Re: [newbie] Beep Media Player

2004-03-21 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 20 March 2004 22:40, Brian Parish wrote: Yeah - I've found artsd doing that sort of thing, so I have it disabled. Probably the real answer has something to do with the fact that the only output plugin that wants to work is OSS. The

Re: [newbie] They needed to do a study?

2004-03-21 Thread Erylon Hines
On Saturday 20 March 2004 10:10 pm, David E. Fox wrote: On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 11:52:43 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...and no matter how great an anti-spam system you have, the crap still gets through. Oh yeah, b1cau4se th3ey spe`1l li3k th45s. Fools spamassassin. I still

Re: [newbie] Encrypt a text file

2004-03-21 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 March 2004 07:53, Philip Cronje wrote: You could use GnuPG http://www.gnupg.org. It's got other nifty uses as well, such as digitally signing your e-mails, encrypting e-mails, etc. etc. For your intent, you'd just be encrypting to

Re: [newbie] Re: Some positive reviews for 10.0 Community

2004-03-21 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 March 2004 13:48, robin wrote: It's hard to judge on just one release, since there's always variation between releases anyway (9.1 was a PITA for me, as was 8.1 - if I were superstitious, I'd definitely give 10.1 a skip). For me,

Re: [newbie] Still no sound

2004-03-21 Thread Charlie
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 02:46 am, many eyes viewed robin's words:- OK, having installed 10.0, I now have supermount sorted out and (fingers crossed) nvidia drivers working. But I still have no sound. This is with the notorious onboard VIA chip. I've run through the troubleshooting process (not

Re: [newbie] Encrypt a text file

2004-03-21 Thread franki
Stephen Reynolds wrote: When I'm using windows I use winzip to encrypt plain text files that contain sensitive information (username/passwords etc) What do I use to encrypt plain text files with Mandrake 10? Steve you shouldn't really use winzip for that, its not strong password protection

Re: [newbie] Encrypt a text file

2004-03-21 Thread Stephen Reynolds
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 07:10 pm, franki wrote: you shouldn't really use winzip for that, its not strong password protection and I have seen tools on the net that can break them easily.. There is a new version of winzip with strong encryption. For a while I used PGP, but it's unusual to find a

[newbie] MDK 10 and Drakconnect

2004-03-21 Thread JRH
Hi All, I'm currently downloading Mandrake 10. I downloaded and Installed Mandrake 10 RC1 a while back, and had some issues with Drakconnect, and my USB ADSL modem. The problem I had, was that unlike Mandrake 9.2, the auto detection wizard just wouldnt set the modem up properly. For example,

Re: [newbie] Still no sound

2004-03-21 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 14:38, robin wrote: ...and it's safe to assume that you've tried other drivers - like forcing ALSA? How would I do that? Sir Robin Is there not a means by which - such as in 9.1 - to change the driver in MCC/Hardware to utilise a different driver for sound (or

Re: [newbie] Encrypt a text file

2004-03-21 Thread Stephen Reynolds
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 06:23 pm, Philip Cronje wrote: You could use GnuPG http://www.gnupg.org. It's got other nifty uses as well, such as digitally signing your e-mails, encrypting e-mails, etc. etc. Thanks, gnupg was just what I was looking for... Once I'd found the right GUI tools to go with

Re: [newbie] LCD Monitor-Unusable signal/Resolved

2004-03-21 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 11:53, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 19:37:48 + Langsley T Russell disseminated the following: I'm not sure just which changes made the difference as I made several at one time. In the end I realized that the highest resolution I could achieve is 1280X960.

[newbie] Font encoding of the xchat logs

2004-03-21 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I would like to know how to change the font encoding of the xchat logs, as some strange characters appear. Thank you a lot in advance! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] MDK 10 and Drakconnect

2004-03-21 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 10:44:36 + JRH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'm currently downloading Mandrake 10. I downloaded and Installed Mandrake 10 RC1 a while back, and had some issues with Drakconnect, and my USB ADSL modem. The problem I had, was that unlike Mandrake 9.2, the

Re: [newbie] Program to establish a VPN connection

2004-03-21 Thread Paul Smith
What program should I use to establish a VPN connection? Freeswan. How to use Freeswan? I have just installed it, but when I type freeswan on the command line, I get the following: bash: freeswan: command not found Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Beep Media Player

2004-03-21 Thread Brian Parish
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 19:21, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 20 March 2004 22:40, Brian Parish wrote: Yeah - I've found artsd doing that sort of thing, so I have it disabled. Probably the real answer has something to do with the fact that

Re: [newbie] Beep Media Player

2004-03-21 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 March 2004 13:07, Brian Parish wrote: On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 19:21, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 20 March 2004 22:40, Brian Parish wrote: Yeah - I've found artsd doing that sort

Re: [newbie] They needed to do a study?

