[newbie] LM7.1
Denis Is there any chance of LM7.1 being releases for Linux-Expo in London next week? -- Regards John the Nadger http://www.mklinux.co.uk http://www.nadger.uklinux.net
Re: [newbie] Linux and BeOS
I've also got a treble booting harddrive. LM7.02, W98SE and BeOS. No problem but I boot BeOS from floppy. John the Nadger On Fri, 19 May 2000, you wrote: Wayne I have all 3 OSs running on my machine and it is no problem. Some dislike the B word so contact me off list with any specfics you have. Charles - Original Message - From: "Wayne Petherick" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 5:24 PM Subject: [newbie] Linux and BeOS I know this is slightly OT so if anyone would rather continue this off list but I am after info on running BeOS and Linux (and Wind'ohs) on the same machine and was wondering if anyone currently does this. I need to know the specifics of getting it up and running, and also whether I have to change the drive type under Linux' fstab entry etc. If anyone is willing to help, I would appreciate it. Wayne
[newbie] Question for Denis
Hi Denis I've seen reports that the release of LM7.1 has been delayed. Is there any chance of it being released before Linux Expo 2000 in London on 1st and 2nd of June. -- Regards John the Nadger http://www.mklinux.co.uk http://www.nadger.uklinux.net
Re: [newbie] needed programs
I've been using IM, with Netscape 6, to connect with a friend on AOL. Ran under linux with no problems. John the Nadger www.mklinux.co.uk www.nadger.uklinux.net actually, I recently saw at cnet that AOL now has an im for Linux www.download.com and check out the Linux section. - Original Message - From: Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 12:56 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] needed programs J D wrote: i want an mp3 player, a good one, and an aol instant messanger clone, so i can contact people using IM. does anyone know of any really good ones? jd As far as AOL Instant messenger, if you have Mandrake 7 you should already have 'gaim' installed. Just open a terminal window and type 'gaim' without the quotes. You can also create a shortcut on your desktop. For mp3 files, there are several to choose from; xmms and kmp3 are two that again are already installed on your system. If you want some other options, check www.linuxberg.com Mike -- == Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kirkland, WA == The Penguins are coming!!! ==
Re: [newbie] Netscape 6
On Sat, 13 May 2000, you wrote: How can I put an icon on the desktop to start Netscape 6 I'm not sure. Should I uninstall Netscape 4.72? This I know. No, you don't have to uninstall it. You can run N6 and N4.7 at the same time with no problems. I've been running the two together for a while. The only way I seem to be able to use Netrscape 6 is from command prompt. cd package ../netscape No real problem and, overall, it's an improvement. - Regards John the Nadger http://www.mklinux.co.uk http://www.nadger.uklinux.net
Re: [newbie] Installed SuSE yesterday
On Mon, 08 May 2000, you wrote: I installed SuSE 6.4 yesterday and finally got to see KDE! I know Mandrake has the driver Mach64, but no matter what I did or how I fiddled, Mandrake wouldn't configure with my video card and I gave up. LILO also installed perfectly and I can boot in either Windows or SuSE and there is no hanging in the password screen of Win98. I suspect when I become more comfortable with Linux, I will learn to manually tweak things and will try the Mandrake again. Next step is to get a larger HD and install SuSE on that one, as well as Mandrake. I'm posting this using SuSE 6.4 (I've run Mandrake 7.02, on my main machine, since it was released) and I'm surprised that you found it easier. I've tried every recent distro on my back-up machine and Mandrake 7.02 is still the easiest to install and configure. -- Regards John the Nadger http://www.mklinux.co.uk http://www.nadger.uklinux.net
Re: [newbie] Where is CONIO.H
On Fri, 05 May 2000, you wrote: Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Steve Nice to see you posting again. -- Regards John the Nadger http://www.mklinux.co.uk http://www.nadger.uklinux.net
Re: [newbie] Conor: Beos
On Sat, 06 May 2000, you wrote: I am assuming you are running Free BeOS 5.0. Much as I've enjoyed playing with BeOS, aren't you just a little "off subject" posting in this group. Having seen people get flamed for mentioning Red Hat, I would suggest an asbestos pair of jockey shorts :-) -- Regards John the Nadger http://www.mklinux.co.uk http://www.nadger.uklinux.net
Re: [newbie] linux versus windows
On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: Snippets: Bit onesided like Linux Lewis fight :-) -- Regards John the Nadger http://www.mklinux.co.uk http://www.nadger.uklinux.net
Re: [newbie] permissions on DOS_hda1
On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, you wrote: I appear to be getting all the email from your forum/discussion group. Like 100's a day. What is the forum called so that I can try to get it fixed ?? Bryn Jones Now there's a bit of good old Welsh common sense - isn't it. I suggest that, if people want a flame war, they nip over to egroups and start up a group. I imagine that 99% of the people on this list aren't the slightest bit interested in this continuing string and regard the participants as totally childish. Can we get back to the basic principles of this list which is mutual help and support with MANDRAKE. -- Regards John the Nadger http://www.mklinux.co.uk http://www.nadger.uklinux.net
RE: [newbie] I thought this was supposed to beat Windows hands down on stability!!
