[newbie-it] annullo sottoscrizione

2001-11-02 Thread Orlando Onorato

[newbie-it] Ancora Euro

2001-11-02 Thread Alberto Zanoni
Ciao, scusate, anch'io ho l'euro che non mi funziona. Ho letto le mail, e vorrei sapere come si fa a settare il set di caratteri ISO-8859-15 (eventualmente dove si trovi il file di configurazione). Grazie anticipate,

Re: [newbie-it] Linux notebook

2001-11-02 Thread LukenShiro
Nell'Evo medio, all'ora 21:29, venerdì 2 novembre 2001, Voi, Notabile gio, avete dipinto: Secondo Voi mi potrebbe servire almeno per cominciare a masticare gli ostici (almeno per me) comandi della bash? [...] - Cpu Pentium 133 - Ram 8 Mb - HD 800 Mb - No cd-rom ^^ Yesss,

Re: [newbie] Linux versus WindowsXP Haredware

2001-11-02 Thread Robert
It is still possible for Linux to get a foot in the door. It takes an aggressive suit to take advantage of this situation. Whether some of you like it or not a Ballmer or similiar could get a rally going and maybe double or triple the support Linux has with the hardware vendors. I don't see

[newbie] Break out box

2001-11-02 Thread Robert
I was wondering if someone knows or could point me in the direction I need here. I want to pick up a video and audio break out box for my ATI Radeon card so that I don't have to keep reaching back behind the machine to connect composite and Svideo cables. I know there must be something like

Re: [newbie] Linux versus WindowsXP Hardware

2001-11-02 Thread Paul
In reply to Robert's words, written Fri, 2 Nov 2001 00:50:59 -0800 like it or not a Ballmer or similiar could get a rally going and maybe double or triple the support Linux has with the hardware vendors. I don't see this as a quick way to bring MS down with one swoop but everything has a

Re: [newbie] Alternative to ICQ?

2001-11-02 Thread Onur Kucuk
ICQ has been really messing up lately, or maybe its something to do with my firewall, either way what the list suggest for IM between this linux box and windows users. Something that is fairly secure and has decent features but easy for windows people to install. Actually there is an ICQ

Re: [newbie] Pentium IV

2001-11-02 Thread Onur Kucuk
How good can linux use p4's capabilities ? Is there a kernel version you advice to upgrade to ? Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Windows XP: EXtra Proprietary

2001-11-02 Thread Onur Kucuk
And if things did not change, debian is the only distro that can support the GNU's kernel, hurd. Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] arrow-keys not work properly

2001-11-02 Thread dechao wang
Hi I installed mandrake linux 8.0, in xterm, the arrow keys work correctly, but in application, e.g in gnuplot, when i press the up-arrow key, it did not display the history commands, but ^]A something like that. Can you tell me how to set it correctly. thanks, Dechao

Re[2]: [newbie] Linux versus WindowsXP Haredware

2001-11-02 Thread Onur Kucuk
SD As much as I'd like to see it happen, I don't think it'll work. Hardware SD manufacturers will scramble to get XP support, and our lead will quickly SD disappear. If only they scrambled to get GNU/Linux support... And if only heaven was on earth :) Honestly I dont understand, why all those

[newbie] windows 2k terminal services

2001-11-02 Thread Robert MacLean
Hi does anyone know if it is possible to use terminal services from m8.1? either through wine, or another method? ___ Robert MacLean Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Alternative to ICQ?

