Re: [newbie] Gartner Group Suggests Dumping IIS

2001-09-25 Thread shane
all i know is if god is lurking on the list, (so as to be offended) he (or she) might post once in awhile and answer some questions... On Tuesday 25 September 2001 20:00, you spoke unto me thusly: > Of course, using the lower "g" might be offensive to the Almighty! :) > -- "If you don't know

Re: [newbie] Help Please peoples?? is this a reiser problem???

2001-09-25 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 13:08:48 +0800, "Franki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi ,, > > I mentioned this last night, but noone really knew so I am asking again in > the hope that someone can give me a tip here... > > > I have a mandrake 7.2 system, and when I rebooted it last night, all sorts > of

[newbie] TurboPrint for Linux

2001-09-25 Thread Marcia
Dear All, I just found out about TurboPrint for Linux. Have any of you used this yet? The website is www.turboprint. de/ and their is a free version one can download. I have downloaded it but I have not installed or used it yet. Thanks, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandrak

[newbie] Help Please peoples?? is this a reiser problem???

2001-09-25 Thread Franki
Hi ,, I mentioned this last night, but noone really knew so I am asking again in the hope that someone can give me a tip here... I have a mandrake 7.2 system, and when I rebooted it last night, all sorts of things went wrong... First, GDM stopped workin, and I had to use failsafe to kill that

Re: [newbie] Nimda virus

2001-09-25 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Many major companies are stating that WinXP will need 256MB of RAM to run well. It should be remembered that hardware manufacturers primarily design their products for Windos. Support for most hardware in GNU/Linux (including drivers) is more often than not the result of much perspiration on the

Re: [newbie] Can't 't ping localhost?

2001-09-25 Thread Mr S Ganesan
Pl try to log as the root user. At the # prompt type ifconfig -a and see whether your ethernet eth0 or eth1 and lo are UP. If not make them up by # ifconfit eth1 UP This will also indicatethe IP of the local ethernet card and try the ping command once again after the interfaces are UP. Presto eve

Re: [newbie] Can't 't ping localhost?

2001-09-25 Thread Dr. Evil
> Type "/sbin/ifconfig". Is the "lo" interface up? Yeah, but it has no addr. I got it working by doing this: ifconfig lo addr 127.0.0.1 and then localhost works, printing works, etc. Let me point out that the Mandrake net config tool is very very broken. Most of the time I try to start it, i

RE: [newbie] M$ Works file format

2001-09-25 Thread Franki
couldn't she just save to rtf format or an old word format.. I think works supports both those rgds Frank PS, do older MS works worx in Wine??? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tim Holmes Sent: Wednesday, 26 September 2001 11:55 AM

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

2001-09-25 Thread S.F.
A kak zhe, mi vezde est :( Tolko cyril u menia netu... - Original Message - From: "user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ëíó úíë" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 9:53 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] åÓÔØ ÔÕÔ ËÔÏ, ÇÏ×ÏÒÑÝÉÊ ÐÏ ÒÕÓÓËÉ! > Hello ëíó, > > Wednesday, September 19, 2001,

[newbie] M$ Works file format

2001-09-25 Thread Tim Holmes
Do y'know how funny that Micro$HAFT made a program called Works just like the rest of their products, it's horrible. Microsoft Works makes just laugh doesn't it? Well on to why I'm emailing. My girlfriend likes to write in M$ Works, and then later emails me some of the things for my pro

RE: [newbie] Nimda virus

2001-09-25 Thread Franki
So??? do you know how many drivers were missing from windows 2000 and ME ??? I still have cards and stuff that don't have 2000 drivers here what is your point (Also, windows 2000 needed a 300mhz cpu to run half decent.. and XP neeeds more and at least 128mb ram as a bare minimium...??? (as o

RE: [newbie] A small bootup glitch...

2001-09-25 Thread Franki
Thanks but no dice, I already had and besides whenever you flash your bios you should always sellect setup defaults again, and restart,, it makes sure that any new settings the bios has are set default... not the problem, I can boot, I just can't get all the way to running... rgds Frank

Re: [newbie] ipchains? iptables? iproute2?

