[Hobbies]

i collect clocks and have done it for 12 years.

my daughter who works on a cruise ship as a purser gets them for me all round the world.

i have one here battery operated of elvis playing the guitar and shaking his hips .

ive been offerd a considerable sum for it .if i was younger i may have sold it but at my age money dosent worry me any more

like tictoc i play the guitar perhaps not as good as him but i play all forms of music.

for my own pleasure.

funny thing when i was younger i wouldnt have thought of collecting things.

im more of a horder than a collector.im also a horse lover .

my family are famous in my country for horse racing im not a big better but do have the occasional fling.

i dont like to see them get flogged with a whip

marty

[Linux Help Board]

ive joined a linux help board.

and the color and format is exactly the same as this one

when i first joined i thought hey i must be at besttechie

ive only posted once but didnt get an answer yet.

hey i like this color

i havent got the best of sight so it suits me fine

marty

[Bill Melanson]

hi bill mallenson is a regular member of www.worldstart.com

and his user name is MRBILL

tommy baseball is also there

marty

[Trend Micro News Letter]

hi team havent been on the board for some time so im not sure if this has been posted or not

take care out there.

marty

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WORM_MUGLY.A is a non-destructive mass-mailing worm that arrives via

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[Mandrake9.1]

hi team at last ive installed mandrake 9.1 this time on a stand alone and not with winxp

but ive found the same problem as before it wont auto detect my modem nor my sound card.

i have an isa sound card.and in th startup configuration it asked me if i had an isa card and i checked that box.but it said i need to start. SNDCONFIG.im lost here .

and the modem when i had mandrake on my sys before i had to configure the modem manually.so where do i go to do that .

nearly 2 years since i had it on so my memory isnt as good now as it was then.

besides the compny who sold me the modem helped me to configure the modem.to operate.

but that was only a oncer so i need your help now.

i hope this board can help

marty

[Knoppix Disk]

i had mandrake 9.1 on an earlier compt but i didnt have enough resources.

so i bought a 10 and a 20 geg hdds.

which meant i had to change my sys.

i hadto buy a modem compatable to linux it wouldnt recognise win modems

the company i bought the modem off helped me to configure it into my sys.

then the sys wouldnt recognise my sound card.so i had to buy a sound card compatable to linux.

so buy this time i was wondering how much more hardware i needed to buy to get this sys to work.

so you see how frustrating it was becomming.

ok i realised mandrake was free but it was becomming apparent the hard ware wasnt free.but at that time there wasnt any one on the techtv boards to tell us that.

and of course my worry was how much more hardware did i have to replace .

to get it working.so i so stopped perservereing with it and stuck to winxp.

i like win xp but i also liked mandrake.

and once they established the linux help board here.

i thought it would be.great to have some one to help me .

that of course remains in the future.i know several poster like me who abandoned the idea of using linux and wont attempt it again.

so at the time i wasnt the only one.

tho in my case id like to try again

marty

[Linux]

hey tictoc5150

thanks ,ive had these mandrake disks since the days of techtv cfh and tss .so its been a frustrating time for me.

my worry is the stand alone, i aim to put mandrake on.

a 4.5 hdd and 64 megs of ram.and i wondered if this was enough resources .

tho i intend to icrease the ram once i am up and running.

back to knoppix

ive tried to access this cd for over 3 weeks.and it was going through the process of booting then i was getting an error screen .

i was trying to read the error message to send into the forum

then yesterday i inserted the disk i hadnt realised i was off line.

and bingo the knoppix home page came up.and i was in i cant tell you why this happened .ive tried several times and it lets me in off line .so i dont intend to push my luck.

do you think when on line xp aborts the knoppix access.

marty

[Linux]

On a side note I read at Mandrake's website that Mandrake 10.1 is due to be released in November.  I think I'll try it when it's posted on the mirrors.

