Re: [newbie-it] Perdita Dati parte seconda

2003-10-23 Thread Andrea Celli
Alle 20:17, mercoledì 22 ottobre 2003, Nicola Degl'Innocenti ha scritto: for i in `cat lista`; do rpm -qf $i rpm-rovinati ; done .. Ho pensato allora di ricadere su rpm (tra l'altro mancano anche alcuni file del pacchetto rpm!!!) ma come faccio a sapere con pochi click dove si trova il

Re: [newbie-it] unallocated area sull'hard disk e installazione (problemi??) + winmodem

2003-10-23 Thread Andrea Celli
Alle 19:53, mercoledì 22 ottobre 2003, Pierluigi Peggiani ha scritto: Sull'hard disk (visualizzato con partition magic) ho una area definita UNaLLOCATED. Può essere un problema durante l'installazione di mandrake 9.2? Non dovrebbe dare problemi, anche se comunque non è bello buttare dello

Re: [newbie-it] Problema di boot dopo aver installato XFree86

2003-10-23 Thread bombadur
*** on Wednesday 22 October 2003 14:30, Nevermind wrote: [cut] e questa quella relativa alla scheda: Section Device Identifier device1 VendorName nVidia Corporation BoardName NVIDIA GeForce2 DDR (generic) Driver nv ^ Sostituisci con nvidia Visto l'argomento

Re: [newbie-it] Re: installazione e reinstallazione

2003-10-23 Thread bombadur
*** on Wednesday 22 October 2003 22:11, Mauro wrote: 1)prima avevo solo le partizioni / e /home (più la swap, naturalmente) La settimana scorsa per tentare di ovviare ai problemi che ho fin'ora avuto, mi sono procurato altri 2 hd, e ho partizionato così: hda2 / hda3 /usr hdb1 /var hdb5

Re: [newbie-it] unallocated area sull

2003-10-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alle 19:53, mercoledì 22 ottobre 2003, Pierluigi Peggiani ha scritto: Sull'hard disk (visualizzato con partition magic) ho una area definita UNaLLOCATED. Può essere un problema durante l'installazione di mandrake 9.2? Lo spazio non allocato non ti creerà nessun problema. Puoi inglobarlo

Re: [newbie-it] Re: installazione e reinstallazione

2003-10-23 Thread Fabio Manunza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 19:34, mercoledì 22 ottobre 2003, Mauro ha scritto: Ovviamente no... Prova a controllare eventuali crescite anormali di spazio occupato nelle partizioni (specie nelle dir /var e /tmp); controlla di avere attiva la partizione di swap.

Re: [newbie-it] Re: installazione e reinstallazione

2003-10-23 Thread Fabio Manunza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 19:58, mercoledì 22 ottobre 2003, mediatv ha scritto: Scusa, normalmente viene attivata da sola e non so se e come si può intervenire su di essa dopo l'installazione senza combinare qualche guaio. man swapon - -- -

Re: [newbie-it] unallocated area sull'hard disk e installazione (problemi??) + winmodem

2003-10-23 Thread Fabio Manunza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 17:53, mercoledì 22 ottobre 2003, Pierluigi Peggiani ha scritto: Sull'hard disk (visualizzato con partition magic) ho una area definita UNaLLOCATED. Può essere un problema durante l'installazione di mandrake 9.2? La suddetta versione riconosce

Re: [newbie-it] acroread is dead

2003-10-23 Thread bombadur
*** on Tuesday 21 October 2003 23:19, paolo brusasco wrote: ciao. acroread è morto (mandrake 9.1). Sentite condoglianze. -- * * Coltivate Linux, tanto Window$® si pianta da solo * * MajaGLUG member *

[newbie-it] gcc

2003-10-23 Thread Eraser Head
Ciao a tutti. Ho scoperto da pochissimo che il gcc quando compila ottimizza il compilato per la macchina in uso. Il codice cosi' compilato produce quindi dei sorgenti che non e' detto funzionino su altre macchine (ad esempio con processore diverso). Volevo quindi chiedervi se esiste un modo (e

