Re: [expert] StarOffice

2001-04-23 Thread Tom Snell
I suppose just about anyone will tell you how slow and bloated StarOffice is, but, IMHO, it does do the job. SO5.2 does a fairly good job of importing and exporting MS Word and Excel filessome of the fancier formatting features may not always carry over perfectly, but it does an exemplary

Re: [expert] Mandrake 8.0 and VIA686a Chipsets: Gotta Big Problem, Houston....

2001-04-23 Thread Tom Snell
PC100 CAS2 SDRAM Appreciate if any Mandrake developers on the list check this out. Tom Snell -- Madness takes its toll; please have exact change Will Reinhart [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] Mandrake 8.0 and VIA686a Chipsets: Gotta Big Problem, Houston....

2001-04-22 Thread Tom Snell
these messages/CPU overload problem with kernels 2.2.18, 2.4.0 or 2.4.1. System Info: Athlon 650 MHz MSI-6195 mobo (AMD 756 chipset) [note: I had similar problems with FreeBSD 4.2 on this board) Corsair PC100 CAS2 SDRAM Appreciate if any Mandrake developers on the list check this out. Tom Snell

Re: [expert] Civilme: inquiring minds want to know

2001-03-25 Thread Tom Snell
Jeeesh, I've been wondering about this myself for the past few years, and, as are many things in life, the answer is far more intriguing than the question! I always assumed it was Quebecois Tom Civileme wrote: Hmmm it is Civileme. You'd need a Turkish phonetic dictionary to get it

Re: [expert] CUPS printing...

2001-01-02 Thread Tom Snell
Before you 'crap and go blind', take Till's advice and check the updates. I had exactly the problems you were having (I think the 'cdj880' driver was broken in the standard 7.2 CUPS), but everything worked out on my HP DJ832C after downloading/installing the updates off Till's page. Now getting

[expert] Thanks, Till!

2000-11-28 Thread Tom Snell
Just a big thanks to Till Kamppeter for all his efforts in helping LM users get up and running with CUPS. I'd downloaded Easy Software's CUPS/PrintPro trial package months ago, and was really impressed with the quality. But after installing the LM 7.2 version, all I got out of the test page

Re: [expert] Intel Chip Types (was) Mandrake sub-optimized for i686?

2000-04-19 Thread Tom Snell
Matt Stegman wrote: I don't know about Coppermine and such - I need to keep up to date with this - but I do know that AMD's Athlon is the first i786 processor to be sold. OK,since Mandrake docs don't seem to address the issue (no doubt due to the 'newness' of the CPU), how should an Athlon

Re: [expert] Mdk 7 - time to take out the trash? (long) - and a long reply.....

2000-04-01 Thread Tom Snell
Trevor Farrell wrote: OK - back to Linux - the current attitude that if something didn't work, it's because you didn't read the instructions or your hardware is faulty IS SIMPLY NOT ACCEPTABLE to me any more - If it doesn't work FIRST TIME it's because its broken, and needs fixing. The

Re: [expert] Unconnected at any price (The PIA ~ The Corvair)

2000-03-17 Thread Tom Snell
I am very wary of the LinuxStore at this point, and would NOT refer anyone to do business with them. I ordered LM 7.0 PowerPack on their website several weeks ago, and after a week or so, with no update to the original 'bounced' confirmation e-mail, I called themseveral times. I LIVE in

[expert] Linux Mandrake 7.0 Deluxe IS the LM 7.0 Power Pack

2000-03-15 Thread Tom Snell
Seems to be some confusion about the latest retail versions of LM 7.0, and since nobody from Mandrake has answered this thread, thought I'd make note of the fact that on the LM 7.0 Deluxe box, distributed by Macmillan, in small print in the lower right hand corner of the back of the box, it says,

Re: [expert] Xfree 4.0 update ready for Mandrake7

2000-03-13 Thread Tom Snell
I compiled the sources yesterday with no problem, just 'make', 'make install' and a 'ldconfig' from /usr/X11R6/lib (yeah, I know I should RTFM ;-) ), and ran into the same problem with the font server not starting. Twiddled around with a 'mkfontdir' and 'xset fp rehash', but nothing seemed to

[expert] Kppp Script Times Out on Athlon/MDK 7.0 System

2000-02-28 Thread Tom Snell
Getting odd behavior with Kppp on new homebuilt Athlon 650MHz/MicroStar K7 Pro mobo system under MDK 7.0 that was not an issue on my other Celeron 466/Abit BM6 box. When setting up Kppp as usual, and attempting first connection (this is after properly configuring the USR 28.8 ISA PnP modem with