R: [newbie-it] problemi con il kernel

2000-09-28 Thread tonibl
-Messaggio Originale- Da: marco [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data invio: mercoledì 27 settembre 2000 17.28 Oggetto: [newbie-it] problemi con il kernel salve, ho dei problemi a compilare il kernel: nella dir usr/src/linux dò il comando make xconfig, e mi viene risposto:

Re: [newbie-it] problemi con il kernel

2000-09-28 Thread freefred
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, a day in the life, marco wrote: premetto che ho installato da poco mandrake, così come la procedura di installazione ha fatto in automatico. Mi chiedevo se è un problema della distrib. il non installare i sorgenti non so, che tipo di installazione hai fatto? a questo

Re: [newbie-it] problemi con il kernel

2000-09-28 Thread Maurizio Conti
Ciao a tutti, scusate se mi intrometto, ma anche io ho lo stesso problema. Cosa significa "nella directory in cui sto non c'e` un Makefile" Cos'è un make file?? --- Andrea Celli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: marco wrote: salve, ho dei problemi a compilare il kernel: nella dir

[newbie-it] Re: [newbie-it] « Kppp Kisocd »

2000-09-28 Thread Fabio Coatti
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 08:51:50PM +0200, Beppe Giorgi wrote: Ciao a tutti, ho due quesiti da porvi: 1) Connettendomi a internet con kppp da root, tutto funziona al meglio, se invece mi connetto come utente, succede che appena mi collego mi butta fuori con il seguente messaggio: pppd

Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-28 Thread Jay
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, you wrote: On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree that this is better left somewhere else...but I can't help it...I'll never vote for a potential president whose agenda includes destroying the 2nd amendment in order to achieve the

[newbie] resolution, monitor and video card config problem!

2000-09-28 Thread ozgur cagdas
dear newbies; i run drakconf/Xconfiguration and configure my monitor, resolution, graphics card and etc. everyhing is normal at configuration time. it detects my 32mb riva tnt2 graphics card and philips 105b monitor. when i choose whos info it shows everything's ok.at the exit time it asks me

Re: [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-28 Thread Michael
True but if the average consumer could pick between a free car that does everything they want and gives them the option between easy or do-it-yourself and any car that cost money I'd figure the majority of people would take the free car. And each person who goes with a free car makes their

[newbie] where is the c compiler for mandrake 7.1

2000-09-28 Thread anshul agarwal
hi everybody, please help me out? i could not locate gcc,g++ Gcc/G++ compilers at all in /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin. Welcome to the Indiatimes mail

Re: [newbie] where is the c compiler for mandrake 7.1

2000-09-28 Thread Z
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, you wrote: please help me out? i could not locate gcc,g++ Gcc/G++ compilers at all in /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin. man gcc... If you don't see anything, then maybe the packages are not installed, try rpm -q gcc...still nothing, install them Zap

[newbie] 7.1 Installation fails

2000-09-28 Thread Grant Walton
Hi I have obtained the GPL version of 7.1, but have been unable to install it either under Windows or as a complete install on an empty hard drive. The CD boots fine and the installation begins, but once the second stage is reached it terminates unexpectedly; the only error message I have

Re: [newbie] 3D Prophet II GTS 32 MB

2000-09-28 Thread Mark Weaver
James, Have you checked the list of cards on your system at all? The last time I was in the display setup there were so many listed there that I was becoming a bit annoyed having to wade through them all. Actually a "good" problem to have. -- Mark

Re: [newbie] Fw: 7.1 hardware bug

2000-09-28 Thread Mark Weaver
??? *blink - blink* huH? -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message...| Registered Linux user #182496

Re: [newbie] any screenshots of grub?

2000-09-28 Thread Mark Weaver
Ok Vic...how's this? I'm sure you've seen a Windows "blus screen of death", right? Well that's the background color. Very non-descript looking. Then in the middle of all tha blue there is a small menu, and on that menu are the choices you are presented with at boot time. If you make no choices

Re: [newbie] any screenshots of grub?

