RE: [newbie-it] x-server

2000-07-19 Thread Alessandro
On 18-Jul-2000 Rosanna wrote: Adesso pero` ho un altro problema: ho poca memoria (16 MB) e il sistema (sto usando KDE) e` lentissimo (per aprire una qualsiasi finestra impiega un sacco di tempo). Puo` essere perche` ci sono troppi processi in esecuzione attivati all`avvio? Se e` cosi`,

[newbie] /dev/3dfx question

2000-07-19 Thread Jonathan Wolfgang
Hello, I have a voodoo2 based card and was having troubles running the glide tests as a non-root user. I compiled the latest Device3Dfx rpm and it worked fine and had no problem installing it, but still could not run the tests as user. I checked the permissions on /dev/3dfx and they were

Re: [newbie] need replacment for kppp

2000-07-19 Thread Mark Weaver
Is it configurable to dial on demand? -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Gary wrote: On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 11:24:24PM -0500 or thereabouts, Phil Burton wrote: Does anyone

Re: [newbie] KDE2.0 question

2000-07-19 Thread frank
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: Frank, I'm there! I can't wait to see it. How much is it going to effect my current KDE installation. I don't use KDE heavily, but my wife does and she really likes it's functionality. She left windows kickin and screamin and didn't stop until I

Re: [newbie] Internet sharing

2000-07-19 Thread Rob Ogilvie
Please elaborate a little bit more Are the two NICs in the Linux box (Windows98 server, too?) set to 192.186.0.1 and .2? Why is this? Is one of them your DSL connection and the other for the LAN? Then you have a client (98, too?) with DHCP set generally taking the 192.186.0.2 (.3?)

Re: [newbie] how to unsubscribe or temporarily drop

2000-07-19 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 05:04:13PM +0200, Roman Korcek wrote: I don't think that would help many people. Newbies would have no idea where to type that and people who are writing to this list because Hmm, okay, agreed. they have problems with their internet connection from Linux are

Re: [newbie] how to unsubscribe or temporarily drop (fwd)

2000-07-19 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 08:53:02PM +0100, Steve Howes wrote: Will really help, on some lists I belong to people seem to take little notice and still question the list or get it wrong, even when a url/web page is offered to do the job for them! Agreed, but I'd imagine that less people ask or

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

2000-07-19 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 02:28:17PM -0400, Jeff Malka wrote: Does changing it to type 5 create a problem to the Linux data? No. Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys ICQ:7328191

Re: [newbie] how to unsubscribe or temporarily drop (fwd)

2000-07-19 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 06:29:56PM +0100, Paul wrote: Let's hope Dennis is able to do something with the trailer of each mail when he comes back. That's what I meant. I didn't mean that people should start to putt this in their personal signatures. Alexander Skwar -- Homepage:

RE: [newbie] Games Server

2000-07-19 Thread Brian \(Adelong Service Dept\)
John, I was kinda after a Linux solution as I have two Linux servers in the city mirroring each other and want to enable something for the customers but have no idea how to do it under Linux as I have not played too much with it... but thanks just the same... I have used Quake II on an NT4

[newbie] vendor issue

2000-07-19 Thread John Wallace
hi all! i ordered mandrake 7.1 gold from www.lland.com last month. they were quite efficient about charging my credit card, but i haven't gotten my shipment, haven't gotten any response to my emails, and haven't gotten a response to messages left on their (no kidding) Customer Support

[newbie] unscribe

2000-07-19 Thread derrick
how do I unscuribe from this list _NetZero Free Internet Access and Email__ http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html

Re: [newbie] Running .jar programs

2000-07-19 Thread Ty C.Mixon
As I recall you have to preface the *.jar with the jre/jdk command line. Something like 'jre byteme.jar' just as you would for a python or pearl proggy. As usual, RTFM (F=freakin' here) ;) I'm pretty sure it's in the jre/jdk readme's/man's/faq's/web pages. Later, Ty On Mon, 17 Jul 2000

[newbie] fast forward

2000-07-19 Thread SANCHEZ URRUTIA GERMAN
Has any one got fastforward runing (the free proxy server for Linux)?, when i tried to do the make command I get: make [1] *** [wvtcp.o] Error 1 make *** [subdirs] Error 2 Any ideas will be appreciated German Sanchez

[newbie] Tcl/Tk Upgrade?

