Re: [newbie] general opinions about file servers and firewalls

2003-11-18 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 06:57:28 + et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my .02$usd.. MUCH better Idea to have a separate box for firewall/router, and keep files on and inside box... Mandrakes mnf 'should' *be the ticket* for that firewall box, and 9.1 or 9.2 is fine for the fileserver. Actually the

[newbie] Have i been unsubbed ***** Eric?

2003-11-18 Thread Michael Adams
I have two Newbie and expert accounts. A - with this e-mail address which is set NOMAIL, ie I post on it but receive nothing. I never fetch anything addressed to this account from my ISP. B - with an e-mail address which i never post anywhere with. This i read the list traffic on but the

Re: [newbie] RAID under Mandrake

2003-11-15 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:19:34 -0700 Travis Crook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'm looking at getting a RAID card to put in my box. I'm running Mandrake 9.1 and wondered what would be the best card. Here is what I'm looking at so far: Promise SuperTrak 100 or 66, 3WARE DiskSwitch

Re: [newbie] LG has posted Firmware Fixes for Bum Drives

2003-11-15 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 21:51:23 -0600 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 14 November 2003 08:39 pm, Brian Parish wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 12:54, Dennis Myers wrote: On Wednesday 12 November 2003 10:14 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: It looks as though LG has posted revised firmware

Re: [newbie] Dialup connection

2003-11-09 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 04:43:18 -0500 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm giving one of my boxes to my sister who lives 200 miles from here. I want to leave 9.2 up with a VMware win2k. I have all working except that she will use a dial up connection. It has been part of my

Re: [newbie] TO STOP AUTOMATIC STARTX FOR A WHILE - TO STOP X-SERVER FOR A WHILE

2003-11-07 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 03:18:49 -0400 Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Switch to runlevel 3 and then back to runlevel 5. telinit 3 (do your driver thing) telinit 5 I agree completely with the advise. I do have a query as to why you use telinit instead of init. I quote the man

Re: [newbie] web radio broadcasts

2003-11-07 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 11:04:11 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i like to listen to radio web broadcasts at work but some of the stations i prefer only use windows media player format. i've talked to them in the past about adding realplayer accessability and was told it's a matter of cost. If

Re: [newbie] source rpms

2003-11-07 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 15:25:23 +0200 They basically consist of tarballs of all the sources and patches that are applied, plus a spec file, which is a configuration file that tells rpm how to build and package the program. If you try to install one, these files will be copied to

Re: [newbie] OT Qcad

2003-11-06 Thread Michael Adams
snip Right now I need to figure out how to get a line more than 1 pixel wide. Makes for hard reading. Lee http://www.ribbonsoft.com/qcad/manual_reference/layers.html Figure 16, 2/3 of the way down the page. HTH -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Damn these spammers! : ISP ip-ranges [slightly OT]

2003-10-31 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 10:57:04 -0500 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip This response actually brings up something that has been bugging me of late about some elements of the tech community. I realize that there are a large number of clueless politicians and lawyers out there but

Re: [newbie] grub lilo

2003-10-28 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 11:10:17 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank wrote: I'm starting to learn more about grub. And on a Mandrake system that means trouble for someone. I've used both grub and lilo, and cannot find much to choose between them, but mandrake tends to

Re: Spare install - was Re: [newbie] Newbie Etiquette

2003-10-25 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 10:31:34 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 24 Oct 2003 5:41 am, Michael Adams wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 14:28:38 -0400 Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really need to setup a fuck me! OS beside my normal install of linux. sigh

Spare install - was Re: [newbie] Newbie Etiquette

2003-10-23 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 14:28:38 -0400 Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really need to setup a fuck me! OS beside my normal install of linux. sigh Femme It's not as nutty as it sounds. I have three on my Desktop box. MDK 9.0 - Stable MDK 9.0 - Tweak MDK 9.1 - Update Anyone

Re: [newbie] best way to upgrade (apt or urpmi)

2003-10-23 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 08:00:24 -0500 C. Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 08:46:01 -0400 T wrote: |I have recently found that I need to desperately upgrade my Mandrake |9.0 installation. I noticed a few discussions on this list that deal |with apt and urpmi as upgrade

