Re: [newbie-it] Volume di fuoco.

2001-07-10 Thread Andrea Celli
Luigi De Pascale wrote: Carissimi, questa mailing list ha gia' un volume di fuoco non indifferente. Sarebbe utile forse minimizzare i replay inutili. E.G. rispondere direttamente all'utente che si chiede se lo leggiamo che in effetti il suo mail si e' graziosamente deposto nel mailbox di

[newbie-it] vecchia scheda video (x non va...?!?)

2001-07-10 Thread Antonello
Salve, ho appena provato ad installare mandrake8, sembra andare tutto bene ma alla fine si blocca e non mi fa configurare x. se riavvio, il sistema parte, se dalla shell lancio Xconfigurator si blocca di nuovo... ho una sola idea, temporaneamente ho installato una s3virge molto vecchia con soli

Re: [newbie] A note about user-friendliness

2001-07-10 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 07:25, 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

Re: [newbie] Logs!!

2001-07-10 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 11:38, Franki wrote: 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. ReiserFS is optimised for very small files, without compromising performance for larger files. It is also more space-efficient

Re: [newbie] Just one main page...

2001-07-10 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Sounds like you're proposing some kind of Mandrake knowledge base. This would be a good idea, since many questions are just repeats of previous questions. For the moment, we have both the newbie and expert mail archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/

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

2001-07-10 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:05, Tom Brinkman wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] IP aliasing

2001-07-10 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 16:51, Chris Buxton wrote: I'm using Mandrake 8.0 as my NAT/DNS/HTTP/SMTP/etc. server. I have 4 addresses from my ISP, and two related questions. 1. How do I set up IP aliasing? In other words, how do I get my 4 public IP's configured on the public side of the machine?

Re: [newbie] Glossary of linux-unix terms

2001-07-10 Thread Anguo
¦b 2001 ¤C¤ë 7 ¬P´Á¤» 00:35¡AEdelmiro Guerra ¼g¹D: I'am a very newbie in linux. I will appreciate to advice me about a site in internet where to find a good glosary related with Linux-Unix terms (spanish english). I feel lost with some words or terms when I read how-to's and other info. Hi

Re: [newbie] Java no longer working(for chat)

2001-07-10 Thread Anguo
¦b 2001 ¤C¤ë 7 ¬P´Á¤» 04:54¡AMarcia Waller ¼g¹D: Dear All, I was able until recently open up a chat help service for Peanut with Netscape that uses java. For no apparent reason it no longer works. It says it is opening the java applet then if fails. What could have caused this? How may I fix

Re: [newbie] Java applets in Konqueror?

2001-07-10 Thread Anguo
? 2001 ?? 10 ??? 14:12?Dr. Evil ??: Is there a way to get Konqueror to run Java applets, like chat applets? Thanks Yes, I did install java recently and used Konqueror to have a chat. Have you java installed? If yes, you just need to put java into your path, using root. (I found that

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

2001-07-10 Thread etharp
I (being American from the Viet Nam era) have the answer to the war against Gates. we pack up, declare ourselves the winner, and not play anymore. we don't need to be against anyone. we just need to be FOR opensource. (imho) On Tuesday 10 July 2001 06:36, Len Lawrence wrote: On Mon, 9 Jul

[newbie] Procmail

2001-07-10 Thread Tim Holmes
I just noticed that procmail on my workstations has died. Suddenly, and unexpectedly. I was looking at mail in my in box this morning and noticed that it should have been in another folder. So I check the procmail.log, and the last time it was edited was on June 29th. Two weeks ago or so. I

Re: [newbie] deleting contents of a file

2001-07-10 Thread Dan Ray
Craig-- Many people suggested removing the file and then recreating a new empty file. While not difficult, that does take a little more time. Your method is much simpler and very quick. I just tried it on a log file and it works great. Can anyone give me a reason why this method might

Re: [newbie] deleting contents of a file

2001-07-10 Thread Dan Ray
JOse-- #tail oldfile oldfile Clever! Although, of course, the question was EMPTYING the file, not cutting it down to the last 10 ines... Actually, I don't see why redirecting output from tail would have any different effect on the target file than redirecting output from echo. Shouldn't

Re: [newbie] MODEM CONFIGURATION

2001-07-10 Thread D. Hoyem
Raberto, What kind of modem do you have and what is the name of the driver that you have? We need some more information in order to help you. Don --- Roberto del Bosque Gómez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone can help me? I have linux Mandrake 7.2 installed in my computer... I have a

Re: [newbie] CHEAP modem

2001-07-10 Thread Dave
I have used US Robotics External Sporster 33.6 and they work fine--off ebay about $20.00 and have found that the USR INTERNAL Sporster 33.6 ISA modem configures automatically and works really good too. (was a nice suprise for me.) Anyway---those are the only ones I have used and both were

[newbie] System logs overflowing with 'gconfd' messages.

