Re: [newbie-it] Gnome Toaster

2002-03-10 Thread Daniele Micci
Il giorno 18:01, sabato 9 marzo 2002 hai scritto: salve a tutti Ho provato a fare una semplicissima masterizazione con Gnome Toaster e non ho avuto nessun risultato,riportandomi come errore quanto segue: Child exited unexpectedly. CD recording process finished. Recording 39412464 bytes to

[newbie-it] Device cancellato

2002-03-10 Thread Luigi De Pascale
Salve a tutti, ho fatto una cazzata: ho rimosso il file /dev/tts/LT0 convinto che si ricreasse al prossimo boot. Di fatto non accade. Cosa si fa in questi casi? Ciao Luigi -- Not all who wander are lost (Tolkien) Luigi De Pascale:

[newbie-it] Fw: Falla girare seriamente

2002-03-10 Thread Matteo
- Original Message - From: mikey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 3:25 PM Subject: Falla girare seriamente Mi chiamo Nuccio. Ho 35 anni. Da 25 non trombo più!!! La bistecca nel muro non conta. Ho bisogno di una bambola gonfiabile negra. Per

FREE AT LAST Re: [newbie] rpms and OpenOffice.

2002-03-10 Thread Seedkum Aladeem
The 4.1 is the version of the install utility that was already in my machine. I have installed openoffice the way you coached me. Openoffice seems intuitive. I had no problems with the fonts during the install. However, the spell checker is acting funny. It stops at every word irrespective

Re: [newbie] Athalon 1700+ running on Dragon Plus MB

2002-03-10 Thread Lee
On Saturday 09 March 2002 11:55 pm, Gerald Waugh wrote: On Saturday 09 March 2002 01:10 am, you wrote: Fired up my Dragon Plus w/1900 60G eide drive with 8.2 Beta 4 yesterday. I did almost nothing but watch while Mandrake did it all. Set up my internet connection thru my router,

Re: [newbie] Wireless Lan card and installation problems

2002-03-10 Thread Stephen Kitchener
On Sunday 10 March 2002 07:52, you wrote: Thanks Sebastian, I'll take a look. Hi Stephen, One URL to try is as follows: http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/aironet-utils-linux This contains readme files, release notes, and driver files. Cheers, Sebastian From: Stephen

Re: [newbie] seeing windows chapter 2 :-)) (bit for Costin)

2002-03-10 Thread Derek Jennings
By the way: LISa worked well for me in 8.0, but in 8.1 I find it rather unstable. It causes a lot of konqueror crashes. So instead I use komba2. Its a lot easier to set up than LISa and very pretty.. derek On Sunday 10 March 2002 00:05, Heather Reed wrote: Hi all (and hope Costin gets

Re: [newbie] Key correspondent to degree celsius character

2002-03-10 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Michael wrote: Try 176 for degrees and 191 for inverted question mark. If these work see the HTML character encoding list here: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html Holding down Alt and then pressing Shift and then typing 176 doesn't work, any other ideas? If not (i can't get

Re: [newbie] How to Mount NTFS Partition

2002-03-10 Thread paolo brusasco
John Richard Smith wrote: Many Thanks for all your replies, My fstab file now looks like the file fstab attatched to this email please do criticise it if it warrants it. I now have nicely mounted ntfs partitions. A couple of questions, though, I chose, default 0 0 , merely because of similar

Re: [newbie] cd-rw thoughts?

2002-03-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 10 March 2002 02:08 am, mooseman wrote: i have decided to upgrade my old and buggy (HP7100i) cd-rw drive. have looked at the yamaha's, sony's, and the plextor's anyone have opinions for best results using LM8.x? i have a preference for the yamaha. one thing always catches me on

[newbie] Xwindow for toshiba laptop

2002-03-10 Thread Maamar AbuMalik
Dear linux users, I have installed mandrake 8.1 on a toshiba laptop (S8200-600) with 15 monitor. The graphic card is Nvidia Geforce2, which I was able to find in mandrake 8.1 and I have tried a number of generic laptop monitors but nothing has worked so far! Anyone has any idea on how to fix

Re: [newbie] Voodoo5 How-To for RH 7.x

2002-03-10 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
On Sun, 2002-03-10 at 04:38, FemmeFatale wrote: I think this might work for Man. 8.x. Try reading it. I post this for the persona asking about voodoo 5 cards. http://www.evil3d.net/articles/linux/howto/3dfx/redhat7/ Great, that worked a treat - thanks! -- -- Rick Kitty5 WebDesign -

[newbie] alias problem

2002-03-10 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I have made an alias in /etc/bashrc, $HOME/.bashrc and $HOME/.bash_profile as given below alias l=ls -alF --color=yes |more this doesn't give the desired/actual result as given in command line. Any help please. -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam,

Re: [newbie] cd-rw thoughts?

