Re: [newbie] hey?
I read this ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 22:22, Damian Gatabria wrote: Can anyone read this? If so, please respond privately, i've not received any mail from the lists since friday night... Damian gotten any reply yet? __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ McAfee VirusScan Online from the Netscape Network. Comprehensive protection for your entire computer. Get your free trial today! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/computing/mcafee/index.jsp?promo=393397 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 free of charge. Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hey?
On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 22:22, Damian Gatabria wrote: Can anyone read this? If so, please respond privately, i've not received any mail from the lists since friday night... Damian gotten any reply yet? __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hey?
Hi Must be a collective attempt worldwide by ISP's to sabotage list users! ROTFL... actually it was yahoo I had a problem with! Tracked it down to the fact my ISP had suddenly decided to change my static IP last Friday (its been the same for the last 6 months at least!). I really must get a no-ip registration setup and use their IP tracker program to sync my IP. Once my DNS had updated and all the servers kicked in I got over 200 emails over 5 mins! John -- Lead me not into temptation - I can find my own way thanks! MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 92791912 -- Lead me not into temptation - I can find my own way thanks! MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 92791912 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] hey?
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 12:22, Damian Gatabria wrote: Can anyone read this? I can't read English. -- Mon Jun 30 21:50:01 EST 2003 21:50:01 up 5 days, 21:36, 3 users, load average: 0.92, 0.98, 1.03 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Nothing is as simple as it seems at first Or as hopeless as it seems in the middle Or as finished as it seems in the end. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hey what happened to my icons
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 16:03, David E. Fox wrote: here i am doing a bunch of stuff naturally and not sure what i did, but suddenly all my icons in kde 3.1 are gone. For a while just one icon was showing, now not even that - all there is is the background and my bottom pane bar. Eveerything else is running fine. Seems that a process of kde died unexpectedly, the question is which? And how to restart that portion of kde without having to drop back to console and restart X? That's an extremely weird one mate...you might want to just restart the session - it ain't as though you have to reboot or anything - just restart X...restarting the kicker (panel) is one thing, but if the entire KDE window manager is choking and puking, you might save some hassle by restarting... (the Xsession, not the computer) -- Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kuhn Media Australia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hey what happened to my icons
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 16:28, David E. Fox wrote: Seems that a process of kde died unexpectedly, the question is which? Addendum: I ended up restarting KDE and all my icons are back. However there are seemingly a number of stuck kdeinit processes that I am finding difficult to get rid of. I tried manually killing some of them, even killall kdeinit. What if you switch to runlevel 3, restart the box, use startx to start XWindows, shut it down nicely, change the runlevel back to 5, reboot, then have a go at it again...? -- Sat Apr 5 20:00:00 EST 2003 20:00:00 up 15 days, 7:47, 3 users, load average: 0.03, 0.13, 0.15 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Out of sight is out of mind. -- Arthur Clough Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] hey what happened to my icons
here i am doing a bunch of stuff naturally and not sure what i did, but suddenly all my icons in kde 3.1 are gone. For a while just one icon was showing, now not even that - all there is is the background and my bottom pane bar. Eveerything else is running fine. Seems that a process of kde died unexpectedly, the question is which? And how to restart that portion of kde without having to drop back to console and restart X? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hey what happened to my icons
Seems that a process of kde died unexpectedly, the question is which? Addendum: I ended up restarting KDE and all my icons are back. However there are seemingly a number of stuck kdeinit processes that I am finding difficult to get rid of. I tried manually killing some of them, even killall kdeinit. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Hey Paul...
