[newbie-it] Installazione di KDE2 Beta

Ho Installato tutti gli rpm di Kde2beta trovati su Mandrake cooker e ora non so come far partire kde2 Cosa devo fare? grazie Kayard

[newbie] Reusing floppies

This is probably a foolish newbie question, but... I've got a bunch of floppies lying around that I used for RAWRITE to make bootdisks from network.img, others that were turned into bootdisks by the installer and was wondering how I can reuse them? I've tried to see what's on them 'cd

Re: [newbie] Sound Card Problem

On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, worldly linux wrote: Try "sndconfig" as root. After making sure that your soundcard is supported. You did not mention what you have, so this is far as I can go... Paul First let me say , WOW. This Mandrake Install is the best Linux install that I have come across. It's a

Re: [newbie] append=mem=192m For your memory problems.

On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Steve Howes wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: Keep in mind that the only reason you needed to append a mem statement in the first place is because of a hardware deficiency. I thought the reason for appending the 'mem=' was because the Linux kernal doesn't recognise more than

[newbie] mouse curser error

Hi i just installed 7.1 and my mouse cursor is a 3/4 ince square white box im taking this is a weird thing and was woundering if there was a way to fix this if u need to know what hardware i got its listed below anthlon 600 ColorMax S3 Trio3D/2X agp model va-368 msi k7 mother board compaq 151fs

RE: [newbie] StarOffice5.1KpackageInstalling

On Thu, 06 July 2000, Mike Perry wrote: I knew that slip would come back to haunt me. Restart 'kde' and the Star Office show up under the "Personal" menu bar. Barry -Original Message- From:Barry Premeaux [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:Thu, July 06, 2000

Re: [newbie] partition (drive) access

Tom~ I've tried what you were saying and changed the bootGUI from 1 to 0. I also noticed that at the top it says UninstalDir=D. That is the drive that i am missing. could that have something to do with it? sean On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, you wrote: I

[newbie] .Xauthority missing on install

Using a CD of 7.0 which I've successfully used on another box, I encountered a problem with configuring X. Taking the option to ignore and completing the install, I'm unable to login as root. Logging in as user and su'ing works (so roots password is fine), I find the following error messages in

[newbie] audio installon asus mboard

Hello! Ihave just succesfully installed Air linux on my comp. My onli problem is that I have an Asus k7v + audio KX133 motherboard and I dont konw how to make linux recognize the driver. I have a 68RHTsomething file on the mb's driver CD (RHT stands for Red Hut i guess) and it was zipped. I

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[newbie] PPP Dying in 7.1

I just upgraded from 7.0 to 7.1 and I'm having problems with ppp. First of all, what happened to Kppp? I'm using KDE but all I could find in the menus was Gnome-ppp. I can dial out and I get a connection but a few seconds later I get a message saying the ppp deamon died unexpectedly. I have

[newbie] Soundblaster Live

I have recently installed Mandrake 7.1 and my sound doesn't work. I previously had Mandrake 7.0 and the sound worked fine. Any ideas?Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere!

[newbie] address

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[newbie] GO!ZILLA-like program for Linux

Hi Linuxers, Is there any program like Go!Zilla (win9x/nt/2k) on Linux? I need to have something like that on my Linux thanks Joe

Re: [newbie] append=mem=192m For your memory problems.

I guess we're all expecting this to be addressed in newer kernel this Fall. At least, that's what I've been reading... Roman Steve Howes wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: Keep in mind that the only reason you needed to append a mem statement in the first place is because of a hardware

Re: [newbie] Graphical FTP client

On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Harry Flaxman wrote: Check out IglooFTP PRO. I believe you can find the link at http://freshmeat.net. It seems to be a nice client. I've been using the newest release which is 1.0. Is there any nice FTP client? (like WSFTP-LE) There is also AxyFTP, which is the Linux

[newbie] VI - colors - help!

Hello and help! Since I upgraded to 7.1, I noticed that vi has all kinds of colors in the text. Now I pulled a webpage (linux.htm) into vi, and I can't read most of it anymore. I am colorblind, and there are lots of dark colors in it. I really can't make out what is what anymore. Can someone

Re: [newbie] Can Increase a partition size..

On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, John Catral wrote: Hi! Can I safely resize a partition in Linux? What software should I use then? I need to resize my partition (/home) so that I can use a virtual disk with VMWare. Thanks in advance =) Partition Magic is what I like best. I am not sure if DiskDrake wil

Re: [newbie] No CDROM music?

