[newbie-it]

2000-09-06 Thread bellana
AIUTO!!! Lancio una sfida colossale a chi riesce a dirmi il perche' dal kernel 2.2 in poi se si lancia linuxconf sulla mia sparc ottengo un CORE DUMP fragmentation fail ... che senso ha con il comando linuxconf ? Un amico dice che gli succedeva la stessa cosa su un x86 ma non ricorda

[newbie] HELP ME! DNS/Bind problems... especially with email.

2000-09-06 Thread Jon Roig
I'm fairly new to Linux, and I've mostly been able to puzzle stuff out... but this has me stumped. I've been working on it for hours, and I think my brain is about to melt. Right now, I can receive email as [EMAIL PROTECTED] but not [EMAIL PROTECTED] I know it's not postfix -- it's not a

Re: [newbie] HELP ME! DNS/Bind problems... especially with email.

2000-09-06 Thread Aaron Lynch
Your honor: on 9/6/00 12:37 AM, Jon Roig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] confessed: 'hoover' doesn't reply, and smersh isn't authoritative with Network solutions. -- Aaron Lynch System Administrator NineWire Digital Solutions || http://ninewire.com If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

Re: [newbie] Installing Linux-Mandrake 7.1 on Windows Me

2000-09-06 Thread John Rye
Larry Marshall wrote: I have _NO_ experience with Windows ME - (only DOS, W95 and W98) BUT Surely you are able by some means to build an MSDOS boot floppy with suitable CDROM drivers on it to enable you to get to a point where you Why should you need it? Unless it's a really old

Re: [newbie] Installing Linux-Mandrake 7.1 on Windows Me

2000-09-06 Thread John Rye
Larry Marshall wrote: I have _NO_ experience with Windows ME - (only DOS, W95 and W98) BUT Surely you are able by some means to build an MSDOS boot floppy with suitable CDROM drivers on it to enable you to get to a point where you Why should you need it? Unless it's a really old

[newbie] subscribe newbie

2000-09-06 Thread Jay Lawton

Re: [newbie] Very simple question on Partitioning

2000-09-06 Thread Altoine Barker
Adrian and Paul, I have accomplished and the same task that you are conjecturing over. Adrian is correct in that you have to firt defrag your haddrive (run an error test first!). ONce you have did this, you can either use fdisk in DOS, which I have also did successfully, to repartition your

Re: [newbie] subscribe newbie

2000-09-06 Thread Renaud OLGIATI
All this rubbish just to send a "subscribe" message to the wrong adress ? I understand why you want to move to Linux ;-) Try sending in "text only", and to the adress [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "subscribe newbie" in the body of the message. Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the sunny banks of the

[newbie] Gnome menu panel

2000-09-06 Thread Scott D. Pletcher
Hi all, Does anyone know how to change the attributes of the Gnome menu panel (e.g., remove the clock and the automatic menus like "settings"). I can't seem to figure out how to do it, and there is not much info on the menu panel in the docs. Right-cliking on the panel does not give a list a

Re: [newbie] Module Help

2000-09-06 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was trying to install a module today for my winmodem and when i try to install it it says Init_module:device is busy. i tried reinstalling to see if it was because i installed it wrong or sumthing, but it still wouldnmt work. does anyone know why it would be like

Re: [newbie] Mass directory delete

2000-09-06 Thread flupke
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Vic wrote: I need to delete a bunch of directories called .xvpics that has somehow got scattered all over my system (I don't know how) I just want to know what to type in to make it do as I tel it and erase all these little stupid useless directories. If there are

Re: [newbie] ISP

2000-09-06 Thread Mark Weaver
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my laptop says designed foe windows 98, well i run linux on it too i just have a couple bugs no drivers for modem (its not a win modem windows had no clue what it was till i got drivers for it) and my sound card (crystal sound fusion card), last bug the little

Re: [newbie] it won't install :(

2000-09-06 Thread Mark Weaver
Larry Marshall wrote: I know what you mean...I'm hoping that some of this is addressed in Mandrake 7.2. Truth is, as bad as Windoze is, it's spoiled us. Unix has always been the superior OS but Microsoft knew what problems most people needed solving and in a standalone environment they

Re: [newbie] OT: Ulysses?

