For various family reasons, things will be rather chaotic for the next 2-3
weeks. Consequently I will not be doing any computing.
As I don't want hundreds of postings waiting for me when I am back on the
computer, I have been trying to set nomail for both newbie and expert,
following the
On Friday 11 Mar 2005 17:04, Paul wrote:
Op Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:00:08 + schreef Keith Powell:
All were sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], which I am certain
is the correct address.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] would be better...
Good luck!
Paul
Thanks, Paul,
If you don't hear from me again, it's
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 01:03, Dennis Myers wrote:
On Monday 28 February 2005 03:10 pm, Keith Powell wrote:
In trying to sort the problem, I messed things up altogether and
Gnome would not start.
So I uninstalled Gnome completely, and reinstalled all from Thac's
packages.
Now
On Monday 28 February 2005 12:38, riccardo wrote:
On Monday 28 February 2005 09:31 am, Keith Powell wrote:
I know that hard drives are cheap, but I don't want to have to go
to the trouble and expense of buying a new one unless I have to.
Also, it means salvaging all the data from
I have a Seagate hard drive, and when I close down, I get Hard Drive Seek
Error messages.
However, while it is in use, it appears to be working properly and without any
problems.
Do these messages mean that it is about to pack up completely, and can it be
salvaged? I wouldn't think that drive
I have installed Gnome2.8, using Thac's packages, but have a problem.
There's no desktop panel!
The gnome panel package was installed, so I have uninstalled it and installed
it again. Still nothing, so I have no menus, applets, and so on.
Also, if I try to change the background from the
In trying to sort the problem, I messed things up altogether and Gnome would
not start.
So I uninstalled Gnome completely, and reinstalled all from Thac's packages.
Now, Nautilus starts and then I get an error message:
There was an error starting the Gnome Settings Daemon.
Some things, such
On Monday 28 Feb 2005 19:39, john wrote:
Keith Powell wrote:
I have installed Gnome2.8, using Thac's packages, but have a problem.
There's no desktop panel!
The gnome panel package was installed, so I have uninstalled it and
installed it again. Still nothing, so I have no menus, applets
Some weeks ago, there was a long thread on problems with upgrading KDE
using the Thac packages. Since then, I have not seen anything about it.
Have the problems been sorted, and can we now upgrade KDE?
Many thanks for any information.
Keith
In reply to my question on how to upgrade KDE with the packages on
CD4,
On Saturday 01 Jan 2005 19:21, linuxgirlie wrote:
I installed KDE 3.3 bu doing the following:
Copy all the KDE files into /tmp
Login as root (for some reason there is a bug, may have been fixed
now) that won't allow you
On Saturday 01 Jan 2005 20:33, Tom Brinkman wrote:
On Saturday 01 January 2005 10:25 am, Keith Powell wrote:
In Mandrake 10.1 Official, I am trying to upgrade KDE to KDE3.3
which is on disk4 of the Download Edition. But my attempts have
been a complete failure.
So, PLEASE someone
After several frustrating hours of failure, I am afraid I will have to
ask!
In Mandrake 10.1 Official, I am trying to upgrade KDE to KDE3.3 which
is on disk4 of the Download Edition. But my attempts have been a
complete failure. I have tried everything that I can think of, using
urpmi. None
I have been looking at Quanta for the first time.
Clicking on the Fonts tag, shows the Face box empty. Should it be, or should
there be a selection of fonts listed from which to chose, or do I have to
insert the font names manually?
If there should be fonts listed, how do I get Quanta to see
I am trying to install a .tar.gz program but, as is usual with me, it is
proving a disaster. I can rarely get the things to install, but end up with
lots of error messages. I hate these type of files and usually don't have
anything to do with them.
However, I would like to install this one, if
On Wednesday 15 Dec 2004 13:48, Nick de Graeve wrote:
Keith Powell wrote:
I am trying to install a .tar.gz program but, as is usual with me, it is
proving a disaster. I can rarely get the things to install, but end up
with lots of error messages. I hate these type of files and usually don't
Things have changed regarding my shutdown problem, but have got even more
confusing.
But first, I have just connected for the first time today, to get my e-mails
and postings. I have found that there is nothing from the list between about
eight o'clock last night (GMT, or UTC) and mid-day
On Saturday 11 Dec 2004 16:14, Keith Powell wrote:
Things have changed regarding my shutdown problem, but have got even more
confusing.
