Re: [newbie] OT M$ is accepting responsibility?

2003-10-13 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
Hi Bryan, On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 19:15, Bryan Phinney wrote: snip ... Just because a company pursues goals that are not in my best interests and seeks to limit my choices to those that make them money does not make them evil, that is simply reality. Every human will try to

Re: [newbie] Problems with a web site...

2003-10-12 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 09:40, Aron Smith wrote: Crashed me On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 20:52, Ronald J. Hall wrote: A friend of mine who uses Mozilla is having trouble with a web site: http://www.qx.net so I told him I'd try it out. Like him, I can access the main page, but clicking

Re: [newbie] OT M$ is accepting responsibility?

2003-10-12 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
Hi Franki and Mac, On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 11:30, HaywireMac wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 15:48:23 +0800 Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: If we all tell ten people, and make them feel as strongly about it as we do, they will spread the word also. Are you kidding me? I gotta try to

Re: [newbie] OT M$ is accepting responsibility?

2003-10-12 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
Further to my last post .. Do you have a Consumers Association or similar body in the US that could get fired up about this? http://aaxnet.com/editor/edit029.html#mspath I'm going to try to agitate the UK one. DougB I've written to the Consumers' Association in the

Re: [newbie] Re:Patenting of Software Code - MEP replies

2003-10-10 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 18:50, Margot wrote: Douglas Bainbridge wrote: Apologies to the list for the Sturdy and ukipeast MEP posts - I hope there won't be any more! I don't know where they got the newbie mailing address from - can't see it anywhere on my posts to them. DougB

Re: [newbie] User Drake

2003-10-10 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 23:50, John wrote: I tried to add a new user to md 9.1 home computer. I used an upper case letter which md said I couldn't use. When I clicked ok on the notice, user drake locked up. I ending up rebooting. When trying to open user drake up after reboot, I get the

[newbie] Re:Patenting of Software Code - MEP replies

2003-10-09 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
Apologies to the list for the Sturdy and ukipeast MEP posts - I hope there won't be any more! I don't know where they got the newbie mailing address from - can't see it anywhere on my posts to them. DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Patenting of Software Code

2003-10-08 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 20:30, Dick Gevers wrote: --BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-- Hash: SHA1 Hi Douglas, all, snip It`s not useless to send, `cause the EP vote is just a sort of advice to the EU Commission - as I understand it - which has to decide yet how they handle the proposed law. So IMO

Re: [newbie] Patenting of Software Code

2003-10-07 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
Hi Dick, John, Anne and all, On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 19:30, Dick Gevers wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi John and all others, On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 15:41:52 +, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about [newbie] Patenting of Software Code: I have had a

Re: [newbie] List weirdness

2003-10-06 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 15:30, Richard Urwin wrote: On Friday 03 Oct 2003 12:08 pm, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: snip Maybe sympa just doesn't like my face/name/colour/font. snip You sure you're using the same email address that you're subscribed under? Yep! I had a lot of grief over this when I

Re: M J Pipkin mjpipkin@yebo.co.za Re: [newbie] Instant application shut down.

2003-10-03 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 09:18, M J Pipkin wrote: This is unsolicited spam and an invasion of my privacy. Please send no further newbie communicationsand remove my name from your list. Bizarre. Don't know how that happened DougB Aaaah! Just seen everybody else's posts on the prat. Want to

Re: [newbie] List weirdness

2003-10-03 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 23:35, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday October 2 2003 02:01 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: snip I've used it several time, but I send it as SET newbie NOMAIL Anne no need for capitalization. 'set newbie nomail' (w/o quotes) as the subject to [EMAIL PROTECTED] will

Re: [newbie] Instant application shut down.

2003-10-02 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 14:29, Smith Joe wrote: Hi All, I have noticed an oddity. When I start any of the OpenOffice applications as soon as the program is loaded it immediately shuts down again. What am I doing wrong? snip It may be that the path is wrong - how are you starting the

Re: [newbie] List weirdness

2003-10-02 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 21:49, mooney wrote: I, too, am getting weird responses to mails. snip Finally, I'm off on 2 weeks hols, and I can't seem to unsub from the site. snip Join the club. I've never found the 'set newbie nomail' work either. DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from

