Re: [newbie] mandriva quickstart guide + faq

2005-04-10 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 10 April 2005 19:12, Philippe Landau wrote: after installing Mandrakelinux 10.1 Official DVD i am a bit lost. the installation went fast and fine, but i need thunderbird, firefox, gaim, amule. can i install them through the software management interface ? after configuring

Re: [newbie] comparing mandrake based linux distributions

2005-04-08 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 09 April 2005 01:38, Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 08 April 2005 03:53 pm, Philippe Landau wrote: hello i like PCLinux, i like Sam, i like PLF (not a distro) but i have very little experience with them. and most of all, i like the Mandrake mailinglists: there are

Re: [newbie] Opportunity to plug OOo at interview

2005-04-05 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 18:10, JR wrote: I have an interview coming up in a few weeks. One of the minor requirements would be skills with MS word and excel. I was thinking of using this as an opportunity to say but I've also started to use OOo more often because I find I am more productive

Re: [newbie] Opportunity to plug OOo at interview

2005-04-05 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 19:14, Aron Smith wrote: It's better at opening *some* Word files than Word is OOo and Word treat whitespace differently.whatch out for that on large docs.pdf is the solution. -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy

Re: [newbie] IRC channel, Mandrake

2005-04-04 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 04 April 2005 14:13, Stephen Kühn wrote: Hope to see some of y'all drop on by! Trouble is, I wanna go to sleep when you wake up;) Hah, you could've had us a day earlier with April-fool..now there's a missed oportunity!:) -- Good luck, HarM

Re: [newbie] means of administrating mandrake

2005-04-04 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 04 April 2005 22:48, Isak Lyberth wrote: I have a computer where the graphics card is not supported by Xorg. This anoys me to a great extend as i now have to use some other way of administrating the server. What means do i have? (the server is a Fujitsu-Siemens Econel 50 Primergy

Re: [newbie] means of administrating mandrake

2005-04-04 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
*To:* newbie@linux-mandrake.com *Subject:* Re: [newbie] means of administrating mandrake I have not found out what card it is, maybe someone else here knows which it is? it is anoying as the installation was the graphical one, and it looked fine. regards H.J.Bathoorn wrote

Re: [newbie] Using the sources of http://www.zarb.org

2005-04-03 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 03 April 2005 09:28, Duncan Anderson wrote: Robert Yu wrote: Is it possible to save the packages downloaded from this site onto a cache folder for later use? You can download the packages using ftp or something similar, and then, when they are all sitting in a directory, call up a

Re: [newbie] network install

2005-04-02 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 02 April 2005 18:40, JR wrote: I have a desktop and a laptop on a network. I want to install mandrake on the desktop. My mandrake installation disk is a DVD. The desktop does not have a DVD drive, but the laptop does. So, I'm trying to use the laptop to 'server' the DVD to the

Re: [newbie] extracting cd audio files

2005-03-26 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 26 March 2005 10:50, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 26 March 2005 00:51, Paul Kaplan wrote: Can anyone recommend a program for copying individual tracks from an audio cd to a hard drive? What about file format for storing the files in? What about converting between audio

Re: [newbie] win4lin

2005-03-24 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 24 March 2005 15:32, Christophe wrote: Hello, Since I can not watch dvds on my laptop ( and I tried...) and I need Asymetrix Toolbook to create educational material. How can I install win 98 ( I have the cd for it) on my machine who is completely dedicated to MDK 10.1 community.

Re: [newbie] Games recommendation

2005-03-22 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 22:59, JR wrote: On Monday 21 March 2005 10:08 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi folks, snip Do you have any recommendation on games that can relieve our stress level? Thanks :) I love airstrike. Their still working on it but the version released at the moment is

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] 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] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-17 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 17 March 2005 21:28, Michel Leunen wrote: H.J.Bathoorn wrote: apparently your problem isn't solved yet... No. I've tried to do another update hoping it will repair kde but with no luck. I think I'll have to reinstall it, I'm afraid. Well you could try a new (kde)install after

Re: [newbie] desktop shortcut

2005-03-16 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 16 March 2005 10:14, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I've installed k3b and would like to have a desktop shortcut as it is not listed in my menus (that I have found yet). I can start it okay from command line, but thought there has to be another way. I found instructions to right

