Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-27 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 22:59, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > Tom, do you have any idea as to where I can fetch kernel > 2.6.8.1-10 ? > > I tried kernel 2.6.3, but it completely borked my ReiserFS. > > Kaj Haulrich. http://ftp.surfnet.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrakelinux/devel/10.1/i586/media/main/

Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone

2004-10-26 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 21:53, Jack wrote: > On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 11:08 +0100, John Richard Smith wrote: > > Power Quest drive image , a comercial drive image programme, can do > > almost everything except some of the linux file systems, like reiserf. > > It can certainly handle resizing well.

Re: [newbie] virus

2004-10-26 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 23:15, Tom & Karen Pino wrote: > I, too, would love to know how to trace these things and perhaps send > them a "present". Don't even try! It would double the (negative) effect of exactly that what it is trying to douse up our bandwidth and incriminate non-M$ p

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-26 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 22:14, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > Ghost in the machine ??? --- Aliens from outer space ??? > > Kaj Haulrich. Trust you to find a white raven:( ... --- Naah, just kidding;) There's something very wrong on the way this USB device initiates and the kern

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-26 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 21:13, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > Can you decipher that ? > > Thanks in advance... > > Kaj Haulrich. Not realy, except that it's disconnecting and reconnecting...but why it's doing that, dunno:( Did you try "supermount -i disable" so as to be sure it's not creating this mu

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-26 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 20:16, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > Thanks, H.J. > > Right now I'm a little reluctant to plug in my camera again, because > it makes my 10.1 completely unusable.  If nothing else shows up, I > may have to, and will let you know. > > lsmod doesn't show anything about a camera. >

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-26 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 14:13, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > Hello friends... > > Until I installed 10.1 CE my Olympus C740UZ worked like a charm : > Just plugging it into an USB port popped up a harddisk icon on my > desktop (be it KDE or Gnome) and I could copy, move, delete and one > thing and anothe

Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone

2004-10-25 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 02:01, Miark wrote: > http://www.mondorescue.com will backup or clone any system > running Linux (even if it's a multi-boot system). > > Miark > > > > message.footer well, if you only want to back-up and restore use "dump" and "restore"..both have excelent man-pages

Re: [newbie] Hard disk speed

2004-10-25 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 25 October 2004 23:59, Alan wrote: > I am using konquerer to move stuff from one hard disk to another. > > Konquerer reports on 2.5MB/s. Shouldn´t this be faster? > > Seems very slow to me. > > Any advice will be appreciated > > Thanks Alan, If you're trying to clone disks with konquero

Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone

2004-10-25 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 25 October 2004 22:20, Stephen Kühn wrote: > > Seems pretty cool, there is a click and copy mode where you can just > > select one drive. (eg hda) and then a target drive, (eg hdb) and it will > > clone one onto the other.. Franki, When it does that, can it resize the new partition too or

Re: [newbie] Hard disk clone

2004-10-25 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 25 October 2004 18:31, Alan wrote: > Good day all > > I want to upgrade my 120gb Hard disk to a 160gb Hard disk. > I tried to use norton ghost but the minute it starts on my root partition > it stops. How can I check the integrity of my disk and it's > partition? > > Is there another prod

Re: [newbie] Update of the 10.1 Community tree

2004-10-23 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 23 October 2004 22:21, Dennis Myers wrote: > > it would run. > > I tried that myself, and could not get the list to load, it would time out > after about 5 minutes Chances are that the hdlist itself is being updated/renewed when that happensnot all mirrors are equally fast, give s

Re: [newbie] Linux Fact or Fiction

2004-10-22 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 22 October 2004 23:27, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > Of course, you have to trust that the key hasn't been tampered with as > well. The really paranoid among us rely on key signatures exchanged by some > other channel, such as telephone, to verify a key before installing it. The really paran

Re: [newbie] HTML Wysiwyg

2004-10-22 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 22 October 2004 23:53, Elliot Somers wrote: > I have been googling for a good Wysiwyg for linux (MDK) that would allow > for easy content update. I haven't found anything GPL that looks decent. > The content is already written, just the prices, and various info needs > updating from

