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2002-09-30 Thread Mat Branyon
6 day install period... > > > > > > > > you should never be able to buy a gun in the time it > > > > takes for your o/s > > > > to install... > > > > > > > > just bad karmha waiting to happen there > > > > > >

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2002-09-30 Thread Alvaro Zuniga
to buy a gun in the time it > > > takes for your o/s > > > to install... > > > > > > just bad karmha waiting to happen there > > > > > > --mat > > > > > > On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 13:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > wrote: &

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2002-09-30 Thread Mat Branyon
it doenst work after i load the module :( ... and for some reason, if i do kldunlaod snd ... freebsd restarts (in a bad way) but its 4.6.0 maybe buggy --mat On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 00:08, Neal Stuntz wrote: > try typing at a console > kldload snd > > if your sound works after that, try adding

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2002-09-30 Thread Mat Branyon
pen there > > > > --mat > > > > On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 13:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > From: Mat Branyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Date: 2002/09/27 Fri AM 11:28:01 EDT > > > > To: G

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2002-09-30 Thread ABBOTT MUJICA
heh my onboard sound werks... just find out the model... most of em are cmi899 blahs or ac 97 blahs... you must find what it is tho... On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Mat Branyon wrote: > doesnt matter, not using linux anymore... using freebsd, but cant get > onboard sound to work (never really got onboar

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2002-09-30 Thread Neal Stuntz
--010307090100030704090808 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit try typing at a console kldload snd if your sound works after that, try adding this to your /boot/loader.conf snd_pcm_load="YES" also, if that doesn't get it,

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2002-09-29 Thread Mat Branyon
the thing that gets most people with X is that they forget to install a program called wrapper (under /usr/ports/x11/wrapper .. and in /stand/sysinstall --mat On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 19:24, Alvaro Zuniga wrote: > > --- Neal Stuntz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > yes yes yes. freebsd is easier to f

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2002-09-29 Thread Mat Branyon
its a via... i compiled the module for it.. and its loaded (snd_via82c686.ko) but it doesnt wanna work... thats what dmesg tells me anyway. maybe if i enable pnpbios in the kernel, and told my bios that my os isnt plug-n-play?? you think? --mat On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 22:17, Neal Stuntz wrote: > wh

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2002-09-29 Thread Neal Stuntz
what chipset is your sound card. i use freebsd myself :) neal Mat Branyon wrote: > doesnt matter, not using linux anymore... using freebsd, but cant get > onboard sound to work (never really got onboard sound working under > freebsd)... any suggestions on that? > > --mat > maybe im just deaf

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2002-09-29 Thread Mat Branyon
doesnt matter, not using linux anymore... using freebsd, but cant get onboard sound to work (never really got onboard sound working under freebsd)... any suggestions on that? --mat maybe im just deaf? At 09:04 PM 9/29/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Mat: >What sound card are you using? you should b

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2002-09-29 Thread Neal Stuntz
Mat: What sound card are you using? you should be able to go into the multimeidia/audio/sound section, one of those, i'm a BSD user, and just select your sound card. If you have a SB Live!, Live! 5.1, or Audigy Live, you need to select the EMU10K1 driver. Hope that helps some, i'm sure you

Public Certificate Authority? was Re: Guns = encryption was Re: [brlug-general] Re: Installing Gentoo:Buying a Gun was Re: Re: [brlug-general] tweaking the desktop

2002-09-29 Thread Dustin Puryear
quot; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: >Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 11:42 AM >Subject: Re: Public Certificate Authority? was Re: Guns = encryption was Re: >[brlug-general] Re: Installing Gentoo:Buying a Gun was Re: Re: >[brlug-general] tweaking the desktop > > > > We aren'

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2002-09-29 Thread Mat Branyon
yep... i did all that, many many times... followed allthe instructions do i have to specifcally and manually make the module for the sound card? --mat At 10:26 PM 9/27/2002 -0500, you wrote: >did you run 'make menuconfig' i belive it is and configure your kernel to >include your sound card? > >Ma

Public Certificate Authority? was Re: Guns = encryption was Re: [brlug-general] Re: Installing Gentoo:Buying a Gun was Re: Re: [brlug-general] tweaking the desktop