On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, John Catral wrote: Hi! I just did a clean install on a Mandrake 7.1. My soudns works with MP3 but I cant play any music from a cdrom. The CD is not a CD-r/CD-RW but an original CD. How come I cant play music. The CD player doesnt respond to anything. Its like theres no

[newbie] Gnome themes

On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Ian McLeod wrote: And do you know where I can get Gnome themes? www.themes.org Paul -- Television is democracy at its ugliest. - Paddy Chayevsky )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403

Re: [newbie] Screen Flashing

On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, GOOSE GOOSE wrote: Hello, Whenver I start up Mandrake 7.0 the boot up runs okay, but when it comes to the login screen it starts flashing. The error that it gives me is IO ERROR IN XOPEN DISPLAY DISPLAY : 0 cannot be opened Server for Display : 0 terminated unexpectedly.

Re: [newbie] To Buy or not to buy

On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Dennis Myers wrote: Let me throw this out again, I need help in deciding whether or not to upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1. If everything is working ok in 7.0 is there any compelling reason to upgrade? Also, if I do get 7.1 will an upgrade do the job or should I do a clean install,

Re: [newbie] Cannot find tape in tape drive

On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Jeff Malka wrote: I am running Mandrake 7.1 My ATAPI tape drive (Conner, Travan) shows as correctly recognized during bootup. However when I use the KDE Tape backup utility, with a tape in the tape drive, it keeps telling me there is no tape in the drive. I probably have

Re: [newbie] Running setiathome

On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, John Glasscock wrote: Does anyone in the list run setiathome? On my Mac and peecees I do (as screensavers I feel it is a good use of distributed computing). Since powering up and down is the hardest thing a computer has to do, I figure it is better to leave them on and

Re: [newbie] Graphical FTP client

On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Phil Burton wrote: I prefer doing my ftp on a command line. And this is why. I tried Igloo FTP once and tried uploading a jpg graphic to my wife's website. The website HTML is written to use ".jpg" in lower-case letters. Whenever I try to use a graphical ftp client, it

Re: [newbie] Text v. HTML messages on this list

On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 06:51:46PM -0400, Fran Parker wrote: I never use a mail reader that can not read html for that reason. And that's the exact reason why I simply discard all HTML mail. HTML mail doesn't help any, and if someone makes it that hard for me to read a mail, I assume that the

Re: [newbie] Text v. HTML messages on this list

On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 08:03:23AM -0400, Charles A Edwards wrote: I do the same. So I have never read a message that Alexander has posted because he always sends them as attachments. WRONG! I do not send them as attachments! If your MUA displays the content of my messages only as

Re: [newbie] Text v. HTML messages on this list

On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 07:35:25AM -0700, Mike Tracy Holt wrote: As I've already said, I do prefer HTML myself but there is a difference That's perfectly fine, but *ONLY* on personal mails, please! between HTML enabled and creating a web page to send to the list. HTML enabled gives the

Re: [newbie] Graphical FTP client

Pedrodownload IglooFTP from the below site, it works almost exactly like WS_FTP. http://www.littleigloo.org/ Alan Pedro _ wrote: Hello! I have mandrake 7.02 Air and I am using the gFTP FTP client but I am not happy with it. Is there any nice FTP client? (like WSFTP-LE) Thanks

RE: [newbie] Cannot find tape in tape drive

|-Original Message- |From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 3:55 AM |To: Linux Newbie Mandrake |Subject: Re: [newbie] Cannot find tape in tape drive | | |On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Jeff Malka wrote: | |I am running Mandrake 7.1 My ATAPI tape drive (Conner, Travan)

RE: [newbie] Text v. HTML messages on this list

I'm not sure if this forum is moderated, but isn't this whole topic taking focus off of why everyone is here? I believe it was said once that Plain Text is to be used in this forum. If so, then lets just go with that? I'm not trying to be a jerk or anything, just the whole Text v. HTML topic is

Re: [newbie] why linux starts as command line but noyt desktop ??

From: "majid L" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] why linux starts as command line but noyt desktop ?? Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 20:35:41 -0700 I just installed Mandrake 7.1, but I don't know why whever I turn my computer it starts prompting

Re: [newbie] CD#3

On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 01:29:04PM -0500, Curtis wrote: Is this third cd available for download, or is it in the commercial No, it's not available for download. You've got to buy the box set containing 4 CDs to get the third and fourth CD. distro? What apps are on this cd also. Don't know.

