R: [newbie-it] bash: directory o file inesistente

2001-09-21 Thread Di Fresco Marco
... il messaggio di errore ti dice che non c'è uno script che si chiama configure nella directory da dove lanci il comando ... quindi ... parto dall'inizio e provo ad immaginare: Credo tu ti riferisca ad un programma sorgente con estensione tar.gz (o tar.bz2).. Se è così il primo passo è

[newbie-it] cancellazionw da NewBie

2001-09-21 Thread Tijuana
Ciao a tutti, come si fa a cancellarsi dalla ml?Grazie Tijuana

Re: [newbie-it] Spegnere il computer

2001-09-21 Thread freefred
On Thursday 20 September 2001 12:47, Alberto Zanoni wrote: Ciao, scusate, ma sono ancora al punto di prima, nonostante i vari messaggi: Problema: vorrei che con Ctrl+Alt+Del (la freccia che punta a sinistra, che si trova in alto a destra della tastiera) si spegnesse il computer. solo

Re: [newbie] Will Ximian install fix Gnome?

2001-09-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
No, it stands for switch user. If you look at the man or info page, you shall see that it allows you to switch to _any_ user, not only the superuser. On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 20:40:08 -0400 (EDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, su stands for Super User; David Charles On Wed, 19 Sep 2001,

Re: [newbie] LiLo conflicts with Win NT - What to do?

2001-09-21 Thread quaylar
At 10:54 20.09.2001 +0200, you wrote: Hi there! I recently tried to install Mandrake on the very same HD (3GB for WinNT boot(C:), 20 GB for NT (D:), 18GB for Mandrake) like my current Win NT. Everything worked fine, until I tried to start NT again. NT could not find Disk D, where all the

[newbie] MDK 8.x installer

2001-09-21 Thread Marius Schrecker
Hello, With the release of 8.1 just around the corner, and with my 8.0 version badly battered after a failed attempt to upgrade to KDE 2.2, I am looking forward to a partial re-install as soon as practically possible. My box is a Compaq deskpro 6000 p.pro 180 (don't laugh), 106MB RAM

Re: [newbie] LiLo conflicts with Win NT - What to do?

2001-09-21 Thread Marius Schrecker
This is a known problem. Haven't tried it myself, but, as I understand it, you have to install LILO somewhere other than the MBR, probably on your Linux boot partition, then point the NT loader at that. There's a nice little utility called bootpart http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm which may

Re: [newbie] MDK 8.x installer

2001-09-21 Thread John W
Most often that problem is just a bad CD. John W At 10:08 AM 9/21/01 +0200, you wrote: Hello, With the release of 8.1 just around the corner, and with my 8.0 version badly battered after a failed attempt to upgrade to KDE 2.2, I am looking forward to a partial re-install as soon as

RE: [newbie] letting computer run overnight without overheating

2001-09-21 Thread Franki
My Laser printer, (kyocera fs800) goes into sleep mode when its not being used.. so I don't worry about that.. The Monitor I leave off all the time unless I am actually using it.. good for power and good because the vast majority of computer related files are caused by the monitor... The box

[newbie] Adaptec 1510 scsi card

2001-09-21 Thread Wendy Langer
Hello, my Adaptec AHA 1510 SCSI adapter(ISA bus) is not being detected at install, so cannot install mandrake 8.0!! The Adaptec 1510 is not in the Hardware database, but a very similar model, Adaptec AHA 1520 (also ISA bus) *is* in the database as reported to be supported, but not as tested by

Re: [newbie] LM 8.1 beta and MandrakeFreq

2001-09-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 12:59:21 -0400, Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the difference between these two? Are the MandrakeFreq's just an interim between versions? Or are they something completely different? Freqs are essentially Cooker snapshots optimised as an 'upgrade' to the most

Re: [newbie] DVD-R/Ram software?

