Re: [newbie] Digital Cameras

2001-09-18 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Price varies depending on where you get it. MSRP is $1099 (but don't pay that!!) you can find them from many online resalers for $700-800 Not cheap, but this is a 4.1 MgeaPixel , 3x Zoom camera, with exceptional quality. I'm not even worried about getting gimp to recognize it. I can moun

[newbie] PPP connection commandline

2001-09-18 Thread AOL Systems
Can pls help me how to connect and configure PPP using the commandline including PAP secrets I really have no knowledge on it.My modem by the way is a US Robotics cause they said that their are optimal configuration regarding this modem. Thanks and any help we gladly appreciated. Thanks and God

Re: [newbie] what is wrong with dependencies

2001-09-18 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 18:21:10 -0500, Joseph Braddock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know dependencies are a pain, but so is Windows when some program being > install takes it upon itself to update various DLLs that a new app needs, but > breaks existing apps in the process. It's such a problem t

Re: [newbie] freezes rendering 3d with my nVidia drivers

2001-09-18 Thread Robert MacLean
a few things that might help. I'm away from my box right now so i don't have specifics. will check tonight. there is a setting to set yout agp usage. it defaults to 3 with the new drivers. mine only works if i set it to 1. next i assume you had installed mesa before the drivers. i found that if yo

Re: [newbie] fetchmail & pine not receiving (still, again, always)

2001-09-18 Thread WCBaker
Hi Mark (and anyone else who might be entertained by/curious about this saga)! Today I did a complete re-install of Mandrake 8.0 and the picture below represents my current state. I will yet try again on the morrow! I recently got a message from Postfix (YEAH!) from the system. So I get inte

Re: [newbie] Will Ximian install fix Gnome?

2001-09-18 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 18:14:22 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hope you have broad shoulders. I am getting no where and > it may be your fault. You are helping me, because of the > problems you are dealing with. > Is it possible to have more than one desktop? Of course. GNU/Linux is all about c

Re: [newbie] Digital Cameras

2001-09-18 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Upgrade to the latest version of Gphoto. Installing Ximian GNOME is a good way to do this. On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 22:30:03 -0400, GonzalixLeDruide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Creative Web-Cam, but I don't know how to use it on Linux. Mine > is LM 7.2 > > Anybody could help me ? > > Thank

Re: [newbie] Will Ximian install fix Gnome?

2001-09-18 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 16:49:59 -0700 (PDT), Peter Rymshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I retract my recent self-response to this message, > saying all was OK with Gnome. > > I tried to shutdown and reboot (before beginning my > Ximian install) and found that Gnome froze immediately > upon loading.

[newbie] Re: [newbie] Есть тут кто, говорящий по русски!

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Re: [newbie] alternatives to windows programs

2001-09-18 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 11:01:45 +, hp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks > > Some newbie questions. > > a) Is there Linux software to encode video as good as or better than > WindowsMedia for on-demand true streaming? Try these: http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/ http://www.emulinks.de/divx/

Re: [newbie] Gnome CD-ROM & floppy access

2001-09-18 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Make sure that you have either Nautilus or GMC configured to manage your desktop. On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 21:52:08 -0400, "Charles A. Punch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had to open File Manager in Super User , then drag & drop onto the > desktop. Works fine from the desktop. I would like to get

Re: [newbie] PS, HMTL and Web page design

2001-09-18 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 16:49:34 -0400, Andre Dubuc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have produced five booklets of 56 to 100 Postscript pages that I would > like to place on a website, with the intent that persons could download them, > or view them. The pages are heavily formatted (I used Ventura 4.

[newbie] Есть тут кто, говорящий по русски!

