[newbie-it] Non si avvia più X

2001-04-02 Thread McK
Auto!! mi sono messo in un gran pasticcio. Contravvenendo ai vostri preziosi consigli, ho voluto nonostantetutto installare lostesso XFree 4.02 (trovato su linux magazine Feb/Mar). Come volevasi dimostrare ho fatto il passo pi lungo della gamba: ho messo le mani dove non dovevo ed ora ne pago le

[newbie-it] Fax e kvoice.

2001-04-02 Thread Alberto Zanoni
Salve, dopo un (bel) po' di tentativi sono finalmente riuscito ad inviare e ricevere fax correttamente (piu' o meno), ma il risultato comunque lo si ottiene. Spiego la mia situazione: Invio fax -- ho usato ksendmail, che funziona egregiamente, o, meglio, funziona bene il comando

[newbie-it] R: [newbie-it] Non si avvia più X

2001-04-02 Thread McK
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 4:42 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Non si avvia pi X Auto!! mi sono messo in un gran pasticcio. Contravvenendo ai vostri preziosi consigli, ho voluto nonostantetutto installare lostesso

[newbie-it] Mandrake 8

2001-04-02 Thread Lele
Qualcuno ha gi scaricato e provato la release 8 ? Ci sono miglioramenti sostanziali? Se s sarei interessato (pagando) ad avere i cd.

Re: [newbie] Internet Sharing over LAN network HELP

2001-04-02 Thread Tran Duc Thang
Hello All, I need to share an Internet dial-up connection over my LAN Network by using a PC with Linux Mandrake 7.1 installed. My LAN Server is using Windows NT4.0. Is it possible to do that ? Which tools do I have to install ? Thanks for reading. Thang.

[newbie] OT, floppy dists for VPN over dialup.

2001-04-02 Thread Franki
Hi all, Sorry this is OT, but I need to find something in a hurry and figured this was a good place to start looking. I have 2 identical 166mmx/32mb systems, and I need to setup a VPN between 2 offices that can provide low traffic TCP/IP network conection between two staticly assigned

Re: [newbie] Internet Sharing over LAN network HELP

2001-04-02 Thread SKLIM
Yes just install Diald @ your linux server Best Regards, SKLIM - Original Message - From: Tran Duc Thang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 2:43 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Sharing over LAN network HELP Hello All, I need to share an

Re: [newbie] Internet Sharing over LAN network HELP

2001-04-02 Thread SKLIM
After install the Diald ..follow by configure IP forward Best regards, SKLIM - Original Message - From: SKLIM [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 3:22 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Sharing over LAN network HELP Yes just install Diald @

RE: [newbie] OT, floppy dists for VPN over dialup.

2001-04-02 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
First statement: "I need to setup a VPN between 2 offices" Second statement: "I know I don't really need a VPN over a private dialup" Huh? From what you are asking you DO want a secure VPN... See: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/VPN-HOWTO.html -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] SiS on-board graphics

2001-04-02 Thread Stefaans Mostert
Tim Holmes wrote: What kind of video card is on board? Normally I would agree with the person, and saying that intergrated anything is just EVIL, but some cards work well from my experience. For example, on board "AGP" ATI cards. I have two mo-bo's that have on board "AGP" ATI cards,

[expert] Mandrake 7.2 halt when load apm on ThinkPad 600X

2001-04-02 Thread Matos Seisdedos, Javier
Hi all: Im getting trouble with my new laptop IBM Thinkpad 600X (2645). Ive rode something about this trouble but I had no found the answer. My problem is that after install Mandrake 7.2 on the laptop and reboot the system halt when load the apm module. I had tried the installation with and

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[newbie] LM 7.2+Wine+DAP

2001-04-02 Thread Carlos Arigós
Hi all! DAP (Download Accelerator Plus) works fine under LM 7.2+Wine-Codeweavers. I just get to restart a download started under windoze-me. Carlos

[newbie] dos and Linux

2001-04-02 Thread Lee
Hi folks.. A Linux virgin here. I have LM7.2 on a separate drive. W98SE on the other drive with Grub as the boot selector. Why does LM not show up in DOS? Is it possible to make it do so? TIA(thanx in advance). Lee

