[newbie-it] Sempre a proposito di Mutt

2003-06-13 Per discussione Arch. Notarile Distr. SAVONA
Ormai a casa uso esclusivamente mutt per leggere la posta. Da poco ho iniziato ad usarlo anche per leggere gli archivi delle news che scarico con leafnode+. Il meccanismo e' un po farraginoso: scarico con leafnode+ - faccio una prima lettura con SLRN - salvo tutti gli articoli scaricati -

[newbie-it] Fax

2003-06-13 Per discussione Luigi Beltramini
salve, con mandrake 9.1 che programma usare per ricevere/inviare fax?

Re: [newbie-it] update

2003-06-13 Per discussione piter
-- Messaggio originale -- From: Germano [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie-it] update Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 16:52:53 +0200 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Se sai che devi aggiornare il kernel richiedilo esplicitamente e, per quanto di solito non vengano combinati

Re: [newbie-it] update

2003-06-13 Per discussione Germano
Scusa ma, ovviamente, come kernel ci metti quello che ti serve a te (questo è l'ultimo che ho io). il 15:56, venerdì 13 giugno 2003, si è scritto riguardo a Re: [newbie-it] update urpmi kernel-2.4.19.32mdk-1-1mdk --media update_source Dopo di che ti sinceri che sia stato fatto tutto bene in

[newbie-it] [OOT] Sunday bloody sunday

2003-06-13 Per discussione alfredo
Vota Si! Due Volte. Alfredo

Re: [newbie-it] linux frizzato

2003-06-13 Per discussione Giorgio Griffon
Guarda che l'osservazione di Mike è giustissima: se il tuo computer si comporta in maniera differente dopo qualche ora, è probabile che ci sia qualche problema di surriscaldamento. Un'utilità per monitorare la temperatura dovrebbe esserci anche nel bios: prova a verificare la temperatura da lì

Re: [newbie] updatedb crashes and resets my comp.!!!

2003-06-13 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 15:19, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Why? I've never had this behavior before out of a Mandrake setup. As root, I can type in updatedb at a shell, and it will run for 2-3 mins, as per usual, then suddenly, monitor goes black, and machine spontaneously reboots. I have an

[newbie] mandrake 9.1 user manuals are available

2003-06-13 Per discussione eric huff
For anyone interested in the downloadable manuals, i just stumbled on them rpm'ing. mandrake_doc-en Version: 9.1-2mdk Size: 18715 KB Source: main Currently installed version: (none) eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] thanks

2003-06-13 Per discussione maxim j NARBROUGH
thanks stephen, figured it out already, just did a test run with Tux racer... all rock and rolling now. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Multikey Board Setting

2003-06-13 Per discussione Saurav Gohain
Hi i am using mandrake 9.1 and am trying to use two keybaords at a time. I have set my keyboard to US English and Bengali and CtRL +Alt for switching between them. But when i use Gedit, there's no display when i try to type in Bengali. Although, it types well when i select only Bengali. Why

RE: [newbie] VPN client

2003-06-13 Per discussione Tony S. Sykes
Mike, I use vmware and microsoft vpn at the moment till I can find an easy solution. If you find one I would like to know as well. Tony. -Original Message- From: Adolf, Michael F [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 11:30 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [newbie]

RE: [newbie] D4X Compile

2003-06-13 Per discussione Tony S. Sykes
Would it not be easier to urpme the gtk and then urpmi the gtk specifying the newer version in the command line? Tony. -Original Message- From: John Richard Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 10:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] D4X Compile

[newbie] Format floppy

2003-06-13 Per discussione kostas
Hello all i want to make a small script for formating a floppy disk. Does anybody knows how the bash command is? Kostas Dimitriou http://gasdim.topcities.com (greek) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Format floppy

