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Ordinary people often need help and instruction, Devries. That does not always amount to complaining.

Maybe you're right. Trouble is, all of us are not exactly smiley-literate. Has to do with culture and age. I have always had a problem with Netscape. They never, never tell you what to do: in fact they don't even admit that something might be wrong. Google is the only way to find help. I'd probably switch to Mozilla or Firebird if it hadn't been for the fact that Netscape web mail, which I use a great deal, is handled only by you know which program.

This is unlikely to be a problem with Thunderbird, which I use for three accounts, each set up with a different SMTP server. You might consider removing the program and reinstalling it - or else a newer version.

Sounds logical.

Afraid you'll have to translate, Devries. I'm not a face reader. In fact I can't even do the Indian Rope Trick, whatever that is.

Folks, this intermittent audio notification of new messages is a Netscape problem, probably peculiar to version 7.2. Mandrake is not to blame. In Google I found that NTSCP 7.2 behaves in the same way on, for example, the Mac.

Will try that, Adamw, even if it means not getting to see the friendly dragon chap. MODERATOR: I have not been getting notifications of messages to this topic.

I did install Gnome, Coverup, and presemably the libraries, though right now I use KDE. I looked for gnomecal (and for gnome-cal too) in the installable packages but neither showed up. KAlarm is working and I propose to use it for short-term reminders. I shall pobably choose one of the other programs for other stuff which repeats itself each month or each year. KOrganiser may work - after all, KAlarm does - but I don't much like the look of it.

Thanks, Coverup. I don't think I've seen it in 10, and maybe I don't need it any more. But if it is, as you say, free of bells and whistles, perhaps I should give it a look. Norman, I did what you said, and sure enough, KAlarm was right there on booting up. Devil knows where I went wrong earlier. It might just be that my earlier installation, on which I had tried it, was faulty. Thanks.

Norman, with or without spines, that's just what I did with KAlarm: but while it does amiably sit in the system tray as long as the machine runs, it does not come up by itself at my next log-on. Anna, I too am on 10.0 Official, download version, no updates. Yet when I do an ALT + F2 followed by "korganizer", the whole of the universe comes crashing down on to my screen. And no one ever taught me how to pilot a space ship. I am, as it may be appropriate to say here, hopelessly Kconfused.

Thanks, Arctic, I'll look into it in an hour or so. Anna, your instructions don't seem to apply to my installation or version. The first step brings up the whole program on to the screen. Autostart at boot still remains a mystery.

I've seen Kontact, Anna, but it has too many things in it and I like The Simple Life. But if your trick works and I can use only KOrganiser AND get it to run at boot-up, it might be just what I need. The two other things I have - Reminder and Sunbird - are much the same, with the exception of e-mail. Also, I dislike having to remember combinations like ALT + F2 and CTL-SHIFT-F5 for this, that and the other. So much simpler to have an autostart directory; and even better to have a batch file. But I'll see what I can do. Thanks, little lady.

I am in KDE, Gowator. I assume that the dot in .kde means that it is a hidden directory. I'm afraid I don't yet know what is a cron job: nor CLI. I suppose I'll get there eventually. Thanks.

Over the past few years I have built up a formidable reputation for not forgetting things I've promised to do, kids' birthdays and so on. I experimented with different reminder programs in Windows and finally settled on two: one which pops up a note or notes every time I start the computer and another which pops up a note and makes a sound on the date and time specified. I have not so far found anything similar which I can use on Mandrake 10.0. There is the KDE Alarm Clock, but I have not been able to get it to start at boot up. A program called TkRemind seemed promising but it does not give an audible warning and maybe will not start automatically. I am now about to try out a Mozilla family member - some bird, as might be expected - but I'd appreciate other suggestions. Or else a way to make Alarm Clock start up by itself.

128 MB RAM, 1,000 MHz P3. Do you think I should consult a neurologist who specialises in epilepsy?

I get these two reports also when I run Emacs: Locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C X locale modifiers not supported, using default There is no "Fatal System Error: Raise at top of Exception Stack" here as there was with Acrobat Reader, but on searching in Google I found that that is a common error with Acrobat Reader under SuSe. Moderator: You might like to move this to a place where Xlib and locale are looked at more.

