Re: [newbie-it] avviare applicazioni al boot

2000-08-09 Thread michel
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Davide wrote: Vorrei far partire direttamente al boot wwwoffle. Per farlo partire io do da shell: wwwoffled -c wwwoffle.conf Come posso fare per far sì che questo sia una cosa automatica? Si possono aggiungere script in /etc/rc.d/init.d? Come? lo devi aggiungere

Re: [newbie-it] avviare applicazioni al boot

2000-08-09 Thread Fabio Coatti
From: "Davide" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 3:07 PM Subject: [newbie-it] avviare applicazioni al boot Vorrei far partire direttamente al boot wwwoffle. Per farlo partire io do da shell: wwwoffled -c wwwoffle.conf Come posso fare per far sì che

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[newbie-it] isdn configuration

2000-08-09 Thread Gigi Cyber
The only thing i know about my isdn adapter is the manufacturer (Taicom), and the chip (Winbond).Mandrake 7.1 allow the configuration trough Drakconf or must i use text mode?(and i'd like to learn it soon!! :-)) My computer: Celeron 400,128Mb Ram,asusp2bf,riva tnt,creative soundblaster 64(ensoniq

Re: [newbie-it] grub

2000-08-09 Thread Fabio Coatti
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 03:20:18PM +0200, Gigi Cyber wrote: i've just installed mandrake 7.1, and i want to use bootmagic as boot manager.so i choosed to install lilo in the /boot partition (dev hda 7), but i've found grub.:-( I've used standard installation. Someone can help me? Well,

[newbie-it] richiesta consigli per vari programmi

2000-08-09 Thread Daniele
Ciao, qualcuno saprebbe essere cosi gentile da indicarmi: 1) Un client e-mail il più possibile simile ad Eudora Pro, che gestisca caselle multiple? 2) Un news-reader il più possibile simile all'Agent? 3) Un programma per visualizzare filmati in mpeg1 e mpeg2 tipo il Power Dvd? Ritengo infatti

[newbie-it] Alcune domande.

2000-08-09 Thread Mulder
Salve a tutti , probabilmente i mie sono problemi leggeri, ma sono in difficoltà su due fronti: - il primo masterizzando con Gcombust mi ritrovo con un pugno di mosche nel senso che l'operazione sembra partire normalmente poi in realtà non è stato copiato un solo byte nonostante il

Re: [newbie] free internet (Freewwweb is gone)

2000-08-09 Thread Michelle Schneider
For anyone that doesn't already know, Freewwweb is gone. I used Freewwweb for several months. If you go to their website now, you're told to download Juno Web to continue to have free internet. Does anyone know of any other free isp's that are Linux friendly? I tried 1 Nation Online

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

2000-08-09 Thread Vic
Hmmm. Yeah now that I visit mp3.com it seems like they are more likely to be found on mp3.com than Napster although they seem to me to be equally present on both systems. On Sat, 05 Aug 2000, you wrote: I've read that "unknown" artists are VERY VERY rarely downloaded from Napster according to

RE: [newbie] free internet

2000-08-09 Thread Wilson
freewwweb is out of business. They're switching users to Juno. Wilson -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of KompuKit Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2000 12:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] free internet try: www.freewwweb.com

Re: [newbie] Linux Digital Cameras

2000-08-09 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
If you're able to connect some kind of adapter to get files from your floppy drive, then you would just mount the floppy drive and load the pictures that way. gphoto is just for connecting a camera to the computer and downloading pictures directly from that camera. Mike In trying to configure

Re: [newbie] Novell servers

2000-08-09 Thread Neal F. Carrier
On 5 Aug 2000, at 4:47, LINUX_0 wrote: There is no problem !!! Do you know the ncpfs packet ?? ah no, what is it??? With the ncp file system packet you can mount and umount entire novell servers on anywhere of your Linux tree. HOW? And yu can see the print servers, delete print jobs,

[newbie] Changing Swap File Space

2000-08-09 Thread Bodiddly65
Can anyone tell me how I can harmlessly change my Swap File Partition Size?

