Re: [newbie] Win partition write perm

2004-06-17 Thread Ariestao1
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 04:35 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 16 June 2004 19:12, martin brandt wrote: Arg! This is hell. I have been trying to obtain write permission on my windows storage partition. I have tried chown-ing in a console (in su), i have tried changing via properties

Re: [newbie] What port scanning software is in use on the list?

2004-06-17 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:57:37 -0400 Terence Golightly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: List, I'm thinking about installing portsentry on my box to augment my shorewall firewall. I downloaded the gzipped source and got some compile errors. Before I try to post to the developer, does anybody know of

Re: [newbie] Slightly large whinge

2004-06-17 Thread Richard Urwin
On Thursday 17 Jun 2004 1:44 am, JoeHill wrote: On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 22:49:44 +0100 Strange it was, yes, but when I rebooted after removing the live CD, the first thing I noticed was that my bash prompt had changed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and simply rebooting did nothing. I

Re: [newbie] boot log?

2004-06-17 Thread Eric Huff
I think what would be more helpful than anything is a /var/log/WTF.log Well, that seemed to go over everybody's head. ~ $ more /var/log/WTF.log /var/log/WTF.log: No such file or directory WTF?!? eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org

Re: [newbie] I can't send e-mails

2004-06-17 Thread Eric Huff
Josenildo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: [newbie] I can't send e-mails Bwaha! I'm sorry, but that reminds me of a Dilbert awhile back. Just email me your problem, and i'll fix it... Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] Good Practice

2004-06-17 Thread OOzy
What is a good practice?? Is it to install programs from source or RPM? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Good Practice

2004-06-17 Thread Marc Hultquist
On Thursday, 17 June 2004 09:12, OOzy wrote: What is a good practice?? Is it to install programs from source or RPM? I personally feel its really up to the specific person, some people like installing from source, and some like installing from rpm. I personally like installing from source,

Re: [newbie] Good Practice

2004-06-17 Thread Anders Lind
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:12:44 +0300 OOzy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is a good practice?? Is it to install programs from source or RPM? It is up to you, personally I prefer to install from source if possible /Anders Want to buy your Pack

[newbie] Read Linux partition from WinXP

2004-06-17 Thread OOzy
Is there a Windows program that reads my USB Linux Partition from WinXP? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] burning an iso

2004-06-17 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 16 June 2004 08:46 pm, David E. Fox wrote: On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:46:15 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for some reason k3b burned (10 and onlyb one cd now it won't burn any i have 10.0 official and ned to put it on cd so I can set up my new box HELP! Aron, I

Re: [newbie] Read Linux partition from WinXP

2004-06-17 Thread Cezary Morga
Dnia czw 17. czerwca 2004 09:33, OOzy napisa: Is there a Windows program that reads my USB Linux Partition from WinXP? There's a good plugin for total commander (if you're using it) to read Ext2 (and Ext3) partitions, though it's read-only. http://ghisler.fileburst.com/fsplugins/ex2fs.zip

Re: [newbie] Good Practice

2004-06-17 Thread Aron Smith
On Thursday 17 June 2004 12:25 am, Anders Lind wrote: On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:12:44 +0300 OOzy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is a good practice?? Is it to install programs from source or RPM? It is up to you, personally I prefer to install from source if possible I install from rpm ...untill

Re: [newbie] Adding an item to the KDE menu

2004-06-17 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Wednesday 16 June 2004 14:16, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 16 June 2004 20:18, OOzy wrote: I removed my gnuplot 3.7 which was shown under application|science and installed ver 4.0. How can I add it to the application|science? If you installed it to - for example - /opt , open the

Re: [newbie] Good Practice

2004-06-17 Thread Anders Lind
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 01:00:36 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I install from rpm ...untill it dosen't work thern I install from source Well, it is a matter of personal preference, IMO rpm is inferior to for example FreeBSD portsystem as I have expressed before on a few occassions,

