Re: [newbie] Intro

2003-07-29 Thread Aron Smith
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 05:03 pm, Graham Banks wrote: > Aron Smith wrote: > > On Monday 28 July 2003 04:50 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > >>On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 09:20, Aron Smith wrote: > >>>On Monday 28 July 2003 03:34 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 09:58, Eric Huff wrote: > >

Re: [newbie] Intro

2003-07-29 Thread Graham Banks
Aron Smith wrote: On Monday 28 July 2003 04:50 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 09:20, Aron Smith wrote: On Monday 28 July 2003 03:34 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 09:58, Eric Huff wrote: BTW a shrimp on the barbie --why would you put shellfish on a doll ; > Shrimp

Re: [newbie] Intro

2003-07-29 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 02:18 am, Frankie wrote: > Nah, they're all inflatable. I prefer the term "adjustable" -- /\ Dark>

Re: [newbie] Intro

2003-07-29 Thread mooney
On 28 Jul 2003 at 23:55, Aron Smith wrote: > On Monday 28 July 2003 11:18 pm, Frankie wrote: > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen > > Kuhn > > Sent: Tuesday, 29 July 2003 6:42 AM > > To: Mandrake Newbie > > Subject: Re: [newbie] Intro > > >

Re: [newbie] Intro

2003-07-28 Thread Aron Smith
On Monday 28 July 2003 11:18 pm, Frankie wrote: > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen > Kuhn > Sent: Tuesday, 29 July 2003 6:42 AM > To: Mandrake Newbie > Subject: Re: [newbie] Intro > > On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 12:49, Aron Smith wrote: > > Whot the Aussie gals a

RE: [newbie] Intro

2003-07-28 Thread Frankie
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: Tuesday, 29 July 2003 6:42 AM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Intro On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 12:49, Aron Smith wrote: > Whot the Aussie gals ain't real? Nah, they're all inflatable. -- FRANKI: I'll have you know

Re: [newbie] Intro

2003-07-28 Thread Erylon Hines
Oh, you [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 28 July 2003 06:26 pm, Aron Smith wrote: > On Monday 28 July 2003 04:50 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 09:20, Aron Smith wrote: > > What y'all need to see are "Balmain Bugs"; makes ya rethink eating > > shellfish. We do have some prawns here

RE: [newbie] Intro

2003-07-28 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 15:12, Frankie wrote: > FRANKI: Stephen, you sick bastard.. your giving Aussies a > bad name here. :-) Mate, that's like impossible to do in the first place. -- Tue Jul 29 08:40:01 EST 2003 08:40:01 up 15 days, 43 min, 2 users, load average: 0.26, 0.31, 0.31 ---

Re: [newbie] Intro

2003-07-28 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 09:58, Eric Huff wrote: > > BTW a shrimp on the barbie --why would you put shellfish on a doll ; > > > Shrimp is stephen's pet name for ken. BTW, in relearning "English" - we don't say "shrimp" here - it's "prawns" -- Tue Jul 29 08:30:01 EST 2003 08:30:01 up 15 days, 33 mi

Re: [newbie] Intro

2003-07-28 Thread Aron Smith
On Monday 28 July 2003 04:12 am, ed tharp wrote: > On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 12:11, burns wrote: > > gee, I'm terribly sorry, but I didn't see any 'fees', but I might get a > > few 'foes' if I don't, eh? So how much are these 'fees' and what was the > > address to send them to? Will you take cash, all

Re: [newbie] Intro

2003-07-28 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 28 July 2003 13:33, Aron Smith wrote: > > ** Death by Pun (we killed stephen last week it's just now wearing off) : > )) Nah...(free to Frank Zappa): Stephen's not dead, he just smells funny. -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.m

Re: [newbie] Intro

2003-07-28 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 12:11, burns wrote: > gee, I'm terribly sorry, but I didn't see any 'fees', but I might get a few > 'foes' if I don't, eh? So how much are these 'fees' and what was the address > to send them to? Will you take cash, all in coin of course, pennies to be > exact.. LOL >

Re: [newbie] Intro

2003-07-28 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 13:12:45 +0800 "Frankie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insightfully noted: >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen >Kuhn > >On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 09:05, Aron Smith wrote: > >>> what'sa matter stephen Nigerian letter not working th

Re: [newbie] Intro

2003-07-28 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 09:05, Aron Smith wrote: what'sa matter stephen Nigerian letter not working this week ? BTW a shrimp on the barbie --why would you put shellfish on a doll ; > To make the doll smell more real. They have meds for that. -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] Intro

2003-07-27 Thread Frankie
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 09:05, Aron Smith wrote: >> what'sa matter stephen Nigerian letter not working this week ? >> BTW a shrimp on the barbie --why would you put shellfish on a doll ; > >To make