On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, paul haine wrote: Mandrake 7 is the first that's actually managed to make it to the end of the installation. And still, I get freezes, crashes - at least with Windows you sometimes get a chance to recover, but with Linux it just stops working, kaput. With this plus all the hassle having to configure every little detail yourself, I think Linux for me is just going to remain a toy OS for the forseeable future... Might I suggest that you get hold of a copy of Mandrake 7.02. I had problems with Mandrake 7 and my Matrox G100 card. No problems at all with 7.02. It's been running nicely for the past couple of months. Regards John the Nadger http://www.mklinux.co.uk http://www.nadger.uklinux.net
[newbie] Good book required
Might I suggest that "The Complete Idiots Guide to getting off Mailing Lists" could be a top seller. -- Regards John the Nadger http://www.mklinux.co.uk http://www.nadger.uklinux.net
Re: [newbie] Good book required
On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, you wrote: HAHAHAHAHAHA are you serious?? I gotta read that book I will laugh my butt off On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, bluebottle mewed: Might I suggest that "The Complete Idiots Guide to getting off Mailing Lists" could be a top seller. I hope you'll enjoy the sequel " Unsubscribing for Dummies (Linux Version)" -- Regards John the Nadger http://www.mklinux.co.uk http://www.nadger.uklinux.net
Re: [newbie] First posting
On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, you wrote: Hello folks..I'm so new to Linux you wouldn't believe, so please be gentle with me!! 2-Modems-Do no internal modems work aty all? I've got a pretty good hardware driven internal one that'll run any flavour of windows. Cheers Andy As long as you're not a United supporter you'll find that most ISA internal modems work. You do need one with dip switches/jumpers and to disable PnP. Regards John the Nadger http://www.mklinux.co.uk http://www.nadger.uklinux.net
Re: [newbie] PPPD
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote: One more question: When I try to connect to the internet via modem, I get the error-message: PPPD died unexpetedly. When I try once again, the error doesn't occur anymore. Is that a known error or hav i misconfigurated something? I think we all get this problem, at times, and I've always assumed that it stems from the ISP. I don't think you've misconfigured anything. -- Regards John the Nadger http://mklinux.cjb.net http://www.nadger.uklinux.net
[newbie] Gross email bad manners
I wonder what gives a person such an inflated view of their own self-importance that they feel they have the right to add a 2mb attachment to a group email. At about 4kb/s download speed that is at least 9 minutes of time for an attachment that most of us won't open. The person knows who they are and I would ask that the majordomo suspends them from the list. John the Nadger http://mklinux.cjb.net http://www.nadger.uklinux.net
Re: [newbie] check this site out
On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, you wrote: Of course I am utterly spoilt using a 2mb bandwidth and can well remember the frustrations of slow downloads however in this kind of scenario there is, like sex violence on TV, an easy solution, its called the off switch or in computerese the mouse click - lo and behold the problem is gone. Please feel free to enlighten me further if there is some aspect of this I have misunderstood since my one object was to lighten up peoples lives a little ( not stir up the hornets nest--- well one hornet anyway,again that's not directed at you of course) I'm not against humour on the Internet, as my own web sites will prove. Equally I'm not against a joke in email form. I am against large, unwanted, attachments to email. Unfortunately, to the best of my knowledge, it it not possible to tell what you are downloading as an attachment - I use kmail. A great many of us do have to pay for our connection on a time basis - I'm fortunate that I have a freephone connection in the evenings and at the weekend so it didn't cost me any extra money to download and dump this attachment. The argument about the on/off switch is not valid as your email was on my ISP server and I spent over 9 minutes wondering who had sent me this large file. Please consider people who are less fortunate than you are - I seem to recall that you have a radio connection to your maritime location, -- Regards John the Nadger http://mklinux.cjb.net http://www.nadger.uklinux.net
Re: [newbie] Gross email bad manners
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: [newbie] Gross email bad manners
On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, you wrote: Hi! This maybe off- topic, but before attacking this guy for sending out such a huge mail, we should take the time and think back when we were new in the internet and did some things that offended some other people and learned out of it. Nobody accesses the internet with knowledge about what to do and what not. Not that I have been happy to have this large file into my mailbox - I have already accepted that the final comment I made in my initial email was rather harsh. I imagine that the gentleman concerned is grinning from ear to ear at the thought of his being a beginner. I've got a good memory and he once described his set-up in a debate about bad language. The simple fact is that he has a connection speed that most of us can only dream about and forgot that most of us need about 4 minutes/mb of file. As Denis has acted to reduce future file size it can't happen again. Personally I only send large files to people by prior agreement and then at the most economical time. -- Regards John the Nadger http://mklinux.cjb.net http://www.nadger.uklinux.net
Re: [newbie] SB PCI 128 Sound Card
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, you wrote: I can't get this card to work in MD 7.0. According to the "howto's" this card is supposed to be supported. Using Lothar the card is identified as Ensoniq ES1371. All of the settings use -1 and don't offer any other settings. Testing the card in Lothar locks up the computer. Trying to use other cards settings just says that the device or resource is busy. During boot I can see where it loads the sound module. What do I need to do? Any help appreciated. I'm running this card in my two linux machines. One is running under Mandrake 7.02 and the other under RH 6.1. Have you run sndconfig as card was detected automatically. - Regards John the Nadger http://mklinux.cjb.net http://www.nadger.uklinux.net
Re: [newbie] Where is the so called help???????
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, you wrote: Mr. Rial Juan, I can only say that thank God I entered the world of linux before you started spewing forth your rhetoric otherwise I would never have become as excited about the challenges of learning linux. It's a shame that you have forgotten the help and assistance you no doubt received when you first started. To the original poster, please accept our appologies as this is in no way an example of the fine help you'll usually find here. If you're unwilling to post again please, feel free to contact me privately and I'll do the best I can (I'm no expert but I manage). Mr. Rial Juan, welcome to my trash filter. Joseph S. Gardner Well said, Joseph. If linux is going to reach the wider market we don't need people like him pontificating to someone who is just starting. Some of us, me included, will never be experts but we can still achieve a lot with the system. It's also very nice to repay the help received when we first started. -- Regards John the Nadger http://mklinux.cjb.net http://www.nadger.uklinux.net
Re: [newbie] Colour scheme in KDE
On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, you wrote: Wayne wrote: All, I have the stock standard colour scheme running in KDE (Yellow title bars etc...ich!) I love the manager, but hate the colours. HOw do I change them? WHen I go into the COntrol centre/Colours area it allows me to change them within the window but won't apply the changes to kde in general. When I log in as root through, my colour scheme changes and stays chage. Log back in as user...same old colours. Just right-click screen,as normal user, click display properties, colours, then select what you want and apply. Remember that the screen for root and user are totally seperate. You can still have your four different screens in either. -- Regards John the Nadger http://mklinux.cjb.net http://www.nadger.uklinux.net
Re: [newbie] UNSUBSCRIBE
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, you wrote: I agree wholeheartily...with the below...good to see someone else agrees with what I've been saying all along...thanks for the support I thought that this was a users group. If someone is able to answer a question they normally do. I've certainly found that to be the case since I first joined last August. Keep questions concise and search the archives first. Apart from recent developments most basic points have been well aired in the past. How you ask a question will often determine the response you get. It costs nothing to be polite to your fellow newbies - after all we are all in the same boat. Regards to all John the Nadger http://mklinux.cjb.net
RE: [newbie] Supermount Unhappines
On Sun, 05 Mar 2000, you wrote: Yes, I did put a space after "cd" Also, I am going to buy a new modem to use while under linux. Are ISA modems the best way to go? Also, Best Buy said they had some between 39 and 49 dollars. Are they any good? What would your recommendations be on that? I use ISA modems and have no problems. They need to have dip switches and jumpers. You disable the Plug and Pray and I've set mine to COM 4 IRQ 3. I can't comment on your prices as I'm in the UK Regards John the Nadger http://mklinux.cjb.net http://www.nadger.uklinux.net
Re: [newbie] new to Mandrake 7.0
On Sat, 04 Mar 2000, you wrote: 2. Also trying to get my Epson 600 printer and Iomega 250 zip drive to work...went to their sites and didn't see like a Linux driver for them...I though that is probably what they would need...am I right here? I use an Epson Stylus Colour 440 - it's set as Epson Stylus Color (UP) No problems. Have you run printtool? If not run it at the command prompt. Regards John the Nadger http://mklinux.cjb.net
Re: [newbie] bluefish install
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, you wrote: still can't get bluefish to comeup...any ideas Assuming you've installed it correctly just type bluefish at the command prompt. -- Regards John the Nadger http://mklinux.cjb.net http://www.nadger.uklinux.net
Re: [newbie] bluefish install
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Kit wrote: installed 0.34.-1 from an rpm My version is 0.3.5 as a tarball. Runs perfectly. Regards John the Nadger http://mklinux.cjb.net http://www.nadger.uklinux.net
[newbie] Response to subscribe/unsubscribe requests.
