Re: [newbie] Ad Blocker for Linux? (Mandrake 8.0)

2001-07-17 Thread DStevenson
On Monday 16 July 2001 11:57, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: There's an article about this on MandrakeForum.com right now. On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 01:42, Jim Lynch wrote: Anybody know of a good ad blocker for Linux? I tried WebWasher but it didn't work right. Is there anything else out there? I

Re: [newbie] 486-dx4-100 and MDK 7.2

2001-07-17 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
At 15.53 17/07/01, Brandon Caudle wrote: shouldn't have a problem!just remeber to not load any services not needed on startup! ~Brandon wrong: LM 7.2 is compiled for i586 (Pentium). Use 7.0 instead. Olaf Marzocchi Configuration: Celeron 333A, 128 MB, 6+3 GB HD, Yamaha OPL3-SA3 ISA

[newbie] Picky sound questions

2001-07-17 Thread Dan Ray
Morning, folks! I have two obnoxiously small concerns about how sound works on my LM8.0 machine, which has a VIA sound device using the VT82C686 [Apollo Super AC97/Audio] module (or, at least, so claims harddrake). First, every now and then I get a clunk from the speakers, as if somebody had

[newbie] XFree 4.1 from Cooker Installation

2001-07-17 Thread Norman Teferle
Dear all, I have downloaded the XFree86 4.1.0 RPMs from Mandrake Cooker and installed them using the Software Manager. When looking in the Mandrake Control Centre after I restarted X there is no option to choose 4.1 instead of 4.03. How can I select and configure Linux to use XFree86 4.1

Re: [newbie] RE: Use of Linux (in public schools)

2001-07-17 Thread Brandon Caudle
yeah but our school is 3800 students alot to teach linux to, since i my self have to study! now we do have 200 linux boxes but most kids don't touch them because they have no clue as to what to do. I teach kids how to use the machines and they do, they find it very intresting but i won't be

RE: [newbie] Sap and Linux

2001-07-17 Thread freddy . mena
As a member of the group that set up the SAP at the company where i work, and as a five year end user of this software i agree; nobody enjoys working with sap. It is a too complex software; the interface and the help system is confusing and too rigid. The basic idea of this software is

RE: [newbie] Next replacement needed: CUTEFTP

2001-07-17 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
I like Kbear. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of John Rigby Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 10:24 PM To: Newbie Subject: [newbie] Next replacement needed: CUTEFTP Hi folks, What advice as a replacement for CuteFTP in M8? -- Cheers,

[newbie] Open GL issues, using NT proxy

2001-07-17 Thread Marchetti, Peter
I just installed M8 on my system. I have a VooDoo3 3000 card. The normal video works fine, but I cannot get any OpenGL software to run. (Example: Tux Racer, ect) This is the error message I get when I try to run an OpenGL program: XLib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0 XLib: extension

Re: [newbie] HTML Bugs in Email - Sure Can!

2001-07-17 Thread Randy Kramer
John, Thanks for the response! I looked a little more at the site and found a statement in the FAQ (first question, IIRC) that confirms these Web bugs can also be in HTML email. I see you're using KMail under Linux, which gives you a lot of options (kmail filter, procmail) to delete HTML mail.

[newbie] What it does during boot?

2001-07-17 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
In order to became a real Linux expert (ehe ehe) I nedd to know what every unix (and Linux, tell me every differencies if there are) system does during boot. As far as I know, everything starts with MBR, then fstab, then the kernel is loaded and devices recognized. After that? Please tell me

Re: [newbie] vmware(trying to install Windows95)

2001-07-17 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Bootdisc errors are often due to a faulty disc (either the software on it or the disc itself). Try another disc. On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 00:08, Marcia Waller wrote: On Monday 16 July 2001 22:36, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Have you got the latest version of VMware? You need 2.0.4 for it to work

Re: [newbie] InteractiveBastille killed my sound!

2001-07-17 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 20:54, etharp wrote: this might be beating a dead horse, but is the mixer set to a reasonable level? I have the same sound card, and while it appeared everything was getting setup, the vol. was so low that ! could not hear sound. I kept failing sndconfig since i could not

[newbie] imwheel = no mouse: Thanks...

