really appreciate it.
Abe
Mark Weaver wrote:
Abe,
There's a cool little program that you can invoke from the terminal
window. It's called switchdesk. Run this program from within Gnome and you
may be able to change to the WindowMaker desk top for your default that
way. I can't remember
it was all cdplaying softwares. I got it "fixed" by upgrading to kde
1.94. ANyway, I am curious what do you think could have been done to
fix it without such drastic measures?
Abe
Francois Swanepoel wrote:
Is it only XMMS or is it the other CD players as well?
It could
fascinated by computer hardware and software linux really appeals to me.
Just my .02
Abe
John Rye wrote:
Philomena wrote:
I fall into the "used to be a programmer and unfortunately fell up into
management" type, but I still try to keep myself current.
I'm curious also -
answering questions on this list as often as you ask them.
Abe
the Duchess of the Antipodes wrote:
But I'm just wondering because, without getting into a flame war, I'm
surprised how bad the installation of Mandrake is.
i'm a 15 year old with no experience whatsoever with anything
What could be wrong that only root on my machine can play cds? system
sounds, .wav files, MP3s all play for other users but not CDs. Xmms
reads the disk and refuses to play. Please help, I cannot work without
music.
Abe
I was seeing that when I used KDE. Now that I've switched to
windowmaker I rarely see my system use swap. Usually only when I'm
compiling, listening to a cd, reading email and working on something in
the GIMP.
Abe
Michael Scottaline wrote:
Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
eed pc-150 performance I will buy
pc-150 DIMMs. If I need a gig processor I'll buy one.
Abe
= Original Message From John Rye [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Abe,
The extra speed that comes as a result of overclocking IS noticable,
but
not a big change. A more s
great. thank you.
Abe
= Original Message From Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Abe wrote:
I know what the drive is rated at. Its a 5400 rpm ATA66 (UDMA) 17.4 gig
drive
from Western Digital. I just assumed that telling linux to use harddrive
optimizations would imply
you are correct.
= Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Robert \"JTBob\" Holland wrote:
Hi,
I was installing StarOffice 5.2 when it got to the point
of not finding a Java environment. So I go to the Java
site and download JRE 1.3 from Sun. It has a .rpm
I'm used to being in the minority. Doesn't bother me at all.
Abe
= Original Message From "dwyatt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
I haven't played UT in several weeks (been playing ole' Starcraft again),
but before I quit I was in the top 100 CTF players worldwide according to
ngWorl
at a high school kegger and not interested in drinking?
Abe
= Original Message From "markOpoleO" [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
Your not down with www.hardocp.com then eh? :) Overclocking is the best
thing since sliced bread, when i got a 700mhz and O/ced to 840mhz it was
awsome, te
.
Good luck and please keep me updated on how this works for you. I'd really
like to get SETI running on my linux partition I've just been too busy with
trying to figure out why only root can listen to cds on my machine ;-)
Abe
= Original Message From Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
Hi Abe
buy so I am usually very satisfied with my purchases. In the case of the
voodoo5 and duron based computer I built, it has exceeded my expectations.
I'm happy.
Abe
also, read this article for some illumination on the fps thing.
http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/00q3/000704/index.html
I love it when my memory works. Thanks for the info Bascule!
Abe
= Original Message From bascule [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
hi abe,
you are right, seti is run from the command line with the switch
'-graphics' to allow the included prog xsetiathome to display a graphic
of seti's work
I'll give it a try next time I boot. Thanks for the info.
Abe
= Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
Hi,
I'm jumping into the middle of this, but thought you may not know this: at
the
Boot prompt, type "linux idebus=66". (w/o quotes) Sometimes I start this
way,
bu
fatboy instagib
mutators. My computer was the server too. FPS is not as big an issue as
people want it to be in my opinion ;-) I shoot for the balance between
beauty, playability and fun.
Abe
= Original Message From "dwyatt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
I agree with nearly everythin
was interested in was if there is a way to get linux to tell me what
actual transfer speed it is getting from the drive.
Abe
= Original Message From Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Abe wrote:
UDMA 66 is a lot faster than a regular (E)IDE interface. It also helps if
you have
I had a set up like that with USWest earlier this year. I just set eth0 to
use the IP that my router was reporting had been assigned to it. The Ip did
not change at all in about six months of use. Its worth a try anyway.
Abe
= Original Message From "Richard Garand" [EMAIL
you have my condolences Ozz. But hey, you can take your linux box with you
where ever you go! I have to sit at home in front of my desk to use it.
