Re: [newbie-it] mutt: Ssssyyyyyyyddddd!!!!!!

2003-06-15 Thread Arwan
Alle Wednesday 11 June 2003 18:01, a proposito di Re: [newbie-it] mutt: Ssssyyyd!! (e chissa' a cosa pensava veramente), syd ha scritto: In outbox ti ritrovi solo le posposte-bozze; quelle inviate (y) o sono gia' partite (invio on-line) o sono nella coda (invio off-line); _in

Re: [newbie-it] mutt: Ssssyyyyyyyddddd!!!!!!

2003-06-15 Thread Arwan
Alle Thursday 12 June 2003 01:01, a proposito di Re: [newbie-it] mutt: Ssssyyyd!! (e chissa' a cosa pensava veramente), syd ha scritto: * Arwan wrote: Ma se io non ero connessa, come recupero (so che e' una cazzata che faro' ancora :-( ) le mail spedite? Se le vuoi rispedire

Re: [newbie-it] update

2003-06-15 Thread Daniele Micci
Alle 15:00, sabato 14 giugno 2003, piter ha scritto: ho determinato la versione del mio kernel così: $ uname -r 2.4.21-0.13mdk e poi ho digitato questo: # urpmi kernel-2.4.21-0.13mdk --media update_source nessun pacchettto denominato kernel-2.4.21-0.13mdk poi ho provato anche così: urpmi

Re: [newbie-it] modulo viacxxxx.o

2003-06-15 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 20:00, mercoledì 11 giugno 2003, in merito a Re: [newbie-it] modulo viac.o, Luigi Pinna ha scritto: hai provato a rimuovere il controllo sulla versione dei moduli, e ad usare quello che andava? in fondo se è una stessa verisione e

Re: [newbie-it] mutt: Ssssyyyyyyyddddd!!!!!!

2003-06-15 Thread Giuseppe Ferruzzi
* Arwan ha scritto: Pero' con r ci fa il reply, quindi, a seconda di cio' che scelgo, o mi compare tutto il testo della mail che voglio recuperare quotato, oppure mi fa una mail vuota. In entrambi i casi ho tutti gli headers da rifare... E' giusto quello che dici ma che significa però tutti

[newbie-it] Che caldo, e se si scioglie il PC!?!

2003-06-15 Thread stefano
Alle 18:43, domenica 15 giugno 2003, stefano ha scritto: Con questo caldo mi si e' rotto il condizionatore! Ma veniamo al PC e a Linux! Ho il terrore che si scaldi troppo e alcune lentezze e alcuni freeze che avvengono tengo ad attribuirli al caldo infernale. Il bios mi consente di

Re: [newbie-it] motherboard ecs k7s5a non suona aiuto!

2003-06-15 Thread freefred
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 15 June 2003 15:50, pabrusas1 wrote: ciao a tutti. ho installato 9.1 power su un pc non mio, con mb ecs k7s5a ed audio integrato. la bastarda funzionava benissimo con 9.0, ora non suona più. il mixer ha tutti i canali verdi ed i volumi al

Re: [newbie-it] gpg

2003-06-15 Thread Luigi Pinna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 01:01, domenica 15 giugno 2003, miKe ha scritto: Alle 02:51, giovedì 12 giugno 2003, in merito a [newbie-it] gpg, Luigi Pinna ha scritto: Come faccio? lo fa solo con l'identità principale!!! Nel senso che non mi firma più con

Re: [newbie] gkrellm

2003-06-15 Thread John Richard Smith
Chris wrote: On Saturday 14 June 2003 07:54 am, Dennis Myers wrote: temp: +127.00 °C (hot:limit = +6°C, hysteresis = +5°C) ALARM (os: limit = +6°C, hysteresis = +5°C) ALARM Which I know is wrong for the temp and probably for the voltages. The memory reported is wrong, I

