Re: [newbie] InteractiveBastille error messages.

2001-11-27 Thread Charles Darcy
On Wed, 2001-11-28 at 16:02, Paul Rodríguez wrote: > Is ipchains installed? > Ok, I installed ipchains, which fixed the first problem, but Bastille now complains: ... about to run through config file. /sbin/ipchains: invalid port/service 'linuxconf' specified.

Re: [newbie] xine and raw dvd device

2001-11-27 Thread Len Lawrence
To answer my own post. Come back 8.1 - all is forgiven. Found service for rawdevices in the init scripts. Ran "/etc/rc.d/init.d/rawdevices start" and voila xine started running d4d no problem. There is also a rawdevices option under DrakConf -> System -> Services. Now to find out why only ro

Re: [newbie] InteractiveBastille error messages.

2001-11-27 Thread Paul Rodríguez
Whoa, sorry, I was a bit tired. I actually meant iptables, I read your message as iptables, not chains. You should check to make sure iptables is installed. Thanks for catching this. -Paul Rodríguez On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 14:57, Charles Darcy wrote: > On Wed, 2001-11-28 at 16:02, Paul Rodrígue

Re: [newbie] Automounting problem

2001-11-27 Thread Stewart Taylor
Tom Brinkman wrote: > The 'update' is to install a 2.4.13 Mandrake kernel. This will most > likely require an initscripts and iptables upgrade also. Newest > 2.4.13's might require an lm_sensors upgrade also > >All these files can be d/l'd from cooker mirrors. I use the ready > made kernel

Re: [newbie] XINE reccomendation: [was] mplayer error

2001-11-27 Thread Matt Greer
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 12:52 am, you wrote: > On 28 Nov 2001, Paul [ISO-8859-1] Rodríguez wrote: > > I was able to get mplayer installed on my machine, from source, but I > > wasn't all that impressed. Take a look at xine. Much better overall, > > nicer gui, better playback, etc. And muc

[newbie] gimp print trouble

2001-11-27 Thread Paul Rodríguez
Anybody know why printing would work in ee, mozilla, and command line, but not the gimp? -Paul Rodríguez _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSof

Re: [newbie] Searching for Image Browser

2001-11-27 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 22:19, you wrote: > On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 12:21:02 -0600, Jim Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am looking for an image browser, i.e. a program to display a thumbnail > > image of every .jpg/.gif/.bmp/.png/etc file in a directory. > > > > Konqeror has a image previ

Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer

2001-11-27 Thread shane
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 17:11, you spoke unto me thusly: > Well, out of all the replies in this thread that I saw, here is one that at > least offers a possible solution to the original, simple, question. I hate sorry i can't provide more, i have only seen it, not done it. was IE 5 running

[newbie] upgrading 8.0 to 8.1

2001-11-27 Thread Grant Fraser
I give up trying to upgrade a piece at a time. When trying to upgrade to KDE 2.2.2 I found that it wanted me to install "setup" which conflicts with "bash" and I cant force it. Is there an 8.1 upgrade disk? even with cable internet it still takes 10 hours to download one ISO. The last time I t

Re: [newbie] problems with sis900 on-board network card

2001-11-27 Thread tek1
thx civileme! it seems to be working now! thx for all the help! :) At 14:45 01/11/27 -0900, you wrote: >ACK forgot--go to power Management and set 'ACPI aware OS' to "No" > >Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Searching for Image Browser

2001-11-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 12:21:02 -0600, Jim Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for an image browser, i.e. a program to display a thumbnail image > of every .jpg/.gif/.bmp/.png/etc file in a directory. > > Konqeror has a image preview mode, but it leaves a little to be desired. > > Ximi

Re: [newbie] DVD player?

