R: [newbie-it] Problemi col modem esterno

2001-10-28 Thread simone
ciao sono ~morfheus~ non ti preoccupare per la tua connessione perche' forse e' solo colpa del tuo abbonamento perche' tiscali di solito ti butta fuori brutalmente .per questo anno inventato la flat 24 su 24 ciao ciao tanti saluti ~morfheus~

[newbie] And more questions.!

2001-10-28 Thread Damian G
Well, i started installing one movie player after another, and found that mplayer was the one i liked best. ( The ASCII video output is just amazing, even though it's almost unusable! ;oP ) well, anyway, while trying to install another one, the configure script told me that the gcc version i'm

[newbie] Linux-Mandrake 8.0 and WindowsXP

2001-10-28 Thread Robert
Just upgraded to WindowsXP, for those who even care, and it went smoothly. Runs faster than ME and is very stable and solid. The usual applications that would crash ME without fail didn't even make XP hiccup. Two things though in both Linux and XP I just can't get my ancient external

Re: [newbie] KDE 2.2.1 on MD8...the saga continues...

2001-10-28 Thread John Hokanson Jr.
On Saturday 27 October 2001 11:38 pm, you wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 18:43:50 -0700, John Hokanson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I'm 99% certain I'm going to have to upgrade to XFree86 4.1.0 if I want to have any chance of installing Textstars RPMs. I also have a LOAD of other

Re: [newbie] And more questions.!

2001-10-28 Thread Paul
In reply to Damian G's words, written Sun, 28 Oct 2001 06:36:42 + Well, i started installing one movie player after another, and found that mplayer was the one i liked best. ( The ASCII video output is just amazing, even though it's almost unusable! ;oP ) well, anyway, while trying to

Re: [newbie] Ext2 - Ext3 Conversion?

2001-10-28 Thread Paul
In reply to Sridhar Dhanapalan's words, written Sun, 28 Oct 2001 17:20:40 +1100 Actually, the best part of ext3 is that it is fully backwards and forwards compatible. An ext2 partition can be mounted as ext3 to get journalling, and an ext3 partition can be mounted as ext2. There is no formatting

Re: [newbie] Where to place 'xset' command?

2001-10-28 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 21:14:36 -0700, Gregory Margo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What file should be used to hold commands to be run at the start of an X session? I need to run an xset command to adjust the mouse acceleration. I'm running Mandrake 8.1 with kdm starting Gnome. thanks, gm Open

Re: [newbie] And more questions.!

2001-10-28 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 06:36:42 +, Damian G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, i started installing one movie player after another, and found that mplayer was the one i liked best. ( The ASCII video output is just amazing, even though it's almost unusable! ;oP ) well, anyway, while trying to

Re: [newbie] KDE 2.2.1 on MD8...the saga continues...

2001-10-28 Thread John Hokanson Jr.
On Sunday 28 October 2001 12:41 am, you wrote: There is always the possibility that your hardware is to blame. The problem is that these problems aren't random. If they were I'd be inclined to agree with you. These problems are reproduceable. Some of them are actually documented (like the

[newbie] Re: external cd writer

2001-10-28 Thread Paul
In reply to Robert's words, written Sun, 28 Oct 2001 00:07:43 -0700 If anyone wishes to drop me a hint on the CDwriter issue or a link for the truly RAW newbie I would appreciate it very much. Visit www.mandrakeuser.org and search the docs for parallel devices. Perhaps that gets you somewhere.

Re: [newbie] Ext2 - Ext3 Conversion?