Re: [newbie] Large Hard Drives

2003-06-15 Thread John Richard Smith
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 22:53, John Richard Smith wrote: One thing I have been meaning to ask , now that large hard drives are becoming cheap enough, is how long does it take for bootups to complete the fsck tasks on say a 120 gig drive, with a modern AMD1800 Athlon, or a

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread manolis
I have PIII 933 Mhz 650MB , it takes about 22 sec. Mandrake 9.1 , OO 1.0.2 I think is very slow... anyone cas post a better time? I 15 2003 07:33, / Greg Meyer : On Sunday 15 June 2003 12:10 am, Damian Gatabria wrote: In the last few weeks i've noticed OO taking over 6 minutes to start.

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Paul
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 09:32, manolis wrote: I have PIII 933 Mhz 650MB , it takes about 22 sec. Mandrake 9.1 , OO 1.0.2 I think is very slow... anyone cas post a better time? Interesting: Athlon 1200, 256Mb RAM and it takes exactly 22 seconds also. Also MDK 9.1 and OO 1.0.2. Paul -- Modern

[newbie] usb flash drive

2003-06-15 Thread Aron Smith
Anybody know how to reset my usb flashdrive to R/W its R/O now Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Quote character not working.

2003-06-15 Thread Stuart Guthrie
Thanks Anne that worked. I changed to US Keyboard from US International. Stuart On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 22:17, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 12:13 am, Stuart Guthrie wrote: I´m trying to use the inverted comma character (ie ) in Evolution and lots of other parts of Mandrake 9.1

Re: [newbie] usb flash drive

2003-06-15 Thread Paul
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 09:58, Aron Smith wrote: Anybody know how to reset my usb flashdrive to R/W its R/O now Do you have a line for it in /etc/fstab? I guess you'd have to set something there, for users to r/w it. Paul -- Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and

[newbie] Mandrake DOCS URPMI

2003-06-15 Thread Johan Scheepers
Hi, While following a lead by Eric I found the following that may be of value to some: If your are a MEMBER of Mandrake club the Mandrake docs my be found here : Version 8.xx up to 9.1 : http://rpms.mandrakeclub.com/rpms/mandrake_doc-en.html http://rpms.mandrakeclub.com/rpms/ByName.html If NOT

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 15 Jun 2003 3:24 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 12:16 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: DId you logon to your router and adjust things there? I've got a Dlink router and it let me assign the range of IP addresses to be used for my 3 comp LAN. I'm using DHCP here and it

Re: [newbie] Mail program for Linux and windows?

2003-06-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 15 Jun 2003 1:39 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 20:53:14 +0100 OK - I'm thick. How would a symlink put the data onto a fat32 partition, or alternatively, how could you persuade mozilla to use a symlink under your home to put the data on the fat32 partition?

Re: [newbie] Interesting Dilemma

2003-06-15 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 15 Jun 2003 3:13 am, Brian Parish wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 11:49, JoeHill wrote: WARNING!!! Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause SEVERE filesystem damage. Do you really want to continue (y/n)? no OK, the easiest way to handle this is to boot from the first

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread manolis
22sec for the first time to load. -if you close it and the load it again about 12 sec. -if you leave it open and open another file about 5-6 sec. 15 2003 10:49, / Paul : On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 09:32, manolis wrote: I have PIII 933 Mhz 650MB , it takes about 22 sec. Mandrake 9.1 , OO

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Who really owns UNIX?

