THANK YOU , MS

Well, after an hour and a half with synaptic,figuring out witch files I
wanted to upgrade , install or remove, I discovered Linux apparantly
doesn't recognize cable connections that are not turned on before
starting Linux.
After discovering that other OS looks for a connection and if found
will send information to you know who before allowing a firewall to
start , I aquired a habit of turning off my cable modem until my firewall
is up and blocking at least 14 embedded spyware routines in XP.
That doesn't work with Linux but then Linux only sends when I want it
to.
Anyway ,I have a great machine now since I started deleting MRU's
and XP tried so hard to prevent it that it started writing them to the
hidden recovery partition it actually overwrote the recovery files.
That led me to wipe the entire drive and do a complete format
and install Linux. Now that Linux has the drive to itself, my only
problem is I still haven't managed to get it to find a scanner.
.
Oh, well, if I live anther 50 years, maybe I'll figure out what I'm doing.

OK, what distro are you using and what scanner(s) do you have?

I'm 48, so not to far behnd...

God, there sure is a lot of old guys here! I'm 46, and I think Maillion is in his 70's...

Seriously, I don't know about you Mel, but it was a very liberating feeling for me when I wiped my last Windows XP from a hard drive.

Well, the 43 is not my age so I guess I rate as one of those 'old guys' ;-).


Yeah, XP is definately one to leave behind. I'm still working on finding full program equivelency. Then I can leave the W2K. What's a Linux equivelent of M$ Access, and when will Linux recognize a Lexmark 5150 printer/scanner (or any lexmark)??? When I solve those two I'll be 99% there .

Arklinux has the machine all to itself. It's a pavilion 551w
The printer is HP officejet r60 3in 1.(Print,scan,copy,parallel). Printing is no problem but kooka doesn't see the scanner.
I also have MEPIS on the little eMachine .I have an HP psc 2210
(print,scan,copy, fax, usb) .
I can print with the psc 2210 on the Ark machine but when I try
to load MEPIS with it turned on MEPIS finds all four functions then
locks up on "config fstab".If I turn it on with MEPIS running,MEPIS
loses the keyboard and mouse.I assume that's an I/O conflict but can't
find the settings on MEPIS.(I wasted too much time with MS.Forgot how
to do anything.)
You're only 14 years behind me.

Hey! Well, I am up there, over the hill and headed down the other side, but 70? I have two years and two months before I even see three score years...

Atleast I am only 1/2 of that.. for now.

I still have some things I like on .. um that thing..
(games.. )

On my RH9 box I went to install UT2003.. but forgot something..

Oh yeah.. the settings for my monitor. Bah!.. soon enough I think. (I have a lot of time coming up.. )

heh, prior to re-catching the Linux bug a year or so ago trading Win2k for WinXP was the best thing I ever did to my PC. Win2k was like some temp had accidentally sent the wrong master CD off to the replicators, XP was a breath of fresh air compared with that POS. If I wasn't so manic about keeping things my 2K discs would be drink coasters by now.

XP with PhotoShop is great for digital photography.
I haven't found anything else it's good for though,
unless you enjoy frustration.
I tried a few rpg and strategy games on XP but it seems to always find something about halfway through the game it refuses to do like open
a gate when you ring the bell 3,2,1 in SILVER.
I use XP mostly for digital photography.I have Linux on a seperate
drive on same machine.
I use 98SE on older machine for games.
My new favorite is pavilion 551 with 'only the best' installed.(Linux,
of course).
I use Mepis and Ark because they are both extremely easy to install
and if there is a way to seriously crash a system,I'll find it.
Just this morning I managed to turn off video output on this machine.
(on motherboard).I learned a couple years ago that if you're going to
experiment with BIOS on some of these new machines,it's a good idea to
keep a couple old video cards around.They may not be optimal for your
monitor but you can see enough to reset BIOS.

I think that is the biggest thing for me at the moment. Not having my monitor set just right. There doesn't seem to be anything wrong until I go to use a few games. ..There was one inparticular that is on Knoppix CD. I forget it's name but it makes a mess. Atelast I can get out of it.