Re: [newbie-it] Re: Problema di boot dopo aver installato XFree86

2003-10-23 Thread Giorgio Griffon
Alle 07:30, martedì 21 ottobre 2003, Nicola Losito ha scritto: Tanto tempo fa, in una galassia lontana lontana, Lord NEVERMIND di Númenthule scrisse: Ciao a tutti. Come spiego nell'oggetto, sto buttando il sangue... Dunque, ieri ho scaricato i benedetti driver nvidia per la mia geforce

Re: [newbie-it] unallocated area sull'hard disk e installazione (problemi??) + winmodem

2003-10-23 Thread Pierluigi Peggiani
Inanzitutto grazie a tutti!! Che cosa intedni per Come è stato tagliuzzato il figuro? Che cosa è il figuro??? Grazie! Pierluigi From: Fabio Manunza [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie-it] unallocated area sull'hard disk e installazione

[newbie-it] Re: installazione e reinstallazione

2003-10-23 Thread Mauro
1)prima avevo solo le partizioni / e /home (più la swap, naturalmente) La settimana scorsa per tentare di ovviare ai problemi che ho fin'ora avuto, mi sono procurato altri 2 hd, e ho partizionato così: hda2 / hda3 /usr hdb1 /var hdb5 /home hdc1 /boot had2 /tmp. Per ora funziona tutto

[newbie-it] domande forse stupide

2003-10-23 Thread NIC
Vorrei disinstallare konqueror,browser web perchè trovo più validi mozilla firebird e mozilla.Dunque se lo disinstallo posso creare dei problemi a konqueror browser file??? Scusate se può essere una c... ma prima di creare casini volevo essere sicuro. Grazie a tutti NIC -- ...siate sempre

[newbie-it] satellite sky1dvb PCI

2003-10-23 Thread Matteo Villani
Ciao a tutti, chi sa come si installano i driver della scheda satellitare sky1 dvb pci su linux kernel 2.4.20-8 e come si usa per vedere i canali televisivi. Sono disperato aiutatemi per favore!!!

Re: [newbie-it] satellite sky1dvb PCI

2003-10-23 Thread carmine de pasquale
- Original Message - From: Matteo Villani [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 11:00 PM Subject: [newbie-it] satellite sky1dvb PCI Ciao a tutti, chi sa come si installano i driver della scheda satellitare sky1 dvb pci su linux kernel 2.4.20-8 e

Re: [newbie-it] domande forse stupide

2003-10-23 Thread tom
On Thursday 23 October 2003 22:50, NIC wrote: Vorrei disinstallare konqueror,browser web perchè trovo più validi mozilla firebird e mozilla.Dunque se lo disinstallo posso creare dei problemi a konqueror browser file??? sono lo _stesso_ programma!! unica differenza è che uno ha l'albero a

Re: [newbie-it] domande forse stupide

2003-10-23 Thread carmine de pasquale
- Original Message - From: tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 11:30 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] domande forse stupide On Thursday 23 October 2003 22:50, NIC wrote: Vorrei disinstallare konqueror,browser web perchè trovo più validi mozilla

Re: [newbie-it] domande forse stupide

2003-10-23 Thread NIC
pero ora mi hai incuriosito!! mi scarico anche io il firebird :) Tom se prendi Linux pro di questo mese lo trovi nei cd. A me non dispiace affatto anzi devo solo capire come si fa a trasformarlo nella versione italiana se si riesce. NIC -- ...siate sempre capaci di sentire nel+profondo

Re: [newbie-it] domande forse stupide

2003-10-23 Thread NIC
anche su mozilla, se scrivi ad esempio file://home/user navighi nel filesistem. se vuoi puoi togliere konqueror E dopo che l'ho tolto da kmail i link ai siti internet riesco a farli aprire con Mozilla? NIC -- ...siate sempre capaci di sentire nel+profondo qualsiasi ingiustizia commessa

Re: [newbie-it] domande forse stupide

2003-10-23 Thread tom
On Thursday 23 October 2003 23:47, carmine de pasquale wrote: anche su mozilla, se scrivi ad esempio file://home/user navighi nel filesistem. se vuoi puoi togliere konqueror logicho che tutti i browser sono sia internet che menager (credo)... ma a quel punto disinstallandolo perdi tutta la

Re: [newbie-it] domande forse stupide

2003-10-23 Thread carmine de pasquale
E dopo che l'ho tolto da kmail i link ai siti internet riesco a farli aprire con Mozilla? e che c'entra ora kmail, non volevi eliminare Konqueror?