Re: [newbie] desktop shortcut

2005-03-16 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 16 March 2005 10:26, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Please ignore my first post. I went back to google and found another set Too late;) of (easier for me as a newb) instructions. Have my icon, it works, and I am happy. cheers Rosemary BTW k3b should fire up automagically when

Re: [newbie] desktop shortcut

2005-03-16 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 16 March 2005 10:36, Stephen Kühn wrote: H.J. = She just did an Aron Smith = She's got it workin now... -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-16 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 16 March 2005 11:44, Anne Wilson wrote: I haven't moved win4lin to this box yet anyway, so that's not a problem.   sigh  I seem to spend 6 months ironing out problems on a new install, only to have to do it all over again because I need maybe just one thing that the existing

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-16 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 16 March 2005 20:48, Michel Leunen wrote: H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Well people can call me chicken but I never, NEVER upgrade a KDE that's running on my install.I prefer waiting for the next general distrib upgrade (which is never very far away in mdk's case). I'm not 100

Re: [newbie] new user

2005-03-15 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 09:59, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hi there My son is returning home to live for a few months - so thought I would add him as new user. Used 'adduser' name There was no prompt for a password so did not do anything else. On the next free line I added the password,

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-15 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 20:20, Michel Leunen wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Here's one possibility that I'd try. Try XFDrake, if you can get to a command line. Try booting linux-nonfb if you can't, then try XFDrake. If everything is still OK there you've ruled out one possibility. Hmm, I

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-15 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 20:26, Michel Leunen wrote: $ konqueror konqueror: relocation error: /usr/lib/libkonq.so.4: undefined symbol: _ZN9KIconView21contentsDragMoveEventEP14QDragMoveEvent Have no idea what it means. Did you upgrade KDE recently, buy any chance? Sounds familiar to the

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-15 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 21:12, Michel Leunen wrote: H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Just for curiosity's sake...are you familiar with the commandline ergo when you say that about /usr/share/bla/bla, are you trying to find clickable executables like in windows? I'm a new Linux user

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-15 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 21:19, Michel Leunen wrote: H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Did you upgrade KDE recently, buy any chance? Sounds familiar to the frightful mess KDE always gets into when upgrading yes, I do an upgrade regularly but, IIRC, kde was still working after my last upgrade

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-15 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 23:17, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 15 Mar 2005 21:26, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: I messed my KDE so bad konq would take about 5 minutes to start from xfce...beuh!!! So I installed Mdk10.2rc3 totally afresh on that laptop..and I'm not complaining;) Believe me

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-14 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 14 March 2005 20:01, Michel Leunen wrote: Some weeks ago, I lost Konqueror and had to reinstall the whole KDE. Now, it's the KDE desktop which disappeared suddenly when trying to log in. The desktop just doesn't show up. No taskbar, no panel, no desktop and no icons and I have to

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-14 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 14 March 2005 22:11, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 14 Mar 2005 20:39, Michel Leunen wrote: eric jackson wrote: You didn't say if you had a command prompt or not. If you do have the command line, did you try startx? No prompt, I use mdkKDM to login. It's the Mandrake graphical

Re: [newbie] FreeNX, kNX on Mandrake 10.1

2005-03-13 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 11:34, Adrian Coman wrote: Hi, Did anyone succeded in running a FreeNX server and connection with a kNX client (or with nxclient from www.nomachine.com)? If yes, how? No, I haven't got it to work yet not knx nor nxclient:( It logs in to the server and then hangs

Re: [newbie] scribus users, pls help. pasting text longer than 1 page.

2005-03-09 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 05:40, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi all, I tried to make an article using Scribus. First I typed the article in text editor, then copy paste it in scribus. The article is kind of longer than 1 page, so the rest of the article isn't visible. The second page is blank.

Re: [newbie] scribus users, pls help. pasting text longer than 1 page.

2005-03-09 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 15:55, Anne Wilson wrote: Oops!  For some reason I'm totally text-oriented, so I look at menus and context-menus but miss icons!  I should have seen that.  Thanks Anne You're not alone in thatI missed that one too:) I like scribus, the only problem is that

Re: [newbie] scribus users, pls help. pasting text longer than 1 page.

