Re: [newbie-it] Mandrake 8.1: montare il cdrom

2001-12-27 Thread Stefano Salari
--- Daniele Micci [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Il giorno 22:46, venerdì 21 dicembre 2001 hai scritto: Per esempio, in Mandrake 8.0, se infilavo un CD-ROM, potevo cliccare sulla icona cdrom2 nella directory mnt e via... Adesso invece devo ogni volta montare il cdrom, e per espellerlo

[newbie-it] CDROM Audio

2001-12-27 Thread Giulio
Dovevo immaginarlo che non c'entra nulla il montaggio, tra l'altro posso ascoltare il CD premendo il tasto play hardware che ho sul lettore. Ma il lettore CD musicali di KDE non mi funziona, deve avere qualche altro problema, controllerò. Grazie comunque - Original Message - From: Sandro

Re: [newbie-it] stampa con Gimp

2001-12-27 Thread Daniele Morabito
Alle 16:59, sabato 22 dicembre 2001, Daniele Morabito ha scritto: Sulla Mdk 8.1 lavoro con CUPS come print server per la mia Epson Stylus Photo 700: tutto OK con i vari programmi (anche StarOffice 5.2) ma non mi riesce di stampare con Gimp. Ho settato la stampa di Gimp per una Epson stylus

[newbie-it] Gnomemeeting

2001-12-27 Thread Alberto Zanoni
Ciao, è proprio vero che la notte porta consiglio. Stamattina sono riuscito a compilare Gnomemeeting. Ho anche aggiustato un po' la traduzione, e finalmente la finestra si apre. C'è per caso qualcuno che lo usa, così che possa fare qualche prova ? Poichè non c'è manuale d'uso,

[newbie-it] d-link 538tx

2001-12-27 Thread Stefano
Allora, in fase di avvio la scheda viene riconosciuta benissimo, anche nel sito della mandrake risulta pienamnete supportata dalla mia versione (8.1) ma se provo vado nella configurazione dell'hardware con il centro di controllo, quì mi viene detto che il modello è sconosciuto... come

[newbie] Speed [was Re: Recommended office suites?]

2001-12-27 Thread robin
Civileme wrote: KDE _is_ a memory hog since it does aq whole lot more than a similar Windows GUI these days. Now the reason I recommend kerbel 2.2 is that the stock 2.4 kernels available this version do swap a lot--the newer 2.4 kernels have a better volume manager/ virtual memory,

Re: [newbie] Using Japanese?

2001-12-27 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:51:08 -0900 tester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doug Lerner wrote: Is there something analagous to the Japanese Language Toolkit in MacOS that I can install so that I can read and write Japanese? Thanks, Doug Lerner, Tokyo well since you have one partition

Re: [newbie] Using Japanese?

2001-12-27 Thread Pascal Goguey
Maido maido! On Thursday 27 December 2001 15:01, you wrote: Is there something analagous to the Japanese Language Toolkit in MacOS that I can install so that I can read and write Japanese? Yes, freeWnn. In my case, it was awfully simple since I have installed in Japanese (i.e.

Re: [newbie] Using Japanese?

2001-12-27 Thread Pascal Goguey
On Friday 28 December 2001 04:57, you wrote: i am working for a japanese-owned company and am the only one using mandrake here. it is one of the reasons why i cannot make my officemates try linux here in the office. Japanese language support is pretty much a black art to me right now. i can

[newbie] can't find ppp module

2001-12-27 Thread Eric
I used the software manager to get the latest security updates for my 8.0 system. It installed kernel headers, docs, kernel. Machine reboots just fine. But when I want to cruize the internet and use a modem, it gives me an error message that the ppp module was not loaded. I used the

Re: [newbie] SSHD not running

2001-12-27 Thread Allen May
I installed over the internet What do I do now? -Allen - Original Message - From: daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 11:10 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] SSHD not running On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:14:27 -0500 Allen May [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] How to open/view .vcf file

2001-12-27 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi All People, How to open/view .vcf file, which software to be used ? B.R. Stephen Liu Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Bandwidth Management - MAC Layer

2001-12-27 Thread Allen May
I didn't get an answer to my question when I posted to [expert], let me try [newbie]. Is this off topic?... I want to build a Bandwidth Management box for my friends ISP. He tells me he is providing Wireless access and currently controls security by hardcoding the MAC address of each client (he

Re: [newbie] Using Japanese?

