[newbie-it] Libri

2001-08-06 Thread Michele Burigo
Ciao a tutti. Volevo chiedervi se esite in commercio un buon libro che spieghi a fondo Linux e se, secondo vuoi, vale la pena comperarlo oppure è più utile andare per prove ed errori. Grazie a tutti Michele

Re: [newbie-it] indirizzo ip

2001-08-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
come fare per ottenere lindirizzo ip per utilizzarlo in uno script? utlizzando ifconfig direte voi ma come? ciao basta digitare il comando, se la macchina e' in rete appare dove c'e' scritto inet address. altrimenti usa il comando nslookup (nome macchina) per sapere il suo indirizzo ip.

Re: [newbie-it] Libri

2001-08-06 Thread CyberDevil
Ciao a tutti. Volevo chiedervi se esite in commercio un buon libro che spieghi a fondo Linux e se, secondo vuoi, vale la pena comperarlo oppure è più utile andare per prove ed errori. IMHO la seconda che hai detto, da quello che vedo in libreria la documentazione su carta e' sempre molto

[newbie-it] Re: [linux] newbie-it@linux-mandrake.com

2001-08-06 Thread Papa Delia Mihaela
Grazie Alessandro e grazie a tutti! - in quale tipo di rete si trova la tua macchina? Non si trova in una rete, mi collego via modem ad un server aziendale, ed uso un proxy. La configurazione della rete e' terribilmente complessa ed impossibile da indovinare. Sicuramente neanche gli

Re: [newbie-it] Re: [linux] newbie-it@linux-mandrake.com

2001-08-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Grazie Alessandro e grazie a tutti! - in quale tipo di rete si trova la tua macchina? Non si trova in una rete, mi collego via modem ad un server aziendale, ed uso un proxy. La configurazione della rete e' terribilmente complessa ed impossibile da indovinare. Sicuramente neanche

Re: [newbie] NT4 linux

2001-08-06 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Things should work exactly the same. Just remember not to try to mount your NTFS partitions until after Mandrake is installed. If you try to do so during the install, you will only get errors. On Mon, 6 Aug 2001 20:22, Jamie Kerwick wrote: I just want to confirm before i go ahead. My work PC

[newbie] Anyone have an AMD 761 chipset and a Radeon video card working with X?

2001-08-06 Thread Mitchell, Edmund
Still doing battle, trying to get Mandrake working on my box at home. I found a couple of other people who couldn't get X working, and it turns out that we all have that chipset and various Radeon cards. It's a shot in the dark, but maybe that's the problem. If someone has that config and has

Re: [newbie] Win2k

2001-08-06 Thread James S Bear
I would think, and I really hope somebody corrects me if I'm wrong, but I am confident that you could install W2K, without touching HDB, and then reinstall linux without formatting anything and it should get you back and running without messing with any of your files. There is probably an

[newbie] my clock is all wrong...

2001-08-06 Thread Andy Weller
Dear all, Ever since I have had Mandrake 8.0 on my machine my clock has been wrong. I have changed its settings many a times, but it is still losing/gaining (don't know!) time... Any clues/ideas? Thanks, Andy

Re: [newbie] Mandrake and pci/ide adapter cards

2001-08-06 Thread Robert MacLean
I stand to be corrected for this, but as long as your BIOS can handle the 80gig it should work. I have 2 Redhat servers with 80gig drives, so I don't see why Mandrake would have a problem. HTH Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: Mark E. Crane [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mark E. Crane

Re: [newbie] Win2k

2001-08-06 Thread Ed Kasky
Be sure you have your lilo boot floppy before you do anything. Then install Win2k. You can then use your lilo boot floppy to boot to linux and then run lilo again which will install the loader. Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA ~~~ There is victory in surrender. On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Robert

Re: [newbie] Win2k

2001-08-06 Thread Robert MacLean
how do I run lilo? I saw a how to saying i needed to run lilo but I can't figure it out. Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: Ed Kasky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Robert MacLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 4:03 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Win2k

Re: [newbie] Mandrake and pci/ide adapter cards

2001-08-06 Thread James S Bear
I don't believe it would be a hassle to put the web page on the ide drive, but the reason scsi's are expensive is because they are faster. They have, in effect, a processor of their own with their own memory and are much better at translating data. If your web server is going to have a lot of

