Re: [newbie] Install problem

2004-11-17 Thread John Richard Smith
Aron Smith wrote: I have aquired a Compaq laptop Armada 7400 unfortunely it does not have cdrom drive any way i can get mandrake on this puppy I'd really like to do it 'cause the price was right (free) My Son in Law and I fiddled around with an old IBM thinkpad whose rom was broken. In

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime

2004-11-12 Thread John Richard Smith
Travis Crook wrote: On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 07:23, Todd Slater wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 09:12:35AM -0500, JoeHill wrote: Best of luck in your future efforts with Mandrake, remember we're always here to help (though, running 9.2 still, I've been about as useful as tits on a bull around

Re: [newbie] 10.1 powerpack download

2004-11-10 Thread John Richard Smith
Aron Smith wrote: D/L ed it again but K3b says not a usable image ?? trying again I had a similar problem recently with another dvd-iso file. k3b would not recognise it as an iso file. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Burning 10.1 iso's

2004-11-06 Thread John Richard Smith
Roland Hughes wrote: I have brought down the 10.1 Official iso's (4) and am having trouble burning them. I have tried cdrecord on the command line and ran md5sums on the cd after and and it comes up with a different result than what came down with the files. Roland, What is the size of each

Re: [newbie] How to properly save Internet pages?

2004-11-06 Thread John Richard Smith
Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi, all. I have Mandrake Linux 9.1. When navigating in Internet with Konqueror, if I want to save a web page I choose the 'Save As...' item from the 'Location' menu. But all those small images that usually accompany and decorate a web page are not saved, so when I come back

Re: [newbie] Kppp settings problem?

2004-11-03 Thread John Richard Smith
Lorin Jenny Pino wrote: Kppp will dial in and establish a connection. However, I can't access any web sites. If I try ping www.yahoo.com http://www.yahoo.com, I get ping: unknown host www.yahoo.com http://www.yahoo.com. If I try ping 216.109.118.66 as seen on an earlier post, I get connect:

[newbie] dvd copy

2004-11-01 Thread John Richard Smith
Anyone know of any good dvd copy programmes , other than vobcopy, that can copy a dvd to HD in two roughly equal halves ? John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-30 Thread John Richard Smith
Marek Pawinski wrote: I picked this up, i don't know if it pertains to the issue: Bad Md5sums? (maybe not) Just burned a CD from an ISO image and the md5sum doesn't match? The CD may be just fine... what you may be experiencing is padding which alters the md5sum. Before throwing away the CD and

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-27 Thread John Richard Smith
Miark wrote: On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:09:07 -0500, Tom wrote: Yes, but in newer Mandrake versions the CD drives are seen as dev=ATA:0,0,0 I use 0,0,0 for example only, 'cdrecord dev=ATA -scanbus' will return the actual numbers. The ATA device (burner) is linked to the numbers. EG, on

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-27 Thread John Richard Smith
Adolfo Bello wrote: On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 10:18 +0100, John Richard Smith wrote: Then, making sure the CD you just burned isn't mounted: in terminal, dd if=/dev/scd0 bs=2048 count=n | md5sum - (note the - on the end, don't leave it off. change the /dev/scd0 to whatever device setting your

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-27 Thread John Richard Smith
Miark wrote: On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 10:18:17 +0100, John wrote: ls -l iso image file Divide the size of the ISO image file by 2048 to get the number of sectors, and record that sum (=n, hereafter) If it comes out to a decimal, do I round up? It doesn't. The sectors in question are the number

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-27 Thread John Richard Smith
Marek Pawinski wrote: I picked this up, i don't know if it pertains to the issue: Bad Md5sums? (maybe not) Just burned a CD from an ISO image and the md5sum doesn't match? The CD may be just fine... what you may be experiencing is padding which alters the md5sum. Before throwing away the CD and

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-26 Thread John Richard Smith
Miark wrote: What do you do to verify discs? Do you still have the iso file ? Yes. Miark OK, simple enough. First check iso image file md5sum, you probably know how to do this anyway,but, In a terminal, cd path to iso image file directory enter md5sum iso image file check the

Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone

2004-10-26 Thread John Richard Smith
Miark wrote: On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:31:37 +0200, Alan wrote: Is there another product (linux based) that I can use instead of Ghost (bear in mind it has two ntfs partitions on it as well. http://www.mondorescue.com will backup or clone any system running Linux (even if it's a multi-boot

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-26 Thread John Richard Smith
Miark wrote: This is exactly what used to work for me. The only difference I see is that with kernel 2.6 I'm no longer using scsi emulation. so I'm checking /dev/hdc instead of /dev/scd0. I wonder if that has anything to do with it. Miark Of course, the 2.6 kernels don't use scsi-emulation, so

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-26 Thread John Richard Smith
Adolfo Bello wrote: I always use CLI to burn my CDs too. cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 dev=1,0,0 -dao archivo.iso What is new to me is the use of dev=ATA:1,0,0. I'll try it in next burn. Using Mandrake 10 fully updated. Thanks, Adolfo dev=ATA:1,0,0 is only for the 2.6 kernels where the devices

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-25 Thread John Richard Smith
Miark wrote: When I burn a CD in MDK 10.0 from the commandline or with K3b, then compare the md5sums of the iso file and /dev/hdc, they are _always_ different, even if the CD works fine. Is there something weird with 10.0, or is this a subtle sign of burner problems to come, or what? Miark Not

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-25 Thread John Richard Smith
Marc wrote: On Monday 25 October 2004 11:54 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Miark wrote: When I burn a CD in MDK 10.0 from the commandline or with K3b, then compare the md5sums of the iso file and /dev/hdc, they are _always_ different, even if the CD works fine. Is there something weird

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-25 Thread John Richard Smith
Miark wrote: One other thing I considered: crappy media. And make no mistake, I'm using Ritek--the crappiest, most god-awful media on planet. But when I burned to a RW this morning, I had the same problem (burning with K3b, with verification checked). If your burner is modern, 8x is not

Re: [newbie] Does Epson Perfection 2480 Photo work with Linux?

2004-10-17 Thread John Richard Smith
Björn Olsson wrote: Hi all, I'm planning on buying a scanner for my Mdk 10.0 system. Most Epson scanners seem to be well supported by the Sane project (www.sane-project.org). Support for the plain Epson 2480 model is described as Good (CVS), but the 2480 Photo model isn't on the list. Does anyone

Re: [newbie] Does Epson Perfection 2480 Photo work with Linux?

2004-10-17 Thread John Richard Smith
Björn Olsson wrote: On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 15:29:13 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Björn Olsson wrote: Hi all, I'm planning on buying a scanner for my Mdk 10.0 system. Most Epson scanners seem to be well supported by the Sane project (www.sane-project.org). Support

Re: [newbie] Does Epson Perfection 2480 Photo work with Linux?

2004-10-17 Thread John Richard Smith
Björn Olsson wrote: Yeah, It is available in Sweden as well. I will probably settle for the 2400 just to be on the safe side. It may be a few years old, but I understand it is still a very good scanner for its price. Björn I can vouch for that. John

Re: [newbie] downloading Firefox

2004-10-06 Thread John Richard Smith
M.Schild wrote: Here is a dumb question. I would like to download the latest Firefox.. I don´t want to make a mess of it because my connetcion is painfully slow and it announced it would take about one hour! How do I do it and install it? Step by step please. Do I have to log in as root to do

Re: [newbie] downloading Firefox

2004-10-06 Thread John Richard Smith
Hoyt Bailey wrote: Thank you John by the way 'urpmi D4X' works also(If you have contrib defined). Quite right, and as it's not a very big download , not much risk of being cut off. Although, urpmi generally isn't much use for someone on modest download speed capability like Maryse. John

Re: [newbie] downloading Firefox

2004-10-06 Thread John Richard Smith
M.Schild wrote: Although, urpmi generally isn't much use for someone on modest download speed capability like Maryse. so what do you suggest? Maryse D4X Easy gui, reconnect, and resume download where download was cut off. John Want to