2001-11-27 Thread ethan
well, I tried that, and downloaded gblic the GNU libraries but it also requires dependencies so I get stuck there. don't they have a "complete" package somewhere that has no dependencies ? Darrin Ritter wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> Hoi Ethango to http://rpmfind.net and do a search for the

Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer & fonts

2001-11-27 Thread ethan
speaking of browsers, can any one help me out here by telling me how to beautify my netsape 6.2 with better fonts ? I already tried webfonts4linux and it still looks the same although my Kconquerer looks much better. any help is appreciated. thanks. Dave Sherman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> On

Re: [newbie] Book recommendations

2001-11-27 Thread tek1
also check out: "linux: the complete reference, 4th ed." by mcgraw hill. go to amazon, do a search for "linux" books and check out the users reviews... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Backup MySQL Data

2001-11-27 Thread SKLIM
Hi!   I have configure MySQL in my Linux Server. How can I backup the data ... ? I don't have any Backup-Tape Device ... Can someone plase give me some information ?   Best Regards, SKLIM

Re: [newbie] win32 badtrans worm.

2001-11-27 Thread g
Franki wrote: > > Hi all, > > Frank McKenna just sent the list the above virus/worm.. the email will > try to automatically save the file and opens it in media player.. ok. so frank mckenna sent list a virus/worm. well, not really... virus/worm sent itself. frank did not send virus/worm inten

[newbie] LM8.0 konqueror crashing

2001-11-27 Thread R & C
Hi All, I set my up my LM8.0 for three users. Root, Me and my Son! I've had no problems until tonight. My son tells me that his konqueror keeps crashing. I went to his login session and tried to launch konq from the terminal. It tells me the following: KCrash: Application Name = konqueror pa

[newbie] Backup MySQL Data

2001-11-27 Thread SKLIM
Hi!   I have configure MySQL in my Linux Server. How can I backup the data ... ?   I don't have any Backup-Tape Device ... Can someone plase give me some information ?     Best Regards, SKLIM  

Re: [newbie] GL games crash xserver

2001-11-27 Thread Erylon Hines
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 06:49, you wrote: > Erylon Hines wrote: >. My logs show dri and glx > > are loading successfully, and the Mesa toys (Mesa gears, morph, reflect) > > work fine, and so do the gl screensavers. The only error after the crash > > is: > > > > kdm[1081]: Server for display

Re: [newbie] No printing in 8.1 now

2001-11-27 Thread Linus Drouhard
> > Thank you for your suggestions. The lpq command tells me that xpp is ready > and printing with an active job listed that belongs to me. Unfortunately > the job is not printing. That is the problem. The strange thing is the > printing worked for a couple of days although it needed tweaking for

Re: [newbie] Servers

2001-11-27 Thread Dave Sherman
On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 20:32, Robert Boggs wrote: > In windows I have a small network set up. I use netbeui, and I wish to do the > same in linux using Samba, with netbeui. Can anyone tell me how to set these > up. I really like the new Mandrake. I think I may go to it as my full time > system.

[newbie] Servers

2001-11-27 Thread Robert Boggs
In windows I have a small network set up. I use netbeui, and I wish to do the same in linux using Samba, with netbeui. Can anyone tell me how to set these up. I really like the new Mandrake. I think I may go to it as my full time system. My wife, however cannot do this, as she is blind and has

Re: [newbie] Searching for Image Browser

2001-11-27 Thread Paul Rodríguez
GQview, included in most Gnome installs is a very fast and useful image browser. You can set it to view thumbnails as well. -Paul Rodríguez On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 13:21, Jim Dawson wrote: > I am looking for an image browser, i.e. a program to display a thumbnail image of >every .jpg/.gif/.bmp/.

Re: [newbie] Book recommendations

2001-11-27 Thread hardcorepush
Those books will help you run linux. Ive done some reading about the community. Check "The Cathedral and the Bazzare", "The Joy of Linux", Linus' Bio is great. "Hackers" by Steven Levy should come with every computer sold. rob On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 18:45:29 -0600 Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer

2001-11-27 Thread Flotcho
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 11:54 am, shane wrote: > not again... > > first, you can run it by setting up wine. that is all i know, i don't use > it or wine, but there it is, second.. > > you can use konqueror, netscape, mozilla, opera, galleon, hell use lynx > even, why use the biggest P

[newbie] Internet connection and LAN don't get along

2001-11-27 Thread Warren Post
Several people on this list have noted this problem: > If you have a local area network, 2 or more computers connected, and you > setup the LAN and eth0 during install, there is a bug in 8.1 that seems to > stop the internet connection. Try going to a console and su>root passwd> and > then tlyp

