Re: [newbie-it] Installazione di StarOffice

2001-01-01 Thread Giga [TechOperator]
Hello Anna, Sunday, December 31, 2000, 3:48:24 PM, you wrote: ASePT Salve, ASePT Ho installato la Mandrake 7.1 creando alcuni utenti. Ora vorrei ASePT installare StarOffice in modo che sia visibile e utilizzabile da parte ASePT di tutti gli utenti. ASePT Come mi devo comportare? O meglio, ci

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2001-01-01 Thread rox.am
Ciau, buon anno a tutti ecc. ecc. Rosanna -- TiscaliNet, libero accesso ad Internet. http://www.tiscalinet.it

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2001-01-01 Thread rox.am
Ciau, buon anno a tutti ecc. ecc. Rosanna -- TiscaliNet, libero accesso ad Internet. http://www.tiscalinet.it

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2001-01-01 Thread Gabriele Pelizzari
A tutti rinnovo i miei auguri di felice anno nuovo ! - Original Message - From: rox.am [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 8:12 PM Subject: [newbie-it] Ciau, buon anno a tutti ecc. ecc. Rosanna -- TiscaliNet, libero

Re: [newbie] Copy from Konsole?

2001-01-01 Thread Paul
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Jody wrote: I'm so new, I'm not sure if this is of help, but when I am in Konsole, Ctrl+C works, but you will get a new prompt each time. Probably a better way, but it has served me so far until I find the correct method. The trick to this is that you just select the text.

Re: [newbie] Netscape server refuses newsgroup

2001-01-01 Thread L. H. LOO
Please check : {file menu} - Edit - Preferences - Mail Newsgroups - NewsGroup Servers - {your ISP News Server data} HTH At 31-12-2000 -0500, you wrote: Hi everybody, When I try to subscribe to a newsgroup, I'm getting a message indicating that the Netscape server is refusing connections,

Re: [newbie] BANG!!! its dead! g g L - DIE THREAD DIE!

2001-01-01 Thread Jeremy Sudderth
Do Not Pass Go! Do Not Collect $200.00 Bad Windows No Doughnut!! - Original Message - From: "Romanator" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 9:39 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] BANG!!! its dead! g g L - DIE THREAD DIE! Vic wrote:

Re: [newbie] Fixing time settings to am/pm

2001-01-01 Thread L. H. LOO
Just my $0.002, Did you [press] the {apply} and {OK} after changing the settings. At 01-01-2001 -0600, you wrote: On Sunday 31 December 2000 11:18 am, Romanator wrote: root wrote: Romanator wrote: How did you fix the time setting of your basic am/pm setting? By default mdk7.2 shows

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA

2001-01-01 Thread civileme
On Sunday 31 December 2000 17:48, you wrote: Hey, I'm wondering about this subject as well. I've a Diamond Viper 770D with 32MB RAM, using the Riva TnT 2[v5] module. Till yesterday, I was running some "Other" module, but I'd reset the Riva in drakcomf had also installed the glide

Re: [newbie] Copy from Konsole?

2001-01-01 Thread civileme
On Sunday 31 December 2000 19:49, you wrote: I am learning to compile using the NHF on compiling software. I am getting an error and would like to be able to cut and paste to file or save the output to file, but there are no options that I can find to do this. As usual, any help will be

Re: [newbie] zip driver permissions

2001-01-01 Thread civileme
On Sunday 31 December 2000 14:19, you wrote: Dear All, I have Linux-Mandrake 7.2 and I had my internal Atapi zip drive supermounted and it was working fine until recently. As user all of a sudden I cannot copy a file into my zip. I can take them out and place them unto my desktop but I cannot

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault

2001-01-01 Thread civileme
On Sunday 31 December 2000 21:33, you wrote: Hi, I was running netscape 4.76.0x on my LM 7.1 system and netscape crashed. Now when trying to run netscape I get a "segementation fault (core dumped) message. I uninstalled the netscape RPMs and installed the 4.76.3x version from rpmfind.net

[newbie] Sound config problem

2001-01-01 Thread Jordan
New installation. (Mandrake 7.2) M'board: ASUS P5A-B with built-in sound chip CMI 8330. Processor: Cyrix II 333MHz BIOS: Award with latest flash update. What happens: Linux is loaded, but when started no sound. Config tools recognise the card, but don't fix it. Error messages say things

