Re: [newbie-it]

2001-08-28 Thread Fabio Coatti
Il 18:22, lunedì 27 agosto 2001, hai scritto: 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

Re: [newbie-it] mandrake 8 installazione

2001-08-28 Thread gheblond
Il 14:05, lunedì 27 agosto 2001, hai scritto: 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

Re: [newbie-it] mandrake 8 installazione

2001-08-28 Thread Andrea Celli
Alex Dub wrote: 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

Re: [newbie-it] visualizzazione caratteri

2001-08-28 Thread Sandro
Il 15:45, lunedì 27 agosto 2001, hai scritto: Ciao Sandro, ti rispondo solo ora perchè sono tornato solo da un paio di giorni dalle (ormai finite... sigh!) vacanze. Ho fatto, come suggerivi, qualche test con Gnome; sembrerebbe che il problema di visualizzazione dei caratteri sia limitato al

Re: [newbie-it] mandrake 8 installazione

2001-08-28 Thread freefred
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 12:25, Andrea Celli wrote: Alex Dub wrote: 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

[newbie-it] Configurazione Display LCD TFT 14

2001-08-28 Thread mamagio
Salve, ho installato Mandrake 8.0 sul mio nuovo laptop. Tutto bene (anche il winmodem funziona), ma non riesco a configurare al meglio il display ovvero la risoluzione( Il desktop è più grande del video). Ho un display TFT SXGA da 14 con scheda video Sis 630 8 MB. Aiutatemi. Ciao

Re: [newbie] Mouse wheel kde 2.2

2001-08-28 Thread Bill
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 07:10 am, Joan Tur wrote: 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.

Re: [newbie] MB CPU Suggestion Please

2001-08-28 Thread Robert MacLean
The T-Bird has more level 1 and level 2 cache than the Duron. Otherwise they are exactly the same. But because of the extra cache (espcially the level 1) the CPU does go a lot faster. Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: Doug X [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,

[newbie] What version of gcc do I have?

2001-08-28 Thread Isaac Curtis
How can I tell what version of gcc I have? Or any other program, for that matter? (I'm asking specifically for the command line way to do this) Thanks again, Isaac Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] What version of gcc do I have?

2001-08-28 Thread Rooms Frédéric
Hi, Just type gcc -v. For more information: man gcc Fred On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 20:51:31 -0400 Isaac Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I tell what version of gcc I have? Or any other program, for that matter? (I'm asking specifically for the command line way to do this) Thanks

RE: [newbie] MB CPU Suggestion Please

2001-08-28 Thread Franki
I read a report recently on the duron 1gig, and it showed that the performance is almost the same as a 1gig PIII within 5 to 10% for most things, and in a couple it was faster... According to the report, the 1gig Duron is using the new AMD Palamino core , and it is significantly improved on

Re: [newbie] is this a viri? (made in Taiwan)

2001-08-28 Thread Anguo
etharp banged on their keyboard and produced the following arrangement of letters: - I got this mail (this is just the header and part of the symbols, I don't - want to infect anyone ) and was wondering if it's a viri, or just in some - language I don't have font's installed for? Hehe :-)

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

2001-08-28 Thread Mohammed Arafa
u guys probably got gmc on autostart (find and erase) OR most likely, u once ran gmc then quit kde with the option to save ur session as is so as to resume it next boot. u can 1. kill the gmc process (that should also kill the gnome icons) then save ur sessions 2. somewhere in the kde control

RE: [newbie] Linux Lunacy.... a short commentary...

2001-08-28 Thread Franki
Hi Peoples, I normally wouldn't comment on this, but I felt obliged to this time.. This mailing list is great for what it is, a DISCUSSION forum for linux (in particular, Mandrake Linux) Infer from that what you will, however, I don't see anything anywhere that states we must not talk about

[newbie] Well....

