[newbie] problems with lilo

2000-09-08 Thread iagoba
Hi to all :) I got the Mandrake 7.0-2 distribution installed in an AMD 500 mhz with 13.0 gb HD, my problem is that lilo can't be installed in the HD because the linux partition starts in one cylinder bigger than 1024, I downloaded the last version of lilo but I can't install it I got

Re: [newbie] Command Line

2000-09-08 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
Thankyou all very much! Regards Gordon

Re: [newbie] Start X at boot

2000-09-08 Thread Eunice Thompson
as root at the command prompt, type: Xconfigurator go throught he settings and test X, after you're done it will ask you if you want X to start automatically. or you can edit your '/etc/inittab' file and change the default run level from 3 to 5 Eunice On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, you wrote: I just

Re[2]: [newbie] exe files in linux

2000-09-08 Thread boynblack
Hello Christopher, Thursday, September 07, 2000, 11:30:09 AM, you wrote: KC I am very new to this... KC How do you run wine??? KC Thanks, KC Chris Kelly KC Registered Linux user 185775 KC -Original Message- KC From: syhim77 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] KC Sent: Thursday, September 07,

Re: [newbie] I downloaded the .iso files...now what?

2000-09-08 Thread flupke
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, WarmFuzzy wrote: Hello, Which program are y'all using to turn the .iso file into a Linux distribution? I mean besides cdrecord and mkisofs. I have XCDroast, Kisocd and gtoaster. None of them seem to know about an image that ends in .iso. My only experience so far is

Re: [newbie]

2000-09-08 Thread flupke
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Jason Ashman wrote: Out of curoiusity, what are all of your's preferred Window Manager? I currently use WindowMaker. I think it's the best compromise between a light and a user-friendly wm. HTH Flupke -- There's no place like ~

Re: [newbie]

2000-09-08 Thread Manuel Tuthill
Used to use KDE but trying out Enlightenment if I can get the themes working I'll probably stick with it Warmest regards, Manuel Tuthill Original Message- From: flupke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jason Ashman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, September

[newbie]

2000-09-08 Thread Manuel Tuthill
Thanks for the info! But now I'm up against another problem! themes I've gone to www.enlightenment.org who point me to e.themes.org where I find the themes for enlightenment. So good so far I download the themes without a problem and store them in /usr/share/enlightenment/themes/*/*.ethemes

Re: [newbie] problems with lilo

2000-09-08 Thread iagoba
Yeah, I got grub with my distribution but I don't know how to install, u got an instalation/use manual or know if in my distribution exist it? john bodanske wrote: Try downloading "Grub" instead - Original Message - From: "iagoba" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Linux - Newbie" [EMAIL

Re: [Re: [newbie] ]

2000-09-08 Thread Michael Scottaline
flupke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Jason Ashman wrote: Out of curoiusity, what are all of your's preferred Window Manager? I currently use WindowMaker. I think it's the best compromise between a light and a user-friendly wm. HTH Flupke Keep

Re: [newbie] Rpm designations

2000-09-08 Thread Denis Havlik
:~Can somebody explain the difference in .i386 and .i586 designation in rpms :~Sometimes you have a choice and I'm not sure but I think that this is :~referring to processor class. I have a AMD K-6 II 400 and I think the .i586 :~is ok for that processor? Somebody educate me here. Thanks, Dennis

[newbie] RPL

2000-09-08 Thread Manuel Tuthill
Please could somebody help me with RPL! We have many unix box's at work Sco, AIX and Linux but for some reason we cant use RPL on the linux boxes all the other box dont use hosts.allow and the man page is not great what do we have to put in the hosts.allow to enable them to work!! Warmest

[newbie] USRobotics modem problems

2000-09-08 Thread Kandace Little
I can not get this modem working wit Linux not sure why though, It works just find when running windows. It is a sportster 33.6 ENT FAX modem and I find I like the little thing ;). The problem I am having is that when I go to call out, it finds the modem says it is ready then starts to

Re: [newbie]

2000-09-08 Thread A V Flinsch
On Fri, 08 Sep 2000, you wrote: -- Out of curoiusity, what are all of your's preferred Window Manager? I tend to switch between KDE and Gnome. I have tried Fvwm, but I am not too competent on this OS to have full confidence in my command line ability. I tend to use blackbox, while running

Re: [newbie] netscape segmentation fault

2000-09-08 Thread A V Flinsch
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, you wrote: I have just installed Mandrake 7.0 with no apparent problems other than a boot manager issue I'm pursuing in a separate message. After booting and signing on, I try to run netscape from a kde desktop icon. Nothing seems to happen either as root or user.