Re: [newbie] Intro

2003-07-27 Thread Eric Huff
> BTW a shrimp on the barbie --why would you put shellfish on a doll ; > Shrimp is stephen's pet name for ken. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Intro

2003-07-27 Thread Lanman
Why not ship him the equivalent in lead? $400.00 in USD of lead ingots should wiegh in at about 280 pounds, and will cost about $1000.00 USD to ship to Australia. Stephen, the way I see it, you owe him about $600.00 ! See what you get for not sharing? LOL! Man,...what some guys will do to be abl

Re: [newbie] Intro

2003-07-27 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 02:19, burns wrote: > LOL How new am I? Just born! I have a USB connected JamCam, and I have > installed the gtkam through Control center, in multimedia/graphics, I now > have GTkam. I have set my JamCam, and gtkam says it has received 4 frames, > but there are no thu

Re: [newbie] Intro

2003-07-27 Thread Lanman
On 7/28/2003 at 9:32 AM Stephen Kuhn wrote: >> BTW a shrimp on the barbie --why would you put shellfish on a doll ; > > >To make the doll smell more real. Man, I saw that one coming! Can't believe you walked into that one Aron! Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go t

Re: [newbie] Intro

2003-07-27 Thread burns
Oh No! You don't get off that easy. It's $400 in pennies, and the receiver pays the shipping, or no deal... (:>) larry On July 27, 2003 11:31 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 02:11, burns wrote: > > gee, I'm terribly sorry, but I didn't see any 'fees', but I might get a > > f

Re: [newbie] Intro

2003-07-27 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 09:05, Aron Smith wrote: > what'sa matter stephen Nigerian letter not working this week ? > BTW a shrimp on the barbie --why would you put shellfish on a doll ; > To make the doll smell more real. -- Mon Jul 28 09:30:01 EST 2003 09:30:01 up 14 days, 1:33, 2 users, load

Re: [newbie] Intro

2003-07-27 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 02:11, burns wrote: > gee, I'm terribly sorry, but I didn't see any 'fees', but I might get a few > 'foes' if I don't, eh? So how much are these 'fees' and what was the address > to send them to? Will you take cash, all in coin of course, pennies to be > exact.. LOL >

Re: [newbie] Intro

2003-07-27 Thread burns
LOL How new am I? Just born! I have a USB connected JamCam, and I have installed the gtkam through Control center, in multimedia/graphics, I now have GTkam. I have set my JamCam, and gtkam says it has received 4 frames, but there are no thumbnail images, nada. So now I wait for some p

Re: [newbie] Intro

2003-07-27 Thread Aron Smith
On Sunday 27 July 2003 03:49 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 21:23, burns wrote: > > Hi, just climbed aboard, wanted to try this out to see if I have the > > technic right.. > > > > thanks > > > > larry > > Did you pay the initial MDK Newbie Email List Fee? > (Payable to ME - either

Re: [newbie] Intro

2003-07-27 Thread burns
gee, I'm terribly sorry, but I didn't see any 'fees', but I might get a few 'foes' if I don't, eh? So how much are these 'fees' and what was the address to send them to? Will you take cash, all in coin of course, pennies to be exact.. LOL larry On July 27, 2003 10:49 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrot

Re: [newbie] Intro

2003-07-27 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 21:23, burns wrote: > Hi, just climbed aboard, wanted to try this out to see if I have the technic > right.. > > thanks > > larry Did you pay the initial MDK Newbie Email List Fee? (Payable to ME - either by cheque, money order or credit card) -- Mon Jul 28 08:45:00 EST

Re: [newbie] Intro

2003-07-27 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 27 July 2003 07:40 am, burns wrote: > On July 27, 2003 07:07 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Sunday 27 Jul 2003 12:23 pm, burns wrote: > > > Hi, just climbed aboard, wanted to try this out to see if I have > > > the technic right.. > > > > > > thanks > > > > > > larry > > > > Welcome aboard

Re: [newbie] Intro

2003-07-27 Thread Bill Winegarden
hi Larry, It seems that the camera is supported by gphoto2. If you did a multimedia install, it should be under . Run the program and it should be fairly intuitive setting up the cam. The website is... http://www.gphoto.org Once the pics are retrieved you can manipulate them with a numb

Re: [newbie] Intro

2003-07-27 Thread burns
On July 27, 2003 07:07 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 27 Jul 2003 12:23 pm, burns wrote: > > Hi, just climbed aboard, wanted to try this out to see if I have > > the technic right.. > > > > thanks > > > > larry > > Welcome aboard, Larry. Looks OK to me > > Anne I have a digital camera, (jamc

