Not to slam ebay but have you looked at
http://www.tigerdirect.com
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 22:43:14 -0500 - Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote the following
Re: Trolling ebay for computers: Chips ahoy!
I would like to buy some economical computers on ebay. I will need
three at work and I'll be
Hi. I got the Plextor Combo CDRW/DVD player. I can burn cds in linux and
use that fine. I installed MPlayer and compiled my kernel to enable dma. I
then figured out how to use hdparm to enable the dma on hdc and still have
the thing set to scd0.
So, I now get the movie going just fine at
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On Thursday 12 December 2002 9:44 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Feigning erudition, Bob Raymond wrote:
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% nope... too much bubblewrap- I did manage to see the face of the
drive- is it % normal for it to be silver in color?
Which side is the
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On Thursday 12 December 2002 8:25 pm, Bill Campbell wrote:
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 05:35:05AM -0800, Bob Hemus wrote:
Unfortunately most certified Microsoft support folks only know (a)
which Microsoft product to sell, and (b) how to reinstall.
Anita Lewis wrote:
Hi. I got the Plextor Combo CDRW/DVD player. I can burn cds in linux and
use that fine. I installed MPlayer and compiled my kernel to enable dma. I
then figured out how to use hdparm to enable the dma on hdc and still have
the thing set to scd0.
So, I now get the movie
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Anita Lewis wrote:
Hi. I got the Plextor Combo CDRW/DVD player. I can burn cds in linux and
use that fine. I installed MPlayer and compiled my kernel to enable dma. I
then figured out how to use hdparm to enable the dma on hdc and still have
the thing set to scd0.
Avoid TigerDirect at all costs:
http://www.resellerratings.com/seller1983.html
Note their well below average rating, as well as the multitude of negative
feedback. I recently purchased from them, against my better judgement,
and:
1) I was on hold for 50 minutes trying to take to a sales rep
2)
On Thursday 12 December 2002 22:24 pm, Bob Raymond wrote:
One hopes that the fall from the truck didn't break it...
nope... too much bubblewrap- I did manage to see the face of the
drive- is it normal for it to be silver in color?
Both of my Sony drives are beige...
--
On 13 Dec 2002, Jim Bonnet wrote:
I think the Mr. Llama! uses Mplayer, maybe he's got pointers for you.. I
messed with building it once and ran out of time to finish it.. Im sure
its a fine player, looks nice anyway..
I use MPlayer for movies, and Xine for DVDs, both without a problem. I'm
On Friday 13 December 2002 9:43 am, Net Llama! wrote:
Avoid TigerDirect at all costs:
http://www.resellerratings.com/seller1983.html
Note their well below average rating, as well as the multitude of
negative feedback. I recently purchased from them, against my better
judgement, and:
1) I
On Friday 13 December 2002 02:34 pm, Robert Black Eagle wrote:
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On Thursday 12 December 2002 9:44 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Feigning erudition, Bob Raymond wrote:
%
% nope... too much bubblewrap- I did manage to see the face of the
On 12/13/2002 9:43 AM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote:
Avoid TigerDirect at all costs:
http://www.resellerratings.com/seller1983.html
Note their well below average rating, as well as the multitude of negative
feedback. I recently purchased from them, against my better judgement,
and:
Net Llama! wrote:
On 13 Dec 2002, Jim Bonnet wrote:
I think the Mr. Llama! uses Mplayer, maybe he's got pointers for you.. I
messed with building it once and ran out of time to finish it.. Im sure
its a fine player, looks nice anyway..
I use MPlayer for movies, and Xine for DVDs, both
On 13 Dec 2002, Jim Bonnet wrote:
Net Llama! wrote:
On 13 Dec 2002, Jim Bonnet wrote:
I think the Mr. Llama! uses Mplayer, maybe he's got pointers for you.. I
messed with building it once and ran out of time to finish it.. Im sure
its a fine player, looks nice anyway..
I use MPlayer
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Tim Wunder wrote:
On 12/13/2002 9:43 AM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote:
Avoid TigerDirect at all costs:
http://www.resellerratings.com/seller1983.html
Note their well below average rating, as well as the multitude of negative
feedback. I recently
On Friday 13 December 2002 09:32, Robert Black Eagle wrote:
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On Thursday 12 December 2002 8:25 pm, Bill Campbell wrote:
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 05:35:05AM -0800, Bob Hemus wrote:
Unfortunately most certified Microsoft support folks only know
The downside to the $200.00 Walmart PC is that it has a VIA C3, and 128MB
of memory--part of which it steals for video. And it may not have an AGP
slot to add a different card. However, the same box is available with
Lycoris or no OS, or for another $100.00 with WinXP home. I think it will
I'm getting sales literature from my isp trying to sell me a DirectWay
satellite link (the Hughes box). The sales support people tell me I
gotta use Windoze (ugh, ugh, ugh) and I seem to remember seeing
something about an upcoming unix port.
