Re: [newbie-it] Mail

2003-02-16 Thread syd
* Emiliano La Licata wrote: Dunque, se uso Kmail come client di posta, crea una dir mail in /home/user/, Qualcuno mi sa dire quale programma o comando fa in modo che la posta vada in /var/spool/mail? Probabilmente ho capito male.. comunque se vuoi che la dir di lavoro di kamil sia

Re: [newbie-it] Suggerimenti: installazione e pacchetti

2003-02-16 Thread Alessandro Piaser
- Original Message - From: Andrea Cecagallina Un'altra alternativa è Knoppix: nel senso che ti puoi fare la distribuzione come vuoi tu... Ah. io ti dico tutto questo in teoria Nel senso che mi sto interessando delle varie cose, ma non è che sia un esperto :) S,i ma

Re: [newbie-it] Suggerimenti: installazione e pacchetti

2003-02-16 Thread Alessandro Piaser
- Original Message - From: Andrea Celli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Non è un problema di distribuzione, anche se Mandrake è pensata per ambienti molto grafici. Qualunque distro tu decida di provare, - metti molta swap, minimo 48M - non usare kde o gnome, ma un window-manager leggero

Re: [newbie-it] Mail

2003-02-16 Thread mdk666
la dir /var/spool/mail viene usata quando hai un web server attivo, che si collega al pop3 e mette la posta utenti li. Non so bene a cosa può servirti mettere la posta di kmail in /var/spool/mail puoi comunque spostare la cartella /home/utente/Mail in /var/spool/mail e creare un collegamento

Re: [newbie-it] Ambiente Grafico

2003-02-16 Thread Andrea Cecagallina
At 23.58 15/02/2003 +0100, you wrote: facceli vedere questi errori (e comunque quel modo di uscire non è pulitissimo...) Appena riutilizzo il Pc a casa li copio ed incollo in un file Andrea

Re: [newbie-it] Suggerimenti: installazione e pacchetti

2003-02-16 Thread Andrea Cecagallina
At 13.03 16/02/2003 +0100, you wrote: S,i ma Knoppix è un live cd, che con le opportune operazioni può essere installato su un computer, ma girando da cd ha bisogno di un computer con hardware recente, non certo il cdrom 2x mi trovo a disposizione, quinidi reputo anche se da neofita molto meglio

Re: [newbie-it] Mail

2003-02-16 Thread Emiliano La Licata
Alle 19:35, domenica 16 febbraio 2003, mdk666 ha scritto: la dir /var/spool/mail viene usata quando hai un web server attivo, che si collega al pop3 e mette la posta utenti li. Non so bene a cosa può servirti mettere la posta di kmail in /var/spool/mail puoi comunque spostare la cartella

Re: [newbie-it] Ambiente Grafico

2003-02-16 Thread Fabio Manunza
Alle 15:29, sabato 15 febbraio 2003, Andrea Cecagallina ha scritto: At 20.25 14/02/2003 +0100, you wrote: 1. modificando /etc/inittab e mettendo initdefault:3 all'avvio entri in runlevel 3; quindi ti logghi in modo testo e con startx avvii l'interfaccia grafica. quando esci da x rientri in

[newbie-it] lettura file html con Konqueror

2003-02-16 Thread Paolo Schiavo
Uso il mandrake 9.0 e non mi ha creato mai problemi, almeno fino a ieri. Adesso ogni qaulvolta cerco di aprire un file.html con Konqueror (sia in linea che fuori) mi si blocca tutto. Dopo alcuni momenti riprendo il controllo del mouse ritornano le icone che erano scomparse, la finestra del

[newbie-it] problemi di suono

2003-02-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
durante l'installazione della distribuzione mandrake linux 9.0, il programma di installazione non rileva la mia scheda sonora ess audiodrive es1868 (ISA). a un certo punto il programma di installazione mi chiede se ho una scheda audio ISA, cliccando su SI il programma installa dei pacchetti e

[newbie-it] problemi di scheda video

2003-02-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
la mia scheda video s3 trio64v2 (2 Mb) non sembra funzionare a dovere con mandrake linux 9.0... avete qualche suggerimento da darmi per configurarla al meglio?

