Re: [newbie] write permissions in gui.

2001-07-29 Thread Romanator
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 09:56, Romanator wrote: On Saturday 28 July 2001 06:48 pm, Judith Miner wrote: Sridhar wrote: I taught myself MS-DOS when I was three years old. Since I had no previous conceptions on what an OS should be like, I learned rather

Re: [newbie] write permissions in gui.

2001-07-29 Thread Romanator
etharp wrote: On Sunday 29 July 2001 11:43, Romanator wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: snip damn and I was 12 befor I built my first (dc powered) underwater habitat, I wish we had things like solar arrays and lazers back in those days Is it true that you weren't allowed to use pointy

Re: [newbie] write permissions in gui.

2001-07-28 Thread Romanator
On Saturday 28 July 2001 06:48 pm, Judith Miner wrote: Sridhar wrote: I taught myself MS-DOS when I was three years old. Since I had no previous conceptions on what an OS should be like, I learned rather easily. Surely you must realize that you were a very unusual three-year-old. For one

Re: [newbie] pretty graphical editor

2001-07-27 Thread Romanator
Check out Cooledit. Roman Randy Kramer wrote: I tried Kwrite, and it's not bad. I switched to nedit because it has: -soft wrap (they call it continuous) -macros However, the search and replace in kwrite is nicer than that in nedit if you want to accept changes one at a time -- nedit

Re: [newbie] webmin

2001-07-27 Thread Romanator
James, This works for me: https://127.0.0.1:1 Press the [enter] key. Roman James S Bear wrote: I've got my webserver running, sorta, but I am really not a command prompt type of person. Can anybody tell me how to run webmin? I tried typing it from the command line, but it tells me

Re: [newbie] libc.so.6

2001-07-27 Thread Romanator
Everette wrote: I am trying to install some software and keep getting errors. It say's Dependency Problem libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) is needed by my software. I looked at the list archives and found several people with the same problem, but never seen an answer. Could someone please tell me

Re: [newbie] libc.so.6

2001-07-27 Thread Romanator
Everette wrote: I am trying to install some software and keep getting errors. It say's Dependency Problem libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) is needed by my software. I looked at the list archives and found several people with the same problem, but never seen an answer. Could someone please tell me

Re: [newbie] ATTENTION all newbies!

2001-07-27 Thread Romanator
John, You will need the following: acroread 4.0.5-6mdk and acroread-nppdf 4.0.5-6mdk (for Netscape plugin) Roman Registered Linux User #179293 su is not the root of your problem but the start of a new journey John Rigby wrote: Hi Sridhar, In its default state, my M8 won't recognise

Re: [newbie] Newbies top ten commands tutorial

2001-07-26 Thread Romanator
steve wrote: Suffer from termiphobia? Think that all this typing is a pain? Can't tell a cat from a tar? Couldn't compile your way out of a wet paper bag? Sick of man's and How-To's that assmume you already have a beard? Please allow me to present my Newbies guide to the ten commands

Re: [newbie] Configure, make and make install MPlayer problems

2001-07-25 Thread Romanator
s wrote: On Tuesday 24 July 2001 07:08 pm, you wrote: I was reading that this only works with Matrox cards. Is this true? Also, are you using a TV tuner card? Nope, a Asus V7700 (nvidia geforce2 gts chipset). I've always wanted to try a tv tuner card. Can I hook that up to my

Re: [newbie] buying Domain Name from Yahoo

2001-07-25 Thread Romanator
Tuan Duc Tran wrote: Hi all, I am going to buy a Domain Name (registered Domain) for my Web Server. I have a plain to buy it from Yahoo. Has anyone bought it from Yahoo? Is this a good way to do? It's cost about $35.00 USD/year. Tuan

Re: [newbie] Configure, make and make install MPlayer problems with MPlayer-0.18pre5

2001-07-24 Thread Romanator
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: It works fine for me. What is the configure error? On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 08:17, Romanator wrote: Hi all, Well, I can't for life of me figure out why the MPlayer tar ball is not configuring. Has any one else been succesful in configuring, make and make

Re: [newbie] Configure, make and make install MPlayer problems

2001-07-23 Thread Romanator
s wrote: I been using if for months. The lastest vs. (.17) was so easy too. I've been reading about others having trouble, but it was da...da... da: movies for me. I've run out of ideas to assist these individuals with their problems, they seemed to have done what they were supposed to

Re: [newbie] Configure, make and make install MPlayer problems

2001-07-23 Thread Romanator
Dan Ray wrote: Roman-- Well, I can't for life of me figure out why the MPlayer tar ball is not configuring. Has any one else been succesful in configuring, make and make install MPlayer in LM8? I had a couple of problems, which I fixed, and then it configured and installed great.

