[newbie-it] Problemi proxy e modem

Ciao a tutti! Ho problemi per collegarmi ad Internet, o piu' precisamente per navigare usando un proxy e chiedo a voi un suggerimento di cosa devo controllare e mettere a posto. Problema nr. 1 Riesco navigare come root, ma non come utente. Io uso un proxy (esterno, locazione sconosciuta,

[newbie-it] Upgrade del kernel

Salve a tutti, il kernel fornito dalla Mandrake 8.0 mi da una serie di problemi perchè non gestisce bene l'interfaccia SCSI Adaptec 2904CD e l'hardware USB. Ho provato a guardare i vari changelog delle nuove versioni del kernel, ma non sono riuscito a capire se questi problemi sono stati

Re: [newbie-it] Upgrade del kernel

Il 17:01, martedì 31 luglio 2001, scrivesti: Salve a tutti, il kernel fornito dalla Mandrake 8.0 mi da una serie di problemi perchè non gestisce bene l'interfaccia SCSI Adaptec 2904CD e l'hardware USB. Ho provato a guardare i vari changelog delle nuove versioni del kernel, ma non sono

Re: [newbie-it] Mandrake sopra a Red-Hat

On Tuesday 31 July 2001 06:35, you wrote: Ciao a tutti. Io ho installato la mandrake 8 SOPRA a red-Hat 5 (grave sbaglio?) probabilmente:-) se l'unico problema che hai e' il kudzu all'avvio puoi disabilitarlo tramite il mandrake control center alla voce system/services spunta la checkbox boot

Re: [newbie-it] Variabili d'ambiente

On Tuesday 31 July 2001 08:01, Eugenio Odorifero wrote: Salve a tutti, cerco un indicazione su come inserire una variabile d'ambiente su Mandrake 8.0 (o anche un How-To dove spiega queste cose...) Dipende in realta' da che shell stai usando. Se non hai cambiato nulla, e quindi usi la bash ti

Re: [newbie-it] PowerPack

Il 04:30, lunedì 30 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Qualcuno mi sà dire come posso acquistare Mandrake 8.0 PowerPack senza ricorrere alla carta di credito? Grazie a tutti.. www.aroundstore.com contrassegno, bonifico bancario, vaglia postale C.C. Saluti

R: [newbie-it] non riesco a leggere i cd

Se hai palle rigirati i flat così ti ritrovi meno problemi in mastering Ho impostato su secondary master il cdrom e su secondary slave il masterizzatore (come indica peraltro lo schemino del mast.) ed ora funziona tutto a meraviglia. per il tuo problema audio confido nella volontà del pubblico

[newbie-it] masterizzare

Che programma mi consigliate per masterizzare? Ciao.

Re: [newbie-it] Problemi proxy e modem

per il problema n.2 ti consiglio di riconfigurare Kppp indicando la porta seriale che usa il modem , ma il tuo modem è esterno? Il 03:41, martedì 31 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Ciao a tutti! Ho problemi per collegarmi ad Internet, o piu' precisamente per navigare usando un proxy e chiedo a

Re: [newbie-it] X Font Server guasto

Il 12:48, sabato 28 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Quindi, sto da capo a dodici di nuovo. Come faccio a vedere perché non riesce ad inizializzare sto cavolo de path element unix/:-1? Non chiedermi perche`... ma avevo lo stesso problema, ho risolto ripulendo la /tmp (anche le cartelle nascoste) e

Re: [newbie-it] Mdk 8 - Perche' non funzioni?

Il 19:52, giovedì 26 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Scusami per non averti ringraziato subito per l'informazione. Ero troppo preso... ;-))) Grazie di nuovo Via, di nulla :)) Siamo qui per questo ;-) -- Ciao Mr_Brain - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie-it] Problemi con LiViD(playerDVD).

