Re: [newbie-it] mandrake beta1 un solo cd

2003-01-11 Thread Andrea Cecagallina
At 19.16 10/01/2003 +0100, you wrote: guarda su distrowatch ...la notizia l'ho trovata li e poi ho letto... Scusatemi per l'errore: ho visto su Distrowatch e poi sul sito italiano di Mandrake (avevo letto male: ritenveo potessero effettuare i DL solo i membri del club...) Credo che il fatto

[newbie-it] Mandrake e Packard Bell

2003-01-11 Thread Andrea Cecagallina
Scusate, ma non trovo da nessuna parte delle info su quanto in oggetto. Ho un portatile sul quale c'è WinME preinstallato e vorrei metterci Mandrake 9.0 in dual boot. Qualcuno ha già provato? Con che esiti? Graize per l'attenzione Andrea

Re: [newbie-it] mandrake beta1 un solo cd

2003-01-11 Thread Andrea Cecagallina
At 19.31 10/01/2003 +0100, you wrote: Tra le righe, credo che Francesco si domandi: è giusto che la che scelta dei pacchetti debba essere ristretta al Mandrake Club o piuttosto chiunque usa Mdk dovrebbe potere esprimere il suo voto sui pacchetti che desidererebbe avere nella 9.1? Io credo debba

[newbie-it] ho sostituito il cd col masterizzatore

2003-01-11 Thread carmine de pasquale
dopo aver sostituito il lettore cd col masterizzatore (sempre master secondario) linux non legge più i cd in /mnt/cdrom, che ora apare sempre lucchettata. cosa devo fare?

[newbie-it] parzialmente OT: reboot da win a linux

2003-01-11 Thread carmine de pasquale
ho impostato il lilo affinchè non parta alcun sistema in automatico. quando voglio riavviare il pc da linux a winzozz 98/2ed basta che lo seleziono nella finestra di login; vorrei fare lo stesso quando riavvio da winzozz a linux (possibilmente aggiungere un'altra opzione a

Re: [newbie-it] ho sostituito il cd col masterizzatore

2003-01-11 Thread tom
Alle 23:56, sabato 11 gennaio 2003, carmine de pasquale ha scritto: dopo aver sostituito il lettore cd col masterizzatore (sempre master secondario) linux non legge più i cd in /mnt/cdrom, che ora apare sempre lucchettata. cosa devo fare? non vorrei dire una C ma credo che ti venga

[newbie-it] modem usb

2003-01-11 Thread rp
Salve a tutti, sono nuovo nel mondo Linux e nell'entusiasmo di una possibile migrazione definitiva, mi trovo come altri l'ostacolo dell'utilizzo di alcune periferiche. Nel mio caso si tratta del modem, un D-Link ISDN USB codice : DRU 128 TA. Ho chiaramente fatto una ricerca attraverso internet

Re: [newbie] On board 3D audio?

2003-01-11 Thread Ibly Piblo
Eww! I just installed it, and it detected it great, but the sound is all distorted, TERRIBLE! yuck. How would I go about fixing this? I have the output connected to a small amplifier, is this not right? Or is the output for speakers only with no apm? Thanks Ibly

[newbie] linux terminal on windows?

2003-01-11 Thread - netmaniac -
I'm currently using two machines: one with apache and the other with windows, because I still like the photoshop, dreamweaver and other web design tools. But don't like to switch between computers every time I want to make a change on the server. So, is there some way in windows I could

Re: [newbie] Influence and help LM91 NOW

2003-01-11 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 16:50, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Are ya sending me the CD's via post? (g) As a matter of fact Stephen, I will. Email me off list and we'll get it set up. --LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2

[newbie] Install command

2003-01-11 Thread Trevor Rhodes
After a system crash I'm trying to rebuild and am at the stage of getting some commands back I've forgotten. One was very recently on this list. Does anyone remember a command for installing rpms from the command line that included two signs? Thanks for your help. Oh, for those who are

Re: [newbie] linux terminal on windows?