2000-09-06 Thread Mark Weaver
frank wrote: On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, Philomena put to word: um, Mark - I think Damien was referencing the "Ulysses" name, not "beta" :-) , hence the literary hint of the Irish author James Joyce who wrote "Ulysses" and that book, an internal parallel to the exiled wanderer of homer's

Re: [newbie] Sound Card

2000-09-06 Thread Mark Weaver
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to configure my Sound Card a couple of times this week and cant seem to gte it to work unkless i use the OSS that comes on the applications CD. Does anyone know if theres a way to get a C-Media Inc Plug n Play SB16 Audio Device? have you tried running

Re: [newbie] Module Help

2000-09-06 Thread Mark Weaver
Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was trying to install a module today for my winmodem and when i try to install it it says Init_module:device is busy. i tried reinstalling to see if it was because i installed it wrong or sumthing, but it still wouldnmt work.

Re: [newbie] HELP ME! DNS/Bind problems... especially with email.

2000-09-06 Thread Mark Weaver
Jon Roig wrote: I'm fairly new to Linux, and I've mostly been able to puzzle stuff out... but this has me stumped. I've been working on it for hours, and I think my brain is about to melt. Right now, I can receive email as [EMAIL PROTECTED] but not [EMAIL PROTECTED] I know it's not

RE: [newbie] Sound card?

2000-09-06 Thread Kelly, Christopher
I was leaning towards a sounds blaster. I have heard good things about them. Thanks for your input, all! Thanks, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775 -Original Message- From: patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 4:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Floppy and Zip Drive Problems

2000-09-06 Thread Larry Marshall
Andrew Moore wrote: Hi I posted a message earlier but this was before I was completely up to spead on the mailling list. Maybe a response has already been post. I using Mandrake 7.1 and on a machine that had been using Redhat 6.0. Under Redhat my floppy worked (not my zip drive). When I

Re: [newbie] Installing Linux-Mandrake 7.1 on Windows Me

2000-09-06 Thread Larry Marshall
I'm from that old school which says go back to the lowest common denominator hence the suggestion. Didn't mean to suggest that your suggestion wouldn't work. But the flurry of "I've lost data", "Can't find my partition", and "why can't I get this installed" msgs have me wondering. I'll be

Re: [newbie] Mass directory delete

2000-09-06 Thread Larry Marshall
flupke wrote: On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Vic wrote: them all, issue a : find / -type d -a -name .xvpics -exec rm -rf {} \; and it will erase all of them without any confirmation prompt. Gee...and I thought I was out on a limb telling a newbie (for some things, if you ask the question it says

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2000-09-06 Thread Carsten Westermann Møller
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Re: [Re: [newbie] Module Help]

2000-09-06 Thread Spyros Tsiolis
Gordon Burgess-Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was trying to install a module today for my winmodem and when i try to install it it says Init_module:device is busy. i tried reinstalling to see if it was because i installed it wrong or sumthing, but it still

Re: [newbie] it won't install :(

2000-09-06 Thread Larry Marshall
I've been really enjoying your responses here on the list! I'm really enjoying it here as well and have learned quite a bit already. That being said, I haven't really come up with a workable, steady backup solution yet other than keep /home on it's own partition and tarballing data files

Re: [newbie] 7.1 doesn't install at all

2000-09-06 Thread pablito
Okay, but Mandrake 6.0 is on there and runs fine. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 8:01 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.1 doesn't install at all : go to linux.com and check hardware your system could possibly not be : compatible : :

Re: [newbie] re: mandrake 7.02 problems

2000-09-06 Thread freeman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a very simple question about mandrake 7.02 and am embarrassed to have to ask it but here goes. After installing successfully (I thought)and rebooting for the first time I tried to configure my rc.local file for ip chains. First off there was no ip

[newbie] Humor me - how can I move a currently installed OS off one platform to another?

2000-09-06 Thread Mark Johnson
I have finally after months of attempts got everything to install and work out of the box, but in desparation I installed it on a temporary machine - "a proof of concept" type thing. In the next few weeks I will buy a new mother board and hope to move off the temporary platform to the new setup.

[newbie] POSTFIX/SENDMAIL/Multiple Alias

2000-09-06 Thread mandrake
I seen to be having a problem with mail on my mandrake box. I just I have a cable modem and since my ISP forces us to use DHCP so sendmail/postfix only allows mail for that ip given to me and no other domains. How do I configure my box to handle more domains off of DHCP machine. I can control

Re: [newbie] Humor me - how can I move a currently installed OS off one platform to another?

