RE: FW: [newbie] curious ....

2001-07-02 Thread Edward Barrow
On Monday, July 02, 2001 3:46 AM, Franki [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: oh yeah, I meant to respond to this as well.. MS is full of innovation. Thanks to them millions upon million of users can now use a PC. OS2 didn't do that, neither did UNIX or Linux. It was Windows 3.1 that started it

[newbie] fully-qualified domain names....

2001-06-21 Thread Edward Barrow
This one should be really easy, but it has me baffled. I'm supposed to give my computer a fully-qualified host name, and I don't know what name to give it. At the moment it is not connected to the Internet so I don't suppose it is that important, but when I do get it connected (a task that

RE: [newbie] Hotmail Mail

2001-06-20 Thread Edward Barrow
On Tuesday, June 19, 2001 11:31 PM, Jose [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Hotmail was designed to be used from any browser. You can still go to www.hotmail.com to read, answer, write and save your emails. While it is easier to use Outlook Express, you can use any browser. It was also built

RE: [newbie] Speaking of Dell and Linux.........

2001-06-18 Thread Edward Barrow
On Saturday, June 16, 2001 12:42 AM, Michael [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Does anyone know where you can lease machines and get service contracts with Linux installed? Could be a business opportunity out there... Linux does need more support than Windoze, but not much; if you were to

RE: [newbie] kups paper size...

2001-06-15 Thread Edward Barrow
On Friday, June 15, 2001 6:16 AM, mooseman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: X-RebelTech Is Here: www.rebeltech.ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit i have a problem with printing from my lm8 pc. i can print ok, but for some reason, my printer

RE: [newbie] No-one uses Linux, says Microsoft

2001-06-15 Thread Edward Barrow
On Friday, June 15, 2001 12:07 PM, Paul [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: There are several other news sites that also have information on this review by Gartner. And they all focus on the fact that the review is sponsored by Microsoft. I am positive that this is just another attempt from

RE: [newbie] DVD Question

2001-06-15 Thread Edward Barrow
On Friday, June 15, 2001 7:15 AM, h3rb [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: What is a CSS-encrypted DVD? Cryptanalysis of Contents Scrambling System CSS is a scrambling system used in the distribution for movies on DVD ( Digital Versatile Disc ) a high capacity CD like storage system. Its main

RE: [newbie] error: failed dependencies

2001-06-12 Thread Edward Barrow
On Tuesday, June 12, 2001 7:25 AM, Michael Falzon [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 error: failed dependencies -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use http://www.pgp.com

RE: [newbie] Setting up Intel print server on CUPS

2001-06-06 Thread Edward Barrow
On Wednesday, June 06, 2001 2:06 PM, Wendell Gragg [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Ok, well since Mandrake refuses to help me on their official tech support site, I hope you guys can get me through it. Lousy way to do business if you ask me. oh I don't know. There's a company in Seattle,

[newbie] monitor resolution

2001-06-01 Thread Edward Barrow
config file for the font server? under windows I used 125dpi fonts so it is not surprising that 75dpi are illegible Edward Barrow