Re: [newbie] Tux Magazine

2005-03-18 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 14:08, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 11:37, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Friday 18 Mar 2005 05:11, eric jackson wrote: I just wanted to alert people to Tux Magazine. I stumbled on a link to it somewhere. www.tuxmagazine.com. It is a free linux magazine

Re: [newbie] FAT question

2005-03-18 Thread SnapafunFrank
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: I've just got my hands on a 160 GB external USB hard disk. Now, this thing comes preformatted with a FAT32 (vfat) file system. When I unmount the thing I can't reformat the drive with a decent file system like ReiserFS, JFS, ext2 or ext3 from be it

Re: [newbie] Tux Magazine

2005-03-18 Thread SnapafunFrank
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Friday 18 Mar 2005 14:08, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 11:37, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Friday 18 Mar 2005 05:11, eric jackson wrote: I just wanted to alert people to Tux Magazine. I stumbled on a link to it somewhere.

[newbie] Compatabiltiy - Printers, scanners

2005-03-18 Thread Noel McG.
Hello, I am running Mandrake 10.1 Can anyone tell me if the following might be compatible and run OK. Scanner. Cannon 4200F Printers. HP 7762, or HP1100D Thank you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] FAT question

2005-03-18 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 18 March 2005 09:47, SnapafunFrank wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: I've just got my hands on a 160 GB external USB hard disk. Now, this thing comes preformatted with a FAT32 (vfat) file system. When I unmount the thing I can't reformat the drive with a

Re: [newbie] Compatabiltiy - Printers, scanners

2005-03-18 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
There are various list - google your hardware + Linux, also there are very helpful list. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Compatabiltiy - Printers, scanners

2005-03-18 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 22:24, Noel McG. wrote: Hello, I am running Mandrake 10.1 Can anyone tell me if the following might be compatible and run OK. Scanner. Cannon 4200F Printers. HP 7762, or HP1100D Thank you. I've been looking all around about Canon scanners, and it isn't good

[newbie] A question about RPMDrake

2005-03-18 Thread Robert T. Yu
Since urpmi has a feature to keep updated packages in a cache directory for later, does RPMDrake adopt this feature as well? Thank you. === Main Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] School/work-related Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please make sure you're using the right mail!

[newbie] camera

2005-03-18 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Hmmm I'm wondering if it's fair to ask this question, or to plug on myslef. I think, though, that if I plug on myself, I will continue going to Win for this function. Camera Sony DSC-W1/W12 according to http://www.johnwyles.com/archives/2004/07/16/sony_dscw1_in_linux.php this camera works.

Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake

2005-03-18 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 18 March 2005 09:36, Robert T. Yu wrote: Since urpmi has a feature to keep updated packages in a cache directory for later, does RPMDrake adopt this feature as well? Thank you. Yes Put the text no-clean (or it may be 'noclean' I can never remember) on a line between the first set

Re: [newbie] Compatabiltiy - Printers, scanners

2005-03-18 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 18 March 2005 09:24, Noel McG. wrote: Hello, I am running Mandrake 10.1 Can anyone tell me if the following might be compatible and run OK. Scanner. Cannon 4200F Printers. HP 7762, or HP1100D Thank you. If you open MandrakeControlCentreHardwareScanners and select 'Add a

Re: [newbie] FAT question

2005-03-18 Thread SnapafunFrank
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Friday 18 March 2005 09:47, SnapafunFrank wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: I've just got my hands on a 160 GB external USB hard disk. Now, this thing comes preformatted with a FAT32 (vfat) file system. When I unmount the thing I can't

Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake

2005-03-18 Thread Robert T. Yu
Yes Put the text no-clean (or it may be 'noclean' I can never remember) on a line between the first set of {}in the file /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg You mean typing (--noclean) like so? === Main Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] School/work-related Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please make sure you're using

Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake

2005-03-18 Thread Robert T. Yu
Another question: when I su as root, does root priveleges apply only within the terminal or the operating system as a whole? === Main Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] School/work-related Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please make sure you're using the right mail!

Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake

2005-03-18 Thread SnapafunFrank
Robert T. Yu wrote: Another question: when I su as root, does root priveleges apply only within the terminal or the operating system as a whole? === Main Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] School/work-related Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please make sure you're using the right mail!

Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake

2005-03-18 Thread Robert T. Yu
Thank you for the answer and I hope I am not overstaying my welcome. If I were to do something like configuring Samba shares, do I have to login or SU as root? I figure that because I need to alter the smb.conf file. === Main Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] School/work-related Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Compatabiltiy - Printers, scanners

2005-03-18 Thread Paul
On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 11:35, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Friday 18 Mar 2005 22:24, Noel McG. wrote: Hello, I am running Mandrake 10.1 Can anyone tell me if the following might be compatible and run OK. Scanner. Cannon 4200F Printers. HP 7762, or HP1100D Thank you.

Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake

2005-03-18 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 18 March 2005 10:52, Robert T. Yu wrote: Yes Put the text no-clean (or it may be 'noclean' I can never remember) on a line between the first set of {}in the file /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg You mean typing (--noclean) like so? No I mean what I said. Edit the file

Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake

2005-03-18 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 18 March 2005 11:26, Robert T. Yu wrote: Thank you for the answer and I hope I am not overstaying my welcome. If I were to do something like configuring Samba shares, do I have to login or SU as root? I figure that because I need to alter the smb.conf file. Once you have su'd to

Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake

2005-03-18 Thread Robert T. Yu
Now, I hope I'm not being too ambiguous, but do I have to login as root for things like configuring Samba and programming? === Main Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] School/work-related Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please make sure you're using the right mail!

[newbie] Program to combine words

2005-03-18 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I am looking for a program to do the following: extract all the combinations of two words from a given set of many words. Is there such a software? Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-18 Thread Charles Rodgers
Can't get Verbatim DVD W or RW to work with K3b. Any recommendation for a make of DVD that is known to work? TIA -- Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake

2005-03-18 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 18 March 2005 11:53, Robert T. Yu wrote: Now, I hope I'm not being too ambiguous, but do I have to login as root for things like configuring Samba and programming? No Logging in as root is never necessary. Mandrake goes out of its way to make logging in as root as difficult and

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 12:36, Charles Rodgers wrote: Can't get Verbatim DVD W or RW to work with K3b. Any recommendation for a make of DVD that is known to work? I presume we're talking disks? Any of the big name dvds will work fine. No-name ones work, sort of, in that you will get a

Re: [newbie] Program to combine words

2005-03-18 Thread Q.H. Wang
Is this link providing what you wanna, man? http://www.searchengineforums.com/apps/webmaster.forums/action::thread/thread::1090443783/forum::googleadwords/ bests, Q.H. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] How big is a block ?

2005-03-18 Thread Ken Walker
Is a Linux block 1000 bytes or 1024 bytes. If i give a user 130,000 blocks of quota space, windows reports it as 126 Meg So if i want a user to have 130Mb do i set 133120 blocks or 13 blocks ? Or is windows wrong again. Many thanks Ken

Re: [newbie] USB Printer : HP 3550 Problem

2005-03-18 Thread Roberto Ramsis
Helloz I guess cups is working fine: http://www.geocities.com/robertoramsis/CUPS_jobs.jpg all jobs are completed but the printer never pulls a paper. whenever i try to restart a job it gives me http://www.geocities.com/robertoramsis/Restart.jpg By the way when i make lsusb this is what i get :

Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.6.11 upgrade.

2005-03-18 Thread JR
On Thursday 17 March 2005 07:59 pm, Tom wrote: OTOH, you didn't say if you need a SMP (more than one processor), a Hi-Mem (1 gig of ram or more), or any other special requirements. snip Tom, Thanks a lot. I have a fairly standard laptop setup, so I think the standard kernel you linked

Re: [newbie] Compatabiltiy - Printers, scanners

2005-03-18 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 00:06, Paul wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 11:35, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Friday 18 Mar 2005 22:24, Noel McG. wrote: Hello, I am running Mandrake 10.1 Can anyone tell me if the following might be compatible and run OK. Scanner. Cannon 4200F

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-18 Thread Smiley
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 12:36, Charles Rodgers wrote: Can't get Verbatim DVD W or RW to work with K3b. Any recommendation for a make of DVD that is known to work? Strange, Verbatim works well for me and are considered best choice in a recent Computer Build test; so it's possible your

Re: [newbie] Compatabiltiy - Printers, scanners

2005-03-18 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 02:41, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 00:06, Paul wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 11:35, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Friday 18 Mar 2005 22:24, Noel McG. wrote: Hello, I am running Mandrake 10.1 Can anyone tell me if the following

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-18 Thread Anders Lind
Can't get Verbatim DVD W or RW to work with K3b. Any recommendation for a make of DVD that is known to work? TIA -- Charles Now that sounds rather strange in my ears, as I have not heard before of a brand that won't work with software or do they work in other software on the same machine?