By any chance, do you have a SAMBA question? ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Hey can someone put Mandrake 8.1 up in their Morpheus accounts so we can get some serious downloads going
I don't want to wait for 1 day just to get a file 650megs in size Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HEY, NO SPAMMING
At Wed, 15 Aug 2001 01:13:37 -0500 , Adam Willcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got an e-mail from Chris Harvey that was bounced from the mandrake mailing list server. In my opinion he should be immediately terminated from the forum for abusing it in such a gross manner. I can't help but to wonder if Chris Harvey made an innocent mistake. We are newbie's here. You don't seem verry understanding and it seems you don't know how to delete. But maybe I'm wrong. Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com Linux FREE Mail is 100% FREE, 100% Linux, and 100% yours! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HEY, NO SPAMMING
Hi If Chris Harvey made a mistake why doesn't he apologise? But I agree with Adam that SPAM shouldn't be tolerated, its annoying and time consuming. And the newbie list is not the place for it. Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 11:21 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] HEY, NO SPAMMING At Wed, 15 Aug 2001 01:13:37 -0500 , Adam Willcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got an e-mail from Chris Harvey that was bounced from the mandrake mailing list server. In my opinion he should be immediately terminated from the forum for abusing it in such a gross manner. I can't help but to wonder if Chris Harvey made an innocent mistake. We are newbie's here. You don't seem verry understanding and it seems you don't know how to delete. But maybe I'm wrong. Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com Linux FREE Mail is 100% FREE, 100% Linux, and 100% yours! -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] HEY, NO SPAMMING
I contacted the webmaster at his domain. mandrake claims to go after people who spam people on this list. I think if we all write a letter to the webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED], that should take care of it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] HEY, NO SPAMMING
Now here's something that I find amusing. The guy who actually spammed only sent on email...fine, I can handle that, but then everybody starts sending anti-spam emails (and thus spamming everybody), and now we're all supposed to spam the webmaster to take action against the spammer? --Jesse -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jason Guidry Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 3:04 PM To: Linux-Mandrake Newbie (E-mail) Subject: RE: [newbie] HEY, NO SPAMMING I contacted the webmaster at his domain. mandrake claims to go after people who spam people on this list. I think if we all write a letter to the webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED], that should take care of it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HEY, NO SPAMMING
On Wednesday 15 August 2001 08:04 am, Jason Guidry wrote: I contacted the webmaster at his domain. mandrake claims to go after people who spam people on this list. I think if we all write a letter to the webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED], that should take care of it. Before this gets way out'a hand, let me say this is a bad idea. There's many reasons why a list can occaisionally get spammed, and often the apparent sender is the main victim, ie, his/her acount or system was used to send the spam without his/her knowledge or consent. Often it's just an innocent mistake. As has already been said, the best tool for dealing with spam is the Delete key. Some of the main damage from viruses is the volume of email sent (in)correctly warning of them. Some of the main damage spam causes is the volume of email it spawns from those who feel a need to search for the guilty and (often) crucify the innocent. YMMV -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HEY, NO SPAMMING
Jesse Hepburn wrote: Now here's something that I find amusing. The guy who actually spammed This thread is starting to sound like the Monty Python sketch that someone mentioned earlier. All spam and no mail make Jack a dull newbie. ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user # 217118 I want to read my new poem about pork brains and outer space ... only sent on email...fine, I can handle that, but then everybody starts sending anti-spam emails (and thus spamming everybody), and now we're all supposed to spam the webmaster to take action against the spammer? --Jesse -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jason Guidry Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 3:04 PM To: Linux-Mandrake Newbie (E-mail) Subject: RE: [newbie] HEY, NO SPAMMING I contacted the webmaster at his domain. mandrake claims to "go after" people who spam people on this list. I think if we all write a letter to the webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED], that should take care of it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] HEY, NO SPAMMING
I got an e-mail from Chris Harvey that was bounced from the mandrake mailing list server. In my opinion he should be immediately terminated from the forum for abusing it in such a gross manner. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] hey mate!!!
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[newbie] Hey Ex Windows Users: How to read message log via clicking on Home
Wow what a great feature for us Non Linux versed, Windows point and click types. In response to the IP Flooding w/PMfirewall: Using LM 7.2, KDE, I get to my message log by just clicking on the Home Icon at the bottom of the screen, it brings up the file tree, click on Root, then click on Var, then click on Log, then click on messages Icon (the one with the pencil showing). it displays the message log right on the screen. Scroll to the bottom to see the latest entries. No more of that Linux terminal commands Mumbo Jumbo, back to good ole point and click. Works great for us Windows refugees hanging out on Linux, nothing beats a good ole Point and click. To Edit the log file While it is displayed on the screen: I Click on Edit at the top of the screen Click on Open with Advanced Editor and walah - i can edit the file. You can use any of the editors it lists but so far i only tried the Advance Option. Cool, this Linux stuff is getting better all the time ;-0 Now if I could just get my sound system to work... via point and click...
