Re: [newbie] splitting a pdf

2003-10-03 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
impler method would be to use the print feature in xpdf. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {PGP/GnuPG: http://dhanapalan.com/yama.asc 049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} "World War Three will be a guerilla information war with no divis

Re: [newbie] 60 GB - VANISHED? Partition Table scrambled? HELP!

2003-09-07 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
, > > Linus Try this: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition-Rescue/ -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {PGP/GnuPG: http://dhanapalan.com/yama.asc 049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} "We all suck." -- Microsoft senior

Re: [newbie] somebody disliking mandrake

2003-09-03 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
drake train: Please explain in > absolutely explicit detail the difference between your security modes. > You *HAVE* to do this during the install process as well. If I'm > rebuilding my firewall, for instance, I don't have the option to go out > to the in

Re: [newbie] Gnome out to get X?

2003-08-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
een revealed to the public: http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=7501 It is called Xouvert, and it is platform-agnostic just like XFree86. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {PGP/GnuPG: http://dhanapalan.com/yama.asc 049D38B

Re: [newbie] VNC with sound?

2003-08-16 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
nk you connect to a sound server like esound, NAS or arts across a network. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {PGP/GnuPG: http://dhanapalan.com/yama.asc 049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} "The best way to pred

Re: [newbie] Linux saves MS's butt.

2003-08-15 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
that don't have a clue about this bug or any of what's > been going on. > > I am just waiting to see what kind of press they're going to release to > make themselves look good again - I'm sure it will have heaps of spin in > it... Which is why we need to get

Re: [newbie] what happened?

2003-08-15 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
> > thank you in advance The blinking keyboard lights are the sign of a kernel panic. AFAIK, there isn't much you can do about this. Try browsing the files in /var/log and check your home directory for coredump files (although I don't think kernel panics would create these). The

Re: [newbie] mac os x on mandrake

2003-08-14 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Windows. AFAIK, there are no emulators good enough to run Mac OS X on x86. I know that there is software that will allow you to run Mac OS X in GNU/Linux on a PPC machine (not just Macs), but I can't remember any off-hand. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {PGP/GnuP

Re: [newbie] i'm looking for a very good WYSIWYG editor other than Mozilla composer

2003-07-24 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
fault of the browser. IE is a big offender here. IE is still not fully standards-compliant, and Frontpage is deliberately designed to make shonky code that only works in IE. With that said, take a look here: http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=34

Re: [newbie] MS to investors: SCO is a good bet!

2003-06-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
ules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=7039 -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {PGP/GnuPG: http://dhanapalan.com/yama.asc 049D38B4 | A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} "And in the end, reality always tends to hit

Re: [newbie] Suspicious email "supposedly" from Newbie.

2003-06-06 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Status: N > > > -- > Regards > Chris > Registered Linux user #283774 @ http://counter.li.org > Mandrake Linux 9.0 > 7:43pm up 14 days, 23:45, 3 users, load average: 0.73, 0.18, 0.06 > > > -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.

Re: [newbie] System hangs - makes me cry

2003-06-05 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
e effect, my drive was much faster afterwards. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {PGP/GnuPG: http://dhanapalan.com/yama.asc 049D38B4 | A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} "Because I'm a bastard, and proud of it!" -- Linus To

Re: [newbie] OPINION

2003-05-29 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
een coordinating the PCLinuxOnline SCO boycott: http://www.pclinuxonline.com/scoboycott/ We have a petition at http://www.pclinuxonline.com/scoboycott/petition.html You can find more about the SCO case in our SCO news section http://www.pclinuxonline.com/scoboycott/news.html -- Sridh

Re: [newbie] OT - PCLO offline because of SCO!