2002-03-10 Thread Hanan Shargi
Hey Folks, Tom Brinkman is on the list right now, if you are in need for some prof. replies ():-) okay any thoughts about external CD Writers ? - Hanan AL-Shargi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] alias problem

2002-03-10 Thread Hamster
I have no idea if this is the answer to your problem, but aliases in my /etc/bashrc are surrounded by '' not ie mine reads alias ls='ls -a --color=auto' what does happen when you type l ?? H I have made an alias in /etc/bashrc, $HOME/.bashrc and $HOME/.bash_profile as given below alias

Re: [newbie] Running Open Office more directly

2002-03-10 Thread Charles Muller
I am elated to report that I finally succeeded to start up OpenOffice using this. If you use the GNOME Panel, take a look at the OpenOffice QuickStarter applet at http://ooqstart.sourceforge.net/. My error was in the path I entered in the properties box. I had originally entered

Re: [newbie] alias problem

2002-03-10 Thread Moshe Kaminsky
Hi, Perhaps you can give some more details, like what does happen when you type l. Also, what do you get when you type `alias l'? Moshe * L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020310 17:35]: I have made an alias in /etc/bashrc, $HOME/.bashrc and $HOME/.bash_profile as given below alias l=ls -alF

[newbie] help with postfix and setting up a full e-mail system.

2002-03-10 Thread Dan Lori Buchanan
I need a good how to on setting up a postfix program. Becuase of work i've been poisoned by m$ exchange and just can't seem to get postfix fully configured. I have an intresting reguriement as my internal domain (interal) and my external domain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) are not the same. I have 3

Re: [newbie] Leaving system running

2002-03-10 Thread shane
my system runs 24/7 right where i leave it. if i am writing a webpage or composing email, that is where i leave it. i usually have 3-5 konqi's running, kmail, and a couple of kword or abiword, often also opera is running, and setiathome is always on. by the way, setiathome is great way to

[newbie] programs running on wine

2002-03-10 Thread Stojs
I have now decided to have a go with linux. Not all the way since I would not trust it to run 3ds max like I would like it to. I bought the mandrake 8.1 power pack. Is there a list anywhere of windows programs tested running wine successfully (and not successfully)? Want to buy your Pack

[newbie] Re: ximian gnome

2002-03-10 Thread shane
no offence, and it should be obvious one of the best things about linux is the number of ways you can configure it, the choices of apps and desktops, etc, but ximian would have to be something very special to make me like gnome. :-D On Sunday 10 March 2002 01:46, Damian Gatabria opened a

[newbie] descent3 demo install

2002-03-10 Thread Stojs
I downloaded the descent3 demo, it is a file called descent3-demo-x86.run. How do I run it? When I click it nothing happens. Thanks in advance, Stojs Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Minimizing the cult factor

2002-03-10 Thread shane
On Sunday 10 March 2002 02:34, Kaj Haulrich opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: 5. Windows compatibility. I think Windows compatibility is icing on the cake, i have to agree, if you have your own good apps, you don't need to pay for theirs, and help them. better continuing

[newbie] samba - online books?

2002-03-10 Thread Stojs
Is there any good book or other document on samba on the net? Thanks in advance, Stojs Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] samba - online books?