[newbie] Hot Java

2000-09-08 Thread Robin Regennitter
I just downloaded a web browser from Download.com. After I have been advised to use JDK-1.1.6 to use with the browser, I went back to download that too. So far it's just like a regular browser but cant use some of the feature like I can on Netscape. However it hasnt froze or crashed on me

Re: [newbie] Cable Modem.

2000-09-08 Thread Greg Stewart
Setting up a cable modem to work in linux is usually as easy as setting up a network card. However, apparently depending on your local provider's implementation, there are a couple things to keep in mind: Most cable providers use DHCP to assign the IPs to attached hosts, but some use Static

Re: [newbie] penguin icons

2000-09-08 Thread Larry Marshall
As root... K Menu -- Settings -- Applications -- Login Manager Click on User tab and play, Works like a dream Thanks for the pointer. I guess I'm from the old school so my sys admin stuff is done by my doing an su to root rather than logging on as root. Thus, most of this graphical

RE: [newbie] Video Card

2000-09-08 Thread Kelly, Christopher
I will be playing half-life, ages of empires, and some other stuff. -Original Message- From: Dacia and AzureRose [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 2:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Video Card which games. that is a big issue. If you only

Re: [newbie] netscape segmentation fault

2000-09-08 Thread Larry Marshall
Personally, I feel that the communicator package is a bit of a waste. There are better mail, news and html editors available than what is included. Communicator also seems to be less stable than navigator. Can you name one you like? I'm using communicator right now and it's a considerable

[newbie] Au secours !

2000-09-08 Thread Pierre Duceux
Problème de configuration de la carte son (mandrake 7.1): Machine Compaq presario, processeur AMD K6-2 350 MHZ, 96 MO de mémoire. J'ai essayé HardDrake. La carte son est bien détectée (Ensoniq Soundscape ESS 1869). Tout semble se passer correctement (les valeurs proposées E/S=220,

Re: [newbie] unsubcribe

2000-09-08 Thread Hellmut
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Re: [newbie] USRobotics modem problems

2000-09-08 Thread Robert Griffiths
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kandace Little) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] USRobotics modem problems Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 06:59:16 -0300 Hi, i've got a U.S. Robotics aswell, my speaker don't work either, i'm new to this, when i was setting up my connection,

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Re: [newbie] penguin icons

2000-09-08 Thread John Rye
Larry Marshall wrote: As root... K Menu -- Settings -- Applications -- Login Manager Click on User tab and play, Works like a dream Thanks for the pointer. I guess I'm from the old school so my sys admin stuff is done by my doing an su to root rather than logging on as root.

Re: [newbie] VCD player?

2000-09-08 Thread Lovister LJ
I tried using it but I only get a small size screen and the frames rate is only aroung 18. Not to compare to commercial win programs like XingMPEG which runs at full screen with frames rate up to 30, maybe, Linux needs a little bit more RAM as mine is only 64 Mb. But one thing, which I'am quite

RE: [newbie] Help! Mandrake install destroyed windows registry, keyboard doesn't work in gnome, DSL connection can't be configured......

2000-09-08 Thread Richard Garand
This time I did a full install, with 4 linux partitions, got a bootdisk, and it works. But, when i was done the install, i deleted everything except windows from grub. What are the default choices and the commands to run them? (My partitions are windows, linux/, linux/home, linux/boot, swap, or

RE: [newbie] nic card

2000-09-08 Thread Mark Johnson
I'm sure you're right, but I had two other guys look at it an none of us could figure out how to bring it up (not that that means anything). After several installs the configuration always came up looking like: [root@tux /root]# ifconfig loLink encap:Local Loopback inet

[newbie] Setting up DSL on ISA netcard

2000-09-08 Thread Richard Garand
I have a DSL connection with an ISA network card (Startech NE2000 compatible i think, it didn't come with the computer and i didn't install it). I couldn't setup the network card during the install, so I canceled that part. How do i set up the network card from linux? How do i configure my

