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(...) See the Serial HOWTO for setting up serial ports. You should do this in your boot process. I use Slackware and the setup scripts are in /etc/rc.d but Redhat is different. You'll want to run setserial in your boot process. Lots of examples are (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Weird. I have not used in Compac's in many moons, we are using Dell's here. Gateway is pretty good as well. I have had problems with Hewett Packard computers, and Packard Bells, but that is just me. Some had good experiences with certain (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) :-) I've tried accessing various configuration menus and restarted the system many times. But the CD-ROM was still unavailable. What finally appeared to do the work, though, was simply opening the CD drive and poking on the read head slightly, (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) get a (...) part. (...) hours (...) I (...) (I (...) see (...) Russian (...) I (...) Institute (...) major (...) require... Wow, I could never imagine getting that many language classes, although I wish I could have picked up German, since (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hey Boston-area geeks: we need to hire some more people in our group here at Boston University. We work with various flavors of *nix, primarily Solaris, IRIX, and Linux. (Experience in any of those would be good.) It's a really fun and low-stress (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Heh, I have a BA in Classical Languages - Latin and Greek. I had more hours than were required to get a double major in English but I knew by the time I graduated that my degree wouldn't mean anything in my newly chosen field (I was going to (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) get (...) better (...) say NT (...) Just run of the mill PC's, a few printers, a plotter, and a server. We tried TCP/IP printing here with Windows 95, ugh! (...) place (...) moderately (...) just as (...) As always, I guess. I am learning a (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) If I remember correctly, and don't bet the farm on this, the only way a normal CDROM can read CDs that are written with Direct CD is to have a UDF driver installed. If you don't have administrator access on your own workstation (not uncommon (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Depends on the hardware you're running it on, but yeah, I'd say NT is more functional network-wise than 9x. The tcp/ip printing alone makes it more valuable in my opinion, not to mention the increased stability. Not to say NT doesn't crash or (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yeah, that's the part I disliked about it. I had to burn a lot of files at work, and with Adaptec Direct CD this took ages, since each file was done separately. I actually used three hours to burn a single CD. On a 2x drive! And it failed to (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) that (...) it. That's right. I always classify them all in the same package. (...) OK, I have not used Direct CD at all, just Easy CD Creator. (...) Hmm.. the last time I worked with NT I thought it did. I guess I need to get up to speed on (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Adaptec Direct CD doesn't burn audio cds - it's a packet-writing package that allows you to dump data a little at a time on a cd till you're done with it. And its garbage, for the most part. You're thinking of Adaptec Easy CD Creator, mostly (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hmm... I have not had too many problems with it. I usually just burn music CD's, so I don't use the original. It is good for that. (...) Alright, is the CD-ROM showing up in your system under control panel? If it is, does it have that yellow (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yes, the original offending CD-R was unsuccessfully written with Adaptec CD-Direct. That has to be the worst CD-writing software ever. Anyway, the offending CD-R doesn't bother me too much. What bothers me more is the fact that when I boot up (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I'm installing LinuxPPC 2000 as I type this. It peacefully co-exists with the MacOS, even gives you a little boot menu to choose from MacOS and Linux. (24 years ago, 31-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I *could*, but I need my Macs to be Macs while I futz around with a new OS in the household. Maybe later... Thanks for the Penguin Computing rec - I'll check them out. -Tim (24 years ago, 31-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hmm.. was it formatted with a program of some kind? (Like it was written for writing CD-R's?) If it is an audio CD, it sometimes does not put that track marker on it to signifyh the end of the CD. I have had that problem before. I know the HP (...) (24 years ago, 31-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hi, I tried to access a CD-R with the CD-ROM. It failed to access and locked up. When I restart the system, the "E:\" choice is unavailable in the explorer. Anybody know what I should do to recover from this situation? This is Windows NT on a Compaq (...) (24 years ago, 31-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I think that you'll probably need to recompile your kernel to add support for higher com ports. But, since it's PnP, if the card is supported in Linux, Linux should theoretically be able to reconfigure it (...) No consensus. They're both not (...) (24 years ago, 31-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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