2001-08-28 Thread civileme
Ummm, I did ask what is in /etc/hosts--we have not looked at that file If it doesn't have the right stuff there, it also could frustrate your resolver. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] just wondering

2001-08-28 Thread Adams, Jamie
I have heard some remarks like; lets get back to discussing *Linux related topics*, Okay, my bad.. to be honest, i am quite enjoying the discussion. Jamie Adams Housing Assistant - Tel: (01723) 507543 Fax: (01723) 355862 -- From: Charles

RE: [newbie] Default monitor best

2001-08-28 Thread Adams, Jamie
hmm, i had the same problem on X install. It detected two graphics cards (i only have one), and one of them was the Oxygen card, erm which i dont have. I say problem, but it isnt really, Mandrake runs quite happily thinking i have two. Jamie Adams Housing Assistant

[newbie] Linux VPN?

2001-08-28 Thread rand
anyone know how to get one of these up and running? i remember seeing a HOW TO somewhere, but all my searching can't find the thing again. i'm looking for either commercial or free (free i would play with at home, commercial at work to sell) or a box premade that does this sort of stuff, just

Re: [newbie] What version of gcc do I have?

2001-08-28 Thread Gabriel Arcos
usually doing command --help will help. Try with gcc - Original Message - From: Isaac Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 8:51 PM Subject: [newbie] What version of gcc do I have? How can I tell what version of gcc I have? Or any other program,

Re: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID

2001-08-28 Thread rand
From: Matt Greer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 08:45:18 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] religion in linux OT TID This article is pre OS X. I've also never used OS X. I do know from reading about OS X, Apple took a few steps

Re: [newbie] File Renaming Perks: Did someone say 'bash

2001-08-28 Thread Isaac Curtis
Adams, Jamie wrote: That was great, much clearer now, thanks! I would very much like to learn bash programming, any suggestions on good resources? Thanks again. Jamie Adams Housing Assistant - Tel: (01723) 507543 Fax: (01723) 355862

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

2001-08-28 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Thanks! ReactOS looks quite interesting. The OpenWindows site didn't have anything on it. I can't help from wondering, however, that their energies could have been better spent helping a project like WINE. After all, ReactOS is designed for NT4 compatibility, and NT4 isn't exactly the most

Re: [newbie] Well....

2001-08-28 Thread John Simmons
At 10:46 AM 8/28/2001 +0200, you wrote: Ummm, I did ask what is in /etc/hosts--we have not looked at that file The comment about not seeing what I posted was concerning the resolv.conf contents. That file just contains the DNS servers (even after a reboot). If it doesn't have the right

RE: [newbie] File Renaming Perks: Did someone say 'bash

2001-08-28 Thread Adams, Jamie
That was great, much clearer now, thanks! I would very much like to learn bash programming, any suggestions on good resources? Thanks again. Jamie Adams Housing Assistant - Tel: (01723) 507543 Fax: (01723) 355862 -- From: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Linux VPN?

2001-08-28 Thread Brian Scott
- Original Message - From: rand [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 6:49 AM Subject: [newbie] Linux VPN? anyone know how to get one of these up and running? i remember seeing a HOW TO somewhere, but all my searching can't find the thing again.

Re: [newbie] Well....

2001-08-28 Thread civileme
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 12:26, John Simmons wrote: At 10:46 AM 8/28/2001 +0200, you wrote: Ummm, I did ask what is in /etc/hosts--we have not looked at that file The comment about not seeing what I posted was concerning the resolv.conf contents. That file just contains the DNS servers

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

2001-08-28 Thread Charles A. Punch
Mohammed Arafa wrote: u guys probably got gmc on autostart (find and erase) OR most likely, u once ran gmc then quit kde with the option to save ur session as is so as to resume it next boot. u can 1. kill the gmc process (that should also kill the gnome icons) then save ur sessions 2.

[newbie] kde2.2 broke Konqueror Flash plugin

2001-08-28 Thread Dan Ray
Morning, folks! So my upgrade to KDE 2.2 went reasonably well--a few minutes hunting down dependencies, and a deep breath as I did a --force on a couple of things, and then by god I'd booted into KDE 2.2. I'm getting to be pretty good at this stuff! ;-D The only thing that seems to have broken

Re: [newbie] MB CPU Suggestion Please

2001-08-28 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Durons are different chips from Athlons, with a different core specifically designed for the low-end of the market. This results in a low-cost, fast CPU, that competes well with Celerons and PIIIs. A Duron is usually about 90% as fast as a similarly-clocked Athlon, whereas a Celeron is about

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

2001-08-28 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001 06:12, Randy Kramer wrote: [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

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Re: [newbie] tar.bz2 -- how to uncompress?

