Re: vmware express

2001-10-12 Thread Royce Bell
Jeffrey... Have you tried connecting to DSL ~through~ vmware? rpb = Royce P. Bell Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Jeffrey W. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian User List" Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 2:07 PM Subject: Re: vmware express > > >

Re: potato on 486

2001-10-12 Thread Royce Bell
Paul wrote: >>I am hoping the Debian install will get easier for non-technical users. I am trying to promote Linux to a lot of them. << I don't see anything wrong with making the Debian install easier for technical users -- unless, of course, they happen to be sado-masochists, in which case they

Re: Software DVD players & vmware express

2001-10-12 Thread Royce Bell
Silly boy... We're male! That's why. It's a kind of "ultimate control of the remote control" thing -- or so my wife thinks. Per Jason's post and while I'm at it, does anyone have any perspective on vmware express or a similar product that will let me run a very complicated, Windows(tm)-based Bi

Feet in mouth, fergit it!

2001-10-10 Thread Royce Bell
Vineet... I made a mistake once upon a time. I'll have to load a backup from several years ago to verify what it was, but I'm sure I have the record, somewhere. Fergit it. It's cool. rpb = R. P. Bell Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S. Yeah, I know I misspelled it. That's the point.

Re: Oops, forgot...

2001-10-10 Thread Royce Bell
Hall... I appreciate your comments, but hasten to reply that the only thing comparable to the arrogance of Microsoft is the reverse arrogance of their detractors. I would have sworn that my questions to this list were in the interest of dealing with my own, personal frustrations over MS, as I loo

Oops, forgot...

2001-10-10 Thread Royce Bell
Uh...is there a reason why several posts to the list (usually from specific individuals), come with attached text files. I'm not in the habit of opening ANY attachment, not even from friends I know well, and this is quite disconcerting. Also, I need information on virus protection and firewalls f

Re: Takin' the plunge...

2001-10-10 Thread Royce Bell
Sheesh, you guys are scaring the pants off me! Or, maybe I'm just getting to old to go about things like I did 30 years ago...hmmm? Actually, I'm not so scared as I am overwhelmed at how much I have forgotten over the years of DOS/Windows immersion (I'd transliterate that as "baptism," but the sc

Takin' the plunge...

2001-10-09 Thread Royce Bell
Okay, this is it. I'm about to take the plunge into Linux, but my experience with dumb terminal-based Unix is over 20 years old. In the interim, I've been on Windows; a sometimes happy, but always frustrating and infuriating marriage of convenience and productivity-enslavement. Debian Linux was