Re: [newbie] installed perl modules

2005-04-10 Thread Miark
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 18:36:52 -0500, Chris wrote: Is there a list somewhere of perl modules installed such as for rpms in /var/log/rpmpkgs which I assume is a listing of rpm packages I've installed. rpm -qa | grep -i perl Hope that helps, Miark

[newbie] 400MHz enough video power?

2005-04-09 Thread Miark
I have a Toshiba Tecra 8000 with a 400MHz processor, 192MB RAM, and DVD drive. From within XFCE (i.e. a lightweight enviro) I tried to play a DVD last night with mplayer, and totem, but nothing seems to work. Is 400 MHz just too little power? Miark

Re: [newbie] Problem with mounting my flash drive

2005-04-09 Thread Miark
HAL is a good thing, but it's really annoying if you're not expecting its changes. The good news is that after installing Thac's KDE, you can uninstall HAL without uninstalling everything else KDE. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] ark rar

2005-04-08 Thread Miark
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 21:26:53 +0200, Paul wrote: Op Fri, 8 Apr 2005 20:06:25 +0100 schreef Q.H. Wang: Or is there some other good tool for rar? http://www.rarlab.com/rar/rarlinux-3.5.b1.tar.gz Even easier: urpmi unrar Miark Want to buy

Re: [newbie] ark rar

2005-04-08 Thread Miark
, it'll likely open it without further complaint. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader

2005-04-08 Thread Miark
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 23:23:26 +0100, Q.H. wrote: Oooops, man, you got a very hard bone to tackle. Good luck. Him and I both. I've tried copying the file manually and using the install script, and although Firefox tries to open Reader, it gives me that same PATH complaint. Miark

Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader

2005-04-08 Thread Miark
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 00:37:14 +0100, Paul wrote: On Apr 9, 2005 12:26 AM, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oooops, man, you got a very hard bone to tackle. Good luck. Him and I both. I've tried copying the file manually and using the install script, and although Firefox tries to open

Re: [newbie] Mandriva

2005-04-07 Thread Miark
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 22:33:40 -0400, Ivo wrote: I think Mandriva is awful... Me too. But it's official now: http://www.mandriva.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/corporate/2551 Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Mandriva

2005-04-07 Thread Miark
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 10:51:11 -0400, Miark wrote: On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 22:33:40 -0400, Ivo wrote: I think Mandriva is awful... Me too. But it's official now: http://www.mandriva.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/corporate/2551 Here's one tidbit that makes the change a bit more palatable

Re: [newbie] [OT] usb electric shock while connecting is shutting down computer

2005-04-06 Thread Miark
to send control signals i can understand that it powers down my PC. but it is risky for my data, so i would like to know if others saw that happen too. Try connecting the USB cable _before_ you plug in the external drive's power supply. Miark

Re: [newbie] Acrobat Reader 7

2005-04-05 Thread Miark
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 13:38:36 +0200, Pablo wrote: Since I installed Acrobat Reader 7, KGhostView no longer works (hangs forever). I've just downloaded KPDF: doesn't work either (*very* strange characters). Has anyone had the same problem? No problems here. Miark

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2

2005-04-05 Thread Miark
On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 15:44:42 -0400, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 17:38:47 +0100 Elwyn York disseminated the following: As far as your mail, it's stored in your home dir, which during even a clean install is not formatted, at least not by default AFAIK. This should go for most if not

Re: [newbie] pdf text

2005-04-05 Thread Miark
experience? Although I have Acrobat 7, I still use pdftotext to convert from one to the other. Try that instead and see if it does any better. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

Re: [newbie] Opportunity to plug OOo at interview

2005-04-05 Thread Miark
to double-check that * The suite comes with other software that is also free, e.g. you get PowerPoint-type software at no addition cost As you say, though, I'd make this an exceptionally _minor_ sidenote to your interview. Miark Want to buy

Re: [ml] [newbie] Which kernel?