Whilst I can appreciate that these messages can annoy some people why respond to them in group mail. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out that you are guilty of increasing the group mail yourselves. The expression "The pot calling the kettle black" springs to mind. If some of you must lecture people trying to unsubscribe do it to the person's email address and NOT in group mail. Thank you. -- Regards John the Nadger http://mklinux.cjb.net http://www.nadger.uklinux.net
Re: [newbie] KDE Themes and Colors
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, you wrote: i have unsuccessfully attempted to change the color themes in KDE. i am running Mandrake 7.0. can anyone help? Have you tried right clicking the screen, going to Display Properties and the Colours -- Regards John the Nadger http://mklinux.cjb.net http://www.nadger.uklinux.net
Re: [newbie] HTML Editor Recommendations
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, you wrote: I have used Webmaker, Coffee Cup, which is shareware, and asWedit. Coffee Cup is pretty good kind of like Homesite. Webmaker is decent, August is ok and asWedit makes a good basic editor. Haven't tried Bluefish but this is the one everyone seems to like Jeanette - Original Message - From: David van Balen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm looking for an HTML Editor for Linux. I used Page Mill in 'doze, but I had the same problem of having used PageMill 3 and wanting to do a pure linux web page last week. I've downloaded and installed Bluefish which is a very good html editor. One problem was that I've always used a WYSIWYG program. Having created a basic page I then thought about Netscape Composer, re-opened page in that and played some more. I've used gFTP to upload rather than Netscape. My initial page is very basic and is on the link below - opens ok in Netscape. Hope this helps -- Regards John the Nadger http://www.nadger.uklinux.net
Re: [newbie] KMail Problem
I've had the same problem with various versions of linux. Often the subject relates to some unconnected mail. Only happens on this group mail. I don't know the answer. John the Nadger http://mklinux.cjb.net On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, you wrote: Perhaps this is more of a KDE problem than a Mandrake Linux one, but I've just had this occur since installing 7.0. Frequently I get mail that, when I look at the list of mail in the incoming folders, shows that the Sender is "Unknown' and the Subject is "No Subject". When I bring up message, sure enough, there's nothing in the From and subject lines in the header information. And, sometimes instead of "Unknown", I see "Null". The date, oddly enough, usually is given as Wednesday, February 4, 2004! I think there's some corruption of the input going on, and it doesn't seem to happen while using Netscape's mail program, for instance - more reason to believe that it's a KDE problem. It's just that it didn't happen with previous releases of Linux that I've used, but just with this 7.0 release of Mandrake. Am I the only one with this problem? -- Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://w3.one.net/~lvarney Powered by Linux!
Re: [newbie] unsubscribe
Multiple sendings wont help - go to Mandrake site and follow instructions. Why annoy the rest of us. On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, you wrote:
Re: [newbie] unsubscribe newbie.
Whilst I agree that people's inabitity to "unsubscribe" can be frustrating I fail to see the need for the 'f' word in group email. By all means tell the chap what you think IN PRIVATE. All you do is let yourself down. John the Nadger On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, you wrote: Not really - that's why I apologised to everyone one in advance in the first line. I'd sent the gentleman in question two personal emails yesterday detailing exactly how to unsubscribe. He appears to have ignored them and posted yet another 'unsubscribe' request to the list. I CC'd the guy personally in the response you've taken offence to. The 'barrack room language' was directed at him and was being used to emphasise a point. If you are offended, then I apologise once more. Then again, 'oldfart' isn't a particularly pleasant username... :) Steve Flynn IBM MVS Operations Analyst "Tony" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 16/02/2000 13:36:09 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Steve Flynn/UK/Contr/IBM) Subject: Re: [newbie] unsubscribe newbie. is there realy any need for barrack room type language?
Re: [newbie] Email Programs
I'm using kmail and the filter works very well. John the Nadger http://mklinux.cjb.net On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, you wrote: What email program does everyone use? I am using csc mail for now until i can find something better, netscape doesn't do it for me and i need filtering... any ideas? Dave -- http://www.schur.net/owp Once was Producitons, A Schur Associates Company
[newbie] subscribe/unsubscribe
I've just been deleting all the unsubscribe messages from my mail. It makes one wonder: 1) Why do these people join to start with as the object of the list is fairly obvious. 2) How did they work out how to join in the first place 3) If they can't understand how to unsubscribe what chance do they have of running Linux to start with. John the Nadger http://mmklinux.cjb.net
Re: [newbie] KDE runs to slow!