2003-06-15 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 15 Jun 2003 6:46 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 15:29, Miark wrote: More like boring if you ask me. What peaked your interest? Miark It's actually quite interesting that The Open Group would state that all of a sudden - they're wanting to maintain that UNIX is

RE: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-15 Thread Nathan Coad
Well, everything works alright now :) I boot mandrake with noapic, and acpi=off, and now everything works. Yay! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Myers Sent: Saturday, 14 June 2003 9:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie]

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 13:20:57 +0300 manolis [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: 22sec for the first time to load. -if you close it and the load it again about 12 sec. -if you leave it open and open another file about 5-6 sec. 19 seconds for initial launch on

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread manolis
Strange results for the initial launch Why it take so time to load? 15 2003 14:08, / Michael Scottaline : On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 13:20:57 +0300 manolis [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: 22sec for the first time to load. -if you close it and the load it again about 12 sec. -if you

[newbie] No recognition of USB 2.0 memory stick (on laptop)

2003-06-15 Thread Erik Janssen
Hi all, Bought this laptop last week and installed MDK 'without any problem'. Of course during fine-tuning some issues arise and this is one of them: - When I connect my USB 2.0 memory stick to my USB 2.0 port of my laptop it is not recognised, nothing happens. - It does not show up in /mnt -

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 15 Jun 2003 12:48 pm, manolis wrote: Strange results for the initial launch Why it take so time to load? Because it has as much to load as microsoft office, but instead of part-loading at boot, as M$O does, it loads at first use. After that it doesn't need to load the whole

[newbie] Oft-used programs

2003-06-15 Thread Anne Wilson
Under 9.0 I found a setting that allowed me to increase the oft-used programs section of the k-menu to 6 - which caught a huge proportion of my work. I can't find the same setting under 9.1. Can anyone show me? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] USB Flash disk

2003-06-15 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 14 June 2003 04:44 pm, Aron Smith wrote: Bought one of those little usb pendrives M9.1 reconizes it but it is read only any body know how to reset it to r/w ? I recall this happened to me somewhere and I recall right-clicking the device somewhere and being able to select whether I

Re: [newbie] The Mysterious Vanishing Title Bar

2003-06-15 Thread Steven Broos
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 00:11, Glenn wrote: Can anybody tell me whether there's an easy way to recover the title bars for my apps in MDK 9.1? I got into a fix where I had a couple of Konsole sessions that wouldn't kill, and the process of attempting to kill them made the title bar non-existent

Re: [newbie] How to create a symbolic link?

2003-06-15 Thread g
rikona wrote: I don't seem to have one of these. Is MD supposed to come set up with one? I was going to set up a link, but I don't seem to have the dir '/usr/share/doc/mandrake/en/index.html'. Did I not install something? my apologies for leaving out in previous reply. in md 9.0, may be diff

Re: [newbie] Interesting Dilemma

2003-06-15 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 08:22:55 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Did you rip to wav's or mp3's? I've never had any luck normalizing anything but wav's. I get segfaults and corrupt mp3's trying to normalize them ... just part way thru ; rip to wav. I didn't know normalize would

Re: [newbie] Interesting Dilemma

2003-06-15 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 11:10:15 +0100 Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: The correct way is to drop to single user mode with telinit 1. Then unmount /home if it is still mounted read-write. That would have avoided a reboot? In any case, would it have allowed me to simply delete or otherwise

Re: [newbie] Run oldrer MD programs in 9.1?

2003-06-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday June 14 2003 01:36 pm, rikona wrote: Hello, I found an old version of kstars for MD versions up to 8, and the RPM is still available. Would it run in 9.1, or is it likely to cause problems? Problems. Why are you lookin for a older version? The 9.1 kdeedu rpm provides

Re: [newbie] gkrellm

2003-06-15 Thread Chris
On Sunday 15 June 2003 08:06 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: to find out if your board uses a contact probe, or reads a cpu pin. Try runnin 'sensors-detect' again after lookin in bios and writing down the values you see there for voltages, fans, and temps. You should see within +/- 10% of these

[newbie] Driver for Canon i320 printer for linux mandrake 9.1

2003-06-15 Thread Teddy Widhi Laksono
I can't found the driver of my printer canon i320. how to make it work? and may be all of you can help me to finding the the driver? Teddy _ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE*

Re: [newbie] harddrive activity every few seconds?