2005-03-09 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 17:44, Anne Wilson wrote: Interesting.  I don't have to deal with printers myself, so I've no experience of that, but everything I've read over the last year or so has been to the effect that most printers will happily accept pdfs.  I suspect, though, that you have

Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-07 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 07 March 2005 13:13, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Here's to democracy, EU-style : http://wiki.ffii.org/Cons050307En In short : The Microsoft puppet-state Luxembourg denied council members from Poland, Portugal and Denmark their request to change the Directive on Software Patent from an

Re: [newbie] Duplex printing hp deskjet 970cxi

2004-12-06 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 06 December 2004 07:18, Amy wrote: On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 13:05:57 -0700, mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Deskjet 970cxi printer with a with a two sided module (looks like a double roller gadjet that fits on the back of the printer). I would like to be able to print on

Re: [newbie] Kpilot Palm Tungsten T5

2004-12-05 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 05 December 2004 20:13, David Little wrote: Hi, Can't access my T5 with KPilot. Messages shows it's on /dev/ttyUSBn but KPilot can't link to it. When HotSync on the T5 times out or is cancelled, the next time the T5 attempts to connect it's on a different port. Anyone got this

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-02 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 02 December 2004 09:57, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Now, my daughter uses her Windows box completely disconnected from everything.  When she wants something from the net, she uses her account on my Mandrake box and transport it via floppy or CD to her box. (Maybe a USB memory stick could

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-02 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 02 December 2004 10:26, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Maybe I'm paranoid, but after that experience we don't allow her Windows box contact with anything outside her room. You are;) Confined to the LAN can't really hurt can it, especially with static IP and a dedicated router/firewall. Then

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-02 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 02 December 2004 20:11, Alan Shoemaker wrote: sandisk mini cruzer's do not work Do you know why not? -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-02 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 02 December 2004 20:22, Randall D. Hobbs wrote: Actually, they do. My boss and I both have Sandisk Mini Cruzers (256 megs), and they work like a charm: Thought as much, that's why I asked. I mean how far can any vendor f**k_up a vfat formatted chip connected to a USB plug? --

Re: [newbie] Windows Security

2004-12-02 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 02 December 2004 21:30, Simon Roberts wrote: From: H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... On Thursday 02 December 2004 10:26, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Maybe I'm paranoid, but after that experience we don't allow her Windows box contact with anything outside her room. You

Re: [newbie] (OT) I hate to be asking this... (Windows Related)

2004-12-02 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 02 December 2004 20:46, Alan Shoemaker wrote: i gave mine away to a windows user (where it worked fine [xp]) when it locked up 9.2 as soon as i plugged it into the usb port. My laptop did that too every now and then. Turning off harddrake as a service at boot was the solution. --

Re: [newbie] Windows Security

2004-12-02 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 02 December 2004 23:14, rikona wrote: Hello H.J.Bathoorn, Thursday, December 2, 2004, 12:49:07 PM, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: HJB On Thursday 02 December 2004 21:30, Simon Roberts wrote: These things will, by default, download and execute various things you probably didn't want

Re: [newbie] Windows Security

2004-12-02 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 03 December 2004 00:03, Kaj Haulrich wrote: /snip Agreed.  At last Microsoft did something good. Kaj Haulrich. Actually I'm not all together thrilled at the idea. A large multinational enterprise (with a very stained legal and moral reputation) has more information than

Re: [newbie] Where are the compilers etc.?

2004-12-01 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 01 December 2004 10:08, Simon Roberts wrote: Greetings all, I have probably missed something obvious, as I fear this is a really simple question: I've installed Mandrake 10.1, and was attempting to build some software on it that demands glib.h. I can see that glib2 is installed,

Re: [newbie] digikam Sony P73 set up

2004-11-30 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 09:24, Martin Hardie wrote: Hi I have just migrated from RH9 to Mandrake 10. Now at least I can install digikam!! I am having trouble setting up my camera, a SonyP73. I have selected it as a mass storage usb as it is not listed as a supported camera I have made