Re: [newbie] The problem with Linux

2001-11-27 Thread Chris Keelan
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 03:47 am, Michel Clasquin wrote: > And after all that, I go and use Xfce and maintain the menus by hand! ``vi ~/.enlightenment/user_apps.menu'' seems to be the most useful menuconfig tool on my box. > One in every crowd, huh? Two. - C Want to buy your Pack or S

Re: [newbie] Book recommendations

2001-11-27 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 17:07, you wrote: > Santa just asked me what I want for Christmas. A Linux reference book, > of course. But which book? Dennis Myers has already recommended > O'Reilly's "Linux in a Nutshell". Any other recommendations? > > Ho, ho, ho... > Warren Yea, one other one, O'R

Re: [newbie] Clock Synchronization

2001-11-27 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
thanks big and bitter tom. ;-) ill get around it when i do my reinstall today (or tomorrow, depending on the schedule) ciao! On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 07:23:20 -0500, Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 27 November 2001 09:44 am, Anuerin G.Diaz wrote: > hi to all, > >t

Re: [newbie] Clock Synchronization

2001-11-27 Thread Anuerin G.Diaz
thanks a lot guys... i just heard that I will be issued a new machine today so I will have to reinstall everything. i guess i have to do some praying now. ;-) ciao! On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 04:56:11 -0500, "Jose M. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's on the CD's Not installed b

Re: [newbie] install newbie

2001-11-27 Thread skidley
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, caspar kennerdale wrote: > I just installed 8.1 on a linux partition (my computer also has win 2k on > it) > > > I have two questions- > > fistly lilo has set a defualt of 5 seconds to choose the desired os./ Can > this be changedto 30 secs or whatever I want? where do I chan

[newbie] htdig

2001-11-27 Thread Robin Ballantine
Hi all, I have htdig setup on my machine just to search my local files. It works fine, but the only way I could get it to work was by having to setup and run the apache web-server. Can anyone please tell me if its possible to use the htdig search engine without having to run apache.

Re: [newbie] Book recommendations

2001-11-27 Thread Matt Greer
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 05:07 pm, you wrote: > Santa just asked me what I want for Christmas. A Linux reference book, > of course. But which book? Dennis Myers has already recommended > O'Reilly's "Linux in a Nutshell". Any other recommendations? Stuff along the lines of "Linux in a Nutshell"

[newbie] Book recommendations

2001-11-27 Thread Warren Post
Santa just asked me what I want for Christmas. A Linux reference book, of course. But which book? Dennis Myers has already recommended O'Reilly's "Linux in a Nutshell". Any other recommendations? Ho, ho, ho... Warren -- http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mand

Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer

2001-11-27 Thread Ed Tharp
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 16:52, you wrote: > so complain to the DOJ they let ms give away a crap browser despite being > guilty of abusing their monopoly > don't you just know the settlement will allow the to offer "discount" pricing to poor schools, so a dis-advantaged school can g

Re: [newbie] install newbie

2001-11-27 Thread Matt Greer
On Thursday 29 November 2001 04:01 pm, you wrote: > fistly lilo has set a defualt of 5 seconds to choose the desired os./ Can > this be changedto 30 secs or whatever I want? the file you want is /etc/lilo.conf in there is a setting for timeout. You can change that to adjust how long it waits

[newbie] To Mandrake Development Team

2001-11-27 Thread Alex K
Hello, I have few suggestions to make regarding the install procedure, more precisley about the Upgrade feature in LM Last week I upgraded from LM80 to LM81. Previously my system was loaded from LM80 Power Pack. The upgrade was made using the "Download Edition" of LM81 Now comes my questions

Re: [newbie] sparc install: where is the network???

2001-11-27 Thread Jason Kary
Steve, Sun's use either the 'le' driver or the 'hme' driver. This is configured by the kernel and may be a loadable module. In order to have your eth0 seen properly you need to do the following (assuming you have the kernel module): 1) cd /lib/modules//net ( to get too the list of modules.

