[newbie-it] Domanda stupida sul puntatore....

2000-05-28 Thread Choppo Man
Ciao a tutti! Sono un utente nuovissimo di Linux.ho installato la distro Mandrake senza troppe difficoltà. Ma qualcuno sa dirmi perchè il puntatore del mouse è un quadrato grande quanto le icone? Come posso fare per ridimensionarlo? Grazie a tutti! Choppo

[newbie-it] Yahoo! Risposta automatica

2000-05-28 Thread wfontanini
Your e-mail has been received. Thank you la tua e-mail é stata ricevuta. Grazie Original Message: X-Track: 2: 40 Received: from mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (216.71.84.35) by mta220.mail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 28 May 2000 05:34:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from

[newbie-it] Come partizionare l'HD senza perdere informazioni?

2000-05-28 Thread Matteo Merlin
Ciao a tutti! Sto scaricando l'immagine ISO di Linux Mandrake 7 e mi è sorto un dubbio amletico: C'è un modo per creare la nuova partizione Linux senza perdere i dati che ci sono sul mio HD nella partizione di W98 ?Naturalmente so chedovrebbe esserci la possibilità di installare linux

[newbie-it] Yahoo! Risposta automatica

2000-05-28 Thread wfontanini
Your e-mail has been received. Thank you la tua e-mail é stata ricevuta. Grazie Original Message: X-Track: 1: 40 Received: from mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com (216.71.84.35) by mta116.mail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 28 May 2000 11:48:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from

Re: [newbie-it] Come partizionare l'HD senza perdere informazioni?

2000-05-28 Thread Choppo Man
Ciao! Non sono sicuro di avere capito. Sono un principiante.eh eh eh Io ho installato prima Win 98 e poi la distri Mandrake senza problemi di partizione o sovrascrittura. Infatti in installazione automatica ti fa vedere le partizioni esistenti e ti chiede come e dove vuoi fare l'installazione

[newbie] Video adapter installation

2000-05-28 Thread Mark D. Flood
Greetings: I've just installed Mandrake 6.5 from CD, and my graphics resolution is so big that KDE is barely usable. Unfortunately, the install didn't recognize my Dell adapter (the Dell documentation just says it's an Intel 810e w/ 4MB RAM). How does one go about adjusting the video driver

Re: [newbie] what are all these RPMs and programs

2000-05-28 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Oliveropen Konsole, navigate to /usr/bin and begin launching. Some will be gui based, others will be console based and some won't appear to do anything. Enjoy. Alan "Oliver L. Plaine Jr." wrote: what is in it? Sat, 27 May 2000 10:07:33 How did all of you solve this problem

Re: [newbie] what are all these RPMs and programs

2000-05-28 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Oliverone more thing. Navigate to /usr/doc and start reading. Alan "Oliver L. Plaine Jr." wrote: what is in it? Sat, 27 May 2000 10:07:33 How did all of you solve this problem when you were a newbie? I have hundreds of unknown to me programs on this Mandrake...I discover what

Re: [[newbie] Discussion: Changes Found in Mandrake 7.1

2000-05-28 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Paulwith or without docs you can pre-order 7.1 at: http://www.LLand.com/products/ Alan Paul wrote: On Fri, 26 May 2000, Michael wrote: HOW CAN I BUY 7.1 WITH DOCS OR WITHOUT? -michael- BY WAITING UNTIL IT COMES OUT. Sorry for shouting back. Paul

[newbie] please help

2000-05-28 Thread KompuKit
Hi, this is Kit (again) I still can't post to the newbie list I can recieve posts from everyone else... on the list...but I can't get a confirmation on my posts...at all. I used to get back my posts which confirmed to me...that they were posted. But right now, I can't get them

Re: [newbie] An Word on Linux Drivers for Iomega ZIP Drives?

2000-05-28 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Romanmy 100mb scsi zip drive installs w/o anything special as well. Alan Eric MC DECLERCK wrote: Romanator wrote: Has any one tried the Linux drivers for Iomega ZIP drives? Roman What driver ? I have an Iomega zip 100MB. ATAPI. No driver needed, I've set it up without pbs.