Re: [newbie] digikam Sony P73 set up

2004-11-30 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 09:48, Kaj Haulrich wrote: So maybe there is some ghost with root priviliges in my box ? yep, supermount is...unless you disable it. You knew that didn't you?;) -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] digikam Sony P73 set up

2004-11-30 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
You need unplug and replug the USB plug. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] digikam Sony P73 set up

2004-11-30 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
-Original Message- From: Martin Hardie Date: 30.11.04 10:14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subj: Re: [newbie] digikam Sony P73 set up On Tuesday 30 Nov 2004 09:45, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: tail -f /var/log/messages HJ I did the tail and then turned the camera on but nothing happened

Re: [newbie] Getting win98 back

2004-11-29 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 29 November 2004 15:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The map commands make Windows think that your second drive is your first drive. Mikkel On most of the newer BIOS'es you can change the boot order of IDE1 or 2that way you can boot yer W98 too. Lilo on IDE1 and winboot on IDE2 mbr

Re: [newbie] Easy URPMI no longer takes

2004-11-28 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 28 November 2004 18:38, Jack wrote: For some strange reason, I can no longer update my media with easyurpmi. It seems to take when I run the necessary commands from root, even giving me messages that contrib has been added to media, etc. But when I go to the media manager, they

Re: [newbie] no eth0 when I do ifconfig

2004-11-25 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 25 November 2004 00:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I recently installed Mandrakelinux on a PPC Beige G3 (Mac). When I installed it the installer detected the ethernet card and allowed me to configure it. The computer is inside a small network behind a router with a DSL

Re: [newbie] Xfce 4.2 on Mandrake 9.1

2004-11-25 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 25 November 2004 08:06, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 08:00:50 +0100 Anders Lind wrote: you are correct there I suppose...the buildorder for the rpm's are the same as the buildorder for 4.0.6? If you are installing via rpm the build order has nothing to do with

Re: [newbie] Looking for Mr. 'Boot-Guru

2004-11-22 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 22 November 2004 23:38, Lanman wrote: Either it's a jumper, it was never there in the first place or Asus forgot to include it in subsequent BIOS updates. As previously mentioned, I am keeping a large hammer nearby in case of emergency or extreme frustration. Heh, try formating and

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

2004-11-21 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 21 November 2004 22:26, JoeHill wrote: If any distro is likely to 'scare' a newbie, I'd wager it's Slackware or Gentoo, certainly not Debian. Now you've done it You just touched my first (linux) love; Slackware. I'll beat the daylights out of you given half the chance;) Hahh,

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

2004-11-21 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 22 November 2004 00:03, JoeHill wrote: so there are flavours of Slack with package management now? If so, that's sweet. Ya ever hear of slackget?:) Never used it, though. I prefer getting me hands dirtysame way I dismantle car/boat engines: rebuilding is reversed order of

Re: [newbie] M$ using pirated software

2004-11-20 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 20 November 2004 01:07, Stephen Kühn wrote: But now, since Ballmer the Bouncing Bimbo has gotten into IP legalaties to fight the GPL/OSS world, they better do something about the skeletons roving around in THEIR own closet... Yep, I always say: Give 'em enough rope and they'll hang

Re: [newbie] Looking for Mr. 'Boot-Guru

2004-11-20 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 20 November 2004 01:52, Lanman wrote: Never let it be said that I don't bring interesting problems to the list! This time, the problem makes no sense, unless someone has written a boot-sector virus and included it on the Mandrake 10.1 Community CD's. and they haven't helped at

Re: [newbie] Has anybody attempted to re-add their 10.1 distro sources?

2004-11-20 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 21 November 2004 00:52, Glenn wrote: Using urpmi.addmedia --distrib removable://mnt/cdrom to add my 10.1 sources, the CD numbers get screwed up (11, 21, 31, 32, 33, 41, 51, 61, etc.) Anybody run into a fix for this? Personally, I make a habit of messing up my distro sources or

Re: [newbie] anyone have a dwl122 working with 10.1 ppc?

2004-11-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 19 November 2004 15:10, lincr wrote: So now I am running a network install as before but using the mirrors already listed in the installer, rather than my local source.  None of the mirrors have my 2.6 kernel modules!  The module tarballs on the mirrors are all for the 2.4 kernels.  

