Re: [newbie-it] Problemi con la scheda sonora

2000-10-02 Thread Sebastiano Cordiano
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 01:27:40 +0200 (CEST), Floods said: Anch'io ho una SBlive. L'ho sempre usata con il driver emuk10 della Creative perchè non sapevo che ci fossero altre possibilità. Vorrei provare gli Alsa. Mi potresti dire dove li posso trovare? Sono difficili da far funzionare?

RE: [newbie] Where is the elusive apps (disk 3) ?

2000-10-02 Thread Bradley D. Thornton
So where did you get the iso for the x86 apps cd? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rick Commo Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2000 9:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Where is the elusive "apps" (disk 3) ? 1.) The

RE: [newbie] Where is the elusive apps (disk 3) ?

2000-10-02 Thread Rick Commo
Ahh.., That's how I misread it. At first I thought he was asking for confirmation that "CD 3" was the Apps disk. Not "where can I get it". I happened to pick up the "Linux-Mandrake 7.1 Deluxe" boxed set at a local emporium. Total kit had X86 BinariesSources

[newbie] Getting a Telnet daemon up

2000-10-02 Thread Taquin Ho
Hi, I installed Linux Mandrake 6.0 and realised that I forgot to install a telnet daemon during the installation process. What is the simplest way to installed and configure Telnet? Is the daemon called telnetd? I can't seem to find it... Regards, Taquin

Re: [[newbie] wine and share]

2000-10-02 Thread Michael Scottaline
Francois Massonneau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a problem when I want to run a windows program. I do not have any windows HD on my system, but I have a windows program I need to run. I have no problem to run it as "root", but as a simple user, it doesn't want to run. Each time I

Re: [newbie] Getting a Telnet daemon up

2000-10-02 Thread Mark Weaver
Telnet isn't a daemon it's an actual program that you can call either from a terminal window or in the program menu. To know for certain as to whether or not the program exists on your system in a terminal window type; whereis telnet ENTER If it comes back empty then the program

Re: [newbie] hacker or cracker was: Telneting

2000-10-02 Thread Mark Weaver
Have you tried this one yet? cd /mnt/windows/progra~1 (progra~1) is what you will need to get there. -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of

[newbie] Samba Assistance

2000-10-02 Thread Michael Corbin
I have been given a task at work to get Linux up and running by Wednesday Oct. 4th. The developers want to attach to this Linux system with '95 and NT workstations as though it is a NT "share." I found a reference to Samba, but can't seem to find any complete beginner lever step-by-step

[newbie] Apache Assistance

2000-10-02 Thread Michael Corbin
I am trying to get Apache web server running on Mandrake 7.0. We need to be able to run the virtual sites by name and not by IP address. Here is the background: My experience with Linux/Apache = zero. Experience with NT/IIS = extensive. PC we are using for testing: Hewlett Packard

Re: [newbie] Samba Assistance

2000-10-02 Thread iagoba
I got an introductory manual of samba, if you want I can send it to you by e-mail, is in pdf format and the zip file got more than 1MB, please send your e-mail to send it directly to you and don't put it in the list. Iagoba Michael Corbin wrote: I have been given a task at work to get Linux

[newbie] ramdisk error

2000-10-02 Thread Lee Shelp
I finally realized the problem with the ramdisk error. If you download with Netscape ftp it does not download as a binary file. The iso file is bad. You have to use ftp an ftp program that can download as a binary. Re-burn the disk with the binary iso file and it will work. Lee

[newbie] SSH

2000-10-02 Thread Scott Allan
How do I install ssh? I have looked for it, but can not seem to find it... Thanks - sA Scott Allan

[newbie] Advice on a non-standard network setup....

