Re: [newbie] Opening Windows in Virtual Consoles

1999-11-06 Thread David van Balen
You could use vmware (www.vmware.com) to boot either windows from linux or linux from windows (depending what version you get). I use it to run winNT under linux and I definitely recommend it. On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, Dreja Julag wrote: > Perhaps I should simplify a bit. I would certainly enjo

RE: [newbie] MS releases new Windows and NT Keyboard (humor)

1999-11-06 Thread root
I want to agree with Seth here, lets get back to Linux. Here is a dumb question. What is MESA 3.1? The reason I keep Win98 is so I can play Quake 2 online. Can't wait for more gaming to come to the Linux community. J On Fri, 05 Nov 1999, you wrote: > On Fri, 05 Nov 1999, you wrote: > >

Re: [newbie] enlightenment

1999-11-06 Thread Jerry Van Brimmer
Axalon Bloodstone wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Jesse Royall wrote: > > > tate.. I am not 100% sure.. but > > desktopcfg > > that works for me at the command line. and then I just select the Desktop > > I want to use...took me a few reinstalls to do figure that one out! > > Jess > > > > On Thu,

Re: [newbie] Zip drive

1999-11-06 Thread Sysadmin
I have ordered a zip250, which I think uses the same SCSI card as the regular zip 100. Hmm, now I know how to set it up during installation, but is it possible to set it up without running the installer by just telling it to load the correct driver assuming one has the directories /mnt/zip250 cre

Re: [Re: [newbie] Antiques-was--MS releases new Windows and NT Keyboard (humor)]

1999-11-06 Thread Lyndon Lininger Sr.
I've still got the 64, but haven't fired it up for a long time. Those were the days. - Original Message - From: Sysadmin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 07, 1999 12:46 AM Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] Antiques-was--MS releases new Windows and NT Keyboard (

Re: [newbie] How do I quit

1999-11-06 Thread Sysadmin
Microsoft has no benefit to me and I don't use it. On Sat, 06 Nov 1999, you wrote: > Chad Young wrote: > > > > What do I do to get taken off of the mailing list. > > > > = > > > > __ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Bid and sell for free at http://au

Re: [Re: [newbie] Antiques-was--MS releases new Windows and NT Keyboard (humor)]

1999-11-06 Thread Sysadmin
Yes and the Commodore 128, and its throwback the VIC20. A bud of mine still has his C24, and still workds On Sat, 06 Nov 1999, you wrote: > Yes I remember. And then I moved over to the Commodore 64. > - Original Message - > From: Sysadmin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > S

[newbie] StarOffice newsgroups -- info below

1999-11-06 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Karen and friends Here is the URL listing all of StarOffice's newsgroups (in English and other languages). http://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/newsgroups.html If you lose the address, just go to Sun's home page (www.sun.com) and type in the Search box at top "newsgroups". Yours, Benja

Re: [newbie] Opening Windows in Virtual Consoles

1999-11-06 Thread Dreja Julag
Perhaps I should simplify a bit. I would certainly enjoy running Windows and Linux at the same time. It seems that I cannot do this. That makes sense. I have heard that people can start their machine with Windows and then from there boot into Linux. How is this possible. On Sat, 06 Nov 1999,

Re: [Re: [newbie] MS releases new Windows and NT Keyboard (humor)]

1999-11-06 Thread Chip Wiegand
I installed two nics in my mandrake 6.0 sometime back. I just stuck the second one in and fired up the machine, and it was recognized right off the bat. I haven't had to do anything other than 'turn it on' in netconf. One is a linksys and one is 3com, both are pci. There was no 'forceing' involve

Re: [newbie] returned E-mail problems

1999-11-06 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 06 Nov 1999, you wrote: > > Yep. I'm getting 'em too. I put "private.mindspring.net" in my > > filters. Now, any mail I get from ANY of those servers is going > > straight into my trash. :-) > > John > > GuysMe too! Today was the first time. One for each reply. > Yeah...Axal

Re: [newbie] virtual consoles can't start x-server

1999-11-06 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 05 Nov 1999, you wrote: > On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote: > > > On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Karen M. Heiby wrote: > > > > > > the command is "startx" (no quotes) > > > > if your runnning in runlevel 5 (X auto starts) or have one X session > > already open you'll need to tell it to

Re: [newbie] Star Java -- Is it worth it?