2001-08-28 Thread civileme
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 03:30, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: I've been trying to uncompress the Kate Editor tar.bz2. Would appreciate it if you someone could lend a helping hand. What's the magic command, please? Thank you so much. Benjamin tar xvjf filename.tar.bz2 Civileme

Re: [newbie] Not prompted for other cd's during installation

2001-08-28 Thread Anguo
I had the same problem as you. On a pentium 120mhz 32mb ram, the install didn't ask for the second cd. I did run mandrake but many applications were missing and software manager wouldn't run on such low resources. On a duron 750mhz 256mb ram, I had no such problem. I guess there's no way

Re: [newbie] What version of gcc do I have?

2001-08-28 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 20:51:31 -0400 Isaac Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] was inspired to comment: How can I tell what version of gcc I have? Or any other program, for that matter? (I'm asking specifically for the command line way to do this) Thanks again, Isaac gcc --version w/o quotes, from

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

2001-08-28 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001 20:46, Charles A. Punch wrote: Mohammed Arafa wrote: u guys probably got gmc on autostart (find and erase) OR most likely, u once ran gmc then quit kde with the option to save ur session as is so as to resume it next boot. u can 1. kill the gmc process (that

[newbie] Init process

2001-08-28 Thread Caruso Aldo
Hi, After installing InterBase for Linux in Mandrake 8.0, I would like to make it a service that runs as start up. It's not clear to me where should I put the initialization command (as if it were an autoexec.bat, excuseme for the old DOS slang). Should I put it in the /etc/rc.d/rc.local

Re: [newbie] Mouse wheel kde 2.2

2001-08-28 Thread Joan Tur
Es Dimarts 28 Agost 2001 02:38, en Bill va escriure: On Tuesday 28 August 2001 07:10 am, Joan Tur wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] File set up

2001-08-28 Thread Michel Clasquin
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? After some experimentation I settled on this: /dev/hda1 / 8 Gb /dev/hda3 /boot 50Mb (You can get away with much less , of course, but if you

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

2001-08-28 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 12:46, Charles A. Punch wrote: I have already turned off the save session option. I have also already killed the GMC process(if you mean using Xkill). The autostart is something to check out though. I'm not sure where it is, but I'm sure it can't be too hard to

[newbie] qmail on mandrake?

2001-08-28 Thread Ed Colmar
Hi all! Let me start by aplologizing if this mail is HTML encoded... GUI mail clients suck! I recently tried to get qmail running on my 7.2 MDK box, and ran into a few snags... I found this site, where I downloaded MDK RPMs.

[newbie] mandrakeupdate

2001-08-28 Thread antoine rivoire
hi every body. here is the problem: i installed lm8, and mandrakeupdate wouldn't work. (wouldn't fetch server list for updates) i looked through the old messages about that and found where civileme said: do a rpm --rebuilddb, that should do the trick well i did it because civileme is always

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

2001-08-28 Thread Linux Newbie
Yes no need to be mean, just use your K mail filters if you don't like it, I use mine all the time. Sorry not to be mean myself, just a suggestion. On Monday 27 August 2001 04:25 pm, so spoke skinky: On Tuesday 28 August 2001 07:11, you wrote: WHAT HAS THIS GOT TO DO WITH LINUX NEWBIE

[newbie] Fwd: Linux for stupid newbies

2001-08-28 Thread Charlie Oriez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Someone in Central America saw my linux links webpage and asked for advice. see anything in the hardware below that would preclude using Mandrake 8.0? - - -- Look what the cat dragged

[newbie] What is Winbond?

2001-08-28 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Ever since I started using 8.0, under 3 different machines: Gigabyte MB/475 mhz K6-III Soyo MB/850 mhz Duron Shuttle MB/900 mhz Athlon Winbond shows up in dmesg and at the logon screen. (I'm using an Nvidia card so I don't use the graphical logon) from logon: it fills the screen with various

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

2001-08-28 Thread jennifer
Does anybody have an Emacs quick reference file? If you do, please share. TIA, Jen On Monday 27 August 2001 17:25, you wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] What is Winbond?

