Re: [techtalk] Re; biscuit jack

2001-05-07 Thread Amanda Babcock
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 05:33:16PM -0700, Lothan wrote: > I just wanna know which marketeer came up with the nondescript term "biscuit > jack" for a simple surface-mount phone jack. It doesn't look anything like a > biscuit to me. I dunno, that doesn't sound like marketer-speech to me. That so

[techtalk] Button scrolling in X 4.0.2 on Toshiba laptop.

2001-05-07 Thread The Cat In The Hat
Hey all, Not sure if you have hashed this out yet but here it is. I have a Toshiba Satellite 2800 series laptop. I am trying to get the two little buttons on it to work as scroll up and scroll down buttons. I had this working under XFree86 3.3.6 with imwheel, but I upgraded to Xfre

Re: [techtalk] Button scrolling in X 4.0.2 on Toshiba laptop.

2001-05-07 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
http://sites.netscape.net/andreasplesch/XF86Config (from http://sites.netscape.net/andreasplesch/toshiba.htm ) This person has a Toshiba 2800 series and uses Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 2" In his/her "InputDevice" section for that "mouse". BTW for any laptop issues you might always c

[techtalk] Re; biscuit jack

2001-05-07 Thread Wood, Mary
[EMAIL PROTECTED] muses... > I just wanna know which marketeer came up with the nondescript > term "biscuit jack" for a simple surface-mount phone jack. It > doesn't look anything like a biscuit to me. Sounds rather similar > to those "neoprene high energy impact devices" the US military > pu

Re: [techtalk] Biscuit jack?

2001-05-07 Thread Elizabeth
You know what's funny? I never heard the term biscuit jack before this thread started. Just today, I got my house wired for dsl (waiting for router now), and the dsl guy installed a biscuit jack. It's more wierd than funny, but in a funny sort of way. Forgive my ramblings. I worked on a debian

Re: [techtalk] Re; biscuit jack

2001-05-07 Thread RobertWichert
Damn Mary! You rock! "Wood, Mary" wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] muses... > > > I just wanna know which marketeer came up with the nondescript > > term "biscuit jack" for a simple surface-mount phone jack. It > > doesn't look anything like a biscuit to me. So

RE: [techtalk] Biscuit jack?

2001-05-07 Thread Lothan
I should apologize up front for the "me too!" but I couldn't resist seconding that motion. Google is amazing for all kinds of searches, particularly tech searches. Its search results are far more relevant than any other search engine I've used. I use IE. I like IE. But the MSN search engine it use

RE: [techtalk] Re; biscuit jack

2001-05-07 Thread Lothan
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Wood, Mary > Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 2:26 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: [techtalk] Re; biscuit jack > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] muses... > > > I just wanna know which marketeer came up with the

[techtalk] RE: [issues] Re: [grrltalk] Re: linuxchix logo

2001-05-07 Thread Lothan
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Mary Gardiner > Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2001 8:41 PM > To: minae > Cc: Grrltalk@Linuxchix. Org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [issues] Re: [grrltalk] Re: linuxchix logo > > > On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 08:01:51PM -0700, minae wrote: > >

[techtalk] Cd Roms...a tribe to themselves?

2001-05-07 Thread Rialian
===Greetings all! been lurking on the list for a bit, and have encountered an odd thing I was wondering if anyone else had bumped into... ===My main machine is a dual boot Mandrake 8/ Win98. I have a TDK Velocd read-write CD Rom drive. (Which I jokingly call the Velocd-raptor...) === Anywa