2004-03-21 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 22:13:36 -0800 David E. Fox disseminated the following: US should make a law making purchasing from a spammer a criminal act. What *isn't* a criminal act in the US these days? ;-) -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org

Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long

2004-03-21 Thread Marc
On Saturday 20 March 2004 10:31 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Saturday 20 March 2004 03:27 pm, bascule wrote: it would be interesting to know the results of putting the gateway hard drive in a 'normal' machine and putting a 'normal' hard drive in the gateway machine Two screwed-up Machines?

Re: [newbie] Re: Some positive reviews for 10.0 Community

2004-03-21 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Sunday 21 March 2004 09:29, Anne Wilson wrote: snip That's my feeling, too. As for comparing releases, it's just about impossible. What is brilliant on one machine is a total disaster on others. 8.2 is lauded by most, but was a disaster for me. 9.0 worked, more or less and 9.1 was

Re: [newbie] They needed to do a study?

2004-03-21 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Sunday 21 March 2004 14:17, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 22:13:36 -0800 David E. Fox disseminated the following: US should make a law making purchasing from a spammer a criminal act. What *isn't* a criminal act in the US these days? ;-) Litigating. Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from

Re: [newbie] MDK 10 and Drakconnect

2004-03-21 Thread JRH
Lee, I have since upgraded from 9.2 to 10, and it shouldnt have really changed things much. However, I have my connection set to start at boot, both green lights began to flash on my modem, (as is normal), and then the ADSL light went yellow, and that was it, a failure message. I'm going to try

Re: [newbie] Re: Some positive reviews for 10.0 Community

2004-03-21 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 March 2004 13:22, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Like you Anne, I was reluctant to install 10.0 what with having spent weeks to get 9.2 running well. But surprise : yesterday I shuffled the CD2 into the cupholder and lo and behold, one hour

Re: [newbie] They needed to do a study?

2004-03-21 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 14:25:05 +0100 Kaj Haulrich disseminated the following: What *isn't* a criminal act in the US these days? ;-) Litigating. ROFL! -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ 08:41:28 up 1:31, Mandrake Linux release

Re: [newbie] Encrypt a text file

2004-03-21 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 02:40, franki wrote: Stephen Reynolds wrote: When I'm using windows I use winzip to encrypt plain text files that contain sensitive information (username/passwords etc) What do I use to encrypt plain text files with Mandrake 10? Steve you shouldn't really

Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long

2004-03-21 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 20 March 2004 05:09 pm, Marc wrote: On Saturday 20 March 2004 04:36 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: No I have not tried a tool like partition majic but I dont think the problem is a hidden partition due to the fact that the same problem happened with a fresh NEW HDD as soon as

Re: [newbie] They needed to do a study?

2004-03-21 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 14:25:05 +0100 Kaj Haulrich disseminated the following: Litigating. I just stopped laughing: A South Bay accountant who said an Internet search engine returned alarming information about him and his firm sued Google, AOL, Time Warner and Yahoo! Friday for libel.

[newbie] File Sharing

2004-03-21 Thread Steve Turner
Any file sharing software that works with Linux? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] Problem with sending/receiving files with xchat

2004-03-21 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I cannot send or receive files with dcc send and with xchat. Any ideas? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long

2004-03-21 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 20 March 2004 08:10 pm, Marc wrote:  It seems to me like something has been done to the bios in the Gateway to make it NOT recognize any HDD with Linux installed on it. Quite possible, but I don't think it's a anti-Linux conspiracy. More likely the board/bios is spec'd to

Re: [newbie] LCD Monitor-Unusable signal/Resolved

2004-03-21 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 20 March 2004 06:53 pm, JoeHill wrote: IIANM, 1280x1024 is kind of an 'unnatural' resolution, no? It generally follows a 4:3 ratio, which is the natural dimensions of most monitors (excepting the 'theatre' type displays, of course). This is true, but not for many LCD

