Yeah, I actually went after hardware first.  I completely replaced the
computer.  The only thing copied between them was $HOME for my personal
account.  



Thus spake John Cichy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 14:05:28 -0400
> From: John Cichy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: WM Suggestions
> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.3 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-mandrake-linux-gnu)
> 
> On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 10:01:40 -0600
> "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Although this is not a window manager suggestion, I would like to offer 
> something that I just went through. I experenced 'random' hangs and was 
> blaming the WM after changing to another, still experenced the same thing, 
> made another change still same problem. Although I was not running a dual 
> system, I was running an AMD Athlon 950 w/768megs ram, so I could not 
> understand why this was happening across the board. Then finely on one of 
> these 'random' hand the system would not come back up, one of the drives had 
> failed. After removing the drive, I have not had a problem (knocking on every 
> piece of wood I can find ;-) sence, and I have tried all the WM again. It 
> seems that the drive was getting ready to fail and would randomly 'choke', 
> but on reboot would start up again.
> 
> Not sure if this will help, but...
> John  
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Ok,  running gnome at work.  Been useing Sawfish-gnome as my window
> > manager.  I'm having problems with the system hanging randomly with no
> > error messages, etc.  The only thing I haven't eliminated yet is sawfish
> > and gnome.  Anyone have any suggestions on a good gnome-compliant window
> > manager, preferably one that's semi-light weight as I'm running on a
> > dual p2-450 with 512 megs of ram.
> > 
> > 
> > :wq!
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Robert L. Harris                |  Micros~1 :
> > Senior System Engineer          |    For when quality, reliability
> >   at RnD Consulting             |      and security just aren't
> >                                 \_       that important!
> > DISCLAIMER:
> >       These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
> > FYI:
> >  perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
> > 
> > 
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:wq!
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Robert L. Harris                |  Micros~1 :
Senior System Engineer          |    For when quality, reliability
  at RnD Consulting             |      and security just aren't
                                \_       that important!
DISCLAIMER:
      These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
FYI:
 perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'


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