Is anybody out there using this DirectWay setup, and
I have never had a problem with tiger. I have learned you do have to ask
to make sure everything you want is in stock.
But then again, if you converse with them like you at times converse
here, I suppose I might put you on hold for ~more~ than 50 minutes, you
got off easy. ;-)
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, ronnie gauthier wrote:
I have never had a problem with tiger. I have learned you do have to ask
to make sure everything you want is in stock.
That should be completely unneccesary, especially if purchasing off of
their website. And since i was onhold for 50 minutes when
Tim, I agree.. but if everyone did utilize the survey(which I too despise)
it would be more accurate.
The worst company I have dealt with, ProView monitors.. I wont go there..
However for online ordering and such, I seem to be ready to use TigerDirect,
CDW and Comps4sure time and time again...
Thats not flamebait. It merely an explanation of why you will go
through life collecting more shit that you feel you deserve. You talk
down your nose at people. Expcet them to put you on hold just to get
even. It a fact of life.
please keep your flaimbait to yourself, thank you.
On Fri, 13
pot. kettle. black. HAND.
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, ronnie gauthier wrote:
Thats not flamebait. It merely an explanation of why you will go
through life collecting more shit that you feel you deserve. You talk
down your nose at people. Expcet them to put you on hold just to get
even. It a fact
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] typed thusly on Thursday,
December 12, 2002 4:37 PM:
Feigning erudition, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote:
%
% Does anyone in this august body know of a translator/converter that
would % translate a Java program to C++?
I think that would be a
Bill Campbell mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] typed thusly on Thursday, December
12, 2002 6:25 PM:
Unfortunately most certified Microsoft support folks only know (a) which
Microsoft product to sell, and (b) how to reinstall. They're totally
lacking in diagnostic capabilities to find out what's wrong
Tony Alfrey wrote:
I'm getting sales literature from my isp trying to sell me a DirectWay
satellite link (the Hughes box). The sales support people tell me I
gotta use Windoze (ugh, ugh, ugh) and I seem to remember seeing
something about an upcoming unix port.
Is anybody out there using
On Friday 13 December 2002 10:47 am, C M Reinehr wrote:
Tony Alfrey wrote:
snip
Is anybody out there using this DirectWay setup, and better yet,
are you using linux??
Thanks
Here's a couple of links which may help. My quick review seems to
indicate that you shouldn't get your hopes up.
Uh, guys? I'm getting bad results when trying to view this link...
Here is what I see (yes, Virginia, my browser is spitting out HTML code):
!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
Transitional//ENhtmlhead
titlePlaying Quicktimes Natively in Linux/title
/headbodypreHow to get WIN32
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, C M Reinehr wrote:
Tony Alfrey wrote:
I'm getting sales literature from my isp trying to sell me a DirectWay
satellite link (the Hughes box). The sales support people tell me I
gotta use Windoze (ugh, ugh, ugh) and I seem to remember seeing
something about an
On Friday 13 December 2002 12:50 pm, Keith Morse wrote:
snip
From a posting on the isp-wireless list today, there was a news
article that said that DirectTV will be scrapping DirectWay in the
near future.
But what does that mean vis-a-vis getting DirectWay straight from an isp
like
Yea, that's half my own stupidity half apache/web browser stupidity. I
foolishly changed the name of the file when i updated it from a *.html to
a *.txt. Now apache or a webbrowser (im' not sure which ) is deciding
what the file is based on its extension rather than its content.
If you go to
I knew my days of supporting Microsoft were over when I worked for hours
on a customer's machine doing the logic troubleshooting and my associate
came in, reloaded the tape-driver, and the thing worked... Now what
exactly ATE the driver in the first place, I will never know...
On Thu, 12 Dec
Keith Morse wrote:
snip
From a posting on the isp-wireless list today, there was a news article
that said that DirectTV will be scrapping DirectWay in the near future.
snip
Hopefully not. The correction states:
quote
FYI - This is from NRTC, a Powered by DirecWay partner
December 13, 2002
According to http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.linux-sxs.org%2Ftext%2Fqt-howto.txt
Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because its content type is text/plain, which is not currently supported by this service.
So I'd say Apache is telling the browser that the page is
ok, then its my fault, and IE sux. :)
At any rate, to see the document properly formatted go to:
VIDEO - QUICKTIME
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Tim Wunder wrote:
According to
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.linux-sxs.org%2Ftext%2Fqt-howto.txt
Sorry, I am unable to validate this
Feigning erudition, Joel Hammer wrote:
% I would like to buy some economical computers on ebay. I will need three at work
% and I'll be able to pick them out, me thinks. I have a reasonable budget so
% I am not trying to scrimp, but I don't want to over spend, either.
