Re: Laptop suggestions

2003-10-06 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
I loaded SuSE 8.2 on a Dell Inspiron 7000 and it just ran. No fiddling. All hardware found and accounted for. In fact, this is the first time that the power monitor has worked. I use PCMCIA network cards (3Com) and they just worked. A new machine may be more of a crap shoot due to new components.

Re: recording wavs (or aiffs)

2003-10-06 Thread Squabsy
Quoting Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm still a bit puzzled as to why you're looking at KNOPPIX as a replacement for SuSE. To me, that's like replacing your tennis racket with your golf clubs. They are just meant to do entirely different jobs. A more likely replacement for SuSE would

Re: sharing an inbox in kmail

2003-10-06 Thread Tom Wilson
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 23:36, Andrew Mathews wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Wilson wrote: | Hi all | | My wife and I have an e-mail address that we share for general | corresponce with friends and family. She is getting tired of having | to have me login under

Re: sharing an inbox in kmail

2003-10-06 Thread Tom Wilson
On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 11:19, Bruce Marshall wrote: On Friday 03 October 2003 23:36 pm, Andrew Mathews wrote: Tom Wilson wrote: | Hi all | | My wife and I have an e-mail address that we share for general | corresponce with friends and family. She is getting tired of | having to have

Re: sharing an inbox in kmail

2003-10-06 Thread Tom Wilson
On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 12:48, Mike Reinehr wrote: This would be my preferred solution, as well. Otherwise, I believe the following would work, as well. Kmail stores all your messages in ~/Mail, that is, a Mail subdirectory in your home directory. Using your login, configure Kmail as you

Re: sharing an inbox in kmail

2003-10-06 Thread Tom Wilson
On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 09:49, Harry Giles wrote: Create the account on both users Kmail, but set it to leave messages on the server. Then both will get copies. Every now and then (or when you get a warning from your server telling you are reaching your limit) set one of them to delete the

Re: sharing an inbox in kmail

2003-10-06 Thread Tom Wilson
On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 23:02, burns wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 23:05, Tom Wilson wrote: Hi all My wife and I have an e-mail address that we share for general corresponce with friends and family. She is getting tired of having to have me login under my username so she can see any

Re: recording wavs (or aiffs)

2003-10-06 Thread Michael Hipp
Squabsy wrote: My reason for considering an insall of Knoppix is that I am able to record wavs fine in it. Understand. But Knoppix has no corner on that market. Any distro should be able to handle the job - including SuSE. If switching is indeed the solution, I'd go for something more targeted

RE: Laptop suggestions

2003-10-06 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
Joel, One thing I haven't seen mentioned is luggable vs. laptop. My (home) ThinkPad is quite reliable and SuSE 7.2 runs fine on it right off the install. But it is pretty heavy to lug around. I hate the eraser. My (home) PowerBook 17 is great, runs OS X and Gentoo in dualboot (had YellowDog

OT Sun Netra question

2003-10-06 Thread Keith Morse
Simply, the Cisco cable is an 8 conductor flat cable with one twist in it. Pin 1---8 2---7 3---6 4---5 5---4 6---3 7---2 8---1 you could easily duplicate this with CAT5.

RE: Laptop suggestions

2003-10-06 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 19:55, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: Joel, My (home) PowerBook 17 is great, runs OS X and Gentoo in dualboot (had YellowDog triple-booted but wanted the disk space instead) and is not too What do you think of Gentoo on PPC? Do you run it on Intel to compare?

Re: sharing an inbox in kmail

2003-10-06 Thread burns
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 10:42, Tom Wilson wrote: Is there a way to import mail from kmail with Evolution. I messed with using it when I initially setup op this pc but I couldn't get all my mail from Kmail to import to it. Same problem with sylpheed. So I stuck with using Kmail. I use

Re: GRUB and ATA RAID

2003-10-06 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Can Lilo boot a software RAID Root? I don't believe any of them can. This is a HW RAID, provided by a HighPoint RocketRAID card. Thanks. - Original Message - From: Federico Voges [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 12:56 AM Subject: Re: GRUB and ATA

Re: question

2003-10-06 Thread dep
quoth Rick Sivernell: | I have converted my wife machine to linux, as I said about 10 days. | Her only complaint is no printing. this idea of a wife machine is intriguing -- i may try it next time out. however, if she has no functioning parallel port, what's the point? -- dep in some

Re: GRUB and ATA RAID

2003-10-06 Thread Federico Voges
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 23:30:51 -0400, Matthew Carpenter wrote: Can Lilo boot a software RAID Root? Yes, LILO can do that. GRUB now has limited support for raid but it sucks I don't believe any of them can. This is a HW RAID, provided by a HighPoint RocketRAID card. Sorry, but AFAIK the only