2001-11-02 Thread Paul
In reply to Onur Kucuk's words, written Fri, 2 Nov 2001 11:06:15 +0200 I believe that these troubles will stay still, untill an icq client will act like icq 2000. Licq seems to be the best, so it will be developed fast, and will fix the troubles I believe. I use licq also. Tried

Re: [newbie] Evolution

2001-11-02 Thread lee
Hi Gary, I'm using Evolution as we speak :-). It seems to be ok so far.There is however a 1st time welcome screen that comes up that I haven't been able to,or even tried actually, to get rid of but other than that all seems to be ok. Has a calendar and a task list in there that may prove hel[ful

Re: [newbie] Linux versus WindowsXP Haredware

2001-11-02 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
Linux versus WindowsXP HaredwareUntil hardware manufacturers start including Linux drivers with their products (at the very least even a biniary module), Linux hardware support is not going to happen. Most consumers like to be able to buy 'hardware item X' off the shelf at the local shop and

Re: [newbie] Linux versus WindowsXP Haredware

2001-11-02 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
It is still possible for Linux to get a foot in the door. It takes an aggressive suit to take advantage of this situation. Whether some of you like it or not a Ballmer or similiar could get a rally going and maybe double or triple the support Linux has with the hardware vendors. I don't see

Re: [newbie] current state of anti-aliasing in 8.1

2001-11-02 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
Turn AA off, restart KDE, turn AA back on, restart KDE Tada! It was enabled by default for me, but just didn't seem to kick in Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News Resources - http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - FAX : +44 (01270) 251105 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Linux versus WindowsXP Haredware

2001-11-02 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
Honestly I dont understand, why all those hardware companies (conextant at the top of my list) do ignore the giant penguin, while the strongest/biggest companies on world ( IBM at the top of the list) support this giant ? You have to separate Linux server and desktop usage. In terms of

Re: [newbie] Linux versus WindowsXP Haredware

2001-11-02 Thread Mark D'voo
my girlfriends dad can't get anything usb to work. His HP printer nor his sony camera work with usb, but the printer worked find using the parallel port. Unfortunately his digital camera is only usb so a $500 camera is sitting useless on lhis desk. Both this worked fine on ME. I would have

Getmail and procmail (was Re: [newbie] What I did wrong)

2001-11-02 Thread Paul
In reply to skinky's words, written Sat, 3 Nov 2001 01:53:44 +1300 I went round in circles trying to get fetchmail and procmail to deliver my mail to the appropriate accounts (different users). Got sick of coming up with error messages - generally a permissions thing not being able to write

RE: [newbie] Pentium IV

2001-11-02 Thread Franki
Thats strange, I have a Athlon 1.4 and a huge 7500rpm fan on a massive heatsink, the spring was incrediably tight... but a small pair of pointy nose pliars did the job nice and quickly. and the CPU runs nice and cool, middle of a summer day, (35 degress's celcious) the CPU temp was 65degress's

Re: [newbie] Linux versus WindowsXP Haredware

2001-11-02 Thread Paul
In reply to Mark D'voo's words, written Fri, 2 Nov 2001 07:23:52 -0600 Did you not know that XP stands for eXpanding Problems? ;) Paul my girlfriends dad can't get anything usb to work. His HP printer nor his sony camera work with usb, but the printer worked find using the parallel port.

RE: [newbie] Questions, questions and more questions from a potential buyer

2001-11-02 Thread Franki
perhaps it may be an idea to look into Lindows, the new distro that has a new version of Wine that has had commercial input, it will apparently run alot more windows software, including apparently MS office, possibly even ie.. Its just about to be released now.. just a thought, I don't know

Re: [newbie] Linux versus WindowsXP Haredware

2001-11-02 Thread David E. Fox
Linux versus WindowsXP HaredwareUntil hardware manufacturers start including Linux drivers with their products (at the very least even a biniary module), Some hardware vendors do, obviously not enough. Many manufacturers are afraid to release their drivers into an open-source environment,

Re: [newbie] Alternative to ICQ?

2001-11-02 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
If you are looking for an alternative I use Yahoo. There is a really great basic native Linux client that comes from Yahoo themselves so it is really stable. On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Jon Doe wrote: ICQ has been really messing up lately, or maybe its something to do with my firewall, either way

Re: [newbie] New to Mandrake- lost in the sources void

2001-11-02 Thread Nate Kitts
Well my Sound card is and actual card, it's Creative Sound Blaster PCI 512 any suggestions where to find the proper source to run it? __ FREE voicemail, email, and fax...all in one place. Sign Up Now! http://www.onebox.com Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] windows 2k terminal services

2001-11-02 Thread Richie
On November 2, 2001 04:35 am, Robert MacLean wrote: Hi does anyone know if it is possible to use terminal services from m8.1? either through wine, or another method? ___ Robert MacLean I've seen some TS clients for X but they were commercial.