Re: [newbie] Re: Printer Error

2001-01-01 Thread Paul
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, SoloCDM wrote: lpr filenamewould prolly do what you want. That didn't work either. I tried a -s with lpr and received the same response. Hmmm. I stop here. I'd suggest go to mandrakeuser.org and see if there's a solution for you there... Paul (going there too, to

[newbie] plz help

2001-01-01 Thread Michael Mike
I had 2 partitions one of them was mandrake 7.1 other was Win ME i had to format it by partition magic...it was formatted weell but when i had to restart my PC i had this problem...on startup I should get Lilo usually but after i formatted the the second partition on wich mandrake was ...i get

Re: [newbie] Quake II Crashes X

2001-01-01 Thread civileme
On Sunday 31 December 2000 03:43, you wrote: anybody got quake2 working with a voodoo5? I can't get it to go in anything other then software mode at 400x320. yuck! Trevor Reynolds wrote: Hi, I am having problems running Quake II in LM 7.2. My PC is a Celeron 600@750, Via

Re: [newbie] Sound config problem

2001-01-01 Thread Paul
On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Jordan wrote: Does it help when you disable PNP in the Bios? Paul New installation. (Mandrake 7.2) M'board: ASUS P5A-B with built-in sound chip CMI 8330. Processor: Cyrix II 333MHz BIOS: Award with latest flash update. What happens: Linux is loaded, but when started no

Re: [newbie] plz help

2001-01-01 Thread Paul
On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Michael Mike wrote: Lilo is in the boot sector of the HD, formatting a partition won't do that away. You need to do something to the bootsector (e.g. DOS' fdisk /mbr) to clean that. As to the LI problem, you can find info about that on my page http://nlpagan.net/linux.htm at

[newbie] WP8 + Canon BJC4200 = 0

2001-01-01 Thread Paul
Hi all, I have not yet been able to print to my Canon inkjet printer from Wordperfect 8 in a satisfying way. Printing through a somewhat comparable driver (BJC 330), I immediately get presented a dialog with a printer problem. I can print 1 page, through the postscript printer. That page

[newbie] Getting Win4Lin to install properly

2001-01-01 Thread C . T . K .
I am unable to install win4lin 2.0 under LM 7.2 Powerpack deluxe using either the "patch" instructions or the modified kernel instructions located at: http://www.pclinuxonline.com/Win4Lin/win4lin.html . Texstar does a nice job of instructing, but as he states, these are for experienced users.

[newbie] ยป Configuring Sound Card

2001-01-01 Thread Sousa
Well, I have a OPTI 82C924 (really old) and I cant configure it in mdk7.2!... I had mdk7.1 and I managed to get it to wok (bad... but working) with thinks like pnpdump, pnpdump /etc/isapnp.conf and isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf. Almost everytime I rebooted i had to do this to make it work. BUT IT

[newbie] Kernel Compiling Troubles

2001-01-01 Thread Riker
Hello: I finally installed all the source stuff needed to recompile the default kernel in Mandrake 7.2. It went very well. Since it was so easy, I decided to try compiling the 2.4.0-test12 kernel. I didn't have any trouble compiling it. Made may changes in GRUB and rebooted. I picked the right

Re: [newbie] Fixing time settings to am/pm

2001-01-01 Thread Romanator
"L. H. LOO" wrote: Just my $0.002, Did you [press] the {apply} and {OK} after changing the settings. At 01-01-2001 -0600, you wrote: On Sunday 31 December 2000 11:18 am, Romanator wrote: root wrote: Romanator wrote: How did you fix the time setting of your basic am/pm setting?

