SuSE v7.1. The default Netscpe, v4.76, opens without any problems. I've installed v6.2.1 in /usr//local/netsscape. When I open 6.2.1 I get the message 'activation.netscape.com couldn't be found Please check the name and try again' When I close the message window 6.2.1 opens. I've found seven entries in the SuSE database, none of which discuss this problem. What is the solution? Thanks in advance.
On Sunday 24 February 2002 06:55, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:
SuSE v7.1.
The default Netscpe, v4.76, opens without any problems. I've installed v6.2.1 in /usr//local/netsscape. When I open 6.2.1 I get the message
'activation.netscape.com couldn't be found Please check the name and try again'
When I close the message window 6.2.1 opens.
It's trying to connect to the netscape site and persuade you to register for an account or give your password for your pre-existing account. If you are connected to internet prior to starting netscape, you should be able to satisfy its desires.
Netscape connects to activation.netscape.com if you haven't registered Netscape 6.x. If you use it offline then activation.netscape.com won't be found, you won't register and the irritating splash screen will reappear next time. JDL "Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D." wrote:
SuSE v7.1.
The default Netscpe, v4.76, opens without any problems. I've installed v6.2.1 in /usr//local/netsscape. When I open 6.2.1 I get the message
'activation.netscape.com couldn't be found Please check the name and try again'
When I close the message window 6.2.1 opens.
I've found seven entries in the SuSE database, none of which discuss this problem. What is the solution?
If I can make a small suggestion. You could just use Mozilla 0.9.8 which is much faster. Netscape 6.2.1 is built on Mozilla 0.9.4.1 which is just not even close to as polished as 0.9.8. The only thing you really get from Netscape 6 is that it identifies itself as Netscape 6 and a bunch of bloated "shop here, shop often, shop now" stuff from AOL. Go to www.mozilla.org and grab it or you can get rpms of it from the ftpsite under /pub/projects/mozilla. It's much nicer and it also has tabbed browsing which I couldn't live without now. :) Cheers! * John Lamb (J.D.Lamb@btinternet.com) [020224 07:40]: ->Netscape connects to activation.netscape.com if you haven't registered ->Netscape 6.x. If you use it offline then activation.netscape.com won't ->be found, you won't register and the irritating splash screen will ->reappear next time. ->JDL -> ->"Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D." wrote: ->> ->> SuSE v7.1. ->> ->> The default Netscpe, v4.76, opens without any problems. I've installed ->> v6.2.1 in /usr//local/netsscape. When I open 6.2.1 I get the message ->> ->> 'activation.netscape.com couldn't be found ->> Please check the name and try again' ->> ->> When I close the message window 6.2.1 opens. ->> ->> I've found seven entries in the SuSE database, none of which discuss this ->> problem. What is the solution? -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- "I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around the more I think it might not be a bad thing." -JC
Well, I tried Mozilla on Windows 98 SE. I'll tell you what it did. I have been using the Program Manager (Win 3.1) display for years. Mozilla crashed--I could not shut it down--and now I can only bring up Progman in full screen, not in partial screen. When I try to bring it up in partial screen, it just goes away. I am heartbroken. I will have to probably reinstall Windows, and even then I don't know if the program will work. I certainly do not want to reinstall all the Windows programs, some of which require several generations of disks to reinstall. Autocad LT is one. Of course, when I do, the whole progman display will be blank, and I will have to recreate it from scratch. A couple of hours, at least. Yes, I need Windows. I don't necessarilly WANT it, but that's another story. And of course, if I have to reinstall Windows, I will have to reinstall Linux. Gott im Himmel! If there is a Windows Guru out there who can tell me how to make the Progman work in partial screen mode again, I would be enormously grateful. I don't know what Mozilla will do to Linux, but I would avoid it like the plague. --doug At 11:48 02/24/2002 -0800, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
If I can make a small suggestion. You could just use Mozilla 0.9.8 which is much faster. Netscape 6.2.1 is built on Mozilla 0.9.4.1 which is just not even close to as polished as 0.9.8. The only thing you really get from Netscape 6 is that it identifies itself as Netscape 6 and a bunch of bloated "shop here, shop often, shop now" stuff from AOL.
Go to www.mozilla.org and grab it or you can get rpms of it from the ftpsite under /pub/projects/mozilla.
It's much nicer and it also has tabbed browsing which I couldn't live without now. :)
Cheers!