Re: [newbie] problème de graveur

On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 09:35:01PM +0200, Olivier Avenel wrote: Salut , mon graveur ne lit aucun cd,lorsque sous kde je click sur cdrom j'obtiens :"impossible d'afficher le repertoire file:/mnt/cdrom".De plus dans la configuration materielle il apparait un lecteur ide 4x4x32 (ce que j'ai:

Re: [newbie] ISDN

On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 04:30:16PM -0300, Samuel Fraga wrote: Gostaria de saber como faço pra instalar minha placa ISDN no Linux Mandrake 7.1 que a pcmaster lançou... I'd really like to help you, but I don't speak Brasilian. So, if you could ask your question again in German or English, a lot

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I need instruction of how to setup my 3Com combo card (Network + Modem) 3CCFEM556B , My PCMCIA card was detected in "Laptop Control Panels" as Card 1: 3Com/Megahertz 3CCFEM556 Ethernet/Modem. My Modem is working properly as I can connect to the Internet. when I go to Lothar 0.5.3 there is NO

[newbie] Playing music CD's...

I've been wondering about this and I thought I would ask. My CDROM is working fine except when I try to play a music CD in it. It's working cause I can see the light flickering and the software tells me it's tracking, but I can't hear anything from the speakers. I do have the sound enabled, so

[newbie] PCMCIA Modem Problem

I have just installed Helium on my lapton which has a PCMCIA modem card (a 3Com 3CXDM56B Modem). When I went to set this up in DrakConf under HardWare configurations, it froze at detecting modems. The install did not recognize this card at all. How do I get this card recognized as a modem?

[newbie] xfree86 RPM not found

I downloaded the inst and ext iso images for Mandrake 7.1 I burned the cds I created the Boot disk. I did the install but when it got to the xfree86 configure portion I got Error found xfree86 RPM not found. Huu? where is it and what did I do wrong and can I recover without another complete

Re: [newbie] How to find or list all active ports?

You can download a port-scan program called "nmap" form this site: www.insecure.org/nmap/ After installing it just type "nmap 127.0.0.1" and it will scan all your system ports. Just like that. There is also a man page, so you can see all the capabilities of this software... From: Hugh

Re: [newbie] I have a Scanjet 3200C but don't work with mandrake 7.1

I have the same HP ScanJet model and I cannot make it work under 7.0 All the HOWTO's that i find refer to SCSI scanners and I cannot seem to find a way to work it as a SCSI.Do you mean that you used it in Mandrake 7.0 and now you cannot use it in 7.1? anyone know howto do that works

[newbie] PHP Connection error

Mandrake 7.1, latest PHP, latest stable Mysql Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (111) in /home/httpd/html/test1.php on line 5 This doesn't work: $db = mysql_connect("localhost", "root"); This does work: $db =

[newbie] Turnaround time on list

My post from about 50 minutes ago have not shown up. Is this list really that slow? I don't get bounced so it must be going some place? -- Gil Baron W0MN http://members.home.net/gbaron/ 44:04:55.9 N 92:30:46.206 W 1050' NAD27 "Hierro candente, batir de repente"

[newbie] Update

[This is an email copy of a Usenet posting to "alt.os.linux.mandrake"] I am currently using Mandrake 7.02. When I try to use the "Updates" link on the desktop, it grabs the list of ftp servers and applications normally. However, whenever I select the packages and try the update, I get the

Re: [newbie] Graphical FTP client

On Sun, 16 Jul 2000 01:00:05 WEST you wrote: Hello! I have mandrake 7.02 Air and I am using the gFTP FTP client but I am not happy with it. Is there any nice FTP client? (like WSFTP-LE) You could try IglooFTP ( a search at Twocows will find it). Not recommending it though, I

[newbie] RPMs Causing Grief

I have been having problems with install RPMs where it seems the install is abending and hogging memory on my machine. I've recently tried installing the KDE2 rpm's on my machine. If I do it from a console, I eventually get a message 'can't load interpreter' scrolling down the screen, and the

RE: [newbie] RPMs Causing Grief

Try rebuilding the RPM database... -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Harry Flaxman |Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 7:23 AM |To: Mandrake Newbie List |Subject: [newbie] RPMs Causing Grief | | |I have been having problems with install

