Re: [expert] Notebook Sans M$ Tax

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Fargher
On Saturday 15 February 2003 2:33 am, Felix Miata wrote: Anyone know who sells notebook PC's without the windoze tax included in the price? Wal Mart Tiger Direct only seem to sell ordinary PC's that way. Have a look at the ECS notebooks on http://www.portablez.com. I'm seriously

Re: [expert] pros and cons of mandrake

2002-06-18 Thread Robert Fargher
On June 18, 2002 12:33 am, civileme wrote: I don't know about you, but 98% of the time my computer has a problem, the problem has its hands on my keyboard, That is a well known and ubiquitous phenomenon. Formally, it is called a PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair). g --

Re: [expert] Transgaming Winex 2.0 available now

2002-04-21 Thread Robert Fargher
On April 21, 2002 03:47 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: The damn rpg's are always taking a hit, too. I've been voting for better BG2 support for ages now, and the last vote that was cast it lost by 1 vote. I'm waiting to see if that will change, or if the rpg's are going to always get dumped on.

Re: [expert] Transgaming Winex 2.0 available now

2002-04-19 Thread Robert Fargher
Well, so far with WineX 2, none of Civ 3 or either Serious Sams run. They all install OK but won't run. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] NEW Nvidia RPM's Released for LM82

2002-04-09 Thread Robert Fargher
On April 9, 2002 08:09 pm, J. Grant wrote: anyone got a mandrake box with more than 2 cpus then? I have a dual machine here, but aint seen any triple cpu motherboards ever for x86 Nor will you. 3 is not a power of two. :-) -- Cheers, Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] adaptec ava 1502-a

2002-02-25 Thread Robert Fargher
On Monday 25 February 2002 06:06, Daniel Anderson wrote: Hi, After adding the alias to modules.conf and running modprobe, I get the error ,can't locate module aha152x.The module does exist,so I guess the card is not being seen.You mentioned using a different card,is there a better one that

Re: [expert] XP and linux: is diskdrake enought?

2002-02-17 Thread Robert Fargher
On Sunday 17 February 2002 00:09, Brian Parish wrote: That's true - DiskDrake cannot shrink a NTFS partition. Someone on this list or maybe the newbie list mentioned Partition Star as a free alternative to partition magic. It may be worth searching for this on Google - might do the job.

Re: [expert] DHCP - how to avoid the hostname to be changed

2002-02-14 Thread Robert Fargher
On Thursday 14 February 2002 06:04, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote: I use roadrunner as my ISP. During login the hostname is changed from localhost to computer. Besides that, aline on /etc/hosts chamges from 192.168.1791.1 to 127.0.01. This wrecks my internal network. Any/all help would be

[expert] Weird sound problem

2002-02-13 Thread Robert Fargher
Hi folks, I have a head scratcher. My fiance's machine will not play sounds in Mandrake 8.x. Sound works fine in Windows. Sound worked fine in Mandrake 7.2, same hardware. If I install Mandrake 8.x (tried the beta of 8.2 this past weekend), the install goes fine. It'll boot into her

Re: [expert] kvm switch

2002-01-30 Thread Robert Fargher
On Wednesday 30 January 2002 10:46, James wrote: Ditto here. I can't get my ediMax to work with the mouse on linux or winderz so I'm stuck with a KV switch instead of KVM (the only problem is grabbing the wrong mouse and wondering where my pointer went.) Really seems to be a hardware

Re: [expert] Strange problem with the POP server

2001-12-13 Thread Robert Fargher
On Tuesday 11 December 2001 11:38, you wrote: Since xinetd tries to check ident for a pop connection, I would suspect that it the problem, and with the linksys blocking wan requests it would drop the packet for the ident request, and xinetd would wait for it to time out. So the other option

[expert] Strange problem with the POP server

2001-12-10 Thread Robert Fargher
Hi folks, I've got a head scratcher here and I'd really like your help, please. The problem arose when we replaced a RedHat 6.2 server with a Mandrake 8.1 server. On the new Mandrake server, a few clients (out of about 400 or so) are now having difficultly POP'ing their mail where they

[expert] Using ulimit to limit resource usage by Apache.

2001-11-21 Thread Robert Fargher
We're running a web server, hosting several hundred virtualhosts, most of whom use PHP. Since there is so much use of PHP, I've compiled it into Apache, rather than as a loadable module. Rather frequently, it seems that a httpd process (we've tracked it happening) will go rogue and

Re: [expert] Ports to keep open

2001-11-20 Thread Robert Fargher
On November 20, 2001 08:06 am, LeTortorec, Jean-Louis wrote: Do you think that will work ok? that box is a web server only, with proftp/ssh session for updating pages. Are you running a name server? If so, you'll want to keep port 53 open as well. -- Cheers, Rob Want to buy your