[newbie] i'm gotting this in telnet

2000-05-28 Thread Michael \(Nozy\) Falzon
Hi All I keep getting crap in telnet windows when i go in to all the conf programs ie like this ( linuxconf ) and it looks this bad . ÚÄ Linuxconf 1.16 (subrev 2-1) Ä¿ ³ This is the main entry to Linux configu ration. ³ ³ ³ ³ Use the TAB key to navigate between the

Re: [newbie] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION : NIC/Cable/DSL/ISDN

2000-05-28 Thread Fran Parker
Hi Denis, This is Bambi (or Fran if you prefer) Is that the same for my thoughts on the next Mandrake as well Denis? :) (Hadn't seen any reference to mine either...didn't know if the comments were not received or not received well, or what :) Just kidding here, Denis :) But I would be

Re: [newbie] @home (was DSL) Correction

2000-05-28 Thread Dave Lers
On Sat, 27 May 2000, Romanator wrote: Yikes. This is a case of not pasting some lines as shwon below: Under: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE="eth0" IPADDR="24.xxx.xxx.xx" NETMASK="Subnet_mask" "255.255.254.0" ONBOOT="yes" BOOTPROTO"none" DHCP_HOSTNAME="cr123456-a"

Re: [newbie] what are all these RPMs and programs

2000-05-28 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
try RPMDrake to see which RPMs are installed and to uninstall the ones you don't want. There are pretty good explanations for what the programs do too. Dacia --- "Oliver L. Plaine Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what is in it? Sat, 27 May 2000 10:07:33 How did all of you solve this

Re: [[newbie] Discussion: Changes Found in Mandrake 7.1

2000-05-28 Thread Michael
Charles- I have a cd rw but it's just an expensive 24 spin cd rom as far as i , idiot that i am, can use it. It's a panasonic 7585 and although i followed the instructions in the muo howto, i still am only able to read fron it but hey, my windows 98 wont even recognize it! =michael=

[newbie] kppp wierdness]

2000-05-28 Thread Altoine Barker
Yo Andrew, Your problem may not be a "kppp" problem at all. If you can use other networking protocols, the problem can be one of or both of two things. DNS IP configuration incorrect and something is wrong with your browser. In my opinion, I believe it to be your browser alone. If you cant FTP

Re: [newbie] DISCUSSION - one of the kind

2000-05-28 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
Yea. No problem. I'm at work right now so it'll be a few hours. I'll try to get it posted by 10 or 11pm PDT. Dacia --- "Oliver L. Plaine Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 27 May 2000 00:07:55 -0700 (PDT),Dacia wrote: If you want I will give you a (reasonably) comprehensive list

[newbie] Creating Program.kdelnk

2000-05-28 Thread Romanator
After downloading a well known audio/video player from the Internet, and installing the rpm file at 'root', I tried to create a .kdelnk on my virtual desktop. However, I am getting many mime errors while logged in as user. The mime errors do not appear while I'm logged in as 'root'. The first

[newbie] Registered Users of Linux Mandrake 7.0

2000-05-28 Thread Romanator
If we purchased the complete Power Pack 7.0, will we be receiving a free upgrade CD and revised manuals? Since, the manuals are so poorly documented and arranged. Just curious, is this a Customer Service issue? Roman

Re: [newbie] Real Player Audio Support

2000-05-28 Thread Kit Goins
yesgo to my downloads section on my serverlink below On Sat, 27 May 2000, you wrote: Hi, Is there any type Audio of plugin that runs under Linux? Roman -- Registered Linux User:73821 ===KompuKit=== Kit Goins

Re: [newbie] Real Player Audio Support

2000-05-28 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
you can download the real player for linux at their website. It works great and it can't take over your system like it does in windows ;-) Dacia --- Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there any type Audio of plugin that runs under Linux? Roman

[newbie] cdburner troubles

2000-05-28 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
I have a question. In the cdrw set up information here http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hremov3.html they say at step 5.Put the line "modprobe ide-scsi" into '/etc/rc.d/rc.local'. /etc/rc.d/rc.local is a shell script right? Where should it go in that file? Does it matter? It look slike

