Re: [newbie] browsing, browsing, over the bounding main

2003-09-28 Thread Lance Cummings
Hi Stephen, Sunday, September 28, 2003, 4:28:24 PM, you wrote: SK On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 16:53, Lance Cummings wrote: Okay, before I go out and smell the dioxins, there is one item of urgent (for me, anyway) business: Please look at the following URL in both Mozilla and Konqueror: SK WHACK

[newbie] Kicker?

2003-09-27 Thread Lance Cummings
Got this new little app-launch button on the taskbar after upping to RC2. Looks kind of like a little gear. Clicking it produces an error window: Unable to run the command specified. The file or directory file:/home/lance/.kde/share/apps/kicker/Welcome.desktop does not exist. Should I be

Re: [newbie] Kicker?

2003-09-27 Thread Lance Cummings
On Saturday 27 September 2003 15:48, Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 27, 2003 12:06 am, Lance Cummings wrote: Got this new little app-launch button on the taskbar after upping to RC2. Looks kind of like a little gear. Clicking it produces

Re: [newbie] Kicker?

2003-09-27 Thread Lance Cummings
Hi Greg On Saturday 27 September 2003 20:23, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 27 September 2003 02:06 am, Lance Cummings wrote: Got this new little app-launch button on the taskbar after upping to RC2. Looks kind of like a little gear. Clicking it produces an error window: Unable to run

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] more refresh and modeline fun follies

2003-09-27 Thread Lance Cummings
Hi Richard On Saturday 27 September 2003 21:23, you wrote: Resending this, as it hasn't shown up and KMail had no email From email address set. Phew! I'm back again. I just had a very nasty disk crash taking / and /home away to the filesystem in the sky. I even *considered* doing a backup

Re: [newbie] Kicker?

2003-09-27 Thread Lance Cummings
On Sunday 28 September 2003 00:28, Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 27, 2003 05:23 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 27 September 2003 02:06 am, Lance Cummings wrote: Got this new little app-launch button on the taskbar after upping to RC2

Re: [newbie] Kicker?

2003-09-27 Thread Lance Cummings
On Sunday 28 September 2003 01:38, yankl wrote: The gear icons you see means that system could not find an icon for specific file. Think you are right, sir. No need to keep that icon around at all then. Lance Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] nasty upgrade surprise

2003-09-27 Thread Lance Cummings
On Sunday 28 September 2003 01:56, yankl wrote: On Saturday 27 September 2003 05:10 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 27 Sep 2003 6:42 am, Lance Cummings wrote: That is *not*, however, something one expects of an upgrade routine. Lance, anything on Cooker is not at release status

Re: [newbie] Exploits (Was: keep password broken?)

2003-09-27 Thread Lance Cummings
On Sunday 28 September 2003 01:35, Derek wrote: On Saturday 27 Sep 2003 1:13 am, Lance Cummings wrote: y Bad idea, If your computer connected to the Internet. Even though, the number y of viruses/trojans for LINUX is miniscule it not 0. Given all user root y rights will increase chance

Re: [newbie] nasty upgrade surprise

2003-09-27 Thread Lance Cummings
On Sunday 28 September 2003 01:17, Derek wrote: On Saturday 27 Sep 2003 6:42 am, Lance Cummings wrote: On Saturday 27 September 2003 14:02, yankl wrote: On Saturday 27 September 2003 12:27 am, Lance Cummings wrote: I put Cooker RC2 over my Bamboo last night, and I'm pretty unhappy

Re: [newbie] nasty upgrade surprise

2003-09-27 Thread Lance Cummings
On Sunday 28 September 2003 01:17, Derek wrote: Get Texstar defined as a urpmi source by following the url in my sig, and then use your Mandrake Software Installer to install the msfonts and msfonts-style packages. Thats it Done! Okay . . . download accomplished. Root did many things, few

[newbie] Parking messages in KMail

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

[newbie] keep password broken?

