Re: [newbie-it] Continuando con Lime Wire

2002-05-03 Thread Andrea - Tamalandia
C'è un piccolo problema... Nonostante abbia installato Java con i paccherri rpm, io non ho nessuna directory /usr/bin!! Uffi! Ha la possibilità di seguirmi mentre inparo fuori dalla lista così non disturbiamo gli altri? Grazie Il problema dovrebbe essere che quando lanci java la mdk in

Re: [newbie-it] unsubscibe

2002-05-03 Thread Andrea Celli
Laura ^.* wrote: [newbie-it] unsubscibe aggiungi una r e mandalo a sympa, non a tutta la lista ciao, Andrea PS maggiori dettagli negli headers completi di ogni messaggio in lista

[newbie-it] Limeware

2002-05-03 Thread Mino
Ankio mi accingo ad installare limeware, se potete mantenermi aggiornato. Ciao Mino

Re: [newbie-it] Limeware

2002-05-03 Thread Andrea - Tamalandia
Anche tu hai avuto il problema con WindowsXP e ADSL? Tu sei riuscito a mettere Java? Sarà una settimana che ci provo!! Io cmq ho scaricato i pacchetti RMP dal sito della SUN li ho installati, ma non trova da nessuna parte la directory di Java! Ciao -ANDREA- 03/05/2002 11.20.28, Mino [EMAIL

[newbie-it] sane

2002-05-03 Thread Augusto
Sto tentando di installare la 1.0.7 di sane ,ma quando passo al frontends dopo che ho lanciato configure ottengo un errore che sembra riferito al percorso delle librerie.Ho provato a seguire quanto detto nelle note di installazione dove si fa anche riferimento a un ldconfig che non so come

Re: [newbie-it] Continuando con Lime Wire

2002-05-03 Thread freefred
On Friday 03 May 2002 04:08 am, you wrote: C'è un piccolo problema... Nonostante abbia installato Java con i paccherri rpm, io non ho nessuna directory /usr/bin!! Uffi! Ha la possibilità di seguirmi mentre inparo fuori dalla lista così non disturbiamo gli altri? non disturbiamo credo, in

Re: [newbie-it] Continuando con Lime Wire

2002-05-03 Thread paolo brusasco
se può servire negli archivi della mailing list inglese c'e' un messaggio del 26/12/2001 di Anuerin G. Diaz con titolo limewire and java-VM sull'argomento. io non ho ancora avuto tempo di provare. linux mi sta succhiando più tempo di quanto vorrei. ciao. Paolo Brusasco Andrea - Tamalandia wrote:

[newbie-it] Compilazione

2002-05-03 Thread nicola
Salve a tutta la ML, sono ancora io (era un pò che non mi collegavo alla rete e così sono un pò indietro con le Mail)! Sono alcuni giorni che tento di compilare alcuni driver che devono essere caricati come moduli del kernel (Nvidia, Modem,...) ma ogni volta ottengo dei warning nella fase

[newbie-it] File a rischio con NETSCAPE e MOZILLA !

2002-05-03 Thread Giuseppe Ferruzzi
Avete saputo dei file a rischio con Netscape e Mozilla ? Il buco scoperto dalla società di sicurezza israeliana GREY MAGIC Software ? Andate a visitare il sito http://punto-informatico.it/p.asp?i=39979d=nb Saluti da Giuseppe.

Re: [newbie-it] Continuando con Lime Wire

2002-05-03 Thread freefred
On Friday 03 May 2002 02:25 pm, you wrote: Non ho la cartella usr/bin/java Java è una cartella, no?! O è un file? e' un eseguibile, o meglio, in questo caso uno script di shell, che a sua volta lancia un eseguibile, che dovrebbe/potrebbe essere kaffe. ora, guarda in /usr/bin se hai un file

[newbie-it] kernel ricompilato e vfat

2002-05-03 Thread Biss
Ho compilato il 2.4.16 su una mdk 8.1 e ho riscontrato problemi nel montare le partizioni e floppy di win98. Sia all'avvio che dopo ottengo questa risposta: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1, or too many mounted file systems Credo sia la compilazione perchè se

[newbie] Linux Praise

2002-05-03 Thread Brian York
Back when i was a windows user and would use a Mac ever once in a while i would love it. Just couldn't get over how good and well though out the OS was. Well after havering been using linux for a while i played around with Mac OS X and though to my self this OS sucks. I almost bought a Mac

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?

