Re: [newbie] X
This message was sent from the past. So how are things 3 days in the future? I think the reason the list seems so slow is because it is no longer distributing the posts in the present time. Instead, all posts are sent ahead exactly 3 days into the future, or back to the future, as Michael J Fox might say. That just makes it appear to be slow, or dead. message sent from: July 29th to: August 1st At 06:49 PM 7/26/00 +0100, you wrote: On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Jim Hogarth wrote: testing Test arrived. ping back, is the list dead, server overthrown? Paul -- Politics: where friends are fake and enemies are real )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake=-
Re: [newbie] uninstalling StarOffice? Ignore.
Plerase igonore. I solved it. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered (Newbie) Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux Newbie Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 10:40 AM Subject: [newbie] uninstalling StarOffice? I would like to uninstall staroffice, which I installed from the mandrake disctibution CD by clicking on its rpm which brought up "kpackage" which then installed it. However when I click on kpackage it tells me star office is not installed, even though it is. What am I doing wrong? Thanks. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered (Newbie) Linux user 183185
Re: [newbie] No messages for 2 days
There is a problem with the list. The messages for Tuesday until now have just been arriving this morning. Phil On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have I unwittingly unsubscribed or is there a problem with the list ?
Re: [newbie] test message
I'd say the lists are working fine. -- Mail sent from: -- 609 linux-mandrake.com At 10:52 AM 7/27/2000 -0500, you wrote: Hello all, I haven't received mail from this list in several days... Am I still subscribed to it? Is it still in operation? Hello? :) Can someone fill me in... Thanks... - Joe :) -- | Have you petted your penguin today? :) | | Registered Linux user #183248 | -- Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] 4.01 and no xterm
I just installed 4.01 out of the cooker, and it's working well, after some minor problems with a corrupt rpm file. The only thing I noticed is that xterm won't come up, and neither will any terminal based applications. I am at a loss for explaining what has happened. When launching xterm, there are no error messages that pop up, just that the terminal won't open. I have tried opening from various places, such as the menu, and nothing. If anyone else has experienced this and knows a workaround, I would appreciate some feedback. Harry -- ___ Harry Flaxman | Reg Linux User 182484 http://web.meganet.net/hflaxman ICQ # 22086907 | Reg Linux System 80769
Re: [newbie] Gnapster (continued)...
Hi, I was unable to register using Gnapster,so I downloaded and installed Knapster from Freshmeat,was able to register,and it seems more stable.After registering I was able to use Gnapster but it has crashed several times. Hope this helps. Dan "Ronald J. Hall" wrote: Anthony wrote: The password that you chose when you registered on Napster/Gnapster. Argh. Did not know that you had to go to their website and register! ;-( What is it they say about a little knowledge being dangerous? Thank you, Anthony... -- /\ DarkLord \/
Re: [newbie] *happy sigh*
As a matter of fact Pine will do this if you don't mind using a teminal window e-mail client. Pine is fast, light and very efficient. I can't remember how I ever got along without when I was a windows user. -- Mark No penguins were harmed in the making of this message... ** Registered Linux user # 182496 ** On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Jeff Malka wrote: I hear you and almost there myself. In the Gates world I use Outlook Express. In mandrake 7.1 I am learning to use kmail. I do miss however the ability to enter part of a word in the adress to: box then Ctrl-K to find the possible addresses that contain that word. Is there a way to do this in kmail? Is there a better KDE emailer? Thanks. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Kathleen Dickason wrote: Just got home from my first day at a new (tech writing) job! But while I think the job will be great, I must say that it was a huge relief, after wrestling with Windows and thrice-cursed Outlook all day, to come home to wonderful Linux and X and KDE and Mozilla and XChat and Applixware Office Suite and all. -- Kathleen Dickason Registered Linux user #182139
Re: [newbie] Using Mandrake's GUI install components after install?