2003-01-11 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 19:00, - netmaniac - wrote: I'm currently using two machines: one with apache and the other with windows, because I still like the photoshop, dreamweaver and other web design tools. But don't like to switch between computers every time I want to make a change on the

[newbie] ATI TV Wonder VE/xawtv-SOLVED

2003-01-11 Thread Jerry
OK... I fixed my tv video quality problems and here's what I did for others who may need it. Fine tuning of channels is done via the ~/.xawtv file with the value fine = #(-128 to 127) I set the fine value to fine = 10 et voila! After spending HOURS on it, it turned out to be that simple. I

Re: [newbie] On board 3D audio?

2003-01-11 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 19:01, Ibly Piblo wrote: Eww! I just installed it, and it detected it great, but the sound is all distorted, TERRIBLE! yuck. How would I go about fixing this? I have the output connected to a small amplifier, is this not right? Or is the output for speakers only

Re: [newbie] Viewing JPG images

2003-01-11 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 09:13, _nasturtium wrote: Hello, This is kind-of a follow-up to my base64 question. I have since found source for a base64 encoder/decoder at gaim.sourceforge.net, under Eric's plugins (of all places). I have now extracted my jpg (70kb so i won't burden

Re: [newbie] Install command

2003-01-11 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 21:19, Trevor Rhodes wrote: After a system crash I'm trying to rebuild and am at the stage of getting some commands back I've forgotten. One was very recently on this list. Does anyone remember a command for installing rpms from the command line that included two signs?

Re: [newbie] imputting strange characters

2003-01-11 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 14:41, Damian Gatabria wrote: If it's international charachters you are after with accents, change your keyboard to US-International. This would not be for speed typists. It waits for a second key press after letters with the accents. I loaded it by mistake with my 8.2

Re: [newbie] Install command

2003-01-11 Thread Trevor Rhodes
Michael, http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/msg114411.html I searched urpmi at http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/ Recommend you bookmark it. Bloody Ripper. Thanks, now to the next problem. Regards Trevor Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] ATI TV Wonder VE/xawtv-SOLVED

2003-01-11 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 19:22, Jerry wrote: OK... I fixed my tv video quality problems and here's what I did for others who may need it. Fine tuning of channels is done via the ~/.xawtv file with the value fine = #(-128 to 127) I set the fine value to fine = 10 et voila! After spending

Re: [newbie] Contribs - 8.2

2003-01-11 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 11 Jan 2003 7:29 am, Len Lawrence wrote: Good morning(?) lads lasses Have just started investigating urpmi since everybody recommends it so highly. Successful addmedia for PLF but could not find contrib source for Mandrake 8.2. Mandrakesoft only seems to have version 9.0.

Re: [newbie] Documentation

2003-01-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 10 Jan 2003 10:44 pm, you wrote: On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 09:28, Anne Wilson wrote: I found the doc I wanted on tldp. The method you said was the second one it told me, and meanwhile I'd tried the first - installing as a remote printer. As I said in the other post, under

Re: [newbie] Windows media player for netscape in mandrake

2003-01-11 Thread ivette brusselmans
What program do I have to install for video on netscape. Keep getting the message: this page contains information of a type (application/x-mplayer2) that can only be viewed with the appropiate plug-in Thanx From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Windows media player for netscape in mandrake

2003-01-11 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 11:54:34 +0100 Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In reply to ivette's mail, d.d. Sat, 11 Jan 2003 10:43:02 +0100: Is there an linux equivalent for Windows Media Player? I'm using latest If you seek to play specific Windows Media files, mplayer can handle a number of

Re: [newbie] Windows media player for netscape in mandrake

2003-01-11 Thread Derek Jennings
If you want to watch embedded streaming video, the best solution is to install Codeweavers Crossover plugin. Crossover plugin will then download and install Apple Quicktime 6 and Windows MediaPlayer 6.5 and will run them as Windows applications within Linux (using Wine) It works well. The