1999-11-06 Thread Karen M. Heiby
Would you be able to tell me where the newsgroup is? The only one I found on Deja is German. My local news server doesn't have a StarOffice newsgroup either! Thanks! Karen Jeanette Russo wrote: > I got the Star Office Java working with help from the Star Office newsgroup. > Wish I could find

[newbie] My 2c Worth over NT and Linux

1999-11-06 Thread Grant Slater
Win9x/WinNT/Win2k maybe stable strate after installing but try adding some buggy 3'rd party drivers (SIS comes to mind) and watch your system BSOD. Windows is stable if you feed it the right hardware and the best of breed Drivers. And maybe a genourous helping of CPU and RAM and Harddrive Space.

[newbie] Gcc cannot creat executable.

1999-11-06 Thread Michel Thadeu
Hello , I am brazilian and it's first message posted to this list ( sorry when my english insn't good ) . My problem is with the gcc , he cannot creat executables . In brazilians lists , i'm knew the gcc need other programs(s) , i'm made the instalation of this programs , but , he need still of m

Re: [newbie] second HD partition

1999-11-06 Thread Jesse Royall
You will probably get a lot of replys but here goes I have 2 HDs. and 2 CDs drive 1 / primamry master is cut up in 5 gig parts hda1 hda5 hda6 hda7 drive 2 / primary slave hdb1 Linux Native hdb5 Linux Swap then the CDs are hdc and hdd to get linux to see all those I setup linux on the secon

[newbie] Zip drive

1999-11-06 Thread Jesse Royall
Any one had any luck with the Zip Plus? I have ran the install program several times to get it to see the zip drive a few times and it never sees it. BTW, this is a Iomega (duh!) Zip Plus 100 Parallel drive. I have tried all the help files I can find to get it to go but, all they mention is the Zi

Re: [newbie] Star Java -- Is it worth it?

1999-11-06 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Jeanette: Thanks so very, very much, Jeanette. Nothing like the voice of experience. After struggling for hours to install Java in StarOffice, it finally occurred to me to ask the simple question of whether it would even be worth it. I just asssumed that Star's Java would be better. If, as i

Re: [newbie] IDE's for Linux?

1999-11-06 Thread Seth Gibson
On Sat, 06 Nov 1999, you wrote: > Is there a web site listing this and other IDE's? That is assuming there are > more than just Code Crusader. Hmm. . .thats a good question, i think freshmeat.net might have something. www.cygnus.com is home to Code Fusion. > Speaking of Code Crusader... How

[newbie] Xman

1999-11-06 Thread Joseph G. Getty
hello all!! I'm having a small prob with Xman. I'm running Linux-Mandrake 6.1. Every time I use Xman to open a man page they come up in an encrypted like text. Is this a bug in LM 6.1 or what? Should I reinstall Xman?(wich I cannot find, what is the name of the RPM?) thank you Joe PS god I

Re: [Re: [newbie] MS releases new Windows and NT Keyboard (humor)]

1999-11-06 Thread Jaguar
I just got my L-M 6.0 configured with 2 NIC's the other day...after much reading and fiddling...etc...(read re-installs)I found the trick for me anyways. Depending on the NIC's...install the ISA jumpered FIRST, then a ISA/PCI PnP, although I recall reading somewhere that for can force Linux to try

Re: [newbie] IDE's for Linux?

1999-11-06 Thread David Smith
Is there a web site listing this and other IDE's? That is assuming there are more than just Code Crusader. Speaking of Code Crusader... How much does it cost...that is if it isn't free. Thanks, David >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [ne

Re: [newbie] Star Java -- Is it worth it?