2002-05-03 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 17:52, Robin Turner wrote: Not quite. Back in the 18th and 19th centuries there was the East India Company, which successfully colonised most of the Indian subcontinent, and was only absorbed into the British Empire after a mutiny of its native soldiers resutled in

RE: [newbie] Re:OT

2002-05-03 Thread Mcleod, Ian
- PERSONAL EMAIL ONLY So does that mean blind people have nothing important in their lives?? ha ha - only joking.. Seriously - Linux is about freedom - people can say whatever they damn well please - and even if I disagree with another - I will fight to the death to defend their right

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?

2002-05-03 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 12:26, daRcmaTTeR wrote: Damian, sadly, historically americans haven't taken notice to something about to eat them for lunch until it has them on it's dinner plate and us about to start cutting. _thats_ usually when the thing is taken seriously and action is taken.

AW: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?

2002-05-03 Thread - hybrid -
i do totaly agree with you xaphir ... that's the main reason why i don't like america ... [nothing against the -most- people in it , but their system just sucks !!! ... ahem] this is a global problem , capitalism and the ever fighted war to be the stronger ... you see the media is mighty , and

RE: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?

2002-05-03 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 04:35, Mcleod, Ian wrote: I would like to send some 'pirated' software to Micro$oft to prove that I am not an evil civilisation destroying Linux geek. Unopened or 'off the press' pirated software is best - as it shows how little we want this junk that we won't even take

AW: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?

2002-05-03 Thread - hybrid -
hmmm ... a contract can't say _anything_ of course , there are restrictions ... to save the customers does m$ ever do their stuff right ? maybe someone should check if the eula for his/her country is correct ... --- ... XP , while X stands for cra -Ursprüngliche

Re: [newbie] Linux Praise

2002-05-03 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 02:22, Brian York wrote: Back when i was a windows user and would use a Mac ever once in a while i would love it. Just couldn't get over how good and well though out the OS was. Well after havering been using linux for a while i played around with Mac OS X and though

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-03 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 21:21, Nick Andriash wrote: On Thursday, May 02 2002 at 05:17 PM PDT, you wrote: A fool and his money are soon using Windows. I am/was beginning to experiment with Linux using Mandrake 8.2 but am disheartened to see signatures such as yours. How typical of Linux

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove?

2002-05-03 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 14:01, Miark wrote: What ms considers to be illegal is the following: I buy a machine with preinstalled windows I uninstall windows and install a real os I sell/give the version of windows that came with the machine to someone else What ms wants is

Re: [newbie] Jedi Knight 2...

2002-05-03 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 12:50, Steve Borrett wrote: Just thought I'd pass along that I just installed Jedi Knight 2 on my Mandrake Linux box using Winex 2.0! There is of course already a dedicated JK2 server available, but it is nice to know that someone got the game itself working :-)

Re: [newbie] OT over reacting

2002-05-03 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Thu, 2 May 2002 20:37:50 -0700 shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled impishly: snippage Microsoft: The company that made email dangerous. Does Microsoft mean small and limp Mike -- He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool

Re: [newbie] How to cope with the volume of linux-mandrake mail?

2002-05-03 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Thu, 02 May 2002 23:11:22 -0500 Brian Koppe [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled intuitively: Wow - how'd you know it was Mozilla? Thanks btw, it works shane wrote: You can check the headers for that sort of info ;o) Mike -- He may look like an idiot and talk like

RE: Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptionsexplained

2002-05-03 Thread falcaraz
Adrian I use both, Windows98 and linux Mandrake; I will never say that windows user ar fools; windows has good things, but... - You must pay a lot for it. - You must pay for each update and frequently those updates are just partial bug solver. - Almost every years you should upgrade

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-03 Thread Alastair Scott
On Friday 03 May 2002 2:21 am, Nick Andriash wrote: On Thursday, May 02 2002 at 05:17 PM PDT, you wrote: A fool and his money are soon using Windows. I am/was beginning to experiment with Linux using Mandrake 8.2 but am disheartened to see signatures such as yours. How typical of Linux

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-03 Thread Alastair Scott
On Friday 03 May 2002 4:42 am, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: I am using the OpenOffice version of StarOffice. I have not had any problems with it. I open Micorosoft documents (Word, Excell), edit them and save them in those formats without any problem. Seconded, and the round trip (Word 97 or 2000

Re: [newbie] Jedi Knight 2...