That's a definately worth it trade off.
Abe
= Original Message From "Austin L. Denyer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
Linux is fas
your friend was exaggerating. Star office still crawls on 256M. It crawls on
384! Click on the icon, get up, get a beer, have a smoke, read the newspaper,
cook some dinner, Hey! the splash screen is up on the screen!
hahahahahaha
Abe
= Original Message From "Austin L. D
I am using 5.2. It does seem a bit faster in windows though. weird.
Abe
= Original Message From "Mike Tracy Holt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
Yes, I've experienced that, but it does seem a lot better in version 5.2.
It's funny though, I've used the windows version and it seems to
it actually takes about a minute. I've got a duron 600 machine with 256M of
ram.
It takes my machine 23 hours and 19 minutes to process a data block for seti
but I only run seti in windows at the moment. Presumably it will be quite a
bit faster in linux.
abe
= Original Message From
the duron 600s are going for about 75 USD right now. The Asus A7v runs about
160. fairly affordable as far as brand new hardware goes. I spent about
three months researching and saving to get this machine built.
Abe
= Original Message From "Austin L. Denyer" [EMAIL
hardware goes. I spent about
three months researching and saving to get this machine built.
Abe
= Original Message From "Austin L. Denyer" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
=
it actually takes about a minute. I've got a duron 600 machine with
256M of
ram.
envy
It takes my
a very popular and very cool
thing. I've been doing it for about a year now and I've got about 72 blocks
of data analyzed on my computers. You can run it on every major OS.
Check it out its neato.
Abe
= Original Message From Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
Abe...what's this thing
that the jackasses on the online hardware review sites like
firingsquad and such not only tell you to overclock your chips but that the
only thing that matters when you buy a video card is how high it scores in
3Dmark and how many fps it will put out in quake3. In other words. Hogwash.
Abe
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On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Abe wrote:
your friend was exaggerating. Star office
= Original Message From Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
Aaaah yes...I remember the first message I sent with Linux. Twas
almost like the first time I ... Well let's just say it was almost a
religious experience.
--
Mark
congratulations! I remember that feeling of accomplishment well.
Abe
= Original Message From Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
Aaaah yes...I remember the first message I sent with Linux. Twas
almost like the first time I ... Well let's just say it was almost a
religious
18 seconds. It just feels like a million years since everything else is so
damn fast. I've got 2.1.17 kernel, duron 600 and 256M ram.
Abe
= Original Message From Patti Wavinak [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
I hate to disappoint you or maybe I am just lucky -- I have Star Office
5.2 in Linux
my duron system when
I've replaced it with a sledghammer based system. I plan on using the change
over to 64bit processors as my opportunity to go all linux. I won't have any
legacy apps to keep my tied into windows at that point.
Abe
= Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED
yea, it sounds awesome. Imagine the software bloat that will be
possible..
Abe
= Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, you wrote:
I generally canabalize from my old computer what I can when I build a new
one.
When I get enough left overs to make
hahahahahahaha
Amen Sister!
Abe
= Original Message From Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
Dacia and AzureRose wrote:
Linux is fast with 128 megs. It is much faster with
256 and when you put 384 in it really starts to cook.
I imagine that a 'hammer with a gig of ram would
out and shared with me. I'm sure there is a better way. I'm just not
experienced enough to know it.
Abe
= Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, you wrote:
I had this problem and I just put imwheel -k in roots
bash logout file in root's home directory
Meg's transfer rate all the
time. Even in the afternoons. @home simply will not do anything about this
because my connection is "fast enough" as one of their tech support people
told me.
Abe
= Original Message From "Greg Stewart" [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
It's probably ev
It cracks me up how everyone has suggested a different command line text
editor. Vi, Emacs, Vim and Pico so far.
Abe
= Original Message From Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
try using vi. It's way cooler than pico anyway. What seems to be the
problem with you display? I honestly don't
There are a few games that run very well on linux. Quake3 for example. But,
overall I agree with you, linux is not a gaming paradise yet.
Abe
= Original Message From "Goldenpi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
I have 3 pci cards, and 1 agp. The agp is the slowest. agp is probab
. the /home
partition should be just fine as long as you don't let the install process
format it.
Abe
= Original Message From "Charles A Edwards" [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
- Original Message -
From: "Mark Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "LinuxNewbie (E-mail
will actually be.
Be careful! Photoshop is an incredible program. Your gonna want a copy and
then you'll have to have windows or MacOS (u) to run it on.
That wasn't very helpful was it.