Re: [newbie] NT4 linux

2001-08-06 Thread Jamie Kerwick
Thanks, i thought i was correct but wanted to be absolutely sure. Does mandrake come with the ability to mount ntfs as standard or do i need to install extras ?? (my w2k is on fat32!) Jamie From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jamie Kerwick [EMAIL

[newbie] everybody

2001-08-06 Thread chris
Has anyone out there had much luck using everybody? I cannot seem to get it to connect. any tips welcome

Re: [newbie] Win2k

2001-08-06 Thread John W
On Sunday 05 August 2001 18:28, you wrote: I would think, and I really hope somebody corrects me if I'm wrong, but I am confident that you could install W2K, without touching HDB, and then reinstall linux without formatting anything and it should get you back and running without messing with

RE: [newbie] NT4 linux

2001-08-06 Thread Adams, Jamie
Hiya, NTFS is currently only supported fully in Read mode, Write mode is in an experimental strage, they do not recommend it for daily usage. Good luck! -- Jamie -- From: Jamie Kerwick[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 August 2001 15:21 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED];

Re: [newbie] Scanjet HP3200C

2001-08-06 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I have parallel port one. Will it work. If so how to make it work? Any pointer please! On August 5, 2001 10:53 am, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: The 3200C is generically listed as being supported via SCSI in Sane. This also applies to the 3250, 3270, etc. -JMS -Original Message- From:

Re: [newbie] Mandrake and pci/ide adapter cards

2001-08-06 Thread Paul
It was Mon, 6 Aug 2001 15:56:34 +0200 when Robert MacLean wrote: I stand to be corrected for this, but as long as your BIOS can handle the 80gig it should work. I have 2 Redhat servers with 80gig drives, so I don't see why Mandrake would have a problem. HTH I agree. 80gb should be fine. After

Re: [newbie] Firewalls galore

2001-08-06 Thread Paul
It was Mon, 6 Aug 2001 22:28:57 +1200 when skinky wrote: Hello everyone I'm hoping someone can tell me which firewall is best to have installed. Having said that, when installing LM8.0, Port Sentry, Bastille and Tiny Firewall were all installed. Not knowing what Port I think

Re: [newbie] AOpen 16X10X32X CDWriter problems

2001-08-06 Thread Paul
It was Mon, 6 Aug 2001 12:31:09 +0200 when Robert MacLean wrote: I can't get the CDWriter to work under Linux. It keeps trying to use it as a IDE ATAPI CDrom. I went through the CD Writer How To (couldn't work out the first section) so I just edited the files it says, but that didn't help.

[newbie] everybuddy

2001-08-06 Thread chris
my apologies i meant everybuddy damn grammar classes :)

Re: [newbie] everybody

2001-08-06 Thread Lanman
On August 6, 2001 11:15 am, you wrote: On Mon, 6 Aug 2001 22:29:26 +0800 chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] was inspired to comment: Has anyone out there had much luck using everybody? I cannot seem to get it to connect. any tips welcome I thought it was everybuddy?? Nag,

Re: [newbie]

2001-08-06 Thread Charles A. Punch
Just a shot in the dark, and not very specific to your problem, but do you have enough free disk space? I have a Satellite Pro 465CDX with 2GB hard drive and I solved a lot of problems by trimming down all the unneccesary stuff during installation. I got a lot of weird conflicts and errors

[newbie] Laptop question...

2001-08-06 Thread Jesse Hepburn
I have a Dell Inspiron 7500 with Mandrake 8.0 installed on it. Whenever I close the lid, though, it suspends the computer. Is there any way for me to change this so that it doesnt do that? (or better, just turns the screen off) Cheers, Jesse

[newbie] CRC Error!!!

