[newbie] Re: How do I make the german [UNKNOWN] _ with a keystroke combination
Mel, You may not need to - please read the following: Euro-English: The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt ENGLISH as the preferred language for European communications, rather than GERMAN, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, the British government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short). In the first year, s will be used instead of the soft c. Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the hard c will be replaced with k. Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome ph will be replaced by f. This will make words like fotograf 20 per sent shorter. In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated shanges are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent es in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go. By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing th by z and w by v. During ze fifz year, ze unesesary o kan be dropd from vords kontaining ou, and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru Just Kidding, John Hemmer Syracuse Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Killing a program
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Mithrilhall2000 wrote: I installed a called Synapse Hotline X and I have it running in the background and I want to kill it but I have no clue. If someone could tell me how to kill this I would appreciate it. Thanks, Mithrilhall Mithrilhall, login is as root, at the command prompt do the processor status command, ps -aef, without the quotes. Look for the process ID# (PID#) of your program in the status listing. Next use the kill command, kill -9 PID#_of_your_program, without the quotes. To test, do the ps -aef again and check the listing to make sure your program is gone. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Netscape New vs Old Comments and One Problem
Since I spent a few hours figuring out the following, I thought I would pass it on. If I am in error on any comments please correct me. I am really new at this Linux stuff. I have 2 verisons of Netscape on my Mandrake 7.0 system; the old 4.7 version, and the new 6.2 version which I just downloaded and installed. I can run either version depending on which user I login in as. If I login as root, I run version 6.2. If I login in as my wife, I run version 4.7. To get version 6.2 to execute after installing, I right clicked on the Netscape Ikon and chose properties. Then after choosing the Execute tab, I entered: /usr/local/netscape/netscape in the Execute window. From what I can figure out, I'm no expert in shell scripting, /usr/local/netscape/netscape is a script that in turn executes the script run-mozille.sh, that in turn executes the program mozilla-bin, which is the primary Netscape program. To run version 4.7, I login in as my wife. When I right click on the Netscape Ikon and choose properties, the name, netscape, appears in the execute window. So the program that execute version 4.7 is: /usr/bin/netscape. Please correct any of the above that is wrong. Comments on Version 6.2: My main reason for upgrading is there are several site that will not fully execute on the old version. The second reason is that under the View button you now can choose fonts, their sizes; you can also size text. Among other things you can select (themes) how the browser appears: Modern or Classic. I did not like the new (Modern) theme at all. You can also create your own theme, if you want to get into all that. But, at this point I know more than I ever wanted to know about Browsers :-). Problem with version 6.2: Every now and then, the problem is intermittent, I'll be in the Browser and it will just end. The browser and all browser windows just disappear. There are no other users logged in and no other applications running besides Netscape. It's very strange and it does not happen in 4.7. I do not see any core dumps in /root, /root/Desktop or /usr/local/netscape. I don't know if it a Netscape problem or a Linux compatibility problem or what. The Kernel i am running is 2.2.14-15mdksecure. Does anyone have any ideas as to what is going on? Thanks, John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Dual boot restore
I have a dual boot system. Windows on the first partition and the Linux and Swap partitions follow. I had to reformat and reinstall the Windows-98 partition; what else is new! Anyway, when I use to reboot the computer it would boot the Linux system; unless windows was typed at the boot prompt. Now it only boots Windows, unless I have the Linux dual boot floppy in the floppy drive. How do I get my dual boot to work off the Hard drive without having to reinstall Linux. Thanks, John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dual boot restore
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Michael Scottaline wrote: On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 21:59:14 -0500 (EST) JOHN HEMMER [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled in frustration: I have a dual boot system. Windows on the first partition and the Linux and Swap partitions follow. I had to reformat and reinstall the Windows-98 partition; what else is new! Anyway, when I use to reboot the computer it would boot the Linux system; unless windows was typed at the boot prompt. Now it only boots Windows, unless I have the Linux dual boot floppy in the floppy drive. How do I get my dual boot to work off the Hard drive without having to reinstall Linux. Thanks, John === As root, go to a terminal and type /sbin/lilo w/o the quotes. that *should* fix things for you. Windows wiped out you boot partition. Surprised?? Mike Mike, That was easy! Thank you very much. No, I am not suprised, windows wipes itself out all the time. The only reason I restored was because Road-Runner would not set up their bad modem in Linux. Thanks again! John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake 8.1 books?