2001-07-10 Thread Charles Darcy
Hi, My syslog, messages, loginlog user.log files are being logged constantly with entrys related to 'gconfd'. This is a sample from '/usr/log/messages': Jul 10 17:50:19 localhost gconfd (rod-1513): Failed to notify listener 385876639, removing: IDL:CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0 I

Re: [newbie] deleting contents of a file

2001-07-10 Thread Jan Wilson
* Dan Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010710 06:14]: Well, it's just been pointed out that it doesn't actually EMPTY the file per se. It actually creates a one-byte file. I believe that the 'echo' command prints the string argument given it, plus a newline on the end. That newline gets into the new

Re: [newbie] deleting contents of a file

2001-07-10 Thread Dan Ray
Jan-- echo -n myfile this tells 'echo' not to follow the (empty) string with a newline, so the resulting file is zero length. Aha! Just what I didn't know I was looking for! This command is my new nominee for best way to do it. -- Dan Ray Director Custom Applications Triangle

[newbie] Question about virtual web stes and DNS

2001-07-10 Thread Mark Johnson
I setup up some virtual web sites on my machine at home port forwarded 80 and tested the virtual web sites at home from work. It worked great, only I had to map the web sites in my local hosts file at work. How would this work if you had a domain name? Let's say that I had a domain name:

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

2001-07-10 Thread Tim Holmes
I agree with Sridhar completely! If you've ever installed your machine with high security, you can't even login with a Windows Manager with the root user. The only time I've done it, has been to compile kernels, and the machine was NOT on the Internet. I do a su - for maybe 10 or 15 minutes a

Re: [newbie] Question about virtual web stes and DNS

2001-07-10 Thread Michael D. Viron
At 08:30 AM 07/10/2001 -0500, Mark Johnson wrote: I setup up some virtual web sites on my machine at home port forwarded 80 and tested the virtual web sites at home from work. It worked great, only I had to map the web sites in my local hosts file at work. How would this work if you had a

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

2001-07-10 Thread Judith Miner
Michael wrote: Another place to check is /tmp which is where all kinds of temporary files get dumped. Is it okay to get rid of everything in /tmp, or are some of those files needed or supposed to be there? I found stuff in there and I'd just as soon get rid of it, but I left it alone because I

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

2001-07-10 Thread Judith Miner
The idea that I am a Microsoft employee or a plant infiltrating this list gave me the best laugh I've had in a long time. Especially since I've done nothing else for the past three weeks but try to get a good, working Linux system in hopes that I will never again have to spend my not-abundant

Re: [newbie] mouse in X

2001-07-10 Thread George Petri
On Sunday 01 July 2001 05:40, Willy Sutrisno wrote: Have you tried mousedrake? I didnt install it, and may i know whats the use of that prog. oh ya, by the way. if I shutdown the x server and press the startx command again, my mouse will work fine. only when I load X at the first time after

Re: [newbie] Help~! Help~!

2001-07-10 Thread George Petri
On Saturday 23 June 2001 01:31, Wing Min Ho wrote: Help Me! 1. when i 1st time install Linux Mandrake 7.1, i got no problem. But i dont know how to uninstall it. There are several ways to do this -- here's one: You need a partition tool such as DOS' fdisk or Partition Magic or even Linux's

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

2001-07-10 Thread Romanator
Frank, For some reason, I was typing in: updatedb Thanks for the info, Roman Franki wrote: 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

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

2001-07-10 Thread Miark
You can configure LILO to delete everything in /tmp on startup, so I'd have to assume it's a a standard convention to only put disposable files (for lack of a better term) in there. I have that LILO option set, and so far, so good. Miark - Original Message - From: Judith Miner [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] install on NTFS

2001-07-10 Thread Greg Partin
Both the mouse and keyboard are USB, but it is a desktop not a laptop. So are you saying that I won't be able to use Mandrake 7.2? I now need to get a copy of 8.0? On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 06:38:28 +, civileme wrote: On Tuesday 10 July 2001 00:35, Greg Partin wrote: I'm running

