[newbie] Re:Mozilla and offline browsing

2004-10-21 Thread B.Stokke
B.Stokke wrote: Hello all.., I am using Mdk 10.1CE on a clean install. As I am on dial-up modem I want to read the visited pages off-line. Every time I try to open a page in History I get the message to go online and connect the site. Off-line is marked, Cache set to 250 mb. Have tried

Re: [newbie] Setting up broadband.

2004-10-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 21 Oct 2004 00:30, Derek Jennings wrote: I would expect that there will be a bit of paper in the box for UK users, since the manual is clearly written from an international viewpoint and has a lot of unnecessary parameters. Keith, my SMC router is set up for use in the UK, so if

[newbie] Eclectic Network Setup

2004-10-21 Thread buzz
Hi Everyone, I am yet another Windows bod who has seen the light and is trying to make headway into a brave new world of Linux [very new for me anyway :-) ]. [BTW apologies now if this message gets too long!] I've been lucky enough to pick up a number of different bits of

Re: [newbie] Eclectic Network Setup

2004-10-21 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 20:11, buzz wrote: I've been lucky enough to pick up a number of different bits of hardware over the last couple of years, namely:- big snip Simply put, you set up the MDK server as a DHCP server - so that all the client machines are set for DHCP; install Samba on the

Re: [newbie] Setting up broadband.

2004-10-21 Thread Alan Dunford
On Wednesday 20 Oct 2004 22:12, Keith Powell wrote: I am about to change to broadband and the hardware has now arrived. Clarification of a couple of points would be greatly appreciated, please. The Ethernet card has a CD which includes a wizard for setting up both it and the BIOS

Re: [newbie] RSS feeds reader

2004-10-21 Thread frankieh
Chris wrote: On Wednesday 20 October 2004 08:29 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: Hi all: Now that Evolution has dropped the Summary, I am going to need a RSS reader. I am currently using liferea but I would like to try some others before making a decision. Any suggestion? TIA, Adolfo I'm kind of partial

[newbie] Update of the 10.1 Community tree

2004-10-21 Thread Warly
The 10.1 community tree will be updated soon. That means that you should use it to update your 10.1 community version. -- Warly Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] kernel-source-2.x.x.rpm versus kernel-2.x.x.src.rpm?

2004-10-21 Thread Sevatio
Randall D. Hobbs wrote: On Wednesday 20 October 2004 08:57 pm, Sevatio wrote: What's the difference between kernel-source-2.x.x.rpm and kernel-2.x.x.src.rpm? Could you make one with the other? Thanks, Sevatio Hi Sevatio. The kernel-source-2.x.x.rpm file is the one you want for building other

Re: [newbie] Update of the 10.1 Community tree

2004-10-21 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 20:37, Warly wrote: The 10.1 community tree will be updated soon. That means that you should use it to update your 10.1 community version. You're the greatest! -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales

Re: [newbie] Setting up broadband.

2004-10-21 Thread Keith Powell
Hello Anne, Bascule and Derek (in alphabetical order!!!) Thank you very much for your replies and all the detailed information you have given me. I really do appreciate it, as broadband is completely uncharted territory for me. What an excellent and helpful list this is. I have had some jobs

Re: [newbie] Setting up broadband.

2004-10-21 Thread Keith Powell
On Thursday 21 Oct 2004 11:32, Alan Dunford wrote: On Wednesday 20 Oct 2004 22:12, Keith Powell wrote: The Ethernet card has a CD which includes a wizard for setting up both it and the BIOS automatically. But it's for Windows :( I have 98SE, which I very occasionally run. Would I be

Re: [newbie] Setting up broadband.

2004-10-21 Thread Keith Powell
Bascule. I forgot to mention that although I have both Linux and Windows, I don't dual boot. I have four hard drives each in it own tray (caddie). Each drive has a different operating system on (2 Linux, 1 Windows and one for experimenting). I plug in to the computer what operating system I

Re: [newbie] eth0 won't initialize on startup

2004-10-21 Thread Edgars Smits
Ever since I went to 10, now 10.1, same issue, on bootup eth0 shows as failed, yet a few lines later when it does a time check it succeeds, and when I log in the network is up and running. I seem to recall others mentioned the same thing when 10 came out. Are you sure that it isn't just slow