Re: [newbie] Good Practice

2004-06-17 Thread Marc Hultquist
The ports system downloads, compiles, satisfies dependencies and installs all with the command make install apt-get ;-) ! I think personally apt-get is miles ahead of the port system on freebsd. -- Marc Hultquist ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Computerkit Systems (Pty) Ltd

Re: [newbie] Good Practice

2004-06-17 Thread Anders Lind
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 10:53:13 +0200 Marc Hultquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: apt-get ;-) ! I think personally apt-get is miles ahead of the port system on freebsd. And I think the other way around, apt-get is great, way better then RPM, but still you can end up in dependcy hell

Re: [newbie] Good Practice

2004-06-17 Thread Marc Hultquist
I have never once had a problem with apt-get and dependencies. apt-get install packagename and i have _never_ had a problem :p I had huge issues with the port system though when for example installing exim :\ Source compiling came into play ;-) -- Marc Hultquist ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: [newbie] Good Practice

2004-06-17 Thread Anders Lind
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 11:10:08 +0200 Marc Hultquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have never once had a problem with apt-get and dependencies. apt-get install packagename and i have _never_ had a problem :p I had huge issues with the port system though when for example installing exim :\

Re: [newbie] Good Practice

2004-06-17 Thread Marc Hultquist
Yup I do have to agree with you on that point. But then again when I need to upgrade minor packages I usually do it from source, but as i always say, everybody to their own. -- Marc Hultquist ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Computerkit Systems (Pty) Ltd http://www.cks.co.za (P) +27 11 695 5317 (F)

Re: [newbie] Read Linux partition from WinXP

2004-06-17 Thread Paul Kaplan
proprietary ($30), but it works: www.mount-everything.com On Thursday 17 June 2004 03:33 am, OOzy wrote: Is there a Windows program that reads my USB Linux Partition from WinXP? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] OT/semi-lenghty: Any advice for a newbie programmer?

2004-06-17 Thread J or M Montgomery
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 19:06:28 -0400 Marv Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, everyone. I realize that this isn't a developer's list, but I get the sense that there are more than a few developers here, and some of the sharpest people I've yet encountered online. I'm looking for some sage

Re: [newbie] Scanner

2004-06-17 Thread J or M Montgomery
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:04:54 -0400 John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Mustek 1200 UB scanner. Loaded it with no problems. However, every time I try to use it with The Gimp, the Gimp 2 or XSane it get the following message: Failed to open device 'mustek_usb: libusb: 001: 002': Error

Re: [newbie] Good Practice

2004-06-17 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 17 Jun 2004 08:12, OOzy wrote: What is a good practice?? Is it to install programs from source or RPM? For a newbie RPM for sure. That way you will not have to post when compiling does not work. Seriously. While compiling from source can be fun. There is a down side. It is

Re: [newbie] burning an iso

2004-06-17 Thread Q.H.Wang
Aron, I don't trust k3b. Use cdrecord: cdrecord -v -eject -device=ATA:1,0,0 -data -dao cdimage.iso I also do not have too much faith in k3b. XCDRoast is very nice. QingHua Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] boot log?

2004-06-17 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Thursday 17 June 2004 02:07, Eric Huff wrote: I think what would be more helpful than anything is a /var/log/WTF.log Well, that seemed to go over everybody's head. ~ $ more /var/log/WTF.log /var/log/WTF.log: No such file or directory WTF?!? Expansion not allowed on

Re: [newbie] Simple mail server

2004-06-17 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 06:08, Mark Annandale wrote: Hi Guys I recently moved from cable Internet to adsl and am about to lose the old cable suppliers smtp services. I have been pondering over setting myself up with a simple mail server, using my mandrake box. What I require is:- pop mail

Re: [newbie] Good Practice

2004-06-17 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Thursday 17 June 2004 02:12, OOzy wrote: What is a good practice?? Is it to install programs from source or RPM? Guess it depends on how much pain you want to go through or how good you are as a linux gru. For myself its rpm by a long shot. -- Regards; Hoyt

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 to 10.0: Upgrade or fresh install?

