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(...) Yeah? Bummer - I only ever played about with it for about half an hour before, and I found it miraculous to effortlessly load msword docs on my solaris box at work! Not that I needed to of course, as all the documentation I did was in (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) <smile> It's not midnight yet, so I still have my sense of humor for the day, and on top of that, I know that Larry's joking because he told me yesterday. :-) But just for anyone following along casually, a LUGNET membership buys membership in (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: S3 Trio3D & XFree86?
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(...) I use Matrox G200 with X windows, and it works just fine. Dunno about G400, though. Fredrik (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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"Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:FM8xJr.CyL@lugnet.com... (...) S3 (...) put (...) I (...) It just automagically disables the on-board video. So it's real easy to do that. Tom (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) "\n-- \n", actually. I don't think the practice actually goes back multiple decades - remember, in 1981, people were reading NETnews on 300 baud dumb terminals.. My guess would be the sigdelimiter convention dates to the middle 80s. (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) You need to find the docs to turn off the onboard video, but yeah, it should be eminently possible. (...) Does it have AGP? I'm partial to Matrox, especially since they started working with the open-source community to procide drivers instead (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yeah, that seemed to be the consensus on Usenet as well. :-( This particular machine is an IBM 300PL. But can you just (safely) plop another video card into a machine like this with an onboard integrated video system?? If so, then, heck, (...) (25 years ago, 5-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: S3 Trio3D & XFree86?
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I work for IBM in the Netfinity Server line, and my understanding is the S3 Trio 3d card doesn't work consistently with Xfree. Of course that's the chipset we use on a few of our systems. We 'support' Linux on the NF line and my main Linux guru (...) (25 years ago, 5-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | dash dash space sig (was: Re: UKLUG Prototype online)
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(...) Oops, I shouldda posted that from a real newsreader. I posted it from the web interface, which strips trailing blanks from lines to reduce line wrapping problems. (...) It's a standard NNTP/Usenet sig thing going back decades (I think). Your (...) (25 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: S3 Trio3D & XFree86?
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(...) I had beaucoup XFree86 problems with the #9 Imagine 128 II video card -- it turns out that the ISA card is supported, but not the PCI card. Guess which one I have! >:-P You might find a similar incompatability with the Trio3D... Fortunately, I (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Anyone out there have any luck getting an AGP S3 Trio3D (86C366) to work with XFree86 & RHL 6.1? It's supposed to be supported by XFree86-3.3.5[1] but I'm running into a brick wall... --Todd [1] (URL) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I'm not positive, but there -might- be some at cHRIS sPENCER'S website... (URL) to lugnet.publish] (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish)
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(...) And a follow up question- how many of our LEGO bricks have teeth marks on them? ;) Chris (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Anyone have any graphics for a hit counter that is lego-like in appearance? I've not seen one that I recall.. Thanks Tom (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Well, this clearly doesn't belong on market.auction because it's not Lego... but I decided I was going to unload my PC Convertible, which is a vintage piece of iron. I have every accessory that you could get for it, too. (1) This was IBM's second (...) (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Or try the old Legoland car base with a 2X3 plate in the bottom. Rob - getting awfully tired of turkey. (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Try one of those pirate crow's nest, with a 2x2 plate stuck in it. Impossible to remove, mine's still there. ~K@rl (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Me too, twice. Once coming into the company, and once internally, so I've seen it both ways. On the internal, IBM bought our house when we could not sell it to anyone else. Mixed blessing, but got us out of a jam. IBM may not pay as well as (...) (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I dunno... :) I'd have to say, separating a 6x8 plate from a stack of 10 tightly squeezed 6x8 plates is harder than that. You can always bend the 4x4 plate slightly to get the 1x2 grille tile started. --Todd [followups to lugnet.general] (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.general)
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(...) I would have to disagree. I can almost always get those off with my fingernail. I would have to say getting a 2x2 to a 2x4 cellular acetate plate off of an 8x16 cellular acetate brick baseplate. With the slight warping they have, they are so (...) (25 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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