Re: [newbie-it] Mandrake9.1 hp scanjet 2300c

2003-06-09 Thread Andrea Celli
Alle 16:36, venerdì 6 giugno 2003, Daniele Micci ha scritto: ... In questi casi, oltre a continuare a cercare informazioni o provare a prendere contatto con gli sviluppatori del progetto SANE, è buona norma inviare una email al produttore: hai visto mai che HP, spinta dalle email dei

Re: [newbie-it] open-ssh e interfaccia grafica

2003-06-09 Thread francesco.melo
Alle 13:37, lunedì 9 giugno 2003, Pollo ha scritto: Qualcuno conosce un interfaccia grafica per opens-ssh e più in particolare per scp. Quella che mi piacerebbe avere a me è sullo stile di gftp dove c'è una finestra sulla destra con il fylesystem locale e una finestra a sinistra con il

Re: [newbie-it] Installazione rpm

2003-06-09 Thread Andrea Celli
Alle 01:13, sabato 7 giugno 2003, kua79 ha scritto: E' da un pò che voglio fare questa stupida domanda... Quando io installo un programma, in questo caso da rpm, dove cavolo me lo installa ?!?! i binari in usa dir di binari (es. /usr/bin), la documentazione tra la documentazione (es in

Re: [newbie-it] open-ssh e interfaccia grafica

2003-06-09 Thread Pollo
Il lun, 2003-06-09 alle 15:04, francesco.melo ha scritto: Alle 13:37, lunedì 9 giugno 2003, Pollo ha scritto: Qualcuno conosce un interfaccia grafica per opens-ssh e più in particolare per scp. Quella che mi piacerebbe avere a me è sullo stile di gftp dove c'è una finestra sulla destra con

Re: [newbie-it] fstab

2003-06-09 Thread Arwan
Alle Monday 09 June 2003 18:44, a proposito di Re: [newbie-it] fstab (e chissa' a cosa pensava veramente), miKe ha scritto: Ueh miKe, ci si sente anche quì??? ;) internet è troppo piccola per tutti e due !! Il problema non e' sentirsi qui, ma da tutte le altre parti! -- Burp! Arwan

Re: [newbie-it] fstab

2003-06-09 Thread Luigi Pinna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 19:26, lunedì 9 giugno 2003, Giovanni Mazzamati ha scritto: Ecco, appunto.. Come scrivevo in precedenza il formato di fstab è: /device /mountpoint filesystem opzioni parametri_di_ceck Guarda il mio fstab sotto Slack:

Re: [newbie] Spammers

2003-06-09 Thread Robin Turner
rikona wrote: Hello Dennis, Sunday, June 8, 2003, 2:38:24 PM, you wrote: DM Well I don't get much spam, but spamassassin has now been set up DM to use bysean (spelling?) algorythms and has caught 100% of the DM spam I have been sent. A question: does SA come with a separate set of 'rules', as

Re: [newbie] Privacy in linux?

2003-06-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 09 Jun 2003 12:28 am, rikona wrote: Hello, There has been discussion about security, but little about privacy. Granted, Mandrake seems FAR less intrusive then M$ when updating, and with 'call home' programs. Thank you, thank you, Mandrake. It would seem that the primary risk is in

RE: Re[4]: [newbie] Privacy in linux?

2003-06-09 Thread Frankie
Hi again, I made a point of not using cookies on our gateway.. For the simple reason that you can't guarantee that the user will accept them or that the client is capable of accepting them.. personally I deny any cookie that isn't set to expire within a day of being set. You are correct about

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Spammers

2003-06-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 08 Jun 2003 11:24 pm, rikona wrote: Hello Dennis, Sunday, June 8, 2003, 2:38:24 PM, you wrote: DM Well I don't get much spam, but spamassassin has now been set up DM to use bysean (spelling?) algorythms and has caught 100% of the DM spam I have been sent. A question: does SA

Re: [newbie] Copy/paste question

2003-06-09 Thread Brian Parish
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 05:44, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Hey gang. In all Mandrake versions before 9.1, I was able to highlight text in a shell then paste it into kedit. Under 9.1 I can't do this. Is there a workaround? Thanks! It still works here. Highlight, kedit, middle click, done. Does