2000-10-02 Thread Scott Allan
Hi, I am having troubles configuring a "non-standard" network install, and would like advice on how to best set this up. Ultimately, I will need three network interfaces installed in my box: 1. d-link pci ehternet adapter - - Bell HSE ADSL 2. d-link pci ehternet adapter - - connect to hub to

[newbie] HP9300 Seris CD-Writer

2000-10-02 Thread Adam
'modules.conf' (cd-writer related) alias scsi_hostadapter sd_mod alias scsi_hostadapter1 scsi_mod alias scsi_hostadapter2 ide-scsi alias block-major-11 scsi_hostadapter Ok that's what mandrake setup for my

Re: [[newbie] wine and share]

2000-10-02 Thread Francois Massonneau
I have a problem when I want to run a windows program. I do not have any windows HD on my system, but I have a windows program I need to run. I have no problem to run it as "root", but as a simple user, it doesn't want to run. Each time I have a message saying something like that :

Re: [newbie] ramdisk error

2000-10-02 Thread Larry Marshall
I finally realized the problem with the ramdisk error. If you download with Netscape ftp it does not download as a binary file. The iso file is bad. You have to use ftp an ftp program that can download as a binary. Re-burn the disk with the binary iso file and it will work. This explains

[newbie] One more try to change kdm

2000-10-02 Thread Clif Caldwell
I placed this question earlier and could not arrive at a satisfying answer so with the liquid nature of this list I decided to try again. Here goes. For some reason (in other words I don't really want to waste bandwidth talking about it) Xfce is not on my kdm menu at the start of an xsession. I

RE: [newbie] ramdisk error

2000-10-02 Thread Garry Black
Alas this is not the 100% solution either as I always use an FTP client which defaults to Binary mode op. As we speak I am downloading the 7.2 beta install ISO image and will give that a shot and post the results. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On

RE: [newbie] Samba Assistance

2000-10-02 Thread Phil Connor
Maybe if you post your smb.conf file the rest of us can help you figure out where your problem is Phil Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User 189889 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Corbin Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000

Re: OT [newbie] Antique systems [was: Off-topic posts.]

2000-10-02 Thread dwyatt
Unfortunately for you, most companies today, and even Linux developers, would not like such practices among their programmers. For the same reason that a good programmer comments their code. Are you always going to be there to fix problems? I don't think so. 9 out of 10 developers would pick

Re: [newbie] Make file/directory hidden

2000-10-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, Here at work I am managing a Linux mandrake 7.0 server with SWAT on it. I created a NT share with it and everything is working great. However, I am wondering if it is possible to hide files or directories on Linux, so I can hide a subdirectory in the

Re: [newbie] wine and share

2000-10-02 Thread Paul R
Francois Massonneau wrote: Hi, I have a problem when I want to run a windows program. I do not have any windows HD on my system, but I have a windows program I need to run. I have no problem to run it as "root", but as a simple user, it doesn't want to run. Each time I have a message

[newbie] setenv question...

2000-10-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Okay, I've included a (very) small text attachment, it shows an error message I'm getting whenever I try to run an app that needs Mesa/Glide. I did go to README.3DFX and read it, but it was somewhat less than illuminating for me. Can someone look at the text and tell me what it is I'm supposed

Re: [newbie] Samba Assistance - manual's ftp site

2000-10-02 Thread Renaud OLGIATI
On Mon, 02 Oct 2000, iagoba wrote: Lot of people asked me to give them that file , the file is very big, bigger than i thought, more than 4 MB, if someone more want it, the ftp site that u can download it is Thanks a lot, downloading now ! Ron. -- There is no

Re: OT [newbie] Antique systems [was: Off-topic posts.]

2000-10-02 Thread Paul
It was Oct 2, 2000, 09:51, when Austin L. Denyer keyboarded: I once had to re-write a system that performed around 40 different calculations depending on the type of data received. Conventional programming (which was the way the original was written) would have had a subroutine for each case,

Re: [newbie] What is w3m?

2000-10-02 Thread Paul
It was Oct 2, 2000, 08:56, when Z keyboarded: great is "links" that displays tables and framestry them out...available at rpmfind.net Make that "lynx", and it should be on the mandrake installation disk, if not already on your system. It is great indeed :) Paul -- The Tao that is seen Is

Re: [newbie] Make file/directory hidden

2000-10-02 Thread John Fisher
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Ronald J. Hall wrote: [snip] Hi. Not sure about the NT shared directory, but you can hide a file or directory in 'Nix by putting a "." in front of it. For example: My_directory would be seen by all, where .My_directory would not. ..although I think anybody who

Re: OT [newbie] Antique systems [was: Off-topic posts.]

2000-10-02 Thread Austin L. Denyer
Unfortunately for you, most companies today, and even Linux developers, would not like such practices among their programmers. For the same reason that a good programmer comments their code. Are you always going to be there to fix problems? I don't think so. 9 out of 10 developers would

RE: [newbie] Configuring my internet connection.