Re: [newbie] Intro

2003-07-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 27 Jul 2003 12:23 pm, burns wrote: > Hi, just climbed aboard, wanted to try this out to see if I have > the technic right.. > > thanks > > larry Welcome aboard, Larry. Looks OK to me Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-30 Thread Jure Repinc
Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Add my name to that list as well! And mine. I hate HTML e-mails and tell everyone I know to use plain text. -- Live long and prosper! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-30 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 30 June 2002 02:32 am, you wrote: > Yes, Sridhar, you have nailed it. There is a time and place for html, > and email is not it. Kind of like using a backhoe to weed your garden. > I side with you and all the others who join in the denouncement of the > heinous html email. :) > > > L8

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-29 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 06:41, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 11:25:28 +0100, John Richard Smith > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I perfer netscape, but cannot be bothered to install it. > > > > So I use kmail, the composer has limited > > character set usage,(I do not mean fonts)

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-13 Thread Randy Kramer
dfox wrote: Randy Kramer wrote: > > And, if spammers wanted to reach people who have specified their > > preference not to receive HTML / XML mail, they'd have to send plain > > Spammers could care less. Most of the spam I get now is all html or > in chinese. They don't even care if the person o

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-12 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Wednesday 12 June 2002 07:12 pm, Charlie wrote: > June 12, 2002 04:26 pm, shane wrote: > > if good to you means sending html, unless netscape still does, your out > > of luck. > > > > do you want to be hated on email lists? all the html senders are, linux > > list and non alike. > > > > i stil

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-12 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 June 2002 08:54 am, John Richard Smith did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: > On Tuesday 11 June 2002 22:57, you wrote: > Well, all this seems to be telling me that I cannot expect or hope > to ever get a good quality emailer

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-12 Thread John Richard Smith
On Tuesday 11 June 2002 22:57, you wrote: Well, all this seems to be telling me that I cannot expect or hope to ever get a good quality emailer from Mandrake. Plain text means lack of scope, one uniform font, one uniform font size , no resizing of sections of text, no bold type, no font colour

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-12 Thread et
or, you can just set a filter to /dev/null for any mail with or Linux Maniac wrote: > > Maybe there should be an other email format, let's call it nextmail. > > It would be xml based and would NOT be compatible with the current > > email system, even the adress would be different like > > newbie

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-11 Thread dfox
> Besides, what can't be said in plain text e-mail? Do you lack the necessary > communication skills to use simple words? Did Tolkien write using fancy fonts Well, discounting Elvish perhaps, no. > and colours? My point is that HTML mail is simply unnecessary. Do you want > /italics/, _underlin

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-11 Thread dfox
> Another point, John: If you really want to see something ugly, take a look at > an html e-mail with html disabled. You'll see that the message becomes It also is a good visual indication of how wasteful HTML email can be. I have seen numerous examples of dozens of       etc. ;( Want to bu

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-11 Thread s
On Monday 10 June 2002 06:34 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Monday 10 June 2002 04:39 pm, s wrote: > > > > Yeah, I vote for kmail too, tho after 30 or 40 thousand messages, it > > starts to choke. :)(had to rename my Mail folder today). :( > > > > -s > > My version has a delete function. V

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-11 Thread Bill Spatz
On Tuesday 11 June 2002 11:10, you wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 18:46:08 +0100 > > John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 June 2002 15:17, you wrote: > > > Besides, what can't be said in plain text e-mail? Do you lack the > > > necessary communication skills to use simple

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-11 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, John Richard Smith wrote: > On Tuesday 11 June 2002 15:17, you wrote: > > > > > > Besides, what can't be said in plain text e-mail? Do you lack the > > necessary communication skills to use simple words? Did Tolkien > > write using fancy fonts and colours? My point is that HT

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-11 Thread FemmeFatale
Warren Post wrote: > > I'm not familiar with Calypso, so I can't compare, but I use Evolution > 1.0.2, and it certainly is full featured. It's also a bit buggy, so if > there's a more recent version grab it. Another full featured client is > Aethera, although I haven't tried it. > > Warren > >

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-11 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 11 June 2002 01:49 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 18:46:08 +0100, John Richard Smith > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 June 2002 15:17, you wrote: > > > Besides, what can't be said in plain text e-mail? Do you lack the > > > necessary communication sk

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-11 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 18:46:08 +0100, John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 11 June 2002 15:17, you wrote: > > > > > > Besides, what can't be said in plain text e-mail? Do you lack the > > necessary communication skills to use simple words? Did Tolkien > > write using fancy font