On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 17:19:15 -0400 Renato Bucclli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ho quattro file compressi x installare livid ma dopo vari tentativi ho rinunciato in quanto riesco scompattarne solo 2 e di questi a cofigurarne nessuno. Qual'è la procedura esatta.(Ho molti DVD e sotto Win$$

[newbie-it] variabili di ambiente ed ip

il problema è questo come faccio a passare il mio indirizzo ip come parametro per uno script? mi spiego dopo che sono mi collego al mio isp ho bisogno di conoscere il mio indirizzo ip e di passarlo ad uno script chiamato da ip-up come fare? grazie

Re: [newbie-it] Segnalazione EPSON Stylus Scan 2500

Il 16:36, lunedì 30 luglio 2001, hai scritto: (Se qualcuno è interessato o conosce qualcun altro che lo possa essere...) Non possiedo una Stylus Scan, ma ti chiederei un grosso favore, a nome di tutti quelli che la possiedono [8-?]: che ne dici di scrivere un Epson-Stylus-Scan-2500-HOWTO,

Re: [newbie-it] Mdk 8 - Perche' non funzioni? - Atto finale

Il 19:49, lunedì 30 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Ciao a tutti. Bene finalmente ho ripristinato tutto. Rimarrebbe il floppy... riporta il solito errore di impossibilita' di accesso alla directory /mnt/floppy, ma non lo uso praticamente mai. Ehm.. te l'avranno detto in tanti, ma non ho letto

Re: [newbie-it] Problemi proxy e modem

Ciao a tutti! Ho problemi per collegarmi ad Internet, o piu' precisamente per navigare usando un proxy e chiedo a voi un suggerimento di cosa devo controllare e mettere a posto. prova a mettere l'indirizzo ip del proxy invece del nome nella configurazione di netscape Problema nr. 1

[newbie-it] PGP???

Ciao a tutti! Nei giorni scorsi si è parlato molto di MailReader e di PGP. Io avrei una domanda in merito da super-newbie di Linux: come faccio ad installarmi PGP? Mi spiego meglio: ho una Mandrake 8.0 e mi sono scaricato dal sito www.pgpi.org PGP 6.5.8 in due versioni, ossia il file con l'RPM

RE: [newbie] Font size in Kwrite?

Kwrite fonts are changed by going into the KDE control panel and modifying the defaults and/or the kongueror settings... -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Dr. Evil Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 2:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: [newbie] Fonts for Linux

Adventure is in the fonts-ttf-west_european pacakge. On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 23:39, Terry wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know where I can download some fonts to add to Linux? I'm particularly looking for a font called Adventure. For some reason it is on my computer at home, but not here on my

Re: [newbie] RPM, Debian packages

On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 14:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to get a few things straight. RPM and Debian packages...how do they differ from .tar.gz files? Obviously, they are easier to install and update. Are they more highly compressed also? One of the big benefits of these also, is

Re: [newbie] microsoft gone

On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 13:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am happy to say that win95 is gone. Now My wife used the computer last night. She complained about the fonts in netscape so I will have to fix Netscape can look great if you use your TrueType fonts from Windows. They can be imported via

[newbie] Printscreen -- How, please?

Dear friends: I can't figure out how to create a printscreen. I've been asked by Mozilla to send a printscreen of a certain page. I click on the printscreen /SysRq button above the Insert button on the keyboard. But nothing seems to happen. I don't see a printscreen file in my home directory.

Re: [newbie] Font size in Kwrite?

