Re: [expert] Why Linux?

2002-03-23 Thread Brandon Dorman
Even gaming is getting closer! But yeah I have an unsupported USB Lexmark X83 so have to go into windows for printing and scanning and games, but all my mp3's are on an ext3 partition! There are more choices for browsers, word processors, etc. on Linux. Cd burning even now works thanks to the

Re: [expert] Why Linux?

2002-03-23 Thread Brandon Dorman
Best post of this thread for sure! it can end now... duawwwaaa.. girls like penguins.. duh _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] Mandrake Club didn't charge me

2002-03-18 Thread Brandon Dorman
Sure enough, it showed up today. Four days isn't bad considering the weekend and such. It's all paid off now, hope our efforts paid off... Wait a couple more days. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free yahoo.com address at

[expert] Mandrake Club didn't charge me

2002-03-17 Thread Brandon Dorman
I know this is a billing question, but was wondering if anyone has paid for their mandrake club thing but not have it charge your credit card? I paid the 12th, figured it take a day or something but it still hasn't shown up? Hmmm. I still have the transaction number and stuff, I'll e-mail or

Re: [expert] Beta 3 - ISO buring problems

2002-03-02 Thread Brandon Dorman
I'm the guy that had the, cd burning session from he** as one list member put it. I never got the cd's burnt, but I am going to buy Mandrake 8.2 when it comes out. I have an old phillips 36610. Approaching 3 years old, its a 2x2x4. Unfortunately I went to my bank account and have a lot less

Re: [expert] [OT] Burning iso's

2002-02-27 Thread Brandon Dorman
Heh, I'm a freshman in college. Although I wasn't offended by the post, I appreciate people looking out for the civility of this list. No one wants to see too much BASHing on the list. Midterms have hit, all i have time for is: eat, study, bathroom, study, class. Notice the absence of

Re: [expert] [OT] Burning iso's

2002-02-26 Thread Brandon Dorman
Here is the md5sum stuff: [Brandon@localhost mandrakeisos]$ md5sum md5sums.8.2 faac57ee321cde939b066b7f41d8c29b md5sums.8.2 [Brandon@localhost mandrakeisos]$ md5sum MandrakeLinux-8.2beta3-CD1.i586.iso 8e64deea03e23bfe6fed336df2862837 MandrakeLinux-8.2beta3-CD1.i586.iso So bummer, looks like

Re: [expert] [OT] Burning iso's

2002-02-25 Thread Brandon Dorman
I burnt the iso using the options stated in another e-mail but have blank discs! Hmm... I think I'll just boot into windows to burn them, because soon im sure beta 4 will come out, i would like to have tried beta 3 before then. Will work on this later. -Brandon On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 22:33,

Re: [expert] usage

2002-02-25 Thread Brandon Dorman
Don't know but have you checked out ethereal? It looks like some sort of logging program. http://www.ethereal.com/ -Brandon On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 13:47, Belkie, Dan wrote: Can anyone suggest a simple way of checking out how much data is passing through a Nic card within a 24 hr period?

Re: [expert] [OT] Burning iso's

2002-02-25 Thread Brandon Dorman
on my win98 side right now so I can't look it up but I'll try to get for you later tonite and post it for you. --- Brandon Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll try doing it with the data tag, but here is the site i got my original information off of. http://linuxdocs.org/sln

Re: [expert] usage

2002-02-25 Thread Brandon Dorman
Don't know but have you checked out ethereal? It looks like some sort of logging program. http://www.ethereal.com/ Nope! This is for packet sniffing. A very poor way to count bytes/packets... Yeah, I went into it after i made the post and discovered that. Thanks for the

Re: [expert] [OT] Burning iso's

2002-02-25 Thread Brandon Dorman
as well. If you do a full install a special program is installed, I can't remember the name of it but it will burn iso's for you. I'm on my win98 side right now so I can't look it up but I'll try to get for you later tonite and post it for you. --- Brandon Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [expert] [OT] Burning iso's

2002-02-24 Thread Brandon Dorman
, 2002-02-22 at 18:35, Salane King wrote: do cdrecord --scanbus first to determine the dev= numbers Brandon Dorman wrote: Hey guys, Finally got beta 3 cd 1 and cd 2 downloaded! Joy of joys! However, I've never burned an iso before in linux! I just now burnt both cd's only

Re: [expert] Re: rsync problem (was beta2 to beta3)

2002-02-22 Thread Brandon Dorman
? -Brandon On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 23:28, Brandon Dorman wrote: Ok, I got to 515mb this time on Beta3 CD 1 and it failed. So I went to your page. I got stuck when it says about must start with a module, and I can't figure it out. Your explanation isn't the most clear, sorry. my command

[expert] [OT] Burning iso's

2002-02-22 Thread Brandon Dorman
Hey guys, Finally got beta 3 cd 1 and cd 2 downloaded! Joy of joys! However, I've never burned an iso before in linux! I just now burnt both cd's only to disover now that they are still on there as, .iso and aren't bootable or anything! Bummer. (I'm assuming cd1 of even the mandrake

[expert] Beta2 to beta3

2002-02-21 Thread Brandon Dorman
Hello, I've been a fan of Red Hat for almost three years, really diving into it in the past 6 months (recompiled the 2.4.17 kernel, got my ide cd burner working, sound card working now, almost got my printer working) but recently have read some stuff that makes Mandrake sound very

[expert] Re: Beta2 to beta3

2002-02-21 Thread Brandon Dorman
Well, the second cd quit downloading at 612 megabytes out of 648 possible, and wouldn't resume without losing it all, so I guess I answered my own question. I'll start downloading Beta 3, should finish it in 10 days... :-) -Brandon On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 13:45, Brandon Dorman wrote: Hello

Re: [expert] Re: Beta2 to beta3

2002-02-21 Thread Brandon Dorman
Great, thanks. On rsync, I've seen a ton of mention of it on the K12LTSP listserv which I'm also a part of. I'll be doing that. thanks guys, hopefully I'll be e-mailing you from Mandrake soon. :-)(not that I hate RH, just want to try something new and the whole apt-get-like capabilities of

Re: [expert] Beta2 to beta3

2002-02-21 Thread Brandon Dorman
Another point: If stability is important, than you probably shouldn't go messing around with betas. However, if your main interest is just to get a feel for Mandrake, go ahead with Beta2. Right, my main thing is to get a feel of Mandrake. By using the newest beta i can get a feel of how

[expert] Re: rsync problem (was beta2 to beta3)

2002-02-21 Thread Brandon Dorman
Kramer wrote: Brandon Dorman wrote: Well, the second cd quit downloading at 612 megabytes out of 648 possible, and wouldn't resume without losing it all, so I guess I answered my own question. I'll start downloading Beta 3, should finish it in 10 days... :-) Brandon, Sound like jobs