[newbie-it] xinded e sendmail

2001-06-16 Thread Claudio Duchi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 come configurare xinded per utilizzare sendmail non come demone ma on demand ciao -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: N/A Comment: key id 0xD8B6E110 iQA/AwUBOypEia6y7Rcgu1iAEQJ9vwCdHQ4gLUrcnmJBJfHpN8lw73pfijgAoNlx i2KcHznGAKxQptVehBgBUGn3

Re: [newbie-it] vendesi villa

2001-06-16 Thread Daniele Micci
Il 07:36, sabato 16 giugno 2001, hai scritto: Vendo villa con 4 appartamenti e un ettaro (1Mq) di terreno recintati un magazzino di oltre 100Mq in località Valmontone (RM) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA STIAMO SCHERZANDO??? Ma dove credi di essere, al mercatino della frutta?!

Re: [newbie-it] telnet o no telnat questo è.....

2001-06-16 Thread freefred
On Friday 15 June 2001 18:13, Claudio Duchi wrote: che usare al posto di telnet o che usare per renderlo sicuro? ssh www.openssh.com bye -- Devil Inside Experiment - C'era un bambino che odiava la polizia www.acidlife.com/~freefred Davide Banda Partial Arts [2000] -

[newbie-it] alsa

2001-06-16 Thread Massimo
ho scaricato gli ultimi driver e le utilities di alsa. non conosco però i comandi per installarli. sono nella directory home/massimo gentilmente qualcuno vuol farmi la cortesia di dirmi dettagliatamente,passo,passo come installarli ? sono un neofita. grazie Massimo

[newbie-it] Floppy - CdRom

2001-06-16 Thread m_berardinelli
Non riesco a leggere i floppy e i Cd-Rom sia come utente, che come amministratore di sistema. Il messaggio di errore che mi appare è: impossibile accedere a file:/mnt/floppy ( /mnt/cdrom). Non hai diritti di accesso a questo indirizzo. Come posso risolvere il problema? Grazie!

[newbie-it] Sound System

2001-06-16 Thread Daniele Micci
Ciao a tutti, alla ricerca della soluzione per il problema del server sonoro ARTS che, da quando l'ho aggiornato da uno dei siti FTP mirror di Mandrake, ha smesso di funzionare, ho postato una domanda sul sito Mandrake Expert. La risposta è stata che può darsi che il sistema sonoro (sound

[newbie-it] Konqueror ed i plugins

2001-06-16 Thread Daniele Micci
Ciao di nuovo a tutti, in base al noto principio una telefonata, una domanda, eccomi di nuovo qui con una seconda email. Utilizzo il Linux-Mandrake 8.0, come WM il KDE 2.1.2 e come browser il Konqueror 2.1.1; il problema è: come far funzionare i plugins Netscape col Konqueror? Qualcuno ha il

Re: [newbie-it] vendesi villa [OT]

2001-06-16 Thread Daniele Micci
Il 19:44, sabato 16 giugno 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Vai a farti fottere strunz con la puzzetta sotto il naso, a me rompete sempre il cazzo con i vostri problemi del cazzo e io non posso fare una richiesta? ficcatelo su per il culo il tuo messaggio del cazzo ... credo che quel che

[newbie-it] posta

2001-06-16 Thread bosva
ciao ragazzi...ho un problema con la posta...al punto che mi tocca scrivervi dalla web page di tin...sob! volevo ringraziarvi dei suggerimenti che mi avete dato sulla lentezza di chromium...ma quando clicco replay (...a parte che mi mette di default l'indirizzo di chi mi ha risposto, e non quello

Re: [newbie-it] CUPS e hp930c

2001-06-16 Thread Bongio
scusate tutti ieri ho configurato il modem e per la prima volta sono entrato in internet. vado quindi sulla pagina di libero e netscape mi chiede se voglio scaricare le librerie flash per linux: le scarico, ma non riesco a farle partire: cosa devo fare?