RE: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-09 Thread MARTIN HENDRIK RAD
I've been using Linux and Windows side-by-side (work/home) for a couple of years now. I've moved on from Mandrake 8.0 to 9.1, but I've never moved on to WinXP. So I was curious to see what it looks like when my father-in-law got it. Guess what! WinXP is for dummies! At least, that's what it looks

Re: [newbie] Automatic start

2003-06-09 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 08:18, Miark wrote: Hi all, I want to automatically run POPFile every time I boot, but I'm not sure where to put it. rc.local perhaps? It has to run from the root directory of the app, so it must do this, essentially: cd /usr/local/bin/popfile/; popfile.pl Miark

Re: [newbie] DSL

2003-06-09 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 10:53, Aron Smith wrote: Anyone Know of a DSL provider here in the Bay Area that if not supporting Linux is at least linux Friendly? eg. easy to set up under Mandrake Linux Friendly is a really bad term to use. Any ISP that REQUIRES the usage of linux unsupported hardware

Re: [newbie] test n0 2

2003-06-09 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 12:57, FemmeFatale wrote: you we'll call The Unnamed One...to utter it is to invoke evil I think... - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Isn't that just a nice way of saying Rat Bastard ? -- Mon Jun 9 17:55:01 EST 2003 17:55:01 up 2 days, 3:46, 2 users, load

Re: [newbie] Copy/paste question

2003-06-09 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 15:44, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Hey gang. In all Mandrake versions before 9.1, I was able to highlight text in a shell then paste it into kedit. Under 9.1 I can't do this. Is there a workaround? Thanks! Now that's strange - I can do it quite easily (if I couldn't I would

Re: [newbie] Unaware

2003-06-09 Thread Richard Urwin
On Monday 09 Jun 2003 2:11 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Sunday 08 June 2003 04:37 am, Aron Smith wrote: I forgot that the winbox was running and I add WAS sometime in the last week It crashed and I never noticed Do you have any idea of when it crapped out? Anything over ten days should be

[newbie] Need Help

2003-06-09 Thread Benjamin Jeeves
Hi all Had my Laptop work until I made a time that it was time to reinstall Mandrake 8.0 now I can not install any version of Mandrake, RedHat this is what I get? The Laptop is Compaq Armada 3500, PII 266, 128MB RAM. RAMDISK: Compressed format (err=1)6Freeing initrd memory: 286k freed Kernel

Re: [newbie] Newer versions of the kernel for 9.1

2003-06-09 Thread Steven Broos
Try kernel.org ? Or do you need specific kernels for mandrake ? (in that case, I don't know) Steven On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 05:46, Guy Rouillier wrote: Where can I find later versions of the kernel for 9.1? I'm experiencing the ldm_validate_partition_table problem. I've looked on both pbone

Re[3]: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-09 Thread Cody Harris
At 02:49 PM 6/8/2003 -0700, you wrote: Hello Cody, Sunday, June 8, 2003, 1:10:05 PM, you wrote: CH It took 4 hours to install MDK 8.1, and 60 mins for Windoze. Perhaps 9.1 is faster. Also, I included the time to install apps as well, not just the OS (even though linux installed faster than

Re: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-09 Thread Cody Harris
At 05:50 PM 6/8/2003 -0600, you wrote: quoting Cody Harris's missive of Sunday 08 June 2003 02:10 pm: snip It took 4 hours to install MDK 8.1, and 60 mins for Windoze. That must have included the time required to figure out what the hell all of those packages were in the individual package

Re: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-09 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 09 Jun 2003 11:30 am, Cody Harris wrote: At 05:50 PM 6/8/2003 -0600, you wrote: quoting Cody Harris's missive of Sunday 08 June 2003 02:10 pm: snip It took 4 hours to install MDK 8.1, and 60 mins for Windoze. That must have included the time required to figure out what the

Re: [newbie] Re : urpmi mailing list

2003-06-09 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 09 Jun 2003 2:20 am, Gregory K. Meyer, CPA wrote: On Sunday 08 June 2003 08:43 pm, Johan Scheepers wrote: 2) After (1) is done - what to expect? ANy time you want to install something, just type urpmi oackagename. urpmi will download and install the app as well as any

