From: owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net (diesel-benz-digest) To: diesel-benz-digest-at-krusty-motorsports.com Subject: diesel-benz-digest V1 #20 Reply-To: diesel-benz-at-digest.net Sender: owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Errors-To: owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Precedence: bulk diesel-benz-digest Saturday, September 5 1998 Volume 01 : Number 020 Forum for Discussion of Diesel Mercedes Benz Automobiles John Meister Digest Coordinator Contents: RE: harddrives and vehicles... rims for Fritz Diesel Benz Digest Home Page: http://www.digest.net/diesel-benz/ Send submissions to diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Send administrative requests to diesel-benz-digest-request-at-digest.net To unsubscribe, include the word unsubscribe by itself in the body of the message, unless you are sending the request from a different address than the one that appears on the list. Include the word help in a message to stag-digest-request to get a list of other majordomo commands. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 11:16:55 -0400 From: Richard Welty Subject: RE: harddrives and vehicles... At 05:26 PM 9/2/98 -0700, Meister, John wrote: >Maybe I need to invest in a tape drive for home... :) Too bad tar >doesn't >work in Win95 properly... :) (or is there a version that works now? :) winzip can generate tar files now. >Maybe it's time to migrate to Linux... :) i have a couple of observations on this very issue... 1) Samba on linux works very well. you can take an old PC (say, that old P90 you've got laying around), install linux on it, install ethernet cards in the old P90 and your current zippy W95 system, and use any disk you put on the old system over the network. 2) FTape support on linux works very respectably; this means that those cheap Travan tape drives that run on high speed floppy controllers can be used at home to backup linux systems. cheers, richard (i have some dedicated windows machines, both at home and at work, but i seem to have a lot of linux boxes springing up all over as role players. you can still get some use out of a 486/33 if you use Linux. the list host at digest.net is a linux AMD K6-166; krusty motorsports can't afford what it would cost to build a comparable NT box -- if it could even be done, which i kind of doubt.) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 22:38:34 -0700 From: john meister Subject: rims for Fritz Benz Friends in Seattle exchanged the window regulator / power motor that I didn't need for four decent rims. They are Ronal alloy rims... 6x14... they actually look better than the factory ones they had and have larger holes... next, the Michelin MXV4's... that will be a little bit of a wait though... $$$$ I still need 4 caps, the ones I have are pretty bad, and the correct bolts... BTW, one of the guys on the list knows where a good deal can be had on 8 chrome factory style rims... :) problem is they're down in California... for me the other problem was not having the cash and having parts I could return... :) I'd still like to get those chrome rims, but will have trouble getting it by the finance committee, er the warden, er the gardener, er, the better half... john - ---------------------------------------------- | john-at-virtual-cafe.com | | http://www.virtual-cafe.com/~john | | jesus - don't leave life without him... | - ---------------------------------------------- | Diesel Benz, Full Size Jeeps and xj's... | | found on http://www.digest.net | - ---------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of diesel-benz-digest V1 #20 ********************************