Re: Windows & Thunderbird to the headmaster's office immediately please

2008-02-09 Thread numien
Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: Yeah, just like links. Instead of putting symlinks in the file system API, they just made up a file format and .lnk extension that Explorer treats specially. Hooray. I was surprised to find Cygwin actually understands .lnk links natively as symlinks. Tiny bit of unix

Re: Windows & Thunderbird to the headmaster's office immediately please

2008-02-09 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Peter da Silva [2008-02-09 17:05]: > Extensions in Windows Explorer do not actually plug in through > the file system. Yeah, just like links. Instead of putting symlinks in the file system API, they just made up a file format and .lnk extension that Explorer treats specially. Hooray. Regards,

Re: Adobe Updater

2008-02-09 Thread Peter da Silva
On 2008-02-09, at 04:39, Philip Newton wrote: I installed Adobe Reader God that's a hateful program, in so many ways. At one point I was running xpdf remotely and copying all my files to UNIX because I refused to install Adobe Reader on Windows because EVERY time I ran it it went and re-in

Re: Windows & Thunderbird to the headmaster's office immediately please

2008-02-09 Thread Peter da Silva
Extensions in Windows Explorer do not actually plug in through the file system. They only show up in Windows Explorer. No other program can see them. DO NOT USE these hateful things.

Windows & Thunderbird to the headmaster's office immediately please

2008-02-09 Thread Simon Wilcox
Right then you two. Stand there. Stop fidgeting. Get your hands out of your pockets Thunderbird ! I don't care which of you two are responsible for this, it's just not acceptable behaviour in this computer and I won't tolerate it. Now Windows, what is it with this FTP extension in Windows Exp

Re: autocrap error messages

2008-02-09 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 09:59:00 +, Nicholas Clark wrote: > configure.ac:6: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL > If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. > See the Autoconf documentation. > make: *** [all] Error 1 > > > Yeah right. How helpf

Adobe Updater

2008-02-09 Thread Philip Newton
So. Yes, I have a computer with Vista in German; it came preinstalled. Given the choice, though, I install software in English, particularly if that's the original language - that translation tends to be better-maintained and more idiomatic. So I installed Adobe Reader in English, no surprises the

autocrap error messages

2008-02-09 Thread Nicholas Clark
configure.ac:6: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation. make: *** [all] Error 1 Yeah right. How helpful. What would it take to actually be helpful and say "you don't seem to

Re: MS Access upsizing wizard

2008-02-09 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
Martin Seidl wrote: > F*ck access. That's all I have to say. Fuck access? That's what the spammers are trying to hawk to me all day long. > Robert Rothenberg wrote: >> On 07/02/08 20:37 Chris Devers wrote: >>> On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Jeremy Stephens wrote: >>> I fucking hate the MS Access upsi