Re: [newbie] Get Your License Now!

2004-02-29 Thread jimdawson
On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 13:32, Margot wrote: I assume that once you have paid for the licence they will *send* you the binaries - for that price, I expect them to be hand delivered to my door, on a velvet cushion! The extra cost is to pay for the lawyers to explain to you how SCO can sell

Re: [newbie] HELP! PLEASE!

2004-02-19 Thread jimdawson
On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 00:24, Russ wrote: That is what I meant. I was reinstalling XP on his Compaq laptop and I finally found the Windows XP serial code on the bottom of his laptop. I literally searched through everything he had several times. Why they chose to hid that stupid thing under

Re: [newbie] Fun and Totally useless.

2004-01-31 Thread jimdawson
I put the following script in my .kde/Autostart directory: #!/bin/sh echo -e Message of the day:\n\n`/usr/games/fortune` | cowsay | xmessage -center -file - (I tried gmessage, but it doesn't work as well due to proportional fonts...) (Ok, I admit it, I'm a geek!) On Mon, 2004-01-26 at

Re: [newbie] Riiiiiight...

2004-01-24 Thread jimdawson
On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 16:13, JoeHill wrote: We'll End Spam in Three Years, Vows Microsoft By Lesley Richardson, PA News Microsoft chief Bill Gates has vowed to make spam emails obsolete in two years___ time, sources confirmed tonight. Link:

[newbie] 'local' mail

2004-01-09 Thread jimdawson
I am trying to set up 'local' mail on my Mandrake 9.2 box (i.e. mail between user accounts on the system and for notification of cron jobs running, etc. rather than Internet mail) but I can't seem to get it to work. the 'mail username...' command works but when I run 'mail' to read the mail I

[newbie] DVD-ROM stopped working

2003-12-22 Thread jimdawson
My DVD-ROM recently stopped working. Unfortunately it happened while I was in the process of making several modifications (downloaded and recompiled kernel source, Installed VMware 3.2.1, several program installs, etc.) and I don't know exactly when the DVD-ROM stopped working. I have tried

[newbie] Flash player in Mandrake 9.2

2003-12-18 Thread jimdawson
Has anyone succeeded in getting Macromedia Flash player to run under Mandrake 9.2? I am trying to install the 'install_flash_player_6_linux.tar.gz' file I downloaded from the Macromedia website. I've tried both system (root) and regular user installs, both of them appear to complete successfully