2000-09-06 Thread Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Mark Johnson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "LinuxNewbie (E-mail)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 9:43 AM Subject: [newbie] Humor me - how can I move a currently installed OS off one platform to another? I have finally after months of

Re: [newbie] Mass directory delete

2000-09-06 Thread Vic
Many thanks! :) On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, flupke wrote: On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Vic wrote: I need to delete a bunch of directories called .xvpics that has somehow got scattered all over my system (I don't know how) I just want to know what to type in to make it do as I tel it and erase all

RE: [newbie] Humor me - how can I move a currently installed OS off one platform to another?

2000-09-06 Thread Abe
I've got an Asus P5A socket 7 board with an amd K63-400 that is pretty much rock stable. You can buy a K6-2 500 for about $50USD now days. Might be worth it. You shouldn't have any problems migrating those partitions. I would let the installer format the /swap, /boot and / partitions. the

Re: [newbie] it won't install :(

2000-09-06 Thread John A. MacLaughlin
"Larry Marshall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tape drives are ok but CDs seem the better way to go. I've used both and, at least in a Windows world, the CDs are more convenient...cheaper too. Right on. I've been using TR-3 tapes for several years, first on an Iomega drive (a grievous

Re: [newbie] HELP ME! DNS/Bind problems... especially with email.

2000-09-06 Thread Jon Roig
Ummm ok. This was registered through CORE, if that's what you're talking about... Otherwise, I remain totally befuddled. -- Jon From: Aaron Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 01:09:10 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] HELP

Re: [newbie] HELP! Linux stole my windows partition!!!

2000-09-06 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
I've spent more time reading howto's and mailing lists and any other kind of linux documentation I could find then I care to even think about. I've used windows since 2.0 and I have never bought a book on how to configure it. I've got a stack of linux/unix books 3 feet tall next to my desk.

Re: [newbie] OT: Ulysses?

2000-09-06 Thread Dacia and AzureRose
Youknow, I hear it's better then 1600x1200 @32bit color out there. Dacia --- Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: frank wrote: On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, Philomena put to word: um, Mark - I think Damien was referencing the "Ulysses" name, not "beta" :-) , hence the literary hint

Re: [newbie] MySQL RPMS

2000-09-06 Thread Steve Weltman
Hi Michael... So far, I haven't had any luck figuring out what to do with MsSQL...the reason is that I left where the Linux box is...China!! I WAS supposed to install a help desk software that uses both MySQL and PHP for dynamic page updates and other cool features, but I never got that far.

[newbie] (none)

2000-09-06 Thread Carlos Enrique Morán Garabito
Hi everybody, i have a mandrake 7.1 and when i run startx it's run with kde, and i whant change this for gnome or windowmaker or other one. how can i do it??? thanks for all Carlos Enrique Morán Garabito

[newbie] (none)

2000-09-06 Thread Carlos Enrique Morán Garabito
hi!, excuse me, but someone know if the all usb-modems run in Linux? Thaks for all Carlos Enrique Morán Garabito

Re: [newbie] re: mandrake 7.02 problems

2000-09-06 Thread Steve Weltman
Freeman, BlackBox is available from the Mandrake site...you can find LOTS of GUIs there thru the link to the rufus site: http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/contrib/libc6/i386/ Also, I would think that you're like me and like to save a little time where possible if I know the results are the

Re: [newbie] 7.1 doesn't install at all

2000-09-06 Thread Steve Weltman
Are you doing a FRESH install, meaning NOT an UPDATE? The reason is that the update feature isn't as clean as installing "fresh", meaning rewriting your / and other partitions (except the /home data part). I haven't had ANY luck with the upgrade or update types of installs, and will only do an

Re: [newbie] ISP

2000-09-06 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Or like my school useing a 700mhz system for word processing, and not allowing me to install some games. But they did let the pokénuts install a 5 minute recording of 'the pikachu song' to play on startup. I had a similar problem a few years ago with one of the companies I worked for. I

Re: [newbie] Mass directory delete

2000-09-06 Thread Steve Weltman
This needs to be done at root and very carefully or you'll be spending some time restoring (or reinstalling) later. Know-what-a-mean-Vern? Best of Luck! Steve W. - Original Message - From: "Larry Marshall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 4:35

Re: [Re: [newbie] Module Help]

2000-09-06 Thread Steve Weltman
Hi Gordon...Get rid of the WinModem. It won't work with Linux (unless you're a device level coder and want to prove us all wrong!!) at the moment. I got an external modem for $50 and it is plenty feature rich that it gets done what I paid for: get to the internet and e-mail (and the occasional

RE: [[newbie] Athlon thunderbird ka7-100]

2000-09-06 Thread webmaster
NO, that is incorrect. That statement is a myth promoted through ignorance. I've seen enough destroyed product from overclockers - that I can stand straight and tall and tell you bluntly - overclocking DESTROYS parts. Period. "If you buy it - then it is yours" - is a defense statement that I

Re: [newbie] HELP ME! DNS/Bind problems... especially with email.