Re: [newbie-it] domande forse stupide

2003-10-23 Thread Eraser Head
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, carmine de pasquale wrote: anche su mozilla, se scrivi ad esempio file://home/user navighi nel filesistem. Su mozilla però non hai la comodità del frame laterale per navigare tra le directory... E poi, è vero che il MidnightCommander è un file browser eccezionale, ma

Re: [newbie-it] domande forse stupide

2003-10-23 Thread Eraser Head
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, NIC wrote: E dopo che l'ho tolto da kmail i link ai siti internet riesco a farli aprire con Mozilla? Per quello non hai bisogno di disinstallare konqueror. Dalla sezione FAQ dell'help di kmail cercando la parola browser: 6.8. How can I use a different browser than

Re: [newbie-it] domande forse stupide

2003-10-23 Thread NIC
Io temo che non sia possibile... Con la Mandrake 9.1 konqueror è incluso nell'rpm kdebase-3.1-83.3mdk, che contiene il cuore di KDE... Cancellare quell'rpm vuol dire togliere KDE... Appunto era proprio questo che volevo sapere esattamente. Grazie a tutti NIC -- ...siate sempre capaci di

[newbie-it] rpmverify -a

2003-10-23 Thread Eraser Head
Incuriosita dalla vista di questo comando in una mail qui in ML qualche giorno fa, ho provato a lanciarlo... Ma cosa fa veramente questo comando? Non sono ancora riuscita a capirlo... Da rpmverify --help: -a, --all query/verify all packages Ok. Ma allora perchè la prima

Re: [newbie] where to download MDK 9.2

2003-10-23 Thread S. Wieland
if your a club member you can download it on their website... but its not organized like 9.1 so i couldn't figure out how -boardrider Eko Budiharto wrote: hi list, I have been using MDK 9.1. I know there is MDK 9.2, where I can download it?

Re: [newbie] BitTorrent

2003-10-23 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 21:03:26 -0500, Glenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [newbie] BitTorrent: I've started mine back up. On Wed October 22 2003 20:50, Dennis Myers wrote: It appears that the number of folks remaining online as

[newbie] Re: screensavers

2003-10-23 Thread Simon Oosthoek
Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Where are the kscreensaver modules? I installed 9.2 from the download CDs and they're not visible in the control center. Phew! So I am not the only one then! There is a screensaver of sorts that works automatically - the mandrake slideshow thing (not to my taste

Re: [newbie] mozilla mail: cannot use profile default it is in use

2003-10-23 Thread Heather/Femme
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 09:53:15 -0600 Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What gives? I remember this one happening occasionally in 9.1. Can't remember what I did to get around it. I was sort of excited about the junk mail filter in mozilla but now... Any ideas why this is happening when I do not have

Re: [newbie] wrong hd geometry in 9.1

2003-10-23 Thread Raffaele Belardi
I'll answer myself... You can pass drive geometry to the kernel with hda=C,H,S (i.e at installation screen you hit F1, then type $ linux hda=C,H,S). Unfortunately this doesn't solve any problem I had with the MDK9.1 installation, the problem must be elsewhere. Now I'm looking into DMA-related

[newbie] Open GL graphics cards.

2003-10-23 Thread Aidan Holmes
Hi Guys, Quick question for you. What is a good (and hopefully inexpensive) AGP 4X card that supports open GL. I currently have a Riva TNT2 (32Mb). This card is fine with the simpler games and office aps, but has a frame rate of about 1 every 2 seconds when I load something like Tux racer.

