[newbie] KMAIL M8 PowerPak

2001-07-15 Thread John Rigby
Hi folks, THere must be a way to automatically add addresses to the address book in KMAIL, surely? ( I liked the Outlook Express one of automatically adding replied to's to it.) -- Cheers, John

[newbie] reiser fs query

2001-07-15 Thread mike cola
i currently have 7.2 running on my system using ext2 fs (i think, i didn't select which when i did the install a fair way back but i seem toremember it saying it was using ext2).. i now want to reformat all my drive except for the home partition and install mandrake 8, can i use reiser or will

Re: [newbie] Got a question...

2001-07-15 Thread Tim Holmes
Well does anybody know how to turn it off in vim? I've checked the .viminfo and I can't see anything in there. And there's no .vimrc or .virc. Anybody have a clue? tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - "Real Men Us Vi!" Uptime:

Re: [newbie] microsoft hassling Aussie Charity.

2001-07-15 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Please don't post HTML to the list. As you can see below, it looks like unnecessary junk. This is about a *charity* that is giving computers to *poor* people. Chances are that these people have hardly ever touched a computer, leave alone owning one (no insensitivity intended). Do you think the

Re: [newbie] kernel doubts

2001-07-15 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Mandrake patches a few little niceties like Supermount into its kernels. They may have also included some ac patches. If you can go without those, then you're fine. If you get Mandrake's kernel-linus package you'll have an unpatched kernel, just like Linus Torvalds' official release. Alternati

Re: [newbie] PHP

2001-07-15 Thread Michael D. Viron
Jhun, In that case, I'm pretty sure you'll have to recompile from source. The latest apache is available from http://httpd.apache.org/dist/httpd/apache_1.3.20.tar.gz, and the php module is available from http://www.php.net/downloads.php. You should also make sure if you want to database driven

Re: [newbie] AppleTalk ?

2001-07-15 Thread Mitchell Hagerty
Perfect! Now I can access files on my Linux box using AppleTalk. If you want to know how there are some references included. found the rpm here http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/sourceforge//netatalk//netatalk-1.5pre6-1mdk.i586.html /etc/rc.d/init.d/atalk start and it worked! :) I had to do a

[newbie] Sounds In Yahoo! Messenger???

2001-07-15 Thread Curtis Matthiesen
Hi there, When I first installed Yahoo! Messenger I had sounds for my events (when people logged on, sent me messages, etc.). But now when I reinstalled it I don't have any of the above, I was wondering if someone could help me so that I can get these sounds back, as they're really useful for

Fwd: Re: [newbie] PHP

2001-07-15 Thread Jhun Bacala
Sorry for typo... I mean it doesn't have the PHP module in it. >Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 12:20:50 +0800 >To: "Dave Sherman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: Jhun Bacala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [newbie] PHP >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Dave, > >Thanks for the tip, But what I have is LM ver7.0 and

Re: [newbie] PHP

2001-07-15 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jhun, In Mandrake 7.2, there is an Apache rpm that is preconfigured for php. All you need to do is install the correct apache package, then install the appropriate php package(s) as well, and do the final configuration per the documentation. I wo

Re: [newbie] Dial-up error "pppd daemon died expectedly" modem settings

2001-07-15 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Minhaz: 1. Something went wrong with my Mandrake 8.0 installation, and I'm still trying to sort it out. As a result, I'm having to access e-mail from the Windows side of the house which means that my Linux stuff isn't currently available. (Besides, do you really want a configuration file from a ba

Re: [newbie] AppleTalk ?

2001-07-15 Thread Brandon Caudle
its called netatalk works great Brandon Caudle - Original Message - From: "Mitchell Hagerty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 9:43 PM Subject: [newbie] AppleTalk ? > Hiya, > I'm trying to network my machines so I can transfer files between them. >

[newbie] I need an easy-to-install VPN client for Mandrake 8.0

2001-07-15 Thread Jim Lynch
Hi all, I just got Mandrake 8.0 and I'm having trouble figuring out how to set up a VPN connection to my corporate network. I telecommute most days and I have been using the built-in VPN client in Windows 2000. But I would rather use Linux instead. Please remember that I am NOT trying to set up

Re: [newbie] gkrellm on top ?

