Fix for Outlook quoting (was Re: AARRRRGH!!! (was RE: Linux Install error)

[jkinz at kinz.org (Jeff Kinz)]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 08:41:14AM -0500, Don Levey wrote:
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> From: discuss-admin at blu.org [mailto:discuss-admin at blu.org]On Behalf Of
> Jerry Feldman
> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 7:40 AM
> To: discuss at blu.org
> Subject: Re: AARRRRGH!!! (was RE: Linux Install error)

Aha - four lines to say "X said:"  and no quoted line prefix
character at the beginning of quoted lines.

The telltale signs of the Outlook email clients!

GOOD NEWS- There is a fix for Outlook that sets Outlook up to respond
to emails in the normally accepted fashion:

Here is the URL:

http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/
(Click on downloads at the top of the page)

And one for Outlook Express:

http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/
(Click on downloads at the top of the page)


In the Spirit of the Season
Happy <insert your holiday normally celebrated near solstice here>!




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> On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 22:45:06 -0500
> "Don Levey" <lug at the-leveys.us> wrote:
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> > I've just spent a most frustrating 36 hours.
> >
> > I've been putting together a new machine (hardware specs below), and
> > attempting to create a dual boot (Win2k and Fedora).  The Win2k
> > installation went smoothly.  Linux, not so much.
> >
> > New machine:
> > Motherboard: ASUS A7V8X-X
> > CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (1.91Mhz +512 L2 cache)
> > Memory: PC2700 512 Mb
> > Disks: (1) 40 Gb Western Digital
> >        (1) 120 Gb Maxtor
> > CD R/W & DVD combo
> > Video: ATI RADEON 9600 PRO
> > NIC, Sound integrated with Motherboard
> >
> > I've installed Win2k on the 40Gb drive, set up as hda.  I've set up
> > two partitions, for a C & D drive, and a small extra partition to be
> > used for/boot on linux.  No problems so far.
> I think the other posts are pretty good.
> I never use a /boot partition. The original reason for /boot was because
> of a limitation in LILO that was corrected several years ago. However,
> on reason for having the /boot file system is that you can protect it
> from some problems and corruption in normal operation by keeping it
> unmounted.
> In our installfests we always encounter a problem where some distro does
> not install on some hardware. However, we have generally switched to
> another distro and everything installs. I've been very successful with
> SuSE, but Mandrake and Red Hat 9 have always worked well. I teach Linux
> on the Desktop at Northeastern, and we installed SuSE 8.2 as a network
> install in class, dual booted with Windows XP.
> - --
> Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
> Boston Linux and Unix user group
> -----------------------------------
> 
> Well, I think I found the problem.
> I thought I had it, but found things were getting very slow.  Trying to get
> a root login at the console showed me massive numbers of I/O errors on hdb.
> When I installed this last time, I had accepted the formatting already on
> the disk in the hopes of bypassing the previous problems; I tried to
> reinstall formatting everything from scratch.  Same errors.  When I rebooted
> (warm or cold) the BIOS gave me a SMART error indicating that drive failure
> was imminent.  I'm arranging for an exchange now; hopefully that is the
> cause of all the problems.
> 
> I was using a boot partition, not because of the 1024-block problem, but
> because I had been told that the /boot partition must be on the same
> physical drive as the MBR.  I've been able to do an XP/RH9 dual boot on my
> wife's laptop without issue, but that's one drive only.
> 
> Thanks for the help,
>  -Don Levey
> 
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