Re: [newbie-it] come faccio funzionare il modem?

2002-02-12 Thread Andrea Celli
tom wrote: OK! ora mi manca solo la scheda audio! li non saprei proprio dove sbattere la testa. se qualcuno ha qualche idea .dateme na mano! Prima di fare cose piu` complesse (necessarie per certe schede audio) prova a disabilitare il supporto pnp del bios. Puoi farlo

[newbie-it] Come passare in modalità grafica?

2002-02-12 Thread Emma e Gigi
Per la verità è la seconda volta che spedisco questo messaggio, ma mi risulta non sia mai pervenuto... ho controllato nell'archivio e non compare... (in genere una copia giunge anche a me stavolta invece non è avvenuto) Comunque riformulo il quesito: Da ieri, per mia volontà, Mandrake 8.1

Re: [newbie-it] Come passare in modalità grafica?

2002-02-12 Thread Emma e Gigi
Perfetto!! Grazie tante. Una volta entrato in modalità grafica sono andato nel Mandrake Control Center, dopo ho scelto Boot, quindi Boot Config e ho deselezionato la voce Launch the X-Windows...etc., voce che avevo attivato precedentemente per entrare in modalità testo. Lavorando in

Re: [newbie-it] Cattiva qualità di stampa e problema con floppy

2002-02-12 Thread Daniele Micci
Il giorno 11:00, martedì 12 febbraio 2002 hai scritto: Dopo aver installato mdk sto' cercando di creare un ambiente di lavoro accettabile :-) Grazie al consiglio di Daniele Micci ho risolto il problema dell'audio (in effetti era strano ascoltare un cd ad un volume così basso) Ciao, sono

Re: [newbie-it] Divx! Come vederli?

2002-02-12 Thread Alberto
Ciao ragazzi Ho un problema. Non riesco a vedere I divx. Ho provato con xine.compilo e istallo prima le lib poi passo a compilare ui e mi dice che prima devo istallare le lib...che ho gia istallato..mah Allora passo a xmps che vuole o il codec opendivx oppure le dll win 32..benissio... io non

Re: [newbie-it] Skeda audio yamaha opl3-sax ......

2002-02-12 Thread tom
Pollo wrote: Il dom, 2002-02-10 alle 17:07, Tom ha scritto: Avevo gia chiesto un aiuto per far funzionare la mia scheda audio una Yamaha opl3-sax sound system, e Pollo (che ringrazzio) mi aveva consigliato di modificare un file di grub. Per far funzionare la scheda devi aggiungere

[newbie-it] come ci si cancella da quuesta perfida mailing list?

2002-02-12 Thread Ghiro
At 14.38 12/02/02 +0100, you wrote: Luigi De Pascale wrote: Heila' ho ancora qualche problemino con il PnP. Ecco il mio lilo.conf . append= devfs=mount append=nobiospnp .. append=

Re: [newbie-it] come ci si cancella da quuesta perfida mailing list?

2002-02-12 Thread Marco
leggendo i perfidi headers oppure recandosi sulla perfida pagina del sito di mandrake da cui ti sei iscritto oppure leggendo i quintali di e- mail con la stessa perfida domanda che trovi sul perfido archivio al perfido sito di mandrake! Ciao Un perfido Marco

Re: [newbie-it] Ancora PnP

2002-02-12 Thread syd
Alle 14:38, martedì 12 febbraio 2002, hai scritto: cut Ci puo` essere un solo append per ogni blocco. quindi i tuoi devono diventare: append=devfs=mount nobiospnp .. append=devfs=mount nobiospnp failsafe Poi ricordati di lanciare /sbin/lilo, altrimenti

[newbie-it] output

2002-02-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Saluti. Sarò un poco off/topics :) Avevo necessità di operare sotto ambiente dos (w2k/nt) usando una delle funzioni 'base' degli script unix, l'output di un comando nell'output di un comando padre... per capirci l'utilizzo in unix del ` che permette l'esecuzione e la cattura dell'output di un

