Re: [newbie] MODEM

2001-09-19 Thread Dean Morrell
of which you can get for WELL UNDER USD$100 (and if you are looking for used items on eBay, then you can probably find a beaut for approx usd$25). Thats just MY USD$0.02... David Charles On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Dean Morrell wrote: If you have an available ISA slot, check out USRobotics

Re: [newbie] Off Mailing list

2001-08-31 Thread Dean Morrell
At 14:19 8/26/2001 -0400, you wrote: milim1 wrote: How do you get off the mailing list ? See http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Test/UnsubscribingFromMailingLists. You can also check the headers of every email from this list. Just saw it there myself. Dean

Re: [newbie] sound card and cd player

2001-08-31 Thread Dean Morrell
At 16:49 8/26/2001 -0400, you wrote: OK. What is the difference between on-board sound and a sound card? SW On-board sound is just an el-cheapo sound card built into the motherboard. They can almost always be turned off in the BIOS. This is advantageous because many folk like to upgrade to

[newbie] Re: Did someone say 'bash script'?

2001-08-24 Thread Dean Morrell
OK for i in `ls /dirname`; the phrase in backquotes will become the output of the program called--a list of files the for statement is a for statement as in so many program languages. i is just a variable that will be assigned each of the filenames in succession. /dirname is the

Re: [newbie] File Renaming Perks: Did someone say 'bash script'?

2001-08-23 Thread Dean Morrell
This is a newbie list right? [okay, good] I don't want to be too embarassed to ask a stuped question. Would someone be willing to explain what this does? I mean each character has significance, right? So what is it? This reminds me of the random characters thrown up on my screen after

RE: [newbie] removing boot manager

2001-08-17 Thread Dean Morrell
as is on mine. HTH Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dean Morrell Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 1:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] removing boot manager I installed Mandrake 8.0 a couple days ago

[newbie] modem

2001-08-17 Thread Dean Morrell
I've got an old 56k winmodem. Any recommendations for a replacement that'll work with Mandrake 8? Price is an issue... Dean -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. - Voltaire Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] removing boot manager

2001-08-17 Thread Dean Morrell
I installed Mandrake 8.0 a couple days ago. What a ride. I installed it on a machine with Win98se already running. Now, I like the os, but I don't want a boot manager on this system. I'd much rather boot from a floppy to access the os. Can someone help with removing the boot manager and