Re: [newbie] DVD movies

2003-03-08 Thread Len Lawrence
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 15:56:01 -0500 Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 08 March 2003 03:14 pm, Metamorphysical wrote: > > I've looked on some of the RPM sites for dvd patches and such but maybe I > > just can't do it. I'm trying to play dvd's and just won't do it. I know > > most

Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts

2003-03-08 Thread Len Lawrence
On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:54:11 + John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Len Lawrence wrote: >> >> all snipped -- > Understanding linux printer setup is not easy, and > so here is my best try, > > -- snip snip snip -

Re: [newbie] DVD movies

2003-03-08 Thread LeaAnne Kolp
I'm using Xine with encrypted dvds. You can get the version of decoder software and the version of Xine it works with at my site. http://www12.brinkster.com/cowgirlk/xine.htm Everything should work fine after that :) Good Luck! -- LeaAnne Kolp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Registered User #288129 O

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - Update

2003-03-08 Thread David E. Fox
> As an update - I just disconnected the CD-RW - Still can't boot from the > CD-ROM. Now I'm going to set up the CD-ROM as Primary SLAVE and see where > that gets me. I have had difficulties - not really linux related but it's the only OS I've run in several years - but likely hardware issues on

Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0

2003-03-08 Thread David E. Fox
> of the board, but it does have "Fresno" printed along one edge. FSB is I guess the bus speed to the expansioh slots - supposedly the "front side" of the CPU. Doesn't make much sense. I guess it's related to the speed that the CPU can interface with the peripherals, memory, etc. If it's in "front

Re: [newbie] tar questions, ta

2003-03-08 Thread David E. Fox
> $ mkdosfs /dev/fd0 > is only part of the story. Presumably working on preformatted or prepped > disks? Yep - presumably the disk has already been (fd) formatted. But most floppy disks purchased these days have already been formatted. > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? G

Re: [newbie] Tar tumbling?

2003-03-08 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Sat 2003-03-08 at 12:31:26 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I seem to have a problem with my tar backups. Yes, you do have. ;) > When I check the backed up information, I see: > > -rw-r--r--1 paul paul 10240 Mar 8 12:00 backup1.tar.gz > -rw-r--r--1 paul paul

Re: [newbie] Download manager, grab everything

2003-03-08 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 08 March 2003 09:37 am, Rifza Adriansyah wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 05 March 2003 06:29, Lanman wrote: > > Rifza; Have you tried using Konqueror in KDE? Not only is it a file > > manager, web-browser, and FTP client, but it allows you to dr

Re: [newbie] Download manager, grab everything

2003-03-08 Thread Rifza Adriansyah
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 05 March 2003 06:29, Lanman wrote: > Rifza; Have you tried using Konqueror in KDE? Not only is it a file > manager, web-browser, and FTP client, but it allows you to drag and > drop entire folders from ftp sites, and manages multiple downl

Re: [newbie] No icons in KDE 3.1

2003-03-08 Thread Charles Roberts
robin wrote: I'm sorry if this was dealt with when KDE 3.1 came out, but after trawling through the archives for a while, I haven't found anything. (That reminds me to plead once again for people to start a new thread when the topic changes - it's a minor irritation when I'm reading my mail, bu

RE: [newbie] DVD movies

2003-03-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 09:27, Robert Wideman wrote: > Check out this site and follow it. It got me going. > http://www.trylinuxsd.com/dvd/ > Rob > If it "got you going", then I'd be frightened! -- Sun, 9 Mar 2003 09:30:00 +1100 9:30am up 22:34, 4 users, load average: 2.03, 1.77, 1.39

RE: [newbie] DVD movies

2003-03-08 Thread Robert Wideman
Check out this site and follow it. It got me going. http://www.trylinuxsd.com/dvd/ Rob >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Roger Sherman >> Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 4:15 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: [newbie] DVD movi