At 08.35 31/07/01, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 16:02, Dr. Evil wrote: Konqueror is a great web browser, but when I go to view source, it is so small that I can't read it. I have to save it to a file, open a terminal, and look at it with less. That is not a good way to do

Re: [newbie] RPM, Debian packages

At 08.57 31/07/01, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 14:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to get a few things straight. RPM and Debian packages...how do they differ from .tar.gz files? Obviously, they are easier to install and update. Are they more highly compressed

[newbie] wallpaper?!?! READ PLZ!

i saw a wallpaper in a screenshot on the mandrake page it is http://www.linux-mandrake.com/screenshots/traktopel12.jpg and i was wondering whoever has that backround could you send it to me? i would really appreciate it thanx in advance TazgodX ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )

RE: [newbie] Samba Error

The USERNAME and LOGIN that you use when you log in to windows, are passed as credentials to Samba when you attach. You are getting the error because Samba does not have that particular pair in it's password database... Did you smbadduser and/or smbpasswd? -JMS -Original Message-

[newbie] How to restore LM7.2 desktop?

After a system lockup-and-reset over the weekend, I no longer get the default LM7.2 login screen and desktop. I'm talking about the login screen with the cartoon penguins representing users, and the ability for an ordinary user to shut the machine down from that screen. What I *do* get is a

Re: [newbie] microsoft gone

Quite true. You can copy the fonts from a Windows computer using floppy discs, and import them using DrakFont (in the Mandrake Control Centre). This is perfectly legal, since you already own a copy of Windows (assuming your copy is legitimate). On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 21:11, etharp wrote: this

Re: [newbie] software for cd-writer

gcombust and xcdroast are probably your best bets. The best place to look for them would be http://www.rpmfind.net. On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 20:57, etharp wrote: GOD AM I TEMPTED.. ok I give in.. here goes. the MANDRAKE disks have the software for a cd writer (yuk yuk yuk SLAP) I am not all that

[newbie]

I have got LM8.0 and Logitech Mouse Wheel Optical. Everything is working great but the wheel isn't working. How do I get it to work? Browsing without the wheel is really troublesome. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at

Re: [newbie] Aussie charity still doesn't get it

Charlie, Just a couple of simple requests to preserve sanity on the list: 1. Don't post e-mail attachments. They can bog-down the mail server and make mail downloads unnecessarily lengthy for users. 2. The last time I checked, Microsoft had not released a version of MS Word for GNU/Linux.

Re: [newbie] microsoft gone

Is there educational software out there for children? Sorry, can't help you there. Try looking at http://www.seul.org/edu, the Education subgroup of Simple End User Linux (http://www.seul.org). They list quite a few pieces of software. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978

Re: [newbie] Aussie charity still doesn't get it

On Tuesday 31 July 2001 07:56, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Charlie, Just a couple of simple requests to preserve sanity on the list: 1. Don't post e-mail attachments. They can bog-down the mail server and make mail downloads unnecessarily lengthy for users. My bad. I apologize for that. it

Re: [newbie]

I have the genius 3 button optical and a genius 5 button optical. to get the wheels to work i had to set them to use the std ps/2 wheel mouse to get the wheels to work, the genius driver didn't work well. but on the 5 button, the side btns still don't work :( Robert MacLean - Original

[newbie] dependencies locator?

I am getting this when I try to install a small rpm package: error: failed dependencies: /usr/bin/frm is needed by bsd-games-2.12-2 libtinfo.so.5 is needed by bsd-games-2.12-2 could anyone help me locate these dependencies or, better, give me the basic principles in locating

[newbie] DHCP Server

Hi all =) Can anyone help me to learn how to setup a DHCP server under Mandrake 8? Thanx a bunch, Errant

[newbie] portmap services \Kmail

Hi: I am frequently reinstalling Lm8 for various reasons, but I have noticed that on 2 occasions my system hangs while halting the portmap services on every shutdown. On both of these occasions I chose to use Kmail as opposed to Netscape mail. In short, my question is this...could someone

Re: [newbie] Integrating Linux and NT network

On Tuesday 31 July 2001 10:17, Marchetti, Peter wrote: I know I sound like a moron...but I'm having trouble finding the info I need. If anyone knows a doc or a website that will help me, let me know. I'm setting up a server to be a web/e-commerce server. Right now I just want it to work