2000-10-02 Thread Doug McGarrett
At 06:50 PM 10/01/2000 -0700, someone wrote: Okay, Of course the best way to for you to do this is with ifconfig. type man ifconfig for the instructions. But given that you seem to lack an adequate understanding of IP routing maybe the best thing instead . . . /snip/ start with the basic host

Re: OT [newbie] Antique systems [was: Off-topic posts.]

2000-10-02 Thread Paul
It was Oct 1, 2000, 15:25, when Austin L. Denyer keyboarded: Ha! I know tricks like that one too! I had a machine like that, and wrote a simple but functioning accounting system in it :) One of my colleagues once tried to write a program to calculate the performance characteristics of

[newbie] Apache user webspace

2000-10-02 Thread --mike
Hello, I have a webserver up and running on my Linux box (Mandrake 7.1). My domain name is www.digitalpalace.net I am trying to give my user his own webspace like www.digitalpalace.net/~user. I have copied the httpd folder in the home directory into the users directory. I have also tried

Re: [[newbie] mm 1.0.12]

2000-10-02 Thread Altoine Barker
if you want the non-mdk version then http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/openlinux/edesktop/col/install/RPMS/mm-1.0.12-1.i386.html and if you want the mdk version http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/mandrake/7.1/Mandrake/RPMS/mm-1.0.12-3mdk.i586.html for future posterity go to http://rpmfind.net. Click on

Re: [newbie] error loading ramdisk problem during install

2000-10-02 Thread John Alexander
beautiful - thanks for the news. I was going crazy cause at the same time I am having all these other problems (SCSI and CD-RW). Do you know the exact file(s) that are the problem? I am at a 56k connection and I will just download the right files and burn the whole thing to a CD. John -

RE: [newbie] SSH

2000-10-02 Thread TiGereYe
hello, the ssh client and servers are available thru:- http://www.ssh.fi/ or http://www.openssh.com or http://www.freessh.org i suggest you download the rpm and install it unless you are really paranoid then you could build from source :) good luck TiGereYe - Accept No Substitues -

[newbie] what kind of file has the extension *.bin?

2000-10-02 Thread Pat McCauley
I recently downloaded Star Office 5.2, and it is in a *.bin format. How do I open, run, or install this file? _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself,

Re: OT [newbie] Off-topic posts.

2000-10-02 Thread Goldenpi
I know z80 asm. I need my reference chart of course, but I have writen programs. Anyone here managed to get windows 95 to run on an amstrad with a z80 and 64k ram? I have. I had to rewrite the gui part so it would run. There were no drives, but it did have a working start menu. It used a

Re: [newbie] hacker or cracker was: Telneting

2000-10-02 Thread Goldenpi
Will try it later. my linux box is currently sans processor, due to the laptop. - Original Message - From: "John Rye" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 12:29 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] hacker or cracker was: Telneting Goldenpi wrote: Sound like

Re: OT [newbie] Antique systems [was: Off-topic posts.]

2000-10-02 Thread Goldenpi
Ok, now I can finish. I know I should have not sent that but it was late and I didn't think it at the time :^). I must get more sleep. The only use I found for self modifying code was speed. example in basic: do a=key if a=27 then beep:end If a=64 then beep:beep:end if a=65 then

Re: [newbie] what kind of file has the extension *.bin?

2000-10-02 Thread Larry Marshall
I recently downloaded Star Office 5.2, and it is in a *.bin format. How do I open, run, or install this file? If you don't have the default directory in your Path you need to execute ./starofficefilename.bin Cheers --- Larry

Re: [newbie] Make file/directory hidden

2000-10-02 Thread Larry Marshall
Hi. Not sure about the NT shared directory, but you can hide a file or directory in 'Nix by putting a "." in front of it. For example: My_directory would be seen by all, where ..My_directory I'm reminded of the way moose hide behind a tree...with their entire bodies

Re: [newbie] Apache user webspace

2000-10-02 Thread gene
Title: Re: [newbie] Apache user webspace At 11:07 AM -0700 10/2/00, --mike wrote: Hello, I have a webserver up and running on my Linux box (Mandrake 7.1). My domain name is www.digitalpalace.net I am trying to give my user his own webspace like www.digitalpalace.net/~user. I have copied the

