R: [newbie-it] Fw: configurazione pc mandrake 7.2

2000-12-29 Thread Carlo Ardito
Mi sapresti consigliare un buon modem per linux? Grazie Carlo. - Original Message - From: Luca [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 6:24 PM Subject: [newbie-it] Fw: configurazione pc mandrake 7.2 - Original Message - From: "Luca" [EMAIL

Re: [newbie-it]domanda

2000-12-29 Thread f775533
ciao a tutti non riesco a trovare nella mia installazione di Mandrake.7 nè menuconfig , nè xconfig per tentare di ricompilare il kernel. L'unica cosa di cui sono sicuro é la mia ignoranza, ma se qualcuno volesse aiutarmi a capire forse sarei in grado di svilupparmi un pò. franz[EMAIL

Re: [newbie-it]domanda

2000-12-29 Thread Fabio Coatti
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 03:23:38PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ciao a tutti non riesco a trovare nella mia installazione di Mandrake.7 nè menuconfig , nè xconfig per tentare di ricompilare il kernel. L'unica cosa di cui sono sicuro é la mia ignoranza, ma se qualcuno volesse aiutarmi a

Re: [newbie-it]domanda

2000-12-29 Thread lobaxteen
forse ti mancano i sorgenti prova a vedere se hai il pacchetto kernel sources lobax - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 3:23 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it]domanda ciao a tutti non riesco a trovare

Re: [newbie-it] Fw: configurazione pc mandrake 7.2

2000-12-29 Thread Luca
direi che qualunque modem esterno va bene...non ti danno nessun problema di compatibilità con linux nel 99.9% dei casi. Per la marca direi che è solo una questione di quanto puoi spendere... Ciao, Luca. - Original Message - From: "Carlo Ardito" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

[newbie] OOPS still need ls120 help

2000-12-29 Thread Penndragon
Hi Guys Having a few probs with the ls-120 myself in Mandrake Linux 7.2 It's am imation parallel port model and from what I can gather it appears to be being detected during the boot up phase yet I'm unable to mount it. Following is 2 parts the output of dmesg which I hope will aid in

Re: [newbie] Holy emails Batman!!

2000-12-29 Thread Penndragon
Hi Marcia Dear All, I have been getting 3 or more of some emails. What is causing that? Marcia To my understanding there could be a number of possibilties. Most likely being a glitch in the mail server of either the sender or the list. Or if one has a web based email account, then clicking

Re: [newbie] Holy emails Batman!!

2000-12-29 Thread Robin Regennitter
On Friday 29 December 2000 12:00 am, you wrote: I thought I was seeing triples. Glad it wasnt just me and my imaginations. there were a time where I was getting sixles. just lately like today I've only been getting one per and just for today. who knows, we may be getting 20 per (hope to

Re: [newbie] When the printer goes mad

2000-12-29 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Paul wrote: Hi everyone, perhaps this is too simple, but it stumps me. I accidentally sent a wrong print to the printer, and it went nuts printing all kinds of garbage without end. I could not find any way to stop this but to reboot the entire system (how low can one go)... Is there

Re: [newbie] javascript file errors- Virtual Hosting

2000-12-29 Thread civileme
On Thursday 28 December 2000 09:37, you wrote: I Host websites in a Virtual fashion using Mandrake 7.0. When I upload webpages containing some javascript.class files into their respective folders the page displays incorrectly upon inspecting the Error Log it says that a browser was looking

[newbie] Lost Partition in Windows

2000-12-29 Thread Jody
Hi All, Extremely new and lost as a football bat. :) I lost my last drive in Win98SE after installing Linux Mandrake 7.2. The Mandrake install prob page says to run the perl script they provided. Sounded simple enough. g I saved the file as text only. Opened it in NoteTab pro in Windows,

Re: [newbie] Creating PDF Files From within StarOffice

2000-12-29 Thread Traci Collins
A V Flinsch wrote: from staroffice file print select generic postscript printer check print to file box give it a filename OK from console ps2pdf file_you_saved_above I could have sworn that Sun claimed it would create pdf files natively. Are you sure it is necessary to go

Re: [newbie] basic question

2000-12-29 Thread civileme
On Friday 29 December 2000 11:00, you wrote: Dear all, Can i install mandrake on my (shame) p200mmx 3.3gig machine? will it run apps faster than windoze bloatware? David and Alicia Yes, if you have 32Mb or more RAM, the more the better. Civileme

Re: [newbie] How do I see my Linux Drives in Win98SE?

