[newbie-it]

2001-08-27 Thread LordZe
SITUAZIONE: 3 file iso di ciraca 650MB. fatto download dei file da www.linuxiso.org (perla cronaca immagini della debian) e il test md5 risultava (su partizione RiserFs) ... copiati i 3 files su un disco NTFS5 e fatto il medesimo test con md5sum.exe (scaricato dal medesimo sito) mi torna tutti e

[newbie-it] mandrake 8 installazione

2001-08-27 Thread Alex Dub
cari amici , ho installato per la prima volta mandrake 8 ( già conoscevo linux avendo provato corel linux e redhat). il problema che mi accade ,dopo una installazione tranquilla seconda la procedura raccomandata da principiante, è ke alla fine nel momento in cui deve riavviare si blocca!! ho

R: [newbie-it] mandrake 8 installazione

2001-08-27 Thread LordZe
durante l'installazione se premi ALT-F3 vedrai i log di sistema e se premi ALT-F4 vedrai i lgo del kernel (ALT-F1 per tornare nella modalita grafica normale) questi tasti funzionano nelle istallazioni testuali (tutte) in teoria dovrebbero funzionare anche in quella grafica (non ho mai orivato

[newbie-it] mandrake 8 installazione

2001-08-27 Thread Alex Dub
cari amici , ho installato per la prima volta mandrake 8 ( già conoscevo linux avendo provato corel linux e redhat). il problema che mi accade ,dopo una installazione tranquilla seconda la procedura raccomandata da principiante, è ke alla fine nel momento in cui deve riavviare si blocca!! ho

Re: [newbie-it] visualizzazione caratteri

2001-08-27 Thread Daniele Micci
Il 02:02, mercoledì 25 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Il 10:08, martedì 24 luglio 2001, hai scritto: Il 16:16, martedì 24 luglio 2001, hai scritto: [CUT] Una domanda: che scheda grafica hai, quale processore usa, quanta ram ha installata a bordo (della scheda) ? Potrebbe essere un

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

2001-08-27 Thread skinky
On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 09:03, skinky wrote: [snip] Lately tho, CUPS isn't starting so I just get an error msg telling me so. Could someone please tell me what the command is to start CUPS? This all started after installing KDE2.2. Cheers skinky On Monday 27 August 2001 10:07,

Re: [newbie] DCOPserver failure

2001-08-27 Thread Mohammed Arafa
update: dcopserver creates a file in each user's directory called .DCOPserver.localhost.localdomain the reason i couldnt log in to kde was that ALL /home/user directories had owner nobody, i changed the owner and logged in and even logged onto the net. i would like to thank bascule for giving

Re: [newbie] Graphics Card

2001-08-27 Thread Robert MacLean
Hi I personally found that a Geforce 2 MX is the best all round card on the market. It isn't a high end gaming card, but you can still get 50+ FPS in a game which is nice if you need to unwind. The duel head support is also very nice in terms of a do presentations for work, and so is the TV out.

Re: [newbie] no quiero mas email

2001-08-27 Thread Anguo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] banged on their keyboard and produced the following arrangement of letters: - por favor no enviarme mas email - No problem. Which version do you use? What is your hardware configuration? Did you install RTFM.1.01.mdk8.0.tar.gz? Anguo Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] KMail

2001-08-27 Thread gunner carstens
I have used KMail with no problems for some months now. Suddenly it makes this problem: Sending failed: RCPT a SMTP error occured. Response: 553, sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1) Return code: 553. The following transport protocol was used

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 i686 edition: what's in it?