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

2003-09-30 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
Hi, list. FWIW - just in case anybody else has a similar problem: CD-writer writes under Windows OK Writes to CD-RW with cdrecord (and GUIs based on cdrecord) but will *NOT*, absolutely *NOT*, write CD-Rs. DIAGNOSIS: If you have a reasonably modern, i.e. high-speed writer it may experience

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] 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] CD-writer fails with CD-R but not CD-RW

2003-09-25 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 00:09, John Richard Smith wrote: Douglas Bainbridge wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 18:26, John Richard Smith wrote: Douglas Bainbridge wrote: snip Thanks, John. The driver is recognised alright with cdrecord -scanbus and I can do a dummy run

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-24 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 13:18, Anne Wilson wrote: snip OTOH, I had been dutifully opening a console and using su to do maintenance jobs, but closing it to return to user. It was a year later before anyone actually mentioned that if you type 'exit' you don't need to close it :-) Anne Or

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

2003-09-24 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 18:26, John Richard Smith wrote: Douglas Bainbridge wrote: snip cdrecord: OPC failed I believe it is saying that the drive has failed. That could mean anything. Maybe the drive isn't set up right for cdrecord to work with it. or maybe the driver doesn't work

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

2003-09-24 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
Hi, Can anyone help? I have been struggling with this problem for ages, RTFM etc. hasn't resolved it for me. MDK9.1. Using cdrecord on the CLI. My Sony CD-writer writes happily to a Toshiba CD-RW, multi-session ,etc. no problem; but I cannot write anything to a CD-R (I've tried Sony Supremas,

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Upgrade from 9.0-9.1

2003-09-10 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 23:58, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 01:44, David Anderson wrote: snip But what happens to web server pages, samba config, mail config, mySQL databases? That stuff SHOULD be upgraded without a hitch (they have for me) - but always make a backup of your

[newbie] Tangled threads

2003-09-10 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
Hi everybody, Can folks please behave a bit better in observing thread rules on the mailing list? It's now getting so that practically every thread is hijacked several times, and even without changing subject, is often crossed with something else. Using threads to follow a topic is getting to

Re: [newbie] Re: Funy business with newbie list

2003-09-10 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 16:42, rikona wrote: Hello Douglas, Tuesday, September 9, 2003, 3:30:47 AM, you wrote: DB Can't remember now if the 'subscribe' messages did pay attention DB to capitalisation. I recently subscribed to the expert list, and 'subscribe' worked. Re-subscribed using

[newbie] Win'98 backup to tar

2003-09-10 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
Back in April there was a thread on backing up Win XP by 'tar'ring it. Stephen advised deleting the swapfile (c:/pagesys). To do the same for backing up Win '98, what is the name of the Win '98 swapfile? Ta! DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Re: Funy business with newbie list

2003-09-09 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
Anne, Many thanks for your continuing help. On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 22:09, Anne Wilson wrote: snip Hi, Douglas. Just a couple of ideas. First, I found from Todd that emails that have certain 'command' words in the subject line tend to be dropped. For instance, I posted one that started

Re: [newbie] Expert list

2003-09-09 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 01:13, Michael Lothian wrote: 2) divert newbie posts to a Newbie folder. everything else comes into my Inbox, so I don't think I'm missing anything relevant. Beats me! What rule do you use to do this? Michael, I use Evolution. Spam.. Evolution

Re: [newbie] Expert list

2003-09-08 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 13:52, Anne Wilson wrote: I presume that you tried using the link that is in the full headers of list mails? Yep! The only other thing I can suggest is that you mail Todd Lyons to see if he can help. Anne Thanks, Anne. I'll try mailing him DougB Want to

Re: [newbie] Expert list

2003-09-08 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 17:01, Eric Huff wrote: Follow-up - Still no joy, Sorry if you said this already: did you try doing it at the website? http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 about half way down the page. Yes, with no effect. Is [EMAIL PROTECTED] the edress you want

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Expert list

2003-09-08 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 19:15, rikona wrote: Hello Douglas, snip I couldn't sign up via the web either - tried the email and it worked. I've had that happen in the past with the newbie list.But the e-mail doesn't work either, for the expert list for me. What kind of response are you getting?

