Re: [newbie] Re: WineX -- Update!

2003-08-28 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 27 August 2003 04:31 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > Will it violate your warranty to go inside the machine? > > LX Yes, I think so. But I don't think that warranty is worth more than the paper it is written on anyway. So I don't care. I've opened and tinkered with boxes before, so why w

Re: [newbie] Re: WineX -- Update!

2003-08-28 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Wednesday 27 August 2003 02:05 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: >> whack > Well, if everything goes fine from now on, I guess this thread is > dead. If not, you certainly will. And : sorry for my language, > I'm a little pissed off right now what with all this M$ lunacy. > > Kaj Haulrich. Kaj: Wait a

Re: [newbie] Re: WineX -- Update!

2003-08-28 Thread Heather/Femme
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 10:52, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > Well...Femme, I use Speedisk every week. I've been using Norton > Utilities since 1989; AAMOF I think I still have the NU version 4.5 > install disks somewhere around here. I agree that the good old days are > gone...but so far I've been pretty

Re: [newbie] Re: WineX -- Update!

2003-08-27 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 12:21, Heather/Femme wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 09:53, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > >Snicker< > > In order to get around this, you should install a third party defragger > > like Norton Utilities Speed Disk or something similar. Speed Disk does > > allow you to put everything at

Re: [newbie] Re: WineX -- Update!

2003-08-27 Thread Heather/Femme
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 09:53, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: >Snicker< > In order to get around this, you should install a third party defragger > like Norton Utilities Speed Disk or something similar. Speed Disk does > allow you to put everything at one end of the drive. > I'd like to hear more on this saga

Re: [newbie] Re: WineX -- Update!

2003-08-27 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 27 August 2003 04:05 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 11:58, DrewMartin wrote: > >The saftest method will to put a 2nd drive(but will > > this invaladate any warrities you have?)I you look in the > > arkives from a few months ago,you will see the sad sorry > > s

Re: [newbie] Re: WineX -- Update!

2003-08-27 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 11:58, DrewMartin wrote: > Hi All. > I had this problem with XP,it's caused by XP producing/seeing > non-existent files,The only way I could dual-boot was to shink the drive > with PM8,and then install Mandrake to free space. > I have no idea if this will work

Re: [newbie] Re: WineX -- Update!

2003-08-27 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 27 August 2003 03:53 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > So had you tried Win4Lin? ;) > Nope, Lyvim. It told me that I had to own a copy of something called Windows 9.x in order to let it work. I don't have such a thing anymore, because my daughters - years ago - used those CD's for rifle

Re: [newbie] Re: WineX -- Update!

2003-08-27 Thread DrewMartin
Hi All. I had this problem with XP,it's caused by XP producing/seeing non-existent files,The only way I could dual-boot was to shink the drive with PM8,and then install Mandrake to free space. I have no idea if this will work for you,due to your daughter have a pre-installed versio

Re: [newbie] Re: WineX -- Update!

2003-08-27 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 13:40, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > As Femme and Carroll suggested, I intend to throw in an > additional harddisk. My daughters PC came with this *OS* > (WinXP) preinstalled, and although there is plenty of room on > the hda I can't get the damned thing (XP) to moderate itself.

Re: [newbie] Re: WineX -- Update!

2003-08-27 Thread Kaj Haulrich
As Femme and Carroll suggested, I intend to throw in an additional harddisk. My daughters PC came with this *OS* (WinXP) preinstalled, and although there is plenty of room on the hda I can't get the damned thing (XP) to moderate itself. I tried this *defragging* exercise twice, but it seems u

Re: [newbie] Re: WineX -- Update!

2003-08-27 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 12:15 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: >>> yada, yada, yada > She want me to install Linux > alongside this crap as a dual boot system, but I'm afraid it > won't survive repartitioning etc And I don't want to spend > more dough on the box like buying Partition Magic and whatn

Re: [newbie] Re: WineX -- Update!

2003-08-26 Thread Heather/Femme
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 14:56, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > > Femme > > Thanks Femme, but somehow I feel disgust by having MicroSCOft to > live in the same *house* as Linux. Kinda having Osama in your > closet. Anyway - she has her own account on my CLEAN Linux box > now and can use it when things ge

Re: [newbie] Re: WineX -- Update!

2003-08-26 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 06:30 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 10:15, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > > > Thank you very much, Joe. > > > > > . She want me to install Linux > > alongside this crap as a dual boot system, but I'm afraid it > > won't survive repartitioning etc And I do

[newbie] Re: WineX -- Update!

2003-08-26 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 12:37 pm, HaywireMac wrote: > On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 19:56:44 + > > Kaj Haulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > Thanks a lot, Joe - I really appreciate your effort. Like > > you said, I would consider it a defeat to use Windows. I > > only hope you'll enjoy the research