2005-04-05 Thread Miark
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 01:38 am, Cameron MacDonald wrote: Now I feel even sillierI remembered uname but forgot the switch!! uname -a Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Opportunity to plug OOo at interview

2005-04-05 Thread Miark
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 08:59:07 +1000, WauloK wrote: Hence, it's the first naive Word processor! On Apr 6, 2005 7:38 AM, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 17:10:03 +0100, JR wrote: * It exports to PDF naively :-) Since moving to Sylpheed 1.9.6, the spell check has gone

Re: [newbie] pdf text

2005-04-05 Thread Miark
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 00:03:33 +0100, Q.H. wrote: Although I have Acrobat 7, I still use pdftotext to convert from one to the other. Try that instead and see if it does any better. Many thanks Miark. I tried to use pdftotext to convert one or two pages of two pdf files into text files

Re: [newbie] Failed Install

2005-04-02 Thread Miark
any reason why this should not work. Have you tried in Winblows? Seriously this is going to be a problem with a lot of hardware.. It's not. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

Re: [newbie] Failed Install

2005-04-02 Thread Miark
, you could burn the tiny installation ISO. Also, do you check the md5sums of the discs after you burn them? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] network install

2005-04-02 Thread Miark
share. Then do a network install (NFS) pointing it to the shared folder. I've done the same thing a few times in the past months. If you're sharing from a laptop, though, you might want to copy everything to the harddrive first as that'll spare you all the DVD drive's spin-up time. Miark

Re: Adobe Acrobat Spying on Users (Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader

2005-04-02 Thread Miark
? Cripes, I never thought I'd see the day! Thanks for the spyware tip. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Failed Install

2005-04-02 Thread Miark
On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 11:23:57 -0800, Aron wrote: On Saturday 02 April 2005 10:00 am, Miark wrote: On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 06:03:19 -0800, Aron wrote: Did you check the md5sums after you downloaded the images? Yes ,they are fine Jeez, Aron, have you ever heard of whitespace? I like

Re: [newbie] Failed Install

2005-04-02 Thread Miark
On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 11:23:57 -0800, Aron wrote: On Saturday 02 April 2005 10:00 am, Miark wrote: On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 06:03:19 -0800, Aron wrote: Did you check the md5sums after you downloaded the images? Yes ,they are fine Jeez, Aron, have you ever heard of whitespace? I like

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Miark
! And this list sucks, too ! Fare you well ! Ya, screw Linux. Now, where did I put that abacus...? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Failed Install

2005-04-01 Thread Miark
-- failed to load `/mnt/tmp/drakX-images/01.png : fatal error in png image file iDAT :CRC error Did you check the md5sums after you downloaded the images? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Quicktime video

2005-03-30 Thread Miark
for moz/firefox here: http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/ Speaking of which, the mplayerplugin always displays a time status on streaming video. Is there a way to turn that off? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [newbie] Quicktime video

2005-03-29 Thread Miark
mplayer' as that should take care of everything. Hmm, you might need to set up a contrib source, too. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] sylpheed-claws 1.9.6

2005-03-28 Thread Miark
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:36:48 +, Lee wrote: I have had claws (0.9.10) running on my 9.2 box and now want to move the folder tree to the 10.1 box. You have to copy the mail folder _and_ the .sylpheed folder. Miark Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] sylpheed-claws 1.9.6

2005-03-28 Thread Miark
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 13:16:00 -0500, Lee wrote: Thanks all. Trick was rename .sylpheed to .sylpheed-gtk2. Right--when you said 1.9.6 I was thinking you were using Claws, not Claws2. That 1.9 naming convention still throws me for a loop! Miark

Re: [newbie] USB Wireless

2005-03-28 Thread Miark
than $10. It has a Prism chipset, so it works great. No ndiswrapper needed. But why not use a CardBus NIC instead? It would be a bit more convenient than a USB NIC. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] KDE3.4 cannot shutdown

2005-03-22 Thread Miark
a session which takes literally two clicks (Star Save Session). Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] Running apps on networked machine

2005-03-21 Thread Miark
I ssh'ed to another box on my network and ran Firefox. But instead of it running off the remote machine, it ran from my _local_ machine. Odd! How do I prevent that? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Running apps on networked machine

2005-03-21 Thread Miark
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:35:26 -0600, Mikkel wrote: Miark wrote: I ssh'ed to another box on my network and ran Firefox. But instead of it running off the remote machine, it ran from my _local_ machine. Odd! How do I prevent that? Miark Miark, How did you determin

Re: [newbie] Auld lang syne.

