Re: [newbie-it] benvenuti

--- brain [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Trovata! :)) L'immagine e` bzippata2 e si trova sotto /usr/src/linux/Documentation/boot_logo.ppm.bz2 Compressa occupa 52K, decompressa 3.5Mb!! 8-) Azz! Economica!! Ad ogni modo, si puo` sostituire con un'altra immagine ppm-bzippata2, oppure

[newbie-it] arresto del sistema + scheda video

Ciao a tutti, qualche giorno fa ho installato il Pinguino sul computer della mia ragazza. Ho, però, incontrato due problemi. Il primo riguarda la scheda video (una GeForce 256): il Mandrake non sembre essere in grado di settare una risoluzione diversa da un inutilizzabile 640x480. Qualcuno ha

Re: [newbie-it] arresto del sistema + scheda video

Ciao! Il primo riguarda la scheda video (una GeForce 256): il Mandrake non sembre essere in grado di settare una risoluzione diversa da un inutilizzabile 640x480. Qualcuno ha questa scheda? E' un errore di installazione/settaggio di X, oppure è un problema risolvibile solo con i

Re: [newbie-it] Chi ha il KDE 2.2 per mdk8

At 08.46 30/08/01 -0400, you wrote: via della Cooperazione 25 Un indirizzo degno di un vero utente di Linux. :-))

Re: [newbie] SiS 735 chipset/ecs k7s5a

Based on what civileme wrote about the other sis chipsets being the most linux friendly I would think that the sis 735 has a good chance at working with Mandrake trouble free. Linux on the Nivida Nforce http://www.tech-report.com/onearticle.x/2599 that could be questionable.. Steve M.

[newbie] network question

Hi I was setting up network and it asked if my IP address is Manual, DHCP, or BootP. What is the difference? I know what DHCP is in Windows terms (dynamically assigned IP address), so that's the same thing, right? TIA Robert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Linux, Borders, and social consciousness

jennifer wrote: On Wednesday 29 August 2001 17:09, Isaac Curtis wrote: This is a bottom-posted new thread, I encourage anyone interested to please skim the quote for context before reading below. (from the thread Re: [newbie] kde2.2 broke Konqueror Flash plugin) Ron Bouwhuis wrote: ---

[newbie] ftp: connect: Connection refused

Please help me restore my ftp server, it is broken. I type ftp kittypuss.org and it says : ftp: connect: Connection refused ftp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] ftp: connect: Connection refused

Refusals are the result of either the service being down or security settings. Check to make sure that the ftp server software is running... I.E. service wu-ftpd status (or whatever you use) And also check the /etc/hosts.deny /etc/hosts.allow files as well as making sure that xinetd knows

RE: [newbie] Re: /bin/login missing

It may not be the only way, but its the best way... I had that happen on a redhat6.2 server because of the default wu-ftp, it is easily hacked for a root compromise... I pulled the plug and reinstalled... because you never know what they have put on your system one of a crackers favorite

RE: [newbie] SiS 735 chipset/ecs k7s5a

I did a huge amount of reading on the Nforce just yesterday... and I don't think it will be THAT much of an issue getting it running with linux, although we may have a case of another binary driver from Nvidia, similiar to the graphics detonator drivers... They appear to be following the same

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

It's just like apropos - it takes the parameter you give it as a keyword. Try something like 'man -k mail' to find many other commands related to mail! For (a particularly bad) example, observe: $ man -k dns curs_addstr: addstr, addnstr, waddstr, waddnstr, mvaddstr,mvaddnstr, mvwaddstr,

RE: [newbie] root login by default ; response to Steve's post

OK - disconnect your box from the net. Better safe than sorry until we work out what's happening here! Log in as warren. Su over to root (as your normal user won't be able to read the file I'm about to ask you to!) Use your favourite editor to have a browse through /var/log/messages. Do you

[newbie] video broadcast: video4linux

hi it was thrown upon me to setup an audio/video broadcast server for the local lan here and this is my chance to prove linux is acceptable at my work place. however, there are some things missing from the servers i d/l (broadcast 2000 ffmpeg) which in all honesty i must say that i have only

RE: [newbie] cleaning gcc-3.0.1 installation files

Well, providing you never want to build it again, or you have the original tarball you downloaded, then yes - once it's compiled and running OK, then you won't need the source directory. Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst * 01603 687386 -Original Message- From:

Re: [newbie] network question

On Thursday 30 August 2001 01:50, you wrote: Hi I was setting up network and it asked if my IP address is Manual, DHCP, or BootP. What is the difference? I know what DHCP is in Windows terms (dynamically assigned IP address), so that's the same thing, right? dhcp isn't a windows thing.

