Re: [newbie] What to do with old CDs
I give mine to our local community education centre. Last Christmas the nursery had a ball making tree decorations, and sticking the CDs on paper plates for xmas parties. I even got a hand made card (by 3 yr olds) saying thank you :-)) Heather We need to keep this thread going. It's the only one on the list I understand. dh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] What to do with old CDs
You can't just nuke one, said Oppenheimer. The support group that helps people who keep optimizing their hard drives with Norton Speed disk just to see all those lines and colors flashing all around will probably be of some help. d P.S. If you think this is the type of thing that might upset her, and you still are determined to do it, might as well go ahead and disable the light bulb inside the wave so you see the effects even better. But, then again, all the men who have done that are divorced. Okay, you guys are gonna get me in trouble with the wife. I am REALLY trying to hold back the urge to nuke my old CDs. I want to see fireworks and cool patterns on the CDs. Is there such a thing as a support group?? On Monday 03 June 2002 01:27 pm, you wrote: On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Schwenk, Jeanie wrote: I give them to my teenage daughter who then nukes them in the wave for about 3 seconds (cool patterns result) She then hangs them on her wall. It looks pretty good especially when she has the black light on. Yeah, it's probably not that great on the wave but she's been doing it for about a year and I can still heat up my tea. Jeanie I'm going to have to do that one again. it's been a while since last it was done. kinda miss the excitement. My wife didn't know I had stuck something in there and thought I was running it empty. I told her that what she was seeing was the results of severe magnatron decay and that we were all being exposed to terrible levels of radiation. she was scared for a fraction of a second and then realized I wasn't in all that big a hurry to get out of the house. and of course the twinkle in my eye was a dead give-away. can't pull anything over on her... ;) 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
Re: [newbie] What to do with old CDs
Over the course of two years, I've been tossing old CDs in a pile. I'm guessing there are about 100 now. Any interesting ideas as to what I could do with them? Miark First, be sure your wife is not at home. The children will love this but it is not something you want them doing alone. Stack 4 or five disks together. Separate them by a small hard plastic button in the middle. Put the stack, and be sure you line the disks up neatly after you put it on the bottom, in the microwave. Hit the on button and watch the incredible fireworks. Be sure to stop the microwave before there is a real stinking meltdown. Or, you can send the disks to The United States Coast Guard in Indiannapolis, Indiana They will turn them into reflective disks to put into life jackets. Good thing to do, the latter. dh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake PPC question
These are great basic newby questions and I'd like to know the answers too. Please keep a notebook of why you're making certain decisions as you go along and let us all read it as you go along. What mac system and hardware are you running? d Hello all, I'm considering either Mandrake 8.2 or YDL 2.2, and am hoping someone here can help with some questions. On YDL's web site, they suggest placing Linux and Mac OS 9 on separate disks, and making the drive with YDL the master on the IDE bus. Is this also recommended for Mandrake? Also, although I can access the Mac drives from Linux, is the reverse true? If I'm booted in OS 9, can I access the Linux partition(s)? Thanks much, Jeff 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
Re: [newbie] Re: Mandrake PPC question
I'm running Powerbook G3/400, system 9.2.2 with 128 meg ram and 6 gig internal. I have a backup of 20 gig on the firewire. I can add another firewire drive but want to avoid that expense if possible. My objectives for going to Linux are: 1) It's open source. 2) It's more robust; 3) It is more flexible in what can be customized. 4) It runs SPlus and a number of other good stat routines that were developed for Unix. I want to keep my appleworks 5 wordprocessor, my OE email, and my IE and Opera browsers, or have at least good equivalents. Right now have narrowed down choices to YDL, Mandrake, and SuSE. I'm not leaning toward any of them right now, it is too early. So, anything you post regarding your choice strategy and thinking along the way would be helpful to me. The same goes for any others who have been down this path already. TYIA, d What mac system and hardware are you running? A blue/white G3 currently, but I may trade up to a G4 since my G3 has the Rev 1 IDE chip and can't support a 2nd drive on the internal IDE bus. I can't use an IDE card, because I wouldn't be able to boot from the drive connected to it. Jeff 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] Digest version of Newbie available
I've just subscribed and will only be able to work on the linux on my powerbook G3 firewire after hours and on weekends. I have not yet installed or obtained the software. My plan is to read the digests for a while and then when I have some time go for the installation. First question: I have a 6 gig disk internal and it is already partitioned. Can I just clean one of those partitions and install linux on it so it is not necessary to blow away the whole disk and all my wonderful contents? Thank you in advance, dh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Digest version of Newbie available
In general, Linux requires two partitions: one for / and one for swap. I've heard that if you have enough RAM you can do without a swap, but I don't know if that's true. Anyone ever done that? Further, most people install with 3 or more partitions. Mine right now has /, swap, /usr and /home all on their own partitions. With my present partition scheme, I could set up three partitions for linux and still have one left for OS9.2.2 and a spare. But, how much space does /, swap, and /usr require each? PartitionMagic 7.0 is a wonderful thing. You can add, delete and resize partitions without losing data. It's incredibly slow and inefficient, though, (mine took 8.5 hours to repartition a 40 gig drive that was about 75% full) so beware. But in the end, it worked and it worked flawlessly, with no data loss or any problems. I don't think speed is a concern, it could go overnight for me. But, in the partitioning is there a difference in how the file structures are set up so the actual separation into different disks is only a part of what needs to be done? d --jim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
