What does CTL+ALT+F3 do?
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Mark
** Registered Linux user # 182496 **
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Vic wrote:
> I never had too much trouble with the Mandrake,
> thats why I guess I stuck around.
>
> Sure everyone pulls their hair and whacks
> the keyboard and swears a little bit.
>
> I hear alot about troubles with this ver and that one,
> funny thing, I was able to hack my way around the
> funky installer on ver 7.0 and I was able to install it
> by doing a ctrl+alt+F3 I think, I just had to kill a
> stuck process, looked like a perl script or something,
> and as soon as I did that, the install continued instead
> of hanging.
>
>
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> > I recently saw a memory chip on the wall of a computer store. It is a full
> > 12-inches square and 2-inches thick. The funny thing is--the size of the
> > memory is actually quite small.
> >
> > Thanks for the blast from the past! I was sure we had some old 'heads' on
> > this list that were contributing answers to us newbies. You know who you
> > are and you're terrific.
> >
> > <Whisper>Now all we have to do is convince the newbies that do not have any
> > patience; that do not understand Linux; that do not know how to install;
> > that do not know how to compile or tweek, our Mandrake is a superb product
> > produced by a band of developers who are visionaries and thinkers. A bad
> > attitude doesn't win awards or get much help from the list. We are,
> > afterall, volunteers, not nurse/maids or babysitters.
> > </Whisper>
> >
> > Mandrake, you're getting better and better with every new release.
> >
> > Pj
> >
> > At 09:45 AM 7/24/00 -0600, you wrote:
> > >On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 04:20:52PM -0700, Anton Graham wrote:
> > >> Submitted 23-Jul-00 by Pj:
> > >> > From: Using MS-DOS 6.2 (QUE book) 1993
> > >> >
> > >> > Pg. 140; pgph 5:
> > >> >
> > >> > "Hard disks have changed the most. A number of technology have come and
> > >> > gone as hard disks have steadily gotten larger and faster. Drives capable
> > >> > of storing more than two gygabytes(two billion bytes) now cost less than
> > >> > $2,500.
> > >> >
> > >> > Who remembers when 10GB cost $10,000?
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >> I remember when a 20 MB drive was top of the line and cost more than
> > >> the rest of the machine :)
> > >
> > >I remember when the first manufacturer of a microcomputer offered a hard
> > >drive. It was Ohio Scientific, which made a 6502-based multi-user computer
> > >which did everything in BASIC. The hard drive was an OEMed 74 MB 14" rack
> > >mounted hard drive. The controller was on two cards, each larger than any
> > >card you are likely to find today, larger than some modern moterhboards.
> > >
> > >
> > >--
> > >
> > > -- C^2
> > >
> > >No windows were crashed in the making of this email.
> > >
> > >Looking for fine software and/or web pages?
> > >http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley
> > >Attachment Converted: "d:\attach\Re [expert] OT harddrive flas"
> > >
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