[Novalug] Fedora 11 problems

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Saturday 17 October 2009 5:49:05 pm Charles M Howe wrote:
> Circumstances
> required me to move out of that room. I was able to connect using a
> couple of Netgear "Powerline" gizmos in the room on the first floor that
> I moved into.
> 
> So I put my computer with Fedora 11 in another room on the first floor
> and expected to be able tp get online using another Powerline gizmo.
> Nope.

Sounds like my mom's house. I hate those powerline gizmos. Terrible 
interference!

> A couple of other things.
> 
> I could click on "Applications", "Places" and "System" and use
> everything (but am puzzled by USER-PC (What's the point?).

I think that's like when you go to My Computer in Windows and it lists all 
your attached hard drives and flash drives and things.

> One puzzlement goes like this: When I do Applications --> Office -->
> Dictionary and type in a word, it comes back
>   Error when retrieving the definition
>   Lookup fails for 'dict.org': Unknown error
> Does that mean nothing more than that I an not online?

The dictionary requires the Internet, yeah.

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Mackenzie Morgan
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