Re: [newbie] partitioning limbo (as in Purgatory, not the dance)

2005-01-04 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 12:27:16PM +1100, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 11:50, David Reynolds wrote: I'm pretty sure I'm buggered this time around, but maybe someone here can help me spot my error for next time: Situation: Needed Windows on my computer to run some

Re: [newbie] webdav

2004-12-31 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 04:03:25PM +, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, I have been asked by my family to set up a website. The domain is all set and a webdav account has been set up for me to upload files. This is new to me. I have gone into MCC and there is a webdav entry under the mount

Re: [newbie] imap setup

2004-12-28 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 03:27:18PM -0600, Chris wrote: I'm trying to re-setup my imap folders. I've got courier-imap installed and running. Everytime I get as far as entering my mail host in the imap setup in kmail, (earthlink.net) a few seconds later a window pops up (could not connect

Re: [newbie] Xfce4 settings question

2004-12-27 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 10:14:51AM +, Graham Watkins wrote: This ought to be easy but I can't figure it out. How do I get the iconbox to launch with xfce4 instead of having to start it from the command line? Is there anywhere I should put a script for this and any other program I want

Re: [newbie] The effect of 'chgrp' is not pemanent?

2004-12-19 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 03:39:15PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I've noticed that, strangely, the effect of the command 'chgrp' is not permanent: I did # chgrp rodolfo /* and then # ls -l / and got the following output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rodolfo]# ls -l / total

Re: [newbie] Tying down to one only email client

2004-12-18 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 02:11:49PM +1300, SnapafunFrank wrote: Hi The following appears to be off topic a little, but with no response from the mozilla forum and it being mandrake I'm trying to get my company to run with, I'm hoping some kind soul here might take some time out to assist.

Re: [newbie] How to compare two files?

2004-12-17 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 11:33:18PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi. Suppose that a large text file has been slightly modified by another person, and I want to find out 'a posteriori' what changes were done. Is there a linux command (or set of commands) that can compare the two files and

[newbie] mplayer streaming ASF

2004-12-16 Thread Todd Slater
Mdk 9.1 MPlayer-1.0pre5try2 (from source) all win32 codecs I'm trying to play a stream from KGSR radio with mplayer. I can play it at work on a Windows box with WiMP. When I try here it just hangs. If I wait long enough I get a burst of noise every now and then. I'm on cable so conncection speed

Re: [newbie] SOLVED mplayer streaming ASF

2004-12-16 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 09:38:49PM -0500, Todd Slater wrote: Mdk 9.1 MPlayer-1.0pre5try2 (from source) all win32 codecs I'm trying to play a stream from KGSR radio with mplayer. I can play it at work on a Windows box with WiMP. When I try here it just hangs. If I wait long enough I get

Re: [newbie] mplayer streaming ASF

2004-12-16 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:10:45PM -0500, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 21:38:49 -0500 Todd Slater wrote: I'm trying to play a stream from KGSR radio with mplayer. I can play it at work on a Windows box with WiMP. When I try here it just hangs. I can play it here using

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail

2004-12-15 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 07:32:54PM -0500, Greg Meyer wrote: Is anybody else on this list getting bombarded with virus laden e-mail from a particular ip address in Australia? Whoever it is is sending to the address that I use for the Mandrake lists, so I am thinking it may be one of our

Re: [newbie] /bin/sh: bad interpreter

2004-12-12 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 11:30:19AM +, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am trying to install a program using the following command inside a the script installMapleLinuxSU: sh ./LinuxInstaller.bin but I get the error: bash: ./installMapleLinuxSU: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission

Re: [newbie] KDE CD

2004-12-08 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 04:02:21AM +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote: Hi, I have downloaded all iso imaged of Mandrake Linux Official 10.1. During installation, it needs KDE CD. I searched on available FTP sites, but there was not any KDE iso image. Can anybody help ?

[newbie] Gnome-games?