2001-12-27 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 22:40:34 +1100 Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes but turbolinux has not been updating frequently and is not as robust as mandrake. i prefer sticking with mandrake and weather the storm. i know there is a solution out there but when it will be available to the

Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites?

2001-12-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 11:02:18 +0900, Doug Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thursday, December 27, 2001): Well the analogy of the clay pot may not be good at all. Consider this-- I make a clay pot, and I fire it and I go to a lawyer and show him the product and get him

Re: Open Source (was Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites? Now OT)

2001-12-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
True, but there is also another side to the story. What about the end users, who will _save_ money by using free software. Corporations spend massive amounts of money on buggy, insecure software. If the software was free, all this money could be saved, and the employees could be paid more (or

Re: [newbie] Speed [was Re: Recommended office suites?]

2001-12-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 10:14:25 +0200, robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Civileme wrote: KDE _is_ a memory hog since it does aq whole lot more than a similar Windows GUI these days. Now the reason I recommend kerbel 2.2 is that the stock 2.4 kernels available this version do swap a

[newbie] off topic - CRON

2001-12-27 Thread caspar kennerdale
hopefully someone can help. I have three php scripts I'd like to execute autoimatically twice a day. My isp says I can do this a this via cron-oir he wont let me. He suggested that he could automate a perl script though. Can I get a perlscript to then execute the php scripts?- I dpo not know

Re: [newbie] Using Japanese?

2001-12-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 14:57:05 -0500, Anuerin G. Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:51:08 -0900 tester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doug Lerner wrote: Is there something analagous to the Japanese Language Toolkit in MacOS that I can install so that I can read and write

Re: [newbie] How to open/view .vcf file

2001-12-27 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
try any text editor. vcf are just text ( except if it contains non-binary data ). if you are interested, try to read rfc 2425 and 2426 as they pertain to the vCard specification. you can also do a search for vCard specification on google and try to visit versit.com. ciao! On Thu, 27 Dec

Re: Open Source (was Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites? Now OT)

2001-12-27 Thread Doug Lerner
If software were free how could the employees of the software company be paid to begin with? I'm sorry, but by this logic you could say, Instead of spending all that money on a down payment and mortgage, think of all the money I could save by just moving into the first house I see. doug

Re: [newbie] drive doesn't want to be partitioned

2001-12-27 Thread Charles Jennings
On Wednesday 26 December 2001 06:11 pm, you wrote: Maybe I am confused. I thought that Mandrake was using diskdrake to do the partitioning during the install and it wasn't able to do the resize. Is that wrong? chuck On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 14:28:54 -0700 Charles Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Windows partition won't load anymore

2001-12-27 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 19:21:11 -0900 tester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doug Lerner wrote: Actually, since I need to run Windows rarely, what I think I'll do is delete the second partition containing Win 2000 and use it for Linux. Is that easy to accomplish? Then I'll just run Windows when I

Re: [newbie] Speed [was Re: Recommended office suites?]

2001-12-27 Thread robin
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Well, there are the basics (which can apply to any desktop or OS), like not using desktop wallpaper, using minimal themes (the default is quite fast), no unnecessary sounds, use small and fast apps, etc. Just installed the high performance liquid theme. Looks pretty

Re: [newbie] Spam

2001-12-27 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 01:48:34 -0500 (EST) adam.e.willcox.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: I heard a second hand story from someone who had setup a defined list of people who he could receive e-mail from in his evolution client. Anyone whom wasn't on his list would

Re: Open Source (was Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites? Now OT)

2001-12-27 Thread Gonzalo
Maybe we don´t need enormous software companies to do the job, just idealistic men like the ones moving the opensource world. And if someone offers free houses (and better than the one i'm paying for) wouldn`t you move?? Gonzalo From: Doug Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] If software were free how

Re: [newbie] System attack Recovery Question

2001-12-27 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 22:43:27 -0800 Ed Kasky [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: Thanks for taking the time to respond. Luckily, having a recent backup I didn't have to resort to a re-install hey! congrats. It's good to hear that you got the problem taken care of.

