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

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.) --

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. --

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

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