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Personal Linux Fnance App
by Mel Seder 20 May '02

20 May '02

I've been using Quicken since the late 80's or early 90's. It does everything I need to do including getting prices for Canadian mutual funds. I'd like to use Linux (currently RH Valhalla 7.3) for my personal accounting. I'm not in a heated rush to switch to Linux but if there is a rock-solid app that I can use I'd be willing to run dual finance apps until I am confident with the Linux app. I am even willing to use a web app for finances if there is such a (solid and reliable) thing. Any comments, suggestions or personal experience would be appreciated. ===== "The sooner you make five thousand mistakes, the sooner you will be able to correct them." - Kimon Nicolaides __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com

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optimizing hard drive, RH 7.2
by millward 18 May '02

18 May '02

Sometimes my hard drive grinds away like a coffee grinder. Nothing bad happens on the screen and everything runs just fine, but I wonder why it occasionally goes 'crazy' like that. Most of the time the hard drive runs nice and quiet. Its a 40 gig Samsung SV4084H. I know what swapping is and I can't think why it would be swaping. I've got 384 megs of memory and gave Red Hat 7.2 128 megs of swap. Perhaps its something I have not done. Is there some method to optimize memory or hard drive space?

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hot hard drives
by millward 18 May '02

18 May '02

When I installed my burner, I was surprised at how hot my hard drive was. It's been my experience that modems run hot, but not hard drives. But that was in those old desktop cases, not these new, improved ATX tower cases. I have a 40 gig Samsung SV40844 hooked up, and beside it was a 15 gig Fujitsu MPF3153AT not hooked to anything, and it was warm from the Samsung! This explained why my 3.15" ball bearing fan was working so hard. The original one had burnt out a few months back and this replacement was making noises, until I removed the Fujisu and gave the Samsung some space for air circulation. Now the fan is quiet. The case is 16 x 8 inches ATX with 3 external bays and only two internal bays. I've kept my normal CD rom dirve separated from the burner with the empty external bay. So how do I get this thing to run 2 hard drives without overheating when I only have two internal bays?

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Computer Helper Guy's email addy
by Mel Seder 17 May '02

17 May '02

An email sent to ComputerHelperGuy(a)www.chguy.net and a daemon sent me the following: <ComputerHelper<ComputerHelperGuy(a)www.chguy.net>: 66.150.0.137 does not like recipient. Remote host said: 553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1) Giving up on 66.150.0.137. Does anyone know a valid email address for that person and is that person the famous Bill Bennett (spelling?)? ===== "The sooner you make five thousand mistakes, the sooner you will be able to correct them." - Kimon Nicolaides __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com

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Bootable CD distros
by Mike Pfaiffer 16 May '02

16 May '02

I asked this question at the meeting but kind of got sidetracked. Does anybody have a favourite bootable CD distro they would recommend as a "will work on any machine immediately" demo? I tried Vietual Linux 1.1 from http://virtual-linux.org and it couldn't get past five or six processes respawning too fast. Later Mike -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Digital Civilization magazine: http://www.digitalcivilization.ca | | http://members.shaw.ca/pfaiffer = Mike Pfaiffer (B.A., B.Sc.) | | See my web page before you think about spamming me. I charge cash. | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ ----- BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK ----- Version: 3.12 GCS/G/IT/PA/SS d s+:- a? C++ UL L++ W++ N++ o+ K- w(---) O+@ M++@ V PS+ PE !PGP t+ 5+ X R tv b+ DI+++ D++ G e++* h! r-- !y-- UF++ ------ END GEEK CODE BLOCK ------

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Re: [RndTbl] RedHat 7.3 Install CD's by www.chguy.net
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 16 May '02

16 May '02

According to Mel Seder: > I purchased a set of two disks labeled B1 and B2 install CDs. > There was a CD labeled Power Tools available also but I didn't purchase > that one. Strange. There hasn't been a Power Tools CD since Red Hat 7.1. > When I did a Valhalla install from my Hard Drive I had downloaded three > Iso files. Should there have been three CDs from the chguy? If there > should have been I'd be glad to order it from him. There should indeed be 3 CD's of Intel binaries for the Valhalla (RH 7.3) distribution. The 3rd disc also contains some of the source RPM's that didn't fit on the two source CD's. There's also a documentation CD that was released. That's a total of 6 CD's, 3 of which are needed for installs. (Those 3 binary CD's correspond to the sets that were sold at the last MUUG meeting.) -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca> Dept. of Computer Science Web: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~gedetil/ University of Manitoba Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R3T 2N2 Fax: (204)474-7609

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RedHat 7.3 Install CD's by www.chguy.net
by Mel Seder 16 May '02

16 May '02

I purchased a set of two disks labeled B1 and B2 install CDs. There was a CD labeled Power Tools available also but I didn't purchase that one. When I did a Valhalla install from my Hard Drive I had downloaded three Iso files. Should there have been three CDs from the chguy? If there should have been I'd be glad to order it from him. ===== "The sooner you make five thousand mistakes, the sooner you will be able to correct them." - Kimon Nicolaides __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com

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Introduction to the list.
by Scott Balneaves 16 May '02

16 May '02

Hello all, Just subscribed to to the list, and wanted to introduce myself to those of you who don't know me. I'm the Unix administrator for Legal Aid Manitoba. I've spent my whole working life as a Unix admin, and work mainly with Linux and Solaris, and am familiar with FreeBSD. Scott -- Scott L. Balneaves | "The mark of an immature man is that he wants Unix Administrator | to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a Legal Aid Manitoba | mature man is that he wants to live humbly sbalneav(a)legalaid.mb.ca | for one." -- William Stekel

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TokenRing PCMCIA adapters
by Shawn Wallbridge 15 May '02

15 May '02

This is for whoever was asking about the TokenRing PCMCIA NIC's at last night's meeting. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2023654540 <CMA> I have never dealt with this person, so you are on your own. </CMA> shawn

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CD Writing and MP3's using RH 7.3 - Valhalla
by Mel Seder 15 May '02

15 May '02

I installed 7.3 over the weekend and would like to start burning some audio CD's for my car and stereo system. Now I'd like to do the same with 7.3. I did a custom->everything install and selected the ide-scsi option when the install prompted me. I have a PLEXTOR as my CD writer and a CREATIVE as my CD ROM. The PLEXTOR hardware was installed as the master when my box was originally assembled and has not been changed. cdrecord -scanbus finds my PLEXTOR but not the CREATIVE. GRUB is my boot loader. I was exposed to some of the non-gui programs for CD Writing and the command line parameters were, IMHO, cryptic at best. I think I would be better off using a nice, well behaved gui for the task at hand rather than learning CD Writer technical terms and lingo. I have a couple/few questions. 1) Which app would you suggest I use for burning CD-R's? 2) Are there any web sites I can get/share MP3's at? I tried getting limewire but if I recall correctly I had trouble with either getting the Jave Runtime or installing it. 3) Would someone be willing to assist me in getting up and running? ===== "The sooner you make five thousand mistakes, the sooner you will be able to correct them." - Kimon Nicolaides __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com

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