Re: [newbie-it] installazione e aggiornamento kernel

2001-10-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ciao, ti ringrazio, infatti da quando sono riuscito nell'istallazione ci sto capendo qualcosama so che non è finitainfatti ora ho problemi con X11(che è??);so solo che non riconosce la mia scheda videoma do sta il cdrom.booo!!! e il caro e buon vecchio a:??un misteroe come

[newbie-it] Leggere divx

2001-10-30 Thread OKreZ
Ciao a tutti, io uso mdk 8.1, qualcuno di voi riesce a leggere filmati compressi divx ? se si mi potrebbe spiegare come ? grazie mille...

Re: [newbie-it] installazione e aggiornamento kernel

2001-10-30 Thread LukenShiro
Oggidi' alle ore 15:45, martedì 30 ottobre 2001, Voi, Nobile [EMAIL PROTECTED], avete realizzato: infatti ora ho problemi con X11(che è??);so solo che non riconosce la mia scheda videoma do sta il cdrom.booo!!! e il caro e buon vecchio a:??un misteroe come faccio a caricare da CD

[newbie-it] configurazione modem

2001-10-30 Thread Claudia Carletti
Ho installato mandrake 8 sul mio portatile. ho un modem interno che però non viene riconosciuto, perchè probabilmente è un win modem... dal momento che non sono una programmatrice, volevo sapere se c'è un modo per farlo funzionare, altrimenti devo torliere mandrake, con mio enorme

Fwd: [newbie-it] configurazione modem

2001-10-30 Thread Claudia Carletti
From: Claudia Carletti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie-it] configurazione modem Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 18:01:06 + Ho installato mandrake 8 sul mio portatile. ho un modem interno che però non viene riconosciuto, perchè probabilmente è

[newbie-it] Window Maker

2001-10-30 Thread CaMiX
Ciao a tutta la ML! Qualcuno mi può dare qualche dritta su come attivare Window Maker? L'ho compilato, tutto ok ma non so come avviarlo. Ho provato a modificare lo script startkde specificando di usare come window manager /usr/local/bin/wmaker, ma ho degli errori. Qualcuno lo usa? Very very

Re: [newbie-it] configurazione modem

2001-10-30 Thread Luigi De Pascale
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Claudia Carletti wrote: Ho installato mandrake 8 sul mio portatile. ho un modem interno che però non viene riconosciuto, perchè probabilmente è un win modem... dal momento che non sono una programmatrice, volevo sapere se c'è un modo per farlo funzionare, altrimenti devo

Fw: [newbie] Mandrake-Linux 8.1 installation problem

2001-10-30 Thread hinet
mine is crw -rw ---psux - Original Message - From: Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 2:44 PM Subject: [newbie] Mandrake-Linux 8.1 installation problem Hi All People, I tried nearly 2 weeks but still could not solve the

[newbie] G450 16M with DH

2001-10-30 Thread Brancaleone
somebody use this video card with two monitor with some version of linux X ? TNX fab Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Virtual desktops in Linux-Mandrake and XP

2001-10-30 Thread Robert
Just discovered with a download XP can mimick the virtual desktop which comes standard with Linux-Mandrake, I suppose with any Linux distro. It nice looking but clumsy. An obvious rip off, but encouragin since Linux can excert some influence on MS. My question, and please don't jump over me

RE: [newbie] My personal response to msn.com and Internet Explorer.