Re: [newbie] Fixing time settings to am/pm

2001-01-01 Thread Mark Weaver
On Monday 01 January 2001 02:25, you wrote: On Sunday 31 December 2000 11:18 am, Romanator wrote: root wrote: Romanator wrote: How did you fix the time setting of your basic am/pm setting? By default mdk7.2 shows the 24 hour clock. I haven't been able to fix this. What am I

Re: [newbie] Sound config problem

2001-01-01 Thread Cyphfer
Run sndconfig from root. It fixed my sound in less than a minute including the wav and midi sound test. Cyphfer On Mon, 01 January 2001, Jordan wrote: New installation. (Mandrake 7.2) M'board: ASUS P5A-B with built-in sound chip CMI 8330. Processor: Cyrix II 333MHz BIOS: Award with

Re: [newbie] Gimp xscanimage

2001-01-01 Thread Herman Jalink
On Sunday 31 December 2000 22:44, you wrote: If you do the above and select the File drop down you will only see 'Acquire - Screen Shot' but if you pick 'Xtns - Acquire Image' you should be able to pick the device your scanner is attached to. Don't know if there is a way of changing the

[newbie] Cups-printing-problems

2001-01-01 Thread Thomas Walter
I have Mandrake 7.2 installed. After installing my HP Deskjet 815C on lp1 with Printerdrake everything works fine, but after reboot I can't print or get a connection to the cupsdaemon via localhost:631. While trying to install the printer with Kups I get the message "no port detected on this

[newbie] KLyX

2001-01-01 Thread Greg Sarsons
when I start KLyX and go to create a new document right after the xfont is loaded the window were you compose the document goes black. It would be nice to be able to see what you are typing :) Greg

Re: [newbie] Cups-printing-problems

2001-01-01 Thread Mark Weaver
On Monday 01 January 2001 08:51, you wrote: I have Mandrake 7.2 installed. After installing my HP Deskjet 815C on lp1 with Printerdrake everything works fine, but after reboot I can't print or get a connection to the cupsdaemon via localhost:631. While trying to install the printer with Kups

Re: [newbie] KLyX

2001-01-01 Thread civileme
On Monday 01 January 2001 16:08, you wrote: when I start KLyX and go to create a new document right after the xfont is loaded the window were you compose the document goes black. It would be nice to be able to see what you are typing :) Greg Use LyX. KLyX has had very few revisions and

Re: [newbie] Mail delayed

2001-01-01 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey Dennis, Thanks for the reply Meph No problem. I find it a little annoying that it takes so long. But I suspect it may be Mandrakesoft's "answer" to duplicate posts. They'll get it right eventually. I was afraid I had broken something again. I tend to fool around with this OS and

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2001-01-01 Thread Daniel Anderson
Hi, I'm running it on a pentium 166,and have run it on a pentium 100. Dan Mark Hillary wrote: Windows 98 doesn't run on 166Mhz, the install program doesn't allow the install. Mark Hillary - Original Message - From: "goldenpi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [newbie] KLyX

2001-01-01 Thread Greg Sarsons
civileme wrote: On Monday 01 January 2001 16:08, you wrote: when I start KLyX and go to create a new document right after the xfont is loaded the window were you compose the document goes black. It would be nice to be able to see what you are typing :) Greg Use LyX. KLyX has

Re: [newbie] samba conf

2001-01-01 Thread Dave
Sorry, I haven't really been following this thread, but it now caught my eye. Were there any specific error messages you receive when trying to access the samba share from Win98? Eric may be right about it being a permissions problem, but if that were the case then even Win2k should not be

[newbie] Updating software...rpmdrake or cooker?

2001-01-01 Thread David Kanter
I've just installed Mandrake 7.2 and I'm confused on how to update installed software. Installing security fixes is easy with the "Updates" icon of KDE, but what if I want to update package A from version 1 to version 2? For instance, I've been using KDE and it seemes I've got KDE 2.0

[newbie] Realplayer question?

2001-01-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Okay, I hadn't done it in a while (no-wait, don't start feeling sorry for me, this isn't something of a sexual nature! lol), but I went to a site that uses realplayer, and I got a dialog box saying that it had expired. I followed the links back to www.real.com, but they only have (that I could

Re: [newbie] Look and Feel in applications in MDK7.2

2001-01-01 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey, I don't know if it's the way I have set up the look. I have noticed that Netscape and other applications still have a stark, knobby look to the drop down menus. It's not your config. Some apps aren't effected by either gnome's or kde's colour configs. To get most of the rest

Re: [newbie] Firewalls

2001-01-01 Thread Michael O'Henly
There are a lot of firewall solutions. One that many people recommend is pmfirewall. It asks you some simple questions about your network: how you get your IP address, what services you want accessible, etc., then generates a customized firewall script. Pmfirewall is based on IPCHAINS, so you

Re: [newbie] Fixing time settings to am/pm

2001-01-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 31 December 2000 08:58 pm, Romanator wrote: Under Date Time format, on the Locale tab, try setting country to USA and see if that doesn't fix it. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay Yes I did. I need to look into this further. Very strange.

