RE: [newbie]Linux Isp
so please.. tell us who it is -Original Message- From: Jose M. Sanchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 10:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie]Linux Isp Believe it or not I ran accross a DSL provider that ADVERTISES that they support Linux... Amazing! -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jennifer Davis Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 7:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie]Linux Isp I doubt you wil find any and it's sad as most of the techs at ISPs run Linux on their home systems. Jenn (ex ISP tech who was not allowed to support linux users despite the simplicity of the questions) Jennifer Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, phil wrote: Anyone know of any Linux friendly ISP?I get the Impression My ISP is not. Cable access Roadrunner Time warner!
RE: [newbie] 7.2
I second that .. I only have a dual P166 with 128MB and 4 GB scsi -Original Message- From: Dodd Carlton J MSgt 726 ACS/CSG [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 9:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] 7.2 Philomena, Could you please not list the specs of your system? The drool is terrible for my keyboard... -Original Message- From: philomena [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 6:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] 7.2 I downloaded the 7.2 iso images and had no problem at all with the install - I had all kinds of problems with 7.1 - wasn't stable or reliable for me at all. My specs are: 1Gz Athlon, 384 mgs RAM, 40 gb drive, SBLive! sound, NVidia GEforce 256 video, princeton flatscreen monitor, external 3COM dsl modem, internal zip and CDRW, HP Deskjet 950C 7.2 detected and configured all successfully - the first time that has happened to me with any distro, and I've tried versions of quite a few. So, in my book, 7.2 is great. - my 2cents cheers, philomena On Sunday 05 November 2000 05:53 pm, you wrote: I've been hearing alot about problems galore installing this or that...in v7.2 of Mandrake. What seems to be the problem with this version...hum? Should I just go out a buy 7.1 cause that one seems to be more stable and reliable...etc. ??? It looks like 7.2 has too many bugs in ite?
RE: [newbie] why LM 7.2 is in some stores
doesn't the box say that on the outside? I haven't seen any boxed sets yet... Charley -Original Message- From: Larry Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 8:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] why LM 7.2 is in some stores Basically the 7.2 at Wal-Mart is a "desktop" only version geared for newbies. There is no expert install, no development tools and the KDE is If you look a bit deeper, Eddie, you'll find that every version of Mandrake xx Complete is described as a "desktop only version geared for newbies". This one is no exception except that it's got a very buggy interface as its default interface. 1.99 and not the final KDE 2.0. Mandraksoft is working on a patch that will be downloaded via MandrakeUpdate that will bring the KDE to the 2.0 final. Yep...the first thing newbies need to do is find out that their winmodem won't connect them. I guess this is a feature :-) Cheers --- Larry
RE: [newbie] uninstalling linux mandrake.
boot from a DOS disk, perform an fdisk /mbr and you will be back to square 1 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 10:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] uninstalling linux mandrake. ok, ok, ok So 500 MB wasn't enough partition space to make a properly working Linux Mandrake without eventually crashing. I learn from these things. [: As I result, I'm trying to uninstall the linux partition and put all back to the original state. I want to get rid of the LILO boot and slide the 500 MB back into my Win95 partition where I need it until I upgrade from my ghetto-style 4 GB HDD. I ran the "uninstall Linux parition" program. It said it was removed and everything... Strangely, my computer still goes to LILO, then linux boots (unless, of course I type in "dos"). Win95 says my 3.75GB (practically 4GB) HDD is 2.6GB, so the partition is obviously still there... ANY help would be greatly appreciated. (=
RE: [newbie] uninstalling linux mandrake.
it will only kill LILO .. nothing else -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 1:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] uninstalling linux mandrake. boot from a DOS disk, perform an fdisk /mbr and you will be back to square 1 Will this clear off my Win95 partition too, or just kill off the Linux one? I just found "Peanut" Linux installation that claims to need less than 200MB for install. Maybe it's not too late to keep Linux. The readme file says there's an option to overwrite larger installations. Wonderful idea! Unfortunately, I need as much space as possible, and thus need the whole 500MB ): But I'll re-install Linux soon when I upgrade. (= -I'd never abandon Linux forever.
