Re: [NF] I blame you

2008-12-03 Thread William Sanders / EFG
Nicholas - I use a 2 computer setup to retrieve files off a damaaged computer - 1. the damaged computer itself, with a knoppix live cd. 2. a shuttle xp computer 3. a wired router. So I boot #1, do the techniques I've described, and copy the files at #2, from #1, TO #2. HTH ! Mondo Regards

Re: [NF] I blame you! (was : The MS Experience, was:Thunderbird woes)

2008-12-01 Thread Alan Bourke
Are you running it in a Virtual PC machine? Because VPC doesn't support 24-bit colour so you have to edit xorg.conf before it boots, IIRC ... -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

Re: [NF] I blame you!

2008-12-01 Thread Nicholas Geti
, November 29, 2008 3:19 PM Subject: Re: [NF] I blame you! I like live CDs a lot. I use em mostly to recover data on machines that winders claims won't boot. I am a fan of Knoppix. Have you tried Knoppix? www.knoppix.org Mondo Regards [Bill

Re: [NF] I blame you!

2008-12-01 Thread William Sanders / EFG
Nicholas Getis said, The help for Knoppix says right up front that one should not use it to write files on drives with NTFS format. It may scramble your folders. This leaves out working with Windows XP. Hey ! Who said anything about mounting that file system to be read/write? Ya DON'T scramble

Re: [NF] I blame you!

2008-12-01 Thread William Sanders / EFG
Nicholas Getis said, The help for Knoppix says right up front that one should not use it to write files on drives with NTFS format. It may scramble your folders. This leaves out working with Windows XP. Hey ! Who said anything about mounting that file system to be read/write? Ya DON'T scramble

Re: [NF] I blame you!

2008-12-01 Thread Nicholas Geti
- Original Message - From: William Sanders / EFG [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: profox@leafe.com Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 11:33 AM Subject: Re: [NF] I blame you! Nicholas Getis said, The help for Knoppix says right up front that one should not use it to write files on drives with NTFS

Re: [NF] I blame you! (was : The MS Experience, was:Thunderbird woes)

2008-12-01 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Alan Bourke wrote: Are you running it in a Virtual PC machine? Because VPC doesn't support 24-bit colour so you have to edit xorg.conf before it boots, IIRC ... No, just a live CD for now. ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription

Re: [NF] I blame you!

2008-12-01 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
. - Original Message - From: William Sanders / EFG [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: profox@leafe.com Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2008 3:19 PM Subject: Re: [NF] I blame you! I like live CDs a lot. I use em mostly to recover data on machines that winders claims won't boot. I am a fan of Knoppix

Re: [NF] I blame you!

2008-12-01 Thread Nicholas Geti
- Original Message - From: Ricardo Aráoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ProFox Email List profox@leafe.com Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 5:55 PM Subject: Re: [NF] I blame you! Nicholas Geti wrote: The help for Knoppix says right up front that one should not use it to write files

Re: [NF] I blame you!

2008-12-01 Thread Ted Roche
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Ricardo Aráoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At least once a day, I turn to my partner in the office and confess, I hate computers. As I recall, it was about four times this Friday. Only once a day? Man, you love your job! Strangely enough, I do. I have a

RE: [NF] I blame you!

2008-12-01 Thread Geoff Flight
AM To: profox@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF] I blame you! On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Ricardo Aráoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At least once a day, I turn to my partner in the office and confess, I hate computers. As I recall, it was about four times this Friday. Only once a day? Man, you

Re: [NF] I blame you!

2008-12-01 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Of Ted Roche Sent: Tuesday, 2 December 2008 9:22 AM To: profox@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF] I blame you! On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Ricardo Aráoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At least once a day, I turn to my partner in the office and confess, I hate computers. As I recall, it was about four

Re: [NF] I blame you!

2008-12-01 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: Tuesday, 2 December 2008 9:22 AM To: profox@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF] I blame you! On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Ricardo Aráoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At least once a day, I turn to my partner in the office

Re: [NF] I blame you!

2008-11-30 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
William Sanders / EFG wrote: I like live CDs a lot. I use em mostly to recover data on machines that winders claims won't boot. I am a fan of Knoppix. Have you tried Knoppix? www.knoppix.org Mondo Regards [Bill] PS - Ya, I'm an old hand, My First SlackWare install was in 92, spent 4

Re: [NF] I blame you!

2008-11-29 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Ted Roche wrote: I blame you, too! Mmmm... I think you may have taken this the wrong way, or I didn't sufficiently convey my meaning. It was intended tongue in cheek. It was late at night, had been working all day, and was trying this live CD and getting ugly results. So I was reacting like

Re: [NF] I blame you!

2008-11-29 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Ok, I thought the screen going wacko was some foolish thing I did. It seems that Ubuntu does not support any more the nvidia geforce2 video card and with the new ATI/AMD controller for linux liberated on 8/21 it might have some issues. When I changed some settings in the desktop options it went

Re: [NF] I blame you!

2008-11-29 Thread William Sanders / EFG
I like live CDs a lot. I use em mostly to recover data on machines that winders claims won't boot. I am a fan of Knoppix. Have you tried Knoppix? www.knoppix.org Mondo Regards [Bill] PS - Ya, I'm an old hand, My First SlackWare install was in 92, spent 4 days 'making the floppies'. --

Re: [NF] I blame you!

2008-11-29 Thread Ted Roche
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 6:40 AM, Ricardo Aráoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mmmm... I think you may have taken this the wrong way, or I didn't sufficiently convey my meaning. It was intended tongue in cheek. And I replied in kind. Email is a medium for promoting and amplifying misunderstandings,

Re: [NF] I blame you!

2008-11-29 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Ted Roche wrote: On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 6:40 AM, Ricardo Aráoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mmmm... I think you may have taken this the wrong way, or I didn't sufficiently convey my meaning. It was intended tongue in cheek. And I replied in kind. Email is a medium for promoting and

Re: [NF] I blame you! (was : The MS Experience, was:Thunderbird woes)

2008-11-28 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
So you people got me winded on KUbuntu, and seeing the last one I tried was 8.04 I thought I'd give 8.10 a try. So I download it, burn a cd and boot. Beautiful! I love the new looks but no wireless. Shit! So I start snooping around and I get to the desktop settings, do a couple of changes and

Re: [NF] I blame you!

2008-11-28 Thread Ted Roche
I blame you, too! On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Ricardo Aráoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So you people got me winded on KUbuntu, and seeing the last one I tried was 8.04 I thought I'd give 8.10 a try. So I download it, burn a cd and boot. Beautiful! I love the new looks but no wireless.

RE: [NF] I blame you!

2008-11-28 Thread Rick Schummer
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: Friday, November 28, 2008 10:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [NF] I blame you! I blame you, too! On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Ricardo Aráoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So you people got