2002-03-10 Thread shane
well there is http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Protocols/CIFS/ and as always http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html and http://www.linuxdoc.org/ have a little of everything On Sunday 10 March 2002 10:03, Stojs opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Is there any good

Re: [newbie] Running Open Office more directly

2002-03-10 Thread Jan Wilson
* Charles Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020310 10:35]: My error was in the path I entered in the properties box. I had originally entered /usr/share/OpenOffice.org641/program But once I shortened this to /usr/share/OpenOffice.org641 It worked fine. I am happy with this, but if

Re: [newbie] Minimizing the cult factor

2002-03-10 Thread Pena Family
My two cents. First, Gimp is a great alternative, but more importantly a great application on its own. I have for both Linux-Mandrake 8.0 and WindowsXP. Great application. Game: Not all of us care to play them or have them on our machines. (note I am excluding simple ones like solitaire and

Re: [newbie] samba - online books

2002-03-10 Thread Hanan Shargi
Try this link http://maththinking.com/boat/languageBooksIndex.html - Hanan AL-Shargi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] bash-monitor

2002-03-10 Thread Andrew
Hi, How to adj monitor so bash CL does not run of the bottom. I loose the last few lines after a few commands. Makes for a very difficult learning experience. -- Have an extra nice Day!, Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] words of thanks

2002-03-10 Thread Linux
Howdy all -- it was a few weeks ago I was asking for help with setting up postfix fetchmail -- just wanted to say that I got it all working and wanted to thank everyone for their help, and especially those who sent copys of their config files. that helped quite a bit. my problems were a

Re: [newbie] samba - online books?

2002-03-10 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 10 March 2002 12:18, you wrote: well there is http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Protocols/CIFS/ and as always http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html and http://www.linuxdoc.org/ have a little of everything On Sunday 10 March 2002 10:03, Stojs opened a hailing

[newbie] don't do this

2002-03-10 Thread Linux
for those of you new to linux, never, ever change owership of your entire file system to user. this is bad. for those of you wondering, I didn't do this on purpose -- but the result is the same either way. learning the hard way -- skippi - Skippi

Re: [newbie] Minimizing the cult factor

2002-03-10 Thread mooseman
The steadiest player ??!!!??? read that: he who has run down, bought out or otherwise cut the throat of. and/or he who has the biggest FUD department. besides that, jazziness (ie:media hype) should not be the determining factor of which OS you use. a product stands on its own merits, not the

Re: [newbie] gaim - I did it - here's how :-))

2002-03-10 Thread Damian Gatabria
El Dom 10 Mar 2002 07:49, escribió: - Original Message - From: Damian Gatabria [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 9:46 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] gaim - I did it - here's how :-)) hey heather, just a question. after installing Ximian Gnome nothing

[newbie] Do I need 2 NIC for connection sharing ?

2002-03-10 Thread Hanan Shargi
Hi, I need some advise ( actually I'd rather specifuc steps :)) to get from Initial state below to Goal state ( also below ): Initial State: I have a 2 machines: First machine: a dual booting notebook ( LM 8.1 + Win98 SE) connected to DSL + printer. Second machine: a dual booting Desktop ( LM

Re: [newbie] help with postfix and setting up a full e-mail system.

2002-03-10 Thread civileme
Dan Lori Buchanan wrote: I need a good how to on setting up a postfix program. Becuase of work i've been poisoned by m$ exchange and just can't seem to get postfix fully configured. I have an intresting reguriement as my internal domain (interal) and my external domain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] descent3 demo install

2002-03-10 Thread Steven Spears
Hi: Right click on it and then click the permissions tab at the bottom. Make sure that he boxes for executible are checked. That' s what I usually do. Steve On Sunday 10 March 2002 11:40 am, you wrote: I downloaded the descent3 demo, it is a file called descent3-demo-x86.run. How do I run

Re: [newbie] programs running on wine

2002-03-10 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
On Sun, 2002-03-10 at 17:27, Stojs wrote: I have now decided to have a go with linux. Not all the way since I would not trust it to run 3ds max like I would like it to. I bought the mandrake 8.1 power pack. Is there a list anywhere of windows programs tested running wine successfully (and

Re: [newbie] programs running on wine

2002-03-10 Thread Paul_Vortex
Rick [Kitty5] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes... you could run max in vmware, but seriously, who would want to - dual boot and replace your windows shell with max :) Um You can boot directly into a program like Max??? Can you do it with Lightwave7? Wow! Could you set up a multiple boot system

Re: [newbie] Do I need 2 NIC for connection sharing ?