2001-08-28 Thread James R. McKenzie
Winbond is the chipset on alot of different add-in boards. Printer ports usually have them along with some sound cards and 3rd party Hard-Drive controller cards(I think SIIG uses them). Don't worry you don't have to use Wynderz in order to use the device or card. Basically that Winbond message

RE: [newbie] Linux Lunacy....

2001-08-28 Thread Todd Zashin
I add my warmest congradulations too! May your future be filled with happiness and joy together! Todd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of poogle Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 5:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux

Re: [newbie] c porgramming

2001-08-28 Thread Paul
In reply to pepe's words, written Tue, 28 Aug 2001 14:25:20 -0500 what are th edifferences in hte programation in C in a windows compiler and in linux... i got errors when compiling a porg in linux. help MS-C perhaps. They have their own little thingies. Very not compliant with mainstream C...

Re: [newbie] rsync return value

2001-08-28 Thread bascule
thanks civileme, this might make things a little trickier :-) i shall have to investigate, but first: sleep bascule On Sunday 26 August 2001 5:10 am, you wrote: On Saturday 25 August 2001 06:00, bascule wrote: does anyone know if there is a return value when running rsync that i can

[newbie] downloaded packages stored where?

2001-08-28 Thread skinky
Hi all, Could some kind person please enlighten me as to where Software Manager stores downloaded update packages? I want to reinstall LM8.0 so I'm backing everything up to another drive but I can't for the life of me find the packages that I've updated via Software Manager. TIA skinky

Re: [newbie] tar.bz2 -- thanks!

2001-08-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 05:36 am, Benjamin Sher escribió: Thanks to all of you who wrote in with the magic command for uncompressing tar.bz2 files. The two commands in question are: tar xvjf filename.tar.bz2 tar xvif filename.tar.bz2 Another, Since you're using Kmail, I'll asume

[newbie] Dialup Connection

2001-08-28 Thread Idea.ListBT
Am very new to linux. (all attempts having failed previously) Have installed Mandrake 8.0 It wont go online although I've entered all the parms for my adsl modem. Strangely the install never prompted me for a phone number for the dial-up and it doesn't recognise my 57k Conexant modem either.

Re: [newbie] Dialup Connection

2001-08-28 Thread d
LURKER here, I have just a regular dialup connection and when I clicked on the kppp and the box appears there was a button called SetUp and that is all I used. Maybe the 'adsl' requires different method of setting thingys up, but; that is all I did. I am a very NEWBY as well, have had the

[newbie] resizing partitions

2001-08-28 Thread Jeremy Davidson
I've decided to give LM8.0 a try as a dual-boot system (previously I'd been swapping HDs to keep it separate from win). How much risk is involved in trying to resize my fat32 partition (using the LM8 install program)? I have an IBM Deskstar 30GB drive (IDE) on a T-bird system. I've backed

[newbie] Installing a Diamond FireGL1 video adapter

2001-08-28 Thread Bryan Harper
Hi all, I'm trying to install a Diamond FireGL1 video adapter but I keep running into an error during the Install.sh script. The error is something about strings command not supported. It appears this is the offending line: tmp=`strings $LibcPath | grep -i 'c library'`. Any Ideas? Thanks

Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.4.9 problems

2001-08-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 07:53 am, Seeun William Umboh escribió: htmldiv style='background-color:'DIV Please don't post in HTML. You were requested not to when you joined this list. I tried to compile the kernel 2.4.9 from kernel.org and met with mixed results. I don't understand

[newbie] How do I read Aurora error messages?

2001-08-28 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Okay, I'm getting the frowning face when I bootup and shutdown. I ran kudzu as root to see if it was something hardware related but it found nothing. Also, I did a dmesg dmesg.txt and found nothing unusual there. Can anyone tell me where to look to read error messages from Aurora? (that is the

Re: [newbie] mplayer

2001-08-28 Thread Linux Newbie
I need help, I followed the instructions and this happened, please help me sometiome, thank you. gcc -O4 -march=k6 -mcpu=k6 -pipe -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -DCONFIG_MMX -c -o mpeg12.o mpeg12.c mpeg12.c: In function `mpeg_decode_mb': mpeg12.c:594: warning: implicit declaration of

