Re: [newbie-it] update

2003-06-16 Per discussione Germano
Il problema è che tu gli dai il kernel che possiedi già. Se provassi con urpmi --media update_source kernel allora cercherebbe nella tua fonte per gli aggiornamenti tutti i pacchetti che hanno a che fare con il kernel aggiornato. Comunque quando usi urpmi dai sempre l'opzione --test per non

Re:[newbie-it] [OOT] Sunday bloody sunday

2003-06-16 Per discussione Mario Lodi Rizzini
-- Initial Header --- From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc : Date : Fri, 13 Jun 2003 19:40:32 +0200 Subject : [newbie-it] [OOT] Sunday bloody sunday Vota Si! Due Volte. Alfredo Grazie per il consiglio! Ma cosa credi che non

Re: [newbie-it] modem e mandrake 8.2

2003-06-16 Per discussione fabio
Alle 16:27, domenica 15 giugno 2003, Mario Speranza ha scritto: Salve, qualcuno ha idea di come si faccia a fare vedere, alla mandrake 8.2, un modem US robotic 56K montato dopo l'installazione? Ho provato con modemconf ma non lo rileva... Ho anche provato a fare un link simbolico con una

Re: [newbie-it] update

2003-06-16 Per discussione piter
sono riuscito a sostituire via tool grafico il kernel-2.4.21.0.13mdk con il kernel-2.4.21.0.18mdk infatti dando il comando : $ uname -r 2.4.21-0.18mdk per i più è nulla ma per me è un successo enorme :-))) mi è stato consigliato: Dopo di che ti sinceri che sia stato fatto tutto bene in

[newbie-it] linux professional

2003-06-16 Per discussione alfredo
cosa è la distro linux professional che vedo in edicola in questi giorni? syd wrote: * Arwan wrote: Pero' con r ci fa il reply, Arwan e' R e non r; ho sbagliato io a scrivere nelle precedenti mail.. pardon ;)) ho tutti gli headers da rifare... A questo Gli headers da rifare? Come

Re: [newbie-it] linux professional

2003-06-16 Per discussione Piero Piutti
On Monday 16 June 2003 20:37, alfredo wrote: cosa è la distro linux professional che vedo in edicola in questi giorni? è la RedHat 9. non può essere re-distribuita col suo nome originale (gli unici che possono sono quelli di RedHat Magazine, ovviamente), così quelli di Linux C. hanno dovuto

Re: [newbie-it] modem e mandrake 8.2

2003-06-16 Per discussione miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 16:27, domenica 15 giugno 2003, in merito a [newbie-it] modem e mandrake 8.2, Mario Speranza ha scritto: Salve, qualcuno ha idea di come si faccia a fare vedere, alla mandrake 8.2, un modem US robotic 56K montato dopo l'installazione?

Re: [newbie-it] Stampante Epson

2003-06-16 Per discussione miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 19:04, domenica 15 giugno 2003, in merito a Re: [newbie-it] Stampante Epson, Luigi Beltramini ha scritto: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 18:16:38 +0200 miKe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fai un salto qui:

Re: [newbie-it] modem e mandrake 8.2

2003-06-16 Per discussione Mario Speranza
Il modem è esterno e, per sfiga, non ho neanche l'interfaccia grafica. Ho letto che i modem esterni non danni problemi, l'unico problema è che non riesco a fare il detect... - Original Message - From: miKe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 9:14 PM

Re: [newbie-it] modem e mandrake 8.2

2003-06-16 Per discussione Mario Speranza
Grazie per l'aiuto ma non ho l'interfaccia... - Original Message - From: fabio [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 2:40 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] modem e mandrake 8.2 Alle 16:27, domenica 15 giugno 2003, Mario Speranza ha scritto: Salve, qualcuno ha

Re: [newbie-it] gpg

2003-06-16 Per discussione miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 23:42, domenica 15 giugno 2003, in merito a Re: [newbie-it] gpg, Luigi Pinna ha scritto: Alle 01:01, domenica 15 giugno 2003, miKe ha scritto: Alle 02:51, giovedì 12 giugno 2003, in merito a [newbie-it] gpg, Luigi Pinna ha

Re: [newbie-it] update

2003-06-16 Per discussione miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 15:13, lunedì 16 giugno 2003, in merito a Re: [newbie-it] update, piter ha scritto: Vulnerabilità nel Kernel Linux 2.4.18 Postato Venerdì, 13 giugno @ 08:01:02 CEST Alessandro è stato fixato il 28/5/2003 allego i file lilo conf e

Re: [newbie-it] linux professional

2003-06-16 Per discussione freefred
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 16 June 2003 20:37, alfredo wrote: cosa è la distro linux professional che vedo in edicola in questi giorni? ahem, apprezzo il fatto che tu abbia cambiato il subject ma anche quotare non sarebbe male. La Linux Professional dovrebbe essere

Re: [newbie-it] motherboard ecs k7s5a non suona aiuto!