2000-12-29 Thread civileme
On Friday 29 December 2000 11:20, you wrote: Hi All, I have Linux Mandrake 7.2 installed. How do I get a Windows to see my Linux drives? It really is not that important, but I would like to see them there. TIA! I think there is a package somewhere that allows you to read EXT2

RE: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-29 Thread Al Collier
But Excel2000 has a LOT more functionality than Lotus 123 version 1 had! Plus Lotus 123 ver 1 cost (not counting inflation) MORE then than the professional version of Office 2000 (including Word, PowerPoint and Access) cost now!! PLUS the 8086 PC cost 3 times (not counting inflation) MORE than my

Re: [newbie] samba conf

2000-12-29 Thread SKLIM
This the example of smb.conf [global] workgroup = Your Woekgroup Name [share] comment = Description of your sharing path = /public/share read only = no is depend on you setting writable = yes This should work ... and make sure your samba is runing . Best Regards, SKLIM -

RE: [newbie] Re: [expert] What the heck is this daily cron task?

2000-12-29 Thread John Hart
You may want to download the latest slocate RPM since it is vulnerable. ---gui is for wussies--- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of A V Flinsch Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 9:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Re:

[newbie] mandrake-installation

2000-12-29 Thread Pieter De Troyer
Hi, my system has only scsi harddrives. When I boot from cdrom (ide) to perform the installation everything runs fine. However, in the instalationprocess (7.1 for Alpha) there is no opportunity to make a bootdisk. my problem: when i boot the system : kernel panic: unable to mount root

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-29 Thread civileme
On Thursday 28 December 2000 21:19, you wrote: ok, millennium edition is the last microsoft OS built on the win9x kernel (mixed 16 and 32bit kernel). Win NT, 2000 and whistler are all true 32bit OS and are based on a different kernel. Microsoft wants to get everyone using 32bit OS's and

Re: [newbie] Why use linux at all? - not heresy, just want a straight answer please

2000-12-29 Thread Paul
ok, here is the real question: why do people try running linux?, the impression i had gathered was that it was a lighter os and could be used on older machines, (i386 etc). I was a little dismayed when i saw the download size. How much disk space will a bare install need? David and Alicia

Re: [newbie] Why use linux at all? - not heresy, just want a straight answer please

2000-12-29 Thread civileme
On Friday 29 December 2000 11:41, you wrote: ok, here is the real question: why do people try running linux?, the impression i had gathered was that it was a lighter os and could be used on older machines, (i386 etc). I was a little dismayed when i saw the download size. How much disk space

[newbie] Mandrake X.X

2000-12-29 Thread Jason Jesso
Does anybody know when the next Mandrake release is and what version number it will be? Thanks

RE: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-29 Thread Paul
But Excel2000 has a LOT more functionality than Lotus 123 version 1 had! Plus Lotus 123 ver 1 cost (not counting inflation) MORE then than the professional version of Office 2000 (including Word, PowerPoint and Access) cost now!! PLUS the 8086 PC cost 3 times (not counting inflation) MORE

[newbie] Mandrake 7.2 Network Install

2000-12-29 Thread Jason Jesso
I tried doing I network install for Mandrake 7.2 and had all kinds of problems. When I installed 7.1 over the net I had no problems at all. Has anybody experienced this? Thanks Jason

RE: [newbie] Mandrake X.X

2000-12-29 Thread Charles A Edwards
Don't know about the version # but if the schedule used in previous release is adhered to then the next release date should be April/2000 Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jason Jesso

[newbie] Mandrake on portable.