2000-09-06 Thread Jon Roig
Do you think it was just an issue of lack of patience? I was testing it last night using email sent from yahoo.com, and stuff was bouncing. Now, six hours of sleep later, all seems to be functioning normally. Am I just deluding myself? What's a good way to make sure everything is configured

Re: [newbie] Modem Problems

2000-09-06 Thread Austin L. Denyer
I am also a fan of das blinkenlights. :) I even know what some of them are for, at least on my Modem Blaster. Scary! ;) LOL! I actually have the original "warning" that 'das blinkenlights' came from posted over my computer! I used to have it over my servers at work too... I'd better shut

Re: [newbie] (none)

2000-09-06 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
"Carlos Enrique Morán Garabito" wrote: Hi everybody, i have a mandrake 7.1 and when i run startx it's run with kde, and i whant change this for gnome or windowmaker or other one. how can i do it??? thanks for all Carlos Enrique Morán Garabito on the log-in screen there's a drop-down

Re: [newbie] (none)

2000-09-06 Thread Hellmut
Type "switchdesk". Hi everybody, i have a mandrake 7.1 and when i run startx it's run with kde, and i whant change this for gnome or windowmaker or other one. how can i do it??? thanks for all Carlos Enrique Morán Garabito -- , (o o)

Re: [newbie] MySQL RPMS

2000-09-06 Thread Steve Weltman
OOPS!! This was meant to be a private mail...Please disregard the previous. Thx! Steve W. - Original Message - From: "Steve Weltman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 8:19 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] MySQL RPMS Hi Michael... So far, I haven't

[newbie] re: Samba and mandrake

2000-09-06 Thread freeman
I was just wondering if anybody has every configured a samba network out there. I have been using one off and on for about 3-6 months. But there is one thing I have been trying to do for about a month now and can't figure out. I need to map my windows 2000 system drive from my samba server.

RE: [newbie] re: Samba and mandrake

2000-09-06 Thread Izak Fourie / IIS
Look at the man page for mount. you can mount SMBFS volumes just as you would nfs volumes. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 September 2000 07:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] re: Samba and mandrake I was just wondering if anybody

Re: [newbie] OT: Ulysses?

2000-09-06 Thread Steve Weltman
And all this time, I thought they were code-naming it after my favorite author Ulysses Black (ATM 1,2,3 and others) Well, there I go thinking again! Steve Weltman - Original Message - From: "Dacia and AzureRose" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000

Re: [newbie] re: Samba and mandrake

2000-09-06 Thread Steve Weltman
Kewl! I didn't know this! Thanks for the tip (even though I wasn't the author of the comment!) - Original Message - From: "Izak Fourie / IIS" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 10:25 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] re: Samba and mandrake Look at the

Re: [[newbie] Athlon thunderbird ka7-100]

2000-09-06 Thread Steve Weltman
You sound pretty passionate about your point...and it looks pretty solid as well. PLEASE DON'T FLAME THIS THREAD... Thanks for not setting me a-blaze too! Slowly yours, Steve Weltman (not able to overclock, cuz I dunno how!) - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

[newbie] Gimp 1.1.24 v Photo shop

2000-09-06 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
Hi all, Just got the latest version of the Gimp. WOW!!! As I do a bit of Web design the web functions are really good, especially image map function etc. However my main reason for e-mailing the group is this. How does this new gimp compare with the Abode Photo Shop from which I believe it

Re: [newbie] 7.1 doesn't install at all

2000-09-06 Thread pablito
- Original Message - From: "Steve Weltman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 8:32 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.1 doesn't install at all : Are you doing a FRESH install, meaning NOT an UPDATE? a FRESH install!! (SLAP!) The very idea. I've