2003-06-16 Per discussione paolo brusasco
scusa ma veramente non so bene cosa sia il pcm. penso sia il volume principale quando lancio kmix mi compare una piccola icona di altoparlante in basso a destra. se clicco tale icona mi compare un cursore che è al massimo. come dicevo, tutti i volumi di kmix sono al massimo e tutte le lucine

Re: [newbie-it] modem e mandrake 8.2

2003-06-16 Per discussione miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 21:26, lunedì 16 giugno 2003, in merito a Re: [newbie-it] modem e mandrake 8.2, Mario Speranza ha scritto: Il modem è esterno e, per sfiga, non ho neanche l'interfaccia grafica. nessun problema per collegarti userai uno dei tanti script

Re: [newbie] Dlink USB Radio

2003-06-16 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 15:33, Nathan Coad wrote: Hi. I've got a usb radio that I'd like to use with mandrake 9.1 Running lsusb gives: Bus 003 Device 001: ID : Bus 002 Device 001: ID : Bus 001 Device 001: ID : Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04b4:1002 Cypress Semiconductor

Re: [newbie] Newer versions of the kernel for 9.1

2003-06-16 Per discussione Guy Rouillier
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday June 9 2003 11:03 am, eric huff wrote: Just curious: What exactly is different about the mm (multimedia, right?) kernel? eric For most users, more advanced/better supermount and the low latency and preempt patches. The cooker ready made rpm should have no

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-16 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi Yes technically I gree. However I find that often it flags conflicts which are really dependancy problems. I think it gets confused sometimes with 3rd level dependancies (i.e. the dependancy for the rpm you are installing also need dependancies satisfying). Anybody else confirm correct me on

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to mycomputer

2003-06-16 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi Winrar is a form of zip program. Ohh and its mostly a windows program as far as I am aware. I don't know of a Linux alternative but I bet there is one. If you are using windows you need to download a copy of winrar and install it to extract the image. Don't worry its freeware. Extract the

Re: [newbie] Mail program for Linux and windows?

2003-06-16 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Slypheed is a good mailer on Linux but the win32 version is not as good (unless they have improved it lately - been a while since I could be bothered to fire up my XP machine - I only keep it for gaming) John Hey!! how about sylpheed?? it has a win32 version...

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-16 Per discussione Brant Fitzsimmons
Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Hi Winrar is a form of zip program. Ohh and its mostly a windows program as far as I am aware. I don't know of a Linux alternative but I bet there is one. If you are using windows you need to download a copy of winrar and install it to extract the image. Don't

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-16 Per discussione g
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: win98se are you updated? w98se oem, w/o updates may not have correct support .dll's etc, for cd burner and nti 2k+ may not fully support a non updated w98se. sofware houses think every body updates. 4 - what is model of cd burner? _this_is_a_must_know_ to find out if

[newbie] Alternative Software

2003-06-16 Per discussione Wm. G. Urquhart
Hi, I currently have 3 machines running windows, a 2K box I use myself to run Visio, and SSADM Enterprise and 2 98 machines that my children have. I want to totally remove any dependence to the man from redmond from my Office and Home. So I need to find software that's comparible (if not better)

Re: [newbie] Alternative Software

2003-06-16 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi Kopete is very good. In fact its the dogs danglies IMHO. Don't know about Yahoo though I think you have to add a special plugin. Worth a look anyway. 0.6.2 is available from the vclub site as an RPm and it installs without any problem (the newer version has a list of dependencies as long as

Re: [newbie] Alternative Software

2003-06-16 Per discussione Wm. G. Urquhart
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Hi Kopete is very good. In fact its the dogs danglies IMHO. Don't know about Yahoo though I think you have to add a special plugin. Worth a look anyway. 0.6.2 is available from the vclub site as an RPm and it installs without any

Re: [newbie] Alternative Software

2003-06-16 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Hi Sorry typo the club site (mandrakeclub). Might be worth taking alook at the kopete site and seeing what they say about yahoo plugin too. John On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:07:54 +(UTC)Wm. G. Urquhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Hi Kopete

[OT] Black box (was: Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...)