Re: [newbie] AOL for Linux

2000-08-09 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
I haven't tried, but I don't think it's possible because AOL uses their own proprietary browser to access their services. Ask them if they will give you dns numbers (don't tell them it's for linux) and a dial up number though and you might be able to set it up with kppp or equivalent. You might

Re: [newbie] Updating kernel w/ Mandrake Updater

2000-08-09 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
Victor Richardson wrote: Are there any extra steps to updating the kernel other than running the Mandrake Updater? Also, /etc/lilo had a section for the new kernels, but included a commented line that said something like "# Add using install-kernel". Which, of course, I did not do

Re: [newbie] KDE's Trash Can

2000-08-09 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
Wow! Take it easy, eh? I think it was just question. Mike The idea of **NOT** dropping everything you choose to **DELETE** into the recycle/trash bin, is that the user is **SMART** enough to judge whether he/she really wants to delete that particular file. The same idea behind the KDE

[newbie] Gnome taskbar

2000-08-09 Thread Corrado
Hello! There something wrong with the gnome (Helix 1.2.1 - Mandrake 7.1) taskbar on my user desktop: nothing appear on the right side, where I'm used to find listed all the running apps... As root, all seems to be okay, however... Corrado

[newbie] Netscape and rpmlib problem

2000-08-09 Thread Hugh
I downloaded the 128 bit version of Netscape. When I open kpackage and try to install the common files it says that I need "rpmlib 3.0.3-1 I am running 7.1 and had assumed Netscape would install without problems. What does rpmlib do anyway?

[newbie] why SMTP and POP at the same time

2000-08-09 Thread duncan
Hello all Not sure what is going on but using MDK7.0 and kppp with PAP am able to log on to web fine but dont seem to be getting the mail I dont think. When either in netscape or Kmail I request mail Answer = There Are no new messages on server. I also get this message from my Isp quite often.

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

2000-08-09 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
Hey, an album is not a days work. It is months, sometimes years, of work for a large group of people. It takes years to learn to play an instrument. It takes just as long to learn how to run a mixing board/recording studio. It is inaccurate to view an album as something that is done in an

[newbie] Mandrake not using Xfree86 4.0

2000-08-09 Thread Andrew Schaefer
I remember seeing something about this maybe a month ago, but can't find any reference to it now. What do I need to change so that I can use the 4.0 version of X rather than the 3.x version that it defaults to? I did install it and ask to use it, but it's using the 3.x version instead. Thanks!

Re: [newbie] Novell servers

2000-08-09 Thread Greg Stewart
www.linux.org has a search engine for the HOW-TOs. If you search "novell" you'll find an s-load of documents all about linux-novell connectivity. Somewhere in there is a guid to setup novell log in (works just like the MS-NWLink Client, I believe). --Greg Yes, Paul that's correct. They're

[newbie] Mandrake 7.0 root login problems

2000-08-09 Thread John Stevens
Hi Everyone I'm having difficulty trying to login as root with my current Mandrake 7.0 installation. I recently purchased a magazine which had Mandrake 7.0 on it's cover CD and I follwed instructions to install it on my free hard drive. DrakX constantly stalled during the installation setup

Re: [newbie] Resuming downloads?

2000-08-09 Thread Kit Goins
there's a app called: NT downloader...I have the latest version on my server's website...in my downloads Linux section... On Sat, 05 Aug 2000, you wrote: Also you can use 'snarf', a command-line utility that allows to resume downloads. And better solution i think, is the use of the 'nohup'

RE: [newbie] Linux resources online

2000-08-09 Thread webmaster
1960's - Used crayons to color in punch cards while waiting in the computer room. 1976 - In high school we did some time sharing. 1979 - The college I attended thought they should start teaching this PC stuff. 1983 - Finally owned my own PC 1988 - Thought I knew enough to own my own

[newbie] slow sound playing

2000-08-09 Thread Przemyslaw M. Maciolek
Hello, I've got some problems with sound. MP3's are playing 2 times slower, like "slow-motion" movie. Now I have Mandrake 7.1 Sound card seems to be set properly. I've been trying both sndconfig (drivers were loaded as modules) and kernel compilation (i set up everything ok) and the result was

