martymas

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  1. hi hi test ile thank you wwhen ive done it at the moment im osing xp to send this post but my next post will be from ubuntu god listen to me ime talking like a pro i better do it first then crow see ya later from unbuntu marty
  2. hey thankls for that tip ile try that i find evolution quite different from other email programs but im getting there ive probably used OE for to long and i can get my head around other email clients is there another browser in ubuntu other than firefox/? can i get kde in the software packages/ i used kde in mandrake and tho that was some time ago these new sys's are some what different from mandrake 9.1 but ime enjoying it tho ive learned some new swear words im getting there thanks guys for your encouragement it makes a difference when it comes from experts marty
  3. yes i agree sorry i got carried away in my first post but i find linux a challenge and any thing i acheive is a bonus for me i still have a text to small problem and i tried changing my resolution 800+600 and it made the text fine but it increased the size of the page so i had to revert back to the original settings which was 1028 i think i can change the text in the view file but once i reboot it reverts back to the original settings ok it is only a minor problem but i like to get it right my eyes are the trouble i have to sit near the monitor to see the text properly you are righ
  4. some time back i posted on how to get evolution mail working ive spent the last 2 weeks trying to make it work and have had to use thunderbird [im using ubuntu 4.10] and at last it is recieving and sending mail thunderbird dosent work as well on unbuntu as it does on xp on ubuntu i had a lot of error notices it may be my fault and initially evolution mail was giving me the same problems but it is working now the problem i think was the configuration of the in mail and the out mail jeez i uninstalled it 9-10 times and started again and i was at the stage were i was swearing at the thin
  5. hi all looks as tho i win my bet jeez you guys are marvelous i got all those answers and i must show my friends we have a get together every 2 weeks and talk about compts and girls the time factor Q came up because one off our guys went to boston two years ago and he said he rang his girlfriend and said he would be home on a certain date and time but forgot the time difference and arrive later than he suggested to her she waited at the air port but he didnt arrive at the time specified and it started a discussion between here in christhurch and boston i suggested 12 hrs but i was o
  6. yes the card may be corrupted and as shanenin has stated may be an rewel of your sys may recognise the card and install the proper software did this compt have a hi-jack or a virus in stalled in the sys marty
  7. hey joe when techtv closed down bill me and tommy baseball went to world start until BT came on stream many of us joined g4 but there was one moderator who threw his s--- at us so ididnt post there until pete and chappy became moderators while they were there we had some sort of order bill and tommy didnt come over until BT opened and thankfully that young jeff took us under his wing and made it one of the best boards on the net i love it there im not allowed to speak my mind which i like doing but i respect the rules tho ive broken them a coupla times bill is a great freind and he send
  8. must try it in ubuntu thanks for the info marty
  9. try uninstalling your video card shut your compt down with out rebooting once it ahs closed turn of you power uint take out your display adapter from the compt reboot whith out it shut it down then reseat you display card then reboot if you reboot after uninstalling your adapter it will find that same driver so you need to uninstall it and do as ive posted here good luck marty
  10. hi all me and three friends are discussiing on time differences around the world one of them has been to boston and he saya we are eight hrs ahead in time i thought we were a day ahead here it is thursday 2:07pm in the afternoon if any one lives in boston can you please tell me the time now thanks i win a dozen of bottles of beer if im right tho i dont drink the styff very likely ile have to shout for them [treat them to a drink] thanks marty
  11. hi joe did you remember bill mallenson from techtv who lives in florida well he posts at worldstart and some one on the board did it how it is done is clever to me i must email him and ask he emails some interesting things normally i post them on the board but i knew some one would be interested the film itself is boring but the concept is brilliant marty
  12. I'm neither rich (far from it) nor famous (in famous, maybe) and I got treatment for cancer so ... I'm not sure what you mean. in my country some drugs are susidised by the gov and these miracle cures arent one of them there has to be a certain success rate before that particular drug comes under that reagime so you either have to be able to afford it or die and guess who are the ones who cant afford it the problem is what drug qualifies for funding in nz cancer is about 1.2 in a population of four and a half million and the funding is appropiate to the percentage but deseases like diabetes
  13. ive just come from a board here in new zealand and they are posting about an anti virus called nod any one heard of it here is a link to the article nod anti virus
  14. that notice needs to be turned off go to start -control panel-sys- hardware on the left is driver signing open that and check the box ignore cant remember the rest of the words uncheck it any way then go back and install that driver you were going to in the first place marty
  15. hi all ive just learned how to transfer video shots from email to the board and im practicing hope you guys dont mind didnt BT have a forum where you could test practice these things old age has impaired my memory cells marty
  16. yes and only the rich and famous can afford to buy them in free enterprise countrys so it wont benifit the working class may be some of the socialist countrys or insurence payers will get treat ment i feel so sorry for the people living in hope, every time one of these cures arrive normall it is the drug companys softening up the public marty
  17. did you reboot your compt windows will find the missing hard ware drivers if you watch your tray a notice will tell you new hardware is found you may have to do this in safe mode as well marty
  18. go to run and paste this line in the run box and press enter to boring for me maybe someone likes it marty telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
  19. hi team read this equasion from bill mallenson i dont drink beer but many of you do so here is a way to save your beer drinking money marty CLEAR EXPLANATION OF TAX CUTS......................... Sometimes politicians, journalists and others exclaim; "It's just a tax cut for the rich!" and it is just accepted to be fact, without questioning it. But what does that really mean? Just in case you are not completely clear on this issue, the following might help. Let's put tax cuts in terms everyone can understand. Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to
  20. hi sethooks it is a epson stylus 640 tho its old ive used it for years and becuase i dont use it much about 3-4 times a month as well my cartridges cost $14 so im trying not to have to buy a new one marty
  21. i ahve a problem with my old printer ive just installed a new cartridge and when i turned it on the three lights keep blinking the green one and the two red ones one red one is for the out of paper signal but i have paper in the thing but unless i can get those lights to go out it wont print ive triedallsorts of fixes has any one had this happen to them sure i can get another one they are cheap here second hand but i dont use it much mainly to print out tips from you guys i prefer to print as im the worlds worst at typing any ideas marty
  22. the reason i asked was i saw a dicussion on british television the bbc called the doha dicussions and it appears britain is now leading the world in ethnic groups some from the audience said the americain population has the biggest percent of non ethnic population in the world as all the people are from other countrys apart from the native americans that program was beamed out to the world wasnt america colonised by the british .my this makes interesting history my country is made up of early british colonists apart from a poloneasian race already established here many thousand of ye
  23. hi potato at techtv c.f.h he was known as SULTAN EMIRR but when he came to g4 he changed it to emerr when i saw his first post at BT i Q him about the name looking familiar and he said im still the same person him and i have been friends for a long time so i wish him a happy day marty