Re: [newbie] Expert list

2003-09-07 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 12:59, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 21:42, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 15:49, Anne Wilson wrote: snip subscribe expert Anne Among the various combinations I tried, I think so, but I'll give it another go. Thanks

Re: [newbie] Expert list

2003-09-06 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 15:49, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 05 Sep 2003 3:53 pm, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: snip Did you try an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject line just showing subscribe expert Anne Among the various combinations I tried, I think so, but I'll give

Re: [newbie] Resizing linux partitions

2003-09-06 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
Thanks all, Anne, Brian and Derek. DougB On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 21:51, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 05 Sep 2003 3:53 pm, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: Hi, I recently re-installed 9.1 in order to change from ext3 to ReiserFS and took the opportunity to create a separate partition

Re: [newbie] Did I lose my NTFS partition?

2003-09-05 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 11:49, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 04 September 2003 10:34 pm, Mathieu Frenette wrote: snip Please post a copy of your /etc/fstab file. For the record, I am pretty sure that Mandrake does not mount an ntfs partition using /mnt/windows, more like /mnt/win_c or

[newbie] Resizing linux partitions

2003-09-05 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
Hi, I recently re-installed 9.1 in order to change from ext3 to ReiserFS and took the opportunity to create a separate partition for /var. I underestimated the space needed for /var and am now getting warning messages on bootup about inadequate free space. What to do? Can I resize /var, taking

[newbie] Expert list

2003-09-05 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
Is there some secret sign,password or ceremony necessary in order to get on to the expert mailing list? I've tried repeatedly to subscribe, both through linux-mandrake.com and by e-mails to sympa, to ask for help with a problem not solved here. Never a request for confirmation, nor

Beware!! - Re: [newbie] Re: Re: My details

2003-09-04 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
details.pif is one of those ** infected attachments. DougB On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 13:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See the attached file for details __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: OT - [newbie] somebody disliking mandrake - stupid newbie

2003-09-04 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 06:13, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: snip ROTFLMAO! I'm very thick, and I haven't been able to find it in the jargon bible. What is ROTFLMAO? DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] FS conversion/Partition resizing

2003-08-15 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 12:15, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 20:53, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 23:22, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 04:12, Tom Brinkman wrote: Partitions can be shrunk. So can heads. Stephen, It was actually

Re: [newbie] FS conversion/Partition resizing

2003-08-15 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 12:15, ed tharp wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 06:53, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 23:22, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 04:12, Tom Brinkman wrote: Partitions can be shrunk. So can heads. Stephen, It was actually

Re: [newbie] Noob help! - can't create a boot floppy in 9.1

2003-08-14 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 13:14, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 06 Aug 2003 1:08 pm, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 23:15, Derek Jennings wrote: snip snip I haven't been following this, so forgive me if this has been covered already. Has your fstab got 'user

[newbie] FS conversion/Partition resizing

2003-08-14 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
MD9.1. Two queries: Is it possible to convert ext3 to Reiser FS in place? If not and you had to convert by re-installing the system, would there be any way of transferring or copying an ext3 /home into the new Reiser system ? Can you shrink partitions in place? I'm wondering about creating

Re: [newbie] Noob help 2 - was: SCSI card not recognised by 9.1

2003-08-14 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 13:10, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 22:08, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: snip TIA DougB What about putting this stuff in the /etc/rc.d/rc.local so that when you reboot, it fires it up from there? Thanks. I don't have the faintest idea how to do

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Study: Linux nears Windows XP usability

2003-08-14 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 00:08, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 02:03, Josenildo Marques wrote: snip ee more with the article. One has only to be _open_ to learn more. I am not sure about this, but I think what kind of prevents Linux from growing in desktop use is a hardware

Re: [newbie] Boob help 2 - was: SCSI card not recognised by 9.1

2003-08-14 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 23:41, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 00:03, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: However, all these problems may be particular to *MD9.1*, because with 9.0 I found that the SCSI card could be installed directly (without any need for editing files, etc) during

Re: [newbie] Noob help 2 - was: SCSI card not recognised by 9.1

2003-08-14 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 15:47, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 06 August 2003 08:08 am, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: I tried editing /etc/modules.conf manually (as also suggested by Dark Lord - many thanks), adding the following lines Doug, did you try doing what I suggested in my last

[newbie] Can't create bootdisk - was Noob help!