Re: [newbie] SSHD not running

2001-12-27 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 06:22:42 -0500 Allen May [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: I installed over the internet What do I do now? -Allen Allen, As root, issue this command in a terminal window to see if the sshd server is running: service sshd

[newbie] Re: Open Source (was Recommended office suites? Now OT)

2001-12-27 Thread David Reynolds
On Thursday 27 December 2001 08:26 am, Gonzalo wrote: Maybe we don´t need enormous software companies to do the job, just idealistic men like the ones moving the opensource world. And if someone offers free houses (and better than the one i'm paying for) wouldn`t you move?? Gonzalo It

Re: [newbie] Unable to read partition table

2001-12-27 Thread David Reynolds
On Tuesday 26 December 2000 10:46 pm, Antonio Sousa wrote: Hi all Antonio, your computer clock is off by a year. Check it out and fix. :) David Reynolds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Re: Open Source (was Recommended office suites? Now OT)

2001-12-27 Thread Gonzalo
I don't know where the open source market is predicated on, but the global concept behind it brought a fresh and cleaner way of doing things not seen too much often since times of consumism, propietary and ownership take over us a few centuries ago ruling our lifes. Yes , it's beatufull but lets

[newbie] No boot after 8.1 install!!

2001-12-27 Thread ai4a
Hi, I have installed linux MD 8.1 (3 times). The installs went fine. I installed LILO in the MBR made a boot disk. Booted from the hard disk. I got a screen full of scrolling '40's. I tried the boot disk. Then I got message 'unable to find initrd.img'. I could use some on this. Thanks Charles

Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites?

2001-12-27 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 22:27:47 +1100 Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 11:02:18 +0900, Doug Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thursday, December 27, 2001): Well the analogy of the clay pot may not be good

Re: [newbie] drive doesn't want to be partitioned

2001-12-27 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 20:42:00 -0700 Charles Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: On Wednesday 26 December 2001 06:11 pm, you wrote: Maybe I am confused. I thought that Mandrake was using diskdrake to do the partitioning during the install and it wasn't able to

[newbie] linux on a Netvista

2001-12-27 Thread Franki
Hi all, I have an IBM Netvista 1 gig Athlon with that dumbass bios that IBM's have.. It won't boot from the CD-RW (or at least I can't get it to). It fails on cdrom.img and other.img telling me to change disks and continue. So I am at a loss as to how to get 8.1 installed on this thing. So

Re: [newbie] System attack Recovery Question

2001-12-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Ed Kasky wrote: Once we cleared all the atributes, we deleted the offending programs and re-installed procps. They had changed just about every tool one would use to monitor activity including ps, netstat, w, who and a few others... That was no fun... Thanks again for the help!!! Ed

Re: [newbie] Unable to read partition table

2001-12-27 Thread Kaj Haulrich
Antonio Sousa wrote: Hi all I have installed Mandrake 8.1. When it boots it sends the folowing message: LDM:Unable to read partition table. After all it boots, but i don't have access to my CDRW. Can anyone help me? What can i do? Thanks Antonio Antonio, you have to tell the kernel,

Re: [newbie] No boot after 8.1 install!!