2001-09-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 21:35:36 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, i was just wondering if anyone knew of any linux software for writing to a DVD-r and (or) DVD-RAM. if anyone could help or point me in the right direction, i would be much appreciated. thank you in advance. ( i

Re: [newbie] MDK 8.x installer

2001-09-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
CD lens cleaners often do more harm than good to drives. Try using some better quality CDs. If that doesn't work, buy a can of compressed air and give your drive a bit of a squirt to dislodge dirt that may have built up. On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 11:04:15 +0200, Marius Schrecker [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Will Ximian install fix Gnome?

2001-09-21 Thread etharp
ehhh.. I could have sworn it stood for SWITCH user and the defualt user to switch to is root, since I can su to any other user by su anyotheruser and it asks for and confirms the password. On Thursday 20 September 2001 20:40, you wrote: Hi, su stands for Super User; David Charles On

[newbie] Installation kills after Laoding mandrake 8.0

2001-09-21 Thread belcoop
I tried to install mandrake 8.0 on a second computer (the fisrt went fine). The screen shows a lot of things, then comes loading mandrake 8.0. He tries to make a line with stars, and says that he could not load, somewhat like error 11 and :( Then he shuts down. What could be wrong? I want

[newbie] staroffice print

2001-09-21 Thread belcoop
How can I make staroffice print? I downloaded staroffice, it installed fine, but how can I make it print? Is it possible to install it for multiuser? It takes a lot of drivespace if I have to sintall it separately for each user. Geert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

[newbie] koffice filters install

2001-09-21 Thread belcoop
Apparently the Koffice filters don't work. I upgraded to koffice 1.1, and when I ask to open a Msword file, it says the msword filters are not installed. What to do? Geert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Need a cheap non-Winmodem

2001-09-21 Thread etharp
I don't think you are gonna find a cheap OR a pci modem that does not require any configuration. you might look at e-bay and find an old 28.8 external cheap, and an external requires LESS config than PCI. I want a pizza maker that spits out a pizza on nights that i am to tired to fix dinner,

[newbie] PPC Installation, DrakX and boot loader

2001-09-21 Thread Dirk Hoppe
Hello, I try to install LM 8.0 on PPC G4 433 MHz. I used the graphic installer DrakX and everything went fine until I reached the last but one point: building the boot loader. When I try to build it I get the error message: Installation of bootloader failed. Error: hmount: /dev/hdb10:not a

RE: [newbie] Need a cheap non-Winmodem

2001-09-21 Thread Franki
yes, his name is mario and he lives just down the street from here... :-) As for the Modem, externals are really no config.. linux conf has a modem detect that creates a symlink that links /dev/ttysX to /dev/modem and thats most of your config done there.. As for the internals, I have had some

Re: RE: [newbie] Need a cheap non-Winmodem

2001-09-21 Thread Allen Joseph M Hernandez
I'm using both COM ports already and my board only has 1 ISA slot, and I have a SBAwe 64 on it. Ok, I'm willing to do the setserial and symlink combo thingies But PCI is the only thing I have left...really. I have a 3Com winmodem and I hate it. I've even tried the PCTel driver, in

[newbie] cd record

2001-09-21 Thread chris swain
Can anyone direct me to a good explanation of how the cdrecording process works and what the features of various programs mean? I am currently still using winslows to burn because of CDclones ability but this is one more function Id like to switch to windows Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] so many shells?

2001-09-21 Thread Randy Kramer
David E. Fox wrote: On my system I have ash, sash, tcsh, zsh... Do I need these if I always use bash??? No, you shouldn't need them. Beside the point, but maybe someone can answer this question: I once had the need to format a number with leading zeros. (I wanted the script file to

Re: [newbie] staroffice print

2001-09-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 12:43:58 +0200, belcoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I make staroffice print? I downloaded staroffice, it installed fine, but how can I make it print? Run spadmin (in the program dir where you installed SO) as root. Set the printer driver to plain PostScript, and set

[newbie] Bug in 8.0 installer? or just poor CD's

2001-09-21 Thread Marius Schrecker
Quoting a thread in anothe mailing list: OK, then there is a bug in the installer! The format trick didn't work for me if I followed-up by trying to install a lot of packages on a lot of partitions. Had to do the format (as you said) then do a minimum install on a minimum number of partitions

[newbie] These windows viruses(sp?) pain for linux users too...

