[newbie-it] Mutt and mail.

2001-08-07 Thread momotaro
Salve a tutti. Mi hanno parlato benissimo di Mutt e vorrei usarlo. Problema: Non ci capisco una mazza. Specifico: 1- Come si fa a comporre tutti i messaggi senza spedirli una volta terminati? Ovvero come faccio a pedire i messaggi tutti assieme? Devo metterli in postponed? Se sì, come faccio a

[newbie-it] Configurazione piccola rete di casa?????

2001-08-07 Thread MAtteo
Approffitando delle lunghe ferie degli insegnanti sto cercando di far funzionare una piccolissima rete in casa (due computer con cavo cross su schede Ethernet). Su uno ho installato Mandrake 7.2, sull'altro Win 98, a proposito è possibile mettere due versioni di Linux sullo stesso computer? Se ho

Re: [newbie-it] Fetchmailconf: messaggio ignoto.

2001-08-07 Thread Marco
Il 08:04, martedì 07 agosto 2001, hai scritto: On Tuesday 07 August 2001 02:04, you wrote: Ho due indirizzi di posta eletronica presso due Provider diversi, mi è stato consigliato di installare FetchMail, ho una Mand.8, in quanto mi va a scaricare la posta su tutti gli indirizzi con

[newbie-it] caratteri

2001-08-07 Thread Alessandro Brunini
Ciao a tutta la lista. Ho dei problemi con i caratteri, e solo con alcune applicazioni. Sotto Konqueror, sono piccoli, tarlati (sembrano incompleti) e quasi illegibili. Idem con StarOffice. Inutile il tentativo di cambiarli dal Centro di controllo di KDE. Vorrei anche sapere se è normale che

[newbie-it] idle

2001-08-07 Thread Stefano Barberis
Qualcuno sa spiegarmi perche' quando il pc non ha da fare nulla, c'e' un processo (apm-idle) che ciuccia il 98% di CPU? Come faccio a disabilitarlo? E soprattutto qual'e' la sua utilita'? Grazie a chi mi scioglie questo dubbio amletico! ciao stefano

[newbie-it] HELP: Chiave privata in Gpa?

2001-08-07 Thread Sergio Dogliani
Scusate tanto se continuo a rompere però da solo non riesco a concludere un bel niente! Ci sarebbe qualcuno tra voi in grado di aiutarmi? Ancora GRAZIE!!! PS: a voi sono arrivate le mail del 5/8? A me neanche una! Forse Tiscali ha avuto qualche problemino con Codice Rosso! Voi ne sapete qualcosa

Re: [newbie-it] caratteri

2001-08-07 Thread Sandro
Il 16:53, martedì 07 agosto 2001, hai scritto: Ciao a tutta la lista. Ho dei problemi con i caratteri, e solo con alcune applicazioni. Sotto Konqueror, sono piccoli, tarlati (sembrano incompleti) e quasi illegibili. Idem con StarOffice. Inutile il tentativo di cambiarli dal Centro di

Re: [newbie-it] Fetchmailconf: messaggio ignoto.

2001-08-07 Thread freefred
On Tuesday 07 August 2001 21:43, you wrote: Per rispondere alla tua domanda per il momento lavoro sotto X, ma ho un vecchio 486DX2 con un HD da 170Mb di conseguenza dovrò fare a meno di X, gestirò solo la posta eletrronica e forse la connessione ad internet, per la quale mi hanno consigliato

Re: [newbie-it] idle

2001-08-07 Thread Bertotto Ivan
l'unica cosa che fa il ciclo idle è quella di eseguire un comando HLT (Halt) quando il sistema è inattivo per risparmiare i circuiti della cpu (praticamente ne spegne le parti che non stanno facendo nulla. Serve a mantenere bassa la temp. della cpu e a risparmiare corrente elettrica. Non

Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] Fetchmailconf: messaggio ignoto.

2001-08-07 Thread viger71
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[newbie-it] Fetchmailconf: messaggio ignoto.

2001-08-07 Thread viger71
-- Messaggio inoltrato -- Subject: Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] Fetchmailconf: messaggio ignoto. Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 00:03:49 -0400 From: viger71 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Messaggio inoltrato -- Subject: Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] Fetchmailconf:

Re: [newbie-it] Unable to handle kernel NULL...

