Beauford wrote:
<nothing>
Another troll. Gone!

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On 2004-11-19, Beauford <beauford@hotpop.com> wrote:
> There are many programs I
> use in Windows that I have no idea if equivalents are available for
> Linux. I did mange to get a couple of small Windows programs working
> under Wine, but I don't think the bigger apps like Photoshop will work
> properly.

I guess you haven't yet looked very hard for linux equivalents
yet--the Gimp is for many people a sufficient replacement for
Photoshop, and is quite popular among linux folk. (Hell, if I
know about a GUI app for linux, it must be popular!)

--keith

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>>> how do I get a volume control on the task bar (I'm
>>> using KDE). I managed to get soemthing there - but it just opens up
>>> the mixer.
>>
>>If you run "kmix", it should create a small speaker icon in the panel,
>>which, when left-clicked, shows a volume slider.
>
> That's what I tried, but no slider. It just opens the application. I
> checked the boxes in the setup, but same difference.


middle click it.

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On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 21:23:50 -0500, Beauford wrote:

>>If you google a Linux problem, you have an 70% chance of finding a
>>solution right away. Some 10% can be solved by searching around, about 5%
>>can be solved by poking around newsgroups. the remaining 10 are a bitch,

> Actually, no. I have found over the years when searching for any problem
> that I find hundreds of other prople asking the same question and no
> answers. If I could get 1 out of 20 I'd be doing good. Today is a good
> example with trying to get my printer to work. Lots of people with the
> same issue, but no answers as to why. Same with my volume control - no
> answers. After hours of messing around, I'm still where I was when I
> started.

That's because you are a completely ignorant moron. Go play with your
Xbox.

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Beauford wrote:
> Actually, no. I have found over the years when searching for any
> problem that I find hundreds of other prople asking the same question
> and no answers. If I could get 1 out of 20 I'd be doing good. Today is
> a good example with trying to get my printer to work. Lots of people
> with the same issue, but no answers as to why. Same with my volume
> control - no answers. After hours of messing around, I'm still where I
> was when I started.

Risking to be redundant, make sure to check linuxquestions.com, too.
Their forum search is not the best, but you find _many_ answers there.

Also, if you can't seem to find a solution to your problem, try to find
the problem that lies _below_. Like, if cups gives you a pürinter error,
and you find out that your kernel does not have parallel port support:
Try to search for parallel support instead of cups error. In my
experience, this will help.

Oh, and one last thing: Kepp away from SuSE mailing lists. SuSE is the
most proprietary Linux around. In fact, I don't think _any_
configuration file or something like that works the same with SuSE as
with Slackware (except, maybe, for /etc/hostname ).

HTH!
~Mik

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Michael Black wrote:

> Libraries are collections of common routines.
>

This English major greatly appreciates your explanation of libraries. It's
rare to find someone who can write in plain but clear language about
technical topics.

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 06:41:23 -0600, Dan C
<youmustbejoking@invalid.org> wrote:

>On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 21:23:50 -0500, Beauford wrote:
>
>>>If you google a Linux problem, you have an 70% chance of finding a
>>>solution right away. Some 10% can be solved by searching around, about 5%
>>>can be solved by poking around newsgroups. the remaining 10 are a bitch,
>
>> Actually, no. I have found over the years when searching for any problem
>> that I find hundreds of other prople asking the same question and no
>> answers. If I could get 1 out of 20 I'd be doing good. Today is a good
>> example with trying to get my printer to work. Lots of people with the
>> same issue, but no answers as to why. Same with my volume control - no
>> answers. After hours of messing around, I'm still where I was when I
>> started.
>
>That's because you are a completely ignorant moron. Go play with your
>Xbox.

Another poor soul who has nothing better to do than scour the
newsgroups acting like an idiot.

On last comment here. One of the reasons I hate Windows is because of
the little annoying things it does, which I hoped would not be as
prevelent in Linux, but I guess no matter what OS you use your going
to get this. As an example, I was just adding some programs and
arranging the menu bar, but when I add a sub menu it doesn't show up
in the list when I click on it. If I go back into the menu editor it's
there though. So why isn't it in the menu list??? One of these
annoying glitches.


On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 00:58:13 -0500, Beauford <beauford@hotpop.com>
wrote:

>Fed up with Windows as most users, I decided to install Slackware 10
>and see how it compared to older versions. Previously I gave up on it
>as my main OS due to too many problems getting things to work and lack
>of quality programs. Well, in just two days I see things haven't
>changed much. I figured with a fairly new version of Slack that I
>would have all the latest versions of various components, but I
>continually get messages saying I need this or that, or this isn't
>compatible with that. Today alone I tried to compile and install 5
>programs and got similar errors like this - make: ***
>[install-recursive] Error 1 or error while loading shared libraries:
>libgd.so.1.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
>directory.
>
>Now I can get around Linux, but I'm not savvy enough to know what all
>these libraries are and what they do.
>
>Any suggestions or comments.

On 2004-11-19, Beauford <beauford@hotpop.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 06:41:23 -0600, Dan C
><youmustbejoking@invalid.org> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 21:23:50 -0500, Beauford wrote:
>>
>>>>If you google a Linux problem, you have an 70% chance of finding a
>>>>solution right away. Some 10% can be solved by searching around, about 5%
>>>>can be solved by poking around newsgroups. the remaining 10 are a bitch,
>>
>>> Actually, no. I have found over the years when searching for any problem
>>> that I find hundreds of other prople asking the same question and no
>>> answers. If I could get 1 out of 20 I'd be doing good. Today is a good
>>> example with trying to get my printer to work. Lots of people with the
>>> same issue, but no answers as to why. Same with my volume control - no
>>> answers. After hours of messing around, I'm still where I was when I
>>> started.
>>
>>That's because you are a completely ignorant moron. Go play with your
>>Xbox.
>
> Another poor soul who has nothing better to do than scour the
> newsgroups acting like an idiot.


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On 2004-11-19, Beauford <beauford@hotpop.com> wrote:
>
> Another poor soul who has nothing better to do than scour the
> newsgroups acting like an idiot.

If you don't like what he's writing, don't read it: add him to your
killfile. There's certainly no need to tell the world what you think of
him.

(And in advance, apologies for the empty followup that will likely be
posted--I'm still experimenting with this new PGP signing, and I think I
botched this one.)

--keith

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