Re: [newbie] New to Mandrake- lost in the sources void

2001-11-02 Thread Nate Kitts
i believe that i have but it keeps popping up the message about the device modules not loading and that the device is busy or not present, i've fixed that problem before in windows but i will try to do what you suggested in Drake. __ FREE

Re: [newbie] What I did wrong

2001-11-02 Thread Paul Schwebel
Skinky, Thanks, I will look into getmail. This is great! I love the fact that there are so many interesting possible solutions to problems. I've gotten a lot of ideas and approaches from people on this list. Thank you all. -Paul where's the Any key? Schwebel --- skinky [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] The 56K Professional Message Modem in Mandrake 8.1

2001-11-02 Thread Robin Ballantine
On Friday 02 November 2001 10:28 am, you wrote: Hi, I couldn't prevail on you to send me your kppp settings; the particulars under the Device tab, and the Modem commands specifics under the Modem tab (pre- and post-initialization delays, guard time, the Initialization string and Dial,

[newbie] Antivirus for Linux?

2001-11-02 Thread Carlos Jimenez Z.
I read that it's not necessary to install an antivirus for Linux. Is that true? And if it wasn't, what's the best antivirus? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Questions, questions and more questions from a potentialbuyer

2001-11-02 Thread Jal
Kumusta pare? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Sir/Madam: Good day! I am an avid gamer and I plan to migrate to Linux. The Windows upgrade is too steep and the product requires me to upgrade my computer hardware as well. I am sad that I have to pay expensive licenses and hardware for Windows XP

Re: [newbie] Antivirus for Linux?

2001-11-02 Thread Gary Traffanstedt
As long as you don't run everything as root, or change the ownership of all your files to a common user, you should be safe. Linux is not vulnerable like Windows due to a bit of common sense during the design stage. Note that Macintosh systems are not as vulnerable as Windows either.

Re: [newbie] Alternative to ICQ?

2001-11-02 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
No, sorry. I hope they get it going someday however. On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, David Reynolds wrote: On Friday 02 November 2001 08:23 am, you wrote: If you are looking for an alternative I use Yahoo. There is a really great basic native Linux client that comes from Yahoo themselves so it is

Re: [newbie] Info on Syncing Visor (USB)

2001-11-02 Thread shane
jpilot, used, works, requiered no changes that i recall (in other words there may have been, but minor. kpilot is reported to handle usb in the next version.. jpilot should be on the cd if you don't have it installed, or in apps comm jpilot if you do. On Thursday 01 November 2001

Re: [newbie] Linux versus WindowsXP Haredware

2001-11-02 Thread shane
rock solid? the same as 2000 by the reports i have heard, and i crash 2000 15-20 times for every crash i have had on mandrake (one) and i have had mandrake far longer and the crash was my own fault! besides, it is the ms license that will kill them off, and that isn't good. in a fair and

Re: [newbie] windows 2k terminal services

2001-11-02 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
rdesktop will load win terminal services. Look for it at freshmeat. On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Robert MacLean wrote: Hi does anyone know if it is possible to use terminal services from m8.1? either through wine, or another method? ___ Robert MacLean

[newbie] OT:Linux Counter

2001-11-02 Thread poogle
Following the weeding of inactive users it appears that there are now 105876 registered users, interestingly I am #182657 of 105876 :-) -- Poogle Registered Linux user 182657 (added to sig for the benefit of those irritated by it) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Questions, questions and more questions from a potential buyer