2001-07-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 15 July 2001 02:31 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > On July 14, 2001 09:17 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > On Saturday 14 July 2001 12:31 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > > On July 14, 2001 12:30 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > > > BTW, I configured Gkrellm to only show cpu temp, minimum > > > > height (2p),

[newbie] AppleTalk ?

2001-07-15 Thread Mitchell Hagerty
Hiya, I'm trying to network my machines so I can transfer files between them. I have a Qwest DSL connection to the internet with a Cisco 675. Behind it are serveral Macs and a PC running Mandrake. So my internal address are like 10.0.0.[2-6]. Is there a way to setup Appltalk (or so

Re: [newbie] Dial-up error "pppd daemon died expectedly" modem settings

2001-07-15 Thread John Rye
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001 01:05:25 +0100 "Minhaz at Telco4u" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This email was delivered to you by The Free Internet, > a Business Online Group company. http://www.thefreeinternet.net > --- > John, thanks for sending m

Re: [newbie] No system sounds.

2001-07-15 Thread jennifer
Hi guys, Sorry to bust into your problem, but I am having a similiar problem and was hoping that 2 may benifit from this thread! I have an ISA Crystal audio sound card and have never been able to get it working. When I run hardrake (as root), it seems that the system recognizes my card but on e

Re: [newbie] Dial-up error "pppd daemon died expectedly" modem settings

2001-07-15 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Minhaz: I noticed that in an earlier posting by you that the maximum modem sound is set to M1L4. Change it to M1L3. In (at least some) modem command sets, L must be in the range 0 to 3. Regards, Carroll - Original Message - From: Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Minhaz at Telco4u <[EMAIL PROT

[newbie] kdesu problem

2001-07-15 Thread Michel Clasquin
Hmm, kdesu is no longer accepting my root password. Opening up an xterm and using su - in the normal way with the same password works just fine, so I can still get root access to my apps, but I'd like to know what is causing this. -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/un

[Fwd: Re: [newbie] X installation problems]

2001-07-15 Thread Randy Kramer
Kevin, This might help you. (Forwarded from Art Napor. Randy Kramer Xinerama was designed to support this feature basically I think it creates two simultaneous Xservers. You might want to try looking for an Xinerama package, I'm pretty sure it's available somewhere in RPM. Good luck, hope

Re: [newbie] kernel doubts

2001-07-15 Thread Tim Holmes
That was a real helpful response. What makes you think you need to recompile your kernel to install your WinModem? The drivers for the modem say that's required? Basically the difference between the 4.4.3-20mdk and the 4.4.3 is that the -20mdk is more customized for Mandrake. As far as gaining

Re: [newbie] kernel doubts

2001-07-15 Thread Jeferson Lopes Zacco
What do you think I am? I'm a real newbie. > daamn a reall newbie question... > > On Sunday 15 July 2001 12:07, Jeferson Lopes Zacco wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have some doubts about the kernel 4.4.3-20 mdk. Bsically I seem to have > > to change to an unpatched kernel i

Re: [newbie] kernel doubts

2001-07-15 Thread etharp
daamn a reall newbie question... On Sunday 15 July 2001 12:07, Jeferson Lopes Zacco wrote: > Hi all, > > I have some doubts about the kernel 4.4.3-20 mdk. Bsically I seem to have > to change to an unpatched kernel in order for my winmodem (blergh!) to > work. I wonder exactly what are the dif

