On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Corrado wrote:
Ciao a tutti!
Uso Linux Mandrake come OS di default da diversi mesi, ormai, e in rete ho
sempre avuto a che fare con i problemi "noti" di Netscape...
Recentemente, tuttavia, le cose sono peggiorate, tanto che non riesco più a
entrare in nessuna chat
I second this, or you could place the .etheme file in the system wide
directory which is in /usr/share/enlightenment/themes (I think).
Hope this helps,
Mark.
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From: Andrew Scotchmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 26 August 2000 15:09
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
filename="text1.rtf"
Hi Stan!
The easiest way under KDE is to open kfm, change to the diirectory where
the
file s located, move the mouse over it, click the ROGHT button and
choose
"archiver" to uncompress it.
The not so easy way is to open a shell, change to the directory with the
compressed file in it and then
Hi gang,
I just subscribed to this list, and hope that
someone can help. I just installed Linux Mandrake 7.1 Deluxe on a Celeron 333
desktop computer. The install went very smoothly. Unfortunately , the install
didn't 'detect' any of my two NIC's that are installed. I've had no luck finding
Hi,
I'm a relitivily new linux user and I got up this morning to boot into
win98 (I know 'who would want to use windows' but I really wanted to
play Janes WWII fighters:-) ). Then after I finished what I wanted to
do I rebooted the computer and started to load linux.
Upon linux loading I get
Is the pppd setup properly? Check to see that you have passed it the option
for "noauth" - otherwise it will fail as it doesn't receive the correct
authentication from your ISPs server (which shouldn't be happening). Adding
this option will turn off the authentication reception it is expecting
Yes it does - at least in 7.1. Although if you choose Developer you should
also have the option of selecting the packages later on in the install
process. Just ensure you're using the XFree86 selection and you should be
fine (don't forget at least one Window Manager though!)
Mark.
die thread die!
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cc: (bcc: Lonny Selinger/SaskPower)
Subject: Re: [newbie] Yo
Jason Ashman wrote:
--
Hey Linux users.
I installed Mandrake 7 about 2 months ago on a Pentium II 400MHz with 10 Gig
IMB harddrive.
I had trouble with the install as soon as the system booted from the CD it lost
the mouse so I had to do the entire install from the keyboard. I could not
scroll down all of the install screens so may have
I had tried install linux on two system.
Screen goes black and is it because of the video card.
Video card is ChainTech Desperado 3DFX Voodoo Banshee
is it because of the video . i had check out Mandrake It said that it
support Voodoo Banshee so what the problem.
Then the second problem is error
I have Hard Disk woth 10 Gb.
And I want use my pc like server Data base with oracle 8i
Which partition is the best for my, I mean how mach give
to /usr , /, /home ..
thanks.
And please if any one know documentation about it , send
to
I like Linux as it is. I don't give a shit about prime
time. Linux is a learning experience, more like PBS. If it
turns into Saturday morning cartoons, I'll go with something
else. Call me a snob I don't care.
BTW I am not a programmer.
Phil
--
Evil is that which one believes of
Jeff Malka wrote:
Well...maybe Linux isn't for everyone, but then no OS is for everyone,
IMO. Choice is good...
It is, but for an OS to survive it must attract and "keep" a sufficient
audience, Otherwise it might have the same fate as OS/2 which is also an
excellent multiuser stable OS.
Knapster is alive and well, for now.
- Original Message -
From: "Homoky, Mark MJ SSI-ISEC-34" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 10:41 AM
Subject: RE: [newbie] Knapster problems
Stan,
As I understand it Knapster was shut down recently by the US
If you type ls at the command line, you will see these attributes listed in
the left column. "drwxrwxrwx" The first character, if "d" means directory,
if "-", file. the first "rwx" are the root permissions, the second, group
permissions, and the third, user permissions. "kfm" is writeable
Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
I've sent an e-mail which did get replied to but there was an error in the
reply. My question was whether Plextor's 12x10x32 CD-RW P/N: PX-W1210TA/SW
is supported on Linux Mandrake 7.1 (Helium)? Will the driver "cdrecord" work
for this device? I cannot find it in any of the Linux hardware
Need Help.
I'm running a HP Vectra XU with (1) 2GB ST3255ON ; (4) 18GB ST318416N SCSI
drives and a Sony SCSI CDROM. The (4) 18GB disks are in an external
HP1350SE tower. The SCSI controller is on the system board and is an
Adaptec AIC-7880 Ultra SCSI. All the drives are narrow channel.
