Re: [newbie] Re : Enlightenment

2000-04-28 Thread Ribbo
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Del Kennedy wrote: I don't suppose there's a way of moving an iconbox? I like to have my pager bottom-right anyway. use ALT key and drag with left button -- Ribbo Ditat Deus. [God enriches]

Re: [newbie] scsi boot linear mode

2000-04-28 Thread Alan Shoemaker
basculethe image of your /etc/lilo.conf is fine. Sure I can tell you what the p command is, print the partition table, but the m command (help) will tell you the same thing as well as all the other available commands. Don't worry about executing fdisk because it doesn't change anything till

Re: [newbie] poor net connection

2000-04-28 Thread Sean Oonamey
Yeah point taken, just that I don't have the same problem with Netscape 4.7 on Win98! Oh well at least I know that I haven't set something up wrong. --- Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, [iso-8859-1] Sean Oonamey wrote: I log on, try going to a page, say Slashdot, and part

[newbie] HTML Editor

2000-04-28 Thread Martin Solms
Does Mandrake 7 include a default HTML editor (not including Netsape)? then, has anyone had any luck installing CoffeeCup (http://www.coffeecup.com) on Mandrake? Cheers

[newbie] mx 300 sound card driver

2000-04-28 Thread Seth Hollen
make sure they are the latest ones, and that you are in root when you do it. also make sure that system sounds are enabled in drakeconfig Seth Hollen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Gnome Toaster

2000-04-28 Thread Steve Wambolt
Neville Cobb wrote: I have tried the program Gnome Toaster program that came with the Mandrake 7.0 distribution but am experiencing some difficulty. I cleared the CDRW sucessfully and then burnt a data CD but the CD did not come out the best. When viewing the resultant CD through Kfm it

Re: [newbie] HTML Editor

2000-04-28 Thread Michael E. Barker
Martin Solms wrote: Does Mandrake 7 include a default HTML editor (not including Netsape)? then, has anyone had any luck installing CoffeeCup (http://www.coffeecup.com) on Mandrake? Cheers I'm a newbie myself but I have found that Xemacs is a wonderful editor for all sorts of coding and

Re: [newbie] poor net connection

2000-04-28 Thread Andy
DID you try this yet?OK i have heard this problem a lot about connecting slow.HEREs a site that might help http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/modems/modemtweak.html I think that should help even though i still havent gotten connected yet :) - Original Message - From: Sean Oonamey

Re: [newbie] mx 300 sound card driver

2000-04-28 Thread derrick
I have made sure I'm in the root and the sounds are enabled. the drivers won't install and the "make file" keeps saying can't find file - Original Message - From: "Seth Hollen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Newbie@Linux-Mandrake. Com" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 4:22 AM

Re: [newbie] Screen resolution

2000-04-28 Thread Mad Marty
At 28/04/00 11:11:00, you wrote: Hi there, Ok, I know about using the Ctrl+Alt+(+) keys to change the screen resolutions, but where/or if can I configure it so that I can use the key combination to switch from 800 to 640 and back again. Thanks in advance, Evan Holt What the hell does the

[newbie] Re-install like Windoze??

2000-04-28 Thread Dave Lers
I cannot tell if running install will start from scratch or leave my added progies, settings, etc. alone. I've been hacking around and made a couple messes. I also have more disk space (I mussed lilo up a bit doing the disk upgrade) now and would like the full recommended package. Running update

Re: [newbie] XFree86 4.0 Server RPM

2000-04-28 Thread Richard Yevchak
For your TNT2 card, get the XF4 drivers Nvidia just released: Kernel module: ftp://ftp1.detonator.nvidia.com/pub/drivers/english/XFree86_40/NVIDIA_kernel-0.9.tar.gz GLX module: ftp://ftp1.detonator.nvidia.com/pub/drivers/english/XFree86_40/NVIDIA_GLX-0.9.tar.gz From some else's email, you will

Re: [newbie] Screen resolution

2000-04-28 Thread doom
i was wondering this myself also... === You know you've been hacking too long when... ...your digital alarm clock goes off and you think "Bloody Macs!" === - Original Message - From: "Mad

Re: [newbie] Lothar hangs the whole system by ISA-detect

2000-04-28 Thread Paul
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Thorsten Brenner wrote: I have installed a ISDN-card called Seedelbauer-Seed-Win (IRQ=10 / Adress=0x0100). The configuration is OK and it works fine. But after installing the card, lothar hangs the whole system if i want to open it. Hi Thorsten, Are there any IRQ conflicts

Re: [newbie] Gnome Toaster

2000-04-28 Thread Paul
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Neville Cobb wrote: I then burnt the same data using xcdroast and everything went well, therefore I am lost as to why gnome toaster didn't turn out successfully. Can anyone shed some light as to why and what I may be doing wrong? Hi Nev, Thanks for the info. I have Xcdroast