Re: [newbie-it] posta

2001-06-16 Thread bosva
Corrado wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ciao ragazzi...ho un problema con la posta...al punto che mi tocca scrivervi dalla web page di tin...sob! volevo ringraziarvi dei suggerimenti che mi avete dato sulla lentezza di chromium...ma quando clicco replay (...a parte che mi mette di

R: [newbie-it] vendesi villa

2001-06-16 Thread max
non ti permettere mai più di scrivere per i comodi tuoi a questo newsgroup o mail-list (chiamala come ti pare !) Qui si parla solo ed esclusivamente di problemi e soluzioni riguardo il MITICO LINUX ! ...Chi è a favore gli scriva la stessa cosa ! - Original Message - From:

R: [newbie-it] vendesi villa

2001-06-16 Thread Ale
effettivamente sarebbe da cacciare dalla mailing list... ma anche tu che dici "... mitico linux..." e poi usi autluk!!! Ale P.S. anche io purtroppo ora sono su winzozz, ma nn è colpa mia... -Messaggio originale-Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Per conto di

Re: [newbie-it] Sound System

2001-06-16 Thread Sebastiano Cordiano
On Sat, 16 Jun 2001 16:51:28 +0200 Daniele Micci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciao a tutti, alla ricerca della soluzione per il problema del server sonoro ARTS che, da quando l'ho aggiornato da uno dei siti FTP mirror di Mandrake, ha smesso di funzionare, ho postato una domanda sul sito

[newbie-it] Wish: command not found - Risolto

2001-06-16 Thread Stefano Salari
Grazie a tutti, mi mancava proprio tk! Ciao. Steo. __ Do You Yahoo!? Il tuo indirizzo gratis e per sempre @yahoo.it su http://mail.yahoo.it

[newbie-it] Linux o Win2000?

2001-06-16 Thread Daniele Micci
... in effetti dovevo inviare solo due email, ma già che c'ero ... Poi, per oggi, prometto che smetto! ;-) Mi interesserebbe avere un vostro parere. Recentemente mi sono accorto, per caso, che alcuni siti che usano contatori presi dal servizio Bravenet.com (ma non so se sia un problema solo di

Re: [newbie] No-one uses Linux, says Microsoft

2001-06-16 Thread Tim Holmes
That's odd... because I remember reading some place that Compaq and DELL both shipped like 15% of their machines a year with a Linux OS, mainly RedHat. (I don't remember the number, I just tossed 15% in there for the comment.) I think it came from a RedHat site, so it may have been publicity

Re: [newbie] No-one uses Linux, says Microsoft

2001-06-16 Thread Tim Holmes
Yes... this is another Micro$HAFT advocate. But we really can't knock them since we are all... well most of us, are Linux advocates. But the truth is that Uncle Bill and Microsoft were not the first. As a matter a fact Gates and Jobs both stole most of there original code and made it better.

Re: [newbie] No-one uses Linux, says Microsoft

2001-06-16 Thread Tim Holmes
Try Quanta. Comes standard with Mandrake. It does have a WYSIWYG like interface. I like it because it works pretty well to help teach you HTML as well. Which I think is a good thing. Give it a try. I've used it to write basic HTML doc pages for our network. I used to know HTML really

[newbie] hp 710

2001-06-16 Thread bart deglorie
i have adeskjet 710c and i have the problem that the top margin always is left away when printing A4 help plz the printer is configured with printconf and i'm using the pnm2ppa driver. thx bart

[newbie] hp deskjet 710

2001-06-16 Thread bart deglorie
i have adeskjet 710c and i have the problem that the top margin always is left away when printing A4 help plz the printer is configured with printconf and i'm using the pnm2ppa driver. thx bart

[newbie] printer

2001-06-16 Thread bart deglorie
i have adeskjet 710c and i have the problem that the top margin always is left away when printing A4 help plz the printer is configured with printconf and i'm using the pnm2ppa driver. thx bart

[newbie] Log files redirect to root mail

2001-06-16 Thread Jason Chan
Hi, I remembered in my old Mandrake 7.2 everyday on my root mail account I would receive several mails that includes daily logs, security warnings, and all. In my currect Mandrake 8.0 I could not find the same function. Is there any way to have daily logs forwarded to root (or other local

[newbie] FW: Xinetd problem?

