[newbie-it] Orario Sette Fusi... ?_?

Da quando ho installato la 8.0, ho questo singolare problema... se configuro l'orario corretto, agli altri risutlo 7 ore avanti... Ho effettuato un controllo e relative modifiche tramite Control Center; l'orologio ora è settato certamente sul fuso di Roma, ma così ora che sono le 20:51 sul mio

Re: [newbie-it] Orario Sette Fusi... ?_?

Daniele Micci wrote: Il 20:52, domenica 08 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Da quando ho installato la 8.0, ho questo singolare problema... se configuro l'orario corretto, agli altri risutlo 7 ore avanti... Ho effettuato un controllo e relative modifiche tramite Control Center; l'orologio ora

[newbie-it] Fax

Qualcuno puo' consigliarmi un programma con veste grafica utilizzabile per inviare e/o ricevere fax dal facile uso?( ho un modem ISDN )

[newbie] Internet Connection sharing causing grief with ppp.

I have installed Internet connection sharing through Drakconf on Mandarke 7.2. While my ethernet conection seems to function to the other computers and they get an allocated ip address (192.168.0.*), browsing doesnt work through ppp0 even on the linux box itself. I can ping the ip address of

[newbie] format HDD

Hi all, Which prog can i use to install a new harddisk into LM8i mean,format on ext2 and then mount on to the system. -- Ivan Miranda General Instrument Engineer/IT support Po Box 8746,Doha,Qatar Ph:974-4402524/4402773 Fax:974-4323380

[newbie] A fault with sound in Mandrake 8

Hi, I've been encountering a rather peculiar fault with sound in Mandrake 8. Following an entirely fresh reinstallation which correctly detected the card's chipset as Trident Microsystems 4DWave NX, I noticed that kscd was mute. Opening kmix, turning up all of the faders to maximum (while

[newbie] Pls help !

I just want to ask what book you can recommend before taking RHCE exams But I hope the book will cover the latest exam for RHCE not the older exam of RHCE wich is not used anymore Pls. help me and if any resources that i can download reviewers for RHCE exams thanks! Respectfully AOL

Re: [newbie] Change package architecture?

All first generation Pentiums (including their MMX variants) are i586. Any CPU built on Pentium Pro (or PPro) technology is an i686. This includes the Pentium II, Celeron and Pentium III. The Pentium IV is a different architecture again, and probably would be classified as an i786. Since i686

Re: [newbie] kmail - setting flags on inbox email

Kmail in KDE 2.2 will have this feature. I am currently using Kmail in KDE 2.2 beta 1 (from Cooker). It works really well. On Sat, 7 Jul 2001 05:46, Alan Smith wrote: Hi All In netscape you can set a flag against any individual email. I found this useful to identify emails that i wanted to

Re: [newbie] ParPort Scanner

in bios is your parrellport set bidirectional ? (ecp or ehp or something like that as I remember) do you dual boot and does it work in winders? - Original Message - From: Corrado [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 4:54 AM Subject: [newbie] ParPort Scanner

Re: [newbie] Netscape and KDE

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Group... I installed and have been using LM 8.0 for about a month and a half now. I know I read somewhere about why Netscape opens with colorless buttons, but I can't remember where it was that I saw that. Anyway, how is that corrected so that

Re: [newbie] kwintv missing in MDK 8

I use xaw for TV viewing in 8.0 - Original Message - From: L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 1:09 AM Subject: [newbie] kwintv missing in MDK 8 In mdk 8 kwintv is missing in both CDs. I tried to install it from mdk 7.2. I got dependency

Re: [newbie] Use of Linux

I agree with most of your points, although loving netbeui is not necessarily my choice. I would also point out that linux, with all it's configuration abilities and learning curve (mostly an admin type thing really, most users should not have to setup anything, and in most business operations the

[newbie] Run My KMail While Logged Under Root?

Hi there, I was wondering if there is a way that I can run my Kmail account while I'm logged under as Root. For example if there is a switch of some sort that'll allow me to do this, so that way if I am logged under Root I don't have to Ctrl + Alt + Backspace and relogon just to get to my

Re: [newbie] ParPort Scanner

Ed Tharp wrote: in bios is your parrellport set bidirectional ? (ecp or ehp or something like that as I remember) Yes, I tried all option: SPP (which is the wrong one :), EPP and EPP+ECP... do you dual boot and does it work in winders? Yes, it does... Corrado - Original

Re: [newbie] Internet Security

On Saturday 07 July 2001 09:52 pm, Judith Miner wrote: DrakConf shows iptables as stopped and there is no way I can get it running. I have it selected to run at boot, like the other services. Makes no difference. iptables is always listed as stopped. If I click on start, nothing happens.