2001-08-27 Thread Anguo
Michael D. Viron banged on their keyboard and produced the following arrangement of letters: - Is there such a thing as a Linux Mandrake 8.1 i586 edition? - - Anguo, - - By default, Mandrake's distributions are built for i586--the 'i586 edition' - would be extraneous. - - Michael I guess you

RE: [newbie] Port 111 scan

2001-08-27 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
That is normally the port for Sun's RPC. However it sounds like you are getting attacked! -JMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner@linux- |mandrake.com] On Behalf Of Dennis Myers |Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 9:51 PM |To: Newbie

RE: [newbie] No Sound for CD

2001-08-27 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
You have connected the Digital I/O cable to the CD. Two wires right? While this works (you'll need to enable the mixer apps to turn it on, as it is off by default)... you really need to use an analog CD audio cable, as this is what most Linux apps expect. -JMS [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID

2001-08-27 Thread Robert MacLean
heres my personal stand on M$. If you think of every one of M$ products with the exception of the OS's, and imagine all the products ran on a decent OS's (eg Linux :) then think how good M$ really is. There downfall is that they have a 2 bit OS and they charge too much for there products. M$

Re: [newbie] tuxracer getting bad framerates

2001-08-27 Thread Robert MacLean
the problem is the default nv drivers. opengl under that is terrible. get the ones off of nvidias web site (aka the nvidia ones) and you should be getting at least 50-55 fps. Well I have a geforce 2MX with a AMD k6-2 550Mhz and 384Megs of ram and I get 50-55 FPS so you should get more. I'm also

[newbie] Membership?

2001-08-27 Thread Isaac Curtis
I'm just curious how many people receive this email list. I counted almost exactly 300 people who have written to it at least once in the few weeks I've been on board. I actually had a specific reason I wanted to know this earlier today, but my memory ain't what it used to be and so if

[newbie] Applications for Programming

2001-08-27 Thread Isaac Curtis
Hey All, As I think I said in my other email, I am just finishing Kernighan Ritchie's The C Programming Language 2nd edition and I also lifted a copy of Learning the Bash Shell (O'Reilly) tonight that I'm starting to get into. My question/request is that I'm very excited to be learning

Re: [newbie] Sharp electronic organizer

2001-08-27 Thread yvan_linux
Sharp will bring a new Zaurus modell out this fall (in the US) and next spring in europe) This modell will have linux installed from scratch, a Java engine and a AmigaDE virtual sandbox. Dear All, I want to purchase a Sharp Electronic Organizer/PDA. It can share information between a PC and

RE: [newbie] Applications for Programming

2001-08-27 Thread Franki
Hi, Well, the languages I have either learned or are learning are: -- Perl (my fav and a sysadmin's best friend, Also argueable the best language for CGI scripts, and a piece of cake to learn.) -- PHP, (useful for many of the same things as perl, more useful in some areas, less in

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 i686 edition: what's in it?

2001-08-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 17:04, Anguo wrote: Michael D. Viron banged on their keyboard and produced the following arrangement of letters: - Is there such a thing as a Linux Mandrake 8.1 i586 edition? - - Anguo, - - By default, Mandrake's distributions are built for i586--the 'i586 edition' -

Re: [newbie] KMail

2001-08-27 Thread Robert MacLean
Hi That error is coming from your mail server. There is something about the persons email address that it doesn't like. Try contacting your mail admin. HTH Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: gunner carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake newbie-list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID

2001-08-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 16:40, Robert MacLean wrote: heres my personal stand on M$. If you think of every one of M$ products with the exception of the OS's, and imagine all the products ran on a decent OS's (eg Linux :) then think how good M$ really is. There downfall is that they have a 2 bit

Re: [newbie] Applications for Programming

2001-08-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I'm not much of a programer, but this often can work to my advantage when helping newbies (e.g. I don't say stuff like Assembly is easy. Start with that). On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 17:32, Isaac Curtis wrote: Hey All, As I think I said in my other email, I am just finishing Kernighan Ritchie's

Re: [newbie] OT open-source software is good enough for Microsoft

2001-08-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 12:22, Tim Holmes wrote: I think it's been basic knowledge for some time, that the Windows kernel was an adapted BSD kernel. They've never really tried to prove they did or didn't. No, the Windows kernel is not based on UNIX at all. The Windows NT core was a fork from

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 i686 edition: what's in it?