2001-10-30 Thread Franki
All very valid points, which is why some action is taken... As previously stated, IE is already the prime browser on Mac and windows platforms.. that makes up the far majority of web users.. web developers are allready peeved at having to cross browser develop. if IE gets to 95% saturation,

[newbie] Installing Linux Mandrake 8.1 after WinXP

2001-10-30 Thread Anugrah S
I have a computer with : PIII 800 MHz 256 MB of RAM 30 GB Harddisk drive Asus V7100 AGP 32 MB Samsung SyncMaster 550v monitor SB Live! HP Deskjet 810c US Robotics 56K Message modem and my question is : 1) does linux mandrake 8.1 support all my hardware that I have listed above ? 2) can I install

Re: [newbie] Virtual desktops in Linux-Mandrake and XP

2001-10-30 Thread Robin Turner
Multiple desktops are a feature of the X-window system, which predates the Linux kernel by several years. In other words, it's a generic UNIX thing, rather than a Linux innovation. Robin Robert wrote: Just discovered with a download XP can mimick the virtual desktop which comes standard

Re: [newbie] My personal response to msn.com and Internet Explorer.

2001-10-30 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 00:43:46 -0800, John Hokanson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 29 October 2001 11:51 pm, you wrote: On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 18:44:33 -0800, John Hokanson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 29 October 2001 05:41 pm, you wrote: On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 13:45:52

Re: [newbie] My personal response to msn.com and Internet Explorer.

2001-10-30 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
A div is probably better - it's less intrusive. Could you please post the code up when you're done? I may wish to use it sometime (not that I make many sites or anything). Thanks. On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 18:16:34 +0800, Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All very valid points, which is why some

Re: [newbie] Sound Card setup / Creative PCI64

2001-10-30 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:15:11 +, PBN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sndconfig names my Creative PCI64 as Ensoniq|1336blablah and tells me that it's currently not supported. I tried reading the AWE32 howto which names isapnptools etc etc. But this card is not ISA! Can anyone please point me in

Re: [newbie] Installation problem: no such device

2001-10-30 Thread Robin Turner
civileme wrote: On Sunday 28 October 2001 04:59, Robin Turner wrote: I'm reinstalling Mandrake 8.0 and get the following problem while assigning partitions: Mount failed No such device This is happens two partitions: /dev/hda1 (vfat) and /dev/hda2 (reiserfs). It also

Re: [newbie] libpng3 abiword

2001-10-30 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 30 Oct 2001 01:43:56 -0500 Paul Rodríguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody have or can compile a libpng2 version of Abiword 0.9.4? I really like abiword, but the version that comes with Mandrake 8.1 doesn't have speell-checking working out of the box. (this seems to be an

Re: [newbie] My personal response to msn.com and Internet Explorer.

2001-10-30 Thread Anke Max
Gidday All Franki, I like it but the paragraph below has a problem. I think it would be better to put it this way. This is not necessary. You may have full functionality but we just can't guarantee it, and neither can anyone else other then Microsoft and its partners. Max This is not

[newbie] Help-.session will not re-set

2001-10-30 Thread Newbie
My session manager will not forget that I don't have 14 windows of Konq open anymore. Even if I tell it on logout don't save session.. Where is the config fiel for remembering restoring session, I want to just delete the little bugger... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] Win Partition

2001-10-30 Thread Miark
Steven, After the 850 in the vfat entry, add , umask=0 and life will be good again. Miark - Original Message - From: Steven Spears [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 8:31 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Win Partition I'm getting errors when trying

Re: [newbie] Installing Program Into Home Directory

2001-10-30 Thread Bryce Hardy
On Monday 29 October 2001 10:09 am, Mark Johnson wrote: edit your PATH variable and that should solve your problem. Check your /etc/profile and append the OO path to the PATH directory. something like: # /etc/profile # PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/OO/bin But I don't know

Re: [newbie] Sound Card setup / Creative PCI64

2001-10-30 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:15:11 + PBN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sndconfig names my Creative PCI64 as Ensoniq|1336blablah and tells me that it's currently not supported. I tried reading the AWE32 howto which names isapnptools etc etc. But this card is not ISA! Can anyone please point me in

[newbie] Informazioni

2001-10-30 Thread giacomo.doronzo
Cari amici vi scirvo per avere informazioni su questo sistema operativo e come sewtarlo: ho un Celeron 500 mhz con 256 mb di ram 1 hd 8 gb e dvd rom scheda di rete 3com e abbonamento con Fatweb con Win98 se come s.o. come posso preparare il sistema per un dual boot e settare la scheda per

[newbie] setting up proxy server

2001-10-30 Thread lee
I'm running 3 boxes with 8.1 here and would like to set one of these up as a proxy server.What is the best way to accomplish this? With squid perhaps..or is Samba a better way to do this(there are 3 more boxes running 98se).Perhaps I'm way off base and there is another method? Thank you all so

[newbie] MSN.com and MS in general.

