Re: [newbie-it] portatile - consigli

2003-03-24 Per discussione Andrea Celli
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 23:06:50 +0100 Guido Milanese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dovrei comperare un notebook sul quale installare la Mandrake che uso a casa con il desktop. Qualche consiglio? Il database della Mandrake non è molto utile, dando come 'tested' solo prodotti della Asus e della

[newbie-it] JDBC

2003-03-24 Per discussione Santarella Benedetto
Salve a tutti, quale programma si usa per gestire i database con JDBC?? Sotto winzoz esisteva una icona nel pannello di controllo chiamata tipo controllo ODBC (per ODBC), io cerco l'equivalente linux per JDBC!! Grazie a tutti e ricordate FATE L'AMORE E NON FATE LA GUERRA (Fatelo anche da soli,

[newbie-it] Leggere un archivio web (.MHT) di microsoft

2003-03-24 Per discussione mirko . cap
ho ricevuto via posta elettronica un file contenente archivi web in formato .mht in pratica sono una fusione di html e delle immagini in un unico file il sistema operativo (MDK 9)li identifica come messaggi di posta elettronica quindi mi chiedevo se esiste un modo per leggerli Come posso fare?

[newbie-it] Kmail e predefinito

2003-03-24 Per discussione tom
Ave lista, la domanda è piuttosto banale. come si fa per cambiare l'indirizzo predefinito in Kmail? sara che sono a casa con la febbre e non ho un cXXXo da fare, ma cercando cercando non ho trovato nulla :-) Ciao , Tom . ~ . / v \ / / \ \ / (

Re: [newbie-it] Kmail e predefinito

2003-03-24 Per discussione Luigi Pinna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 17:06, lunedì 24 marzo 2003, tom ha scritto: Ave lista, la domanda è piuttosto banale come si fa per cambiare l'indirizzo predefinito in Kmail? sara che sono a casa con la febbre e non ho un cXXXo da fare, ma cercando cercando non ho

Re: [newbie-it] Kmail e predefinito

2003-03-24 Per discussione tom
On Monday 24 March 2003 17:41, Luigi Pinna wrote: O intendevi l'indirizzo email che spedisci con kmail? In tal caso crei yes una nuova identità dal menù Impostazioni--configura kmail. A quel punto potrai scegliere nella mail con che identità spedire (te lo troverai sopra il campo del

Re: [newbie-it] consigli per un'installazione

2003-03-24 Per discussione Giorgio Griffon
Alle 22:12, sabato 22 marzo 2003, Arwan ha scritto: Alle Saturday 22 March 2003 16:02, a proposito di Re: [newbie-it] consigli per un'installazione (e chissa' a cosa pensava veramente), Giorgio Griffon ha scritto: Giorgio ___

[newbie-it] connessione con modem ADSL

2003-03-24 Per discussione Paolo Schiavo
Chiedo aiuto!! Sono passato recentemente alla connessione con ADSL, pacchetto fornito da ALICE con modem Telindus Arescom ND220. Uso la Mandrake 9.0. Ho un riconoscimento della porta USB a cui è connesso (uno dei due lem del modem si accende), per configurarlo però è tutta un'altra storia.

Re: [newbie] error installing NVIDIA 1.0-4191 drivers

2003-03-24 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Monday 24 Mar 2003 2:57 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please forgive me if this post comes across with html formatting, I am accessing my email account thru AT$T's web site and I cannot find anywhere to change the settings. I finally decided to upgrade my nvidia drivers (again - seems to

[newbie] Radio

2003-03-24 Per discussione Pawel Nozderko
How to run my PixelView Station BT878p+ with Fm ? I have instaled gradio and it doeasn't work, typed that the devises don't exist what should i write: ln -s /dev/? /dev/radio And the 2nd problem is how to run my tv card ? -- Help Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] just another cd burning question!