2003-04-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I think that was TheDarb's idea. That one gave me a bit of a fright as well :) On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 00:29:57 -0500, Miark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The really cruel joke was the RedHat chapter 11 poll. Shame on you ;-) > > Miark > > > > On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 13:

Re: [newbie] [OT] FYI - SCO sues IBM for $1 billion for 'devaluing Unix'

2003-03-13 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 01:40:36 +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 08:43:51 -0500 (EST), "Andrei Raevsky" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/29632.html > > > > (-

Re: [newbie] FYI - SCO sues IBM for $1 billion for 'devaluing Unix'

2003-03-07 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
lise that their actions are doing them more harm than good. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] "Recently I bought Office XP. It was quite unpleasant feeling giving so much money for so buggy product. ... Solution: Uninstall Office XP and Windows."

Re: [newbie] Download manager, grab everything

2003-03-03 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
u want to go down through the links. To download a whole site, set this to 0 (unlimited). You may also want to toggle the "Allow leave this server while recursing via HTTP" and "Only subdirs" for some extra control. The "Change links in HTML file to local" can be useful here

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Civilme is POPULAR! Yeesh! (grin)

2003-03-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
o write, and he worded it much better than I could have done. I figured it'd be better to directly quote a respected member of the community rather than write my own half-arsed (by comparison) response. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] "World War Three

Re: [newbie] OT- Mandrake OT list

2003-02-28 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
feel free to use this forum to discuss whatever you wish. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] "Maybe somebody else comes up with a better way to do it, or with a really compelling reason to. "Feel free to try" is definitely the open source motto."

Re: [newbie] File Management

2003-02-10 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
stalled. Mandrake (and Red Hat, Gentoo, etc.) considers these to be part of the core system, so they are installed in /usr instead. root - The root user's home directory. It is stored in / instead of /home to allow a root login even if /home (which is ofte

Re: [newbie] File Management

2003-02-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
it's isn't as hard as it sounds. I was in the same situation as you, back in 1999. I had been using DOS/Windows since 1985, and it seemed to make perfect sense to me. After I switched to GNU/Linux, I finally realised how stupid things can be in the DOS/Windows world. If you open your mind

Re: [newbie] eDonkey??????

2003-02-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
gt; > > I haven't experienced this myself, so I'm not talking from experience, but > > I do have a lot of contact of Direct Connect hub-owners, who all use these > > kind of scripts. I would too, if only I could get my bloody script to work > > ;-) > > > > Greetings > > Ralph -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] "I don't actually follow other operating systems much. I don't compete - I just worry about making Linux better than itself, not others." -- Linus Torvalds msg118842/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [newbie] eDonkey??????

2003-02-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
rding to the MLDonkey FAQ (http://www.nongnu.org/mldonkey/faq.html), only the eDonkey and Overnet networks are supported in the official release. To connect to other networks, you need to be using a CVS build. MLDonkey has full client (and some server) support of the eDonkey network. Unfortunately,

Re: [newbie] GLX gears (wanna see BAD?)

2003-02-04 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Hz > 768 MB SDRAM > ABit BX6 Rev. 2 (440 BX chipset) > > Ya fee better now Ed? LMAO > > Regards; > -- > Charlie > Edmonton,AB,Canada When comparing glxgears stats, make sure you're all running the same screen resolution and colour depth, and maximise the

Re: [newbie] Lost about swap

2003-02-03 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
y's computers boast more RAM than you'll ever need, given the current state of GNU/Linux, so you can afford to relax things a little. For example, I have 1GB RAM, which is far more than I'll ever need. I have configured a swap size of 1GB (i.e. swap = RAM), but my system never needs to use it. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] "I'm basically a very lazy person who likes to get credit for things other people actually do." -- Linus Torvalds msg117982/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [newbie] OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad!

2003-02-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
and users only use the root account sparingly, isn't there? If your b/f is so correct in his belief, then why isn't anybody else (save for the few people who don't know any better) doing it? If he were right, you'd think that after over thirty years of UNIX existing somebody wou

Re: [newbie] Creating pdf

2003-02-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
ntaining lots of images or tables)? Test ps2pdf out on a very simple HTML file, then when you're sure it's working you can move on to heavier stuff. Are you using the version of GhostScript that comes with Mandrake? I'm asking because your error message contains "ESP Ghostscript

Re: [newbie] Creating pdf

2003-02-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
> left with a suitably small test pdf file. > > So then I went to what I really wanted to convert. I can't get any html file > to open in Ghostview, getting error messages as attached. Can enyone help, > please? > > Anne > -- > Registered Linux U

Re: [newbie] Replacement for MS ACCESS ?

