Re: [newbie] Download HTTP?

2004-11-10 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 10 November 2004 02:24, Eric Scott wrote: Yo; does anybody know where I can download Mandrake 10.1 PPC via http instead of FTP? On the FTP mirrors I'm getting an average of about 9KB/s. That just won't do when download 2100MB of data. My satellite broadband has roughly a 600k

Re: [newbie] MDK On-Line

2004-11-10 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 09 November 2004 22:10, Drew Martin wrote: Hi All, How do you turn the MDK On-Line applet back on in KDE,on a updated 10.1 system?I turn it off and now can not get it back. Drew run mdkapplet derek --

Re: [newbie] Problem playing encrypted DVD using libdvdcss and Totem

2004-11-10 Thread John Layt
On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 23:29, Thomas Ewender wrote: hey, just tried Xine and Ogle, neither of them shows more than the Goldwyn-Mayer - trailer :-( I got some more detailed debug messages from ogle, seems that Ogle can only read the first title of the DVD. display: frame rate: 0.000 fps

Re: Fwd: [newbie] A short notice to gmail users

2004-11-10 Thread Merlin Zener
On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 09:48, Chris wrote: On Monday 01 November 2004 08:41 pm, David Johnson wrote: You should be able to make your replyto: field blank. I was able to. Now, I can't vouch for whether or not it actually works, but I was able to set it to . Nope, it doesn't work

Re: Fwd: [newbie] A short notice to gmail users

2004-11-10 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 19:01:50 +0700, Merlin Zener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should be able to make your replyto: field blank. I was able to. Now, I can't vouch for whether or not it actually works, but I was able to set it to . Nope, it doesn't work David. I can confirm that. I

Re: Fwd: [newbie] A short notice to gmail users

2004-11-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 10 Nov 2004 12:01, Merlin Zener wrote: On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 09:48, Chris wrote: On Monday 01 November 2004 08:41 pm, David Johnson wrote: You should be able to make your replyto: field blank. I was able to. Now, I can't vouch for whether or not it actually works, but I was

[newbie] how to edit modules.conf - permission problem...

2004-11-10 Thread Merlin Zener
Hello, I'm running 10.0, having recently upgraded from 9.0. I'm trying to get my USB card reader to work, and I went to the Apacer site and they say to edit my modules.conf file. But when I try to save the edited file it complains I don't have permission. So I'm guessing I need to be root to do

Re: [newbie] how to edit modules.conf - permission problem...

2004-11-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 10 Nov 2004 12:14, Merlin Zener wrote: Hello, I'm running 10.0, having recently upgraded from 9.0. I'm trying to get my USB card reader to work, and I went to the Apacer site and they say to edit my modules.conf file. But when I try to save the edited file it complains I don't

Re: [newbie] how to edit modules.conf - permission problem...

2004-11-10 Thread Stew Benedict
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: To do it that way you would have to do something like 'vi modules.conf' - not for the fainthearted, if you are not familiar with vi. BTW, are you sure it is modules.conf you need? It probably isn't if you are running a 2.6 kernel. Most things are

Re: [newbie] Am I right in thinking..

2004-11-10 Thread geoff
Thanks so much for your advice. I'll find time to work on it soon. Regards Geoff GTechnically you can use wine to run .exe under linux, but you should better find a linux version of your program. check out http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft-en/table.shtml I would reccomend

Re: [newbie] how to edit modules.conf - permission problem...

2004-11-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 10 Nov 2004 12:31, Stew Benedict wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Anne Wilson wrote: To do it that way you would have to do something like 'vi modules.conf' - not for the fainthearted, if you are not familiar with vi. BTW, are you sure it is modules.conf you need? It probably

Re: Fwd: [newbie] A short notice to gmail users

2004-11-10 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 19:01:50 +0700 Merlin Zener disseminated the following: this feature is not supported at this time type generic response back... ...they're too busy plugging the security holes ;-) -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 09:32:40 up 98 days, 10:24, 7 users,

Re: [newbie] 9.2 Move CD?

2004-11-10 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 10 November 2004 12:25 am, Bill Mudry wrote: At 10:14 PM 11/9/04 -0500, you wrote: On Tuesday 09 November 2004 08:42 pm, Eric Scott wrote: Yo; I'm burning 9.2 discs for a friend, and I've got a disk labelled Mandrake 9.2 Move CD. Is this important or worth burning? He's

Re: [newbie] MDK On-Line

2004-11-10 Thread Wojciech Podgrni
Uytkownik Drew Martin napisa: Hi All, How do you turn the MDK On-Line applet back on in KDE,on a updated 10.1 system?I turn it off and now can not get it back. Drew Edit ~/.Mdkonline/mdkonline and change AUTOSTART value to true.

