[newbie-it] GoLive per Linux

2001-08-26 Thread Sergio Agosti
Ciao a tutti, qualcuno di voi sa se per caso esiste un'applicazione per linux analoga al noto programma per windows GoLive ?

[newbie] Big5 or Mandrake in the land of Formosa.

2001-08-26 Thread Ma Anguo
Frank Chen banged on their keyboard and produced the following arrangement of letters: | That may be caused from my choosing a font to display my letter, and the | encoding is big5! | Frank Hi Frank! nice to see that there is someone else from the Republic of China on this list using Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Simple eth0 question

2001-08-26 Thread Todd Grimes
The reason this occurs is because there is still data on the cable side of the connection. The light flashes for both incoming and outgoing wether its going to you or not. At 02:15 AM 8/26/2001 -0400, you wrote: Ok, I have a cable modem hooked to eth0. I do ifdown eth0 this should shutoff

Re: [newbie] Simple eth0 question

2001-08-26 Thread Joan Tur
Jon Doe escribió: Ok, I have a cable modem hooked to eth0. I do ifdown eth0 this should shutoff my internet connection right? If this is true, why does my cable modems data light still flash? You can try /etc/rc.d/init.d/network stop -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Simple eth0 question

2001-08-26 Thread Lanman
Under most situations this is quite accurate (There is data on the cable side of the connection), but right now, that nasty Code Red virus is also probing internet connections, and that will cause your data light to flash. Since you're running the best O/S on the planet, you don't have a thing

Re: [newbie] Simple eth0 question

2001-08-26 Thread Lanman
On Sunday 26 August 2001 01:41 pm, you wrote: Jon Doe escribió: Ok, I have a cable modem hooked to eth0. I do ifdown eth0 this should shutoff my internet connection right? If this is true, why does my cable modems data light still flash? You can try /etc/rc.d/init.d/network stop --

[newbie] Changing permissions on mount umount commands

2001-08-26 Thread Lanman
Is there a simple way to change permissions on mount and umount ? I would prefer to have the ability to use device icons for my zip, cdrom, and floppy drive, from the desktop, and logged on as a normal user. Will chmod do it, or do I have to complicate matters? Is sudo another option for this?

Re: [newbie] Big5 or Mandrake in the land of Formosa.

2001-08-26 Thread Frank Chen
Hi, Anguo I am glad to meet you on this list too. I know xcin is an input method, and I don't know whether I am using it or not. When I open KEdit, I can press Ctrl + Space to change mode to enter Chinese characters. The size of its list is fine to recognize. And you can change KEdit's setting

Re: [newbie] Changing permissions on mount umount commands

2001-08-26 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sun, 26 Aug 2001 08:59:43 -0400 Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: Is there a simple way to change permissions on mount and umount ? I would prefer to have the ability to use device icons for my zip, cdrom, and floppy drive, from the desktop, and logged on as a normal user.

Greenspun Re: [newbie] Mandrake going public......... not really off topic :-)

2001-08-26 Thread Anguo
John Rigby banged on their keyboard and produced the following arrangement of letters: | A mandatory tale to research is that of a nice fellow and near genius | in his own field, who started a very strange free-world org called | ARSGRATIA - a lovely thing. | THEY ATE HIM. |

Re: [newbie] Changing permissions on mount umount commands

2001-08-26 Thread Anguo
Lanman banged on their keyboard and produced the following arrangement of letters: | Is there a simple way to change permissions on mount and umount ? | I would prefer to have the ability to use device icons for my zip, cdrom, | and floppy drive, from the desktop, and logged on as a normal user.

Re: [newbie] Changing permissions on mount umount commands

2001-08-26 Thread Lanman
Hey Michael? How's things? Long time no read! Thanks for the reply. This is just one of those Nit-Picking, Highly Annoying little hassles that I've never quite gotten a handle on. I'm wondering though, what exacly would be the proper syntax for altering those lines in fstab? I've included a

Re: [newbie] just wondering

2001-08-26 Thread Francis J Keller
I thought this was a technical support list for people trying to learn the mandrake systems not worrying about where they post thier replies s wrote: On Thursday 23 August 2001 07:32 pm, Charles Punch wrote: On Thursday 23 August 2001 07:49 pm, Matt Greer escribió: This list is doing

Re: [newbie] Changing permissions on mount umount commands

2001-08-26 Thread Lanman
Thanks for the suggestion, Anguo, but sudo only allows a non-root user to access a command for about 5 minutes, and I'd like to make this a permanent change. I don't want to have to revalidate every time I want to mount or unmount. If that's the case, it's just as easy tosu to root, and run

Re: [newbie] Changing permissions on mount umount commands

2001-08-26 Thread Michael D. Viron
Is there a simple way to change permissions on mount and umount ? I would prefer to have the ability to use device icons for my zip, cdrom, and floppy drive, from the desktop, and logged on as a normal user. Will chmod do it, or do I have to complicate matters? Is sudo another option for this?

