Matt

Thanks again everyone. Friday June 6, I graduated high school.

I was over at my girlfriend's house the other day and they were telling me about this old computer they had that they couldn't get to turn on. After some investigation, I discovered that the issue was just their power cord--a simple fix. Brought over a new power cord, and the thing booted immediately. Now however, something odd is occurring. They tell me that every time they shutdown the computer, it will reboot instead of turning off. I tried it myself, and this is exactly the case. Every time it just reboots. I'm not sure if this is a hardware issue or not. The computer is running Win

I really like Acer products.

Thanks everyone!!!

Ok.. they haven't handed me my diploma yet, but yesterday was officially my last day of high school. I thought it would never come! I will be spending my summer still working (I'm a manager at the local Cold Stone Creamery--working there for two years now), and then I'm off to Miami University (that's in Ohio; not to be confused with the University of Miami) to major in computer science. People say that finishing high school is sad and you'll never be as carefree again... but I'm pumped!! Just thought I'd let you all know

Wouldn't lshw be more detailed? Nice tool tman70.

If this is true, then you are completely clean of malware and your issue lies elsewhere.

Just downloaded booted the Live CD. It certainly looks nice I've never used an RPM based system before, nor have I used YUM. I'm definitely going to play with it a little bit. Fedora9 with Gnome 2.22.1

Nice

Diggnation, Tekzilla, Systm

Do you have any ad-blocking software or browser plugins?

Thanks shanenin, I'me looking into that

I have a Laptop and Desktop both running Ubuntu (8.04) connected to my wireless router. I'd like to mount, over ssh or similar protocol, a volume on my desktop so that I can easily access the files while using my laptop. I've heard that this is easy, I just haven't found out how to exactly do it. Thanks, Matt

Thanks jcl. Worked perfectly!

I have a music collection which I want to back up. All of my mp3s are in a music folder, with subfolders of albums/artists/etc. I'd like a command that will copy only the mp3s (i.e. don't copy album art or anything like that) and preserve the subfolder structure. Thanks, Matt

Sounds like you're looking for files you aren't supposed to have.. *Matt will be watching this thread.

Did you just use 'good' and 'ME' in the same sentence? Vista does have high hardware requirements. Unfortunately, people can't use XP forever.

I'd buy the classic. The touches are cool, but quite pricey. If I buy an mp3 player, I want it to listen to music, not to play with it.

New Debian install on an old laptop

FIXED!! Here's what I did: iwconfig eth1 mode managed iwconfig eth1 essid on Detected the network immediately.

Lol, yes I'm doing that correctly.I have also confirmed that this is a WEP issue, as I can connect to open networks. When I send the WEP key, it attempts to join, staying at "waiting for key" and it fails, then asks for the key again.

Awesome naraku! I've now got the wireless options in the upper right corner. It can see my home network. Now, I'm having issues logging in. I've got WEP set up, and I enter the key (I've verified the key many times) yet it can't connect. Do I need to do anything else to enable WEP connectivity?

Ok, one more piece that might help anyone:

I've attempted to follow this as a guide: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/401 But have had no luck. Maybe I installed the wrong driver? (Dell Wireless 1450) Edit: Ok, I think I had the wrong driver. Here's what I've got now: debian:/home/matt# ndiswrapper -l installed drivers: w70n501 driver installed, hardware (8086:1043) present (alternate driver: ipw2100) ndiswrapper's site says:

I am trying to get my fresh debian install to work with my wireless connection. Here's my info: I'm not sure how ti get and install the correct drivers.