Re: [newbie-it] Fwd: Sceda Tv

I Cha scheda hai? Io, con la scheda wintv, ho come unico problema che devo ogni volta, all'inizio, settare Video source: Television. Per un motivo misterioso non l'accetta nello script. Ho visto però che nella versione che c'è sulla nuova beta Mandrake 8.1 questo problemino non c'è più.

[newbie-it] TeX o LaTex

Ciao, per esigenze di lavoro avrei bisogno di apprendere il TeX, qualcuno sà indicarmi se ci sono manuali in italiano, anche in formato cartaceo. Grazie per l'aiuto Cristiano

[newbie-it] aiuto: accesso negato a floppy e cdrom

Salve a tutti, sono nuovo in Linux e non so fare quasi niente, quindi se qualcuno mi dà una mano ne sarò riconoscente. Improvvisamente, inspiegabilmente, quando cerco di accedere a cdrom o a floppy il sistema risponde: impossibile accedere al file /mnt/cdrom non hai i diritti di accesso alla

Re: [newbie-it] TeX o LaTex

Dovrebbe esserci quello che fa al caso tuo qui: ftp://ftp.pluto.linux.it/pub/pluto/ildp/misc/impara_latex ciao ste On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciao, per esigenze di lavoro avrei bisogno di apprendere il TeX, qualcuno sà indicarmi se ci sono manuali in italiano, anche in

Re: [newbie-it] TeX o LaTex

On Friday 07 September 2001 16:38, Stefano Barberis wrote: Dovrebbe esserci quello che fa al caso tuo qui: ftp://ftp.pluto.linux.it/pub/pluto/ildp/misc/impara_latex guarda pure qui: http://linux.interpuntonet.it/manuali.php3 su appunti linux anche, che inter.net sta pubblicando in formato

[newbie-it] Aiuto

non so più qual'è il sito al quale mi sono iscritto per questa mailing list, come faccio a cancellarmi?

Re: [newbie-it] Aiuto

quando lo scopri dimmelo... --- bricco Tiscali [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: non so più qual'è il sito al quale mi sono iscritto per questa mailing list, come faccio a cancellarmi? __ Do You Yahoo!? Il tuo indirizzo

Re: [newbie-it] aiuto: accesso negato a floppy e cdrom

brain wrote: Fabio Congiu ha scritto: provato ad accedervi come root ma ho avuto la stessa risposta. Cosa posso fare? Montarli? ;-) Sotto Linux prima di poter utilizzare un qualsiasi disco devi farlo riconoscere al sistema attraverso l'operazione di mount... da console: # mount

Re: [newbie-it] Aiuto

www.linux-mandrake.com = mailing list e segui quello che dice :) lol PS salve a tutta la list sono sempre Spider ma ho cambiato mail.un saluto! by Spider - Original Message - From: bricco Tiscali [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 8:44

Re: [newbie] new linux drivers for nvidia cards Version: 1.0-1512 (LONG POST)

Hi I downloaded and tried the new drivers last night, as well as the very impressive PDF file that is now available. My System (for reference I 'm only listing things related to the speed of graphics): AMD k6-2 550Mhz 384Megs of Ram Fujistu 14 Gig HDD GA-5AA (Gigabyte ALI) Mobo Geforce 2 MX I'm

RE: [newbie] RAM: How much is enough?

To paraphrase... Cool. Those are memorable but obscure references. I was delighted at your amazing retrieval. -JMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-Original Message- |From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 7:04 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Cc:

RE: [newbie] HELP: QuickCam USB for Mandrake 8.0

Title: Message I have one of these puppies as well. AFAIK Logitech stomped on reverse engineering efforts... -JMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mark WheelerSent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 10:32

Re: [newbie] Gator for Linux?