2001-08-06 Thread Daniel
Hello, i was installed LM 8.0 in my computer. The installation is perfect, but i boot the computer the first time, after lilo load, i read this message: CRC Error I try to change my CD-ROM drive, but nothing. My computer is a k7-350Mhz, 192Mb, 40Gb SEAGATE, Maxi Gamer Phoenix PCI 16Mb,

Re: [newbie] everybody

2001-08-06 Thread s
Yeah, been using it since 7.2. But there was some trouble with msn a while back and I got the most recent release from the everybuddy site. I it works really well, tho it was labled a beta. You might try it. And if it's msn you're having trouble with, there's a little *trick* to get it to

Re: [newbie] Internet Security -J.Miner and Microsoft

2001-08-06 Thread Charles A. Punch
What ever happened to free speech? If you don't agree with someone, why not express your opinion, instead of whining? If it really is too much trouble to simply delete what you don't want to read, why not get another account for the list? ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user

Re: [newbie] everybody

2001-08-06 Thread Paul
It was Mon, 6 Aug 2001 22:29:26 +0800 when chris wrote: Has anyone out there had much luck using everybody? I cannot seem to get it to connect. any tips welcome I tried it (usually use aim and licq). It connects only when I don't use the proxy. And it crashed (broken pipe) after receiving an

[newbie] somebody would maek me a favor

2001-08-06 Thread pepe torrres
i just need a favor i had found the drivers 4 my modem but im having troubleshoting at compiling it. i have md 7.2 with kernel 2.2.17-21 i would judt like to know if someone would compile the drivers in a similar machine n send them to me pls..! i had try a long time to compile em but i got

[newbie] Franki: Fetchmai/Yahoo

2001-08-06 Thread Paul
Sometimes it helps to save neat things ;-) Begin forwarded message: Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 00:37:45 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Mandrake-Linux] Yahoo and KMail Yes...you can do this. Yahoo's pop server is pop.mail.yahoo.com and its smtp server is smtp.mail.yahoo.com. You will need

Re: [newbie] CRC Error!!!

2001-08-06 Thread Paul
It was Mon, 6 Aug 2001 19:18:36 +0200 (Hora de verano romance) when Daniel wrote: Yes, i test the installation in 3 different hard disk, with 4 different CDROM and all bad. I don't know the problem. Only distribution with last kernel 2.4.x. Perhaps the CDRom (the disk itself) is not good. Did

RE: [newbie] Franki: Fetchmai/Yahoo

2001-08-06 Thread Franki
Thanks Mr Paul, I found this out myself playing around with Yahoo, Its great news actually, I can set this up for everyone now,, and yahoomail shlts on hostmail, 6mb verses 2 for hotmail... fantastic news it is... rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Internet Security -J.Miner and Microsoft

2001-08-06 Thread Daryl Johnson
Been on holiday have we? g On Thursday 12 July 2001 10:43, Charles A. Punch wrote: What ever happened to free speech? If you don't agree with someone, why not express your opinion, instead of whining? If it really is too much trouble to simply delete what you don't want to read, why not

[newbie] Re: AOL/Netscape Releases Netscape 6.1

2001-08-06 Thread Paul
It was 6 Aug 2001 17:20:55 - when Mandrake Forum wrote: The a href=ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape6/english/6.1/unix/linux22/;Linux version of Netscape 6.1/a has surfaced on Netscape''s servers. First reactions on this Mozilla 0.91 based proprietary release are favourable. brWho needs

[newbie] ACPID misery

2001-08-06 Thread Jason Guidry
My K-6 based laptop is haveing some power management problems. The ACPI daemon fails on boot (Not found). I tried reinstalling it and it says that it's already there. tried uninstalling it (in GUI) and it says it's not there :P is there some variation on an rpm command with a --force switch

Re: [newbie] Win2k

2001-08-06 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Robert MacLean wrote: how do I run lilo? I saw a how to saying i needed to run lilo but I can't figure it out. Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: Ed Kasky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Robert MacLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 4:03 PM

Re: [newbie] Kde2 and Koffice on Linux Mandrake 7.1????

2001-08-06 Thread Alan Shoemaker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed mandrake 7.1 on my laptop toshibasatellite pro 780.. Now i`d like to install koffice..this requires kde2..and so I should install it...I downloaded kdebase, kdelibs and kdesupport but if I try to install then using the kpackager it gives me an

Re: [newbie] anything new about SO ugly fonts ?