2001-09-21 Thread Mark Johnson
You know how these Code Red and Code Blue and Nimbda virus's are affecting me as a linux user -- they are eating my bandwidth and trashing my weblogs. I can't play UT tournament anymore because it's killing my response time and connecting to the newserver and reading news has become painfully

Re: RE: [newbie] Need a cheap non-Winmodem

2001-09-21 Thread etharp
zoom and aktiontec both make less expensive pci (and linux compatible) modems. the call waiting from actiontec wipes a$$ in linux, in my opinion and experience Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] de-activating network card in cron

2001-09-21 Thread Tim Holmes
Do you want to bring down the network period, or just the NIC? To shut down the network: /etc/rc.d/init.d/network stop To start it again, just replace the 'stop' with start and it will come back up. To drop the network device here's the command you'll need. /sbin/ifconfig eth0 down Again,

Re: [newbie] LM 8.1 beta and MandrakeFreq

2001-09-21 Thread Terry
Thanks for the info Sridhar. So which one would you recommend for someone who wants to keep up on the latest software developments? If I want to be mostly compatible with the software I'm using now, would it be best to use the Freq's? I ask because I had KDE 2.2 alpha, and now want the

Re: [newbie] de-activating network card in cron

2001-09-21 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 14:10:29 +0100 Jamie Kerwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] cleverly noted: because of a network problem that i keep having with my linux box i need to de-activate the network card for a the period between 3-5 am, what command(s) would i use to do this?? su root

Re: [newbie] LM 8.1 beta and MandrakeFreq

2001-09-21 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 21 September 2001 09:23 am, Terry escribió: Thanks for the info Sridhar. So which one would you recommend for someone who wants to keep up on the latest software developments? If I want to be mostly compatible with the software I'm using now, would it be best to use the Freq's? I

[newbie] Ximian Gnome

2001-09-21 Thread David Robertson
I've just installed Ximian on to my LM 8.0 system (updated with the last MandrakeFreq) and all my desktop icons and links have gone. I don't really like a bare desktop and can't see how to create new icons/launchers, so how do I rescue things and get back the old Mandrake ones? Thanks David

Re: [newbie] cd record

2001-09-21 Thread Frans Ketelaars
chris swain wrote: Can anyone direct me to a good explanation of how the cdrecording process works and what the features of various programs mean? I am currently still using winslows to burn because of CDclones ability but this is one more function Id like to switch to windows Hi, I have

Re: [newbie] de-activating network card in cron

2001-09-21 Thread Jamie Kerwick
thanks, how would i now go about setting these as cron jobs, i need to stop at 3 am and start at 5am. cheers Jamie From: Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] de-activating network card in cron Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001

Re: [newbie] Need a cheap non-Winmodem

2001-09-21 Thread Ric Tibbetts
I've always had excelent luck with US Robotics Sportsters. No too expensive, and rock stable. Even though I'm on DSL now, I still have my USR hooked up. I use it for faxing now. :) JMHO. Ric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] These windows viruses(sp?) pain for linux users too...

2001-09-21 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Robert MacLean wrote: IMHO the problem isn't the virus it's windows admins. patches from M$ were available for months before all this started, but guess who is too lazy to download a patch and install it? i work for a hosting company so we have some client dedicated servers and they still

Re: Re: [newbie] Need a cheap non-Winmodem [OT]

2001-09-21 Thread Allen Joseph M Hernandez
Hehehesorry just did CMOS clear, problems overclocking my Celeron. Thanks for the info Carroll. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allen: Either your system date is set wrong or we're in some kind of a time warp. Regards, Carroll __ www.edsamail.com Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Will Ximian install fix Gnome?

2001-09-21 Thread ddcharles
Hi, I apologize; I stand corrected. I got the following from http://linux.com/develop/man/1/su NAME su - run a shell with substitute user and group IDs SYNOPSIS

[newbie] Adding bcc to kmail ?

