I'm not sure,but I think there might be way do that during boot up in
interactive mode,in the part where you mount or unmount local drives.
Might be worth a try before re-installing
ShalomOut
Chal
Elder PCUSA
Registered Linux user #217118
Jeremy D wrote:
> Are you adding the drive to you
That can be the other way around as well. In the past I have used my
computer for many things other than the internet. In fact this list has
led me to spend more time on the internet, because I am learning how to
use my computer for reasons that are not neccesarily internet related.
When I do
Have you tried to "save session" before exiting? Sometimes, (probably
not in this instance) it helps to specify if you are in GNOME or KDE.
ShalomOut
Chal
Elder PCUSA
Registered Linux user #217118
The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact
mathematical desi
You would definitely notice some difference, if Ximian were installed.
For one thing, when you login the first time there is a setup screen.
Until Ximian, I was still just flirting with GNOME and flipping back and
forth from KDE. Now I haven't used KDE at all in over a week. I did the
automati
I have had problems with Nautilus, so I used GMC for my desktop. I'm
just curious about these error messages I get when I run nautilus from a
terminal. Any ideas what kind of a can of worms I'm opening here?
Eel-WARNING **: GConf error:
Object Activation Framework error:
OAF problem descrip
Tom Brinkman wrote:
>On Monday 17 September 2001 10:57 am, Matt Greer escribió:
>
>>on 9/17/01 10:20 AM, Tom Brinkman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>> but I'd recommend switching to a journaling FS ASAP. You should
>>>have already.
>>>
>>What exactly is a journaling file system? What does it me
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles A. Punch
>>Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 2:06 PM
>>To: Sridhar Dhanapalan
>>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: Re: [newbie] Libarary compatibility
>>
>>
>>It's this particular one I'm having the pr
Run sndconfig and listen to the way Linus Torvalds pronounces it. Hey,
he wrote it, so I think he should decide.
ShalomOut
Chal
Elder PCUSA
Registered Linux user 3217118
Colin Jenkins wrote:
>Hello D.,
>
>Saturday, September 15, 2001, 11:45:14 PM, you wrote:
>
>DLW> Hello list
>
>DLW> I'm
chris swain wrote:
>Oh and while your at it does any one know how to delete printer cues :)
>28 pages of pdf /junk
>
I use -Kups -Manage Jobs once there, you can "remove" or "hold" any
running jobs.
ShalomOut
Chal
Elder PCUSA
Registered Linux user 3217118
>
>
>
>
>I did a quick search for "libc" at rpmfind.net and I found a number of Mandrake
>and Mandrake Cooker packages. What is the problem?
>
>On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 17:17:21 -0400, "Charles A. Punch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>
>>Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
&
I have refrained from posting OT since Dennis HAVLIK posted about
kicking people off the list. However, that was not the only one reason.
The other is that I have had arguments in the past about posting OT, and
I see some of the same people who flamed me about my opinion are now
posting OT the
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
>On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 17:18:01 -0400, mcoady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>In my ongoing attempt to get Mandrake8 to accept an earlier version of WP8, I
>>
>tried to install the earlier library libc5 via rpm.
>
>>However I get the message: "file /etc/nsswitch.conf from i
Randy Kramer wrote:
(Except that my ISP has changed his rules since I signed up, and now
considers that if I remain connected for more than 4 to 12 hours (I
forget the exact rules), I am "hanging", and he takes it upon himself to
disconnect me. I can reconnect, but he seems to have his watchful
I lost my backward compatability rpm. It's the one that makes Word
Perfect8 (and other progs as well, I believe) work on newer versions of
Linux. Can't remeber the exact name (*.i386.rpm. something something).
If anyone can direct me to the rpm, I would be very grateful. Thanx in
advance.
ShalomO
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> > Either way, I do not dare put the American people on the same level as
> > terrorists. The Government, possibly, but not the people.
>
> That's the point I'm trying to make. However, the government is elected by the
> people, for the people. If we can actually get
st when you intended to send them off-list,
>Charles. Lighten up. No need to get sarcastic. Perhaps a little more sleep,
>and a lot less caffeine are in order here?