Re: [newbie] OT optical mice

2003-10-23 Thread John Richard Smith
Paul M. Bucalo wrote: I'm using a low-price Logitech and Labtec for optical mice on both Windows and Linux systems in my office network. While I don't have any problems with a delay in Windows, I do have this problem in both Red Hat and Mandrake with both mice. The problem is the default

Re: [newbie] diskdrake

2003-10-23 Thread John Richard Smith
Tom Brinkman wrote: Ok, if I understand what you want booting the first CD an choosing install should do it. You're runnin from the CD, Yes I know, but it's an awful pain method . You have to bump along all that preamble to get to diskdrake and crash out to exit. Not really user

[newbie] Ballmer: Win more secure that Lin

2003-10-23 Thread HaywireMac
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5094279.html Ballmer also disputed the notion that open-source code is more secure than Windows. The data doesn't jibe with that. In the first 150 days after the release of Windows 2000, there were 17 critical vulnerabilities. For Windows Server 2003 there were

Re: [newbie] Open GL graphics cards.

2003-10-23 Thread HaywireMac
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 16:09:31 +0800 Aidan Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Hi Guys, Quick question for you. What is a good (and hopefully inexpensive) AGP 4X card that supports open GL. I currently have a Riva TNT2 (32Mb). This card is fine with the simpler games and office aps, but has a

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-23 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 18:09:45 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: that were mostly all blacklisted by kernel.org. I have yet to find such a blacklist. Got a link? -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-23 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 20:05:37 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Please note that the problem only seems to be with the CDROM drives, not CD-RW drives. The one I use now as master is a LG CD-RW 52x24x52x drive and it has no problems. HTH That's good to hear, the club forums didn't

RE: [newbie] diskdrake

2003-10-23 Thread Tony S. Sykes
John, Can't you use one of the small distro's/linux toolboxes which run in memory to do this? Tony. -Original Message- From: John Richard Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 12:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] diskdrake Tom Brinkman wrote:

Re: [newbie] where to download MDK 9.2

2003-10-23 Thread HaywireMac
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 12:53:19 +0100 Ken Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I'd wait for the release to be made available to the public. The number of problems the club members are having, as can be seen in most of the mail and newsgroups. it should all be sorted out before the general public

Re: [newbie] best way to upgrade (apt or urpmi)

2003-10-23 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 08:46:01 -0400 T wrote: |I have recently found that I need to desperately upgrade my Mandrake |9.0 installation. I noticed a few discussions on this list that deal |with apt and urpmi as upgrade tools. Which is the best option and where |can I get information on installing and

[newbie] 9.1 Hard Drake

2003-10-23 Thread Duron . Davis
I installed 9.1 and when I navigate through the menu to harddrake, I click on the harddrake icon and instead of getting harddrake, I get some kind of calendar program. I went through the add\remove packages process and removed harddrake, and then put it back in with the same results. Maybe if

Re: [newbie] where to download MDK 9.2

2003-10-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 23 October 2003 06:53 am, Ken Walker wrote: I'd wait for the release to be made available to the public. The number of problems the club members are having, as can be seen in most of the mail and newsgroups. it should all be sorted out before the general public have access to the

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 07:41 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: You'll need to do the same, or add mem=860Mto your lilo append line for the kernel you're usin. Then I'm using only 860M of ram and not all 1024, right? Yes, but the performance will be better than using all

Re: [newbie] where to download MDK 9.2

2003-10-23 Thread HaywireMac
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 08:31:46 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I did a fresh install of 9.2 a few days ago. Utterly boring, absolutely no problems or issues. Good to hear, Tom. I hope you didn't take me the wrong way with the CD issue thang, but I don't usually like my

Re: [newbie] OT optical mice

2003-10-23 Thread Paul M. Bucalo
On Thursday 23 October 2003 07:17 am, John Richard Smith graced me with: Paul, I have an optical mouse, My XF86Config(-4) doesn't have Option Resolution 200 in it at all, Does this mean that where the system doesn't find a resolution set here it adopts a default setting instead ?