Re: [newbie] Helix Gnome

2000-08-09 Thread Greg Stewart
Sorry, I answered out of order... 3. Do you like Helix Gnome? 4. Do you recommend it? There are a lot of critics out there which have said the only thing they don't like about Mandrake 7.1 is the fact that Mandrake chose NOT to use Helix-Gnome in their distro. Some people,

[newbie] Yahoo

2000-08-09 Thread Corrado
Hi, all. Sometimes happens that Netscape fail to load the Yahoo chat room... only sometimes! And, for some reason, there's no option to load the HTML chat, instead; but if I'm running Mozilla, I *can* see that choice on the site... so, have you experienced the same strange behaviour? And, could

Re: [newbie] Helix Gnome

2000-08-09 Thread =*=
I tried doing the Helix download thing recently. It got part of the way into the download then quit on a segmentation fault, complaining of something to do with a missing "gtkhtml" file. Anyone know what's up with that? Phil On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Roger Pithers wrote: Jim Dwyer wrote: Is

RE: [newbie] Linux4windows

2000-08-09 Thread Romanator
I got the same message when I used the lilo boot floppy to boot linux. Kernel Panic:VFS:unable to mount root FS on 07:07 Roman Registered Linux User #179293 -Original Message- From: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2000 8:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] AOL for Linux

2000-08-09 Thread Steve Weltman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anyway that anyone knows to get AOL set up on a linux operating system(Mandrake 7.1) Thanks in advance ~Lance Why is it you would like to put training wheels on a fighter-jet? Honestly, I would look for an ISP in your local area that will support your new

[newbie] Linux on NeXT?

2000-08-09 Thread Kathleen Dickason
I've heard that there's a way to run Linux on a NeXT box...has anyone heard about this? I'm just curious; I wouldn't want to get rid of NeXTStep! Thanks -- Kathleen Dickason Registered Linux user #182139

Re: [newbie] XFree problem on Thinkpad 600X

2000-08-09 Thread Steve Weltman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Steve, I have managed to successfully install LM 7.1 on the thinkpad. I got a link to a Neomagic X server which I installed and then it all went very well. It's now working with internal and external monitors and the sound is also working. Thanks for any help

RE: [newbie] Linux resources online

2000-08-09 Thread Romanator
Ah the good 'ol days. Things have gotten so complicated. I have to admit hardware and software have come a long way... It's still nice to look back. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Daniel Bodanske Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2000 3:32 AM

Re: [newbie] LM 7.1 Gnome applications -- Where?

2000-08-09 Thread Alan Shoemaker
BenjaminYipes! There you go again!! There's no difference in the iso image, the mirror tree, the GPL CD's, the Mandrake installation and extended CD's, and the Macmillan installation and extended CD's. You probably installed the downloaded 7.1 as an upgrade and the boxed set from Macmillan

Re: [newbie] No messages for 2 days

2000-08-09 Thread Kathleen Dickason
I don't, but I am getting the same thing. Reminds me of the dear old FidoNet days! :~) (Which doesn't mean it's not a pain in the butt.) Tim wrote: The list does seem to go it "fits and starts" with FLOODS sometimes and total dry-spells in between. Anyone know why? --tim --

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

2000-08-09 Thread Wilson
After I installed Mandrake 7.1 I had to set up the boot from Linux for it to work in boot magic. Don't know why but it worked for me. Wilson -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2000 12:37 PM To:

[newbie] [Newbie] - Unable to get The network settings for @home

2000-08-09 Thread Joe M.
Greetings, I am new to Linux.. (as you will be able to get but I am not new to networking, and computers) I am attempting to get mandrake Linux 7.1 installed on a p-166 64m, Realtek RTL8029 NIC, and connected to a cheap-ass 10-base hub which is also connected to a cable modem and that's how

RE: [newbie] Using Mandrake's GUI install components after install?

2000-08-09 Thread Romanator
Carroll, If you are interested in books from Que such as: Upgrading and Repairing PCs - Linux Edition The Multi-Boot Configuration Handbook Partition Magic Special Edition, including other softwares come with book and CD. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 -Original Message- From:

Re: [newbie] Linux resources online

2000-08-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Daniel Bodanske wrote: My first job was selling Sanyo 8086 and 8088s back in 84, and I started programming on tandies in 81 Hi Daniel. Cut my teeth on an old Atari 800XL. Remember those? ;-) -- /\

Re: [newbie] Using Mandrake's GUI install components after install?

