Re: [newbie-it] richiesta consigli per vari programmi

On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Daniele wrote: Ciao, qualcuno saprebbe essere cosi gentile da indicarmi: 1) Un client e-mail il più possibile simile ad Eudora Pro, che gestisca caselle multiple? kmail se non erro 2) Un news-reader il più possibile simile all'Agent? knews ??? 3) Un programma per

Re: [newbie-it] backup

From: "Davide" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 11:01 PM Subject: [newbie-it] backup Attualmente uso Mandrake7.0. Vorrei fare l'upgrade alla 7.1, prima però vorrei fare un backup completo del mio sistema usando un masterizzatore RW. Non ho idea di come

[newbie-it] netscape

Salve a tutti, sono nuovo un pò di tutto, ho installato mandarke 7.1, sonon riuscito a trovare un modem che funzionasse , si connette, accede alla rete, ma qunado apro il browser non carica la pagina, ..devo fare qualcosa che non so , link ...???

Re: [newbie-it] netscape

On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: no, adesso provo. grazie Salve a tutti, sono nuovo un pò di tutto, ho installato mandarke 7.1, sonon riuscito a trovare un modem che funzionasse , si connette, accede alla rete, ma qunado apro il browser non carica la pagina, ..devo

Re: [newbie-it] netscape

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 10:30 AM Subject: [newbie-it] netscape l'errore precisamente è : netscape is unamle to locate the server home.netscape.com insieme a : warning:the following host are unknow hom.netscape.com,home6.netscape.com internic.net e poi dice

[newbie] Is it possible to configure the Diamond Viper II graphics card on Mandrake 7.1

Has any one been able to configure the Diamond Viper II. I can get it to work with a generic driver but the resolution is so poor I don't even want to use my computer. If someone has this card working with good resolution please help me with the cofiguration. I'm new to Linux so I don't

Re: [newbie] Booting Windows with LILO

On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, John I. Azeke wrote: 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 Mandrake. I have tried to boot windows

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

On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Dacia and AzureRose wrote: Speaking as a musician, I've never heard an MP3 that didn't sound flat, compressed, uninspiring and insipid. I agree. I don't have many MP3 files, the ones I have are for evaluating music. When I like it, I get the CD. The sound quality stays

Re: [newbie] Linux resources online

On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Dacia and AzureRose wrote: 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. I agree. It is fun to learn about other things that are discussed here. We're not

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

I'm not sure that I agree with the whole sound quality thing. I've encoded a number of mp3's of the past year using grip/bladeEnc at 320. Everyone that I've had listen to both the mp3 and the original cd says that they can't tell the difference. Others say they can but the result is totally

[newbie] testing -please delete

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[newbie] IPChains

With Mandrake 7.1 I see Ipchains is started with the other startup items now. The question I have is where do the rules get put and does it get read when the chains are loaded? C Nielsen

[newbie] 7.1, remove grub and fix my Windows 98 hard drive

Installed 7.1 this weekend. The install went much less smoothly than with 6.5 and 7.0. I have two hard disks, Mandrake 7.1 was installed on the second hard drive. LILO would not install, complained about some error on /dev/hda2. I then installed grub. It gets to the stage1 prompt and hangs.

[newbie] ls command not found

Title: ls command not found I have recently installed Mandrake 7.1. Everything works fine as the Root user. As any other user, I cannot do anything. In an Xterm, the ls command fails with command not found, as does any other command. Oddly enough, the programs on the menu work. The only

[newbie] freeramdisk

Hi, can anyone tell me what package contain "freeramdisk" ?? TXS Eric

Re: [newbie] HELP!!! PLEASE, I AM AT MY WITS END

You might want to try "cat /dev/sndstat" and not sndstart. 1. I can't seem to be able to configure my sound card to work with my motherboard(System Specifications at end), I am using a CM8738 Sound Card, which, ChenLi Tien, designed the driver that should work with the Linux Box, but I

[newbie] Fwd: [SLE] New wrist watch runs Linux!

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Re: [newbie] Helix Gnome

I have been using Helix GNOME for some time now, so I believe I am well qualified to answer your questions. Here goes... 1. I was running GNOME during the Helix GNOME installation. I was careful, though, not to run too many GNOME apps. All I had open was GMC and a few panel applets, just in

[newbie] GPG and PGP questions

Something I was wondering as I viewed the GPG web page. It says it supports all of these ciphers, Blowfish, Twofish, Cast, MD5, IDEA, and a bunch of other ones. So, which one to use? I personally doubt that they are all created equal. Which ones are the best? Dan

Re: [newbie] HELP!!! PLEASE, I AM AT MY WITS END

Kalu Chijioke wrote: Goodday All, Please I pray and hope anyone and I mean anyone can end up helping me resolve my problem. Do take time to read this, cause it's littered with a newbie request structure. I just acquired my Mandrake 6.1, having dumped my old Slackware 2.0 version.

