Re: [newbie] OK New adventure in User passwords!

2002-07-02 Thread FemmeFatale
civileme wrote: > FemmeFatale wrote: > >> Gues what I did >> >> I forgot my user password! OH JOY! >> >> HELLLP! >> >> how the hell do I login now!? >> >> got roots password just not my user one! ;\ >> >> ain't I just brilliant? >> >> Femme >> >> >> >> >> ---

Re: [newbie] OK New adventure in User passwords!

2002-07-02 Thread FemmeFatale
martin wrote: > > --- FemmeFatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Gues what I did >> >>I forgot my user password! OH JOY! >> >>HELLLP! >> >>how the hell do I login now!? >> >>got roots password just not my user one! ;\ >> >>ain't I just brilliant? >> >>Femme > >

Re: [newbie] OK New adventure in User passwords!

2002-07-02 Thread martin
--- FemmeFatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gues what I did > > I forgot my user password! OH JOY! > > HELLLP! > > how the hell do I login now!? > > got roots password just not my user one! ;\ > > ain't I just brilliant? > > Femme if you have the root pa

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-07-02 Thread Len Lawrence
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, shane wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > On Sunday 30 June 2002 10:57 am, RichardA did speak unto the huddled masses, > saying: > > > > Good news. Open Office 1.0 is on one of the CDs that comes with the > > > latest issue of Linux Format magazine. Don't know how wi

Re: [newbie] Pause while on vacation

2002-07-02 Thread John McQuillen
On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 11:55, Roland Hughes wrote: > I am going on vacation and need to turn it off for a while, or my isp > will kill me, and I can not find out how. Sorry, I can't help you with how, but I'm sure they'll make it as slow and painful as possible :o) Good luck, John... Want to

Re: [newbie] let's keep it to the list to help others to OK?

2002-07-02 Thread dfox
> What you described involves more than 11 separate steps ... > and then I still don't know what to do > to crop the captured image to just the portion I want: Well, we'll leave cropping the image for now - one would still have to do that step even in windows, unless you want t

Re: [newbie] Pause while on vacation

2002-07-02 Thread Roland Hughes
Thanks! That's what I love love about this group. Roly On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 20:28, Michael Adams wrote: > On Wed, 03 Jul 2002 13:55, Roland Hughes wrote: > > I am going on vacation and need to turn it off for a while, or my isp > > will kill me, and I can not find out how. > > Roly > > No probl

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-02 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 02 July 2002 05:30 pm, D. Olson did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: > Yes, very strange indeed. Funny how I only ever saw ONE Linux game on a > store shelf... Hmm... Go figure. i have seen a few, but not much. it boils down to th

Re: [newbie] HP Surestore 5000

2002-07-02 Thread dfox
> My problem is that I have no idea how to use the tape drive. > > Could someone give me some pointers please. I think there's a Tape howto over in the howto docs, but once you have the tape working, it's pretty easy to use - you just use the /dev/st0 (it is scsi, right?) or /dev/nst0 devises -

Re: [newbie] Strange crashes when idle

2002-07-02 Thread civileme
et wrote: >On Wednesday 03 July 2002 06:07 am, you wrote: > >>>how much memory do you have? >>> >>256 meg RAM >> >>>is it shared video mem? >>> >>Video card is an NVIDIA GeforceMX with 32 meg. >> >>>how much disk space do you have? (type df, and post it) >>> >>It's a 20 gig hard drive. df yields:

Re: [newbie] Books suggestion.