2004-12-08 Thread Todd Slater
After futzing around with gnome in Slackware and Ubuntu I've come to enjoy a few of the gnome games. I can't find them in 10.1 Official DE and the machine is not on a network so I can't set up urpmi--can somebody verify whether tetravex etc. are available in contrib or some place? Thanks! Todd

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-07 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 05:44:56PM +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote: Hi, I am migrating from Fedora Core 3 to Mandrake 10.1, but I was jut dissapointed !!! What a garbage is this Mandrake 10.1 !!! It always crashes and it is absolutely unstable. Did you have same problem ? Is

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-07 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 07:05:08PM +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote: Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 05:44:56PM +0100, Danesh Daroui wrote: Hi, I am migrating from Fedora Core 3 to Mandrake 10.1, but I was jut dissapointed !!! What a garbage is this Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Spam assassin with Thunderbird

2004-12-03 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 04:12:39AM -0800, Tango Echo wrote: Anyone?? Or is this rocket science? I've never used Spamassassin but I've heard that it can be a resource hog. How much do you need it to do--virus filtering etc.? If you just need a bayesian-type filter bogofilter is a good

Re: [newbie] DVD Burners

2004-11-30 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 01:48:58PM -0500, BJ Tracy wrote: Hi All, Running MDK 10.0 and want to upgrade my box to a DVD-RW. I have looked at the list of certified DVD's but was wondering if there is really a compatibility problem with any new DVD-RW out of the box. I'm looking to do the

Re: [newbie] DVD Burners

2004-11-30 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 04:40:11PM -0500, Todd Slater wrote: BTW, when will 10.1 official be available for us cheap bastards? I thought it was going to be made available at the end of November ... OK, talking to myself, I just hit aolm and see that the iso's are starting to be made available

Re: [newbie] The Bat - Mozilla ?

2004-11-28 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 04:14:09PM +0100, Miroslav Skoric wrote: Gentle folks, I have a dual-boot system (Mdk 9.1 and W2k - both having their own partitions). I also have a spare FAT partition for downloading etc. At the moment my email client in Mdk is Mozilla suite 1.6 and for W2k is

Re: [newbie] Converting MP3 to wav

2004-11-23 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 08:42:35PM +0100, Anders Lind wrote: Hello again, another question, is there a software to convert MP3 to wav with...I tried using XMMS but it seems that the plugin that is supposed to be there for it is not. Try mpg123. Todd

[newbie] /home/user permissions

2004-11-23 Thread Todd Slater
I just noticed that all user directories in /home allow group and other read access. Shouldn't the default setting for /home/user be -rwx--? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

Re: [newbie] /home/user permissions

2004-11-23 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 04:51:43PM -0500, JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:06:00 -0500 Todd Slater disseminated the following: I just noticed that all user directories in /home allow group and other read access. Shouldn't the default setting for /home/user be -rwx--? Ya, I

Re: [newbie] Help requested getting Apache virtual servers going

2004-11-22 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 11:17:32PM -0500, Bill Mudry wrote: Could someone help me find out why I cannot get some virtual hosts going on Apache. Bill, How about letting us know what happens when you try to access a virtual host (in the browser)? Any errors in /var/log/httpd/access_log or

Re: [newbie] Apache or Mandrake permissions problems?

2004-11-16 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 12:39:19PM -0500, Jaime Magiera wrote: Not if it's related to permission conflicts on the server, such as those imposed by msec. Hence, in the subject Apache or Mandrake. I think permissions on /home/user/public_html should be 711. I wouldn't change permissions on

Re: [newbie] Configure Kmail for Hotmail without 3rd party software!

2004-11-16 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 09:26:23PM -0800, Hemal Detroja wrote: Posted by Raj on Wednesday 17/Nov/2004, @03:57 Folks, I am newbie. I am able to use Kmail to access HOTMAIL directly without any other software! For Incoming emails: Select : POP3 Host : pop2hot.com { Feed your

Re: [newbie] XFce4.2 RC1

2004-11-15 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 09:46:29PM +1100, Stephen Kühn wrote: Ok - y'all heard me rave on and on about XFce4 time and time again, but now, well, I'm blown. It's gotten to 4.2 release candidate 1 - and of course, I had to download it and install it up over the top of what I already had (er,

[newbie] OT ssl certs

2004-11-15 Thread Todd Slater
I recently bought an ssl certificate for a domain and everything is cool with browsing the site with https://. Now I'm reading up on Courier IMAP and using SSL with it--can I use the same certificate for web and IMAP, or do I have to buy another one? Todd -- Name that tune #14: There's a room

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

2004-11-12 Thread Todd Slater
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 here of late...). I know what you mean, I'm still on 9.1 cause I don't

Re: [newbie] MSN Gaming Zone with Linux?

