Re: [newbie-it] Processo di stampa

2001-07-09 Thread Andrea Celli
Sebastiano Cordiano wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2001 18:21:41 +0200 Daniele Micci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: C' e' un modo + semplice: con lpq controlli i jobs accodati e relativo pid con lprm pid rimuovi il job corrispondente. Ciao Scusate, ma non funziona semplicemente digitando '

Re: [newbie-it] VECCHIE VERSIONI DI MANDRAKE

2001-07-09 Thread Andrea Celli
ziotunello wrote: SALVE A TUTTI, VISTA LA PASSIONE PER MANDRAKE HO DECISO DI PROVARE AD INSTALLARE LINUX ANCHE SU UN VECCHIO PORTATILE CHE HO A CASA; E' UN 486 B/N CON 16 MEGA DI RAM E 1,5 GB DI HD. QUALCUNO DELLA MAILING LIST CONOSCE QUALCHE VERSIONE DI MANDRAKE CHE SI POTREBBE ADATTARE A

Re: Re: [newbie-it] VECCHIE VERSIONI DI MANDRAKE

2001-07-09 Thread
ziotunello wrote: SALVE A TUTTI, VISTA LA PASSIONE PER MANDRAKE HO DECISO DI PROVARE AD INSTALLARE LINUX ANCHE SU UN VECCHIO PORTATILE CHE HO A CASA; E' UN 486 B/N CON 16 MEGA DI RAM E 1,5 GB DI HD. QUALCUNO DELLA MAILING LIST CONOSCE QUALCHE VERSIONE DI MANDRAKE CHE SI POTREBBE ADATTARE

[newbie] Mandrake80-inst.iso [install]

2001-07-09 Thread Tashildar, Dinesh
Hi All, I downloaded Mandrake Linux from www.linuxiso.org name of the file is Mandrake80-inst.iso. I thought after writing into CD-R ,it will automatically boot from CD for installtion.But when I start my PC with CDROM Boot option, It didn't boot from CD. 1.Could anyone please tell me how to

Re: [newbie] System-wide environment variables?

2001-07-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 11:01, Peter Ruskin wrote: 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?

RE: [newbie] samba security=domain

2001-07-09 Thread Daryl Johnson
All I'm saying to you is that you are not able, or very unlikely to be able, to use your samba box as a domain master with an NT machine. This doesn't mean that you won't be able to have a share available between them. I can only say that I find NY Client particularly obstructive in this

Re: [newbie] CodeWeavers Wine Question.

2001-07-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
There are plenty of Web sites out there that allow you to send free SMSs all around the world. SMS Send (http://zekiller.skytech.org/smssend_en.html) is an app that can interface with many of these sites to automate an SMS transmission. On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 07:29, Juan Carlos Conde wrote: The

Re: [newbie] Memory use

2001-07-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
GNU/Linux uses spare RAM to cache your hard drive, the slowest part of any system. Generally, the more RAM you have the better, since you'll have a larger cache. However, I believe the law of diminishing returns would begin to kick in well before the 1300MB mark. This, of course depends on

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

2001-07-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Konqueror in KDE 2.2 beta 1 has a built-in CD ripper. It can rip to WAV, MP3 or OGG. I haven't tried it, though, so I can't comment on how good it is. On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 13:21, Kevin Fonner wrote: Just curious what your guys opinions on the best cd-ripper to use. Thanks, Kevin -- Sridhar

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

2001-07-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 07:51, Tom Brinkman wrote:    Most all 'computer' problems are/or, at least I've found it's best for me, should be approached as User, then Hardware, then (any) OS. Also, I'm not hearing anything about the fact that we use GNU/Linux in this thread. Linux is only the

Re: [newbie] mutli platform html editor

2001-07-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
http://www-4.ibm.com/software/webservers/hpbuilder/ On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 13:19, Kevin Fonner wrote: 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 -- Sridhar Dhanapalan.