Re: [newbie] Windows media player for netscape in mandrake

2003-01-11 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 03:20, Ralph Slooten wrote: On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 11:54:34 +0100 Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In reply to ivette's mail, d.d. Sat, 11 Jan 2003 10:43:02 +0100: Is there an linux equivalent for Windows Media Player? I'm using latest

Re: [newbie] Windows media player for netscape in mandrake

2003-01-11 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 22:48, Brandon Vanderberg wrote: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 03:20, Ralph Slooten wrote: On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 11:54:34 +0100 Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: =20 In reply to ivette's mail, d.d. Sat, 11

RE: [newbie] Windows media player for netscape in mandrake

2003-01-11 Thread Franki
yeah, I'll second that.. Don't think this aussie has ever said crikey on his life... here are some good Aussie alternatives.. 1. Bloody hell!!! 2. F**k me drunk! 3. Holy Shit! 4. You bloody ripper!!! (depreciated). 5. * (Censored :-) rgds Frank -Original Message-

RE: [newbie] Windows media player for netscape in mandrake

2003-01-11 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 23:24, Franki wrote: yeah, I'll second that.. Don't think this aussie has ever said crikey on his life... here are some good Aussie alternatives.. 1. Bloody hell!!! 2. F**k me drunk! 3. Holy Shit! 4. You bloody ripper!!! (depreciated). 5. *

Re: [newbie] Windows media player for netscape in mandrake

2003-01-11 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 22:19, ivette brusselmans wrote: What program do I have to install for video on netscape. Keep getting the message: this page contains information of a type (application/x-mplayer2) that can only be viewed with the appropiate plug-in Thanx MPlayer. -- Sat Jan 11

[newbie] ARTICLE - But don't laugh - yet...

2003-01-11 Thread Stephen Kuhn
Out hunting articles again... http://www.sudhian.com/docs.cfm/id/304.sud ...not that I totally agree, but sometimes you DO have to stop and think about fame and fortune... -- Sat Jan 11 23:40:01 EST 2003 11:40pm up 1 day, 1:51, 6 users, load average: 0.43, 0.23, 0.68

[newbie] Re: ARTICLE - But don't laugh - yet...

2003-01-11 Thread James
To be sure, someone will write a song about Bill, 100 years after his death. james Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] rpm descriptions

2003-01-11 Thread Derek Jennings
Well if your source for CD2 is missing you can easily put it back in again. Using Mandrake Software Manager *remove* the sources for CD1s 1 and 3, close softare manager. Put CD1 in your CD drive, then in a root terminal type urpmi.addmedia --distrib cdrom removable:///mnt/cdrom That will put

Re: [newbie] Windows media player for netscape in mandrake

2003-01-11 Thread Gary Badger
Well bugger me! - Original Message - From: Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 11:24 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Windows media player for netscape in mandrake yeah, I'll second that.. Don't think this aussie has ever said

Re: [newbie] Windows media player for netscape in mandrake

2003-01-11 Thread David
Dont forget the favourite brought on by Toyota, bugger David yeah, I'll second that.. Don't think this aussie has ever said crikey on his life... here are some good Aussie alternatives.. 1. Bloody hell!!! 2. F**k me drunk! 3. Holy Shit! 4. You bloody ripper!!! (depreciated). 5.

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE - But don't laugh - yet...

2003-01-11 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 11 January 2003 12:42, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Out hunting articles again... http://www.sudhian.com/docs.cfm/id/304.sud ...not that I totally agree, but sometimes you DO have to stop and think about fame and fortune... Actually I think it's a totally pointless and superfluous

Re: [newbie] Windows media player for netscape in mandrake

2003-01-11 Thread Michael Scottaline
Is there an linux equivalent for Windows Media Player? I'm using latest release of netscape. MDK 9.0 box. If so, how come it is not automatically installed? If Mandrake wants to become a major OS that can be used by everyone (wizzards and dummies alike), it'll have to focus on

Re: [newbie] ATI TV Wonder VE/xawtv-SOLVED

2003-01-11 Thread et
I just remembered gatos for ATI tv cards, have you tried gatos On Saturday 11 January 2003 04:34 am, Trevor Rhodes wrote: Jerry, Sh_t...can you send me yer sample .xawtv? Can I have a copy of the file too please? Still having trouble setting it up here on my sons machine. Regards