Re: [newbie] connecting camera using the PTP protocol

2005-03-18 Thread Philippe Landau
hello Rosemary I'm wondering if it's fair to ask this question, perfectly fitting question :-) or to plug on myslef. I think, though, that if I plug on myself, I will continue going to Win for this function. Camera Sony DSC-W1/W12 http://www.steves-digicams.com/2004_reviews/w1.html nice

Re: [newbie] Tux Magazine

2005-03-18 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 22:04, SnapafunFrank wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Friday 18 Mar 2005 14:08, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 11:37, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Friday 18 Mar 2005 05:11, eric jackson wrote: I just wanted to alert people to Tux Magazine. I stumbled

Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake

2005-03-18 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 18 March 2005 11:53, Robert T. Yu wrote: Now, I hope I'm not being too ambiguous, but do I have to login as root for things like configuring Samba and programming? No Logging in as root is never necessary. Mandrake goes out of its way to make logging in as root as

Re: [newbie] connecting camera using the PTP protocol

2005-03-18 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 03:00, Philippe Landau wrote: hello Rosemary I'm wondering if it's fair to ask this question, perfectly fitting question :-) or to plug on myslef. I think, though, that if I plug on myself, I will continue going to Win for this function. Camera Sony

Re: [newbie] connecting camera using the PTP protocol

2005-03-18 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Saturday 19 Mar 2005 03:00, Philippe Landau wrote: hello Rosemary I'm wondering if it's fair to ask this question, perfectly fitting question :-) or to plug on myslef. I think, though, that if I plug on myself, I will continue going to Win for this function. Camera Sony

Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.6.11 upgrade.

2005-03-18 Thread JR
After installing the mandrake package for kernel 2.6.11, the only problem seems to be the network. I get this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] unholy]# service network start Setting network parameters: [ OK ] Bringing up loopback interface:

Re: [newbie] Compatabiltiy - Printers, scanners

2005-03-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 13:56, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Should add - not getting hopeful after heaps of reading at various sites - Canon scanners seem to be the pIts with linux! Or, more accurately , Canon, disinterested? Have emailed them ... Good luck to you - let us know if you get

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-18 Thread Ian
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 12:36, Charles Rodgers wrote: Can't get Verbatim DVD W or RW to work with K3b. Any recommendation for a make of DVD that is known to work? I'm afraid I haven't had any DVD blanks that didn't work. I presume that's down to the drive and not the software. The

Re: [newbie] connecting camera using the PTP protocol

2005-03-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 14:13, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I have installed libphoto2, gphoto2 and gtkam, as per johnwyles. I've looked at the various suggestions on his website, but being a newb, and the various suggestions being diff distribs, feeeling - as I said - ovewrwhelmed. Scanner

Re: [newbie] A question about RPMDrake

2005-03-18 Thread Robert T. Yu
--- Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 18 March 2005 10:52, Robert T. Yu wrote: Yes Put the text no-clean (or it may be 'noclean' I can never remember) on a line between the first set of {}in the file /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg You mean typing (--noclean) like

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 15:26, Ian wrote: On Friday 18 Mar 2005 12:36, Charles Rodgers wrote: Can't get Verbatim DVD W or RW to work with K3b. Any recommendation for a make of DVD that is known to work? I'm afraid I haven't had any DVD blanks that didn't work. I presume that's down to the

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-18 Thread Smiley
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:26:24 + Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The drive I use is the 16 speed NEC with dual layer burning as well. I can't vouch for the dual layer part, but I notice that K3B normally shows as dual layer capacity until I actually put the blank into the drive. NEC are

Re: [newbie] another urpmi query

2005-03-18 Thread Julie Sloan
On Thursday 17 March 2005 10:11 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Julie Sloan wrote: Yokay, thanks, I will remove rpm --rebuilddb command from my list and jsut do [rpm --updatedb update-menus -v ldconfig], right? You should not need to do any of those. (I am not sure where rpm