[newbie] install newbie

2001-11-27 Thread caspar kennerdale
I just installed 8.1 on a linux partition (my computer also has win 2k on it) I have two questions- fistly lilo has set a defualt of 5 seconds to choose the desired os./ Can this be changedto 30 secs or whatever I want? where do I change it- i've looked in the boot folder and have found a messa

Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer

2001-11-27 Thread shane
so complain to the DOJ they let ms give away a crap browser despite being guilty of abusing their monopoly On Tuesday 27 November 2001 10:20, you spoke unto me thusly: > Try to keep in mind that some of us are web designers, and we try to > test our websites on all browsers on all platf

Re: [newbie] y linux sucks (humor)

2001-11-27 Thread A V Flinsch
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 12:40, you wrote: > > Yeah, my big problem is I can't decide! Linux should come with just one > browser! That way I don't have the choice problem. Tell me about it, but it is not the choice of browsers that I have a problem with, it is the 30 different window managers

Re: [newbie] y linux sucks (humor)

2001-11-27 Thread Matt Greer
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 11:40 am, you wrote: > Yeah, my big problem is I can't decide! Linux should come with just one > browser! That way I don't have the choice problem. I'm always curious about different distros. I've only (briefly) tried RedHat and Caldera. I want to get another compute

Re: [newbie] Automounting problem

2001-11-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 03:12 pm, Stewart Taylor wrote: > Tom Brinkman wrote: > >The 'old' supermount became incompatible with newer 2.4.x > > kernels. To the point (IIRC) it was completely broken by 2.4.6. > > So the Mandrake developers completely rewrote supermount to work > > with the

Re: [newbie] Searching for Image Browser

2001-11-27 Thread Dave
You might try-- Nautilus -- A Gnome file manager It works pretty good for me. -- Dave Crouse Registered Linux User 204085 --- OS: Linux-Mandrake 8.1 Desktop: KDE Email: KMail Browser: Opera Computer: IBM300PL Speed: 400mghz Ram: 384 On Tuesday 27 November 2001 12:21 pm, you wrote: >

Re: [newbie] Automounting problem

2001-11-27 Thread Stewart Taylor
Tom Brinkman wrote: >The 'old' supermount became incompatible with newer 2.4.x kernels. > To the point (IIRC) it was completely broken by 2.4.6. So the > Mandrake developers completely rewrote supermount to work with the > new kernels. This process takes time and testing, and by 2.4.13 > t

Re: [newbie] sound does work but xmms dont - mandrake 8.1

2001-11-27 Thread bascule
len, if arst is your problem but you don't have kd then perhaps you have the wrong plugin selected in xmms? options>prefernces>outputplugin select oss i wouldn't have thought you'd have the arts plugin if you didn't have kde but if you are trying to configure arts but don't have kde then i gue

Re: [newbie] No printing in 8.1 now

2001-11-27 Thread Marcia
Dear Harm, Thank you for your suggestions. The lpq command tells me that xpp is ready and printing with an active job listed that belongs to me. Unfortunately the job is not printing. That is the problem. The strange thing is the printing worked for a couple of days although it needed tweaking

Re: [newbie] K7S5A sound [was: problems with sis900 network card / changing screen resolution]

2001-11-27 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 00:11:01 + Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 26 November 2001 21:59, you wrote: > > On Monday 26 November 2001 01:58 am, Derek Jennings wrote: > > > > Interesting, I have a K7s5A and the SiS900 set up out of the box. > > > > > > Off subject Civileme- I

[newbie] xine and raw dvd device

2001-11-27 Thread Len Lawrence
Hi folks This is getting worse and worse. 8.1 is a giant step backwards from 7.2. Wherever I turn there are problems, which simply did not exist in 7.2. After the sound saga - still not resolved for xmms - I find that xine will not play DVDs because it cannot find the raw device /dev/rdvd. D

RE: [newbie] sound does work but xmms dont - mandrake 8.1

2001-11-27 Thread Len Lawrence
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: > > I don't want to retype what I wrote before... So refer to my prior > postings... > > But some notes are in order. > > After I wrote this someone else found that devfs must be set to > automount for things to work. Don't know how to do that. Edit fs

Re: [newbie] Searching for Image Browser

2001-11-27 Thread Bryan S.Tyson
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 13:21, Jim wrote: > > I am looking for an image browser, i.e. a program to display a > thumbnail image of every .jpg/.gif/.bmp/.png/etc file in a directory. I recommend Compupic http://www.photodex.com/ ** Powered by Mandrake Linu