2001-11-02 Thread Paul
In reply to John Hokanson Jr.'s words, written Fri, 2 Nov 2001 08:51:44 -0800 Yes, KDE 2.x is rather painful with only 64megs. :( Supposedly it is the bare minimum. You're probably going to see a lot of swaping and slowdown. GNOME isn't terribly better at this point. They supposedly do make

Re: [newbie] Questions, questions and more questions from a potentialbuyer

2001-11-02 Thread Randy Kramer
Jal wrote: 1. Will Mandrake 8.1 run on my system? AMD-K6-2-500 64MB RAM SIS 530 on-board AGP 2x 8MB video RAM ES-SOLO on-board sound card Does Mandrake support the drivers for my devices? Drivers are rarely a problem on any Linux, especially for older devices. There's almost always

Re: [newbie] Alternative to ICQ?

2001-11-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
GnomeMeeting is supposed to be very good for videoconferencing. It can communicate with Netmeeting and connect to Netmeeting servers. On Fri, 2 Nov 2001 11:57:13 -0500 (EST), Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, sorry. I hope they get it going someday however. On Fri, 2 Nov

Re: [newbie] Info on Syncing Visor (USB)

2001-11-02 Thread Paul Schwebel
Thanks, I will check the CD and let you know if I got it to work. -Paul but I don't WANT to RTFM! Schwebel --- shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jpilot, used, works, requiered no changes that i recall (in other words there may have been, but minor. kpilot is reported to handle usb in the

Re: [newbie] OT:Linux Counter

2001-11-02 Thread Terry
On Friday 02 November 2001 12:19 pm, you wrote: Following the weeding of inactive users it appears that there are now 105876 registered users, interestingly I am #182657 of 105876 :-) That is interesting .. I am #218330 .. :-) -- Terry Sheltra PC Technician/Network Administrator University of

Re: [newbie] Questions, questions and more questions from a potential buyer

2001-11-02 Thread shane
well i can try on a few of these On Wednesday 31 October 2001 22:57, you spoke unto me thusly: 1. Will Mandrake 8.1 run on my system? get more ram. it will run, but ram is the best thing you can do to a linux box. 2. Is Mandrake 8.1 vulnerable to viruses such as CIH or BIOS-infecting

RE: [newbie] Pentium IV

2001-11-02 Thread Franki
Hi Tom, My case currenly has no sides on it at all, front or back, there is a power supply fan directing air directly onto the CPU via a pcv pipe, and the Fan is a GlobalWin AMD approved 7000 rpm fan. I used thermal grease on the top, and under, (on the thermister) to give more accurate

RE: [newbie] OT:Linux Counter

2001-11-02 Thread Franki
I wasn't aware I had to keep re registering,,, thats a bit of a pain... I guess I am one of the inactive ones that got weeded.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of shane Sent: Saturday, 3 November 2001 2:22 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: Re: [newbie] windows 2k terminal services

2001-11-02 Thread Jim Dawson
It is possible with additional software. Citirx Metaframe is an add-on to Windows Terminal Services (for NT4 Terminal Server or W2K with Terminal Services installed). It uses its own protocol (ICA) rather than Microsoft's RDP protocol for remote control of a Windows session. Citrix provides

[newbie] NEWBIE: Install problems with LM8.1

2001-11-02 Thread Jaguar
New to this list again.. I am not sure if this has been covered yet, I scanned thru the archives, but didn't find anything for my searches. I have a (well one of 4 systems) Cyrix 233, 5GB, 128 DIMM, 8MB SIS video, supported sound/NIC. I have tried to run setup of L.M. 8.1, and keep getting

Re: Re: [newbie] setting up proxy server

2001-11-02 Thread Mandrake Newbie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Dave, For files storage and retrieval, which ranks first, MySql or Sql ? For web server which will be better, Apache or Squid ? I think the Open Source databases that I know as of the moment are PostgreSQL, MySQL and SAPDB. PostgreSQL and MySQL are included in