2002-09-29 Thread Larry Braud
AIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 11:42 AM Subject: Re: Public Certificate Authority? was Re: Guns = encryption was Re: [brlug-general] Re: Installing Gentoo:Buying a Gun was Re: Re: [brlug-general] tweaking the desktop > We aren't technically a non-profit organ

Public Certificate Authority? was Re: Guns = encryption was Re: [brlug-general] Re: Installing Gentoo:Buying a Gun was Re: Re: [brlug-general] tweaking the desktop

2002-09-29 Thread Dustin Puryear
At 05:56 AM 9/29/2002 -0700, you wrote: >I'm definitely interested. Would you be willing to >head up the effort to evaluate that and eventually >registering us? I'll start reading up on it as well. Nobody register anything please. For now, let's just gather the information and then see where we n

Public Certificate Authority? was Re: Guns = encryption was Re: [brlug-general] Re: Installing Gentoo:Buying a Gun was Re: Re: [brlug-general] tweaking the desktop

2002-09-29 Thread Dustin Puryear
We aren't technically a non-profit organization. Well, that is if the Liberty Alliance means "non-profit organization" as an organization that is registered with the state as a non-profit or not-for-profit organization? I wonder. Sounds interesting though. We would need someone to read all of th

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2002-09-29 Thread John Hebert
I'm definitely interested. Would you be willing to head up the effort to evaluate that and eventually registering us? I'll start reading up on it as well. Thanks, John Hebert --- Tim Fournet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just noticed that Liberty Alliance membership is > free to non-profit > or

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2002-09-29 Thread Tim Fournet
I just noticed that Liberty Alliance membership is free to non-profit organizations? Would BRLUG count as such an organization to them? and if so, would the group be interested in filling out the membership kit and joining? -Tim

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2002-09-29 Thread Tim Fournet
My guess is there is some process involved in getting added to the list of "well-known" CAs that applications such as mail user agents and web browsers know to look up against. That being done, it would require a grass-roots type of web of trust to validate public keys, such as what Thawte's p

[brlug-general] Re: Installing Gentoo:Buying a Gun was Re: Re: [brlug-general] tweaking the desktop

2002-09-28 Thread Larry Braud
PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 6:57 PM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Re: Installing Gentoo:Buying a Gun was = Re: Re: [brlug-general] tweaking the desktop *neal wakes up from his hang over* uh um, i was to drunk to reply ;) i voted for George Clinton Gore the = 3rd

[brlug-general] Re: Installing Gentoo:Buying a Gun was Re: Re: [brlug-general] tweaking the desktop

2002-09-28 Thread Neal Stuntz
--080800060201040406020906 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit *neal wakes up from his hang over* uh um, i was to drunk to reply ;) i voted for George Clinton Gore the 3rd last night. Doug Riddle wrote: >No one commented on my

Public Certificate Authority? was Re: Guns = encryption was Re: [brlug-general] Re: Installing Gentoo:Buying a Gun was Re: Re: [brlug-general] tweaking the desktop

2002-09-28 Thread Dustin Puryear
At 11:19 AM 9/28/2002 -0700, you wrote: >I guess I had assumed that there were plenty, but >immediately after stating that, I realize that is the >problem. > >Wouldn't the Liberty Alliance be the best organization >to set up a CA? The "success" of a CA is that it is >well-known, given the technical

[brlug-general] Re: Installing Gentoo:Buying a Gun was Re: Re: [brlug-general] tweaking the desktop

2002-09-28 Thread Dustin Puryear
At 12:54 PM 9/28/2002 -0500, you wrote: >On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 08:26, Dustin Puryear wrote: > > Let's please not get into this conversation. There are many people that > > believe in gun control in this country, and many that don't. This doesn't > > mean either are "extreme" anything, they just hav

Guns = encryption was Re: [brlug-general] Re: Installing Gentoo:Buying a Gun was Re: Re: [brlug-general] tweaking the desktop

