Re: [newbie-it] Caps Lock

2003-08-15 Thread Benedetto Santarella
Forse non mi sono spiegato bene, quello che voglio attivare e' il cups lock, per avere sempre le lettere maiuscole, non il bloc num Alle 12:20, giovedì 14 agosto 2003, dragx ha scritto: Il gio, 2003-08-14 alle 08:27, Benedetto Santarella ha scritto: Salve a tutti, esiste un metodo

Re: [newbie-it] Caps Lock

2003-08-15 Thread miKe
Alle Thursday 14 August 2003 08:27, in merito a [newbie-it] Caps Lock, Benedetto Santarella ha scritto: Salve a tutti, esiste un metodo per attivare all'accenzione in cups lock??? aggiungere a un qualsiasi script di avvio: echo attivo il tastierino numerico... for tty in /dev/tty[1-8];

Re: [newbie] Virtual Hosts in Apache 2.0

2003-08-15 Thread Roland Cruse
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 02:38:39PM -0400, Haywiremac wrote: and I know it does have an effect, as whatever document root is specified first is served, but never the second. here is my Vhosts.conf # Named VirtualHosts NameVirtualHost * VirtualHost * ServerName

Re: [newbie] rpm question

2003-08-15 Thread manolis
I am afraid to do uninstallation becasue the depedndecies on the package are too many and critical! 15 2003 02:14, / Erylon Hines : urpmi shadow-utils will probably do it. It may be a good idea to uninstall the software first, then urpmi to re-install the whole caboodle. On Thursday

RE: [newbie] OF INTEREST: [Virus Alerts [Prevention: the bestweapon againstthe Blaster wor m - 08/13/03]]

2003-08-15 Thread Frankie
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Heather/Femme For now... till linux gets more popular, then we'll see virii more sophisticated attacks on our comps. Hell we'll see rootkits and DYI Hack em Kits Like they have in the windows world. Its

[newbie] what happened?

2003-08-15 Thread manolis
Yesterday I was working on my pc. I had many programs opened. The mandrake 9.1 installation had an uptime of about 5 days. Suddenly the mouse and keyboard stack and the 2 lights on the keyboard were blinking! I couldn't do anything except hardware reset. Is this my first kernel panic? What

Re: [newbie] mac os x on mandrake

2003-08-15 Thread Thomas Williams
On Wednesday 13 August 2003 07:15 am, Haywiremac wrote: there's a porject which emulates mac os x on linux. anything like vmware. i heard bout this project but i cant remeber its name... google couldnt find anyth. there's some experimental project to run OSX on x86, but it's not for

RE: [newbie] OF INTEREST: [Virus Alerts [Prevention: the bestweapon againstthe Blaster wor m - 08/13/03]]

2003-08-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 13:49, Heather/Femme wrote: Linux software vendors do it too...look @ RH. Now you've crossed the line, Ms. Pink. Taking a stab at RED HAT? Hmmm? Oh, wait...sorry...forgot-I use Mandrake now. Nevermind. -- Fri Aug 15 17:50:00 EST 2003 17:50:00 up 11 days, 21:38, 3

Re: [newbie] VMWare Workstation 3.2.0 Serial Number

2003-08-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 15:13, deedee wrote: I have the ML 9.1 PowerPack, and I would like to install the VMWare Workstation that is included. I cannot find a serial number in the package. Is this a 30-day trial version only? The documentation makes it sound like the full package, but lacking

RE: RE: [newbie] OF INTEREST: [Virus Alerts [Prevention: the best weapon againstthe Blaster wor m - 08/13/03]]

2003-08-15 Thread Anders
Oh, wait...sorry...forgot-I use Mandrake now. Nevermind. Blame it on your age ;P Cheers Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OF INTEREST: [Virus Alerts [Prevention: thebest weapon againstthe Blaster wor m - 08/13/03]]

2003-08-15 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 08:42, Harv Nelson wrote: Heather/Femme wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 04:35, Stephen Kuhn wrote: snick For ONE YEAR they should sit back, stop trying to FORCE the market and fix the damn product once and for all. ONCE it's fixed, stable, tested, tried and true,

Re: [newbie] M8.1 Shutdown fails

2003-08-15 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 09:38, John Richard Smith wrote: My wife's M8.1 gets to , Stopping Kheader, and Hangs, no cursor, no keyboard, nothing. Have to crash the OS and restart. do the numlock lites work on the keyboard? what happens with [ctrl+alt+ f3]? just how are you 'crashing the

Re: [newbie] mounting /home on another disk

2003-08-15 Thread Curt Tresenriter
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 13:49:47 +0100 Michael Lothian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |All you need to do when installing amndrake from scratch is do |Configure Manually | |Create the partitions you want on hda making them the size you want and |creating /home on hdd | |It's quite clever and work it all

Re: [newbie] what happened?

