http://www.techspot.com/vb/ Linux distributions aplenty, Mac OS X and more. en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:50:41 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.techspot.com/vb/images/misc/rss.jpg http://www.techspot.com/vb/ http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic138271.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:54:53 GMT hello all, desperately need help installing a lynx(sys) file to my win xp home sp3 desktop hdd. Ok, followed textbk. instruc. to a tee; copied a lab file which includes "lynx" file.(I am learning basics on writing web page.) directory is, c:\CIW . next step to copy the lynx\ directory to desktop(well i didnt see a lynx directory in that file) so I copied the whole file to desktop.at this point should there have been a directory file? next step, book states"once yo u have copied lynx app. to desktop, open a command prompt using the following command"cd desktop\lynx." at this point I should be able to access web using a command as follows"lynx [url]http://--[/url] - - - - -. you get the picture. NOT,,,,,,working Please help.
sys. specs;old I know. asus 428 mobo - intel p4 proc..- xp home sp3 - 2gb ram- radeon 9500 graphics card - also installed office 07 - adobe 9.0 plus windows live care. Really I wouldnt be doing this if I didnt have to. My first class and cant even use required software. Yikes..... by the way I have a ntfs file sys. for the record, also using cable internet ]]> The Alternative OS eightwpm http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic138271.html http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic138160.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:04:14 GMT A friend tells me that he can email a file from his mac to his pc at work and use it there. My question is how does that work? Does the email program convert the file or is there a program on the pc that does it? I haven't used a mac in four years. Can someone please explain it to me? ]]> The Alternative OS marygg http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic138160.html http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic137966.html Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:52:25 GMT This may be a noob question, but is there an OS that boots really quickly that is only for browsing the internet (using anything but IE!). At the moment, I boot up on many occasions just for the internet and not for anything else. Seems a bit of a waste! Thanks in advance for any replies This may be a noob question, but is there an OS that boots really quickly that is only for browsing the internet (using anything but IE!). At the moment, I boot up on many occasions just for the internet and not for anything else. Seems a bit of a waste!

Thanks in advance for any replies ]]> The Alternative OS detrunks http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic137966.html http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic137237.html Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:39:03 GMT I have a dual boot rig. Xp and Open Suse. I had periodically been receiving an error code 18 and grub will not load, and the OS won't boot to either. If I understand correctly, I need to reinstall GRUB as a boot loader. Does anyone have suggestions? I saw one site that said Legacy Grub is no longer being developed and to use Grub 2. Which is the preferable method?

If I can get pointed in the right direction I'd appreciate it.

Photo601 ]]> The Alternative OS Photo601 http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic137237.html http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic137233.html Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:06:48 GMT I need a test plan for Mac OS X Server, since i want to build my own server.. anyway I need 3 that that consist of 'backing up data' 'doing recovery', creating recovery image for the server, installing software security for the mac os x server.

Any help? thank you ]]> The Alternative OS waterproof http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic137233.html http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic137216.html Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:26:07 GMT I used unetbootin to create a bootable usb key off the alternate install .iso for the latest release of karmic. The problem is, my IBM X30 just cannot boot from this usb key, even though it boots up perfectly fine on my dell inspiron 1420. the ibm does not have an optical drive so I cannot use the... I used unetbootin to create a bootable usb key off the alternate install .iso for the latest release of karmic. The problem is, my IBM X30 just cannot boot from this usb key, even though it boots up perfectly fine on my dell inspiron 1420. the ibm does not have an optical drive so I cannot use the normal livecd method. I think this may be a problem with the ibm but I can't fathom what it could be.
Any ideas? ]]> The Alternative OS Elliah http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic137216.html http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic137188.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:33:40 GMT I made a stupid mistake and can't seem to rectify it. I have a dual-boot Win XP/Ubuntu 9.04 system. This morning I tried to upgrade the Ubuntu partition to 9.10 UNR, but the installation instead created a new partition for 9.10 alongside the existing ones. Here is where I did something dumb and things went badly wrong. Seeing no easy way to undo the installation, I deleted the 9.10 partition. When I rebooted, I got the message

GRUB loading
error: no such partition
grub rescue>

The grub rescue> prompt does not seem to recognize any commands. Using a live installation USB stick, I can get to a regular Ubuntu command prompt and can also load a desktop using the startx command. 'boot.ini' looks fine, as does menu.lst. The Windows partition is is sda1 and is flagged as bootable. The Linux partition is extended partition sda2 with sda5 as the subpartition where the file system sits and sda6 as the swap file.

I assume there is a straightforward way to recreate the MBR, and need someone to point me to it. ]]> The Alternative OS jip8888 http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic137188.html http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic136692.html Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:01:33 GMT I've been a windows-user for many years, but now I'm starting to use OSX Leopard, little by little. But I need to run some Windows applications (specifically AutoCAD 2010). I know there are many alternatives (Parallels, CrossOver etc.), can anyone help me make a choice? I need speed, and a simple way of opening the same file with AutoCAD and with OSX applications. ]]> The Alternative OS lopdog http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic136692.html