Re: Make your Linux hard disk 498% faster!

2000-10-04 Thread Bob Miller

Bob Miller wrote:

 (a long, boring story.)

My question was this:

What should be passed in on the kernel's command line to
enable IDE disk optimization under Mandrake Linux?

Thanks.

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Re: MS Word editor?

2000-10-04 Thread Bob Miller

Lindsay Crawford wrote:

 Is there anything in the standard Mandrake set capable of reading a
 MS Word document?  

Netscape does a half-assed job of displaying it.  If you read mail
with netscape, just click the attachment to open it.  (I don't
know how to do it without using netscape mail.)
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Re: Make your Linux hard disk 498% faster!

2000-10-04 Thread Garl R. Grigsby

How do you measure harddrive performance?

Bob Miller wrote:

 Bob Miller wrote:

  (a long, boring story.)

 My question was this:

 What should be passed in on the kernel's command line to
 enable IDE disk optimization under Mandrake Linux?

 Thanks.

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 Kbob
 [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jogger-egg.com/

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Re: MS Word editor?

2000-10-04 Thread Michael Smith

Just about any Linux office suite will look at it--Applix, Soffice,
Koffice, Abi.  Another way is to use the mswordview, which is a plugin
for netscape that lets you look at word docs directly with netscape.
I'm not sure how well it works, but it's there.

Lindsay Crawford wrote:

 I hope there is an easy answer for this one.  Recently I received an
 attachment in MS Word.  I found one editor in "applications" called
 Advanced which would give me some of the text but would not handle
 the document as it should be.

 Is there anything in the standard Mandrake set capable of reading a
 MS Word document?

 Lindsay
 16:30 PDT Tuesday 3 October 2000 @97478




sunRPC

2000-10-04 Thread Michael Smith

OK, so does anybody know what sunrpc actually does?  Everything I've
read says "duh, it maps ports"  Well, OK, I knew that.  I'm looking for
something more concrete.

--Mike