Re: [newbie-it] problemi di scheda video

2003-02-16 Thread miKe
Alle 20:19, domenica 16 febbraio 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: la mia scheda video s3 trio64v2 (2 Mb) non sembra funzionare a dovere con mandrake linux 9.0... avete qualche suggerimento da darmi per configurarla al meglio? intanto, che errori hai, o che problemi... poi manda le parti

Re: [newbie-it] ADSL

2003-02-16 Thread Corrado
Il sab, 2003-02-15 alle 21:46, CyberPenguin ha scritto: AFAIK nessun attuale ISP garantisce un minimo di larghezza di banda :-( Ho sentito di gente che in adsl, in certi periodi, ha un downstream di circa 30K ... Per la verità leggendo un servizio a riguardo su una rivista, pare invece ci

[newbie-it] Editing Video

2003-02-16 Thread Corrado
Qualcuno usa Cinelerra o altri programmi di editing video? Avrei bisogno di sapere come sovrappore un logo a un filmato... Corrado

Re: [newbie-it] ADSL

2003-02-16 Thread ghibli
Per la verità leggendo un servizio a riguardo su una rivista, pare invece ci siano... Il canone è *considerevolmente* più alto e la velocità massima teorica è più bassa, ma ovviamente il collegamento è più veloce, essendo garantita una banda minima... Cerco quella rivista e poi postero info

[newbie-it] HP photosmart 120

2003-02-16 Thread ghibli
Qualcuno ha la vaga idea di come scaricare da detta macchina digitale le foto su PC con Mandracchio? Fulvio

[newbie-it] blocco kppp

2003-02-16 Thread Guido Milanese
Una domanda su un problema minore (una volta tanto!). Da quando ho la mandrake 9.0 (powerpack acquistato in negozio) mi succede una cosa strana con kppp. Partito il programma, si blocca su inizializzazione modem. Interrompo, rifaccio partire, e tutto va a posto. La questione del 'X3' nella

[newbie] KDE 3.1

2003-02-16 Thread Gil Katz
OK I'm starting a new thread because this is a big problem I downloaded all the rpm's from textar and did what the readme file instructed to do , that is logout login to gnome remove kde and then start to install. after doing that i reboot and login to kde now i don't have my desktop i.e i cant

Re: [newbie] Logitech 3000 questions?

2003-02-16 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Sunday 16 February 2003 00:21, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Anyone got the Logitech 3000 actually working? I can testify that it works great for me and I did not have to do anything to get it working. Since I did not have to do anything (it worked automatically) I do not have any tips on how to

Re: [newbie] Logitech 3000 questions?

2003-02-16 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Sunday 16 February 2003 00:21, Ronald J. Hall wrote: It looks like the modules that are needed are there: bttv cqcam pwc usb You don't need cqcam. Pwc is the correct module for this cam. I am not saying having cqcam loaded is the cause of your problem, but I would try unloading it

Re: [newbie] Update database

2003-02-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 15 Feb 2003 10:33 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: I'm running updatedb - is this not right? What are you trying to update? RPM or the locate command DB? From the man page of updatedb: updatedb - update the slocate database The slocate DB is not the same. They have entirely 2

Re: [newbie] Update database

2003-02-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 12:06 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 15 Feb 2003 2:56 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I thought I had set up a cron job (using webmin) to update the database every night. Indeed, I thought I had seen indication that it had run, but today I have seen slocate:

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.1

2003-02-16 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 16 February 2003 02:57 am, Gil Katz wrote: OK I'm starting a new thread because this is a big problem I downloaded all the rpm's from textar and did what the readme file instructed to do , that is logout login to gnome remove kde and

[newbie] KDE 3.1 No Anti-aliasing

2003-02-16 Thread Jordan Elver
Hi everyone, I just upgraded to KDE 3.1 which went suprisingly well (Thanks for eberyones advise). One problem though. I now don't have anti aliased fonts. It's turned on in the KDE control center, but it doesn't work. How can I turn it on? TIA, Jord -- Jordan Elver Put the key of despair into