2001-12-27 Thread Hugo Ferreira
ai4a, If you have another machine you can boot from and have no SCSI disks on the install machine then change the lilo's conf file by simply removing the line that has the initrd.img file. Try then booting from the floppy. HTHs. Hugo. - Original Message - From: ai4a [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] How to open/view .vcf file

2001-12-27 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Anuerin, Thanks B.R. Stephen At 07:54 PM 12/27/2001 -0500, you wrote: try any text editor. vcf are just text ( except if it contains non-binary data ). if you are interested, try to read rfc 2425 and 2426 as they pertain to the vCard specification. you can also do a search for vCard

Re: [newbie] drive doesn't want to be partitioned

2001-12-27 Thread Terry C
I tried several ways to use diskdrake and it just wouldn't resize the partition, that's why I used FIPS. To make life as simple as possible I created a DOS boot floppy disk, copied FIPS onto it, booted from the floppy and ran FIPS. All of this may not actually be necessary but I like to keep

Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites?

2001-12-27 Thread skidley
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Jesse Angell wrote: i personally think that x windows is a complete ram hog.. As a 166mhz 32ram cannot run it... That's strange I have X on a 486SX/20, 16MB RAM with slackware 3.4 and it works. It is slow but it works :P -- . ---

Re: [newbie] trouble installing rlt8139 netcard driver...

2001-12-27 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 11:19:27 -0500 mooseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: X-RebelTech Is Here: http://www.rebeltech.ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit hi all, i got a smc1244 10/100 netcard and it came with the rlt8139 driver, but i am having

Re: [newbie] HW: combo printer/scanner/fax?

2001-12-27 Thread Lee
On Thursday 27 December 2001 02:21 pm, Mark Shaw wrote: Hello All, I find that I need to upgrade my scanner (an old Umax) and would like to upgrade my printer, so I'm thinking of investing in one of those combination printer/scanner/fax/copier/etc systems. I've seen Epson and HP versions

[newbie] Card Reader Other USB Devices

2001-12-27 Thread Larry Varney
I'm getting closer - I think. I can plug in my various USB devices, and the Control Center shows some of them as disks: the Card Reader at /dev/sda and the camera (Olympus C700; great performer, btw) at /dev/sdb. The Teleport USB modem shows up when I use UsbView, but I haven't spotted it

[newbie] clock on dual boot system

2001-12-27 Thread Kenn Murrah
okay, i know this is a trivial issue but it's driving me nuts ... i've created a dual boot (windows ME and linux) in which the clock is 6 hours different between the two ... if i correct the clock in one operating system, when i reboot, it's wrong in the other ... what am i doing wrong here,

RE: [newbie] clock on dual boot system

2001-12-27 Thread Johnson, David
My guess would be that you have an incorrect time zone set on one of the OS's... -Original Message- From: Kenn Murrah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 1:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] clock on dual boot system okay, i know this is a trivial

Re: [newbie] clock on dual boot system

2001-12-27 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Thursday 27 December 2001 04:08 pm, you wrote: okay, i know this is a trivial issue but it's driving me nuts ... i've created a dual boot (windows ME and linux) in which the clock is 6 hours different between the two ... if i correct the clock in one operating system, when i reboot,

Re: [Re: [Re: [newbie] cant connect to apache, ssh, ftp or telnet from network]]

2001-12-27 Thread Ian K.Harrell
First of all, thanks a ton for all the suggestions, but I still cannot connect to apache, telnet, ftp or ssh. Heck I can't even ping the LM8.1 computer from another machine either over the internet (ppp0) or over the lan (eth0) but internet masquerading works just fine. All the appropriate

[newbie] ML 8.0 install CDROM can't find my CDROM

2001-12-27 Thread Roland Berger
When I try to install ML8.0 I get the following problem. First I describe the installation steps I did. - CD is deteced as a boot cd. System tells that drive letter is mapped to A and the floppy is now B -The Mandrake welcome screen is displayd where you can choose to press F1 or ENTER. I

Re: Open Source (was Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites? Now OT)

2001-12-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 21:33:06 +0900, Doug Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If software were free how could the employees of the software company be paid to begin with? I am not arguing that all software should be free. I am simply stating that in some cases I believe that the free software model