2001-06-16 Thread Jason Chan
Hi, I have xinetd running pop3 on one server (Server A) , and have another server running fetchmail (Server B) and would poll Server A 's mail message in 60 seconds interval. At first, both ran no problem, until after several hours Server A would deny Server B's connection. After some

[newbie] Intel Pro 100 Netcard half duplex

2001-06-16 Thread Gunner Carstens
Title: Intel Pro 100 Netcard half duplex I have had many problems connecting my LM7.2 to cablemodem. Part of the problem may be caused by the speed on the Intel Pro 100 Netcard. Someone told me that it could be good to force the netcard to run 10mbit half duplex. Can anyone tell me how I do

Re: [newbie] licq awaymesg

2001-06-16 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I have similar problems with GnomeICU. The problem is that AOL (ICQ's owners) like to keep their protocols private and closed-source. That means that any other project to create an ICQ client must reverse-engineer the protocol -- a very difficult and painstaking task. I know GnomeICU is fully

Re: [newbie] No-one uses Linux, says Microsoft

2001-06-16 Thread Romanator
Tim Holmes wrote: Try Quanta. Comes standard with Mandrake. It does have a WYSIWYG like interface. I like it because it works pretty well to help teach you HTML as well. Which I think is a good thing. Give it a try. I've used it to write basic HTML doc pages for our network. I used

Re: [newbie] WINE?

2001-06-16 Thread OOzy Pal
Hello it is not www.wine.org. It is www.winehq.com --- John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 15 June 2001 22:35, you wrote: (I need some after my marathon install session...) I've heard about WINE and want to try it. ('Want to see if I can do my Flash work in Linux...) Where can

Re: [newbie] No-one uses Linux, says Microsoft

2001-06-16 Thread Romanator
Dell offers Linux already installed but it is RedHat. Tim Holmes wrote: That's odd... because I remember reading some place that Compaq and DELL both shipped like 15% of their machines a year with a Linux OS, mainly RedHat. (I don't remember the number, I just tossed 15% in there for the

Fw: [newbie] Please no more No-one uses Linux, says Microsoft posts!

2001-06-16 Thread Chuck Stiven
I concur with Charles Punch! I've received over 60 e-mails in 2 days since I applied to have them sent. Many were repetive and far beyond newbie understanding . Screen them if you can or remove me from your mailing list. Thx Chuck - Original Message - From: Charles A. Punch [EMAIL

[newbie] Mandrake update problems

2001-06-16 Thread Keith Soldavin
I am running Mandrake 8.0 on my current system and I am having problems with the update program. I have had no problem using the program to update the packages that I already have. I created a update source to a local computer and it worked fine. What I am having problems with is using the

Re: [newbie] No-one uses Linux, says Microsoft

2001-06-16 Thread Romanator
You can learn a lot from trashing and rebuilding your Linux box. It's good practice and great way to learn about your OS and mistakes. I know I did. (lol) After a bit of time has passed, you will editing your files rather than always reinstalling the Linux OS. It's great! Roman jennifer wrote:

Re: [newbie] No-one uses Linux, says Microsoft

2001-06-16 Thread Solver
No, no Bill's richness means little to me. Perhaps he's right, only some need to do this. Of course, I didn't buy Office XP! It's all piracy - I rarely buy something legally. I know Dragon is the leader, but haven't seen it at piracy shops. Just wondering about the Kernel. It's possible to

Re: [newbie] No-one uses Linux, says Microsoft

2001-06-16 Thread jennifer
Thanks, I look forward to your continued support :) Romanator wrote: You can learn a lot from trashing and rebuilding your Linux box. It's good practice and great way to learn about your OS and mistakes. I know I did. (lol) After a bit of time has passed, you will editing your files

Re: [newbie] No-one uses Linux, says Microsoft

2001-06-16 Thread Romanator
jennifer wrote: Thanks, I look forward to your continued support :) Is it just me or is every one receiving double or quadruple copies of the identical email? Roman

Re: [newbie] No-one uses Linux, says Microsoft

2001-06-16 Thread Jon Doe
On Saturday 16 June 2001 11:46 am, you wrote: No, no Bill's richness means little to me. Perhaps he's right, only some need to do this. Of course, I didn't buy Office XP! It's all piracy - I rarely buy something legally. I know Dragon is the leader, but haven't seen it at piracy shops. You

[newbie] kpppd exit status 16

2001-06-16 Thread MinOtAVrs
Hi i m totally newbie with Linux (1 week)when i try to connect with my Netmode modemi get thiserror message kpppd fails Exit Status 16 type man pppd for help Finally this message means Modem terminate the connection. What i can do to connectPlease Help...