[newbie] isdn auto dailer

does anyone know about dailer that can detect disconection and then dail again ??? with isdn THNX -- - Oren Gozlan Mobixell Networks Inc. p: +972 9 776 0121 f: + 972 9 740 7373 c: +972 54 536 047 www.mobixell.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

[newbie] Problems typing special characters

Since I installed new versions of three font RPMs (don?t ask why...), I?ve been having problems getting accents and special charaters. For example, when I try and type èêöç I get the following: -in most applications (including gedit and galeon): eeoc (no accents at all) -in Star Office:

[newbie] httpd-perl and httpd

These fail at startup with no error messages. When I type httpd start at the prompt, I get a core dump. Any ideas? Thanks -- Leonard W. Miller, CCNA United Defense, L.P. This message and any attachments to it is intended only for the individual or company to which it is addressed and may

Re: [newbie] portmap services \Kmail

Jennifer, I would have to say that Kmail has nothing to do with it, since portmap is not needed for pop3 / imap / sendmail / postfix. In fact, you do not need to run portmap if you are not running nfs / nis AFAIK (nfs is roughly the unix equivalent to samba, nis is the equivalent to a primary

[newbie] cups.h and language.h missing?

I downloaded Samba, got it to make, and it reported not being able to find the last 2 files...cups.h and language.h. I checked, and sure enough, they aren't there. Where can I find just these two files? Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Printscreen -- How, please?

On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 19:23, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: I can't figure out how to create a printscreen. I've been asked by Mozilla to send a printscreen of a certain page. I click on the printscreen /SysRq button above the Insert

Re: [newbie] SmartMedia adapters

It was Tue, 31 Jul 2001 05:03:21 + (GMT) when Len Lawrence wrote: FlashPath devices can handle SmartMedia cards up to 128 Mb. Extensive tests conducted by Linuxcare show that the device operates very effectively on /dev/fd0 although the transfer rates are very low, apparently. Will report

Re: [newbie] software for cd-writer

It was Mon, 30 Jul 2001 20:47:53 -0700 when Tuan Duc Tran wrote: Does anyone know where do I can get software for my cd-writer working on Linux RedHat 7.1 (server version)/br Thank you/br Tuan Redhat?? This is a mandrake list. But okay, it's linux. xcdroast gcombust etoaster Find them through

Re: [newbie] cups.h and language.h missing?

Peter, Verify that you have cups-devel, which is what provides cups.h -- not sure what provides language.h . Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida cups.h comes from cups-devel At 02:02 PM

[newbie] X server troubles

Hi all ! I have posted some problems here without answer. I know this is a volonteer work, and may be my questions were too stupids, but I will appreciate some attention because I'm on stall for many weeks. I have LM 7.2 on a Pentium II. I've had many problems. Right now is the X server. As my

Re: [newbie] X server troubles

The bright people on this list who may be able to help you will need some more information about your system, such as: Video card Motherboard Monitor RAM A brief description of the problem. Regards, Carroll Gonzalix le Druide wrote: Hi all ! I have posted

Re: [newbie] httpd-perl and httpd

On Tuesday 31 July 2001 01:58 pm, you wrote: These fail at startup with no error messages. When I type httpd start at the prompt, I get a core dump. Any ideas? Thanks -- Leonard W. Miller, CCNA United Defense, L.P. Yes I do, had the same problem. First find out what your computer name

[newbie] voice modem

Hi, I'm considering bying an external 'E-TECH Bullet' voice modem with a Rockwell chipset. The problem is: for legal reasons I want to record a telephone conversation from my phone rather urgently, without buying extra hardware (except the modem) :( I'm sure it's possible, my question is,

[newbie] Apache help

Ok, I have got apache running, put in my own index.html and it works! But how do I link to files I want to make availible? I made a directory /var/www/media but if I link a file that is there, I just get an error message when i click on the link, my link is: http://ip

