[newbie-it] Firme elettroniche

1999-07-12 Thread Michele Cascella
Ciao ragazzi, sto' organizzando una raccolta di frasi e citazioni tratte dalle firme elettroniche. Se ne conoscete di carine, di qualsiasi cosa parlino e in qualsisai lingua siano, me le potete spedire? Se possibile ditemi anche chi e' l'autore e l'utente che le ha citate. Grazie Michele --

Re: [newbie] Get out of AfterStep, back to KDE

1999-07-12 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Jo wrote: Can somebody tell me how I can once again use KDE when in AfterStep. I managed to change the interface X uses, but now I'm stuck and I don't seem to be able to find a way back to KDE. desktopcfg LLaP bero

Re: [newbie] swap space

1999-07-12 Thread Jo
great, thanks! Axalon wrote: Yes, there are even howtos to share it with NT On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Jo wrote: and can the same swap partition be used for more than one Linux installation? "James J. Capone" wrote: In most cases 64mb would be good enough. Remember Linux doesn't ask

Re: [newbie] Mounting windows partition

1999-07-12 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Bert Bullough wrote: Hi all. Just installed Mandrake 6. My hard drive has a Linux partition under /dev/hda2. When I tried to mount it I typed mount -t win95fat32 It's -t vfat, not win95fat32. LLaP bero

Re: [newbie] swap space

1999-07-12 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Jo wrote: I'm considering to install Cooker. I was thinking to reserve another gigabyte of hard disk space for it. Now my question is: is it allowed to 'reuse' or use again the swap partition? Sure - as long as you don't do stuff like running both versions simultaneously

Re: [newbie] Exploit in Java for Netscape

1999-07-12 Thread Civileme
"James J. Capone" wrote: I found a Exploit in All Internet browsers that support Java. The only way this works is to have Java Running.. Here it is though: H Well, there are some nice exploits at www.insecure.org, too. I managed to avoid it with kfm. I don't know if kfm had java

[newbie] Weird hdd bug in Venus

1999-07-12 Thread Kuraiken
Hello folks, I've recently encountered a very strange bug in Venus. I was trying to install as /home (total of hdb) during install...and it installed fine. (or so it seemed). But at bootup, it dies with a veritable waterfall of repeated weird errors. Reboot. Still the same. Then I thought,

[newbie] Followup to Weird hdd bug in Venus

1999-07-12 Thread Kuraiken
Okay, I've tried to re-install Venus in the seagate drive which I had a running (fresh) install of Festen. And...it still does not work. At install time, after choosing "server" default install, it gives me this error: An error occurred while reading the partition table for the block device

Re: [newbie] Followup to Weird hdd bug in Venus

1999-07-12 Thread Axalon
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Kuraiken wrote: Okay, I've tried to re-install Venus in the seagate drive which I had a running (fresh) install of Festen. And...it still does not work. At install time, after choosing "server" default install, it gives me this error: An error occurred while

[newbie] More keyboard problems on a Toshiba 4000CDT notebook!

1999-07-12 Thread Theo Brinkman
I've made the changes to the rc3.d filenames (S45pcmcia to S98pcmcia), and it rebooted and ran fine the first time. Since then, I've run Win98 a few times, (It's kinda flakey, but I haven't played with Dosemu or WINE yet). This morning, I started up Linux, and once again it doesn't recognzie

[newbie] UDMA timeout

1999-07-12 Thread Marco Fioretti
Hello, I installed Mandrake 6.0 some weeks ago. Everything (excepted sound...) works fine, but yesterday I noticed that I am running with DMA disabled (dmesg excerpt reported below). I checked the BIOS setup, and it says something like "AUTO detection of HDD features enabled". The MB is a

Re: [newbie] Java Exploit Part II parent.open

1999-07-12 Thread Ripcrd6
Hey James, I think some of the porn sites use this already. ;-) I was trying to check out the warez scene when I discovered that it was mostly just a bunch of porn traders. Every link I checked that was supposed to lead to programs or cheat codes led to Porn, porn and more porn. I think I

[newbie] Which printer should I buy?

1999-07-12 Thread David Dameron
Hello Everyone, I am buying a printer next week and I am wondering if anyone can suggest a printer. I want one that works with Linux. Thanks

Re: [newbie] More keyboard problems on a Toshiba 4000CDT notebook!