Re: [newbie] Ballmer: Win more secure that Lin

2003-10-23 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 17:45:56 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 23 October 2003 04:33 pm, Paul M. Bucalo wrote: Balmer may be conveniently throwing in *all* of Red Hat's critical vulnerabilities in its *distribution release*, which amounts to many, many

Re: [newbie] multivolume tar

2003-10-22 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 08:57:02 -0700 (PDT) Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes you can :-) No, you still can't, because it is not tar doing the job anymore, it is either you or some script. The original discussion was about the

Re: [newbie] tar CD

2003-10-18 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 10:51:00 +0100 Tony S. Sykes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael, This depends on how you want to use the tar files. You can tar and then use split. Tony. -Original Message- From: Michael Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 10:29 AM

[newbie] tar CD

2003-10-17 Thread Michael Adams
Does anyone have a one liner that will tar.bz to CD sized volumes. TIA -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long)

2003-10-16 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 19:05:29 -0400 Terence J. Golightly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I have a bad DIMM. I read something about setting up memtest as a selection from the bootloader writing the bad memory blocks to disk and using another program/module to tell the kernel to not use that

Re: [newbie] Patenting of Software Code ATTN Anne!!!

2003-10-08 Thread Michael Adams
On 08 Oct 2003 13:59:14 +0100 Douglas Bainbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good, thanks. I've written to the 8 MEPs for the Eastern Region UK. Like you, I found Anne's letter excellent - mine is a straight crib with a few additions. I hope she doesn't mind [Letter follows] Maybe we could do

Pink OT was(Re: [newbie] tip for sound using KDE ArtsD)

2003-10-03 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 19:30:54 -0400 Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 06:31:13 +1200 Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip One of my... ONE OF MY... somehow the rest of this mail got unreadable after that. Pink hair, pink life? -- Michael (not angel/o

Re: [newbie] Using K3B making an ISO

2003-10-02 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 07:46:58 -0600 Jerry Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 18:47:11 -0400 Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Trying to make an ISO with K3B... its not working though...I tell it to burn the image (ISO) to K3B's temp dir...and the dir isn't

Re: [newbie] Nigerian Scam on newbie

2003-09-28 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 12:45:26 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 28 September 2003 02:37 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 28 September 2003 03:40 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Hi all, I just got the Nigerian e-mail scam addressed to the newbie list, so I presume everyone

Re: [newbie] MCC thinks I have a Sound Card

2003-09-27 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 13:21:27 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 27 Sep 2003 1:11 pm, Margot wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 21:10, Margot wrote: I used to get sound, but I had to reinstall Mandrake some months ago to get the internet connection

Re: [newbie] Modem connects OK but apps can't locate hosts

2003-09-26 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 10:07:42 + Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 26 September 2003 07:46 am, Joe Janzen wrote: snip Hi, I've searched the archives and tried some suggestions for similar problems, but without success. Mandrake 9.1 was just installed. I launch KPPP

Re: [newbie] installing x86 update

2003-09-18 Thread Michael Adams
Oh if all arguments could be so pointless. Some people prefer top posting, some people prefer bottom posting. May all your concerns be so petty and trivial. Get over it people, go and get a life. Or Filter all people who don't do it your way to the trash. But stop whinging in my ear about it.

Re: [newbie] Sound card problem in Mandrake 9.1

2003-09-18 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 10:01:40 +0200 NiTrO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm experiencing some problems with my on board soundcard on Mandrake 9.1. First, it wouldn't work at all, now I found out that she works, but when I want to hear anything, I need to plug my speakers into the headphone jack

[newbie] Reading Shorewall log

2003-09-13 Thread Michael Adams
Can someone help me decipher this single log excerpt? The bits i understand i have filled in. I was getting this exactly every half minute. I have scanned the online shorewall docs but did not see how a newbie can read the logs. I have also found that Port 500 is for ISAKMP which means nothing to

