Mod: DEAD HORSE (was: Updating TB! - Knoppix on HDD, Wine and pretas, ghouls and other monsters)

2006-12-13 Thread Roelof Otten
Hallo Jernej, On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 10:08:51 +0100GMT (13-12-2006, 10:08 +0200, where I live), you wrote: JS> Modern Linux distributions let you do as you please. For a typical home Note: This moderator's interjection is a note to all readers and not just to the person being replied to, even if t

Re: Updating TB! - Knoppix on HDD, Wine and pretas, ghouls and other monsters

2006-12-13 Thread Jernej Simončič
On Wednesday, December 13, 2006, 0:55:22, Mica Mijatovic wrote: > Yes, they do that too, and in various ways. Basically, the entire > "administration" can be (and indeed is, by more advanced, "demanding", > "weird" users) divided into much more specialized sectors, and perhaps > best example is th

Re: Updating TB! - Knoppix on HDD, Wine and pretas, ghouls and other monsters

2006-12-12 Thread Mica Mijatovic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA224 ***^\ ."_)~~ ~( __ _"o Was another beautiful day, Tue, 12 Dec 2006, @ @ at 15:09:59 +, when MFPA wrote: >> This schema with three main partitions (OS | Programs | >> Data/Documents) is the best/safest way. Many professionals f

Re: Updating TB!

2006-12-12 Thread Alexander S. Kunz
Hello MFPA & everyone else, on 12-Dez-2006 at 15:51 you (MFPA) wrote: >> You need to do that whatever check for some of the downloads. The >> check is done either with an ActiveX control in IE, or with a >> stand-alone program when you're using other browsers. Always worked >> for me. > Does tha

Re: Updating TB! - Knoppix on HDD, Wine and pretas, ghouls and other monsters

2006-12-12 Thread MFPA
Hi On Friday 8 December 2006 at 2:49:10 PM, in , Mica Mijatovic wrote: > This schema with three main partitions (OS | Programs | Data/Documents) > is the best/safest way. Many professionals find it as best solution too. > Often is done further division of the Data as well (e.g. private, > busines

Re: Updating TB!

2006-12-12 Thread MFPA
Hi On Wednesday 6 December 2006 at 6:54:16 PM, in , Alexander S. Kunz wrote: > You need to do that whatever check for some of the > downloads. The check is done either with an ActiveX control in IE, or > with a stand-alone program when you're using other browsers. Always > worked for me. Does th

Re: Updating TB! - Knoppix on HDD, Wine and pretas, ghouls and other monsters

2006-12-09 Thread Mica Mijatovic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA224 ***^\ ."_)~~ ~( __ _"o Was another beautiful day, Fri, 8 Dec 2006, @ @ at 17:56:29 -0600, when Douglas Hinds wrote: >> This schema with three main partitions (OS | Programs | >> Data/Documents) is the best/safest way. Many profess

Re: Updating TB! - Knoppix on HDD, Wine and pretas, ghouls and other monsters

2006-12-08 Thread Douglas Hinds
Hello Mica, >> However - Knoppix 5.5.1 is not there. > Sorry for making you busy for nothing It wasn't for nothing and didn't take long. > and confused, Confused? Never! > it was my typo, and even twice. I espied it but was too late. So, > the 5.0.1 is most recent version, 5.5.1 doesn't exis

Re: Updating TB! - Knoppix on HDD, Wine and pretas, ghouls and other monsters

2006-12-08 Thread Mica Mijatovic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA224 ***^\ ."_)~~ ~( __ _"o Was another beautiful day, Fri, 8 Dec 2006, @ @ at 23:31:30 +, when Benedict Allen wrote: > Howdy Mica, > Friday, December 8, 2006, 2:49:10 PM, Mica wrotened: >>> Knoppix runs from a CD. I have an olde

Re: Updating TB! - Knoppix on HDD, Wine and pretas, ghouls and other monsters

2006-12-08 Thread Mica Mijatovic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA224 ***^\ ."_)~~ ~( __ _"o Was another beautiful day, Fri, 8 Dec 2006, @ @ at 17:56:29 -0600, when Douglas Hinds wrote: > However - Knoppix 5.5.1 is not there. Sorry for making you busy for nothing and confused, it was my typo, and e

Re: Updating TB!

