[newbie-it] scusate se ...

2003-09-26 Thread Piter
...rompo ancora le scatole con i martian_sorce. Ho risolto il problema grazie a Mike che mi ha postato questo comando: # iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i ppp0 -s 127.0.0.0/8 -j DROP e funziona a meraviglia, il problema è che lo devo digitare tutte le volte che spengo e riaccendo il pc, certo non

[newbie-it] rpm (Pacchetto Qt)

2003-09-26 Thread kudega
Devo compilare un applicazione che richiede i pacchetti per lo sviluppo di applicazioni KDE (Qt). Dopo aver installato faccio partire il configure e mi dice che ci sono dei problemi sui pacchetti installati e di verificare la corretta installazione. Allora apro l'applicazione per la gestione

[newbie-it] problema con video su kde per mandrake 9.1

2003-09-26 Thread carlo_canepa
Ho questo problema sulla installazione di mandrake 9.1. Al riepilogo della configurazione mi dice che interfaccia grafica non configurata. Allora: riconosce coem sche da video la s3 383 trio2d o qualcosa del genere (credo sia la sua); il monitor lo riconosce come un plug n play mitsubishi

Re: [newbie-it] mouse ottico (SOLUZIONE)

2003-09-26 Thread syd
* kudega wrote: PS.Del mouse sono riuscito anche a configurare i bottoni laterali!! (totale 5 bottoni) Se a qualcuno interessa posso postare una mini spiegazione. Sono tutto orecchi. Vai con la mini spiegazione (se non ne hai voglia o tempo mi basta la sezione di XF86Config relativa al

Re: [newbie-it] mouse ottico

2003-09-26 Thread Giorgio Griffon
Ragazzi, siete micidiali. Tutto a posto, ho risolto con Option resolution 300 nell'XF86Config-4. Peraltro, come Arwan ha giustamente osservato, il topo in questione non è mio ma di un amico che sto convertendo a forza... il poverino voleva comprare un altro mouse, l'ho bloccato in tempo. Grazie

Re: [newbie-it] scusate se ...

2003-09-26 Thread tom
On Friday 26 September 2003 15:26, Piter wrote: nel frattempo se qualcuno mi può dire come rendere stabile il comando sopra citato glie ne sarei grato. da root crei un file di testo in /etc/rc.d ,ci scrivi quanto segue(esclusi i puntini :)

[newbie-it] è nata la 9.2

2003-09-26 Thread tom
a breve disponibile le iso nei vari ftp per ora è disponibile solo ai soci o a quelli che hanno fatto donazioni e mi pare anche giusto :) -- Ciao , Tom . ~ . / v \ / / \ \ / ( ) \ ^^ ^^ Corollario alla legge di Murphy: 6. Non ci si puo' mettere a far

Re: [newbie] RE: DHCP

2003-09-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 15:52, Maureen L. Thomas wrote: It's not that I want to force a name but it just started happening and I have been using this service since Feb. It kinda through me when I saw it. I though someone had snuck in a back door or something even though I have a firewall

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft critic loses job over report

2003-09-26 Thread Margot
Stephen Kuhn wrote: Who says you can't buy an opinion or create the idea of security? If you've got more than enough money, you can even kill off your critics! http://www.msnbc.com/news/971914.asp?0si=- stephen kuhn - owner This is disgusting, disgraceful...there are plenty more words I could

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft critic loses job over report

2003-09-26 Thread HaywireMac
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 15:50:36 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Who says you can't buy an opinion or create the idea of security? If you've got more than enough money, you can even kill off your critics! http://www.msnbc.com/news/971914.asp?0si=- Did you read his report? It was

Re: [newbie] RE: DHCP

2003-09-26 Thread Maureen L. Thomas
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 15:52, Maureen L. Thomas wrote: It's not that I want to force a name but it just started happening and I have been using this service since Feb. It kinda through me when I saw it. I though someone had snuck in a back door or something even though

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft critic loses job over report

2003-09-26 Thread Margot
HaywireMac wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 15:50:36 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Who says you can't buy an opinion or create the idea of security? If you've got more than enough money, you can even kill off your critics! http://www.msnbc.com/news/971914.asp?0si=- Did you read his

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft critic loses job over report

