Re: [newbie] Digikam

2005-01-02 Thread John Layt
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 07:29, Edward Holcroft wrote: Hi all Can anyone tell me how to get Digikam to be the default app when I plug in my USB camera? At the moment gtkam pops up on my desktop when I connect it. Thanks ed Well, I think it has sonething to do with Hotplug, the config files for

Re: [newbie] Digikam

2005-01-02 Thread Edward Holcroft
On Sunday, 2 January 2005 10:20, John Layt wrote: On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 07:29, Edward Holcroft wrote: Hi all Can anyone tell me how to get Digikam to be the default app when I plug in my USB camera? At the moment gtkam pops up on my desktop when I connect it. Thanks ed Well, I

Re: [newbie] Digikam

2005-01-02 Thread John Layt
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 20:09, Edward Holcroft wrote: John I'm using Mandrake 10.1 and Digikam 0.6.1. I looked at the files you refer to but can't see what to edit, but will play around a little and see what google has to say. In response to Martin, I did not set my PC up manually to detect my

Re: [newbie] Digikam

2005-01-02 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 09:09, Edward Holcroft wrote: I'm using Mandrake 10.1 and Digikam 0.6.1. I looked at the files you refer to but can't see what to edit, but will play around a little and see what google has to say. In response to Martin, I

Re: [newbie] 8.2 Instilliation crashes On Partition check

2005-01-02 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 01 Jan 2005 22:58, Michael Hahn wrote: I recently needed to replace the hard drive in my M5305 notebook, and decided to install my old copy of Mandrake Linux (8.2) on it. However, when I tried to install, it reached Partition Check:

Re: [newbie] KDE upgrade

2005-01-02 Thread Keith Powell
In reply to my question on how to upgrade KDE with the packages on CD4, On Saturday 01 Jan 2005 19:21, linuxgirlie wrote: I installed KDE 3.3 bu doing the following: Copy all the KDE files into /tmp Login as root (for some reason there is a bug, may have been fixed now) that won't allow you

Re: [newbie] KDE upgrade

2005-01-02 Thread Keith Powell
On Saturday 01 Jan 2005 20:33, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 01 January 2005 10:25 am, Keith Powell wrote: In Mandrake 10.1 Official, I am trying to upgrade KDE to KDE3.3 which is on disk4 of the Download Edition. But my attempts have been a complete failure. So, PLEASE someone, in

Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-02 Thread Graham Watkins
Anne Wilson wrote: I don't use Evo, but IIRC it uses mdir format, which means that each message is in a separate file (mbox puts a whole mail folder into one file). This being so, if you can identify which messages are the infected ones you can safely delete them, leaving all others.

Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-02 Thread Graham Watkins
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Saturday 01 January 2005 09:39, Graham Watkins wrote: Wish it were that simple. I'm not running a mail server with windows clients. This is a dual booting stand alone machine and I never use windows for downloading mail. (In fact I use it as little as possible.) Do the

Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-02 Thread Graham Watkins
deedee E wrote: I confess to some confusion about your problem. Is there some reason you are forced to execute the worm-infested e-mail while running Windows? Why not just treat it like junk mail and delete it? Isn't it junk mail? I'm not executing anything. I'm not doing anything with mail in

Re: [newbie] Looking for a text editor with the auto-completion feature

2005-01-02 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 11:13:19 +1100, John Layt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you looking for a just a text editor, or a full-blown Word Processor? In KDE the Kate and KWrite text editors don't have AutoCorrect, but they do have a Word Completion plugin that pops up a list of suggested

Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-02 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 11:20, Graham Watkins wrote: .evolution/mail/local/Inbox: Worm.Bagle.AP FOUND .evolution/mail/local/Inbox.sbd/Newbie: Worm.SomeFool.P FOUND (rest of scan snipped) --- SCAN SUMMARY --- Known viruses: 25253

Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-02 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 11:43, Anne Wilson wrote: The viruses do not come in on genuine mail. The headers may suggest that they are from a reputable source, but they never are. Many are instantly recognisable as emails that you have not solicited.