On Thu, 6 Sep 2001 18:05:56 -0700 (PDT), Peter Rymshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a program like Gator that works on Linux? I'm refering to the free Windows program available at gator.com that automatically or manually completes forms with name, address, etc. as well as filling in ID

Re: [newbie] Accessing DOS partitions from Linux Mandrake

On Thu, 06 Sep 2001 20:55:29 -0700 Randy [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: Howdy gang! Quite an evening. Got Linux installed, X-windows working, and even connected to the Internet. So, I need to access some large data files on the DOS side of this beastie. It's like 5 Mb, so a

Re: [newbie] Accessing DOS partitions from Linux Mandrake

Find out on which partition your DOS is loaded on and mount it onto any directory you would have created under linux. While mounting it specify the filesystem type, in your case it is dos. also read the mount manpage. biki On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Randy wrote... Howdy gang! Quite an evening. Got

Re: [newbie] Enabling Disk Quotas

Type man edquota on your shell prompt On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, jrodri wrote... Hi everyone I hope that someone could help me with these... I'm trying to set quotas for my users, i want that each user of a group named mailgroup has a restriction of 5 Mb of space on disk, i already have

RE: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already

Better yet, it downloads, installs and configures Linux to replace any active XP/NT/2K servers with it. It does this so seemlessly that the transition is not noticed for months, and then usually by accident. Ah, we can dream. -JMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already

wouldn't work. they would notice after 10 minutes. mainly because the server hasn't crashed, been hacked or gotten a virus in that time ;) Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: Jose M. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] Linux not loading

What is the specific error message you are getting and where? Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst * 01603 687386 -Original Message- From: Paul Chandler [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 9:50 PM To: [EMAIL

[newbie] Partitions management for kde

do anyone knows a visual utility to edit the linux partitions for KDE? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Choosing flavors and Window Managers

I'll tell you that I am planning on going 'school-wide' with Linux. But it's a gradual process. and we're a small organization. In our school, we have one computer lab with 20 machines and about 3-4 machines in every classroom. The lab is completely linux now, with all but two of t eh

Re: [newbie] Bash Scripting

http://linuxdoc.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html - Paul Rodríguez On 05 Sep 2001 18:14:39 -0300, Nicolás Gómez wrote: Hi In the school we are almost in the part of shell scripting, and the chosen one for these purpose is bash. I'd like to know if you can help with any link to some bash

[newbie] D-Link Ethernet Card for DSL

Hello all, I have recently made the switch from modem to DSL thru swbell. The package that the sent included a D-Link DFE-530TX ethernet card. The card in windoze 98 is using irq 11. According to the supported hardware list and some archived e-mails this card is supported. I have

Re: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already

On Thursday 06 September 2001 10:02 pm, Warren Post escribió: Tom, other than gaming what uses do you see for Windows? I've been looking forward to scrubbing it from my hd's, but your comment gives me pause. Tom Brinkman wrote: I'm the first one to recommend to newbie's (or oldies's)

Re: [newbie] Partitions management for kde

do anyone knows a visual utility to edit the linux partitions for KDE? DiskDrake or GnuParted for Linux. Partition Magic for that other system. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Library Compatibility

In my quest to get WP8 installed on LM8 (it worked wonderfully on LM7.1) I discover that there were libraries (libc5) used that are no longer used in this newer Mandrake. But are older libraries compatible with newer ones? If not, then I guess it is not possible to reinstall WP8 into this

Re: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already

on 9/7/01 8:51 AM, Tom Brinkman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I've already seen several replies to this, so you can see each individuals needs vary quite a bit. For me many graphic design programs don't exist on Linux or aren't on par with their Windows/Mac counterparts. I primarily use

[newbie] Network Cards

Hi, I'm a recent Linux convert, though I have been interested in the OS for a number of years. I am reasonably comfortable with both computer hardware and software, but I am not under any circumstances a 'techie'. Though my ludite in-laws might protest, my knowledge of some of these things is

Re: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already

On Friday 07 September 2001 02:09, you wrote: Jeez, I wanna get rid of Windows too. However, our business accounts are in Windows and although I'm planning on using GnuCash, I don't want to re-key in all transactions for the current financial year so have to wait until April next year!

