Re[2]: [newbie-it] netscape

2000-08-11 Thread Bruno Peroni
Hello peppesan, Thursday, August 10, 2000, 7:38:38 PM, you wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 10:30 AM Subject: [newbie-it] netscape pli l'errore precisamente รจ : netscape is unamle to locate the server pli home.netscape.com pli insieme a : warning:the

Re: [newbie-it] netscape

2000-08-11 Thread Marco Scalas
Prova prima ad aprire netscape, poi ad accedere alla rete attraverso Kppp...dovrebbe funzionare. Ciao __ Do You Yahoo!? Il tuo indirizzo gratis e per sempre @yahoo.it su http://mail.yahoo.it

[newbie-it] irc, xsane e sopratutto SICUREZZA!

2000-08-11 Thread Mulder
Salve a tutta la ML, per quanto riguarda la mia precedente richiesta di aiuto sull'uso di xsane come front end per sane ho trovato la soluzione! se a qualcuno dovesse interessare : - settare configure in./configure CPPFLAGS="-DXSANE_BUGGY_WINDOWMANAGER_WINDOW_POSITION" questa

Re: [newbie] Win-modems

2000-08-11 Thread The_Sandman
Well you could try ww.linmodems.org They are currently developing winmodem support drivers for Linux. Regards. At 11:28 05/08/00 +0300, you wrote: is it any possibility win modems to be supported under linux (mandrake) specialy lucent win modem ... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Mozilla

2000-08-11 Thread Anthony
I'd have to disagree. I've been using Mozilla and Galeon as a replacement for Netscape 4.7x for a couple months now. Netscape is just too ugly and crash ridden for me. M16 was really unstable for me for some reason (M15 was just fine) but the latest M17 has so far been pretty stable. Only real

RE: [newbie] Booting Windows with LILO

2000-08-11 Thread MW
Ummm... i would of thought that fdisk /mbr would overwrite LILO (i might be wrong - anyone knows ? ;o) but to get to windows - press the tab button when the screen shows LILO -- it should reply something like :- Linux windows floppy so if you want windows just type "windows" at the LILO

Re: [newbie] Mozilla

2000-08-11 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 08:10:41PM -0400, Craig wrote: Has anyone set up Mozilla as a browser? If so, do you know of any setup instructions, I can't find any on www.mozilla.com/ Maybe because that's www.mozilla.org PS: Your lines are *WAY* too long. 72 is enough. Alexander Skwar --

[newbie] BladeEnc won't compile... encoding MP3s

2000-08-11 Thread Joan Tur
Hallo! I haven't been able to compile BladeEnc 0.92... it asks for some modifications in file system.h and i suppose i'm doing something wrong... Has anyone compiled it successfully? I've got v.0.82 and it's so slow 8-O Any other way (faster, of course) to encode MP3s? Thanks!! -- Joan Tur.

[newbie] Configuring two SMC EZNET 10/100 for IP Masquerading

2000-08-11 Thread Gregg W. Sirrine
I just bought two SMC EZNET 10/100 network cards for my Linux box. I followed the instructions on the mandrake web site for setting up IP Masquerading (http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Networking/IPmasq/pages/) Everything went very smoothly and seemed very straight forward. I configured

Re: [newbie] Memory detection problem

2000-08-11 Thread Philip Trauring
I just installed Mandrake 7.1 and then ran the helixcode gnome installer. Everything seems to be working fine, expect that neither DrakConf nor RPMDrak will run. On a related note I tried to install OpenSSH (which I downloaded from one of the mandrake mirrors) but I'm told that RPMLIB is

Re: [newbie] transferring files from linux to windows

2000-08-11 Thread Kit Goins
no man, I need to do, just the opposite... linux to windows On Sun, 06 Aug 2000, you wrote: On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, KompuKit wrote: Is there a way to transfer webpages (i.e. html,gif,jpg,) over to windows...BUT, leave the "type case" untouched? I think that mcopy would do what you need. the

Re: [newbie] Where is the serial number for Boot Magic installation?