Re: Re: [newbie] setting up proxy server

2001-11-02 Thread Mandrake Newbie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 3 Win boxes and 1 Linux box. However those 3 Win boxes can be easily converted to Linux box because I have mobile racks and spare hard disks. My question is can I use my Linux box as server serving 3 Win boxes (Win98, Win ME and Win XP) or I have to converting

[newbie] Problem with Xine 0.9.2

2001-11-02 Thread Mandrake Newbie
Hello, I just downloaded the xine packages of lib and ui version 0.9.2. I made a directory for xine at /usr/share/xine and ui is under the lib directory. In short, the path is: for lib: /usr/share/xine/lib for ui: /usr/share/xine/lib/ui I followed the xine installation how-to that lib

[newbie] Sound problem with Yamaha 6000 sound card

2001-11-02 Thread Mandrake Newbie
Hello, Could anyone please tell me how will I make my sound work by default. I have a PCI Yamaha 6000 sound card using Mandrake 8.1. A step by step HOW-TO will be much appreciated. BTW, my PC hardware specification: - Intel Pentium III 800 Mhz - 20 GB Seagate Barraccuda 7200 RPM - 256 MB

[newbie] Anyone able to play DVD movies?

2001-11-02 Thread Gary Traffanstedt
Has anyone successfully gotten dvd movies to play on Mandrake 8.1? What software works and what doesn't? I've gotten a few to try to play but all of the ones I own are encrypted so I end up seeing a bunch of garbage. I tried compiling the latest version of Xine but couldn't it get it

RE: [newbie] current state of anti-aliasing in 8.1

2001-11-02 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
The only problem is that by default you are limited to a VERY SMALL subset of your Ttype Anti-Aliased fonts when it's on, and worst still they all go bold at 14 points. The Xftconfig file example someone posted fixed all of this for me brilliantly. No more 14 point auto-boldface either. Now I

Re: [newbie] Anyone able to play DVD movies?

2001-11-02 Thread Onur Kucuk
GT Has anyone successfully gotten dvd movies to play on Mandrake 8.1? What GT software works and what doesn't? I've gotten a few to try to play but all of GT the ones I own are encrypted so I end up seeing a bunch of garbage. I tried GT compiling the latest version of Xine but

Re: [newbie] LM8.0 Video display garbled - solved

2001-11-02 Thread Warren Post
I solved my problem by rerunning the installation program, using expert mode and the update option (not install). At the Configure X portion, I tried different settings untill the configuration tested okay. Thanks everyone for your help, and I hope that this will be useful to others. Warren

Re: [newbie] NEWBIE: Install problems with LM8.1

2001-11-02 Thread Paul
In reply to Jaguar's words, written Fri, 02 Nov 2001 14:10:03 -0500 New to this list again.. I am not sure if this has been covered yet, I scanned thru the archives, but didn't find anything for my searches. I have a (well one of 4 systems) Cyrix 233, 5GB, 128 DIMM, 8MB SIS video, supported

Re: [newbie] Another Sound problem

2001-11-02 Thread Great Dragon
Well, sice I didn't get a reply and I had the time, I re-installed Mandrake from scratch with the sound in mind. I slected everything on the right, workstation, game station, multimedia station, everything. I booted with no sound, KDE still doens't have sound. The one I'm really trying to

Re: [newbie] Anyone able to play DVD movies?

2001-11-02 Thread Ralph Slooten
After quite a bit of fiddling around, I have very successfully gotten mplayer to work like a charm :-) There are others too, but this one works the smoothest here. The others I have tried are Xine (Works, but hung quite often) and Ogle (also good... no real problems here, except that the screen

Re: [newbie] Another Sound problem

2001-11-02 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 02 November 2001 21:21, you wrote: Did you check if the specific user that you are running has audio enabled i.e. has audio marked as a group? If not ; do so as root :) Good luck. Well, sice I didn't get a reply and I had the time, I re-installed Mandrake from scratch with the

Re: [newbie] Flash Player

2001-11-02 Thread skinky
On Thu, 01 Nov 2001 13:04, Michael Leone wrote: | Try installing the konqueror nsplugins rpm: | | urpmi kdebase-nsplugins | | This will allow you to use Netscape Plugins form Konq. There should | be a setting for netscape plugins somewhere in the kde control | panel after that. | |

Re: [newbie] Antivirus for Linux?