Re: [newbie] Solving needed packages

2003-06-09 Thread JoeHill
On 09 Jun 2003 00:37:49 -0400 Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: How do I either satisfy the needed files or exclude these from a urpmi --auto --auto-select. I have tried the --allow-nodeps argument to no avail. first do this: urpmi.update -a then try again. don't do nodeps. bad

Re: [newbie] Automatic start

2003-06-09 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 09 Jun 2003 8:46 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 08:18, Miark wrote: Hi all, I want to automatically run POPFile every time I boot, but I'm not sure where to put it. rc.local perhaps? It has to run from the root directory of the app, so it must do this,

Re: [newbie] Copy/paste question

2003-06-09 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 09 Jun 2003 6:44 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Hey gang. In all Mandrake versions before 9.1, I was able to highlight text in a shell then paste it into kedit. Under 9.1 I can't do this. Is there a workaround? Thanks! Hi, Ronald. Have you checked the clipboard? For some strange reason

Re: [newbie] My Audigy 2 Player has problems on Mandrake Linux 8.2 and Mandrake Linux 9.0

2003-06-09 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 09 Jun 2003 11:08 am, Stefan Boglou wrote: htmldiv style='background-color:'DIV PMynbsp;Audigy 2 Playernbsp;has problemsnbsp;on Mandrake Linux 8.2. My HardDrake doesn't locate it and at the startup it is locating it as audigy. My mixer setting are set to full but i still can't hear

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-09 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 00:41, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 08 June 2003 07:03 pm, ed tharp wrote: and what are we doing about acpi, apm, apic, both in BIOS and software, and what is the AGP settings? also, does this MoBo bios rest to defaults when it crashes? (I mean when you have to

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft to license UNIX code

2003-06-09 Thread Trevor Rhodes
I am almost at the top of the hill stage. She realises all of what you have mentioned. The genealogical software she uses isn't available on Linux. She has certainly been talking about wanting to use linux. What about gramps (genealogical software) as a replacement If it's a case

RE: Re[2]: [newbie] Privacy in linux?

2003-06-09 Thread Aron Smith
On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 21:52, Frankie wrote: Hi Rikona, You are quiet right, for normal browsing you have (or should have) the right to be nobody. but for any sort of shopping, you are hurting youself more then anyone else by blocking any means to make sure you are who you say you are.

Re: [newbie] Automatic start

2003-06-09 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 06:53, Anne Wilson wrote: So do you put the full-path-to-script in the rc.local? Something like /home/anne/popfilestart.sh ? That's it! (Totally ignorant question g - I'm good at them) Remember Plato: I only know that I know nothing (free translation from

Re: [newbie] Newer versions of the kernel for 9.1

2003-06-09 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 08 June 2003 11:46 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: Where can I find later versions of the kernel for 9.1? I'm experiencing the ldm_validate_partition_table problem. I've looked on both pbone and rpmfind and neither of them appears to have new versions. pbone actually did have one a

[newbie] XFCE4....er....starting?

2003-06-09 Thread Stephen Kuhn
Damn...thought I'd end my day with a new WM to play with - BUT THERE AIN'T NO DAMN STARTXFCE4 in the RPM's Ah well, ah hell...guess I have to muck around with it tomorrow... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] XFCE4....er....starting?

2003-06-09 Thread todd
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 10:03:17PM +1000, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Damn...thought I'd end my day with a new WM to play with - BUT THERE AIN'T NO DAMN STARTXFCE4 in the RPM's Ah well, ah hell...guess I have to muck around with it tomorrow... Yeah, did you see the startup script on my d/l page?

Re: [newbie] Newer versions of the kernel for 9.1

2003-06-09 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 09 Jun 2003 1:02 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 08 June 2003 11:46 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: Where can I find later versions of the kernel for 9.1? I'm experiencing the ldm_validate_partition_table problem. I've looked on both pbone and rpmfind and neither of them appears to

[newbie] More about Bind...