2003-06-16 Per discussione Michael Scottaline
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 23:13:21 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: But Blackbox?! Not even nice pixmaps to play with? Bah! == I just make my own. Talk about customization |8^) Best, Mike -- The man who views the world the same at 50 as he

Re: [newbie] boot hangs on starting pcmcia

2003-06-16 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Sunday 15 Jun 2003 11:55 pm, J Adam Latham wrote: Hello, I recently purchased a Compag Presario 2140 laptop ... I want to dual-boot with MDK 9.1 ... Install seemed to go fine, but when I boot into linux the system freezes completely at starting pcmcia ... (which follows the bringing up

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-16 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 7:44 am, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Hi Winrar is a form of zip program. Ohh and its mostly a windows program as far as I am aware. I don't know of a Linux alternative but I bet there is one. If you are using windows you need to download a copy of winrar and install it

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 2:00 am, Chuck Stuettgen wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 16:14, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 00:55, Technoslick wrote: What are the advantages of using dhcp for such small network of three computers. Kindly explain. I have fixed ips for my LAN of 5

[newbie] USB Flashdrive

2003-06-16 Per discussione Aron Smith
I Finaly got the USB Flashdrive working in a R/W mode but where my WinDoze box sees it as 2 32mb drives my Linbox only sees it as one of the drives any Ideas on how to reformatt the drive as one drive? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 12:10 pm, Saurav Gohain wrote: Hi, I have installed Mandrake 9.1 and is connected to a LAN that has both windows nt and linux machines. Using LIN , i can connect to the Linux machines and exchange files but I am unable to connect to the windows machine. In the lin

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft wants admin privileges on your PC(old, but relevant)

2003-06-16 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 21:02, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 05:40, Stephen Kuhn wrote: http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~prillih3/blog/stories/2002/08/03/microsoftWantsAdminPrivile.html This impacts countries national security. Many governments won't take it easy. A huge mistake.

[newbie] Knoppix_v3.2-2003-05-20-EN

2003-06-16 Per discussione John Richard Smith
Brilliant programme. Just one problem. It's locked me out of desktop in both M9.0 and M9.1. I get as far as login, then KDE display window and, Intitialising system services, whereupon it HANGS. Forced to crash and reboot with all the fsck business. Tried failsafe , etc. cannot get to

Re: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation problems

2003-06-16 Per discussione [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You would either need to use the Enterprise kernel, or limit the mem usage to I believe less than 800MB. This from the OT list and Tom Brinkman, the absolute authority on these issues around here: I believe your video problems are E-kernel related. If you've got a lot of ram use mem=860M

[newbie] Knoppix_v3.2-2003-05-20-20-EN

2003-06-16 Per discussione John Richard Smith
Knoppix is a brilliant programme. I have just one little problem. I'm locked out of desktop on M9.0 and M9.1 now. I get as far as login, and KDE window, and then at , Initialising system sevices, it HANGS. I have to crash and reboot, fsck the partitions and still it hangs. I'm stuck, Help

Re: [newbie] USB Flashdrive

2003-06-16 Per discussione Todd Slater
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 02:08:59AM -0700, Aron Smith wrote: I Finaly got the USB Flashdrive working in a R/W mode but where my WinDoze box sees it as 2 32mb drives my Linbox only sees it as one of the drives any Ideas on how to reformatt the drive as one drive? So I take it the drive *is* 2

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 15 June 2003 01:55 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 18:16:46 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I have always used static addressing because I have never been able to work out how clients can be addressed by hostname when there is no fstab entry. Surely

[newbie] RADEON 9500 OK on MDK 9.1?

2003-06-16 Per discussione Tango Echo
Hi Everyone, I am considering a purchase of a: ATI OEM RADEON 9500 128MB DDR AGP 8X video card. What have been your experiences with this piece of hardware? Do you recommend it for Mandrake 9.1? I am in great need to upgrade the old video card for better gaming, but need to know that this

Re: [newbie] RADEON 9500 OK on MDK 9.1?