2001-09-21 Thread Joan Tur
Hallo! I'd like to send a copy (bcc) of any mail sent from my laptop to an email address... can this be done using kmail?? 8-? Thanks! -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat

Re: [newbie] Modem Not Responding

2001-09-21 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 16:44:08 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] was inspired to comment: I'm a new convert to Linux who jumped right in and deleted all Windows from my computer. Everything works fine and I love the LM 8.0 interface. All programs work...except for the most important thing of

[newbie] What program for news ??

2001-09-21 Thread Joan Tur
What program do you use to read and write from the news lists? I'm thinking on reading messages from Fido again... ;) Thanks! -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783

Re: [newbie] Modem Not Responding

2001-09-21 Thread skinky
On Saturday 22 September 2001 04:44, you wrote: I'm a new convert to Linux who jumped right in and deleted all Windows from my computer. Everything works fine and I love the LM 8.0 interface. All programs work...except for the most important thing of connecting to the internet. I get a Sorry,

Re: [newbie] What program for news ??

2001-09-21 Thread Matt Greer
on 9/21/01 2:41 PM, Joan Tur at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What program do you use to read and write from the news lists? I'm thinking on reading messages from Fido again... ;) Do you mean what program do I use to access usenet/newsgroups? I use knode. It's pretty good. I dunno if it will

Re: [newbie] Will Ximian install fix Gnome?

2001-09-21 Thread Randy Kramer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I apologize; I stand corrected. I got the following from http://linux.com/develop/man/1/su snip From this, I take it that it stands for Substitute User. (I got Super User from a book, and when I remember which one it was, I

[newbie] 8.0, PPC, and PPP

2001-09-21 Thread David Chart
I got the CDs for 8.0 PPC today, and tried installing it. I had quite a few problems, so I'll go through them in order of importance, one email each. I installed most of the Workstation packages, but only GNOME, because I don't use KDE. (No reason, just I started with GNOME and thus far have

Re: [newbie] Printer suggestions needed

2001-09-21 Thread s
On Friday 21 September 2001 12:07 pm, Ric Tibbetts wrote: Thanks for all the suggestions. For some pretty lame reasons, I ended up with the Epson 785EPX. Does a great job... From Winders. Linux doesn't fair so well. It works kind of, but it's not actually supported. I had to configure it as

Re: [newbie] Ximian Gnome

2001-09-21 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
When you first logged into Ximian GNOME, you would have been greeted with the Ximian Doorman. The Doorman would have given you the choice of having Nautilus, GMC or nothing at all to manage your desktop. If you chose the third option (nothing at all), you will not have any desktop icons. You

Re: [newbie] so many shells?

2001-09-21 Thread David E. Fox
I once had the need to format a number with leading zeros. (I wanted the script file to create file names like file001, file002, ... file010, You might try echoing the text rhrough printf, or getting the output of printf %4d $i into another shell variable for execution. Echoing the valur to

[newbie] 3.5/5.25 drive help

2001-09-21 Thread Paul Rodríguez
I just got my hands on an Epson DYO dual 3.5/5.25 floppy drive. (I really wanted a 5.25 drive.) ANyway, I have no idea how to hook it up to my system. It has a PCMCIA drive socket. I thought that was for laptops. ANybody know how to hook this up to my machine? Not even the power chords seem

Re: [newbie] so many shells?

2001-09-21 Thread Randy Kramer
David E. Fox wrote: You might try echoing the text rhrough printf, or getting the output of printf %4d $i into another shell variable for execution. Echoing the valur to printf deosn't seem to work; that jsut prints zeros on my system. Thanks, I'll have to try that. Randy Kramer Want to

Re: [newbie] question regarding man and xmodmap

2001-09-21 Thread Michael D. Viron
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 17:55:40 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Michael D. Viron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] question regarding man and xmodmap At 12:45 AM 09/22/2001 +0200, you wrote: Hi, I've been running Red Hat Linux 7.0 with 2.4 kernel for a couple of months now, very