2000-12-29 Thread Diego Mateo moises_madian
Hello everybody! It's my first time i'm here.I'm sorry my english,it's very poor. I have a question. I have a Toshiba Satellite with Mandrake 7.1. But i haven't up the video system. It's a S3 savage MV/ IX ,Anybody can help me,please Thank you very much! Consigue tu dirección de

[newbie] Remote boot

2000-12-29 Thread Walter Pea
Hi, I have a server and have a station without disk and i need boot from the server. If any knowns how do its please help me Thanks Walter Happy new Year. Feliz año nuevo para todos.

Re: [newbie] How do I see my Linux Drives in Win98SE?

2000-12-29 Thread ron peake
Hi A suitable program is at: http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/ Regards, Ron -- Original Message -- Hi All, I have Linux Mandrake 7.2 installed. How do I get a Windows to see my Linux drives? It really is not that important, but I would like to see them there. TIA! I think there

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-29 Thread Dale Kosan
SNIPPED. Whistler is not an update to ME, but an upgraded version of Win2k.As far a stability goes,I have a NT server at work wich has been up for almost 6 months,and a Win2k that was up for 7 until I rebooted for the hell of it,not to shabby.This is the norm for these two

Re: [newbie] Why use linux at all? - not heresy, just want a straight answer please

2000-12-29 Thread Abraham Mandac
When I was just about getting fed up with how Visual C++ fails to compile simple bits of code, I read somewhere that the best C compilers run under unix [and that sort of includes linux, doesn't it?]. I got LM 7.1 more than 2 months ago, and now I'm still learning to use gcc and cforge, which

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 Network Install

2000-12-29 Thread Mark Weaver
That is a truely scarey proposition. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds On Fri, 29 Dec 2000 Jason Jesso spake passionately saying: I tried doing I network

Re: [newbie] How do I run a Windows Program in Linux?

2000-12-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 29 December 2000 03:58 am, Jody wrote: I have Linux Mandrake 7.2 installed. How do I get a Windows program to run in it? I thought if I did the full install that wine was automatically installed, but I see no reference to Wine and Linux will not let me search Help. The search

Re: [RE: [newbie] basic question]

2000-12-29 Thread Michael Scottaline
"David and Alicia" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry Herman, our machine has 48meg, will linux run ok?.which is the lightest program manager and what size should i make my linux partition? David and Alicia I assume you intend to dual boot, thus the question

RE: [newbie] basic question

2000-12-29 Thread Dodd Carlton J MSgt 726 ACS/CSG
No shame in that! I just installed LM7.2 on my P-75, 40MB RAM, 700MB HD laptop! Ran the default install routine, and it pared it down (cut options) to fit my drive. I think you should have room for a pretty good install. Heck, I got 4 window managers on my tiny drive! Will it run apps

Re: [[newbie] basic question]

2000-12-29 Thread Michael Scottaline
"David and Alicia" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, Can i install mandrake on my (shame) p200mmx 3.3gig machine? will it run apps faster than windoze bloatware? David and Alicia Yes, and yes! If you intend to run KDE or Gnome, you might want to have 64M or Ram.

Re: [[newbie] Why use linux at all? - not heresy, just want a straight answer please]

2000-12-29 Thread Michael Scottaline
"David and Alicia" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, here is the real question: why do people try running linux?, the impression i had gathered was that it was a lighter os and could be used on older machines, (i386 etc). I was a little dismayed when i saw the download size. How much disk space

Re: [newbie] Why use linux at all? - not heresy, just want a straight answer please

2000-12-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 29 December 2000 04:41 am, David and Alicia wrote: ok, here is the real question: why do people try running linux?, the impression i had gathered was that it was a lighter os and could be used on older machines, (i386 etc). I was a little dismayed when i saw the download size. How

Re: [newbie] Fast CPU

2000-12-29 Thread L. H. LOO
I thought I am the only person to receive multiple copies! There were (13) copies of this posting At 28-12-2000 +1100, you wrote: On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 22:04, ZER0 FREQUENCY wrote: John Arkoulis wrote: Can you please point me at a site (independent) that I can compare the new