2003-06-09 Thread Yves Arsenault
Hello, I have recently followed a tutorial in the webmin docs on configuring the Bind DNS server, so I`ve added a domain and followed the tutorial as precisely as possible When I run host domain.com serverip It still doesn`t find the domain name. I keep getting: connection timed out; no

Re: [newbie] Need Help

2003-06-09 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 09:30:23 + Benjamin Jeeves [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Had my Laptop work until I made a time that it was time to reinstall Mandrake 8.0 now I can not install any version of Mandrake, RedHat this is what I get? The Laptop is Compaq Armada 3500, PII 266, 128MB RAM.

Re: [newbie] XFCE4....er....starting?

2003-06-09 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 08:13:54 -0400 todd [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Yeah, did you see the startup script on my d/l page? If you just save that as .xsession and make it executable it'll start when you startx. If you're using kdm or gdm, select default from the wm list. I now know how to add an

[newbie] ADSL - mgmt.0 - how do I get this ?

2003-06-09 Thread Idea.list2BT
I can't get mgmt.o from www.speedtouchdsl.com\dvrreg_lx.htm (the address supplied by ML9.1 install). I can't even see 'mgmt.0' mentioned on that site. I downloaded the 'SpeedTouch USB Linux driver' but all I got was a zip which expanded to two files - KQD6P1.eni and KQD6P2.eni. God knows what I am

Re: [newbie] Unaware

2003-06-09 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 09:06:10 +0100 Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: It always amused me that there was a bug in win95 that caused a crash after 43 days of uptime, and nobody noticed until five years after release. ROFLMAO! -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage:

Re: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-09 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 08 Jun 2003 21:01:48 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: yes i call that sacriledge! Appropriating lesbian themes/icons/etc will be penalized by death!!! or castration... whichever comes first I enjoy more. :D I'll take the death, thank you...but can I see the Lesbian pr0n

Re: [newbie] HIJACKED: Linux viruses

2003-06-09 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 09 Jun 2003 07:18:00 -0300 Cody Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I have no idea what it is and what it does or why it's needed. It's something that a lot of people use to guarantee that their e-mail is legit, which for some is really a necessity. HTML mail, however, is unreadable by

RE: [newbie] DSL

2003-06-09 Thread Sabin, Matthew
Title: RE: [newbie] DSL A slight correction: Internet access requires an IP address. My ISP (speakeasy.net) figures that if I'm on the end of my particular DSL line, I must be me, or at least authorized by me to use the 'net. soapbox usernames and passwords are required for more

Re: [newbie] ADSL - mgmt.0 - how do I get this ?

2003-06-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 09 Jun 2003 1:37 pm, Idea.list2BT wrote: I can't get mgmt.o from www.speedtouchdsl.com\dvrreg_lx.htm (the address supplied by ML9.1 install). I can't even see 'mgmt.0' mentioned on that site. I downloaded the 'SpeedTouch USB Linux driver' but all I got was a zip which expanded to

Re: [newbie] linux game help

2003-06-09 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 04:25:03 -0500 Saud N. [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: i put in my coutnerstrike cd and i want to know how to run setup.exec you got a ways to go, my friend! For Counterstrike to work under Mandrake (thanks to Valve for never releasing Linux installers or binaries), you will

Re: [newbie] Java in Netscape

2003-06-09 Thread rluchor
On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 22:13, Troy Davidson wrote: Login as root, and go to this page: http://cgi.netscape.com/cgi-bin/pi_moreinfo.cgi?PID=10048 Download the plugin and you are all set. That did it, Troy - Thanks! Rich

Re: [newbie] Copy/paste question

2003-06-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 09 June 2003 01:29 pm, Brian Parish wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 05:44, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Hey gang. In all Mandrake versions before 9.1, I was able to highlight text in a shell then paste it into kedit. Under 9.1 I can't do this. Is there a workaround? Thanks! It still

Re: [newbie] Copy/paste question

2003-06-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 09 June 2003 06:56 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 09 Jun 2003 6:44 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Hey gang. In all Mandrake versions before 9.1, I was able to highlight text in a shell then paste it into kedit. Under 9.1 I can't do this. Is there a workaround? Thanks! Hi, Ronald.