2003-09-26 Thread HaywireMac
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 07:30:16 +0100 Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: This is disgusting, disgraceful...there are plenty more words I could use, but I'm sure you all know them... haven't they ever heard of freedom of speech? if you had a kazillion dollar empire, and someone published a paper

Re: [newbie] Samba in Mandrake 9.1

2003-09-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 26 Sep 2003 5:47 am, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: At 11:21 PM 9/25/2003, Miark said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 21:04:53 -0400, Kevin B. O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you again for the help. Yer welcome. I

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft critic loses job over report

2003-09-26 Thread Heather/Femme
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 02:30:46 -0400 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 15:50:36 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Who says you can't buy an opinion or create the idea of security? If you've got more than enough money, you can even kill off your critics!

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft critic loses job over report

2003-09-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 16:30, Margot wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: Who says you can't buy an opinion or create the idea of security? If you've got more than enough money, you can even kill off your critics! http://www.msnbc.com/news/971914.asp?0si=- stephen kuhn - owner This is

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft critic loses job over report

2003-09-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 16:30, HaywireMac wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 15:50:36 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Who says you can't buy an opinion or create the idea of security? If you've got more than enough money, you can even kill off your critics!

Re: [newbie] an apology, WAS: Ford Motor Co. opens arms to Linux!

2003-09-26 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 25, 2003 09:50 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 25 September 2003 11:42 pm, Charlie M. wrote: snip If Heather were really angry the difference would probably be unquestionable. Regards; Charlie AND there would be a body

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft critic loses job over report

2003-09-26 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 26, 2003 12:30 am, HaywireMac wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 15:50:36 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Who says you can't buy an opinion or create the idea of security? If you've got more than enough money, you can even kill

Re: [newbie] an apology, WAS: Ford Motor Co. opens arms to Linux!

2003-09-26 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 25, 2003 09:14 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: [..] If Heather were really angry the difference would probably be unquestionable. Regards; Charlie - -- heh ty Charlie. And you're welcome. :) sorry but the drugs addled my

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft critic loses job over report

2003-09-26 Thread Margot
HaywireMac wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 07:30:16 +0100 Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: This is disgusting, disgraceful...there are plenty more words I could use, but I'm sure you all know them... haven't they ever heard of freedom of speech? if you had a kazillion dollar empire, and someone

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

2003-09-26 Thread Joe Janzen
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 and everything seems to work as the connection is established. However, web browsers fail to load any pages and I can't even ping anything except

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft critic loses job over report

2003-09-26 Thread HaywireMac
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 17:35:09 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I've read the report and all the articles associated with it. Scathing is a small word in comparison to the reality. I'm sure that Microsoft is going to quash all possibilities of this article leaking out to the public

[newbie] Harddisk Badblocks?

2003-09-26 Thread Ronald Ip
Hi all, I seem to always be receiving error messages saying that system is unable to read xxx inode. What i gather from it is that there are bad block on the harddisk partition. Does running e2fsck -c /dev/hdb help? I would like something like Microsoft's ScanDisk Which marks the badsectors.

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft critic loses job over report

2003-09-26 Thread Sharrea Day
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 18:30, HaywireMac wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 15:50:36 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Who says you can't buy an opinion or create the idea of security? If you've got more than enough money, you can even kill off your critics!

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft critic loses job over report

2003-09-26 Thread HaywireMac
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 08:42:21 +0100 Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Depends how I'd acquired the empire. If I'd built it up myself, I'd sue for libel, because the article would be wrong - because I'm an ethical-minded person and would only have built my empire selling products that worked,

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

2003-09-26 Thread Kaj Haulrich
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 and everything seems to work as the connection is established. However, web

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft critic loses job over report -PDF POSTED

2003-09-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 15:32, Heather/Femme wrote: - wants the PDF Pls! Femme GlaxxoPharms best customer Ok...have to get offa my arse on this one - I've put it up on my website so that y'all don't have to dig for it - or have it RANDOMLY get lost or quashed in the interim. Here y'all go:

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft critic loses job over report

2003-09-26 Thread HaywireMac
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 02:30:46 -0400 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Who says you can't buy an opinion or create the idea of security? If you've got more than enough money, you can even kill off your critics! http://www.msnbc.com/news/971914.asp?0si=- Did you read his report?