Re: [newbie] RSS feeds reader

2004-10-21 Thread Paul Mooney
Hi all: Now that Evolution has dropped the Summary, I am going to need a RSS reader. I am currently using liferea but I would like to try some others before making a decision. Any suggestion? I've stopped using Evolution for the same reason. The KDE Kontact package does have a RSS along

Re: [newbie] eth0 won't initialize on startup

2004-10-21 Thread David Johnson
Maybe I should qualify my previous statements. After boot, ifconfig indeed, shows that ETH0 is UP, however it does not get an IP address from the DHCP server. I have not yet tried it with a static IP address. In order for me to do any network communication, I must su to root and execute an

Re: [newbie] Setting up broadband.

2004-10-21 Thread Alan Dunford
On Thursday 21 Oct 2004 12:33, Keith Powell wrote: On Thursday 21 Oct 2004 11:32, Alan Dunford wrote: On Wednesday 20 Oct 2004 22:12, Keith Powell wrote: The Ethernet card has a CD which includes a wizard for setting up both it and the BIOS automatically. But it's for Windows :(

Re: [newbie] Eclectic Network Setup

2004-10-21 Thread buzz
Thanks Stephen for your advice and pointersI'll be glued to the wiki site for days by the looks of things :) The MDK Server you speak of, is that their specific server distro or is the 'normal' one you can setup during installation of 10.0 ok to use? [btw sorry the original post was so

Re: [newbie] eth0 won't initialize on startup

2004-10-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 21 Oct 2004 16:50, David Johnson wrote: Maybe I should qualify my previous statements. After boot, ifconfig indeed, shows that ETH0 is UP, however it does not get an IP address from the DHCP server. Is that a local dchp server, or your isp? I have not yet tried it with a

[newbie] Re: RSS feeds reader

2004-10-21 Thread J. David Boyd
Paul Mooney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all: Now that Evolution has dropped the Summary, I am going to need a RSS reader. I am currently using liferea but I would like to try some others before making a decision. Any suggestion? I've stopped using Evolution for the same reason.

Re: [newbie] RSS feeds reader

2004-10-21 Thread buzz
If its of any use, I use the 'sage' extension you can download to Firefox 1.0 It sits as a sidebar whilst you surf in firefox and seems fast enough. [only runs if firefox is running though i think] Paul Mooney wrote: Hi all: Now that Evolution has dropped the Summary, I am going to need a RSS

Re: [newbie] Re: RSS feeds reader

2004-10-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 21 Oct 2004 17:41, J. David Boyd wrote: Has the KNote thing been improved yet? I hate those little sticky notes all over my desktop. I wonder if KNotes can be turned off in Kontact, as I liked it otherwise... Settings Configure Kontact Notes unchecked. Anne -- Registered

Re: [newbie] Please help me...

2004-10-21 Thread ali tig
dear et, yes. i'm using the amd 64 version of Mandrake. i bought it from the mandrake store. i mean it's not copy version. i'll try it.et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 20 October 2004 13:58, ali tig wrote: dear et, my system is; ASUS K8V DELUXE motherboard, AMD Athlon(tm)64 Processor

Re: [newbie] eth0 won't initialize on startup

2004-10-21 Thread David Johnson
Anne, my DHCP server is local. My modem/gateway is handling that job. I have modified my replyto: address to be blank. Hopefully that will make things easier for everyone. Thanks all for the advice. On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:21:44 -0400, Edgars Smits [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: leave the

Re: [newbie] Re: RSS feeds reader

2004-10-21 Thread Aron Smith
On Thursday 21 October 2004 09:41 am, J. David Boyd wrote: Paul Mooney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all: Now that Evolution has dropped the Summary, I am going to need a RSS reader. I am currently using liferea but I would like to try some others before making a decision. Any

[newbie] Virus

2004-10-21 Thread Bryan Phinney
Someone running windows that has service through an ISP in Uruguay is infected with the Netsky virus. If you run windows and have dial-up service in Uruguay, you need to check your system and disinfect it. -- Bryan Phinney Want to buy your

[newbie] Re: eth0 won't initialize on startup

2004-10-21 Thread Björn Lundin
David Johnson wrote: I'm having an issue with a machine that I just built using ml10.0 where eth0 shows as having [Failed] the initialization at boot time, but if I su to root after boot and do an 'ifup eth0' it comes up with no problem. Can anyone explain why this might be happening and

