On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 03:31:35PM -0500, Travis Roy wrote:
When this came up before (with Derek) many found having the email
addresses available to be useful.
At this point I feel the need to interject. A number of people have
pointed fingers at me for bitching, but a number of other people
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:06:47 -0500 (EST)
Benjamin Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
They don't care. Indeed, they want it that way. Presario PCs are
as-cheap-as-possible junk desktops. Their sole purpose is to keep
money
from going to the Dells and Gateways of the world. They don't want
Re: The HP thread
Sure, it would be nice to erase all traces of
Microsoft from your PC. But in my case, I migrated
from two perfectly good, networked Windows XP
machines. I wanted to get up to speed in Linux, but I
still needed my Windows apps for a while (until I
converted).
I considered
I agree..
Removing windows entirely from the presario was not an option. It was a
machine in my work office for any customer to use. The Linux boot would
have been specifically for me for doing network testing and whatnot.
My laptop dual boots for various PITA windows only things (specifically,
My laptop dual boots for various PITA windows only things (specifically,
our new backup server -REQUIRES- IE to log into it and create new backup
shares, we have opened this as a bug trouble ticket with the company)
If the people who wrote your backup software show
such poor judgement that
It requires ActiveX, I know about user agent switcher and it usually
works very well.
My laptop dual boots for various PITA windows only things (specifically,
our new backup server -REQUIRES- IE to log into it and create new backup
shares, we have opened this as a bug trouble ticket with the
Jared Watkins wrote:
Is anyone on the list familiar with the use of the tc command for
traffic shaping?
I'm trying to set up a two tiered set of queues... and it's giving me
'Invalid argument' errors when I'm almost certain the syntax is
right...
I've encountered the same problem. Since it was
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, at 11:22pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you have your own server, you could put up your own archives with
your own Perl script, and likely many would thank you. I would.
Throughout this thread I've been interested in solving a technical
problem that I was led to
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, at 7:55am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
AFAIK, the DeskPro line was killed several years ago.
Well, the DeskPro *brand* was retired, but I'm pretty sure the part of HP
that was Compaq still offers a line of business class desktop computers,
or whatever you want to call them.
What level of traffic are we talking about? My server could probably
handle a moderate load in addition to its other tasks, and both Chris
and I already have access. I would likely be willing to give some
sort of access to at least one other person.
--DTVZ
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 20:30:10 -0500
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 08:36:29PM -0500, Benjamin Scott wrote:
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, at 7:55am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
AFAIK, the DeskPro line was killed several years ago.
FWIW, Dell and Gateway do this, too, to different extends, and I imagine
other vendors do, too. With Dell, you've
The link for this item below just popped up on a public forum for the
Linspire distribution of Linux http://www.linspire.com.
Note that the price tag for this apparently obsolete version is low
enough to entice lots of folks to purchase it for evaluation or strictly
personal purposes. As such,
YAPC::NA 2005 (Yet Another Perl Conference, North America) has just
released its call-for-papers; potential and aspiring speakers can
submit a presentation proposal via:
http://yapc.org/America/cfp-2005.shtml
The dates of the conference are Monday - Wednesday 27-29 June
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, at 9:23pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From the consumer standpoint, I can attest to this: my boss was recently
buying a new laptop, and had the choice in front of him to choose two
mostly identical laptops. When he asked the difference, this was basically
their answer: One
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, at 9:41pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Note that the price tag for this apparently obsolete version ...
My understanding is that it is not obsolete, just limited. They restrict
max memory and don't allow a full virtual network adapter (socket proxy
only).
I use Win4Lin
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, at 8:40pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What level of traffic are we talking about?
I suggest you start by putting up an independent mail archive, sub'ing the
list to it, and posting a link to them here. That gets everybody started in
small steps.
I don't have
Benjamin Scott wrote:
Keep in mind that many Compaq's keep the BIOS setup program on disk,
where just about everything else keeps it in firmware. That means that if
you blow away the utility partition, you can no longer do anything useful to
configure the BIOS.
I'll second this. In fact, every
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