Re: [newbie] Thank you Civileme

2001-07-10 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I'm not usually a me too poster, but I feel this is important. Civileme has done a wonderful job for Linux-Mandrake and for GNU/Linux as a whole. The community participation of MandrakeSoft employees like Civileme, Deno (maintainer of MandrakeForum) and Tom (maintainer of MandrakeUser) is

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

2001-07-10 Thread Steve
On Monday 09 July 2001 20:52, you wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] lilo probs

2001-07-10 Thread Miark
Did you make a floppy boot disk when you installed Linux on the box? If so, boot with that, then log in as root, type lilo Enter and Bob's your uncle. If you don't have a boot disk... someone else will need to help here. Miark - Original Message - From: mike.roberts [EMAIL

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

2001-07-10 Thread Rife
Well, I hope you have a winbox to use that D-Link in. It is one of our bad list. It appears to work and detects well but never actually transmits. I have two of them here in testing, and everything that can be done for thsm has been done. Civileme Yeah, i've got win98 and 2k on this

[newbie] Copying/Pasting in Konsole

2001-07-10 Thread Timothy W.Glinatsis
Hey Guys and Gals - Mandrake 7.2 I'm a tad embarrassed asking this question, as it seems like it would be obvious enough. Regardless, I can't seem to find a way to copy and paste information from the prompt in Konsole to another application. I notice that many of you do just that when citing

Re: [newbie] graphics display 800x600

2001-07-10 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Brandon: First, when posting to this list, please turn the HTML off -- it is very difficult to read in many mail readers. Now to the point: Give us some more information, please. What version of Mandrake? What version of XFree? Will your video card do 1024 x 768? What resolution? -- cmg

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

2001-07-10 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Judith, If this is the case then please accept my sincerest apologies for the bulk of what I have said (although I haven't really said much :-) ). I still get the feeling, however, that you are annoyed that GNU/Linux is not Windows. Fine, it may not be quite as user-friendly, but it is still

Re: [newbie] Java no longer working(for chat)

2001-07-10 Thread Marcia Waller
On Tuesday 10 July 2001 06:37, Anguo wrote: ¦b 2001 ¤C¤ë 7 ¬P´Á¤» 04:54¡AMarcia Waller ¼g¹D: Dear All, I was able until recently open up a chat help service for Peanut with Netscape that uses java. For no apparent reason it no longer works. It says it is opening the java applet then if

Re: [newbie] Java no longer working(for chat)

2001-07-10 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/jre/ http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/ (it's in there somewhere...) Both Sun's and IBM's Java runtime environments work very well with Konqueror. Sun's JRE has a plug-in that you can use to replace Netscape's Java. On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 02:14, Dr. Evil

Re: [newbie] Thank you Civileme

2001-07-10 Thread Randy Kramer
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Civileme has done a wonderful job for Linux-Mandrake and for GNU/Linux as a whole. and I sincerely thank all its participants. Me too. Randy Kramer

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

2001-07-10 Thread Daryl Johnson
Hmmm, interesting, as a relatively disinterested reader of this correspondence I nevertheless found myself interested enough to check with deja-news... I am totally puzzled by this post of Roman's: I have been following Judith Miner's email posts since 1996 through the her Wordstar

Re: [newbie] Java no longer working(for chat)

2001-07-10 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
In Konqueror, click the Settings menu - Configure Konqueror... - Konqueror Browser - Java. Click Enable Java globally and fill in the Path to java executable with the path to Sun's Java, in this case /usr/java/jre1.3.1/bin/java. Note that Java will run in a window, not embedded in the page.

Re: [newbie] Copying/Pasting in Konsole

2001-07-10 Thread Randy Kramer
Timothy W.Glinatsis wrote: I'm a tad embarrassed asking this question, as it seems like it would be obvious enough. Regardless, I can't seem to find a way to copy and paste information from the prompt in Konsole to another application. I notice that many of you do just that when citing file

Re: [newbie] Linux app for MSN Messenger.

2001-07-10 Thread TezcatlipocA
IMICI Messenger is much better than Everybuddy! Everybuddy has had some problems connecting to msn contacts. I use IMICI and it is very effective. I lets you have all your acounts in one app like your MSN, Yahoo, AOL adn ICQ. If you use it don't forget to type all of your hotmail address as your

[newbie] RE: RE[2]: [expert] Seagate 20.4 Gig HD for $74 -- Good deal?

