Re: [newbie] OT - iRiver Now Supports Ogg Vorbis

2004-02-29 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 February 2004 07:25, Glenn wrote: Anne; Just saw this on the Iriver site. Possibly they'd have the 350 for less than you were able to find? Glenn I'll take a look later today, thanks. Problem is that in most cases like this

Re: [newbie] Concerning about viruses

2004-02-29 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 28 February 2004 22:16, Dennis Myers wrote: Firewalls are a good thing if the manager is always vigilant and keeps an eye on what is attacking the system. My feeling is sooner or later someone is going to come up with an exploit that

Re: [newbie] Concerning about viruses

2004-02-29 Thread Paul Smith
Firewalls are a good thing if the manager is always vigilant and keeps an eye on what is attacking the system. My feeling is sooner or later someone is going to come up with an exploit that works. It will take a near genius I think to do it but that is why I check logs at least once a week. I

Re: [newbie] OT - iRiver Now Supports Ogg Vorbis

2004-02-29 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 28 February 2004 11:25 pm, Glenn monotonically droned on: Anne; Just saw this on the Iriver site. Possibly they'd have the 350 for less than you were able to find? I see that at www.pricewatch.com, that the best price for the 350 is $101. Now, what about syncing it under

[newbie] Mirror Directories

2004-02-29 Thread Stephen Reynolds
On windows machines I use a Microsoft tool called robocopy to mirror directory trees. I use this tool to synchronise my documents directories onto a usb flash drive. Is there a similar tool with Linux? SR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] HP Scanner 4400C

2004-02-29 Thread Adrian Earnshaw
Title: Message Hi to all, I have just started to use Linux and have chosen Mandrake as my first real foray into the Linux world. I was wondering if anyone has come across any drivers for the HP Scanner 4400C as it is the only hardware I can't get to work. It says that it is supported

Re: [newbie] 9.2 Laptop LCD at 1280x800 on ATI 9600 Radeon Mobili ty

2004-02-29 Thread Guy Rouillier
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 10:00:39 - Sweeney, Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guy, Apparently the ATI Linux drivers do support this chip, Graphics Accelerators: ATI Radeon 8500, 9100, 9200, 9500, 9600, 9700, 9800, ATI Mobility 9000, 9600 --- Think this is the one you want From -

Re: [newbie] HP Scanner 4400C

2004-02-29 Thread John Richard Smith
Adrian Earnshaw wrote: Hi to all, I have just started to use Linux and have chosen Mandrake as my first real foray into the Linux world. I was wondering if anyone has come across any drivers for the HP Scanner 4400C as it is the only hardware I can't get to work. It says that it is supported

Re: [newbie] HP Scanner 4400C

2004-02-29 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 29 February 2004 12:59 am, Adrian Earnshaw monotonically droned on: Hi to all, I have just started to use Linux and have chosen Mandrake as my first real foray into the Linux world. I was wondering if anyone has come across any drivers for the HP Scanner 4400C as it is the only

[newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread Hoyt Bailey
I have been advised to defragment windows. Then boot linux from cd (I assume CD1 with either 9.2 or 10.orc1) then shrink the windows partition. The problem is I dont know how to do that. Could somewone provide some detail? Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 February 2004 12:05, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I have been advised to defragment windows. Then boot linux from cd (I assume CD1 with either 9.2 or 10.orc1) then shrink the windows partition. The problem is I dont know how to do that. Could

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 06:11 Subject: Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 February 2004 12:05, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I have been

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Hoyt Bailey wrote: I have been advised to defragment windows. Then boot linux from cd (I assume CD1 with either 9.2 or 10.orc1) then shrink the windows partition. The problem is I dont know how to do that. Could somewone provide some detail? Try: LILO mini-HOWTO Miroslav Misko Skoric, skoric

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 February 2004 12:27, Hoyt Bailey wrote: - Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 06:11 Subject: Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition -BEGIN

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 06:40 Subject: Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 February 2004 12:27, Hoyt Bailey wrote: -

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: Miroslav Skoric [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 06:35 Subject: Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition Hoyt Bailey wrote: I have been advised to defragment windows. Then boot linux from cd (I assume CD1 with