[newbie] recovering Mozilla profile

2003-01-11 Thread Can Baytan
This is my second posting, please bear with me, I need to learn this before Mozilla crashes again. Main question: My Mozilla crashed and default profile won't start again, how do I recover the profile? My wild guess is there are lock files I need to delelte Related questions: 1- Is there any

Re: [newbie] imputting strange characters

2003-01-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 11 Jan 2003 12:51 am, Damian Gatabria wrote: Hmm, I don't have an Alt Gr key on my laptop unfortunately. The alt shift combination does nothing for me except what alt alone usually does (eg. alt 'f' opens the 'file' menu) Well, i guess you got me beat. But someone with an

Re: [newbie] Selective download of mail/filtering on server

2003-01-11 Thread Keith Powell
On Thursday 09 Jan 2003 5:23 pm, Jerry wrote: SNIP!!! If Sylpheed had the facility of scrolling through the message headers and messages using just the arrow keys, as with KMail, then it would be a winner. This makes KMail so fast and easy to use. I know that there are various key

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE - But don't laugh - yet...

2003-01-11 Thread Marc
1/11/03 8:04:35 AM, H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 11 January 2003 12:42, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Out hunting articles again... http://www.sudhian.com/docs.cfm/id/304.sud ...not that I totally agree, but sometimes you DO have to stop and think about fame and fortune...

Re: [newbie] imputting strange characters

2003-01-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 11 Jan 2003 2:53 am, Sascha Noyes wrote: I'm not sure what a macro is, but I don't want to create anything. All I want/need is a key combination that I can type which will give me a specific ASCII character. (like is the case with alt in Winblows - with the x's being numbers

Re: [newbie] rpm descriptions

2003-01-11 Thread Can Baytan
Thanks Derek, it turned out to my second cd's are damaged (both copies), I'll fix that and tell you the results. (after DL'ing 2'nd iso from somewhere else) Best. Can. Derek Jennings wrote: Well if your source for CD2 is missing you can easily put it back in again. Using Mandrake Software

Re: [newbie] Re: ARTICLE - But don't laugh - yet...

2003-01-11 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 23:49, James wrote: To be sure, someone will write a song about Bill, 100 years after his death. james Come and listen to a story 'bout a man named Bill He has more money than the US Capitol Hill Then one day he was hunting for some fin And up from the underground

Re: [newbie] linux terminal on windows?

2003-01-11 Thread et
On Saturday 11 January 2003 03:00 am, - netmaniac - wrote: I'm currently using two machines: one with apache and the other with windows, because I still like the photoshop, dreamweaver and other web design tools. But don't like to switch between computers every time I want to make a change on

Re: [newbie] recovering Mozilla profile

2003-01-11 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 11 Jan 2003 1:23 pm, Can Baytan wrote: This is my second posting, please bear with me, I need to learn this before Mozilla crashes again. Main question: My Mozilla crashed and default profile won't start again, how do I recover the profile? My wild guess is there are lock files I

Re: [newbie] Script to change multiple filenames

2003-01-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 11 Jan 2003 4:46 am, Todd Slater wrote: On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 20:31:05 -0800 Matt Florido [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if someone could assist me in creating a shell script that will take the contents of a directory and rename them a certain way. For example - 4

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE - But don't laugh - yet...

2003-01-11 Thread Marc
1/11/03 7:33:32 AM, Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1/11/03 8:04:35 AM, H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 11 January 2003 12:42, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Out hunting articles again... http://www.sudhian.com/docs.cfm/id/304.sud ...not that I totally agree, but sometimes you DO

Re: [newbie] checking file systems when rebooting without unmounting

2003-01-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 11 Jan 2003 10:33 am, Pupeno wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 10 January 2003 02:26, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 23:58:21 -0500 Pupeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why when I have a crash or some like that, when the computer boots, it asks

[newbie] X11 development RPM? does it exist?