Re: [newbie] Re: Some positive reviews for 10.0 Community

2004-03-21 Thread JRH
For RealPlayer and Acrobat, I suggest you take a look at the vendors websites. I have just been to adobe.com for acrobat for Winsucks, and there was a whole list I had to choose from. Linux, MAC, FreeBSD etc... as for realplayer, I'm sure I got the RPM for rp8 from the real site. If youre

[newbie] wireless - laptop - questions

2004-03-21 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Okay, I've got my Dell Inspiron 1100, Mandrake v9.2 (d/l), and a Dlink DWL 650 (not +, AFAICT). My router is a Dlink 514. I've searched some sites, perused the ML archives but have not found a good solid, step by step howto. Can anyone point me to a URL or other source? Or if you have

Re: [newbie] FTP Server GUI?

2004-03-21 Thread Marc Resnick
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 06:48, Marc Resnick wrote: Is there any sort of GUI for proFTPD? I'd like to be able to monitor incoming and outgoing connections. I mainly just use it for giving files to people I know, and I'm having a problem with a timed out connection. I'm not

Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long

2004-03-21 Thread bmobile40
First of all, Win XP may not be the problem. His problem might be the fact that it's a Gateway PC. I run a number of computers, and a mac. I have XP on one, MD9.2 on this one XD2 or another one, so I see it from all different sides. XP isn't all bad. It has it's pros and cons just like linux and

[newbie] Video Editing Programs

2004-03-21 Thread Steve Turner
Anybody know of any good video editing programs for Linux?

Re: [newbie] mdk 10.0 community wont boot

2004-03-21 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 20 March 2004 11:40 am, Margot wrote: I can confirm M10-Community-download-CD1 is BROKEN. Mine will not boot either, though I must be cautious here, my CD was burnt from failed md5sum iso in order to test for the problem. I've still got to download an effective CD1 iso yet.

[newbie] Don't get the signature think...

2004-03-21 Thread rhein
Hello, I installed the urpmi files (update, main and f...)... when I check in Rpmdrake they have a signature. I spend 2 hours downloading packages to run mediaplayer... And than I get the bad signature warning... I continue to install and then an other telling me files are corrupted. How can

Re: [newbie] My public key

2004-03-21 Thread rhein
Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, Here is my public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key Thanks to Tim for reminding me. - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org 12:36:22 up 56 min, Mandrake Linux release 9.2

Re: [newbie] installing openoffice quick launch...Not finish!

2004-03-21 Thread rhein
Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 19 Mar 2004 14:50, rhein wrote: Alaa The Great wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:14:41 +0200 rhein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I tried to install openoffice quick launch... when I'm in console and

Re: [newbie] File Sharing

2004-03-21 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 18:03, Steve Turner wrote: Any file sharing software that works with Linux? Lots of them: Apollon, MlDonkey, LimeWire, etc. __ -- josenildo marques icq #289971493 homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net

Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long

2004-03-21 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 08:52:09 -0600 bmobile40 disseminated the following: First of all, ...and second of all, could you please unset your reply-to? http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org

Re: [newbie] wireless - laptop - questions

2004-03-21 Thread Marc Resnick
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 21 March 2004 10:08 am, Marc Resnick wrote: -Tell me if you have any problems - ---Marc Thanks Marc! I've got to go get some sleep now (worked 12 hrs+ last night) (and yeah, I know - real geeks would sit up and do this until it worked grin) so I'm gonna crash. I

Fw: [newbie] File Sharing

2004-03-21 Thread JRH
snipLots of them: Apollon, MlDonkey, LimeWire, etc/snip I use LimeWire, which not being as good as Kazaa, is more than adequate. If you have hours to spare in order to wait for a download, then Overnet command line client is worth looking at too. I have major problems with Apollon, It just wont

[newbie] test

2004-03-21 Thread Bill Winegarden
Sorry group, but I don't seem to be able to get through.. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Encrypt a text file

2004-03-21 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 22:11:37 +1030 Stephen Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 06:23 pm, Philip Cronje wrote: You could use GnuPG http://www.gnupg.org. It's got other nifty uses as well, such as digitally signing your e-mails, encrypting e-mails, etc. etc. Thanks,

Re: [newbie] File Sharing

2004-03-21 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 14:03:02 -0700 Steve Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any file sharing software that works with Linux? DCgui-qt (Direct Connect) ... http://dcgui.berlios.de/ Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long

2004-03-21 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi, I've been following this thread with interest. I just upped to LM10. It almost seemed too easy. I use it on a Dell laptop (inspiron). I don't remember if there was an option to write the bootloader to different locations like in 9.2, 9.1 etc but I was wondering if the bootloader has to be

Re: [newbie] installing openoffice quick launch...Not finish!