[newbie] Re-routing mail via pine

2001-06-16 Thread root
I wish to apply a mail filter that will take all incoming mail from a specified address and re-route it to a different address. I am using pine to read my mail along with postfix. How do I do this?

Re: [newbie] FW: Xinetd problem?

2001-06-16 Thread root
On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Jason Chan wrote: I have xinetd running pop3 on one server (Server A) , and have another server running fetchmail (Server B) and \ would poll Server A 's mail message in 60 seconds interval. At first, both ran no problem, until after several hours Server A would deny

Re: [newbie] Log files redirect to root mail

2001-06-16 Thread root
Try setting up logcheck, it's a pretty standard package and will do much of the same for you. Otherwise, next time you install/update choose MEDIUM security, and this function will deffinately be restored. I remembered in my old Mandrake 7.2 everyday on my root mail account I would receive

Re: [newbie] No-one uses Linux, says Microsoft

2001-06-16 Thread Matt Moore
I have found Linux Mandrake to be incredibly user friendly. I can't think of much more that needs to be done to create a familiar and simple desktop environment and almost every office, home and internet need (gamming lags a little) can be met with the software bundled with Mandrake 8.0. Pro.

Re: [newbie] No-one uses Linux, says Microsoft

2001-06-16 Thread Tim Holmes
EXACTLY!!! As a real techie I think you have to measure your success and your knowledge on how well you can trully mess up your workstation! Because that's when you really start to learn about your system. If you do something that bad in Windows, you don't have the liberty of editing a few

[newbie] Is windows REALLY easier to install?

2001-06-16 Thread civileme
A friend of one of the folks here is finishing a Ph.D. in mathematics. He uses an IBM laptop and he was running mandrake 7.1. Recently, he installed 8.0. It didn't like his mouse, so he used an alternate image and installed kernel 2.2.19 and set up that one in the bootloader. His total

Re: [newbie] nslookup

2001-06-16 Thread Tim Holmes
I've been looking for this as well. IT seems that Mandrake got rid of nslookup since they've moved over to bind almost completely. I've tried looking on the CDs. For Mandrake 7.1 up to 8.0 and can not find it. I've even tried doing a search for it on www.freshmeat.net/ but only found a perl

RE: [newbie] nslookup

2001-06-16 Thread Scott Pham
It should be in bind-utils rpm. If it is not. dig is in there. It works better. And you should start learning how to use that -Original Message- From: Tim Holmes Sent: Sat 6/16/2001 2:23 PM To: Magnus Stenemo Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Is windows REALLY easier to install?

2001-06-16 Thread Tim Holmes
Yet another war story that people think are far and few between. I've installed all of Windows OS's to date, except Win3.1, and the beta XP. All of them have been a pain in the butt to do, and are far more time consuming. Going through and hand picking the packages I wanted in Mandrake still

[newbie] the problem i was having with locking during install.

2001-06-16 Thread Luc Martineau
well it aint a problem anymore i fixed it was the stupid video card some s3 cheapo so i had to put my good card in install everything take the card out put the s3 in reboot and unplug monitor and use telnet hehe so thanks for the help all another porblem solved Luc

[newbie] LM8 Email server (outgoing no prob but what about incomming)

2001-06-16 Thread Luc Martineau
Hello all I just set up lm 8 for the second time and both times the mail server was not installed postfix is there so outgoing mail in no prob but there is no pop3 server that i am aware of? when i try to check my email it gives me a error message (socket error) how do i set up the mail

Re: [newbie] Is windows REALLY easier to install?