Re: [newbie] Use of Linux

one of the problems with your argument is that your windows setup could allow someone to set up a script that after you had launched any program in say... M$ Office, the next time your computer was left turned on at say, 3 am, it could concievable be used to, lets say dial up a phone number in

[newbie] What can I get rid of in '/var' ?

Hi, My system (LM8.0) broke down a few weeks ago, with the X server complaining that it couldn't open the default font 'fixed'. A re-install fixed the problem, but I've just re-experienced the same trouble. In despair, I was about to re-install again, when I recalled that the root ('/')

Re: [newbie] Use of Linux

Judy, Judith Miner wrote: I sense a big split among Linux users (I hate terms like Linux communityg) between those who want the OS to become friendly enough to lure disgruntled SOHO/home users from Windows and those who want prospective users to do it their way or the highway. The reality is

[newbie] share files between windows Linux

Can anyone please tell me how can I setup Linux computer(as client) to browse to windows computer (as server or peer-to-peer). Can we share files between 2 linux computers? If so, how do we set up? I have no problem to access Linux computer from windows (via Samba) Thank you. Tuan

Re: [newbie] Ghost - ing a Linux partition?

Yes This can be done. Infact at school I installed windows 2000 and Suse 7.1 one one machine configured the machine the way i wanted it and used a boot disk to upload the image to our novell server. ALL THE MACHINES HAVE TO BE THE SAME! lol i hope everone new that Brandon Caudle From: Scott

Re: [newbie] Use of Linux

Judith, I want to present you the title of the most active newbie in the list. As a matter of fact, I'm unsubcribing because I can't stand hundreds of msgs in my poor 56k conn, half of them yours. (This is a half-joke: I'm really unsubscribing, but not due to your msgs.) As a matter of fact,

Re: [newbie] Internet Security -J.Miner and Microsoft

-Mensagem Original- De: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: Judith Miner [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviada em: domingo, 8 de julho de 2001 04:27 Assunto: Re: [newbie] Internet Security And despite the fact that I enjoy your posts, this is my last one to you and note it is

Re: [newbie] What can I get rid of in '/var' ?

Charles, Do you have logrotate installed? If so, there should be *.[1-9] (or possibly .gz) log files, which can be deleted. Other files can be replaced with 0 byte files by turning off the service in question, running rm -f logname, and then touch logname. You can also check /var/spool/mail

Re: [newbie] share files between windows Linux

Tuan, Programs which are called smbclient and smbmount come to mind, as well as LinNeighborhood, and Gnomba... As for linux -- linux, yes you can do file sharing. Read the nfs howto from linuxdoc.org, making sure that if you've got a firewall, you've blocked access to the nfs and portmap

RE: [newbie] Local network browsing not working

try runnig lisa server: lisa -K some times I get a reading soket error but sometimes work properly, someone have idea about that error? - Original Message - From: etharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ed Kasky [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mandrake Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 1:05

RE: [newbie] Rage 128 and Mandrake 8

Hello Dennis, Eric and the list, What color depth are you running that card at. I would try it at very low settings and gradually bring it up. I can not run the ATI card I have at better than 65k for color at the 1024x768 resolution. Might help? I tested a few things now and I think I found

Re: [newbie] Use of Linux

the real question (as I see it) is something I was taught earlier in life. when a person speaks, they have to speak to the audience it does no good to explain brain surgery in highly medical and technical terms to kindergarten classes that are visiting the hospital on a field trip. in the same

Re: [newbie] Local network browsing not working

is there a GUI to config lisa? On Sunday 08 July 2001 13:59, Gabriel Arcos wrote: try runnig lisa server: lisa -K some times I get a reading soket error but sometimes work properly, someone have idea about that error? - Original Message - From: etharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ed

Re: [newbie] Run My KMail While Logged Under Root?

I would like to add that I find one of the easist way to move between root tasks and a user Xsession is; (Crtrl+alt+f1[or any other f1 to f6 key] all at the same time) and login the text console as root. do what i need and then Crtrl+alt+f7 to get back into my Xsession as a user. On Sunday 08

Re: [newbie] Use of Linux

At 06:15 PM 07/07/2001 -0400, Judith Miner wrote: Thank you, Michael, both for your information and for demonstrating so clearly my contention that Linux partisans in general *cannot* see issues from the perspective of the SOHO/home user.g Actually, this was my view after having been a computer

[newbie] KDE

Dear Civilme: Thanks a million for the advice, which has proven quite helpful on Netscape. As for the sound on KDE, it's a common problem evidently. It's too difficult to remove alsa, because the program manager then wants to remove all of the dependencies that include everything and the

[newbie] Printer problem

Hello! I have an installation problem with my Canon BJC-240. I have LM 7.2 on a Pentium II MMX 350. The machine says that CUPS has conflicts with printpro-4.1.2-1 But if I try to uninstall the printpro archive I don't found it... I need help, please. If you needs some more specs, please let

Re: [newbie] Change package architecture?