[newbie] gShield and mdk8.1

2001-11-27 Thread Franki
Hi all, I have mdk8.1 with kernel 2.4.18-9 and iptables 1.2.4 and I downloaded gShield (2.7.1), which is probably the best firewall app I have seen for iptables (I was a big fan of the rule layout in pmfirewall, great for hacking your own rules) so anyway, gShield seems like a fantastic piece

Re: [newbie] Configuring a LAN card

2001-11-27 Thread bascule
you will need to specify io as hex i..e 0x210 bascule On Tuesday 27 Nov 2001 6:45 pm, you wrote: > I have tried both the autoprobe option and manually entering the IRQ and IO > settings. I'm entering IRQ as "10" and IO as "210", which is what they are. > Is that format correct, or do I need to d

RE: [newbie] win32 badtrans worm.

2001-11-27 Thread Franki
keh??? nope, I am not a network admin at a uni, I am a net admin for an online payment gateway,, among other things... so when I am at home, (and I do all my talking to this list from home.. I don't really have more resouces then the average schmoo :-) I got hacked once long ago, (redhat 6.2 wu

Re: Re: [newbie] Modem setup help required

2001-11-27 Thread Allen Joseph M Hernandez
Does if have jumpers on board? It'll be alot easier to configure if you set it to a specific com port like COM3, and maybe IRQ4, if it won't conflict with your serial devices. I've had problems with plug and play so I disabled it. If you're running a dual-boot machine look at its COM, IRQ and P

Re: [newbie] y linux sucks (humor)

2001-11-27 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 17:51, you wrote: > i have been laughing my way through the recent "problem with linux" > threads, and just had to add this somewhat off topic but i think very > called for thought > > Things I hate about linux.. > > lets face it, there are things you dislike a

Re: RE: [newbie] Internet Explorer

2001-11-27 Thread Jim Dawson
Why? If you emulate Solaris for Intel, what's the point. There isn't much software for Solaris on Intel that isn't available for Linux already. If you emulate Solaris for SPARC you have soo much overhead translating the CPU instructions that it would be too slow to be really useful. On the ot

[newbie] Multimedia woes: KMixer, KDE's Media player + Xmms

2001-11-27 Thread Hugo Ferreira
Hi, This is a long one 8-}... I have a Cyrix P200+, 64 MBytes RAM and I use a 2 disk set-up. First disk has DOS, FAT32 (Win95) and NTFS (NT 4.0) partitions each with the respective OS. Second disk I have the native Linux fs and a swap of 200 Megabyte on a 1.5 Giga disk. I boot into this disk

Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer

2001-11-27 Thread Dave Sherman
On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 05:50, Mark D'voo wrote: > i agree, galeon is better than any browser to date, the only reason i have > wine on my computer right now is for return to castle wolfenstein, but when > the linux binaries come out in a week, bye bye wine > > On Tuesday 27 November 2001 23:40,

[newbie] Searching for Image Browser

2001-11-27 Thread Jim Dawson
I am looking for an image browser, i.e. a program to display a thumbnail image of every .jpg/.gif/.bmp/.png/etc file in a directory. Konqeror has a image preview mode, but it leaves a little to be desired. Ximian Gnome included one that was pretty good, but I don't remember what it is called.

Re: [newbie] Clock Synchronization

2001-11-27 Thread Lee Roberts
It should be on the CD-ROM (if you have a copy of the install CD's). At 03:20 PM 11/27/2001 +, Anuerin G.Diaz wrote: > >im using LM8.1 and i dont have any rdate executable, either as an ordinary >user or as root. ill try to find one tomorrow when my net connection resumes >here in the offic

Re: [newbie] Configuring a LAN card

2001-11-27 Thread bascule
maybe i missed this earlier but are specifying io (and mayber irq) when rying to load the module for the nic? bascule On Tuesday 27 Nov 2001 5:45 pm, you wrote: > Okay, I've tried it all: > > Set IRQ 10 for "legacy ISA support" in BIOS. > Disabled PNP in BIOS and on the LAN card. > I already ra