2003-06-15 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 05:49, eric huff wrote: About every 4-5 seconds i get a small blip of harddrive activity. On gkrellm it shows up usu as 66K, sometimes 106K. Any idea what this is? I can't find any logs that are being updated this often. I'm running ML 9.1, with ReiserFS, if that

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Wm. G. Urquhart
On 15 Jun 2003, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 00:14, Wm. G. Urquhart wrote: On 15 Jun 2003, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 17:49, Paul wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 09:32, manolis wrote: I have PIII 933 Mhz 650MB , it takes about 22 sec. Mandrake 9.1 ,

Re: [newbie] Interesting Dilemma

2003-06-15 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 15 Jun 2003 2:39 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 11:10:15 +0100 Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: The correct way is to drop to single user mode with telinit 1. Then unmount /home if it is still mounted read-write. That would have avoided a reboot? Yes. It would

[newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamically opening ports inLinksys router]

2003-06-15 Thread Technoslick
I have a Linksys router/gateway that has the ability to dynamically open ports and port ranges when a certain executable is requesting to do so from a network client. This has worked very well from Windows clients using NetMeeting, ICQ or MSN Messenger for video conferencing and chat sessions,

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Who really owns UNIX?

2003-06-15 Thread JoeHill
On 15 Jun 2003 22:59:04 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: The fact that they're saying SOMETHING is rather interesting. And they're putting SCO and IBM on the same footing - as equals. That's the sense I got too. It's almost like they're saying this is a stupid fight. -- Joehill

[newbie] Leadtek WinFast TV2000 XP Deluxe

2003-06-15 Thread Eliza
I have mandrake 8.2 and Leadtek WinFast TV2000 XP Deluxe tv card with remoe. I can use it for tv watching ( xawv kwintv and zapping ), but i can't use the remote control. wich are te parameters for lirc_gpio in modules.conf. my modules.conf is: alias usb-interface usb-uhci probeall

Re: Re[7]: [newbie] Backdoor for crashes?

2003-06-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday June 14 2003 02:03 pm, rikona wrote: Hello Tom, Thursday, June 12, 2003, 10:54:10 AM, you wrote: That's exactly what I did, but it didn't kill it. I'd run top, get the PID, exit top, kill it, go back to top, and it's still there. Any idea why? TBUsually I start with a

Re: [newbie] Oft-used programs

2003-06-15 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Sunday 15 June 2003 12:24 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Under 9.0 I found a setting that allowed me to increase the oft-used programs section of the k-menu to 6 - which caught a huge proportion of my work. I can't find the same setting under 9.1. Can anyone show me? Anne Anne, right-click the

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Chuck Stuettgen
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 02:32, manolis wrote: I have PIII 933 Mhz 650MB , it takes about 22 sec. Mandrake 9.1 , OO 1.0.2 I think is very slow... anyone cas post a better time? Not to start a my computer is better than your computer war, but, Dell Latitude C640 P4 (on battery @ 1.2GHz) 512Mb -

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-15 Thread Technoslick
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 22:24, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 12:16 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: DId you logon to your router and adjust things there? I've got a Dlink router and it let me assign the range of IP addresses to be used for my 3 comp LAN. I'm using DHCP here and it

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-15 Thread Chuck Stuettgen
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 05:07, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 15 Jun 2003 3:24 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 12:16 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: DId you logon to your router and adjust things there? I've got a Dlink router and it let me assign the range of IP addresses to be

Re: [newbie] Services Configuration

2003-06-15 Thread Mark Annandale
On Sunday 15 Jun 2003 3:04 pm, Wm. G. Urquhart wrote: Hi All, I've only just installed Mandrake 9.1 but according to the docs I can use a Wizard called wizdrake to configure LDAP, SaMBa, DNS etc. But I don't have this in the MCC. I tried the RPM manager to search for it but it I believe the

