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March 9th, 2007, 10:27 PM
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Re: OT: Windows is too expensive
Open it again this time as super user:
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sudo gedit /etc/modules
Add it at the bottom of the list and save like so:
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# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
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# This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
# at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.
lp
ndiswrapper
edit: Why o why has it taken to double spacing stuff inside code tags? It wasn't a few posts ago... |
March 9th, 2007, 10:36 PM
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Re: OT: Windows is too expensive
Para, I owe you a beer.  Wireless is workign great now. Thanks for all the help.
Geoschmo
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March 9th, 2007, 10:37 PM
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Re: OT: Windows is too expensive
No problem. |
March 11th, 2007, 04:55 AM
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Re: OT: Windows is too expensive
Wish I'd opened this last week; I have a brand new OEM copy of XP:Pro, still in the cellophane wrapper.
Oops,
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March 11th, 2007, 02:34 PM
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Re: OT: Windows is too expensive
What? You could have used Linux instead? Or you would have bought a retail copy of XP at the higher price instead?
I'll take the XP package if you don't want to use it.  Windows still has its uses. For a while, anyway. |
March 12th, 2007, 06:08 PM
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Re: OT: Windows is too expensive
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Windows still has its uses. For a while, anyway.
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Until April, 2014:
End of extended support for XP prof and home ... .
Lets hope Reactos and/or Linux are really usuable by then!
(and if anyone else has a wrapped version of XP prof lying around - I would be glad to help him getting rid of it ;-) )
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March 13th, 2007, 04:07 AM
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Re: OT: Windows is too expensive
Heh, by 2014 we'll have mobile phones that can run XP fer cryin out loud, and a Vista machine would cost less than a grand. Still, I'm all in favour of the user-friendly Linux idea. That'd be sweet.
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March 13th, 2007, 05:23 AM
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Re: OT: Windows is too expensive
A "vista machine" only costs somewhere in the neighborhood of $600 US, including the ability to run Aero.
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March 13th, 2007, 07:47 PM
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Re: OT: Windows is too expensive
Aero? Oreo? what do cookies have to do with vista?
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March 13th, 2007, 07:51 PM
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Re: OT: Windows is too expensive
Give Microsoft Oreos and get Vista Aero
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