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 February 2004 13:03, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Ok I just went and booted CD1 for 9.2 install. There is a screen with two options Install and F1 for help. Clicking on install goes directely to install this is what I normally use. That's

Re: [newbie] OT - iRiver Now Supports Ogg Vorbis

2004-02-29 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 29 February 2004 03:24 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Saturday 28 February 2004 11:25 pm, Glenn monotonically droned on: Anne; Just saw this on the Iriver site. Possibly they'd have the 350 for less than you were able to find? I see that at www.pricewatch.com, that the best

Re: [newbie] HP Scanner 4400C

2004-02-29 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 29 February 2004 03:59 am, Adrian Earnshaw wrote: Hi to all, I have just started to use Linux and have chosen Mandrake as my first real foray into the Linux world. I was wondering if anyone has come across any drivers for the HP Scanner 4400C as it is the only hardware I can't get

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 07:18 Subject: Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 February 2004 13:03, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Ok I just

Re: [newbie] Concerning about viruses

2004-02-29 Thread robin
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Is it true that one should not worry about virus when using Linux? It depends on whether you are running a server or a workstation. A Linux workstation is immune to Windows viruses (NOT virii!) and while there have been a few worms made to target Linux, the average

[newbie] j2sdk installation

2004-02-29 Thread Henrique Oliveira Santos
Hi all, this is my first questions here, but many of discussions here solved many of mine problems. I've download and installed j2sdk rpm from sun. It installed succesfully. Even in mozilla 1.6 i can run applets with the symlink. But im trying to run .jar java applications. I've done these to

[newbie] shorell setup

2004-02-29 Thread Josenildo Marques
Hello ! I haven't used any firewall so far and as I read posts that show a concern over this way of protection, I tried to set up Shorewall. In DrakFirewall, I unchecked 'everything - no firewall' and checked all the other options as I am not sure yet which services are activated or disabled. The

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 07:18 Subject: Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 February 2004 13:03, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Ok I just

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 February 2004 15:18, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I went I saw I didnt do very well. Don't sell yourself short, Hoyt. You're learning, and that's always good. I did find the resize option but it said I should run chkdisk from the run

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: Worry not - I know, it's easy for me to talk g. Someone will help dig you out, then you'll wonder what all the fuss was about ;-) Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? There isn't one of us that didn't want to mess our

[newbie] Keep losing LAN settings

2004-02-29 Thread Johan
Hi, We have setup a gateway and one workstation. Workstation MDK 9.2 fully updated up to saturday 28/02/04. This workstation keep losing its LAN settings...have to launch LAN wizard every time after reboot. Win xpsuse 9.0fedora...they all keep their settings on same box. Kindly some

Re: [newbie] shorell setup

2004-02-29 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 29 February 2004 08:46 am, Josenildo Marques wrote: Hello ! I haven't used any firewall so far and as I read posts that show a concern over this way of protection, I tried to set up Shorewall. In DrakFirewall, I unchecked 'everything - no firewall' and checked all the other options

Re: [newbie] How do I backup KMail filters/settings?

2004-02-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 29 Feb 2004 02:15, J Adam Latham wrote: Hi, All ... Today I had to reinstall my user directory, which I had backed up on a disc. But when I unpacked the contents of that backup (which included my Mail dir) I was disappointed to discover that my KMail settings (identities, networks,

[newbie] Re-fried Urpmi upgrade

2004-02-29 Thread Lee Wiggers
Hi All I came in on the tail of a thread about upgrading last week, so I kept my keyboard out of reach. Curiosity is killing me though. Can I upgrade to 10.whatever is now, by adding cooker to my urpmi sources and 'urpmi.update -a --wget urpmi -v --auto-select --wget'. Seems way too simple

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 09:53 Subject: Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition Anne Wilson wrote: Worry not - I know, it's easy for me to talk g. Someone will help dig you

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 09:37 Subject: Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 February 2004 15:18, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I went I saw

Re: [newbie] Mirror Directories

2004-02-29 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Sunday 29 February 2004 03:34 am, Stephen Reynolds wrote: On windows machines I use a Microsoft tool called robocopy to mirror directory trees. I use this tool to synchronise my documents directories onto a usb flash drive. rsync, fmirror, wget, draksync, etc. -- Bryan Phinney Software