R: [newbie-it] output

2002-02-12 Thread luca laghi
Saluti. Sarò un poco off/topics :) Avevo necessità di operare sotto ambiente dos (w2k/nt) usando una delle funzioni 'base' degli script unix, l'output di un comando nell'output di un comando padre... per capirci l'utilizzo in unix del ` che permette l'esecuzione e la cattura dell'output di un

Re: [newbie-it] Ancora PnP

2002-02-12 Thread Andrea Celli
syd wrote: . Una domanda: disattivando il Pnp da bios, nel mio lilo.conf non trovo nessuna stringa che parli di nobiospnp; nulla di garve, vero? Voglio dire, il mio Pnp è disattivato e posso dormire tranquillo? Si Io preferisco consigliare di togliere il supporto pnp da lilo/grub

[newbie-it] Star Office 6

2002-02-12 Thread Pollo
Qualcuno di voi ha già provato ad installare Star Office 6 beta? Sapete dirmi se è stabile e soprattutto se vale la pena di sostituire la versione 5.2. Grazie, Pollo.

Re: [newbie-it] Star Office 6

2002-02-12 Thread Jorge Roberto Gomes
From: Pollo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie-mandrake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [newbie-it] Star Office 6 Date: 12 Feb 2002 21:32:17 +0100 Qualcuno di voi ha già provato ad installare Star Office 6 beta? Sapete dirmi se è stabile e soprattutto se vale la pena

[newbie-it] kapm-idled

2002-02-12 Thread lux
Ho questo processo che occupa l' 85.6% della CPU. A cosa serve? Devo preoccuparmi? Grazie anticipatamente, -- Ciao, Lux :-))

Re: [newbie-it] come ci si cancella da quuesta perfida mailing list?

2002-02-12 Thread Ghiro
At 15.42 12/02/02 +0100, you wrote: leggendo i perfidi headers oppure recandosi sulla perfida pagina del sito di mandrake da cui ti sei iscritto oppure leggendo i quintali di e- mail con la stessa perfida domanda che trovi sul perfido archivio al perfido sito di mandrake! Ciao Un perfido Marco

Re: [newbie-it] Divx! Come vederli?

2002-02-12 Thread Stefano Salari
--- Alberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Beh tu trova la soluzione che il cappero lo mangio io! E poi ti prego di spiegarmela in ma,niera umana perché co sto linux sono un po 0 Comunque io le sorgenti di xine 0.9.5 sia le lib(gia istallate) sia le ui(che mi danno problema di

[newbie-it] Mplayer

2002-02-12 Thread Corrado
Stavolta non sono qui per chiedere aiuto, ma per riportare la soluzione a un problema :) Pur con tutte le questioni che ruotano intorno al programma, Mplayer resta il miglior lettore di file video per Linux; sono riuscito a risolvere i problemi di compilazione dei sorgenti (in rete li si possono

[newbie-it] Kmail e allegati

2002-02-12 Thread Perfect Dark
Salve, volevo sapere un paio di cose: 1) è possibile fare in modo che nell'elenco dei messaggi di una cartella kmail mostri l'icona della graffetta per quelli che hanno l'allegato? 2) a volte oltre agli allegati soliti mi trovo anche il testo dell'email in html, che visualizzato mi

Re: [newbie-it] Star Office 6

2002-02-12 Thread ku68
- Original Message - From: Pollo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie-mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 9:32 PM Subject: [newbie-it] Star Office 6 Qualcuno di voi ha già provato ad installare Star Office 6 beta? Sapete dirmi se è stabile e soprattutto se vale la pena

[newbie] pdf maker

2002-02-12 Thread christiyono
Hi... Is it any application in linux which able to make/convert any documents in pdf format? thank u for your info... chris Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Installing StarOffice 5.2

2002-02-12 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 13 February 2002 07:15, christiyono wrote: Hi there, How to install Star office 5.2 in Mandrake 8.0 that every user can load and use it without installing in each user home directory? Is it true that every user must install it personally? Unfortunately, yes. You could probably

Re: [newbie] Disk partitioning problem.

