Re: keyboardless operation

2000-09-02 Thread Philip C Mendelsohn
Is this an AT style keyboard? I found that some if not all older AT keyboards need to be present for the system to complete the BIOS boot seq. Hope that helps. Phil Mendelsohn On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Lazar Fleysher wrote: > It stops after "Console: colour VGA+ 80x25"... basically the first boot > m

Re: C programming

2000-08-05 Thread Philip C Mendelsohn
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote: > I suggest going to comp.lang.c and checking the C FAQ. Specifically look > for the inherent problem of putting the same variable on both sides of a > relational operator: (x+y) > x In this case, a little algebra shows that all you need to check is y >

Re: Poster-making software?

2000-06-01 Thread Philip C Mendelsohn
On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > What to people use to make big posters? (Assemblage of various > PostScript figures and typeset text, collected in a huge > PostScript file ready to send to a large printer). It's not strictly what you asked about, nor is it OpenSource, but Mathemat

Netscape

2000-04-23 Thread Philip C Mendelsohn
One more question: On one of my other machines, I need to have Netscape Navigator installed, so I can have a browser that does RSA secure https:// browsing (for some online banking.) I am very much in the learning curve of dselect and apt-get, and alien doesn't like to talk to the Mandrake rpm's

Trouble with video on installation boot

2000-04-23 Thread Philip C Mendelsohn
Hi, I have been impressed with Debian and am installing it on all the systems on the network here. I have one that's being a little poopy about booting the installation, and I wonder if anyone has experience with it. The machine in question is an older DELL 486DX2 50MHz machine, 16MB RAM, we put