2003-03-24 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
On Monday 24 de March 2003 04:03, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: In onother machine I have a cd-rom and a DVD! I want to remove the cd-rom, place de dvd on it's place and add a cd-burner! The question is: How about the upmi and alike? Do I have to rebuild the database ? If so,

RE: [newbie] supermount

2003-03-24 Per discussione Tsur, Oren
I have been trying a few things, thinking the mounting had something to with it. Well maybe it does. I found that both, supermount and user worked the same (9.0). In fact I got so confused with mounting and rights, I ended up re-installing mandrake. After that I logged in as root and gave myself

RE: [newbie] Configuring X-CD-Roast

2003-03-24 Per discussione Tsur, Oren
I followed Miark's suggestion and made the change to lilo.conf append=quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi . It did not make a difference. When starting my x-cd-roast my DVD-ROM was still undetected, But then, AHAAA!!! I changed my booting agent to grub. PRESTO Everything is working

Re: [newbie] Configuring X-CD-Roast

2003-03-24 Per discussione John Richard Smith
Tsur, Oren wrote: I followed Miark's suggestion and made the change to lilo.conf append=quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi . It did not make a difference. When starting my x-cd-roast my DVD-ROM was still undetected, But then, AHAAA!!! But did rou run /sbin/lilo in a terminal to get the

Re: [newbie] 9.1 CD format

2003-03-24 Per discussione Adolfo Bello
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 01:39, Guy Rouillier wrote: Well, I can't help with your original question - sorry. But I bought a pack of the cheapest CD-R's available - Optimum - got a 50 pack for 94 **cents**. And I haven't had a single error on the 10 that I've burned so far. Before you toss

Re: [newbie] shutdown is not swith off!

2003-03-24 Per discussione Adolfo Bello
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 03:13, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: After the upgrading from mdk8.1 to mdk9.0 the shutdown or halt commands are not switching off the computer anymore! The screen holds on: Power down And then I have to switch off mannually. Any help? TIA

[newbie] /home ownership changes itself

2003-03-24 Per discussione Vahur Lokk
Hello! I have installed Mandrake 9.0. Yesterday I installed ALT Linux Junior (Russian Mandrake derivative) on an empty partition. Both installations share one /home partition. Problem is, if I have used ALTLinux and reboot to Mandrake, my home directory belongs to another user. If I use

Re: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop

2003-03-24 Per discussione Adolfo Bello
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 03:09, Mungandi, Fred wrote: Hi, I am a newbie to Linux. Over the weekend, I installed Mandrake 9.0 on a Toshiba Satellite 1905-S301 laptop. The little devil is powered by a P4 running at 2 GHz, has 40 GB HDD and 256 MB RAM. I installed it in a dual boot arrangement

RE: [newbie] shutdown is not swath off!

2003-03-24 Per discussione Tsur, Oren
Adolfo, For the newbies who are still not very conversant with Linux in general and Mandrake in particular, please can you show (or refer us to a place which will show this) how this is done? With all respect to Linux, it would be nice to use the computer as we all did under M$ Window$. Meaning

Re: [newbie] shutdown is not swath off!

2003-03-24 Per discussione Anne Wilson
Recompiling the kernel is not trivial. Most of us can shut down without having to do this, so it should be left until you have no other option. I'm not sure where you can check your power settings - it's not where it used to be - but I'm sure someone will tell you. You may have said it

RE: [newbie] File encryption software

2003-03-24 Per discussione Jamie . Kerwick
Thanks for all of the replies on this topic.. Still not too sure what is the best way of going really. The reason for encryption is that the files contain personal data which we don't want to pass clear text. In an ideal world the files will unencrypt themselves as the people we are sending the

Re: [newbie] shutdown is not swath off!

2003-03-24 Per discussione Lanman
You could also try installing apmd, which handles power management. It's also possible that it's installed, but not running. Check to see if it's activated in your services (Mandrake Control CenterSystemServices) to see if it's activated at boot. If you don't find it in the list of services, it's

Re: [newbie] /home ownership changes itself

2003-03-24 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Monday 24 Mar 2003 12:07 pm, Vahur Lokk wrote: Hello! I have installed Mandrake 9.0. Yesterday I installed ALT Linux Junior (Russian Mandrake derivative) on an empty partition. Both installations share one /home partition. Problem is, if I have used ALTLinux and reboot to Mandrake, my

RE: [newbie] shutdown is not swath off!

2003-03-24 Per discussione Tsur, Oren
This looks like very good solid advice. I will try it later today and will let you know;o) Ann Also thank you, I think you are absolutely right. Good solid OS shouldn't be about running to THE CODE all the time. Open source should not be the opposite or not in-line of user friendly! Oren

[newbie] Testing that I can post again.