2001-10-28 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 23:04:28 -0400, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In reply to Sevatio's words, written Sat, 27 Oct 2001 20:11:26 GMT I'm looking for information on how to convert Ext2 - Ext3. Where's a good place to go and read about all this stuff? Since this involves formatting (the

[newbie] kylix

2001-10-28 Thread Feras Al-Qadi
from where I can download a full free kylix version, with all the components tabs their, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Network

2001-10-28 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 06:59:57 +0300, Feras Al-Qadi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I want to have a network of one server let us say three stations, I in windows we use WINDOW NT Server for the server and WINDOWS NT workstation for work station That's because MS wants you to pay more for

Re: [newbie] The MSN.com access

2001-10-28 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 00:11:32 -0700, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its funny that with Mozilla and Opera I can't get into msn.com but with Galeon thre is no problem. I thought that only Internet Explorer was the only one capable of viewing it. This is proof that Microsoft are deliberately

Re: [newbie] Linux-Mandrake 8.0 and WindowsXP

2001-10-28 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 00:07:43 -0700, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just upgraded to WindowsXP, for those who even care, and it went smoothly. Runs faster than ME and is very stable and solid. The usual applications that would crash ME without fail didn't even make XP hiccup. Two things

[newbie] Don't install kdebase-nsplugins-2.2.1-7mdk.i586.rpm

2001-10-28 Thread Newbie
It sucks, it will break your Konqueror, I have no Konqueror now. I hate kdebase-nsplugins-2.2.1-7mdk.i586.rpm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Don't install kdebase-nsplugins-2.2.1-17md.....

2001-10-28 Thread falcaraz
This could be another problem, I installed the kdebase-nsplugins and now I can see pages like the www.foxkids.com It sucks, it will break your Konqueror, I have no Konqueror now. I hate kdebase-nsplugins-2.2.1-7mdk.i586.rp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

RE: [newbie] KDE 2.2.1 on MD8...the saga continues...

2001-10-28 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
What RPMdrake problem? So far I've had no problem with it. (Crossing fingers...). -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of John Hokanson Jr. |Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2001 2:53 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE

Re: [newbie] Ext2 - Ext3 Conversion?

2001-10-28 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 07:31:28 -0500, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In reply to Sridhar Dhanapalan's words, written Sun, 28 Oct 2001 17:20:40 +1100 Actually, the best part of ext3 is that it is fully backwards and forwards compatible. An ext2 partition can be mounted as ext3 to get

Resolved: [newbie] Apache 1.3.20 and SSI don't work

2001-10-28 Thread Stumpie
hi All, This morning, I had another look at it and discovered commonhttpd.conf. In it was a line that specified index.shtml as the only location for SSI. Changed it to the DocumentRoot and now everyting works fine. Thanks, Coen At 23:49 27-10-01 +0200, you wrote: Hi all, I've got a

Re: [newbie] And more questions.!

2001-10-28 Thread Derek Jennings
I think the player you are referring to is mplayer 0.50 I went through that experience last week. The developers really DO NOT like gcc 2.96. They are not that keen on 3.01 either, but have now included it, and mplayer will compile with 3.01 now. MPlayer also requires glibc 2.2.4-8mdk which

[newbie] Java on Mandrake?

2001-10-28 Thread Søren Neigaard
What's the best way to install Java 1.3 on my Mandrake? Can I do it via MandrakeUpdate, or should i download it from sun, and which one should i then download from sun (RedHat RPM shell script or GNUZIP Tar shell script)? Best regards Søren Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] Sond not working in Gnome

2001-10-28 Thread Søren Neigaard
I just installed Mandrake, and I'm usig the Gnome desktop. The sound server is running (I think), but the sound is not working. Any ideas on how to get it to work? Best regards Søren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Where to place 'xset' command?

2001-10-28 Thread Onur Kucuk
GM What file should be used to hold commands to be run at the start of GM an X session? I need to run an xset command to adjust the mouse GM acceleration. I'm running Mandrake 8.1 with kdm starting Gnome. GM thanks, GM gm I dont know about the xset, but to accelerate my mouse I add Option

Re: [newbie] Sources in MandrakeUpdate?

2001-10-28 Thread Derek Jennings
Yep Select Define sources New Select Type of Source Security Updates Update the list of mirrors. Pick one near you Click OK It takes quite a long time to get the list of all the packages on the mirror. Now any package you have installed for which an update is available will show up in bold in

Re: [newbie] Sond not working in Gnome

2001-10-28 Thread Søren Neigaard
On Sun, 2001-10-28 at 12:49, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On 28 Oct 2001 13:10:30 +0100, Søren Neigaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed Mandrake, and I'm usig the Gnome desktop. The sound server is running (I think), but the sound is not working. Any ideas on how to get it to

Re: [newbie] kylix

2001-10-28 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 10:55:35 +0300 Feras Al-Qadi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: from where I can download a full free kylix version, with all the components tabs their, There is only 1 place Http://www.borland.com Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Sources in MandrakeUpdate?

