is, came bounding through the living room like a...

Let me throw my hat into the ring here. My mom's got an old Dell lappy, Pentium 233mhz, 128mb Ram, 3gb hard drive. We're talking SLOOOOOOOOOWWWWW here. I nuked the win 98 install on it and did a basic install of debian sarge on it,...

This is why I'll stick with dapper until Edgy has been well worn in... if it ain't broke don't fix it. For my part, I don't like e17 as a WM... right now I use a combo of flux and kde, and am perfectly happy with it. -olly

Two different screenshots, used for two different logins on my machine: First Login: Second Login: Cheers! -olly

I'll have to give this a try... my wife really wants to be able to watch the shows that are posted at abc.com, but I haven't had much luck getting them to work (other than running firefox windows version under wine with Flash, but slow...

This thread is exactly why I invested in an external HDD lol. As for installing distro's at 3AM, see what happens when ollywompus is trying to update from hoary to breezy and has no display all of a sudden... ...that pissed me off, and...