I have installed several distributions in turn, on my spare hard drive to
see what shutdown problems there are with other distros. There were none
with two
I KNOW that this has been asked before, but I can't find the answer in
the archives or in twiki. Sorry for asking it again.
I have a new machine, and now, when I close down, everything closes down
correctly, but then Mandrake does not actually switch the computer off.
If I remember correctly,
Kaj Haulrich wrote:
On Friday 10 December 2004 11:37, Keith Powell wrote:
I KNOW that this has been asked before, but I can't find the
answer in the archives or in twiki. Sorry for asking it again.
I have a new machine, and now, when I close down, everything
closes down correctly
Tom Brinkman wrote:
On Friday 10 December 2004 08:53 am, Keith Powell wrote:
apic=off has solved it.
The append line was already apic=ht, so I first changed it to
noapic and then apic=noapic. Neither had any effect.
APIC, advance programable interrupt control. If your system
works better
Margot wrote:
Kaj Haulrich wrote:
On Friday 10 December 2004 11:37, Keith Powell wrote:
I have a new machine, and now, when I close down, everything
closes down correctly, but then Mandrake does not actually switch
the computer off.
If I remember correctly, there is something to change
Duncan Anderson wrote:
Keith Powell wrote:
A very basic question, please.
How do I find out which groups I am in and, if necessary, create and
add myself to another group.
You can look at /etc/group to see which groups you belong to.
Sorry, I just can't find how to do it in Mandrake. MCC
Thank you for your reply, Carefree.
Very much edited, my original posting said:
From: Keith Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a program which needs to access the sound system for a
digital output. When I try to run it, I get the error messages:
Unable to open the audio device. /dev/sound
A very basic question, please.
How do I find out which groups I am in and, if necessary, create and
add myself to another group.
Sorry, I just can't find how to do it in Mandrake. MCC-System-Users
and groups doesn't appear do it.
Many thanks
Keith
Derek Jennings wrote:
On Monday 06 December 2004 17:14, Keith Powell wrote:
A very basic question, please.
How do I find out which groups I am in and, if necessary, create and
add myself to another group.
Sorry, I just can't find how to do it in Mandrake. MCC-System-Users
and groups doesn't appear
the mixer and then
restart it. There is sound again. /dev/dsp is a soft link
to /dev/sound/dsp.
JT
From: Keith Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Sound problem.
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 20:43:26 +
This has probably been
** An update. **
Keith Powell wrote:
I have a program which needs to access the sound system for a digital
output. When I try to run it, I get the error messages:
Unable to open the audio device. /dev/sound/dsp
There is a /dev/sound/dsp and also a /dev/dsp (to which I have tried
changing
On Saturday 04 December 2004 1:57 pm, Yvan wrote:
Hello Keith,
I have a P4P800 ASUS Motherboard. It has a Gigabit Ethernet controller on
board. It really sucked with Mandrake 9.0, Ethernet didn't work correctly,
no sound support. I recently upgraded to Mandrake 10.0 and now everything
works
On Friday 03 December 2004 7:47 pm, Wojciech Podgrni wrote:
I am running my Mandrake 10.1 on Asus A7V600-X motherboard.
Wojciech Podgrni
Thank you for your reply, Wojciech.
The general answer is that I will have no problems with it, which is good to
know.
Keith
This has probably been answered before, but I can't find it in the
archives, on twiki or on Derek's site.
I have a program which needs to access the sound system for a digital
output. When I try to run it, I get the error messages:
Unable to open the audio device. /dev/sound/dsp
There is a
On Friday 03 December 2004 11:19 am, Keith Powell wrote:
My computer is badly showing its old age and it needs replacing.
I have been recommended to have an Asus P4P800-x motherboard, the
specification of which looks good.
At the moment, I am using an SMC ethernet card, and have a question,
please
Derek Jennings wrote:
On Friday 03 December 2004 16:19, Keith Powell wrote:
My computer is badly showing its old age and it needs replacing.
I have been recommended to have an Asus P4P800-x motherboard, the
specification of which looks good.
At the moment, I am using an SMC ethernet card, and have
Dan Gordon wrote:
On Friday 03 December 2004 11:19 am, Keith Powell wrote:
My computer is badly showing its old age and it needs replacing.
I have been recommended to have an Asus P4P800-x motherboard, the
specification of which looks good.
At the moment, I am using an SMC ethernet card, and have
Debian based distros?
I suggest Libranet, a very user friendly version.
It's available as a free download.