RE: [newbie] Sap and Linux

2001-07-15 Thread Daryl Johnson
Probably the major ERP* package in the world, supplied by the german software company and configured by an army of overpaid, and sometimes over-rated, consultants. It is difficult to imagine how sap could be used or 'enjoyed' by a single-user. regards Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates 07710 9088

[newbie] RE: SNF install woes

2001-07-15 Thread jason-snyder
The latest thing that I have done is to dig up an old P100 system and stick the harddrive into it along with two network cards. (Used DFE-530TX+ instead of eepro100.) After changing modules.conf to load the right modules, everything came up happy. I then tried ripping out the hard drive and bo

Re: [newbie] Installing network configuration

2001-07-15 Thread Brandon Caudle
Samba.org, is a great resorce! I use samba, and it works greattt! Brandon Caudle >From: Geert Vansintjan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "'newbie'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [newbie] Installing network configuration >Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 17:4

[newbie] RE: wav to mp3

2001-07-15 Thread Jon Doe
Thanks everyone who helped! Worked great!

[newbie] Polish letters in programs written in Tcl/Tk

2001-07-15 Thread =/\\= Majki =/\\=
Hi! I translate program TkGate to polish, and I have problem with polish letters (iso8859-2). I have Mandrake 8.0 and I have polish letters in XWindow and console, but not in TkGate. What should I do? Mikolaj

[newbie] Sap and Linux

2001-07-15 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear all, My husband says that he works with Sap at his work and he really is enthralled with it. Does anyone know anything about Sap and how Linux can work with it? I have done a search on it and found some interesting web pages but do not know exactly what Sap is. I am curious. Thanks, Marc

Re: [newbie] Got a question...

2001-07-15 Thread Michael D. Viron
Tim, This looks like what happens when you edit something in Joe--it automatically creates a copy of the file being edited as filename~. This is basically a backup file, and it will stick around until you delete it. I seem to remember reading that there is a way to turn it off in one of joe's co

[newbie] Java and Netscape

2001-07-15 Thread Juan Carlos Conde
I donwload "JavaTM 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition Version 1.3.1 for Linux" and I install it as explained in http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/jre/install-linux.html execute the rpm.bin file and then as root rpm -iv jre-1.3.1.i386.rpm export NPX_PLUGIN_PATH=/plugin/i386/ns4 where i supouse

Fwd: Re: [newbie] PPP on demand? how?

2001-07-15 Thread Juan Carlos Conde
> Edit "/etc/ppp/options" and add "demand" and "idle 300" in separate new > linkes. -- Excuse me. I would like to say lines, not linkes. -- Juan Carlos Conde e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Valladolid (Spain)Running Linux Mandrake 8.

Re: [newbie] PPP on demand? how?

2001-07-15 Thread Juan Carlos Conde
Edit "/etc/ppp/options" and add "demand" and "idle 300" in separate new linkes. -- Juan Carlos Conde e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Valladolid (Spain)Running Linux Mandrake 8.0 Linux Registered User: 219425 - http://counter.li.org/ __

Re: [newbie] LM 8.0--hdparm and DMA

2001-07-15 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Sunday 15 July 2001 16:05, civileme wrote: > On Sunday 15 July 2001 04:06, David Peerless wrote: > > I've been searching through the archives to no avail so I hope > > someone can help...I apologize if this has been covered before... > > > > I have a Promise ata/66 card that I can use with LM 8

Re: [newbie] PPP on demand? how?

2001-07-15 Thread etharp
Acouple of things. First, you are likely to get more answers 9and some might even be correct) if you and whom ever you are conversing with will hit the reply to all, so the messages go to the whole list, then we all can benifit from your problems and answers. and go ahead and quote the mail tha

Re: [newbie] sorting a file/list in a special way

2001-07-15 Thread Tim Holmes
Personally I like using vi or vim. But that's because I find it faster then any other editor. Now it's not the only one that I use, but it is the main editor that I use. If I'm editing really large files, I'll use nedit, but I honestly use nedit more for viewing then anything. But with typing