Re: [newbie] NOW: philosophy of the Newby book

2001-07-23 Thread Romanator
John Rigby wrote: Roman, Have you looked at TWIKI? I am trying to find time to do it, but I actually have to make a living unlike all you rich guys who have all day to play with exotic programs :-) http://www.twiki.org It looks like a great collaboration solution and I am planning to

Re: [newbie] Maximum Linux

2001-07-22 Thread Romanator
Steve wrote: On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, Glenn Johnson wrote: Hi all. Has anyone here had a subscription to Maximum Linux magazine? If so, have you heard or seen anything about what's happening with our subscriptions now that the maggy is defunct? They've closed the magazine - a few

Re: [newbie] advanced editor or editing c programs

2001-07-22 Thread Romanator
civileme wrote: On Sunday 22 July 2001 10:10, Kevin Fonner wrote: I am starting to learn c and I noticed when I was typing in some basic programs into advanced editor the my { were coming out as |. At first i thought they just were not being displayed right but then I noticed that

[newbie] Configure, make and make install MPlayer problems

2001-07-22 Thread Romanator
Hi all, Well, I can't for life of me figure out why the MPlayer tar ball is not configuring. Has any one else been succesful in configuring, make and make install MPlayer in LM8? Roman Registered Linux User #179293 This email is powered by the Tux Email Utility

Re: [newbie] OpenGL and Mplayer help needed

2001-07-21 Thread Romanator
Paul wrote: It was Sat, 21 Jul 2001 15:39:27 -0500 when nkey wrote: root@charter MPlayer-0.18pre5]# ./configure You can get detailed help on configure with: ./configure --help Please wait while ./configure discovers your software and hardware environment! Checking version of gcc ...

Re: [newbie] OpenGL and Mplayer help needed

2001-07-21 Thread Romanator
Is the rpm working? nkey wrote: I'm not sure actually. i downloaded the RPM from www.rpmfind.net i decided to go about this a different way and compile a tarball i had to download gcc 3.0 and cpp 3.0 (mplayer demands you have gcc 3) to get ./configure to run for me and i get this error

Re: [newbie] Derned padlock!

2001-07-21 Thread Romanator
john wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey gang, I finally got all my drives (CD-ROM,floppy and zip) mountable and umountable, I can even read/write to my floppy now and see what's on a CD if I click on the icon. The only obstacle left is the zip icon. If I

Re: [newbie] Tribes 2 for Linux Error Message

2001-07-20 Thread Romanator
Miark, Can you provide any additional instructions? Roman Registered Linux User #179293 su is not the root of your problem but the start of a new journey Miark wrote: Jim, Have you installed the GLX and nVidia driver RPMs from the nVidia web site? If not, you'll need to. You can

Re: [newbie] Creating a link to application on the Gnome desktop

2001-07-20 Thread Romanator
problem but the start of a new journey Dave Sherman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I believe the desktop right-click menu option is Launcher, or perhaps New Launcher. Dave On Thursday 19 July 2001 18:33, thus spake Romanator: Hi all, I can't for the life

Re: [newbie] Creating a link to application on the Gnome desktop

2001-07-20 Thread Romanator
I'll try anything. This should be interesting. Roman s wrote: If you can't find the launcher, can't you do a ln -s /usr/bin/whatever /home/you/Desktop/whatever I used to do it that way a while back, but haven't in a while. You don't get to choose a perty icon. ;-) -s On Thursday 19

Re: [newbie] AVI player in mdk8?

2001-07-20 Thread Romanator
Sorry, I just caught the end of this thread. Where can I find mplayer for Linux? Is it included with the Powerpack? Roman Paul wrote: It was Fri, 20 Jul 2001 13:08:10 -0400 when Dan Ray wrote: Any help, or a pointer to another avi player, is appreciated. MPlayer is excellent.

