I think I've run most of the common distros,
redhat, slackware for a while and now finally debian.
But come to think of it, I think it could just be your CDrom that's f*cked because when mounted it is SUPPOSED to have the drive locked.
not the keyboard on my thinkpad, it's the right size. I measured it one time and found out that it was just the same width as my regular keyboard, _to the millimetre_.
Amazingly enough w2k doesn't need a reboot after setting the IP from DHCP to a static IP...
BUT.. it DOES however require a reboot after going from a static IP to DHCP.
No, I carry my Nokia 6110 with me everywhere I go, or at least until this semester is over when I'll buy a Nokia 6210.
I can take notes with it (albeit only with the numerical keypad), and *gasp* even make phonecalls with it.
Granted I'm in Europe where having a mobile phone doesn't make one big and/or important. Certainly is a lot easier to pick up a mobile phone instead of having to find a payphone and change to put in it:-)
Well, that and the fact that I couldn't write write in a readable manner on paper to save my life.
Damn those computers, don't people have pencils and paper any more? Or am I the only one who calculates pi using a pencil and paper?
Nobody needs then newfangled computer thingies when you've got a pencil and paper.
Strictly speaking we don't NEED cellphones to buy the groceries, but what if you decided to stop by to pick up some milk on the way home?
Hell, it worked on me! And I was more than a handful when I was little. The only thing that worked to make me stop doing things was to reason with me, not that "don't do that because I say so" which is all too common nowadays. "Don't play with that hammer or you could hurt yourself or break things with it" actually worked.
That kind of reasoning even works on very young kids, babies even.
If it's for a laptop you could "reverse-engineer" a ps/2 splitter (the kind that takes A ps/2 port and divides into ps/2 keyboard and ps/2 mouse). After that you could use a converter (AT port -> ps/2)
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Yes I did once, when my System Volume got a bit corrupted. Although I had to boot of the CD to get to it since the windows recovery console appears to require an OK system volume.
When you're just surfing like any average Joe one of the last things you wanna see is "Unable to write, System Volume corrupt". The really icky part was that I wasn't doing anything out of the ordinary.
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I can keep running Windows 2000 without a glitch for months. If I feed a faulty driver to Linux, or load a wacky kernel module, Linux is just as unstable as Windows with some faulty software or drivers.
ooh, pray tell, how do I "rmmod NAME_OF_WACKY_KERNEL_MODULE" in Windows?:-).
I've had Linux go a bit unstable on me in situations like this, ie. wacky module, but the problem always vanished when I rmmod'd the said module.
There have been many a time when I wished I had _that_ kind of control over a Windows box
Well my PC can!
It's an IBM ThinkPad.
I was toying around in the BIOS a few weeks ago and noticed "intel something something" listed as a boot option, then all of a sudden all I see is my built-in NIC looking for a server to boot of:)
I've had an IBM ThinkPad A20M since last October and everything, save the modem I have now (although the original one did), works like a charm. I ripped the modem out and replaced it with a mini-pci ethernetcard+modem which needed a special driver in w2k. Linux however used the module I told it to use and it was up and running on the net (I did a net-install of debian btw.) in no time. No problem running X or just about anything on it. The only tweak I had to do was a simple pnp/powermanagement setting in the bios to get my soundcard working.
He who knows not, and knows he knows not is a wise man
He who knows not and knows not he knows not is a fool.
This was the first thing my english teacher in my first semester in highschool said in our first class (first class in highschool), only he said:
He who knows not, and knows he knows not is a wise man, teach him
He who knows not and knows not he knows not is a fool, shun him
just my €0.02
they can't fire you for drug abuse, unless it affects your work efficiency; in which case you probably won't get fired right away, but are offered a chance to go into rehab.
I think having vi is a part of an unwritten rule/standard. Becaues no matter what type of system it is, you always have access to vi, to me vi is kinda like/etc, it's there, it's always there and it'll be there for as long as there exist systems with the letter U N X in it; either that or BSD =)
How close is Debian to BDS comparing apt-get and ports?
I've been playing around with both apt-get and the ports system.
The difference (as far as I could tell) is that apt downloads binaries whereas the ports system downloads source and compiles, which is OK when you've got an OK connection, but not when you're on a stinking modem;) Seeing as how source usually is bigger (at least the size of the tarball).
This has been bothering me for the last couple of days, I can't seem to get X(4.0.1) to use both my trackpoint(it's a ThinkPad) AND my USB msIntelliEye mouse. It handles it OK when I plug the USB mouse into the PS/2 port using the little converter thingy, but it responds slow so I don't like it; but it's got an "either-or" rule about it when I use my USB mouse, i.e. I can't make both the trackpoint and usbmouse move the pointer on the screen, in which case I have to restart the Xserver switch the mouse-input device.
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I think I've run most of the common distros, redhat, slackware for a while and now finally debian. But come to think of it, I think it could just be your CDrom that's f*cked because when mounted it is SUPPOSED to have the drive locked.
If I try to eject the CD in Linux when it's mounted it won't eject. And that's the way it's been since I started using Linux some 5 years ago.
not the keyboard on my thinkpad, it's the right size. I measured it one time and found out that it was just the same width as my regular keyboard, _to the millimetre_.