Re: [newbie] Stuck on a network problem

2004-10-22 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 22 October 2004 16:38, Alan Dunford wrote: > Here I run a simple network with three machines - two running Mandrake > 10.0 and one running Windows. The second Linux machine operates as a > server on which I back up files from the other two. > > Currently the server has a monitor, keyboa

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-20 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 20 October 2004 22:46, Russell W. Behne wrote: > extra ports for future expansion. I figure that someday I'll throw > together on old system, as an X-term put it in my woodshop, and run a > cable from there to the switch, that way I'll be able to log in from the > woodshop office witho

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 31 October 2004 02:17, Russell W. Behne wrote: > Oct 20 at 01:38, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > For one: I've never used 2 or more networkcards for the same net on > > the same PC before (I use a hubcheap&efficient) but I don't think > > it poses a probl

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 31 October 2004 01:09, Russell W. Behne wrote: > So both cards are now reecognised by the kernel.  But pings to > 192.168.0.11 and 192.168.0.12 aren't answered; doing a traceroute to > 192.168.0.11 shows that the pings are going out the cable modem on eth0 > to my ISP's private network in

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 19 October 2004 09:32, Russell W. Behne wrote: > H Actually, it would be nice if y'all do drop in and do it all > for me, but I'd just as soon everyone just guide me and I'll do all the > configuring myself, so that I get familiar with what's what. That way, > once it's done, sho

Re: [newbie] Home network help needed

2004-10-18 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 19 October 2004 04:50, Russell W. Behne wrote: > I want to network 2 computers off of my host. (One for each of my kids.) > Right now both new boxes are windows only. I have a couple old hard > drives that I will install, one in each box, to use for Linux. I want: > > 1. Both com

Re: [newbie] KDE TV

2004-10-17 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 17 October 2004 02:50, Joseph Gregory Croes wrote: > Hallo guys > > I have mandrake 10.0 PWP. > Win TV Theater card > 878bt chip > Geforce 3 TI-500 64 MB > Pentium 4 2GHZ > 358 Ram > > I have done a lsmod to see which modules are load but I cant find anyone of > thos listed in this link (

Re: [newbie] Excluding RPMs

2004-10-14 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 14 October 2004 21:43, Miark wrote: > Is there a way to configure urpmi to ignore certain > RPMs when I do a "urpmi --auto-select"? > > Miark Yes with the --skip optiondo "urpmi --help" and you'll see the options on offer and after that "man urpmi" for more indepth infoit'

Re: [newbie] kdetv

2004-10-14 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 14 October 2004 06:11, Joseph Gregory Croes wrote: > I have > P4 2GHZ Processor > 358 MB RAM > Geforce 3 500TI > Wintv Theater tuner card > Mandrake 10.0 > > And my problem is that I can get Kde tv working. I supose that mandrake > has a new kernel and the modules comes build in mandra

Re: [newbie] Broadband modems

2004-10-13 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 13 October 2004 22:31, Stephen Kühn wrote: > On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 07:17, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > On Tuesday 12 October 2004 21:41, Stephen Kühn wrote: > > > They're simple, fast, web based control and configuration, NO DRIVERS > > > NEEDED..

Re: [newbie] Broadband modems

2004-10-12 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 12 October 2004 21:41, Stephen Kühn wrote: > They're simple, fast, web based control and configuration, NO DRIVERS > NEEDED(God I love my Netcomm NB-1300) An you don't want to ask what he does to the thing when he's offline!>:) -- Good luck, HarM __

Re: [newbie] executing in the network

2004-10-09 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 09 October 2004 13:44, rn001 wrote: > Hi all; > Perhaps this is not an easy question. I don't know. > I would like to know if it is possible form the bash to give any statement > to execute MS-DOS programs in other computers in the windows network. > > (I' ve mounted the remote folders

Re: [newbie] ssh: read from socket failed in a fresh 10.1

2004-10-08 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 08 October 2004 10:14, GV wrote: > I think it should be something with the 10.1 distro > > Any people from Mandrake ever heard of this problem?? I've got 10.1 installed on a few boxes and laptops without any ssh probs. Connecting is no big deal..I couldn't do without, actually:)