Re: [newbie] shorell setup

2004-02-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 29 Feb 2004 14:46, Josenildo Marques wrote: Hello ! I haven't used any firewall so far and as I read posts that show a concern over this way of protection, I tried to set up Shorewall. In DrakFirewall, I unchecked 'everything - no firewall' and checked all the other options as I am

Re: [newbie] Re-fried Urpmi upgrade

2004-02-29 Thread et
On Sunday 29 February 2004 11:01 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: Hi All I came in on the tail of a thread about upgrading last week, so I kept my keyboard out of reach. Curiosity is killing me though. Can I upgrade to 10.whatever is now, by adding cooker to my urpmi sources and 'urpmi.update -a

Re: [newbie] Re-fried Urpmi upgrade

2004-02-29 Thread et
On Sunday 29 February 2004 11:01 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: Hi All I came in on the tail of a thread about upgrading last week, so I kept my keyboard out of reach. Curiosity is killing me though. Can I upgrade to 10.whatever is now, by adding cooker to my urpmi sources and 'urpmi.update -a

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread Marc
On Sunday 29 February 2004 10:11 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: - Original Message - From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 09:53 Subject: Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition Anne Wilson wrote: Worry not - I know, it's

[newbie] webdav on mandrake 9.2

2004-02-29 Thread William Warren
I am trying to get webdav working on mandrake 9.2 I have mod dav installed and the dav fs installed..apache is installed and running. I have been trying for the past couple of months to get this working and it is beyond me..:) the directory i want to share is /files/server/calendar i am not

Re: [newbie] webdav on mandrake 9.2

2004-02-29 Thread William Warren
FYI i do have sshd running and webmin running so i can do this either way..:) William Warren wrote: I am trying to get webdav working on mandrake 9.2 I have mod dav installed and the dav fs installed..apache is installed and running. I have been trying for the past couple of months to get

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 10:34 Subject: Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition On Sunday 29 February 2004 10:11 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: - Original Message - From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread Marc
On Sunday 29 February 2004 11:06 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: - Original Message - From: Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 10:34 Subject: Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition No spare computer. The last time I screwed up and had to

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread John Richard Smith
Hoyt Bailey wrote No spare computer. The last time I screwed up and had to reinstall it took 4 days. Mostly fighting those nasty virisus that sneek in while I'm downloading the norton virus definations. I dont mind reinstalling windows but the virus definations are tough. Also linux is

Re: [newbie] How do I backup KMail filters/settings?

2004-02-29 Thread J Adam Latham
On Sunday 29 February 2004 08:08 am, Derek Jennings wrote: : On Sunday 29 Feb 2004 02:15, J Adam Latham wrote: : Hi, All ... : : Today I had to reinstall my user directory, which I had backed up on a : disc. But when I unpacked the contents of that backup (which included my : Mail dir) I was

Re: [newbie] Keep losing LAN settings

2004-02-29 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 February 2004 17:48, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 29 February 2004 09:29 am, Johan wrote: Hi, We have setup a gateway and one workstation. Workstation MDK 9.2 fully updated up to saturday 28/02/04. This workstation keep losing

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread Marc Resnick
On Sunday 29 February 2004 01:56 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 February 2004 16:34, Marc wrote: Click on the gray part and then near the bottom of the screen click on auto allocate. Mandrake will divide the gray part into 3 partitions,

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 February 2004 19:03, Marc Resnick wrote: Anne, I know I'm a different Marc, but I'll answer you anyway =). Yes, this does give you three partitions. It makes the /home a little bigger than the /, and the swap is the right size. It's

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread Marc Resnick
On Sunday 29 February 2004 02:13 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 February 2004 19:03, Marc Resnick wrote: Anne, I know I'm a different Marc, but I'll answer you anyway =). Yes, this does give you three partitions. It makes the /home a

Re: [newbie] HP Scanner 4400C

2004-02-29 Thread Scott Mazur
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 01:18:17 -0800, Rob Blomquist wrote On Sunday 29 February 2004 12:59 am, Adrian Earnshaw monotonically droned on: Hi to all, I have just started to use Linux and have chosen Mandrake as my first real foray into the Linux world. I was wondering if anyone has come

[newbie] Spamassassin..... (help!)