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 09 June 2003 07:20 am, ed tharp wrote: what about agp memory aperture? I have a 64 meg Ti4200 Nvidia card so I set the aperture to 64 megs. Is that okay? -- /\ Dark Lord

RE: [newbie] Mini ITX form factor

2003-06-09 Thread Sabin, Matthew
Title: RE: [newbie] Mini ITX form factor I had 7.2, 8.x and 9.x all running at one time or another on a mini ITX with 1.0Ghz Celeron. All installed without much difficulty. I agree with the below observation that they aren't all that good at graphics, but they're more that up to OGG/MP3 etc.

RE: [newbie] DSL

2003-06-09 Thread Sabin, Matthew
Title: RE: [newbie] DSL shameless plug I've been using Speakeasy for two years now, and have nothing but great things to say. Take a look at them. If you decide to sign up, consider using this URL: http://www.speakeasy.net/refer/35405 They say they'll help fund my hobbies (brewing and

Re: [newbie] ADSL - mgmt.0 - how do I get this ?

2003-06-09 Thread Idea.list2BT
From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 09 Jun 2003 1:37 pm, Idea.list2BT wrote: I can't get mgmt.o from www.speedtouchdsl.com\dvrreg_lx.htm (the address supplied by ML9.1 install). I can't even see 'mgmt.0' mentioned on that site. I downloaded the 'SpeedTouch USB Linux driver'

Re: [newbie] More about Bind...

2003-06-09 Thread Steven Broos
Can you give us more information about what you've done, what is in your config-files etc ? Some thing that goes through my mind now: - before restarting bind, open another terminal and do tail -f /var/log/messages It gives valueable information about possible errors. - Put your

Re: [newbie] Java in Netscape

2003-06-09 Thread rluchor
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 09:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 22:13, Troy Davidson wrote: Login as root, and go to this page: http://cgi.netscape.com/cgi-bin/pi_moreinfo.cgi?PID=10048 Download the plugin and you are all set. That did it, Troy - Thanks! Looks

Re: [newbie] HIJACKED: Linux viruses

2003-06-09 Thread RichardA
On 09 Jun 2003 09:13:25 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 02:00, Anne Wilson wrote: Look, even out of the box or brownbag - literally any linux distro upon initial installation and configuration (granted that passwords HAVE been put in place) is going to be able

Re: [newbie] Privacy in linux?

2003-06-09 Thread magnet
On Monday 09 Jun 2003 7:28 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 09 Jun 2003 12:28 am, rikona wrote: Hello, There has been discussion about security, but little about privacy. Granted, Mandrake seems FAR less intrusive then M$ when updating, and with 'call home' programs. Thank you, thank

RE: [newbie] More about Bind...

2003-06-09 Thread Yves Arsenault
In my domain.com.hosts file, I have the following contents: domain.com. IN SOA ns1.domain.com. yves.carrefour.peicaps.org. ( 1055162570 10800 3600 604800 38400 )

Re: [newbie] Privacy in linux?

2003-06-09 Thread magnet
On Monday 09 Jun 2003 3:31 pm, you wrote: On Monday 09 Jun 2003 7:28 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 09 Jun 2003 12:28 am, rikona wrote: Hello, There has been discussion about security, but little about privacy. Granted, Mandrake seems FAR less intrusive then M$ when updating,

Re: [newbie] Whilst on the music files subject

2003-06-09 Thread RichardA
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 10:41:13 +0100 Inhabitant of Zion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have some shn files on my system and can't seem to find a program that will deal with them and that works. John shn - lossless compressed wav file format. Xmms will play them with a plugin, or a tool called

Re: [newbie] Java in Netscape

2003-06-09 Thread Troy Davidson
Hmmm... that's strange. I have never had to change permissions for the plugins for my machine. Are you running at a higher security level? My security level is default. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ++ Follow the adventures of a real life computer and

Re: [newbie] Copy/paste question

2003-06-09 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 09 Jun 2003 2:50 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 09 June 2003 06:56 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 09 Jun 2003 6:44 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Hey gang. In all Mandrake versions before 9.1, I was able to highlight text in a shell then paste it into kedit. Under 9.1 I

RE: [newbie] More about Bind...