[newbie] Big fonts are overtaking my PC

2001-04-02 Thread Kelly, Christopher
This is an annoying problem. My NIC card in my Linux box died over the weekend, so, I had to shut down the PC to make the swap. All went well with the operation but, when I started KDE all of my fonts where as large as anything. What would cause this? I don't think that it has anything to do

[newbie] DiskDrake won't resize my partition

2001-04-02 Thread Doni Nikolovski
When I click on the Resize button in DiskDrake (after entering expert mode) during the installation of Mandrake 7.2, I get the followingmessage: "this partition is not resizable". I have a single windows (win98) FAT32 partition that takes up the entire disk (19GB). I've run the windows

Re: [newbie] Triple boot? Solved, with great thanks to Philomena!

2001-04-02 Thread philomena
You are very, very welcome ! :-) philomena Kipling Cooper wrote: Thank you so very much!!! Your very helpful repley helped solve two problems: 1 Grub does not reinstall after Win95 reinstall Solution: make /boot/grub/install.sh executable 2 Can not quintuple boot Solution: supply

Re: [newbie] No-- kisocd in MD8.0

2001-04-02 Thread Jeremy H.
Could you install eroaster? - Original Message - From: David [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 10:17 PM Subject: [newbie] No-- kisocd in MD8.0 hi i used to use kisocd in mandrake 7.1 which i liked very much, however it does not seem to be on

[newbie] KDE 2.1.1 and XFree86 4.0.3

2001-04-02 Thread msoltys
Hello All, I installed KDE 2.1 from the rpms and would now like to upgrade to 2.1.1 as 2.1 has some minor annoyances. I notice that the Sourceforge directory where the 2.1.1 fpms are located, also contains rpms for XFree86 4.0.3. Do I need to upgrade XFree in order to run KDE 2.1.1 ? Has anyone

Re: [newbie] Enlightenment ScreenSavers

2001-04-02 Thread Adrian Smith
i think what you are refering to is simply the XFree screen blanker kicking in. i have no idea how to configure it, tho it's on my list of things go figure out as i'd like to bump it up to 20 minutes. Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ammon Cooke [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] SiS on-board graphics

2001-04-02 Thread Adrian Smith
hi, i am burdened with an on-board SiS also. are you using XFree 4.0.1? if so, you might want to try going with the 3.x.x version on the 7.2 CDs. i still have this vertical line on the left edge of my monitor with is not suppose to be there. i had no problems at all with the 3.x.x version.

Re: [newbie] SiS on-board graphics

2001-04-02 Thread Adrian Smith
regarding the SiS thingy it was written: Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tim Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10:58:46 PM 3/31/01 So check the card's web site. They may provide Linux drivers. actually, they do have linux info at their site, and MUO also has

Re: [newbie] ipchains n pmfirewall

2001-04-02 Thread T-Bond
Hi Go to Mandrakeuser.org and click on connectivity. There is a nice how-to on IP Masqueradin there. I followed that one and it is working great. Don't bother with PMfirewall. It's no good anyway. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 01,

Re: [newbie] No-- kisocd in MD8.0

2001-04-02 Thread A V Flinsch
On Sunday 01 April 2001 23:17, you wrote: hi i used to use kisocd in mandrake 7.1 which i liked very much, however it does not seem to be on Mandrake 8.0 beta2 nor will it install. the other 2 xcdroast and gtoast look like cd music only burners and no good for doing file backups from the

Re: [newbie] dos and Linux

2001-04-02 Thread Adrian Smith
DOS/Win can not see linux partitions. this is due to the superiority complex which runs amok in the Evil Empire (TM). there are Win apps that will access your linux partition. i have one called Captain Nemo, but i do not use it extensively so i can not vouch for reliability. remember, Win98

[newbie] Baby Questions

2001-04-02 Thread Daniel
These are my very first steps with Linux. I am using version 7.0 and could install it in a dedicated HD with no big problems for a beginner. I would appreciate if someone could tell me how to: 1- Install Star Office that comes with CD-3 (extras). General question is how to install applications

Re: [newbie] DiskDrake won't resize my partition

2001-04-02 Thread Adrian Smith
hi... do i understand you correctly here? the drive is one large fat partition, and you are trying to resize that partition without losing the data on it? i don't think diskdrake can do this, without data lose that is. tho i could be wrong. diskdrake is an impressive tool -- however i

Re: [newbie] when will mandrake release 8.0?

