Re: [newbie] Windoze

2000-08-03 Thread Greg Stewart
Server side, the US Government maintains a POSIX compatibility standard. Although POSIX is, by now outdated, most Unixes, and Linux, are compatible. For server-side applications, this standard offers backward-compatibility, while the 'familiar' windoze frontend on the client-side can be protect

Re: [newbie] Windoze

2000-08-03 Thread patrick darcy
> maybe if the governemt would stop and think of the money they could save the taxpayers as compared to paying so much for windoz. i honestly believe that most people are not completely stupid as far as learning. i would hope our government and military could be included here :) dacia wrot

Re: [newbie] Windoze

2000-08-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Dacia and AzureRose wrote: > > I read an interview with an airforce sysadmin where he > was asked about linux and other free OS's. He replied > that they use lilnux for many of their servers (in > some cases against the wishes of their superiors) and > windows for desktop machines. His arguemen

Re: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-31 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
I read an interview with an airforce sysadmin where he was asked about linux and other free OS's. He replied that they use lilnux for many of their servers (in some cases against the wishes of their superiors) and windows for desktop machines. His arguement was that they have to have a standardi

Re: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-31 Thread Greg Stewart
laces outlook as well. --Greg - Original Message - From: "Jeff Malka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 11:22 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Windoze > Can't you turn off Active X in Outlook Express? > > Jeff Malka <[EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-30 Thread Romanator
patrick darcy wrote: > > Romanator wrote: > > > "Roderick F.Lazaro" wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, you wrote: > > > > counterparts. Nothing available can touch Outlook and Outlook express. > > > > > > Have you heard of the latest security issue with Outlook. Anybody sending you > > > ma

Re: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-29 Thread patrick darcy
Romanator wrote: > "Roderick F.Lazaro" wrote: > > > > On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, you wrote: > > > counterparts. Nothing available can touch Outlook and Outlook express. > > > > Have you heard of the latest security issue with Outlook. Anybody sending you > > mail can run their code on your machine when

Re: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-28 Thread Jeff Malka
Can't you turn off Active X in Outlook Express? Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Registered (Newbie) Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 1:48 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Windoze

Re: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-24 Thread Romanator
"Roderick F.Lazaro" wrote: > > On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, you wrote: > > counterparts. Nothing available can touch Outlook and Outlook express. > > Have you heard of the latest security issue with Outlook. Anybody sending you > mail can run their code on your machine when you open the email. It has >

Re: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-24 Thread Paul
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Roderick F.Lazaro wrote: >On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, you wrote: >> counterparts. Nothing available can touch Outlook and Outlook express. > >Have you heard of the latest security issue with Outlook. Anybody sending you >mail can run their code on your machine when you open the emai

Re: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-24 Thread Roderick F.Lazaro
On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, you wrote: > counterparts. Nothing available can touch Outlook and Outlook express. Have you heard of the latest security issue with Outlook. Anybody sending you mail can run their code on your machine when you open the email. It has something to do with Outlook's ActiveX eng

Re: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-23 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 02:01:20PM +0200, Roman Korcek wrote: > Try downloading the latest drivers for your graphics card and monitor > (in this case just the .inf file). ;-) Did that, and that didn't help. But that was to be expected, wasn't it? Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.d

Re: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-22 Thread John Gist
Al invented everything guys. John K0DXX "Oliver L. Plaine Jr." wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 22:17:05 -0400, Darryl wrote: > > >We hams, as one poster pointed out, are a small sample of the linux > >community, but we have contributed enormously to its cause. We were > >doing wireless packet befo

Re: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 06:47:54AM -0500, Gil Baron W0MN wrote: > PSP5 The best low cost image processing program Have you ever looked at GIMP? > counterparts. Nothing available can touch Outlook and Outlook express. Hey, don't do that! Now I have to wipe my monitor clean from the thinks I

Re: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 06:47:54AM -0500, Gil Baron W0MN wrote: I forgot three things: > Fritz 6 Chess program that has beaten the world champion Have you looked at GNU chess? I'll bet that it is good enough for the average chess player. > MS Office I don't want to convert files and everyo

Re: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-22 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 22:17:05 -0400, Darryl wrote: >We hams, as one poster pointed out, are a small sample of the linux >community, but we have contributed enormously to its cause. We were >doing wireless packet before the big guns thought it was feasible. I >suspect we invented the concept of ope

Re: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-21 Thread patrick darcy
sorry to cut off your name but i cant post up here if i dont for some reason. like i said many many of these browswers are in beta. some in alpha. hopefull konquer will fix u up soon. its coming out with kernal 2.4 supposedly and should do it all do it well. if u love me, send me some penguin

Re: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-21 Thread Darryl Gibson
Jeff Malka wrote: > > Let's stop this thread PLEASE. Those who prefer windoze are welcome to use > it and stop clogging our newslist. Agreed, normally I would sit out a thread like this, which I did with the html vs txt, and its related threads. But this one is different, a brother Ham was invo

Re: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-21 Thread patrick darcy
dge and sweat...no hard > earned dollars have to be spent, just hard earned hours. > > That is the whole ideause it.develop for it...and share it > > Fritz > > - Original Message ----- > From: Hugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> &

Re: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-21 Thread patrick darcy
> -Original Message- > > > From: Alexander Skwar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 11:15 AM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: [newbie] Windoze > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at

Re: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-20 Thread Jeff Malka
ser 183185 - Original Message - From: Ronald J. Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 9:37 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Windoze > Paul wrote: > > > It boils down to something simple for me. Use what you want, what works >

