Unable to kill netscape...not a zombie

1998-07-01 Thread Patrick O';Neil
I was browsing today and ran into a problem with Netscape Communicator that I have seen many times, that is, when either stopping the loading of a some pages or trying to go back to pages, netscape window refreshes die and it becomes a blank window. I waited a nice long time because I have foun

Re: Upcoming ICQ X11 version!

1998-07-01 Thread Patrick O';Neil
Scott wrote: > > >> If you want a good console based one, go to freshmeat.net and look > >> up micq. It is fast and reliable, and supports a lot of the [...] > All great and wonderfull but most of the world is on wind95 and NT. IRC is > great for some things but ICQ is also great. Its free and

Re: What's so great about Linux?

1998-06-23 Thread Patrick O';Neil
Rich Kulawiec wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 04:24:03PM -0700, David E. Fox wrote: > > Installation isn't the be-all of OSes ease of use - it's only a minor > > part, yet it usually becomes the focus of the discussion. We thus have > > a bunch of people who can't see the ease of use of whate

Re: Have y'all seen this?

1998-06-23 Thread Patrick O';Neil
Dan Cornilescu wrote: > > Patrick O'Neil wrote: > > > > Has anyone else experienced this inordinately long delay > > before the mailbox starts in Communicator 4.04? > > Yeap, also on 5.1. > > I have the option to leave the messages on the server se

Have y'all seen this?

1998-06-22 Thread Patrick O';Neil
I have RH 5.0 with kernel 2.0.31 installed. I have upgraded Usernet and installed Netscape Communicator 4.04. When I start Netscape, the navigator browser starts up fine, but when I subsequently start up the communicator mail/news- reader, I run into a bit of a...problem. When I select to sta

Netscape slow as a snail

1998-06-22 Thread Patrick O';Neil
I tried posting the other night but my ISP has been flakey...I don't know if it made it thru so if this is repetitive, I'm sorry. I have a Netscape question/problem. I am running RH 5.0 with kernel 2.0.31 and recently installed Communicator 4.04 and to connect to my ISP I use Usernet. Thing is

Several problems...RH 5.0 kernel 2.0.31

1998-06-17 Thread Patrick O';Neil
I have posted to several linux newsgroups in search of an answer to these questions, but so far, no answer so here I go again. I am having difficulty setting up my window manager, fvwm2, and getting both my PPA Zip drive and the connected Epson Color Stylus 600 working. When I installed RH 5.0,

printing problems, ppa zip disk, and RH 5.0

1998-06-16 Thread Patrick O';Neil
I have finally gotten my RH system configured and ALMOST up to full functionality. I do have a problem with printing, however. I have an Epson Stylus Color 600 attached to lpt1 as well as a PPA Zip drive. I installed scsi support for the PPA during initial install but have not seen, or been abl

Re: Usernet question/problem

1998-06-02 Thread Patrick O';Neil
Hoe-Teck Wee wrote: > > Hi Patrick. > > Just an observation .. it's quite difficult to read your post 'coz it's > punctuated with '>'s .. Anyway, are u using the usernet provided by redhat per > se? 'coz there's an updated package from the redhat site usernet-1.0.6-1. Hope > that helps. Yeah...

Usernet question/problem

1998-06-01 Thread Patrick O';Neil
> OK...over the weekend I finally had lots of time to really dig into my > new Redhat 5.0 install. I got ppp setup, was able to connect to my ISP > (my university) and do all my web stuff. I have, however, run into > problems using Usernet. My ISP, being incompetent MS-hacks, have managed > to