Re: [newbie] Visual Basic 6 for Linux?!?!

2001-03-19 Per discussione Evan Flynn
hmm i've been wondering about too... there are some other nice languages (with lots of documentation) out there that are fairly easy to program in and you can make GUIs. right now im learning python. I realize that this question might be "anathema" for all Microsoft haters out there. But

Re: [newbie] System Commander 2000 and partitioning

2001-03-19 Per discussione Evan Flynn
u.. repartitioning a drive is a logical thing... as opposed to physical. the only physical thing you're doing is remagnitizing the platters. so to answer your question you won't have to disconnect the drives. - Original Message - From: "Romanator" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] burning linux mandrake 7.2

2001-02-27 Per discussione Evan Flynn
You can't put 'Windows permissions' on a cd. CDs use an ISO standard. I don't know much about cd burning but that is what i know. Actually what i've done was download all the mandrake rpms from an ftp, stick them on a *windows* partition, booted the install using the harddrive image, and i was

RE: [newbie] Terminal Linux

2001-02-26 Per discussione Evan Flynn
I can't tell if this is off topic. If you want to run Linux on a 286, forget it, Linux is a full 32-bit OS. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Daryl Johnson Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 1:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie]

Re: [newbie] Linux for 486

2001-02-20 Per discussione Evan Flynn
don't even bother running X, you would need more memory (24meg maybe) - Original Message - From: "dison Andrs" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 11:39 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux for 486 if would had 8MB ??? Ingo Bauer escribi: h ...

Re: [newbie] Finding monitor specifications.

2001-02-19 Per discussione Evan Flynn
it's ctrl+alt+backspace - Original Message - From: "April" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 9:03 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Finding monitor specifications. That sounds exactly like what I need, thank you very much, but it didn't work. :/ I tried

Re: [newbie] Finding monitor specifications.

2001-02-19 Per discussione Evan Flynn
Use a boot disk. In control panel, do add/remove programsstartup diskcreate disk. If you have a warped Winblows installation like i do, try www.bootdisk.com for some links to boot images. - Original Message - From: "Kuljit Singh" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,

Re: [newbie] Re: eh?

2001-02-19 Per discussione Evan Flynn
I use KMail, the interface is similar to that of outlook. But sometimes i use outlook too ;) - Original Message - From: "Michael Leone" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Newbie List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 2:48 PM Subject: [newbie] Re: eh? From: Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Install

2001-02-19 Per discussione Evan Flynn
Hmmm it really shouldn't do that. What do you consider 'locking'? Can you move the mouse? Try pressing ctrl-alt-f3 for tty3 to check what's going on. Also you can kill the X server by pressing ctrl-alt-backspace. - Original Message - From: "Harold Fulkerson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [newbie] compiling for windows

2001-02-18 Per discussione Evan Flynn
Possibly, if you could emulate the compiler (using Wine or something). Natively compiling it in Linux? Hell no, better write your own. However, if you would like to port a Linux app to Windows, you could try using DJGPP -- a dos implementation of the gnu compile tools. If it's just a

Re: [newbie] the downloaded targz file via windowME can not be read by linux(LM7.2), need hel

2001-02-17 Per discussione Evan Flynn
Are you saying you can't access the cdrw, or that you can'tuse the file? If you can't use the file, it's likely that some sort of text file got in DOS format instead of Linux. (Dos text and Linux/Unix text are different) Look around for an option in tar that can convert text files

Re: [newbie] the downloaded targz file via windowME can not be read by linux(LM7.2), need hel

2001-02-17 Per discussione Evan Flynn
You should be able to mount it with just mount /mnt/cdrom. I do that all the time. If that doesn't work, check /etc/fstab to see what your cdrom's mount point is. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] the downloaded targz file via windowME can not be read by linux(LM7.2), need hel

2001-02-17 Per discussione Evan Flynn
never mind, wont work. - Original Message - From: Evan Flynn To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 12:51 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] the downloaded targz file via windowME can not be read by linux(LM7.2), need hel You should be able to mount