2002-05-03 Thread Michael
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 12:50, Steve Borrett wrote: Just thought I'd pass along that I just installed Jedi Knight 2 on my Mandrake Linux box using Winex 2.0! There is of course already a dedicated JK2 server available, but it is nice to know that someone got the

Re: [newbie] Simple Programming application

2002-05-03 Thread Alastair Scott
On Friday 03 May 2002 2:06 am, Marcia wrote: Some months ago I asked about a programming app for Linux that was simple and easy to learn and some of you gave me a name of one that I just cannot remember. It was something like Enterprise? but I am sure it was not the Java Enterprise. Maybe it

Re: [newbie] How to cope with the volume of linux-mandrake mail?

2002-05-03 Thread Michael
Brian Koppe wrote: Wow - how'd you know it was Mozilla? Thanks btw, it works shane wrote: On Thursday 02 May 2002 20:24, Brian Koppe opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: How do you sort by thread? That'd be really cool what is your mail

[newbie] Linux and Windows

2002-05-03 Thread ivo ailis
I have recently downloaded Mandrake 8.2. Before i install i want to know whether is it possible to have both windows and Linux on one computer. If so could you give me detalized step-by-step instructions...Well i am really a newbie to Linux :) Also could you give me some installation

RE: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-03 Thread Barran, Richard
On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 21:21, Nick Andriash wrote: On Thursday, May 02 2002 at 05:17 PM PDT, you wrote: A fool and his money are soon using Windows. I am/was beginning to experiment with Linux using Mandrake 8.2 but am disheartened to see signatures such as yours. How typical of

Re: [newbie] How does one get a joystic to work ?

2002-05-03 Thread Michael
Rob Lofland wrote: s wrote: On Thursday 02 May 2002 03:13 am, Rob Lofland wrote: Using a Logitech 3d Extreme on LM 8.2 USB port. Control panel says the joystick is unknown. Thanks, Rob modprobe usb-uhci modprobe input modprobe joydev modprobe adi or put in

Re: [newbie] To list admin (Denis Havlik?)

2002-05-03 Thread Michael
civileme wrote: Roman Korcek wrote: Hi Mark, I lost my old email address an thus can't unsub. (because it needs a confirmation which I can't confirm since the request is sent to my old address). The old address was [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Could you please unsub. me? Or if I am asking at

[newbie] mandrake 8.2 ppc on ibook

2002-05-03 Thread marco koorstra
hello i'm marco and i can't get it running i tryed yaboot and bootX but it doesn't work with BootX i get my ibook turns it self off when i press the linux button and i can't get yaboot running. and in the beginning pressing the ckey doesn't work at al. en i don't realy know witch keys are

Re: [newbie] Kmail problems

2002-05-03 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Thu, 2 May 2002, Mike Larson wrote: In Kmail under LM 8.2, when attempting to fill in the To:, CC:, or BCC fields, I get an error message the moment I begin to type an email address. The error box header is File Error and says Could not load the file. Clicking OK gives another box saying

[newbie] RE: [Newbie] Linux and Windows

2002-05-03 Thread Charles Muller
I have recently downloaded Mandrake 8.2. Before I install I want to know whether is it possible to have both windows and Linux on one computer. If so could you give me detailed step-by-step instructions... For one, please take a look at the instructions I wrote up for installing 8.1 at

[newbie] Installing QT PRoblems

2002-05-03 Thread Pauljames Dimitriu
I'm having a little problem installing qt2 from the rpms. I have to install libpng libqt2, but when I go to install libpng, I get the following list of conflicts: gdk-pixbuf-loaders 0.16.0-1mdk conflicts with libpng3-1.2.1-6mdk gnome-core 1.4.0.6-1mdk conflicts with

RE: [newbie] OT over reacting

2002-05-03 Thread Michael . Hughes
Personally I don't agree with anyone flaming someone because of the email signature. Who cares what their opinion is. Also he does have a right to his opinion especially if he lives in the USA, this is guaranteed by the 1st amendment in the Constitution ( As noted below). Also Microsoft

[newbie] usb scanners work under mandrake 8.2?

