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Recent content by James McGee

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    KV8-Max3 & ram

    I've been running this board for about a year with 2 512 dims and I want to kick it up to 2 gig, so I ordered a 1 gig pc3200 Corsair from New Egg. When it arrived I put it into the third slot... would not boot. So I moved the 1 gig to slot 1 and put the 512's in slot 2 and 3,...would not...
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    SuSE N00b needs some help

    Your wrong there, SuSe is one of the easiest distros to install...now upgrading is a different story sometimes...If you want hard, do Gentoo, a great and powerful distro once it is installed properly, but really like pulling teeth for all except the highly knowledgeable cause you have to...
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    SuSE rpm updating

    Never seems to fail does it. You ask a simple question and there is always some big mouth dweeb that has to try and impress everyone with their (lack of) knowledge. Try Debian or Gentoo if SuSE is to hard for me...Where have you had your head boy? Certainly been someplace the sun don't shine...
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    Best Linux distro for noobs?

    If you want an EASY install and yet a full easy to use system I would take a look at Yopper. I put it on my laptop and it came right up with everything working. Very easy to use yet powerful.
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    LiveCD

    Go to http://freshmeat.net and do a search for slax. Burn the iso to a cd and fire it up. Very nice well working live cd that will give you the feel for linux. If you want to do a real install get the iso for yopper and install it, very easy install and works very well to learn on.
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    Point me in the right direction(linux noob)

    1. I would recommend either SuSE V.9.1, Yopper, Mandrake. They all install easy and usually come up to desktop with everything working. There may be more powerfull distros out there,but they are not as easy to install and use. Oh ya, I've been playing with Buffalo Linux the last few days...am...
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    SuSE rpm updating

    Well I was finally able to update kde to version 3.3. Had to do it a way that makes me a bit uncomforable, but it seems to have worked, at least to this point. Someone suggested I use the force and nodep mode to install so after 3 days of failure I figured what the heck and gave it a shot...
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    Best Linux distro for noobs?

    I have installed and played with a lot of distros lately and have found a few I would recommed for a noob to try. 1.If you want to do a live CD, in otherwords not actually install, but run it from a cd and get an idea of how you like it SLAX works very well. Of course no live cd is going to...
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    SuSE rpm updating

    Been there, done that, didn't work ! Guess I won't have to worry about loosing anything in an upgrade, no way in h*** I can get it to upgrade !!
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    SuSE rpm updating

    I don't know, would be afraid to try with the luck I have been having... I hear you for sure, unless I can find an easier way than this things just probably won't be upgraded. Simply not work all the headaches..
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    SuSE rpm updating

    How does one update an installed program in SuSE. When I try going through Yast it keeps asking me to put the install cd in the drive and then it goes and installs the original file from the cd instead of upgrading from the new file. I tried opening a terminal and type in: rpm -F qt3.rpm...
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    Linux questions & SuSe V.9.1 64 bit

    "an experienced person such as yourself".... Hey, I like that, so much better than saying an old fart like you.....(G) Ya, have heard a lot of good things about Gentoo linux. I may just get around to giving it a try. Yesterday I installed Debian and Yoper on my laptop just to check them out...
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    Linux questions & SuSe V.9.1 64 bit

    Jeez I sure am glad that you don't want to flame me, it might tend to make me mad and that wouldn't do either of us any good. For your information my linux experience started quite a few years ago. I have been looking for a way to dump winders almost from the first day there was a winders...
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    Linux questions & SuSe V.9.1 64 bit

    I didn't really say that I wouldn't compile under the right circumstances, I object to having to finish the work of the programers by doing so for the average run of the mill program that they write. There are always proper conditions for tweaking and compiling and configuring. I built my...
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    Linux questions & SuSe V.9.1 64 bit

    First of all I purchased the amd64 because I wanted 64 bit so I want it to work. Second of all I DO NOT compile everything, as a matter of fact I DO NOT compile anything. If someone wants me to try/use their program, I'm not about to do their work for them, I am not a programer and don't intend...
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