2006-12-08 Thread Urban
Wednesday, December 6, 2006, Mary Bull wrote: > But MSI won't allow me to drop back. I'd have to do a full uninstall > plus reinstall to do that. And it's too much hassle. MSI has an option to repair "if file is missing or a different version is installed". So it /might/ work. Try going to Start

Re[2]: Updating TB! - Knoppix on HDD, Wine and pretas, ghouls and other monsters

2006-12-08 Thread Douglas Hinds
Hello Mica, DH>> That's why I have my OS's and Applications in different partitions. DH>> (Data too). > This schema with three main partitions (OS | Programs | Data/Documents) > is the best/safest way. Many professionals find it as best solution too. > Often is done further division of the Data

Re: Updating TB! - Knoppix on HDD, Wine and pretas, ghouls and other monsters

2006-12-08 Thread Benedict Allen
Howdy Mica, Friday, December 8, 2006, 2:49:10 PM, Mica wrotened: >> Knoppix runs from a CD. I have an older version (3.6) of it. MM> Knoppix also can be installed quite easily to hard disk as well (the MM> easiest Linux installation actually, but is not very known, taking about MM> 20 minutes an

Re: Updating TB! - Knoppix on HDD, Wine and pretas, ghouls and other monsters

2006-12-08 Thread Mica Mijatovic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA224 ***^\ ."_)~~ ~( __ _"o Was another beautiful day, Thu, 7 Dec 2006, @ @ at 18:40:46 -0600, when Douglas Hinds wrote: DH>>> B Gates could be the devil. >> Well, the impulse to control/"rule" just everything and yet due to >> greedi

Re: Updating TB!

2006-12-07 Thread Douglas Hinds
MM>>> And when I tried a v. 3.85 MSI install, Windows told me it MM>>> could not do that. DH>> B Gates could be the devil. > Well, the impulse to control/"rule" just everything and yet due to > greediness is a demonic property, yes. Some call them "hungry spirits", Insatiable and born and raise

Re: Updating TB!

2006-12-07 Thread Mica Mijatovic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA224 ***^\ ."_)~~ ~( __ _"o Was another beautiful day, Wed, 6 Dec 2006, @ @ at 15:28:33 -0600, when Douglas Hinds wrote: >> And when I tried a v. 3.85 MSI install, Windows told me it could not >> do that. > B Gates could be the devil.

Re: Updating TB!

2006-12-06 Thread Mary Bull
Hello Douglas! On Wednesday, December 06, 2006, 3:28 PM, you wrote: > ... substitute the old thebat.exe file with the new one. I recall > that this used to work for most previous TB! uogrades, and there was > also an ftp access with zip files on the ritlab site. ... I could send you PM the beta

Re[2]: Updating TB!

2006-12-06 Thread Douglas Hinds
Hello Alexander, Wednesday, December 6, 2006, 12:54:16 PM, you wrote: > Well, I recently updated to FF2.0 - and realised then that I should have > removed the old 1.5 installation before. I did that afterwards, and now > half of the FF2.0 installation is a mess (I think I have to install 2.0 >

Re[2]: Updating TB!

2006-12-06 Thread Douglas Hinds
Hello Mary, Mica, Alex and anyone else following this thread. >>> You could try to make a full backup from within TB, uninstall the >>> program completely, and then reinstall from the new MSI (and then >>> restore the backup) to cure the problem once and for all. >> Unless the problem is with m

Re[2]: Updating TB!

2006-12-06 Thread Douglas Hinds
Hello Mica, Wednesday, December 6, 2006, 10:38:52 AM, you wrote: >> And Winrar still says the file is corrupt. > Give up the Winrar, it can't deal with .msi files. Maybe the latest version does. >>> Then you'll see thebat.exe inside, so you can just drag and drop >>> it where you wish. >> You

Re: Updating TB!