Re: [newbie] checking HTML

2001-07-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Kmail can only view HTML; it cannot send it. The prefer plain text to html option is a viewing preference. On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 10:50, Dennis Myers wrote: 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

[newbie] stupid mandrake won't launch realplaer 8

2001-07-09 Thread Mandrake
How come when I try to make it launch realplayer it just gives me a bunchof shint about can't launch realplayuer I don't wqtn to hear that rubbish, I just watn it to run realplaer. I even use the menu uditor and I use full path /usr/local/RealPlayer8/realplay and nothing happens so I clicked

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

2001-07-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I initially thought that Civileme's post was just a bit over the top. After reading this, however, I think he was pretty-much spot-on. I suggest that if Judith wants something more like Windows, she have a look at other OSs like MacOS, OS/2 or BeOS. OS/2 is a single-user OS, and it has quite a

[newbie] PCMCIA Network card

2001-07-09 Thread Wong Herbert-Q12058C
Title: PCMCIA Network card Hi, When I added my PCMCIA network into my laptop (Mandrake 7.2), I follow the instruction to do - 1st step # make config it require me to answer the first question - linux source directory -(/usr/src/linux) after I pressed the enter - error 1 come out. In

Re: [newbie] stupid mandrake won't launch realplaer 8

2001-07-09 Thread steve campbell
Well assuming you installed it from the rpm ...realplay should be in.. /usr/X11R6/bin/realplay so either you installed the wrong one or you fscked it up. So it isn't stupid mandrake that YOU don't want to listen to, it is stupid lusers IT doesn't want to listen to. On Monday 09 July

Re: [newbie] Local network browsing not working

2001-07-09 Thread etharp
man smbmount On Sunday 08 July 2001 22:11, Ed Kasky wrote: 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

RE: [newbie] Linux app for MSN Messenger.

2001-07-09 Thread Gabriel Arcos
try www.everybuddy.com - Original Message - From: Brian Durant [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Intel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 4:58 AM Subject: [newbie] Linux app for MSN Messenger. Hi again, Anyone on the list know if there is a Linux app that accesses the MSN

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

2001-07-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
As a sysadmin, you should know the dangers of logging-in as root. Root gives god-like access to the machine, and accessing the Internet as root is just asking for trouble. When you use the Internet, you are announcing your presence to the world. If you are root, then anyone who manages to

Re: [newbie] Linux app for MSN Messenger.

2001-07-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
http://www.everybuddy.com/ On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 18:58, Brian Durant wrote: Hi again, Anyone on the list know if there is a Linux app that accesses the MSN Messenger system? All my daughter's friends use MSN Messenger and I am trying to find a Linux alternative that she can use to chat with

Re: [newbie] Mandrake80-inst.iso [install]

2001-07-09 Thread etharp
did you correctly write the iso or did you copy it to the cd? the *.ext.iso is the second cd, and whileit would be a good Idea to have , I believe that you should still be able to install... is your BIOS set to boot from CD? On Monday 09 July 2001 02:27, Tashildar, Dinesh wrote: Hi All, I

Re: [newbie] Linux app for MSN Messenger.

2001-07-09 Thread Brian Durant
On 9/7/01 13:46, Florian Struck at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: / den 9/7/01 13:46 skrev Florian Struck fra [EMAIL PROTECTED] følgende: Try everybuddy or gabber . About gabber im not sure but everybuddy supports all instant messanger formats also aol and icq as well as yahoo and msn. On 9/7/01

Re: [newbie] stupid mandrake won't launch realplaer 8

2001-07-09 Thread Mandrake
Bull shit, it can't decide what it don't want to listen to you luser On Monday 09 July 2001 05:12 am, so spoke steve campbell: Well assuming you installed it from the rpm ...realplay should be in.. /usr/X11R6/bin/realplay so either you installed the wrong one or you fscked it up. So it isn't

