, September 22, 2000 5:22 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 too many bugs
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, you wrote:
> IE does not crash as much as netscape, in fact it is common knowledge that
> IE is more stable than netscape..I only had IE crash once, and in MD 7.1
> v
> If you have installed the tarball version first,
> can you just delete the dir in which you specified
> Netscape to install or does it dribble a bunch of
> stupid little libs all around that yoiu don't know about?
I'm not sure about stupid little libs but you can find out what files
were extra
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, you wrote:
yeah the way the sounds work here is a bit strange. I have CrystalClear.
For the kde sounds system, it plays all the kde sounds. cant hear any of the
other sounds such as space sounds. If I turn the volume all the way up the
kde sounds blast through the
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, you wrote:
yeah so dont forget to use the upgrade so that'll erase the old version.
> If you have installed the tarball version first,
> can you just delete the dir in which you specified
> Netscape to install or does it dribble a bunch of
> stupid little libs all around th
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, you wrote:
> IE does not crash as much as netscape, in fact it is common knowledge that
> IE is more stable than netscape..I only had IE crash once, and in MD 7.1
> version of netscape it crashed first time i tryed it out.
>
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I guess you never tried IE 5.5 yet? I had to
If you have installed the tarball version first,
can you just delete the dir in which you specified
Netscape to install or does it dribble a bunch of
stupid little libs all around that yoiu don't know about?
I wonder if I need to know what to look for
like little useless libs or .so files left be
> Sound volume control is a frequent problem for new users..
>
> Ok from a terminal 'aumix'
Thanks John...I'm presuming this is the base Linux sound control but I
would have thought that kmix would have done the same thing. Guess
not. I'll pass your msg to him. I'm more of a "quiet" computer
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, you wrote:
Yeah I have uninstalled the old version and installed the new one. Actually,
Netscape doesnt crash when I only have one or two navigator open. But any more
than that will more likely to crash or freezes all my navigators. I have a
tendency to open a lot of na
-Original Message-
> From: Vic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 6:06 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 too many bugs
>
>
> Hi, what kind of cpu, motherboard chipset, and other
> cards do you have in your machine?
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> From: Vic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 6:06 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 too many bugs
>
> Hi, what kind of cpu, motherboard chipset, and other
> cards do you have in your machine? how much ram?
Larry Marshall wrote:
>
> > from my own carelessness or, for lack of a better word, my own stupidity.
> > I did my homework, asked questions (and listened to answers), read books,
> > absorbed how-to's, went to websites, etc.
>
> I prefer to call it "my ignorance"...except for the stupid times :
Larry Marshall wrote:
>
> > to the windoze that crashes a lot or freezes. hardly had any crashes except for
>that darn Netscape. That program itself crashes but not the system.
>
> Ah...I'm not alone :-) While doing mail with Netscape I've had it
> freeze everything tighter than a drum...twi
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, you wrote:
> Hi, what kind of cpu, motherboard chipset, and other
> cards do you have in your machine? how much ram?
> and did you hand build it or buy pre-built?
>
Compaq 5834, 500 Mhz Celeron, i810 vid chipset (didn't work with 7.0, works
like a charm with 7.1), 64 meg RAM
Larry wrote --->
> Did you have any problems with volumn on your SB Live card? I was
> talking to a neophyte Linux buddy of mine yesterday and when we
> installed 7.1 for him it recognized his SB Live card just fine. But
> he reported to me yesterday that he has no control over volume and
> th
consequently I depend of freeware utilities that sometimes aren't up to par
to allow me to be productive, but this isn't a complaint - just an
observation.
-Original Message-
From: Patti Wavinak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 5:10 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECT
6 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 ....too many bugs
Hi, what kind of cpu, motherboard chipset, and other
cards do you have in your machine? how much ram?
and did you hand build it or buy pre-built?
Sorry for so many questions, I hear different opinions
about the new MDK 7.1 a
> The main things I'm running into are a poor X setup (that
> might've been me not understanding how Mandrake is setup, but Mandrake is
> definitely bad for KDE on a small, low-quality monitor) and probs with
Or at least with yours :-) It's clear that Linux, in general, needs
to improve its sup
> In reference to 7.1 being buggy, I disagree intensely. Netscape does crash a
> bit too much, but still not as much as Internet Exploder from Microcrap.
Not that it matters but I tried hard to drop Explorer in favor of
Netscape under Windows and always had to return to Explorer because it
wa
>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 10:23 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 too many bugs
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, you wrote:
> > My opinion of Mandrake 7.1 is that alot of the applications/services are
> > just to buggy and not thoroughly tested before r
> to the windoze that crashes a lot or freezes. hardly had any crashes except for
>that darn Netscape. That program itself crashes but not the system.
Ah...I'm not alone :-) While doing mail with Netscape I've had it
freeze everything tighter than a drum...twice. Couldn't kill X,
couldn't d
> from my own carelessness or, for lack of a better word, my own stupidity.
> I did my homework, asked questions (and listened to answers), read books,
> absorbed how-to's, went to websites, etc.
I prefer to call it "my ignorance"...except for the stupid times :-)
> LM 7.1 has found my printer
gy or me not understanding how Mandrake's setup
>From: Patti Wavinak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1 too many bugs
>Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 22:09:58 + (GMT)
>
>John, I'm a bit curi
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, you wrote:
> > My opinion of Mandrake 7.1 is that alot of the applications/services are
> > just to buggy and not thoroughly tested before release. I would suggest if
> > you like Mandrake to get a copy of 7.02 and alot of problems will go away.
>
> John...could you be a bit
In a message dated 21-Sep-00 19:41:59 Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< > My opinion of Mandrake 7.1 is that alot of the applications/services are
> just to buggy and not thoroughly tested before release. I would suggest if
> you like Mandrake to get a copy of 7.02 and alot o
Wrap Netscape in ulimit's and nice's and it can't crash your system.
*^*^*^*
Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sungod robes
on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little
pickles at you? -- Real Genius
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Larry Marshall wrote:
>
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, you wrote:
Yeah perhaps you are right about 7.2 will be better than the last versions.
As usually that's the case. I dont think 7.1 is too buggy. I think that some
features on some programs are not yet implemented as a lot of those programs
arent made by mandrake but from
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On 9/21/00, 12:40:34 PM, John W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding
[newbie] Mandrake 7.1 too many bugs:
> My opinion of Mandrake 7.1 is that alot o
My opinion of Mandrake 7.1 is that alot of the applications/services are
just to buggy and not thoroughly tested before release. I would suggest if
you like Mandrake to get a copy of 7.02 and alot of problems will go away.
Perhaps 7.2 will address these bugs without creating even more.
John
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