Re: [OT] Love you guys - It's Alive

2002-11-24 Thread Joshua Lee
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 05:23:35PM -0800, deFreese, Barry wrote: It's up and running. Just trying to figure out what minimalist window manager to use and I'm off and running. I have twm on at the moment and gotta say it's a little too minimalist. I like WindowMaker a lot, but it might be

RE: [OT] Love you guys

2002-11-21 Thread Mike Dresser
On 21 Nov 2002, Ron Johnson wrote: Sigh Not so nowadays... If the FPM RAM goes bt on that obscure but vital box in the corner (running an off beat OS from a company long dead and using ESDI drives on an EISA controller), you are well and truly hosed. vendor I've got a stack of 1 meg

Re: [OT] Love you guys - It's Alive

2002-11-21 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 07:33:12PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: Any of the following should work well for you: - Blackbox - Openbox - Fluxbox after the thread about what to move to instead of gnome/kde, i switched to fluxbox which is working vwell [and v quick!] The tabs on windows are v

Re: [OT] Love you guys

2002-11-21 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 15:18:43 -0800 (PST), nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for me its more of a company thing rather then a product thing. I don't like compaq's close relationship with MS, their history of having crappy desktop products, propritary parts in their servers(when I ordered 2 new cpus

[OT] Love you guys

2002-11-20 Thread deFreese, Barry
Sorry for the goofy OT post but I really wanted to put Debian on a Compaq Proliant 1600 and not have to put RedHat on it. I couldn't get it to see the array controller and being the newbie moron that I am I had no idea how to get it to work. A quick google pointed out to me that Disk2 has the

Re: [OT] Love you guys

2002-11-20 Thread Gary Hennigan
deFreese, Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry for the goofy OT post but I really wanted to put Debian on a Compaq Proliant 1600 and not have to put RedHat on it. I couldn't get it to see the array controller and being the newbie moron that I am I had no idea how to get it to work. A quick

Re: [OT] Love you guys

2002-11-20 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 03:19:31PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: deFreese, Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry for the goofy OT post but I really wanted to put Debian on a Compaq Proliant 1600 and not have to put RedHat on it. I couldn't get it to see the array controller and being the

RE: [OT] Love you guys

2002-11-20 Thread deFreese, Barry
stupid faster. Jerry Gregoire - Former CIO at Dell -Original Message- From: Gary Hennigan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 2:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OT] Love you guys deFreese, Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry for the goofy OT post

RE: [OT] Love you guys

2002-11-20 Thread Steve Barr
fly. Especially with a Compaq! :) Not quite the same beast, but I've got Debian on a DL-360. Runs great! Steve -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. (v3.22-7) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

RE: [OT] Love you guys

2002-11-20 Thread nate
deFreese, Barry said: What do you mean especailly with a Compaq? I personally think that the Proliant servers are some of the best PC-based servers out there. best doesn't really matter that much if you can't get it workin :) I installed debian 2.2 on a few DL380 generation 1s, worked pretty

Re: [OT] Love you guys

2002-11-20 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-11-20T22:23:56Z, deFreese, Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What do you mean especailly with a Compaq? I personally think that the Proliant servers are some of the best PC-based servers out there. Yes, but they're also the most chock-full of weird hardware. I haven't touched a Compaq

RE: [OT] Love you guys

2002-11-20 Thread deFreese, Barry
It's funny, all of you are saying I don't like Compaq, I wouldn't use Compaq, etc yet all of you state that after it was up and running, they run well!? I agree that they do some funny stuff with hardware, but some of it is a good thing. For example, they burn their own firmware into their hard

Re: [OT] Love you guys

2002-11-20 Thread Gary Hennigan
deFreese, Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What do you mean especailly with a Compaq? I personally think that the Proliant servers are some of the best PC-based servers out there. My experience with Compaq is colored by experiences I had with them way back in the early 90's (92 or 93 I think).

Re: [OT] Love you guys

2002-11-20 Thread Robert L. Harris
PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OT] Love you guys X-Mailing-List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] archive/latest/246570 On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 03:19:31PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: deFreese, Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry for the goofy OT post but I really wanted to put Debian

Re: [OT] Love you guys

2002-11-20 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 03:04:55PM -0800, deFreese, Barry wrote: Matthew, What did you use for the Netelligent Ethernet adapter, or did you install something else? I am using the onboard adapter as well as another... After you partition the drive and begin the base install, it will ask you

Re: [OT] Love you guys

2002-11-20 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-11-20T22:45:08Z, deFreese, Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's funny, all of you are saying I don't like Compaq, I wouldn't use Compaq, etc yet all of you state that after it was up and running, they run well!? I, for one, never said that I don't like Compaq, or even that I wouldn't

Re: [OT] Love you guys

2002-11-20 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-11-20T22:56:13Z, Gene [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: great, i'm glad i know this now, I'm about to get about 5 DL380/dual processor and ML540 next week to install linux... any pointers or problems that I'm going to have? The biggest hurdle turned out to be that the standard Debian boot

RE: [OT] Love you guys

2002-11-20 Thread nate
deFreese, Barry said: It's funny, all of you are saying I don't like Compaq, I wouldn't use Compaq, etc yet all of you state that after it was up and running, they run well!? I agree that they do some funny stuff with hardware, but some of it is a good thing. For example, they burn their own

RE: [OT] Love you guys

2002-11-20 Thread deFreese, Barry
. Jerry Gregoire - Former CIO at Dell -Original Message- From: Kirk Strauser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 3:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OT] Love you guys At 2002-11-20T22:45:08Z, deFreese, Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's funny, all

RE: [OT] Love you guys

2002-11-20 Thread deFreese, Barry
)-616-4005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technology doesn't make you less stupid; it just makes you stupid faster. Jerry Gregoire - Former CIO at Dell -Original Message- From: nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 3:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [OT] Love you

RE: [OT] Love you guys - It's Alive

2002-11-20 Thread deFreese, Barry
deFreese, Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry for the goofy OT post but I really wanted to put Debian on a Compaq Proliant 1600 and not have to put RedHat on it. I couldn't get it to see the array controller and being the newbie moron that I am I had no idea how to get it to work. A quick

Re: [OT] Love you guys - It's Alive

2002-11-20 Thread Robert L. Harris
check out xfce, it's great on my p2 sony vaio with 96megs. Thus spake deFreese, Barry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): From: deFreese, Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [OT] Love you guys - It's Alive Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 17:23:35 -0800 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service

Re: [OT] Love you guys - It's Alive

2002-11-20 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 05:23:35PM -0800, deFreese, Barry wrote: It's up and running. Just trying to figure out what minimalist window manager to use and I'm off and running. I have twm on at the moment and gotta say it's a little too minimalist. Any of the following should work well for

Re: [OT] Love you guys - It's Alive

2002-11-20 Thread p
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 05:23:35PM -0800, deFreese, Barry wrote: deFreese, Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry for the goofy OT post but I really wanted to put Debian on a Compaq Proliant 1600 and not have to put RedHat on it. I couldn't get it to see the array controller and being the

RE: [OT] Love you guys

2002-11-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 17:42, deFreese, Barry wrote: Hey, I'm not trying to start a hardware religous war here, it was just an observation. I have issues with some vendors myself. (Personally I hope Sun Microsystems goes the way of the DoDo). I do work at a large company but I certainly do