Re: [newbie] KMail doesn't take the mailto addy

2002-08-10 Thread D. Olson
On Saturday 10 August 2002 04:59 am, you wrote: On Saturday 10 Aug 2002 12:41 am, D. Olson wrote: If I click a link in Galeon, KMail starts up a new message, but it doesn't take the email address from the mailto: part of the link. Anyone know off hand how to do this? In the appropriate

[newbie] KMail doesn't take the mailto addy

2002-08-09 Thread D. Olson
If I click a link in Galeon, KMail starts up a new message, but it doesn't take the email address from the mailto: part of the link. Anyone know off hand how to do this? -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ MUB-NWN http://nwn.by-a.com/ WinXP - the best thing since

Re:[newbie] Make ISO WAS: Command line burning

2002-07-24 Thread D. Olson
! On Wednesday 24 July 2002 05:51 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday July 24 2002 03:16 pm, D. Olson wrote: I have been working a bit on a tutorial for this, but I would like to add how to make an ISO of a CD, and then burn it. Do you know how, via the commandline, to take everything on a CD and make

Re: [newbie] NVidia 4 video card and XF86

2002-07-13 Thread D. Olson
On Saturday 13 July 2002 01:34 am, you wrote: Has anyone had any probs trying to get an Nvidia card working under Drake 8.2? There is a tutorial on http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ that walks you through installing the drivers for 3D. Worked every time for me. -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience

Re: [newbie] Web Page

2002-07-10 Thread D. Olson
I use Quanta, and I use straight HTML, CSS, and PHP for my pages. On Wednesday 10 July 2002 02:59 pm, you wrote: Can someone give me some info? Wondering what other webpage creating software there is for linux other than cgi? Thanks much -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by

Re: [newbie] Quake III with nvidia

2002-07-08 Thread D. Olson
it? If you are using the Windows CD and the Loki installer, it just installs the binaries, and you have to copy the pak files yourself. Run it from a terminal and tell us any errors it tells you. -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ MUB-NWN http://nwn.by-a.com/ WinXP

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-06 Thread D. Olson
On Saturday 06 July 2002 12:20 am, you wrote: As WineX develops, Transgaming will be able to make more deals and partnerships with other games companies to make their games compatible with WineX. That's EXACTLY what I DON'T want. We want NATIVE games. -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-06 Thread D. Olson
or not. Ask Lyvim about Baldurs Gate. I think he plays it regularly under Winex. Sorry, I've not had a chance to try to install it yet. Don't be sorry. I wouldn't want to play it in WineX anyhow. -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ MUB-NWN http://nwn.by-a.com/ WinXP - the best

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-06 Thread D. Olson
) It doesn't make sense to me that it plays so well here, on an inferior system, and plays so poorly there... :-( -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ MUB-NWN http://nwn.by-a.com/ WinXP - the best thing since induced vomitting. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-06 Thread D. Olson
means that MORE AND MORE companies will rely on TRANSGAMING to get their games working and they will IGNORE native ports. Emulated can NEVER compare to NATIVE Linux games. EVER. On Saturday 06 July 2002 04:08 am, and idiot wrote: On Fri, 2002-07-05 at 17:55, D. Olson wrote: I'm

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-06 Thread D. Olson
. Is that the only game that you have running fine in WineX? Have you tried any of the other 69 or 70 on my list? -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ MUB-NWN http://nwn.by-a.com/ WinXP - the best thing since induced vomitting. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-06 Thread D. Olson
to my sort to trash list. That's nice. -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ MUB-NWN http://nwn.by-a.com/ WinXP - the best thing since induced vomitting. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] I thought Wal Mart had a deal with L-MDK?

2002-07-05 Thread D. Olson
On Friday 05 July 2002 09:06 am, you wrote: The only wish I have for KDE and not so much Linux (well, any WM/DE really, as I'd love *box if it had some sort of icons) is one of those bars like in Mac OS Ten... That'd be SOOO sweet! I LOVE how it zooms Mmmm I haven't seen OSX,

Re: [newbie] I thought Wal Mart had a deal with L-MDK?

2002-07-05 Thread D. Olson
I meant OS X... Not OS Z... On Friday 05 July 2002 02:12 pm, you wrote: On Friday 05 July 2002 09:06 am, you wrote: The only wish I have for KDE and not so much Linux (well, any WM/DE really, as I'd love *box if it had some sort of icons) is one of those bars like in Mac OS Ten...