* John Lamb (J.D.Lamb@btinternet.com) [020224 07:40]: ->Netscape connects to activation.netscape.com if you haven't registered ->Netscape 6.x. If you use it offline then activation.netscape.com won't ->be found, you won't register and the irritating splash screen will ->reappear next time. ->JDL -> ->"Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D." wrote: ->> ->> SuSE v7.1. ->> ->> The default Netscpe, v4.76, opens without any problems. I've installed ->> v6.2.1 in /usr//local/netsscape. When I open 6.2.1 I get the message ->> ->> 'activation.netscape.com couldn't be found ->> Please check the name and try again' ->> ->> When I close the message window 6.2.1 opens. ->> ->> I've found seven entries in the SuSE database, none of which discuss this ->> problem. What is the solution?
-----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- "I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around the more I think it might not be a bad thing." -JC
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On Monday 25 February 2002 03.25, Doug McGarrett wrote:
And of course, if I have to reinstall Windows, I will have to reinstall Linux. Gott im Himmel!
Please explain your reasoning. Why on earth would you have to reinstall linux just because you reinstall windows. Sounds silly to me
I don't know what Mozilla will do to Linux, but I would avoid it like the plague.
It won't do anything at all. I've been using it for a very long time. Avoid what you want, but please stop spreading FUD around here //Anders
On Monday 25 February 2002 03.25, Doug McGarrett wrote:
And of course, if I have to reinstall Windows, I will have to reinstall Linux. Gott im Himmel!
Please explain your reasoning. Why on earth would you have to reinstall
At 03:29 02/25/2002 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote: linux
just because you reinstall windows. Sounds silly to me
Of course, Windows will erase the MBR stuff from Linux.
On Monday 25 February 2002 04.00, Doug McGarrett wrote:
At 03:29 02/25/2002 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Monday 25 February 2002 03.25, Doug McGarrett wrote:
And of course, if I have to reinstall Windows, I will have to reinstall Linux. Gott im Himmel!
Please explain your reasoning. Why on earth would you have to reinstall
linux
just because you reinstall windows. Sounds silly to me
Of course, Windows will erase the MBR stuff from Linux.
Ah, you meant reinstall *lilo*. Yeah, that's needed, but it's relatively little work. //Anders
You don't have to reinstall Linux. Boot Linux off the CD-ROM, or off floppies, mount your hard disk /boot or root partition read/write, do a chroot to where the hard disk partition is mounted, do an mk_initrd, lilo, and it'll boot off the hard disk again. Chris Shaker Doug McGarrett wrote:
At 03:29 02/25/2002 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Monday 25 February 2002 03.25, Doug McGarrett wrote:
And of course, if I have to reinstall Windows, I will have to reinstall Linux. Gott im Himmel!
Please explain your reasoning. Why on earth would you have to reinstall
linux
just because you reinstall windows. Sounds silly to me
Of course, Windows will erase the MBR stuff from Linux.
On Monday 25 February 2002 3:00 am, Doug McGarrett wrote:
At 03:29 02/25/2002 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Monday 25 February 2002 03.25, Doug McGarrett wrote:
And of course, if I have to reinstall Windows, I will have to reinstall Linux. Gott im Himmel!
Please explain your reasoning. Why on earth would you have to reinstall
linux
just because you reinstall windows. Sounds silly to me
Of course, Windows will erase the MBR stuff from Linux.
So you don't have to reinstall linux, just reboot from cd select installed system and reru lilo.
At 21:25 02/24/2002 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote:
Well, I tried Mozilla on Windows 98 SE. I'll tell you what it did. I have been using the Program Manager (Win 3.1) display for years. Mozilla crashed--I could not shut it down--and now I can only bring up Progman in full screen, not in partial screen. When I try to bring it up in partial screen, it just goes away. /snip/
If there is a Windows Guru out there who can tell me how to make the Progman work in partial screen mode again, I would be enormously grateful.
/snip/ Yes, I know this is the wrong forum, but if somebody else has the same problem, I found a guru locally, and he steered me in the right direction. This is the solution: In progman.ini there is a line that should look about as follows: Window=4 3 1149 714 1 This appears to be, in order, the x y coordinates from the top of the screen where the window starts and the width by height of the window in pixels, and an unknown variable. These were the numbers I found on another machine. The first 4 numbers were mangled to numbers in the thousands, and the display window was probably in Ethiopia or someplace. Certainly not on my monitor. Moral of this story: It sure helps to have a similar system working somewhere. This certainly applies to Linux also. Another moral: it sure helps NOT to have to fool with a registry. Since this is an old Windows program, it relies mostly on a .ini file. The Linux configuration system makes a lot more sense than registry. Except it would be nice if all the Linux config files had the same .tag and were in the same directory! BTW, Windows XP has a new version of Progman, and it may NOT have a .ini file. Since I don't run XP, I can't conveniently check it out for you. --doug
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