Re: [newbie] RAM hog

2000-10-02 Thread ozgur cagdas
dear friend; i dont have specific info on mandrake 6.0 but it seems me as a general problem faced so often in linux world among newbies. trying to optimize startup services should solve your problem. if you start to many programs and services at the startup time, sure theyll hold to much RAM

Re: [newbie] Apache user webspace

2000-10-02 Thread Vic
Just curious, did you set the user's directory? chmod a+r /home/user chmod a+r /home/user/public_html those commands should make the correct dirs open for apache to let websurfers read what is in the files. Hope this helps On Mon, 02 Oct 2000, gene wrote: At 11:07 AM -0700 10/2/00, --mike

Re: [newbie] Getting a Telnet daemon up

2000-10-02 Thread olof.liungman
Hi, Taq! Fancy "meeting" you here :D! Good to hear that after all your years as a programmer and sysadmin you're finally beginning to use the "right" OS ;). As for telnet, I don't think Mark Weaver answered your question, or did he? I use Mandrake 7.0-2 on my dual-boot Dell laptop, and the

[newbie] VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:02

2000-10-02 Thread Trevor Stewart
Hi, I'm running mandrake 7.1 and I have a problem this momment. I'd like to start off and say I'm relativily new to linux so the answer to my problem could be simple and it just happens I don't know it. I went to boot up linux today (I was in windows the night before. I like my

Fw: [newbie] Question about 2nd HD/dual booting/NOT Windog...

2000-10-02 Thread Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "Charles A Edwards" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Alan Shoemaker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 3:55 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Question about 2nd HD/dual booting/NOT Windog... - Original Message - From: "Alan Shoemaker" [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Display Error

2000-10-02 Thread SoloCDM
How can I repair this error: /dev/dsp: No such device? Privileges are crw [user_account].sys. It is linked to /dev/dsp0. Note: Detailed Document(s) and Sample(s) are more than welcome. When you reply to this message, please include the mailing list and my email address.

[newbie] Setting up a cable modem

2000-10-02 Thread Roger Sherman
OK, I've finally gone broadband! Life is good. Except for one thing - I'm still a completely ignorant newbie. I thought I had increased my own learning curve over the last month, but apparently not :-/ Oh well...;-) So, anywho, I have a 3com Etherlink Nic card, (model 3C900B-TPO), along with

Re: [newbie] Samba Assistance

2000-10-02 Thread TRBishop
On Mon, 02 Oct 2000, Michael Corbin wrote: I have been given a task at work to get Linux up and running by Wednesday Oct. 4th. The developers want to attach to this Linux system with '95 and NT workstations as though it is a NT "share." I found a reference to Samba, but can't seem to find

[newbie] Re: changing cursor shapes in X

2000-10-02 Thread Jeff Malka
After much searching I discovered that if in a console I type: xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr -fg cyan -bg white I will get a cyan colored left pointing arrow. BUT, this setting dissappears after I logout and then back in when the X cursor returns. If I enter that command in my home xinitrc

[newbie] Registered Linux user?

2000-10-02 Thread Jon Doe
Can someone post the site to become a registered user? I signed up once but have lost my number and the site to register. Anyone know if you can aquire your number if you lost it?? lol -- Fatal Error: Found [MS-Windows] System - Repartitioning Disk for Linux...

RE: [newbie] Registered Linux user?

2000-10-02 Thread Tyler Longren
http://counter.li.org/ I think that's what you're looking for -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jon Doe Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 4:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Registered Linux user? Can someone post the site to

RE: [newbie] Registered Linux user?

2000-10-02 Thread cpdewman
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 18:46:05 -0700, "Tyler Longren" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://counter.li.org/ I think that's what you're looking for Thanks!

[newbie] OT : Best place for cheap network cards...

2000-10-02 Thread Clif Caldwell
I realize I'm imposing on this list but I desparately need to obtain about 3 cheap Linux friendly network cards to share my home dsl line. Thanks and fear not I will not abuse this list with more OT questions. Clif Caldwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- "Sig" file is sick

RE: [newbie] Advice on a non-standard network setup....