2004-02-29 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
Hi! I've been using spamassassin for a while, but I must have missed some detail on the config process! It's configured system wide. And as I use procmail and kmail, the spamassassin insist on putting the lock file at ~/Mail/ (kmail directory). How can I change this? I have set two

Re: [newbie] Keep losing LAN settings

2004-02-29 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 29 February 2004 02:01 pm, Johan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] internet]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-eth0 cat: /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-eth0: No such file or directory Interesting. This looks like your problem right here. This is the file that is supposed to holds the configuration settings

Re: [newbie] Keep losing LAN settings

2004-02-29 Thread Erylon Hines
On Sunday 29 February 2004 11:01 am, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 February 2004 17:48, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 29 February 2004 09:29 am, Johan wrote: Hi, We have setup a gateway and one workstation. Workstation MDK 9.2 fully

Re: [newbie] Spamassassin..... (help!)

2004-02-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 29 Feb 2004 19:40, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: Hi! I've been using spamassassin for a while, but I must have missed some detail on the config process! It's configured system wide. And as I use procmail and kmail, the spamassassin insist on putting the lock file

[newbie] Four Desktops

2004-02-29 Thread Weiers Coetser
Hi... This is my third request for assitance and I've appreciated the input that I've received every time. I don't know if the following scenario is a posible one: Lets say I've divided my work into four categories. I would like to use one of the four KDE desktops for each of these four

Re: [newbie] Keep losing LAN settings

2004-02-29 Thread Johan
Hi Greg, I forwarded your message to my friend with the know-how that set up the system so we can get correct answersbe back to you as soon as I get the info. Thanks for the time to help me. Johan On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:51:26 -0500 Greg Meyer [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Four Desktops

2004-02-29 Thread Philip Cronje
On Sunday, 29 February 2004 21:55, Weiers Coetser wrote: snip The same is true when I open several programmes. If I opened Open Office Writer on Desktop one, I can still see the bar for that document at the bottom, even if I am on Desktop two. If I have six or seven documents open at the same

Re: [newbie] Four Desktops

2004-02-29 Thread J Adam Latham
On Sunday 29 February 2004 11:55 am, Weiers Coetser wrote: : Hi... : : This is my third request for assitance and I've appreciated the input that : I've received every time. : : I don't know if the following scenario is a posible one: : : Lets say I've divided my work into four categories. I would

Re: [newbie] Four Desktops

2004-02-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 29 Feb 2004 19:55, Weiers Coetser wrote: Hi... This is my third request for assitance and I've appreciated the input that I've received every time. I don't know if the following scenario is a posible one: Lets say I've divided my work into four categories. I would like to use one

Re: [newbie] Four Desktops

2004-02-29 Thread Weiers Coetser
Wow... Got an answer withing 3 minutes of posting the question! Thank you so much! I'll try it. - Original Message - From: Weiers Coetser [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 9:55 PM Subject: [newbie] Four Desktops Hi... This is my third request

Re: [newbie] Re-fried Urpmi upgrade

2004-02-29 Thread Lee Wiggers
I usually wait til all the Aussies are drunk, then use theirs. Lee On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 11:33:28 -0500 et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 29 February 2004 11:01 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: Hi All I came in on the tail of a thread about upgrading last week, so I kept my keyboard out of

[newbie] Programs that won't quit

2004-02-29 Thread Doug
Greetings all I have a small problem with KDE on my MDK 9.1 using laptop. I went and started the xeyes program found under the Amusement tab, nice little diversion, but I can't remove them. No where in any of the docs have I found any mention of stopping a KDE recognized program. Any idea how

Re: [newbie] Four Desktops

2004-02-29 Thread LtCdData
On Sunday 29 Feb 2004 H:55, Weiers Coetser wrote: i use 8 desktops and sometimes thats not enough ))) how win users get by on one is beyond me ;-)) Hi... This is my third request for assitance and I've appreciated the input that I've received every time. I don't know if the following

Re: [newbie] Programs that won't quit

2004-02-29 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 29 February 2004 21:34, Doug wrote: Greetings all I have a small problem with KDE on my MDK 9.1 using laptop. I went and started the xeyes program found under the Amusement tab, nice little diversion, but I can't remove them. No where in any of the docs have I found any mention of

