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stovebolts

stovebolts

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I'm an I.T. tech. I'd like to offer my services. I don't claim to know everything, but I'm fairly knowlegable in the realm of Windows and networking, including wireless and wireless security.
Just PM me and I'll get back with you as soon as I get your message.
I'm usually online between 7 am - 4 pm EST.
Jeff
 
Hey Stovebolts:

I wish the best for you. I'm sure many will thank you for your services because people do need help with their computers a lot.

That's where I felt a "calling", too. I've been laid off for 3 months now from a good paying high-tech telecom industry job of almost 25 years (fortunately I got a modest pension and health insurance). Just before that, I took A+ courses online and liked it. I also built this computer of mine. I often help people on another genealogy forum that have problems now and then. So, I decided to go back to college soon, brush up on my electronic tech degree by getting a computer maint degree, get certified (instead of just taking courses) and ultimately go into my own business by helping folks with their home computer woes. I am affable and friendly with folks and would take the time to explain things to them when they feel frantic.

In the meantime, I help my family, and friends with their computers. In one case, I joked with a friend who was going thru a hard time. After I tweaked her computer, I said that I was going to tweak her :lol: (She knew what I meant and that I cared to help her out as well---- I do not want to put on just a cold, techy and "professional" appearance) It's best to get the folks laughing.

Wish me the best and some prayers also. Thanks.
 
I'm actually surprised that I havn't gotten any PM's :D Guess that means everyone's pc's are running great!

It's almost funny, I went to college for computer programming, and I got a job as a network engineer! LOL. Now I'm kinda a jack of all trades.

Funny that you say you are into geneology! My wife is into it bigtime! She finally broke the family mystery of who my great granfather's parents were and I think we now have the line back to the mid 1700's?

Talk about creating a stink in the family! There were so many rumors that were shattered like we were Indian etc... I'm sure you know what I'm talking about :wink:

Take care!
 
I am an IT tech too.

I offer my services with things related to Linux, OpenOffice.org, networking, Apache, MySQL, and PHP.
 
Cool,
Nice to meet you FMA. Hope to see you out on the boards!!

(If I ever bring a mandrake box back up, maybe I'll ask you some stuff on wine... blew my last box up with it...)
 
Thanks StoveBolts. I have used WINE with occasional success, but glad to save I never blew up anything with it. ;-) Also I used Mandrake for about two years.
 
fma said:
Thanks StoveBolts. I have used WINE with occasional success, but glad to save I never blew up anything with it. ;-) Also I used Mandrake for about two years.
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That's good to know! Last version of Mandrake I ran was 9. I only wish they would have suppored my promise raid controller.

I rebuilt the pc I was going to run wine on with XP, then exported the registry. Then I loaded Mandrake and used the registry from the recent XP build (same hardware platform, so I thought it would be the best reg it use)

Anyway, I could never get wine to read the registry right or use their gui configuration and ended up configuring things in that flat file. Got some things to work, but not all... (Like photoshop and MS Office) It was very frustrating and I couldn't find enough documentation online (or in forums) to keep the machine running.

What registry did you use, and how do you get their gui to configure correctly (or to get it to save correctly :-? )

Thanks!
 
StoveBolts said:
fma said:
Thanks StoveBolts. I have used WINE with occasional success, but glad to save I never blew up anything with it. ;-) Also I used Mandrake for about two years.
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That's good to know! Last version of Mandrake I ran was 9. I only wish they would have suppored my promise raid controller.
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I think MDK 9 is before the Kernel 2.6, which is a major upgrade and brings support for new many devices. All the new distribution releases ship with Kernel 2.6.x now.

StoveBolts said:
I rebuilt the pc I was going to run wine on with XP, then exported the registry. Then I loaded Mandrake and used the registry from the recent XP build (same hardware platform, so I thought it would be the best reg it use)

Anyway, I could never get wine to read the registry right or use their gui configuration and ended up configuring things in that flat file. Got some things to work, but not all... (Like photoshop and MS Office) It was very frustrating and I couldn't find enough documentation online (or in forums) to keep the machine running.

What registry did you use, and how do you get their gui to configure correctly (or to get it to save correctly :-? )
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WINE can be tricky. I think there is more to it than I understand, but as I said, I had some success. By the way, there is a commercial derivate called CrossOver which makes it easy to run applications on their supported list--including MS Office.

Anyway, to make WINE work I would do this: download a recent WINE RPM from the winehq.com web site. Of course, choose one that is appropriate for your distribution. Install WINE. Next follow the instructions for setting up Wine Tools.

Don't use DLLs or the registry from Windows XP. I hear WINE works better with Windows 9x DLLs than NT/XP.

I didn't use any WINE GUI configuration software.

At this point, I was able to run install and run Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, Adobe Illustrator, QuickTime, WinAmp, and some obscure programs. I had moderate success with PC Study Bible, but there is a bug in the menu display. I installed Adobe PageMaker and could do many things fine, but I couldn't type in the text boxes without going to the storyboard (?) edit mode.

I installed all the software in a fake Windows directory---i.e. not using my Windows system at all.

Let me know how it goes for you.
 
Did you use the registry it came with, or did you export your own? I think the reg that came with it was 95.
I may have to try it out again some weekend in the near future,
Thanks!
 
I used the default registry. (I didn't do anything with the registry one way or the other.)

Now I realized I don't remember whether I used Wine Tools or Sidenet. I suggest trying one or both.

If you use both, then it may be a good idea to wipe all the user-specific wine stuff before starting again, just do the following. (Be careful as this erases all data on the fake windows drives too.)

Code: 
rm -rf ~/.wine # erases WINE configuration and WINE fake Windows drives

Or the less destructive alternative:

Code: 
mv ~/.wine ~/.wine_save # just rename
 
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