[newbie] Trying to Open

2000-05-28 Thread Bob
I still get "Trying to open file:/usr/bin/caitoo" when clicking on the link placed on my desktop. On top of that the same message appears when I click on the Caitoo icon in /usr/bin directory. Have downloaded and installed/removed, and reinstalled both the rpm and .tar files, from many

Re: [newbie] DISCUSSION - one of the kind

2000-05-28 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
o.k. Olly. Here goes. The installation process did everything right except make my cdburner go. I got lucky and had no post install hardware configuring to do other then that. I found KDE to be my desktop of choice after trying gnome (too slow and I've got 256 megs ram and a k6-3 400!),

[newbie] subscribe newbie

2000-05-28 Thread Denis Maruschak

[newbie] How to install StarOffice?

2000-05-28 Thread Andelloria
After a successful (whew) install of the Linux Mandrake 7.0 OS, with SOUND even I find I'm having trouble installing StarOffice. Following the directions on the ReadMe file from the StarOffice CD, I'm putting the CD in the CD-ROM drive, logging in as "root", clicking on Konsole, and

Re: [newbie] How do you create a link to virtual desktop and RealPlayer

2000-05-28 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
I have. It works great. The install makes a link in the KDE menu. You can add it to your panel via the panel/add application route. You can put a link on your desktop (in KDE) by this process: right click on the desktop. Choose New/Application. Click O.K. In the KFM window that comes up,

Re: RE:[newbie] Install on 2nd hd

2000-05-28 Thread Edison Gica
Charles: No problem. I have the Mandrake 7 Power Pack. 'Guess we are reading different manuals then. :) I think DiskDrake takes care of the partitioning however at this point I would prefer to use a boot disk to go to Linux. Thanks for your recommendation. edison From: "Charles A

Re: [newbie] Is your email slow

2000-05-28 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
the list is really really slow. Dacia --- Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the email slow or is it just me? Roman __ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/

Re: [newbie] DISCUSSION (Documentation 2)

2000-05-28 Thread Edison Gica
Hi Dr. Havlik: Thanks for your reply. Sure have tried proof reading things. I guess both of us knows the scrutiny in submitting research papers for publication ;) However, I'm sorry to say that it is still the companies responsibility to do their best w/ regards to proof-reading coz the

Re: [newbie] DISCUSSION RPMDrake

2000-05-28 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
that would take an incredible amoutn of HD space. Six discs could be as much as 3900megs and the majority of that would probably be compresed! I suppose if you had 4 gigs just lying around you could copy teh discs into it and then teh rpm drake at that partition or directory. Dacia ---

Re: [newbie] GFCC or better firewall??

2000-05-28 Thread Ed Tharp
May I suggest a swift kick to the keyboard.. lol Vic wrote: Does anyone know how the heck to get gfcc to co-operate? It appears to be a stupid software that wont' do as I command it to. It is a dis-obedient software that is arrogant and won't comply, and there are no instructions

[newbie] Memory isn't being used/found

2000-05-28 Thread Aaron
Ok, I have 192 mb of memory and my Mandrake install only sees/uses 16mb. I searched the archives and found a couple of the same emails. Can someone explain how to fix this problem in a little more detail than the links I have provided here? I am a Linux moron and all help is appreciated.

[newbie] Discussions: Documentation 3

2000-05-28 Thread Edison Gica
Another comment on Documentation :) Kindly check out www.linux-mandrake.com website at look at the Article ' "Latest LINUX-MANDRAKE News in the Press: April 10 2000 - " Perfection, Except for the Documentation " ' I rest my case :) edison

[newbie] Is DrakX really real or do I have a poor video card?

2000-05-28 Thread Aaron
I followed the manual and never saw a fancy easy to use graphical anything. At first I though I got jipped but I couldn't get X to work quite right with the built in Intel video card on my Dell pc so I went out and bought a new ATI card. I went through setup again and I got a couple linux

Re: [newbie] An Word on Linux Drivers for Iomega ZIP Drives?

