[newbie] winmodems, cdrw and dvd
I got linux going on my good computer at last. Dad will probably kill me when he finds out where the 4 gig of his drive has gone through :( A few minor problems through. I have a winmodem. I saw someone give a link a while ago to a page which gives instruction for getting some winmodems to work. Where is it? The cdrw. Again, people keep mantioning a page which gives instructions but I dont know where it is. the dvd drive. Does linux play dvds? I cant seem to find a dvd player rpm on any of my 3 linux cds. Are there any available? Or does the css code stop them? The sound card. Sndconfig detects it but says it is not supported. I tried sndconfig --noprobe and used every setting I thought might work but nothing will go. I tried upgradeing alsa (is that the right package) but it says I need a newer kernel and I have no idea how to upgrade it.
Re: [newbie] want my linux work faster and networking
Probably, but some people (like me) are stuck with html. I use outlook express. I have set all the options to plain text. In 5 places I have set the options to plain text. And it still sends html. I am makeing my own mail client now :). - Original Message - From: Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 2:06 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] want my linux work faster and networking isn't there a way to filter HTML mail from the list? -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful."
Re: [newbie] want my linux work faster and networking
Notice that office is only about 10 meg? Where does it go? Well, the windows directory grows by a few hundred meg. - Original Message - From: Ribbo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 4:46 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] want my linux work faster and networking Tanggal 15 Feb 2001, dari Tafta Zani : hi guys, I have heard that linux is relatively faster then windows. But why do windows can open such large application like MS Word 2000 in less than five seconds but LM 7.2 needs more than that to open Star Office 5.2 thats because windows already load another part of it during boot up. im sure you noticed that windows tooks more time to boot after the office apps installed. TIA, Tafta -- Ribbo "Consider yourself lucky. I only let the Adrianator do that." -- Slash, "Quake 3 Arena"
Re: [newbie] Install to a laptop without a CD drive?
Yes. It is expensive. It is also free, if you know where to look. Not sure how much it costs for an official copy. Interlink, however, is free. It comes with dos, and it is technically illegial to download or distribute it. But it is not for sale anywere, so your not doing anything wrong, right? - Original Message - From: Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 9:02 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Install to a laptop without a CD drive? Is Laplink a commercial product? Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Daniel Bodanske [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2000 10:42 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Install to a laptop without a CD drive? for laptops I always LOVED the Laplink disks -- try and find an old copy then do a HD install Jeff Malka wrote: I have an old laptop I want to install Linux on but it does not have a CD. Is this possible? Is there a way to connect the laptop to a desktop that has a CD drive and install that way? Thanks. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered (Newbie) Linux user 183185 __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Lost CD-RW??
I can tell you how to find the irg in windows 98: You have to right-click on the my computer icon, select properties, select the tab 'device manager', find your cdrw from the list, select it, click properties, select resources, there is the info you need. - Original Message - From: Luther, Ron [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 8:16 PM Subject: [newbie] Lost CD-RW?? Hi Gang! Hopefully an "easy" problem. I had some work done on the Win98 portion of my dual Mandrake 7.1 / Win98 machine. The modem had to be replaced and I believe the interrupts may have moved around. Now When I boot into Linux ... I'm greeted with a message saying my Yamaha CD-RW has been removed ... and asking if I would like the system to permanently acknowledge this change. The CD-RW has not been removed ... and it still works (in Win) How do I get Linux to "see it" again? I'm guessing that I go somewhere in Win98 and look up the IRQ ... and then edit the \etc\fstab file in Linux ... but I'm only guessing [Don't know much about hardware --- can you tell?] Thanks for any and all assistance!! Ron L. s -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 3:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] passwords I have a big problem... all my passwords are changed! including root! I tried booting into single user mode and doing a passwd and it said it updated all authentication tokens successfully but the pass did not change and I cannot login to my linux box... I don't think i was hacked please help me.
