Ed, I suspect that it will be quite some time before anything remotely similar like that happens here. After all, we hardly have any geeks working in our MIS department (where is a good geek when one needs one).
I like to think of it as looking through the Sears catalog at Christmas when you were a kid...it doesn't hurt to wish. -K --- "Richards, Ed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kory, > > I would love for that to be the ultimate long term > result of all of this. > > Ed Richards, PE > Staff Electrical Engineer > Ford, Bacon & Davis, LLC > 12021 Lakeland Park Drive > Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70809 > Office - 225-297-3335 > Fax - 225-756-3056 > Cell - 225-964-2606 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kory Wnuk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 3:49 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [brlug-general] High Suckage Factor > > When you started talking about making a living, I > misread your post. I thought you were talking > about > making all of FB&D's computers Linux boxes. If > such > were the case, I was going to see if you could > come > and take care of the same thing here at Jacobs > Engineering. ;) If only we lived in a perfect > world... > > -K > > --- "Richards, Ed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > LOL....Well, if I didn't use it to make a living > and > > there are some aps that > > I have to use that I don't have running on > Lycoris > > yet (YET, being the > > operative word), it would only be a single boot > > system. Now that I have > > figured out Wine, I may be reformatting EVERY > > machine at the house and > > getting rid of M$ ALTOGETHER! > > > > Ed Richards, PE > > Staff Electrical Engineer > > Ford, Bacon & Davis, LLC > > 12021 Lakeland Park Drive > > Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70809 > > Office - 225-297-3335 > > Fax - 225-756-3056 > > Cell - 225-964-2606 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mat Branyon > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 3:20 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: RE: [brlug-general] High > Suckage Factor > > > > i was in awe up until the dual booting > part... .=) > > > > --mat > > > > On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 14:38, Richards, Ed > wrote: > > > Kory, > > > > > > I am running Lycoris Desktop/LX on a > Compaq > > Presario 1825 > > and it is working > > > just GREAT! LX found all the hardware > right out > > the shoot > > and I was even > > > able to configure the Micro$oft mouse to > work in > > harmony > > with the touchpad > > > on the laptop. This machine is a Pentium > II-366 > > with 128 > > meg ram, 6 gig HD, > > > Toshiba DVD/CD-ROM drive, 15' TFT display, > ATI > > Rage Pro > > Lite video card, ESS > > > sound, Lucent modem and Intel network card > and > > LX found it > > all and properly > > > configured it the 1st time through. I am > dual > > booting Win > > 98 Lite and LX. > > > > > > I hope this helps, > > > > > > Ed Richards, PE > > > Staff Electrical Engineer > > > Ford, Bacon & Davis, LLC > > > 12021 Lakeland Park Drive > > > Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70809 > > > Office - 225-297-3335 > > > Fax - 225-756-3056 > > > Cell - 225-964-2606 > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > Anyhow...I guess I was > asking for > > recommendations. > > > What brands (and models) of > > laptops/notebooks are any > > > of the group using in > conjunction with > > Linux? I am > > > curious about likes/dislikes > and > > > features/deficiencies. > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > General mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > > > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > > > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > ===== > Failure is NOT an option! That is why I use > Linux... > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs > http://www.hotjobs.com > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net ===== Failure is NOT an option! That is why I use Linux... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com
