[newbie] OT:Fun sig lines from this list--any to add?
I am sure there are more of these that deserve my attention...(and probably been posted before).these are just some I thought were funny or true or both :) Pretty sure some of these would make good bumper stickers.but it would be more fun to plaster them on the front of a Window instead of a bumper !:) Dave Start Sigs ** Help Microsoft combat software piracy: give Linux to a friend today! oxymoron: Microsoft Works "I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system of all time." -Bill Gates The best indication that there is intelligent life elsewhere is that they haven't contacted us. "640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981 "We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked thatcharacter from Peanuts." We are Linux. Resistance is measured in Ohms. If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed... ...Oh, wait a minute, he already does. "I wrote code that works. I didn't test it, but the discussion is closed. Itmight have syntactic problems, but it does work. Better than any kernelextension ever would. End of story." -- Linus Torvalds "Windows is not done until Lotus 123 won't run."-- Old Microsoft internal slogan Microsoft: The company that made web browsing dangerous. "He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let thatfool you., he really is an idiot." -Groucho Marx (How'd he know Bill Gates?) "you can have peace or freedom, but never count on both at once" -heinlein With Windows Millennium, Microsoft was able to get the boot time down to 25 seconds. That's almost as short as it's uptime Nimda virus affects Linux! My linux boxes have had their bandwidth chewed up by four thousand Nimda servers infected with IIS. Linux *is* user-friendly, just picky who it chooses for friends! ... XP , and X stands for cra The three Rs of Microsoft support: Retry, Reboot, Reinstall Linux, cause i reboot less often than windows users reinstall.
Re: [newbie] Reiser FS file system - a good choice??
Thanks to all of you that answered.. I was pretty sure ReiserFS was the way to go..but wanted to here somebody elses more experienced viewpoint before deciding for sure. Later today I will reinstall Mandrake 8.1 with reiser fs and go from there. I bought the 8.1 boxed set and found several nice programs that aren't on the 8.2 download set and i don't have 8.2 yet anyway.. :) Thanks again for all your help and suggestions. One more question for those following the thread Why doesn't mandrake install reiserfs by default for desktop use i realize that ext2 is probably better for servers.. but if you choose just desktop options. i would think that you would want a fast/stable/easy to recover from file system for newbie's. at least for the desktop .??? Thanks again, Dave. - Original Message - From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 7:55 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Reiser FS file system - a good choice?? On Sunday 12 May 2002 06:40 am, Michael Adams wrote: Running XFS here, Mandrake has done Xtensive, Xhuastive testing ;-) of all the journalling file systems and XFS came in as the overall winner. Reiser was meant to be faster but uses more disk space. Believe you've got that backwards. XFS uses more space. -- Tom BrinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Reiser FS file system - a good choice??
As you can probably tell. I'm using windows right now... the reason is that I reformatted everything and reinstalled MS so I could use this computer for email etc while I decided which file system I wanted to install on my linux partition. I had a bad experience with ext2 the default file system. 1. I had one of my kids push the power button to shut down my mandrake 8.1 box and I couldn't get the system to boot back up...serious lack of enough knowledge to try to recoup the data and save the file system on my part. 2. lost alot of data.(nothing major..but a PITA anyway) stuff like saved newbie emails that probably told how to recover from a bad ext2 shutdown...stuff like that!! 3. read that reiser fs was better .especially for newbies like me that have bad shutdowns.power outages...etc Any input on that? I want to re install mandrake..but want a file system that recovers fast.and is stable enough to withstand the occasional bad shutdown. I read all the older posts in the newbie archives.and seems like reiserfs is the way to go..but am open to suggestions before I re-install. Reiser FS also should have somewhat faster file access for my large directories of jpegs and html files if I'm not mistakenI went to www.reiserfs.org ...read alot there too, but wanted real life experiences. I trust those more :) THIA Dave
Re: [newbie] Web page design
WebSphere Homepage Builder V4.0 for Linux $66.00 WebSphere Homepage Builder V4.0 for Linux User's Guide $5 Puts it at about $71 US if you want to purchase it. The link---should work: http://commerce.www.ibm.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce/CategoryDisplay?cntrfnbr=1cgm enbr=1cntry=840lang=en_USscrfnbr=73cgrfnbr=2057316x=11y=16 IMHO you are miles ahead if you go ahead and take the short time it takes to learn to code by hand.it is much easier to code to w3c specs if you are able to make the changes quickly. Most WYSWYG editors do not code nearly as well as you can by hand.besides -- coding is half the fun! :) You can pull up thousands of help pages for html.on any search engine. Would save yourself $71 ;) The debate on WYSWYG editors vs text/html editors is a long one.but it's safe to sayif you can code by hand--you can run almost any WYSWYG editor much better and make better use of the shortcuts they provide. BlueFish is an excellent html/text editor for linux. There are many othersmost are FREE.IBM's WYSWYG HomePageBuilder is not. I'm not bashing IBM or WYSWYG editors -- so easy on the flames guys--- Just my personal opinions as a web designer. I am VERY pleased to see IBM on the Linux side of the court. Would be even more pleased to see them port over Lotus Desktop products..very user friendly and so much nicer to use than M$'s...again just MHO. Linux has many nice things for a webdesigner.one of my goals in getting into Linux was to try to get away from M$ totally. Gimp for graphics and several fine FTP programs plus BlueFish have almost converted me totally. (Although I still use my M$ machine