2001-04-02 Thread Eric
Civileme and the Mandrake folks: We appreciate your efforts. We have at work and home Mandrake 7.2 and we are very pleased with it. We have also tried both betas. When the boxed version will come out I shall run to the store and purchase one. Please have a lot of games included. My son

Re: [newbie] KDE 2.1.1 and XFree86 4.0.3

2001-04-02 Thread Eric
Recently I upgraded KDE 2.1 - 2.1.1 with XFree86 4.0.3. I had no problems, but be carefull and follow the instructions. 1. download all the rpms to a directory. 2. test using: rpm -Uvh --test *.rpm 3. take care of all missing stuff ( go to http://rpmfind.net a do search there) 4. su - root

Re: [newbie] how come stupid gimp won't make an imagetransparent to paste

2001-04-02 Thread Adrian Smith
calm grasshopper. the ways of digital imaging are complex and make little sense. one must just push buttons until "it" happens. ok what do you mean by "make an image transparent"? do you mean a transparent background behind an image, or do you mean the image it's self is transparent

[newbie] Confused about the differences between RedHat and Mandrake

2001-04-02 Thread Mark Johnson
I thought that Mandrake was an optimized version of Redhat. Which encompassed the removal of legacy code for pre-Pentium machines? Is that right? What are the side effects effects of this optimatization? The reason I'm asking I'm starting to get intersted in embedded linux and it looks like

Re: [newbie] AHHHHHHHH!! too many problems

2001-04-02 Thread Michael Leone
THINGS I WANT TO BE ABLE TO DO IN LINUX (Can linux do it?) Be able to use WINE with all the trimmings (including full 3d rendering). I've never gotten WINE to work with anything useful, and I seriously doubt it will do 3D rendering. By useful, I mean Word, Photoshop, IE, etc. The customized

[newbie] Setting up a new user account remotely

2001-04-02 Thread Jennifer Davis
Hi, I was wondering how one goes about creating a new account from the console with Mandrake 7.2 (probably other versions as well). On Slackware, which is what I have my server on, it is easy, I just type adduser and answer the questions. With Mandrake it seems more complex. if I

[newbie] Superblock and e2fsck just won't fix it.

2001-04-02 Thread Terry L. Cary
Frustrating, It will mount \ read only - and I can't get it right. Suggestions? Thanks. TC

Re: [newbie] Setting up a new user account remotely

2001-04-02 Thread Jesse C. Chang
I don't know if it has the interactive thing that Slackware does, but you can try reading up on 'man useradd'. Jesse -- !! Jesse C. Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] [___] `|' "I have the simplest tastes. I am always /|\ satisfied with the best." -- Oscar Wilde

[newbie] Creating Calendars

2001-04-02 Thread marcia
Dear All, I do a bi-montly 5 page newsletter using MSWord. I use the calendar Wizard for the calendars and events. I want to begin to do this project from StarOffice if possible. Is there a way I can do the calendars in StarOffice? I know there is no calendar wizard however is there a way to

Re: [newbie] Big fonts are overtaking my PC

2001-04-02 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 02 April 2001 13:59, you wrote: This is an annoying problem. My NIC card in my Linux box died over the weekend, so, I had to shut down the PC to make the swap. All went well with the operation but, when I started KDE all of my fonts where as large as anything. What would cause

Re: [newbie] Enlightenment ScreenSavers

2001-04-02 Thread Ammon Cooke
Thanks! Ammon At 09:05 AM 3/31/2001 -0800, you wrote: Adrian Smith wrote: well, i use E and i never knew it had a screen saver. On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Jesse C. Chang wrote: There's an Epplet called E-ScreenSave, but I have yet to get it to work. Not that I've tried very hard, but...

