[newbie-it] c++

2000-10-31 Thread osva
ciao...rieccomi, sto cercando di capire come si installa e si compila un software...ho seguito alla lettera quello che dice il manuale di mandr7.1: ho copiato nella directory /usr/local/src il file che mi interessava *.tar.gz, ho lanciato il comando tar...mi si è liberata una manciata di

[newbie-it] permessi...

2000-10-31 Thread osva
salve! il manuale mandrake 7.1 (compilazione e installazione di software libero) mi consiglia, per sicurezza, di creare un utente dedicato a compiti amministrativi (ad es. admin) che si occupi dell'installazione del software...e che abbia permesso di scrittura in /usr/local/src

[newbie] There's no sound in 7.2

2000-10-31 Thread Robin Regennitter
Hi everybody. I just installed the latest greatist Mandrake of them all--- 7.2.However, there's one problem I am having is that there is no sounds and the aumix is inoperable. Harddrake has detected the soundcard but is unable to produce a midi sound. Did a sndconfig, it says that

Re: [newbie] Problem with 3Com ether 3C905B under 7.1?

2000-10-31 Thread Greg Stewart
Michael, I was working with another list member for about a week trying everything possible, short of reinstallation, and nothing worked...ulimately this person decided to format the damned hard drive and start over--and, wadda' know? I worked! I haven't a clue what the error was on his

[newbie] Security Question and SCSI Tape Utilities

2000-10-31 Thread Mocksfield, Alan
Hi All, As I'm sure you all know I'm fairly new to Linux and I have a couple of simple questions. First - I've installed Mandrake 7.1 on a compaq ML370 using the high security option. The only thing I cannot do is telnet to the server from a different machine and log in as root, it

[newbie] 7.2 Network Install Problem

2000-10-31 Thread Jason Jesso
I am trying to install Mandrake 7.2 from a network install. I installed 7.1 before with no problem through my cable modem. I get to the installing packages and it goes on to install, but sometime later I get a error window popup saying "An error occurred. Died". What can I do? I tried several

Re: [newbie] Quantum hard drives

2000-10-31 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
By "failed" I mean it physically broke. After 2 years of use, the drive failed for the first time. My distributor sent me a new one (after about 4 months waiting!), and this one failed after only a few months. In the lead-up to the failure I had many bad blocks cropping up. It made clunky and

Re: [newbie] L-M 7.2 availible for purchase on CD?

2000-10-31 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 30 October 2000 04:34 pm, you wrote: Anyone know when Linux-Mandrake 7.2 will be availible for purchase online on CD? I only have a 28.8 connection and I did download both 7.1 ISO's...took 6 days and I'm not really in the mood for that again. I would just as soon buy it on CD

RE: [newbie] Problem with 3Com ether 3C905B under 7.1?

2000-10-31 Thread TomST
Michael, You should first make sure that your card is logically up. You can do this by sending it the ifup eth0 command. Then make sure you can ping you own ip address. If you can ping your own ip address then try your dns server. Also you have not mentioned setting up your default route so

[newbie] test

2000-10-31 Thread Jason Jesso
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Re: [newbie] StarCraft: slow under Wine but...

2000-10-31 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Joan Tur wrote: It doesn't work fine; i've got a 640x480 desktop, game plays quicker than before but... i cannot see the whole screen (a part is not being displayed at the bottom side) 8-? Hmm. Maybe adjust your monitor settings? (I know that seems pretty obvious but its all I can think of

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2000-10-31 Thread Tim Thomas
How can I get removed from this posting. You guys are great and so helpful, but my mailbox gets lockedup because I can't get to the emails quickly enough. Thanx Tim From: "Jason Jesso" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] test Date: Tue, 31

[newbie] Thanks!

2000-10-31 Thread FeralDM
Thanks everyone who's tried to help me find an ISP provider. I tried to respond to the 2 people who suggested Mindspring. Unfortunately for some bizarre reason, both of my responses were kicked back to me saying I had used a "no no" phrase and therefore the posts would not appear. Have no idea

Re: [newbie] Thanks!

2000-10-31 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 31 October 2000 10:25 am, you wrote: Thanks everyone who's tried to help me find an ISP provider. I tried to respond to the 2 people who suggested Mindspring. Unfortunately for some bizarre reason, both of my responses were kicked back to me saying I had used a "no no" phrase and

[newbie] 7.2 Network Install

2000-10-31 Thread Jason Jesso
Hi: I am having a problem installing 7.2 from the network. It starts to install packages but I get an error after some time saying: "An error occurred. Died." I installed 7.1 this way with no problem. I tried this several times and I get the same thing error. Can anybody help?