2000-07-19 Thread Rob Ogilvie
Mandrake 7.0 comes with Tcl/Tk 8.0.5. I want to install Tik and have all it's features, and that requires Tcl/Tk 8.1 or higher. I downloaded an RPM and tried it. It dind't work. I got errors mentioning things like dependencies. I then un-installed version 8.0.5 and then installed 8.4a1-1,

[newbie] drakfont rpm dependancies question

2000-07-19 Thread Fireman71
Downloaded and tried to install the drakfont rpm (both the 13mdk and 14mdk versions) and it fails due to: error: failed dependencies: gtk+mdk is needed by drakfont-0.40-13mdk libgtkmdk-0.1.so.2 is needed by drakfont-0.40-13mdk Does anyone know where i can find these? And on a

Re: [newbie] How to stop screen from blanking out?

2000-07-19 Thread poogle
Have you got power saving set in your BIOS ? On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, you wrote: I am running Mandrake 7.1 in a kde environment on a desktop. I have a screen saver installed (science). If I leave the PC unused for a time, the screensaver comes on, but a little later the screen blanks out

[newbie] Windows v Linux/ HTML v text

2000-07-19 Thread poogle
Am I missing something ? I thought the purpose of this list was that it be a place where newbies could look for help. There are any number of forums open to those who wish to criticise the preferences of others. I have been a member of this group for a few months now and have both received and

[newbie] a principle question !

2000-07-19 Thread Thorsten Brenner
Hi people,it is a funny thing.I bought Linux-Mandrake 7.1 and i love it.But i am angry about the faulty isdn4linux-Utilities.If my Computer is connected to the internet using a ISDN connection, how can i update the utilities after a new install of mandrake 7.1.With the new install of MDK 7.1 (

Re: [newbie] How to stop screen from blanking out?

2000-07-19 Thread David D.Stanton (Armisis Aieoln)
What desktop you useing? KDE? Gnome? check the configuration in that... my Gnome has a powermanagement feature also... dave On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, you wrote: Have you got power saving set in your BIOS ? On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, you wrote: I am running Mandrake 7.1 in a kde environment on a

Re: [newbie] Windows v Linux/ HTML v text

2000-07-19 Thread David D.Stanton (Armisis Aieoln)
html v text is just easly that with linux you have so many diffrent email readers, and some cannot handle html... so it just shows as pure html text not properly translated html. As for the windows v linux thing its just a team to cheer for... like a football team or democracy vs communism,

Re: [[newbie] need replacment for kppp]

2000-07-19 Thread Michael Scottaline
KompuKit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know...what app I can use...in GNOME... to take the place of kppp? It needs to do most of what kppp does... -- = Have you tried running kppp under Gnome? I've never actually tried to run it, but I know it will open.

Re: [newbie] How to stop screen from blanking out?

2000-07-19 Thread Jeff Malka
No. This only happens in Mandrake 7.1 It does not happen in my NT4, Warp 4, DOS, Win 3.1 OSs on the same PC and did not happen when I had TurboLinux 6 installed. It is specific to Mandrake and I suspect there is a setting I need to turn off somewhere, but do not know where. Jeff Malka [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] How to stop screen from blanking out?

2000-07-19 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
If all else fails... "xset s off" always works. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: Jeff Malka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 6:38 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] How to stop screen from blanking out? | | |No. This only happens in Mandrake

[newbie] Wheel Mouse

2000-07-19 Thread Gil Baron W0MN
I have a new wheel mouse. It is actually the Intellimouse Ps2 and USB compatible attached to PS/2. I installed 7.1 for the supposedly provided wheel mouse support. It is not supported. Where do I go from here? -- Gil Baron W0MN http://members.home.net/gbaron/ 44:04:55.9 N 92:30:46.206 W 1050'

Re[2]: [newbie] PS/2 mouse problem

2000-07-19 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey Steve, I see my mouse pointer, it even behaves normally most of the time. But sometimes the pointer starts jumping around the screen and clicking randomly. That happens for about half a second, but can get me upset if it happens to click in a way that it closes two windows and presses

Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse

2000-07-19 Thread Ralph Day
Beware the "Buttons 3". I know the imwheel doc says to use it but it made the wheel not work for me. I removed it and all works fine. - Ralph - Original Message - From: "John Couturier" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 5:30 AM Subject: Re:

[newbie] SB Live! - MODPROBE ERROR

2000-07-19 Thread Adriaan Barel
Hi , This problem is proving very difficult to solve. I have previously posted this problem under the subject: SB Live! Value card wont work; but I think I have narrowed the problem down since then so I decided to start a fresh with my new found knowledge. However, if anyone wants to go back

RE: [newbie] Wheel Mouse

2000-07-19 Thread Gil Baron W0MN
-Original Message- From: John Couturier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 7:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse Make sure you have the protocol in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file set to IMPS/2 and ZAxisMapping = 4 5. If your

Re: [Re: [newbie]Report on the Text v. HTML postings]

2000-07-19 Thread Mark Weaver
not to mention that Pine doesn't read HTML format. Only text. Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I just thought I'd add my own two cents to this topic... The UNIX e-mail system (as used in Linux) _does not_ store each e-mail as a separate file. One look at your mail directory (usually in

[newbie] List archives

2000-07-19 Thread Joe Brault
Hello all, I have seen reference here to the list archives, and I was wondering where I could access these? Thanks! - Joe :) -- | Have you petted your penguin today? :) | | Registered Linux user #183248 |

Re: [newbie] Lost DMA with 7.1 update

2000-07-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, you wrote: I just installed the update to 7.1 (from the 7.1 2.2.15 to the 7.1 2.2.16 kernel, not an upgrade from 7.0) and now my hard drive DMA has quit working. The messages are below. Any clues? - Ralph I've quit using HDD optimizations in the kernel because of

Re: [newbie] Intro and seeking opinion

2000-07-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
I currently have Mandrake 6.0 installed on its own hard drive I did the default workstation install. There is currently one problem... annoying, does not appear to be hurtful... HDA5 seems to be messed up on every other boot forcing fsck to run during the boot sequence, which so far has

[newbie] Internet sharing

2000-07-19 Thread Alan Holloway
Hi Y'all, I apologize in advance if this topic has been covered repeatedly, but I just joined the list today. I've looked at the mans and docs for internet sharing, particularly ip masquerading, and I'm still quite confused about how to set this up. Here's my situation: Currently, I use

RE: [Re: [newbie]Report on the Text v. HTML postings]

2000-07-19 Thread Oliver Stieber
[rant on] I hate html mail, it has funny colours that heart my eyes, doesn't cut and past properly, links upto nasty web sites, tries to download stuff off of the web, and means that my mail client needs to load another load of bloat to be able to read html mails. RTF is just as bad. [rant off]

Re: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-19 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 04:47:21PM -0600, cjulwelling wrote: heh heh... I have had about the exact opposite luck as you. 7.0 died all the time on me where as 2000 has never crashed once... for me and I've had Well, even if I wanted to, I couldn't try W2k, because my ISDN card, that worked

Re: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-19 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 06:25:25PM -0500, Gilbert Baron wrote: Linux is so great, where are all of the applications. I will tell you where they are. They are not written because nobody can make money on it . What application do you need? They are all there! And everything is available, most

Re: [[newbie] need replacment for kppp]

2000-07-19 Thread Roger Pithers
KompuKit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know...what app I can use...in GNOME... to take the place of kppp? It needs to do most of what kppp does... Try gnome ppp (gppp) from www.gnome.org or the excellent wvdial, which you can get from www.rpmfind.net Roger

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

2000-07-19 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 09:16:50PM -0400, Fran Parker wrote: Like many others, I simply respond and leave the message below the response in case someone wants to see where I was coming from in my response. That's fine, but it is actually not needed. If someone really wants to know what

Re: [newbie]Report on the Text v. HTML postings

2000-07-19 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 04:37:06PM -0700, Mike Tracy Holt wrote: I'm sorry Alexander, but there's no way that 3 lines of text from an email would produce 26 lines if written in html - it just doesn't work like that. No? You're sure? If so, have a look at this message: Message-Id: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Shutting down FTP and TELNET

2000-07-19 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 03:12:58AM -0400, spineboy wrote: Where or what is the file where you can choose what services that you want started. I want to do the above Edit /etc/inetd.conf and put a hash (#) before the lines that start with ftp and telnet. Or if you only want to shut down these

Re: [newbie] Printscreen?