2003-02-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2460 -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] "As history shows a lot of ActiveX components are buggy and new version is released. The interesting part is the buggy version is still really signed and available in on

Re: [newbie] Re:Back to Basics

2003-01-28 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
7;t tried Yoper, but I have read a lot of good things about it. I think it would be worth a shot if you would like a change of scenery. I myself am a huge fan of Mandrake and Gentoo, with Debian being a good fallback. I tried installing Xandros (a desktop-oriented Debian-based distro), but it r

Re: [newbie] Linux Hardware Database

2003-01-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Microsoft Apologist (and ZDNet editor) David Berlind took it down a while ago. On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 23:33:58 +1300, Michael Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has the ZDNet database moved or is it just down for two days now? > > -- > Michael -- Sridhar Dhanapa

Re: [newbie] Totally scunnered with MetaCity

2002-11-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
at least for the time being. I use Sawfish instead of Metacity in GNOME. Nautilus' management of the desktop can be turned off in its preferences, leaving you with a bare desktop. You don't need to be root to alter any GNOME settings. So with that said, what exactly is wrong with GNOME2 th

Re: [newbie] Bluecurve to mandrake

2002-10-25 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
but it conflicts with the bluecurve files. Red Hat have copyrighted the name "Bluecurve", so Tex had to rename it to something else. This became "Freecurve". There is no difference but naming. Also take a look at the LightHouseBlue theme: http://www.pclinuxonline.com/module

Re: [newbie] Time Synch -- alternate to rdate?

2002-10-10 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
ching -- any suggestions? > > Thanks, > Randy Kramer -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "I feel that open, competitive markets, free thought and democracy all flourish only when we defend the medium itself as being independent. That may mean constraints that carriers cannot also supply software, that

Re: [newbie] mldonkey problems

2002-10-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
y. I think lugdunum servers block MLDonkey by default. I think their logic is that MLDonkey is a threat to the eDonkey network since it can connect to multiple servers simultaneously. This is not necessarily the case More info can be found at the Linux eDonkey forum: http://forums.edonkey2000.co

Re: [newbie] iso downloading problems

2002-10-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
lems. Might just have to wait for the > official release to come out. Was going to buy it anyway but wanted to > install it now. I get the opening screen and hit enter and get a black > screen. Have hit f1 and tried the other install methods with no luck. Any > ideas guys? > &g

Re: [newbie] Which journalized filesystem should I use in MDK 9.0

2002-09-30 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
mentation, so you need to > > periodically defrag it (just like with Windows and FAT/NTFS). > > > > Of these filesystems, ReiserFS is probably the most complex (using features > > like B-trees, etc.). It is also the only journalling FS that has been > > designed from sc

Re: [newbie] Which journalized filesystem should I use in MDK 9.0

2002-09-28 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
lems in the past, but in the last few kernel releases it has been very solid. The Gentoo documentation has also been changed to reflect this. If you plan to use LVM, or better yet EVMS, ReiserFS is a good choice. It is both fast (particularly for smaller files) and reliable, and ReiserFS filesystems

Re: 9.0 on edonkey (was: Re: [newbie] 9.0: let's help with the bandwidth? :o)

2002-09-26 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
a ADSL line with 128KBit upload, this means only > about 10KB in average. That is about 3 days for the 3 ISOs. But at > least you now have the exact files to look for and I hope that this > will encourage others do the same and publish their downloads. > > Since it is the first time t

Re: [newbie] File conversion

2002-09-25 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
at the end) to convert all files in the current working directory to lower case. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "You have no privacy. Get over it." -- Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] File conversion

2002-09-24 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:18:08 +0100, John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote, > > > > > > > > >Yes. By default, it changes all filenames to lower case. So > > > > # chcase * > > > >will probably do

