Re: [ql-users] an [OT] favour

2003-08-16 Thread P Witte
Roy wood writes: > Sorry to continue an OT discussion here but you are wrong. You can go to > the Microsoft site and download the SP4. The pack you need to download > is the one for network users. This is because people with multiple > machine do not want to connect them individually to do the up

Re: [ql-users] an [OT] favour

2003-08-16 Thread P Witte
To my >I urgently need to install the latest service pack on my W2k machines! <> Thanks to all who responded. I am now sorted! Per

Re: [ql-users] an [OT] favour

2003-08-16 Thread Phoebus R. Dokos
On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 19:25:28 +0100, Tony Firshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 at 14:23:06, P Witte wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) I urgently need to install the latest service pack on my W2k machines! However, it is a 120+Mb download! and I dont have broadband. Would any o

Re: [ql-users] an [OT] favour

2003-08-16 Thread Tony Firshman
On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 at 20:06:26, Roy wood wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > >In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tony Firshman ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >>>I urgently need to install the latest service pack on my W2k machines! >>>However, it is a 120+Mb download! and I dont have broadband. Would

RE: [ql-users] QL2004

2003-08-16 Thread Duncan Neithercut
Absolutely correct autorun.inf is windows only -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dilwyn Jones Sent: 16 August 2003 14:16 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] QL2004 The autorun.inf only works on Windows systems though, surely? I d

Re: [ql-users] an [OT] favour

2003-08-16 Thread Roy wood
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tony Firshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes I urgently need to install the latest service pack on my W2k machines! However, it is a 120+Mb download! and I dont have broadband. Would any of you like to contact me about downloading this file onto a CD and sending it to m

Re: [ql-users] an [OT] favour

2003-08-16 Thread Dave Walker
Tony, That is not true - it is possible to get the complete SP as a single file. The full SP4 for W2K is 129Mb (I know because I have it !). This can then be applied to any flavour of W2K (workstation, server, advanced server). I agree if you are online, you can download a setup program that

Re: [ql-users] an [OT] favour

2003-08-16 Thread Tony Firshman
On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 at 14:23:06, P Witte wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > >I urgently need to install the latest service pack on my W2k machines! >However, it is a 120+Mb download! and I dont have broadband. Would any of >you like to contact me about downloading this file onto a CD and sendin

Re: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards

2003-08-16 Thread Tarquin Mills
Phoebus Dokos wrote: > ex ram1_lxx;'-m 32 -k ram1_vmlinux -r ram1_ramimg.gz -- root=/dev/ram" > > replace the "32" with the amount of memory you have on your system. Using my acorn I formatted 2 new floppies DOS 1.44MB (they came Mac formatted, which made them cheaper) then added lxx and vml

Re: [ql-users] QL Toady ?

2003-08-16 Thread Dilwyn Jones
> >> Norman Dunbar wrote: > >>> Tony Firshman wrote: > >>> > I got mine two days ago. > >>> Ah well, I live in what is laughingly called 'The North' - the Postie > >>> must take longer to get here ! > >> > >> When I was in Aberdeen the post was really slow, it took 2 weeks from > >> Surrey. I reme

Re: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards

2003-08-16 Thread Dilwyn Jones
> } I mean, it should just leak out the cut end shouldn't it ? :o) > > No, it never leak! > The signal propagates along the line, and when it reach the end of the line, > it partially reflect (just like waves do on harbour) and then propagate back, > crossing the new incoming signal... The bad thi

Re: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards - the Smoke Theory

2003-08-16 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Hey guys, didn't your mums and dads ever tell you not to smoke in public? Dilwyn Jones > Holy Smoke Batman ! > > - > Norman Dunbar

Re: [ql-users] QL2004

2003-08-16 Thread Dilwyn Jones
The autorun.inf only works on Windows systems though, surely? I don't mind adding an autorun.info which would boot iit into a DOS or Windows text viewer to show the readme.txt, that should be simple enough, I could even use the free Word viewer to boot the readme.doc file. Ideally needs to be m

[ql-users] an [OT] favour

2003-08-16 Thread P Witte
I urgently need to install the latest service pack on my W2k machines! However, it is a 120+Mb download! and I dont have broadband. Would any of you like to contact me about downloading this file onto a CD and sending it to me for a fiver or so? SOO unpatriotic and off-topic, I know, but I dont k