2004-06-17 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 13:54, Anguo wrote: Hello, I have 9.2 which is fairly customized and I don't really want to loose all this with a fresh 10.0 install. I WILL back up and make notes on the most important stuff I have in /usr and /var that would be lost during a reformating of the

Re: [newbie] Good Practice

2004-06-17 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 17:12, OOzy wrote: What is a good practice?? Is it to install programs from source or RPM? If you're a noobie, RPM. If you're a wacko, sicko geek, source. stephen kuhn - proprietor == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company

Re: [newbie] Good Practice

2004-06-17 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 17:25, Anders Lind wrote: On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:12:44 +0300 OOzy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is a good practice?? Is it to install programs from source or RPM? It is up to you, personally I prefer to install from source if possible /Anders At least when

Re: [newbie] Good Practice

2004-06-17 Thread Anders Lind
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 09:02:10 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For a newbie RPM for sure. That way you will not have to post when compiling does not work. Seriously. While compiling from source can be fun. There is a down side. It is difficult to *uninstall* apps compiled from

Re: [newbie] Sound issue

2004-06-17 Thread Paul Smith
Margot wrote: Should one expect that the reported problems with sound of Mdk 10 will be repaired in further versions? Or is it something structural, not susceptible of being changed? Depends on the type of problem, and where you have reported it. If it is a genuine *bug* in the system, and it

Re: [newbie] Good Practice

2004-06-17 Thread Marc Hultquist
Well I have to say in reply to Stephan, I have to be a sick, whacko ;-) because I detest compiling packages from rpm. I would prefer in that case to get a source rpm and recompile it for my specific or the specific computer. Thats why I use source packages, I only really use things like

Re: [newbie] Good Practice

2004-06-17 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:20:26 +0200 Anders Lind wrote: You definitely have valid points but one main reason to compile from source if possible is that the compilation will form after your own computer and not precompiled package that might suit it The same can be accomplished be either

[newbie] Need a backup script from an EXPERT!!!

2004-06-17 Thread Stephen Kuhn
I've got a client that just introduced me to his RH8 linux server - nicely done, very simple, but the orginal admin had setup a backup script that backed up stuff weekley TO THE HARD DRIVE - until they had no hard drive space at all (gee, Ralph, that was smart, eh?) Anyways, what I'd like to do

Re: [newbie] German Language SPAM

2004-06-17 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 22:31, Lanman wrote: Stephen; If you aren't needing any other forms of communication from GMX.Net, consider blocking their IP address in your firewall. I've been getting a lot of crap like that and blocking them from the firewall seems to do the trick. For

Re: [newbie] German Language SPAM

2004-06-17 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 08:31:18 -0400 Lanman disseminated the following: stephen kuhn - proprietor Stephen; If you aren't needing any other forms of communication from GMX.Net, consider blocking their IP address in your firewall. I've been getting a lot of crap like that and blocking them

Re: [newbie] Slightly large whinge

2004-06-17 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 07:53:11 +0100 Richard Urwin disseminated the following: What's it like in the Twilight Zone? Well, that tune playing over and over in the background is kind of annoying, but otherwise it's not bad. -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org 08:53:04 up 14 days, 19:15,

Re: [newbie] German Language SPAM

2004-06-17 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 22:51, JoeHill wrote: You forget to mention the advantages: You never have to actually 'download' the spam, and it takes some of the load off of procmail, etc. Plus, doesn't the spammer get a 'bounce'? Man, I wish I could run my own mailserver... :-( What's so

Re: [newbie] German Language SPAM

2004-06-17 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Thursday 17 June 2004 06:55, Greg Meyer wrote: Is anybody else on this list getting inundated with German Language spam. The ip address it is coming from is dynamic and looks like a french isp. Since some of the from addresses seem familiar, I am thinking that someone subscribed to

Re: [newbie] Simple mail server

2004-06-17 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 03:40:45PM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mark Annandale wrote: Hi Guys I recently moved from cable Internet to adsl and am about to lose the old cable suppliers smtp services. I have been pondering over setting myself up with a simple mail server, using my

Re: [newbie] Need a backup script from an EXPERT!!!