2001-08-06 Thread Richie de Alemida
If it's wordprocessing without ugly fonts that you're after, try AbiWord 0.9. They have instructions for replacing their own ugly fonts with TT fonts and they look MUCH better. I'm on LM 8 and the *official* MS True Type fonts work well like Times New Roman, Arial, Tahoma, etc. Other

[newbie] Verizon DSL LM 8.0

2001-08-06 Thread Donald Jr Saxton
HelpI'm having trouble getting LM 8.0 configured to use Verizon DSL service. What do I need to do? Thanks, DonGet your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

Re: [newbie] Win2k

2001-08-06 Thread Richie de Alemida
On Monday 06 August 2001 14:02, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Robert MacLean wrote: how do I run lilo? I saw a how to saying i needed to run lilo but I can't figure it out. Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: Ed Kasky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Robert MacLean [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Mandrake and pci/ide adapter cards

2001-08-06 Thread Richie de Alemida
I have the Maxtor PCI/IDE card and it works fine with LM8.0. Most distributions based on 2.4 will have the extra modules to see the additional IDE channels and, at no extra cost to you, use the full ATA-100 spec (additional cables not included...). I started with my PCI/IDE card in my

Re: [newbie] fetchmail for yahoo or other...

2001-08-06 Thread Richie de Alemida
I've seen some alpha code for HTTPMail, the Protocol they use for email at Hotmail at Sourceforge.net, I don't recall if it was its own library or a bolt-on to fetchmail, you'll have to see for yourself! Richie On Monday 06 August 2001 11:04, Franki wrote: Hi all, I am just curious, is

Re: [newbie] Verizon DSL LM 8.0

2001-08-06 Thread Sevatio
Title: Re: [newbie] Verizon DSL LM 8.0 Please post with ASCII. Assuming your NIC is working... and you're using KDE. Keep in mind that this is one of many ways of configuring your network settings. Go to: K (menu) - Configuration - Networking - NetConf Sevatio Original Message dated

Re: [newbie] Franki: Fetchmai/Yahoo

2001-08-06 Thread Paul
It was Tue, 7 Aug 2001 01:30:21 +0800 when Franki wrote: Thanks Mr Paul, Errhh... Drop the Mr. okay? Makes me feel old! ;-) Paul -- We measure success and depth by length of time, but it is possible to have a deep relationship that doesn't always stay the same. -Barbara Hershey

[newbie] Re: Beowulf question

2001-08-06 Thread Jason Guidry
check the following www.beowulf.org www.beowulf-underground.org dig around and you should be able to find a point by point cookbook for a cluster. also, mail.beowulf on google unsenet (discussion groups) should be a good place to direct questions. I gather if most people on this list know

RE: [newbie] Problems with RAM memory

2001-08-06 Thread Jason Guidry
wait, that cant be right. linux runs big honkin servers that use a MINIMUM of 4 GB of memory. I'm researching this, but I wanted to chime in for the meantime.

Re: [newbie] SoundBlaster 16 in Mandrake 8

2001-08-06 Thread Nicolás Gómez
I had a similar problem that the problem you have.. I installed LM 8.0 with the same soundcard (onboard) and it didn't work in any way. In a second stage, I got enlightened and I installed the optional Alsa drivers that dont come in the primary installation. After I configured it, the card

[newbie] Doubt of incompatibilities between versions of PHP

2001-08-06 Thread Nicolás Gómez
Hi.i have the following doubt. I have all php-4 modules on MDK 8.0, and i have some scripts that were made for php-3.. is there any possibilitie of incompatibilities between those two versions? In case of an affirmative answerare they so much? are they so big?? Thanks at

Re: [newbie] Problems with RAM memory

2001-08-06 Thread Alan Shoemaker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear support, I have installed in my computer (Pentium III – 933 MHz – 1Gb of RAM memory) the Mandrake 8.0, and I mainly interested to use the compilers C and Fortran, but as I am a Linux beginner, I have faced the following problems: 1) The Fortran compiler can

Re: [newbie] Verizon DSL LM 8.0

2001-08-06 Thread Donald Jr Saxton
Where can I get rp-pppoe's "adsl-setup" program? From: Vincent A.Primavera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sevatio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Donald Jr Saxton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Verizon DSL LM 8.0 Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 15:53:44 + Hello, I have success with

Re: [newbie] Change lilo/grub default boot - needs to be windoze for now!

