Dell-homeA weblog of how I set up my new Dell at homeSat Oct 18 18:04:13 2003 Clipboard problems localized- (Found June 18, 2008 ) So now, of course, cut-and-paste between Windows and emacs seems to be working fine. I selected some text in emacs, via click-and-drag, and pasted it into a Notepad file with Ctl-V. Then I selected a few words the same way and pasted it into the address line of a Firebird window. And then I selected some text out of Notepad, with Ctl-C, and pasted it into an emacs buffer. Sat Oct 18 18:09:47 2003: Or more precisely it was working. I think it worked so long as the emacs kill ring was empty..http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/blogs/Dell-home/2003/10/18#art008 Mon Oct 13 21:31:33 2003 End-of-Day Status Report- (Found June 18, 2008 ) Got display working. Got internet and workgroup working Created a user or two. Moved My Documents and Downloads from Intergraph. This was surprisingly easy: given 2, it took only 30-45 mins to transfer all the files. X server up and running. Cut and paste seems to work fine between xterms and notepad. Shared printer appeared (as default printer!) when I reached the rest of the workgroup. Still to be done: Install Mozilla. Can't do this as myself if I want to install it in C:Program...http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/blogs/Dell-home/2003/10/13#art007 Mon Oct 13 17:23:24 2003 Creating New Users- (Found June 18, 2008 ) On XP, it looks there are only two kinds of accounts: Computer Administrator, and Limited. On W2K, there are at least 4 classes of accounts: Administrator, Power Users, Users, and Guests, and they tell you not to run as Administrator all the time. I wonder what I should do on the new machine. I've created "wand-admin", who is an administrator, and "wand" as a limited user. We'll see how that goes. Now copying My Documents from one machine to the other via the network. It is claiming...http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/blogs/Dell-home/2003/10/13#art006 Mon Oct 13 17:12:46 2003 Microsoft networking up- (Found June 18, 2008 ) Ran the network creation wizard, now I can see the other computers on my home network (yay!). Now I can start serious work. Next steps: Create some users Create shared printer Copy data from Intergraph to Dell: docs, photos, Downloads folder. Install Quicken Get X, etc., working nicely Install software from downloads folder But this is the end of my working window for today, back next Saturday. :( Oh hell, maybe I'll create a user so I can start moving data while I'm out to dinner.http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/blogs/Dell-home/2003/10/13#art005 Mon Oct 13 16:58:00 2003 Bypassing proxy server- (Found June 18, 2008 ) Now I can see my display and now I can see the net: I have DNS, and I can ping mit.edu, and I can connect to my office computer via ssh. But IE refuses to work. For every site I try (eg www.google.com), I get Access Denied: Access control configuration prevents your request from being allowed at this time. Please contact your service provider if you feel this is incorrect. Your cache administrator is squidadminccs.neu.edu OK, in IE went to Tools Internet Options Connections ...http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/blogs/Dell-home/2003/10/13#art004 Mon Oct 13 16:52:30 2003 Display Issue Solved- (Found June 18, 2008 ) Colin wrote: In the bundle of cables that you got with that computer there should be a V shapted cable with at least two white ends. One end will plug into a port on the back of your CPU. The two white ends are labeled 1 and 2. You should find that the white cable that you tried earlier will now connect your CPU with your monitor. Yup, that solved it.http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/blogs/Dell-home/2003/10/13#art003 Mon Oct 13 12:44:47 2003 OK, the display works- (Found June 18, 2008 ) I tried plugging display into my laptop. This worked fine, I think, and with the laptop displaying on the big screen, I could get the onscreen menu to appear. As soon as I put the laptop back on its own screen, the OnScreen menu stopped displaying. So we know the problem is not on the display side. Hmm, now, how can I debug the CPU if I can't get a display to work on ithttp://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/blogs/Dell-home/2003/10/13#art002 Mon Oct 13 09:39:18 2003 No image on screen- (Found June 18, 2008 ) I just set up my new Dell Optiplex with the nice big flat-panel display at home. My big problem is: that I get no image on the display. I get "Dsub Power Saving Mode". Here are the various things I tried: As per display setup manual, I unplugged the blue video cable. I got the "self test: check cable" display, which is right. I tried pushing the second button to display the onscreen menu (to check the display settings), but I could not get the onscreen menu to appear. ...http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/blogs/Dell-home/2003/10/13#art001 |