Re: A few enigmas

2001-12-24 Thread Meph Istopheles
;d so much as finished a single cup of coffee), but I'm awake now & still see nothing but the To field referring to it. So sorry that I'm not always "on", as you obviously are. Moderator, don't bother unsubbing me, I'll do so myself. Meph On Monday 24 Dec

Re: A few enigmas

2001-12-24 Thread Meph Istopheles
TM, > Anyone have a way to get the java plugin to actually work with > mozilla and Enigma? If so could you point me to a good > FAQ/how-to? Are you referring to the jre? I'd spent a couple of weeks fooling with Sun's jre, jdk, etc to no avail. Went to blackdown.org & got their jre, worke

Re: FUD alert!

2001-12-06 Thread Meph Istopheles
Mike, I'll take a minute on this -- I love bashing idiocy;-). But no idiocy on your part, M$'. > How much of what they say is true? Ignorance it a big issue. While Wu-ftp's had problems, may still have (I don't use or pay any attention to it), the rep's a bozo. He makes numerous com

Re: colour problem

2001-11-27 Thread Meph Istopheles
Rein, > > Just a note on this: > > I was thinking that with this either likely being memory > > or X (though maybe any number of different related files). > > That might be a good place to start. How much RAM is in > > the box, how large a swap partition & which distro release > > & relea

Re: colour problem

2001-11-26 Thread Meph Istopheles
Just a note on this: > > This green colour does change from one occasion to the > > next in intensity. Leaving the computer off (overnight ) > > usually cures the problem, but changing runlevels (3 to 5) > > a number of times may bring the green colour back. It is > > a total mystery to me.

Re: Red Hat 7.2: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

2001-11-26 Thread Meph Istopheles
Ya know... > Mariusz> On Fri 23 November 2001 17:03, you (Ed Wilts) wrote: > >> "The minimum size of your swap partition should be equal to twice the > >> amount of your computer's RAM or 32 MB, whichever is larger." > Mariusz> I'm curious... why 2xRAM ? If I have 360 MB of RAM I should also >

Re: Red Hat 7.2: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

2001-11-23 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey, > The Ugly: > > Wow, is the emu10k support really f*cked-up in the 7.2 kernels! It's > absolutely horrible! Besides all the popping and cracking, it may have > been responsable for some serious system instability. Here's the whole > story: I've had 7.2 installed twice. The first tim

Re: Was - poor performance on 7.2 Now New install notes

2001-11-21 Thread Meph Istopheles
Mike, > Heh, I hear ya, but I think (or hope) end user support comes AFTER divorce > no... Let's just say: "Don't let your children become 'puter techs". They'll never forgive you for it. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt->' Taylor, announcing DOOM for

Re: Was - poor performance on 7.2 Now New install notes

2001-11-21 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey, > Maybe I missed your other "experiences" or something. Oh, the previous thread was simply that RH 7.2 was rather slow with my two AMD boxes & with another's single AMD box. > But I just tried installing a Debian potato last night and it fails for > no apparent reason less that halfway

Re: Was - poor performance on 7.2 Now New install notes -- Smallcorrection

2001-11-21 Thread Meph Istopheles
> I give up. That box -- once I ~re~-install W2k -- is another Windows > box. Let's see...four boxes, & only one can install & actually run **[current releases]** of Linux. Interesting. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt->' Taylor, announcing DOOM fo

Re: Was - poor performance on 7.2 Now New install notes

2001-11-21 Thread Meph Istopheles
I started up Debian 7.1 as an AMD K6-2 dual-boot with W2k. It went well till I got to the lilo install. That failed. Then to the boot floppy creation. That failed as well. Decided to see if it would boot Windows, Debian, in spite of the fact it couldn't manage a simple lilo install, overwro

Re: poor performance on 7.2

2001-11-20 Thread Meph Istopheles
On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 09:28, Ezra Nugroho wrote: > I don't think it is an AMD thing, because I had (maybe still has??) that > problem running intel PII. Sorry I'd not got back to you sooner. Anyway, I'm going to try slack &/or Debian on that box tomorrow. I'll let you know the particulars &

Re: galeon vs rplayer

2001-11-17 Thread Meph Istopheles
Blake, > I'm just curious and thought I would post. > If I'm listening to something using realplayer, and then I try to open > galeon, galeon opens, but refuses to do anything unless I stop what I'm > listening to on real player. > I've also had this problem when running netscape and openin

Re: poor performance on 7.2

2001-11-13 Thread Meph Istopheles
Fred, > > >> On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 10:52, Meph Istopheles wrote: > > >> I had it running on an AMD k6-2 with 256MB RAM, & it was slower on a > > >> similar box with 7.1 & 128MB RAM. I also have 7.2 on my P-III 500 with > > >> 256MB RAM

Re: poor performance on 7.2

2001-11-12 Thread Meph Istopheles
Jan, > On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 10:52, Meph Istopheles wrote: > > I had it running on an AMD k6-2 with 256MB RAM, & it was slower on a > > similar box with 7.1 & 128MB RAM. I also have 7.2 on my P-III 500 with > > 256MB RAM, & it's fine -- no worse

Re: poor performance on 7.2

2001-11-12 Thread Meph Istopheles
Jon, > Yeah, I noticed that 7.2 was slower than 6.2, as well... I was expecting > NOT to notice, though, as I last ran 6.2 on a PIII 500, but am now > running 7.2 on a AMD K7 1.2Ghz w/256 mb ram... I expected it to scream! I had it running on an AMD k6-2 with 256MB RAM, & it was slower on a