I would suggest that it is a shortage of memory. KDE is memory hungry. John the Nadger http://mklinux.cjb.net On Sun, 06 Feb 2000, you wrote: I had a succesfull installation of Mandrake 6.0 but KDE runs very slow. It takes 5 min to update each screen, the mouse moves very slow (jumps)and all these symptoms act like there is a huge processing queue (my HD is kranking all the time). I have a P133/16MB RAM, 500Mb Native and 50Mb Swap area. I really appreciate any suggestion. __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
[newbie] Mandrake7
We are seeing some stories, here in the UK, that Mandrake7 will not be released commercially as there are too many bugs. I hit problems with the X config when I tried an install. This was on a machine that I've already used with 5 different distros - I did do a clean install. I had the following error message : XFree86-rpm not found. I put it down to a bad CD and am about to try a different source. Regards John the Nadger http://go.to/mklinux www.nadger.co.uk
Re: [newbie] connecting to the Internet
Hi Andrew As John Aldrich has said - html and linux mail readers do not go well together. You should have a list of settings for BT Internet that you can enter into kppp. I'm using BT Internet, kppp and kmail to send this to you. I'm not using ISDN but I do have the settings if you don't. Regards John the Nadger On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, you wrote: Dear sir Madam i have just set up a purchased full copy of linux mandrake as a dual boot with windows 98 on my home computer. I would like to set it up so i can use the internet through my BT ignition ISDN terminal adapter. I can not work out any way of connecting the terminal adapter and configuring it to run through the netscape browser. could you please send me a dummies guide as how best to connect to the internet using my ISDN TA. thank you regards Andrew Croft BSc (Hons) 20 Hammond Close Thatcham Berks RG19 4FF United Kingdom Tel: 0498 687145 Fax: 01635 294910 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
Re: [newbie] localhost login
This does sound like the problem that occured with the version of Mandrake 6.1 that was on the front of PC Answers in the UK. This does, however, go back to seven weeks ago. I, for one, am still awaiting the replacement CD from PC Answers. John the Nadger http://mklinux.cjb.net On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, you wrote: How did you obtain MDK 6.1? I've heard that some of the CD's shipped with magazines had this problem. Check the archive for better descriptions. Matt From: "Matthew Jackson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] localhost login Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 12:10:05 - Please could someone explain why, after installing Linux Mandrake 6.1 my pc boots up and comes to an opening screen and asks for a localhost login but doe's not accept the name I put in during installation. regards Jack __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] XF86 problem
If you go into edit/preferences you can adjust the font size. John the Nadger http://mklinux.cjb.net www.nadger.uklinux.net - Original Message - From: Warren Rowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 17, 2000 12:33 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] XF86 problem What is the answer to the netscape font problem? They are very small in my browser. -Original Message- From: Sam Sent: 16 January 2000 00:21 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] XF86 problem Okay, So you've told us what you've done- but what is the problem? Are the fonts too small? Do you need to swap resolutions for different applications? Are the fonts in Netscape too small? There are several answers possible, depending on the reason. ok, here's the problem: i can't for the life of me get KDE to switch screen resolutions. - i've rerun xconf 100 times - i've manually edited XF86Config - i've tried many different options (including: configuring the refresh rates manually, configuring the order of the resolutions in the config file and trying the US-102 key kb option) i'm kind of up against the wall here, because every time i ask anyone, they only reiterate what i've already read or heard before and my ctrl+alt+[num+/-] still doesn't do a thing. please help. ps.s out of exasperation, i went and bought a larger monitor to comfortably accomodate the tiny fonts. actually, that's just a cheap excuse for the little lady, but it's not funny anymore.. ;) ...help
Re: [newbie] Internal Modem
Firstly is your modem a PCI or ISA modem. If it's PCI then it's most likely to be a winmodem which will not work with linux. If it's an ISA modem (with dip switches or jumpers) you need to disable the PnP and set it up using jumpers/switches to say COM4 IRQ3. Remember that the dev/ttyS number runs from 0-3 where 0+IRQ1 etc. John the Nadger On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, you wrote: Hi, I have Installed Redhat Linux 6.0 on my machine. I am not able to configure the Internal Modem. I tried all ttyS0 to ttyS3, nothing works. My windows98 says, that modem is on IRQ9. Can someone please tell me, how to configure this internal modem. thanks regards, Rajesh Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
Re: [newbie] Off Subject
Thanks Steve - even used this service myself as well as forwarding it. John the Nadger http://mklinux.cjb.net - Original Message - From: Steve Leseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 03, 2000 5:03 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Off Subject Try www.namezero.com. They're going to be starting up free domain names and are taking requests right now.
[newbie] Off Subject
Can anyone in USA help me with a question. A girl I email in California has asked about free domain names. We can get them in UK but have to dial in here. Any suggestions would be most welcome. John the Nadger http://mklinux.cjb.net
Re: [newbie] Off Subject
Hi Alan Many thanks for the info which has been forwarded. On Sun, 02 Jan 2000, you wrote: JohnI used to have one for my bbs to handle email, it was ccorner.riverside.ca.us and was free as long as I had it (maybe 3 years). I gave it up almost a year ago when I closed down the bbs. I registered it with internic via email. I requested by email, they sent back an ASCII form I returned it filled out with my info and they never notified me of it's inception. But it showed up on all the name servers and at that point I started the email service on my bbs. I don't know if the free domains still exist, but if they do you can probably find out by emailing internic. I don't remember the email address but you might start with this one: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alan bluebottle wrote: Can anyone in USA help me with a question. A girl I email in California has asked about free domain names. We can get them in UK but have to dial in here. Any suggestions would be most welcome. John the Nadger http://mklinux.cjb.net
Re: [newbie] why is it so slow?
One does find that, doing the installation the way you have, it will be much slower than installing Mandrake onto an actual Linux partition. I think you'll find that most people do not use Ln4Wn at all - I certainly don't. The difference in the load time is so noticeable. I don't bother using themes as they are very memory hungry. I would suggest that you dump your present installation and do a re-install. Believe me when I say that a Mandrake installation onto a proper linux partition takes about 10 minutes. You'll think you've got a new machine. Regards John the Nadger On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, you wrote: I have installed the Ln4Wn from the Linux-Mandrake cd. The installation was no prob. But when I go into into the Xwindow enviroment, I find that everything seems so sluggish and slow. I have also installed StarOffice5.1 and the installation was a breeze event though it was also very slow. Despite this I have been using Linux for about two weeks now. Also another thing is sometimes my machine freeze when I am using Xwindow and Glax as theme.( I am using KDE by the way) So I did a little bit of testing between themes and I found out that when I am using Glax and numerous other themes and try to move any window box move horizontally 'SLOWLY', the machines will freeze. The only theme that doesnt't freeze my machine when I do this is the windowmaker."WHEN I SAY SLOWLY,I MEAN SLOWLY AND STEADY" Contrary to this, when I use win98 everything is quite fast and normal. So could anybody please explain to me why I am having this problem? Could it be that Xwindow is using way to much memory than is needed? I hope that this 'freeze' problem is a bug and not a my machine's RAM fault. My box is a PII 400 Mhz, 64 Mb or SDRAM, 6.4 Gbyte hard disk, Voodo Banshee AGP display card. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Corel Linux
Thought I'd give it a try - CD on front of PC Plus here in the UK. It's now been removed and my beta copy (Cassini) of Mandrake 6.1 re-installed. It may have been me but I couldn't get kppp to connect properly (worked perfectly first time when I re-installed Mandrake). The only thing I liked was the way the graphics set up by itself. Loading was like Win98 - there's more fun watching paint dry - and I thought was very slow compared with Mandrake. They are advertising Corel Linux Standard Edition here in UK for £58.74 (about $90 US) and here's one person who won't be buying it. Happy New Year to all. John the Nadger http://mklinux.cjb.net
[newbie] Opera
I've downloaded this betta version and somehow installed it (I've never used a tar file before) It seems to freeze a lot is is that my installation. Regards John the Nadger
Re: [newbie] LS120 Drives
Thanks, John - it now shows up in disc management. John the Nadger On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, you wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, bluebottle wrote: Just had a quick trip thro' the archives as I thought this had been covered. Must have missed it. Can someone advise as to installing. Treat it as an IDE hard drive, except you don't give it a partition #, iirc. i.e. in /etc/fstab you'd put something like: /dev/hdc /mnt/ls120 auto noauto, user, (etc...what options you want..) John
[newbie] Xmas Greetings
I trust the attached link will not offend. Seasonal Greetings to all. http://www.mklinux.freeserve.co.uk/jonexp2.html John the Nadger
Re: [newbie] Opera for Linux beta out!