Re: Fw: [newbie] Problem with automounting CDROM and floppy

2001-07-20 Thread Romanator
Jan, Try inserting user as shown below: /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,user,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,user,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 /mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount fs=vfat,user,dev=/dev/zip 0 0  Roman Jan SedivĂ˝ wrote: This is what my fstab file

Re: [newbie]will Konqueror run on a gnome desktop?

2001-07-20 Thread Romanator
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Yep. IMHO, it's the only way to fly :-) Since version 1.0.x, GNOME has been as solid as a rock for me. I found KDE 2.0 to be simply unusable, but from 2.1 things got really good. I love GNOME for its ultra-configurable Panel and its equally versatile Sawfish WM.

Re: [newbie] STAR OFFICE FONTS

2001-07-20 Thread Romanator
John Rigby wrote: Hi there, If nobody here can fix it ( most things seem to be! ) send off a note to SO. If enough people NICELY complain, it will be fixed. The axle that squeaks gets the grease - THAT'S life! :-) On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 15:03, you manipulated electrons to produce:

Re: [newbie] AVI player in mdk8?

2001-07-20 Thread Romanator
Sounds good. I'll check it out Roman Paul wrote: It was Fri, 20 Jul 2001 19:39:48 -0400 when Romanator wrote: Sorry, I just caught the end of this thread. Where can I find mplayer for Linux? Is it included with the Powerpack? Go to http://mplayer.sf.net and there it is :) Another tip

Re: [newbie] Which program is Mandrake using for web demos?

2001-07-19 Thread Romanator
and capture your desktop to the clipboard, and Ctrl-Print Screen will capture the current window. On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 10:17, Romanator wrote: Hi all, I'm interesting in creating additional Linux demos. Does any one know what Mandrake is using to create their demos for their web page

Re: [newbie] registration

2001-07-19 Thread Romanator
joneswm wrote: Hello everyone, Having a problem registering my L-M 8.0 Power Pack (US boxed edition). The serial number is supposed to be on one of the disk sleeves, but is not. Is there any way around this, to get a fake number, that will let me register online? Also, when I

Re: [newbie] Managing Zip, CD-ROM, and floppy drives

2001-07-19 Thread Romanator
On Thursday 19 July 2001 06:38 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 19 July 2001 11:19, you wrote: My /etc/fstab file is quite similar to yours, Dennis. I modified this line: /mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/zip 0 0 like this: /mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount

[newbie] Creating a link to application on the Gnome desktop

2001-07-19 Thread Romanator
Hi all, I can't for the life of me figure out how to create a simple Link to an application or shortcut on the Gnome desktop. Any ideas? Roman Registered Linux User #179293 su is not the root of your problem but the start of a new journey

Re: [newbie] Mystery of missing Install of Websphere NOW DEsktop Icon setup

2001-07-18 Thread Romanator
John Rigby wrote: Hi Roman, Well, intuitive it is not! :-) Took a clue from you and re-used an icon that failed previously and went to OPEN WITH on a RClick on it. It works, but boy, is it slow to come up! Next little one: How do I open/import webs from the Doze side? -- Cheers,

Re: [newbie] Growing Help Resources

2001-07-18 Thread Romanator
John Rigby wrote: Hi Judy, On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 12:35, you manipulated electrons to produce: Hi John-- Never fear, I noted your first message and said here's a guy with a great idea! I certainly will send you tales of my many painful encounters with this beast of an OS. I'm

[newbie] Which program is Mandrake using for web demos?

2001-07-18 Thread Romanator
Hi all, I'm interesting in creating additional Linux demos. Does any one know what Mandrake is using to create their demos for their web page? Roman Registered Linux User #179293 su is not the root of your problem but the start of a new journey

[newbie] Looking for SquidGuard rpm for LM8.0

2001-07-18 Thread Romanator
Has any one heard of an available rpm for SquidGuard? So far, I've only been able to find the tar ball version. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 su is not the root of your problem but the start of a new journey

Re: [newbie] RPM failures

2001-07-17 Thread Romanator
John Rigby wrote: Hi folks, No wonder so many people do give up on Linux! :-) I have downloaded for the second time ( in case of error) the IBM WEbsphere package and attempted to install it. All of the responses are fine all the way EXCEPT that the program is nowhere to be seen. Yet if