Re: [newbie] Another possibly dumb USB question

2003-02-16 Thread Sharrea
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 16:26, g wrote: Sharrea wrote: I would think that to use vfat you would have to make the mountpoint on a partition that is formatted vfat. not true. one of many beauties of linux and unix is that you can mount just anything any where, as long as you have drivers set

[newbie] ARTICLE: Windows XP password are useless

2003-02-16 Thread Jerry Barton
Couldn't help but LMAO when i read THIS one. http://www.briansbuzz.com/w/030213/ -- Registered Linux user # 300600 Registered Linux machine # 185855 at http://counter.li.org (o_ //\ V_/_ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Another possibly dumb USB question

2003-02-16 Thread et
On Saturday 15 February 2003 09:18 pm, Sharrea wrote: On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 08:09, robin wrote: Jerry Barton wrote: you may need to modprobe usb-storage (i have to for my digital camera since the memory card on it is seen as usb mass storage device). I don't know much about digital

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-16 Thread magnet
On Friday 14 Feb 2003 9:09 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore? What's a newbie? grin -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all

[newbie] Kmail config for sending

2003-02-16 Thread Dennis Myers
I am trying to get kmail sending to work again and I keep getting Sending failed: The server did not accept the sender address. The server responded: Sender address is missing a domain The message will stay in the 'outbox' folder until you either fix the problem (e.g. a broken address) or

Re: [newbie] Kmail config for sending

2003-02-16 Thread et
On Sunday 16 February 2003 01:49 am, Dennis Myers wrote: I am trying to get kmail sending to work again and I keep getting Sending failed: The server did not accept the sender address. The server responded: Sender address is missing a domain The message will stay in the 'outbox' folder

[newbie] Test

2003-02-16 Thread Dennis Myers
getting nowhere -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Another possibly dumb USB question

2003-02-16 Thread John Richard Smith
robin wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Is this a relatively new camera ? About a year old. I know people have got it working under Linux via firewire; it's USB that's tricky. Sir Robin I'm purly guessing here , but I suspect your camera , like mine, is not vfat, and the trouble is

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows XP password are useless

2003-02-16 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
On Sat 2003-02-15 at 22:48:16 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Couldn't help but LMAO when i read THIS one. http://www.briansbuzz.com/w/030213/ There is nothing special about it. You have the same with Linux. Put in some install disk, choose rescue mode and you can access everything as root.

Re: [newbie] This is getting way out of hand

2003-02-16 Thread Jose
--snip- Why terrorism? Is that just something like comunism or evil that you can tack on something you don't like? (Russ) It was terrorism that murdered several innocent American lives, that is why. Note we went after military targets when we retaliated.

[newbie] Konquerer basic question...

2003-02-16 Thread linux
G'day all, as I'm just beginning to look around mandrake I'm trying to come to grips with the basics: In Konquerer, how do you stop a file from launching as soon as you click on it? For example, if I want to click on a bunch of mp3s and then drag them to XMMS, as soon as I click on the first one

Re: [newbie] Konquerer basic question...

2003-02-16 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 16 February 2003 07:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day all, as I'm just beginning to look around mandrake I'm trying to come to grips with the basics: In Konquerer, how do you stop a file from launching as soon as you click on it? For example, if I want to click on a bunch of

Re: [newbie] Test

2003-02-16 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Sunday 16 February 2003 02:56 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: getting nowhere Well Dennis, I read you loud and clear :-) Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org

Re: [newbie] Another possibly dumb USB question

2003-02-16 Thread robin
et wrote: On Saturday 15 February 2003 09:18 pm, Sharrea wrote: On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 08:09, robin wrote: Jerry Barton wrote: you may need to modprobe usb-storage (i have to for my digital camera since the memory card on it is seen as usb mass storage device). I don't know much about digital

Re: [newbie] Konquerer basic question...

2003-02-16 Thread Lanman
In Konqueror, as in other file managers, selecting multiple files, requires that you hold down the CTRL or Control key before selecting the first file, and holding it down until you've finished selecting files. Changing your mouse behavior so that it requires a double-click will also accomplish

Re: [newbie] Konquerer basic question...