2003-08-15 Thread Miark
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 12:26:06 +0300, manolis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes I know the folder . I don't know in which file to look As I said the /var/log/syslog doesn't mention anything about the freeze /var/log/messages is a decent place to look. Miark Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] mounting /home on another disk

2003-08-15 Thread Richard Urwin
On Friday 15 Aug 2003 1:45 pm, Curt Tresenriter wrote: I want to mount the /home partition on hda (mdk 9.1) from my mdk 9.0 installation on hdd. Is it simply a matter of making a mount point for hda6 and naming it something other than /home to avoid confusing 9.0? Yes -- Richard Urwin

Re: [newbie] chkrootkit

2003-08-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday August 14 2003 05:22 pm, Chris wrote: On Thursday 14 August 2003 01:11 am, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Running chkrootkit I get the following when searching for suspicious files and directories. Does this mean these are suspicious or just the ones checked? I think it

Re: [newbie] mounting /home on another disk

2003-08-15 Thread Curt Tresenriter
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 14:52:47 +0100 Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |On Friday 15 Aug 2003 1:45 pm, Curt Tresenriter wrote: | I want to mount the /home partition on hda (mdk 9.1) from my mdk 9.0 | installation on hdd. | | Is it simply a matter of making a mount point for hda6 and naming it

Re: [newbie] mounting /home on another disk

2003-08-15 Thread Michael Lothian
Sorry Then try mounting /dev/hda# where # is the number that home was on Mike Curt Tresenriter wrote: On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 13:49:47 +0100 Michael Lothian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |All you need to do when installing amndrake from scratch is do |Configure Manually | |Create the partitions you

[newbie] Scrolling text

2003-08-15 Thread Miark
My wife likes to read to our little one while giving him his bottle. She's been reading from the laptop, but has to stop every page to scroll down. What could she use to scroll web pages, or even copy the text to something else that scrolls? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] mp3 to wav to ogg to mp3 different bitrate conversiontool

2003-08-15 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Anarky wrote: is there like a audio conversion tool that can handle all different stuff like this (like saving as an mp3 with a different bitrate/stereo/mono, converting to wave, or compressing back)? Is there like an unified toool like this with some gui? Yes.

[newbie] ADSL setup with USB modem

2003-08-15 Thread Josenildo Marques
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. I need help. Finally a guy from the tele-phony company visited me to install a fast connection. The thing is he brought a USB modem and he said there is no need of anything else (so, no need of an ethernet card). I ran MCC and tried to

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and Apache

2003-08-15 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Bryan Tyson wrote: On Tuesday 12 August 2003 15:41, bob parker wrote: I heard that there are compatability problems with PHP and Apache V2 I am far from an expert on PHP and Apache. However, I can tell you I could not get php to work with Apache 2. When I went back to Apache 1 it all

Re: [newbie] Scrolling text

2003-08-15 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 10:13:53AM -0400, Miark wrote: My wife likes to read to our little one while giving him his bottle. She's been reading from the laptop, but has to stop every page to scroll down. What could she use to scroll web pages, or even copy the text to something else that

Re: [newbie] M8.1 Shutdown fails

2003-08-15 Thread John Richard Smith
Sorry about the delay, too many things on the go at once. No, completely hung , not even, ctrl+alt+f3] does anything, so it's a complete crash, swithch the power off at source. It then , of course, has to do a complete fsck as part of the bootup. So what's with stopping kheader ? what does

Re: [newbie] FS conversion/Partition resizing

2003-08-15 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 12:15, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 20:53, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 23:22, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 04:12, Tom Brinkman wrote: Partitions can be shrunk. So can heads. Stephen, It was actually

Re: [newbie] FS conversion/Partition resizing

2003-08-15 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 12:15, ed tharp wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 06:53, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 23:22, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 04:12, Tom Brinkman wrote: Partitions can be shrunk. So can heads. Stephen, It was actually the

Re: [newbie] what happened?