2001-09-18 Thread КМС ЗМК
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Re: [newbie] suid icon on desktop

2001-09-18 Thread Paul Rodríguez
That's the way it is set up now. I wanted an icon to reset the network status in case the connection fails (allways a possibillity) without having to restart the computer. -Paul Rodríguez On 18 Sep 2001 01:24:03 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > Have you considered having the system automa

Re: [newbie] update time over internet

2001-09-18 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
The system time is set to the hardware clock on bootup. Over time, the system and hardware clock fall out of sync, and neither of them are very accurate as is. This is why you should use both the rdate and hwclock commands relatively often (maybe about once a day) to keep them _both_ in sync with

Re: [newbie] Accessing my files at home ??

2001-09-18 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
If you know the IP address, you should be able to SSH into the machine. Of course, you need an SSH daemon running. On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 04:38:47 -0700 (PDT), Adam Cripps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, > > I didn't make it clear that my wife could just log on > the net - give me the IP and I

Re: [newbie] alternatives to windows programs

2001-09-18 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 10:04:06 -0400, Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > We use a bunch of windows programs that I was curious as to whether there are > any alternatives to these in the Linux community. The programs I was mostly > interested in alternatives are: > > Adobe Photosh

Re: [newbie] what is wrong with dependencies

2001-09-18 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 17:16:09 +0800, "Franki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I understand this issue and I comiserate > > Think about this though, KDE would have been much harder to write (and one > hell of alot bigger most likely),, had it not used the QT libs, they > conntain all the code for

Re: [newbie] alternatives to windows programs

2001-09-18 Thread Matt Greer
On Tuesday 18 September 2001 23:15, you wrote: > Hi, > NO professional in ANY publishing/graphics field would EVER use RGB > when making films for pre-press/production. RGB (Red Green Black) has > major limits pertaining to decent reproduction of the colour > spectrum. rgb is red green blue. It

Re: [newbie] alternatives to windows programs

2001-09-18 Thread ddcharles
Hi, I quite often work with Photoshop (have been for years), and can tell you that a LOT of graphics/printing/publishing professionals use Photoshop. As for Cyan Magenta Yello blacK (CMYK) it is 4 colour seperation process used for making films that are used when printing (not bubble jet/laser je

Re: [newbie] freezes rendering 3d with my nVidia drivers

2001-09-18 Thread John W
I hate to say it but I had the same problem and with the exception of Chromium have never been able to play an GL based games or run any of the mesa demos without a total lock-up. I even corresponded directly with Nvidia for about two weeks trying everything to get them to work and it was all

RE: [newbie] what is wrong with dependencies

2001-09-18 Thread ddcharles
Hi, I have a related question; is there no "uninstall" (not talking about rpms)? A lot of the apps I have installed (./configure;make;make install) have a "make uninstall", but that means that you have to untar/gunzip the package again if/when you want to uninstall it; Has there ever been any

Re: [newbie] kernel panics

2001-09-18 Thread etharp
when you compile do you use make mrproper?On Tuesday 18 September 2001 09:25, you wrote: > Hey folks, > Lately I've been fiddling a lot with compiling the linux kernel 2.4.3 (both > the vanilla one from kernel.org and the mandrake-customized version) and > with both I seem to be getting lots o

Re: [newbie] quick help with pine and selecting not working

2001-09-18 Thread etharp
are you sure it is not copied to the clipboard, but whebn you mouse click the other window you "remove the check mark" for the item you wanted to paste? it ain't winders, you gots lots more than just the last copy in the klipper buffer. once it is copied you can go back to it. On Tuesday 18 Sep

[newbie] Digital Cameras

2001-09-18 Thread Ric Tibbetts
All; I just thought I'd pass this along. Over the weekend I picked up the new Olympus S4040 Digital Camera (impressive little camera!). If any one is interested in these cameras, rest assured, it worked with Linux right out of the box! I just hooked it up to the USB, and mounted the device (/de

Re: [newbie] java and mozilla

2001-09-18 Thread Derek Jennings
Like you I could not get Mozilla to work with Java. It kept insisting Java was not enabled. Went through the process of down loading java, and then failing again. Nor can I persuade Star Office Java is actually installed. Netscape 4.77 works with Java, but it sucks. So now I use Opera 5.05TP w