2003-02-16 Thread Chuck Burns
On Sunday 16 February 2003 10:26 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: *snip* But I have noticed in KDE 3.1 that a mouse over starts an mp3 or ogg file to start playing. While I like it, I can also see it being annoying. I have no idea where that comes from. Open the KDE Control Center, go to LookNFeel -

Re: [newbie] Another possibly dumb USB question

2003-02-16 Thread robin
John Richard Smith wrote: robin wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Is this a relatively new camera ? About a year old. I know people have got it working under Linux via firewire; it's USB that's tricky. Sir Robin I'm purly guessing here , but I suspect your camera , like mine, is not

Re: [newbie] This is getting way out of hand

2003-02-16 Thread Russ
Hi Jose, I did not start this thread nor do I intend to continue with it on this list since this is not what this list is for. I simply felt compelled to respond. I get tired of American bashing. Anyway, I do disagree with you, but I would like to comment on a couple of your points on the way

Re: [newbie] Test

2003-02-16 Thread et
On Sunday 16 February 2003 12:32 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 16 February 2003 02:56 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: getting nowhere Well Dennis, I read you loud and clear :-) Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows XP password are useless

2003-02-16 Thread civileme
On Sunday 16 February 2003 06:29 am, Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: On Sat 2003-02-15 at 22:48:16 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Couldn't help but LMAO when i read THIS one. http://www.briansbuzz.com/w/030213/ There is nothing special about it. You have the same with Linux. Put in some

[newbie] ML 9.0 and KDE3.1 confict

2003-02-16 Thread Dennis Myers
Reinstalling, things got so messed up that even the mouse was going nuts. I had this kind of problem with KDE a version or two back too. I just have to wait and get my KDE with a ML distro. : P -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows XP password are useless

2003-02-16 Thread Robert Wideman
On Sat 2003-02-15 at 22:48:16 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Couldn't help but LMAO when i read THIS one. http://www.briansbuzz.com/w/030213/ There is nothing special about it. You have the same with Linux. Put in some install disk, choose rescue mode and you can access everything as

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows XP password are useless

2003-02-16 Thread mycal62
tell us more Please Civileme wrote: Well, I have a device that will prevent that, if ever I have time to implement it. Civileme -- Mike McNeese Springdale, Arkansas USA ~~ Currently triple booting 98lite; MDK 9.1-beta3 with Kde

Re: [newbie] Update database

2003-02-16 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 9:01 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 12:06 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 15 Feb 2003 2:56 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I thought I had set up a cron job (using webmin) to update the database every night. Indeed, I thought I had seen indication that it

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows XP password are useless

2003-02-16 Thread Richard Gelling
Hi, Another thing that is possible with windows xp home edition, is that if you boot into safe mode , you can change all the user passwords to whatever you want you don't even need to know the old password, you just change it.It dosen't work with winxp pro though. Richard G. Registered Linux

Re: [newbie] Test

2003-02-16 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Sunday 16 February 2003 05:27 pm, et wrote: On Sunday 16 February 2003 12:32 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 16 February 2003 02:56 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: getting nowhere Well Dennis, I read you loud and clear :-) Kaj Haulrich. ===

Re: [newbie] Test

2003-02-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 5:32 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 16 February 2003 02:56 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: getting nowhere Well Dennis, I read you loud and clear :-) What's more we got another test earlier Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Update database

2003-02-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 6:37 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 9:01 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 12:06 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 15 Feb 2003 2:56 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I thought I had set up a cron job (using webmin) to update the database

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows XP password are useless

2003-02-16 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Sunday 16 February 2003 06:26 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: On Sat 2003-02-15 at 22:48:16 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Couldn't help but LMAO when i read THIS one. http://www.briansbuzz.com/w/030213/ There is nothing special about it. You have the same with Linux. Put in some

Re: [newbie] Konquerer basic question...