2005-03-21 Thread Miark
exactly. I've had to use vi several times in a pinch, and was very glad to have know the basics. But the instant I can use something else--anything else--I do. But that said, I agree vimtutor is a great way to get the basics. Miark Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] KDE3.4 cannot shutdown

2005-03-21 Thread Miark
startup each time to not run ALSA, but oh well. It's not like I reboot every week. Oh, it seems kcontrol does _not_ appear anywhere in my menus, so I have to run it from the commandline. Again, no biggie. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Games recommendation

2005-03-21 Thread Miark
interesting games, such as adonthell, brutal, and.. many rpg like games I forgot the names :) Do you have any recommendation on games that can relieve our stress level? Thanks :) UT2004. And I've been enjoying the original Quake lately, too. Miark

Re: [newbie] Firefox gone bad

2005-03-20 Thread Miark
. Actually, I'd rename it to something else, let Firefox make a new directory, then copy my bookmarks from the old directory to the new. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4

2005-03-19 Thread Miark
had problems with his 3.3 RPMs? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.4

2005-03-18 Thread Miark
. Another good place for non-mandrake club members is the dutch users group MCNL. The last time I used Thac's RPMs for KDE, it was a nightmare, as it was for at least a few other people. Any reason to expect similar problems with 3.4 RPMs? Miark

Re: [newbie] Updates

2005-03-18 Thread Miark
If I install sylpheed-claws2, will I be able to use my current Claws mail and configuration without any hiccups? Miark On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 19:00:16 -0500, Charles wrote: Updated and new rpms for Mdk 10.1 bogofilter-0.94.1-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm libexo-0.3_0-0.3.0-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm

Re: [newbie] qmail cool site

2005-03-16 Thread Miark
over the other? I'm also curious as to whether spamassassin and such things integrate more easily into qmail or postfix. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] Updates

2005-03-16 Thread Miark
and Sylpheed Claws 1.0.3? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Sound in a laptop

2005-03-13 Thread Miark
gone through the troubleshooter and the driver doesn't seem to be loaded. I will appreciate any advise. Try running sndconfig. If that doesn't do the job, try alsaconf which is part of also-utils. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Cleaning optical mouse

2005-03-13 Thread Miark
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 16:59:41 -0600, Chris wrote: Question is, how is this mouse cleaned? Do I clean the lens on the bottom? If so, with what? I've had a MS optical mouse for at least 3 years and have never had to clean it, although I blow lint out with just my mouth once in a while.

Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-08 Thread Miark
thing that happens in every corner of the world.) Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-07 Thread Miark
On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 23:46:22 +1100, Stephen wrote: Bear in mind that once the media gets a hold of Microsoft swaying government/courts again, it's going to be a media circus. That's _if_ they can connect the dots. Miark Want to buy your

[newbie] Playing Quake I singleplayer

2005-03-06 Thread Miark
Despite a lot of Googling, and I cannot figure out how to install and play the original Quake. The documentation I found at QuakeForge, DrakPlaces, and other sites is so useless, it may as well read, Bing, tittle, tittle, bong. Can anyone help? Miark

Re: [newbie] Looking for program to organize quotations

2005-03-06 Thread Miark
. Just grep what you want from the commandline. For instance: grep -i politics quotesDB.txt | grep -i twain would give a full list of quotes on politics from Mark Twain. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Playing Quake I singleplayer

2005-03-06 Thread Miark
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 18:36:12 -0500, Miark wrote: Despite a lot of Googling, and I cannot figure out how to install and play the original Quake. The documentation I found at QuakeForge, DrakPlaces, and other sites is... useless Okay, I figured it out: 1) Install cvs if it's not already

[newbie] Mardakesoft grows

2005-02-24 Thread Miark
This is good news for stockholders. Mandrakesoft is acquiring Conectiva: http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/corporate/2539wslang=en Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] I want to migrate to Mandrake

2005-02-24 Thread Miark
with wlanfe, then re-add the connection as a wlan connection, and optionally configure it with Manage Connections if need be. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] DVD-Rom suggestions?

