Re: flying pigs

2003-08-15 Thread Dean Coffey
eel so bad about my 16-18 PS/2s and all those 8512 monitors :) Dean Coffey

Re: Linux for Windows Users

2003-08-14 Thread Dean Coffey
>To see what is missing from Linux that discourages Windows users, go to, > > > >Roger Turk Do you have any idea how hard it is to clean Mountain Dew off a monitor? Hilarious! :) Dean Coffey

Re: HELP! The web site for F-PROT doesn't work any more!

2003-08-01 Thread Dean Coffey
, and have received about 1 an hour since then from various places. If you peek inside with a hex editor, it quickly becomes clear to some extent just what is going on. HTH Dean Coffey >P.S. BTW, so far I have not yet been able to identify the ugly >looking thing that appears to be a vir

Re: HELP! The web site for F-PROT doesn't work any more!

2003-08-01 Thread Dean Coffey
ftp://ftp.f-prot.com/pub HTH Dean Coffey >Does anybody know of an ftp site or an alternative web site >where I might be able to download the latest version of >F-PROT and also the latest updates for the virus signature >files? > >TIA, > >Sam Heywood

Re: Problem with .DOC files

2003-07-07 Thread Dean Coffey
Greg et al: Don't know if this is the version you need (it's v0.33, released July 5, 2002) but it is available for download at this URL: http://members.cox.net/ dos/txtms03.htm , just over half-way down the page. This page also has some basic instructions on it usage as well.

Re: OT: BeOS info

2002-06-24 Thread Dean Coffey
>So, does BeOS have a dos emulator? How difficult is it to s >switch from one os to the other? The Bochs x86 emulator has been ported ( http://www.bebits.com/app/279 ), although I haven't tried it as of yet. With 30 minutes or so worth of work and 2 or more harddrives, you can have a multi-bo

OT: BeOS info

2002-06-24 Thread Dean Coffey
>to Dean Coffey: >Now you have me curious about BeOS, its future and where and how to get it, >and >will it boot with LILO. I heard about Be Inc going out of business, being >sold >to Palm who were not going to contiune developing BeOS. >What kind of web browsers are th

Re: BEOS.INS File

2002-06-22 Thread Dean Coffey
>I can't email it because I can't figure out the true name of the file. >It "appears" to be named BEOS.INS, but that is just the illusion. I >believe it has some strange character hidden in the file name, but I >haven't been able to guess what that character might be. If you want >the file you c

BEOS.INS File

2002-06-22 Thread Dean Coffey
{snip} >WARNING: If anyone should download UNRAR250.ZIP you would >be well advised not to unzip it to a directory on your hard >drive. This zip file contained a 654 byte file named BEOS.INS, >or something similar, that I could not figure out how to delete >by any method other than by resorting t

Re: You will be most amazed and astonished until you figure it out!

2002-05-16 Thread Dean Coffey
Unreal! LOL Took me 2 run throughs to figure it out! Thanx for the laugh - Original Message - From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Arachne List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 8:28 PM Subject: You will be most amazed and astonished until you figure it o

Sorcerer GNU Linux

2002-02-16 Thread Dean Coffey
Recently, Slashdot had a write up about SGL. It installs from the source code of the various packages so that you can customize and optimize it to work most efficiently on your hardware. It starts with the initial install, by asking you questions about what you plan to use your system for, hardw

BasicLinux and MCA MoBos

2002-01-31 Thread Dean Coffey
Hello everyone! I've been lurking around here for quite some time now, listening to the various goings-on here on the list, and now that the general topic seems to be Linux and BasicLinux, I thought I would jump in with a question or two or three. I have several older computers, and have pretty

Re: "Legacy Computers" and Arachne (cheap hardware)

2001-08-19 Thread Dean Coffey
-Original Message- From: Sam Ewalt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, August 19, 2001 6:15 AM Subject: Re: "Legacy Computers" and Arachne You may also want to check www.pricewatch.com I have bought several things from there, and the prices are usually pretty pheno