2000-10-02 Thread TiGereYe
hello, well ... i would suggest you go to www.linuxdoc.org and go under the howto's...under ip masquarding and also ip aliasing another good document on that site for your purpose would be to look under the MINI-HOWTOS ... there is a very good section called home-network-mini... those are

RE: [newbie] OT : Best place for cheap network cards...

2000-10-02 Thread Tyler Longren
There's some pretty cheap ones here: http://www2.warehouse.com/dept_find.asp?dept_id=3663sel=NtwkEthcat=net working Most are linux compatible. Some 3com cards haven't worked for me before however. Tyler -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of

Re: [newbie] Setting up a cable modem

2000-10-02 Thread Romanator
Roger Sherman wrote: OK, I've finally gone broadband! Life is good. Except for one thing - I'm still a completely ignorant newbie. I thought I had increased my own learning curve over the last month, but apparently not :-/ Oh well...;-) So, anywho, I have a 3com Etherlink Nic card,

Re: [newbie] Setting up a cable modem

2000-10-02 Thread salane
try as superuser ifup ethx where x is 0, 1, 2, etc or go into DrakConf and do a network config you might have to pick out your module try 3com 59x or something like that On Mon, 02 Oct 2000, you wrote: OK, I've finally gone broadband! Life is good. Except for one thing - I'm still a

Re: [newbie] Setting up a cable modem

2000-10-02 Thread Romanator
Roger Sherman wrote: OK, I've finally gone broadband! Life is good. Except for one thing - I'm still a completely ignorant newbie. I thought I had increased my own learning curve over the last month, but apparently not :-/ Oh well...;-) So, anywho, I have a 3com Etherlink Nic card,

Re: [newbie] OT : Best place for cheap network cards...

2000-10-02 Thread gene
At 8:09 PM -0400 10/2/00, Clif Caldwell wrote: I realize I'm imposing on this list but I desparately need to obtain about 3 cheap Linux friendly network cards to share my home dsl line. Thanks and fear not I will not abuse this list with more OT questions. I just got this for myself from

Re: [newbie] Setting up a cable modem

2000-10-02 Thread Romanator
Romanator wrote: Roger Sherman wrote: OK, I've finally gone broadband! Life is good. Except for one thing - I'm still a completely ignorant newbie. I thought I had increased my own learning curve over the last month, but apparently not :-/ Oh well...;-) So, anywho, I have a

Re: [newbie] OT : Best place for cheap network cards...

2000-10-02 Thread Larry Marshall
I realize I'm imposing on this list but I desparately need to obtain about 3 cheap Linux friendly network cards to share my home dsl line. Gee Clif - relative to a lot of the stuff that gets posted here, this seem bang on-topic. Wish I could answer the question but I can't. I'll have to

Re: [newbie] Setting up a cable modem

2000-10-02 Thread Michael
When you run 'ifconfig' does it show up as eth0 or something like that? If not you might try using netcfg to setup the networking to know about the ethernet card and your connections settings. *^*^*^* Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sungod robes on a pyramid with a

RE: [newbie] Advice on a non-standard network setup....

2000-10-02 Thread gene
--Original Message-- From: Scott Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: October 2, 2000 12:33:43 PM GMT Subject: [newbie] Advice on a "non-standard" network setup 2. In what order should the hardware be allocated ETH0-ETH2? Can I control this? How? Take a look at your

[newbie] space for added programs???

2000-10-02 Thread Mwinold
ok i made a 2 gig partition for mandrage and installed it i have some games and one of them is heroes of might and magic 3 well during the install it says i have 340 mb available. well i decided to use partition commander readjust windows and gave mandrake an extra 800mb just to tide me over

[newbie] Getting apache back to default?

2000-10-02 Thread Philip Trauring
I've messed up my apache settings so that now it won't work. I have Mandrake 7.1. I mostly used webmin to make the changes and things were working fine, but now apache loads fine, but i can't access any web pages from any browser. Any suggestions for reverting the settings back to the

RE: [newbie] Microsoft bails out Corel!!

2000-10-02 Thread Michael
It doesn't matter. Both Gnome and KDE are quickly working towards very usable office products and of course there is always the chance that Sun turns StarOffice into something decent. Wordperfect was buggy, like all commercial software. They should have made it opensource. A shame RedHat couldn't