RE: [newbie] Very simple question on Partitioning

2000-09-08 Thread Richard Garand
I did this with no problems. First you have to run defrag, and make sure you have enough empty space at the end of the windows partition. Then you run the mandrake installer, and when it gets to the partitioning, resize your windows partition (if there's any warnings like 234443434 210008593

[newbie] Setting up sound card

2000-09-08 Thread Richard Garand
I have a Yamaha Waveforce WF192XG (no, i didn't choose it) PCI sound card. How do i configure it in GNOME/KDE?

Re: [newbie] RESOLVED (7.1 doesn't install at all)

2000-09-08 Thread pablito
An install from the hard disk worked. The bug was in the installation programs dealing with the CDs. Maybe the SCSI-II circuit is a little flaky, but this is strange considering that the installed system has no trouble reading either CD. CDs were an HP CD-writer and a Panasonic, not exactly

Re: [newbie] netscape segmentation fault

2000-09-08 Thread Mark Weaver
Larry Marshall wrote: Personally, I feel that the communicator package is a bit of a waste. There are better mail, news and html editors available than what is included. Communicator also seems to be less stable than navigator. Can you name one you like? I'm using communicator right

Re: [newbie] Cable Modem.

2000-09-08 Thread Patti Wavinak
Personally I would go with DSL if it is available in your area. My reason for this is the main reason a person gets cable or DSL is because of the fast connection and being on 24/7. The more subscribers on a cable line the slower it will access (and download) depending on the amount of

[newbie] Share files dirs between Linux W98

2000-09-08 Thread iagoba
Hi to all, I got one computer with Mandrake 7.0-2 and other with W98 connected by two ethernet cards, and now i want to allow that from linux i could see and manipulate files from a windows directory and also that from W98 I could see and manipulate files from a linux dir, how can I

[newbie] Problem running Perl 5.005

2000-09-08 Thread Irwin
I get locale errors when running Perl. Does anyone know the answer, or know where I should look? ~~ When I run perl, I get warnings. I don't know how to fix them. Can anyone help me fix these? $ perl -w perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale

[newbie] Video editing (2)

2000-09-08 Thread Deno
Video editing (2) (http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=2908081500) Some time ago, Mark Potochnik wrote about "Broadcast 2000", and asked if we could include it in the next LM distribution. The answer is yes: Few days ago, Till has made a package of this extraordinary program:

Re: [newbie] Cable Modem.

2000-09-08 Thread Glenn Johnson
Patti, did you do any speed tweaking with your dsl connection on the Linux box? Glenn... Patti Wavinak wrote: Personally I would go with DSL if it is available in your area. My reason for this is the main reason a person gets cable or DSL is because of the fast connection and being on 24/7.

[newbie] Endless Loop In Grub -to- Windows Boot

2000-09-08 Thread DougC
When I select 'windows' in GRUB my BIOS (phoenix BIOS MB=440bx1 PII 350 ) basically reboots starting me BACK at GRUB where I just was. This goes on until my hand cramps and I give up. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Doug Conrad __ Do You Yahoo!?

Re: [newbie] Minicom Program

2000-09-08 Thread Philip Ferguson
Thanks for the quick response! This is my first time on this list. When I type minicom, it warns me that it couldn't find a configuration file and then tries to find my modem ... which doesn't exist. The reason why I need minicom is to talk to a small credit card sized computer over a serial

Re: [newbie] Modem Problems

2000-09-08 Thread GAPrichard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (pardon me, I misplaced your real name), How did you configure your voicemodem? Since yours and mine are very similar, I would expect your solution to work for me too. My modem is a 3Com / USRobotics, 56K, ISA (I forgot it was ISA, previously I wrongly stated it was

[newbie] Keyboard problem with 7.0

2000-09-08 Thread olof.liungman
Hi, I have recently installed 7.0-2 on a Dell Inspiron 3800 laptop, next to Win98 (yeah, I had to keep it because of work :| ). Everything works great :) except for two things. 1. I have a Swedish keyboard, and everything works fine except for ] and } (this is written in Win98). I simply don't

