RE: [newbie] Wine for Dummies Tutorial?
Melissa- Have you checked the Wine list to see if that program is supported? -Scott -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Melissa Reese Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 2:02 PM To: MDK Newbie Subject: [newbie] Wine for Dummies Tutorial? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Before I boot back into Mandrake to do a bit more tweaking, I'd like to know if there's a *simple as possible* tutorial somewhere for setting up Wine and installing a program into (onto?) it? The tutorials I've found so far seem to assume that I'm already comfortable with the idea of manually creating/editing configuration files in Linux...which I'm not. At this point, there's just one Windows program I'd like to see if I can get to work under Wine (MessageCleaner). If I can get that set up to work in my Mandrake installation, it will, at the very least, give me a little extra time to get used to some of the Linux text editors and/or email/news clients and still be able to do a few specific things with certain types of text formatting/re-formatting of email and news group messages. So...are there any good Wine for *Complete Dummies* tutorials out there you could recommend? Thanks! - -- Melissa PGP public keys: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Body=Please%20send%20keys -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iD8DBQE/1MqTjVbXUvsE8ukRAv22AKCpJ9SIPXDr53I8+qwvTfg2vbSg0ACdHcNJ IfR0r96Xfq0mJpBhwHgEGlM= =jUs5 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Wine for Dummies Tutorial?
Hi Melissa- I didn't see it listed there, but thought I'd give it a try anyway. How else will I know if it can work or not? Or, must each program be specifically addressed by the writers of Wine before it even has a chance of working? What does MessageCleaner do? I am not familiar with it? In answer to your question: there is always a chance that it may work even if it is not on the list. -Scott Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Wine for Dummies Tutorial?
Melissa- I use PAN as my newsreader and I will check out what it can/can't do. Googling for pan message cleaner brings up all kinds of things for the kitchen :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Melissa Reese Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 2:51 PM To: Scott St. John Subject: Re: [newbie] Wine for Dummies Tutorial? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Scott, I may well find some or all of these features in the various Linux email/news clients and text editors, but until I get to know all that they're capable of, I still want to be able to deal with message composition in email and news in a way more to my liking...hence wanting to be able to use a utility like MessageCleaner at the moment. - -- Melissa PGP public keys: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Body=Please%20send%20keys -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iD8DBQE/1NYmjVbXUvsE8ukRAv13AJ91+JjczOyL6fTVrtlC+9PRRRlGVwCcCKZm T46EoBC31sWmVYR0GvCtJT8= =uSx8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 9.1 - few laptop questions
Hi Gang- I can't get over how solid Mandrake 9.1 is and I have been using it since 6.5 - not since the 7 series have I been this excited about it and can't wait for my Power Pack to arrive. I have a few questions - I am running 9.1 on a Sony Vaio GRX 560 Laptop with ACPI. I have sound, but above a certain volume it begins to distort. The sound card was detected as an Intel, but I know it is a Yamaha card since that is the driver disk for XP that it came with. First question - anyone else on the list using this type of laptop and second does anyone know of any Yamaha sound drivers out there - I must be blind because I have not found anything yet. Thanks, -Scott Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why do you choose Linux ?
On Friday 04 April 2003 08:54 am, J. Kelley Jernigan wrote: It isn't about money for me. So for my foray in Linux has cost me more than WinXP would have. I've gone to Linux because I don't like the new M$ licensing scheme or the direction M$ is going. I also tend to monkey with the hardware on my PC so it wouldn't be long before XP and I would have had a serious argument. As far as I'm concurened it's none of Bill Gates business what hardware and software I run on my machine, especially since I never use pirated software. I second that! I have lost more time trying to get Linux to work on my laptop, time I could have devoted to clients doing work and getting paid for it! I could have fired up Dreamweaver and produced the sites I needed to get done or use MS Office to work on a few proposals, BUT I have discovered later on that while Dreamweaver appears to speed up development initially that is quickly lost when a client wants something changed or something outside of the scope of what Dreamweaver can do. I run an ISP and my main work consits of: maintaining servers, keeping email flowing, responding to my customers, building web applications and working on improving services. Often I will have several programs going at once, connected to 10 different servers - with XP I would blue screen at least once or twice a day.mind you that was an improvement, but when a clients web site is down time matters. Truthfully I still have XP on this Laptop, I boot into it when I want to burn a music CD or want to use my Intel web cam - I can't get either to work well in Linux yet. On the other side of the coin I run KDE at 1600x1200 res and under XP that just hurt my eyes. So, in answer to your question - I want to do what *I* want to do on *MY* machine and do it the way *I* want to do it. Linux allows me to tweak the heck out of my machine, KDE is nice to look at and Quanta Plus has to be one of the best PHP editors out there. -Scott Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