2001-07-10 Thread Franki
Hi,, don't knock the WD hard drives (I just bought one not long ago, before I knew they were bad, so I feel obliged to defend it. :-) current uptime is 18 days.(was 28 days, but I shutdown to add a UPS) On an abit KT7a motherboard (686b southbridge) with a Duron 900 running at 1gig...

[newbie] Good ISP for Linux?

2001-07-10 Thread Everill1
Hi everyone, I was wondering if anyone could suggest specific modems that I might be able to use with Linux-Mandrake 7.0 and an ISP that will support Linux, because my present one AOL does not. I live in London England. Thanks in advance. Everill

[newbie] Gtk Warning

2001-07-10 Thread mrc
When I invoke some programs, vg Sylpheed, I get the following message: Gtk-WARNING**: GModule initialization check failed: Gtk+ version too old micro mismatch) And yet the program basically works. Anyone suggest what the message might indicate? Thanks for any ideas. -- Michael

Re: [newbie] Good ISP for Linux?

2001-07-10 Thread Eric L. McClure
Peter Ruskin wrote: On Tuesday 10 July 2001 17:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I was wondering if anyone could suggest specific modems that I might be able to use with Linux-Mandrake 7.0 and an ISP that will support Linux, because my present one AOL does not. I live in

Re: [newbie] Java applets in Konqueror?

2001-07-10 Thread John
On Monday 09 July 2001 23:12, you wrote: Is there a way to get Konqueror to run Java applets, like chat applets? Thanks Assuming you have been to www.konqueror.org and followed the instructions for installing a JDK or JRE of your choice you will likely also have to download the JSSE from

Re: [newbie] Good ISP for Linux?

2001-07-10 Thread Tim Holmes
Any external modem will do the trick. As long as it's a hardware modem, you're pretty safe. So go with external, and serial port. They are easy to maintain, and next to NO configuration needed. The only thing you need to configure would be the dialing software like kppp or whatever you

Re: [newbie] Linux app for MSN Messenger.

2001-07-10 Thread Brian Durant
On 10/7/01 21:54, TezcatlipocA at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: / den 10/7/01 21:54 skrev TezcatlipocA fra [EMAIL PROTECTED] følgende: IMICI Messenger is much better than Everybuddy! Everybuddy has had some problems connecting to msn contacts. I use IMICI and it is very effective. I lets you have

[newbie] Mandrake 8.1

2001-07-10 Thread Mark Stewart
Just planning migration timetables for some of my machines and wondering what (if any) schedule is planned for 8.1? thanks, ::mark

Re: [newbie] mouse single click treat as double click

2001-07-10 Thread Lanman
Fear Not! Oh, Stout Fellow! Take comfort in knowing that your MS mouse is not actually manufactured by Microsoft, but by Logitech! You are forgiven ! On July 10, 2001 05:19 pm, Michel Clasquin wrote: On Tuesday 10 July 2001 08:21, you wrote: my mouse act strangely today. i have been using

Re: [newbie] IP aliasing

2001-07-10 Thread etharp
snip I don't really know how to solve your main problem (since I've never tried it myself), so I'll just say this. There are plenty of console text editors out there. GNU Nano is a GNU clone of Pico (which is not GPL). I personally am a big fan of Jed. WOW i thought i was the only one that

Re: [newbie] Internet Sex

2001-07-10 Thread etharp
got your attention? anyway the note i wanted to make was that (at least with Kmail) the delete key works great for threads I don't care about. On Tuesday 10 July 2001 17:28, John wrote: I hate threads like this. Makes you stop and think about why you use these mailing lists!!! John W

Re: [newbie] Samba and plain passwords

2001-07-10 Thread etharp
as I understand it, the answer might be to create a new user (say smbuser), add a new group (say, smbgroup) and add all the users you want (including smbuser) and make /home/smbuser global read write permission etc... to that group. I know there is a tutorial around here somewhere... I am

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

2001-07-10 Thread rife
Yeah, i've tried installing 3.0 off of cd too, and that wasn't working either (same thing). I'll check to make sure that the conf file you mentioned is empty when i get home tonight. Thanks for the help

[newbie] Internet Connection Sharing Wizard in Mandrake 8.0 cannot find ethernet card

2001-07-10 Thread // kerin | b o c u m a . c o m |
Hi all, I'm (obviously) a Linux newbie, and I'm having trouble trying to configure internet connection sharing. I've got a simple 2 PC network, with my Linux machine as the server, and a windows 2000 box as a client. I've got my ADSL connection all up and running under Linux without a hitch.