Just checked and you can pick it up from www.slashdot.org John the Nadger On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, you wrote: What's the URL? Thanks, Matt From: WH Bouterse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Opera for Linux beta out! Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 05:57:31 -0900 Yes its true from Slashdot site I downloaded it. As of now it works quite well Lets see how it goes with thousands of "hits" and Linux users testing it. Heck I will pay for the thing or send a contribution if it works decently. Its only a 1.9 mg download tar -xzvf it Start configuring I was up and browsing in 5 minlutes Hope it doesnt disappear in a day or two !? :) William Bouterse Juneau Alsaka __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Modem
Looks very much like a win modem which will not work with linux. You need either an ISA modem (with jumpers/dip switches) or an external, John the Nadger On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, you wrote: I installed linux 6.5 on my pc which contains windows 98. linux does not recognize my modem. My modem is conexant soft k56 PCI Modem. ( I am able to use it from windows 98) Any set up needs required to acheive this. Any pointers would be appreciated ? Thanks in advance ganesh _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
[newbie] LS120 Drives
Just had a quick trip thro' the archives as I thought this had been covered. Must have missed it. Can someone advise as to installing. Many thanks John the Nadger
[newbie] LS120
Sorry - just done a proper search and found lots of info. As it's only 5 hours and 52 mins to Xmas i@d better give up and start celebrating. Merry Xmas to one and all. John the Nadger http://www.mklinux.freeserve.co.uk
RE: [newbie] Linux Mandrake boot problem
Still waiting to get my replacement - sent inlay off straight away. John the Nadger On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, you wrote: Hi Gerry Sorry we all lost with this one. The cover disk from PC Answers was pressed in a hurry and some files where ommitted or corrupted. Look at their home page and there's a statement about sending in the inlay card for a replacement CD. Regards Mark Annandale Harare, Zimbabwe -Original Message- From: FreeNet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 23, 1999 12:59 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Linux Mandrake boot problem I've installed Linux Mandrake 6.1 from PC Answers CD-Rom. After booting I get the "local host:login" prompt but cannot log in. I've tried root password to no vail. Is there a special login password? Regards Gerry Cook
Re: [newbie] UNSUBSCRIBE
Typical winging Brit! Even sends in html. On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, you wrote: PLEASE PLEASE STOP SENDING EMAILS I HAVE OVER 700 AT THE MOMENT Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
Re: [newbie] Informacion en castellano
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, you wrote: Saludos!! Por lo q he visto hay gente hispanoparlante por esta lista... muy interesante, a ver si alguno sabe donde puedo conseguir algun documento que merezca la pena sobre mandrake en castellano Muchas gracias de antemano... Se despide con un cordial saludo El Legendario Capitan HOOK Oh my God - Peter Pan rides again
Re: [newbie] help me please(internet)
Are you trying to connect to Freeserve. If so I'll send you my settings that I know will work. John the Nadger http://www.nadger.freeserve.co.uk On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, you wrote: Can some please help me . l'v tried to connect to the internet with Mandrake 6.5 everything go,s well press connect and then it happens "initializing program" (or something like that ) and then nothing. and now l'm left with windoze lnter explorer.(great). thanx. G@vin -- Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
RE: [newbie] what's with all the dupes???
Don't try and quit - you'll only get five/six new memberships each getting five/six repeats. You'll make a rabbit look sterile. John the Nadger On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, you wrote: Yes, I, too, am slogging through these things for the 4th or 5th time. I would quit the list if I knew how. Does anybody know of a facility that routes mail to the bit bucket based on its senders address? Bill = Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Hey, all... Anyone else noticed a whole bunch of duplicate messages? I'm thinking someone's mail server must have barfed! John This e-mail has been sent to you courtesy of OperaMail, a free web-based service from Opera Software, makers of the award-winning Web Browser - http://www.operasoftware.com
Re: [newbie] KPPP again
Are you still trying to connect to Freeserve? Email me direct and I'll give you my settings. I didn't touch resolve file. On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, you wrote: Hey Thanks for all the responses to my recent post. But it still won't do it's thing. Plugged in all the relevant DNS numbers, edited the resolve file, changed PAP to CHAP and back again, read the Howto's looked at man stuff, tried a different ISP with relevant numbers again etc etc. Worked fine under Mandrake 6.0 but I did a clean install not the upgrade :-( any more thoughts appreciated TIA Jim
Re: [newbie] Duplicate emails.