RE: [newbie] subscribe newbie

2000-09-06 Thread Kelly, Christopher
Not cool! -Original Message- From: Goldenpi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 3:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] subscribe newbie ?!?!?!!!??!?!?!??!?!?! You dare to post a background in a public place! -

Re: [newbie] Mass directory delete

2000-09-06 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000 09:38:10 -0500,Flupke wrote: If there are several directories called ".xvpics", and you want to erase them all, issue a : find / -type d -a -name .xvpics -exec rm -rf {} \; and it will erase all of them without any confirmation prompt. HTH Flupke -- Wed, 6

Re: [Re: [newbie] Module Help]

2000-09-06 Thread Oliver L. Plaine Jr.
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000 08:36:34 -0700,steve wrote: I got an external modem for $50 and it is plenty feature rich that it gets done what I paid for: get to the internet and e-mail (and the occasional ftp and telnet connection). --- Wed, 6 Sep 2000 14:24:21 Sounds good Steve, I am

Re: [newbie] HELP ME! DNS/Bind problems... especially with email.

2000-09-06 Thread patrick
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, you wrote: I'm fairly new to Linux, and I've mostly been able to puzzle stuff out... but this has me stumped. I've been working on it for hours, and I think my brain is about to melt. now this is what linux is REALLY about. your brain melting especially if u do too much

Re: [newbie] subscribe newbie

2000-09-06 Thread Mark Weaver
for pete's sake there oughta be a law against HTML mail on public mailing list forums! Get a grip man! Mark

Re: [[newbie] Athlon thunderbird ka7-100]

2000-09-06 Thread patrick
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, you wrote: This is true about overclocking destroying hardware. Some chips can't even run stably at their intended clockspeed. Intel's PIII 1.3GHz had so many bloody problems they finally concluded the only way to get it to run cool enough as well as stably was to

Re: [newbie] Video Card

2000-09-06 Thread patrick
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, you wrote: Anybody have any suggestions for a good Video card. I am running 7.1. Thanks, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775 geforce ddr. most any brand. i've got a hercules prophet. they can get pretty pricey if u buy the latest model.

[newbie] Question on Partitioning

2000-09-06 Thread ANTTrunken
When i tried to partition my 4gig hd that has Windows 98 on it with Partition Magic that came with Linux Mandrake 7.1 it saidthat it couldnt continue because of linked files. is there any way to get it to work without having to format my hd?

RE: [newbie] Video Card

2000-09-06 Thread lselinger
I only have one off topic suggestion .. have fun =o) theres a ton of cool things out there to try or implement/refine and perfect ... try em all . when you get curious or daring enough, play with some source code (C C++ Perl Python) whatever .. even if you dont know how to code, or

RE: [newbie] Video Card

2000-09-06 Thread Paul
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Kelly, Christopher wrote: Sweet!!! Thanks Lonny. Any other suggestions??? I use a Diamond Speedstar AGP card, with 8megs of video memory. Works right out of the box, too. Perhaps not an impressive card, but it does what i need :) Paul -- Our bombs are smarter than the

RE: [newbie] Gimp 1.1.24 v Photo shop

2000-09-06 Thread Abe
photoshop has a pretty steep learning curve. Granted I haven't seen/used the version of the gimp that you refer to (I've been using 1.0.4). The details of how the programs work are very different. You can definately pick up photoshop but I don't know how helpful knowledge of the Gimp will

RE: [[newbie] Athlon thunderbird ka7-100]

2000-09-06 Thread Abe
hmmm. I don't remember actually saying that you should or shouldn't overclock. We were simply discussing how ram/cpu's are created and rated for the speeds that they are sold at. Abe (Not overclocked even though I know how cuz I don't want to.) = Original Message From "Steve Weltman"

RE: [[newbie] Athlon thunderbird ka7-100]

2000-09-06 Thread Abe
from what I've read about that chip it was actually a factory overclocked chip to begin with. When it turned out to be reallyy unstable they just set it back to its original speed rating which was around 800 or 900 mhz. = Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] = This is true about

[newbie] Sorry to mass, but how can I get off of this?

2000-09-06 Thread Fannaka *Taz*
From: "Steve Weltman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] re: Samba and mandrake Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 10:31:52 -0700 Kewl! I didn't know this! Thanks for the tip (even though I wasn't the author of the comment!) - Original Message

Re: [newbie] HELP! Linux stole my windows partition!!! (Thank Yous)

2000-09-06 Thread John I. Azeke
First of all (IN DEFENSE OF MYSELF): I would just like to say that I am new to the world of Linux. I haven't even heard the word until I started college 4 years ago. This is now my second month of actually using the OS. I am moving over from Windows because I am sick of being ripped off for

Re: [newbie] HELP ME! DNS/Bind problems... especially with email.