2003-06-13 Per discussione Frans Ketelaars
On Friday 13 June 2003 11:17, kostas wrote: Hello all i want to make a small script for formating a floppy disk. Does anybody knows how the bash command is? Kostas Dimitriou http://gasdim.topcities.com (greek) [EMAIL PROTECTED] frans]$ apropos floppy fdformat (8) - Low-level

RE: [newbie] Savage drivers

2003-06-13 Per discussione Hutton Daniel
Title: RE: [newbie] Savage drivers On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 13:23, Charles A Edwards wrote: On 12 Jun 2003 10:28:47 -0400 Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For me, this is a dead issue since the card has been relegated to Windows duty My 1 foray into the realm of the S3/Savage

Re: [newbie] How to create a symbolic link?

2003-06-13 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Friday 13 Jun 2003 3:23 am, stormjumper wrote: and that's probably where apropos comes in (see last line of included output) [EMAIL PROTECTED] sj]# apropos link cleanlinks (1x) - remove dangling symbolic links and empty directories ifplugd (8) - A link detection

Re: [newbie] How to create a symbolic link?

2003-06-13 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Friday 13 Jun 2003 12:19 am, g wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Of course, the snag is that you have to know that 'ln' is the progname for making a symbolic link g snip possibilities are numerous. Absolutely - as always, linux is about choice g Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Galeon Flash Plug-in

2003-06-13 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Thursday 12 Jun 2003 11:20 pm, RichardA wrote: On 12 Jun 2003 17:38:12 -0400 It's worse than that, T. As Linux users, we're barred from experiencing the wonderful world of Shockwave. We'll just have to make do with the useful part of the web. And yes, my plugin is out of date. It goes

Re: [newbie] Galeon Flash Plug-in

2003-06-13 Per discussione Technoslick
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 22:10, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Thursday 12 June 2003 08:43 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 16:35, Technoslick wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 18:20, RichardA wrote: On 12 Jun 2003 17:38:12 -0400 Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu,

Re: [newbie] Tip of the Day

2003-06-13 Per discussione Technoslick
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 00:07, JoeHill wrote: snip There is, however, a way to truly push a program into the background from the terminal. Using this method, you can close the window while keeping the program running: nohup gkrellm This simple addition of six keystrokes (space included)

Re: [newbie] Start up

2003-06-13 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Friday 13 Jun 2003 2:00 am, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 12 June 2003 12:41 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday June 12 2003 07:31 am, Todd Slater wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 08:56:03AM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: Which brings up another point. We often tell newbies about

Re: [newbie] one more

2003-06-13 Per discussione Technoslick
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 00:13, JoeHill wrote: http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/ Looks like another winner, Joe! Thanks, again. Bookmarked and still open for later perusal. I should check with Anne to see if anyone is managing bookmarks on the Twiki. It would be nice to go to a familiar site to

Re: [newbie] How to create a symbolic link?

2003-06-13 Per discussione Technoslick
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 01:23, Len Lawrence wrote: On 12 Jun 2003 17:40:14 -0400 Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 22:44, Derick Schmidt wrote: Hi Use ln -s path to the file or folder you want to link for example ln -s /mnt/win_d Aren't you

Re: [newbie] one more

2003-06-13 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Friday 13 Jun 2003 11:55 am, Technoslick wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 00:13, JoeHill wrote: http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/ Looks like another winner, Joe! Thanks, again. Bookmarked and still open for later perusal. I should check with Anne to see if anyone is managing bookmarks on

RE: [newbie] Savage drivers

2003-06-13 Per discussione Technoslick
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 05:53, Hutton Daniel wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 13:23, Charles A Edwards wrote: On 12 Jun 2003 10:28:47 -0400 Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For me, this is a dead issue since the card has been relegated to Windows duty My 1 foray into the realm

Re: [newbie] Galeon Flash Plug-in

2003-06-13 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Friday 13 Jun 2003 11:46 am, Technoslick wrote: Your Grandson's attitude about just wanting it to work is shared by all youth of today ( many spouses, I do imagine.) My youngest is 19 and she'd say exactly the same thing. Unfortunately, I could say the same for my wife.:0[ Hey, haven't we

