Re: [[newbie] Pine Config]

2000-08-07 Thread Mark Weaver
I don't think so. You pretty much have to use fetchmail and postfix to fetch the mail from pop3, and IMAP servers. Pine was designed primarily as an intranet (LAN mail system) where it accesses the mail from the local mail spool. -- Mark

Re: [newbie] TOSHIBA SATELLITE PRO 4200 MDK 7.1

2000-08-07 Thread carjam
there is a generic driver for the display. its laptop display panel (res). Try useing generic vga16 or something like that for video card. - Original Message - From: fabrizio ravazzini [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 11:04 AM Subject: [newbie]

Re: [newbie] Using MDK7.1 and BootMagic

2000-08-07 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Romanator wrote: [snip] The following is confusing me: BootMagic help file indicates that if I add lilo to Linux it should appear. However, the MDK7.1 installation of the workstation never prompted me for lilo and where to install. How can I do this? [snip] Romanmake sure the first line

[newbie] 7.1 and USB keyboard

2000-08-07 Thread John Gist
My install of 7.1 was going along fine till it came time to type in passwords. Thats when I realized my USB keyboard was dead. Is there some way to force it to see the keyboard? Am I going to have to go buy another keyboard? John -- "Hold on, I feel an Echelon Moment coming on... pipe bomb,

Re: [newbie] KDE

2000-08-07 Thread carjam
When you login, assuming you are loging in from the graphical login screen, there is a drop-down menu to select desktop. - Original Message - From: Steve Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 12:07 PM Subject: [newbie] KDE I installed Linux

[newbie] installazione pacchetto DrakConf

2000-08-07 Thread Maurizio Conti
Ciao, ho installato la mandrake 7.1, ma al momento di scegliere i pacchetti da installare ho saltato il DrakConf. Ora non so come effettuare le varie configurazione della risoluzione dello schermo e della scheda audio. Come posso installare soltanto il drakConf senza reinstallare tutto da capo?

Re: [newbie] Location of Netscape Messenger?

2000-08-07 Thread Paul
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, RJS II wrote: Anyone know where I can find the executable for Netscape Messenger? I guess it is part of the executable of Netscape Navigator. Paul -- We live like robots. This requires nerves of steel!! )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ

Re: [newbie] Refresh rates / Screen quiver

2000-08-07 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
you can fix the refresh rates in DrakConf with the Xconfigurator options in the top left. Be careful though! Read your monitors documentation and enter exactly what it says. I did this and my monitor/video behavor in linux improved 100%. Good Luck! Dacia --- Ian McLeod [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Printer won't print ?!

2000-08-07 Thread Joan Tur
Hallo! When i use kernel 2.4.0-test4 instead of 2.2.15 that comes with Mandrake 7.0 / 7.1 (i've recently upgraded) my printer doesn't print any more. No problems come out; it just does nothing. My printer is a Lexmark 5700, and i use a modified ghostcript 5.10 that recognizes it (in bw mode); if

Re: [newbie] Gnapster (continued)...

2000-08-07 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
The issue with the record companies seems to be the Quality level of MP3's. Its the whole "tapes from the radio mostly sound like garbage and so do tapes of CD's, other tapes, records etc. but MP3's (can) retain the same quality level as the original recording." thing. Speaking as a musician,

Re: [newbie] Using NDK7.1 and BootMagic

2000-08-07 Thread Joan Tur
Romanator escribi: I just installed BootMagic. I would like to add MDK7.1 to the list of other OSs. The main OS is WinNT4. It would be nice to add Linux MDK7.1. Has any one succeeded? If you have, please let me know. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 I've mounted /boot in a separate

[newbie] Mandrake 7.1 themes?

2000-08-07 Thread The Chief
Hi I recently upgraded from 7.0 to 7.1 lost all my good Themes!! Has anyone Had that problem!

Re: [newbie] Gnapster (continued)...

2000-08-07 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
I've read that "unknown" artists are VERY VERY rarely downloaded from Napster according to its own statistics. Something like 1-5% of all downloads are for unknown musicians songs. Dacia --- Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought that all those bands were so rich that they could afford a

RE: [newbie] I made a mistake

2000-08-07 Thread John I. Azeke
Try doing an c:fdisk /mbr after booting your system into DOS with your Windows Startup disk. -Original Message- From: Liangyu Wang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 1:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] I made a mistake Hi, I installed Mandrake 7.1

[newbie] Booting Windows with LILO

2000-08-07 Thread John I. Azeke
I sent this yesterday, but have not seen it posted, so I'l try again: Hello, I am running Mandrake 7.1 on a Tyan Tiger 133 Dual Pentium III MB with one 800EB PIII Porcessor, 128 MB RAM, Diamond Viper V770Ultra Video. I have two hard drives: one with two windows partitions and the other with