Re: [newbie] Re: eth0 won't initialize on startup

2004-10-21 Thread Stew Benedict
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Björn Lundin wrote: David Johnson wrote: I'm having an issue with a machine that I just built using ml10.0 where eth0 shows as having [Failed] the initialization at boot time, but if I su to root after boot and do an 'ifup eth0' it comes up with no

[newbie] Re: RSS feeds reader

2004-10-21 Thread J. David Boyd
Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 21 October 2004 09:41 am, J. David Boyd wrote: Paul Mooney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all: Now that Evolution has dropped the Summary, I am going to need a RSS reader. I am currently using liferea but I would like to try

[newbie] Re: mail problems

2004-10-21 Thread Russell W. Behne
Today at 02:59, Russell W. Behne wrote: As if I haven't had enough problems, now my postfix is broken. I was using MandrakeLinux Control Center, and under server wizards, clicked on ``Configure groupware''. It installed a lot of software, and after that Postfix was broken. I have removed

Re: [newbie] Re: eth0 won't initialize on startup

2004-10-21 Thread David Johnson
Ok, so I added the line: MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 And eth0 comes up properly at boot time. Thanks for the help everyone! Now, the question for learning purposes is: What did I change and why did it fix the problem? On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:28:33 -0400

[newbie] Where have all the kernel source gone ?

2004-10-21 Thread Dan Gordon
I just did a install of Mandrake 10.1 comminty on another computer, kernel 2.6.8.1-10mdk, and have checked two diferent sets of mirrors and can not find any source at all for my kernel. What I am seeing is a lot of older kernel stuff like 2.6.8.0.rc2.2mdk that was not there two days ago. I

Re: [ml] Re: [newbie] RSS feeds reader

2004-10-21 Thread Dave Ashmore
buzz wrote: If its of any use, I use the 'sage' extension you can download to Firefox 1.0 It sits as a sidebar whilst you surf in firefox and seems fast enough. [only runs if firefox is running though i think] Paul Mooney wrote: Hi all: Now that Evolution has dropped the Summary, I am going to

Re: [newbie] eth0 won't initialize on startup

2004-10-21 Thread cervixcouch
Maybe I should qualify my previous statements. After boot, ifconfig indeed, shows that ETH0 is UP, however it does not get an IP address from the DHCP server. I have not yet tried it with a static IP address. In order for me to do any network communication, I must su to root and execute an

Re: [newbie] Please help me...

2004-10-21 Thread et
please answer at the bottom of the posts,, it is very confusing to read a post that is intermixed, or top posted. my answer is at the bottom. On Thursday 21 October 2004 13:15, ali tig wrote: dear et, yes. i'm using the amd 64 version of Mandrake. i bought it from the mandrake store. i mean

Re: [newbie] Where have all the kernel source gone ?

2004-10-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 21 Oct 2004 21:26, Dan Gordon wrote: I just did a install of Mandrake 10.1 comminty on another computer, kernel 2.6.8.1-10mdk, and have checked two diferent sets of mirrors and can not find any source at all for my kernel. What I am seeing is a lot of older kernel stuff like

Re: [newbie] Where have all the kernel source gone ?

2004-10-21 Thread Dan Gordon
On October 21, 2004 05:19 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Yes, Dan. Go to easyurpmi.zarb.org and get some cooker sources. There you will find 2.6.8.1-12mdk and its source rpm. This will be in 10.1 Official, I believe. Anne Ahh ok I never thought to look on cooker, silly me ;-) But wont that put

Re: [newbie] Eclectic Network Setup

2004-10-21 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 02:41, buzz wrote: Thanks Stephen for your advice and pointersI'll be glued to the wiki site for days by the looks of things :) The MDK Server you speak of, is that their specific server distro or is the 'normal' one you can setup during installation of 10.0 ok to

Re: [newbie] Virus

2004-10-21 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 04:06, Bryan Phinney wrote: Someone running windows that has service through an ISP in Uruguay is infected with the Netsky virus. If you run windows and have dial-up service in Uruguay, you need to check your system and disinfect it. (Good - I'm off the hook) --

Re: [newbie] Where have all the kernel source gone ?