2001-09-25 Thread Michael D. Viron
iproute2 is the way for kernel 2.4.x to handle IP source routing. (See docs at http://www.linuxgrill.com/iproute2-toc.html for information) ipchains and iptables are roughly equivalent to one another in that they both have the same end result -- configuring a firewall. ipchains is the firewallin

[newbie] VpopMail

2001-09-25 Thread SKLIM
Hi! I am having some problem when I try to download my VpopMail @ my Linux server. When I start download it... the server is deny. After that ..my linux server is blocking my Win98 Ip address .. I have no idea why. Below is my qmail script running with vpopmail. [root@edns1 init.d]# cat qmail |

[newbie] YES! LimeWire 1.7 on LM 8.0 OT?

2001-09-25 Thread Jon Doe
I finally did it! I got LimeWire 1.7 installed and working on LM 8.0! Just had to tell someone about my accomplishment! Sorry for OT Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Gartner Group Suggests Dumping IIS

2001-09-25 Thread Joseph Braddock
Of course, using the lower "g" might be offensive to the Almighty! :) On Tuesday 25 September 2001 01:13 pm, you wrote: > > Ummm... Perhaps because the vast majority of the world's population (about > five-sixths and growing, last time I checked) do not call their supreme > being(s) (if any) "God

Re: [newbie] Can't 't ping localhost?

2001-09-25 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 25 Sep 2001 20:40:56 -, "Dr. Evil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For some reason on my Mandrake 8 machine, I can't ping localhost. I > had an ethernet interface which I disabled, and now I can't ping > localhost which means lots of things (like printing) are broken. Any > sugestions? >

Re: [newbie] DiskDrake resize

2001-09-25 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 12:57:34 -0600, "Miark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does DiskDrake resize ext2 and/or Reiser partitions? > > Miark For ext2: No, you will have to use something like Partition Magic to do this. For ReiserFS: http://www.namesys.com/rsz.html -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. "T

Re: [newbie] a couple a things

2001-09-25 Thread etharp
thnk you, but as far as I can tell, the user was a member of the cdwriters group. I thnk I must have had a bad cdrom in the drive. On Saturday 22 September 2001 23:32, you had thoughts to the concept of: > On Sat, 22 Sep 2001 18:56:10 -0400, etharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > a couple of wee

Re: [newbie] Nimda virus

2001-09-25 Thread Manuel Drake
> The Javascript method is only a problem if you use any IE version below > 6. Of course, the media seems to think the whole world uses IE too. =) And sadly, my server logs say they're right. Sheep, meet cliff... jump. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.m

Re: [newbie] Digital Camera use with Linux

2001-09-25 Thread ultima
USB is preferable to serial transfers, for speed and convenience. And you won't need Gphoto. I have a Fuji camera with Smartmedia cards and LM8.0, and the system reads the Smartmedia card just like a hard drive. If you get a USB smartmedia card reader, you can read and write to the card.

Re: [newbie] Digital Camera use with Linux

2001-09-25 Thread ultima
USB is preferable to serial transfers, for speed and convenience. And you won't need Gphoto. I have a Fuji camera with Smartmedia cards and LM8.0, and the system reads the Smartmedia card just like a hard drive. If you get a USB smartmedia card reader, you can read and write to the card.

[newbie] ipchains? iptables? iproute2?

2001-09-25 Thread Kevin Fonner
I setup sharing my internet connection under Mandrake Control Center on MDK 8. It installed ipchains, iptables, and iproute2? Are all these programs used for the internet sharing or does it install some of these for a just in case senerio? What are they all supposed to do? Thanks, Kevin

RE: [newbie] Soundcard SiS 7018: no sound

2001-09-25 Thread Navin Daryanani
This problem has been around for a while now. People can't get SiS related hardware (especially display and sound to work on linux). I have tried and am working with a framebuffer for my display but got nothing for the sound yet. www.sis.com do have a "compiled" driver for redhat 7.2 I think. But

Re: [newbie] sound not work

2001-09-25 Thread etharp
tried turning off plug and pray aware OS in the BIOS? On Tuesday 25 September 2001 18:20, you had thoughts to the concept of: > Hi, I am using mandrake 7.2 and using intel82801AA AC97 Audio. > but I get the following error messages when loading the sound module. > do you know why?? > > > /lib/mo