Re: [newbie] Mandrake80-inst.iso [install]

2001-07-09 Thread Tim Holmes
If you burned the ISO to CD, it's most likely already bootabled, but your lmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Us Vi! Uptime: 8:04AM up 4 days, 11:11, 5 users, load averages:

Re: [newbie] deleting contents of a file

2001-07-09 Thread Tim Holmes
Bascially you want a file, like a log, that had tons of data in it, to have all the data removed, but there still be a log file there? Does that sound about right? What I would do, would be delete the file rm -f file.log And then to get the file there again, with the bit size of 0 (zero) I'd

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

2001-07-09 Thread Carlos Arigós
El Lun 09 Jul 2001 00:21, escribiste: Just curious what your guys opinions on the best cd-ripper to use. Thanks, Kevin I'm ussing Grip. Carlos

Re: [newbie] Linux app for MSN Messenger.

2001-07-09 Thread jennifer
There is a product called Everybuddy that will link up Yahoo, Aim, and MSN all within the same Client. However, Because MSN and AIM are constantly trying to twart efforts to have other software makers access their systems, you will need to D/L the beta version for the MSN support. (M$ has

Re: [newbie] telnet not installed?

2001-07-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 08 July 2001 09:04 pm, Michael F. Aube wrote: 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? IIRC, it was left out on purpose because 'ssh' provides secure remote

Re: [newbie] deleting contents of a file

2001-07-09 Thread Dan Ray
Craig-- On Monday 09 July 2001 01:20 am, Craig Westerman wrote: Is there a linux command that will remove the contents of a file, but leave the file name? Echo an empty string into it: $ echo '' filename.txt That '' is a pair of single-quotes, incidentally. It's sort of hard to see that

Re: [newbie] Safe to use shutdown -h now from KDE session?

2001-07-09 Thread Romanator
David Nelson wrote: Hello, It is possible to shutdown the system by entering the command: #shutdown -h now from a terminal in KDE (Konsole). I have done it on occassion and it works fine, and I have not noticed any ill effects. I just worry that it may not be shuting KDE down properly,

Re: [newbie] stupid mandrake won't launch realplaer 8 needs MIME entries

2001-07-09 Thread Romanator
Mandrake wrote: How come when I try to make it launch realplayer it just gives me a bunchof shint about can't launch realplayuer I don't wqtn to hear that rubbish, I just watn it to run realplaer. I even use the menu uditor and I use full path /usr/local/RealPlayer8/realplay and

Re: [newbie] Memory use

2001-07-09 Thread Dan LaBine
I'm running a Gig of Ram in my Play-Station, and the only advantage is that OpenOffice opens right smartly! Other than that, everything runs normally. Dan On July 9, 2001 09:03 am, you wrote: On Sunday 08 July 2001 10:54 pm, Anguo wrote: I just bought a new box and insisted on having

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

2001-07-09 Thread Romanator
etharp wrote: snip hey roman, are you a typical windows user? grin Hey Tom, I have an NVIDIA card and works great. What can I say, it came with the computer. Roman Registered Linux User #179293 su is not the root of your problem but the start of a new journey Only for

RE: [newbie] Memory use

2001-07-09 Thread TinyHoffman
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anguo Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 23:55 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [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

[newbie] XFree 86 4.1.0????

2001-07-09 Thread The Conways
Newbies, Has anyone had any positive or negative experiences with the latest version 4.1.0 of Xfree 86? Jim

Re: [newbie] mutli platform html editor

2001-07-09 Thread Romanator
Randy Kramer wrote: Kevin, Randy Kramer wrote: Before you buy anything, I'd at least look at Amaya, which is free and WYSIWYG. Oops, sorry, meant to include a link: http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ Randy Kramer Amaya's not bad. It just takes a little to time to read the documentation

Re: [newbie] System-wide environment variables?