[newbie] Netmon and Linux

2004-11-10 Thread Manaxus
Hello, I am coming from the Microsoft world and learning LINUX so I am wondering if anyone is familiar with the network monitoring tool called netmon. If so, does LINUX have a tool similar to it? Thanks, -Manaxus

Re: [newbie] Netmon and Linux

2004-11-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 10 Nov 2004 16:19, Manaxus wrote: Hello, I am coming from the Microsoft world and learning LINUX so I am wondering if anyone is familiar with the network monitoring tool called netmon. If so, does LINUX have a tool similar to it? When looking for something specific to a task,

[newbie] urpmi - file not found

2004-11-10 Thread Fajar Priyanto
Hi folks, [EMAIL PROTECTED] monmon]# urpmi --auto-select To satisfy dependencies, the following package is going to be installed (3 MB): urpmi-4.6-1mdk.noarch Is this OK? (Y/n) y ftp://mdk.linux.org.tw/pub/mandrakelinux/devel/10.1/i586/media/main/urpmi-4.6-1mdk.noarch.rpm ...retrieving

Re: Fwd: [newbie] A short notice to gmail users

2004-11-10 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
On November 10, 2004 05:06, Anne Wilson wrote: ... There has been a long thread about this on Expert. It is agreed that it is 'unfixable' for the moment, and it was suggested that gmail users should have a sig on the lines of 'I am a gmail user and cannot turn off reply-to. Please be aware of

Re: [newbie] Download HTTP?

2004-11-10 Thread Pat Patterson
On Wednesday 10 November 2004 02:24, Eric Scott wrote: Yo; does anybody know where I can download Mandrake 10.1 PPC via http instead of FTP? On the FTP mirrors I'm getting an average of about 9KB/s. That just won't do when download 2100MB of data. My satellite broadband has roughly a

Re: [newbie] IMAP server?

2004-11-10 Thread Peter Davis
Peter Davis wrote: I've been using e-mail for over 2 decades, and even though I haven't saved everything, I have several Gb of mail stored up in various formats (basically MH or mbox). I continue to get hundreds of messages a day, and after killing the spam, I keep maybe half of what's left.

Re: [newbie] IMAP server?

2004-11-10 Thread Paul
Op Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:06:49 -0500 schreef Peter Davis: So after a month, I haven't had time to make much headway in getting an IMAP server set up. I'm starting to think I should just buy the Mandrake 10.1 Powerpack. It seems to come with Cyrus IMAP, and even Kolab. Any comments on this?

Re: [newbie] 9.2 Move CD?

2004-11-10 Thread Eric Scott
I don't believe so. I can't get it to work right one my comp (Once I realized what it was I had to tinker with it ;-) ), or rather I can't get X to work, because my monitor is... um well lets just say it never works with automatic setups. Anyway, I think the idea behind mdkMove is that

Re: [newbie] urpmi - file not found

2004-11-10 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 10 November 2004 17:39, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi folks, [EMAIL PROTECTED] monmon]# urpmi --auto-select To satisfy dependencies, the following package is going to be installed (3 MB): urpmi-4.6-1mdk.noarch Is this OK? (Y/n) y

[newbie] 10.1 PPC?

2004-11-10 Thread Eric Scott
Yo; I just downloaded Mandrake 10.1 PPC and am trying to install it on my PowerMac 7300/180. It seems chipper; I've got Yellow Dog on it and want to try Mandrake. BootX is configured with the ramdisk and kernal specified in the documentation for the install... it seems chipper here, kills

[newbie] Memory clog on 9.2?

2004-11-10 Thread Eric Scott
Yo; I've got a Mandrake 9.2 box that I use as a web server. On my SuSE box at home I leave KDE system guard open 24/7 connected to the server via ssh, all that fun stuff. I've noticed that as the server is on for long periods of time, the ammount of free memory goes down, at roughly 3MB/hour.

[newbie] 10.1 powerpack download

2004-11-10 Thread Aron Smith
D/L ed it again but K3b says not a usable image ?? trying again -- When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor, he betrays the interest of his country. --Noah Webster.

Re: [newbie] Memory clog on 9.2?