[newbie] Helix Gnome Icons

Help me plz. I just installed helix gnome and it's workin great except for one thing. My desktop icons are all messed up. They are there and work, but the icons are all different and i can't change them back. HOWDOICHANGETHEICONFORTHELAUCNHERS THANKS -- Jim Dwyer Registered Linux User#

Re: [newbie] HELP!!! PLEASE, I AM AT MY WITS END

Kalu Chijioke wrote: Goodday All,Please I pray and hope anyone and I mean anyone can end up helping me resolve my problem.Do take time to read this, cause it's littered with a newbie request structure.I just acquired my Mandrake 6.1, having dumped my old Slackware 2.0 version. Hoping that the

[newbie] Changing Swap File Partition Space.

Hi folks, can anyone tell me how I can change my swap partition space? Thanks

[newbie] ISDN modem and firewalling rec

Hello All, I need an ISDN modem recommendation - never dealt with this before. I have implemented several cable firewalls without any significant difficulties. the small company i am employed with is required to have ISDN access per a Government contract they have, that's why.

[newbie] free and easy

Mandrake is so easy to install. I installed it today, on a compaq laptop, on the interstate, while I was driving, at 80 miles an hour. Woohoo!! It was just hard to see on the laptop display because it was really sunny.

Re: [newbie] Ipchains

ipchains doesn't do the dialing... pppd does. You can try to add the following lines to your /etc/ppp/options file if the kernel compiled on your system supports demand dial (it probably does): # To set the daemon for demand dialing demand # To satisfy an IP address until DHCP assigns

Re: [newbie] transferring files from linux to windows

KompuKit wrote: Is there a way to transfer webpages (i.e. html,gif,jpg,) over to windows...BUT, leave the "type case" untouched? I could have swore that I answered this one already ... anyway, just do this from the command line mkdir /home/username/temp mv (filenames) temp perhaps

[newbie] linuxconf gui

I have installed mdk7.1 on a 233MMX, 128mb, 15gb Intel platform. KDE works great. Got a home network, access router, cable modem, works prettydarn well,easy to set up, Webmin works from G4mac and WIN98 machines on the local net. Even thoughI've never messed with Linux before this, I thought

[newbie] 7.1 Kde Theme manager Problems!

Hi: I have 7.1 Online Complete mandrake Installed on a 3Gig HD on my AMD K6/2 500MMX machine I lost some of my Themes when when I went from my 7.0 to 7.1! ! tried to go to it's dir usr/share/apps/kthememanger but i get the following message! {Assert "Cncols" in widgets/qtable.cpp (1629)! Whats

Re: [newbie] transferring files from linux to windows

"cp -r /the/path/to/files/to_be/copied /the/destination/path" has always worked for me. Is there a way to transfer webpages (i.e. html,gif,jpg,) over to windows...BUT, leave the "type case" untouched? Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.

Re: [newbie] Pine Config

This is totally wrong. You can use it with POP, but just on one POP server. I have used it many times before I switched to MUTT which handles threading far better than Pine. Taken from the info of Pine, do this. In your setup config for inbox-path type:

Re: [newbie] Startup/Boot Options

I have the same probem...Everything is okay except that! I just unplug it and re plug it in. So cludgy! Steve W. - Original Message - From: "Brad Cenko" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 8:20 AM Subject: [newbie] Startup/Boot Options Hi, I

Re: [newbie] sharing an internet connection

You can use the firewall proxy agent which translates packets from a "private" network to a "public" network. Suggested reading for this is: FIREWALL-HOWTO, IP-MASQERADING-HOWTO, NETWORKING-HOWTO, IP-CHAINS-HOWTO. Once you read and write down your specific details on your notes, you will be able

[newbie] trouble with Mandrake 7.1 passwd

Hi, I recently installed mandrake 7.1...everything is smooth this far. after creating a regular user account, my problem is at when i tried to change the password. the passwd command return a message "Permission deny" after I typed in the new password twice. could someone point me to where I

[newbie] 7.1 Install fails to repartition disk.

This is a first time install from CD on a Toshiba Satellite 4060. It has a single primary DOS/Windows FAT32 partition occupying all of the 4GB disk. The install goes well in automatic install mode, up to the point where the system files are set up. It stops and displays my 4126MB partition

Re: [newbie] Ipchains

Hi Kelly... You will need a dialer program like kppp to dial your modem. You use ipchains to prevent users-hackers- (outside of your network) from using your resources through your dialup connection. Best of luck! Steve Weltman - Original Message - From: Kelly To:

RE: [newbie] Linux Friendly ISP's

Hello, I know this may be considered spam by some of you... but I also offer ISP services and would be willing to assist where I could with those of you who were interested in having a linux friendly ISP. My company is http://www.shai-net.com if any of you is interested. Warmest regards,

Re: [newbie] Network Firewall Question

Hi Paul... I just got on the mailing list of the PMFirewall. I will look at the software as well. Still having some trouble getting the IP-Masq'ing done from one interface to another. Let me know if there's any finepoints that I need to know. Thanks!! Steve Weltman - Original Message

Re: [newbie] TOSHIBA SATELLITE PRO 4200 MDK 7.1

Many thanks to Carjam, Eunice, Paul who helped me in resolving the problem of my notebook, now it works very well. UP Linux's. __ Do You Yahoo!? Il tuo indirizzo gratis e per sempre @yahoo.it su http://mail.yahoo.it

Re[2]: [newbie] Gnapster (continued)...