2004-11-02 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 12:20:09PM -0800, Sevatio wrote: Is it possible to play games at MSN Gaming Zone with Linux? I'm tired of a friend of mine's W2k pc that keeps getting infected despite Norton Antivirus. So I'm going to try and switch him over to Linux but he likes playing in MSN's

Re: [newbie] Command deleting one of two equal lines in a file

2004-10-31 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 09:40:00AM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi. Does it exist a linux command (or a sequence of commands) that looks into a file and delete one line if there are two equal? uniq is the closest thing I know, but it requires lines to be sorted. Todd -- Name that tune

Re: [newbie] [OT] Apache and users cgi

2004-10-27 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 11:16:40PM +0800, frankieh wrote: Todd Slater wrote: I am hosting a few sites for friends that need cgi access. I read something about cgi scripts shouldn't be in the web document root for security purposes--people being able to read them as text. I turned on cgi

[newbie] [OT] Apache and users cgi

2004-10-26 Thread Todd Slater
I am hosting a few sites for friends that need cgi access. I read something about cgi scripts shouldn't be in the web document root for security purposes--people being able to read them as text. I turned on cgi by adding the ExecCGI in Directory /home/*/public_html which if I understand is not

Re: [newbie] RSS feeds reader

2004-10-20 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 09:29:45PM -0400, Adolfo Bello wrote: Hi all: Now that Evolution has dropped the Summary, I am going to need a RSS reader. I am currently using liferea but I would like to try some others before making a decision. Any suggestion? This is one area that I prefer

Re: [newbie] ProFTPD?

2004-10-14 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 10:41:20AM -0500, Eric Scott wrote: Heya. I have a server at work running Mandrake 9.2. I'm administering it remotely through webmin/vnc/ssh and all that fun stuff. Here's the problem: I want to set up my /var/www/html directory with limited FTP access. I can't

Re: [newbie] Apache and blocking Referrer spam

2004-10-13 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 06:19:23PM +0800, frankieh wrote: Bryan Phinney wrote: Don't know if anyone else here is running Apache with web logs, or 'blogs' and has had trouble with referrer spam but I thought I would mention my latest experience. snip If anyone else is having this problem and

Re: [newbie] Apache and blocking Referrer spam

2004-10-13 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 11:36:26AM -0400, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 13 October 2004 08:36, Todd Slater wrote: I have issues with comment spam but not referrer spam, but if I understand Bryan's strategy it will not block comment spammers, right? WordPress has some nice comment spam

Re: [newbie] how to move mail from KMail (MDK10) to windows

2004-10-10 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 08:30:24PM -0400, g2 wrote: Hi folks, I am in a situation where I would like to move all the saved messages I have in KDE mail into a program under windows. I think I might be using the mozilla thunderbird. I do have a fat32 partition that I can see from both the

Re: [newbie] Sharing address-books

2004-10-04 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 10:05:49PM +0800, Julius Suarez wrote: On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 21:51:01 +0800, Julius Suarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just thinking out loud here - how abount linking the bookmarks.html in Linux partition file to the bookmarks.html in Windows partition. Tested

Re: [newbie] adding windowmanager to login

2004-10-03 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 02:48:26PM -0500, Chris wrote: I installed Afterstep 2.0 yesterday, I like the looks, but it will take some figuring out after all these years of using KDE. Question I have is adding AS to my login manager. I've added 08AfterStep to my /etc/X11/wmsession.d file as

Re: [newbie] adding windowmanager to login

2004-10-03 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 05:41:06PM -0500, Chris wrote: On Sunday 03 October 2004 05:28 pm, Todd Slater wrote: So, can someone lead me down the correct path? I'm sure its easy but I just can't seem to locate the problem. I believe the NAME you gave in wmsession.d is case-sensitive, so

Re: [newbie] Where are the archives?

2004-10-01 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 07:31:20AM -0400, Lanman wrote: LX, whack Lyvim is one of the few who maintains a relatively even composure compared to some of us and constantly offers help, suggestions and tactful nudges as to list etiquette instead of attacking newbies or welcoming them with

Re: [newbie] gDesklets

2004-09-29 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 08:39:52PM +1000, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 20:27, Thereidos wrote: W li?cie z ?ro, 29-09-2004, godz. 09:07, Stephen Kühn pisze: ... gDesklets stuff ... Don't bother. Why? Because it's CRAP software and doesn't work easily out of the box

Re: [newbie] Helix vs. Real Player?