Re: [newbie] Linux Magazine-8.0 Installation impossible!!Help appreciated

2001-07-17 Thread Romanator
MACK DROFWARC wrote: I just bought 8.0 on Linux magazine's subscription version Linux-Mandrake 8.0 Traktopel-i586 20010418 13:31. I have a smallish harddrive and as such, always format my drive and run ms-dos from disk, then use MSCDEX.exe with oakcdrom.sys and a description of oemcd001

Re: [newbie] RPM failures

2001-07-17 Thread Romanator
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 15:42, John Rigby wrote: Hi folks, No wonder so many people do give up on Linux! :-) I have downloaded for the second time ( in case of error) the IBM WEbsphere package and attempted to install it. All of the responses are fine all the

Re: [newbie] RPM failures

2001-07-17 Thread Romanator
John Rigby wrote: Hi Sridah, On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 16:08, you manipulated electrons to produce: What do you mean by the program is nowhere to be seen? The RPM is installed, right? Try this from a command line: rpm -q packagename ** Yup - says same as the GUI Manager:

Re: [newbie] Open GL issues, using NT proxy

2001-07-17 Thread Romanator
Marchetti, Peter wrote: I just installed M8 on my system. I have a VooDoo3 3000 card. The normal video works fine, but I cannot get any OpenGL software to run. (Example: Tux Racer, ect) This is the error message I get when I try to run an OpenGL program: XLib: extension GLX missing

[newbie] Changing the default directory of WebSphere

2001-07-17 Thread Romanator
John, Rather than having WebSphere install to /opt folder, use the following relocate command to change the default directory. To change the default top directory, use the --relocate option of the rpm command. # rpm -ivh --relocate /opt=Top Directory Package File Name E.g., # rpm -ivh

Re: [newbie] Linux Magazine-8.0 Installation impossible!!Help appreciated

2001-07-17 Thread Romanator
On Tuesday 17 July 2001 07:43 pm, Randy Kramer wrote: Romanator wrote: MACK DROFWARC wrote: I am running an 808 meg hdd (ouch!), a 32 meg RAM ,44X CD-rom (ATAPI? ithink) and a 188 Pentium MMX. Either way, you are going will have to connect an external CD ROM to your computer

Re: [newbie] reiser fs query

2001-07-16 Thread Romanator
mike cola wrote: i currently have 7.2 running on my system using ext2 fs (i think, i didn't select which when i did the install a fair way back but i seem toremember it saying it was using ext2).. i now want to reformat all my drive except for the home partition and install mandrake 8, can

Re: [newbie] Lacking MAKE command

2001-07-14 Thread Romanator
Brett W Tippet wrote: Being only new to mandrake I found this odd. Not long installed Mandrake 8, went to install a package and bash didn't understand the make command. How can I rectify this or get around it? B. http://www.pullmyfinga.com Did you log in as root? Roman

[newbie] Compiling while using Reiser FS in LM8

2001-07-13 Thread Romanator
Hi everybody, Will using the Reiser FS affect the way I configure, make and make install? In other words should I stick with the ext2 FS? Roman Registered Linux User #179293 su is not the root of your problem but the start of a new journey

[newbie] What are your impressions of Reisor FS

2001-07-13 Thread Romanator
Hi all, Would most of you say that you would recommend Reiser FS and why? Roman Registered Linux User #179293 su is not the root of your problem but the start of a new journey

Re: [newbie] What are your impressions of Reisor FS

2001-07-13 Thread Romanator
On July 13, 2001 02:44 pm, Terry A. Bowling wrote: Romanator wrote: Hi all, Would most of you say that you would recommend Reiser FS and why? Roman Registered Linux User #179293 su is not the root of your problem but the start of a new journey I'm thinking that they've got

Re: [newbie] RealPlayer8 Galeon

2001-07-13 Thread Romanator
On July 13, 2001 06:02 pm, Joan Tur wrote: Hallo! It works fine under Galeon -0.11.1-1mdk using Romanator's advices but without the %s... Just for you to know ;) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo: quinir Joan.Tur.pagina.de