Re: [newbie] *delicate cough*
Well, win95 isn't very much dos, but I will admid the same dos core is underneath all the gui memory useing stuff. I didn't know about the pkzip thing, but I know laplink 95 will not run under 98. I found a rumor you might be intrested in: Did you here about microsofts encription program? It turns out it is programed to be easy to break, for someone who has a universal decripter. Microsoft got off, because there was no way to prove it was not just a bug. IE sends back information to microsoft? I knew it can be made to do that by microsoft, but I dont think it does it every time. - Original Message - From: Adrian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 6:32 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] *delicate cough* somebody said: "Windows 3.0 thru 3.11 are not opperating systems. They are just shells, running on top of dos. Windows 95 is an opperating system. It contains a completly new filesystem(fat32 and fat16 with changes to support long filenames) and a new io.sys. windows 98 is really windows 95 with a few cosmetic changes." nooo. don't make me go balistic. win95 is not an OS. win95 still ran on DOS, M$ just changed the name of many of the DOS files so no one would know it. this was on of the things some of the computer magazines pointed out when win95 came out (along with the fact that IE took an inventory of the software on your computer sent that information to M$ when you logged on the internet). of course, M$ denied this at first, but eventually admitted it was true. it may have a new file system, but it's not an OS - they just did a slightly better job of hiding DOS. i think there were actually more changes made in win98, under the hood. one case in point. PKZIP, the command line version, will run fine in a DOS box under win95, under win98 however it will just crash. PKWare had to come up with a new program to run PKZIP from a command line in win98. that's my opinion and you all know what opinions are like *haha* adrian Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] *delicate cough*
Just a few points to make: Microsoft did make computers easy to use. They made the first endureing GUI os. Windows is easy to use, no question about that. The problem is that makeing it easy to use also made it unreliable and insecure. Windows 3.0 thru 3.11 are not opperating systems. They are just shells, running on top of dos. Windows 95 is an opperating system. It contains a completly new filesystem(fat32 and fat16 with changes to support long filenames) and a new io.sys. windows 98 is really windows 95 with a few cosmetic changes. Anyone tried takeing a hex editor to io.sys. You will find error messages, boot messages, and loads of stuff you can safely edit. managed to change the 'Starting windows 95' message at startup into 'Shatered windows 95'. - Original Message - From: Kathleen Dickason [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2000 4:32 AM Subject: [newbie] *delicate cough* Oh dear. I am going off-topic here, but I can't help myself... "Robert McNealy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nobody "froces" anyone to sell their company. That is a business decision, most often for the best of the business-owner. Microsoft has the clout to "buy" its expertise. None of these exchanges can happened with consent. I think you mean '"forces"' and "can happen without consent"...not trying to be unkind, just to make sure I am understanding you. Uhm. Do you know anything about Microsoft's business practices or history? Things certainly *can* happen without consent. Ask the folks at Netscape. Many of would not be in the IT, MIS, PC industires if it weren't FOR Microsoft. Through their business practices, they mass-marketed and made computers easy to use and popular. No one can argue that. Apple did not, or we would all be rooting for government to chew them a new a--hole.
Re: [newbie] Linux resources online
I still have some old 8086 machines. I figure they might be worth something in a few decades. I also have old amstrad z80s. If anyone thinks its not worth it, look up the price of the sinclair spetrum. Collecters item. - Original Message - From: Daniel Bodanske [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2000 8:31 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux resources online My first job was selling Sanyo 8086 and 8088s back in 84, and I started programming on tandies in 81 Anybody else on this list old enough to remember when the "suits" didn't run things, and games/software were ported to every single platform, just because they could/it was neat? Circa '80's with names like Tandy, Atari, Amiga, etc, etc,... ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Refresh rates / Screen quiver
actually, a tv doesn't have resution or color death. Its analog, it has only x resution and unlimited color deaph. - Original Message - From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2000 2:19 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Refresh rates / Screen quiver On Wed, 02 Aug 2000, you wrote: I have heard through the grape vine that the refresh rates can sometimes be off by 1Hz or so. Try your refresh rates and make sure they are set correctly. You may have to go into the X config file, I am not sure how to change it. I am trying to work this out myself. And I thought monitors were meant to protect themselves from incorrect refresh rates. Any ideas people? Many monitor manufacturers overstate their product specs, and 'Hz' are always ± Damn near all the time, even junk monitors will do 1280x... @ 60Hz (17" ), so that's usually a good choice if you're not sure, or your monitor doesn't wanna run X