[Wolves] New Lug bloke

Simon Burke its_simon_burke at hotmail.com
Mon Jan 19 09:46:51 GMT 2004


Thanks for that i'll give it a go in an hr or so, oh just for the record im 
on a brand new G5 dual 2Ghz, with 512Mb ram but we use high load progs which 
prolly explains it, thanx for that too... hmm.. in that case i'll take it 
back to blackbox. lol
>
>I used to have aqua lock up on me but more ram solved the problem, 128MB
>isn't really enough for it to work satisfactorily something to do with it
>double buffering its gui for faster redraw times. I upgraded to 384MB and
>have never had a problem since.
>
>At the login use ">console" as the username and a blank password and it
>drops you out to the cli login prompt. Possibly command-v at boot-up takes
>you straight to the cli as well but I've never tried it and my notes are a
>tad hazy.
>
>chris
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Simon Burke [mailto:its_simon_burke at hotmail.com]
>Sent: 19 January 2004 09:27
>To: wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk
>Subject: Re: [Wolves] New Lug bloke
>
>
>
> >Simon Burke wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>This is my first post within the Lug. Im a sys admin/ graphic designer/
> >>support guy/ technical consultant workin for some huge Microsoft fan in
> >>wolves science park.
> >>
> >>Mainly BSD based on my new freeBSD5.2 machine at the mo, with 5.0 
>server's
>
> >>oh and everyone has atleast one XP machine, and use a mac osX 10.3.2
> >>(freeBSD based) at work.
> >>
> >>Dan, where ever you are  is responsible for my joining.., *waves* 
>hello!!
> >::waves back::
> >
> >Now all we gotta do is get you to a meeting.  Cheers for the disk BTW -
> >worked a treat.  It must have been the other disk which was just dodgy.
>
>Oakies i'll try my best to come to the next one, minus the other person, u
>know who i mean.  Oh and btw no probs if ppl need software esp MS stuff i
>can prolly get my hands on it. How much it costs depends on how much i like
>u, lol. Usualy price is a blank CD.
> >
> >(I'm not going to mention what the disk actually was 'cause then I'd have
> >to wash my mouth out with soap & water or sommat...)
> >>
> >>ahh.. 1st quick question, does anyone know how to get "shutdown -k now" 
>to
>
> >>work on mac osX as it keep coming back with the error that 'option -o
> >>require -r or -h' and all i want to do is logout local users, not 
>shutdown
>
> >>in any form.
> >Ah, start as we mean to go on..... Offtopic...  ;)
> >
> >(Bloody MacOSX grumble grumble moan moan grumble :P )
> >
>Mac os X is not that bad esp as its BSD based hehe. Oh well.. the ony real
>bad point is that aqua crashes alot im puttin KDE on it today but if anyone
>kows how to stop aqua running while im doing that it would be appreciated.
> >--
> >Dan
> >
> >
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