2002-09-28 Thread Dustin Puryear
At 11:41 AM 9/28/2002 -0500, you wrote: >What I'd really like to see is a free, community-run Certificate >Authority. I haven't been able to find any such thing in the few searches >I've done, but it just seems odd that none would exist yet. A CA is a >central authority for validating public key

Guns = encryption was Re: [brlug-general] Re: Installing Gentoo:Buying a Gun was Re: Re: [brlug-general] tweaking the desktop

2002-09-28 Thread Dustin Puryear
This is a good point. As in many situations, the needs of the government can conflict with the needs of the people. Oh, and I do like the idea of a PGP key exchange. I rarely use PGP myself, but I have it setup for when I do use it. (Again, not often.) There was a joke article somewhere where "

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2002-09-28 Thread Doug Riddle
No one commented on my voting booths in bars suggestions. Is that hint? Doug --- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 12:54 PM 9/28/2002 -0500, you wrote: > >On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 08:26, Dustin Puryear wrote: > > > Let's please not get into this conversation. There are many > people th

[brlug-general] tweaking the desktop

2002-09-28 Thread ABBOTT MUJICA
well alls i gots to say is... whateva floats ya boat! On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Mat Branyon wrote: > i get sound working, but after i compile teh kernel, the modules dont wanna > work. its much easier in freebsd (even though it doesnt do it for you) > > --mat > > At 03:18 AM 9/27/2002 -0400, you w

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2002-09-28 Thread Shannon Roddy
On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 10:33, John Hebert wrote: > Step. It's a work laptop, and I work in a M$ shop that > I'm attempting to convert to the Alliance. :-) Don't worry, I have a 2000 partition on my laptop too... Just because I have to be able to reconcile my purchase card once a month at Caltech a

[brlug-general] Re: Installing Gentoo:Buying a Gun was Re: Re: [brlug-general] tweaking the desktop

2002-09-28 Thread Shannon Roddy
On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 08:26, Dustin Puryear wrote: > At 03:35 AM 9/28/2002 -0500, you wrote: > > > > > you should never be able to buy a gun in the time it > > > > takes for your o/s > > > > to install... > > > > --mat > > > >Please tell me we don't have any extreme liberal anti gun wackos on this

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2002-09-28 Thread John Hebert
Crap. Now you are putting the fear in me. I've been planning my escape from WinXP for a few months now, looks like I'll expedite it. :) John Hebert --- Shannon Roddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 10:33, John Hebert wrote: > > Step. It's a work laptop, and I work in a M$ shop

Guns = encryption was Re: [brlug-general] Re: Installing Gentoo:Buying a Gun was Re: Re: [brlug-general] tweaking the desktop

2002-09-28 Thread Tim Fournet
What I'd really like to see is a free, community-run Certificate Authority. I haven't been able to find any such thing in the few searches I've done, but it just seems odd that none would exist yet. A CA is a central authority for validating public keys and verifiying a big component of Public-

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2002-09-28 Thread John Hebert
I guess I had assumed that there were plenty, but immediately after stating that, I realize that is the problem. Wouldn't the Liberty Alliance be the best organization to set up a CA? The "success" of a CA is that it is well-known, given the technical requirements, from what I understand a CA to b

Guns = encryption was Re: [brlug-general] Re: Installing Gentoo:Buying a Gun was Re: Re: [brlug-general] tweaking the desktop

2002-09-28 Thread John Hebert
I'm a gun advocate myself, but I've been thinking for a while now that encryption is becoming just as important for the average citizen as owning a gun. The fabled "armed takeover" of the country via government force will never happen IMHO, but we are perfectly willing to hand over our rights to pr

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2002-09-28 Thread John Hebert
I think he meant to say: "It shouldn't take more time to install an OS than it takes to buy a gun." Although some M$ users should be required to pass a background check. ;) John Hebert --- Shannon Roddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > you should never be able to buy a gun in the > time it > >

[brlug-general] Re: Installing Gentoo:Buying a Gun was Re: Re: [brlug-general] tweaking the desktop

2002-09-28 Thread John Hebert
Step. It's a work laptop, and I work in a M$ shop that I'm attempting to convert to the Alliance. John Hebert --- Shannon Roddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > making me interested in trying it out. I'm getting > > pretty close to blowing away my WinXP partitions, > as > > BSOD is happening onc

