Re: [newbie] Laptop question

2002-07-11 Thread Steve Borrett
Hi Femme, What about a network install? I have done these a number of times, both from a LAN and from the internet and they worked fine, a bit slow, but fine. regards, Steve. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] problem using linux

2002-06-06 Thread Steve Borrett
Hi, If you can get into Windows and want to remove Linux then the easiest way would probably be to run fdisk and then delete the Linux partitions. If you want to auto-login when you reach the graphical prompt then you can set this in the Mandrake Control Centre once you are logged in, but you

RE: [newbie] Noisy Processor Fans

2002-05-10 Thread Steve Borrett
Hi Richard, It's a small world! I too get annoyed about the noise levels from my PC, but couldn't find much about quiet processor fans when I recently replaced mine. Lo and behold, TheRegister (that website again!) has got an item about a new fan-less NEC PC, with a link to a company that

Re: [newbie] Jedi Knight 2...

2002-04-29 Thread Steve Borrett
Just thought I'd pass along that I just installed Jedi Knight 2 on my Mandrake Linux box using Winex 2.0! There is of course already a dedicated JK2 server available, but it is nice to know that someone got the game itself working :-) Installation was not perfect - there was some issues with

[newbie] Wireless LAN Adapters

2002-04-18 Thread Steve Borrett
Hi, Has anyone tried to get a Netgear MA101 USB Wireless adapter working in Mandrake? If so, how did you do it? If not, does anyone have any suggestions on things to do? I haven't given this a try yet, but I will have to in a few days and have no idea where to start :-) ANy suggestions would

Re: [newbie] To Femme

2002-03-26 Thread Steve Borrett
Femme, have you been offended by someone? Well, just tell him to go to hell. Your presence here is a breeze and you're more than wanted in this list. Keep on being yourself above all. Agreed wholeheartedly. Opinions are like assholes.Everybuddy has got one. and they ALL stink!!! Want

Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer for Mandrake 7.2?

2001-10-23 Thread Steve Borrett
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 believe Sun has a variant, and they were doing one for HP-UX. IE is also the browser of choice on the Mac. It evens works

Re: [newbie] windows on linux

2001-10-23 Thread Steve Borrett
There's wine, the windows emulator. It takes a windows application and translates the calls it makes into something X can handle, so you can run the app right in X. www.winehq.com smug Just because I am in a pedantic mood, I would like to point out that saying wine is a windows emulator is an

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] shift causes beep?

2001-10-04 Thread Steve Borrett
I don't think that is it, well, didn't, until I tested that theory while I was responding to this post... which crippled my keyboard. Doh. *grin* Any thoughts on how I can un-map shift as a typematic? I do indeed have a strange keyboard though, a micro inovations keyboard with a built in

Re: [newbie] shift causes beep?

2001-10-03 Thread Steve Borrett
Ok, maybe a dumb question, but I don't think this is related to anything I installed, so I will ask. I press SHIFT often to select multiple files, etc. If I hold it down for a few seconds, I get a BEEP from the box. Is something going on that I don't know about?? Built-in of some kind??

Re: [newbie] Default desktop?

2001-10-01 Thread Steve Borrett
I have a problem that I didn't solve yet. It's not a problem specific to version 8.1, but an overall linux question. I've disabled Aurora and I don't load directly into x-window, because my Pentium 166 is a little slow for that. On the other hand, I just do a startx when I need to do some

Re: [newbie] Linux on iMac (ppc)

2001-09-26 Thread Steve Borrett
Hi, The ISO image you downloaded should be bootable already, you don't have to do anything extra to make it bootable, other than hold down the c key to force the Mac to boot from CD. So simply burn the ISO image to a cd, using Toaster or similar, and reboot with CD 1 in the drive. Steve. I

Re: [newbie] Accessing my files at home ??

2001-09-18 Thread Steve Borrett
Hi, I didn't make it clear that my wife could just log on the net - give me the IP and I'm away - so, in fact, I wouldn't want those things to be automatic. I think the problem comes in more from the fact that once your home machine is up and on the net ANYONE can ftp into your machine!!! This