Re: [BLUG] noob question in more detal

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>    1. Re: How do you listen to music? (Sim?n
> Ruiz)
>    2. newbee (ted mishler)
>    3. Re: How do you listen to music?
> (Sidarth Dasari)
>    4. Re: newbee (Aaron W. Hsu)
>    5. Re: newbee (Mark Warner)
>    6. Re: newbee (Sidarth Dasari)
>    7. Re: newbee (Mark Krenz)
>    8. Re: newbee (Aaron W. Hsu)
>    9. Re: newbee (Kelly McEvilly)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 12:30:45 -0500
> From: Sim?n Ruiz <simon.a.ruiz@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [BLUG] How do you listen to music?
> To: Bloomington LINUX Users Group <blug@cs.indiana.edu>
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> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Jeremy L. Gaddis <jeremy@evilrouters.net>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Ben Shewmaker <ben@shewbox.org>
> wrote:
> >> Sitting here listening to some music this morning
> and got to wondering, how
> >> do other people listen to music?? All on the
> computer?? CD's?? LP's?
> >> iPods?? How does everybody else listen to music??
> Here's how I do it:
> >
> > For me, it's Pandora. ?At home, at work, and in the
> car.
>
> Lately, I've been playing it on the speaker of my new HTC
> Hero. It's
> like a little boombox in my pocket that follows me around
> the house. I
> can plug headphones in when I don't wanna bug people.
>
> There's also a Pandora app for Android. ;-)
>
> Sim?n
>
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 13:25:56 -0800 (PST)
> From: ted mishler <tmishler@yahoo.com>
> Subject: [BLUG] newbee
> To: blug@cs.indiana.edu
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> Hi,
>
> I am new to linux, and downloaded XPressLinux as an iso,
> and it works great. I'd like to learn a few things though,
> and wondered when the group is going to get together? Or is
> it that everyone just emails questions now?
>
> Thanks...Ted
>
>
>
>
>      
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:37:21 -0500
> From: Sidarth Dasari <Sidster802@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [BLUG] How do you listen to music?
> To: Bloomington LINUX Users Group <blug@cs.indiana.edu>
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> I listen either through last fm or through Songbird. Love
> all those
> great addons for songbird. There are some that give it
> great
> integration with last fm
>
> On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Sim?n Ruiz <simon.a.ruiz@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Jeremy L. Gaddis
> <jeremy@evilrouters.net>
> wrote:
> >> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Ben Shewmaker
> <ben@shewbox.org>
> wrote:
> >>> Sitting here listening to some music this
> morning and got to wondering, how
> >>> do other people listen to music?? All on the
> computer?? CD's?? LP's?
> >>> iPods?? How does everybody else listen to
> music?? Here's how I do it:
> >>
> >> For me, it's Pandora. ?At home, at work, and in
> the car.
> >
> > Lately, I've been playing it on the speaker of my new
> HTC Hero. It's
> > like a little boombox in my pocket that follows me
> around the house. I
> > can plug headphones in when I don't wanna bug people.
> >
> > There's also a Pandora app for Android. ;-)
> >
> > Sim?n
> >
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:39:00 -0500
> From: "Aaron W. Hsu" <arcfide@sacrideo.us>
> Subject: Re: [BLUG] newbee
> To: tmishler@yahoo.com,
> "Bloomington LINUX Users Group"
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> On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:25:56 -0500, ted mishler <tmishler@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I'd like to learn a few things though
>
> What would you like to learn?
>
>     Aaron W. Hsu
>
> --
> Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the
> good of its 
> victims may be the most oppressive. -- C. S. Lewis
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:01:18 -0500
> From: Mark Warner <markwarner1954@att.net>
> Subject: Re: [BLUG] newbee
> To: Bloomington LINUX Users Group <blug@cs.indiana.edu>
> Message-ID: <4AF73FAE.1070107@att.net>
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>
> ted mishler wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am new to linux, and downloaded XPressLinux as an
> iso, and it works great. I'd like to learn a few things
> though, and wondered when the group is going to get
> together? Or is it that everyone just emails questions now?
