[newbie] OT, browser detection.

2004-09-08 Thread franki
I need to do this with an object in the page.) So, my question is, what objects in a web page will a text browser or bot fetch? obviously they will ignore images, js and css files, does that leave anything else? rgds Franki Want to buy

[newbie] Just in case you all missed it.. SCO takes a hit!!

2004-07-22 Thread franki
SCO got their ass handed to them in the DaimlerCrysler case.. for all intents and purposes it was thrown out. I put the short of it here: http://htmlfixit.com/index.php?p=102 and links to a heap of the other sites that are covering it. like theregister, zdnet, computerworld and groklaw one down, 4

[newbie] dual layer DVD writing.

2004-07-19 Thread franki
to write a script that backs up their shared folders to a dual layer DVD 3 times a week. but so far I've not been able to find out if any version of cdrecord or anything else is capable of running a dual layer burner. Anyone have any ideas? regards Franki

Re: [newbie] Paris and Linux

2004-06-30 Thread franki
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 30 June 2004 01:32 am, M.Schild wrote: - - What I don't understand is why there isn't a backlash from cities around - the world? I mean, if I was the mayor/gov. of a city and saw MS giving 60 - percent discounts to another place, you can be sure I'd be demanding

Re: [newbie] Took the plunge - CUZ SHE MADE ME

2004-04-25 Thread franki
segmentation fault (core dumped) [05:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ man butt No manual entry for butt stephen kuhn - owner Your a sick puppy Stephen, I'm proud of you welcome to australia. -- rgds Frank Hauptle (aka Franki) For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials

Re: [newbie] Took the plunge - CUZ SHE MADE ME

2004-04-25 Thread franki
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 22:44, franki wrote: [05:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ man butt No manual entry for butt stephen kuhn - owner Your a sick puppy Stephen, I'm proud of you Thought about that on the last visit to King's Cross in Sydney...on the train...tried to hide

Re: [newbie] 10 or cooker?

2004-04-05 Thread franki
sources but still said there was no updates. (I wasn't using the default mirror list in mandrakeupdate, I manually added a couple of what I thought were cooker sources, I guess I got it wrong so I'm hoping someone can show me an example of what they setup for the updates.) -- rgds Franki

[newbie] Mandrake RPM for XPde?

2004-04-03 Thread franki
club as a potential rpm.. so if your a club member, you should go and vote for XPde so that those of us that spend our time at the front end trying to convert companies to Linux.. have another tool in our chest to do so.) rgds Franki Want

Re: [newbie] Linux VS Mac a bit OT

2004-03-30 Thread franki
good that they are on a par though.. excellent for linux I'd say. -- rgds Frank Hauptle (aka Franki) For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com Free web developer resources. Please sign our petition to encourage notebook

Re: [newbie] Good news for Linux, bad news for Mandrake.

2004-03-25 Thread franki
... Please Explain??? -- rgds Frank Hauptle (aka Franki) For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com Free web developer resources. Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just

Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long

2004-03-24 Thread franki
Well, first thing, what chipset is it? what northbridge/southbridge chips.. Start by comparing that to existing intel boards.. find out if intel has any docs on those boards and linux on their site.. just a thought. rgds Franki Marc wrote: On Tuesday 23 March 2004 09:05 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote

Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long

2004-03-22 Thread franki
to a question like that.. rgds Frank Hauptle (aka Franki) For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com Free web developer resources. Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades

Re: [newbie] Encrypt a text file

2004-03-21 Thread franki
and I have seen tools on the net that can break them easily.. Have a look at this page.. http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Programming_Platforms/Linux_Programming/Q_20129261.html seems to cover well what you are looking for. rgds Frank Hauptle (aka Franki) For free scripts, online

Re: [newbie] Dell Inspiron screen problems (final)

2004-02-29 Thread franki
was delighted when I didn't have any.) rgds Franki Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] German Finance Ministry switches to Linux

2004-02-17 Thread franki
Glenn wrote: They're switching from Unix to Linux. It makes my half-German heart beat with pride. http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,90036,00.html?nas=LIN-90036 Yup, my half german heart is pretty proud now too.. they are leading the way.. good stuff. --

Re: [newbie] Linux Modem

2004-02-16 Thread franki
You might actually be in luck using mdk 8.. but I wouldn't try it with 9.2. (in fact I already have.) no luck whatsoever getting it to work.. but apparently it works on anything up to and including mdk9.1 good luck. rgds Franki -- Please sign our petition to encourage notebook