2004-09-29 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 09:38:41PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 21:31:48 +0200 H.J.Bathoorn disseminated the following: I second that. Mileage varies on other players, mplayer always just works on all sorts of distro's and plays almost anything you throw at it. I'd be

[newbie] OT - Mac OSX anyone?

2004-09-28 Thread Todd Slater
Anyone on the list use a Mac with OSX? I'm about to get one at work and was wondering how easy it is to use the FreeBSD under the hood--such as for installing apps I'm accustomed to like vcdimager, instiki, and others. Todd -- Name that tune #7: A lot of people don't have much food on their

Re: [newbie] normalizing mp3 files across directories

2004-09-24 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 20:16:51 +, PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 12:27 -0400, Todd Slater wrote: You should just be able to point to all of your directories from the command line, such as normalize -m /path/to/dir1/*.wav /path/to/dir2/*.wav snip many thanks

Re: [newbie] normalizing mp3 files across directories

2004-09-23 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 06:44:01PM +, PM wrote: I generally use normalize to standardise the volumes of mp3 files, but this will only work with one directory at a time. I want to transfer a collection of mp3 files in many directories to a DVD to play via DVD player. Has anybody any

Re: [newbie] [OT] Yet another MS threat

2004-09-20 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 02:34:45PM -0500, Eric Scott wrote: On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 19:04, Carroll Grigsby wrote: For all of us anti-MS folks, here's Bob Cringely's latest: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040916.html -- cmg Lol, ranks right up there with

[newbie] OT - stereo vs. puter cd players

2004-09-19 Thread Todd Slater
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 encode to flac,

Re: [newbie] Organizing the information got from mailing lists

2004-09-13 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 11:22:38PM +0200, Thereidos wrote: W li?cie z nie, 12-09-2004, godz. 20:16, Todd Slater pisze: How about your own personal learning wiki? Instiki is really good for this, I've set one up here: http://wiki.webonaire.com/cheatsheetki/ http://www.instiki.org

Re: [newbie] Organizing the information got from mailing lists

2004-09-12 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 04:39:33PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am looking for a program to collect and organize some useful tips that I can get from mailing lists. I am thinking about a word processor or a database. Which one is more appropriate? Any ideas? Thanks in advance,

Re: [newbie] fuji finepix in LM10

2004-09-12 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 08:47:21AM -0400, 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

Re: [newbie] Nvu rpms

2004-09-09 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 07:47:17AM -0700, julie wrote: Has anyone tried using the WYSIWYG html editor Nvu? There is now an rpm for Mandrake 10 available and, before installing the program I was wondering if anyone had experienced any glitches. Julie I've use it on Windows; it's basically

Re: [newbie] Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.

2004-09-08 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 08:31:39PM -0400, Terence Golightly wrote: List, Below is a cmdln run of gmplayer. Please note the four or five last lines and well a few in between: [EMAIL PROTECTED] terryg]$ gmplayer snip VO: [dxr3] Error opening /dev/em8300-0 for writing, trying /dev/em8300

Terrorist Alert! Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

2004-09-02 Thread Todd Slater
Since Eric and Joe seem to be asleep ;) http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:01:02PM +1200, warren wrote: Hi all, I using Mandrake 10.0 and have just rebooted my computer to discover that i have no mandrake control center / open

Re: Terrorist Alert! Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

2004-09-02 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:19:30AM -0500, flesh.99 wrote: On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 10:13:27 -0400, Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since Eric and Joe seem to be asleep ;) http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:01:02PM +1200

Re: [newbie] mail command in shell script: how to attach a file?

