[newbie-it] disegnare

2003-11-14 Thread Enrico Piccinini
Ciao a tutti, Grazie per i preziosi consigli sul networking e smb. Ora che la rete sembra funzionare, devo tentare di far lavorare una stampante HP DesingJet 100 che, neanche a farlo a posta, è una (se non l'unica) stampante dell'HP non annoverata nella lista di linuxprinting. C'è qualcuno che

Re: [newbie-it] icewm e icone

2003-11-14 Thread lori cava
--- alfredo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Non penso che rientri nella filosofia del progetto, ma puoi sempre aprirti konqueror, alla directory Desktop trovi le icone e i collegamenti che ti sei fatta su kde. Icewm è bello così,leggero e impalpabile, se ti piace scaricati IceWMCP, un

Re: [newbie-it] disegnare

2003-11-14 Thread Andrea Celli
Alle 09:28, venerdì 14 novembre 2003, Enrico Piccinini ha scritto: Ciao a tutti, ... Avrei anche bisogno di sapere se esiste un qualche programmino per fare disegni (anche semplici), tipo autocad e che produca in uscita dei file dwg o dxf. Non conosco quei formati. Per strumenti

[newbie-it] lista software su PowerPack

2003-11-14 Thread Sandro
Ciao a tutti, ho ordinato il powerpack dela mdk 9.2 però sul sito della mdk non sono riuscito a trovare un elenco completo del software contenuto nei 7 cd. Qualcuno è a conoscenza della cosa, ovvero, conosce un link da dove è possibile visualizzare il contenuto completo dei cd? Ciao e grazie a

Re: [newbie-it] icewm e icone

2003-11-14 Thread tom
On Friday 14 November 2003 08:41, lori cava wrote:  Scusa la superignoranza, ma la directory Desktop dove Kakkio si trova? se quotate in maniera umana magari ci si capisce qualcosa :) /home/tuo-utente/Desktop -- Ciao , Tom . ~ . / v \ / / \ \ / ( ) \ ^^

Re: [newbie-it] icewm e icone

2003-11-14 Thread Sandro
Alle 08:41, venerdì 14 novembre 2003, lori cava ha scritto: Scusa la superignoranza, ma la directory Desktop dove Kakkio si trova? Dentro la tua home directory. :-)) ciao Sandro -- Dr. Sandro Porrazzini - [EMAIL PROTECTED] GNU/Linux 2.40.21 on Pentium III 866 Mhz Linux User #203143 Linux

[newbie-it] Modem ADSL wisecom

2003-11-14 Thread d_sitia
Ciao pazientissimi amici di ML! poco alla volta, mese dopo mese, sto collegando il mio pc ad Internet... Dunque, ho un Wisecom ADSL usb modem. HO preso i driver eci adsl, ho trovato il synch giusto, ho trovato il giusto pppd... però arriva alla fine del quinto passaggio (l'ultimo!) e da console mi

[newbie-it] pacchetti src

2003-11-14 Thread Luigi De Pascale
Salve qualcuno conosce la procedura step-by-step per installare i pacchetti *.src.rpm ? Grazie Luigi

Re: [newbie-it] pacchetti src

2003-11-14 Thread carmine de pasquale
prenditi le tue responsabilità, Luigi De Pascale, non puoi negarlo, tu alle 13:28, venerdì 14 novembre 2003, hai digitato sulla tastiera del tuo computer credendo che forse non me ne sarei accorto: Salve qualcuno conosce la procedura step-by-step per installare i pacchetti *.src.rpm ?

Re: [newbie-it] pacchetti src

2003-11-14 Thread francesco.melo
Alle Friday 14 November 2003 13:37, carmine de pasquale ha scritto: prenditi le tue responsabilità, Luigi De Pascale, non puoi negarlo, tu alle 13:28, venerdì 14 novembre 2003, hai digitato sulla tastiera del tuo computer credendo che forse non me ne sarei accorto: Salve qualcuno conosce

Re: [newbie-it] icewm e icone

2003-11-14 Thread alfredo
E' vero, Iori quota giusto perfavore se non finisce come su php, che ogni tre messaggi c'è un flame su come si quota, con relativi botta e risposta. Ti hanno già detto dove è la dir desktop, ma ricora che, quando tutto manca, nel menù K, ripreso quasi per intero da Ice, c'è il Find, tale e

