John, you're thinking of the YOPY, made by Samsung.
They haven't gotten the bugs out of the software yet.
It was supposed to be ready by August, then November,
now "year end" --I wouldn't hold my breath waiting
for it, if I were you. It looks, and is intended to
act, much like the Ipaq from Compa
My boss, who is a Lotus nut, says that Notes runs fine
under Wine. I'm pretty sure he tried it on Mandrake,
probably version 7.0 But he also has RH and SuSE.
(He's out in Vegas this week so I can't ask him.)
Original Message
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 22:32:16 -0500
From: Jason Costom
Charles posted the following, which I have truncated for brevity:
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/snip/
But, what really surprised me was
the difference in beformance between my two scsi systems - one brnad new,
and the other not much more than a year old.
"old" scsi setup:
adaptec 2940U2W
2 x 9GB IBM (?deskstar? DD
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>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: BASIC (ugh) on RH 7
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> > > Can anyone suggest an alternative. I may have to find an actual DOS
> system!
> > >
>
To continue the thread without repeating anything,
two additional comments to my previous: For the $49.95
I get an additional dedicated phone line paid for, and
from what I have heard, that's the only proper way to
do it, for 2 reasons:
1. It keeps digital noise off your voice line
2. A voice line
Eddie Strohmeyer wrote:
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Hello:
I know from seeing past post that quite a few of you have DSL and I have
just been informed today that DSL is now available in my area via
earthlink.net. They are charging 49.95 /month and the offer includes:
· FREE DSL Modem and Equipment
· FREE Profession
Mike wrote:
From: "Michael Stack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: graphing software question
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 19:05:57 -0400
charset="iso-8859-1"
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Is anybody familiar with software that would enable me to create simpl
I won't attach your unreadable message
(Volume 153, #10, "no subject"). Whatever
obscure encoding you're using is not
decodable here. How about you write in
plain ASCII like everybody else, please?
Thanx. --doug
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It sounds to me as if you are far more knowledgeable in *nix's than
I am, but have you heard of the micro-linuxes that fit on one
floppy disk? Try micro +linux as keywords on the searchers. Also
look for tomsrtbt, which might just do what you need.
Hi Folks,
I wonder if I could get a little a
This sounds like a job for Partition Magic. Why keep hitting your
head against a stone wall?
At 06:26 PM 08/08/2000 +1200, you wrote:
>
>This is a first time install from CD on a Toshiba Satellite 4060. It has a
>single primary DOS/Windows FAT32 partition occupying all of the 4GB disk.
>
>The i
The problem I mentioned with the crazy colored background
must have been some kind of corruption in the mail system.
However, would it really be too difficult to put the subject
of a message LAST in the headers again, (as you did in the
first one or two issues) instead of somewhere
in the middle
I give up. I just sent a message saying I liked the new format, with the
subject last in all the headers, and already somebody moved it back into
the noise. In addition, now I've got a digest with a blue-green
background! Stop already with this nonsense!
--doug
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After reading the message below, I thought I would comment.
I LIKE the new format. I like having the messages numbered. I
like having the subject line last, so you don't have to search
thru all the header junk for it. I think it is a big improvement.
Congratulations!
(The message said:)
Mess
If all of you are still getting the digest and
I'm not, then please send me an email and let me
know. If the whole list is down, I suppose I'll find
out sooner or later. Thanx. --doug, wa2say
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Without realizing I needed a "boot" disk, as well as the
emergency disk, I allowed Windows to blow away my mbr. My
Linux is on sdb1, by itself, WIN is on sda1 by itself. Now
I got tomsrtbt as someone advised here, and it boots up,
but I can't even seem to see sdbx. or mount it, or anything.
But
The following appeared in the N.Y. Times Magazine, today,
in the column, "The Ethicist" by Randy Cohen. Quoted
verbatim:
[Q]
"I teach business ethics for a local university. I wonder
how you would respond to this classic moral dilemma:
John walks into a village and finds Mary holding 15 people
Uncle Meat wrote:
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More people will mean more of the hand-holding some expect. That could
eventually lead to a more stable,non-M$, 'doze-like product.
That, in my opinion, will lead many of us to lose some of what we like with
linux and get more pre-decided configurations to ensure co
I quote from a message:
"Just remember that /usr does NOT stand for USER,
even though we all pronounce it that way."
Then what _does_ it stand for? Does anybody know?