2003-06-16 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Monday 16 June 2003 08:27 am, Tango Echo wrote: Hi Everyone, I am considering a purchase of a: ATI OEM RADEON 9500 128MB DDR AGP 8X video card. What have been your experiences with this piece of hardware? Do you recommend it for Mandrake 9.1? I am in great need to upgrade the old

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft wants admin privileges on your PC(old, but relevant)

2003-06-16 Per discussione Adolfo Bello
I am just trying to foresee what Microsoft will become if SCO wins. If they can come out with this sort of EULA even when they feel threated by Linux, just imagine what they would do if there were no challenging alternative. Adolofo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-16 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Monday June 16 2003 01:44 am, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Winrar is a form of zip program. Ohh and its mostly a windows program as far as I am aware. I don't know of a Linux alternative but I bet there is one. unrar-3.20-0.beta2.1plf rpm. I use it everyday usin FileRoller as the GUI

Re: [newbie] Alternative Software

2003-06-16 Per discussione Jason
Dunno bout the other software but by far the best cross platform IM program I have found is Gaim. It is multiprotocol and I use it at work every day. HTH, Jason For the boys I'm looking for, at minimum, an instant messenger that will support ICQ, Yahoo and MSN. Ideally all in one box. I've

Re: [newbie] RADEON 9500 OK on MDK 9.1?

2003-06-16 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 22:27, Tango Echo wrote: Hi Everyone, I am considering a purchase of a: ATI OEM RADEON 9500 128MB DDR AGP 8X video card. What have been your experiences with this piece of hardware? Do you recommend it for Mandrake 9.1? I am in great need to upgrade the old

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to mycomputer

2003-06-16 Per discussione JoeHill
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 07:44:15 +0100 Inhabitant of Zion [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Winrar is a form of zip program. Ohh and its mostly a windows program as far as I am aware. I don't know of a Linux alternative but I bet there is one. If you are using windows you need to download a copy of

[newbie] LinNeighbourhood problems

2003-06-16 Per discussione Saurav Gohain
Hi, I have installed Mandrake 9.1 and is connected to a LAN that has both windows nt and linux machines. Using LIN , i can connect to the Linux machines and exchange files but I am unable to connect to the windows machine. In the lin neighbourhood, it shows the names but i couldn't make it

[newbie] boot hangs on starting pcmcia

2003-06-16 Per discussione Frans Ketelaars
original message: - Hello, I recently purchased a Compag Presario 2140 laptop ... I want to dual-boot with MDK 9.1 ... Install seemed to go fine, but when I boot into linux the system freezes completely at starting pcmcia ...

Re: [newbie] Dlink USB Radio

2003-06-16 Per discussione A V Flinsch
On Monday 16 June 2003 02:03 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 15:33, Nathan Coad wrote: Hi. I've got a usb radio that I'd like to use with mandrake 9.1 Running lsusb gives: Bus 003 Device 001: ID : Bus 002 Device 001: ID : Bus 001 Device 001: ID :

Re: [OT] Black box (was: Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormallylong...)

2003-06-16 Per discussione JoeHill
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 04:15:20 -0400 Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I just make my own. Talk about customization |8^) Sorry, does Blackbox support pixmaps now? Cool! I just got sick of gradients everywhere, I like a more solid look. I am in the process (ie. sitting on my skinny

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Per discussione JoeHill
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 08:17:09 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: ping darkforce ping darkforce2 ping darkforce3 and it works fine. I don't have to do the IP address. well, you've got to have some way of resolving IP to hostname. I haven't delved into it too much in Linux, but I

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-16 Per discussione JoeHill
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 07:27:36 +0100 Inhabitant of Zion [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: However I find that often it flags conflicts which are really dependancy problems. I think it gets confused sometimes with 3rd level dependancies (i.e. the dependancy for the rpm you are installing also need

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-16 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Monday June 16 2003 01:27 am, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: However I find that often it flags conflicts which are really dependancy problems. I think it gets confused sometimes with 3rd level dependancies (i.e. the dependancy for the rpm you are installing also need dependancies satisfying).

Re: [newbie] LinNeighbourhood problems

2003-06-16 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 22:46, Saurav Gohain wrote: Hi, I have installed Mandrake 9.1 and is connected to a LAN that has both windows nt and linux machines. Using LIN , i can connect to the Linux machines and exchange files but I am unable to connect to the windows machine. In the lin

Re: [newbie] and a hearty FSCK YOU!

