Update on my printing problem with my Lexmark 1100. I've done what was
suggested, but still nothing comes out of the printer.
Civileme pointed out that port 631 has to be open and said:
when nmap is on your menu fire it up and do a straight scan of
127.0.0.1 for open ports.
I ran nmap and
Tim wrote:
Here's my question reposted as plain text. I'll make a point of
checking the format each time before posting. Here where I work they
require us to send html email and I simply forgot about it.
You don't need to check each time if you set up Outlook Express to
always use plain text
- Original Message -
From: a [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Judith Miner [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: August 12, 2001 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Need printing help, please
On Sunday 12 August 2001 17:42, Judith Miner wrote:
Sridhar wrote with regard to my printing problem:
Try
Matt wrote:
Linux is cool and all, but man can installing software be a
nightmare.
I couldn't agree more. I have had similar sad sagas more times than I
care to recall. For example, I tried to install the latest Gnucash,
which I've heard has many improvements over the version that came with
my
Dennis wrote:
Use a windows boot disk to boot into dos and fdisk and delete the
partition reformat to
a fat32 and all the rest and linux is gone
Wont't work. DOS FDISK will not delete a non-DOS partition. I don't know
how NT and W2K deal with this, but I expect they may operate the same
way.
Alan wrote:
just read about the SirCam virus - do I panic slowly?
You don't panic at all. In order to get infected, you have to open the
attachment that contains the virus. I assume you don't open attachments
you weren't expecting to get and that you check ALL attachments,
regardless of file
I don't want to protract what is essentially an off-topic discussion for
this list, so this will be it from me.
I don't know what would give someone the impression that I was saying
Windows is intuitive and Linux is not. I explicitly stated to the
contrary. Also, it is ridiculous to dump on
Sridhar wrote:
You mean it isn't intuitive for a Windos user? Then you are
correct. For people who have been using *nix for a while this can be
very intuitive.
Whoa! Intuitive has nothing to do with what OS someone knows how to
use. Intuitive means known or perceived through intuition.
John wrote:
VM is dearest by miles. Not sure of this one - seems to be similar
in CPU demand to Windoze .
I think they have a version called VMWare Personal or something like
that. I saw it on their Web site. It is a lite version of the full
VMWare that gives you, I think, just one virtual
Civileme wrote:
right click the ZIP Icon and select Eject or issue eject /dev/zip
in a console.
There is no Eject option if I right click on the Zip icon on the KDE
desktop. Nor are there options for mount and unmount. I have not changed
any icons that were installed by default. There is no
My /etc/fstab file is quite similar to yours, Dennis. I modified this
line:
/mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/zip 0 0
like this:
/mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount fs=vfat,user,dev=/dev/zip 0 0
and now I can mount and unmount as user.
--Judy Miner
Sridhar wrote:
Have you tried KDE's own help?
Certainly. Let me tell you about KDE's own help. There is no search
for a keyword. So effectively, you have to page your way through the
whole thing trying to find a section that *might* pertain to what you're
looking for. If you click on search in
Thank you very much for answering all my partitioning questions,
Civileme. I have printed out your message so I can have it right in
front of me when I get to work on this. You are a prince!
--Judy Miner
Brian asked:
I need some info about what sound card to use with Mandrake Linux. I
imagine that it should be Soundblaster compatible, but other than that,
I haven't got a clue as to what I could use. Any ideas?
I have a SoundBlaster 16 PCI, which installed without a hitch and
without my
Hello everyone--
Given my inability to get the firewall wizard up and my font problems,
I've decided the easiest way to deal with them is to reinstall Mandrake
8 and got everything in its defaults before I start messing again. I'd
like some advice on a few things.
1. I have a 30-gig IBM
Tim wrote:
I have Klipper active, and a Ctrl-C on highlighted text in Konsole
places the text on the Klipper clipboard; but Ctrl-V doesn't paste it in
another application (i.e. KMail or Netscape Messenger), and I can't find
anything in the Klipper help files to suggest that I'm an idiot...
In
Thank you for your very gracious message, Sridhar. Misunderstandings and
misjudgments are a common problem in e-mail lists and forums, especially
when we aren't very well acquainted.
I think I was expecting too much too soon with my Linux installation. I
wanted to get it up and fully useful
Michael wrote:
Another place to check is /tmp which is where all kinds of
temporary files get dumped.
Is it okay to get rid of everything in /tmp, or are some of those files
needed or supposed to be there? I found stuff in there and I'd just as
soon get rid of it, but I left it alone because I
The idea that I am a Microsoft employee or a plant infiltrating this
list gave me the best laugh I've had in a long time. Especially since
I've done nothing else for the past three weeks but try to get a good,
working Linux system in hopes that I will never again have to spend my
not-abundant
civileme wrote:
If people would take notes of a session they had with software
manager, we would be able to see where their intuition leads them (we
are spoiled by being close to its design and implementation
Here's something that happened to me yesterday with Software Manager. I
was
with a little help and then can
set up my firewall.
--Judy Miner
- Original Message -
From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: July 08, 2001 11:30 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Security
On Saturday 07 July 2001 09:52 pm, Judith Miner wrote:
[snip]
You have
Chris wrote:
Does there seem to be a problem with the ppp dialler set-up running
gnome 1.4 under Mandrake 8. I have previously installed Mandrake 8 with
the KDE desktop option and had set-up the dialler up in a matter of
minutes. Has anybody else had a problem in this area or suggestions as
to
Jamie wrote:
This might sound a bit stupid but have you read through the how-to's?