Re: [newbie] Install problem

2004-11-17 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 03:39, Aron Smith wrote: I have aquired a Compaq laptop Armada 7400 unfortunely it does not have cdrom drive any way i can get mandrake on this puppy I'd really like to do it 'cause the price was right (free) 3 options: 1)Over a network connection using the

Re: [newbie] anyone have a dwl122 working with 10.1 ppc?

2004-11-17 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 15:19, Lincoln Rutledge wrote: HarM, That is a great tip!  When I plug in the device under Mandrake, it loads the prism2 module, but yeah, iwconfig and ifconfig do nothing. Unfortunately neither apropos nor the iwconfig docs helped me.  But I will investigate

Re: [newbie] Stop Kaffeine from autostarting

2004-11-16 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 16 November 2004 01:20, Jack wrote: Lately, Kaffeine has been autostarting every time I boot into Mandrake 10.1 official. Where can I look to turn this annoying process off? (The Mandrake equivalent to DOS's autoexec.bat, and Windows Startup folder)... - Jack Use ctrl and q to

Re: [newbie] anyone have a dwl122 working with 10.1 ppc?

2004-11-16 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 16 November 2004 22:09, Lincoln Rutledge wrote: I have a dwl122 Dlink 802.11b usb dongle and an iBook. It's a prism2 chipset, supposed to be supported by linux wlan-ng. Does anyone have this working on Mandrake? I just installed 10.1 and it didn't automatically work, which

Re: [newbie] XFce4.2 RC1

2004-11-15 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 15 November 2004 11:46, Stephen Kühn wrote: SO, if anyone wants to give it a go, you can find it at: http://www.xfce.org On my own stuff (like me personal laptop) I wouldn't run anything else;) I haven't upgraded in a while (being very satisfied) so I'll take your word ---Yep, you

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

2004-11-15 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 15 November 2004 23:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Strangely, he went back to using windows - he didn't like having to enter a password when booting up! You don't have to if you don't want to..I suddenly realized how horribly wrong that could go after I thought my laptop had been

Re: [newbie] XFce4.2 RC1

2004-11-15 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 15 November 2004 22:38, Stephen Kühn wrote: (What - ya ground yer boat again?)(g) Yep, nail on the head;) This time at a wharf and catching up on maintainance i.e. I've had a hell of a good year and won't be lifting a finger until 2005:) Welll, maybe take on a trip around Xmas to

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime

2004-11-12 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 12 November 2004 16:41, Greg Meyer wrote: I know what you mean, I'm still on 9.1 cause I don't want to mess with upgrading on account of server stuff. Who on the list would win the prize for running the oldest version of MDK? I've got a two 9.0 boxes running samba and a

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime

2004-11-12 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 12 November 2004 00:01, et wrote: On Thursday 11 November 2004 17:54, Jack wrote: 4 - I use voice recognition extensively (Dragon NS and IBM ViaVoice).  I don't believe this even exists for Linux. viavoice was included in the powerpack for version 7.2 and 8.0, and worked much

Re: [newbie] help on NFS!

2004-11-07 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 07 November 2004 07:39, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: Hi! I´ve followed all the instructions on NFS- how-to found at google. I can mount the directory from mach1 into mach2 (mount -f shows it!) but I don´t have access to directory reading. Using mc I got the msg:

Re: [newbie] help on NFS!

2004-11-07 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 07 November 2004 23:09, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: The permissions are OK! That still leaves the question whether root can read the files unanswered.if root can't read them certainly no user will be able to, no matter whatever you do ! -- Good luck, HarM

Re: [newbie] Setup NFS access?

2004-11-07 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 07 November 2004 23:45, Eric Scott wrote: /home/eric      *(rw) /var/www/html   *(rw) It says permission denied when I try to access.  Any help? Just open /home/eric with konqueror and rightclick the directory you want to share, and go down to the bottom of the menu and select

Re: [newbie] Setup NFS access?

2004-11-07 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 08 November 2004 00:32, Eric Scott wrote: Well sharing home direcories won't help me.  I need the html directory. So what are you trying to share? /var/www/html sounds more like a webserver to mewhich could be reached by:http://adres_of_your_box_here:80; depending on what

Re: [newbie] Setup NFS access?

