On Fri, 19 May 2000, Mon Sagullo wrote:
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> Question - can I possibly make my Rainbow Runner TV/capture card work
> with Linux 6.2? No. I don't have much connection time to see all the
> FAQs, that's why I chose this list.
Try the BTTV driver in Linux 2.2. It *might* support the Rainbow Runner.
The older Matrox Meteor is definitely supported, so you might get lucky..
> Since I am not a programmer per se, could you point me to a site for
> free productivity software for this thing? Barring Virra Mall (that's
> too far from Quezon province...) anywhere else where I can buy CDs with
> good collection of programs? Any suggestions on which bundle(s) are
> good?
Mandrake7 has bundled StarOffice 5.1a. You can download AbiWord (a neat
word processor, but it's currently at WordPad functionality) from
www.abisource.com.
> Lastly, for now, as a superuser, I can get into the net, how do I enable
> my other user account to do this? I tried *granting* my *other self*
> the privileges that I think would allow me to connect, but, even
> following the procedure specified in my copy of Dummy for Linux, typing
> the /sbin/ifup/ppp0 - I get a reply that the file does not exists.
My grotty solution is "chmod 666 /dev/modem" your mileage (and aesthetics)
may vary..
..
> Is it *normal* that once in a while, while browsing, for Navigator to
> just *poof* out of nowhere? The thing just shuts down, bringing with it
> the Messenger (and my about to send mails).
Yes. Netscape is a piece of cr*p. I'm sorry to say, but IE is superior to
it in every way.
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