Re: [newbie] DVD movies

2003-03-08 Thread Stephen Kitchener
On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 22:14, Roger Sherman wrote: There's also a prog called vlc > On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 15:56:01 -0500, you wrote: > >On Saturday 08 March 2003 03:14 pm, Metamorphysical wrote: > >> I've looked on some of the RPM sites for dvd patches and such but maybe > >> I just can't do it. I

Re: [newbie] DVD movies

2003-03-08 Thread Roger Sherman
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 15:56:01 -0500, you wrote: >On Saturday 08 March 2003 03:14 pm, Metamorphysical wrote: >> I've looked on some of the RPM sites for dvd patches and such but maybe I >> just can't do it. I'm trying to play dvd's and just won't do it. I know >> most of them are encrypted and that

Re: [newbie] Getting old threads sent by mail

2003-03-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 07:47, Adolfo Bello wrote: > On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 16:08, Paul Cox wrote: > I guess it is not the case for mailing lists. What they do is to send > you a probe, let's say 24 hours after te messages to you start bouncing, > warning that if the probe bounces too then you will be

Re: [newbie] vmware hosting

2003-03-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 00:07, Andrew Scotchmer wrote: > - what is the guest OS, BTW? > > Win98 for the girlfriend. > > Andrew OK, so being that you can't replace the girlfriend with a linux girlfriend, I'd tend to reckon that you need to make ABSOLUTELY sure you have Samba setup on the host box

Re: [newbie] Getting old threads sent by mail

2003-03-08 Thread Paul Cox
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 09:36:52AM -0400, Adolfo Bello wrote: > Yesterday, I had my mail server down for ~14 hours. > > Is there any way to get a thread sent to me by email? Is there any > command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get this done? Don't know about sympa commands, but mail servers will usual

[newbie] cd not working

2003-03-08 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
Hi all Got a prob with my cd/dvd player. Whenever I put in a cd, say from a linux magazine, it cannot be read saying that the files do not exist. Sometimes the files names are shown but when I click on them I get theabove message. This means I have to place all the apps I want onto my windows

[newbie] vmware hosting

2003-03-08 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
Hi all. Just installed vmware and set it up as host omly but how can I access the internet from this setting. When using Nat I can easily access once I login with my linux box but then cannot access the host file system. It seems it's either one or the other at present whereas I would like the

Re: [newbie] normal user can delete root owned files!

2003-03-08 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 08 Mar 2003 04:15, Todd Slater wrote: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:38:20PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 2:26 am, cervixcouch wrote: > > > On Friday 07 March 2003 09:09 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > > > > You are right, from directories other than the /home/belardi i

Re: [newbie] normal user can delete root owned files!

2003-03-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 22:47, robin wrote: > "man ls" and "man rm" a pretty good, too ;-) > > Sir Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# man woman No manual entry for woman [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# man sense No manual entry for sense [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# man brains No manual entry for brains --

Re: [newbie] Getting old threads sent by mail

2003-03-08 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 15:49, Michael Adams wrote: > If it is a specific thread just read the archives. If you specifically want > it in e-mail form for inclusion in a folder, then copy and paste from browser > to e-mail. Then mail them to yourself. I myself am constantly fighting to > minimise

Re: [newbie] No icons in KDE 3.1

2003-03-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 06:39, robin wrote: > I'm sorry if this was dealt with when KDE 3.1 came out, but after > trawling through the archives for a while, I haven't found anything. > (That reminds me to plead once again for people to start a new thread > when the topic changes - it's a minor irr

Re: [newbie] howto for setting up a digital audio workstation withMandrake 9.1

2003-03-08 Thread robin
et wrote: I would like to reprint something from cooker, since I know Austin does not possibly have the time to have monitored newbie as well as put this together for us and many many THANKS to Austin, Well, since 9.1 should be out next week, and most of the kernel/alsa/jack problems seem to

Re: [newbie] Getting old threads sent by mail

2003-03-08 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 02:36, Adolfo Bello wrote: > Yesterday, I had my mail server down for ~14 hours. > > Is there any way to get a thread sent to me by email? Is there any > command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get this done? > > TIA If it is a specific thread just read the archives. If you specificall

