Re: [newbie] Signature Randomizer
At 11:43 PM 3/12/2005, Stephen Kühn said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 14:09, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: I am wondering if there is a signature randomizer for Linux similar to KookieJar for Windows. Thank you, I use the fortunes database for my random sigs; echo --br echo stephen kuhnbr echo mobile: 0410-728-389br echo illawarra and regional new south wales echo ---br echo GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternativesbr echo 100% Microsoft Free :: Crashing is NOT an option.br echo Registered Linux User # 267497br echo ---br fortune Does it let you create your own taglines? I see a lot of ones already there, but I have my own collection that I like. Thank you, -- Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux User #333216 Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. --Thornton Wilder Help fight SPAM. Join CAUCE. http://www.cauce.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Signature Randomizer
I am wondering if there is a signature randomizer for Linux similar to KookieJar for Windows. Thank you, -- Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux User #333216 Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it. - H.L. Mencken Help fight SPAM. Join CAUCE. http://www.cauce.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mouse issue
I have what I think is a mouse issue. I cannot drag or resize any windows on my KDE desktop. Any ideas on how I can fix that are greatly appreciated. Thank you, -- Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux User #333216 It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake. - H.L. Mencken Help fight SPAM. Join CAUCE. http://www.cauce.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] MP3 jukebox application
In Windows I have used Musicmatch Jukebox. Is there something comparable, or something you would recommend, to play MP3's in Linux? Thank you, -- Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux User #333216 I fired MacArthur because he wouldn't respect the authority of the President. I didn't fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was. -- Harry S. Truman Help fight SPAM. Join CAUCE. http://www.cauce.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] urpmi and putting disks on HD
At 10:23 AM 1/24/2005, bascule said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): do you have the latest version of mandrake, previous ones had cdroot/ /Mandrake/ /base/ /RPMS/ or just cdroot/ /Mandrake/ /RPMS(N)/ the latest ones seem to have cdroot/ /media/ /main/ /media_info or cdroot/ /media/ /contrib/ /media_info i can't say for certain that the new cds are laid out as above, im just going by the directory structure under the i586 tree but i'm guessing you've got older instructions but the newest distro bascule I have cdroot/ /media/ /main/ /media_info/ There are other directories than just main, of course, and a few files in the root as well. This is from the 10.1 Official Power Pack that I downloaded as a Mandrake Club member. Thank you, -- Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux User #333216 A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history--with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. -- Mitch Ratliffe, Technology Review Help fight SPAM. Join CAUCE. http://www.cauce.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] urpmi and putting disks on HD
I looked at the urpmi page in the TWiki, and saw that it should be possible to copy the install disks to my hard drive and make urpmi look there instead of asking for the CDs. But I cannot follow the directions as written. 1. The directions state that I should copy the /base and /Mandrake directories from CD1. But I do not see either of these directories on any of my CDs. I have the 6 CD set as a Mandrake club member. 2. I did copy, I think, the 6 CDs to my hard drive. I say I think because while the first one took a while to copy, the others went very quickly, which makes me think that something may not be right. I looked inside each directory, and saw that RPMs are listed as being there, but I don't see how a whole CD can be copied in like 10 seconds. 3. If I don't have a /base or /Mandrake directory, can I configure urpmi to work with the CD copies on my hard drive? Thank you, -- Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux User #333216 I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt Help fight SPAM. Join CAUCE. http://www.cauce.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Mandrake 9.2 crash problem
I had my Mandrake 9.2 box running with Evolution open, checking some e-mail accounts. I had a freeze of Evolution, so I tried a reboot. Now it goes to a Grub prompt and stops there. Is there anything I can do to get back into Linux? Thank you, -- Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux User #333216 Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. -- Gore Vidal Help fight SPAM. Join CAUCE. http://www.cauce.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mailing list dead?
At 05:56 PM 12/27/2003, Anne Wilson said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): On Saturday 27 December 2003 18:37, Mark Shaw wrote: I haven't seen any messages from the newbie list for some time, and there's nothing in the archives after 11/15. What's up? Do you mean this? http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/WebHome?topic=NeWs Thank you for clearing up a great mystery that had been bugging me. You see, I started a new job the beginning of November, and got a bit behind on my e-mail. By the end of the month I was getting caught up, but while reading through messages in my mandrake newbie folder my finger somehow slipped and all of my unread messages disappeared. That was annoying, but then no more messages appeared and I was trying to figure how I had managed to not only lose my old messages, but also somehow stop all new messages from re-appearing. I can' tell you how many times I puzzled over that.g Regards, -- Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux User #333216 The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side. -- Hunter S. Thompson Help fight SPAM. Join CAUCE. http://www.cauce.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux in the Business World - Speak Up !
