Re: [newbie] oooqs and GNOME - for information only

2005-01-17 Thread Len Lawrence
On 17 Jan 2005 07:45:38 +0100 frengoGorgia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Il lun, 2005-01-17 alle 01:39, Len Lawrence ha scritto: Under GNOME and Mandrake 9.2 I have managed to get OpenOffice to start up in 3 or 4 seconds, which is fine. But, out of curiosity I installed oooqs from the

[newbie] OpenOffice question

2005-01-17 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Around Christmas a year ago, someone on this list, I think, said that he was using OOo to generate mailing labels. I'm trying to do the same, but have hit a snag. I've just created an address label setup, to merge in addresses from a database. It

[newbie] Setting Up email server

2005-01-17 Thread amalasingh
Friends, I am trying to setup qmail in my Mandrake Linux PC. But when configuring it says CNAME lookup failed temporarily. How do I set up my DNS server to sort out this problem? I use webmin. I am new to DNS server setup. Could you please give me step by step instructions to setup my DNS

Re: [newbie] Network Traffic Meter

2005-01-17 Thread Elwyn
On Monday 17 Jan 2005 02:32, Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 16 January 2005 01:27 pm, Elwyn wrote: Thank you for all your replies. I have noticed a lot of the messages came direct rather than to the email list... I have gone for Gkrellm and it seems to the job and a few others as well :)

Re: [newbie] Wireless Mouse

2005-01-17 Thread Elwyn
On Monday 17 Jan 2005 04:07, Matt Florido wrote: Just wondering if anyone has had success using a wireless mouse on M10.1? I can't seem to get the basic mouse from MS to work correct. I'm using a USB to PS2 adapter. It should function like a standard PS2 3-button mouse w/ scroll wheel.

[newbie] Updates Applet

2005-01-17 Thread Andy Yankovich
The red dot with an exclamation point in white has been showing for three days now. When I try to install the needed updates, I get an error message saying there are no updates to be installed, that all updates are installed. What is happening? I cannot get the updates through the Install

Re: [newbie] Network Traffic Meter

2005-01-17 Thread mike
Elwyn wrote: On Monday 17 Jan 2005 02:32, Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 16 January 2005 01:27 pm, Elwyn wrote: Thank you for all your replies. I have noticed a lot of the messages came direct rather than to the email list... I have gone for Gkrellm and it seems to the job and a few others as

Re: [newbie] Wireless Mouse

2005-01-17 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 16 January 2005 11:07 pm, Matt Florido wrote: Just wondering if anyone has had success using a wireless mouse on M10.1? I can't seem to get the basic mouse from MS to work correct. I'm using a USB to PS2 adapter. It should function like a standard PS2 3-button mouse w/ scroll

[newbie] access to USB ports

2005-01-17 Thread Martell, Larry
I don't know if this is a newbie question or not, but I figured I'd start here. Just to establish standing, let me say that I am a newbie to Linux and Intel, but I have over 25 years experience with Unix on many non-Intelplatforms. Anyway, here's my question: If I want to send data out a

Re: [newbie] access to USB ports

2005-01-17 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Martell, Larry wrote: I don't know if this is a newbie question or not, but I figured I'd start here. Just to establish standing, let me say that I am a newbie to Linux and Intel, but I have over 25 years experience with Unix on many non-Intel platforms. Anyway, here's my question: If I want to

RE: [newbie] access to USB ports

2005-01-17 Thread Martell, Larry
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Martell, Larry wrote: Anyway, here's my question: If I want to send data out a serial port, I can just do cat file /dev/ttya. How can I do the same thing with a USB port? I don't see any entries in /dev that look like the USB ports. It depends on how you have

[newbie] new MDK installs get to reboot in rw mode then PERMISSION DENIED

2005-01-17 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello. I'm not exactly a total newbie. But I'm certainly not an expert. I've been using MDK since I bought a boxed set of MDK 8.2 which installed just fine on this PC... Then when I upgraded to MDK 9.1 I bought the boxed powerpack set and had my

Re: [newbie] copying data dvd's

2005-01-17 Thread Nasikh Yishrael
From what I found out you can copy the DVD only if the DVD is not copy righted Nasikhalim Y. Yishrael4293 Briar Green DriveHuntsville, Alabama 35802256-652-9773--- Anders Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:From: Anders Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 19:33:44 +0100To:

[newbie] how to restore my medias in MDK 10.1

2005-01-17 Thread Rhein Christophe
Hello, I wanted to upgrade my medias in MDK center so I typed urpmi.removemedia -a In a console and now I have no media. What did I do wrong? How can I get the medias back because all are locked? Thank you Christophe Want to buy your Pack or

[newbie] kernal panic

2005-01-17 Thread wolfdreamer
This morning I turned my PC on, went off to make my coffee, when I came back it had this message: Kernal panic: No Init found. Try passing init= option to kernal what happened it was going great last night when I shut it down!! then this :( and how do i fix it?

Re: [newbie] how to restore my medias in MDK 10.1

2005-01-17 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 17 Jan 2005 21:38, Rhein Christophe wrote: Hello, I wanted to upgrade my medias in MDK center so I typed urpmi.removemedia -a In a console and now I have no media. What did I do wrong? It did exactly what you asked it to - it removed

[newbie] openoffice segfaulting

2005-01-17 Thread JR
OpenOffice will no longer run since I installed the quickstart program via urpm. Running any of the OO apps from the command line results in a Segfault. Uninstalling it did not help. I removed the entire OO package / libs and reinstalled to no effect. Can anyone help? Jarlath --

[newbie] still no DVD

2005-01-17 Thread Rhein Christophe
Hello, I removed xine and all the other packages I installed and started a new installation but with no success...(I installed also libdvdcss again) I got that at the console: libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access libdvdread: Attempting to retrieve all CSS keys libdvdread:

Re: [newbie] how to restore my medias in MDK 10.1

2005-01-17 Thread Rhein Christophe
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 17 Jan 2005 21:38, Rhein Christophe wrote: Hello, I wanted to upgrade my medias in MDK center so I typed urpmi.removemedia -a In a console and now I have no media. What did I do wrong? It did exactly what you asked

Re: [newbie] kernal panic

2005-01-17 Thread Erylon Hines
On Monday 17 January 2005 12:40 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | This morning I turned my PC on, went off to make my coffee, when I came | back it had this message: | | Kernal panic: No Init found. Try passing init= option to kernal | | | what happened it was going great last night when I shut

Re: [newbie] Re: enigmail

2005-01-17 Thread Charles Lee Ying
mike wrote: Charles Lee Ying wrote: mike wrote: mike wrote: I have a problem with decrypting my sent messages. Been expermenting with gnupg. When I send a signed and encrypted message to someone who has my key they get it and can read it fine and I have their key and can decrypt an

Re: [newbie] still no DVD

2005-01-17 Thread Charles Lee Ying
Rhein Christophe wrote: Hello, I removed xine and all the other packages I installed and started a new installation but with no success...(I installed also libdvdcss again) I got that at the console: libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access libdvdread: Attempting to retrieve all

Re: [newbie] openoffice segfaulting

2005-01-17 Thread Charles Lee Ying
JR wrote: OpenOffice will no longer run since I installed the quickstart program via urpm. Running any of the OO apps from the command line results in a Segfault. Uninstalling it did not help. I removed the entire OO package / libs and reinstalled to no effect. Can anyone help? Jarlath

[newbie] Java programming

2005-01-17 Thread Charles Lee Ying
can someone pls identify himself/herself as a good java programmer. I just want you to point me in the direction of a good tutorial for doing programming in graphics using Java. I've tried those provided by Sun, but they are mostly good for basic stuff and I need something a little more

Re: [newbie] access to USB ports

2005-01-17 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Martell, Larry wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Martell, Larry wrote: Anyway, here's my question: If I want to send data out a serial port, I can just do cat file /dev/ttya. How can I do the same thing with a USB port? I don't see any entries in /dev that look like the USB ports. It depends on

[newbie] turbotax?

2005-01-17 Thread Eric Huff
Well, every year i google around for a way to do taxes (on my computer) w/o booting into windows or using the web version. Sooo, anyone figured out a way to do your US taxes under Linux? I've been using turbotax, and this year i might be able to put it on Laura's mac, which is better, but i