how do i get off this mailing list. i got 67 new emails today.all about nothing.people i don`t know or care about? Jeff Malka wrote: During Mandrake's install, there was a nice GUI tool for creating partitions and mount points. Can this tool be used after install to create new partitions instead of fdisk? If not, is there another gui tool that can be used? Thanks. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered (Newbie) Linux user 183185
[newbie] Shell In Mandrake 7.1
Title: Shell In Mandrake 7.1 I recently installed Linux Mandrake 7.1. And am Extremely satisfied with it. Like it so much better than Winbloze. Although there is a steep learning curve. Which brings me to my question of which I am sure there will be plenty more. When I attempt to run a shell it will not run. I am using GSU which came with my distribution of Linux. I get the following message; KFM Warning Could not execute program /usr/x11r6/bin/gsu I understand that this is pointing me to the directory where it resides. But at a total loss as to how to get it working. Any and all help is greatly appreciated Bob Registered Linux User #184742
Re: [newbie] X
The list appears to be back today. My posts have been showing up in minutes...not hours as usual. Or days, as is of late. Harry Paul wrote: On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Jim Hogarth wrote: testing Test arrived. ping back, is the list dead, server overthrown? Paul -- Politics: where friends are fake and enemies are real )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake=- -- ___ Harry Flaxman | Reg Linux User 182484 http://web.meganet.net/hflaxman ICQ # 22086907 | Reg Linux System 80769
Re: [newbie] AMD 500 CPUs???
not on a 500 but i use a amd 600 and the only little problem i had was the curser was a white box but a little mod to a config file and that was fixed
Re: [newbie] Location of application launcher files
RJS II wrote: Dows anyone know where I can find the directory that contains the files that launch applications. I am asking about the location of the files that come up when you click on the K. Thanks, Rob Saul Rob, Try navigating to /usr/X11R6/bin -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293
Re: [newbie] Option power_saver
Yes...perfectly safe. That it how I've turned mine off and it works great that way. -- Mark ** Registered Linux user # 182496 ** On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Jeff Malka wrote: I have Mandrake 7.1 installed on a desktop pentium (KDE desktop) and therefore do not need power management. Turning off APMD and DPMS does not turn it off permanently. It returns after reboot. I discovered that my /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Xf86Config contains the following lines: Section "Device" Identifier "Matrox Millennium 4MB" VendorName "Unknown" BoardName "Unknown" #VideoRam4096 # Clock lines # Uncomment following option if you see a big white block # instead of the cursor! #Option "sw_cursor" Option "power_saver" EndSection Would it be safe to comment out the line Option "power_saver" ? Thanks. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Email
Kmail and Netscape Messenger work real well for this. -- Mark ** Registered Linux user # 182496 ** On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Craig wrote: Hi I was wondering if anyone knew about a good email program to use that can show HTML emails. Thanks in advance. Craig
Re: [newbie] Linux resources online
"Ronald J. Hall" wrote: Romanator wrote: Nyuk..Nyuk.. grin Seriously though, isn't it a well documented fact that MS has "acquired" (and I use that term loosely!) much of Windoze code? PS For example, the compression (HD) software. Didn't they have to buy the code from a small company that was suing them? ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ I am not 100% sure but it sounds familiar. They have purchased a lot of the smaller companies that provide coding, installation, uninstall, 'dll' stuff. A fair chunk of the coding is not necessarily written inside the Microsoft building. They own many smaller companies that contribute to the general product. Can you imagine if you had a smaller software producing good software, and then you tried to challenge Microsoft. Not only will they buy your company through the courts, and, if you don't agree or conform with their philosophy, they will boot you out of your own company. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293
Re: [newbie] Mount permissions
Thanks for the idea but I've tried it and it doesn't work, the lines in /etc/fstab are as follows, ext2 works but vfat doesn't (neither does msdos if I substitute it for vfat) snip /dev/hdd/mnt/LS ext2 user,noexec,nodev,nosuid,rw,noauto 0 0 /dev/hdd/mnt/LS vfat user,noexec,nodev,nosuid,rw,noauto 0 0 any further suggestions would be gratefully received poogle On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Roman Korcek wrote: Hey poogle, I have got an internal LS120 (in place of my floppy) it works fine under kde when I access ext2 "formatted" floppies, but if I try to mount vfat or msdos I get a kfm error message that says "only root can do this" I can access vfat or msdos as root or su as a user and mount -t . from a command line , I can then click on the kdelnk to view the contents. Has anybody any ideas why only root can mount as vfat or msdos, if so what do I need to change to allow user access. TIA Try editing your /etc/fstab file and adding the word "user" (without quotes) to the line where it mentions your LS-120 drive. You should add it to the last column where the options are set, like exec,rw etc. I hope this helps anyhow, tell me if it did (please). Roman
Re: [newbie] Send mail without receiving new mail in kmail?