Amazingly enough w2k doesn't need a reboot after setting the IP from DHCP to a static IP... .. it DOES however require a reboot after going from a static IP to DHCP.
BUT
Am I the only one who finds this strange?
Imagine that, all those drivers and I STILL had to use a driver from the manufacturer when I installed a NIC in my laptop (it's an IBM ThinkPad).
Took me 1 second to get the think working in Linux, as it's just a small scale EEPro 10/100.
No, I carry my Nokia 6110 with me everywhere I go, or at least until this semester is over when I'll buy a Nokia 6210. :-)
I can take notes with it (albeit only with the numerical keypad), and *gasp* even make phonecalls with it.
Granted I'm in Europe where having a mobile phone doesn't make one big and/or important. Certainly is a lot easier to pick up a mobile phone instead of having to find a payphone and change to put in it
Well, that and the fact that I couldn't write write in a readable manner on paper to save my life.
Damn those computers, don't people have pencils and paper any more? Or am I the only one who calculates pi using a pencil and paper? Nobody needs then newfangled computer thingies when you've got a pencil and paper.
Strictly speaking we don't NEED cellphones to buy the groceries, but what if you decided to stop by to pick up some milk on the way home?
Hell, it worked on me! And I was more than a handful when I was little. The only thing that worked to make me stop doing things was to reason with me, not that "don't do that because I say so" which is all too common nowadays. "Don't play with that hammer or you could hurt yourself or break things with it" actually worked.
That kind of reasoning even works on very young kids, babies even.
If it's for a laptop you could "reverse-engineer" a ps/2 splitter (the kind that takes A ps/2 port and divides into ps/2 keyboard and ps/2 mouse). After that you could use a converter (AT port -> ps/2)
Does too!!!
It just requires a small patch and you're all set.
This is at least what I did 2-3 years ago when I received an encrypted pdf file.
This is a link to the site where I got my patch.
Yes I did once, when my System Volume got a bit corrupted. Although I had to boot of the CD to get to it since the windows recovery console appears to require an OK system volume.
When you're just surfing like any average Joe one of the last things you wanna see is "Unable to write, System Volume corrupt". The really icky part was that I wasn't doing anything out of the ordinary.
I can keep running Windows 2000 without a glitch for months. If I feed a faulty driver to Linux, or load a wacky kernel module, Linux is just as unstable as Windows with some faulty software or drivers.
:-).
ooh, pray tell, how do I "rmmod NAME_OF_WACKY_KERNEL_MODULE" in Windows?
I've had Linux go a bit unstable on me in situations like this, ie. wacky module, but the problem always vanished when I rmmod'd the said module.
There have been many a time when I wished I had _that_ kind of control over a Windows box
Well, Linus doesn't write code for JUST Linux, AFAIK he submitted a patch of some sort for FreeBSD once:)
Well my PC can! It's an IBM ThinkPad. I was toying around in the BIOS a few weeks ago and noticed "intel something something" listed as a boot option, then all of a sudden all I see is my built-in NIC looking for a server to boot of :)
Simple, you add yourself to the wheel group! And presto chango, you can su all you like.
I've had an IBM ThinkPad A20M since last October and everything, save the modem I have now (although the original one did), works like a charm. I ripped the modem out and replaced it with a mini-pci ethernetcard+modem which needed a special driver in w2k. Linux however used the module I told it to use and it was up and running on the net (I did a net-install of debian btw.) in no time. No problem running X or just about anything on it. The only tweak I had to do was a simple pnp/powermanagement setting in the bios to get my soundcard working.
uh, no .. do YOUR women get beaten by the ugly-stick regularly? because it's rarer to see a beautiful american woman than a european one.
Actually, no. Iceland is both North American and European tectonically. I even think it's more European too.
He who knows not, and knows he knows not is a wise man
He who knows not and knows not he knows not is a fool.
This was the first thing my english teacher in my first semester in highschool said in our first class (first class in highschool), only he said:
He who knows not, and knows he knows not is a wise man, teach him
He who knows not and knows not he knows not is a fool, shun him
just my €0.02
they can't fire you for drug abuse, unless it affects your work efficiency; in which case you probably won't get fired right away, but are offered a chance to go into rehab.
I think having vi is a part of an unwritten rule/standard. Becaues no matter what type of system it is, you always have access to vi, to me vi is kinda like /etc, it's there, it's always there and it'll be there for as long as there exist systems with the letter U N X in it; either that or BSD =)
I've been playing around with both apt-get and the ports system.
The difference (as far as I could tell) is that apt downloads binaries whereas the ports system downloads source and compiles, which is OK when you've got an OK connection, but not when you're on a stinking modem ;) Seeing as how source usually is bigger (at least the size of the tarball).
how can it be the fastest computer if it's second to ASCI White ?
you'd know that Zoran didn't try to blast the moon, he only went after Silicon Valley.
This has been bothering me for the last couple of days, I can't seem to get X(4.0.1) to use both my trackpoint(it's a ThinkPad) AND my USB msIntelliEye mouse. It handles it OK when I plug the USB mouse into the PS/2 port using the little converter thingy, but it responds slow so I don't like it; but it's got an "either-or" rule about it when I use my USB mouse, i.e. I can't make both the trackpoint and usbmouse move the pointer on the screen, in which case I have to restart the Xserver switch the mouse-input device.