Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation

>P.S. discovering apt-get was like waking up on Christmass morning and finding a >pony under the tree. Without having to clean up after it -- *-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-* Michael Leone PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB

Re: OT: Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

-- Original Message -- From: will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 20:45:18 -0500 >On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 07:53:02PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: >> How about an SWT 8080 with 16K (circa 1977) as I recall. >> Those were that days of CP/M, befo

Re: OT: Re: Qs from a newbie (help ASAP?) (long)

>Those were that days of CP/M, before Gates bought/stole it and named it dos. Tsk, tsk, tsk. Gates never bought/stole CP/M. MS-DOS v1 was NOT CP/M; it was a separate product. >I do have a router running on a 386sx w/12 Meg of Ram but that is old >hat to anyone who has seen the Linux Router Proje

Re: partitions and lilo

-- Original Message -- From: Gil Elad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 11:48:26 +0200 >5 OS's ?! >WOW good luck! I've been doing that with Partition Magic (DOS, Win98, WinNT, Win2K Pro, RedHat 6.2), across 2 IDE disks - 40G and a 17G. Never a pro

Re: firewall (fwd)

>> OH? Why would my cable modem provider scan my box? What would they be >> looking >> for? > >My ISP scanned my box once, and I asked them about it and they told me it was >an accident, done by a new Linux box they had just set up because they were >considering switching to Linux. They told

Re: stripping linux from a box

>I'm presuming that LILO wrote to the master boot record. So how does one go >about fully expunging Linux? fdisk /mbr to clen out the master boot record. -- *-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-* Michael Leone PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739

Re: succesor to dpkg

-- Original Message -- From: Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 22:48:43 -0800 >On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 04:47:41PM -0500, Pat Mahoney wrote: >> I seem to recall talk of a new package system for debian. The only things I >> remember are

Re: CD distro

>can u guy there tell me where to get a economy/cheap CD distro of Debian >2.2 ? Cheap Byte?!! there are a few to choose there...and i don't know >which is the installable. I've bought from CheapBytes before (http://www.cheapbytes.com) with good results (couple of versions of Slackware, few other

Re: book suggestions

>90% of the commands, at least, are basic Unix commands, not specific to >Linux or Debian. O'Reilly's "Unix in a Nutshell", or "Linux in a Nutshell", >should do fine as a simple reference. Personally I find "Unix Power Tools" to >be my bible of Unix black magick. But won't tell you about the

Re: Message saying this lists's mailbox is full

-- Original Message -- From: Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 14:48:17 -0600 (MDT) >On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Mike Leone wrote: >> >> but as far as whether sending there spam back to them is a good or >> >>

Re: Message saying this lists's mailbox is full

>> but as far as whether sending there spam back to them is a good or "Mailbox full" messages are NOT spam. Altho the "full" messages are just as annoying, spam is email for COMMERCIAL SOLICITATION. -- *-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-* Michael Leone

Re: Netscape 4.75 ??

>I have no idea, since i don't have KDE installed and happen to get >along just fine with navigator-standalone. But how about installing >it yourself and trying it out? It's free software and just an apt-get >command (or two) away: Is Konqueror KDE2? >Duh, some 50.5MB worth of dependencies just

Re: Netscape 4.75 ??

>> I'm told - altho have not tried it myself - that you can compile and >> run IE for Unix on a Linux box. >> >Sure, just check out it's source code from "cvs.microsoft.com", run >"./configure --without-win32 --target=GNU_Linux-Intel", and then "make >install", right? I get it; that's supposed to

Re: Netscape 4.75 ??

>Netscape sucks. There are no good browsers right now. Wait for Mozilla to >mature and maybe we'll have one. In the meantime, this is something we have to >put up with. I'm told - altho have not tried it myself - that you can compile and run IE for Unix on a Linux box. Personally - except f

Re: Partition Magic Help?

>Does anyone know what the EB means, and is there any way to get my data >from those partitions back? I'm extremely desperate here. You're going to have to call Powerquest Tech Support. Doesn't sound good at all. -- *-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-* Michael Leone

Re: Info!

>to tell the difference. [okay, there are unix ports to >various desktop pc's as well. i'm a bit fuzzy on the >distinction there.] The distinction is ... >linux is a free kernel ... that. Unix is not free; Linux is. :-) Technically, Linux is just a KERNEL. All the rest of the programs are fr

Re: off topic - scsi partitions & swap & raid

>Now for: >raid 0 (striping) min drives 2, reads and writes faster, no reduncancy. >raid 1 min drives 3, 2/3 of your total disk space is available. Fault >tolerant. You mean minimum 2 drives, don't you? And usable space is 1/2? I believe raid 1 is also known as mirroring. -- *-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-