2000-08-11 Thread Romanator
Thanks Vic, Roman - Original Message - From: "Vic" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2000 12:57 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Where is the serial number for Boot Magic installation? You can try http://astalavista.box.sk they have cracks on there On Thu, 03

Re: [newbie] How can I configure MDK7.1 with another OS using BootMagic?

2000-08-11 Thread Romanator
Paul, Sounds good. I have partically given up on BootMagic. After many unsucessfull attempts, I will try the Boot.ini file in Windows NT4. Thanks Paul, Roman - Original Message - From: "Paul" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2000 5:38 AM Subject: Re:

Re: [newbie] HELP!!! PLEASE, I AM AT MY WITS END

2000-08-11 Thread Jose Alberto Abreu
Kalu Chijioke wrote: 2. I can't get my modem to work too. As described by the ChenLi Tien CM8738 driver, I am supposed to compile the "pctel.o" module, that, I can't find anywhere, I have gone to websites to attempt downloading the file but to no avail, and it isnt included in my

[newbie] Network probs

2000-08-11 Thread Brock Hargett
Having some problems with connecting my linux box to my @home cable connection. I disabled DHCP set it up statically like my windows machine. Now I can ping my IP Address, but I can't resolve any host names. So I can't connect anywhere. Also, under drakconf my NIC is showing up with IRQ I/O as

Re: [newbie] Freshmeat?

2000-08-11 Thread Romanator
Alex, Try freshmeat.net NOT freshmeat.com Roman A V Flinsch wrote: On Fri, 04 Aug 2000, you wrote: Works fine for me. Has anyone else besides me had trouble getting to Freshmeat.com the past few days? I have been having problems on and off for the past week. It seems to

[newbie] Do any of the text editors in Linux support the ASCII format?

2000-08-11 Thread Romanator
Hi everybody, Every time I try to copy text from Kedit to Netscape, for some reason Netscape will not allow me paste the comments. Any ideas? Roman

[newbie] Does any one know how to add information to Boot.ini in Windows NT4 so that Linux will boot up?

2000-08-11 Thread Romanator
Hi, I know Paul has answered this briefly but... Has any one been successfull in adding an entry to the Boot.ini file of WIndows NT4? I would like to see if NT4 will allow me to boot to Linux? I always thought that Windows cannot see the Linux partitions. Regards, Roman Registered Linux

[newbie] Automated Install Never Prompts User Nor Gives the Option To Place Grub in MBR or Linux Partition

2000-08-11 Thread Romanator
In the Linux-Mandrake Install Guide; User Guide for MDK7.1 Chapter 7, Figure 7.19 it shows the user two options: It says that DrakX will ask you where to install Grub: Where do want to install the bootloader? First sector or drive in (MBR) First sector of boot sector or boot partition

Re: [newbie] Freshmeat?

2000-08-11 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
It's freshmeat.net, NOT .com Regards, Ozz. A V Flinsch wrote: On Fri, 04 Aug 2000, you wrote: Works fine for me. Has anyone else besides me had trouble getting to Freshmeat.com the past few days? I have been having problems on and off for the past week. It seems to depend on

[newbie] Still trying to get PINE to work :-(

2000-08-11 Thread Tim
I *LOVED* PINE in school, admittedly it was years ago, and I was just getting used to the university server, but it was VERY fast, handy and good. I've had some luck w/ various ISPs over the years, "trusting" me with shell access and setting up PINE for me, but I've never gotten it to run on my

Re: [newbie] Freshmeat?