RE: [newbie] Why use linux at all? - not heresy, just want a straight answer please

2000-12-29 Thread Hipolito Lopez
Well, I don't know if you are like me, I give to my computer a lot of use; through the years almost always work with microsoft os(ms-dos, windows 3.x windows 9.x, windows 2k ... ) and always I got problems, always!(I compile a program that run fine in my machine, but in another don't work. A lot

RE: [newbie] basic question

2000-12-29 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey, One of the boxes I have here dual-boots W98 RH 6.0. It's a P100, an 850MB a 250MB drive, has 48MB RAM the RH spans both disks. While it's not a ~lot~ faster than W98, it is noticeable. As Herman mentioned, RAM is important. My girl friend's pc is a P-II 333 with 64MB of RAM

Re: [newbie] Flashing BIOS under Linux?

2000-12-29 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey Vic, Well I could use wine to run the .exe file or I could dd an image to a floppy--- I would prefer to dd an image file if possible. Any chance that's a dos, as opposed to a Win, executable? Like After running the extraction exe for my bios, there was a readme, an exe something

RE: [newbie] Why use linux at all? - not heresy, just want a straight answer please

2000-12-29 Thread Dodd Carlton J MSgt 726 ACS/CSG
Nice summation Paul! -Carlton -Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 4:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] Why use linux at all? - not heresy, just want a straight answer please ok, here is the real

Re: [newbie] boot virus detected

2000-12-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 28 December 2000 04:11 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I boot up now I always get a the warning: Trend ChipAwayVirus has detected a boot virus on your hard disk. I realize that I'm just getting this because I've changed the master boot record, but I can't figure out how to turn

RE: [RE: [newbie] basic question]

2000-12-29 Thread David and Alicia
I have two drives, the 3.2 gig,which is C, and a 540mb caviar which E, Question: Could i install to E: or is that suggestion just simply preposterous? Failing that do you suggest that i make a new partition on c of 2 gig? does it need to be this big? David and Alicia -Original Message-

Re: [newbie] boot virus

2000-12-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 28 December 2000 06:14 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I went ahead and after all the warnings not to, placed logical Linux and FAT32 partitions in the same extended partition. I've played a little with both OSs and haven't found any problems with it yet. *fingers crossed*

RE: [newbie] Why use linux at all? - not heresy, just want a straight answer please

2000-12-29 Thread Dodd Carlton J MSgt 726 ACS/CSG
LM7.2 is a "Full-Featured" release. There are tons of things in there that you probably will never use (drivers, alternatives to other applications, etc), thus the size of the download. Want a small release (not LM)? Try "Peanut Linux" from http://www.ibiblio.org/peanut/ . It's a 50MB

Re: [newbie] Mandrake update: fetching of mirror list failed

2000-12-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 28 December 2000 04:34 pm, Dr. Trevor J. Stocki wrote: Hi, I was trying to update my Linux 7.1 using the Mandrake Update program and I got the message: fetching of mirror list failed. I'd wait till after the holidays to see if it isn't just high load on the Net due to

Re: [newbie] Holy emails Batman!!

2000-12-29 Thread L. H. LOO
Have to ask Santa, I counted (13) copies of a mail, and (6) of another, Perhaps this is a way of saying : Happy New Year. At 28-12-2000 -0500, you wrote: Dear All, I have been getting 3 or more of some emails. What is causing that? Marcia

Re: [newbie] Fast CPU

2000-12-29 Thread Mark Weaver
Nope...you are correct and this fact leaves me wondering how in the world I can filter duplicate messages with Kmail filtering technology. How about it MandrakeSoft? Any ideas? That, or a good solid method of using Procmail filtering with Kmail as one would use with Pine. -- Mark "If you

RE: [newbie] basic question

2000-12-29 Thread L. H. LOO
May be this is what you are looking for : ftp://ftp.linux.yucows.com/pub/distributions/mini. Regards. At 29-12-2000 +, you wrote: Sorry Herman, our machine has 48meg, will linux run ok?.which is the lightest program manager and what size should i make my linux partition? David and

Re: [newbie] One more question about digital cameras...