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-23 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 23 October 2003 05:34 am, HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 20:05:37 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Please note that the problem only seems to be with the CDROM drives, not CD-RW drives. The one I use now as master is a LG CD-RW 52x24x52x drive and it has no

[newbie] Cannot install MDK 9.2 from a home made DVD

2003-10-23 Thread srasarat
Hi did anyone try to make a DVD instalation disk out of 9.2 (raw tree). I downloaded the whole ~2.8GB that's in the tree using the mirror command in lftp. Since thats alot of data I thought I should put them in a DVD, so i did mkisofs -udf -b images/cdrom.img -o MandrakeDVD.iso /download/i586 and

Re: [newbie] diskdrake

2003-10-23 Thread John Richard Smith
Tony S. Sykes wrote: John, Can't you use one of the small distro's/linux toolboxes which run in memory to do this? Tony. Have you anything in particular in mind. I'm familiar with Gentoo, but I'm not able to find everything I want on it. requirements , partimage, diskdrake, a good modern

[newbie] RPM'S(shoot me)

2003-10-23 Thread Drew Martin
Hello All, Are RPM's back compatible?The reason I ask is cause at some point soon I will upgrading from 9.1 to 9.2.I wish to add Texstar's 9.1 RPM's to my software sources,but will this really make a mess of my install? I do realise that there is no way I could use

Re: [newbie] OT optical mice

2003-10-23 Thread John Richard Smith
Paul M. Bucalo wrote: On Thursday 23 October 2003 07:17 am, John Richard Smith graced me with: Paul, I have an optical mouse, My XF86Config(-4) doesn't have Option Resolution 200 in it at all, Does this mean that where the system doesn't find a resolution set here it adopts a default

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-23 Thread HaywireMac
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 08:43:33 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Right, 9.2 on two comps both with LG CDRWs as the main CDROM now. HTH Excellent, load off my mind, thanks. You should post that to the club forums, just so they have the info that CDRW's seem to be okay.

[newbie] Lost parts of MCC

2003-10-23 Thread Maurice O'Connor
I don't know how it happened but I opened Mandrake Control Center and to my surprise the Software Management was missing. What files or package should be installed in order to get the missing prompt back. TIA -- Bill O'Connor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Lost parts of MCC

2003-10-23 Thread HaywireMac
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 10:32:25 -0400 Maurice O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I don't know how it happened but I opened Mandrake Control Center and to my surprise the Software Management was missing. What files or package should be installed in order to get the missing prompt back. sounds

[newbie] OT Help with samba

2003-10-23 Thread Dan Gordon
Could someone piont me to a link or such on how to set up a two computer network with samba on Mandrake 9.1 and windows 98se ? The win computer was already set up for networking in a windows enviroment (maybe thats the problem?) I have checked the twiki and a few other places and am having a heck

Re: [newbie] Lost parts of MCC

2003-10-23 Thread Maurice O'Connor
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 10:40, HaywireMac wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 10:32:25 -0400 Maurice O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I don't know how it happened but I opened Mandrake Control Center and to my surprise the Software Management was missing. What files or package should be

Re: [newbie] RPM'S(shoot me)

2003-10-23 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 23 October 2003 10:16 am, Drew Martin wrote: Hello All, Are RPM's back compatible?The reason I ask is cause at some point soon I will upgrading from 9.1 to 9.2.I wish to add Texstar's 9.1 RPM's to my software sources,but will this really make a mess of my install? I

Re: [newbie] OT Help with samba

2003-10-23 Thread HaywireMac
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 10:52:18 -0400 Dan Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Could someone piont me to a link or such on how to set up a two computer network with samba on Mandrake 9.1 and windows 98se ? The win computer was already set up for networking in a windows enviroment (maybe thats the