2001-11-02 Thread etharp
is true, and the best antiviri' for Linux is not having M$ products in the same network (ohh I crake myself up sometimes ..I am so damn funny) On Friday 02 November 2001 11:40, you had thoughts to the concept of: I read that it's not necessary to install an antivirus for Linux. Is that

Re: [newbie] Linux versus WindowsXP Haredware

2001-11-02 Thread shane
very true, i should have been more explanitory. but the fact that people are discussing things like, will the agreement allow OEM's to install other systems and sad tales like dr dos not to mention the fact the court has found them guilty multiple times kinda says abuse to me. :) On Friday

Re: [newbie] Another Sound problem

2001-11-02 Thread Great Dragon
I am logged in as root, but I might not be in the audio group. Thanks. From: H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Another Sound problem Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 22:34:05 +0100 On Friday 02 November 2001 21:21, you wrote: Did you

Re: [newbie] Another Sound problem

2001-11-02 Thread Great Dragon
Nope, no good. root was put in the audio group and it didn't work. my other account that is in the root group and audio group and it doesn't work. From: Great Dragon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Another Sound problem Date: Fri, 02

[newbie] Icons again...(you gotta wonder)

2001-11-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Okay, I guess I spoke prematurely. After rebooting, I still have a 2nd Zip icon... Here is what I've done so far: Deleted said Zip icon (that points to /mnt/zip and not /dev/hdd4) from the desktop Deleted said Zip icon from /home/darklord/Desktop Deleted .directory from /home/darklord/Desktop

Re: [newbie] Another Sound problem

2001-11-02 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 02 November 2001 23:11, you wrote: I am logged in as root, but I might not be in the audio group. Thanks. Maybe somebody else has some reral solutions. Audio does some funny things sometimes. I installed mdk 8.1 on a machine for my nephew -- You guessed it: no sound! We tried his

[newbie] Basic business PCs

2001-11-02 Thread skinky
Hello everyone I'm looking for advice before I contact any retailers (and get ripped off) on setting up a friend's business computers. He has 6 stores which are currently equipped with 1 PC per store. I haven't been to check his current system yet, but was horrified when he told me that he

Re: [newbie] Basic business PCs

2001-11-02 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, skinky wrote: Anyway, he told me that I'm welcome to go and take a look at the setup and upgrade his entire system. Of course I'm keen to install linux rather than M$ Windows (especially to avoid the over-priced future OS upgrade crap) but I'm only just learning to use

Re: [newbie] KNewsTicker doesn't open Konqueror

2001-11-02 Thread skinky
On Thu, 01 Nov 2001 10:46, Miark wrote: | I like running KDE's news ticker, but when I click an article, | Konqueror does _not_ open with the article. I can drag a news article to | an already-open Konqueror window, but I'd like to get this working | correctly. | | Any ideas? | | Thanks, |

Re: [newbie] Pentium IV

2001-11-02 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 02 November 2001 19:22, you wrote: Hey guys, Don't y'all think it would be better to rename this thread 'athlon' instead of 'Pentium IV' ? :) Hi Tom, My case currenly has no sides on it at all, front or back, there is a power supply fan directing air directly onto the CPU via a

Re: [newbie] Icons again...(you gotta wonder)

2001-11-02 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Ronald J. Hall wrote: Okay, I guess I spoke prematurely. After rebooting, I still have a 2nd Zip icon... [snip] Deleted (as root) /usr/share/mdk/Zip.desktop Ronaldthe one to delete is stored in /usr/share/mdk as: /usr/share/mdk/Zip2.desktop not /usr/share/mdk/Zip.desktop -- Alan :)