[newbie] Kernel panic: Reiser FS

Hi gang, I've got a fairly serious problem with my linux box (dual boot with Win98). I left my machine at work running overnight. When I came in this morning it had died and when I attempted to reboot I've got a 'kernel panic' message driven by an inability to mount the root fs (reiser). This

RE: [newbie] cups.h and language.h missing?

installing the cup-devel rpm fixed the problem. Thanks. -Original Message- From: Michael D. Viron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 11:55 AM To: Marchetti, Peter; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [newbie] cups.h and language.h missing? Peter, Verify that you

Re: [newbie] Apache help

On Tuesday 31 July 2001 05:05 pm, you wrote: what is the exact error message? Not Found The requested URL /var/www/media/sbutton.zip was not found on this server. Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/1.3.19 Server at localhost.localdomain Port 80

[newbie] make

Hello, I am a new user of linux mandrake. Installed Linux Mandrake on my pc only hours ago. Doesn't Linux-mandrake have make utility. I need this to make some files. like make config. If no how can i get. Thank You Eshwar _ Get

RE: [newbie] make

It doesn't have it till you install it,, use package manager in drakconf and enter make without the then click search and it will find and load the package for you. piece of cake.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of kiran

[newbie] X server and specs. Help please!

Thank you, Carrroll. Voilà: Trident 975 4Mb Video Card, Soyo SY-6BB Motherboard, Monitor ViewSonic E40, 64 Mb RAM, CPU Pentium II MMX at 350 Mhz. The problem: since the beginning, X didn't work even all my specs are actually on the install list. So, I made a few installations believing I was

[newbie] Where is the proper place the edit the path?

Where is the proper place the edit the path? I notice .bashrc referred to /etc/bashrc and then that reffered to the profile file. Is this file I am supposed to edit or is their a better way to do this?

Re: [newbie] HTML differences in Konqueror, Mozilla, Nautilus, Netscape, etc

thanks for the links Sridhar. I have developed an strategy: I look for a page that has a design similar to mine and looks well in all browsers. If you have a spare time, take a look at www.imaclinux.net it has a design similar to mine. It looks the same in all Linux browsers except Mozilla- this

Re: [newbie] Apache help

On Tuesday 31 July 2001 05:36 pm, you wrote: Jon, There's a few things wrong here: #1. In order to give access to /var/www/media (which isn't under the default document root of /var/www/html), you need to either alias it in the httpd.conf Alias /media /var/www/media/ (without the quotes),

RE: [newbie] X server troubles

You might want to get yourself a new video card. FB support is -SLOW-, and your video adaptor does not have enough RAM for most video modes... -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Gonzalix le Druide Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 3:04

RE: [newbie] Integrating Linux and NT network

You probably want to set up and install Samba on your Linux box. Samba permits Linux to participate in MS Winblows networking. The NT/Win2k boxes will be able to interact with Linux like another Winblows machine. Setting up Samba is far less complicated than it looks. Often merely editing the

[newbie] Quake 2

Castle, start q2 with command line # ./quake2 +set s_initsound 0 this will bypass sound initialization and so you can see if all the other million things are configured right. It depends mainly on your video card- see the quake howto, included in LM8. As for the sound problem, I suggest you try

Re: [newbie] ppp panic

when your system hangs do you have no mouse and keyboard? can you start netscape, type ifconfig and see a ppp entry? or ping something? you may have PPP up and running as a forground job. just leave it and open a different term to type ifconfig On Tuesday 31 July 2001 18:35, Jeferson Lopes

Re: [newbie] Apache help

did I tell you it would be easy and t cl On Tuesday 31 July 2001 18:48, Jon Doe wrote: On Tuesday 31 July 2001 05:36 pm, you wrote: Jon, There's a few things wrong here: #1. In order to give access to /var/www/media (which isn't under the default document root of

RE: [newbie] Integrating Linux and NT network

Maybe for some people, but don't be lulled into a false sense of security, I'm about to tear out all my hair trying to get samba to work. --- Ok I'll bite. Samba is simplicity itself to set up. What problem are you having that makes it seem difficult? I find that the documentation goes

Re: [newbie] Creative SB PCI128 installation problems

I have the same card but it is recognized and uses the es1371 driver. I am running mdk 8.0. Geof * On Monday 30 July 2001 12:59 am, Denis wrote: Hello Newbies, I can't install my Creative SoundBlaster PCI128 based on CT5880

Re: [newbie] LILO and 1024 sector. Is it possible?