Re: [newbie] 10.1 sound volume 'problem'

2004-10-04 Thread John Richard Smith
Azrael wrote: Are you getting output on all 5 speaker ? John I am getting output on the 2 front and 2 rear speakers. Unusual to have a 4 channel , multichannel setup, but it seems you have output all around though I think it ought to be at least 5 channels, sometimes 6. However, when I run

Re: [newbie] 10.1 sound volume 'problem'

2004-09-29 Thread John Richard Smith
Azrael wrote: I have a sound blaster live (platignum), it is 5.1 and I have 5.1 speakers. And it worked perfectly on every version of mandrake I can remember (i.e. 9 onwards). Really is weirdly annoying Are you getting output on all 5 speaker ? John

Re: [newbie] 10.1 sound volume 'problem'

2004-09-28 Thread John Richard Smith
Azrael wrote: I just did my first fresh install of 10.1 (keeping my former /home), and everything is working well, except for an issue with the volume. In xine, or mplayer, when I try to change the volume, the volume does not get quieter or louder. If I use the gnome volume panel applet,

Re: [newbie] 10.1 sound volume 'problem'

2004-09-28 Thread John Richard Smith
Azrael wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Azrael wrote: I just did my first fresh install of 10.1 (keeping my former /home), and everything is working well, except for an issue with the volume. In xine, or mplayer, when I try to change the volume, the volume does not get quieter or louder. If I

[newbie] cpu and memory demand under dvd write

2004-09-23 Thread John Richard Smith
I've succeeded in writing my first dvd, not problems all went well. I used k3b. I've been thinking about the way some people report write errors off to media. Could it be a device buffer/HD problem. I know you can increase the HD buffer. I thought I would just test how the write is effected with

[newbie] Choice of DVD Blank Media over Device make

2004-09-21 Thread John Richard Smith
I bought a NEC 2510A recently. I have never bought DVD blanks before, whether dual or single layer.I note that here in UK, suppliers are grading the media make against manufacturer/device.That implies they have had trouble with some makes of media with certain makes of drive. I wondered if

[newbie] Choice of DVD Blank Media over Device make

2004-09-21 Thread John Richard Smith
I bought a NEC 2510A recently. I have never bought DVD blanks before, whether dual or single layer. I note that here in UK, suppliers are grading the media make against manufacturer/device. That implies they have had trouble with some makes of media with certain makes of drive. I wondered if

Re: [newbie] Choice of DVD Blank Media over Device make

2004-09-21 Thread John Richard Smith
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 21 September 2004 05:45, John Richard Smith wrote: Stands to reason that with any hardware device, there will be variations in manufacturing standards. However, suppliers grading media against specific devices does NOT imply that there are issues with other

[newbie] VOBCOPY

2004-09-21 Thread John Richard Smith
When Vobcopy copies the selected vob files on a dvd CD it does do via the regional decryption code built into the dvd drive does it not ? Does that then mean then, that the resulting vob files sitting nicely on your hard drive are minus the regional encryption from there on ? What about

Re: [newbie] Scanning from the GIMP

2004-09-19 Thread John Richard Smith
Kaj Once again you saved my blood pressure from winding up into the paint cards, John. Of course the matter was that I didn't install xsane-gimp when I did the re-install. After doing just that everything runs the way I want. The reason I prefer to start xsane from the gimp is that I can add

Re: [newbie] OT - stereo vs. puter cd players

2004-09-19 Thread John Richard Smith
Todd Slater wrote: My daughter got hold of an audio cd and scratched it all up. Thinking it would be for the trash, I nevertheless gave it a shot and cleaned it and put it in my stereo's cd player; to my surprise, nary a skip! I thought I'd best back it up so I tried ripping it with cdparanoia to

Re: [newbie] Mozilla fixed fonts problem

2004-09-16 Thread John Richard Smith
SnapafunFrank wrote: Bob Read wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 15 September 2004 21:15, Bob Read wrote: snip If all else fails, I guess I'll try re-installing Mozilla -- but that sounds like a Windows solution. ;-) /snip What about updating ? - Your Mozilla

Re: [newbie] [OT] Put on your tinfoil hats...