2002-02-12 Thread Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, I checked it right now with the win2k Disk Management tool and it says FAT32. I know that Harddrake also says FAT32. Thanks, Seedkum Jeroen v.d. Westelaken wrote: Hi, 1,9 Gb is the legendary maximum amount of an older FAT type partion. Are you sure you used the right format?

Re: [newbie] Installing StarOffice 5.2

2002-02-12 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:15:40 +0200, Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 13 February 2002 07:15, christiyono wrote: Hi there, How to install Star office 5.2 in Mandrake 8.0 that every user can load and use it without installing in each user home directory? Is it true that

Re: [newbie] DelTree

2002-02-12 Thread Alaa The Great
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 15:29:19 -0500 John Alex Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rm -rf top-level derectory going to be deleted This could be very dangerously if carelessly. you could also use mc for all your file management needs mc is a console file manager that resembles the old DOS

Re: [newbie] writing/deleting files to a FAT32 partition

2002-02-12 Thread Rodrigo
Richard, unfortunately I think that linux can't write/delete from a FAT32 partition. That was possible in the old FAT partitions, but became impossible with FAT32. Maybe you can find a program that makes it for you. For example, there is a program for windows that reads ext2 partitions and

Re: [newbie] proftpd question

2002-02-12 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Eric Estes -=RCN Mail=- wrote: %_I have set up proftpd to allow a user by the name anonymous to login and download files. They seem to be able to browse my other directories and download from them. Is there a way to make the user anonymous only able to view their home

Re: [newbie] finding my ip

2002-02-12 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Paul Rodríguez wrote: %_ Is the ip address that shows up when I run ifconfig my real ip address? I connect via adsl i get assigned dynamic ip's, but how do I find out what my real ip address is right now? - Paul ifconfig should reveal your 'real' address, when you

Re: [newbie] Disk partitioning problem.

2002-02-12 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: %_Hi, I checked it right now with the win2k Disk Management tool and it says FAT32. I know that Harddrake also says FAT32. Sometimes you have to completely reinitialize a disk, I use IIRC dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdx where x is the harddrive,

Re: Fw: [newbie] making a file from a man doc

2002-02-12 Thread Randy Kramer
Walter Logeman wrote: In other words, I'd like to convert the text output from what comes out of col -b into something that would have each paragraph on a single long line so I can easily copy and paste it into a wiki. To piggy back on this... I used an editor in Windows called

Re: [newbie] Permissions: Nobody in Apache + PHP

2002-02-12 Thread Andre Dubuc
Hi Kevin, Just wanted to thank you for your help. Figured out the problem -- it was partly permission problem (that you helped to solve). I tried a simpler script, testing to see whether I could simply write to a file. I could. It would even append. But back in the graffiti.php it still

Re: [newbie] pdf maker

2002-02-12 Thread Robin Turner
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 10:50, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 15:21:29 +0700, christiyono [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it any application in linux which able to make/convert any documents in pdf format? Most apps can print to a postscript file. Do this and run ps2pdf to

Re: [newbie] writing/deleting files to a FAT32 partition

2002-02-12 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:24:05 -0200, Rodrigo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard, unfortunately I think that linux can't write/delete from a FAT32 partition. That was possible in the old FAT partitions, but became impossible with FAT32. I think you're getting confused with NTFS. Linux handles

[newbie] quicktime plugin for linux ?

