Linux apps like Quicken are badly needed 3368 plus 1

Larry Qualig

Understandable. I just haven't reached a point where writing those kinds of things by hand is a problem for me, especially since my wife usually does it.

Yeah, She uses DVDDecryptor and DVDShrink to do that on the windows machine. I have read threads in other groups that explain how people manage the same thing in Linux, just haven't had the need-desire to work it out for myself yet.

One thing I was never able to get working this time around was playing mp3s that resided on my xp box with xmms on the Ubuntu box. I finally gave up on it and moved them onto a samba server where everyone can see and play them from all the machines on the network. Bloody frustrating experience though.

Someday I will prolly come sniffing around for a program to do video conversions and edits with like I used to use Adobe Premiere too. But I just haven't had the time lately to need to do that.

Since we are on the subject of these kinds of things. Anyone around here know how to write a script that I can make xp pro run at log in that will handle the logging into my Samba server bit. I don't run a domain at home, and my wife and I don't have pbuttwords for logging into Windows so making it part of joining the domain doesn't really work. I know how to make xp run a script at log in, but don't know how to write the script to make it connect to Samba. (Yes I am asking for a handout here, almost all of my curiosity energy is going into exploring Linux, not tweaking Windows these days.)

I can actually be e mailed at usenet at jamesrobert dot us if anyone feels the need for some reason.

Ryan