Really nice!

[Georgetoon]

I had a chance to boot the Live CD on the older WinXP office system.   I'm hooked to a KVM switch and togle between the two boxes (Windows 7 and Windows XP).  I'm running an ASUS HDMI 23 inch flat panel.  the live CD came rght up and the nice thing is, the monitor was fully functional!  The OS cme right up with the KDE 4 DE and it looks gorgeous!  All the features run very smoothly.

 I don't have speaker set up, so I don't know if the sound worked on this box or not. 

I tried to view some Flash video,  but try as I might, I could not get out to the internet. The box is hooked up to our network and when Win XP runs, it finds its way to the net.  With the live CD, a quick configuration through PCC finds the wired connection and it comes right up as running.  both Firefox and Konqueror were unable to display any internet pages.  Something is being blocked somehow.
Anyhow, it looks terrific and I'm gonna throw the Live CD in my laptop tonight and give it another  test run.  if things work (and I'm pretty sur they will), I'll be doing the update install to the laptop.  I need to.  it's not booting as fast as it should.  since the last repair, boot has slowed down.

[Georgetoon]

I dropped the 2010 Live CD into my laptop this evening! Wow! All I did was run PCC, launched the internet connection utility, and in less than a minute my wireless was found and up and running! Flash video plays on Youtube!  And it's fast! Even from the Live CD! Wow! Just really slick!

I'll be testing some more tomorrow evening.

[Rudge]

Welcome to 2010 Mark! Glad you could join us. LOL

[djohnston]

I tried to view some Flash video,  but try as I might, I could not get out to the internet. The box is hooked up to our network and when Win XP runs, it finds its way to the net.  With the live CD, a quick configuration through PCC finds the wired connection and it comes right up as running.  both Firefox and Konqueror were unable to display any internet pages.  Something is being blocked somehow.

The Windows client could be going through some firewall filters, or connecting to the 'net through a proxy. You might ask one of the network admins where you work. You could try a simple ping. On the PCLOS box, open a terminal, and type

ping -c 10 google.com

[Georgetoon]

I tried to view some Flash video,  but try as I might, I could not get out to the internet. The box is hooked up to our network and when Win XP runs, it finds its way to the net.  With the live CD, a quick configuration through PCC finds the wired connection and it comes right up as running.  both Firefox and Konqueror were unable to display any internet pages.  Something is being blocked somehow.

The Windows client could be going through some firewall filters, or connecting to the 'net through a proxy. You might ask one of the network admins where you work. You could try a simple ping. On the PCLOS box, open a terminal, and type

ping -c 10 google.com

Thanks.  If I get a chance, I'll try the ping thing.  Gonna run the Live CD some more this evening on the laptop.  I'm really tempted to install and not format the HD to see if documents remain intact.  Then, use the Dupe app.

[Georgetoon]

I pinged google.com  10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss.

Stil can't get a web page to display in the browser.  Server not found error.

[Georgetoon]

I searched the forums and found this thread:

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,72058.0.html

I reconfigured the connection from automatic to manual.  I kept the IP address the same as what automatic was assigning/.  we have a lot of desktops and machines here. so I didn't want anything to conflict. 

I plugged in DNS servers 208.67.220.220 and 208.67.222.222.  I disconnected, then reconnected and the web came right up. 

Apparently, DNS was not being assigned.  At least, that's the conclusion I'm coming to.  Can anyone further explain this solution, what I did, and why it worked?  I sorta have an inking, but can't really pinpoint the exact reason as to why and how this worked.

[Georgetoon]

BTW, does the Live CD allow you to change themes?  I can't seem to find that option.

[djohnston]

I plugged in DNS servers 208.67.220.220 and 208.67.222.222.  I disconnected, then reconnected and the web came right up. 

Apparently, DNS was not being assigned.  At least, that's the conclusion I'm coming to.  Can anyone further explain this solution, what I did, and why it worked?  I sorta have an inking, but can't really pinpoint the exact reason as to why and how this worked.

I had thought about recommending using the OpenDNS servers. At the time, I thought there may be more factors involved. I'm still trying to figure out why my ISP's DNS lookup doesn't work reliably. It could be simple cache poisoning, but I'm not so sure. In any case, glad to see you got it working. A prime example of thinking outside the box.

[Georgetoon]

But why does plugging in DNS servers 208.67.220.220 and 208.67.222.222 work?  What exactly is happening? 

I Googled "Open DNS."  From this search, I visited:

http://welcome.opendns.com

And apparently it tests to see if you're using Open DNS.  When I went to this site I got the following message:

Welcome to OpenDNS!
Your Internet is safer, faster, and smarter
because you're using OpenDNS.
Thank you!

Also found this on wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_dns

Again, why am I able to connect when using Open DNS and not my ISP DNS?  Is it a more direct internet connection somehow?

[djohnston]

I first encountered this in mid or late 2009. After a Synaptic update, all internet browsers worked fine, but Synaptic would no longer connect to the assigned repository. Changing repositories made no difference. After changing DNS lookup to OpenDNS's servers, everything worked. I'm at a total loss to explain why.

[Georgetoon]

 I popped the Live CD in my desktop ssutem this evening. And everything just worked so wonderfully well! of course, this is due to having a system built by Weric.

I was able to update Flash and install the Xsane Gimp plug-in through the repo. Everything just clicked. I placed a DVD in the second drive and the movie played.  Wow! Everything just works!:)

Looks like I'll be moving up to 2010!:)   It'll be on a new HD, though.   I don't trust myself to do a complete install over the current version and expect to save all my files. Now, experimenting on the laptop is a different story.

[djohnston]

And everything just worked so wonderfully well! of course, this is due to having a system built by Weric.

Yep. linpc.us. I've bought two systems from him, and they're excellent!