Re: [GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP PC;

2016-07-25 Thread Howard Gibson via talk
On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 11:49:41 -0400 Giles Orr via talk wrote: > > My suggestions: > - build it yourself. If you're comfortable mucking around inside a > PC, you already have the skills. From my first build I think the only > thing that got somewhat alarming was having to get

Re: [GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP PC;

2016-07-25 Thread Loui Chang via talk
On Mon 25 Jul 2016 18:15 -0400, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > Sent from mobile. What model? --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP PC;

2016-07-25 Thread Loui Chang via talk
On Mon 25 Jul 2016 16:07 -0400, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 11:15:36AM -0500, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk > > > Dialup Modem US Robotics USR5638 56K* V.92, internal dial-up > > > faxmodem > > >

Re: [GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP PC;

2016-07-25 Thread Peter Hiscocks via talk
>> * A-1 Surplus out in the wilds of Etobicoke is a vast cavern of *stuff*. >> I'm told that patient browsing rewards with some excellent finds*. >> >> If you plan ahead and have a few weeks before a build, you can buy >> selection boxes of hardware on eBay from Hong Kong, and they'll arrive >>

Re: [GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP PC;

2016-07-25 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
> * Above All surplus on Bloor near Euclid (Steve has some very > vintage/niche bits indeed. His phone is disconnected, so don't try calling) Thanks, thats good to know. I had tried calling and assumed they had closed. This was my goto place for refurbished 20/30/40mb Fujitsu drives. Fujitsu

Re: [GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP PC;

2016-07-25 Thread Stewart C. Russell via talk
On 2016-07-25 03:34 PM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > > active surplus … > > I have yet to find another place with such a comprehensive stock of the > little odds and ends someone night need. True enough, but Graham (the former manager of Active Surplus) plus the skilled facilitators of

Re: [GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP PC;

2016-07-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen via talk
On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 11:15:36AM -0500, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk > > Dialup Modem US Robotics USR5638 56K* V.92, internal dial-up faxmodem > > card, > > (PCIe) PCI Express x1; > > Not sure how well

Re: [GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP PC;

2016-07-25 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Jul 25, 2016 10:50 AM, "Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk" wrote: > > Warm Greetings To GTALUG, > > Please forgive the long email. -- have to provide some background. > > BACKGROUND -- BUILDING DEBIAN 8 PC TO REPLACE WIN XP PC > I usually have a couple of pieces of advise for

Re: [GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP PC;

2016-07-25 Thread Giles Orr via talk
On 25 July 2016 at 12:18, o1bigtenor wrote: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Giles Orr via talk wrote: >> On 25 July 2016 at 10:47, Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk >> wrote: >> - BluRay support on Linux is ... limited. You can probably

Re: [GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP PC;

2016-07-25 Thread Giles Orr via talk
On 25 July 2016 at 10:47, Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk wrote: > Warm Greetings To GTALUG, > > Please forgive the long email. -- have to provide some background. > > BACKGROUND -- BUILDING DEBIAN 8 PC TO REPLACE WIN XP PC > > I'm working to replace an old Dell Windows XP SP3 PC

[GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP PC;

2016-07-25 Thread Steve Petrie, P.Eng. via talk
Warm Greetings To GTALUG, Please forgive the long email. -- have to provide some background. BACKGROUND -- BUILDING DEBIAN 8 PC TO REPLACE WIN XP PC I'm working to replace an old Dell Windows XP SP3 PC with a new PC, booting Debian Linux 8 as the primary OS, with Win 7 set up to run under

Re: [GTALUG] 2 weeks on cell phone and chromebook... never again!

2016-07-25 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Jul 25, 2016 2:35 AM, "ac via talk" wrote: > > > guidelines that say: > > > "Particularly for this list: > > > Don't be the guy on the soapbox, > > > Try to stay out of political, social, or religious issues, > > > Avoid bad jokes, personal rants or similar

Re: [GTALUG] 2 weeks on cell phone and chromebook... never again!

2016-07-25 Thread ac via talk
On Sun, 24 Jul 2016 07:15:05 -0400 Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > On Jul 23, 2016 10:02 PM, "Stewart C. Russell via talk" > wrote: > > On 2016-07-23 05:29 PM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote: > > > This is a local mail list who's membership seems to be quite far