Re: [newbie] Realplayer question?

2001-01-01 Thread Kevin Taylor
If you go back to the netscape plugin page and dig around you will see a list of available rp versions for Linux. I _believe_, but am not sure, that they are all .tar.gz files. You might try rpmfind.net to see if there is an rpm available. --Kevin - Original Message - From: Ronald J.

Re: [newbie] Look and Feel in applications in MDK7.2

2001-01-01 Thread Romanator
Meph Istopheles wrote: Hey, I don't know if it's the way I have set up the look. I have noticed that Netscape and other applications still have a stark, knobby look to the drop down menus. It's not your config. Some apps aren't effected by either gnome's or kde's colour

Re: [newbie] Realplayer question?

2001-01-01 Thread Meph Istopheles
Ronald, I went to a site that uses realplayer, and I got a dialog box saying that it had expired. I followed the links back to www.real.com, but they only have (that I could find) a new version 8 of RealPlayer for Unix. Its an RPM, so I d/l'ed it, and tried to install it, but it says its

Re: [newbie] Realplayer question?

2001-01-01 Thread Romanator
"Ronald J. Hall" wrote: Okay, I hadn't done it in a while (no-wait, don't start feeling sorry for me, this isn't something of a sexual nature! lol), but I went to a site that uses realplayer, and I got a dialog box saying that it had expired. I followed the links back to www.real.com, but

Re: [newbie] Realplayer question?

2001-01-01 Thread Vic
I have what I believe is a copy of rp 8 on my machine, it is an autoinstaller much like in mac, all you do is set the executable bit on the file, then run it by typing ./rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin Typing that period and slash added onto the front of the filename tells linux to directly

Re: [newbie] Updating software...rpmdrake or cooker?

2001-01-01 Thread Paul
On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, David Kanter wrote: Or what if I want to install Netscape 6? Can I point a software program (like RpmDrake) to a central repository and have it take care of everything? There is a program called urpmi with which something like apparently is possible. I have not tried it, my

Re: [newbie] Realplayer question?

2001-01-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Meph Istopheles wrote: Sounds like Real Audio's tactics. Like Netscape, they just love to hide the stuff you want force you into upgrades which don't work properly. Yep. ;-( Chances are, your realplayer is fine. Did you try opening it, say, from the command line (type realplay)

Re: [newbie] Updating software...rpmdrake or cooker?

2001-01-01 Thread civileme
On Monday 01 January 2001 17:02, you wrote: I've just installed Mandrake 7.2 and I'm confused on how to update installed software. Installing security fixes is easy with the "Updates" icon of KDE, but what if I want to update package A from version 1 to version 2? For instance, I've been

[newbie] Still no RealPlayer?

2001-01-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Okay, I grabbed RealPlayer v7 from RPMfind.net, and installed it. Went thru the installation routine. It still blows up a dialog box saying my copy has expired just as soon as I run it. I went back, deleted cookies from my .Netscape folder, and deleted all the .Real* files from my home directory.

Re: [newbie] Realplayer question?

2001-01-01 Thread Paul
On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Vic wrote: ftp://kittypuss.org/rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin Let me know if the url works or not, the file is approx 6 or 7 megs long. I tried it, and the download is about 5.1 megs. The link works. Good luck, Ronald! You may want to get this one. Paul -- An expert is

Re: [newbie] Still no RealPlayer?

2001-01-01 Thread Meph Istopheles
Okay, I grabbed RealPlayer v7 from RPMfind.net, and installed it. Went thru the installation routine. It still blows up a dialog box saying my copy has expired just as soon as I run it. Can anyone tell me what file(s) I need to delete so that it doesn't see itself as an expired copy, even

Re: [newbie] Realplayer question?