At 01:56 PM 11/12/2003, Anne Wilson said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): And don't forget to tell them that all support/updates/fixes for 98 have ceased. Ummm...No. They just released fixes for Win98 again. Regards, -- Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux User #333216 Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not wisdom, Wisdom is not truth, Truth is not beauty, Beauty is not love, Love is not music, Music is THE BEST -- Frank Zappa Help fight SPAM. Join CAUCE. http://www.cauce.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux in Thailand
At 04:44 PM 11/12/2003, Merlin Zener said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): http://www.linuxinsider.com/perl/story/32110.html just thought a few ppl here might be slightly interested :) It was interesting, and it echoes something I have been saying. The conventional wisdom is that Linux is only for the most experienced PC users, and that people who are new to computers should stick to Windows. I have maintained that the opposite is true now: the experienced users will have problems because it isn't what they are used to, but newbies will do fine. Regards, -- Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux User #333216 Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not wisdom, Wisdom is not truth, Truth is not beauty, Beauty is not love, Love is not music, Music is THE BEST -- Frank Zappa Help fight SPAM. Join CAUCE. http://www.cauce.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Out of Office AutoReply: [newbie] How did 9.2 get here ?
At 11:15 PM 10/28/2003, Eric Huff said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 22:57:30 -0500 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 28 October 2003 11:52 am, Kitchener, Steve wrote: I am on holiday, I am back in the office on 3rd November, I will be checking mail from time to time, but do not expect normal turnaround in responce. Here we go again. Another filter gets set up. Well, what do people think? Is this offense enough for a temporary set newbie nomail command? I could turn off the mail and send him another explaining the problem? Or just send a warning and wait a day or so? I see you have ruled out Capital Punishment.g -- Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux User #333216 No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either. --Marvin Minsky Help fight SPAM. Join CAUCE. http://www.cauce.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Upgrade vs. new install
I am using 9.1 right now, and I have ordered 9.2 as a boxed set from Mandrake. When it comes in, should I plan on upgrading my current installation, or doing a clean install? My main concern is keeping the software and settings I have already put in my system, but I know in Windows I always did a clean install and thought maybe that is also true of Linux. -- Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL [EMAIL PROTECTED] It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. -- Confucius Help fight SPAM. Join CAUCE. http://www.cauce.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection
At 07:23 PM 10/22/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): LeRoy Duvall Linux user #258988 OK, this is perhaps a little off-topic, but I am still a newbie.g What does this Linux user # thing mean? -- Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL [EMAIL PROTECTED] A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never learned to walk. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt Help fight SPAM. Join CAUCE. http://www.cauce.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Newbie Etiquette
At 08:13 AM 10/23/2003, Bryan Phinney said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): when someone has asked a question and someone else has provided a possible answer, should we expect a post telling us whether that solved the problem or should we just assume that if we don't hear back, that the problem was solved? I think it is simple courtesy to at least post a Thank You when you have received help. Regards, -- Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL [EMAIL PROTECTED] It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. -- Confucius Help fight SPAM. Join CAUCE. http://www.cauce.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection
At 03:08 PM 10/23/2003, Charlie M. said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 23, 2003 12:47 pm, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: At 07:23 PM 10/22/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): LeRoy Duvall Linux user #258988 OK, this is perhaps a little off-topic, but I am still a newbie.g What does this Linux user # thing mean? Click the link in my signature and you'll find out. g Thank you, Charlie. I am now a registered user.g -- Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Q. What do you get when you cross a Mafioso and a deconstructionist? A. Someone who makes you an offer you can't understand. Help fight SPAM. Join CAUCE. http://www.cauce.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Upgrade vs. new install
At 03:31 PM 10/23/2003, Lyvim Xaphir said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 14:53, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: I am using 9.1 right now, and I have ordered 9.2 as a boxed set from Mandrake. When it comes in, should I plan on upgrading my current installation, or doing a clean install? My main concern is keeping the software and settings I have already put in my system, but I know in Windows I always did a clean install and thought maybe that is also true of Linux. I personally recommend doing a new install. What I do is to first go thru the home directory with Konqueror and trash what needs to be trashed, crunch stuff that needs to be crunched into an archive with Rar (Vincent Danen's site, rpmhelp.net) and then archive everything into archive segments with Rar and burn the result to CD. After that I only restore what is needed to /home/me; that way i get the cleanest install, and if I ever do need anything else, I've got the stuff archived on CD (and compressed.). Upgrades are good for verification of the theory of upgrading, but when I really want clean and it's my working installation I do a from-scratch install and then put the old pieces in as they are needed. Thank you. I guess that means a clean install will also be my opportunity to get rid of the Windows partition on that machine and grab all of the drive space for Linux.g At this point I don't have too much to worry about, but my main concern is my Evolution setup. If I save the files in my /home/user/evolution directory and restore them after I do the reinstall, should that do it? Are there files I should *not* over-write when I restore? Thank you again. -- Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux User #333216 Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together-- Carl Zwanzig Help fight SPAM. Join CAUCE. http://www.cauce.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Upgrade vs. new install