2003-06-16 Per discussione JoeHill
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 07:20:28 -0400 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: nah...it's not you. On the whole, M$ is behind the FUD as always. I'm waiting to see what IBM does next cause I really don't think they're going to take this lying down. IBM has invested billions in Linux. So, no,

Re: [newbie] and a hearty FSCK YOU!

2003-06-16 Per discussione JoeHill
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 07:23:09 -0400 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: lets just hope big BLUE is involved in the whole thing. They're out best bet for the Linux Community. For *now*. But never take your eyes off them for a second. -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage:

[newbie] Is it starting to fall apart for SCO?

2003-06-16 Per discussione JoeHill
So far Poland (woot! my wife's Polish, lemme tell ya what happens when they get pissed! oh, and Polish women have really nice butts) and Germany have civil actions pending against SCO for spreading FUD. Now this: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/15/1741253 -- Joehill Registered

Re: [newbie] Newer versions of the kernel for 9.1

2003-06-16 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Monday June 16 2003 01:17 am, Guy Rouillier wrote: For most users, more advanced/better supermount and the low latency and preempt patches. The cooker ready made rpm should have no problems on older releases. One of the rare times cooker is suitable in this regard. Latest is

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to mycomputer

2003-06-16 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Ahh my mistake... From the guys post I thought he had downloaded a .rar file with an ISO in it and could not get it out to burn it. Still it got me pointed in the right direction of a rar program! ROTFL! John On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 08:40:09-0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 16 Jun

Re: [OT] Black box (was: Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormallylong...)

2003-06-16 Per discussione Michael Scottaline
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 08:48:35 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled furiously: On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 04:15:20 -0400 Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I just make my own. Talk about customization |8^) Sorry, does Blackbox support pixmaps now? Cool! I just got sick of

Re: [newbie] New TWiki page needed

2003-06-16 Per discussione JoeHill
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:25:59 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: We are often asked about hardward compatibility, and we all know that there have been problems with keeping the official Mandrake page up to date. I think it is time we made a TWiki page for this. If we all added

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 1:17 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 15 June 2003 01:55 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 18:16:46 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I have always used static addressing because I have never been able to work out how clients can be

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 16 June 2003 08:57 am, JoeHill wrote: well, you've got to have some way of resolving IP to hostname. I haven't delved into it too much in Linux, but I believe Samba takes care of that. Correct me if I am wrong. I also can ping by name or IP, though I have no DNS (which I believe

Re: [newbie] New TWiki page needed

2003-06-16 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Monday 16 June 2003 09:25 am, Anne Wilson wrote: We are often asked about hardward compatibility, and we all know that there have been problems with keeping the official Mandrake page up to date. I think it is time we made a TWiki page for this. If we all added video cards, printers,

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 1:57 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 08:17:09 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: ping darkforce ping darkforce2 ping darkforce3 and it works fine. I don't have to do the IP address. well, you've got to have some way of resolving IP to

Re: [newbie] Alternative Software

2003-06-16 Per discussione Brant Fitzsimmons
Jason wrote: Dunno bout the other software but by far the best cross platform IM program I have found is Gaim. It is multiprotocol and I use it at work every day. HTH, Jason For the boys I'm looking for, at minimum, an instant messenger that will support ICQ, Yahoo and MSN. Ideally

[newbie] OT My last SCO post

2003-06-16 Per discussione Todd Slater
This was just too funny I couldn't resist passing it along. Linux kernel coder puts SCO on notice SCO, THAT PARIAH of the IT industry, has received what might turn out to be legally damaging return fire from a Linux kernel developer. An email presenting SCO with formal notice alleging copyright

Re: [newbie] New TWiki page needed

2003-06-16 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 3:42 pm, Wm. G. Urquhart wrote: On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: We are often asked about hardward compatibility, and we all know that there have been problems with keeping the official Mandrake page up to date. I think it is time we made a TWiki page for

Re: [newbie] Newer versions of the kernel for 9.1

2003-06-16 Per discussione JoeHill
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 08:19:31 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: and soon after shorewall was installed it made my DSL connection blocked up jelly tight, can't go anywhere. Bleh, I hate software firewalls. Grab an ol' P100, and check out these: Clarkconnect, BBIAgent (runs on a