Re: [newbie] Hey Ex Windows Users: How to read message log via clicking on Home
Well there is a way to user your Point Click methods to configure hardware. Open up DrakConf by any means you want. You can click the icon since you're a Point 'n Clicker or type DrakConf at a command prompt. Either way, once you have DrakConf up, open up HardDrake. HardDrake will off you two panels. On the left it will show you catagories of hardware. You can select the sound card option and open it up. If there's something in there, that means the system knows it's there. On the right it will give you some info about it and there's an option to run the Config tool. Run that. It should then try and play a sound. If you hear the sound, obviously your sound card words. No Linux terminal commands Mumbo Jumbo. As a suggestion though. Stop looking at the console as Linux terminal command Mumbo Jumbo. That's where the real power of Linux can be found. That's where you really start to dig into the system and become an expect. To start working with the shell, editing and keeping a 150 line .aliases file, and other things. Also a lot of the people that help you with problems on this list, are the people that love the console work, and some of us don't even bother X windows. We do everything from the console. Right down to play MP3s, chatting, and playing games! Wouldn't want to offend them by calling it Mumbo Jumbo. :0) Hope ya found that helpful, and be kind to your penguin! tdh T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Real Men use Vi. * g [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010427 09:01]: | Wow what a great feature for us Non Linux versed, Windows point and click | types. In response to the IP Flooding w/PMfirewall: | | Using LM 7.2, KDE, | I get to my message log by just clicking on the Home Icon at the bottom of | the screen, it brings up the file tree, | click on Root, | then click on Var, | then click on Log, | then click on messages Icon (the one with the pencil showing). | it displays the message log right on the screen. Scroll to the bottom to | see the latest entries. No more of that Linux terminal commands Mumbo | Jumbo, back to good ole point and click. | | Works great for us Windows refugees hanging out on Linux, nothing beats a | good ole Point and click. | | To Edit the log file | While it is displayed on the screen: | I Click on Edit at the top of the screen | Click on Open with Advanced Editor | and walah - i can edit the file. | | You can use any of the editors it lists but so far i only tried the Advance | Option. | | Cool, this Linux stuff is getting better all the time ;-0 | | Now if I could just get my sound system to work... via point and click...
Re: [newbie] Hey Ex Windows Users: How to read message log via clicking on Home
see the latest entries. No more of that Linux terminal commands Mumbo Jumbo, back to good ole point and click. Umm what's wrong with more /var/log/messages ? :) To Edit the log file While it is displayed on the screen: I'm not really clear why'd you want to edit a log file (cut paste maybe part of it to another file) but 'vi /var/log/messages' works too :). That's the nicety of linux - best of both the GUI and (usually) more powerful command line (depending on what you want to do). Have you tried 'sndconfig'? David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---
Re: [newbie] Hey Ex Windows Users: How to read message log via clicking on Home
Hi Tim - I stand corrected - I should not have been flippant with Mumbo jumbo and by no way meant offense to all the fantastic Linux users. I am envious of their learning prowess. i am sure there are others like me who are venturing over to Linux and have a hard time even spelling it, let alone doing terminal work (probably 1% of the Linux population). Thankfully you are all kind enough to put up with us and try and help us. My Linux learning is on the backside of the bell curve, hey someone has to occupy those far end end points. somewhere around 5 standard deviations away. The HardDrak doesn't list any sound devices, so I am soundless. i dowloaded the Aureal file, (tar.gz), Todd was kind enough to send me the url, but don't know what to do with it, or how to install it. I have a Crystal Semiconductor for the sound card and Altec lansing speakers. Again my apologies to the Linux community. As a suggestion though. Stop looking at the console as Linux terminal command Mumbo Jumbo. That's where the real power of Linux can be found. That's where you really start to dig into the system and become an expect. To start working with the shell, editing and keeping a 150 line .aliases file, and other things. Also a lot of the people that help you with problems on this list, are the people that love the console work, and some of us don't even bother X windows. We do everything from the console. Right down to play MP3s, chatting, and playing games! Wouldn't want to offend them by calling it Mumbo Jumbo. :0) Hope ya found that helpful, and be kind to your penguin! tdh T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Real Men use Vi. * g [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010427 09:01]: | Wow what a great feature for us Non Linux versed, Windows point and click | types. In response to the IP Flooding w/PMfirewall: | | Using LM 7.2, KDE, | I get to my message log by just clicking on the Home Icon at the bottom | of the screen, it brings up the file tree, | click on Root, | then click on Var, | then click on Log, | then click on messages Icon (the one with the pencil showing). | it displays the message log right on the screen. Scroll to the bottom to | see the latest entries. No more of that Linux terminal commands Mumbo | Jumbo, back to good ole point and click. | | Works great for us Windows refugees hanging out on Linux, nothing beats a | good ole Point and click. | | To Edit the log file | While it is displayed on the screen: | I Click on Edit at the top of the screen | Click on Open with Advanced Editor | and walah - i can edit the file. | | You can use any of the editors it lists but so far i only tried the | Advance Option. | | Cool, this Linux stuff is getting better all the time ;-0 | | Now if I could just get my sound system to work... via point and click...