>
> XPressLinux is one I hadn't heard of. Appears to be an old
> (circa 2006,
> perhaps abandoned?) Kubuntu derivative.
>
> That being the case, I can probably give you some general
> tips and
> pointers from a relatively new user's standpoint, but won't
> be able to
> address that distro specifically.
>
> If you'd like to try something else, something that's
> current but
> similar, I would recommend you take a look at SimplyMEPIS
> v8:
>
> https://www.mepis.org/
> http://www.mepislovers.org/forums/index.php
>
> Like Kubuntu, it's based on Debian, uses the KDE desktop
> (the tried and
> true version 3.5.10), and is geared to the newcomer.
>
> http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/40264:
>
> "SimplyMepis - This is one of the Debian derivatives that
> takes a stable
> base and builds it into one mighty fine desktop
> distributions. It was
> one of the first to offer one of those install and go
> solutions. It was
> the first to include that proprietary code others avoided
> for legal
> reasons. They offer paid support options, but not on the
> scale of
> Novell, Red Hat, or Mandriva. And it always looks pretty
> too.
> SimplyMepis is another one that pops into mind if I need a
> quick, easy,
> and guaranteed successful system."
>
> --
> Mark Warner
> MEPIS Linux
> Registered Linux User #415318
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 17:15:19 -0500
> From: Sidarth Dasari <Sidster802@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [BLUG] newbee
> To: Bloomington LINUX Users Group <blug@cs.indiana.edu>
> Message-ID:
>     <1af14ff60911081415i5d740efeob378931ef9a0d69c@mail.gmail.com>
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>
> Ive heard Linux Mint is also quite user friendly for new
> users, and of
> course if there is always Ubuntu or Kubuntu which your
> distro is based
> off of
>
> On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Mark Warner <markwarner1954@att.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > ted mishler wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am new to linux, and downloaded XPressLinux as
> an iso, and it works great. I'd like to learn a few things
> though, and wondered when the group is going to get
> together? Or is it that everyone just emails questions now?
> >
> > XPressLinux is one I hadn't heard of. Appears to be an
> old (circa 2006,
> > perhaps abandoned?) Kubuntu derivative.
> >
> > That being the case, I can probably give you some
> general tips and
> > pointers from a relatively new user's standpoint, but
> won't be able to
> > address that distro specifically.
> >
> > If you'd like to try something else, something that's
> current but
> > similar, I would recommend you take a look at
> SimplyMEPIS v8:
> >
> > https://www.mepis.org/
> > http://www.mepislovers.org/forums/index.php
> >
> > Like Kubuntu, it's based on Debian, uses the KDE
> desktop (the tried and
> > true version 3.5.10), and is geared to the newcomer.
> >
> > http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/40264:
> >
> > "SimplyMepis - This is one of the Debian derivatives
> that takes a stable
> > base and builds it into one mighty fine desktop
> distributions. It was
> > one of the first to offer one of those install and go
> solutions. It was
> > the first to include that proprietary code others
> avoided for legal
> > reasons. They offer paid support options, but not on
> the scale of
> > Novell, Red Hat, or Mandriva. And it always looks
> pretty too.
> > SimplyMepis is another one that pops into mind if I
> need a quick, easy,
> > and guaranteed successful system."
> >
> > --
> > Mark Warner
> > MEPIS Linux
> > Registered Linux User #415318
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > BLUG mailing list
> > BLUG@linuxfan.com
> > http://mailman.cs.indiana.edu/mailman/listinfo/blug
> >
>
>
> ------------------------------
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> Message: 7
> Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 22:24:11 +0000
> From: Mark Krenz <mark@slugbug.org>
> Subject: Re: [BLUG] newbee
> To: tmishler@yahoo.com,
> Bloomington LINUX Users Group
>     <blug@cs.indiana.edu>
> Message-ID: <20091108222411.GU5179@arvo.suso.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
> On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 09:25:56PM GMT, ted mishler [tmishler@yahoo.com]
> said the following:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am new to linux, and downloaded XPressLinux as an
> iso, and it works great. I'd like to learn a few things
> though, and wondered when the group is going to get
> together? Or is it that everyone just emails questions now?