2001-06-16 Thread Chris Keelan
On Saturday 16 June 2001 13:40, you wrote: Yet another war story that people think are far and few between. I have to concur with Tim here, since we're all sharing scars and war stories. I've installed Windows at least 300 times -- 3.x, 95, 98, 98SE, NT 4, and 2000 Professional--on everything

Re: [newbie] Aurora not working!

2001-06-16 Thread Frank
It works with lilo but I couldn't get it to work with grub. Just check the use grafical interface uner lilo in the control panel. On 16 Jun 2001 23:29:42 +0900, Gavin wrote: People, I'm trying to get Aurora to start up but for some reason it just does not want to work! I've checked the

[newbie] Registered Linux User?

2001-06-16 Thread Juan Carlos
Hi all. I have seen that some of you has a Registrered Linux User: Number. What is that? It is for the people who buy linux? Bye. __ mensaje enviado desde http://www.iespana.es emails (pop)-paginas web (espacio

Re: [newbie] Registered Linux User?

2001-06-16 Thread Amien Salie
Hi Nope its for all linux users, the counter is about The number of people who use Linux check it out for yourself @ http://counter.li.org/ On Sunday 17 June 2001 03:22, wrote: Hi all. I have seen that some of you has a Registrered Linux User: Number. What is that? It is for the people

RE: [newbie] LM8 Email server (outgoing no prob but what about incomming)

2001-06-16 Thread Scott Pham
Depends on what you want. If you want to use Maildir/ instead of the old unix style mailboxes. Use courier. Also if you need ssl support courier does that too. You can look into cyrus imapd, courier, WU imapd. Postfix is just an smtp server. Hope that helps. -Original

Re: [newbie] Is windows REALLY easier to install?

2001-06-16 Thread chamster
And I have to disagree. I've had problems with Win9x installs, but they were no big deal. I've installed M7.2 (at least tried to), M8, and Debian, and I've had a number of initial install problems. (And neither hold a candle to the MacOS Classic installs, but that's probably cheating.) I

[newbie] How do you get Xawtv to work with LM8?

2001-06-16 Thread Romanator
How can I get Xawtv to work? Roman Powered By Tux Email - Email for the Masses

Re: [newbie] Is windows REALLY easier to install?

2001-06-16 Thread Leif Madsen
I am currently a computer technician at a computer store and have been using computers since I was in grade 2 (yay Commodor 64s!). I have installed all the Windows OS's including Win 3.0 (which isn't an OS :)). I can't say I have ever had PROBLEMS with installing Windows, but I know that I

Re: [newbie] Registered Linux User?

2001-06-16 Thread Romanator
Juan Carlos wrote: Hi all. I have seen that some of you has a Registrered Linux User: Number. What is that? It is for the people who buy linux? Bye. __ mensaje enviado desde http://www.iespana.es emails

Re: [newbie] LM8 Email server (outgoing no prob but what about incomming)

2001-06-16 Thread Luc Martineau
allright thanks but what will this do and after you click the postfix icon there is no 3 variables you meen go threw all fo the first 3 icons or the first 3 variables in general options? and will this serv as a pop3 server? Luc - Original Message - From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [newbie] IPchains is missing....

2001-06-16 Thread chamster
The 2.4 kernel uses iptables, no? Steve On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 03:52:20PM -0500, root wrote: Where the heck is the ipchains command... Using an install of LM8.0 on medium security. Looked in /usr/sbin and all over the place but seems to be afk...

[newbie] mandrake 7.2 (not 8) where to download

2001-06-16 Thread Luc Martineau
hello i preffer mandrake 7.2 cause i found it worked bether for me but i lost my cd that had it does anyone know where i can go download it? thanks Luc

Re: [newbie] mandrake 7.2 (not 8) where to download

2001-06-16 Thread Juan Carlos
El Sáb 16 Jun 2001 20:14, Luc Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrotes: hello i preffer mandrake 7.2 cause i found it worked bether for me but i lost my cd that had it does anyone know where i can go download it? thanks Luc Content-Type: text/html;

[newbie] routing

2001-06-16 Thread Julio
how do I configure my pc to be able to route from my lan to the internet? something like internet sharing, I already have the 2 NICs configured but I still need help telling my pc to act as a NAT router can anyone help? TIA. Julio Until now it seems Windows is a virus but there are