Re: [newbie] mail client for windows

2003-11-14 Thread Franki
/Eudora/Pegasus to Thunderbird.. They have all been blown away by just how good it is.. I love it myself, I am writing this on a nightly build of Thunderbird 0.4+ Smart spam filtering, full configuration for everything, and great privacy tools.. its a winner already.. rgds Franki -- Please sign

Re: [newbie] Repairing Perl (was many perl things broken)

2003-11-13 Thread Franki
option out. #rpm -i perl-5.8.0-19mdk.i586.rpm package perl-5.8.0-19mdk is already installed. force the install.. rpm -ivh perl- --force Since we know its broken, and overwritting it isn't gonna hurt, its worth trying as the reinstall might fix broken symlinks and stuff. rgds Franki

[newbie] mailman issues... using seperate web/mail servers.

2003-11-12 Thread Franki
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Re: [newbie] Why MicroSlop wants Google!

2003-11-11 Thread Franki
it out first? Avi Yes, but its also possible that microsoft tweaked it when the article was released... It would be very bad press if mainsteam media noticed it and were able to verify... We just don't know. which means if MS did tweak it, then they got away with it. rgds Franki -- Please

Re: [newbie] waiting for Mandrake 9.2 ISOs....

2003-11-10 Thread Franki
Phil Newcombe wrote: Thinker wrote: Any idea as to how long we will have to wait for the ISO's? Is there another way to download and fully install 9.2 without the ISO's, like a Net_install? -Thanks, -=Thinker I just installed 9.2 from an ftp mirror after dl'ing the network install floppy

Re: [newbie] waiting for Mandrake 9.2 ISOs....

2003-11-10 Thread Franki
. :-) rgds Franki -- Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com

Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !

2003-11-10 Thread Franki
.. myself, I have about 6 linux servers and I use them to host websites for companies.. all the servers are mandrake now. my home network is a samba file server (mdk9.0) and my DNS server is also a mandrake box. rgds Franki -- Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer

Re: [newbie] Network Install Fail, Signal 11

2003-11-10 Thread Franki
These are not the RC, they are the real deal. #cat /etc/release-mandrake Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 and the checksums match up as well.. I am running it now as my primary web server. rgds Franki -- Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades

Re: [newbie] Network Install Fail, Signal 11

2003-11-10 Thread Franki
HaywireMac wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 02:18:55 +0800 Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Yeesh, How many times I gotta post this: http://mirror.wa.3fl.net/pub/mandrake/9.2/ contains: MandrakeLinux-9.2_disk1of3.i586.iso 03-Nov-2003 08:25 652M MandrakeLinux-9.2_disk2of3.i586.iso 03-Nov-2003 04

Re: [newbie] Network Install Fail, Signal 11

2003-11-10 Thread Franki
HaywireMac wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 02:58:59 +0800 Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: hmmm, well its a mirror all the ISP's here offer bandwidth unlimited downloads from.. So its possible that is only accessable from one of the ISP's... If so, then I apologize for suggesting it.. :-) could

Re: [newbie] Network Install Fail, Signal 11

2003-11-10 Thread Franki
Aron Smith wrote: On Monday 10 November 2003 01:23 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 02:18:55 +0800 Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Yeesh, How many times I gotta post this: http://mirror.wa.3fl.net/pub/mandrake/9.2/ contains: MandrakeLinux-9.2_disk1of3.i586.iso 03-Nov-2003 08:25

Re: [newbie] many perl things broken

2003-11-08 Thread Franki
to see if they are there. rgds Franki -- Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials

Re: [newbie] Weird apache2 ADVX non SSL issue. Mandrake 9.2.

2003-11-08 Thread Franki
this: NameVirtualHost *:80 to this: NameVirtualHost 192.168.1.8:80 and then changed my: virtualhost *:80 to just: VirtualHost 192.168.1.8 and it started working Thanks for the help hopefully thats the biggest prob I will have learning apache2. rgds Franki -- Please sign our petition

Re: [newbie] Weird apache2 ADVX non SSL issue. Mandrake 9.2.

2003-11-08 Thread Franki
have not yet modified ether httpd2.conf or sss... If you don't have 9.2 handy, I can send them to you. rgds Franki -- Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html For free

[newbie] Weird apache2 ADVX non SSL issue. Mandrake 9.2.

2003-11-07 Thread Franki
works fine. I'd like to have this work as normal http if I can. Anyone know of what I should be doing? I was pretty familiar with apache 1.3 but this is my first look at apache2. regards Franki -- Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades

Re: [newbie] Weird apache2 ADVX non SSL issue. Mandrake 9.2.

