[newbie] Help with setting up a POP Server

2004-07-08 Thread mark rogers
Hi Team I have gotten a new Mandrake Linux server mostly working, however I am having a little trouble with setting up the POP Server so that I can access the SMTP mail in the Post Office on the machine. As far as I can see both POP2 and POP3 services are running, as is the XINETD service. When

[newbie] MP3U files (stupid newbie question-so shoot me

2004-07-08 Thread Aron Smith
1. what is a MP3u file ? I know it is necessary for the mp3 player in my truck to read the disk How do I generate the file as i have a couple of gigs of mp3s with no mp3u files? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] MP3U files (stupid newbie question-so shoot me

2004-07-08 Thread Charlie M.
On July 8, 2004 11:44 pm, Aron Smith wrote: 1. what is a MP3u file ? I know it is necessary for the mp3 player in my truck to read the disk How do I generate the file as i have a couple of gigs of mp3s with no mp3u files? Yeah, right Aron. How many times do I have to tell you; the stupid

Re: [newbie] MP3U files (stupid newbie question-so shoot me

2004-07-08 Thread Cezary Morga
Dnia pi 9. lipca 2004 07:44, Aron Smith napisa: 1. what is a MP3u file ? I know it is necessary for the mp3 player in my truck to read the disk How do I generate the file as i have a couple of gigs of mp3s with no mp3u files? It's an mp3 playlist. You can generate it by xmms (for example)

[newbie] Mandrake + CUPS + printer RICOH Aficio 180

2004-07-08 Thread Michel JORDA
Hi, Im a real Newbie with old computers this is New-Caledonia, a pacific island. Il currently running a kind of cyberpoint with - a server (Mandrake 9.2) use also as a office computer - 6 slaves (only webbrowsers) (Mandrake 9.2) - two W**nd*w slaves :-( - two macosx computers Several questions,

Re: [newbie] GStreamer and amaroK

2004-07-08 Thread Cezary Morga
Dnia czw 8. lipca 2004 00:22, Charles A Edwards napisa: On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 22:53:02 +0200 Cezary Morga wrote: Anyone here using amaroK? I cannot get it playing? It seems that GStreamer doesn't work. I've installed it from Charles' packages and nothing... There is nothing wrong with my

Re: [newbie] Changing hostname without cardiac arrest

2004-07-08 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 09:10:19 -0500 Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lee Wiggers wrote: snip On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 08:36:07 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Put HOSTNAME=black.aeis.tv into /etc/sysconfig/network derek -- Which is what I was

Re[5]: [newbie] Noob question of the day

2004-07-08 Thread Justin Grote
JG First of all, judging by that portscan I'd say you have JG postfix (or sendmail, etc.), CUPS, Webmin, X, and BIND all running JG as services (the rest I don't recognize). You may or may not want JG to stop some of these services using chkconfig --del service. If JG this is a personal machine, I

[newbie] Installation/configuration of PCMCIA Fax/Modem Card for ThinkPad X21

2004-07-08 Thread nut megger
Hardware: ThinkPad X21 with UltraBay; newly obtained PCMCIA fax/modem card to use to dial up my ISP. Question: Should the fax/modem card be inserted first and then a new Linux installation performed or should the card be inserted while Linux is running and it will be recognized so that it can be

Re: [newbie] Help with setting up a POP Server

2004-07-08 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
mark rogers wrote: Hi Team I have gotten a new Mandrake Linux server mostly working, however I am having a little trouble with setting up the POP Server so that I can access the SMTP mail in the Post Office on the machine. As far as I can see both POP2 and POP3 services are running, as is the

[newbie] Buffalo WLI-CB-G54A Wireless Card

2004-07-08 Thread Job Evers
Has anybody gotten the Buffalo WLI-CB-G54A Wireless Card (http://www.buffalo-technology.com/webcontent/products/wireless/wli-cb-g54.htm) to work? I was thinking about purchasing one if there are drivers available. It appears to be using the Broadcom chipset if that helps. I know Linuxant

Re: [newbie] Floppy Problems

2004-07-08 Thread Rich
Richard Urwin wrote: On Tuesday 06 Jul 2004 3:02 am, mike wrote: What does mtab say cat /etc/mtab here is mine below. none /mnt/floppy supermount rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--, umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 Also see what ls -al /mnt/floppy here is mine below. drwxrwxrwx 0

[newbie] test

2004-07-08 Thread Thereidos
Sorry for that, but I've got some problems with my previous email account so I switched to this one and want to check how it works :) -- Cezary Thereidos Morga ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) GG# 169903 Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: Re[5]: [newbie] Noob question of the day

2004-07-08 Thread EE
On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 15:05, Justin Grote wrote: JG First of all, judging by that portscan I'd say you have JG postfix (or sendmail, etc.), CUPS, Webmin, X, and BIND all running JG as services (the rest I don't recognize). You may or may not want JG to stop some of these services using