Re: [newbie] galeon and opera

2002-09-23 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
the relative qualities of galeon 1.0.3 > > and opera 6 regarding speed etc. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "I don't think it's right and I think it causes people to make decisions which are not even in their best interest. A, we're not evil. B, we're not an empire.&q

Re: [newbie] File conversion

2002-09-23 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
> > set002]# $ for i in *; do mv "$i" "`echo "$i" | tr A-Z a-z`"; > bash: syntax error near unexpected token `do' > > set002]# $ for i in *; mv "$i" "`echo "$i" | tr A-Z a-z`"; done;bash: > syntax error near unexpe

Re: [newbie] ot - file sharing tools

2002-09-18 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
ile sharing > > > program. have been unsuccessful with anything nutella, win or lin, no > > > problems w/ the kazaa network. is there anybody working on connectivity > > > to kazaa? > > > > > > side note... i mainly work in kde, for what it's

Re: [newbie] Menu at the top of the screen

2002-09-10 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
orks in both > >GNOME 1 and GNOME 2. > > Maybe I was not clear enough, I meant the menu bar, where "File Edit, > " stay. I'd like to have it on the top of the screen, I don't want a bar > with "file Edit ..." for every window. Oh, I see now.

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper - OGG eats MP3

2002-09-10 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
. Sound quality is extraordinary and files are > > smaller than MP3. Just need those tiny pocket players > > to support the format and MP3 would be dead. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan There's no place like ~ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Menu at the top of the screen

2002-09-07 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
d like to have menus placed at the top of the screen (like MAc OS) to > save space and for personal taste. > Is it possible with Gnome? I remember I saw it some months ago, but I don't > remember where and how to set up the WM. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "You agree that in order

Re: [newbie] Gnome, or KDE

2002-08-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
environments out there, including Enlightenment and XFce, to name only a few. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." -- Western Unio

Re: [newbie] 1024 cylinder limit

2002-08-22 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
ere on the disc. You can safely install Mandrake 8.2 [or better yet, wait for 9.0, which should be out in under a month :) ] to wherever you want. AFAIK, Windows still has this 1024 cylinder limit. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "The reason I'm doing Linux is not because I think I'm "

Re: [newbie] Where can I download Ximian Evolution?

2002-08-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
x27;t in Mandrake 7.2, so you'll have to install a lot to get Evolution going. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "OS/2 is the platform of the '90s." -- Bill Gates Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] really really out of topic

2002-08-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
ested Sridhar, > > where did you hear about XP throttling bandwidth down to save some for > talking to M$ servers?? > > thats something that people should know about. > > > rgds > > Frank > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mai

Re: [newbie] really really out of topic

2002-08-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
bandwidth, reserving 10-20% for itself so it can communicate with MS servers behind your back. I don't know what it uses that bandwidth for, but it's enough to put me off MS products for good (not that I liked them before). -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "The best way to predict th

Re: [newbie] OT: Outlook killers for Windows/Linux

2002-08-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
MS Outlook (without the security holes or spyware, of course), so the learning curve for existing Outlook users is not steep. Evolution is already included in Mandrake Linux, and also in Ximian GNOME (http://www.ximian.com/products/ximian_gnome/). -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Nine out of

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Geometries

2002-08-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 05:09:52 +1200, Sharrea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 15:08, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > > IBM drives made in the year or so have had major reliability problems. In > > fact, IBM are trying to get out of the business by selling

Re: [newbie] DVD subtitles

2002-08-19 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
learn to use Mencoder, the MPlayer encoder. The manual tells you how to extract subtitles. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "We will get the source code up on the Web - anybody who specifically wants a copy can just ask." -- Bill Gates Wa

Re: [newbie] GCombust permissions problem

2002-08-16 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
the disc behave as if they're on your hard drive, in that you need the correct user permissions to access them. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact t

Re: [newbie] MP3 file splitter

2002-08-10 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
; > -Scott > > Oops, there's also mp3splt: http://mp3splt.sourceforge.net/ ... and http://mpgtx.sourceforge.net/. It'd designed mainly for MPEG video but the site says "mpgtx can currently split and join MPEG 1 video files and most MPEG audio files." -- Sri