Don't think this is a sender error as it's happening to nearly all mail. More likely to be a server error. On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, you wrote: I have been getting a LOT of duplicate emails. This is the 4-5th time for this one. Don't send multiple copies! It's driving me nuts, and there's no way to filter multiple copies in my email program. -Original Message- From: Tony Fey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, December 12, 1999 10:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Diamond SupraExpress Problem To anyone that can help, I just installed Mandrake Linux 6.1 and it did not setup my supraexpress 56k V.90 modem, chipset 2120. That is because the modem is pnp i'm guessing, went to www.linuxnewbie.com and read their article on installing an isapnp modem. Did all the setserial and editing the isapnp.conf file to change it to detect the modem at com1, both serial ports are diabled in the bios and i have no other isa cards. I keep getting a conflict with irq 4, when i set it for com2, i get a conflict with irq3, any setting right now gets a conflict. my computer is an amdk6-2 450, asus p5a mainboard, voodoo3 3000, sound blaster live value, intel pro100 management nic, and da modem. if anyone has seen this problem or knows the fix for it plz reply to the list or e-mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED], i checked the list archives and didn't see any problems like this one. thanks a whole lot in advance, this is the only reason why windows is still on my computer, once the modem works goodbye billie boy's software. tony
Re: [newbie] Fw: Unsubscribing method [OT]
Send an email to 'sympa@linux-mandrake' with the subject 'UNSUB newbie' The list was just changed over from majordomo, the website should be updated (soon?) Above is a copy of a recent message from Axalon. If you wish to leave this excellent group follow the instructions. Alternatively you can use a 14lb sledgehammer on your computer. On Wed, 08 Dec 1999, you wrote: On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 03:29:28PM -, Simon Norris wrote: And I now have got a reject from the owner-newbie guy as being unknown. Anyone on the list have any ideas? The same here. exactly the same error, no such user etc. Succes in unsubscribing. i One thing mandrake is realy bad in think I am going to use procmail to bounce all messages - Original Message - From: Simon Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 3:23 PM Subject: Unsubscribing method OK, I see what people mean now. I've sent my remove command to the guy mentioned in the original email (Major Domo, or something like that), and got a succeeded message back, but I'm still getting posts. Is there some sort of delay from issuing the remove to it actually taking effect? TIA Simon
Re: [newbie] KPPP
I suggest that our friend puts in the following DNS numbers: 194.152.64.35 195.92.193.8 For Freeserve his setting should be PAP. All of this can be simply entered in kppp. There is no need to edit any files. I've got a Freeserve account that I don't really use and thats how I connected. John the Nadger On Mon, 06 Dec 1999, you wrote: On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Warren Doney wrote: I think Kppp overwrites the /etc/resolv.conf with its own settings each time it's used. This is to allow us to use more than 1 ISP without editing /etc/resolv.conf each time we change. So the DNS *must* be entered be entered correctly in Kppp. No, that's not true... kppp only disables resolv.conf's configuration if you check the "Disable existing DNS servers during connection" box. Otherwise, kppp will happily leave the options in your resolv.conf enabled and if you have your DNS servers there then you don't need to enter them in kppp. -Tom
Re: [newbie] test - please ignore
On Mon, 06 Dec 1999, you wrote: adminstration test --Chmouel It's difficult when you receive it five times!
Re: [newbie] KPPP
Have you entered DNS settings for Freeserve. I found it connected and ran with no problems and Netscrape worked. On Sun, 05 Dec 1999, you wrote: Hey Running 6.1 and everything's fine. Except Netscape - but I suspect it's a dial up problem. Plugged in all the relevant details to KPPP for my 'spare' Freeserve account and do the connect. I get in and the modem stays connected but Netscape won't find anything or give me an error message as it would if it saw no connection. Any help appreciated tia Jim
Re: [newbie] is this okay
It's a very helpful linux-mandrake list not an advertising mailing list. 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===
[newbie] Sounds under Netscrape
Just bought SB 128 PCI which configed first time when probed. Runs CDs nicely and also various closing down opening-up sounds. Is it possible to get sound under Netscrape? I know what sounds should be there as I'm testing on my own web pages. Many thanks John the Nadger
Re: [newbie] Sounds under Netscrape
Many thank for that. First time I've downloaded a plug-in and it worked OK. Only thing it did was to repeat play but I can live with that. John the Nadger On Fri, 03 Dec 1999, you wrote: Hi, Depending on what format of sound you have on your web page, you would need netscape plugins. However, I think a plugin called 'plugger', which you can download from netscape website, would work fine with most common sound formats. - Original Message - From: "bluebottle" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 11:39 AM Subject: [newbie] Sounds under Netscrape Just bought SB 128 PCI which configed first time when probed. Runs CDs nicely and also various closing down opening-up sounds. Is it possible to get sound under Netscrape? I know what sounds should be there as I'm testing on my own web pages. Many thanks John the Nadger
Re: [newbie] Sounds under Netscrape -- plugger
I got the rpm dowload from Netscrape's site and it's fine. John the Nadger On Fri, 03 Dec 1999, you wrote: Dear Seung-woo: You can get the "plugger" (v. 3.2) plugin for Netscape from: http://www.hubbe.net/~hubbe/plugger.html Be sure to get the plugger RPM package. Be sure to read all the instructions on the home page. Benjamin -- Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net
Re: [newbie] Installation help!
I've just purchased Fujitsu 66 and loaded to it with no problems (emailing from it now with kmail). Only running it with normal UDMA33 setup. On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, you wrote: On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hey all... Totally new to the Linux thing, but not new to the Unix thing. Though familiar with Unix, I have never had to install it, and being totally new to Linux, have no clue why I am having problems. I'm running a Abit BE6 motherboard, Celeron500, 128MB, 13GB Quantum fireball UltraATA66, Guillemot 3D Prophet video (Nvidia GeForce256), and all the other usual goodies... Monster sound, etc... My main partition is, of course, this Win98 partition from which I am mailing... I have over 3GB of unpartitioned space on this same HD to which I am attempting to install Mandrake. I have followed the Installation instructions to the letter, though I think I have narrowed my problems down to the fact that my HD is UltraATA66... Hmm...are you using the Ultra66 controller or the standard controller? There was something in the list last week about getting Linux to see the ata66 hard drive, although I don't think they discussed trying to do a fresh install on it. John
[newbie] For Axalon
Good morning Axalon PC Answers magazine here in the UK (http://www.pcanswers.co.uk) didn't do the cause much good by putting what was supposed to be a copy of MD6.1 on the cover CD. What a screw-up. Lin4Win didn't work (not that I use it) and the graphics weren't configed at all during installation. When one rebooted and tried to log on at the penguin it even rejected "root". You haven't heard anything about Microshaft buying this publishing group have you? Regards John the Nadger http://www.goon.freeuk.com
[newbie] Motherboards
Help! A friend wants to build a linux box using either a single or twin Celeron. As I use AMDs I dont know much re Intel. He is thinking about ABIT boards either: ABIT BP6 i440BX Dual Socket 370 ATX or ABIT BM6 BX 370 ATX Has anyone used either of these? Many thanks John the Nadger
Re: [newbie] question about modems
As it's ISA it should. Check that it has jumpers to set it as non PnP. Set to non PnP and config jumpers/dip switches to say Com 4 IRQ 3. My ISA Modem is set to this and works fine. On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, you wrote: Will the Newcom Internal 56K Data/Fax ISA Modem work with Linux? Thanks in advance, Ian Herbert
Re: [newbie] Modem settings.