2001-08-27 Thread Anguo
Sridhar Dhanapalan banged on their keyboard and produced the following arrangement of letters: - AMD Athlons and Durons have their own architecture (and even their own - compilation options in gcc), but are also compatible with i686. The AMD K6 - series is Pentium-class, and so is 1586

[newbie] kmail filter question

2001-08-27 Thread Jim Kempton
Hey all Anyone suggest how to filter any incoming mail containing HTML and forward it straight to trash? tia Jim -- MJK Systems-IT Consultants Training Phone/Fax-020 8697 4912 Mobile-077 4066 3292 Linux User #-196384 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

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

2001-08-27 Thread Anguo
Hi Frank! Frank Chen banged on their keyboard and produced the following arrangement of letters: - 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

[newbie] Movement of Windows Netscape files to Linux

2001-08-27 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
I have managed to set-up Netscape under Linux and wonder if I start using it if I can add messages to existing folders and more folders by copying them from Windows mnt directory without overwriting the existing contents of the folders that are there i.e. I currently have 26 items in my sent

Re: [newbie] booting windoze

2001-08-27 Thread Anguo
Hi Terry, I notice you email in my pile of unread messages... I see that no one seem to have replied at all... Were you able to solve the problem? I am afraid that I am not competent enough to be able to help you, but don't hesitate to post again your question should you still have problems

Re: [newbie] software manager hangs

2001-08-27 Thread Anguo
Hi Mike, Has anyone been able to help you? I am not very familiar with rpm... I have been avoiding to install manually... So I hope someone will be able to give you some advice. As far as software manager is concerned, I had very similar problems... worse actually. This program seems to be

Re: [newbie] kmail filter question

2001-08-27 Thread Anguo
Jim Kempton banged on their keyboard and produced the following arrangement of letters: - Anyone suggest how to filter any incoming mail containing HTML and forward it straight to trash? -- it would be easier to set up kmail to display mail as plain text only, regardless of the source.

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

2001-08-27 Thread Frank Chen
Anguo: yes xcin is the input method you use when you press ctrl+space. It is not the size in kedit that bother me but the size in the little box when I input chinese. I have a 14'' monitor and it really looks small and I haven't yet found a way to increase the font size. It's not yet at

Re: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID

2001-08-27 Thread Matt Greer
- Original Message - From: Robert MacLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] heres my personal stand on M$. If you think of every one of M$ products with the exception of the OS's, and imagine all the products ran on a decent OS's (eg Linux :) then think how good M$ really is. There downfall is that

Re: [newbie] kmail filter question

2001-08-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001 01:13, Jim Kempton wrote: Hey all Anyone suggest how to filter any incoming mail containing HTML and forward it straight to trash? How about filtering the message body for tags like HTML and /HTML? -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come

Re: [newbie] no quiero mas email

2001-08-27 Thread Randy Kramer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: por favor no enviarme mas email Try http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Test/UnsubscribingFromMailingLists, sorry, it's in English -- I don't know much Spanish. Hope this helps, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] windows shared printer??

2001-08-27 Thread Jhun Bacala
Hi All! I have this HP Laserjet 1100 in our network connected to WIN95 machine. And I want to a document from my Mandrake 8.0, What should I do to be able to print to that printer? Samba is installed in my Mandrake box. Thanks Jhun Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Deleting Netscape .snm files?

2001-08-27 Thread Michael D. Viron
At 09:51 PM 08/26/2001 -0700, you wrote: 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

RE: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID

2001-08-27 Thread Mark Johnson
This isn't really on topic here, but does anyone know of any sites the compare what UI aspects of Microsoft are poor in relation to Mac (and for that matter KDE and GNOME). I always hear the Mac's UI is superior than MS, but to tell you the truth, I've never heard that claim backed up. It's very

Re: [newbie] windows shared printer??

