Re: [newbie] Samba - Half there?

2002-05-29 Thread FemmeFatale
Brian Parish wrote: > Anne, > > First step has got to be to get rid of netbui. I have set up many > windows and windows/linux networks and have always used TCP/IP > exclusively. If your W$ machines can't see each other without netbui, > then tcp/ip is not correctly installed or configured. > >

Re: [newbie] Greetings everyone

2002-05-29 Thread Dimitris Ioannou
Press Alt+F2 and type aumix. A mixer thing will come up. Check if the volumes are on. If they are on 0 put them up with your mouse. Afraid you have to do it all the time. I had it too on KDE 2.2.2 but not anymore since I'm using KDE 3. Cheers Dimitris --- Rodrigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> &eacgr

Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock

2002-05-29 Thread FemmeFatale
Brian Parish wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 07:44, FemmeFatale wrote: > > > I agree if you are talking DIY installs, but having just set up my 83 > year old father-in-law on 8.2, I don't agree on the usability side. > Anyone who doesn't know "about computers" either has a friend who > installs

Re: [newbie] Greetings everyone

2002-05-29 Thread Raffaele Belardi
make sure you connected the audio cable (4-lead with flat heads) from the CD to the sound card. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi , My name is Igor Scerbina, I recently installed Mandrake linux OS > and am interested in learning as much as i can. > > I am currently having trouble setting

Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock

2002-05-29 Thread Dimitris Ioannou
--- "Henry B. Wangle Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> &eacgr;&ggr;&rgr;&agr;&psgr;&egr;: > On Wednesday 29 May 2002 18:20, you wrote: > Well not wanting to beat my own drum but anyone who > say's that Linux is not > ready for the desktop needs to relook at it . Case > in point my wife of 22 > years now

[newbie] OT=to Damian!

2002-05-29 Thread Dimitris Ioannou
{simply put, my guess is a lot of people have billions of green reasons not to let Linux grow." Hello Damian Can you please define that last point of yours? What exactly do you mean by that. I thought of the opposite so far. Greetings Dimitris

Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock

2002-05-29 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 30 May 2002 15:41, Brian Parish wrote: > On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 07:44, FemmeFatale wrote: > > Tom Brinkman wrote: > > > On Wednesday 29 May 2002 11:13 am, Dave Conroy wrote: > > > > > > It's only a matter of time before lot'sa people will need to > > > unlearn Windows, and learn somethi

Re: [newbie] OT Journaling, gotta love it

2002-05-29 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 30 May 2002 05:23, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Wednesday 29 May 2002 09:17 am, daRcmaTTeR wrote: > > On Wed, 29 May 2002, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > > Which file system? Anyhow, you really should have your > > > system on an UPS if power outages are any more than a very rare > > > occurren

Re: [newbie] Possibly OT? MDK Partitioning

2002-05-29 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 30 May 2002 11:18, Dale Huckeby wrote: > On Wed, 29 May 2002, Michael Adams wrote: > > On Wed, 29 May 2002 13:58, FemmeFatale wrote: > > > I've run 8.0, 8.1 & now 8.2. Always I've accepted the default install > > > partitions of root (/), swap & home. > > > > > > the one time I tried on 8

Re: [newbie] Change rw permissions on folder of files

2002-05-29 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 30 May 2002 16:00, db wrote: > Working with Redhat 5.2 & Fvfm, I have a ton of files in a folder that I > copied (as root) from a CD. > > I need to reset the rw and perhaps ownership attributes en mass so that the > files can be written to and worked with by other users. > > I know this is

Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock

2002-05-29 Thread Henry B. Wangle Jr.
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 18:20, you wrote: Well not wanting to beat my own drum but anyone who say's that Linux is not ready for the desktop needs to relook at it . Case in point my wife of 22 years now age 44 had 2 strokes that paralyzed her left side and hurt her mental capabilities as well .

