Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ? NOW what for?

2002-03-14 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
No.. Dreamweaver Can work w/ wine, however it does not work as quickly, nor is it as functional as on windows. (I personally coulnd't get it to install.) I have managed to get a copy of flash5 installed on my windows partition working with wine(using real win95 dlls), its not really usable as

Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ?

2002-03-14 Thread Pascal
Kaj Haulrich wrote: Pascal, try "KreateCD". Way easier. If it isn't on your distro, try : http://www.kreatecd.de/download.php They have a "ready-to-go" RPM for Mandrake 8.0 and 8.1. I suppose it's on the cooker as well. Thanks! I'll try it this week-end. Pascal Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ?

2002-03-13 Thread Lee
OK, I got it now. Anyone who has positive input to your thread is a geek or power user Darn. Guess I buy the next box at Kmart. When Mandrake works then, can I please just be a user? Lee P.S. My real nightmares are all MS experiences from my dark past. Hi Lee, Thanks for your info,

Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ?

2002-03-13 Thread john rigby
Hi Lee and folks, - Original Message - From: Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 7:31 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ? OK, I got it now. Anyone who has positive input to your thread is a geek or power user

Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ?

2002-03-13 Thread john rigby
Hi Todd, Thanks for the info. But you are right you are disqualified! :-) Home built box indeed! :-0 - Original Message - From: Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 1:04 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ? Everything

RE: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ?

2002-03-13 Thread Barran, Richard
-Original Message- From: john rigby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 13 March 2002 10:34 To: Lee; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ? It can be done. Mandrake can do it. All that is necessary is to stop trying to be all things to all people

Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ? NOW what for?

2002-03-13 Thread john rigby
that they are right - especially those who are not Kilneth - Original Message - From: shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 2:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ? bullshit, really, seriously, FP is good only for creating MS documents

Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ?

2002-03-13 Thread Peter Watson
John I've followed this thread for a while and think I may be what you are looking for. I'm 58 yrs old and have a PII 266 with 64kb. Last year i bought mandrake 8.0 power pack, i stuck it in the cd and eveything went fine. I have KDE, Internet connection, web browsing, Star office, xmms,

Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ? NOW what for?

2002-03-13 Thread Nelson Bartley
You know, I didn't want to say anything about this, however I should just for relevence. I currently do both PHP and ASP programming for various customers, as well as myself. I use Frontpage for quite a few things. Yes it does produce SOME bad code, however 2002 does produce acceptable code for

Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ?

2002-03-13 Thread civileme
john rigby wrote: Hi Lee and folks, - Original Message - From: Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 7:31 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ? OK, I got it now. Anyone who has positive input to your thread is a geek or power

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2002-03-13 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 13 March 2002 20:25, Nelson Bartley wrote: [snippets] I currently do both PHP and ASP programming for various customers, as well as myself. I use Frontpage for quite a few things. Yes it does produce SOME bad code, however 2002 does produce acceptable code for the basic layout.

Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ? NOW what for?

2002-03-13 Thread Nelson Bartley
No.. Dreamweaver Can work w/ wine, however it does not work as quickly, nor is it as functional as on windows. (I personally coulnd't get it to install.) NB On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 20:13, FemmeFatale wrote: snip sda wrote: On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 10:28:50PM +1000, john rigby wrote:

Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ?

2002-03-13 Thread Pascal
john rigby wrote: Hi Shane, Sorry you are disqualified, too! :-) You are obviously very techo if not Geek! What I'm chasing is whether any non-tech/geek people have ever succeeded. These are Users. People who simply want to make/improve their earning capacity via increased productivity.

Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ?

2002-03-13 Thread David
What was the original question to this posting? On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:29:51 +0900 Pascal Pascal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: john rigby wrote: Hi Shane, Sorry you are disqualified, too! :-) You are obviously very techo if not Geek! What I'm chasing is whether any non-tech/geek

[newbie] Any First Go success stories ?