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Stojs wrote: Is there a good book for beginners about mandrake 8.1? Preferable a printed one, but a digital one would be ok. I would like it to cover Running Linux, by Matt Welsh, Matthias Kalle Dalheimer Lar Kaufman. O'Reilly ISBN 1-56592-469-x. Althoug not mandrake-specific, highly recommeded ! Kaj Haulrich Kaj, I'll second that! John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cannot get Date Change to Stick after Reboot
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Spencer Collyer wrote: On Tuesday 05 February 2002 20:50, John Hemmer wrote: Hello, The system date for my system is wrong. I can set the date and time with the date command to be correct and all will be okay. I can even log out of system back to the K Desktop Environment log in window and relog into the system, and the date will be correct; however when I shutdown and reboot, the date returns to the old incorrect one. How can I fix this. I am Using Mandrake Linux version 2.2.14-15mdksecure on a dual boot system that also contains Windows 98, which I seldom use. John, you need to change the hardware clock on your system. Have a look at the 'hwclock' command (do 'man hwclock' for details). HTH S Spencer, Setting the Hardware clock with hwclock fixed it. Thank you! John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Cannot get Date Change to Stick after Reboot
Hello, The system date for my system is wrong. I can set the date and time with the date command to be correct and all will be okay. I can even log out of system back to the K Desktop Environment log in window and relog into the system, and the date will be correct; however when I shutdown and reboot, the date returns to the old incorrect one. How can I fix this. I am Using Mandrake Linux version 2.2.14-15mdksecure on a dual boot system that also contains Windows 98, which I seldom use. TIA John Hemmer Syracuse, NY Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HP Printers
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Trevor Rhodes wrote: Hello Everyone, Can any of you with late model HP printers let me know about drivers and support? I'm looking to buy one this weekend and would like to have a bit of information before I outlay the cash. Trevor I've used a 930c for 2 years. Great Printer! Anything in the 900 series (940, 960, ... 990) should serve you well. They can accept all the HP PCL3 codes. John Hemmer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] General Questions
On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Paul Kraus wrote: I need some kind of term emulater. I need to attach to unix box and run are distribution software. Thourghbred in case you wanted to know. But If i telnet I get this strange error which I have never seen. Currently we have terminals attached to the unix box that log in with no problem and we have windows machines running tiny term to attach form windows with no problem. Neither of these methods have caused any problems in the past. here is the error. wow that was really odd. I just went back into the software to regenrate the error and now it trys to let me in but the screen is jarbled but the error is missing. It was there yesterday also. I wonder if i will only recieve that error once each time i boot. But if that is true then I am very confused. I think because telnet doesn't support SCO ansi the screen gets garbled. I have tried to install minicom but I can't get it to work. Paul Kraus Paul, When you log into the Unix Box, what is TERM set to? At the Unix command prompt: echo $TERM, also run stty and see it that makes a difference. You could try setting TERM to vt102 or vt220, e.g. TERM=vt102; export TERM. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Passthru Printing from Unix server to Linux Konsole
Hello, Running under Mandrake 7.0 Linux version 2.2.14-15 mdKsecure, I am using a Konsole Session to telnet to a Unix Server. I am attempting to print a file from the Unix system to my Linux system printer 'lp0' by sending the file to the Konsole display and redirecting it from the display to the printer. I do this by putting the the escape sequences ESC[5i before and ESC[4i after the text being 'cat'ted back to the Linux Konsole. On most terminal emulators, the code ESC[5i will direct the data from the terminal display to the terminal printer, and the code ESC[4i directs the it back to the terminal display. Linux Konsole seems to ignore the escape sequences and send all the data to the display. What can I do to correct this? Thanks, John Hemmer Syracuse, NY Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