Re: [newbie] A question to the talented

2004-10-05 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 06 October 2004 07:25, Alan wrote: > Good day > > I want to know if linux has a "RIS" (remote installation feature) similar > to M$'s RIS service ? > > Thanks For us non_M$ peoples; Would you mind divulging what this RIS acrually does? There are various ways of remotely installing Li

Re: [newbie] Looking for frontend for mplayer

2004-10-05 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 22:53, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > I am looking for a nice frontend for mplayer. Any ideas? > > Thanks in advance, > > Paul mplayer-gui-1.0-0.pre5.7pl -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from Man

Re: [newbie] Reiser 4 and checking parittion type

2004-10-05 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 22:46, Thereidos wrote: > Tried that. It ain't what I've been lookin' for. It gives me only Linux > and doesn't say whether it's ext2 or ext3. There is no real difference 'tween ext2 and ext3 except that ext3 has journaling added. Use "diskdrake" if you really want to f

Re: [newbie] ssh: read from socket failed in a fresh 10.1

2004-10-05 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 16:33, GV wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed the 10.1 and when I try to ssh to remote BSD server > having a dynamic IP accessible from the Internet, I get the following: > > Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer > > Please note that I can ssh this server from a

Re: [newbie] Help with Python Problem (MDK 10.0)

2004-10-05 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 11:44, David B. Carter wrote: > segmentation fault > > I tried to go to the PyPanel site to look for troubleshooting info, but I > didn't find any. I googled (pypanel "segmentation fault") but got nothing > useful. > > Anyone have any ideas? try running it in the python

Re: [newbie] changing boot to terminal

2004-10-04 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 05 October 2004 00:32, Thereidos wrote: > Currently I do have inittab switched to runlevel 3 but to use shutdown > you need a root access which I won't give my father. Or maybe I'm wrong? Let him use "halt" (without the quotes) -- Good luck, HarM _

Re: [newbie] adding windowmanager to login

2004-10-03 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 03 October 2004 22:44, Eric Huff wrote: > I always boot at level 3, but at the same time i am lazy and don't > like to have to start X after i login. > > So i have my .bash_profile setup so that if i log into tty 1, it > automagically launches my favorite window manager, sylpheed, rox and

Re: [newbie] Installing USB flash drive

2004-10-03 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 02 October 2004 04:00, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > Harm: > Save wear and tear on your nervous system. Why not use KMail's "Reply to > list" feature? I'll just have to change my habits and hit instead of . Seems a bit topsy-turvy though.I have to change my habits because some

Re: [newbie] pre upgrade questions [9.0 to 10.0] SUCCESS!!!! :)

2004-10-03 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 03 October 2004 02:23, Merlin Zener wrote: > Hi all, > well I did it!!! :) Good for you, Merlin. Looking forward to more posts from you:) -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mand

Re: [newbie] 10.1CE

2004-10-01 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 02 October 2004 01:45, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > IMHO Opera is one of the finest > examples of commercial software living in harmony with the free (as > in speech) community. Kaj, Your opinion means a great deal to me and I agree. Opera though, has a too cluttered interface to appeal to me

Re: [newbie] 10.1CE

2004-10-01 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 02 October 2004 00:44, Kaj Haulrich wrote: >  Furthermore, Firefox and Opera works just perfect > including *anti-aliasing*. I just did the clean install but for the lif of me can't find opera:( It's the only browser that allows me to pay international bills with my bank. javascript!