2002-05-03 Thread adrian
i have a HP scanjet 5370C scanner that connects through USB wire and i cant get it to work under MD8.2, any suggestions? Adrian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] How to cope with the volume of linux-mandrake mail?

2002-05-03 Thread civileme
Brian Koppe wrote: Wow - how'd you know it was Mozilla? Thanks btw, it works shane wrote: Well, if you want to know what mailer people are using just click on View=Headers=All and look at the stanzas in the header beginning with the letter X. Older headers had an X-Mailer entrywhich

RE: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?

2002-05-03 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 09:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: M$ can only screw you if you let them. Personally I don't give a rats A$$ about M$ or their products. The only reason I still have M$ is to play the couple of games I like to play. Oh I don't even read the licensee agreement that M$

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?

2002-05-03 Thread civileme
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 02:12, Damian G wrote: Well, someone who cannot post to the list because his ISP is out picking daisies and not supplying reverse resolution sent me a missive pointing out that no one buys Windows. It is a license one buys, nothing more. hi

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-03 Thread shane
On Thursday 02 May 2002 23:04, civileme opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: The signature implies to me that Microsoft is to blame for leading gullible people, but I never saw that the meaning everyone who uses windows is gullible could be read into it.

RE: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?

2002-05-03 Thread Michael . Hughes
I hear that... If it does go Enron then they also have to prove I have that on my systems, at which time will have nothing but Mandrake, Redhat, SuSe, or anyone of the other flavors out there. Believe me I am not paying a dime to that co, nor am I going to jail for them either. But, none

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?

2002-05-03 Thread Randy Kramer
Damian G wrote: i'll hunt down the links later, if i find it, i'll post the link where i found a snip of that judge's resolution.. Here is a link to a page with links to other pages (sorry about that ;-) that deal with rulings oveturning the validity of at least some claims in an EULA. (Note

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove?

2002-05-03 Thread daRcmaTTeR
Civ does have a point. According to the EULA, you do NOT own the software; you are only granted a license to use the software at MicroShaft's behest. When you buy the CD, you are indeed buying a license. Now wether you decide to USE that license or not at whatever time in the future is up

Re: [newbie] the sig file silliness continues

2002-05-03 Thread ed Tharp
On Friday 03 May 2002 11:50 am, you wrote: On Friday 03 May 2002 02:55, Barran, Richard opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: I HAVE to use Windows 8 hrs a day in the workplace - does that make me an idiot? I use Win98 at home - no Linux CD-burner comes

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?

2002-05-03 Thread Femme
On Fri, 3 May 2002 10:56:50 -0400 (EDT) daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The bottom line is that no matter what you or I consider ethically right with respect to what we bought, we both are legally bound by the terms of use of the authors (copyrighters) wether we like that or not.

[newbie] ALN-601a PCMCIA Network Card doen't work on my Linux Distribution

2002-05-03 Thread Frederico Figueiredo
Hi there. I have an ALN-601a PCMCIA Network Card (ACER) an I can't configure it on my Linux Mandrake 7.2. Can someone help me? Thanks a lot, Fred Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] VNC on MDK 8.2 - keyboard problem

2002-05-03 Thread RichardA
The VNC docs don't mention one, 'vncserver --help' doesn't, and google says no too. So I guess there isn't a keyboard lock... RichardA Sevatio, Thursday 02 May 2002 9:30 pm: RichardA wrote: Is anyone else using the VNC which came with MDK 8.2? I can start the server, start the viewer on

Re: [newbie] Re:OT

2002-05-03 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Thu, 2 May 2002, Jon Doe wrote: On Thursday 02 May 2002 09:21 pm, Nick Andriash wrote: On Thursday, May 02 2002 at 05:17 PM PDT, you wrote: A fool and his money are soon using Windows. I am/was beginning to experiment with Linux using Mandrake 8.2 but am disheartened to see