2001-10-28 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 28 October 2001 11:50, Søren Neigaard wrote: On Sun, 2001-10-28 at 12:21, Derek Jennings wrote: Yep Select Define sources New Select Type of Source Security Updates Update the list of mirrors. Pick one near you Click OK It takes quite a long time to get the list of all the

Re: [newbie] Linux-Mandrake 8.0 and WindowsXP

2001-10-28 Thread D.
Well why do we care about XP? And if you just installed it how do you know that it is more stable then ME? Don't you need some run time before you make that statement?? And please tell us how you enjoy paying the license fee again after you upgrade your hardware. The last time that I looked

Re: [newbie] Sond not working in Gnome

2001-10-28 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 28 Oct 2001 12:58:30 +0100, Søren Neigaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2001-10-28 at 12:49, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On 28 Oct 2001 13:10:30 +0100, Søren Neigaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed Mandrake, and I'm usig the Gnome desktop. The sound server is running (I

Re: [newbie] Radeon VE

2001-10-28 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 03:45:08 +0200 Joan Tur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Es Divendres 26 Octubre 2001 22:46, en Charles A Edwards va escriure: I have attached a portion of my FX86Config that relates to the diffs between mine and yours. 1) I have no module section 2) My screen section

Re: [newbie] Sond not working in Gnome

2001-10-28 Thread Søren Neigaard
On Sun, 2001-10-28 at 13:48, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On 28 Oct 2001 12:58:30 +0100, Søren Neigaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2001-10-28 at 12:49, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On 28 Oct 2001 13:10:30 +0100, Søren Neigaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed Mandrake, and I'm

Re: [newbie] how to extract bz2 files

2001-10-28 Thread Robin Turner
Søren Neigaard wrote: How do I extract bz2 files from a console? bunzip yourfile.bz if I remember rightly. Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] how to extract bz2 files

2001-10-28 Thread Onur Kucuk
Sunday, October 28, 2001, 4:19:01 PM, you wrote: SN How do I extract bz2 files from a console? SN Best regards SN Søren bunzip2 the_file Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: [newbie] Word processor

2001-10-28 Thread Randy Kramer
Admin wrote: Looking for a word processor to use under lm8.0, which needs to be able to import word documents as well as save in ms word format(if possible). Any suggestions? Thanks... AbiWord is a good word processor, it will be a great word processor. It is not finished yet. Currently,

Re: [newbie] Word processor

2001-10-28 Thread Robin Turner
Randy Kramer wrote: Admin wrote: Looking for a word processor to use under lm8.0, which needs to be able to import word documents as well as save in ms word format(if possible). Any suggestions? Thanks... AbiWord is a good word processor, it will be a great word processor. It is

Re: [newbie] KDE 2.2.1 on MD8...the saga continues...

2001-10-28 Thread Randy Kramer
John Hokanson Jr. wrote: I just want my computer to work right, and Linux has been a complete bitch to set up properly. I've already spent money on two distributions. If I spend any more, I'll be fast approching the cost of an MS Windows product. Everytime I get a new peice of Linux

Re: [newbie] The MSN.com access

2001-10-28 Thread Randy Kramer
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: This is proof that Microsoft are deliberately targeting browser ID strings rather than testing for browser capabilities. Both Mozilla and Galeon use Gecko. This _should_ mean that both browsers are treated in the same way, but only Mozilla was blocked. This would be

Re: [newbie] how to extract bz2 files

2001-10-28 Thread Michael D. Viron
run tar xjf ... Paul 'tar xjf filename' will work on 8.0 and above, it does not work on previous releases 7.2 and below. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida Want to buy your Pack or

RE: [newbie] The MSN.com access

2001-10-28 Thread Franki
well, a standard way of testing is is to use Javascript... document.all generally means IE document.layer generally means Netscape document.getElementByID usually means Mozilla, NS6.0-6.1 and all the most current browsers... I have written some rather large scripts in JS that do some pretty

Re: [newbie] Re: Alsa or xmms? SBLive configuration Howto.