Re: [newbie] Hostility Levels on the list

2001-09-25 Thread etharp
On Tuesday 25 September 2001 16:22, you had thoughts to the concept of: > On Tuesday 25 September 2001 13:10, you spoke unto the masses thusly: > > Yeah, that reminds me - a few days ago someone on a NZ linux list said > > that anyone using Mandrake with gui may as well stick with MS Windows. I >

Re: [newbie] PHP and GD library

2001-09-25 Thread Paul Cox
On Saturday, Sep 22, 2001, Colin Jenkins wrote: > I have php running with lm8 and need to use the GD library. > PHP works ok, but I'm not sure if the GD library is > enabled/installed as my script won't work. > Can anyone guide me through enabling it in linux? > (with windows you just ed

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

2001-09-25 Thread Paul Cox
On Friday, Sep 21, 2001, Manuel Drake wrote: > Hrmm, thought it might help me too, but no such luck... seems upgrades > elsewhere didn't help it. > > PAGES of this: > > file /usr/lib/libldap.so conflicts between attemped installs of > libldap2-devel-2.0.7-5mdk and libldap1-devel-1.2.11-2mdk >

Re: [newbie] HTML E-mail

2001-09-25 Thread Warren Post
Randy, at least Netscape (and probably other HTML aware mail clients) can send text, HTML, or both. Netscape defaults to sending both, which is why you normally see the two copies you mention. Warren -- http://sites.netscape.net/srcopan/ Randy Kramer wrote: > AFAIK, HTML mails always include t

Re: [newbie] Hostility Levels on the list

2001-09-25 Thread george
Miark wrote: > [snip] i thought that was 'cheese and mac'. use tip of a spoon handle. works for me. tc,hago. g . Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] sound not work

2001-09-25 Thread victor
Hi, I am using mandrake 7.2 and using intel82801AA AC97 Audio. but I get the following error messages when loading the sound module. do you know why?? /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/alsa/snd-card-intel8x0.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module pa

Re: [newbie] Hostility Levels on the list

2001-09-25 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
What I do is keep a mental list of a$$h0l3$ and just don't help them. If you are not as moral as me, give them advice that will keep them running in circles. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, s wrote: > On Monday 24 September 2001 03:19 pm, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > > I recently made the seri

RE: [newbie] Hostility Levels on the list

2001-09-25 Thread Hans N.
It looks like plain text mail. Standard font is courier new I believe. Unfortunately I'm using Outlook now. Will be wiping my machine clean soon for a testing of raid in Linux :^) Hans N. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Randy Kramer Sent:

[newbie] Can't boot up

2001-09-25 Thread Admin
Hello: The past couple of days I have been configuring my local area network consisting of one win98se and one lm8.0. Last night everything looked pretty good. Linux could see win98 and vicer versa. Samba seemed to be working fine and I was a happy camper. This morning the system was acting a

[newbie] Java prblems again.

2001-09-25 Thread adam
I've managed to install the plugin for Java by linking the JRE1.3.1 plugin file to my netscape plugin directory. (Netscape 4.71, but I get an error with certain pages Unable to start java applet: can't find java40.jar in your classpath - read the release notes and install java40 properly befo

[newbie] replace kernel

2001-09-25 Thread victor
Hi, I download the newest kernel from the internet and compiled a new image. But when I replace my old kernel in /boot directory ie:old->vmlinuz-2.2.17-21mdk new:vmlinuz-2.4.9 and change the link of vmlinuz to the new kernel. And Systemp.map link to the new System.map-2.4.9. But when I restart, t

[newbie] Soundcard SiS 7018: no sound

2001-09-25 Thread Marcio Cordero
Hi all, I've been trying to get a SiS 7018 pci sound card to work. The configuration tool doesn't give me any error messages but I still don't get any sound, using alsaplayer I was able to listen to a music cd very low even with gnome audio mixer to maximum. dmesg gets: Sep 25 22:54:19 dawnstar ke