TNX --doug
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>Unless you have a computer with a huge power supply above 250w. > I have
350w and my system uses more power than my monitor.
That's not necessarily true. AAMOF, it probably is not true.
Just because you have a 350 watt power supply does not mean
that it is _using_ 350 watt
I attempted to send a message to the list a few days ago,
that quoted Ed Foster of Info-World, and some of his correspondents.
For some reason, that note never reached the list. One of the items
was that MS has dragooned its slave hardware distributors NOT to
provide the Windows 98 OS disk wit
I sent a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] a few days ago from my
computer at work, thru the lan at my co. I never saw it on the
digest. Does the mail system monitor the header lines and reject
messages that don't come from the same source, even if the username
and password are acceptable to the isp
Ed Foster reported several weeks ago in InfoWorld that MS is
not permitting vendors who bundle Windows 98 to ship the
OS CD-ROM with the computer. (So be warned!) Not only that,
it has not made any big public announcement, so a lot of
people are going to be rudely surprised, when some new
installa
Thanx to the folks that replied. I'm amazed at the number!
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number and function? I don't know how to ask the
question on Alta Vista. Thanx. --doug
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It seemed to me to be obvious, but maybe not. --doug
>From: "Eduardo Arista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Doug McGarrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 12:03:31 -
>Subj
Yo9u wrote, quote:
Hello Everyone:
I seem to have a problem. I have installed a third drive on my Intel box
for RH and it works great. However, since the drive is so large, I want
to use 6 gig of it for DOS/Win95 data but DOS/Win doesn't 'see' it. Is
there any way I can get DOS/Win to access tha
I tried the other day to set up my network card that hooks to an adsl
connection, but I am snowed by the terminology. Is there anywhere on
line a simple dictionary of the terminology, or whatever I need. I
can connect the thing on MS Windows, but Linux seems to want to know
so much more.
Ju
Steve Reilly sent the following, quoting my original recommendation:
>>> And after all, you don't _need_ Windows keys!
>
>>Go working at a Sun Sparc or Ultra for a while and you might reconsider
>>that statement... ;-) Another set of modifiers can be dead handy at
>>times...
>
>it's handy
I don't know if this is LILO-related, mbr related, or
unrelated to Linux, but I've never seen it before:
Machine is Pentium 166, all SCSI, Adaptec 2940 controller.
MB and BIOS are AMD. System is about 3 ~ 4 years old.
I've had several versions of Linux on it, including the
latest, on the secon
Significant quote:
%-> I hear a 3 beeps every 10 minutes on Redhat 6.2. I've checked
Quote off.
My computer was doing that for a while. I found out that the fan on top
of the CPU was not turning. In this (Award) BIOS, the chip overheat
signal was (apparently) 3 beeps. Make sure that the fan
>Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 12:14:38 -0500
>From: "Manuel A. Camacho Q." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>I am just going to buy a new keyboard for home use. I have as options
>two models I saw in TheLinuxStore and Linuxmall. They are the Happy
>Hackers Keyboard and the LinuxCool kbd. Any experience with them?
You wrote, quote:
I am having a hard time with two new SCSI drives (8 GB each). I
installed Win98 on the first (ID0) and I was trying to install Linux (RH
6.2) on the second (ID1).
KDE Workstation install with automatic partitioning gave up an "error
making swap on sdb5". I tried doing a simple
Most pc's are set up only to boot from c: (as DOS would say)
and they are also set so that the first _ide_ drive is c:
However, you may be lucky: some bios's let you specifically
choose to boot from SCSI. Check your setup and see.
This is a royal pita; I wish all mfr's would give you the
op
The digest had the following:
(Quote on)
From: Yoink! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MP3, Sound Cards and Linux?
On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Martin R. Gonzalez wrote:
> I am planning to transform many of my cds to mp3 so I can listen to them
> from the computer.
> Therefore I would like to kn
On the digest, I found the following:
>Again,
> Thanks to Uncle Meat I have new boot images. Still trying
>to install RH 6.2 [new install] on a P133, 96 MB ram, 2113
>MB HD with two NICs to use as masquerade server, the entire
>install process comes to a halt at the end of the rpm
>install - i
Addendum: Lothar apparently does not work. At least here.
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I did d/l the ethernet howto a while ago, but I don't know if it even
answered the question: with modern modprobe kinds of things, is there
an easy way to add an Ethernet card (KDE interface or plain black screen)
which was not there when Linux was installed? Since I now have ASDL, I'd
like t
I suggest you use an external ISDN modem. It will
look to your system just like any other modem, and
it will work fine. I had that working in 5.3 very
nicely. Something else crashed the system, and I never
got it back.