Re: [newbie] x config

2002-05-29 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 28 May 2002 10:53, shane wrote: > On Tuesday 28 May 2002 07:04 am, Pupeno opened a general hailing frequency > > and transmitted to all open stations: > > Bye the way, I'm getting this error: INIT: ld 'x' respawning too fast: > > disabled f

Re: [newbie] x config

2002-05-29 Thread Pupeno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 28 May 2002 10:19, daRcmaTTeR wrote: > Hi Pupeno, > > The error you're getting means that X isn't setup correctly on your > machine. what version did you install on your machine. X and your vid > card and/or the monitor aren't getting alon

Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock

2002-05-29 Thread Damian G
> > COUNTERPOINT! > > I wrote this almost two years ago as a "rebuttal" to a member of a certain > "help forum" that continuously put down anyone that used Microsoft software > but

Re: [newbie] Change rw permissions on folder of files

2002-05-29 Thread Jim Turner
Ok, last one, I swear. ;) You mentioned doing this en mass. Just to be clear, wild cards will work with chmod and chown. So: chmod a+rw * will set every file in the current directory to be world readable and writable (if you execute it as root). --jim On Wed, 29 May 2002, db wrote: > Wo

Re: [newbie] Change rw permissions on folder of files

2002-05-29 Thread Jim Turner
Hey again. It just occurred to me that you'll prolly wanna change the owner of those files to something more prctical than root. That command is chown. So, to change the owner of file.txt from whatever to kenny, you would type chown kenny file.txt Then ls -l will show you owners and permiss

Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock

2002-05-29 Thread shane
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 08:41 pm, Brian Parish did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: > So this is the real difference from my viewpoint. The guy next door > knows about W$, but not about linux. Given someone like me to set it up > and provide an icon for each thing you want to do, Mandra

Re: [newbie] Linux server that works with MS Outlook?

2002-05-29 Thread shane
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 08:20 pm, Joseph Braddock did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: > I believe he is asking for something to use instead of Exchange that can > talk to M$ Outlook. The connector would let Evolution talk to Exchange. ah, you are right of course... ...and in that case

Re: [newbie] Samba - Half there?

2002-05-29 Thread Brian Parish
On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 02:55, Anne Wilson wrote: > Sorry that I sent this to your address, instead of the list - I forgot > to change the 'Reply to' address. > > > Derek, > > I have been thinking hard and reading all I can, and I wonder if > the problems are a lot deeper rooted. For instance:

Re: [newbie] Change rw permissions on folder of files

2002-05-29 Thread Jim Turner
chmod is the command to change permissions on files. "man chmod" will tell you all the specifics of how to use it --jim On Wed, 29 May 2002, db wrote: > Working with Redhat 5.2 & Fvfm, I have a ton of files in a folder that I > copied (as root) from a CD. > > I need to reset the rw and

[newbie] Change rw permissions on folder of files

2002-05-29 Thread db
Working with Redhat 5.2 & Fvfm, I have a ton of files in a folder that I copied (as root) from a CD. I need to reset the rw and perhaps ownership attributes en mass so that the files can be written to and worked with by other users. I know this is basic but could anyone clue this newbie in?

Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock

2002-05-29 Thread Brian Parish
On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 07:44, FemmeFatale wrote: > Tom Brinkman wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 29 May 2002 11:13 am, Dave Conroy wrote: > > > It's only a matter of time before lot'sa people will need to > > unlearn Windows, and learn somethin else. Specially with M$'s new > > fangled SA program

Re: [newbie] Linux server that works with MS Outlook?

2002-05-29 Thread Barry Michels
You got it... But, I bet MS would probably *try* to keep such a thing from hitting the market... - Original Message - From: "Joseph Braddock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 11:20 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux server that works with MS Outlook?

Re: [newbie] Linux server that works with MS Outlook?

2002-05-29 Thread Joseph Braddock
I believe he is asking for something to use instead of Exchange that can talk to M$ Outlook. The connector would let Evolution talk to Exchange. Joe On Wed, 29 May 2002 20:12:47 -0700 shane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i believe their is a ximian product that does what you are looking for.

Re: [newbie] Linux server that works with MS Outlook?

