[newbie] Menu help!
Hi. I have been using Linux for awhile now, and just got mandrake 7.1. I did a fresh install, and for some reason, i cannot find a way to edit menu's in Gnome and KDE. When i go the the menu editor in KDE, i get the error, "Menu editor not installed". Please help! Thanks in advance!
Re: [newbie] Home recording with Linux?
Sorry to say, don't expect to get alot done without reading a ton, and learning how stuff works! Most of the linux installs are VERY easy if you know a little about what your doing and what everything means. (thus, the reading part). Its very easy to set linux up on your second 2gig drive and dual boot win/linux. What parts of the install were you having trouble with? Mandrake and redhat install almost the same. (Different interfaces is the only real difference) If you dont want to learn linux, than it isn't your OS. For audio editing, i recommend BeOS. Its an OS designed for audio/video editing. They just released it free to download (40mb). Its brainless to install and use, however not as functional as Linux/Windows. But it is very stable. Give BeOS a try at http://www.free.be.com if you dont wanna read about linux. At 04:31 PM 4/4/2000 +0100, you wrote: Could anyone help me please? I am keen to try Linux for home recording due to the instability of Windoze. Firstly let me say that I have absolutely no interest in learning how Linux works - I simply want a stable environment in which to work. I have a second HD (2g) and would like to turn this over entirely to Linux for my recording. Firstly, does anyone know of any good software packages for this purpose? I currently use Cool Edit Pro with Windoze. A chap in Germany told me he had heard of 'SWave' (apparently similar to WaveLab). I use .wav files for all my recording. Secondly (and the BIG one!), installing. Can I load Mandrake 7 on my 2nd drive and use a dual booting system of some kind? I've tried RH and given up completely and also Caldera Open Linux. This one was a little more successful but I still gave up. It seems to me that you need to be capable of running the Starship Enterprise to be able to get anywhere! I have no interest in becoming Cpt' Kirk - I just wanna play music!! Any help/advice would be truly appreciated, Thankx, Toni Vines.
[newbie] Netscrape trouble
ARGH! Every linux I've tried, after using it for awhile, when I run netscape communicator, it will come it with no icons, no anything. At the bottom it will say "reading file" but thats it. The only way to get rid of it, is to annihilate the window. Netscape navigator works fine in spite of this, but its only when I run the communicator. Thanks in advance!!, Donny.
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.1
I believe Leo was sayin that in Drake 7.0, it has the drivers for winmodems already. At 08:45 PM 3/30/00 -0600, you wrote: Leo Laporte was mantioning somthing about Mandrake 7.1 coming out.. It was in a discussion about WinModems becoming LinModems.. MarkP
[newbie] 3c509 problem!!
Hey everyone. In all the previous version of linux I've used, i have been able to set up my network perfectly fine. Well in drake 7.0, i set it up in Linuxconf, and i get no network. The NIC comes on, and is initialized, but i cant ping, or be pinged. What would cause this? I know the NIC and connection is fine, becuz windows works fine with it, on the same computer. Thanks alot in advance!! I've been workin on this since drake 7 came out, and i STILL havent solved it!!
Re: [newbie] Gross email bad manners
U must be a moron to send an attachment to a list!! Im stuck out here on a 28.8 and it took forever to download. But dont suspend the guy. Just uhh, dont do it no more :-) At 06:27 PM 3/19/00 +, you wrote: On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, you wrote: Johndon't overreact, everyone deserves a second chance and I'm sure there was no malicious intent. Alan I'll accept your point Alan - perhaps the penalty I requested was rather harsh and the perpetrator is not usually guilty of such faux pas. I feel that Denis's email closes the subject. -- Regards John the Nadger http://mklinux.cjb.net http://www.nadger.uklinux.net
Re: [Re: [newbie] Gross email bad manners]
Where i live u have one choice in phone company's, ive tried EVERY ISP and i still connect at 28.8. Whiner's?? I dont think so! I come to check my mail, and just to see if someone usefull mailed me, i have to wait 15 minutes to download it. I would care less if I was on DSL, but that isnt the case. I think its called common sense. At 07:50 PM 3/19/2000 +, you wrote: On Fri, 25 Apr 2036, you wrote: Wow...a bunch of whiner's!!! (although a 2 MB file is quite large) If your ISP connect is so bad ie: crappy ISP, worse phone lines, or a 28.8 modem...all of these can be fixed fairly easily...the easiest would be to but a $40.00 hardware modem from Cirrus Logic or some other Co., and probably sign with a new ISP...even the phone lines can be upgraded if you complain to your TelCO enuff. Jaguar Unfortunately some of us have no choice as to our telephone company. Things are changing here in the UK but BT still have the lion's share of the market. I run a 56K ISA modem and there's nothing wrong with the telephone lines. It doesn't matter which ISP one uses here - they all give about the same performance. We can install an ISDN line but that's very expensive. I'm therefore stuck with about 4kb/sec download speed which means about 11 minutes to download that actual file. If anyone knows of a way to set kmail to reject large files I'd be grateful. I've already accepted that I was a little harsh but, as the rules have now been changed, it should never (never say never) happen again. As to posting in html - kmail doesn't really like it. -- Regards John the Nadger http://mklinux.cjb.net http://www.nadger.uklinux.net
Re: [newbie] Weird Networking Problem!!