Hi Jeff, You can do it by clicking on FILE - SEND or if you have them in your outbox FILE - SEND QUEUED, I'm sending this the 2nd way Poogle On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Jeff Malka wrote: While I am fine tuning my Mandrake 7.1 installation, I am using kmail to read my mail and send some new mail (this one included). Because I am learning Linux, I have kmail receive my mail but not delete it from the ISP server so that I can then retrieve it again from my "other system". Unfortunately this means that every time I want to just send out 1-2 emails, kmail has to re-receive all my incoming mail all over again. Is there a way to get kmail to only send mail without receiving incoming mail? Thanks. Getting to really like my Mandrake Linux. -- Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Windoze
patrick darcy wrote: Romanator wrote: "Roderick F.Lazaro" wrote: On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, you wrote: counterparts. Nothing available can touch Outlook and Outlook express. Have you heard of the latest security issue with Outlook. Anybody sending you mail can run their code on your machine when you open the email. It has something to do with Outlook's ActiveX engine. Just a note, just in case somebody formats your hard drive. Yup. It's amazing what you can do to Outlook. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 whats really amazing to me is the u s governemnt along with other governments keep right on using that other operating system. i have read a while back that with the i love u virus that even some government computers were put down. it seems the viruses are getting worse and worse and the u s government just stands by and does nothing when it could make the move to Linux and have much more secure and much more powerful systems. its just amazing. and think of all the money they would save. You know government. If they save money, then next year's budget will be smaller. Oh know. Don't get us going on about the government. Argh.. Linux would be a great choice. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293
Re: [newbie] AMD 500 CPUs???
Bill Hudspeth wrote: Has anyone out there had a successful Mandrake operating on an AMD 500 CPU? TIA Bill Bill: Yes. I did a motherboard/CPU upgrade in June. (TMC A15VG/AMD K6-2-500/64 mb PC100/10.0 gb Maxtor [Win98SE]/6.4 gb Fujitsu [Linux]/Matrox G200/Zoom 2919). I was running Linux Mandrake 7.0 then. Prior to conversion, I ran fdisk/MBR -- I'm still very much a Linux newbie. Stuck in new board and CPU. Everything ran fine. The neatest part was when I booted to the Mandrake CD (I wasn't sure that I hadn't blown the old install away) -- the whole deal took about a minute. About the only glitch was that I had replaced my old ISA sound card with a Creative PCI card, and there was a minor hassle getting Linux to recognize it. Last weekend I installed 7.1. I chose the upgrade -- that took about 5 hours! So far, so good. But I'm gonna learn more about making backups and Linux configuration before the next upgrade. So far as I know, the AMD K6-3 CPU's work, too. -- Carroll Grigsby
Re: [newbie] Using Mandrake's GUI install components after install?
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Jeff Malka wrote: During Mandrake's install, there was a nice GUI tool for creating partitions and mount points. Can this tool be used after install to create new partitions instead of fdisk? If not, is there another gui tool that can be used? As root, run DiskDrake. :) Paul -- Economist: someone who wonders if it works in theory when he sees it works in real life. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21+Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
[newbie] Installing Developer versus Workstation uisng MDK7.1b Helium
I installed developer rather than workstation. However, my sound was disabled. Then, I reinstalled workstation and all was well. This happened with MDK7.1b Helium. I am using a Dell Dimensions XPSB733 with SB Live Is this a bug or was something not configured in developer installation? Any thoughts? -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293
Re: [newbie] Linux resources online
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apple has always used Motorola. But I never heard the final disposition of the copyright issue for the microprocessor chip itself. Last I heard some guy in a garage was going to be granted the basic patent for the microprocessor. What became of this? -Gary- I'll have to check this one out. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293
[newbie] Linux4windows
I installed 7.1 the linux4windows way and when i boot i get a kerneal panic...cant mount something what do i do?
Re: [newbie] imwheel controls
Read the doc (/usr/doc/imwheel*) on the .imwheelrc file. This file controls the actions taken for the mouse buttons and wheel in different windows. The default for any window not defined in the file is Page Up and Page Down for the wheel actions making it very jerky. A change to Up 3 and Down 3 (or however many repeats works for you) smooths it out. - Ralph - Original Message - From: "Jeff Malka" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 6:42 AM Subject: [newbie] imwheel controls I read somwhere on this newslist that one can control the speed the mouse scrolls at and I unfortunately did not save the message. Drakeconf (mouse part) only asks what kind of mouse you have. My scroll is much too jerky in its movement. Where can I find the control for the scroll mouse? Thanks. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] DOS style bytes used/free listing?
Ran Hooper wrote: How do I accomplish this? I would like to be able to tell in a glance how many bytes worth of files a directory has in it. Bytes free isn't too important, I can get that with df -h easy enough. Regards, Ran Hooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi. I usually use "du". For example, "du /home" will tell me the amount for all directories/folders in /home, as well as a total for /home at the bottom of the listing... Do a "man du" for more/better options than my humble attempts. -- /\ DarkLord \/