2003-06-09 Thread Steven Broos
Did you try tail -f /var/log/messageswhile restarting bind ? I would like to know if it gives any error-messages... I think there is a ; missing after the last bracket of your time-to-live settings. I never understood why it had to be there, but it had... Maybe try your config-file this

Re: [newbie] Need Help

2003-06-09 Thread Benjamin Jeeves
Get it working by using my usb cdwriter and 9.1 hdcdrom_usb.img looks likey things are looking up and learn abit about the booting and kernel of linux On Monday 09 Jun 2003 1:09 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 09:30:23 + Benjamin Jeeves [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Had my Laptop

RE: [newbie] More about Bind...

2003-06-09 Thread Yves Arsenault
I get this when I type tail -f /var/log/messages Jun 9 12:00:00 man1 CROND[9022]: (mail) CMD (/usr/bin/python -S /var/lib/mailman/cron/senddigests) Jun 9 12:01:00 man1 CROND[9027]: (root) CMD (nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.hourly) Jun 9 12:01:00 man1 CROND[9029]: (mail) CMD (/usr/bin/python

Re: [newbie] HIJACKED: Linux viruses

2003-06-09 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 15:15:42 +0100 RichardA [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I think that's a wild exaggeration. I surfed for years using Win98 and never once had a problem. Admittedly I was cautious, and later started using Eudora, Opera and ZoneAlarm, but I started out with IE, OE etc. same

[newbie] fonts

2003-06-09 Thread Rafe
Mandrake 9.1 My problem is that in some applications the fonts look washed out. It usually looks like some form of Helvetica, but I am not sure. How do I control the fonts that applications use in KDE? KDE's control panel lets one change the fonts kde uses for menus and file names, but I

RE: [newbie] More about Bind...

2003-06-09 Thread Steven Broos
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 16:59, Yves Arsenault wrote: Jun 9 12:01:18 man1 named[1101]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf' Jun 9 12:01:18 man1 named[1101]: /etc/named.conf:12: expected port number or '*' near 'allow' Jun 9 12:01:18 man1 named[1101]: reloading configuration failed:

[newbie] How do I undate my urpmi database ?

2003-06-09 Thread John Richard Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi GKT no package named GKT [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi GKT no package named GKT [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi GTK = 2.0.6 The following packages contain GTK: libAiksaurusGTK0 libwxPythonGTK2.4-devel libwxPythonGTK2.4 perl-GTK-GtkHTML perl-GTK-GdkImlib

Re: [newbie] Dear Steve: Time for Microsoft Linux?

2003-06-09 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 09 Jun 2003 4:23 pm, Alan Dunford wrote: How can Microsoft participate in an open operating system? Two ways: First, by making it as robust an OS as possible. Yes, well Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Newer versions of the kernel for 9.1

2003-06-09 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 09 Jun 2003 5:03 pm, eric huff wrote: Don't know, but it's 2.4.21-0.16 instead of 2.4.21-0.13m so I presume it's later. I have both installed, but haven't seen any difference. Anne Just curious: What exactly is different about the mm (multimedia, right?) kernel? eric Youcould

[newbie] Optimizing my system

2003-06-09 Thread Patrick Coffey
My question is pretty simple, I downloaded Quake III:Arena demo the other day to compare how it played in linux and in windows. To my surprise the intro and menus were very slow and choppy and the game pretty much didn't play it was so slow. So my question is, how do I check to see if I have

Re: [newbie] Optimizing my system

2003-06-09 Thread Steven Broos
Install the nvidia drivers. You can find them @ www.nvidia.com there should be info about how to install... If you start X, you first get a NVIDIA splash-screen. If you don't see that, the correct drivers are not installed. Steven On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 18:36, Patrick Coffey wrote: My

Re: [newbie] Java in Netscape

2003-06-09 Thread rluchor
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 10:50, Troy Davidson wrote: Hmmm... that's strange. I have never had to change permissions for the plugins for my machine. Are you running at a higher security level? My security level is default. Strange indeed! My security level is also default (5?). I've tried

Re: [newbie] Scanner problem on mdk 9.1

2003-06-09 Thread Poogle
On Sunday 08 Jun 2003 H:24 pm, Marco Verheul wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 10:11, Poogle wrote: snip When I do cat /proc/bus/usb/devices I get exactly that, except for the ProdID that is different from yours e26. My ProdID 0x208f is similar to that shown on

Re: [newbie] Dear Steve: Time for Microsoft Linux?