2004-11-10 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Eric Scott wrote: Yo; I've got a Mandrake 9.2 box that I use as a web server. On my SuSE box at home I leave KDE system guard open 24/7 connected to the server via ssh, all that fun stuff. I've noticed that as the server is on for long periods of time, the ammount of free memory goes down, at

[newbie] New setup problems

2004-11-10 Thread Chuck Paulien
I downloaded the ISO images for Mandrake 10.1 and burned them as iso images to the CDs. Everything so far appears to be good, but when I rebooted the cd doesn't boot up it does run a splash screen with language options on the bottom and other install options above. When I click on the top

[newbie] Connecting to and printer attached to a Windows XP computer

2004-11-10 Thread Steve Mason
I am trying to print to a printer attached to a Windows XP computer from my Linux 10.1 computer. I have file and print sharing turned on on the XP computer and CUPS and SAMBA client loaded on the LINUX computer. When I run install printer from Linux and check the box that says I want to

RE: [newbie] Connecting to and printer attached to a Windows XP computer

2004-11-10 Thread Albert Charron
Maybe a dumb question, but happened to me so often... You said you have file and printer sharing turned on, but have you shared the printer? Have you set your linux box (samba) and your Windows box to be on the same workgroup (another windows thing) ? Albert -Original Message-

Re: [newbie] HELP...HELP...

2004-11-10 Thread ali tig
i don't know my monitor is recent or not. but it could be. my monitor is LG Flatron F900B. but after installation it's working very well.There must be another problem! AliRob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 07 November 2004 1:59 am, ali tig wrote: dear rob, i solved the problem. it

Re: [newbie] 10.1 PPC?

2004-11-10 Thread Lovell Mcilwain
I have also had my issues with mandrake on the powerpc with regards to installing on my blue and white g3 or my bronze g3 laptop. I would much rather have mandrake then the mac os that is on it but when I go to install it, the gui comes up all funky and when I try installing in text mode it

Re: [newbie] Netmon and Linux

2004-11-10 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 03:19, Manaxus wrote: Hello, I am coming from the Microsoft world and learning LINUX so I am wondering if anyone is familiar with the network monitoring tool called netmon. If so, does LINUX have a tool similar to it? Thanks, -Manaxus Microsoft's

Re: [newbie] IMAP server?

2004-11-10 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 04:06, Peter Davis wrote: So after a month, I haven't had time to make much headway in getting an IMAP server set up. I'm starting to think I should just buy the Mandrake 10.1 Powerpack. It seems to come with Cyrus IMAP, and even Kolab. Any comments on this? Will

Re: [newbie] Memory clog on 9.2?

2004-11-10 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 05:36, Eric Scott wrote: Yo; I've got a Mandrake 9.2 box that I use as a web server. On my SuSE box at home I leave KDE system guard open 24/7 connected to the server via ssh, all that fun stuff. I've noticed that as the server is on for long periods of time, the

Re: [newbie] Connecting to and printer attached to a Windows XP computer

2004-11-10 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 06:45, Steve Mason wrote: I am trying to print to a printer attached to a Windows XP computer from my Linux 10.1 computer. I have file and print sharing turned on on the XP computer and CUPS and SAMBA client loaded on the LINUX computer. When I run install printer

Re: [newbie] 10.1 powerpack download

2004-11-10 Thread John Richard Smith
Aron Smith wrote: D/L ed it again but K3b says not a usable image ?? trying again I had a similar problem recently with another dvd-iso file. k3b would not recognise it as an iso file. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Connecting to and printer attached to a Windows XP computer

2004-11-10 Thread Steve Mason
Yes I have shared the printer on the XP Box but, no I have not set the Linux box to the workgroup in SAMBA. Do you know how to do that? Steve Albert Charron wrote: Maybe a dumb question, but happened to me so often... You said you have file and printer sharing turned on, but have you shared the

Re: [newbie] Connecting to and printer attached to a Windows XP computer

2004-11-10 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 08:15, Steve Mason wrote: Yes I have shared the printer on the XP Box but, no I have not set the Linux box to the workgroup in SAMBA. Do you know how to do that? Steve Install Webmin. Once you have Webmin installed and you login, you can click on SERVERS, then Samba

Re: [newbie] Netmon and Linux

2004-11-10 Thread John Wilson
On November 10, 2004 08:19 am, Manaxus wrote: Hello, I am coming from the Microsoft world and learning LINUX so I am wondering if anyone is familiar with the network monitoring tool called netmon. If so, does LINUX have a tool similar to it? Thanks, -Manaxus Ann has already given you