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-18 Thread Ian
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 15:37, Smiley wrote: On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:26:24 + Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The drive I use is the 16 speed NEC with dual layer burning as well. I can't vouch for the dual layer part, but I notice that K3B normally shows as dual layer capacity until I

Re: [newbie] Tux Magazine

2005-03-18 Thread Aron Smith
On Friday 18 March 2005 06:02 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Yes - I want to understand and be able to execute things in the CLI. However it is going to take time for me to learn that.  Sorry if I am such a dumb kiwi who is only happy when has sheep backed against the fence.  Being a

Re: [newbie] connecting camera using the PTP protocol

2005-03-18 Thread Philippe Landau
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: or to plug on myslef. I think, though, that if I plug on myself, I will continue going to Win for this function. Camera Sony DSC-W1/W12 http://www.steves-digicams.com/2004_reviews/w1.html nice camera, and officially supports MacOS X so unix/linux. you could simplify

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-18 Thread poogle
On Friday 18 March 2005 12:36, Charles Rodgers wrote: Can't get Verbatim DVD W or RW to work with K3b. Any recommendation for a make of DVD that is known to work? TIA -- Charles DVD burners can be picky with the brands they will work with e.g. the Optorite in my PC will not work with

Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.6.11 upgrade.

2005-03-18 Thread Tom
JR wrote: On Thursday 17 March 2005 07:59 pm, Tom wrote: OTOH, you didn't say if you need a SMP (more than one processor), a Hi-Mem (1 gig of ram or more), or any other special requirements. snip Tom, Thanks a lot. I have a fairly standard laptop setup, so I think the standard kernel you

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-18 Thread Tom
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 18 Mar 2005 12:36, Charles Rodgers wrote: Can't get Verbatim DVD W or RW to work with K3b. Any recommendation for a make of DVD that is known to work? I presume we're talking disks? Any of the big name dvds will work fine. No-name ones work, sort of, in that you

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 17:44, Tom wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 18 Mar 2005 12:36, Charles Rodgers wrote: Can't get Verbatim DVD W or RW to work with K3b. Any recommendation for a make of DVD that is known to work? I presume we're talking disks? Any of the big name dvds will work

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-18 Thread Tom
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 18 Mar 2005 17:44, Tom wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 18 Mar 2005 12:36, Charles Rodgers wrote: Can't get Verbatim DVD W or RW to work with K3b. Any recommendation for a make of DVD that is known to work? I presume we're talking disks? Any of the big name dvds

[newbie] 10.1 Official ISOs for x86_64

2005-03-18 Thread Bruce Ellison
I am more than slightly confused. I want to upgrade my community 10.1 edition. I know I can urpmi it (read the twiki and found it very helpful). However, I was being lazy and started to look for ISOs to make installation/upgrade from CD instead (blessed to have highspeed bandwidth to spare). I

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-18 Thread Charles Rodgers
Success at last :-)) Many thanks to all for the helpful replies. I have a DVD reader - make just says Atapi. I have a Pioneer 109 DVD burner. I had been trying to put the source disk in the Atapi and the blank disk in the Pioneer burner (of course), which seemed a good idea at the time :-) Your

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-18 Thread Michel Leunen
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Well you could try a new (kde)install after removing everything that's associated...but that'll be a fine mess, prolly. It's already a mess and it's worth a try, I think. My second choice is to upgrade my whole mandrake distribution from 10.0 to 10.2 beta 3. No prob...too

Re: [newbie] 10.1 Official ISOs for x86_64

2005-03-18 Thread Fernando Arturo Gómez Flores
I downloaded 10.0 from a link provided at mandrakelinux.com... Fernando Gómez. == Registered Linux User 381647. Usuario Registrado de Linux 381647 http://counter.li.org - Original Message - From: Bruce Ellison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-18 Thread Charles Rodgers
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 12:44:45 -0600,Tom wrote: The media quality is probly the last of Charles problems. More likely the backend, specially if it's cdrecord needs to be updated to the latest (cdrecord-2.01.01-0.a01.4mdk). Warly has been continually workin with Jörg Schilling to add DVD

Re: [newbie] Install HP iPaq

2005-03-18 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Noel McG. wrote: Hello, I have an HP iPAQ 2200 which when I connect to Linux is detected in Control Panel/Hardware/Other devices. However I do not know which software prog to use. Any suggestions as to how to get this up and working please. Thanks. This started me playing with