2004-06-17 Thread Sergio fernandez
I am no expert but I think Dantz Retrospect might be able to help you. Their web site is http://www.dantz.com/ but they charge for the product On 17 Jun 2004, at 13:31, Stephen Kuhn wrote: I've got a client that just introduced me to his RH8 linux server - nicely done, very simple, but the

Re: [newbie] Need a backup script from an EXPERT!!!

2004-06-17 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 23:40, Sergio fernandez wrote: I am no expert but I think Dantz Retrospect might be able to help you. Their web site is http://www.dantz.com/ but they charge for the product Nah - I'm just looking for a script - there's a script that lives on the box already - simple -

[newbie] Shame on Adobe

2004-06-17 Thread OOzy
I just downloaded Acrobat 5; I was really surprised. It seems that Adobe did not put any effort for the Linux version. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] Shame on Adobe

2004-06-17 Thread Paul Smith
I just downloaded Acrobat 5; I was really surprised. It seems that Adobe did not put any effort for the Linux version. Maybe, Adobe has a protocol with Microsoft... Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

RE: [newbie] Proxy

2004-06-17 Thread Tony S. Sykes
In Konq go to settings then scroll down to proxy, then manually specify proxy settings. Once you have set this up you can add addresses to the bottom half of the screen. Do not put an x in the box as this will reverse what you want so only the addresses in the list the proxy will use. Tony.

Re: [newbie] Shame on Adobe

2004-06-17 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 00:09, OOzy wrote: I just downloaded Acrobat 5; I was really surprised. It seems that Adobe did not put any effort for the Linux version. Wouldn't it be nice? Then again, you're talking about Adobe - the same company the grudged coming into the PC world from the Mac world

Re: [newbie] Need a backup script from an EXPERT!!!

2004-06-17 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Stephen Kuhn wrote: I've got a client that just introduced me to his RH8 linux server - nicely done, very simple, but the orginal admin had setup a backup script that backed up stuff weekley TO THE HARD DRIVE - until they had no hard drive space at all (gee, Ralph, that was smart, eh?) Anyways,

Re: [newbie] Need a backup script from an EXPERT!!!

2004-06-17 Thread Randall D. Hobbs
On Thursday 17 June 2004 08:54 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 23:40, Sergio fernandez wrote: I am no expert but I think Dantz Retrospect might be able to help you. Their web site is http://www.dantz.com/ but they charge for the product Nah - I'm just looking for a script -

Re: [newbie] boot log?

2004-06-17 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Thursday 17 June 2004 02:07, Eric Huff wrote: I think what would be more helpful than anything is a /var/log/WTF.log Well, that seemed to go over everybody's head. ~ $ more /var/log/WTF.log /var/log/WTF.log: No such file or directory WTF?!? Expansion not allowed on public

RE: [newbie] Problem with fortunes, .signature and/or crontab

2004-06-17 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Chuck, explicitly run fortune as cron sometimes does not pick up the paths. Tony. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chuck MATTSEN Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 6:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Problem with fortunes, .signature

RE: [newbie] Problem with fortunes, .signature and/or crontab

2004-06-17 Thread Tony S. Sykes
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tony S. Sykes Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 3:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Problem with fortunes, .signature and/or crontab Chuck, explicitly run fortune as cron sometimes does not pick

Re: [newbie] Shame on Adobe

2004-06-17 Thread Alastair Fay
If you don't like their product, then don't use it - just because *you* don't think they put any effort in - it might not be everyone's opinion. Why post such a pointless new-post, flaming a perfectly good company, with perfectly good products? They may *not* support Linux so much... but so what?