Will do, BVC. I can't see why en_US should be any different from en_GB, though. Ought they not to be different values for the same variable? TWO HOURS LATER printenv | grep LC returned en_GB for everything, including time, which was set to Calcutta printenv | grep LANGUAGE returned en_GB:en These remained the same even after I had changed the time zone to Cuba and rebooted. I could not find a way to change the language setting.

On my first installation of 10.0 about a week ago, I had installed Acrobat Reader 5.09. It worked as it should have worked. Having become irritated with strange behaviour, I reinstalled 10.0. This time, Acroread does not work. When I try to run it from the shortcut on the desktop, the indicator just bounces for whatever time-out has been set. When I try to run it from the command line I get this report: Locale not supported by X-lib, locale set to C X locale modifiers not supported, using default Fatal System Error: Raise at top of Exception Stack Aborted There is XPDF on the system but I'd rather have this as well. Help appreciated. I might add, because locale is mentioned here, that my installation settings were British English and Calcutta. Later, when the clock began to misbehave, I found that Calcutta had become London.

Thanks for explaining, Adamw. I have long been in the habit of patenting my many Bright Ideas, never mind that no one gives any sort of legal validity to the patents. I cannot now recall how many Laws of the Universe I have formulated.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry, Devries, because the sound in Netscape is back and I didn't do a thing. I'll look into the MPLAYER business. Thanks. Surinam does count and it doesn't. Indians went there - and to that area generally - a long while back, mainly as indentured labourers. They keep some Indian customs but not others. P.S. I should say their descendants, who are not indentured labourers.

I did right-click on the Kicker, Devries, and there were a great many options - but no volume control, not even in Dutch, which of course I don't speak although I had a Dutch girl friend for around two weeks back at the end of 1975. I'll try your KMIX method. But in the mean time, another inexplicable disaster. I just received mail in Thunderbird and there was audible notification. Moments later I got mail in Netscape, but in complete silence. I checked to see I had pointed to a WAV file, and I had. I clicked on "test" and it worked. This could of course be a Netscape problem - but I use the same version in Windows without all this nonsense. Thanks for the game reference. I'll pass it on to young friends who are into that sort of thing. Except they're all Windows types, so if the game is for Linux - there goes my machine.

That's a relief, Steve. I thought Devries took me for, if I may switch species slightly, an arachnoid contortionist. But now I have another problem: there's no volume control on the taskbar or whatever it's called. It was there in my earlier install. I need the thing because I use it: you know, soft jazz and loudly mooing cows and all that. In the help I can't find any reference to it; and I'm sure I didn't remove it as I removed several other things. Soon after. Don't bother, Steve. It was a simple matter, as I saw elsewhere on the forum. Multimedia --- Sound --- Kmix --- WHAM. Just have to remember to "close" and not "quit".

CTL-ALT-ESC, Devries, plus a left click? Do you believe that those who do not like Amstel have prehensile extremities like baboons? Computers are fun only rarely: I do not play games and much of my work is not terribly enjoyable. Once in a while children come to me to learn this or that -- and that is really fun, even though I have to spend an hour tidying up after the hurricane.

Things are generally easier the second time around, John, but this time I had to do the reinstall twice in succession. I may not always make the best choices, but I almost never make the wrong ones. Here, of course, I had the survival of my Windows C: and D: to think about. Your offer of CDs is generous, but there are people here who download Mandrake (and others distros) and from whom I can get the CDs practically as soon as the software is released and for nothing more than the cost of the media. Now if you could consult a knowledgeable sheep about the shearing of beards... If I am to be honest, I have not learnt much about the inside functioning of Linux. But having got into computing back in 1969 on a valve operated behemoth with a staggering 32 KILObytes of memory for both programs and data, I have a notion that all these jokers translate the same old ones and zeroes, even if they do it in different ways. As a matter of fact I consider today's coding horribly wasteful. Back in the old days it was considered a real achievement to rewrite a program so as to save 3 bytes.

Good news, Devries. I reinstalled from scratch. Audio is now default (OSS or ALSA or whatever), and I'm getting sound in both Thunderbird and Netscape. Like so many things about computers, this is entirely inexplicable. Bad news. My views on Amstel have not changed.