[newbie] GDK_warning + unable to shutdown

2001-06-16 Thread Demosthenes
uh ohhh...I seem to have trashed my system again. It all started with a simple reboot. I launch the Gnome menu, Choose logout and nothing happened for a full minute or 2. So I choose the menu again and it just wouldn't comply with my desire to log out. No response whatsoever. I then tried to

Re: [newbie] LM8 Email server (outgoing no prob but what about incomming)

2001-06-16 Thread Michael D. Viron
Luc, Postfix is not a pop3 server. It is an smtp server, which simply delivers e-mail. Pop3 on the other hand is a way to access your e-mail from an e-mail client that is typically not on the same machine as the pop3 server. To have a pop3 server, you have to install the imap-*.rpm files,

[newbie] small screen and no TrackPoint

2001-06-16 Thread Stephen Hansen-Sturm
Hi... The good news is that I am running X on my IBM ThinkPad 770z (finally). The bad news is that the visible desktop is only half the size of my screen. I am running Mandrake 8.0 and have tried using lower resolutions and the like. Also, I cannot use the TrackPoint mouse on the laptop.

[newbie] partition tool in LM8 with win2k

2001-06-16 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi, I have a fully functioning win2k laptop. I would like to install LM8 and dual boot. I don't have access to partition magic. Will the Mandrake partition tool in the graphical setup do a reasonably safe job of partitioning my 10 gig hard drive? Has anyone done this install before?

Re: [newbie] small screen and no TrackPoint

2001-06-16 Thread James Bond
I have a Thinkpad i1400, so this doesn't apply directly to you but I think you should try it anyway. Go into BIOS and make sure that Screen Expansion is enabled (that's what the option is on my computer anyway). As for the mouse, Mandrake automatically detected my trackpoint so long as I had

Re: [newbie] partition tool in LM8 with win2k

2001-06-16 Thread Romanator
Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, I have a fully functioning win2k laptop. I would like to install LM8 and dual boot. I don't have access to partition magic. Will the Mandrake partition tool in the graphical setup do a reasonably safe job of partitioning my 10 gig hard drive? Has anyone done

Re: [newbie] partition tool in LM8 with win2k

2001-06-16 Thread Romanator
Romanator wrote: Romanator wrote: Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, I have a fully functioning win2k laptop. I would like to install LM8 and dual boot. I don't have access to partition magic. Will the Mandrake partition tool in the graphical setup do a reasonably safe job

Re: [newbie] No-one uses Linux, says Microsoft

2001-06-16 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sun, 17 Jun 2001 01:27, jennifer wrote: I agree. The fact that micro$oft prevents its users from being able to understand the source code is disconcerning. Users can go to school and learn everything there is to know about operating the system, but they will never understand the intimate

Re: [newbie] How do you get Xawtv to work with LM8?

2001-06-16 Thread Sam
On the subject of tv apps, I was wondering why Mandrake dropped kwintv from its list of applications (it was included in 7.2, but not 8.0)? The current version of kwintv is a KDE2 app, and I find the Hauppauge WinTV-like interface lots more user-friendly. I installed the RPM and it seems to

Re: [newbie] Xawtv, how to change the sound volume

2001-06-16 Thread Sam
Fire up the Sound mixer from Multimedia -- Sound. You'd want to adjust the main volume control (left-most one) and/or the one for line. I make a link to the sound mixer in home/yourusername/.kde/Autostart so that it'll automatically be launched on startup (like in Windows). On Sunday 17 June

Re: [newbie] Console Font is screwed

2001-06-16 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
http://dot.kde.org/989808269/ On Sun, 17 Jun 2001 03:54, OOzy Pal wrote: Console font is screwed if I turned on anti-aliasing from the Look Feel window. How can I fix it. = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that

Re: [newbie] Re: Cannot get IBM's hp builder to install in LM8

2001-06-16 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sun, 17 Jun 2001 12:28, Romanator wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Did you install IBM's WINE? It looks like you have. You need to use that, not the generic WINE Project WINE. You can have both installed at the same time, they won't interfere with each other. All I can say is to try

Re: [newbie] IPchains is missing....