Re: [newbie] Hey Ex Windows Users: How to read message log via clicking on Home
Don't even sweat it.. all in playful gest! As for the sound card. What kind of motherboard to you have? Most ASUS motherboards have a diagnostic that runs when you boot you system. If you disable the harddrives, it will stop there and give you some basic information. For example, the one that purchased in December will tell me what's in what slot and what IRQ it takes. This of course telling me if I have a few pieces of hardware sharing IRQs, or if it just doesn't see the hardware at all. You may want to look at that first. I do believe that THAT sound card is supported though. Check the supported hardware list on the site. As for that tar.gz file that you recieved, here's a quick thing on such files an installs. tar.gz files are compressed files. They were originally started out as back up files if I'm not mistakes. I suggest you do a man tar to get some information on the command and what it does. Like most commands/apps in Linux, there are different ways of running them. That's one thing that I love about Linux. The way that two different people can do something to get to the same means. The command I use for tar is as such. tar -zxvf FILE_NAME.tar.gz tar is the command the -zxvf are a string of variables. The z variable tells it to filter the file through another zip program such as gzip. x is for extract. v is for verbose. (Which will tell you what it's doing as it's doing it.) And the f is for file name, which it normally reads from the file itself. So, if you have a file called test.tar.gz, and in that file you have two files. One, for arguement sake is a JPEG, the second is a plan ASCII text file. You run the command: tar -zxvf test.tar.gz And you will get output like this. [root@yoda ~] tar -zxvf test.tar.gz test test/file.jpg test/ascii [root@yoda ~] From there, you will have a directory named test/ in your present working directory. (pwd) If you cd test/ then do a ls -la you will see that you have two files in that directory. Well, with a program from source, the usual pattern you use to install is ./configure, which will execute the config file. The config file will prepare the software to be installed. You can add all kinds of variables to that, but it's probably pretty safe for you to just run the ./configure to get you started. (If you open the configure file in Nedit, you can see some of the things it does, and you can start to get an idea of what goes on. It can be very confusing, but it sometimes holds info to adding more things to your install.) You should also open up the README file in Nedit. Unlike in Windows, reading README files is an important part of the software. Most people ignore the README file for a Windows app, but most of us pay close attention to the README file. After the program is done being configured from the ./configure, you now have to make the install file that will then install the program. So type make at the prompt. Both of these commands will render a lot of text to stdout, I create log files to review later if I have problems with redirect commands like tee or . You can use any one you like. After make is done running, you actually install the program with the make install command. When it's done you should be able to do a which program to tell you where it's located. Normally you an open the program right away once you've opened it, sometimes you will need to open another Xterm window for it to be recognized. Try using that, and that may help you with isntalling that Sound card. tdh T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Real Men use Vi. * g [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010427 15:15]: | | | Hi Tim - I stand corrected - I should not have been flippant with Mumbo jumbo | and by no way meant offense to all the fantastic Linux users. I am envious | of their learning prowess. i am sure there are others like me who are | venturing over to Linux and have a hard time even spelling it, let alone | doing terminal work (probably 1% of the Linux population). Thankfully you | are all kind enough to put up with us and try and help us. My Linux learning | is on the backside of the bell curve, hey someone has to occupy those far end | end points. somewhere around 5 standard deviations away. | | The HardDrak doesn't list any sound devices, so I am soundless. i dowloaded | the Aureal file, (tar.gz), Todd was kind enough to send me the url, but don't | know what to do with it, or how to install it. | | I have a Crystal Semiconductor for the sound card and Altec lansing speakers. | | Again my apologies to the Linux community. | | | As a suggestion though. Stop looking at the console as Linux terminal | command Mumbo Jumbo. That's where the real power of Linux can be found. | That's where you really start to dig into the system and become an expect. | To start working with the shell, editing and keeping a 150 line .aliases | file, and other things. | | Also a lot of the people that help