Re: [newbie] Running ./configure, make and make install on card game in LM8

2001-07-12 Thread Romanator
etharp wrote: did you install it as root? On Wednesday 11 July 2001 21:54, Romanator wrote: Hi everybody, I downloaded a card game that was in tar.gz format to my /home directory. I ran ./configure, make and make install. The make install should have moved it to /usr/local

Re: [newbie] What is the command to copy from console to text editor

2001-07-12 Thread Romanator
Yep. I sure did. I'll try it again. Roman Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Perhaps this is a silly question (no offence :-) ), but did you run make install as root? On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 12:17, Romanator wrote: As a follow up, when in console mode, the copy command is a little different. I

Re: [newbie] RPM

2001-07-12 Thread Romanator
SK wrote: Hi! I cannot install the up-dates RPM in mu linux system. Error message below. Any idea why. How can I use the rpm install in my Linux [root@smtp setup]# rpm -ivh imap-2000-9.i386.rpm only packages with major numbers = 3 are supported by this version of RPM error:

Re: [newbie] RE: Use of Linux (in public schools)

2001-07-12 Thread Romanator
Carroll and Mark: Very impressive. A 5th grade student putting together a diskless workstation! http://www.k12ltsp.org/terminal_guide.html Roman Carroll Grigsby wrote: Mark: This was the subject of an article at www.salon.com earlier this week. MS is running a campaign to make sure that

[newbie] Running ./configure, make and make install on card game in LM8

2001-07-11 Thread Romanator
Hi everybody, I downloaded a card game that was in tar.gz format to my /home directory. I ran ./configure, make and make install. The make install should have moved it to /usr/local. Not successful. Should I have copied the tar.bz file to /usr/local, and then run /.configure, make and make

[newbie] What is the command to copy from console to text editor

2001-07-11 Thread Romanator
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 21:54:38 -0400 From: Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi everybody, I downloaded a card game that was in tar.gz format to my /home directory. I ran ./configure, make and make install. The make install should have moved it to /usr/local

Re: [newbie] Installed Kaspersky Anti-Virus program - How do you enable it?

2001-07-10 Thread Romanator
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Romanator Sent: Tuesday, 10 July 2001 9:01 AM To: Newbie Subject: [newbie] Installed Kaspersky Anti-Virus program - How do you enable it? Hi everybody, This is in reference to the rpm

Re: [newbie] Safe to use shutdown -h now from KDE session?

2001-07-09 Thread Romanator
David Nelson wrote: Hello, It is possible to shutdown the system by entering the command: #shutdown -h now from a terminal in KDE (Konsole). I have done it on occassion and it works fine, and I have not noticed any ill effects. I just worry that it may not be shuting KDE down properly,

Re: [newbie] stupid mandrake won't launch realplaer 8 needs MIME entries

2001-07-09 Thread Romanator
Mandrake wrote: How come when I try to make it launch realplayer it just gives me a bunchof shint about can't launch realplayuer I don't wqtn to hear that rubbish, I just watn it to run realplaer. I even use the menu uditor and I use full path /usr/local/RealPlayer8/realplay and

Re: [newbie] Internet Security -J.Miner and Microsoft

2001-07-09 Thread Romanator
etharp wrote: snip hey roman, are you a typical windows user? grin Hey Tom, I have an NVIDIA card and works great. What can I say, it came with the computer. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 su is not the root of your problem but the start of a new journey Only for

Re: [newbie] mutli platform html editor

2001-07-09 Thread Romanator
Randy Kramer wrote: Kevin, Randy Kramer wrote: Before you buy anything, I'd at least look at Amaya, which is free and WYSIWYG. Oops, sorry, meant to include a link: http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ Randy Kramer Amaya's not bad. It just takes a little to time to read the documentation

Re: [newbie] XFree 86 4.1.0????

2001-07-09 Thread Romanator
Randy Kramer wrote: The Conways wrote: Has anyone had any positive or negative experiences with the latest version 4.1.0 of Xfree 86? Jim, No real experience, but if you upgrading from 3.3.6, be aware that some drivers that existed for 3.3.6 do not exist for 4.1.0. Randy Kramer

Re: [newbie] XFree 86 4.1.0????