Re: [newbie] test

2000-10-31 Thread Barry S
well, Test right at back you buddy. Sorry, I know you don't know me but I just had to say that. Hope you understand From: "Jason Jesso" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] test Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:26:26 EST test

[newbie] Changing colors.

2000-10-31 Thread Dave Casper
Hello all, I feel a bit embarassed asking this question but here goes... I am using MDK 7.0 and I was able to install and log in using both the root account and my user account. I use KDE as my environment. How do I change the screen colors for my user account? I am able to change the colors

[newbie] test

2000-10-31 Thread Jason Jesso
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[newbie] Internet in the UK

2000-10-31 Thread Jamie Kerwick
Has anyone managed to setup a connection to freeserve in the UK? I have managed to setup the PPP correctly-ish. It connects to the server however, i get no server found when trying to goto sites. I think that the problem is that i have no DNS listed in the PPP properties, the problem is that i

[newbie] sendmail

2000-10-31 Thread freeman
I have enabled pop3 in my inetd.conf as well as have enabled fetchmail on boot up to no avail. the error I get when trying to pick up my mail on outlook express is Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible causes for this include server problems, network problems, or a

Re: [newbie] CD-RW Drive Question

2000-10-31 Thread Michael J
--- James Schofield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 08:59 PM 10/30/00 -0500, you wrote: Does anyone know of a CD-RW Drive that works well with Linux? If so, please make some recommendation's. Thank you, Thomas E. Fink As someone who has sold the stuff for many years. I think Plexwriter is

[newbie] Registering as a Linux User?

2000-10-31 Thread James Boeck
How or Where do you register as a Linux user? James Boeck _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at

Re: [newbie] Anybody know if a driver for the HP Deskjet 722C is in the works, or exists under another version of Linux besides Mandrake?

2000-10-31 Thread Josh V Friberg-Wyckoff
Would it work if you just set it up as a postscript printer. At 04:57 PM 10/30/2000 -0500, you wrote: Hi, I e-mailed to ask how to set up my HP DeskJet 722C under Mandrake 7.1 because I couldn't get it to work under any other drivers. I got a response (thank you!) saying that a driver

Re: [newbie] sendmail

2000-10-31 Thread rharvey
use your ip address for the server in your outlook not your domain it works on mine - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 9:56 AM Subject: [newbie] sendmail I have enabled pop3 in my inetd.conf as well as have enabled

Re: [newbie] Internet in the UK

2000-10-31 Thread Goldenpi
Do you have windows? For some weird reason windows can auto-detect the DNS while linux cannot. Can anyone explain this? Connect under windows. Now you must run c:\windows\winipcfg.exe. Click More Info and there will be a field containing the ips for the DNS servers. - Original Message -

Re: [newbie] Internet in the UK

2000-10-31 Thread Nick Gordon
Hello Jamie, Tuesday, October 31, 2000, 5:38:37 PM, you wrote: JK Has anyone managed to setup a connection to freeserve in the UK? I have JK managed to setup the PPP correctly-ish. It connects to the server however, i JK get no server found when trying to goto sites. I think that the problem

Re: [newbie] How to burn iso under windows

2000-10-31 Thread Robin Regennitter
On Tuesday 31 October 2000 04:22, you wrote: I just use Adaptec Easy CD Creator. Just make sure the filesystem under File is ISO9660. then go to your iso image file and just double click on it and it will automatically detect it as an ISO image, it will then ask you a couple of question,

[newbie] KDE2 and sound

2000-10-31 Thread Santiago Canez
Hey all, I installed 7.2 on Sunday night and so far I am very impressed. I am having a few problems though that hopefully someone can help me with. 1. When I try to configure my soundcard I get the following error: Error in modprobe call! /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/cmpci.o: invalid

Re: [newbie] Internet in the UK

2000-10-31 Thread scotchpie
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, you wrote: I think that the problem is that i have no DNS listed in the PPP properties, the problem is that i don't know the IP address of the DNS which freeserve uses. Can anyone tell me, or give me the IP address of a different DNS which i could use, (i am under

RE: [newbie] Clipper and Visual Basic languajes

2000-10-31 Thread Mark Johnson
Has someone ported the VB stuff to linux yet? -Original Message-From: Javier Marcon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 7:15 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] Clipper and Visual Basic languajes Could somebody tell me where can I get Visual

Re: [newbie] VMWare: Is 96 M memory really sufficient ?