Re: [newbie] Simple mail server

2004-06-17 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Stephen Kuhn wrote: I still currently prefer sendmail over postmortem, er, postfix...easier for me - but then again, I've been using sendmail for yonks so it's easier for me - and using Webmin as part of the interface to the program...then again, I don't mind manually editing the

Re: [newbie] Shame on Adobe

2004-06-17 Thread Randall D. Hobbs
On Thursday 17 June 2004 09:33 am, Alastair Fay wrote: If you don't like their product, then don't use it - just because *you* don't think they put any effort in - it might not be everyone's opinion. Why post such a pointless new-post, flaming a perfectly good company, with perfectly good

Re: [newbie] Shame on Adobe

2004-06-17 Thread Marc Hultquist
On Thursday, 17 June 2004 16:33, Alastair Fay wrote: If you don't like their product, then don't use it - just because *you* don't think they put any effort in - it might not be everyone's opinion. Why post such a pointless new-post, flaming a perfectly good company, with perfectly good

Re: [newbie] Sound issue

2004-06-17 Thread Paul Smith
My e-mail program is Thunderbird and, with Mdk 10, the system bell does not ring when a new message arrives. I have already checked Thunderbird configuration and everything seems OK. I have meanwhile found the solution to my own problem: modprobe pcspkr solves the problem. Paul

Re: [newbie] German Language SPAM

2004-06-17 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 17 June 2004 08:31 am, Lanman wrote: For instance, I'm constantly getting people trying (and failing)to connect to my network from China, and Amsterdam. A quick check at arin.net tells me where it's coming from and allows me to block their IP's in my firewall. Afterwards,

Re: [newbie] Cinelerra

2004-06-17 Thread David E. Fox
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 01:20:05 -0400 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also have attempted to build 1.2.0 and it is my sincere belief, Yes there was a gunman in the grassy knoll, that cinelerra-1.2.0 contains There is a config file, but it's hidden in the top-level directory. :)

Re: [newbie] automatic batch editing of files

2004-06-17 Thread David E. Fox
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 08:40:04 -0500 Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: head: +2: No such file or directory I'm getting the same behavior here in 10.0. It seems a more careful reading of the manual page (man head) is needed. Under -n it says that if you negate the # of lines you get

Re: [newbie] automatic batch editing of files

2004-06-17 Thread David E. Fox
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:31:44 -0400 Bill Shirley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, but in your original post you said remove. None of the suggestions you received removed the lines; they just copied them to a different file. True, but he could just mv the edited file back to the original.

Re: [newbie] boot log?

2004-06-17 Thread Eric Huff
I think what would be more helpful than anything is a /var/log/WTF.log Well, that seemed to go over everybody's head. ~ $ more /var/log/WTF.log /var/log/WTF.log: No such file or directory WTF?!? Expansion not allowed on public website. Hint - it is along the same lines as

Re: [newbie] Good Practice

2004-06-17 Thread robin
OOzy wrote: What is a good practice?? Is it to install programs from source or RPM? It depends (no pun intended) on a number of things, such as your level of expertise, the amount of time you have, whether you are installing a package designed for the distro and version you are using and so on.

Re: [newbie] Shame on Adobe

2004-06-17 Thread robin
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 00:09, OOzy wrote: I just downloaded Acrobat 5; I was really surprised. It seems that Adobe did not put any effort for the Linux version. Wouldn't it be nice? Then again, you're talking about Adobe - the same company the grudged coming into the PC world

Re: [newbie] boot log?

2004-06-17 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Thursday 17 June 2004 03:07 am, Eric Huff wrote: I think what would be more helpful than anything is a /var/log/WTF.log Well, that seemed to go over everybody's head. ~ $ more /var/log/WTF.log /var/log/WTF.log: No such file or directory WTF?!? eric Eric: First hit on google

Re: [newbie] What port scanning software is in use on the list?

2004-06-17 Thread Terence Golightly
Bryan, Thanks for your reply. Below your reply is my reply with a run of make: On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 06:52, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 16 June 2004 06:57 pm, Terence Golightly wrote: List, I'm thinking about installing portsentry on my box to augment my shorewall firewall. I

Re: [newbie] What port scanning software is in use on the list?

2004-06-17 Thread Terence Golightly
On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 02:33, John Rye wrote: See if you can find portsentry-1.1-3mdk.i586.rpm, it certainly works well with 9.2, don't know about 10.x. Cheers John Thanks John, If my attempts to compile fail, then I'll look harder for it. Terry

Re: [newbie] boot log?