2001-08-07 Thread viger71
Il 19:12, martedì 07 agosto 2001, hai scritto: Ciao a tutti quelli che non sono ancora in ferie (come me) e che muoiono dalla voglia di aiutarmi Ho questo problema: mi sono fatto i due dischetti di avvio (boot e root) seguendo i passi del bootdisk-howto. Ho optato per un kernel

Re: [newbie-it] caratteri

2001-08-07 Thread Alessandro Brunini
Su 07 Aug 2001 20:43:55 -0400, Sandro ha scritto: Inutile il tentativo di cambiarli dal Centro di controllo di KDE. Prova ad abilitare l'anti-aliasing nel centro di controllo del kde: --Aspetto - Stile - Utilizza l'anti-aliasing per i caratteri e le icone Dopo di che puoi impostare i

[newbie] SSL and VirtualHosts

2001-08-07 Thread David Cox
im running Linux-Mandrake 8.0, so i have the Advanced Server with SSL. If i dont use any Virtual Hosts, SSL works fine. But as Soon as i add a VH, like name.domain.com, SSL quits working. how can i get SSL working when i use a VH, and can i also let the VH use SSL under their name? I'm

Re: [newbie] Resolver problem.

2001-08-07 Thread Paul
There is an issue with LILO, however. Currently, with 8.0 installed, LILO lets me boot DOS instead of linux and from there I get B*ll Gates boot menu from which I chose NT or DOS boot. Now when I take step (1) above and without doing fdisk /mbr LILO stays there and it still works for booting

[newbie] re-install

2001-08-07 Thread Robert MacLean
Hello I reinstalled my machine (which also got my CD writer working ;) Now there is a service that fails on start up. It's called arpwatch. Could anyone shed a bit more light on what this does. Thank you. Robert MacLean

Re: [newbie] text file viewer/previewer

2001-08-07 Thread skinky
Have you tried Gmc? I THINK its a Gnome app but I use it in both KDE and Gnome. skinky On Tuesday 07 August 2001 17:09, you wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] Firewalls galore

2001-08-07 Thread skinky
Thanks Paul, I'll give it a go. skinky I think InteractiveBastille is the best one so far. It has the most versatile setup and the defaults are already pretty good. The only thing to notice is that you enable smtp in the outside connections for Postfix and you should be fine. Paul

Re: [newbie] Resolver problem.

2001-08-07 Thread Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, Through my efforts to find a way around the problem, I tried to re-install mdk 8.0 several times. The last time I re-installed mdk linux 8.0 I used w*ndo*s NT, that happened to be on another hard disk on the same machine, to delete all the linux partitions and not just the / partition and

Fwd: Re: [newbie] Problems with RAM memory

2001-08-07 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Miark wrote: Alan, do you know of any bugs or inconveniences with this kernel? Someone was telling me that there's _something_ annoying about it. Miark Miarkthe enterprise? I'm aware of none that aren't in the regular 2.4.3-20 kernel. But then I'm not aware of everything to do with

[newbie] Arpwatch

2001-08-07 Thread Paul
Arpwatch is a network tool: arpwatch, the ethernet monitor program; for keeping track of ethernet/ip address pairings See http://www-nrg.ee.lbl.gov/ Paul

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

2001-08-07 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 11:43, Michael Leone wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] nautilus as desktop manager

2001-08-07 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I haven't used Nautilus in a while, but I vaguely recall an option for this existing in Nautilus' preferences. On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 11:50, paul rodríguez wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] windows documents

2001-08-07 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
What format did you save the files in? StarOffice works very well with MS Word files (with extension .doc). Abiword works great with RTF files. On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 10:25, chris wrote: I have a problem in taking windows documents (mostly wordpad created) from my mount/windows directory into my

Re: [newbie] system clock

2001-08-07 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
You should be able to set your system clock to GMT and then set your time zone to where you live. That is how my system is configured, and everything is peachy. - Sridhar P.S. Please don't post in HTML. On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 01:39, Jesse Hepburn wrote: I found this problem was a result of the

Re: [newbie] X installation troubles

2001-08-07 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Your system specs are exactly what I had when I tried Mandrake 7.0 (with XFree 3.3.x) in early 2000. I did heaps of research on that same card in an attempt to get it working well, and concluded that it was no good for XFree 3.3.x. I switched my card to a Matrox Millennium II and I've been

