Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-28 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 21:07:56 -0800 Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 19:51:18 -0700 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One other respondent on this thread (I lost the post) stated that ELX overwrote his MBR. I selected the don't do anything option (there

Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-27 Thread Mike Andrew
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 04:34, Net Llama wrote: Oh gawd no. Kudzu is the biggest flaming POS i've come across in all of Linux. I've stopped counting the number of boxes that its locked up, fubarred or othewise rendered useless. The part of kudzu I am impressed with is it's auto-detection of

Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-27 Thread Net Llama
--- Mike Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 04:34, Net Llama wrote: Oh gawd no. Kudzu is the biggest flaming POS i've come across in all of Linux. I've stopped counting the number of boxes that its locked up, fubarred or othewise rendered useless. The part of

Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-27 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 08:36:09 -0800 (PST) Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Mike Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 04:34, Net Llama wrote: Oh gawd no. Kudzu is the biggest flaming POS i've come across in all of Linux. I've stopped counting the number of boxes

Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-27 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 15:41:08 -0700 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless I miss my guess, Llllama, kudzu isn't designed for guys like you .. I disabled it on my elx distro, because I didn't plan to change any hardware, but it was certainly harmless when I had it enabled. Do

Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-27 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 16:11:34 -0800 Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 15:41:08 -0700 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless I miss my guess, Llllama, kudzu isn't designed for guys like you.. I disabled it on my elx distro, because I didn't plan to

Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-27 Thread Ted Ozolins
On Sunday 27 January 2002 05:27 pm, Collins Richey wrote: On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 16:11:34 -0800 Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 15:41:08 -0700 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless I miss my guess, Llllama, kudzu isn't designed for guys like you..

Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-27 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 18:27:09 -0700 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kde is a pig to start on any distro, but a little better on FreeBSD. kudzu took about 30-40 seconds that I considered wasted effort, so I disabled it. I'm an xfce biggot, too. oops, are we talking freebsd? I'm

Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-27 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 17:56:47 -0800 Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Collins that problem of waiting for a directory to list (KDE) is the very reason why I dumped Elx RC1 and RC2. I found the whole distro too Microsoftish. I didn't like what they did with Webmin (in my opinion

Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-27 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 18:21:53 -0800 Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I'm open to another choice. I'd been using libranet, but their new release took too long. (And debian is too easy! ;-) Oh, and the networking doesn't quite work here, maybe since I use dhcp for my huge 2 computer

Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-27 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 18:08:09 -0800 Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 18:27:09 -0700 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kde is a pig to start on any distro, but a little better on FreeBSD. kudzu took about 30-40 seconds that I considered wasted effort, so I

Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-27 Thread Ted Ozolins
On Sunday 27 January 2002 06:28 pm, Ken Moffat wrote: On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 18:21:53 -0800 Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I'm open to another choice. I'd been using libranet, but their new release took too long. (And debian is too easy! ;-) Oh, and the networking doesn't quite

Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-23 Thread Kurt Wall
Scribbling feverishly on January 23, Tyler Regas managed to emit: Oh gawd no. Kudzu is the biggest flaming POS i've come across in all of Linux. I've stopped counting the number of boxes that its locked up, fubarred or othewise rendered useless. Kudzu being what? Its sounds like some

Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-23 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 04:32:40PM -0500, Kurt Wall wrote: ... A plant originally used in the American southeast as roadside cover, until governments discovered that it grows very rapidly, is impossible to kill, and entombs everything in its path in a very attractive, leafy vine. I had a friend

Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-22 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
I was suprised when I installed Caldera (2.4 and 3.1) on a Dell. It has some Dell monitor. The install used the Plug 'n Pray for the monitor and identified it correctly. From that it set up the resolution rather OK. Each time I boot the log tells that I have a P79 (or whatever model Dell display

Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-21 Thread Tim Wunder
Previously, Douglas J Hunley chose to write: Michael Hipp babbled on about: I just spent a very long frustrating week working for many hours every day to get an ATI XPERT 128 card to work under Linux. Xfree says it works. The COL list says it works. But I tried 2+ different distros and 3

Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-21 Thread dep
On Sunday 20 January 2002 21:49, David A. Bandel wrote: | Before Windoze 98 hit the streets, I had a laptop running Linux. I | remember folks eyes popping wide open when I'd reach over and pop | out the PCMCIA card while the system was running. Then a minute | later, pop it back in and it just

Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-21 Thread Michael Hipp
- Original Message - From: Douglas J Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 10:20 PM Subject: Re: an interesting experience Michael Hipp babbled on about: I just spent a very long frustrating week working for many hours every day to get

Re: OT Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-21 Thread Michael Hipp
- Original Message - From: Zoran [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 1:09 AM Subject: OT Re: an interesting experience On Jan 20 Michael Hipp was heard saying: -My point is that we need to make this stuff *simple*. Rather than brag about -how

Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-21 Thread Michael Hipp
- Original Message - From: dep [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- can ease of use be achieved without compromising security? -- i do not know, and neither does microsoft, because it's never been a concern of theirs. nor do they intend for it to be, because their idea is to own your computer, its

Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-21 Thread Net Llama
--- Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's entirely different on Win. Windows doesn't ask me what my dot clock frequency is, doesn't ask me what my monitor horizontal freq is, vert freq and a dozen other technical details that I couldn't ultimately care less about. I just want it to

OT XP Licensing [was Re: an interesting experience]

2002-01-21 Thread Ian
Michael Hipp wrote: - Original Message - From: dep [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- can ease of use be achieved without compromising security? -- i do not know, and neither does microsoft, because it's never been a concern of theirs. nor do they intend for it to be, because their idea

Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-21 Thread Tim Wunder
Net Llama wrote: snip Windoze will let you completely fubar the video settings to something above what the monitor will handle. Good luck getting that fixed without reinstalling the OS, when you have no video, no telnet, no ssh. You boot into safe mode and run 640x480 and fix it. Not ALL

Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-21 Thread Tim Wunder
Michael Hipp wrote: snip FWIW, as a fifteen-year customer of MS and mostly satisfied one. I have decided to boycott XP - it's just intolerable. Worst UI design I've ever seen. And to have been marketed as the most stable OS ever, they missed that snip IIRC, it's marketed as the most stable

Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-21 Thread Tim Wunder
Net Llama wrote: --- Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Net Llama wrote: snip Windoze will let you completely fubar the video settings to something above what the monitor will handle. Good luck getting that fixed without reinstalling the OS, when you have no video, no telnet, no ssh.

Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-21 Thread Net Llama
--- Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Net Llama wrote: snip Windoze will let you completely fubar the video settings to something above what the monitor will handle. Good luck getting that fixed without reinstalling the OS, when you have no video, no telnet, no ssh. You boot

Re: OT XP Licensing [was Re: an interesting experience]

2002-01-21 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:00:17 -0500 Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Sometimes things like this get exaggerated, and since I only have second | hand hearsay, I'd like to confirm if this is true or not. Don't know. I saw pirate copies in Saudi Arabia that people were installing. They came with a

Re: OT XP Licensing [was Re: an interesting experience]

2002-01-21 Thread John Hiemenz
On Monday 21 January 2002 09:20 am, Roger Oberholtzer wrote : On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:00:17 -0500 Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Sometimes things like this get exaggerated, and since I only have second | hand hearsay, I'd like to confirm if this is true or not. Don't know. I saw pirate

Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-21 Thread Net Llama
--- Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windoze will let you completely fubar the video settings to something above what the monitor will handle. Good luck getting that fixed without reinstalling the OS, when you have no

THREAD IS DEAD (was Re: an interesting experience)

2002-01-21 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Tim Wunder babbled on about: IIRC, it's marketed as the most stable WINDOWS O/S ever. That is not necessarily wrong. However, I do agree that the the UI is hideous... sorry guys, but let's kill this thread or move it [EMAIL PROTECTED] it was ok as long it was win merits versus linux merits,

Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-21 Thread Philip J. Koenig
On 21 Jan 2002, at 8:32, Michael Hipp boldly uttered: Two problems: 1) ChipID doesn't apply to Rage 128 boards. From xfree.org: ChipID can only be used with Mach32 or Mach64 adapters, and, thus, specifically excludes any other adapter from matching the ``Device'' section. 2) Where do

Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-21 Thread Lee
Michael Hipp wrote: - Original Message - From: Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windoze will let you completely fubar the video settings to something above what the monitor will handle. Good luck getting that fixed without reinstalling the OS, when you have no video, no telnet, no

Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-21 Thread Stuart Biggerstaff
NT 4.0 lets you boot to NT or NT VGA Mode--or whatever other OS choices are in boot.ini, and so did 3.51 (at least). And to really mess up video settings, your user would have to have administrator privileges on the system. Windows 3.1x DID have this problem--but there you could boot to DOS

Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-21 Thread Collins Richey
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:22:25 -0500 Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Net Llama wrote: --- Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Net Llama wrote: snip Windoze will let you completely fubar the video settings to something above what the monitor will handle. Good luck getting that

Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-20 Thread Zoran
On Jan 19 Michael Hipp was heard saying: -From: Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Recently, my father (who is an OS/2 die-hard) purchaced a SCSI CDRW - (Yamaha) which he could not get to work. After two weeks of trying, he - asked me to see if I could get it to work in my Linux box. - -

Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-20 Thread Michael Hipp
PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 6:32 PM Subject: Re: an interesting experience On Jan 19 Michael Hipp was heard saying: -From: Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Recently, my father (who is an OS/2 die-hard) purchaced a SCSI CDRW - (Yamaha) which he could not get to work. After two

Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-20 Thread David A. Bandel
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 20:17:32 -0600 Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed into the bitstream: My point is that we need to make this stuff *simple*. Rather than brag about how we're able to do hard things. Let's brag about how an ordinary joe doesn't need to do hard things 'cause it's all easy

Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-20 Thread Tyler Regas
Please excuse me for just bargeing into this thread. Now, someone, somewhere may have a GUI way to edit those /etc/pcmcia/*.opt files. I don't, it would just slow me down. And the edit is a one-time thing. Done once, forgotten forever. David, you have a point there, but there are other

Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-20 Thread Ted Ozolins
On Sunday 20 January 2002 06:49 pm, David A. Bandel wrote: On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 20:17:32 -0600 Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed into the bitstream: My point is that we need to make this stuff *simple*. Rather than brag about how we're able to do hard things. Let's brag about how an

Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-20 Thread Michael Hipp
- Original Message - From: David A. Bandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 8:49 PM Subject: Re: an interesting experience I was told (don't know first-hand) that Windoze didn't (does it now?) allow you to just pop stuff in and out at leisure

Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-20 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Michael Hipp babbled on about: I just spent a very long frustrating week working for many hours every day to get an ATI XPERT 128 card to work under Linux. Xfree says it works. The COL list says it works. But I tried 2+ different distros and 3 different machines and more XF86Config files than

Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-20 Thread Keith Antoine
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 12:17,Michael Hipp scribed: My point is that we need to make this stuff *simple*. Rather than brag about how we're able to do hard things. Let's brag about how an ordinary joe doesn't need to do hard things 'cause it's all easy (in Linux). Michael I have a feeling that

OT Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-20 Thread Zoran
On Jan 20 Michael Hipp was heard saying: -My point is that we need to make this stuff *simple*. Rather than brag about -how we're able to do hard things. Let's brag about how an ordinary joe -doesn't need to do hard things 'cause it's all easy (in Linux). *** One, I don't see why ordinary Joe

an interesting experience

2002-01-19 Thread Myles Green
Recently, my father (who is an OS/2 die-hard) purchaced a SCSI CDRW (Yamaha) which he could not get to work. After two weeks of trying, he asked me to see if I could get it to work in my Linux box. Now, my linux box is based on Red Hat 7.2 and has been updated to kernel 2.4.17 - nothing out of

Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-19 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Saturday 19 January 2002 10:58 am, Myles Green wrote: In less than one hour I was able to install the hardware, have the system detect it (kudzu), read /var/log/messages to see which module the Adaptec SCSI card needed, modprobe the module and add a line to /etc/rc.d/rc.local (modprobe

Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-19 Thread Myles Green
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 11:08:28 -0500 Bruce Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 19 January 2002 10:58 am, Myles Green wrote: In less than one hour I was able to install the hardware, have the system detect it (kudzu), read /var/log/messages to see which module the Adaptec SCSI card

Re: an interesting experience

2002-01-19 Thread Michael Hipp
From: Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] Recently, my father (who is an OS/2 die-hard) purchaced a SCSI CDRW (Yamaha) which he could not get to work. After two weeks of trying, he asked me to see if I could get it to work in my Linux box. Having moved from OS/2 to linux just a couple of