Re: [newbie] thanks

2003-06-13 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 16:54, maxim j NARBROUGH wrote: thanks stephen, figured it out already, just did a test run with Tux racer... all rock and rolling now. Now you just enjoy! Have heaps of fun! Tell more people about your great linux experience! Spread the word! (grin) -- Fri Jun 13

Re: [newbie] Tip of the Day

2003-06-13 Per discussione Lanman
Joe; Thank-You for playing our game! We have some wonderful parting gifts for you! Oh, and thanks for the Tip of the Day! Very helpful! Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 6/13/2003 at 12:07 AM JoeHill wrote: Thought I would pass this on from my Lockergnome Penguin Shell

Re: [newbie] Tip of the Day

2003-06-13 Per discussione Lanman
Whaddya mean, Ancient? I still use it daily! Ancient! Jeesh! Odds Bodkins ! Gadzooks! It's not Ancient! Just Seasoned! Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 6/13/2003 at 6:44 AM Len Lawrence wrote: On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 21:34:38 -0700 eric huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu

Re: [newbie] Hard and soft links

2003-06-13 Per discussione Technoslick
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 08:28, Jan Wilson wrote: * Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030613 05:58]: I have just realised that if yoiu use kde's 'create a link here', you get a hard link. Now I may have completely misunderstood the whole theory, but I thought that when you want to make what

Re: [newbie] one more

2003-06-13 Per discussione JoeHill
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 12:08:03 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Done that one, T, and thanks, Joe. I have some others marked up for including, but I have some catching up to do. If you want to harvest some more, Distrowatch has a list of Mandrake related sites. One that has some

[newbie] Comparing CDs - whats the best way of doing it?

2003-06-13 Per discussione Jon Vahlberg
Hi, I am making some backup CDs for some of my data CDs but would like to check that all the files on one CD matches the same on another CD? What's the best way of doing such a comparison? I could run md5 against it but I would have to do it for each individual file - I am guessing there's a

[newbie] Kmail - when I upgrade?

2003-06-13 Per discussione Jon Vahlberg
Hi, At this stage I am quite happy with Mandrake v9.0. However at some stage I will go to Mandrake v9.1. Usually when I do I save the files I want and then do a re-install (rather than upgrade). SInce I have just started to use Kmail what's the best way of migrating the folders across (when I do

Re: [newbie] Tip of the Day

2003-06-13 Per discussione JoeHill
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 06:44:15 +0100 Len Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: And to mine. You are the bee's knees Joe (don't ask - ancient UK colloquialism). From my daughter's video collection: And from then on, all the other engines called James 'the bees knees'... So thanks very much! --

Re: [newbie] Tip of the Day

2003-06-13 Per discussione JoeHill
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 07:41:17 -0400 Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Whaddya mean, Ancient? I still use it daily! Ancient! Jeesh! Odds Bodkins ! Gadzooks! It's not Ancient! Just Seasoned! Heh, how 'bout this one: All the hairy chest to you folks! -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046

Re: [newbie] Hard and soft links

2003-06-13 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Friday 13 Jun 2003 1:28 pm, Jan Wilson wrote: * Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030613 05:58]: You know, it took a long time before I got unconfused about that, myself. What you want is: ln -s target the link will point to name of link This seems somehow backwards, and the man page uses

Re: [newbie] Kmail - when I upgrade?

2003-06-13 Per discussione JoeHill
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 21:26:14 +1000 Jon Vahlberg [EMAIL PROTECTED](by way of Jon Vahlberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]) uttered: At this stage I am quite happy with Mandrake v9.0. However at some stage I will go to Mandrake v9.1. Usually when I do I save the files I want and then do a re-install

Re: [newbie] Comparing CDs - whats the best way of doing it?