2004-09-16 Thread John Richard Smith
John Wilson wrote: Oh, and guess which country is home to the most developed, efficent and most secret communications interception and decryting agency on the planet? Why it's Canada. For all that I'm still Canadian and always will be. I just don't trust government much. Any government.

Re: [newbie] fuji finepix in LM10

2004-09-16 Thread John Richard Smith
Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, I am trying to setup my Fuji Finepix 2400 in LM10. I did not have any problem doing this in earlier versions and in 9.1 there was an automatic setup. However in 10 it seems that I have to set it up manually again. I have made a /mnt/camera directory and put a line in

Re: [newbie] Mozilla fixed fonts problem

2004-09-15 Thread John Richard Smith
Bob Read wrote: I use Mozilla mail heavily. (Mozilla 1.3) I normally use Inbox opened fully so that I can scan the incoming files quickly. A couple days ago, that screen seemed to have reduced the type font size so that it is now difficult to read. As a check, I counted the number of lines

Re: [newbie] Mozilla fixed fonts problem

2004-09-15 Thread John Richard Smith
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 15 September 2004 21:15, Bob Read wrote: snip If all else fails, I guess I'll try re-installing Mozilla -- but that sounds like a Windows solution. ;-) /snip What about updating ? - Your Mozilla 1.3 is quite old by linux standards. Besides, there are a

Re: [newbie] Format NTFS?

2004-09-12 Thread John Richard Smith
Eric Scott wrote: Anybody know of a program that will let me format a given partition as NTFS? Fat32 might do it, Put Windows OS on the first partition on hda. Windows 2000 installation disc's own partition tool and formatter can create and format in both NTFS and FAT32, but not without

Re: [newbie] scanner

2004-09-06 Thread John Richard Smith
John Layt wrote: On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 20:08, David Wallis wrote: Hi there I'm a very new newbie. This is my first posting so please take pity on me As a Windows convert I have an Epson Perfection 1670 which I would like to use with my Mandrake 10 OS Any help appreciated David Wallis Linux

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-04 Thread John Richard Smith
Much has been written on this thread about, Speedtouch 330 USB DSL modem Netgear DM602 router/modem but a preliminary search on some uk suppliers this afternoon suggests the Netgear DM602 router/modem is no longer available here in the uk. The model most often suggested is the, NETGEAR DG834

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-04 Thread John Richard Smith
PM wrote: On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 18:35, John Richard Smith wrote: Much has been written on this thread about, Speedtouch 330 USB DSL modem Netgear DM602 router/modem but a preliminary search on some uk suppliers this afternoon suggests the Netgear DM602 router/modem is no longer available here

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-03 Thread John Richard Smith
Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 02 September 2004 04:39 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Aron Smith wrote: . So then I need to network my other computers via this 8-pot 10/100Mbps switch DES-1008D, the so called D-Link, that is not so easy ? from each computer run the D-Link software

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 01 September 2004 06:02 pm, Margot wrote: According to their web page, they support the Speedtouch 330 USB DSL modem as well as the Netgear DM602 router/modem. Personally, I would go for the Netgear if I were you, it will hook up to your ethernet card and

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread John Richard Smith
PM wrote: On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 11:46, John Richard Smith wrote: But that means you must have a fully configured ethernet card to go with your choice of the Netgear DM602 router/modem, doesn't it ? John I bought the first/cheapest and had no problems - turned out to have a RealTek

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 02 September 2004 01:46 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 01 September 2004 06:02 pm, Margot wrote: According to their web page, they support the Speedtouch 330 USB DSL modem as well as the Netgear DM602 router/modem. Personally

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread John Richard Smith
PM wrote: On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 15:54, John Richard Smith wrote: Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 02 September 2004 01:46 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 01 September 2004 06:02 pm, Margot wrote: According to their web page, they support