2005-02-23 Thread Miark
put it through its paces for years, and it's never so much as hiccuped. It's probably not made anymore, but if Toshiba's current drives are as good as their old ones, I'd highly recommend one. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] tar'ing dot files

2005-02-19 Thread Miark
everything in the folder; not good. I'm guessing by the .gz that you want it gzipped, but you're missing the 'z' switch. Should be tar cvfz. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club

Re: [newbie] amaroK 1.2 final

2005-02-13 Thread Miark
to amarok, it reminds me of Musicmatch .. on the other OS. They did a nice job on it, I like the cover manager, nice work ;) Never had that before .. There's a plugin for XMMS that does the same thing... CD Cover or something equally obvious, IIRC. Miark

Re: [newbie] Re: Program to download all the files on a http address

2005-02-13 Thread Miark
of downloadable items, and you can check them one-by-one, or specify by extension or type (such as images). Quite handy. I used it today for the very same purpose. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] cannot launch konqueror

2005-02-13 Thread Miark
with Konqueror. If I click the little arrow beside the File Manager icon on the XFCE Panel, it allows me to choose among Konq and others. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

Re: [newbie] A touch of humour

2005-02-09 Thread Miark
to get it as one single file that I can play later. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Task Manager

2005-02-09 Thread Miark
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:03:34 -0800, Fernando wrote: ...this email is for asking if some already knows of an application as the Task manager, so I don't waste time programming such application... gps (kinda like top, but graphical) Miark

Re: [newbie] Snapshot of video

2005-02-02 Thread Miark
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 23:10:47 +1100, John wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 17:07, Miark wrote: If I pause video using mplayer and take a screenshot, the video still is replaced with solid blue. Is there a way around this? That's because the default X video driver XV uses something called screen

Re: [newbie] IP refresh command?

2005-02-01 Thread Miark
network. What shell command will do this for me? ifdown eth0; ifup eth0 or replace eth0 with the correct interface, such as eth1, wlan0 or whatever. (More than one way to skin a cat.) Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

[newbie] Snapshot of video

2005-02-01 Thread Miark
If I pause video using mplayer and take a screenshot, the video still is replaced with solid blue. Is there a way around this? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

[newbie] USB drive floppy image

2005-02-01 Thread Miark
I want to install 10.1 onto a laptop from a USB hard drive. I've read there is a hdcdrom_usb.img or some such thing, but it's not in the install directory. Where is it? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Powershell and $TERM

2005-01-28 Thread Miark
export $TERM Logout, login and it is in your environment. If you need it for everyone on your machine, add the lines to /etc/profile. Hmm, that looks like it should work, but for some reason, it doesn't. Odd. Miark Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Re: Powershell and $TERM

2005-01-28 Thread Miark
On 28 Jan 2005 12:23:38 -0500, J. wrote: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I try to run MicroEMACS in Powershell, I get Environment variable TERM not defined! So if I TERM=vt100 and then export TERM all is well. Unless I close and open it again, that is. How do I make

Re: [newbie] Powershell and $TERM

2005-01-28 Thread Miark
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 23:17:58 +0100, Paul wrote: Op Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:02:41 -0500 schreef Miark: TERM=vt100 export $TERM Logout, login and it is in your environment. If you need it for everyone on your machine, add the lines to /etc/profile. Hmm, that looks like it should

Re: [newbie] Re: Powershell and $TERM -- SUCCESS!