2001-10-28 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 21:54:17 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I give up, it's time for a different sound card or wait until Mandrake can get sound to work without having to go fumbling around in the dark. The only sound I get now is from the alsa player and when I click on

Re: [newbie] Don't install kdebase-nsplugins-2.2.1-7mdk.i586.rpm

2001-10-28 Thread michael
On Sunday 28 October 2001 01:47 am, you wrote: It sucks, it will break your Konqueror, I have no Konqueror now. I hate kdebase-nsplugins-2.2.1-7mdk.i586.rpm What I did is reinstall an older one over it -- -michael- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] The MSN.com access

2001-10-28 Thread Randy Kramer
Franki wrote: well, a standard way of testing is is to use Javascript... other good stuff snipped Franki, Thanks for the response! Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Word processor

2001-10-28 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
StarOffice 5.2 is a great piece of work. Its problems are bloat and the integrated desktop (although I've grown used to it over time). Other than that it is incredibly solid - I've written large documents on it over the period of a week (i.e. open the entire time) and it never crashed on me.

[newbie] Sound Config / ESD Errors

2001-10-28 Thread Jennifer
hello, I have been unable to get my systems sounds working and am also unable to run sndconfig. Sndconfig reports that my sounds card is not supported at this time althought i do have the drivers installed. (Aureal Vortex 2) I aso get the following error about ESD. i'm not sure what ESD is

[newbie] .directory file

2001-10-28 Thread bascule
ok, i upgraded to 8.1, as expected my desktp is ruined, but i have a backup of ~/Deskop/.directory nad after exiting kde i copy this over, onlt when i log onto kde again the desktop is unchanged and the contents of ~/Desktp/.directory unchanged also, howcome? what is rewriting it back? and i

Re: [newbie] Don't install kdebase-nsplugins-2.2.1-7mdk.i586.rpm

2001-10-28 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 28 October 2001 17:03, you wrote: On Sunday 28 October 2001 01:47 am, you wrote: It sucks, it will break your Konqueror, I have no Konqueror now. What does it do to Konq? I ask because I installed nsplugins, and now I keep getting problems with loading Konq in browser or File

Re: Re: [newbie] Word processor

2001-10-28 Thread Mandrake Newbie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: StarOffice 5.2 is a great piece of work. Its problems are bloat and the integrated desktop (although I've grown used to it over time). Other than that it is incredibly solid - I've written large documents on it over the period of a week (i.e. open the entire time) and

Re: [newbie] KDE 2.2.1 on MD8...the saga continues...

2001-10-28 Thread John Hokanson Jr.
On Sunday 28 October 2001 07:25 am, you wrote: John Hokanson Jr. wrote: I just want my computer to work right, and Linux has been a complete bitch to set up properly. I've already spent money on two distributions. If I spend any more, I'll be fast approching the cost of an MS Windows

[newbie] Word processor and PDF

2001-10-28 Thread falcaraz
The best way is use latex. Latex come with all the linux distributions, and if it is actually difficult to learn when you start, in a few days you will be very glad with it. Nowadays we have front-end very good to use latex in linux, for example ktexmaker2

Re: [newbie] KDE 2.2.1 on MD8...the saga continues...

2001-10-28 Thread Randy Kramer
John Hokanson Jr. wrote: Well, I'd be willing to take the performance hit if I can get certain things working a little bit better. Like I don't know why I can't get Sawfish to load (so I can try it). I can't help you there -- maybe somebody else can. (I'm running Mandrake 7.2, and, if

[newbie] soundboad (AWE) yet!