Re: [newbie-it] pacchetti src

2003-11-14 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 13:37, venerdì 14 novembre 2003, in merito a Re: [newbie-it] pacchetti src , carmine de pasquale ha scritto a [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Salve qualcuno conosce la procedura step-by-step per installare i pacchetti *.src.rpm ? Grazie il

Re: [newbie-it] Connessione ad internet

2003-11-14 Thread Pollo
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 22:19:44 +0100 mediatv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scusa, ma dopo cosa succede? Si ritorna alla normalità o sei costretto a riavviare? Il tuo problema potrebbe essere anche dovuto alla tua linea telefonica. A me è successa al stessa cosa qualche mese fa, ma era un problema

Re: [newbie-it] pacchetti src

2003-11-14 Thread Andrea Celli
Alle 13:28, venerdì 14 novembre 2003, Luigi De Pascale ha scritto: Salve qualcuno conosce la procedura step-by-step per installare i pacchetti *.src.rpm ? Grazie Siamo andati un po' sullo scherzoso :-) Diciamo che un buon man rpm spiega tutto. Più in breve: rpm --rebuild file.src.rpm

Re: [newbie-it] icewm e icone

2003-11-14 Thread tom
On Friday 14 November 2003 15:18, alfredo wrote: PS: Ovviamente il messaggio è postato con un etto di cenere sul capo, essendo stato il promotore di un ignobile flame qualche mese fa su php. Il mio non voleva essere assolutamente un principio di flame. il fatto è che non capivo veramente

Re: [newbie-it] disegnare

2003-11-14 Thread Arwan
E' inutile che tu faccia finta di nulla e ti guardi intorno, caro Enrico Piccinini, perche' ho le prove, il venerdì 14 novembre 2003, alle 09:28 hai scritto: Avrei anche bisogno di sapere se esiste un qualche programmino per fare disegni (anche semplici), tipo autocad e che produca in uscita

[newbie-it] incompatibilità e conflitti MDK 9.1

2003-11-14 Thread Ikki The Porcupine
IBM NetVista celeron 1.3 G chipset 815e hda:maxtor 2F040J0 - 40 G (originale del netvista) hdc:samsung SW 252 S (masterizzatore atapi 52.32.52) hdd:ibm deskstar DPTA-372050 - 20 G L'installazione della mdk 9.1 si blocca quando inizia la selezione dei pacchetti. Il problema persiste

[newbie-it] usb hotcrash

2003-11-14 Thread Ikki The Porcupine
Modulo adattatore ata-usb 2.0/1.1 con alimentazione propria. hd IBM deskstar DPTA-372050 - 20 G installato all'interno del modulo di cui sopra. Tutto funzia correttamente... Per comodità stacco solo l'alimentazione del box usb... Non l'avessi mai fatto. Per fortuna ke ho tutte partizioni ext3!!!

Re: [newbie-it] disegnare

2003-11-14 Thread Ikki The Porcupine
Alle 09:28, venerdì 14 novembre 2003, Enrico Piccinini ha scritto: Ciao a tutti, Grazie per i preziosi consigli sul networking e smb. Ora che la rete sembra funzionare, devo tentare di far lavorare una stampante HP DesingJet 100 che, neanche a farlo a posta, è una (se non l'unica)

Re: [newbie-it] disegnare

2003-11-14 Thread Ikki The Porcupine
Alle 09:28, venerdì 14 novembre 2003, Enrico Piccinini ha scritto: Ciao a tutti, [...] Avrei anche bisogno di sapere se esiste un qualche programmino per fare disegni (anche semplici), tipo autocad e che produca in uscita dei file dwg o dxf. Grazie ancora a tutti Enrico vedi anche

Re: [newbie-it] disegnare

2003-11-14 Thread bombadur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 *** on Friday 14 November 2003 09:28, Enrico Piccinini wrote: [cut] Avrei anche bisogno di sapere se esiste un qualche programmino per fare disegni (anche semplici), tipo autocad e che produca in uscita dei file dwg o dxf. Il dwg, a meno di

Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 PowerPack confusion/worries