2001-08-27 Thread Jim Kempton
Can you see the 95 box from Mandrake? i.e. in Network Neighbourhood? Or can you ping it? If so then then you need to tell 95 to share the printer, go to the printers folder and right click the printer and choose properties, then choose sharing and set it on. Then, as root, in Mandrake got

Re: [newbie] windows shared printer??

2001-08-27 Thread Dave Sherman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 27 August 2001 07:21 am, thus spake Jhun Bacala: I have this HP Laserjet 1100 in our network connected to WIN95 machine. And I want to a document from my Mandrake 8.0, What should I do to be able to print to that printer? Samba is

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 i686 edition (poll)

2001-08-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 26 August 2001 07:16 pm, Anguo escribió: 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? To verify your cpu architecture just type 'arch'

Re: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID

2001-08-27 Thread Matt Greer
on 8/27/01 7:58 AM, Mark Johnson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This isn't really on topic here, but does anyone know of any sites the compare what UI aspects of Microsoft are poor in relation to Mac (and for that matter KDE and GNOME). I always hear the Mac's UI is superior than MS, but to

Re: [newbie] KMail

2001-08-27 Thread gunner carstens
Robert MacLean wrote: Hi That error is coming from your mail server. There is something about the persons email address that it doesn't like. Try contacting your mail admin. HTH This does not quite make sense, as I can send to the same mail adress from Netscape without problems?? /

Re: [newbie] Linux Lunacy....

2001-08-27 Thread Charles Punch
Dennis Myers wrote: 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

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

2001-08-27 Thread Charles Punch
"Ronald J. Hall" 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. I had something similar happen on a HP Deskjet 632C and I traced it back to

[newbie] File sharing Windows, Samba and LISa

2001-08-27 Thread Derek Jennings
Interesting to see the subject of LISa brought up on Mandrake Forum. I can trade some tips on setting up LISa in exchange for a question on Samba I'm  happy to say LISa works very well for me with just 2 caveats. 1/ The Configuration GUI in Control Centre has some shortcomings. If you

Re: [newbie] Applications for Programming

2001-08-27 Thread Kirby Urner
Howdy Isaac -- If you're willing to go for that 2nd language already, I recommend Python, which comes on your MDK CDs. If you've got the full install for that, you'll find IDLE under Applications | Development. IDLE is a GUI shell allowing you to interact with Python in a command line

Re: [newbie] KMail

2001-08-27 Thread R C
gunner I had the same problem. I could send my mail out w/other mail clients but kmail gave me the same error message as you. I'm a beginning novice and I just play around w/settings to find out what works, so I loaded both settings for Kmail and, say, Netscape. I compared the two to

[newbie] File set up

2001-08-27 Thread Scott Parks
Just a simple question, how are most of you setting up your file systems for install? /boot / /swap /usr /var /home or are you doing one big / Coming from BSD we did the first with all the different partitions. -Scott Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID

2001-08-27 Thread Charles Punch
Robert MacLean wrote: heres my personal stand on M$. If you think of every one of M$ products with the exception of the OS's, and imagine all the products ran on a decent OS's (eg Linux :) then think how good M$ really is. There downfall is that they have a 2 bit OS and they charge too

Re: [newbie] Sharp electronic organizer

2001-08-27 Thread Charles Punch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sharp will bring a new Zaurus modell out this fall (in the US) and next spring in europe) This modell will have linux installed from scratch, a Java engine and a AmigaDE virtual sandbox. Thanx muchly for the info. A few questions; 1.)What is AmigaDE Virtual Sandbox?