[newbie] Atalkd (repost)

reposted with a correct subject... sorry bout that :) I have netatalk running just fine, however, on the mac clients I have an applescript to mount the drive, and it refuses to mount the drive without me manually entering the password. I am assuming this is because somewhere atalkd doesn't

[newbie] Slow turnaround

Can anyone tell me why my messages are taking THREE HOURS to get posted while I see others here in minutes? Not very useful if it is a 6-12 hour turnaround! Is there a good newsgroup for help? -- Gil Baron W0MN http://members.home.net/gbaron/ 44:04:55.9 N 92:30:46.206 W 1050' NAD27 "Hierro

Re: [newbie] RPMs Causing Grief

from where, and in what order were you attempting to install them??... frank On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Harry Flaxman wrote: I have been having problems with install RPMs where it seems the install is abending and hogging memory on my machine. I've recently tried installing

[newbie] Test Mail (Please Excuse)

This is simply a test mail to check list turn around time David M. Kufta Konsult Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake Linux 7.1 (2.2.17) / Polarbar Mailer 1.16c JDK 1.1.8 IBM build l118-2325 (JIT enabled: jitc)

[newbie] WordPerfect and Lotus WordPro to StarOffice

Hi Joe Am not sure. All my files are in Corel Office Suite 8, WP and Quattro. I will try converting wordperfect files into RTF (Rich Text Format) first and Quattro into Excel and see how it goes. Let us know if it works. I have yet to complete my mdk installation. RegardsAlan (South Africa)

[newbie] KPPP breaks applications launching....

Hey, does anybody have any idea about this wierd problem? running Mandrake 7.1, when I go online using kppp, I am no longer able to launch applications via toolbar or icon until I kill kppp. EXCEPT I am able to launch Netscape. Any ideas? I don't even know where to start looking for this

[newbie] tmp/

Greetings! Can I safely delete sub-directories and files on the tmp/ directory? Or are these needed by the system? Thanks!

Re: [newbie] RPMs Causing Grief

I installed them in the order that was recommended..qt, kdesupport, kdelibs, kdebase, then no specific order for the rest. Can't get even QT installed, it abends. Harry frank wrote: from where, and in what order were you attempting to install them??... frank

[newbie] Soundblaster Live

I would just like to say thanks to all the people who responded. My sound is working great now.Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere!

[newbie] kppp connection

I have been having a problem connecting. I have included below a copy of the communication script I have set up as well as a copy of the log. All personal data has been replaced with the symbol #. If at all possible a copy of a working script would be nice to look at. Any help at all will be

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Re: [newbie] Text v. HTML messages on this list

snip Alexander Skwar wrote: On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 08:03:23AM -0400, Charles A Edwards wrote: And while we are at the netiquette: The netiquette also states that replies should be *BELOW* the text that you quote, and that in a reply you should only qoute the absolutely neccessary parts

[newbie] Sound Card Problem

I am still in need of assistance, please First let me say , WOW. This Mandrake Install is the best Linux install that I have come across. It's a huge welcome after trying to work with FreeBSD. The install went well with one exception. My sound card is not working. I tried using DrakConf

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Fran Parker wrote: It is counterproductive to put new reply text below the original. The original is there to give reference to the new comments and the discussion. Bambi is correct in the realization that you put the important stuff first. That's why footnotes are at the bottom of a page,

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Hey! Before getting off of this list you owe us following letters: "ubs"... Is it that difficult? Read your welcome message to see how to unsubscribe. Unsubscribe messages to this address are useless... oh, and you should really take some spelling lessons! unscribe -- ,

Re: [newbie] How do I get IMWHEEL to start every time I boot into

I had to download the source code, recompile it to run suid root (not a good idea for security reasons but the only way I could get it to work) then in /etc/X11/Xsession I commented out where they run imwheel and just added imwheel -k above what they had. I also have XFree86 4.01. There are

[newbie] can't log in..