[newbie] hot-plug USB causes lock up

2002-05-03 Thread Andy Liaw
Hi, I have an USB Orb drive, which works if it's plugged in before Mandrake 8.2 is booted. If I plug it in after Mandrake is booted, then the machine appears to freeze up. Does anyone know how to solve this problem? TIA!! Andy = Andy Liaw Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Re:OT

2002-05-03 Thread Femme
On Fri, 3 May 2002 12:09:41 -0400 (EDT) daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2 May 2002, Jon Doe wrote: On Thursday 02 May 2002 09:21 pm, Nick Andriash wrote: On Thursday, May 02 2002 at 05:17 PM PDT, you wrote: A fool and his money are soon using Windows. I

Re: [newbie] Re: WineX was: OT over reacting

2002-05-03 Thread Femme
On Fri, 3 May 2002 08:38:38 -0700 shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 03 May 2002 08:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: I play these games regularly Starcraft/Broodwars Diablo2/Lord of Destruction Jedi Knight 2 Medal

Re: [newbie] Linux and Windows

2002-05-03 Thread Femme
On Fri, 3 May 2002 12:52:27 +0300 (GMT+03:00) ivo ailis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have recently downloaded Mandrake 8.2. Before i install i want to know whether is it possible to have both windows and Linux on one computer. If so could you give me detalized step-by-step instructions...Well

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove?

2002-05-03 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Femme wrote: On Fri, 3 May 2002 10:56:50 -0400 (EDT) daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The bottom line is that no matter what you or I consider ethically right with respect to what we bought, we both are legally bound by the terms of use of the authors

Re: [newbie] Re:OT

2002-05-03 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Femme wrote: On Fri, 3 May 2002 12:09:41 -0400 (EDT) daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2 May 2002, Jon Doe wrote: On Thursday 02 May 2002 09:21 pm, Nick Andriash wrote: On Thursday, May 02 2002 at 05:17 PM PDT, you wrote: A fool and his

Re: [newbie] Linux and Windows

2002-05-03 Thread Randy Kramer
Kristjan Klementi wrote: You can try installing Linux on Win only if you have 95/98/ME... Nt and above are independent OS and do not allow that action. I'm a little confused by the above -- it may be misleading (or I may be confused): AFAIK, you can install Linux in a dual boot configuration

Re: [newbie] Linux and Windows

2002-05-03 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 03 May 2002 14:51:12 -0400 Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kristjan Klementi wrote: You can try installing Linux on Win only if you have 95/98/ME... Nt and above are independent OS and do not allow that action. I'm a little confused by the above -- it may be misleading (or

RE: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-03 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Barran, Richard wrote: I HAVE to use Windows 8 hrs a day in the workplace - does that make me an idiot? I use Win98 at home - no Linux CD-burner comes close in quality to Nero Burning Rom. Does that make me an idiot? Signatures such as 'all Windows users are idiots' are

[newbie] Mesa Help

2002-05-03 Thread Kirtis Bakalarczyk
I recently installed the newest version of mesa (4.0.2) (which was stupid because it already worked fine i just had to tinker...) and all of a sudden quake 3 won't work! Well actually it runs, just ral slow. has anyone had a similar problem and if so, have they figured out how to

Re: [newbie] Re: WineX was: OT over reacting

2002-05-03 Thread shane
On Friday 03 May 2002 11:27, Femme opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: If any QuakeIII players/SC players or Old diablo/Vanilla D2 want to play sometime, email me. I am looking for friends to play with. And I'm looking for ppl to meet every once in a

Re: [newbie] Mesa Help

2002-05-03 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 3 May 2002 15:48:31 -0400 Kirtis Bakalarczyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently installed the newest version of mesa (4.0.2) (which was stupid because it already worked fine i just had to tinker...) and all of a sudden quake 3 won't work! Well actually it runs, just

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-03 Thread Damian G
note, the sig below is in no way intended to poke fun at any 6 fingered ppl who can indeed carry out the command described, no similarity to any ppl living or dead is accidental. the name shane may not be mine. i may be spoofing. your milage may vary. do not taunt happy fun ball.