2003-01-11 Thread Jonathan Lau
Hi, I have just installed Mandrake Linux 9.0, and have a need for the X11 headers (e.g. Xlib.h, etc.). I can't seem to find the rpm. Does it exist? I can't find any information about how to obtain these files anywhere. Any help would be appreciated! Jon / Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] CD-ROM drive on Laptop

2003-01-11 Thread et
On Friday 10 January 2003 09:03 pm, Noah A Hicks wrote: I have a problem with my cd-rom drive on my dell latitude ls-400. If I boot with a cd in the drive the system hangs during boot. This is just a regular data cd with some picture files on it. If I boot with the cd drive empty and place

Re: [newbie] checking file systems when rebooting without unmounting

2003-01-11 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 00:26:55 -0700 Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 23:58:21 -0500 Pupeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why when I have a crash or some like that, when the computer boots, it asks me to make the check of the file system ? shouldn't it ask to avoid the

Re: [newbie] checking file systems when rebooting without unmounting

2003-01-11 Thread et
I would consider converting my ext2 filesystem to ext3, since the journal feature just about eliminates the need to ext2fsck On Saturday 11 January 2003 05:33 am, Pupeno wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 10 January 2003 02:26, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 10 Jan 2003

Re: [newbie] Installing Unreal Tournament

2003-01-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 11 January 2003 05:26 am, Joan Tur wrote: Es Dimecres 08 Gener 2003 03:37, en Ronald J. Hall va escriure: ut-install-436-GOTY.run = this one installed both disks. Where can I find this one? 8-? This site, found on Google, had all the installers I mentioned.

Re: [newbie] ATI TV Wonder VE/xawtv-SOLVED

2003-01-11 Thread Jerry Barton
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 20:34:20 +1100 Trevor Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry, Sh_t...can you send me yer sample .xawtv? Can I have a copy of the file too please? Still having trouble setting it up here on my sons machine. Regards Trevor Here it is: [global] ratio =

Re: [newbie] UT Errors

2003-01-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 11 January 2003 05:38 am, Trevor Rhodes wrote: Hello All, Still with the UT problems. I have it installed now but have come up with the following error: Bound to SDLDrv.so Joystick [0] : Unknown Joystick SDLClient initialized. Bound to Render.so Lighting subsystem

Re: [newbie] rpm descriptions

2003-01-11 Thread Derek Jennings
You can always declare an online ftp source instead of the CDs. ( If you have broadband) Delete the CD entries, and enter urpmi.addmedia distro_9.0 ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS with ./synthesis.hdlist.cz (or some other mirror of your choice)

Re: [newbie] ATI TV Wonder VE/xawtv-SOLVED

2003-01-11 Thread Jerry Barton
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 08:21:49 -0500 et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just remembered gatos for ATI tv cards, have you tried gatos On Saturday 11 January 2003 04:34 am, Trevor Rhodes wrote: Jerry, Sh_t...can you send me yer sample .xawtv? Can I have a copy of the file too please? Still

Re: [newbie] Script to change multiple filenames

2003-01-11 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 13:42:48 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 11 Jan 2003 4:46 am, Todd Slater wrote: On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 20:31:05 -0800 Matt Florido [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if someone could assist me in creating a shell script that will take

Re: [newbie] recovering Mozilla profile

2003-01-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 11 Jan 2003 1:23 pm, Can Baytan wrote: This is my second posting, please bear with me, I need to learn this before Mozilla crashes again. Main question: My Mozilla crashed and default profile won't start again, how do I recover the profile? My wild guess is there are lock files I

Re: [newbie] Script to change multiple filenames

2003-01-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 11 Jan 2003 2:10 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 13:42:48 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 11 Jan 2003 4:46 am, Todd Slater wrote: On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 20:31:05 -0800 Matt Florido [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if someone

Re: [newbie] imputting strange characters

2003-01-11 Thread Sascha Noyes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 11 January 2003 08:31 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 11 Jan 2003 2:53 am, Sascha Noyes wrote: I'm not sure what a macro is, but I don't want to create anything. All I want/need is a key combination that I can type which will give