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

2001-08-28 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 14:05, jennifer wrote: Does anybody have an Emacs quick reference file? If you do, please share. On my computer I issued the following commands: narfi@/[1042] locate refcard.ps /usr/share/emacs/20.7/etc/refcard.ps narfi@/[1043] rpm -q -f

Re: [newbie] Fwd: Linux for stupid newbies

2001-08-28 Thread Matt Greer
on 8/28/01 1:48 PM, Charlie Oriez at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: see anything in the hardware below that would preclude using Mandrake 8.0? The only reference to hardware I see is the celeron 366/32MB. Which should run linux fine. But he did say he wants it to look Windowslike, and I dunno if

[newbie] c porgramming

2001-08-28 Thread pepe torrres
what are th edifferences in hte programation in C in a windows compiler and in linux... i got errors when compiling a porg in linux. help _ Descargue GRATUITAMENTE MSN Explorer en http://explorer.msn.es/intl.asp Want to buy

Re: [newbie] religion in linux

2001-08-28 Thread paul rodríguez
Try typing about:mozilla in you mozilla address bar. - Paul Rodríguez _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] Linux VPN?

2001-08-28 Thread Mark Johnson
Yes, but I haven't been able to figure that HOWTO out yet. If anyone would like to work with me I'd be overjoyed to get client-side VPN working on linux... I don't think I have enough linux experience to follow that document... -Original Message- From: Dave Sherman [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [newbie] How do I read Aurora error messages?

2001-08-28 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 14:52, you wrote: Okay, I'm getting the frowning face when I bootup and shutdown. I ran kudzu as root to see if it was something hardware related but it found nothing. Also, I did a dmesg dmesg.txt and found nothing unusual there. Can anyone tell me where to look

Re: [newbie] MB CPU Suggestion Please

2001-08-28 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 02:46, you wrote: The T-Bird has more level 1 and level 2 cache than the Duron. Otherwise they are exactly the same. But because of the extra cache (espcially the level 1) the CPU does go a lot faster. Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: Doug X

Re: [newbie] c porgramming

2001-08-28 Thread Gabriel Arcos
jejeje creo que deberia cuidar mejor tu ingles, si hay diferecias cuando programas en C para windows y para linux en especial con cosas que utilicen cosas que son especificas del sistema. Lo que te sugiero es que consigas alguna buenas pagina sobre programacion en C bajo linux alli encontraras

Re: [newbie] Dialup Connection

2001-08-28 Thread Idea.ListBT
Hi d Thanks for reply - it's good to know that there is (somewhere) the possibility of a dial up :-) I'm doing something wrong - obviously. If I can say this in a whisper - what is the kppp and where can I find it? See how new I am ! I'm in win98 at moment so can't look yet. Cheers (and regards

Re: [newbie] Graphics Card

2001-08-28 Thread Stan Lockaby
On Monday 27 August 2001 02:53 am, you wrote: 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

RE: [newbie] Linux VPN?

2001-08-28 Thread Ingo Bauer
well . now lets see better make that 6 ...:) -Original Message- From: Mark Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 11:04 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux VPN? Isn't freeswan and poptop server side VPN? What I need (and I think

Re: [newbie] MB CPU Suggestion Please

2001-08-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 05:20 pm, Dennis Myers escribió: Also, from what I have read the Athlon is easier to keep cool due to a bit more mm of surface area. I.E. less chance of cooking it. Todays prices don't see a lot of difference in the two so I would go with the Athlon. Don't

Re: [newbie] Init process

2001-08-28 Thread Michael D. Viron
At 01:08 PM 08/28/2001 -0300, you wrote: Hi, After installing InterBase for Linux in Mandrake 8.0, I would like to make it a service that runs as start up. It's not clear to me where should I put the initialization command (as if it were an autoexec.bat, excuseme for the old DOS slang).

Re: [newbie] Not prompted for other cd's during installation

2001-08-28 Thread Michael D. Viron
Anguo and Isaac, Usually this is because it is part of a single CD install distributed with a magazine (not always, but usually). If this is the case, and you have a fast enough connection plus a cd burner, download the iso's off the ftp site and burn them to CD. If not, buy them from one of

Re: [newbie] SSL, Webmin and Apache frustrations, help!

