Re: [techtalk] Flatscreen monitors

1999-10-25 Thread Amanda Owens
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Discussion on issues brings up a question. > > We're looking into a flatscreen monitor for our next monitor purchase - for > a number of reasons, one of which is that my doctor thinks long exposure to > EMR may be keeping me unwell. So. > > 1. Any

RE: [techtalk] Would like advice on building system

1999-10-25 Thread Cathy James
>A good place to look for part-built systems is www.lynncomputer.com (or a >variation thereof). This site is a blank page with "Coming Soon" on it. Is that not the site you meant? --Cathy [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

RE: [techtalk] Would like advice on building system

1999-10-25 Thread Cathy James
From: Amanda Owens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >I've been very happy with two motherboards I've purchased recently. At >home we run 2 AMD K6-2 350s on FIC 503+ motherboards. This motherboard is >*very* nice for AMD chips, and it's Y2K compliant. I'm also running the >same chip on a Tyan board a

RE: [techtalk] Would like advice on building system

1999-10-25 Thread Amanda Owens
That wouldn't be it. I'm not 100% sure of the URL. Let me check... www.lynncomp.com That, according to my husband (who's purchased through them) is the URL. You might also want to check these out: www.anandtech.com www.indybox.com www.thelinuxstore.com www.mpipc.com www.mtrends.com www.tccompu

Re: [techtalk] Flatscreen monitors

1999-10-25 Thread Steve Kudlak
Amanda Owens wrote: > On Mon, 25 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Discussion on issues brings up a question. > > > > We're looking into a flatscreen monitor for our next monitor purchase - for > > a number of reasons, one of which is that my doctor thinks long exposure to > > EMR may be

RE: [techtalk] Would like advice on building system

1999-10-25 Thread Kristina
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Amanda Owens wrote: > You might also want to check these out: [deleted] And also www.buypogo.com. I got a "Pogo Pro" for less than I could have built one. They also are a Linux-box-maker, but you can get Win 98 dual-boot for an extra hundred or so dollars. (Got one for m

[techtalk] Newbie: my printer.

1999-10-25 Thread Xavier Gutierrez Munoz
I would like to know if my printer is supported bay any Linux kernel version. It's a HP DeskJet 850 cxi (non Windows95 printer). Thanx in advance. -- Xavier Gutierrez Muñoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] Flatscreen monitors

1999-10-25 Thread Simon Britnell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 2. Anyone know what issues there are with flatscreens & linux support? If the flatscreen comes with its own graphics card, it'll only work on one of the following conditions: a) There is a linux compatible driver (XFree86, etc) for it b) It emulates another graphics ca

Re: [techtalk] Newbie: my printer.

1999-10-25 Thread Simon Britnell
Xavier Gutierrez Munoz wrote: > I would like to know if my printer is supported bay any Linux kernel > version. This is actually the wrong question :) The kernel itself only supports the ability to talk to printers (via parallel or serial interfaces). Support for any given printer is usually mo

RE: [techtalk] Would like advice on building system

1999-10-25 Thread Wayne Mehl
--- Amanda Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That wouldn't be it. I'm not 100% sure of the URL. Let me check... > > > www.anandtech.com > I also use anandtech.com. One of my places to get reviews on hardware. He turned me on to the IBM drives, which rock. Wayne = )-)-)-)-)-)-)-)-)-)-)-

Re: [techtalk] Newbie: my printer.

1999-10-25 Thread Wayne Mehl
I used to work for this admin that set up printers from scratch. It took him about two days to do it (he may have not been very good, I was only a few months into my first admin job). He would never let anyone else do it and we all though it was really difficult to do. Later, I went to work at a

RE: [techtalk] Newbie: my printer.

1999-10-25 Thread JoAnn Elliott
This helps me as well. as I found out that my printer prints my emails just fine (KDE, the mail icon on bar) but not other apps, where it seems to be looking for PS. Soo, where do I find this Ghostscript program? I sure hope it comes in an rpm, as I am new and so far have best success with tho

RE: [techtalk] Would like advice on building system

1999-10-25 Thread Cathy James
OK, I am leaning toward the following configuration: AOPEN HX08 full tower with 300W power supply FIC PA2013 VIA MVP3 w/2MB, fan 128M RAM K6-3-450 Plus stuff I already have and can reuse: Monitor Keyboard Floppies Stuff I haven't figured

Re: [techtalk] Newbie: my printer.

