Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 07:44:40PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 09:21:42AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > Or wonder if you will be stuck at a 2.6.22 kernel because you have a > > nvidia MX400 because m-a only works with the nvidia-glx from unstable if > > you try

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/10/08 10:09, Kent West wrote: Curt Howland wrote: Now, the boot messages scroll off so fast I can't read them, and the log doesn't pick up all of them. Some times I really miss being able to read them as they went by, espec

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:45:39AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/10/08 11:32, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 02:17:06AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 04/09/08 23:14, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> [snip] > >>> I have a 1965 International Harvester (aka Cornbinde

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-10 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 04:22:06PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > I was seriously surprised with the power my old 95 Kia Sportage had. 4 > banger, but got 147HP on the State of Oregon DEQ dynos at Hillsboro. It once > pulled a Ford Explorer out of a drainage ditch, and with the help of another

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-10 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:16:15AM -0400, Curt Howland wrote: > My first Linux install was on a 386-33. I still have the steel full-sized AT > case around here somewhere... The hardest thing was figuring out the > monitor's frequencies for Xwindows, since at that time they were not > autodetecte

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-10 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 10 April 2008 06:54:31 am Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 02:17:06AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 04/09/08 23:14, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > I have a 1965 International Harvester (aka Cornbinder) Metro-Mite > > > delivery truck. It's so cool.

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:41:37AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/10/08 11:28, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:16:15AM -0400, Curt Howland wrote: > > .. > > > >> Now, the boot messages scroll off so fast I can't read them, and the log > >> doesn't pick up all of the

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/10/08 11:32, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 02:17:06AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 04/09/08 23:14, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> [snip] >>> I have a 1965 International Harvester (aka Cornbinder) Metro-Mite >>> delive

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/10/08 11:28, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:16:15AM -0400, Curt Howland wrote: > .. > >> Now, the boot messages scroll off so fast I can't read them, and the log >> doesn't pick up all of them. Some times I really mis

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 02:17:06AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/09/08 23:14, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > [snip] > > > > I have a 1965 International Harvester (aka Cornbinder) Metro-Mite > > delivery truck. It's so cool. Geared so low in first, you could pull > > stumps with it... > > Gee,

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:16:15AM -0400, Curt Howland wrote: .. > Now, the boot messages scroll off so fast I can't read them, and the log > doesn't pick up all of them. Some times I really miss being able to read them > as they went by, especially when I see something "Gee, that doesn't look

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/10/08 10:09, Kent West wrote: > Curt Howland wrote: >> Now, the boot messages scroll off so fast I can't read them, and the >> log doesn't pick up all of them. Some times I really miss being able >> to read them as they went by, especially when I

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-10 Thread Kent West
Curt Howland wrote: Now, the boot messages scroll off so fast I can't read them, and the log doesn't pick up all of them. Some times I really miss being able to read them as they went by, especially when I see something "Gee, that doesn't look right..." and poof it's gone. This is why I don't

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-10 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My first Linux install was on a 386-33. I still have the steel full-sized AT case around here somewhere... The hardest thing was figuring out the monitor's frequencies for Xwindows, since at that time they were not autodetected what so ever. In on

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-10 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 02:17:06AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/09/08 23:14, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > [snip] > > > > I have a 1965 International Harvester (aka Cornbinder) Metro-Mite > > delivery truck. It's so cool. Geared so low in first, you could pull > > stumps with it... > > Gee,

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/09/08 23:14, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [snip] > > I have a 1965 International Harvester (aka Cornbinder) Metro-Mite > delivery truck. It's so cool. Geared so low in first, you could pull > stumps with it... Gee, ya think uber-torque is why t

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 06:53:08PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wednesday 09 April 2008 06:25:01 pm Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 02:58:14AM +0200, s. keeling wrote: > > > Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > If before we were kettle and pot, now that duct tape is

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 09 April 2008 06:25:01 pm Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 02:58:14AM +0200, s. keeling wrote: > > Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > If before we were kettle and pot, now that duct tape is an issue, are > > > we Red and Green (do other places get the Red Gre

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 09 April 2008 04:42:13 pm Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 09:34:39AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > No no, sorry Doug, but rubber bands are reserved for securing daughter > > *boards* not daughters. I only use du(ct|ck) tape for securing the > > children. > >

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 02:58:14AM +0200, s. keeling wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > If before we were kettle and pot, now that duct tape is an issue, are we > > Red and Green (do other places get the Red Green show?). > > Augh! Red Green on d-u?!? There's got to be a l

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-09 Thread s. keeling
Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > If before we were kettle and pot, now that duct tape is an issue, are we > Red and Green (do other places get the Red Green show?). Augh! Red Green on d-u?!? There's got to be a law against that! :-P -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 09:34:39AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > No no, sorry Doug, but rubber bands are reserved for securing daughter > *boards* not daughters. I only use du(ct|ck) tape for securing the > children. > > /me runs from the SPCA^h^h^h^hCPS... If the wiggle fits. (I think

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 09:21:42AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > Or wonder if you will be stuck at a 2.6.22 kernel because you have a > nvidia MX400 because m-a only works with the nvidia-glx from unstable if > you try installing the 2.6.24 kernel which has migrated down to Lenny. So you find

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:48:18PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:18:51PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 08:23:20PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > > so now we can twiddle our thumbs, go on random OT rants and rest > > assured that

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 09:28:40PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 01:23:07PM -0400, Brian McKee wrote: > > >>>slot "wore out" (don't ask me how, because I don't know). At the > > >>>end, I had to keep a rubberband pulling that daughter board at just > > >>>the right angle,

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 01:23:07PM -0400, Brian McKee wrote: > >>>slot "wore out" (don't ask me how, because I don't know). At the > >>>end, I had to keep a rubberband pulling that daughter board at just > >>>the right angle, or the thing would lock up and not boot. Worked > >>>like that for years

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 08:03:34AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 07:17:49PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:48:18PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:18:51PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > On Su

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:46:15PM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > Since we're off topic and talking about low end machine. I don't know if any > of you guys have heard of this new linux distro on the block called slitaz. > > http://www.slitaz.org/en/ hey that's cool. I love little distros

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 07:17:49PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:48:18PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:18:51PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 08:23:20PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > We could

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:46:15PM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > Since we're off topic and talking about low end machine. I don't know > if any of you guys have heard of this new linux distro on the block > called slitaz. > > http://www.slitaz.org/en/ > > Very small distro...fits in a 24.8

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:26:41PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/06/08 20:48, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:18:51PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 08:23:20PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > I remember my 386. It was an IBM PS/2 mode

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-06 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 21:48:18 -0400 "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:18:51PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 08:23:20PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > > so now we can twiddle our thumbs, go on random OT rants and rest >

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/06/08 20:48, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:18:51PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 08:23:20PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> >> so now we can twiddle our thumbs, go on random OT rants and r

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:48:18PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:18:51PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 08:23:20PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > > so now we can twiddle our thumbs, go on random OT rants and rest > > assured that

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-06 Thread David Fox
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I remember my 386. It was an IBM PS/2 model 70-A21. It came with the > then-unherd of 120MB hard drive, MCA bus, and I put 4 MB ram into it, My first Linux box was very similar. SLS it ran, 120 meg (and very flaky S

[VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:18:51PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 08:23:20PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > so now we can twiddle our thumbs, go on random OT rants and rest > assured that lenny will be out any time. When's the next utnubu due > out? That always b