2001-01-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Vic wrote: I have what I believe is a copy of rp 8 on my machine, it is an autoinstaller much like in mac, all you do is set the executable bit on the file, then run it by typing ./rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin Typing that period and slash added onto the front of the filename tells

Re: [newbie] Firewalls

2001-01-01 Thread David Kanter
On Monday 01 January 2001 10:39 am, Michael O'Henly wrote: There are a lot of firewall solutions. One that many people recommend is pmfirewall. It asks you some simple questions about your network: how you get your IP address, what services you want accessible, etc., then generates a

Re: [newbie] Firewalls

2001-01-01 Thread Ralph F. De Witt
On Monday 01 January 2001 10:52, you wrote: On Monday 01 January 2001 10:39 am, Michael O'Henly wrote: There are a lot of firewall solutions. One that many people recommend is pmfirewall. It asks you some simple questions about your network: how you get your IP address, what services you

Re: [newbie] Cups-printing-problems

2001-01-01 Thread jason-snyder
Go to Drakeconf / startup services if you haven't already and make sure that CUPS is started when you machine boots. I hope this helps. I have Mandrake 7.2 installed. After installing my HP Deskjet 815C on lp1 with Printerdrake everything works fine, but after reboot I can't print or get a

Re: [newbie] Partitions

2001-01-01 Thread Jeffrey Norris
Sure enough Paul. Was able to go in and delete them. Thanks On Sunday 31 December 2000 14:01, Paul wrote: On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Jeffrey Norris wrote: I just reinstalled 7.2 (actually a couple of times) and now when I boot I'm getting all of these different entries in the loader. Such as

Re: [newbie] samba conf

2001-01-01 Thread jason-snyder
Under Samba 2.0.7 in mdk 7.2 I could connect using Windows ME, but I had a similar problem with Windows 98. What I did was to de-install Samba 2.0.7 and install Samba 2.0.6 which came with mdk 7.1. Now things work much better with Windows 98 and it still works with Windows ME. yes in windows

[newbie] Realplayer 8 is now installed!

2001-01-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Okay, I finally got it. Here is what I had to do (in case someone else runs into this same problem): As su/root: rpm -e RealPlayer (even though it was "expired") (there is a deps issue with a Realplayer rnp? RPM as well) Set the file below to be executeable. ./rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin

Re: [newbie] Cups-printing-problems

2001-01-01 Thread Thomas Walter
Am Montag, 1. Januar 2001 16:28 schrieben Sie: On Monday 01 January 2001 08:51, you wrote: I have Mandrake 7.2 installed. After installing my HP Deskjet 815C on lp1 with Printerdrake everything works fine, but after reboot I can't print or get a connection to the cupsdaemon via localhost:631.

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault

2001-01-01 Thread Kevin Taylor
Yea, I tried running it from both the KDE app launcher, the desktop icon and also using /usr/bin/netscape from the terminal. Same result. TIA for any help. Someone else suggested deleting all netscape dirs and reinstalling. Is that the best solution? --Kevin - Original Message -

Re: [newbie] Mail delayed

2001-01-01 Thread Jeffrey Norris
Yes. On Saturday 30 December 2000 18:33, Dennis Myers wrote: Is anyone else noticing that their posts are delayed quit a long time, like up to 24 hours?

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2001-01-01 Thread Mark Hillary
Well it errored when I tried to install it an just rebooted the machine. Mark Hillary - Original Message - From: "Eugene C. Zesch" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 8:21 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux Mark Hillary wrote: Windows

[newbie] Passing User Execution to Root

2001-01-01 Thread SoloCDM
Is it possible to pass an executed program over to the super-user from a user? I tried nohup and the ampersand in X as a user, but once the terminal closes -- the command terminates. Note: When you reply to this message, please include the mailing list address in Cc: and my email address

Re: [newbie] USB Mouse Recognition Problems

2001-01-01 Thread Mark Hillary
The mandrake intaller for 7.2 picked up my usb MS intelieye mouse and cofigured the wheel an the buttons for me. Mark Hillary - Original Message - From: "C.T.K." [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 2:03 AM Subject: [newbie] USB Mouse Recognition