I just insatlled Linux mandrake 7.1 on a windows machine..I used the linux4win install..everything seemed to be fine..untill i rebooted to start in linux..it asked for localhost login..what does that mean? I have two computers networked before i installed linux..both on a cable modem with

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is this a linux list or what?..stop the crap, it is spam -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Glasscock Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 9:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Reply text goes ON TOP Fran Parker wrote:

Re: [[newbie] MDK7.1 IDE Configuration Freezes During Installation on Dell Dimension XPS PII 200 MMX]

Did you install some sort of translation table on the 10 GB to let the Dell BIOS see the entire 10GB size? HTH Jaguar Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, I have been trying to install MDK7.1x on to my older Dell Dimensions XPS 200s MMX('ala 1997). I have a two drives

Re: [newbie] Script errors during kernel upgrade

I don't think you can regenerate that file. It is not necessary for the stock kernels to boot and is just something Mandrake put it in there. Try creating just an empty file with the name the rpm wants. module-info should be a link to module-infokernel version just like vmlinuz was a link

Re: [newbie] Search engines: Useful program not available toLinux users

Fran Parker wrote: Gee and I thought I was the only one who still used Metacrawler! Also like Google. Bambi Google rules, (of course, its 'Nix based!) Love those response times... ;-) -- /\ DarkLord

Re: [newbie] Posts

Paul wrote: It does tend to be extremely slow at times, but I have not encountered troubles like you described. Hope it sticks from now on! Paul I know this has been mentioned before, and I (as well as others who've posted about it) never thought it made a difference, but when I couldn't

Re: [newbie] Can Increase a partition size..

Partition Magic has a Linux version?? On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Paul wrote: On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, John Catral wrote: Hi! Can I safely resize a partition in Linux? What software should I use then? I need to resize my partition (/home) so that I can use a virtual disk with VMWare. Thanks in

Re: [newbie] CD RW compatibility

Alan...Thanks It looks like a very good product at a reasonable price. My IT guy at work has also recommended it. Roman Dennis Myers wrote: Alan Shoemaker wrote: RomanI bought it from their online store as a special of the month for $99 within the last 4 to 6 months.

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[newbie] X window

I lost my Xwindow again. The common thread seems to be Star Office. Whenever I mess with SO my xserver crashes. Any way I have tried going to XF86Setup and XFconfig and every other xf or XF I could think of and I either get not a command or can't communicate with the x server. Any one no of some

Re: [newbie] Search engines: Useful program not available toLinux users

Perl apparently is very good with CGI. I'm in the process of learning Perl myself.. Roman Phil Burton wrote: I would not be surprised if someone has not done something like that with Perl. Perl programs work fine in Linux. I also use http://google.com/ for a lot of searches. Best

Re: [newbie] Text v. HTML messages on this list

I still think sending it to dev/null is a good idea. Phil Burton wrote: Ascii text conveys information. If one needs expressiveness, then create a web page. There are many here who use plain text mail programs -- as I do, because I do not care to read my mail in Netscape nor KDE. It's

Re: [newbie] Text v. HTML messages on this list

On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, you wrote: On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 08:03:23AM -0400, Charles A Edwards wrote: I do the same. So I have never read a message that Alexander has posted because he always sends them as attachments. WRONG! I do not send them as attachments! If your MUA displays the

[Fwd: [newbie] Sound Card Problem]

worldly linux wrote: I am still in need of assistance, please Is there a command that will tell me what type of card I have ? I really have no idea. The laptop was given to me awhile back. I remember that the sound worked under RedHat so I know it has some sort of

Re: [newbie] No CDROM music?

Hello! I just tried "cdplay" and it worked! WOW! What a weird thing. After typing"cdplay" on the command prompt, I was able to hear the cd. I opened up KSCD from KDE and now it reads the audio cd. I can even move forward or back. Anyone know what was the problem? Can you recommend a Great

Re: [[newbie] MDK7.1 IDE Configuration Freezes DuringInstallation on Dell Dimension XPS PII 200 MMX]

Hhmm...Could be... The MDK7.0 installation mentioned something about a problem with reading translation table. Are you familiar with DiskGo? When I purchased the drive, I had to navigate to the Fujitsu web site, and download DiskGo. Otherwise, the entire drive would not get recognized. I will

[newbie] Can I Ghost entire drive including Linux

Hi everybody, Is it possible to create an image file with all partitions, including Linux? Roman Registered Linux User #179232

Re: [newbie] Can Increase a partition size..