Re: [newbie] Installation/configuration of PCMCIA Fax/Modem Card for ThinkPad X21

2004-07-08 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
nut megger wrote: Hardware: ThinkPad X21 with UltraBay; newly obtained PCMCIA fax/modem card to use to dial up my ISP. Question: Should the fax/modem card be inserted first and then a new Linux installation performed or should the card be inserted while Linux is running and it will be recognized

[newbie] Xmms crashes

2004-07-08 Thread C. Tresenriter
I have 10.0 Official installed and get sound with Realplay but xmms has problems. When I load a CD to play and click on a track it crashes. If I start a stream, it buffers and looks like it's connected - shows that it's a stereo signal, but there's no sound and the timer sits at zero. Then if I

Re: [newbie] The Most Popular Programming Language in Linux

2004-07-08 Thread Richard Urwin
On Thursday 08 Jul 2004 3:16 am, Justin Grote wrote: RU That's true if you're deciding between C, Java and Ada, but many RU languages are very different. I'm sorry if I implied that. I meant in general. You could have written a connection graph from a network capture in C, and you could have

Re: [newbie] Xmms crashes

2004-07-08 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 08 July 2004 01:24 pm, C. Tresenriter wrote: I'd thought it had something to do with the Arts soundwrapper - which I remember solved another problem in the past but removing it from the xmms info in the menu tool didn't help. Seems like I resolved this in an earlier version of MDK

Re: [newbie] Xmms crashes

2004-07-08 Thread Aron Smith
On Thursday 08 July 2004 10:24 am, C. Tresenriter wrote: I have 10.0 Official installed and get sound with Realplay but xmms has problems. When I load a CD to play and click on a track it crashes. If I start a stream, it buffers and looks like it's connected - shows that it's a stereo

Re[7]: [newbie] Noob question of the day

2004-07-08 Thread Justin Grote
On 5/16/2004 at 7:58 AM, EE ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: E I have these running which ones should I turn off and how? E 21/tcpopen ftp E 22/tcpopen ssh E 25/tcpopen smtp E 53/tcpopen domain E 80/tcpopen http E 111/tcp open rpcbind E 443/tcp open https E 631/tcp open

Re: [newbie] test

2004-07-08 Thread Justin Grote
On 7/8/2004 at 9:22 AM, Thereidos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: T Sorry for that, but I've got some problems with my previous email account so I T switched to this one and want to check how it works :) PONG :) __ Justin Grote Network Architect, CCNA JWG Networks Email:

[newbie] More on Sympatico Microsoft.

2004-07-08 Thread Lanman
Looks like existing Sympatico customers DID receive advance notice about this, but did not receive a choice in the matter. Still, there's no news about the fact that their email system is being moved to Microsoft. Hmmm.

Re: [newbie] Buffalo WLI-CB-G54A Wireless Card

2004-07-08 Thread Johan Nilsson
Job Evers wrote: Has anybody gotten the Buffalo WLI-CB-G54A Wireless Card (http://www.buffalo-technology.com/webcontent/products/wireless/wli-cb-g54.htm) to work? I was thinking about purchasing one if there are drivers available. It appears to be using the Broadcom chipset if that helps. I know

Re: [newbie] More on Sympatico Microsoft.

2004-07-08 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On July 8, 2004 12:37 pm, Lanman wrote: Looks like existing Sympatico customers DID receive advance notice about this, but did not receive a choice in the matter. Still, there's no news about the fact that their email system is being moved to

Re: [newbie] Xmms crashes

2004-07-08 Thread Margot
C. Tresenriter wrote: I have 10.0 Official installed and get sound with Realplay but xmms has problems. When I load a CD to play and click on a track it crashes. If I start a stream, it buffers and looks like it's connected - shows that it's a stereo signal, but there's no sound and the timer sits

Re: [newbie] Xmms crashes

2004-07-08 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 14:08:38 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. Install the xmms-aRts plugin and open up xmms, go to Options, preferences and under output plugins, select the newly installed Arts plugin. Change the buffering to your desire and you should be good to go. --

Re: [newbie] More on Sympatico Microsoft.

2004-07-08 Thread Lanman
Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On July 8, 2004 12:37 pm, Lanman wrote: Looks like existing Sympatico customers DID receive advance notice about this, but did not receive a choice in the matter. Still, there's no news about the fact that their email system is being

Re: [newbie] Buffalo WLI-CB-G54A Wireless Card

2004-07-08 Thread Job Evers
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Johan Nilsson wrote: I have another card linksys 54G based on Broadcom chips. I am using ndiswrapper 0.7 and it is up and running. You can check on *ndiswrapper*.sourceforge.net to see if your chipset is supported. Ndiswrapper was a bit complicated to set up, but doable.