2002-05-29 Thread shane
i believe their is a ximian product that does what you are looking for. connector i think? http://www.ximian.com/ On Wednesday 29 May 2002 04:47 pm, Barry Michels opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: > Is there something available for Linux > that could wo

Re: [newbie] Greetings everyone

2002-05-29 Thread Rodrigo
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 22:04, you wrote: Hello Igor, Is your sound card an onboard sound card ? Which application do you use to play your audio cds ? Can you play mp3 or wav files ? Regards, Rodrigo > Hi , My name is Igor Scerbina, I recently installed Mandrake linux OS > and am interested in

Re: [newbie] Greetings everyone

2002-05-29 Thread Rodrigo
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 22:04, you wrote: Hello Igor, Is your sound card an onboard sound card ? Which application do you use to play your audio cds ? Can you play mp3 or wav files ? Regards, Rodrigo > Hi , My name is Igor Scerbina, I recently installed Mandrake linux OS > and am interested in

Re: [newbie] Bad floppy filecopy under KDE?

2002-05-29 Thread darklord
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 05:18 pm, you wrote: > Well IIRC it had nothing to do with Supermount in that instance. It was > purely a coincidence that was brought up in the thread. Its a Konq. bug > in itself apparently. Disable supermount, try it anyway. If i'm wrong, > let us know. And anothe

Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock

2002-05-29 Thread Michael Viron
Femme, As you said Linux has come a long way, but I do not think that it is that far away from being an option for the desktop. Keep in mind that Corel Linux OS (before Corel spun it off as Xandros (http://www.xandros.net/)), hid virtually all configuration behind the scenes (including partition

Re: [newbie] Greetings everyone / CD volume

2002-05-29 Thread Miark
Hi Igor, > I am currently having trouble setting up my cmi8338 sound card. It plays > the error sounds but doesn't want to play any of my audio Cd's. Have you checked Sound Mixer or aumix to see if the CD volume is up high enough to hear? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandrake

Re: [newbie] dangerous computers

2002-05-29 Thread et
na,,, it was so dead it was stirile... but don't say I was having sex with a dead thing, just cause the computer had already fsk'd me, by toasting an old scsi (540meg, with a adaptec 1542C Isa scsi card) hard drive that had my wife's most current resume on it. On Wednesday 29 May 2002 08:56

Re: [newbie] Bad floppy filecopy under KDE?

2002-05-29 Thread Carlos Arigós
El Mié 29 May 2002 09:25, escribió: > On Tuesday 28 May 2002 10:10 pm, you wrote: > > Yes there is. IT was on expert list & it relates to copying froma > > Konqueror window to a floppy. It will hardlock the system tight :) > > Hmph. Seems like just another good reason to initiate a: > > supermou

[newbie] Greetings everyone

2002-05-29 Thread Igor Scerbina
Hi , My name is Igor Scerbina, I recently installed Mandrake linux OS and am interested in learning as much as i can. I am currently having trouble setting up my cmi8338 sound card. It plays the error sounds but doesn't want to play any of my audio Cd's. I would greatly appreciate any help. Tha

Re: [newbie] dangerous computers

2002-05-29 Thread Miark
Bill Winegarden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> saith: > make sure you disinfect the wound.you wouldn't want to catch a 'virus' He didn't say he was working on a M$ server ;-) Miark > On Wednesday 29 May 2002 05:43 pm, you wrote: > > I have been in very dangerous places before, but I never expecte

Re: [newbie] dangerous computers

2002-05-29 Thread Bill Winegarden
make sure you disinfect the wound.you wouldn't want to catch a 'virus' On Wednesday 29 May 2002 05:43 pm, you wrote: > I have been in very dangerous places before, but I never expected to loose > an apendage to a computer before,,, but last night, the big server just up > and bit off one of

[newbie] dangerous computers

2002-05-29 Thread et
I have been in very dangerous places before, but I never expected to loose an apendage to a computer before,,, but last night, the big server just up and bit off one of my toes.. thats right, I had the cover off and spun around in my chair to pick up a tweezer, and that sharp edge got me (g

Re: Re: Re: [newbie] Tv Card

2002-05-29 Thread et
have you tried turn capture to off? I get no picture (in MDK 8.2) until I change the capture setting from "overlay" to grabdisplay or off... I guess it has to do with my video card and drivers On Wednesday 29 May 2002 04:11 pm, you wrote: > This is my hardware > mobo=Intel > Pentium 4 > Tv ca