2000-09-28 Thread Larry Marshall
boot. It's all done from the keyboard. Frankly, I think the hype about Grub is a lot of hot air and I don't see what all the fuss is about. Hype? Not sure I know what you're referring to Mark but I'd agree that it doesn't do much beyond what Lilo does. It's really too bad that the

Re: [newbie] Problem with CD-ROM Floppy Drive

2000-09-28 Thread Richard Saw
Thanks James, but acctually i log on as a root, but don't know why still can't access both drives, may be some settings is not right. Need to solve this problem before proceed to Mandrake 7.1, please advise. Richard On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 17:12:00 EDT, James Boeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[newbie] help in getting gcc to work on mandrake 7.1

2000-09-28 Thread Kevin J Curran
Hi (my first posting. I've just installed Mandrake 7.1 on a Dell Pentium Laptop with a 1 gig partition. Everything went well the second time (first time i tried a windows install with not enough free space and I lost everything on my computer!). Therefore three days later I am finally back

Re: [newbie] OpenGL

2000-09-28 Thread John Couturier
Kind of. OpenGL is the standard and MesaGL is the open source implementation of it. For CopyWrite reasons Mesa cannot call themselves OpenGL so they are at best OpenGL "compliant". Now it is true that a true OpenGL graphics library must be based on the OpenGL "Sample Implementation" put out

Re: [newbie] Problem with CD-ROM Floppy Drive

2000-09-28 Thread Larry Marshall
Thanks James, but acctually i log on as a root, but don't know why still can't access both drives, may be some settings is not right. Need to solve this problem before proceed to Mandrake 7.1, please advise. You could help the cause considerably if you'd post the contents of your fstab file.

RE: [newbie] [OT] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-28 Thread Vic
I usually say "I choose not to use windows because of its characteristics, it is of no use to me." I tend to get far less flames for that one. On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll go with this one too although I know things are changing. I love a good debate (notice no

Re: [newbie] error loading ramdisk problem during install

2000-09-28 Thread Linux Mail
Well, it looks like the SCSI problem I was having is fixed - but it is unrelated to the "error loading ramdisk" message I get. I am going to try to re-download the ISO - mayby I got it from a bad source? I have tried all types of install. From the CD (boot from CD or boot from floppy) and I have

Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-28 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Okay I have been watching this thread and I just can't resist :-) Let's all join forces (and I do believe that there is a sufficient number of us) and everyone vote (write-in ballot) for the Gov of Minnesota -- Jesse "The Body" Ventura giggle Trust me, no one thought he was going to win

Re: [newbie] windows code -WAS:any screenshots of grub?

2000-09-28 Thread Vic
Many many thanks. Kind of like the old slackware installer. (Holy poop that was a long time ago) O yes I remember the old windows blue death screen, dang that was my most dreaded state of computing, uhh or non-computing should I say? I wonder, what in heck caused such a state? Unless I miss

Re: [newbie] error loading ramdisk problem during install

2000-09-28 Thread Adam
I found getting the "Error loading ramdisk" was caused by a bad download of the iso, I had to download the Mandrake 7.1 iso's twice because of it :| thank god for cable modem's Adam - Original Message - From: "Linux Mail" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday,

[newbie] Using PPOE; problems

2000-09-28 Thread Scott Allan
Hi - I am having problems getting PPOE working with my new Mandrake install. When I invoke PPOE, it just times out, and tailing /var/log/messages gives me this: Sep 27 20:31:58 mozza pppd[3477]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0 Sep 27 20:31:58 mozza pppd[3477]: Using interface ppp0 Sep 27

Re: [newbie] Space problem - help!

2000-09-28 Thread Denis Havlik
Find some big directories in /, copy them under /home and set symlinks to them. "/var", "/tmp" or some subdirs of /usr would be fine I guess. cu denis On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Sebastian Varges wrote: :~Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 11:04:01 +0100 :~From: Sebastian Varges [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-28 Thread Mark Johnson
I totally agree with Ken too, but your free car analogy is a little off. I understand what you mean, but the spin on this is that Linux really isn't "free" - it's free monetarily, but the mental effort and anguish that must be "paid" to have and run your linux system is definitely non-trivial. I

Re: [newbie] Space problem - help!