Re: [newbie] Nimda virus

2001-09-25 Thread Manuel Drake
> BTW, I did write to the author suggesting he may want to tell his > readers that an alternative to Windows exists (Linux). He wrote back to > say such an article is already in the works and may be out early next > week. I'd love to agree with this assessment, but as I'm not exactly a moron, an

Re: [newbie] Hostility Levels on the list

2001-09-25 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Randy Kramer wrote: > george wrote: > >>surely, a newbie to a list will note that majority of messages >>are written in text mode. >> >>even if they do start out under msos, if they can read, >>they must be aware. >> >>and surely, if they are under osbs, they have been sending >>and receiveing

Re: [newbie] xinetd

2001-09-25 Thread Michael D. Viron
At 09:48 PM 09/25/2001 +0100, you wrote: >Hi > >I installed a few security updates via Mandrake Update to my MDK 8.0 system >over the weekend. One of them was an updated xinted. All seemed to go >well. > >Tonight I found the need to telnet to my machine, and couldnt, no telnet >service. I tr

[newbie] xinetd

2001-09-25 Thread Dave Naylor
Hi I installed a few security updates via Mandrake Update to my MDK 8.0 system over the weekend. One of them was an updated xinted. All seemed to go well. Tonight I found the need to telnet to my machine, and couldnt, no telnet service. I tracked it down to the fact that xinetd wasnt runni

[newbie] Can't 't ping localhost?

2001-09-25 Thread Dr. Evil
For some reason on my Mandrake 8 machine, I can't ping localhost. I had an ethernet interface which I disabled, and now I can't ping localhost which means lots of things (like printing) are broken. Any sugestions? Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www

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

2001-09-25 Thread skinky
On Wednesday 26 September 2001 06:26, Tom Brinkman wrote: > I might as well be pi$$in in the wind in tryin to encourage > people to NEVER, EVER connect to the Net with any M$ product. Maybe the > next round of virii will just destroy their systems so they can't even > boot Winblows?  That ough

Re: [newbie] Hostility Levels on the list

2001-09-25 Thread shane
On Tuesday 25 September 2001 13:10, you spoke unto the masses thusly: > > Yeah, that reminds me - a few days ago someone on a NZ linux list said > that anyone using Mandrake with gui may as well stick with MS Windows. I > found that quite insulting. Besides, I reckon Mandrake is the perfect > s

Re: [newbie] Hostility Levels on the list

2001-09-25 Thread Charles A. Punch
That can be the other way around as well. In the past I have used my computer for many things other than the internet. In fact this list has led me to spend more time on the internet, because I am learning how to use my computer for reasons that are not neccesarily internet related. When I do

[newbie] mustek 600cp scanner under mdk 8.1

2001-09-25 Thread boo
i just wonder if there is any possibility to get this thing (subj.) working with mdk8.1 ... I just want to say goodbye to my windowsOS, but before i do that i want this thing working... peace ><> Boo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.m

Re: [newbie] HTML E-mail

2001-09-25 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 13:38:39 -0400 MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cleverly noted: > Ok, with all the recent hostility talks, and me switching e-mail > programs at home and at work, I need some help determining if this > software sends HTML e-mail, without the need to be flamed. While I > agree with t

[newbie] DiskDrake resize

2001-09-25 Thread Miark
Does DiskDrake resize ext2 and/or Reiser partitions? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] anti-virus program (filescan instsructions..)

2001-09-25 Thread Franki
Posting the filescan instructions for this week... Amavis will not work at all without a virus scanner to do the actual work of the scan.. Here are the details for Filescan.. (again.:-) rgds Frank --- I have just swapped

Re: [newbie] Nimda virus

2001-09-25 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
Consider the Source. The FBI is somewhat dumb in these matters, at least the upper echelon is, being the polititians they are. I don't think its NPR's fault. On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Miark wrote: > I caught the tail end of an FBI warning on NPR today that said the Nimda virus >"affects > all Int

[newbie] new winblows virus goin around..