2003-11-07 Thread Franki
vhosts pages. I'll keep playing with this, but any advice would be appreciated. regards Franki -- Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html For free scripts, online

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 ISO

2003-11-06 Thread Franki
an australian mirror with the real ISO's (not rc2) and a local mirror of all the updates... loading it on my new webserver now. rgds Franki -- Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.2 ISO

2003-11-06 Thread Franki
didn't load it because I am thinking of trying packet writing on the HP 9500 burner in this unit.. If you want the LG resolved version, you'll probably have to wait till Mandrake releases it, unless you want to modify the ISO of CD1 yourself.. rgds Franki -- Please sign our petition to encourage

Re: [newbie] Registered Linux User No.

2003-11-06 Thread Franki
? -Aidan No other benefits, just support for the community and some cred with fellow linux users... :-) I signed onto this thing a few years ago... rgds Franki Registered Linux user: 218317 http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=218317 -- Please sign our petition

Re: [newbie] Elsewhere in the news

2003-11-05 Thread Franki
to mirror cooker so I and anyone else interested can get our updates for free (bandwidth wise). rgds Franki -- Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html For free scripts, online

Re: [newbie] 9.2 questions

2003-11-04 Thread Franki
not. rgds Franki -- Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com, Free

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

2003-10-31 Thread Franki
.. so it looks serious. 2. They just gave consent to your monitoring of all their communications through the server. rgds Franki Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html

Re: [newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2003-10-30 Thread Franki
talking breadbox. :-) we are really showing our age... :-) rgds Franki -- Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread Franki
for Microsoft to pay for the damage? Avi FRANKI: Well, I can't speak for the others, but I would not begrudge microsoft, though I might laugh at them diversively... But then, I do that anyway.. Avi, you do not appear to have read up on this... The fault is LG's, they used a command that is sposed to clear

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread Franki
FRANKI: Agreed.. A real hardware compatability list for mandrake would be fantastic.. something like the MS compatability list. Since Mandrake has neither the money or the resources to provide this, it falls to us users.. Which is why for whatever its faults, the twiki can be a great resource

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread Franki
robin wrote: Franki wrote: [snip] The fault is LG's, they used a command that is sposed to clear the drives buffer on burners to instead be interpreted by their CD rom as upload firmware, thereby wiping the drives firmware. Their drives are NOT ATAPI drives as they do not support he ATAPI

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-28 Thread Franki
.. not mandrake.. The only thing mandrake have to do, is put in the workaround.. which they already have it seems. rgds Franki -- Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html

Re: [newbie] lost root password

2003-10-25 Thread Franki
.. and reboot.. good stuff There is no way to get the old password back, its only stored as one way encryption,, so it can't be recoved. rgds Franki -- Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron

Re: [newbie] lost root password

2003-10-25 Thread Franki
eric wrote: Franki wrote: Hi, I tried the suggestion shown below with no luck. I'm using 9.1, if that matters. Boot from the mandrake CD1 I did that press F1 for more options and then enter rescue at the prompt. I did that when it comes up, in rescue mode, type: chroot /mnt

Re: [newbie] lost root password

2003-10-25 Thread Franki
Sharrea Day wrote: On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 20:59, eric wrote: Franki wrote: I tried the suggestion shown below with no luck. I'm using 9.1, if that matters. Boot from the mandrake CD1 I did that press F1 for more options and then enter rescue at the prompt. I did that when it comes up, in rescue

Re: [newbie] lost root password

2003-10-25 Thread Franki
to mount all the linux partitions under /mnt so chroot mnt (or doing it from the menu) essentially mounted all your partitions as per normal. you essentially have your full system back with the exception that its running the kernel from the CDROM. rgds Franki -- Please sign our petition to encourage

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-25 Thread Franki
bones showing in a few places, but for the most part, its pretty good.) rgds Franki -- Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html For free scripts, online webmaster tools

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-25 Thread Franki
Franki -- Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com, Free

Re: [newbie] i586 vs i686

2003-10-18 Thread Franki
. rgds Franki -- -- Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufactures to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com

Re: [newbie] linux complient notebooks

2003-10-15 Thread Franki
L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Tuesday 14 Oct 2003 8:48 pm, Franki wrote: L.V.Gandhi wrote: I would like to get opinions from those possesing linux compatible notebooks without any driver problem. Further I would like to ask those possessing intel centrino based notebooks their usability in linux