2000-12-29 Thread Joseph Red
Hmm, good question about rw. R *should* work. Try it:) As for the security/permissions, I was told the "right" way would be to create a group for the cam, add myself to the group, and give the *group* rights to ttyS0. Joseph Red [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Ronald

Re: [newbie] Why use linux at all? - not heresy, just want a straight answer please

2000-12-29 Thread Joseph Red
Well, for myself, I got sick of rebooting whenever I wanted to play a game. And the crashes. Since I was rebooting for games anyway, why not dual-boot? Then I started discovering how far Linux has come (the last time I used it was a pre-1.0 version of Slack). Heck, there was support for my USB

Re: [newbie] How do I see my Linux Drives in Win98SE?

2000-12-29 Thread M.J. Constant
Forget about it. Windows is not that smart. - Original Message - From: "Jody" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 5:01 AM Subject: [newbie] How do I see my Linux Drives in Win98SE? Hi All, I have Linux Mandrake 7.2 installed. How do I get a

Re: [newbie] Re: Help with Digital Camera

2000-12-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 28 December 2000 10:18 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Hi John. Thanks for the reply. Well, I got it working, and I did have to use root (su), since it told me that I did not have permission to ttyxxx as my normal user account. Anyone know how to access ttyxxx as a normal user? ;-)

Re: [newbie] How do I see my Linux Drives in Win98SE?

2000-12-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 29 December 2000 05:26 am, civileme wrote: On Friday 29 December 2000 11:20, you wrote: I think there is a package somewhere that allows you to read EXT2 partitions (Linux partitions) from within Windows. Not sure though. You might try finding it at www.tucows.com

Re: [newbie] Mandrake update: fetching of mirror list failed

2000-12-29 Thread Jeffrey Norris
I got that message dozens of times, but was finally able to get all the updates for my 7.2 On Friday 29 December 2000 09:38, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday 28 December 2000 04:34 pm, Dr. Trevor J. Stocki wrote: Hi, I was trying to update my Linux 7.1 using the Mandrake Update

Re: [newbie] Mandrake X.X

2000-12-29 Thread Johnc
On Friday 29 December 2000 05:36, you wrote: Don't know about the version # but if the schedule used in previous release is adhered to then the next release date should be April/2000 Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. The next release is due in April and according to the

[newbie] Input chinese big-5

2000-12-29 Thread Bernie Huang
Happy New Year, people, I have a little problem regarding inputting big-5 chinese characters. I d/l netscape 6 and can read Chinese with no problem, but inputting chinese is not doable right now. Anyone knows how to do it? Thanks in advance. - BernieGet Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail

Re: [newbie] Philips CDD2600 CD-R / Getting to work

2000-12-29 Thread Paul
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Brian P. Trotter wrote: I have installed an Adaptec SCSI card, and an external Philips CDD2600 CD-R on my Mandrake PC. After I put the card in, I booted it up. The machine knows the CD-R is there, because it detects it as SCSI ID 2 when it does the SCSI check. However, once

Re: [newbie] When the printer goes mad

2000-12-29 Thread Paul
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, IRoKd wrote: Hi IRoKd While by far am I the Linux expert, I would say that you experience some kind of buffer over run or something in your printer. Before killing the spool, I would turn the printer offline, then power it off to clear the buffer. Then, kill all the jobs,

Re: [newbie] KisoCD

2000-12-29 Thread Paul
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Michael Judd wrote: I have recently installed Linux Mandrake7.1 on my computer, using a Sony CD-RW (CRX120E). I am now trying to burn downloaded software onto that CD to save it. When I use the KisoCD software bundled with the install, it tells me that my data has been

[newbie] Pentium 4

2000-12-29 Thread Paul
Hi all, Through /. (slashdot.org) I read a fascinating article on Intel's new Pentium 4. You may want to have a look at it. Paul -- Save our trees: Stop printing tax forms! http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.31

Re: [newbie] One more question about digital cameras...