at specs. Windoze hardly ever has a problem with monitors, since no matter what you choose as the monitor manufacturer or model, you'll either get monitor.inf, or monitor2.inf, both of which under-drive most all monitors (and video cards). No matter what OS your monitor is used with, it will never run at 'full speed' unless your video card and ram/cpu/cache/motherboard are up to the task. If all that is in good shape, many quality monitors can be over-driven with very little risk, ~ +10 to 15% Whatever, depending on the back lighting (fluorescent is the worst), refresh rates below ~70 will usually produce flicker. TV's are 60Hz, yet flicker is rarely noticed. That's 'cause resolution and depth are _low_. If you feel your getting flicker with the proper settings, try a lower resolution and/or color depth, run your monitor above spec, or both. If you then hear a high pitched squeal coming from the back of the monitor... buy better hardware ;- -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] TOSHIBA SATELLITE PRO 4200 MDK 7.1
there is a generic driver for the display. its laptop display panel (res). Try useing generic vga16 or something like that for video card. - Original Message - From: fabrizio ravazzini [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 11:04 AM Subject: [newbie] TOSHIBA SATELLITE PRO 4200 MDK 7.1 Hello All, I have a problem configuring XFree86 on the Notebook TOSHIBA SATELLITE PRO 4200 with MANDRAKE 7.1 because the MONITOR (lcd) and the Video Card S3 SAVAGE /IX w/Mv they are not supported. Can Someone help me? Many thanks . __ Do You Yahoo!? Il tuo indirizzo gratis e per sempre @yahoo.it su http://mail.yahoo.it
Re: [newbie] KDE
When you login, assuming you are loging in from the graphical login screen, there is a drop-down menu to select desktop. - Original Message - From: Steve Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 12:07 PM Subject: [newbie] KDE I installed Linux Mandrake 7.1 on a limited space machine (only 54% of the utilities installed). After the install I do get an x-windows environment with xterm. However I am trying to firgure out how to run KDE. Did it not get installed because of limited space or is there some command to actually start it. Thanks...
Re: [newbie] AOL for Linux
I think AOL uses this annoying client software, so you cant get to to connect on linux. Either dump linux(bad idea) or dump aol(good idea). There are lots of free isps now, so you can save some money while your at it. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 2:46 AM Subject: [newbie] AOL for Linux Is there anyway that anyone knows to get AOL set up on a linux operating system(Mandrake 7.1) Thanks in advance ~Lance
Re: [newbie] Gnapster (continued)...
Good point. Through I suppose the radio quality isn't as good as a cd or mp3. - Original Message - From: Steve Weltman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 8:46 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Gnapster (continued)... I'm sorry that I have to reply to a thread about copyrights in a Linux newbie mail list, but... I think that the songs are available freely to you already on another medium. It's called the radio. If you turn your dial to the correct station, you can hear most of what is available for download on Napster/Gnapster. The funny thing is that you are allowed to tape your CDs for private playback, and even give those recordings to friends (yes, legally). But the recording industry is reporting profits for this fiscal year to their investors, and risk loosing investments if the records aren't purchased in the most accountable manner (via your local music store). So they are proposing a method to reduce a distribution method that can't/doesn't keep track of who's listening to what. That's my 2 cents. Have a nice (bar-anybody-copying-me-and-I'll-sue) day! Steve Weltman (not an expert on copyright, but know when I'm being bullied into buying something that is already free) - Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 7:25 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Gnapster (continued)... yeah, but what about the people whos livelyhoods are earned by those songs? and what about the people who hold the copyrights to those songs. don't they deserve to have their material protected from being stolen? that IS in effect what napster does. TAKE those songs and distribute them for free. the owners of the copyright don't see a cent. -- Mark ** Registered Linux user # 182496 ** On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Mike Tracy Holt wrote: "Ronald J. Hall" wrote: Anthony wrote: The password that you chose when you registered on Napster/Gnapster. Argh. Did not know that you had to go to their website and register! ;-( What is it they say about a little knowledge being dangerous? Thank you, Anthony... -- /\ DarkLord \/ That's ok, evidently they're going to be turned off at midnight... another victory for those poor people who have to spend their mornings deciding which Porche to drive to work today =(
Re: [newbie] Need Help: Makedrake 7.1 - packageFile: missing header ?(error message)?
Im no expert on linux, but I would suggest you install linux on another machine. You might have a corrupt disc if your installing by cd. - Original Message - From: Steven Wishart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 9:00 AM Subject: [newbie] Need Help: Makedrake 7.1 - packageFile: missing header ?(error message)? Hi All, I am trying to install Mandrake 7.1 , but when I try install Mandrake 7.1, as soon as I try install any packages I get the following error packageFile: missing header Is there a corrupt package I can unselect to get past this one ? Thanks Steven