2001-07-09 Thread Romanator
On Monday 09 July 2001 02:59 pm, Tim Holmes wrote: Honestly, I'd say go with the usual saying, If it ain't broke, don't fix it! No need to upgraded at this point. I haven't noticed any performance differences, X has never crashed on me. The only reason I upgraded was because I thought it

Re: [newbie] A note about user-friendliness

2001-07-09 Thread Romanator
jennifer wrote: How is one to tell?? I mention that I recently came across the instructions on how to install the new fonts, but I haven't had the time yet to sit down and really understand them. From the advice I got in other groups, I can simply copy all the true type fonts from my

[newbie] Installed Kaspersky Anti-Virus program - How do you enable it?

2001-07-09 Thread Romanator
Hi everybody, This is in reference to the rpm installation of the Kaskpersky Anti Virus program. For some reason it does not append itself to the menu bar. More importantly, how do I know that it is running? According to the Readme.txt file, at the command prompt, I'm supposed to type in:

Re: [newbie] stupid mandrake won't launch realplaer 8

2001-07-09 Thread Romanator
Mandrake wrote: Bull shit, it can't decide what it don't want to listen to you luser On Monday 09 July 2001 05:12 am, so spoke steve campbell: Well assuming you installed it from the rpm ...realplay should be in.. /usr/X11R6/bin/realplay so either you installed the wrong one or you

Re: [newbie] mutli platform html editor

2001-07-09 Thread Romanator
Kevin Fonner wrote: Are there any decent web page editors that are compatable with bot linux and windows. What I mean is a program with binarys for both platforms. Thanks Kevin Hi Kevin, I recently downloaded IBM's WebSphere Homepage Builder from www.ibm.com and it works great. They

[newbie] Steps on how to get the streaming audio/video RealPlayer working in Linux

2001-07-09 Thread Romanator
Hi everybody, I have read a number of emails that RealPlayer is not working including requests on how to add the MIME entries to get RealPlayer working. It appears that www.real.com provides insufficient information about turning on the streaming video and audio. You must add several MIME

Re: [newbie] Internet Security -J.Miner and Microsoft

2001-07-09 Thread Romanator
Miark wrote: I initially thought that Civileme's post was just a bit over the top. After reading this, however, I think he was pretty-much spot-on. I suggest that if Judith wants something more like Windows, she have a look at other OSs like MacOS, OS/2 or BeOS. OS/2 is a single-user

Re: [newbie] Internet Security -J.Miner and Microsoft

2001-07-08 Thread Romanator
Jeferson Lopes Zacco wrote: -Mensagem Original- De: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: Judith Miner [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviada em: domingo, 8 de julho de 2001 04:27 Assunto: Re: [newbie] Internet Security And despite the fact that I enjoy your posts, this is

Re: [newbie] Internet Security -J.Miner and Microsoft

2001-07-08 Thread Romanator
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday 08 July 2001 05:43 pm, Romanator wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: *_In spite of_* an increasing ignorance and/or preference of Lusers to add closed source/binary only apps and (win)hardware into the mix. (yeah, I'm diggin at y'all nVidia folks again

Re: [newbie] Internet Security -J.Miner and Microsoft

2001-07-08 Thread Romanator
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday 08 July 2001 11:40 am, Jeferson Lopes Zacco wrote: That linux needs to get easier to configure if it wants to atract Window$ users is a fact. Most all 'computer' problems are/or, at least I've found it's best for me, should be approached as User,

Re: [newbie] libdb2.so.2

2001-07-07 Thread Romanator
David, Look for glibc 2.x and you will find the missing libdb2.so.2 library file. Roman David L. Dufeau wrote: Can someone please tell me where I might find libdb2.so.2)? I need it to run a battery status applet. I've checked Sourceforge.net, rpmfind.net, freshmeat.net... to no avail.

[newbie] Accessing webmin use https://127.0.0.1:10000/

2001-07-07 Thread Romanator
Sorry, I meant Alan. Any how, https://127.0.0.1:1/ Works for me. Romanator wrote: Alsn, Try the following: https://127.0.0.1:1/ Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Email Powered By Tux Email Utility

[newbie] Which file in Netscape saves the bookmarks?