2000-10-31 Thread Renaud OLGIATI
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, duncan wrote: Have been assured that it will run slw if win 98 Can be speeded up if you run win 98 lite and is quicker if you run NT or 2000. What aboput Windows 3.1 ? What I need to run are some old legacy apps ;-( TIA, Ron the Frog, sweltering on the

Re: [newbie] Password

2000-10-31 Thread Renaud OLGIATI
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a little bug in lillo and grub you have to add the line in lillo mem: 128mb i think thats how it goes im sure someone will correct me, for some reason lillo and grub will not detect over 64mb so this line was added to help correct the reporting

Re: [newbie] Registering as a Linux User?

2000-10-31 Thread Anthony
http://counter.li.org/ How or Where do you register as a Linux user? James Boeck -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Press any key to continue, or any other key to quit.

Re: [newbie] question about mandrake probs..

2000-10-31 Thread Joe Morris
Help!!! Okay, I just downloaded and installed Mandrake 7.2, but a problem quickly arose. I have no access to any of my drives except my zip (/dev/hdb4). My floppy drive, my DVD, and my CD-Writer don't work. When I go to open them I get a message telling me something about not having read/write

[newbie] 2nd question - file permissions

2000-10-31 Thread Adrian Smith
okie this file permissions thing is starting to bug me. first - am i correct that a directory must be executable for it to be opened? i have linux/windows duel boot. i am a writer photographer right now i have a whole bunch of word processor files image files on a fat32 drive called

[newbie] 3rd question - reading an audio CD

2000-10-31 Thread Adrian Smith
when i put an audio CD into my drive i can not access it, as in: cd /mnt/cdrom when i try to mount cdrom i get: already mounted acording to mtab. is this normal? can one not access an audio CD? if i fire up gtoaster and go to cdrom as if i were going to burn files, i can see all the tracks on

RE: [newbie] question about mandrake probs..

2000-10-31 Thread Dodd Carlton J MSgt 726 ACS/CSG
I'm a very-newbie, but the command is kill and the Process IDentification argument is the number listed to the left of the offending process when you type "top". So, if the CPU hog was listed as process 17, you would type: kill 17 Someone correct me if I am leading this poor soul astray...

[newbie] 5th question - error on shutdown

2000-10-31 Thread Adrian Smith
at first i thought i caused this as at one point i wrecked havock on my 7.1 system, but when i did a clean install of 7.1 this shutdown error reappeared from the very start. starting killall /etc/rcid/rc6.d/s00 killall: /etc/rcid/init.d/fontfs: no such file or dirctory so evidently it is

[newbie] 4th question - HP 500C printer

2000-10-31 Thread Adrian Smith
there has recently been some talk about printers on the list which actually told me some things i need to know (now to empty that bloody print que which has become my enemy). but does anyone have a HP 500C printer working with 7.1? my printer worked just fine with 7.0. but once i went to 7.1

Re: [newbie] question about mandrake probs..

2000-10-31 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 31 October 2000 05:10 pm, you wrote: I'm a very-newbie, but the command is kill and the Process IDentification argument is the number listed to the left of the offending process when you type "top". So, if the CPU hog was listed as process 17, you would type: kill 17 Someone

[newbie] OT 6th question - SCSI vs IDE OT

2000-10-31 Thread Adrian Smith
this came up the other day. someone told me that a SCSI hard drive is faster than an IDE hard drive. i have never used a SCSI drive in my life, so i don't know from experience. is this true?? thanks much no more questions for now Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Clipper and Visual Basic languajes

2000-10-31 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Consider: 1. Visual Basic is a Microsoft product. 2. VB has been developed for the express purpose of writing programs to run under Windows. 3. Microsoft is not a proponent of open source software (in spite of what that Russian guy thinks). 4. Linux has strong roots in the C language. 5. C (and

[newbie] 1st question -- CD burner crash burn

2000-10-31 Thread Adrian Smith
greetings all. first off, thanks to those of you who recomended CD burning programs for me. i'm playing around with those. i got two things regarding CD burning. i have been reading attempted to understand the man page for cdrecord. i have a CD drive build in (cdrom) and a SCSI burner

Re: [newbie] sendmail

2000-10-31 Thread SKLIM
Because this is your internal network. Goto your windows'95 /98 MsDos Prompt. Edit the hosts files at C:\windows Example : Edit hosts.sam Your Linux IP Address Your Linux Server Domain Name 192.168.0.1mail.linuxserver Make

[newbie] 1st question -- CD burner crash burn

2000-10-31 Thread Adrian Smith
greetings all. first off, thanks to those of you who recomended CD burning programs for me. i'm playing around with those. i got two things regarding CD burning. i have been reading attempted to understand the man page for cdrecord. i have a CD drive build in (cdrom) and a SCSI burner

[newbie] 7th question - word processing - you only thought i wasfinished

2000-10-31 Thread Adrian Smith
yea, another question. as mentioned before i am a writer - so duh guess what i use my computer for the most. my goal is to convert over to Linux as close to full time as possible on the 1st of the year. can anyone recomend any good word processors? StarOffice is wy too much for me.