Abe
= Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
Hi all,
Just got the latest version of the Gimp
hmmm. I don't remember actually saying that you should or shouldn't
overclock. We were simply discussing how ram/cpu's are created and rated for
the speeds that they are sold at.
Abe
(Not overclocked even though I know how cuz I don't want to.)
= Original Message From "Steve We
from what I've read about that chip it was actually a factory overclocked chip
to begin with. When it turned out to be reallyy unstable they just set it
back to its original speed rating which was around 800 or 900 mhz.
= Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
This is true about
very good point.
= Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, you wrote:
This is true about overclocking destroying hardware. Some chips can't even
run stably at their intended clockspeed. Intel's PIII 1.3GHz had so many
bloody problems they finally concluded
are and THEN make your
decision.
Abe
= Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
I only have one off topic suggestion .. have fun =o) theres a ton of
cool things out there to try or implement/refine and perfect ... try em all
. when you get curious or daring enough, play
question.
Abe
= Original Message From Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
Abe wrote:
he's the best auto mechanic in the world why shouldn't he be able to fix my
VCR
= Original Message From "Goldenpi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
By asking the school IT teacher :-) But not eve
their products
highly enough.
Abe
= Original Message From Anton Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
Submitted 04-Sep-00 by Asheesh Laroia:
What about the latest NVidia chip? Reviews I've read
(www.tomshardware.com) say they're faster.
Until they stop providing binary-only drivers, no Nvidia
win98 is the best damn over glorified nintendo I have encountered yet. And
that is about all I can say for it.
= Original Message From Jason Ashman [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, you wrote:
95 makes 98 look like solid gold. hahahahahahahahahahaha
Abe
.
--
I think
yep and that is also why people can overclock their RAM CPU's without out
right destroying them. The hard ware tends to be rated conservatively because
it will last longer if it is used at less then 100% of capacity.
= Original Message From "John A. MacLaughlin" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
that doesn't like to read burned disks.
Hope this helps. If you want to stick in there we can probably get this
working with you.
Abe
= Original Message From "John Farley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
ive tried booting from the cd and loading from dos and from windows like it
says and
different
methods and both methods work just fine.
linux is all about finding, using and contributing to an information base.
Both of these pages are great places to start.
Abe
= Original Message From Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
I know what you mean...I'm hoping that some
as far as I know there are no athlon motherboards that actually can use RDRAM.
From my research I'm pretty sure that RDRAM is Intels and Rambus's baby and
even Intel is having second thoughts. AMD's web site recommends high quality
pc-100 or pc-133 ram.
Abe
= Original Message From
. Hope it helps.
Abe
= Original Message From "Ronald J. Hall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
Abe wrote:
I'm running mandrake 7.1 on a Duron 600 with ASUS A7V motherboard. I did
the
install myself. 7.1 installed perfectly on my system. Perhaps it is the
Abit
board that
cool. thanks for the input.
Abe
= Original Message From Tony McGee [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
On Sun, 03 Sep 2000, Abe pushed some tiny letters in this order:
Anybody know what extra cool new versions of old favorites this puppy
sports?
X 4.01? 2.4 kernel? There is no read me
is it? I've read that
Athlon systems can be picky about older/generic ram. I haven't had any
problems with my generic ram though.
Try reseating the ram, try cleaning the connecting pins, make sure the ram
modules are installed in order in the slots on the motherboard.
Good luck!
Abe
that cdr/w could be your culprit. Do you have a vanilla cdrom drive you could
pop in and try booting from? CDR/W drives are treated weird by linux.
emulate SCSI in order to work.
Did you try reseating the RAM and cleaning the pins on the sticks?
Abe
= Original Message From Paul
I couldn't find it at that URL. Lots of 7.1 stuff though
= Original Message From Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
On Sat Sep 02, 2000 at 04:16:35PM -0700, Mike Tracy Holt wrote:
I can't find the files yet - can someone post an address for an ISO mirror
that that has 7.2 ?
I'm
have you trolled the loki quake3 mailing lists for ideas? I've gottn a lot of
help from the info there.
Abe
= Original Message From "Mike Tracy Holt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
To be honest with you - I haven't had ANY luck running Q3. Dacia on this
list has had better
exactly how. There was an email about it on this list today
however.
Good Luck!
Abe
= Original Message From "TriOptimum" [EMAIL PROTECTED] =
I would like to install the xfree 4.01 i download on my Linux Mandrake 7.1...
my question is.. is it easy to install it over the xfree4.0??
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