RE: [newbie] New TWiki page needed

2003-06-16 Per discussione Tony S. Sykes
Me too. -Original Message- From: Wm. G. Urquhart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 3:42 PM To: newbie Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] New TWiki page needed On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: We are often asked about hardward compatibility, and we

Re: [newbie] New TWiki page needed

2003-06-16 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 2:30 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:25:59 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: We are often asked about hardward compatibility, and we all know that there have been problems with keeping the official Mandrake page up to date. I think it is time we

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 16 June 2003 09:37 am, Anne Wilson wrote: So when Ronald pings darkforce2, how do you think it knows which box to find? There has to be a name server somewhere. Mine is on my router, but it could just as well be on this box. Anne I do have my machines IP addressess in /etc/hosts

Re: [newbie] New TWiki page needed

2003-06-16 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 2:38 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Monday 16 June 2003 09:25 am, Anne Wilson wrote: We are often asked about hardward compatibility, and we all know that there have been problems with keeping the official Mandrake page up to date. I think it is time we made a TWiki page

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Per discussione JoeHill
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:51:54 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Oh, I beg your pardon Joe, I didn't see where you guys were talking about Samba use - I thought you meant just between 'Nix boxes. :-) Samba *was* *nix last time I checked... ;) it is just as useful without Win boxes

RE: [newbie] RADEON 9500 OK on MDK 9.1?

2003-06-16 Per discussione Tango Echo
Crap, I was afraid you were going to say that... Alright Stephen, I'll try to repeat that mantra every night before bed =) As much as I hate to hear it, I am greatly appeciative of the forwarning (BEFORE I bought the card). So I guess that leaves me with more questions. I've heard that ATI is

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 16 June 2003 09:37 am, Derek Jennings wrote: Well assuming you are using Dhcp then how are you managing to resolve the hostnames? When you ask to ping a host your system will first go to /etc/hosts to see if there is an entry there (that was a mistake in my original post. I said

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Per discussione JoeHill
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:37:36 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: So when Ronald pings darkforce2, how do you think it knows which box to find? There has to be a name server somewhere. Mine is on my router, but it could just as well be on this box. He answered above, you edit your

Re: [newbie] New TWiki page needed

2003-06-16 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 2:42 pm, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Me too. OK - Greg's offered to start us off, but now's your chance to learn g Go to http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/WebHome and follow the TWiki links to see how it works, then browse our community pages. They're growing fast, and

Re: [newbie] Is it starting to fall apart for SCO?

2003-06-16 Per discussione Marc Oestreicher
On Monday 16 June 2003 08:15 am, JoeHill wrote: So far Poland (woot! my wife's Polish, lemme tell ya what happens when they get pissed! oh, and Polish women have really nice butts) and Germany have civil actions pending against SCO for spreading FUD. Now this:

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 2:59 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 16 June 2003 09:37 am, Anne Wilson wrote: So when Ronald pings darkforce2, how do you think it knows which box to find? There has to be a name server somewhere. Mine is on my router, but it could just as well be on this box.

Re: [newbie] New TWiki page needed

2003-06-16 Per discussione JoeHill
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:57:47 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: chivvy britspeak? -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + People say Linux is ugly. How does that make you feel? + Torvalds: They'll be the first against the wall when the

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-16 Per discussione g
Anne Wilson wrote: The best bet is to follow g's line of questioning, to help him find out whether he actually has the capability at this moment. maybe. i am going on experience of what i have run across here in u.s. of a., a whole lot of cdrw drive dumping, to make way for a lot of 4x dvd

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-16 Per discussione g
JoeHill wrote: IIRC, from my Windows days, ISOs show up as archives (the little stack of books icon), I think that is the confusion. It's not really a RAR archive, it's just that windows is stupid and tells you what it *thinks* it is... ms windows is 'stupid'. yet, in w98se, a '.iso' file shows

RE: [newbie] LinNeighbourhood problems

2003-06-16 Per discussione Tango Echo
saurav, I may have misread your post or you may have already tried this. But just to be sure: 1. Open your LinNeighborhood 2. On the menu click: Options Browse Entire Network 3. Check the box Browse as user, put in the username and password and hit ok 4. You should see some + appear next to

Re: [newbie] New TWiki page needed

2003-06-16 Per discussione JoeHill
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:57:04 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: There's always some subjectivity, but for instance I would say that I use a Matrox G400, which has worked well for me under 8.2, 9.0 and 9.1, but I don't use 3D gaming, so I couldn't answer for its capabilities

Re: [newbie] RADEON 9500 OK on MDK 9.1?

