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Not in a way you could see....

Clarification: SuSe sees all drives including the external drive which is NTFS and I can access/open all the "common" files such as Word, Excel, jpg and so on. What I needed in the virtual box WinXP was for it to see it so I could access those files from the WinXP virtual machine too. The virtual box didn't automatically see the external USB connected drive ... so it took a bit of "fiddling" to get that working.

ya... it's nice not to have to have half a dozen virus, malware, spyware, etc apps running in the background, hogging system resources and slowing down stuff.

Which simply means we sold our Leesur-Lite tent trailer today. Glad to see it go before winter. Didn't get as much as I wanted but close. Good thing is, sold it for much more than we paid 3 years ago.

Well, after downloading/installing several "flavors" of Linus (Mint, Ubuntu, CentOS, OpenSuse, and a couple others I've forgotten) I have decided to go with OpenSuSe 12.3 As it turns out, SuSe 10.x was what I used on one of my servers and I then found it to very easy to install, had all things I needed and wasn't difficult to connect it to our domain. Granted, the others would have had things I needed as well; however, some I didn't like the desktop design, some I had issues installing/configuring, one crashed during installation of updates, few other issues. I did have some struggling to get both my home printers working (one being a printer/scanner) but they are both operational now. Also installed Virtual Box and loaded WinXP SP3 and got it all connected to my Seagate external drive, the printers, etc and got a few of the Windows specific apps I needed installed and working. Virtual box was a bit of a struggle to get it operating properly but I got there. So, I guess I am now officially a Linux user, at home at least.

I forgot ...... OH NO !!! .... NOT ANOTHER PLEDGE DEBATE !!!

That's only half the truth..... I get wasps around the bike all the time during a road trip and I haven't used pledge much at all on my new scoot. That said, I have been using LEMON pledge on my scoots for many years. It does a great job especially on the W/S. Sure, it may attract wasps but no more so than all the other dead bugs on the bike do.... that's what they come for.... the smell of all those other dead critters. (that's my opinion and I'm stikkin to it, and will continue to use LEMON pledge)

that's where you connect the booster rockets so you can overtake a 1st gen...

I dropped the ball ... s'pose I gotta pay for that too!

I'm fine with it the way it is. It's clean and simple and it works! Wish my boss had the same "appraoch" to the various in-house developed stuff we have here at my work ... but heck, if she did, then I'd have less than nothing to do ...

Can we contribute to the fund BEFORE we drop our bike? (coz we all know it's not "if" but "when")

Ya ... as a network admin and the ONLY one at my work that looks after the IT environment, I must be able to remote connect. I had a VPN set up and thru it, was able to use Remote Desktop but I did a server upgrade a while back (couple years I think) and with the new OS (Winserver 2008) I can't for the life of me get the damn VPN to work .... the whole configuration is different and some of the IP addressing has changed to boot! So, apps such as Teamviewer are all I have now. Thanks for your help!

Easy for you to say

Brian, do you know how to stop Teamviewer from resetting the password for remote desktop connection? I'm sure I could figure it out but sometimes easier (and quicker) to ask someone.

Based on my mind, I'm still 35 ... it's my frikken body that doesn't agree!

Not quite there yet... workin on it. One thing I had to overcome was VPN and remote desktop. Been using an app called Teamviewer in the Windows environment ... I was happy to see a Linux version so that is off the plate now. Still a few others to go but I can run Oracle Virtual box or Wine to handle those. Am also going to test out CentOS seeing as lilbeaver speaks so highly of it.

FWIW ... Linux Mint 15 is based on Ubuntu 13.04

RIP ...

hmmmmmmmmmm... could that be a bit of an oxymoron? I mean, if you did it all night before and now it takes all night to do.... heck, it only takes me 5 min now....

As mentioned... it's not for me. Frankly, I am not a "gamer" ... but give me a programming project and I don't sleep LOL

Well, I discovered how to do it. Open a terminal window and type in system-config-printer This opens a configuration utility that allows you to select and install drivers for attached printers that were not automatically installed. :banana:

So that's the secret!!! Heck, certain "things" haven't been up for me in a long time .... gonna go and get me a 1st gen now!

I will be ordering 2 new laptops for the bosses in a few days ... Dell still sells them with Win 7 PRO installed plus a Win8 licence.

All of our workstations (with exception of management and myself) are still running XP SP3 and have been doing so for 7 years without a lick of problem .... except for this one user who continually screws his computer up somehow. Thankfully I got smart a while back and took an image of it when I rebuilt it and it was working properly LOL

hmmmmmmm.... care to share how? Not for me tho, I have a corporate exec that likes to play solitaire when he's travelling by air and he just got himseelf a new laptop with Win8 on it and of course, I'm the poor sukka that has to set it up for him. In any event, I grabbed it off a WinXP box so he's a happy camper.