2000-05-28 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Roman.unless something has changed since its original release, it is a Win9x application. Alan Romanator wrote: Sorry. I think I should rephrase my question. Iomegaware software allows you to pick and choose what you want to and when to back up your files. How can you control the

Re: [[newbie] Real Player Audio Support]

2000-05-28 Thread Altoine Barker
Yo Romanator, go to this site for plugins under Linux: http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger.html Altoine (pronounced "Al-twon") Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there any type Audio of plugin that runs under Linux? Roman

Re: [[newbie] Is your email slow]

2000-05-28 Thread Altoine Barker
Roman, What do you mean? Slow to post to this list or slow to navigate through? Altoine (pronounced "Al-twon") Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the email slow or is it just me? Roman Get your own FREE, personal

Re: [newbie] Colors

2000-05-28 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Glennthe owner.group for your /home/glenn/.kderc file are probably set to root.root and need to be changed to glenn.glenn. This was a bug in the 7.0 iso that got fixed in the 7.0-2 iso. It only happens to user accounts created during the install. Alan Glenn Johnson wrote: Hey all. Got

Re: [[newbie] Discussion: Changes Found in Mandrake 7.1

2000-05-28 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Denis HAVLIK [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GRUB is default now. If nothing was changed recently, LILO gets configured too, but not installed. i confirm !!! -- MandrakeSoft Inchttp://www.mandrakesoft.com In travel.--Chmouel

Re: [newbie] 'ram' sound file sound

2000-05-28 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Back again, I think the file extensions for a Real Player plugin is .ram. RealPlayer is shipped with the PowerPack URL:http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fpowerpack.php3. -- MandrakeSoft Inchttp://www.mandrakesoft.com In travel.

Re: [newbie] An Word on Linux Drivers for Iomega ZIP Drives?

2000-05-28 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Denis HAVLIK [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: :~Has any one tried the Linux drivers for Iomega ZIP drives? I have been using SCSI, PP and ATAPI versions of ZIP for years - all work great. /me use USB ZIP with 7.1 ;). -- MandrakeSoft Inchttp://www.mandrakesoft.com In travel.

Re: [newbie] /usr/src/linux/

2000-05-28 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Andrew Scotchmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi again. Connected with my last mail I have downloaded the bttv-0.6 driver which can run my BT878 Hauppage winTV card. Reading all the info after unpacking it I editeda few files as instructed for my card and did a "make" however I get the

Re: [newbie] MTU test?

2000-05-28 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
vern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a method to test the throughput of a ppp dialup connection in Linux? I would like the chance to optimize my packet length maximum throughput and minimum fragmentation. ifconfig should do everything you need (man ifconfig). -- MandrakeSoft Inc

Re: [newbie] UDMA/66

2000-05-28 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
"pH0-tone" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have ony found a UDMA/66 Driver at promise.com for Linux RedHat. But how to make Linux Mandrake 7.0 recognizing my Ultra66 controller? install the linux mandrake 7.1 beta Hydrogen URL:http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/hydrobeta.php3, ''should'' work. All

Re: [[newbie] Discussion: Changes Found in Mandrake 7.1

2000-05-28 Thread Michael
A more stable Netscape. OR Konqueror, KDE's amazingly versatile and powerful new browser + I f it were there without having to compile, it would indeed be cool! =michael=

Re: [[newbie] Discussion: Changes Found in Mandrake 7.1

2000-05-28 Thread Michael
Isn't XMMS a Winamp clone. I have it in 7.o (air) ie. not unique to 7.1. =michael=

Re: [newbie] Is your email slow

2000-05-28 Thread Paul
On Sat, 27 May 2000, Romanator wrote: Is the email slow or is it just me? It is probably you. You read too fast. *grin* Paul )0(---)0( Finally I know how many stars there are: MANY! )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-)0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208

Re: [newbie] 'ram' sound file sound

2000-05-28 Thread Paul
On Sat, 27 May 2000, Romanator wrote: Back again, I think the file extensions for a Real Player plugin is .ram. Any ideas? You can download a free version of RealPlayer 7.0 for Linux at www.real.com Paul )0(---)0( Finally I know how many stars there are:

Re: [newbie] DISCUSSION Trash Can

2000-05-28 Thread Paul
On Sat, 27 May 2000, Denis HAVLIK wrote: On Sat, 27 May 2000, Neville Cobb wrote: :~Any way to default to the trash can for deleting items rather than the :~way it currently is? What do you mean? He probably means that dropping stuff on the trashcan now saves them. He wants a switch or so, to

Re: [newbie]

2000-05-28 Thread Paul
On Sun, 28 May 2000, pH0-tone wrote: Hi! I have ony found a UDMA/66 Driver at promise.com for Linux RedHat. But how to make Linux Mandrake 7.0 recognizing my Ultra66 controller? And why doesn't W98 need to recognize it even without any drivers? The same at DOS. It needs nothing... W2000 has the

Re: [newbie] what are all these RPMs and programs

2000-05-28 Thread Paul
On Sat, 27 May 2000, Oliver L. Plaine Jr. wrote: Hi Olly, Sat, 27 May 2000 10:07:33 How did all of you solve this problem when you were a newbie? I have hundreds of unknown to me programs on this Mandrake...I discover what they do by accident. For this, a thing called book exists. When I

Re: [newbie] How do you create a link to virtual desktop and RealPlayer

2000-05-28 Thread Paul
On Sat, 27 May 2000, Romanator wrote: Has any one downloaded a RealPlayer rp7_linux20_libc60_i386_b2_rpm? After running the iniital installation, how do you create a link to an executable? I would like to add it to my virtual desktop. Yup, I have it, and it works fine. The program you need to

[newbie] Software announcement

2000-05-28 Thread Paul
Hi all, Here a little note for people who are looking for software. This time a spreadsheet. subject: XESS 4.1.1 added by: Nerijus on May 27th 2000, 00:42 license: proprietary category: X11/Office Applications homepage: http://freshmeat.net/redir/homepage/959345135/ download:

Re: [newbie] netscape files

2000-05-28 Thread Michael
Bill, I looked but didn't touch through the dos icon in my kde desktop and you seem to be right . Windows can be backed up that way too. I am most interested if my napster files can be imported. I don't see why not and am thrilled! Thanks. =michael=

Re: [newbie] adding floppies and cdroms after installation

2000-05-28 Thread Michael
It's good to know I'm not the only person with cdrw woes.

Re: [newbie] Upgrading Mandrake to a higher version in the future

2000-05-28 Thread Michael
Roman, This is something I need to know too! Good question! =michael= Romanator wrote: Will, I have the ability to upgrade Linux Mandrake 7.0 to a higher number or do I have to overwrite the earlier. What will happen to my files. In addition, I was hoping to update the recent patches.

Re: [newbie] please help

2000-05-28 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
On Sun, 28 May 2000, you wrote: Hi, this is Kit (again) I still can't post to the newbie list Oh yes you can:^) Andrew

Re: [newbie] DISCUSSION documentation

2000-05-28 Thread Piero
I would like to be able to submit more useful remarks. There is something, though, which Mandrake should improove: documentation and support. - Manuals are really too poor. - From time to time you discover that an interesting program exists in your system, and you didn't even fancy it was

Re: [newbie]Discussion - Fonts - Please,Dacia

2000-05-28 Thread Piero
The font question is perhaps not "essential", but important: it's a bit depressive to know that you are using a "nobler" os than Windows, yet to have fonts that look dirty and blunt. By the way, the only thing I did when I wanted to "deuglify" them was to insert in Linux some true type fonts;

Re: [newbie] How to install StarOffice?