Re: [newbie] Programs that won't quit

2004-02-29 Thread Philip Cronje
On Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:34, Doug wrote: Greetings all I have a small problem with KDE on my MDK 9.1 using laptop. I went and started the xeyes program found under the Amusement tab, nice little diversion, but I can't remove them. No where in any of the docs have I found any mention

Re: [newbie] Keep losing LAN settings

2004-02-29 Thread Johan
Hi Greg, It now seem from my friend it does exist but in another directory... here is the info...from my workstation. Use a dial-up modem on single phone-lineNo router..just workstation and gateway via cross-over cable. * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ip-up.d]# cat

[newbie] Re: j2sdk installation

2004-02-29 Thread Björn Lundin
Henrique Oliveira Santos wrote: Hi all, this is my first questions here, but many of discussions here solved many of mine problems. I've download and installed j2sdk rpm from sun. It installed succesfully. Even in mozilla 1.6 i can run applets with the symlink. Instead of symlinks you

Re: [newbie] Programs that won't quit

2004-02-29 Thread Jason Greenwood
Or hit ctrl+esc to start system monitor (graphical TOP) and then stop the program there. Many ways to do it. =) Cheers Jason Philip Cronje wrote: On Sunday, 29 February 2004 22:34, Doug wrote: Greetings all I have a small problem with KDE on my MDK 9.1 using laptop. I went and started the

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-02-29 Thread John Richard Smith
Hoyt Bailey wrote: No backup for XP. No backup for XP, so what do you do it it gets screwed up, for whatever reason? That means you cannot recover a situation in XP at all. Backups come in many guises but the only true backup is to external media. That way, come what may, it's recoverable.

Re: [newbie] Keep losing LAN settings

2004-02-29 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 February 2004 19:55, Erylon Hines wrote: Anne, why don't you turn off msec to check if that is what it is. Just rename the msec executable to msecDISABLE in /usr/sbin Problem is that I'm so busy sorting out other people's (family)

Re: [newbie] Programs that won't quit

2004-02-29 Thread Philip Cronje
On Sunday, 29 February 2004 23:14, Jason Greenwood wrote: Or hit ctrl+esc to start system monitor (graphical TOP) and then stop the program there. Many ways to do it. =) Cheers Jason Yes, but KDE System Guard takes yonks to start up ;) pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: [newbie] Programs that won't quit

2004-02-29 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 February 2004 20:34, Doug wrote: Greetings all I have a small problem with KDE on my MDK 9.1 using laptop. I went and started the xeyes program found under the Amusement tab, nice little diversion, but I can't remove them. No where

Re: [newbie] Programs that won't quit

2004-02-29 Thread Jason Greenwood
Ok, ok, Top in a console then. =) LOL Philip Cronje wrote: On Sunday, 29 February 2004 23:14, Jason Greenwood wrote: Or hit ctrl+esc to start system monitor (graphical TOP) and then stop the program there. Many ways to do it. =) Cheers Jason Yes, but KDE System Guard takes yonks to start up ;)

Re: [newbie] Programs that won't quit

2004-02-29 Thread Philip Cronje
On Sunday, 29 February 2004 23:25, Anne Wilson wrote: IIRC xeyes is a panel applet - that is it is on the extreme right of the taskbar. If so, look at that group of icons. To the left of the group is a narrow band with an up-arrow. Right-click on that, then select Panel Menu Remove Applet

Re: [newbie] Four Desktops

2004-02-29 Thread Job Evers
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 21:55:48 +0200 Weiers Coetser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi... This is my third request for assitance and I've appreciated the input that I've received every time. I don't know if the following scenario is a posible one: Lets say I've divided my work into four

[newbie] Scribus

2004-02-29 Thread Keith Powell
Does anyone know if there is a Mandrake RPM for Scribus anywhere? Can't find one with Google, only tarballs. I've spent some hours trying to install a tarball of it, but get my usual screenful of things it can't find and needs. I have almost completely abandoned tarballs, as I can rarely get