I would say the best path to take would be to get the source rather than the rpm, and compile it yourself. The process is pretty staightforward if you accept the default settings, and there is usually a README file - although the process usually consists of: ./configure make make install

Re: [newbie] Internet Security -J.Miner and Microsoft

Jeferson Lopes Zacco wrote: -Mensagem Original- De: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: Judith Miner [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviada em: domingo, 8 de julho de 2001 04:27 Assunto: Re: [newbie] Internet Security And despite the fact that I enjoy your posts, this is

Re: [newbie] System-wide environment variables?

On Sunday 08 July 2001 20:46, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Does anybody know how to get environment variables (like export...) working system-wide, that is, on the command line (BASH for me), in the log screens (e.g. on Ctrl-Alt-F12), and in X? I prefer to have X automatically load at startup

Re: [newbie] Internet Security -J.Miner and Microsoft OT

On Sunday 08 July 2001 20:17, you wrote: On Sunday 08 July 2001 05:43 pm, Romanator wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: *_In spite of_* an increasing ignorance and/or preference of Lusers to add closed source/binary only apps and (win)hardware into the mix. (yeah, I'm diggin at y'all

[newbie] checking HTML

Hey y'all, just checking to see if I'm sending HTML. In mail appearance there is a box that says prefer plain text to html and sometimes it seems that it gets checked for no apparent reason, although I suspect it is because I like the inhanced Kmail look and select that. I just don't know if

Re: [newbie] Internet Security -J.Miner and Microsoft

Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday 08 July 2001 05:43 pm, Romanator wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: *_In spite of_* an increasing ignorance and/or preference of Lusers to add closed source/binary only apps and (win)hardware into the mix. (yeah, I'm diggin at y'all nVidia folks again ;)

[newbie] telnet not installed?

Hi Folks, I just got Mandrake 8.0 installed on my laptop, but I can't seem to find the telnet program. Anyone have any ideas where it might be, or why it wasn't installed? Thanks in advance, M!ke = May the Force be with you. __ Do You

Re: [newbie] Local network browsing not working

I thought that it would read the information already broadcast. In previous installations I never had to run Lisa in order to be able to see shared drives. I was under the impression that if a drive is shared either from windoze or from samba, you could see it using konqueror and then

[newbie] Something that actually woprks for once

s isnt there anything applicationwise that actuially works? kspread sucks because it cuts the proint in haslf at the end of th p[a pge kghost sucks because it does the same thing. Please name an appilcation that can *print corectly* without cutting it off at the end and doing it in US Letter

[newbie] mutli platform html editor

Are there any decent web page editors that are compatable with bot linux and windows. What I mean is a program with binarys for both platforms. Thanks Kevin

[newbie] What is the best cd-ripper for Linux

Just curious what your guys opinions on the best cd-ripper to use. Thanks, Kevin

Re: [newbie] What is the best cd-ripper for Linux

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Use grip to rip. Use oggenc for encoding to Ogg-Vorbis file format (*.ogg). Ogg-Vorbis is free and open source, while mp3 is most definitely *not*. Plus, Ogg-Vorbis is better quality for approximately the same file size. Dave On Sunday 08 July

[newbie] deleting contents of a file

Is there a linux command that will remove the contents of a file, but leave the file name? Thanks HW

[newbie] Archiving the Root account

Oh! Thank you for this explanation: I must admit that I didn't get it either I think I'll archive this message in my Linux Advocating folder, ;-) Anguo DISCLAIMER: this is not for kiddies! I have to say that I anticipated such a response after reading Franki's original message.

[newbie] Both rogue and imbecile?

But winblows crashes And don't forget this ridiculous plan they have for Windows XP to lock it to one particular computer. This one should have people switching to Linux in droves. Ah, yes! The ultimate in customer relations!! hehehe I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because

[newbie] Memory use

¦b 2001 ¤C¤ë 1 ¬P´Á¤é 23:01¡Acivileme ¼g¹D: linux makes an effort to keep almost all memory in use all the time (figuring unused memory is wasted memory), so it often finds memory errors right away that windows would totally miss. Civileme Oh! You just replied a question I didn't ask! :-)

Re: [newbie] Something that actually woprks for once

Try StarOffice (free), or WordPerfect Office (not). -s On Sunday 08 July 2001 09:46 pm, you wrote: isnt there anything applicationwise that actuially works? kspread and kghost sucks

Re: [newbie] Internet Security -J.Miner and Microsoft

Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday 08 July 2001 11:40 am, Jeferson Lopes Zacco wrote: That linux needs to get easier to configure if it wants to atract Window$ users is a fact. Most all 'computer' problems are/or, at least I've found it's best for me, should be approached as User,