RE: [newbie] File fragmentation?

2003-07-10 Thread Jonathan Shilling
-Original Message- From: Brooks Family [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 11:36 AM To: Newbie Subject: [newbie] File fragmentation? How does linux handle file fragmentation and, thus, defragmentation? Linux and MS windows differ greatly on this. If

RE: [newbie] NEW EMAIL LIST INSTRUCTIONS

2003-07-09 Thread Jonathan Shilling
-Original Message- From: Todd Slater [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 4:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] NEW EMAIL LIST INSTRUCTIONS Didn't have a chance to start filter yet. On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 03:00:44PM -0400, Lyvim Xaphir

RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: The SCO UNIX Lawsuit (from Windows .NET Magazine)

2003-06-11 Thread Jonathan Shilling
Interesting to note that SCO states the code stolen is from sys V. If I rememeber correctly system V could only run on a single processor system, and that much of its code was stolen from Berkley and FreeBSD. Anyone else care to look back to the case where one of the previous owners of the Unix

RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: The SCO UNIX Lawsuit (from Windows .NET M agazine)

2003-06-11 Thread Jonathan Shilling
M agazine) I think it was ATT who try Berkley and win and developer had to change about 10 lines of code so thing like that. On Wednesday 11 Jun 2003 1:47 pm, Jonathan Shilling wrote: Interesting to note that SCO states the code stolen is from sys V. If I rememeber correctly

RE: [newbie] is this the last mandrake?

2003-03-20 Thread Jonathan Shilling
Robin, I think the XP in M$'s latest OS endevour is actually a shortened version of XPOS ie. eXtreme Piece Of S**t :D l8tr -Original Message- From: robin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 4:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] is this the

RE: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Jonathan Shilling
Dianne, You may need to go a step further and check your hardware connections. Specifically the ribbon cable from your IDE controller to the CD-rom drive itself. Check to see if this cable has come loose at all, if it has, then this could be your problem. From what you described in your

RE: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-06 Thread Jonathan Shilling
Dianne, You may want to try disconnecting the cd-rw drive and leaving only the cd-rom as secondary master, there may be a conflict between the two drives. If that works, check the device jumper settings on the two drives and make sure that they are not both trying to claim the master

RE: [newbie] Autocomplete (was COMPLETE Newbie - To Dennis and Jonathan)

2003-03-06 Thread Jonathan Shilling
Dianne, I would have to agree with an earlier post by Adolfo, return the computer to the store you purchased it at. It should be working, but it apparently has some interesting issues with it. - Jonathan -Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday,

RE: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - Update

2003-03-06 Thread Jonathan Shilling
Et, I've loaded linux on Gateway servers, and laptops with little to no problems, was unaware that it would void the warranty, interesting... -Jonathan -Original Message- From: et [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 12:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [newbie] VMware problem

2002-08-12 Thread Jonathan Shilling
Have you tried installing any other OS? Perhaps an installation of Win9x? Or maybe FreeBSD? I have used VMware with Win2k, I have also loaded FreeBSD, with little to no problem, under VMware. One thing to remember about Windows systems, they like to reboot your computer, and that maybe whats

RE: Jonathan Shilling RE: [newbie] VMware problem

2002-08-12 Thread Jonathan Shilling
12, 2002 2:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Att: Jonathan Shilling RE: [newbie] VMware problem Thanks for your help Jonathan, I tried install others OS, Win98/Me and Linux. No problems, all this versions was installed. But now, must start my MCSE, just because my company needs this, and study

RE: [newbie] Civilme petition - PETITION???.

2002-07-31 Thread Jonathan Shilling
John, I have a question for you, how much would YOU pay a geek? $9.00/hr, perhaps? Of course a geek doesn't need sunshine right? Yes I live in a cave, yes I can setup a Linux distro in a short time, yes I do all my office apps under Linux, yes I ONLY touch a windows box when I

RE: [newbie] NO DESKTOP ICONS IN GNOME

2002-07-25 Thread Jonathan Shilling
I've had that problem before, see if you can start Nautilus manually. I know that worked for me. As for windows managers, I often prefer Enlightenment over a lot of the others, but it does not use desktop icons. Hope that helps. -Original Message- From: g2 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

RE: [newbie] WD drives and Linux/UNIX

2002-07-25 Thread Jonathan Shilling
I find it interesting that I use WD drives, and have not had a problem. (Knock on wood.) -Original Message- From: civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 5:08 PM To: Jonathan Dlouhy Cc: Mandrake Newbie List Subject: Re: [newbie] WD drives and Linux/UNIX