Re: [newbie] y linux sucks (humor)

2001-11-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
shane wrote: > > i have been laughing my way through the recent "problem with linux" threads, > and just had to add this somewhat off topic but i think very called for > thought > > Things I hate about linux.. > > lets face it, there are things you dislike about the linux OS. here are

Re: [newbie] No printing in 8.1 now

2001-11-27 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 17:34, you wrote: > Dear All, > > I have recently installed Linux-mandrake 8.1. I have an Epson Stylus Color > printer which worked fine with cups in 7.2 and after a fix from Till worked > eventually in 8. I thought it was going to work great in 8.1. It worked at > firs

Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer

2001-11-27 Thread Mark D'voo
i agree, galeon is better than any browser to date, the only reason i have wine on my computer right now is for return to castle wolfenstein, but when the linux binaries come out in a week, bye bye wine On Tuesday 27 November 2001 23:40, you wrote: > I see no reason to run IE on Linux. Attempti

Re: [newbie] sparc install: where is the network???

2001-11-27 Thread Steve Weltman
You need to find out what kind of network chipset your Ultra 2 station came with, or buy another network interface card that can be seen by mandrake's hard drake. Your Sun documentation SHOULD tell you what came with your computer, and it will be specific enough that you can find the correct a

Re: [newbie] y linux sucks (humor)

2001-11-27 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 16:51, you wrote: > i have been laughing my way through the recent "problem with linux" > threads, and just had to add this somewhat off topic but i think very > called for thought > > Things I hate about linux.. > > lets face it, there are things you dislike a

[newbie] No printing in 8.1 now

2001-11-27 Thread Marcia
Dear All, I have recently installed Linux-mandrake 8.1. I have an Epson Stylus Color printer which worked fine with cups in 7.2 and after a fix from Till worked eventually in 8. I thought it was going to work great in 8.1. It worked at first and then decided to not work on its own. It first st

Re: [newbie] mplayer error

2001-11-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 11:50 am, skidley wrote: > On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > > >'seems fine' ...I don't think so you just haven't > > discovered all that you just broke ... yet ;> > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker > > Ok but everything

Re: [newbie] mplayer error

2001-11-27 Thread skidley
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Monday 26 November 2001 09:28 pm, skidley wrote: > > > > Otherwise, entering any of these deps in rpmfinds search engine > > > will give you BIG clues ;> > > > > > >http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/ > > > > Ok thanks I already had done what you said

RE: [newbie] win32 badtrans worm.

2001-11-27 Thread Franki
ok, we know that most win firewall apps can't stop windows from sucking.. they have md5 hashkeys for all major apps to stop them being replaced by trojans, but windows can be tricked into allowing a trojan to talk though IE... big deal,, I have two antivirus apps on the PC, it'd have to be a dam

Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer

2001-11-27 Thread shane
not again... first, you can run it by setting up wine. that is all i know, i don't use it or wine, but there it is, second.. you can use konqueror, netscape, mozilla, opera, galleon, hell use lynx even, why use the biggest POS ever built??? or as a web page i once saw said: Where do

[newbie] Re:SSH For Win32 platforms.

2001-11-27 Thread Steve Weltman
There are many SSH clients in win32 platforms. Check www.downloads.com or www.shareware.com. Most of the software is trial of commercial programs. Secure shell is the name of one. The site cuteFTP (www.cuteftp.com) is another. These programs allow you to log into an SSH served environment

Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer

2001-11-27 Thread Matt Greer
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 01:25 pm, you wrote: > I have seen screen shots of people running this on linux and was > wondering where I could find it. Any and all help would be appreciated. Are you sure it wasn't the Unix version? IE was made available for some flavors of Unix, but not Linux.

