Re: [newbie] CrossoverWine for Office NOW; A Good Thing
On Sunday 31 March 2002 10:59 am, you wrote: John, This fundamentalistic answer is not the solution. We can't wine a direct fight to windows! is to powerfull and has lots and lots of money. The only way is wining small battles. For example, I started to learn linux two years ago, I use it giving my clases at the University with startoffice presentations; results: a) more than 300 student now know that there are alternatives to windows. b) All the researchers and grants of my laboratory know linux and we have a server runing Mandrake. Most of them have linux in their home computers. c) Some studend of secondary school, that are in the same class of my dougther know that linux exist and one of them has installed linux mandrake 8.2 at home under my advertisment. d) A private teacher of my doughter has installed mandrake 8.2, I gave him a copy and I am helping him; he is planning to install Mandrake 8.2 as a server in the Secondary School when I teaches. Results: one new linux user (my ^_^) more than 20 new users; I hope those new users will help to create more new users This is the way, slow, step by step, without fighting directly windows (I have some computers with both system, for example for packages I can't still run under linux or for those games my children like to play). But If it is runing under linux or there are alternative packages for linux, I don't start windows. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) Hi I think both of your lines of thought are not quite contiguous. Francisco, this is precisely what John is proposing, a word of mouth whispering campaign. John, advertising works in a marketplace, there is no marketplace for Linux on the individual desktop, it is free. At the server level most corporate IT people know vastly more than Microsoft's marketing agencies about their work. Those people currently running Linux,Unix systems in a corporate environment would probably find work elsewhere if forced to use Windows for their fundamental infrastructure and thanks to the community they are growing in number. At this level Microsoft will have to produce a better and cheaper product to have a long term hope of competing. Regards Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Abit KT7 Raid mainboard with integrated HPT370 raid controller and Mandrake 8.2
Adrian, I think you have the wrong list. The answer here would be why bother? Rob On Sunday 31 March 2002 3:28 pm, you wrote: hi. i have an Abit BE6II Raid mainboard and i dont get it to run properly under windows XP do u know where i can find drivers for XP to it? - Original Message - From: Gregorio Pérez Aguilera [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 4:11 PM Subject: [newbie] Abit KT7 Raid mainboard with integrated HPT370 raid controller and Mandrake 8.2 Hi, I have an Abit KT-7 Raid mainboard with an integrated HPT370 IDE raid controller made by Highpoint and I never managed to make my 2 hard drives to work under Mandrake Linux (8.2 and prior versions). In the Highpoint site there is the drivers for Caldera, SuSe, Turbo Linux, RedHat and FreeBSD, but not for Mandrake. See the http://www.highpoint-tech.com/370drivers_down.htm page. Does anyone managed to make it run under Mandrake? Does anyone have/had my same problem? I tried to contact Highpoint via e-mail a few times, but I never got a reply... Maybe whe can join and send a petition (a polite one ;-) ) to get support for Mandrake ... I have been searching for a solution for 1 year or so and I didn't find any solution. Regards, Gregorio PD: Why these distribution lists are so slow?? PD2: This is my second repost and it never get published. What is happening??? PD3: Yet another repost... this message was returned to me!! :-( PD4: Yet another repost... from another e-mail _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com --- - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Re: how do i send a mail so evryone on the list can see it and reply to it?
On Sunday 31 March 2002 1:17 pm, you wrote: how do i send a mail so evryone on the list can see it and reply to it? please help me, Adrian You put :- [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the To: line of your mail Regards Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] setting default browser in 8.2
On Sunday 31 March 2002 4:23 pm, you wrote: I'm trying to set up opera as the deault browser association with urls in klipper -regexp ^https?:W -action opera '%s When I click on a url, konqoruer still fires up joe ps. I've also tried ^http?:W which only demonstrates my lack of understanding of regular expressions :) Hi I would also like to know the answer to this one. Thank you for posting it. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CrossoverWine for Office NOW; A Good Thing
On Sunday 31 March 2002 10:59 am, you wrote: John, This fundamentalistic answer is not the solution. We can't wine a direct fight to windows! is to powerfull and has lots and lots of money. The only way is wining small battles. For example, I started to learn linux two years ago, I use it giving my clases at the University with startoffice presentations; results: a) more than 300 student now know that there are alternatives to windows. b) All the researchers and grants of my laboratory know linux and we have a server runing Mandrake. Most of them have linux in their home computers. c) Some studend of secondary school, that are in the same class of my dougther know that linux exist and one of them has installed linux mandrake 8.2 at home under my advertisment. d) A private teacher of my doughter has installed mandrake 8.2, I gave him a copy and I am helping him; he is planning to install Mandrake 8.2 as a server in the Secondary School when I teaches. Results: one new linux user (my ^_^) more than 20 new users; I hope those new users will help to create more new users This is the way, slow, step by step, without fighting directly windows (I have some computers with both system, for example for packages I can't still run under linux or for those games my children like to play). But If it is runing under linux or there are alternative packages for linux, I don't start windows. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) Hi I think both of your lines of thought are not quite contiguous. Francisco, this is precisely what John is proposing, a word of mouth whispering campaign. John, advertising works in a marketplace, there is no marketplace for Linux on the individual desktop, it is free. At the server level most corporate IT people know vastly more than Microsoft's marketing agencies about their work. Those people currently running Linux,Unix systems in a corporate environment would probably find work elsewhere if forced to use Windows for their fundamental infrastructure and thanks to the community they are growing in number. At this level Microsoft will have to produce a better and cheaper product to have a long term hope of competing. Regards Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Message posts
On Tuesday 26 March 2002 1:42 am, you wrote: On Monday 25 March 2002 07:07 pm, James Thomas wrote: I am just wondering if anyone else noticed problems with messages appearing in bizarre order, the original message appears a day or so after the replies. Is there anything I can do stop this (ie: get a new email account or something? :P) or is it a list problem? Thanks! James James: It may depend on your e-mail client. I use KMail, and I tell it to sort by subject; each posting appears oldest first, based upon when it was posted expressed in my local time. IIRC, Netscape does pretty much the same, as do most mail clients. Incidentally, one of the side effects is that some messages (particularly from Australia and New Zealand), often show up as having been posted tomorrow. HTH --- cmg What does IIRC mean? Thanks Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Installing WordPerfect on Mandrake 8.1??????
