Re: [newbie] alternative browser?

1999-11-13 Thread Jeanette Russo
if thats true it's pretty bad news. Jeanette Ben wrote: Opera has "let go" of it's linux and mac porting teams, and are in the process of looking for others. ( as posted by their marketing guy on opera.linux ) Well boys, slow down the bandwagon, because it's time to get off.. I would

[newbie] kvoice

1999-11-13 Thread Karen Heiby
Has anyone out there had any luck with Kvoice? (Fax/Answering machine) I got my modem working ok (as verified by the fact that I got Kppp to dial my cell phone! :-) But Kvoice seems to have unrelated problems... My modem is in there okay, but or instance, it crashes when I try to record a

Re: [newbie] PCI Modem Configuration

1999-11-13 Thread Charlotte
Winmodems work in Windows plug and play systems...not even in NT!! Charlotte -Original Message- From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Tony Bao [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, November 12, 1999 8:08 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] PCI Modem

[newbie] Thanks Mr. Philps Almost there! Reverse Interconnection sharing

1999-11-13 Thread G_REEPER
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks Mr. Philp I went looking at the gatway setting. I changed the settings and it's been working ever since. For my next toe stuber. Html,pop, and ftp all work fine. Gaim even seams to connect fine. The only one I am having trouble with it the

[newbie] problem to print in Kmail client

1999-11-13 Thread Satyajit
Please advise : I face problem to print in "kmail" but not "netscape mail" why ?? "kmail" printout not clear it's make some gap in print. but netscape mail printout is fine. satyajit

[newbie] Opera for Linux -- it's alive!

1999-11-13 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: Some said earlier that Opera has "let go" of its Linux team. I don't know where they got their information. I would sure like to know. I just checked Opera's Alternative Operating Systems page. Opera for Linux is NOT dead. On the contrary, it is moving along fast towards

Re: [newbie] Dos partition

1999-11-13 Thread Earl Karch
Thanks, everyone, for the help. I did finally get write access with this configuration. I thought I could umount and then mount the disk, but that didn't work. However, when I rebooted, everything was fine. Thanks again. On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, you wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. I edited

Re: [newbie] Good Newsgroup Reader?

1999-11-13 Thread Mike Fieschko
"Jeanette" == Jeanette Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeanette the problem with most of the newsreaders is that one Jeanette they don't thread well and two if someone puts a Jeanette hypelink in their post you can't follow it [snip] I again suggest that you visit

[newbie] Re: Compiling Kernel Black Box

1999-11-13 Thread Mike Fieschko
"Jaguar" == Jaguar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jaguar I want to re-compile my Kernel on a default install of L-M Jaguar 6.0, to make it faster, and get rid of un-nessessary MOD's Jaguar and stuff. I will use the GUI Xconfig, but I would like Jaguar to know what I should do B4 I

Re: [newbie] Opera for Linux -- it's alive!

1999-11-13 Thread Ben
Here is the post from Helmar Rudolph, Opera's marketing guy; you have been waiting patiently for news from the various fronts, particularly the Mac, OS/2, Amiga and Linux versions. Here is a brief update. More info will follow later, and will be posted on both the respective newsgroups as well

Re: [newbie] Dual NIC recognition

1999-11-13 Thread Mark Ramsey
Do you have pnp os turned on in the Bios? - Original Message - From: Tom E. Poturica [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 13, 1999 8:54 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Dual NIC recognition I know it can be done, I had it working a while ago with a different 3com

Re: [newbie] Opera for Linux -- it's alive!

1999-11-13 Thread Gregg Carrier
Please don't shout and scream -- it won't help anyway -- just send us some positive energy that we get this on track this time 'round. roflwhat are these guys, hippies? Positive energy?!?!? How about "send us some qualified programmers". Last I heard, I was going to have to send them $40 to

Re: [newbie] strange things

1999-11-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, you wrote: How do we get him to stop? Jeanette Well, we can mail-bomb Mindspring's technical guys until they get in touch with their client, or we can mail-bomb the person responsible for the "racertrac.com" domain or both. :-) John

[newbie] Re: Kernel version

1999-11-13 Thread Jaguar
I just downloaded kernel versions 2.2.13 and 2.3.9 both in tar.gz What I would like to know is if L-M 6.0 will like the newer version ie: 2.3.9, and I will also grab the XWindow newest ver. TIA Jaguar Get your own FREE,

Re: [newbie] Opera for Linux -- it's alive!