2001-08-28 Thread Michael D. Viron
Jon, Here's a working .htaccess file deny from all AuthName YourNameHere AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /path/to/userfile.txt AuthGroupFile /path/to/groupfile.txt require group groupname require user user1 user2 user3 satisfy any This also pre-supposes that your apache httpd.conf file has

Re: [newbie] tar.bz2 -- Thanks II

2001-08-28 Thread Michael D. Viron
Benjamin, This depends on which version of Mandrake you are using. If you run Mandrake 7.2, the command would be 'tar -xvIf filename.tar.bz2' (without the quotes). If you run earlier versions of Mandrake, they may not support doing it as one step, so the commands would be 'bunzip2

Re: [newbie] kde2.2 broke Konqueror Flash plugin

2001-08-28 Thread Isaac Curtis
Charles A. Punch wrote: Dan Ray wrote: Morning, folks! So my upgrade to KDE 2.2 went reasonably well--a few minutes hunting down dependencies, and a deep breath as I did a --force on a couple of things, and then by god I'd booted into KDE 2.2. I'm getting to be pretty good at this stuff!

Re: [newbie] tar.bz2 -- thanks!

2001-08-28 Thread Michael D. Viron
tar xvif filename.tar.bz2 As an fyi, the 'i' (lowercase) option to tar (at least in ver 7.2 of Mandrake): '-i, --ignore-zeros ignore blocks of zeros in archive (normally mean EOF)' This comes from the man page. This is different from 'I' which says: '-I, --bzip2 filter archive through bzip2,

Re: [newbie] tar.bz2 -- thanks!

2001-08-28 Thread Michael D. Viron
while the 'j' switch will: -j, --bzip filter the archive through bzip2 which is what I reckon you want to do Benjamin This of course, will only work in Mandrake 8.0 or later, not in the 7.x series. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems

Re: [newbie] MB CPU Suggestion Please

2001-08-28 Thread Isaac Curtis
Tom Brinkman wrote: Yes, with 1.4 Tbirds selling for $120, and equaling the perfomance of 2 gig Pentium 4's just out. Seems like the best deal, no?. Maybe not. Processor mhz aren't everything. Most all peripheals, including the harddrives still run on the 33.3mhz PCI bus. Despite

[newbie] Targa Notebook 850 PIII Back Server On X

2001-08-28 Thread Michael Falzon
Hi All Try to get mandrake8 to work on my notebook she is a : TARGA PIII 850 with 128 ( 120 coz 8 user for the video card ) and a 20 gb hdd, all chipset are sis ( video sis 630 networks sis 900 ) network and sound work will BUT X will not do this right. she loads up ( does note crash )

[newbie] Low Resource Window Manager?

2001-08-28 Thread Isaac Curtis
Someone just the other day mentioned IceWM as a resource-appropriate window manager for her/his PII 166 with 32 megs. I've got a PII 266 with the same memory and am curious what suggestions people have for window managers that I can use which will allow me to get the most out of what I've

Re: [newbie] MB CPU Suggestion Please

2001-08-28 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 28 August 2001 21:00, you wrote: On Tuesday 28 August 2001 05:20 pm, Dennis Myers escribió: Also, from what I have read the Athlon is easier to keep cool due to a bit more mm of surface area. I.E. less chance of cooking it. Todays prices don't see a lot of difference in the two

[newbie] SiS 735 chipset/ecs k7s5a motherboard

2001-08-28 Thread hosey
I read an interesting review on the SiS 735 chipset and how it outperforms the AMD 760 at http://www6.tomshardware.com/mainboard/01q2/010611/ , I then checked to see if there were any Duron/Athlon motherboards manufactured with the SiS 735 chipset and I came across one made by ECS at

Re: [newbie] Low Resource Window Manager?