2005-01-28 Thread Miark
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:17:57 -0600, Mikkel wrote: Miark wrote: Does Powershell set TERM to any value? If it sets it to a terminal type that isn't defined, there is hope... If TERM isn't defined, you may be able to add something to .bashrc - something like (untested) if [ ! $TERM

Re: [newbie] Re: Powershell and $TERM -- SPOKE TOO SOON

2005-01-28 Thread Miark
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 21:25:14 -0500, Miark wrote: On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:17:57 -0600, Mikkel wrote: Miark wrote: Does Powershell set TERM to any value? If it sets it to a terminal type that isn't defined, there is hope... If TERM isn't defined, you may be able to add something

Re: [newbie] Re: Powershell and $TERM -- SPOKE TOO SOON

2005-01-28 Thread Miark
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:23:46 -0500, Charles wrote: When I opened powershell from the XFCE launch bar directly, Try using this as the command in the Xfce entry powershell TERM=vt100 export TERM Promising, but no. :-/ Miark Want

Re: [newbie] Re: Powershell and $TERM -- REALLY SOLVED!

2005-01-28 Thread Miark
correctly. There really is a terminal definition called dumb, with its own description of terminal capabilities. At this point I only really care about less, clear, and MicroEMACS, and they all seem to work fine so far, so I'm happy as a proverbial pig. Thanks much! Miark

[newbie] Powershell and $TERM

2005-01-27 Thread Miark
? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Powershell and $TERM

2005-01-27 Thread Miark
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:42:29 +0100, Paul wrote: Op Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:00:09 -0500 schreef Miark: How do I make this change permanent without affecting other working term emulators which I still use regularly? Through a script? Got anything more specific? :-) My Perl is better than my

Re: [newbie] Powershell and $TERM

2005-01-27 Thread Miark
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 06:52:48 +0100, Paul wrote: Op Fri, 28 Jan 2005 00:45:25 -0500 schreef Miark: Through a script? Got anything more specific? :-) My Perl is better than my bash, so I tried to get the following Perl one-liner on every shell: $ENV{TERM} = xterm if `echo \$TERM

Re: [newbie] Alt-F2 Openoffice

2005-01-24 Thread Miark
on my computer? The Alt-F2 dialog probably just searches PATH like any other shell. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] Ethereal and mandrakeonline.net

2005-01-20 Thread Miark
I tinkered a little with Ethereal tonight. I noticed a constant pattern of my box doing a DNS lookup of mandrakeonline.net, but I am not running any apps that would be doing that. What's going on? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Ethereal and mandrakeonline.net

2005-01-20 Thread Miark
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:30:12 +, Derek wrote: On Thursday 20 January 2005 08:14, Miark wrote: I tinkered a little with Ethereal tonight. I noticed a constant pattern of my box doing a DNS lookup of mandrakeonline.net, but I am not running any apps that would be doing that. What's

[newbie] df is bs

2005-01-20 Thread Miark
A df displays this for my fat32-formatted external USB 2 drive: /dev/sdb1 56G -256Z 58G 101% /mnt/removable2 but cd'ing to it and doing a du -sh shows that 11GB are used. What's going on? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] firestarter problem

2005-01-14 Thread Miark
, you could try stopping and restarting it. If that doesn't work, uninstall and re-install Firestarter. Miark 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 mount External USB CDDrive in MAndrake 10.0

2005-01-12 Thread Miark
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:42:52 +0530, P.Prabhu wrote: How to mount External USB CDDrive in MAndrake 10.0 ? Mmmm, plug it in? :-) What happens in KDE when you plug it in? Does a device icon appear on the desktop? Have you tried rebooting the machine with the drive plugged in? Miark

Re: [newbie] no uploads with firestarter

2005-01-12 Thread Miark
is cancelled. An obvious one, but are you 100% certain the machines have different IP addresses? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Gates: 'Yer a bunch o' Commies'

2005-01-11 Thread Miark
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 21:12:25 +0100, Kaj wrote: Well done Poland. Indeed. We can all show our gratitude here : http://thankpoland.info/ Done! Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[newbie] Bandwidth limiting