[newbie] PDF: Cyber Insecurity - the report by CCIA on Microsoft in PDF format

2003-09-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
As everyone's rambling for it, scrambling for it and freaking out...:) http://thor.prohosting.com/~kilgoret/files/cyberinsecurity.pdf Cheers! stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft critic loses job over report

2003-09-26 Thread James Conner
Here's a link to the article that the MS critic helped write. http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=44741 Jim On Friday 26 September 2003 06:49 am, Charlie M. wrote: I'd like a copy, please. Charlie - -- -- 2:01am up 8 days, 18:58, 3 users, load

[newbie] Parking messages in KMail

2003-09-26 Thread Lance Cummings
Anyone know if it is possible to 'park' a message in KMail? (means setting a cannot-delete flag on a particular message so that it cannot accidentally be nuked via the delete key, nor can a folder containing a thusly marked message be deleted until it is either moved out or un-flagged)

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft critic loses job over report -PDF POSTED

2003-09-26 Thread HaywireMac
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 18:07:35 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Ok...have to get offa my arse on this one - I've put it up on my website so that y'all don't have to dig for it - or have it RANDOMLY get lost or quashed in the interim. Here y'all go:

[newbie] XFCE 4 is released

2003-09-26 Thread Anders Lind
Hello everyone, if you have not noticed XFCE 4 is now released in a sharp version. Cheers Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] keep password broken?

2003-09-26 Thread Lance Cummings
File manager su mode and Mandrake Control Center both prompt for root's secret of course. And both have a check box to keep the password. My experience is that this check box don't mean a thing. Anyone else? Lance Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] taskbar design?

2003-09-26 Thread Lance Cummings
I have two problems with the taskbar in KDE 3.1. 1) some applications open with the titlebar under the taskbar when the taskbar is at the top of the screen This also is a bug in XP, at least on my machine. I keep my taskbar at the top of the screen, a la Mac style. For me, the extension of

Re: [newbie] clipboard integration with Mozilla

2003-09-26 Thread Lance Cummings
On Friday 26 September 2003 18:14, Raffaele Belardi wrote: Try this: - highlight the link keeping left mouse button pressed - switch to mozilla - in the address bar, press mouse middle button It is an X feature (I think), it should work for all applications, though sometimes it does not

Re: [newbie] clipboard integration with Mozilla

2003-09-26 Thread Raffaele Belardi
nope, sorry. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 26 September 2003 18:14, Raffaele Belardi wrote: Try this: - highlight the link keeping left mouse button pressed - switch to mozilla - in the address bar, press mouse middle button It is an X feature (I think), it should work for all

Re: [newbie] clipboard integration with Mozilla

2003-09-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 26 Sep 2003 10:00 am, Lance Cummings wrote: Does this (not) work for anyone else? 1) Open your mail client (hopefully KMail so we can test this properly). 2) Copy the URL for the MS critic article to the clipboard. 3) Now open Mozilla and try to paste this clipboard item into the

Re: [newbie] keep password broken?

2003-09-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 26 Sep 2003 10:27 am, Lance Cummings wrote: File manager su mode and Mandrake Control Center both prompt for root's secret of course. And both have a check box to keep the password. My experience is that this check box don't mean a thing. Anyone else? Lance It does not keep

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft critic loses job over report

2003-09-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 26 Sep 2003 8:35 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 16:30, HaywireMac wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 15:50:36 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Who says you can't buy an opinion or create the idea of security? If you've got more than enough money, you can

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] Parking messages in KMail

2003-09-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 26 Sep 2003 9:40 am, Franki wrote: Lance Cummings wrote: Anyone know if it is possible to 'park' a message in KMail? (means setting a cannot-delete flag on a particular message so that it cannot accidentally be nuked via the delete key, nor can a folder containing a thusly marked

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft critic loses job over report

2003-09-26 Thread HaywireMac
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 10:21:08 +0100 Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Of course, there are two sides to every story... http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1049085,00.html So Bill's really a Saint, yeah? There's no doubt in my mind that Bill Gates thinks what he's doing in general,

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-26 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I used to press ctrl+C, and wondered why linux said that there were stopped jobs everytime I shutdown it. ;p It was not long ago that someone told me to press q to quit the man pages ;p On Wednesday 24 September 2003 07:37 pm, Charles A Edwards

Re: [newbie] keep password broken?