You will want to use grub. I am sure there must be an rpm for it. It comes with mdk 8.0 and maybe previous versions. You might find it at rpmfind.net or see this link. http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub.en.html Geof.

Re: [newbie] Quake 2

Nvidia On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, s wrote: I tried to play quake2, and it wouldn't use my video card. The howto spoke only of voodoos. It looked like really bad software rendering. What kind of video card are you guys using? And if other than voodoo, how did you get it to use it? -s On

[newbie] WAP browser for Linux?

Does anyone know if there is a WAP browser for Linux? I'm trying to develop a WAP site, and instead of running up huge charges on my mobile phone, I would like to be able to view the site directly from Linux. Also, I guess I need to figure out how to get Apache to serve WAP. I assume I do

Re: [newbie]: Virus talk and kmail, direct connection

Alan wrote: just read about the SirCam virus - do I panic slowly? You don't panic at all. In order to get infected, you have to open the attachment that contains the virus. I assume you don't open attachments you weren't expecting to get and that you check ALL attachments, regardless of file

Re: [newbie] WAP browser for Linux?

I don't have much exerence with wap, but in webmin there is (under servers) a wap gateway config On Tuesday 31 July 2001 21:52, Dr. Evil wrote: Does anyone know if there is a WAP browser for Linux? I'm trying to develop a WAP site, and instead of running up huge charges on my mobile

[newbie] Monitor LG Studiworks 441

Hi, I've just installed Mandrake 8 and I've a monitor LG Studioworks 441. Mandrake correctly detects the card (Intel 810), but when it attemps to enter X Windows the screen gets black. If I set, using, XConfigurator in console mode, 640 x 480 video mode, then I can enter XWindows mode with

[newbie] Re: UTC Time Standards

Sridhar Dhanapalan stated the following: I've noticed this as well. I have configured cron to periodically use ntpdate to update my system time from an NTP server. This sets my clock to UTC, which is supposed to be translated by the time zone settings so that the display is correct.

[newbie] Mixed Marriage - Making it work, together: CL vs GUI To Help A Newby

Hi Judith, On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 08:48, you manipulated electrons to produce: Sridhar wrote: You mean it isn't intuitive for a Windos user? Then you are correct. For people who have been using *nix for a while this can be very intuitive. Whoa! Intuitive has nothing to do with what OS

Re: [newbie] The differences in people and systems

Hi Judith folks, On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 03:58, you manipulated electrons to produce: I don't want to protract what is essentially an off-topic discussion for this list, so this will be it from me. Actually, this is right on topic for this list. It in fact, is allowing for some

Re: [newbie]

Seeun William Umboh wrote: I have got LM8.0 and Logitech Mouse Wheel Optical. Everything is working great but the wheel isn't working. How do I get it to work? Browsing without the wheel is really troublesome. _ Get your

[newbie] Bastille-firewall hangs on startup

I installed Mandrake 8.0 about a week ago and a couple of days ago after a system crash it started showing problems when the system starts up. I get all the way through the boot and the initial startup to the point where the default console mode login displays; then the system tries to

Re: [newbie] X server and specs. Help please!

