Re: [newbie] RE: Windows can't be written in VB

2000-12-02 Thread onepatrick
Paul wrote: Not to whine or bitch, but... isn't it amazing how much Microsoft goes around on the Mandrake list lately? You can't escape from it, eh? ;-) (grin) Paul -- God must love crazy people. He made so many of them! http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User

Re: [newbie] RE: Windows can't be written in VB

2000-12-02 Thread onepatrick
Mark Weaver wrote: No...No...no...you're all wrong. Windows is written in pig latin. It's the only thing that could possibly explain its terribly slow performance, frequent lockups and crashes, and of course who could forget the beloved "blue screen of death" which arrives nanoseconds

Re: [newbie] KDE Desktop problems Solved

2000-12-02 Thread onepatrick
Dennis Myers wrote: Just wanted to let the list know that I finally have the full kde desktop. I decided that there must be something wrong with my home burned disks and went online and downloaded the kdebase, kdeadmin, kdesupport and a bunch of other libc files that weren't wanting to load

Re: [newbie] Reinstall

2000-12-02 Thread onepatrick
Riker wrote: Hello, again! I really screwed something up on my wife's Linux box (yes, she loves Linux and now she hates me!) and need to reinstall. It's a duel boot system with Win ME. If I do a fresh install of Linux, will it still see WinME? And if not, how do I go about keeping ME

Re: [newbie] V7.2 questions!

2000-12-02 Thread onepatrick
Robin Regennitter wrote: On Saturday 02 December 2000 12:59 am, you wrote: I have an i810 machine and it works just fine for me with my Linux box. XFree86 4.0.1 does support i810 with acceleration as it produced the 24bit color versus 8bit on XFree 3.3.6. I was surprised that the 3D

Re: [newbie] Linux v Windows

2000-12-02 Thread onepatrick
Mr Monster wrote: Right, Ive been reading the mails about the pros and cons of Linux/Windows... Im running Mandrake 7.2 now, with not so much as a hiccup, everything is doing what it should, when it should - just the way i like it, and the way i suspect most other folks do too. I

Re: [newbie] Want something better for resume

2000-12-02 Thread onepatrick
Vic wrote: Klyx don't work, tex is too hard I would like something easier if you please Thank you have u tried k-word yet ?

Re: [newbie] Might be OTResume software

2000-12-01 Thread onepatrick
Vic wrote: Sorry about the ot message, Does anyone know of a decent software package that one can write a resume on? I have star office 5 so that might work, except I have not seen how to cause it to make a resume, or else I am asleep. Just wondering. Oh and it must be able to

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-01 Thread onepatrick
Mark Johnson wrote: -Original Message- From: Benjamin Sher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 6:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux Bottom line: Until Linux, which is rich in thousands of applications, has an equally vast

Re: [newbie] 2 questions

2000-11-30 Thread onepatrick
Anthony wrote: 1. is it possible to combine kmail into konquerer As in use Kmail to send email from Konquerer? Mine is set up like that from installation. 2. what is magellan I'm pretty sure that it is the next generation of Kmail, and is supposed to be like Outlook for Linux.

Re: [newbie] 2 questions

2000-11-30 Thread onepatrick
Mark Weaver wrote: Patrick, If I remember correctly Magellan was/is a lightweight Konquerer type browser based on the Mozilla "gecko" rendering engine. I'm not sure if it ever really got out of the beta stage. For a while there was a lot of talk about it, but then as the release of

Re: [newbie] Anti-Microsoft Sentiment

2000-11-30 Thread onepatrick
Dale Kosan wrote: Well,lets get this war going! I come from a Windoze 98,NT 4.0,2000 background,I love Linux,more stable than the above,but.When a company sells software as complete and it is beta.I think it is a true shame that Mandrake has let the other company make them look

Re: [newbie] Video Cards

2000-11-30 Thread onepatrick
"Kelly, Christopher" wrote: What do you guys think of G-force Video Cards? What do you think the best Video card for a Linux box is? Thanks, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775 i have a guillemot proher ddr geforce. i love it. linux finally loads my gforce driver and it works with

Re: [newbie] Linux and TFT screens

2000-11-30 Thread onepatrick
Spoonman wrote: Since I didn't really get a reply to my rather broad question last time, let me word it this way: Should a laptop TFT be considered a LCD display or VGA/SVGA? Thanks, Mark i hope someone helps u. i dont know