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MERRY CHRISTMAS! I hope you have peaceful holiday, marty! Stay well down under, man! Ho-Ho-Ho hitest

Cool article. Thanks for the link. That's the only beef I have with Tbird; it doesn't have an integrated calendar function. I'll be first in line to download Lightening when Mozilla.org serves it up

I like the upgrade. I installed SP2 on my work XP unit. It went fine. The only strange thing that I noticed was that windows will no longer recognize my version of Norton AV, that is, I can't set NAV to run automatically at a certain time. However, I can manually scan my computer with NAV so it's not a biggy. No major glitches encountered.

Ditto on that. Just checked my Yahoo mail, working fine here.

I think that is part of the formatting process in NTFS, you don't get all of the hard drive space even if you have a 160 GB drive. I heard Leo Laporte mention that once. I agree with tenmm a hardware firewall is the way to go. I like the idea of having a box between myself and the Internet.

I hope you also have a safe and happy holiday season as well, Nerelda! Merry Christmas!

1. First you have to burn the Linux iso to a CDR. 2. Ensure your computer is set so that your CD ROM drive is the first bootable device. 3. Insert CDR into computer. Power down your computer. 4. Power up computer. If your CD ROM drive is the device that boots first then the computer will boot from the CD that you burned. Which distro is it?

I haven't used Balsa, but the screenshots I've seen show a nice clean interface similar to kmail my other favorite.

I personally like Thunderbird, it's a great e-mail client.

Weird, I've also seen the googlebot listed on the bottom of the page. It's weird to think of the little bot searching around; I wonder what it's up to?

Agreed. I love the eye candy in KDE. For a super fast WM I like Black Box..........but it isn't pretty. I guess KDE is it for me. Ion is sort of nice to. Simple, but very effective. Hi TheLetterK, Cool. What is lon? I haven't heard of that WM. It's a WM that uses tiling instead of overlapping windows. Linky Cool. Very minimalistic like Black Box or Enlightenment. It looks like it would be very fast and light on system resources. Thanks for the linky About 3 megs of system memory, very lightweight. Sweet! That's even faster than Black Box Very cool!

I run Norton AV, Ad Aware, Scan disk once a week and Defrag twice per month. I delete Internet temp files, cookies once per month. That seems to work for me. I think more scans won't hurt your unit.

Agreed. I love the eye candy in KDE. For a super fast WM I like Black Box..........but it isn't pretty. I guess KDE is it for me. Ion is sort of nice to. Simple, but very effective. Hi TheLetterK, Cool. What is lon? I haven't heard of that WM. It's a WM that uses tiling instead of overlapping windows. Linky Cool. Very minimalistic like Black Box or Enlightenment. It looks like it would be very fast and light on system resources. Thanks for the linky

Thanks, Dogbert2! I've used an old Vectra before, very nice unit indeed. A friend of mine has an HP and likes it a lot.

Agreed. I love the eye candy in KDE. For a super fast WM I like Black Box..........but it isn't pretty. I guess KDE is it for me. Ion is sort of nice to. Simple, but very effective. Hi TheLetterK, Cool. What is lon? I haven't heard of that WM.

Yep, this place is very much like the old forum we knew and loved. Nice to have another *nix user here I think you'll like it here, it's a very friendly, laid back forum.

Agreed. I love the eye candy in KDE. For a super fast WM I like Black Box..........but it isn't pretty. I guess KDE is it for me.

I'd like to extend a warm welcome to Dogbert2! He's just joined our forum! Welcome, man!! hitest

I hope you're having a happy birthday, screi

Mandrake 10.1 works just fine on my unit with power management turned on and I've got a really old pc a Plll 500 MHZ. Maybe it's a bad cd? Can you boot another cd like a Knoppix cd? If so then you know your cd rom drive is working fine.

Hmmmm... that's odd. Are you booting Mandrake 10 from the first install CD? Did you put the first install CD in your computer, power down, and start-up your unit from the CD ROM drive? Is the BIOS on your computer set so that the CD ROM drive is the first bootable device? Mandrake 10 is pretty good at detecting hardware.

WELCOME KIP_666 I think you'll like it here, this is my favorite forum!

Heh-heh, good to know. Thankfully my wife and I aren't having any more kids. We've got two kids.

Thanks, iccaros. We appreciate your assistance

Hi martymas, Here are the required specs for Mandrake 10 taken from mandrake.com Processor: an x586-class or above processor is required. This includes Intel Pentium I/II/III/IV/Celeron, AMD K6/II/III, AMD Duron, AMD Athlon/XP/MP. Hyper-Threading is supported. SMP multi-processor machines are supported. (*) Memory: at least 64 MB is required (32 MB for text-install); 128 MB or more is recommended. Hard disks: IDE, SCSI and S-ATA hard disks are supported. Hard disk size: At least 500MB is required, 1GB is recommended. Large capacity drives are supported (up to 250GB).