2000-08-11 Thread patrick darcy
A V Flinsch wrote: On Fri, 04 Aug 2000, you wrote: Works fine for me. Has anyone else besides me had trouble getting to Freshmeat.com the past few days? I have been having problems on and off for the past week. It seems to depend on which of my isp's dialup numbers I use. I can

[newbie] pppd suddenly stops working after part of 7.0 Deluxe installation

2000-08-11 Thread Andrew Koepke
After installing MDK 7.0 from the installation disk, kppp works fine. After I install some package from the Contributors disk, I can't get kppp to work. It dials and logs into my ISP just fine. Then when pppd tries to start, it immediately quits. I think that it is trying to use /dev/pts/?

Re: [newbie] Linux resources online

2000-08-11 Thread GAPrichard
Then there is the Sears business model: they buy more and more of a smaller companies output, then suddenly cancel. This forces the company into financial distress, ripe for aquisition. The mistake here is for the company to become dependant upon one buyer, but when someone wants to buy

[newbie] 7.1 Install fails to repartition disk.

2000-08-11 Thread Mike Lancaster
This is a first time install from CD on a Toshiba Satellite 4060. It has a single primary DOS/Windows FAT32 partition occupying all of the 4GB disk. The install goes well in automatic install mode, up to the point where the system files are set up. It stops and displays my 4126MB partition and

Re[2]: [newbie] Pine Config

2000-08-11 Thread Gary
Hi Denis, On Sunday, August 06, 2000, 10:43 AM, you hammered out in part about "[newbie] Pine Config": DH You can use IMAP server with pine: DH inbox-path={host}/INBOX DH (POP is not supported) POP is supported (one account at a time), and I have used it for a long time before going

[newbie] test

2000-08-11 Thread Corrado
Can you read this???

Re: [Re: [newbie] Location of Netscape Messenger?]

2000-08-11 Thread Jaguar
I believe in Netscape preferences you can set it up to open Messenger first...then just leave a copy of Netscape open and restart X or make an "Autostart" link to Netscape HTH Jaguar Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 08:37:50AM -0400, RJS II wrote: Hi,

[newbie] test only a test

2000-08-11 Thread eugenefa

[newbie] Test

2000-08-11 Thread eugenefa

[newbie] RedHat 6.2 GUI Login Problem

2000-08-11 Thread Edmund Cham
Hi, I'm installing RedHat 6.2 and every thing work find. I can start x window but i can't get GUI Login screen when i press CRTL + ALT + F7. What i get is a black screen with a square mouse cursor. Can anyone please tell me what's wrong? Thank You. -- -- Edmund Cham [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] kppp pppd died unexpectedly

2000-08-11 Thread Larry Hignight
yo wrote: Hi all I installed Manrake 7.0-2 in mi PC but unfortunately, Is the firths time I cannot enter in Internet using de kppp dialog screen. I have to use linuxconfig to setup my internet account. Do somebody experienced the same problem, the message is pppd daemon died unexpectedly

Re: [newbie] Dual fs's on a Zip drive?

2000-08-11 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
Mike Tracy Holt wrote: I don't think that you can because you're actually mounting one block device. You would somehow have to create two partitions on the one block device and I think you would be running into to many problems. Why not just make the whole thing dos and you would be

Re: [newbie] Boot Magic prompts for a serial number but Icannotfind it

2000-08-11 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
Thanks' Roger. Now the big problem is to get get BootMagic to show Linux. I still cannot configure it with Linux. Which version of windows are you using? If you are using NT, I can tell you a quick way to set up the NT bootloader to boot linux. It works great and if you've got NT on your

Re: [newbie] Fortify

2000-08-11 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
If you have an rpm install on your box now, just do 'rpm -Uvh' and you will automatically replace the old netscape with the new one. If you're using the .tar.gz version of netscape (meaning you downloaded from netscape and installed yourself from a script) then you will have to get rid of it

Re: [newbie] RE: free internet

2000-08-11 Thread Joe Bento
On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, MundellRH wrote: I live in Utah. We have an ISP called freeport.com that does not require any propriatary software, and there are no advertising banners. After setting up their package for Windows, I tried entering the access number, my name and password in kppp setup. I