Re: [newbie] DosEmulator

2002-05-29 Thread Chris Ames
Thank you both. I don't have a Win system anymore. I got tired of it crashing on me several times a day. I may need to get a new processor. Ah well. I'm going to play around with it and see what happens. I'd like to familliarize myself with as much of Linux as I can, kinda the same way I did

RE: [newbie] Rfbdrake

2002-05-29 Thread ashley.bowyer
I don't seem to have this option. Do I need to install an additional rpm? Ashley -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vincent Colombo Sent: Thursday, 30 May 2002 7:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Rfbdrake In the menu, go t

Re: [newbie] Possibly OT? MDK Partitioning

2002-05-29 Thread Roger Sherman
On Tue, 28 May 2002, FemmeFatale wrote: > I've run 8.0, 8.1 & now 8.2. Always I've accepted the default install > partitions of root (/), swap & home. > > the one time I tried on 8.0 to make a boot, root, swap, var & other > partitions, the boot partition was blank. As a result the root > dire

Re: [newbie] OS BACKUPS

2002-05-29 Thread Derek Jennings
Are you running the Beta version of drakbackup Jerry? I'm running version 1.0 from drakxtools-1.1.7-98.1mdk and it does not offer CD backup, but I notice the changelog says some 'unstable features' were removed in January to satisfy Mandrake QA Sorry no idea about toto. derek On Wednesday 2

Re: [newbie] SNF 7.2 problems.

2002-05-29 Thread Mark Van Bruggen
On 30/05/2002, The following message was beamed across the Internet: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > I have looked at Smoothwall, but I am looking for a good custom > firewall that has IDS, reporting, and preferably a Web interface, as > I am not a Linux guru by an me

Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock

2002-05-29 Thread FemmeFatale
Tom Brinkman wrote: > > On Wednesday 29 May 2002 11:13 am, Dave Conroy wrote: > It's only a matter of time before lot'sa people will need to > unlearn Windows, and learn somethin else. Specially with M$'s new > fangled SA programs (price gouging scams), and the horrific security > holes tha

[newbie] windows2000 shareing access

2002-05-29 Thread jbarron201
Tryed this thing last night and never got it just started fooling with it today and saw remote access configuration .What is rdesktop? install it with urpmi rdesktop?ip address,config should be right by the help acouple of guys gave me last night could this be my problem?

[newbie] winex install fail

2002-05-29 Thread Jerry
got my handy dandy copy of WineX and went to install it, using both methods (1--./configure make depends && make make install 2--./tools/wineinstall) both give the following errors: make[2]: *** [caps.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/yup/wine/dlls/d3dgl' make[1]: *** [d3dgl/libd3dgl.

Re: [newbie] Rfbdrake

2002-05-29 Thread Vincent Colombo
In the menu, go to Networking -> Remote Access -> Virtual Network Connection Here you'll be able to control someone's system or allow someone to control yours. Vince On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 15:59, ashley.bowyer wrote: > Can someone please point me in the right direction to find this program on

Re: [newbie] Bad floppy filecopy under KDE?

2002-05-29 Thread FemmeFatale
darklord wrote: > > On Tuesday 28 May 2002 10:10 pm, you wrote: > > > Yes there is. IT was on expert list & it relates to copying froma > > Konqueror window to a floppy. It will hardlock the system tight :) > > Hmph. Seems like just another good reason to initiate a: > > supermount -i disabl

[newbie] Rfbdrake

2002-05-29 Thread ashley.bowyer
Can someone please point me in the right direction to find this program on my version of 8.2? Thank You kind regards, Ashley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock

2002-05-29 Thread David
shane said onto me: -- snip |one person actually commented that his biggest problem was |teaching ppl to click once rather than double click to start things from |the desktop. if that is your biggest problem. sni

Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock

2002-05-29 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 18:13, you wrote: > Mandrake may save me £500 short term, but the projected on going > support and staff training costs would be too much for most small to > mid sized enterprises. People don't know Linux. Windows is expensive > up front, but has lowish support costs as mo

Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock

2002-05-29 Thread shane
friendly flames? like friendly fire? :) On Wednesday 29 May 2002 09:13 am, Dave Conroy opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: > Mandrake may save me £500 short term, but the projected on going > support and staff training costs would be too much for most smal

Re: Re: Re: [newbie] Tv Card

2002-05-29 Thread Misael M.
This is my hardware mobo=Intel Pentium 4 Tv card chipset=Brooktree Is a PCI TV card Im in Mexico we use NTSC. When I try to watch tv I get the "noisy" screen like if there was not transmition. XawTV doesnt found any channel in any frequency. I tried other apps and I get the same screen. This tv

[newbie] Samba Issue?