2002-02-12 Thread Kenn Yahoo
Greetings. Does anyone have a recommendation for a quicktime plugin for linux browsers? A search on Google turned up Crossover from Codeweavers ... does anyone have any feedback about this product? I was hoping for free, but I'll spend the $20 if it's a worthwhile program and nothing else is

Re: [newbie] Re: Frontpage like application for Linux

2002-02-12 Thread David Reynolds
On Monday 11 February 2002 08:46 am, Chuck Henson wrote: At 02:29 AM 2/11/02 +0100, you wrote: Now Hanan, why on earth use a mediocre WYSIWYG-editor when it's so simple to write real HTML ? As a web designer myself, I can only give one answer. There is no excuse for using a mediocre

[newbie] Mandrake 8.1 disk 2 3

2002-02-12 Thread David
Hi list, I just recently learned of there being a disk 2 3 to the MD8.1 'set'(from a reply in htis mailing list actually). Now before I download this 1.36 Gig for the other disks, can someone inform me of what is on them and its importance to me? tia Dave Want to buy your Pack or Services

RE: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 disk 2 3

2002-02-12 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 disk 2 3 Take a look at this page, the CDs 23 should correspond to those in the retail packs so Second Install CD and Supplementary Open Source Apps CD are what you would get with download CDs. HTH http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/81/applications

[newbie] finding my ip

2002-02-12 Thread Paul Rodríguez
Is the ip address that shows up when I run ifconfig my real ip address? I connect via adsl i get assigned dynamic ip's, but how do I find out what my real ip address is right now? - Paul _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address

Re: [newbie] DelTree

2002-02-12 Thread Hal Wigoda
rm -fr directory name will remove the directory and all the folders and file s contained within given the correct permissions This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1013458257-13086-40 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

[newbie] PCMCIA AGAIn

2002-02-12 Thread troy psx da silva
Thanks.. I install pcmcia-cs.. all ok.. and now? how i connect my modem? thanks please send me all explaint.. __ Get your free Australian email account at http://www.start.com.au Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] quicktime plugin for linux ?

2002-02-12 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 08:22:48 -0600, Kenn Yahoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings. Does anyone have a recommendation for a quicktime plugin for linux browsers? A search on Google turned up Crossover from Codeweavers ... does anyone have any feedback about this product? I was hoping for

Re: [newbie] finding my ip

2002-02-12 Thread Michael Viron
Yes. Or at the very least, it is the IP that you currently have leased from the dhcp server. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 10:33 AM 02/12/2002 -0500, you wrote: Is the ip address

[newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!

2002-02-12 Thread Andrei Raevsky
Hi, I am looking for a good, thourough and detailed, technical comparison of Mac OS X versus Linux. A friend of mine is a really "religious" Mac user and it will take a lot to make him try Linux. I would like to help him with this. Please send me any good articles (or links) you have. Thanks,

Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!

2002-02-12 Thread Nicolas VERITE
Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi, I am looking for a good, thourough and detailed, technical comparison of Mac OS X versus Linux. A friend of mine is a really religious Mac user and it will take a lot to make him try Linux. I would like to help him with this. Please send me any good

RE: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!

2002-02-12 Thread Jason Ditri
Title: Message Now, I ask: Have you ever come across a Mac user whom is not religious about it? I am getting that way about (Mandrake) Linux... Also, thanks to all the people who replied to "Speed... or lack of?" post, I added 256MB of RAM, and I hardly notice any slow down. I read

Re: [newbie] quicktime plugin for linux ?

2002-02-12 Thread Kenn Yahoo
okay, you sold me ... i just ordered it, and it's downloading on the other box right now ... thanks for the good advice ... kennM - Original Message - From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 9:04 AM Subject: Re: [newbie]

[newbie] Disk Problems

2002-02-12 Thread Mark Evans
Hi I am getting a few apps lock up and the disk wont stop reading. I have looked at the messages log file and this is what I see. I have tried fsck, but my problem is still here. Does anybody know what else I can try? Or is my HD past it! Feb 11 15:08:49 localhost kernel: hda: read_intr:

Re: [newbie] proftpd question

2002-02-12 Thread Miark
Mithrilhall, That somehow seems contradictory. If users are to be sent to their home directory, then they need to long in as themselves, no? I would think that you'd want anonymous logins to be sent to /pub or whatever it is nowadays. Maybe I'm wrong. Miark - Original Message -

[newbie] redhat programs on mandrake

2002-02-12 Thread Stojs
can you run linux programs for redhat on mandrake? Thanks in advance, Stojs Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Postfix on Mandrake 8.1

2002-02-12 Thread Kevin Old
Hello all, Quick question on using Postfix on Mandrake 8.1. What I have is basically a gateway for my intranet that all machines go through. 2 NICs on the machine and a DSL connection. NIC with IP 192.168.1.1 is eth1 and is the internal IP. NIC with 192.168.1.5 is the one that ppp0 is bound

Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!