Re: [newbie] Linuxs kills gates (was 'gates gets Linux')

2001-01-01 Thread Mark Hillary
Oh my god man why, why. Get it off, A. Mark Hillary - Original Message - From: "Daniel Anderson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 3:43 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux Hi, I'm running it on a pentium 166,and

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2001-01-01 Thread Mark Hillary
Abiword or Kwork can open Ms Word files. Or you could just save them in RTF which can be opened by anything. I my self am at Sixform an my school have a windows NT network with word 2000 and there is not a drop of windows on my box anymore. Mark Hillary - Original Message - From:

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2001-01-01 Thread Mark Hillary
Why are you using windows 98 on a file server, come on this is a job for linux. Mark Hillary - Original Message - From: "James Mellema" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 1:26 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux Mark Hillary wrote: Windows

Re: [newbie] Still no RealPlayer?

2001-01-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 01 January 2001 12:20 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Okay, I grabbed RealPlayer v7 from RPMfind.net, and installed it. Went thru the installation routine. It still blows up a dialog box saying my copy has expired just as soon as I run it. realplayer 7 is expired, has been for a while

Re: [newbie] Realplayer 8 is now installed!

2001-01-01 Thread Luk Vermeylen
Op maandag 01 januari 2001 20:57, schreef u: Okay, I finally got it. Here is what I had to do (in case someone else runs into this same problem): As su/root: rpm -e RealPlayer (even though it was "expired") (there is a deps issue with a Realplayer rnp? RPM as well) Set the file below to

[newbie] Netscape-kppp weirdness

2001-01-01 Thread eryl
Anyone ever have kppp spontaneously spawn connection windows? I was reading my mail (this list), and suddenly multiple copies of the message I was reading started to open. I managed to "X" all of them back to my desktop, but as soon as I reached the desktop the "Internet" icon started to show a

Re: [newbie] Netscape-kppp weirdness

2001-01-01 Thread Mark Weaver
Dude! your system is haunted! You'd better call an exorsist! Mark On Mon, 01 Jan 2001 13:12:07 +, eryl said: Anyone ever have kppp spontaneously spawn connection windows? I was reading my mail (this list), and suddenly multiple copies of the message I was reading started to open. I

[newbie] Grub

2001-01-01 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey, I'd mentioned this before, but I'm not sure anyone noticed;-). For a few reasons, I want to boot with lilo instead of grub. Civileme had told me what the grub faq confirms that all I had to do was run /sbin/lilo (as one would do in any other distro to load lilo), but having done this

RE: [newbie] Netscape-kppp weirdness

2001-01-01 Thread Carl Lafferty
desktop, but as soon as I reached the desktop the "Internet" icon started to show a "starburst effect" (no kidding) and multiple copies of the connection window began to appear--like really fast, filling up my taskbar and continuing to spawn the app way faster than I could hope to kill it.

Re: [newbie] Fixing time settings to am/pm

2001-01-01 Thread Romanator
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday 31 December 2000 08:58 pm, Romanator wrote: Under Date Time format, on the Locale tab, try setting country to USA and see if that doesn't fix it. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay Yes I did. I need to look into

Re: [newbie] Realplayer question?

2001-01-01 Thread Romanator
As a follow up, log in as root, open Konsole: a) Type in: chmod u+x rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1.bin Press the enter key. Then, press either the up or right arrow keys. Instead of retyping, you call up the what you've typed from the previous line. b) Insert ./ in from of

[newbie] weird Xfree4 problem!

2001-01-01 Thread devon
I recently wanted to upgrade my Xfree drivers, so I downloaded the appropriate files , ran Xinstall, ran xf86config, and everything apeared to be kosher... but when I type startx to load xwindows it just loads X with3 consoles and xclock: a login console, 2 xterm consoles. KDE was my

[newbie] Fetchmail problem

2001-01-01 Thread Roger Sherman
I use pine for email, and fetchmail to actually get the email. Strangely, today I hadn't gotten one single email, so I fire one off to myself as a test. I never get it. OK, so I figure fetchmail isn't working. I open Kmail to check the email, and sure enough, theres a ton of email on my server

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault

2001-01-01 Thread Anthony
Try deleting your .netscape folder. Just make sure you copy the bookmarks.html file into a safe place so you don't have to rebuild all your bookmarks again. Hi, I was running netscape 4.76.0x on my LM 7.1 system and netscape crashed. Now when trying to run netscape I get a "segementation

Re: [newbie] ShoutCast, *.pls, Netscape - MIME type Setup?

