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Recommendations sort on good TFT Displays
by Ashley T. Howes, Ph.D. 20 Nov '06

20 Nov '06

I'm in the process of considering upgrading one or two of my 19" CRTs to flatscreen TFTs in order to get more screen space and a higher resolution. Back when I used to buy CRTs, some monitors were known to be better than others. I went for a Sony Multiscan 400PS CRT many years ago and it is still clear, accurate, has excellent colour definition and strength. Who would you recommend as good TFT suppliers these days? I did look at an Apple 23 inch display a few days ago (1900x1200 approx), having seen some of the originals about 5 years ago. To be blunt, it was crap. I don't know what they had happened to it, but the image was hazy, the text unclear, even when calibrated. I'll be using the TFT for coding, text-work and general programming stuff. Maybe a bit of graphics editing as well. It will be moved between a Mac, PC and Linux box, so multiple inputs would be cool. I look forward to your comments. -- Ashley T. Howes, Ph.D. http://www.ashleyhowes.com/ "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ubuntu and Linksys
by Dave Briggs 20 Nov '06

20 Nov '06

Hi chaps Finally got round to installing the latest Ubuntu on my desktop machine. It's dual booting with Windows at the moment, but once I'm sure everything is working I'll be removing the Windows partition. All I have to connect with the internet at the moment is the cruddy Sagem modem I got with my Tiscali broadband, so I'm looking for an ethernet one to use instead. I spotted this one [ http://tinyurl.com/yyyb7j ] on ebay (I have some money on paypal to spend...) - is it a good choice? I'm not fussed about wireless at this stage, so this looks a good solution. Any views would be gladly received! -- Dave Briggs

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Re: Recommendations sort on good TFT Displays
by Peter Alcibiades 19 Nov '06

19 Nov '06

I've bought two in the last 18 months. A Xerox 19 inch glass fronted with digital input. Very nice but not super bright, and a bit reflective if there is light behind you. An Acer AL1922, which is very nice tho not glass fronted, bright and good colours. A little before that I bought an AG Neovo for a writer friend, also with digital input, also 19 inch. Very nice indeed. This was very cost effective at the time, and he's been very pleased with it to write on. Very bright indeed - we turned it down quite a bit. Don't know about current Apple models, but my neighbour has a PPC iMac and the screen on that is bigger, but certainly no better in quality than any of these. The only one to have any dead pixels was the Neovo, and its barely noticeable. The first Xerox died after a few months but was promptly replaced under warranty and the replacement is fine. Of the three I would most recommend the Acer. The Xerox looks nicest, with a sort of oval heavy metal foot. I have noticed no difference at all between digital and analogue modes. Don't know whether many people really need 23 inch screens. I usually tell friends considering larger than 19 inch screens to get two and run them side by side and put the savings into the card. Maybe two 17 inch ones would be an option also. Be interested to hear what you end up with. Peter

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RE: Recommendations sort on good TFT displays
by David Noble 19 Nov '06

19 Nov '06

Hi The Eizo FlexScan S2410 looks very nice. The one I saw in real life had impressive colour definition; good contrast, good black levels, a very sharp image and was bright. Regards Dave.

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PowerBook Ubuntu
by Simon Royal 18 Nov '06

18 Nov '06

Hi I have a couple of queries with a Ubuntu 6 installation. System: Apple PowerBook G3 333Mhz (Lombard) 384MB RAM Dell TrueMobile 1300 PCMCIA wireless card. The machine dual boots Mac OSX Tiger and Ubuntu 6 and I choose the Dell TrueMobile 1300 because it works as an Airport card under Mac OSX. I didn't give my Ubuntu installation a second thought when I purchased it. I have read a few 'how-tos' and last time I attempted to remove the broadcom driver and set it up with ndiswrapper I broke my Ubuntu installation. Any ideas how I can get my Dell card to work. Second question, how do I change the boot order as Yaboot works fine, but it defaults to Linux and I would like the default OS to be Mac OSX. Any help would be greatly appreciated, I am not a newbie to Linux but not very experienced either and would like to delve further into Linux. Regards Simon --- www.simonroyal.co.uk The box said requires Windows 2000 or better, so I bought an Apple Mac There are only 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't

