Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 02 April 2005 01:02 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 02 Apr 2005 13:22, Daniel Anderson wrote: With the original 4k ram ...none of that sissy 16k expansion stuff ;-) Or the 720k drives. Weren't they the double-density ones? I seem to remember 360k in the heady days of my

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 01 April 2005 11:32 am, Josenildo Marques wrote: I'm going to uninstall this OS as soon as possible from my computer... I can't stand it any longer. Linux sucks ! And I'm going to get a Microsoft Certificate and install Windows XP, which I have never used. Linux has no future ! And

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 01 April 2005 09:43 am, Anders Lind wrote: Hehehe...well, Ronald you might be right there, but then again we get trolls here occassionally. /Anders I know. It just seemed to coincidental... :-) -- /\

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 01 April 2005 11:51 am, Dennis Myers wrote: carefully looking at todays date before replying :-) Ron if you look at the date there is no fun in replying! Cheeez, some fun just has to be had. Couldn't help it - the old Atarian in me just lives for any excuse to wave the

[newbie] More April foolishness... :-)

2005-04-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2005-04-01-014-26-OP-CY -- /\ DarkLord \/

Re: [newbie] back to Windows

2005-04-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 01 April 2005 02:20 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 07:33:01 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: Hell if he want's to fight send him to the OT list :-) If your definition of 'fight' is a bunch of blindfolded monkeys throwing excrement in all directions... Actually

Re: [newbie] SCSI module change from 2.6 to 2.4

2005-03-31 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 04:21 pm, Malcolm Candlish wrote: Does anyone know a good way to check for IRQ conflict or have any other suggestion a to why it crashes. Hi Malcom. Just do a cat /proc/interrupts and you'll get the output that should help you determine if there is an IRQ conflict.

Re: [newbie] Quicktime video

2005-03-30 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 11:20 pm, Aron Smith wrote: anyone know of an RPM to let you play quicktime video ? Aron, you've got PLF setup (both free and non-free) as sources, right? If not, do it. Then just: urpmi mplayer urpmi mplayer-gui and all the dependencies will be taken care of. --

Re: [newbie] cd into file

2005-03-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 27 March 2005 03:57 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Did you create that Linux Stuff directory in Konqueror ? If so, the command shell probably won't see it. The shell doesn't like spaces in file names. You could try to rename that directory to i.e. Linux_Stuff or some such. HTH Kaj

Re: [newbie] Getting packages...

2005-03-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 24 March 2005 07:38 am, Derek Jennings wrote: First you should be installing as a user not root. Derek, I'm confused about this - no normal user on any of my systems has the right to install or delete (system) software - this is a root privilege, (rpm group?), from my

Re: [newbie] Getting packages...

2005-03-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 24 March 2005 10:12 am, Derek Jennings wrote: This is a src.rpm installing it simply puts the source tarball in ~/rpm/SOURCES and the .spec file in ~/rpm/SPECS where they can be compiled with an rpmbuild command (also as user). Once compiled a binary rpm package appears in

Re: [newbie] Games recommendation

2005-03-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 12:36 pm, Aron Smith wrote: personally I wish someone would port Redneck Rampage to linux It's stupid it's violent it's funny hit bubba with a crowbar to advance to the next level :-D Sounds like its on a level with Postal. There is a linux demo for it. :-) --

Re: [newbie] Games recommendation

2005-03-22 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 21 March 2005 10:08 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi folks, I've been browsing to the package available in mdk10.1, and I find many interesting packages once I click on them and read the description. Right now, I've just passed the packages start with 'b', phew..! I'm now installing

Re: [newbie] linux command tutorial

2005-03-18 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 18 March 2005 04:36 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: et wrote: snipped it all since I only want to add my $.02USD.. one way to learn available commands at the text console is to use tab. (as someone pointed out, tab can be a good friend. just type a letter hit tab, and see all the

Re: [newbie] linux command tutorial

2005-03-17 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 17 March 2005 04:35 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 04:23, Julie Sloan wrote: I found a new-newbie oriented tutorial at http://www.linuxcommand.org/ which everyone here probably already knows about. But just in case some lurker doesn't, there's the link. I may

Re: [newbie] linux command tutorial

2005-03-17 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 17 March 2005 07:04 pm, Mr. Geek wrote: Paul wrote: Go on Ronald, admit it. That wasn't really a photo of your house was it? 8-) It was probably the guest house. Well, actually it was my house. I guess I should have stood at an angle and got the mailbox (with my name on it)

Re: [newbie] K3b help?