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-03 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On 4 May 2002, Brian Parish wrote: OK - This got a nice little flame war going, but didn't really address the question. Is anyone else using SO6 - not the other flavors - and seeing the same behavior as I am? A friend who just upgraded to 8.2 has SO6 crashing on every doc file he's tried

[newbie] USB controllercard

2002-05-03 Thread adrian
another problem is that the scanner is connected to a USB controller card which is on a PCI slot and mandrake doesnt recognise it and its now under other units in my hardware list. The printer and the scanner is also under other units as unknown devices so im not sure if the USB controller

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?

2002-05-03 Thread ed Tharp
what ever happened to the concept of average and reasonable as in; if the average and reasonable person believes they have purchased a CD when they pay their money and leave the store, and does not find out until after having broke the shrinkwrap that the did NOT purchase a CD but instead

Re: [newbie] How to cope with the volume of linux-mandrake mail?

2002-05-03 Thread Brian Koppe
That would be XP - I read the e-mail after playing Jedi Knight II which I have not had time to figure out how to get working in Linux yet. civileme wrote: Brian Koppe wrote: Wow - how'd you know it was Mozilla? Thanks btw, it works shane wrote: View=Headers=All and look at User-Agent,

[newbie] try...try...try again

2002-05-03 Thread daRcmaTTeR
are we reeaching yet? -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?

2002-05-03 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Fri, 3 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hear that... If it does go Enron then they also have to prove I have that on my systems, at which time will have nothing but Mandrake, Redhat, SuSe, or anyone of the other flavors out there. Believe me I am not paying a dime to that co, nor

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?

2002-05-03 Thread David
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said onto me: -- |I hear that... | |If it does go Enron then they also have to prove I have that on my systems, |at which time will have nothing but Mandrake, Redhat, SuSe, or anyone of the |other flavors

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-03 Thread James Thomas
I actually have little against Windows - personally, I think XP is a fine OS (best Windows by far yet, IMO). Where I take exception is the company itself and its business practices. If my printer worked properly in Linux (for some reason it works right off the bat after I reboot or after I

[newbie] aba_sofiane

2002-05-03 Thread Sofiane Cirat
Hi, I bought Linux mandrake 8.1 to give it a try, I have a PowerPC 360 Mhz, 152 Mb of RAM, a KDS monitor, and a graphic card (that Linux has detected as SiS 620 )built-in the motherboard. The whole installation went fine but in X configuration a window poped up containind the monitors lists

RE: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-03 Thread Schwenk, Jeanie
SO6 has not crashed on loading windoze doc files (File ... Open) for me but it does crash when using the spell checker (not every time, just sometimes). My system is a clean install of 8.2 with office 6.0 (no upgrades anywhere since I've only been up and running since April 23rd). I tried

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?

2002-05-03 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 03 May 2002 08:17 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Since they now control the Department of Justice via bribe money, payoffs, and soft money (legal bribe money) I would assume then that they have already merged. Both them and susceptible members of congress. MSUSA is already a reality;

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-03 Thread Jose Paiva
Try iname.com about $20/year. I've used it for at least 4 years and only had problems only once (they were upgrading their system) and I can't open Word docs on StarOffice 6.0. - Original Message - From: James Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 7:37

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?

2002-05-03 Thread Derek Byram
On Saturday 04 May 2002 02:46, you wrote: On Friday 03 May 2002 08:17 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: SNIP Question : What do you call 50 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean ? Answer : A brilliant start Kaj Haulrich Denmark not enough lawyers :( -- derek the lurker Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?

2002-05-03 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 04 May 2002 04:16 am, Derek Byram wrote: On Saturday 04 May 2002 02:46, you wrote: On Friday 03 May 2002 08:17 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: SNIP Question : What do you call 50 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean ? Answer : A brilliant start Kaj Haulrich Denmark not enough

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?

2002-05-03 Thread Derek Byram
On Saturday 04 May 2002 03:33, you wrote: On Saturday 04 May 2002 04:16 am, Derek Byram wrote: On Saturday 04 May 2002 02:46, you wrote: On Friday 03 May 2002 08:17 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: SNIP Question : What do you call 50 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean ? Answer : A

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?