2002-05-29 Thread Pauljames Dimitriu
Here is a problem I'm having and I'm not sure if it's a Samba issue or a Linux issue: I have a bunch of users that connect to a shared folder and upload shared files. The problem here is the read / write permissions: Whenever anything gets put up on the server, the other users do not have acces

Re: [newbie] OT Journaling, gotta love it

2002-05-29 Thread Randy Kramer
daRcmaTTeR wrote: > How about it Randy K.? you guys down your way getting any of these storms > or are they petered out till then get to that end of the state? We had a good downpour a few nights ago, and some rain, but not all that much, and not enough to end the drought concern. Randy Kramer

Re: [newbie] XFS vs. ReiserFS (OT resurrected)

2002-05-29 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 29 May 2002 13:32:37 -0500 Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Heck if I know!! ;) All I know is I experienced some little > gremlins here'n there with XFS, and I don't with Reiser. Mostly file > transfer problems to vfat partitions, and occasional FS error > messages

Re: [newbie] Samba - Half there?

2002-05-29 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Anne Wilson wrote: > Sorry that I sent this to your address, instead of the list - I forgot > to change the 'Reply to' address. > > > Derek, > > I have been thinking hard and reading all I can, and I wonder if > the problems are a lot deeper rooted. For instance: > > Wh

Re: [newbie] XFS vs. ReiserFS (OT resurrected)

2002-05-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 12:43 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote: > Tom, > Now you've got me wondering. I had been using Reiser and hadn't had > any trouble at all, but a few months back I bought a brand new Dell > and when I loaded Mandrake on it I chose XFS as opposed to Reiser. > Mostly because of what I'd

Re: [newbie] accesss shareing

2002-05-29 Thread Seraph
Hi, I'm new here, but one thing that I found that worked was to put my LAN on a seperate subnet. I put what should have been an internal class c subnet to a class b. It fixed the packet colissions I was having. My cable company had the same setup where they only allowed one ip that was to be unsh

Re: [newbie] Samba - Half there?

2002-05-29 Thread Derek Jennings
> > What I'm trying to achieve is that the filesharing and ICS should be > transparent to the kids - they shouldn't need to know which OS I'm running. Quite right. A Samba server will look just like an NT server to the other computers. > > Currently, we run a MS peer-to-peer network, with my W

Re: [newbie] OT Journaling, gotta love it

2002-05-29 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Randy Kramer wrote: > Just to provide another datapoint: > > I run three (older) boxes on one UPS rated at 300 VA, 180 Watts. The > power supplies total 750 watts (IINM (If I'm Not Mistaken) -- 2 200s and > 1 350)). 2 cpus are ~300 MHz, 3rd is 700 MHz, all AMD. > > I

Re: [newbie] OT Journaling, gotta love it

2002-05-29 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Wed, 29 May 2002, et wrote: > On Wednesday 29 May 2002 10:51 am, you wrote: > > How long is a rope? > > > snip > > > roflmao,,, I was gonna offer a 35Kw standby gen as my secondary UPS, and I am > sure an entire automobile dealership and a cargo airline can stay up for a > reallly long

Re: [newbie] OT Journaling, gotta love it

2002-05-29 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Wednesday 29 May 2002 09:17 am, daRcmaTTeR wrote: > > On Wed, 29 May 2002, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > > Which file system? Anyhow, you really should have your > > > system on an UPS if power outages are any more than a very rare > > > occurrence. A

Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock

2002-05-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 11:13 am, Dave Conroy wrote: > Mandrake may save me £500 short term, but the projected on going > support and staff training costs would be too much for most small > to mid sized enterprises. People don't know Linux. Windows is > expensive up front, but has lowish support