Re: [newbie] netscape 7.0 installer problem

2003-01-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday January 10 2003 04:32 pm, ivette brusselmans wrote: Did this at least 10 times. Always get the same answer : download failed due to multiple CRC failures. What could be the cause? CRC (cylical redundancy checks) are used in data transmission to verify the data's integrity. CRC

Re: [newbie] OT Obscenity for fun and profit

2003-01-11 Thread RichardA
On Saturday 11 January 2003 12:35, Stephen Kuhn wrote: ...I was amused (and still am to this day) with the variations of explicatives that I run across in normal conversation. Men, women, children - it's never ending [snip] I went to college in Hull, on the east coast of England. I was

Re: [newbie] OT Obscenity for fun and profit

2003-01-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 11 Jan 2003 3:07 pm, RichardA wrote: I live in Leeds now, where if someone says fuck off you can be fairly sure they're swearing at you. Hi, neighbour. I'm south of Huddersfield Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

[newbie] VCD slideshow

2003-01-11 Thread Todd Slater
Does anybody know how to go about making a slideshow that can be made into a VCD? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] checking file systems when rebooting without unmounting

2003-01-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday January 11 2003 07:57 am, Todd Slater wrote: snip on my box it does it anyway whether you hit the Y or not... just that pressing Y starts it right then instead of waiting 5 sec. Jerry What version is that? Todd At least since 9.0, and with ReiserFS. I believe

[newbie] md5sum nomenclature

2003-01-11 Thread John Richard Smith
On, ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake-iso/i586 we have, MandrakeLinux-9.1beta1.i586.iso and, md5sums.9.1beta1.asc I just wondered what .asc means ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] Mozilla/Netscape problems

2003-01-11 Thread Mike Larson
If I have a Mozilla (1.2.1 XFT) window open and try to open a Netscape 7.01 window, I get another Mozilla window. If I close all browser windows and start Netscape, it opens normally. On the other hand, I _can_ open a Phoenix 0.3 window when Mozilla is running. I am starting all from the menu,

Re: [newbie] checking file systems when rebooting without unmounting

2003-01-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 11 Jan 2003 3:31 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday January 11 2003 07:57 am, Todd Slater wrote: snip on my box it does it anyway whether you hit the Y or not... just that pressing Y starts it right then instead of waiting 5 sec. Jerry What version is that?

Re: [newbie] imputting strange characters

2003-01-11 Thread Damian Gatabria
Me perdon, senor, pero, yo tengo una Compaq keyboard THAT HAS IT! Although I don't use it...(US-Australian keyboard layout w/ UK/AU overlay) Oh! i see. But when you need to enter things like an ™ symbol, is there any other choice? Si, estoy loco. If you say so, sir.. :o) Damian Want

Re: [newbie] OT Peoples Republic Of...

2003-01-11 Thread RichardA
Hi, neighbour. I'm south of Huddersfield Anne If it's of any interest, I am just in Yorkshire (by about two miles!), near to Worksop. Keith A couple of thousand more of us and we can make our own Tyke distro! Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Windows media player for netscape in mandrake

2003-01-11 Thread Paul
In reply to Lyvim's mail, d.d. 11 Jan 2003 11:54:12 -0500: From what I know, WMF is 100% the same as ASF, except that M$ claims it to be a new format of their own :-( Opening a WMV in MPlayer proves my memory as it states it's a ASF file. You should have no problems opening it with mplayer,

[newbie] OpenOffice 1.0.1 vignette simbols gone

2003-01-11 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
After recover the menu text, I have seen that the vignettes symbols (not the images one) have dissapeared. Everything is runing fine but not this. Does anyone know how to solve this? Thanks so much in advance -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Departamento de Biología Vegetal Universidad de Murcia

[newbie] Sis 300/305 video card problems in 9.0

2003-01-11 Thread Scott
Is anyone aware of any problems with 9.0 configuring an SIS 305 video card? My problems started on install. I noticed that the card was detected as sis 300 and there was no 305 listed, even though it is listed as supported. When the X configuration was tested, the system froze.I messed around

Re: [newbie] OT Peoples Republic Of...