2003-06-13 Per discussione stormjumper
this was covered some time back in the lists, so if you wan greater detail, you may need to search the archives a little bit. otherwise, as long as it works, the easiest method is md5 /dev/cdrom unfortunately, the consensus at that time is that on certain setups, it may fail with a

Re: [newbie] Hard and soft links

2003-06-13 Per discussione Richard Urwin
On Friday 13 Jun 2003 1:20 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 13 Jun 2003 1:13 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 13 June 2003 07:54 am, Anne Wilson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] anne]$ ln -s Graphics /Graphics ln: creating symbolic link `/Graphics/Graphics' to `Graphics': Operation not

Re: [newbie] Hard and soft links

2003-06-13 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Friday 13 Jun 2003 2:09 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 13 Jun 2003 1:28 pm, Jan Wilson wrote: * Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030613 05:58]: You know, it took a long time before I got unconfused about that, myself. What you want is: ln -s target the link will point to name of

Re: [newbie] Hard and soft links

2003-06-13 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Friday 13 Jun 2003 2:17 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Friday 13 Jun 2003 1:20 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: The way to remember it is that is has the same syntax as cp. cp old-file new-file ln -s old-file new-file Fair enough - that should be easy to remember. Thanks Anne Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] one more

2003-06-13 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Friday 13 Jun 2003 1:43 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 12:08:03 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Done that one, T, and thanks, Joe. I have some others marked up for including, but I have some catching up to do. If you want to harvest some more, Distrowatch has a

Re: [newbie] Comparing CDs - whats the best way of doing it?

2003-06-13 Per discussione JoeHill
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 21:26:36 +1000 Jon Vahlberg [EMAIL PROTECTED](by way of Jon Vahlberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]) uttered: I am making some backup CDs for some of my data CDs but would like to check that all the files on one CD matches the same on another CD? What's the best way of doing such a

[newbie] Annoying Problem in Mandrake 9.1

2003-06-13 Per discussione Zariyan Zephyr
Dear All, Why my Mandrake 9.1 can't be reboot or shutdown in text mode (non-Xwindow). I typed shutdown -r now or halt but the output is ;2R. I must type shutdown -r now many times to reboot my PC. Why should I do to fix it ?. I don't want to change my Mandrake to Red Hat 9 or Libranet Linux 2.8.

Re: [newbie] How to create a symbolic link?

2003-06-13 Per discussione Richard Urwin
It is also useful to remember that the path that you specify for the first parameter can and often should be a relative path. For example if I have a project involving a lot of files in multiple directories, and in one of those I need a link to a file in another, it would be better to do: ln

Re: [newbie] Annoying Problem in Mandrake 9.1

2003-06-13 Per discussione Jason Guidry
Zariyan Zephyr wrote: Why my Mandrake 9.1 can't be reboot or shutdown in text mode (non-Xwindow). I typed shutdown -r now or halt but the output is ;2R. I must type shutdown -r now many times to reboot my PC. Why should I do to fix it ?. I think it defaults to only let root reboot from the

Re: [newbie] one more

2003-06-13 Per discussione JoeHill
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 14:19:45 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Joe - you could really help me. I'm snowed under at the moment. Will you do a bit of sorting out and get them onto the MandrakeReferences page with suitable short description? Thanks Done! There were only 3 that

Re: [newbie] D4X Compile

2003-06-13 Per discussione John Richard Smith
Tony S. Sykes wrote: Would it not be easier to urpme the gtk and then urpmi the gtk specifying the newer version in the command line? Tony. -Original Message- From: John Richard Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 10:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: [newbie] APT

2003-06-13 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Friday 13 Jun 2003 1:33 pm, Keith Powell wrote: Is the Ibiblio APT repository no longer available? I have been trying to access it for some time, but all I get is a 404 error. On an associated note, is the PLF source no longer available? I can't access that either. Many thanks Keith

Re: [newbie] How to create a symbolic link?