[newbie] XFS vs. ReiserFS (OT resurrected)

2002-05-29 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > FWIW, since I asked, after 3 experiences with XFS, I'm back to > good 'ol tried'n true ReiserFS for all my Linux partitions. Sort'a > way OT, I got a 350W inverter for $47 from Wally World a few months > ago. It'll run a 19" TV for 5 to 6 hours

[newbie] HOw to make Mandrake 8.1 broadcast XDMCP protocol

2002-05-29 Thread Michael . Hughes
I would like my Mandrake box to broadcast the XDMCP Protocol, but I cannot seem to figure out how to make it do this. Can anyone provide me with a way to do this. Thanks MIke Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OT Journaling, gotta love it

2002-05-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 09:17 am, daRcmaTTeR wrote: > On Wed, 29 May 2002, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > Which file system? Anyhow, you really should have your > > system on an UPS if power outages are any more than a very rare > > occurrence. An UPS will also keep power steady and protect your >

Re: [newbie] Samba - Half there?

2002-05-29 Thread Anne Wilson
Sorry that I sent this to your address, instead of the list - I forgot to change the 'Reply to' address. Derek, I have been thinking hard and reading all I can, and I wonder if the problems are a lot deeper rooted. For instance: What I'm trying to achieve is that the filesharing and ICS shou

Re: [newbie] OT Journaling, gotta love it

2002-05-29 Thread et
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 10:51 am, you wrote: > How long is a rope? > snip roflmao,,, I was gonna offer a 35Kw standby gen as my secondary UPS, and I am sure an entire automobile dealership and a cargo airline can stay up for a reallly long time > > Hi Tom, > > > > Just out of curiosity, h

Re: [newbie] OS BACKUPS

2002-05-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 4:44 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > On Wednesday 29 May 2002 12:48, you wrote: > > > So how do you backup Linux OS's , write them to CD, and restore. > > > > Two solutions for you , John > > > > 1/ Mondo http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ > > It is on your CD's but I think

Re: [newbie] SNF 7.2 problems.

2002-05-29 Thread Dan LaBine
Try out the following. At worst, you'll need to do a search at http://www.google.com/linux to find them. SME server at www.e-smith.org http://www.astaro.org/cgi/ultimatebb.cgi http://www.ipcop.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/IPCop/WebHome Those out to do. Lanman - Original Message - From: "Chr

Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock

2002-05-29 Thread Dave Conroy
Hi Marc, Wednesday, May 29, 2002, 1:45:41 PM, you wrote: M> It seemed to me that they have little to choose from but Linux and M> Mac but mac machines seem overpriced and not very avalable. That M> leaves very little in the way of options except linux. Consider how you're doing the analysis o

RE: [newbie] SNF 7.2 problems.

2002-05-29 Thread Chris Lynch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I agree with you on the name of the product. But, why include routed or gated if you don't intend the product to be used in a network that I have designed? The firewall just sits before my private edge router, and is the last hop before the Intern

RE: [newbie] SNF 7.2 problems.

2002-05-29 Thread Chris Lynch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have looked at Smoothwall, but I am looking for a good custom firewall that has IDS, reporting, and preferably a Web interface, as I am not a Linux guru by an means. Has anyone heard of Wolverine? I found this one while searching for other firew

Re: [newbie] OS BACKUPS

2002-05-29 Thread John Richard Smith
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 12:48, you wrote: > > > > > So how do you backup Linux OS's , write them to CD, and restore. > > > > Two solutions for you , John > > 1/ Mondo http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ > It is on your CD's but I think the latest version is better. It > will comoress and copy your

Re: [newbie] OT Journaling, gotta love it

2002-05-29 Thread Randy Kramer
Just to provide another datapoint: I run three (older) boxes on one UPS rated at 300 VA, 180 Watts. The power supplies total 750 watts (IINM (If I'm Not Mistaken) -- 2 200s and 1 350)). 2 cpus are ~300 MHz, 3rd is 700 MHz, all AMD. I also am looking for protection from short outages (2-60