2001-10-30 Thread Gary Traffanstedt
I don't think designing sites that don't work in IE is the answer. I also don't think designing sites that are 100% cross-browser compatible is really an answer either. Microsoft has done a lot to ensure that certain things only work or work better with their products. To combat

[newbie] Delete dead Nautilus?

2001-10-30 Thread Gregory Margo
I use the Gnome desktop w/sawfish under LM 8.1. For the first few days I was really annoyed at Nautilus because it would bring up a new filesystem browser everytime I inserted a CDROM. I was installing packages so it was happening quite frequently. (And frankly Nautilus seems like incredibly

Re: [newbie] Virtual/real desktops in Linux-Mandrake

2001-10-30 Thread shane
say you mean it sid, i have been dieing to do that with kde/enlightenment. how do i go about pointing a second x server to tty 6 for example? is there a good net resource for this? On Tuesday 30 October 2001 06:23, you spoke unto me thusly: You can even have different X sessions (not just

Re: [newbie] Virtual/real desktops in Linux-Mandrake

2001-10-30 Thread shane
sorry, i meant srid, though likely that isn't a real shortening of your name. so slap me around. ;) On Tuesday 30 October 2001 09:21, you spoke unto me thusly: say you mean it sid, i have been dieing to do that with kde/enlightenment. -- With Windows Millennium, Microsoft was able to

RE: [newbie] MSN.com and MS in general.

2001-10-30 Thread Franki
This is all true and good, but I'd like to make a couple of points.. 1. Nobody has ever talked about making sites not work in IE in this thread,, I wouldn't be that stupid, you'd lose a good portion of your audience.. I was talking about informing IE users that there are good alternatives. and

[newbie] Linux Lunacy!

2001-10-30 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Had a great time, wonderful conferences, met some really cool Linux people. I talked/shook hands with: John Maddog Hall Richard Stallman Michael Johnson Eric Raymnond And many more! Food was good, ship was grand, (new) wife was -great-. ;- Later guys! --

RE: [newbie] startx and kde

2001-10-30 Thread Johnson, David
Sridhar, When I installed my LM8.1, I chose Gnome as my default window manager, but since rebooting, I am thrust into KDE by default. When I execute startx gnome I only get a blue screen with a terminal window open and nothing else. Is there something I'm doing wrong or something I need to

RE: [newbie] Virtual desktops in Linux-Mandrake and XP

2001-10-30 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
I've never understood why Microsoft hasn't adopted this (since they usurp everything else!) It's a very convenient option for most people, and somewhat amazing to those that have never seen it. XP's fast switch helps, but it doesn't really cut it. BTW: You can take this a long way further in

RE: [newbie] Upgrade/re-install components form ISO Image CDs

2001-10-30 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Use the Software manager under Configuration/Packaging (I believe it's called). It will also attempt to load dependacies for you... -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Stephen Liu |Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 10:12 AM |To:

RE: [newbie] IEEE-1394 support

2001-10-30 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Yes it supports Firewire cards. Yes it's Built in so to speak. I had no problem with a cheap (29.00) Taiwanese card. When last I check the kernel sources for this under 8.0, there was no support for the Adaptec cards, though this may have changed under 8.1. -JMS |-Original Message-

RE: [newbie] Binary newsreader

2001-10-30 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
If you have LM8.1 you already have a WONDERFUL newsreader called PAN. For me it's the Killer Linux App. Agent, and others cannot handle the sheer amount of messages that PAN deals with, with aplomb. E.G. I can download, sort and rethread 240,000 message headers in PAN in seconds. Agent and

Re: [newbie] Virtual/real desktops in Linux-Mandrake

2001-10-30 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I think the command is startx :1 from a console (not xterm) to start a second X instance. I'm working off memory here, so I could be wrong. You can probably find more info at mandrakeuser.org or xfree86.org. On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 10:21:49 -0700, shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: say you mean it sid,

Re: [newbie] MSN.com and MS in general.