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2005-01-02 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 27 Dec 2004 07:22, deedee E wrote: I think you will find that OO Writer is a lot more stable than MSWord and has as many features (all of which convert very nicely to MSWord, even though MSWord converts in an iffy manner to other

Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-02 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 13:42, Graham Watkins wrote: And it's a pity that no-one knows how to make klammail work properly because that looked like a pretty good way of dealing with infected mails. Why not try the kde mailing lists? I presume

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2005-01-02 Thread Martin Hardie
On Sunday 2 January 2005 14:43, Anne Wilson wrote: When my sin-in-law Anne I hope this was a freudian mother in laws slip! :-) Martin a son in law himself -- the riddle which man

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2005-01-02 Thread JR
On Sunday 02 January 2005 08:43 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 27 Dec 2004 07:22, deedee E wrote: I think you will find that OO Writer is a lot more stable than MSWord and has as many features (all of which convert very nicely to MSWord, even though MSWord converts in an iffy manner to

Re: [newbie] 8.2 Instilliation crashes On Partition check

2005-01-02 Thread Michael Hahn
From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Saturday 01 Jan 2005 22:58, Michael Hahn wrote: I recently needed to replace the hard drive in my M5305 notebook, and decided to install my old copy of Mandrake Linux (8.2) on it. However, when I tried to install, it reached Partition Check: hda (my new

Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-02 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Sunday 02 January 2005 06:20, Graham Watkins wrote: Yes. I have copies of all three on my Linux system. I also do not use Windows for mail. You don't have to run windows to end up with your email address being used by someone else who does have Windows and who gets infected with a

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2005-01-02 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 13:45, Martin Hardie wrote: On Sunday 2 January 2005 14:43, Anne Wilson wrote: When my sin-in-law Anne I hope this was a freudian mother in laws slip! :-) Oops... - well. Martin a son in law himself Actually, we get

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2005-01-02 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 18:47, JR wrote: I wish my mother in law used linux :) Can't you find the one thing that she would *really* love to have, then let her 'accidentally' see it? A little gentle deceit is not really harmful. ;-) Just be sure

[newbie] Where to find 'Enemy Territory' rpms?

2005-01-02 Thread Edward Wijaya
Hi, Does anybody know where can I find rpms for Enemy Territory games? Thanks beforehand. -- Edward WIJAYA Singapore Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2005-01-02 Thread Aron Smith
On Sunday 02 January 2005 07:07 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 18:47, JR wrote: I wish my mother in law used linux :) Can't you find the one thing that she would *really* love to have, then let her 'accidentally' see it? A little gentle deceit is not really harmful. ;-)

Re: [newbie] 8.2 Instilliation crashes On Partition check

2005-01-02 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 13:53, Michael Hahn wrote: From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is that a SATA drive? If so, I don't think 8.2 would be able to manage it. Is there a particular reason for your choice of 8.2? It no longer gets security

Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-02 Thread M.Schild
On Sunday 02 January 2005 12:43 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: There are no dodgy files .exe, .com, .pif or otherwise. The problem there is that virus writers realise that we now recognise these, so they use a variety of tricks to hide the .exe or whatever.  I think it goes something like

Re: [newbie] 8.2 Instilliation crashes On Partition check

2005-01-02 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 1:53 pm, Michael Hahn wrote: I choose 8.2 because I already had the OS, and I can't really afford to pay for a new OS as well as a new hard drive. Fair enough. Download 10.1, it's GPL - you don't have to pay. It would be nice if you joined Mandrake Club the next time

Re: [newbie] Where to find 'Enemy Territory' rpms?

