Re: [newbie] What to do with old CDs

2002-06-03 Thread Dwight Hines
I give mine to our local community education centre. Last Christmas the nursery had a ball making tree decorations, and sticking the CDs on paper plates for xmas parties. I even got a hand made card (by 3 yr olds) saying thank you :-)) Heather We need to keep this thread going. It's the

Re: [newbie] What to do with old CDs

2002-06-03 Thread Dwight Hines
You can't just nuke one, said Oppenheimer. The support group that helps people who keep optimizing their hard drives with Norton Speed disk just to see all those lines and colors flashing all around will probably be of some help. d P.S. If you think this is the type of thing that might

Re: [newbie] What to do with old CDs

2002-06-01 Thread Dwight Hines
Over the course of two years, I've been tossing old CDs in a pile. I'm guessing there are about 100 now. Any interesting ideas as to what I could do with them? Miark First, be sure your wife is not at home. The children will love this but it is not something you want them doing

Re: [newbie] Mandrake PPC question

2002-05-28 Thread Dwight Hines
These are great basic newby questions and I'd like to know the answers too. Please keep a notebook of why you're making certain decisions as you go along and let us all read it as you go along. What mac system and hardware are you running? d Hello all, I'm considering either Mandrake 8.2 or

Re: [newbie] Re: Mandrake PPC question

2002-05-28 Thread Dwight Hines
I'm running Powerbook G3/400, system 9.2.2 with 128 meg ram and 6 gig internal. I have a backup of 20 gig on the firewire. I can add another firewire drive but want to avoid that expense if possible. My objectives for going to Linux are: 1) It's open source. 2) It's more robust; 3) It is more

[newbie] Digest version of Newbie available

2002-05-27 Thread Dwight Hines
I've just subscribed and will only be able to work on the linux on my powerbook G3 firewire after hours and on weekends. I have not yet installed or obtained the software. My plan is to read the digests for a while and then when I have some time go for the installation. First question: I have

Re: [newbie] Digest version of Newbie available

2002-05-27 Thread Dwight Hines
In general, Linux requires two partitions: one for / and one for swap. I've heard that if you have enough RAM you can do without a swap, but I don't know if that's true. Anyone ever done that? Further, most people install with 3 or more partitions. Mine right now has /, swap, /usr and

[newbie] LimeWire problem

2001-08-13 Thread Dwight Lowie
tried all 3 start procedures as outlined in LimeWire's readme file. They all yield the same result. Any suggestions as to how to make this program work properly? Dwight Lowie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Installation Error

2001-05-16 Thread Dwight Follick
Hi I've recently been trying to load Mandrake 8.0 on my machine (I'm fricken sick of Windoze) and when I'm in the installation trying to configure the XFree86 4.03 part, it tests out my card and it freezes when it switches screen modes or something - the screen goes black. My card is a SiS 630

[newbie] md5sum's again..

2001-04-24 Thread Dwight
Ok, woudl the fact I changed the name of the ISO change the sum? 043ea0b220833fa209920ac0d2d0bd41 from the site(linuxiso.org) cf3c53088c3fb70361141fc9aef73efc from the local file Take Care, Dwight Daynotes, Columns, Tips, message boards, we try to give you it as much as we can. http

[newbie] MD5SUMS

2001-04-20 Thread Dwight
Ok, this file appears to be a text file, and it says it is sums for ISO's to ensure they are all correct. The only problem is I haven't been able to find out how you test it to verify this string. Anyone got that info? Take Care, Dwight Daynotes, Columns, Tips, message boards, we try to give

[newbie] list help

2001-04-14 Thread Dwight
I want to receive a digest version, instead of one for every pos made. I know redhat lists have this, but do the mandrake ones? if so, where? Take Care, Dwight Daynotes, Columns, Tips, message boards, we try to give you it as much as we can. http://www.geekworld.ca Public Key is http