RE: [newbie] Internet Explorer

2001-11-27 Thread Franki
I am surprised someone hasn't written a solaris emulator.. then we could run it and any other apps that we want.. and since solaris is alot more like linux then linux is like windows, the performance hit wouldn't be so bad... still, I am happy with Mozilla.. so who cares really? rgds Frank -

Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer

2001-11-27 Thread Dave Sherman
On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 13:25, E Estes wrote: > I have seen screen shots of people running this on linux and was wondering where I >could find it. Any and all help would be appreciated. You will need to use either Win4Lin or VMWare to run Windows under Linux, in order to use MSIE. MS will not r

Re: [newbie] y linux sucks (humor)

2001-11-27 Thread Lanman
I can Sympathize! Now that I'm running Linux at the office, my boss expects me to work, not to spend the day rebooting and cursing my PC. That Rat-Bastard! Who does he think I am? Linux Torvalds? Fortunately for me, I have multiple desktops, so I can run all my favorite games on Desktops 2 and

Re: [newbie] Modem setup help required

2001-11-27 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
quaylar wrote: > At 10:48 27.11.2001 +, you wrote: > >Can someone guide me step by step in simple language please how I > >install a US Robotics 33.6 Sportster Modem on 8.0? > > > >Many thanks > > > >Gordon > > gordon, > > try out this excellent guide : > > http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/co

Re: [newbie] Latin5 charset

2001-11-27 Thread Onur Kucuk
r> I have Mdk 8.0 at home and 8.1 at work. At work, the Latin5 (Turkish) r> charset works fine, but at home I get everything but the lowercase r> dotless "i" and uppercase dotted "I". Is this to do with ... r> - Mandrake version? r> - KDE version? r> - something dumb I've done? r> Is the

[newbie] Internet Explorer

2001-11-27 Thread E Estes
I have seen screen shots of people running this  on linux and was  wondering where I could  find it. Any and all help would be appreciated.

Re: [newbie] Automounting problem

2001-11-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 09:21 am, Robin Turner wrote: > Tom Brinkman wrote: > > > Would the supermount problems in 8.1 affect a box with only a > > > floppy drive (i.e. no CDROM, backup media etc.)? > > > > Should affect any removable media drive, so yes. > > So what exactly is the problem?

[newbie] y linux sucks (humor)

2001-11-27 Thread shane
i have been laughing my way through the recent "problem with linux" threads, and just had to add this somewhat off topic but i think very called for thought Things I hate about linux.. lets face it, there are things you dislike about the linux OS. here are mine. what are yours?

[newbie] monitor card for sis735 m/b? sis sg86c201 5591/5592 agp

2001-11-27 Thread tek1
according to mandrake, my graphic card is a sis sg86c201 5591/5592 agp, but when i go to change the screen resolution, it asks me to select the graphic card. i select sis sg86c201 and then the resolution, but when i test the settings, the machine goes haywire; the screen starts flipping/flicke

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA Driver installation

2001-11-27 Thread Onur Kucuk
RS> I installed the NVIDIA drivers on my ML 8.1 system. Everything seems RS> fine and my monitor screen looks better. (It was shifted to the right) RS> The one question I do have is now while loading into X just before KDE RS> starts, my screen flickers 3-4 times and then a screen comes on that R

Re: [newbie] Modem setup help required

2001-11-27 Thread quaylar
At 10:48 27.11.2001 +, you wrote: >Can someone guide me step by step in simple language please how I >install a US Robotics 33.6 Sportster Modem on 8.0? > >Many thanks > >Gordon gordon, try out this excellent guide : http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/cppp.html hth --qu >Want

[newbie] RE: [expert] A7A or A7M? Both work with MDK 8.0 and 8.1

2001-11-27 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Heh, thanks! -JMS |-Original Message- |From: Hoyt Duff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 9:36 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [expert] A7A or A7M? Both work with MDK 8.0 and 8.1 | | |On Tuesday 27 November 2001 03:55, you wrote: |> I have several syste

[newbie] Question!

2001-11-27 Thread Roman
After installation of the Apache 1.3.20 with SSL (mod_ssl-2.8.4-1.3.20 + openssl-0.9.6b) under Mandrake 8.0 I got some problems.   apachectl stsrssl   returns many warnings like:   [Warning] Loaded DSO libexec/ uses plain Apache 1.3 API, this module might crash under EAPI! (please recompi

Re: [newbie] Importing Fonts

2001-11-27 Thread ethan
I am using webfonts.sh script found on the webfonts4linux website but I noticed that my Netscape 6.2 fonts still suck. is there any other way of beautifying my "netscape" ? My Kconquerer now looks much better though pls help. thank you. Ric Tibbetts wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> Ah.. the