Re: [newbie] File system choices

2002-08-10 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
cratch, the others being the continuation of preexisting FSs. Nevertheless, it has proven to be quite robust in actual use, so I wholeheartedly recommend it. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed... ...Oh, wait a minute, he alread

Re: [newbie] Groups

2002-08-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 8 Aug 2002 10:42:12 -0700 (PDT), Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I get a list of groups available on Linux? Group info is stored in the /etc/group file. If you prefer a GUI, there's Mandrake's userdrake tool, available in the Control Centre. --

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Wine

2002-08-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
eX is released under the APL (Aladdin Public License), which makes it free (and open source) for non-commercial use. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.&qu

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] MDK Club RPMs freely available?

2002-08-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
drake FTP mirror. A list of such mirrors can be found at http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/cookerdevel.php3 Also, go to http://www.pclinuxonline.com and scroll down towards the bottom of the page. In the left column there should be a section called "RPMS & Debs". -- Sridhar Dhanapalan &

Re: [newbie] can't remember how to mount hda1

2002-08-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
need to add the '-t [FILESYSTEM]' parameter as well. So if /dev/hda1 is FAT, add '-t vfat', and if it's NTFS, add '-t ntfs'. NTFS support is read-only. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whet

[newbie] test

2002-08-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
testing... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Civilme petition.

2002-07-30 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
gt; --- civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > My involvement with the fixing process is > > > > becoming distant as I struggle to complete a few > > > > more testing tools > > > > before my lay-off is effective. (two days hence). > > > > > > > > Civileme -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The Information Revolution will be fought on the command line. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] screen resolution

2002-07-16 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
#x27;t there an on-the-fly setting from within the OS itself, as well? Yep, there is. You can find it in the Mandrake Control Centre. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "Don't underestimate the power of survival of the fittest." -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Re: CENSORSHIP: 1984-reduced.......?

2002-07-15 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
e the GPL. The reason for the Windows version being out first is simply that there are far more Windows users out there. Peek-a-Booty uses P2P technology, so it is important that there be many nodes. I hear that the code is cross-platform, but is more optimised for GNU/Linux. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan

Re: [newbie] New Hobby

2002-07-14 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
dams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> saith: > > > Can you confirm that with a link? > > This is as close as i got:- > > http://www.techtv.com/news/security/story/0,24195,3388837,00.html > > -- > > Michael -- Sridhar Dhanapalan There's no place like ~ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Gnome 2.0

2002-07-11 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
nome, some RPMs are 2.something, some are > 0.96... GNOME 2.0 RPMs built specifically for Mandrake 8.2 are currently being made by MandrakeClub volunteers. If I were you, I'd wait until those are released (you don't need to be a member of the Club). -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "U

Re: [newbie] Gnome Themes Selector

2002-07-07 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
tle bug or something changed, since > Gnome 1.4? GTK2 themes are different from GTK1 themes. To change GTK1 themes in GNOME2, try this: http://www.muhri.net/nav.php3?node=gts -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and p

Re: [newbie] Virii WAS I thought Wal Mart had a deal with L-MDK?

2002-07-06 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 23:19:59 -0400, Carroll Grigsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 06 July 2002 10:04 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 20:46:24 -0400, Carroll Grigsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > As a side note, has anyone ever

Re: [newbie] Virii WAS I thought Wal Mart had a deal with L-MDK?

2002-07-06 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
ot;. The 'u' moderates the sound of the 'o' so that it is not too hard. The 'o' is emphasised more in the word 'or' than in the word 'colour'. In that way, the 'u' is actually phonetic in (British) English. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "I

Re: [newbie] Quota or no quota?

2002-07-05 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
user. What's this all about?! > > > > Open /etc/security/limits.conf in an editor. There should be a section that > > looks something like this: > > > > # limit size of any one of users' files to 100mb > > * hardfsize 10 > > > > Comme

Re: [newbie] Quota or no quota?