2001-07-09 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Monday 09 July 2001 06:29, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 11:01, Peter Ruskin wrote: 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

[newbie] Running program on Linux Machine

2001-07-09 Thread Boliver Allmon
Civileme, Can you or someone help me out? I want to enable myself and others (via login and password) to login via remote access dialup and run programs on my Linux box. Is this possible? I have had some geeks tell me that I can do this only with PCAnywhere or simular products. I am trying

Re: [newbie] Linux app for MSN Messenger.

2001-07-09 Thread Gary Chisholm
I see everyone pushing everyboddy.. but I use gabber, its a jabber client very nice check out, also does msn. aim. yahoo. icq etc www.jabber.org or for the client try... gabber.sourceforge.net On Mon, 09 Jul 2001 12:58:15 +0400 Brian Durant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again,

Re: [newbie] XFree 86 4.1.0????

2001-07-09 Thread Tim Holmes
I just installed DualHead on my Mandrake workstation. (Like two weekends ago.) Well in trying to do this, the Matrox site went down, and I couldn't find the right driver I needed. In hopes trying to get the drivers to work and blah blah blah, I downloaded and installed XF86 4.1.0. I downloaded

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

2001-07-09 Thread Miark
I initially thought that Civileme's post was just a bit over the top. After reading this, however, I think he was pretty-much spot-on. I suggest that if Judith wants something more like Windows, she have a look at other OSs like MacOS, OS/2 or BeOS. OS/2 is a single-user OS, and it has

Re: [newbie] XFree 86 4.1.0????

2001-07-09 Thread Randy Kramer
The Conways wrote: Has anyone had any positive or negative experiences with the latest version 4.1.0 of Xfree 86? Jim, No real experience, but if you upgrading from 3.3.6, be aware that some drivers that existed for 3.3.6 do not exist for 4.1.0. Randy Kramer

Re: [newbie] Linux app for MSN Messenger.

2001-07-09 Thread Tim Holmes
Imici does as well. You have to get an account with them first, and then you can use that to connect to AOL, YAHOO, ICQ, and something else too I think. I think it's www.imici.com, but you can search for it on FreshMeat as well. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] XFree 86 4.1.0????

2001-07-09 Thread Romanator
Randy Kramer wrote: The Conways wrote: Has anyone had any positive or negative experiences with the latest version 4.1.0 of Xfree 86? Jim, No real experience, but if you upgrading from 3.3.6, be aware that some drivers that existed for 3.3.6 do not exist for 4.1.0. Randy Kramer

Re: [newbie] XFree 86 4.1.0????

2001-07-09 Thread Cliff Gosden
When I ran the program to check which binaries it said there were no binaries for this version (i.e LM8) so I didn't proceed. Cliff - Original Message - From: The Conways [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 6:22 PM Subject: [newbie] XFree 86

Re: [newbie] XFree 86 4.1.0????

2001-07-09 Thread Tim Holmes
Honestly, I'd say go with the usual saying, If it ain't broke, don't fix it! No need to upgraded at this point. I haven't noticed any performance differences, X has never crashed on me. The only reason I upgraded was because I thought it would help my issue with the drivers. (When the real

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

2001-07-09 Thread tazmun
But regardless of whether she was a plant, she's abrasive, offensive, and utterly thankless to the Linux community as a whole. (Isolated thank yous on the list doesn't count.) And you sir are very close minded. You don't want to listen to new ideas and thinking if they don't fall into

Re: [newbie] A note about user-friendliness

2001-07-09 Thread jennifer
Perhaps this is off subject and I certainly would not want to start a linux is bad, very very bad war,but it seems to me that in my few short weeks apart of this list, I have seen more questions around things, like fonts, sound cards and video cards. Now, I know hardware support is not Mandrakes

[newbie] GinRummy for Linux

2001-07-09 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, I am looking for a GinRummy card game to run on my LM8. Does anyone know where I can get one? Thank you very much. Sincerely, Marcia