Re: [newbie] Running program on Linux Machine

2001-07-10 Thread Boliver Allmon
We have a membership record program that we use to maintain church membership and contribution records. I have only had LM 8.0 installed for a week or so, So I still have lots of reading and questions to ask. The system needs to be relatively easy to operate as I would not classify the

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

2001-07-10 Thread Geof Steichen
I notice that the entries in my Netscape Applications shows a different switch. Your notes indicate the %s switch is very important. My entries have a %u switch. What does that mean and should I change it to %s? Geof On

Re: [newbie] Running program on Linux Machine

2001-07-10 Thread etharp
what is the name of this program? is it a linux database? On Tuesday 10 July 2001 19:04, Boliver Allmon wrote: We have a membership record program that we use to maintain church membership and contribution records. I have only had LM 8.0 installed for a week or so, So I still have lots of

Re: [newbie] Running program on Linux Machine

2001-07-10 Thread Boliver Allmon
No it is a windows based program. I am going to get Win4Lin to run it, if needed. On Tue, 10 July 2001, etharp wrote: what is the name of this program? is it a linux database? On Tuesday 10 July 2001 19:04, Boliver Allmon wrote: We have a membership record program that we use to

Re: [newbie] Linux equivalent for DOS command: MEM

2001-07-10 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Juan: free will do it -- and more. To see the options, type man free at a terminal prompt. --- Carroll Juan Carlos Conde wrote: What is the linux equivalent for DOS command: MEM? -- Juan Carlos Conde e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Valladolid (Spain)Running Linux Mandrake 8.0

Re: [newbie] Linux equivalent for DOS command: MEM

2001-07-10 Thread etharp
try 'free On Tuesday 10 July 2001 19:02, Juan Carlos Conde wrote: What is the linux equivalent for DOS command: MEM?

RE: [newbie] Running program on Linux Machine

2001-07-10 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
What you failed to say was that this is a WINDOWS program you are trying to run in Linux... Nope. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Boliver Allmon Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 7:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED];

Re: [newbie] Running program on Linux Machine

2001-07-10 Thread etharp
I would say that makes the problem MUCH more difficult, and using Linux to run a windows program will most likely cause so much headach that I am inclined to agree with the geeks that suggest running a PCAnywhere type of program. and connecting winders to winders On Tuesday 10 July 2001

Re: [newbie] hardware (soundcard) conflict)

2001-07-10 Thread etharp
as root in a text console, type (without the quotes) lsdev or if that does not work, cat /proc/interrupts On Sunday 08 July 2001 18:17, David L. Dufeau wrote: I'm getting an error in my /var/bootlog that leads me to believe that a I/O or DMA conflict is preventing my soundcards module from

[newbie] Knotify error

2001-07-10 Thread L.V.Gandhi
Whenever I login I get Knotify error. How to get over it? -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA [EMAIL PROTECTED],  [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux user No.205042

Re: [newbie] Running program on Linux Machine

2001-07-10 Thread Boliver Allmon
My concern is system stablity. I cannot be there all the time to reboot the system. I may have to run Windows 2000 or NT, but I am not sure of its ability either. On Tue, 10 July 2001, etharp wrote: I would say that makes the problem MUCH more difficult, and using Linux to run a windows

RE: [newbie] Running program on Linux Machine

2001-07-10 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
This really should be off this list since you are not in a Linux realm anymore... What you probably want is Win2K running either Terminal Server or Citrix/Terminal Server. I've set up systems so that you can PC-Anywhere in to perform a soft boot if Terminal server chokes, and also reboot a hung

Re: [newbie] Running program on Linux Machine

2001-07-10 Thread hinet
Got vnc :http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ - Original Message - From: Boliver Allmon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 7:04 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Running program on Linux Machine We have a membership

Re: [newbie] Running program on Linux Machine

2001-07-10 Thread hinet
- Original Message - From: Boliver Allmon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 7:04 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Running program on Linux Machine We have a membership record program that we use to maintain church

Re: [newbie] Java applets in Konqueror? Blackdown.

