How the hell do I get this thing to work?!?
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
**Rock on with glowing glass**
-Original Message-
From: Seth Gibson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sunday, November 28, 19
reate some kind of
overkill security system."
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
**Rock on with glowing glass**
-Original Message-
From: Mike Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tuesday, November 23,
Oh, now you've got my juices flowing. When is ground not zero volts? Of
course this has nothing to do with Linux, but I'm really curious.
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
**Rock on with glowing glass**
-Original Message-
From: Lyndon L
volts. a negative voltage, is as pleasant to
the touchee as a positive one. Take it from a veteran who has been many
times bitten.
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
*Confirmed Linux Newbie*
**If it's a dog eat dog world,
then I must be a fire hydrant.**
Try WP8
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
**Rock on with glowing glass**
-Original Message-
From: Mike Fieschko [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 12:29 PM
Subject: [newbie
boot.
Other than that, there's nothing much I can say.
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
**Rock on with glowing glass**
-Original Message-
From: Mark Ramsey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Saturday, November 13,
Most of my audio equipment has these glass and mica thingies called "vacuum
tubes". Very popular during World War 2, You know, the one where President
Johnson freed the slaves.
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
**If a person with mu
. It's not the easiest learning curve around. But, once you get a
handle on it, I'm sure you'll love it. I know I do.
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
*Confirmed Linux Newbie*
**I feel like I'm diagonally parked
in a parallel universe.**
ys. I seem to recall a freeware browser, but the name
escapes me right now. (Not enough coffee, yet.)
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
*Confirmed Linux Newbie*
**I feel like I'm diagonally parked
in a parallel universe.**
. :)
snip
--Well, when all those CD's come, then, I'll be selling them! G BTW, I
too have suffered the sign up error syndrome. Remember back when we all
considered things like black and white TV or power windows to be the
height of technology. Look how far we've come.
David P. Greenberg
Bitco
this one for you. What I can tell you is that EZ-drive puts a small
_non-dos_ partition on the first sector of the drive it controls. This
partition can be read by dos, but appears as errors to scandisk and
defrag. I believe that it's the first command to load during boot up.
David P. Greenberg
x installs, but I've had plenty of Windows ones. It will be
interesting to find out how Linux compares in those situations.
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
*Confirmed Linux Newbie*
**Dogs wonder why each week
we take our best stuff outside
and let
On Thu, 07 Oct 1999, Manny Styles wrote:
- Original Message -
From: David P. Greenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Brian J. Babiuk [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 11:01 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] (In)Compatible Hardware
On Mon, 04
over to Linux would be quite difficult for her.
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
*Confirmed Linux Newbie*
**Never use a big word when
substituting a diminutive one would
suffice.**
BILL
GATES!!! You bet it does. Anybody else out there who doesn't want their
computer telling them what files they have to save, know how to get rid of
this damn thing?
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
*Confirmed Linux Newbie*
**Never
of a shell, so I ended up uninstalling it. (Try
and get _that_ mess out of your windows registry!)
Oh well, thanks again, and we can all get back to things like
Kcharset: wrong charset and How do I get a parallel port zip+
100 autodect to work? .
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Se
also be the last one to ever say, there's no
such thing as a lemon!
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
*Confirmed Linux Newbie*
**Never use a big word when
substituting a diminutive one would
suffice.**
PROTECTED]
--I found the same thing. The update resets the inittab script. you can
get into rl-5 by typing startx then (as Root) go to /etc/inittab and edit
the default back to rl-5.
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
*Confirmed Linux Newbie*
*
to be no more than a highly intoxicated chimp).
Regards,
Frustrated Sevatio
--Here we go again! I suggest we start a 12 step group; "Hi, I'm David,
and I can't install Star Office."
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
*Confirmed L
to be no more than a highly intoxicated chimp).
Regards,
Frustrated Sevatio
--BTW, just for giggles and grins, I decided to try it again this weekend.