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Virus

2003-09-11 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 09:03:42 -0700 rikona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello robin, Sunday, September 7, 2003, 1:17:15 PM, you wrote: r There is also the factor that the average Linux sysadmin is a lot r more savvy than a point-and-click NT sysadmin. And both are almost infinitely more

Re: [newbie] Intel |Unveils

2003-09-11 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 00:24:28 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday September 9 2003 02:56 pm, ed tharp wrote: Well, I see Charlie already gave you a best answer. The only thing I'd add, is there's no sense in havin a 64bit desktop, till most all the apps you use are

Re: [newbie] alarm

2003-09-06 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 21:19:51 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 04 September 2003 09:03 pm, Anarky wrote: Todd Slater wrote: while there have been many posts .. I only know of Korganizer yet .. and that sounds like big programm, not a speciffic one ... and as for

Re: [newbie] free software frozen bubble Linus Torvalds (follow-up)

2003-09-06 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 20:28:59 +0300 Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 20:08, robin wrote: Inhabitant of Zion wrote: ... please somebody explain to what's that part about Linus Torvalds ... I thought he was the founder of Linux ... and suporter of free software

Re: [newbie] SCO reversal

2003-08-30 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 07:53:56 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sharrea Day wrote: So they've changed their minds then... surprise, surprise... http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/29/1062050642514.html Sharrea operative words being, Today SCO also said

Re: [newbie] Paraniod - start worrying

2003-08-29 Thread Michael Adams
The question wasn't whether there was a virus/worm/trojan problem similar to Windoze, the OP was asking if there was any indication of a worm infecting linux, which there clearly is. t Sorry, as the original poster, i was presenting what i saw as an oddity, no more. I watch the given

Re: [newbie] Paraniod - start worrying

2003-08-28 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 21:26:17 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 26 August 2003 02:54 pm, Michael Adams wrote: Any paranoids out there? Start worrying! http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100558.htm The rest of us will read this, shrug, and carry on as per normal aware

Re: [newbie] Transferring songs from cassette

2003-08-28 Thread Michael Adams
snip Does the turntable have a pre-amp? Not sure who you are asking but on my setup it is just a technics turntable, no preamp. That did not come out right. There is no built in preamp in the turntable, the preamp is in the tapedeck. HTH In my (possibly wrong) understanding

Re: [newbie] Overclock!

2003-08-28 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 00:22:03 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keep in mind my usual advice on this list is that hardware needs to be eliminated from any problems, specially if it's a ready made, in the first place. OC'd or not. OTOH, if it's there, RUN IT!! Windoze

Re: [newbie] Transferring songs from cassette

2003-08-27 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 18:06:11 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 26 August 2003 04:04 am, Michael Adams wrote: On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 16:44:44 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Cool. Is there a way to do this to albums also? I could put

Re: [newbie] Transferring songs from cassette

2003-08-26 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 16:44:44 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Cool. Is there a way to do this to albums also? I could put the cassette deck on record and run the RCA plugs from tape deck monitor to the line-in on the sound card, just wonder if there is a better way...

[newbie] Paraniod - start worrying

2003-08-26 Thread Michael Adams
Any paranoids out there? Start worrying! http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100558.htm The rest of us will read this, shrug, and carry on as per normal aware that slim threats do exist on linux. No flames for scare mongering please. I thought it was an acceptable oddity, no more! -- Michael

Re: [newbie] Blaster worm

2003-08-20 Thread Michael Adams
On 20 Aug 2003 17:21:00 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 11:21, Dennis Myers wrote: Wow, I have been getting email with the blaster worm attached by the bucket full. snip Blaster scans IP addresses and then uses a built-in tftp server to transmit itself

Re: [newbie] mp3 to wav to ogg to mp3 different bitrate conversiontool

2003-08-15 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 10:36:02 -0400 Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anarky wrote: is there like a audio conversion tool that can handle all different stuff like this (like saving as an mp3 with a different bitrate/stereo/mono, converting to wave, or compressing back)? Is

Re: [newbie] OT: ad blocking

2003-07-30 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 22:22:04 -0700 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There s a simple solution to adverts actually from known sites. This will not block everything concerning adverts, but it will block everything from these advert sites. Edit your /etc/hosts file as root, and add