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-18 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 18 March 2005 20:42, Michel Leunen wrote: It's already a mess and it's worth a try, I think. My second choice is to upgrade my whole mandrake distribution from 10.0 to 10.2 beta 3. Don't simply upgrade from 10.0 to 10.2...that'll be an even finer mess. Better to do a fresh install. --

Re: [newbie] linux command tutorial

2005-03-18 Thread et
snipped it all since I only want to add my $.02USD.. one way to learn available commands at the text console is to use tab. (as someone pointed out, tab can be a good friend. just type a letter hit tab, and see all the commands that start with that letter (it is case sensitive and root gets more

Re: [newbie] linux command tutorial

2005-03-18 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
et wrote: snipped it all since I only want to add my $.02USD.. one way to learn available commands at the text console is to use tab. (as someone pointed out, tab can be a good friend. just type a letter hit tab, and see all the commands that start with that letter (it is case sensitive and root

Re: [newbie] USB Printer : HP 3550 Problem

2005-03-18 Thread frengoGorgia
Il ven, 2005-03-18 alle 14:32, Roberto Ramsis ha scritto: Helloz I guess cups is working fine: http://www.geocities.com/robertoramsis/CUPS_jobs.jpg all jobs are completed but the printer never pulls a paper. whenever i try to restart a job it gives me

[newbie] KDE 3.4

2005-03-18 Thread Pablo Ortuzar
Hello, KDE 3.4 is out. There are SuSE, Fedora and Conectiva packages available, but no Mandrake rpms. Is there any way to urpmi them? -- Pablo Ortúzar Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] linux command tutorial

2005-03-18 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 18 March 2005 04:36 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: et wrote: snipped it all since I only want to add my $.02USD.. one way to learn available commands at the text console is to use tab. (as someone pointed out, tab can be a good friend. just type a letter hit tab, and see all the

[newbie] Trouble with Nvu 0.90

2005-03-18 Thread Marv Boyes
This isn't strictly a Mandrake issue; and I apologize beforehand if this has been recently addressed-- I've only just rejoined the list. Hopefully, there's someone here who's familiar with Nvu (http://nvu.com). I'm having a heck of a time with any version of Nvu since 0.70 on Mdk 9.2. I've been

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4

2005-03-18 Thread frengoGorgia
Il ven, 2005-03-18 alle 22:45, Pablo Ortuzar ha scritto: Hello, KDE 3.4 is out. There are SuSE, Fedora and Conectiva packages available, but no Mandrake rpms. Is there any way to urpmi them? Look like a flame-question for the mandrake-experts

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 18:44, Tom wrote: Wrong again Anne. But that's just the facts, my opinion and experience that I posted. You are welcome to add yours to your community twiki. Jeez I never thought I'd be encouragin you to spread marginal to false opinion on your twiki, but go

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 19:39, Charles Rodgers wrote: Success at last :-)) Many thanks to all for the helpful replies. I have a DVD reader - make just says Atapi. I have a Pioneer 109 DVD burner. I had been trying to put the source disk in the Atapi and the blank disk in the Pioneer burner

professional attitude (Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-18 Thread Philippe Landau
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 18 Mar 2005 18:44, Tom wrote: Wrong again Anne. But that's just the facts, my opinion and experience that I posted. You are welcome to add yours to your community twiki. Jeez I never thought I'd be encouragin you to spread marginal to false opinion on your

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-18 Thread Charles Rodgers
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:20:14 +, Anne wrote: Sounds as though you never did the configuration. You can list the available drives and say which one is to be the reader. K3b had already decided that before I got there :-) It's more clever than I am ! I suspect the secret was ensuring that a

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-18 Thread Tom
Charles Rodgers wrote: On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 12:44:45 -0600,Tom wrote: The media quality is probly the last of Charles problems. More likely the backend, specially if it's cdrecord needs to be updated to the latest (cdrecord-2.01.01-0.a01.4mdk). Warly has been continually workin with Jörg

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4

2005-03-18 Thread Leaf
On Friday 18 March 2005 16:13, frengoGorgia wrote: Il ven, 2005-03-18 alle 22:45, Pablo Ortuzar ha scritto: Hello, KDE 3.4 is out. There are SuSE, Fedora and Conectiva packages available, but no Mandrake rpms. Is there any way to urpmi them? Look like a flame-question for the