Re: [newbie] OT Help with samba

2003-10-23 Thread Paul
On 10/23/2003 04:52 PM, Dan Gordon wrote: Could someone piont me to a link or such on how to set up a two computer network with samba on Mandrake 9.1 and windows 98se ? The win computer was already set up for networking in a windows enviroment (maybe thats the problem?) I have checked the twiki

RE: [newbie] diskdrake

2003-10-23 Thread Tony S. Sykes
John, Here are a couple which should do the job. There are plenty more on sourceforge if these don't quite fit with what you want. Tony. -Original Message- From: John Richard Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 4:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

RE: [newbie] OT Help with samba

2003-10-23 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Dan, One of the easiest ways in mandrake is to install the drakewizards and use them from the MCC. Tony. -Original Message- From: Dan Gordon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 3:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] OT Help with samba Could someone

Re: [newbie] where to download MDK 9.2

2003-10-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 23 October 2003 08:47 am, HaywireMac wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 08:31:46 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I did a fresh install of 9.2 a few days ago. Utterly boring, absolutely no problems or issues. Good to hear, Tom. I hope you didn't take me the wrong way

Re: [newbie] where to download MDK 9.2

2003-10-23 Thread HaywireMac
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 10:48:36 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: BTW, I'm still not finding that blacklist on kernel.org... ;-) http://www.google.com/search?q=linux%20hardware%20blacklistie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8 Should get ya started. ah, I thought you meant there was some

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-23 Thread Martin L. Johansen
On Thursday 23 October 2003 15:45, Tom Brinkman wrote: Then I'm using only 860M of ram and not all 1024, right? Yes, but the performance will be better than using all 1024MB's. The memory management needed to address 1GB or more of ram imposes a performance hit. Does that mean I'm

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 23 October 2003 11:40 am, Martin L. Johansen wrote: On Thursday 23 October 2003 15:45, Tom Brinkman wrote: Then I'm using only 860M of ram and not all 1024, right? Yes, but the performance will be better than using all 1024MB's. The memory management needed to address 1GB

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-23 Thread Martin L. Johansen
On Thursday 23 October 2003 19:42, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday 23 October 2003 11:40 am, Martin L. Johansen wrote: On Thursday 23 October 2003 15:45, Tom Brinkman wrote: Then I'm using only 860M of ram and not all 1024, right? Yes, but the performance will be better than using

Re: [newbie] mozilla mail: cannot use profile default it is in use

2003-10-23 Thread Joe
Thanks for the suggestion, I went to file:/home/~/.mozilla/default/bbp9fff8.slt/ where I found a file called lock. I assume this is the lockfile? I think I will try backing it up somewhere (just in case) and deleting it. Thanks again. Joe. On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 23:37, Heather/Femme wrote: On

[newbie] Upgrade vs. new install

2003-10-23 Thread Kevin B. O'Brien
I am using 9.1 right now, and I have ordered 9.2 as a boxed set from Mandrake. When it comes in, should I plan on upgrading my current installation, or doing a clean install? My main concern is keeping the software and settings I have already put in my system, but I know in Windows I always

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-23 Thread Kevin B. O'Brien
At 07:23 PM 10/22/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): LeRoy Duvall Linux user #258988 OK, this is perhaps a little off-topic, but I am still a newbie.g What does this Linux user # thing mean? -- Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Newbie Etiquette

2003-10-23 Thread Kevin B. O'Brien
At 08:13 AM 10/23/2003, Bryan Phinney said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): when someone has asked a question and someone else has provided a possible answer, should we expect a post telling us whether that solved the problem or should we just assume that if we

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-23 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 23, 2003 12:47 pm, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: At 07:23 PM 10/22/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): LeRoy Duvall Linux user #258988 OK, this is perhaps a little off-topic, but I am

[newbie] /dev/sequencer not found.