Re: [newbie] icewm

2000-08-11 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
Thanks Paul! Mike On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Mike Tracy Holt wrote: Hello all, I installed some new RPMS which changed my desktop to icewm and in haste, I did switchdesk kde to get my old desktop back. Now I would like to go back to icewm and play with it a little - is there a quick way to

Re: [newbie] kppp pppd died unexpectedly

2000-08-11 Thread Barry Premeaux
yo wrote: Hi all I installed Manrake 7.0-2 in mi PC but unfortunately, Is the firths time I cannot enter in Internet using de kppp dialog screen. I have to use linuxconfig to setup my internet account. Do somebody experienced the same problem, the message is pppd daemon died unexpectedly

Re: [newbie] Cannot edit menues in taskbar

2000-08-11 Thread Barry Premeaux
Joan Tur wrote: Hallo! When i try to edit the taskbar's menues i get the following message: menu editor hasn't been installed. Does anyone know what .rpm is the menu editor? Thanks! ;-) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joan.Tur.pagina.de

[newbie] Problem with kde/gnome

2000-08-11 Thread KewlBoy
Hi, heya pple i got a problem with kde/gnome. ATM, only root is able to log on to kde/gnome i did a fresh installation of mandrake 7.0 pls let me know what could the problem be Regards, Rick

Re: [newbie] Install to a laptop without a CD drive?

2000-08-11 Thread Carjam
Yes. It is expensive. It is also free, if you know where to look. Not sure how much it costs for an official copy. Interlink, however, is free. It comes with dos, and it is technically illegial to download or distribute it. But it is not for sale anywere, so your not doing anything wrong, right?

Re: [newbie] Lost CD-RW??

2000-08-11 Thread Carjam
I can tell you how to find the irg in windows 98: You have to right-click on the my computer icon, select properties, select the tab 'device manager', find your cdrw from the list, select it, click properties, select resources, there is the info you need. - Original Message - From:

Re: [newbie] modems, please help ....

2000-08-11 Thread Mark Weaver
Ok...through out the directions. They're not any good. Well, at least the one's that you're reading. There's a real easy way to set up your modem for use. Actually there are two easy ways for you to accomplish this. the first is the old fashioned way and that's to define your modem and dialup

[newbie] Partitioning an existing W98 drive on Toshiba laptop

2000-08-11 Thread Al Anastasi
I want to install 7.1 on my Toshiba Satellite 4080XCT laptop which currently has Win98 installed with no partitioning. I do not want to re-install Windows or lose any of my current data. I have plenty of space for a 1.5GB partition for Linux. Will the utilities in 7.1 allow me to partition my

[newbie] ftp proxy question

2000-08-11 Thread bascule
my isp here in the uk only allows ftp via its proxy on the particular account i use (claranet freetime unlimited). i just tried to use 'update' but it hung on 'please wait while fetching the list of upgrade packages' i think this is because of the proxy issue, is there a way to tell this feature

Re: [newbie] *delicate cough*

2000-08-11 Thread Darren Hall
It would be better if you actually researched something before you went spouting off. You really have done an outstanding job at making yourself look completely incompetant. - Original Message - From: "Adrian Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000

Re: [newbie] Updating kernel w/ Mandrake Updater

2000-08-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, you wrote: Mark Hillary wrote: Come on updating the kernel is not has hard as everyone makes out. (I find it easyier that installing programs). There are several resons to. The kernel that comes with mandrake haas about everything turned on, so you can have a faster

[newbie] Changing Default App's

2000-08-11 Thread The Neptune
Hi, I was digging around Kde using Mandrake 7.1 and can not seem to find anyway to change the default applications asigned to files. like if i click on a text file Kedit comes up. But I would like to change it so that gedit comes up. etc. Hope someone can help.

Re: [newbie] Install to a laptop without a CD drive?