[newbie] OT: you privacy nuts

2002-05-29 Thread shane
i know there are a few of you out there. some of you have said so (but won't admit it!) if only we could read your crypto. anyway, http://www.theregus.com/content/6/25083.html -- warning: this sig file has been found to be "un-PC" by the list nazis. it may contain ideas that are hazardous t

RE: [newbie] g++ problems

2002-05-29 Thread MELEAN Yasmin
Thanks a lot for your help. I did again the gcc installation and know it works. I have long time working with linux, but now I'm the manager. In other words, I'm a beginner :) Yas -Message d'origine- De : Len Lawrence [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoyé : mardi 28 mai 2002 00:34 À : [EMA

Re: [newbie] OT Journaling, gotta love it

2002-05-29 Thread Lee
How long is a rope? I have 4 boxes on one ups. 1200 watt supply Just the boxes. No monitors or anything else. I'm probably pushing my luck, though. We have many small outages this time of year and I haven't run out of volts yet. Lee On Wednesday 29 May 2002 10:17 am, daRcmaTTeR wrote: >

Re: [newbie] accesss shareing

2002-05-29 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Wed, 29 May 2002, shane wrote: > On Wednesday 29 May 2002 07:16 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] opened a general > hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: > > > I have the name but my cable company AT&T was awful about the ideal don,t > > want it done for some reason > > yeah they thi

Re: [newbie] OT Journaling, gotta love it

2002-05-29 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Wednesday 29 May 2002 03:22 am, Michael Adams wrote: > > Had a power cut last night. I had bluefish, kwrite, Mozilla, and a > > terminal all open. The power went came back up for two seconds then > > died again. I switched the switch at the wall and c

Re: [newbie] accesss shareing

2002-05-29 Thread shane
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 07:16 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: > I have the name but my cable company AT&T was awful about the ideal don,t > want it done for some reason yeah they think you buy a connection for a machine, not a hous

Re: [newbie] OT Journaling, gotta love it

2002-05-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 03:22 am, Michael Adams wrote: > Had a power cut last night. I had bluefish, kwrite, Mozilla, and a > terminal all open. The power went came back up for two seconds then > died again. I switched the switch at the wall and chewed my nails > until the power came back up an h

[newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock

2002-05-29 Thread Marc
This may be a bit off topic but most likley of intrist to a few folks here. The other day I pulled the last of the money that I had in the stock market out. Lucky for me that everything else I had in the market I had pulled out several years ago before the whole market went way down. I rea

Re: [newbie] accesss shareing

2002-05-29 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Wed, 29 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have the name but my cable company AT&T was awful about the ideal don,t > want it done for some reason j, what you may want to do is setup the connection sharing and then be sure when you setup your firewall that you enable NAT so that all the d

Re: [newbie] Bad floppy filecopy under KDE?

2002-05-29 Thread darklord
On Tuesday 28 May 2002 10:10 pm, you wrote: > Yes there is. IT was on expert list & it relates to copying froma > Konqueror window to a floppy. It will hardlock the system tight :) Hmph. Seems like just another good reason to initiate a: supermount -i disable ;-) Thanks, Femme.

Re: [newbie] Bad floppy filecopy under KDE?

2002-05-29 Thread darklord
On Tuesday 28 May 2002 05:36 pm, you wrote: > I had the same experience but kept quiet as apparrantly , me and floppies > don't mix well:o( :-) > Anyhow, disabling automount for the floppy-device resolved all that. Had to > do that by manually by editing /etc/fstab/ and rebooting cause even as

Re: [newbie] accesss shareing

2002-05-29 Thread jbarron201
I have the name but my cable company AT&T was awful about the ideal don,t want it done for some reason - Original Message - From: "Brian Parish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 12:47 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] accesss shareing > On Wed, 20

Re: [newbie] OS BACKUPS

2002-05-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 1:18 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > I have never managed to get to grips with the linux method of OS > backups. > > It goes without saying they are big files, with the need to create > compressed multi CD writes. > > So how do you backup Linux OS's , write them to CD, and

[newbie] OS BACKUPS

2002-05-29 Thread John Richard Smith
I have never managed to get to grips with the linux method of OS backups. It goes without saying they are big files, with the need to create compressed multi CD writes. So how do you backup Linux OS's , write them to CD, and restore. The only utility I know of is dump , it's command line, whi