2002-05-03 Thread Derek Byram
On Saturday 04 May 2002 03:33, you wrote: On Saturday 04 May 2002 04:16 am, Derek Byram wrote: On Saturday 04 May 2002 02:46, you wrote: On Friday 03 May 2002 08:17 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: SNIP Question : What do you call 50 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean ? Answer : A

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove?

2002-05-03 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Sat, 4 May 2002, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Makes me sad, Lyvim. What happened to the land of the free ? We europeans (well, most of us) have great admiration for the United States of America. Mostly because you kicked the oppressors out, wrote a brand new Constitution - and took it seriously !

[newbie] Errors during instalation of Mandrake 8.2 on my Toshiba laptop

2002-05-03 Thread Frederico Figueiredo
Hi there. I'm able to install Mandrake 7.2 on my Toshiba 1700-500 (Celeron 700 10G disk and 128MB RAM) laptop with no problems. I've tryed installing versions 8.1 and 8.2, and many errors occur, of the type: There was an error installing packages: XPTO Go on anyway? If I say YES the errors

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-03 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 03 May 2002 16:37:10 -0700, James Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ps. I really need to switch email accounts (this is owned by Microsoft) but it's so hard to do - anyone know of any free mail forwarding site that acts as a sort of relay so if you change ISPs or email addresses, there

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-03 Thread Mike Larson
You might try www.hotpop.com for free pop/smtp/forwarding email or www.bigfoot.com for a free forwarding type email. I thought I had several others, but they started charging ( www.mail.com ) or dropped their Enlish language version ( www.gmx.com ). With today's dot bomb financial situation

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?

2002-05-03 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 4 May 2002 03:46:15 +0200, Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Makes me sad, Lyvim. What happened to the land of the free ? We europeans (well, most of us) have great admiration for the United States of America. Mostly because you kicked the oppressors out, wrote a brand new

Re: [newbie] Mesa Help

2002-05-03 Thread Kirtis Bakalarczyk
With mesa-4.0.2 you need to use kernel=2.4.18.6mdk I am assuming you are using an ATI vid card. oops... they should warn people about that. I'm currently using kernel 2.4.8 with a Nvidia TNT2. *sigh* I guess this means that it's kernel upgrade time Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?

2002-05-03 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 18:46, David wrote: Well, this has worked sometimes (for a friend, of course--I would never do something like this)... When making your copies of some microshit, instead of just copying disk-to-disk, copy all files to your HD. Then find the file named

Re: [newbie] Errors during instalation of Mandrake 8.2 on my Toshiba laptop

2002-05-03 Thread civileme
Frederico Figueiredo wrote: Hi there. I'm able to install Mandrake 7.2 on my Toshiba 1700-500 (Celeron 700 10G disk and 128MB RAM) laptop with no problems. I've tryed installing versions 8.1 and 8.2, and many errors occur, of the type: There was an error installing packages: XPTO Go on anyway?

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-03 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 03 May 2002 22:39:23 -0500, Mike Larson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might try www.hotpop.com for free pop/smtp/forwarding email or www.bigfoot.com for a free forwarding type email. I thought I had several others, but they started charging ( www.mail.com ) or dropped their Enlish

[newbie] The Register, Microsoft EULA's and all that jazz

2002-05-03 Thread Carroll Grigsby
The Register published an update to their earlier article. Read it at: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25152.html MS has backed down somewhat from their earlier position that the software and the hardware are absolutely inseparable. Now it's not a legal requirement, just beneficial.

Re: [newbie] The Register, Microsoft EULA's and all that jazz

2002-05-03 Thread Damian G
On Sat, 4 May 2002 00:42:21 -0400 Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My 2 cents on this whole deal: Just because it says something in the EULA doesn't mean it's legal. The problem is that MS has a lot of highly paid lawyers who get their marching orders from Uncle Bill. His agenda for

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?

2002-05-03 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 21:46, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 03 May 2002 08:17 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Since they now control the Department of Justice via bribe money, payoffs, and soft money (legal bribe money) I would assume then that they have already merged. Both them and