2005-03-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 13 March 2005 11:47 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: There is an additional package for K3b called K3B-dvd or some such and you need it to be able to burn DVDs. HTH libk3b1-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk k3b-dvd-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk k3b-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk Is what is installed here now Dennis. Is that the

Re: [newbie] K3b help?

2005-03-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 14 March 2005 10:43 am, Dennis Myers wrote: On Monday 14 March 2005 09:10 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 11:47 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: There is an additional package for K3b called K3B-dvd or some such and you need it to be able to burn DVDs. HTH libk3b1

Re: [newbie] K3b help?

2005-03-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 14 March 2005 12:06 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 14 Mar 2005 15:10, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 11:47 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: There is an additional package for K3b called K3B-dvd or some such and you need it to be able to burn DVDs. HTH libk3b1-0.11.9

Re: [newbie] Microsoft to patent XML

2005-03-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 14 March 2005 05:35 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: You won't believe this : http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=5ObjectID=10115247 I wonder when Microsoft will take out a patent on the alphabet. Kaj Haulrich. By the Gods, Kaj - don't give them ideas! :-) --

Re: [newbie] K3b help?

2005-03-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 13 March 2005 12:31 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: You know, I've found that occasionally something will monkey with fstab, and stuff that was working correctly fails to mount, or fails to mount in the correct place. To allow me to see what has happened, I copy my fstab as soon as I get

Re: [newbie] K3b help?

2005-03-12 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 12 March 2005 02:42 am, Anne Wilson wrote: OK - that's out, then. What about the fstab line? It feels a long time since I used a 2.4 kernel, so I may be remembering wrongly, but is the cdrom really scd1? I would go to MCC Hardware Mountpoints and check everything there - not

[newbie] K3b help?

2005-03-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Well, I had a fully working k3b setup until I had a major problem with my /home directory (don't ask - long story) and reinstalled. Anyways, k3b now errors whenever I try to burn a DVD. I've got a Plextor 708a, with the following software versions running: libk3b1-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk

Re: [newbie] K3b help?

2005-03-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 11 March 2005 04:46 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 11 Mar 2005 21:33, Ronald J. Hall wrote: The Plextor is in the master position, secondary IDE channel. It has hdc=ide-scsi in /etc/lilo.conf. Right there if you have a 2.6 kernel, I think. Anne Sorry, should have added

Re: [newbie] K3b help?

2005-03-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 11 March 2005 05:44 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 11 March 2005 04:46 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 11 Mar 2005 21:33, Ronald J. Hall wrote: The Plextor is in the master position, secondary IDE channel. It has hdc=ide-scsi in /etc/lilo.conf. Right there if you have

Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 01:49 am, Philippe Landau wrote: This is apparently of interest to quite a few people, and would be an EXCELLENT topic for the OT list... but someone has to start it there. Would you like to volunteer? unfortunately, the off-topic list is dominated by people

Re: [newbie] KMail configuration

2005-03-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 02:01 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I never noticed it with the older version of kmail, but now I'm seeing that some kmail users are displaying Mandrake's footer message in full and others have it as an attachment. I presume there's a setting somewhere for this? I'd really

Re: [newbie] Microsoft overrules EU Council

2005-03-07 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 07 March 2005 02:01 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Monday 07 March 2005 15:56, Duncan Anderson wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 23:13, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Here's to democracy, EU-style : http://wiki.ffii.org/Cons050307En In short : The Microsoft puppet-state