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 02 September 2004 09:27 am, John Richard Smith wrote: OK then I bow to experience. Only I found in the device easy enough, but the with the network MCC still asks a lot of questions you don't know the answers to, and without those answers it don't work

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Bryan Phinney wrote: Since the router/modem is equivalent to any other type of ethernet connection, you would hook it up and configure it exactly the same way you would to any other router, right? Assuming that you are using the Dlink device now, hooking it up to the broadband modem as opposed

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Margot wrote: Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm currently with Wanadoo for my dialup and I'm keen to leave them as soon as possible because I'm in the middle of a major row with them - they recently introduced spam filtering, and it is complete chaos - legitimate mail is not only being marked

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Aron Smith wrote: . So then I need to network my other computers via this 8-pot 10/100Mbps switch DES-1008D, the so called D-Link, that is not so easy ? from each computer run the D-Link software ez as pi John Aron you got me there , whats with, D-Link software ez as pi ? John

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Margot wrote: We seem to be drifting a bit here... As I said in my original message, I need a solution that doesn't involve screwdrivers - not just because I'm a girl (!) but I have ME - the combination of brainfog plus physical limitations means that installing anything that involves taking

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-28 Thread John Richard Smith
Kaj Haulrich wrote: replies within On Saturday 28 August 2004 12:21, John Richard Smith wrote: John, the HP box came with no CDs at all. Instead, the is an icon on the desktop, labelled create HP restore disks or some such. Being only human, I was curious and connected to the net first

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-27 Thread John Richard Smith
charlie wrote: Something strange happened to me this morning as I was downloading mail into Kmail. I deleted one of Lanman's mails and the Kmail desktop locked up solid, my CPU usage went into the 100% and stayed there. But nothing was happening in Kmail that I could see. So went into a

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-27 Thread John Richard Smith
Kaj Haulrich wrote: Is Kmail going flaky or are Lanman's mail becoming sacred or precious? Charlie. Happened to me in Mozilla . Don't remember whose mail it was, but on this list. I was deleting one message, and it was loading the next, when it locked up tight. John Happens to me quite

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-25 Thread John Richard Smith
Kaj Haulrich wrote: Dear list... I am sorry for bothering you with this, but knowing that some of you have Windows on your box, I rely on your forgiveness : A week ago I had to buy a new PC for one of my daughters (14 years old). She absolutely needed Windows in order to run some special,

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-25 Thread John Richard Smith
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 25 August 2004 14:38, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: --- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you purchased this box with XP on it and they didn't give you XP installation discs then they usually supply backup file somewhere on the HD in a spare partition.If

Re: [newbie] rescue disk probs

2004-08-23 Thread John Richard Smith
Scott wrote: Hello I'm trying to use my 10.0 rescue disk to re-write lilo in hda. The problem is I have an improperly named kernel image in /etc/lilo.conf, so the rewrite fails when it runs lilo. I don't seem to be able to open lilo.conf with vi to change it from the rescue console though. I

Re: [newbie] On Installing kernel.

2004-08-18 Thread John Richard Smith
as this is source code and must be compiled first ( that is the last process packagers do to create an installable rpm) until you have a better understanding of this process best to come back to it another time. I don't use urpmi myself. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] Scanning from GIMP2

2004-08-17 Thread John Richard Smith
you wanting to get to grips with it all at this time. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Downloads and Installs

2004-08-17 Thread John Richard Smith
. ./configure make make install but read the readme files to each package carefully. They do vary some. For documentatation try googling. If you get stuck ask here again. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Scanning from GIMP2

2004-08-17 Thread John Richard Smith
contemplating AMD64 cpu's next. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Scanning from GIMP2

2004-08-17 Thread John Richard Smith
Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Tuesday 17 August 2004 08:04, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 17 August 2004 14:48, Hoyt Bailey wrote: snip Kaj; What kind of scanner are you using I'v been checking out the LS-2000 but might be interested in other's. /snip John Richard Smith has been extremely