2003-01-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 11 Jan 2003 5:09 pm, RichardA wrote: Hi, neighbour. I'm south of Huddersfield Anne If it's of any interest, I am just in Yorkshire (by about two miles!), near to Worksop. Keith A couple of thousand more of us and we can make our own Tyke distro! Richard You as

Re: [newbie] md5sum nomenclature

2003-01-11 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 05:02, John Richard Smith wrote: On, ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrak e-iso/i586 we have, MandrakeLinux-9.1beta1.i586.iso and, md5sums.9.1beta1.asc I just wondered what .asc means ? John Short for ASCII. If you think

Re: [newbie] Spool files

2003-01-11 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 02:18, Anne Wilson wrote: In /var/spool/cups I have 487 files, typically name c00xxx, averaging 800 B, type unknown, permissions rw--. In Konqueror the directory shows a lock. If I attemp to copy a file to, say, desktop so that I can examine it, I get the message

Re: [newbie] OT Obscenity for fun and profit

2003-01-11 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 02:22, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 11 Jan 2003 3:07 pm, RichardA wrote: I live in Leeds now, where if someone says fuck off you can be fairly sure they're swearing at you. Hi, neighbour. I'm south of Huddersfield Anne I just have to input here - y'all live

Re: [newbie] checking file systems when rebooting without unmounting

2003-01-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday January 11 2003 09:55 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 11 Jan 2003 3:31 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: At least since 9.0, and with ReiserFS. I believe you'd see it with any journaling filesystem, except posibly ext3. It works in ext 3 on 9.0 Anne Main reason I included

Re: [newbie] Windows media player for netscape in mandrake

2003-01-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday January 11 2003 11:04 am, Paul wrote: In reply to Lyvim's mail, d.d. 11 Jan 2003 11:54:12 -0500: From what I know, WMF is 100% the same as ASF, except that M$ claims it to be a new format of their own :-( Opening a WMV in MPlayer proves my memory as it states it's a ASF

Re: [newbie] Windows media player for netscape in mandrake

2003-01-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 11 January 2003 11:54 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: What do you mean, Windows dll's? Are you saying that mplayer is actually using winblows codecs to do the job? Plus, I was under the impression that the mplayer author had integrated the aviplay project into mplayer. And if you've

Re: [newbie] linux terminal on windows?

2003-01-11 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 07:38, - netmaniac - wrote: Thanks for the answers guys! Where can I get VNC? netmaniac http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ VNC is part of most normal linux distros - so you already have VNC on your computer (unless you didn't install it - and if so, it's on your cd

Re: [newbie] linux terminal on windows?

2003-01-11 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 07:40, Adolfo Bello wrote: It really is easy and fast to setup VNC to run for remote login - you get a desktop (KDE or G()NOME - if you've got a 100mb connection on your network, it's beautiful - and you can run it in a window in Windows - on the same token,

Re: [newbie] Texts to Films

2003-01-11 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 09:20, Lth wrote: Can Xime play film and show text at the same time, like example VPlayer in Windows? If yes, how can I activate this function? If no, which player for linux can it? XINE: RIGHT CLICK, SUBTITLES -- Sun Jan 12 09:35:00 EST 2003 9:35am up 1 day,

Re: [newbie] linux terminal on windows?

2003-01-11 Thread Adolfo Bello
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ It's free! Thanks a lot. A long road ahead. IPMASQ-VNC-... __ / \\ @ ____@ Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] / // // /\ / \\ // \ // Bello Ingenieria S.A, Presidente / \\ // / \\/ // // / //cel: +58 416 609-6213 /___

Re: [newbie] linux terminal on windows?