2004-06-17 Thread Eric Huff
On Thursday 17 June 2004 03:07 am, Eric Huff wrote: I think what would be more helpful than anything is a /var/log/WTF.log Well, that seemed to go over everybody's head. ~ $ more /var/log/WTF.log /var/log/WTF.log: No such file or directory WTF?!? eric Eric: First hit on google

Re: [newbie] What port scanning software is in use on the list?

2004-06-17 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 17 June 2004 12:55 pm, Terence Golightly wrote: Bryan, portsentry.c:1585: error: parse error before sourceforget portsentry.c:1585: error: stray '\' in program portsentry.c:1585:24: missing terminating character make: *** [linux] Error 1 There is an extra carriage return

Re: [newbie] German Language SPAM

2004-06-17 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 23:03:21 +1000 Stephen Kuhn disseminated the following: Man, I wish I could run my own mailserver... :-( What's so frigging hard about running a mail server, JH? Should I come over there and bitch slap you? I CAN'T believe you just said that mate...c'mon...wasso hard

Re: [newbie] German Language SPAM

2004-06-17 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 17 June 2004 03:07 pm, JoeHill wrote: Not that I don't know how, but because I'm on a dynamic IP which belongs to a block of 'consumer' addresses, I end up on DNSRBL's within minutes. I guess I pretty much already am running a mailserver (fetchmail, postfix, procmail), but I

Re: [newbie] I can't send e-mails

2004-06-17 Thread Josenildo Marques
Em Qui, 2004-06-17 às 09:24, robin escreveu: Josenildo Marques wrote: Hi. I installed 10.0. Installation was as smooth as it could be and I like it. However, I've got a problem with Evolution: it gives the following error message when I try to send an e-mail Erro ao executar

Re: [newbie] I can't send e-mails

2004-06-17 Thread Josenildo Marques
Em Qui, 2004-06-17 às 04:11, Eric Huff escreveu: Josenildo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: [newbie] I can't send e-mails Bwaha! I'm sorry, but that reminds me of a Dilbert awhile back. Just email me your problem, and i'll fix it... The thing is it was based on true stories

[newbie] I can't install dvdrip

2004-06-17 Thread Josenildo Marques
Hi. I can't install dvdrip or transcode. I am sure the rpm sources are OK because I have already installed other programmes. I'm running 10.0. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi transcode Alguns pacotes não puderam ser instalados: transcode-0.6.12-6plf.i586 (devido a não satisfazer liba52.so.0)

Re: [newbie] Need a backup script from an EXPERT!!!

2004-06-17 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 00:24, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: I know there is a package to backup to CD - you can try looking on freshmeat for it. As far as getting rid of old backups, if you use the date command to date stamp your backup as part of the name, then the same cron job that

Re: [newbie] Need a backup script from an EXPERT!!!

2004-06-17 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 00:26, Randall D. Hobbs wrote: On Thursday 17 June 2004 08:54 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 23:40, Sergio fernandez wrote: I am no expert but I think Dantz Retrospect might be able to help you. Their web site is http://www.dantz.com/ but they charge

Re: [newbie] Shame on Adobe

2004-06-17 Thread OOzy
On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 18:09, Marc Hultquist wrote: On Thursday, 17 June 2004 16:33, Alastair Fay wrote: If you don't like their product, then don't use it - just because *you* don't think they put any effort in - it might not be everyone's opinion. Why post such a pointless new-post,

Re: [newbie] German Language SPAM

2004-06-17 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:14:59 -0400 Bryan Phinney disseminated the following: Most mail servers don't block at that level. This is where I'm not clear. What is the difference between using a DNSRBL and what you describe below? I thought the DNSRBL's were the results of the reverse DNS checks...