Keith
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Join the Club :
On Monday 22 November 2004 7:50 pm, JoeHill wrote:
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:14:09 +
Keith Powell disseminated the following:
Debian based distros?
I suggest Libranet, a very user friendly version.
Yep, forgot about that one. IIRC, it's a Canuck outfit, no?
Yes.
It is a mixture
On Tuesday 16 Nov 2004 21:43, Margot wrote:
amalasingh wrote:
Hi,
Can anyone recommend a broadband router
compatible with UK BT based ISPs.
I have supanet broadband. I have trouble
with connecting from Mandrake since
the ISP only supports Windows.
Cheers
Amala Singh
Netgear
On Saturday 13 Nov 2004 7:31 pm, Keith Powell wrote:
Two days ago, my Yamaha CD burner decided it wasn't going to burn! It
will play data CDs normally, but when I insert a CD and try to burn
with it, I get a message that there is an input/output error. The
tray then opens and I get a message
On Friday 12 Nov 2004 23:45, Dennis Myers wrote:
On the other hand, a friend of mine at work was complaining about their
home comp not giving access to the internet but the worm/virus that
infected it would connect whenever it wanted. So I hand her a disk with
MandrakeMove on it and tell her
Two days ago, my Yamaha CD burner decided it wasn't going to burn! It will
play data CDs normally, but when I insert a CD and try to burn with it, I get
a message that there is an input/output error. The tray then opens and I get
a message to insert a blank CD. Push the tray back in and the
Hello Anne, Bascule and Derek (in alphabetical order!!!)
Thank you very much for your replies and all the detailed information you have
given me. I really do appreciate it, as broadband is completely uncharted
territory for me. What an excellent and helpful list this is.
I have had some jobs
On Thursday 21 Oct 2004 11:32, Alan Dunford wrote:
On Wednesday 20 Oct 2004 22:12, Keith Powell wrote:
The Ethernet card has a CD which includes a wizard for
setting up both
it and the BIOS automatically. But it's for Windows :(
I have 98SE, which I very occasionally run. Would I
Bascule.
I forgot to mention that although I have both Linux and Windows, I don't dual
boot. I have four hard drives each in it own tray (caddie). Each drive has a
different operating system on (2 Linux, 1 Windows and one for experimenting).
I plug in to the computer what operating system I
I am about to change to broadband and the hardware has now arrived.
Clarification of a couple of points would be greatly appreciated,
please.
The Ethernet card has a CD which includes a wizard for setting up both
it and the BIOS automatically. But it's for Windows :(
I have 98SE, which I very
On Friday 15 Oct 2004 9:13 am, Derek Jennings wrote:
Keith
The Access runner Conexant chip set is the one I warned you about. It
is REALLY HARD to get working. I helped a friend get one working and
it took 2 weeks of email support from a guy in New Zealand before it
worked, and that was
I have received the following message regarding a PCI broadband modem, and am
forwarding it just for information in case anyone is interested.
Keith
Not sure if the following refers to the same PCI modem, Keith, but it
will hopefully be of some help:
Thank you all for your suggestions regarding not being able to install
Mandrake on a hard drive which already had XP on it. When trying to install,
the machine just rebooted into XP.
It was solved by starting the Mandrake installation with Disk2. When asked
which CD drive to use for
Thank you for all the help and advice you have given me regarding broadband
modems. I really do appreciate it.
If I send you each an individual Thank you message, it will clog up the list
too much, so I hope you will accept this general message.
Derek asked about computers here. There is only
I'm lost!!
I want to go broadband, and the ISP gives me the choice of two modems in their
broadband pack:
Voyager 105 USB Modem
or
A220 PCI Modem (internal?)
The Mandrake hardware database does not list either.
Any advice on either of these, please? Will either work with Mandrake?
Would I
On Thursday 07 Oct 2004 19:33, Keith Powell wrote:
I am trying to wean a friend off Windows and on to Mandrake, so I have sent
him a set of Mandrake CDs to install. He was supposed to install it on its
own hard drive, but has changed his mind and wants it on the same drive as
WindowsXP.
I
I am trying to wean a friend off Windows and on to Mandrake, so I have sent
him a set of Mandrake CDs to install. He was supposed to install it on its
own hard drive, but has changed his mind and wants it on the same drive as
WindowsXP.