2001-01-01 Thread Anthony
I don't know of a direct way, but what you can do is use wget to download the .pls file "wget http://somesite.com/playlist.pls" and then read the contents of it to get the URL of the stream. How do you get Netscape to run xmms when you click a ShoutCast *.pls link? I've tried messing with

Re: [newbie] Grub

2001-01-01 Thread Irwan Hadi
At 02:17 PM 1/1/01 -0800, Meph Istopheles wrote: Hey, I'd mentioned this before, but I'm not sure anyone noticed;-). For a few reasons, I want to boot with lilo instead of grub. Civileme had told me what the grub faq confirms that all I had to do was run /sbin/lilo (as one would do in

Re: [newbie] My Linux Box

2001-01-01 Thread Romanator
Crush, kill destroy. Change the subject line!! Mark Hillary wrote: Well it errored when I tried to install it an just rebooted the machine. Mark Hillary - Original Message - From: "Eugene C. Zesch" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 8:21 PM

Re: [newbie] SMB 2.0.6 printing under Mandrake 7.2 w/ CUPS solved

2001-01-01 Thread jason-snyder
When I looked at the smb.conf file I noticed that the printer command specified the printer with the print option -P %p. I just figured that seeing that they had a variable there that Samba was somehow smart enough to select a printer, any printer. The concept seemed kind of fuzzy in my head,

Re: [newbie] Grub

2001-01-01 Thread Meph Istopheles
Irwan, At 02:17 PM 1/1/01 -0800, Meph Istopheles wrote: Hey, I'd mentioned this before, but I'm not sure anyone noticed;-). For a few reasons, I want to boot with lilo instead of grub. Civileme had told me what the grub faq confirms that all I had to do was run /sbin/lilo (as

RE: [newbie] segmentation fault

2001-01-01 Thread OPJOSE
Instead of uninstalling Netscape and the like first try removing all the "~/.netscaXXX" related files in your home directory. I've found that if indexes are screwed up, Netscape will quite with SIG-11's. You can save off your bookmarks temporarily and move them back after you've resolved the

[newbie] where are the books on the CD

2001-01-01 Thread Mike Oliver
The Mandrake Linux box says "The Linux Library: Five electronix reference guides..." and shows five book titles "Linux 6 Unleashed, Kde 1.1, Gimp, TYLinux in 24 and Using Linux. But I can't find them anywhere in the distribution CDs. Michael Oliver Chief Architect MorningStar Systems, Inc. 7391

[newbie] O'Reilly book

2001-01-01 Thread Abraham Mandac
Shoot. I just won a bid at Amazon.com for the second ed. Got it for $8.99. Big mistake. Leaped before I looked [checked out the O'Reilly site and read your responses but not until too late]. Now I'm legally obligated to finish the deal. No wonder no one else was bidding! Oh well. It should

Re: [newbie] gcc tutorial

2001-01-01 Thread Abraham Mandac
Thanks, Tom. I've come accross google being recommended several times already on this list. I've never tried it. I guess I should before asking the following question, but I'll ask anyway :) Is it more, uh, linux-oriented than Yahoo, Lycos and the like? -- Abe At 06:49 PM 12/30/00 -0600, you

[newbie] Word Compatibility of - Kwork - Abiword - WP - StartOffice - etc

2001-01-01 Thread Rick Commo
Ok... I'll at least change the subject name before I ask the question or Mark and Roman will personally fly out here and get me!! Mark raises an interesting possibility. The question is *how* compatible. Does any of the readership have any *real* experience. I am looking for both pro and con.