2003-08-15 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 10:20:00 +0300, manolis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday I was working on my pc. I had many programs opened. The mandrake 9.1 installation had an uptime of about 5 days. Suddenly the mouse and keyboard stack and the 2 lights on the keyboard were blinking! I couldn't do

Re: [newbie] FS conversion/Partition resizing

2003-08-15 Thread Aron Smith
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 09:27, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 12:15, ed tharp wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 06:53, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 23:22, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 04:12, Tom Brinkman wrote: Partitions can be

Re: [newbie] Scrolling text

2003-08-15 Thread Aron Smith
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 07:13, Miark wrote: My wife likes to read to our little one while giving him his bottle. She's been reading from the laptop, but has to stop every page to scroll down. What could she use to scroll web pages, or even copy the text to something else that scrolls?

Re: [newbie] VMWare Workstation 3.2.0 Serial Number

2003-08-15 Thread deedee
From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 15:13, deedee wrote: I have the ML 9.1 PowerPack, and I would like to install the VMWare Workstation that is included. I cannot find a serial number in the package. Is this a 30-day trial version only? The documentation makes it sound

Re: [newbie] Scrolling text

2003-08-15 Thread Aron Smith
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 03:10, Aron Smith wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 07:13, Miark wrote: My wife likes to read to our little one while giving him his bottle. She's been reading from the laptop, but has to stop every page to scroll down. What could she use to scroll web pages, or even

[newbie] Wine question

2003-08-15 Thread Kaj Haulrich
Through the years I've noticed that quite a few people on this great list dual boots Windows occasionally. I've never had Windows on my box - and never will. But right now I have a problem : My oldest daughter just started in college and her math teacher demands her to buy a program called

Re: [newbie] mp3 to wav to ogg to mp3 different bitrate conversiontool

2003-08-15 Thread Anarky
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Anarky wrote: is there like a audio conversion tool that can handle all different stuff like this (like saving as an mp3 with a different bitrate/stereo/mono, converting to wave, or compressing back)? Is there like an unified toool like this with some gui? Yes.

Re: [newbie] hdd copying VERY slow

2003-08-15 Thread Miark
On 12 Aug 2003 09:06:32 +1000, Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

RE: [newbie] Wine question

2003-08-15 Thread Frankie
When you install wine, it creates a fake enviroment for windows apps. usually in /var/lib/wine eg: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www]# cd /var/lib/wine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wine]# ls autoexec.bat config.sys My Documents/ Program Files/ windows/ as you can see, you have all the typical directories a windows

Re: [newbie] Wine question

2003-08-15 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 15 August 2003 06:52 pm, Frankie wrote: When you install wine, it creates a fake enviroment for windows apps. usually in /var/lib/wine eg: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www]# cd /var/lib/wine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wine]# ls autoexec.bat config.sys My Documents/ Program Files/ windows/ as

[newbie] Mouse Problems

2003-08-15 Thread crak600
Posted this to the list yesterday but it still hasn't hit the list. and as said below, having a hell of a time accessing the archives. so here it is again, hope someone can help (and hope it makes it to the list this time). sorry to put this to the list w/out searching the archives first,

Re: [newbie] M8.1 Shutdown fails

2003-08-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday August 15 2003 12:04 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Sorry about the delay, too many things on the go at once. No, completely hung , not even, ctrl+alt+f3] does anything, so it's a complete crash, swithch the power off at source. It then , of course, has to do a complete fsck as

[newbie] 3com USB Modem

2003-08-15 Thread Tsyko
Hi all can anybody help me to get my USB 3Com TA ISDN adapter to work with Mandrake 9.1 I can communicate with the modem on /dev/usb/acm/0 but I can't get a connection to the net. Any suggestions.. I probably need initialisation strings for the device Thanks Tsyko Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Wine question

2003-08-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 15 August 2003 04:37 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: So I just installed wine and downloaded the *Derive* program. This seems to be a file called *setup.exe*. Then, I typed *wine setup.exe* and everything seemed OK until it ask me for a *folder* for installation. The screen suggest strange

Re: [newbie] mp3 to wav to ogg to mp3 different bitrate conversiontool

2003-08-15 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 10:36:02 -0400 Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anarky wrote: is there like a audio conversion tool that can handle all different stuff like this (like saving as an mp3 with a different bitrate/stereo/mono, converting to wave, or compressing back)? Is

Re: [newbie] mp3 to wav to ogg to mp3 different bitrate conversiontool

2003-08-15 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Anarky wrote: Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Anarky wrote: is there like a audio conversion tool that can handle all different stuff like this (like saving as an mp3 with a different bitrate/stereo/mono, converting to wave, or compressing back)? Is there like an unified toool like this with

[newbie] No MIDI Sequencer Device

2003-08-15 Thread deedee
When installing Wine, I discovered a number of devices had not been installed with my sound system. I was able to install everything except I still don't have a MIDI sequencer device. I have no idea why not. Is this one of the things that you don't get if you never use an application that

Re: [newbie] Video Card incompatable?