I have received an e-mail from him saying that when he
On Monday 16 Aug 2004 22:37, Derek Jennings wrote:
On Monday 16 Aug 2004 21:01, Keith Powell wrote:
On Monday 16 Aug 2004 15:07, Derek Jennings wrote:
On Monday 16 Aug 2004 14:46, Derek Jennings wrote:
On Monday 16 Aug 2004 14:06, Keith Powell wrote:
I have been trying Thunderbird
I have been trying Thunderbird - a very nice program, and the spam filter
works well.
However, I can't get it to spell check in GB English, only American English.
I have downloaded the correct dictionary from
dictionaries.mozdev.org/installation.html
but can't get Thunderbird to find it.
I have an Epson Stylus 670 printer and it has suddenly stopped printing from
Mandrake (although it will still print correctly from other distros). I
haven't altered anything since it printed correctly in Mandrake yesterday!
I have tried Open Office, Abiword, KWord, KWrite and printing from a
On Monday 02 Aug 2004 14:04, PM wrote:
On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 15:44, Keith Powell wrote:
I have an Epson Stylus 670 printer and it has suddenly stopped printing
from Mandrake (although it will still print correctly from other
distros). I haven't altered anything since it printed correctly
Thanks Charlie, John and Carroll for your replies.
I was off the list for some time and lost track of what was happening to
Community.
Am now much clearer about the situation.
Cheers
Keith
Want to buy your Pack or Services from
What is the situation regarding Mandrake10 Community, please?
Is it still very similar as Official, or has it forked a lot with regard to
the package versions in it?
I can't find anything about Community on the Mandrake site, can't find the
information on Google, and can't download it just to
On Sunday 25 Jul 2004 18:39, PM wrote:
On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 20:04, Keith Powell wrote:
What is the situation regarding Mandrake10 Community, please?
Is it still very similar as Official, or has it forked a lot with regard
to the package versions in it?
I can't find anything about
I have downloaded APT from Mandrake10 Contrib, and have tried to get it
working.
It attempts to access the APT repository at Sunet, but says it can't.
Does anyone know if APT is now back with Mandrake? It used to be and then
disappeared. If so, where is the repository, please?
Even if it does
On Sunday 18 Apr 2004 2:16 pm, Keith Powell wrote:
My set-up here, is one computer with several hard drives each in its own
caddy. Each drive is used for a different purpose.
A couple of days ago, one of them (a Maxtor 40GB) stopped working a couple
of days ago whilst I was using it,. So I
On Monday 19 Apr 2004 6:45 pm, RichardA wrote:
On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 13:17:08 +0100, Keith Powell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I remember correctly, it was mentioned on the list some time ago that
the download edition will have adverts which will pop up at any time. This
inconvenience
I know this isn't strictly Mandrake, so apologies.
My set-up here, is one computer with several hard drives each in its own
caddy. Each drive is used for a different purpose.
A couple of days ago, one of them (a Maxtor 40GB) stopped working a couple of
days ago whilst I was using it,. So I
On Sunday 18 Apr 2004 3:41 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 23:16, Keith Powell wrote:
My set-up here, is one computer with several hard drives each in its own
caddy. Each drive is used for a different purpose.
A couple of days ago, one of them (a Maxtor 40GB) stopped working
On Sunday 18 Apr 2004 2:59 pm, Brian Parish wrote:
On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 23:16, Keith Powell wrote:
My set-up here, is one computer with several hard drives each in its own
caddy. Each drive is used for a different purpose.
A couple of days ago, one of them (a Maxtor 40GB) stopped
On Sunday 18 Apr 2004 3:37 pm, Marc wrote:
On Sunday 18 April 2004 08:16 am, Keith Powell wrote:
I know this isn't strictly Mandrake, so apologies.
My set-up here, is one computer with several hard drives each in its own
caddy. Each drive is used for a different purpose.
A couple
Reading through the recent posts, it appears that many on the list who have
broadband (lucky lot!!) and have downloaded version 10(CE) or version 10
(Official) are having problems. There seem to be many bugs still in them.
My question, and it is a serious one, is:
When the boxed sets come
On Saturday 17 April 2004 9:19 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Saturday 17 April 2004 08:27, Keith Powell wrote:
Reading through the recent posts, it appears that many on the list
who have broadband (lucky lot!!) and have downloaded version 10(CE)
or version 10 (Official) are having problems
On Saturday 17 April 2004 8:47 am, Philip Cronje wrote:
On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 08:27:00 +0100, Keith Powell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Reading through the recent posts, it appears that many on the list who
have broadband (lucky lot!!) and have downloaded version 10(CE) or
version 10 (Official
Thanks to all who replied.