2000-07-19 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 11:24:47PM -0700, Rob Ogilvie wrote: or even Paint. I am lost as to what to do in Linux, though. If you're using GNOME, then there's a small applet to just do that: ScreenShoter. You'll find it in Applets-Utilities. It's small, and does it's job very well. That's

Re: [newbie] a principle question !

2000-07-19 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 12:01:44PM +0200, Thorsten Brenner wrote: [ somthing ] Please repost without HTML junk. Thanks. Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys ICQ:7328191

[newbie] Server Security Levels

2000-07-19 Thread Pete Clapham
Hi, all - When we updated our our server to Mandrake 7.0, our FTP and Telnet stopped working. I set the security level to HIGH, but then turned on the things that had to run (i.e. DNEWS, HTTPD, and INETD). DNEWS and HTTPD work, but when you try to FTP to the site, you get the "connected"

Re: [newbie] Disk Space?

2000-07-19 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 09:33:24PM -0700, Ran Hooper wrote: How can I tell how much disk space I have free on a drive? On a drive? That's a little harder. You can use "df" to get an idea how much space is available on all the mounted filesystems, so if you really want to know how much space

Re: [newbie] fdisk/MBR

2000-07-19 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 06:45:38PM +0200, Robert wrote: well isn't this a nice way to help each other ... helping people to mess up their system because you don't like their attiude ... nice having people like that on your newbe list ... Hey, *I* would have suggested the same (fdisk /mbr),

Re: [newbie] 2 questions

2000-07-19 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 04:36:53PM -0700, Alan Shoemaker wrote: DanCDE in probably already installed on your system, if not it's on your installation CD. Really? Mandrake ships CDE? Remember, we're talking *C*de, not *K*de here! Alexander Skwar -- Homepage:

Re: [newbie] 2 questions

2000-07-19 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 11:10:28AM -0600, Dan Ferris wrote: I have 2 simple and unrelated questions 1. Where can I go to download the 128 bit version of Netscape 4.73, and ssh? See linux-mandrake.com - crypto. 2. Purely for nostalgia, and simple curiosity, is there a place that one

Re: [newbie] i can access win95 machine by mean lan

2000-07-19 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 11:55:51AM -0500, Fernando Camacho Olmos wrote: i only can access win98 machine but the win95 machin i can't vizualisized or access. can you help me A little bit more detail please. But if you're talking about Samba, read the Samba HowTo, and especially the section

Re: [newbie] a principle question !

2000-07-19 Thread Paul
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Thorsten Brenner wrote: Hi people, it is a funny thing. I bought Linux-Mandrake 7.1 and i love it. But i am angry about the faulty isdn4linux-Utilities. If my Computer is connected to the internet using a ISDN connection, how can i update the utilities after a new install

Re: [newbie] Is it okay to add a signature or vcard to email

2000-07-19 Thread Paul
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Scott Tyson wrote: Dumb question but does providing the number offer any of us list users benefit. Not a flame or asshole question since I add a useless sig to all my emails but I'm just curious as the significance of the number and why you'd want to add it or not? Of

Re: [newbie] Windows v Linux/ HTML v text

2000-07-19 Thread Frank Nazario
DITTO ! im with u in this too. lets just go linux not windows bashing Mike Tracy Holt wrote: You're a tad late on that, this thread has pretty much ended in the last day or so - except for the few stragglers out there ;-) Mike Am I missing something ? I

Re: [newbie] I have a scanner hp 3200c but don't work

2000-07-19 Thread nikolaos mpenias
l have the same problem too. l've searched almost everywhere,but l cannot find sth about parallel scanners.l'm afraid that there is no way to make it work. Now l'm searching for a USB way to do it. I have your mail and if l find sth l'll send it to you. Please do the same thing for me... Good

[newbie] Bottom panel configuration

2000-07-19 Thread Hugo GONZALEZ
Hi guys and gals. Last night I started my Linux box, everything apparently normal, but one thing: the bottom panel bar. It was missing the section where open windows buttons go. I mean, if i minimized a window, there was no way (as far as I know) to restore it again by clicking in the

