On 10/12/98 at 08:30 AM, Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Most x86 pc's can be set to boot from harddisk *only*, with a password-
protected bios. This means the machine is safe as long as people don't
remove the cover.
Unless of course the BIOS accepts the tech support password. And I
On 09/11/98 at 04:59 PM, Chris Mc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
sorry to be a pain, but does anyone know what ever happened to
Micropolis Corp.? I found an old 3243 4.3gig SCSI drive that I need
info on. I've searched for Micropolis, but the phone numbers and web
sites I found are all dead. Did
On 09/10/98 at 03:59 PM, Stephen J. Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Thu, Sep 10, 1998 at 03:43:20PM -0400,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What do you think of
these online auction thingys? IT seems to me that if you have abit of
time to spend bidding you can get stuff ridiculously
On 08/26/98 at 09:00 AM, Rick Knebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I read an article about debian and was sort of intrigued. I like what
I read about there package system and being able to upgrade
automatically from ftp sites.
Well, I started with Debian, went to Red Hat and came back to Debian. I
On 08/18/98 at 11:46 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I was having a discussion with my ISP about Linux. He said he uses
Windows NT because it is much more secure than Linux. He stated that
since the source code was available that it was very unsecure. He
mentioned something about attaining root
On 08/18/98 at 11:13 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, George R wrote:
I know you are talking about NT vs Linux; but does anyone know how well
Win95 password protection works? It doesn't the morons made the default
configuration one where all the invader has to do is hit
On 08/04/98 at 05:34 PM, Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Technical excellence is about doing something well, and coming up with
a system which is highly capable. One measure of capability is how
much software runs on the system. If RedHat runs a greater variety of
commercial applications
I was remembering file locations wrong when I
tried RH; file locations made no sense to me at all.
I may have a twisted mind, but my old DOS drives had a structure very
similar to Debian. Then again, anything is better than a registry!
George R
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On 08/03/98 at 02:27 AM, George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Manoj, I find that remark disturbing. That is who you are writing the
software for. The luser community produces the developers over time.
Without a stong and vital user base, you will not attract a good
developer community. If
On 08/03/98 at 11:53 AM, George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Well, it is obvious that some people here are just being hard headed. I
really do not think there are that many dummies here. Look at it like
this. A person wants Linux and decides to spend about 30 minutes to
choose which one they
On 07/31/98 at 10:36 AM, Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Apparently you're doing something wrong. Because this *LINUX*
advocate has a Win95/WinNT machine at home that rivals the uptimes of
my Linux box. I have yet to lose data on that machine because of the
OS, same as my Linux box. In
On 07/30/98 at 11:55 AM, Frank Barknecht [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
X should be suid root and look like:
$ ls -l /usr/bin/X11/X
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 4880 Jun 23 23:46 /usr/bin/X11/X
^ important
Something must have messed up your setup, maybe you could try to set X
back with a
Well, I managed to get X to run, but only as root. I've read manpages
and howto's until my eyes have crossed.
When I try xdm as a user I get the message only root wants to run xdm.
If I try startx I get a message unable to open consol.
I've checked X, xdm, and startx all three are -rwxr-xr-x.
On 07/19/98 at 12:11 AM, George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I was wondering if any of the CD Vendors might make a few ... maybe 3
... CDROM's available of 2.0-Release to the SVLUG to use during their
monthly installfests. These installfests are monthly events due to the
interest in this area
On 07/06/98 at 09:47 PM, Mark Panzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Mike Merten wrote:
On Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 09:51:52PM +0200, Shiraz Sayani wrote:
I seem to have been receiving some spam which started after I asked
a question on this list (note the new mung).
As a matter of fact, I too have
On 07/07/98 at 11:23 AM, Marcus Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
This from the Linux-newbies list:
From: Mike Ricketts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Donald Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Chris Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED], linux-newbie@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject Re: Which distribution is the best? GENERALLY?
On 06/15/98 at 10:18 AM, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 03:48:25PM +0200, Marco Frattola wrote:
installing bo on a rex machine left me with this problem: perl won't
install, saying that subprocess post install script returned error
123 or something like this.
On 06/11/98 at 07:16 PM, Ed Cogburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
forest wrote:
I've installed Debian 1.3 but can't run many commands, including man. Why?