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-05 Thread D. Olson
I'm a little confused also, since anyone alive and not living under a rock has heard about Loki's demise. Transgaming is the bridge from the gaming world to the world of linux, and it's working. Nuff said. It's working? 30% of the Windows framerate is not what I call working. 5 out of 70

Re: [newbie] I thought Wal Mart had a deal with L-MDK?

2002-07-05 Thread D. Olson
On Friday 05 July 2002 02:34 pm, you wrote: On Friday 05 July 2002 02:12 pm, you wrote: On Friday 05 July 2002 09:06 am, you wrote: The only wish I have for KDE and not so much Linux (well, any WM/DE really, as I'd love *box if it had some sort of icons) is one of those bars like

Re: [newbie] I thought Wal Mart had a deal with L-MDK?

2002-07-05 Thread D. Olson
On Friday 05 July 2002 04:35 pm, you wrote: I haven't seen OSX, but you can get the KDE taskbar icons to zoom. Are you talking about a whole zooming taskbar? Imagine the shape of a snake as it swallows a large object whole. In OSX, the taskbar takes on the same shape as you move the

Re: [newbie] FTPing mondo files

2002-07-05 Thread D. Olson
Why not set up a network share using NFS or even Samba? It is pretty easy to do using Webmin or MCC. On Friday 05 July 2002 09:02 pm, you wrote: I'm trying to ftp an ISO image between two MDK computers on my network, but the connection keeps timing out, so the transfer never works. How

Re: [newbie] FTPing mondo files

2002-07-05 Thread D. Olson
-win_d And then it hangs, and I can't kill the process. I tried a rpcinfo -p on the server, and all is well. I then did a rpcinfo -p 192.168.0.1 on the client, and it came up the same, as it should. Both machines are running 8.2. Bastille isn't running. Why is it hanging? Miark D. Olson

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-03 Thread D. Olson
On Wednesday 03 July 2002 11:40 am, you wrote: So do I, Shane! I bought just about everything they offered... ;-( I saw three Loki games today - EUS (I already have it), Myth II, and some train simulator game. I would have loved to buy both of the latter two, but I decided on just Myth II.

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-03 Thread D. Olson
Well strap a collar on and call me Lassie... I actually found a Loki game today... Myth II - $7.99 CAD... I got it. Gonna try it in a few minutes. On Tuesday 02 July 2002 11:59 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 02 July 2002 05:30 pm, D. Olson did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Yes, very

Re: [newbie] I thought Wal Mart had a deal with L-MDK?

2002-07-03 Thread D. Olson
On Wednesday 03 July 2002 06:51 pm, you wrote: If that was true, yes, you would be more open to viruses (virii isn't a word), but since Lindows has made it clear that users log in using usernames and passwords, I think that they have fixed this hole. Unless I read their FAQ wrong...

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-02 Thread D. Olson
On Tuesday 02 July 2002 09:41 am, you wrote: On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 09:11:02 -0400, D. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 02 July 2002 12:46 am, you wrote: But why would anyone buy the GNU/Linux version when you can get the Windows version for the same price (sometimes cheaper

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-02 Thread D. Olson
Whatever. Why is it so hard to see that without Linux games, there CAN'T be a Linux gaming market? How can we prove that we will buy games if there ARE NO GAMES to buy? On Tuesday 02 July 2002 12:03 pm, you wrote: On Monday 01 July 2002 05:24 pm, you wrote: everything snipped You

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-02 Thread D. Olson
On Tuesday 02 July 2002 04:31 pm, you wrote: there was a couple of companies making them. they went out of buis. go figure. Yes, very strange indeed. Funny how I only ever saw ONE Linux game on a store shelf... Hmm... Go figure. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-06-30 Thread D. Olson
Now, I have a listing along with the installers on this page: http://mdkxp.by-a.com/htm/articles/gamelist.php And I think you missed a critical part of my message: On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 20:12, D. Olson wrote: Oh, only NATIVE games, please. Why? Cuz WineX performance is less than 50

Re: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] enlarge a linux partition?]

