On Wednesday 07 February 2001 23:42, you wrote:
Knowing that this list belongs to Mandrake users. I want to know the
bunch of reasons why you picked up mandrakes distribution.
I am about to make my decision about wich distribution, that is why I
joined the list.
I am newbie not only to
On Wednesday 31 January 2001 05:10, you wrote:
just checking to see what my name is
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Here is an interesting one. Whenever I try to change the colour scheme of my
windows in KDE, I run into an unusual problem. The Window titlebar changes
colour, but the font always remains black. The panel changes, but the taskbar
doesn't. The file manager background changes, but in every
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, you wrote:
As a fairly competent Windows user, what is the best method of learning
Linux? Is it to just learn about performing tasks as they occur, (ie
unzipping and installing programs etc) or to go through a book like
"Linux for Dummies" for example chapter by chapter?
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, you wrote:
I'm running a dual boot system, Win 98SE, and Mandrake 7.1 with grub as
my boot loader. Now I need to reinstall windows, and I know that it will
overwrite the MBR which will kill grub. What do I need to do to be able
to reinstall grub afterwords?
Mike
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On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, you wrote:
Im having problems getting my Microsoft Intellimouse 3 button wheel mouse to
work with Mandrake 7.1 Deluxe. The 3rd button will not work at all.
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On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, you wrote:
I just checked on my install of 7.0 to double boot with Win98 and found
that the installation detected my 128M of ram. Why would it work on my
machine when I read that so many others must do the append mem= thing to
get their RAM recognized? Not complaining,
On Fri, 08 Sep 2000, you wrote:
look i apologize now can we drop this bs
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I second that notion, this got way out of hand. Let it go.
Jay
"Every man dies, not every man really lives."
http://www.mrsnooky.com
On Sat, 09 Sep 2000, you wrote:
someone was acting clueless about something i asked, i was sarcastic he got
pissed insulted me and well it went down hill from there
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I have the same sarcasm problem, but in the future, you need to note the
sarcasm for people in the message, remember it is
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, you wrote:
Jason Ashman wrote:
On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, you wrote:
my laptop says designed foe windows 98, well i run linux on it too i just
have a couple bugs no drivers for modem (its not a win modem windows had no
clue what it was till i got drivers
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, you wrote:
In a message dated 07-Sep-00 00:41:35 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
my laptop says designed foe windows 98, well i run linux on it too i
just
have a couple bugs no drivers for modem (its not a win modem windows had
no
clue
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, you wrote:
Is there a way to run ".exe" files in linux?
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Jay
"Every man dies, not every man really lives."
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, you wrote:
Can somebody explain the difference in .i386 and .i586 designation in rpms
Sometimes you have a choice and I'm not sure but I think that this is
referring to processor class. I have a AMD K-6 II 400 and I think the .i586
is ok for that processor? Somebody
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Subject: Re: [newbie] Video Card
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, you wrote:
Anybody have any suggestions for a good Video card. I am running 7.1.
Thanks,
Chris Kelly
Registered Linux user
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, you wrote:
Another very simple request! In windoze, there is an option
"Start-Programs-MSDos prompt". What's the equivalent in Linux if I boot
up with the KDE Desktop?
Thanks
Gordon
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There is a little screen on the panel called Terminal, that is the "command
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Out of curoiusity, what are all of your's preferred Window Manager? I tend to
switch between KDE and Gnome. I have tried Fvwm, but I am not too competent on
this OS to have full confidence in my command line ability.
Jay
"Every man dies, not every man really lives."
On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, you wrote:
my laptop says designed foe windows 98, well i run linux on it too i just
have a couple bugs no drivers for modem (its not a win modem windows had no
clue what it was till i got drivers for it) and my sound card (crystal sound
fusion card),
last bug the
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, you wrote:
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On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, you wrote:
Anybody have any suggestions for a good Video card. I am running 7.1.
Thanks,
Chris Kelly
Registered Linux user 185775
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Get a Voodoo3 PCI, it works great for me, plus it is cheap.
Jay
"Every man dies, not every man really lives."
http://www.mrsnooky.com
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, you wrote:
Jay
"Every man dies, not every man really lives."
Didn't Spock say this on one of the Star Trek movies?
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On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, you wrote:
Jason Ashman wrote:
Jason:
While many internal modems are winmodems -- especially the $39.95 blue
light specials -- not all of them are. I have a Zoom 2919 ISA internal
modem that works just fine. (I disabled the PnP feature and jumpered it
to COM4, but I
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, you wrote:
winmodem???!??!???!
this is supposed to be linux bud
now windows wont allways identify a modem off of a port so this is where you
manually install it using the disket that came with that thing. use add hard
ware and specify what it is
as far as linux
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, you wrote:
any ISP will function under linux except perhaps aol.
all you have to do...is configure your kppp app correctly.
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where is there an isp for linux, and dont send me to whatever.UK
im referring to the states, near chicago, in
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, you wrote:
well i have compuserve in a 3 yr contract (shivers at self stupidity) i was
just trying to figure out if i could get it working on linux, it would make
it easier then downloading with windoze and opening the file with linux
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Compuserve IS AOL. They have
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, you wrote:
Why not? CompuServe can be made to run on an OS/2 box. If you
look hard enough, there are even software that alow you to connect
to AOL under linux, though I don't remember where. So, if people
are writing software to allow AOL to run on a linux box,
Dear Mandrake users,
I am a poor PhD student trying to download Mandrake 7.1. I am using
windows
2000 an IE5.5 and am having difficulties with the ftp server resetting
the
connection (5 minutes seems to be about the maximum I can hope for)
and
downloading the link
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, you wrote:
Hello I use Linux4Win with windows 98 and had no problem with the install.
I think you should upgrade to windows 98 and you will have better luck.
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How dare you recommend somebody upgrade to Windoze 98...you should be tarred,
feathered and quartered. :)
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, you wrote:
Hi!
I've recently bought Linux-Mandrake 7.1 and installed it on
my computer.
I used the partition magic (included with the 3- cdrom set)
and because I can't get the peripherals to work, I want to
take Linux OFF the computer that I installed it on and get
On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, you wrote:
I am having troubles loading up Linux on my Win 98 machine
because of the size of my Hard drive. I was wondering if by
putting in a new hard drive (slave) my problems would go
away?
Stephen
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On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, you wrote:
Jason, not to be too personal, but if you can't get Linux to run faster,
longer and do all this with less effort in Linux than Windows, you are the
one with the problem, not the O/S you're comparing.
I would recommend a steady diet of intelligent, meaningful
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My problem has been solved, I figured it our myself. It was obvious! Thanks
anyway.
Jay
"Every man dies, but not every man really lives."
http://www.mrsnooky.com
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Jason Ashman wrote:
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My problem has been solved, I figured it our myself. It was obvious! Thanks
anyway.
Jay
"Every man dies, but not every man really lives."
http://www.mrsnooky.com
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Hey Linux users. I am a Microsoft convert, Windows SUCKS!
This is my problem, it probably is simple to fix, but nevertheless it is
bugging me. I downloaded CoffeeCup HTML to edit my webpage with, tar xvzf the
whole nine yards...But, it installed into my /home/"username" file and not into
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