2003-11-14 Thread John Richard Smith
Melissa Reese wrote: I've certainly encountered the type described above, but he's not one of them (as evidenced by his reluctance to simply re-install when he's helped me over the past four years with my troublesome Win98SE and WinME computers...often finding more focused solutions). I feel

Re: [newbie] Great Interview with RMS

2003-11-14 Thread Margot
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 13 November 2003 07:55 pm, robin wrote: Does he still start lists with zero? Sir Robin and wears old computer parts... :-) I've never heard of this, but I'm all in favour of recycling. I've got a couple of old 386's lurking under the bed, and a selection of

Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 PowerPack confusion/worries

2003-11-14 Thread HaywireMac
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 18:34:24 -0800 John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I'm still trying to figure out why someone from Ontario would name himself after a labour activist who did his thing in the Kootenay's of BC, Eastern Washington and Montana. :-) cuz the class struggle crosses all

Re: [newbie] mail client for windows

2003-11-14 Thread Margot
Eric Huff wrote: Hi Folks, I know this has been asked before, but i can't seem to find it in the archives (too many other hits): What(free) mail client should i have my dad use in windows that would be the easiest for him to switch to from outlook express? thanks, eric Try Mozilla - then, when you

Re: [newbie] mail client for windows

2003-11-14 Thread Jason Greenwood
Why not use Mozilla for Windows? Makes later migration to Linux all the easier. Cheers Jason Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Eudora? Pegasus (Although I can't remember if you get it for free) The Bat is good also but I am sure you have to pay for it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Reading Mac OSX formats

2003-11-14 Thread Jason Greenwood
What format are you referring to. Mac format is usually just .jpg with the file extension obfuscated. I would try opening the files in the Gimp where you'll find out much more about the file itself. Cheers Jason Aron Smith wrote: I have some scanned images done on a Mac and saved to

[newbie] KDE3.1.0 and my printer in M9.1

2003-11-14 Thread John Richard Smith
Mandrake 9.1 I cannot get anything in KDE to print off. ]#kword Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. koffice (filter manager): KoFilterEntry::query( ) koffice (filter manager): Checking whether KOffice XSLT Export Filter is available.

[newbie] Inner Peace

2003-11-14 Thread HaywireMac
I have a feeling this is kind of old, but I thought for a Friday it would be a nice morning guffaw. I am passing this on to you people because it has definitely worked for me. By following the simple advice I read in an article, I have finally found Inner peace The article read: The

Re: [newbie] SSL disabled in Mozilla 1.4

2003-11-14 Thread charo
Raffaele Belardi wrote: Could it be that you are running behind a firewall that blocks SSL? I've never had problems with secure browsing with Mozilla 1.x. What's the URL of the site you can't access? https://www.proyid.mcyt.es/proyectosid raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I can't

Re: [newbie] Inner Peace

2003-11-14 Thread Lanman
Now That's Canadian! LOL! (eh?) Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 11/14/2003 at 6:50 AM HaywireMac wrote: I have a feeling this is kind of old, but I thought for a Friday it would be a nice morning guffaw. I am passing this on to you people because it has definitely worked

[newbie] odd behavior of man

2003-11-14 Thread Rutledge, Lincoln
Howdie, I have been using OpenBSD for a long time, and like it on servers. However I needed to test using Linux and am trying to work with Mandrake 9.1. It's very impressive, easy to be productive doing office work and the usual tasks. I also really like the smart security levels, and how

RE: [newbie] POSTFIX in wrong time zone

2003-11-14 Thread Kerwick Jamie
Thanks for this, it has worked a treat! Thanks, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 -Original Message- From: Nigel Wilkinson [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [newbie] odd behavior of man

2003-11-14 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 13 Nov 2003 9:55 pm, Rutledge, Lincoln wrote: Howdie, SNIP On a side note, of course I am used to using route and ifconfig to set up interfaces. I have worked briefly from Red Hat and quite a while Mandrake on a laptop, so I remember some things about /etc/sysconfig. I

Re: [newbie] Mplayer Plugin

2003-11-14 Thread Piero Piutti
Alle 19:05, giovedì 13 novembre 2003, Anne Wilson ha scritto: I don't use 9.2, so I have to tell you what works in 9.1 and let you try for it. [...] It seems that I have solved. My problems (mplayerplug-in 0.8 not playing Quicktime movies) were caused by the generic rpm I downloaded from