2002-07-02 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 03 Jul 2002 13:27, Dennis Myers wrote: > On Tuesday 02 July 2002 09:22 pm, you wrote: > > Dear experts > > > > Could you give me a little help answering the add below ??? (It can > > interest others newbies) > > > > Linux home-user (not IT professional but above "dummy in computer" > > lev

Re: [newbie] Pause while on vacation

2002-07-02 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 03 Jul 2002 13:55, Roland Hughes wrote: > I am going on vacation and need to turn it off for a while, or my isp > will kill me, and I can not find out how. > Roly No problem. Read http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 Bookmark this page for future reference as you never know when

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file

2002-07-02 Thread civileme
Bob Read wrote: >I have upgraded LM8.1 to 8.2 twice, once leaving StarOffice 5.2 >in place >and once after uninstalling 5.2. In the first case, SO Writer would >load >and function for a while -- and suddenly disappear completely. > >I suspected 5.2 had caused a problem, and tried an up

Re: [newbie] Kernel module loads manually but not on demand -SOLVED

2002-07-02 Thread Warren Post
Loading the module in /etc/modules fixes the problem. Thanks for the good idea. Warren On lun, 2002-07-01 at 20:00, mike wrote: > I had a similar problem with a Umax scanner and was having to insmod the > aix7xx module > each time I wanted to use the scanner > > I wanted to know how to make it

Re: [newbie] Books suggestion.

2002-07-02 Thread Bill Davidson
On Tue, 02 Jul 2002 22:22:29 -0300 Filipe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear experts > > Could you give me a little help answering the add below ??? (It can > interest others newbies) > > Linux home-user (not IT professional but above "dummy in computer" > level), myself, that recently insta

[newbie] reiser? or something foolish?

2002-07-02 Thread shane
i lost my root partition the other day. not sure why, but i am wondering if that is what was meant by some others when they warned against reiser. i tried to boot and it simply found no root partition. tried to rescue disk it and it said that partition was of "unidentified type." now it mo

Re: [newbie] Books suggestion.

2002-07-02 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 02 July 2002 09:22 pm, you wrote: > Dear experts > > Could you give me a little help answering the add below ??? (It can > interest others newbies) > > Linux home-user (not IT professional but above "dummy in computer" level), > myself, that recently installed Mandrake 8.2 (2 cd's pack)

Re: [newbie] Changing locale

2002-07-02 Thread g2
On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 10:28, Warren Post wrote: > Thanks, that did it. The closest localedrake could get me was es_MX, but > that's close enough. Now when I install a new package or force an > upgrade of an existing package, it appears in Spanish. > > The only app I'm afraid to do this on is my

[newbie] Pause while on vacation

2002-07-02 Thread Roland Hughes
I am going on vacation and need to turn it off for a while, or my isp will kill me, and I can not find out how. Roly -- "The directions said to install Windows 98/2000 or better! So I installed Linux!" Linux Counter: 241069 Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandrak

Re: [newbie] Changing locale

2002-07-02 Thread Warren Post
Thanks, that did it. The closest localedrake could get me was es_MX, but that's close enough. Now when I install a new package or force an upgrade of an existing package, it appears in Spanish. The only app I'm afraid to do this on is my email client, Evolution. If I force an upgrade, will I lo

Re: [newbie] OK New adventure in User passwords!

2002-07-02 Thread civileme
FemmeFatale wrote: > Gues what I did > > I forgot my user password! OH JOY! > > HELLLP! > > how the hell do I login now!? > > got roots password just not my user one! ;\ > > ain't I just brilliant? > > Femme > > > > >--

[newbie] Books suggestion.

2002-07-02 Thread Filipe
Dear experts Could you give me a little help answering the add below ??? (It can interest others newbies) Linux home-user (not IT professional but above "dummy in computer" level), myself, that recently installed Mandrake 8.2 (2 cd’s pack), with no time for formal course, with some initial diffic

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-02 Thread D. Olson
On Tuesday 02 July 2002 04:31 pm, you wrote: > there was a couple of companies making them. they went out of buis. go > figure. Yes, very strange indeed. Funny how I only ever saw ONE Linux game on a store shelf... Hmm... Go figure. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

RE: [newbie] Strange crashes when idle

2002-07-02 Thread Pippin Barr
> We had a similar problem. We had weird symptoms such as a logger looked > like it was running away, find made the machine hang (had to use the > power button on that one) but only sometimes. Turned out to be flaky > RAM. As soon as we replaced it and doubled it, all was right with the > world