2006-12-06 Thread Alexander S. Kunz
Hello Mary Bull & everyone else, on 06-Dez-2006 at 20:10 you (Mary Bull) wrote: >> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301 > What's your opinion of this warning at that website page: Well, its there for a reason. :-) MSI keeps a database of installed programs (well, those programs that were ins

Re: Updating TB!

2006-12-06 Thread Mary Bull
Hello Alexander! On Wednesday, December 06, 2006, 10:28 AM, you wrote: > the MSI cleanup utility from > Microsoft. It can check the database of MSI installations and remove > entries without actually uninstalling the program. > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301 What's your opinion of this

Re: Updating TB!

2006-12-06 Thread Alexander S. Kunz
Hello Douglas Hinds & everyone else, on 06-Dez-2006 at 18:06 you (Douglas Hinds) wrote: >> Something may be corrupt with the MSI installation procedure. Early >> MSI releases of TB had some problems if I remember correct. > You mean TB!3? Yes. I think v2 was not distributed in MSI packages. >>

Re: Updating TB! -- TB with Linux

2006-12-06 Thread Mica Mijatovic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA224 ***^\ ."_)~~ ~( __ _"o Was another beautiful day, Wed, 6 Dec 2006, @ @ at 11:06:04 -0600, when Douglas Hinds wrote: > Is anyone using TB! with Linux? It is significantly slower in Linux, still, and not quite proportional in some

Re: Updating TB!

2006-12-06 Thread Mary Bull
Hello Douglas! On Wednesday, December 06, 2006, 11:06 AM, you wrote: >>> I am using TB! Pro v. 3.51.10 on WinXP with no service packs and >>> when I double click on the file thebat_pro_3-85-03.msi the >>> computer enters a loop that requires me to reboot. >> Something may be corrupt with the MSI

Re[2]: Updating TB!

2006-12-06 Thread Douglas Hinds
Hello Alexander et. al., Wednesday, December 6, 2006, 10:28:16 AM, you wrote: >> I am using TB! Pro v. 3.51.10 on WinXP with no service packs and >> when I double click on the file thebat_pro_3-85-03.msi the >> computer enters a loop that requires me to reboot. > Something may be corrupt with t

Re: Updating TB!

2006-12-06 Thread Mica Mijatovic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA224 ***^\ ."_)~~ ~( __ _"o Was another beautiful day, Wed, 6 Dec 2006, @ @ at 09:00:52 -0600, when Douglas Hinds wrote: >> If you use Total Commander, you can open .msi files using Commander's >> plugin (msi.wcx). > I also downloaded

Re: Updating TB!

2006-12-06 Thread Alexander S. Kunz
Hello Douglas Hinds & everyone else, on 06-Dez-2006 at 13:30 you (Douglas Hinds) wrote: > I am using TB! Pro v. 3.51.10 on WinXP with no service packs and > when I double click on the file thebat_pro_3-85-03.msi the computer > enters a loop that requires me to reboot. Something may be corrupt wi

Re[2]: Updating TB!

2006-12-06 Thread Douglas Hinds
Hi Mica, Thanks for the tip. Wednesday, December 6, 2006, I wrote: >> I am using TB! Pro v. 3.51.10 on WinXP with no service packs and >> when I double click on the file thebat_pro_3-85-03.msi the >> computer enters a loop that requires me to reboot. Is another >> type

Re: Updating TB!

2006-12-06 Thread Mica Mijatovic
ile thebat_pro_3-85-03.msi the computer enters > a loop that requires me to reboot. Is another type of file for > updating TB! available and if so, where? Previously (I've used TB° > since v. 1.35), some updates were able to be realized by replacing the > principle .exe file only.

Updating TB!

2006-12-06 Thread Douglas Hinds
I am using TB! Pro v. 3.51.10 on WinXP with no service packs and when I double click on the file thebat_pro_3-85-03.msi the computer enters a loop that requires me to reboot. Is another type of file for updating TB! available and if so, where? Previously (I've used TB° since v. 1.35),