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

2001-07-09 Thread poogle
On Monday 09 July 2001 15:22, you wrote: But regardless of whether she was a plant, she's abrasive, offensive, and utterly thankless to the Linux community as a whole. (Isolated thank yous on the list doesn't count.) And you sir are very close minded. You don't want to listen to new

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

2001-07-09 Thread Miark
And you sir are very close minded. You don't want to listen to new ideas and thinking if they don't fall into your narrow guidelines. Ideas were not at all the subject of my e-mail. I was speaking to _attitude_. Miark

[newbie] New HDD

2001-07-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
Well I reckoned that now that I recently built A Tbird 1.55 gig (overclocked) system for Mandrake, it was 'bout time to give Linux a new fast harddrive to run on also. So I went and bought a IBM 7200rpm-2mb cache 30g drive to replace the old'n slow WD 5400 rpm I've been runnin Linux on for

[Fwd: Re: [newbie] mutli platform html editor]

2001-07-09 Thread Randy Kramer
Steve, Decided to forward this to the list just to see if anyone else could answer my other questions. Randy Kramer Steve wrote: There is no such thing as WYSIWYG html editor. I think what you mean is an nice pretty interactive gui where one doesn't need to type code and works much like

Re: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] mutli platform html editor]

2001-07-09 Thread Miark
As far as text width goes, I sometimes control it by placing it in a single-cell table, where the table is set to a certain pixel-width my choice. I find using tables creatively solves a lot of positioning problems. There are probably new-fangled ways to do it, but I stick with things that

Re: [newbie] A note about user-friendliness

2001-07-09 Thread Salvatore Enrico Indiogine
Re. the MS fonts in exe format. I have not tried it, but it seems that unzip on Linux is able to handle exe zip files. What I did was to burn the windows fonts on a CD and install then on all MDK computers using the MDK font installer. Easy to do. Eric Indiogine On Monday 09 July 2001

Re: [newbie] Books?

2001-07-09 Thread Miark
Boliver, Check the Internet for Mandrake-specific books. Amazon.com and bn.com (Barnes Noble) are good places to look, and you're likely to find better prices than at your local bookstore (even local Barnes Noble stores!). Miark - Original Message - From: Boliver Allmon [EMAIL

Re: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] mutli platform html editor]

2001-07-09 Thread Randy Kramer
Miark, Thanks -- I had done something similar, setting a single cell table to 90% (for a slightly different reason) -- I'll try this -- it should be helpful -- I probably want to size it for a 640x480 browser, and just let it fill less than the whole window on larger browsers. Randy Kramer

Re: [newbie] XFree 86 4.1.0????

2001-07-09 Thread Romanator
On Monday 09 July 2001 02:59 pm, Tim Holmes wrote: Honestly, I'd say go with the usual saying, If it ain't broke, don't fix it! No need to upgraded at this point. I haven't noticed any performance differences, X has never crashed on me. The only reason I upgraded was because I thought it

[newbie] Logs!!

2001-07-09 Thread preston smith
I continue to have problems with my mouse freezing (keyboard works). Here is the latest scenario. I did a clean install of Mandrake Linux 8.0. It worked beautifully for about a week. Then I figured out how the software manager and updates work, and I updated my system. All was well for 3

Re: [newbie] A note about user-friendliness

2001-07-09 Thread jennifer
How is one to tell?? I mention that I recently came across the instructions on how to install the new fonts, but I haven't had the time yet to sit down and really understand them. From the advice I got in other groups, I can simply copy all the true type fonts from my windows machine (burn

[newbie] graphics display 800x600

2001-07-09 Thread Brandon Caudle
what is the command to force the display to display at 1024*768 i tweaked the config file but no help (6.0) and no i won't upgrade because this is a 486 and i just got a bigger monitor and i want it smaller its just a samba server for a remote office Thanks BrandonGet your FREE download of MSN