Re: [newbie] Draw a simple line with Gimp

2003-07-30 Thread Michael Adams
On 30 Jul 2003 14:32:10 + Marco Verheul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I want to design a logo with Gimp and I need to insert a simple straight horizontal line. How do I do this? Marco -- Registered Linux user #268279 * This message is composed on a 100% Microsoft free

Re: [newbie] two Mandrakes on two harddrives

2003-07-29 Thread Michael Adams
Dennis i have 4 on one disk. I call them: Windows - 98se Stable - mdk9.0 Tweak - mdk9.0 Update - mdk9.1 XFS partitions throughout the mdk stuff, with shared /home for s and t, one swap for all. 15 partitions total. I play with 9.1 but still don't like it except some apps that work better. I

Re: [newbie] OT: ad blocking

2003-07-28 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 13:10:09 -0700 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't it easier to simply suppress popups (Moz) or use smart denial of popups (Konq)? For popups that is probably true, assuming you are using moz or konq. But this was for ads that don't popup. Some sites i go to

Re: [newbie] GMO foods

2003-07-28 Thread Michael Adams
I suspect a mispost error originating between the keyboard and seat. LOL On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 11:03:20 -0400 Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a tad off-topic?? Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 7/28/2003 at 9:02 AM Cornerstone Community Farm wrote: In general, we

Re: [newbie] cannot log in as root in 9.1

2003-07-28 Thread Michael Adams
If you feel you need a gui program as root. Open a terminal as a user, type su, enter the root password, then type the name of the program konqueror etc. On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 11:46:31 -0500 Cornerstone Community Farm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Generally, DO NOT log in as root. For admin tasks,

Re: [newbie] OT: ad blocking

2003-07-28 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 14:49:33 -0400 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 19:35:44 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless I misunderstand you, this is just what Mozilla offers. I used to use it in Netscape, but now I find that using that disables

Re: [newbie] OT: ad blocking

2003-07-28 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 19:35:44 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 28 Jul 2003 6:47 pm, Michael Adams wrote: On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 13:10:09 -0700 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't it easier to simply suppress popups (Moz) or use smart denial of popups (Konq

Re: [newbie] Sound mixer and manipulation programmes

2003-07-17 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 20:56:30 +1000 _nasturtium [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 08:26 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: least Yamaha seem to be using this specific file connotation, whether .mid are MIDI files and they're quite standardised - if the keyboard is General MIDI then the

Re: [newbie] modem sharing vs ICS

2003-07-17 Thread Michael Adams
Investigate IPCop as a standalone. - It will load fine on an old 486. - It does dial on demand - the manual can be downloaded as a pdf and is pretty comprehensive. http://www.ipcop.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/IPCop/WebHome manual http://www.ipcop.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/IPCop/IPCopDocumentationv01

Re: [newbie] URPMI Possible BUG in M9.1 ?

2003-07-17 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 17:09:44 +0100 Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 17 Jul 2003 3:46 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I have both dvd and writer scsi-emed, and automounted. urpmi asks for a M9.1 CD in /dev/scd0, no problem, but when I give it the relevent CD, it keeps on

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update not possible

2003-07-10 Thread Michael Adams
I also recomend throwing disk 1 in the CD-ROM before you urpmi anything. On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 09:27:57 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you upgraded to 9.1 did you delete your old 9.0 update source? That would explain why you had trouble with libraries. You can remove your

Re: [newbie] Ownership thing

2003-06-07 Thread Michael Adams
This is a desirable security feature. But as mentioned if you $ cp source foo $ rm source $ mv foo source user now owns source. On Sun, 08 Jun 2003 06:12, Richard Urwin wrote: On Saturday 07 Jun 2003 6:45 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 07 June 2003 01:12 pm, Kristjan wrote: Hi It

[newbie] SCO V Linux - now i understand it.

