[luau] News - Mandrake 9.0 vs. Mandrake 8.2 for new Linux users

2002-10-02 Thread Warren Togami
http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/10/01/130259.shtml?tid=45 - By Robin Roblimo Miller - This article concentrates on describing a basic Mandrake 9.0 installation and setup from a new user's viewpoint, using nothing but default settings all the way through. I've also tossed in a few notes on how

Re: [luau] CD Rom Burner in Linux or Free BSD

2002-10-02 Thread R. Scott Belford
http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/pipermail/luau/2002-September/subject.html and look for the threads cd burner I got a lot of great responses last month to nearly the exact same question (I did not inquire about freebsd.) It turned out that as long as the burner was made to the atapi or ide

Re: [luau] CD Rom Burner in Linux or Free BSD

2002-10-02 Thread Cliff Brown
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 03:52 pm, al plant wrote: Hi, Anyone have the name of a brand of CD Burner that works under Linux or FreeBSD? I have a TDK that works in every distro I've tried, but most any of the newer ATA drives should work. I have heard of people having problems with

Re: [luau] CD Rom Burner in Linux or Free BSD

2002-10-02 Thread Don Brown
I have an HP something-or-other that works fine. I didn't think brand mattered with CD burners and Linux. They all use the same generic SCSI drivers so I thought. Don On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Cliff Brown wrote: On Wednesday 02 October 2002 03:52 pm, al plant wrote: Hi, Anyone have the name

Re: [luau] News - Mandrake 9.0 vs. Mandrake 8.2 for new Linux users

2002-10-02 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
I think both Mandrake and Red Hat are moving too fast and trying to do too many things. While this is EXACTLY what is needed in order to catch up with Windows, traces of sloppiness (i.e., bugs) can be found in quite a few places. (Even Windows 3.0 had better quality control than most of the

Re: [luau] News - Mandrake 9.0 vs. Mandrake 8.2 for new Linux users

2002-10-02 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
This past weekend I put together a new PC from MWave. HD and CR-RW (Samsung 40x12x40 for $29.99--knock on wood!!!) were purchased from our friend CompUSA. This will be the system that I will be using. SKU Qty. Item Unit Price Ext. Price A14269

[luau] Linux Scholarship Challenge

2002-10-02 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Over 500 universities from 64 countries will compete in the 2002 Linux Scholarship Challenge in Taipei. This challenge is sponsored by IBM. http://linuxfab.cx/indexNewsData.php?NID=5409FIRSTHIT=1

[luau] Slow routing

2002-10-02 Thread Michael Ableyev
Hi all, I havent posted to the list in a long while.. have been relocating and busy in general. Now (I think) I'm back for a while. ...And already I have questions to ask. Is anyone aware of any bandwidth throtling enabled by default in Mandrake 9.0? Perhaps thats not the cause of my

Re: [luau] CD Rom Burner in Linux or Free BSD

2002-10-02 Thread linuxdan
Yes Hi Val and Sony. I have two DVD and CDRWs that work great and I believe they run at $59 each at CompUSA. Check out last Sundays ad. Dan - Original Message - From: al plant [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LUAU [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 9:52 AM Subject: [luau] CD Rom

Re: [luau] CD Rom Burner in Linux or Free BSD

2002-10-02 Thread MonMotha
al plant wrote: Hi, Anyone have the name of a brand of CD Burner that works under Linux or FreeBSD? Just about anything should work, at least in the IDE and SCSI departments, but I'm a big fan of Plextors. They're expensive, but very nice burners. Usually, it comes down to a choice of

Re: [luau] Help Needed with Comp USA

2002-10-02 Thread Michael Ableyev
al plant wrote: I purchased a Smart and Friendly CDRom Burner and a three year warranty. (The manufacturer isnt in business any longer). A 1 year manufacturers and a 2 year Comp USA warranty for a special price purchased on sale that day. I have a copy of the sales slip. When I took the

[luau] Open Source for Business Demo Day

2002-10-02 Thread Warren Togami
Mid-Pacific Linux Users Group in cooperation with Ala Moana CompUSA invites you to... Open Source for Business Demo Day Linux and Open Source Solutions for Businesses Sunday, October 6th, 2002 9:00am - 5:00pm Location: CompUSA Training department 604 Ala Moana,

Re: [luau] Help Needed with Comp USA

2002-10-02 Thread Warren Togami
On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 21:57, Michael Ableyev wrote: When I took the CDRom back because it has never worked under Win 98 or Unix/Linux. The burner is Scsi and is detected and the drivers load etc. under all three O/S, but the door won't open and a test cd will not be found. WTF... if