Re: [newbie] Do We really have to download both ISOs?

On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 12:15:56PM -0400, Shirley, Mark R wrote: I find myself downloading M8.0 and wondered if I really have to have both ISOs? I'm on 56K so it's been taking a while. I really don't want to wait another week. rant Why not support Mandrake and buy the powerpack at retail or

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

Robert MacLean banged on their keyboard and produced the following arrangement of letters: - what does the -k on man do? - normally i use just man topic see man man and man apropos anguo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Do We really have to download both ISOs?

I live 75,000 feet from the Phone company. There is no DSL. The only options for broadband is Starband, since my phone company is a little bitty thing that made every other surrounding town long distance. And I won't do Starband since the new 360 modem isn't Linux compatible. Maybe when

Re: [newbie] audiogala satellite

On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 13:10, pepe torrres wrote: how do i make that prog work? whish one do i have to download? the static or the glibc whats the difference? Get the glibc version. The static version would be for older distros. The readme file inside should tell you how to set it up. i run

Re: [newbie] Low Resource Window Manager?

On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 02:10, Michel Clasquin wrote: On Wednesday 29 August 2001 04:16, Isaac Curtis wrote: 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 got I

[newbie] Problems in running MandrakeUpdate

I am trying to get some help for using MandrakeUpdate. I went to http://www.linux-mandrake.com looking for help after sending several messages to the ssupport and getting nothing back. I am sending this message hoping that at least someone can tell me where to find proper help. My main problem

Re: [newbie] Console Mail Readers

On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 09:37:03AM +0100, Adams, Jamie wrote: Thanks for all your answers everyone. I have managed to get Pine up and running and ive got Fetchmail to get my mail for me from my pop accounts, configuring Fetchmail was a small task with the help of fetchmailconf. There is a

RE: [newbie] Console Mail Readers

Thanks for all your answers everyone. I have managed to get Pine up and running and ive got Fetchmail to get my mail for me from my pop accounts, configuring Fetchmail was a small task with the help of fetchmailconf. The only thing ive got to sort now is the crontab, guess its come to the time

Re: [newbie] SiS 630 chipset

-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] SiS 735 chipset/ecs k7s5a Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 10:17:07 -0400 From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday 30 August 2001 3:24 am, you wrote: Talking about SiS -- please tell me if anyone can solve

[newbie] Printing to SMB printer.

Hello, I am trying to use Mandrake 8.0 as my desktop system at work. Most things are working fine except I can't seem to get remote printing to work. I have set up the printer using drakconf and it seems to think it sets up correctly, but when it send out test pages they don't print. The

Re: [newbie] Linux, Borders, and social consciousness

Don't you know big brother is always watching. Especially, un*x groups, listserves, and irc channels. Reason why, UNIX people are the smartest on the planet. BTW: Windows is only good for one thing porn. It even crashes on that, guess that means you shouldn't look at porn. Eric * paul rodríguez

RE: [newbie] Ximian Gnome

The Doorman kept crashing when I tried to upgrade the 1.4 I'm running Mandrake 8.0. Don't suppose anyone has any suggestions as to why it would be crashing. It crashes everyime it tries to apply my preferences... -Original Message- From: Dave Sherman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Fwd: Re: [newbie] Linux, Borders, and social consciousness

I can see that this may get out of hand. I just realized that Mr. Curtis Re-posted his comments from another thread to this one because people were ignoring him. For the sake of the list I ask that we not encourage this angry teenager with more replies. I replied to him below off list

Re: [newbie] good X based editor?

on 8/30/01 8:55 AM, Randy Kramer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Randy Kramer wrote: I found another editor that looks quite interesting, named Leo, see http://personalpages.tds.net/~edream/FAQ.html#anchor128891, for example. That does look interesting. I'll take a closer look at it tonight.