2003-06-16 Per discussione Brant Fitzsimmons
Tango Echo wrote: Lastly, any idea how UR2K3 works with nVidea? Seems I remember FemmeFatale having problems but that may have been with ATI. Heard that there was a Linux install on the UR2K3 cd... is that true? Works fine and it's true. -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] All truth

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-16 Per discussione crak600
On 16 Jun 2003 at 13:25, g wrote: JoeHill wrote: IIRC, from my Windows days, ISOs show up as archives (the little stack of books icon), I think that is the confusion. It's not really a RAR archive, it's just that windows is stupid and tells you what it *thinks* it is... ms

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-16 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 1:23 pm, g wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: The best bet is to follow g's line of questioning, to help him find out whether he actually has the capability at this moment. maybe. i am going on experience of what i have run across here in u.s. of a., a whole lot of cdrw drive

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-16 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 3:17 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: will physically take computer apart in a little bit here and get the model number of the CD drive. and will physically take it apart by removing the appropriate screws, not by getting a hammer :P LOL - you'll get there. Stick with

Re: [newbie] New TWiki page needed

2003-06-16 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Monday 16 June 2003 10:00 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 16 Jun 2003 2:42 pm, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Me too. OK - Greg's offered to start us off, but now's your chance to learn g Go to http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/WebHome and follow the TWiki links to see how it works, then

Re: [newbie] Is it starting to fall apart for SCO?

2003-06-16 Per discussione JoeHill
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:01:48 -0500 Marc Oestreicher [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: This all reminds me of a t shirt that my wife has with a picture of a huge eagle swooping down at a mouse. The mouse is holding a big gun in 1 hand and giving the eagle the finger with the other hand. Love

Re: [newbie] Is it starting to fall apart for SCO?

2003-06-16 Per discussione JoeHill
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:01:48 -0500 Marc Oestreicher [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: This all reminds me of a t shirt that my wife has with a picture of a huge eagle swooping down at a mouse. The mouse is holding a big gun in 1 hand and giving the eagle the finger with the other hand. Oh,

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-16 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
9.2? Jeez you guys work hard! Don't seem very long at all since i downloaded 9.1. Its no wonder people like Miscrosoft look at Linux and think this is too good to be true. It really is. I like mandrake been using it since version 7 but only really got into it properly recently when I decided

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Per discussione JoeHill
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 15:07:00 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: but it's not psychic. That's supposed to be implemented in Kernel 2.6... -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + People say Linux is ugly. How does that make you feel? +

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-16 Per discussione Todd Slater
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 10:17:52AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Content-Description: Mail message body On 16 Jun 2003 at 13:25, g wrote: JoeHill wrote: IIRC, from my Windows days, ISOs show up as archives (the little stack of books icon), I think that is the confusion. It's

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 2:51 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 16 June 2003 08:57 am, JoeHill wrote: well, you've got to have some way of resolving IP to hostname. I haven't delved into it too much in Linux, but I believe Samba takes care of that. Correct me if I am wrong. I also can ping

Re: [newbie] New TWiki page needed

2003-06-16 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 3:05 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:57:47 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: chivvy britspeak? Could be - or even dialect g Longman's New Generation Extended Dictionary: chivy, chivvy also chevy, chevvy ... esp spoken, to annoy (someone) by

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to mycomputer

2003-06-16 Per discussione JoeHill
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 07:41:10 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: W98 see them as .rar's? Windows sees ISOs as archives... -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + People say Linux is ugly. How does that make you feel? + Torvalds: They'll be

Re: [newbie] OT My last SCO post

2003-06-16 Per discussione JoeHill
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:48:28 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10018 Oh, they are so fuxored...right now Steve Ballmer is sitting in his skull-topped Satan chair, watching his ill-conceived plot unravel before his eyes. As Ice Cube would say:

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to mycomputer

2003-06-16 Per discussione JoeHill
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 10:17:52 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: i told it to download NOT as an .rar file and it still downloaded that way anyway. it's a little stack of books, not a wavy flag on a single page. but what is the actual file extension? The stack of books is because, believe it or

Re: [newbie] New TWiki page needed

2003-06-16 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 3:23 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: I added it as a link off the support page. http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/GettingSupport Look for the HardwareCompatibility topic about halfway down the page. The direct link to the page I added is

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