Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1 - modem question

2005-02-12 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Yes. The external serial modem will hook up to one of the existing serial ports on the computer. There should already be com ports and interrupts set aside for this under Linux, so all you have to do is tell whatever application you want that com1 is a modem. That has no effect on com3,

Re: [newbie] Download DVD - MISSING FILES

2005-02-12 Thread Peter Watson
On Saturday 12 Feb 2005 05:13, John Rye wrote: Hi all, Having, (finally), obtained a 10.1 Download DVD I have made what can only be described as an interesting discovery There are at least 1900 files MISSING from the .iso image. Amongst several others:

Re: [newbie] Download DVD - MISSING FILES

2005-02-12 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 12 Feb 2005 11:39, Peter Watson wrote: Yes I have many files missing from my download edition, but they are all on the main mirrors so it's not much of a problem once you know to set up a main source. To do that, go to

[newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on /

2005-02-12 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
I'm pretty CLI stupid (as will be apparent here, no doubt), so I'd appreciate it if someone with some patience could try to walk me through a fix for this, if possible. The scenario is that yesterday I had about 1 gig free on my / partition. Haven't installed any programs in the interim

Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on /

2005-02-12 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 12 February 2005 13:57, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: I'm pretty CLI stupid (as will be apparent here, no doubt), so I'd appreciate it if someone with some patience could try to walk me through a fix for this, if possible. The scenario is that yesterday I had about 1 gig free on my /

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1 - modem question

2005-02-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Yes. The external serial modem will hook up to one of the existing serial ports on the computer. There should already be com ports and interrupts set aside for this under Linux, so all you have to do is tell whatever application you want that com1 is a modem.

Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on /

2005-02-12 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
Derek Jennings wrote: The scenario is that yesterday I had about 1 gig free on my / partition --snip--8 If you have more than one partition 'df' is useful to find the partition that is filling up. Definitely / [I'm back in X, BTW ... I deleted the .gz'ed log backups, which

[newbie] To gmail users

2005-02-12 Thread Avi Schwartz
If you are a gmail user having problems with the gmail reply-to settings, do the following: 1) Go to your Gmail settings 2) Select the other reply-to radio button (the one with the entry box) 3) Type into the reply-to entry box (in other words Less-then followed by a Greater-then sign).

Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on /

2005-02-12 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
Derek Jennings wrote: You could also remove any archived log files in /var/log Say, looking in some of the subdirectories there, it would seem that my mail logs have suddenly gone crazy, no? Or so it would seem to me, anyway (below). Unless I'm misunderstanding something here, it would appear

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic

2005-02-12 Thread Carroll Grigsby
whack I'd like to thank all of you for reminding me why the OT list was created. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] trouble mounting zip drive

2005-02-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Mike Adolf wrote: [REMOVED earlier text] I was just doing some re-reading of your message. Your ZIP device should not be /dev/hdd. You say it is the slave on the first IDE channel? Ribbon1: Lite On DVD writer and Zip 100 This would be /dev/hdb, not /dev/hdd. So this would be something like

[newbie] cannot launch konqueror

2005-02-12 Thread Michel Leunen
Hi, When I want to launch konqueror as a web browser (the icon near the mandrake star in the taskbar), nothing happens. Trying to launch konqueror from a console, I got this error message: $ konqueror webbrowsing konqueror: relocation error: /usr/lib/kde3/khtml_kget.so: undefined symbol:

Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on /

2005-02-12 Thread Paul
Op Sat, 12 Feb 2005 09:47:28 -0600 schreef Chuck MATTSEN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]$ cd /var/log/mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail]$ dir -print total 912908 232704 -rw--- 1 0 0 197636096 Feb 12 08:53 warnings 231214 -rw--- 1 0 0 539029504 Feb 12 08:53 errors 231768 -rw--- 1 0 0 197160960 Feb

Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on /

2005-02-12 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
Chuck MATTSEN wrote: Say, looking in some of the subdirectories there, it would seem that my mail logs have suddenly gone crazy, no? Or so it would seem to me, anyway (below). Unless I'm misunderstanding something here, it would appear that this could account for the missing nearly 1 gig, no?