hi hitest

i have a spare compt here so ive decided to install mandrake 9.1 on the 4.5 hdd .my Q once mandrake 10.1 is avaiable can i install over the top of 9.1 or do i need to uninstall the old one.

im new to this and i need advice.

also to install mandrake 9.1 on to a drive with another OS

will the mandrake disks allow me to delete the partition of the other OS

or do i need to down load mandrake floppys .and fdisk and format

thanks

marty

[Linux]

for several days i havent been able to get into my knoppix disk it was displaying an error.

to day i tried it 3 times .

and now i inserted the disk and the knoppix home page came up what ide been trying to get for 3 days.

the mystry is i wasnt on line when i inserted the disk .so does any one think i need to be off line first. then go on line when the knoppiux home page comes up. im on line now so every thing seems to be ok.

this has been frustrating for me and it has made me angry

and so ive been short with some of the posters

which i regret. now i realise most people try to help .

but when there are times we get frustrated.

but just now ive acheived what ive been trying to do for some time now .

so thanks all

marty

[Sultan]

thanks team ile go over there

marty

[Emisoft]

hey barb i just went and unscribed to those emisoft news letter.just click on the link if you want to.

marty

[Sultan]

has any one seen a post from sultan in the last 2 days.

ive looked here and g4 .

but there is nary a sign

marty

[Hushmail]

when i first read the post it looked as tho the poster wanted to send an email but didnt want the reciever to know who it was from.

so wanted to know where do you get a hush mail program from.

some one posted dodgeit.

i didnt know a hush mail program existed so i was a bit puzzled whith the post

marty

[Emisoft]

Hi Marty:

I got the same thing. It is from "A Squared"  Emisoft must the actual company that has it.

I subscribed to their newsletter. You must have too.

Barb

yes i must have subscribed when i was at techtv cfh

ive reinstalled twice since then. cant remember it, but i see they used my user name.so some where i must have used my name.

however when it comes to a virus we cant be to careful.

tho i have to admit ive only had 2viruses once at c.f.h

and once here.or at g4.but my scanner went mad and i got rid of it before it did any damage.but for the life of me i cant remember emisoft.

those days i used to go into all sites in spite of pete and daves warnings

but it has rubbed of me now and i try to surf safe.

marty.

[Il_wiccan]

hi il

how do you recover the sound icon from the notification in win 98

a friend is haveing this trouble .weve been in to check the box.in sound options and it is greyed out.

so i presume it is either a driver or needs to have the volume control program reinstalled.i can do it in winxp but not win 98.

marty

the sys says the driver is ok.

so the volume program needs to be reinstalled

or expanded like you posted for me in xp

[Emisoft]

hi team this was in my in box so i cant vouch for its guiness

nor do i know who emisoft is.

ive scanned it with avg and avast and both come up clean.

but i thought it should be posted in case

marty

Dear marty,

Warning! Worm.Win32.Sober.I!

The latest version of the Sober worm is spreading fast. As with it's predecessors, Sober.I

spreads by email attachments. The email text suggests that it is an error message from the

mailserver and the undelivery report is attached.

Current email clients like Outlook or Outlook Express are able to block harmful file

extensions like EXE, COM or SCR, but Sober.I sometimes comes packed in a ZIP file to

bypass outlook security. The ZIP file itself is not harmful, but the content inside (an

executable file with variable file name) contains the worm and must not be opened!

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[Knoppix Disk]

sorry about my replys

i find linux frustrating .poster after poster come on to the board.and say there is nothing to it.like in my first post.

i say it is not user friendly.

dont worry i experimented with it.