[newbie] Linux - slave drive

2001-12-27 Thread Mithrilhall2000
I just put in a slave hard drive into my linux computer and when starting up the computer it sees the slave drive but when I'm in linux I don't see it. Maybe I'm doing something wrong. The slave drive currently has windows on it. Thanks in advance, Mithrilhall

Re: [newbie] Linux - slave drive

2001-12-27 Thread David
On Friday 28 December 2001 01:57, you wrote: I just put in a slave hard drive into my linux computer and when starting up the computer it sees the slave drive but when I'm in linux I don't see it. Maybe I'm doing something wrong. The slave drive currently has windows on it. Thanks in

Re: [newbie] Using Japanese?

2001-12-27 Thread Doug Lerner
Thanks. I'll try that. Why i18n? I would have never thought of looking there for languages! doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Friday, December 28, 2001): Doug Lerner wrote: I was hping to do Japanese reading and writing without installing a Japanese OS interface. Every time somebody suggests

Re: [newbie] cant connect to apache, ssh, ftp or telnet from network

2001-12-27 Thread Onur Kucuk
IKH First of all, thanks a ton for all the suggestions, but I still cannot connect IKH to apache, telnet, ftp or ssh. Heck I can't even ping the LM8.1 computer from IKH another machine either over the internet (ppp0) or over the lan (eth0) but IKH internet masquerading works just fine. IKH All

Fw: Re: [newbie] sound blaster audigy

2001-12-27 Thread Frans Ketelaars
Since this message somehow didn't make it to the list: Begin forwarded message: Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 12:26:04 +0100 From: Frans Ketelaars [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] sound blaster audigy On Tue, 25 Dec 2001 20:07:00 -0500 g.sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [newbie] hotmail

2001-12-27 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 19:35:31 -0400 (AST) skidley [EMAIL PROTECTED] studiouisly spake these words to ponder: On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Michel Clasquin wrote: On Thursday 27 December 2001 10:53, chris swain wrote: I am trying to set up a hotmail account but neither konqueror or netscape will

Re: Open Source (was Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites? Now OT)

2001-12-27 Thread Doug Lerner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thursday, December 27, 2001): On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 21:33:06 +0900, Doug Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If software were free how could the employees of the software company be paid to begin with? I am not arguing that all software should be free. I am simply stating that

Re: [newbie] Linux - slave drive

2001-12-27 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Thursday 27 December 2001 08:57 pm, you wrote: I just put in a slave hard drive into my linux computer and when starting up the computer it sees the slave drive but when I'm in linux I don't see it. Maybe I'm doing something wrong. The slave drive currently has windows on it. Try to

Re: [newbie] clock on dual boot system

2001-12-27 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 13:08:22 -0800 (PST) Kenn Murrah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: okay, i know this is a trivial issue but it's driving me nuts ... i've created a dual boot (windows ME and linux) in which the clock is 6 hours different between the two ... if i correct the clock in one

Re: [newbie] HW: combo printer/scanner/fax?

2001-12-27 Thread Daryl Johnson
On Thursday 27 December 2001 14:21, you wrote: HP have a supported project to support their own products with linux drivers accross all product lines. There is even a website pointed at from www.hp.com which tells you which m/cs are fully supported and which are still only partly supported.

[newbie] floppy does not work

2001-12-27 Thread Gerald Waugh
I can't mount my /dev/fd0 and my log file say: Dec 24 02:34:02 gerald kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M Dec 24 02:34:02 gerald kernel: floppy0: Floppy io-port 0x03f7 in use Dec 24 02:34:02 gerald kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.97 Looks like Floppy io-port 0x03f7 in use is the problem, anyone

Re: [newbie] Using Japanese?

2001-12-27 Thread Doug Lerner
That did seem to install the Japanese system! I am able to get as far now as entering hiragana, but the conversion mode does not seem to be working. I will see what I can find out about this and post again. doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Friday, December 28, 2001): Yes of course. Drop in the

Re: [newbie] trouble installing rlt8139 netcard driver...