2000-09-28 Thread Sebastian Varges
Thanks Denis, I should have come up with that myself but I somehow thought there must be another way to do this. Cheers -- Sebastian In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Denis Havlik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Find some big directories in /, copy them under /home and set symlinks to them.

Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-28 Thread F. E. Schaper
Ok, I see that every right wing, gun toting, special interest puppet that is on this list is attempting to suck me into a political debate. I refuse to get into such a battle on this list as this forum is not an appropriate area for discussion of such things, however if you feel the need to push

Re: [newbie] Space problem - help!

2000-09-28 Thread Denis Havlik
:~Thanks Denis, I should have come up with that myself but I somehow :~thought there must be another way to do this. There are other ways, sure. This way is OK, so why bother. cu D :~ :~Cheers :~ :~-- Sebastian :~ :~ :~ :~ :~ In article :[EMAIL PROTECTED], Denis Havlik :[EMAIL

Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-28 Thread hugh
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, you wrote: Ok, I see that every right wing, gun toting, special interest puppet that is on this list is attempting to suck me into a political debate. I refuse to get into such a battle on this list as this forum is not an appropriate area for discussion of such things,

Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-28 Thread hugh
I must say I have never heard a line of shit like yours! Did you know your hero claims to have been in combat? Did you know he never was? Did you know that gun owners are not all puppets? But sir you sure do sound like one. Typical short term fix. Dont fix the problems you start. No way! Blame

Re: [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-28 Thread lselinger
Sorry if this is a bit much for a single email (this isn't the hole story) but following the *car* analogy of late made me thing of some reading I had done .. if anyone would like the entire article I would be happy to post or send it out ... this is a snip of it Customers come

Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-28 Thread Ronald J. Hall
"F. E. Schaper" wrote: Ok, I see that every right wing, gun toting, special interest puppet that is on this list is attempting to suck me into a political debate. I refuse to get into such a battle on this list as this forum is not an appropriate area for discussion of such things, however

[newbie] Just one quick point

2000-09-28 Thread hugh
I don't care who owns guns. The majority should never be allowed too. See it wasn't the gun issue that got me to write. Its the elitist bull that was posted. When you call others names, I get angry! I don't allow my daughter or niece to act that way.It shows how far down we as a country have

Re: [newbie] any screenshots of grub?

2000-09-28 Thread Larry Marshall
Many thanks for the info, however I think I screwed something up, I think I did not get the install.sh file somehow, I still have 7.0-2 but I installed the newest rpm that I am aware of from the rpmfind thingy, and still no install.sh fileuh oh. This IS install.sh grub

Re: [newbie] Dell Inspiron 5000e modem

2000-09-28 Thread Paul R
I know you said you downloaded the driver already, but just in case I wanted to make sure you knew that Dell offers a bunch of Linux drivers and info on their website. http://support.dell.com Just type in your service tag number and it will find the ones for your particular system. Hope

[newbie] GW Bush - Guns?

2000-09-28 Thread David Boles
So just what does George W or guns have to do with Linux? Is this list not moderated in any way? -- David Boles [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Using PPOE; problems

2000-09-28 Thread Larry Marshall
I am connecting to Bell Canada's HSE service in Toronto Canada. My system config is P300A, 64MB ram, abit motherboard, DLINK Ethernet card. I can't help interpret your problem but will say that I'm using Bell Canada's HSE as well, here in Quebec. All I did was download the pppo

Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-28 Thread Brian King
Would it be too much to ask that this discussion be continued privately? It really has nothing at all to do with the content matter of this list and it think it is a little inconsiderate to the many of us out here who are not Americans and futhermore really couldn't give one hoot about U.S.

RE: [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-28 Thread Larry Marshall
effort to get the engine started. How long does the average Linux user run with a crippled system (like the sound card not working) until all the subsystems settle into place. This is probably the best indicator of how "mature" Linux is becoming relative to the average desktop user.

Re: [newbie] Just one quick point

2000-09-28 Thread David Lay
While we're on the subject of Bush and all, what's everyone's view of the Iraq sanctions? I work with Voices in the Wilderness (www.vitw.org) which is working to end the sanctions. I wouldn't mind seeing what people's opinions are. dave. On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, hugh wrote: I don't care who

Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-28 Thread Larry Marshall
I must say I have never heard a line of shit like yours! Did you know your hero claims to have been in combat? Did you know he never was? Did you know that gun owners are not all puppets? But sir you sure do sound like one. rm -rf * will fix this problem.

Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-28 Thread F. E. Schaper
Hugh, I take pleasure in responding to you publicly, despite the fact that I still don't think this list is the place for this conversation. I have no idea why kids kill each other, and I don't care that your school had a rifle range, your school was most likely segregated as well, that does

Re: [newbie] any screenshots of grub?

2000-09-28 Thread Renaud OLGIATI
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Paul wrote: Just run /boot/grub/install.sh as root and Grub is back in town :) Thanks, Ron. -- Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit. -- Publius Vergilius Maro ---

Re: [newbie] Just one quick point

2000-09-28 Thread Larry Marshall
While we're on the subject of Bush and all, what's everyone's view of the Iraq sanctions? I work with Voices in the Wilderness (www.vitw.org) which is working to end the sanctions. I wouldn't mind seeing what people's opinions are. That they shouldn't be discussed in a Linux

Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-28 Thread Paul R
You don't have to pick a random name, Michael. We do have a viable alternative to throwing our vote away on corporate Republicrat like Bush/Gore! His name's Ralph Nader. And the most important thing if you want him to win as letting him enter the debates. I've been trying to hold myself back

Re: [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-28 Thread Renaud OLGIATI
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me know if anyone is interested in the entire article =) Yes please, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River. -- Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else.

Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-28 Thread Philomena
I'm sure missing what this has to do with Mandrake or Linux - please follow your convictions offline, as you did say this list is not the place for this. I've only used filters to take out those annoying "on vacation" messages, but this just made it to the top of the heap. At 11:06 AM

Re: [newbie] mail-client software

2000-09-28 Thread Aaron Benedict
Try this link http://www.wxwindows.org/Mahogany/ Aaron At 05:25 AM 9/28/2000 +0100, you wrote: 2000-09-27. Incoming bitstream from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I was just at the site and the links don't work to download the software. Am I missing something here? Eric Subject: Re: [newbie]

[newbie] S3 Stealth III s540 support

2000-09-28 Thread Aaron Benedict
Does anyone know if there is support for this video card in X? Thanks, Aaron Aaron Benedict - [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: 95DB 011B A173 B613 948E A51A 0FE4 02EB 35EF C4F4 Yahoo Messenger ID: abenedict

Re: [newbie] Just one quick point

2000-09-28 Thread Philomena
denis, where are you ?!?!? can a stop be put to this ?!?!?!??! newbie is becoming not worth it at all having to wade thru this nonsense ! At 09:54 AM 9/28/2000 -0500, you wrote: While we're on the subject of Bush and all, what's everyone's view of the Iraq sanctions? I work with Voices in the

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

2000-09-28 Thread Paul R
Thanks for the info! That's an interesting concept. I just went to the Linux Expo here in Brazil and they had a great talk by the founder of the LTSP on diskless terminals. Seems like it has a bunch of advantages, particularly in the coprporate/educational setting. -Paul "Austin L. Denyer"

Re: [newbie] any screenshots of grub?

2000-09-28 Thread Mark Hillary
I much prefer Lilo anyway. Like the fact that it is only one line. it fixs in with the rest of the boot proccess, Grub look out of place. Also lilo is so much easier to use. Mark Mark Weaver wrote: Ok Vic...how's this? I'm sure you've seen a Windows "blus screen of death", right? Well

RE: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-28 Thread webmaster
Actually, the lockout on debates is why I sent this message to Ralph Nader. snip = I am a registered Republican. I'm also a former business owner and work for a company that Ralph Nader generally targets as being 'anti-consumer' ... With that understanding, I made my decision for

Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-28 Thread Paul
Please. Stop this thread. Or go to egroups and start a mailing list for this. I just pulled mail and deleted over 25 messages about this haggle over politics. I don't care about it. Would you like to have 25 messages per day about the traffic problems in our country? Paul, from the

Re: [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-28 Thread lselinger
This is the entire article in its entirety =) enjoy!! (I appologize for the formatting) comments? MGBs, TANKS, AND BATMOBILES Around the time that Jobs, Wozniak, Gates, and Allen were dreaming up these unlikely schemes, I was a teenager living in Ames, Iowa. One

