Re: [Re: [newbie] MSIE when?]

1999-11-30 Thread Joachim Holst
Seth Gibson wrote: On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, you wrote: When I think of a windows install, I think of about 4 hours sitting in front of a computer clicking buttons with a mouse, multiple rebooting session and crossing my fingers that it will work this time. Installing Linux on the other

Re: [Re: [newbie] MSIE when?]

1999-11-30 Thread Ernest N. Wilcox Jr.
On Sun, 28 Nov 1999,Tom Jacobs wrote: | My two cents: | | Being a brand new Linux user, I still wonder "hmmm why | do I have to mount my CDROM just to use it. Why can't | I just click on a picture or type d:\". | While I am no lover of M$ products in any way. Out of | the box,

Re: [Re: [newbie] MSIE when?]

1999-11-29 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Tom Jacobs wrote: My two cents: Being a brand new Linux user, I still wonder "hmmm why do I have to mount my CDROM just to use it. Why can't I just click on a picture or type d:\". While I am no lover of M$ products in any way. Out of the box, with no other knowledge of computers,

Re: [Re: [newbie] MSIE when?]

1999-11-29 Thread Joachim Holst
Tom Jacobs wrote: My two cents: Being a brand new Linux user, I still wonder "hmmm why do I have to mount my CDROM just to use it. Why can't I just click on a picture or type d:\". While I am no lover of M$ products in any way. Out of the box, with no other knowledge of computers,

Re: [Re: [newbie] MSIE when?]

1999-11-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, you wrote: P.S. Is there an ls command that will allow the directory contents to stop at the end of each page so I can read them? Yes: ls |less (that's the "pipe" symbol, in case you don't recognize it.) As for your "x-server" problems, what video card do you have and

Re: [Re: [newbie] MSIE when?]

1999-11-29 Thread Seth Gibson
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, you wrote: When I think of a windows install, I think of about 4 hours sitting in front of a computer clicking buttons with a mouse, multiple rebooting session and crossing my fingers that it will work this time. Installing Linux on the other And could you imagine how

Re: [Re: [newbie] MSIE when?]

1999-11-29 Thread Matt G. Ellis
ls | less why use less? Because LESS is MORE! actully, less lets you move up and down, and i feel is better then more - Original Message - From: Gregg Carrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 2:40 PM Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] MSIE when?] Tom

Re: [newbie] MSIE when?

1999-11-28 Thread David van Balen
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, PadLocke wrote: Took a look at Mozilla. Liked it. Haven't heard of Konqueror though. Is it any smaller than Mozilla? Can you point me to a page where I get get it? thanks :) It's KDE's browser which should ship with KDE 2.0 (it's not out yet). From what I hear it's

Re: [Re: [newbie] MSIE when?]

1999-11-28 Thread Joachim Holst
On fre, 26 nov 1999, you wrote: "Thomas J. Hamman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. wrote: stable manner. But you have to admitt that they have done a great job with the installer. Any user can install M$'s OS. Now if they'd just stop trying to

Re: [Re: [newbie] MSIE when?]

1999-11-28 Thread Tom Jacobs
My two cents: Being a brand new Linux user, I still wonder "hmmm why do I have to mount my CDROM just to use it. Why can't I just click on a picture or type d:\". While I am no lover of M$ products in any way. Out of the box, with no other knowledge of computers, Winbloze wins hands down in

Re: [Re: [newbie] MSIE when?]

1999-11-28 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Tom Jacobs wrote: My two cents: Being a brand new Linux user, I still wonder "hmmm why do I have to mount my CDROM just to use it. Why can't I just click on a picture or type d:\". I'm not sure if there's any other technical reason why, but I assume it's because of

Re: [Re: [Re: [newbie] MSIE when?]]

1999-11-27 Thread Jaguar
Tom: Thank you for the explainations of some of the Linux file features. And Yes I was using Win98 as my main comparison to Linux. They have, like LINUX, fixed the Bootable aspect of the CD-Rom, and unless you have really cheap components, it will install and setup most of your hardware. Steve

Re: [Re: [newbie] MSIE when?]

