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Good Morning All: |
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I have several little projects that I would like to sweep up as we |
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approach the holidays, and would like some input from the community. |
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1. On my laptop, I keep the nics off by default, and start them as I |
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need them. The wired nic is started by /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start, and |
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the wireless uses wifi-radar. Both have to be called from a root term. |
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While this is effective, its not necessarially efficient, or |
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particularlly good looking when im working with (non linux) people |
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around (I'm the director of our IT department, and perception that I |
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have it together is important -- even if its not all together true :) |
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). I use fluxbox on my laptop, which runs extremely well, and I also |
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use the adesklets modubar. I am wondering if there is a command that |
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could put into my gentoo menu, or my modubar that would allow me to run |
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either of those programs, (one entry for each) without having to either |
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start a root term, or sudo (which does not work for wifi-radar). I have |
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tried a sudo command for a switch on the modubar and it seemed to fight |
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back, but its possible that I didn't get it set up right. Any |
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suggestions or pointers would be very helpful. |
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2. I am looking for recommendations on a multi network chat client. I |
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have been using gaim for quite some time, however, there are some |
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problems in the latest version, and it does not seem that they will be |
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resolved for quite some time. I have looked at kopete, but its irc |
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support is very lacking, especially compared to kvirc which I love. I |
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am interested in hearing what other options might be out there. |
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I think that's all for now (im sure I'll think of more as time |
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progresses) |
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Have a great day |
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TIM |
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Timothy A. Holmes |
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IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher / Science |
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Teacher |
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Medina Christian Academy |
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A Higher Standard... |
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