RE: [newbie] various issues

2005-03-01 Thread Martell, Larry
On Tue 3/1/2005 3:31 PM Lorin Pino wrote: > On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 22:17 +0200, Duncan Anderson wrote: >> Martell, Larry wrote: >> >> >On Monday 28 February 2005 09:26 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> > >> > >> >>Julie Sloan wrote: >

RE: [newbie] various issues

2005-03-01 Thread Martell, Larry
On Monday 28 February 2005 09:26 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Julie Sloan wrote: > > On Monday 28 February 2005 12:06 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > >>Now, what I would like to see sometime is changing from Windows 98 to > >> XP compaired to changing from 98 to Linux... > > > > What about it?

RE: [newbie] various issues

2005-03-01 Thread Martell, Larry
Julie Sloan wrote: >On Tuesday 01 March 2005 03:28 am, l_duvall wrote: >> As someone who once upon a time did full-time tech support for Windows 95 >> & 98, believe me, you can do as much damage in 95/98 as an ordinary user >> as you can as su in Linux, but 95/98 requires a lot less effort to do so

RE: [newbie] laptop batteries

2005-02-15 Thread Martell, Larry
Title: [newbie] laptop batteries Paul Kaplan wrote:> > Does anyone have a recommendation for a reliable, inexpensive source of> replacement laptop batteries? I've been very happy with:   http://www.notebook-battery-for-less.com/     -larry

RE: [newbie] access to USB ports

2005-01-17 Thread Martell, Larry
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> >> Martell, Larry wrote: >> Anyway, here's my question: If I want to send data out a >> serial port, I can just do "cat file > /dev/ttya". How can I do >> the same thing with a USB port? I don't see any entries in

[newbie] access to USB ports

2005-01-17 Thread Martell, Larry
I don't know if this is a newbie question or not, but I figured I'd start here. Just to establish standing, let me say that I am a newbie to Linux and Intel, but I have over 25 years experience with Unix on many non-Intel platforms.   Anyway, here's my question: If I want to send data out a