Re: [newbie] Hey Ex Windows Users: How to read message log via clicking on Home
Okay, now that you have that Aureal file, copy it to a directory where you would like to expand it. For example: cp Aureal*tar.gz /home/g-couch/ Then you can execute the following command to expand the compressed file and it should place everything in it's own subdirectory: cd /home/g-couch tar -xvzf Aureal*tar.gz It's been a few years since I've installed an Aureal driver, so I can't properly instruct you from memory. There will be a README and/or INSTALL file in the new Aureal directory. Read that carefully for installation instructions. If you are using an Aureal chip, you will have success with that driver. If you run into issues, write back with the steps you were executing and the errors/complications you received. To read README and/or INSTALL (whatever their called) do something like the following: less README less INSTALL --- g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tim - I stand corrected - I should not have been flippant with Mumbo jumbo and by no way meant offense to all the fantastic Linux users. I am envious of their learning prowess. i am sure there are others like me who are venturing over to Linux and have a hard time even spelling it, let alone doing terminal work (probably 1% of the Linux population). Thankfully you are all kind enough to put up with us and try and help us. My Linux learning is on the backside of the bell curve, hey someone has to occupy those far end end points. somewhere around 5 standard deviations away. The HardDrak doesn't list any sound devices, so I am soundless. i dowloaded the Aureal file, (tar.gz), Todd was kind enough to send me the url, but don't know what to do with it, or how to install it. I have a Crystal Semiconductor for the sound card and Altec lansing speakers. Again my apologies to the Linux community. As a suggestion though. Stop looking at the console as Linux terminal command Mumbo Jumbo. That's where the real power of Linux can be found. That's where you really start to dig into the system and become an expect. To start working with the shell, editing and keeping a 150 line .aliases file, and other things. Also a lot of the people that help you with problems on this list, are the people that love the console work, and some of us don't even bother X windows. We do everything from the console. Right down to play MP3s, chatting, and playing games! Wouldn't want to offend them by calling it Mumbo Jumbo. :0) Hope ya found that helpful, and be kind to your penguin! tdh T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Real Men use Vi. * g [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010427 09:01]: | Wow what a great feature for us Non Linux versed, Windows point and click | types. In response to the IP Flooding w/PMfirewall: | | Using LM 7.2, KDE, | I get to my message log by just clicking on the Home Icon at the bottom | of the screen, it brings up the file tree, | click on Root, | then click on Var, | then click on Log, | then click on messages Icon (the one with the pencil showing). | it displays the message log right on the screen. Scroll to the bottom to | see the latest entries. No more of that Linux terminal commands Mumbo | Jumbo, back to good ole point and click. | | Works great for us Windows refugees hanging out on Linux, nothing beats a | good ole Point and click. | | To Edit the log file | While it is displayed on the screen: | I Click on Edit at the top of the screen | Click on Open with Advanced Editor | and walah - i can edit the file. | | You can use any of the editors it lists but so far i only tried the | Advance Option. | | Cool, this Linux stuff is getting better all the time ;-0 | | Now if I could just get my sound system to work... via point and click... __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Hey Ex Windows Users: How to read message log via clicking on Home
You're trying to execute messages which (correct me if I'm wrong) is a log file. You said you want to read it with more so type this instead: more /var/log/messages Or even better, use less: less /var/log/messages --- g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 27 April 2001 01:51 pm, David E. Fox wrote: see the latest entries. No more of that Linux terminal commands Mumbo Jumbo, back to good ole point and click. Umm what's wrong with more /var/log/messages ? [root@dhcp-196-2 /]# /var/log/messages bash: /var/log/messages: Permission denied [root@dhcp-196-2 /]# I am logged in as root, but for what ever reason (Linux challenged) I can't get to it this way.:-( __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/
RE: [newbie] Hey..IT WORKS...