When
Marcia,
If you want to re-install just do so as if you were installing for the
first time. If you've defined the partitions, such as '/' (root), /home,
/boot, and so forth you can format all the partitions except your home
dir and that will leave all your data files in tact while installing the
Stan,
As far as I know, Napster is still open for business under appeal.
Buzz
As I understand it Knapster was shut down recently by the US Government for
Copyright reasons - anyone else confirm this?
I wouldn't expect we'd have to wait too long though before something else
comes along.
Voglio reinstallare Mandrake 7.1 e so che è possibile impostare il file
suystem a Reiser Fs anziché ext2.
Ora, siccome sono un newbie (moolto newbie) vorrei chiedervi la
differenza fra i due file system e i vantaggi (e/o svantaggi) del
reiser... ho letto che è un file system journaled ma non ho
Help, we need to make a Startup Disk or how can
star the linux without XWINDOWS, because i just change the date in the BIOS and
Linux just dont work with graphical mode.
Thanks
Personally I can't wait till this court thing gets settled, Napster is
shut down for good, and this thread dies. Napster is stealing plain and
simple. No matter how you slice it. Of course that's if you're being
completely honest with yourself and others. Put yourself in the shoes of
the artist
Personally I can't wait till this court thing gets settled, Napster is
shut down for good, and this thread dies. Napster is stealing
plain and
simple. No matter how you slice it. Of course that's if you're being
completely honest with yourself and others. Put yourself in
the shoes of
Been trying to figure out Wine - how exactly do you use it? I can't get it
to even start. Thanks
Can anyone help me out on this one. I've been itching to upgrade to
Mandrake 7.1 for a while now. So that's done, and I love it. However,
I can't seem to get the sound card to be detected, as well as connect to
my network. I'm on mixed network, with a Unix gateway (routing us to a
higher
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Juggernaut wrote:
Hello
I'm using Mandrake 7.0 And then, if I want to access Netscape Communicator
(not Netscape Navigator, because my GNOME has 3 icon for Netscape), it will
freeze up. There is an information about 'reading file' at the left corner.
And Netscape does
Its shockwave. Its a rolling stones song, with words makeing fun of windows.
- Original Message -
From: Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 12:19 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] (OT) Windows 95: the Movie!
"Brisco County Jr." wrote:
Here's
When I go to configure the networking it want's me to set ths hostname which
I assume is just a single word name like 'jupiter' representing the name of
the machine itself. Then it want's me to put in the fully qualified name
i.e. hostname+domain. If I'm using a cable modem, do I make this
What you are looking at with all those funny symbols is __binary__
code, i.e., what the compiled source looks like. What you want
is the __uncompiled__source__ as the man said in his reply. Then
if you modify the source, you will have to recompile it before
you can run it. Hope this is a
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Kirk Lashley wrote:
now, so I'm quite sure the problem begins there. Is there any general
advice someone can give to help me get unto a Unix network. I've had
little experience with Linux - however, I have intentions of making it
my operating system of choice.
You could
Jeff,
As a "newbie", a user with NO technical knowledge can install a UNIX-LIKE
operating system, and use it without much guidance. Most users are able to
find this alone a very enabling and excellent first step. You may not
consider this a serious usability issue, but it teaches the user to do
My Italian is not good enough to answer in your language.
The Reiser fs keeps copies of data before writing new data,
so it can be restored to some semblance of usefulness after
a disk crash (due to power loss, etc.) It's supposed to be
a little slower, but if you have to fsck, it's supposed
Hi, just lately my netscape navigator is not properly displaying the screen
nor does the link works. It works after I logged on but then after a few
tries, it just won't display anything or link is inoperable. I suspected that
when I opened the other browser which is kdm and today I
filename="text1.rtf"
I have the Plexwriter 8x4x32, and it works fine.
I don't think you will have any problems using the 12x- go for it
Eunice
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, you wrote:
I've sent an e-mail which did get replied to but there was an error in the
reply. My question was whether Plextor's 12x10x32 CD-RW P/N:
Dear Mandrake users,
I am a poor PhD student trying to download Mandrake 7.1. I am using windows
2000 an IE5.5 and am having difficulties with the ftp server resetting the
connection (5 minutes seems to be about the maximum I can hope for) and
downloading the link files (e.g. files like
It died.
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Mark Weaver wrote:
die thread die!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 08/25/2000 07:11:23 AM
Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc: (bcc: Lonny Selinger/SaskPower)
Subject:
Hi!
I've recently bought Linux-Mandrake 7.1 and installed it on
my computer.