Re: [newbie] 10.1CE

2004-10-01 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 02 October 2004 00:18, Lanman wrote: > Of course, by the > time a new one is almost ready for release, the previous version always > seems to be a tad slower, so it's either great timing or they're doing > it on purpose! Hmmm,...a conspiracy maybe? Eh? I thought we all lived by the cre

Re: [newbie] 10.1CE

2004-10-01 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 02 October 2004 00:07, Paul Kaplan wrote: > My initial impression is that 10.1CE is faster than 10.0 Official. Can > anyone confirm or would people like a sample of what I've been smokin'? > Paul I just did a clean install of 10.1 and notice no differenceI'll go for the sample me

Re: [newbie] Installing USB flash drive

2004-10-01 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 01 October 2004 22:50, Paul Smith wrote: > Thanks to both. My flash drive is already working under Mandrake 10. > > Paul Sh*t, sent my mail wrong:( Could somebody please write a plugin for mailers so that gmail users stand out red&flashing.or maybe shoot the gmail developpers:( --

Re: [newbie] pre upgrade questions [9.0 to 10.0]

2004-10-01 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 01 October 2004 23:06, Merlin Zener wrote: > - wish me luck! You don't need luck, you've got Linux...you need a clear head and a slow mouse hand. Read everything carefully and check the options before you click and you'll be fine:) -- Good luck, HarM

Re: [newbie] Where are the archives?

2004-09-30 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 01 October 2004 01:08, David B. Carter wrote: > frengoGorgia didn't bother to visit the archives before spewing the > following filth which was more worthless than the question on which he was > commenting: That was just a bad case of "foot in mouth" disease, forget it:) -- Good luck,

Re: [newbie] pre upgrade questions [9.0 to 10.0]

2004-09-30 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 01 October 2004 00:19, Merlin Zener wrote: > How do I put them back again later? By simply copying/overwriting them with the wanted older/saved ones. -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: how to get my bookmarks and passwords back? [was: Re: [newbie] Mozilla crashing sometimes...]

2004-09-30 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 01 October 2004 00:19, Merlin Zener wrote: > So now I've lost all my bookmarks, passwords and various other settings > like home page etc, and I don't know how to get them back. Oh and btw it > didn't fix the crashing either :( > > help??? > > :) Those bookmarks should still be in .old_mo

[newbie] what happened to urpmi.addmedia --distrib on 10.1?

2004-09-30 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
The titel says it all! I tried "urpmi.addmedia --distrib removable//mnt/cdrom/media/main/" on CD1 of Mdk10.1 but that's a no go! Tried all sorts of paths but nothing works:( The CD's are changed in respect to the directory trees but apparently urpmi hasn't been told yetor di

Re: [newbie] Where are the archives?

2004-09-30 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 01 October 2004 00:41, JoeHill wrote: > Hey jerkoff, you might want to actually visit those URL's and notice they > are *out of date*. heh heh,trust you to notice!;) It should be in the welcome message: "Don't RTFM when Joe Hill's about or you'll get cussed at" ;D -- Good luck, HarM __

Re: [newbie] pre upgrade questions [9.0 to 10.0]

2004-09-30 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 01 October 2004 00:19, Merlin Zener wrote: > On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 00:21, Stephen Kühn wrote: > > Two words: > > > > CLEAN INSTALL > > so that would involve reformatting both drives? No, just the existing "/" and maybe "/usr" partitions. Leave all the others as they are! > > If so, then

Re: [newbie] Off Topic?

2004-09-30 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 30 September 2004 19:03, Stephen Kühn wrote: > You're using XOrg on 10.0? No, upgraded 10.0 to 10.1. Got it running by removing the old XF86Config-4 and letting XFdrake do the work...downer: How do I get my wacom tablet to work using Xorg? Just copying the lines k

Re: [newbie] Thats a relief!

2004-09-30 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 30 September 2004 18:26, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > The US Patent office has *rejected* all claims by Microsoft to the FAT > filesystem. > > :-) > > http://linuxtoday.com/news/2004093003026NWLL I'm a downright pessimist in those things: Probably this a small smoke screen for an upcoming

Re: [newbie] gDesklets

2004-09-30 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 30 September 2004 16:49, JoeHill wrote: > On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:53:52 -0400 > > Todd Slater disseminated the following: > > But note on the lists how many posts there are about upgrading to KDE > > 3.whogivesashit compared to gnome. > > Well, IIRC, KDE is 'just there' when you install

Re: [newbie] pre upgrade questions [9.0 to 10.0]