2-3 years ago.

and ive posted on all the boards on how to combat it .

when i first got the knoppix disk.

i went to my library to try and study it

and the developers said it wasnt for ordinary users it was developed more for

the techniachly minded .

im not technicaly minded .

so i class it as not user friendly.

what is wrong with that statement.

when i bought mandrake 9.1

the problem was the same xp wouldnt wouldnt allow the boot loader .

and mandrake dissapeared off my compt .

and no where on my comt oud i find any reference to mandrake .

i posted on c,f,h tss .and g4 when we shifted here .

and when i posted i get a hostile bunch of posts .

so my time with linux is over.

the post in this thread shows how how frustrating it can be no wonder it will never replace win.tho it may be a better.OS but only people like your selves can use it

marty

[Linux]

hi team i havent been able to get back to this thread for some time how ever ive printed out all the posts so i can follow the instructions.my im pleased with the response .and it will help me so much.

thanks all

marty

[Hushmail]

those signs are called ~~~ tildes and usually appear when you configure

your address book at least that is what petecovell posted and explained.

the poster was a new memeber. who with drew the posts.

maybe i upset him with my post if so i didnt mean to.he may have taken it the wrong way hope he comes back.or may be it is a she.

marty

[Knoppix Disk]

i dont give a s---t what you think of my post ive posted the problem 8- 9 times and if the sys was as well used as you spout why havent i got an answer.

one thing i wont be using any linux sys after this.

isnt user freindly.

only for some one with tech knowledge.

and most important you have to know how to use the console.

in front of me i have the history of linux

and no where does it say FOR THE ORDINARY USER

it says for the tech minded.

marty.

[Interesting Reading]

hi team ive just been to world start board .

and i discovered this, it is worth reading so make your own mind up

marty

try this

[Knoppix Disk]

hi team ihave this knoppix disk which ive had for 1-2 years

when i first got it i was able to get in and access it .but now i get an error message in the console screen .and i cant seem to access it.

freezes my screen and i have to power off.i use winxp pro

so does any one think this is the reason i cant get in there .

or am i not typing the right command to get in .

bloody linux it is a snobs sys.and ordinary users have to be a technician to get in there

marty

[Microsoft Warns Of Lawsuits Over Linux]

dont get me wrong i would like to try it out.

when i had it on my sys i had to use a dual boot with xp .

at first windows wouldnt recognise the linux iso.and made the linux os dissapear of the sys well i didnt know how to fix this but got help.it seems to put both on dual boot you need to install linux first but haven tried that yet.

but i have just made a p2 compt but it only has a 4.5hdd and 64 megs of ram

do you think this is enough resources to install with these specs.

marty

i have a knoppix disk which ive had for 2 years.

at first my sys wouldnt access the disk but it seems to be ok now

[Microsoft Warns Of Lawsuits Over Linux]

well i have to disagree about linux being popular.

in 2003 i bought mandrake 9.1

and i had a hell of a time finding a linux forum.

on any board techtv didnt have it until the later time of its tenure

then it was incorprated into tss.

and because i was new to linux operating sys.

i couldnt get help any where.

i tried cnet ,znet.most other boards

the only place i could get help was

from chris perrilla .when he was a presenter for techtv.

he co owned a site. where he is to this day .

but help was basic .those disks are still in the packs.what i find with linux it is a snobs OS developed by technicians for their own use.i read the histroy of how it came into being.and they didnt want it to become popular to the public.

and unless it becomes user freindly to the compt masses.it will play second fiddle to microsoft.it is not user freindly to the.ordinary user.to the more advanced user it is ok.

and you will find the advanced user is the one who expuonds popularity.

not the normall user like me .

ile give you an example of how hard it is to configure

i couldnt configure the modem

i posted maybe 5-6 times to techtv cfh

and i got no joy.

i had to contact some one six hundred miles from me to do it and i had to learn to do it in linuxs example of dos or the console as they name it.

so you see how remote the help is.

and it is no better now ive been to the linux help section on this board and it is only basic.

so you may to redefine your example of popular.

marty

[Ten Commandments]

good one mikex

there is an important message in there for us all.that ,is an important post that every one should read and take notice of.ive just emailed part of it to a freind who, breaks all compt rules

thanks

marty