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Yes, I know it's OT: does anybody know if there will be a "Princeton"
computer fair this year? (Last year it was held about 50 miles north of
Princeton.) If so, when and where? This used to be the biggest computer
expo on the East coast. Some real bargains were available, plus a whole
batch of
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We had a similar problem in my Department (Biological Sciences at Purdue
University) It turned out that there was a large (about 100 circut/220V)
circ
I have a SCSI card, a Triones Technologies card, that came with
a driver for "UNIX", i.e., SCO Unix. I can't seem to read this
disk under Linux, and if someone could help me to do so, would
the driver work in Linux? This is part one of a 2-part question,
about another SCSI card. That's coming
You wrote:
/snip/
My big quandary.. How to get Linux installed without having USB
networking support on Linux.
This machine has no floppy, no CDROM drive, and it doesn't have any
kind of PCI or ISA bus for a currently supported networking *card*
However, it does have a hard drive (now) and
Michael A Lane wrote:
>
> New to the Linux world, I have many questions, but I'll start out with
> just a few.
> The first one deals with Virus detection, I use Norton for Windows.
> I've been told that Viruses don't seem to be a problem with Linux.
> True, False, Maybe??
Yes, true. BUT: This
At 00:06 04/05/2000 -, you wrote:
>redhat-digest Digest Volume 00 : Issue 434
>
>Today's Topics:
>Re: Zoot NFS install?
>
I assume that "Zoot" is a code name for some distro, or some release
number, or something. Could we just use the product's real name and
A
>Re: burn CD in Redhat
The fellow that answered this question gave us an URL. I went to the URL,
and then the HOWTO was in sections. Is there any way to get to this
information in one big file that can be downloaded, or do you always have
to download these things in itty-bitty pieces?
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Subject: Re: Installation question
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In what file would you put the command you recommend? I thought that
the bootable system had to appear first in LIL
I apologize to everybody. I think I re-sent a copy of most of the last
digest to the world. It was my own stupidity, and I feel very bad about it.
Mia culpa, mia culpa, mia maxima culpa. Please forgive me. --doug
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>redhat-digest Digest Volume 00 : Issue 273
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>Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:12:32 -0700
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>I am gettin
When I do sndconf, I have places to put only 2 memory addresses. From
Win 95 I have 3 address areas. Suggestions, please. Mandrake 7.0, AWE32.
Tnx. --doug
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Is there a list focusing on security? I need to get
help on firewalls. I have the ip-chains HOW-TO, I
have a whole book on Linux security, but I don't really
know how to implement the whole thing, including mail.
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On 3/02/00 at 9:30 Frank J. Schmuck wrote:
>I dual boot Nt and RH6.1. The problem is that I pull mail while working
on
>either system (there are some things for which I need NT). I archieve
>certain message threads and would like to be able to sync the mail from
each
>system.
>
>Is anyone aware
>From: Hidong Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Subject: can't download ms word attachments
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>Hi,
>
>I use netscape for e-mail. I can't download MS Word attachments. When
I won't quote the original message, but we all learned in DOS days to back up
our files before modifying them. There's nothing new here. cp your file to
a new (similar) name before you modify it. Then if your modification drives
the system crazy, you can simply rename files and have the worki
You recently wrote to the redhat-list,
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Can some one recommend a good linux based HTML editor? I have several
website I
have to get up in the next week or so and really don't want to code everything
by hand.
TIA
Steve
Quote off.
I haven't used it, but WordPerfect 8 for Linux has an
In your message to the Redhat list, you wrote:
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2) Processor upgrades - I cannot afford to turn this old machine into a new
system with a replacement motherboard and processor. I can, however,
afford
one of the processor replacement upgrades (e.g. from 486DX2-66 to
P133MMX).
Can some of you who have, with little starting
experience, successfully set up a firewall,
point me at the sources of information you used.
Also, there are two books at Borders, one called
"Linux Security" and one called "Linux Firewall(s)"(?)
(The first one has a CDR with some sort of software.
Can some of you who have, with little starting
experience, successfully set up a firewall,
point me at the sources of information you used.
Also, there are two books at Borders, one called
"Linux Security" and one called "Linux Firewall(s)"(?)
(The first one has a CDR with some sort of software.