[newbie] Serial Port

2000-09-08 Thread Philip Ferguson
Which one of the millions of entries in my /dev directory is my serial port? Thanks, Phil _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own

Re: [newbie] rpmfind.net

2000-09-08 Thread Joan Tur
Patti Wavinak escribió: What kind of problems are you having? I go to the following URL: http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/MandrakeSoft.html i then choose a program i want to download and a new window appears... i copypaste to the Web Downloader and... it tryes up to 100 times (default) with no

Re: [newbie] Kmenuedit is not instlled

2000-09-08 Thread Philip Ferguson
Thank you a million times over! Phil From: Barry Premeaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Kmenuedit is not instlled Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 11:28:29 -0700 Philip Ferguson wrote: Hello. I just installed Linux Mandrake 7.1. I

Re: [newbie] rpmfind.net

2000-09-08 Thread Paul
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Joan Tur wrote: I'm having problems while trying to download rpms through rpmfind.net... is it just me?? 8-? You can go to the french mirror at fr.rpmfind.net I am sure that makes it easier for you in Spain. I am in Holland, I use that one also. Paul -- Q: Why are there

Re: [newbie] Serial Port

2000-09-08 Thread Paul
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Philip Ferguson wrote: Which one of the millions of entries in my /dev directory is my serial port? Depends on your setup. If you have a serial port, then you are a very special humanoid! On the pc however: look for /dev/ttyS? where ? = com 0 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 Good

Re: [newbie] Minicom Program

2000-09-08 Thread Paul
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Philip Ferguson wrote: As you can see on the screen: log in as root (or do this through the 'su' command): run minicom -s Set up the default config and save it. Paul Thanks for the quick response! This is my first time on this list. When I type minicom, it warns me

Re: [newbie] How do I run a DOS exe under linux?

2000-09-08 Thread Paul
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Jeff Malka wrote: How do I run a DOS program under linux? I am using Mandrake 7.1 and KDE. I can open a terminal and start "dos" by typing dos. But how do I go from there to start an exe in another partition? Or can I? I don't think that dosemu will do that. Perhaps with

[newbie] Turtle Beach sound card

2000-09-08 Thread Carl Kehley
Are there drivers available for the Turtle Beach Montego II Quadzilla soundcard, and if so, some information on their location and installation, please. Carl Kehley

[newbie] scroll button on mouse

2000-09-08 Thread Mikael Bergsten
I wondering if someone knows how to install my scroll button on my mouse. I uses an USB mouse...

Re: [newbie] Serial Port

2000-09-08 Thread lselinger
ttyS0 and up =) -Lonny Selinger

Re: [newbie] rpmfind.net

2000-09-08 Thread frank
drag it into an open window of kpackage and click install... frank - On Fri, 08 Sep 2000, Joan Tur wrote: Patti Wavinak escribió: What kind of problems are you having? I go to the following URL: http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/MandrakeSoft.html i then choose a program

Re: [newbie] Hot Java

2000-09-08 Thread Roger Pithers
On Fri, 08 Sep 2000, you wrote: I just downloaded a web browser from Download.com. After I have been advised to use JDK-1.1.6 to use with the browser, I went back to download that too. So far it's just like a regular browser but cant use some of the feature like I can on Netscape.

Re: [newbie] Kmenuedit is not instlled

2000-09-08 Thread john bodanske
I've heard this problem before, that it was a bug in the distro of some sort, but can't remember details. Anyone else have braincells left? Dan - Original Message - From: "Barry Premeaux" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 2:28 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [newbie] VCD player?

2000-09-08 Thread john bodanske
mtv now has a full screen extension that you can download - Original Message - From: "Lovister LJ" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 9:32 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] VCD player? I tried using it but I only get a small size screen and the frames rate

Re: [newbie] Modem Problems

2000-09-08 Thread Renaud OLGIATI
On Fri, 08 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (pardon me, I misplaced your real name), How did you configure your voicemodem? Since yours and mine are very similar, I would expect your solution to work for me too. My modem is a 3Com / USRobotics, 56K, ISA (I forgot

Re: [newbie] RE: [expert] Dual Athlon Processors

2000-09-08 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
I've not installed a voodoo3. Perhaps the linux drivers for the voodoo3 are compiled against a different version of glide (or OGL) then the screen savers/plugins that you want to use? Although that shouldn't be the case because my voodoo5 will run screen savers and the xmms plugins and it can

[newbie]

2000-09-08 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
clip: I then invoke e-config select the theme and restart enlightenment I then receive a "it's all gone a bit wrong message" about the module accessing memory it shouldn't. Fri, 8 Sep 2000 13:16:55 Hi Jason and Manuel. I have settled on Afterstep in this 24M ram machine, it

Re: [newbie] Cable Modem.