2003-06-13 Per discussione JoeHill
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 14:34:06 +0100 Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: example Joe might take over the project Bd idea! -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net 09:52:47 up 10 days, 7:56, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.05 Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Galeon Flash Plug-in

2003-06-13 Per discussione Carroll Grigsby
On Friday 13 June 2003 06:46 am, Technoslick wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 22:10, Carroll Grigsby wrote: It is a minor problem here. I do some surfing with 3 year old grandson at various kiddie sites that intermingle Flash and Shockwave stuff (mostly www.nickjr.com). Will doesn't want to

Re: [newbie] updatedb crashes and resets my comp.!!!

2003-06-13 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 13 June 2003 02:01 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: * Double check all your system path(s) in the /etc/profile, the .bashrc of your home account, the /etc/ld.so.conf .bashrc looks okay - I have a lot of aliases in there but they are valid. ld.co.conf looks like this: /usr/X11R6/lib

RE: [newbie] HTML on Mailing list

2003-06-13 Per discussione Dennis . R . Myers
Title: RE: [newbie] HTML on Mailing list -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Aron Smith Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 11:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] HTML on Mailing list On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 21:43, Guy Rouillier

Re: [newbie] Tip of the Day

2003-06-13 Per discussione C Tresenriter
I appreciated that too. Re: Lockergnome's Penguin shell It used to be written by Tony Steidler-Dennison until recently - very good stuff. He's recently started another weekley linux thing called Uptime - see http://www.steidler.net/uptime/ Tony's main work involes large telescopes run by

Re: [newbie] Comparing CDs - whats the best way of doing it?

2003-06-13 Per discussione hendrik
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 09:22:33AM -0400, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 21:26:36 +1000 Jon Vahlberg [EMAIL PROTECTED](by way of Jon Vahlberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]) uttered: I am making some backup CDs for some of my data CDs but would like to check that all the files on one CD

RE: [newbie] Tip of the Day

2003-06-13 Per discussione Burrows, Scott
Nice tip. My ye 'ole Book of Knowledge has been enriched. Thanks Joe. Scott -Original Message- From: eric huff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 12:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Tip of the Day On Thu June 12 2003 09:07 pm, JoeHill wrote: nohup

Re: [newbie] one more

2003-06-13 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Friday 13 Jun 2003 2:46 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 14:19:45 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Joe - you could really help me. I'm snowed under at the moment. Will you do a bit of sorting out and get them onto the MandrakeReferences page with suitable short

Re: [newbie] Tip of the Day

2003-06-13 Per discussione Troy Davidson
And mine. ;) I love doing things in the background so I can work on other things. This will come in handy. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ++ Follow the adventures of a real life computer and gaming nerd! www.clandaith.com ++

RE: [newbie] D4X Compile

2003-06-13 Per discussione Tony S. Sykes
You can do it from mcc as well. Just choose the remove option. I know you can force it not to remove anything else other than the gtk 2 in urpmi but I am not sure if this will cause any problems (somebody else from the list may be able to answer that). Where are you in uk? It might be easier if

[newbie] OK so where has it gone?

2003-06-13 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi Here is my sad sorry story of woe... HDD failed oon my system yesterday. Took everything with it. Managed to rescue most stuff but not xine. I had a copy of xine-lib-1-0.beta12.4mdk but its been lost and now I can't find this rpm anywhere. Its listed in the cooker sources but when you

Re: [newbie] How to create a symbolic link?

2003-06-13 Per discussione eric huff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] sj]# apropos link cleanlinks (1x) - remove dangling symbolic links and empty directories ifplugd (8) - A link detection daemon for ethernet *remainder of apropos output snipped* That's useful. I never really understood the use of apropos, but

Re: [newbie] How to create a symbolic link?