1999-11-13 Thread Hugh
Just My two cents, I used Opera for windows for a couple years. I loved it and I for one am looking forward to getting a working Linux browser I dont mind paying for something I like. Theres was fast and stable. Something Netscape or IE4 were not , At least when they were new :) Hugh On Sat,

[newbie] checked forced

1999-11-13 Thread Mark Ramsey
Every time I reboot my system "shutdown -r now" on reboot I get the error that the hd "has reached maximal mount count, check forced" What is happening? HD's aren't full, could it be the hd is going bad?

Re: [newbie] strange things

1999-11-13 Thread Mark Ramsey
hehehethat would work - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 13, 1999 12:50 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] strange things On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, you wrote: How do we get him to stop? Jeanette Well, we can

Re: [newbie] .asx player

1999-11-13 Thread M Thompson
If memory serves me correct, it's the Microsoft version of RealAudio files. HTH, Matt From: pete moss [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] .asx player Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 18:11:50 -0600 well, what are .asx files? beware, microsoft is

Re: [newbie] checked forced

1999-11-13 Thread David P. Greenberg
The maximal mount count thing is (as I understand it) sort of like Linux's version of scandisk. Every time you boot into Linux it logs the number of times you boot. Then when that reaches a certain number it runs the check forced thing. It's no big deal, but it shouldn't be happening on every

RE: [newbie] Dual NIC recognition

1999-11-13 Thread Tom E. Poturica
PnP is off in the BIOS. I am not finding a 3c900b.o or 3c90x.o in the modules so that it can be configured. I downloaded a 3c90x driver form a linux site but it was not compiled for my release of Mandrake. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf

Re: [newbie] strange things

1999-11-13 Thread M Thompson
Same thing here. I thought I was doing something wrong, so I just ignored it. Matt From: Jeanette Russo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] strange things Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 17:52:47 -0600 not sure whats going on but everytime I try to

Re: [newbie] Good Newsgroup Reader?

1999-11-13 Thread David van Balen
tin does threads really well, if only I could get it working... no hyperlinks though but there's always cut and paste into netscape which is what I usually do anyway. DvB On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Jeanette Russo wrote: the problem with most of the newsreaders is that one they don't thread well

Re: [newbie] root user unable to access user X server...

1999-11-13 Thread Richard Yevchak
Before you run an application in a terminal as root, you need to type: xhost localhost If you close that terminal, you will have to retype it to run apps in another terminal as root. I think you can also add it to .xinitrc to have it executed every session. Richard On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, you

Re: [newbie] Good Newsgroup Reader?

1999-11-13 Thread Chip Wiegand
I beg to differ on the point regarding following a hyperlink in a newsreader. I us KRN 0.6.0, standard with Mandrake 6.0, and I can follow a hyperlink in a message, it opens in KFM. Sure, KRN aint Agent, but it works well enough to keep me from booting into winblows. Chip On Fri, 12 Nov 1999,

[newbie] Can't start KDE

1999-11-13 Thread Gregory D. Fox
Hi All, I had KDE running ok until I choose a KDE desktop theme. I choose the theme and press ok to restart and since then I have not been able to get back into KDE. Sometime I get only the background and other times I get the black/gray background. Any help will do. TIA... Gregory D. Fox

Re: [newbie] Environment Variables

1999-11-13 Thread Peter Heckert
Hi Karen, Karen Heiby wrote: Hi Peter, So are you saying that I have to write the environment variables to the executable file of the process I want to start? Or do I need to write it in .bashprofile? Or where? Settings are never written to the executable (as in DOS) because this

Re: [newbie] Flatbed Scanners - How to setup for Linux?

1999-11-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, you wrote: I'm trying to setup a Umax 1200S SCSI flatbed scanner. The problem is that I'm having trouble tracking down some info on this subject so here are a few questions. Does Linux need a Twain driver or is there an alternative? I could not find any Linux drivers

Re: [newbie] alternative browser?