2001-07-10 Thread Anguo
¦b 2001 ¤C¤ë 11 ¬P´Á¤T 00:05¡ADr. Evil ¼g¹D: Thanks for the advice, but... how do I install Java? Where do I get it from? Thanks Hi Dr Devil! First, you'd be better of making sure that your messages reach the list too. I'm very newbie too and struggling to keep up with the flood of mails.

Re: [newbie] Java (again)

2001-07-10 Thread Anguo
¦b 2001 ¤C¤ë 11 ¬P´Á¤T 02:36¡AMarcia Waller ¼g¹D: Dear All, I already have the latest java installed in my LM8. I went to Konqueror and configured it as suggested. How did you configure it? I first tried to use the GUI Konqueror configuration tool, where you can put in the path to your java

Re: [newbie] Thank you Civileme

2001-07-10 Thread Anguo
? 2001 ?? 10 ??? 20:44?Dan LaBine ??: This looks like a Kodak moment ! OK Everyone, Group Hug !! :-D Chse! Anguo

[newbie] Bah!!...I figured out what I did wrong

2001-07-10 Thread yonaton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 10 July 2001 05:47 pm, you wrote: Hey gang, On an earlier install, I had downloaded and installed the updated gnupg tarball, then got gpa and made a key. I ran into a few problems not related to my gpg and decided to reinstall Linux

Re: [newbie] A note about user-friendliness

2001-07-10 Thread Judith Miner
civileme wrote: If people would take notes of a session they had with software manager, we would be able to see where their intuition leads them (we are spoiled by being close to its design and implementation Here's something that happened to me yesterday with Software Manager. I was

Re: [newbie] Internet Security

2001-07-10 Thread Judith Miner
Many thanks for this very helpful message, Tom. I typed tinyfirewall (no quotes) at the console prompt and got a message everything already installed followed by four lines complaining about Missing charset in Fontset creation. It also mentioned line 70 of /usr/lib/libDrakX/my_gtk.pm. I looked at

Re: [newbie] PPP Dialler

2001-07-10 Thread Judith Miner
Chris wrote: 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

[newbie]

2001-07-10 Thread Colin Jenkins
Hi, After following advice from many people, I finally got Mandrake 8 working as a logon server for the windows boxes on my home network. I had to reinstall on a larger HD, but now cannot get it working again. (logon from windows) I have DHCP running and serving ip's and I have full use of the

Re: [newbie] MP3s playing at twice (or higher) speed

2001-07-10 Thread Frans Ketelaars
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Frans, Your guess is right. WAV files do play too fast. What does this hint at? Any solutions? I think this is a problem with the soundcard driver for your soundcard. From the INSTALL file for the ALSA drivers: Note: some i815 chips have different

Re: [newbie] imici problems

2001-07-10 Thread Tim Holmes
I've installed the app, and used it for maybe a few days. The thing about the software, is, meanwhile it's a good idea, it doesn't work very well in my experience. I've tried to use it with all of those at the same time, but it won't connect with each one. It will connect with AIM one minute,

[newbie] Turn of confirmation in Konqueror

2001-07-10 Thread Robert Fargher
Hi Folks, I'm running and loving Mandrake 8.0. It's great! But there's one thing that's driving me around the bend and I can't seem to figure out how to reconfigure it. And that's the confirmation request pop-ups in KMail. Every time I click on a image file attachment, up pops the

[newbie] Returned messages

2001-07-10 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Good evening: I've been having some messages to this list bounced the last few days. In every case, the message that bounced was to the person who posted the reply. Am I correct that the proper procedure is to use reply-all? I've just installed Mandrake 8.0 over 7.1. I kept the old /home but

[newbie] Linux Flavor for PowerBook 1400?

2001-07-10 Thread Brian Durant
Hi again, Does anyone out there know if there is a Linux version that will run on a PowerBook 1400? The 1400, unlike the 2400 and the 3400 has a NuBus system, I believe. Cheers, Brian --

Re: [newbie] Linux Flavor for PowerBook 1400?

2001-07-10 Thread civileme
On Tuesday 10 July 2001 07:43, Brian Durant wrote: Hi again, Does anyone out there know if there is a Linux version that will run on a PowerBook 1400? The 1400, unlike the 2400 and the 3400 has a NuBus system, I believe. Cheers, Brian -- Well there is a Beta of mandrake8.0 for the PPC