2004-11-07 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 08 November 2004 02:04, Eric Scott wrote: On Sunday 07 November 2004 17:53, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Monday 08 November 2004 00:32, Eric Scott wrote: Well sharing home direcories won't help me.  I need the html directory. So what are you trying to share? /var/www/html sounds

Re: [newbie] root password lost

2004-11-01 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 01 November 2004 14:35, M.Schild wrote: Hi, a friend who has just tried mandrake 10 for his first time on Linux cannot remeber his root password. Any way he can retrieve it? TIA Maryse 1)Boot the box 2) when the lilo-boot menu appears hit escape 3)enter linux int 1 at he prompt and

Re: [newbie] Partition resized but remains

2004-11-01 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 01 November 2004 11:33, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi guys, I have a spare space on my hdd, so I resized one of my partition (it's on the last partition hda10). Using MCC, I can resized it with no problem, formatted it, the fstab also modified. But, after reboot, I noticed that the free

Re: [newbie] root password lost

2004-11-01 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 01 November 2004 15:46, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: 3)enter linux int 1 at he prompt and hit enter that shoulde be linux init 1 , sorry. -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Ext. USB drive / high CPU load

2004-11-01 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 01 November 2004 21:44, Miark wrote: I'm using a USB 2.0 external harddrive. It's actual performance is fine, but what's bothersome is that if I do something disk intensive, such as copy a huge file or rename file in a big directory, my CPU meter hits 100%. Is this typical? Miark

Re: [newbie] HELP...HELP...O.T.

2004-11-01 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 01 November 2004 21:25, ali tig wrote: i will try to send the massage. heehaw, this is inspector Clouseau's comeback, wonderful;-D -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Importing Lotus123 data.

2004-10-31 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 31 October 2004 10:45, John Layt wrote: I find it strange nothing in Linux does booklet printing, that's just criminal!  It's just the sort of thing DTP was created for. ps2book might just be what you're looking for;) It's a little script that came with some other package that I don't

Re: [newbie] Command deleting one of two equal lines in a file

2004-10-31 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 31 October 2004 11:49, SnapafunFrank wrote: Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi. Does it exist a linux command (or a sequence of commands) that looks into a file and delete one line if there are two equal? Thanks, Rodolfo Or simply deletes strings within several files within a

Re: [newbie] cdrom busy....not umounting

2004-10-31 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 31 October 2004 20:34, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, I'm running LM10 Community on an Inspiron 9100. A fresh install is working 98%. However, the cdrom does not seem to want to let go of any cdrom once I view it's contents in Konq. As root, I get the error umount: /mnt/cdrom:

Re: [newbie] Experiences Updating a 10.0 Box to 10.1 Using URPMI

2004-10-30 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 30 October 2004 05:48, Greg Meyer wrote: When you run urpmi --auto-select, the first thing urpmi does is update itself and any dependent packages and then restart itself.  Part of this initial round is the glibc, the core of your system.  I highly recommend that you reboot after

Re: [newbie] Installing 10.1 Official without ISO cds

2004-10-30 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 30 October 2004 15:52, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Saturday 30 October 2004 15:15, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Is it possible to install Mandrake 10.1 Official without the ISO cds? Or should I wait until the ISO cds are available for downloading? Thanks in advance, Paul

Re: [newbie] Installing 10.1 Official without ISO cds

2004-10-30 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 30 October 2004 16:15, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Well HarM, I've got a T1 connection here, so the download of exactly 302 packages took about 15 minutes, at a server uploading at about 400 kB/sec (average).  But YMMV. Mine maxes at 60Kb download...so that's simple arithmetic:) Thanks. --

Re: [newbie] (OT) Reguarding reply-to and the gmail address

2004-10-30 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 30 October 2004 22:43, Amy wrote: Hey everyone! I've noticed a lot of people have been complaining about the reply-to address issue with gmail. I think I've fixed it on mine. If gmail users go into settings, there are two options for the reply-to, their gmail address, and a blank

Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone

2004-10-28 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 28 October 2004 09:17, SnapafunFrank wrote: I'm late to this thread. Care to list the four commands mentioned? -- Regards SnapafunFrank mount, find, cpio and lilo :) Here's the howto(sort of) .. I copied the lines from my first mail in this thread: What I would do in a