2003-08-14 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
Hi all, Sorry to keep coming back on this. I tried drakfloppy --testing on the CLI and got the following message: Is gtk2-perl missing Gtk2::Text::insert? Call trace: Gtk2::_Object::Autoload () called from /usr/sbin/drakfloppy:311 main::build_it() called from /usr/lib/libDrakX/ugtk2.pm:849

Re: [newbie] Ext 3 Filesystem

2003-08-14 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 22:40, Dale Starr wrote: snip ### Start Message ### Your filesystem appears to be shutdown uncleanly Press Y within 4 seconds to force file system integrity check #So I press 'y' /dev/hda5: /lost+found not found. CREATED /dev/hda5: Optimizind Directories:

Re: [newbie] Boob help 2 - was: SCSI card not recognised by 9.1

2003-08-14 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 12:59, Ronald J. Hall wrote: snip Doug, have you tried a google search with something like linux name/model of your card problems (or installation) Might bring in some info/links/refs. Ronald, No. I'll give it a go. Thanks DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Noob help! - can't create a boot floppy in 9.1

2003-08-14 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 23:15, Derek Jennings wrote: snip Have you have disabled supermount? How do I do this? If supermount is disabled then your floppy has to be manually mounted and unmounted. If you remove the floppy without unmounting it then the files you write to the floppy will still

Re: [newbie] Noob help 2 - was: SCSI card not recognised by 9.1

2003-08-14 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 15:40, ed tharp wrote: snip line in the image section for linux - error message duplicate append lines. Re-booted just the same. No sign of SCSI card. only one append line per boot stanza but options can be 'stacked'. Ed, How do you do that? TIA DougB

Re: [newbie] Noob help 2 - was: SCSI card not recognised by 9.1

2003-08-14 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 10:32, Sharrea wrote: snip I have an Adaptec scsi card for my Microtek E6 scanner which is not presently being used with my current MDK9.0. It took me _weeks_ to find information on setting it up with Mandrake - MDK 8.1 at the time. Anyway, here's the website

Re: [newbie] Noob help 2 - was: SCSI card not recognised by 9.1

2003-08-11 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 12:00, ed tharp wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 06:40, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 15:40, ed tharp wrote: snip snip here is part of my lilo.conf image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda7 initrd=/boot

Re: [newbie] Noob help 2 - was: SCSI card not recognised by 9.1

2003-08-11 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
Ed and Ronald, On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 12:00, ed tharp wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 06:40, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: snip single blank space, so if I wanted to include NOAPIC to the smp stanza it would look like this before I rerun /sbin/lilo, which I would do before I rebooted, but after

RE: [newbie] CF card

2003-08-11 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 06:25, Frankie wrote: Come on stephen, be realistic,, Every time you try to mount your wife you end up with a floppy instead... :-) rgds snip That was a brilliant set of repartees! :-)) I'm still chuckling DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Noob help! - can't create a boot floppy in 9.1

2003-08-08 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 13:21, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 06 Aug 2003 1:08 pm, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: snip Supermount is enabled/disabled in Mandrake Control CentreMount Points. I do not recommend disabling supermount because mounting/unmounting becomes a pain. Right

Re: [newbie] Noob help 2 - was: SCSI card not recognised by 9.1

2003-08-07 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 00:54, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 07:35, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: Hi, This is a re-post - I hope someone has some ideas. In a PCI/ATAPI/IDE/USB system, how do I get a SCSI card recognised at boot-up? snip I can get the SCSI card recognised

Re: [newbie] Help! - SCSI card not recognised by MD9.1

2003-08-03 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 23:21, Ronald J. Hall wrote: snip Did you check to see if everything was inserted into /etc/modules or modules.conf? Did yo do a depmod -a as root after inserting what you needed? Just a few thoughts there. These lines are in /etc/modules with my Adaptec 2930:

Re: [newbie] Using other CDs

2003-08-03 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 16:23, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Sunday 03 August 2003 09:38 am, Pierre Dagenais wrote: Please re-read Anne's post. You've hijacked a hijacked thread. I'm not familiar with Eudora, but I'll bet it allows you to create a new message with a _new_ subject line that is

Re: [newbie]Konqueror Crashes on changing Viewing Mode

2003-08-01 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 23:11, Aron Smith wrote: snip product they put out it is amazing. Hope they will soon be in a position to hire again and take some of the load off of those guys. *** Hey it's my first linux played around with a few others but.. this one works Got to where I always

Re: [newbie] aiuto !!

2003-07-19 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 14:07, JoeHill wrote: Meglio di tutto, cominciate da principio, accendete la macchina col disco Mandrake 9.1 'Instal CD1' gia montato. Poi seguite gli istruzioni dell'installazione Easy Instal - deve andare bene tutto senza difficolta ed il Windows 98 deve rimanere

Re: [newbie] Recommended A4 Scanners for MDK91?