[newbie] LinuxConf Sendmail.cf

2000-08-07 Thread Joseph Lee Pereira
Unfortunately I need to use linuxconf to generate a sendmail.cf file. Linuxconf points to /usr/lib/linuxconf/mailconf to get the info to generate it's sendmail.cf file. Problem is those old files generate a 8.8.7 sendmail.cf file. I have Sendmail 8.10.1; I need to have linuxconf use the

[newbie] PPP in Gnome

2000-08-07 Thread Jose Alberto Abreu
Hello people... I was reading in MandrekeUser.org about "GnomePPP" This is supposedly part of the "Gnome Networking" package, but I cant find it anywhere... Any pointers would be appreciated...Im using Mandrake 7.0 and Helix Gnome -- ___

Re: [newbie] Linux resources online

2000-08-07 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
chill out dude. We talk about all things hardware/computer related on this list. Education of all kinds happens here. That's a big part of the beauty of this list. Dacia --- Frank Nazario [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [since I received only 35 Newbie on the 25th,

[newbie] voodoo5 and 7.1

2000-08-07 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
I am building a new computer this coming week. I'm wondering if anyone has any of this hardware and what kinds of issues you had if you do. Here's the proposed configuration: ASUS A7V motherboard Duron 600 CPU 3dfx VooDoo5 Western Digital 17.4 gig HD UDMA66 those are the pieces that I'm

Re: [newbie] Passwords

2000-08-07 Thread Josh
I recently came home to discover that all my passwords are changed... I installed Star Office and that happened to me. I removed it, and my passwords worked again. I don't know why though.

Re: [newbie] Star Office Install

2000-08-07 Thread maxtor
To install this type of file: From a console window cd to the directory where the s0-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin file resides type ./s0-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin and installation should begin. Hope this helps Maxtor

Re: [newbie] Gnapster (continued)...

2000-08-07 Thread Romanator
Robert McNealy wrote: Hmmm..the owners (bands in this case)usually see little if none of the record sales revenue. Most musicians ONLY make money from the touring and merchandise sales. Anyways, they should sue the bootleggers, i.e., the people who download the music. Napster is not

Re: [newbie] M$ Free

2000-08-07 Thread Romanator
Doug McGarrett wrote: At 07:47 PM 07/29/2000 -0500, you wrote: Today I successfully installed Mandrake 7.1 (Maximum Linux Disk) on a 3+ gig partition that used to hold a useless Win98 installation. /snip/ . One thing that blows me away is how clean and sharp the display *looks*. The

Re: [newbie] No messages for 2 days

2000-08-07 Thread Romanator
Marcia Waller wrote: Yes, I have noticed the dry-spells. I think the problem has gone beyond this group. My other email was not getting through either. I called Cox Internet tech service and they were blaming ATT for a routing problem. Marcia - Original Message - From: Tim [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] M$ Free

2000-08-07 Thread Larry Hignight
My cell phone will cause one of my monitors screen to sort of ripple maybe? Larry Doug McGarrett wrote: At 07:47 PM 07/29/2000 -0500, you wrote: Today I successfully installed Mandrake 7.1 (Maximum Linux Disk) on a 3+ gig partition that used to hold a useless Win98 installation.

Re: [newbie] Zip Drive

2000-08-07 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, Thank you very much for all of your wonderful suggestions for the zip drive. I will try them. Also, someone asked me to post my /etc/fstab file so here it is:/dev/hdc/mnt/zip msdos user,exec,dev,suid,rw,conv=auto,uid=501,gid=100,umask=0,opt1=va1,opt2=none,o pt3,opt4=2 1 1

[newbie] Re:Quicken

2000-08-07 Thread Marcia Waller
Thank you very much for the gnucash web page and information. I actually was able to download this within 5 minutes on my Windows side then used kpackage(within Linux of course) to install it which it did with absolutely no problem. It looks like it was just what I was looking for. I think this

Re: [newbie] looking for good apps

2000-08-07 Thread Larry Hignight
snip 1. A file manager of the type Windows Commander. That means I would like something that has: a) two file windows and *no* directory tree (that's why I don't use the KDE file manager) I use/like KDE so I'll leave this alone For kde you can use konquerer which does

Re: [newbie] How to start dosemu?