2003-08-15 Thread Cody Harris
You say my problem is to do with a frame buffer? Yes i have a color lilo boot menu. How do i fix this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] mp3 to wav to ogg to mp3 different bitrate conversion tool

2003-08-15 Thread Richard Urwin
On Friday 15 Aug 2003 9:17 pm, Michael Adams wrote: On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 10:36:02 -0400 Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anarky wrote: is there like a audio conversion tool that can handle all different stuff like this (like saving as an mp3 with a different

Re: [newbie] mp3 to wav to ogg to mp3 different bitrate conversiontool

2003-08-15 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Michael Adams wrote: On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 10:36:02 -0400 Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anarky wrote: is there like a audio conversion tool that can handle all different stuff like this (like saving as an mp3 with a different bitrate/stereo/mono, converting to wave, or

[newbie] VNC with sound?

2003-08-15 Thread Miark
Is there any software out there that works like VNC, but pumps video and _sound_ over the network? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Linux saves MS's butt.

2003-08-15 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
For those who don't know--MS has changed around a lot of their Windows Update network to try and handle the expected onslaught of hits from computers commandeered by the MSBlast worm. Guess who they put at the the front line of their defense.

Re: [newbie] VMWare Workstation 3.2.0 Serial Number

2003-08-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 03:28, deedee wrote: From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 15:13, deedee wrote: I have the ML 9.1 PowerPack, and I would like to install the VMWare Workstation that is included. I cannot find a serial number in the package. Is this a 30-day

Re: [newbie] hdd copying VERY slow

2003-08-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 04:28, Miark wrote: On 12 Aug 2003 09:06:32 +1000, Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] Wine question

2003-08-15 Thread Harv Nelson
Hi Kaj, I'm having something of the same sorts of problems with a program I'm trying to run with wine. Try this WinTools GUI set up aid: http://www.franksworld.net/winetools/ It will make all the necessary directories and has an Installer of sorts. There is some additional education on the

Re: [newbie] VNC with sound?

2003-08-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 07:02, Miark wrote: Is there any software out there that works like VNC, but pumps video and _sound_ over the network? Miark You can always do what I do - hook up speakers on the server... -- Sat Aug 16 07:40:00 EST 2003 07:40:00 up 12 days, 11:28, 3 users, load

Re: [newbie] ADSL setup with USB modem

2003-08-15 Thread Josenildo Marques
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 15 August 2003 11:27, Josenildo Marques wrote: Hi. I need help. Finally a guy from the tele-phony company visited me to install a fast connection. The thing is he brought a USB modem and he said there is no need of anything else (so,

Re: [newbie] Video Card incompatable?

2003-08-15 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 17:42:37 -0300 Cody Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You say my problem is to do with a frame buffer? Yes i have a color lilo boot menu. How do i fix this? You can pass the parameter vga=normal, either at boot or by adding it to your lilo.conf This will ensure that your

Re: [newbie] Linux saves MS's butt.

2003-08-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 07:11, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: For those who don't know--MS has changed around a lot of their Windows Update network to try and handle the expected onslaught of hits from computers commandeered by the MSBlast worm. Guess who they put at the the front line of their

Re: [newbie] Linux saves MS's butt.

2003-08-15 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 16 Aug 2003 07:49:28 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wonder if they're going to change their official stance on linux and OSS now that they've had to resort to linux to save their ass? No, once it has passed, they'll probably just fire the tech who set it up and disavow any

Re: [newbie] Linux saves MS's butt.

