[newbie-it] Pnm Tools

2003-08-11 Thread Luigi Beltramini
salve, sapete dove sono reperibili i pnm-tools (necessari a gocr)?

Re: [newbie-it] I: sempre sulla scheda audio

2003-08-11 Thread tom
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 11:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: specialmente per me che affronto Linus da zerociao!!! LINUX si scrive e si legge con la X finale :) -- Ciao , Tom . ~ . / v \ / / \ \ / ( ) \ ^^ ^^ 8 orizzontale: Battono con il freddo...

Re: [newbie] Noob help 2 - was: SCSI card not recognised by 9.1

2003-08-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 07 Aug 2003 10:32 am, Sharrea wrote: On Wednesday 06 August 2003 09:35, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: In a PCI/ATAPI/IDE/USB system, how do I get a SCSI card recognised at boot-up? My PC has IDE HD and ATAPI CD-writer and a USB flat-bed scanner, all of which are recognised

Re: [newbie] hdd copying VERY slow

2003-08-11 Thread Anarky
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 09:14, Anarky wrote: so what can I do (without buying new hardware or moving back to windows) ? There's got to be soemthing ... and btw, how do I reset to what it was before/default? will it reset after reboot? It's this speed drop thing that's

Re: [newbie] CF card

2003-08-11 Thread David E. Fox
My wife doesn't show up in there, so I have to mount her manually. rotfl! David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] hdd copying VERY slow

2003-08-11 Thread Anarky
Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 10 August 2003 07:32 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 09:20, Dennis Myers wrote: Stephen, do you not need to put the parameters in /etc/rc.d/rc.local or somewhere like that to get the hd set on each boot up? Long time back I seem to recall

RE: [newbie] You guys all owe SCO $1399 for your Mandrake

2003-08-11 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 11:12, Richard Hackwith wrote: At 01:32 PM 8/7/2003 +0800, you wrote: Lanman, when are you gonna understand.. Fosters is the cats wiz we export overseas for schmucks such as yourself :-) I don't know anyone here that drinks it at all The Foster's sold in the

[newbie] realaudio player

2003-08-11 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi again, I am going to be needing a realaudio player for my LM9.1 installation. I have downloaded the rp8 file but I was wondering if there are any further developed clients available. Or is there an alternative client for .rm and .ram files? tia, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] home architecture and PCB schematic software: anyfavorites?

2003-08-11 Thread Eric Huff
*** Vari-Cad is on the 9.1 distro commerical apps CD. Thanks, i'll give that a look. eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] SUBSCRIBE newbie

2003-08-11 Thread David E. Fox
YOUR SUBSCRIPTION TO MICROWAVE COOKING AND CATTLE FETISH GROUP HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED. PLEASE BE AWARE THAT SOME COUNTRIES HAVE AN AGE LIMIT ON SEXUAL CONTENT AND THAT THIS GROUP DOES NOT. Fine ! I'm a ten years-old Linuxer who is enjoying Xfce4 very very much. :-) ROTFL cyb

[newbie] OT - Must-read on Caldera + Linux

2003-08-11 Thread Todd Slater
This from an Inquirer article (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10972)-- . . . Christoph Hellwig worked for Caldera on Linux/UNIX integration and at the same time separately contributed his own efforts to the kernel. While doing so, Chris Hellwig used an identifiying caldera.de email address

Re: [newbie] Mozilla 1.4, tetex, and security additions

2003-08-11 Thread John Richard Smith
Michael Lothian wrote: I use 08089916001 the 1470 makes sure you aren't withholding your number. According to Freeserve this number along with others is being withdrawn into the 1470 numbers. No only your modem driver and kppp settings (and modem cable conections) will have a bearing,

Re: [newbie] Noob help 2 - was: SCSI card not recognised by 9.1

2003-08-11 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 12:00, ed tharp wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 06:40, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 15:40, ed tharp wrote: snip snip here is part of my lilo.conf image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda7

[newbie] Accessing ACM device

2003-08-11 Thread deedee
I have a USB Zoom 56K external faxmodem, which is, I believe, device ttyACM0. How do I get Mandrake 9.1 (kernel 2.4.21.-25) to recognize it and use it for dialing out? Mandrake sees it in the devices list, but calls it an unknown device. When I was trying to identify all my USB devices (I had

Re: [newbie] hdd copying VERY slow

2003-08-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday August 10 2003 06:21 pm, Joeb wrote: Just to add to this, if he's using /dev/hda and /dev/hdb aren't they both on the same IDE controller on most systems? Since IDE can only write to one drive at a time per controller, improved performance would result in using the secondary IDE

Re: [newbie] hdd copying VERY slow

2003-08-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday August 11 2003 02:13 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Sunday 10 Aug 2003 3:26 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: [root /tom] $ hdparm -tT /dev/hd[ab] /dev/hda: (ata/133, udma6) === underlined data is not shown for me. I added it. From the results you posted it