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

[newbie] taskbar design?

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

Re: [newbie] clipboard integration with Mozilla

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

Re: [newbie] keep password broken?

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

[newbie] nasty upgrade surprise

2003-09-26 Thread Lance Cummings
I put Cooker RC2 over my Bamboo last night, and I'm pretty unhappy that I did so. When I reboot after the upgrade, my taskbar buttons have been reconfigured. Some, for example KMail, are gone. Others are new. In my opinion new is okay, I can always deal with that. But I cannot come up with any

Re: [newbie] nasty upgrade surprise

2003-09-26 Thread Lance Cummings
On Saturday 27 September 2003 14:02, yankl wrote: On Saturday 27 September 2003 12:27 am, Lance Cummings wrote: I put Cooker RC2 over my Bamboo last night, and I'm pretty unhappy that I did so. ---8--- Kde packages after 3.1.2 got really segmented first try to run kmail from cli. If you

Re: [newbie] more refresh and modeline fun follies

2003-09-24 Thread Lance Cummings
Hi Richard, Wednesday, September 24, 2003, 6:01:57 PM, you wrote: trimmed where appropriate RU On Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 4:39 am, Lance Cummings wrote: It's possible they are all wrong. RU Not at all. They are all using different dot clock frequencies to give RU you the same display. Well

Re: [newbie] First Steps Vertical Refresh (WAS: partitioning for Mandrake 9.1)

2003-09-23 Thread Lance Cummings
Hi Jim, Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 1:11:54 PM, you wrote: JC Well, I found it on my MDK9.0 system. Yes, it's in a gui. Mandrake makes it JC a hidden part of the KDE Control Center. It's called kxconfig. If you type: JC kdesu -c kxconfig JC and supply your root password it will show up.

[newbie] more refresh and modeline fun follies

2003-09-23 Thread Lance Cummings
First, a quick thank you to everyone that's chipped in on this. I've run across, and also been pointed toward, several modeline generators. I present to you three of them: 1. http://www.sh.nu/nvidia/gtf.php 2. http://www.dkfz-heidelberg.de/spec/linux/modeline/modeline2.cgi 3.

Re: [newbie] First Steps Vertical Refresh (WAS: partitioning for Mandrake 9.1)

2003-09-22 Thread Lance Cummings
Hi Derek, Hope the reply-to is set correctly now. Let me know. Monday, September 22, 2003, 5:22:59 PM, you wrote: DJ Mandrake will run a nightly job to compress and rotate your log DJ files, so overflowing the logs will not happen. It also does a DJ lot of other housekeeping at the same time.

Re: [newbie] First Steps Vertical Refresh (WAS: partitioning for Mandrake 9.1)

2003-09-22 Thread Lance Cummings
Hi Paul, Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 9:25:42 AM, you wrote: HF On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 15:17:04 +0100 Derek Jennings HF [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HF chops down an Oak Hey calm down Lance. I was not saying you cannot control refresh rate in Linux. Merely that it is not as simple as just selecting a

Re: [newbie] partitioning for Mandrake 9.1

2003-09-21 Thread Lance Cummings
Hi Derek, Sunday, September 21, 2003, 9:33:47 PM, you wrote: trimmed DJ You have masses of space for your Linux partitions. It does not DJ really matter how you partition it up. Just make sure you have a DJ separate /home partition. That is where your user data goes. So DJ if you ever reinstall

[newbie] First Steps Vertical Refresh (WAS: partitioning for Mandrake 9.1)

2003-09-21 Thread Lance Cummings
Hi Björn all, Sunday, September 21, 2003, 11:36:31 PM, you wrote: BL I'd proberbly set it up something like BL / ~ 4-6 GB BL /swap ~ 150 - 200 Mb (You've got lot's of RAM) BL /usr ~ 10 Gb BL /home ~ The rest ( ~ 20 Gb) That's pretty close to what I ended up doing. Thanks for the advice. The