2002-02-12 Thread NDPTAL85
On Tuesday, February 12, 2002, at 11:12 AM, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi, I am looking for a good, thourough and detailed, technical comparison of Mac OS X versus Linux.  A friend of mine is a really "religious" Mac user and it will take a lot to make him try Linux.  I would like to help him with

[newbie] PCMCI external CD-RW

2002-02-12 Thread Hanan Z. Shargi
Hi again, I am shopping for an external CD-RW drive for my notebook, one that I'd be able to use with my PC as well ( thats why I'm looking for ones with USB + pcmci interfaces ), I need some advise from you folks. will any CDRW drive with a pcmci interface work with Mandrake ?? or do I have

[newbie] 8.1 ZIP drive

2002-02-12 Thread Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)
I've got an internal ATAPI ZIP drive in my box (it's the SECOND device on the SECOND IDE channel). Harddrake sees it as hdd. It used to work just fine under 8.0, but since I did a complete wipe-n-install of 8.1, I cannot mount it within Linux. The drive powers during POST, so I know the

Re: [newbie] Space left

2002-02-12 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Paul Kraus wrote: How do I see how much space is left on a drive? ls -lt doesn't show space left. I prefer command line. Thanks. do a du or df... Also, for more info, do a man df etc, etc, to see all the options. Lots there. ;-) --

Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!

2002-02-12 Thread NDPTAL85
On Tuesday, February 12, 2002, at 11:12 AM, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi, I am looking for a good, thourough and detailed, technical comparison of Mac OS X versus Linux.  A friend of mine is a really "religious" Mac user and it will take a lot to make him try Linux.  I would like to help him with

Re: [newbie] Audio CDs rodrigo

2002-02-12 Thread paolo brusasco
Rodrigo wrote: Guys, I need help ! I can't play audio CDs. When I run kscd, I always get the following message: read or access error, make sure you have access permissions to /dev/cdrom. I tried ConfigurationKDESoundAudio CD IO Slave to change de device to /dev/hdc or /dev/cdrom0, but

Re: [newbie] proftpd question

2002-02-12 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 22:40:18 -0800 Eric Estes -=RCN Mail=- [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: I have set up proftpd to allow a user by the name anonymous to login and download files. They seem to be able to browse my other directories and download from them. Is there a way to

Re: [newbie] pdf maker

2002-02-12 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Wednesday 13 February 2002 10:21, christiyono wrote: Hi... Is it any application in linux which able to make/convert any documents in pdf format? Yup. Scribus is a DTP app still in early beta but getting on nicely. It exports its files straight into pdf. Kword will save to pdf, but you

Re: [newbie] redhat programs on mandrake

2002-02-12 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 19:31, Stojs wrote: can you run linux programs for redhat on mandrake? Generally, yes, if the redhat rpm is fairly recent. But look on rpmfind.net for a mandrake version first. -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za

Re: [newbie] redhat programs on mandrake

2002-02-12 Thread Dave Sherman
On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 11:31, Stojs wrote: can you run linux programs for redhat on mandrake? Thanks in advance, Stojs Generally speaking, yes. RedHat compiles their RPMs for a lower CPU platform (i386 instead of i586), and occasionally RedHat's filesystem layout is different enough from

Re: [newbie] redhat programs on mandrake

2002-02-12 Thread Randy Kramer
Stojs wrote: can you run linux programs for redhat on mandrake? Maybe. How are you getting the programs: * Are they binary rpms? If so, there is a chance they will work. * Are they source rpms? I don't no -- I think there is a chance because I believe they get compiled when you

RE: [newbie] wvdial used with ifup (Answered my own Question.)