2004-09-30 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 30 September 2004 14:08, Merlin Zener wrote: > /dev/hda1 ntfs 7.8GB /mnt/nt 889.3MB 88.9% > /dev/hda5 vfat 22.6GB /mnt/windows 3.2GB 86% > /dev/hda6 ext3 980.5MB / 798.8MB 18.5% > /dev/hda8 ext3 3.8GB /usr 2.3GB 40.2% > /dev/hda9 ext3 2.7GB /home 730.1MB 73.8% > /dev/hdc1 auto 74.5GB /m

Re: [newbie] pre upgrade questions [9.0 to 10.0]

2004-09-30 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 30 September 2004 09:24, Merlin Zener wrote: > Hello all, > > I've just got hold of 4 Mandrake 10.0 CDs; I'll be upgrading from 9.0, > and I wanted to ask if there's anything particular I should [or should > not] do to ensure a smooth transition. > > I'm currently dual booting with WIN2

Re: [newbie] Off Topic?

2004-09-30 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 29 September 2004 09:03, Stephen Kühn wrote: > On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 21:58, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > On Tuesday 28 September 2004 06:42, Stephen Kühn wrote: > > > Today 06:42:36 > > > > > > Anyone know the address for re-addressing the off-toping cru

Re: [newbie] Helix vs. Real Player?

2004-09-28 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 28 September 2004 22:57, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > Sounds like a wierd configuration was the culprit. It always is in my case, if mozilla and plugins are part of the recipe:) Anyhow my 10.0 is a mess so I'll give 10.1 a go tonight:) -- Good luck, HarM _

Re: [newbie] Helix vs. Real Player?

2004-09-28 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 28 September 2004 21:42, Sevatio wrote: > So, you use Mplayer to play Real codecs? > > Sevatio Frankly, they haven't crossed my path for the last 2 years. So I don't knowI doubt it. IIRC I did see them being used for TV over internet and used mozilla (with plugins) to view them.

Re: [newbie] Helix vs. Real Player?

2004-09-28 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 28 September 2004 20:05, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 12:59, Sevatio wrote: > > How does Real Player 10 compare with Helix Player? > > Neither one of them hold a candle to Mplayer. > > > LX I second that. Mileage varies on other players, mplayer always just works on all

Re: [newbie] Off Topic?

2004-09-28 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 28 September 2004 15:00, M.Schild wrote: > > is 10.1 really that good? > > -- > > yep > Maryse OK, started downloading as of today:) -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrake

Re: [newbie] Verbatim USB Drive 512MB

2004-09-28 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 28 September 2004 00:43, Phil Savoie wrote: > Hi All, > > I can't seem to get the USB drive/stick to be writable. the fstab entry for > this is: > > none /mnt/removable supermount > dev=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1,fs=ext2:vfat,exec,--,umask=000, >user,iocharset=iso8859-1,dev,

Re: [newbie] Off Topic?

2004-09-28 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 28 September 2004 06:42, Stephen Kühn wrote: > Today 06:42:36 > > Anyone know the address for re-addressing the off-toping crud? > > -- > stephen kuhn Gee, it was so quiet over here I thought the list was down ...own own ..own! Judging by the echo, this hall of fame is has just be

Re: [newbie] data cd's

2004-09-26 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 26 September 2004 10:17, john wrote: > Hello > I will be using cdrw media in upcoming work to transfer files between > work and home and also use for backup. In winblows, it was a matter of > "save as" and indicate cd. I have not used win for about a year now and > don't intend to. Would

Re: [newbie] Odd Internet problem...

2004-09-25 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 25 September 2004 17:55, Erylon Hines wrote: > attach > yourself to the metal part of the case, and you are good to go. I had some wonderful "shocking" experiences doing so whilst forgetting to disconnect the plugged-in monitor. The world's a dangerous place full of unexpected pitfal

Re: [newbie] OpenGroupware

2004-09-24 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 24 September 2004 18:03, Lee Wiggers wrote: > Thanks for the discussion.  It helped me understand both my > frustration at putting the office back on win2k and reinforced my > intention of nailing them with mdk again next year. Yep, It was an interesting little joust wasn't it? Picked up

