Re: newbie: redhat 9.0 very slow

2003-10-21 Thread mwafkowski
It also wouldn't hurt to have a halfway decent video card...you didn't specify what yours is. Regards, Mike Wafkowski - Original Message - From: "Ed Wilts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 6:26 PM Subject: Re: newbie: redhat 9.0 very slow > On

Re: Two network cards as one

2003-10-03 Thread mwafkowski
Sounds like you're talking about bonding, not load balancing...google is your friend. When you know what you're looking for is the time to ask it here.   Regards, MRW   - Original Message - From: mike To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 12:52 PM Sub

Re: Legal Characters in DNS

2003-10-02 Thread mwafkowski
Legal characters for BIND are a-z, 0-9 and "-". Nothing else. MRW - Original Message - From: "Jason Staudenmayer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 3:22 PM Subject: RE: Legal Characters in DNS > I believe they used to be legal but now you shoul

Re: a little help with RH 7.3

2003-07-22 Thread MWafkowski
I don't know about your second question but regarding the first: It sounds like this is the same setup (exactly) that you were using under Win and getting 4-5K? If so, are you plugging into the same phone jack as before? Are you using a longer RJ-11 cable? Have you tried setting your port speed a

Re: motherboard change

2003-07-17 Thread MWafkowski
Pretty much a necessity in such a case. Maybe not if you used a mobo with same chip set? MRW http://www.osheaven.net Linux CDs and Stuff - Original Message - From: "Sachintha Karunaratne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "redhat list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 2:30 PM Subje

Re: VPN solution

2003-07-05 Thread MWafkowski
A google search on Linux vpn brings 755,000 hits including HOWTOs. Regards, Mike Wafkowski http://www.osheaven.net Linux CDs and Stuff - Original Message - From: "Sudh Peram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 3:53 AM Subject: VPN solution > Hi,

Re: redhat linux4.1

2003-07-02 Thread MWafkowski
I don't think so. You'd be better off asking the list if anyone has an old CD around that they might send to you. Peace, Mike Wafkowski http://www.osheaven.net Linux CDs and Stuff - Original Message - From: "Raghuraj, Ajay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July

Re: Why is RH9 slower than Windows98SE. Any advice?

2003-06-25 Thread MWafkowski
]> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 5:41 PM Subject: Re: Why is RH9 slower than Windows98SE. Any advice? > MWafkowski wrote: > > I'll try to distill my point. At this time there is no full blown GUI > > (functonality, eye candy, ease of use, etc.) that is not a pig on Linux. >

Re: Why is RH9 slower than Windows98SE. Any advice?

2003-06-24 Thread MWafkowski
-- From: "Emmanuel Seyman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 8:00 PM Subject: Re: Why is RH9 slower than Windows98SE. Any advice? > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 03:44:58PM -0400, MWafkowski wrote: > > > > I can use them fine...you giv

Re: Why is RH9 slower than Windows98SE. Any advice?

2003-06-24 Thread MWafkowski
Is that the one next to my "any" key? MRW > ways to see an immediate improvement on RH9. > > Also, please locate the [snip] key on your keyboard. > > -- > Cliff Wells, Software Engineer > Logiplex Corporation (www.logiplex.net) > (503) 978-6726 (800) 735-0555 > > > -- > redhat-list mailin

Re: Why is RH9 slower than Windows98SE. Any advice?

2003-06-24 Thread MWafkowski
Ryan - You make good points and gave information I was not aware of. Let me just make it clear that I WANT TO BE WRONG about desktop Linux. If I am then that's great. I didn't rant to try to show someone that I was "smart." (well maybe a smartass). 8^) I'm just trying to address (what I see) as th

Re: Why is RH9 slower than Windows98SE. Any advice?

2003-06-24 Thread MWafkowski
Emmanual - I can use them fine...you give me the resources to get a network full of former Windows/Mac users to use them efficiently and I'll eat my words. Until then, for people thinking about switching the "masses" to desktop Linux (which is what my rant/point is about) Your atitude/point of vi

Re: Why is RH9 slower than Windows98SE. Any advice?

2003-06-24 Thread MWafkowski
I'll try to distill my point. At this time there is no full blown GUI (functonality, eye candy, ease of use, etc.) that is not a pig on Linux. I'm quite willing to concede that the problem might be KDE or Gnome, but since they must reside on X it's hard for me to believe that no one has developed

Re: Why is RH9 slower than Windows98SE. Any advice?

2003-06-20 Thread MWafkowski
The Reason - X, X and X again. I hate X. Mike Wafkowski - Original Message - From: "Apollo (Carmel Entertainment)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 2:52 AM Subject: Why is RH9 slower than Windows98SE. Any advice? > I am migrating my workstations t

Re: Optimize Redhat9

2003-06-11 Thread MWafkowski
Simplest and most useful answer...add another 128 megs of ram. Barring that, make sure that you don't have an services running that you don't need, lower video to 16 bit if you have it higher; use hdparm to potentially speed HD access, if that all fails and ram is not an option, use another WM like

Re: Linux desktop speed - Linux FUD

2003-06-10 Thread MWafkowski
You've had the nerve (or the innocence 8^) to expose the "elephant" in the middle of the living room. Among all the high fives and rah-rahing on this list (and other Linux lists I belong to) about Linux vs Windows there are some things most of us would seem to rather ignore. Linux people have th

Re: What distribution works well with old computers?

2003-06-05 Thread MWafkowski
Take a look at Peanut or Vector Linux, though you can run RH with enough ram on that machine (min 128 meg for X) and a halfway decent video card with four megs of ram or more. Regards, Mike Wafkowski http://www.osheaven.net Linux CDs and Things - Original Message - From: "Paul Sutcliffe

Re: Re: Unable to install Red Hat 9

2003-06-04 Thread MWafkowski
Entirely different distro, Knoppix is. Regards, Mike Wafkowski http://www.osheaven.net Linux and Things - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 4:06 PM Subject: Re: Re: Unable to install Red Hat 9 > I used CD-R. I didn't try w

Re: telnet

2003-06-01 Thread MWafkowski
Not by default, with good reason. Use SSH and be smart, close down the telnet daemon! Regards, Mike Wafkowski http://www.osheaven.net Linux Software and Things - Original Message - From: "Brent L. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 12:59 PM Subje