Re: [newbie] Enlightenment ScreenSavers

2001-04-02 Thread Meph Istopheles
Oh, if you figure out the "off" thing -- where the screen just goes black (I'd love it if I could get that to stop so the screen saver really did just run indefinitely, though I turn off the monitor when I'm away for long periods), let me know. Meph Thanks! Ammon Original post Something

[newbie] FreeSCO

2001-04-02 Thread Franki
Hi all, Has anyone here used FreeSCO for connecting two networks via dialup? I want to find a small distro for this, but the best I could find was FreeSCO. regards Frank Hauptle / / _ ---/ / (_)__ __ __ --/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / -//_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ Gshop Network Payment

RE: [newbie] Big fonts are overtaking my PC

2001-04-02 Thread Kelly, Christopher
The NIC is configured. What should I be looking for in /etc/x11/xf86config? I'm not really sure what things to check? Is it going to be a font type or something like that? Moose -Original Message- From: H.J.Bathoorn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 12:54 PM To:

RE: [newbie] Linux Tax Software?

2001-04-02 Thread Mark Johnson
I don't know of any... You might check around http://www.freshmeat.net, this would be really cool. -Original Message- From: marcia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 12:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Linux Tax Software? Dear All, It is tax time and I

Re: [newbie] Creating Calendars

2001-04-02 Thread aortiz
Dear Marcia I've tried to get calendar in staroffice to print lines as you want to do, but haven't been able to. In the windows environment worperfect has a very good application to doclanedar. I don;t know f corel gave the same application to wordperefect for linux. it s worth checking it out

[newbie] Linux Tax Software?

2001-04-02 Thread marcia
Dear All, It is tax time and I am surprised to see no discussion about doing one's taxes with Linux. Is there a tax program for Linux that works like Quicken TurboTax? Thanks for your help. Sincerely, Marcia

A twist on the OpenSource paradigm: (was RE: [newbie] Linux Tax Software?)

2001-04-02 Thread Mark Johnson
This got me to thinking. I really like the idea of open source, however, it confounds me on it's viability. I think it's really admirable that so many programmers donate their time to the whole GNU/FSF movement. I cannot believe the effort put into things like KDevelop which is offered free to

[newbie] ping doesn't ping

2001-04-02 Thread aortiz
I've tried to connect mywindows 95 and mandrake 7.1 but i don't get a response from neither computer. What I mean is that I am able to ping each macine to its own IP address ( i can even ping web site from each machine) but when trying to ping the other machine in my LAN it does not work. I

Re: [newbie] Linux Tax Software?

2001-04-02 Thread Eric
The Kompany (http://www.thekompany.com) is working on a financial application for KDE. There is a beta on their web site I think. I am not sure it does taxes though. Eric Indiogine On Monday 02 April 2001 11:18, Mark Johnson wrote: I don't know of any... You might check around

Re: [newbie] DiskDrake won't resize my partition

2001-04-02 Thread AndyMonks
use FIPS. it will be needed to run in dos, but it is quite easy to use :-) AGM

[newbie] Copies of 8.0 Beta 3

2001-04-02 Thread g
Anybody have the latest copies of 8.0 Beta 3 they woul be willing to let go at a reasonable cost? Not having much luck getting the Beta 2 I have, created by my neighbor who has a cd burner, to install. So now I looked to the Mandrake users to see if anyone has copies on cd they would mail at

RE: [newbie] ping doesn't ping

2001-04-02 Thread Mark Johnson
do you mean you CAN ping your win95 box from your linux box using the IP address of the win95 box, but you *CAN'T* ping your win95 box from your linux box using the name of the win95 box? If this is what you mean, the problem is probably because you don't have a DNS to resolve the local names.

Re: A twist on the OpenSource paradigm: (was RE: [newbie] Linux TaxS oftware?)

2001-04-02 Thread Meph Istopheles
OK, but let's look at it this way: If a coder creates something that he'd wanted to fool with produces a decent product, has the integrity to actually work out the bugs apply her/himself to the project, knowing only that the pay is in others using this product, it will, eventually, be

RE: [newbie] Linux Tax Software?