2003-08-15 Thread Erylon Hines
Yesand no. What I see is a cache server (akamai) running Linux. The MS site is an IIS server. It is a way for MS to use a third party to lighten the bandwidth load--having akamai serve up a cached copy of the Windows Update site. e. On Friday 15 August 2003 05:11 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons

Re: [newbie] Wine question

2003-08-15 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 15 August 2003 07:48 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 15 August 2003 04:37 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: So I just installed wine and downloaded the *Derive* program. This seems to be a file called *setup.exe*. Then, I typed *wine setup.exe* and everything seemed OK until it ask me

[newbie] OpenOffice 1.1

2003-08-15 Thread Trey Sizemore
Is there a way to get OpenOffice 1.1 via urpmi? If so, what is the repository? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Video Card incompatable?

2003-08-15 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 16:42, Cody Harris wrote: You say my problem is to do with a frame buffer? Yes i have a color lilo boot menu. How do i fix this? see Charles's reply, he is absolutely correct. but also check your lilo for the mem statement, since this is an on-board shared video memory

Re: [newbie] Wine question

2003-08-15 Thread Michael Lothian
Ah my uni uses Maple and Matlab for maths stuff But why not see if some of the free maths programs on linux are the same type and have the same functions. Mike Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 15 August 2003 09:40 pm, Harv Nelson wrote: Hi Kaj, I'm having something of the same sorts of

Re: [newbie] Mouse Problems

2003-08-15 Thread ed tharp
As root, in a text console mousedrake choose 'logitec mouseman+' I think that should do what you want, maybe not. On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 15:32, crak600 wrote: Posted this to the list yesterday but it still hasn't hit the list. and as said below, having a hell of a time accessing the archives.

Re: [newbie] Wine question

2003-08-15 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 15 August 2003 11:47 pm, Michael Lothian wrote: Ah my uni uses Maple and Matlab for maths stuff But why not see if some of the free maths programs on linux are the same type and have the same functions. Mike Mike - what free programs ??? Kaj Haulrich. -- Registered Linux user

Re: [newbie] mp3 to wav to ogg to mp3 different bitrate conversiontool

2003-08-15 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 08:17:05 +1200 Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wouldn't this be accumulating losses exponentially? Like 5% loss in original mp3. Convert to wav then 5% loss from wav to ogg = total loss of 25%. Of course i may be blowing smoke. It depends how you look at it I

Re: [newbie] laptop from Hell

2003-08-15 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 18:28, Roland Cruse wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 09:28:59PM -0400, Erylon Hines wrote: I just finished (sort of) an install on a friends Compaq Presario 905US. He had tried multiple times, with multiple distros to get Linux on this machine, Anyone else have

Re: [newbie] Wine question

2003-08-15 Thread Harv Nelson
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 15 August 2003 09:40 pm, Harv Nelson wrote: Hi Kaj, I'm having something of the same sorts of problems with a program I'm trying to run with wine. Try this WinTools GUI set up aid: http://www.franksworld.net/winetools/ It will make all the necessary directories

Re: [newbie] Can't retrieve mail from /var/spool/mail

2003-08-15 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 19:27, Joe Hill wrote: Hey y'all! I was hit by the big blackout like so many of you I am sure, in the middle of composing a mail message. The power just came back on and when I booted up and logged in, gkrellm shows I have 300 messages in my spool, but when I hit get

Re: [newbie] Mouse Problems

2003-08-15 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 19:50, ed tharp wrote: As root, in a text console mousedrake choose 'logitec mouseman+' I think that should do what you want, maybe not. run the test though. On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 15:32, crak600 wrote: Posted this to the list yesterday but it still hasn't hit the

Re: [newbie] Linux saves MS's butt.

2003-08-15 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Frankie wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brant Fitzsimmons For those who don't know--MS has changed around a lot of their Windows Update network to try and handle the expected onslaught of hits from computers commandeered by the MSBlast

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice 1.1

2003-08-15 Thread Miark
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 19:44:08 -0400, Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to get OpenOffice 1.1 via urpmi? If so, what is the repository? No, but you can use the one from their site. It's not a typical tarball that you have to compile and install. It's got its own installer

Re: [newbie] VNC with sound?

2003-08-15 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Miark wrote: Server's on the third floor, laptop on the first. And the server's in my office--if I cranked it loud enough to reach down there, my ears would be ringing :-) Miark On 16 Aug 2003 07:44:09 +1000, Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 07:02, Miark wrote:

Re: [newbie] Wine question

2003-08-15 Thread Michael Lothian
Well mathplot is on mandrake http://sourceforge.net/search/ with the word math broaught up loads of things Try matching something simialar And then get your daugter to get her uni to switch lol Mike Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 15 August 2003 11:47 pm, Michael Lothian wrote: Ah my uni

Re: [newbie] Linux saves MS's butt.