[newbie] URPMI help

2005-03-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Well, I just had occasion to (re)use the Easy URPMI site at: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and I'm having problems with it. I can go through the 3 steps, but no matter how many times I do it, or what browser I use, or which site I use, it always displays 10.1 as the distro in the cut 'n paste

Re: [newbie] URPMI help

2005-03-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 04 March 2005 09:58 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 04 March 2005 14:48, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Did you click the Proceed to step2 button before selecting your sources? Hmm, I thought that I did - maybe I got in a hurry and missed it (multiple times - shaking head at self). I'll

Re: [newbie] various issues

2005-03-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 07:59 am, Julie Sloan wrote: Was it harder adapting to XP, or Linux? Linux was harder, no question about it. Just shows how truly different peoples experiences can be. I started out in computing in 1983 with an Atari 800Xl. Moved up to the Atari ST line around 1985

Re: [newbie] various issues

2005-03-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 09:00 am, Julie Sloan wrote: On Tuesday 01 March 2005 03:30 am, riccardo wrote: On Tuesday 01 March 2005 08:19 am, Julie Sloan referred: handy, to have entire duplicate system ~ for example . . . have cron daemon, once-a-week, run script :- Thanks riccardo, I

Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin startup

2005-02-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 27 February 2005 06:50 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: Spamc is just a wrapper for spamd, so spamd has to be up and running. But if you want real email filtering you really need to be running spamassassin with more than just the basic rules. That caused me to

Re: [newbie] 10.1 Vent

2005-02-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 27 February 2005 01:13 pm, et wrote: On Sunday 27 February 2005 02:11 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:10:57 -0800 Erylon Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If your laptop was happily running 10 and an upgrade screwed it up, I don't feel sorry for you ;) e

Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin startup

2005-02-26 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 27 February 2005 01:24 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 26 February 2005 16:06, David Anderson wrote: Hi, I am following Derek Jennings' excellent Postfix mail server configuration document, and have got stuck in the SpamAssassin part. The doc says that you need to

Re: [newbie] Club membership question?

2005-02-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 24 February 2005 05:16 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: I would be very interested to know if you get a response before your new membership expires. Care to place a small wager? Lee Hey Lee - haven't heard from you in a while! :-) Now - about that bet... I actually like low risk, high

Re: [newbie] Club membership question?

2005-02-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 06:42 am, Greg Meyer wrote: How about contacting the one person that can help? The webmaster of MandrakeClub. Thought about that. :-) Just thought I'd see if someone knew an easy way to do it from the website. Thanks Greg. --

[newbie] Club membership question?

2005-02-22 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Well guys, I don't understand something. I just rejoined the Club (I've been in it for a few years now off and on, mostly on) via their recent 25% off offer. I used that offer, paid by credit card (paypal), and just logged back on to see what was what. Only to find that my total remaining

Re: [newbie] Club membership question?

2005-02-22 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 22 February 2005 11:59 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Er, well my bad. It says that I've got 171 days left, but I have alumni status? i thought alumni was a former club member who had let their subscription run out? Any info appreciated gang! Thanks. Er...slapping forehead never mind

Re: [newbie] windows-mandrake

2005-02-22 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 03:14 am, Gica Strimbu wrote: Does anybody know how to run a windows program in mandrake 9.2. Is an emulator or something for this ? I need to run a small program for decoding a tv card and i don't have a linux version. thanks You could try Wine or Transgamings'

Re: [newbie] Club membership question?

2005-02-22 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 12:08 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Okay, it gave me a whole new account, which is okay, but I'd really like to have my original one. I tried going into my info, but it won't let me change my nick there, so I went to mandrake expert. According to the blurb I can

Re: [newbie] Anyone seen this? :-(

2005-02-20 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 19 February 2005 07:30 pm, Paul wrote: On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 11:20, Ronald J. Hall wrote: MS at its finest again: http://www.linux.org/news/2005/02/19/0004.html Didn't the US authorities do something because they cut out Netscape, and the European authorities because they cut

[newbie] Anyone seen this? :-(

2005-02-19 Thread Ronald J. Hall
MS at its finest again: http://www.linux.org/news/2005/02/19/0004.html -- /\

Re: [newbie] Default Browser.