Re: [newbie] Printer suggestions needed

2001-09-21 Thread Ric Tibbetts
I'm not sure what I'd tweak... It seems to print ok, but it has no pure ascii mode. It does everything as graphics (nice grey scale text, and lines...), and it's hopelessly slow. I still have my old HP. So the thought is to only use the Epson for photo work (from winders (ugh)), and use the HP

Re: [newbie] question regarding man and xmodmap

2001-09-21 Thread fred august
Michael thanks for the advice. Gee, I'm really Newbie! ok, so var is full and I guess that's where the man would decompress... Is it easy to change the space allowed for var or do I need to repartition the HD? the output is FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1

Re: [newbie] why won't panel KEEP mandrake launchers from menu

2001-09-21 Thread Charles A. Punch
Have you tried to save session before exiting? Sometimes, (probably not in this instance) it helps to specify if you are in GNOME or KDE. ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user #217118 The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical

Re: RE: [newbie] Need a cheap non-Winmodem

2001-09-21 Thread Ben Bayer
- Original Message - From: etharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 10:18 AM Subject: Re: RE: [newbie] Need a cheap non-Winmodem zoom and aktiontec both make less expensive pci (and linux compatible) modems. the call waiting from actiontec wipes

Re: [newbie] Modem Not Responding

2001-09-21 Thread Carroll Grigsby
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a new convert to Linux who jumped right in and deleted all Windows from my computer. Everything works fine and I love the LM 8.0 interface. All programs work...except for the most important thing of connecting to the internet. I get a Sorry, modem not responding

[newbie] Epson 105+ printing problem

2001-09-21 Thread L.V.Gandhi
We wanted to utilize Epson 105+ for printing with Linux. Printer driver selected for epson 9 pin med res. Other epson dotmatrix options don't work. I get in a particular line top half of line is printed separately and then bottom half. How to avoid it and get normal printing? -- L.V.Gandhi

Re: [newbie] staroffice print

2001-09-21 Thread Linus Drouhard
On Friday 21 September 2001 10:47, Ric Tibbetts wrote: belcoop wrote: How can I make staroffice print? I downloaded staroffice, it installed fine, but how can I make it print? run spadmin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] question regarding man and xmodmap

2001-09-21 Thread Michael D. Viron
There are a few things you can do: 1. Repartition the drive (which pretty much means a re-install) as follows: / approx 600 - 700 MB /usr approx 3.5 GB (gives you a little more room in case you decide to load more programs down the road) leave your swap size the same give the rest to /home.

Re: [newbie] Printer suggestions needed

2001-09-21 Thread Linus Drouhard
On Friday 21 September 2001 6:02, Ric Tibbetts wrote: I'm not sure what I'd tweak... It seems to print ok, but it has no pure ascii mode. It does everything as graphics (nice grey scale text, and lines...), and it's hopelessly slow. (snip) You should be able to fix the slow part by

RE: [newbie] Bastille firewall

2001-09-21 Thread Paul Rodríguez
Did you choose the option in setting up Bastille that said Disable SUID for floppy or mount and unmount or some something like that? -Paul Rodríguez On 19 Sep 2001 00:11:53 -0400, Vinh N. Pham wrote: Thank you, I know it works now. And as a result, my cdrom and floppy disk do not work

Re: [newbie] 3.5/5.25 drive help

2001-09-21 Thread Matt Greer
On Friday 21 September 2001 17:43, you wrote: I just got my hands on an Epson DYO dual 3.5/5.25 floppy drive. (I really wanted a 5.25 drive.) ANyway, I have no idea how to hook it up to my system. It has a PCMCIA drive socket. I thought that was for laptops. ANybody know how to hook this

[newbie] MD Walkman USB connection

2001-09-21 Thread Tim Holmes
This may be slightly off topic, but since there are so many people on the list, maybe somebody has heard of something that might help me. I just replaced my portable MiniDisc player. The newer ones of course support a USB connection so you can load MP3s and record CDs to the MiniDiscs. Does