Re: [newbie] mirror speed checker

2003-11-14 Thread Tango Echo
--- Phil Newcombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- clipped everything - I was in 9.2 when I copied the script to a win dir. It looks as if the copying or cutting and pasting juggled the lines up a bit - could be because the tr part was on the wrong line

Re: [newbie] convert all my mp3s to oggs

2003-11-14 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 12:16:38PM +0200, Anarky wrote: too bad you didn't sign this script ... I assume I may share it ... so I added a # made by Todd Slater line to it :) hope it's not a problem. No problem :) Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] SSL disabled in Mozilla 1.4

2003-11-14 Thread Raffaele Belardi
I get a page not found at that address. I am able to connect to https://www.proyid.mcyt.es/ but that doesn't bring you anywhere (nothing clickable in sight). The lock icon shows that the secure connection is ok (except that I get a warning about the certificate being issued by an unknown

Re: [newbie] Mplayer Plugin

2003-11-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 14 Nov 2003 1:26 pm, Piero Piutti wrote: Alle 19:05, giovedì 13 novembre 2003, Anne Wilson ha scritto: I don't use 9.2, so I have to tell you what works in 9.1 and let you try for it. [...] It seems that I have solved. My problems (mplayerplug-in 0.8 not playing Quicktime

Re: [newbie] home network Mandrake howto

2003-11-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 14 November 2003 12:48 am, Anguo wrote: On Friday 14 Nov 2003 12:57 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 13 November 2003 11:33 pm, Anguo wrote: Hello, I have not been able to find a simple step by step howto for home networking. So far, I have absolutely no experience in

Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 PowerPack confusion/worries

2003-11-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 13 Nov 2003 10:24 pm, Margot wrote: My first linux was Mandrake 9.0 which I started on just under a year ago. I missed out 9.1 because I hadn't finished fixing the things I messed up in 9.0, and I've just installed 9.2 - mostly successful so far! I've learned that the best way to

Re: [newbie] SSL disabled in Mozilla 1.4

2003-11-14 Thread charo
Raffaele Belardi wrote: I get a page not found at that address. I am able to connect to https://www.proyid.mcyt.es/ but that doesn't bring you anywhere (nothing clickable in sight). The lock icon shows that the secure connection is ok (except that I get a warning about the certificate being

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-14 Thread Tango Echo
--- Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can set up a page for you, containing the single word 'placeholder', on which you can build, if that would help. For any potential contributors who don't want to learn the few simple formatting commands, they can use html tags instead. Just

Re: [newbie] Mplayer Plugin

2003-11-14 Thread Piero Piutti
Alle 15:28, venerdì 14 novembre 2003, Anne Wilson ha scritto: Glad you got it sorted. Don't suppose I could persuade you to write it up for the TWiki site? Sure Anne, but keep in mind that the problem is only partially sorted since now I can watch QuickTime trailers off the Apple website,

Re: [newbie] odd behavior of man

2003-11-14 Thread Clment Mnier
Hi, Le Vendredi 14 Novembre 2003 14:24, Derek Jennings a crit : On Thursday 13 Nov 2003 9:55 pm, Rutledge, Lincoln wrote: Howdie, SNIP On a side note, of course I am used to using route and ifconfig to set up interfaces. I have worked briefly from Red Hat and quite a while Mandrake

Re: [newbie] mirror speed checker

2003-11-14 Thread Tango Echo
--- Tango Echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Phil Newcombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- clipped everything - I was in 9.2 when I copied the script to a win dir. It looks as if the copying or cutting and pasting juggled the lines up a bit -

Re: [newbie] Best practive for installing a multi boot system, MDK 9.2 and Win XP

2003-11-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 13 November 2003 09:02 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: If the subject of a thread drifts, it is proper, and even desired, to change the subject to reflect what the discussion has become.  This is so mail filtering and scoring routines can properly deal with the messages. True, but the

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 14 Nov 2003 2:50 pm, Tango Echo wrote: --- Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can set up a page for you, containing the single word 'placeholder', on which you can build, if that would help. For any potential contributors who don't want to learn the few simple