2001-10-28 Thread Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas
Hi! I've seen some msg on some problems with this board! It's was not easy to put it to work! But now when I start KDE I get the message: Sound-server warning message can set real time scheduling priority. You need to run artswrapper as root or setuid root. First: Is it ok to do it? (to run as

Re: [newbie] Word processor and PDF

2001-10-28 Thread Randy Kramer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The best way is use latex. Latex come with all the linux distributions, and if it is actually difficult to learn when you start, in a few days you will be very glad with it. Nowadays we have front-end very good to use latex in linux, for example ktexmaker2

[newbie] ISDN modem

2001-10-28 Thread Chadwick, Tim
Could someone PLEASE help? I have a USR ISDN Sportster 128k internal ISA modem. I have no idea how to get this to work, or even if it's possible. It appears it wasn't detected upon installing 8.1. I REALLY want to ditch all MS products from my system, but if I can't connect to the internet with

Re: [newbie] ISDN modem

2001-10-28 Thread Bil Reynolds
On Saturday 27 October 2001 11:03 am, you wrote: Could someone PLEASE help? I have a USR ISDN Sportster 128k internal ISA modem. I have no idea how to get this to work, or even if it's possible. It appears it wasn't detected upon installing 8.1. I REALLY want to ditch all MS products from my

Re: [newbie] USB connection to digital camera

2001-10-28 Thread Ton Strijbosch
Hi, tried the above with kodak instead of fuji and now get seg fault in gtkam. How do you know that it is sda1 for the device? and what kind of script to copy files from camera to directory. Still floundering, Hi, The description of the mass storage driver says: All you really have to

RE: [newbie] Don't install kdebase-nsplugins-2.2.1-7mdk.i586.rpm

2001-10-28 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
The KDEBase plugins work fine for me. You may want to launch Konq from a command line, Xterminal, so you can see what is actually happening to prevent it from launching. I've found that some window decorations seem to screw it up. I had similar problems but they turned out not to be caused by

RE: [newbie] Sound Config / ESD Errors

2001-10-28 Thread Matthew Bull
Jennifer, sounds like the dir else doesn't exsist or has the wrong permissions have a look if its not there create it, then from the command line - chmod 1777 /tmp/.esd , logged in as root -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jennifer Sent:

re: [newbie] The MSN.com access

2001-10-28 Thread Matthew Bull
Hmmm much though I agree.. if only things where that simple unfortunately around 85% of web users use IE4 already and much though it pains me to say so (maintiaining a commercial site with around 2000 lines of javascript) I like a lot of developer have no option but to occainsionally write

Re: Re: [newbie] Word processor

2001-10-28 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Monday 29 October 2001 11:09, you wrote: Hi there! =) I'm just new to this mailing list and I hope you can help me with my problem. Is there any Word Processor that can save output as PDF file? Shall we say, I will make a document but I will save it as PDF file and can be viewed like

[newbie] envelope?

2001-10-28 Thread Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas
Hi, When I send any email, it goes as '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' but for some services, I cannot access anymore with that! I need an 'envelope' to show my 'real' email! How can I do that? I use postfix, fetchmail and procmail! (mdk8.1) tia Ricardo Castanho --

Re: [newbie] The MSN.com access

2001-10-28 Thread Metamorphysical
Ya know I just might add a pop up on my website just inspit of doing it? hehe - Original Message - From: Matthew Bull [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2001 2:00 PM Subject: re: [newbie] The MSN.com access Hmmm much though I agree.. if only things

[newbie] Pine

2001-10-28 Thread Admin
Hello: Trying to get Pine to work in my system (running pine 4.30 under lm8.0). So far, I am able to send messages, but I cannot figure out how to retrieve messages. I have read man pine as well as gone to their web site, and either I am missing something, or the issue of retrieving

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2001-10-28 Thread Jorge Ariznabarreta
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[newbie] Looking for a tape device

2001-10-28 Thread Tuan Tran
Hi, I am looking for a tape backup. Does any of you can tell me which one is cheap and work with Linux? I also need to know what is the best software (run on Linux) for tape (or other kind) backup. Thank you Tuan