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-28 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 28 October 2004 00:21, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Well H.J. my palm are WET.  I know the feeling of messing around in /boot and lilo ! Right now I installed the 2.6.8.1-10 kernel, with no evident errors. But the camera still behaves like in the -12 kernel.  So no go here.  Next, I'll

Re: [newbie] Copy from old hard drive

2004-10-28 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 28 October 2004 10:07, Russell Butler wrote: I can boot from systemrescue CD with all three drives, but keeps wanting to boot from /hdg5. I tried copying lilo.conf from hde3 to hdg5, but of course that failed as /boot on hdg5 did not fit. I have ports and cables to run 4 IDE drives

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-28 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 28 October 2004 10:38, Anne Wilson wrote: I haven't got around to changing to udev yet, so it may not be a factor at all.  I have 2.6.1-12 with supermount, and I'm still seeing the problem. When kaj ran tail -f /var/log/messages whilst plugging in the camera there were some strange

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-28 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 28 October 2004 10:54, Kaj Haulrich wrote: However, I can retrieve my photos by booting into runlevel 3, mount the camera as /dev/sda1 and copy the files over.  Then reboot to cool down the CPU.  Circumstantial, I think. doing telint 1 should also resolve that, after which you

Re: [newbie] trojan?

2004-10-28 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 28 October 2004 11:12, M.Schild wrote: Sorry, I should have been more explicite but it was early in the morning. The article is about a trojan aimed at Fedora. go to:  http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1682854,00.asp Maryse It's a silly scam but wil prolly show that even among

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-28 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 28 October 2004 11:52, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 28 October 2004 11:18, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: replies within On Thursday 28 October 2004 10:54, Kaj Haulrich wrote: However, I can retrieve my photos by booting into runlevel 3, mount the camera as /dev/sda1 and copy

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-28 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 28 October 2004 15:09, Kaj Haulrich wrote: The kde-mandrake team replied that it is a dupe of another, well known and fixed bug in kdebase.  I wonder if it is true, because it affects Gnome as well - on my system, that is. The bug is here :

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-28 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 28 October 2004 16:36, Tom Brinkman wrote:     Had one for years ;)   BTW, did you get the (free to members) book the Free Software Foundation sent out recently, Free Culture?  Interesting reading an I'm only about 10% into the book. I have and have gotten as far as you. Just need

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-28 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 28 October 2004 19:57, Anne Wilson wrote: I haven't tried Gnome.  I gather that Kaj found the same problem there.  If that had not been so I would have felt that it was definitely kde-related. Another thing that puzzles me, is that the first time, when I accessed as root, I could

Re: [newbie] For all with usb problems

2004-10-28 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 28 October 2004 22:48, Stew Benedict wrote: But... I see people saying they have problems even at runlevel 3 and with different window managers, so I can't really imagine kdebase has much to with it. So did I, I thought...so let's get this straight. Did anybody telinit into

Re: [newbie] First time posting for advice.

2004-10-28 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 29 October 2004 00:43, geoff wrote: Hi, I'm a very new newbie and running Mandrake 10.0 on my laptop sharing drive with XP. I'm now only using xp for Quickbooks. I love Mandrake I downloaded Fluxbox and unpacked it with tar then configure, make and make install.. Everything went

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-27 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 22:59, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Tom, do you have any idea as to where I can fetch kernel 2.6.8.1-10 ? I tried kernel 2.6.3, but it completely borked my ReiserFS. Kaj Haulrich. http://ftp.surfnet.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrakelinux/devel/10.1/i586/media/main/

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-27 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 23:39, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Therefore, I wanted to follow Tom's advice and install the 2.6.8.1-10 kernel. Can't find it anywhere, though. Even rpmfind.net doesn't come up with it. Maybe I should try the 2.4 kernel for 10.1 ? Kaj Haulrich. You could try the

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-27 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 23:41, Tom Brinkman wrote:     -10mdk is the kernel that 10.1 CE was released with.  So if you've got 10.1CE CD's you've got it. I went lookin for -10 on the mirrors, specifically 'kernel-source' but didn't find it. In my situation I'm still tryin to figure out why

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