2003-07-19 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 11:25, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 18 Jul 2003 10:50 am, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: John Also Epson Perfection 1240U DougB I know I'm nagging, but PLEASE add it to the TWiki page http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/WebHome?topic=HardwareCompatibility

Re: [newbie] aiuto !!

2003-07-19 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 14:07, JoeHill wrote: On 18 Jul 2003 10:49:30 +0100 Douglas Bainbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: snip I did post a brief outline below, it should at least get him started. snip It would have helped if I'd read your reply properly. Covered with confusion

Re: [newbie] aiuto !!

2003-07-18 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 16:20, JoeHill wrote: On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 14:59:27 +0200 (CEST) stefano macchiavelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Help me please! snip I hope you did not take our bit of fun as mocking *you*, it was just us being goofy, and we really hope you will write back soon

Re: [newbie] aiuto !!

2003-07-18 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
Ciao Stefano, Proveremo a trovare qualche aiuto, se continuate a seguire questo filo del mailing list. Mi aiuterebbe sapere fino a che punto capite l'inglese - bene ma senza poter scriverlo, abbastanza bene ma mancando certe parole tecniche, o quasi niente? DougB Hi everybody, I'm

Re: [newbie] Recommended A4 Scanners for MDK91?

2003-07-18 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 21:23, John Richard Smith wrote: snip To that end my epson perfection 2400 phot is excellent. John Also Epson Perfection 1240U DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] aiuto !!

2003-07-17 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
Here's the translation - I'll do my best to translate any *useful* replies DougB Hi everybody, I'm Stefano and I'm writing from Bologna. Some time ago I installed MD 8.2 but right from the beginning I've had problems with the floppy and CDROM. Every time I try to access them, up pops a panel

Re: [newbie] Where's Todd Lyons when I need him? and NEW E-MAILLIST....

2003-07-11 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
to think that the list is made up of all the loudmouths (like myself) and then other people chime in and say hello, I belong to this list for other reasons and you think, well, time to move it to where it belongs 8^) Peace, Mike Wafkowski - Original Message - From: Douglas Bainbridge

Re: Bastille firewall [was: Re: [newbie] No connection via Linux]

2003-07-10 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 04:22, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 09 Jul 2003 7:25 pm, Lanman wrote: For those needing a work-around for bastille-firewall, I just wanted to update you. I'm beginning to sound like a stuck record - when you've finished, will you put it on the TWiki, please?

Re: [newbie] Where's Todd Lyons when I need him?

2003-07-10 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
Good for you, Carroll! re: MRW - I'm with momma :-) DougB On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 02:11, Carroll Grigsby wrote: I joined this list several years ago because I needed all the help with Linux that I could get (still do), and this seemed like the best place to get it. I was right -- good

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Printer virus problem

2003-06-28 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
I've had exactly the same problem with just a single Windows PC connected to 2 printers (both installed on the system) through a data switch. Print with the data switch switched to the wrong printer, [EMAIL PROTECTED]* Cancel the printing - no effect Delete the print job at the print

Re: [newbie] Kernel configuration

2003-06-27 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
Noah, Please don't hijack threads to post a query - it makes things very confusing.The threads end up quite useless, as a random collection of messages . Thanks, DougB On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 06:44, Noah A Hicks wrote: When someone says to use the following parameters to configure a kernel,

Re: [newbie] Latest version of Opera/Mandrake?

2003-06-25 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 05:38, Thomas Williams wrote: On Tuesday 24 June 2003 11:59 pm, rikona wrote: snip Yes, actually there's a version 7.11 available at http://www.opera.com. I can't really recommend it. I tried it and it worked great at first and then for some reason it has slowed way

Re: [newbie] Told ya, don't trust IBM

2003-06-24 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 00:14, Kaj Haulrich wrote: snip There! - I knew we'd flush out a real historian eventually. Thanks for the correction. DougB The full quotation is: Wenn ich Kultur höre ... entsichere ich meinen Browning. It comes from Hanns Johst's most famous play, Schlageter (first

Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-24 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
Never had much joy with LS120 drives - kept going out of alignment and then wouldn't read the 120MB disks or write to the floppies - Linux or Win. Ditched them after the second failure. DougB On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 18:33, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 23 Jun 2003 6:25 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote:

Re: [newbie] Told ya, don't trust IBM

2003-06-23 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 06:25, Ian Trickett wrote: I very much doubt it http://www.browning.co.uk/ Ian Herman Goering said When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my Browning. Richard __ Me, too.