Re: [newbie] Driver for Canon i320 printer for linux mandrake 9.1

2003-06-15 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 15 June 2003 09:46 am, Teddy Widhi Laksono wrote: I can't found the driver of my printer canon i320. how to make it work? and may be all of you can help me to finding the the driver? Teddy Teddy: The best source for information about linux printing is: http://www.linuxprinting.org/

[newbie] NVidia and TV out

2003-06-15 Thread Mark Annandale
G'day folks Anyone had any success with enabling TV out on a NVidia AGP graphics card. I had a quick look around the NVidia website but only found reference to winblows stuff. My card is a MX440 if its any help, and works fine under 'the other OS', however after the last round of viris' and a

Re: [newbie] NVidia and TV out

2003-06-15 Thread Mark Annandale
Funnily enough, a quick search on google brought the following link up 'http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/29/2147241mode=thread'. Sorry if I wasted anyones time. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread manolis
Time to load OpenOffice from point of click to actual start of program. It loads all it's necessary libraries at that time, unlike MS Office that has DLL's loaded at the actual system bootup for Windows (whatever version); that's how MS Office appears to load so fast - it's because most of

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread JoeHill
On 15 Jun 2003 04:46:04 -0500 Chuck Stuettgen [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Dell Latitude C640 P4 (on battery @ 1.2GHz) 512Mb - Mandrake 9.0 - Open Office 1.0.1 Starts in 4 seconds. Holy sweet Jesus...what desktop are you using tho, in Gnome I believe it preloads OO at startup, therefore a

Re: [newbie] gkrellm

2003-06-15 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 08:23:05 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: note the 3rd sensors is physically not there in the first place and so the programme makes it up. temp3:+209.0°C (limit = +60°C, hysteresis = +50°C) sensor = too bad, you could cook your breakfast on

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-15 Thread JoeHill
On 15 Jun 2003 10:55:06 -0400 Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: And when I need to step back and think about where everything is in my setup...even my feeble mind can remember the IP address of anything on the network. :0) Most DHCP servers will let you bind IPs to MAC address for more

Re: [newbie] NVidia and TV out

2003-06-15 Thread Miark
Try yanc. Miark On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 16:02:26 +0100 Mark Annandale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone had any success with enabling TV out on a NVidia AGP graphics card. I had a quick look around the NVidia website but only found reference to winblows stuff. Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] gkrellm

2003-06-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday June 15 2003 08:47 am, Chris wrote: On Sunday 15 June 2003 08:06 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: to find out if your board uses a contact probe, or reads a cpu pin. Try runnin 'sensors-detect' again after lookin in bios and writing down the values you see there for voltages, fans, and

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-15 Thread Technoslick
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 11:49, JoeHill wrote: On 15 Jun 2003 10:55:06 -0400 Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: And when I need to step back and think about where everything is in my setup...even my feeble mind can remember the IP address of anything on the network. :0) Most DHCP

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread manolis
how can I preload it ? I have mandrake 9.1 and I am using OO very often... thanks in advance 15 2003 18:42, / JoeHill : On 15 Jun 2003 04:46:04 -0500 Chuck Stuettgen [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Dell Latitude C640 P4 (on battery @ 1.2GHz) 512Mb - Mandrake 9.0 - Open Office 1.0.1 Starts in

[newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation problems

2003-06-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I just bought a new system and am trying to install Mandrake 9.1 on it. Soyo KT400 Dragon Platinum MB with 1 Gig of RAM, Nvidia GE4 Ti4600 graphics card. When I try to boot the installation CD or DVD, I get a hard lock with a blank screen and Scroll and Caps Lock flashing. I read on the

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 19:02:44 +0300 manolis [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: how can I preload it ? I have mandrake 9.1 and I am using OO very often... thanks in advance Sorry, I don't go within 6 miles of Gnome or KDE. But if you check on the OO site, there is an FAQ which I *believe* explains

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Wm. G. Urquhart
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 19:02:44 +0300 manolis [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: how can I preload it ? I have mandrake 9.1 and I am using OO very often... thanks in advance Sorry, I don't go within 6 miles of Gnome or KDE. But if you check on the OO site,