2003-06-13 Per discussione eric huff
Mine is broken somehow. [EMAIL PROTECTED] huff]$ apropos ln inet_lnaof [inet](3) - Internet address manipulation routines isalnum [isalpha](3) - character classification routines iswalnum (3) - test for alphanumeric wide character It's not a big deal, just strange

Re: [newbie] Hard and soft links

2003-06-13 Per discussione eric huff
On Fri June 13 2003 05:28 am, Jan Wilson wrote: * Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030613 05:58]: I have just realised that if yoiu use kde's 'create a link here', you get a hard link. Now I may have completely misunderstood the whole theory, but I thought that when you want to make what

Re: [newbie] Kmail - when I upgrade?

2003-06-13 Per discussione eric huff
Didn't some people have problems doing this since config files that needed updated weren't? I think it was with kde or something. Or are you just trying to get more people frustrated with kde, Joe? :) eric On Fri June 13 2003 06:07 am, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 21:26:14 +1000 Jon

Re: [newbie] Comparing CDs - whats the best way of doing it?

2003-06-13 Per discussione JoeHill
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 10:22:05 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Try diff --brief --recursive dir1 dir2 The --brief option cuts out a lot of the output. ah, so I wasn't too far off! My god, I think I can actually read man pages now! -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage:

Re: [newbie] Tip of the Day

2003-06-13 Per discussione JoeHill
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 09:14:48 -0500 C Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Re: Lockergnome's Penguin shell It used to be written by Tony Steidler-Dennison until recently - very good stuff. He's recently started another weekley linux thing called Uptime - see

Re: [newbie] How to create a symbolic link?

2003-06-13 Per discussione JoeHill
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 08:54:11 -0700 eric huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: And for those of you like me who have trouble speling approppos :) it's the same as man -k link (k for keyword). Cool! I know, I'm a gud speler mosly, but apr...appro...a.. ah, ferget it. -- Joehill Registered

Re: [newbie] Galeon Flash Plug-in

2003-06-13 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Thursday June 12 2003 05:20 pm, RichardA wrote: It's worse than that, T. As Linux users, we're barred from experiencing the wonderful world of Shockwave. We'll just have to make do with the useful part of the web. And yes, my plugin is out of date. It goes with my computer, clothes,

Re: [newbie] Hard and soft links

2003-06-13 Per discussione David E Fox
I have just realised that if yoiu use kde's 'create a link here', you get a hard link. Now I may have completely misunderstood the whole theory, but I thought that when you want to make what windows calls a shortcut, you really want a soft link? Usually, yes. Windows doesn't make a

Re: [newbie] How to create a symbolic link?

2003-06-13 Per discussione David E Fox
[EMAIL PROTECTED] huff]$ apropos ln inet_lnaof [inet](3) - Internet address manipulation routines isalnum [isalpha](3) - character classification routines iswalnum (3) - test for alphanumeric wide character My guess - as I was looking things up here - no ln(1) man page.

Re: [newbie] Start up: hijacked to sigs

2003-06-13 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Thursday June 12 2003 11:30 pm, eric huff wrote: Somebody had added text below a sig, so when somebody else replied, kmail stripped the sig and all below it in the reply. I believe I replied to that post myself. When I clicked on Kmail's reply, the mesg wasn't quoted. I saw the problem

Re: [newbie] Hard and soft links

2003-06-13 Per discussione Carroll Grigsby
On Friday 13 June 2003 08:41 am, Technoslick wrote: Reminds me of my MS-DOS days, back in the late '80s when I was using PKZIP at the command line level. It took me a while to remember that you place the name of the archive you are creating before the name of the files you are placing in the

Re: [newbie] updatedb crashes and resets my comp.!!!

2003-06-13 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Friday June 13 2003 09:04 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Now here's an odd one - df and kdisk neither one show a swap? Is there some trick to seeing it? (IIRC it always showed up before) Neither df or any GUI for it will show swap because /swap has no file system. 'fdisk -l' (as root that's a

Re: Re[5]: [newbie] Backdoor for crashes?