Re: [newbie] 8.0, PPC, and USB Zip

2001-09-21 Thread A V Flinsch
On Friday 21 September 2001 05:34 pm, you wrote: mount won't mount /dev/sda; it says 'unknown device'. How can I fix this? try /dev/sda1 or /dev/sda4 -- Alex If you purchased $1000 of Nortel stock a year ago, it would be worth $49 today. If you purchased $1000 of Budweiser (the beer,

Re: [newbie] 3.5/5.25 drive help

2001-09-21 Thread Paul Rodríguez
Ooops, not a PCMCIA card. That's why it seemed so confusing, I was reading bogus information. My 5.25 is more like an ISA or AGP slot (on the back instead of side) and only 3 long. I think it is called a 34-pin edge connector. WHat is this and can I get some sort of adapter? -Paul Rodríguez

Re: [newbie] Will Ximian install fix Gnome?

2001-09-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 16:20:14 -0400, Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I apologize; I stand corrected. I got the following from http://linux.com/develop/man/1/su snip From this, I take it that it stands for Substitute

Re: [newbie] question regarding man and xmodmap

2001-09-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001 01:12:58 +0200 (CEST), fred august [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael thanks for the advice. Gee, I'm really Newbie! ok, so var is full and I guess that's where the man would decompress... Is it easy to change the space allowed for var or do I need to repartition the HD?

[newbie] kapm-idled?

2001-09-21 Thread Manuel Drake
What the heck is this and why is it always sucking so much of my CPU? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] another 5.25floppy question

2001-09-21 Thread Paul Rodríguez
I am testing a bunch of floppy drives on my system. With the 3.5drives, all I had to do was swap them and my system couldn't tell the difference. With the 5.25 disks, I just get a input/output error. Is there anything I need to do to get my system to recognize it or should it not be making a

Re: [newbie] What program for news ??

2001-09-21 Thread Manuel Drake
Thanks! IMHO, PAN is the best for this. I agree wholeheartedly, PAN (Pimp Ass Newsreader) is the best, but mandrake has thusfar fought me in installing the latest version. There's a built in older version in Mandrake 8 if you installed it, just type 'pan' Now to figure out why I couldn't

Re: [newbie] 3.5/5.25 drive help

2001-09-21 Thread Randy Kramer
Paul Rodríguez wrote: Ooops, not a PCMCIA card. That's why it seemed so confusing, I was reading bogus information. My 5.25 is more like an ISA or AGP slot (on the back instead of side) and only 3 long. I think it is called a 34-pin edge connector. WHat is this and can I get some sort of

Re: [newbie] Need to install all the developers packages

2001-09-21 Thread Manuel Drake
On Friday 21 September 2001 18:45, Robt. Miller wrote: When I did the install I left out the developers packages. Is there a way to install all of them without screwing up my system? urpmi *-devel-* Hrmm, thought it might help me too, but no such luck... seems upgrades elsewhere didn't

Re: [newbie] why won't panel KEEP mandrake launchers from menu

2001-09-21 Thread Manuel Drake
Yea, save session was my very first thought. As I said, this ONLY happens with launchers that come from the mandrake menu, gnome apps work fine, and if I manually create the launcher it stays as well... Panel Add to Panel Launcer from Menu Mandrake menus ANYTHING added from that mandrake

Re: [newbie] another 5.25floppy question

2001-09-21 Thread etharp
did you set the BIOS to recognize the other size drive? ]On Friday 21 September 2001 22:47, you wrote: I am testing a bunch of floppy drives on my system. With the 3.5drives, all I had to do was swap them and my system couldn't tell the difference. With the 5.25 disks, I just get a

Re: [newbie] 3.5/5.25 drive help

2001-09-21 Thread Paul Rodríguez
Thanks, Randy. That sounds like it. I live in the NY Metro area, I'll look arround. I don't really know of any hobbyist places, but there must be some. Thanks! I guess this betrays my age a bit. I'd never seen one of these before. :) -Paul Rodríguez On 21 Sep 2001 22:58:02 -0400, Randy

[newbie] Gphoto and usb connection

2001-09-21 Thread Dennis Myers
Hi all, I am trying to use my digital camera with a usb connection. It is a Kodak DC3400 and works great with the serial connection. It just downloads kinda slow and I know the usb connection would be faster but.. If I check the other box in the config camera what do I put in the blank

Re: [newbie] kapm-idled?