Re: [newbie] Mplayer Plugin

2003-11-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 14 Nov 2003 2:52 pm, Piero Piutti wrote: Alle 15:28, venerdì 14 novembre 2003, Anne Wilson ha scritto: Glad you got it sorted. Don't suppose I could persuade you to write it up for the TWiki site? Sure Anne, but keep in mind that the problem is only partially sorted since now I

Re: [newbie] mail client for windows

2003-11-14 Thread Eric Huff
What(free) mail client should i have my dad use in windows that would be the easiest for him to switch to from outlook express? Thanks all! I think i will suggest he use mozilla. eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Problems configuring Caitoo

2003-11-14 Thread Clément Ménier
Le Jeudi 13 Novembre 2003 17:03, Scott Naylor a écrit : Recently I've been trying to configure Caitoo. I fixed the error with QT, but now I have a different problem. This comes up everytime I try to configure it checking for KDE headers installed... configure: error: your system is not able

[newbie] MDK 9.2/Mozilla 1.5/Realplayer/XMMS

2003-11-14 Thread Harv Nelson
I've installed 9.2 and its up and running. I removed Mozilla 1.4 and replaced it with Mozilla 1.5. All my bookmarks are still there. Many of those bookmarks are audio URLs ... .ram, .ra, .slps, etc. Mozilla 1.3/1.4 used to pass them directly to their respective helper aps ... Realplayer,

Re: [newbie] Great Interview with RMS

2003-11-14 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Friday 14 November 2003 09:13, Margot wrote: Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 13 November 2003 07:55 pm, robin wrote: Does he still start lists with zero? Sir Robin and wears old computer parts... :-) I've never heard of this, but I'm all in favour of recycling. I've got a couple

[newbie] MDK9.2/Gnomemeeting/xawtv/stream server

2003-11-14 Thread Harv Nelson
Mandrake 9.2 is installed and running well. I was pleasantly surprised to see that it recognized my 3Com/Homeconnect Web cameras without even asking for a config file. XAWTV also uses them without a problem. Gnomemeeting configured itself to use them. Great! Is there anyway to set up a

[newbie] MDK 9.2 Harddrake

2003-11-14 Thread Harv Nelson
When 9.2 boots and if my webcam is plugged into the USB port, the machine pauses to check for new hardware ... for up to 10 minutes ... and then finally completes the boot. If the webcam is not plugged in, the delay is only momentary. Where can I look to see what is going on. Is this normal

Re: [newbie] mirror speed checker

2003-11-14 Thread Phil Newcombe
Tango Echo wrote: --- Tango Echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Phil Newcombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- clipped everything - I was in 9.2 when I copied the script to a win dir. It looks as if the copying or cutting and pasting juggled the

Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 Harddrake

2003-11-14 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 14 Nov 2003 3:58 pm, Harv Nelson wrote: When 9.2 boots and if my webcam is plugged into the USB port, the machine pauses to check for new hardware ... for up to 10 minutes ... and then finally completes the boot. If the webcam is not plugged in, the delay is only momentary. Where

Re: [newbie] Display flickers on laptop ( F-siemens Amilo D 6820 - Ati radeon mobility 9000 vga )

2003-11-14 Thread RichardA
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 21:28:03 +0100, Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4. If you know the correct values for horizontal and vertical refresh rates, become root and edit this file : /etc/X11/XF86Config in the section screen. Don't choose the exact values, but allow an (conservative)

[newbie] ** LIST ISSUES: PLEASE READ **

2003-11-14 Thread Eric Huff
Hello all, Sympa has all of a sudden decided that i do indeed need to see all email bounced back to newbie. Of the over 1500 subscribers, ~ 400 of them were bad addys. Anyway, i have been unsubbing all these bad addresses. I deeply apologize if i nuke anyone by accident. If i do, please let

Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 Harddrake

2003-11-14 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 16:58, Harv Nelson wrote: When 9.2 boots and if my webcam is plugged into the USB port, the machine pauses to check for new hardware ... for up to 10 minutes ... and then finally completes the boot. If the webcam is not plugged in, the delay is only momentary.