2002-02-12 Thread Franki
Hi all, If anyone is interested, here is how I just got ip aliases for ppp0 working with wvdial in control of the connection. add your ifcfg-ppp0:0 line as normal, (or use linuxconf to do it.) edit the file and add the line DEVICE=ppp0:0 to the top of it.. do the same for any other ip aliases

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA rpm

2002-02-12 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Terry S. wrote: All, Thanks to everyone who responded to my dilema of trying to get the NVIDIA_kernel RPM for my LM 8.1 system. I did as everyone suggested and downloaded, rebuilt, and instlled the source RPM. Things seemed to go well as the packages installed, with only the customary

[newbie] Network Issues. (Has been posted before. Last post on this subject)

2002-02-12 Thread Paul Kraus
I still can not get my laptop to boot up without eth1 failing. MDk found two nics in my laptop even though there was only one pcmcia nic. eth0 doesn't start at startup. eth1 does. When it does it fails... and it takes forever to fail so boot up takes so long. Once its up I can go into mandrake

Re: [newbie] Installing StarOffice 5.2

2002-02-12 Thread Kaj Haulrich
Robin Turner wrote: On Wednesday 13 February 2002 07:15, christiyono wrote: Hi there, How to install Star office 5.2 in Mandrake 8.0 that every user can load and use it without installing in each user home directory? Is it true that every user must install it personally?

Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!

2002-02-12 Thread Andrei Raevsky
Sorry, I forgot to ask this in my first reply but why do you feel the need to convert your friend to Linux if he is happy with Mac OS X? For a very simple reason: I don't think that proprietary software is a good thing. Neither do I trust that Mac suddenly coming into Unices and even open

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA rpm

2002-02-12 Thread s
On Monday 11 February 2002 07:23 pm, you wrote: All, them). Does anyone have any other suggestions to get this to work properly? Well, don't know if it'll help you, but I had to put an agpgart option in my XF86Config-4 file as the default on later nvidia drivers is 'try system agpgart

Re: [newbie] 8.1 ZIP drive

2002-02-12 Thread s
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 11:56 am, you wrote: I've got an internal ATAPI ZIP drive in my box (it's the SECOND device on the SECOND IDE channel). Harddrake sees it as hdd. I've tried: Mkdir /mnt/zip Mount /mnt/zip /dev/hdd4 (harddrake reports the ZIP drive as HDD -- it's the 2nd device

[newbie] Evolution

2002-02-12 Thread Paul Kraus
I am trying to setup evolution. Is there any way I can import my outlook contacts or a csv or anything? Also it is version 0.13. When I download the 1.x version it won't let me instal. Says it is already installed. Thanks Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] OpenOffice.org Text File Spreadsheet import

2002-02-12 Thread Paul Kraus
How do Import a pipe deliminated text file into an openoffice.org spreadsheet? Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] DelTree

2002-02-12 Thread tester
Paul Kraus wrote: How do I delete a directory that contains files and more directories. I want to erase everything in the folder. Command Line please. I hated the command line but its like crack, very addictive. Its actually easier and much more efficient then the gui. If your not using

[newbie] Samba

2002-02-12 Thread Paul Kraus
I am trying to setup samba. I am able to connect to other pc's using the smbmount command. But when I can't connect to my pc from others on the network. The Smb Server is running. I can see my laptop in network neighborhood on the windows machines but when I click on my pc I get an error saying

[newbie] system tray

2002-02-12 Thread Paul Kraus
I am running gnome desktop. Is there system tray that will work globablly for apps? I want to at a glance see If i have IM's or Email waiting to be read. With having to have the app open on the desktop. PK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

RE: [newbie] system tray

2002-02-12 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] system tray Have a look at the gKrellm app I think you can configure it to do a mail notify, not sure about IM. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Kraus Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 8:55 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] FrontPage like applicatiopn for Linux ?

