[techtalk] laptops

Hi, I just joined this list, and so I hope this is an appropriate question to post here - if not let me know! I've decided to buy a laptop which I want to use with linux. (and keep windows on as well, since unfortunately I still would like it for things I can't do with linux). I've been reading

Re: [techtalk] laptops

Thanks very much for all the comments, they are very useful. I am looking into getting a Dell now, maybe a Latitude. I may try getting a refurbished one; though I had a friend who got a refurbished laptop (not a dell though) and had lots of trouble with it, so I hope it's not too risky. I will pr

Re: [techtalk] internet

I'm glad 'kppp' has come up, since I've been wanting to ask a question about it. > I am probably going to be quite unpopular for making this suggestion, but... > if you are a relative newbie coming from a Windows environment, the easiest > way is with kppp. It looks a whole lot like Dial-Up Net

Re: [techtalk] don't beat me up(:

I don't know much about this kind of stuff, but if you still have email access where you work, can't you use that to access the web? Or do the security measures or whatever prevent that too? There's a web page at http://www.faqs.org/faqs/internet-services/access-via-email/ explaining how to get

RE: [techtalk] Netscape

I have noticed this crashing of netscape when java applets run - it's annoying that it happens for some of my own java applets, which work fine when just run in the applet viewer. The ones that are more likely to make netscape crash tend to be bigger and perhaps get a 'back log' of stuff such a

Re: [techtalk] A Postscript question

Well, I've done a little postscript programing in the past (it's a fun language to program in directly, but usually more practical to write c programs to produce postscript output). I never tried editing an image before, but I just had a go at your question, because I wanted to know what the ans

[techtalk] second hard disk

I wonder if anyone can suggest how best to set up my second hard disk. The first one is about 2Gb and is pretty much full. So, I bought a new 20Gb hard disk. My first idea was that I'd just use it for storage, though I don't know if this is the best thing or not. I first formatted and partitione

Re: [techtalk] second hard disk

On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Conor Daly wrote: ... > We'll take /home as an example. Thanks, an example is really helpful. I followed this, repartitioned a bit, moved home and usr, and upgraded to 6.2.14-5.0 last night; all seemed to go pretty well. I guess it's all pretty straight forwards, but it's re

[techtalk] X Windows

Hello, I recently upgraded to linux 6.2, but I can't seem to get X windows for any user except root. I also can't run kde now, only gnome. When I type kdm, it says kdm: error in loading shared libraries: libqt.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory though there are file

Re: [techtalk] Serial line is looped back

> Well, perhaps it is on metalab.unc.edu, but the Changes file also > contains the original places where you can find the software that needs > changing. Maybe. The Changes file pointed to somewhere where I could get 2.3.9 (or something like that) anyway, it didn't point to the version you sugge