2005-02-18 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 18 February 2005 07:12 am, Lanman wrote: Rob Blomquist wrote: On Thursday 17 February 2005 5:39 am, Lanman wrote: The only 'bug' is that Konqueror stays open after the request has been passed to Firefox. Is there a way to prevent this? If I open hyperlinks in any other program or

Re: [newbie] trouble mounting zip drive

2005-02-12 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 12 February 2005 09:31 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mike Adolf wrote: On Saturday 12 February 2005 01:34 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mike Adolf wrote: After I did as you suggested, messages contained: Feb 12 09:24:42 mlnx kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide

Re: [newbie] trouble mounting zip drive

2005-02-12 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 12 February 2005 10:43 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Anytime I use a zip drive here (internal, IDE), I've always had to put that 4 there. It accesses the entire Zip cart. No /dev/hdd would be the entire drive. /dev/hdd4 would be the 4th partition on it. But the 4th partition

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic

2005-02-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 11 February 2005 01:03 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: And once again * NO * politics or religion. :-) Isn't that what the OT list is for? Or did you mean none here? Anne Anne, you have to know Paul - he was kidding there, methinks. :-) --

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic

2005-02-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 11 February 2005 06:51 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 00:43, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 11 February 2005 01:03 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: And once again * NO * politics or religion. :-) Isn't that what the OT list is for? Or did you mean none

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

2005-02-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 11 February 2005 08:49 pm, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Is there some way of downloading at once all the files on a http address? For instance, consider the following address: http://www.gkmweb.com/amarok/10.1/ Thanks in advance, Paul PS: Since I am a GMail user, please be sure

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic

2005-02-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 11 February 2005 09:25 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 02:37, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 11 February 2005 06:51 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 00:43, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 11 February 2005 01:03 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: And once

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic

2005-02-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 12 February 2005 03:55 am, Hugh Dixon wrote: Beware anyone not called Stephen? H and paranoid, conspiracy theory types. :-) -- /\

Re: [newbie] Flashplayer problem

2005-02-07 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 07 February 2005 07:03 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: When trying to open shockwave flash apps, I can get the movie but no sound. The error says : There was an error loading the module Netscape plugin viewer. The diagnostics is: Library files for libnsplugin.la not found in paths ??? -

Re: [newbie] Flashplayer problem

2005-02-07 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 07 February 2005 08:19 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: I'll fiddle with it until I bork the box...;-) Kaj Haulrich. Box-borker...hmm, I think you've just coined a new, politically (in)correct label... grin Seriously, I hope you get it fixed soon. --

Re: [newbie] Nice Howto site

2005-02-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 04 February 2005 01:23 pm, Lanman wrote: Personally, if I had to use the FUBAR howto, I'd rather just re-install. It's less painful and allows me to get rid of unwanted stuff in the process. Of course, I back up my important stuff everyday, just like everyone else on this list,

Re: [newbie] urpmi advice needed (1)

2005-02-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 04 February 2005 04:47 pm, Paul wrote: On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 18:27, Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 04 February 2005 08:22 am, Paul wrote: I'm having some problems installing gimp 2 on a 10.2 beta system. Urpmi tells me it is installed when I try to install, urpme tells me its

Re: [newbie] Nice Howto site

2005-02-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 03 February 2005 10:33 pm, Lanman wrote: Yo, Gang. I just found this site (in Canada of course! Grin!), which has some very nice howto's on configuring a variety of Mandrake services and applications. You might want to have a look. It seems to deal with Mandrake 10.0, but I suspect

Re: [newbie] Nice Howto site

2005-02-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 04 February 2005 12:32 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 03 February 2005 02:33 pm, Lanman wrote: Yo, Gang. I just found this site (in Canada of course! Grin!), which has some very nice howto's on configuring a variety of Mandrake services and applications. You might want to have