2002-06-30 Thread D. Olson
I used DiskDrake to resize / on my wife's PC. How? I booted from the install CD. Worked fine here. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Switching from Voodoo to GeForce2

2002-06-29 Thread D. Olson
All you're mail are belong to KMail. On Saturday 29 June 2002 10:53 am, you wrote: D. Olson wrote: Well, the link worked for me Ok, I suspected the email problem might depend on the client you're using -- what client do you use? (I'll have to recheck when I don't have

Re: [newbie] Switching from Voodoo to GeForce2

2002-06-28 Thread D. Olson
Wow. I just did this last week on my wife's PC. Perfect timing. Here's how. 1) Shut off PC. 2) Remove Voodoo. 3) Install GeForce. 4) Power up PC. 5) Log in, but don't do startx 6) su to root 7) run XFdrake so that it switches to the GeForce card. 8) Install the NVidia GLX drivers and configure

Re: [newbie] GeForce 4

2002-06-21 Thread D. Olson
On Friday 21 June 2002 04:04 pm, you wrote: On Friday 21 June 2002 02:28 pm, darklord wrote: On Friday 21 June 2002 01:46 pm, you wrote: On Friday 21 June 2002 11:22 am, Miark wrote: Are these bad-boys supported in Linux? Miark by nvidia drivers. I installed one while

Re: [newbie] Virus in Linus OS ...

2002-06-15 Thread D. Olson
On Saturday 15 June 2002 10:26 am, you wrote: Nimda virus affects Linux! My linux boxes have had their bandwidth chewed up by four thousand Nimda servers infected with IIS. OH LOL! I LOVE IT! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] loki went bust???

2002-06-15 Thread D. Olson
i have to admit that the real reason i first choose Mandrake over SuSE was SuSE's damn no free ISO for you! policy. considering the amount of money i have sent Mandrake in the last few years, SuSE should hope i am the exception, not the rule... Well, I am an exception too... Want to

[newbie] Quake 2

2002-06-14 Thread D. Olson
Woohoo!!! Lots of purty browns and oranges! Oh, and shadows, lots of those!!! http://www.icculus.org/quake2/installers/icculus_org_quake2.run Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 wishlist :-)

2002-06-14 Thread D. Olson
On Thursday 13 June 2002 10:37 pm, you wrote: you see, when i said mandrake needs a graphic redesign, i really meant mandrake. not KDE, Gnome, or any other product. just the looks of Mandrakesoft's products. Totally agree. All the icons look too similar... Too much purple CAN be a bad thing.

Re: [newbie] linux, intuitive?

2002-06-14 Thread D. Olson
Whiles we're bitching about copy and paste, let me throw my anger in here too. Stupid Klipper doesn't work as expected all the time. Why is it that sometimes it doesn't pick up what I selected? And why is it that sometimes I select something, and it picks it up, yet in order to paste it, I

Re: [newbie] linux, intuitive?

2002-06-14 Thread D. Olson
I only use CTRL+V is middle click doesn't work, which is the problem I described. On Friday 14 June 2002 05:47 pm, you wrote: On Fri 14 Jun 2002 23:03, D. Olson wrote: Whiles we're bitching about copy and paste, let me throw my anger in here too. Stupid Klipper doesn't work

Re: [newbie] Gimp WAS: Mandrake 9.0 wishlist :-)

2002-06-13 Thread D. Olson
On Thursday 13 June 2002 02:20 pm, you wrote: clearly you haven't seen kde-301 yet, have you? and besides...it's not their job to make it look prettier. thats what desktop managers like KDE, Blackbox, and the rest are for, right? -- But the mandrake team, our even us newbies could

Re: [newbie] building an RPM

2002-06-12 Thread D. Olson
Umm... If it acts like it works then it works... It would have installed checkinstall. On Wednesday 12 June 2002 12:38 pm, you wrote: Does anyone know why this doesn't work It builds chkrootkit-0.35-1.i386.rpm and chkrootkit-0.35-1.src.rpm But when I run rpm -ivh

Re: [newbie] building an RPM

2002-06-12 Thread D. Olson
On Wednesday 12 June 2002 03:51 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday 12 June 2002 03:05 pm, D. Olson wrote: Umm... If it acts like it works then it works... It would have installed checkinstall. Actually this is what it does. [root@gail gerald]# rpm -ivh chkrootkit-0.35-1.i386.rpm Preparing

Re: [newbie] Corrupt rpm database?