I'm running dual boot Win98SE MD6.1. I set my ISA 56K modem to non PNP. I then set dip switches to Com 4 IRQ 3. It connected first time under Linux. I then had to delete and re-install it under WIndows. That took longer than under linux. Regards John the Nadger On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, you wrote: Help Again! My modem is ISA PnP. the Windows settings are COM 4, IRQ 11. When using Dialer and trying to interrogate the monitor, I receive message saying that modem is occupied.. which is truly false.(I use the right stty3) Is there a way to manually set the IRQ in Linux or should I configure the modem as non PnP? if I do so, i will set it to COM 4, with the IRQ who goes along with this Com port and I guess this will cause some problem when using Windows... Thanks again for help. Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
[newbie] Epson Stylus
just bought an epson stylus color 740 printer that i would like to getworking under linux 6.1. I used printtool hit the add button. It said it found a device at lp0. I hit the select button and choose the epson one (i think it is the last one that says epson color). In that category, there is no 740, only a 600 inkjet and a 800 inkjet. I first choes 800, hit ok, and then tried to print a test page in all three formats and nothing happened. Same thing when i chose the 600. Any suggestions? My 440 is running perfectly well under Linux. I just set it up as Epson Stylus Colour and 360dpi on initial set-up. John the Nadger
Re: [newbie] Floppy CD icons w/KDE
You need to put some media in the drive before you mount it. John the Nadger On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, you wrote: Good day, all: My L-M 6.0 user guide claims that the icons in KDE allow one to mount and unmount floppys CDs without using the command line. However, I only get the error message: " KFM error - could not mount mount: you must specify the file system type." What does it mean by this?
[newbie] Web sites
Evening all I'd like to try and edit one of my web sites using Linux. I've been using PageMill and Dreamweaver under Windoze together with CuteFTP. Has anyone any recommendations as to which programs I could use under Linux. Many thanks John the Nadger http://www.goon.freeuk.com
Re: [newbie] Web sites
Many thanks Bryan Will download it at the weekend. John the Nadger On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, you wrote: I heard about BlueFish on this site. I tried it. I liked it. Maybe you will too. http://bluefish.linuxbox.com/ Bryan bluebottle [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/27/99 01:16:00 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Bryan Moorehead/Link/Allied Holdings) Subject: [newbie] Web sites Evening all I'd like to try and edit one of my web sites using Linux. I've been using PageMill and Dreamweaver under Windoze together with CuteFTP. Has anyone any recommendations as to which programs I could use under Linux. Many thanks John the Nadger http://www.goon.freeuk.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Versions
Thanks John. Haven't had any problems with it so will continue to play for the time being. On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, you wrote: On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, you wrote: Morning all (it's 09.00 in UK) Picked up a copy of Mandrake 6.1 on front of magazine in France last Saturday. Runs very nicely but I notice it comes up as "Cassini" whilst most people refer to 6.1 as "Helios" Could someone please explain difference. "Cassini" is the pre-release version. You've got a Beta version of 6.1. John
Re: [newbie] 100dpi
I'll second your sentiments, Rick. One thing I've found about the group is that a lot of people are prepared to help others at no gain to themselves. On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, you wrote: On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Donny wrote: wat da hell. This faggot dont even ask me to stop using HTML, he makes a friggin sarcastic remark. So im not apologizing for jack crap. U dont like it? tough. And if u dont like HTML mail... at least ~ask~ for me to turn it off. Hay, heres a nice HTML hyperlink for yall. www.F-OFF.com You know, we don't need this. Please bar this individual from our list. Rick -- "I don't want to swim in a roped off sea," JB
[newbie] Internet Connection
Hope this may help someone else. Having spent ages trying to get a good connection I took out my ISA modem and changed settings from PnP to set conig of Com 4 IRQ 3. Went into kppp and just completed details as one would have in windows. I know I was doing this in root but I got connection first time. It was only a question of changing the modem jumpers and dip switches. I'm sending this using Kmail John the Nadger www.nadger.co.uk
Re: [[newbie] Cannot detect microwave
Some mothers do ave um!.. Problem is they live! www.goon.freeuk.com
[newbie] Humour
Some light relief One night, a Delta twin-engine puddle jumper was flying somewhere above New Jersey. There were five people on board: the pilot, Michael Jordan, Bill Gates, the Dalai Lama, and a hippie. Suddenly, an illegal oxygen generator exploded loudly in the luggage compartment, and the passenger cabin began to fill with smoke. The cockpit door opened, and the pilot burst into the compartment. "Gentlemen," he began, "I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that we're about to crash in New Jersey. The good news is that there are four parachutes, and I have one of them!" With that, the pilot threw open the door and jumped from the plane. Michael Jordan was on his feet in a flash. "Gentlemen," he said, "I am the world's greatest athlete. The world needs great athletes. I think the world's greatest athlete should have a parachute!" With these words, he grabbed one of the remaining parachutes, and hurtled through the door and into the night. Bill Gates rose and said, "Gentlemen, I am the world's smartest man. The world needs smart men. I think the world's smartest man should have a parachute, too." He grabbed one, and out he jumped. The Dalai Lama and the hippie looked at one another. Finally, the Dalai Lama spoke. "My son," he said, "I have lived a satisfying life and have known the bliss of True Enlightenment. You have your life ahead of you; you take a parachute, and I will go down with the plane." The hippie smiled slowly and said, "Hey, don't worry, pop. The world's smartest man just jumped out wearing my backpack." www.goon.freeuk.com
Re: [newbie] newbie [re : Star Office]
At best I can get 48K. There is talk of a lot of developments but we will see. In your position I'd be downloading everything in sight. We've managed a download of the Linux version of Star Office. It took 4hrs 20mins. - Original Message - From: Brian Erikson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 04, 1999 6:51 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] newbie [re : Star Office] Bluebottle wrote: Brian in Fremont You've just upset us all as we are waiting to get such luxuries, in general, over here. With all the will in the world we still have to wait for the stagecoach :-) John the Nadger John, Sorry about that. I am also sorry that I will be moving in a couple months and will have to give up the high speed connection and go back to 56k. I don't even know yet if I can get 56k, may be even slower. For now, I must download all the big files I need before the move. Brian in Fremont
Re: [RE: [newbie] How about this ? Red Hat GPL No Longer Available]
I totally agree that childish comments are out of place on any mail group. On a recent holiday in France I found that there is a lot of support for Linux there. At least one French chap responded to my recent request for info about Star Office. As the mail is in French we've found it easier to correspond direct. This group is supposed top be above national boundaries. Falls off his soapbox. - Original Message - From: Ripcrd6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 3:33 PM Subject: Re: [RE: [newbie] How about this ? Red Hat GPL No Longer Available] Umm, is this flameage really appropriate? Let's stick to my computer is better than yours and I've got a newer kernel, okay. Don't make this maillist a crappy place to visit please. Brian -Original Message- From: Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stephan Schutter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: brMandrake is French, and the French do not care about silly little Americanbrrules! OK! Mandrake will do as they please... ;=)brbr == And we all know when the French DO care about Americans. and might when it's time to bail them out again ;o) Mike PS: Don't you just love their arrogance???
