[ql-users] an [OT] favour

2003-08-16 Thread P Witte
I urgently need to install the latest service pack on my W2k machines! However, it is a 120+Mb download! and I dont have broadband. Would any of you like to contact me about downloading this file onto a CD and sending it to me for a fiver or so? SOO unpatriotic and off-topic, I know, but I dont

Re: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards - the Smoke Theory

2003-08-16 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Hey guys, didn't your mums and dads ever tell you not to smoke in public? Dilwyn Jones Holy Smoke Batman ! - Norman Dunbar

Re: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards

2003-08-16 Thread Dilwyn Jones
} I mean, it should just leak out the cut end shouldn't it ? :o) No, it never leak! The signal propagates along the line, and when it reach the end of the line, it partially reflect (just like waves do on harbour) and then propagate back, crossing the new incoming signal... The bad thing is

Re: [ql-users] QL Toady ?

2003-08-16 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Norman Dunbar wrote: Tony Firshman wrote: I got mine two days ago. Ah well, I live in what is laughingly called 'The North' - the Postie must take longer to get here ! When I was in Aberdeen the post was really slow, it took 2 weeks from Surrey. I remember buying Sinclair QL

Re: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards

2003-08-16 Thread Tarquin Mills
Phoebus Dokos wrote: ex ram1_lxx;'-m 32 -k ram1_vmlinux -r ram1_ramimg.gz -- root=/dev/ram replace the 32 with the amount of memory you have on your system. Using my acorn I formatted 2 new floppies DOS 1.44MB (they came Mac formatted, which made them cheaper) then added lxx and vmlinux

Re: [ql-users] an [OT] favour

2003-08-16 Thread Dave Walker
Tony, That is not true - it is possible to get the complete SP as a single file. The full SP4 for W2K is 129Mb (I know because I have it !). This can then be applied to any flavour of W2K (workstation, server, advanced server). I agree if you are online, you can download a setup program that

Re: [ql-users] an [OT] favour

2003-08-16 Thread Roy wood
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I urgently need to install the latest service pack on my W2k machines! However, it is a 120+Mb download! and I dont have broadband. Would any of you like to contact me about downloading this file onto a CD and sending it to me

RE: [ql-users] QL2004

2003-08-16 Thread Duncan Neithercut
Absolutely correct autorun.inf is windows only -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dilwyn Jones Sent: 16 August 2003 14:16 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] QL2004 The autorun.inf only works on Windows systems though, surely? I

Re: [ql-users] an [OT] favour

2003-08-16 Thread Tony Firshman
On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 at 20:06:26, Roy wood wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I urgently need to install the latest service pack on my W2k machines! However, it is a 120+Mb download! and I dont have broadband. Would any of you

Re: [ql-users] an [OT] favour

2003-08-16 Thread Phoebus R. Dokos
On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 19:25:28 +0100, Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 at 14:23:06, P Witte wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) I urgently need to install the latest service pack on my W2k machines! However, it is a 120+Mb download! and I dont have broadband. Would any of

Re: [ql-users] an [OT] favour

2003-08-16 Thread P Witte
To my I urgently need to install the latest service pack on my W2k machines! Thanks to all who responded. I am now sorted! Per

Re: [ql-users] an [OT] favour

2003-08-16 Thread P Witte
Roy wood writes: Sorry to continue an OT discussion here but you are wrong. You can go to the Microsoft site and download the SP4. The pack you need to download is the one for network users. This is because people with multiple machine do not want to connect them individually to do the