2000-08-11 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Carjam wrote: Yes. It is expensive. It is also free, if you know where to look. Not sure how much it costs for an official copy. Interlink, however, is free. It comes with dos, and it is technically illegial to download or distribute it. But it is not for sale anywere, so your not doing

Re: [newbie] *delicate cough*

2000-08-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, you wrote: somebody said: "Windows 3.0 thru 3.11 are not opperating systems. They are just shells, running on top of dos. Windows 95 is an opperating system. It contains a completly new filesystem(fat32 and fat16 with changes to support long filenames) and a new io.sys.

Re: [newbie] ftp proxy question

2000-08-11 Thread Darren Hall
some sites hang because the site is no longer valid. have you tried another site? - Original Message - From: "bascule" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2000 6:45 PM Subject: [newbie] ftp proxy question my isp here in the uk only allows ftp via its proxy

[newbie] New printing system for Linux-Mandrake

2000-08-11 Thread Jacques Le Marois
If you have problems with your printer - don't hesitate to test the new print system - Cups which is much more powerful than the former one. If there is a fix to make please contact directly Till ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) INSTALLATION Uninstall LPD: rpm -e rhs-printfilters lpr

[newbie] window manager question

2000-08-11 Thread Adrian Smith
a bit ago someone said "If you choose to use the Sawfish Window Mamanger (which has replaced Enlightenment as GNOME's default WM), then you may want to fiddle around with the settings to get it working the way you want it." now, i'm confussed about something here i was thinking that

Re: [newbie] *delicate cough*

2000-08-11 Thread Adrian Smith
really? which part is wrong? oh, my feelings Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Netscape For Linux Problem

2000-08-11 Thread Steve Howes
On Tue, 08 Aug 2000 08:18:46 GMT it was written: Ps: where to get that "Registered Linux User #"? Go here http://counter.li.org/ -- Steve - Cheltenham, UK - In love and light we are In darkness we are no less

Re: [newbie] *delicate cough*

2000-08-11 Thread Renaud OLGIATI
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Darren Hall wrote: It would be better if you actually researched something before you went spouting off. You really have done an outstanding job at making yourself look completely incompetant. Could you please elaborate ? Adrian's answer seems "competant" enough, and I

Re: [newbie] AOL for Linux

2000-08-11 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA This is freakin' hysterical Larry. Dacia --- Larry Hignight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anthony wrote: AOL uses it's own special login software and so it's impossible to connect to AOL in Linux since AOL doesn't make a linux version.

RE: [newbie] *delicate cough*

2000-08-11 Thread webmaster
Sorry to break into this thread. It caught my attention. A friend of mine told me a story about the birth of Win95. A few guys who worked for a company were bought by "MickeySoft" ... one of the guys for this purchased company thought it would be interesting to move DOS to 32 bit. As the

Re: [newbie] Cable Modems and NIC cards

2000-08-11 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
which brand of cable is it? I have ATT and they do not use DHCP. Its static IP's. Your info should be on the receipt the installation guy gave you. Once again, these directions are (probably) only good for ATT @home service. go to the network configuration tab in DrakConf Enter your

Re: [newbie] Updating kernel w/ Mandrake Updater

2000-08-11 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
The biggest reason I haven't done it yet is because I can't seem to find a really good walk through for doing it. I'm adventurous but I don't want to go there without a little backup. Do you know where I could find a good walk through? Hey, Mandrake peoples, hows about a neato kernel

Re: [newbie] *delicate cough*

2000-08-11 Thread Darren Hall
You can just press the esc key to watch it boot as well. BTW, how do you run 32 bit applications in DOS? - Original Message - From: "Tom Brinkman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 3:35 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] *delicate cough* On Fri, 11 Aug 2000,

Re: [newbie] Updating kernel w/ Mandrake Updater

2000-08-11 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
thanks Tom. You answered my questions before I sent them. I've pretty much ruined my recent install by mucking about trying to get X 4.01 installed and working. I suspect I need to re-install so I'm going to "practice" updating the kernel before I do that just for shits and giggles. Dacia

