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On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 12:52:34 -0400 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: (Criticism encouraged) Could be my browser (Galeon), but the formatting could use some work. The links are covered up by the carpet. If you can tell me how you created that animated gif, I'd be much obliged, good work. -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: nodex.sytes.net ++ A clash of doctrine is not a disaster -- it is an opportunity. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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On Monday 25 Aug 2003 1:22 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 12:52:34 -0400 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: (Criticism encouraged) Could be my browser (Galeon), but the formatting could use some work. The links are covered up by the carpet. Same in Mozilla. The carpet's OK in Konquerer, but the staff photo still covers them. Which one is you then? -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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The good looking guy in the middle. (Between the women, of course.) Lee On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 18:18:36 +0100 Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 25 Aug 2003 1:22 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 12:52:34 -0400 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: (Criticism encouraged) Could be my browser (Galeon), but the formatting could use some work. The links are covered up by the carpet. Same in Mozilla. The carpet's OK in Konquerer, but the staff photo still covers them. Which one is you then? -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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Well you did it again. I barely know enough to tie my shoelaces and I got an apache server up. Between lurking and asking a vague question now and then, all of a sudden it came together. The last bit of understanding was my hardware firewall (duh). I feel like deleting everything and starting over, just to see if we can do it again. aeis.tv (Criticism encouraged) Thank-you all. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 22:07:22 -0700 Erylon Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Next time (will there be a next time??), rid your home directory of the .kde hidden directory and restart kde. You'll lose all your settings (including kmail settings!), but 90% of the time the problem, whatever it was, will be cured. As you can tell, I've NEVER had a problem with kde. AH HAH! I knew I was forgetting something after upgrading KDE to 3.1.3 (in another thread) No more freeze up! Jerry. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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I had to share this. Yesterday I hosed KDE because I wanted to see the Penguin herding the Windows icons. No other excuse. Something the Texstar KDE .rpm put in my home directory crashed the load just after the splash screen. I know it was in my /home directory because in desperation, two hours later, I pulled out the CD's and reinstalled, reformatting everything but /home and a second drive /archive. I booted with a grin, and it crashed again. And again. Finally this morning I got out the Linux Desk Reference someone on the list suggested, booted without the graphic crutch I rely on daily, copied my /home into the /archive and re-formated the lot (except /archive). After a brand new install without the damage I've inflicted on the box the past year, I visited PLF, got my urpmi sources straight, updated everything, collected my life blood from the archived /home, and I'm back in business. Leaner, meaner, and more experienced. (Not necessarily less dumb.) No doubt there are 10 better ways to recover. I don't care. I did it based on what I've learned here, and I did it. In my Windows days, I would have lost untold piles of files, software and proof of ownership, passwords, serial numbers all would have had to be recovered, throwing time and money down the deep dark hole. I couldn't have done it without you all. Thank you Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Thanks to all
Next time (will there be a next time??), rid your home directory of the .kde hidden directory and restart kde. You'll lose all your settings (including kmail settings!), but 90% of the time the problem, whatever it was, will be cured. As you can tell, I've NEVER had a problem with kde. On Sunday 03 August 2003 12:08 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: I had to share this. Yesterday I hosed KDE because I wanted to see the Penguin herding the Windows icons. No other excuse. Something the Texstar KDE .rpm put in my home directory crashed the load just after the splash screen. I know it was in my /home directory because in desperation, two hours later, I pulled out the CD's and reinstalled, reformatting everything but /home and a second drive /archive. I booted with a grin, and it crashed again. And again. Finally this morning I got out the Linux Desk Reference someone on the list suggested, booted without the graphic crutch I rely on daily, copied my /home into the /archive and re-formated the lot (except /archive). After a brand new install without the damage I've inflicted on the box the past year, I visited PLF, got my urpmi sources straight, updated everything, collected my life blood from the archived /home, and I'm back in business. Leaner, meaner, and more experienced. (Not necessarily less dumb.) No doubt there are 10 better ways to recover. I don't care. I did it based on what I've learned here, and I did it. In my Windows days, I would have lost untold piles of files, software and proof of ownership, passwords, serial numbers all would have had to be recovered, throwing time and money down the deep dark hole. I couldn't have done it without you all. Thank you Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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Hi, A few weeks ago I got several responses on my LILO problem when suddenly the fertilizer hit the ventilator in other areas of life, preventing me from working on it. I have to unsub for a while, but wanted to offer my thanks for everyone who made suggestions and to everyone else for your posts as well - I've read them all and have picked up lots of info and even learned a thing or two. I hope to be back soon when things are right side up again and just wanted to express my gratitude. Best to all, Curt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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Best of luck, Curt. Come back anytime. On Saturday 20 April 2002 01:10 pm, you wrote: Hi, A few weeks ago I got several responses on my LILO problem when suddenly the fertilizer hit the ventilator in other areas of life, preventing me from working on it. I have to unsub for a while, but wanted to offer my thanks for everyone who made suggestions and to everyone else for your posts as well - I've read them all and have picked up lots of info and even learned a thing or two. I hope to be back soon when things are right side up again and just wanted to express my gratitude. Best to all, Curt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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To All Newbie subscribers: Thanks to all who answered my questions Thanks and God Bless! Respectfully AOL www.aolsystems.com The Technology Specialist
Re: [newbie] Thanks for all those replies...I've calmed down abitnow..and here is my Hardware List
andy wrote: I couldn't help about the scanner, but I don't think you're right about the TV card : I have a studio PCTV card, with a BT848 chip. So far, I've been able to to use it under any OS I tried : Linux Mandrake 7.0-2 RedHat 6.2, Winblows 98 NT, and freeBSD. I've never been able to identify this card properly..it came in the PC when I bought it from Time, and the drivers are on the system disc that came with the box. I've never known where to look for updated drivers or anything. Linux identifies the presence of the card, that's all You just have to use the videodev, bttv and some other modules in order to make it work. Have a look at the bttv mini-HOWTO. It should help you. (At least, it did help me!) Here is how I do to initialize it and load the drivers : /sbin/modprobe videodev /sbin/modprobe i2c /sbin/modprobe bttv /sbin/modprobe tuner Once I've done that, I just have to launch kwintv, or any other similar program to watch TV. HTH Flupke
[newbie] Thanks for all those replies...I've calmed down a bit now..and here is my Hardware List
OK.. I'm not at the PC with Linux on right now, but this is my hardware list as I can remember it. Processor-AMD K6 2 450mhz Ram- 128 meg PC100 Graphics Card-S3 Savage 8mb (Under the name 'Sparkle') Motherboard-T15VG+ Soundcard- Creative Ensonique Modem-External 56k V90/Flex speakerphone Hard Drive-8.4 gb IDE (Partitioned 5.4 gb to W98-3 gb to Linux) CD Rom-LG8320 CD Re-Writer-A Open 9420 Broktree TV/Teletext PCI card Scanner (Parallel Port) of 'Unknown Origin' (Bundled with the original Time PC..of which little rremains!!) HP 670C Deskjet Printer on a seperate(ISA) Parallel port Not 100% sure on these two, but it's running an Award Bios and I think it's a VIA chipset on the motherboard. All of these components are within 6 months of being new, except the hard drive and CD Rom which are 18 months old. Windows 98 on the main partiton runs without any major problems at all. I defrag and clean out my hard drive regularly, and generally keep the place spick and span. Linux will recognise all of these components, and installation goes like a breeze.. What has been happening is that after I've gone in and out of Linux a frew times (Sorry, can't be more specific than that-there seems no rhyme nor reason to it!)..when I try to boot up, all seems to go ok (I see all the 'OK's' coming back on the screen) but when it gets to the point where the blue logon screen comes up (Where you choose root or user and the desktop you want)..All I get is a flashing screen and a numlock keyboard light that flashes at me!! A suggestion for my problem for getting onto the web was to edit my /etc/resolv.conf file..I would be I can't find it!! I can find the /etc file, but thats it !! I've gone to kppp and put in the information it requests and I can actually connect to the ISP. The modem rings through and I get the little modem icon in the tray at the bottom right...then nothing..'Cannot locate the DNS Server' is all I get back when I try and access a web site. I bet all those who've been on Linux for a while and are reading this are going 'Oh s**, here we go, another thicko!! I really want to make this work..I LIKE a challenge. I'm 41, never had any computer training, never used DOS or even W3.1-W95 was my first o/s, never even touched a mouse until 30 months ago, so this is like learning a new language for me. I've invested in 'The Complete idiots Guide' as I did when I was new to Windows, and once I've got the basics down, like getting used to where things are in the file system, using the command prompts, etc..that will get me through to be (almost) competant!! It's just these set up problems I'm encountering. I was thinking of approaching the local Linux group near to me, but I feel that might be too much like going into the showers at school with the 'Big Boys' if you get my meaning:-)) (ok..they might laugh at me!!) Thanks again for all your patience...It won't beat me..well...not unless it's gonna cost me more money!! Cheers Andy (Manchester UK)
RE: [newbie] Thanks for all those replies...I've calmed down a bi t now..and here is my Hardware List