2003-09-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 26 Sep 2003 10:27 am, Lance Cummings wrote: File manager su mode and Mandrake Control Center both prompt for root's secret of course. And both have a check box to keep the password. My experience is that this check box don't mean a thing. Anyone else? Lance Have you thought

Re: [newbie] clipboard integration with Mozilla

2003-09-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 26 Sep 2003 10:33 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote: nope, sorry. It does work for me. However, I do find that sometimes I have to do the click twice to make it take. Also, sometimes the clipboard seems to lose focus. Have you opened the clipboard and made sure that the url is ticked?

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft critic loses job over report

2003-09-26 Thread John Richard Smith
HaywireMac wrote: Please name me *one* kazillion dollar empire that *wasn't* built on greed and shameless exploitation... Delia Smith, richest woman on earth, made her money writing cookery books. Hey maybe we should get gates and her together, maybe she could cook his goose. John --

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft critic loses job over report

2003-09-26 Thread mooney
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 10:33, Stephen Kuhn wrote: It's being proven over and over and over again - freedom is nonexistent. You cannot speak out against either the US government or a US business that generates as much money as Microsoft does. George Bush has solidified that in his tenure.

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-26 Thread robin
Rather than directing a newbie to the man page, it's often better to recommend the info page. OK, sometimes there is no info page and sometimes it's identical to the man page, but frequently they have more explanation and, most usefully, example commands. Later, of course, we'll be able to

[newbie] Clearing URL-history in Konqueror Web Browser?

2003-09-26 Thread Mogens Neupart
Hi there, I don't seem to be able to clear the list of visited URLs in Konqueror. Can anyone please tell me how to do this? Best wishes and thank you in advance Mogens Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft critic loses job over report

2003-09-26 Thread Nadger
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 12:50, John Richard Smith wrote: Delia Smith, richest woman on earth, made her money writing cookery books. Hey maybe we should get gates and her together, maybe she could cook his goose. I would doubt that Dehlia is in that wealth category [:¬) -- Nadger -

Re: [newbie] clipboard integration with Mozilla

2003-09-26 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 10:00, Lance Cummings wrote: Does this (not) work for anyone else? 1) Open your mail client (hopefully KMail so we can test this properly). 2) Copy the URL for the MS critic article to the clipboard. 3) Now open Mozilla and try to paste this clipboard item

Re: [newbie] Clearing URL-history in Konqueror Web Browser?

2003-09-26 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 26 September 2003 11:38 am, Mogens Neupart wrote: Hi there, I don't seem to be able to clear the list of visited URLs in Konqueror. Can anyone please tell me how to do this? Best wishes and thank you in advance Mogens Mogens, højreklik på adressefeltet -- Clear. Kaj Haulrich.

Re: [newbie] Clearing URL-history in Konqueror Web Browser?

2003-09-26 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 26 September 2003 02:03 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 26 September 2003 11:38 am, Mogens Neupart wrote: Hi there, I don't seem to be able to clear the list of visited URLs in Konqueror. Can anyone please tell me how to do this? Best wishes and thank you in advance

Re: [newbie] Clearing URL-history in Konqueror Web Browser?

2003-09-26 Thread Mogens Neupart
Hi Kaj, Easy once you know how to! Thanks a lot. Mogens On Friday 26 September 2003 02:03 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 26 September 2003 11:38 am, Mogens Neupart wrote: Hi there, I don't seem to be able to clear the list of visited URLs in Konqueror. Can anyone please tell me

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

2003-09-26 Thread Sharrea Day
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 19:46, Joe Janzen wrote: I've searched the archives and tried some suggestions for similar problems, but without success. Mandrake 9.1 was just installed. I launch KPPP and everything seems to work as the connection is established. However, web browsers fail to load any

GOT IT! Re: [newbie] help with palm m130! (and JPilot)

2003-09-26 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
On Friday 26 September 2003 03:43, you wrote: On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 21:08:09 -0300 TKS! I got to fix this trouble without the patch! I just followed the instructions at: http://www.linuxpda.com/visor/howto/current/ which you sent me! I've just applied the recommended changes to

Re: [newbie] CD-writer fails with CD-R but not CD-RW

2003-09-26 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 11:55, John Richard Smith wrote: snip The test files were assembled with mkisofs along the lines you mention. They write out to the CD-RW OK. then write to disc tmp]$ cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -eject -ignsize /tmp.iso (where dev=0,0,0 is whatever it should be

Re: [newbie] keep password broken?