2001-09-25 Thread Franki
Hi People... Another windows virus going around... just got this from the postfix list, its some details on how to filter the email with postfix.. Pay particular attentionn to the subject of the email "Peace BeTweeN AmeriCa and IsLaM!" Rumor has it that another MS Windows email worm is sp

Re: [newbie] anti-virus program

2001-09-25 Thread Paul
In reply to Valerie's words, written Tue, 25 Sep 2001 13:02:40 -0400 >does anyone know a free good anti-virus program for linux? I guess you should look for amavis. It will track down the Wine-dows virusses. Paul -- How depressing... Nobody's after my job http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux

RE: [newbie] Hostility Levels on the list

2001-09-25 Thread John Clegg
Please don't assume that just because someone is a Linux newbie they are an email newbie. Some people have their HTML habits DEEPLY ingrained! John > -Original Message- > From: george [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 4:09 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject

Re: [newbie] Gartner Group Suggests Dumping IIS

2001-09-25 Thread Miark
I hoped we would have learned from the terrorist arguements that ignited on Newbie two weeks ago. Questions like this posed to a hot-blooded, strong willed group of people is a recipe for disaster. Folks, let's not even go there. This question was never asked. I'm pressing the Historical Event

Re: [newbie] anti-virus program

2001-09-25 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Tuesday 25 September 2001 19:02, Valerie Cheng wrote: > does anyone know a free good anti-virus program for linux? Doesn't need one (yet?) There have been a few worms and Trojans, but no full-on virus scare so far. The AV programs that are available are only for Linux boxes used as mail

Re: [newbie] Hostility Levels on the list

2001-09-25 Thread s
On Tuesday 25 September 2001 04:23 am, Miark wrote: > Ya, me too. Oh, and I also hate that the Kraft mac & cheese (i.e. Kraft > Dinner) boxes have that perforated tab to open the box, but I nearly snap > my finger off every time I try to use it. > > Miark LOL!!! -s Want to buy your Pack or

RE: [newbie] Nimda virus

2001-09-25 Thread Franki
But they are right, it DOES affect all internet connected computers... My linux boxes have had their bandwidth chewed up by four thousand Nimda servers infected with IIS (no I didn't get it around the wrong way,, thats what I meant.) rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL P

[newbie] Installing to hdb

2001-09-25 Thread Miark
Hi all, I got a 4GB IDE hd from a friend and decided to made it hdb and put 8.1's RC1 on it. Installation was flawless. I didn't choose to install a bootloader, opting instead to use a boot disk. But the boot disk won't boot to it (which I've tried on two separate installations). So I added it t

Re: [newbie] Nimda virus

2001-09-25 Thread Miark
- Original Message - From: Randy Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 11:07 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Nimda virus > Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: > > > > Consider the Source. The FBI is somewhat dumb in these matters, at least > > the upper

Re: [newbie] HTML E-mail

2001-09-25 Thread Randy Kramer
MH wrote: Now with that said, I would appreciate any help > on determining whether or not this e-mail program (Mail Warrior) sends > HTML by default, because I have not seen anything about the form of e- > mail it sends. Thank you all in advance. Your email was in plain text. I checked it by vi

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

2001-09-25 Thread Mark Johnson
I was thinking a variation of this would be to track the ipaddress of my ISPs subnet and every night autodispatch an email to the support desk asking the ISP to contact those people affected by the virus... I wonder if it would have any effect? I wonder if this is something you could take up the

[newbie] HTML E-mail

2001-09-25 Thread MH
Ok, with all the recent hostility talks, and me switching e-mail programs at home and at work, I need some help determining if this software sends HTML e-mail, without the need to be flamed. While I agree with the masses here, HTML e-mail is hard and annoying to read and deal with, sometimes

Re: [newbie] alternatives to windows programs

2001-09-25 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
Photoshop = The Gimp. I dont know about Dreamweaver or Pagemaker. There is KWord which is supposed to be a frames based word processor, but its highly unstable. On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Terry wrote: > Hello all, > > We use a bunch of windows programs that I was curious as to whether there are > a

Re: [newbie] Multiple nics

2001-09-25 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Just my 2 cents: Makes no difference at all. I use the same cards baceause I know & trust the brands. Also, I only need to update 1 driver if an upgrade is required. I can also depend on getting similar performance from them (not all NICs are created equal!). JMHO Ric Paul wrote: > Hi all