2001-04-02 Thread g
i was thinking about that myself. I was going to send a msg to Quicken turboTax to see if they were going to release a Linux version. Especially seeing I have several years of tax returns in Turbo Tax format. I don't know of any... You might check around http://www.freshmeat.net, this would

Re: [newbie] ping doesn't ping

2001-04-02 Thread aortiz
Sorry I guess i wasn't completely clear. If i am in win95 i can ping win95 (and if connected to thenet, i can png other IP addresses in the net) but if I ping linux i get a time out request. I tried pinging the IP address, the name of the linux box but i still don;t get a response back. it is

Re: [newbie] Corrupted menu

2001-04-02 Thread Ammon Cooke
I uninstalled everything that had to do with gnome, for some reason I can't remember the name of the package, but there was another package I unistalled, reinstalled before I rebooted. After I rebooted It seemed to work alright. I would go looking to find the package, But I have

RE: [newbie] ping doesn't ping

2001-04-02 Thread Franki
check your logs, do you have any firewalls or filtering running? I can't ping my server, because I set it to not respond, so my logs are full of deny messages... do some pings, then go into /var/log/messages, and see if it tells you whats going on. Frank Hauptle / / _ ---/ / (_)__ __

Re: A twist on the OpenSource paradigm: (was RE: [newbie] Linux Tax Software?)

2001-04-02 Thread marcia
Dear Mark, Thank you for your thoughts. Unless someone is working on tax software now that is like Quicken than your idea is probably one of the few that would get this going. I paid about $29.00 for my Quicken and really that is not bad for most to pay considering it is usually way more than

Re: [newbie] ipchains n pmfirewall

2001-04-02 Thread ZeynalBandari
sorry that i forgot to mention , all i want is to protect one single machine from constant daily attacks , not a private network. tnx anyway :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Go to Mandrakeuser.org and click on connectivity. There is a nice how-to on IP Masqueradin there. I followed that one

RE: [newbie] com port to com port connection

2001-04-02 Thread Adrian Smith
i'll look into that. i kinda figure something like this would be built right in to linux, i just had no idea where to look for it. as to my choice of com ports - i could network, but it's not worth the memory use and time to figure out as i want each box as a total stand alone, and i could

[newbie] IR comm ports?

2001-04-02 Thread Mark Johnson
Does anyone know if it's possible to get an IR com port card for my motherboard for use with PDAs that can sync via IR?

RE: [newbie] ipchains n pmfirewall

2001-04-02 Thread Franki
pmfirewall is ok for that,, I use it, but found I had to add alot of new rules myself, but my machine has about 6 virtual domains, so I had an unusual situation, but for single machines using client apps instead of servers, it would probably be fine, and the install script does do most of the

RE: [newbie] Setting up a new user account remotely

2001-04-02 Thread Charles A Edwards
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alan Shoemaker Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 5:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] dos and Linux Lee wrote: Hi folks.. A Linux virgin here. I have LM7.2 on a separate

Re: [newbie] ipchains n pmfirewall

2001-04-02 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 02 April 2001 04:16 pm, you wrote: sorry that i forgot to mention , all i want is to protect one single machine from constant daily attacks , not a private network. tnx anyway :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Go to Mandrakeuser.org and click on connectivity. There is a nice

Re: [newbie]dhcp daemomn

2001-04-02 Thread Derek Rayne
--- phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyone know how to find and start dhcp? I keep getting this error message when i try to go online "warning the following hosts are unknown. home.netscape.com,home6.netscape.com and internic.net this means that some or all hosts

Re: [newbie] Logging into Mandrake

2001-04-02 Thread Derek Rayne
--- Thomas J Hughes III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am very new at Linux, I have installed the Linux Mandrake OS on my computer which is a PIII 450. The installation went very well which surprised me. My question is that when i come to the login screen, I have a choice of choosing either

Re: [newbie] Baby Questions

2001-04-02 Thread Anthony
1- Install Star Office that comes with CD-3 (extras). General question is how to install applications from CD driver. To install Star Office, just go to the cdrom directory, usually /mnt/cdrom, and find a file named "setup" in there somewhere. Then type "./setup -net" from the command line