2001-08-28 Thread Erylon Hines
Isaac Curtis wrote: Someone just the other day mentioned IceWM as a resource-appropriate window manager for her/his PII 166 with 32 megs. I've got a PII 266 with the same memory and am curious what suggestions people have for window managers that I can use which will allow me to get the

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

2001-08-28 Thread Frank Chen
Hi, Anguo: You are certainly staying long than me on this list. I am less than a week! Last week, I am messed up what is what, and which is which. And now I've re-installed Mandrake 5 times, getting more sense to Mandrake. I think many problems come from KDE 2. And http://kde.linux.org.tw is a

Re: [newbie] kde2.2 broke Konqueror Flash plugin

2001-08-28 Thread Ron Bouwhuis
--- Isaac Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP. Either buy/order them from a locally owned bookstore or, if you don't have the hefty $75 combined price tag, take the five-finger discount at the nearest Borders (the place is less secure than Windows ME) and buy a few magazines back at

Re: [newbie] SiS 735 chipset/ecs k7s5a motherboard

2001-08-28 Thread Nathan Oliva
hey, im not sure about the motherboard in question, but my next amd machine will run on a board featuring nvidias new chipset for motherboards. yes, nvidia the vid card maker read an excellent overview in Toms Hardware Guide,

[newbie] [Fwd: Re: Windows Media Player???]

2001-08-28 Thread Benjamin Sher
Original Message Subject: Re: Windows Media Player??? Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 21:25:30 -0500 From: Jeremy White [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: CodeWeavers, Inc. To: Benjamin Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Benjamin, Forgive the quick and non public

[newbie] Re: root login by default - want to terminate

2001-08-28 Thread WCBaker
Hi! It seems to me that previously when I used the who module, I only found the login I was using (everything is on one box so I don't require multiple users). Now I find that Root logs on as well as the user. Is there a way to change this so that only my current login is active, and root is

Re: [newbie] MandrakeUpdate wont work

2001-08-28 Thread Kyle Baker
I didn't notice any followup postings on this topic...is anyone else having these problems? I sure am. When i add a source it looks like it works but then later disappears. Also, the update for mirror sites doesn't work. What gives?... Thanks for any insight anyone has... Kyle Baker

Re: [newbie] kde2.2 broke Konqueror Flash plugin

2001-08-28 Thread Charles A. Punch
Isaac Curtis wrote: Wow, this seems to be the only thing in Linux I actually know anything about. So far I've posted this same thing twice and gotten rave reviews both times, so I'll modify it to refer to flash instead of java (the original topic, same procedure) and just copy-paste...

RE: [newbie] downloaded packages stored where?

2001-08-28 Thread Franki
don't know if this has been answered yet.. and I don't know about mdk8, but 7.2 stores the RPMS in /var/cache/grmpi I just burned all my updates to a CD rgds frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of skinky Sent: Wednesday, 29

Re: [newbie] downloaded packages stored where?

2001-08-28 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 06:57, skinky wrote: Hi all, Could some kind person please enlighten me as to where Software Manager stores downloaded update packages? I want to reinstall LM8.0 so I'm backing everything up to another drive but I can't for the life of me find the packages that I've

Re: [newbie] Fwd: Linux for stupid newbies

2001-08-28 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 04:48, Charlie Oriez wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Someone in Central America saw my linux links webpage and asked for advice. see anything in the hardware below that would preclude using Mandrake 8.0? - -- Look what the cat dragged

Re: [newbie] Dialup Connection

2001-08-28 Thread Idea.ListBT
Have now found kppp Cheers Dave S. - Original Message - From: d [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 1:03 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Dialup Connection LURKER here, I have just a regular dialup connection and when I clicked on the kppp and the box

Re: [newbie] MB CPU Suggestion Please

2001-08-28 Thread bascule
hi isaac, what tom is talking about is the speed at which info is transferred from pci cards such as nics, sound cards etc. i.e. the pci bus. despite the super fast performance of your cpu, memory etc, anything that relies on something connected via the pci bus cannot transfer faster than

Re: [newbie] Low Resource Window Manager?

2001-08-28 Thread Michael Scottaline
At 10:16 PM 8/28/01 -0400, you wrote: Someone just the other day mentioned IceWM as a resource-appropriate window manager for her/his PII 166 with 32 megs. I've got a PII 266 with the same memory and am curious what suggestions people have for window managers that I can use which will allow

[newbie] SSL, Webmin and Apache frustrations, help!

2001-08-28 Thread Jon Doe
Ok, I am trying to setup my webserver with webmin, ssl enabled. I have my .htgroup and .htpasswd setup, htgroup has all the users names, .htpasswd has the user name and password, in /var/www/ Then I have .htaccess in /var/www/media/stuff/ so inorder to go beyond stuff users should have to put