RE: [newbie] Console mode

2001-09-18 Thread The Spider
Steve Flynn wrote: > You can edit the /etc/issue* files - The one which has all of the escape > codes in it, draws the penguin. Takes me back to my BBS days with ANSI > graphics and whatnot! > > Actually, has anyone ever bothered to come up with a better penguin or other > nice little ansi graphi

Re: [newbie] freezes rendering 3d with my nVidia drivers

2001-09-18 Thread Paul Rodríguez
Ok, I've installed both the tar balls and later the src rpms of the latest nVidia drivers. I am running Mandrake 8.0 freq 2. I still get the same problem. Computer starts successfully (with nVidia logo). Launching a 3d accelerated program (e.g. gears or tuxracer) freezes the computer. I cannot ev

Re: [newbie] Will Ximian install fix Gnome?

2001-09-18 Thread Peter Rymshaw
I retract my recent self-response to this message, saying all was OK with Gnome. I tried to shutdown and reboot (before beginning my Ximian install) and found that Gnome froze immediately upon loading. I restarted the computer and the same happened again. But the third time, I started as root Gno

Re: [newbie] Video cards

2001-09-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 17 September 2001 07:55 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: > Hi, > > I don't know what I am doing different, but I have an nVidia GeForce > II on an card made by Asus (I think it is the V7700), and I have > ABSOLUTELY no problems with it; > Anyways, I was just posting this to let people

Re: [newbie] Will Ximian install fix Gnome?

2001-09-18 Thread Peter Rymshaw
The serious problems with gnome seemed to be fixed (I did find still another gnome RPM. Maybe that did it I still can't understand why it was necessary to do it manually, though. --- Peter Rymshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've decided that I like Gnome more than KDE and > want > to learn and

RE: [newbie] what is wrong with dependencies

2001-09-18 Thread Dave Sherman
On Tue, 2001-09-18 at 04:16, Franki wrote: > I think two other things would help,. a gui and console tool that does smart > tarball installs and updates the rpm database for that app, and one that can > get dependencies for you,, (goes to a mandrake update site list...etc etc. > or asks for the CD

Re: [newbie] samba functionality query

2001-09-18 Thread bascule
nice one jose, this is exactly what i wanted to hear:-) new question, can a old pentium function as a samba server, and is it okay to make it a firewall as well? i have an old p100 running at home with snf7.2, i could practice with samba on that before going down to the commuity centre and let

Re: [newbie] alternatives to windows programs

2001-09-18 Thread Randy Donohoe
Check out Yellow Dog linux. Randy Donohoe - Original Message - From: hp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Matt Greer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 7:01 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] alternatives to windows programs > Hi folks > > Some newbie questions. > > a

RE: [newbie] kernel panics

2001-09-18 Thread FLYNN, Steve
What's the error message when the Kernel Oops's? Cut and Paste from your /var/log/messages will be good, and you might want to ask on the Expert list too! Steve Flynn NOP Data Migration Ops Analyst * 01603 687386 -Original Message- From: Marcin Jendrzejewski [SMTP:[EM

[newbie] KOffice

2001-09-18 Thread Dave Sherman
Hello everyone, Just wondering if anyone here is using KOffice 1.1 in a business environment. Specifically, how well does it get along with MS Word and Excel? I would *really* like to migrate away from StarOffice 5.2, and it looks to me like KOffice is more mature than OpenOffice at this time. A

Re: [newbie] SQL database for patient information

2001-09-18 Thread Richie de Almeida
On Tuesday 18 September 2001 16:21, Paul Rodríguez wrote: > I'd like to create a simple SQL database and frontend for doctors to > store patient information and automate callbacks, backups, and label > printing. I haven't tried any of the open source SQL databases but since you have no experien