2001-07-17 Thread skinky
To Charles and Siro Thanks for your help. Just getting to a terminal without a mouse was great! I didn't uninstall imwheel but as Charles suggested, I ran mousedrake and reconfigured my standard PS/2 mouse which is now working fine again. Had another go at trying to get the cordless

Re: [newbie] RPM failures

2001-07-17 Thread Romanator
John Rigby wrote: Hi folks, No wonder so many people do give up on Linux! :-) I have downloaded for the second time ( in case of error) the IBM WEbsphere package and attempted to install it. All of the responses are fine all the way EXCEPT that the program is nowhere to be seen. Yet if

Re: [newbie] Linux Magazine-8.0 Installation impossible!!Help appreciated

2001-07-17 Thread Romanator
MACK DROFWARC wrote: I just bought 8.0 on Linux magazine's subscription version Linux-Mandrake 8.0 Traktopel-i586 20010418 13:31. I have a smallish harddrive and as such, always format my drive and run ms-dos from disk, then use MSCDEX.exe with oakcdrom.sys and a description of oemcd001

Re: [newbie] RPM failures

2001-07-17 Thread Romanator
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 15:42, John Rigby wrote: Hi folks, No wonder so many people do give up on Linux! :-) I have downloaded for the second time ( in case of error) the IBM WEbsphere package and attempted to install it. All of the responses are fine all the

Re: [newbie] RPM failures

2001-07-17 Thread Romanator
John Rigby wrote: Hi Sridah, On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 16:08, you manipulated electrons to produce: What do you mean by the program is nowhere to be seen? The RPM is installed, right? Try this from a command line: rpm -q packagename ** Yup - says same as the GUI Manager:

Re: [newbie] Open GL issues, using NT proxy

2001-07-17 Thread Romanator
Marchetti, Peter wrote: I just installed M8 on my system. I have a VooDoo3 3000 card. The normal video works fine, but I cannot get any OpenGL software to run. (Example: Tux Racer, ect) This is the error message I get when I try to run an OpenGL program: XLib: extension GLX missing

Re: [newbie] 486-dx4-100 and MDK 7.2

2001-07-17 Thread etharp
as I understand it Mandrake is all optimized for at least pentium class machines and should not be tried on anythinh less than an i586 On Tuesday 17 July 2001 09:53, Brandon Caudle wrote: shouldn't have a problem!just remeber to not load any services not needed on startup! ~Brandon

[newbie] Changing the default directory of WebSphere

2001-07-17 Thread Romanator
John, Rather than having WebSphere install to /opt folder, use the following relocate command to change the default directory. To change the default top directory, use the --relocate option of the rpm command. # rpm -ivh --relocate /opt=Top Directory Package File Name E.g., # rpm -ivh

Re: [newbie] 486-dx4-100 and MDK 7.2

2001-07-17 Thread Michael D. Viron
At 06:43 PM 07/17/2001 -0400, etharp wrote: as I understand it Mandrake is all optimized for at least pentium class machines and should not be tried on anythinh less than an i586 Actually, there is a release 7.0 for i486 processors. We had several workstations (486/66 with 64 MB ram and 3 1 +

Re: [newbie] Managing Zip, CD-ROM, and floppy drives

2001-07-17 Thread Dennis Myers
Judy, once you do a umount on the zip drive you must place another disk in the drive and then type in console mount /mnt/zip assuming that is what it is called in your fstab file. so if you umount you have to then mount again. This should work an unlimited number of times in any session

Re: [newbie] Managing Zip, CD-ROM, and floppy drives

2001-07-17 Thread tazmun
I was able to change permissions for judy (user) with LinuxConf. I gave myself all the permissions I could. I still get annoying messages when I try to do things logged in as judy. Doing su at a console doesn't help alot because unless I know the command that brings up a graphical screen,

Re: [newbie] RPM failures

2001-07-17 Thread John Rigby
I don't get what you're trying to do here. How are you searching? If its installed, you should be able to type the relavant command (IIRC, it's hpbuilder) to load the app. * I suspect it has something to do with WINE and how it is all supposed to startup as well. I have not

Re: [newbie] Linux Magazine-8.0 Installation impossible!!Help appreciated

2001-07-17 Thread Randy Kramer
Romanator wrote: MACK DROFWARC wrote: I am running an 808 meg hdd (ouch!), a 32 meg RAM ,44X CD-rom (ATAPI? ithink) and a 188 Pentium MMX. Either way, you are going will have to connect an external CD ROM to your computer. Without it the installation will not continue. If this is

[newbie] Sony vaio F701/X problems

2001-07-17 Thread Ben Edwards
I am trying to get a sony vaio f701 working with X. I have tried using Xconfigurator but using the NeoMagic drivers the best I can get is a corrupted screen at 640*480 using 8 bit. Anyone got this laptop working? Regards, ben *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ *

Re: [newbie] Managing Zip, CD-ROM, and floppy drives

2001-07-17 Thread Randy Kramer
tazmun wrote: I was able to change permissions for judy (user) with LinuxConf. I gave myself all the permissions I could. I still get annoying messages when I try to do things logged in as judy. Doing su at a console doesn't help alot because unless I know the command that brings up a

[newbie] Teleport a full website to your harddisk

2001-07-17 Thread Juan Carlos Conde
Hello all. There are Windows programs (like Teleport) which permits you browse offline a full website (with all links in n sublevels). Do you know any for Linux? Thanks. -- Juan Carlos Conde e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Valladolid (Spain)Running Linux Mandrake 8.0

Re: [newbie] Linux Magazine-8.0 Installation impossible!!Help appreciated

2001-07-17 Thread Romanator
On Tuesday 17 July 2001 07:43 pm, Randy Kramer wrote: Romanator wrote: MACK DROFWARC wrote: I am running an 808 meg hdd (ouch!), a 32 meg RAM ,44X CD-rom (ATAPI? ithink) and a 188 Pentium MMX. Either way, you are going will have to connect an external CD ROM to your computer.

[newbie] Floppy Problem

2001-07-17 Thread Eric Ng
I has recently installed Mandrake 8 download version on my system. After the installation, everything runs fine except my floppy drive. It cannot read from or write to any floppy disk with ext2 filetype at both root and user account, but it can access any Windows-formatted disk. My /etc/fstab has

Re: [newbie] Ad Blocker for Linux? (Mandrake 8.0)

2001-07-17 Thread Miark
Konqueror can kill JavaScript, but it appears to kill all JavaScript. The Galeon option appears to kill pop-ups specifically. Is that correct? And while I ponder Konqueror, I have one other question: I have Enable Web Shortcuts turned on, and I _thought_ this would allow me to type, say av and

[newbie] MandrakeFreq for 7.2

2001-07-17 Thread Randy Kramer
I'm not clear on how MandrakeFreq for Mandrake 7.2 should be used. Some questions: 1. Last time I reinstalled, I installed Mandrake 7.2, then I repeated the installation procedure with the MandrakeFreq CD. Was this the proper approach? (On another computer, I wiped Mandrake 7.2 off the disk

[newbie] Gates or Novell (was Use of Linux (in public schools))

2001-07-17 Thread Paul
It was Tue, 17 Jul 2001 07:53:27 -0400 when Brandon Caudle wrote: Personally, I don't like Bill Gates, nor his company. And If it came to where I had to chose Netware or 2000 Server, I would go with novell just cause it isn't Microsoft! Brandon Caudle Guess why I did get the Novell CNE

Re: [newbie] Joysticks

2001-07-17 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Tuesday 17 July 2001 05:04, s wrote: On Monday 16 July 2001 09:03 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 17 July 2001 02:25, s wrote: Can anyone brief me on the set up of a joystick? If you're using a 2.4 kernel, add the following to /etc/modules.conf... # Joystick alias char-major-13

Re: [newbie] free news group servers

2001-07-17 Thread Juan Carlos Conde
On Tue 17 Jul 2001 07:17, you wrote: Doesn't your ISP have one? Most do, AFAIK. On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 18:20, KompuKit wrote: I realise this is off topic...but, does anyone know where I can find a free news group server...? I have the same problem. My ISP give me News using a browser in

Re: [newbie] Ad Blocker for Linux? (Mandrake 8.0)

2001-07-17 Thread Jim Lynch
Actually I finally got Web Washer installed and it's great! No more obnoxious spinning ads. If anybody is in need of one, I'd say check it out. It's free at www.webwasher.com. Jim --- civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 17 July 2001 21:19, DStevenson wrote: On Monday 16 July 2001

Re: [newbie] Ad Blocker for Linux? (Mandrake 8.0)

2001-07-17 Thread Jim Lynch
BTW, the beta of Netscape 6.1 has good cookie control. I installed it the other day and no problems so far. Best browser so far I've used on Linux. Jim --- DStevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 16 July 2001 11:57, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: There's an article about this on

Re: [newbie] RPM failures

2001-07-17 Thread Alan Shoemaker
John Rigby wrote: But where has IglooFTP gone, as well?? JohnIglooFTP-PRO installs in the /usr/local directory. It's executable resides in /usr/local/IglooFTP-PRO/bin, but there's also a simlink in the /usr/local/bin (which is in your path) directory called IglooFTP-PRO, so all you