Re: [newbie] *delicate cough*

2000-08-11 Thread Adrian Smith
Tom, actually, i'm totally wrong as someone on the list pointed out to me. i made myself look like an idiot =) but i'm touched that he (she? i didn't pay attention) cares about me. =) my only reason for suspecting that more happened between win95 and win98 is things such as my experience

Re: [newbie] *delicate cough*

2000-08-11 Thread Carjam
Well, win95 isn't very much dos, but I will admid the same dos core is underneath all the gui memory useing stuff. I didn't know about the pkzip thing, but I know laplink 95 will not run under 98. I found a rumor you might be intrested in: Did you here about microsofts encription program? It

[newbie] usb backportpatch

2000-08-11 Thread Ed Santiago
I have tried to install the backport patch usb-2.4.0-test2-pre2-for-2.2.16-v3.diff.gz when I use the patch command in the terminal it says that it is not a recognized command. Is thepatchcommand not a command in the bash shell? Ed

Re: [newbie] RPM announcements

2000-08-11 Thread Steve Howes
On Tue, 08 Aug 2000 10:15:37 -0400 it was written: Is anyone building RPMs for Mandrake outside of the regular channels? Is there an announcement list for that? I'm familiar with sites like freshports.org for FreeBSD, LinuxMafia for Slackware, Ryan Weaver's Falsehope stuff for RedHat.

Re: [newbie] *delicate cough*

2000-08-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, you wrote: It would be better if you actually researched something before you went spouting off. You really have done an outstanding job at making yourself look completely incompetant. We don't need personal attacks here either. Everyone is _entitled_ to give their

RE: [newbie] *delicate cough*

2000-08-11 Thread Adrian Smith
i have never used WinNT, tho i almost installed it when i went to Linux - then decided not to due to lack of drive space for 3 operating systems. when i get a larger drive for my OSs i want to do a Win98/Linux/WinNT system so i can learn NT, but as you allude to, i was under the impression

[newbie] things other than linux (not a complaint) =)

2000-08-11 Thread Adrian Smith
ya know there have been lots of interesting things said here about old computers, other OSs, the history of the GUI such. it really isn't about Linux, and this list seems to deal with things like this well, but as i was reading today i thought it might be interesting to have a list

Re: [newbie] Does any one know how to add information to Boot.ini inWindows NT4 so that Linux will boot up?

2000-08-11 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
Romanator wrote: Hi, I know Paul has answered this briefly but... Has any one been successfull in adding an entry to the Boot.ini file of WIndows NT4? I would like to see if NT4 will allow me to boot to Linux? I always thought that Windows cannot see the Linux partitions. Regards,

Re: [newbie] Updating kernel w/ Mandrake Updater

2000-08-11 Thread Patti Wavinak
I personally cannot thank Tom enough for mentioning mandrakeuser.org (btw there is no www first). It has a wealth of information in it. I plan on utilizing this resource so frequently that I even filed it on my personal toolbar in Netscape so I wouldn't have to hunt for it in my bookmarks. :-) I

Re: [newbie] *delicate cough*

2000-08-11 Thread Adrian Smith
"Carjam" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4:11:49 AM 8/11/00 IE sends back information to microsoft? I knew it can be made to do that by microsoft, but I dont think it does it every time. adrian replys: i dont' know the specifics actually. the story as i read it is this. when Win95 first came out, one of

Re: [newbie] Install to a laptop without a CD drive?

2000-08-11 Thread patrick darcy
"Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root" wrote: Jeff Malka wrote: Is Laplink a commercial product? Yes it is. The latest release is LapLink 2k, and is available from www.laplink.com. No sign of a Linux version though... Regards, Ozz. i think it is rather cool that some of u have the

RE: [newbie] Freshmeat?