2002-07-05 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
ers' files to 100mb * hardfsize 100000 Comment out the second line with a #. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Linux is like a wigwam. No windows, no gates. Apache inside. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-05 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
t the model used in Quake 2/3: use open standards to ensure that a game works in other OSs with little modification. In Quake's case, all that is required to make the game run work in GNU/Linux is to change a few megabytes of binaries. Environments like OpenGL and SDL are designed to do ju

Re: [newbie] I thought Wal Mart had a deal with L-MDK?

2002-07-04 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
ilar in concept to Ximian's Red Carpet and MandrakeUpdate, but I am not convinced that it is as secure. When you are downloading and executing code from the Internet, security is of paramount importance. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "In short, Microsoft is no more able to build secure pr

Re: [newbie] Lilo is gone!!!

2002-07-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
e of my friends directed me to a boot disk available on the > internet, but somehow it was too big for a floppy :-\ Do you have a Mandrake CD? If so, just boot with it and type 'rescue' at the LILO prompt. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "... the main beneficiaries of mergers in the comput

Re: [newbie] Enabling quota

2002-07-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
localhost > quotaon: quotaon: using /home/aquota.user on /dev/hda6: > Invalid argument > > I get this "Invalid argument" error even when I try to > enable userquotas using webmin. > > Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong here ? Is your /home partition ReiserFS?

Re: [newbie] Xpdf versus KGhostView for viewing all text in PDF file?

2002-07-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
be.com or you can get the latest version of GV (released under the Aladdin Public license) from Aladdin Systems. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it."

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Ss. If you want to do a GNU/Linux port of any software (not just games), a publisher should package it together with the Windows version. In the case of Quake 3, the GNU/Linux binaries are only a couple of megs, so why not? I believe that Sun, Hancom and Gobe are doing just that with their respectiv

Re: [newbie] Privoxy

2002-06-30 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
s, Brazil just beat Germany 2-0 to win the World Cup!!! I was going for Germany :( -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "Maybe somebody should tell gcc maintainers about programmers that know more than the compiler again." -- Linus Torvalds

Re: [newbie] Pro's & con's for separate partitions?

2002-06-30 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
your previous settings. I always wanted to try out BeOS, but by the time I was ready to install it the company was ready to fold :( I guess I'll wait and see how the BeOS clones like OpenBeOS develop before trying those. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "I once preached peaceful coexistence with Windows. You may laugh at my expense -- I deserve it." -- Jean-Louis Gassée, founder of BeOS Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Adding another window manager by hand to login screen

2002-06-29 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
ed and that you have set X to start at boot (you can use XFdrake as root to do this). Start/restart X (or reboot), and all should be well. If not, you may need to go through the setup utility for your login manager and add the new entry to it. Alternatively, you can use the Xtart utility if you pre

Re: [newbie] Privoxy

2002-06-29 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
ork messages are 'looped back' to you, and you communicate with yourself. In your browser proxy settings, there should be a text box titled something like 'No proxy for'. In this box, enter 'localhost' (without the quotes). Save the settings and reactivate Privoxy. Make

Re: [newbie] Gnome 2.0 released

2002-06-26 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
t me off Gnome 1.4, and it seems that much has been > improved ... Nautilus can be turned off, as I have outlined in an article at http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2561. That may be something to play with until GNOME 2.0 RPMs are made. -- Sridhar

Re: [newbie] making space

2002-06-25 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
do as you have planned and use the 540MB drive as a dedicated swap drive. With the 1.2GB drive, make a single GNU/Linux partition (or one for / and one for /boot). Make sure that each drive is on a different IDE channel. Having two drives on the same channel can s

Re: [newbie] OT: Gnome Panel "Level" ??

2002-06-23 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
gt; place? > > The docs don't mention this (at least I haven't found them saying anything > about this). 2 options here: - Minimise all of your windows so that the desktop is visible. - Switch to a bare virtual desktop or viewport. You should then be able to see that

Re: [newbie] does apt-get really work in Mandrake?

2002-06-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
wn alternative to apt, called urpm. You can find more by typing 'man urpmi' at a terminal prompt. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "I'll bet you $5 USD (and these days, that's about a gadzillion Euros) that this explains it." -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] child-protection for Linux?