[newbie] No icons in KDE 3.1

2003-03-08 Thread robin
I'm sorry if this was dealt with when KDE 3.1 came out, but after trawling through the archives for a while, I haven't found anything. (That reminds me to plead once again for people to start a new thread when the topic changes - it's a minor irritation when I'm reading my mail, but a major PIT

Re: [newbie] Low volume sound

2003-03-08 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 7:39 pm, Michael Adams wrote: > On Sat, 08 Mar 2003 23:14, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Friday 07 Mar 2003 5:03 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > > > I haven't heard this before, Tom. I wonder if that's the reason my > > > > 'slider' kept dropping down to around 60%? Short of gravi

Re: [newbie] Low volume sound

2003-03-08 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 08 Mar 2003 23:14, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Friday 07 Mar 2003 5:03 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > > I haven't heard this before, Tom. I wonder if that's the reason my > > > 'slider' kept dropping down to around 60%? Short of gravity I've > > > never been able to explain it. Anyway, aumix, a

Re: [newbie] ntpd issues

2003-03-08 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 7:15 pm, magnet wrote: > On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 6:41 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 6:22 pm, magnet wrote: > > > I used webmin to set the time server for my machine. > > > Keeps time great here. > > > > > > Webmin >> Hardware >> System Time > > > > > > I

Re: [newbie] ntpd issues

2003-03-08 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 7:04 pm, Paul wrote: > In reply to Anne's mail, d.d. Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:41:48 +: > >I tried to set this up, but got 'Failed to lookup IP address for > >ntp2a.mcc.ac.uk '. What am I missing? > > See if you can ping that host: > No problem with that. It must be something

Re: [newbie] ntpd issues

2003-03-08 Thread magnet
On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 6:41 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 6:22 pm, magnet wrote: > > I used webmin to set the time server for my machine. > > Keeps time great here. > > > > Webmin >> Hardware >> System Time > > > > I'm currently using this server: ntp2a.mcc.ac.uk > > > > Hope t

Re: [newbie] System is rebooting on its own

2003-03-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 02:02, Chris wrote: > I had thought about that also Stephen. I did a few calculations. The xscreen > saver kicked in about 10:15 last night and as of 7:30 this morning hadn't > rebooted. I have 118 screensavers ticked and its set to randomly pick one. > The time between

Re: [newbie] ntpd issues

2003-03-08 Thread Paul
In reply to Anne's mail, d.d. Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:41:48 +: >I tried to set this up, but got 'Failed to lookup IP address for >ntp2a.mcc.ac.uk '. What am I missing? See if you can ping that host: [EMAIL PROTECTED] paul]$ ping ntp2a.mcc.ac.ak ping: unknown host ntp2a.mcc.ac.ak [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [newbie] ntpd issues

2003-03-08 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 6:22 pm, magnet wrote: > I used webmin to set the time server for my machine. > Keeps time great here. > > Webmin >> Hardware >> System Time > > I'm currently using this server: ntp2a.mcc.ac.uk > > Hope this helps you out I tried to set this up, but got 'Failed to lookup I

Re: [newbie] ntpd issues

2003-03-08 Thread magnet
On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 5:38 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: > I have a Cisco 2500 router setup to deny ALL activity on port 123 (ntpd). > The Cisco router is my time server. I have finally found out why i am > getting errors in my Cisco logs stating an NTP server is getting denied, > its b/c i had one

Re: [newbie] Mandrake9.0beta3Updated / Scanner Problem

2003-03-08 Thread John Richard Smith
civileme wrote: On Saturday 08 March 2003 04:13 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Your onboard USB is a full hardware implementation (Usb-ohci) and your add-on is software-driven (usb-uhci). I fear that the modules dribving these two may not mix. Civileme Civileme, What would you advis