2001-12-27 Thread mooseman
X-RebelTech Is Here: http://www.rebeltech.ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit yes, the card is found by the bios, at boot time. it finds a free IRQ which i am certain is not used by anything else. because my previous card was old ISA that i

Re: [newbie] /dev/sequencer busy?

2001-12-27 Thread David Reynolds
On Thursday 27 December 2001 01:45 pm, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Wed, 26 Dec 2001 19:37:49 -0600 Can't you use HardDrake to set up your card (like, start a configuration program once your card is recognized) ? Anyway , ALSA (part of the LM8.1 distribution) supports your sound hardware. Let

Re: [newbie] Using Japanese?

2001-12-27 Thread tester
Doug Lerner wrote: Thanks. I'll try that. Why i18n? I would have never thought of looking there for languages! doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Friday, December 28, 2001): Doug Lerner wrote: I was hping to do Japanese reading and writing without installing a Japanese OS interface. Every time

Re: [newbie] Linux - slave drive

2001-12-27 Thread tester
Mithrilhall2000 wrote: I just put in a slave hard drive into my linux computer and when starting up the computer it sees the slave drive but when I'm in linux I don't see it. Maybe I'm doing something wrong. The slave drive currently has windows on it. Thanks in advance, Mithrilhall

Re: [newbie] Card Reader Other USB Devices

2001-12-27 Thread Bob Bomar
On Thursday 27 December 2001 14:59, you wrote: I'm getting closer - I think. I can plug in my various USB devices, and the Control Center shows some of them as disks: the Card Reader at /dev/sda and the camera (Olympus C700; great performer, btw) at /dev/sdb. The Teleport USB modem shows

Re: [newbie] Card Reader Other USB Devices

2001-12-27 Thread Larry Varney
When I do the modprobe usb-storage, /dev/sda is created, but no sda1. I have a feeling that this is one of those things that will have to wait until Mandrake 8.2 or later. For now, I guess I'll just stick with Windows for my digital picture stuff. And I really think that I'm so *close* to

[newbie] Change Time

2001-12-27 Thread SKLIM
Hi ! Need help What is the command to change the date and time in my Linux Server. Because my date and time is running out. Best Regards,SKLIM+6012 391 3638

Re: [newbie] Change Time

2001-12-27 Thread Bob Bomar
On Thursday 27 December 2001 21:05, you wrote: Hi ! Need help What is the command to change the date and time in my Linux Server. Because my date and time is running out. date ? look at date man pages, I think its date yymmddhhmm Best Regards, SKLIM +6012 391 3638 Bob Want to

Re: [newbie] Card Reader Other USB Devices

2001-12-27 Thread David
I have the same problemI have a dual boot system. so I have just been booting into windows to use the card reader.. and then switching over to linux and just pulling the files over from the windows partition and putting it on the linux partition. Pain in the #@#@ but I haven't

Re: [newbie] Using Japanese?

2001-12-27 Thread tek1
i18n = internationalization (i + 18 letters + n) At 09:15 01/12/28 +0900, you wrote: Thanks. I'll try that. Why i18n? I would have never thought of looking there for languages! doug Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Linux - slave drive

2001-12-27 Thread Mithrilhall2000
Ok, I must be an idiot because I can't find diskdrake anywhere. Can you point me to where it is? Thanks again - Original Message - From: tester [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 6:26 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux - slave drive

Re: [newbie] Change Time

2001-12-27 Thread SKLIM
Thank Best Regards, SKLIM - Original Message - From: Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 11:04 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Change Time On Thursday 27 December 2001 21:05, you wrote: Hi ! Need help What is the command to change the date

Re: [newbie] Card Reader Other USB Devices

2001-12-27 Thread Bob Bomar
try sda0 or sda2 just a thought Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Linux - slave drive

2001-12-27 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 28 December 2001 01:30, you wrote: Ok, I must be an idiot because I can't find diskdrake anywhere. Can you point me to where it is? Thanks again - Original Message - From: tester [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 6:26 PM

Re: [newbie] Using Japanese?