Re: [newbie] linux complient notebooks

2003-10-14 Thread Franki
it working and link it on the Twiki. hope that helps. regards Franki Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufactures to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] New to the list

2003-10-05 Thread Franki
you wait a couple of weeks and get 9.2 instead - best to have the most recent version available. Good luck! Margot FRANKI: Also, I would add that for the hard drive, as long as you avoid Western Digital drives, you should be fine with any of them, in fact many people use WD drives here

Re: [newbie] SCP software

2003-10-05 Thread Franki
ssh connection. iXplorer, a delpi GUI frontend to putty. (looks like an FTP client.) WinSCP. (looks like an FTP client.) Liux GFTP (There are others, but I don't use the GUI much, so can't comment much here.) rgds Franki Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] squirrelmail on 8.2

2003-10-04 Thread Franki
://www.mandrakestore.com Franki: Since 8.2 is not supported anymore, I'd suggest you update.. As for the squirellmail thiung,, why use an RPM?? its just a bunch of php scripts with a perl config. I downloaded the latest tarball from the sqm site and untarred it, dumped the lot into a webmail dir in my webroot. ran

Re: [newbie] Using K3B making an ISO

2003-10-02 Thread Franki
... and nothing. Don't know what to really google for either... um I be a stoned out puppy so don't hurt Me too much...k? Ty Oh Franki, I'm burning this for you..soits in your best interests to help me :D Ceiling Art, Femme Franki: How about: mkisofs -o cdrom.iso /mnt/cdrom that should do

Re: [newbie] Using K3B making an ISO

2003-10-02 Thread Franki
Heather/Femme wrote: On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 15:41:26 +0800 Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mkisofs -o cdrom.iso /mnt/cdrom ty. That works very well How do I tell it where to create teh ISO File? IE I want it to be put into ~/distros. hwo may I specify this? Green Skinned Femme *green

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

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-25 Thread Franki
user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.1 kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdk Sent to you from a 100 % MicroSCOft-free computer. I heard they had a choice..Pretty girls or sheep. Or was that NZ? Lee FRANKI: That was NZ And they were not the pretty ones, we

Re: [newbie] Browser

2003-09-25 Thread Franki
as it did on Win2K Friday afternoon. But...I'm going to have trouble withdrawing from the mouse gesture addiction personnaly. Lee Never tried it, but there is a plugin for Mozilla thats supposed to add this. Can't remember the name of it though, sorry! Franki: What are mouse

RE: [newbie] Lightweight DNS server.

2003-09-08 Thread Franki
Thanks dude, I think I have it sussed though, I have some P pro200 machines here as well if I need them, but I don't think it's likely. besides, the shipping would probably be too expensive, I'm an aussie remember? :-) rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

RE: [newbie] VNC and 2 cards

2003-03-09 Thread Franki
couldn't you just use the firewall to block the port on the interface/card you don't want it on??? rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Greg Meyer Sent: Monday, 10 March 2003 6:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] VNC

RE: [newbie] Port Forwarding In 9.0

2003-03-07 Thread Franki
gShield for a more comprehensive but user friendly answer.. same site actually. rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Miark Sent: Saturday, 8 March 2003 7:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Port Forwarding In 9.0

RE: [newbie] Twin head--but not

2003-03-04 Thread Franki
I think mandrake gives the same message if card supports two monitors, or pc has two cards.. rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of magnet Sent: Wednesday, 5 March 2003 5:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Twin head

RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Civilme is POPULAR! Yeesh! (grin)

2003-03-03 Thread Franki
yep.. I can testify to that.. I live in perth western Australia.. and I have driven all over it.. its BIG. rgds Franki... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: Monday, 3 March 2003 8:44 PM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: RE

RE: [newbie] connection sharing using static ip

2003-02-13 Thread Franki
yes you can... My suggestion to you, is to use google to find the home page of gShield download the latest compressed version.. untar it into /etc and call the directory firewall. and read the file gshield.conf its all in english.. its all easy and they give you the possible answers so you

RE: [newbie] If I have to have MSIE...

2003-02-13 Thread Franki
doesn't codeweavers wine run IE ok rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Warren Post Sent: Friday, 14 February 2003 12:03 AM To: Newbie list Subject: [newbie] If I have to have MSIE... I have to have MSIE. I don't like

RE: [newbie] Aargh: Internet Explorer HTTPS = DNS fail

2003-02-12 Thread Franki
on the machine, see if the problem still exists... Just some stuff to try.. rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Wednesday, 12 February 2003 5:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Aargh: Internet Explorer

RE: [newbie] IRC server for Mandrake..