[newbie] MandrakeUpdate wont work

2001-08-26 Thread Peter Watson
I've been trying MandrakeUpdate but cant make it work. First it wont update a list of mirror sites. To try and get round this I found the address of an FTP site on Mandrakes web site and input this manually. The adding source thingy seemed to work and the site appeared on the list of

Re: [newbie] Changing permissions on mount umount commands

2001-08-26 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I must apologise, for I misread the question. What I wrote below applies to (un)mounting fixed devices. For removable devices, you can add yourself to the disk, floppy and cdrom groups. This is relatively secure. On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 00:38, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: The mount/unmount commands

Re: [newbie] Simple eth0 question

2001-08-26 Thread Joan Tur
A Diumenge 26 Agost 2001 07:48, vàreu escriure: You can try /etc/rc.d/init.d/network stop Also true! But if he's running more than one PC, that will shut down INTRANET networking as well. Lanman You're wright. I was thinking in my actual configuration... ;) -- Joan Tur.

Re: [newbie] Simple eth0 question

2001-08-26 Thread Tim Holmes
Also the modem downloads new software for it self from time to time as well. This may have something to do with that. As far as shutting down the network, I'd use the /etc/init.d/networ stop, but ifconfig eth0 down will work as well. But the /etc/init.d/network stop shuts down all the network

[newbie] Kmail URL's

2001-08-26 Thread R C
I currently use Kmail and the Konqueror Browser. I've noticed that when someone sends an email with a URL in the message body, it's highlighted as though I could just click on it and go to that site. But, it doesn't! I know it's not a browser and only a email client! Is there anyway to link

Re: [newbie] Sound still not working

2001-08-26 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 26 August 2001 08:54, you wrote: I have a K7VZA motherboard with a Via VT82C686A onboard sound card. I emailed this list before and someone told me to chmod 666 /dev/mixer* /dev/midi* /dev/dsp* /dev/sequencer* /dev/audio* so I did this and still nothing. Any help? Curt

[newbie] Off Mailing list

2001-08-26 Thread milim1
How do you get off the mailing list ? regards michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] grip problems - playing cds in lm 8.0 with cooker upgrades

2001-08-26 Thread Richie de Almeida
Just a hunch, but try having a look at the cd with CDToaster (I think it's a Gnome app...) Richie On Friday 24 August 2001 15:15, bascule wrote: i have a feeling that my problem may not be linux per se but i would be gratefull for any insights... i have lm 8.0 (freq3 plus cooker kde2.2)

Re: [newbie] Off Mailing list

2001-08-26 Thread Randy Kramer
milim1 wrote: How do you get off the mailing list ? See http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Test/UnsubscribingFromMailingLists. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] IBM Thinkpad 600X

2001-08-26 Thread CastleKidd
Well, I tried and Got LM 8 to go on it. There is just a small X Problem which I asked in another thread called "Funny X Problem" ~Lance

Re: [newbie] Sound still not working

2001-08-26 Thread Curt Stanton
Version is Mandrake 7.0 Nothing about sound came up in the install I don't know what HardDrake is. please tell me I have a K7VZA motherboard with a Via VT82C686A onboard sound card. I emailed this list before and someone told me to chmod 666 /dev/mixer* /dev/midi* /dev/dsp*

Re: [newbie] Sound still not working

2001-08-26 Thread Bill
add the following line in your /etc/modules.conf file alias sound-slot-0 via82cxxx_audio On Sunday 26 August 2001 09:44 am, you wrote: Version is Mandrake 7.0 Nothing about sound came up in the install I don't know what HardDrake is. please tell me I have a K7VZA motherboard with a

Re: [newbie] Sound still not working

2001-08-26 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 26 August 2001 09:44 am, thus spake Curt Stanton: Version is Mandrake 7.0 Nothing about sound came up in the install I don't know what HardDrake is. please tell me HardDrake (included with Mandrake version 7.2, don't know if it was in

Re: [newbie] Well, Hell - hey Civileme!