2001-06-16 Thread Jeff
--- root [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where the heck is the ipchains command... Using an install of LM8.0 on medium security. Looked in /usr/sbin and all over the place but seems to be afk... After 'modprobe ipchains' it's in /sbin/ipchains for me. I'm using a pretty stock 8.0 install.

RE: [newbie] No-one uses Linux, says Microsoft

2001-06-16 Thread Franki
I don't think that most linux users hate microsoft, particularly since many of use use windows as well or dual boot with windows, I think most people just dislike the idea that we should be pressured to use microsoft, its all about the right of choise, and microsoft have many times indicated

Re: [newbie] No-one uses Linux, says Microsoft

2001-06-16 Thread Walter Luffman
IBM ViaVoice, which is FAR better than the voice recognition in XP (IBM and Dragon are the best in the field), is also available for GNU/Linux. AAMOF it's included in the Mandrake 8.0 PowerPack. Bill Gates said that the fact that everyone can recompile the source code is what he doesn't

Re: [newbie] Is windows REALLY easier to install?

2001-06-16 Thread Walter Luffman
I've tried every consumer version of Windows from 3.1 through 98SE, and just this week I got bored enough to install Windows 2000 Professional -- my first venture down the NT path. While both Win98 (both editions) and Win2000 are easy enough to install and configure, I don't really find them any

Re: [newbie] No-one uses Linux, says Microsoft

2001-06-16 Thread Walter Luffman
Jennifer wrote: The fact that micro$oft prevents its users from being able to understand the source code is disconcerning. Users can go to school and learn everything there is to know about operating the system, but they will never understand the intimate details of the source. You shouldn't

Re: [newbie] No-one uses Linux, says Microsoft

2001-06-16 Thread Walter Luffman
Don't know about Compaq, but Dell promotes Linux as an OS choice for its servers. Don't think I've seen any advertising (I'm on their mailing list) offering it for desktop machines -- but I'd be happy to be wrong on this. -- Walter Luffman, [EMAIL PROTECTED]Medina, TN USA Supercharged with

Re: [newbie] Is windows REALLY easier to install?

2001-06-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 16 June 2001 07:22 pm, civileme wrote: Then he will finally be able to load PowerPoint, we hope, unless it wants to see a different version of Windows, like XP. I am beginning to believe that if I took someone completely ignorant of computers, then he could install linux and

Re: [newbie] partition tool in LM8 with win2k

2001-06-16 Thread Romanator
Romanator wrote: Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, I have a fully functioning win2k laptop. I would like to install LM8 and dual boot. I don't have access to partition magic. Will the Mandrake partition tool in the graphical setup do a reasonably safe job of partitioning my 10 gig

Re: [newbie] No-one uses Linux, says Microsoft

2001-06-16 Thread Charles A. Punch
Roman wrote; Is it just me or is every one receiving double or quadruple copies of the identical email? Roman I get double and sometimes triple, but never quadruple. What is confusing to me is that it doesn't seem to be consistent, but is just with some posts, once in a while in a

[newbie] mandrake 7.2 pop3 server problem (should be simple for you)

2001-06-16 Thread Luc Martineau
Hi all I finaly after a long bad day got mandrake up and running properly on my server i installed 7.2 the web server is perfect postfix is doing its job (i can send email using an account on my server to another accont say hotmail for example but if i say use hotmail to send email to a

[newbie] Licq Question

2001-06-16 Thread Barry Premeaux
I've done the initial setup for Licq and have my UID number. I haven't been able to figure out how to contact someone, such as my son, or how to edit the contact list. How do I access this area of the application? Barry

[newbie] Re: Cannot get IBM's hp builder to install in LM8

2001-06-16 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Did you install IBM's WINE? It looks like you have. You need to use that, not the generic WINE Project WINE. You can have both installed at the same time, they won't interfere with each other. All I can say is to try uninstalling and then reinstalling it again from the command line (not a

Re: [newbie] IPchains is missing....