Re: [newbie] A note about user-friendliness

2001-07-09 Thread Miark
Do you all see what I mean?? This is alot of trouble to go through just to be able to read the type face on the manufacturers website...You would think that Mandrake would cater to their own community and either include the Arial font, or compose their website in linux-readable format I

Re: [newbie] A note about user-friendliness

2001-07-09 Thread Randy Kramer
jennifer wrote: How is one to tell?? Well, as is usually the case, I don't have the whole answer to that. My biggest concern was giving people the idea that it might be OK to copy Windows fonts and then having them get into trouble. My understanding is that many of the Microsoft fonts cannot

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.0, XF86Config and SiS 630

2001-07-09 Thread Randy Kramer
Jaime, First, some digressions: Request: Please don't use HTML in your mail. It makes it difficult to read for various people depending on their mail client. For me, the type becomes very small. Question: Did you set the Reply To:? I ask because we were having a discussion about how mail

Re: [newbie] A note about user-friendliness

2001-07-09 Thread jennifer
LOL, well, I'll take it upon myself and make the decision that although I only have windows installed on one machine I'll install the fonts anyway since my linux box was purchased with a forced installation of windows and license. even if the system is not super-user friendly, the users are

Re: [newbie] A note about user-friendliness

2001-07-09 Thread Romanator
jennifer wrote: How is one to tell?? I mention that I recently came across the instructions on how to install the new fonts, but I haven't had the time yet to sit down and really understand them. From the advice I got in other groups, I can simply copy all the true type fonts from my

[newbie] Mandrake 8.0, XF86Config and SiS 630

2001-07-09 Thread Mark Annandale
Hi there I had a similar problem with the SiS chipsets. Go and have a look at www.xfree.org and see which versions of XFree have support for your chipset. In all probability it will be the 3.3.6 version without acceleration. Alternatively you could also do a search on the XFree and Mandrake

RE: [newbie] deleting contents of a file

2001-07-09 Thread Franki
There probably is, but I don't know it.. I use : rm filename touch filename that removes the file and recreates it... regards Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Craig Westerman Sent: Monday, 9 July 2001 1:21 PM To: Mandrake

[newbie] SiS 630

2001-07-09 Thread Mark Annandale
Hello again I just had a look at the XFree site where it states that release 3.3.6 has support for the 630 chipset. There uis also support for the 630 chipset in release 4.0 however they claim there are some problems with it. My advice would be to stick with 3.3.6 or a framebuffer server if

[newbie] RE: [expert] making shell script excutable.........

2001-07-09 Thread Franki
you could also use chmod 755 ./filename first number is owner, second is group, and third is everyone.. then you have the breakdown... 4 == read 2 == write 1 == execute so 755 means: 7 == 4+2+1 for full permissions to owner. 5 == 4+1 meaning read and execute to the group not write. 5 ==

Re: [newbie] XFree 86 4.1.0????

2001-07-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 09 July 2001 01:40 pm, Cliff Gosden wrote: When I ran the program to check which binaries it said there were no binaries for this version (i.e LM8) so I didn't proceed. Cliff http://pclinuxonline.com/article.php?sid=75 Texstar is a good ol' TX Luser. He often makes major

Re: [newbie] SiS 630

2001-07-09 Thread Pere Castañer
El Lun 09 Jul 2001 23:33, Mark Annandale escribió: Hello again I just had a look at the XFree site where it states that release 3.3.6 has support for the 630 chipset. There uis also support for the 630 chipset in release 4.0 however they claim there are some problems with it. My advice

RE: [newbie] Logs!!