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Chuck Stuettgen
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 10:42, JoeHill wrote: On 15 Jun 2003 04:46:04 -0500 Chuck Stuettgen [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Dell Latitude C640 P4 (on battery @ 1.2GHz) 512Mb - Mandrake 9.0 - Open Office 1.0.1 Starts in 4 seconds. Holy sweet Jesus...what desktop are you using tho, in Gnome I

[newbie] Bad Installation Cd

2003-06-15 Thread crak600
Ok, i'm completely new to linux, but i'm so sick of windows that i NEED something new and always have plenty of time to kill learning something new, so i decided to try my hand at linux. i'm currently set up with an Asus K7V-RM, AMD 950, 20GB WD hard drive(waiting on a WD 100GB drive to add

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 15 June 2003 11:15 am, manolis wrote: Time to load OpenOffice from point of click to actual start of program. It loads all it's necessary libraries at that time, unlike MS Office that has DLL's loaded at the actual system bootup for Windows (whatever version); that's how MS

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 17:29:21 + (UTC) Wm. G. Urquhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: OT But what GUI do you use if you don't use KDE or Gnome since you're using a GUI mail client? Pekwm! The best! Beats Fluxbox, Blackbox, beats em all by a country mile! Faaast! You can see some

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Sunday 15 June 2003 01:33, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 15 June 2003 12:10 am, Damian Gatabria wrote: In the last few weeks i've noticed OO taking over 6 minutes to start. This machine is a Pentium 2, 400 mhz. OO would take about 50 seconds to start, which was bearable, but now, no

Re: [newbie] Leadtek WinFast TV2000 XP Deluxe

2003-06-15 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 15 June 2003 10:34 am, Eliza wrote: I have mandrake 8.2 and Leadtek WinFast TV2000 XP Deluxe tv card with remoe. I can use it for tv watching ( xawv kwintv and zapping ), but i can't use the remote control. wich are te parameters for lirc_gpio in modules.conf. my modules.conf is:

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation problems

2003-06-15 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 12:04:48 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I read on the support board that there are issues with machines with more than 1 gig of RAM and possibly Nvidia graphics cards, so I specified text install. You would either need to use the Enterprise

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation problems

2003-06-15 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 15 June 2003 12:04 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just bought a new system and am trying to install Mandrake 9.1 on it. Soyo KT400 Dragon Platinum MB with 1 Gig of RAM, Nvidia GE4 Ti4600 graphics card. When I try to boot the installation CD or DVD, I get a hard lock with a blank

Re: [newbie] gkrellm

2003-06-15 Thread Chris
On Sunday 15 June 2003 10:58 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: While you're lookin in the case, note the PSU watts and brand/ model number. Check it against AMD's recommended list. If it's not there, and at least 300w, I suggest you invest in one that is. Most come suitable for use with P4's too

Re: [newbie] Bad Installation Cd

2003-06-15 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 12:30:46 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: i have downloaded CD1 of mandrake 9.1 3 different times (which takes me 3 hours on cable, i'm getting sick of downloading it) and every time i go to install, when it starts reading off the CD it tells me i don't have an

[newbie] Databases

2003-06-15 Thread Miark
Hey Stephen, Do you mess with databases at all? If so, what what's your take on MpSQL vs. Postgresql? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-15 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 15 Jun 2003 3:55 pm, Technoslick wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 22:24, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 12:16 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: DId you logon to your router and adjust things there? I've got a Dlink router and it let me assign the range of IP addresses to be used

[newbie] True CDRW Functions In File Manager?