2004-03-21 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 21 Mar 2004 04:40, rhein wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 19 Mar 2004 14:50, rhein wrote: Alaa The Great wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:14:41 +0200 rhein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I tried to install openoffice quick

Re: Fw: [newbie] File Sharing

2004-03-21 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 12:56, JRH wrote: I use LimeWire, which not being as good as Kazaa, is more than adequate. If you have hours to spare in order to wait for a download, then Overnet command line client is worth looking at too. I have major problems with Apollon, It just wont install

Re: [newbie] Don't get the signature think...

2004-03-21 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 18 Mar 2004 16:38, rhein wrote: Hello, I installed the urpmi files (update, main and f...)... when I check in Rpmdrake they have a signature. I spend 2 hours downloading packages to run mediaplayer... And than I get the bad signature warning... I continue to install and then an

Re: Fw: [newbie] File Sharing

2004-03-21 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 21 Mar 2004 15:56, JRH wrote: snipLots of them: Apollon, MlDonkey, LimeWire, etc/snip I use LimeWire, which not being as good as Kazaa, is more than adequate. If you have hours to spare in order to wait for a download, then Overnet command line client is worth looking at too. I

Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long

2004-03-21 Thread Marc
On Sunday 21 March 2004 07:49 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/hard-disk.htm Y'all might wanna bookmark this site. The explainations are human readable ;) I was gonna stay out of this because I only have negative sentiments for _any_ ready made for Windoze

Re: Fw: [newbie] File Sharing

2004-03-21 Thread JRH
snipRPMs for Apollon are in plf for 9.2 and 10.0 together with gift-fasttrack (Kazaa) and gift-openft (Native giFT) plugins If you define plf as a urpmi source, then all the dependencies will be installed at once. You may find the fasttrack (Kazaa) plugin is not recognised until you use Advanced

Re: [newbie] iPOD with Mandrake?

2004-03-21 Thread Tom
Marc Resnick wrote: Is it possible to use an iPOD with Mandrake? I'm not quite sure of how iPODs work. Would it be recognized just as a removable device? Or does anyone know of any open source apps equivalent to the itunes software? TIA --Marc

[newbie] is there an easy way to samba ?

2004-03-21 Thread Arthur Rosene
hi i'm running 9.2. i've got two boxes that i'm using both of them dedicated both to xp and mdk 9.2. i tried samba once, awhile back.. and it was a very difficult thing for me. if it had not been for a very kind individual on #samba to hold my hand i would not have been able to backup my data.

Re: [newbie] mdk 10.0 community wont boot

2004-03-21 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Sunday 21 March 2004 09:53 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: Like the 9.2 LG cdrom deal, It's not Mandrake that's broken, it's some CD drives that aren't quite right. Not checking the md5sum of the iso, and then also from the burned CDr also contributes to the problem. It's also not clear to

Re: [newbie] Re: Some positive reviews for 10.0 Community

2004-03-21 Thread robin
Kaj Haulrich wrote: Although I'm a Club Silver Member, I haven't been able to get my hands on Acrobat Reader or RealPlayer, but I can live with that. The old versions of commercial software should work on 10.0 - certainly RealPlayer does, as I've just installed it. One exception is the nVidia

Re: [newbie] mdk 10.0 community wont boot

2004-03-21 Thread Glenn
On Sunday 21 March 2004 10:11, Bryan Phinney wrote: Well, I burned the CD on my Plextor PX-708a. I tried to boot CD1 from that same drive and it would not boot. CD2 does. I confirmed the md5 and the sums match reported values. The same Mandrake CD1 will boot from an older CD-ROM drive.

[newbie] Looking for a formula 1 game

2004-03-21 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I am looking for a formula 1 game. Could somebody here please help me? Thanks, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] is there an easy way to samba ?