RE: [newbie] Strange crashes when idle

2002-07-02 Thread Schwenk, Jeanie
We had a similar problem. We had weird symptoms such as a logger looked like it was running away, find made the machine hang (had to use the power button on that one) but only sometimes. Turned out to be flaky RAM. As soon as we replaced it and doubled it, all was right with the world. We used

Re: [newbie] Ok you got me started

2002-07-02 Thread mike
To jump in here , I have had problems with LM_sensors in 8.2 as well. in 8.0 it works perfectly. under 8.2 only one of the sensors is seen, and it registers the a cpu temp of 127 degrees C. quite silly and wrong. I can make it read a correct value, but the value never changes. I would li

[newbie] OO print to file (pdf)

2002-07-02 Thread Todd Slater
I'm trying to write an OO.org doc to pdf. When I try to open it with xpdf, I get this error: Error: May not be a PDF file (continuing anyway) Error (0): PDF file is damaged - attempting to reconstruct xref table... Error: Couldn't find trailer dictionary Error: Couldn't read xref table GV is abl

Re: [newbie] Ok you got me started

2002-07-02 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 01 July 2002 05:25 pm, you wrote: > On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 10:10, tom brinkman wrote: > > On Sunday 30 June 2002 03:37 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: > > > > > sensors -s gives a "no sensors found" message. I looked at the > > > > > sensors.conf file and I know I need help in setting it

Re: [newbie] Strange crashes when idle

2002-07-02 Thread et
On Wednesday 03 July 2002 06:07 am, you wrote: > > how much memory do you have? > > 256 meg RAM > > > is it shared video mem? > > Video card is an NVIDIA GeforceMX with 32 meg. > > > how much disk space do you have? (type df, and post it) > > It's a 20 gig hard drive. df yields: > > Filesystem

Re: [newbie] Strange crashes when idle

2002-07-02 Thread Pippin Barr
> how much memory do you have? 256 meg RAM > is it shared video mem? Video card is an NVIDIA GeforceMX with 32 meg. > how much disk space do you have? (type df, and post it) It's a 20 gig hard drive. df yields: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hde2

Re: [newbie] Strange crashes when idle

2002-07-02 Thread et
On Wednesday 03 July 2002 05:39 am, you wrote: > Hi all, > > I don't know if I consider myself a newbie, having run linux of some sort > for about three years, but I don't consider myself an expert, so here I > am. > > My problem is unfortunately hard to describe, and what I'm really looking > for

[newbie] Strange crashes when idle

2002-07-02 Thread Pippin Barr
Hi all, I don't know if I consider myself a newbie, having run linux of some sort for about three years, but I don't consider myself an expert, so here I am. My problem is unfortunately hard to describe, and what I'm really looking for is ideas for establishing what the problem might be. Bas

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-02 Thread shane
On Tuesday 02 July 2002 09:29, D. Olson opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: > Whatever. > > Why is it so hard to see that without Linux games, there CAN'T be a Linux > gaming market? How can we prove that we will buy games if there ARE NO > GAMES to buy? the

Re: [newbie] queuing sounds

2002-07-02 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 21:52:42 +0100 LtCdData <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > how can i stop sounds queuing on mandrake 8.2 > while online sounds like "you-have-post.wav" and "anyMsg.wav" > cannot play if i happen to have a movie playing at the same time. > By the time the movie is about 2/3 the way th

RE: [newbie] MS Outlook

2002-07-02 Thread Mike Settle
Dennis, If you just want to change the Outlook format on an individual basis, before you send, click Format/Plain Text - To change your default format, in the Outlook screen click on Tools/Options/Mail Format. You'll see a drop down arrow for HTML, Plain Text, et al. Mike S. vvwvv <(©¿©)>

Re: [newbie] Ok you got me started

2002-07-02 Thread Terence J. Golightly
On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 21:55, tom brinkman wrote: > On Monday 01 July 2002 04:25 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: > > > scan ISA bus yes > > bunch of error messages for chips that arn't on my board. > > That's normal > > > Summary of probes just done: > > press enter to continue. << didn't p

RE: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file

2002-07-02 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file   -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Myers, Dennis R NWOSent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 2:10 PMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file -O

RE: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file

2002-07-02 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bob Read Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 1:24 PM To: Newbie Mandrake Subject: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file I have upgraded  LM8.1  to  8.2  t

[newbie] Wget

2002-07-02 Thread Jordan Elver
Hi, Could anyone advise me how to use wget? I am trying to download a whole directory of images, but directory brwosing is turned off :-( So wget can't follow them, does anyone know of any good sites that I can look at? I know wget *can* do this! Cheers, Jord -- Jordan Elver http://www.jorda

Re: [newbie] OK New adventure in User passwords!

