Re: lock a pentium for fun!

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : > Ted writes: : > > Someone wondered (as one does) what might possibly happen if you tried : > > the unassigned codes. : > : > It is a bug for a processor to have any unassigned codes. : : In what way is it a bug? If all the

Re: Help Kernel Oops!

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : Sorry, there's little to be learned from raw kernel OOPS messages : without seeing the full system and kernel configurations and versions. : (As far as I know.) There's some detail in the kernel documentation about reporting OOPS messages.. I can't remem

Re: Infomagic LDR debian, and, What's Hamm and Bo?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Why the heck doesn't Debian use the release number (e.g., 1.3, 1.3.x) as : the primary (canonical) name? Then when you seem 1.2 and 1.3, you can : tell which is newer and which is older. That was done one time: whilst 1.0 was being developed, it was stored on the archiv

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] : Let me say that the awe driver package works just fine with a SB AWE32. : Don`t know about the 64 yet. Any people tried? I would suspect that it would work fine with the 64 as well. AFAIK, the AWE64 is the same as the 32, except for the extra 32 voices. Oh, and the

Re: Applixware

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : On Mon, 25 Aug 1997 06:56:55 -0400, Tom Malloy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > Is anyone using redhats applixware on debian? How is it? The install : > difficult? Is it worth buying? I want to migrate away from msoffice and : > use linux exclusively if

Re: VIM Editor

William Chow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] : Weird, I did an ldd on vim. The only two libs it needs are ncurses and : libc. Are there two different versions of vim in the debian packaging : system, one with and one without X support? There shouldn't be. Which version of vim do you have installe

Re: [comp.os.linux.announce] Clarification - Linux-FT, The Road

Bruce Perens wrote: [...] (: NIST decided to make the suite available without charge. The Debian (: Project most heartily applauds this decision. In fact we most heartily (: jump up and down with glee and cheer unabashedly. I'd probably go a bit further than that :-) (: My plan is to package the

Re: "Extended" memory?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> bhaskar wrote: : I see that the Debian installation instructions contain the following. : >Extended vs. Expanded Memory : >If your system provides both extended and expanded memory, set it : >so that there is as much extended and as little expanded memory : >as possib

Re: "Netiquette" of requesting package updates

Brian C. White wrote: : >> I spend close : >> to 50% of my Linux time using two programs, an editor and : >> a WWW browser, and in both cases the current Debian version : >> is several months out of date. [...] : I was being purposely vague because I didn't want to single anyone : out, but no, th