Re: [newbie] Pentium IV

2001-11-02 Thread Michael
kons Richard Bown wrote: Franki wrote: Thats strange, I have a Athlon 1.4 and a huge 7500rpm fan on a massive heatsink, the spring was incrediably tight... but a small pair of pointy nose pliars did the job nice and quickly. and the CPU runs nice and cool, middle of a

[newbie] error message on mail

2001-11-02 Thread Dennis Myers
I'm getting a message that says unable to collect mail, out of space? . Does anyone know what could be the cause of this? TIA for any help. -- Dennis M. registered linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] What I did wrong [OT]

2001-11-02 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Paul wrote: In reply to Paul Schwebel's words, written Fri, 2 Nov 2001 07:51:49 -0800 (PST) -Paul where's the Any key? Schwebel It's next to the 'other' key... -- It is better to have loved and lost, then never to have loved at all -Lord Alfred Tennyson That ain't the way the I

Re: [newbie] What I did wrong

2001-11-02 Thread Richie
On November 2, 2001 05:03 pm, Paul wrote: In reply to Paul Schwebel's words, written Fri, 2 Nov 2001 07:51:49 -0800 (PST) -Paul where's the Any key? Schwebel It's next to the 'other' key... Every day I go to work, I press the Home key yet nothing happens... Want to buy your Pack or

[newbie] 8.1 help

2001-11-02 Thread Carroll Grigsby
If you are having 8.1 installation problems, check out the articles that are currently posted at www.mandrakeforum.com under the headings LM 8.1 Troubleshooting... You'll find them in the LH column under Mandrake User. They cover printing, X configuration, devfs, sound and laptops. Also, you can

Re: [newbie] fonts for user restricted in 8.1

2001-11-02 Thread bascule
i have no 'font installer' off kcontrolsystem, there is 'fonts' off 'look and feel' but of course that is the problem i described, this doesn't offer me the full range of fonts bascule You might find more fonts in: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts Check your settings in kcontrol (KDE Control

Re: [newbie] Questions,questions and more questions from a potentialbuyer

2001-11-02 Thread Grant Fraser
1. Will Mandrake 8.1 run on my system? AMD-K6-2-500 64MB RAM SIS 530 on-board AGP 2x 8MB video RAM ES-SOLO on-board sound card Does Mandrake support the drivers for my devices? I have LM8.0 on my system. Bear in mind I have only been at this a few weeks. Under videocards I have listed:

[newbie] Samba

2001-11-02 Thread Frank McKenna
HI all. Rather than imposing by sending a copy of my smb.conf file, I was wondering if someone would be interested in taking a look at it to see where I have made my mistake? Thanks in advance Frank McKenna Difficulties increase the closer we approach our Goals Plato ~ It takes a minute to

Re: [newbie] Basic business PCs

2001-11-02 Thread daveindsm
http://www.sql-ledger.com/ this is the link you were thinking of I think. Dave -- - Original Message - From: Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: skinky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Samba

2001-11-02 Thread Glenn Johnson
Frank, I'm fairly new at Linux, but I have Samba running on my Mandrake box and can communicate with 3 Windows boxes. I'll take a look if you like. Maybe I can help... -- Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #175132 Powered by Linux Mandrake 8.1! Want to buy your Pack or

[newbie] Help with NFS on MDK7.2

2001-11-02 Thread nathan wainwright
Okay has anyone ever setup nfs using mandrake7.2 i am trying to get my larger system to run as a nfs server. ... and for some odd reason alot of the stuff in the nfshowto isnt working (findind nfsd, nfs, mountd... etc) so i need to know howto find, or install the following 1. mountd (and get

Re: [newbie] Athlon ( was Pentium IV )

2001-11-02 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
Okay. AMD Rules! On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Friday 02 November 2001 19:22, you wrote: Hey guys, Don't y'all think it would be better to rename this thread 'athlon' instead of 'Pentium IV' ? :) Hi Tom, My case currenly has no sides on it at all, front or back,