2003-06-09 Thread Steven Broos
I stopped reading half away, when i read MS Linux for the third time. I don't like that... Not at all ! What MS needs to do, is making its own applications open source, so they can be enhanced (and ported). What I don't like, is MS building on a linux platform. I think this will give a whole

RE: [newbie] More about Bind...

2003-06-09 Thread Yves Arsenault
Thanks Steven You know what, the small error on that line was the only thing causing the error... Thanks a million! :-) Yves -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steven Broos Sent: June 9, 2003 12:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE:

Re: [newbie] DSL

2003-06-09 Thread RichardA
On 08 Jun 2003 17:53:26 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone Know of a DSL provider here in the Bay Area that if not supporting Linux is at least linux Friendly? eg. easy to set up under Mandrake -- Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Which Bay Area? Whitley Bay? Richard --

Re: [newbie] Newer versions of the kernel for 9.1

2003-06-09 Thread Guy Rouillier
Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 09 Jun 2003 1:02 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 08 June 2003 11:46 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: Where can I find later versions of the kernel for 9.1? I'm experiencing the ldm_validate_partition_table problem. I've looked on both pbone and rpmfind and neither of them

Re: [newbie] Optimizing my system

2003-06-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 09 June 2003 12:36 pm, Patrick Coffey wrote: My question is pretty simple, I downloaded Quake III:Arena demo the other day to compare how it played in linux and in windows. To my surprise the intro and menus were very slow and choppy and the game pretty much didn't play it was so

Re: [newbie] urpmi: You may want to update your urpmi database

2003-06-09 Thread RichardA
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 16:49:25 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check your mirror for 9.0 contrib is still there. A lot of the 9.0 mirrors have been disappearing off the web recently. derek Got it - the message isn't update the details of your sources, it's update the actual

RE: [newbie] More about Bind...

2003-06-09 Thread Steven Broos
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 18:57, Yves Arsenault wrote: Thanks Steven You know what, the small error on that line was the only thing causing the error... Thanks a million! I'm glad I finally could help someone. Most of my answers are too dumb to remember :) Steven Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] HIJACKED: Linux viruses

2003-06-09 Thread RichardA
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 10:26:55 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 15:15:42 +0100 RichardA [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I think that's a wild exaggeration. I surfed for years using Win98 and never once had a problem. Admittedly I was cautious, and later started using

Re: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-09 Thread Charlie
quoting Anne Wilson's missive of Monday 09 June 2003 04:41 am: whack Installing Linux. The biggest % was installing the packages. It took A LONG time. 200 MHz 32 MB. I used the CDs. Cody; If I recall correctly that machine is your server? How much more than 'just server' packages did you

Re: [newbie] Dear Steve: Time for Microsoft Linux?

2003-06-09 Thread Mike Larson
Another typical stupid article by David Coursey to generate more hits for ZDNet. M$ is in business solely for the purpose of squeezing the most $ possible from the locked in users of their monopolistic and proprietary OS. They would never (willingly) have anything to do with open source. If

[newbie] Apache question

2003-06-09 Thread Yves Arsenault
Hello again, I'm pleased to report that my site now comes up, Bind works well, Apache works well. Now when I type in the IP address in my browser the website comes up by default... How do I set the IP to point to another page? Thanks again, Yves Arsenault Carrefour Infotech 5,promenade

Re: [newbie] Newer versions of the kernel for 9.1

2003-06-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday June 9 2003 11:03 am, eric huff wrote: Just curious: What exactly is different about the mm (multimedia, right?) kernel? eric For most users, more advanced/better supermount and the low latency and preempt patches. The cooker ready made rpm should have no problems on older

Re: [newbie] linux game help

2003-06-09 Thread Tango Echo
Saud Well first ya gonna need Internet for counter-strike =) But after you get that, try this HOWTO for installing WineX - its what you need to play... http://www.geocities.com/desktopmandrake/wine.htm --- Saud N. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i put in my coutnerstrike cd and i want to know how

Re: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-09 Thread Cody Harris
At 12:10 PM 6/9/2003 -0600, you wrote: quoting Anne Wilson's missive of Monday 09 June 2003 04:41 am: whack Installing Linux. The biggest % was installing the packages. It took A LONG time. 200 MHz 32 MB. I used the CDs. Cody; If I recall correctly that machine is your server? How much more

[newbie] Keys for Contrib packages?