You need to tell us what error messages the system says when you try
to run these commands. IIRC, the manpages and man-db packages
On 06/05/98 at 02:35 PM, Allan Bart [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Hello,
I was wondering if any of the users on this group have concurrently run
both types of disk drives. i am planning to use an advansys 5140 and an
internal ide controller on my old ast 486dx system.
looking ro hear from you,
I'm
On 05/24/98 at 10:49 PM, Eugene Sevinian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Hi all,
I just upgrated my PC to 32M which has only 8M before. Now I can run
w95 only in safe mode. At the same time everything is OK with Debian!
During the normal w95 mode I got nothing but blue screen with: Fatal
exeption OE
Forwarded from: HENRY L. BUNCH,FIC([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Toddler Property Laws
1. If I like it, it's mine.
2. If it's in my hand, it's mine.
3. If I can take it from you, it's mine.
4. If I had it a little while ago, it's mine.
5. If it's mine, it must never appear to be yours in any
On 04/11/98 at 10:13 PM, Marcus Brinkmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
The Gimp is sucking memory like a vampire bat. You can easily use 100 MB
when processing a screen size image (well, 100MB and more. You can easily
suck all available memory).
A memory hog; is it from M$ ;)
Gimp is plain cool ;)
I need some help. My son shows promise with his art. He saw one of my
friends working(his job) with CorelDraw. Love at first sight. He won't
stop begging for his own pc to run CorelDraw.
Several small problems exist:
1) I have a no MS rule.
2) can't really afford a lot of new expensive
On 04/11/98 at 12:58 AM, Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
The p90 is a good start. The dual is over kill unless he is doing
extremely intense modeling (which intel was never truly the best at
anyway). GIMP, Midnight Creator, and the soon to be released Blender are
things to look into for him as
On 03/28/98 at 09:31 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth L. Summers) said:
Hi!
The last times I visited the Debian web site I had to realize that it is
not very impressing concerning design and structure. Especially in
design the sites of FreeBSD, The GNOME Project, KDE, Red Hat, etc. have
a
On 03/28/98 at 11:25 AM, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Fri, Mar 27, 1998 at 01:18:08PM +0100, M.C. Bezemer wrote: PS I also
heard that linux also doesn't work 100% correct with a Cyrix P166+
(messing up disks etc) . What is true about that?
Not very much, I think. Do you mean the
On 02/09/98 at 07:41 PM, David E. Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
George R wrote:
Has anyone had Win95 change your CMOS settings?
George,
I don't know: how could I tell, unless it's evidence would be a mess up
of something obvious like my clock?
Weird things, like the drive you have
On 02/09/98 at 07:31 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerald V. Livingston lI) said:
Try replacing the CMOS battery. I had one that would do strange things
when I shut it off - I figured if the battery got low enough it would
start going wierd on resets too.
Not the problem, unless of course 3
On 02/10/98 at 01:47 PM, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Well, anything can happen in a good-sized crash. Windows 95 can't change
individual settings because their locations aren't standardized between
BIOS manufacturers (AMI, Phoenix, Award, MR BIOS etc). Some of the basic
settings are
On 02/10/98 at 06:33 PM, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Mon, Feb 09, 1998 at 09:56:49PM +, George R wrote:
Is this just Win95 or do other OS's mess with the CMOS? In 10+ years I've
only experianced this with Win95.
Well, Windows 95 has only been out for two and a half so
On 02/09/98 at 03:20 PM, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Wed, Feb 04, 1998 at 09:36:06PM +, George R wrote:
That was easier than OS/2; about the same as DOS; tons easier than Win95.
What is the fuss about?
I agree with your sentiments but I don't think this is really true. When
Man, after hearing all the horror stories of Linux installs I had to try
;)
Well, not being a patient one I ftp'd the disk images for Debian. Blew
off the HOWTO's
Total time(ftp, making disks from images, formating hard disk, scaning
disk, and install) under 1.5 hrs. One problem, I set up
On 01/30/98 at 05:16 PM, Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
i (foolishly) agreed to re-build a win95 system from scratch for a
friend. this process is annoying the hell out of me because you have to
hunt all over the damn net to find the damn CDROM drivers which Microsoft
don't bother to
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