RE: [newbie] Helix Gnome's Evolution

2000-09-28 Thread Mark Johnson
I installed it last night, but haven't had a chance to experiement. If I get a chance tonight, I'll try it out and let you know what i think... -Original Message- From: Aaron Benedict [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 10:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-28 Thread lselinger
incidentally ... the entire essay can be found here: http://www.spack.org/essays/commandline.html Lonny Selinger

Re: [newbie] Seti@HOME

2000-09-28 Thread Austin L. Denyer
(*) I surely hope they will find some inteligence out there: there must be inteligence SOMEWHERE in the universe, and there surely ain't much of it on this planet ;-) With the current level of sh!t about politics going on here, I'm beginning to wonder if you'd find much of it on this list

Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-28 Thread Michael
What do I care? If I was bored of OT messages I'd simply sort all OT messages into the trash or maybe even sort them out before downloading them if I was on a slow connection. I get over 1000 messages a day, what do I care about 25. ; *^*^*^* Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in

Re: [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-28 Thread Michael
Yes, but what happens as more people notice the free tanks? Slowly their numbers gather and they become easier and easier to notice. Not seeing them would be like being next door to Woodstock and not noticing anything out of the ordinary. As each person comes to get their free tank they tell

Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-28 Thread Larry Marshall
I don't care about it. Would you like to have 25 messages per day about the traffic problems in our country? It would be far more interesting than the drivel that had dumped into this conference in the past few days :-) Are they using hoping to use Linux to control traffic in your part of

Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-28 Thread Austin L. Denyer
snip a whole load of sh!t about politics with zero relevance to the list You guys are fixing to become the latest additions to my draconian kill file. CUT IT OUT ALREADY!! Regards, Ozz.

Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-28 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Please. Stop this thread. Or go to egroups and start a mailing list for this. I just pulled mail and deleted over 25 messages about this haggle over politics. I don't care about it. Would you like to have 25 messages per day about the traffic problems in our country? Paul, from

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

2000-09-28 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Thanks for the info! That's an interesting concept. I just went to the Linux Expo here in Brazil and they had a great talk by the founder of the LTSP on diskless terminals. Seems like it has a bunch of advantages, particularly in the coprporate/educational setting. -Paul The biggest

Re: [newbie] Formating IDE HD

2000-09-28 Thread Doug McGarrett
Find a distro that has the old text installation on it (RH 5.2, for instance) and run that. When you get to the option for fdisk, delete any and all existing partitions of size or type. Don't forget to "save" the results. You should then see that there is the whole disk available to partition.

RE: [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-28 Thread Josh Shirey
Enough. I can stand it. STOP THE MADNESS. -Original Message- From: Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 1:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush Yes, but what

RE: [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-28 Thread Sparks, Charley
Is someone smoking something for lunch today .. or are their meds out of adjustment ? -Original Message- From: Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 1:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Microsoft and

Re: [newbie] Seti@HOME

2000-09-28 Thread Hektor Meyer
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, you wrote: (*) I surely hope they will find some inteligence out there: there must be inteligence SOMEWHERE in the universe, and there surely ain't much of it on this planet ;-) With the current level of sh!t about politics going on here, I'm beginning to wonder if

Re: [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-28 Thread Larry Marshall
Yes, but what happens as more people notice the free tanks? Slowly their numbers gather and they become easier and easier to notice. Not seeing them would be like being next door to Woodstock and not noticing anything Maybe more important would be a changing environment that made owning a

Re: [newbie] 3D Prophet II GTS 32 MB

2000-09-28 Thread James Boeck
The List does have a driver for Nvidia Generic I think but It would not work. When it tried to test it I say the monitor or Video were wrong and asked to be reconfigured. James Boeck From: Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie]

[newbie] SB Live! Value - EMU10K1 - not compiled into the kernel?

