[03:43] <ShawnR__> anyone know of a way to flash bios sans windows?  is that aflash.exe util the one generally used on boot media? asus has no documentation on it
[03:51] <danstoner> ShawnR__: definitely possible, some vendors provide bootable media (e.g. linux) that can flash BIOS.
[03:52] <danstoner> but this would be vendor-specific, I don't know about ASUS.
[03:52]  * danstoner wonders about running flash bios updates via Wine...
[03:57] <govatent> You can do it via usb boot or a cd boot 
[03:57] <govatent> asus usually provides all the tools to load onto a dos bootable disk 
[03:58] <govatent> ShawnR__: 
[03:58] <crashsystems> hello florida
[04:07] <ShawnR__> govatent: i am pretty sure (IIRC) that the aflash.exe is the dos utility used on boot floppy's
[04:08] <ShawnR__> however, i found that there is a built in flash updater in BIOS... it just only reads certain folders on the "C" drive that I thankfully never wiped
[04:08] <govatent> yea but it also works when copied onto a cd with a bootable dos
[04:08] <ShawnR__> yeah
[04:09] <ShawnR__> good news is, somehow when messing with trying to get optimus to work (rather to just use the nvidia card), my wifi would start up disabled (i just had to check it in the drop down to turn it on).... after bios update... it works again?
[04:09] <ShawnR__> not sure why/how that fixed it
[04:09] <ShawnR__> it was next on my to do list, and I guess i can cross that off now
[04:09] <jgdovin> freaking live booting off of our hackerspace pixie server :)
[04:13] <govatent> nice!!
[04:26] <jgdovin> so hows everyone doing?
[04:39] <govatent> all good here 
[04:39] <govatent> how about you jgdovin
[04:40] <govatent> I am counting down for my vacation. 14 days left
[05:10] <TiMiDo> lol lucky you,
[15:59] <jgdovin> morning all
[16:12] <maxolasersquad> jgdovin: Good morning.
[19:46] <dorgan> ok maybe someone in here can help me
[19:48] <dorgan> I am trying to give apache the ability to access Xvfb i have added the following to /etc/profile   http://pastie.org/private/w0fik8clnoauwbogvojuq   yet i am still getting  " Can't connect to X11 window server using 'localhost:1.0' as the value of the DISPLAY variable"
[19:54] <maxolasersquad> dorgan: I think you usually get that error when trying to run a GUI app on a machine with no X server.
[19:54] <dorgan> maxolasersquad: yes but if you look at my pastie i am trying to use Xvfb to fix that
[19:56] <maxolasersquad> I just read up on what Xvfb is.  I didn't quite understand what that was supposed to be doing.
[20:07] <zoopster> dorgan: are you sure it is picking up that display variable change?
[20:09] <dorgan> zoopster: why wouldnt it i have the export line in there
[20:10] <zoopster> dunno...what you show "look" ok, but there may be a glitch in the matrix
[20:11] <dorgan> yeah i've given up on it at this time..it s nice to have for what i am trying to do but not needed
[20:57] <TiMiDo> hey everyone
[20:57] <TiMiDo> Good Afternoon
[22:18] <raubvogel> Anything exciting?