Re: [newbie] Xmms crashes

2004-07-08 Thread Bambang Gunawan
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 14:28:10 -0500, C. Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 14:08:38 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. Install the xmms-aRts plugin and open up xmms, go to Options, preferences and under output plugins, select the newly installed Arts

Re: [newbie] More on Sympatico Microsoft.

2004-07-08 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On July 8, 2004 01:46 pm, Lanman wrote: chop Actually Charlie; They HAVE to answer. I filed a complaint with the CRTC, which was forwarded to Sympatico. They have 30 days to respond, and when they do, it will come to me and will be sent to the CRTC

Re: [newbie] More on Sympatico Microsoft.

2004-07-08 Thread Lanman
Charlie M. wrote: Let's hope the work the tax dollars do is better than the performance I've observed in the past. )-: Thanks for staying on top of the situattion. Charlie NP Charlie. It's what I live for! Lanman Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] More on Sympatico Microsoft.

2004-07-08 Thread robin
Lanman wrote: Looks like existing Sympatico customers DID receive advance notice about this, but did not receive a choice in the matter. Still, there's no news about the fact that their email system is being moved to Microsoft. Hmmm.

Re: [newbie] Sympatico gives their clients the Microshaft!

2004-07-08 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 07:19:18 -0400 Lanman disseminated the following: If you're a Sympatico client, check your email settings and take a close look at your PoP3 and SMTP server names. If they contain host names like pophm and smtphm , your account has already been moved! If they don't

Re: [newbie] Xmms crashes

2004-07-08 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 08 July 2004 03:28 pm, C. Tresenriter wrote: Well I found an rpm - xmmsarts-0.4-1.i586.rpm - and installed it but it's not showing up in the choices drop down and it's not in the Plugins directory!? Tried to run the installer again and it told me everything was already

[newbie] New Spam Solution on the way

2004-07-08 Thread Bryan Phinney
For anyone that owns their own domain and runs their own Mail server. Have you ever been the victim of a joe-job where some slimy spambucket forges your domain name in his from during a spam run and you suddenly get inundated with complaints and bounces? Ever asked if anything could be done

Re: [newbie] TV Card recommendation

2004-07-08 Thread Guy Rouillier
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 16:54:50 -0600 Scott Mazur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stay away from ATI all-in-wonder cards (as I've learned). Darn, I was hoping to get one of those for the next computer I build. No chance of that working under Mandrake, eh? Thanks for the heads up. -- Guy Rouillier

Re: [newbie] Xmms crashes

2004-07-08 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 02:58:26 +0700 Bambang Gunawan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try at xmms Preferences Output Plugins, choose arts output Umm embarrassed smiley yeah, but it's greyed out. use command: rpm -qa|grep xmms you'll see in there Yop there it is. Bambang

Re: [newbie] Xmms crashes

2004-07-08 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 08 July 2004 07:17 pm, C. Tresenriter wrote: Umm embarrassed smiley yeah, but it's greyed out. Just to make sure that you are not expending time on something that is not a problem, why not try this, drop to a konsole and type killall artsd. Then run XMMS and play a music

[newbie] I guess I am a real newbie

2004-07-08 Thread Michael
ok I have just downloaded the first cd in the mandrake 9.1 ppc set, I have tried to install it directly by holding down c at startup and also by using the script thing in the BootX folder of the cd. The only way I was able to get Mandrake to install was using a text install after holding down

Re: [newbie] TV Card recommendation

2004-07-08 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 08 July 2004 07:07 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 16:54:50 -0600 Scott Mazur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stay away from ATI all-in-wonder cards (as I've learned). Darn, I was hoping to get one of those for the next computer I build. No chance of that working under

Re: [newbie] Xmms crashes

2004-07-08 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 08 July 2004 06:59 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 08 July 2004 03:28 pm, C. Tresenriter wrote: Well I found an rpm - xmmsarts-0.4-1.i586.rpm - and installed it but it's not showing up in the choices drop down and it's not in the Plugins directory!? Tried to run the

Re: [newbie] Xmms crashes

2004-07-08 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 19:54:54 -0400 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Open xmms, Click on the O before you play any file. Then Preferences. Under Audio I/O Plugins, look in the lower pain, you should see Output Plugin and it will be set to something like alsa or oss. Click on the drop

Re: [newbie] Xmms crashes

2004-07-08 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 19:39:10 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 08 July 2004 07:17 pm, C. Tresenriter wrote: Umm embarrassed smiley yeah, but it's greyed out. Just to make sure that you are not expending time on something that is not a problem, why not try this,