%
% One has to likely run
I posted my question in comp.mail.sendmail.
one suggested me to add procmail to fetchmail. another suggested using
getmail.
but before I got their reply, I used OE to pull them out... I guess M$
OE breeded a generation of usres to use badly formatted email
addressses. I guess Asians don't like
Feigning erudition, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote:
% [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] typed thusly on Thursday,
% December 12, 2002 4:37 PM:
%
% I think that would be a programmer. ;-)~
%
% Oh, but Kurt, the first rule of programming is to not re-invent the wheel.
I completely agree.
Original Message
Subject: [OT] VFP7 will run on Linux
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 09:45:33 -0800
From: Paul McNett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Multiple recipients of ProFox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This question has come up before, so I wanted to post my recent
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 08:21:58 -0800 Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm getting sales literature from my isp trying to sell me a DirectWay
satellite link (the Hughes box). The sales support people tell me I
gotta use Windoze (ugh, ugh, ugh) and I seem to remember seeing
something
I was told by the owner of a company that installs satellite systems that
there is about a 750 ms lag in communications. He was installing an dish I
used for Educational channels for me and while talking to him I found out
his company also did satellites and he had the satellite Internet from
He was telling you the truth. They don't support linux. I got told that by
comcast, too. (We don't support third party software.) Naturally, I am
still using comcast.
We can never forget what a tiny part of the end user computer universe
we are.
Joel
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 08:32:15AM -0600,
On 12/13/02 17:14, Joel Hammer wrote:
He was telling you the truth. They don't support linux. I got told that by
comcast, too. (We don't support third party software.) Naturally, I am
still using comcast.
We can never forget what a tiny part of the end user computer universe
we are.
So are
I find the 4 drive limitation of IDE machines quite bothersome. Is there
some way, other than scsi, to overcome this limitation in the linux world?
Is setting up a scsi system just a matter of installing a scsi adaptor
and then plugging things in (along with the appropriate drivers)? Is it
worth
On 12/13/02 18:09, Joel Hammer wrote:
I find the 4 drive limitation of IDE machines quite bothersome. Is there
some way, other than scsi, to overcome this limitation in the linux world?
Is setting up a scsi system just a matter of installing a scsi adaptor
and then plugging things in (along with
On Saturday 14 December 2002 02:09 am, Joel Hammer wrote:
I find the 4 drive limitation of IDE machines quite bothersome. Is there
some way, other than scsi, to overcome this limitation in the linux world?
Is setting up a scsi system just a matter of installing a scsi adaptor
and then
On 12/13/02 18:23, Bob Raymond wrote:
On Saturday 14 December 2002 02:09 am, Joel Hammer wrote:
I find the 4 drive limitation of IDE machines quite bothersome. Is there
some way, other than scsi, to overcome this limitation in the linux world?
Is setting up a scsi system just a matter of
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 09:09:36PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote:
I find the 4 drive limitation of IDE machines quite bothersome. Is there
some way, other than scsi, to overcome this limitation in the linux world?
Is setting up a scsi system just a matter of installing a scsi adaptor
and then plugging
On Saturday 14 December 2002 02:28 am, Net Llama! wrote:
On 12/13/02 18:23, Bob Raymond wrote:
On Saturday 14 December 2002 02:09 am, Joel Hammer wrote:
I find the 4 drive limitation of IDE machines quite bothersome. Is there
some way, other than scsi, to overcome this limitation in the
On Friday 13 December 2002 03:58 pm, Jerry McBride wrote:
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 08:21:58 -0800 Tony Alfrey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm getting sales literature from my isp trying to sell me a
DirectWay satellite link (the Hughes box). The sales support
people tell me I gotta use Windoze
On 12/13/02 19:46, Tony Alfrey wrote:
On Friday 13 December 2002 03:58 pm, Jerry McBride wrote:
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 08:21:58 -0800 Tony Alfrey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm getting sales literature from my isp trying to sell me a
DirectWay satellite link (the Hughes box). The sales support
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According to
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.linux-sxs.org%2Ftext%2Fq
t-howto.txt Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because its
content type is text/plain,
Yes, but simply changing the extension breaks the URL on the New page.
On 12/13/02 20:21, Douglas J Hunley wrote:
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On Saturday 14 December 2002 02:28 am, Net Llama! wrote:
%
% Prolly would need a 600W power supply, and a huge case for 12IDE drives.
600 watts? Geez.
Kurt
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On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Tony Alfrey wrote:
On Friday 13 December 2002 12:50 pm, Keith Morse wrote:
snip
From a posting on the isp-wireless list today, there was a news
article that said that DirectTV will be scrapping DirectWay in the
near future.
But what does that mean vis-a-vis
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