Re: [Cooker] ldm_validate_partition_table - what's that?

2003-01-17 Thread Allan Mee
27;t). I'm glad I said to PowerQuest - question what would have happened had I clicked "Yes - ok fix it!"? Allan From: Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] ldm_validate_partition_table - what's that? Dat

Re: [Cooker] ldm_validate_partition_table - what's that?

2003-01-17 Thread Allan Mee
Do I have another problem? I just installed a trial version of Partition Magic 8.0 - I was using versions 3 and 6 previously. It says something like I have an extended partition that crosses the 1024 Cylinder boundary but is NOT marked as an extendedX partition - and warns me that I may lose dat

[Cooker] Missing software

2003-01-17 Thread Allan Mee
I got my three (and free) Mandrake CD images of a Linux magazine. I can't find Gnome Basic :( The Linux documentation that gets installed with Linux says there's a media player called MPLAYER which can play DVDs - I can't find that either - I been through eavery search and option in the Installe

Re: [Cooker] Sound problems

2003-01-14 Thread Allan Mee
Cool! Thnx :) Allan From: Jason Straight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] Sound problems Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 11:33:31 -0500 On Tuesday 14 January 2003 11:30 am, Allan Mee wrote: > thx :) > Then just reinstall xmms

Re: [Cooker] Sound problems

2003-01-14 Thread Allan Mee
003 11:10 am, Allan Mee wrote: > Hi > Bear in mind I'm new to Linux. I seem to have screwed up my sound system in > Linux. I installed some ALSA add-on for XMMS and I believe I was using OSS > sound drivers (auto-selected during installation). Since then, I've had >

Re: [Cooker] ldm_validate_partition_table - what's that?

2003-01-14 Thread Allan Mee
Whoops, sorry - I jes clicked Reply-To and didn't check. But my point is valid? Allan From: Pascal Cavy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Allan Mee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Cooker] ldm_validate_partition_table - what's that? Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 17:08:23 +0100

[Cooker] Sound problems

2003-01-14 Thread Allan Mee
Hi Bear in mind I'm new to Linux. I seem to have screwed up my sound system in Linux. I installed some ALSA add-on for XMMS and I believe I was using OSS sound drivers (auto-selected during installation). Since then, I've had numerous problems with my sound system. I managed to get it working bu

Re: [Cooker] ldm_validate_partition_table - what's that?

2003-01-14 Thread Allan Mee
hmmm I wonder if you have got/had the same problem as me - Windoze reported an error in disk size reported and "fixed it" during a defrag session - then I got a message similar to yours (I can't remeber the exact message) and some utilities (including fips 2.0) said I had overlapping partitions

Re: [Cooker] BASIC

2003-01-13 Thread Allan Mee
at (very useful if you **Know** what you are doing - a lot easier than using DOS' Debug !!!) Allan From: Chuck Shirley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] BASIC Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 07:35:06 -0500 On Monday 13 January 2003 06:

Re: [Cooker] BASIC

2003-01-13 Thread Allan Mee
), have you tried that? --- Allan Mee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It would be great if XBASIC (or any good BASIC) was > shipped with Mandrake > and other distros. I suspect we would probably see > much more software being > written for Linux if BA

Re: [Cooker] BASIC

2003-01-13 Thread Allan Mee
3:22:44 -0800 Why not just learn Bash Shell scripting? It is very very similar to basic. On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 03:00, Allan Mee wrote: > Hi > I just thought I'd mention I got XBasic to work ok (still trying to get > SmallBasic to run) - but at least I can know start on writing som

[Cooker] BASIC

2003-01-13 Thread Allan Mee
Hi I just thought I'd mention I got XBasic to work ok (still trying to get SmallBasic to run) - but at least I can know start on writing some stuff for Linux. Although I can program in C/C++ and x86 assembly - my preferred language is a good BASIC - in the last twenty years, I've used over 400

Re: [Cooker] Help?

2003-01-10 Thread Allan Mee
ok thanx, Allan From: Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] Help? Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 14:19:59 +0200 Allan Mee wrote: > Hi > I'm new to Linux - I'm running Mandrake 9.0 - I've d/l "smallbas

[Cooker] Help?

2003-01-10 Thread Allan Mee
Hi I'm new to Linux - I'm running Mandrake 9.0 - I've d/l "smallbasic" for DOS, Windows and Linux - it's a Linux tar-ball. I've unpacked it using ARK but can't seem to 'install' it or get it to run. This is my first go at installing something from a tar-ball. Could someone give me some simple i