[hllug] Fwd: Re: Re: digiKam
- From: Don Crowder <donguitar@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: HLLUG <hllug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:28:21 -0600
Argh, I like kmail but sometimes I have trouble sending mail.
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Subject: Re: [hllug] Re: digiKam
Date: Friday 14 December 2007 17:12
From: Don Crowder <don@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: hllug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Friday 14 December 2007 16:25, paul wrote:
> Don Crowder said the following on 12/14/2007 2:33 PM:
>
> <snip>
>
> > I've got my new XP machine tweaked, tuned and ready to use but I've only
> > bothered to turn it on a few times, usually just to grab an email address
> > or phone number. I'm using Etch pretty much full time and actually feel
> > a little annoyed when I have to turn on the Windows machine.
> >
> > Lisa's XP Home needs reinstalling but we don't have a CD so I'm going to
> > get price quotes from all three of the shops in Kingsland. Meanwhile
> > she's preparing to change over to Linux as her primary OS. I've
> > installed PCLinuxOS (her favorite Linux OS) on the machine and, once the
> > ezine is put to bed, I'll get her email configured. We've figured out
> > how to export her browser favorites and, with a bit of futzing around,
> > how to export OE's address book as a comma delimited text file which,
> > with some minor tweaking, can be reconfigured into something Kmail can
> > use.
>
> Transferring browser favs are simple if using Firefox. Getting the
> address book out of OE might take a "import" with Thunderbird. I've
> never had any luck with exported comma delimited files.
>
>
> What kind of 'puter? I have the "restore disks" for eMachine (and
> perhaps Gateway).
It's an HP Pavilion 503w. It's got a "restore" partition on the hard drive
but I don't know how to use it and don't really trust it because it wouldn't
be much help if the problem is the HDD, right?
> The new box... well. It has a DVD drive. That seems to work, works for
> CDs anyway. The CDRW doesn't seem to work. Annoying is putting it
> mildly. Sure, XP sees the drive but the drive doesn't see any discs. :(
Most DVD drives are "plug and play" in XP but I don't think that's
necessarily true of CDRW drives. You may need a driver. Of course you may
also have a bad drive. I bought a CDRW drive yesterday, in Kingsland, for
$10 and he had at least one other used one on the shelf. You want I should
check?
lemmeknow.
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Don Crowder
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A proud user of Debian Etch w/KDE.
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Don Crowder
http://www.don-guitar.com
http://www.lockergnome.com/eldergeek/
http://don-guitar.blogspot.com/
http://www.myspace.com/donguitar
A proud user of Debian Etch w/KDE.
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