Re: [newbie] Network Cards

I do want to start using Mandrake, and I'm willing to pick up a new network card if that's what I have to do. If I do, I was wondering if there was a list somewhere that I could bring into a shop so I would choose a card that Mandrake would recognize. If you can't get the dlink card to work

[newbie] Accessing NT networked printer from Linux

How do i access a networked printer via Linux. The printer is on an NT print server. Its a HP Deskjet 850C, under NT its name is \\scotty\itcolour. I have tried adding the printer through the cups webmin as both an SMB printer using, smb://scotty/itcolour as the URI, and also as an

Re: [newbie] Network Cards

On Friday 07 September 2001 09:40 am, Michael D. Viron wrote: If you can't get the dlink card to work (and I remember having problems with dlinks and the ne cards), you should pick up a 3com card. I've never had any problems with everything from the early 3c509's to the newer 3c905's.

[newbie] KDE/Gnome

Is there a compare anywhere re the advantages and disadvantages of KDE vs. Gnome? Is this list and Mandrake specifically oriented toward KDE? Before sending this I decided that I aught to check the list archives and there was *nothing* with Gnome in the subject. I don't think that I want to

[newbie] enabling ATA100 drives

I have an IBM Deskstar 75GXP 30GB drive which is ATA100 compatible, but I have a feeling that MDK8.0 is not taking full advantage of this feature. My motherboard, an Asus A7A266, also supports this. A line showed up during installation (might during boot-up too -- haven't checked) that says

Re: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already

If you look at the Gnucash web site (www.gnucash.org) you can see the latest 1.6 version has extensive wizards (they call them Druids) to help you import from Quicken. I havent tried it yet because it needs the latest Gnome libraries to be fitted, and I thought I'd wait for Mandrake 8.1

RE: [newbie] Mandrake SNF and Port Forwarding

download ipmasqadm,, and look it up on google, there is a heap of howto's about it.. I use it all the time, it is easier then writing ipchains rules and has been flawless for me... rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lanman

RE: [newbie] KDE/Gnome

I don't know of any comparisons between KDE and GNOME. On the surface KDE is more Windows like and GNOME is more Mac like, but it's only cosmetic. I was a KDE user for a long long time, but I downloaded the Ximian desktop and it's really nice, I've completely switched. Both (K/G) are highly

[newbie] Cannot Find NSLOOKUP

I am looking for the 'nslookup' command and can't find it. I have run a find command looking for anything like nslookup and it comes back blank. I am running a Mandrake 7.2 workstation and networking seems to work fine so something must be providing this service but I can't find

RE: [newbie] KDE/Gnome

First and foremost, there are others REALLY good alternatives to KDE and GNOME in Desktop Managers like WindowMaker (www.windowmaker.org) but you can live perfeclty well with something like BlackBox (but just a window manager, that can be integrated to the kwc and kpanel) and well, if you don;t

Re: [newbie] WordPerfect8 Mandrake 8

I can't even find WP8, does anyone have the url? Can't find it on their site. On Thursday 06 September 2001 12:16 pm, so spoke s: On Thursday 06 September 2001 03:07 pm, mcoady wrote: Since installing Mandrake8 I cannot get WP8 for Linux to install. Is it probable that the newer Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Accessing NT networked printer from Linux

Thanks for the tips. I do indeed have samba installed and running. So i should be using smb://scotty/itcolour as the address to access the printer, is that right? (does it matter that the printer is connected via a JetDirect card?) I'll check the firewall issue out on monday when i'm back at

[newbie] super mount .....not so super

I just upgraded to MD 8.1 beta2 from 8.0( was working ok before) anyway everything seemed ok untill i found out the CDrom , CDRW and floppy wont mount on boot how do i fix this ?? cheerz David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Enabling Disk Quotas

