Re: [newbie] CrossoverWine for Office NOW; A Good Thing

2002-04-01 Thread Robert Gray
On Sunday 31 March 2002 10:59 am, you wrote: John, This fundamentalistic answer is not the solution. We can't wine a direct fight to windows! is to powerfull and has lots and lots of money. The only way is wining small battles. For example, I started to learn linux two years ago, I use it

Re: [newbie] Abit KT7 Raid mainboard with integrated HPT370 raid controller and Mandrake 8.2

2002-04-01 Thread Robert Gray
Adrian, I think you have the wrong list. The answer here would be why bother? Rob On Sunday 31 March 2002 3:28 pm, you wrote: hi. i have an Abit BE6II Raid mainboard and i dont get it to run properly under windows XP do u know where i can find drivers for XP to it? - Original Message

[newbie] Re: how do i send a mail so evryone on the list can see it and reply to it?

2002-04-01 Thread Robert Gray
On Sunday 31 March 2002 1:17 pm, you wrote: how do i send a mail so evryone on the list can see it and reply to it? please help me, Adrian You put :- [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the To: line of your mail Regards Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] setting default browser in 8.2

2002-04-01 Thread Robert Gray
On Sunday 31 March 2002 4:23 pm, you wrote: I'm trying to set up opera as the deault browser association with urls in klipper -regexp ^https?:W -action opera '%s When I click on a url, konqoruer still fires up joe ps. I've also tried ^http?:W which only demonstrates my lack of

Re: [newbie] CrossoverWine for Office NOW; A Good Thing

2002-03-31 Thread Robert Gray
On Sunday 31 March 2002 10:59 am, you wrote: John, This fundamentalistic answer is not the solution. We can't wine a direct fight to windows! is to powerfull and has lots and lots of money. The only way is wining small battles. For example, I started to learn linux two years ago, I use it

Re: [newbie] Message posts

2002-03-26 Thread Robert Gray
On Tuesday 26 March 2002 1:42 am, you wrote: On Monday 25 March 2002 07:07 pm, James Thomas wrote: I am just wondering if anyone else noticed problems with messages appearing in bizarre order, the original message appears a day or so after the replies. Is there anything I can do stop this

Re: [newbie] Installing WordPerfect on Mandrake 8.1??????

2002-03-20 Thread Robert Gray
On Wednesday 13 March 2002 5:18 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday 13 March 2002 08:33, Wm. G. McGrath opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Has anyone had any success installing Word Perfect 8 on Mandrake 8.1? you will need libc-5.3.12-35mdk.i586.rpm and ld.so-1.9.5-13.i386.rpm both of

Re: [newbie] 8.1 Install

2002-03-05 Thread Robert Gray
On Tuesday 05 March 2002 3:13 pm, you wrote: Hi all, I purchased Mandrake 8.1 to see what Linux was like. I have a very limited knowlage of window but I am quite adapt at pointing and clicking. I decide to install it on my lap top but did not have sufficent resources. The next move was the

[newbie] Buying hardware

2002-03-05 Thread Robert Gray
Hi all. Is this of interest to anyone? Have there been any previous threads? When we buy our new laptop or PC many of us may have acquired a Microsoft OS. How much extra has this cost us? Have we paid for something we did not want? If we said to Dell, Dan, Gateway, Tiny et al; we like your

Re: [newbie] wine install on mandrake 8.1

2002-02-24 Thread Robert Gray
Dear All I use Windows to run a couple of legacy apps, Wine now runs most of these (thank you Skinky) and as soon as I can print from Quattro Pro 7 in Wine (help please I cannot make head or tail of the documentation)only my bookkeeper will use the Windows partion. We progress. Rob On