2001-09-21 Thread s
On Friday 21 September 2001 10:46 pm, Manuel Drake wrote: What the heck is this and why is it always sucking so much of my CPU? Please do a search, this has been discussed to death on all the forums. -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: RE: [newbie] Need a cheap non-Winmodem

2001-09-21 Thread Joseph Braddock
Whata PCTel chipset is on your 3Com modem? I've using several different winmodems based on the PCTel chipset on several linux boxes and haven't had any problem. What problems did you have with the driver? Joe On Saturday 18 August 2001 12:33 am, you wrote: I'm using both COM ports already

Re: [newbie] why won't panel KEEP mandrake launchers from menu

2001-09-21 Thread Joseph Braddock
If you are using KDE 2.1, then this is a bug. 2.2 (and 2.2.1) fix it. On Friday 21 September 2001 08:44 am, you wrote: I can add a launcher to my panel *manually*, and I can add a launcher to my panel from menus *other* than mandrake menu, but if I try to add a launcher from the mandrake

[newbie] sound blaster live

2001-09-21 Thread Paul Rodríguez
I believe the Sound Blaster Live! card is supposed to work out of the box in Mandrake 8.0, is this right? What I mean by this is installing a new system with Mandrake 8, it would auto detect my SB Live! (i think). If this is the case what do I do to get mandrake to recognize the card *after* I

Re: [newbie] why won't panel KEEP mandrake launchers from menu

2001-09-21 Thread Manuel Drake
Gnome, actually, and yes, you're probably right... once I figure out what's what with versions. On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Joseph Braddock wrote: If you are using KDE 2.1, then this is a bug. 2.2 (and 2.2.1) fix it. On Friday 21 September 2001 08:44 am, you wrote: I can add a launcher to my

Re: [newbie] sound blaster live

2001-09-21 Thread s
On Saturday 22 September 2001 12:08 am, Paul Rodríguez wrote: I believe the Sound Blaster Live! card is supposed to work out of the box in Mandrake 8.0, is this right? What I mean by this is installing a new system with Mandrake 8, it would auto detect my SB Live! (i think). If this is the

Re: [newbie] sound blaster live

2001-09-21 Thread Paul Rodríguez
Thanks! I forgot about sndconfig, didn't even have it installed. You know, this is the first time I've successfully heard Linus' voice via the program? I remember my first try at Linux, Linus refused to speak, and ever since then, my sound cards have been detected automagically. Thanks again.

Re: [newbie] 3.5/5.25 drive help

2001-09-21 Thread James R. McKenzie
Not to ask a dumb question but why did you want a 5.25 inch drive? No one makes the disks any more and they're slower than hell in hot. T H A N K Y O U James R. McKenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original

[newbie] E-mail importer

2001-09-21 Thread Admin
Hello: Does anybody know of a utility which will import the email addresses in Outlook Express into the KDE mail client? Thank you Dexter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] What program for news ??

2001-09-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 19:49:41 -0700 (PDT), Manuel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks! IMHO, PAN is the best for this. I agree wholeheartedly, PAN (Pimp Ass Newsreader) is the best, but mandrake has thusfar fought me in installing the latest version. There's a built in older

Re: [newbie] why won't panel KEEP mandrake launchers from menu

2001-09-21 Thread Manuel Drake
Good call, I guess, it hangs here: Can't stat /home/manuel/.kde/share/applnk-mdk: No such file or directory dunno why I'd need KDE though, guess that could be the root of more than a couple of current problemsthough.?? On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Try running update-menus

Re: [newbie] What program for news ??