2003-06-15 Thread KCables
Mandrake 9.1 I am new to linux and have a perplexing issue. Altho I am aware of numerous cd Burner/ cdrw burn programs I can't seem to find or set up what I really want and need. I need my cdrw drive to work just as a hard drive, a floppy, a zip drive, etc. In other words, I need it so files

Re: [newbie] Bad Installation Cd

2003-06-15 Thread crak600
On 15 Jun 2003 at 13:07, JoeHill wrote: I had the same problem with an older machine. Couple of things you can try: Burn the CD at a lower speed. I have been told that CDs burned at higher speeds can be unreadable under certain circumstances. I burned the CD at 4x, and i think my only

Re: [newbie] Bad Installation Cd - Feel like an Idiot Now

2003-06-15 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 14:32:21 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Oh, and don't feel like an idiot, all of us went through this at some point, except maybe Stephen Kuhn and Tom Brinkman, who were born with ubergeek in them... -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage:

Re: [newbie] True CDRW Functions In File Manager?

2003-06-15 Thread KCables
On Sunday 15 June 2003 02:08 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 15 Jun 2003 6:23 pm, KCables wrote: Mandrake 9.1 I am new to linux and have a perplexing issue. Altho I am aware of numerous cd Burner/ cdrw burn programs I can't seem to find or set up what I really want and need. I need

Re: [newbie] Driver for Canon i320 printer for linux mandrake 9.1

2003-06-15 Thread revolt
Jure Repinc wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: For Canon printers you will get the best results with Turbo Print http://www.turboprint.de/english.html It is not 'free software' ,but is no charge for personal use. I'm using this driver for my i320 and it works. But it always prints it's logo in the

Re: [newbie] Bad Installation Cd - Feel like an Idiot Now

2003-06-15 Thread crak600
On 15 Jun 2003 at 14:45, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 14:32:21 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Oh, and don't feel like an idiot, all of us went through this at some point, except maybe Stephen Kuhn and Tom Brinkman, who were born with ubergeek in them... -- well, it's just one of

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread manolis
It's only cheating if you are doing a comparison and don't tell that you are doing this, which is what MS likes to do. LOL good point! by the way where I can find the quickstarter you mentioned? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Enter the fields of battle at ...

Re: [newbie] Bad Installation Cd - Feel like an Idiot Now

2003-06-15 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 14:58:36 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: i attached my problem solver to the wall and took care of everything...(the piece of paper with a circle in the middle..has instructions in the circle that say place on firm surface, bang head here) ROFLMAO! That's a keeper...

[newbie] Bad Installation Cd - STILL

2003-06-15 Thread crak600
ok, i did download an ISO image for all 3 CDs. i also made sure i burned the CD in ISO, yet it STILL tells me i don't have an install disc. then i get a message that says which driver should i try to gain SCSI access? nothing on my computer is SCSI, it's all EIDE. i'm so lost, i'm so

Re: [newbie] Bad Installation Cd - STILL

2003-06-15 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 15:16:12 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: which driver should i try to gain SCSI access? If I am not mistaken, Linux sees all cdrw as SCSI, nothing to worry about there. I wonder if it is just not recognizing your Philips drive...have you checked the Hardware Compatibility

Re: [newbie] Bad Installation Cd - STILL

2003-06-15 Thread Paul
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 20:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, i did download an ISO image for all 3 CDs. i also made sure i burned the CD in ISO, yet it STILL tells me i don't have an install disc. then i get a message that says which driver should i try to gain SCSI access? nothing on my

Re: [newbie] Bad Installation Cd - STILL

2003-06-15 Thread crak600
On 15 Jun 2003 at 15:34, JoeHill wrote: If I am not mistaken, Linux sees all cdrw as SCSI, nothing to worry about there. I wonder if it is just not recognizing your Philips drive...have you checked the Hardware Compatibility List? Does it give you a list of drivers to choose from? If

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-15 Thread Ralph Bagwell
Hi Joe, I have gaim up and working just fine with AOL,MSN and Yahoo messenger programs. I was never able to follow your instructions using urpmi - I tried : urpmi.addmedia texstar ftp://ftp.bahcesehir.edu.tr/pub/texstar/mandrake/9.1/rpms with hdlist.cz many times and never got it to work. I