[newbie] problems with port 110

2001-09-25 Thread Ingo Bauer
Good afternoon all I have a problem, that is driving me insane. I have telnet enabled. According to xinetd port 110 is enabled. Portsentry is not running, and when I try to telnet to localhost 110 I get t [ibauer@bear ibauer]$ telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: Unable to connect to

Re: [newbie] Hostility Levels on the list

2001-09-25 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 00:59:05 +0800 "Franki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cleverly noted: > Why not ask the mailing list admins to add those details and the > unsubscription info as txt to the bottom of all the emails.. > > that way they are bound to eventually notice it... > > rgds > > Frank ==

RE: [newbie] Hostility Levels on the list

2001-09-25 Thread Franki
Why not ask the mailing list admins to add those details and the unsubscription info as txt to the bottom of all the emails.. that way they are bound to eventually notice it... rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of george Sent: Tue

Re: [newbie] Hayes external modem

2001-09-25 Thread george
FLYNN, Steve wrote: > > ROFL! > > I'd be absolutely stunned if a modem was asking for an email > account name! [snip] my sides are still sore. ;) at least anyone else doing a 'subject:' search on hayes external modems, will know a little more about setting 'hayes commands' if you ever come to

Re: [newbie] LOST CONNECT BUTTON

2001-09-25 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Tuesday 25 September 2001 12:18, Ivor Westwood wrote: > I have lost the Connect buttons on Gnome and KDE2 in Mandrake 8. They > were there for the last week but disappeared yesterday. Spent hours > looking for them. > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. Just make a new one! The command to

Re: [newbie] Nimda virus

2001-09-25 Thread Randy Kramer
Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: > > Consider the Source. The FBI is somewhat dumb in these matters, at least > the upper echelon is, being the polititians they are. I don't think its > NPR's fault. > We need to write to NPR and the FBI. Anybody have email addresses. (Last time I tried to email

Re: [newbie] Hostility Levels on the list

2001-09-25 Thread Randy Kramer
george wrote: > surely, a newbie to a list will note that majority of messages > are written in text mode. > > even if they do start out under msos, if they can read, > they must be aware. > > and surely, if they are under osbs, they have been sending > and receiveing email and know when html is

Re: [newbie] MODEM

2001-09-25 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
The LT Modems work awesome under Linux. On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Joseph Braddock wrote: > Take care with any PCI modems. Many are winmodems in sheeps clothing. > Pretty much if it requires a pentium processor, then it's most likely a > winmodem. > > Joe > > On Tuesday 18 September 2001 03:30 pm, y

Re: [newbie] Hostility Levels on the list

2001-09-25 Thread george
Mark Johnson wrote: > > Agreed. You know it's amazing how many times we assume the worse in > others [snip] no agrument with you points of this issue. before long, this thread can make a good 'faqs for newbie'. but will they bother to read it. surely, a newbie to a list will note that majority

[newbie] PCMCIA on Toshiba335CDT Laptop

2001-09-25 Thread Shaka Zulu
Hi All I just installed Mandrake 8.0 on my Toshiba335CDT Laptop. However, in order to get it to work I had to go through an "interactive" boot and disable the PCMCIA service, then once I got it up and running I had to chmod the /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia file in so that it isn't executable anym

Re: [newbie] Digital Camera use with Linux

2001-09-25 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Forget gphoto. You don't always need it. I have an Olympus 4040Z. All I do to make it work is: 1) Plug it in (USB) (and turn it on of course) 2) Run modprobe usb-storage 3) mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/cam (set up the mount point ahead of time). 4) cd /mnt/cam/... And enjoy the pictures. Want to just

[newbie] failed dependencies: menu < 2.1.5-29mdk conflicts with rpm-3.0.5-27mdk

2001-09-25 Thread Anke & Max
Gidday All I'm trying to upgrade some stuff on a mandrake system and need to upgrade rpm to version4 but I get the following error when trying to first upgrade to ver3!# rpm -Uvh rpm-3.0.5-27mdk.i586.rpmerror: failed dependencies:    menu < 2.1.5-29mdk conflicts with rpm-3.0.5-27mdk  

[newbie] Different Multiple NIC's Question...