2000-09-08 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
where are you located? Which service? I'm using @Home right now in seattle washington. I've got an external cable modem and a NIC card in my computer. @Home was kind enough to give me my IP address, DNS IP, Gateway IP, basically all the info I needed to set it up in linux. Other providers

[newbie] OT: cd createing

2000-09-08 Thread Goldenpi
I have been createing cds, for use on both windows and linux, containing programing stuff. I have created it all on my hdd, but when I try to put it on the cd it I am given the choice between iso9660 and some filesystem called jouliet(I think). What is this filesystem, how well supported is it,

Re: [newbie] ISP

2000-09-08 Thread Goldenpi
My school has a program installed so you cant get into explorer. The run command is gone, right mouse button is disabled, all the desktop icons are gone. Its called winlock. If you ever use it, there is one hole. It is possible to reach explorer by useing the hyperterminal option. You cant do

Re: [newbie] Video Card

2000-09-08 Thread Goldenpi
I have 3 pci cards, and 1 agp. The agp is the slowest. agp is probably capable of going faster, but I just cant get it to go above 5, while my pci does 60. The benchmark program I used was the setup program on screamer 2, which runs some tests on the video card. Its agp x4 Linux is not good for

Re: [newbie] RE: [expert] Dual Athlon Processors

2000-09-08 Thread lselinger
Dacia and AzureRose [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 09/08/2000 03:30:14 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] compatibility question?

2000-09-08 Thread Merida, Humberto
Title: compatibility question? Is mandrake compatibal with Windows NT? I have an NT box at work and I want to make it a dual boot. Humberto

Re: [newbie] netscape segmentation fault

2000-09-08 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
I don't mean to sound like a luddite but I really like communicator. I use it for my personal email and my work email. I like the mail reader portion of it too. just my .02 Dacia --- Larry Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I feel that the communicator package is a bit of a

Re: [newbie] scroll button on mouse

2000-09-08 Thread Patti Wavinak
This was a hot topic of conversation when I first joined the newbie list :-) One of the best things that a new newbie giggle can do is go to the archives and check and see if the problem you are having has been discussed and probably solved. With that said -- another excellent source of

RE: [newbie] Video Card

2000-09-08 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
Those are windows only games at this point. Pretty much any new video card will play those games happily. I play half-life and counter-strike every day. On my computer with a voodoo5 I run them at 1280x1024 using the miniGL driver and 4 sample anti-aliasing. They are perfectly smooth. High

Re: [newbie] How do I run a DOS exe under linux?

2000-09-08 Thread Jeff Malka
Thank you. That explains the hours I have wasted trying to figure it out. What use is it for then? -- Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User 348854 On Fri, 08 Sep 2000, you wrote: On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Jeff Malka wrote: How do I run a DOS program under linux? I am using

Re: [newbie] Code Warriors Wanted !

2000-09-08 Thread Vic
What the heck is a "nbsp" ? On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, you wrote: !doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en" html Dearnbsp; forum; I'm interested in speaking with any experienced programmers who are familiar with "Porting" a Windows-Based program to a Linux-based one, whether

Re: [newbie] Cable Modem.

2000-09-08 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
speakeasy says that they support linux. From talking to their tech guys that means they give you all the info you need to set up a standard ethernet connection. They also use linux for their servers. Some of their more expensive programs include a shell account. I've had DSL and cable and I

Re: [newbie] Cable Modem.

2000-09-08 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
My experience was also that DSL is faster in linux then in windows. We had a LAN with three computers on it two were windows and mine was mandrake7.02. My computer was about 20-25% faster then the other machines. We had a 256K ADSL line. I was getting about 60K while they were getting 35-40K.