[newbie] DNS Name Server Issues

2005-03-18 Thread SOTL
Hi All As some of you are aware by now I am trying to network 2 computers by use of a wireless 'my router' which is connected to a wireless bridge which gets it signal from wireless bridge [located in an office across the street] which gets it input from another router [or did before system

[newbie] Synchronizing PalmOS devices with Linux

2005-03-18 Thread JoeHill
Thought this might interest some people: Quote: Smart handheld devices or personal digital assistants (PDA) extend our access to the information on our desktops, from addresses to telephone numbers. Unfortunately, when it comes to vendor support for synchronizing this information with a *nix

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 22:36, Charles Rodgers wrote: On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:20:14 +, Anne wrote: Sounds as though you never did the configuration. You can list the available drives and say which one is to be the reader. K3b had already decided that before I got there :-) It's more

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 18 Mar 2005 22:37, Tom wrote: The only damn 100-spindles they had on the shelf were frickin Memorex. The same 'brand' that stuck me with about 20 poor quality CDr's on a previous 100-spindle. How odd! I've never had a failure from Memorex. Could it be your burning technique?

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4

2005-03-18 Thread Mr. Geek
Leaf wrote: On Friday 18 March 2005 16:13, frengoGorgia wrote: Il ven, 2005-03-18 alle 22:45, Pablo Ortuzar ha scritto: Hello, KDE 3.4 is out. There are SuSE, Fedora and Conectiva packages available, but no Mandrake rpms. Is there any way to urpmi them? Look like a flame-question for the

Re: [newbie] linux command tutorial

2005-03-18 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:37:32 -0500 Julie Sloan disseminated the following: They started after you left :) Hey! You know why in Alabama they don't teach ...oops, wrong list. Sure sure sure - just like a woman. Lead us all on and then drop us like a hot tater. Oh okay :)

Re: [newbie] Program to combine words

2005-03-18 Thread Paul Smith
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 13:14:56 +, Q.H. Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this link providing what you wanna, man? http://www.searchengineforums.com/apps/webmaster.forums/action::thread/thread::1090443783/forum::googleadwords/ Thanks, Wang. That is what I was looking for. Paul

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4

2005-03-18 Thread Paul Smith
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 17:55:49 -0500, Mr. Geek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leaf wrote: On Friday 18 March 2005 16:13, frengoGorgia wrote: Il ven, 2005-03-18 alle 22:45, Pablo Ortuzar ha scritto: Hello, KDE 3.4 is out. There are SuSE, Fedora and Conectiva packages available, but no Mandrake

Re: [newbie] linux command tutorial

2005-03-18 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 10:15, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:37:32 -0500 Julie Sloan disseminated the following: They started after you left :) Hey! You know why in Alabama they don't teach ...oops, wrong list. Sure sure sure - just like a woman. Lead us all on and then

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4

2005-03-18 Thread frengoGorgia
Il sab, 2005-03-19 alle 00:18, Paul Smith ha scritto: Check Thac's RPMs http://rpm.nyvalls.se/10.1/RPMS/ , you can add Thacs to your urpmi resources as well. Yeah, and KDE 3.4 not only looks good but runs great on my laptop. One suggestion folks. Make sure you have a different

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-18 Thread Tom
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 18 Mar 2005 18:44, Tom wrote: Wrong again Anne. But that's just the facts, my opinion and experience that I posted. You are welcome to add yours to your community twiki. Jeez I never thought I'd be encouragin you to spread marginal to false opinion on your

Re: [newbie] linux command tutorial

2005-03-18 Thread Julie Sloan
On Friday 18 March 2005 06:15 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:37:32 -0500 Julie Sloan disseminated the following: They started after you left :) Hey! You know why in Alabama they don't teach ...oops, wrong list. Sure sure sure - just like a woman. Lead us all on and

Re: [newbie] linux command tutorial

2005-03-18 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 10:49, Julie Sloan wrote: On Friday 18 March 2005 06:15 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:37:32 -0500 Julie Sloan disseminated the following: They started after you left :) Hey! You know why in Alabama they don't teach ...oops, wrong list.