Re: [newbie] cannot launch konqueror

2005-02-12 Thread Aron Smith
On Saturday 12 February 2005 08:05 am, Michel Leunen wrote: Hi, When I want to launch konqueror as a web browser (the icon near the mandrake star in the taskbar), nothing happens. Trying to launch konqueror from a console, I got this error message: $ konqueror webbrowsing konqueror:

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic

2005-02-12 Thread et
On Saturday 12 February 2005 11:01 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: whack I'd like to thank all of you for reminding me why the OT list was created. -- cmg maybe we should take a round of thanks on the other lists that so greatly benifit from Mark Weaver's hosting of the OT list but let's do

Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on /

2005-02-12 Thread Stuart R. Fuller
On Saturday 12 February 2005 10:47 am, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: You could also remove any archived log files in /var/log Say, looking in some of the subdirectories there, it would seem that my mail logs have suddenly gone crazy, no? Or so it would seem to me, anyway

Re: [newbie] trouble mounting zip drive

2005-02-12 Thread Mike Adolf
On Saturday 12 February 2005 11:08 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mike Adolf wrote: [REMOVED earlier text] I was just doing some re-reading of your message. Your ZIP device should not be /dev/hdd. You say it is the slave on the first IDE channel? Ribbon1: Lite On DVD writer and Zip 100

Re: [newbie] cannot launch konqueror

2005-02-12 Thread Michel Leunen
Aron Smith wrote: just a hunch but su to root and type updatedb? update-menus Thanks Aron but it still doesn't work. Michel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on /

2005-02-12 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 12 February 2005 16:11, Paul wrote: Op Sat, 12 Feb 2005 09:47:28 -0600 schreef Chuck MATTSEN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]$ cd /var/log/mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail]$ dir -print total 912908 232704 -rw--- 1 0 0 197636096 Feb 12 08:53 warnings 231214 -rw--- 1 0 0 539029504 Feb 12

Re: [newbie] Logo in Login Manager

2005-02-12 Thread teguh
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: teguh wrote: Hi, I have problem with my Mandrake 10.0. I changed something in Login Manager (Users tab), if I'm not mistaken, I uncheked Enable passwordlessblahblah...blah.(it's in upper left of Users tab). And I changed the logo (the K logo) but forgot

Re: [newbie] cannot launch konqueror

2005-02-12 Thread et
On Saturday 12 February 2005 12:15 pm, Michel Leunen wrote: Aron Smith wrote: just a hunch but su to root and type updatedb? update-menus Thanks Aron but it still doesn't work. Michel try this ; updatedb update-menus no question mark

Re: [newbie] cannot launch konqueror

2005-02-12 Thread Michel Leunen
et wrote: Aron Smith wrote: just a hunch but su to root and type updatedb? update-menus updatedb update-menus no question mark :-) Yes, that's what I've done, thanks. Michel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] cannot launch konqueror

2005-02-12 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 12 February 2005 10:05 am, Michel Leunen wrote: Hi, When I want to launch konqueror as a web browser (the icon near the mandrake star in the taskbar), nothing happens. Trying to launch konqueror from a console, I got this error message: $ konqueror webbrowsing konqueror:

Re: [newbie] Download DVD - MISSING FILES

2005-02-12 Thread John Rye
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:39:39 + Peter Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] are certainly NOT on the DVD I obtained commercially. The supplier said quote We simply download the iso and burn them for distribution [snip] Yes I have many files missing from my download edition, but they

Re: [newbie] trouble mounting zip drive

2005-02-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Mike Adolf wrote: After I did as you suggested, messages contained: Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: hdd: No disk in drive Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: hdd: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm

Re: [newbie] To gmail users

2005-02-12 Thread Isaac Hummel
I did as you suggested, and it does indeed result in a blank (but not non-existent) reply-to. Now lets see what Sympa does with it. On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 09:31:43 -0600, Avi Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are a gmail user having problems with the gmail reply-to settings, do the

Re: [newbie] To gmail users

2005-02-12 Thread Isaac Hummel
It works! Thank you! BTW, sorry for top-posting. It's a bad habit I've picked up when using Gmail's web interface (which I don't usually use, even for mailing lists). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] To gmail users

2005-02-12 Thread Paul
Interesting effect, though. A double reply-to header... From: Isaac Hummel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Reply-To: Reply-To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] To gmail users Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] To gmail users

2005-02-12 Thread Isaac Hummel
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:06:16 -0500, Isaac Hummel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It works! Thank you! I spoke too soon. I can see Reply-To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com when I pull up the message in Thunderbird, but when I hit Reply it still goes to me. The reason is that Sympa didn't expunge the first