[newbie] sylpheed: filtering based on body text

2003-11-14 Thread Eric Huff
Does anyone know how to filter on body text (or all text including headers) with sylpheed (not claws) ? I think it might require the regexp feature, or maybe actions, but am not quite sure what to do. Anyone already sorted this out? thanks, eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] RAID under Mandrake

2003-11-14 Thread Travis Crook
Hi All, I'm looking at getting a RAID card to put in my box. I'm running Mandrake 9.1 and wondered what would be the best card. Here is what I'm looking at so far: Promise SuperTrak 100 or 66, 3WARE DiskSwitch AccelerATA 8 port UDMA100 EIDE RAID Card, or the Promise FastTrak 66 or 100.

[newbie] Updated site

2003-11-14 Thread Charles A Edwards
I have updated my site for mdk 9.2. I will no longer be uploading any rpms rebuilt for 9.1. The 9.2 rpms which I currently have available for dl are for screem-0.8.2 and for gaim-0.72. New rpms for sylpheed and sylpheed-claws will be made avaiable if/when new versions are released, the rpms

Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 Harddrake

2003-11-14 Thread Harv Nelson
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 16:58, Harv Nelson wrote: When 9.2 boots and if my webcam is plugged into the USB port, the machine pauses to check for new hardware ... for up to 10 minutes ... and then finally completes the boot. If the webcam is not plugged in, the delay is

Re: [newbie] Reading Mac OSX formats

2003-11-14 Thread Aron Smith
On Friday 14 November 2003 07:25 am, Jason Greenwood wrote: What format are you referring to. Mac format is usually just .jpg with the file extension obfuscated. I would try opening the files in the Gimp where you'll find out much more about the file itself. Cheers Jason They were scanned

[newbie] quick cron question

2003-11-14 Thread Grant
Will this run every three days at 5:45 PM ? 45 17 */3 * * - Grant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 PowerPack confusion/worries

2003-11-14 Thread John Wilson
On November 14, 2003 03:14 am, HaywireMac wrote: On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 18:34:24 -0800 John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I'm still trying to figure out why someone from Ontario would name himself after a labour activist who did his thing in the Kootenay's of BC, Eastern Washington and

Re: [newbie] Updating urpmi database on 9.2

2003-11-14 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 14 November 2003 12:47 pm, Margot wrote: I was using urpmi the other night and received a message that I should update my database. I thought the command I used to use for this on 9.0 was 'updatedb', but I tried all 3 ways (as user, su and

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-14 Thread Lanman
T.E. - I signed up for Twiki, Finally! Now what to I do for entering information, and how many can I put in? Read your post back to Anne, but I don't agree with you about the worth of this page. I think it's great! The most significant reason for this is because this will be a list of scenarios by

Re: [newbie] mail client for windows

2003-11-14 Thread anton
Jason Greenwood wrote: Why not use Mozilla for Windows? Makes later migration to Linux all the easier. Or maybe Mozilla Thunderbird, as they seem to be going to discontinue Mozilla proper at some stage in the future (in favour of the separate projects). Dad probably would prefer to have just

Re: [newbie] Updating urpmi database on 9.2

2003-11-14 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 14 November 2003 12:47 pm, Margot wrote: I was using urpmi the other night and received a message that I should update my database. I thought the command I used to use for this on 9.0 was 'updatedb', but I tried all 3 ways (as user, su and

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 14 Nov 2003 7:24 pm, Tango Echo wrote: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/BusinessUser Anne Ok, I threw something up on that location. I wasn't able to add the industry pages because I don't know how to branch off from the main index page. After more thoroughly browsing

Re: [newbie] Mozilla freezing everything!

2003-11-14 Thread E. Hines
Looks to me like they are using crap java (MS style). It crashes my moz, too, but doesn't lock-up, it just closes. Bottom line, it is the site, not Mozilla. e On Friday 14 November 2003 12:07 pm, Margot wrote: When I used Moz on 9.0 several things didn't work, so I bookmarked them and

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 14 Nov 2003 9:09 pm, Lanman wrote: T.E. - I signed up for Twiki, Finally! Now what to I do for entering information, and how many can I put in? That's the beauty of TWiki - if you feel that it fits, it goes in! I'm looking forward to what arrives. Come on, everyone. Get your

Re: [newbie] Ripe for plucking ?