2003-03-24 Per discussione Keith Powell
Just over two weeks ago, for no apparent reason, I suddenly stopped receiving anything from either the newbie or the expert lists. After a lot of work and co-operation between Mandrake and my ISP, they appear to have sorted the problems and things now seem to be back to normal. At least, I am

Re: [newbie] packetCD

2003-03-24 Per discussione ivette brusselmans
Mandrake 9.0 can't read my packetCD, but this probably has to do with the fact that I used packetCD compression, and all the files on the CD appear in Mandrake as programs (cogwheels), with question marks behind them. Thanx From: Graham Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Radio

2003-03-24 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 24 March 2003 05:14 am, Pawel Nozderko wrote: How to run my PixelView Station BT878p+ with Fm ? I have instaled gradio and it doeasn't work, typed that the devises don't exist what should i write: ln -s /dev/? /dev/radio Under the Mandrake Control Center, hardware, TV card. You can

RE: [newbie] File encryption software

2003-03-24 Per discussione Leonardo Diciolla
What about using pgp? It encrypts files end email with a customised privacy level (key lenght)? Leonardo Diciolla --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Thanks for all of the replies on this topic.. Still not too sure what is the best way of going really. The reason for encryption is that the

[newbie] lilo troubles (RH-related)

2003-03-24 Per discussione Raffaele Belardi
I'm helping a friend install RedHat7.3. I realize now how good the MDK distributions are! We are trying to have a dual boot with W2K. The problem is that after RH installation, LILO does not show the W2K option. No problem, we think, let's boot in linux and insert in lilo.conf the additional

RE: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop

2003-03-24 Per discussione Mungandi, Fred
Title: RE: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop Suerte, Thanks for your response. I have tried all the mouse options under Mandrake Control Centre. Nothings works so far. Fred -Original Message- From: Adolfo Bello [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 24,

[newbie] Re: Radio

2003-03-24 Per discussione Pawel Nozderko
Is any body know what should symbolic linc include: ls /dev/? /dev/radio -- Help Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] error installing NVIDIA 1.0-4191 drivers

2003-03-24 Per discussione ampster40
Looks like no choice as to top or bottom posting thru AT$T's web site! Derek, I am at work, so there is no way to confirm that kernel-headers-2.4.19-16mdk is on the cd's - however looking thru the mirrors this morning, I find kernel- headers-2.4.18-41mdk is what is available for 9.0 If you have

Re: [newbie] error installing NVIDIA 1.0-4191 drivers

2003-03-24 Per discussione Derek
Sorry My mistake. I assumed the 2.4.19 kernel headers would be on the CD, but you are correct they are 2.4.18. I do not understand why the kernel headers should be for a different version of the kernel, and I cannot find any other version available. Personally I use the precompiled drivers from

Re: [newbie] error installing NVIDIA 1.0-4191 drivers

2003-03-24 Per discussione ampster40
I just became a Mandrake Club member this past weekend so I will go find those precompiled drivers. Will take a look at that link as well. I have installed - then upgraded Nvidia drivers quite a few times now but never ran into this problem. yanc (HTH - some program for tweaking Nvidia

Re: [newbie] lilo troubles (RH-related)

2003-03-24 Per discussione Leonardo Diciolla
Raffaele, did you install lilo on your root / partition or on your master partition? Do you want to dual boot your machine or only mount your ntfs partition? If you want to mount it you have to compile the ntfs module at least and then go with modprobe or insmod. That doesn't depend upon Lilo.

Re: [newbie] Re: Radio

2003-03-24 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 24 March 2003 10:21 am, Pawel Nozderko wrote: Is any body know what should symbolic linc include: ls /dev/? /dev/radio Here, I have this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]$ ls radio* radio@ radio0 radio1 radio2 radio3 radio4 radio5 radio6 radio7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]$ ls -al radio

[newbie] Apache permission problems

2003-03-24 Per discussione Andrew Miller
Having problems with file permissions and Apache on a Mandrake 9.0 box. Error message is: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /bookmarks2.htm on this server. Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/1.3.26 Server at mail.shadowdog.com Port 80 Permissions for the enclosing directories for the

RE: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop

2003-03-24 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 01:36, Mungandi, Fred wrote: Suerte, Thanks for your response. I have tried all the mouse options under Mandrake Control Centre. Nothings works so far. Fred Have you tried running mousedrake from a terminal? You should be able to just choose a generic USB wheel

