Re: [users] Dumb e-mail question??

2007-04-12 Thread Andis Lazdinsh
Hi! Switching to linux of course sounds interesting, if you don't need to use any special programs, but, for instance, most of engineering companies (like my company) should use windows, because they need to work with microstation, autocad and other propriety cad software documents. In this

Re: [users] Dumb e-mail question??

2007-04-12 Thread Johnny Andersson
2007/4/11, Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 11/04/07, Johnny Andersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ http://www.centos.org/ http://www.mandriva.com/en/download http://www.knoppix.org/ http://www.kubuntu.org/ Actually I was thinking of Vector Linux. Is

Re: [users] Dumb e-mail question??

2007-04-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 12/04/07, Andis Lazdinsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Switching to linux of course sounds interesting, if you don't need to use any special programs, but, for instance, most of engineering companies (like my company) should use windows, because they need to work with microstation, autocad

Re: [users] Dumb e-mail question??

2007-04-12 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
On Thursday 12 April 2007 06:42, my mailbox was graced by a missive from Andis Lazdinsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] who wrote: but, for instance, most of engineering companies (like my company) should use windows, because they need to work with microstation, autocad and other propriety cad software

Re: [users] Dumb e-mail question??

2007-04-12 Thread Andis Lazdinsh
I agree that many programs can use .dxf files, but it's not so simple as it looks. First of all conversion of native autocad or microstation files, especially if they are not properly edited, breaks layers and engineer should spend hours and hours to restore layer structure. That happen even

Re: [users] Dumb e-mail question??

2007-04-12 Thread William Case
Sorry I started this thread guys. It really was just a curiosity question/observation that was looking for a quick simple answer. On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 18:16 -0400, William Case wrote: Hi; I couldn't help noticing the number of queries there are on this list from new users / potential users

Re: [users] Dumb e-mail question??

2007-04-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 12/04/07, William Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry I started this thread guys. It really was just a curiosity question/observation that was looking for a quick simple answer. I vote this as the single most OT thread on this list ever. Tennis, anyone? Dotan Cohen

Re: [users] Dumb e-mail question??

2007-04-12 Thread William Case
Hi Dotan; On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 19:48 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: On 12/04/07, William Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry I started this thread guys. It really was just a curiosity question/observation that was looking for a quick simple answer. I vote this as the single most OT

Re: [users] Dumb e-mail question??

2007-04-12 Thread linuxmaillists
On Thursday 12 April 2007, Andis Lazdinsh wrote: Hi! Switching to linux of course sounds interesting, if you don't need to use any special programs, but, for instance, most of engineering companies (like my company) should use windows, because they need to work with microstation, autocad

Re: [users] Dumb e-mail question??

2007-04-12 Thread linuxmaillists
On Thursday 12 April 2007, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: Theere are plenty CAD progs out there that use the open format .dxf The DXF format was designed by Autodesk so they would have a way to upgrade the AutoCAD files when upgrading the software from the DOS days. Autodesk did for

Re: [users] Dumb e-mail question??

2007-04-12 Thread linuxmaillists
On Thursday 12 April 2007, Andis Lazdinsh wrote: I think the only way is porting of autocad to linux Autodesk has deep roots with Microsoft and reasonably close physical corp. HQ to each other that I don't see that ever happening. There have been hundreds of thousand of Autodesk user that had

Re: [users] Dumb e-mail question??

2007-04-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 12/04/07, William Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I vote this as the single most OT thread on this list ever. Tennis, anyone? Ahw ... come on. It's not that bad. I said I was sorry. (Love - one). Don't be sorry, you should see what goes on at the Fedora list. Unsubscribe requests go on

Re: [users] Dumb e-mail question??

2007-04-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 12/04/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 12 April 2007, Andis Lazdinsh wrote: Hi! Switching to linux of course sounds interesting, if you don't need to use any special programs, but, for instance, most of engineering companies (like my company) should use

Re: [users] Dumb e-mail question??

2007-04-12 Thread William Case
On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 22:10 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: On 12/04/07, William Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I vote this as the single most OT thread on this list ever. Tennis, anyone? Ahw ... come on. It's not that bad. I said I was sorry. (Love - one). Don't be sorry, you should

Re: [users] Dumb e-mail question??

2007-04-11 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 10/04/07, William Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi; I couldn't help noticing the number of queries there are on this list from new users / potential users for an integrated Outlook -like component. I use OOo plus evolution. That seems to do everything. What integrated extra am I missing

Re: [users] Dumb e-mail question??