>
>Lanman
>
>
>On Wednesday 12 September 2001 12:33 am, Charles A. Punch wrote:
>
>>Lanman wrote:
&g
11 September 2001 05:33 pm, Charles A. Punch wrote:
>
>>My bad! That's weird, I'm using the reply button (rather that reply all)
>>in Mozilla. Good thing I have nothing to hide eh? Sorry, I don't mean to
>>clog up the list, but it seems that I am not alone in tha
Thanx
Matt Greer wrote:
>On Tuesday 11 September 2001 16:33, you wrote:
>
>>My bad! That's weird, I'm using the reply button (rather that reply all)
>>in Mozilla. Good thing I have nothing to hide eh?
>>
>The mailing list has set up a "reply-to:" header so hitting reply will stick
>in the ml's
Idea.listBT wrote:
>Hi Charles
>I couldn't resist chipping in.
>You said:
>
>>My needs are very specific. I delete a lot of >the posts on this list
>>
>without even reading >them, *because I can tell from the title*, >whether or
>not it is something I will need or
>
>>understand.
>>
> Good one.I
d a new message and
get it to go off list . If this one goes on list, it's definitely my
browser. If it don't, I must have hit the wrong button last time.
ShalomOut
Chal
Elder PCUSA
Registered Linux user #217118
Randy Kramer wrote:
>Charles A. Punch wrote:
>
>>I&#x
jennifer wrote:
>.and I break my own rule on commenting on off topic posts on this list..
>
>First off..as of right now we have absolutely no FACTS that state that this
>attack was caused by anybody outside the US.
>
We might not have *Facts*, but we have a good idea where todays attack
ca
etharp wrote:
>so why don't you save Civilme's posts as html files, and post them on a free
>website like geocities?.
>
Is this reply to me or to the previous poster? If it's to me, I would
venture to say that my lack of experience would not allow me to even
make any kind of an archive that
Star Office is a resource hog. I gave up on running it on my laptop
which only has 80MB RAM. Why not tell him to ditch SO and try Word
Perfect for word processing and maybe some GNOME stuff (Gnumeric etc. )
for the other stuff. That was my solution. The new Abi suite that comes
with Ximian
>
>
>
>I'm an athiest but this does not change the fact that my heart goes out to
>those who have lost loved ones in this tragic (and cowardly!!!) attack.
>My thoughts are with all those involved. People all over the world are in
>total shock and disbelief.
>
>skinky
>
I'm replying off list
I do something similar to what you are talking about. I roll my own help
files, by saving those posts that I think will be of any help in the
future. In the open source spirit, I read them or at least skim over
them enough to get an idea of what to title them. I then save them as a
file (with
FLYNN, Steve wrote:
>Whilst this is all very touching (and no, I'm not being cynical), can please
>we *not* discuss it on the list.
>
>People agreeing with others that it's a terrible thing and their prayers are
>going out to the victims it all well and good, but irrelevant.
>
>Yes, I know it sou
Dave Sherman wrote:
>On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 10:56, David E. Fox wrote:
>
>>US needs to do something about this though - nuke Mecca
>>
>
>Careful, David. We may have peaceful Muslims on this list, who would
>deplore today's events as much as anyone else.
>
>Dave
>
Not to mention that negativity bre
Peter Rymshaw wrote:
>Thanks for the info. Since I come from Win, I guess
>I'll keep things simple with KDE...for now.
>
I just downloaded Ximian GNOME and it seems to be pretty easy to use. I
don't like the term "user friendly," because that usually means limited
configuration. Ximian seems t
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
>
> Mandrake has taken a few elements from Ximian GNOME for Mandrake 8.0.
> However, Ximian's official Mandrake 8.0 packages are even better. Things are
> smoother and faster than in 8.0 (especially Nautilus), and there are a few
> extra little niceties like Doorman and
> >LURKER here,
> >
> >These two subjects are NOT what I would call appropoe for this Mail
> >List. ONE, slamming others is NOT very NICE even though you may have
> >thingys correct or NOT. TWO, the subject is NOT correct for what is placed
> >in each message. I do thank you for responding but
Isaac Curtis wrote:
>
> Wow, this seems to be the only thing in Linux I actually know anything
> about. So far I've posted this same thing twice and gotten rave reviews
> both times, so I'll modify it to refer to flash instead of java (the
> original topic, same procedure) and just copy-paste...
