Re: Notice: GR to remove non-free support from Debian

2000-06-08 Thread Andrew George
I don't think this is a good thing. Debian is a great distribution, and I do agree, the project shouldn't be wasting time with bug trackking (except where its the deb that got a problem). But to do this on a philosophical point is only going to cause problems for the user base and make it less at

Re: Does Windows regenerate MBR by itself?

2000-06-06 Thread Andrew George
> A very similar thing happened on the same computer, when he had NT and > Win98 installed (in the same partition). NT's mutlibooter worked fine > untill some point, and then it just vanished, and the computer started > booting straight into Win98. > > My friend claims he did nothing at all that

Re: napster won't work after new 2.2.15 kernel

2000-05-09 Thread Andrew George
I think Napster had a problem a few days ago I was getting fatal errors too...so I tried Knapster and had the same problem about 3 days ago it started working again Andrew On Tue, 09 May 2000, Corey Popelier wrote: > I had gnapster completely break on me as well (kept saying fatal error > when c

Sound in Slink

2000-05-02 Thread Andrew George
Hi, I'm installing slink (used to using mandrake) and I noticed I can't figure out how to configure sound after the install. Is there a utility I missed or should I be recompiling the Kernel? Andrew

Re: Memory strangeness; X, Netscape

2000-04-22 Thread Andrew George
Sounds to me like the infamous Netscape wrapper hit. If you get into something similar, run TOP and also look at CPU percentage. When netscape decides to get antsy, it will start trying to grab all your CPU cycles so CPU and load should be hittign the roof. As to the Kills not freeing memory...umm.

Re: need info for confused ISP

2000-04-15 Thread Andrew George
Wasn't there some statistics in the last few days about isp downtime in Germany? I think it was a link on Linuxtoday Andrew On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Pollywog wrote: > On 14-Apr-2000 20:36:53 Vitux wrote: > > Well over a year ago, I saw somewhere on the net that there > > was an experiment comparing