Re: [newbie] Hay-ulp! :) Suddenly no free space on /

2005-02-12 Thread Erylon Hines
On Saturday 12 February 2005 05:57 am, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: | I'm pretty CLI stupid (as will be apparent here, no doubt), so I'd | appreciate it if someone with some patience could try to walk me through | a fix for this, if possible. | | The scenario is that yesterday I had about 1 gig free on my

[newbie] Xorg.0.log errors

2005-02-12 Thread Mohammed Badran
hello The kde doesn't start i have these error messages in Xorg.0.log and i don't unsderstand it can any one help me please (EE) Failed to load module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a (once-only module, 135962511) (WW) LoadModule: given non-canonical module name

Re: [newbie] To gmail users

2005-02-12 Thread Isaac Hummel
Yes. Thunderbird didn't display the blank header so I didn't know it was still there until I looked at the source. Does your client use the list header when you click reply? Thunderbird doesn't, but if some clients do it might not be a completely useless workaround. On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 20:08:24

Re: [newbie] To gmail users

2005-02-12 Thread Paul
Op Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:12:18 -0500 schreef Isaac Hummel: I spoke too soon. I can see Reply-To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com when I pull up the message in Thunderbird, but when I hit Reply it still goes to me. I did a check with Sylpheed. That creates a reply with an empty To: field. Clearly it

Re: [newbie] To gmail users

2005-02-12 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:12:18 -0500, Isaac Hummel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I spoke too soon. I can see Reply-To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com when I pull up the message in Thunderbird, but when I hit Reply it still goes to me. The reason is that Sympa didn't expunge the first (blank) Reply-to

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1 - modem question

2005-02-12 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 11 February 2005 04:51, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Thanks. Is the com port a nine pinned male connection? I can't remember from last computer with external modem. Am going to try configure existing modem first though. Should be male, as to the number of pins, depends on how new

Re: [newbie] To gmail users

2005-02-12 Thread Paul
Op Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:15:18 -0500 schreef Isaac Hummel: Yes. Thunderbird didn't display the blank header so I didn't know it was still there until I looked at the source. Does your client use the list header when you click reply? Thunderbird doesn't, but if some clients do it might not be a

Re: [newbie] Xorg.0.log errors

2005-02-12 Thread Paul
Op Sat, 12 Feb 2005 21:12:51 +0200 schreef Mohammed Badran: (EE) Failed to load module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a (once-only module, 135962511) (WW) LoadModule: given non-canonical module name /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a (WW) RIVA128(0): Failed to set up

Re: [newbie] Re: Program to download all the files on a http address

2005-02-12 Thread Paul Smith
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 19:34:22 -0500, JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to all who replied me. Is there a GUI for wget? urpmi gwget or gwget2 Thanks, JoeHill. Could you please tell me where from can one get the rpm for gwget? Regards, Paul

Re: [newbie] To gmail users

2005-02-12 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 12 Feb 2005 19:01, Isaac Hummel wrote: I did as you suggested, and it does indeed result in a blank (but not non-existent) reply-to. Now lets see what Sympa does with it. In kmail I didn't see any reply-to line at all (I use Long

Re: [newbie] Xorg.0.log errors

2005-02-12 Thread Stuart R. Fuller
On Saturday 12 February 2005 2:12 pm, Mohammed Badran wrote: hello The kde doesn't start i have these error messages in Xorg.0.log and i don't unsderstand it can any one help me please (EE) Failed to load module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a (once-only module, 135962511) (WW)

Re: [newbie] To gmail users

2005-02-12 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 19:37:46 +, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In kmail I didn't see any reply-to line at all (I use Long Headers for style), but it was there in the full headers, and hitting reply brings it up automatically. But, Anne, the reply-to line is empty, is not it? Paul

Re: [newbie] Re: Program to download all the files on a http address

2005-02-12 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 12 February 2005 01:35 pm, Paul Smith wrote: On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 19:34:22 -0500, JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to all who replied me. Is there a GUI for wget? urpmi gwget or gwget2 Thanks, JoeHill. Could you please tell me where from can one get the rpm for gwget?