Re: [newbie] Problems with RAM memory

2001-08-07 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Use the kernel-enterprise package instead of the standard kernel. As its name suggests, it is designed with more powerful systems -- such as yours -- in mind. On Thu, 1 Jan 1970 10:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear support, I have installed in my computer (Pentium III – 933 MHz – 1Gb of RAM

RE: [newbie] Linux Mandrake vs RedHat

2001-08-07 Thread Adams, Jamie
Sorry, this is OT, but when is 8.1 coming out? -- Jamie -- From: tazmun[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 07 August 2001 08:03 To:Newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake vs RedHat - Original Message - From: X - A - W - K [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake vs RedHat

2001-08-07 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
A Cooker newsletter from about a month ago said that 8.1 would be out around October. What happened to those Cooker newsletters anyway? They used to come out every week but I haven't gotten any in quite a while :-( On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 18:38, Adams, Jamie wrote: Sorry, this is OT, but when is

RE: [newbie] Re: AOL/Netscape Releases Netscape 6.1

2001-08-07 Thread Adams, Jamie
I have a similar question.. i have the flash plugin working for Mozilla, however Konqueror is my preferred browser and i would like to get the plugin working in this. I did read the help file for Konqueror and it said that i should goto configuration and find the plugin part, now suppoedly there

RE: [newbie] Resolver problem.

2001-08-07 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
What resolver problem in 8.0? -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Seedkum Aladeem Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 11:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Resolver problem. Hi, Because of the resolver problem and other

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

2001-08-07 Thread etharp
On Monday 06 August 2001 21:43, Michael Leone wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster AWE64 locks kernel

2001-08-07 Thread etharp
hmmm, might be a good idea to set the ISA saved irq to 5 since your soundblaster is set for 5. might also be a good idea to see if you can set the card (in dos or windblows) to be certian what IRQ it is set for. do you dual boot winblows? what are the settings in windblows device mangler?

RE: [newbie] Sound Blaster AWE64 locks kernel

2001-08-07 Thread Adams, Jamie
Hiya, this might be completely wrong, and i havnt got net access to look through the archives here.. but, did someone not say that there was an issue with a certain SoundBlaster card and a certain type of motherboard? It might be worth checking through the archives to see if this is the case

Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake vs RedHat

2001-08-07 Thread etharp
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? Just MY opinions Redhat is very well know in America. I would

Re: [newbie] Network configuration help needed

2001-08-07 Thread etharp
PLUG and PRAY aware OS set to off or no In BIOS? On Monday 06 August 2001 21:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake vs RedHat

2001-08-07 Thread Paul
It was Mon, 6 Aug 2001 23:42:59 -0500 when X - A - W - K wrote: Mandrake was built on the source code of Redhat 5.2. From there they went there separate ways. Mandrake is compiled optimised for Pentium processors where redhat is compiled for 386's. Paul Hi, I just would like to ask somebody to

Re: [newbie] Intel 810 accelerated i810 X server

2001-08-07 Thread James S Bear
Before you hear what I have to say, I would take it to heart that graphics acceleration has never been an extremely high priority on my end. I've got two machines with an 810 video card and four with an 815(I believe is basically the same). When I first installed mandrake, the first thing I

RE: [newbie] JAVA SDK on Mandrake 8.0

2001-08-07 Thread Mitchell, Edmund
I haven't had any troubles - everything by the book. Edmund -Original Message- From: Alwan Sadagopan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Hi, Planning to install J2SDK 1.3.1. Are there any known issues on J2SDK on LM 8.0. Kindly let me know. --

[newbie] portmap services

2001-08-07 Thread James S Bear
One of my machines, an AMD 1.2 ghz processor box with 256 mb of ram, a SCSI drive, two NICs, and an optical logitech mouse(It's just fun to give specs, okay?)Has problems shutting down. It always hangs on Shutting Down Portmap Services. I've got a hunch it has to do with two NICs.

