Re: Web hosting recommendations

2002-07-09 Thread Michael Costolo
--- Andrew W. Gaunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A friend of mine has a web site for his business which is presently hosted by geocities. It's a simple HTML only web site with a lot of JPEG images (I maintain it for him). We'd like to find a better web host with more available space and no

ISP Recommendations?

2002-04-26 Thread Michael Costolo
Hopefully this is not off topic. My apologies if it is. My wife and I relocated here from the Left Coast late last year and rented temporarily down in Nashua. We recently bought a house in Amherst where our Nashua ISP, ATT Broadband Internet, does not offer service (no big loss there). I

Re: (OT) Hardware Pointers

2002-04-23 Thread Michael Costolo
--- Benjamin Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's a good video card that has solid support in XFree86? From what I am told, the best choice for Open Source drivers is ATI. The NVidia line is a better performer, and solid, but the drivers are binary-only. I don't believe that NVidia

Re: (OT) Hardware Pointers

2002-04-23 Thread Michael Costolo
--- Benjamin Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, at 5:12am, Michael Costolo wrote: I don't believe that NVidia only releases binary drivers. I distinctly recall compiling the drivers for my TNT2 card. These Open Source drivers were contributed by NVidia

Re: Drawing tools similar to Dia/Visio?

2002-04-12 Thread Michael Costolo
KDE's KOffice project has a program called Kivio. Never used it. Find it here: http://www.thekompany.com/projects/kivio/ -Mike- --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi all, Anyone know of anything

Re: Linux Executive Accuses Microsoft

2002-03-25 Thread Michael Costolo
From the article: The nine states have offered several new examples of alleged predatory behavior by Microsoft Alleged predatory behavior? We should hold a contest to see who can come up with the most quotes from Gates, Ballmer, etc. about predatory Microsoft business strategies. -Mike- ---

Re: There goes the neighborhood

2002-03-22 Thread Michael Costolo
believe them, just as the Distinguished Senetor from Disney Land. After all, Michael Eisner payed good money for this legislation. If he buys a senetor, does that make him a consumer? ;-) C-Ya, Kenny On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 15:51, Michael Costolo wrote: How exactly does unilateral copy

Re: There goes the neighborhood

2002-03-21 Thread Michael Costolo
How exactly does unilateral copy protection promote consumer broadband and digital television? Am I missing something or is it just an intentionally misleading name? -Mike- On Friday 22 March 2002 01:14 am, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: Well, it happened. The SSSCA has been renamed to Consumer

Re: Please remove all 'mediaone.net' addresses

2002-03-18 Thread Michael Costolo
This is very true indeed. ATT had to transition a great deal of accounts and there are plenty of us who got left behind. Repeated emails to tech support, lots of time spent on hold with customer support got me a lot of your account will be transitioned soon responses, but no email account

an error occured opening /dev/audio ?

2002-03-17 Thread Michael Costolo
I have a sound card question that I hope someone can shed some light on. Yesterday I put an old ISA soundcard in my Athlon box (generic ESS ES1868 soundblaster card). I was able to run sndconfig without any errors and had a functioning soundcard. Today none of the audio works anymore and

Re: HTML Code

2002-03-06 Thread Michael Costolo
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Re: HTML Code

2002-03-06 Thread Michael Costolo
Almost. The browser never sees the PHP code. PHP still must generate that which will be sent to the browser, this being HTML or JavaScript, etc. It's a great tool though. -Mike- On Wednesday 06 March 2002 11:19 pm, Derek D. Martin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At

Re: Satelite systems

2002-02-18 Thread Michael Costolo
Um, am I reading this right? When I move out of Nashua I'm stuck with dialup again? I've already got ATT Broadband Internet. I'm not thrilled with it, but it works... -Mike- On Monday 18 February 2002 09:15 pm, Jerry Feldman wrote: snip Does ATT give any estimates as to when Cable

Re: Humor: NT and security

2002-02-14 Thread Michael Costolo
Just out of curiosity, doesn't Tom's Root Boot Disk do the same thing for Linux? -Mike- --- Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [by Brian, no last name given] Them: Important user, NT box, lost admin password, sad, sad, sad. Me: No problem, change password with magic linux disk,

Re: Rob Malda - the prenup

2002-02-14 Thread Michael Costolo
This is absolutely hilarious (stolen directly from /.) -Mike- Prenuptial Agreements (Score:5, Funny) by DohDamit on Thursday February 14, @10:31AM (#3006810) (User #549317 Info | http://slashdot.org/) 1. No, you will not call him Commander. Or Taco. 2. He will not make you metamoderate

Re: (OT) email

2002-02-13 Thread Michael Costolo
I second the Yahoo! suggestion. -Mike- On Wednesday 13 February 2002 03:58 am, R. Sean Hartnett wrote: I need to get an email address that I can reach for school purposes for a few months. Can anyone recommend any free email service somewhere that is not one of the big spam outfits?

Re: Interesting Newbie article at CentraLUG.org

2002-02-13 Thread Michael Costolo
Every manual is fine. Some are just finer than others ;) -Mike- --- RABNUD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At http://news.gnhlug.org/article.php?sid=375 is: Howdy! Let me say right off that the moderators will certainly edit this post - with a huge grin!! (Hints of an online message

Re: Interesting Newbie article at CentraLUG.org

2002-02-13 Thread Michael Costolo
? Never mind, I like the GUI idea better where is that Win98 install CD. = Michael Costolo - This New England email is brought to you by the letter R. __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards

Re: Interesting Newbie article at CentraLUG.org

2002-02-12 Thread Michael Costolo
I'm not so sure I agree. I should preface the following with the fact that, although I am not newbie, I am certainly not an expert. I think that there is something to be said for arming yourself with as much book knowledge as possible, especially when experience is lacking *before* you take on

Re: Interesting Newbie article at CentraLUG.org

2002-02-12 Thread Michael Costolo
or a mouse and you can access them offline 100% of the time. From what I recall of the article, they fit all of the author's needs. -Mike- --- Ray Bowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *** On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 at 1:36pm Michael Costolo shared this with the class:: I think that there is something to be said

Re: GNOME's future

2002-02-02 Thread Michael Costolo
On Saturday 02 February 2002 01:45 pm, Greg Kettmann wrote: snip A second point, against Mono and Wine. It's very difficult to win when you're always chasing or lagging. That is if you are adhering exactly to Microsoft then they control things. New somethings, like XP, will come out which

Re: Need to convert Latex to F*@!$g Word format

2002-02-01 Thread Michael Costolo
This depends. I know that there is a program for Windows that does Word to (La)TeX that has a (La)TeX to Word program on the way. See http://www.word2tex.com/ for more info. Otherwise you're just going to have to copy into Word (or AbiWord, etc.) and reformat manually. It sucks, but I've done

Re: tetex -- needed for newbie users?

2002-01-23 Thread Michael Costolo
! re: being freely able to create PDF documents is a definite plus. Agreed, PDF is handy. Use it all the time in M$ land. Sigh. I''m still working in M$ land = Michael Costolo - This New England email is brought to you by the letter R

Re: AOL to buy Red Hat?

2002-01-23 Thread Michael Costolo
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Re: Anybody running 2.4 and AMD???

2002-01-21 Thread Michael Costolo
Hmm. I'm running a 1 GHz Athlon with kernel version 2.4.3 (a la Mandrake 8.0) and a 32 MB NVidia TNT2 AGP video card (and XFree 4.0.3 if it matters) on an ABIT KT7A-RAID mobo with 512 MB RAM. I have not experienced any random lockups. I know nothing about the stock Mandrake kernel and