2003-02-12 Thread Franki
Of civileme Sent: Thursday, 13 February 2003 12:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] IRC server for Mandrake.. On Wednesday 12 February 2003 12:16 am, Franki wrote: Hi guys, I want to setup our own IRC server for use between myself and my work collegues.. Does Mandrake come

RE: [newbie] IRC server for Mandrake..

2003-02-12 Thread Franki
... :-) rgds Franki Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] IRC server for Mandrake..

2003-02-12 Thread Franki
Probably, but this way they will be left wondering what happened... I can claim there is some server problem.. :-) rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jerry Barton Sent: Thursday, 13 February 2003 2:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[newbie] loadmodule command

2003-02-12 Thread Franki
/commands.so; loadmodule src/modules/scan.so; loadmodule src/modules/scan_socks.so; I have no loadmodule command so I can't get past this error... Anyone know where I get that from?? locate loadmodule gets me nothing... tips?? rgds franki Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

RE: [newbie] SAMBA help?

2003-02-11 Thread Franki
and you can choose an update site from the list.) after you have updated some stuff, go and try urpmi webmin again... It will go to the update site and get the latest version. rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [newbie] SAMBA help?

2003-02-11 Thread Franki
the rpm you used and install the mandrake rpm. actually, there is a third option, it may be that you can go into webmin in the config screen and choose mandrake 9 as the OS.. if it is on the list that should fix your problem. regards Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [newbie] SAMBA help?

2003-02-11 Thread Franki
PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 12 February 2003 2:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] SAMBA help? I've never used Mandrake Update before... what is the command, or where is it in the GUI? Thx, PM On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Franki wrote: have you used

RE: [newbie] SAMBA help?

2003-02-11 Thread Franki
have you created samba users to match the win2000 login??? in your console screen (terminal su to root) try this.. smbpasswd -a franki it will prompt for a password and create a new samba user.. you should be able to get in now... rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] quick and dirty local mail server

2003-02-10 Thread Franki
Mandrake set postfix up on mdk9 to run in a chroot jail... have a look in /var/spool/postfix/etc the files in there should match those in your /etc also look in /var/spool/postfix/lib There should be nine lib files in there... *.so There should also be sevem symlinks to other libs. *.so.2

[newbie] refreshing rpm database with installed packages.. DB is currently missing all installed packages.

2003-02-06 Thread Franki
packages?? Any help, thoughts, flames etc rgds Franki Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] OT(?) Mutt Pine email clients

2003-02-06 Thread Franki
when your caps don't work.. here is the workaround... flame caps='1' flame message here. /flame :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of FemmeFatale Sent: Friday, 7 February 2003 8:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OT(?)

[newbie] relearning installed packaves..

2003-02-05 Thread Franki
Hi all, on one of my boxes.. I had an rpm problem that could not be fixed with --rebuilddb I had to do --initdb then --rebuilddb to get it functional again.. unfortunately it has forgotten most of my installed packages and as such, MandrakeUpdate never offeres any updates and I can't make sure

RE: [newbie] OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad!

2003-02-02 Thread Franki
.. after all, in one of Microshafts latest OS's all users are root.. The solution??? block his PC from yours in your firewall rules.. and put his IP in /etc/hosts.deny (with ALL: in front of it) :-) rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [newbie] more Evolution weirdness

2003-02-01 Thread Franki
When you tell evolution to use secure when sending.,,, it will try to connect to port 995 on the server... If that port is not open on the mail server, then the message will not send.. Nothing strange about that.. I't can't send to a mail server that isn't accepting connections on the port you

RE: [newbie] PPPoE-client for Linux

2003-01-30 Thread Franki
with pppoe, DON'T use the Mandrake tool, it makes to many assumptions about your network settings.. in my case a good many of those assumptions were incorrect... install rp-pppoe, then open an console and type: adsl-setup answer the questions and thats it.. you are all set. rgds Frank

RE: [newbie] Creating Installing SSL key for HTTPD

2003-01-29 Thread Franki
a file containing the password on the system. rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chris Slater-Walker Sent: Wednesday, 29 January 2003 4:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Creating Installing SSL key for HTTPD I did

RE: [newbie] CGI Not working after install

2003-01-29 Thread Franki
in one of the apache conf files (in /etc/httpd/conf) there is a section defining the cgi-bin, by default its set to: Deny All, you need to change that in order to get the scripts executing... I had to when I setup my webserver. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [newbie] Playing LPs in Linux