2000-09-28 Thread Adam
Hi, I downloaded and installed the ISO images from rpmfind.net for LM 7.2 Beta3, in 7.1 and 7.0 my SB Live! Value was detected and properly compiled into the kernel, yet now I find that I can't use the "Audio Mixer" I assume from the gnome packages (not aumix) says that "Sound is not

Re: [newbie] 3D Prophet II GTS 32 MB

2000-09-28 Thread James Boeck
Mine is a Prophet II and it tries to detect it and then tries to test it and says that no configurations will work with this card. Everything I try fails and then when I try X it always gives me failed attempt or a bunch of wierd stuff on the screen. James From: "markOpoleO" [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Just one quick point

2000-09-28 Thread markOpoleO
SHUT UP! Takes this sissy crap someplace like CNN. markOpoleO - Original Message - From: "David Lay" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 9:54 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Just one quick point While we're on the

Re: [newbie] Geforce 2 driver

2000-09-28 Thread James Boeck
Larry, I just joined this mail list two days ago I have not been on long enough to hear previous posts. My card is a Geforce 2 I just got it a week ago. It says Geforce 2 on the box. I will try what you said. What sights did you say you pointed to that would help? Nvidia's site says they

RE: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-28 Thread Mark Weaver
how about DIE thread D-I-E -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/= message...| Registered Linux user #182496

[newbie] how to compile a program from source

2000-09-28 Thread Paul R
Anybody know where I can find some good documentation on compiling different sorts of programs from the source-code. I wanna try to compile and install gaim as my first try. -Paul R PS (The readme for gaim mentions GTK, I seem to have that on the system but can't seem to call it up.)

Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-28 Thread Mark Weaver
Sounds like a REAL good idea. Just send this crap to the bit bucket never to be seen or heard from again. -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this | ** =\/=

Re: [newbie] any screenshots of grub?

2000-09-28 Thread Vic
Uh oh I think I might see the problem, the menu.lst file is missing, do I just create it? Or is the install supposed to do that? On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Larry Marshall wrote: Many thanks for the info, however I think I screwed something up, I think I did not get the install.sh file somehow, I

Re: [newbie] Using PPOE; problems

2000-09-28 Thread Paul R
Are you using the pppoe from the mandrake install? If so, you should try rr-pppoe from http://www.roaringpenguin.com Make sure to read the help or how-to file included. Also, this is from Larry Marsahll on the list: "Then, what I'd recommend is that you set up a couple aliases in your

[newbie] The finale of the linux vs. windows. vs. tanks batmobiles :)

2000-09-28 Thread dwyatt
STOP IT!! NONE OF YOU KNOW WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE OS WARS I'm writing a new OS right now in GW-BASIC in MS-DOS 3.3 that will 0wn linux. Seriously, I hope Linux does well, but, who knows? Do you all think that Windows is just going to be setting still and let Linux beat it's socks

Re: [newbie] when I'm online no one can ping , telnet , ftp etc. it works only to localhost

2000-09-28 Thread Michael
Would hosts.allow stop even ping? I know I can ping most my machines from systems not able to actually connect to anything on them. *^*^*^* Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sungod robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at

[newbie] MySQL w/ tcp wrappers?

2000-09-28 Thread Michael
Does anyone know if Mandrake compiles MySQL to go through tcp wrappers? It doesn't seem to but I don't want to recompile it by hand if someone knows how to switch tcp wrappers on for it w/out such hassle. :) *^*^*^* Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sungod robes on a

Re: [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-28 Thread dwyatt
Uh...the free tanks are hard to use. dwyatt - Original Message - From: "Michael" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 12:39 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush Yes, but what happens as

Re: [newbie] Geforce 2 driver

2000-09-28 Thread lselinger
Hi James, What version of Xfree86 are you running? I had the same problem (although I'm not sure why) with 4.0.1 and 3.3.6 ( I think ) 4.0 seems to be the only one that worked wel for me (even during the initial set up) I did manage to get the NVidia drivers installed when I was running

[newbie] where is the login setup?

