Re: [vox-tech] Best/fastest graphics accellerator that is Lunux compatible

2004-03-22 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): my advice is: it's better to buy the high-end of the second generation (ie, newest old) than it is to buy the low-end of the new. You might say but what about the new features of the new?, to which i would reply why bother if no software makes

Re: [vox-tech] Carrying telephone signal over ethernet

2004-03-22 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Ted Deppner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Interesting. http://www.bodeen.org/networking/100baset4.html says 100BaseT4 was practically extinct by 1998. And so it is. People pretty much always use Cat5e and 100Base-TX (two pair). Cat6 is nice if you want future support for 1000Base-TX (two

[vox-tech] [Fwd: [vox] USB vs. PS/2 mouse]

2004-03-22 Thread Dave Margolis
Forwarding my own message to vox-tech, sorry! Original Message Subject:[vox] USB vs. PS/2 mouse Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 07:17:50 -0800 From: Dave Margolis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I have an IBM thinkpad

Re: [vox-tech] [Fwd: [vox] USB vs. PS/2 mouse]

2004-03-22 Thread Jonathan Stickel
Dave Margolis wrote: Hello, I have an IBM thinkpad with an _eraser head_ mouse. I like the eraser head and I've grown rather fond of it over the years (I had an old toshiba laptop with the same mouse before). However, every once and I while I like to plug in my USB scroll mouse... So here's

Re: [vox-tech] [Fwd: [vox] USB vs. PS/2 mouse]

2004-03-22 Thread Dave Margolis
Jonathan (and Ryan who provided the same answer), Having both working at the same time is a great idea (and simplier than the _detect insertion/removal and do something_ thing I had in mind). I won't be needing the scroll mouse outside of X anyway, so this is perfect. Thanks! Dave Jonathan

Re: [vox-tech] HOWTO: use your domain search path with omsoft's proxy.

2004-03-22 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Ken Bloom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I run all my own servers because I trust nobody. On that note, does anybody know of a free replacement for nntpcache that they've gotten to work? I tried newscache but couldn't make it work. I just run my own instance of leafnode. Works for Metm. --

Re: [vox-tech] PDF editor?

2004-03-22 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting wild bill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Wednesday 17 March 2004 13:12, Norm Matloff wrote: you might take a look at http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~phelps/Multivalent/Tools/ www.freshmeat.net/projects/vtools Sensational find! Thank you. You have no idea how long I've been wanting to find