[brlug-general] Re: Installing Gentoo:Buying a Gun was Re: Re: [brlug-general] tweaking the desktop

2002-09-28 Thread Dustin Puryear
At 03:35 AM 9/28/2002 -0500, you wrote: > > > you should never be able to buy a gun in the time it > > > takes for your o/s > > > to install... > > > --mat > >Please tell me we don't have any extreme liberal anti gun wackos on this >mailing list? As a matter of fact, I just purchased a Sig Mauser

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2002-09-28 Thread Doug Riddle
Point noted and taken... One email too late. Good call Dustin. Some arguments should never take place outside of bar or voting booth... Bars and voting booths.. I have an idea... I mean, could Florida be any worse, or Louisiana elect any more crooks if everyone was three sheets into the wind w

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2002-09-28 Thread Doug Riddle
Not to be a radical, but the populace should always be better armed than the goverment, it keeps them from being too stupid. My tag line has been the same for months, check it out (way at the bottom of the page), and check the archives. I have never gotten a negative comment on it. Doug --- Shan

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2002-09-28 Thread Chopin Cusachs
Out here the gun control advocates say "Buy ammo, not guns." You can always clean the old gun and use it again. My wife has the pistol my mother used to keep under her pillow. Choppy At 03:35 AM 9/28/02 -0500, Shannon wrote: > > > you should never be able to buy a gun in the time it > > > takes

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2002-09-28 Thread Shannon Roddy
> > you should never be able to buy a gun in the time it > > takes for your o/s > > to install... > > --mat Please tell me we don't have any extreme liberal anti gun wackos on this mailing list? As a matter of fact, I just purchased a Sig Mauser .45 caliber pistol today. http://www.sigarms.com

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2002-09-28 Thread Shannon Roddy
> making me interested in trying it out. I'm getting > pretty close to blowing away my WinXP partitions, as > BSOD is happening once a week, so I'll have lots of > drive space available then. > > John Hebert I'm disappointed, you actually have an XP partition...? Shame on you! -- Shannon Roddy

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2002-09-27 Thread Neal Stuntz
did you run 'make menuconfig' i belive it is and configure your kernel to include your sound card? Mat Branyon wrote: > i get sound working, but after i compile teh kernel, the modules dont > wanna work. its much easier in freebsd (even though it doesnt do it > for you) > > --mat > > At 03:18

[brlug-general] tweaking the desktop

2002-09-27 Thread Mat Branyon
i get sound working, but after i compile teh kernel, the modules dont wanna work. its much easier in freebsd (even though it doesnt do it for you) --mat At 03:18 AM 9/27/2002 -0400, you wrote: >just use fluxbox or windowmaker... mat if ya cant get sound werking in >linux sadly, your stupid! heh

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2002-09-27 Thread Alvaro Zuniga
> --- Neal Stuntz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > yes yes yes. freebsd is easier to figure out, and for some odd > > reason it > > works on the first go around. That would be with compatible hardware ofcourse. > >Yeah you do have to know how to > > configure > > some bootup files, login files, e

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2002-09-27 Thread Neal Stuntz
--040908090906050800020009 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit heh, it's called useless, unimportant, non-meaningful bragging, to prove a useless point, that is only based on my own opinion. neal :) Alvaro Zuniga wrote: >>--- Ne

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2002-09-27 Thread Brad Bendily
SLU runs linux in several cases. Webservers, firewalls, mysql databases. The only problem is it will be very tough to get all the desktops switche= d=20 over. People in the SLU community don't want to be told what to have on their desktops. But they're willing to go with the mainstream marketing so

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2002-09-27 Thread Doug Riddle
Well, it takes longer than a minute, more like ten, to recompile a Linux Kernel with Libranet's Debian, but it isn't complicated. I like FreeBSD, but as a desktop, for me, it makes a great server. I plan on setting up a BSD server if Santa Claus is good to me this year. Doug --- Neal Stuntz <[E