2000-12-29 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Joseph Red wrote: Hmm, good question about rw. R *should* work. Try it:) As for the security/permissions, I was told the "right" way would be to create a group for the cam, add myself to the group, and give the *group* rights to ttyS0. Joseph Red [EMAIL PROTECTED] Seems like there

Re: [newbie] samba conf

2000-12-29 Thread Andri Genio
samba is working fine in windows 2000 but not in windows 98 can't detect the samba network why is it happend ? --- SKLIM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This the example of smb.conf [global] workgroup = Your Woekgroup Name [share] comment = Description of your sharing path =

[newbie] unsubscribe

2000-12-29 Thread Enrique VidalPeral

[newbie] HP 4200c Scanner

2000-12-29 Thread Dev Sen
Hi, has anybody got this scanner to work under LM 7.2? I downloaded the sources from the SANE etc. web sites but have had not much luck in getting everything compiled properly. Any suggestions from anyone who has got this sanner working would be gratefully received. Thanks -- dev

Re: [newbie] Why use linux at all? - not heresy, just want a straight answer please

2000-12-29 Thread Penndragon
Hi David and Alicia ok, here is the real question: why do people try running linux?, the impression i had gathered was that it was a lighter os and could be used on older machines, (i386 etc). I was a little dismayed when i saw the download size. How much disk space will a bare install

Re: [newbie] basic question

2000-12-29 Thread Penndragon
Hi David and Alicia Dear all, Can i install mandrake on my (shame) p200mmx 3.3gig machine? will it run apps faster than windoze bloatware? David and Alicia I don't see why you can't. I have both Win95 and Mandrake Linux 7.2 on the one HD dual booting. I'm new to Linux myself and

Re: [newbie] basic question

2000-12-29 Thread Penndragon
Hi Revenant I've noticed KDE to be the slowest of the windowing systems I've tried so far :( Gnome seems reasonably fast, and enlightenment also. Though I suspect something like Gnome will be more comfortable for those used to windows. James Define "faster than windows". Using KDE I've

Re: [newbie] KDE2.1 Updates

2000-12-29 Thread Hektor Meyer
I am having exactly the same problem as Dan, libkscan.so.1 is needed and I was so far unsuccessful in finding it (ufff...) HELP please! Have a great New Year you all! Hektor

Re: [newbie] Why use linux at all? - not heresy, just want a straight answer please

2000-12-29 Thread Barry Premeaux
civileme wrote: On Friday 29 December 2000 11:41, you wrote: ok, here is the real question: why do people try running linux?, the impression i had gathered was that it was a lighter os and could be used on older machines, (i386 etc). I was a little dismayed when i saw the download

Re: [newbie] Holy emails Batman!!

2000-12-29 Thread Romanator
Marcia wrote: Dear All, I have been getting 3 or more of some emails. What is causing that? Marcia Hi Marcia, This appears to be happening from Mandrake. If you see multiple copies, delete them, except for the one. That's what I am doing. Happy New Year - 2001!! -- Roman Registered

Re: [newbie] really basic questions

2000-12-29 Thread Adrian Smith
howdy. if you have used unix for anything then you alread know 300% more than i knew when i first tried linux. remember, if you aren't root, you can't really mess up anything too much (and even if you do you can reinstall which i think installing linux is much easier than windows anyhow

Re: [newbie] Flashing BIOS under Linux?

2000-12-29 Thread Vic
But how can I run an .exe file in linux?? dos emulator don't work, it won't see any other files on the drive except the stupid little pre-installed idiotic stupid set of files already in there, so thats worthless dos emulator. I can't just copy the .exe file onto a blank floppy, it won't boot

Re: [newbie] Singular email Batman!!