Re: [newbie] Scanning from GIMP2

2004-08-17 Thread John Richard Smith
using it a bit, now and again. It has a lot to catch up on compared with xsane/gimp but it's slowly getting there. Some folk may well prefer the windblowsy layout to gimp/sane type of opperation. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] Scanning from GIMP2

2004-08-17 Thread John Richard Smith
corrective and rotation Double LMclick the image window, you get a grid. Single LMclick the grid to grip the grid and rotate it. single LMclick the rotate tab. crop in usual way. save John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] inline: snapshot210

[newbie] Strange Invoices

2004-08-12 Thread John Richard Smith
-- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Adding another Linux distro to MDK lilo.conf

2004-08-10 Thread John Richard Smith
to be able to activate the correct kernels. when you are done run /sbin/lilo to confirm the entries are correct and make sure lilo accepts you final result. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] HSP56 Micromodem

2004-08-08 Thread John Richard Smith
,which they did replace, but I wouldn't use again for it's lack of durability. I know they are cheap. But a good hardware controlled modem ain't a bustin fortune. WWW.linmodem.orgif you must. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] When clicking on CD ROM icon Cervisia starts, not konqueror

2004-08-08 Thread John Richard Smith
,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 How can I get konqueror to start from CD ROM icon ? What is Cervisia ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread John Richard Smith
: http://dban.sourceforge.net Bryan, I'm made a floppy version of dban, but tell me if I accidentally left it in my A drive and booted up on it, it wouldn't atually wipe my entire drive without asking me first would it ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive(diatribe alert)

2004-08-05 Thread John Richard Smith
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 05 August 2004 10:39 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Bryan, I've made a floppy version of dban, but tell me if I accidentally left it in my A drive and booted up on it, it wouldn't atually wipe my entire drive without asking me first would it ? As far as I

Re: [newbie] Clock in kicker.

2004-08-03 Thread John Richard Smith
Hoyt Bailey wrote: I used to have the date shown under the time in the kicker I don't know about under, but side by side, time+date, RMclick clock applet - type - plain - LMclick. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy

Re: [newbie] OT: Bordem ;-)

2004-07-19 Thread John Richard Smith
plant, but proof is wanting. I believe it was used in english medieval times for medicinal purposes. I expect it was an early ruling class version of coke. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] OT on mobos and chipsets

2004-07-17 Thread John Richard Smith
manufacture from top name mobo manufacturers and then see which look a good bet for linux. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] Monitoring quantity of internet usage

2004-07-17 Thread John Richard Smith
, and it will not catch on. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] How to decypher dialupscript

2004-07-16 Thread John Richard Smith
The Other wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:45:10 +0100, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, before I do that, I could install an earlier version of kppp and see how that performs(My MD8.1 is running on some very ancient version)as I don't think any dependencies in say the MD9.1's

Re: [newbie] How to decypher dialupscript

2004-07-16 Thread John Richard Smith
Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Friday 16 July 2004 12:01 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: The Other wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:45:10 +0100, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, before I do that, I could install an earlier version of kppp and see how that performs(My MD8.1

Re: [newbie] kppp kaput

2004-07-12 Thread John Richard Smith
odd to me. Anyway, you say haddrake sets if up to work correctly, so how does it do that, and can you make that permanent ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] How to decypher dialupscript

2004-07-12 Thread John Richard Smith
Martin Foster wrote: On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 10:11:56 +0100, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heres wanadoo's technical support reply to my email last night, --- Dear John, Thank you

Re: [newbie] How to decypher dialupscript

2004-07-12 Thread John Richard Smith
Charlie wrote: On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 07:44 pm, John Richard Smith sent these thoughts: Martin Foster wrote: However, I don't think that's what causing the problems. Have you had a look at my other suggestions yet? Can someone help me understand something. In KPPP under modem

Re: [newbie] How to decypher dialupscript

2004-07-12 Thread John Richard Smith
John Rye wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Richard Smith wrote: | Martin Foster wrote: | | On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 10:11:56 +0100, John Richard Smith | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | | Heres wanadoo's technical support reply to my email last night, | | Dear John, | | Thank you