2002-03-10 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 10 March 2002 13:49, you wrote: Hi, I need some advise ( actually I'd rather specifuc steps :)) to get from Initial state below to Goal state ( also below ): Initial State: I have a 2 machines: First machine: a dual booting notebook ( LM 8.1 + Win98 SE) connected to DSL +

Re: [newbie] Minimizing the cult factor

2002-03-10 Thread Robin Turner
On Sunday 10 March 2002 21:09, mooseman wrote: The steadiest player ??!!!??? read that: he who has run down, bought out or otherwise cut the throat of. and/or he who has the biggest FUD department. besides that, jazziness (ie:media hype) should not be the determining factor of which OS you

Re: [newbie] programs running on wine

2002-03-10 Thread Robin Turner
On Sunday 10 March 2002 22:29, Paul_Vortex wrote: Actually... a question How does an individual get access to their other HD partitions (ie Windows and previously saved files ... I have MP3's I want to access in another partition on my drive) from the Command Line? Assuming your install

Re: [newbie] Do I need 2 NIC for connection sharing ?

2002-03-10 Thread Hanan Shargi
Dennis, you gussed it I have many questions, here is the starter: If I'm to set the NIC IP in the first machine to have 192.168.0.1 address , then where does the IP that I'm given by the ISP gonna go ?!? and I dont have a DSL modem, the building is prewired for DSL, there is a cable that comes

Re: [newbie] samba - online books?

2002-03-10 Thread Randy Kramer
shane wrote: Is there any good book or other document on samba on the net? Here is a short list of resources: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/SambaResources Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Leaving system running

2002-03-10 Thread Michael Viron
Leaving the system like that, is okay if you are the only person in the room, or the only one with access. It is more of a security concern when you are running the system as a workstation in an office building where more than 1 person has physical access to the machine. Anyways, if you are

Re: [newbie] samba - online books?

2002-03-10 Thread Michael Viron
And, the one no one has mentioned yet, http://www.samba.org has all kinds of very useful information regarding samba -- after all, it's the website of the people who are working on samba in the first place. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Changing default connection NIC

2002-03-10 Thread Robin
Hi, all The box I am using as a test bed machine has 2 NICs. eth0 is connected to my firewall with 192.168.0.x IP, eth1 is connected to my cable modem with a real IP. All the traffic goes through firewall by default. When I use eth0 down, I lose all network connectivity. My question is how do I

Re: [newbie] Do I need 2 NIC for connection sharing ?

2002-03-10 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 17:01:46 -0500 Hanan Shargi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis, you gussed it I have many questions, here is the starter: If I'm to set the NIC IP in the first machine to have 192.168.0.1 address , then where does the IP that I'm given by the ISP gonna go ?!? and I dont

Re: [newbie] Re: ximian gnome

2002-03-10 Thread Damian Gatabria
no offence, and it should be obvious one of the best things about linux is the number of ways you can configure it, the choices of apps and desktops, etc, but ximian would have to be something very special to make me like gnome. :-D On Sunday 10 March 2002 01:46, Damian Gatabria

RE: [newbie] help with postfix and setting up a full e-mail system.

2002-03-10 Thread Robin
Hi, Dan or Lori No expert here, but I think what you need is edit mydestination line in main.cf to add both internal and external domain. Postfix support 3 different kind of mailbox format, by default, mailboxes are stored in /var/mail which is a link to /var/spool/mail. The imap that come with

Re: [newbie] Do I nees 2 NIC for connection sharing ?

2002-03-10 Thread Hanan Shargi
Dennis you are right, maybe I wasnt clear when i described it, it is a cat5 cable that runs frp, my NIC to the adapter in the wall ( the adapter then adpats it to a regular phone like output excuse my informal description ) If I got you right ,, I think all i have to do is set the W2K machine

Re: [newbie] Do I need 2 NIC for connection sharing ?

