Re: [Eug-lug] New formal meet-up place

2006-12-29 Thread Neil Parker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, > I've discussed our issue with a friend of mine, and he has agreed to >allow us access to a band room (with an ethernet connection). All that >is required is our decision and a little prior notification. I've been >in there before and noted it to be cozy but suitable to f

[Eug-lug] New formal meet-up place

2006-12-29 Thread erock23175
I've discussed our issue with a friend of mine, and he has agreed to allow us access to a band room (with an ethernet connection). All that is required is our decision and a little prior notification. I've been in there before and noted it to be cozy but suitable to fit our needs. In any case,

Fwd: [Eug-lug] Narrowing Vistas, content protection, hardware and the death of open source in the "consumer" world.

2006-12-29 Thread Michael Miller
I have to agree with Jason about OS X errors. The one thing that Microsoft has beat over Sun, HP, Apple, and maybe even Dell is there documentation. Some might argue that OpenSource software has good documentation ( It does ). The problem I find with error messages is the information that you c

RE: [Eug-lug] Narrowing Vistas, content protection, hardware and the death of open source in the "consumer" world.

2006-12-29 Thread Jason LaPier
After using and supporting XP for the last four years or so, I'd have to admit, it doesn't BSOD as much as earlier versions of Windows - in fact, even when I did see a BSOD it was hardware related (bad memory, failing hard drive, etc). Anyway, I think the point of the OP was that 98% of Windows use

Re: [Eug-lug] Hot swap SATA

2006-12-29 Thread Dwight Hubbard
Midrange and highend Sun hardware can hot-swap PCI cards. I have done a PCI Fibre-Channel card hot-swap on a Running Sun E6800, I also played with it on an E25K, but haven't had any of the PCI cards on the E25Ks I manage fail. On 12/28/06, Michael Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As long as t

Re: [Eug-lug] Linux modem question

2006-12-29 Thread Michael Miller
I had my work purches a USR Sportster modem for a project I am working on. It works fine. Miller On 12/28/06, Garl Grigsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Martin Kelly wrote: > I'm about to buy a modem from ebay for my mother to use with Ubuntu. > The seller claims it works with Linux and the vendo

Re: [Eug-lug] Narrowing Vistas, content protection, hardware and the death of open source in the "consumer" world.

2006-12-29 Thread erock23175
I'd have to say you are talking about mac-users there! "2% of people are perhaps fortunate enough to have it work all the time. Blessed are thosethat have never seen a blue screen and/or never sworn at their computer." With of course the exception that I had sworn at my computer at least

Re: [Eug-lug] Narrowing Vistas, content protection, hardware and the death of open source in the "consumer" world.

2006-12-29 Thread justin bengtson
Regardless of the DRM issue, Vista is just crap anyway. After installing RC1 on a test box at work, I found that I had no physical memory available with the default install, everything left was page file. This was on 1gb of memory. As a test, I reduced the number of running services to the bare