I used the partition magic (included with the 3- cdrom set)
and because I can't get the peripherals to work, I want to
take Linux OFF the computer that I installed it on and get
rid of the 3 gig partition that I made
"Nijs, Vincent" escribió:
Dear Mandrake users,
I am a poor PhD student trying to download Mandrake 7.1. I am using windows
2000 an IE5.5 and am having difficulties with the ftp server resetting the
connection (5 minutes seems to be about the maximum I can hope for) and
downloading the link
Greg Stewart wrote:
Um...
1, Gates created the first version DOS.
--- snip
Greg: Actually, Gates didn't actually create the first DOS -- at least
not in the normal sense of "create". He bought it from a company called
Seattle Microsystems (I think that was their name). They had written it
Don't know the answer to this one...Ciao
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 4:58 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Reiser Fs
Voglio reinstallare Mandrake 7.1 e so che è possibile impostare il file
suystem a
In LM 7.1 DOSEMU won't start, not even when I'm root. It worked fine in LM
6.0, although like someone else just recently said, there didn't seem to be
a way to access a real DOS partition, just a fake one.
But learning is the best part of the OS.
It is what makes it more fun to use than Windows, because anyone can fix
it
without a $20,000 license for the source code, to see what makes it tick.
And anyone can put in their code to make it better. Even if the code is
only
an idea for a future
I would avoid using Grub and go to Lilo until
this was figured out.
Sorry if I have not been very helpful, but I at least
like to try so you not think your ignored :)
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, you wrote:
Need Help.
I'm running a HP Vectra XU with (1) 2GB ST3255ON ; (4) 18GB ST318416N SCSI
I am having the same problem with Netscape...the screen just goes blank and
I can't do anything...is there some kind of timeout feature in Linux? Thanks..
At 11:28 AM 8/29/00 -0700, you wrote:
Hi, just lately my netscape navigator is not properly displaying the
screen
nor does the link
Dear Joan Tur,
Could you please let me know what a 'Getright-type program' is?
Best,
Vincent
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From: Joan Tur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 10:07 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: [newbie] downloading
"Nijs, Vincent"
Kathleen Dickason wrote:
P.S.
OS/2 does indeed rock. I used it when I first worked at IBM (dont work there
anymore) and it was lovely. Then "upgraded" us all to Windows. Oh, the pain...
Kathleen
hmm...just one of many blunders IBM has made in the last 20
years. I hope
first off, thanks to Phil, Greg Joseph for answers to my last question. my brain
hadn't quite realized that suffixes do not decide if a file is executable or not.
maybe i can make some progress now=) or maybe not -- for my next question:
i'm trying to install a RPM file from the
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Marcia Waller wrote:
Dear Paul, Alan, Mark, Thank you for your help. I would definitely agree
that my system is stalling as it's attempting to mount the 'root' file
system in read/write mode.
I typed the' linux single' and it made no difference. I have not found a
way to
My linux Madrake 7.1 freezes when I close my laptop. Is this normal?
I
thought Linux was ulta-stable. I have a Dell Inspiron 7500.
I have an Atlas Flyer that used to give a black screen of death on
opening the cover again. However, if I closed the cover and re-opened
it, everything was
I am trying to set up 7.1 on a Dell Pentium Pro 200 with a Number Nine
Imagine Series 2 video card. Although this is listed in the selection list
during setup, MDK reports "no screens found" regardless of which resolution
and monitor I try.
Does anyone have any suggestions why this is happenin
Jeff Malka wrote:
Well...maybe Linux isn't for everyone, but then no OS is for
everyone,
IMO. Choice is good...
It is, but for an OS to survive it must attract and "keep" a
sufficient
audience, Otherwise it might have the same fate as OS/2 which is
also an
excellent multiuser
Hey Mark, it's a song to the tune of Start Me Up (Rolling Stones) that
spoofs Win95, Bought Me Up! Pretty funny actually!
Steve W.
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From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 7:19 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] (OT) Windows
"Austin L. Denyer" wrote:
~~ snip ~~
As for the decline, I seem to recall that the next release (which would
have been FAR better) was originally a joint IBM/Micro$oft project. The
two had a problem seeing eye to eye and Micro$oft pulled out.
(Micro$oft then proceeded to remove all IBM
Vincent,
It sounds like you could use a download manager. Checkout Go!Zilla at
http://www.gozilla.com/. It is fantastic. Or
As a convenience to this list, I will burn MDK 7.1 onto two CD's at a cost
of $6.50 for my time, my CD-R media, and shipping costs.