[newbie] ftape

Hi All, Does anyone have ftape working under Mandrake 8? I'm looking for pointers. Thanks Steven

Re: [newbie] mplayer

Thanks for the help on this Sridhar. I have it installed on a Mandrake 8.0 and am looking forward to the GUI version. --- Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For help, try mplayer and man mplayer at a command line. To output to a text file, try mplayer filename and man mplayer

Re: [newbie] downloaded packages stored where?

On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 08:57:29 +1200 skinky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /var/cache/grpmi 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

Re: [newbie] good X based editor?

Matt, Thanks for your reply! I haven't had any trouble with the shortcut keys I've used (including ctrl s). There is a mailing list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm subscribed to it (for a few weeks) and haven't noticed anyone else with the same complaint (but I don't always pay careful attention).

Re: [newbie] Linux, Borders, and social consciousness

Bryan Tyson wrote: On Wednesday 29 August 2001 21:32, Ron wrote: Isaac, My gast has been well and truly flabbered... Ron. (Feeling a little sadder after reading your post). Ron's right. This guy is making a mockery of both the Linux community and social consciousness.

Re: [newbie] Linux, Borders, and social consciousness

James S Bear wrote: I hope we all understand that stealing will make us as bad as Microsoft. I wouldn't say Microsoft has a lousy product, but I do pray with all my hear that I won't have to buy another MS product in my life. I could possibly agree with the fact that they are evil(and

Re: [newbie] bash1 sh and stuff problem

antoine rivoire wrote: hi all, i ran into this prob when trying to install limwire. i lokked at akll the prevous messages, and followed the instructions. when typing sh runlime.sh i got that message back: runlime.sh: java: command not found ilooked for a while and it occured to me

Re: [newbie] Low Resource Window Manager?

Michel Clasquin wrote: On Wednesday 29 August 2001 04:16, Isaac Curtis wrote: 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 got I don't run these myself (which

Re: [newbie] Console Mail Readers

In reply to jennifer's words, written Thu, 30 Aug 2001 16:15:06 -0400 I installed mutt becuase i am curious to learn a console based editor (and emacs) From the man page it seems that i should have a ~/.muttrc file in my home directory but I do not. I tried a locate and didn't vcome up with

Re: [newbie] tiny firewall

I *believe* that tiny firewall is native to mandrake. (i could be very wrong here) But, if you want a very in depth Firewall setup I would recommend interactive Bastille. It will take about a half hour to set up. Every question-setting is accompanied with a detailed explaination and allows for

Re: [newbie] tiny firewall

I *believe* that tiny firewall is native to mandrake. (i could be very wrong here) But, if you want a very in depth Firewall setup I would recommend interactive Bastille. It will take about a half hour to set up. Every question-setting is accompanied with a detailed explaination and allows for

RE: [newbie] bash1 sh and stuff problem

I might be wrong but I don't think you are have a problem with bash. I think your problem is Java related. For LimeWire to work you must have a Java VM installed. There are packages available for a jdk. That should fix your problem HTH Bryan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] bash1 sh and stuff problem

My bad on the previous post...you do have the jdk installed. In which case runlime.sh can't find java in the paths it has access to. Adding the path to where the jdk's location to your PATH environment variable should do the trick. Sorry, I can't give you the command. I'm new to the Linux

[newbie] bash1 sh and stuff problem

hi all, i ran into this prob when trying to install limwire. i lokked at akll the prevous messages, and followed the instructions. when typing sh runlime.sh i got that message back: runlime.sh: java: command not found ilooked for a while and it occured to me that java and sh commands are

Re: [newbie] Linux, Borders, and social consciousness

Yeah... see Windows provides a little bit of morality to your life. Since it's merely a vessel for porn, it crashes on you to let you know you're doing something you shouldn't be doing! lol Borders was a family owned business, and family run for the most part until it really started to take off,

Re: [newbie] Linux, Borders, and social consciousness

On Wednesday 29 August 2001 21:32, Ron wrote: Isaac, My gast has been well and truly flabbered... Ron. (Feeling a little sadder after reading your post). Ron's right. This guy is making a mockery of both the Linux community and social consciousness.