Re: [newbie] I can't install dvdrip

2004-06-17 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 06:44, Josenildo Marques wrote: Hi. I can't install dvdrip or transcode. I am sure the rpm sources are OK because I have already installed other programmes. I'm running 10.0. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi transcode Alguns pacotes nco puderam ser instalados:

Re: [newbie] I can't install dvdrip

2004-06-17 Thread Josenildo Marques
Em Qui, 2004-06-17 às 18:38, Stephen Kuhn escreveu: On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 06:44, Josenildo Marques wrote: Hi. I can't install dvdrip or transcode. I am sure the rpm sources are OK because I have already installed other programmes. I'm running 10.0. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi

Re: [newbie] Shame on Adobe

2004-06-17 Thread Cezary Morga
Dnia czw 17. czerwca 2004 16:33, Alastair Fay napisa: If you don't like their product, then don't use it - Well, there actually are no good Adobe programs to use under Linux. It is a pity indeed that Adobe doesn't care about Linux users. I've read somewhere that Disney and some other companies

Re: [newbie] Shame on Adobe

2004-06-17 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Thursday 17 June 2004 17:19, Cezary Morga wrote: Dnia czw 17. czerwca 2004 16:33, Alastair Fay napisa: If you don't like their product, then don't use it - Well, there actually are no good Adobe programs to use under Linux. It is a pity indeed that Adobe doesn't care about Linux users.

Re: [newbie] German Language SPAM

2004-06-17 Thread Lanman
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 17 June 2004 03:07 pm, JoeHill wrote: Not that I don't know how, but because I'm on a dynamic IP which belongs to a block of 'consumer' addresses, I end up on DNSRBL's within minutes. I guess I pretty much already am running a mailserver (fetchmail, postfix,

Re: [newbie] German Language SPAM

2004-06-17 Thread Lanman
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 17 June 2004 08:31 am, Lanman wrote: For instance, I'm constantly getting people trying (and failing)to connect to my network from China, and Amsterdam. A quick check at arin.net tells me where it's coming from and allows me to block their IP's in my firewall.

Re: [newbie] German Language SPAM

2004-06-17 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 18:41:47 -0400 Lanman disseminated the following: Joe; One thing to consider is that you switch to another service. I had the same problems with Sympatico and Videotron, so I switched to ISTOP. I've been seriously considering it. Even with my discount on the Sympatico,

Re: [newbie] creating FAT32 partition in linux, 3.2gb?

2004-06-17 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
martin brandt wrote: Hello, i am trying to create a FAT32 formatted partition with my remaining 50gb. When i do it only becomes 3.2gb.. Im not too sure if this is because of the FAT32 filesystem, because i know FAT16 can only have a max of like 2gb, but i also have a FAT32 partition sized 61gb,

Re: [newbie] URPMI wiped

2004-06-17 Thread Amy
*snips down a whole lot* Johan Sch wrote: 1-The way Amy did with the help of a friend,, Amy .. kindly if possible the required rpms to restore urpmi please. I'd love to let you know what rpms are needed to restore it, but I didn't make a list while I was doing it. Basically what I did was poke

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird closes itself

2004-06-17 Thread Amy
Thanks to anyone who tried to help me figure it out. I'm just going to cry uncle here. Okay, so I gave in and decided to just filter for Microsoft in the headers of emails from OOzy. So far, so good, it seems. I haven't had anything else crashing me... We'll see how this works out. I can

Re: [newbie] Xorg rpms

2004-06-17 Thread RickS
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 23:45:50 -0400 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] | Xorg rpms now available for Mdk 10.0 |These rpms will replace exiting Xfree86 rpms and lib. | |They will work with both the fglrx and Nvidia drivers though I can |

RE: [newbie] SCSI Detection problem

2004-06-17 Thread Bernardo de Barros Franco
Thanks for the response, unfortunately it did not work. After booting expert and choosing the aic7xxx_old driver I had the same problem. Note: Booting with kernel 2.6 renders an error loading the module or something like that. Anyway, with the alt1 image (kernel 2.4) I could get as far as

Re: [newbie] Good PHP Editor

2004-06-17 Thread Anguo
On Friday 11 Jun 2004 8:11 pm, OOzy wrote: Any how anybody knows a good PHP Editor? Vim That's all i use for php, html and the rest... Anguo -- www.masquilier.org Condorcet, Approval alternative voting. In order to prevent people from receiving viruses that would seem to originate from my