Re: [newbie] My personal response to msn.com and Internet Explorer.

2001-10-29 Thread John Hokanson Jr.
web code. Afterall, Star Office can read Word documents. In fact, if it weren't for Linux, the government's case against Microsoft might have come sooner -- John Hokanson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn

Re: [newbie] My personal response to msn.com and Internet Explorer.

2001-10-29 Thread John Hokanson Jr.
Hokanson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations,analyze

Re: [newbie] My personal response to msn.com and Internet Explorer.

2001-10-29 Thread John Hokanson Jr.
On Monday 29 October 2001 05:41 pm, you wrote: On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 13:45:52 -0800, John Hokanson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 29 October 2001 08:26 am, you wrote: Microsoft has backed off now, because of attention and articles. (I may make a note of that in the warning

Re: [newbie] My personal response to msn.com and Internet Explorer.

2001-10-29 Thread John Hokanson Jr.
On Monday 29 October 2001 06:02 pm, you wrote: On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 11:43:08 -0800, John Hokanson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 29 October 2001 09:11 am, you wrote: Actually, I made no reference to linux at all... simply open standards and free software, thats all

Re: [newbie] My personal response to msn.com and Internet Explorer.

2001-10-29 Thread John Hokanson Jr.
,, I would like to hear anyones comments on this. rgds Frank Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- John Hokanson Jr. [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] My personal response to msn.com and Internet Explorer.

2001-10-29 Thread John Hokanson Jr.
... as those same computers also support Java. There are many different visions of Javascript though. It's easier to do it in VBScript. It's not the fault of the language. -- John Hokanson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn

Re: [newbie] My personal response to msn.com and Internet Explorer.

2001-10-29 Thread John Hokanson Jr.
will never swap to linux or consider it.. So basically, you want people to switch browsers so they switch to Linux. It seems to me you have little concern for freedom of web navigation. -- John Hokanson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion

Re: [newbie] KDE 2.2.1 on MD8...the saga continues...

2001-10-28 Thread John Hokanson Jr.
On Saturday 27 October 2001 11:38 pm, you wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 18:43:50 -0700, John Hokanson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I'm 99% certain I'm going to have to upgrade to XFree86 4.1.0 if I want to have any chance of installing Textstars RPMs. I also have a LOAD of other

Re: [newbie] KDE 2.2.1 on MD8...the saga continues...

2001-10-28 Thread John Hokanson Jr.
On Sunday 28 October 2001 12:41 am, you wrote: There is always the possibility that your hardware is to blame. The problem is that these problems aren't random. If they were I'd be inclined to agree with you. These problems are reproduceable. Some of them are actually documented (like the

Re: [newbie] KDE 2.2.1 on MD8...the saga continues...

2001-10-28 Thread John Hokanson Jr.
On Sunday 28 October 2001 07:25 am, you wrote: John Hokanson Jr. wrote: I just want my computer to work right, and Linux has been a complete bitch to set up properly. I've already spent money on two distributions. If I spend any more, I'll be fast approching the cost of an MS Windows

[newbie] Upgrade Suggestions...

2001-10-27 Thread John Hokanson Jr.
Okay, here's the deal. My Linux box is currently a Pentium Pro 200Mhz (256 L2 cache) with 64 megs of RAM (esentially it's an workstation that used to run NT). I don't want to get rid of it because it's got a lot of goodies including a built in NIC, SCSI, and great case cooling (yes, I know

Re: [newbie] Upgrade Suggestions...

2001-10-27 Thread John Hokanson Jr.
On Saturday 27 October 2001 09:33 am, you wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 09:06:09 -0700, John Hokanson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] With these concerns aside, you are probably still better off with an extra Pentium Pro. My guess would be that your kind of board is better optimised for PPro

Re: [newbie] Upgrade Suggestions...

2001-10-27 Thread John Hokanson Jr.
On Saturday 27 October 2001 10:09 am, you wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 09:47:50 -0700, John Hokanson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 27 October 2001 09:33 am, you wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 09:06:09 -0700, John Hokanson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] With these concerns aside, you

Re: [newbie] See what MSN.com has done?

2001-10-27 Thread John Hokanson Jr.
On Saturday 27 October 2001 10:28 am, you wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read: THEIR standards. Specifically, their use of VBScript, I believe. IE supports it; other browsers don't (or don't support it well). So when they start getting around to using VBScript to dynamically write

Re: [newbie] Some questions...

2001-10-27 Thread John Hokanson Jr.
On Tuesday 23 October 2001 12:33 am, you wrote: On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 19:43:31 -0700, John Hokanson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Am I to understand that KDE 2.1.1 is simply slow? Just out of curiosity I fired up GNOME 1.4, and it ran MUCH faster. I've heard that KDE 2.2.1 fixes a lot

[newbie] KDE 2.2.1 on MD8...the saga continues...