2000-05-28 Thread Piero
On Sun, 28 May 2000, you wrote: After a successful (whew) install of the Linux Mandrake 7.0 OS, with SOUND even I find I'm having trouble installing StarOffice. Following the directions on the ReadMe file from the StarOffice CD, I'm putting the CD in the CD-ROM drive, logging in

Re: [newbie] netscape files

2000-05-28 Thread Bill Gerber
You could, but a shared directory would have to be on the win partition to be read and written by both win and linux, plus permissions changed on the win partition to allow nsmail to write. Possibly not worth it unless you are still using win a lot. Bill bascule wrote: i will try this

Re: [newbie] rc.local doesn't work

2000-05-28 Thread Claus Atzenbeck
On 27 May 2000, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: I have set up a file /etc/rc.d/rc.masq. In order to start it automatically on boot, I've added the following line to /etc/rc.d/rc.local: if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.masq ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.masq fi

Re: [newbie] kppp wierdness]

2000-05-28 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
On Thu, 03 Jul 2036, you wrote: Yo Andrew, Your problem may not be a "kppp" problem at all. If you can use other networking protocols, the problem can be one of or both of two things. DNS IP configuration incorrect and something is wrong with your browser. In my opinion, I believe it to be

[newbie] Midi support with PCI128 sound card

2000-05-28 Thread Carl Kehley
How is it possible to get a SoundBlaster PCI128 to play midi files in Linux? It is fine on everything else, but I get "cannot open /dev/sequencer" messages for midi. Any advice, solutions, etc? Carl Kehley

Re: [newbie] Colors

2000-05-28 Thread Glenn Johnson
Thank you Alan. The 'glenn' account WAS created during install. Have to see if I can fix it now. Thanks again. On Sun, 28 May 2000, you wrote: Glennthe owner.group for your /home/glenn/.kderc file are probably set to root.root and need to be changed to glenn.glenn. This was a bug in the

Re: [newbie] The Deadly Black Screen at KDE

2000-05-28 Thread Charles A Edwards
Roman The same thing happened to me about 2 weeks ago and I still do not know what caused it and also like you I re-installed. Charles - Original Message - From: "Romanator" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 8:06 AM Subject: [newbie] The Deadly

RE: [newbie] i'm gotting this in telnet

2000-05-28 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
1) The strange characters are because you have not selected a default font which can handle Line Drawing. 2) Why are you bringing up Linuxconf in text mode when you are in X? It should come up in GUI mode. If not you ommitted something essential in the installation. -JMS -Original

Re: [[newbie] Discussion: Changes Found in Mandrake 7.1

2000-05-28 Thread Charles A Edwards
Micheal Is this an OEM product or did you buy it retail. The reason I ask is that the only CD-RW drive listed at Panosonics Web is a PCMCIA drive. All their other recordable drives are DVD-RAM. There is no listing at all for 7585 drive but they do list a 24 speed CR-585 CD-ROM drive. This

RE: [newbie] The Deadly Black Screen at KDE

2000-05-28 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Bear with my partial speculations here. When the computer boots, it sets the initial timing modes for the lowest common defaults for SVGA monitors... When you entered NT, OS did several things... 1) It re-adjusted the timing modes for the video adapter 2) It re-allocated video ram to

Re: [newbie] DISCUSSION - one of the kind

2000-05-28 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Sat, 27 May 2000 21:31:48 -0700 (PDT), Dacia wrote: Hope this gives you some ideas Olly. You can find most all of these programs in the KDE menus. I pretty much just went down the list from applications - utilities. = Sun, 28 May 2000 07:29:38 Thanks for the response Dacia, it

Re: [newbie] what are all these RPMs and programs

2000-05-28 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Sat, 27 May 2000 18:32:42 -0700, Alan S wrote: Oliveropen Konsole, navigate to /usr/bin and begin launching. --- Oliverone more thing. Navigate to /usr/doc and start reading. == Sun, 28 May 2000 08:12:06 Yeppers Alan, the reading never stops..it's like

Re: [[newbie] Discussion: Changes Found in Mandrake 7.1

2000-05-28 Thread AOLShopGAM
In a message dated 5/27/00 9:54:47 PM Mountain Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: P.S. IMHO any newbie who downloads their first install of Linux instead of buying a documented package is truly nuts, --- is truely nuts then...snicker...DLed my first (RH 5.1)managed to install

Re: [[newbie] Discussion: Changes Found in Mandrake 7.1

2000-05-28 Thread Fran Parker
That is my understanding about it being a Winamp clone. And it was on the 7.0 distro disk, I didn't have to go looking for it on the web. Bambi Michael wrote: Isn't XMMS a Winamp clone. I have it in 7.o (air) ie. not unique to 7.1. =michael=