1999-07-12 Thread Axalon
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Theo Brinkman wrote: I've made the changes to the rc3.d filenames (S45pcmcia to S98pcmcia), and it rebooted and ran fine the first time. Since then, I've run Win98 a few times, (It's kinda flakey, but I haven't played with Dosemu or WINE yet). This morning, I

[newbie] sound

1999-07-12 Thread gary williams
i'm running mandrake 6.0 i have run sndconfig and can play cd's but get no system sounds or sounds when running quake. i can hear the sample sounds from sndconfig, how do i enable the other sounds? i have a creative labs AWE64. p.s. has anyone heard of any problems with winbloze 98 and amd

[newbie] DHCP and RoadRunner

1999-07-12 Thread Matt Stegman
Our community recently got cable modem access, via RoadRunner services. My family signed up right away, and we now have cable modem access to the Internet (everybody applaud)! However, I now have a problem. My system is dual-boot, and I've set the Windows side up no problem. All I had to do

RE: [newbie] Which printer should I buy?

1999-07-12 Thread Bill Moshier
Don't get the HP 720 series - these are winprinters, and not generally supported by Linux. Bill -Original Message- From: David Dameron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, July 11, 1999 8:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Which printer should I buy? Hello Everyone,

Re: [newbie] Which printer should I buy?

1999-07-12 Thread drek
WalMart was blowing out the HP 697C for $98. Haven't given it a complete workout, but it doesn't look bad. On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, you wrote: %_Hello Everyone, I am buying a printer next week and I am wondering if anyone can suggest a printer. I want one that works with Linux.

[newbie] Printers and Scanners

1999-07-12 Thread Bert Bullough
Hello Hello! 2 questions for everyone. I have an Epson 740 and a Umax 1220u(USB). I have been able to setup the Epson as an 800 series but can only get it to print in BW. I have no idea where to even start with the Scanner. Any thoughts? begin:vcard n:Bullough;Bert tel;work:1(888)275-2643

Re: [Re: [newbie] Which printer should I buy?]

1999-07-12 Thread Michael Scottaline
drek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WalMart was blowing out the HP 697C for $98. Haven't given it a complete workout, but it doesn't look bad. I've been using two HP 695C printers for the past several months with Linux 2.2.5 and they both work

Re: [newbie] Exploit in Java for Netscape

1999-07-12 Thread Don Kelley
uh, hi. Have you been programming "Java" for long? Because the language you're showing here is Javascript, not Java. It's a completely different language, and there is no way to have inline Java with html statements as Java is (more or less) a compiled language while Javascript is interpreted

Re: [newbie] E-mail program

1999-07-12 Thread Don Kelley
it's also slightly buggy, but I'm certain that this will change soon as it's rapidly becoming the standard gui email client for linux. Don -- -Original Message- From: Haakon Nilsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, July 12, 1999

Re: [newbie] Exploit in Java for Netscape

1999-07-12 Thread Don Kelley
kfm doesn't run java. It may run Javascript, but I doubt it. These are different languages everyone. They sound similar but if you can program in one it's unlikely you can program in the other without further study. Don -Original Message- From: Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Java Exploit Part II parent.open

1999-07-12 Thread Don Kelley
yep, warez and porn sites have often been pioneers in javascript coding. However, the use of Java is rare in such sites - am I getting my point across? :-) Please dont' refer to Javascript as "java", it's just not the same thing. Very confusing for people when you say that something needs java

Re: [newbie] Which printer should I buy?

1999-07-12 Thread Don Kelley
get an HP or HP compatible -Original Message-From: David Dameron [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Monday, July 12, 1999 8:41 AMSubject: [newbie] Which printer should I buy? Hello Everyone, I am buying a printer next week and I am

Re: [newbie] Which printer should I buy?

1999-07-12 Thread Don Kelley
oh yeah, that's true. avoid "winprinters" Don -Original Message- From: Bill Moshier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, July 12, 1999 9:27 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Which printer should I buy? Don't get the HP 720 series - these are winprinters,

Re: [newbie] Which printer should I buy?