I tried that too, I don't understand it, what is an easier example? I want to set username toadie to be limited to 150 Megabytes on his /home/toadie user directory. What exactly would I type? Thanks On Friday 07 September 2001 04:02 am, so spoke Biki: Type man edquota on your shell prompt

RE: [newbie] super mount .....not so super

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 4:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] super mount .not so super I just upgraded to MD 8.1 beta2 from 8.0( was working ok before) anyway

Re: [newbie] Dumb Email Time Question

Randy Kramer wrote: james Mellema wrote: Look at it like time is always UT (the current designation for GMT), local time where you are is 4 hours earlier, hence, the - sign. If you were on the other side of the International Date Line you would be ahead, hence the + sign. Jim, Thanks

[newbie] bandwidth dns problems.

Hi all, One of our servers is on a slowish adsl connection, and we just got a bill for the account that says we did 5.5gig on that account in the last month.. There is nothing running on it which should be consuming bandwidth... I can maybe account for 1 gig, but not 5.5 The only thing the

RE: [newbie] Firewall/networking tutorial?

linuxdoc.org howtos for everything you ever wanted to do with an Os and probably quiet a few that you haven't everything IPMASQ networking dialup the whole lot,,, thats what I would start with... be careful though, alot of them will be talking about ipchains, which your default mandrake

Fwd: Re: [newbie] Choosing flavors and Window Managers

-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] Choosing flavors and Window Managers Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 15:51:52 -0500 From: Randy Donohoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: jennifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday 06 September 2001 22:38, you wrote: Randy...I just read the first few

[newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card

I just tried to upgrade to Mandrake 8.1 beta (but I had the same problem with 8.0) to fix some problems I was having with x windows. After having installed Mandrake successfully, I needed to add a network card to my setup, a 3com 905 series card. It was working fine under Mandrake 7.0. What

Re: [newbie] new linux drivers for nvidia cards Version: 1.0-1512

On Friday 07 September 2001 02:46 pm, Linux Newbie escribió: Is it possible for me to get a reverse-compiler for Linux and de-compile these things into C or C++ ? Yes, then D/l the windoze drivers and have at it. You'll also need to dissect their chips. Might need some $pecial hardware ;

Re: [newbie] Webmail Thingo for Apache and Mandrake. OT

Brett wrote: I need a webmail type of access program for a server running Mandrake. It needs to be able to handle IMAP accounts. Also, it needs to work as thus. Someone logs in as- username - user pass - password When when they send mail in the program, it sets their return

Re: [newbie] bash: java: command not found

antoine rivoire wrote: sorry valerie, i did a bit of looking, and i found out how you do that, and it works. thanks. On Monday 03 September 2001 08:52, you wrote: did you set PATH correctly after you insatlled the jdk? I've got Limewire and it's not working for me yet either, so could

[newbie] Fw: Chips and Technologies CT65555 on ERA1000

- Original Message - From: Luca To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 11:58 PM Subject: RE: Chips and Technologies CT6 on ERA1000 Thank you very much for your help ! I succeed in obtainig a good display 1024x768 on my ERA1000 notebook (there are some lines of

Re: [newbie] Need some some file/directory system structure.

At 02:40 PM 09/07/2001 -0700, you wrote: I'm overwelmed with the combination of newness and choice in this Linux world, although it's generally what I hoped for and I assume that it will just take time. But one thing that I think is getting in my way is the file system structure. First, I can't

[newbie] Windows and Mandrake on one HDD

Hi, I would like to put Windows (either Win2k och Win98) on a harddrive together with Mandrake 8.0. I've got a 20 GB drive, at the moment empty. Should I install Windows or Mandrake first to get a bootloader that let me choose os at boot? Rgds, Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] KDE/Gnome

I too recently dl'ed ximian and went with it over kde. Its a bit quicker IMHO. I could never get kde apps to comile on my system so I was laways using gnome apps (gcdmaster, sylpheed, pan, gcombust, zapping). Nautilius could be quicker, I miss konqueror (i know i could run in gnome) and

Re: [newbie] Windows and Mandrake on one HDD

install windows first, then linux, mandrake will handle partioning your disk and loading the bootloader...good luck On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 19:43:47 +0200 Anders Thoresson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like to put Windows (either Win2k och Win98) on a harddrive together with Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Need some some file/directory system structure.