1999-11-06 Thread Jeanette Russo
I got the Star Office Java working with help from the Star Office newsgroup. Wish I could find the post I used to do it. But the Star Office browser is slower than Netscape and really not much more stable. I think all in all Netscape is still the only reasonable browser on Linux and I have tried

[newbie] netscape accessing a secure page on secure server

1999-11-06 Thread damian
whenever i use netscape to access my secure server that is running mandrake linux and my certificate is valid, netscape tells me, after going through the dialog boxes to make sure I really want to access the site, that "netscape has encountered bad data from the server". what is the problem and h

Re: [newbie] How do I quit

1999-11-06 Thread James Mellema
Chad Young wrote: > > What do I do to get taken off of the mailing list. > > = > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com You could try suggesting that Microsoft has some benefit to society or you could go bac

[newbie] second HD partition

1999-11-06 Thread M L Cates
I have a second backup hard drive on my system . I made a second partition on it using FIPS. How do I (1) get linux to recognize it and (2) how do I reformat it for linux. Before i added a second partion it was recognized as hdd1 (dos). I assume my new partition is hdd2(?). M L Cates

[newbie] ESound (ESD)

1999-11-06 Thread Richard Humphrey
> I have a SoundBlaster AWE32 card and I am running Mandrake 6.1 with > Elightenment/Gnome. I am unable to get it running reliably. I think I have > the latest unreleased version of E. 0.16 or something. I get an error stating > that there was a problem communicating with the ESD Daemon and it wil

Re: [Re: [newbie] MS releases new Windows and NT Keyboard (humor)]

1999-11-06 Thread Lyndon Lininger Sr.
Yes I remember. And then I moved over to the Commodore 64. - Original Message - From: Sysadmin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 06, 1999 5:23 PM Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] MS releases new Windows and NT Keyboard (humor)] > A buddy of mine had an old Ti

[newbie] How do I quit

1999-11-06 Thread Chad Young
What do I do to get taken off of the mailing list. = __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com

Re: [Re: [newbie] MS releases new Windows and NT Keyboard (humor)]

1999-11-06 Thread Michael R. Batchelor
>Wow, they taught us CPM in trade school, kind of reminded me of >DOS, it had a C compiler to build the executables and such. You mean somebody taught you an OS?! The military taught us digital theory on circuts built with individual transistors in TO3 cans, but there wasn't any concept of "th

[newbie] Network Card (PCMCIA) ?

1999-11-06 Thread Christopher Maness
I have a Linksys PCMLM56 network card. I'm using the GNOME GUI. Can anyone help me install it. I am a total newbie. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: [Re: [newbie] MS releases new Windows and NT Keyboard (humor)]

1999-11-06 Thread Sysadmin
A buddy of mine had an old Timex Sinclair, wow. do you remember the old Odyssey video game console? That was an 80's classic! On Sat, 06 Nov 1999, you wrote: > I remember the days of my Timex Sinclair T1000. A whopping 2k of ram. > - Original Message - > From: Sysadmin <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] MS releases new Windows and NT Keyboard (humor)

1999-11-06 Thread James Mellema
Sam Gentile wrote: > > I'm only defending against the stupid lies here and in the Linux community. > If you made an argument that Linux is better because that's OK. If you > start spreading lies like NT crashes left and right, I know it not to be > true. We are running a billion dollar busine

RE: [newbie] text viewer

1999-11-06 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 05 Nov 1999, you wrote: > I know emacs supports bookmarking. I'm not sure if that's the route you > want to take though. > Hmm...Ok. Guess I'll have to take a look at XEmacs. :-) Thanks... John

[newbie] KDE toolbar icons

1999-11-06 Thread Michal Potoczek
Hi, I have just installed Mandrake 6.1. Everything is working just fine, except some kde programs. The problem is about toolbar icons (in most windows). It looks like icons files were corrupted and instead of icons I can see some rectangual random bitmaps. Has anyone noticed similar problem ? Mi