2003-06-06 Thread Michael Adams
http://www.arie.org/doh/ -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Checking for new Hardware

2003-05-29 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 28 May 2003 05:53:27 -0700 Myers, Dennis R NWO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Richard Smith Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 6:22 AM To: NEWBIE 1 Subject: [newbie] Checking for new Hardware

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Corporate 2.1

2003-04-05 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 06 Apr 2003 11:18, Darin wrote: Does anyone know where Mandrake Corporate Server 2.1 can be downloaded from? I don't see it in any of the lists on the Mandrake site. You have to buy it mate. Corporate product you know. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/corporate-server

[newbie] OT - Sun drops linux

2003-03-29 Thread Michael Adams
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,981353,00.asp Mandrake, don't wait for them to contact you! -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Defragging FAT32 partitions from linux

2003-03-15 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 07:34, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 14 March 2003 06:50 am, Luke Stutters wrote: Could I defrag my Win98SE disc from linux? It's a bit difficult to do in Windows, as it insists on writing to the disc for no reason while defragging, which slows it down a lot. MAny times

Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts

2003-03-09 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 19:51, Len Lawrence wrote: On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:54:11 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: all snipped -- Understanding linux printer setup is not easy, and so here is my best try,

Re: [newbie] Low volume sound

2003-03-08 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 08 Mar 2003 23:14, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 07 Mar 2003 5:03 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: I haven't heard this before, Tom. I wonder if that's the reason my 'slider' kept dropping down to around 60%? Short of gravity I've never been able to explain it. Anyway, aumix, as you

Re: [newbie] Getting old threads sent by mail

2003-03-08 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 02:36, Adolfo Bello wrote: Yesterday, I had my mail server down for ~14 hours. Is there any way to get a thread sent to me by email? Is there any command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get this done? TIA If it is a specific thread just read the archives. If you specifically

Re: [newbie] normal user can delete root owned files!

2003-03-08 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 08 Mar 2003 04:15, Todd Slater wrote: On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:38:20PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 2:26 am, cervixcouch wrote: On Friday 07 March 2003 09:09 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote: You are right, from directories other than the /home/belardi it

[newbie] how to list sources for urpmi

2003-03-05 Thread Michael Adams
man urpmi. man 8 urpmi.update. I cant see where to output the list of sources to read. Reason, For a mate I wish to delete an update mirror urpmi.removemedia so i can set a new one. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] tar questions, ta

2003-03-03 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 11:38, David E. Fox wrote: What number of 1k blocks will fit on a 1.44Mb DOS floppy? (I dont know where to read the available space. I can see usage with 'df' or in konq, but not free space.) Like another poster said, 1440 1K blocks. On the other hand, that assumes you

Re: [newbie] tar questions, ta

2003-03-03 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 12:21, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 06:16, Michael Adams wrote: 1. I backed up an old system and i made the mistake of using absolute paths. I now want to extract from this tar ball into my newer system. I want to extract individual files and want to place

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled

2003-03-03 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 03:17, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 9:18 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 20:06, Richard Urwin wrote: On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 7:19 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: What I find so shocking about the whole bit is that M$ PROMISED that they're not spying

[newbie] tar questions, ta

2003-03-02 Thread Michael Adams
1. I backed up an old system and i made the mistake of using absolute paths. I now want to extract from this tar ball into my newer system. I want to extract individual files and want to place them in an 'extraction' directory. Can i do it? How? (if i get it wrong i could write over existing

Re: [newbie] Graphics formats

2003-02-25 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 23:15, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 24 Feb 2003 10:04 pm, Jan Wilson wrote: * Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030224 11:19]: Though I suppose that if I want to make progressive saves while working on a picture, then it would be well worth it, but then make the final

Re: [newbie] HD

2003-02-18 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 06:48, civileme wrote: On Monday 17 February 2003 04:35 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 15 February 2003 08:26 pm, Chuck Burns wrote: GACK! *clue* You can have MORE than one swapfile! make the other partition a SECOND swapfile.. done.. Not done. Make sure you

[newbie] Ta-Ta for now

2003-02-18 Thread Michael Adams
If i have done it right, i should not get any e-mails from this list until this time next week. Not even this one. Have fun all. So there is no point in replying to, or even sending this email ;-) -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] sendmail question person, look at this, OT Thread hijack... mail server @ home?