Install the Mozzilla fonts in your Netscape. Worked for me. Here is the info from www.mandrakeuser.org Larger, Less Ugly Fonts For Netscape If you are somewhat shortsighted and too lazy to wear glasses (like me ;-)), you have every reason to curse at Netscape. The fonts are small. Of course, you can set a bigger font size via 'Edit' - 'Preferences' - 'Appearance' - 'Fonts'. Which will leave you with bigger but quite ugly fonts (Netscape doesn't scale fonts right). Solution? Get the mozilla-fonts package http://fox.mit.edu/skunk/xwin/, unpack the archive, read the included README. Create a new directory (like mkdir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/moz). Edit the included Makefile to include this directory. Run make pcf and then make install (as root). Edit '/etc/X11/fs/conf' and add the new directory to the font paths. Run xset fp+ /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/moz/. Restart the browser. Go to the font choosing menu, select the Mozilla fonts and be amazed (these fonts are very large, you might want to reduce their size to 12 or even 9). No more problems with small fonts, I promise! ;-). Cheers: Michael Perry. RD. Dep. Netafim Magal. Linux -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack -Original Message- From: andy barnes [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wed 12 April 2000 23:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Hey..IT WORKS... Stephen Bosch..Thank you VERY MUCH :-))) As I'm posting this from a Linux session, I am one step closer!! The mistake I was making was where I was putting the DNS settings (DOH!!!). I'll get onto the X problem soon... But while I'm here.. The fonts in Netscape are AWFUL, and it only gives you about half a dozen choices. In Windows, I use Arial, but I've tried them all and they suck!! Can you add fonts there? (Can't ya tell I'm a Billy G boy, through and through!!) Thanks again..I feel more confident already!! Cheers Andy
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- Original Message - From: Stephen F. Bosch Savage, indeed. It looks like your X server is booting correctly, though... you were saying that it would work the first three or four times, but on the next start the screen would flash? When it does this, can you see glimpses of the above text between flashes? No , just a completely black, blank screen. What did all that stuff tell you, Stephen? It hasn't done it since Saturday.. I've just wanged a new 20 gb hard drive drive in and I'm going sit Linux in a 5 gb partition on that. If I do that, even though they will be on seperate drives, lilo will still work won't it? 5gb should be big enough for just about anything I can throw at it as far as Linux is concerned, shouldn't it? Cheers Andy
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andy wrote: - Original Message - From: Stephen F. Bosch Savage, indeed. When it does this, can you see glimpses of the above text between flashes? No , just a completely black, blank screen. What did all that stuff tell you, Stephen? It *looks* like X is starting normally, so yes, I'm a bit perplexed. It hasn't done it since Saturday.. I've just wanged a new 20 gb hard drive drive in and I'm going sit Linux in a 5 gb partition on that. If I do that, even though they will be on seperate drives, lilo will still work won't it? Intermittent problems are always a bitch to diagnose. Lilo doesn't really care about where the kernel is, but the kernel does, sometimes. It depends on your hardware. Kernels like to be within the first 1024 cylinders of the disk, so you might want to make a /boot partition that's at the beginning or near the beginning of the disk -- the other partitions can be anywhere you'd like them to be. 5gb should be big enough for just about anything I can throw at it as far as Linux is concerned, shouldn't it? Sure - I'm surviving just fine on 4 Gb. -Stephen-
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Mike Perry wrote: Install the Mozzilla fonts in your Netscape. YES!! Thanks for pointing that out. Easy to install, and the fonts are really nice. Dan
[newbie] Hey..IT WORKS...
Stephen Bosch..Thank you VERY MUCH :-))) As I'm posting this from a Linux session, I am one step closer!! The mistake I was making was where I was putting the DNS settings (DOH!!!). I'll get onto the X problem soon... But while I'm here.. The fonts in Netscape are AWFUL, and it only gives you about half a dozen choices. In Windows, I use Arial, but I've tried them all and they suck!! Can you add fonts there? (Can't ya tell I'm a Billy G boy, through and through!!) Thanks again..I feel more confident already!! Cheers Andy
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andy barnes wrote: Stephen Bosch..Thank you VERY MUCH :-))) Well, congrats =) As I'm posting this from a Linux session, I am one step closer!! The mistake I was making was where I was putting the DNS settings (DOH!!!). I'll get onto the X problem soon... But while I'm here.. There is a page on Web browsing at www.mandrakeuser.org that describes how to get better Netscape fonts installed. You aren't the first person to complain about them (anybody remember the term "noseprint"?). Let me know when you're ready to tackle the X problem. -Stephen-
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No, I meant to say it didn't respond to the crtl A Z. Will - Original Message - From: Dan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 1999 1:01 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] hey guys Dan Brown wrote: Pliler Main Unit wrote: BTW dan, that minicom, got me into trouble, it did respond to the cntl A Z command, and I didn't know how to get out of it, so had to hit the C-A-Del keys. It responded to Ctrl-A Z? Good, then it should have brought up a menu. Near the bottom of that menu, it says "Select function or press Enter for none.", which means just what it says--choose what you want to do, or press Enter to get back to the main screen. From that screen, you should hit O to bring up the configuration menu; from that menu, select Serial Port Setup. In that screen, you need to set the port to /dev/ttyS1 or /dev/cua1 (try the tty device first; if it doesn't work, try the cua device). Once you've set the serial port properly, hit Esc a couple of times to return to the main screen. There, type "AT" (without the quotes) and press Enter. The modem should respond OK. If so, that tells you that the port and modem are functioning properly. -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Since all the world is but a story, it were well for thee to buy the more enduring story rather than the story that is less enduring" -- The Judgment of St. Colum Cille
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From: Pliler Main Unit [EMAIL PROTECTED] No, I meant to say it didn't respond to the crtl A Z. Did it do anything at all in response to this key combination? If not, you might not have been doing it correctly. You should hit Ctrl-A, release those keys, then hit the letter Z. If that doesn't work, something's hosed, I'd think.