2001-08-06 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Dave Esquer wrote: Hello all, While I'm debugging my Mandrake 8 install, I still need to get some windoze work done and would like the default lilo boot to be windows. I edited the linux.conf file to have the default be windows instead of linux but it still boots me into Mandrake. I'm

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 5.1 not working with LM8

2001-08-06 Thread etharp
On Monday 06 August 2001 20:25, Ebrahim Elmahdy wrote: Hi after installing of StarOffice 5.1 with LM8 it ask to restart KDE to finish the installation But that it not working ___ Thank you Ebrahim Elmahdy You are most welcome. Want to try your question again?

Re: [newbie] Change lilo/grub default boot - needs to be windoze for now!

2001-08-06 Thread etharp
hmmm... do you think editting the lilo.conf might be a better file to edit (GRIN) there are settings in the control center to set if LILO or GRUB and if you want Aurora On Monday 06 August 2001 16:57, Dave Esquer wrote: Hello all, While I'm debugging my Mandrake 8 install, I still need to

Re: [newbie] windows documents

2001-08-06 Thread Dave Sherman
I use StarOffice, and it works quite well for most docs. Dave At 08:25 AM 08/07/2001 +0800, chris wrote: I have a problem in taking windows documents (mostly wordpad created) from my mount/windows directory into my linux drive. Both kword and konqeror give me about half of the first page and

[newbie] Network configuration help needed

2001-08-06 Thread MILLERM596
I have a 3Com 900B-TPO. Harddrake seems to recognize it. I cannot ping another win98 machine on my small network. The card works fine under windows. I can ping 127.0.0.1. When I run ifup eth0, I get the following errors: device or resource is busy network is down file exists I have an alias

Re: [newbie] windows documents

2001-08-06 Thread Charles A. Punch
Is it feasable to go into windows and save them as a plain text or ASCII text file? If that's not a problem almopt any Linux prog wil read it. If not Star office and Word Perfect read most word files. I'm not sure about Wordpad though. ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user # 217118

Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster AWE64 locks kernel

2001-08-06 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Tuesday 07 August 2001 02:05, Doug X wrote: Hello, Thank you for the speedy response. To answer your Q's: the scsi card is a pci. I had just tried the sndconfig as root this afternoon and then got the 24 mins of audio before I wrote for help. Bios: PNP

Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster AWE64 locks kernel

2001-08-06 Thread Doug X
Hello, Thank you for the speedy response. To answer your Q's: the scsi card is a pci. I had just tried the sndconfig as root this afternoon and then got the 24 mins of audio before I wrote for help. Bios: PNP NO Pci VGA palett snoopyes offboard pci

Re: [newbie] 'Rumor' of TCP/MS WinXP [Check this out]

2001-08-06 Thread Michael Leone
From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux has had IPv6 support for quite some time, and I beleive that Win2K has it as well (because they stole the TCP/IP stack from FreeBSD). They did NOT steal it. The license ALLOWED them to use it. It was perfectly legal, if a bit hypocritical. --

[newbie] Mime types on apache?

2001-08-06 Thread Jon Doe
I am trying to let people download .mp3, mpg and .avi files that I have made from my webserver, but all the media files just won't download. How do I setup the mime types in apache so they can download these files? I looked at a couple pages that were supposed to explain this, but they just

[newbie] nautilus as desktop manager

2001-08-06 Thread paul rodríguez
I chose to have nautilus run as my desktop manager during the initial setup of my LM 8 freq2 gnome system. Now it seems neither gnome nor nautilus are fully in control of my desktop, the icons appear as blank files and i can't change the background image. I would like to take off nautilus'

[newbie] rpm catch22's

2001-08-06 Thread Matt Greer
Linux is cool and all, but man can installing software be a nightmare. I'm trying to install Wine, and I end up with a failed dependency for the XFree86 development headers. Ok, so I go and get the latest rpm for that (XFree86-devel-4.1.0-7mdk.i586.rpm), which in turn needs the latest X

Re: [newbie] text file viewer/previewer

2001-08-06 Thread Pascal Goguey
Hello, Does anybody know of a good text file browser? One that I can use to quickly look through my files and read the textfiles as I browse through them. If it is plain text, there are many that can do the job, for instance emacs, vi, with powerful features. And if you prefer a more

Re: [newbie] text file viewer/previewer

2001-08-06 Thread Paul
It was 06 Aug 2001 23:50:18 -0400 when paul rodríguez wrote: Does anybody know of a good text file browser? One that I can use to quickly look through my files and read the textfiles as I browse through them. Yes. It is called less. just type less filename and you can browse. Type /something,