One of the recent messages had the sig:
"Time flies like the wind, fruit flies like a banana."
What the heck are time flies?
(I couldn't resist!)
Merry Christmas--doug
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Is WINE going away in the face of VMware?
WINE would be a big help to me, if it worked.
If I could run AutoCad Lite under WINE, I could
be almost totally independant of Win 95.
The last time I tried WINE (about a year ago)
it was virtually useless.
[I'm sending from W95 because my ISDN line is
Completely off topic, but perhaps a service:
If you plan to surprize someone with one of
these for Christmas, perhaps you ought to unpack
it and try it out yourself first. I just sent
back 3. One was recognized by the (my) scsi
card, but would only make clunking noises. It's
software said to "
Anybody tried to run one of these, and if so, what
happened? Where did you find the driver?
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I will shortly have an adsl connection, and I
may decide to run the machine 24/7. Is there
a book on Linux security (accessible to the
average newbie) or some other concise source
that I could use to customise the system for
security? (I don't even know what to put into
"hosts.allow" or "hos
Quite a few folks have e-mailed me for a URL or a phone number for
Micro Center. They have stores in about 15 places across the country,
and the flier I got here in Long Island, NY bears only the NY
phone number, which is 1-516-683-6760. The flier also says that
the prices are good thru 12/19/99
I wrote, yesterday:
"Yes, I know it's O.T. But it's a tremendous bargain!
I just got the Micro Center flier. On page 2 there is
the complete Word Perfect 8 for Linux boxed set, with
1/2 inch thick manual, for a net cost of $4.99! (No,
I don't work for them or Corel.) (I have cross posted
this to
I wrote, earlier today:
"Yes, I know it's O.T. But it's a tremendous bargain!
I just got the Micro Center flier. On page 2 there is
the complete Word Perfect 8 for Linux boxed set, with
1/2 inch thick manual, for a net cost of $4.99! (No,
I don't work for them or Corel.) (I have cross posted
t
Yes, I know it's O.T. But it's a tremendous bargain!
I just got the Micro Center flier. On page 2 there is
the complete Word Perfect 8 for Linux boxed set, with
1/2 inch thick manual, for a net cost of $4.99! (No,
I don't work for them or Corel.) (I have cross posted
this to the Redhat List. I
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nelson Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
/snip/
If your disk has more than 1024 cylinders, and the / partition will
extend beyond cylinder 1023, you will need to use a slightly different
setup:
Partition Size
/b
I'm sorry to be completely off topic, but I have tried the
3Com site without result. Does anyone out there have the
setup software for a (US Robotics) Courier I-modem ISDN
with V-Everything external adapter, and if so would you
kindly send a copy to me? Thank you very much. --doug
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>Subject: Re: aWhich Linux should I get?
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>imho. RH is a 'newbie' version of linux.. but hey, if that is how the
>wave of change is going to get started, so be it. :D BTW: if any of you
>aren't already; start followi
You wrote:
/snip/
"Incidentally, I have yet to subscribe to a list that shows this behavior.
May I
ask which one(s) does?"
(Referring to lists that block accounts.)
The [EMAIL PROTECTED] has really shafted me! I can read their
posts, but I cannot communicate with them, or the list-leader Axalon
I am aware from reading the list that a program
called SANE supports scanners. The Q: does it
support SCSI and/or parallel port scanners? I
could run either, but the parallels are quite a
bit cheaper. Is there a cut-off version of the
kernel before which scanners won't run? I'm
thinking seri
I apologize, I'm told it was a hoax after all.
Sorry --doug
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Folks outside the US and possessions can stop reading now.
I hope this is not really off-topic, because we
are using the facilities mentioned to communicate
with this mail list!
I also hope we haven't been hoaxed, but it sounds
like the kind of thing you could expect.
I was forwarded the follow
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 14:05:13 -0600 (CST)
From: Jamin Philip Gray
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Subject: Best way to partition a 10 GB IDE disk for Win98+RH6.1
Message-ID:
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I'm having some trouble getting Win98 and Redhat 6.1 to work w
LinuxCad 3D claims to be an AutoCad clone.
Has anyone on this list had any experience with this
software? I won't mind paying $99 for it if it is
OK, but I seem to remember a report that version 1.0
was _very_ buggy and required a lot of extra-cost
add-ons. If you haven't used it but know of a
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>Johnny:
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>>I plan to remove a harddrive from my linux box and move it
>>to an old Win95 box.
>>I understand that I
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