2003-01-28 Thread Franki
old record players need something called a preamp to boost the signal enough for an ordinary amp to pick it up... its likely that you are missing one... can you hear the record using headphones?? if so then the preamp is probably inbuilt... rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] OT - Spam at it's greatest

2003-01-24 Thread Franki
... but you are right, if they are so greedy, losing all their money is almost suitable recompense.. rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Friday, 24 January 2003 6:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] OT

RE: [newbie] Windows media player for netscape in mandrake

2003-01-11 Thread Franki
yeah, I'll second that.. Don't think this aussie has ever said crikey on his life... here are some good Aussie alternatives.. 1. Bloody hell!!! 2. F**k me drunk! 3. Holy Shit! 4. You bloody ripper!!! (depreciated). 5. * (Censored :-) rgds Frank -Original Message-

RE: SV: SV: [newbie] OT - Star Trek Nemesis

2003-01-07 Thread Franki
well, I don't know if I prefer Voyager or TNG but I will say that on a perve scale... 7of9 has yet to be topped. nerd questionWonder what OS, the borg use to commumicate with the hive? /nerd question rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On

RE: [newbie] WINE Questions

2003-01-02 Thread Franki
rpm -qa |grep wine in a console will tell you if its installed.. but its easier to just use rpmdrake if you are in the GUI.. or you can open a console terminal.. and enter: urpmi wine rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Russ

RE: [newbie] Linux W2000

2003-01-02 Thread Franki
yeah, I'll agree with that.. I got Femmes copy myself... it sucks... It found errors on my NTFS install and just died.. said it couldn't help and exited.. Funny thing is winblows works fine... I used and old copy of ghost to move to a new drive and it got the size a tiny bit wrong.. PM6 could

RE: [newbie] help with installing external USB CD-burner needed

2002-12-30 Thread Franki
yeah, I must say that I am sad at the loss of Kudzu.. it sometimes found what mandrake could not.. or made it easier to configure at boot if it found new or removed hardware.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jason Sent:

RE: [newbie] EPSOM PERFECTION 2400 PHOTO

2002-12-26 Thread Franki
Is that setup listed on the mandrake site for supported scanners?? perhaps someone should add it if not.. that site is out of date for the most part.. we should all work together to get a more solid picture of supported hardware.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [newbie] DVD+RW Support in Linux

2002-12-23 Thread Franki
There is a really nice Sony out that supports both standards.. (and dvd-ram I think) Also a pioneer from memory.. don't know if they support linux though.. but I'd go and check sony's site. There isn't a huge amount of difference between the two.. it was mostly just two different consortiums

RE: [newbie] Lindows

2002-12-23 Thread Franki
well, I don't know waldecks from a hole in the wall, but they stood up to Microshaft.. and they offer linux on systems.. They get my vote on that alone. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of christopher j bottaro Sent: Tuesday, 24

RE: [newbie] Mandrake Raising More Capital

2002-12-22 Thread Franki
pm, Franki wrote: Well, I guess its my turn to have a say... I am off the opinion that the club is a shortterm earner at best.. eventually people will pull out and if there are not new replacements it will dry up.. there is alot more benefit to mandrake in the club then there currently

RE: [newbie] Mandrake Raising More Capital

2002-12-22 Thread Franki
, 22 December 2002 8:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake Raising More Capital -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 22 December 2002 10:41 am, Franki wrote: I love the idea of training.. if Mandrake put an expert in an irc channel 24/7 or even for specific

RE: [newbie] Mandrake Raising More Capital

2002-12-22 Thread Franki
Here here,, I live in Australia too, and just because our ecommony bites the bag is no reason for us to have to pay what is essentially twice the price the yanks do... They pay 5 USD but the earn USD... we earn AUD.. which is a worthless piece of plastic paper mostly, but we also pay USD... As

RE: [newbie] Mice Issues and comments (rant?)

2002-12-22 Thread Franki
The easiest editor for linux, comparable to msdos edit would be mcedit. part of the mc midnight commander package.. If you knew Xtree gold or Norton commander in dos.. mc will make immediate sense to you. I have talked though some complex edits over the phone to newbies using mc to do it...

RE: [newbie] Mandrake Raising More Capital

2002-12-22 Thread Franki
yeah.. thats what I mean... except one that is for club members only.. has staff working there who do it under orders and not volenteers.. and no question is too dumb... :-) if they volenteer, they usually only answer stuff they consider advanced enough.. if mandrake puts them there to answer

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