2005-01-02 Thread mike
Edward Wijaya wrote: Hi, Does anybody know where can I find rpms for Enemy Territory games? Thanks beforehand. Plf Go to http://www.urpmi-addmedia.org and set up a plf source and you can urpmi (install) it. Mike Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2005-01-02 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 02 January 2005 10:07 am, Anne Wilson wrote: snip My husband has his own Mandrake box, but rarely adventures beyond the kde patience pack, which knocks the socks off the M$ offerings. There are some pretty good photo-handling packages these days. It's hard to find something that

Re: [newbie] 8.2 Instilliation crashes On Partition check

2005-01-02 Thread Michael Hahn
From: Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 1:53 pm, Michael Hahn wrote: I choose 8.2 because I already had the OS, and I can't really afford to pay for a new OS as well as a new hard drive. Fair enough. Download 10.1, it's GPL - you don't have to pay. It would be nice

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2005-01-02 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 16:11, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Sunday 02 January 2005 10:07 am, Anne Wilson wrote: snip My husband has his own Mandrake box, but rarely adventures beyond the kde patience pack, which knocks the socks off the M$

[newbie] Touchpad on a Compaq Presario 1700

2005-01-02 Thread Dennis Myers
I received my laptop back on Christmas Day and took it and immediately installed 10.1 on it. It had 10.0 but with 10.1 I now have a functioning touchpad with no config effort on my part. It just works. LAN and all work and the 600mhz processor acts like a 1gig would under windows. Ya just

[newbie] mounting webdav

2005-01-02 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi everyone, I found that there is an opportunity to mount webdav directories locally in MCC. All the options that I need to set are there. However, once all is set and I click on 'mount' , the error message states 'mount: fs type davfs not supported by kernel' I think the issue is that the

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2005-01-02 Thread JR
On Sunday 02 January 2005 10:07 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 18:47, JR wrote: I wish my mother in law used linux :) Can't you find the one thing that she would *really* love to have, then let her 'accidentally' see it? A little gentle deceit is not really harmful. ;-)

[newbie] Plugin for KWrite to highlight the misspelled words

2005-01-02 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All Is there some plugin for KWrite to highlight the misspelled words? Thanks in advance, Paul PS: Since I am a GMail user, please be sure that you reply to the list. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Touchpad on a Compaq Presario 1700

2005-01-02 Thread jallan6977
I have an older Toshiba that currently has win 98 on it. Got a 512mb hard drive, cd rom drive, floppy drive, and somewhere around 240 mb ram. Any possibility it would go on the little thing. I have been busting my butt dlding move then spent 5 hours getting it on a bootable cd. The cd

Re: [newbie] Touchpad on a Compaq Presario 1700

2005-01-02 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 17:07, Dennis Myers wrote: I received my laptop back on Christmas Day and took it and immediately installed 10.1 on it. It had 10.0 but with 10.1 I now have a functioning touchpad with no config effort on my part. It just

Re: [newbie] Touchpad on a Compaq Presario 1700

2005-01-02 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 02 January 2005 11:11 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 17:07, Dennis Myers wrote: I received my laptop back on Christmas Day and took it and immediately installed 10.1 on it. It had 10.0 but with 10.1 I now have a functioning touchpad with no config effort on my part.

Re: [newbie] Touchpad on a Compaq Presario 1700

2005-01-02 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 18:28, Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 02 January 2005 11:11 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 17:07, Dennis Myers wrote: I received my laptop back on Christmas Day and took it and immediately installed 10.1 on

Re: [newbie] Touchpad on a Compaq Presario 1700

2005-01-02 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 02 January 2005 12:01 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an older Toshiba that currently has win 98 on it. Got a 512mb hard drive, cd rom drive, floppy drive, and somewhere around 240 mb ram. Any possibility it would go on the little thing. I have been busting my butt dlding

[newbie] Photo Album Software.