Re: [newbie] MODEM

2001-09-18 Thread ddcharles
Hi, sounds to me like there is probably an auction at eBay selling an ISA USR V.Everything, being sold by a guy named Dean (wink) :P Seriously though, with Win98, pretty much ANY modem will do, and if you want to use the same modem when dual booting with LM8, you definitely do NOT need to spend

[newbie] PS, HMTL and Web page design

2001-09-18 Thread Andre Dubuc
I have produced five booklets of 56 to 100 Postscript pages that I would like to place on a website, with the intent that persons could download them, or view them. The pages are heavily formatted (I used Ventura 4.11 in my Windoze days). I'm a total newbie in Web page design. Prior to embark

[newbie] Nimda virus

2001-09-18 Thread Miark
I caught the tail end of an FBI warning on NPR today that said the Nimda virus "affects all Internet computers". That rubs me the wrong way because, as I read later at CNet, it doesn't affect our penguins (as usual). I think the popular media needs to be more careful the way they report these th

[newbie] SQL database for patient information

2001-09-18 Thread Paul Rodríguez
I'd like to create a simple SQL database and frontend for doctors to store patient information and automate callbacks, backups, and label printing. Of course I would like this to be an open source project. (GPL'd too, as much as possible). Having had no experience with SQL, I'd like to know t

[newbie] different user permissions for 'guest account' query

2001-09-18 Thread bascule
i want to create a 'guest' account on my second box so that friends who visit can log on and benefit from my cable connection, because i am behind a firewall -snf7.2- i installed both my workstations as -security = low- i don't know how wise that was, therefore i suspect that the permissions on

Re: [newbie] Video cards

2001-09-18 Thread Paul Rodríguez
The concern being that unix systems are dynamic, it is what gives them their strength, what makes them powerful and secure. The availability of code allows for the most powerful systems to integrate togther. Providing static binaries make either the system or the driver unusable in a dynamic envi

Re: [newbie] SNF7.2 and RealPlayer & ICQ

2001-09-18 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
I don't know much about SNF, but I do know that in the IP Chains Howto it tells you how to get it working. Check http://www.linuxdoc.org. On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Anders Thoresson wrote: > Hi, > > Having problems using RealPlayer and ICQ (using the built-in client in > browser Opera 5.12) I need

Re: [newbie] Bastille firewall

2001-09-18 Thread Paul
In reply to Vinh's words, written Tue, 18 Sep 2001 11:35:39 -0400 Bastille is a frontend to configure iptables. If things are working you can tell by going su and running iptables -L (capital l!) Paul >How can I know whether my Bastille filewall is working at all. I can't >find any process wh

[newbie] Bastille firewall

2001-09-18 Thread Vinh N. Pham
How can I know whether my Bastille filewall is working at all. I can't find any process when I do a "ps aux" that name bastille. Seem to me (through what I see in the interactive setup) that Bastille only block certain service Is there anything similar to ZoneLabs in Window where I can a

Re: [newbie] alternatives to windows programs

2001-09-18 Thread Matt Greer
on 9/18/01 9:04 AM, Terry at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all, > > We use a bunch of windows programs that I was curious as to whether there are > any alternatives to these in the Linux community. The programs I was mostly > interested in alternatives are: > > Adobe Photoshop The gimp, wh

[newbie] alternatives to windows programs

2001-09-18 Thread Terry
Hello all, We use a bunch of windows programs that I was curious as to whether there are any alternatives to these in the Linux community. The programs I was mostly interested in alternatives are: Adobe Photoshop Adobe Pagemaker Macromedia Dreamweaver Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Re: [newbie] kernel panics

2001-09-18 Thread Randy Donohoe
There was a thread going just last night about the Geforce and what kernels it works with. If it wasn't on this one it was on the expert list. Randy Donohoe - Original Message - From: Marcin Jendrzejewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 9:25 AM

Re: [newbie] Accessing my files at home ??

