List etiquette/ Thanks everyone

2002-05-31 Thread Arthur Dent
I want to say thanks to everyone who has replied to my equests about floppy disk drives and simple network traffic monitors/ firewalls. Can someone tell me what is the agreed upon method on this list for saying thanks. There were so many replies to my questions it would be a very long job to

Re: Floppy formatting.

2002-05-31 Thread Arthur Dent
Subject : Re: Floppy formatting. Date : Fri, 31 May 2002 21:26:17 +1200 Hi Roy I did as you suggested and it worked fine thanks. And I had no problems reading the disk onto the other P.C. I'm pretty much a windows person and would have thought either the kfloppy in KDE or gfloppy in Gnome

HOTMAIL on a linux list ???!!#***###

2002-05-31 Thread Arthur Dent
HI All Now that I've seen that this is a pretty good list and not just a spam jam I'm going to remove myself to kill this email address i.e. HOTMAIL and begin using my own. I know I loathe getting microsofts advertising delivered to me from other people so dont like spreading the virus

Re: insmod lt_serial, lt_modem on Acer Extensa 501 Dx

2002-05-31 Thread Arthur Dent
From: Olivier Crouzet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-laptop debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Subject: insmod lt_serial, lt_modem on Acer Extensa 501 Dx Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 17:21:37 +0200 Hi, I am trying to get my lt winmodem work under linux. I have compiled my own kernel and made the

attach3...aprox 189kB

2002-05-30 Thread Arthur Dent
Hi I just began posting on this list and thankfully received a lot of replies. A few of them included an atachment and most of the attachments from different people were called attach3. When I went to have a quick look at one of them it said it was of file type pgp...is this some sort of

Floppy formatting.

2002-05-29 Thread Arthur Dent
I installed debian on this compaq 1692 laptop a couple of weeks ago and it went very well. With driver from linmodems I now have the internal modem going o.k. etc. Last weekend I tried to install woody onto a hp 8805 desktop and it is not booting properly. I think it is something to do with

simple traffic monitor/firewalls

2002-05-29 Thread Arthur Dent
Under windows I had a little network picture which would show up in my system tray on the taskbar whenever I was on the internet. It showed 2 computers linked and whenever there was traffic either to of from my pc the small monitor screen icons would turn blue, indicating activity. Now I