1999-07-12 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, you wrote: WalMart was blowing out the HP 697C for $98. Haven't given it a complete workout, but it doesn't look bad. Just a "heads-up" here... I just went to their website (which may have different prices than in the local stores) and the model they are offering on

Re: [newbie] DHCP and RoadRunner

1999-07-12 Thread Art Rowe
I dual boot with Win98 and Linux. I have installed Caldera 1.3, Redhat 5.1 and 6, and Mandrake 6 without any trouble getting my cable modem to work with Linux. I just filled in the data I got in the cable printout given me when I started off. I think I just took the first choice in one of the

Re: [newbie] Exploit in Java for Netscape

1999-07-12 Thread Bert Bullough
watch out don, the script kiddie might get angry and 0V/ |V \/ Don Kelley wrote: uh, hi. Have you been programming "Java" for long? Because the language you're showing here is Javascript, not Java. It's a completely different language, and there is no way to have inline Java with html

[newbie] yo

1999-07-12 Thread Bert Bullough
Don't buy a new fan. Your machine is still under waranty. Go to http://www.e4me.com/ As far as Linux goes, I'll get you a copy. The only part of your system that won't work with it is your modem, but CompUSA has a good one right now for about $30. begin:vcard n:Bullough;Bert

Re: [newbie]were do i get my money back

1999-07-12 Thread douglas
Florin Grad wrote: douglas w buns wrote: i am trying to install (the complete linux operating system 6.0) on an acer aspire w/pentium 100 when the program get to the ( runing install... ) line it stops, nothing happens after this point .i fromated the hard drive an there is nothing

RE: [newbie] Java/Javascript

1999-07-12 Thread Ken Wilson
Java and Javascript are both so similar in syntax and structure to C++ that it is quite easy to come up to speed in either one if you know the other. This, however, may not be the same moving from Java/Javascript to C++ as the richness and lack of protection of C++ requires a bit more study.

[newbie] System Sounds CD Player

1999-07-12 Thread David Peerless
Hello, I am able to get system sounds to work for the initial user created during the install procedureSo I know my sound card works and that the sound configuration was successful. But when creating subsequent users, the system sounds do not work. When I enter the command 'kaudioserver'

Re: [newbie] Exploit in Java for Netscape

1999-07-12 Thread Don Kelley
:-) I'll take that chance I'm about to go to work as a Javascript and Java coder and I'll put in a special something for him when he happens to view a web page I have touched ;-) Only kidding of course, as that would be nearly impossible (since I'm sure I'll get flamed if I don't admit

RE: [newbie] Java/Javascript

1999-07-12 Thread Mike Abney
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, you wrote: Java and Javascript are both so similar in syntax and structure to C++ that it is quite easy to come up to speed in either one if you know the other. This, however, may not be the same moving from Java/Javascript to C++ as the richness and lack of protection

Re: [newbie]were do i get my money back

1999-07-12 Thread Patrick Putteman
To give help it is important to know HOW EXACTLY the install was initiated to try to track down the problem. Support people don't have a crystal ball where they can discover the steps taken by users. Patrick Not mandrake support - Original Message - From: douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

[newbie] Missing Posts

1999-07-12 Thread Patrick Putteman
I have the strange feeling I'm not getting all the posts in either newbie, expert or cooker mailing lists. Just seems I'm missing some messages of some threads... Anyone else experiencing the same? Patrick

RE: [newbie] Printers and Scanners

1999-07-12 Thread Ty C. Mixon
Go to http://lcewww.et.tudelft.nl/~haver/linux/epson.html and set up your printer like it says. You should be able to print color then also. Worked great for mine. A side note: I've noticed that this printer has a built in 'sleep' feature, and if I reboot from NT to Mandrake I sometimes have

Re: [newbie] install problems

1999-07-12 Thread dragonlady
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: I did do the uninstall. It got rid of partitions and all, but it didn't get rid of the boot option. - Original Message - From: Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 7:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] install

Re: [newbie] Sound

1999-07-12 Thread dragonlady
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a sound card that i was able to use in LM 5.2, now i cant even find soundconfig to set it up i tried soundconfig, soundcfg, and a few others but its not workin, anyone got some advice. Im using LM 6.0 try sndconfig,it works on my version. merc