Re: [newbie] ACPID misery

2001-08-07 Thread Robert MacLean
ACPI as in the stuff that turns your machine off your you? Or have I been in front of a monitor too long and am getting this wrong? If I'm right and it is the stuff that powers down your machine, any idea where to get it? Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: George Petri [EMAIL

[newbie] ACPI 4 Linux

2001-08-07 Thread Robert MacLean
I found this if anyone is interested, seems good. http://phobos.fs.tum.de/acpi/index.html Robert MacLean

[newbie] Can't load iptables

2001-08-07 Thread Larry Alkoff
I am having trouble starting iptables in Mandrake 8.0. When I boot up or otherwise attempt to start iptables, I get an error message that: /sbin/iptables-restore: invalid option -- p /sbin/iptables-restore: invalid option -- f When I look at the start section of rc3.d/S08iptables I see the

[newbie] Fuzzy Text in Konqueror

2001-08-07 Thread Usama Saadi
Hi, I recently installed Manrake 8.0. The installation was a breeze and I liked the KDE very much. However, I was disappointed when I opened Konqueror. The text was distorted, readable but very annoying. When I increase the font size, some of the page would get better, but other parts remain

Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake vs RedHat

2001-08-07 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Nevertheless, Mandrake tries to be as Red Hat compatible as is practicable. They claim over 90% compatibility with Red Hat packages. This can be useful, since most RPMs are built for Red Hat. On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 20:56, Paul wrote: It was Mon, 6 Aug 2001 23:42:59 -0500 when X - A - W - K wrote:

Re: [newbie] Re: AOL/Netscape Releases Netscape 6.1

2001-08-07 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Install the kdebase-nsplugins package. On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 20:15, Adams, Jamie wrote: I have a similar question.. i have the flash plugin working for Mozilla, however Konqueror is my preferred browser and i would like to get the plugin working in this. I did read the help file for Konqueror

RE: [newbie] Re: AOL/Netscape Releases Netscape 6.1

2001-08-07 Thread Adams, Jamie
Thank you all who answered! it wasnt mentioned in the documentation.. now i can go surf happily! -- Jamie -- From: Terry[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 August 2001 14:18 To:Adams, Jamie Subject: Re: [newbie] Re:

RE: [newbie] JAVA SDK on Mandrake 8.0

2001-08-07 Thread Michael F. Aube
I've been using the JDK 1.3.1 daily for about a month and a half now, and have not had any problems (I can work all day without a single O/S crash and burn). I really like doing my Java Development on LM 8.0, as I can use the .jar and .class files on my WinDoze partition! :) I also now have

[newbie] Disabling Mandrake 8.0 automatic login?

2001-08-07 Thread Keith Christian
How do I disable the automatic login when my Mandrake 8.0 machine is booted up? Instead of waiting for me to login, it automatically logs in as the regular user and goes straight to the desktop. Convenient, but not really secure. Thanks, =Keith

[newbie] subscribe

2001-08-07 Thread Alvin Wong

[newbie] follow on of i810 acceleration - rpm problems

2001-08-07 Thread Ant 'DS Boulton' Erickson
gidday, i followed some of the advice that you guys gave, installed some more stuff (specs, and patch rpms) and so when i go to do rpm --rebuild (or --recompile; either give me this) i810tt-etc.src.rpm i get a page or so of output, and then the last few lines look like this.

Re: [newbie] Disabling Mandrake 8.0 automatic login?

2001-08-07 Thread Frans Ketelaars
Keith Christian wrote: How do I disable the automatic login when my Mandrake 8.0 machine is booted up? Instead of waiting for me to login, it automatically logs in as the regular user and goes straight to the desktop. Convenient, but not really secure. Mandrake Control Centre - Boot -

Re: [newbie] X installation troubles

2001-08-07 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 01:37, Gonzalix le Druide wrote: Thanks, but right now I have no money to buy another card :-(( Yeah, I know what you mean. I got lucky and managed to score a free Matrox Millennium II which my computer assembler was going to throw out :-) So, I must make it work...