Re: [newbie] Re: Star Office [beware]
Thanks for the info Stuart. One of my friends is trying the download this weekend. He had CD writer and is also with BT Internet. We are both seeing if the 0800 number is worth paying for. I got my copy of Mandrake from French magazine on holiday. Where have you found to be useful in UK? I'm having intermittent problems connecting to BT with Linux. I also have a Virgin account. Would be interested in your settings. John the Nadger www.goon.freeuk.com.
[newbie] newbie [re : Star Office]
Stuart, Sun just bought StarOffice/StarDivision and now when you go to the StarDivision site you end up at the Sun site. It is still free from Sun. and well worth the price) g BTW, just signed up for cable modem and tried the download from Sun and it took under three (3) minutes. I was pleasantly surprised as my original download from SD took like you say over four hours. Brian in Fremont You've just upset us all as we are waiting to get such luxuries, in general, over here. With all the will in the world we still have to wait for the stagecoach :-) John the Nadger http://www.goon.freeuk.com
Re: [newbie] The unspoken question
Hi Simon I find that everyone I speak to understands "lienux". Lets be British old chap!!! - Original Message - From: Roger Maxwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 5:48 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] The unspoken question Oh, goodie. A question I can (almost) answer. Linux. "Len" like in Lenny and "X' like in 'X.'. "Len-X' Using Linux since 2.2.9! Simon Norris wrote: I have been aware of Linux for some time now, and am deciding to take the plunge. I just have one question to ask. How do you pronounce Linux? With an "I", as in Lin-ux, or a "y", as in lie-nux? They did say that this is a realm for newbies!! ;-)
Re: [newbie] Star Office
Again thanks for the info. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 7:40 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Star Office StarOffice is a product of a company originating in Germany called Star Division. If I am not wrong StarOffice 5.1 comes with the Linux Mandrake 6 PowerPack. You can download StarOffice from their website to try but it is a pretty hefty dwnload at 60-70 MB. The download edition is free for non-commerical use (i think). I have used the StarOffice on NT and on Linux and I think it is a fine product. In fact it has browsing, e-mail, office suite programs, scheduling and (if u have a palmpilot) ability to hotsynch palmpilot data to your PC. I personally think it is a great product but I like to use other tools for email, browsing etc...but the office suites are (in my opinion) as good as MS's Office products (if not better). You can give it a try. Let me know if you need help. On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 06:53:36AM +0100, Bluebottle wrote: Have noticed this on the web and it claims to run under Linux. Can't get CD in England at present. Does anyone know of Star Office and does it run? John the Nadger www.goon.freeuk.com - PGP Public Key : http://jackal.dhis.org/jackal.txt http://pgp5.ai.mit.edu/pks-commands.html ICQ # : 38756924 You're not an alcoholic unless you go to the meetings. -
Re: [newbie] Star Office
Many thanks for info Simon. I'll have a search. - Original Message - From: Simon Norris To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 8:17 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Star Office As a small tip seeing as you're also from this small island in the middle of nowhere (!), take a look at the back issues of either PC Pro, PC Direct, or Computer Shopper. One had Staroffice actually on the coverdisc about four months ago, you should still be able to get a back issue. Five quid for a complete office suite is a bit of a bargain don't you think?? - Original Message - From: Bluebottle To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 6:53 AM Subject: [newbie] Star Office Have noticed this on the web and it claims to run under Linux. Can't get CD in England at present. Does anyone know of Star Office and does it run? John the Nadger www.goon.freeuk.com
[newbie] Star Office
Have noticed this on the web and it claims to run under Linux. Can't get CD in England at present. Does anyone know of Star Office and does it run? John the Nadger www.goon.freeuk.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6
Many thanks for reply to my enquiry about amount of ram. I have 96 meg on my main machine with AMD 350 but am being careful as am in strange territory. Will put some extra ram in back-up machine and try again. I've noticed a few people slagging off Linux since I subscribed to this group. In England we have a saying "a bad workman always blames his tools" John the Nadger
re:[newbie] Mandrake 6
Well, he DID say he was running KDE. :-) Besides which, he said he'd had some "fun" setting up KDE, so to my way of thinking, he's not going to take a suggestion to switch window managers very well. ;-) John Don't worry - this old dog likes learning new tricks. As I said - the only instructions I had were in French which was part of the problem. When I manage to send my first email from that machine I'll be a little happier. John the Nadger A nadger a day keeps the gaunties away http://www.goon.freeuk.com
re: [newbie] Mandrake 6
Bret says I've got a 266mmx 32 meg mem laptop that runs Madrake 6 with KDE just fine. It does swap a fair amount when I have Netscape going, but it's a great machine as is. Thanks - the grinding was probably the swapfile. As I'm normally running 98 -2nd Edition with 96 meg of ram I was getting a little worried. Thanks to all for the help. John the Nadger A nadger a day keeps the gaunties away http://www.goon.freeuk.com
[newbie] Mandrake 6
Hi eveyone. I just picked up a copy of Mandrake 6 on CD Rom on front of magazine whilst I was on holiday in France ( I live in England). Managed, eventually, to install it on my back-up computer - the only instructions I had were in French. I'm 64 and have only been computing for about 7 years so my learning curve has to be steep. Had some fun setting up KDE but it's now functioning. It has Netscape 4.6 installed but everytime I try to run it the HD grinds away and nothing much else happens. I've seen a suggestion that I need 64 meg ram to run effectively. Can anyone confirm this and also suggest any good literature. John the Nadger A nadger a day keeps the gaunties away http://www.goon.freeuk.com
[newbie] Totally useless fact (OS)
Today - Friday, 19/11/1999 - will be the last day that has all odd digits in it's date until 1/1/3111. That's right, you will have seen the last "odd digit day" in your lifetime, and for approximately 37 generations to come!
: Re: [newbie] StarOffice -- original $39.95 version?
On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: Star Office is on the CD of PC PLUS magazine this month. The December issue is to include the Linux version on CD ROM. Jeanette Bought it last week and installed with no problems - it's listed as version 5.1a. Takes up 155meg of disk space. Well worth £4.99. John the Nadger http://www.goon.freeuk.com
Re: [newbie] StarOffice -- original $39.95 version?
On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, you wrote: Star Office is on the CD of PC PLUS magazine this month. The December issue is to include the Linux version on CD ROM. Jeanette Bought it last week and installed with no problems - it's listed as version 5.1a. Takes up 155meg of disk space. Well worth £4.99. John the Nadger http://www.goon.freeuk.com