2001-10-30 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 11:01:25 -0600, Gary Traffanstedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think designing sites that don't work in IE is the answer. I also don't think designing sites that are 100% cross-browser compatible is really an answer either. Microsoft has done a lot to ensure

Re: [newbie] Odd files...

2001-10-30 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 12:28:31 -0500, Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Under v8.1, I've got some odd files in my /home/darklord directory. Everytime I go into a directory inside of my /home/darklord dir., it leaves a text file named whateverdirectory.directory. (for example

Re: [newbie] Delete dead Nautilus?

2001-10-30 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:12:40 -0800, Gregory Margo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use the Gnome desktop w/sawfish under LM 8.1. For the first few days I was really annoyed at Nautilus because it would bring up a new filesystem browser everytime I inserted a CDROM. I was installing packages so it

Re: [newbie] startx and kde

2001-10-30 Thread Texstar
On Tuesday 30 October 2001 12:08 pm, you wrote: I think it has to be spelled as Gnome, with a capital G. I normally use GDM, so I haven't done this in a while. On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 12:51:44 -0500, Johnson, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] The best way if you are using startx to start your window

[newbie] locale?

2001-10-30 Thread Joseph Zitt
In the course of trying to upgrade GNOME from RPMs, I got errors complaining about setting locale which printed out a whole lot of variables. I'm now continuing to get errors about it. For example, starting emacs consistently gives me: Warning: locale not supported by C library, locale unchanged

Re: [newbie] Need to span multiple hard drives

2001-10-30 Thread Richard Schiavo
Hi Sridhar; I looked at and installed LVM (or thought I did) a while back to try to seamlessly expand my /usr partition, however, When I actually went to install the additional applications mandrake did NOT seem to notice that the LVM partition existed, (maybe I need a step by step procedure

Re: [newbie] Installing Linux Mandrake 8.1 after WinXP

2001-10-30 Thread Robert
Well, for me I have it in a dual boot but I added XP on 9GB harddrive I had lying around. XP is now in the NTFS. There doesn't seem to be any trouble with Linux-Mandrake 8.0 and XP. I don't know if Linux can see XP, but there seems no trouble so far. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] GDM and Xscreensaver

2001-10-30 Thread Gonzalo
How do i enable xscreensaver when running X (Enlightenment) through GDM? I've got it working with .xinitrc when I startx in console, but .xinitrc or .xsession don`t work for GDM. It`s just me or there's another way Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Virtual desktops in Linux-Mandrake and XP

2001-10-30 Thread Robert
Now that is interesting! How do you hook up multiple monitors, hardware wise, to display something like that? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] midi playback problem

2001-10-30 Thread Terry
On Tuesday 30 October 2001 01:59 pm, you wrote: I have an SBLive. I haven't done any configuring on it (because I have no clue how it's done), but I suppose that Mandrake has configured it as it saw fit. MP3's are playing fine with xmms, but I can't play midi files: (x)playmidi says it can't

Re: [newbie] MSN.com and MS in general.

2001-10-30 Thread Michael D. Viron
I might be wrong -- not saying ms was right to block browsers -- but I thought that ms was concerned about css, not javascript. You're approach addresses javascript, not css. I'm sure you know this, but I'll say it just to make my point clear: For css, you have to check for browser type, not for

Re: [newbie] MSN.com and MS in general.