Re: [newbie] 9.1 CD format

2003-03-24 Per discussione H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 24 March 2003 20:08, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 14:32, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Monday 24 March 2003 06:30, Adolfo Bello wrote: (Any idea about the 100% processor load?) Saludos That's just konq trying to read the file systems on those CD's and not really

Re: [newbie] how to bounce 'To:' addresses

2003-03-24 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 05:21, Ibly Piblo wrote: I have learned how to bounce spam and other unwanted mail back, but I would like to know if anyone here knows how to bounce spam back by the to: address instead of the from domain, or ip address. I am looking to bounce all mail that is

Re: [newbie] 9.1 CD format

2003-03-24 Per discussione Adolfo Bello
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 15:53, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Yeah, well keventd is one or other KDE prog starting up AFAIK. So there is something starting up and not working as it should, probably konq I'd guess. Usually, if I get suspicious of KDE in general I start up an Icewm-session (because of

Re: [newbie] shutdown is not swath off! - bad spellling?

2003-03-24 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 05:42, Miark wrote: On a server, I simply eliminated APM and fixed my reboot/halt problems. On the appropriate append line in /etc/lilo.conf, add apm=off. Mine looks like this: append=apm=off Miark Or when you want things done right: append=tomato=on mayo=on

Re: [newbie] 9.1 CD format

2003-03-24 Per discussione H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 24 March 2003 21:08, Adolfo Bello wrote: Now I have to find out what might be causing keventd to overload my processor the way is doing it. With regard to damaging the /boot partition I didn't gather any additional information. I just reinstalled 9.0. I noticed with 9.1rc1 that KDE

Re: [newbie] shutdown is not swath off! - bad spellling?

2003-03-24 Per discussione H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 24 March 2003 20:52, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 05:42, Miark wrote: On a server, I simply eliminated APM and fixed my reboot/halt problems. On the appropriate append line in /etc/lilo.conf, add apm=off. Mine looks like this: append=apm=off Miark Or when

Re: [newbie] 9.1 CD format

2003-03-24 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 07:35, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: I noticed with 9.1rc1 that KDE insistantly used about 80% cpu whilst only the Windowmanager (i.e. no extra prog's) was running. In Icewm no such problem. On my desktop (P4) this was no real problem but my laptop wasn't useable to my liking.

[newbie] Final or rc3?

2003-03-24 Per discussione Todd Slater
I see a 9.1-rc3 appearing on some of the mirrors. Is this the final or is there to be another round of testing? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] 9.1 CD format

2003-03-24 Per discussione H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 24 March 2003 21:41, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 07:35, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: I noticed with 9.1rc1 that KDE insistantly used about 80% cpu whilst only the Windowmanager (i.e. no extra prog's) was running. In Icewm no such problem. On my desktop (P4) this was no real

Re: [newbie] 9.1 CD format

2003-03-24 Per discussione Adolfo Bello
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 16:41, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 07:35, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: I noticed with 9.1rc1 that KDE insistantly used about 80% cpu whilst only the Windowmanager (i.e. no extra prog's) was running. In Icewm no such problem. On my desktop (P4) this was no real

Re: [newbie] Final or rc3?

2003-03-24 Per discussione Jason Greenwood
Mandrake hasn't said yet. On Cooker, a few days ago they said 9.1 was final. For 9.0 they tricked people. They uploaded an RC then renamed it final. This may be what is happening here. The curious thing is that the CD's are all over 650MB which on list I thought Mandrake said it would not do.

Re: [newbie] CDROM takes minutes to mount

2003-03-24 Per discussione Hendrik Boom
Still no joy. On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:31:40PM -0500, Miark wrote: Is autofs running? If so, try turning it off with drakxservices. Miark Is drakxservices the thing you get to turn services on and off from the MCC? If so, autofs wsa not even listed as something to turn on or off. It

Re: [newbie] 9.1 CD format

2003-03-24 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 07:59, Adolfo Bello wrote: I also booted Gnome and processor load was the same. I didn't try Icewm. I thought of booting in runlevel 3 but then I recalled that I didn't know how to look at processor load per process from the cli. Is there any command to do this?

Re: [newbie] Final or rc3?

2003-03-24 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
On Tue 2003-03-25 at 09:00:54 +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mandrake hasn't said yet. On Cooker, a few days ago they said 9.1 was final. For 9.0 they tricked people. They uploaded an RC then renamed it final. This may be what is happening here. The curious thing is that the CD's are all

Re: [newbie] Final or rc3?