2003-02-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 4:49 pm, Lanman wrote: In Konqueror, as in other file managers, selecting multiple files, requires that you hold down the CTRL or Control key before selecting the first file, and holding it down until you've finished selecting files. Changing your mouse behavior so that

Re: [newbie] Test

2003-02-16 Thread et
On Sunday 16 February 2003 02:40 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 16 February 2003 05:27 pm, et wrote: On Sunday 16 February 2003 12:32 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 16 February 2003 02:56 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: getting nowhere Well Dennis, I read you loud and clear :-)

Re: [newbie] Test

2003-02-16 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Sunday 16 February 2003 06:56 pm, et wrote: ahh all toungue in cheek Ed, that's where emoticons come in handy ;-) Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org

RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows XP password are useless

2003-02-16 Thread Robert Wideman
You can use Knoppix as well. Very easy to get hands on. True, havent tried it yet. Have seen it in Linuxformat the last couple of issues. Isnt there another bootable distro given out by LF lately? Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] Test

2003-02-16 Thread Robert Wideman
Dont know about others but i miss about 1/5 of the mailing list emails. If you go read through the archives you will notice that you do NOT get a lot of them. I gifured this out about amonth ago. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Test

2003-02-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 7:02 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: Dont know about others but i miss about 1/5 of the mailing list emails. If you go read through the archives you will notice that you do NOT get a lot of them. I gifured this out about amonth ago. Some of the missing ones are caused by

[newbie] petroglyph wallpaper

2003-02-16 Thread Charles Roberts
In Mandrake 7.0 there was a wallpaper named petroglyph. It was a reproduction of the southwest American Indians rock painting of a dancing man playing the flute. It is not in Mandrake 9.0. Does anyone know what happened to it? Where can I find a copy of it? tks Charles Want to buy your Pack

RE: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-16 Thread Robert Wideman
Civileme = expert everyone else(self included) = newbie As always, the = operator flows to the left. SOO true. Thanks civilme for all the help you give. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] petroglyph wallpaper

2003-02-16 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 06:23, Charles Roberts wrote: In Mandrake 7.0 there was a wallpaper named petroglyph. It was a reproduction of the southwest American Indians rock painting of a dancing man playing the flute. It is not in Mandrake 9.0. Does anyone know what happened to it? Where can I

Re: [newbie] Update database

2003-02-16 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Anne Wilson wrote: I thought I had set up a cron job (using webmin) to update the database every night. Indeed, I thought I had seen indication that it had run, but today I have seen slocate: warning: database /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db' is more than 8 days old How can I find what went

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-16 Thread Mark Weaver
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 14 February 2003 04:42 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: Oh come one. I like 12 hour shifts. They are easier than 16 hour shifts. HEHE Rob You know, I used to work this weekend shift thing - where I pulled 2 sixteen hour shifts, Sat and Sun, then was off 5 days a

Re: [newbie] Shorewall doing its job ?

2003-02-16 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 11:18 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: When doing a dmesg I get all the usual stuff, but lately a new thing - at least to me - is showing up. The last stanzas grow bigger and bigger and reads a lot like this : snip Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT=

[newbie] sound light show generator for Linux?

2003-02-16 Thread Jim Snyder
Hello Does Mandrake Linux have something similar to the MS Media player that plays those sound generated musical dancing lines and light shows while playing a CD? Thanks Jim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] sound light show generator for Linux?

2003-02-16 Thread robin
Jim Snyder wrote: Hello Does Mandrake Linux have something similar to the MS Media player that plays those sound generated musical dancing lines and light shows while playing a CD? xmms-more-vis-plugins contains GeForce, which sounds like what you're looking for. Sir Robin -- Like these

Re: [newbie] Shorewall doing its job ?

2003-02-16 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Sunday 16 February 2003 11:06 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 11:18 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: When doing a dmesg I get all the usual stuff, but lately a new thing - at least to me - is showing up. The last stanzas grow bigger and bigger and reads a lot like this :

Re: [newbie] sound light show generator for Linux?

2003-02-16 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 11:31 pm, robin wrote: Jim Snyder wrote: Hello Does Mandrake Linux have something similar to the MS Media player that plays those sound generated musical dancing lines and light shows while playing a CD? xmms-more-vis-plugins contains GeForce, which sounds like

Re: [newbie] sound light show generator for Linux?

2003-02-16 Thread Jim Snyder
Thanks Just did a little checking and found an rpm that includes the word unsafe and mentions the possibility of some seg fault errors. Is there a safe one somewhere to download? This machine has been running flawlessly on 9.0 and I hate to mess up a good thing. Thanks again! On Sunday 16

Re: [newbie] sound light show generator for Linux?