2003-01-11 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 11 Jan 2003 10:36 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 07:38, - netmaniac - wrote: Thanks for the answers guys! Where can I get VNC? netmaniac http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ VNC is part of most normal linux distros - so you already have VNC on your computer

RE: [newbie] md5sum nomenclature

2003-01-11 Thread Eileen Lopp
the .asc I suspect refers to ASCII, it is a text file, after all. CLIC is the cluster version of Mandrake. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 2:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: [newbie] OT Obscenity for fun and profit

2003-01-11 Thread RichardA
On Saturday 11 January 2003 18:38, Anne Wilson wrote: BTW - I think Yorkshire is under-represented on the Linux Counter Page. Are you both there? http://counter.li.org/ Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Yes. Funny how we're all really into freedom, and we line up to be

Re: [newbie] linux terminal on windows?

2003-01-11 Thread Adolfo Bello
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ It's free! And amazing. Wow! Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OT Obscenity for fun and profit

2003-01-11 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 11 January 2003 19:31, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 02:22, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 11 Jan 2003 3:07 pm, RichardA wrote: I live in Leeds now, where if someone says fuck off you can be fairly sure they're swearing at you. Hi, neighbour. I'm south of

[newbie] keyboard internationalization extended ASCII issues

2003-01-11 Thread Andrei Raevsky
Hi, 1) I have a US keyboard on my laptop. I would like to type in French letters with accents (such as é or à). I can use the GNOME character map application, but this is really very slow and cumbersome. I know what the ASCII character codes are for all these letters, but I don't know how

Re: [newbie] Script to change multiple filenames

2003-01-11 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 17:22:43 -0800 Matt Florido [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] [01-10-2003 23:46]: #!/bin/bash EXT=.jpg NAME=pic CNT=1 for image in `ls /path/to/directory | sort` do FCNT=`printf %02d $CNT` echo $image ==

Re: [newbie] X-CD-Roast, last news

2003-01-11 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 15:02, Pilagá wrote: Features included in new version 0.98alpha13: Easy setup and intuitive X11 user interface GUI based on GTK+ instead of TCL/TK (100% new C-code) Copies most data/mixed-mode/audio-CDs (data also on-the-fly) Master data-CDs and rearrange audio-CDs

Re: [newbie] linux terminal on windows?

2003-01-11 Thread Michael Viron
At 09:37 AM 1/12/2003 +1100, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 07:40, Adolfo Bello wrote: It really is easy and fast to setup VNC to run for remote login - you get a desktop (KDE or G()NOME - if you've got a 100mb connection on your network, it's beautiful - and you can run

Re: [newbie] Viewing JPG images

2003-01-11 Thread _nasturtium
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 04:05 am, Jerry wrote: SNIP My turn to snip :-) do you have libjpeg installed? can you view any other jpg images besides just the one you're trying to view here? Jerry Hello, libjpeg? Probably. All other jpeg images view fine. Regards, _nasturtium

Re: [newbie] Viewing JPG images

2003-01-11 Thread _nasturtium
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 08:27 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: cd ~/your/gfx/dir ee * And Electric Eyes pops up with a list of thumbnails that you can peruse; all of the graphics in that directory, not just the jpg's. You click on what's interesting and very quickly the pic comes up. It's real fast.

Re: [newbie] Viewing JPG images

2003-01-11 Thread _nasturtium
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 04:14 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: do a: display nameoftheimage.JPG (display is part of the ImageMagick suite) Hello, Console output: display: Unsupported marker type 0x26 (output.jpg). Not the picture i want - though it's still a nice wizard pic :-/ Regards,

Re: [newbie] md5sum nomenclature

2003-01-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 11 Jan 2003 10:53 pm, Eileen Lopp wrote: the .asc I suspect refers to ASCII, it is a text file, after all. CLIC is the cluster version of Mandrake. Thank you Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] keyboard internationalization extended ASCII issues

2003-01-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 12 Jan 2003 1:16 am, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Any suggestions as to how rapidly and conveniently get French accents in a console of in a OpenOffice text? How can I generate extended ASCII characters? Not in OpenOffice text, but Alt+numberpad works in KWord. Anne -- Registered Linux

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