"best" high performance video card for debian

2005-01-03 Thread dorn hetzel
Ok, I know this is a subjective question with subjective answers, but would anyone care to venture personal recommendations on good high performance video cards which work well and are relatively easy to get X up and running well on. Platform would be some flavor of debian with 2.6.10ish kernel.

Re: [Way off topic] depleted uranium

2004-12-29 Thread dorn hetzel
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 09:48:56AM -0800, bandito wrote: > i think they'd be used more as an environmental contaminant than > something intended to actually cause death... setting off a big one in a > city wouldnt kill THAT many people, but it'd keep them out of the > contaminated area until the ra

Re: PVR recomendations?

2004-12-28 Thread dorn hetzel
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 07:23:51PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, dorn hetzel wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 06:33:10PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > > > What the heck, I ordered a couple different cards to play with, > > just in c

Re: PVR recomendations?

2004-12-28 Thread dorn hetzel
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 04:18:19PM -0500, jeff elkins wrote: > > I'll follow this thread with interest! > > I recently acquired a 60 inch LCD HDTV system, which has vga input - great > for > games and such, but living where I live OTA HDTV is not happening! It's HDTV > via DISH-TV or DirecTV o

Re: PVR recomendations?

2004-12-28 Thread dorn hetzel
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 06:33:10PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > * Alvin Oga ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041228 13:39]: > > > most cards after Dec 31, 2004 will no longer be legally able to > > > record hdtv signals ( silly broadcast flag by the broadcast in

Re: [OT] crossing nebraska

2004-12-28 Thread dorn hetzel
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 07:44:04PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Tuesday 28 December 2004 06:58 pm, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > Finally, a topic I'm qualified to speak on (living in northeast Nebraska and > all that). I've never been on I-80 west of Lincoln - is it really *that* > bad? As a fai

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-28 Thread dorn hetzel
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 02:36:58PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > Nate Bargmann wrote: > > >Hmmm, I didn't know that. I thought I-80 always went from Salt Lake > >City to Wendover, UT and on west. I learned something new today! > > The phrase I-80 strikes terror into the hearts of those who've gone

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-28 Thread dorn hetzel
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 02:36:58PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > Nate Bargmann wrote: > > >Hmmm, I didn't know that. I thought I-80 always went from Salt Lake > >City to Wendover, UT and on west. I learned something new today! > > The phrase I-80 strikes terror into the hearts of those who've gone

Re: OT: the pain with crosslink cables

2004-12-28 Thread dorn hetzel
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 01:11:37PM -0800, Jonathan Lassoff wrote: > On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 19:13:52 +0100, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have one of those D-Link USB network interfaces, which are > > wonderful. Plug it in, get a regular 10/100 Ethernet interface, > > supported by Li

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-28 Thread dorn hetzel
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 01:23:09PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 08:14 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Acoustic or direct connect? I remember thinking what hot shit I > was because I didn't have to jam a headset into an acoustic modem > like a lot of other people did. > > hey,

Re: oops, I broke something :)

2004-12-27 Thread dorn hetzel
On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 05:56:10PM -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 17:29:41 -0500, dorn hetzel > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I installed GCC 3.4.3 to fix problems compiling > > some software, and then got into conflicts with > > different vers

Re: Debian on SATA HD

2004-12-25 Thread dorn hetzel
On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 11:52:57PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 25 Dec 2004, dorn hetzel wrote: > > I wound up using a PATA boot disk and just use the 4 SATA > > disks after booting. When I have more time, I do hear it's > > There's no need f

Re: oops, I broke something :)

2004-12-25 Thread dorn hetzel
On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 05:29:41PM -0500, dorn hetzel wrote: > > I installed GCC 3.4.3 to fix problems compiling > some software, and then got into conflicts with > different versions of the C libraries (or at > least that's what I think went wrong). Then I > removed some

Re: Debian on SATA HD

2004-12-25 Thread dorn hetzel
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 12:31:49AM +0200, roy wrote: > > I'm going to buy a SATA HD dedicated for Debian (out of IDE connections and > the HD's are always full). > > I've never installed Debian (or linux) before, just wanted to make sure this > is going to work (as for as the HD's concerned)... >

oops, I broke something :)

2004-12-25 Thread dorn hetzel
I installed GCC 3.4.3 to fix problems compiling some software, and then got into conflicts with different versions of the C libraries (or at least that's what I think went wrong). Then I removed some older library versions and now I have broken something :) When I use the man command, for examp