2002-06-12 Thread D. Olson
On Friday 12 June 2009 09:36 pm, you wrote: Whenever I rpm or urpmi something, I get the following message: rpmdb: read: 0x4014b274, 4096: Input/output error rpmdb: Hash bucket 428 maps to non-hash page 518 error: db3 error(-30985) from db-verify: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database verification failed

Re: [newbie] loki went bust???

2002-06-11 Thread D. Olson
Long time ago. Loki had a good idea, and put out some good products (I have their Railroad Tycoon still) but the market wasn't ready. As a software developer I once contacted (in the hope that he might consider porting to Linux) said, Linux users are generally pretty stingy about software.

Re: [newbie] loki went bust???

2002-06-11 Thread D. Olson
On Tuesday 11 June 2002 06:01 pm, you wrote: Yeah, I hear you! Why do you think it's so easy to make a pirate copy of winblow$ whereas a stupid copy-protected audiocd from Sony knocks everybody over? Good hunting, Harm Well... If no one said this already, then you should know that you can

Re: [newbie] Hahaha, did you see?

2002-06-11 Thread D. Olson
http://www.roaringpenguin.com/adti2.php3 AdTI uses the story of Netscape killing the open-source Mosaic. Well, Mosaic was never GPL'd. If it had been, Netscape would have been unable to kill it. Umm... So that made it right for AdTI, er, sorry, I mean Microsoft to go and kill (or attempt

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-10 Thread D. Olson
On Monday 10 June 2002 04:37 pm, you wrote: On Monday 10 June 2002 11:28 am, Bulloved wrote: snip What Linux email clients do people on the list prefer? I like kmail Same here, but my wife uses Evolution. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] OT: Censorship

2002-06-09 Thread D. Olson
Yeah. Well some messages just plain didn't show up. I always send using the right account. But thanks. GO RED WINGS! On Tuesday 04 June 2002 07:46 pm, you wrote: D. Olson wrote: Is this board censored? I noticed that some of my posts haven't been showing up... What am I posting

Re: [newbie] Surround Sound

2002-06-09 Thread D. Olson
I have an SB Live! 5.1, which appears to use the same drivers, and it does the same thing. I get sound in the rear speakers. Now, I have a question about it... This sound in the rear speakers is only mirrored stereo, right? Or is it true surround sound (4 speaker) that I get? IE: in games and

Re: [newbie] test

2002-06-08 Thread D. Olson
On Saturday 08 June 2002 10:46 am, you wrote: On Saturday 08 June 2002 12:11 am, D. Olson wrote: On Friday 07 June 2002 11:50 pm, you wrote: On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 23:12:01 -0400 D. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 07 June 2002 07:33 pm, you wrote: On Saturday 08 June

Re: [newbie] run windows executable in Linux ...

2002-06-08 Thread D. Olson
On Saturday 08 June 2002 11:37 am, you wrote: On Friday 07 June 2002 11:16 pm, D. Olson did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: On Saturday 08 June 2002 01:23 am, you wrote: Wow. I really don't think someone asking, on a Linux mailing list, if there's free software to do what

Re: [newbie] test

2002-06-08 Thread D. Olson
On Saturday 08 June 2002 08:42 pm, you wrote: please, children, enough. once, funny. twice, a grin. 14, ridiculous. tc,hago. g . What once? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] WTF?????

2002-06-07 Thread D. Olson
On Friday 07 June 2002 01:41 pm, you wrote: Have you got 2 ISP accounts? Something like this happens if you are connected on one ISP's account and trying to use the smtp of the other one. Nope... I got two incoming POP3 accounts, but I only have one outgoing... Don't ask why, that's my

Re: [newbie] run windows executable in Linux ...

2002-06-07 Thread D. Olson
On Thursday 05 December 2002 03:10 am, you wrote: hello miark thanks alot for your mail .. all these apps which you say are monetary .. Linux is open source and GPL (copy left) why some app in this platform is monetary ? bye You are wrong. All those apps AREN'T monetary. You can

Re: [newbie] test

2002-06-07 Thread D. Olson
to the list, but I fixed it. fixed what? ;-) On Wednesday 05 June 2002 08:31 pm, you wrote: On Thu, 06 Jun 2002 08:24, D. Olson wrote: On Wednesday 05 June 2002 09:47 am, you wrote: On Wednesday 05 June 2002 06:32 am, Jay wrote: test It works

Re: [newbie] run windows executable in Linux ...