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 15 Jun 2003 10:55 am, Chuck Stuettgen wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 05:07, Anne Wilson wrote: One advantage for using DHCP on a home network is if you have a laptop. You don't have fool around with redoing the network settings for each network... Accepted. A little while ago we had

Re: [newbie] Oft-used programs

2003-06-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 15 Jun 2003 3:40 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 15 June 2003 12:24 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Under 9.0 I found a setting that allowed me to increase the oft-used programs section of the k-menu to 6 - which caught a huge proportion of my work. I can't find the same setting under

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 12:48:09 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 17:29:21 + (UTC) Wm. G. Urquhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: OT But what GUI do you use if you don't use KDE or Gnome since you're using a GUI mail client? Pekwm! The best! Beats Fluxbox,

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 15 Jun 2003 4:15 pm, manolis wrote: My opinion is that I don't think this is cheating, it's a good idea to pre-launch many usable parts of libraries in boot time in windows. I don't close the system many times, so as many things are in the memory cache as better it is But you

Re: [newbie] Bad Installation Cd - STILL

2003-06-15 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 15:46:16 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: can someone start walking me through doing a network install please? i'm on cable, so yeah, it'll take longer than a CD install, but won't take absolutely FOREVER. Just go to the Mandrake site and in the installation intructions

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 16:05:19 -0400 Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: But I don't think it beats ratpoison by a country mile in terms of speed. Not certain it beats it at all, in that department. Ratpoison has a smaller foot print, BTW. To each. ;o) Well, ok, Ratpoison or

Re: [newbie] True CDRW Functions In File Manager?

2003-06-15 Thread Charlie
quoting KCables; Sunday 15 June 2003 11:23 am: Mandrake 9.1 I am new to linux and have a perplexing issue. Altho I am aware of numerous cd Burner/ cdrw burn programs I can't seem to find or set up what I really want and need. I need my cdrw drive to work just as a hard drive, a floppy, a zip

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-15 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 13:23:34 -0500 Ralph Bagwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Question is why is this not the preferred method of installing new software - ? Am I missing something ? *Normally* urpmi is a lot easier. Texstar has had problems with his mirrors intermittently over the last month or

Re: [newbie] Bad Installation Cd - STILL

2003-06-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 15 Jun 2003 8:34 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 15:16:12 -0400 Don't give up, it's too late for that, we won't let you. Resistance is futile Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] random playlist generator

2003-06-15 Thread Todd Slater
I'm looking for a program/script that will generate a random playlist of all my oggs. Know of such a thing? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] The Mysterious Vanishing Title Bar

2003-06-15 Thread Glenn
Well, duh. Thanks, Steven. This Linux is a whole new world g. You get into a rut of feeling there are only a few available options when you run into problems (like re-installing the OS) when you use Windows for so long. Thanks again. Glenn On Sunday 15 June 2003 08:29 am, Steven Broos

Re: [newbie] Databases

2003-06-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 03:14, Miark wrote: Hey Stephen, Do you mess with databases at all? If so, what what's your take on MpSQL vs. Postgresql? Miark I have a preference for MySQL due to it's scalability, but some personal users prefer Postgres for silly, pedestrian reasons. (grin)

Re: [newbie] Driver for Canon i320 printer for linux mandrake 9.1

2003-06-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 23:46, Teddy Widhi Laksono wrote: I can't found the driver of my printer canon i320. how to make it work? and may be all of you can help me to finding the the driver? Teddy Generally, if the Mandrake Control Center's functions don't work for setting up a printer, you

Re: [newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamically openingports in Linksys router]

2003-06-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 00:31, Technoslick wrote: I've got LICQ configured on my MDK 9.1 workstation with my ICQ accounts. I tried to open the needed ports on my router for a full chat session, but it doesn't seem to be working. I cannot create a peer-to-peer chat session, just IM. Obviously,

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