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Hi Dan, Seems like I tried it all combo's but I had not known that was the way, will try it now and get b ack to you. Will - Original Message - From: Dan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 1999 4:47 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] hey guys From: Pliler Main Unit [EMAIL PROTECTED] No, I meant to say it didn't respond to the crtl A Z. Did it do anything at all in response to this key combination? If not, you might not have been doing it correctly. You should hit Ctrl-A, release those keys, then hit the letter Z. If that doesn't work, something's hosed, I'd think.
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Dan, Well I went back, and it still didn't seem to work hitting the keys as you state. But this time when I opened minicom, it says its configuring the modem. Well I watched and it seemed to doing somehing like trying to setup on figure out a init string. then it seemed to stop. At this point I htt the Crl A Z and nothing. again to get out I have to reboot. Thanks Will - Original Message - From: Dan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 1999 4:47 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] hey guys From: Pliler Main Unit [EMAIL PROTECTED] No, I meant to say it didn't respond to the crtl A Z. Did it do anything at all in response to this key combination? If not, you might not have been doing it correctly. You should hit Ctrl-A, release those keys, then hit the letter Z. If that doesn't work, something's hosed, I'd think.
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Hi, I installed the LM, 5.3 from CD, last friday. For 4 days I didn't know you had a taskbar at the bottom , of the X windows. I thought the dadgum OS, was more or less worthless except to prg's, geeks etc. THEN I DISCOVERED I HAD PROGRAMS, OLE. Now I ran KPPP, and configured my IPS settings, but at the time I didn't hAVe a modem (except USB), now I put an external serial port modem on and tried to go back to KPPP, and query the modem, it said it couldn't find one. SO, how do I get my modem recognized? Make it simple, for simps like me, with no knowledge of this OS, please. AND THANKS A MILLION. Will Pliler
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Dan Brown wrote: From: Pliler Main Unit [EMAIL PROTECTED] I didn't hAVe a modem (except USB), now I put an external serial port modem on and tried to go back to KPPP, and query the modem, it said it couldn't find one. Which port is your modem attached to? Which device is kppp set to use for the modem? Most likely, kppp is set to use /dev/modem. If so, you've got two choices. First, you can change kppp to use /dev/ttyS[com-1] for the modem, where [com-1] is one less than the com port number where the modem's attached--if your modem is on com3:, you'd use /dev/ttyS2. The second option is to do this as root: # cd /dev # rm modem # ln -s ttyS[com-1] modem Either way, this should set kppp up to use your modem on the correct port. Another way is to open a terminal and type "modemtool" at the prompt. This lets you assign /dev/modem to the actual port of the serial modem. Choose from: /dev/cua0com1 /dev/cua1com2 /dev/cua2com3 /dev/cua3com4 Gilbert
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From: Gilbert Espinosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Another way is to open a terminal and type "modemtool" at the prompt. This lets you assign /dev/modem to the actual port of the serial modem. That will work, but (1) it's no easier than just making the symlink by hand, and (2) it uses the cua devices. I prefer using the ttyS devices, even in the 2.0.x kernels, to avoid messing things up in the inevitable migration to 2.2.x, which has done away with /dev/cua*--that's just one less thing to break.