2001-09-25 Thread AutoRealty Technical Support
--- Message created Tuesday, 25 September 2001, 10:53:39 --- I'm trying to setup 2 NIC's in Mandrake 8.0 such that eth0 will respond *only* to x.x.x.x and eth1 will respond *only* to y.y.y.y Problem is, eth0 is currently responding to both x.x.x.x *and* y.y.y.y and eth1 is responding to *neithe

Re: [newbie] Hayes external modem

2001-09-25 Thread george
PENA FAMILY wrote: > > This is for the interest of anyone who is planning on buying a Linux > compatible external modem. [snip] hayes is good. have used slower 'early models', grew faster with usr, now motorola. > All in all I enjoyed and recommend the Hayes external modem. The only > trouble no

Re: [newbie] Gartner Group Suggests Dumping IIS

2001-09-25 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 11:20:54 +0100, george <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > > > Good god this is funny: > > "God" if you can 'Good'. tymGBu. ;) huh? -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. "There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't be

Re: [newbie] Trying to automate aumix -L

2001-09-25 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I think we may have found your problem. The "aumix -L" line should be _outside_ the if statements. If statements are started with "if" and finished with "fi" ("finish"). To make things easy, place your line right at the end of the file, on its own line. On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 09:15:17 -0400 (EDT), "

Re: [newbie] Digital Camera use with Linux

2001-09-25 Thread Derek Jennings
My camera is a Casio QV7000SX and it is not listed as supported by Gphoto, and since there are no Casio's on the list at all I thought it would be futile to just try drivers out at random. If anyone has managed to get any Casio model to work I would be interested to hear of it. On Tuesday

Re: [newbie] Digital Camera use with Linux

2001-09-25 Thread Jan Wilson
* tazmun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010925 07:03]: [snip] > considering purchasing an Olympus digital camera that uses smart media cards > and is apparently designed to be used with USB interface. I'm hoping the > group can save me considerable time and possibly a lot of money by helping > me avoid har

Re: [newbie] Gartner Group Suggests Dumping IIS

2001-09-25 Thread george
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > Good god this is funny: "God" if you can 'Good'. tymGBu. ;) > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/24/1814256 did not see it there, but did note similar on a few other enews list. you will note 'trends' thru enews list and is hope fully an indication that 'fre

Re: [newbie] Hostility Levels on the list

2001-09-25 Thread george
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > [snip] thank you for your responce. i follow this list. i am threading subject. i will reply thru list to this subject... > -- Jeremy S. Anderson another wise man... -=- beauty of real is revealed only to those who persevere. -=- perseverance can be a reward. -=

RE: [newbie] Hostility Levels on the list

2001-09-25 Thread Mark Johnson
Agreed. You know it's amazing how many times we assume the worse in others when rarely it is ever the case that there was any harm intended. There are only a few people out there in the world that really enjoy making others miserable or really get their kicks by controlling others. The majority

Re: [newbie] Hostility Levels on the list

2001-09-25 Thread Mike Leone
> All it takes is a little polite education, and most people will catch on > quickly. If they don't, _then_ we can abuse (or just ignore) them. I'm thinking ignoring might be better. I know I have more important things to be nasty to people about, rather than some unreadable email. Want

Re: [newbie] Digital Camera use with Linux

2001-09-25 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 25 September 2001 10:49 am, gunner carstens escribió: > Derek Jennings wrote: > > Have you checked out www.gphoto.org > > Gphoto is software to handle digital cameras in Linux. They have a > > catalogue of 103 supported cameras. > > Mine is not on the list.. Doh > My Kodak DC240 is wor

RE: [newbie] Digital Camera use with Linux

2001-09-25 Thread Michael Spivak
I have Toshiba PDR-M5 Digital camera that uses SmartMedia with USB/Serial port and it works fine ! You just have to start the USB daemon (as root) by "/etc/rc.d/init.d/usb start', then mount the '/dev/tty1' to some directory (i did it with '/mnt/digitalcam'), and thats it !! you just go to '/mnt/