2002-06-18 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
nks it undesirable. > He asked me what we could do about it. If the problem only lies with pop-ups and pop-unders, then you can kill them by using a browser like Galeon or Mozilla, or a proxy like Privoxy. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Why is it always Segmentation's fault?

Re: [newbie] OT: Pre-migration strategies: Win2K -> LM

2002-06-14 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
prove system stability and speed, and to force people onto Mozilla. If you have an intranet, ensure that all its pages are standards-compliant. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "... if you're a basic PC user thinking about buying XP, don't. It's basically malware. It harangues you wit

Re: [newbie] OT - World Cup broadcasts

2002-06-14 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
mercials. I don't mind too much -- it's live and it's all free :) One of the best things is that the time difference between Japan and Sydney is only 30 minutes, so I don't have to stay up to watch games early in the morning as I used to do with previous World Cups. -- Sridhar Dh

Re: [newbie] MCSE and rebooting for IP changes

2002-06-14 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
fice is one of the few > exceptions), and once you get used to it is much more 'intuitive' than the > keyboard contortions you need to make Clt-C, Ctl-V OpenOffice.org can be made to recognise middle clicks as 'paste' if you set it in the Preferences. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan

Re: [newbie] MCSE and rebooting for IP changes

2002-06-14 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 02:28:31 -0600, FemmeFatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > > > On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 23:06:29 -0600, Miark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Looking back, I can only bow my head in self-disgust. But > > >

Re: [newbie] sound record and playback

2002-06-14 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
oblem I have (I think) is that there are two applications (sound > >>recorder and xmms) trying to access the sound card and one of them gets > >>trown out with the 'sound device busy' message. Shouldn't ESD sort this out? -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "The reaso

Re: [newbie] MCSE and rebooting for IP changes

2002-06-13 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
eem to be of the opinion that the Dvorak layout isn't necessary, and is perhaps even flawed. I've been thinking of trying Dvorak out for some time, but these two articles have made me think again. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Without C, We would only have Pasal, Basi, and

Re: [newbie] MCSE and rebooting for IP changes

2002-06-13 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
PL. SuSE make their system tools proprietary, and they don't have freely downloadable ISOs. They are now part of the UnitedLinux group, which not distribute binaries. If any distro is becoming proprietary, I would say it is SuSE, along with the other UnitedLinux members (Caldera, TurboLinux and C

Re: [newbie] Any news of MDK 9.0?

2002-06-13 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
General MandrakeSoft policy is to release by the end of October. You can expect Mandrake 9.0 to have GCC 3.1.1, GNOME 2.0 and KDE 3.0 (possibly 3.1). -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "If you sat a monkey down in front of a keyboard, the first thing typed would be a UNIX command.&quo

Re: [newbie] Tips or Shortcut key in Gnome or KDE ...

2002-06-11 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
send for me or > > give me a url for get list , or if everybody know some tip or shortcut > > please tell me ... > > thanks alot beforehand .. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan What's this script doing? unzip ; touch ; finger ; mount ; gasp ; yes ; umount ; sleep. Hint: not everything is

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-11 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
-- it does what you need. Why are you complaining? If you want the "choice" to have e-mail virii execute automatically then you should also go back to Windows. BTW, did you even _read_ the links I gave earlier, or did you just 'conveniently ignore' them? I've given a mill

Re: [newbie] Hahaha, did you see?

2002-06-11 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
nse/old_opensource_whitepaper.pdf. It's crap, > pure and simple; it's only interesting as an example of MS FUD at its worst. > The most polite term for these guys is "whores". A brilliant rebuttal is at > www.roaringpenguin.com/adti2.php3 -- well worth a read. &

Re: [newbie] searchbot

2002-06-11 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
rch.com/ http://www.dogpile.com/ http://www.mamma.com/ http://webinfosearch.com/ If you want the latter, try http://bookmarklets.com/moreinfo.phtml. If you use Galeon, you can use its Smart Bookmarks feature to create search boxes on the toolbars, or its My Portal home page. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan &qu

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