I don't mean to start a flame, but I am curious if others find Red Hat
8.0 desktop a little too cute. I can understand why it is nice for
people just moving to Linux from Windows, but the default desktop has a
feel to it that seems a little too cute and keeps one at a distance from
the meat
Hi all,
I just thought that I would pass this along: My DSL provider, DirecTV
DSL is going under, so I had to find a new one. I decided to go with
Speakeasy, since they seem to be fairly stable (for now). I was flipping
through their FAQ, and I came accross this entry:
I don't mean to start a flame, but I am curious if others find Red Hat
8.0 desktop a little too cute. I can understand why it is nice for
people just moving to Linux from Windows, but the default desktop has a
feel to it that seems a little too cute and keeps one at a distance from
the meat
On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 09:58, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
Hi all,
[snip]
I guess the DSL services are more accepting of
Linux users then the cable companies are.
My experience has shown that it depends on the provider - but there
certainly seem to be more Linux friendly DSL providers than cable.
I just wanted to add to what was said by saying that not all DSL providers
are Linux friendly
I wonder just how legal this is.. I know some places are like that.
There's a lot of stuff that spreads around that isn't true. I'm sure Ben
B. can correct me on this if I'm wrong but for the longest
On 24 Dec 2002, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
Hi all,
I just thought that I would pass this along: My DSL provider, DirecTV
DSL is going under, so I had to find a new one. I decided to go with
Speakeasy, since they seem to be fairly stable (for now). I was flipping
through their FAQ, and I came
I saw this post on BLUG and found it funny, not to mention Penguin related.
Jeff
-- Start Forwarded Message --
I got this from the newsletter I'm laying out. It's a guide for anyone
in PR that has to get a real live penguin for a press conference:
A Beginners Guide to Penguins at
It seems that I recall several times in the past
that I've stumbled across packages that allow you to
rig your system such that various file operations
are relayed to code in userland rather than (or in
addition to) being handled by the kernel. It seems
that I recall one that (with minimal
A few more-or-less random comments...
Most ISPs (DSL, cable, or otherwise) don't support Linux. Some don't
support Macintosh. If you check your TOS[1], you'll find they don't support
those off-the-shelf NAT routers, home networks, or Windows application
software, either. You're free to
Another promising, if somewhat immature (in terms of
infrastructure), technology is fixed wireless [5]. ISP puts
a tower on a hill.
You hang a wok on your wall.
Been there, done that.. Wok's don't work well for antennas because
they're to deep
I use it on my laptop and don't really care. I'm not into pretty GUI
things for the most part, so it doesn't bother me. I don't use my laptop
enough to bother changing it. Though, I do have my root desktop very
simple: no window manager and a xterm as the controlling process.
On my
I have SDSL with G4 Communications out of Manchester (I *think*). The
service is good and they don't use PPP, as Verizon does.
They use DHCP, but have it set up so that your NIC always gets the same
IP address. (They do this by hard coding it for MAC address.)
I had to have a circuit installed
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, at 6:19pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My raid setup used to work fine, but just recently the system started
hanging.
What did you change? :-)
Software-wise? ... nothing. One day the system just started locking up.
I
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