2003-11-14 Thread Phil Newcombe
John Wilson wrote: On November 13, 2003 12:53 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Quote from The Globe and Mail about the Novell takeover of S.u.S.E. : quote There could also be some other moves. Other giants might be thinking Linux too. The financially troubled Mandrake Linux is ripe for plucking,

RE: [newbie] RAID under Mandrake

2003-11-14 Thread H. Carter Harris
Travis: I chose the 3Ware card that supports 2 drives because the Mandrake distribution of linux is compiled with the drivers for that card ... at least they were in 9.1. It installed without a hitch and is working nicely. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Updating urpmi database on 9.2

2003-11-14 Thread Margot
Charlie M. wrote: Hi; What's the address you're using, and for which mirror Margot? Some tree structures are possibly changed due to the complete release of 9.2, and the URL may have to be changed to reflect that. This happens because the mirrors are a voluntary thing, and some only keep the

Re: [newbie] Great Interview with RMS

2003-11-14 Thread hashi
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 01:28:51PM -0200, Josenildo Marques wrote: On Friday 14 November 2003 09:13, Margot wrote: Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 13 November 2003 07:55 pm, robin wrote: Does he still start lists with zero? Sir Robin and wears old computer parts... :-)

Re: [newbie] ** LIST ISSUES: PLEASE READ **

2003-11-14 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 08:47:46 -0800, Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about [newbie] ** LIST ISSUES: PLEASE READ **: I deeply apologize if i nuke anyone by accident. If i do, please let me know, and i'll resub you if you haven't beat me to it. :-)

Re: [newbie] Updating urpmi database on 9.2

2003-11-14 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 14 Nov 2003 7:47 pm, Margot wrote: I was using urpmi the other night and received a message that I should update my database. I thought the command I used to use for this on 9.0 was 'updatedb', but I tried all 3 ways (as user, su and root) and got the response 'command not found'.

[newbie] Mozilla disappearing on me

2003-11-14 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Normally I never have a problem with Mozilla. Now 2 days ago she started to fail me: when I do a google and press `next` at the bottom to go to the 2nd search results page she just stops running and disappears from view. Sometimes it doesn`t

Re: [newbie] Updating urpmi database on 9.2

2003-11-14 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 14 November 2003 2:54 pm, Margot wrote: snip Being really stupid here (as usual!) but I can't find the command to give the URLs for my sources. Tried [EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]# urpmq --list-media But only got this list of the names of the

Re: [newbie] Updating urpmi database on 9.2

2003-11-14 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 14 November 2003 3:07 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 14 Nov 2003 7:47 pm, Margot wrote: I was using urpmi the other night and received a message that I should update my database. I thought the command I used to use for this on 9.0

Re: [newbie] Updating urpmi database on 9.2

2003-11-14 Thread Margot
Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 14 Nov 2003 7:47 pm, Margot wrote: I was using urpmi the other night and received a message that I should update my database. I thought the command I used to use for this on 9.0 was 'updatedb', but I tried all 3 ways (as user, su and root) and got the response

Re: [newbie] MNF

2003-11-14 Thread Glenn
Hallo Philippe; Ich kann zwar Deutsch, kann aber nicht behilflich sein. Hast du die Probleme jetzt beseitigt, oder soll ich dein e-mail einigermassen uebersetzen (um bei den Leuten hier zu vermittlen)? Glenn On Sat October 11 2003 07:16, iceman wrote: Hallo Ich hoffe es hat

Re: [newbie] MDK9.2/Gnomemeeting/xawtv/stream server

2003-11-14 Thread et
On Friday 14 November 2003 03:48 pm, Harv Nelson wrote: Mandrake 9.2 is installed and running well. I was pleasantly surprised to see that it recognized my 3Com/Homeconnect Web cameras without even asking for a config file. XAWTV also uses them without a problem. Gnomemeeting configured

Re: [newbie] Updating urpmi database on 9.2

2003-11-14 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 14 Nov 2003 10:52 pm, Margot wrote: Still puzzled though - even though 'updatedb' was the wrong command for what I wanted to do, as it is a valid command, why didn't it run? Even though it would not have done what I wanted, surely it should have done *something*? Margot It is

Re: [newbie] Updating urpmi database on 9.2

2003-11-14 Thread Margot
Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 14 Nov 2003 10:52 pm, Margot wrote: Still puzzled though - even though 'updatedb' was the wrong command for what I wanted to do, as it is a valid command, why didn't it run? Even though it would not have done what I wanted, surely it should have done *something*?