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

2001-08-07 Thread Linux Newbie
You might find a crack for it on astalavista.box.sk On Monday 06 August 2001 07:12 pm, so spoke Stan Finley: Hello Edmund - I have Mandrake 8 going with the all in one radeon and an asus a7m266 mb (AMD 761 chipset). I've tried everything I could and can't get it working with X (except with

Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake vs RedHat

2001-08-07 Thread Miark
Higher than 90%, or so they claim: Linux-Mandrake is 99% compatible with RedHat. So most applications packaged for RedHat as RPM packages (.rpm file) should run under Mandrake. It appears the only thing they recommend against is upgrading Linux-Mandrake specific packages (those that can be found

RE: [newbie] Linux Mandrake vs RedHat

2001-08-07 Thread Jason Guidry
I find this to be an interesting discussion. The media tends to label Red Hat as a serious and corporate linux; while mandrake is dubbed the baby linux. I guess I should know better than to trust what I hear on TV and the like, but since trying both myself, I know this is a bit exagerated. I

Re: [newbie] Reasons for use LM 8.0

2001-08-07 Thread Linux Newbie
Here is as unbiased as I can muster, a description of distributions talents. Mandrake - Easy installation and setup, lots of apps, multimedia, ease of app installation RedHat - Fairly easy installation and setup, some neat apps, multimedia, pretty secure, ease of app installation, easy

Re: [newbie] subscribe

2001-08-07 Thread Robin Ballantine
Hi Alvin, If you wish to subscribe to the newbie mailing list then you need to send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe newbie in the body of the message. Robin ---

Re: [newbie] Problems with RAM memory

2001-08-07 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Miark wrote: Okay, I found out: * No ReiserFS support * Possible funny business with supermount There's probably more info about it in the Cooker archive. Cheers, Miark Miarkyep, those problems both make sense given that they are both problems of other 2.4.3 kernels than our

Re: [newbie] portmap services

2001-08-07 Thread Michael D. Viron
James, Before you remove the scripts, change portmap from auto starting on bootup, to manual start. This will make sure you aren't running portmap, and hence won't have any problems when shutting down (since if it isn't running, linux will not try to stop it.) Michael -- Michael Viron

Re: [newbie] Reasons for use LM 8.0

2001-08-07 Thread Michael D. Viron
At 11:23 AM 08/07/2001 -0300, Nicolás Gómez wrote: Hi...In my college we are going to install in about 20 PC's one Linux distribution. I believe that LM 8.0 is the best one i ever seen so far for the purposes we had... Another persons think that SuSE 7.1 is the best, another ones think that

Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake vs RedHat

2001-08-07 Thread tazmun
however, heavily biased towards mandrake since I tried Red Hat 7 first, on which I could get not a damn thing (zip, printer, mounting other partitions) to work, even when following the instructions in the official book. Or the fact that half the power tools won't run under 7 (i've heard

RE: [newbie] Reasons for use LM 8.0

2001-08-07 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] Reasons for use LM 8.0 I have messed around with Caldera, Redhat and LM over the passed 2 1/2 years and IMHO, Linux-Mandrake is the most user friendly and has the exceptional list of applications in the Power Pack (don't know what comes with the enterprise addition). The

[newbie] locked cdrom and floppy

2001-08-07 Thread Oder Santos
I have just installed MandrakeFreq 2 in my Toshiba Satellite 1715 XCDS and all running great except to cdrom and floppy. When I click it I receive the message: You do not have permissions to read file:/mnt/cdrom. What should I do to unlock this? Any help would be really appreciate. Thanks in

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 5.1 not working with LM8

2001-08-07 Thread s
On Tuesday 07 August 2001 03:09 pm, you wrote: Hi fter installing of StarOffice 5.1 with LM8 it ask to restart KDE to finish the installation I' restart the system But I' did not found any link to Office but I' found directory for office51 on my hard disk On Tuesday 07 August 2001

[newbie] Mail Server

2001-08-07 Thread Kevin Fonner
What is a good mail server for linux. I was looking for these features... IMAP Web Interface Server side mail (rules) sorting for the individual users and the ability for it to grab mail for a domain out of a single pop mailbox and sort it into each of the accounts on the mailserver. Thanks,

Re: [newbie] Beowulf

2001-08-07 Thread etharp
how many computers do you have to hook together? On Tuesday 07 August 2001 17:47, William R. Nash wrote: I just want to get Beowulf running just to say i did it. I'm trying to learn as much as i can and i think this might be the next step to learning more. Thanks Bill Nash - Original

[newbie] can't startx

2001-08-07 Thread Errant
Hi all, I suddenly can't get x up and running on my LM8 box. After issuing the startx command as Root from console, it returns the following: Could not init font path element unix/:-1, removing from list! Fatal Server Error: could not open default font 'fixed' Can someone help me fix this,

