Re[2]: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT

2000-08-23 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey Larry, Since this mail was probably directed mostly to me, I'll try to reply to it. > I can hardly believe this thread. There is no way in hell that any > os company (even ms) can have enough time and resources to write > drivers for all the hardware out there. I repeat ... not even MS. As

Re[2]: [newbie] Thanx

2000-08-23 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey Mark, > how ya doing today. your message is repeating itself. I think > there's an echo on the server, or a BIG hicup. didn't get anything > all night and now...well, now getting some old messages. weird, huh? Hmm, well I can't say if something's wrong with the server since I might have sent

Re[2]: [newbie] OT BSOD (fwd, fun)

2000-08-22 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey Jim, > Oh, I don't know. I have two machines here - one Windows and one Linux. > The Windows machine has to be rebooted every three to four days because > of memory leaks (as in poor memory management on the part of Windows). > The Linux box runs just fine from one power failure to the next >

[newbie] Thanx

2000-08-21 Thread Roman Korcek
Hi, I am sorry that I broke many threads off without saying anything (which I should), so please let me correct this with saying a big THANX to all who responded to my emails. THANX :-) Roman

Re[2]: [newbie] OT BSOD (fwd, fun)

2000-08-21 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey Patti, > Also, in reply to all the others in the Windoze vs Linux and tires > and hardware etc I just have to add my $1.00 (inflation you know) To > all of you who say how easy Windoze is and fast -- are you taking > into account all the time it takes for rebooting EVERY time you add > a new p

Re[2]: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT

2000-08-21 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey Eric, >> >> Well if 80% of the cars support it then I guess I will choose the car >> >> which supports the biggest variety of tires. > Crazy, totally crazy ! > I don't want tires used by 80% of the manufactors of cars. > I want GOOD tires. My live depend of them. > And if they are FREE, I wan

Re[8]: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT

2000-08-18 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey, >>> If you buy a new tire for your car and the car starts pulling so >>> bad that you can't keep it on the road, who is to blame? Don't >>> blame the car manufacturer just because the car doesn't support >>> whatever tire you want to buy. >> Well if 80% of the cars support it then I guess I

Re[6]: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT

2000-08-18 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey, >> And Mike is right about the platforms, too. >> OSs (plural) for the x86 platform should be able to >> support all the hardware available for the platform. > But it isn't the responsibility of the OS company to support all > hardware. All hardware for the x86 platform should support ev

Re[2]: [newbie] Win Modems Again!

2000-08-18 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey Ed, >> I suppose people cringe when they hear about problems with win modems, >> but I need help desperatley. I want to convert fully over to Linux, >> but I need my modem up and running first. Whenever I try and connect >> I get a modem busy signal. Even when I change the device from the >

Re[6]: [newbie] OT ld-linux.so.

2000-08-18 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey Tom, >> H... now tell me - how can a program make a CPU hotter ? By >> accessing more registers or being L1 and L2 cache intensive or what ? >> Because until today I considered what you said being science-fiction. >If you visit the numerous hardware and overclocking sites on the > Ne

Re: [newbie] ssh2 for Mandrake?

2000-08-16 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey Ronald, > A friend of mine wants me to setup ssh2 so that I can logon to his site > remotely. I went to www.ssh.com and grabbed the non-commercial version > of ssh. However, it gave me the following error message: I am not sure, but maybe you should try OpenSSH ? I think it was www.openssh.

Re[2]: [newbie] *delicate cough*

2000-08-12 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey Carjam, > Well, win95 isn't very much dos, but I will admid the same dos core is > underneath all the gui memory useing stuff. I didn't know about the pkzip > thing, but I know laplink 95 will not run under 98. Hmm, it works perfectly for me... Roman

Re: [newbie] *delicate cough*

2000-08-10 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey Kathleen, > Also, Outlook sux. :P I have to use it at work. Why do you have to use it at work ? Can't you download another email client ? Roman

Re[2]: [newbie] Gnapster (continued)...