2003-10-23 Thread Scott Naylor
I have recently been trying to use KMid, but I have run into a problem. KMid uses a device called sequencer. I've looked in my /dev folder where it said it was, but it isn't there. The commands locate and which also can't find it. I have a Sound Blaster compatable sound card and I was wondering

Re: [newbie] Ballmer: Win more secure that Lin

2003-10-23 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 06:28, HaywireMac wrote: http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5094279.html Ballmer also disputed the notion that open-source code is more secure than Windows. The data doesn't jibe with that. In the first 150 days after the release of Windows 2000, there were 17 critical

Re: [newbie] OT optical mice

2003-10-23 Thread Sharrea Day
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:57, Paul M. Bucalo wrote: I'm using a low-price Logitech and Labtec for optical mice on both Windows and Linux systems in my office network. While I don't have any problems with a delay in Windows, I do have this problem in both Red Hat and Mandrake with both mice. The

Re: [newbie] Newbie Etiquette

2003-10-23 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 23 October 2003 12:13 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: As a possible suggestion to Newbie Etiquette, when someone has asked a question and someone else has provided a possible answer, should we expect a post telling us whether that solved the problem or should we just assume that if we

Re: [newbie] Newbie Etiquette

2003-10-23 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 17:19, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 23 October 2003 12:13 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: As a possible suggestion to Newbie Etiquette, when someone has asked a question and someone else has provided a possible answer, should we expect a post telling us whether that solved

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-23 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 23 October 2003 06:47 pm, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: OK, this is perhaps a little off-topic, but I am still a newbie.g What does this Linux user # thing mean? This # thing on a command line is your root-prompt. From here you can type in commands, somehow like this C:\ thing in

Re: [newbie] Upgrade vs. new install

2003-10-23 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 14:53, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: I am using 9.1 right now, and I have ordered 9.2 as a boxed set from Mandrake. When it comes in, should I plan on upgrading my current installation, or doing a clean install? My main concern is keeping the software and settings I have

Re: [newbie] Ballmer: Win more secure that Lin

2003-10-23 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 23 October 2003 07:16 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: snip 2) More security issues are reported with Linux at times both because of the honesty of the working team and because the working team is worldwide, with more eyeballs. Less bugs are reported on M$ by M$ because they are liars.

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-23 Thread Kevin B. O'Brien
At 03:08 PM 10/23/2003, Charlie M. said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 23, 2003 12:47 pm, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: At 07:23 PM 10/22/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 23 October 2003 01:42 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: Does that mean I'm actually better off using less than 1Gig of RAM ? Yes. 99% of users don't even need 512MB I've got 512 of DDR here and AFAIK, I've -never- hit swap...so I'd have to agree...unless you're doing something

Re: [newbie] Ballmer: Win more secure that Lin

2003-10-23 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 17:41, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 23 October 2003 07:16 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: snip 2) More security issues are reported with Linux at times both because of the honesty of the working team and because the working team is worldwide, with more eyeballs. Less

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-23 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 23 October 2003 01:47 pm, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: At 07:23 PM 10/22/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): LeRoy Duvall Linux user #258988 OK, this is perhaps a little off-topic, but I am still a newbie.g What does this

Re: [newbie] /dev/sequencer not found.

2003-10-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 23 October 2003 04:08 pm, Scott Naylor wrote: snip but I get this bash: /cat/proc/pci: No such file or directory from the other command. How can I fix the problem with /dev/sequencer? Nosing around here, with onboard sound gives this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] darklord]$ ls -al

Re: [newbie] Upgrade vs. new install

2003-10-23 Thread Kevin B. O'Brien
At 03:31 PM 10/23/2003, Lyvim Xaphir said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 14:53, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: I am using 9.1 right now, and I have ordered 9.2 as a boxed set from Mandrake. When it comes in, should I plan on upgrading my current

Re: [newbie] Ballmer: Win more secure that Lin

2003-10-23 Thread Paul M. Bucalo
On Thursday 23 October 2003 04:26 pm, Anne Wilson graced me with: On Thursday 23 Oct 2003 11:28 am, HaywireMac wrote: http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5094279.html Ballmer also disputed the notion that open-source code is more secure than Windows. The data doesn't jibe with that. In the

Re: [newbie] Danish government woken up !