2001-09-21 Thread Manuel Drake
error: failed dependencies: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.3) is needed by pan-0.10.0-1 And when I tried to upgrade glibc, it fought me, and I just don't have the time to update everything... I got work to do :) Good luck, pass back a success story! Assuming that you're trying to install

Re: [newbie] Bastille-related problem: can't log in as su . . .

2001-09-21 Thread WCBaker
Hi! I used InteractiveBastille. Subsequently I could not go into a terminal in a non-root account and log in as su. As soon as I enter the correct password I get the message File size limit exceeded. I don't think that the log files could be so big (I only re-installed a few days ago and

Re: [newbie] kapm-idled?

2001-09-21 Thread Manuel Drake
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, s wrote: On Friday 21 September 2001 10:46 pm, Manuel Drake wrote: What the heck is this and why is it always sucking so much of my CPU? Please do a search, this has been discussed to death on all the forums. Ok, read up... Hrmm, so I guess it's only an illusion?

Re: [newbie] why won't panel KEEP mandrake launchers from menu

2001-09-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Try running update-menus -v. On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 20:02:35 -0700 (PDT), Manuel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yea, save session was my very first thought. As I said, this ONLY happens with launchers that come from the mandrake menu, gnome apps work fine, and if I manually create the

Re: [newbie] Bastille-related problem: can't log in as su . . .

2001-09-21 Thread Paul Rodríguez
The file size limit you are experiencing is a result of an option you set Would you like to put limits on system resource usage? In the past I have had to choose no in order to avoid the issue you are experiencing. -Paul Rodríguez On 21 Sep 2001 22:16:57 -0700, WCBaker wrote: Hi! I used

RE: [newbie] These windows viruses(sp?) pain for linux users too...

2001-09-21 Thread Franki
Hi, Here is what I have done... I created a file in /sbin called aptly enough, nimda make the file executable and put the code at the bottom of this mail in it.. then make a file called /var/tmp/blocked and make it writable... make sure the path to your http error log directory is correct in

Re: Sig file, was Re: [newbie] Me, Linux, or my !@#$%^ ISP

2001-09-21 Thread Roger Sherman
Cool! Thanks, man! Wonder if that'll work in my pinerc... Only one way to find out, eh? ;-) On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Tim Holmes wrote: I have a line in my ~/.muttrc that goes in and adds that to the end of my signature. There are various ways to do this, but here's how I do it. set

RE: [newbie] Nimda virus

2001-09-21 Thread Franki
yeah, who is going to release a virus that only propogates one way now??? This is the start of some really nasty virus's we will start seeing now... The writers know that alot of people have protection now, and that means they need to reach as many people as possible before the virus companies

Re: [newbie] Adaptec 1510 scsi card

2001-09-21 Thread Daryl Johnson
On Friday 21 September 2001 05:38, you wrote: After extensive experience with this card, I can report that it is possible to get the card recognised by the system but I failed completely to get the equipment plugged in to it to be recognised. Eventually I gave up and spent thirty quid ($45)

Re: [newbie] Printer suggestions needed

2001-09-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
There's an active discussion about printers at http://www.mandrakeforum.com right now. On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 15:08:18 -0700, Ric Tibbetts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All; I just picked up a decent digital camera, and now I need a photo printer to go along with it. Does anyone have any

Re: [newbie] letting computer run overnight without overheating

2001-09-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 21:16:26 -0700 (PDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David E. Fox) wrote: Most servers on the Internet or serving industries that need 24/7 service must run 24/7. I don't know if Linus originally was aiming for the server market, or what his intent was. ;-) Well, he wanted a way

Re: [newbie] ISA sound balster card not decated

2001-09-21 Thread etharp
turn Plug and pray aware os off in bios, in a text console, as root, run (type at prompt,without the quotes) sndconfig and follow the directions. also note that on that sound card, the default mixer settings might be so low that you can not hear the sample, if that is the case,no errors just

RE: [newbie] Samba- problem - asking for an unkown password

2001-09-21 Thread John Clegg
Try running smbpasswd -Original Message- From: Roderick Scotto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 5:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Samba- problem - asking for an unkown password I managed to run samba and to see the linux machine on my

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