Re: [newbie] Windows v Linux/ HTML v text

2000-07-19 Thread poogle
Hey, not my fault, I posted this before, about 2 days ago - it's still out there somewhere - probably appear in a month or so On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, you wrote: You're a tad late on that, this thread has pretty much ended in the last day or so - except for the few stragglers out there ;-) Mike

Re: [newbie] Anyone know howto work a Scanjet 3200c in mandrake 7.1

2000-07-19 Thread Paul
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Fernando Camacho Olmos wrote: Please help me! Thank you for the wealth of details. Is it a scsi scanner? If so, install SANE and run 'xscanimage'. Otherwise try www.linux-mandrake.com or http://mandrakeuser.org if there is any help for your scanner there. Paul -- The

Re: [newbie] How to stop screen from blanking out?

2000-07-19 Thread Jeff Malka
I am running KDE but could not find anywhere in its control box for Power management. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: David D.Stanton (Armisis Aieoln) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2000 7:05 AM

[newbie] Re: supermount and floppy

2000-07-19 Thread Gary
Hello all, I am having a Dickens of a time with this supermount. I am using the new Helium and either in root or my dir, yes I can click on my floppy icon and access the floppy disk. However, if I want to use the floppy for anything else, say to make a mkbootdisk, I cannot access my

Re: [newbie] List archives

2000-07-19 Thread Philomena
Hi Joe, Go to the page on the Mandrake site where you subscribed, and scroll down to the bottom - you can access the newbie and expert archives. cheers, philomena At 10:51 AM 7/19/00 -0500, you wrote: Hello all, I have seen reference here to the list archives, and I was wondering where

[newbie] Mandrake 6.1 won't boot

2000-07-19 Thread Darren Garner
Hello I have a linux server running 6.1 on a gateway P3 500 with 128 mb memory that was working properly then noticed that I couldn't telnet or rcp to it (I could before). Actually, I could telnet and it would connect but would never serve back the "login" prompt. I tried various things like

Re: [newbie] Changing Security Levels

2000-07-19 Thread Mark Weaver
It's in Drakeconf... Pete Clapham wrote: Hi -- I need to change the security level on my FTP server from "medium" to "low." Can anybody tell me how to do this? Evidently it isn't in Linuxconf. Thanks. pete Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental

Re: [newbie] List archives

2000-07-19 Thread Paul
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Joe Brault wrote: Hello all, I have seen reference here to the list archives, and I was wondering where I could access these? Thanks! - Joe :) I think there's a place called www.listarchives.com or www.mailarchives.com. No garantee, but give it a try Paul -- The

Re: [newbie] How to stop screen from blanking out?

2000-07-19 Thread patrick darcy
this has happend to me too. what i did was change my screensaver , let it run awhile and then switched it back tox-screensaver. my machine now runs forever with the screensaver running. by th way this screensaver would cost 20 to 30 dollars on that other operating system. its in the mix with

Re: [Re: [newbie]Report on the Text v. HTML postings]

2000-07-19 Thread Mark Weaver
exactly! Gi'me the facts and just the facts. Just another reason I love Pine. I only wish my workstation at work was a Linux box, then I could use Pine all day long. Oliver Stieber wrote: [rant on] I hate html mail, it has funny colours that heart my eyes, doesn't cut and past properly,

Re: [newbie] Internet sharing

2000-07-19 Thread Mark Weaver
Have you ever seen, or tried to read HTML formatted e-mail in a text only environment? Which is what most of the people that "might" answer your questions here on this list are using. Think about it... Alan Holloway wrote: Hi Y'all, I apologize in advance if this topic has been covered

Re: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-19 Thread patrick darcy
Alexander Skwar wrote: On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 04:47:21PM -0600, cjulwelling wrote: heh heh... I have had about the exact opposite luck as you. 7.0 died all the time on me where as 2000 has never crashed once... for me and I've had oh come on, be honest now :) nobody has that other

Re: [newbie]Report on the Text v. HTML postings

2000-07-19 Thread Philomena
would you just drop it or take it offline This has nothing to do with Mandrake Linux and is getting very old ! The size of a message wouldn't matter if we didn't have to wade through so much off topic nonsense. philomena At 06:32 PM 7/19/00 +0200, you wrote: On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at