2002-06-07 Thread D. Olson
On Saturday 08 June 2002 01:23 am, you wrote: Wow. I really don't think someone asking, on a Linux mailing list, if there's free software to do what they want to do is unreasonable. He didn't ask if someone had a cracked version of these programs. He didn't even say he wasn't willing to pay

Re: [newbie] Star Office 6 Adabas question

2002-06-06 Thread D. Olson
As I said, all you need is OpenOffice... Unless Mandrake installed dBase when I wasn't looking. Just press F4... It's been a long time since I used dBase (III, III+, and IV) (on dos and Windows), but, don't you need the dBase engine in addition to whatever data Open/StarOffice puts out, to

Re: [newbie] test

2002-06-06 Thread D. Olson
On Wednesday 05 June 2002 08:31 pm, you wrote: On Thu, 06 Jun 2002 08:24, D. Olson wrote: On Wednesday 05 June 2002 09:47 am, you wrote: On Wednesday 05 June 2002 06:32 am, Jay wrote: test It works. -- cmg What works? Jays test works. Jay who? Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Yahoo! Chat

2002-06-06 Thread D. Olson
Does Gaim not work in Yahoo chats? Gaim is great. I use it for everything (I have an MSN, ICQ, Yahoo, AIM, and three IRC accounts, and it works perfectly). http://gaim.sf.net/ Hello, everybody! Can you suggest me a good chat client for Yahoo clubs Chatroom like $Windows$

[newbie] OT problem using linux

2002-06-06 Thread D. Olson
On Thursday 06 June 2002 04:16 pm, you wrote: on the other hand, if your problem is just not seeing any return or echo (like as you fill in the password, don't worry, just type the correct password and hit enter.. then enter the free and open world of Linux, were we might do it a little

[newbie] WTF?????

2002-06-06 Thread D. Olson
I get this message when I send some messages to the list: This Message was undeliverable due to the following reason: Each of the following recipients was rejected by a remote mail server. The reasons given by the server are included to help you determine why each recipient was rejected.

Re: [newbie] test

2002-06-05 Thread D. Olson
On Wednesday 05 June 2002 09:47 am, you wrote: On Wednesday 05 June 2002 06:32 am, Jay wrote: test It works. -- cmg What works? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Star Office 6 Adabas question

2002-06-05 Thread D. Olson
On Wednesday 05 June 2002 12:56 pm, you wrote: Where can you get a copy of dBase? *sigh* It's a database format that Open/StarOffice uses, just like it supports Microsoft Word and Excel documents without you needing to use Microsoft software to edit the documents... Like I said, press F4

Re: [newbie] Star Office 6 Adabas question

2002-06-04 Thread D. Olson
Umm... That's cuz Adabas is a file format, not a database editor... There is NO GUI. You can do databases in OpenOffice too... When you are in Writer or any other modules, press F4. That'll open up the data sources. Take it from there. D.Olson On Tuesday 04 June 2002 09:50 am, you wrote:

Re: [newbie] How to set up Apache to host personal web page

2002-06-04 Thread D. Olson
Install Apache. That's about it... That's all I did, and it works. The URL will be your IP. On Tuesday 04 June 2002 08:06 pm, you wrote: Has anyone set up Apache to host their own web page, and if so what is a good way to start? I have been through the man for apache and several online

Re: [newbie] How to set up Apache to host personal web page

2002-06-04 Thread D. Olson
Oh yeah, and I forgot about this: By default, my users all have webpages too. In their ~/public_html/ directories. To access this, someone would go to http://my.ip.addy.here/~username/ and their webpage will load. If that isn't enabled for you, you can enable it in Webmin or the Apache

Re: [newbie] Star Office 6 Adabas question

2002-06-04 Thread D. Olson
Yeah, you need to add a new data source, then add a new table, then add a link to a document to edit... It works nearly the same as in 5.2. There must be some tutorial online somewhere. And by the way, AdabasD's file format sucks, IMHO. I just use dBase. It's simple and has no limitations.