Re: [newbie] Possibly OT? MDK Partitioning

2002-05-29 Thread John Richard Smith
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 09:52, you wrote: > Michael Adams wrote: > > On Wed, 29 May 2002 13:58, FemmeFatale wrote: > > > I've run 8.0, 8.1 & now 8.2. Always I've accepted the default > > > install partitions of root (/), swap & home. > > > > > > the one time I tried on 8.0 to make a boot, root,

Re: [newbie] Possibly OT? MDK Partitioning

2002-05-29 Thread Mark Van Bruggen
On 29/05/2002, The following message was beamed across the Internet: > Michael Adams wrote: >> >> On Wed, 29 May 2002 13:58, FemmeFatale wrote: >> > I've run 8.0, 8.1 & now 8.2. Always I've accepted the default install >> > partitions of root (/), swap & home. >> > >> > the one time I tri

Re: [newbie] Java install error

2002-05-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 3:30 am, Angus Auld wrote: > Greetings to all > > I have tried to install j2re 1.4.0 from Sun on my 8.2 system. I got the > j2re-1_4_0- > linux-i386.rpm.bin and ran the install script giving me, > j2re-1_4_0-fcs-linux- > i386.rpm. > > I then ran the rpm command, rpm -i

Re: [newbie] accesss shareing

2002-05-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 4:13 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was trying to share my cable connection in win2000 sstem(which turns out > I lost my help files acouple of week,s ago) with mandrake 8.2.I installed > to 2 card in the 2000 system went thur the auto shareing dos promting the > system I

Re: [newbie] Video again

2002-05-29 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 28 May 2002 23:07, Nicolas VERITE wrote: > Robin Turner wrote: > > On Tuesday 28 May 2002 02:37, Nicolas VERITE wrote: > > > USB is for photos and the MPEG low quality videos, > > > FireWire (or iLink) is made for DV video. > > > > Ah, all is now clear! So I can, in theory, get my camcord

[newbie] OT Journaling, gotta love it

2002-05-29 Thread Michael Adams
Had a power cut last night. I had bluefish, kwrite, Mozilla, and a terminal all open. The power went came back up for two seconds then died again. I switched the switch at the wall and chewed my nails until the power came back up an hour later. Mandrake started as if i had asked for a restart.

Re: [newbie] Digest version of Newbie available

2002-05-29 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 29 May 2002 14:33, dfox wrote: > > First question: I have a 6 gig disk internal and it is already > > partitioned. Can I just clean one of those partitions and install linux > > on it so it is not necessary to blow away the whole disk and all my > > wonderful contents? > > Should be able t

[newbie] Sound Mixer

2002-05-29 Thread Spyros Spyropoulos
Hi, The actual problem is this: Allthough The soundcard is configured correctly, there seems to be no sound mixer. When I try to play MP3's I get en error warning me to check if my soudcard is configured correctly (which is) or that my kernel might not have sound playback capabilities (??).

RE: Re: [newbie] Bad floppy filecopy under KDE?

2002-05-29 Thread falcaraz
Also if you use krusader or nautilus you can do it without problems. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) - Mensaje Original - Remitente: "H.J.Bathoorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fecha: Martes, Mayo 28, 2002 11:36 pm Asunto: Re: [newbie] Bad floppy filecopy under KDE? > On Tuesday 28 May 2002 23

Re: [newbie] Possibly OT? MDK Partitioning

2002-05-29 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 29 May 2002 13:58, FemmeFatale wrote: > I've run 8.0, 8.1 & now 8.2. Always I've accepted the default install > partitions of root (/), swap & home. > > the one time I tried on 8.0 to make a boot, root, swap, var & other > partitions, the boot partition was blank. As a result the root >

Re: [newbie] accesss shareing

2002-05-29 Thread Brian Parish
On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 16:56, James Thomas wrote: > I don't know about all cable providers but all I had to do was enter my > computer's name > that the cable company gave me and dhcpcd set the rest up for me - I > didn't need to > input nameservers or anything. > > James > Yes, but presumably

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