2004-03-21 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 21 Mar 2004 17:02, Arthur Rosene wrote: hi i'm running 9.2. i've got two boxes that i'm using both of them dedicated both to xp and mdk 9.2. i tried samba once, awhile back.. and it was a very difficult thing for me. if it had not been for a very kind individual on #samba to

Re: [newbie] is there an easy way to samba ?

2004-03-21 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 11:02:41 -0600 Arthur Rosene disseminated the following: just curious if there is an easy way to setup samba. kinda like the simple file sharing feature of xp. basically just know the network name, and if absolutely necessary, Admin login and pass. i've never used

Re: [newbie] is there an easy way to samba ?

2004-03-21 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 March 2004 17:27, Derek Jennings wrote: Samba should work virtually out of the box The only thing you normally have to change is the Workgroup name, and add your Windows passwords. If you install the drakwizard RPM then your

Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long

2004-03-21 Thread rikona
Hello Marc, Sunday, March 21, 2004, 5:17:18 AM, you wrote: M If I then Reformat the drive using Maxblast and a win 98 floppy then M reinstall the HDD in the Gateway machine the gateway machine will be able to M detect it correctly and load windoze back on it and run just fine, but if ML M is

Re: [newbie] is there an easy way to samba ?

2004-03-21 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 21 Mar 2004 17:47, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 21 March 2004 17:27, Derek Jennings wrote: Samba should work virtually out of the box The only thing you normally have to change is the Workgroup name, and add your Windows passwords. If you install the drakwizard RPM then your

Re: [newbie] FTP Server GUI?

2004-03-21 Thread LtCdData
On Sunday 21 Mar 2004 H:44, Marc Resnick wrote: gproftpd -- works for me fine Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 06:48, Marc Resnick wrote: Is there any sort of GUI for proFTPD? I'd like to be able to monitor incoming and outgoing connections. I mainly just use it for giving files to

Re: [newbie] My public key

2004-03-21 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 20 March 2004 01:35 pm, rhein wrote: Hello, What is this public key for? :-[ Christophe Hi Chris, For a short description, it's to make sure that the email is sent by the intended owner and not by other. Also we can encrypt the email

Re: [newbie] is there an easy way to samba ?

2004-03-21 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 22 March 2004 12:38 am, JoeHill wrote: Windows should see Samba shares without any extra effort, they'll show up in My Network Places. Yes definitely. If you just want to share folder from samba to your winxp, open /etc/samba/smb.conf

Re: [newbie] Problem with sending/receiving files with xchat

2004-03-21 Thread Philip Cronje
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 14:07:09 +, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All I cannot send or receive files with dcc send and with xchat. Any ideas? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul Do you have a firewall running that could be blocking the DCC traffic? pgp0.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [newbie] is there an easy way to samba ?

2004-03-21 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 March 2004 18:24, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 21 Mar 2004 17:47, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 21 March 2004 17:27, Derek Jennings wrote: Samba should work virtually out of the box The only thing you normally have to change is

Re: [newbie] Problem with sending/receiving files with xchat

2004-03-21 Thread Paul Smith
I cannot send or receive files with dcc send and with xchat. Any ideas? Do you have a firewall running that could be blocking the DCC traffic? I have firestarter running. However, the reported problem remains even if I stop the firewall activity, getting the following message on xchat, when

Re: [newbie] Problem with sending/receiving files with xchat

2004-03-21 Thread LtCdData
On Sunday 21 Mar 2004 H:02, Philip Cronje wrote: On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 14:07:09 +, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All I cannot send or receive files with dcc send and with xchat. Any ideas? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul i take it your download path is valid and

Re: [newbie] Problem with sending/receiving files with xchat

2004-03-21 Thread Philip Cronje
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 19:35:25 +, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have firestarter running. However, the reported problem remains even if I stop the firewall activity, getting the following message on xchat, when sending a file to myself: DCC RECV connect attempt to My_nickname

Re: [newbie] Re: Some positive reviews for 10.0 Community

2004-03-21 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Sunday 21 March 2004 15:39, JRH wrote: For RealPlayer and Acrobat, I suggest you take a look at the vendors websites. I have just been to adobe.com for acrobat for Winsucks, and there was a whole list I had to choose from. Linux, MAC, FreeBSD etc... as for realplayer, I'm sure I got

[newbie] Re: is there an easy way to samba ?