2002-03-10 Thread Hanan Shargi
when trying Mandrake control center connection sharing ( the first screen ) there is a note saying: Note: you need a dedicated Network adapter to set up a local area network (LAN) I guess I do need 2 NIC's !! - Hanan AL-Shargi Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Minimizing the cult factor

2002-03-10 Thread mooseman
good point about the qwerty keyboard. i guess i didn't fully explain what i mean about the menus changing. in winxp (and i think 98se, w2k etc), the entire programs menu changes and stuff moves around based on your useage. in kde (unless you are running a significantly different version than

[newbie] Keyboard repeat delay problem

2002-03-10 Thread Pen Gwynne
Running ML8.1 and KDE. I can't find where to set the keyboard repeat delay and speed. Right now the delay is way too short. Perhaps this is not a settable function? There is a section in the BIOS, but ML8.1 doesn't seem to honor that setting. Any Suggestions? Thanks, /Pen Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Minimizing the cult factor

2002-03-10 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
1. Adobe Photoshop. This is my most controversial assertion. or brainless. i will take gimp over photoshop for 85% of everything you can do in either. better off if he brought up games. He is right, Linux needs some ass kicking productivity\creativity applications and for most photoshop

Re: [newbie] Minimizing the cult factor

2002-03-10 Thread Kaj Haulrich
Hey Steve, sorry for upsetting your feelings ! - I just wanted to forward Dvorak's question : are we too geeky ? - Are we fanatic lunatics ? - Do we really want to scare people off ? - Personally I don't think so, but I see his point : It's fun to own a Ferrari when all the neighbors drive Fords

Re: [newbie] Minimizing the cult factor

2002-03-10 Thread FemmeFatale
As usual Mr. Dvorak is right on the mark. Thx Kaj for the article. I like him a lot :) And I hate to agree with what he's said, but IMO he's correct. Femme Kaj Haulrich wrote: Good Sunday all ! Just happened to come across an article in PC Magazine by the legendary John C. Dvorak. I

Re: [newbie] gaim - I did it - here's how :-))

2002-03-10 Thread FemmeFatale
Ya but he may remember my names Heather too ;p Is why I use Femme instead. Keeps me easier to find in a list of names. And its my Quake 3 name. FF Heather Reed wrote: hey heather, just a question. after installing Ximian Gnome nothing works. that's right, (done that, been there) but

Re: [newbie] connection sharing and ip number

2002-03-10 Thread FemmeFatale
AFAIK (Michael will correct me I'm sure {admit it Michael, you saw that coming :P}), unless your ISP gives you a DHCP connection *non-static IP addy's*, you won't or shouldn't get a new IP address either way. As for finding it, I would love to know too. From a term preferably, as none of my

Re: [newbie] Voodoo5 How-To for RH 7.x

2002-03-10 Thread FemmeFatale
You're welcome. Just return the fave when I need something ;P J/K Femme Rick [Kitty5] wrote: On Sun, 2002-03-10 at 04:38, FemmeFatale wrote: I think this might work for Man. 8.x. Try reading it. I post this for the persona asking about voodoo 5 cards.

Re: [newbie] Re: ximian gnome

2002-03-10 Thread FemmeFatale
I've started to agree Shane. Gnome just keeps pissing me off. Femme shane wrote: ximian would have to be something very special to make me like gnome. :-D On Sunday 10 March 2002 01:46, Damian Gatabria opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: no joke, i started liking gnome

Re: [newbie] gaim - I did it - here's how :-))

2002-03-10 Thread FemmeFatale
Ugh, I hated it. It broke borked 3/4 of my installation. I got 3/4 of the way through its patches, but it patches stuff I wasn't sure it should others that just stopped working AFTER it patched it! *GAH!* I have a separate partition for test OSes, its a 10gb partition *ya i've got a large

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] gaim - I did it - here's how :-))

2002-03-10 Thread FemmeFatale
Oh don't fret about that. If I'm not breaking something I'm not happy ;) Besides, this is my leisure activity. Ya I know, I should get my head checked. FF Damian Gatabria wrote: I have a separate partition for test OSes, its a 10gb partition *ya i've got a large HDD*. So i may do that

Re: [newbie] Disk Partitioning

2002-03-10 Thread FemmeFatale
OK *grins* new headache! I've been considering a new experiment on my TEST OS partition. The one time I did this it failed I want to know why. Install LM8.0 or begin to. Get to the partition utility. Normally I hit auto allocate it gives me 3 partitions: /root, swap, home. Well...being

[newbie] execute in shell?