Mohammed Arafa wrote:
>
> u guys probably got gmc on autostart (find and erase) OR most likely, u once
> ran gmc then quit kde with the option to save ur session as is so as to
> resume it next boot.
>
> u can
> 1. kill the gmc process (that should also kill the gnome icons) then save ur
> sessi
I know that there is probably a better way to do this, but I, (in
desperation) got rid of those bad boys, by slapping them with Xkill
everytime they showed up. It took five or six times, but eventually they
stopped coming up, so far. If there is a better way to do this that will
not leave a lot of
had one, but couldn't get it to work either. Had a Canon BJC 2110 that
worked. Had to use a 610 and up setting on that one. Gave the 5000 away
and got a HP Deskjet 632C for about 60 bucks and it prints better (as
far as print quality) than either one of the others. Its a little
particular about se
brown1302 wrote:
>
> WHAT HAS THIS GOT TO DO WITH LINUX NEWBIE PROBLEMS!! THERE ARE OTHER
> VENUES FOR THIS CRAP>
___
I'm sure there are other venues for *this* kind of crap that you have
posted as well.
oh, by the way, your headli
d wrote:
>
> LURKER here,
>
> Excuse me for jumping in here but when I clicked on this link a window
> popped up saying "RealPlayer could not be found would I like to download?"
> and I clicked NO then everythingy STOPPED. No download for that RPM, I am
> still using WindBlows, EudoraLitev5.1,
set your BIOS to boot from CD. That workerd for me. Floppy drives seem
to hate me and are always breaking. I think that there are two things we
need to get rid of (in the USA); floppy drives and pennies. Both are
worthless.
ShalomOut
Chal
Elder PCUSA
Registered Linux user # 217118
Patience is
How are you "Killing the process?" Did you try deleting this file?
/home/chal/.kde/share/apps/kppp/kppp.pid
the "chal" is my user name, so apply whatever yours is there.
I had a similar problem and this solved it.
ShalomOut
Chal
Elder PCUSA
Registered Linux user # 217118
Patience is a mino
In KDE, click on the K then go to -Networking Remote Access -Internet
Dialer. In GNOME, it's called Gnome ppp. If you want to put it on the
desktop, you just drag & drop it from the menu.
ShalomOut
Chal
Elder PCUSA
Registered Linux user # 217118
Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised a
you just need to set the timeout. Go to -Mandrake Control Center -Boot -
Boot Config then press the "Configure" button and set the "delay before
booting default image"
ShalomOut
Chal
Elder PCUSA
Registered Linux user # 217118
Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as virtue.
Are you sure you have the right Graphic Card selected. On my Toshiba
Satrellite Pro 465 CDX, I had the same problem in installing MDK 7.1.
After much fiddling around with the resolution, I finally resolved it by
changing the Graphic card to the first entry on Tatung. All of the
Generic settings w
Peter Rymshaw wrote:
>
> Got mine back. Don't know if this is the only or best
> solution, but apparently what I had before and what
> disappeared was an "external" taskbar, which is
> another bar sitting above the panel. I right clicked
> on the panel / add / external taskbar and it's back.
> My
As long as were digging deep into the spiritual side, BASH stands for
"born again shell." It seems to me that these kind of things are just a
result of people naming things from the vernacular. If you want to
seriously look into the spiritual side of Open Source, check out "The
Hacker Ethic and th
I had a little problem understanding the instructions posted to the
list, until I realized that you must change the preferences to
"advanced" and then click preferances. The advanced option is the
"triangle" that one post spoke of.
ShalomOut
Chal
Elder PCUSA
Registered Linux user # 217118
p
Mandrake Control Center - Boot Config - System Mode - No I don't want
auto login
ShalomOut
Chal
Elder PCUSA
Registered Linux user # 217118
Keith Christian wrote:
>
> How do I disable the automatic login when my Mandrake 8.0 machine is
> booted up? Instead of waiting for me to login, it autom
Konqueror works for me. You can view directories, click on a file and
view it, with the option to edit it with either K Word, Text Editor, or
Advanced Editor. You can also right click and use "open with" if those
won't do the trick.
