Re: [techtalk] Linux - Windows System

2001-02-27 Thread Charl Pretorius
Patrick, When last did you use wine? I do agree that it is not the best solution for games, But the latest versions seems to be doing very well with wincrap software. I play Starcraft all the time under wine without any windoze partition. I have also run Caesar III and some other proggies un

Re: [techtalk] Linux - Windows System

2001-02-27 Thread Patrick Ouellet
Just a little thing here... Why do you say you must reinstall Suse when you reinstall windows... this can be done without re-installing Linux.. Corrrect me if Im wrong but all you need is a linux boot disk. Once you have re-installed windoze, it always without any kind of warning remplace your bo

RE: [techtalk] Linux - Windows System

2001-02-27 Thread Angela Nash
VMWare doesn't support DirectX yet, so that is out. WINE is iffy at best on games...so I wouldn't count on it. The best bet is to dual boot. Jason -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 5:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subjec

Re: [techtalk] Linux - Windows System

2001-02-27 Thread WolfRyder
I just bought another HD and that's what houses my win product. The NT want's to be "main boot HD" so I let it because LILO still asks which OS you want to boot into. The default is Linux. HDs aren't really expensive anymore so $150 did the trick for a 20GB 7200RPM speed. Also, that way, when

Re: [techtalk] Linux - Windows System

2001-02-27 Thread Eric R. Turner
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > So my question is what's the best tactic ? > > - with dual boot (on a second HD) but i don't like rebooting a lot Dual boot is definitely the cheapest and most reliable method! Rebooting a workstation isn't that big of a deal... mine takes 70 t

[techtalk] Linux - Windows System

2001-02-27 Thread rottie
Hi, I've been using linux for 1.5 years now and it has completely replaced my windows desktop.. but.. after 1.5 years i'm really anxious to play Baldors Gate again (and discworld noir, and heroes of m&m, ...) and since I'm doing a major upgrade (P200MMX->AMD A-900) anyway I'm thinking of install

Re: [techtalk] bash exec persistent confusion...

2001-02-27 Thread Walt
:-) Thanks! That was it exactly... Walt -~ >#! /usr/bin/perl Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. Sir Arthur Helps ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ww

Re: [techtalk] bash exec persistent confusion...

2001-02-27 Thread Paul Hardacre
At 12:15 27/02/2001, Walt wrote: >I was (am) having trouble with a script on one >of my web pages and so at the bash prompt >I typed: exec counter.cgi > >Even though the file is clearly there and I can >edit it, etc, bash responds: > >bash: /var/www/cgi-bin/counter.cgi: no such file or directory >

[techtalk] bash exec persistent confusion...

2001-02-27 Thread Walt
I was (am) having trouble with a script on one of my web pages and so at the bash prompt I typed: exec counter.cgi Even though the file is clearly there and I can edit it, etc, bash responds: bash: /var/www/cgi-bin/counter.cgi: no such file or directory Other scripts in the directory work fine!