Re: [newbie] System is rebooting on its own

2003-03-08 Thread John Richard Smith
Chris wrote: On Saturday 08 March 2003 08:52 am, John Richard Smith decided to hunt and peck on the keyboard and typed: anyones eye. I came home from work at 5:15 and my system had apparently rebooted itself about 15 minutes ago. I can't find any reason for this at all. I've checked the log

[newbie] ntpd issues

2003-03-08 Thread Robert Wideman
I have a Cisco 2500 router setup to deny ALL activity on port 123 (ntpd). The Cisco router is my time server. I have finally found out why i am getting errors in my Cisco logs stating an NTP server is getting denied, its b/c i had one specified in ntp.conf and its not the server that i thought it

[newbie] howto for setting up a digital audio workstation with Mandrake 9.1

2003-03-08 Thread et
I would like to reprint something from cooker, since I know Austin does not possibly have the time to have monitored newbie as well as put this together for us and many many THANKS to Austin, Well, since 9.1 should be out next week, and most of the kernel/alsa/jack problems seem to be cleare

Re: [newbie] Low volume sound

2003-03-08 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 5:13 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Saturday March 8 2003 04:14 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > I forgot one important thing, sorry. Once you adjust the > > > volume levels in aumix, click on File, then Save before quitting > > > aumix. Otherwise the settings won't be saved.

Re: [newbie] Low volume sound

2003-03-08 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday March 8 2003 04:14 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I forgot one important thing, sorry. Once you adjust the > > volume levels in aumix, click on File, then Save before quitting > > aumix. Otherwise the settings won't be saved. > > Sadly, gravity prevailed. The volume indicator was way

Re: [newbie] Don't mess with /etc

2003-03-08 Thread Paul
In reply to civileme's mail, d.d. Sat, 8 Mar 2003 06:54:43 -0900: >> Is there no easy way to preserve all kinds of settings and configs from >> /etc other than selecting and backing up files by hand? > >Well, of course many files in /etc are needed when / is mounted read-only >before any other pa

Re: [newbie] Don't mess with /etc

2003-03-08 Thread civileme
On Saturday 08 March 2003 04:39 am, Paul wrote: > Hello all, > > I thought to be smart, but bit myself in the nose. > > I intend to go for Mdk 9.1 when it comes available. I remembered that the > best thing to do is format / and /usr at least, to make the setup as clean > as possible. Of course, on

Re: [newbie] Mandrake9.0beta3Updated / Scanner Problem

2003-03-08 Thread civileme
On Saturday 08 March 2003 04:13 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > Is anyone else having problems with their scanner with the new > Mandrake OS. I had hoped urpmi updating would cure it. > > The USB hub is detecting the device, > > KDE C C Info USB devices > > > NEC Corporation

Re: [newbie] question on tarballing up the ~/wine folder

2003-03-08 Thread robin
Robert Wideman wrote: I am playing around with wine. It is working just fine on my MDK9 install. I also have an RH8 install on another box. I was wondering if anyone has tried tarballing the ~/wine directory and moving it to another box OR distro'ed box and it still work. My thought on doing th

Re: [newbie] System is rebooting on its own

2003-03-08 Thread et
On Saturday 08 March 2003 09:52 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > Chris wrote: > >On Friday 07 March 2003 11:57 pm, David Williams decided to hunt and peck > > on > > > >the keyboard and typed: > >>On Friday 07 March 2003 06:24 pm, Chris wrote: > >>>anyones eye. I came home from work at 5:15 and my

Re: [newbie] Mandrake9.0beta3Updated / Scanner Problem

2003-03-08 Thread John Richard Smith
Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 08 March 2003 08:13 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Is anyone else having problems with their scanner with the new Mandrake OS. I had hoped urpmi updating would cure it. My hp4300 works fine on latest cooker. Did you run scannerdrake? I did, It found the sc

Re: [newbie] System is rebooting on its own

2003-03-08 Thread John Richard Smith
Chris wrote: On Friday 07 March 2003 11:57 pm, David Williams decided to hunt and peck on the keyboard and typed: On Friday 07 March 2003 06:24 pm, Chris wrote: anyones eye. I came home from work at 5:15 and my system had apparently rebooted itself about 15 minutes ago. I can't find any