Re: [newbie] Colors

2000-05-28 Thread AOLShopGAM
In a message dated 5/28/00 12:46:26 AM Mountain Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why, when I log on/into KDE as user 'glenn' as opposed to 'root'. do the changes to the desktop not work? Glenn, The settings need to be set in the individual namesie one setup for root, another

Re: [newbie] Colors

2000-05-28 Thread Fran Parker
would another solution be to leave it to owner/group as root/root and check the click boxes to allow groups and/or others to write, execute, etc.? Just a thought. Bambi Alan Shoemaker wrote: Glennthe owner.group for your /home/glenn/.kderc file are probably set to root.root and need to

Re: [newbie] UDMA/66

2000-05-28 Thread pH0-tone
where to see that address? in 'system' of windows i can only see some i/o and memory addresses for U66 controller but i don't know what address to use... thereis a lot of them - Original Message - From: Robert To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 29, 2000 12:18 PM

Re: [newbie] Colors

2000-05-28 Thread Glenn Johnson
Hi Hellmut, check out the reply to my question from Alan Shoemaker. He told me how to fix this small problem. On Sun, 28 May 2000, you wrote: Hi Glenn! Has your user "glenn" been created during install? I have experienced the same thing, it only works for users you have created after

Re: [newbie] An Word on Linux Drivers for Iomega ZIP Drives?

2000-05-28 Thread Romanator
That's okay. You've answered it. Tar. That's even better than the Iomega back up Windows 'watchma call it. Roman Paul wrote: On Sat, 27 May 2000, Romanator wrote: Hi Paul, How can you adjust what folders to back up? The Iomega software allows you to choose all sorts of options. Or

Re: [newbie] Xcdroast

2000-05-28 Thread Mogens Jæger
Paul wrote: On Fri, 26 May 2000, Paul wrote: in the xcdroast-0.96e directory. My burner is a Plextor on a Adaptec 2940 SCSI-card. Before my experiments it worked OK, but now?? Can you still access the CDdrive in any way? If that does not work, there is a bigger problem. I have

Re: [newbie] Is your email slow

2000-05-28 Thread Romanator
I have to read fast. I work in a technical support department, except I run simulations. Any how ... back to Linux. Roman Paul wrote: On Sat, 27 May 2000, Romanator wrote: Is the email slow or is it just me? It is probably you. You read too fast. *grin* Paul

Re: [newbie] How do you create a link to virtual desktop andRealPlayer

2000-05-28 Thread Romanator
I did that. However, when I log in as user, I get many 'kde errors' referring to missing entries to mime=... entry. I have to click on the OK button several times. I deleted the link but the error keep popping up. There must be a configuration file that I cannot find... well not find it. I just

[newbie] Many mails

2000-05-28 Thread Mogens Jæger
Hey list. I have been thinking about, if it is possible to sort/split the list in some way. Reason: My mother-language is not english, so it is rather time-consuming for me to read-trough all the mails in this list - and there are many, with the result, that I am forced to run fast trough the

Re: [[newbie] Real Player Audio Support]

2000-05-28 Thread Romanator
Hi, Found it. Thanks. Altoine Barker wrote: Yo Romanator, go to this site for plugins under Linux: http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger.html Altoine (pronounced "Al-twon") Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there any type Audio of plugin that runs under Linux? Roman

Re: [newbie] An Word on Linux Drivers for Iomega ZIP Drives?

2000-05-28 Thread Romanator
Alan... They are now offering a Linux version but their server will not download it. I tried several times. And, it's operation is not guaranteed. Sounds like they are still working on it. I could not find the webmaster's address. Roman Alan Shoemaker wrote: Roman.unless something has

Re: [newbie] Is DrakX really real or do I have a poor video card?