Re: [newbie] Code Warriors Wanted !

2000-09-08 Thread Kandace Little
nbsp; is used in HTML heh.. it is a space ;) Stephen - Original Message - From: "Vic" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 7:39 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Code Warriors Wanted ! What the heck is a "nbsp" ? On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, you wrote:

Re: [newbie] Hot Java

2000-09-08 Thread Mark Weaver
. With M17 the CPU usage was between 24 and 40 percent with browser and mail client running. It was at a steady 0.03% for build 2908. Quite impressive! When Mozilla is finished it's going to be one HELL of a nice Browser/Email/Editor suite. Functionally it's almost to the same place that Netscape

RE: [newbie] Video Card

2000-09-08 Thread Abe
There are a few games that run very well on linux. Quake3 for example. But, overall I agree with you, linux is not a gaming paradise yet. Abe = Original Message From "Goldenpi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] = I have 3 pci cards, and 1 agp. The agp is the slowest. agp is probably capable of

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection

2000-09-08 Thread patrick
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, you wrote: Trying to connect to the Internet I get the following error message: X The pppd deamon died unexpectedly PPP Log Besides the date and time and local host pppd 867, I get the following information pppd 2.3.11 Started by me, uid 503 using interface

Re: [newbie] ISP

2000-09-08 Thread patrick
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, you wrote: This news group will now be renamed newbiepunctuationspelling [EMAIL PROTECTED] Honestly, it seems it used to be more civil. Gene -- OK, rip-boy...maybe if you learned punctuation and spelling in elementary school, I wouldn't have needed to read

Re: [newbie] lovely suggestion killed my x windows

2000-09-08 Thread patrick
On Fri, 08 Sep 2000, you wrote: well someone suggested i play with the video settings to fix a problem with the windowson my linux the origional problem was everything was too large and changing the resolution had no effect so i was told to chang the color settings i plopped that sucker

Re: [newbie] rpmfind.net

2000-09-08 Thread Dennis Myers
Or you can hold down the shift key while you point and click on the rpm you want. A download screen will pop up showing where the file will be saved. You can change the save location if you want. This is handy if you want to d/l and install later. Dennis Paul wrote: On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Joan

Re: [newbie] Cable Modem.

2000-09-08 Thread patrick
On Fri, 08 Sep 2000, you wrote: Personally I would go with DSL if it is available in your area. My reason for this is the main reason a person gets cable or DSL is because of the fast connection and being on 24/7. The more subscribers on a cable line the slower it will access (and

Re: [newbie] compatibility question?

2000-09-08 Thread Mark Weaver
Mandrake and NT will get along fine on the same drive as long as you have NT installed first and anything else after that. You will probably have to use NT's boot loader too, but make sure you install LILO or Grub to a floppy just in case. Mark

Re: [newbie] netscape segmentation fault

2000-09-08 Thread patrick
On Fri, 08 Sep 2000, you wrote: I don't mean to sound like a luddite but I really like communicator. I use it for my personal email and my work email. I like the mail reader portion of it too. just my .02 i use netscape for browsing, kfm for reading newsgroup and i have just changed to

Re: [newbie] ISP

2000-09-08 Thread Carroll Grigsby
DRACONZNY/the sarcasimist: I guess it is a question of what you are trying to do. If all that you are trying to impress us with how kewl you are, keep it up. If, on the other hand, you are trying to communicate your thoughts and knowledge to the other members of the list (which is its purpose),

Re: [newbie] Minicom Program

2000-09-08 Thread Barry Premeaux
Paul wrote: On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Philip Ferguson wrote: As you can see on the screen: log in as root (or do this through the 'su' command): run minicom -s Set up the default config and save it. Paul Thanks for the quick response! This is my first time on this list. When I type

Re: [newbie] netscape segmentation fault

2000-09-08 Thread Mark Weaver
Darcia, If you like Messenger you're going to love Mozilla mail. I'm using Mozilla right now. It's a little sluggish yet, but the whole suite has really come a long way since the project started and it's almost all there. Mark Dacia and AzureRose wrote: I don't mean to sound like a luddite