Re: [newbie] GL games crash xserver

2001-11-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Erylon Hines wrote: > > I posted this a week ago and got no hits (that post was specific to > TuxRacer). I now know that it's the open GL games that do it (GLtron, etc.) > With some of them I get the start up music, and with all of them I get a > black screen with my cursor white-outlined in the

Re: [newbie] Importing Fonts

2001-11-27 Thread Dr.András Sólyom
Dave Sherman wrote: > On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 03:36, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > > Ah.. the new generation of Linux users... Y'all can't do anything > > without a GUI. > > > > Want to know what's going on "under the covers"? Then when you want to > > add fonts, you can.. any time, any type. :) > This

[newbie] InteractiveBastille error messages.

2001-11-27 Thread Charles Darcy
Hi, After answering all of the questions in InteractiveBastille (Tk interface), and applying the changes, the Tk window closes normally, but the terminal in which I started InteractiveBastille displays the following: About to run through config file ... /sbin/bastille-ipchains: /sbin

Re: [newbie] Automounting problem

2001-11-27 Thread Robin Turner
Tom Brinkman wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 November 2001 06:38 am, robin wrote: > > Tom Brinkman wrote: > > > Update to a Mandrake 2.4.13 kernel, upgrade initscripts and > > >iptables (I used the cooker src.rpms), 'supermount -i enable', > > >'mount -a' > > > > Guess I might have to do this - superm

Re: [newbie] Importing Fonts

2001-11-27 Thread Dave Sherman
On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 03:36, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > Ah.. the new generation of Linux users... Y'all can't do anything > without a GUI. > > Want to know what's going on "under the covers"? Then when you want to > add fonts, you can.. any time, any type. :) > > Ok... Here goes: > [big snip] Ric,

Re: [newbie] Importing Fonts

2001-11-27 Thread Randy Kramer
Ric Tibbetts wrote: > Want to know what's going on "under the covers"? Then when you want to > add fonts, you can.. any time, any type. :) > > Ok... Here goes: Ric, Thanks, nice post! Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] thanks...for the fix, and now two or three more question =)

2001-11-27 Thread Randy Kramer
> How can I connect to my server using SSH on the client side? The client is > using windows. Do they make any SSH programs for windows? Thanks again... I am almost certain that Putty uses (or can use) ssh -- our local LUG set up access to his Linux server using Putty and ssh. He likes it a l

Re: [newbie] win32 badtrans worm.

2001-11-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 04:23 am, Franki wrote: > RE: [newbie] win32 badtrans worm.yeah, I agree,,, > > I hate microsoft as much as the next guy, probably more, but I > have to write perl scripts that work and are tested in windows and > linux, so I have to have a windows box.. > I also have

Re: [newbie] Installing Evolution under Mandrake 8.1

2001-11-27 Thread Dave Sherman
On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 21:57, Jim Dawson wrote: > Does anyone know of an easy way to install the latest Ximian Evolution > under Mandrake 8.1? I keep getting dependancy errors when I try to > install. Unless you really want all of Ximian Gnome, you are better off installing the version of Evolutio

Re: [newbie] Clock Synchronization

2001-11-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 09:44 am, Anuerin G.Diaz wrote: > hi to all, > >this is one problem that I shelved that i remembered just now... > >how do I synchonize the linux clock with the BIOS clock? The > timezone here is GMT+8. If I select 'Manila' in the timezone, the > BIOS clock gets

Re: [newbie] Automounting problem

2001-11-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 27 November 2001 06:38 am, robin wrote: > Tom Brinkman wrote: > > Update to a Mandrake 2.4.13 kernel, upgrade initscripts and > >iptables (I used the cooker src.rpms), 'supermount -i enable', > >'mount -a' > > Guess I might have to do this - supermount on 8.1 is now giving me > "IO er

Re: [newbie] DVD player?

2001-11-27 Thread Darrin Ritter
Hoi Ethan go to http://rpmfind.net and do a search for the missing packages and install them. note once you know that you have all the packages you may have to add --nodeps to the rpm command ie rpm -ivh --nodeps [package] but only do this once you know that you have all the packages and whe

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