2002-02-12 Thread tester
Mark Finlay wrote: check out http://html.about.com/cs/linuxunixeditors/ Mark Finlay On Sun, 2002-02-10 at 18:41, Hanan Z. Shargi wrote: Does anybody know of any visual web building application for linux such as Front Page ?? Regards, -- Hanan Z. Shargi

RE: Anybody Else? Re: [newbie] in runlevel 3 - screen goes blank after a time

2002-02-12 Thread Nick
My machine does that too. Assumed it was the 3d screen saver not being able to display correctly because i have a rather strange video card (elsa erazor x2). I changed my screen saver to something more simple and it was ok. Do you have to reboot after the blanking? Does your monitor go into power

Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!

2002-02-12 Thread Kenn Yahoo
okay, i'm curious .. WHICH linus t book? - Original Message - From: Andrei Raevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 1:38 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?! | | | Sorry, I forgot to ask this in my first reply but why do you feel

RE: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1 disk 2 3

2002-02-12 Thread David
thanks.. downloading now On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 09:56, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: Take a look at this page, the CDs 23 should correspond to those in the retail packs so Second Install CD and Supplementary Open Source Apps CD are what you would get with download CDs. HTH

Re: [newbie] Space left

2002-02-12 Thread tester
Paul Kraus wrote: How do I see how much space is left on a drive? ls -lt doesn't show space left. I prefer command line. Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

RE: [newbie] 8.1 ZIP drive

2002-02-12 Thread Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)
Thanks for the tip. I tried that, and got: mount: /dev/hdd is not a block device Tried it also with /dev/hdd4, and got: mount: /dev/hdd4 is not a block device --- === Andrew Vogel: Manager of Professional Programs at the University of

[newbie] Firewall

2002-02-12 Thread Rodrigo
Hello all ! What is the best way to make a firewall for a desktop station ? There aren't any servers running on my computer. Right after installing mdk8.1 I ran the control center and set the firewall answering the questions. Some time ago I decided to explore the BastilleInteractive options

RE: [newbie] proftpd question

2002-02-12 Thread Mithrilhall2000
Maybe I sent the wrong message. When the user anonymous logs in he is sent to the proper directory but they are able to browse other users home directories and are capable of downloading from them. Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of

Re: [newbie] Samba

2002-02-12 Thread Dave Sherman
On Tue, 2002-02-12 at 10:55, Paul Kraus wrote: i start the demon. I can smbclient -L any windows pc on the network. I can see my machine in all the windows network neighborhoods. But when I try to attch from anywhere I am rejected. When I even try to do an smbclient -L mymachine name as root

Re: [newbie] Evolution

2002-02-12 Thread Brian Parish
Paul, I am using 1.0.1 In the help it describes how to import, but not from Outlook directly due to a proprietory format being used. It does describe some work-arounds though, using other apps like Mozilla or Eudora to get the job done in two steps. On the install issue: How are you trying

Re: [newbie] Firewall

2002-02-12 Thread mike
Rodrigo wrote: Hello all ! What is the best way to make a firewall for a desktop station ? There aren't any servers running on my computer. Right after installing mdk8.1 I ran the control center and set the firewall answering the questions. Some time ago I decided to explore the

Re: [newbie] standard compressed archive format ?

2002-02-12 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 21:00:26 -0500 Alaa The Great [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 19:10:52 +0100 Nicolas VERITE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi ! Is there any multi-platform standard in compressed archive formats ? WinZip is the defacto standard for

Re: [newbie] writing/deleting files to a FAT32 partition

2002-02-12 Thread Rodrigo
Guys, Iam sorry for I wrote a lot of wrong things about these FAT32 stuff . I really got messed up with something else and mixed things up. Sorry for this inconvenience. Rodrigo ed tharp wrote: wrong the default owner is whom ever first created the mount point. (root in MDK, during

Re: [newbie] Re: Frontpage like application for Linux

2002-02-12 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 08:25:49 -0600 David Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: snip Thank you! I used to use UltraEdit and was quite satisfied with the way it works. I agree that Quanta has equivalent or better functionality, though, plus it runs on Linux. If that's the

Re: [newbie] Disk Problems

2002-02-12 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 17:06:02 +, Mark Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am getting a few apps lock up and the disk wont stop reading. I have looked at the messages log file and this is what I see. I have tried fsck, but my problem is still here. Does anybody know what else I can

Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!