2001-10-30 Thread Robert
Don't think of it as an eye for an eye but rather a passive protest to the shut out of non Internet Explorer. If this is kept respectable in regards to the user who might encounter the message it would bring across the problem faced by non IE users. Most here wouldn't visit msn.com but the

[newbie] success story - media player

2001-10-30 Thread Jeffrey Michael Reed
cheers to the developers of XINE...a really sweet multimedia app. i would dare to say the BEST media player ever made! if you guys are looking for a nice media player that works on your linux box, i would definitely try it. it plays EVERYTHING. yes, everything. even DVDs for you picky smarty

[newbie] Script for Log Extraction

2001-10-30 Thread RMW
Hello, I have a text file that looks like this on Linux: --- ^M 01:23:00 ^M 23 Oct. 2001 Bobo Permitted ^M I need to filter records based a name (Bobo), but also need the line that is two lines above. For example, I can do: # more

[newbie] Installing new rpms from disks

2001-10-30 Thread Robert Beach
I'm trying to install more programs from disk. I go through the list it has in the software manager then I select install. It asks for disk three I put in disk 3 it goes a couple of seconds then spits it back out. A message pops up saying: Please inster the medium named disc 3 Supplementary

Re: [newbie] Installing new rpms from disks

2001-10-30 Thread Gary Traffanstedt
I had a similar problem. For me I just needed to manually mount the cd and then it would use it. It ejects the tray, I put the cd in, close the tray and click ok, then it ejects the tray again and repeats the same message. I finally figured out that if I simply mount the cd on the

RE: [newbie] MSN.com and MS in general.

2001-10-30 Thread Mark Johnson
I don't think the outcome will be like that, I think the outcome would be a lot of pissed of IE users who will have nothing but bad things to say about your website and about our FSF/GNU/Linux community. I tend to agree with the guy that said you should make your web site browser friendly for

Re: [newbie] Virtual desktops in Linux-Mandrake and XP

2001-10-30 Thread shane
sadly, you need multiple video cards, though there are a few cards that come with multiple outs (like getting two cards for the price of. well 2. they aren't cheap if i recall) though. i can look up an old review i recall if you want. On Tuesday 30 October 2001 11:40, you spoke unto

Re: [newbie] List

2001-10-30 Thread skinky
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 03:18, S. Gordon von Miller wrote: | Hello | | I seem to have a problem sending questions to the list. I get the list | o.k. but nothing that I send to the list appears. I sent one yesteray | and this morning with the subject Venus Virge DGX Video Card. Did you |

[newbie] inscription Mandrake

2001-10-30 Thread Cédric IUNG
subscribe newbie

Re: [newbie] Odd files...

2001-10-30 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Tuesday 30 October 2001 19:28, you wrote: Under v8.1, I've got some odd files in my /home/darklord directory. Everytime I go into a directory inside of my /home/darklord dir., it leaves a text file named whateverdirectory.directory. (for example Animation.directory) How do I turn this

Re: [newbie] Installing new rpms from disks

2001-10-30 Thread Metamorphysical
One word Huh?. Mounting cd's at the command prompt? And what does fstab mean? I am clueless to all of this. I'm newbie of newbies really. I know what the command prompt is but I don't know squat of commands. Does linux have a page of command definitions or something I could look up and print

RE: [newbie] Installing new rpms from disks

2001-10-30 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Aside from the previous fix, you could also copy the contents of all three CD's to your hard drive and point the Package Manager to these new directories, as sources. I did this for expediancy. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of

Re: [newbie] inscription Mandrake

2001-10-30 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 17:28:46 +0100 Cédric IUNG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: subscribe newbie See http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/UnsubscribingFromMailingLists. It should also work for subscribing :) Note the difference between the email address of the list and the address to send