Re: [newbie] Confused about the differences between RedHat and Mandrake

2001-04-02 Thread Anthony
It started out as optimized Redhat, but it's grown to be somewhat different, though usually compatible with Red Hat. I have no idea how the embedded side of it works though, so I guess you'll just have to see for yourself by trying it. I thought that Mandrake was an optimized version of

Re: [newbie] Baby Questions

2001-04-02 Thread g
On Monday 02 April 2001 18:52, you wrote: If you are using Madrake 7.2, make sure you logged is as the Root (when you first come into the system it asks you for login and password. click on DrakConf (on your desktop, usually top of screen) click on Package manager (bottom of screen after

Re: [newbie] Linux Tax Software?

2001-04-02 Thread Harvey Janson
Hi, I did my taxes a month or so ago, using a Quicken Turbo Tax program offered on the web page of my bank. Although I have LM 7.2 as my OS, I had no problems. Perhaps, because I did it over the Internet, it worked with my system. Harvey On Monday 02 April 2001

[newbie] Why is my login pass to my ISP not encrypted?

2001-04-02 Thread Anthony
I was looking at etc/sysconfig/draknet.adsl_pppoe and my username and pass to login to my ISP account was in plain text, viewable by anyone..Is this normal?

Re: [newbie] Why is my login pass to my ISP not encrypted?

2001-04-02 Thread Meph Istopheles
I was looking at etc/sysconfig/draknet.adsl_pppoe and my username and pass to login to my ISP account was in plain text, viewable by anyone..Is this normal? Yes, slip ppp (pppoe) are not encrypted. There is another log-in protocol, older (I forget just now what that is), which is, but,

[newbie] Where's KDE 2.1 RPM in english

2001-04-02 Thread g
I went to the following site, but don't see it? http://ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/kde/stable/latest/distribution/rpm/Mandrake/7.2/RPMS/ Can someone tell me where I can get KDE 2.1 RPM for Mandrake?

[newbie] These are all my unsupprted hardware on my intel Pentuim PC..What? Where? How? ;))

2001-04-02 Thread Anthony
Can I do anything to have them working under LM ? TIA class: OTHER bus: PCI detached: 0 driver: ignore desc: "Intel Corporation|440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX Host bridge" vendorId: 8086 deviceId: 7190 subVendorId: subDeviceId: pciType: 1 - class: OTHER bus: PCI detached: 0 driver: ignore desc:

Re: [newbie] Where's KDE 2.1 RPM in english

2001-04-02 Thread Alan Shoemaker
g wrote: I went to the following site, but don't see it? http://ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/kde/stable/latest/distribution/rpm/Mandrake/7.2/RPMS/ Can someone tell me where I can get KDE 2.1 RPM for Mandrake? gactually the 2.1.1 version has just been released. Either the 2.1

[newbie] xcdroast+atapi cd player

2001-04-02 Thread Carlos Arigós
Hi! Under MDK 7.2+xcdroast, I can't see the ATAPI cd player as source, only the scsi cd writer. KDE konqueror report both. Is there any way to solve this? Thanks in advance. Carlos

[newbie] my time is broken and I can't fix it PLEASE RESPOND

2001-04-02 Thread Chubby Vic
I'm in Central time I can't make my machine set the rimt right that sucks and pisses me off I want my time right

Re: [newbie] Why is my login pass to my ISP not encrypted?

2001-04-02 Thread Anthony
On Monday 02 April 2001 19:43, you wrote: I was looking at etc/sysconfig/draknet.adsl_pppoe and my username and pass to login to my ISP account was in plain text, viewable by anyone..Is this normal? Yes, slip ppp (pppoe) are not encrypted. There is another log-in protocol, older (I

Re: [newbie] my time is broken and I can't fix it PLEASE RESPOND

2001-04-02 Thread Rog
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001 09:46:37 +, you wrote: I'm in Central time I can't make my machine set the rimt right that sucks and pisses me off I want my time right First, take a deep breath..;-) Did you set your clock to GMT? If not, do so. If so, undo it. When installing 7.2, it asked me if

[newbie]Linux Isp

2001-04-02 Thread phil
Anyone know of any Linux friendly ISP?I get the Impression My ISP is not. Cable access Roadrunner Time warner!