Re: [newbie] Netscape server refuses newsgroup

2001-01-01 Thread Anthony Daniell
Romanator wrote: Hi everybody, When I try to subscribe to a newsgroup, I'm getting a message indicating that the Netscape server is refusing connections, or it's busy or try aagain message. Ehh. What's a matta'? -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 High Energy Penguin Powered

Re: [newbie] Fetchmail problem

2001-01-01 Thread Mark Weaver
On Monday 01 January 2001 06:15 pm, you wrote: I use pine for email, and fetchmail to actually get the email. Strangely, today I hadn't gotten one single email, so I fire one off to myself as a test. I never get it. OK, so I figure fetchmail isn't working. I open Kmail to check the email, and

Re: [newbie] Fixing time settings to am/pm

2001-01-01 Thread Mark Weaver
On Monday 01 January 2001 05:34 pm, you wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday 31 December 2000 08:58 pm, Romanator wrote: Under Date Time format, on the Locale tab, try setting country to USA and see if that doesn't fix it. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Grub

2001-01-01 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Meph Istopheles wrote: Hey Alan, Mephadd a ' -v' to your command line entry and see what's causing lilo to not overwrite grub. Here's the results (don't see anything that looks particularly wrong, though): # /sbin/lilo -v LILO version 21.5, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner

Re: [Re: [newbie] USB Mouse Recognition Problems]

2001-01-01 Thread C . T . K .
Oddly enough, installing LM 7.2 Powerpack Deluxe solved the problem, vice LM 7.2 complete, which gave me printer and mouse problems, especially in Star Office 5.2 (printer). CTK How BIG can you dream? Award Finder! Pursue your dreams. We can help. (Go ahead, it's FREE!)

[newbie] Konqueror crashes

2001-01-01 Thread Dennis Myers
Trying to load a NASA web site which uses java I keep getting a crash with the following bug report. Does anyone know from the following info what might be wrong. I think this all started when I went to the KDE2.1beta1 installation. Any help would be appreciated. (no debugging symbols

[newbie] Problem with other OS

2001-01-01 Thread prodigys
There is particionado my disk of 15Gb. 1ra part. (2Gb)- Win98 (FAT16) 2da part. (4Gb)- NTServer4 (NTFS) 3ra part. (2Gb)- I File Personal (FAT16) There are 7Gb free that there still is not particionado it, but when I install Linux (andrake7.1) in that free space the

Re: [newbie] Fetchmail problem

2001-01-01 Thread Roger Sherman
Thanks, problem taken care of...courtesy Mark Weaver, who is the man! peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #19071 On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Meph Istopheles wrote: Roger [rog@ool-18beefd7 rog]$ fetchmailconf Traceback (innermost last): File

Re: [newbie] samba conf

2001-01-01 Thread Holly Henry-Pilkington
Dave wrote: Sorry, I haven't really been following this thread, but it now caught my eye. Were there any specific error messages you receive when trying to access the samba share from Win98? Eric may be right about it being a permissions problem, but if that were the case then even Win2k

Re: [newbie] USB Mouse Recognition Problems

2001-01-01 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Mike: Odd. I've been doing a lot of reinstalling lately, and my experience is exactly the opposite to your's. LM 7.1 recognized my Logitech USB mouse right off the bat, but Win98SE refused to acknowledge it. I finally had to use the USB/PS-2 adapter to complete the installation, and add the USB

[newbie] Gtoaster Problems

2001-01-01 Thread kneiper
I'm having trouble with my CD-burner under L-M 7.2. It worked fine under 7.0. I followed the tutorial on the L-M home page to create the new link. I can read disks just fine, but can't write. When I try with G-toaster, I get the error message, "CD record: Device not configured. Cannot open SCSI

[newbie] Portsentry reporting

2001-01-01 Thread Dennis Myers
Hi again everyone, this has been puzzling me for a while. I have portsentry installed and configured on two machines (in conjunction with pmfirewall) and have not been able to determine where to look for reports on possible attacks or unauthorized access attempts. Where should I look for this

Re: [newbie] MANDRAKE FIRST INSTALL - PARTITIONING QUERY

2001-01-01 Thread Anthony
Dear DnA, Are you using a 56K modem to download the whole thing?!? You have the patience and fortitude of a zen monk! It took me 5 hours to do it with DSL! So, minus the partition that Win98 is on gives you 2.2GB to work with. You could get away with making a 100MB 'swap' partition and having

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