2003-06-13 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Thursday June 12 2003 01:27 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 12:54:10 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: 'kill -9' all the relevant pid's. (alias wpid='ps aux | grep') or my favourite, kill `pidof appname`... you gotta do it as root, but it will kill all instances

Re: [newbie] D4X Compile

2003-06-13 Per discussione John Richard Smith
Tony S. Sykes wrote: You can do it from mcc as well. Just choose the remove option. I know you can force it not to remove anything else other than the gtk 2 in urpmi but I am not sure if this will cause any problems (somebody else from the list may be able to answer that). Where are you in uk? It

Re: [newbie] Kmail - when I upgrade?

2003-06-13 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Friday 13 June 2003 07:26 am, Jon Vahlberg wrote: At this stage I am quite happy with Mandrake v9.0. However at some stage I will go to Mandrake v9.1. Usually when I do I save the files I want and then do a re-install (rather than upgrade). SInce I have just started to use Kmail what's the

Re: [newbie] OK so where has it gone?

2003-06-13 Per discussione Charlie
quoting Inhabitant of Zion's missive of Friday 13 June 2003 09:20 am: Hi Here is my sad sorry story of woe... HDD failed oon my system yesterday. Took everything with it. Managed to rescue most stuff but not xine. I had a copy of xine-lib-1-0.beta12.4mdk but its been lost and now I

Re: [newbie] Still No SCSI Emulation ??

2003-06-13 Per discussione John Drouhard
On 12 Jun 2003 15:46:05 -0500 Langsley T Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 13:18, John Richard Smith wrote: If I were you I'd go to MCC and alter grub to lilo graphical and do as listed here(as root) Well I did as you recommended and switched to lilo graphical as my

Re: [newbie] Hard and soft links

2003-06-13 Per discussione Jan Wilson
* Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030613 11:12]: I should add that the properties of the Graphics link show me as owner and group as user, while the properties of the OldHome link show root for both. I created them immediately consecutively, so there should be not difference in what I was

Re: [newbie] Hard and soft links

2003-06-13 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Friday 13 Jun 2003 5:32 pm, David E Fox wrote: Usually, yes. Windows doesn't make a distinction, mostly because it has no concept of links. A link (in Unix) is another alternate name for the same file (or inode). Directory entries basically have two components - a name and an inode.

Re: [newbie] Hard and soft links

2003-06-13 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Friday 13 Jun 2003 7:54 pm, Jan Wilson wrote: * Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030613 11:12]: I should add that the properties of the Graphics link show me as owner and group as user, while the properties of the OldHome link show root for both. I created them immediately consecutively,

Re: [newbie] How to create a symbolic link?

2003-06-13 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Friday 13 Jun 2003 4:58 pm, eric huff wrote: Mine is broken somehow. [EMAIL PROTECTED] huff]$ apropos ln inet_lnaof [inet](3) - Internet address manipulation routines isalnum [isalpha](3) - character classification routines iswalnum (3) - test for alphanumeric wide

Re: [newbie] Still No SCSI Emulation ??

2003-06-13 Per discussione Langsley T Russell
Hi again John. You asked: What is the output of this command: ls -l /etc/lilo.conf It should say this to be correct: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 864 May 19 15:34 /etc/lilo.conf I entered the command and got the output you said would be correct except that the date is different. You then said:

Re: [newbie] updatedb crashes and resets my comp.!!!

2003-06-13 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 13 June 2003 01:21 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: Neither df or any GUI for it will show swap because /swap has no file system. 'fdisk -l' (as root that's a lower case L), or 'free -m' (as user) will show your swap partition. Sometimes it's useful to clear the swap. As root,

RE: [newbie] VPN client

2003-06-13 Per discussione Adolf, Michael F
To close the loop: I found Linux VPN client software from Netlock http://www.netlock.com that works with Nortel VPN switches. mike -Original Message- From: Adolf, Michael F Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 4:30 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [newbie] VPN client Greetings, Does

Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.1 user manuals are available

2003-06-13 Per discussione Johan Scheepers
Thats nice You maybe have the web-address please Thanks Johan - Original Message - From: eric huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 8:25 AM Subject: [newbie] mandrake 9.1 user manuals are available For anyone interested in the downloadable manuals, i

[newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and Myriad's Harmony Assistant (Windows Version) Anyone Using????