Re: [newbie] my time is broken and I can't fix it PLEASE RESPOND

2001-04-02 Thread phil
Try the BIOS? At 09:46 AM 4/3/2001 +, you wrote: I'm in Central time I can't make my machine set the rimt right that sucks and pisses me off I want my time right

Re: [newbie] Enlightenment ScreenSavers

2001-04-02 Thread Todd Lyons
Meph Istopheles wrote: Oh, if you figure out the "off" thing -- where the screen just goes black (I'd love it if I could get that to stop so the screen saver really did just run indefinitely, though I turn off the 'xset s noblank' man xset for the myriad of options available. -- Blue

Re: [newbie]Linux Isp

2001-04-02 Thread Todd Lyons
phil wrote: Anyone know of any Linux friendly ISP?I get the Impression My ISP is not. Cable access Roadrunner Time warner! What part of socal are you in? Orange County or LA County? Right now speakeasy.net walks on water and heals little children when it comes to DSL. If

[newbie] resolv.conf

2001-04-02 Thread Michael Falzon
Hi all I have sent a email out about this be for and I was give this #!/bin/ksh cd /etc cp resolv.conf resolv.back echo hostresorder host bin resolv.conf cat resolv.back resolv.conf rm resolv.back this is now add " hostresorder host bin " line after line after line... and it still

[newbie] Sound problem

2001-04-02 Thread Tim Holmes
I have a sound card in the machine that worked yesterday just fine and now it doesn't seem to want to behave. If I play a sound as my user, timh, it tells me I don't have permission to play the sound because I can't access /dev/dsp. The file itself is mine and it's not that I don't have rights

[newbie] Help with fancy KDE Mail Filter

2001-04-02 Thread David Nelson
Hello, I noticed recently that most of the spam I recive does not have any of the email addresses I use in the message's To: field. I would like to take advantage of this to filter spam into the trash. The filters I would like to create would be something like this: If subject contains

Re: [newbie] Enlightenment ScreenSavers

2001-04-02 Thread Meph Istopheles
Oh, if you figure out the "off" thing -- where the screen just goes black (I'd love it if I could get that to stop so the screen saver really did just run indefinitely, though I turn off the 'xset s noblank' man xset for the myriad of options available. You know, I was thinking

Re: [newbie]Linux Isp

2001-04-02 Thread phil
LA county San Fernando Valley Thanks for the reply ,I am at the point where I suspect it is my Isp Since I get DHCP working and see activity on the cable modem. but then failed??? I will check out those Isp's u suggested. At 09:58 PM 4/2/2001 -0700, you wrote: phil wrote:

[newbie]PDF

2001-04-02 Thread phil
Can Linux handle PDF?

[newbie] fetchmail

2001-04-02 Thread Michael Falzon
And if some has work this out can I set fetchmail to pickup mail for my ISP and put all of this mail in to my home system Michael Falzon Last Of The BBs Sysops Mozy's Swamp BBs Red Dwarf BBs Registered Linux user #204397 24/7 Help Desk +61409967695 http://mozysswamp.yi.org

Re: [newbie]PDF

2001-04-02 Thread Michael Falzon
yep she can - Original Message - From: "phil" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 3:15 PM Subject: [newbie]PDF Can Linux handle PDF?

Re: [newbie]PDF

2001-04-02 Thread Dan LaBine
Phil; Yes Linux can handle PDF files. You should have "xpdf" installed on your system, but if not, you can also download Adobe's Acrobat Reader for Linux from their site (www.adobe.com) . About your cablemodem and your ISP, by any chance, have you changed your network card that connects to your

Re: [newbie]PDF

2001-04-02 Thread phil
Thanks for the reply ,this is great i am starting to love this Linux. Yes i am aware of the Mac address And I am on my 2nd NIC that has realtk 8139, so it is Linux compatable.But it works fine in windows so i thought the Mac should not matter ? Linux recognizes the NIC, And I