Re: [newbie] cannot launch konqueror

2005-02-12 Thread Michel Leunen
Dennis Myers wrote: Michel, what version are you using? 10.0 if it is 10.1 have you done the latest updates including bugfixes and normal updates as well as security? Ok, that's a good idea. I tried updating everything doing an urpmi.update -a urpmi --auto-select but the next time I logged in,

Re: [newbie] Re: Program to download all the files on a http address

2005-02-12 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 13:57:48 -0600, Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is in contrib if you have a urpmi source set up for the contrib rpms, just do the su passwd and urpmi gwget. HTH Well, Dennis, I do have a urpmi source set up for contrib rpms, but it does not have gwget. What urpmi

Re: [newbie] trouble mounting zip drive

2005-02-12 Thread Mike Adolf
On Saturday 12 February 2005 01:34 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mike Adolf wrote: After I did as you suggested, messages contained: Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: hdd: No disk in drive Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel:

Re: [newbie] To gmail users

2005-02-12 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 12 Feb 2005 19:56, Paul Smith wrote: On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 19:37:46 +, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In kmail I didn't see any reply-to line at all (I use Long Headers for style), but it was there in the full headers, and

Re: [newbie] Amarok, Audacity and streamtuner

2005-02-12 Thread rikona
Hello Aron, Thursday, February 10, 2005, 12:29:51 PM, Aron wrote: AS On Thursday 10 February 2005 11:21 am, rikona wrote: I didn't have xmms installed originally, but streamtuner uses it to play the stream and it got installed then. Works well. I like the playlist in Amarok a bit better, but

Re: [newbie] To gmail users

2005-02-12 Thread Paul Smith
No - it correctly shows the newbie list address. So, the problem with the reply-to issue of GMail users is solved, is not it? Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] Amarok 1.2 beta does not play

2005-02-12 Thread Paul Smith
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 19:42:36 -0500, Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1/ but it does not play anything, since as soon as I load a playlist, I get the following message: Playlist finished What engine are you trying to use? com to #amarok on freenode

Re: [newbie] Re: Program to download all the files on a http address

2005-02-12 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 12 February 2005 21:22, Paul Smith wrote: On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 13:57:48 -0600, Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is in contrib if you have a urpmi source set up for the contrib rpms, just do the su passwd and urpmi gwget. HTH Well, Dennis, I do have a urpmi source set

Re: [newbie] To gmail users

2005-02-12 Thread Paul
Op Sat, 12 Feb 2005 20:53:05 + schreef Paul Smith: No - it correctly shows the newbie list address. So, the problem with the reply-to issue of GMail users is solved, is not it? For Kmail users and Gmail webmail, yes. And for Sylpheed users who set their properties right. :) Paul

Re: [newbie] trouble mounting zip drive

2005-02-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Mike Adolf wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2005 01:34 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mike Adolf wrote: After I did as you suggested, messages contained: Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: hdd: No disk in drive Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx

Re: [newbie] To gmail users

2005-02-12 Thread RickSisler
Anne Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: In kmail I didn't see any reply-to line at all (I use Long Headers for style), but it was there in the full headers, and hitting reply brings = it up automatically. But, Anne, the reply-to line is empty, is not it? Paul No - it correctly

Re: [newbie] trouble mounting zip drive

2005-02-12 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 12 February 2005 09:31 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mike Adolf wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2005 01:34 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mike Adolf wrote: After I did as you suggested, messages contained: Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide

Re: [newbie] Amarok, Audacity and streamtuner

2005-02-12 Thread rikona
Hello rikona, Friday, February 11, 2005, 12:26:07 PM, rikona wrote: r Hello Greg, r Friday, February 11, 2005, 7:18:01 AM, Greg wrote: GM On Wednesday 09 February 2005 02:38 am, rikona wrote: Hello newbie, I'm trying to get some sound up on a box recently updated to 10.1. Using Amarok to

Re: [newbie] Re: Program to download all the files on a http address

2005-02-12 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 22:13:54 +0100, Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, Dennis, I do have a urpmi source set up for contrib rpms, but it does not have gwget. What urpmi source for contrib rpms do you use? I've got it here:

[newbie] Updates

2005-02-12 Thread Charles A Edwards
Updated rpms for Mdk 10.1 sylpheed-claws-1.0.1-1.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm sylpheed-claws-cachesaver-plugin-1.0.1_0.5-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm sylpheed-claws-clamav-plugin-1.0.1-1.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm sylpheed-claws-devel-1.0.1-1.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm

Re: [newbie] trouble mounting zip drive

2005-02-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2005 09:31 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mike Adolf wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2005 01:34 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mike Adolf wrote: After I did as you suggested, messages contained: Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: ide-floppy

Re: [newbie] renice command

2005-02-12 Thread Chris
On Friday 11 February 2005 02:25 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Chris wrote: I'm still trying to remove the 'skip' in XMMS when getting streaming audio. I've got it set to a renice value of -20, Kmail to a setting of 15, firefox to a setting of 19, mozilla 19 and my two gkrellm stacks are

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic

2005-02-12 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 03:34, et wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2005 11:01 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: whack I'd like to thank all of you for reminding me why the OT list was created. -- cmg maybe we should take a round of thanks on the other lists that so greatly benifit from Mark

Re: [newbie] Re: Program to download all the files on a http address

2005-02-12 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 12 February 2005 23:45, Paul Smith wrote: On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 22:13:54 +0100, Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, Dennis, I do have a urpmi source set up for contrib rpms, but it does not have gwget. What urpmi source for contrib rpms do you use? I've got it

Re: [newbie] To gmail users

2005-02-12 Thread RickSisler
Paul Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:05:00 -0500, RickSisler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It shows 2 headers for Reply-To in mutt ... And if you hit the reply command? Does it make the reply addressed to the list? Paul hmm .. No it doesn't, for mutt, I use the

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic

2005-02-12 Thread Amy
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 09:57:38 +1100, Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip How come no one seems to remember the #mandrake-offtopic channel on the freenode servers in IRC? (Or at least I never see any of y'all sad sorry arses in there) -- stephen kuhn /me wanders into the IRC

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic

2005-02-12 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 11:16, Amy wrote: On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 09:57:38 +1100, Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip How come no one seems to remember the #mandrake-offtopic channel on the freenode servers in IRC? (Or at least I never see any of y'all sad sorry arses in there) --

Re: [newbie] To gmail users

2005-02-12 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Saturday 12 February 2005 02:12 pm, Isaac Hummel wrote: On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:06:16 -0500, Isaac Hummel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It works! Thank you! I spoke too soon. I can see Reply-To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com when I pull up the message in Thunderbird, but when I hit Reply it still

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic

2005-02-12 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 18:03:02 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: Aron Smith disseminated the following: Remember to bring your asbestos underware That's getting old. You need a new one. I suggest 'kevlar khakis'. Nomex nitie? Whatever you wear, you're either a Buddhist Monk, a

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic

2005-02-12 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:18:25 +1100 Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: Remember to bring your asbestos underware That's getting old. You need a new one. I suggest 'kevlar khakis'. Er, yer talkin 'bout ARON here mate. Limited creativity. He's stuck in a rut. And a rut ain't nuthin

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic

2005-02-12 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 12:52, JoeHill wrote: Whatever you wear, you're either a Buddhist Monk, a delusional sociopath, or a masochist to go through that gate... 'Abandon all Hope...' Dot why we tain't been seein' ya round those ports, eh Joe? -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic

2005-02-12 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 12:57, JoeHill wrote: Just tryin' to impart some good ol' Canuck wisdom on them thar 'mericans, as per usual. Futile effort, I know, but there's a fine line between hope and delusion, eh? You really DO enjoy futility, don't ya kiddo? -- stephen kuhn mobile:

Re: [newbie] cannot launch konqueror

2005-02-12 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 17:05:06 +0100 Michel Leunen disseminated the following: What's going wrong here? You are using the wrong Desktop and browser. Use Firefox to go here: http://www.eslrahc.com/ add Charles as a source and urpmi xfce Log in to XFCE4. No more problems, desktop heaven. I'm

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic

2005-02-12 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 12:57:07 +1100 Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: Whatever you wear, you're either a Buddhist Monk, a delusional sociopath, or a masochist to go through that gate... 'Abandon all Hope...' Dot why we tain't been seein' ya round those ports, eh Joe? My wife

Re: [newbie] trouble mounting zip drive

2005-02-12 Thread Mike Adolf
On Saturday 12 February 2005 04:31 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mike Adolf wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2005 01:34 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mike Adolf wrote: After I did as you suggested, messages contained: Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic

2005-02-12 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 21:17:10 -0500 JoeHill disseminated the following: My wife has a red line where her left breast used to be. Ya. Holy mufuckin' shite, that was meant to be offlist, please disregard. *Please* -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 21:26:16 up 41 days, 10:07, 6