Re: [newbie] IP-forwarding does not work

2005-01-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 24 January 2005 12:33 pm, Paul wrote: A lot has been said about urpmi already, these days, but still I dare ask: how do I update the urpmi database? Thanks, Paul If you have good reliable sources Paul, then usually: (as root) urpmi.update -a works fine here. HTHs. --

Re: [newbie] IP-forwarding does not work

2005-01-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 24 January 2005 12:55 pm, Paul wrote: IP-forwarding the hard way, I guess ;-) Thanks for the help! Paul I like your indomnitable spirit though! :-) Seriously, find better mirrors, then try it again. Patience may be required. I've had this same problem, then a day later, the

Re: [newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 12:21 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: Hi Tom. Three ideas; you ran out'a disk space or ram/swap or failed to limit upload rate. Another consideration is you need to be very careful on movie torrent sites. Most are uploaded (the torrent file) by really clueless

Re: [newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-12 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 03:27 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Just a guess : the message bad info on file + shorewall stopped could mean you have been compromised somehow. On other file-sharing networks like kazaa it's common to find malware, uploaded by the RIAA-type companies in order to

Re: [newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-12 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 05:43 am, et wrote: /home or /tmp or where ever bt is storing the download until it writes to the completed file? As far as I know - it usually (but not always) creates (it asks) a folder on /home that it d/ls the file to. I've probably got 20 gigs free on /home,

Re: [newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-12 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 11:34 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Any crash you walk away fromright? :-) Agreed. On the other hand, under those circumstances it should be doable to fix a corrupt partition by using reiserfsck. Dark Lady in the machine, perhaps ? - Anyway, I'm glad you got it

[newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
As in, I've just had one in the last little bit. :-( I was attempting a d/l via bittorrent. It timed out, and gave an error message. I had to kill it via controlaltesc. Nothing seemed to come of this for a few moments - then I started losing my system. I couldn't right-click on the desktop and

Re: [newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 02:31 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Sounds like something with bittorrent. What did the error message say ? What torrent were you downloading/uploading ? Did you set your firewall to open for torrents ? Kaj Haulrich. It does, doesn't it? The error message was

Re: [newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 02:30 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: What I would have done is to boot with the installation CD and do a linux rescue - then run the reiserfsck all ReiserFS partitions. I experienced something similar a few months back on a workstation here - bootup reiserfsck choked and

Re: [newbie] Eeek! Video Card Problems.

2005-01-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 11:39 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: No problem, I think it went to the list last time. However, if you get no video output at all, not even a bios listing on start up, then it has to be the card or a connection. Let us know how the windows boot disk goes. You know, I'd

Re: [newbie] firewall

2005-01-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 11:34 pm, Miark wrote: On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 16:03:10 -0800, John wrote: I wish I could say that Mr Eastep was either helpful or nice. I've actually found him quite the arrogant, insulting boor. Particularly when he knows you use Mandrake. Oh well, perhaps

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2005-01-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 02 January 2005 01:47 pm, JR wrote: I wish my mother in law used linux :) I wish *all* mother-in-laws used Linux. Wouldn't that be a force to reckon with! :-) --

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2005-01-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 02 January 2005 03:43 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Only a matter of time, Dark Lord. Mothers-in-law are big on practicalities ;-) Anne Hmm. Practicalities...like domesticating son-in-laws? big grin --

Re: [newbie] MPAA goes after BitTorrent

2004-12-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 16 December 2004 04:49 am, Anne Wilson wrote: It was bound to happen, as it's being used for film and music sharing as well as legitimate uses. I can't see it succeeding in Europe, as it is just the agent, and it is the use that can be illegal. It would be like suing the Post

Re: [newbie] How is doing this? Firefox won't be default browser

2004-12-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 02 December 2004 10:25 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi all, This is really got me into my nerve. I've made Firefox 1.0 as my default browser using KDE menu File Association txt html, and use %U in the application command so that it can open url correctly from Kmail. But,

[newbie] Hardware failure (a 1st for me)

2004-11-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
My 13 year old son was playing Doom3 the other day when he came rushing in and said that he smelled something burning (electrical). Now, he thinks the game is very realistic but he knows that it doesn't include smell so he attempted to shutdown but his system locked up (hard) before he could.