Really? How can i get it to join it again? At 05:33 PM 3/16/2000 -0600, you wrote: If you reinstalled your Primary Domain Controller then you changed the SID. It won't rejoin that Domain. Jeanette - Original Message - From: "Donny" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 2:15 PM Subject: [newbie] Weird Networking Problem!! Hey everyone! OK, heres my weird story: I have a home network, with windowz NT as a domain controller. I was always able to get linux up and running on the network, using "linuxconf". Well i had to re-install NT. This happened the day before my Mandrake 7 arrived in the mail. I get NT up and goin, and now I go to install Linux. I set up the network stuff, and low and behold, no network!! I cant even ping other computers, and they cant ping the linux box. So i figure, "Hey, it must be Linux's fault", so i put redhat 6.1 on, and still get the same problem. This has me sooo confused!! Is Linux or NT the problem?? Please help!!! Thanks alot in advance!
[newbie] X Startup HELP!!!
OK heres a weird problem ive been having recently. Its resulted in me re-installing mandrake 6.1 a number of times, and the same thing happened in redhat 6.1. On occation, ive had to restart, unproperly... without using the reboot command. Ive had to do this when it locks up or something. When i reboot, X wont start. So i have to boot into runlevel 3 to get to the console. When i run startx from the console, it gives the error: failed to set the default font path 'unix/:-1' could not open default font 'fixed' HELP!
[newbie] Wingate
I am using wingate on my machine with the modem in it. How can I get linux to use wingate as a proxy?
Re: [newbie] Wingate
i cant use my linux box as a proxy cuz my modem is unsuported in linux.
- Original Message -
From: James Mellema [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 1999 3:14 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Wingate
Des Wass wrote:
++ /12/99, Donny:
I am using wingate on my machine with the modem in it. How can I get
linux to use wingate as a proxy?
I would make your linux box the gateway. Ditch Wingate and make your
Windows
machine go through your linux box.
Read the man page and the HOWTO for ipchains. It explains it pretty
clearly.
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Donny,
the easiest way is to assign whatever your wingate computer's ethernet
card address as the proxy address in your browser and email program. I
did the same thing with my cable modem connection and it worked fine.
everything using wingate as a proxy should use port 80. I was not able
to configure my system to use ftp, but everything else worked fine. I
agree that making your linux box is a better idea, but I have never been
able to get 2 ethernet cards to work right in linux, so I use an NT box
and Sygate to connect my network to the net.
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Re: [newbie] Wingate
Im able to browse the net, just cant figure out how to get mail, and the
socks protocol doesnt seem to work right.
- Original Message -
From: Des Wass [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 1999 3:35 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Wingate
++ /12/99, Donny:
i cant use my linux box as a proxy cuz my modem is unsuported in linux.
I see. In that case, go to www.wingate.com and poke through their
knowledge
base.
For FTP, etc. Settin up Wingate could be a bit tricky. If you have the
version
3.whatever, I guess you're having trouble with the Wingatge Client.
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Re: [newbie] Wingate
John Aldrich wrote: On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Donny wrote: i cant use my linux box as a proxy cuz my modem is unsuported in linux. Ahh... a WinModem, eh? ;-) Well, the solution to that is to go out and get a REAL modem... you'll be happier in the long run! John Ok everyone, i finally got it to werk. I re-installed wingate, and now everything mysteriously werks fine. Go figure. And by the way... im not dumb enough to get a winmodem, hehe. I have a hardware based one, but its plug-n-play, and it was hell trying to get linux to see it, so i just gave up on it. Thanks for all of your help everyone!
[newbie] GNOME Panel
Im new to using GNOME, but i knew on previous versions, and on redhat 6.1, when u minimize apps they went down to the "start" bar type thing. Well when im using gnome w/ mandrake 6.1, theres no place to minimize them. How do i enable this on the tool bar? Thanks in advance!
[newbie] Samba
You probably get this question alot, but here goes: Ive got a little home network, with NT 4 as a server. I keep all my downloads on NT, for exemple, so how do i view them in linux? Is there something I have to do in NT, AND in samba? Also, after a few attempts and glancing at the how to's, im still unsuccessfull at sharing a linux folder so that NT sees it. Please Help!
RE: [newbie] is this okay
i agree with kit... list way too picky... lighten up. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Aldrich Sent: Saturday, December 04, 1999 2:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] is this okay On Sat, 04 Dec 1999, you wrote: Boy, this list is incredibly PICKY... is this sig to your liking? -- =KIT=== [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 7110071 http://members.xoom.com/kitgoins =KIT=== Going by the "standard" your sig is probably still too long, but a lot better since you don't have all that commercial advertising in there. :-) If it were me, I"d take out the blank lines and maybe the last line as well. John
[newbie] MSIE when?