2003-06-09 Thread Tango Echo
Hi all, I have recently decided to install the package chkrootkit after hearing it can be a useful tool with security. However when I do so I receive an error: The following packaages have bad signatures: full path ../chkrootkit-0.39-1mdk.i586.rpm I have been told I need the keys for the

Re: [newbie] urpmi updates - Bad signatures

2003-06-09 Thread Charlie
quoting Trey Sizemore's missive of Sunday 08 June 2003 09:13 pm: Trying to update my system using 'urpmi --auto --auto-select' and I'm getting the message on several packages: The following packages have bad signatures: --Lists of packages If I suspect these are actually good packages, is

Re: [newbie] Keys for Contrib packages?

2003-06-09 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 12:08:18 -0700 (PDT) Tango Echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: (plz dont' tell me to just ignore it) Ok. -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net 15:14:51 up 6 days, 13:18, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Whilst on the music files subject

2003-06-09 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
Hi I downloaded and compiled the atest version but it does funny things when I use it. Pity they can't write a nice GUI like there is for windows that you just drag and drop the files into and they get converted to wav in a folder on the drive. Can't be too hard to do surely? Anyway I decided

Re: [newbie] Texstar' version of KDE

2003-06-09 Thread Keith Powell
On Monday 09 Jun 2003 11:53 am, Miark wrote: Hi Keith, The improvements are because of what KDE people did between 3.1 and 3.1.2, which you can read about at kde.org. From that you can decide which bugs, if any, affect you and whether it's worth a lengthy download. Miark On Mon, 9 Jun

Re[2]: [newbie] Spammers

2003-06-09 Thread rikona
Hello Robin, Sunday, June 8, 2003, 11:02:21 PM, you wrote: A question: does SA come with a separate set of 'rules', as SpamBouncer did? If not, how is it updated? Does the entire program get updated to keep up with the spammers? RT IIRC it uses Vipul's razor. Nice - more sophisticated than

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-09 Thread FemmeFatale
At 09:53 AM 6/9/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Monday 09 June 2003 07:20 am, ed tharp wrote: what about agp memory aperture? I have a 64 meg Ti4200 Nvidia card so I set the aperture to 64 megs. Is that okay? -- /\ Dark

[newbie] FTP Access

2003-06-09 Thread Cody Harris
Could someone give me off list assistance with ProFTPD? I know this is the wrong place but... -Cody Harris ++ | Linux Rox My Sox! | | Check out HCHS! | | http://vectec.net | ++--+ | Proud to use Mandrake Linux 8.1 as a server.

RE: [newbie] Mini ITX form factor

2003-06-09 Thread FemmeFatale
At 10:00 AM 6/9/2003 -0400, you wrote: I had 7.2, 8.x and 9.x all running at one time or another on a mini ITX with 1.0Ghz Celeron. All installed without much difficulty. I agree with the below observation that they aren't all that good at graphics, but they're more that up to OGG/MP3 etc.

Re: [newbie] Copy/paste question

2003-06-09 Thread FemmeFatale
At 11:56 AM 6/9/2003 +0100, you wrote: On Monday 09 Jun 2003 6:44 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Hey gang. In all Mandrake versions before 9.1, I was able to highlight text in a shell then paste it into kedit. Under 9.1 I can't do this. Is there a workaround? Thanks! Hi, Ronald. Have you checked

Re[2]: [newbie] Privacy in linux?

2003-06-09 Thread rikona
Hello Derek, Sunday, June 8, 2003, 11:28:06 PM, you wrote: DJ In my experience privoxy works great out of the box for the vast DJ majority of sites. Nice to hear. Ever use Proxomitron in Win? If so, how does it compare? DJ (Although I think the latest Opera7.11 no longer has that issue DJ

Re: [newbie] Copy/paste question

2003-06-09 Thread Paul
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 21:51, FemmeFatale wrote: in my case clipper doesn't always show it up! Period! I check klipper it doesn't exist there either! very very frustrating when copying from evolution to browser bar. :\ Easiest to copy from Evo that I found: right-click the link, select

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