I believe the solution may be to install the Xfree 3.x server instead of 4.0. I ran into a similar problem with Mach64 2meg cards--they work fine at 1024x768 and 16 bit color with 3.x, but I can't get more than 256 color (8 bit) with 4.x. The default install puts in the 4.x Xserver. good

Re: [newbie] Monitor LG Studiworks 441

On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 23:22:17 -0400 Aldo Caruso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.monitorworld.com/ There you'll find specs for most monitors Cheers Hi, I've just installed Mandrake 8 and I've a monitor LG Studioworks 441. Mandrake correctly detects the card (Intel 810), but when it

RE: [newbie] Integrating Linux and NT network

LinNeighborhood problems are not what we were discussing as this is really a completely separate issue and program. LinNeighborhood and KDE (Lisa/ReLisa) support are completely different beasts. One requires the other, but the latter two have their own quirks. --- BTW: The SMBMNT message is

Re: [newbie] RPM, Debian packages

It was Tue, 31 Jul 2001 00:07:50 EDT when [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to get a few things straight. RPM and Debian packages...how do they differ from .tar.gz files? Obviously, they are easier to install and update. Are they more highly compressed also? One of the big benefits of

[newbie] 2 questions about web server

1. How do I get password protected site going? I know I need htaccess and htpasswd files? How do I make them and where do I put them? 2. I would like people to be able to upload files to my computer. How do I go about that?

Re: [newbie] make

kiran yedavalli wrote: Hello, I am a new user of linux mandrake. Installed Linux Mandrake on my pc only hours ago. Doesn't Linux-mandrake have make utility. I need this to make some files. like make config. If no how can i get. Thank You Eshwar

Re: [newbie] a big duh

nkey wrote: im just now beginning to run GNOME (was using KDE) and id like to change the color of my fonts on my desktop but cannot find an option anywhere to let me change this! GACK! is it possible to do so? thanks! im using Sawfish and also letting Nautilus draw my desktop. so

Re: [newbie] microsoft gone

It was Mon, 30 Jul 2001 20:25:48 -0700 when [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am happy to say that win95 is gone. Now My wife used the computer last night. She complained about the fonts in netscape so I will have to fix this. At www.rpmfind.net look for mozil*, download and install the mozilla fonts,

Re: [newbie] Apache help

Jon, There's a few things wrong here: #1. In order to give access to /var/www/media (which isn't under the default document root of /var/www/html), you need to either alias it in the httpd.conf Alias /media /var/www/media/ (without the quotes), or move it under /var/www/html. #2. The link

Re: [newbie] win4lin

On Wednesday, Jul 25, 2001, John Rigby wrote: This is not hidden somewhere in Powerpak 8 is it?? Nope, sorry... see www.netraverse.com. -- Paul Cox paul at coxcentral dot com Kernel: 2.4.3-20mdk-win4lin-pcox - Uptime: 19 days 22 hours 16 minutes.

Re: [newbie] Services installed by LM8

Hi Frans, I think you did not understand my problem. LM installed a sound driver that seemed to work fine with my onboard audio -via82cxxx. I don't know if this driver is an OSS driver. But some apps -er games, namely quake2 and 3- wouldn't work with it. I installed ALSA drivers

[newbie] ppp panic

Hi all, In my endless quest to have Internet supporrt under LM, I've been trying to configure pppd and my (win)modem to acesss my ISP and I ran into some trouble. When I tried kppp the program would just hang -sometimes it informed me that ppp was run without the debug option and that I

Re: [newbie] Quake 2

I tried to play quake2, and it wouldn't use my video card. The howto spoke only of voodoos. It looked like really bad software rendering. What kind of video card are you guys using? And if other than voodoo, how did you get it to use it? -s On Tuesday 31 July 2001 06:01 pm, you wrote:

Re: [newbie] LILO and 1024 sector. Is it possible?

Hello, Yes it is. All new versions (I don't remember as of which) support greater than 1024. J On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Geof Steichen wrote: You will want to use grub. I am sure there must be an rpm for it. It comes with mdk 8.0 and maybe previous versions. You might find it at rpmfind.net