2002-02-12 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:04:56 -0500, NDPTAL85 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Meanwhile ArsDigita has closed up shop and months ago the company that housed the original PostgreSQL developers shut down. Oh yeah Loki shut down too. When these companies shut down, the software doesn't die because its

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org Text File Spreadsheet import

2002-02-12 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 12 Feb 2002 09:25:51 -0500, Paul Kraus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do Import a pipe deliminated text file into an openoffice.org spreadsheet? Assuming that OpenOffice.org can't do it itself... Have a look to see if there is any way to convert this file into a format that can be read in

Re: [newbie] system tray

2002-02-12 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 12 Feb 2002 09:54:55 -0500, Paul Kraus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running gnome desktop. Is there system tray that will work globablly for apps? I want to at a glance see If i have IM's or Email waiting to be read. With having to have the app open on the desktop. Have you tried looking

Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!

2002-02-12 Thread Chris Keelan
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:04:56 -0500, NDPTAL85 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Meanwhile ArsDigita has closed up shop http://www.arsdigita.com/ All the links seem to work. Maybe you meant ADUniversity? The ACS is still open source and still available, though it's been converted from TCL to Java. -

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org Text File Spreadsheet import

2002-02-12 Thread Richard Holt
Paul, I asked on the OpenOffice.org Discuss list. These are the answers I got: How to Import a pipe delimited text file into an openoffice.org spreadsheet? Paul This is a common scenario if you are dealing with output from a 'nix database (Ingres, MySQL both come to mind). When you do an

Re: [newbie] proftpd question

2002-02-12 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 08:09 pm, Mithrilhall2000 wrote: Maybe I sent the wrong message. When the user anonymous logs in he is sent to the proper directory but they are able to browse other users home directories and are capable of downloading from them. You must use a DirectoryRoot

[newbie] EBDA too big

2002-02-12 Thread Nicolas VERITE
I've launched Software Manager, and selected lots of packages for install/update from CDs (can't remember which ones in particular), X freezes, CRTL+ALT+Fn show a real mess, try to blindly login as root and shutdown -r now. Now, ever and ever again : EBDA too big carriage return dot sign nothing

Re[4]: [newbie] emu-tools

2002-02-12 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey, --- Your kernel must be compiled with loadable modules and soundcard support and without any integrated emu10K1 soundcard drivers. How do I check, please? Look for CONFIG_MODULES = y for the loadable modules support CONFIG_SOUND = y/m for soundcard support and CONFIG_SOUND_EMU10K1

Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!

2002-02-12 Thread Pascal Goguey
Hello, Sorry, I forgot to ask this in my first reply but why do you feel the need to convert your friend to Linux if he is happy with Mac OS X? For a very simple reason: I don't think that proprietary software is a good thing. Neither do I trust that Mac suddenly coming into Unices and

Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!

2002-02-12 Thread NDPTAL85
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:04:56 -0500, NDPTAL85 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Meanwhile ArsDigita has closed up shop http://www.arsdigita.com/ All the links seem to work. Maybe you meant ADUniversity? The ACS is still open source and still available, though it's been converted from TCL to

Re: [newbie] BIG thanks ;o)

2002-02-12 Thread skinky
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 18:50, Damian G wrote: Where did you find the 2.4.17 kernel? right here: ftp://mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS then i downloaded and installed kernel*.rpm ( you don't need the kernel-source or docs to install it, i just needed them

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