2001-12-27 Thread Doug Lerner
How mnemonic. :-) doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thursday, December 27, 2001): i18n = internationalization (i + 18 letters + n) At 09:15 01/12/28 +0900, you wrote: Thanks. I'll try that. Why i18n? I would have never thought of looking there for languages! doug Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Using Japanese?

2001-12-27 Thread Andy Davidson
At 12:40 PM 12/28/01 +0900, Doug Lerner wrote: How mnemonic. :-) doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thursday, December 27, 2001): i18n = internationalization (i + 18 letters + n) It always seemed to me that the very artificial abbreviations for internationalization (=i18n) and localization (=l10n) were

Re: [newbie] Mozilla 0.9.4?

2001-12-27 Thread dfox
On Monday 17 December 2001 06:04, Brian Parish wrote: 1. install apt (apt-0.3.19cnc51-1mdk.i586.rpm) I could not find this in my 8.1 Mandrake archive. Where can I get a copy? I've heard of some really good experiences with apt from Debian people, and have wanted this on Mandrake.

Re: Open Source (was Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites? Now OT)

2001-12-27 Thread Roger Sherman
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Doug Lerner wrote: If software were free how could the employees of the software company be paid to begin with? Tech support? Free downloads, but boxed packages that you pay for if you choose? Heh...sound familiar? Just a thought... I'm sorry, but by this logic you

Re: Open Source (was Re: [newbie] Recommended office suites? Now OT)

2001-12-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 09:23:45 +0900, Doug Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thursday, December 27, 2001): On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 21:33:06 +0900, Doug Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If software were free how could the employees of the software company be paid to begin

Re: [newbie] Re: Open Source (was Recommended office suites? Now OT)

2001-12-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Some of you seem to have forgotten that most of the advances in the world of computing have been made in an open fashion. In fact, the idea of making things proprietary only really surfaced in the 1970s. In many ways, I would argue that this has done a lot of harm. It has led to uncompetitive

Re: [newbie] Linux - slave drive

2001-12-27 Thread tester
Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 28 December 2001 01:30, you wrote: Ok, I must be an idiot because I can't find diskdrake anywhere. Can you point me to where it is? Thanks again - Original Message - From: tester [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001

[newbie] RE: Office Suites

2001-12-27 Thread Maureen L. Thomas
I upgraded to KDE 2.2 and am using K-Office. So far it hasn't crashed or froze on me and I have imported all the documents I was using from Lotus SmartSuite and it hasn't lost a thing. I am very pleased with it. Some small improvements in K-Spread are needed, like multi copy, but otherwise it

Re: [newbie] Mozilla 0.9.4?

2001-12-27 Thread tester
dfox wrote: On Monday 17 December 2001 06:04, Brian Parish wrote: 1. install apt (apt-0.3.19cnc51-1mdk.i586.rpm) I could not find this in my 8.1 Mandrake archive. Where can I get a copy? I've heard of some really good experiences with apt from Debian people, and have wanted this on Mandrake.

Re: [newbie] Linux - slave drive

2001-12-27 Thread tester
Mithrilhall2000 wrote: Ok, I must be an idiot because I can't find diskdrake anywhere. Can you point me to where it is? Thanks again - Original Message - From: tester [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 6:26 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux - slave

Re: [newbie] Re: Open Source (was Recommended office suites? Now OT)

2001-12-27 Thread Charles A.Punch
12/27/01 9:21:17 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The idea of open source is not any different from how scientific research has been conducted for hundreds of years. Somebody discovers something and publishes it. Others then read it and build upon that work. There are few

Re: [newbie] RE: Office Suites

2001-12-27 Thread tester
Maureen L. Thomas wrote: I upgraded to KDE 2.2 and am using K-Office. So far it hasn't crashed or froze on me and I have imported all the documents I was using from Lotus SmartSuite and it hasn't lost a thing. I am very pleased with it. Some small improvements in K-Spread are needed, like