2001-09-18 Thread Steve Borrett
Hi, >I didn't make it clear that my wife could just log on >the net - give me the IP and I'm away - so, in fact, I >wouldn't want those things to be automatic. I think the problem comes in more from the fact that once your home machine is up and on the net ANYONE can ftp into your machine!!! Thi

RE: [newbie] java and mozilla

2001-09-18 Thread Mitchell, Edmund
Hello Paul Isaac was very helpful to me in getting that problem solved, and this is what he said (distilled): the command you're looking for is "ln". It works as follows: (the #'s are just to signify the root command prompt) # ln [options] sourcename(s) [destination directory] where "sourcen

Re: [newbie] Accessing my files at home ??

2001-09-18 Thread Adam Cripps
Sorry, I didn't make it clear that my wife could just log on the net - give me the IP and I'm away - so, in fact, I wouldn't want those things to be automatic. Adam --- etharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > my advice is to run appache on the home computer, > set any folders you want to > be allo

Re:[newbie] Video cards

2001-09-18 Thread Adrian Lynch
I was looking at the new KyroII cards but I haven't seen much info with regards to compatability, anyone know any different? >So, with all the discussion about nVidia cards, what is a good card to >run? I am going to upgrade cause my little 4mb ATI Rage doesn't even get >tux down the hill. I w

RE: [newbie] Accessing my files at home ??

2001-09-18 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
You could "register" your machine at any of the dynamic DNS systems available on the internet. Some are even free! If you install the client software and add the startup line into your diald or if-up scripts, the IP you are given is sent to the dyndns server every time a connection is started. T

Re: [newbie] Accessing my files at home ??

2001-09-18 Thread etharp
my advice is to run appache on the home computer, set any folders you want to be allowed to get into in the config, and run a connection thru a Dynamic DNS server, so you could log into linxbox.ods.dyn.dns.org (or whom ever you sign up for the service with, you can search google for "dynamic dn

Re: [newbie] Accessing my files at home ??

2001-09-18 Thread Paul
> I'm at work today, and realised that I needed a file > which is on my machine at home -doh! Today it's ok > because I've asked my wife to email me the file. But > she's always reluctant to do this, as she's got her > hands full with our twin boys. :-) > > How easy would it be to turn on my home

Re: [newbie] Text only, UGH!

2001-09-18 Thread etharp
as far as the localhost comment, DO NOT change it. that is for the "loopback" or lo interface, and the computer needs it to talk to itself. copy the format on the next line, but change the "local.localdomain to "whateveris.yourdomain" or what ever you call the computer and domain, orlocalhost

[newbie] java and mozilla

2001-09-18 Thread Paul Rodríguez
I know this has been covered before, but I still can't get it to work. Java does not work out of the box for me in L-M 8.0 f2. Every time I go to a site with java I get a java applet error. What do I need to do to get mozilla (or any other browser) to load java enabled pages? -Paul Rodríguez

[newbie] Accessing my files at home ??

2001-09-18 Thread Adam Cripps
I'm at work today, and realised that I needed a file which is on my machine at home -doh! Today it's ok because I've asked my wife to email me the file. But she's always reluctant to do this, as she's got her hands full with our twin boys. :-) How easy would it be to turn on my home computer, log

RE: [newbie] what is wrong with dependencies

2001-09-18 Thread Franki
I understand this issue and I comiserate Think about this though, KDE would have been much harder to write (and one hell of alot bigger most likely),, had it not used the QT libs, they conntain all the code for the GUI generating and numerous other things.. The benefits of using libs are at l

[newbie] what is wrong with dependencies

2001-09-18 Thread Andrei Raevsky
Frankly - I am rather frustrated with the issues of dependencies. Almost each time I try to install an rpm file, or compile a tar.gz, I get a failed/missing dependencies error. I was told that this is "just as in Windows in which programs need dlls". This is simply not true. When a Win32 de