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The short version: Pine development has stopped, the successor is know call alpine. They have to changes the name because pine is a registered Trademark and the associated License does not permit distribution of binary packages. If you want more information, have a look on their Homepage [http://www.washington.edu/alpine/] | The short version: Pine development has stopped, the successor is know call alpine. They have to changes the name because pine is a registered Trademark and the associated License does not permit distribution of binary packages. If you want more information, have a look on their Homepage [http://www.washington.edu/alpine/] | ||
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| + | === Wrong Colors on the White Fujitsu Siemens Machines === | ||
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| + | On this machines it happens that the colors get wrong, e.g. black instead of white. This issue can be fixed with restarting the X-Server. Log out, to get your session closed cleanly, and press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace (<-). After that your colors should be ok. | ||
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| + | On this machines we switched from the closed source Nvidia driver, which has severer performance problems, to the open source driver. The newer machines are fast enough, so that this problem does not lead to a noticeable difference. | ||
Revision as of 10:12, 9 September 2008
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Frequently asked questions
I can not see my quota
There is no quota system any more. You have your own volume on the nfs server. You can check this with 'df'. The free space in your home, is your personal free space.
Where is pine on the new Ubuntu installations ?
The short version: Pine development has stopped, the successor is know call alpine. They have to changes the name because pine is a registered Trademark and the associated License does not permit distribution of binary packages. If you want more information, have a look on their Homepage [1]
Wrong Colors on the White Fujitsu Siemens Machines
On this machines it happens that the colors get wrong, e.g. black instead of white. This issue can be fixed with restarting the X-Server. Log out, to get your session closed cleanly, and press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace (<-). After that your colors should be ok.
On this machines we switched from the closed source Nvidia driver, which has severer performance problems, to the open source driver. The newer machines are fast enough, so that this problem does not lead to a noticeable difference.