Re: [newbie] Looking for a tape device

2001-10-28 Thread David E. Fox
cheap and work with Linux? I also need to know what is the best software (run on Linux) for tape (or other kind) backup. 4mm DAT/SCSI works nicely. What you may spend over some of the other offerings (travan et al) you save when it comes to buying cartridges. I'm using an HP Surestore which is

Re: [newbie] Pine

2001-10-28 Thread Roger Sherman
On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Admin wrote: Hello: Trying to get Pine to work in my system (running pine 4.30 under lm8.0). So far, I am able to send messages, but I cannot figure out how to retrieve messages. I have read man pine as well as gone to their web site, and either I am missing

Re: [newbie] Word processor

2001-10-28 Thread civileme
On Saturday 27 October 2001 20:34, Admin wrote: Hello: Looking for a word processor to use under lm8.0, which needs to be able to import word documents as well as save in ms word format(if possible). Any suggestions? Thanks... Dexter KWord, Abiword, StarOffice can all do that. AbiWord

Re: [newbie] Pine

2001-10-28 Thread civileme
On Sunday 28 October 2001 14:04, Admin wrote: Hello: Trying to get Pine to work in my system (running pine 4.30 under lm8.0). So far, I am able to send messages, but I cannot figure out how to retrieve messages. I have read man pine as well as gone to their web site, and either I am

[newbie] Win Partition

2001-10-28 Thread Steven Spears
I've install 8.1 and have pretty good luck except for a few disappointing things. I'm having problems writing to my windows partion from within Linux. I've done nothing different than I did in 8.0 and it just doesn't seem to work. I have to be root to do it. I'm part of the root group, so it

[newbie] work in Flash with linux

2001-10-28 Thread Paúl Mancheno H.
Hi... I wanna do jobs in Flash, but I need any app like Flash of Macromedia for Win but , of course for Linux (mandrake 8.1) thanks -- Usuario Registrado de Linux #232544 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Epson 640

2001-10-28 Thread Randy Donohoe
I've seen the problem I'm having on the list, but can't find it in the archives. I set my Epson 640 printer (it's a Windows network printer) up and it prints endless tests pages, but won't print from applications. When I say endless I mean it, it just won't quit. TIA, Randy Donohoe Want to

RE: [newbie] The MSN.com access

2001-10-28 Thread Franki
yeah,, I'll post the code I will be using on some of our sites tonight... I think this is a good idea, we should not follow M$'s lead and block IE, but rather just warn the user that they are using a browser that changes its support regularly and as such sometimes won't support the full

Re: [newbie] Win Partition

2001-10-28 Thread Joseph Braddock
If your errors are only on creating files, you are probably using the default settings in /etc/fstab, your windows partition is mounting with nosuid which means it shouldn't try to change the userid of any files it creates. Unfortunately, it appears to ignore this and tries to change the

Re: [newbie] Pine

2001-10-28 Thread Michael
And a great help on automating fetchmail. Some of the hints here are vital to a newbie like me. http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/cmail3.html civileme wrote: On Sunday 28 October 2001 14:04, Admin wrote: Hello: Trying to get Pine to work in my system (running pine 4.30

[newbie] ssh problem

2001-10-28 Thread Jhun Bacala
Hi All, After changing the security level of my LM8.1 to high, I can't no longer connect to it through ssh client. What seems to be the problem. TIA Jhun Bacala New City Commercial Corporation MIS-Dept. Davao Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] envelope yet!

2001-10-28 Thread Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas
On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Paul wrote: Thanks Paul but, it didn't work out! My email keeps going as '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'! With all modifications and 'service postfix reload' any suggestions? In reply to Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas's words, written Sun, 28 Oct 2001 16:57:13 -0200 (BRST) When I

[newbie] LM 8.1 on a laptop

2001-10-28 Thread PENA FAMILY
I want to kick out WindowsME from my HP laptop and place a Linux distro on it. I didn't have very much luck with Corel or Linux-Mandrake 7.2, but I haven't gotten around with LM 8.0. Is LM 8.1 doing a better job of getting into the cramp laptop or is their much headaches and work into squeezing

RE: [newbie] How do I protect my CDs?

