Re: [newbie] Installing Firefox 0.8

2004-02-21 Thread Mike Larson
Christophe Rhein wrote: Hello, I downloaded the tar file of Firefox and I followed Robin's instructions to install it from a terminal... I don't know how but the software installed itself in my temp folder... I was not able to use the tar -zxvf command... Is it the right place or shall I move

Re: [newbie] Dear Steve: Time for Microsoft Linux?

2003-06-09 Thread Mike Larson
Another typical stupid article by David Coursey to generate more hits for ZDNet. M$ is in business solely for the purpose of squeezing the most $ possible from the locked in users of their monopolistic and proprietary OS. They would never (willingly) have anything to do with open source. If

Re: [newbie] Using KDE 3 to rip Mp3/Ogg?

2003-01-19 Thread Mike Larson
Ronald J. Hall wrote: I've seen this mentioned several times - how you can click on services and KDE 3 will allow you to create MP3 or OGG files from a audio CD. er [cough], where the heck do you click on services at? I've not been able to find it anwhere! :-) Try this linkI believe

Re: [newbie] Its official.... :-(

2003-01-17 Thread Mike Larson
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 09:33, Mike Larson wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: It's true that if it comes to the 'bitter end' then difficult decisions will have to be made, but I want to address the problem of where our money goes. Much play has been made of the fact

Re: [newbie] Its official.... :-(

2003-01-17 Thread Mike Larson
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 16 January 2003 11:30 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Chances are that if the company does survive, then at some point the stocks are going to go back up. That means that the stockholders that have not sold out still stand a chance to profit. --LX Lyvim, want to

Re: [newbie] Its official.... :-(

2003-01-16 Thread Mike Larson
Anne Wilson wrote: It's true that if it comes to the 'bitter end' then difficult decisions will have to be made, but I want to address the problem of where our money goes. Much play has been made of the fact that it will go to pay off old debts, as though that were a completely negative

Re: [newbie] Mozilla/Netscape problems

2003-01-13 Thread Mike Larson
Mark Weaver wrote: On Saturday 11 January 2003 10:59 am, Mike Larson scribbled incoherently: If I have a Mozilla (1.2.1 XFT) window open and try to open a Netscape 7.01 window, I get another Mozilla window. If I close all browser windows and start Netscape, it opens normally. On the other hand

[newbie] Mozilla/Netscape problems

2003-01-11 Thread Mike Larson
If I have a Mozilla (1.2.1 XFT) window open and try to open a Netscape 7.01 window, I get another Mozilla window. If I close all browser windows and start Netscape, it opens normally. On the other hand, I _can_ open a Phoenix 0.3 window when Mozilla is running. I am starting all from the menu,

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Raising More Capital

2002-12-21 Thread Mike Larson
away. Mike -- --- Mike Larson Registered Linux User # 246593 http://counter.li.org/ Linux Mandrake 9.0 KDE 3.0.3 Mozilla 1.2.1-xft --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Mozilla and realplayer

2002-12-15 Thread Mike Larson
and ShockwaveFlash.class and move them from /plugins to a newly created /plugouts directory. No more annoying Flash ads and I can move them back if need. -- --- Mike Larson Registered Linux User # 246593 http://counter.li.org/ Linux Mandrake 9.0 KDE 3.0.3 Mozilla

Re: [newbie] disable Flash?

2002-12-06 Thread Mike Larson
-- --- Mike Larson Registered Linux User # 246593 http://counter.li.org/ Linux Mandrake 9.0 KDE 3.0.3 Mozilla 1.2.1 --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] disable Flash?

2002-12-06 Thread Mike Larson
Todd Slater wrote: On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 11:23:45AM -0600, Mike Larson wrote: snip I noticed the same thing about renaming--I tried several different schemes. When I typed about:plugins in the address bar, I would get whatever I named it as the Flash and Shockwave plugins--weird, I thought

[newbie] disable Flash?

2002-12-04 Thread Mike Larson
...except for those annoying Flash ads. Mike Larson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] starting xmms from menu

2002-11-16 Thread Mike Larson
T C wrote: I removed soundwrapper from the command for xmms using menudrake, but it didn't make any difference. I suppose I can just make a shortcut on the desktop for xmms and not worry about it, but I'd like to find out why it doesn't work and fix it. The really strange thing about this is that

Re: [newbie] Kedit...

2002-08-10 Thread Mike Larson
Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 10 August 2002 02:10 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 10 August 2002 07:05 am, you wrote: KEdit 1.3 is included in kdeutils and accessible from command line by kedit or from the menu ApplicationsEditorsText Editor, the only difference between the two is

[newbie] How to ask questions the smart way.

2002-07-11 Thread Mike Larson
I found this link on another mailing list. It should be required reading for all... http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#AEN353 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Worm

2002-05-26 Thread Mike Larson
You received the Klez.h variant. http://www.viruslist.com/eng/viruslist.html?id=4292 I received this and dozens of other infected emails from a friend whose Windows computer got infected. Naturally, I was not affected since I am using Linux, but it was a real mess for him to clean up. It even

Re: [newbie] Stocks

2002-05-06 Thread Mike Larson
, an absolute elementary basic form of financial charting. Those graph programmes that do exist are centered around the kind of windows -- - Mike Larson Registered Linux User # 246593 http://counter.li.org/ Linux Mandrake 8.2

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

2002-05-03 Thread Mike Larson
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 are no problems and no one has to be given a new address? -- - Mike Larson

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

2002-05-02 Thread Mike Larson
to you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- - Mike Larson Registered Linux User

[newbie] Kmail problems

2002-05-02 Thread Mike Larson
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 Kmail crashed and caused the signal 11

Re: [newbie] InteractiveBastille - CPU cycles

2002-04-28 Thread Mike Larson
, thanks for your help. Mike Larson Paul Cox wrote: On Thursday, Apr 25, 2002, Mike Larson wrote: LM 8.2 - After running top, I see that my CPU is 0.0% idle and that InteractiveBastille seems to be the offending program. I chose the standard security setting during installation, but never set up

[newbie] InteractiveBastille - CPU cycles

2002-04-25 Thread Mike Larson
82592 32M 9300 S1.2 6.4 26:15 X --- Mike Larson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com