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-11 Thread Vincent Colombo
Hey all, I just installed Ximian Gnome last night and noticed that the installer now has an option to install only Evolution. Therefore, if you're interested in using Evolution and want the most recent version without having to install all of Ximian Gnome and without waiting for Mandrake to relea

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-11 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 June 2002 6:46 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > Plain text is all right as far as it goes, I don't mind using it for > say Newbie, or just sending an order to some sales person, > but 99% of the world traffic in emails is HTML. Yes it is

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-11 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 18:46:08 +0100 John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 11 June 2002 15:17, you wrote: > > > > > > Besides, what can't be said in plain text e-mail? Do you lack the > > necessary communication skills to use simple words? Did Tolkien > > write using fancy font

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-11 Thread John Richard Smith
On Tuesday 11 June 2002 15:17, you wrote: > > > Besides, what can't be said in plain text e-mail? Do you lack the > necessary communication skills to use simple words? Did Tolkien > write using fancy fonts and colours? My point is that HTML mail is > simply unnecessary. Do you want /italics/, _und

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-11 Thread Lee
Using html email is somewhat like asking to borrow my phone and calling Afhganistan. Rude at best. (I learned that right here last year) Lee On Tuesday 11 June 2002 10:17 am, you wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 15:16:00 +0100, John Richard Smith > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-11 Thread John Richard Smith
On Tuesday 11 June 2002 00:34, you wrote: > On Monday 10 June 2002 04:39 pm, s wrote: > > On Monday 10 June 2002 03:37 pm, Gerald Waugh wrote: > > > On Monday 10 June 2002 11:28 am, Bulloved wrote: > > > > > > > > > > What Linux email clients do people on the list prefer? > > > > I perfer netscap

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-10 Thread robin
Warren Post wrote: > I'm not familiar with Calypso, so I can't compare, but I use Evolution > 1.0.2, and it certainly is full featured. It's also a bit buggy, Well they _did_ say they were trying to write something like Outlook ;-) Seriously, though, Evolution is impressive. I'm back with Mo

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-10 Thread Warren Post
I'm not familiar with Calypso, so I can't compare, but I use Evolution 1.0.2, and it certainly is full featured. It's also a bit buggy, so if there's a more recent version grab it. Another full featured client is Aethera, although I haven't tried it. Warren On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 09:28, Bulloved

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-10 Thread D. Olson
On Monday 10 June 2002 04:37 pm, you wrote: > On Monday 10 June 2002 11:28 am, Bulloved wrote: > > > > What Linux email clients do people on the list prefer? > > I like kmail Same here, but my wife uses Evolution. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrake

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-10 Thread Michael
On Monday 10 June 2002 05:34 pm, you wrote: KMail is very functional and easy to use, but I wish it had an option to not preview a message until I explicitly tell it too, as I could do with Outlook Express. I understand that I can take off html preview completely but that isn't what I want.

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-10 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 11:28:29 -0400, "Bulloved" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all. > > After having made numerous attempts at installing various distros of Linux > over a period of three years with no success,I was delighted to find that > the Mandrake 8.2 installer worked without a hitch. I now

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-10 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Monday 10 June 2002 04:39 pm, s wrote: > On Monday 10 June 2002 03:37 pm, Gerald Waugh wrote: > > On Monday 10 June 2002 11:28 am, Bulloved wrote: > > > > > > > What Linux email clients do people on the list prefer? > > > > I like kmail > > Yeah, I vote for kmail too, tho after 30 or 40 thousa

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-10 Thread Miark
> What Linux email clients do people on the list prefer? > > TIA for any assistance anyone can offer. I tried Sylpheed-Claws (not regular Sylpheed) and Evolution as an Outlook Express convert. Evolution has the best search tools, and it has other tools like unto the full Outlook. But it loads r

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-10 Thread s
On Monday 10 June 2002 03:37 pm, Gerald Waugh wrote: > On Monday 10 June 2002 11:28 am, Bulloved wrote: > > > > What Linux email clients do people on the list prefer? > > I like kmail Yeah, I vote for kmail too, tho after 30 or 40 thousand messages, it starts to choke. :)(had to rename my

Re: [newbie] Intro and seeking opinion

2000-07-19 Thread Mark Weaver
Go ahead and install 7.1. You're going to like it...A LOT! However, XF86 4.0 is still a little buggy so you will want to load the older version that comes with 7.1. You will be prompted as to which one you wish to load. I will forewarn you though. It is very likely that an upgrade from your curren

Re: [newbie] Intro and seeking opinion

2000-07-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
> I currently have Mandrake 6.0 installed on its own hard drive > I did the default workstation install. There is currently one > problem... annoying, does not appear to be hurtful... HDA5 > seems to be messed up on every other boot forcing fsck to run > during the boot sequence, which so far ha