Re: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-20 Thread Todd Swain
Your not completely wrong. I have been working with Linux since circa '95 and at first I was of the opinion that Linux made a wonderful Server, but was to "unproductive" to be used as a full time desktop. I mean sure, the customizability of of the desktop environment was cool, but it took forever

Re: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-20 Thread F. E. Schaper
e it Fritz - Original Message - From: Hugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 9:19 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Windoze > I beg to differ, Outlook is Virus bate. We need a troll here almost as much > as Outlook express. Hey ever w

Re: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-20 Thread Bob Howard
:15 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [newbie] Windoze > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 06:25:25PM -0500, Gilbert Baron wrote: > > > Linux is so great, where are all of the applications. I will > > tell you where > > > they are. They are n

Re: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-20 Thread Darryl Gibson
Gil Baron W0MN wrote: > > Not at this time it won't. It is also MUCH harder to install for the average > person. True, but since when are Ham Radio Operators average people? :) > It is a fun toy and learning experience, that is all. Have you looked for apps. similar to what you want to do? I d

RE: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-20 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
> MS Office I don't want to convert files and everyone is using office Both of my business partners use Windows with only myself using Linux. I use Star Office and they can both read my reports perfectly as can I with theirs and without any converting. > PSP5 The best low cost i

RE: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-20 Thread kdm
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, you wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Alexander Skwar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 11:15 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [newbie] Windoze > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 1

RE: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-20 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
|-Original Message- |From: Gil Baron W0MN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 7:48 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: RE: [newbie] Windoze | | | | |> -Original Message- |> From: Alexander Skwar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |> Sent: Wednesday, July

Re: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-20 Thread patrick darcy
Roman Korcek wrote: > Hey Patrick, > > > linux has > > netscape, konquer, opera, mozilla to name a few. > > > Opera isn't free and Mozilla is the successor of Netscape (at least > it's trying to be). > > > ;-) > > Roman thats true Roman, but there are at least 15 browsers . i am looking a t a

RE: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-20 Thread Yacketta,Ronald J
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 7:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Windoze > -Original Message- > From: Alexander Skwar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 11:15 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] W

RE: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-20 Thread Hugh
0 Jul 2000, you wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Alexander Skwar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 11:15 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [newbie] Windoze > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 06:

RE: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-20 Thread Gil Baron W0MN
> -Original Message- > From: Alexander Skwar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 11:15 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Windoze > > > On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 06:25:25PM -0500, Gilbert Baron wrote: > > Linux is

Re: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-19 Thread patrick darcy
many will make money on Linux. i dont think anybody expects the latest and greatest games to be free. as far as business software goes, it seems to be mostly included. let me show u some of the strengths of linux. u can also purchase business softwarre if u wish. that other operating system has

Re: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-19 Thread patrick darcy
Alexander Skwar wrote: > On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 04:47:21PM -0600, cjulwelling wrote: > > heh heh... I have had about the exact opposite luck as you. 7.0 died all > > the time on me where as 2000 has never crashed once... for me and I've had oh come on, be honest now :) nobody has that other op

Re: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-19 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 06:25:25PM -0500, Gilbert Baron wrote: > Linux is so great, where are all of the applications. I will tell you where > they are. They are not written because nobody can make money on it . What application do you need? They are all there! And everything is available, most

Re: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-19 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 04:47:21PM -0600, cjulwelling wrote: > heh heh... I have had about the exact opposite luck as you. 7.0 died all > the time on me where as 2000 has never crashed once... for me and I've had Well, even if I wanted to, I couldn't try W2k, because my ISDN card, that worked p

RE: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-18 Thread Paul
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, cjulwelling wrote: Hello Charles, >heh heh... I have had about the exact opposite luck as you. 7.0 died all >the time on me where as 2000 has never crashed once... for me and I've had >it running for as much as 2 months at a time before rebooting it to go into >another OS.

RE: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-18 Thread Paul
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Gilbert Baron wrote: >>Windows is never ready. It took Microsoft 10 years to produce 1 windows >>manager. Linux has more than 5 already. > >Right you are, but it is working now. I don't care how long it took, the >fact is that it works for me. Yes, it is unstable at times but

Re: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-18 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Gilbert Baron wrote: > Right you are, but it is working now. I don't care how long it took, the > fact is that it works for me. Yes, it is unstable at times but it does what > I need. It supports all of my hardware. It has the applications I need. If > Linux is so great, where are all of the appl

RE: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-17 Thread Gilbert Baron
-Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 3:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Windoze On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Alexander Skwar wrote: >On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 07:42:15PM -0500, Gil Baron W0MN wrote: >> After my troubles with 7.1 I hav

RE: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-17 Thread cjulwelling
heh heh... I have had about the exact opposite luck as you. 7.0 died all the time on me where as 2000 has never crashed once... for me and I've had it running for as much as 2 months at a time before rebooting it to go into another OS. I don't understand and perhaps you can enlighten me ( I miss

Re: [newbie] Windoze partition

1999-10-14 Thread Ernie
Log in as your regular user, then su to mount the Win9x partition, then su back to your regular user to use the partition. I think this is how I do it (not in Linux right now). You just have to be the super-user to mount or umount the DOS partition, although I could be wrong. I know I can not move

Re: [newbie] Windoze partition

1999-10-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, you wrote: > Help me Wr. Wizard . . . . > > I still can't write to my Windoze partition from anything but the root > account. Where do I have to go and what do I have to do to enable this > for my user account. I've gone everywhere I can think of as the root > user, and as a