2001-06-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 16 June 2001 03:52 pm, root wrote: Where the heck is the ipchains command... Using an install of LM8.0 on medium security. Looked in /usr/sbin and all over the place but seems to be afk... ipchains has been improved (long ago). 2.4.x kernels have iptables support. Check to

[newbie] Console Font is screwed

2001-06-16 Thread OOzy Pal
Console font is screwed if I turned on anti-aliasing from the Look Feel window. How can I fix it. = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Spot the hottest trends in music, movies, and more. http://buzz.yahoo.com/

[newbie] nslookup

2001-06-16 Thread Magnus Stenemo
Hello! In which rpm can I found nslookup?? //Magnus

Re: [newbie] No-one uses Linux, says Microsoft

2001-06-16 Thread Rog
On Sat, 16 Jun 2001 03:01:09 -0400, you wrote: That's odd... because I remember reading some place that Compaq and DELL both shipped like 15% of their machines a year with a Linux OS, mainly RedHat. (I don't remember the number, I just tossed 15% in there for the comment.) I think it came from

[newbie] SNFW

2001-06-16 Thread Dennis M.
If anyone has installed the Single Network Firewall, does it install in conjunction with LM8.0 or does it have to go on a clean harddrive to act as a sole router firewall, server etc. In other words in a stand alone box that does only the network connection and firewall? TIA for any

Re: [newbie] nslookup

2001-06-16 Thread David E. Fox
I've tried looking on the CDs. For Mandrake 7.1 up to 8.0 and can not find it. I've even tried doing a search for it on www.freshmeat.net/ I'm pretty sure it's on the 7.2 set. I installed 7.2 from ftp, and I have nslookup in /usr/bin. but only found a perl script that's a GUI for

Re: [newbie] Is windows REALLY easier to install?

2001-06-16 Thread Romanator
A better marketing strategy is needed. Get the public informed that Windows isn't their only choice. Show examples and scenarios. Making Linux available for all educational institutions and getting instructors better informed. Not every one can attend nor has the time for software conventions.

Re: Fw: [newbie] Please no more No-one uses Linux, says Microsoft posts!

2001-06-16 Thread TJ
On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, you wrote: I concur with Charles Punch! I've received over 60 e-mails in 2 days since I applied to have them sent. Many were repetive and far beyond newbie understanding . Screen them if you can or remove me from your mailing list. Thx Chuck Chuck, You can filter

Re: [newbie] No-one uses Linux, says Microsoft

2001-06-16 Thread civileme
On Saturday 16 June 2001 10:15, jennifer wrote: If you think thtaa micro$oft having your password is bad, think of this One company, huge monopoly, solely responsible for the source code on the worlds business and home computers for the past 20 years What if they were secretly

Re: [newbie] kpppd exit status 16

2001-06-16 Thread John Rye
On Sat, 16 Jun 2001 20:05:07 +0300 MinOtAVrs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi i m totally newbie with Linux (1 week) when i try to connect with my Netmode modem i get this error message kpppd fails Exit Status 16 type man pppd for help Finally this message means Modem terminate the

[newbie] Xawtv, how to change the sound volume

2001-06-16 Thread Juan Carlos
Hello All. I am a new Linux user. I have install Mandrake 8.0 today and I am very happy with it from now. But I have a little problem. I don't know where is the volumen control, if there is one in linux. I use Xawtv and I don't know also how to make lower the volume of the sound. Any ideas?

[newbie] emailclient

2001-06-16 Thread bart deglorie
hello, is there a emailclient that ic compatible with kmail that can read html email, or is there a way to make kmail read html email would be very thankfull

[newbie] Text Editors etc.

2001-06-16 Thread Romanator
I think I'll stick with my installed text editors. I never got Pine working correctly anyway. For console mode, I can use vi or vim as a console text editor. Thanks for pointing this out. Tim Holmes wrote: pico is part of pine actually. If you check out the man pages for it, the first few

Re: [newbie] Aurora not working!

2001-06-16 Thread Romanator
Frank wrote: It works with lilo but I couldn't get it to work with grub. Just check the use grafical interface uner lilo in the control panel. On 16 Jun 2001 23:29:42 +0900, Gavin wrote: People, I'm trying to get Aurora to start up but for some reason it just does not want to

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