2001-08-26 Thread civileme
On Sunday 26 August 2001 16:36, John Simmons wrote: At 05:42 AM 8/26/2001 +0200, you wrote: On Sunday 26 August 2001 03:33, John Simmons wrote: At 02:34 AM 8/26/2001 -0400, you wrote: cat /etc/resolv.conf # search satx.rr.com search viewplan ^^^ DELETEor

Re: [newbie] AudioGalaxy

2001-08-26 Thread TezcatlipocA
On Friday 24 August 2001 21:02, Marcia Waller wrote: Dear All, I started an account at AudioGalaxy and thought I had downloaded and installed the linux application correctly. It tried to download a song but was unsuccessful so when I went back to try again it just told me my satellite was

[newbie] Linux Lunacy....

2001-08-26 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Just curious - anyone going on the Linux Lunacy 7 day cruise in the Caribeaan? (sp?). Its in October, and my fiance' and I are going to use it for a honeymoon, -'Nix- style! Somebody congratulate me, the date is October 19th! ;- --

[newbie] Odd printer action....

2001-08-26 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Every so often (not consistent) from a cold start, my HP Deskjet 694c will do the flashing orange light thingy, where you have to push it to continue, and then it ejects 1 sheet of paper. Doesn't seem to affect anything, Cups continues to print fine, no problems. Didn't do it until my last MB

[newbie] Mandrake 8 Installation Fail - lilo

2001-08-26 Thread milim1
Hi, When I installed Mandrake 8 onto my PII machine, I have encountered the following problem when Mandrake is installing the bootloader: Installation of bootloader failed. The following error occured: Device 0x1600: Invalid partition table, 3rd entry 3D address: 63/254/1022(16434494) Linear

[newbie] sound card and cd player

2001-08-26 Thread Scott
If I can play an audio cd in Mandrake with the cd player, does this necessarily that my sound card works or can the cd player play an audio cd without a properly configured sound card? Thanks, SW Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Linux Lunacy....

2001-08-26 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 26 August 2001 15:57, you wrote: Just curious - anyone going on the Linux Lunacy 7 day cruise in the Caribeaan? (sp?). Its in October, and my fiance' and I are going to use it for a honeymoon, -'Nix- style! Somebody congratulate me, the date is October 19th! ;-

Re: [newbie] sound card and cd player

2001-08-26 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 26 August 2001 16:05, you wrote: If I can play an audio cd in Mandrake with the cd player, does this necessarily that my sound card works or can the cd player play an audio cd without a properly configured sound card? Thanks, SW

Re: [newbie] Odd printer action....

2001-08-26 Thread mike hodder
On Sunday 26 August 2001 04:00 pm, you wrote: Every so often (not consistent) from a cold start, my HP Deskjet 694c will do the flashing orange light thingy, where you have to push it to continue, and then it ejects 1 sheet of paper. SNIP My DJ970Cse does the same thing following an install

Re: [newbie] Linux Lunacy....

2001-08-26 Thread Tim Holmes
Congrats on your your pending nuptuals. :0) Where can I find some information on the cruise? tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Use Vi! Uptime: 4:56pm up 10

Re: [newbie] Linux Lunacy....

2001-08-26 Thread d
LURKER here, Congrats. A little word of advice, I am sure you never have had any nor will you from any others. When my wife and I married 38 years ago we made an agreement that this was more than a marrage, it is a partnership and any decisions made that effected both would be agreed upon

Re: [newbie] Odd printer action....

2001-08-26 Thread Randy Kramer
mike hodder wrote: My DJ970Cse does the same thing following an install of 8.0. Never did before. Funny thing is, it prints one tiny black diamond at the top of the page before ejecting. Thereafter, all is OK. Just more linux magick, I guess. This can't be related, but my Panasonic 1092i

Re: [newbie] sound card and cd player

2001-08-26 Thread Leif Madsen
On-board sound is basically your sound card attached to your motherboard. A sound card is a seperate peice of equipment which typically goes into an ISA or PCI slot. Onboard sound cannot be removed from the board, but the card can. You can sometimes disable the onboard sound though (either

RE: [newbie] Mandrake 8 Installation Fail - lilo

2001-08-26 Thread Charles A Edwards
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of milim1 Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 4:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 8 Installation Fail - lilo Hi, When I installed Mandrake 8 onto my PII machine, I have

Re: [newbie] sound card and cd player

2001-08-26 Thread Scott
On Sunday 26 August 2001 15:28, you wrote: On Sunday 26 August 2001 16:05, you wrote: If I can play an audio cd in Mandrake with the cd player, does this necessarily that my sound card works or can the cd player play an audio cd without a properly configured sound card? Thanks, SW

[newbie] kde 2.2 install

2001-08-26 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi, I would like to try to upgrade my 2.1 to a 2.2 . Is there a faq or a 'howto' for the kde upgrade? Thanks and congrats darklord Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] No Sound for CD