[newbie] ISA sound PCI modem and IRQ4

2001-10-30 Thread Oliver L.Plaine Jr.
30Oct01 1617hrs Ct Hello My ATX Plll 600, with a Asus CUBX MB has a Crystal isa sound card and a Zoom PCI Modem. Both of these worked in MDK 7.2 With the PNP turned off in the bios, W98 detects sound on IRQ5 and the modem on IRQ4...in this configuration the hardware functions

Re: [newbie] Installing new rpms from disks

2001-10-30 Thread Gary Traffanstedt
Hmm Ok, mounting stuff under MDK 8.1 isn't nearly as easy as it was under 8.0, at least not for me but I'll explain what I do on my machine and with a bit of luck, it will work the same for you. I have three cd-rom drives in my machine, well, one cd-rom, one dvd-rom, and one

RE: [newbie] Category 5 cable question

2001-10-30 Thread Johnson, David
I don't know about the UL specifications, but CAT5 is not rated at 1,000mbps. It may work, but there will be no guarantee. CAT5 is designed to be rock-solid at up to 100mbps. If you want 1000baseT, you'll need to bump up to CAT5e or CAT6 (the latter is VERY expensive) otherwise, you take your

Re: [newbie] Category 5 cable question

2001-10-30 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Johnson, David wrote: I don't know about the UL specifications, but CAT5 is not rated at 1,000mbps. It may work, but there will be no guarantee. CAT5 is designed to be rock-solid at up to 100mbps. If you want 1000baseT, you'll need to bump up to CAT5e or CAT6 (the latter is VERY

Re: [newbie] setting up proxy server

2001-10-30 Thread Ron Bouwhuis
Stephen, Apache is a web server - it serves up web pages to browsers on request. Squid is a(n) HTTP Proxy Server. This is different - a browser can connect to a proxy server, rather than directly to the web. The proxy server then connects to the web on your behalf, retrieves your web pages

Re: [newbie] hehehe

2001-10-30 Thread skinky
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:12, Jennifer wrote: rm -r usr/bin/laden Hehe... and just to be on the safe side: # rm -Rf /bin/laden skinky -- But what ... is it good for? (Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip) Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] hehehe

2001-10-30 Thread Joseph Zitt
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 06:44:34AM +0100, hellmut wrote: Better would be rm -rf /usr/bin/laden;o) rm -r usr/bin/laden or as I saw in a .signature on Slashdot: chmod +x /bin/laden -- | ~The only thing that is not art is inattention~ --- Marcel Duchamp | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Strange Mount Problem

2001-10-30 Thread Neville Cobb
When I boot md 8.1 and try to transfer a file from my home partition to my vfat partition I receive an error message Can't write to /dev/win_d. The strange thing is that if I unmount the vfat partition and remount it I can then transfer the file to the vfat partition. Is there one file or

RE: [newbie] sendmail

2001-10-30 Thread Franki
how bout: service sendmail start or: /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail start that assumes you installed the mandrake sendmail packages,, or a redhat set I guess... if you compiled it yourself, fraid you are on your own.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] netatalk

2001-10-30 Thread Pascal Goguey
Hello! Did anybody success in installing netatalk on Mandrake 8.1? When I want to install it, the installer complains about an incompatibility with glibc. It doesn't surprise me since there is usually no way to get software running at once, but I really would like to install it. Maybe it would

[newbie] cool looking themes don't work (GNOME, Enlightenment, M8.1)

2001-10-30 Thread Robert MacLean
Hi My problem is that I can't get themes to work the way they should in Enlightenment. I select a theme (i'm trying to get aqua to work) but all it does is change enlightenment's menu, and the title bars. In the screen shots it changes the windows as well. Any idea how to get it to change the

Re: [newbie] Odd files...