2002-07-02 Thread FemmeFatale
Ron Bouwhuis wrote: > Femme, > > Just log in as root and go to user admin - reset that > user's password. Tres simple! > > Ron. > THank the gods someone on heres a genius! And sorry for hijacking this thread... Oops. :\ Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] StarOffice 6.0 can't save file

2002-07-02 Thread Bob Read
I have upgraded LM8.1 to 8.2 twice, once leaving StarOffice 5.2 in place and once after uninstalling 5.2. In the first case, SO Writer would load and function for a while -- and suddenly disappear completely. I suspected 5.2 had caused a problem, and tried an upgrade on another insalla

RE: [newbie] Windows Games OT: Quake 2.

2002-07-02 Thread Franki
Hi guys, If I have Quake 2 for windows.. is there anyway I can get it running on a linux box?? If I understand correctly, all I really need from the win install is the .pak files.. the rest of them can be replaced with a free linux variant??? is that true? If so, where do I get it? Also, can

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-02 Thread D. Olson
Whatever. Why is it so hard to see that without Linux games, there CAN'T be a Linux gaming market? How can we prove that we will buy games if there ARE NO GAMES to buy? On Tuesday 02 July 2002 12:03 pm, you wrote: > On Monday 01 July 2002 05:24 pm, you wrote: > > > > > You can run your

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-02 Thread D. Olson
On Tuesday 02 July 2002 09:41 am, you wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 09:11:02 -0400, "D. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 02 July 2002 12:46 am, you wrote: > > > But why would anyone buy the GNU/Linux version when you > > > can get the Windows version for the same price (sometimes ch

Re: [newbie] Accessing (via ssh) PC Behind DHCP Server?

2002-07-02 Thread Kevin Old
Sevatio, Yes, this is possible. I use dyndns.org. Basically what you do is setup a subdomain at one of the domain names they let you choose from, and then install a client on your server. Whenever the DHCP connection is refreshed, the new IP is sent to dyndns.org and the host record is updated

[newbie] k3b cd text again

2002-07-02 Thread Jennifer M. Wallace
okay, that still did nto fix it any ideas? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Fixed k3b cd text

2002-07-02 Thread Jennifer M. Wallace
nevermind, I fixeed it, I changed the driver to generic-mmc-raw... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] k3b - cd text

2002-07-02 Thread Jennifer M. Wallace
k3b will not burn cd text to my cds. My cd burner is a BPRec, I am using generic-mmc as the cdcrdao driver...Whenever I try to burn cd text on my cds, ,I get the following errors: Cannot set write parameters modee page writing failed cdrdao returned some error sorry, no error handling yet... It

Re: [newbie] Changing locale

2002-07-02 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 02 July 2002 12:46 pm, robin wrote: > But surely the locale info you get when you type "locale" is > independent of the window manager. I have the Turkish locale package > installed, and localedrake sees it,it just won't make any changes.

Re: [newbie] Changing locale

2002-07-02 Thread robin
Alastair Scott wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday 02 July 2002 1:27 pm, robin wrote: > > >>I tried that - checked Turkish, but all my locale settings still >>read en_US. >> > > This is nearly as confusing as Windows ;) > > There are two components to the

Re: [newbie] Changing locale

2002-07-02 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 02 July 2002 1:27 pm, robin wrote: > I tried that - checked Turkish, but all my locale settings still > read en_US. This is nearly as confusing as Windows ;) There are two components to the locale: - - the country, which contains all s

Re: [newbie] Re: Mozilla upgrade

2002-07-02 Thread John Richard Smith
> > >> >> >> I still don't know about all the pluggins, Mozilla and Netscape seem >> to have so many. My old mozilla had java realtime as an rpm and I >> guess this serves again, and does not need changing ? > > > John... glad to hear that you've gotten everything installed and > working. I'm s

Re: [newbie] root login

2002-07-02 Thread Ron Bouwhuis
--- Roy Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Robt. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Drake Zero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 11:11 PM > Subject: Re: [newbie] root login > > > > On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Drake Zer

Re: [newbie] Lilo is gone!!!