Re: Re: [newbie] OT open-source software is good enough for Microsoft

2001-08-27 Thread Jim Dawson
Also check out: OpenWindows http://www.owpcentral.com ReactOS http://www.reactos.com -Original Message- From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tim Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 18:40:59 +1000 Subject: Re: [newbie] OT open-source software is

Re: Re: [newbie] OT open-source software is good enough for Microsoft

2001-08-27 Thread Jim Dawson
Actually, the NT kernel is closer to VMS. In fact, Microsoft hired some of the key VMS engineers from Digital to design NT. -Original Message- From: Tim Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 22:22:05 -0400 Subject: Re: [newbie] OT open-source software is

Re: [newbie] File sharing Windows, Samba and LISa

2001-08-27 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 27 August 2001 13:08, you wrote: By the sound of your email, I got the impression that your talking about a network at your office, and I wanted to be sure you knew about this potential bug in Lisa, although I'd prefer to call it a major BUG!! in MS Windows NT 2000! Ouch!!

Re: [newbie] Linux Lunacy....

2001-08-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Michael Scottaline wrote: Hey congratulations, Ron!! Especially on having a future Mrs. who thinks that's a honeymoon. My bride would Bobbitt me ouch, I hate when that happens... ;o) Best of Luck, Mike grin Thanks! Well, I figured I'd hit the Linux conf.'s during daylight hours...O

Re: [newbie] Linux Lunacy....

2001-08-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Marcia Waller wrote: Congratulations! Great idea to mix Linux cruise and honeymoon. I like the great advice below. Thanks for sharing. May the Blessings Be, Marcia Thank you much! ;-) --

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

2001-08-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
skinky wrote: It seems strange that even after CUPS is started the printer cannot connect to the CUPS server until I supposedly edit the printer config. Does anyone know why this happens? Or why CUPS won't start on boot like it did before I installed KDE2.2? (It is selected to start on

Re: [newbie] Linux Lunacy....

2001-08-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
d 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 that effected both would be

Re: [newbie] Linux Lunacy....

2001-08-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Roger Sherman wrote: Congrats (or my sympathies, whichever applies ;-))! peace, Rog Its congrats, she's the best! (darn near the only thing that can drag me away from my keyboard!) ;-) --

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 i686 edition (poll)

2001-08-27 Thread Bill
Ummm, well actually there is a separate flag for the Athlon optimisations., and they should not necessarily be counted with the i686. One list member compiled extensive for 686 a while ago and her results were disappointing. In general the binaries were slower on a 686 than their 586

Re: [newbie] File set up

2001-08-27 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 12:13:51 -0400 Scott Parks [EMAIL PROTECTED] was inspired to comment: Just a simple question, how are most of you setting up your file systems for install? /boot / /swap /usr /var /home or are you doing one big / = Scot, I'm not

Re: RE: Re: [newbie] OT open-source software is good enough for Micro soft

2001-08-27 Thread Jim Dawson
Sort of like HAL is one letter off from IBM... I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that... DAVE! Put down that Windows NT install disk! DAVE! PLEASE! -Original Message- From: Mark Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 12:35:08

Re: [newbie] mplayer

2001-08-27 Thread D. Hoyem
Hi All, I just read through all of this months archive's on mplayer. I had this instaled on my Mandrake 8.0 one time, but when I started reading how to use it ie the help file, my eyes started to cross, etc. It was very difficult for me to determine how to play a movie on it. Is there

RE: Re: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID

2001-08-27 Thread Mark Johnson
Yup, I aggree... and this is also true of other scripting languages like PHP and PERL... but maybe I'm just being too much of a purist. I think you also have to understand that a lot of so called crappy programmers never had anyone show them how to write code so it's not their fault. My wife is

Re: [newbie] Linux Lunacy.... OT

2001-08-27 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 13:39:31 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] was inspired to comment: Michael Scottaline wrote: Hey congratulations, Ron!! Especially on having a future Mrs. who thinks that's a honeymoon. My bride would Bobbitt me ouch, I hate when that happens... ;o)

[newbie] Mouse wheel kde 2.2

2001-08-27 Thread Joan Tur
Hallo! After upgrading to kde 2.2 i've noticed that both kmail v.1.3 and galeon v.0.12 move 1 page down each wheel's click. Konqueror and NS4.77 work fine with this moving 1 line down each click 8-? Under Galeon's settings i can change this but nothing happens... Thanks!! --

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 i686 edition (poll)

2001-08-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 27 August 2001 01:05 pm, Bill escribió: Athlon, on the other hand does show some increased efficiency. Expect that when gcc 3.x is out, there may be some larger benefits available for both processors. Civileme Is there a specific flag that I can use now to optimize on an

Re: [newbie] Linux Lunacy....