Re: [newbie] OpenGroupware

2004-09-24 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 24 September 2004 14:44, Scott Rineer wrote: > Maybe you are using the wrong Distro. since that is what Mandrake is > about.  maybe you should look at Gentoo :) > > > Sorry, I simply don't agree.  If making it easier means sacrificing > features, > freedom, customization, then I don't wa

Re: [newbie] OpenGroupware

2004-09-23 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 23 September 2004 22:25, Lanman wrote: > The fact that OGO is > either missing a clear and precise installation document or simply > doesn't work without some significant step that seems to be missing, > means it's not quite there yet. End of story. Lanman, I'm not a groupware user so

Re: [newbie] 17inch Widescreen TFT Monitor

2004-09-22 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 22 September 2004 20:03, Azrael wrote: > I've just been given a 17th inch widescreen TFT monitor (Kiss > Technologies, Coolview) and I am having problems setting it up correctly > under mandrake 10. > > The monitor supports 1280x768, yet I only get the standard > non-widescreen resolut

Re: [newbie] Mozilla crashing sometimes...

2004-09-21 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 21:32, Stephen Kühn wrote: > Are you installing this as ROOT or as yourself? You have to make sure > you install the program as root, else you will get errors - and best to > install it to /usr/local/firefox as well mate... How about just untarring/unzipping the static

Re: [newbie] 10.0 official gremlins not seen before

2004-09-21 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 16:34, Brian Parish wrote: > Things work nicely overall except... Probably you've got old KDE .rc files (and such of the same for a few other apps). Rename your .kde file in your home directory and logout and in again as the user you are. My bet is most of your crash

Re: [newbie] Sigmatel 4200 IRDA to USB

2004-09-21 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 05:27, Lanman wrote: > Just out of curiosity, how do I determine which USB device port it's > attached to? USBview had lots of info about the unit, but doesn't > clearly state the device settings to use, - ie; it doesn't say anything > about which device to assign for t

Re: [newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)

2004-09-20 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 20 September 2004 16:47, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > I doubt I'll get to it for a while, other considerations. C'mon, can't let a 6Mb download go to waste:) -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)

2004-09-20 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 20 September 2004 16:30, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > 156 files @ 7.1 MB.  Lots of screenshots. Lots of Docs and btmgr-3.7.1 > in rpm, src.rpm, & tar.gz. So, say in a day or so, you'll be our expert on btmgr heh;) Iirc there's a way of just writing/coppying "btmgr" to mbr i.e. that's actually a

Re: [newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)

2004-09-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 19 September 2004 22:40, JoeHill wrote: > > Joe, > > > > Did you ever try a floppy with smartbootmanager? > > It comes on the slackware install CD's and works on the most improbable > > of boot devices. > > I've had some good experiences with it. > > If I'm understanding you correctly, I

Re: [newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)

2004-09-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 19 September 2004 21:49, JoeHill wrote: > On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:04:04 +0300 > Well, it's pretty old, but it's from another box which I had installed MDK > on before, though that was 9.2 (IIRC). This machine, however, does not > allow for booting from the CD :-(. One thing I should have m

Re: [newbie] BATCH FILE

2004-06-10 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 10 June 2004 10:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > is it possible to create (save ) automatic files ( like batch files in > Windows) in Linux ? How ? > > I want to use this not to do always the same things in console. yes, you can put the commands you want automated in a text file. If ther

Re: [newbie] Removed secondary hard disk... now what?

2004-06-10 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 10 June 2004 03:21, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >  Or do like I do - have a bookable Linux CD What a wonderful typo;) Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.1.0 calc - starting

2004-06-08 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 08 June 2004 09:59, Johan Sch wrote: > Please, is this correct for O.O.O or is there a way to fix this. No, it's not the way it should be. Could you be more specific what on exactly you're clicking on? For more verbose output you could try starting from the commandline using "ooffice

Re: [newbie] Title of 8.2 disks?