2000-08-09 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
If you buy a copy of Upgrading repairing PCs: Linux edition by Que publishing you will get a free FULL version of partition magic and boot magic. The book costs 47.99 at amazon right now. ISBN # 0789720752 Its a great book. Dacia --- Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL

[newbie] CDDB file

2000-08-09 Thread C Nielsen
I've had great success with making music CDs with Gtoaster and the only question I have is how to create a file list with the songs on the the Cd so the cd player shows the listing of the songs...any ideas?

[newbie] 36 hours to post

2000-08-09 Thread Gary
On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 11:47:42AM -0500 or thereabouts, Gary wrote: It has taken this reply 36 hours to reach this group. This happens all the time on this group. lone. I have been on it for over a month, and it has stayed the same. What is wrong? Why does the mail consistently take this

Re: [newbie] Linux Friendly ISP's

2000-08-09 Thread Barry Premeaux
=*= wrote: Illuminati Online (my ISP) is very Linux-friendly. It runs on RedHat. Best ISP I have ever used. Too bad it only serves Houston and Austin, Texas. As for free ISP's, they mostly suck. I used Freewwweb once in Linux, and all I had to do was add their phone number and my

Re: [newbie] Refresh rates / Screen quiver

2000-08-09 Thread Paul
On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: Windoze hardly ever has a problem with monitors, since no matter what you choose as the monitor manufacturer or model, you'll either get monitor.inf, or monitor2.inf, both of which under-drive most all monitors (and video cards). Ah! That is why the

Re: [newbie] Linux resources online

2000-08-09 Thread Nickolas Koehne
I have a few things to add in response to angry responses born from this particular thread. How can we know we are going less we understand where we came from? It is by which we take ideas and concepts already realized to found better and greater ideas. -Darkeyes - Original Message -

Re[2]: [newbie] Refresh rates / Screen quiver

2000-08-09 Thread Steve Howes
On Sat, 5 Aug 2000 08:19:40 -0500 it was written: Many monitor manufacturers overstate their product specs, and 'Hz' are always ± Damn near all the time, even junk monitors will do 1280x... @ 60Hz (17" ), so that's usually a good choice if you're not sure, or your monitor doesn't wanna

[newbie] Pine Config -- Easy Solution!

2000-08-09 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: This incredibly easy and fully effective way to configure Pine comes to you (and me) courtesy of Ramon Gandia, one of the great gurus on our list: 1) Install Pine. It should, of course, come already installed on your Linux machine. 2) Type "pine" on the command line (without the

[newbie] More PMfirewall questions?

2000-08-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Okay, I've been playing around with PMfirewall for a bit now. I did grab the ipchains (not ip_chains!!!) RPM and install it, so ipchains is in /sbin. I did a sh install.sh from the pmfirewall-1.1.4 folder, and the script starts. It does find ipchains now. I have a few questions about the

RE: [newbie] WinModem

2000-08-09 Thread Kam Panesar
I have not had a problem with mandrake 7.1 and the modem below on my Compaq laptop. Strange. Having said that RedHat didn't like it at all. Kam -Original Message- From: Greg Stewart [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2000 3:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: [newbie] SB Live drivers

2000-08-09 Thread Mark Hillary
Right on all f this about sounddrake and sblives. What I have figured is that SBlives are usally setupfine out of the box, when you install. Now if you start harddrake and go to sound drake, it messes up the /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer files so it no longer works. In mandrake 7.1 there is another

Re: [newbie] I made a mistake

2000-08-09 Thread Mark Hillary
you want to get rid of the one you put in to config file. because you windows partion is not on hda1, but is on hda. The bit of windows that boots is right at the start of the drive. BTW if you do what John siad, you will know longer be able to start linux. The thing to do is read the help, that

Re[2]: [newbie] Location of Netscape Messenger?