2003-02-16 Thread Derek Jennings
It is on your CDs. In a root terminal urpmi xmms-more-vis-plugins derek On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 11:51 pm, Jim Snyder wrote: Thanks Just did a little checking and found an rpm that includes the word unsafe and mentions the possibility of some seg fault errors. Is there a safe one somewhere

Re: [newbie] sound light show generator for Linux?

2003-02-16 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 10:18, Jim Snyder wrote: Hello Does Mandrake Linux have something similar to the MS Media player that plays those sound generated musical dancing lines and light shows while playing a CD? Thanks Jim XMMS does - in the visualisations. There's heaps of plugins

Re: [newbie] sound light show generator for Linux?

2003-02-16 Thread et
On Sunday 16 February 2003 06:18 pm, Jim Snyder wrote: Hello Does Mandrake Linux have something similar to the MS Media player that plays those sound generated musical dancing lines and light shows while playing a CD? Thanks Jim you might check out the visualziation plugins in xmmms, and

[newbie] Problem with MDK v9 and Sound Blaster Live

2003-02-16 Thread Andrew Robert
Good evening everyone, I have a Dell Dimension 4550 series Pentium 4 2.4 GHz system configured to dual boot a fully patched MDK v9 and Windows XP Professional. The PCI Sound Blaster Live card installed on the system is not functioning under MDK v9. Does anyone have any ideas on how to get this

Re: [newbie] Problem with MDK v9 and Sound Blaster Live

2003-02-16 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 20:15:00 -0500 Andrew Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The PCI Sound Blaster Live card installed on the system is not functioning under MDK v9. 1st thing check your mixer settings to ensure that it is not muted. If that is not the problem. Run draksound and switch to the

Re: [newbie] Problem with MDK v9 and Sound Blaster Live

2003-02-16 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Andrew Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good evening everyone, I have a Dell Dimension 4550 series Pentium 4 2.4 GHz system configured to dual boot a fully patched MDK v9 and Windows XP Professional. The PCI Sound Blaster Live card installed on the system

Re: [newbie] Problem with MDK v9 and Sound Blaster Live

2003-02-16 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 16 February 2003 07:15 pm, Andrew Robert wrote: Good evening everyone, I have a Dell Dimension 4550 series Pentium 4 2.4 GHz system configured to dual boot a fully patched MDK v9 and Windows XP Professional. The PCI Sound Blaster Live card installed on the system is not

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows XP password are useless

2003-02-16 Thread civileme
On Saturday 15 February 2003 09:40 pm, mycal62 wrote: tell us more Please Civileme wrote: Well, I have a device that will prevent that, if ever I have time to implement it. Civileme It's not Mandrake. It is a 32M DiskOnChip in a standard Dual-In-Line Pack frequently used in BIOS

[newbie] Installing dictionary

2003-02-16 Thread Jason Guidry
How does one install a dictionary, like for evolustion, OO, abiword and the like? -- Jason Guidry www.gmaestro.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-16 Thread Mark Weaver
mycal62 wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore? All this humility is very nice. ;-) that aside, it's interesting how the responses have been. with anything and especially with opinion it's really a

Re: [newbie] Kmail config for sending

2003-02-16 Thread Linus Drouhard
I had the same problem with Kmail in KDE 3.0. Sendmail worked for awhile then quit as well. I'm now using Evolution since I couldn't get Kmail to work properly. I'd love to know what's going on. Linus On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 08:50, et wrote: On Sunday 16 February 2003 01:49 am, Dennis Myers

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows XP password are useless

2003-02-16 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 16 February 2003 09:17 pm, civileme wrote: On Saturday 15 February 2003 09:40 pm, mycal62 wrote: tell us more Please Civileme wrote: Well, I have a device that will prevent that, if ever I have time to implement it. Civileme It's not Mandrake. It is a 32M DiskOnChip

Re: [newbie] Shorewall doing its job ?