The should be a load installed on your system under /usr/doc/how-to/,
and im sure i saw one about extended charecters on your keyboard.
Yes, I've looked. I printed out the entire Font How-To, read the
Thank you, Michael, both for your information and for demonstrating so
clearly my contention that Linux partisans in general *cannot* see
issues from the perspective of the SOHO/home user.g The reason I speak
up on this is that like it or not, Windows users ARE looking at Linux as
an alternative.
Lucas, you can remove Linux from your computer right from within Linux.
It's easy. I did it last weekend on a computer that is going to my young
grandchildren.
First, make sure you have a boot disk for Windows and test it before you
do anything. Then load Linus and launch DiskDrake (you can do
Dave wrote:
All I have ever dealt with are network of less than 100 nodes, and
several were less than 10. That qualifies for small, yes?
No! (I'm rolling on the floor, laughing.) I'm talking about a two- or
three-computer home network, the very sort of thing that millions (?) of
home users
Bless you, Tazmun! Someone else who understands what I'm talking about!
I see a major difference in the mindset here. Judith speaks of small
as in stand alone or 2 or 3 computers as is my own home network
Precisely. The issues are not the same as they are in even a small
office network.
I
Thanks for your suggestions, Dennis.
Judy, a much better way to do this is to bring up a su console and at
the prompt do cd /usr/sbin then at the prompt type in
InteractiveBastille without the quotes and with the caps as shown. A
setup gui will start with some pretty good explanation of what
Thanks for trying to help, Tom.
You either have an incomplete installation, or you don't have the
necessary services running (eg, iptables, check DrakConf).
I have iptables and everything for Bastille listed as installed in
Software Manager. I uninstalled iptables and reinstalled it, to make
Civileme wrote:
Well, you need an international keyboard. Go to Mandrake Control
Center--Hàrdwárë--Keyboard
Sélèct U S International
Close Mandrake Contröl Center.
Now you will find some keys appear to be dead. ` ' for example. They
must be typed twice. If you type them once, then they
I have searched all the font How-To's and online sites I could find and
cannot find the answer to this question. Can anyone help?
How do you enter nonkeyboard characters into something like KWord? By
nonkeyboard characters, I mean accented letters, fractions, em dashes,
bullets. true typographic
Jose wrote:
I wish that Apple would make a version of their software for the
intel platform. Then the disappointed Windows users could go that way
rather than try their hands on Linux.
In other words, you wish we'd go away. Sorry--I've used a Mac and I
don't care for the Mac. It insulates the
civileme wrote:
at install time, there is an option to give root no password. Then
you can function as user, but if you need super-user, you just ask for
the program and you don't get asked for the password.
I don't understand this. If root has no password, is there any
protection with
Michael wrote:
It is possible to have a user that has root-like privileges -- Try
going to your user manager of choice and changing the uid / gid (user
and group ids) to 0. If you do so, the account will become a root user.
What would be the advantages of doing that rather than simply
Kevin wrote:
Has anybody had any luck installing adobe acrobat reader on Mandrake
yet?
Yes, I put it on Mandrake 8 and it's working fine. There is a Readme
file you get when you untar the download and it has specific information
about installing in Linux. Check the Readme to make sure you
Shashi wrote:
So my problem is how do I install to have both Linux and Windows
working on my system? What is the problem I am having?
I can't answer that. However, I can tell you what I did to get a
perfectly functioning dual boot between Windows 98SE and Mandrake 8. It
took me four tries, by
Roman wrote:
if you find some sort of workaround, please let me know what steps
you took to import them [Windows fonts] into your Linux box.
I did this once, to my sorrow (will explain later). This Drakfont option
assumes you have Windows on your hard drive and Linux can see it. When
you start
s wrote:
I have some questions about this cd writing thing. (Relatively new
to this).
I've done it only in Windows, so I'm not sure how my answers apply to
Linux.
1. With a cdrw, is it necessary to blank it before rewriting over
it? (I seem to have to).
Yes. If you're using regular CD
First of all, thanks to everyone who shared their opinions on working as
root. I've printed out a bunch of messages and will be digesting them as
time allows. For those who wondered why I need to be root so often, it's
because I'm still very much involved in getting the system set up,
installing
Sridhar wrote:
I noticed that you said in an earlier post that you had trouble
importing your fonts. Have you tried using DrakFont (part of the
Mandrake Control Centre)?
Of course. It's a very limited tool, but it did make some TrueType fonts
available to the system and some of the programs
Since there is so many risks of constantly using a root account, how
in the world are you supposed to get work done without being logged in
as root??
I am a new user and am looking for a desktop alternative to Windows. I
have no interest in consoles, command lines, writing scripts, compiling
Thanks, Matt, for describing the perils of routinely working as root.
well, after once having to ctrl alt backspace out of xwindows and
subsequently loosing my whole linux install, and then later suffering ap
owerloss and again losing my whole system both while logged in as root i
realized the
Frank wrote:
There is a HUGE need for a distro that doesn't offer so many options
that it drives would be users away
I think you have many good ideas, but speaking as a Windows user who has
recently installed Mandrake 8, it wasn't the large number of options
that is the problem, but the
Michael,
Thanks for recounting how Linux has become more user friendly since
your Slackware 2.x days. Though I have just started using Linux, I've
followed it over a few years and installed it now because I thought it
was finally reaching the point where a normal person could use it.
I've found
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