NoStop

Old Enough wrote:

> On 23 Nov 2007 04:59:45 GMT, andrew <andrew@ilium.invalid> wrote:
>
>>On 2007-11-23, Old Enough <ab@cd.ca> wrote:
>>> I just downloaded ubuntu-7.10-alternate-i386.iso
>>>
>>> I understood that, if I burned this to a CD, my computer would boot
>>> from the CD to the LINUX (ubuntu) OS.
>>
>>You have inadvertently downloaded the iso that will /not/ do as you
>>were imagining. I guess you were planning on trying Ubuntu simply from
>>the cd /without/ installing it? For this you need the Live CD not the
>>alternate CD.
>>
>>Try:
>>
>>http://www.ubuntulinux.org/getubuntu/download
>>
>>and /don't/ select the alternate cd. You can still install with the
>>alternate cd but the 'try before you buy' of the Live CD is not there.
>>
>> Andrew
>
> Thank you, Andrew, and all the others who replied.
> This certainly seems to be a newsgroup with a lot of friendly and
> helpful people.
>
> I have downloaded the Live CD, and the computer boots from it, using
> Ubuntu.
> There are other issues now (the main and first one being that my
> screen (a 19" LCD) shows an error message "Out of Range" which I have
> not been able to get rid of, so far.
>
Where does it display this message? If within the GUI environment, then you
can fix the prob by editing xorg.conf and inputting the hsync and vsync
values for your monitor. A google will tell you how this needs to be done
in xorg.conf.

Cheers.


--
Ubuntu 7.10 ... wow!
http;//www.ubuntu.com

Old Enough

On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:30:33 GMT, NoStop <nospam@nspam.com> wrote:

>
>Where does it display this message? If within the GUI environment, then you
>can fix the prob by editing xorg.conf and inputting the hsync and vsync
>values for your monitor. A google will tell you how this needs to be done
>in xorg.conf.
>
>Cheers.


Well, Kameel and NoStop - I've come to the conclusion that I'm just
too old for this stuff (I'm probably three or four times your age) -
I'll just settle for Windows, even though I'm not fond of Microsoft's
way of doing things.

Thanks for trying to help, though!

Cheers!

_________________________________
Old Enough
to know I don't know a thing ....

NoStop

Old Enough wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:30:33 GMT, NoStop <nospam@nspam.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>Where does it display this message? If within the GUI environment, then
>>you can fix the prob by editing xorg.conf and inputting the hsync and
>>vsync values for your monitor. A google will tell you how this needs to be
>>done in xorg.conf.
>>
>>Cheers.
>
>
> Well, Kameel and NoStop - I've come to the conclusion that I'm just
> too old for this stuff (I'm probably three or four times your age) -

If that is true you have lived longer than any other human being on the
planet plus a few more decades. One is never too old to learn something
new, but it's up to you.

Cheers.


--
Ubuntu 7.10 ... wow!
http;//www.ubuntu.com

Don Calloway

On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 13:17:16 -0500, Old Enough wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:30:33 GMT, NoStop <nospam@nspam.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Where does it display this message? If within the GUI environment, then
>>you can fix the prob by editing xorg.conf and inputting the hsync and
>>vsync values for your monitor. A google will tell you how this needs to
>>be done in xorg.conf.
>>
>>Cheers.
>
>
> Well, Kameel and NoStop - I've come to the conclusion that I'm just too
> old for this stuff (I'm probably three or four times your age) - I'll
> just settle for Windows, even though I'm not fond of Microsoft's way of
> doing things.
>
> Thanks for trying to help, though!
>
> Cheers!
>
> _________________________________
> Old Enough
> to know I don't know a thing ....

Well, Bill has you by the gonads I see. Too bad.

andrew

On 2007-11-24, Old Enough <ab@cd.ca> wrote:

[...]

> Well, Kameel and NoStop - I've come to the conclusion that I'm just
> too old for this stuff (I'm probably three or four times your age) -
> I'll just settle for Windows, even though I'm not fond of Microsoft's
> way of doing things.

Hmmmm...... well I am 47 so that makes you ......

Andrew

--
Now I can praise him, now that I can stand by to mourn
and speak before this web that killed my father; yet
I grieve for the thing done, the death, and all our race.
I have won; but my victory is soiled, and has no pride.

Mark South

On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 19:25:04 +0000, andrew wrote:

> On 2007-11-24, Old Enough <ab@cd.ca> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> Well, Kameel and NoStop - I've come to the conclusion that I'm just
>> too old for this stuff (I'm probably three or four times your age) -
>> I'll just settle for Windows, even though I'm not fond of Microsoft's
>> way of doing things.
>
> Hmmmm...... well I am 47 so that makes you ......

sudo apt-get install gnumeric

:-)

Old Enough

On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 19:21:44 GMT, Don Calloway
<drcalloway@verizon.net> wrote:

>On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 13:17:16 -0500, Old Enough wrote:

>> old for this stuff (I'm probably three or four times your age)
..
>
>Well, Bill has you by the gonads I see. Too bad.


Ouch!!!!

Well, I based that statement on my perception that most people hanging
around computers and trying the off-the-beaten-path stuff would be
around 18 - 25 years old (possibly younger).
What do I know??? (see my sig)!
_________________________________
Old Enough
to know I don't know a thing ....

Rockinghorse Winner

In alt.os.linux.ubuntu, Neodymium had the audacity to say that:

> Nice job for this evening! But maybe the graphical card doesn't allow for a
> higher resolution. This is a municipal left-over PC...
>
> Thanks!
>
> ###########
>
> neodymium
>
>

What graphics card do you have? lshw |less will let you scroll to *display*
section, where your graphics hw is listed. Maybe you need a restricted
driver upgrade. I don't use gnome, but there is a restricted driver utility
that will let you do this easily.

*R* *H*

--
"Look at Cuba's shape," I instructed her. "Talk about phallic. And what are
it's main products? Cigars. TR already had his Big Stick, and if there's one
thing one big stick hates, it's another. We could have spared ourselves
Castro, if Cuba had just been shaped like the Virgin Islands." -John Updike

De Kameel

Old Enough wrote:

> Well, Kameel and NoStop - I've come to the conclusion that I'm just
> too old for this stuff (I'm probably three or four times your age) -

That would make you the oldest man in the world. Congrats! ;-)

de Kameel

ArameFarpado

Em Sábado, 24 de Novembro de 2007 18:17, Old Enough escreveu:

> Well, Kameel and NoStop - I've come to the conclusion that I'm just
> too old for this stuff (I'm probably three or four times your age)
Wow... 150 ??