[newbie] How to get USB cable modem working under Linux

2000-07-19 Thread Dennis Pipper
This list has been very helpful Thanks for the Install help. Is it possible to get a USB Ethernet Adapter to work under Linux (Mandrake 7.1) for my @Home cable modem? Any ideas? Thanks Dennis

Re: [newbie] Windoze

2000-07-19 Thread patrick darcy
many will make money on Linux. i dont think anybody expects the latest and greatest games to be free. as far as business software goes, it seems to be mostly included. let me show u some of the strengths of linux. u can also purchase business softwarre if u wish. that other operating system

RE: [newbie] SB Live! - MODPROBE ERROR

2000-07-19 Thread Jonathan Wolfgang
Ok, here goes. I'm assuming the sound module is being loaded every time you start up linux, so you may want to check the file /etc/conf.modules. I don't have a SB Live!, but I think this still applies. There should be a section in conf.modules that applies to sound, and the settings should be

Re: [newbie] Intro and seeking opinion

2000-07-19 Thread Mark Weaver
Go ahead and install 7.1. You're going to like it...A LOT! However, XF86 4.0 is still a little buggy so you will want to load the older version that comes with 7.1. You will be prompted as to which one you wish to load. I will forewarn you though. It is very likely that an upgrade from your

Re: [newbie] Is it okay to add a signature or vcard to email

2000-07-19 Thread Mark Weaver
I guess for the same reason you add the "reply" seperator. Just cause you can. -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Scott Tyson wrote: Dumb question but does providing the number offer

Re: [newbie] KDE2.0 question

2000-07-19 Thread Mark Weaver
Frank, I'm there! I can't wait to see it. How much is it going to effect my current KDE installation. I don't use KDE heavily, but my wife does and she really likes it's functionality. She left windows kickin and screamin and didn't stop until I showed her KDE could look and feel just like

Re: [Re: [newbie]Report on the Text v. HTML postings]

2000-07-19 Thread Eric MC.D
I think he hate his wife also, if has one ! Oliver Stieber wrote: [rant on] I hate html mail, it has funny colours that heart my eyes, doesn't cut and past properly, links upto nasty web sites, tries to download stuff off of the web, and means that my mail client needs to load another

Re: [newbie] Internet sharing

2000-07-19 Thread Pedro _
Hi Allan I have no experience to share internet with linux yet... See: http://www.linuxtopia.com/learnto/teach.shtml?ipmask and http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Networking/IPmasq/pages/ Those are step-by-step specific instructions, not general manuals. I hope this help you Bye pedro

Re: [newbie] KDE2.0 question

2000-07-19 Thread Mark Weaver
So...um...how does a person begin to go about installing KDE2? I'm in the process of downloading all the RPM's that are listed on the page for it. Which one get's run first? -- Mark ** Registered Linux user # 182496 ** On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, frank wrote: On Wed, 19 Jul

Re: [newbie] Printscreen?

2000-07-19 Thread patrick darcy
is there one for kde On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 11:24:47PM -0700, Rob Ogilvie wrote: or even Paint. I am lost as to what to do in Linux, though. If you're using GNOME, then there's a small applet to just do that: ScreenShoter. You'll find it in Applets-Utilities. It's small, and

Re: [newbie] need replacment for kppp

2000-07-19 Thread Gary
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 06:20:50PM -0400 or thereabouts, Mark Weaver wrote: Is it configurable to dial on demand? Mark, From what I remember, when I was using SuSE, before Mandrake, it is configurable to dial on demand. I just don't remember. I comes standard with SuSE 6.4, and in fact, they

[newbie] test

2000-07-19 Thread Gary
I have sent 2 messages over 8 hours ago, and it has not hit the group yet. I wonder what is going on. Gary

[newbie] kmail test

2000-07-19 Thread excalibur
kmail test

[newbie] test posting: want to check posting in kmail

2000-07-19 Thread excalibur
testing kmail.

Re: [newbie] List archives

2000-07-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, you wrote: Hello all, I have seen reference here to the list archives, and I was wondering where I could access these? Thanks! - Joe :) http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ on the left side under 'support' you'll see 'mailing lists'. That where ya go to