1999-11-13 Thread rich
Damien, A new Linux browser with KDE2? That's news to me. When will that happen? Have any idea? Richard On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hi Dreja Julag ! On 11/10/99 6:49:48 PM, you wrote: Does anyone know if NeoPlanet has a port yet? NeoPlanet runs on top of Internet Explorer, so I

Re: [newbie] root user unable to access user X server...

1999-11-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, you wrote: Before you run an application in a terminal as root, you need to type: xhost localhost If you close that terminal, you will have to retype it to run apps in another terminal as root. I think you can also add it to .xinitrc to have it executed every session.

Re: [newbie] Can't start KDE

1999-11-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, you wrote: Hi All, I had KDE running ok until I choose a KDE desktop theme. I choose the theme and press ok to restart and since then I have not been able to get back into KDE. Sometime I get only the background and other times I get the black/gray background. Any

Re: [newbie] Reverse Windoze Internet sharing

1999-11-13 Thread Ing. Carlos Mayorga V.
Hi, Last night I just make Wingate 3.0 work in my house, 2 computers interconected in a LAN and they share internet acces throught a dial-up access and we boot have ICQ working. Enable ICQ service in the gate requieres an aditional immplemantation of UDP mapping service. If you are still

Re: [newbie] Flatbed Scanners

1999-11-13 Thread WH Bouterse
http://www.mostang.com/sane/ http://www.wolfsburg.de/~rauch/sane/sane-xsane.html I have had excellant luck with SANE Also XSANE with GIMP has become a very functiioinal, and often used set of programs for me with Linux and scanning. William Bouterse Juneau, Alaska

Re: [newbie] Can't start KDE

1999-11-13 Thread Matt Stegman
Unless you have a lot of desktop icons you added, I'd suggest logging in at a console prompt and running `rm -rf .kde` which will delete all your personal KDE settings. If you boot into runlevel 5 (where X starts automatically), don't login there. Press Ctrl-Alt-F2 after your computer finishes

Re: [newbie] Zip drive

1999-11-13 Thread Jerry Van Brimmer
Alan Shoemaker wrote: JerryI suspect that your execute permissions are not set. Alan Jerry Van Brimmer wrote: Alan Shoemaker wrote: peteyou're welcome. To start inwheel in KDE (it's not necessary to start it at bootup, just when you run the gui) I put a small shell

Re: [newbie] Intel-810 chipset not supported by Mandrax 6.5

1999-11-13 Thread Niraj Bajpai
Hello after loading the drivaer software for iNTEL-810 chipset(using command rpm - i package_name), and running Xconfigurator, I couldn't find iNTEL-810 chipset option in Xconfigurator.Package was successfully installed but still no progress as I can't use it with Xconfigurator. Please Opine,

[newbie] forced checked

1999-11-13 Thread Mark Ramsey
Figured out the problempartition has gone bad. What's the easiest way to reformat it and check it for bad sectors?

Re: [newbie] forced checked

1999-11-13 Thread Keith
Mark Ramsey wrote: Figured out the problempartition has gone bad. What's the easiest way to reformat it and check it for bad sectors? mkfs -c /dev/hdxx the -c command checks for bad sectors. -- Keith

Re: [newbie] Opera for Linux -- it's alive!

1999-11-13 Thread Steve Philp
Gregg Carrier wrote: Some said earlier that Opera has "let go" of its Linux team. I don't know where they got their information. I would sure like to know. I just checked Opera's Alternative Operating Systems page. Opera for Linux is NOT dead. On the contrary, it is moving along fast

[newbie] sending man pages to printer

1999-11-13 Thread Karen Heiby
Hello, I try to send a man page to my printer and I get this error. I wonder if I have the right ghostscript package or something (I have everything that came with Mandrake 6.1) The error is: standard input:61: warning: can't find special character 'tm' Can you help me? Thanks! Karen

[newbie] Epson Stylus Color 600

1999-11-13 Thread Dennis Robertson
-Hello All, I am new to the group and new to Mandrake6.1. I used Caldera OpenLinux(COL)2.2 for the past 3 months before concluding, along with the rest of the Linux support group here in Noosa, Australia, that there was so much divergence occurring between Linux distributions that we should