[newbie] MTV (video player)

2001-08-07 Thread Ronald J. Hall
This is gonna sound really odd, but I have the registered version of MTV, and it plays much faster and smoother on my old setup than my new one. Old setup: AMD K6III@475mhz, 192 megs ram, Voodoo 3000 New setup: AMD Duron@850mhz, 256 megs DDR ram, Geforce 2 GTS (32megs) Can anyone tell me why

Re: [newbie] can't startx

2001-08-07 Thread Robin Ballantine
On Tuesday 07 August 2001 5:58 pm, you wrote: Hi all, I suddenly can't get x up and running on my LM8 box. After issuing the startx command as Root from console, it returns the following: Could not init font path element unix/:-1, removing from list! Fatal Server Error: could not open

[newbie] How to turn off applets in KDE?

2001-08-07 Thread Jon Doe
I installed Kscore and Newsticker applets into my Kpanel and I don't like them there, how do I remove them? lol

[newbie] How to acess other screens (terminals)?

2001-08-07 Thread emammendes
Hello I had 7.2 on my old computer and with it I could use alt+F keys to access different screens (terminals)? Now with 8.0 alf+F2 to 9 won't work so I am stuck with just one screen. How can I make them available? Many thanks Eduardo

Re: [newbie] Joystick support?

2001-08-07 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Tuesday 07 August 2001 11:09, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Can anyone point me to a good solid howto or faq about installing joystick support for Mandrake? I've given up on getting any further in Descent 3 using the keyboard! grin /usr/src/linux/Documentation/joystick.txt --

Re: [newbie] can't startx

2001-08-07 Thread Errant
Running Xconfigurator worked... but why did I have this problem in the first place? And how would I avoid it in the future? Thanx again, E On Tuesday 07 August 2001 5:58 pm, you wrote: Hi all, I suddenly can't get x up and running on my LM8 box. After issuing the startx command as

[newbie] Help with IP Tables please.

2001-08-07 Thread Matt Buckley
hey folx. I installed linux mandrake 8.0 a little over a week ago, and just not got it working perfectly (for me). It took a while to figure out all the stuff I wanted, and didn't want, then to make it all look nice. Couldn't decide between RH7.1 or LM 8.0. Anyway, I asked my friend how to

[newbie] Problems upgrading RPM

2001-08-07 Thread Rafael Lepra
I installed LM 7.1, I needed to upgrade my kernel to 4.2.6 in order to instal the drivers of my software modem Motorola SM56. I could upgrade the kernel thanks to the help of this mailing list. So far, no problem. Unfortunately when I tried to instal the package of the modem's driver I got a

[newbie] Staroffice 5.2

2001-08-07 Thread Pascal Goguey
Hello! I tried using StarOffice 5.2, and it sounds like it is rather buggy. At least the display is not good. The piece of text around the cursor is partly hidden, backspace leaves some black pixels (i.e. it does not eras prefectly) etc. Is there a way to get it work fine?

Re: [newbie] Network configuration help needed

2001-08-07 Thread etharp
first a couple of things, since I bees just a newbie myself, you might consider posting to the list so if I say somethig less that 100% correct, some one who knows more can chime in, and that way we can all benifit from the information about your problems. Next, how old is the computer? what

Re: [newbie] Disabling Mandrake 8.0 automatic login?

2001-08-07 Thread Charles A. Punch
Mandrake Control Center - Boot Config - System Mode - No I don't want auto login ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user # 217118 Keith Christian wrote: How do I disable the automatic login when my Mandrake 8.0 machine is booted up? Instead of waiting for me to login, it

Re: [newbie] Realplayer sound defaults

2001-08-07 Thread John Rye
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 18:25:30 -0400 Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, My realplayer (basic v.8) keeps loading with the volume all the way down. In itself I can move that up to something audible when I load realplay, but the plugin for netscape and mozilla don't have a volume control.

Re: [newbie] How to turn off applets in KDE?

2001-08-07 Thread s
Ooo, Ooo hand waving in air, that's an easy one. Just right click the little dimpled 'bar' in front of the applet and click remove. :-) -s On Tuesday 07 August 2001 05:48 pm, you wrote: I installed Kscore and Newsticker applets into my Kpanel and I don't like them there, how do I remove

Re: [newbie] How to turn off applets in KDE?

