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oliverjames · Posted: Fri 18 May 2012, 13:00 Post subject:

And no possibility for running a virtual machine within Windows, the target image being on the external drive?

greengeek · Posted: Fri 18 May 2012, 14:42 Post subject:

Keef · Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Posts: 1001 Location: Staffordshire

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jemimah · Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Posts: 4309 Location: Tampa, FL

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 6730 Location: Earth

jemimah · Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Posts: 4309 Location: Tampa, FL

The vpn client is Juniper and the software (java) works fine - but the server checks which antivirus you have and what OS you are running and rejects you if it doesn't like the answer.

Mostly what I'm learning now is how to get it out of the box, into the rack, and how to cable it up and get it on the network. Most home users won't have anything like these SANs because they cost thousands (or maybe millions) of dollars.

Geoffrey · Joined: 30 May 2010 Posts: 2379 Location: Queensland

Welcome home Jemimah, sounds like you lead a interesting life, we've been keeping busy while you were absent. Very Happy

Moving along, here is a new twist to AdobeAIR, adding Gnome-keyring daemon to deal with security credentials,
such as user names and passwords.

I've located a Gnome-keyring pet that works, It isn't setup to run when installed,
so this is more or less a test to see if it works ok in Saluki, maybe if it works out the Gnome-keyring could be included.

I'll post a copy of the gnome-keyring-0.8.1-i486.pet here, to use it just install the pet and in the terminal run

Geoffrey · Joined: 30 May 2010 Posts: 2379 Location: Queensland

Here's one that will be useful, iSurveill turn your webcam into a surveillance cam with motion detection
Read about here http://www.chrillo.info/apps/isurveill/ This requires gnome-keyring.

Dromeno · Joined: 12 Sep 2008 Posts: 543

Jemimah I am happy about your more interesting job. And I am absolutely astonished about your puppee and saluki. I hope you will still come back every now and then.

sheesh why is there an ocean between us...I have never met a woman which runs on linux before... I want to meet you and a couple of other puppophiles in a bar!

allow me to finsh with a request for gnucash (accounting). It is the last missing piece to make saluki into a tool for setting up your own business.

Dromeno · Joined: 12 Sep 2008 Posts: 543

Is it just me or is there something wrong with the vlc versions which are provided with saluki / weary? vlc is not playing avi files because it can't play m4v

ttuuxxx version says "there is no easy way for you to fix this"

Geoffrey · Joined: 30 May 2010 Posts: 2379 Location: Queensland

Antenna 1.5.0 internet radio, this works ok, no gnome-keyring needed read about it here http://www.downloadcrew.com/article/26246-antenna

One thing is the flags don't show to select country by, I don't know why, everything else appears to work as it should.

Download here antenna-1.5.0.pet 3.4 MB (3,413,930 Bytes)

Geoffrey · Joined: 30 May 2010 Posts: 2379 Location: Queensland

Another AdobeAIR App, Readefine 2.49 Google Reader RSS feeds http://www.snapfiles.com/get/Readefine.html

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 6730 Location: Earth

mikeslr

Hi jemimah & All,

Congrats and my sympathy (' Rolling Eyes

') on your new work opportunity.

Regarding choice of new computer. My first choice was IBM, now Lenovo. Solid and reliable, even after the change of owners. My Thinkpad T42, now what? 8 years old? still out-performs my wife's shiney new Toshiba Satellite with 6 Gb RAM, Quod-Core 64-bit i3 Windows7. And my cat has knocked the T42 off the coffee table a couple of times. I bought it to replace a Thinkpad that had given me 8 years of service before its "internal" battery gave up the ghost.
After that, Asus, based on experience and research. After that Acer, based mostly on research. After that, anything else except Toshiba, which I'd place last.
Not because it isn't a good machine. (Although after 6 months I had to reinstall Windows7 which had gone haywire). But because it doesn't play well with Linux.
Via USB installs, I've tried almost every recent Puppy on my wife's Toshiba. None recognized its sound card. Via DVDs, I've also tried Ubuntu, Mint, Zorin, Pinguy, Fedora, Salix, and a couple of the other "big boys." One, I don't remember which, wouldn't boot at all. One didn't recognize its keyboard. Some booted but didn't recognize its sound card, or its internal wifi adapter, or both. Zorin was the one exception which actually provided a usable system. Googling revealed, especially regarding sound-cards, that Toshiba --apparently across most of its line-- used hardware well-supported by Windows but unsupported in Linux.

There may be exceptions to "Toshiba doesn't play well with Linux" which extensive research, or luck, may reveal. And who knows what models Toshiba may bring out tomorrow. But "time is money" and as of today, I am unaware of any advantage Toshibas in general provide which can not also be found in its rivals which "do play well with Linux."

mikesLr