Re: [newbie] Gui for MySQL!!!

2002-06-04 Thread D. Olson
I like that signature! Anyhow, you can interface to MySQL using Apache and a a PHP webpage, as far as I know. I didn't get much into it, but I am pretty sure you can. PHP is worth learning too. IMHO. On Wednesday 05 June 2002 12:08 am, you wrote: Hello to all of you! I've been wondering

Re: [newbie] Iomega Zip drive

2002-06-03 Thread D. Olson
On Monday 03 June 2002 08:28 am, you wrote: What happens if you try /mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount dev=/dev/sda4,fs=vfat 0 0 ? Just guessing, cuz that's how my CD-ROM drive is.. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] linux virus

2002-06-03 Thread D. Olson
Hey, umm we've been discussing this for a while already. Just join in our conversation. On Monday 03 June 2002 08:34 pm, you wrote: Hi, I know the likelihood of a linux virus is very (extremely) small but at Symantec there is a write up about one

Re: [newbie] linux virus

2002-06-03 Thread D. Olson
Oh geez... Sorry... I am subscribed to both the newbie and the expert mailing lists... Heh... Sorry again. :| On Monday 03 June 2002 10:46 pm, you wrote: Hi, I checked the archives'virus', 'trojan', 'simile', etc.nothing is showing up.can you give me a message header

Re: [newbie] This sucks vacuum hard... ;-(

2002-06-01 Thread D. Olson
Gah. I'm glad I am not an American. But sadly, my government isn't much better and would probably have given in long ago. I should move to Peru... Hmm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] (Most) Linuxes unite

2002-05-31 Thread D. Olson
On Friday 31 May 2002 09:56 am, you wrote: From what I have read they are not interested in the desktop side anyway, only the server. Also Mandrake have been contacted, but after the signing of the deal, but the same time as redhat. Tony. Well, it doesn't matter because they invite any

Re: [newbie] Unreal

2002-05-31 Thread D. Olson
Quake or Quake 2? I have a tutorial on my site for Quake. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Thrown off the list ?

2002-05-31 Thread D. Olson
On Friday 31 May 2002 09:50 pm, you wrote: On the other hand : maybe I just screwed something up in my post. Something that the internet can't digest. - Like spam ??? Well, I can't digest spam myself, so there ya go. ;) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Unreal

2002-05-30 Thread D. Olson
Did anyone try this yet? I was considering buying it tomorrow, but I hear that it is pretty hacked together... If it is good, then I will get it. Hey, what's another Native Linux game to add to my collection? Unreal is like $10 here or something. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] StarOffice

2002-05-30 Thread D. Olson
On Thursday 30 May 2002 09:29 am, you wrote: On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 22:01, Terry Sheltra wrote: and download OpenOffice 6.0 for free. From what I've seen and heard, OpenOffice is no different than StarOffice, just that it's free. OpenOffice 6 is out? When did that happen? I just downloaded

Re: [newbie] Unreal

2002-05-30 Thread D. Olson
well. DOlson On Thursday 30 May 2002 11:46 am, you wrote: On Thu, 30 May 2002, D. Olson wrote: Did anyone try this yet? I was considering buying it tomorrow, but I hear that it is pretty hacked together... If it is good, then I will get it. Hey, what's another Native Linux game

Re: [newbie] StarOffice

2002-05-30 Thread D. Olson
Link? http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/mandrake8.2/OpenOffice.org-1.0-3mdk.i58 6.rpm and for better fonts on your 8.2 system, also get http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/mandrake8.2/freetype2-2.0.9-3plf.i586.r pm Openoffice uses almost entirely different code than SO 6, and many

Re: [newbie] Unreal

2002-05-30 Thread D. Olson
On Thursday 30 May 2002 02:46 pm, you wrote: Are we talking about Unreal or Unreal Tournament here?? Well, I was talking about Unreal. If I had been talking about Unreal Tournament, I would have said UT or Unreal Tournament. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Unreal

2002-05-30 Thread D. Olson
On Friday 31 May 2002 12:17 am, you wrote: It is the Loki release for Linux, right? If so, then grab it. Works great with my Geforce here No, someone hacked the UT installer and made it so you can use Unreal in Linux now too. I am told at MUB that it is really cool, so I am looking to

