Re: Who can repair my monitor?

2002-01-21 Thread Kenneth E. Lussier
A little off topic, but related question: Who can take away my old monitors? I have about 20 or so old Sun and HP monitors (some work, some, not so much working), and I know that I can't just toss them in the dumpster because of that whole environmental, polution, kill-the-planet thing. So, does

Business Card CDROMs

2002-01-21 Thread Ed Lawson
An update to my question about business card CD writing. My relatively cheap IDE drive burns them just fine. Its an LDG unit made for Compaq that was bought at a computer show for $50. It worked fine after I determined which side had the recordable media. g The little 3 inch disks work fine

Re: Who can repair my monitor?

2002-01-21 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:07:52 EST Kenneth E. Lussier said: A little off topic, but related question: Who can take away my old monitors? Here, check this old /. thread http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/11/14/1717243mode=thread -- Seeya, Paul

Re: Who can repair my monitor?

2002-01-21 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:07:52 EST Kenneth E. Lussier said: A little off topic, but related question: Who can take away my old monitors? I believe IBM set something up where you call them, pay them something like $100, and they'll take anything, attempt to recycle it, or

Re: AOL to buy Red Hat?

2002-01-21 Thread Rich C
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Benjamin Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Greater NH Linux Users' Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 4:22 PM Subject: Re: AOL to buy Red Hat? Anyone else care to speculate on this? :-) Pop-up ads on [Red Hat]

Re: Who can repair my monitor?

2002-01-21 Thread Larry Cook
Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: A little off topic, but related question: Who can take away my old monitors? Some municipalities have added computer recycling to their Hazardous Waste Days. Call your town or city hall to find out when the next one will be. Bow and Dunbarton did a joint one this

Re: AOL to buy Red Hat?

2002-01-21 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 11:34:10 EST Rich C said: Pop-up ads on [Red Hat] Linux.YUK!!! Yeah, but just think, now, if you want the latest release, AOL will just mail you a CD every 6 months. Can't wait that long? Stop by Barnes and Noble and grab a stack of AOL/Red Hat CDs

Computer Recycling: Resources and Opportunity

2002-01-21 Thread Larry Cook
On the slightly off-topic of Computer Recycling, here are some resources and an opportunity: RESOURCES: I knew there was a state program so I searched the State web site and found the following three pages: The NH Governor's Recycling Program (NHGRP) http://www.state.nh.us/recycle/ I have

tetex -- needed for newbie users?

2002-01-21 Thread Paul Iadonisi
Let's say I want to install Red Hat 7.2 on a bunch of older systems with only 1.5Gb disks and maybe above. I'm trying to conserve disk space, but don't want to remove any functionality needed for the newbie. Do the tetex packages provide anything that newbie user is going to care about? I

Re: tetex -- needed for newbie users?

2002-01-21 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 13:09:31 EST Paul Iadonisi said: Let's say I want to install Red Hat 7.2 on a bunch of older systems with only 1.5Gb disks and maybe above. I'm trying to conserve disk space, but don't want to remove any functionality needed for the newbie. Do the tetex

Re: tetex -- needed for newbie users?

2002-01-21 Thread Paul Iadonisi
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 01:17:28PM -0500, Paul Lussier wrote: In a message dated: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 13:09:31 EST Paul Iadonisi said: [snip] The tetex packages are the TeX/LaTeX packages for Linux. If you don't need them to do anything with Tex/LaTeX, then feel free to save yourself

Anybody running 2.4 and AMD???

2002-01-21 Thread Rich C
And experiencing random lockups? This article might be of some help... http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-01-21-001-20-NW-KN Rich Cloutier President, C*O SYSTEM SUPPORT SERVICES www.sysupport.com * To

Re: Anybody running 2.4 and AMD???

2002-01-21 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
* On 2002-01-21 at 17:14, Rich C [EMAIL PROTECTED] excited the electrons to say: And experiencing random lockups? No, I'm just having them with 2.4.2 on a ThinkPad T21. I thought it was because of the S3 video chipset, and adding an 'Option ShadowStatus' to XF86Config had fixed it, but

Re: Anybody running 2.4 and AMD???

2002-01-21 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
* On 2002-01-21 at 17:27, Rodent of Unusual Size [EMAIL PROTECTED] excited the electrons to say: No, I'm just having them with 2.4.2 on a ThinkPad T21. I thought it was because of the S3 video chipset, and adding an 'Option ShadowStatus' to XF86Config had fixed it, but n -- it hung

Re: Anybody running 2.4 and AMD???

2002-01-21 Thread Michael Costolo
Hmm. I'm running a 1 GHz Athlon with kernel version 2.4.3 (a la Mandrake 8.0) and a 32 MB NVidia TNT2 AGP video card (and XFree 4.0.3 if it matters) on an ABIT KT7A-RAID mobo with 512 MB RAM. I have not experienced any random lockups. I know nothing about the stock Mandrake kernel and

Re: Anybody running 2.4 and AMD???

2002-01-21 Thread Jerry Feldman
I have an AMD Athalon chip in my desktop system. I've had it up for two weeks with no problems, and the only reason I rebooted was to upgrade from 2.4.10 to 2.4.16 because I needed the USB support. Rich C wrote: And experiencing random lockups? This article might be of some help...