Thanks for all the information and pointers, and my apologies to all for all the verbal handwringing. I have just one specific question. Since these directories *are* standardized (although moved around a bit from one distr to the next, I think) does that mean that when I install a software

FW: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already

Hi, I would want applications like Dreamweaver UltraDev and to a lesser extent PhotoShop before I could comfortably abandon Windows. Someone ought bring pressure to bare on Macromedia and thier ilk. Another issue would be that of plug n play. If LINUX could have that and take the headache of

RE: [newbie] Network Card compatibility

As I mentioned in my previous mail, I still have not managed to install Mandrake 8 on my system. The installation gets to the point of asigning root and user password. The problems arise at the NIC detection. My card is 3COM ISA Ethernet 10 MB per sec ( not a combo ). I don't know much else

Re: [newbie] Need some some file/directory system structure.

On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 14:40:29 -0700 (PDT) Peter Rymshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: PR I'm overwelmed with the combination of newness and PR choice in this Linux world, although it's generally PR what I hoped for and I assume that it will just take PR time. Keep with it.

Re: [newbie] Need some some file/directory system structure.

At 05:29 PM 09/07/2001 -0700, you wrote: Thanks for all the information and pointers, and my apologies to all for all the verbal handwringing. I have just one specific question. Since these directories *are* standardized (although moved around a bit from one distr to the next, I think) does

Re: [newbie] WordPerfect8 Mandrake 8

Linux Newbie wrote: I can't even find WP8, does anyone have the url? Can't find it on their site. On Thursday 06 September 2001 12:16 pm, so spoke s: On Thursday 06 September 2001 03:07 pm, mcoady wrote: Since installing Mandrake8 I cannot get WP8 for Linux to install. Is it

FW: [newbie] Network Card compatibility

Hi again, I just booted into windows and saw my NIC is listed as 3COM Etherlink III ISA 3C509B-Combo. Apologies for lack of observance on my part. S now, can anyone tell me if this NIC is supported by Mandrake 8 and if so, why is not being picked up.? Thanks guys. Siavash -Original

[newbie] fetchmail via qmail

Hi! I have configure my Linux with Qmail. Now I like to install fetchmail. But I am having some error. Can someone help me [root@edns1 RPMS]# rpm -Uvh fetchmail-5.7.4-4.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: smtpdaemon is needed by fetchmail-5.7.4-4 Best Regards, SKLIM Want to buy

Re: [newbie] evolution shell error

On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 12:31:02 -0400, Scott Thurmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone seen this error on Mandrake 8.0 and know what to do about it? evolution-shell-WARNING **: Cannot access Bonobo/ConfigDatabase on wombat: Beta 3 of Evolution was recently released. Upgrade to it

[newbie] a dumb postfix question

Would anyone know where the spam controls for Postfix are? I can't seem to find them. Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] How to run ntp?

I installed ntp from rpm, and I can't get it to run, the only place I find it on the computer is /etc/ntp and the only thing in this directory is a text file called keys Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already

From: Dr. Evil [EMAIL PROTECTED] But if you're just an ordinary user who surfs the web, does word processing, this kind of thing, you don't need Windows at all. Ordinary (home) users usually want to surf and play games. Also electronic banking/bill paying. I haven't seen a good Linux

Re: [newbie] Webmail Thingo for Apache and Mandrake. OT

On Fri, 07 Sep 2001 17:15:24 -0400 Isaac Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brett wrote: I need a webmail type of access program for a server running Mandrake. It needs to be able to handle IMAP accounts. Also, it needs to work as thus. Someone logs in as- username - user