RE: [newbie] Way OT Celeron vs Duron

2003-08-11 Thread Frankie
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Richard Urwin If you can get a Celeron they were always very capable of being over-clocked. Checkout http://www.tomshardware.com -- Richard Urwin Yes, thats certainly true.. I am writing this from a Celeron

Re: [newbie] Noob help 2 - was: SCSI card not recognised by 9.1

2003-08-11 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
Ed and Ronald, On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 12:00, ed tharp wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 06:40, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: snip single blank space, so if I wanted to include NOAPIC to the smp stanza it would look like this before I rerun /sbin/lilo, which I would do before I rebooted, but after

Re: [newbie] hdd copying VERY slow

2003-08-11 Thread Joeb
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday August 10 2003 11:38 am, Anarky wrote: hi everybody ... me new ... I just had a very embarassing moment today. A friend came by with his hdd .. and I was copying about 1Gb of data from one hdd to another. My linux preaching was going pretty well .. and he was

Re: [newbie] Mozilla 1.4, tetex, and security additions

2003-08-11 Thread RichardA
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 16:00:00 +, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 3 computer, and my wife has hers and several of my daughters each have computers that float in and out according to presence in the family.I don't propose upgrading them, but the 4 that sit at home will all

Re: [newbie] mail test rant

2003-08-11 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 08 Aug 2003 8:34 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 02:11:13PM -0400, Todd Slater wrote: So my ISP has decided to reject all mails originating from dynamically assigned IP blocks, which my computer is on. So, I can't send mail to my ISP-provided account from my box

[newbie] Wallstreet Powerbook X error

2003-08-11 Thread Vickie Jean-Charles
Greetings, I just finished installing Mandrake 9.1 on my Wallstreet Powerbook (266MHz, 128MB Ram, 4GB hard drive). In BootX, I specified the root drive, the init file, and my video settings, which worked great during the gui install. But when I try to start kde or gnome, I get the following

Re: [newbie] Ext 3 Filesystem

2003-08-11 Thread Paul
Hi João, If you experience power outs more often, I think that getting a UPS is better than changing FS. I use EXT3 also, which has so far not failed me. I am satisfied with it. Paul On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 19:51, João Candido Araujo Milasch Filho wrote: I got this twice, as I was using linux

Re: [newbie] Apache/MySQL/PHP triad

2003-08-11 Thread Marco Verheul
On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 00:40, Todd Slater wrote: On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 11:06:30PM +, Marco Verheul wrote: Hi all, Is there anything like Apache2Triad ( see http://sourceforge.net/projects/apache2triad/ ) available for Linux, or do we need to install and configure it all piece by

RE: [newbie] CF card

2003-08-11 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 06:25, Frankie wrote: Come on stephen, be realistic,, Every time you try to mount your wife you end up with a floppy instead... :-) rgds snip That was a brilliant set of repartees! :-)) I'm still chuckling DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Installation query: Passing multiple arguments toinstaller routine

2003-08-11 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 07:18, Heather/Femme wrote: I have to install my linux by passing the argument linux vga=normal *Ty Charles :)* to the Kernel to get video. While doing so is fine, i get a normal installation I want the installer to use Expert mode. Can i add another arg to that line

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2003-08-11 Thread Raghava Karri
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Re: [newbie] You guys all owe SCO $1399 for your Mandrake

2003-08-11 Thread Anders Lind
I guess you missed that reference. (hint - That song was playing in the Monty Python Aussie Philosopher's sketch.) And that is where the reference between american beer and making love in a canoe comes from as well /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] hdd copying VERY slow

2003-08-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday August 11 2003 03:50 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Tom, Why does your previous example so much faster everything, what is it and how you configure that makes the difference ? John Well, I'm reading this thread and seein the suggestions to use hdparm parameters in rc.local or

Re: [newbie] More Stupid Questions(XMMS)

2003-08-11 Thread David E. Fox
How has Streamripper worked for you? buggy? Does it do both windoz and realplayer type streams? found it actually in cooker/contrib. I hven't tried it yet maybe will tomorrow. For real audio stuff, there's a little helper library on http://sed.free.fr called libreplay.so. Works all right it

Re: [newbie] file name format in Grip

2003-08-11 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 01:28:59PM -0500, fifner the dragon wrote: Hi all, I just started to rip my complete cd collection to ogg using Grip. The ogg files are named by default like: 11_sun_in_your_face.ogg The encode file format is set to ~/mp3/%A/%d/%t_%n.ogg I want capital letters

Re: [newbie] subscribe

2003-08-11 Thread Eric Huff
This happens now and then and I wonder how the subscribe even gets to the list if the person didn't subscribe correctly to begin with. I sometimes send a mail from my comp at work and it requires a added step asking that the mail be put through to the mail list. So how does the subscribe

Re: [newbie] Graphical Boot is not working

2003-08-11 Thread Gareth Qually
Thanks, I will give that a go aswell Ciao... www.slowlymakingsmoke.com www.qually.net Quoting Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 05:51, Gareth Qually wrote: I have installed Linux, which seems fine. But when I boot it trys to start X, but fails. It mentions editing a