2000-09-06 Thread lselinger
Try creating another MX record to the domain you are trying to reach... IN MX 10 smersh.jonroig.com. ---this was your only MX record hense the username@smersh.jonroig.com working. Also .. I'm not sure I understand your start of authority SOA jonroig.com.

Re: [newbie] subscribe newbie

2000-09-06 Thread Goldenpi
Did I say this earlier? Either this message was sent 3 times or the list is playing up again. Never post a background in a newsgroup or mailing list. HTML will not always be accepted, but it ususally will because so many people send it. But NEVER send a background. Anyway, It makes the

Re: [newbie] Linux4Win - never again

2000-09-06 Thread Goldenpi
Windows is a perfect moron system. As long as they stay away from the drives and dont install anything, there isn't much that they can destroy. Linux is faster, cheaper, uses less memory etc. But it needs someone who is able to maintain it. - Original Message - From: Abe [EMAIL

[newbie] Sorry to mass, but how can I get off of this?

2000-09-06 Thread Fannaka *Taz*
I want to be removed from the maillinglist _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.

RE: [[newbie] Athlon thunderbird ka7-100]

2000-09-06 Thread Abe
very good point. = Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] = On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, you wrote: This is true about overclocking destroying hardware. Some chips can't even run stably at their intended clockspeed. Intel's PIII 1.3GHz had so many bloody problems they finally concluded

Re: [newbie] Question on Partitioning

2000-09-06 Thread Ed Tharp
first run scandisk, then run defrag, let scandisk fix the crosslinked files. then run partition magic then install mandrake.you might wish to get an additional hard drive you will need the space 4 gigs ain't enough for both 98, and a good (read expert, developer, all packages) mandrake install...

RE: [newbie] Video Card

2000-09-06 Thread Abe
excellent advice. I too play games in linux as well as use the Gimp on a daily basis. I choose a 3dfx card because I like playing games in glide, I respect their company and their products work exceptionally well in linux and windows. Look at what you use it for and what your priorities are

Re: [newbie] ISP

2000-09-06 Thread GAPrichard
And doesn't AOL own Compuserve. They bought it a few years ago, but I'm not sure if they still own it. F.Y.I. (before we start a range war on this) I use AOL because of the kid restrictions, and because I haven't had the time to get my modem working in linux [I sent a separate

Re: [newbie] Modem Problems

2000-09-06 Thread GAPrichard
Is this a PCI modem? What did you do to configure it? I have a USRobotics / 3Com internal modem, 56K PCI PnP faxmodem to deal with. Last time I tried (LinuxMandrake 7.0) isapnp detected it's configuration wrong stopped with error messages (including errors at boot). Before I got back

Re: [newbie] (none)

2000-09-06 Thread A V Flinsch
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, you wrote: Hi everybody, i have a mandrake 7.1 and when i run startx it's run with kde, and i whant change this for gnome or windowmaker or other one. how can i do it??? switchdesk -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)

Re: [newbie] Question on Partitioning

2000-09-06 Thread bascule
if partition magic is refering to crosslinked files then you need to run scandisk in windows and fix any errors first, i.m.h.o. it is best before using such software as partition magic et. al. to scandisk and defrag if you have a windows system on your drive. if pm is not refering to cross

Re: [newbie] Mozilla

2000-09-06 Thread Greg Stewart
Other way around... --Greg - Original Message - From: "Robin Regennitter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Everybody, I just downloaded the latest Mozilla M17. it's so identical to Netscape 6.0. Did Netscape copy Mozilla for their upcoming release for 6.0? Not java capable yet as it's still

Re: [newbie] Question on Partitioning

2000-09-06 Thread Larry Marshall
When i tried to partition my 4gig hd that has Windows 98 on it with Partition Magic that came with Linux Mandrake 7.1 it saidthat it couldnt continue because of linked files. is there any way to get it to work without having to format my hd? From within Windows run Scandisk and have it fix

Re: [newbie] it won't install :(

2000-09-06 Thread pablito
mm-hmm, and it takes about half an hour to format the disk. I don't use it that much, but I don't use CDRW disks that much either. - Original Message - From: "Goldenpi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 12:05 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] it won't