2001-10-27 Thread John Hokanson Jr.
Okay, I'm 99% certain I'm going to have to upgrade to XFree86 4.1.0 if I want to have any chance of installing Textstars RPMs. I also have a LOAD of other dependencies I still need to satisfy. I went to the Xfree site and tried running the Xinstall.sh script with the -check flag. However, it

Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Mandrake 7.2?

2001-10-25 Thread John Hokanson Jr.
On Thursday 25 October 2001 10:13 pm, you wrote: in reply to: I realized after I sent that I worded my post poorly. I do believe MS has an unfair monopoly and probably got there with the help of some illegal practices. But I don't think MS having more knowledge of the workings of Windows

Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Mandrake 7.2?

2001-10-24 Thread John Hokanson Jr.
wrote: On Monday 22 October 2001 04:07 pm, you wrote: On Monday 22 October 2001 05:11 pm, you wrote: On Monday 22 October 2001 02:50 pm, you wrote: In reply to Eric Baber's words, written Mon, 22 Oct 2001 17:07:10 +0100 Spoken like a true newbie. Linux and Microsoft

Re: [newbie] Word of advice

2001-10-24 Thread John Hokanson Jr.
On Tuesday 23 October 2001 02:10 am, you wrote: I too was in the same boat as you about a month and a half ago. I had Sound Blaster internal PCI modem. I tried the software and the settings. It was just easier to sell the card and pick up an external hardware modem. Linux used it without a

Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Mandrake 7.2?

2001-10-24 Thread John Hokanson Jr.
On Wednesday 24 October 2001 07:53 am, you wrote: Matt Greer wrote: You missed the point. MS isn't required to create apps through the Windows API. They've got the whole run of the OS, considering they made it. Which means they can do things no one else can. So IE has advantages over

Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Mandrake 7.2?

2001-10-23 Thread John Hokanson Jr.
Well on their way? They obtained the code from another company who had made it as a variant of the Mosaic client. The deal was for a percentage of sales. Wow, did that other company make a killing! 95% market share times nothing! If you're referring to MSIE 1.0/2.0 (which was indeed

Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Mandrake 7.2?

2001-10-22 Thread John Hokanson Jr.
On Monday 22 October 2001 02:50 pm, you wrote: In reply to Eric Baber's words, written Mon, 22 Oct 2001 17:07:10 +0100 Spoken like a true newbie. Linux and Microsoft do not mix. Could we PLEASE be a little nicer to the poor guy. They *DO* have IE for non-Microsoft operating systems. I

Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Mandrake 7.2?

2001-10-22 Thread John Hokanson Jr.
On Monday 22 October 2001 04:07 pm, you wrote: On Monday 22 October 2001 05:11 pm, you wrote: On Monday 22 October 2001 02:50 pm, you wrote: In reply to Eric Baber's words, written Mon, 22 Oct 2001 17:07:10 +0100 Spoken like a true newbie. Linux and Microsoft do not mix. Could

Re: [newbie] Mac vs Intel architecture deliberations

2001-10-22 Thread John Hokanson Jr.
On Monday 22 October 2001 06:02 pm, you wrote: Hi everyone. I´ve been playing with linux (ML8.1) for a little while on my home machine (an old P166). Our family is getting to the point where we need a second machine, so I´m trying to decide on the merits of going with a PowerPC (Mac)

[newbie] Some questions...

2001-10-22 Thread John Hokanson Jr.
1. Am I to understand that KDE 2.1.1 is simply slow? Just out of curiosity I fired up GNOME 1.4, and it ran MUCH faster. I've heard that KDE 2.2.1 fixes a lot of the slowness of 2.1.1. Is this true? 2. RPMDrake seems jacked to me. I'm trying to remove Netscape 4.x from my system and it won't

Re: [newbie] ISA Soundcard in Mandrake 8.0...

2001-10-21 Thread John Hokanson Jr.
On Sunday 21 October 2001 04:43 am, you wrote: Well, it seems in the standard LM8.0 kernel ISA pnp support is compiled directly into the kernel and not as a module. I suggest running 'sndconfig' as root in a text console. Your soultion worked. Thanks Frans. Okay...next thing is that I

[newbie] ISA Soundcard in Mandrake 8.0...

2001-10-20 Thread John Hokanson Jr.
I'm trying to configure my onboard ISA soundcard to work. When I use Harddrake I see the card listed, but when I go to test it says module isa-pnp not found. I'm completely at a loss here. - John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com