2004-09-02 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 09:38:05AM +0200, Harald T ZIPKO wrote: Manually it's possible to copy the text from the file via ~r /name/of/the/file.txt But: How do I force 'mail' in a shell script to send a file as attachment to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (at the end of the week I would like to know

Re: [newbie] A little OT - iRiver iHP-140

2004-08-31 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 10:21:11PM -0700, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Monday 30 August 2004 3:56 pm, Brian Parish wrote: Has anyone tried one of these hard drive players with Mandrake? The ogg support and capacity makes it look good, but I wouldn't want to have to boot doze to load it! One

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

2004-08-31 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 07:24:34PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 18:32:26 -0400 Lyvim Xaphir disseminated the following: No not specifically, if you don't have any money to spend on software, you use free software. In a way smarter:it's smarter than downloading illegal

Re: [newbie] Archives

2004-08-30 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 10:14:13PM +0200, Alan wrote: Good day all I asked a while ago about setting up a squid proxy server to do authentication and somebody gave me a couple of URL's to look at and being an idiot I did not save them. I tried looking in the archives but the dates only go

[newbie] dvd autoplay non totem

2004-08-29 Thread Todd Slater
Is there a way to have dvd's autoplay without using totem? I tried to get mplayer to be the default by going to config kde somethingorother file associations, mp* and moved mplayer up above totem. When I insert a dvd now it doesn't autoplay. Yes, this is kde on mdk10.0, for a friend. Thanks,

Re: [newbie] Batch Resizing of icons.

2004-08-26 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 07:50:24AM -0400, Lanman wrote: Does anyone know of a way to resize a batch of icons all at once? I've been looking at Imagemagick, but can't get the command-line to work properly. There seems to be some options or info missing from the Man-Page for it, and I can't

Re: [newbie] Batch Resizing of icons.

2004-08-26 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 10:37:43AM -0400, Lanman wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 07:38, Lanman wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 06:50, Lanman wrote: Does anyone know of a way to resize a batch of icons all at once? I've been looking at

Re: [newbie] Another question about scripts at start-up

2004-08-25 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 01:04:49PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have placed a script in /.kde/Autostart to be run at start-up for a specific user. Is there some way of having the same script to be run at the start-up for that specific user, independently of the chosen desktop

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

2004-08-24 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 11:13:05PM +0800, frankieh wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: Dear list... ... Suddenly, when she tries to send an e-mail (from within Mozilla, of course, I'm not THAT stupid), up pops a message from our ISP saying that the box is compromized, accordingly the smtp-server

Re: [newbie] Burning files to a cd from the console

2004-08-24 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 06:39:59PM -0400, SiNiStEr Nation wrote: I've installed Mandrake about week to two weeks ago and slowly learning the system. My question is I have several files that I have downloaded, and was wondering what's the process of burning these file to a cd? I know I could

Re: [newbie] Screenshots

2004-08-21 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 08:58:07AM -0500, Steve Jeppesen wrote: On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 00:38:24 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://clevername.homeip.net/2004_08_21-00_33_35.png Todd, I get the message clevername.homeip.net could not be found Working on the server

Re: [newbie] Boot from UsB or Firewire.

2004-08-20 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 12:05:09PM -0700, Ayoub890 wrote: Hi, Can LM10 be booted from a USB or Firewire HD? Thanx, Ayoub As long as your BIOS supports it. Todd -- rm -rf Whitehouse/Bush Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Screenshots

2004-08-20 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 11:13:51PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: Gettin' bored with my current selection of Pekwm themes, wondering if some people can post some screens of their WM for me to get some ideas, or otherwise steal/hack at. Cheers! (Please no candy-assed KDE or

Re: [newbie] Number of occurrences of each word in a text file

2004-08-19 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 11:29:22AM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Does somebody know about a program for giving us the number of occurrences of each word in a text file? Thanks in advance, Paul I don't know of a program that does it--perhaps it's built in to a word processor? You

Re: [newbie] Number of occurrences of each word in a text file

2004-08-19 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 07:37:25AM -0600, Russ Kepler wrote: On Thursday 19 August 2004 06:45 am, Todd Slater wrote: 2. Get unique words to count from masterwordlist. uniq masterwordlist uniqwords 3. Count the number of times a word in uniqwords appears in masterwordlist

Re: [newbie] Number of occurrences of each word in a text file

2004-08-19 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 08:30:25AM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Does somebody know about a program for giving us the number of occurrences of each word in a text file? Thanks in advance, Paul I am not at my Linux box at the moment, but if I

Re: [newbie] newbie archive

2004-08-17 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 05:57:51PM -0400, Paul Kaplan wrote: Can anyone provide a link to an up to date archive of the newbie mailing list. TIA Paul I have the best luck with http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-newbier=1w=2 Thanks for asking. Todd

Re: [newbie] w, who, users -- where are they?

