neilinoz

I've been using OpenOffice 1.0 for over 12 months now (will upgrade when Mdk 10.0 comes out properly) and I have found it getting slower and slower and slower to start as time goes by. It was always a slow starter, but now it takes well over 1 minute to begin once I click the icon. What can I do?

Hi, I have successfully built my first PC using 2nd hand parts and bits from my old PC (which died the other day). It must be successful because here I am using it! There's a few questions that I need answered. Can anyone help? The Motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-6XBC and it appears as though the Bios has not been changed. I'd like to update it just in case, but how do I use Flash Bios when they are windows .exe files? I have 2 hard drives. My original 4gb/5400 from my old system and a new 40gb/7200 with 8m cache. Currently I use my old Hard drive to boot from. What I'd like to do is this: a) Old 4gb HDD to be a slave running Win98, which I used to run. B) New 40gb HDD to run Linux (currently Mdk 9.1 but waiting for official 10.0 to be released) c) A dual boot which means that after the Bios screen I can choose between running Linux and running Windows. The GA-6XBC has only 2 IDE connectors. I goes to the CD-Rom and the other to the 4gb drive. The cable that connects the drive to the motherboard has a 2nd connector on it and I am assuming that it can be plugged in to the 40gb drive. So I connected it and it seems to be recognised in Bios. Oh... I don't know how to turn the 40gb drive into a "Master" or "Slave" in Bios (Award). I can see the screen, but I'm dead scared of doing the wrong thing. Finally, I installed the Sound Card from my previous PC into an ISA slot. It is a creative Soundblaster SB16 I think. I'm not a gamer so I'm happy to keep that old card working in playing CDs and the occasional MP3 file. But it doesn't work. When Linux booted up on my old system it could recognise it fine. But now it can't. If you can give easy step by step instructions that would be wonderful. Obviously you may need more info, some of which you see in my signature, but feel free to ask for more. I do have the .pdf file for the Motherboard. It doesn't really help me in any of this.

I was busy downloading OpenOffice 1.1. On my old phone line this would have taken 3-4 hours. Everything was going smoothly. Then the phone line cut off for some reason - KPP told me that it had died. I reconnected. BUT For some reason I was unable to get Download manager to continue downloading OOo 1.1. There does not even seem to be any way this can occur. It is sitting in the Download manager at the moment with 31523KB of 76511KB completed, but with "Canceled" next to it. How the heck can I get it to continue the download? Please don't tell me it's lost forever and I have to start over... (Mozilla 1.3.1)

Okay I've modified it to do "CTRL-Click" to open a tabbed browser. Not what I was aiming for but a lot more useful for me. Thanks!

I'm loving tabbed browsing. I thought I was the only one who opened IE 3-4 times while surfing. Anyway, is there any way to highlight a whole bunch of links (say 20) from a particular webpage and then, in one command, tell the browser to open a tab for each of them? I'm sick of "Right click, open new tab" for each link. Surely I'm missing something here?

Yeah I've already skimmed this site and no one has yet asked a question about this one. I use Mozilla 1.3.1 and Evolution 1.2.4. I'll upgrade when 9.2 is available. I'm happy with both programs. However I do like to click on email addresses when I'm browsing. The problem is that Mozilla has its own mailer as the default and so whenever I click on the address, the Mozilla mailer comes up rather than Evolution. Is there a solution to this? I've searched the Mozilla preferences and they come up blank. Maybe I should switch to Firebird when I get 9.2 and use that instead (after all, I'm using Mozilla without one of its main features). Thanks

Thanks for all your help - I have to propose that there has to be SOME software type solution to this problem simply because printing under Microsoft Windows does not have the same amount of hassle. You turn off the printer? It doesn't keep printing. I'll try the unplug trick - the problem is that it is faster to halt the system and restart it than to wait 10 minutes, so I'll try it (but I hate having to stretch over and unplug it the lazy sod that I am)

I've just switched to Linux and been "converted" now for about a month. After all the usual major major hassles (how the hell do I connect to the internet?) I have settled on one major problem - printing. Basically when I was using Win 98, I would occasionally print a document but forget to turn the printer on. After I turned it on it would spew out a page of gibberish and so I would cancel the printing, turn the printer off, then back on again... and I could print again properly. Unfortunately the printer queue is more "hidden" in Linux (ie it took me a while to find the KDE control centre after being told to go lpq and lprm by Linux savvy people) but even when that problem was solved my stupid parallel port retains some information even after the queue is wiped clean - this means that when I clear the queue and turn the printer back on again, it continues to spew out gibberish. The only way I know how to get the information killed in the port is to turn the whole damn PC off and on again. Naturally this is not an ideal process. I would like to know if there is some way of eliminating information in the parallel port when I clear the queue in the KDE CC and/or type lprm. Any ideas? I use CUPS (Brother HL-730 plus laser printer)