2000-08-10 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey Kit, >> > yeah, but what about the people whos livelyhoods are earned by those >> > songs? and what about the people who hold the copyrights to those >> > songs. don't they deserve to have their material protected from being >> > stolen? that IS in effect what napster does. TAKE those songs a

Re: [newbie] Re: x-screensaver

2000-08-03 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey Jeff, > On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, patrick darcy wrote: >> >> its in the display settings. its the last one . its awesome, >> >> in kde click on the little monitors to the bottom right, >> go to screensavers and go for it > I agree. It is awesome. Does it have to be "random" or can you select

Re[2]: [newbie] speed (was About virusses (was firewalls))

2000-07-29 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey Greg, Well I am running at 33.6 asynchronous (means about 26.0 in real) and behind a firewall, so I guess I am perfectly safe. > Hey Hey Hey !!! I take offense at that remark! My sorry A$$ is running at 28.8! :) > --Greg >> >Actually the best protection is to have a sorry a$$ < 33,6

[newbie] PS/2 mouse weird behavior

2000-07-21 Thread Roman Korcek
Hi all, Since my last mail didn't make it to the list I am starting a new thread. I have a PS/2 mouse and it behaves weird in MDK7.0. For some time it works fine and then suddenly the cursor starts jumping around the screen and clicking randomly, then works normal again, and then again not and s

Re[2]: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-20 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey Patrick, > linux has > netscape, konquer, opera, mozilla to name a few. Opera isn't free and Mozilla is the successor of Netscape (at least it's trying to be). ;-) Roman

Re[2]: [Re: [newbie]Report on the Text v. HTML postings]

2000-07-20 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey Sridhar, > the ext2 filesystem. Just for reference, the WinDOS FAT32 filesystem has a > minimum cluster size of 4Kb. This means that even if a file is empty, it will > still take up 4Kb. If a file is empty, it doesn't take up *any* space, no slack, no cluster. A file has to be at least 1 by

Re[2]: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-20 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey Alexander, > Well, even if I wanted to, I couldn't try W2k, because my ISDN card, > that worked perfectly fine (as long as something can work perfectly > under Windoze) isn't even supported by W2k. And as long as there's > no hardware support for an OS, it is no alternative to switch to. >F

Re[2]: [newbie] PS/2 mouse problem

2000-07-19 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey Steve, >> I see my mouse pointer, it even behaves normally most of the time. But >> sometimes the pointer starts jumping around the screen and clicking >> randomly. That happens for about half a second, but can get me upset >> if it happens to click in a way that it closes two windows and pre

Re[2]: [Re: [newbie]Report on the Text v. HTML postings]

2000-07-18 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey Jaguar, I agree with you totally. Live and let live. As for me - HTML vs Text - doesn't matter. I read both. So far I haven't seen any mail in this list where HTML formatting would be of any help. I subscribed only two weeks ago, though. To everybody - to sum up - you can write in whichever

Re[2]: [newbie] how to unsubscribe or temporarily drop

2000-07-18 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey Alexander, > Anyway, it could be a three liner, couldn't it? Like so: > > -- > To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe newbie | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To be temporarily off: echo set newbie nomail | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't think that would help many people. Newbies would have no idea wh

Re[2]: [newbie] Netscape/password

2000-07-14 Thread Roman Korcek
Hi, Should it not be the mail account password rather than the ISP password ? Roman > "Eric MC.D" wrote: >> Darryl Gibson wrote: >> > >> > Hello list, >> > >> > When I select "Get Messages" in Netscape I'm prompted for a password. My >> > user's password doesn't work, but Root's password does

Re[2]: [newbie] LILO Mandrake 7.1, resume

2000-07-13 Thread Roman Korcek
Hi, I have Mandrake 7.0 and the same LILO /boot partition problem. I have my disk partitioned as 2GB (Win boot and Linux /boot), 16GB (Win stuff), 2GB (MDK7.0 installed, ext2), 128MB (Linux swap). LBA doesn't make a difference (I have it -- actually nowadays everybody should have it, unless his

Re[2]: [newbie] mouse driver and CD-ROM problems

2000-07-13 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey Romanator, > You never told me until now that it was a RW CD ROM. In the future > before you ask for help, especially when its a long email - please type > it in point form. I had used up 4 days of searching for help for you. > Then, I find out that you are using a completely different CD. I

Re[2]: [newbie] mouse driver and CD-ROM problems

2000-07-10 Thread Roman Korcek
> D) Try not to double-click too fast because it will call up an installation > from cdrom1, cdrom2, > If you have overclicked, close the cdromx windows prompt > Check to see if your mouse is supported on the linux-mandrakesoft.com web > page. > Roman > Registered Linux User

[newbie] mouse driver and CD-ROM problems

2000-07-09 Thread Roman Korcek
Hi everyone, I am a total newbie, so, please, don't kill me for questions which might seem so easy. Thanx in advance. :-) I just installed Mandrake 7.0 and wanted to find my way round in KDE as I discovered that the mouse cursor is sometimes jumping around the screen and behaving as if I were pr

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