2004-08-12 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 11:19:09AM -0400, Clint Harshaw wrote: Hi all. I don't seem to have the commands w, who, and users available on my system. Or at least, they don't seem to be giving the anticipated output. Did I misconfigure something during installation? [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Auto-completion for the command line

2004-08-11 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 03:47:26PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Is there some program to provide auto-completion for the command line (bash)? What exactly are you looking for? Thanks, Mikkel. I looking for a way of getting auto-completion according to history.

Re: [newbie] Installing on Compaq Presario 900 laptop

2004-08-11 Thread Todd Slater
. Todd On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 07:11, Todd Slater wrote: My compadre has a Compaq Presario 900 with DVD and WinDVD is all mucked up--it keeps giving a create overlay failed error. I googled and tried a bunch of things to fix it, to no avail. I could get DVD's to play using PowerDVD, but it's

[newbie] Installing on Compaq Presario 900 laptop

2004-08-10 Thread Todd Slater
My compadre has a Compaq Presario 900 with DVD and WinDVD is all mucked up--it keeps giving a create overlay failed error. I googled and tried a bunch of things to fix it, to no avail. I could get DVD's to play using PowerDVD, but it's just a trial and costs $50. I suggested installing Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Switch to text mode

2004-08-08 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 08:58:15AM -0400, Ankit Malik wrote: How to switch to text mode /sbin/init 3 isnt working for me You change the default init level in /etc/inittab. Todd -- Name that tune #1: Is there gas in the car? Yes there's gas in the car! I think the people down the hall know

Re: [newbie] .ogg serial numbers

2004-08-07 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 01:58:40AM +, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 08:42:32 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 07:25:01AM +, Lee Wiggers wrote: Hi all Anyone know how to strip a serial number from an .ogg? I have two gb that I

Re: [newbie] Image viewers that display GIMP .xcf format files?

2004-08-07 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 07:27:59PM -0400, Marv Boyes wrote: Hello, all. Can anyone recommend an image viewer in the same vein as gThumb or gqview that displays GIMP .xcf files without hassle? If the GIMP 2 includes a thumbnail browser like Photoshop's, that doesn't necessarily solve my

Re: [newbie] .ogg serial numbers

2004-08-06 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 07:25:01AM +, Lee Wiggers wrote: Hi all Anyone know how to strip a serial number from an .ogg? I have two gb that I just noticed a sn in the tag. No particular care about it, but it seems intrusive or prohibitive, or something. Use something to edit the tags,

[newbie] tools for partitioning and formatting hard drive

2004-08-04 Thread Todd Slater
I'm auctioning some hard drives and I want to wipe them and format them. I had all kinds of trouble creating boot floppies for some reason--even though no errors were reported I couldn't boot them. I ended up having success with making a bootable cd. So I'm using autoclave to wipe the hard drive;

Re: [newbie] a program to email upon website changes?

2004-08-03 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 01:47:00PM -0400, g2 wrote: Clint, Todd, Thanks for the suggestions. I will check out the scripting tools you mentioned, however they will probably be beyond my skill level. Regarding Mozilla's ability to watch a website, yes I have explored that feature. BTW, my

Re: [newbie] Bad signatures

2004-08-02 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 10:19:28AM +1000, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 08:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting a lot of bad signature messages when I try to install packages from the CD's. Should I be worried? Or is this simply a matter of bad packaging? Brenda Bell

Re: [newbie] who and users

2004-07-31 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 10:12:03AM -0400, Clint Harshaw wrote: Hi all: I'm new to Mandrake 10 Official, and have config'd my urpmi sources using those at the easyurpmi site. I've run urpmi --auto-select and updated my system. When I run who or users at the terminal, however, I don't get

Re: [newbie] a program to email upon website changes?