2004-06-07 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 07 June 2004 22:20, Eric Scott wrote: >   Got any help? >     Thanx, >           Eric Scott Good god, man. I'm racking my brain how 9.1 and certainly 8.2 looked likedo yourself a favour and get 9.2 (at least) or better yet 10.0. You're in the UK you should be able to get a Linux Fo

Re: [newbie] Microsoft Brazil Decries Government Use of Linux

2004-06-07 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 07 June 2004 21:13, Josenildo Marques wrote: > The Wine they have must be pretty good... > Well, maybe it'll help shy users to migrate... Only and ONLY if it emulates the bugs and viruses will it give those poor suckers a nice and fuzzy feeling. Something like: "Hey, look what I didn't

Re: [newbie] Trashed Laptop

2004-05-28 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 29 May 2004 00:32, Drew Martin wrote: >     Any hows this for a bright idea,Dawn has only one file she realy care > about,would in be possible to plug my cable modem into the laptop and email > the file or FTP it to online account,such as Lycos,which she can access > from XP if and whe

Re: [newbie] Autostart of Network Drivers through ndiswrapper

2004-05-28 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 28 May 2004 18:50, Jeff wrote: > I finally got my wireless linksys card working with ndiswrapper. My > problem is that I have to set it up every time I login. I have the alias > wlan0 ndiswrapper in /etc/modprobe.conf, and I setup an ifcfg-wlan0 in the > network-scripts dir. After boot

Re: [newbie] how do I open....

2004-05-27 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 27 May 2004 18:44, M.Schild wrote: > I received an Excel .exe attachment. I know it is safe. How do I open it, > please? I have Mk 9.1 > Thanks > Maryse " urpmi openoffice" as root good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] XFree86-DRI

2004-05-11 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 11 May 2004 23:33, JoeHill wrote: > On Tue, 11 May 2004 10:35:45 -0600 > > Ron Hunter-Duvar disseminated the following: > > Does this mean I'm out of luck, that there's just no way to make this > > game work? I understand the problem with vendors that won't release > > driver source. But

Re: [newbie] New WM on the block

2004-05-08 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 08 May 2004 23:14, JoeHill wrote: > WMI is minimalistic: it has no build- or runtime dependencies except the > C++ Standard Template Library (STL) and the X11 Library (XLib). Allright...you try that with no gtk+ libs or a few gnome/bonobo ones to boot and I betcha the whole wm will no

Re: [newbie] Duplicating Directory Structure

2004-04-15 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 15 April 2004 18:20, Job Evers wrote: > I have the following: > > ./x/foo/bar/a/files > ./y/foo/bar/b/files > > I want to combine the directories so that I can have this instead > > ./z/foo/bar/a/files > ./z/foo/bar/b/files > > Any idea how I would do this? Howe about the "mv" (move) "

Re: [newbie] Windows Remoting X'ing

2004-04-14 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 01:36, jeb wrote: > Ok, then..How do I do it linux to linux? > If you're using Mandrake: Just "ssh", Mdk has X forwarding enabled by default. Otherwise you need the X flag, thus: "ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED]" You cannot get the whole interface to run remotely (VNC does that wel

Re: [newbie] Belkin F5D6020 WLAN PCMCIA

2004-04-10 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 10 April 2004 16:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Has anyone had any success getting the Belkin F5D6020 v2 WLAN pcmcia card > to work with Mandrake 9x or 10? I got the card for $10 so I figured I'd > give it a try. > > I found the following page: > > http://www.houseofcraig.net/belkin_ho

Re: [newbie] 10.0 online rpm repositories

2004-03-18 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 18 March 2004 21:11, Derek Jennings wrote: > Maybe on dial up, I have upgraded two systems from 9.2 to 10.0 by urpmi > from Cooker, and it took about 2 hours. I took that long on a P2, 256M ram box (from 10.0beta2 to CE) using CD-roms, You really have bandwidth;) The P4 work box with

Re: [newbie] 10.0 online rpm repositories

2004-03-18 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 18 March 2004 18:22, Alexandre Aractingi wrote: > Le jeu 18/03/2004 à 18:16, H.J.Bathoorn a écrit : > > If you insist on updating via the web yesbut be in for a very very > > veery long (think days) install session. > > > > Downloading and burni