[newbie] New Frozen Bubble and js question

2002-05-22 Thread D. Olson
Frozen Bubble 0.9.3 came out today, as far as I know... Does anyone know if you can emulate keystrokes somehow with a joystick? I REALLY want to play this game with my joystick. Thanks! -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ Outlook is a petri dish. I don't know why

Re: [newbie] DivX Player - Solution found

2002-05-20 Thread D. Olson
is THE PLAYER. BTW, sorry to whoever had this originally, but I stole a piece of your signature... I liked it that much. Also, I want people to ask what that is supposed to mean, and that will give me a reason to throw Linux in their face. Hehe... -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http

Re: [newbie] DivX Player - Solution found

2002-05-20 Thread D. Olson
are... Don't you think it'd be kinda dumb for me to take a quote as my sig if I didn't understand it? LOL! But thanks anyhow! -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ Outlook is a petri dish. I don't know why anyone uses it. -- James Gosling, Sun Microsystems Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] DivX Player - Solution found

2002-05-20 Thread D. Olson
On Monday 20 May 2002 06:32 pm, you wrote: ok, so i totally misread what you said. i blame lack of sleep due to an 8 month old.. :) *note to self, re-read everything before posting until you get a full night sleep. like when the kid is 7. :) Hehehe. No problems. :) -- D. Olson

Re: [newbie] Winex Supported Games

2002-05-17 Thread D. Olson
for a very nice Quake engine, and it runs really fast on my computer. -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Winex Supported Games

2002-05-17 Thread D. Olson
Hmm... Can you point me in the direction of getting Quake 2 to work? I use an NVidia card.. If that matters. Thanks! On Friday 17 May 2002 01:19 pm, you wrote: On Friday 17 May 2002 10:09, D. Olson opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Quake

Re: [newbie] Winex Supported Games - Quake (original)

2002-05-17 Thread D. Olson
that I can find. Do you know of a way to do that? No clue... I just play the game. Miark -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Winex Supported Games

2002-05-16 Thread D. Olson
On Thursday 16 May 2002 02:06 am, you wrote: Its a Geforce2 i'm running quake normally, nothing special no winex And you only get 20fps? You installed the NVidia drivers properly? That's messed... -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ Want to buy your Pack

[newbie] Logitech Quickcam

2002-05-16 Thread D. Olson
I want to get this thing to work... I did once, but it was very choppy. The method I used was I downloaded some driver from some little website, and it wasn't very good... Is there an easy way to do this in Mandrake? -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Winex Supported Games

2002-05-15 Thread D. Olson
I have a list of games that I *personally* have tested in WineX. Here is the HTML version of my spreadsheet: http://mdkxp.by-a.com/winex/WineXGames.html -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Question Re: [newbie] Samba is not working in 8.2

2002-05-13 Thread D. Olson
than the 3 CDs... -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] 8.2 DVD

2002-05-13 Thread D. Olson
. With best wishes, Dave -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] semi OT redhat battles the evil empire?

2002-05-11 Thread D. Olson
... What's wrong with that? They aren't saying that you can't use Mandrake anymore... They are just being nice and giving a deal. I like that. -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] semi OT redhat battles the evil empire?

2002-05-11 Thread D. Olson
companies, such as IBM. -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] semi OT redhat battles the evil empire?

2002-05-11 Thread D. Olson
you to agree to not use Mandrake... You should be a little less hasty toward a company that produced much of Mandrake. -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] semi OT redhat battles the evil empire?

2002-05-11 Thread D. Olson
? -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] semi OT redhat battles the evil empire?

2002-05-11 Thread D. Olson
and scream foul! foul! or would you be all Yay Mandrake! You beat up that mean guy in red! I am betting on the latter. -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: now way OT was Re: [newbie] semi OT redhat battles the evil empire?

2002-05-11 Thread D. Olson
will NEVER succeed on the desktop IMHO, of course. -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] semi OT redhat battles the evil empire?

2002-05-11 Thread D. Olson
. On Saturday 11 May 2002 06:51 pm, you wrote: D. Olson wrote: On Saturday 11 May 2002 02:40 pm, you wrote: i _am_ going to pass judgement on the fact that while that rebate seems reasonable, why is it not extended to users of, say for example, win95 or win98? Because that would be rewarding those