People have hacked those disposable digital cameras to make them reusable and to allow USB connections, so you don't need to pay anything besides the cost of the camera. Of course, the companies that make them have made them harder to hack. Dunno what the current status of this arms race is.
I'm sorry. You were going to ask me to choose, right? Did you want to finish?
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tommyrot - Feb 21, 2007 1:54:50 pm PST #649 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Liese S. - Feb 21, 2007 2:27:52 pm PST #650 of 25496
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
OMG I need to buy that commodore 64 joystick!
Pix - Feb 21, 2007 3:41:05 pm PST #651 of 25496
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
...If someone finds me screaming on top of a clocktower with a sawed off shotgun, you can blame the combination of high-pitched tech squeals coming from the entertainment center in the living room. I swear to God, I'm about ready to rip all of the plugs out of the wall.
Is there anything else I can do? Because I'm seriously being driven out of my house.
esse - Feb 21, 2007 3:54:00 pm PST #652 of 25496
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Hey, I'm having a weird problem with Kubuntu over the last week or so. When I load the OS and get to the login panel, I log in fine with the correct u/p combination, but then the screen blanks out for a second and goes back to the login panel; the splash screen that normally indicates the system is loading doesn't show up. Every time I try to log in, the screen just blanks and takes me back to the log in panel. It's driving me mad.
When I log in at the command level, it logs me in properly; but I don't know how to load the GUI from the command line, or if the same problem would occur if I did try to load from the command line. Any suggestions?
Laga - Feb 21, 2007 4:19:35 pm PST #653 of 25496
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Kristin, is there a power strip you can turn off?
Gudanov - Feb 21, 2007 4:38:06 pm PST #654 of 25496
Coding and Sleeping
You might try "startx" from the command line. I think Xorg isn't starting up for some reason.
Tom Scola - Feb 21, 2007 4:43:04 pm PST #655 of 25496
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If X weren't starting, she wouldn't get a login panel.
Gudanov - Feb 21, 2007 5:03:55 pm PST #656 of 25496
Coding and Sleeping
Good point, but it will still be useful to see what happens. Does the resolution switch between KDM and KDE? I'm not really sure if it does, I kinda think not, but the screen blanking out sounds like a resolution change.
Logging in from the command line and running startx should start up KDE I think. A really odd possiblity would be that the default session is set to command line. Full root partition that makes KDE bomb out? I'm just guessing really.
I would defintely post a question at ubuntuforums.org.
Eddie - Feb 21, 2007 7:18:54 pm PST #657 of 25496
Your tag here.
Hey, I'm having a weird problem with Kubuntu
On the login page, you should see an Options button, hit that, then Select Session. Choose KDE from the list.
esse - Feb 21, 2007 11:10:39 pm PST #658 of 25496
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
A really odd possiblity would be that the default session is set to command line.
It's not, because it starts up in GUI and I re-load to get to the command line.
I'll try startx--that was my next step, but I've had to much around in Windows most recently, so. Eddie, I'll try that too, but I think I tried all the different session options available and it did the same thing each time.
I'll report back.