ShalomOut
Chal
Elder PCUSA
Registered Linux user # 217118
pa
Is it feasable to go into windows and save them as a plain text or ASCII
text file? If that's not a problem almopt any Linux prog wil read it. If
not Star office and Word Perfect read most word files. I'm not sure
about Wordpad though.
ShalomOut
Chal
Elder PCUSA
Registered Linux user # 217118
What ever happened to free speech? If you don't agree with someone,
why not express your opinion, instead of whining?
If it really is too much trouble to simply delete what you don't want to
read, why not get another account for the list?
ShalomOut
Chal
Elder PCUSA
Registered Linux user #2
Just a shot in the dark, and not very specific to your problem, but do
you have enough free disk space? I have a Satellite Pro 465CDX with 2GB
hard drive and I solved a lot of problems by trimming down all the
unneccesary stuff during installation. I got a lot of weird conflicts
and errors try
xternal serial modem
>(YAY!! No more booting back into Windows every 10 mins :-)) I'm trying out KMail
>and can't seem to get the font thing sorted for replying/composing.
>
>
>
> On Wednesday 01 August 2001 22:05, you wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 15:19, Char
nkey wrote:
> im just now beginning to run GNOME (was using KDE) and id like to change the
> color of my fonts on my desktop but cannot find an option anywhere to let me
> change this!
>
> GACK!
>
> is it possible to do so?
> thanks!
>
> im using Sawfish and also letting Nautilus draw my des
Do you mean that you installed Linux on a dual boot, and now you want to
get rid of the Windows partition and use it for Linux. If so, what
distro are you using? If you want a clear detailed answer, you need to
ask a clear and detailed question.
ShalomOut
Chal
I have a GeForce II Ultra 64 MB. Is that the same? I'm not sure exactly
what configuration you need, but if I can help, let me know. The four
letter word makes you sound less intelligent than you probably are and
the context you use it in makes you sound tense and anxious. Try to
chill, enjo
joel lopez wrote:
> I have two operating systems Linux Mandrake 8.0 and Windows ME and i have read the
>how-tos and i have not found this error message anywhere and it isnt the first time
>it has happened. The first time it happened i ended up reformatting my hard drive
>ended up getting a new
I never could get Konqueror or Kmail to work right. Netscape works fine
for me , but I use Mozilla, which works just as well and has some nice
skins . I think it's probably a question of whatever works for you.
Different systems seem to work better with different things. I think
that with Linu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> i can't resist this one. to add further to John's response, why are you
> having to su so much? the only time i have to su is to install programs. i
> just tried this, i can su & type in a password in 4 seconds. you do this so
> often that it results in a "fair
bc wrote:
> how can i open a Microsoft Word Document, a doc file in KDE/Mandrake? what
> program?
>
> "Kword" can not open it?
>
>
>
Star Office or Word Perfect, if you have either one. If not SO is free
and I believe there is a free version of WP.
ShalomOut
Chal
Registered Linux us
mrc wrote:
> It seems that WP8 will not run on Mandrake8. Has anyone else had this problem?
I'm not sure where you are having the problem, but I have wp8 running
on L8.0 succcesfully on my desktop as well as my laptop. In LM7.2, I
could click on the install icon and it would start up the inst
> Roman wrote;
> Is it just me or is every one receiving double or quadruple copies of
> the identical email?
>
> Roman
I get double and sometimes triple, but never quadruple. What is
confusing to me is that it doesn't seem to be consistent, but is just
with some posts, once in a while in a
Don WILSON wrote:
> I signed up after installing Mandrake to help me learn how to use Linux
> after years of Windows. I have already found answers and I appreciate you
> folks who have been where I am by taking the time to help.
>
> I don't want (and I sure most of you don't either) mailboxes
Solver wrote:
>
> An average, or lower, user, assuming he has got kowledge of English, can
> install Windows without trouble, easily install apps under it, click start,
> point to programs and Microsoft Word.
> This kind of statement is one of the things that scares off potential Linux
h3rb wrote:
>> What is a CSS-encrypted DVD?
>
>
> Cryptanalysis of Contents Scrambling System
> CSS is a scrambling system used in the distribution for movies on
> DVD ( Digital Versatile Disc ) a high capacity CD like storage system. Its
> main purpose is to prevent the unauthorized duplicat
What is a CSS-encrypted DVD?