Re: [newbie] Hardware failure (a 1st for me)

2004-11-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 09:49 am, Dan Gordon wrote: On Tuesday 23 November 2004 09:15 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Does Nvidia repair their cards? If so, is it expensive? Just a thought. It was a nice card - Geforce 4, Ti4200, 64 megs. I would however have a serious look at the power

Re: [newbie] Hardware failure (a 1st for me)

2004-11-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 09:45 am, Dan Gordon wrote: On Tuesday 23 November 2004 09:15 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Does Nvidia repair their cards? If so, is it expensive? Just a thought. It was a nice card - Geforce 4, Ti4200, 64 megs. I'm sure if you return it to the store

Re: [newbie] Hardware failure (a 1st for me)

2004-11-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 11:42 am, Dan Gordon wrote: I would still try and return the card you never know. I've got the receipt/manuals, so I'm gonna give it a shot. Ya never know, I might get lucky. Can I blame it on Doom3, since he was playing it when it happened? :-) Yeah doom3

Re: [newbie] Converting MP3 to wav

2004-11-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 03:04 pm, Anders Lind wrote: On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:46:25 +0100 Wojciech Podgórni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you mean package xmms-diskwriter? In Mandrake 10.1 it is in the main Mandrake package repository. You just have to install it. Unfortunately i use 9.1

Re: [newbie] teach me

2004-11-22 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 12:50 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: whats up, does anyone here used to watch VCD movie with TOTEM player directly from a source CD? i mean without saving it first in the hard drive. please teach me... thanks... tats of philippines Have you tried Mplayer or

[newbie] Xdesktopwaves...

2004-11-20 Thread Ronald J. Hall
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=124346 If you've not seen this yet, give it a glance. Its pure eye candy but pleasing, none-the-less... :-) --

Re: [newbie] NVidia drivers

2004-11-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 11 November 2004 12:52 am, Dennis Myers wrote: I am unable to get the Nvidia drivers to work. No splash screen and no acceleration. I have installed the latest from the Nvidia web site and put in 'Load glx and nvidia in the proper places but get a failed to load the Nvidia kernel

[newbie] Which distro do you use? (humor)

2004-10-31 Thread Ronald J. Hall
:-) http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/10/30/137 -- /\ Dark Lord

Re: [newbie] What Ritter says

2004-10-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 11 October 2004 07:26 am, PM wrote: On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 11:22, PM wrote: Many apologies, everybody - wrong list. pm roflol! So what other list are you posting such drivel to? (and by a man who was on Saddams payroll, no less!) Good call there, PM. :-) --

Re: [newbie] What Ritter says

2004-10-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 11 October 2004 01:09 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 11:38, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 11 October 2004 07:26 am, PM wrote: On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 11:22, PM wrote: Many apologies, everybody - wrong list. pm roflol! So what other list are you

Re: [newbie] Setting wlan0 connection timeout

2004-10-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 08 October 2004 05:03 pm, Brandon Rife wrote: Hi, I have wired and wireless PCMCIA cards in my laptop. At home I connect wireless, at work, I am wired. The wired interface, eth0, fails almost instantly on boot at home - good. At work the wireless interface, wlan0, takes a couple

Re: [newbie] How to Capture Text Mode Output?

2004-10-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 06 October 2004 08:01 am, David B. Carter wrote: I don't know if my subject line made any sense, but what I'm trying to do is this: I recently switched from booting in runlevel 5 to runlevel 3. I'm using Xtart to give me a choice of window managers. Since I started doing that, I

[newbie] Doom 3 for Linux is out!

2004-10-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Thats right, the binary for Linux/Doom 3 has been released by ID Software. The Linux Games Tomb and Linux Games web sites are reporting it. Hurrah! (now if I could just get in to IDs ftp site!!!) --

[newbie] Thats a relief!

