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Going to one HD 4550
CWO4 Dave Mann The question is--what's you're goal in tinkering? My comments are heavily oriented toward quiet PCs because that's what I'm into. However...
Going to one HD 4551
CWO4 Dave Mann A good idea. My main box has a low-efficiency filter at the front where the...
Going to one HD 4552
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 10:34:45 -0400, Jean-David Beyer Thanks for the reply .. well the "problem I am having" is Windows...
Going to one HD 4553
CWO4 Dave Mann I do not know what other people get with their machines, but top reveals...
Earn 12% daily of your investment
I'm going to tell you about a TOP RATED AUTOSURF program that takes 5 mins of your day and then instantly credits your account 12% of what you put in. Its that easy and everyone...
Splitting a parbreastion
Hi there, I have a 80 GB harddisk split in 3: hdb1 20 GB hdb2 20 GB hdb3 40 GB. I'd like to split hdb1 in 0.5-1.5-18 GB to...
Going To University Leave Linux Home! It's Not Supported
I attend university and since I never really knew much about Linux until my past summer holiday employment because I am not a...
Going To University Leave Linux Home! It's Not Supported! 4557
Josh All, I know I shouldn't respond to TROLLS, but hey, its a slow day... :-P And of course, this troll is saying things that if we do not address...
Going To University Leave Linux Home! It's Not Supported! 4558
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 16:06:41 -0500, Paul Bramscher That's the way it works at the University my daughter attends. She uses an iBook though and hasn't had...
Going To University Leave Linux Home! It's Not Supported! 4559
When I was in school working on my mechanical engineering degree, my personal computer was a Texas Instruments TI-58 programmable hand calculator with print cradle. Not having the patience to...
Going To University Leave Linux Home! It's Not Supported! 4560
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 16:47:30 -0500, Paul Bramscher Things have changed a great deal in the last 10 years. When I was in college we used punch cards and...
Going To University Leave Linux Home! It's Not Supported! 4561
On Friday 26 August 2005 00:59, flatfish stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes...: That must have been way more than 10 years ago. ;-) Yeah, the first...
Going To University Leave Linux Home! It's Not Supported! 4562
On Thursday 25 August 2005 01:19, Josh stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes...: Ever heard of *WineX* ? It's awinewith support for...
Going To University Leave Linux Home! It's Not Supported! 4563
Two things.. First you really are just trolling.. Second your inability to use linux is...
Going To University Leave Linux Home! It's Not Supported! 4564
Josh Although I graduated in computer science 30 years ago, I can give you several reasons. There is a steep learning curve, to...
Going To University Leave Linux Home! It's Not Supported! 4565
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 23:03:07 -0400, Donald Tees For some things, but I've put Linux down in front of people who have never used it before and they do fine for most things. The...
Re:proc and udev
Kevin the Drummer Udev was supposed to be able to lock a given device to a given driver and process. This is because so...
Displaying extended characters in ncurses
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jeffrey Adler In ASCII, and all of those charactersets that incorporate ASCII codepoints (including Unicode), the first...
Linux is a no go at my school as well
I have used Linux but I prefer windows because it is more universally accepted and...
Linux is a no go at my school as well
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:47:12 -0500, Dom hehe...haha...oh, brother. All schools use TCP-IP, along with the rest of the internet and all intranets everywhere. TCP-IP is as old as the...
upgrade from kernel 2.4 to 2.6
Hi, I want to upgrade my kernel from 2.4 to 2.6. Yeah, I know the simple answer is install the 2.6 kernel and boot into it...
What is it with linux dissing in this newsgroup 4571
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:56:11 -0700, Keith Keller I second that motion for sure. As I have...
What is it with linux dissing in this newsgroup 4572
Byron A Jeff Not really sure. Based on the number of posts, this trolling completely dominates flatfish's life. I guess it's not so much a "sport" as...
backup solution 4573
Shmuel, don't even try arguing with the "just use cheap IDE drives as backup media" people. Upon examination, you'll...
backup solution 4574
That's really an "archive". As I said, keeping six or twelve times one week's worth ofbackupis sufficient overkill for...
backup solution 4575
Well, the purpose is different. I imagine you want it as a final arbiter in case you grow doubtful about...
backup solution 4576
My suggestions would include: BRU is what I use myself. BakBone is a product I've just recently heard about, so I don't know much...
backup solution 4577
John-Paul Stewart I, too, run BRU, but my LAN once had three machines on it, which is pretty small by most standards. I have an Exabyte VXA-2 on my...
backup solution 4578
Jean-David Beyer Small nit--an OS going mad might kill all of the hard drives in one computer, but not all of the hard drives in a reasonably...
backup solution 4579
John-Paul Stewart I used to use one tape drive to backup two systems with what is now called the...
