RE: [techtalk] USB Support?
I'm actually poking about at that same issue at the moment...putting Corel Linux on a Toshiba Satellite 1675. I've found that the fastest way to check on drivers for a particular device is actually to do a google search on the item with obvious related terms, such as Iomega USB CD-RW linux I'm having pretty good luck with tracking down drivers or potential drivers for most of the USB doodads and even the winmodem in this box (although we've not yet got them all to work yet), but I'm pretty universally seeing that USB CD-RW's don't look to have drivers out there yet. Iomega hints that they'll probably be coming eventually My solution has been "Well, it will be useful on the iMac until the drivers turn up." Megan "Piglet" Zurawicz, ListPig [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Shari Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 8:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [techtalk] USB Support? I'm about to begin an installation of Redhat 7.0 on my Dell Laptop (Inspiron 3700). I've attempted this before, unsuccessfully with RH 6.0. Had display problems and couldn't get my dsl working. But I digress. I've been away from Linux for awhile, and I wouldn't call myself an OS/HW guru by any means. My question is what is the hw support like for USB? I have a USB CD-RW drive, that I can't seem to get running in Win2k. I haven't seen my model on RedHat's HCL site. Is this an ill-fated exercise? Is anyone doing this? Thanks in advance Shari ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
RE: [techtalk] Running Linux from a zip disk.
This has bugged me since you first posted, because I knew I'd just read something about this. >From the book LINUX FOR YOUR LAPTOP by Bill Ball-- Slackware has a version that's meant to be run from a zip disk. Minimal installation on your machine, and boots from the zip: http://www.slackware.com/zipslack/ Procedure as presented by Ball: Download zipslack.zip, bootdisk.img, rawrite.exe Decompress onto the zip disk Use rawrite.exe to create boot disk (optional) Run loadlin.exe to boot Linux from the zip disk Megan "Piglet" Zurawicz, ListPig [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Maria G Martinez Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 9:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [techtalk] Running Linux from a zip disk. Hi. I was wondering if anyone here has had any experience running Linux from a zip disk. I am a newbie, and relatively ignorant, but for some reason, during the summer I will be rquired to do some UNIX stuff. I decided that if I ran Slackware, I would be able to go by with that. The problem is that I literally live at school, where everything is windows and microsoft. So I was thinking in the possibility of running Linux from a zip disk, without having to mess up much with the computers. Any ideas/help? Maria. http://www.slackware.com/zipslack/ http://www.stack.nl/~nick/nbroklinux.html __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
RE: [techtalk] This talk of N-ary trees and other things...
Rick: the classic example we were always given when I studied languages on how language colors your thinking is the difference in perceived responsibility between the English phrase of "I missed the plane" and the translation of the normal Spanish version "The plane left me". There's a whole unspoken assumption there that assumes that Anglo-Saxon culture is more aggressive than Hispanic culture and this explains it. I'm not entirely sure that the syllogism holds water, but it's still interesting. Philosophically, I'm still trying to figure out why Hebrew has no ways to cuss while Arabic is considered possibly the best language in the world for it, given their proximityfrom a historical standpoint, I suspect that it's related to Hebrew being effectively a dead language artificially revived. But I love the Israeli way of coping with this: speak Hebrew, cuss in Arabic. Megan "Piglet" Zurawicz, ListPig [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
RE: [techtalk] IT'S YOUR DAY! ITS FRIDAY & ITS SPECIAL!
Maybe they were after the Aussies only? Megan "Piglet" Zurawicz, ListPig [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vinnie Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 2:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [techtalk] IT'S YOUR DAY! ITS FRIDAY & ITS SPECIAL! you know, this spam would have been much more interesting had it actually been sent on friday jeeze, the spammers don't even know the days of the week. pitiful. V. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Layman's Guides to Computer Security
The ones that stick in my mind were "Chemistry for Poetry Majors" and "Physics for Poetry Majors". --pig On Mon, 14 May 2001, J-Mag Guthrie wrote: > Novice? Newbie? When I was in college, lo these many years ago, there > were math and engineering classes that were specifically for "non-major" > so maybe something like "Computer Security for the Non-Admin" or even "The > Non-Geek's Guide..." > > -- > J-Mag Guthrie/"\ "Even Microsoft's product managers privately > Brokersys\ / concede that this new version, with its > 281-580-3358 (voice) Xwarm-and-fuzzy nickname of Windows Me, > 281-586-0628 (fax) / \ is not for everyone." -- Dwight Silverman > > > ___ > techtalk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk -- Megan "Piglet" Zurawicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
[techtalk] linux books
Actually, one of my favorite newbie books is Linux for Windows Addicts. Given that a lot of folks come to linux from windows (as opposed to it being their first introduction to computers at all), it's rather nice in that it gives a lot of equivalents.such as "this thing I'm telling you about in linux is like that thing over there in Windows". Helps to develop a mental picture of what's going on inside the system. -- Megan "Piglet" Zurawicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