2002-07-02 Thread robin
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: >On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 01:01:20 -0500 (CDT), Brian R Koppe ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Hey everyone, LILO is gone! Basically, the story is that I have a dual >>boot WinXP and Linux Mandrake - and I've reinstalled WinXP before with no >>problem. This time, I guess

Re: [newbie] Changing locale

2002-07-02 Thread robin
g2 wrote: >On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 17:24, Jure Repinc wrote: > > >>Warren Post wrote: >> >> >>>How can I change my locale from the command line? I installed my system >>>as en_US, but to accomodate the Spanish speakers in my family I want to >>>change everything to es_HN. setlocale looks prom

Re: [newbie] Changing locale

2002-07-02 Thread g2
On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 17:24, Jure Repinc wrote: > Warren Post wrote: > > How can I change my locale from the command line? I installed my system > > as en_US, but to accomodate the Spanish speakers in my family I want to > > change everything to es_HN. setlocale looks promising but I can't make >

Re: [newbie] X windows

2002-07-02 Thread Malcolm Candlish
Gerard, Thank you for your prompt reply and inspired suggestion of using 'mcc'. I did'nt know that existed on the command line! Another reply suggested 'drakxconf' which seems to be the same, although I am not sure that it is. Having used that tool, after the Xwindow Test a box, it reads :-

Re: [newbie] Changing locale

2002-07-02 Thread g2
On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 17:24, Jure Repinc wrote: > Warren Post wrote: > > How can I change my locale from the command line? I installed my system > > as en_US, but to accomodate the Spanish speakers in my family I want to > > change everything to es_HN. setlocale looks promising but I can't make >

Re: [newbie] Lilo is gone!!!

2002-07-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 01:01:20 -0500 (CDT), Brian R Koppe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey everyone, LILO is gone! Basically, the story is that I have a dual > boot WinXP and Linux Mandrake - and I've reinstalled WinXP before with no > problem. This time, I guess it decided to actually write over t

Re: [newbie] Kernel module loads manually but not on demand

2002-07-02 Thread mike
I had a similar problem with a Umax scanner and was having to insmod the aix7xx module each time I wanted to use the scanner I wanted to know how to make it permanent I got the following responses: ( hope it sheds some light ) > Praedor Tempus wrote: > > > In this case, and until a real fix

Re: [newbie] X windows

2002-07-02 Thread Malcolm Candlish
Frank, Thank you for your prompt reply and inspired suggestion of using 'drakxconf'. I did'nt know that existed on the command line! Another list member suggested 'mcc', which apears to do the same thing; up pops the same wonderful box to sort out lifes many problems. It's amazing. Having use

Re: [newbie] Changing locale

2002-07-02 Thread Jure Repinc
Warren Post wrote: > How can I change my locale from the command line? I installed my system > as en_US, but to accomodate the Spanish speakers in my family I want to > change everything to es_HN. setlocale looks promising but I can't make > sense of the man page. > > Warren I would also like to

Re: [newbie] Enabling quota

2002-07-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 23:40:55 -0500 (CDT), Anand Kumar Kalyanasundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to enable userquota on my /home partition. I > added the following script to a file in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d > directory: > > # Check quota and then turn quota on. > if [ -x /usr/sbin/quo

Re: [newbie] OK New adventure in User passwords!

2002-07-02 Thread Ron Bouwhuis
Femme, Just log in as root and go to user admin - reset that user's password. Tres simple! Ron. --- FemmeFatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gues what I did > > I forgot my user password! OH JOY! > > HELLLP! > > how the hell do I login now!? > > got roots