2003-02-14 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 19:29, Robert Wideman wrote: I see some ppl n the list setup mail servers in their home... Whats the reason for that? My roommate wants to. Dont know why. We have 23 computers between me and him. I changed from administration to programming about a month ago and have

Re: [newbie] Looking for good Mandrake SENDMAIL HOWTO

2003-02-14 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 10:58, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:45:43PM +, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 13 Feb 2003 10:30 pm, T E wrote: Hi all, As you see, I am looking for a decent HOWTO for the Sendmail included with Mandrake 8.2. If possible, both a quick

Re: [newbie] webmin

2003-02-13 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 19:55, Gil Katz wrote: On Friday 14 February 2003 01:47, et wrote: On Thursday 13 February 2003 01:39 pm, Gil Katz wrote: On Wednesday 12 February 2003 14:19, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 12 Feb 2003 10:41 am, Gil Katz wrote: On Wednesday 12 February 2003

[newbie] Aargh: Internet Explorer HTTPS = DNS fail

2003-02-12 Thread Michael Adams
Does somebody recognize a strange error a friend is having while making HTTPS attempts to connect to his bank with IE (Never thought i'd be asking this one here). IE returns an Error Page with no number (like 404) The page advises it could be caused by - site temporarily unavailable - slow

Re: [newbie] Leave this l i s t ?

2003-02-12 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 07:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I leave this l i s t ? I have tried, and tried ... can't find any info. Please help. Thanks. The same way you got on it. Read: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] CD's have arrived!!

2003-02-11 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 13:10, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Mr. Tom Brinkman - THANKS MATE The beta CD's have arrived - and anyone in NZ or Australia that needs copies of the 3 x CD's - gimme yer details and I'll post'em off to ya mates! (NOTE to NZ'ers) - I can't send beer or better footy players.

Re: [newbie] Dual boot: pre-setup question

2003-02-10 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 03:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Adolfo Bello Sent: Sunday, 9 February 2003 00:49 To: MDK Mandrake Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual boot: pre-setup question Trust me: I almost

Re: [newbie] wine

2003-02-10 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 02:06, Philip wrote: I have incountered a problem trying to run wine with my Mandrake 9.0 distro. When I try to run a .exe file by sat typing...wine startup.exe it attempts to load then I am left with a black screen. That's it. I don't seem to get any error

Re: [newbie] how to cron?

2003-02-09 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 05:12, magnet wrote: On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 3:47 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 10:28 am, magnet wrote: Hi Derek, Ok, that's a good start. Means I can keep all the vcr scripts in one place. I

Re: [newbie] how to cron?

2003-02-09 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 04:08, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 09 February 2003 09:59 am, magnet wrote: I have set up my tv card and I can capture programs to HDD using streamer. I'm using v4lctrl setstation channel number to set the correct channel. and then streamer... options follow.blah

Re: [newbie] ? Howto get files in winblowz

2003-02-07 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 08 Feb 2003 07:23, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday February 6 2003 02:08 pm, mbot wrote: Thanks, Damian. Although it's not what I really mean, still ... it helps a lot. Thanks again. Btw, there's a little problem. Why my computer always hang (so I must use Xkill) when my mouse

Re: [newbie] OT javascript gurus?

2003-02-07 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 08 Feb 2003 10:03, Todd Slater wrote: I need to develop a template for a self-correcting javascript quiz. 1. 3 radio button responses per question 2. on submit, validate that all questions have been answered 3. display correct/incorrect feedback in a textbox next to each question 4.

Re: [newbie] OT: Shorthand

2003-02-06 Thread Michael Adams
To us Newbs acronyms are a PITA FWIW IMHO On Fri, 07 Feb 2003 17:27, Jerry Barton wrote: On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 22:12:28 -0600 Robert Wideman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LOL: Lots of Laughter Never seen this translation in the 10 years i have been on the net. Its more commonly known as

Re: [newbie] A question of image display

2003-02-02 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 02 Feb 2003 06:45, John Richard Smith wrote: Todd Slater wrote: On Sat, 01 Feb 2003 15:05:54 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am currently scanning many old colour photo's on my new epsom scanner These produce .pnm files which I covert in gimp to .jpeg files and

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!)