2003-03-24 Per discussione Jason Greenwood
Yup, sorry, just realized I should not be doing math in the morning ;) Cheers Jason Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: On Tue 2003-03-25 at 09:00:54 +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mandrake hasn't said yet. On Cooker, a few days ago they said 9.1 was final. For 9.0 they tricked people. They uploaded

Re: [newbie] Final or rc3?

2003-03-24 Per discussione Simon Prosser
Your math is wrong - 650M = 1024*1024*650 = 681574400bytes. 680M would be 1024*1024*680 = 713031680bytes :D Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Configuring X-CD-Roast

2003-03-24 Per discussione John McQuillen
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 04:11, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 20 Mar 2003 4:55 pm, Miark wrote: Anne, What problems? I scsi-emu my DVD drive and I've never had a hiccup reading data CDs, music CDs, or with copying. Miark I seem to remember that if you did the install from that drive,

Re: [newbie] 9.1 CD format

2003-03-24 Per discussione Adolfo Bello
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 17:38, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 07:59, Adolfo Bello wrote: I also booted Gnome and processor load was the same. I didn't try Icewm. I thought of booting in runlevel 3 but then I recalled that I didn't know how to look at processor load per process

[newbie] startx/Xtart?

2003-03-24 Per discussione Angus Auld
Greetings, I have a question regarding something quite mysterious, and I wonder if anyone out there can help me to understand what is going on here. I have been using Mdk Linux for several months now, and I have always had it configured to boot into X at start...a runlevel 5. Well, just today I

Re: [newbie] 9.1 CD format

2003-03-24 Per discussione Adolfo Bello
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 16:41, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 07:35, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: I noticed with 9.1rc1 that KDE insistantly used about 80% cpu whilst only the Windowmanager (i.e. no extra prog's) was running. In Icewm no such problem. On my desktop (P4) this was no real

[newbie] USB memory stick

2003-03-24 Per discussione Paul Kaplan
I have access to a Fujifilm 256Mb USB memory stick. Anyone know what device type should be used to call this in /etc/fstab? Since it is readable by default from win98, I assume it is formated as vfat. Can anyone confirm. So: mount -t vfat /dev/??? /mnt/removable Y/N? TIA Paul Want to

Re: [newbie] /home ownership changes itself

2003-03-24 Per discussione David E. Fox
change directory ownership and only then log in as user. What is the problem and how to cure it? Have a look at /etc/passwd on both distributions and synchronize them - at least for the users. It would seem to me that one distribution uses different user numbers for the users; for instance,

Re: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop

2003-03-24 Per discussione Jason
Don't give up!! You can get it to work I am reasonable certain of that. Though, Toshiba hardware is notorious for not playing nicely with Linux (they have staff that they employ jointly with MS=). I have gotten mine to work on my work box (an ASUS) by tweaking the XF86Config/-4 files by hand.

RE: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop

2003-03-24 Per discussione Mungandi, Fred
Title: RE: [newbie] Trouble with USB mouse on Toshiba Laptop Jason, Thanks for the tips. I will try tweaking the XF86Config-4 file. Please send me you config file. Thanks, Fred Mungandi -Original Message- From: Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003

Re: [newbie] USB memory stick

2003-03-24 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Monday 24 March 2003 02:02 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote: I have access to a Fujifilm 256Mb USB memory stick. Anyone know what device type should be used to call this in /etc/fstab? Since it is readable by default from win98, I assume it is formated as vfat. Can anyone confirm. Don't sweat

Re: [newbie] lilo troubles (RH-related)

2003-03-24 Per discussione Raffaele Belardi
That's what I thought, and I did exactly as you write. But, running lilo to update the bootloader, we got the error message partition not found or something alike, and the bootloader was not changed. Thanks for the link, I was quite surprised seeing that ntfs is not included in RH. I guess MDK

Re: [newbie] lilo troubles (RH-related)

2003-03-24 Per discussione Raffaele Belardi
Leonardo, we installed lilo on the first sector of the /boot partition, as reccomended by the RH help for NT-linux coexistence on the same disk (in case of W95/98-linux coexistance it reccomended to put lilo in MBR instead), but I admit I did not understand why. What's this difference between