2001-10-30 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 23:16:55 -0500, Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: It may help to say what you are using to navigate through your directory structure. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Umm, thats ls or dir from a command line...or clicking on /home/darklord

Re: [newbie] setting up proxy server

2001-10-30 Thread Ron Bouwhuis
Stephen, Answer to your question is yes. ;-) You can do either - leave them as they are or load them with Linux. That's what's so great about this, you have all the choice in the world! It all depends on what you actually want (i.e. *need*) to do. At home, I have 1 Linux box and 4 Win98

Re: [newbie] cool looking themes don't work (GNOME, Enlightenment, M8.1)

2001-10-30 Thread Robert MacLean
okay i'm not following. under gnome i have a theme selected (which changes the widgets etc... very nice, but not aqua) so when i try enlighenment (by itself or as gnomes wm) i use the aqua enlightenment theme. now it appears to use the gnome theme for the windows and the aqua theme for the title

[newbie] wordperfect pre-reqs

2001-10-30 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi, I am re-installing WP8 after installing LM8.1. I seem to remember that I had to install some lib rpm but I can't remember which one. Anyone? TIA, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] fonts for user restricted in 8.1

2001-10-30 Thread bascule
am i the only person to find the available list of fonts for a user to be much restricted from the list available to root in kde in 8.1, esp helvetica which is not listed in any dialogue as a user and which i have always used bascule Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] wordperfect pre-reqs

2001-10-30 Thread s
On Tuesday 30 October 2001 06:41 pm, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, I am re-installing WP8 after installing LM8.1. I seem to remember that I had to install some lib rpm but I can't remember which one. Anyone? TIA, Bill W. Yep, it's a libc5. I use an old redhat package:

Re: [newbie] Category 5 cable question

2001-10-30 Thread Miark
What are you doing that needs that kind of speed? Miark - Original Message - From: Tuan Tran [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 12:27 PM Subject: [newbie] Category 5 cable question I just bought a 1,000ft CAT5 cable. On the box it show UL Type

Re: [newbie] hehehe

2001-10-30 Thread hellmut
Better would be rm -rf /usr/bin/laden;o) rm -r usr/bin/laden -- 9:12pm up 15 days, 52 min, 2 users, load average: 0.39, 0.19, 0.06 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] setting up proxy server

2001-10-30 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Ron, Thanks for your advice. Samba is an emulator for Window's SMB (Server Message Block) protocol used by Windows for file and print sharing. Since you say you have 3 more boxes with Win98, then you will need to set up Samba if you want file or printer sharing. However, you do not need it

[newbie] sendmail

2001-10-30 Thread yvan_linux
Hello I installed sendmail on my Mandrake distro and wanted to test it with 'telnet localhost 25' but got the message: Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Verbindungsaufbau abgelehnt Okay, no problem, I first have to start it of course. So let's go in linuxconf under

Re: [newbie] What I did wrong

2001-10-30 Thread skinky
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 16:13, Paul wrote: | Hi folks, | | Perhaps this is of help to someone: | I was futzing with procmail to sort the incoming mail, redirect | something and so on. But even when a few weeks back this appeared to | work, it did not anymore (changed a few things in .procmailrc

Re: [newbie] Virtual desktops in Linux-Mandrake and XP

2001-10-30 Thread Robert Beach
I appreciate everybodies help it's just some of the emails I get I am clueless to. Talking about codes, mounts, etc etc etc. I'm lost. I ask a question and I get a breakdown of the system and how to manipulate the code. Not that I don't appreciate it, but I'm confused even worse. I'm not a

Re: [newbie] Linux Lunacy!

2001-10-30 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 30 October 2001 12:34, you wrote: Had a great time, wonderful conferences, met some really cool Linux people. I talked/shook hands with: John Maddog Hall Richard Stallman Michael Johnson Eric Raymnond And many more! Food was good, ship was grand, (new) wife was -great-.

Re: [newbie] SAMBA and WEBMIN inaccessible

2001-10-30 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 30 October 2001 02:44, Mark Annandale wrote: where I was the first time I tried to install 8.1. Install goes fine, but once up and mail configured I can dial up and appear to be connected to the server, but no mail and no internet. Has anyone else experienced this with the 8.1