2004-03-21 Thread Björn Lundin
Anne Wilson wrote: Derek - I've no experience with doing this on W2K or XP, but Win98 doesn't allow you to log in as such, in my experience. It just attempts to connect with the existing username and password. Win95, 98 and ME will do as you've experienced; log in with existing username

Re: [newbie] Encrypt a text file

2004-03-21 Thread Stephen Reynolds
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 02:38 am, Ralph Slooten wrote: Thanks, gnupg was just what I was looking for... Once I'd found the right GUI tools to go with it :-) ... which were? KGpg or Gnu Privacy Assistant, both are available via URPMI. I think it was KGpg which integrated gnupg with Konqueror

[newbie] Bounce when mailing to newbie list?

2004-03-21 Thread Björn Lundin
Hello! Why do I get a reply like this when posting to the list? The post did show up (This was my reply to Anne in the 'is there an easy way to Samba'-thread /Björn This is the Postfix program at host smtp1.mandrax.org. I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned below could not

Re: [newbie] Bounce when mailing to newbie list?

2004-03-21 Thread Philip Cronje
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 21:05:59 +0100, Björn Lundin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! Why do I get a reply like this when posting to the list? The post did show up (This was my reply to Anne in the 'is there an easy way to Samba'-thread /Björn You can ignore (read: delete) these without any

Re: [newbie] is there an easy way to samba ?

2004-03-21 Thread Arthur Rosene
Just remember that the windows user must have an account on your machine that uses exactly the same login name and password as on the XP box - and it's case-sensitive. If you also install lisa and lin-neighborhood you will easily be able to see the shares available, although you will

[newbie] more about my samba problems

2004-03-21 Thread Arthur Rosene
ok used drakwizard to configure samba. they are all on same network -- now called NETWORK. i have disabled sharing of home directories for users. i dont know what to write in the permissions part for windows to allow any user from windows to read/write to any file/directory on the universally

[newbie] MDK 10? Hmm.....

2004-03-21 Thread JRH
just managed to finally get 10 Community up and running, and I have a question: On 9.2, the login screen gave me the opportunity to manually enter my username. 10 does not appear to give me that option. I used to be able to log into KDE as root, and do things that way, to save time using

Re: [newbie] Re: is there an easy way to samba ?

2004-03-21 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 March 2004 19:55, Björn Lundin wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Derek - I've no experience with doing this on W2K or XP, but Win98 doesn't allow you to log in as such, in my experience. It just attempts to connect with the existing

Re: [newbie] Bounce when mailing to newbie list?

2004-03-21 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 March 2004 20:10, Philip Cronje wrote: You can ignore (read: delete) these without any worries. We're all getting them. :P It's only been these last few days, though. I wonder what changed? Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302

Re: [newbie] MDK 10? Hmm.....

2004-03-21 Thread Philip Cronje
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 20:43:02 +, JRH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just managed to finally get 10 Community up and running, and I have a question: On 9.2, the login screen gave me the opportunity to manually enter my username. 10 does not appear to give me that option. I used to be able to

Re: [newbie] MDK 10? Hmm.....

2004-03-21 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Sunday 21 March 2004 21:43, JRH wrote: just managed to finally get 10 Community up and running, and I have a question: On 9.2, the login screen gave me the opportunity to manually enter my username. 10 does not appear to give me that option. I used to be able to log into KDE as root, and

Re: [newbie] Re: Some positive reviews for 10.0 Community

2004-03-21 Thread Glenn
On Sunday 21 March 2004 12:49, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 21 March 2004 15:39, JRH wrote: Yes, thank you very much, JRH. I just finished installing RealPlayer8 - and some 9-codecs as well - Flashplayer and Acrobat Reader 5.0.8. Everything without a hiccup. Have all the commercial vendors

Re: [newbie] Problem with sending/receiving files with xchat

2004-03-21 Thread Paul Smith
Apparently, all the rest is working fine. I also get the following message: Offering file.htm to My_nickname --- Received a malformed DCC request from My_nickname. --- Contents of packet: DCC SEND file.htm 160711 Hrmph... that's strange. What version of xchat be you running? I've got a 2.0.7

Re: [newbie] testing Stephen Kuhn.... 1,2,3....

