Re: [newbie] Wanted - networking tips (plan A)
How about installing StarOffice? Its got filters for major wordprocessors. www.stardivision.com You'll like it. -Original Message- From: Aaron deRozario [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, September 20, 1999 6:09 PM Subject: [newbie] Wanted - networking tips (plan A) Greetings all Over the last couple of days I have been reading plenty of HOW-TO's, and a few mini-HOWTO's on networking with Linux. In fact I've encountered more weird acronyms and strange buxx words in the last 2 days than in the rest of my life put together. However I am learning a bucketload and realising that there is A LOT of good docs in the how-to's! Don't think is going to stop me from posting lots of trivial and basic questions though! At the moment I am considering logistical problems - hardware setups and the like (messing up software is free - messing up hardware costs $$$). Here is one of the many plans I am considering (Plan A) I currently have a box with a 1gig hda with Windows and a 6.4gig hdb with Linux. I am thinking of ripping out the 1 gig drive and putting into a 486 (actually an AMD-133 in a 486 board). I would like to split this drive giving about 600meg to Windows, and the rest to Linux. The 6.4 will stay with its current machine and become the server. In Linux mode I want to use this machine basically to learn about Unix/Linux networking (NFS, telnet, remote X-terminals) etc. In Windows mode I want to learn about Samba, and use Windows when I have to. I was thinking of connecting the two machines using 10Mbit cards and a hub (a third machine will be added later if these two work out okay). Here is the logistical concern I need answered. Both the gf and I do occasionally have to bring work home. Normally this is in the form of MS Word documents, sometimes 40 pages or more. Now I know there are MS Word filters on some Linux wordprocessors however when you are dealing with very long documents, that include charts etc, small discrepencies when importing/exporting the file leads to some serious headaches. I will need to continue to have MS Office 97 (sorry). If I go ahead and do something that makes it impossible to run Office the gf WILL HAVE MY BOLLOCKS. She will live if it runs slowly - she will kill me if it doesn't run at all. Here is the question then (finally) 600meg is not going to hold Win95 plus Office. So I want to install Office onto a network drive on the Linux server. Will a 10Mbit network be quick enough for the Windows machine to run Office from the networked drive? Yes I know Office is slow anyway, even slower on a 486, but will a 10Mbit allow Office to actually work? Thanking you in advance Aaron
Re: [Re: [Re: [newbie] Re: []]]
Now that's putting it mildly. *L* -Original Message- From: Ken Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, September 20, 1999 2:21 AM Subject: RE: [Re: [Re: [newbie] Re: []]] I would hope he wouldn't be back. However, if sending /proc/kmem didn't slow him down we could all send him the entire collection of the Gutenberg Project, unzipped. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimization: The speed of a nonworking program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Scottaline Sent: Sunday, September 19, 1999 4:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Re: [Re: [newbie] Re: []]] Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip If he keeps this crap up, he's going to get a copy of /proc/kmem in his mailbox. Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] == What'll that do, Steve? Uuuh, never mind. Perhaps I don't really want to know ;o) Nothin' more than fill up his mailbox. Have a look at the filesize -- should match the amount of RAM in your 'puter. :) -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] == he-he-he OUCH! I doubt he'll be back ;o) Mike Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] :-( (and a blip about the scrolling desktop)
Thanks Mark for understanding. I suppose my video problem is with my darn (generic) monitor. I do have the piece of paper with sketchy technical infos (v/h scan, dot resolution etc) and it could be possible it is the source of my woes. But I am not giving up yet. That is why I am here. Paul -Original Message- From: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, September 18, 1999 11:16 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] :-( (and a blip about the scrolling desktop) Firstly Agreed :) I am enjoying this wonderful new learning experience.ok well I just like trouble :) My triumph would be that I finally got everything working after just a few hours (spread over two days) of work! Even my sound card is working now...I'm quite frankly afraid to install anything new just because I'm still basking in the after glow of making all this work when I've never used this stuff before =) I think someone a few messages back asked about the virtual desktop. This was my problem as wellI fought it for a while and finally figured out that (at least for me) it came from having the wrong monitor setting matched with too high a resolution selection(it seems to assume that since I selected something that my monitor "can't" handle that I must want a virtual desktop area). Run Xconfigurator, and make sure you choose the correct monitor (or custom ranges) and a desktop setting that fits within the chosen max resolutionsrunning XF86config (several times) never fixed this I'm not exactly sure why. Also make sure your video card memory it set correctlythat may or may not have contributed to my problems... Best of luck to you Mark
Re: [newbie] Linux / Changing video cards / modifying system settings
Hi Carl. We are in almost the same scene. However, mine is an SiS6326/ATI Rage IIC AGP video cards (8MBs each). I am using a generic SVGA monitor (PnP type). I've tried everything with xf86config and i am about to pull everything what's left of my hair. I posted my problem a week ago and I am yet to read a better solutions/recommendations from here. -Original Message- From: Carl Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, September 13, 1999 2:39 PM Subject: [newbie] Linux / Changing video cards / modifying system settings Good evening to all. I recently got a copy of Linux-Mandrake (v6.0) and, decided to load it this weekend, on a PC rebuild out of parts I have laying around my garage, to learn and eventually, migrate out of Windows entirely. During the installation process and when it was time to setup the video card and monitor type, the installation program "detected" a S3 type of video card (when in effect, is an old Number9 PCI 1Mb video card). The monitor is a "generic svga" and I configured it as the "non-interlaced SVGA" option, offered by the setup program. After that, it decided that I couldn't run X in nothing else but 640x480x256 mode, no matter what. This is having an adverse effect on my attempts to reconfigure my KDE display, as I loose the ability to access the bottom portions of some configuration displays that have their buttons on the bottom of the window. I even tried to resize the window but, that didn't work either. I suspect that the video card being used is the culprit and, I plan to purchase a video card that is supported by linux, with video resolutions greater than 640x480 and 16M colors at least. My questions and concerns are: . How do I stop X from starting up (and eventually chocking due to hardware conflict, when I change video cards?) . What video card do you recomend? I plan to use this PC for web browsing, email correspondance, perl programming and image manipulation. I have no interest in games of any king (well, except for doom). .What is the name of the utility to reconfigure X? I thank you in advance. -Carl
[newbie] Monitor problem
HELP! I've just installed Mandrake 6.0. Everything went fine until I reached the portion where I start configuring the monitor. I've used all combinations (horizontal / vertical refresh rates) but to no avail. Since I was so eager to start right away, I skipped the monitor installation (hoping I wouldn't be tempted to run startx) and when I ran startx, the result was not as expected. Bad really. I am using a generic monitor with the following specifications. Generic Model DB-456 Non-interlaced 1024 x 768 Video Bandwidth 85MHz Horizontal 30KHz - 57KHz Vertical 50Hz-120Hz Nordic Standard MPRII (DB456 BA) thanks, Paul
