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« on: 31 December 2003, 01:46 »
I tried to update my Mandrake 9.1 PC today using windows update. For some reason it didn't work.

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« Reply #1 on: 31 December 2003, 01:54 »
Hmm, maybe you should call windows tech support.

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« Reply #2 on: 31 December 2003, 02:22 »
You just closed it too soon. It was busy downloading an entire CD image of WinXP.

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« Reply #3 on: 31 December 2003, 02:38 »
Why would you want to downgrade your computer?

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« Reply #4 on: 31 December 2003, 06:04 »
Someone should write Windows Update Support for Linux.
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« Reply #5 on: 31 December 2003, 11:42 »
lol, you got that far on LINUX?  :eek:

I put in Windows Update in Mozilla on XP, and got this right away:



Yet somehow you got to the "check for software" screen...how odd...
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« Reply #6 on: 31 December 2003, 13:12 »
quote:
Originally posted by Laukev7:
Why would you want to downgrade your computer?


Somebody is feeling very witty today, I'm sure.

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« Reply #7 on: 31 December 2003, 22:47 »
WMD, did you make Mozilla identify itself as IE?

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« Reply #8 on: 1 January 2004, 02:51 »
quote:
Originally posted by WMD:
lol, you got that far on LINUX?    :eek:  

I put in Windows Update in Mozilla on XP, and got this right away:

Yet somehow you got to the "check for software" screen...how odd...



Forgot to mention I changed my user agent on Konqueror to Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

[ December 31, 2003: Message edited by: ThePreacher ]

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« Reply #9 on: 1 January 2004, 21:54 »
quote:
Originally posted by TheQuirk: I Just Want Attention:


Somebody is feeling very witty today, I'm sure.



Somebody is feeling very sarcastic today, I'm sure.

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« Reply #10 on: 1 January 2004, 11:03 »
quote:
Originally posted by Laukev7:


Somebody is feeling very sarcastic today, I'm sure.



Somebody is feeling very hungover today, I'm sure.
(it being new years)

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« Reply #11 on: 1 January 2004, 11:30 »
quote:
Originally posted by X11: Troll Erudition:


Somebody is feeling very hungover today, I'm sure.
(it being new years)

[ January 01, 2004: Message edited by: X11: Troll Erudition ]



HAVE YOU GOT ANY HILARIOUS STORIES TO TELL US ABOUT YOUR ADVENTURES AS A DRUNK MAN?

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« Reply #12 on: 1 January 2004, 14:11 »
quote:
Originally posted by TheQuirk: I Just Want Attention:


HAVE YOU GOT ANY HILARIOUS STORIES TO TELL US ABOUT YOUR ADVENTURES AS A DRUNK MAN?



Hrm, I did go streaking, with 2 guys and 2 girls, one of them is a model.
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« Reply #13 on: 1 January 2004, 22:29 »
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ThePreacher:


It looks like Everaldo's theme that he never released for KDE, but fucked up   :eek:  

Anyway, this is the theme I'm using for KDE:

AA Flava. Now I've got to figure out how to change the GTK colours.

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« Reply #14 on: 3 January 2004, 05:47 »
quote:
Originally posted by M51DPS:
WMD, did you make Mozilla identify itself as IE?


No...DOH!!

How do you set that?  I looked through "about:config" and found no such setting...  :confused:
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