some--even writing this email on one as I am upgrading my Linux box from 233 mghz to 900mghz ~~fingers crossed~~hopefully it goes smoothly :) If you want a great HTML/Text editor for windows.. try NoteTabPro it is the best html/text editor I have ever used. Limited only by the amount of RAM in your machine. ~~~#1 reason I keep windows around. The developer is planning to eventually port this to Linux.probably won't be free..but will be worth every penny.and I'll be willing to be his first customer :) Good Luck and have fun coding..hope this helped. Dave -- - Original Message - From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 5:50 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Web page design IBM's Home Page Builder is Linux' only WYSIWYG web authoring software that doesn't suck. You can download a free trial, and then you can choose to buy it for about $5 (if memory serves). Miark - Original Message - From: William R. Nash [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 1:34 PM Subject: [newbie] Web page design Hello, What program is the best to design web pages without knowing now to program. I have been using frontpage 2000. I'm trying to get away from windows and just use linux. next i need to change over my hp joranda 450 to use under linux and quicken then i can delete windows. thanks Bill Nash Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Basic business PCs
http://www.sql-ledger.com/ this is the link you were thinking of I think. Dave -- - Original Message - From: Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: skinky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 5:18 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Basic business PCs On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, skinky wrote: Anyway, he told me that I'm welcome to go and take a look at the setup and upgrade his entire system. Of course I'm keen to install linux rather than M$ Windows (especially to avoid the over-priced future OS upgrade crap) but I'm only just learning to use LM myself. Cripes! My main concern is the availability of suitable accounting software for the linux platform - it doesn't have to be free, just so long as we can get it. I have installed Gnucash but haven't yet had time to check it out (will look into it tonight). We use Sql Ledger here. Not sure what the URL is. Maby the oracle at Freshmeat may reveal the answer! Another major concern is the type of backup system - I only backup to zip, cdrw and hd partition - so I'm not exactly up with the best options. It needs to be easy to use because I don't think his staff are all that computer savvy. I would set up some kind of SCSI internal Dat tape system. They are all good. Get five tapes, set to back up every weekday from Cron, and assign the duty of tape rotation to the most responsible of the employees, usually the person waring the Asst Manager badge. I'm wondering whether to install modems as well, so they can at least communicate via e-mail. However, I'd need to discuss that with my friend as he may not want the additional monthly internet access costs. Why not set up a modem based system to gather the data from each machine and communicate? Maby give up on TCP/IP and set up UUCP since this is a node to node communication system. Obviously stability is important. I don't see speed, sound, graphics, etc as being a necessity. Are there any motherboards, CPUs, etc that I should avoid? I was thinking of 500 MHz Durons on a compatible motherboard with onboard sound and (perhaps) graphics. You can't get 500 Mhz durons, the slowest would be around 900 right now in the shops. Get the slowest Duron on the market and put in a quarter gig of ram. That would Definately suffice. Its not adviseable to use an integrated everything board for servers, but I like the Ecs K7SEM motherboard. 266 Mhz FSB. It has integrated everything, and NIC to boot just in case! All for around 75 to 85 bones. It is very stable for its class. I have had no problems with it. Any advice/suggestions will be very much appreciated. I know this probably isn't the place to be asking, but I'm sure most of you will know more about this than I do. I don't want to c*ck this up. TIA skinky PS. I apologise for the long message. -- Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Using tn5250 to connect to the AS400
Don't know if anyone here has used tn5250 to connect to an Ibm AS400.but was wanting some information. I am using a Toshiba 1605CDS laptop running Mandrake 7.2 trying to connect to our AS400 at work... I have a pcmcia card (IBM 5250 Express--worked with a windows system).. and have tn5250 rpm installed.. Any ideas ? I don't really find much searching the internet. Any suggestions are appreciated.. PS:Thanks to those who helped me with the Zip drive..!! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User#204085 Linux Mandrake 7.2 on a M$ Free computer! M$ is not the answer. M$ is the question. The answer is no.
Re: [newbie] Using tn5250 to connect to the AS400
On Tuesday 03 July 2001 12:35 pm, you wrote: Don't know if anyone here has used tn5250 to connect to an Ibm AS400.but was wanting some information. I am using a Toshiba 1605CDS laptop running Mandrake 7.2 trying to connect to our AS400 at work... I have a pcmcia card (IBM 5250 Express--worked with a windows system).. and have tn5250 rpm installed.. Any ideas ? I don't really find much searching the internet. Any suggestions are appreciated.. PS:Thanks to those who helped me with the Zip drive..!! Thanks for the quick reply. OkayI hate to sound stupid..but I don't know alot about Linux yetso I may be in over my head already!! Anyway, I use twinax behlan connections on a star box to connect all the other pc's/terminals to the as400 .. connecting my laptop..(what type of connection should I use with Linux?---i have the ibm5250express pcmcia card--just don't know if it will work.) connection desktop units running Linux(what type of connections do I need?)With the windows systems i am using BosaNova Twinax cards for the desktops now. Note: I do not have an ethernet card in the as400..(I am also not a networking guru.as if you couldn't tell! :) Do I have to have an ethernet card in the AS400? - Thanks again. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User#204085 Linux Mandrake 7.2 on a M$ Free computer! M$ is not the answer. M$ is the question. The answer is no.