2005-01-09 Thread Miark
I'd like a simple commandline or GUI app to limit outgoing bandwidth from my FTP server. Any suggestions? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] Bandwidth limiting

2005-01-09 Thread Miark
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 21:39:03 -0600, Randall wrote: On Sunday 09 January 2005 08:57 pm, Miark wrote: I'd like a simple commandline or GUI app to limit outgoing bandwidth from my FTP server. Any suggestions? Miark Hi Miark. I assume from your posts on the expert list that you're running

[newbie] Rush Limbaugh

2005-01-07 Thread Miark
, at one point their call center went down and Rush said it was a Windows computer responsible, and that it had crashed five times in the last day (or recent days). So we got an endorsement of Firefox and Moz, and a testimony of the unreliability of Windows from the Maha Rushie. Cool. Miark

Re: [newbie] Re: FireFox speedup

2005-01-07 Thread Miark
, and it's low enough not to be construed as a DOS attack. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Rush Limbaugh

2005-01-07 Thread Miark
, but apparently even with Voodoo there has to actually be a functioning brain ;-) She don't need a brain she's rich and influential You forgot to mention her legs ;-) Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] ASCII characters

2005-01-06 Thread Miark
is selected, but I do have UTF-8 in the list so I guess it is on my machine. I wonder why Sylpheed could see the some of your funky characters, but not the Euro-crap char. Oh well. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] ASCII characters

2005-01-05 Thread Miark
Miark joined the thread, the Euro became a n-tuple underline. According to the KMail configuration tool, the us-ascii, iso-8859-1 and utf-8 character sets are installed here. Would I not already have utf-8 installed by default in 10.1? How do I check? Miark

Re: [newbie] firewall

2005-01-05 Thread Miark
ASSHOLE! ;-) Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] ASCII characters

2005-01-04 Thread Miark
or even the Euro-symbol ___. I can see the first three, but the Euro-symbol looks like three underscores. I'm using Sylpheed Claws. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

Re: [newbie] firefox not robust as mozilla?

2004-12-23 Thread Miark
sites that crash Firefox on you regularly? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Interface Aliasing

2004-12-22 Thread Miark
everytime I restart my computer. /etc/rc.d/rc.local Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] xdesktopwaves and 10.1

2004-12-13 Thread Miark
tried it in 10.1, but I ran it on 10.0 just fine and it used XOrg. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] M$ using pirated software

2004-11-19 Thread Miark
This is good for a chuckle: http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20041115_135458.html Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Cable interface stopped - DHCPREQUEST?

2004-11-18 Thread Miark
. It would eventually get the signal again, but this kept happening over and over again. This morning a technician from my provider came to my house and figured out the problem pretty quickly. He installed a signal amplifier, and now all is well. Hope this helps, Miark

[newbie] USB 2.0 performance in MDK 10.0

2004-11-11 Thread Miark
? Or is there perhaps an mplayer switch to at least help out my video viewing? Thanks, Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

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

2004-11-11 Thread Miark
or not the software is open or closed source. If you go to SourceForge, you'll find a ton of open source software that is made for Windows. I'd trust any Win32 software I get from there. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

[newbie] Ext. USB drive / high CPU load

2004-11-01 Thread Miark
I'm using a USB 2.0 external harddrive. It's actual performance is fine, but what's bothersome is that if I do something disk intensive, such as copy a huge file or rename file in a big directory, my CPU meter hits 100%. Is this typical? Miark

Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?

2004-10-28 Thread Miark
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 07:22:04 +0100, Graham wrote: It's just taken me about 15 minutes to open a file, make a small alteration and print a single page with about 3 lines of text and a box on it. Blow away your .openoffice directory and that'll probably fix it: rm -rf ~/.openoffice Miark

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird and Firefox

2004-10-28 Thread Miark
the stand alones are past ver 1.0, you will start to see them bundled together to become the new mozilla suite. A ha--thanks! I searched all over mozilla.org for that simple explanation and couldn't find it anywhere (even the FAQ). Miark Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

2004-10-27 Thread Miark
its mind. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

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