Re: [newbie] Screen resolution

2000-04-28 Thread Jayce Steadman
I dunno but it involves autoexec.bat and the registry so it's nasty whatever it is Jayce Steadman [FGC]_G3N3R1C ICQ# 63558908 http://www.g3n3r1c.cwc.net/ - Original Message - From: "doom" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 6:05 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [newbie] Screen resolution

2000-04-28 Thread Paul
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Evan Holt wrote: Hi there, Ok, I know about using the Ctrl+Alt+(+) keys to change the screen resolutions, but where/or if can I configure it so that I can use the key combination to switch from 800 to 640 and back again. Uhmmm... perhaps you would enjoy using ctrl-alt-

Re: [newbie] Re-install like Windoze??

2000-04-28 Thread Paul
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Dave Lers wrote: I cannot tell if running install will start from scratch or leave my added progies, settings, etc. alone. I've been hacking around and made a couple messes. I also have more disk space (I mussed lilo up a bit doing the disk upgrade) now and would like the

[newbie] Active X on Evan Messages

2000-04-28 Thread doom
i have attached the following that is in his messages...this is a malicious script...i think he needs to be kicked off the list... ===You know you've been hacking too long when..your digital alarm clock goes off and you think "Bloody

Re: [newbie] fetchmail and pine

2000-04-28 Thread Paul
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Jeff wrote: Hi Jeff, Are you just pulling mail from 1 server to dump it in 1 place on disk? Stop fiddling then with Fetchmail. I use GETMAIL, a simple little Python program. Works like a charm and has a TOO SIMPLE setup. A .getmailrc config file is all you need: # This is a

Re: [newbie] Screen resolution

2000-04-28 Thread Evan Holt
Hi there, What on earth do you mean? You will have to be a little more descriptive. Thanks, Evan - Original Message - From: Mad Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 1:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Screen resolution At 28/04/00 11:11:00, you

Re: [newbie] mx 300 sound card driver

2000-04-28 Thread Paul
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, derrick wrote: I have made sure I'm in the root and the sounds are enabled. the drivers won't install and the "make file" keeps saying can't find file It would help us if you could tell us what file... Despite popular belief Unix Guru's are not yet total psychics (but

Re: [newbie] Active X on Evan Messages

2000-04-28 Thread Jayce Steadman
doom wrote: i have attached the following that is in his messages...this is a malicious script...i think he needs to be kicked off the list... It's a virus called Kak, I dunno much about it but he could simply be a victim, it's the Axtive X equivalent of Mellissa and is highly

RE: [newbie] Compaq Laptop display

2000-04-28 Thread Pastor Martin J. Hellema
Dear Ian, I have a similar problem with another computer. I am not sure yet what the problem is (videocard ?) but maybe if you use the settings in last settings in the framebuffer section in the install guide manual with the Linux Mandrake 7.0 box to get it up and running. If you get

RE: [newbie] HELP

2000-04-28 Thread Pastor Martin J. Hellema
How do you get this 3DFX GLIDE and how do jou install it on Linux. Martin -Original Message- From: Ron Peake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 25 April 2000 06:27 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] HELP Hi For a start, you need to have a 3dFX card plus the latest 3DFX GLIDE

Re: [newbie] Active X on Evan Messages

2000-04-28 Thread Larry Varney
Definitely a name to be added to my straight-to-the-trash filter. *** REPLY SEPARATOR ***On 4/28/00 at 2:09 PM doom wrote: i have attached the following that is in his messages...this is a malicious script...i think he needs to be kicked off the list...

RE:[newbie] Active X on Evan Messages

2000-04-28 Thread Evan Holt
Hi there, i have attached the following that is in his messages...this is a malicious script...i think he needs to be kicked off the list... Thanks for bringing this to my attention.. First I would like to ask what on earth this Active X bit is all about? I have no idea where on earth it came

Re: [newbie] Active X on Evan Messages

2000-04-28 Thread Paul
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, doom wrote: i have attached the following that is in his messages...this is a malicious script...i think he needs to be kicked off the list... Hmmm... looks nasty indeed... Glad that pine does not do anything with it... Paul )0(---)0( Love

Re: [newbie] HTML Editor

2000-04-28 Thread Don W. Jenkins
I installed Coffecup, and I like the interface, which resembles Homesite in some ways. However, unless you purchase, most of the goodies are disabled, so I can't comment on that. Are you having problems with the install. It's been a while, but I don't recall any. Don J. Martin Solms wrote:

Re: [newbie] HTML Editor

2000-04-28 Thread Don W. Jenkins
Bluefish is a good one, too, with fewer bells and whistles than Coffecup, but it does use Weblint to check your HTML for you. Another possibility is AsWedit, although I would chose Bluefish over that as far as the free editors. Don J. Mike Tracy Holt wrote: Download bluefish from

Re: [newbie] LILO installation help .....

