Re: [newbie] Dumbest test I've ever seen

2005-02-02 Thread Brenda O'Hagan
hehehe.. Windows XP was the only operating system that couldn't recognise and open an imported Excel file the included office software is very basic so you need to install Microsoft Office or another more advanced program. most aunt tillys in this world can't run windows for very long without

Re: [newbie] unsatisfied dependency problem

2004-12-12 Thread Brenda O'Hagan
here ya go: [EMAIL PROTECTED] brenda]$ urpmq --source libstdc++2.10 ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/Mandrakelinux/devel/10.1/i586/media/main/libstdc++2.10-2.96-0.83mdk.i586.rpm ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/Mandrakelinux/devel/10.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/libstdc++2.10-2.96-0.83mdk.i586.rpm you

Re: [newbie] KDE CD

2004-12-08 Thread Brenda O'Hagan
once you've got mandrake installed, then you can just add kde 3.3 using urpmi Just skip it for now, and choose another window manager like gnome. On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 22:08:59 -0500, Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 04:02:21AM +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote: Hi,

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-01 Thread Brenda O'Hagan
On Thursday 02 December 2004 15:24, JoeHill wrote: ...I must say though (not bragging, by any stretch), that I do have a Windows XP box running on my LAN, default install, *no Service Packs installed*, just running AVG, and it's never been in any way compromised, not even with spyware. I can

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-01 Thread Brenda O'Hagan
that's my understanding, but i haven't been willing to touch a windows OS for years now). On Thursday 02 December 2004 16:21, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 15:41:33 +1300 Brenda O'Hagan disseminated the following: On your LAN? That's usually the difference. A windows boxen behind

[newbie] installing kernel from rpm fails

2004-11-30 Thread Brenda O'Hagan
my apologies is this is a repeat - i'm getting connection refused from http://archives.mandrakelinux.com I need some help - today I was installing a new (older) kernel - it all looked good until it failed at the end with these messages: bootsplash not found in /boot/initrd-2.6.3-19mdk.img