Re: [newbie] trouble mounting zip drive

2005-02-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Mike Adolf wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2005 04:31 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: This is strange. /dev/hdd should be the entire ZIP disk, including the partition table. /dev/hdd4 should be the partition with the data on it. Unless the ide-floppy driver is doing something different in 2.6.x, so

Re: [newbie] bash3 install problem

2005-02-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Kenneth Rhodes wrote: I noticed that I had bash 2.05b installed on my Mandrake 10.1OE system and that bash3 was available. I also noticed that my software media manager did not report a version of bash as being installed. This is true of a number of other programs as well. Anyway, after

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1 - modem question

2005-02-12 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
computer. If it is a desktop, you probably have 2 of them. On older computers, you may have 1 db9 male and 1 db25 male for serial ports. The modem probably has a db25 female connector on it. Yes, my old computer had two, and this one has one. Good to know I have the backup option.

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1 - modem question

2005-02-12 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Should be male, as to the number of pins, depends on how new the MB is. I haven't seen a 25 pin in a while but that doesn't mean that they are not out there. Last serial cable I picked up though, had both 25 and 9 pin connectors on it. Thanks. I was concerned because when lent my

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1 - modem question

2005-02-12 Thread Aron Smith
On Saturday 12 February 2005 07:22 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Should be male, as to the number of pins, depends on how new the MB is. I haven't seen a 25 pin in a while but that doesn't mean that they are not out there. Last serial cable I picked up though, had both 25 and 9 pin

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1 - modem question

2005-02-12 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Aron Smith wrote: You can get modem cables with both a 25 pin end and a 9 pin end on trhe same cable Okay - thanks. I have found a driver for my modem and about to download in windows, hopefully! - save to disk, and install in linux. Worth a try anyway! Rosemary

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1 - modem question

2005-02-12 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
You can get modem cables with both a 25 pin end and a 9 pin end on trhe same cable Sorry everyone - forgot the 'reply to' and format. That's good to know about the cables. Thanks. About to try download a driver in windows, save to disk and install in linux. Will give it a go anyway!

Re: [newbie] turbotax?

2005-02-12 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:08:14 -0800 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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? Turbotax Web works just fine.

Re: [newbie] Amarok 1.2 beta does not play

2005-02-12 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 12 February 2005 04:13 pm, Paul Smith wrote: On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 19:42:36 -0500, Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1/ but it does not play anything, since as soon as I load a playlist, I get the following message: Playlist finished

Re: [newbie] To gmail users

2005-02-12 Thread Greg Meyer
This should eliminate the reply-to header and mailing list replies will now go to the list as they should. Yaayy! It works. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club

Re: [newbie] trouble mounting zip drive

2005-02-12 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 12 February 2005 10:43 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Anytime I use a zip drive here (internal, IDE), I've always had to put that 4 there. It accesses the entire Zip cart. No /dev/hdd would be the entire drive. /dev/hdd4 would be the 4th partition on it. But the 4th partition

Re: [newbie] bash3 install problem

2005-02-12 Thread Kenneth Rhodes
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 21:08 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Safer way: rm /bin/bash2 mv /bin/bash /bin/bash2 ln -s /bin/bash3 /bin/bash Right now, /bin/bash2 is a link to /bin/bash. After running these commands, /bin/bash2 will be the origional /bin/bash file. /bin/bash will be a

[newbie] Installing programmes

2005-02-12 Thread Noel McG.
Hello, I am trying to install a programme called Mambo http://www.mamboserver.com/ on a linux box. I needed Apache, PHP and MySQL on first apparently. I loaded them from Mandrake CD's and got Apache running and a page up in a browser. I did not get as far as enabling PHP or MySQL. However

Re: [newbie] Installing programmes

2005-02-12 Thread SnapafunFrank
Noel McG. wrote: Hello, I am trying to install a programme called Mambo http://www.mamboserver.com/ on a linux box. I needed Apache, PHP and MySQL on first apparently. I loaded them from Mandrake CD's and got Apache running and a page up in a browser. I did not get as far as enabling PHP or

Re: [newbie] turbotax?

2005-02-12 Thread Avi Schwartz
David E. Fox wrote: On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:08:14 -0800 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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? Turbotax