Re: [newbie] penguin icons

2000-09-08 Thread Larry Marshall
Long time since I worked exclusively at the command prompt - grin!!! I suppose I'll get used to using all those graphical "aids" but I'm comfortable at a Unix commandline, I was taught that one only logged in as root under the most dire of circumstances, am too lazy to dump out of X and

Re: [newbie] RE: [expert] Dual Athlon Processors

2000-09-08 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
cool. Thanks for the ideas. I was stumped. Dacia --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dacia and AzureRose [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 09/08/2000 03:30:14 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] ISP

2000-09-08 Thread Mwinold
darn mail server returned it, here it is again if i was communicating a thought on that particular message i would have tried to use a somewhat half assed english language, but i was merely spitting out my problem and information, no thought just bulleted listing, no different then a

Re: [newbie] Kmenuedit is not instlled

2000-09-08 Thread Larry Marshall
Romanator wrote: Select K button--Disk Navigator--Menu Editor Looks like they've got it in at least two places on the Kmenu. Thanks for the tip. I do hope that the menus don't get reorganized this much with every .x change of the operating system. Cheers --- Larry

Re: [newbie] Cable Modem.

2000-09-08 Thread Larry Marshall
Cable modems that are set up right on yourend AND the ISP should NOT slow down even if full to the brink with users, that is why there is a Peak Transfer rate/and MIN transfer rate. Just like anything in the computer world..expect less, but pleased when you get the best. :) Ha..."setup

Re: [newbie] Video Card

2000-09-08 Thread Irwin
On Fri, 08 Sep 2000, you wrote: I have 3 pci cards, and 1 agp. The agp is the slowest. agp is probably capable of going faster, but I just cant get it to go above 5, while my pci does 60. The benchmark program I used was the setup program on screamer 2, which runs some tests on the video

Re: [newbie] ISP

2000-09-08 Thread Mark Weaver
Hm...I get the distinct impression this post is dripping with sarcasm. :) Mark patrick wrote: On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, you wrote: This news group will now be renamed newbiepunctuationspelling [EMAIL PROTECTED] Honestly, it seems it used to be more civil. Gene

Re: [newbie] Video Card

2000-09-08 Thread Irwin
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, you wrote: Sweet!!! Thanks Lonny. Any other suggestions??? Save your X Configuration file and MAKE BACKUPS. Even though you think, "There's no possible way that this can screw up"... believe me, something will happen. Nothing's more comforting knowing that you can

Re: [newbie] netscape segmentation fault

2000-09-08 Thread John Rye
Larry Marshall wrote: Mark Weaver wrote: I haven't looked for a while. Does Eudora port a version of their mail program to Linux? Sure wish they did as I would have bought it. But, the Qualcomm people haven't responded to Linux yet :-( Cheers --- Larry Larry - I like(d) Eudora

Re: [newbie] OT: cd createing

2000-09-08 Thread John Rye
Goldenpi wrote: I have been createing cds, for use on both windows and linux, containing programing stuff. I have created it all on my hdd, but when I try to put it on the cd it I am given the choice between iso9660 and some filesystem called jouliet(I think). What is this filesystem, how

Re: [newbie] penguin icons

2000-09-08 Thread John Rye
Larry Marshall wrote: Long time since I worked exclusively at the command prompt - grin!!! I suppose I'll get used to using all those graphical "aids" but I'm comfortable at a Unix commandline, I was taught that one only logged in as root under the most dire of circumstances, am too lazy

Re: [newbie] ISP

2000-09-08 Thread john bodanske
We should moderate this out. - Original Message - From: "Carroll Grigsby" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 7:55 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] ISP DRACONZNY/the sarcasimist: I guess it is a question of what you are trying to do. If all that you are

Re: [newbie] ISP

2000-09-08 Thread Mwinold
yup yup anyways back onto the subject of my computer not functioning after xf86config In a message dated 08-Sep-00 21:16:13 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hm...I get the distinct impression this post is dripping with sarcasm. :) Mark

Re: [newbie] Security alert --

2000-09-08 Thread John Rye
"Brisco County Jr." wrote: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2719802.html Which I why I run Portsentry and other security watchers. I guess we'll get a fix notice in due course. Cheers

Re: [newbie] ISP

2000-09-08 Thread Mwinold
look i apologize now can we drop this bs

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