I may be wrong, but I seem to remember a thread here about someone's problems with the S3 Savage. Anybody remember/have this card in Mandy 7.02? Michael Perry. RD. Dep. Netafim Magal. Linux -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack -Original Message- From: andy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Mon 10 April 2000 12:49 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Thanks for all those replies...I've calmed down a bit now..and here is my Hardware List OK.. I'm not at the PC with Linux on right now, but this is my hardware list as I can remember it. Processor-AMD K6 2 450mhz Ram- 128 meg PC100 Graphics Card-S3 Savage 8mb (Under the name 'Sparkle') Motherboard-T15VG+ Soundcard- Creative Ensonique Modem-External 56k V90/Flex speakerphone Hard Drive-8.4 gb IDE (Partitioned 5.4 gb to W98-3 gb to Linux) CD Rom-LG8320 CD Re-Writer-A Open 9420 Broktree TV/Teletext PCI card Scanner (Parallel Port) of 'Unknown Origin' (Bundled with the original Time PC..of which little rremains!!) HP 670C Deskjet Printer on a seperate(ISA) Parallel port
Re: [newbie] Thanks for all those replies...I've calmed down abit now..and here is my Hardware List
andy wrote: Sorry, Linux won't recognise the TV Card or Scanner..my mistake!! I couldn't help about the scanner, but I don't think you're right about the TV card : I have a studio PCTV card, with a BT848 chip. So far, I've been able to to use it under any OS I tried : Linux Mandrake 7.0-2 RedHat 6.2, Winblows 98 NT, and freeBSD. Andy OK.. I'm not at the PC with Linux on right now, but this is my hardware list as I can remember it. Processor-AMD K6 2 450mhz Ram- 128 meg PC100 Graphics Card-S3 Savage 8mb (Under the name 'Sparkle') Motherboard-T15VG+ Soundcard- Creative Ensonique Modem-External 56k V90/Flex speakerphone Hard Drive-8.4 gb IDE (Partitioned 5.4 gb to W98-3 gb to Linux) CD Rom-LG8320 CD Re-Writer-A Open 9420 Broktree TV/Teletext PCI card Scanner (Parallel Port) of 'Unknown Origin' (Bundled with the original Time PC..of which little rremains!!) HP 670C Deskjet Printer on a seperate(ISA) Parallel port
Re: [newbie] Thanks for all those replies...I've calmed down a bitnow..and here is my Hardware List
andy wrote: OK.. I'm not at the PC with Linux on right now, but this is my hardware list as I can remember it. Processor-AMD K6 2 450mhz Ram- 128 meg PC100 Graphics Card-S3 Savage 8mb (Under the name 'Sparkle') This could be important. Linux will recognise all of these components, and installation goes like a breeze.. What has been happening is that after I've gone in and out of Linux a frew times (Sorry, can't be more specific than that-there seems no rhyme nor reason to it!)..when I try to boot up, all seems to go ok (I see all the 'OK's' coming back on the screen) but when it gets to the point where the blue logon screen comes up (Where you choose root or user and the desktop you want)..All I get is a flashing screen and a numlock keyboard light that flashes at me!! Ah... an X problem. =) A suggestion for my problem for getting onto the web was to edit my /etc/resolv.conf file..I would be I can't find it!! I can find the /etc file, but thats it !! I've gone to kppp and put in the information it requests and I can actually connect to the ISP. The modem rings through and I get the little modem icon in the tray at the bottom right...then nothing..'Cannot locate the DNS Server' is all I get back when I try and access a web site. Okay -- so, to be clear first, it works a few times, then stops working? how odd. The problem is probably not related to your /etc/resolv.conf file - it looks like X is not starting successfully. Can I assume you're able to boot into runlevel 3, if you have been looking for /etc/resolv.conf? Try this: At the LILO prompt, type "linux 3". When the boot sequence is finished, log in as you normally would (as a user). Now: $ X -probeonly 2 xerrors.txt Attach this result to your next post to the list -- it will help us help you. Next, I want you to actually go into X again, like so: $ su password: # telinit 5 Once in X, go to kppp and edit your connection settings. In the Account Setup, under the tab "IP", make sure the box "Auto-configure hostname from this IP" is unchecked. Next, make sure you have entered DNS server numbers entered for the account (make sure they're correct =) ). Then try connecting -- once connected, can you ping using IP addresses? Try pinging the IP of the domain name server. Open a Konsole, then: $ ping www.xxx.yyy.zzz Where www.xxx.yyy.zzz is the IP of the domain name servers of your ISP. Your ISP should have provided these addresses to you. If you can ping the IP, but not the domain name: $ ping www.yourisp.co.uk Then you have not put proper DNS server names in your kppp settings. I should point out that these are really separate problems (your flashing X screen and your DNS woes) but I wanted to try and help you out. Just don't confuse the two =). I bet all those who've been on Linux for a while and are reading this are going 'Oh s**, here we go, another thicko!! Not at all, I'm always happy that new people are taking up the challenge. Once you have it down, it stops being a challenge. I had to learn Windows, too. I was thinking of approaching the local Linux group near to me, but I feel that might be too much like going into the showers at school with the 'Big Boys' if you get my meaning:-)) (ok..they might laugh at me!!) Heavens no. If they do, they're not worth *your* time. The smart user remembers that she was once new at it too. -Stephen-
Re: [newbie] Thanks for all those replies...I've calmed down abit now..and here is my Hardware List
I couldn't help about the scanner, but I don't think you're right about the TV card : I have a studio PCTV card, with a BT848 chip. So far, I've been able to to use it under any OS I tried : Linux Mandrake 7.0-2 RedHat 6.2, Winblows 98 NT, and freeBSD. I've never been able to identify this card properly..it came in the PC when I bought it from Time, and the drivers are on the system disc that came with the box. I've never known where to look for updated drivers or anything. Linux identifies the presence of the card, that's all Cheers Andy
