Re: reiserfs annoyances

2001-02-04 Thread ipswitch
On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 07:45:56PM +, Matthew Sackman wrote: > Just to say that I've just switched most of my partitions over to reiserfs > and am having exactely the same problems: the boot procedure halts on each > boot-up because of the request for a file-system check on the root partition.

Re: Dnews in debian

2001-01-26 Thread ipswitch
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 11:02:53PM -0600, Dr. Aldo Medina wrote: > > I just installed Dnews 5.4j in my recently installed Debian 2.2. However > > I had to tweak some settings to make it work. Is there any way I can > > make a debian package or something to automatize the process. I can > > barely m

Re: Good 2D PCI card?

2000-07-24 Thread Ipswitch
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I wanted some opinions on a good 2D PCI card that has good support in > linux/xfree86. Needs to support 1600x1200 @32bit 3dfx still makes PCI version of some of their Voodoo cards. I've been told that they're almost as good at 2D as Matrox, and

Re: Just my opinion

1999-07-06 Thread Ipswitch
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, John Galt wrote: > > come to this conclusion: Debian is free because it's WORTHLESS! It > > won't drive your printer, it won't detect your modem, the documentation > > is incomplete, out of date, or simply wrong, and the installation > > procedure has more bugs than a South

Re: Just my opinion

1999-07-06 Thread Ipswitch
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Brad wrote: > > the documentation is incomplete, out of date, or simply wrong, > > You have a bit of a point there. Some of the HOWTOs are rather old and > inaccurate, mostly because they were written a few years ago and there've > been many advances since then. Most of the

Re: Thanks

1999-07-06 Thread Ipswitch
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > but now it tells me "there was a problem" extracting the base system > files from the CD-rom, so re-installation has failed and I have nothing > for weeks of effort.-- Max One good thing about unix is that, once you learn how to do something, it wil

Re: Basic networking

1999-07-06 Thread Ipswitch
On 5 Jul 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > I'm going to be setting up a small 100Mb home network soon and I'd Why 100Mb? 10 is fast enough for most uses and is actually faster than most machines can push bits out the interface. > I gather I need a HUB or a switch for anything more than two hosts