2000-04-28 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Mungalformat it as a linux native primary partition. You would need to copy the /boot directory and add a new entry to your /etc/fstab file. You'd need to create a /etc/lilo.conf file (and delete the contents of your current /boot dierctory) and then execute /sbin/lilo. Instead, I'd

[newbie] Apology and findings...

2000-04-28 Thread Evan Holt
Hi again, I received this off list from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (thanks) Here is the source of your last message: since you wrote them in html (grrr), an ActiveX applet has managed to worm its way in - it looks to me like a virus of some sorts. As you can see, it mentions autoexec.bat and the

Re: [newbie] fetchmail and pine

2000-04-28 Thread Don W. Jenkins
I'm sorry I can't offer an answer, but I just wanted echo your frustration. I have had the identical problem with fetchmail--I have no idea where the messages are going, so there is no way to use pine or mutt to any advantage. No one so far has seemed to know what is going on. So I will add my

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6 knows its name not

2000-04-28 Thread Don W. Jenkins
I believe that in order to run Netscape 6, you have to cd to the directory it is installed in and then type ./netscape. It is still in development, and I guess it needs to be run from its own directory. Don J. Vic wrote: I tried installing Netscape 6 and went straight back to Netscape 472

Re: [newbie] HTML Editor

2000-04-28 Thread Paul
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Martin Solms wrote: Does Mandrake 7 include a default HTML editor (not including Netsape)? then, has anyone had any luck installing CoffeeCup (http://www.coffeecup.com) on Mandrake? I have not looked into that, or a default HTML editor. I have once found and downloaded

Re: RE:[newbie] Active X on Evan Messages

2000-04-28 Thread doom
yea my apoligies to you Evan...i am very sorry...i should have investigated this a alot more than i did...you have a trojan on your computer that spreads through email via outlook...if you look at the script i attached in recent messages you could probaly learn how to take it out...if you dont

[newbie] Virus warning

2000-04-28 Thread Evan Holt
Hi there, Thanks to Jayce Steadman's carefull eye, the virus has been detected. It only effects users with Microsoft Outlook 4.0 or 5.0 and the patch can be found here. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms99-032.asp Here is the technical blurb on it... The worm appends

[newbie] Re Active X on Evans Messages

2000-04-28 Thread mrweb
I recently received the KAK.hta worm through an innocent email from my brother. It was on 4-23-00, I had not recently updated my virus files, needless to say I have now. It is easy to tell if you have it, it only works in OutLookExpress, click on tools, and then options, and then signatures,

Re: RE:[newbie] Active X on Evan Messages

2000-04-28 Thread mrweb
Here is an article on it, maybe it will be of help to someone; http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_3501.html Also the PC-cillin98 web site has detailed instructions on how to remove the worm from your machine, and as I mentioned previously, it is not difficult. b/web - Original

RE: [newbie] Active X on Evan Messages

2000-04-28 Thread Michael Lee
from what i read at the symantec site the virus only affect people using outlook express -Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 07:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Active X on Evan Messages On Fri, 28 Apr 2000,

Re: [newbie] Screen resolution (in ASCII..whew)

2000-04-28 Thread Evan Holt
At 07:42 PM 4/28/00 +0200, you wrote: Uhmmm... perhaps you would enjoy using ctrl-alt- plus and ctrl-alt- minus? I tried that already...it's currently running at 800*600, but when using the minus key you would think it would go to 640*480, but it doesn't, it reverts to a resolution where you

Re: [newbie] HTML Editor

2000-04-28 Thread Lance Borden
Martin Solms wrote: Does Mandrake 7 include a default HTML editor (not including Netsape)? then, has anyone had any luck installing CoffeeCup (http://www.coffeecup.com) on Mandrake? Cheers Martin, I tried out a few of the html editors, including coffee cup, and settled on Bluefish. LB

RE:[newbie] Active X on Evan Messages

2000-04-28 Thread Paul
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Evan Holt wrote: Thanks for bringing this to my attention.. First I would like to ask what on earth this Active X bit is all about? I have no idea where on earth it came from or what it even is. All I can say is that it must be something HI Evan, It is time you switch to

[newbie] tulip.o and squid

2000-04-28 Thread keith salter
Hi all, from Edinburgh. I have a couple of questions. First of all there's my netgear fa310 nic and the driver for it. It can use the standard tulip.o but this seems to be slower compared to the tulip driver supplied with the card which I managed to compile on my previous redhat 6.1 dist. So I

Re: [newbie] Re Active X on Evans Messages

2000-04-28 Thread Hopper
It would be wise to set your internet security setting to such a level that activeX scripts cannot run, unless you give them explicit permission. I saw Evan's email and couldn't figure out what the hell he was doing trying to run Active X on email. Hope you get rid of it okay, everyone.