2001-07-09 Thread Franki
nope, reiserfs is a replacement for ext2.. its a new type of journaling filesystem... I am using it on my boxes,, it has some benefits, no defrag, and it remembers its good state, so if you hit reset, or powerouts and stuff, it ususally just comes straight back up with no problems at all... It

Re: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] mutli platform html editor]

2001-07-09 Thread Michael D. Viron
I assume you've noticed the behavior that occurs (in most of the web browsers I've used) where, if there is an element in the page wider than the window width, the window expands horizontally to accomodate this element. (It happens for wide graphics, tables, and preformatted text.) You must

Re: [newbie] WINE runs Windows proggies! ok?

2001-07-09 Thread Michael Leone
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uli) Subject: Re: [newbie] WINE runs Windows proggies! ok? I have got wine from www.codeweavers.com, I think it's different from Mandrake's wine. I start winword and other windows-progs by wine winfile in a KDE-konsole. Then I start the windows application by

Re: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] mutli platform html editor]

2001-07-09 Thread Randy Kramer
Michael, Thanks for the response. Unfortunately, your example doesn't really address what I was trying to ask about. Maybe the easiest way for me to express myself would be to build on your example (in words). I'm viewing your page at 800x600. If you were to put a very long preformatted

Re: [newbie] install on NTFS

2001-07-09 Thread Randy Kramer
Greg, I was confused the first time I read your note, but now it sounds like all you really want to do is install Mandrake 7.2 in a dual boot configuration on a machine that already has Windows 2000 Server installed. Is that correct? If so, let us know -- I think (unless there is something

Re: [newbie] install on NTFS

2001-07-09 Thread Greg Partin
Yes, all i'm trying to do is install Mandrake 7.2 in a dual boot config. I am unable to use lnx4win because Win2k Server does not support it (or it does not support win2k server I should say). I insert Mandrake into my drive, boot up and press Enter. I get the standard graphical install screen

RE: [newbie] Logs!!

2001-07-09 Thread Franki
Sure, it can be useful to anyone,, it has all the features of ext2, but alot more.. 1. it is faster, albiet not hugely so. 2. It handles crashes and resets much better, ususally with no probs at all. (I have never had any at all.) 3. It doesn't defrag at all, at least not enough to effect

RE: [newbie] Installed Kaspersky Anti-Virus program - How do you enable it?

2001-07-09 Thread Franki
type locate AvpDaemon if your locate db has updated lately, it will tell you where the file is,, then go there, and type,,, ./AvpDaemon that would probably do the trick... regards Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Romanator Sent:

Re: [newbie] install on NTFS

2001-07-09 Thread Randy Kramer
Greg, I don't know that I can help technically, but I'm just going to resummarize your problem so that maybe someone else can: - Trying to install Mandrake 7.2 on a machine with Win2k server - Using a USB mouse and keyboard -- hmm, I've never used one -- anybody know if that works with

Re: [newbie] Single User.

2001-07-09 Thread Michael D. Viron
Tim, Unless you have specifically enabled a password for lilo configuration or have (I think) selected the high Mandrake security option, it will boot single user with no password. The only time it does require a password at boot, iirc, is when you attempt to boot after a system has suffered a

Re: [newbie] Fetchmail problem

2001-07-09 Thread Tim Holmes
To start out, run this command. [timh@r2d2 timh]$ rpm -qa | grep fetchmail fetchmail-5.7.4-5mdk [timh@r2d2 timh]$ which fetchmailconf which: no fetchmailconf in (SNIP) Now that I look at it, I'm not sure why my workstation doesn't have the daemon installed, but here's what your *should* look

Re: [newbie] Single User.

2001-07-09 Thread Tim Holmes
Ah... thanks Michael. I couldn't remember what the case was. Like I said, it's been a long time since I've had to login as single user. And that time was for a hardware configuration issue. So I had to login that way and edit a config file so I could then continue on. But I know my root

[newbie] PPP Dialler

2001-07-09 Thread Chris Andre
Hi All, Does there seem to be a problem with the ppp dialler set-up running gnome 1.4 under Mandrake 8. I have previously installed Mandrake 8 with the KDE desktop option and had set-up the dialler up in a matter of minutes. Has anybody else had a problem in this area or suggestions as to how

RE: [newbie] deleting contents of a file

2001-07-09 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Using echo effectively creates a new file with new permissions. My preference is to use tail to tail the file over itself. I.E. #tail oldfile oldfile This preserves all existing permissions and ownerships. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

[newbie] How to install EVERYTHING on LM 8.0?