Re: [newbie] KDE/Gnome

On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 10:28:35 -0700 (PDT), Peter Rymshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a compare anywhere re the advantages and disadvantages of KDE vs. Gnome? Is this list and Mandrake specifically oriented toward KDE? Before sending this I decided that I aught to check the list archives

Re: [newbie] Library Compatibility

Have you tried installing the libc package as I mentioned before? You should not need anything else. On Fri, 07 Sep 2001 16:59:06 -0700, mcoady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you Sridhar for your suggestion. I found a file at Vector Linux (wp8-libs.tgz) that contails the libc files necessary.

Re: [newbie] Need some some file/directory system structure.

The file locations for applications can often be modified before compilation (via the configure script). For packages like RPM and DEB, there is no need to worry about where the files go. Just install the package and run the app. Remember that you should be using Mandrake or compatible (e.g. Red

Re: [newbie] can't compile - please help

Seems to be looking for: string and asm/socket.h and fstring and map and list and.. many more. Do you haev the kernel source code loaded? Often there are includes in /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm that symlink to /usr/src/linux/ include, and if so, you'll need the kernel source -

Re: [newbie] Accessing NT networked printer from Linux

Could it be the / or \ problem? Jamie Kerwick wrote: How do i access a networked printer via Linux. The printer is on an NT print server. Its a HP Deskjet 850C, under NT its name is \\scotty\itcolour. I have tried adding the printer through the cups webmin as both an SMB printer using,

Re: [newbie] Linux not loading

Hylton's 0.02c Make sure Me was installed first as if it is after Linux it will overwrite the MBR and therefore it will not give you Lilo as a bootloader to select Linux. Tell us what distro you are installing as well. Paul Chandler wrote: Hi, i have installed linux and winMe at the same

Re: [newbie] Accessing NT networked printer from Linux

Could it be the / or \ problem? Jamie Kerwick wrote: How do i access a networked printer via Linux. The printer is on an NT print server. Its a HP Deskjet 850C, under NT its name is \\scotty\itcolour. I have tried adding the printer through the cups webmin as both an SMB printer using,

[newbie] installing nfs on mandrake 7.2

okay im trying to get my main machine to use nfs, so that i can install linux onto anouther machine (that cant use a cdrom, and not enough space for a ftp install). i did enable nfs in the xconfig... and recompile the kernel... but when i goto /etc/init.d the closest thing i have to 'nfs' is

[newbie] mailbox query

Hi! I have an embarrassing question to ask. I installed Mutt and upon running the creature it complained that I do not have a mailbox. This is a big mystery for me. How do I get/make a mailbox? Thanks! -warren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] problem logging in

-- Forwarded message -- Hello I have mandrake 8.0 installed in my machine. Since yesterday I have been having problem logging in. Soon as I enter my password and hit the enter key the prompt returns to the login prompt. The problem arises with every user. I have gone through the

Re: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already

I'm not Tom, but if I could butt in: I don't even use windows for gaming. If it ain't available for Linux I don't play (since I have yet to enjoy any sucess with wine). (Except I am considering the new Myst. That might be worth booting over there for. Anybody played it?) But I do use

Re: [newbie] SmartMedia adapters

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

RE: [newbie] Network Cards

The best card you can get is one of the realtec rtl8139 cards,, (thats the name of the chip on the card, there are many brands that sell them.. ) they are really really cheap and work great.. I have been using them for as long as they have been out,, and never had a problem. rgds Frank

Re: [newbie] Network Cards

I second this ;) I have a Genius one and that chipset is amazing! Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 5:30 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Network Cards The best

Re: [newbie] enabling ATA100 drives

On Friday 07 September 2001 01:03 pm, Jeremy Davidson wrote: I have an IBM Deskstar 75GXP 30GB drive which is ATA100 compatible, (I've clocked the drive at 29MB/sec in Win). TIA Jeremy run as root: hdparm -Tt /dev/hda and see what your getting. (assuming mandrake is on your first

[newbie] Mandrake SNF and Port Forwarding

Has onyone had any luck in configuring Port-Forwarding on Mandrake SNF (A.K.A. Mandrake Security) ? If so, I'd really appreciate some instructions on this. I also need to know if I need any additional packages to get the job done. Thanks in Advance Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Firewall/networking tutorial?