2003-08-15 Thread Michael Lothian
If that was the address that the attack was pointed at won't it make sence for MS to disable it? Mike Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Frankie wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brant Fitzsimmons For those who don't know--MS has changed

Re: [newbie] VNC with sound?

2003-08-15 Thread Michael Lothian
Can't SSH do this? Say if you ran XMMS from the server wouldn't it play the music? Mike Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Miark wrote: Server's on the third floor, laptop on the first. And the server's in my office--if I cranked it loud enough to reach down there, my ears would be ringing :-) Miark

Re: [newbie] VNC with sound?

2003-08-15 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 17:44, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 07:02, Miark wrote: Is there any software out there that works like VNC, but pumps video and _sound_ over the network? Miark I am not really sure what you mean by 'works like VNC', but have you tried VLC or webcam

Re: [newbie] Linux saves MS's butt.

2003-08-15 Thread Michael Lothian
http://www.iht.com/articles/106638.html Michael Lothian wrote: If that was the address that the attack was pointed at won't it make sence for MS to disable it? Mike Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Frankie wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of

Re: [newbie] Wine question

2003-08-15 Thread Josenildo Marques
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 15 August 2003 17:37, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Through the years I've noticed that quite a few people on this great list dual boots Windows occasionally. I've never had Windows on my box - and never will. But right now I have a problem : My

Re: [newbie] Virtual Hosts in Apache 2.0

2003-08-15 Thread Michael Viron
At 06:41 AM 8/15/2003 -, Roland Cruse wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1060908933-23073-111 On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 02:38:39PM -0400, Haywiremac wrote: and I know it does have an effect, as whatever document root is specified first is served, but never

[newbie] Spell check in OO.o

2003-08-15 Thread Bob Read
Hi, I'm running LM9.1 and have both SO 6.0 OO.o. Spellcheck work fine on SO, but finds no errors on OO.o Any Clues? Much thanks, Bo -- -- Bob Read // Registered Linux user #287118 http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/b/e/bestill.htm Soli Deo Gloria-Solus Christus-Sola Gratia-Sola Fide-Sola

Re: [newbie] Linux saves MS's butt.

2003-08-15 Thread Michael Viron
snip Looks like they've decided to drop it or something: http://www.msnbc.com/news/952935.asp?vts=081520031730 Michael -- Michael Viron Core Systems Group Simple End User Linux You are absolutely correct. www.windowsupdate.com is not coming up. I do know, however, that it does indeed

[newbie] Punctuation Problem pasting to Mozilla

2003-08-15 Thread Bob Read
I've been noticing for some time that when I paste text into Mozzila, characters such as and ' e.g. change to mroups of characters instead. If I then cut from Mozilla and paste back to the original file, the change remains. Anyone have an answer for this? Much thanks, Bob -- -- Bob Read //

Re: [newbie] Wine question

2003-08-15 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 15 August 2003 11:59 pm, Harv Nelson wrote: snip RE Texas Insturments: They used to put out stuff that even ran on a Commodore 64 ... but that was a while back. I'm wondering if your Derive program is just an old script that might be run with dosemu? /snip No, I've tried that,

Re: [newbie] chkrootkit

2003-08-15 Thread Chris
On Friday 15 August 2003 08:55 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday August 14 2003 05:22 pm, Chris wrote: On Thursday 14 August 2003 01:11 am, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Running chkrootkit I get the following when searching for suspicious files and directories. Does this mean these are

Re: [newbie] Linux saves MS's butt.

2003-08-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday August 15 2003 05:02 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On 16 Aug 2003 07:49:28 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wonder if they're going to change their official stance on linux and OSS now that they've had to resort to linux to save their ass? No, once it has passed,

Re: [newbie] Linux saves MS's butt.

2003-08-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday August 15 2003 01:58 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: Yesand no. What I see is a cache server (akamai) running Linux. The MS site is an IIS server. It is a way for MS to use a third party to lighten the bandwidth load--having akamai serve up a cached copy of the Windows Update site.

Re: [newbie] Linux saves MS's butt.

2003-08-15 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Friday 15 August 2003 06:49 pm, Frankie wrote: snipped I don't know if I understand it.. I thought the urls for m$ updates were: http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ which goes though to: http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp The site v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com

Re: [newbie] Linux saves MS's butt.

