Re: [techtalk] hardware hassling me

2000-04-06 Thread sara korhonen
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Sarah Hollings wrote: > I love you!!! All fixed!! i just _had_ to reply on this one (even though i'm completely in a wrong forum for it etc.). it really makes me smile with these 'oh gods, it helped, IT'S WORKING, i love you guys!!!' emails. mostly maybe because i also

Re: [techtalk] Linux for Kids???

2000-04-06 Thread Renata
On Wednesday, April 05, 2000, 3:01:00 PM, you wrote: > Well this will -certainly- help me out. I don't know much about anything > when it comes to Linux, as I'm really new at it, so any help will be greatly > appreciated. I called Mindspring and a bunch of local ISPs, but nobody knew > what

Re: Re: [techtalk] Printer stairstepping

2000-04-06 Thread Jennifer Tippens
Hi Harry, I checked and he does have CRLFTRANS=1 in his textonly.cfg. Funny thing is that any of his KDE stuff (KDEmail, Knews, etc.) stair-steps also and I was not under the impression (but, hey, I could be wrong) that these were all text files. In fact, the only thing that prints correctly

[techtalk] mail filter inquiry...

2000-04-06 Thread Amy
We had an e-mail filter that would scan all e-mail attachments for viruses. The only trouble was, it would rename every .exe attachment to .defang. Having to explain to many clueless people how to rename the .exe files was just too much of a pain, so we turned off the filter. Does anyone have a

Re: Re: [techtalk] Printer stairstepping

2000-04-06 Thread Jeff
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 03:01:41PM +, Jennifer Tippens wrote: > Hi Harry, > I checked and he does have CRLFTRANS=1 in his textonly.cfg. Funny > thing is that any of his KDE stuff (KDEmail, Knews, etc.) stair-steps > also and I was not under the impression (but, hey, I could be wrong) > that t

Re: [techtalk] Printer stairstepping

2000-04-06 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 6-Apr-100 Re: Re: [techtalk] Printer .. by "Jennifer Tippens"@surfa > In fact, the only thing that prints correctly is netscape (and "Hey, > Anatoli, print it through Netscape" aint gonna cut it) My guess is that netscape stuff works because it's [post|ghost]script. You

Re: [techtalk] Re: [grrltalk] Linux for Kids???

2000-04-06 Thread Saska
[lurk mode off] For those of you who still wrestle with having both a Windows box and a Linux box - and who vastly prefer the latter for everything but one or two applications - I have been doing some contracting work with a company that has a pretty reasonable solution. (I don't actually work f

Re: [techtalk] Printer stairstepping

2000-04-06 Thread Jeff
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 02:51:28PM -0400, Laurel Fan wrote: > Excerpts from linuxchix: 6-Apr-100 Re: Re: [techtalk] Printer .. by > "Jennifer Tippens"@surfa > To actually fix this, the solution is to filter it though something > that adds carraige returns where appropriate (i think the printing >

Re: Re: Re: [techtalk] Printer stairstepping

2000-04-06 Thread Jennifer Tippens
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000 Jeff wrote: > Oh yeah, those are all going to print in plain text, at least the ones > you mentioned, but that still doesn't change the fact that the > textonly.cfg file doesn't exist on an SuSE install. The only reason his has one is because I copied mine over to his. I run

[techtalk] Re: [grrltalk] Linux for Kids???

2000-04-06 Thread Elizabeth Fallon
Sheryl Weidner wrote: >[lurk mode off] > >For those of you who still wrestle with having both a Windows box and a >Linux box - and who vastly prefer the latter for everything but one or two >applications - I have been doing some contracting work with a company that >has a pretty reasonable soluti

Re: [techtalk] Re: [grrltalk] Linux for Kids???

2000-04-06 Thread Saska
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Elizabeth Fallon wrote: > Sheryl Weidner wrote: > > > [deletia regarding win4lin] > > Sounds like a dream come true! However...I don't have Windows anymore. I > reformatted the drive, and now cannot get Windows back on it. Can I use > Win4Lin without having Windows in

Re: Re: Re: [techtalk] Printer stairstepping

2000-04-06 Thread Jeff
On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 07:54:49PM +, Jennifer Tippens wrote: > On Thu, 6 Apr 2000 Jeff wrote: > > > Oh yeah, those are all going to print in plain text, at least the ones > > you mentioned, but that still doesn't change the fact that the > > textonly.cfg file doesn't exist on an SuSE instal

Re: [techtalk] hardware hassling me

2000-04-06 Thread Tania M. Morell
I'm really happy that I was able to help. :) You're welcome!! -T Sarah Hollings wrote: > > I love you!!! All fixed!! > > There was a few different options in the bios to do with IDE, and > although there was no provision for doing exactly what you said, there > was this "IDE Channel 2 um

Re: [techtalk] argh! (gnumeric troubles)

2000-04-06 Thread Robert Kiesling
It looks like version skew. Gnome is still in development. Whether to re-install depends on whether you want to become a partner in Red Hat's development process. (If you haven't already thrown up your hands in despair, and re-installed.) I've heard great stuff about moodss, btw, if you don'