2002-03-12 Thread john rigby
Hi folks, Is there anyone out there who has simply put in the full distro CDs and obtained a working ( really working - Office suite, communications, ViaVoice, replacement for FrontPage98) and a few user utilities? WITHOUT RESORTING TO ARCANE COMMAND LINE APPROACHES. Can we even say that e.g. the

Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ?

2002-03-12 Thread Robin Turner
On Tuesday 12 March 2002 11:00, john rigby wrote: Hi folks, Is there anyone out there who has simply put in the full distro CDs and obtained a working ( really working - Office suite, communications, ViaVoice, replacement for FrontPage98) and a few user utilities? WITHOUT RESORTING TO ARCANE

Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ?

2002-03-12 Thread Robin Turner
On Tuesday 12 March 2002 11:00, john rigby wrote: WITHOUT RESORTING TO ARCANE COMMAND LINE APPROACHES. How things have changed. I remember, back in 1991 or 1992, teaching our secretary how to use a computer. Typing was no problem, it was the mouse that freaked her out - I had to put her

Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ?

2002-03-12 Thread shane
On Tuesday 12 March 2002 01:00, john rigby opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: yes, in 8.0 i had to change a single thing, i messed with fonts, in 8.1 i simply installed. everything a ok. naturally that wasn't good enough, as i have several programs i added after that cause i prefer

Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ?

2002-03-12 Thread Lee
On Tuesday 12 March 2002 04:00 am, john rigby wrote: Hi folks, Is there anyone out there who has simply put in the full distro CDs and obtained a working ( really working - Office suite, communications, ViaVoice, replacement for FrontPage98) and a few user utilities? WITHOUT RESORTING TO

Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ?

2002-03-12 Thread john rigby
Hi Lee, Thanks for your info, but you are a Power-User by the sound of the box specs! :-) I'm trying to determine if Linux - especially Mandrake is true to the old idea of not needing a monster box to run. I know of Linux Servers that are running on Steam-powered old things and just don't fall

Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ?

2002-03-12 Thread shane
so what you want is a stripped down, recompiled, runs on a 486, and you want it without working at it, with a modern gui install, and full hardware detection? no operating system ever created meets those specs. none. why not just wish for world peace? On Tuesday 12 March 2002 15:27, john

Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ?

2002-03-12 Thread john rigby
: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 9:58 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ? As I said, every Mandrake from 7.2 on has worked out of the box on both my home computer (standard 2CD install) and my office computer (FTP install) with the sole exception that I mentioned of needing to type

Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ?

2002-03-12 Thread john rigby
] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 10:13 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ? On Tuesday 12 March 2002 11:00, john rigby wrote: WITHOUT RESORTING TO ARCANE COMMAND LINE APPROACHES. How things have changed. I remember, back in 1991 or 1992, teaching our secretary how to use

Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ?

2002-03-12 Thread john rigby
Hi Shane, Sorry you are disqualified, too! :-) You are obviously very techo if not Geek! What I'm chasing is whether any non-tech/geek people have ever succeeded. These are Users. People who simply want to make/improve their earning capacity via increased productivity. People who are ancient -

Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ?

2002-03-12 Thread john rigby
Hi Terry, Great! What are you using it for? What is the comparative speed like? What sort of system? Are you a User or a Geek, would you say? I think it offers a great answer for the small business person especially. Cheers, John - Original Message - From: Terry S. [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ?

2002-03-12 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 19:00:20 +1000 john rigby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, Is there anyone out there who has simply put in the full distro CDs and obtained a working ( really working - Office suite, communications, ViaVoice, replacement for FrontPage98) and a few user utilities?

Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ?

2002-03-12 Thread shane
On Tuesday 12 March 2002 17:10, john rigby opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: As for Frontpage, the dozen or so people I know who make a living - yes, actually pay their rent from their activities as serious Web Implementers *all* use FP. Specifically, FP98. ( There are excellent