Jerry James Haumberger wrote:
>
> I understand that early PC hard drives had to have
> their heads parked when shut down,
A blast from the past. Yes, indeed, pre-IDE drives
(two data cables) needed parking. Over the years I've
had several of these monsters. I even installed a small
Linux o
Response below.
At 09:48 PM 12/9/02 +0100, James Miller wrote:
I've begun using Debian after having spent most of my Linux "career"
(all 18 month of it!) on mostly Mandrake and Red Hat. I've come to
really like Debian, especially the apt-get installation and update
routine. I'm considering defect
Daniel Peter Cavanagh wrote:
>
> I'd like to write a script that will run a command,
> and if successful run another command otherwise echo
> a message.
How about this:
fetchmail -su nofsk pop.vtown.com.au
case $? in 0) pine;;
*) echo failed fetch
I've begun using Debian after having spent most of my Linux "career"
(all 18 month of it!) on mostly Mandrake and Red Hat. I've come to
really like Debian, especially the apt-get installation and update
routine. I'm considering defecting to Debian. True, I was spared the
majority of Debian install
Hi,
I'd like to write a script that will run a command, and if successful
run another command otherwise echo a message.
This is what I have but it doesn't work (I've never written a bash
script before):
if [ `fetchmail -su nofsk pop.vtown.com.au` ]; then
pine
else
echo failed fetch
fi
C
Hi, folks --
Does Linux automatically lift the heads of a hard drive off
of the disk after some time of non-activity?
Does it also park the heads as a part of the shutdown process?
I understand that early PC hard drives had to have their heads
parked when shut down, but that the later hard drive
It depends.
james miller wrote:
>
> Let me pose the RAM question in another way to see if it can elicit a
> generic, "rule-of-thumb" response this way. If a person uses their
> computer as a sort of personal workstation using a fairly recent distro
> and requires that it have an Xwindows gui, usi
It depends.
james miller wrote:
>
> Let me pose the RAM question in another way to see if it can elicit a
> generic, "rule-of-thumb" response this way. If a person uses their
> computer as a sort of personal workstation using a fairly recent distro
> and requires that it have an Xwindows gui, usi
Ray Olszewski wrote:
>
> It's hard for me to think sensibly about what I'd do
> on a system with, say, 16 or 32 MB of RAM, because I
> can't seriously imagine setting up such a system as a
> workstation today
You might be surprised at the number of people today trying
to install Linux on comp
james miller wrote:
>
> Let me pose the RAM question in another way to see if
> it can elicit a generic, "rule-of-thumb" response
I'm happy to give you my personal "rule-of-thumb",
but that's all it is. It's not an absolute truth.
Every system gets at least 16mb of total memory.
So, a system
At 01:22 PM 12/9/02 -0500, james miller wrote:
Let me pose the RAM question in another way to see if it can elicit a
generic, "rule-of-thumb" response this way. If a person uses their
computer as a sort of personal workstation using a fairly recent distro
and requires that it have an Xwindows gui,
Let me pose the RAM question in another way to see if it can elicit a
generic, "rule-of-thumb" response this way. If a person uses their
computer as a sort of personal workstation using a fairly recent distro
and requires that it have an Xwindows gui, using applications like web
browsers, email
Hello Gents , One word , df . Hth , JimL
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> dashielljt wrote:
> > I've never tried this and have never heard of
> > any success with this idea either.
> I do not see the problem. It is easy to create a
> compressed archive file (let's call i
Wrong, the extract command in the second part would have to be tar xvf not
tar cvf.
Jude
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You're not asking any developer of tar that question, and I haven't
studied the program's source code so can't answer your questionn.
Jude
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