Here is a composite reply instead of wasting bandwidth with individual ones.
Hope no one minds!
Anne suggested waiting a couple of weeks for the Official download edition
to be available. I'll do that, Anne.
Thanks for the information that there are not the pop-up
On Saturday 17 April 2004 1:17 pm, Keith Powell wrote:
I assume that the cheap CDs I would buy from, for instance, The Libranet
Emporium, would be the download edition.
Whoops! I meant to type The Linux Emporium.
Sorry!!
Keith
Want
On Saturday 17 Apr 2004 6:42 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
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On Saturday 17 April 2004 17:09, Keith Powell wrote:
In the past and, I assume for version 10, an individually burnt CD
with all the updates/bug patches to the date of ordering it, has been
On Sunday 04 Apr 2004 5:02 am, robin wrote:
On Saturday 03 April 2004 13:28, Keith Powell wrote:
I have been looking to see if it is possible to get KPPP to
automatically disconnect a dial-up Internet connection after a
certain amount of time (say, 3 minutes) of inactivity. Having
On Sunday 04 Apr 2004 1:13 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
On Sunday 04 April 2004 12:52, Keith Powell wrote:
Robin.
I would like some more help, please!
You say that the WVDIAL binary is on the mirrors for downloading.
I run Mandrake9.2 and it's not on my contrib, eslrahc, mpol,
NORLUG
On Sunday 04 Apr 2004 2:09 pm, et wrote:
On Saturday 03 April 2004 02:28 pm, Keith Powell wrote:
I have been looking to see if it is possible to get KPPP to automatically
disconnect a dial-up Internet connection after a certain amount of time
(say, 3 minutes) of inactivity. Having searched
Robin.
I would like some more help, please!
You say that the WVDIAL binary is on the mirrors for downloading.
I run Mandrake9.2 and it's not on my contrib, eslrahc, mpol, NORLUG-9.2, or
plf sources. Where is it, please?
I have Googled for it and can only find tarballs, not any binaries for
On Sunday 04 Apr 2004 12:50 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote:
On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 07:36, Graham Watkins wrote:
Strange that. I posted yesterday and got a bounce message. I couldn't
be bothered to try posting again but later on the message appeared.
Nobody replied so I can't be sure if anyone saw
On Saturday 13 Mar 2004 2:35 pm, Charlie wrote:
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:11 am, many eyes viewed Keith Powell's words:-
I have just tried running aspell in a terminal and manually checking a
text file. It works correctly, so it would appear that there is nothing
wrong with the Aspell
On Friday 12 Mar 2004 8:26 am, Charlie wrote:
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:27 pm, many eyes viewed Keith Powell's words:-
I have been having another attempt at getting spell checking in KWord
(1.2.92) to work, but again I have had no success.
If anyone has got it working (preferably with
On Friday 12 Mar 2004 7:37 pm, Charlie wrote:
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:27 pm, many eyes viewed Keith Powell's words:-
I have been having another attempt at getting spell checking in KWord
(1.2.92) to work, but again I have had no success.
If anyone has got it working (preferably with
I have been having another attempt at getting spell checking in KWord (1.2.92)
to work, but again I have had no success.
If anyone has got it working (preferably with English-United Kingdom
spellings), I would very much like to hear from you and find out exactly how
you did it!
Many thanks
On Thursday 11 Mar 2004 12:47 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
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On Thursday 11 March 2004 12:27, Keith Powell wrote:
I have been having another attempt at getting spell checking in
KWord (1.2.92) to work, but again I have had no success.
If anyone has
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Thursday 11 March 2004 13:54, Keith Powell wrote:
On Thursday 11 Mar 2004 12:47 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
Keith, I'm still in 9.1, but it works fine here. I don't
remember any specific problems. Have you got aspell installed?
My settings are: Dictionary ASpell Default
easy enough.
On Sun, Mar 07, 2004, Keith Powell wrote:
I would like to try Mozilla-Thunderbird and have found a Mandrake RPM for
it on Rediris, which I have downloaded. I hope it's not a Spanish version
:-( It's the only one I can find. There's nothing in the usual
repositories.
Hello
On Sunday 07 Mar 2004 7:40 pm, Derek Jennings wrote:
On Sunday 07 Mar 2004 19:28, Keith Powell wrote:
I would like to try Mozilla-Thunderbird and have found a Mandrake RPM for
it on Rediris, which I have downloaded. I hope it's not a Spanish version
:-( It's the only one I can find. There's
On Monday 01 Mar 2004 11:04 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
Did scribus need and dependencies ?
just out of interest.
