Meeting and Mozilla

[JJ Neff]

Funny I was fighting Windows all weekend.  I had to reinstall Win98 since it
stopped starting.  (I was able to get in to Mandrake fine on the dual boot
system)  but to balance my checkbook in MS$ I needed to get into Windows. It
stopped starting after a few too many unable to shutdowns got the power button
(after installing a photo viewer for my camcorder)

I finally reinstalled the OS and that got me back to a working state but then I
could get NO network resources (aplications) to work, but I could ping by IP #!

ARRRGH

I finally found the answer in google, I had to delete a Winsock2 registry key,
uninstall and reinstall DUN and then network sockets could be created.  THe
only way I found the answer was by trying NON MS apps since all the MS apps
that tried to use the network just crashed with little or no error !  the
non-MS apps (FirstClass client, netscape) actually crashed with "unable to open
network socket" errors...

By the way I found the answer on my server which was running Linux and hasn't
had an issue in just short of forever...

Man I wish I could run MS money in Linux.. (I know about GNUcash but I have too
many years of data in this system and my bank supports MS$ natively...

JJN
--- "Gregory J. Neumann" <gjn at certainlywood.com> wrote:
> You've actually been able to do that since Win95 ... before it didn't 
> matter.  What SP1 is supposed to do, but doesn't, is allow you to 
> remove IE in favor of something else.  All it really does is remove the 
> "references", and it's almost as much a pain as making another 
> browser the default.  The attitude seems to be, "We're making it 
> possible because the Court says we do, but we are NOT going to 
> make it EASY!", and even then, IE is STILL installed, STILL used by 
> the O/S where you can't see it.  So all the bad aspects are still there!  
> Setting Mozilla as my WinXP Pro default simply involved clicking the 
> "set as default" button in the Preferences.
> 
> oops!  I'm ranting about Microsoft again! (still!)  Sigh!  "It's what we 
> use at work."
> 
> -Greg
> 
> > Rumor has it that SP1 for Windows XP and SP3 for Windows 2000 has a utility
> > to make a browser, other than Explorer, your default.
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org]On Behalf Of
> > John R. Ghidiu
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 12:31 PM
> > To: nflug at nflug.org
> > Subject: Re: Meeting and Mozilla
> > 
> > 
> > i didnt make it to the meeting, but i did want to add to this discussion.
> > i have been using a piece of software called privoxy for some time now.
> > privoxy is a filtering proxy that can be run on a standalone box or on
> > your local computer. available at www.privoxy.org, and based on code from
> > junkbuster (www.junkbuster.com), privoxy allows you to filter out ads,
> > popup windows and just about anything you can make a regex for. privoxy
> > also allows you to change, on the fly, the text from a web server (the
> > current version comes with a filter to change microsoft to microsuck). the
> > best part is that there is a windows version and a linux version. i use it
> > quite steadily and would reccomend it. not having to deal with ads and
> > popups is such a big deal, but i didnt even realize it until i used
> > privoxy for a while and used someone else's computer...
> > 
> > john
> > 
> > On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Gregory J. Neumann wrote:
> > 
> > > Also, under
> > > Edit -> Preference -> Advanced,
> > > be sure to UNCHECK "Open Unrequested Windows"!!
> > > NO MORE "POPUPS"!!
> > > That alone should be enough to make everybody try Mozilla!  That
> > > and "tabbed browsing"!  Took time, but this is one very awesome
> > > browser!
> > >
> > > -Greg
> > >
> > > > In Mozilla (Same as Netscape 7) you can set preferences by going to
> > > > EDIT -> PREFERENCES.  There's a button saying "Set Default Browser".
> > > >
> > > > - Tony
> > > >
> > > > > Hola !!
> > > > > I'm back. How did the meeting go on SUN ? Did the meeting go on SUN ?
> > > > > What was discussed, and what was done ?
> > > > >
> > > > > On another note, I downloaded Mozilla 1.0. Does any one know how to
> > > > > make Moz your default web browser, in either  Windows or Linux ?
> > > > > --
> > > > > Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to
> be
> > > > > normal. Albert Camus
> > > > >
> > > > > Scott
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > ----------------------------
> > John R. Ghidiu
> > john at rmdashrf.org
> > 
> 
> 


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