Re: Bullshit-->Fired for Linux?

There may be some small validity to it. In LJ, even that guy who put all the alpha cpus together over 100 mbps ethernet, debugging the code for the alphas along the way, in order to render the water for the movie 'Titanic', said 'The satisfaction in this success actually made up for the stress in

A remark about the installation of the man package.

It seems to me that the man package does not create the required data base immediately after its installation. Rather, it let a cron job to this work when it is schedualed to. I think this approch is wrong, since the installer of a new system might want to browse the man pages immediately after

Re: Bullshit-->Fired for Linux?

On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Britton wrote: > Linux really isn't right for > gutless corporate weasles with little knowledge about what they > are doing and impatient closed-minded bosses. Not only Linux fits that model, of course. Ah, once again I am glad I chose for early retirement. I just need to b

PPP still a pain

To all debian users, I am sorry to have to post this again, as I am getting EXTREMELY loathe to post my problem as I feel my credibility as being even a "nitwit" (one with at least 2 brain cells working), is being questioned at this point. I have still had no luck at getting my modem recognize

Re: Mounting MS-DOS filesystems

On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Gregory B.Dickinson wrote: > I am running 1.3.1 on a Compaq Deskpro 2000 5120. I have 2 hard drives, > pri master is 1.2gb, pri slave is 630mb. The primary master is Linux > 100%, except for a Boot Manager Partition. The second drive is DOS 6.22, > 1 big partition. Wheneve

Re: Kernel compilation

Corey Miller wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Brian Mays wrote: > > > A good way to do this is to use the kernel-source and kernel-package > > packages. After installing both packages, do the following (as root): > > > > [detailed compilation instructions snipped] > > Please excuse my ne

RE: Questions...

[Julian Morcinek] I took a interest in this post as I will be belatedly upgrading my current Debian 1.1 installation (a dream - trouble free for over 2 years!). Just three questions: 1. Are they any major reasons why the new libc version in release 2.0.x (hamm) should be preferred over

Re: Installing packages larger than 1.44MB via floppy disks

On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Nebu John Mathai wrote: > > I have installed Debian Linux on a PC that does not have a modem and is > > not on a LAN, using floppy disks I created on my PC with a modem. How > > do I install packages via floppy disks that are larger than 1.44MB? Is > > there a DOS utility t

NEC 4 cd changer

Can someone point me towards docs on how cd changers function under 2.0.x kernels. I would appreciate it. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

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