I downloaded the whole thing again and tried, again with some of the
suggestions I recieved from here, and still nothing.
David P. Greenberg
On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, Brian J. Babiuk wrote:
snip
Packard Bell computers of any
vintage. snip I have never experienced anything
more likely to drop its MBR or a few clusters off the disk than these
babies.
--I agree! Packard Bell, the Star Office of Computers g
ROTFLMAO!!!
David P
not Netscape. Axalon, although habitually a bit terse is usually a
big help to just about everyone. (-:
Alan
--So perhaps all this would explain why the Mandrake update doesn't work
for Netscape!
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
*Confirmed Li
, without getting the
whole Communicator seems to work OK. I've had no freeze ups with it, and I
actually am using it quite a bit.
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
*Confirmed Linux Newbie*
**Never use a big word when
substituting a diminutive one would
suffice.**
begins to load. BTW, Yes I've searched HOW-TO's on this with no luck. :(
Thanks,
Valheru
--OOH! OOH! One _I_ can answer. At lilo boot type linux 3.
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
*Confirmed Linux Newbie*
**Never use a big word when
su
Hi. Ax (love that name!) I believe so. It's the one that came with my
Mandrake 6.0, hot off the press in may of this year.
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
**The falcon has heard the falconer**
-Original Message-
From: Axalon Bloodst
In HTML no less. What a Genious!
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
**The falcon has heard the falconer**
-Original Message-
From: Christopher John Cogan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wednesday, Septembe
AHHH!!! more HTML
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
**The falcon has heard the falconer**
-Original Message-
From: Javi Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thursday, September 30, 1999 10:45 PM
NEWBIE REMOVE
On Fri, 01 Oct 1999, PaulHoy wrote:
we are all "genious" in our own way :)...
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David P. Greenberg
Sent: October 1, 1999 6:55 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Re:
--Hi
communication format and this group. NEWBIE@ RULES You guys
are great!!!
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
*Confirmed Linux Newbie*
**Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.
Teach him how to fish, and
he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.
it was a reinstall. I did find out, however, that you can
save your /home directory during a reinstall (unlike dos) so you won't
loose anything.
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
*Confirmed Linux Newbie*
**Give a man a fish and he will eat
because if us Linux users didn't
like challenges we'd still be using Windows. Has anybody out there gotten
this thing to work? Please post a nice, dumb step by step for us newbies
out there, unwilling to concede.
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
*Confi
On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Steve Philp wrote:
"David P. Greenberg" wrote:
that command that gives you the startup processes
ntsysv, ya sissy! :)
--
Steve Philp
--Thanks Steve, what can I say?
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
*Co
to settle
with just putting on your old clunker at home.
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
*Confirmed Linux Newbie*
**Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.
Teach him how to fish, and
he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.
On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Bob Jackson wrote:
"David P. Greenberg" wrote:
--I agree with all but the sigs. I _love_ my sigs. Pleeease!!!
After several iterations we have four or five sigs cluttering the
question and it's answers. Makes it real hard to
follow what's going on. Leave t
me for being to
lazy to look it up in Linux in a Nutshell... and well you should!
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
*Confirmed Linux Newbie*
**Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.
Teach him how to fish, and
he will sit in a boat
--I agree with all but the sigs. I _love_ my sigs. Pleeease!!!
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
**The falcon has heard the falconer**
-Original Message-
From: Ken Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Da
those who don't like the banter to delete it.
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
*Confirmed Linux Newbie*
**It was gonna be done in Septober,
then Octember, now it's Novunder.**
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Ripcrd6 wrote:
-Original Message-
From: David P. Greenberg
snip
--I contribute to some of the humorous threads, and may even be
responsible for
a few, but I try to read all the posts, and see many questions being
answered
and even some dialogs being
if it
wasn't. What should I do to get rid of these errors?
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
*Confirmed Linux Newbie*
**It was gonna be done in Septober,
then Octember, now it's Novunder.**
green OK's. If no red FAILED's show up, you're probably
good to go.