Re: [newbie] RPM failures

2001-07-17 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 15:42, John Rigby wrote: Hi folks, No wonder so many people do give up on Linux! :-) I have downloaded for the second time ( in case of error) the IBM WEbsphere package and attempted to install it. All of the responses are fine all the way EXCEPT that the program is

[newbie] Kernel panic when installing Mandrake 8.0 on a Digital with RAID Mylex Controller

2001-07-17 Thread Orazio . Sgalbiero
Hi, I have the following error at boot time after installation : Kmod:failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-48, errno = 2 VFS:Cannot open root device 3001 or 30:01 Kernel panic:VF:Unable to mount root fs on 30:01 The server is a Digital ZX Prioris with a SCSI Mylex Controller. (2

Re: [newbie] RPM failures

2001-07-17 Thread John Rigby
Hi Sridah, On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 16:08, you manipulated electrons to produce: What do you mean by the program is nowhere to be seen? The RPM is installed, right? Try this from a command line: rpm -q packagename ** Yup - says same as the GUI Manager: is installed!!?? BUT no search

[newbie] oh sh*t! /usr full....

2001-07-17 Thread s
Heep. I just notice my /usr partition is full! I made it 4 gigs, which in the past was plenty. But lately I discovered linux gaming and I think that's what has eat up alot of space. I have about 4 or 5 gigs free space at the end of my disc with /var sitting between /usr and free. What

[newbie] Mystery of disappearing paks Websphere /3

2001-07-17 Thread John Rigby
Hi Sridah and folks, Well, following Sridah's lead, I went and followed up more detail at IBM: You do need a special implementation(?) of WINE and the install puts the package in a directory off root called opt/hpbuilder4 !! I still can't implement it as there is no immediate doc for what to

Re: [newbie] Ad Blocker for Linux? (Mandrake 8.0)

2001-07-17 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Konqueror in KDE 2.2b1 has this feature as well. The popup windows are created with Javascript -- Konqueror and Galeon can block this particular Javascript call while leaing the rest intact. Note, however, that there are some legitimate uses for popup windows that this feature will block

Re: [newbie] oh sh*t! /usr full....

2001-07-17 Thread s
On Tuesday 17 July 2001 04:57 am, you wrote: On Tuesday 17 July 2001 10:42, s wrote: Heep. I just notice my /usr partition is full! Here is what I tried back up the contents of /usr/local ( I am assuming the bulk of your bulk is in there) make a new partition. mounted as

[newbie] IP Aliasing revisited

2001-07-17 Thread Chris Buxton
Hello again, As some readers may recall from last week, I was trying to get my machine to respond on multiple IP addresses on one interface. The solution, I was told, was webmin. So I got webmin working, and I found where in webmin to add IP addresses. But it didn't actually change my

Re: [newbie] InteractiveBastille killed my sound!

2001-07-17 Thread etharp
this might be beating a dead horse, but is the mixer set to a reasonable level? I have the same sound card, and while it appeared everything was getting setup, the vol. was so low that ! could not hear sound. I kept failing sndconfig since i could not here the sounds. On Monday 16 July 2001

[newbie] Bind zone rejected due to errors

2001-07-17 Thread Everill1
Hi everyone I have spent an embarassing amount of time trying to solve this problem but Ijust cannot see where I'm going wrong. Any help from you guys would be much appreciated again. When I try to resolve host names with the named server I get the message *** ev.barnswell.net can't find

Re: [newbie] Linux Magazine-8.0 Installation impossible!!Help appreciated

2001-07-17 Thread etharp
As I am sure some else will let you know that HTML mail is considered un- polite on this mail list. the reason being is that what we see looks like this below. next i would also urge you to try a different version (maybe redhat 6.X something) with the level of power and hard drive space, you

Re: [newbie] RE: Use of Linux (in public schools)

2001-07-17 Thread Paul
All of Mexico and Montpelier Public School in Montpelier, ND--where I teach. jim All of Mexico I read on www.theregister.co.uk that they also go after a similar setup that is based in Australia. A PC's for the poorest project, bringing PC's to the poor people (with winders installed)

Re: [newbie] RE: Use of Linux (in public schools)

2001-07-17 Thread James S Bear
We're a very, very small school but have about 1 machine for every 2 kids K- 12. Last year, all of our PC's were dual boot, winders and redhat. This year, I switched to Mandrake and our new machines are straight mandrake. Dropping winders on the new ones saved enough cash to buy another PC.