Re: [newbie] a cd catalog

2003-08-11 Thread Heather/Femme
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 06:05, Anarky wrote: hi everybody. I'm trying to move to linux completelly for like 3 weeks now (I think) ... been flirting with linux for many years now .. but this summer I've been the most determined (I'm pretty much constantly in linux) .. but I'm still looking

Re: [newbie] KDE Session management on logout

2003-08-11 Thread bascule
i have 'save session' at the bottom of my 'k' menu, is that what you mean? plus i have kmenuconfigkdecomponentssession manager is it that you do not have these things? bascule On Sunday 10 Aug 2003 6:09 am, Heather/Femme wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 23:46, ed tharp wrote: snip you are

Re: [newbie] Ext 3 Filesystem

2003-08-11 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 03:51, João Candido Araujo Milasch Filho wrote: I got this twice, as I was using linux and got a blackout. When I turned on the system again, it gave me this message, then I wanted to repair the errors. When the boot was complete, I got many erros. One of them, i couldnt

Re: [newbie] Ext 3 Filesystem

2003-08-11 Thread João Candido Araujo Milasch Filho
Thanks for the answer Paul... but, what UPS means? I mean, what is UPS ;) From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Ext 3 Filesystem Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 20:52:41 +0200 Hi João, If you experience power outs more often, I think

Re: CUPS and OOo ...Re: [newbie] a cd catalog

2003-08-11 Thread Ralph Slooten
Oh ROFL ROFL ROFL ROFL.. answered the wrong post.. Sorry about that, hehehehe On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 13:34:58 +0200 Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 13:05:44 +0300 Anarky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi everybody. I'm trying to move to linux completelly for like

Re: [newbie] Linkskys, anyone?

2003-08-11 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 11 August 2003 10:43 am, Ben wrote: On Sunday 10 August 2003 22:35, Nick Emans wrote: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 15:28, James Henry Maiewski wrote: Hello, This Sunday paper came with a flier of Amazon.com (is it just me, or does that

Re: [newbie] test again my mail does not go to list

2003-08-11 Thread Cody Harris
H, it takes a while for mine to go, but they all have me filtered out so i never get a response. - Original Message - From: yankl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 9:54 PM Subject: [newbie] test again my mail does not go to list test

Re[2]: [newbie] Government trying to control our computers - OT but Important

2003-08-11 Thread rikona
Hello Dow, Monday, August 11, 2003, 4:39:56 PM, you wrote: DM Well, I did a search on the Senate website It's much more informative to just do a quick search on CBDTPA. This will tell you much more than will be on any government site. The politicos want to keep us in the dark as much as

[newbie] CUPS and OOo

2003-08-11 Thread Miark
I thought OOo and CUPS work together, but when I print, there's no mention of CUPS, and whatever is working in its place does a crap job of printing (draft mode instead of normal, although it's not set to do that). How do I get CUPS to work with OOo? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] hdd copying VERY slow

2003-08-11 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On Monday 11 Aug 2003 6:15 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: Well, I'm reading this thread and seein the suggestions to use hdparm parameters in rc.local or harddisks with some wonderment. With Mandrake 9.x, you shouldn't need to configure any hdparm parameters. Mandrake does it automatically

Re: [newbie] hdd copying VERY slow

2003-08-11 Thread Anarky
you know ... turns out this slowdown only happens when copying from fat32 to fat32 ... when copying from fat32 to linux partition it's constantly at about 9mb/second. Still, acording to your huge test results my hdds might be somehow missconfigured, or is Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB

Re: [newbie] hdd copying VERY slow

2003-08-11 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 02:55, ed tharp wrote: not 'really' true, As I recall, NTFS has been updated (in order to retain incompatibility)a couple of times, NTFS on XP is not exactly the same critter as NTFS on NT3.5 It still sucks nonetheless. Too bad they're (M$) not smart enough to make use

Re: [newbie] hdd copying VERY slow

2003-08-11 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 10 August 2003 06:14 pm, Anarky wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: In the case of slapping hard drives into your machine and then copying data to them, it's best to get to know HDPARM quite well, and how to tweak drive settings with it. After slapping the drive in your boxen and getting

Re: [newbie] SUBSCRIBE newbie

2003-08-11 Thread crak600
On Saturday 09 August 2003 11:47 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: DEAR SIR, YOUR SUBSCRIPTION TO MICROWAVE COOKING AND CATTLE FETISH GROUP HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED. PLEASE BE AWARE THAT SOME COUNTRIES HAVE AN AGE LIMIT ON SEXUAL CONTENT AND THAT THIS GROUP DOES NOT. PLEASE CHECK THE LEGAL RIGHTS YOU HAVE

Re: [newbie] CF card

2003-08-11 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 04:18, Jesüs Arocho wrote: I am running mandrake 9.1 and just purchased a PNY CF card and card reader. How do I get this to work on my box? The card reader might not show up, but if you insert a card into the reader, it SHOULD show up as a mountable device - you can fire