Re: [newbie] 10.0 online rpm repositories

2004-03-18 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 18 March 2004 18:08, Alexandre Aractingi wrote: > Hi all, > I'm about to upgrade a 9.2 system with the new 10.0 one, and I was > wondering if there is any online repository available to configure urpmi > with. > Is 10.0 Community considered Cooker? Am I supposed to point at Cooker > dir

Re: [newbie] 9.2 Power Pack is here

2004-03-17 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 17 March 2004 12:35, JoeHill wrote: > On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:52:43 +0700 > > Fajar Priyanto disseminated the following: > > I can almost picture you in my mind Stephen. Blue ocean with white > > sands, there you are relaxing -sun glasses, wide hat, hawaiian shirt and > > a boxer - on

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice fails in 10.0

2004-03-16 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 17 March 2004 05:35, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: > Dennis Myers wrote: > >Has anyone got openoffice to run in 10.0? It is claimed to be "everything > >installed" but when I try to open it the hourglass flips for a while and to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > yep, OO works fine for me in

Re: [newbie] howdy! & solving problems & this list,.....

2004-03-16 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 17 March 2004 13:32, Allen/Gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: > You can tell I could use some sleep. I thought your last name was Bathroom. > ;) I'm in a worse conditionjust having my first coffee and trying to eat something. You don't want to know how I read your name when I'm in that s

Re: [newbie] howdy! & solving problems & this list,.....

2004-03-16 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 17 March 2004 00:17, Asa Rossoff wrote: > Hi there, everyone! > > I've asked a couple questions on the list but haven't had any replies. > I've also asked those questions some other places - like > LinuxQuestions.org, with the same result. > > I know that this list and those forums ha

Re: [newbie] bittorrent on dialup

2004-03-16 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 16 March 2004 17:30, Charlie M. wrote: > You won't lose everything HarM. The application does a "/tmp mount" (the > "r" switch for recursive means all and sub directories in the source and > target) of the images in order to do the sync. If rsync or the connection > crashes whatever has

Re: [newbie] 10.0 Community-Download hdlists question;

2004-03-16 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 16 March 2004 18:46, Charlie M. wrote: > Bit Torrent seems to download one disk at a time by default anyway HarM. If > my suspicion is correct and it uses a form of rsync for it's "checking" > phase you should still save bandwidth by using the suggestions I posted > above. I'd have to kn

Re: [newbie] bittorrent on dialup

2004-03-16 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 15 March 2004 22:26, Charlie M. wrote: > rsync -avrt --progress --delete --exclude MandrakeMove-i586.iso > ftp.uninett.no::Mandrake/Mandrake/iso/ > /archive/backup/nanook/downloads/Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community/ > > That's all one line. > > The reason the --exclude flag is in there is prob

[newbie] 10.0 Community-Download hdlists question;

2004-03-16 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
Hello all, I'd like some comments here: I'm a silver Mdk club member so I downloaded CD4-5 using bittorrent but I prefer using rsync on a mirror on my previos (rc1) iso's. I have this gut feeling that there will be no mention of CD4 and 5 on CD1 on the download CD's meaning I'd have to add them

Re: [newbie] need help installing driver for wireless card, Dlink DWL 520 chipset: rtl8180

2004-03-04 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 04 March 2004 10:28, jimmy wrote: > ./wlanup: line 72: /sbin/iwpriv: No such file or > directory You need to install "iwpriv"!;) BTW you don't need to add the option "infra" as it's already specified in the wlanup script. You might want to change that to "ad-hoc" if there's no access

Re: [newbie] vectorlinux?

2004-03-03 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 11:31 pm, rhein wrote: > Hello, > I'm looking for a light version of linux to run on a old MMX200 with 64 > MB of ram. Is vectorlinux a good choice for a beginner? > Thank you > Christophe Absolutely, but on those specs a Slaclware9.1 would run acceptably (maybe even fa

Re: [newbie] Scribus

2004-02-29 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 29 February 2004 23:09, Jason Greenwood wrote: > No, for Mandrake Systems you should ALWAYS use URPMI for installs Ehmm, mandrake installs tarballs fine but you DO have to have the kernel-source package installed for your particular kernel. I do quite a lot of tarball installs and don

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