Re: [newbie] Linux, Borders, and social consciousness

paul rodríguez wrote: Views on the morality of shoplifting aside, there is a way you can buy books from a local independent bookstore online that is very convenient. Booksense.com is an national organization of independent bookstores which provides a common interface to order books online

Re: [newbie] Console Mail Readers

Tim, I installed mutt becuase i am curious to learn a console based editor (and emacs) From the man page it seems that i should have a ~/.muttrc file in my home directory but I do not. I tried a locate and didn't vcome up with anything. My ? is if this fle gets created by the install,

[newbie] Ximian Gnome

Hello everyone, Just wanted to drop a note and let y'all know that Ximian Gnome is *very nice*. I am running Mandrake 7.2, and the installation went quite well. There was a problem initially resolving all dependencies for the Gnome upgrade to 1.4, but all I had to do was cancel and retry, and it

[newbie] gnomeicu

Hallo! I've installed gnomeicu-0.96.1-6mdk and i'm getting the following errors when trying to run it: -- 1. Panel application (process 6009) has failed due to a fatal error (segment violation) 2. Gnomeicu application (process 6006) has failed due to a fatal error (segment

Re: [newbie] Low Resource Window Manager?

On Wednesday 29 August 2001 12:10 pm, Michel Clasquin wrote: t I've got I don't run these myself (which is why I don't have the URLs lying around), but do a google search for ratpoison and one for oroboros. I doubt you'll get more minimalist than those two! Oroborus is pretty cool and

Re: [newbie] Linux, Borders, and social consciousness

Isaac Curtis wrote: Bryan Tyson wrote: On Wednesday 29 August 2001 21:32, Ron wrote: Isaac, My gast has been well and truly flabbered... Ron. (Feeling a little sadder after reading your post). Ron's right. This guy is making a mockery of both the Linux community and "social

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

Nope, definitely not a single-cd install cd. It's the same cd that, if I pop it in the computer right beside this one, will pop up the prompt for the other cd's. Any ideas? - Isaac Michael D. Viron wrote: Anguo and Isaac, Usually this is because it is part of a single CD install

[newbie] ISDN :-(

hi i got an ISDN adaptor card that fails to work on mandrake 8.0 harddrake has the pci card listed as unknown even though it supported AVM fritz. ( BT Speedway) If i try to install it manually it still does not configure All the various ISDN bits have been installed but they cant work as the

Re: [newbie] Linux, Borders, and social consciousness

Charles Punch wrote: Isaac Curtis wrote: Bryan Tyson wrote: On Wednesday 29 August 2001 21:32, Ron wrote: Isaac, My gast has been well and truly flabbered... Ron. (Feeling a little sadder after reading your post). Ron's right. This guy is making a mockery of both the Linux community

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8 Installation/LILO

Dennis, I came across some-what similar problem few days back. After installation when I rebooted my machine I used to get endless string of 01010101010...and no boot prompt etc.. What I did was, I booted my machine with Linux boot floppy and at the prompt press enter or 'linux' followed

Re: [newbie] Linux, Borders, and social consciousness

Isaac Curtis wrote: Charles Punch wrote: Isaac Curtis wrote: Bryan Tyson wrote: On Wednesday 29 August 2001 21:32, Ron wrote: Isaac, My gast has been well and truly flabbered... Ron. (Feeling a little sadder after reading your post). Ron's right. This guy is making a

Re: [newbie] audiogala satellite

Hi Sridhar, You just have to untar the archive in your home dir. and then on the AGSatellite0520 dir. created, make an account.txt file and on the first line type your Login name and on the second your password. After you create the shares.txt file and type the dir. where you are going to store

[newbie] OT, but important to Linux in general

The Screen Savers on Tech TV is doing a poll for the next 24 hours on weather we want another Linux Week! They need 1000 yes votes to do more linux. http://www.techtv.com/thescreensavers Last night they had Mad Dog on. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] xmms ogg files

Are you not able to play the files? Is that the problem? Or do you not have the .ogg format linked to xmms as a player? Original Message On 8/30/01, 4:11:56 PM, Joan Tur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] xmms ogg files: Hallo! What packages do i have to install for xmms to