Re: [newbie] FAT question

2005-03-18 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 17 March 2005 17:26, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: I've just got my hands on a 160 GB external USB hard disk. Now, this thing comes preformatted with a FAT32 (vfat) file system. When I unmount the thing I can't reformat the drive with a decent file system like

Re: [newbie] FAT question

2005-03-18 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 18 March 2005 10:31, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Friday 18 March 2005 09:47, SnapafunFrank wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: I've just got my hands on a 160 GB external USB hard disk. Now, this thing comes preformatted with a FAT32 (vfat) file system. When I

Re: [newbie] FAT question

2005-03-18 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 17 March 2005 15:03, Andras Keszei wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 20:38, Kaj Haulrich wrote: I've just got my hands on a 160 GB external USB hard disk. Now, this thing comes preformatted with a FAT32 (vfat) file system. When I unmount the thing I can't reformat the drive with a

[newbie] Updates

2005-03-18 Thread Charles A Edwards
Updated and new rpms for Mdk 10.1 bogofilter-0.94.1-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm libexo-0.3_0-0.3.0-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm libexo-0.3_0-devel-0.3.0-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm sylpheed-claws2-1.9.6-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm sylpheed-claws2-clamav-plugin-1.9.6-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm

Re: [newbie] FAT question

2005-03-18 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 18 March 2005 11:39, SnapafunFrank wrote: H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Friday 18 March 2005 09:47, SnapafunFrank wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: I've just got my hands on a 160 GB external USB hard disk. Now, this thing comes preformatted with a FAT32 (vfat) file

Re: [newbie] Updates

2005-03-18 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 11:00, Charles A Edwards wrote: Updated and new rpms for Mdk 10.1 Charles Dang...nothing ever for 10.0 again, eh Charles? -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource

Re: [newbie] FAT question

2005-03-18 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 17 March 2005 17:16, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mr. Geek wrote: Kaj; I think Anne has the right idea. I have several clients using external USB drives instead of other types of backup drives/media. Many of them came partitioned and pre-formatted as FAT32, but Diskdrake made

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-18 Thread Tom
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 18 Mar 2005 22:37, Tom wrote: The only damn 100-spindles they had on the shelf were frickin Memorex. The same 'brand' that stuck me with about 20 poor quality CDr's on a previous 100-spindle. How odd! I've never had a failure from Memorex. Could it be your

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4

2005-03-18 Thread Julie Sloan
On Friday 18 March 2005 05:37 pm, Leaf wrote: On Friday 18 March 2005 16:13, frengoGorgia wrote: Il ven, 2005-03-18 alle 22:45, Pablo Ortuzar ha scritto: Hello, KDE 3.4 is out. There are SuSE, Fedora and Conectiva packages available, but no Mandrake rpms. Is there any way to urpmi

Re: [newbie] linux command tutorial

2005-03-18 Thread Julie Sloan
On Friday 18 March 2005 06:51 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 10:49, Julie Sloan wrote: On Friday 18 March 2005 06:15 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:37:32 -0500 Julie Sloan disseminated the following: They started after you left :) Hey! You know

Re: [newbie] FAT question

2005-03-18 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 17 March 2005 17:16, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mr. Geek wrote: Kaj; I think Anne has the right idea. I have several clients using external USB drives instead of other types of backup drives/media. Many of them came partitioned and pre-formatted as FAT32, but

Re: [newbie] FAT question

2005-03-18 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Kaj Haulrich wrote: Well, fdisk could see the /dev/sda1 but report this : -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] kaj]# fdisk /dev/sda1 The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 19928. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4

2005-03-18 Thread Leaf
On Friday 18 March 2005 18:09, Julie Sloan wrote: On Friday 18 March 2005 05:37 pm, Leaf wrote: On Friday 18 March 2005 16:13, frengoGorgia wrote: Il ven, 2005-03-18 alle 22:45, Pablo Ortuzar ha scritto: Hello, KDE 3.4 is out. There are SuSE, Fedora and Conectiva packages

Re: [newbie] Updates

2005-03-18 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 11:02:20 +1100 Stephen Kühn wrote: Dang...nothing ever for 10.0 again, eh Charles? Well the hd on my 10.1 system died and with the release of 10.2 coming soon I did not see the point of reinstalling 10.0 as the system will be changed to 10.1 when 10.2 is released. As well I

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