2001-07-09 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: This may seem like a trivial question, but it's been driving me crazy. I have to reinstall LM 8.0, and, for the life of me, I can't find any option to INSTALL EVERYTHING. One click of the mouse and you just install everything on LM 8.0 (at least the 2 CD version, which totals

Re: [newbie] PPPOE/Roaring Penguin/Network card

2001-07-09 Thread Rife
./go is the install command for the rp-pppoe software, but after re-installing linux i realized that i don't even need to install it off of cd (as it's already included).. therefore, no more need for ./go Have assigned my nic all the info below, have run adsl-setup, still no go. Module is listed

[newbie] irda config

2001-07-09 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi, I was checking out the dell-laptops-linux group at yahoo and someone posted his irda configuration. It was for a Debian installation. Does anyone have any idea how to set up irda on an Inspiron 8000? It is turned on in bios. Thanks, Bill W.

[newbie] Fetchmail problem

2001-07-09 Thread Roger Sherman
I have fetchmail configured (using fetchmailconf) to fetch my email (typical ISP email) every 5 minutes. For about ten minutes, it worked great, as it always had on previous installations of Mandrake I've had (currently I've dropped back from 8.0 to 7.2). But for some reason, it stopped working.

[newbie] Installed Kaspersky Anti-Virus program - How do you enable it?

2001-07-09 Thread Romanator
Hi everybody, This is in reference to the rpm installation of the Kaskpersky Anti Virus program. For some reason it does not append itself to the menu bar. More importantly, how do I know that it is running? According to the Readme.txt file, at the command prompt, I'm supposed to type in:

Re: [newbie] Single User.

2001-07-09 Thread Tim Holmes
But doesn't it still ask you for the passwd? I haven't logged into single user mode in a very long time. I can't remember. But I thought it still asks you for the root passwd. I could be wrong of course. tdh | Jaime, | | Try linux single at the boot prompt (if you are using lilo), not

Re: [newbie] stupid mandrake won't launch realplaer 8

2001-07-09 Thread Romanator
Mandrake wrote: Bull shit, it can't decide what it don't want to listen to you luser On Monday 09 July 2001 05:12 am, so spoke steve campbell: Well assuming you installed it from the rpm ...realplay should be in.. /usr/X11R6/bin/realplay so either you installed the wrong one or you

Re: [newbie] mutli platform html editor

2001-07-09 Thread Romanator
Kevin Fonner wrote: 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 Hi Kevin, I recently downloaded IBM's WebSphere Homepage Builder from www.ibm.com and it works great. They

[newbie] mouse single click treat as double click

2001-07-09 Thread Willy Sutrisno
hi, my mouse act strangely today. i have been using mandake 8.0 for about half a year. and today my mouse act very strange, everytime i single click using the left button, sometimes they send a double click signal. i mean, if i click one time, almost 70% of the time the mandrake or the mouse

[newbie] Steps on how to get the streaming audio/video RealPlayer working in Linux

2001-07-09 Thread Romanator
Hi everybody, I have read a number of emails that RealPlayer is not working including requests on how to add the MIME entries to get RealPlayer working. It appears that www.real.com provides insufficient information about turning on the streaming video and audio. You must add several MIME

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

2001-07-09 Thread Romanator
Miark wrote: I initially thought that Civileme's post was just a bit over the top. After reading this, however, I think he was pretty-much spot-on. I suggest that if Judith wants something more like Windows, she have a look at other OSs like MacOS, OS/2 or BeOS. OS/2 is a single-user