2002-03-10 Thread Zlatko Savic
Hey everyone, this question is probably very simple to answer but as a newbie it's not easy. =) As root I must enter ./ (dot-slash) in front of any command or app i want to execute from the shell. However, as a regular user, I don't have to. I looked into my .bashrc but I cannot see a line of

Re: [newbie] Minimizing the cult factor

2002-03-10 Thread Damian Gatabria
El Dom 10 Mar 2002 22:44, escribió: On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 01:18:13AM +, Rick [Kitty5] wrote: 1. Adobe Photoshop. This is my most controversial assertion. or brainless. i will take gimp over photoshop for 85% of everything you can do in either. better off if he brought up

Re: [newbie] Do I nees 2 NIC for connection sharing ?

2002-03-10 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 10 March 2002 18:12, you wrote: Dennis you are right, maybe I wasnt clear when i described it, it is a cat5 cable that runs frp, my NIC to the adapter in the wall ( the adapter then adpats it to a regular phone like output excuse my informal description ) If I got you right ,, I

[newbie] dual linux boot from one hd?

2002-03-10 Thread Zlatko Savic
hi everyone, I am not sure if this can possibly work but I would like to have MD 8.1 and 7.2 on the same harddrive and i would like it to boot both from Lilo (or Grub). I installed MD 8.0 next to 7.2 but the 8.0 simply took over mounting of / and /home and left the 7.2 partitions unmounted.

Re: [newbie] Do I need 2 NIC for connection sharing ?

2002-03-10 Thread Green Skin
Actually it is Category 5 (or 5E) Unshielded Twisted Pair cable. Cat 5 transfers at 10/100 mbs and Cat 5E transfers data at 1000 mbs. There are four sets of twisted pairs that are primarily there to help prevent radio frequency Interference. The ends of the four pairs get separated to make

Re: [newbie] Do I nees 2 NIC for connection sharing ?

2002-03-10 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 10 March 2002 18:39, you wrote: On Sunday 10 March 2002 18:12, you wrote: Dennis you are right, maybe I wasnt clear when i described it, it is a cat5 cable that runs frp, my NIC to the adapter in the wall ( the adapter then adpats it to a regular phone like output excuse my

Re: [newbie] Minimizing the cult factor

2002-03-10 Thread Walter Logeman
Robin Turner,  Actually, KDE does that, it just has a very weird idea about  what programs I use (presumably because it tracks the programs  I open from the menu, rather than icons or the command line -  in other words the programs I use least!). Yes - while not aware of that particular problem

Re: [newbie] help with postfix and setting up a full e-mail system.

2002-03-10 Thread Dan Lori Buchanan
yep that worked. I had either gotten ahold of some old information or some bad info because the info I had said that postfix didn't do pop3 and told me about the transfer map setup. Now i just have to set up the other accounts :). As for the relay server no i don't want one. I had just

Re: [newbie] Do I need 2 NIC for connection sharing ?

2002-03-10 Thread Green Skin
That is exactly how it should be done. BTW someone mentioned switches and hubs in the same sentence. They are two different things and should not be confused as being interchangable. A hub is just a device that allows connectivity between two or more PCs. This is a high collision device

Re: [newbie] Do I nees 2 NIC for connection sharing ?

2002-03-10 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Sunday 10 March 2002 07:12 pm, you wrote: Dennis you are right, maybe I wasnt clear when i described it, it is a cat5 cable that runs frp, my NIC to the adapter in the wall ( the adapter then adpats it to a regular phone like output excuse my informal description ) If I got you right ,,

Re: [newbie] alias problem

2002-03-10 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Sunday 10 March 2002 09:06 pm, you wrote: On Sunday 10 March 2002 21:13, Hamster wrote: I have no idea if this is the answer to your problem, but aliases in my /etc/bashrc are surrounded by '' not ie mine reads alias ls='ls -a --color=auto' what does happen when you type l ??

Re: [newbie] execute in shell?