2001-10-28 Thread Tuan Tran
I don't think you can protect it. Sorry, but it's true. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Paúl Mancheno H. Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2001 3:56 PM To: Newbie -Mandrake Linux- Subject: [newbie] How do I protect my CDs? Hi... I wanna

Re: [newbie] LM 8.1 on a laptop

2001-10-28 Thread Sleeper N
I want to kick out WindowsME from my HP laptop and place a Linux distro on it. I didn't have very much luck with Corel or Linux-Mandrake 7.2, but I haven't gotten around with LM 8.0. Is LM 8.1 doing a better job of getting into the cramp laptop or is their much headaches and work into

Re: [newbie] How do I protect my CDs?

2001-10-28 Thread Paul
In reply to Paúl Mancheno H.'s words, written Sun, 28 Oct 2001 18:56:26 -0500 I wanna make my own CD with my CD-burner, but I wonder how protect it if I don't want others make a copy from my CD... How do i protect my CD for no-authorized copies?? Keep 'm away from others. Paul -- If you

[newbie] Apache Proxy server problem + httpd error message

2001-10-28 Thread trus
Hi everybody I've got the following problem: We had a proxy server running on http://10.0.0.3:8080/ (Apache Server). It was running fine, but now, it's not. I know I ran Comanche and edited httpd.conf, but didn't modify anything. Now, whenever, I type http://10.0.0.3:8080/; in my browser, I get

Re: [newbie] envelope yet!

2001-10-28 Thread Paul
In reply to Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas's words, written Mon, 29 Oct 2001 03:09:20 -0200 (BRST) On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Paul wrote: Thanks Paul but, it didn't work out! My email keeps going as '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'! With all modifications and 'service postfix reload' any suggestions? Check

[newbie] Mandrake-Linux 8.1 installation problem

2001-10-28 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi All People, I tried nearly 2 weeks but still could not solve the installation problem of Mandrake-Linux 8.1. Detail as follows : Configuration of the PC for Linux box CPU AMD K2 350 Hard Disk3.6G ATA-33 RAM 128 MB ISO Images were download to a Windows ME box with Anti-Virus

[newbie] Best Distribution for..?

2001-10-28 Thread Emanuele Menegatti
Dear all, I have an OldWorld MAC: a Gray G3 with 64MB of RAM and a 266MHz CPU. Which Linux distribution would you suggest for transform my Mac in a dual boot Linux/Mac machine? I used Linuxppc (1999) and was not up-to-date, then I installed Mandrake PPC 8.0 but it is too heavy for my

Re: [newbie] Best Distribution for..?

2001-10-28 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 07:48:31 +0100, Emanuele Menegatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I have an OldWorld MAC: a Gray G3 with 64MB of RAM and a 266MHz CPU. Which Linux distribution would you suggest for transform my Mac in a dual boot Linux/Mac machine? I used Linuxppc (1999) and

RE: [newbie] How do I protect my CDs?

2001-10-28 Thread Franki
One way some manufacturers use to protect cdroms, is to put errors on the CD.. They stamp all their CDroms so it doesn't matter to them, but if you use a burner on a PC (regardless of OS) it will report an error and won't burn it, or it will burn it, but will ignore the error. The software can

Re: [newbie] Win Partition

2001-10-28 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 20:04:13 -0600, Steven Spears [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've install 8.1 and have pretty good luck except for a few disappointing things. I'm having problems writing to my windows partion from within Linux. I've done nothing different than I did in 8.0 and it just doesn't

Re: [newbie] The MSN.com access

2001-10-28 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
That's a great idea. Blocking IE makes us just as bad as M$, but a little user education can go a long way. You should probably put a link in the warning to another site which explains _why_ using IE is bad. This keeps the actual warning small and readable (and less annoying as well). On Mon, 29

RE: [newbie] How do I protect my CDs?

2001-10-28 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Heh, he could encrypt the files on the CD. But I'll bet he is thinking along the lines of come of the copy protection mechanisms used in Winblows. He's a little confused by this. They don't prevent you from COPYing the CD, merely from running the programs, which is different. -JMS