The telezapper coming out kind of pissed me off. I had a functional equivilant on my line for a couple of years b4 the zapper came out. It had reduced our spamcalls to about 1 a week. Once a mass market product like the zapper came out, the dialers must have some sort of work around, as our spamcalls have increased to around 1 a day in the last few months.
If you read the article you'd see that Mandrake was the lesser of many evils, and she ended up with mandrake 9.0.
The older mandrake distros had some pretty big problems. I have been messing around with mandrake since 7.0 I couldn't even get mandrake 9.0 to work with the hard disk on my main machine.
I downloaded knoppix 3.2 and played around with it. As she said.. the hardware detection works great. I liked all the goodies in knoppix, but I am a glutton for punishment, so I downloaded Mandrake 9.1, and lo and behold, it installed and worked like a champ.
Only been messing around with it for a few days, and one thing I have noticed is that Win98se blows it out of the water for performance. Everything runs quicker, and feels snappier including mozilla 1.3. Win98se crashes about every other day though. not a big deal for my home machine though.
Ahh.. you youngsters.. I bought my first soundcard to play Wolfenstine on my 386 sx16. It was a Mediavision Thunderboard 8 bit mono sound card. After a year or so I got a Pro Audio Spectrum 16, followed by a Diamond Monster Sound MX200, SB128, and finally a CMI8738.
Strangely enough, I still have all those old cards.
If you read the letter that GM sent out to the owners you would see that it was sent a year ago.
Electrics could make sense for alot of people, but the battery technology is not quite ready for Joe Consumer yet.
No, you are not the only one. I like being out of touch, though I am not above leaching someone elses phone when I do something stupid like lock myself out of my car. I finally broke down and bought an answering machine though.. cost me all of $3 at goodwill for a nice digital one.
I agree. I prefer to not be easily accessable. I did have to break down and buy an answering machine though, after being "let go" at Worldcom in December. Besides, the cell companies can't compete with my heavily subsidised rural telephone coop at $12/month.
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The telezapper coming out kind of pissed me off. I had a functional equivilant on my line for a couple of years b4 the zapper came out. It had reduced our spamcalls to about 1 a week. Once a mass market product like the zapper came out, the dialers must have some sort of work around, as our spamcalls have increased to around 1 a day in the last few months.
You have that backwards. Tasers use high frequency, high voltage, low amperage.
The new Palm Tungsten Inert Gas welder.
If you read the article you'd see that Mandrake was the lesser of many evils, and she ended up with mandrake 9.0. The older mandrake distros had some pretty big problems. I have been messing around with mandrake since 7.0 I couldn't even get mandrake 9.0 to work with the hard disk on my main machine. I downloaded knoppix 3.2 and played around with it. As she said.. the hardware detection works great. I liked all the goodies in knoppix, but I am a glutton for punishment, so I downloaded Mandrake 9.1, and lo and behold, it installed and worked like a champ. Only been messing around with it for a few days, and one thing I have noticed is that Win98se blows it out of the water for performance. Everything runs quicker, and feels snappier including mozilla 1.3. Win98se crashes about every other day though. not a big deal for my home machine though.
All anime is Speed Racer. I watched that when I was a kid back in the early seventies. It sucked then too.
Ahh.. you youngsters.. I bought my first soundcard to play Wolfenstine on my 386 sx16. It was a Mediavision Thunderboard 8 bit mono sound card. After a year or so I got a Pro Audio Spectrum 16, followed by a Diamond Monster Sound MX200, SB128, and finally a CMI8738. Strangely enough, I still have all those old cards.
If you read the letter that GM sent out to the owners you would see that it was sent a year ago. Electrics could make sense for alot of people, but the battery technology is not quite ready for Joe Consumer yet.
No, you are not the only one. I like being out of touch, though I am not above leaching someone elses phone when I do something stupid like lock myself out of my car. I finally broke down and bought an answering machine though.. cost me all of $3 at goodwill for a nice digital one.
I agree. I prefer to not be easily accessable. I did have to break down and buy an answering machine though, after being "let go" at Worldcom in December. Besides, the cell companies can't compete with my heavily subsidised rural telephone coop at $12/month.