2001-08-07 Thread Jon Doe
On Tuesday 07 August 2001 10:58 pm, you wrote: Ooo, Ooo hand waving in air, that's an easy one. Just right click the little dimpled 'bar' in front of the applet and click remove. :-) -s Thanks!

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

2001-08-07 Thread Richie de Almeida
On Monday 06 August 2001 21:43, Michael Leone wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] Reasons for use LM 8.0

2001-08-07 Thread Tim Holmes
This really comes down to what do they want to do with the machines. Are these going to be desktops for users? Are these going to be servers? Are these going to be used to teach a class on Linux? I've installed quite a good number of different distros in my day. (Always wanted to say that! :0)

Re: [newbie] Linux Mandrake vs RedHat

2001-08-07 Thread Richie de Almeida
On Tuesday 07 August 2001 00:42, X - A - W - K wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] Resolver problem.

2001-08-07 Thread Richie de Almeida
The DOS version of fdisk /mbr won't kill NT-Loader, SYS C: would however. I learned this after alot of banging my head on the keyboard after trying to restore my laptop to Win95 some years ago! If you ever need to restore Bill's boot menu, just start a winnt install and choose to Repair an

[newbie] RE: [expert] Re: mysterious incoming packets

2001-08-07 Thread John W
It will last as long as it takes these idiots to patch there servers or quit using MS for web based services. I think it will go dormant again the 19th of the month unless CR 2 has changed that as well. Yeah, ever since this all started, I have a constant 2+k activity on eth0, still, and

Re: [newbie] can't startx

2001-08-07 Thread Richie de Almeida
unix/:-1 is how Xserver connects to xfs, the X font-server. Going by the message you got, when xfs tried to upload its fonts to your X-server, some files or folders containing fonts were missing. Running Xconfigurator may have updated the configuration file for xfs (the file is

Re: [newbie] Problems upgrading RPM

2001-08-07 Thread Richie de Almeida
Your problem may have been from dinking around with RedHat software instead of Mandrake software. Personally, I don't trust installing RPMs on Mandrake unless they're from Mandrake, with a few exceptions. I don't know about backing out from these abortive RPM installs, you may want to make

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

2001-08-07 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 13:10, Richie de Almeida wrote: On Monday 06 August 2001 21:43, Michael Leone wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] New Kernel 2.4.7

2001-08-07 Thread Paul
It was Tue, 07 Aug 2001 19:26:17 -0300 when Lúcio Costa wrote: I've gone to Fenasof / Brazil, and I had a opportunity to saw some Linux distros. In fact, some machines are using kernel 2.4.7 Can you help me to up-grade my Linux Kernel to this version ? I don't know what I need to do. I've found

Re: [newbie] Realplayer sound defaults

2001-08-07 Thread Paul
It was Wed, 8 Aug 2001 14:31:34 +1200 when John Rye wrote: My realplayer (basic v.8) keeps loading with the volume all the way down. In itself I can move that up to something audible when I load realplay, but the plugin for netscape and mozilla don't have a volume control. Have you run the

Re: [newbie] Convert .wma files?

2001-08-07 Thread Sevatio
I'm not sure about the Linux solution to this. But I do know that if you have Windurz, you could use TotalRecorder from http://www.highcriteria.com . It converts ANY sound format by capturing it digitally through acting as a pseudo sound device. Then you can save it in MP3 format with its

[newbie] YahooMessenger

2001-08-07 Thread linux
Hello! I found a version of YahooMessenger for Linux, at: http://messenger.yahoo.com/messenger/download/unix.html And Instructions were: To install the Linux version of Messenger: Save the file ymessenger-0.93.0-1.i386.rpm to your machine. Log in as root, and type rpm -i

[newbie] Setting up a DNS server

2001-08-07 Thread Greg Taylor
Was wondering if there was any good walkthru's on setting up a DNS server for a LAN of abuot 10 computers

[newbie] Hard-Drive Problems after using Linux

2001-08-07 Thread Greg Taylor
I'm not sure if I just have really bad luck when it comes to harddrives, but it seems that every time I install any flavor of *nix on a drive that was formerly Winblows, I can't turn around and reinstall windows on the drive again without it not working or being awfully unstable. I'm not