Re: [newbie] Ripe for plucking ?

2003-11-14 Thread John Wilson
On November 14, 2003 01:19 pm, Phil Newcombe wrote: John Wilson wrote: snip Starting to sound a little like Unix - ours is better than theirs and who owns what? I dunno. There have been distro wars of varying levels as long as I've been around Linux. The biggest issue around Unix was the

Re: [newbie] Mozilla freezing everything!

2003-11-14 Thread Carroll Grigsby
E: Funny, but my stock Konq 3.1.0 had no problems. No, I don't know why. -- cmg (not usually a top poster, but when in Rome...) On Friday 14 November 2003 04:22 pm, E. Hines wrote: Looks to me like they are using crap java (MS style). It crashes my moz, too, but doesn't lock-up, it just

Re: [newbie] ** LIST ISSUES: PLEASE READ **

2003-11-14 Thread Roland Hughes
I have been getting bounce backs for days and had no idea what was going on. It makes any interaction to the list very laborious. Can you fix me up? Roly On Friday 14 November 2003 08:47 am, Eric Huff wrote: Hello all, Sympa has all of a sudden decided that i do indeed need to see all email

Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 Harddrake

2003-11-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 14 November 2003 10:58 am, Harv Nelson wrote: When 9.2 boots and if my webcam is plugged into the USB port, the machine pauses to check for new hardware ... for up to 10 minutes ... and then finally completes the boot. If the webcam is not plugged in, the delay is only momentary.

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 10 November 2003 11:50 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Just curious about something. How many of the list members are using Linux in the workplace and how? I think it would be encouraging to see who's doing what with it, and which distro's, whether they're seeing an increase in business

Re: [newbie] RAID under Mandrake

2003-11-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 14 November 2003 12:19 pm, Travis Crook wrote: Hi All, I'm looking at getting a RAID card to put in my box. I'm running Mandrake 9.1 and wondered what would be the best card. Here is what I'm looking at so far: Promise SuperTrak 100 or 66, 3WARE DiskSwitch AccelerATA 8 port

Re: [newbie] LG has posted Firmware Fixes for Bum Drives

2003-11-14 Thread Brian Parish
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 12:54, Dennis Myers wrote: On Wednesday 12 November 2003 10:14 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: It looks as though LG has posted revised firmware for affected drives and also published a method for reflashing already dead ones. Point your browser to http://us.lgservice.com/

[newbie] scrolling text crash on 9.2 startup

2003-11-14 Thread Aidan Holmes
Sorry if I'm being a pest, I have asked this question already under the subject of NEC versa E600 laptop install but got no answers. This is the last time I'll ask I promise :-) I'm trying to install MDK9.2 on my wifes laptop. The installation goes fine, but then when I reboot to run it for

Re: [newbie] mail client for windows

2003-11-14 Thread Franki
anton wrote: Jason Greenwood wrote: Why not use Mozilla for Windows? Makes later migration to Linux all the easier. Or maybe Mozilla Thunderbird, as they seem to be going to discontinue Mozilla proper at some stage in the future (in favour of the separate projects). Dad probably would

Re:WAS-- [newbie] Mozilla freezing everything!

2003-11-14 Thread E. Hines
OH GOD NO!! Not the top posting/bottom posting wars again! On Friday 14 November 2003 05:11 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: E: Funny, but my stock Konq 3.1.0 had no problems. No, I don't know why. -- cmg (not usually a top poster, but when in Rome...) OH GOD NO!! Not the top posting/bottom

Re: [newbie] this is strange...TV sounds coming through my computer

2003-11-14 Thread crak600
On Monday 10 November 2003 08:07 pm, crak600 wrote: I'm on cable. occasionally, i'll get an e-mail, or i'll open a web page or whatever, internet related sounds, and i'll get sounds from cable TV coming out of my computer speakers. The other day it went on for maybe 30 seconds until i

Re: [newbie] ** LIST ISSUES: PLEASE READ **

2003-11-14 Thread Eric Huff
I deeply apologize if i nuke anyone by accident. If i do, please let me know, and i'll resub you if you haven't beat me to it. :-) Do you think that if they have been unsubbed that they`ll be reading this??? Heh heh. I thought about making a joke about that. At least whomever is subbed

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