2004-10-21 Thread Margot
Dan Gordon wrote: On October 21, 2004 05:19 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Yes, Dan. Go to easyurpmi.zarb.org and get some cooker sources. There you will find 2.6.8.1-12mdk and its source rpm. This will be in 10.1 Official, I believe. Anne Ahh ok I never thought to look on cooker, silly me ;-) But

Re: [newbie] RSS feeds reader

2004-10-21 Thread Chris
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 11:36 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 21:50 -0500, Chris wrote: I'm kind of partial to BottomFeeder, easy to setup, easy to use http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/BottomFeeder/ Chris: It looks better than liferea but, how do I install this thing? I

Re: [newbie] Where have all the kernel source gone ?

2004-10-21 Thread Dan Gordon
On October 21, 2004 06:32 pm, Margot wrote: Dan Anne, Up until yesterday, cooker was the correct place to find 10.1 updates, but (as per Warly's message about 12 hours ago) the 10.1 Community mirrors now carry the updates for 10.1 Community. Don't use the cooker sources any more unless

[newbie] Linux Fact or Fiction

2004-10-21 Thread Elliot Somers
This is a pretty general question, I've heard it said by one party that linux/unix is virus proof, other's say it's that virus authors go after the big guys, so MS, wintel servers, etc. What I want to know is what's true and what's not. Also I'm curious not only if it is, or not, but why?

Re: [newbie] eth0 won't initialize on startup

2004-10-21 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Thursday 21 October 2004 12:42 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 21 Oct 2004 16:50, David Johnson wrote: snip As for my replyto: address, what should it be set for? For mailing lists it should be set to blank. It is often a good idea to have a new 'account' or profile set up for the

Re: [newbie] Re: eth0 won't initialize on startup

2004-10-21 Thread David Johnson
Excellent. Thanks for the technical details on that. I needed it! As for my reply-to: field, I was able to set it as blank in my settings, so hopefully the issue with my list mail should now be solved? Maybe someone can tell me... On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 06:17:08 +0700, Fajar Priyanto [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Re: eth0 won't initialize on startup

2004-10-21 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 22 October 2004 03:08 am, David Johnson wrote: Ok, so I added the line: MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 And eth0 comes up properly at boot time. Thanks for the help everyone! Now, the question for

Re: [newbie] Where have all the kernel source gone ?

2004-10-21 Thread Margot
Dan Gordon wrote: On October 21, 2004 06:32 pm, Margot wrote: Dan Anne, Up until yesterday, cooker was the correct place to find 10.1 updates, but (as per Warly's message about 12 hours ago) the 10.1 Community mirrors now carry the updates for 10.1 Community. Don't use the cooker sources any more

Re: [newbie] Update of the 10.1 Community tree

2004-10-21 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 21 October 2004 05:52 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 20:37, Warly wrote: The 10.1 community tree will be updated soon. That means that you should use it to update your 10.1 community version. You're the greatest! -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389

Re: [newbie] Update of the 10.1 Community tree

2004-10-21 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 10:45, Dennis Myers wrote: My dumb question for the week, or day, maybe hour, anyway, how do you update from the tree? Pick a mirror that has the 10.1 community on it or go to cooker and use one of those mirrors as the source? This is not computing in my onboard

Re: [newbie] Update of the 10.1 Community tree

2004-10-21 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 10:45, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 21 October 2004 05:52 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 20:37, Warly wrote: The 10.1 community tree will be updated soon. That means that you should use it to update your 10.1 community version. You're the

Re: [newbie] Linux Fact or Fiction

2004-10-21 Thread John Wilson
On October 21, 2004 04:11 pm, Elliot Somers wrote: This is a pretty general question, I've heard it said by one party that linux/unix is virus proof, other's say it's that virus authors go after the big guys, so MS, wintel servers, etc. What I want to know is what's true and what's not.

Re: [newbie] Linux Fact or Fiction

2004-10-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
John Wilson wrote: - snip Now, Linux, in common with almost all POSIX compliant software also has an administrators account and you can, if you want to, set up as insecure a system as any old Windows box. Responsible Linux distributions will insist that you have at

Re: [newbie] RSS feeds reader

2004-10-21 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 18:32 -0500, Chris wrote: If I remember correctly I downloaded the Intel Linux version, unzipped it into my $HOME dir and ran it like this: ./bottomFeeder bottomFeeder.im HTH I missed the obvious. I downloaded the source instead of the Linux installer. Shame on