2003-09-26 Thread Lance Cummings
Hi Anne, Friday, September 26, 2003, 7:38:23 PM, you wrote: AW On Friday 26 Sep 2003 10:27 am, Lance Cummings wrote: File manager su mode and Mandrake Control Center both prompt for root's secret of course. And both have a check box to keep the password. My experience is that this check box

Re: [newbie] Clearing URL-history in Konqueror Web Browser?

2003-09-26 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Mogens, Kaj and others, On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 14:06:33 +, Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [newbie] Clearing URL-history in Konqueror Web Browser?: I don't seem to be able to clear the list of visited URLs in Konqueror. Can

Re: [newbie] an apology, WAS: Ford Motor Co. opens arms to Linux!

2003-09-26 Thread Aron Smith
On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 20:50, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 25 September 2003 11:42 pm, Charlie M. wrote: snip If Heather were really angry the difference would probably be unquestionable. Regards; Charlie AND there would be a body count from the frags lol! OMG Femme as a

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft critic loses job over report

2003-09-26 Thread Aron Smith
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 00:00, HaywireMac wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 07:30:16 +0100 Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: This is disgusting, disgraceful...there are plenty more words I could use, but I'm sure you all know them... haven't they ever heard of freedom of speech? if you had a

[newbie] Very basic bash question

2003-09-26 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I studied the bash documentation reasonably thoroughly, including man mv and info mv, but I haven`t found the answer to this; so I am hoping for a simple answer here: Often I am in /home/dvg/foo and want to move files from /home/dvg/foo/bar to

Re: [newbie] an apology, WAS: Ford Motor Co. opens arms to Linux!

2003-09-26 Thread Aron Smith
On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 17:16, Heather/Femme wrote: On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 21:31:51 -0400 Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 11:36:48 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Snipped it all Can YOU PLEASE get this OFF the fucking newbie list!? take it OT,

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

2003-09-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 26 Sep 2003 1:06 pm, Sharrea Day wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 19:46, Joe Janzen wrote: I've searched the archives and tried some suggestions for similar problems, but without success. Mandrake 9.1 was just installed. I launch KPPP and everything seems to work as the connection is

[newbie] Changing monitor

2003-09-26 Thread Anguo
Hello, I currently use an old 14' CRT monitor and I'd like to change to a new 15' or 17' LCD monitor. I can find information on configuration, but what do I do when I want to switch from one monitor to the other? Do I turn off the computer, make the switch and Mandrake will notice the new

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

2003-09-26 Thread Joe Janzen
Joe, others are dealing with your problem. Meanwhile, may I refer you to http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette particularly the bit about hijacking. I'm terribly sorry about that; I should have thought of it. Well, here's a new thread anyway. Thanks to

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft critic loses job over report

2003-09-26 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 25, 2003 08:54 pm, James Conner wrote: Here's a link to the article that the MS critic helped write. http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=44741 Jim On Friday 26 September 2003 06:49 am, Charlie M.

Re: [newbie] Parking messages in KMail

2003-09-26 Thread Kevin B. O'Brien
At 04:40 AM 9/26/2003, Franki said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): What are the top three GUI mail clients in Linux, do you all reckon? Franki: I'd guess: Kmail Evolution Mozilla Mail Many like Sylpheed as well, but I'd guess the three above would be used by the

Re: [newbie] Samba in Mandrake 9.1

2003-09-26 Thread Kevin B. O'Brien
At 03:27 AM 9/26/2003, Derek Jennings said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): To get Samba working all you need to do is set the Workgroup name in the config file. You can do that by GUI simply by installing the drakwizard RPM using your Mandrake Software Manager.

Re: [newbie] Nvidia and Xinerama

2003-09-26 Thread Yoel P. Krigsman
Very funny, Can someone kindly help me out??? Thanks! YPK On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 17:42, Miark wrote: On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 14:55:23 -0400, Yoel P. Krigsman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello... Wonder if someone can help me with this? I am trying to get my 2nd monitor work with this

Re[2]: [newbie] European Parliament votes for software patents.