2003-10-23 Thread Martin L. Johansen
On Friday 24 October 2003 00:00, Kaj Haulrich wrote: http://www.tekno.dk/subpage.php3?article=969survey=14language=ukfront=1 That was about time!! :-) -- Martin L. Johansen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-23 Thread Martin L. Johansen
On Thursday 23 October 2003 21:54, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 23 October 2003 01:42 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: Does that mean I'm actually better off using less than 1Gig of RAM ? Yes. 99% of users don't even need 512MB I've got 512 of DDR here and AFAIK, I've -never- hit

Re: [newbie] total newbie questions

2003-10-23 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 21:14:40 +0100, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [newbie] total newbie questions: Isn't it necessary to do some sort of login for the club downloads? Only if you delete the cookies. It recognizes the club member by

Re: [newbie] Can't login as root in CLI

2003-10-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 23 October 2003 04:32 pm, Adolfo A. Bello B. wrote: I just installed 9.1 with security set to Higher. When booting to runlevel 3 I can not login as root, always receiving a login incorrect message. However, I can login as a regular/normal user and then su to root without problem.

Re: [newbie] total newbie questions

2003-10-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 23 Oct 2003 10:08 pm, Dick Gevers wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 21:14:40 +0100, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [newbie] total newbie questions: Isn't it necessary to do some sort of login for the club downloads? Only if you delete the cookies. It recognizes the

Re: [newbie] total newbie questions

2003-10-23 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Anne, On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 22:35:21 +0100, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [newbie] total newbie questions: Hmm - I wonder then why I couldn't add the club source, then? I suppose because it doesn`t directly give access to the

Re: [newbie] Can't login as root in CLI

2003-10-23 Thread Adolfo A. Bello B.
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:30:44PM -0400, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 23 October 2003 04:32 pm, Adolfo A. Bello B. wrote: I just installed 9.1 with security set to Higher. When booting to runlevel 3 I can not login as root, always receiving a login incorrect message. However, I can

Re: [newbie] Ballmer: Win more secure that Lin

2003-10-23 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 23 October 2003 04:33 pm, Paul M. Bucalo wrote: Balmer may be conveniently throwing in *all* of Red Hat's critical vulnerabilities in its *distribution release*, which amounts to many, many applications, not just the O/S. If he compares O/S to O/S, instead of O/S to total

Re: [newbie] /dev/sequencer not found.

2003-10-23 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 23 Oct 2003 9:08 pm, Scott Naylor wrote: I have recently been trying to use KMid, but I have run into a problem. KMid uses a device called sequencer. I've looked in my /dev folder where it said it was, but it isn't there. The commands locate and which also can't find it. I have a

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-23 Thread Terence J. Golightly
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 09:45, Tom Brinkman wrote: Then I'm using only 860M of ram and not all 1024, right? Yes, but the performance will be better than using all 1024MB's. The memory management needed to address 1GB or more of ram imposes a performance hit. Tom, I added mem=860 to

[newbie] mandrake 9.2 and Radeon 9200 need a simple newbie howto

2003-10-23 Thread Arthur Rosene
I have mandrake 9.2 installed and was disappointed to see my Radeon 9200 not natively supported. despite that facti would like to get X up and running with the Radeon drivers from ATI's site. I am not a mdk veteran and despite having a basic knowledge of linux i am by no means totally

Re: [newbie] total newbie questions

2003-10-23 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 23 Oct 2003 9:14 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: SNIP Open a terminal window enter su enter followed by your root password. (This makes you root user) Now type urpmi.addmedia Club http://user_name:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/downloads2/comm/9.2 with ./hdlist.cz (that command is all

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-23 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 08:11 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 07:42 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: I had never even heard of LG Electronics before this came up. I haven't been following this all that closely, but it seems that Compaq (for one) _has_ heard of LG, and

Re: [newbie] total newbie questions

2003-10-23 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 21:47:05 +, Dick Gevers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [newbie] total newbie questions: On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 22:35:21 +0100, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [newbie] total newbie questions: Hmm - I wonder then

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