Posts by Jeffery L. Brown

1) Message boards : Cafe SETI : signature testing (Message 223833)
Posted 31 Dec 2005 by Profile Jeffery L. Brown
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Ok, I obviously DON'T know what I am doing, and I am NOT above asking for help... Anyone wanna offer me a suggestion or 10 about what I am doing wrong? lol

HTML doesn't work on these forums, you need BBCode.

For Example

[ img ]http://126702.sah.sig.boinc.dk?197[ /img ]

Taking out the spaces will display this:



The BBCode is displayed on the Use BBCode tags to format your text page when you edit or post a message.

EDIT: By the way, when you change your signature it changes under all your posts.


Thanks for you help, and I THINK I have it this time.

They say that BBcode is easier, but I see no evidence of this lol. At least I semi-knew what I was doing with HTML lol

Thanks in advance for your help if it works. If it does I won't post again because then I think it would be off topic technically.

*Takes a deep breath...* Here goes... :D
2) Message boards : Cafe SETI : signature testing (Message 223819)
Posted 31 Dec 2005 by Profile Jeffery L. Brown
Post:
Ok, I obviously DON'T know what I am doing, and I am NOT above asking for help... Anyone wanna offer me a suggestion or 10 about what I am doing wrong? lol
3) Message boards : Cafe SETI : signature testing (Message 223816)
Posted 31 Dec 2005 by Profile Jeffery L. Brown
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Ok... That test was an obvious failure... Next test...
4) Message boards : Cafe SETI : signature testing (Message 223814)
Posted 31 Dec 2005 by Profile Jeffery L. Brown
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God I LOVE these signature files. I only HOPE I can figure out how to do it :)

btw... This IS a test post. No need to reply to it.
5) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : BOINC Manager in UBUNTU (Message 222875)
Posted 29 Dec 2005 by Profile Jeffery L. Brown
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Yeah I got bored typing! again the dialog content cant be copied and pasted.


Yes, Copy and Paste with Linux can be a real complicated business. I mostly use the menu copy and paste commands and not Strg-c or Strg-v, that sometimes work and sometimes not. ;)

But back to your problem. There must be a run_boincmanager file in your BOINC install directory. This is a script that set the work directory to the install directory and then call the Boincmanger.

You can enter the text there before the boincmgr entry:

BROWSER=/usr/bin/firefox; export BROWSER

I can't check it on my linux host at this moment. So I hope I remembered all in the right way. :)


I use Fedora Core 4 and this worked great with my distro :D

Also, to copy/paste I find it is easiest to just highlight the text to be copied, then right click/copy, then go to where you want to paste the text then right click/paste.

I tried to edit using VI, but as I am still a newbie to the Linux world, that was too much trouble trying to figure out. The great thing about FC 4 is in the GUI environment, there is a wonderful little text editor. I just opened run_manager (this is the actual file name for my Linux version of BOINC) copied the BROWSER=/usr/bin/firefox; export BROWSER command on the very first line, saved the file, then restarted BOINC. No more I can't find your default browser what do I do? =)

I hope this helped others that are having the same problems, and to all you Linux Gurus, THANK YOU FOR HELPING US NEWBIES!!!! =)

You deserved that thank you and so much more. Too many people forget what it is like to be a newbie and get an attitude and say RTFM!

God Bless and Happy New Year! =)






 
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