[newbie] Problems with my aha 1505

2000-04-28 Thread Stéphane Tran-Ngoc
I just install Mandrake 7 on my system. I know that linux don't have module for my aha 1505, but i have a rather old pc (P150) and no more free PCI slot. So I try to load the module for aha 152x on the command line (modprobe aha152x aha152x=0x140 , 11 , 7 , 0 , 1 , 1 , 100 , 0) and all is ok.

Re: [[newbie] Screen resolution]

2000-04-28 Thread Jaguar
Whatever this attachment is...is causing McAfee antivirus to detect it as an unsafe script/virus like activity, please do not attach this anymore. "Evan Holt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Attachment:  MIME Type: multipart/alternative

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6 knows its name not

2000-04-28 Thread Anthony Huereca
"And remember, it's spelled N-e-t-s-c-a-p-e, but it's pronounced 'Mozilla.'" --"famous" quote from Netscape documentations And in there lies your answer, type "mozilla" to start it. And make sure your in the directory that you installed N6 in when you type mozilla, otherwise you'll get an error.

Re: [newbie] LILO: The 1024-cylinder limit has been removed by a patch

2000-04-28 Thread Anthony Huereca
Is it possible to upgrade LILO on a machine currently running the older version? Of course, that's how most geeks (read: Linux guru's) will upgrade. You can get it from here: http://www.freshmeat.net/appindex/1998/12/04/912827201.html if you're brave. If you're doing a fresh install of

[newbie] Virus!

2000-04-28 Thread Hugh Semmler
If you all think about this for a second you may see the Humor in this. Here we are on a Linux users list, And something from M$ shows us how easy it is to infect with Virus and such. I for one can say this is the reason I switched to Mandrake. Along with the Blue screen and countless other

[newbie] US International Keyboard

2000-04-28 Thread SM FOO
Dear Guys, I need to put in accents once in a while, and The US International Keyboard comes in very handy in Windows, without having to learn a new keyboard layout. However, When I specified the same keyboard while installing Linux, it doesn't seem to work. Hope you can help. Many thanks. SM

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6 knows its name not

2000-04-28 Thread Daniel Anderson
Hi, You can edit the kdelnk to point to the executable in the install directory. It currently points to the original install of Netscape. Don't remember where it is located but you can do a search. You can open the one on the desktop with a text editor. Dan Anthony Huereca wrote: "And

[newbie] USB - port

2000-04-28 Thread Mogens
Hej there I am new to this list, and I dont know how to search for diffrent issues, that allready have been discussed - please tell me. I have two problems. 1. I am about to buy me another printer - I have an 'good-old' HP-laser, that I want to keep, and then have a Photo (Epson) printer, to work

[newbie] WWW with 2 PC's

2000-04-28 Thread MC_Vai
I know this might sound a little bit freaky but I really need to do this. It's a shool project which must simulate a conection to a WWW Virtual Store (a Linux-Mdk 7.0 PC with Apache) from a Win machine. But I really don't know where to start working on. My 1st question would be what is the

Re: [newbie] Active X on Evan Messages

2000-04-28 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
By the way I think you're preaching to the wrong congregation, when you start this kind of thread here. Beside that, it's liable to lead to a long drawn-out off-topic flame fest (though I hope not). Alan Point taken, I'm done. =) Mike

Re: RE:[newbie] Active X on Evan Messages

2000-04-28 Thread Vic
Hey dude is there a way to make certain web pages (or the browser) stop grumbling at you when you don't have an active x plug-in? Maybe something I can put in my plugger config file? By the way, I "swiped" comic sans ms font and now have it as one of the defaults on my linux machine, hehehe.

Re: [newbie] WWW with 2 PC's

2000-04-28 Thread Steve Philp
MC_Vai wrote: I know this might sound a little bit freaky but I really need to do this. You _really_ need to kill the HTML and the huge signature. It's a shool project which must simulate a conection to a WWW Virtual Store (a Linux-Mdk 7.0 PC with Apache) from a Win machine. But I

Re: [newbie] supermount?

2000-04-28 Thread Sevatio Octavio
Mogens, I hope the following will help you a bit. Here's an example from /etc/fstab : /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd00 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermountfs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 Here's the Man Document: SUPERMOUNT(8) MandrakeSoft