2001-07-07 Thread Romanator
Hi everybody, As I am about to back up my home directory, I want to preserve my bookmarks. Now in Windows(I think), it used to be saved to the Preferences.js file. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Email Powered By Tux Email Utility

Re: [newbie]:Accessing webmin - https://localhost:10000/

2001-07-07 Thread Romanator
Alsn, Try the following: https://127.0.0.1:1/ Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Email Powered By Tux Email Utility Alan Smith wrote: Hi All The following error message appears when trying to access webmin: The process for the https://localhost protocol died unexpectedly I can

[newbie] Ghosting with Norton 2001 supports Linux EXT2 FS

2001-07-07 Thread Romanator
Scott, For some bizarre reason, I am getting mail returned, so I thought I'd post this for Scott and any one else asking about ghosting Linux. As I am not familiar with Ghost 6.5, Norton Ghost 2001 and Drive Image support Linux ghosting. However, if you are using Reiser FS, I'm really not sure.

Re: [newbie] Netscape mail

2001-07-05 Thread Romanator
ivan miranda wrote: Hi all, I use Netscape messanger for e-mail.My problem is that the format of the date for the mails i receive differs,some show only time,some mails show day and time,some show all(mm/dd/yy) as a result when new mails come ,they are not arranged in an orderly

Re: [newbie] Spell checker in Kmail is not working??

2001-07-05 Thread Romanator
Alan, Here are the steps: How to Add ABC Spellchecker to Kmail 1. While in Kmail, select New message 2. Navigate to Settings-Configure Toolbars. A Configure Toolbars window will appear 3. Under Available actions window, select the ABC Spelling icon 4. Click on the arrow pointing to the right

Re: [newbie] *.GZ

2001-07-05 Thread Romanator
Boliver Allmon wrote: Can anyone tell me of a program that will allow me to un-archive a gz file on a windose computer? I have some How-Tos I would like to read here at work. I have WinZip, but it does not seem to know what to do with them. Boliver Allmon *Phone:

Re: [newbie] Star office problem

2001-07-05 Thread Romanator
finds the windows/font folder, reads the fonts that live there and copys them to your Mandrake installation. -- daRcmaTTeR =/\=??? |%C++ On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Romanator wrote: Drakfont provides its own Windows font but I don't think that they are fonts provided by Microsoft

Re: [newbie] Star office problem

2001-07-05 Thread Romanator
Hi Randy, I did it and I have many more choices when it comes to fonts. Thanks, Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Email Powered By Tux Email Utility Randy Kramer wrote: Romanator wrote: Okay. But I have to figure how to import them into Linux. I use kde on Mandrake 7.2

Re: [newbie] StarOffice and Linux2.4.3-20mdk

2001-07-04 Thread Romanator
Jay DeKing wrote: On Tue, 03 Jul 2001, Romanator wrote: Jay DeKing wrote: On Sun, 01 Jul 2001, Romanator wrote: On Sunday 01 July 2001 05:42 pm, RobertLuzader wrote: Perhaps someone can give a newbie some advice. I recently purchased Mandrake 8.0 and so far I'm pretty

Re: [newbie] Internet Security

2001-07-04 Thread Romanator
Paul wrote: I tried to run the interactive Bastille but I didn't understand the options and the explanations were much too sketchy. I don't like to make decisions like that when I don't understand what I'm doing. So I ran BastilleChooser instead and figure it's better than

Re: Re[1] [newbie] fonts in StarOffice

2001-07-04 Thread Romanator
In addition, download the drakfont update. Ron Peake wrote: Hi You probably need the latest version of Mandrake Update software for Mandrake version 8.0. FTP site addresses in your country you can get from the linux-mandrake.com website Regards, Ron kp _ wrote: have you tried

Re: [newbie] Star office problem

2001-07-04 Thread Romanator
in KDE -- I can never find them listed in any of the KDE font configuration tools (general or app specific). Hope this helps, Randy Kramer Romanator wrote: Drakfont provides its own Windows font but I don't think that they are fonts provided by Microsoft. Microsoft would never provide Linux

Re: [newbie] StarOffice and Linux2.4.3-20mdk

2001-07-04 Thread Romanator
: On Tue, 03 Jul 2001, Romanator wrote: Jay DeKing wrote: On Sun, 01 Jul 2001, Romanator wrote: On Sunday 01 July 2001 05:42 pm, RobertLuzader wrote: Perhaps someone can give a newbie some advice. I recently purchased Mandrake 8.0 and so far I'm pretty satisfied