Re: [newbie] Samba

2001-11-02 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
EMail it to me. I teach a five hour course in Samba at my shop. On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Frank McKenna wrote: HI all. Rather than imposing by sending a copy of my smb.conf file, I was wondering if someone would be interested in taking a look at it to see where I have made my mistake? Thanks

RE: [newbie] Pentium IV

2001-11-02 Thread Hans N.
I don't think Intel botched the P4 design necessarily. They're aiming for two things on a business perspective, not a technical one. Clock Speed and Multimedia Capabilities. True, AMD has been designing faster chips with lower clock speeds, but Intel intends to woo customers with fancy numbers. I

Re: [newbie] now THAT is irritating

2001-11-02 Thread Damian G
From: Mohammed Arafa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Newbie List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] now THAT is irritating Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 18:39:43 +0200 here we are subscribing to a newbie list and newbies ask questions sometimes other newbies know the

Re: [newbie] now THAT is irritating

2001-11-02 Thread C. Kamm
I wonder if MSN Explorer is available for Linux ;-) Officially terrible Damian, but then again... none of us are perfect :-) _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Pentium IV

2001-11-02 Thread Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, No doubt. Usually if you have no bottleneck limitations, when you up the MGHz with the same architecture you get better speed of program execution. AMD apparently has better architecture and they are planning to introduce products working at higher speed. They were planning to move to copper

Re: [newbie] current state of anti-aliasing in 8.1

2001-11-02 Thread Miark
I actually tried that before, curious to see what it would look like without AA. But then after I turned it on again, the default font for Konsole (fixed-misc or some such thing) disappeared completely, and every other font was big and hellish looking. I'm glad it worked for you! Miark

Re: [newbie] Anyone able to play DVD movies?

2001-11-02 Thread Miark
There must be something more because it didn't work for me. I put in Gladiator, and although I did see the title screen (where you select Play, Audio set-up, Scene selection, etc.), I couldn't get any further. Course it doesn't help that the interface is as obtuse and difficult to see as you

Re: [newbie] error message on mail

2001-11-02 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 04 November 2001 01:18, Dennis Myers wrote: I'm getting a message that says unable to collect mail, out of space? . Does anyone know what could be the cause of this? TIA for any help. Could be you are out of space... :) Seriously though... I did find my log files were growing

RE: [newbie] Pentium IV

2001-11-02 Thread Franki
I was a huge Duron fan as well, then I realised that a 1 gig duron was only 10 bucks AU less then a 1 gig athlon.. then I went nuts and got a 1.4,, now I want a athlonXP MP 1800+ very nice indeed.. still faster then a 2 gig P4. and multiprocessor capable.. imagine a dual setup with two of those

RE: [newbie] 8.1 PowerPack

2001-11-02 Thread Franki
I have had my free CD's for 3 or more weeks now, (2 or 3 weeks after I placed order) and yesterday, I got a mandrake email telling me that the powerpack had been shipped and was on its way.. if my own experiances are the indication, I have nothing to complain about.. (I'm in Western Australia)

[newbie] more on user fonts in 8.1

2001-11-02 Thread bascule
i found a prog called kfontinst that gave a dialogue in kcontrol to install fonts, having found the helvetica fonts i wanted in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/mdk i installed these into all of the directories offered by font installer - to be on the safe side, but to no avail, kde apps still don't see

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Linux versus WindowsXP Haredware

2001-11-02 Thread Robert
You have to separate Linux server and desktop usage. In terms of boxes on desks, Linux is a very little penguin. Massive server usage will never do anything in the quest for more hardware support - servers don't need 3d cards etc etc etc Rick Kitty5 WebDesign - http://Kitty5.com

Re: [newbie] Another Sound problem

2001-11-02 Thread Bryan S. Tyson
On Friday 02 November 2001 15:21, you wrote: The one I'm really trying to get to work is XMMS. Again, the beep works and XMMS plays the song, bars move up and the volume is 100% on XMMS and the speakers but nothing comes out. Any information pointing me in the right direction or helping