Stephen Hansen-Sturm wrote:
> I cannot start x. I am using Mandrake
>
> 7.2, and I have XFree86 3.36 and 4.01
>
> both installed.
>
> The computer is an IBM ThinkPad 770z,
This may be a long shot, but I have had similar problems starting X, as well as other
screen resolu
as well. I have been looking for KDE
> themes for awhile.
>
>
> On Monday 11 June 2001 06:36, Charles A. Punch wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the link! The message wasn't on the page when I'd checked it
>> (I think!)
>>
>> On Monday 11 June 2001 00:46, Ch
Thanks for the link! The message wasn't on the page when I'd checked it (I
think!)
On Monday 11 June 2001 00:46, Charles A. Punch wrote:
> Sam wrote:
> > I went to http://kde.themes.org/ to download a couple of themes for KDE.
> > But I get a page saying "404 Not
Sam wrote:
> I went to http://kde.themes.org/ to download a couple of themes for KDE. But
> I get a page saying "404 Not Found". In fact, it appears to be the same with
> www.themes.org Does anybody know what's happened to the site, and any other
> good sources of themes? Thanks
There is a l
I think 8.0 is better. On my box, it was harder to install. I tried
several times before it succeded in fully instaling. Configuring my
modem and zip drive had to be done after installation, whereas in 7.2,
they were configured during installation. All things considered, 8.0 is
worth the troub
George Petri wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Everyone knows that certain versions of Windows, when told to "Shut Down",
> actually choose to reboot instead. And it seems that my Linux installation
> has caught this horrible disease (actually it's had this problem ever since I
> first installed it).
>
> Ba
Dan LaBine wrote:
> I'm not sure what this guy is talking about, but whatever it is, he makes no
> sense. First, he sounds like he purposely became a skeptic about O/S
> evangelism. What exactly is that?? Is he saying that we've elevated the
> mighty Tux to the level of a diety? .
Romanator wrote:
> Romanator wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I fixed my font problem by ... Remember, you should install the Windows fonts
>> to access the extra fonts.
>
> Just wondering if there is a way to install the windows fonts from the Windows CD
>Rom on my desktop, which is a Linux on
James Hallam wrote:
> hi again,
>
> has anyone had any experience of installing drak7.2 on a Toshiba Tecra 8100
> laptop
>
> i can install 7.2 but cannot get X up and running.
>
> thanks in advance
I have a Satellite Pro 465 CDX, which I have used some Tecra settings, which
worked for me, when t
Mark Johnson wrote:
> My impression is that the Linux community in general cannot decide whether
> linux should be seen as a viable desktop alternative to Windows and MAC, or
> a viable backend alternative to Solaris, or simply as a hobbyist OS. (To me
> the former is very debatable, the laters
Don McKee wrote:
> > I already tried that. The problem is that after I select UNIX, there is
> > no Mandrake 7.0 in the selections on the next page. There are 2 Redhats
> > and a few others that I am not familiar with. I am a newbie and have only
> > had experience with Open Linux, Mandrake 6.2 a
Don McKee wrote:
> > I already tried that. The problem is that after I select UNIX, there is
> > no Mandrake 7.0 in the selections on the next page. There are 2 Redhats
> > and a few others that I am not familiar with. I am a newbie and have only
> > had experience with Open Linux, Mandrake 6.2 a
KompuKit wrote:
> go to my downloads section under linux
>
> and you'll find one...for mandrake
>
> http://kompukit.dyndns.org
>
> go now...as I'm going to be shutting down soon
>
> "Charles A. Punch" wrote:
> >
> > I am Looking for a
Roger Sherman wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 17:26:45 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >I am Looking for an upgrade for RealPlayer. I am running Mandrake 7.0
> >and the RealPlayer site doesn't have a selction for mandrake. I tried
> >Red Hat and a 2.0 rpm package. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
> >
> >S
I am Looking for an upgrade for RealPlayer. I am running Mandrake 7.0
and the RealPlayer site doesn't have a selction for mandrake. I tried
Red Hat and a 2.0 rpm package. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
ShalomOut
Chal
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