Re: [newbie] What to do with old CDs

2002-06-03 Per discussione 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 Per discussione 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 Per discussione 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 Per discussione 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 Per discussione 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 Per discussione 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 Per discussione 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