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2002-09-27 Thread Jason DeWitt
>On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 13:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>wrote: >> >> >>>>From: Mat Branyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>Date: 2002/09/27 Fri AM 11:28:01 EDT >>>>To: General@brlug.net >>>>Subject: Re: [brlug-general] tweaking the >

[brlug-general] tweaking the desktop

2002-09-27 Thread General@brlug.net
> > From: Mat Branyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2002/09/27 Fri AM 11:28:01 EDT > To: General@brlug.net > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] tweaking the desktop > > those things will definately help, but as far as tweaking kde, run the > control center, and go thought t

[brlug-general] tweaking the desktop

2002-09-27 Thread Alvaro Zuniga
> > what ive seen, is that a lot of times, linux tends to run teh desktop > > slow (maybe im doing something wrong) and ive never gotten the modules > > to compile after i recompile the kernel (following the instructions ste= p > > by step, i can never get freakin sound to work). I think there is

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2002-09-27 Thread Douglas Adams
n there > > --mat > > On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 13:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > > From: Mat Branyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Date: 2002/09/27 Fri AM 11:28:01 EDT > > > To: General@brlug.net > > > Subject: Re: [brlug-gene

[brlug-general] tweaking the desktop

2002-09-27 Thread Alvaro Zuniga
If you require Gnome or KDE functionality Window Maker is a good alternative. That is all I have ever used and I do not plan on changing it because of it offers great performance and elegant features. It is highly configurable and you have the choice of manual editing and at least two excellent GUI

[brlug-general] tweaking the desktop

2002-09-27 Thread Mat Branyon
gt; > > Date: 2002/09/27 Fri AM 11:28:01 EDT > > To: General@brlug.net > > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] tweaking the desktop > > > > those things will definately help, but as far as tweaking kde, run the > > control center, and go thought those tabs, that can spe

[brlug-general] tweaking the desktop

2002-09-27 Thread Mat Branyon
i vote we change brlug to the baton rouge freebsd user group :) not really opensource and freesoftware are opensource and freesoftware.. i support both equally --mat i will not start a flame war, i will not start a flame war On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 12:32, Neal Stuntz wrote: > yes yes yes. freebsd

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2002-09-27 Thread Neal Stuntz
--010305000706080800010303 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit yes yes yes. freebsd is easier to figure out, and for some odd reason it works on the first go around. Yeah you do have to know how to configure some bootup files, lo

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2002-09-27 Thread John Hebert
gt; > On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 13:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > > > > > From: Mat Branyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Date: 2002/09/27 Fri AM 11:28:01 EDT > > > To: General@brlug.net > > > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] tweaking the > des

[brlug-general] tweaking the desktop

2002-09-27 Thread Mat Branyon
those things will definately help, but as far as tweaking kde, run the control center, and go thought those tabs, that can speed your desktop up. what ive seen, is that a lot of times, linux tends to run teh desktop slow (maybe im doing something wrong) and ive never gotten the modules to compil

[brlug-general] tweaking the desktop

2002-09-27 Thread Doug Riddle
The first thing to do is recompile the kernel. Take out the support for things you do not need, add the things you do. This will sometimes make a drastic difference. The try one of the window managers like Fluxbox, or IceWM. You will improvement there too. Staya away from bloatware like Mozzila

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2002-09-27 Thread ABBOTT MUJICA
just use fluxbox or windowmaker... mat if ya cant get sound werking in linux sadly, your stupid! heh i currently use fluxbox and it runs like a charm but there is something you guys might like to try out www.directfb.org it supports transparency in X its rather nice when your multitasking on a

[brlug-general] tweaking the desktop

2002-09-26 Thread Douglas Adams
Awesome, seems like there's several SLU guys on this list. I'm a student and I work on the MATRICS team doing tech support, fixing hardware problems, things like that. What do you guys do? Be nice if slu had more linux boxes. Right now we have linux on all of the computers in the computer scien

[brlug-general] tweaking the desktop

2002-09-26 Thread Brad Bendily
I was reading some post on slashdot and they spoke of tweaking the linux desktop to get faster/better results. In windows XP there is about 20 items to turn off to get the desktop smoother. (I know, I know, XP har har, but well, I support about 1500 users of windows OSs and well SLU has just de