Richard Lewis wrote:
At Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:11:21 +0000, Anthony Anson wrote:
Bah! Done it again! Thunderguts sent to OP - will i *NEVER* unforget to change the destination?
Sorry Steve.
Why bother trying to remember yourself? Why not get your mail client to do it for you? I'm sure Thunderbird can manage something like this.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/4455 might work?
That's only for v. 3, I think.
On this Eee is v. 2, and:
Whenever I've tried to 'adjust' things, my wrist is slapped by Xandros, who tells me 'you don't have permission'.
Upgrading programs (Firefox, T-bird, etc) won't execute.
Xan-dross came pre-loaded on the (brand new) Eee, and AFAICR, no root passworm was provided.
Recently bought the Acer Aspire 5000 I mentioned in another fairly recent thread - someone looking for a laptop - and as it was still in the shop a fortnight later, I snapped it up. Tatty cosmetically, but replacement screen and battery, and what was most important, delightfully inexpensive.
ATM it has a new installation of XP and SP3 on it, but I intend easing it off. (Practically every time it fires up - at length - it 'finds new hardware'. It finds the *SAME* new hardware every time, including the box's own internal CD/DVD drive, mouse, and the internet dongle. For me, XP just doesn't cut the mustard innit.)
By 'easing it off' I mean I shall create an EXT3 partition and install Lenny. Then install Virtual Box in it to pretend to be Win 2000 or XP so I can run Irfanview. (Never found a Linux prog to anywhere near match it.)
Then, when everything's working under Lenny, I expect to format the XP bit to EXT3 and wave XP and all its works goodbye.
/Executes a little jig and waves happy flag/
I shall have access as root when I want it...
*THEN* I can put a proper Linux distro on the Eee
Slackware? (DARFC!)