Hay, wasnt MSIE supossed to be out in november for linux? Thats wat i heard.
RE: [newbie] eth0
Its plugged in from my 'puter to a 4-port hub -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Aldrich Sent: Sunday, November 21, 1999 11:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] eth0 On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hey everyone. When booting, it takes FOREVER to start interface eth0. Is it plugged into anything? John
RE: [newbie] aol
AOL has no dial-up or pop access. Linux people are outta luck. I just switched from AOL to mindspring a few months back. Im much happier now. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jaswinder S. Ahluwalia Sent: Sunday, November 21, 1999 7:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] aol If aol is my isp, is there anyway for me to get on the internet through linux? If so, how? I tried using wine, but that just crashes. Thanks jas
[newbie] eth0
Hey everyone. When booting, it takes FOREVER to start interface eth0.
[newbie] 100dpi
I was wondering how to enable Linux to use 100 dpi fonts and my windows TT fonts. Netscape looks terrible!
Re: [newbie] Netscape Fonts
There is only ONE way to make netscape in Linux look totally awesum. Install you windowz fonts in Linux. To do this: 1. Copy windows TT fonts to /usr/lib/X11/fonts/ttfonts 2. Run "ttmkfdir fonts.dir" from the above directory. 3. Edit the resulting fonts.dir file so it only includes iso-8859-1 char set fonts. Also be sure to change the first line of fonts.dir to show the actual number of fonts u have listed. You can run "wc -l fonts.dir" to count them. 4. Save fonts.dir of course 5. Reboot or re-start the font server 6. In netscape, choose True-Type fonts and sized you wish. Leave font-scaling un-checked. Also check use document specified fonts, including dynamic fonts. That will make netscape display beautiffully, and I recommend everyone does that. - Original Message - From: Ken Linder To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 10:03 AM Subject: [newbie] Netscape Fonts Is there any way that the fonts in netscape can look a little nicer, so they are a little smoother like the ones in Windows? Any info is appreciated. Ken Linder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Thanx for tha help!
Hey, i forget who it was, but thanks for the awesum idea of using windowz TT fonts to make netscape look awesum. THANKS ALOT! Now i can actually show off KDE as looking BETTER than WIN98.
[newbie] Internet Explorer
Hey, does anyone know of a version of IE for linux? Or if any of the Unix versions of IE will run under linux? Thanks!
RE: [newbie] Internet Explorer
ok, thanx... wenz the version of IE for linux gonna be availible? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bernhard Rosenkraenzer Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 1:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Donny wrote: Hey, does anyone know of a version of IE for linux? No, and there won't ever be one. Or if any of the Unix versions of IE will run under linux? No, because they're for SPARC processors and we can't emulate them. Any attempt to emulate them would be painfully slow (because they're superior to x86). LLaP bero -- Tired of waiting for Windows 2000? STOP WAITING! http://www.ms-windows-2000.com/
[newbie] Fonts
Does anybody have any tips on how to make the fonts in Netscape look better?
[newbie] Network what?
Hey all. Im running a small home network, and I have two questions hopefully someone could help me with. I have an NT server set up wit DHCP. How do I get linux onto the network? I think i have everything set up right, just I dont know how to use samba. Is there anyway to configure it using X? Also, i was able to surf the net using netscape, by entering the IP of my NT server as a proxy. But I cant check my mail or anything because it cant find its connection the the net. On the NT machine im running WinGate, which sets up a proxy for SOCKS. I dont have any trouble with WIN98 or 2000. Well, im a real newbie at networking, and linux (as u can probably tell), so thanks in advance to anyone that could help me out. Thanks!
[newbie] Install freeze
Hey everyone! I've installed Linux a number of times on my computer, fairly easily. But I recently picked up a P60, that i want to give totally to Linux. It doesnt have a bootable cd-rom drive, so I made install disk's. It loads the linux kernel, but when it gets to the spot where it starts the installation (the last line that says "running install"), it jus stops. Why is it doing this? and how can I get Linux installed? HELP! Thanks in advance!
[newbie] Installation Freeze
I got it to boot and install mandrake 5.3, but whenever i try running the 6.0 bootdisk, it locks up at "running installer". Why is this?
[newbie] Modem Troubles!
Hey everyone! Im having some terrible modem problems! My modem recently got fried by lightning... and the new one i got to replace it, turned out to be a plug-n-play modem. Well, i got the latest version (1.8) of ISAPNP. Linux sees my modem (i think). IM using KPPP to dial up my ISP, but when it initializes the modem withthe string ATZ, it waits for the response OK... it never gets it. I can go edit the modem commands, and take out the "OK" response. Now it passes the initialization, and starts to dial out. After it finishes dialing and connection, it stops at "waiting for response: CONNECT" PLEASE HELP! Whats the problem? Are the responses set wrong? Or is it something else? Thanks for your time!