Re: [newbie] Xmms crashes

2004-07-08 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 08 July 2004 09:28 pm, C. Tresenriter wrote: That did it!! The CD's playing with the OSS output plugin - with the aRts plugin it still crashes. So it KDE's sound system that needs tweaking?? My guess is that something on your system is not setup properly. Either artsd is not

Re: [newbie] Xmms crashes

2004-07-08 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 18:59:49 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Open xmms, Click on the O before you play any file. Then Preferences. Under Audio I/O Plugins, look in the lower pain, you should see Output Plugin and it will be set to something like alsa or oss. Click on the

Re: [newbie] The Most Popular Programming Language in Linux

2004-07-08 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Thursday 08 July 2004 01:17 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Thursday 08 Jul 2004 3:16 am, Justin Grote wrote: RU That's true if you're deciding between C, Java and Ada, but many RU languages are very different. I'm sorry if I implied that. I meant in general. You could have written a

Re: [newbie] The Most Popular Programming Language in Linux

2004-07-08 Thread John Rye
On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 20:54:00 -0400 Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 08 July 2004 01:17 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Thursday 08 Jul 2004 3:16 am, Justin Grote wrote: RU That's true if you're deciding between C, Java and Ada, but many RU languages are very different.

[newbie] Mouse issues

2004-07-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
In my MDK 10.0 OE setup, my MS Intellimouse is acting rather strangely; sometimes the wheel works, sometimes it doesn't; and also, in XFCE4 where I used to be able to use the mouse-wheel to shade a window, it doesn't allow for me to do that anymore... I've checked and rechecked the mouse settings

Re: [newbie] Mouse issues

2004-07-08 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 12:51:11 +1000 Stephen Kuhn wrote: In my MDK 10.0 OE setup, my MS Intellimouse is acting rather strangely; sometimes the wheel works, sometimes it doesn't; OH; the plague of the universal /dev/mouse I am assuming that this is a ps2 mouse. In XF86Config-4 change the the

Re: [newbie] Mouse issues

2004-07-08 Thread Roland Hughes
It must from using a MS Intellimouse. In one sense it's a oxymoron. In the other Linux recognizes what it is and refuses to work with it. Roly On Thursday 08 July 2004 07:51 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: In my MDK 10.0 OE setup, my MS Intellimouse is acting rather strangely; sometimes the wheel

Re: [newbie] Mouse issues

2004-07-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 13:37, Roland Hughes wrote: It must from using a MS Intellimouse. In one sense it's a oxymoron. In the other Linux recognizes what it is and refuses to work with it. Roly Works great in 9.1, Knoppix and RH; just in 10.0 it's flaky. Still trying to work out why it's

Re: [newbie] Xmms crashes

2004-07-08 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 21:44:52 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 08 July 2004 09:28 pm, C. Tresenriter wrote: That did it!! The CD's playing with the OSS output plugin - with the aRts plugin it still crashes. So it KDE's sound system that needs tweaking?? My

[newbie] PPTP in LM 10

2004-07-08 Thread KLG
Hello Friends, I want to know if anybody has installed PPTP in Mandrake Linux 10. I would be grateful for any help. Regards KL

Re: [newbie] The Most Popular Programming Language in Linux

2004-07-08 Thread Sujit Apte
Hi All, I think PERL is also a very good language and it is available free !! You can do almost any thing using PERL so also there are hundreds of modules available to suit specific requirement. Try it.. ~Sujit.. John Rye wrote: On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 20:54:00 -0400 Carroll Grigsby

Re: [newbie] PPTP in LM 10

2004-07-08 Thread Guy Rouillier
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 08:49:31 +0500 KLG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Friends, I want to know if anybody has installed PPTP in Mandrake Linux 10. I would be grateful for any help. Regards KL Client or server? If the former, I'm running it on 10.0 for AMD64. Required a kernel and ppp fix

Re: [newbie] PPTP in LM 10

2004-07-08 Thread KLG
ClientI want to configure PPTP on LM 10.0 on my Intel PIII Machine. Please remember that I am new in this Linux thing and experimenting and learning. I will be grateful for your detailed instructions. KL - Original Message - From: Guy Rouillier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Xmms crashes

2004-07-08 Thread Drew Martin
On Thursday 08 Jul 2004 6:24 pm, C. Tresenriter wrote: I have 10.0 Official installed and get sound with Realplay but xmms has problems. When I load a CD to play and click on a track it crashes. If I start a stream, it buffers and looks like it's connected - shows that it's a stereo signal,

Re: [newbie] The Most Popular Programming Language in Linux

2004-07-08 Thread Aron Smith
On Thursday 08 July 2004 07:21 pm, John Rye wrote: On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 20:54:00 -0400 Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 08 July 2004 01:17 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Thursday 08 Jul 2004 3:16 am, Justin Grote wrote: RU That's true if you're deciding between C, Java