Re: [newbie] Is it okay to add a signature or vcard to email

2000-07-18 Thread Scott Tyson
User number? It is much easier than always typing it in every time I send out a question or response. Thanks, Roman Regards, Scott Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Geekbox project: http://www.therubberroom.org/geekbox ICQ#: 125581

Re: [newbie] Linksys Network card help needed...

2000-07-17 Thread Scott Tyson
l from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com Regards, Scott Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Geekbox project: http://www.therubberroom.org/geekbox ICQ#: 125581

Re: [newbie] Text v. HTML messages on this list

2000-07-14 Thread Scott Tyson
For me I could care less about the extra weight, band width is cheap. The exception to this is when you have mailing lists with 20 quoted messages string together the HTML can make that message VERY Fat indeed. The issue with HTML is that it can contain nasty Javascript or VBscript that can be

Re: [newbie] *icq and proxy

2000-07-13 Thread Scott Tyson
Not true. Open up port 4000. But that might not allow direct connections (chat) but you can still message. Better yet get a firewall proxy that supports ICQ in fully like Sygate. I use it and ICQ works great. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 7/13/2000 at 8:42 PM Paul scribbled:

Re: [newbie] Which Windows mail client is best for compatibility?

2000-07-10 Thread Scott Tyson
are you looking for a compatible email file format so you can us one mailbox at work and home or are you just looking for a pop3 client to read email from at work? Mahogany is a cross platform mailer that is in development. Check it out here : http://www.wxwindows.org/Mahogany/ I personally

Re: [newbie] 1.4 GB overkill for /boot?

2000-07-04 Thread Scott Tyson
The /boot partition only needs to be about 15 megs. That is what I set mine to without any problems. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 7/3/2000 at 10:18 PM Tom Brinkman scribbled: On Mon, 03 Jul 2000, you wrote: On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 07:52:41AM -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote: it

Re: [newbie] 2nd Hard Drive

2000-06-30 Thread Scott Tyson
It will see the drive as hdb. If I remember correctly the way linux does IDE drives is by chain. So the master and seconday drives on the primary controller are identified as hda hdb while he master and secondary drives on the second controler are hdc and hdd.Again Ithas beena while since

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 Installao?

2000-06-30 Thread Scott Tyson
Install XFREE86 4.0 and then install the Linux reference drivers from Nvidia. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 6/30/2000 at 12:07 AM Gary scribbled: On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 10:03:16AM +0530 or thereabouts, Sthitaprajna wrote: Also, there was talk of problems with freeX86 V4,

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 and Adaptec SCSI Cards

2000-06-29 Thread Scott Tyson
Well SCSI is faster for multidisk access. I have an IBM 7200 RPM UW drive with an Adaptec 2940UW controller. If I run speed tests it is not any faster than my fujitsu 5400RPM IDE drives But these tests are pretty much transfer speed tests not lets load the drive down with some requests then

[newbie] NVida TNT2 setup question

2000-06-19 Thread Scott Tyson
I'm struggling to find a Doc(s) on what/how is needed to get the new Nvidia drivers going for my TNT2. I did an expert Mandrake 7.1 install and picked Yes to have Xfree86 4.0 installed. Do I just DL the new drivers from Nvidia and follow their install instructions? Do I need a kernel upgrade

Re: [newbie] NVida TNT2 setup question

2000-06-19 Thread Scott Tyson
: Scott Tyson wrote: I'm struggling to find a Doc(s) on what/how is needed to get the new Nvidia drivers going for my TNT2. I did an expert Mandrake 7.1 install and picked Yes to have Xfree86 4.0 installed. Do I just DL the new drivers from Nvidia and follow their install instructions