Re: [newbie] subscribe newbie

2000-09-06 Thread Kathleen Dickason
Goldenpi wrote: Did I say this earlier? Either this message was sent 3 times or the list is playing up again. Never post a background in a newsgroup or mailing list. HTML will not always be accepted, but it ususally will because so many people send it. But NEVER send a background. Anyway, It

[Fwd: [newbie] Modem Problems]

2000-09-06 Thread Kathleen Dickason
whups. meant this to go to the list. my bad! -- Kathleen Dickason Registered Linux user #182139 "Austin L. Denyer" wrote: I am also a fan of das blinkenlights. :) I even know what some of them are for, at least on my Modem Blaster. Scary! ;) LOL! I actually have the original

RE: [newbie] Plextor Model Recommendation for CD Burning

2000-09-06 Thread Romanator
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jason Ashman Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 3:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Plextor Model Recommendation for CD Burning On Sun, 03 Sep 2000, you wrote: Roman, I have a Plexwriter-

RE: [newbie] 7.2 beta

2000-09-06 Thread Romanator
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 8:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.2 beta markOpoleO wrote: damnit man, stop yelling at everyone, the is is for newbies if you wanna make

RE: [newbie] Downloading newer kernel and header file

2000-09-06 Thread Romanator
HI Patti, The hard drive is IDE. I think the problem happened when I downloaded too many rpms related to various kernels. And, I was using Lilo rather than Grub. To correct this, I fired Lilo , installed Grub, and removed the Linux 2.2.15 folder. Then I installed the kernel, document and header

[newbie] problem starting linux4win with desktop icon after install

2000-09-06 Thread Michael Mordenti
Hello All, I am Very verrry new to Linux but want to learn I'm Having a problem starting linux4win with desktop icon after install After autodetecting RAID arrays autorun ... ... autorun DONE. I get this Error Message: request-module[block-major-7]:Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot Open root

Re: [newbie] ISP

2000-09-06 Thread patrick
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, you wrote: And doesn't AOL own Compuserve. They bought it a few years ago, but I'm not sure if they still own it. F.Y.I. (before we start a range war on this) I use AOL because of the kid restrictions, and because I haven't had the time to get my modem working in

Re: [newbie] subscribe newbie

2000-09-06 Thread patrick
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, you wrote: Goldenpi wrote: Did I say this earlier? Either this message was sent 3 times or the list is playing up again. Never post a background in a newsgroup or mailing list. HTML will not always be accepted, but it ususally will because so many people send it.

Re: [newbie] HELP! Linux stole my windows partition!!! (Thank Yous)

2000-09-06 Thread Mark Weaver
"John I. Azeke" wrote: First of all (IN DEFENSE OF MYSELF): I would just like to say that I am new to the world of Linux. I haven't even heard the word until I started college 4 years ago. This is now my second month of actually using the OS. I am moving over from Windows because I am

Re: [newbie] ISP

2000-09-06 Thread RTF
AOL owns Compuserve's customer base...Worldcom owns the old Compuserve physical network.. Rob On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, you wrote: And doesn't AOL own Compuserve. They bought it a few years ago, but I'm not sure if they still own it. F.Y.I. (before we start a range war on this) I use AOL

Re: [newbie] Mozilla

2000-09-06 Thread Matt G. Ellis
Yup, you hit it right on the head Netscape used the Mozilla Codebase, added some stuff in like the AOL IM thing, and sent it off. --Matt - Original Message - From: "Robin Regennitter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 1:39 PM Subject: [newbie]

[newbie] Website

2000-09-06 Thread Eunice Thompson
What's going on with Mandrake's website? It takes forever for the page to load, if at all. Eunice -- We cannot do everything at once but we can do SOMETHING at once Eunice Thompson

Re: [newbie] Installing Linux-Mandrake 7.1 on Windows Me

2000-09-06 Thread Mwinold
why must every one make things so freaking complicated start your comp getinto bios you know where it says hit del to enter setup, or in my case F2, go to the boot menu and move your cdrom drive to the very top, save put cd in drive and reboot your done install it!!

Re: [newbie] Gnome menu panel

2000-09-06 Thread Mwinold
its all in thier you just have to play with it, i cant remember off hand how to do it

Re: [newbie] ISP

2000-09-06 Thread Mwinold
you convinced it otherwise, how i have been screwing around with the utility and nothing changes

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