John
Hello John.
I have only briefly tried Scribus, as I am just starting to find out about it,
having read an article on it in Linux Format magazine. So I haven't given it
On Tuesday 02 Mar 2004 10:37 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
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On Tuesday 02 March 2004 09:40, Keith Powell wrote:
I have only briefly tried Scribus, as I am just starting to find
out about it, having read an article on it in Linux Format
magazine. So I
On Sunday 29 February 2004 21:58, Keith Powell wrote:
Does anyone know if there is a Mandrake RPM for Scribus anywhere?
Can't find one with Google, only tarballs.
I will be with you all in a minute, I'm just in this forest looking for a bit
of wood!!!
Many thanks to all who replied
On Monday 01 Mar 2004 1:44 pm, Lanman wrote:
The fact that at least one list-member is unable to find Scribus on the
download CD's for Mandrake 9.1, 9.2, and 10.0, made me wonder how many
folks on the list are aware that there are 2 lists of packages on the
Download CD sets.
Assuming that
On Monday 01 Mar 2004 8:01 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
Keith Powell wrote:
Many thanks, Lanman, for the very useful information. I have printed it
out for future reference.
Scribus is definitely not on my download CDs. I have looked at the actual
rpm's on all of them (not just the lists
Does anyone know if there is a Mandrake RPM for Scribus anywhere?
Can't find one with Google, only tarballs.
I've spent some hours trying to install a tarball of it, but get my usual
screenful of things it can't find and needs. I have almost completely
abandoned tarballs, as I can rarely get
The e-mail address for the program is:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes, it was Gillian Lacey-Solymar who did the item. I'll send an e-mail and
see if it does any good.
I am retired and we watch it while we are having our sandwich and piece of
cake mid-day lunch. Our main meal is in the evening.
There
I have just been watching a daily Monday-Friday BBC Television
business/consumer program called Working Lunch.
In it, there was an item about Microsoft's Windows source code being on the
Internet. During the item, which concentrated on how this would affect we
computer users, the following
On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 8:03 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote:
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Sunday 07 December 2003 12:04 pm, Keith Powell wrote:
Has anyone managed to get KWord spell checking working in Mandrake9.2?
Whenever I try to spell check, KWord just crashes.
I just
Hoping to reach a wider audience, I have asked on the KDE list if anyone has
had problems with KWord spell checking. I have received this reply from Dik
Takken:
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Keith Powell wrote:
Is there a problem with spell checking in KWord1.2.92, please?
Yes, there are serious
On Monday 08 Dec 2003 3:34 pm, Alan Dunford wrote:
On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 4:52 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 12:46 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
Keith Powell wro
I live in Yorkshire, so kde-i18-en_GB-3.1.3-1mdk is installed.
One thing I have noticed. All your
In my last post, I said that I had got spell checking to work with KWord, but
it wouldn't differentiate between British and American spellings.
I have found a work-around which appears to work.
When starting spell checking and the spell checking box with the alternative
spellings/words first
On Saturday 06 Dec 2003 12:45 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
Keith Powell wrote:
Hello Charlie.
Sorry, but your suggestion does not work.
KWord ignores the Control Center/Components/Spell Checker settings,
and just starts each time with the English Dictionary, US-ASCII
Encoding
Has anyone managed to get KWord spell checking working in Mandrake9.2?
Whenever I try to spell check, KWord just crashes.
a) If so, which dictionary do you use?
b) Can anyone please confirm if English-GB spell checking works
I have tried using ASpell and ISpell as the dictionaries, and
On Friday 05 Dec 2003 2:43 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Friday 05 Dec 2003 1:56 pm, Keith Powell wrote:
Has anyone got the spell checker to work in KWord, please?
I have experimented with various settings in Settings-Configure
KWord-Spellings.
When it has spell checked the first word
On Friday 28 Nov 2003 2:19 pm, Jerry Barton wrote:
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 15:15:57 +
Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You will get that error if you are not using ../base for your
contrib source.
The whatever/contrib/i586/ contains a synthesis.hdlist2.cz and
the rpms can be
On Wednesday 26 Nov 2003 8:54 am, Jerry Barton wrote:
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:18:48 +
Keith Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was wondering why the Contrib repository was giving the error
messages with Mandrake9.2, when it didn't with earlier versions.
Should I try to solve the bad
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