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Resuming from suspend2 hibernation
by vi5u0-alug＠yahoo.co.uk 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

Is anyone successfully resuming from hibernation with suspend2 2.2.8 on kernel 2.6.18.2? If so, how, please? I guess the solution will have something to do with what's in the "init" file of the initrd. Mine is appended below: as you can see, it contains three attempts at resuming: by putting a file in /sys, by putting a file in /proc, and by using the (undocumented) nash command "resume." None of them work, I just get a fresh boot. The middle one works fine with suspend2 2.2.7 on kernel 2.6.17.2, but with the newer software, it produces an error message about not being able to open the file in /proc for writing, because there's no such file or directory. Thanks very much, Dan Hatton Here's that init file: #!/bin/nash mount -t proc /proc /proc setquiet echo Mounting proc filesystem echo Mounting sysfs filesystem mount -t sysfs /sys /sys echo Creating /dev mount -o mode=0755 -t tmpfs /dev /dev mkdir /dev/pts mount -t devpts -o gid=5,mode=620 /dev/pts /dev/pts mkdir /dev/shm mkdir /dev/mapper echo Creating initial device nodes mknod /dev/null c 1 3 mknod /dev/zero c 1 5 mknod /dev/systty c 4 0 mknod /dev/tty c 5 0 mknod /dev/console c 5 1 mknod /dev/ptmx c 5 2 mknod /dev/rtc c 10 135 mknod /dev/tty0 c 4 0 mknod /dev/tty1 c 4 1 mknod /dev/tty2 c 4 2 mknod /dev/tty3 c 4 3 mknod /dev/tty4 c 4 4 mknod /dev/tty5 c 4 5 mknod /dev/tty6 c 4 6 mknod /dev/tty7 c 4 7 mknod /dev/tty8 c 4 8 mknod /dev/tty9 c 4 9 mknod /dev/tty10 c 4 10 mknod /dev/tty11 c 4 11 mknod /dev/tty12 c 4 12 mknod /dev/ttyS0 c 4 64 mknod /dev/ttyS1 c 4 65 mknod /dev/ttyS2 c 4 66 mknod /dev/ttyS3 c 4 67 echo Setting up hotplug. hotplug echo Creating block device nodes. mkblkdevs echo "Loading libata.ko module" insmod /lib/libata.ko echo "Loading ata_piix.ko module" insmod /lib/ata_piix.ko echo Making device-mapper control node mkdmnod mkblkdevs echo Scanning logical volumes lvm vgscan --ignorelockingfailure echo Activating logical volumes lvm vgchange -ay --ignorelockingfailure VolGroup00 echo > /sys/power/suspend2/do_resume echo > /proc/suspend2/do_resume resume /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 echo Creating root device. mkrootdev -t ext3 -o defaults,ro /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 echo Mounting root filesystem. mount /sysroot echo Setting up other filesystems. setuproot echo Switching to new root and running init. switchroot

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Open Standard recognised
by Ian bell 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

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Ubuntu Boot Splash
by Wayne Stallwood 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

A quick question to those who have upgraded to Edgy. Should I still be seing the Testcard during boot, it's not clear from the forums if this was replaced as promised before release and I wonder if the disputes/arguments regarding the edgy artwork have delayed this. I only ask because it is blooming ugly and I am hoping that I have just missed an update that replaces it.

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Olympus c-460 with Linux
by cl＠isbd.net 11 Nov '06

11 Nov '06

I have an Olympus C-460 digital camera and, at the moment, I can't get Linux to see it at all. If I run xcam it simply hangs. The camera doesn't appear at all as a USB device when I plug it in. It works fine in Win2k. -- Chris Green (chris(a)halon.org.uk)

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How to print one image on multiple pages?
by cl＠isbd.net 10 Nov '06

10 Nov '06

I used to be able to do this by mistake! Now I can't work out how to do it on purpose. I want to print a .PDF diagram on two sheets of A3 rather than a single sheet, it's too small on a single sheet. How can I do this? I can't see any options in gv or, more to the point, in the CUPS printer set up, that allow me to tell the printer interface to do this. -- Chris Green (chris(a)halon.org.uk)

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