On Wednesday 13 March 2002 5:18 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday 13 March 2002 08:33, Wm. G. McGrath opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Has anyone had any success installing Word Perfect 8 on Mandrake 8.1? you will need libc-5.3.12-35mdk.i586.rpm and ld.so-1.9.5-13.i386.rpm both of which can be found at places like rpmfind.net or tuxfinder. if you can't locate them, and don't mind a 2 MB attachment i can send them to you. Also read forum at Mandrakeuser for fairly good discussion of the same issue. In particular filtrixfix for importing other (.doc) files and to enable printing -l has to go in the Printer Setup, Select Destinations, lpr options box. Regards Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 8.1 Install
On Tuesday 05 March 2002 3:13 pm, you wrote: Hi all, I purchased Mandrake 8.1 to see what Linux was like. I have a very limited knowlage of window but I am quite adapt at pointing and clicking. I decide to install it on my lap top but did not have sufficent resources. The next move was the home computer. A 1 gig AMD KT7A/Riad (Riad disabled) with a TNT Vid Card and a Maxtor 30gig HD, 384 megs of ram. It also has a Surfboard phone up/cable dowm modem. WinME working it all.I settled in for what the book said would be an easy install. I lost C:, I zapped out DOS, I got Linux in. I lost Linux, I lost windows. I'm sure I saw a Penguin flip me off. I got windows back, to make a long story short here's where I am now. WinME running, Linux just left on it's own, my 30 gig drive reads in windows as 2 gig, when i look at in Linux install it shows blue/2 gigs for windows, the rest is a white bar. All in all I wasn't too unhappy since I don't store a thing on my drive but software, what's six hours to reinstall it. Oh did I mention that some idiot forgot he did his taxszapped...the wife really liked that one. I have come up with three conclusions to what may have happened 1. I have failed to pray to the God of LINUX correctly or not left enough fish at the penguins feet. 2. Bill Gates is evil and personally hates me. 3. I have no dang clue what I am doing any and all mistakes are my fault. I have opted for number threebut I have not ruled out the other two. I would love to try LINUX, I would also like my hard drive back. I guess what I need is a quick course in partitioning, spelled out idiot proof, and some simpler instructions on how to install this as a dual boot system. Any help would be appreciated, fish can also be arranged. ;-) Mike Thanks very much for that. Within a Windows context Partition Magic is a newbie proof solution to a dual boot system. However having never got Windows 98 to work properly I'm less and less inclined to bother with the genre. Recommending a Window based product on this mailing list may be slightly off scent but coming from Windows to Linux it gets over the first hurdle. Coming fron Linux to Windows...(why?) DiskDrake will do fine. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
[newbie] Buying hardware
Hi all. Is this of interest to anyone? Have there been any previous threads? When we buy our new laptop or PC many of us may have acquired a Microsoft OS. How much extra has this cost us? Have we paid for something we did not want? If we said to Dell, Dan, Gateway, Tiny et al; we like your hardware, how much discount are you going to give me if I buy it without an OS, what would they say? 50% off quoted price! If anyone has any experience of this I would be interested to hear of it. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [newbie] wine install on mandrake 8.1
Dear All I use Windows to run a couple of legacy apps, Wine now runs most of these (thank you Skinky) and as soon as I can print from Quattro Pro 7 in Wine (help please I cannot make head or tail of the documentation)only my bookkeeper will use the Windows partion. We progress. Rob On Wednesday 20 February 2002 6:53 am, you wrote: On Wednesday 20 February 2002 12:27, Rick Henderson wrote: I just mandrake loaded. Hoping this os will let me do away with window$. I know nothing about wine. And I can't seem to get a windows program running. Any suggestions on what to look for and/or to do. Thanks Rick Henderson The wine package that comes with ML8.1 is broken. Download the latest from http://wine.dataparty.no and you'll find it'll work instantly. An example on how to use wine: I have an windoze accounting program called myob.exe so I $ cd /mnt/windows/myob/ $ wine myobe.exe Just go into the directory where the win app is located, then issue the command wine win app executable. HTH skinky Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