2003-02-16 Thread civileme
On Sunday 16 February 2003 02:18 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: When doing a dmesg I get all the usual stuff, but lately a new thing - at least to me - is showing up. The last stanzas grow bigger and bigger and reads a lot like this : snip Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth0 OUT=

[newbie] Logictech Quickcam Express

2003-02-16 Thread Miark
I can get a Quickcam Express at eBay for $14.95. Sounds like a good deal, and it appears to be supported in Linux, but I don't know how well it works in Linux. What say you? Is it a good buy for a Linux user? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Logictech Quickcam Express

2003-02-16 Thread Mike
On Sunday 16 February 2003 11:24 pm, you wrote: I can get a Quickcam Express at eBay for $14.95. Sounds like a good deal, and it appears to be supported in Linux, but I don't know how well it works in Linux. What say you? Is it a good buy for a Linux user? Miark I use the Quickcam Express

RE: [newbie] Logictech Quickcam Express

2003-02-16 Thread Robert Wideman
if you do a search on google.com for linux quickcam there is a crap load of info for the express model working fine in linux for about the last 1.5 years Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Miark Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 10:25

[newbie] problems with MySQL and i just installed it

2003-02-16 Thread Robert Wideman
I just installed a crap load of rpms (maybe like 20) to get Mysql installed and updated via rpmdrake. Its running and everything BUT rpm doesnt show it do be installed, nor in rpmdrake. MySQL 3.23.52 was installed at the same time as gmysql too. [root@rwideman2 myproj]# rpm -qa|grep mysql

Re: [newbie] Logictech Quickcam Express

2003-02-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 16 February 2003 11:49 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: if you do a search on google.com for linux quickcam there is a crap load of info for the express model working fine in linux for about the last 1.5 years Rob Thanks Rob - I was searching with linux webcam :-) Anyways, I seem to

Re: [newbie] Logictech Quickcam Express

2003-02-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 16 February 2003 11:24 pm, Miark wrote: I can get a Quickcam Express at eBay for $14.95. Sounds like a good deal, and it appears to be supported in Linux, but I don't know how well it works in Linux. What say you? Is it a good buy for a Linux user? Miark Hmm, don't know about the

[newbie] Camstream?

2003-02-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Bryan, I know you said you liked Camstream best of all for your Logitech 3000, but how did you ever get it installed? I tried the 26 RPM (errored out, multiple dependencies that I never could meet - too many conflicts), I tried v25 src RPM and it also errored out during the rebuild...

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-16 Thread Mark Weaver
et wrote: On Friday 14 February 2003 09:31 pm, mycal62 wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore? All this humility is very nice. ;-) that aside, it's interesting how the responses have been. with anything

[newbie] suggestion to mdk developers

2003-02-16 Thread Jozef Riha
when i click on removable media icon selecting unmount or eject but the media is still in use and it cannot be unmounted/ejected the new window apears with information about Device in use. that's just fine but there should be like /sbin/fuser -v /dev/scd0 and it should list processes which are

[newbie] Fortran compiler

2003-02-16 Thread laura
Hi, I want to install a Fortran compiler. Where can I find one of them? Thanks. Laura. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-16 Thread Mark Weaver
et wrote: On Friday 14 February 2003 08:17 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: If you're lucky, you never stop being a newbie. No joke. I am personally going to be taking a newbie learning course (not a course, just a self taught action) in Apache/Perl/Python/SQL programming here soon. So i totally

Re: [newbie] unkillable process?

2003-02-16 Thread Mark Weaver
Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: On Wed 2003-02-12 at 14:22:41 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] what i'm doing: ps ax | grep process su (passwd) kill -s signal pid using all kinds of signals starting with sigterm, sigkill, Those two is all you need. kill -s TERM will ask the process to

Re: [newbie] Possibly dumb USB question

2003-02-16 Thread Mark Weaver
Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles A Edwards Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 11:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Possibly dumb USB question On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 08:59:30 -0800 Myers,

[newbie] Mandrake Off Topic list

2003-02-16 Thread Mark Weaver
Hi all, Given the amount of traffic and passion related over the last few days concerning things totally off topic where Mandrake Linux is concerned has led me to a place where I'm willing to try an experiment of sorts. I've created a mailing list for anyone here on the newbie and expert lists