Re: [newbie] urpmi - file not found

2004-11-10 Thread Margot
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 10 November 2004 17:39, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi folks, [EMAIL PROTECTED] monmon]# urpmi --auto-select To satisfy dependencies, the following package is going to be installed (3 MB): urpmi-4.6-1mdk.noarch Is this OK? (Y/n) y

[newbie] Package installation freezes during Mandrake 10.0 instal

2004-11-10 Thread Michael John Coates
I am trying to install Mandrake 10.0 on a Dell Latitude 505 laptop. The installation proceeds without problems until it starts to install the selected packages. It loads a couple of packages but then just stops. The mouse still tracks but the hour-glass cursor is displayed, and the machine

[newbie] Re: Mplayer can not double window size in mandrake 10.1 CE

2004-11-10 Thread Anthony Brooks
Teddy Widhi wrote: I can't double window size to watch movie by Mplayer 1.0pre5 in mandrake 10.1 CE, this is a bug or i have to configure the mplayer before used it?, but i have try to install mplayer from source, and the double window is function. It's been like that for awhile now. Not

Re: [newbie] HELP...HELP...

2004-11-10 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:06:55 -0800 (PST) ali tig disseminated the following: i don't know my monitor is recent or not. but it could be. my monitor is LG Flatron F900B. but after installation it's working very well. There must be another problem! There's actually 3 that I can see. 1. Line

RE: [newbie] Netmon and Linux

2004-11-10 Thread Manaxus
Thank you both Ann and John! -mx -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Wilson Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 10:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Netmon and Linux On November 10, 2004 08:19 am, Manaxus wrote: Hello,

RE: [newbie] Netmon and Linux

2004-11-10 Thread Manaxus
Thanks Stephen! :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Kühn Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 12:49 PM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Netmon and Linux On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 03:19, Manaxus wrote: Hello, I am coming

[newbie] Starband on Linux?

2004-11-10 Thread Eric Scott
Yo; I've got Starband's basic satellite internet package/modem/dish/whatever. The don't officially support Linux with this hardware and have taken great pains to create their own protocal to make sure that you have to have a Windows boxconnected to their modem. Neway, anybody know of an

[newbie] NVidia drivers

2004-11-10 Thread Dennis Myers
I am unable to get the Nvidia drivers to work. No splash screen and no acceleration. I have installed the latest from the Nvidia web site and put in 'Load glx and nvidia in the proper places but get a failed to load the Nvidia kernel or some such. Is there an nvidia-kernel-blahblah for the

[newbie] Faster mirrors?

2004-11-10 Thread Eric Scott
I'm quite unimpressed with the speed I'm getting from the mirrors for Mandrake 10.0 Official via FTP. Anybody know of a particularly good mirror? Or a bittorrent/jigbo download like there is for Debian? I tried to download 10 earlier with no success (20KB/s download didn't cut it for me),

Re: [newbie] NVidia drivers

2004-11-10 Thread Teddy Widhi
Hi Dennis, mandrake 10 and 10.1 included NVidia driver in the CD, if you have a problem with the new driver from nvidia.com, you can used the driver from your Mandrake Distro. Teddy On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 23:52:39 -0600, Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am unable to get the Nvidia drivers

Re: [newbie] how to edit modules.conf - permission problem...

2004-11-10 Thread Erylon Hines
On Wednesday 10 November 2004 04:14 am, Merlin Zener wrote: | Hello, | | I'm running 10.0, having recently upgraded from 9.0. I'm trying to get | my USB card reader to work, and I went to the Apacer site and they say | to edit my modules.conf file. But when I try to save the edited file it |

Re: [newbie] how to edit modules.conf - permission problem...

2004-11-10 Thread Erylon Hines
On Wednesday 10 November 2004 04:14 am, Merlin Zener wrote: | Hello, | | I'm running 10.0, having recently upgraded from 9.0. I'm trying to get | my USB card reader to work, and I went to the Apacer site and they say | to edit my modules.conf file. But when I try to save the edited file it |

Re: [newbie] NVidia drivers

2004-11-10 Thread John Layt
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:52, Dennis Myers wrote: I am unable to get the Nvidia drivers to work. No splash screen and no acceleration. I have installed the latest from the Nvidia web site and put in 'Load glx and nvidia in the proper places but get a failed to load the Nvidia kernel or some

Re: [newbie] Faster mirrors?

2004-11-10 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Wednesday 10 November 2004 10:13 pm, Eric Scott wrote: I'm quite unimpressed with the speed I'm getting from the mirrors for Mandrake 10.0 Official via FTP. Anybody know of a particularly good mirror? Or a bittorrent/jigbo download like there is for Debian? I tried to download 10 earlier