2001-08-27 Thread brown1302
WHAT HAS THIS GOT TO DO WITH LINUX NEWBIE PROBLEMS!! THERE ARE OTHER VENUES FOR THIS CRAP - Original Message - From: d [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 7:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux Lunacy LURKER here, Congrats. A little word of

Re: [newbie] mplayer(Please disreguard this email)

2001-08-27 Thread D. Hoyem
Like the Subject please disreguard this email, Once I opened the tar there was a folder called DOCS, with plenty of info. Sorry All --- D. Hoyem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I just read through all of this months archive's on mplayer. I had this instaled on my Mandrake 8.0 one time,

Re: Re: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID

2001-08-27 Thread Jim Dawson
That must be a popular title. I've seen more crappy prgorammers writing in VB than in any other language. ;-) Too many pepole seem to think that just because a language such as VB makes it easy to program, real programming skills are not actually required. -Original Message- From: Jay

[newbie] Xemacs vs. emacs vs. vi

2001-08-27 Thread dic98
Good afternoon folks, I'm starting to do pretty much everything from the command line now, to the point that I don't even touch XWindows for most of the day. While this is cool and exciting, I'm curious as to people's opinions on what text editor I should use for programming, file editing,

Re: [newbie] Xemacs vs. emacs vs. vi

2001-08-27 Thread Tim Barnard
I use emacs for everything. I find it too much of a pain to jump around from editor to editor for different projects. I spend my work days writing shell scripts, editing text files, and C++ programming, and use emacs for all of these tasks. If you take the time to thoroughly learn emacs, you

Re: [newbie] Linux Lunacy....

2001-08-27 Thread poogle
Sorry for top posting :-)) but I couldn't resist. This is the newbie mailing list, not the newbie problems mailing list if you've got a problem with us congratulating a fellow member on his forthcoming marriage then the problems you have got are not Linux or Mandrake related, you need another

Re: RE: Re: [newbie] OT open-source software is good enough for Micro soft

2001-08-27 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Monday 27 August 2001 19:56, Jim Dawson wrote: Sort of like HAL is one letter off from IBM... I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that... DAVE! Put down that Windows NT install disk! DAVE! PLEASE! Oh my God, it's full of penguins ... -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] File set up

2001-08-27 Thread Lanman
Scott; Are you setting up a server or workstation? If it's a workstation, try using the simple setup. If your hard drive on the workstation is big enough, setup a custom partition to store updates, downloads, and MP3's. I basically use the archive partition as a backup drive. If I ever need to

Re: [newbie] sound card and cd player

2001-08-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Leif Madsen wrote: Onboard sound isn't really that bad since it doesn't steal any resources. Quality is sometimes something to be weary of though. Hmm, on my sons Soyo MB equipped with AC97 sound, it most definitely does steal resources, i.e, IRQs 'n stuff... Sound is -ok- on it though.

RE: Re: [newbie] OT open-source software is good enough for Microsoft

2001-08-27 Thread Mark Johnson
FWIW: WNT is one letter away from VMS coincidence? -Original Message- From: Jim Dawson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 12:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: [newbie] OT open-source software is good enough for Microsoft

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 i686 edition (poll)

2001-08-27 Thread civileme
On Monday 27 August 2001 02:40, Bill wrote: Click on KDE control and look next to machine, it will say i686 or i586. On Sunday 26 August 2001 07:16 pm, you wrote: Would you be interested in a Linux Mandrake 8.1 i686 edition? http://pclinuxonline.com/pollBooth.php?op=resultspollID=30 See

Re: [newbie] Linux Lunacy....

