Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Made Easy: a modest suggestion for Windows users[linux , what sucks ?]

2002-11-16 Thread Leon Brooks
On Friday 15 November 2002 05:36 pm, Buchan Milne wrote: If business didn't need multimedia, Windows Media player wouldn't be in Windows 2000 Pro. I agreed with the rest of your post, but `Microsoft thinks you need a thing' is far from sufficient justification for `businesses need this thing'.

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Made Easy: a modest suggestion for Windows users[linux , what sucks ?]

2002-11-15 Thread Michael Scherer
Hello? quicktime movie in powerpoint? Do you never give presentations which need animations? Engineering shops need this. I'm sorry, I 'm just a student. And I do presentations, but never so sophisticated. DivX could also be useful in this regard, and I am sure there are business

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Made Easy: a modest suggestion for Windows users[linux , what sucks ?]

2002-11-15 Thread Michael Scherer
But the point is to develop a opensource dvd player is not possible, thanks to movie maker. Not impossible, just illegal in some countries. It's legal here (for example). Mmh, when you say some coutry, you speaks of this country just below Canada ? This country who arrest people in some

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Made Easy: a modest suggestion for Windows users[linux , what sucks ?]

2002-11-15 Thread Michael Scherer
By talking of university, is the free software situation as bad in my old school ? We only had Windows NT, and some old sparc station. And some students in a engineer school in France were not happy about that situation, ( in their school ). not sure about the hardware, but I know one

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Made Easy: a modest suggestion for Windows users[linux , what sucks ?]

2002-11-14 Thread Oden Eriksson
torsdagen den 14 november 2002 13.08 skrev Faraj Meir: 1 ) to get the register ( easy, these file are well known , system.dat, and user.dat ) No problem 2 ) to read it ( difficult part ), and to get the information on a simple format. 3 ) To found the useful info. Not to difficult,

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Made Easy: a modest suggestion for Windows users[linux , what sucks ?]

2002-11-14 Thread andre
On Thursday 14 November 2002 13:17, Oden Eriksson wrote: torsdagen den 14 november 2002 13.08 skrev Faraj Meir: 1 ) to get the register ( easy, these file are well known , system.dat, and user.dat ) No problem 2 ) to read it ( difficult part ), and to get the information on a

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Made Easy: a modest suggestion for Windows users[linux , what sucks ?]

2002-11-14 Thread Wim Horst
Op donderdag 14 november 2002 13:08, schreef Guy.Bormann: On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Faraj Meir wrote: Somoen mentinned a tool called tranfugdrake, which do this. After all, it could be a great thing no ? So, what is the point of moving to Linux then, if Windows is so wonderful and Linux

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Made Easy: a modest suggestion for Windows users[linux , what sucks ?]

2002-11-14 Thread Michael Scherer
The point is Mandrake wants to make money, therefore they need bigger install base, therefore they need to make windows users transfer to linux, therefore what keeps windows users from using linux, therefore try to imagine what do we need to add or change. If you want to do money, i think it

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Made Easy: a modest suggestion for Windows users[linux , what sucks ?]

2002-11-14 Thread Michael Scherer
Therefore, there is no need for all these fancy multimedia application. Some real businesses need multi-media. We do (animations from simulations). In fact, that's probably one of the big reasons we don't make more use of OpenOffice, and have to use Powerpoint for some presentations. I

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Made Easy: a modest suggestion for Windows users[linux , what sucks ?]

2002-11-14 Thread Michael Scherer
actually, flash / quicktime are the best multimedia tools for selling, they make powerpoint presentations look backwards and clunky. the fancy multimedia is where the prospective clients will be wowed into buying your service / product. you put together such a fantastic presentation your

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Made Easy: a modest suggestion for Windows users[linux , what sucks ?]

2002-11-13 Thread Michael Scherer
I think that porting their configuration to linux option is a good thing: like their favorite folder , their mails , mail folders , config... , shortcut to my Document networks setting (adsl connection lan etc)... User that got all thingy better and unchanged a lot would be ported to

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Made Easy: a modest suggestion for Windows users[linux , what sucks ?]

2002-11-13 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 22:09, Faraj Meir wrote: I know I speak for windows user what do not want to use command line at all and that do not know what is plf (why ask him to know that plf exist , it is not mentionned officially ...) contrib it's hard for a windows user it's just the

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Made Easy: a modest suggestion for Windows users[linux , what sucks ?]

2002-11-13 Thread Michael Scherer
On other thing , you can use flash without paying 350 euros to Macromedia, I mean, if you are honest. search : http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=flash+macromediasection=projects Oh, i'm sorry, I didn't reread my mail, i ve said that you can't do flash without paying. And, in fact, it is not

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Made Easy: a modest suggestion for Windows users[linux , what sucks ?]

2002-11-13 Thread Levi Ramsey
On Wed Nov 13 20:29 -0800, J. Greenlees wrote: reading the configuration files from windows at install of LM isn't as simple as it sounds.. with the weirdness in the different windows versions. and the xp ntfs that isn't read by linux yet. NTFS can be read fine. It can't be written. --

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Made Easy: a modest suggestion for Windows users[linux , what sucks ?]

2002-11-13 Thread Michael Scherer
reading the configuration files from windows at install of LM isn't as simple as it sounds.. with the weirdness in the different windows versions. and the xp ntfs that isn't read by linux yet. ntfs is ready on read only, i use it on a daily basis, no problem. I even get it to write one day (