2000-09-28 Thread Larry Marshall
Hopefully there are still a few Linux experts here in spite of the takeover by the political pundits. I mentioned that I had installed Helix-Gnome last night. What I didn't realize was that in doing so I changed not only the shell I was using but also the entire login sequence. Where is this

Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-28 Thread Larry Marshall
I, for one, enjoy reading the political banter. If you don't like it, you can use the delete button when you see the heading you want to avoid. This is a No, Jay...the reason there are many conferences is that each is subject specific. Neither you or anyone else has the right to carry on

Re: [newbie] how to compile a program from source

2000-09-28 Thread Michael
All decent programs these days tend to go something like: ./configure make make install ldconfig When things go well that's about it. When they don't well then it is a lot of digging through libraries and code. ; *^*^*^* Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sungod robes

Re: [newbie] How do I filter out unwanted mails on Kmail?

2000-09-28 Thread Michael
Under File is a Filter option I think. *^*^*^* Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sungod robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you? -- Real Genius On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Robin Regennitter wrote: hey I was wondering how

Re: OT [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-28 Thread lselinger
2cents Why must people inform others when they do something like this? *shrug* Even the people who dont want to read the off topic stuff (who ARE apparently reading it) feel the need to throw in their 2 cents /2cents =o) Lonny Just updated my rules to send these messages where they belong

[newbie] Missing command and menu editor question

2000-09-28 Thread Chris Normandeau
From a terminal window I tried to use the Unix command cu -l and the shell said that this was basically an unrecognized command. There is also no man page information for this command. Following the installation guide, I tried the "Edit Menus" feature form the KDE icon (Panels- Edit Menus)

Re: [newbie] any screenshots of grub?

2000-09-28 Thread Larry Marshall
Uh oh I think I might see the problem, the menu.lst file is missing, do I just create it? Or is the install supposed to do that? The install should have done that. Here's my menu.lst file. I'm going to drop some comments into it to explain it to you. If you're going to use this, you

[newbie] Mapping Drive in WindowsNT Network

2000-09-28 Thread Rick Bonczek
I have my network card configured correctly. I can ping other addresses, and connect to the internet through my company's firewall. How do I map a drive on my WindowsNT Network at work? Even more basic, What application do I use? I tried to enter the address of the file server, and a share.

Re: [newbie] Microsoft and George W. Bush

2000-09-28 Thread Michael
Funny I turn lose complete novices on my Linux systems and they adapt quickly. Some of them figured it out and can't even figure out how to turn the computer on (yes that scares me too). *^*^*^* Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sungod robes on a pyramid with a thousand

[newbie] Will the GeForce Drivers be integrated in the Linux Release?

2000-09-28 Thread Romanator
Does any one know if the GeForce drivers are going to be integrated in the next Linux release 7.3? Roman Registered Linux User #179293

Re: [newbie] any screenshots of grub?

2000-09-28 Thread Michael
Here is a sample: timeout 5 color black/cyan yellow/cyan i18n (hd0,2)/grub/messages keytable (hd0,2)/us.klt default 0 title linux kernel (hd0,2)/vmlinuz-secure root=/dev/hda5 initrd (hd0,2)/initrd-secure.img title failsafe kernel (hd0,2)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 failsafe initrd

Re: [newbie] How do I filter out unwanted mails on Kmail?

2000-09-28 Thread Richard Davies
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, you wrote: hey I was wondering how do I filter out or transfer unwanted mail to trash. File, Filter, Subject contains OT, transfer, trash. -- Regards Richard http://www.tollyboy.com

Re: [newbie] The finale of the linux vs. windows. vs. tanks batmobiles :)

2000-09-28 Thread Larry Marshall
STOP IT!! NONE OF YOU KNOW WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE OS WARS Yep...I confessed that early on :-) I'm writing a new OS right now in GW-BASIC in MS-DOS 3.3 that will 0wn linux. More power to you. Seriously, I hope Linux does well, but, who knows? Do you all think that

Re: [newbie] how to compile a program from source

2000-09-28 Thread Adam
Paul R wrote: Anybody know where I can find some good documentation on compiling different sorts of programs from the source-code. I wanna try to compile and install gaim as my first try. -Paul R PS (The readme for gaim mentions GTK, I seem to have that on the system but can't seem

[newbie] casualties

2000-09-28 Thread Larry Marshall
This is the end. Sorry Roman Sorry to see you go but I can certainly understand your point of view. It's a shame that a good resource can be so abused by the very people it's intended to help but that seems to be the Internet. Should give everyone a pen I suppose. Keeping this msg

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