2001-08-27 Thread Charles A. Punch
brown1302 wrote: WHAT HAS THIS GOT TO DO WITH LINUX NEWBIE PROBLEMS!! THERE ARE OTHER VENUES FOR THIS CRAP ___ I'm sure there are other venues for *this* kind of crap that you have posted as well. oh, by the way, your

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

2001-08-27 Thread skinky
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 05:51, you wrote: skinky wrote: It seems strange that even after CUPS is started the printer cannot connect to the CUPS server until I supposedly edit the printer config. Does anyone know why this happens? Or why CUPS won't start on boot like it did before I

Re: [newbie] Linux Lunacy....

2001-08-27 Thread Paul
In reply to brown1302's words, written Mon, 27 Aug 2001 12:11:26 -0700 WHAT HAS THIS GOT TO DO WITH LINUX NEWBIE PROBLEMS!! THERE ARE OTHER VENUES FOR THIS CRAP Ah, I see a person who means business... You scared me. Glad to know there are still living entities out there that don't care

Re: [newbie] Xemacs vs. emacs vs. vi

2001-08-27 Thread Paul
In reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s words, written Mon, 27 Aug 2001 15:01:00 -0400 (EDT) a few days and it seems to me that vi is a lot easier thus far. The CTRL-D/DEL thing in emacs is a real hassle. I know that vi is intended for C programming and emacs for command interpreting/bash

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

2001-08-27 Thread Minotlinux
At 21:40 27/08/2001 +0200, you wrote: On Monday 27 August 2001 19:51, Ronald J. Hall wrote: skinky wrote: It seems strange that even after CUPS is started the printer cannot connect to the CUPS server until I supposedly edit the printer config. Does anyone know why this happens? Or

Re: [newbie] Mouse wheel kde 2.2

2001-08-27 Thread skinky
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 13:07, you wrote: Hallo! After upgrading to kde 2.2 i've noticed that both kmail v.1.3 and galeon v.0.12 move 1 page down each wheel's click. Konqueror and NS4.77 work fine with this moving 1 line down each click 8-? Under Galeon's settings i can change this but

Re: [newbie] Xemacs vs. emacs vs. vi

2001-08-27 Thread Randy Kramer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm starting to do pretty much everything from the command line now, to the point that I don't even touch XWindows for most of the day. While this is cool and exciting, I'm curious as to people's opinions on what text editor I should use for programming, file

Re: [newbie] Linux Lunacy....

2001-08-27 Thread skinky
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 07:11, you wrote: WHAT HAS THIS GOT TO DO WITH LINUX NEWBIE PROBLEMS!! THERE ARE OTHER VENUES FOR THIS CRAP Don't get too wrapped up in your *newbie problems*... GET A LIFE! Have a nice day. skinky _ Do

Re: [newbie] Xemacs vs. emacs vs. vi

2001-08-27 Thread Randy Kramer
Oops, sorry, if you want to use it from the command line (without X) it won't work. I'd use jstar from the command line, but I'd still use nedit in X, even invoking it from the command line. Randy Kramer Randy Kramer wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm starting to do pretty much

Re: [newbie] Mouse wheel kde 2.2

2001-08-27 Thread C.Heaven
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On August 27, 2001 09:07 pm, you wrote: Hallo! After upgrading to kde 2.2 i've noticed that both kmail v.1.3 and galeon v.0.12 move 1 page down each wheel's click. Konqueror and NS4.77 work fine with this moving 1 line down each click 8-?