2004-09-30 Thread Ronald J. Hall
The US Patent office has *rejected* all claims by Microsoft to the FAT filesystem. :-) http://linuxtoday.com/news/2004093003026NWLL -- /\

Re: [newbie] .xsession-errors

2004-09-26 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 26 September 2004 10:14 am, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 23:20:35 -0400 Ronald J. Hall disseminated the following: Don't forget what I said about running a cron job to take care of your .xsession-errors file getting too big. Isn't that the purpose of 'logrotate

Re: [newbie] Odd Internet problem...

2004-09-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 25 September 2004 11:29 am, John Wilson wrote: Out of nothing, at this point and keeping fingers crossed, did you check to see if the phantom MAC address on your son's card was duplicated in one of the other cards on your LAN? snip Thanks for the reply, John. Actually, I did - I

Re: [newbie] .xsession-errors

2004-09-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 25 September 2004 12:54 pm, Chris wrote: This file is bugging me! I have yet to figure out anything its telling me and it seems to grow some every 10minutes or so. I've checked the archives and there is one entry on it but it really doesn't explain anything at all. Is it

Re: [newbie] .xsession-errors

2004-09-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 25 September 2004 05:23 pm, Chris wrote: Not that I know of, although when trying to look at the 16mb+ .xsession-errors file last night Konqueror locked up the system, of course that was probably because I was reading the file at the same time it was probably being written to.

[newbie] Odd Internet problem...

2004-09-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Okay, all of a sudden my 13 year olds comp refuses to get on the Internet. This is a system loaded with v9.2 (download editon) of Mandrake. I've got cablemodem service, with a DLink router. I've always used static ip addresses and MAC addresses assigned to each comp on the Lan. My 13 year olds

Re: [newbie] Odd Internet problem...

2004-09-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 24 September 2004 09:57 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: ...and I'm sure you checked the GATEWAY= bit, too, yeah? ...and the /etc/resolv.conf ? -- stephen kuhn - proprietor Hey Stephen. Thanks for the reply. Yep, sure did - all appears to be normal. Its very odd, this. --

Re: [newbie] Odd Internet problem...

2004-09-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 25 September 2004 12:12 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: Yep, sure did - all appears to be normal. Its very odd, this. Ethernet card is bad. -- stephen kuhn - proprietor Thought about that possibility - that would explain the hardware (MAC) address changing on its own maybe? Thanks.

Re: [newbie] Odd Internet problem...

2004-09-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 25 September 2004 01:17 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Does he have onboard 10/100 and is it a Broadcomm chip? Seems I remember reading that the mac addresses for onboard stuff could be changed...somewhere. I thought it interesting at the time but right now I can't remember exactly

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

2004-09-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 16 September 2004 12:02 am, Dennis Myers wrote: Hey,hey,hey, I have one of those PB's sitting in the corner and it is not mickey mouse. It's .bita bang.. Tinkerbell hardware. The case is tough though.: ) Bet my Atari Falcons (circa 1992) rack mount case is tougher! (18

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-09-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 12:27 pm, David Trethewey wrote: Something quiet odd is happening now, although the KDE problem is gone now, X failed to start after the machine was shutdown and started again. After I ran the Nvidia installer again it is now working again. Does anyone know what

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

2004-09-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 06:24 pm, Travis Crook wrote: On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 15:35, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 15 September 2004 09:08 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: snip Since this is already off-topic and to lighten the tone a bit, you should check out:

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-09-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 15 September 2004 01:25 pm, David Trethewey wrote: After actually reading the Nvidia README I saw that having drivers installed for the wrong kernel can cause this problem, where an error of (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! occurs whenever X

Re: [newbie] Screen is black

2004-09-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 08 September 2004 07:50 am, Tango Echo wrote: For some reason, I get a black screen on shutdown or console terminals (Ctrl+Alt+F1...) now that I've installed Mandrake 10 OE. It's almost like it goes into sleep mode becuase the monitor's powerlight goes to amber. The motherboard

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