2005-01-02 Thread Steve Goodey
Hello, I'm running 10.1O with KDE. Any suggestions for Photo Album software that does tags similar to Adobe Photoshop Album? A search has brought up gPhoto or Fotoon. Any body any experience with these? Thanks. -- Regards, Steve Goodey Colchester, England. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Digikam

2005-01-02 Thread Eric Huff
Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 01 Jan 2005 20:29, Edward Holcroft wrote: Can anyone tell me how to get Digikam to be the default app when I plug in my USB camera? At the moment gtkam pops up on my desktop when I connect it. Try kcontrol Components File Associations

Re: [newbie] Looking for a text editor with the auto-completion feature

2005-01-02 Thread Eric Huff
JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a crappy old P3 and OO opens in 7 seconds... What are the conditions for that? (IE: 1st time, already an Oo instance open, etc) ? mine is approximately: 24 seconds for the 1st time 15 for the 2nd (opening a different file after closing 1st) 6 when

Re: [newbie] Looking for a text editor with the auto-completion feature

2005-01-02 Thread Randall D. Hobbs
On Saturday 01 January 2005 02:51 pm, JoeHill wrote: I've got a crappy old P3 and OO opens in 7 seconds... Do people with faster systems see faster load times for this than I do (admittedly, relatively slow)? First time through - about 6 seconds. Second time loaded - almost 3 seconds. System

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2005-01-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 02 January 2005 01:47 pm, JR wrote: I wish my mother in law used linux :) I wish *all* mother-in-laws used Linux. Wouldn't that be a force to reckon with! :-) --

Re: [newbie] Looking for a text editor with the auto-completion feature

2005-01-02 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 11:36:04 -0800 Eric Huff disseminated the following: I've got a crappy old P3 and OO opens in 7 seconds... What are the conditions for that? (IE: 1st time, already an Oo instance open, etc) ? That's opening OO for the first time in weeks. Second time opens in 4 seconds.

Re: [newbie] Looking for a text editor with the auto-completion feature

2005-01-02 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 11:36:04 -0800 Eric Huff disseminated the following: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : Celeron (Coppermine) stepping: 6 cpu MHz : 797.669 cache size : 128 KB fdiv_bug

Re: [newbie] Looking for a text editor with the auto-completion feature

2005-01-02 Thread Eric Huff
JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 8 model name : Celeron (Coppermine) stepping: 6 snip BTW, how the heck do I get this info? I had to search for the answer myself to get it: cat

[newbie] A little script help please

2005-01-02 Thread Chris
I've got a script (below) that I use to forward spam to my isp. In 9.0 it would forward as an attachment with all headers present, however, in Kmail 1.7.1 it wants to forward them all inline. Any help on how to get them back as attachments with all headers would be appreciated.

Re: [newbie] Looking for a text editor with the auto-completion feature

2005-01-02 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 12:19:36 -0800 Eric Huff disseminated the following: BTW, how the heck do I get this info? I had to search for the answer myself to get it: cat /proc/cpuinfo 512MB [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2005-01-02 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 20:11, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 02 January 2005 01:47 pm, JR wrote: I wish my mother in law used linux :) I wish *all* mother-in-laws used Linux. Wouldn't that be a force to reckon with! :-) Only a matter of time,

Re: [newbie] Digikam

2005-01-02 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 19:08, Eric Huff wrote: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 01 Jan 2005 20:29, Edward Holcroft wrote: Can anyone tell me how to get Digikam to be the default app when I plug in my USB camera? At the moment

Re: [newbie] Photo Album Software.

2005-01-02 Thread John Layt
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 04:58, Steve Goodey wrote: Hello, I'm running 10.1O with KDE. Any suggestions for Photo Album software that does tags similar to Adobe Photoshop Album? A search has brought up gPhoto or Fotoon. Any body any experience with these? Thanks. I'm going to put in a plug

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2005-01-02 Thread John Layt
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 02:07, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 18:47, JR wrote: I wish my mother in law used linux :) Can't you find the one thing that she would *really* love to have, then let her 'accidentally' see it? A little gentle deceit is not really harmful. ;-) For most

Re: [newbie] Digikam

2005-01-02 Thread John Layt
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 07:53, Anne Wilson wrote: Maybe I misunderstood him, Eric. I thought he was wanting to browse the photos on the camera. You're right, of course, it is the program that opens when a jpg is selected. If his camera doesn't mount as a usb storage device he probably is stuck