BTW Sorry about the Windows crack!!!!
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
*Confirmed Linux Newbie*
**It was gonna be done in Septober,
then Octember, now it's Novunder.**
reason all straight and neat in the original file.
--
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
*Confirmed Linux Newbie*
**It was gonna be done in Septober,
then Octember, now it's Novunder.**
Guys, /dev/fd0 now works in both msdos and etc2 formats in both Root and User.
Don't ask me what I did to fix it. OK, so now just /dev/fd1 is still down, but
I'm a little gunshy to try it again without some pointers.
--
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Ind
the answers one at a time
if it will be easier on y'all. BTW, I _have_ tried to find this info in the
manuals and on the net.
--
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
*Confirmed Linux Newbie*
**The pessimist sees the glass as
half empty.
The opt
and changing
partitions and stuff.,...but then again, the drive letters wouldn't change,
would they? hmmm. maybe it's worth a try but if someone can figure out
something better, please let me know. I'll hold off for now. Anyway thanks
again for the advice.
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Se
a
problem before.
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
**The falcon has heard the falconer**
-Original Message-
From: Frank Guidara [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Friday, September 10, 1999 3:52 AM
Subject: R
general suggestion. That helped
me get back in the saddle.
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
*Confirmed Linux Newbie*
**The pesimist sees the glass as
half empty.
The optimist sees it as half full,
but to the engineer
it's just too big.**
e, I love that, it´s cool. :-)
Gustavo Viola
--Hi Gustavo,
No EZ-Bios here, although thats an interesting point as I've used it before on
some Win32 installs I've done on older machines. We actually have somewhat of
a love hate relationship. I'm curious about this Disk Drawers thing however.
with that either. Please
help, as I really want to get my Linux back
Thanks in advance
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
**The falcon has heard the falconer**
installed. No instant
desktop icons or anything. No, I think we're still safe in our geek status. What
I find really wonderful about Mandrake 6 is it opens the door for us and gives
us a start point to begin learning an otherwise virtually impossible system.
Yet another two cents worth.
David P. Green
is downloading like no tommorow, but the
progress bars don't move. after about 5 and a half MB I get an error message,
then the updater freezes up and won't kill. Hmmm. Wasupwidat?
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
*Confirmed Linux Newbie*
**Girls are like pi
Just create your /, swap, etc. and you'll be good to go.
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
*Confirmed Linux Newbie*
**Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright,
they're grand. -- Benny Hill**
and very austere config adventure
before you can actually read your mail. The good thing is that all your friends
will think you're a Super-Geek when they see you reading mail on it. I still
think that so far the KDE mail reader is the easiest and best.
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
occasions even caused me to have to reinstall Linux (although, a more
experienced user could probably have repaired the situation). Anyway, just my
two cents worth...Please be merciful.
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
*Confirmed Linux Newbi
of time on the NG's looking for
help in learning Linux, and so far I think this list is absolutely awesome!
It's really refreshing to have a forum to go to as a newbie where people are
helpful without being condescending.
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Ind
it to come up, but not
play anything?
David P. Greenberg Bitco Electronics
"In Service to the Recording Industry"
*Confirmed Linux Newbie*
**Girls are like pianos. When they're not
upright,they're grand. -- Benny Hill**
request the light bulb FAQ.
1 to propose new alt.change.lite.bulb newsgroup.
47 to say this is just what alt.physic.cold_fusion was meant for, leave it
here.
143 votes for alt.lite.bulb.
(sorry about the size of this but I thought it would be aprapos, and it's
S true) LOL
David P. Greenberg
OK, but you should know that you'll never be able to get back on. If you
really want off you need to stand on one leg, during a full moon in any
month that ends in "J" , and chant "Cry baby, Cry" 13 Times.
Signed,
God!
David P. Greenberg
Bitco Electronics
"In Service
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