Re: [newbie] Clipper and Visual Basic languajes

2000-10-31 Thread Larry Marshall
2. VB has been developed for the express purpose of writing programs to run under Windows. 3. Microsoft is not a proponent of open source software (in spite of what that Russian guy thinks). 4. Linux has strong roots in the C language. 5. C (and its descendants) and Basic are totally

Re: [newbie] 1st question -- CD burner crash burn

2000-10-31 Thread Larry Marshall
cdrecord -duplicate cdrom cdrom2**i'm making up that switch you know** but as i look thru the pages it isn't that easy is it?? or is it?? am i missing anything here? I haven't done this but I don't think it should be a big problem. You may need some other command line switches depending

Re: [newbie] 4th question - HP 500C printer

2000-10-31 Thread WoodyUSSLUCE
I've got 1 that works fine with 7.1,no problems so far! I have not tried it with a color cartridge yet though. Jeff

[newbie] partitioning lockup

2000-10-31 Thread Michael H. Bracey
Sorry if this is a re-post. I never saw the original one show up... I'm booting from the CD-ROM to make a first install of 7.2 on a 27.9G IDE HD with only the existing windows partition. Everything seems to go fine until I hit the confirming screen which requires an OK to go ahead with the

Re: [newbie] StarCraft: slow under Wine but...

2000-10-31 Thread Joan Tur
"Ronald J. Hall" escribió: Joan Tur wrote: It doesn't work fine; i've got a 640x480 desktop, game plays quicker than before but... i cannot see the whole screen (a part is not being displayed at the bottom side) 8-? Hmm. Maybe adjust your monitor settings? (I know that seems pretty

Re: [newbie] Registering as a Linux User?

2000-10-31 Thread Dennis Myers
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Re: [newbie] Password

2000-10-31 Thread GAPrichard
In a message dated 10/29/2000 6:10:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In a message dated 29-Oct-00 16:44:16 Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Uhm...there's a failsafe (simple) mode set up with LILO as well. I guess I'm confused as you guys talk as

RE: [newbie] Registering as a Linux User?

2000-10-31 Thread Phil Connor
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[newbie] unsubscribe

2000-10-31 Thread Bob LaBrec

Re: Re: [newbie] choice of computer (solved)

2000-10-31 Thread Renaud OLGIATI
My thanks to all who helped, Frankenstein has woken up again and is working; Took the MB that supported 4 banks of memory, put on it the fastest CPU, and apart from a flaky cache RAM-stick and having to juggle PCI boards around to get them to work, no problem. I can now wade through 1200

Re: [newbie] Clipper and Visual Basic languajes

2000-10-31 Thread Robin Regennitter
I heard that Kbasic is in the work for KDE2. Right now it's in early development and supposely it's suppose to work very similar like Visual Basic. The site is http://www.kbasic.de - Original Message - From: Ben Steele [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 31,

[newbie] Networking linux boxes

2000-10-31 Thread Renaud OLGIATI
Just when I have finally mastered Samba to network my Linux box with the family's Windoze machines, my son has decided to migrate to Linux. How do I remain networked with him ? NFS ? Cheers, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River -- The only thing necessary

Re: [[newbie] 7th question - word processing - you only thought i was finished]

2000-10-31 Thread Robin Regennitter
There's Kword is an excellent alternative to MS Word in Mandrake 7.2. Havent tried it yet. But I checked it out as Koffice is integrated together like Office 2000. Lookin' like a window killer. hehe - Original Message - From: Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] partitioning lockup

2000-10-31 Thread oNb
"Michael H. Bracey" wrote: Sorry if this is a re-post. I never saw the original one show up... I'm booting from the CD-ROM to make a first install of 7.2 on a 27.9G IDE HD with only the existing windows partition. Everything seems to go fine until I hit the confirming screen which

Re: [newbie] There's no sound in 7.2

2000-10-31 Thread Viêt
[...] I have a Cirrus Logic CrystalClear SoundFusion CS4614/22/24. Anyone have any suggestion on where to go to get it up and running like it did in 7.1? just to make sure it really did not install : try alsamixer and unmute the channels (press M) if it still doesn't work you may want to do

[newbie] partitioning lockup

2000-10-31 Thread Michael H. Bracey
I'm booting from the CD-ROM to make a first install of 7.2 on a 27.9G IDE HD with only the existing windows partition. Everything seems to go fine until I hit the confirming screen which requires an OK to go ahead with the partitioning process. But as soon as this dialog box pops up, everything