Re: Moving from XP and looking for replacement programs

2004-04-22 Thread Jerry Turba
Micha Feigin wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 09:22:20AM +0300, Kristian Niemi wrote: Is there a GUI available? I'm also thinking of switching a relatives computer from win 98 to debian, and currently the only obstacle is ... access. And perhaps I could learn mySQL, but she /really/ doesn't wan

Re: Moving from XP and looking for replacement programs

2004-04-22 Thread William Ballard
> On Tuesday, 20 Apr 2004 14:22, Kristian Niemi wrote: > > > Is there a linux equivalent to Access (i.e. an *easy to use*, > > preferrably WYSIWYG, database-program)? My program is not in any way an Access replacement yet, but I wrote it to be a MSAccess substitute. The design goals were: suppo

Re: Moving from XP and looking for replacement programs

2004-04-22 Thread Alexander Nordström
On Tuesday, 20 Apr 2004 14:22, Kristian Niemi wrote: > Is there a linux equivalent to Access (i.e. an *easy to use*, > preferrably WYSIWYG, database-program)? http://www.unixodbc.org/doc/OOoMySQL9.pdf (PDF, 1.5 MiB) http://216.239.53.104/search?q=cache:www.unixodbc.org/doc/OOoMySQL9.pdf (Google

Re: Moving from XP and looking for replacement programs

2004-04-21 Thread Wesley J Landaker
On Tuesday 20 April 2004 12:43 pm, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 09:22:20AM +0300, Kristian Niemi wrote: > > Is there a GUI available? I'm also thinking of switching a > > relatives computer from win 98 to debian, and currently the only > > obstacle is ... access. And perhaps I coul

Re: Moving from XP and looking for replacement programs

2004-04-21 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 09:22:20AM +0300, Kristian Niemi wrote: > Is there a GUI available? I'm also thinking of switching a relatives > computer from win 98 to debian, and currently the only obstacle is ... > access. And perhaps I could learn mySQL, but she /really/ doesn't want to. > > What sh

Re: Moving from XP and looking for replacement programs

2004-04-19 Thread Kristian Niemi
Is there a GUI available? I'm also thinking of switching a relatives computer from win 98 to debian, and currently the only obstacle is ... access. And perhaps I could learn mySQL, but she /really/ doesn't want to. What she needs isn't really a superb database-program, but a `ok'-database-progr

Re: Moving from XP and looking for replacement programs

2004-04-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 05:49:45PM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: > On 04/17/04 10:00, Penbrock wrote: > >I want to make the jump from XP to Debian with KDE. I have a few programs I > >am trying to find Linux replacements for and am having a hard time. Can > >anyone help me find replacements for these pr

Re: Moving from XP and looking for replacement programs

2004-04-19 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 01:30, Kristian Niemi wrote: --snip-- > One thing for which I'm still searching for though, is some equivalent > to Microsoft Access. OpenOffice works beautifully, taking care of > everything else Office used to do -- and in most parts succeeding quite > well -- but I haven

Re: Moving from XP and looking for replacement programs

2004-04-19 Thread Kristian Niemi
I moved from XP some months ago. For the most part the transition really went more smoothly than I had expected -- probably because I started using opensource software on XP, before I switched. If you're just checking your own mail, you might want to check out Mozilla Thunderbird instead of set

Re: Moving from XP and looking for replacement programs

2004-04-18 Thread Nicolaus Kedegren
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 05:49:45PM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: > On 04/17/04 10:00, Penbrock wrote: > >I want to make the jump from XP to Debian with KDE. I have a few programs I > >am trying to find Linux replacements for and am having a hard time. Can > >anyone help me find replacements for these pr

Re: Moving from XP and looking for replacement programs

2004-04-18 Thread Dave Carrigan
On 04/17/04 10:00, Penbrock wrote: >Creative PlayStation ( Used to rip audio CDs) cdrecord >Weather Bug (Local weather on the task bar) kweather >MailWasher (anti spam program) Lots. What kind of filtering do you want to do? Bayesian, rules-based, blacklist, server side, client side, etc. >

Re: Moving from XP and looking for replacement programs

2004-04-18 Thread Josh Metzler
On Sunday 18 April 2004 05:49 pm, Ralph Katz wrote: > On 04/17/04 10:00, Penbrock wrote: > > I want to make the jump from XP to Debian with KDE. I have a few > > programs I am trying to find Linux replacements for and am having a > > hard time. Can anyone help me find replacements for these program

Re: Moving from XP and looking for replacement programs

2004-04-18 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 05:49:45PM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: > On 04/17/04 10:00, Penbrock wrote: > >I want to make the jump from XP to Debian with KDE. I have a few programs I > >am trying to find Linux replacements for and am having a hard time. Can > >anyone help me find replacements for these pr

Re: Moving from XP and looking for replacement programs

2004-04-18 Thread Ralph Katz
On 04/17/04 10:00, Penbrock wrote: I want to make the jump from XP to Debian with KDE. I have a few programs I am trying to find Linux replacements for and am having a hard time. Can anyone help me find replacements for these programs? NewsRover (Auto download messages and attachments from selected