1999-11-27 Thread Peter Heckert
Hi Thomas, "Thomas J. Hamman" wrote: Installing a program from an rpm file is pretty simple; just type: rpm -ivh filename (i=install, v=verbose, h=hash. i is the only option you really need to install, but the v and h add nice features that let you know how the install is going.)

Re: [newbie] MSIE when?

1999-11-26 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. wrote: stable manner. But you have to admitt that they have done a great job with the installer. Any user can install M$'s OS. Now if they'd just stop trying to Actually I think I WON'T "admit" that. :) If you want to completely reinstall Windows 95

Re: [Re: [newbie] MSIE when?]

1999-11-26 Thread Jaguar
"Thomas J. Hamman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. wrote: stable manner. But you have to admitt that they have done a great job with the installer. Any user can install M$'s OS. Now if they'd just stop trying to Gee I hate to knock you off your soap box,

Re: [newbie] MSIE when?

1999-11-24 Thread Benjamin
Dear friends: Just curious: I understand that IE is available for Solaris. That's for Sun, Microsoft's arch enemy. How did that happen? Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net

Re: [newbie] MSIE when?

1999-11-24 Thread Doug Craig
ne of them! And if Konquerer or any other browser is to have any hope, they better have 128-bit encryption before I use it. =taking flame suit off= -- Doug Craig - Original Message - From: "Chip Wiegand" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 7:52 PM

Re: [newbie] MSIE when?

1999-11-24 Thread PadLocke
Took a look at Mozilla. Liked it. Haven't heard of Konqueror though. Is it any smaller than Mozilla? Can you point me to a page where I get get it? thanks :) On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, you wrote: On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Donny wrote: Hay, wasnt MSIE supossed to be out in november for linux?

Re: [newbie] MSIE when?

1999-11-24 Thread Seth Gibson
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, you wrote: (which its now doing) itll give MS a better run for its money. hehe funny we mention money in the presence of linux! -- Seth Gibson www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710 members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (Under Construction) The Functional Design of the UNIX Operating

Re: [newbie] MSIE when?

1999-11-24 Thread Alan Shoemaker
PadLockeKonqueror will be part of KDE 2.0 when it is released. Alan PadLocke wrote: Took a look at Mozilla. Liked it. Haven't heard of Konqueror though. Is it any smaller than Mozilla? Can you point me to a page where I get get it? thanks :) On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, you wrote: On

Re: [newbie] MSIE when?

1999-11-23 Thread Ronald J. Yacketta
Donny wrote: Hay, wasnt MSIE supossed to be out in november for linux? Thats wat i heard. Thanxs for the laugh... I doubt M$ will ever port anything they have to Linux.

Re: [newbie] MSIE when?

1999-11-23 Thread David van Balen
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Donny wrote: Hay, wasnt MSIE supossed to be out in november for linux? Thats wat i heard. Probably won't be out until MainSoft's MainWin IDE for Linux is released, if ever. Last I heard, MainWin was scheduled for next year. Pesonally, I'm hoping for Mozilla or

Re: [newbie] MSIE when?

1999-11-23 Thread Chip Wiegand
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hay, wasnt MSIE supossed to be out in november for linux? Thats wat i heard. I don't know about ya'll, but my reason for moving to Linux was to get away from micro$oft, not use that stuff in Linux. Isn't that defeating the purpose of using an alternative OS?

Re: [newbie] MSIE when?

1999-11-23 Thread Keith Robinson
Chip Wiegand wrote: On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hay, wasnt MSIE supossed to be out in november for linux? Thats wat i heard. I don't know about ya'll, but my reason for moving to Linux was to get away from micro$oft, not use that stuff in Linux. Isn't that defeating the purpose of

RE: [newbie] MSIE when?

1999-11-23 Thread Ken Wilson
There will never be an MS IE for Linux. Find out what whoever is telling you that is smoking. I want some. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimisation: The speed of a non-working program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] MSIE when?

1999-11-23 Thread Don
Ken Wilson wrote: There will never be an MS IE for Linux. Find out what whoever is telling you that is smoking. I want some. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimisation: The speed of a non-working program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') -Original Message-