[newbie] Linux Mandrake vs RedHat

2001-08-06 Thread X - A - W - K
Hi, I just would like to ask somebody to explain me the main difference between Linux Mandrake and RedHat. I just want to know the strong points of each one... For what is better to use Mandrake... and for what RedHat? Thanks X - A - W - K -- Jest niezly ... i liscik napisze

Re: [newbie] text file viewer/previewer

2001-08-06 Thread paul rodríguez
Thanks, but I mean something more like a GUI file browser, like nautilus or explorer (or PowerDesk for windows) that allows me to browse easily through a large number of text files in a folder and preview (read) them in a side window while that file is highlighted. Similar to GQview, but for

Re: [newbie] text file viewer/previewer

2001-08-06 Thread Pascal Goguey
Hello, Thanks, but I mean something more like a GUI file browser, like nautilus or explorer (or PowerDesk for windows) that allows me to browse easily through a large number of text files in a folder and preview (read) them in a side window while that file is highlighted. Similar to GQview,

Re: [newbie] Resolver problem.

2001-08-06 Thread Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, Because of the resolver problem and other problems, I have decided to try version 7.2 instead of 8.0. I have D*S and W*ndo*s NT4.0 installed on the machine. I need to keep those UNFORTUNATELY :( I am going to take the following two steps to uninstall mdk 8.0 and install mdk 7.2 instead:

Re: [newbie] text file viewer/previewer

2001-08-06 Thread Charles A. Punch
Konqueror works for me. You can view directories, click on a file and view it, with the option to edit it with either K Word, Text Editor, or Advanced Editor. You can also right click and use open with if those won't do the trick. ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user # 217118

[newbie] ISDN USB Siemens Santis-Communicator

2001-08-06 Thread Ebrahim Elmahdy
Hi The Mandrake 8.0 can't recognize the ISDN USB Siemens Santis Communicator do any one now how I' can it work -- Thank you. Ebrahim Elmahdy mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] StarOffice 5.1 not working with LM8

2001-08-06 Thread Ebrahim Elmahdy
Hi after installing of StarOffice 5.1 with LM8 it ask to restart KDE to finish the installation But that it not working -- Thank you. Ebrahim Elmahdy mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] windows documents

2001-08-06 Thread chris
I have a problem in taking windows documents (mostly wordpad created) from my mount/windows directory into my linux drive. Both kword and konqeror give me about half of the first page and no more. Both usually hang afterwards. Anyone know which program would read these documents properly?

[newbie] fetchmail for yahoo or other...

2001-08-06 Thread Franki
Hi all, I am just curious, is it possible to setup fetchmail to retrieve mail from a yahoo account? I don't like using pop3 on my servers without security,, so I usually setup postfix to redirect mail to other isp mail accounts to get collected by users... I have an account on one of my

Re: [newbie] everybody

2001-08-06 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Mon, 6 Aug 2001 22:29:26 +0800 chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] was inspired to comment: Has anyone out there had much luck using everybody? I cannot seem to get it to connect. any tips welcome I thought it was everybuddy?? Mike -- You can't be a real country unless you have

Re: [newbie] CRC Error!!!

2001-08-06 Thread Paul
It was Mon, 6 Aug 2001 17:56:48 +0200 (Hora de verano romance) when Daniel wrote: Hello, i was installed LM 8.0 in my computer. The installation is perfect, but i boot the computer the first time, after lilo load, i read this message: CRC Error Cyclic Redundancy Check means that there is a

Re: [newbie] Re: (newbie) Dizzy newbie LAN help needed

2001-08-06 Thread Frans Ketelaars
Steve Maytum wrote: Apologies everyone. Told you i worked long hours sometimes. Came in , checked Linux messages as requested , but too tired to read it properly. I'm not intentionally trying to waste your time. What is actually on screen is as follows:- (root@localhost /root)# ifconfig

Re: [newbie] Verizon DSL LM 8.0

2001-08-06 Thread Vincent A.Primavera
Hello, I have success with rp-pppoe's adsl-setup program its simple, text based, and effective... Thank you, Vincent A. Primavera On Monday 06 August 2001 19:45, Sevatio wrote: Please post with ASCII. Assuming your NIC is working... and you're using KDE.