1999-10-25 Thread Simon Britnell
JoAnn Elliott wrote: > This helps me as well. Glad to be of service. > Soo, where do I find this Ghostscript program? I sure > hope it comes in an rpm, as I am new and so far have best success with > those, but I can do it at prompt, just not the most confidence. >From the "rpm", I guess y

RE: [techtalk] Would like advice on building system

1999-10-25 Thread Naomi Hospodarsky
As a matter of personal preference, I've been very happy with the Memorex CD-482E drive as it is able to read re-writeable cdroms that I've burned with my HP cd-rom burner. They are also pretty cheap. Additionally, I've been very happy with Fujitsu hard disks, while every drive I've ever seen c

Re: [techtalk] Flatscreen monitors

1999-10-25 Thread Amanda Owens
I doubt there's much 'neutral' literature out there - most people who research this sort of thing are going to have an agenda on one side of the arguement or the other, and both sides can take the same data and argue whatever they want to be 'the truth' with it. Unfortunately. Personally, I'm

Re: [techtalk] ISA Ethernet card under RHat 6

1999-10-25 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Walt wrote: > Serena Del Bianco wrote: > >>On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Walt wrote: > >> My question is: How do I find out stuff like the IRQ > >> and I/O address information for the card from the > > >system? > > > >cat /proc/ioports > >cat /proc/interrupts > > None of the things i

Re: [techtalk] Newbie: my printer.

1999-10-25 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Simon Britnell wrote: > JoAnn Elliott wrote: > > > This helps me as well. > > Glad to be of service. > > > Soo, where do I find this Ghostscript program? I sure > > hope it comes in an rpm, as I am new and so far have best success with > > those, but I can do it at pro

Re: [techtalk] ISA Ethernet card under RHat 6

1999-10-25 Thread Amos Hayes
Have you read the Ethernet HOWTO (specifically section 3.2)? http://mirrors.highrise.ca/LDP/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.2 You're on the right track with finding the settings. But you might have sucess simply by trying to load the proper module without knowing the io and irq. It depends on th

Re: [techtalk] Flatscreen monitors

1999-10-25 Thread jenn
Amanda Owens wrote: > Now, there *are* folks who are always more sensitive to such things as > others (or else Jenn wouldn't have brought the subject up in the first > place). Minimizing exposure (like one might not stand *right* next your > microwave while it's on, or the nurse hiding behind an

Re: [techtalk] Newbie: my printer.

1999-10-25 Thread Stephan Zaniolo
Hopefully this will help. I have Red Hat 6.0, GNOME, kernel 2.2.12, HP DeskJet 895cse connected to the parallel port. Because I upgraded my kernel, I had to compile in support for the parallel port. (Don't know if the rpm kernel has this built in). I ran the printtool and selected the

Re: [techtalk] Flatscreen monitors

1999-10-25 Thread Steve Kudlak
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Amanda Owens wrote: > > > Now, there *are* folks who are always more sensitive to such things as > > others (or else Jenn wouldn't have brought the subject up in the first > > place). Minimizing exposure (like one might not stand *right* next your > > microwave while

Re: [techtalk] Flatscreen monitors

1999-10-25 Thread Dakota Surmonde
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So, since I spend hours/day at the computer.. we're looking into > getting me a flatscreen monitor. In case that's it. When I was pregnant, mindy (son's amom) got a screenish thingie that went over the monitor and supposedly cut out all the nasty st

Re: [techtalk] ISA Ethernet card under RHat 6

1999-10-25 Thread Walt
At 07:56 PM 10/25/99 +0200, Nils Philippsen wrote: >On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Walt wrote: > >It only gets shown if the driver for it is installed correctly (it shows >the resources the kernel assigned to the various devices). > >What type of card is yours? > I have an ISA 10mb Cnet card. (or course no