Re: [newbie] Scribus

2004-02-29 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 February 2004 21:58, Keith Powell wrote: Does anyone know if there is a Mandrake RPM for Scribus anywhere? Can't find one with Google, only tarballs. I've spent some hours trying to install a tarball of it, but get my usual

Re: [newbie] Scribus

2004-02-29 Thread Jason Greenwood
No, for Mandrake Systems you should ALWAYS use URPMI for installs anyway. Yes, there are Scribus RPMS's (depending on which version MDK) you are running of course). Go here: http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php and set up an URPMI source for your version and then from the CLI: urpmi scribus

[newbie] Dvd Playback

2004-02-29 Thread Marc Resnick
Well I can't get DVD playback to work. I get the error 'Can't Open VMG Info' with Mplayer. Here's my lilo, just in case it has to do with how I boot Linux: boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw

Re: [newbie] Scribus

2004-02-29 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 29 February 2004 23:09, Jason Greenwood wrote: No, for Mandrake Systems you should ALWAYS use URPMI for installs Ehmm, mandrake installs tarballs fine but you DO have to have the kernel-source package installed for your particular kernel. I do quite a lot of tarball installs and

Re: [newbie] Scribus

2004-02-29 Thread Jason Greenwood
Yes, I agree, it does but for Newbies (it was posted to the newbie list, no?), RPM's are the best/easiest. Besides, URPMI was originally designed for RPM's not Tarballs IIRC. =) Cheers Jason H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Sunday 29 February 2004 23:09, Jason Greenwood wrote: No, for Mandrake

Re: [newbie] shorell setup

2004-02-29 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 13:19, Derek Jennings wrote: The Mandrake Firewall GUI is pretty simple and often screws up configuration. A common mistake the GUI makes is to get the interface connected to the internet wrong. It will assume eth0 is connected to the net. Take a look at the file

Re: [newbie] Dvd Playback

2004-02-29 Thread Walt Frampus
On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 17:10, Marc Resnick wrote: Well I can't get DVD playback to work. I get the error 'Can't Open VMG Info' with Mplayer. Here's my lilo, just in case it has to do with how I boot Linux: You need to get the proper codecs to play dvd's. do a google search for plf and click

Re: [newbie] Dvd Playback

2004-02-29 Thread Marc Resnick
On Sunday 29 February 2004 05:54 pm, Walt Frampus wrote: On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 17:10, Marc Resnick wrote: Well I can't get DVD playback to work. I get the error 'Can't Open VMG Info' with Mplayer. Here's my lilo, just in case it has to do with how I boot Linux: You need to get the proper

Re: [newbie] Scribus

2004-02-29 Thread Marco Verheul
On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 21:58, Keith Powell wrote: Does anyone know if there is a Mandrake RPM for Scribus anywhere? Can't find one with Google, only tarballs. I've spent some hours trying to install a tarball of it, but get my usual screenful of things it can't find and needs. I have

Re: [newbie] Dvd Playback

2004-02-29 Thread Walt Frampus
On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 18:04, Marc Resnick wrote: What's MCC? I have libdvdcss installed already...and I can never get Xine to work. But I'm going to try to remove it then install it once more. Thanks for the help, Marc Mandrake control center. Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Scribus

2004-02-29 Thread Lanman
I've found the rpms for scribus on 9.1, 9.2, and 10.0. There are two - scribus and libscribus IIRC, and I'm sure they're on the download CD's. Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 2/29/2004 at 9:58 PM Keith Powell wrote: Does anyone know if there is a Mandrake RPM for Scribus

Re: [newbie] Dvd Playback

2004-02-29 Thread Marc Resnick
On Sunday 29 February 2004 06:10 pm, Walt Frampus wrote: On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 18:04, Marc Resnick wrote: What's MCC? I have libdvdcss installed already...and I can never get Xine to work. But I'm going to try to remove it then install it once more. Thanks for the help, Marc

Re: [newbie] Four Desktops

2004-02-29 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 20:37:07 + LtCdData disseminated the following: how win users get by on one is beyond me ;-)) Not only has this feature been available on Windows for some time now, MS is seeking a patent on it. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/25/1346201 Pretty funny, huh? --