> >
>
>   Hello Ted, welcome to the list and to the
> group.  I think you'll find
> lots of friendly help here.  Hopefully we can get a
> meeting together
> soon, perhaps a meet and greet would do well.
>
>   You are welcome to choose your own distribution of
> course and I don't
> think any of us are criticizing your choice of XPressLinux,
> but there
> are some things to watch out for.  Since there are so
> many distributions
> available for Linux, it can be confusing.  You will
> probably be ok with
> most of the distributions available, but this particular
> distribution
> seems to no longer be maintained as the download link is no
> longer
> available and the domain for the distribution seems to have
> expired and
> taken over by an advertiser.
>
>   Because of this, It would be a good idea to ensure
> that what you
> downloaded was indeed XPressLinux and not something
> else.  Do you
> remember when you downloaded it and from where?
>
>
> Mark
>
> --
> Mark Krenz
> Bloomington Linux Users Group
> http://www.bloomingtonlinux.org/
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:46:39 -0500
> From: "Aaron W. Hsu" <arcfide@sacrideo.us>
> Subject: Re: [BLUG] newbee
> To: "Bloomington LINUX Users Group" <blug@cs.indiana.edu>
> Message-ID: <op.u23tv10o0p3ku8@localhost>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1;
> format=flowed; delsp=yes
>
> On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:15:19 -0500, Sidarth Dasari <Sidster802@gmail.com> 
>
> wrote:
>
> > Ive heard Linux Mint is also quite user friendly for
> new users, and of
> > course if there is always Ubuntu or Kubuntu which your
> distro is based
> > off of
>
> Alright, that's it, I have to throw in Slackware here. :)
> The installer is 
> a little intimidating if you don't know how to use an
> ncurses partition 
> utility, but other than that, Slackware is great for the
> starting user who 
> wants to learn about Linux. On the other hand, if you don't
> want to learn 
> a different modus operandi from Windows, other systems
> might work better 
> for you. :-)
>
>     Aaron W. Hsu
>
> --
> Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the
> good of its 
> victims may be the most oppressive. -- C. S. Lewis
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 9
> Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 08:41:14 -0500 (EST)
> From: Kelly McEvilly <kellym@wbhcp.com>
> Subject: Re: [BLUG] newbee
> To: Bloomington LINUX Users Group <blug@cs.indiana.edu>
> Message-ID:
> <18755353.1341257774104203.JavaMail.SYSTEM@ws1033-win2k>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>
> OK, since the topic was raised, I'm pretty much a complete
> noob too.
>
> I'm concentrating on CentOS right now. 
>
> Good, bad, indifferent???
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Aaron W. Hsu" <arcfide@sacrideo.us>
> To: "Bloomington LINUX Users Group" <blug@cs.indiana.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, November 8, 2009 8:46:39 PM GMT -05:00
> US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [BLUG] newbee
>
> On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:15:19 -0500, Sidarth Dasari <Sidster802@gmail.com> 
>
> wrote:
>
> > Ive heard Linux Mint is also quite user friendly for
> new users, and of
> > course if there is always Ubuntu or Kubuntu which your
> distro is based
> > off of
>
> Alright, that's it, I have to throw in Slackware here. :)
> The installer is 
> a little intimidating if you don't know how to use an
> ncurses partition 
> utility, but other than that, Slackware is great for the
> starting user who 
> wants to learn about Linux. On the other hand, if you don't
> want to learn 
> a different modus operandi from Windows, other systems
> might work better 
> for you. :-)
>
>     Aaron W. Hsu
>
> --
> Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the
> good of its 
> victims may be the most oppressive. -- C. S. Lewis
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> Actually, I was wondering how to connect my ide to usb cable to xpresslinux. It seems to work sometimes in windows, but somehow, maybe I chkdsked it or scandisked it. I was warned not to do that, but after a power failure, I now can't access the 320gig drive at all, so I guess I'll need to reformat in 32bit mode?
Any tips would help.
Don't remember where I downloaded it.
Thanks - Oh, and if we could get together sometime, that'd be great.
-Ted

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