At 06:54 PM 10/23/2003, Lyvim Xaphir said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): One way to avoid the import stuff is to store all your email in Maildir format. That way, it's easier (and faster) to get your email recognized by Evo after you tell it where your Maildir directory is. You still have to set up your filters, but the email categorization stays intact. There are other advantages but I'll stop here cause I've probably over informed. :) Thank you again. I understood most of it, and I am saving this message for when I do the upgrade. -- Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux User #333216 If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. -- John Kenneth Galbraith Help fight SPAM. Join CAUCE. http://www.cauce.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XFce 4.0
At 04:03 PM 9/29/2003, Mark Weaver said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 13:41, Todd Slater wrote: I finally got around to making the RPM's for XFce 4.0, available at http://clevername.homeip.net/xfce4/ as always. WHAT A GUY! Gee, mate, you're a sport! Good on ya! Hip hip hoorah! Todd's neater than sliced bread! Kudos! Nudos! Das ist gut! Muy bien! Yowzah! Geewillickers! stephen kuhn - owner here here...I'm with Stephen on this. I LOVE IT! Man! has this desktop ever come a long way. Thank you SO much for putting this stuff online. It is Beauutiful and so stinkin easy to install and get going I almost got bored! Another newbie question here.g What is XFce 4.0 anyway? -- Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. -- Last words of Pancho Villa Help fight SPAM. Join CAUCE. http://www.cauce.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Parking messages in KMail
At 04:40 AM 9/26/2003, Franki said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): What are the top three GUI mail clients in Linux, do you all reckon? Franki: I'd guess: Kmail Evolution Mozilla Mail Many like Sylpheed as well, but I'd guess the three above would be used by the majority. Do you know if any of them do a good job with multiple accounts, keeping them separate? I have been using Eudora for Windows, which I really like. It keeps track of each account as a separate personality, and if I reply to a message it knows which personality received the message, and uses the appropriate return address, signature, etc. I'd like to be able to do that in Linux, if possible. -- Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL [EMAIL PROTECTED] One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell Help fight SPAM. Join CAUCE. http://www.cauce.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Samba in Mandrake 9.1
At 03:27 AM 9/26/2003, Derek Jennings said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): To get Samba working all you need to do is set the Workgroup name in the config file. You can do that by GUI simply by installing the drakwizard RPM using your Mandrake Software Manager. Restart Mandrake control Centre and there will be a new 'server' category. Go through the Samba Wizard. At the end of the wizard it tells you to open a terminal. Enter 'su' to become root and then for each user of your system enter smbpasswd -a user_name The user_name must exist in both Linux and Windows. The password given is the **WIndows** password for that user. It does not have to be the same as the Linux password. Afterwards users will be able to access theit /home folders from a Windows computer. Thank you. I think I got this working right, but I am getting errors from my Windows machines. I suspect the problem is now on the Windows side. -- Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL [EMAIL PROTECTED] One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell Help fight SPAM. Join CAUCE. http://www.cauce.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Samba in Mandrake 9.1
I just installed WebMin on my Mandrake 9.1 machine, and it tells me that it cannot find Samba. Does this mean that Samba is not installed? -- Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese. -- Carl Sagan Help fight SPAM. Join CAUCE. http://www.cauce.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Samba in Mandrake 9.1
At 02:00 PM 9/25/2003, Miark said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): Kevin, You can answer this yourself in a terminal: rpm -qa | grep samba This will list all the installed RPMs that have samba in the name. Miark On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 12:50:17 -0400, Kevin B. O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed WebMin on my Mandrake 9.1 machine, and it tells me that it cannot find Samba. Does this mean that Samba is not installed? OK, it looks like I have two rpms installed Both are 2.2.7a-8mdk, and one is a client, the other is common. Is common the server? -- Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. -- G.K. Chesterton Help fight SPAM. Join CAUCE. http://www.cauce.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Samba in Mandrake 9.1
At 04:50 PM 9/25/2003, Miark said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 15:31:17 -0400, Kevin B. O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, it looks like I have two rpms installed Both are 2.2.7a-8mdk, and one is a client, the other is common. Is common the server? No, you'll need samba-server too. Thank you again for the help. I looked at samba.org, and they have rpms. I tried the latest RPM available, which is for Red Hat 9, and it is 2.2.8, but it would not install. Is that what I should be using? -- Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have not failed. I have discovered 1,000 things that do not work. -- Thomas Edison Help fight SPAM. Join CAUCE. http://www.cauce.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Samba in Mandrake 9.1
At 11:21 PM 9/25/2003, Miark said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 21:04:53 -0400, Kevin B. O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you again for the help. Yer welcome. I looked at samba.org, and they have rpms. I tried the latest RPM available, which is for Red Hat 9, and it is 2.2.8, but it would not install. Is that what I should be using? As a rule, no--use Mandrake-specific RPMs. As Vincent demonstrated in the last day or so, it's often best to use Mandrake RPMs, even if it's not the latest. Go to http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php and configure urpmi sources. Then whenever you want to install something, do a urpmi packagename It'll take care of downloading, installing, and dependencies. Thank you. I now have Samba server running on my system. Now all I need to do is figure out how to configure it.g -- Kevin B. O'Brien TANSTAAFL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed. -- I.F. Stone Help fight SPAM. Join CAUCE. http://www.cauce.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