Ben Bayer wrote: Hi all, I want to set up an old computer I installed mandrake 8 on as a firewall for my main PC. Does anyone know of a howto, forum discussion, book, or article that might help me get started networking and firewalling? Thanks, Ben Linux Network Administrator's

Re: [newbie] Dumb Email Time Question

Isaac Curtis wrote: yikes i hear all of you though time seems to confound mozillamail as well all my mail is dated by when it was sent so thanks to the fact that mandrake is used all over the world i get emails from today, yesterday, and tomorrow i have even responded to emails before that

[newbie] Need some some file/directory system structure.

I'm overwelmed with the combination of newness and choice in this Linux world, although it's generally what I hoped for and I assume that it will just take time. But one thing that I think is getting in my way is the file system structure. First, I can't identify what kind of file something is

Re: [newbie] super mount .....not so super

On Friday 07 September 2001 03:14 pm, David escribió: I just upgraded to MD 8.1 beta2 from 8.0( was working ok before) anyway everything seemed ok untill i found out the CDrom , CDRW and floppy wont mount on boot how do i fix this ?? Supermount has been on vacation since 2.4.6. It was

RE: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already

I used to have removable harddisk caddies... I had a permanent harddisk setup as secondary master... That had fat32 and ext2 partitions on it.. then I had two harddrives in the cadies.. one for winblows and one for linux... that way, I could console myself to the fact that there was no windows

Re: [newbie] Bash Scripting

On Friday 07 September 2001 09:32, Paul Rodríguez wrote: http://linuxdoc.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html - Paul Rodríguez On 05 Sep 2001 18:14:39 -0300, Nicolás Gómez wrote: Hi In the school we are almost in the part of shell scripting, and the chosen one for these purpose is bash. I'd

Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card

On Friday 07 September 2001 17:27, ryan_steffes wrote: I just tried to upgrade to Mandrake 8.1 beta (but I had the same problem with 8.0) to fix some problems I was having with x windows. After having installed Mandrake successfully, I needed to add a network card to my setup, a 3com 905

Re: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already

On Thursday 06 September 2001 23:21, Dr. Evil wrote: As far as I know, for most users, there is no use aside from gaming, and even for gaming, there are native Linux games, and apparently quite a few Windows games run under Wine.  The other exception is that there are quite a few applications

Re: [newbie] SiS 630 on Notebooks

On Thursday 06 September 2001 20:52, Navin Daryanani wrote: exactly. Somehow after many many tries I got these steps (IN THAT ORDER) and finally got it to work. I do not mind booting into the console first. Rather I prefer that. BUT the problem with me still remains that once I get into X

Re: [newbie] Bash Scripting

Theres Learning the Bash Shell its an O'Reily book. I like it. Useful to a mortal who isnt hacking the kernel rob On Sat, 8 Sep 2001 00:32:13 -0400 civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 07 September 2001 09:32, Paul Rodríguez wrote: http://linuxdoc.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html -

Re: [newbie] Network Card compatibility

hi, i have few 3com isa 10mb/s cards and they are all 3c509's (no guarantee yours are of course), have you tried looking on the 3com site for a utility to configure it? that way you will know what options to specify in linux (though device manager in windows should give a clue), this might

Re: [newbie] KDE/Gnome

Mark Johnson wrote: I don't know of any comparisons between KDE and GNOME. On the surface KDE is more Windows like and GNOME is more Mac like, but it's only cosmetic. I was a KDE user for a long long time, but I downloaded the Ximian desktop and it's really nice, I've completely switched.