Re: [Eug-lug] Nvidia ickiness

2005-06-27 Thread Max Lemieux
Agreed, any Nvidia card made in the last 5 years should be adequate, anything in the last 3 years will fly compared to any on-board video or antique card. ;) GeForce2 or better will let you run a lot of modest-spec'd new games, or fancy screensavers, or what have you... 5x00 series will let you

Re: [Eug-lug] Nvidia ickiness

2005-06-27 Thread T. Joseph CARTER
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 12:09:57PM -0700, Allen C Brown wrote: > I had an Nvidia TNT. Never worked well under Linux. Its > a doorstop now. After that experience I won't buy Nvidia. You realize that's like saying the '76 Ford was crappy, so you'll never buy a Ford again, right? The Riva TNT is

Re: [Eug-lug] Nvidia ickiness

2005-06-27 Thread Allen C Brown
I had an Nvidia TNT. Never worked well under Linux. Its a doorstop now. After that experience I won't buy Nvidia. -- Allen Brown work: Agilent Technologies non-work: http://www.peak.org/~abrown/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Never underestimate the animo

Re: [Eug-lug] cron and output

2005-06-27 Thread Allen C Brown
Rob Hudson said the following on 06/24/2005 10:19 AM: Neil Parker wrote: Rob Hudson wrote, How does one disable the output of certain cron jobs? I have some backup scripts running and other things and don't need to see all of that stuff in an email. Can I silently discard the output of th

Re: [Eug-lug] Nvidia ickiness

2005-06-27 Thread Max Lemieux
I am running an Nvidia GeForce4 MX4000 (if that is the right alphabet soup) on a Via chipset. No problems, equivalent 3D performance in Linux and Windows. Even that GeForce2 MX-400 will give quite decent performance. I can't speak to your motherboard though, I'm edging towards the unhelpful "th

[Eug-lug] P2P Networks

2005-06-27 Thread Jason Van Cleve
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