Re: [newbie] Kernel upgrade gone awry

2004-02-29 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Sunday 29 February 2004 01:41 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: I attempted to upgrade my 9.2 kernel from 2.4.22-10mdk to 2.4.22-28mdk, following the procedure given at: www.mandrakesecure.net/en/kernelupdate.php On booting, it ran into problems with XFree, resulting in the following: snipped

Re: [newbie] Identifying people by IP

2004-02-29 Thread Mike Fehse
--- Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All I am looking for a program to collect all the information possible about an Internet user, given the IP he/she is using. Thank you a lot in advance! Paul In addition to the whois suggested by others, you may want to look at the tools

Re: [newbie] webdav on mandrake 9.2

2004-02-29 Thread William Warren
Any takers on this one?..G William Warren wrote: FYI i do have sshd running and webmin running so i can do this either way..:) William Warren wrote: I am trying to get webdav working on mandrake 9.2 I have mod dav installed and the dav fs installed..apache is installed and running. I have

Re: [newbie] Get Your License Now!

2004-02-29 Thread jimdawson
On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 13:32, Margot wrote: I assume that once you have paid for the licence they will *send* you the binaries - for that price, I expect them to be hand delivered to my door, on a velvet cushion! The extra cost is to pay for the lawyers to explain to you how SCO can sell

Re: [newbie] Keep losing LAN settings

2004-02-29 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 29 February 2004 03:57 pm, Johan wrote: Hi Greg, It now seem from my friend it does exist but in another directory... here is the info...from my workstation. Use a dial-up modem on single phone-lineNo router..just workstation and gateway via cross-over cable. * [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] MDK9.2 - Cannot access web pages and email

2004-02-29 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 29 February 2004 09:21 pm, Christophe Hannecart wrote: Hi, Thanks for your reply. I've tried that but it does not work. I've noticed that KPPP correctly inserts my ISP's DNS servers IPs into resolv.conf when it connects. Here is my resolv.conf when connected to my ISP: search

Re: [newbie] MDK9.2 - Cannot access web pages and email

2004-02-29 Thread Erylon Hines
On Sunday 29 February 2004 06:21 pm, Christophe Hannecart wrote: Here is my resolv.conf when connected to my ISP: search weaveworx powerup.com.au local nameserver 127.0.0.1 nameserver 210.80.58.34 # ppp temp entry nameserver 210.80.58.42 # ppp temp entry nameserver 210.80.58.34. #kppp

Re: [newbie] KDE restart

2004-02-29 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 29 February 2004 08:05 pm, Dave Ashmore wrote: I restarted KDE one day while a few apps were running and now everytime I restart cpu/KDE these applications (totem Xmms) restart. How can I fix this it's not a real problem but it's sure is real anoying. I've already tried shutting

Re: [newbie] MDK9.2 - Cannot access web pages and email

2004-02-29 Thread Christophe Hannecart
I don't think there is a problem with my ISP as I never had this kind of problem with this computer (same hardware, same software) prior to reinstalling it yesterday and I am using the same ISP account with my laptop. I probably didn't install Mandrake the exact same way as before and it

Re: [newbie] MDK9.2 - Cannot access web pages and email

2004-02-29 Thread Erylon Hines
On Sunday 29 February 2004 07:49 pm, Christophe Hannecart wrote: I don't think there is a problem with my ISP as I never had this kind of problem with this computer (same hardware, same software) prior to reinstalling it yesterday and I am using the same ISP account with my laptop. I probably

Re: [newbie] Four Desktops

2004-02-29 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 19:50:52 -0500 Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 29 February 2004 06:24 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 20:37:07 + LtCdData disseminated the following: how win users get by on one is beyond me ;-)) Not only has this feature been

Re: [newbie] MDK9.2 - Cannot access web pages and email

2004-02-29 Thread Christophe Hannecart
Someone in a newsgroup suggested that iptables was the culprit. I uninstalled it and voila ... it works. Your help was much appreciated. Thanks, Chris From: Erylon Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] MDK9.2 - Cannot access web pages

Re: [newbie] Dvd Playback

2004-02-29 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 29 February 2004 3:04 pm, Marc Resnick monotonically droned on: I have libdvdcss installed already...and I can never get Xine to work. But I'm going to try to remove it then install it once more. Sorry, Marc, Walt's right, Xine is the way to go, and since this isn't Widows land,

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