2000-05-28 Thread Romanator
Aaron... if you can see two penguins, the first one is for root(administrator), and the second penguin should be user. Click once on the second penguin, and type in your password. Roman Aaron wrote: I followed the manual and never saw a fancy easy to use graphical anything. At first I

Re: [newbie] Is your email slow

2000-05-28 Thread Romanator
By the time Sunday comes around, you should receive a ton of emails. Dacia and AzureRose wrote: the list is really really slow. Dacia --- Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the email slow or is it just me? Roman __ Do You

Re: [newbie] How do you create a link to virtual desktop andRealPlayer

2000-05-28 Thread Romanator
I couldn't find the icon either. I works great in 'root' but not under user. I created a Program.kdelnk and deleted it due to errors. I get many mime errors when the user virtual desktop begins. I am wondering if I should change ownership to user? I'm still learning the commands. Roman

Re: [[newbie] Is your email slow]

2000-05-28 Thread Romanator
Hi Altoine, It was slow to post. First, I thought that my provider's server was out. Roman Altoine Barker wrote: Roman, What do you mean? Slow to post to this list or slow to navigate through? Altoine (pronounced "Al-twon") Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the email slow or

[newbie] What happend to Print Screen?

2000-05-28 Thread Romanator
At times, it is easier to email(privately) a print screen of what you are seeing. Is there another way of adding an attachment? I used the Print Screen button but it no longer works with Paint. Was this for Windows only? How do I go about it? Any thoughts? Roman

Re: [newbie] 'ram' sound file sound

2000-05-28 Thread Romanator
Yikes. I have the Power Pack. I should checked my CDs... Now which one is it? I should installed it first rather then downloading it.. Maybe that will resolve the mime errors? Thanks, Roman Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Back again, I think the file

Re: [newbie] DISCUSSION RPMDrake

2000-05-28 Thread Dave Lers
On Sat, 27 May 2000, Dacia and AzureRose wrote: --- Neville Cobb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to see the RPMDrake database already loaded with the programs we can install from the six CD set. that would take an incredible amoutn of HD space. Six discs could be as much as

Re: [newbie] UDMA/66

2000-05-28 Thread Dave Lers
On Sat, 27 May 2000, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: "pH0-tone" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have ony found a UDMA/66 Driver at promise.com for Linux RedHat. But how to make Linux Mandrake 7.0 recognizing my Ultra66 controller? install the linux mandrake 7.1 beta Hydrogen

Re: [newbie] Is DrakX really real or do I have a poor video card?

2000-05-28 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Sun, 28 May 2000 01:01:18 -0500,Aaron wrote: I went through setup again and I got a couple linux penguin images this time but I still didn't get the fancy gui pictured in the manual. === Sun, 28 May 2000 11:21:48 If you can see the Penguin Aaron, login with your password and it

Re: [newbie] please help

2000-05-28 Thread KompuKit
okay...I guess Denis fixed the problem...after I emailed him Andrew Scotchmer wrote: On Sun, 28 May 2000, you wrote: Hi, this is Kit (again) I still can't post to the newbie list Oh yes you can:^) Andrew -- Registered Linux User:73821 ===

Re: [newbie] @home (was DSL) Correction

2000-05-28 Thread Romanator
I know.. I was completely lost in a maze of new syntax. And, the installation and connection to the Internet should have been completely transparent. The installation and user guide(I'm sorry) were very poorly edited. In my case, I found that I had manually edit my files. I would have added

[newbie] KDE Theme Manager

2000-05-28 Thread Pete Q. Lee
Hi, Linux users, I know this is not a big problem but I cannot change the KDE theme entirely when I login as a user. When I change the theme, windows itself still stays at silver color no matter which theme I choose. Other than that everything changes as it supposed to be. However, I can change

Re: [newbie] An Word on Linux Drivers for Iomega ZIP Drives?

2000-05-28 Thread Romanator
Hi Alan, I guess, the confusion is in the operation of the software while in Windows. The operation used visuals i.e. buttons and tabs, and the operation was transparent. Just click on a button and off you go...I was used to a certain frame of thinking and viewing. I will begin using tar. Linux

Re: [newbie] netscape files

2000-05-28 Thread Piero
You mean you can actually share your mailboxes across Windows and Linux? How 'd you do? I share the address books, and i works all right. If I could share the mailboxes, it 'd find it useful. You could, but a shared directory would have to be on the win partition to be read and written by

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