2004-07-30 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 11:41:52PM -0400, g2 wrote: folks, does anyone know of a program, hopefully, appropriate for a linux/mandrake newbie, that will send an email with the text content of a website I specify. I know there are various web based services that do this, however none that I

Re: [newbie] [OT] Domain name expired...stupid me

2004-07-28 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 07:26:06AM -0500, Hoyt Bailey wrote: No you didn't you just don't read things like I do. PCI = Politically Incorrect. Maybe it should be /PC or PC/Not or maybe PIC. Whatever! How about: ! PC Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] [OT] Domain name expired...stupid me

2004-07-27 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 05:55:32AM -0400, Lanman wrote: Joe; Not to worry! Your new domain is working, and so is your philosophy! Grin! But you need to update your contacts page,... http://www.freeyourmachine.org/contact.php Just thought I'd let you know. And while I'm on the subject,

Firefox TinyURL extension, was Re: [newbie] Link to cd backup tutorial

2004-07-27 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 09:36:56AM +0100, Graham Watkins wrote: http://linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Sectionsfile=indexreq=viewarticleartid=222page=1 If y'all use Firefox and aren't using the TinyURL extension, get it now! This great extension uses the tinyurl site to generate

Re: [newbie] Linux OS Installers

2004-07-27 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 02:58:39PM -0400, Lanman wrote: Does anyone know where I can find a GPL'ed installer application for the Linux Operating System? I am working on a project, and I need something like Anaconda. I can't use a LiveCD installer for this, since the finished project will

Re: [newbie] Installation folder for Apache 2 ???

2004-07-26 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 07:11:14AM +0200, Marc Hultquist wrote: /var/www/html In-correct. By default apache2 installs its htdocs/ in the folder where everything else is installed, I.E if when installing apache you do as follows ./configure --prefix=/apache/ your apache will be installed

Re: [newbie] rpm build/checkinstall errors

2004-07-25 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 10:50:50AM -0300, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings all, I am trying to build a rpm package from tar using checkinstall, and not succeeding. The packages I want to build are giFT-FastTrack-0.8.7.tar.gz, gift-openft-0.2.1.3.tar.gz, and gift-gnutella-0.0.9.2.tar.gz. I am

Re: [newbie] XFCE4 looks like KDE...huh?

2004-07-21 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 11:08:47PM +0100, Margot wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 06:50, Margot wrote: Errr...I'm afraid I have no idea where to find the startup script! And what is chbg? Thanks for your help so far. Margot /etc/X11/xfce4/xinitrc Thanks

Re: [newbie] Installing a .jar file

2004-07-21 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 12:34:13AM +0200, Marco Verheul wrote: Hi all, I want to install a platform independent font viewer (Opcion). On their website ( http://opcion.sourceforge.net/help.htm ) they say: Execute Opcion Font Viewer ... For Linux users use the command java -jar

Re: [newbie] OT on mobos and chipsets

2004-07-20 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 08:14:58AM +0700, Budhi Astiyadi wrote: You should buy mobo with NForce2 Ultra 400 Chipset. If You sound maniac, choose that come with MCP-T Southbridge, the price is little higher. If You have more money, buy two identicel memory that can run dual channel, or Dual

Re: [newbie] Grip on Mandrake 10

2004-07-18 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 06:10:20PM +0100, SME Server Admin wrote: Hi Folks Whats the setup to get Grip to rip CDs to MP3? At the moment I've got the encoding setup to oggenc because all the others wont work :( Others tried are: gogo, mp3encode, xingmp3enc, l3enc, lame, bladeenc For

[newbie] OT on mobos and chipsets

2004-07-16 Thread Todd Slater
Seems like I only post ot questions lately :( I'm thinking about building a new computer. My needs are pretty typical home user stuff. I want to network it (haven't decided on wired or wireless yet), be able to watch TV on it, and possibly make dvd's from recorded TV. Basically I've decided I

Re: [newbie] Configuring Klipper to launch Firefox?

2004-07-16 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 05:49:35PM -0500, hackhound wrote: I have configured Klipper with the following line to launch Firefox when a link in a text file is highlighted, and it works if Firefox is not open. The problem is when I try it while Firefox is already open. It's supposed to open in

[newbie] [OT] Keyboard support

2004-07-09 Thread Todd Slater
Well, sorta OT--I'm looking to get a keyboard and mouse for my kids that are better (ergonomically) than adult-sized keyboards and mice. The manufacturer lists Windows or Mac as requirements, but I'm assuming that means to run the typing software that comes with it, and perhaps to program the

Re: [newbie] [OT] Keyboard support

2004-07-09 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 02:58:51PM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Todd Slater wrote: Well, sorta OT--I'm looking to get a keyboard and mouse for my kids that are better (ergonomically) than adult-sized keyboards and mice. The manufacturer lists Windows or Mac as requirements, but I'm

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