Re: -Stable on a Toshiba.

2000-01-18 Thread ROGIER MULHUIJZEN
Myself I have a Toshiba Tecra 8000, and the only trouble I had was with the soundcard. I had to go out and buy OSS to get it to work properly (but hey, OSS is pretty good IMHO). And since this sound chipset I have (Yamaha OPL-SAx3) and it's close relatives, have been in Toshiba notebooks for years

Re: 1/16/2000 make world success

2000-01-18 Thread Adam
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Dan O'Connor wrote: > >With the recent threads about crap failing... > > > >I cvsup'ed the evening of 1/16/2000, and built the world and installed it, > >and didn't have a single problem. > > > >Actually, I can't remember the last time I had a failure that an immediate > >cv

Re: Y2K wierdness??

2000-01-18 Thread Marcin Cieslak
The problem is, that no one remembers how things used to be before Y2K. I suppose that 1 Jan 1980 date (or DOS epoch) was normal. FAT root directory is different than others, for example it does not have a true "parent" entry with attrs, times etc. It cannot also grow easily. Even it's cluster

Re: Y2K wierdness??

2000-01-18 Thread Per Kristian Hove
[Marcin Cieslak] | The problem is, that no one remembers how things used to be | before Y2K. I suppose that 1 Jan 1980 date (or DOS epoch) | was normal. Yes, either DOS or UNIX epoch. This output is from a really old backup, so I don't remember on which OS version[*] it's been made, but it g

Re: 1/16/2000 make world success

2000-01-18 Thread Ernst de Haan
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Adam wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Dan O'Connor wrote: --8< > > 1. If you have a problem in Windows, reboot... Nah, try a reinstall. That _usually_ does the trick (B-P > > These two steps solve 99% of all computing problems in the known universe. > > :-)