2003-02-01 Thread Michael Adams
I am no network whizz so i may be blowing smoke here. But in my understanding if you have a running windows connection a linux connection is usually achievable. This may sound a little crazy but it just seems strange to me that you are attempting to connect to the mail server. Surely you

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!)

2003-02-01 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 22:41, Margot wrote: - Original Message - From: Chuck Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 12:33 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!) On Wed, January 29 2003 5:19 pm, FemmeFatale wrote:

Re: [newbie] OT Oxymorons

2003-01-29 Thread Michael Adams
Top Oxymorons of all time: * Military Intelligence * Wholesale Discount * President Bush * Microsoft Secure Server * English Cricket Team * American Rugby * Religious Philosophy * Marketing Intelligence * Microsoft Product Activation * Microsoft Security Algorithm * Easy Linux * OS/2

Re: [newbie] CD Writer/DMA

2003-01-21 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 07:14, Jordan Elver wrote: Hi, Yes, it's possible. However, making your own backup copies of copy protected cd's is only possible if you can make your burner and your software do an elaborate dance; and they both have to be doing exotic things. In linux the hardware

Re: [newbie]

2003-01-20 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 09:02, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 02:36, Richard Gelling wrote: Hi You might want to sign this petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/endtcpa1/petition.html re TCPA Richard G. Registered Linux User: 256848 Signed and forwarded. Sorry, this

Re: [newbie] vi settings

2003-01-20 Thread Michael Adams
As a suggestion, if you play with settings, try this. - Open the config file - SaveAs ~this.conf20030121 - SaveAs this.conf - play away to your hearts content commenting your mods using the comment system included in the file. - for any removals comment them out and state why - for any new

Re: OT [newbie] A review with a twist...;-)

2003-01-20 Thread Michael Adams
snip Most of us won't ever forget where Mandrake originated. I think the trick is for Red Hat-ians (is that a word? g) to remember _why_ the branch happened. snip Red-hatters? -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Gnome Search

2003-01-14 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 09:25, RichardA wrote: On Tuesday 14 January 2003 08:53, Tom Brinkman wrote: [snip] or by anacron when you boot (if that's installed, I don't believe it is by default). If anacron isn't installed by default, what happens to cron jobs like logrotate if the machine is

Re: [newbie] partition help for testing 9.1

2003-01-12 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 17:31, Jerry Barton wrote: I'm going to try testing the 9.1 beta but. I don't have an empty partition to install to. I DO have a rather large /home partition that i could divide. the question is how, without losing data. The machine is single boot Mdk 9.0. If there's

Re: [newbie] Install command

2003-01-11 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 21:19, Trevor Rhodes wrote: After a system crash I'm trying to rebuild and am at the stage of getting some commands back I've forgotten. One was very recently on this list. Does anyone remember a command for installing rpms from the command line that included two signs?

Re: [newbie] imputting strange characters

2003-01-11 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 14:41, Damian Gatabria wrote: If it's international charachters you are after with accents, change your keyboard to US-International. This would not be for speed typists. It waits for a second key press after letters with the accents. I loaded it by mistake with my 8.2

Re: [newbie] md5sum nomenclature

2003-01-11 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 05:02, John Richard Smith wrote: On, ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrak e-iso/i586 we have, MandrakeLinux-9.1beta1.i586.iso and, md5sums.9.1beta1.asc I just wondered what .asc means ? John Short for ASCII. If you think

Re: Re: [newbie] mdk 9 slow on 3d games

2003-01-10 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 10:41, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 00:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, the guillemot has an nvidia chip: NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64 What the correct linux driver for the chip? And where can i get it? thanks filipe Get the latest NVDIA driver

Re: [newbie] imputting strange characters

2003-01-10 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 12:21, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Saturday 11 January 2003 00:35, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 11:11, Sascha Noyes wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, is there a way to input ASCII characters with a simple key combination (as

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