Hey Kit, yeah, but what about the people whos livelyhoods are earned by those songs? and what about the people who hold the copyrights to those songs. don't they deserve to have their material protected from being stolen? that IS in effect what napster does. TAKE those songs and

Re: [newbie] *delicate cough*

Hey Kathleen, Also, Outlook sux. :P I have to use it at work. Why do you have to use it at work ? Can't you download another email client ? Roman

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

Paul wrote: You can mount both types, but only one at a time. Paul Hi Paul. You did say (in an earlier message) that I could try another line in /etc/fstab, in addition to the regular vfat line, right? Some thing like: /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zipvfat user,noauto0 0 /dev/hdd1

Re: [newbie] *delicate cough*

Kathleen Dickason wrote: snip The post you replied to was one mainly reminiscing about Tandy (I had a WP2!), Atari, and Amiga. *nostalgic sigh* Not mainly M$ bashing. Sorry, nice list peoples. I wanted to get that off my chest. I shall go sit down and be quiet again now. *sheepish

Re: [newbie] Zip Drive

Marcia Waller wrote: 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

[newbie] Start a program from a console...

Hallo! How do i start a program from a console and keep using it? I also don't know how to start a program using su beeing an user... any idea? 8-? Thanks! Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joan.Tur.pagina.de Club.Ibosim.pagina.de

Re: [newbie] ISA PNP Modem and Sound Card

Dear All, I have been having problems getting my sound set up and I wrote an email about it posting all of the error messages I got when I went into soundconfig and did not receive an answer yet. That was during last weekend when there were some email dryspells so I am asking again.:) These are

Re: [newbie] Resize partition

Is there a way to resize partition under Mandrake Linux 7.2, on the fly ? Regards, Dariusz S Stochmal Dariusz, I understand your term, "on the fly", to mean that you want to resize a partition you are now using. Take a look at GNU Parted. http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html

Re: [newbie] *delicate cough*

Just a few points to make: Microsoft did make computers easy to use. They made the first endureing GUI os. Windows is easy to use, no question about that. The problem is that makeing it easy to use also made it unreliable and insecure. Windows 3.0 thru 3.11 are not opperating systems. They are

Re: [newbie] transferring files from linux to windows

On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Ricardo [iso-8859-1] Núñez wrote: Paul wrote: 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 How could I use mtools to copy to a Windows partition instead of a floppy disk? Very simple:

[newbie] VMWare help needed

Hello everyone, I am currently installing Win98 in VMWare. I know, a horrible thought, but I still need that thing, and VMWare sounds like a good deal. Just one thing: it is SLOW!!! Display handling whines that the DISPLAY is a REMOTE X-server, because the name is "unix:0.0". VMWare is conviced

[newbie] Install problems

I sent this once already but, I never saw it come up on the list...what's up with that? I just recently installed LM 7.1 and when it got to the part where it tells you to put the "Extensions" CD-ROM in the drive and hit ok, I can't open my drive. It won't open. Has this happened to anyone else?

[newbie] Xserver Startup Trouble

I have Mandrake 7.0 installed on a Compaq 650Mhz EP w/256MB RAM, Matrox Millennium G400 AGP w/16MB RAM, it is on it's own 8.4 GB IDE drive with Boot Magic as the loader and W2K as the other OS on it's own IDE drive. After the installation, Mandrake worked great for one week with no errors or

[newbie] Lost CD-RW??

Hi Gang! Hopefully an "easy" problem. I had some work done on the Win98 portion of my dual Mandrake 7.1 / Win98 machine. The modem had to be replaced and I believe the interrupts may have moved around. Now When I boot into Linux ... I'm greeted with a message saying my Yamaha CD-RW has

[newbie] XConfigurating a Monitor

Anyone familiar with a website posting monitor specs? I know there was one mentioned about a year and a half ago __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com

Re: [newbie] Updating kernel w/ Mandrake Updater

Ian McLeod wrote: 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) Auto-Updating the kernel is highly discouraged by Mandrake, and I wish I would have read that before I toasted a bunch of stuff

Re: [newbie] Mozilla

RJS II wrote: I tried M16 and while it was a bit of a bear to install ;-) It is still very much a beta. IMHO, it is not ready to be used as a replacement for Netscape 4.7. Well, hate to break it to you, but now you need to go back and download milestone 17 which in my opinion is quite a

[newbie] tjk: traceroute-1.4a5-18.i386.rpm package

Greetings! I am having trouble hunting down the traceroute-1.4a5-18.i386.rpm package?? Any insights would be great! Thank you. tjk

[Fwd: [newbie] NS 4.74 won't install]

Solved!! 8-) Joan Tur escribi: I've downloaded the .rpms, but i get dependencies problems when trying to install; it seems that i've got both installed 4.70 (Mandrake 7.0) and 4.73 (7.1). I cannot uninstall these because "specifies multiple packages" 8-? Any idea? Thanks... rpm -i ns474... ...