2003-09-26 Thread rikona
Hello Peter, Thursday, September 25, 2003, 3:53:36 AM, you wrote: PW However, this is really a reflection of the sheep like mentality PW of the electors and not a valid criticism of the parliament as PW such, to put it another way. if you vote for idiots you get PW idiots in parliament, but

Re: [newbie] taskbar design?

2003-09-26 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 26, 2003 03:21 am, Lance Cummings wrote: I have two problems with the taskbar in KDE 3.1. 1) some applications open with the titlebar under the taskbar when the taskbar is at the top of the screen You can hold the Alt button and the

Re: [newbie] clipboard integration with Mozilla

2003-09-26 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 26, 2003 03:38 am, Derek Jennings wrote: [..] Double clicking on the URL launches Konqueror of course, and I'd love to change that to Mozilla if anyone will share the trick. Konqueror promptly launched a pop up ad from that MSNBC

Re: [newbie] Parking messages in KMail

2003-09-26 Thread Franki
Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: At 04:40 AM 9/26/2003, Franki said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): What are the top three GUI mail clients in Linux, do you all reckon? Franki: I'd guess: Kmail Evolution Mozilla Mail Many like Sylpheed as well, but I'd guess the three

[newbie] Do you have a 17' LCD monitor (or 15' one)?

2003-09-26 Thread Anguo
Hello, Do any of you use a 17' LCD monitor? Which one? If not, do you have a 15' one? Which one? Have you been able to configure a nVIDIA graphic card with it? Which one? Linux support for the latest technologies and most recent hardware tend to be lacking. My brother has not been able to

RE: [newbie] Parking messages in KMail

2003-09-26 Thread Dennis . R . Myers
Title: RE: [newbie] Parking messages in KMail I use Kmail and it does a dandy job of keeping 3 accounts seperate. HTH Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kevin B. O'Brien Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 10:33 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] CD-writer fails with CD-R but not CD-RW

2003-09-26 Thread John Richard Smith
Douglas Bainbridge wrote: On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 11:55, John Richard Smith wrote: snip The test files were assembled with mkisofs along the lines you mention. They write out to the CD-RW OK. then write to disc tmp]$ cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -eject -ignsize /tmp.iso (where

Re: [newbie] keep password broken?

2003-09-26 Thread RichardA
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 21:52:43 +0900, Lance Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure. But absolutely no one can get near my computer. ^_^ And I do mean no one. Then put your user account in /etc/sudoers. Don't read man sudoers -- your head will explode. Instead, add this line: username

Re[2]: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft critic loses job over report

2003-09-26 Thread rikona
Hello Margot, Friday, September 26, 2003, 12:42:21 AM, you wrote: M I'm an ethical-minded person and would only have built my empire M selling products that worked, (1) You clearly have NO place in the Microsoft organization. (2) Unfortunately, it is very unlikely you would have made a

Re: [newbie] Samba in Mandrake 9.1

2003-09-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 26 Sep 2003 4:22 pm, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: At 03:27 AM 9/26/2003, Derek Jennings said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): To get Samba working all you need to do is set the Workgroup name in the config file. You can do that by GUI simply by installing

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft critic loses job over report

2003-09-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 26 Sep 2003 5:49 pm, rikona wrote: Hello Margot, Friday, September 26, 2003, 12:42:21 AM, you wrote: M I'm an ethical-minded person and would only have built my empire M selling products that worked, (1) You clearly have NO place in the Microsoft organization. (2)

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft critic loses job over report

2003-09-26 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 26 September 2003 03:42 am, Margot wrote: If I suddenly inherited Microsoft (hey Bill - I'm your long-lost daughter!) I'd try to trace all the people that the empire had ripped off and give them their money back, and then give remaining unidentifiable funds to a suitable charity.

Re: [newbie] Parking messages in KMail

2003-09-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 26 Sep 2003 5:54 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use Kmail and it does a dandy job of keeping 3 accounts seperate. HTH Dennis M. Going back to the original question about parking - the way I resolve the problem is by having sorting folders, mainly for use by filters, but I also have

Re: [newbie] Do you have a 17' LCD monitor (or 15' one)?