2000-08-09 Thread Przemyslaw M. Maciolek
Hello Paul, Saturday, August 05, 2000, 11:47:43 PM, you wrote: P On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, RJS II wrote: Anyone know where I can find the executable for Netscape Messenger? P I guess it is part of the executable of Netscape Navigator. P Paul yes, as i know, you run netscape with some options.

[newbie] Mandrake 7.0 'root' login problems

2000-08-09 Thread John Stevens
Hi Everyone I recently purchased a magazine with Linux Madrake 7.0 on it's cover CD. I was very excited about it because of the reviews I had read about Mandrake and I couldn't wait to install it on a free hard drive of mine. The first problem I had was using cdrom.img which allowed

Re: [newbie] PPP in Gnome

2000-08-09 Thread Roger Pithers
Jose Alberto Abreu wrote: 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 Jose, You can get GnomePPP

Re: [newbie] Using Mandrake's GUI install components after install?

2000-08-09 Thread christopher . perry
Carroll Grigsby wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where can i get partion magic for free? The short answer is, "You can't." It's a commercial program -- about $50.00. It's very powerful, easy to use (considering what it does), and has a good reputation for not screwing up your data.

[newbie] Building Binary RPMS from SRPMS

2000-08-09 Thread Power Bandwidth
Configuration: Asus P2B-F, 256MB, Ensonic 128, Voodoo 3DFX 3000. I have tried building i686 RPMS from the source RPMS, SRPMS, with some luck. There are about 40% of them I have trouble with. I just tried: # rpm --rebuild gnapster-1.3.10-2mdk.src.rpm It continues fine until: checking for

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

2000-08-09 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 06:58:43AM -0500, Vic wrote: After all, I do not know of any place where you can rent a CD like you do a video movie. Well, here in Germany you can just go to the video rent shop and also rent a CD. You also used to be able to rent computer games some years ago.

[newbie] Printer won't print ?! Yes!

2000-08-09 Thread Joan Tur
Hi! Forget my following message (with 2.4.0test5 and same configuration ok!): Joan Tur escribi: 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

Re: [newbie] Linux resources online

2000-08-09 Thread carjam
I still have some old 8086 machines. I figure they might be worth something in a few decades. I also have old amstrad z80s. If anyone thinks its not worth it, look up the price of the sinclair spetrum. Collecters item. - Original Message - From: Daniel Bodanske [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [newbie] Refresh rates / Screen quiver

2000-08-09 Thread carjam
actually, a tv doesn't have resution or color death. Its analog, it has only x resution and unlimited color deaph. - Original Message - From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2000 2:19 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Refresh rates / Screen quiver

[newbie] Free SimCity

2000-08-09 Thread Ricardo Núñez
Hello, Is there any free SimCity Game which I could install in my Linux Mandrake? -- Saludos, Ing. Ricardo Núñez Webmaster de la DST Universidad Simón Bolívar E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Location of Netscape Messenger?

2000-08-09 Thread Ricardo Núñez
Paul wrote: On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, RJS II wrote: Anyone know where I can find the executable for Netscape Messenger? Run "netscape -mail" I guess it is part of the executable of Netscape Navigator. Paul -- We live like robots. This requires nerves of steel!! )0([[EMAIL

Re: [newbie] transferring files from linux to windows

2000-08-09 Thread Ricardo Núñez
KompuKit wrote: Is there a way to transfer webpages (i.e. html,gif,jpg,) over to windows...BUT, leave the "type case" untouched? In other words, upon trying to transfer these types of files to windows...using copy/paste method...in KFM... it completes the exchange...but when I go look

Re: [newbie] X configuration

2000-08-09 Thread GAPrichard
I'm new and need to know how to approach things. What did you do, look at, experiment with, etc. I'm also behind, so pardon me if this has been asked already. -Gary- In a message dated 8/2/2000 7:41:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: you have to keep working

Re: [newbie] Linux resources online

2000-08-09 Thread GAPrichard
Since you took the time and trouble to "respond" for everyone's edification, I will respond to you [and, everyone, I'm lengthy but I hope others of you will find this interesting]. In the post that I responded to we were talking about microprocessors. Doesn't your computer use a