2004-03-21 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 02:24, Trevor wrote: On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 07:27, Stephen Kuhn wrote: If anyone wants to spoof me, well, by all means, please do - I've been spoofing myself for 41 years now... Newbie huh? :^) Welcome back. Regards Trevor Rhodes Ta mate. And yeah, we're

Re: [newbie] is there an easy way to samba ?

2004-03-21 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 04:38, JoeHill wrote: If you've got the Samba shares configured already, and easy way to mount and access them is LinNeighborhood. Windows should see Samba shares without any extra effort, they'll show up in My Network Places. You can always, as well, use either

Re: [newbie] SCO goes after the *wrong* people.

2004-03-21 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 08:57, JoeHill wrote: Quote: SCO sent letters raising the prospect of legal action for using Linux to two Department of Energy facilities, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). Link:

Re: [newbie] mdk 10.0 community wont boot

2004-03-21 Thread Marc
On Sunday 21 March 2004 03:29 pm, Carl J. Bauman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect that there is some minor anomaly in the iso image that is being spotted by newer or better CD devices but ignored by older ones. This would seem to be true, at least it was in my case. BTW, this is

[newbie] radeon m9 driver for dell laptop

2004-03-21 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi, I would like to extend my congrats to Mandrake for a significant distro release. I have installed LM10 on my Inspiron (8000) laptop and it took about 20 minutes. I didn't think it would be successful since I didn't have to provide any input or make any decisions but it set up all of my

Re: [newbie] SCO goes after the *wrong* people.

2004-03-21 Thread Lanman
This one's a beauty! We are firm in our belief that the unchecked spread of open-source software, under the GPL (the General Public License covers Linux and many other open-source programs), is a much more serious threat to our capitalist system than U.S. corporations realize, McBride said.

Re: [newbie] upgrading from 9.2 to Cooker without cd's

2004-03-21 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 19 March 2004 09:10 pm, John Drouhard wrote: I have another question about upgrading to 10.0 so I thought I'd start a new thread. I have a local mirror of cooker. I would like to install it so I could have 10 + all bugfixes so far.

Re: [newbie] MDK 10? Hmm.....

2004-03-21 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 21 March 2004 03:43 pm, JRH wrote: just managed to finally get 10 Community up and running, and I have a question: On 9.2, the login screen gave me the opportunity to manually enter my username. 10 does not appear to give me that option. I used to be able to log into KDE as root,

Re: [newbie] MDK 10? Hmm.....

2004-03-21 Thread brife
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 15:43, JRH wrote: just managed to finally get 10 Community up and running, and I have a question: On 9.2, the login screen gave me the opportunity to manually enter my username. 10 does not appear to give me that option. I used to be able to log into KDE as root,

Re: [newbie] FTP Server GUI?

2004-03-21 Thread LtCdData
On Sunday 21 Mar 2004 H:37, Stephen Kuhn wrote: if you are using ProFTP get gProFTPd as GUI it gives you real time info and lets you configure the server as well if you want anonymous logins then you will need anonymous-proftp.rpm i use it all the time and it works fine and should do what

Re: [newbie] Bounce when mailing to newbie list?

2004-03-21 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 21 March 2004 03:51 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 March 2004 20:10, Philip Cronje wrote: You can ignore (read: delete) these without any worries. We're all getting them. :P It's only been these last few days, though. I wonder

[newbie] Guide to Linux File Command Mastery

2004-03-21 Thread JoeHill
Looks like a pretty good intro to command line file manipulation and processing: http://otn.oracle.com/pub/articles/calish_file_commands.html ...and from Oracle, no less :-) -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ Kernel

[newbie] Mandrake 7.0 Error

2004-03-21 Thread Tomy Alarie
Hi, i just want to know on mandrake 7, why when i try to make a boot disk or install lilo it tells me : couldn't find kernel file ? thanks tomy - e6e9fe46b17fa16d9a250d4189e8f0cd fingerprint Quadra 650 | Debian 3.0r2 | m68k

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.0 Error

2004-03-21 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 21 March 2004 08:32 pm, Tomy Alarie wrote: Hi, i just want to know on mandrake 7, why when i try to make a boot disk or install lilo it tells me : couldn't find kernel file ? thanks Well, there is probably about 20 reasons, including your lilo.conf entries are pointing to the wrong

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