Re: [newbie] A little advice.
Thanx. I didn't know about Easynews until now. I'll have to check it later. Right now, I have a truck that needs a new water pump desperatly. I've never tried Pan, so I'll have to take a look at it. This whole thing is a learning experience. I had Mandrake once before, but my roommate who loaded it neglected to tell me how to install stuff, or how to get rid of it. I was running Mandrake 6 at the time, and while my roommate was instructing me, he suddenly up and left for Wisconson. I had nothing - no docs, no knowledge of the man pages, nothing. I ended up giving the HD that had it to a friend of mine at work after I bought the one I have now. I finally got tired of Winblows crashing on me several times a day, so I changed into something more advanced and far superior, not to mention more stable. It's only the occasional program that screws up, not the entire OS. Iceburgh69 - Recent releases of Pan have yEnc capabilities. But if you prefer to use Mozilla, can't help you there. You've checked out http://www.easynews.com/yenc/tools.htm? You can get Pan at http://pan.rebelbase.com/ or from rpmfind. Unfortunately, it's a GNOME newsreader ;-) which I left on my system after my experiences in Ximian Hell. It'll run in KDE, Blackbox, and Fluxbox, too. Think of it as a learning experience! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A little advice.
On Tue, 21 May 2002 17:46:43 -0600 Chris Ames <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can understand that attitude. Only one problem, at least for my main > question: the yEnc encoding. Recent releases of Pan have yEnc capabilities. But if you prefer to use Mozilla, can't help you there. You've checked out http://www.easynews.com/yenc/tools.htm? You can get Pan at http://pan.rebelbase.com/ or from rpmfind. Unfortunately, it's a GNOME newsreader ;-) which I left on my system after my experiences in Ximian Hell. It'll run in KDE, Blackbox, and Fluxbox, too. If you can tell me where in the manual it > is, I'll be more than happy to read it. As it is right now, I'm trying > to get the program to install properly. So I'm off to print outthe > install doc, see if I can't make heads or tails of it, and try again. > > The other two were kinda obvious, and I didn't realize that until later. > I also just realized how to install things. This is going to be a pain. Think of it as a learning experience! Todd > > Iceburgh69 > > > > At the risk of sounding rude, RTFM and STFW. -- Todd Slater We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A little advice.
On Mon, 20 May 2002 23:49:04 -0600 Chris Ames <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok. How in bloody 'ell do I get my newsreaders yEnc-compliant? Also, > when I install something, how do I get to where I can access what I > install in the GUI? > > Also, I have 3 CD's worth of MP3 files that I need to transfer over, but > the transfer process pukes after a little while no matter what I do. Is > there any way I can correct this? I've been thinking of asking a friend > of mine who has a cable-modem to send them to me via ICQ. It'll be a > pain in the tail, but at least he'll get the CD's out of the deal, and I > have quite a few that I know he likes, so... > > *Sigh.* I'm going to have LOADS of fun getting the last of my data > transferred over. > > Iceburgh69 At the risk of sounding rude, RTFM and STFW. -- Todd Slater No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back. (John Holt) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A little advice.
Can't help with everything, but... On Mon, 20 May 2002 23:49:04 -0600 Chris Ames <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, when I > install something, how do I get to where I can access what I install in the > GUI? You mean, have it appear on the start menu? Run menudrake, either from the menu (Configuration | Other | Menudrake) or a terminal. Often menudrake will pick up new items you've just installed, but if not you can use menudrake to add the new item to your menus. It's use is pretty self explanatory. > Also, I have 3 CD's worth of MP3 files that I need to transfer over, but the > transfer process pukes after a little while no matter what I do. You mean, copy them to a Linux partition? I had the same problem, and it took me ages to realize the obvious fact that I was filling up the destination partition, and the copy command naturally choked once /home filled up. Duh. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