[newbie] MDK on a Thinkpad (Was Touchpad on a Compaq Presario 1700)

2005-01-02 Thread mikkel
I have an older Toshiba that currently has win 98 on it. Got a 512mb hard drive, cd rom drive, floppy drive, and somewhere around 240 mb ram. Any possibility it would go on the little thing. I have been busting my butt dlding move then spent 5 hours getting it on a bootable cd. The cd

Re: [newbie] Looking for a text editor with the auto-completion feature

2005-01-02 Thread Eric Huff
JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Huff disseminated the following: It's prolly a combo of the Celeron processor and your memory usage. My OO is set to use 9MB, I set it to 20 and it opened in under 4 seconds. Plonk another stick of memory in there, d00d! Will that help: ~ $ free

[newbie] Root time

2005-01-02 Thread SnapafunFrank
OK. so the user time is correct, so how do I set the root time. At the moment when directories are made via root actions, the time is defaulted to 1-1-1970 Yet stuff done as user has the correct time eg: ls -al /mnt SNIP drwxr-xr-x2 frank frank 4096 Dec 26 01:23 16MB/ drwxr--r--5

Re: [newbie] Looking for a text editor with the auto-completion feature

2005-01-02 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 14:26:04 -0800 Eric Huff disseminated the following: Plonk another stick of memory in there, d00d! Will that help: ~ $ free total usedfree sharedbuffers cached Mem: 255136253272 1864 032396115588 -/+

Re: [newbie] Looking for a text editor with the auto-completion feature

2005-01-02 Thread Randall D. Hobbs
On Sunday 02 January 2005 05:15 pm, JoeHill wrote: There's so many factors involved, tho, if you look at Randall's stats his OO opens in the same amount of time as mine, and he's got a freakin' monster. Could be the OO version, could be a lot of things. *But*, with RAM bein' so stinkin' cheap,

Re: [newbie] firewall

2005-01-02 Thread John Wilson
On December 29, 2004 04:09 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: snip Yes shorewall is a good one. I appreciate Mandrake includes it. A little confusing at first, but once we read the tutorial, it's not that hard to setup. And Tom Eastep - the writer - is very active in the shorewall list. However, don't

Re: [newbie] Looking for a text editor with the auto-completion feature

2005-01-02 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 17:46:30 -0600 Randall D. Hobbs disseminated the following: I'm thinking it's about time to build one of those dual Xeon systems for my home PC... Might be nice to play with ;-) If these thoughts start to replace those 'other' thoughts, get help ;-) -- JoeHill / RLU

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2005-01-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 02 January 2005 03:43 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Only a matter of time, Dark Lord. Mothers-in-law are big on practicalities ;-) Anne Hmm. Practicalities...like domesticating son-in-laws? big grin --

Re: [newbie] Firefox 1.0

2005-01-02 Thread Chris
On Friday 31 December 2004 11:28 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 31 December 2004 09:28 pm, Chris wrote: Just finished installing Firefox 1.0, but have a question about the way its setup to be ran. There is a script in ~/firefox-installer called firefox, so I have my menu setup to

Re: [newbie] Touchpad on a Compaq Presario 1700

2005-01-02 Thread jallan6977
I am not terribly interested in putting mandrake on it. it just sounded interesting. I tried to read an iso file on it today. OOPS! Ran out of vhard drive space. No kidding, but all is well now. I use the laptop mainly to wright notes about what I had done in my garden etc.. On

Re: [newbie] MDK on a Thinkpad (Was Touchpad on a Compaq Presario 1700)

2005-01-02 Thread jallan6977
Ok. I use nero and just burned the iso into or with a bootable cd. Sounds like I made a mistake.. Normal for me. On 2 Jan 2005 at 16:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an older Toshiba that currently has win 98 on it. Got a 512mb hard drive, cd rom drive, floppy drive, and

Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-02 Thread SnapafunFrank
OK I have been following this thread to hopefully find a suitable way of appeasing those that call on me to help them with their SOHO setups. ( Myself included. ) How about we attack this problem by starting over so as to attempt to save relevant emails that the original poster is trying to