2002-03-10 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Sunday 10 March 2002 10:23 pm, you wrote: Hey everyone, this question is probably very simple to answer but as a newbie it's not easy. =) As root I must enter ./ (dot-slash) in front of any command or app i want to execute from the shell. However, as a regular user, I don't have to. I

Re: [newbie] Minimizing the cult factor

2002-03-10 Thread shane
On Sunday 10 March 2002 10:23, Pena Family opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Game: Not all of us care to play them or have them on our machines. (note I am excluding simple ones like solitaire and etc.) very true, myself, i only play strategy type games, but, we don't all run web

GIMP scripting Was: [newbie] Minimizing the cult factor

2002-03-10 Thread shane
i have little experience with photoshop pluggins, but gimp is very extensable as well, it provides a nice scripting method. does anyone have a link or links for collections of such? On Sunday 10 March 2002 19:28, Damian Gatabria opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: well, photoshop by

Re: [newbie] Do I need 2 NIC for connection sharing ?

2002-03-10 Thread Hanan Shargi
Okay Folks, Thanks for the overwhelming replies :) I ordered an NIC, and I'll tell you how it goes after I get it, so be prepaired for some more Q's :) Good night ... or Morning wherever you are :) Isn't it great to be a Linuxian ():-) - Hanan AL-Shargi Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Do I need 2 NIC for connection sharing ?

2002-03-10 Thread FemmeFatale
That was me. Thx for clearing that up *puts on a dunce cap*. I should know better. Femme Green Skin wrote: That is exactly how it should be done. BTW someone mentioned switches and hubs in the same sentence. They are two different things and should not be confused as being

Re: [newbie] Do I need 2 NIC for connection sharing ?

2002-03-10 Thread FemmeFatale
Only on the days when every thing goes according to the plan. :) Femme Hanan Shargi wrote: Isn't it great to be a Linuxian ():-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Minimizing the cult factor

2002-03-10 Thread shane
On Sunday 10 March 2002 21:24, sda opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: and i agree with whoever said ( don't remember now ) that that guy should have brought the games issue up as well, and he would be right to do so.. Bah, that's the only advantage Windoze has...but then this

Re: [newbie] Minimizing the cult factor

2002-03-10 Thread Damian Gatabria
about the article, i agree with it partially.. i'd twist the order of that list a little, of course... in my opinion, if you are going to use linux in an office, ms-office compatibility is vital, not only for in-office use, but to send and receive from/to many places that will surely be

Re: [newbie] execute in shell?

2002-03-10 Thread Michael
Gerald Waugh wrote: On Sunday 10 March 2002 10:23 pm, you wrote: Hey everyone, this question is probably very simple to answer but as a newbie it's not easy. =) As root I must enter ./ (dot-slash) in front of any command or app i want to execute from the shell. However, as a regular

[newbie] clock keeping correct time?

2002-03-10 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
I'm running Mandrake 8.1. Every time I reboot the time on the clock is off by usually 8 hours. I reset it then if I have to reboot to go to Window$ then I have to set it again. It's not a big deal, but doesn anyone have an idea? And yes, the clock in the BIOS is set correctly. Thanks, --

Re: [newbie] classes.zip not found in ICQ Java installation.

2002-03-10 Thread Damian Gatabria
El Sáb 09 Mar 2002 13:10, escribió: I am trying to install an ICQ Java version on my Mandrake 8.1. in ICQJava/install: JAVA_CLASSES=$JAVA_HOME/lib/classes.zip And ./install prompts Invalid JAVA_CLASSES: file classes.zip not found I don't have a classes.zip in my j2re1.4.0/lib directory.

Re: [newbie] execute in shell?

2002-03-10 Thread FemmeFatale
*wonders if I should be offended or what?* OK so I'm good at something. Everyone has to have a talent! Heather is next in line I'm sure for this little title of Install Expert. :) Femme Michael wrote: Then Femme AKA Heather would be instructing you on reinstalling ;o) Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Minimizing the cult factor

2002-03-10 Thread Damian Gatabria
about the taking or not taking on M$ .. don't you think that all those people ( i.e. me ) that leave windows and use linux are growing in number because of this kind of competition? M$ has blown away every single competitor till now, using incredibly agressive, unfair and probably illegal

Re: [newbie] Minimizing the cult factor

2002-03-10 Thread FemmeFatale
I won't comment on the tech stuff however sda wrote: then the desktop wars will begin in earnest. Personally I don't care if Linux succeeds in the desktop market. I do pretty well everything from the cli or a minimalist GUI, I can't stand either GNOME or KDE. I don't need a packaged