2000-12-29 Thread Romanator
Jon Dowd wrote: On Thursday 28 December 2000 21:47, you wrote: On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Romanator wrote: Wow, Is every one getting 6 copies of each email?! Yup. Paul Uh... no, I'm only getting one... jrd The Joker's back. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293

Re: [newbie] Re: Help with Digital Camera

2000-12-29 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Tom Brinkman wrote: Actually I believe you're better off to su to root in a term and run gphoto that way. The problem you mentioned in an earlier post, not havin the cable inserted all the way into the camera often causes gphoto to freeze. Same is true if the cable isn't making good

Re: [newbie] boot virus

2000-12-29 Thread Romanator
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I found another place in the BIOS that had to do with boot viruses. Works fine now. I went ahead and after all the warnings not to, placed logical Linux and FAT32 partitions in the same extended partition. I've played a little with both OSs and haven't

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-29 Thread Romanator
Hey Tony, Have a Happy New Year. Cheers! -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Anthony Daniell wrote: Ok I think you can contact them at [EMAIL PROTECTED] but I am still waiting for a reply to my email about there cameras and that was three weeks ago. Anthony Daniell. -

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-29 Thread Romanator
I agree. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Revenant wrote: Romanator wrote: Revenant wrote: Clarification: Millenium is MS eking the last $$$ it can out of the dying Win9x OS. Whistler will be what Win2000 was supposed to be - the fusion of the NT line with the Win9x line.

[newbie] Dependency Error

2000-12-29 Thread Jeffrey Norris
I finally managed to update everything on my system (7.2). Except.'linuxconf' (1.21r5). MandrakeUpdate says it needs 'libgd.so.1'. I've downloaded all the updates so I'm not sure what it is or where to get it. Anyone have an idea ? Thanks

Re: [newbie] Installing Kdevelop on MDK7.2

2000-12-29 Thread Romanator
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday 28 December 2000 12:45 pm, Romanator wrote: Has any one tried installing kdevelop on mdk7.2? Will it work - as it used to be available with mdk7.1? I was wondering why it was pulled... kdevelop-2.0-4mdk was available (and still is by an ftp

Re: [newbie] really basic questions

2000-12-29 Thread Romanator
Me too. It's amazing how much we've learned over the last few months. - Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Abraham E Mandac Jr wrote: Sounds like me 2 months ago. --Abe At 03:49 PM 12/28/00 -0800, you wrote: sounds normal to me ;-) Original Message ---

Re: [newbie] Holy emails Batman!!

2000-12-29 Thread Romanator
"Ronald J. Hall" wrote: Romanator wrote: Wow, Is every one getting 6 copies of each email?! -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 I did just now, from Barry... This seems to come and go, as has been discussed before, but 6 is the most I've seen. (doubles happen in a

Re: [newbie] Holy emails Batman!!

2000-12-29 Thread Romanator
Robin Regennitter wrote: On Friday 29 December 2000 12:00 am, you wrote: I thought I was seeing triples. Glad it wasnt just me and my imaginations. there were a time where I was getting sixles. just lately like today I've only been getting one per and just for today. who knows, we may

Re: [newbie] How do I run a Windows Program in Linux?

2000-12-29 Thread Penndragon
Hi Tom I think I've also heard of Win4Lin. Isn't that also supposed to do this? James On Friday 29 December 2000 03:58 am, Jody wrote: I have Linux Mandrake 7.2 installed. How do I get a Windows program to run in it? I thought if I did the full install that wine was automatically

RE: [RE: [newbie] basic question]

2000-12-29 Thread David and Alicia
ok done David and Alicia -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Louis F. Brooks Sent: 29 December 2000 15:17 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [RE: [newbie] basic question] Please turn off you request for email reciept ... it is annoying :)

RE: [newbie] Why use linux at all? - not heresy, just want astraight answer please+a laff

2000-12-29 Thread David and Alicia
Thanks for your reply: heres the laff i promised: I'm still dowloading the install files, (and started it last night..i now have 33%!!!), ho-hum, just as well we have free internet. David and Alicia -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of