If interested, just send me an
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, you wrote:
I like Linux as it is. I don't give a shit about prime
time. Linux is a learning experience, more like PBS. If it
turns into Saturday morning cartoons, I'll go with something
else. Call me a snob I don't care.
BTW I am not a programmer.
Phil
Thats
Knightmayre Computer Solutions wrote:
Hi all, Got v7.0 up and running- went on a
treat although I know I've still got loads
to do on iti.e. only reading the DVD-ROM
and not the CD-R and minor stuff like that,
but that'snot too important atm. The thing
is, my internal modem (yeah, yeah)
GoZilla is spyware don't use it, try download excellorator plus, but neither
one work with ftp servers
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From: "Goldenpi" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] downloading
Does it support resumable
I also have a PlexWriter I can't get it to work. So I installed a 2nd cd rom
drive it works fine.
What do I have to do to get the PlexWriter to work.
- Original Message -
From: "Eunice Thompson" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 11:44 AM
Subject: Re:
You have to download the source code. The stuff you're trying to view is the
executable file which only makes sense to the computer. So go to the website of
the program you want to look at, and then download the .tar.gz file which
should include all the source code.
I was wondering how do I
Do you have flash installed? It's a flash file. You can download the flash
plugin from www.flash.com
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view.php3?id=1412
ok...what's the joke? I followed the URL and didn't see a thing. Using
4.75. I figured that would be enough to view something with
hi im a newbie actually i cant get mandrake loaded (7.1 for windows) so i
guess i m a pre newbie
the software trys to load but i get a two tone blue screen and it just sits
there
HELP
john
mrc wrote:
Has anyone succeeded in getting Linux (Gphoto) actually downloading digital
images from a digital camera?
I have failed both in Windows 95 and Linux to do this with my Fujifilm MS1200.
Documentation warns that the software might not work where more than one
operating system
wine [/path] /filename.ext
i.e., wine /mnt/dev/hda1/aclt/acltwin.exe
would mount and open autocad lite. I have had problems
with the files directory associated, but the program opens.
With more work, or copying the necessary files to a directory
in Linux, things should work better. But that's
Default sound volume is extremely LOW, try raising the volume in the Mixer
panel, and make sure your speakers are turned on/up.
HTH
Jaguar
Stan Wilburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have tried all of these things...the files appear to be playing on the
player themselves but no sound comes out of
How many of you object to dialpad.com not supporting linux?
Lets e mail them and tell them what we think
of their unfair practice of discrimination against
Linux users!
It is the rights of the linux community to be able
to use dialpad.com just as much as the
windows users.
Please e mail
"Austin L. Denyer" wrote:
Jeff Malka wrote:
Well...maybe Linux isn't for everyone, but then no OS is for
everyone,
IMO. Choice is good...
It is, but for an OS to survive it must attract and "keep" a
sufficient
audience, Otherwise it might have the same fate as OS/2 which
filename="text1.rtf"
Whoever you are: DO NOT SEND ATTACHMENTS TO THE LIST. NOT EVER!
Of course I erased it. I'm not crazy. I don't need any viruses
or other gadgets. DO NOT SEND ATTACHMENTS. NEVER!
At 18:34 08/29/2000 +, you wrote:
For anyone who hasn't seen this, it really is quite intersting
That's an excellent suggestion... www.cheapbytes.com has CDROMS of all the
popular Linux OSs burned onto CDRs and they sell them for like $2 each. No
Documents, no support, but just what you need to get going on Mandrake!
Steve Weltman
(from Beijing)
- Original Message -
From: "Paul"
this isn't answering your command line question, but what you described about how you
thought kpackage should work via the GUI is exactly how it works for me - I download
the RPM file, click on it once, kpackage pops up and I click on the Install button -
if it yells at me about dependancies,
Vince, go to www.shareware.com and find an appropriate ftp utility that
allows you to continue where you were cutoff. Also, because you are a
student, I think you can find somewhere in the school to use higher
bandwidth other than dial up speeds...The ISO image is something like 1.2GB
because it
Paul, you need to get a program called rp-pppoe-2.2.tar.gz from Roaring Penguin.
Their web site is www.roaringpenguin.com. Download the newest version and
install it per their instuctions. It's a very easy program to set up. Answer
the 5 or 6 questions when you RUN the adsl-setup program
After I read in either Linuxmag or Linux Journal that the Intellimouse
Explorer was a good buy I have had my eye on them. Well I finally got one,
and fixed my USB problem in Linux, but when the USB is initializing it says
that none of the current USB drivers loaded supported this mouse. But I
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