Comments on: Best buys this season: The ELCOT Student Laptop

By: imdonatello

imdonatello — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:00:18 +0000

@scott: For the games question: Which OS are you trying to install from? For Suse, you can try the Yast tool, for Ubuntu you can use synaptic or “Add/Remove…” menu option in Applications menu. There are many games available which you can find inside these tools. They will automatically install them on your computer.

For the permission errors, just add permissions by right clicking the file and then opening properties. In the “Permissions” tab click add the permission to *execute* the file.

By: scott

scott — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:12:17 +0000

@imdontello, Hey, i have permision denied errors for .bin file ,do you have a solution?

By: scott

scott — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:36:10 +0000

hi..can anyone help me how to install games in linux,..searched google but unable to get what i want , the installation has shell scripts,I tried with ’sh’ command ,but it gives me compilation errors, it does not have .tar.gz,or any rpm files…what can i do?

By: kat

kat — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:53:43 +0000

its the laptop i got from elcot…i reinstalled both the os and that created all the problem….now i dont know how to get the modem work…

By: imdonatello

imdonatello — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:33:52 +0000

What kind of modem do you have? You should at least provide more information so someone can help you.

By: kat

kat — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:05:27 +0000

how do i get my modem work….i tried hsfmodem from http://www.linuxant.com….but when i install it after installing the alsa linuxant package sound breaks…can anyone help me …..

By: imdonatello

imdonatello — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:31:00 +0000

@scott: You just have to enable javascript in the browser settings for firefox. On linux: Edit-> Preferences->Content. Enable it there. I am not really sure how your do it in IE9, but help should be easy to get in IE9. You also need to install flash for your browser.

@Raman: This years student laptop scheme has ended. See my last edit, and also: elcot.in

By: Raman

Raman — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:23:23 +0000

When is the last date to apply for the students laptop

By: scott

scott — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:11:33 +0000

@imandontello….thanks…yast is really usefull , how to enable java script to play this video http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=9-DiPRrE3Bg ….or any video in IE9?….even google’s modified search is endless

By: imdonatello

imdonatello — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 08:44:01 +0000

@scott: You should probably check using a partition editor like “gparted”. I think there is a lot of unpartitioned disk space. Be careful though! You might damage your OS if you are not sure about what you are doing.
To run SQL commands, you will need to install an SQL server like MySQL. This should be easy to do using “yast” and a net connection. Once you do it you can install a browser based SQL client like PHPMyAdmin, which will let you connect to your DB and run SQL commands on it. There is always the command line version too. Remember that Google is your friend!