Re: [newbie] network question

On Fri, 31 Aug 2001 10:07, Matt Greer wrote: On Thursday 30 August 2001 01:50, you wrote: Hi I was setting up network and it asked if my IP address is Manual, DHCP, or BootP. What is the difference? I know what DHCP is in Windows terms (dynamically assigned IP address), so that's the

Re: [newbie] kde 2.2 install

On Thursday 30 August 2001 18:57, you wrote: Hi, It's my turn. I've d/l'd all the packages (except the static ones) and they are eagerly waiting to be installed. Two quick questions #1. Is there a specific order that they must be installed in #2. Is there

Re: [newbie] Linux, Borders, and social consciousness

Hi Isaac, Goddess this thread is interesting and thought provoking! I am not here to make any jugment, either way. I just wanted to drop a line to tell you that I support you: do whatever you want if you feel that's the right thing to do, never mind what other people say. There are as

Re: [newbie] How to do a kmail filter

civileme banged on their keyboard and produced the following arrangement of letters: - - - Menubar at the top of KMail+Settings=Configure Filters=New= Drop-down From = - Drop-down contains= (Fill in the blank) Example : civileme = Filter Actions= - Drop-down move to folder = Drop-down

Fwd: Re: [newbie] kde 2.2 install

I'm getting senile, forgot and sent it to the poster instead of the list. Again. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] kde 2.2 install Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 22:02:41 -0400 From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bill Winegarden [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday 30

Re: [newbie] kde 2.2

the libSDL1.2 is giving me trouble. It needs XFree 4.1.0 and I have XFree 4.0.3 (from my distribution ISOs). How do I go about upgrading a package? Caveat - sometimes you'll find an RPM that depends on some other RPM which depends in turn on some other RPM, and you can get into a circle

[newbie] postfix problem.

Hi All, I want to put up an internal e-mail server in our network. Since postfix is pre-installed in mandrake 8.0 I didn't bother installing another mail server. But when I configure the client which is using Eudora on Windows machine I get an error Could not connect to mailserver

[newbie] Mandrake 8 for PPC - Can't boot/install from CD

I just downloaded version 8 of Mandrake for PPC. I have a PowerMac G4/733 with 768MB RAM. The system will not boot of the CD. I read the tutorial included on the CD and tried booting into open firmware and typing: boot cd:\\yaboot (along with some variants of this) to no avail. Does anyone

[newbie] kde 2.2 install

Hi, It's my turn. I've d/l'd all the packages (except the static ones) and they are eagerly waiting to be installed. Two quick questions #1. Is there a specific order that they must be installed in #2. Is there a single command that will install all packages

Re: [newbie] Linux, Borders, and social consciousness

Ron Bouwhuis wrote: What the hell is a five-finger discount? I *HOPE* you mean you go to Borders, buy a coffee and maybe a pastry, sit down in one of those lovely corner sofas and read the excellent Linux references you mention (careful not to get sticky fingers on the pages).

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8 Installation/LILO

On Thursday 30 August 2001 09:38, you wrote: Hi Thanks for your recent reply. Looks like a great community here. I have been attempting a Mandrake installation on a Pentuim 200 MMX system with 96MB memory. This system has two 6 gig hard drives and each drive is partitioned 50/50. The

Re: [newbie] cleaning gcc-3.0.1 installation files

This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_999148231-7607-6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I did the instalation, but I wanna know if I can remove source directory? Sure, once it's installed you can blow the source

[newbie] test

only a test, please excuse and disregard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] SiS 630 chipset

yes. I have tried the driver from www.sis.com - editing of /etc/X11/XFree86- manually or with xconfigurator with various combinations on parameters, etc. nothing. the only thing I have not tried is recompiling the kernel. navin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] CPU question

Hello, I am running Mandrake on a Abit motherboard (Abit BP6) with dual celeron. It looks like the smp kernel works fine. The celerons I use are quite old (400 MHz) and their FSB clock rate is 66 MHz. I was thinking I would upgrade to more recent CPUs (about 800 MHz each, 100 MHz FSB).