Re: [newbie] Bookmarks in Galeon

2003-06-22 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 11:55, RichardA wrote: On 21 Jun 2003 10:21:39 +0100, Douglas Bainbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 14:13, RichardA wrote: snip Sounds very useful, but I don't see how to do this in 1.3.3. Could you give me an idiot's guide? TIA

Re: [newbie] Bookmarks in Galeon

2003-06-21 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 14:13, RichardA wrote: snip .. bookmarking in Galeon. You can open a folder in tabs, save a bookmark directly into a subfolder, order them non-alphabetically, export them in three different formats... Sounds very useful, but I

Re: [newbie] Told ya, don't trust IBM

2003-06-21 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 02:22, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 21:21:34 -0400 Thomas Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: but I get concerned that any time the government gets involved One of my favourite quotes, I still have no idea where it came from: When I hear the word

Re: [newbie] IMAP trouble (Evolution), OT Thunderbird

2003-06-21 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 23:01, Todd Slater wrote: snip It's not quite ready for prime-time for one simple reason: it can't pass URL's to a browser, so you can't just click a link in your email and have it open in your browser of choice. For me that makes it unusable. snip Todd Odd! I use

Re: [newbie] Bookmarks in Galeon

2003-06-18 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
FWIW, when you add a bookmark from a Web page in Opera (7.11) the 'Add' takes you straight to the list of folders where you might want to put it. (Quite a nice, fast browser, IMHO). DougB On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 21:09, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Charlie wrote: snip A way of adding

Re: [newbie] Bookmarks in Galeon

2003-06-18 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 19:02, Technoslick wrote: On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 13:52, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: snip NOTE: In Galeon 1.3.3 they are placed in 'New Bookmarks' instead Beg to differ, Doug. I'm running Galeon 1.3.3 and they surely go to the unassigned section of the list, under

Re: [newbie] NTFS ?

2003-06-16 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
Ralph, I'd recommend using Partition Magic to carry out all your manipulations on XP. Follow the preparatory steps recommended by PM. Then use PM to shrink the space allocated to XP. If your user data are on a separate virtual drive, convert that to FAT32. Install MD in the free space and install

Re: [newbie] Linux-friendly ISPs revisited - OT?

2003-04-06 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 19:27, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 05 Apr 2003 5:45 pm, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: Thank you, Doug. I shall start screaming at Tiscali. May I quote your post? Anne Anne, Sure thing. Sock it to them! DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [newbie] Linux-friendly ISPs revisited - OT?

2003-04-06 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 19:27, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 05 Apr 2003 5:45 pm, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: Thank you, Doug. I shall start screaming at Tiscali. May I quote your post? Anne Anne, Sure thing. Sock it to them! DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [newbie] How to use wine?

2003-04-05 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 12:21, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 04 Apr 2003 11:10 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like to use wine to run MS word on MDK linux for my job. Can it be possible? If so, after installing wine, how sould I install MS word please? Regards, Kishi

Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning-II

2003-04-05 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 21:08, Stephen Kuhn wrote: snip setup a special partition for that. You can always backup your /home partition to the Windows partition if any trouble comes. snip Excellent idea - I'll try that when I set about installing 9.1 - it sounds as though quite a lot of people

Re: [newbie] How do you change Regional settings?

2003-04-03 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
John, Thanks! It turned out to be a problem with the Lindrivers for the Winmodem. There is a Country configuration option for Italy for the driver - which didn't solve the problem. However, if this fails, the driver FAQs recommend adding the modem command ATX3 (disabling Wait for dialling tone

Re: [newbie] How do you change Regional settings?

2003-04-03 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
John, Thanks! It turned out to be a problem with the Lindrivers for the Winmodem. There is a Country configuration option for Italy for the driver - which didn't solve the problem. However, if this fails, the driver FAQs recommend adding the modem command ATX3 (disabling Wait for dialling tone

Re: [newbie] Burning a bootable cd

2003-04-03 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
snip On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 21:54, Peter Watson wrote: In XCDRoast 1) you first set up a directory, in 'Settings''HD Settings' which will contain your ISO image 2)click 'create CD', click 'master tracks', select files you want to include in right hand window (File/Directory View) click