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

2001-08-27 Thread skinky
On Monday 27 August 2001 08:53, you wrote: At 21:40 27/08/2001 +0200, you wrote: On Monday 27 August 2001 19:51, Ronald J. Hall wrote: skinky wrote: It seems strange that even after CUPS is started the printer cannot connect to the CUPS server until I supposedly edit the printer

[newbie] KDE and Gnome when I log in?

2001-08-27 Thread Jon Doe
I have a strange problem. I am running Mandrake 8.0 and I have upgraded to the 2.2 KDE. Things work great, except everytime I login now, KDE comes up, then all the Gnome icons come up, over top of the KDE icons and then gmc comes up. I am not sure which file to edit to fix this. Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Linux Lunacy....

2001-08-27 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 27 August 2001 15:11, you wrote: WHAT HAS THIS GOT TO DO WITH LINUX NEWBIE PROBLEMS!! THERE ARE OTHER VENUES FOR THIS CRAP - Original Message - Linux newbies don't have problems, only opportunities. This list is a community and most definitely interested in it's members

Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome when I log in?

2001-08-27 Thread Charles A. Punch
I know that there is probably a better way to do this, but I, (in desperation) got rid of those bad boys, by slapping them with Xkill everytime they showed up. It took five or six times, but eventually they stopped coming up, so far. If there is a better way to do this that will not leave a lot

Re: [newbie] Linux Lunacy....

2001-08-27 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 12:11:26 -0700 brown1302 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ignorantly bleated: WHAT HAS THIS GOT TO DO WITH LINUX NEWBIE PROBLEMS!! THERE ARE OTHER VENUES FOR THIS CRAP == PLONK! -- Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, killing,

Re: [newbie] File set up

2001-08-27 Thread Michael D. Viron
At 12:13 PM 08/27/2001 -0400, Scott Parks wrote: Just a simple question, how are most of you setting up your file systems for install? /boot / /swap /usr /var /home or are you doing one big / Coming from BSD we did the first with all the different partitions. -Scott With a big enough hard

[newbie] Installing a printer permenantly

2001-08-27 Thread Dr. Evil
I have a question: I have Mandrake 8.0 with a Deskjet 882C. This is well-supported and comes with great drivers. However, if I want to use it, I have to go to the control center and install the printer every time I reboot. This is very inconvenient. Is there a way to get Mandrake to remember

Re: [newbie] Xemacs vs. emacs vs. vi

2001-08-27 Thread Isaac Curtis
What's the difference between Xemacs and emacs? - Isaac Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Canon BJC-5100

2001-08-27 Thread Ton Strijbosch
Hi, I have a Canon BJC-5100, but I can't get it to work. I installed CUPS and selected the proper driver Canon BJC-5000 according to Canon. When I start printing the print just initialises and then stops. Nothing get's printed. Is anyone out there who has also a Canon BJC-5100 and got it to

Re: [newbie] Xemacs vs. emacs vs. vi

2001-08-27 Thread civileme
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 04:34, Paul wrote: In reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s words, written Mon, 27 Aug 2001 15:01:00 -0400 (EDT) a few days and it seems to me that vi is a lot easier thus far. The CTRL-D/DEL thing in emacs is a real hassle. I know that vi is intended for C programming

Re: [newbie] Linux Lunacy....

2001-08-27 Thread civileme
On Monday 27 August 2001 21:11, brown1302 wrote: WHAT HAS THIS GOT TO DO WITH LINUX NEWBIE PROBLEMS!! THERE ARE OTHER VENUES FOR THIS CRAP Ummm, there is a sense of community on this list. The folks who like to criticize each other have many homes on the internet, but this is one of the

Re: [newbie] Mouse wheel kde 2.2

2001-08-27 Thread Joan Tur
Es Dilluns 27 Agost 2001 16:16, en skinky va escriure: On Tuesday 28 August 2001 13:07, you wrote: Hallo! After upgrading to kde 2.2 i've noticed that both kmail v.1.3 and galeon v.0.12 move 1 page down each wheel's click. Konqueror and NS4.77 work fine with this moving 1 line down

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