2007-04-11 Thread Ron Ferguson
Dotan Cohen wrote: On 10/04/07, William Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi; I couldn't help noticing the number of queries there are on this list from new users / potential users for an integrated Outlook -like component. I use OOo plus evolution. That seems to do everything. What integrated

Re: [users] Dumb e-mail question??

2007-04-11 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 11/04/07, Ron Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: It seems that a lot of Windows users think that OOo is writing free alternatives to all MS software. These people don't understand that Office is not part of Windows. Dotan Cohen

Re: [users] Dumb e-mail question??

2007-04-11 Thread James Knott
Ron Ferguson wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: On 10/04/07, William Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi; I couldn't help noticing the number of queries there are on this list from new users / potential users for an integrated Outlook -like component. I use OOo plus evolution. That seems to do

Re: [users] Dumb e-mail question??

2007-04-11 Thread Johnny Andersson
So what are we all doing wrong that makes people think that? How can we make people understand? Isn't there enough information on the web site? Or is it written in a way that's hard to understand for common users? Maybe there should be a link in big capitals on the web site, saying something like

Re: [users] Dumb e-mail question??

2007-04-11 Thread linuxmaillists
On Wednesday 11 April 2007, Johnny Andersson wrote: So what are we all doing wrong that makes people think that? How can we make people understand? Isn't there enough information on the web site? Or is it written in a way that's hard to understand for common users? Maybe there should be a

Re: [users] Dumb e-mail question??

2007-04-11 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 11/04/07, Johnny Andersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what are we all doing wrong that makes people think that? Nothing. You are doing something right. It's the price of success. How can we make people understand? Diseminate information. On the website, for instance. Isn't there

Re: [users] Dumb e-mail question??

2007-04-11 Thread Johnny Andersson
2007/4/11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 11 April 2007, Johnny Andersson wrote: So what are we all doing wrong that makes people think that? How can we make people understand? Isn't there enough information on the web site? Or is it written in a way that's hard to

Re: [users] Dumb e-mail question??

2007-04-11 Thread Paul
Does anyone have the address to which I can send an empty message for subscribing to the discussion list? Email list : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Digest : [EMAIL PROTECTED] /paul -- Vista is dramatically more secure than any other operating system released Bill Gates Huh ?? Defender doesn't stop

Re: [users] Dumb e-mail question??

2007-04-11 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 11/04/07, Johnny Andersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ http://www.centos.org/ http://www.mandriva.com/en/download http://www.knoppix.org/ http://www.kubuntu.org/ Actually I was thinking of Vector Linux. Is that a stupid idea? But maybe this should be

Re: [users] Dumb e-mail question??

2007-04-10 Thread James Knott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 09 April 2007, TerryJ wrote: linuxmaillists wrote: On Monday 09 April 2007, William Case wrote: Hi; I couldn't help noticing the number of queries there are on this list from new users / potential users for an integrated Outlook -like

Re: [users] Dumb e-mail question??

2007-04-10 Thread Nomax
James Knott a écrit : [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 09 April 2007, TerryJ wrote: linuxmaillists wrote: On Monday 09 April 2007, William Case wrote: Hi; I couldn't help noticing the number of queries there are on this list from new users /

[users] Dumb e-mail question??

2007-04-09 Thread William Case
Hi; I couldn't help noticing the number of queries there are on this list from new users / potential users for an integrated Outlook -like component. I use OOo plus evolution. That seems to do everything. What integrated extra am I missing by no longer using my WindowsXP/MSOffice/Outlook?

Re: [users] Dumb e-mail question??

2007-04-09 Thread linuxmaillists
On Monday 09 April 2007, William Case wrote: Hi; I couldn't help noticing the number of queries there are on this list from new users / potential users for an integrated Outlook -like component. I use OOo plus evolution. That seems to do everything. What integrated extra am I missing by

Re: [users] Dumb e-mail question??

2007-04-09 Thread TerryJ
linuxmaillists wrote: On Monday 09 April 2007, William Case wrote: Hi; I couldn't help noticing the number of queries there are on this list from new users / potential users for an integrated Outlook -like component. I use OOo plus evolution. That seems to do everything. What

Re: [users] Dumb e-mail question??

2007-04-09 Thread linuxmaillists
On Monday 09 April 2007, TerryJ wrote: linuxmaillists wrote: On Monday 09 April 2007, William Case wrote: Hi; I couldn't help noticing the number of queries there are on this list from new users / potential users for an integrated Outlook -like component. I use OOo plus evolution.

Re: [users] Dumb e-mail question??

2007-04-09 Thread William Case
On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 19:18 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 09 April 2007, TerryJ wrote: linuxmaillists wrote: On Monday 09 April 2007, William Case wrote: Hi; I couldn't help noticing the number of queries there are on this list from new users / potential users for