Re: [newbie] Touchpad on a Compaq Presario 1700

2005-01-02 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 02 January 2005 12:37 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 18:28, Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 02 January 2005 11:11 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 17:07, Dennis Myers wrote: I received my laptop back on Christmas Day and took it and immediately

Re: [newbie] Looking for a text editor with the auto-completion feature

2005-01-02 Thread mikkel
JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Huff disseminated the following: It's prolly a combo of the Celeron processor and your memory usage. My OO is set to use 9MB, I set it to 20 and it opened in under 4 seconds. Plonk another stick of memory in there, d00d! Will that help: ~ $ free

Re: [newbie] MDK on a Thinkpad (Was Touchpad on a Compaq Presario 1700)

2005-01-02 Thread mikkel
Ok. I use nero and just burned the iso into or with a bootable cd. Sounds like I made a mistake.. Normal for me. On 2 Jan 2005 at 16:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an older Toshiba that currently has win 98 on it. Got a 512mb hard drive, cd rom drive, floppy drive, and

Re: [newbie] MDK on a Thinkpad (Was Touchpad on a Compaq Presario 1700)

2005-01-02 Thread John Bowden
On Monday 03 Jan 2005 01:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok. I use nero and just burned the iso into or with a bootable cd. Sounds like I made a mistake.. Normal for me. On 2 Jan 2005 at 16:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an older Toshiba that currently has win 98 on it. Got

[newbie] KsCD

2005-01-02 Thread Chris
How in the heck do I keep KsCD from popping up when I load a cd? I untagged Autoplay when cd insterted but it still pops up. I prefer to use xmms and its a PITA to keep closing out KsCD. I've set all audio file associations, .mp3, .wav for xmms already. -- Chris Registered Linux User

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2005-01-02 Thread deedee E
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 13:43:43 +, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 27 Dec 2004 07:22, deedee E wrote: I think you will find that OO Writer is a lot more stable than MSWord and has as many features (all of which convert very nicely to MSWord, even though MSWord converts in an iffy manner to

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2005-01-02 Thread Noel McG.
- Original Message - From: Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 12:31 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there? On Sunday 02 January 2005 03:43 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Only a matter of time, Dark Lord.

Re: [newbie] Virus Program seems to be missing vital component.

2005-01-02 Thread deedee E
On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 11:20:43 +, Graham Watkins wrote: deedee E wrote: I confess to some confusion about your problem. Is there some reason you are forced to execute the worm-infested e-mail while running Windows? Why not just treat it like junk mail and delete it? Isn't it junk

Re: [newbie] KsCD

2005-01-02 Thread John Layt
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 13:49, Chris wrote: How in the heck do I keep KsCD from popping up when I load a cd? I untagged Autoplay when cd insterted but it still pops up. I prefer to use xmms and its a PITA to keep closing out KsCD. I've set all audio file associations, .mp3, .wav for xmms

Re: [newbie] Digikam

2005-01-02 Thread SnapafunFrank
John Layt wrote: On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 07:53, Anne Wilson wrote: Maybe I misunderstood him, Eric. I thought he was wanting to browse the photos on the camera. You're right, of course, it is the program that opens when a jpg is selected. If his camera doesn't mount as a usb storage device he

Re: [newbie] Digikam

2005-01-02 Thread John Layt
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:19, SnapafunFrank wrote: Please keep at it John as I'm really struggling with this combination myself - please post any headway back here for us all. As to mass_storage - my setup allows user to read/write to such device if it is already inserted at boot up time, but

[newbie] libgcc?

2005-01-02 Thread David Reynolds
For whatever reason, libgcc1-3.3.2-6mdk.i586 failed to installed from CD#1 this last time around. Now it seems to not believe I can install it (or anything, in fact) from my tmp/ directory, and I'm trying to sort out if it's actually borked my system, or merely gotten confused. rpmdrake's