[newbie] odds ends

1999-07-12 Thread dragonlady
I have a few odds and end questions, when specifying the irq for an scsi card,how should the info be entered? I've tried irq,#,address,address,# and irq etc,and such,but it will always hang while seeking the card. (adaptec aha 152x included with a burner) it is pretty much ONLY used for

Re: [newbie] Internal zip drive - help needed

1999-07-12 Thread Bert Bullough
What have you tried? Sean Brzozowski wrote: Hi, Can somebody help me with setting up internal IDE zip disk? So far, I had no luck in trying to make it work. TIA Sean

[newbie] ESS Solo-1 1938

1999-07-12 Thread thefly
I am big time newbie to Linux (only a couple of weeks now). Got internet working (this message even) Everything working but sound and printer. I have PCI onboard ESS SOLO 1 1938. Any ideas how to get this thing working. Just point me in some direction for help and I would appreciate it

Re: [newbie] Clock wont show correct time

1999-07-12 Thread Civileme
Well, the easy way to change the clock is in the BIOS. When your computer boots up, it usually displays a message "Hit DEL to run SETUP", unless it is a COMPAQ in which case you need an auxiliary disk Set the time there, then save and exit You might also want to check that you specified local

[newbie] OT but just a thought

1999-07-12 Thread Ty C. Mixon
Ever notice that most Linux version are less than 3.x, but run GREAT, while most Windoze versions are 4.x or greater and have serious bugs? MS needs to rethink their programming strategy . . . . Ty C. Mixon

Re: [newbie] ESS Solo-1 1938

1999-07-12 Thread Civileme
First, try file:/usr/src/linux-2.2.9/Documentation/sound/ as a URI for kfm. Then a single click on the text files ESS and ESS1868 should answer most of your questions. Also, it might work if you start up in single user mode and use sndconfig from the console. Civileme thefly wrote: I am

Re: [newbie] DHCP and RoadRunner

1999-07-12 Thread Lloyd Osten
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Art Rowe wrote: I dual boot with Win98 and Linux. I have installed Caldera 1.3, Redhat 5.1 and 6, and Mandrake 6 without any trouble getting my cable modem to work with Linux. I just filled in the data I got in the cable printout given me when I started off. I think I

[newbie] Turtle Beach Montego

1999-07-12 Thread Don Whitman
Has anyone had any luck finding the drivers for the Turtle Beach Montego sound card. I thought I read something about "open sound source for linux" having a beta version out. Does anyone know the address? Does it work? Don

Re: [newbie] Turtle Beach Montego

1999-07-12 Thread Jeanette Russo
Try here http://www.opensound.com/ They have a beta version. Can't say if it works or not? But may be worth trying. as that card has no other drivers I know off. Jeanette - Original Message - From: Don Whitman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 10:12 PM

Re: [newbie] shutdown problem fixed

1999-07-12 Thread John Aldrich
Yep. If you've logged in as "root" and not SU-ed to root (two different things... there are some things that you just can't do as "SU" that you can do as "root") It very well may be time to reinstall. I thought I was at that point last week, but with a little help from the author of KMail, I

Re: [newbie] Get out of AfterStep, back to KDE

1999-07-12 Thread John Aldrich
I found the switching tool in the KDE tools under Gnome. There's a desktop switcher in there somewhere (sorry...not running Linux at home just yet, and I don't recall exactly where I found it G) Good luck! John - Original Message - From: Irv Mullins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Internal zip drive - help needed

1999-07-12 Thread Sean Brzozowski
As a total newbie :-P, I tried to find information on the web, in books, in howto's etc. Sean - Original Message - From: Bert Bullough [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 9:13 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internal zip drive - help needed What have you tried?

Re: [newbie] DHCP and RoadRunner

1999-07-12 Thread Matthew A Stegman
Thanks for the replies so far. I'd usually wait at least 24 hours before saying anything else, but all (both) of the replies so far have been taking the same direction: static IP. My problem is that our ISP uses DHCP- and gets very angry if you try to "permenantly borrow" an IP address. I

RE: [newbie] Clock wont show correct time

1999-07-12 Thread Matthew A Stegman
Looks like you have your clock set to GMT. I know there is a way to tell it weather you want local time or GMT when installing, but I don't know how to change it later. I agree- it sounds like you forgot to tell Linux that your clock isn't in GMT. You can change this through 'linuxconf'