Re: [newbie] Video cards for P I 100 Mhz with 48 Mb RAM

2001-09-25 Thread Randy Kramer
Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: > Randy, the main reason is that eventhough I am running 800x600 on a 17" > monitor and can see the whole screen perfectly, the full graphics under > X do not display of the Mandrake Software Manager i.e. the screen > doesn't refresh after closing the 'You have not

Re: [newbie] Video cards for P I 100 Mhz with 48 Mb RAM

2001-09-25 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
OK. Tnx Franki for giving me a smack around the ears for trying to put a monster graphics card in an old machine. Randy, the main reason is that eventhough I am running 800x600 on a 17" monitor and can see the whole screen perfectly, the full graphics under X do not display of the Mandrake Softw

Re: [newbie] Hayes external modem

2001-09-25 Thread Tim Holmes
I've seen a lot of hardware modems now saying they out right "support Linux." As well as a few NICs. But the thing is, if you have a hardware modem, then it's not an issue of software like it is with Winmodems. The machine knows what needs to be sent to the modem, and the modem understands that

Re: [newbie] Devanagari fonts for Mandrake?

2001-09-25 Thread Mr S Ganesan
DEar Sir, There are umpteen devagari fonts available for free from many sites in the ttf, psf and other types. The problem with devnagari fonts is that you have to know the keyboard layout since there are 3 different types of keyboard layouts currently being used. The most common is the Remington

Re: [newbie] Hostility Levels on the list

2001-09-25 Thread Richie de Almeida
On Monday 24 September 2001 17:24, george wrote: > Ric Tibbetts wrote: > > [snip] > > to ric and rest, > > html does look nice... on an internet site. > > i have filters for 'twits' that use html that sends html messages to > '!-html' mail box, which i later manually edit out waste. in so doing, >

Re: [newbie] netscape 6 printing options?

2001-09-25 Thread Valerie Cheng
So.. there's not even a file that I can edit to change the options? When will N6.2 be released? > Unfortunately thats a bug in N6.1 - I'm not sure whether they've > corrected it in Mozilla 0.9.4 but I think they will have sorted it out > for N6.2. > > Regards > > Gordon Want to buy your

RE: [newbie] Bootloader doesn't work after clean install of Mandrake 8.0

2001-09-25 Thread Wendy Langer
Hello, thanks everybody for your suggestions :) The only one I have followed so far is Civileme's suggestion to try running through the installer again in "Expert Update" mode and to ask it to put the bootloader on hdc5 rather than hdca. I first tried putting it onto hdc, as I was a little confu

Re: [newbie] Digital Camera use with Linux

2001-09-25 Thread Derek Jennings
Have you checked out www.gphoto.org Gphoto is software to handle digital cameras in Linux. They have a catalogue of 103 supported cameras. Mine is not on the list.. Doh Derek On Tuesday 25 September 2001 01:55, you wrote: > Hello group: > > In pursuit of making windows a distant memory,

[newbie] The Interent through Linux's eyes

2001-09-25 Thread robert
Well, I managed to get the email to work on Linux. I am using Kmail. Not as easy as I would have it but nevertheless I can get my newbie mailing without having to boot back to WindowsME or set up the account on my new iMac. Well, having used Windows email program for so many years and seeing e

[newbie] Linux on iMac (ppc)

2001-09-25 Thread Ervin S. Odisho
Hi All! I have recently purchased a new iMAC and i would like to install Mandrake on it to to be a local file intranet and file server. I got the iso images of mandrake distribution but unfortunately I do not know how to create a bootable CD under MAC OS 9.1 (i got a cdrw). Please if you know of

Re: [newbie] How To Uninstall Version 7 and Re-Install Windows 98

2001-09-25 Thread Michael
hp wrote: > Hi > > I tried what you suggested but after typing in rescue - the computer tries > to load ram disc. I am not sure what that means - then error saying can't > find init - help! > > - Harry > > civileme at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Monday 17 September 2001 14:45, you wrote: >

Re: [newbie] netscape 6 printing options?

2001-09-25 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
Valerie Cheng wrote: > how do i configure the printing options for netscape 6? (or.. can i?) > like i don't want it to print the pages, date, address, etc... > thanx. > > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandrake

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