JohnThe Partition Magic CD (or the included CD that comes with some Linux distros that have PM included with their boxed set distro) comes with the ability to transfer the PM programs to a pair of floppies that boot and run the PM programs with an included version of DR DOS. You can then use

Re: [newbie] Text v. HTML messages on this list

On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 03:48:07PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use Kmail and I get what appear to be attachments so they go straight to the bin, if you want them to be read ,rather than suggesting that Charles A Edwards and myself, among others, get a better MUA why don't you just use

Re: [newbie] How do I get IMWHEEL to start every time I boot intoLinux?

On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 02:07:07PM +0930, Ian McLeod wrote: And do you know where I can get Gnome themes? Where (almost) all the other themes are at: http://www.themes.org. But there aren't any GNOME themes at all. GNOME is using GTK, so one point would be gtk.t.o. And because GNOME doesn't

RE: [newbie] Reply text goes ON TOP

Huh? What are you talking about? This IS a list and not SPAM. As a matter of fact I haven't seen "any" SPAM on this list and I"ve been getting mail from here for the past month. My hat goes off the owner of this list for his ability to filter so well. -- Mark I love my Linux Box...

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NO! Please don't kill the ...THREAD! It deserves to live just as any other thread! N!!! -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Ed Tharp

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I think he's been coding a Weee bit too long. He needs to unplug for a bit and purge the BAd caffine with some good ole fashion Water! -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Sun, 16 Jul 2000,

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I tootally agree! :) -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, John Glasscock wrote: Fran Parker wrote: It is counterproductive to put new reply text below the original. The original

Re: [newbie] Gnome Xwindows

I recently experimented with Genome. The open applications should be in the taskbar at the bottom, on the right side. I had problems with the screen saver too. No matter which one I choose of Genome's, it will only run the 'Random' one. Only way I could run the one I wanted was to use the

Re: [newbie] No CDROM music?

Hmmm...I just tried the same thing and it didn't work for me. I don't get it. I've been trying to get this to work for weeks and it just won't! how come? -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Sun, 16 Jul

Re: [newbie] kppp connection

Mike Koceja wrote: Hi Mike, I'm not sure this is the correct solution, but it worked for me. Expect ~-- snip PPP session from (206.191.213.41) to 206.191.213.97 beginning~}#@!}!}!}}4}"..continues on... ^ ^^^ Your box is expecting "~~~" and is only

Re: [newbie] Can Increase a partition size..

An added note on PM. If you let the Mandrake installation create your Linux partitions then PM will see them all as 1 Type 85 partition and you will not be make any changes to the partitions using PM. You will instead need to use DiskDrake Charles - Original Message - From: "Alan

Re: [newbie] MDK7.1 IDE Configuration Freezes During Installation onDell Dimension XPS PII 200 MMX

Romanator wrote: Hi, I'm having the same problem with the computer freezing when detecting the ide drives. Mandrake 7.0 installed without any problems,but 7.1 always freezes.I've tried different drives,so I don't think the drive itself is the problem. I don't know the name of the board,but it

Re: [newbie] Linux and TFT Screens

I am running Linux on a Toshiba Satellite 1625, and it works fine. pete On Thu, 13 Jul 2000 23:39:47 +0200, Quaylar wrote: hi ppl ! im thinking about buying a TFT screen, and was wondering whether there could be any problems with linux... R there any known problems, things to consider, or

Re: [newbie] Wordperfect problem

Hi -- I also tried WP8, and it did that. A bit disconcerting, but one gets used to it. Recently upgraded to WP9, which works just like the windows version. For the price, it's a good deal. pete On Fri, 14 Jul 2000 17:01:02 -0400, Jeff Malka wrote: I have Mandrake 7.1 installed on my

[newbie] Can't get Samba running?

I just installed Mandrake 7.1 and the Samba and Samba Common RPM packages. I've installed it but I can't seem to get it to run. When I get into Webmin and then to SWAT nmbd and smbd are not running. Where should I start looking? Carlton.

Re: [newbie] Reply text goes ON TOP

That was my thought as well. It made sense to me...it was doing unto others as I wanted it done to me...I dislike inefficiency..with so many messages to got through on this list, it seems very inefficient to have to scroll to the bottom of so many replies, most of which I have already read

Re: [newbie] Text v. HTML messages on this list

Thanks Alan, This makes sense to me. I thought it was such a nuisance to have to scroll to the bottom of a message (most of which I had read earlier) just to get to the new post. I will continue to do this. I will not change :) Bambi Alan Shoemaker wrote: Franahhh! Don't

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