2000-08-11 Thread Romanator
Try Freshmeat.net rather than Freshmeat.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of patrick darcy Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 9:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Freshmeat? A V Flinsch wrote: On Fri, 04 Aug 2000, you wrote:

RE: [newbie] Do any of the text editors in Linux support the ASCIIformat?

2000-08-11 Thread Romanator
Thanks Alan, Registered Linux User #179293 Keep your penguin happy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alan Shoemaker Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 12:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Romanator Subject: Re: [newbie] Do any of the text

Re: [newbie] Updating kernel w/ Mandrake Updater

2000-08-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, you wrote: I personally cannot thank Tom enough for mentioning mandrakeuser.org (btw there is no www first). It has a wealth of information in it. I plan on utilizing this resource so frequently that I even filed it on my personal toolbar in Netscape so I wouldn't have

Re: [newbie] things other than linux (not a complaint) =)

2000-08-11 Thread patrick darcy
Adrian Smith wrote: ya know there have been lots of interesting things said here about old computers, other OSs, the history of the GUI such. it really isn't about Linux, and this list seems to deal with things like this well, but as i was reading today i thought it might be

Re: [newbie] Updating kernel w/ Mandrake Updater

2000-08-11 Thread =*=
Very cool. I followed his simple instructions about using Openssh and now I'm using it. Wow. Phil On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, you wrote: I personally cannot thank Tom enough for mentioning mandrakeuser.org (btw there is no www first). It has a wealth of

Re: [newbie] *delicate cough*

2000-08-11 Thread Kathleen Dickason
Hey Kathleen, Hi Roman Also, Outlook sux. :P I have to use it at work. Why do you have to use it at work ? Can't you download another email client ? Roman We have to use it becuse our small company wants everyone using the same software, and there is a temporary moratorium on internet

Re: [newbie] *delicate cough*

2000-08-11 Thread Kathleen Dickason
Its okay Kathleen! I've still got my old vintage 1987 Atari Mega ST with 4 megs of Ram and Motorola 68000 CPU running @ 16mhz. grin Go you! :) (4 whole megs! hee! for the time that rocked) :) As for the Amiga, I owned several in my younger days, they were simply great machines for their

RE: [newbie] *delicate cough*

2000-08-11 Thread Kathleen Dickason
get a new hard drive! that's what i did! *grin* master 10 gig drive - win 98 linux mandrake 7.1 slave 13.6 gig drive - BeOS freeBSD whoknowswhat next ;) i have never used WinNT, tho i almost installed it when i went to Linux - then decided not to due to lack of drive space for 3

RE: [newbie] Does any one know how to add information to Boot.ini inWindows NT4 so that Linux will boot up?

2000-08-11 Thread Kathleen Dickason
# in front of the line i find vim easier to use than emacs *ducks potential flames* Michael, What syntax do you use for commenting out lines in Linux? Registered Linux User #179293 Keep your penguin happy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf

Re: [[newbie] window manager question]

2000-08-11 Thread Michael Scottaline
"Adrian Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a bit ago someone said "If you choose to use the Sawfish Window Mamanger (which has replaced Enlightenment as GNOME's default WM), then you may want to fiddle around with the settings to get it working the way you want it." now, i'm confussed about

Re: [newbie] RE: free internet

2000-08-11 Thread Michelle Schneider
https://www.mailandnews.com offers free usenet and email. Michelle Joe Bento wrote: On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, MundellRH wrote: The main disadvantage I've seen with the free internet companies is none of them offer usenet. This is probably the major reason I've kept my Mindspring

Re: [newbie] AOL for Linux

2000-08-11 Thread Christopher Mills Wolfe
Mark Weaver wrote: AOL is the only ISP, (if you can call them that) that cares whether you're running Linux, BeOS, FreeBSD Windows...or whatever. Just my two cents. suggesting that some ISP's are friendly to Linux and some aren't is kinda strange since a lot of the ISP's are running either