2003-06-13 Per discussione The Other
06/13/03 Hello All, Anyone running Myriad's program Harmony Assistant under Mandrake 9.1? I would expect some Windows Emulation program is necessary. I'm looking into Wine. I have a Sound Blaster Live! Value sound card. Anyone with experience in this setup? Thank you, The Other Want to

[newbie] Sound Blaster Live! MIDI input/output under Mandrake 9.1

2003-06-13 Per discussione The Other
06/13/03 Hello All, Since I'm not having any luck locating drivers for my Midiman, Winman 4x4/s MIDI ISA interface card, I'll looking into going back to the single MIDI input/output cable coming off the joystick port of my SB LIve! Value card. My Roland Sound Expansion MIDI modules will

Re: [newbie] How to create a symbolic link? hijacked to apropos

2003-06-13 Per discussione eric huff
On Fri June 13 2003 09:38 am, David E Fox wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] huff]$ apropos ln inet_lnaof [inet](3) - Internet address manipulation routines isalnum [isalpha](3) - character classification routines iswalnum (3) - test for alphanumeric wide character My guess

Re: [newbie] Hard and soft links

2003-06-13 Per discussione eric huff
Can you explain a bit more how this helps with backups? This seems interesting OK, here goes ... suppose you have a backup directory somewhere, useful stuff I'm not sure that qualifies as a bit more though ;-) :) Thanks for the run down! I got the jist of it. When i'm ready

Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.1 user manuals are available

2003-06-13 Per discussione eric huff
I actually installed them with the mandrake control center gui installer from a main mirror. I'm bad with names, so i'm not sure if you need this info or not, but someone will: The best way (for me) to add a source for installs is to go here http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php and do

RE: [newbie] Microshot in the foot ?

2003-06-13 Per discussione walt
I noticed when downloading the windows demo version of this antivirus software,it was 12.1 meg but the linux version was only 2.9 megs. I installed RAV on my windows partition but am not sure if I need the linux version on my linux computers. Walt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] updatedb crashes and resets my comp.!!!

2003-06-13 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 13 June 2003 07:52 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Or : if you are a little concerned about using fdisk ( I am ) you can just ( from a terminal ) type *top*. Then, at the top of the screen swap usage is displayed ( an updated ) every now and then. To get out of *top* just press *q*. HTH

Re: [newbie] updatedb crashes and resets my comp.!!!

2003-06-13 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 13 June 2003 07:27 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 00:04, Ronald J. Hall wrote: * Check the size of your SWAP Now here's an odd one - df and kdisk neither one show a swap? Is there some trick to seeing it? (IIRC it always showed up before) fdisk -l (fdisk list

Re: [newbie] help! MLDONKEY makes my system crash!

2003-06-13 Per discussione revolt
Ralph Slooten wrote: On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 09:13:26 +0800 Xuer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to find something to replace the win32 eMule. At first I tried lmule, which is so vulnerable and unstable that it crashed and made core dump files so often. Then I found mldonkey , I downloaded the

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-13 Per discussione revolt
Ralph Bagwell wrote: I am still embarrassed to post because you newbies seem light years ahead of me - oh well. I downloaded and installed with zero problems amsn a messenger program very like Windows Messenger. I actually swapped a few lines with a friend. I closed Konqueror and promptly my

Re: [newbie] Microshot in the foot ?

2003-06-13 Per discussione Harv Nelson
Where I used to work, we refered to the Windows/Outlook combo as the VTP ... Virus Transport Protocol. Harv Kaj Haulrich wrote: Recently we had a discussion on virus (pluralis : vira). Now, returning from a non-networked-one-week-a-time job I browsed my *usual suspects* and learned that