2000-08-07 Thread Darryl Gibson
Jeff Malka wrote: Running Mandrake 7.1 When I type dosemu or dosemu -C (as a book suggested) in a KDE console, I get "command not found". How does one start dosemu? Check your permissions, when I tried that I found NOBODY had permission to execute dosemu. And I left it at that, this

[newbie] *delicate cough*

2000-08-07 Thread Kathleen Dickason
Oh dear. I am going off-topic here, but I can't help myself... "Robert McNealy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nobody "froces" anyone to sell their company. That is a business decision, most often for the best of the business-owner. Microsoft has the clout to "buy" its expertise. None of

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Re: [newbie] Re:XConfigurating a Monitor

2000-08-07 Thread cilia
THANKS STEVE I WILL TRY THAT.. Steve Gallagher wrote: Dear People, Would appreciate any help on the above. I am a newcomer and am having a lot of grieve installing an Acer or even a Generic monitor on 6.5 Ver LinuxMandrake. I have an sis 6326 Graphics Card and it seems that

Re: [newbie] Updating kernel w/ Mandrake Updater

2000-08-07 Thread Ian McLeod
First, I would suggest that you download the RPM file rather than use the updater (I read this in the update program or somewhere, can't remember) Then install the kernel with RPM or Kpackage, so on. Then, enter 'root' and edit your /etc/lilo.conf file, which is where you found the new entries.

RE: [newbie] Resize partition

2000-08-07 Thread Mark Weaver
yeah... :) sure there is, but you may not want to do it when you read my post titles "Oooops." Doing on the fly as I have sadly learned is a REAL bad thing to do. It leads to terrible things like the kernel not being able to mount the file system and other terminal illnesses that can and just

Re: [newbie] AOL for Linux

2000-08-07 Thread carjam
I think AOL uses this annoying client software, so you cant get to to connect on linux. Either dump linux(bad idea) or dump aol(good idea). There are lots of free isps now, so you can save some money while your at it. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Numlock - on full time

2000-08-07 Thread poogle
The rpm is installed on my system (must have been done by default during installation - I didn't do it). Numlock light came on during boot but X apparently killed it when it started. Obviously too late to try usr/X11R6/bin/enable_X11_numlock in autostart now as I've already enabled it to come on

Re: [newbie] No messages for 2 days

2000-08-07 Thread Paul
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Andrew Scotchmer wrote: Just to add my two pennies worth. Yesterday i sent an e-mail to this news group and it has been returned as address unknown Just whats going on? The mailserver is on strike. It wants better working conditions, paid days off and a female

Re: [newbie] How can I configure MDK7.1 with another OS using BootMagic?

2000-08-07 Thread Paul
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Romanator wrote: Has any one been successful configuring Linux Mandrake 7.1 and another OS such as WinNT4? BootMagic recognizes Windows NT4 but I cannot recognize Linux. Should I run fdisk /MBR and rerun the Linux installation? Any success out there with BootMagic and

Re: [newbie] Linux Digital Cameras

2000-08-07 Thread Paul
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, mrc wrote: In trying to configure gphoto, I discover that it want a com port specified. I assume that means that this program does not have the capability of taking images off a flash card using the floppy drive adapter. Right? I agree. Gphoto ack's the presence of my Casio

Re: [newbie] testing

2000-08-07 Thread Paul
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just testing the list And doing a helluva job on it. Does this mean the list passed? If so, LET'S PARTY!!! :o) (See, already brought the funny nose ;-) Paul -- Babies are nature's way to make people meet the world. At 2am. )0([[EMAIL

Re: [newbie] No messages for 2 days

2000-08-07 Thread Paul
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root wrote: You and me both. I've just received a copy of a post I made five days ago (Sunday)! It's getting better. Just got a post back that I sent 3 days ago! :) Paul -- Babies are nature's way to make people meet the world. At 2am.

Re: [newbie] icewm

2000-08-07 Thread Paul
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Mike Tracy Holt wrote: Hello all, I installed some new RPMS which changed my desktop to icewm and in haste, I did switchdesk kde to get my old desktop back. Now I would like to go back to icewm and play with it a little - is there a quick way to do this without

Re: [newbie] transferring files from linux to windows

2000-08-07 Thread Paul
On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, KompuKit wrote: Is there a way to transfer webpages (i.e. html,gif,jpg,) over to windows...BUT, leave the "type case" untouched? I think that mcopy would do what you need. the Mtools are a package to make copying from FAT16/32 drives to EXT2 drives easy. Paul -- Babies

Re: [newbie] Dual fs's on a Zip drive?

2000-08-07 Thread Paul
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Mike Tracy Holt wrote: Is it possible to mount a Zip drive with 2 filesystems? In other words, both ext2 and vfat? I have mine setup where you (as root) can right-click on the Zip icon and pick either fs type. However, my user account can not do this, because you must be