2001-08-26 Thread Matt Harrison
On Sunday 26 August 2001 01:15, Ton Strijbosch wrote: On Sunday 26 August 2001 06:35, Matthew Harrison wrote: Hey Gang, Slight problem. When I try to play a cd using CD Player, I get no sound from the cd even though it says its playing. But, I get sound from KDE themes and

Re: [newbie] sound card and cd player

2001-08-26 Thread Scott
I have a compaq 5220 . The only thing I really know about the sound is that it says it has Yamaha XG 128 Voice Wavetable Sound. There is no sound card recognized in harddrake and I don't get sound on the web or when I play mpegs, but I can play cd's with the cd player (although the volume

[newbie] Boot Information

2001-08-26 Thread R C
I noticed during the boot process that two particular lines come up each and every time: Checking Root Filesystem /dev/hda# .clean. But once in a while I notice that when the line comes up it says: Checking Root Filesystem /dev hda#, Has Reached Maximal Mount Count, Check Forced

[newbie] Booting Information?

2001-08-26 Thread R C
I noticed during the non-graphic boot process, two particular lines change information now and then. Usually I see: Checking Root Filesystem /dev/hda#...clean..[OK] But then I get: Checking Root Filesystem /dev/hda# has reached maximal mount count, check forced. [OK] Is this info

Re: [newbie] Linux Lunacy....

2001-08-26 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sun, 26 Aug 2001 15:57:36 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: RH Just curious - anyone going on the Linux Lunacy 7 day cruise in the RH Caribeaan? RH (sp?). RH RH Its in October, and my fiance' and I are going to use it for a RH honeymoon, RH -'Nix- style! RH RH

Re: [newbie] Linux Lunacy....

2001-08-26 Thread skinky
On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 14:02, you wrote: LURKER here, Congrats. A little word of advice, I am sure you never have had any nor will you from any others. When my wife and I married 38 years ago we made an agreement that this was more than a marrage, it is a partnership and any decisions made

Re: [newbie] Odd printer action....

2001-08-26 Thread skinky
On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 09:03, you wrote: mike hodder wrote: My DJ970Cse does the same thing following an install of 8.0. Never did before. Funny thing is, it prints one tiny black diamond at the top of the page before ejecting. Thereafter, all is OK. Just more linux magick, I guess. This

Re: [newbie] Odd printer action....

2001-08-26 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 26 August 2001 18:55, you wrote: On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 09:03, you wrote: mike hodder wrote: My DJ970Cse does the same thing following an install of 8.0. Never did before. Funny thing is, it prints one tiny black diamond at the top of the page before ejecting. Thereafter, all

Re: [newbie] Kmail URL's

2001-08-26 Thread Anguo
R C banged on their keyboard and produced the following arrangement of letters: - I currently use Kmail and the Konqueror Browser. I've noticed that when - someone sends an email with a URL in the message body, it's highlighted - as though I could just click on it and go to that site. But, it

Re: [newbie] Boot Information

2001-08-26 Thread Anguo
R C banged on their keyboard and produced the following arrangement of letters: - Checking Root Filesystem /dev hda#, Has Reached Maximal Mount Count, Check - Forced - - What is is line telling me? - - Roger I think it means that the system was not properly unmounted, as when you do a hard

sudo timeout? (Re: [newbie] Changing permissions on mount umount commands

2001-08-26 Thread Anguo
Lanman banged on their keyboard and produced the following arrangement of letters: - Thanks for the suggestion, Anguo, but sudo only allows a non-root user to - access a command for about 5 minutes, and I'd like to make this a permanent - change. I don't want to have to revalidate every time I

Re: [newbie] Kmail URL's

2001-08-26 Thread Peter Watson
On Monday 27 August 2001 00:03, Anguo wrote: R C banged on their keyboard and produced the following arrangement of letters: - I currently use Kmail and the Konqueror Browser. I've noticed that when - someone sends an email with a URL in the message body, it's highlighted - as though I

RE: [newbie] Mandrake 8 Installation Fail - lilo

2001-08-26 Thread Charles A Edwards
-Original Message- From: milim1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 5:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8 Installation Fail - lilo How do I check if they are installed. I guess they are in the BIOS, right ? because my whole HD

[newbie] It really is that good.