Looking for some tools to test ftptelnetemail
In the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article This will be determined by 1. which process is running at any given 'jiffy'. buttuming a single processor system, only...
Please don't feed the trolls
In the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article which isn't present in the alt.os.linux.mandrake posting Now that you point that out, I can see it (although the version...
Debian dissapointment 4582
Haven't opened the box to check chips yet ( or is there software way to do so ?) but...
Debian dissapointment 4583
staggered into the Black Sun and said: lspci *is* the way to find complete information about everything that's on the PCI bus. You...
mail jammed
Now here's a strange one. My home network has been run from an RH9 server for a...
mail jammed 4585
staggered into the Black Sun and said: So, what's the outgoing SMTP server set to in the machines...
mail jammed 4586
staggered into the Black Sun and said: What does POP have to do with SMTP settings? A smarthost is a machine that you...
Samba: Problem joining RHEL 3 machine to a WIndows 2000 domain
Has anyone here successful joined a RHEL 3 machine as a member sever to a Windows 2000 domain? Here is my smb.conf file: 1. my windows 2000...
Linux Becomes Female 4588
On Saturday 27 August 2005 17:30, Yves wrote : There was a reason why I brought this up. I personally use SuSE, but people who are...
Linux Becomes Female 4589
Roy Schestowitz wrote in comp.os.linux.misc: Outlook somehow connotes email or Usenet usage? No, but they figured out what it did right? Sounds like a weather watching program...
Linux Becomes Female 4590
Roy Schestowitz I can understand what you're trying to do here. But trying to homogenize GNU-Linux and OSS product names to something more sanitized is not...
Linux Becomes Female 4591
On Saturday 27 August 2005 23:24, johnny bobby bee wrote : I imagine it was the neat programming environment and SSH (i.e...
Linux Becomes Female 4592
But maybe in a world where people too often trust trappings than something concrete, the real way to break things is to not follow into the trappings. Microsoft...
Linux Becomes Female 4593
They aren't feminine names. I suppose "SuSE" might be an attempt at a play on words with...
Linux Becomes Female 4594
On Saturday 27 August 2005 08:40, Peter T. Breuer wrote : Before I defend my arguments, let me just clarify that I am a GNU-Linux enthusiast and this is no flamebait...
Linux Becomes Female 4595
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 10:04:15 +0100, Roy Schestowitz That's not the issue. Revenue doesn't equal quality, with films...
Open Source DRM What does everyone think about it Will Open Source DRM ever catch
Open Source DRM? What does everyone think about it? Will Open Source DRM ever catch up to MS DRM? Will DRM ever be...
Open Source DRM What does everyone think about it Will Open Source DRM ever catch
snip snip snip It's really about time that Linux had some way to do DRM. That said, Open Source DRM is preferred. Regardless of what anyone thinks of RIAA and MPAA, some real people are...
Selinuxaudit expirience 4598
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 19:40:42 +0200, Michael Heiming I think selinux is both useful and troublesome. But there is true need...
Selinuxaudit expirience 4599
Michael Heiming That's funny. I run RHEL 3(.5) and keep it up to date with the up2date program on Red...
Surfing the net with Firefox under Fedora 3 VERY SHOW
John Strazzarino I am on a dial-up connection running RHEL 3. It took about 2 seconds by watching the clock...
My school accepts Linux but
I attend RPI and the official operating system for students is Windows however, we do have the option to use Linux and in...
My school accepts Linux but:: 4602
rapskat Anti Linux? No, sorry it's the truth and you can verify it right here. Anonymous proxy...
My school accepts Linux but:: 4603
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 16:32:40 -0700, Ellen Chaimowitz Correct, the account was created 27th August 2005. Posting through Yes, people have already mentioned VMWare. What an odd...
My school accepts Linux but:: 4604
Ellen Chaimowitz" message You appear to be a Linux priest, we call them Billy's at RPI. Mind...
My school accepts Linux but:: 4605
That's funny.... At my school, a business school catering in MBA's, we call the Linux people DORKS. Last year they had what they called "Linux Day" It was a freaking peeer! All these dorks...
Linux. It's all about LIES AND DENIAL
The Linux community is comprised of sicko zealots who will try and foist Linux on unsuspecting fools just to sucker them into Linux. The truth is Linux sucks. I have used Suse...