RE: [newbie] LILO hangs
Boot with a DOS FLoppy and perform fdisk /mbr this will remove LILO -Original Message-From: Joseph Bourque [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 1:32 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] LILO hangs I'm having hard disk problems and for reasons that are too lengthy to explain I need to completely remove both Windows and Linux from my system. I've reformatted my second drive where Linux was installed, but when I reboot, LILO tries to come up then hangs with just the first two letters LI on the screen. How can I remove whatever is causing LILO to start? Thank you for any help you can give. Joe Bourque
RE: [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush
Is someone smoking something for lunch today .. or are their meds out of adjustment ? -Original Message- From: Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 1:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush Yes, but what happens as more people notice the free tanks? Slowly their numbers gather and they become easier and easier to notice. Not seeing them would be like being next door to Woodstock and not noticing anything out of the ordinary. As each person comes to get their free tank they tell their friends and their friends are interested and want to try a free tank too. The numbers grow exponetially. Eventually only a few crackpots are still going to the station wagon and sedan dealers. A few may look at the batmobiles but then someone decides to make their tank look like a batmobile and suddenly everyone who wants a batmobile just takes their free tank and presses a newly installed shiny little button and their tank turns into a batmobile. Woo. *^*^*^* Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sungod robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you? -- Real Genius On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is the entire article in its entirety =) enjoy!! (I appologize for the formatting) comments? MGBs, TANKS, AND BATMOBILES Around the time that Jobs, Wozniak, Gates, and Allen were dreaming up these unlikely schemes, I was a teenager living in Ames, Iowa. One of my friends' dads had an old MGB sports car rusting away in his garage. Sometimes he would actually manage to get it running and then he would take us for a spin around the block, with a memorable look of wild youthful exhilaration on his face; to his worried passengers, he was a madman, stalling and backfiring around Ames, Iowa and eating the dust of rusty Gremlins and Pintos, but in his own mind he was Dustin Hoffman tooling across the Bay Bridge with the wind in his hair. In retrospect, this was telling me two things about people's relationship to technology. One was that romance and image go a long way towards shaping their opinions. If you doubt it (and if you have a lot of spare time on your hands) just ask anyone who owns a Macintosh and who, on those grounds, imagines him- or herself to be a member of an oppressed minority group. The other, somewhat subtler point, was that interface is very important. Sure, the MGB was a lousy car in almost every way that counted: balky, unreliable, and underpowered. But it was fun to drive. It was responsive. Every pebble on the road was felt in the bones, every nuance in the pavement transmitted instantly to the driver's hands. He could listen to the engine and tell what was wrong with it. The steering responded immediately to commands from his hands. To us passengers it was a pointless exercise in going nowhere--about as interesting as peering over someone's shoulder while he punches numbers into a spreadsheet. But to the driver it was an experience. For a short time he was extending his body and his senses into a larger realm, and doing things that he couldn't do unassisted. The analogy between cars and operating systems is not half bad, and so let me run with it for a moment, as a way of giving an executive summary of our situation today. Imagine a crossroads where four competing auto dealerships are situated. One of them (Microsoft) is much, much bigger than the others. It started out years ago selling three-speed bicycles (MS-DOS); these were not perfect, but they worked, and when they broke you could easily fix them. There was a competing bicycle dealership next door (Apple) that one day began selling motorized vehicles--expensive but attractively styled cars with their innards hermetically sealed, so that how they worked was something of a mystery. The big dealership responded by rushing a moped upgrade kit (the original Windows) onto the market. This was a Rube Goldberg contraption that, when bolted onto a three-speed bicycle, enabled it to keep up, just barely, with Apple-cars. The users had to wear goggles and were always picking bugs out of their teeth while Apple owners sped along in hermetically sealed comfort, sneering out the windows. But the Micro-mopeds were cheap, and easy to fix compared with the Apple-cars, and their market share waxed. Eventually the big dealership came out with a full-fledged car: a colossal station wagon (Windows 95). It had all the aesthetic appeal of a Soviet worker housing block, it leaked oil and blew gaskets, and it was an enormous success. A little later, they also came out with a hulking off-road vehicle intended for industrial users (Windows NT) which was no more beautiful than the station wagon, and only a little more reliable. Since then there has been a lot of noise and