[newbie] question on tarballing up the ~/wine folder

2003-03-08 Thread Robert Wideman
I am playing around with wine. It is working just fine on my MDK9 install. I also have an RH8 install on another box. I was wondering if anyone has tried tarballing the ~/wine directory and moving it to another box OR distro'ed box and it still work. My thought on doing this is that it is linux

Re: [newbie] System is rebooting on its own

2003-03-08 Thread Chris
On Friday 07 March 2003 11:57 pm, David Williams decided to hunt and peck on the keyboard and typed: > On Friday 07 March 2003 06:24 pm, Chris wrote: > > anyones eye. I came home from work at 5:15 and my system had apparently > > rebooted itself about 15 minutes ago. I can't find any reason for

Re: [newbie] Mandrake9.0beta3Updated / Scanner Problem

2003-03-08 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 08 March 2003 08:13 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > Is anyone else having problems with their scanner with the new > Mandrake OS. I had hoped urpmi updating would cure it. > My hp4300 works fine on latest cooker. Did you run scannerdrake? -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services fr

[newbie] Don't mess with /etc

2003-03-08 Thread Paul
Hello all, I thought to be smart, but bit myself in the nose. I intend to go for Mdk 9.1 when it comes available. I remembered that the best thing to do is format / and /usr at least, to make the setup as clean as possible. Of course, one would leave /home alone. I have separate partitions for

[newbie] Getting old threads sent by mail

2003-03-08 Thread Adolfo Bello
Yesterday, I had my mail server down for ~14 hours. Is there any way to get a thread sent to me by email? Is there any command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get this done? TIA -- __ / \\ @ __ __@ Adolfo Bello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> / // // /\

[newbie] Mandrake9.0beta3Updated / Scanner Problem

2003-03-08 Thread John Richard Smith
Is anyone else having problems with their scanner with the new Mandrake OS. I had hoped urpmi updating would cure it. The USB hub is detecting the device, KDE C C Info USB devices NEC Corporation |__EPSON Scanner USB OHCI Root Hub (1) |__Lexmark Z53 USB OHCI Ro

Re: [newbie] normal user can delete root owned files!

2003-03-08 Thread robin
Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: On Fri 2003-03-07 at 17:03:31 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its all to do with the x. for a file it means the owner/group can execute that file. But for a directory, anybody in the group for that directory can delete any file in the root of that directory, even if the g

[newbie] Tar tumbling?

2003-03-08 Thread Paul
Greetings everyone, I seem to have a problem with my tar backups. When I check the backed up information, I see: -rw-r--r--1 paul paul 10240 Mar 8 12:00 backup1.tar.gz -rw-r--r--1 paul paul 10240 Mar 7 12:00 backup2.tar.gz Weird, since the backup1 file (made to

Re: [newbie] Low volume sound

2003-03-08 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 08 Mar 2003 10:53 am, Paul wrote: > In reply to Anne's mail, d.d. Sat, 8 Mar 2003 10:14:41 +: > >> levels in aumix, click on File, then Save before quitting aumix. > >> Otherwise the settings won't be saved. > > > >Sadly, gravity prevailed. The volume indicator was way down again t

Re: [newbie] Low volume sound

2003-03-08 Thread Paul
In reply to Anne's mail, d.d. Sat, 8 Mar 2003 10:14:41 +: >> levels in aumix, click on File, then Save before quitting aumix. >> Otherwise the settings won't be saved. > >Sadly, gravity prevailed. The volume indicator was way down again this >morning. It's not important, but I wish I knew w

Re: [newbie] Low volume sound

2003-03-08 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 07 Mar 2003 5:03 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > I haven't heard this before, Tom. I wonder if that's the reason my > > 'slider' kept dropping down to around 60%? Short of gravity I've > > never been able to explain it. Anyway, aumix, as you said, was at > > around 60%, so I've hitched it