2003-09-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 26 Sep 2003 6:10 pm, Anguo wrote: Hello, Do any of you use a 17' LCD monitor? Which one? If not, do you have a 15' one? Which one? Have you been able to configure a nVIDIA graphic card with it? Which one? Linux support for the latest technologies and most recent hardware tend

Re: [newbie] Changing monitor

2003-09-26 Thread yankl
On Friday 26 September 2003 10:48 am, Anguo wrote: Hello, I currently use an old 14' CRT monitor and I'd like to change to a new 15' or 17' LCD monitor. I can find information on configuration, but what do I do when I want to switch from one monitor to the other? Do I turn off the

Re: [newbie] keep password broken?

2003-09-26 Thread yankl
On Friday 26 September 2003 12:15 pm, RichardA wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 21:52:43 +0900, Lance Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure. But absolutely no one can get near my computer. ^_^ And I do mean no one. Then put your user account in /etc/sudoers. Don't read man sudoers -- your

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft critic loses job over report

2003-09-26 Thread Aron Smith
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 11:11, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 26 September 2003 03:42 am, Margot wrote: If I suddenly inherited Microsoft (hey Bill - I'm your long-lost daughter!) I'd try to trace all the people that the empire had ripped off and give them their money back, and then give

Re[2]: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-26 Thread rikona
Hello Anne, Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 2:43:16 PM, you wrote: It may be in the docs, but not in a form that is readily accessible by a simple search. AW It's an interesting proposition, but not an overnight job, I think g True. How does one get a group together to develop it? --

Re: [newbie] Samba in Mandrake 9.1

2003-09-26 Thread robin
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 26 Sep 2003 7:49 pm, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: At 02:08 PM 9/26/2003, Anne Wilson said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): Afterwards users will be able to access theit /home folders from a Windows computer. Thank you. I

[newbie] GTKam cannot contact my fuji mx 2900

2003-09-26 Thread Mike Adolf
I am having problems download pictures from my fuji mx 2900. Using GTKam, if I select to 'add camera' and then select 'detect' button, I get no camera found. My camera is hooked to the serial port, turned on, and set to communicate with the pc. If I select fuji mx 2900 (from a list) during

Re: [newbie] an apology, WAS: Ford Motor Co. opens arms to Linux!

2003-09-26 Thread Heather/Femme
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 06:58:34 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrotes snip Femme We love you anyway ;-) awww *blushes* ty ;) F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] GTKam cannot contact my fuji mx 2900

2003-09-26 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 26 September 2003 07:50 pm, Mike Adolf wrote: I am having problems download pictures from my fuji mx 2900. Using GTKam, if I select to 'add camera' and then select 'detect' button, I get no camera found. My camera is hooked to the serial port, turned on, and set to communicate with

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft critic loses job over report -PDF POSTED

2003-09-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 18:16, HaywireMac wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 18:07:35 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Ok...have to get offa my arse on this one - I've put it up on my website so that y'all don't have to dig for it - or have it RANDOMLY get lost or quashed in the

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft critic loses job over report

2003-09-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 18:24, HaywireMac wrote: Now, see, if *I* posted that, I'd be flamed into oblivion... Solidarity brother! (and sisters) That's just cuz everyone likes to flame ya kiddo...it's nature... stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a

Re: [newbie] USB PALM Sync woes continue

2003-09-26 Thread HaywireMac
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 13:13:14 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Bleh! Any advice appreciated. The only other thing I can suggest is installing jpilot and trying to sync that way. The reason I say this is it might give you some more descriptive output in the GUI at least, and also because I

[newbie] Sound Card

2003-09-26 Thread David Williams
I have a Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live 5.1 PCI sound card and I have just about had enough with sound card problems with this computer. Over the past couple of years, I started with Mandrake 8.2 and upgraded to 9.0 and 9.1 During my really initial learning phase, I reloaded Mandrake 8.2 and

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft critic loses job over report

2003-09-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 19:21, Margot wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: Who says you can't buy an opinion or create the idea of security? If you've got more than enough money, you can even kill off your critics! http://www.msnbc.com/news/971914.asp?0si=- stephen kuhn - owner Of course, there

Re: [newbie] Shot myself in the foot...again.

2003-09-26 Thread Brooks3J
Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Swap the positions of the 256 and the 128 chips. if the BIOS finds 128Meg in the first slot it wont look for the extra memory BTW please set your wraparound to 79 char or less.(scrolling sideways makes me dizzy;-) ) I've tried the swap and, when the 256

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