Re: [newbie] How to decypher dialupscript

2004-07-10 Thread John Richard Smith
Martin Foster wrote: On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 20:26:21 +0100, Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Foster wrote: On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 11:46:18 +0100, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK ATM1L1 OK ATDT147008089916080 Why are you using 1470 in front of your ISP's phone number? Judging

Re: [newbie] How to decypher dialupscript

2004-07-10 Thread John Richard Smith
Martin Foster wrote: On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 10:11:56 +0100, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heres wanadoo's technical support reply to my email last night, --- Dear John, Thank you

Re: [newbie] How to decypher dialupscript

2004-07-09 Thread John Richard Smith
John Rye wrote: On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 11:46:18 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Raffaele BELARDI wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: How to decypher dialupscript Where can I get a list of explanation of the messages the dial up window gives you in kppp ? John

Re: [newbie] How to decypher dialupscript

2004-07-09 Thread John Richard Smith
Margot wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Raffaele BELARDI wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: How to decypher dialupscript Where can I get a list of explanation of the messages the dial up window gives you in kppp ? John Not sure of what kppp prints since I don't use it, but V90 and older modems

Re: [newbie] How to decypher dialupscript

2004-07-09 Thread John Richard Smith
Margot wrote: Martin Foster wrote: On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 11:46:18 +0100, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK ATM1L1 OK ATDT147008089916080 Why are you using 1470 in front of your ISP's phone number? Judging by your email address, your ISP is FreeServe. When I had an account

Re: [newbie] How to decypher dialupscript

2004-07-09 Thread John Richard Smith
Martin Foster wrote: On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 20:26:21 +0100, Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Foster wrote: On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 11:46:18 +0100, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK ATM1L1 OK ATDT147008089916080 Why are you using 1470 in front of your ISP's phone number? Judging

Re: [newbie] only about 1/2 my hard drive is recognised

2004-07-05 Thread John Richard Smith
eric jackson wrote: - Original Message - From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 6:07 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] only about 1/2 my hard drive is recognised eric jackson wrote: Hi, I just had a Maxtor Ultra Series 250 GB hard

Re: [newbie] OT electrial question

2004-07-03 Thread John Richard Smith
it's not too complicated. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Lexmark Z33

2004-06-29 Thread John Richard Smith
got down to figuring that out. I think I'm right in saying cups has a Z33 option in the drop down list. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

Re: [newbie] Lexmark Z33

2004-06-29 Thread John Richard Smith
Marc Lijour wrote: Le June 29, 2004 06:36 am, John Richard Smith a écrit : Marc Lijour wrote: Hi Any of you had some luck with the Lexmark Z33. I tried to install it with the driver provided to the Lexmark site. 1) I disabled CUPS and installed LPRng 2) I run the driver from lexmark

Re: [newbie] Scanner

2004-06-25 Thread John Richard Smith
be tempted to try some of the other models by the same manufacturer , my epson 2400 photo for instance actually sets itself up under another model. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] CD-RW device problem

2004-06-23 Thread John Richard Smith
umount reliably and I have to resort to logging out and in to clear it. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] LILO

2004-06-20 Thread John Richard Smith
diskdrake they used to offer PM as their choice of windblows app. regards, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] 10CE USB Printers

2004-06-19 Thread John Richard Smith
for the likes of common folk. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Darkroom Linux

2004-06-16 Thread John Richard Smith
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 16 June 2004 01:15, John Richard Smith wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: In my attic are thousands of old 24x36 mm negatives who never made it to the darkroom enlarger. Furthermore, to set up a darkroom nowadays is almost impossible - at least where I live. So

Re: [newbie] Darkroom Linux

2004-06-16 Thread John Richard Smith
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 16 June 2004 11:42, John Richard Smith wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 16 June 2004 01:15, John Richard Smith wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: In my attic are thousands of old 24x36 mm negatives who never made it to the darkroom enlarger

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