Re: [newbie] Star office problem

2001-07-03 Thread Romanator
the NTFS partition, this is still under development ( as fas I am aware ). However, there are plans to add this to a later kernel. I think further investigation is needed. Roman ivan miranda wrote: Hi Romanator, I did download the new version of drakfont,however,i could not install any

Re: [newbie] Newbie Archives

2001-07-03 Thread Romanator
Click on the following link: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 Scroll down about halfway and click on the mail archives. You can also run a word search. Good Luck! Roman Registered Linux User #179293 This email is powered by the Tux Email Utility OOzy Pal wrote: Hello Guys

Re: [newbie] fonts in StarOffice

2001-07-03 Thread Romanator
kp _ wrote: Hi, I have Mandrake 8.0 on a PII 350Mhz Everything was fine during install, my big problem is that fonts are UGLY in Star Office I've tried things I found on mandrake forum( :unscaled in a 'config' file, uninstall AbiWord...) but this is still ugly... So what is the

Re: [newbie] Whois looking for lost email address

2001-07-03 Thread Romanator
jennifer wrote: Romanator wrote: Hi all, Is there such a thing is looking up an email address? I have an address but the whois feature cannot find the web page. You can respond to be directly. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Email Powered By Tux Email Utility I'm

Re: Fw: [newbie] Use of Linux

2001-07-02 Thread Romanator
tazmun wrote: I suppose burden is in the eye of the beholder. I find constant typing of the root password to be annoying in the extreme and results in a fair amount of lost time if you have to do this several times in a few hours. Especially when it is a really goofy file name with

Re: [newbie] Has anyone bought an Agenda VR3 Yet?

2001-07-02 Thread Romanator
Hugh wrote: If anyone has can you please write me off list Thanks Go to the following link and follow the instructions Roman Registered Linux User #179293

Re: [newbie] curious ....

2001-07-02 Thread Romanator
Skinky wrote: I fix other people's PC problems for a living, specifically Windows problems... no shortage of work there might I add ;-) . After seeing Linux pop up more and more on the net I thought it was time for me to learn something about this 'cool OS'. I can see more New Zealanders

Re: Fw: [newbie] Use of Linux

2001-07-02 Thread Romanator
Bill Winegarden wrote: On Monday 02 July 2001 09:39, you wrote: Hi, I learned this little trick right here. If you are typing a long file name, just type in the first three or four letters, then hit the Esc key twice. Autocomplete fills in the rest. If there are two or more files

Re: [newbie] Update Re: missing rate... dirheader.html Error Message

2001-07-02 Thread Romanator
Skinky wrote: Before selecting a file, hold down the [shift] key and then click on the file. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Kmailer by Tux Holding the [shift] key down while clicking on the file just opens the file in a new window. But thanks anyway Roman. I just found

Re: [newbie] Spell checker in Kmail is not working??

2001-07-01 Thread Romanator
On Sunday 01 July 2001 02:39 pm, you wrote: On Sunday 01 July 2001 14:17, you wrote: Hi Kmail users, For some bizarre reason, the Spellchecker is not working. Is there something that is not configured correctly in Kmail? Roman Registered Linux User #179293 The Happy Kmailer by

Re: [newbie] curious .... My last comment on the subject.. Great suggestion for Mandrake.

2001-07-01 Thread Romanator
On Sunday 01 July 2001 05:06 pm, Judith Miner wrote: Frank wrote: There is a HUGE need for a distro that doesn't offer so many options that it drives would be users away I think you have many good ideas, but speaking as a Windows user who has recently installed Mandrake 8, it wasn't

Re: [newbie] Update Re: missing rate... dirheader.html Error Message

2001-07-01 Thread Romanator
On Sunday 01 July 2001 07:24 pm, Skinky wrote: - Original Message - From: Skinky [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip I am STILL trying to install from hard drive. After creating a native linux partition and booting with a boot disk (hd.img), I selected install to own partition (linux

Re: [newbie] Easy Install Error

2001-07-01 Thread Romanator
On Sunday 01 July 2001 04:54 pm, etharp wrote: this can be a hardware or bad software problem... (not to be mean, but if you have to download with a dialup connection, you might consider www/cheapbytes.com to get a disk set that is the same as the ISO you downloaded and burned (you did burn

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