Re: [newbie] Followup to Weird hdd bug in Venus

1999-07-12 Thread Civileme
I had the same sort of problem with a Seagate St38641A and Venus. I suspected the ideGetDevives() but your experience points to a different function. I will continue to study the sources with diff and egrep to see if I can find anything useful. Thanks for the "heads up". Civileme Kuraiken

Re: [newbie] Missing Posts

1999-07-12 Thread Ripcrd6
I'm still having to read mail in Outlook Express til I find a modem to work, but I always have time stamps for time of arrival. - Original Message - From: Civileme Well, the date and time ordering is using the sender's time, which may make it seem that way. I am on Alaska time which

Re: [newbie] Clock wont show correct time

1999-07-12 Thread Ripcrd6
I think, that if you right click on the time in the lower right corner of the screen you can get the set time applet. There is a checkbox for GMT, uncheck it. If you can't access it that way, browse through the menus from the K button or better yet use the kcontrol panel icon on the task bar

Re: [newbie] DHCP and RoadRunner

1999-07-12 Thread Axalon
Ok, Let me try and shed some light on this. First there are known problems with Win NT dhcp, i've never bothered to ask much about the head end on road runner, so can't rule this out. You will need to locate the linux rrlogin, hopefully someone has already customised it for your area (I haven't

Re: [newbie] System Sounds CD Player

1999-07-12 Thread Axalon
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, David Peerless wrote: Sorry to respond to my own post, but I did some further research concerning the system sounds...It seems that the first user to log-in gets sound, but any user thereafter that logs-in doesn't get sound. Solution: don't log in at the console more

Re: [newbie] More keyboard problems on a Toshiba 4000CDT notebook!

1999-07-12 Thread Axalon
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Theo Brinkman wrote: Axalon wrote: On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Theo Brinkman wrote: I've made the changes to the rc3.d filenames (S45pcmcia to S98pcmcia), and it rebooted and ran fine the first time. Since then, I've run Win98 a few times, (It's kinda

Re: [newbie] Missing Posts

1999-07-12 Thread Axalon
Yeah and i'm usualy in the year 2000 On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Civileme wrote: Well, the date and time ordering is using the sender's time, which may make it seem that way. I am on Alaska time which makes my posts seem out of order to someone on the east coast of North America. That is what

Re: [newbie] DHCP and RoadRunner

1999-07-12 Thread Art Rowe
As I said, I am using static IP and Rogers wave is supposedly using DHCP. Maybe the Internet Police are going to come after me. Art - Original Message - From: Matthew A Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Once again, thanks to Lloyd and Art;

RE: [newbie] Clock wont show correct time

1999-07-12 Thread Axalon
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Matthew A Stegman wrote: Looks like you have your clock set to GMT. I know there is a way to tell it weather you want local time or GMT when installing, but I don't know how to change it later. I agree- it sounds like you forgot to tell Linux that your

Re: [newbie] Turtle Beach Montego

1999-07-12 Thread Bert Bullough
www.opensound.com haven't tried them yet. Don Whitman wrote: Has anyone had any luck finding the drivers for the Turtle Beach Montego sound card. I thought I read something about "open sound source for linux" having a beta version out. Does anyone know the address? Does it work? Don

Re: [newbie] shutdown problem fixed

1999-07-12 Thread Axalon
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, John Aldrich wrote: Yep. If you've logged in as "root" and not SU-ed to root (two different things... there are some things that you just can't do as "SU" that you can do as "root") It very well may be time to reinstall. I thought I was at that point last week, but

Re: [newbie] DHCP and RoadRunner

1999-07-12 Thread Axalon
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Matthew A Stegman wrote: Thanks for the replies so far. I'd usually wait at least 24 hours before saying anything else, but all (both) of the replies so far have been taking the same direction: static IP. My problem is that our ISP uses DHCP- and gets very angry if

[newbie] Fetchmail, modems and cgi (but not together)

1999-07-12 Thread holiday
Hi, I'm trying to work out how to set up fetchmail, sendmail and procmail on my Mandrake 6.0 installation. Whenever I type "fetchmailconf" in a terminal window I am told that that is not a valid command, but I can't find an installation option in RPM either. Also, has anyone had any