Posts by beakmyn

I agree the 5680 works with firewire different chipset I believe, however the 8886 has always been a PTA and hung the firewire probe. What's confusing is that what's displayed on the screen leads you to believe it's the USB hanging the...

It all depends on the driver. UPS has a more strict time clock I believe, then FedEx. UPS times the deliveries down to the tenths of seconds, or least they used to, to ensure each delivery is on-time. I personally have had deliverery...

Well Gentoo and PCMICIA-cs didn't go as well as planned so I installed Knoppix to HD instead. Yeah I pus**** out, but keep in mind in the last 12 months I've had Gentoo 1.2,1.4rc1,rc2, Mandrake 8,9B1,B2,B3,9.1, Redhat 9,9.1, Debian, and...

Well Beakmyn is now running a nice easy install of Knoppix 3.3 I tried another install of Gentoo from inside Knoppix it went well and I recommend it if you want to be able to use your computer while installing but the Wifi PCMCIA-cs...

Disclaimer: I don't work for UPS UPS is actually on par with other companies such as FedEx. First you have to relize that there are literally hundreds of thousands of packages that go through the UPS hubs each day. It's quite...

I'm not sure about the password you require. It sounds as though someone has set-up the BIOS to require a password to boot. I don't know of any other password required to boot from a CD and I don't know how changing the XP bootup screen...

For your needs Marquis is right. Your not going to want to spend the money on a battery driven UPS that is going to provide 1hr of power. Most UPS serve two purposes: 1. Give you enough time to safely shut down your machines in the...

The biggest difference is Pro will allow you to long into a domain where home will not. Not too many people have a PDC network at home. Quote: Ask yourself these five questions to find out which one is right for you: Do...

Head over to Norton and search for their cleaner programs. I know they have one for antivirus, It goes through the registry and deletes alll the keys left behind after the uninstall. Then manually search the registry yourself or download...

My system Sager 8886 2.4ghz 256MB NIC Dell Truemobile 1150 (Orinoco Gold) Hermes/Prism 802.11b Mandrake 9.2 ISO download install on a 888e/6/etc the Firewire issue still exists and hangs the install. This can be avoided by using...