2001-08-26 Thread Anguo
full article here: http://www.canadacomputes.com/v3/story/1,1017,7144,00.html?tag=81sb=79 The final verdict? For the longest time, RedHat 6.0 was my favourite Linux distribution. It wasn't the first one I'd used, but it was the best. I've run innumerable other distributions since then, but

RE: [newbie] Boot Information

2001-08-26 Thread Charles A Edwards
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anguo Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 7:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Boot Information R C banged on their keyboard and produced the following arrangement of letters:

[newbie] Mandrake 8.1 i686 edition (poll)

2001-08-26 Thread Anguo
Would you be interested in a Linux Mandrake 8.1 i686 edition? http://pclinuxonline.com/pollBooth.php?op=resultspollID=30 See poll results. I have a duron 750mhz. does this count as a i686? Is there such a thing as a Linux Mandrake 8.1 i586 edition? Anguo Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Kmail URL's

2001-08-26 Thread skinky
On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 11:03, you wrote: R C banged on their keyboard and produced the following arrangement of letters: - I currently use Kmail and the Konqueror Browser. I've noticed that when - someone sends an email with a URL in the message body, it's highlighted - as though I could just

[newbie] Extra Apps in 8.0

2001-08-26 Thread Dennis Myers
I haven't seen it mentioned much at all, so I thought I would bring up to the list the fact that the #5 CD in the powerpack addition is chock full of extra apps. You have to use su or root and mnt the cd to select them or add them to your system, but wow there are a bunch above and beyond

[newbie] Couple Questions

2001-08-26 Thread David Cox
i have a 486 and a 233. i want to use one for a firewall only and one for a server only. Can someone tell me which one i should use for which, and about how much hard drive space each one will take. also since i dont know a lot of command line stuff, i will have to use a inteface. (probably

Re: [newbie] religion in linux

2001-08-26 Thread Pascal Goguey
Hello, 16:9 And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by how you use worldly wealth, so that when it runs out you will be welcomed into the eternal homes. 16:10 "The one who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and the one who is dishonest in a very little is also

Re: [newbie] Disappearing 'OK' and 'Cancel' buttons

2001-08-26 Thread Anguo
Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) banged on their keyboard and produced the following arrangement of letters: - Messing around in Linux on Mandrake 8 with GNOME and SAWFISH in the - Mandrake Control Centre sees me almost all the time being unable to see - the 'OK' and other buttons at the bottom of the

Re: [newbie] AudioGalaxy

2001-08-26 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear Sridhar and TezcatlipocA, Thanks for the explicit directions. I think I can make this work now. I will give it a try as soon as I get a chance and let you know if it worked. Thanks, Marcia Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1;

[newbie] kde 2.2 install (how I did it)

2001-08-26 Thread John W
I managed to get KDE 2.2 installed and operative. I followed Civilime's advice and did urpme kde followed with, cd directory of kde rpm's rpm -ivh *.rpm Ran into numerous dependencies, eliminated the KDE rpm's I didn't want causing dep. issues then ran rpm -ivh *.rpm and looked at the deps.

Re: [newbie] keyboard settings

2001-08-26 Thread David E. Fox
I've found Configuartion -- KDE -- Peripherals -- Keyboard in order to set keyboard repeat, but how do I set the rate at which it repeats? I didn't see anything in KDE control panel that would let you change the repeat rate. Can someone show me how to do this graphically and in a terminal?

Re: [newbie] Deleting Netscape .snm files?

2001-08-26 Thread David E. Fox
There are too many folders and sub folders for me to delete each *.snm file via the GNOME file manager so I thought I'd resort to the Linux Use find to locate the files, and then do an rm on what files it finds. find . =name *.snm | xargs rm A shorter way: rm `find . -name *.shm` If there

Re: [newbie] Linux Lunacy....

2001-08-26 Thread Roger Sherman
On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Just curious - anyone going on the Linux Lunacy 7 day cruise in the Caribeaan? (sp?). Its in October, and my fiance' and I are going to use it for a honeymoon, -'Nix- style! Somebody congratulate me, the date is October 19th! ;- Congrats

[newbie] viewsonic A70

2001-08-26 Thread Noah Richards
I'm having some troubles with my viewsonic A70. During install, boot, and at any time on one of the six text terminals, the frequency is too high for the monitor, although it is fine in X. Is there any way to change the frequency for boot and for the terminals? I know how to adjust refresh

Re: [newbie] keyboard settings

2001-08-26 Thread R C
On Sunday 26 August 2001 11:46 pm, you wrote: I've found Configuartion -- KDE -- Peripherals -- Keyboard in order to set keyboard repeat, but how do I set the rate at which it repeats? I didn't see anything in KDE control panel that would let you change the repeat rate. Can someone show

Re: [newbie] mplayer

2001-08-26 Thread Len Lawrence
On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Red Hat's GCC is _not_, as some will tell you, buggy. It is just fussier and less forgiving with code. Mandrake's GCC is a pruning from the (then unfinished) GCC 3.0 tree. It was called 2.96 simply because the number had been vacated by the