2003-08-15 Thread Miark
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 19:59:30 -0500, Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well someone please tell me how you'd run Microsoft-IIS/6.0 on Linux ?? ... or is the server just spoofed? Neither. It's an IIS server _behind_ a Linux server. From netcraft: Webservers that operate behind a

Re: [newbie] mp3 to wav to ogg to mp3 different bitrate conversion tool

2003-08-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday August 15 2003 03:47 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Michael Adams wrote: On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 10:36:02 -0400 Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anarky wrote: is there like a audio conversion tool that can handle all different stuff like this (like saving as an mp3 with a

Re: [newbie] Can't retrieve mail from /var/spool/mail

2003-08-15 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 07:27:24PM -0400, Joe Hill wrote: Hey y'all! I was hit by the big blackout like so many of you I am sure, in the middle of composing a mail message. The power just came back on and when I booted up and logged in, gkrellm shows I have 300 messages in my spool, but

Re: [newbie] VMWare Workstation 3.2.0 Serial Number

2003-08-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday August 15 2003 04:38 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Look - sometimes serials numbers fall out of the sky especially when you're surfing around sites like http://www.astalavista.com - don't know where they come from, but you'd be surprised at the amount of random numbers that are generated

Re: [newbie] mp3 to wav to ogg to mp3 different bitrate conversion tool

2003-08-15 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 08:21:19PM -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday August 15 2003 03:47 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Michael Adams wrote: On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 10:36:02 -0400 Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anarky wrote: is there like a audio conversion tool that can

Re: [newbie] Linux saves MS's butt.

2003-08-15 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Friday 15 August 2003 08:59 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday August 15 2003 05:02 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On 16 Aug 2003 07:49:28 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wonder if they're going to change their official stance on linux and OSS now that they've had to

Re: [newbie] laptop from Hell

2003-08-15 Thread Erylon Hines
Good idea. If I can't get the rest of his stuff working next week (when I get the pos back), I'll give that a try. e. On Friday 15 August 2003 07:57 pm, ed tharp wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 18:28, Roland Cruse wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 09:28:59PM -0400, Erylon Hines wrote: I just

Re: [newbie] Linux saves MS's butt.

2003-08-15 Thread Erylon Hines
Looks like that's whats been done. Any errors trying to access will have a lot to do with DNS updates not showing up on our servers for 24 hours or so (just guessing, but I've seen it before). However, their solution is pretty half-assed, and I can see all kinds of holes in their thinking.

Re: [newbie] Linux saves MS's butt.

2003-08-15 Thread Sevatio
No, this is for real and unbelievable as it is. Look up www.microsoft.com or microsoft.com and you'll see linux. So yes this is happened. Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Frankie wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brant Fitzsimmons For

Re: [newbie] Linux saves MS's butt.

2003-08-15 Thread David E. Fox
For those who don't know--MS has changed around a lot of their Windows Update network to try and handle the expected onslaught of hits from :) Anyhow, I hope SCO gets their $1300 fee per machine from MS. ;) *Sweet Justice* Brant Fitzsimmons

Re: [newbie] Video Card incompatable?

2003-08-15 Thread Cody Harris
I'm a little confused here. Should i or shouldn't i use Xfree 4.3? I don't care about 3d support because i'm not playing any games. I'll try the lilo and stuff in a minute. - Original Message - From: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003

Re: [newbie] mp3 to wav to ogg to mp3 different bitrate conversion tool

2003-08-15 Thread David E. Fox
mencoder input.mpg [or .avi or .wmv] -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -vop scale=640:480 -oac copy -o output.avi Let's say you want to do the reverse - avi to mpeg, for a VCD. I've been able to get DVD ripping to go to avi more or less all right, but VCD's want mpeg and it's not clear to me

Re: [newbie] Linux saves MS's butt.

2003-08-15 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Erylon Hines wrote: Looks like that's whats been done. Any errors trying to access will have a lot to do with DNS updates not showing up on our servers for 24 hours or so (just guessing, but I've seen it before). However, their solution is pretty half-assed, and I can see all kinds of holes

Re: [newbie] Video Card incompatable?

2003-08-15 Thread Cody Harris
The VGA option was set to 786. On starting the computer with XFree 3.x with the edited lilo, it tired to start X about 3 times then says something about failing. On logging in as root and startxing, it says Fatal server error: No valid modes found. - Original Message - From: Charles A

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