Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20001116162353.039c9d30@claborn.net> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 16:24:23 -0600 From: wilson@claborn.net (Jonathan Wilson) Subject: Re: [SLE] Survey Yeah, I can't find it either. At 02:04 PM 11/16/2000 -0800, you wrote:

On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 04:33:08PM -0500, Fred A. Miller wrote:

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Log onto microsoft.com and take the survey.

Can't find any survey there. What are you talking about?

-Kastus

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Fred

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Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 00:43:51 +0100 (CET) From: Ole Kofoed Hansen Message-ID: Subject: Re: [SLE] Newbie question On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Wong Choi wrote:

I've decided to take the Linux Leap. I gotta say, I'm scared stiff and excited at the same time. I'm going to miss StarCraft, but I can deal. I have a few questions about conversions.

First the really good news. I heard that Starcraft will run under Wine, so you might not even need to miss it.

!.) How can I convert my IE5 bookmarks to Linux Netscape? 2.) How can I convert my saved E-mail in outlook express to the e-mail clients in Linux.

I don't know how, but I do now that tools for doing this exist. For the mail, you can cheat a bit by installing Eudora on your windows machine and tell it to import the mail from Outlook Express. Afterwards, you will find your mail folders in Eudora's directory. These folders are the same format as standard Unix/Linux mail folders, and can simply be copied over.

I bought Suse 7.0 and am slightly familiar with pine from college UNIX days. Should I try to convert to plain text and just save them? Or can I integrate them into my pine? Or is there a better E-mail client I should use for Linux

I was in a similar situation - my university used Pine on VMS, so I use Pine on Linux now. Other people like Mutt or Kmail or some plugin for Emacs. Just try out a few and use what you like. Unlike in Windows, most mailers on Linux use a standard file format, so switching between them is rather easy.

Also *any* other first-time-using-Linux-scared-stupid-how-can-I-make-this-easier advice you could give me would be greatly appreciated. Feel free to reply to my e-mail instead of the group if need be. I'm anxious to change but am scared by glibc's and all the other incredibly cryptic terms used in Linux.

Regards Ole

From: EagleIce Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 11:02:17 +0100 Message-Id: <00111712012100.00740@Kattholt> Subject: Re: [SLE] Newbie question Hi Bryan! Remember; you can always keep windows on the same box as linux if you have enough space if you accept dual-booting. To your questions: On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, you wrote: [snip] -> !.) How can I convert my IE5 bookmarks to Linux Netscape? The bookmarks in Netscape is just a plane HTML file (almost), so if you don't mind a little HTML tweaking you should be able to convert your IE bookmarks to Ns. I did this myself once and it worked but I don't remember the details. -> 2.) How can I convert my saved E-mail in outlook express to the e-mail -> clients in Linux. I did this too by importing the e-mails to Netscape in Win and then copying them over to Linux Netscape. I think I did this the same way with StarOffice too. -> -> I bought Suse 7.0 and am slightly familiar with pine from college UNIX days. -> Should I try to convert to plain text and just save them? Or can I integrate -> them into my pine? Or is there a better E-mail client I should use for Linux If you are going to use KDE the KMail program is a very good choice to my taste, and in KDE2 it's very good. -> -> Also *any* other -> first-time-using-Linux-scared-stupid-how-can-I-make-this-easier advice you -> could give me would be greatly appreciated. Feel free to reply to my e-mail -> instead of the group if need be. I'm anxious to change but am scared by -> glibc's and all the other incredibly cryptic terms used in Linux. If you are going to install Linux on a single box where you already got Windows I'd recommend that you keep Win and dual boot with Lilo the bootloader, it can be very helpful for a newbie to be able to get back into Win when feeling overwhelmed by all the new things in linux not working, because many things actually don't work as expected and you have to adjust a whole lot manually in the beginning. The more you learn Linux the more you will realize it's flexibility and power and if that's what you like you'll simply love it! Just be prepared for a lot of frustration and pain before you manage to tame this beast the way you want it, if you don't experience any frustration or pain that's great, but if you do then at least you will be prepared...:-) Good luck, ei -- @~~ EagleIce ~ gnu4u@linux.nu ~~@ @~~ Running GNU/Linux & KDE ~~@