Re: [newbie-it] Sceda rete pcmcia

2002-03-13 Thread Stefano Bigotta
scusate se mi intrometto a thread già avviato, scherzi? ogni consiglio é piú che ben accetto!! comunque dopo aver essermi spaccato la testa sull'how-to relativo allle schede pcmcia ho scoperto che il problema era nella configurazione della memoria... é bastato mettere i dati che avevo salvato

Re: [newbie-it] Device cancellato

2002-03-13 Thread Luigi De Pascale
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, nicola wrote: Alle 20:15, domenica 10 marzo 2002, hai scritto: 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 L'unica

Re: [newbie-it] emulazione scsi

2002-03-13 Thread tom
Alle 22:02, martedì 12 marzo 2002, nicola ha scritto: Alle 19:25, sabato 9 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Ciao, scusate se mi intrometto, ma l'argomento è molto interessante, ed ho provato anche io a emulare scsi il mio cd, ma incorro in un problema, non esiste il dispositivo

Re: [newbie-it] Mandrake in crisi!?

2002-03-13 Thread Daniele Micci
Il giorno 11:45, mercoledì 13 marzo 2002 hai scritto: Scusate se interrompo il normale svolgimento della mailing-list ma vi chiederei di dare uno sguardo al seguente link http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/mdkfuture.php3 dove si parla della crisi economica di Mandrake. Visto che ci

Re: [newbie-it] Mandrake in crisi!?

2002-03-13 Thread Brunini Alessandro
Anch'io sono d'accordo sul fatto che il mondo open debba essere supportato. Infatti una volta provata la distribuzione, spendo volentieri 60 Euro per il pacchetto completo, che tra le altre cose permette più rapidamente di installare i vari programmi che comunque dopo dovremmo

[newbie-it] Lilo e win

2002-03-13 Thread Luigi De Pascale
salve come faccio a rimettere lilo dopo che win se lo e' mangiato? Gigi -- Not all who wander are lost (Tolkien) Luigi De Pascale: Indirizzo: Dipartimento di Matematica Applicata U.Dini Via Bonanno Pisano 25/B, 56126

Re: [newbie-it] Lilo e win

2002-03-13 Thread Germano
Come root digita lilo in un qualunque terminale, così facendo non dovrebbe far altro che riscrivere il contenuto del file /etc/lilo.conf nel Master Boot Record. Per sicurezza man lilo Ciao, Germano Il 15:31, mercoledì 13 marzo 2002, hai scritto: salve come faccio a rimettere lilo dopo che

Re: [newbie-it] Mandrake in crisi!?

2002-03-13 Thread Andrea Celli
Brunini Alessandro wrote: Anch'io sono d'accordo sul fatto che il mondo open debba essere supportato. Infatti una volta provata la distribuzione, spendo volentieri 60 Euro per il pacchetto completo, che tra le altre cose permette più rapidamente di installare i vari programmi che comunque

R: [newbie-it] Mandrake in crisi!?

2002-03-13 Thread gian
credo che sia arrivato il momento di contribuire economicamente, se non vogliamo cambiare distribuzione. Penso che se lo meritano. Io mi comprerò la distribuzione era già da un pò che ci stavo pensando. Comunque se tutti o quasi collaboriamo secondo le nostre possibilità possiamo aiutarli.

R: [newbie-it] Mandrake in crisi!?

2002-03-13 Thread Di Fresco Marco
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/mdkfuture.php3 dove si parla della crisi economica di Mandrake. Ho letto l'articolo è da quanto ho capito hanno dei gravi problemi finanziari, ma solo a breve termine in quanto a medio-lungo prevedono buoni risultati: in poche parole prevedono di chidere il

[newbie-it] Cos'è Journaling?

2002-03-13 Thread Di Fresco Marco
Ciao a tutti, per prima cosa chiedo scusa se non chiudo gli altri thread che ho aperto (Installazione da partizione fat, Connesso o non connesso? e quello di mettere /home su partizione fat), ma al momento per motivi pratici ho bloccato l'uso di linux! Quando mi rimettero, se i problemi ci

Re: [newbie-it] Cos'è Journaling?

2002-03-13 Thread Daniele Micci
Il giorno 22:23, mercoledì 13 marzo 2002 hai scritto: Ciao a tutti, per prima cosa chiedo scusa se non chiudo gli altri thread che ho aperto (Installazione da partizione fat, Connesso o non connesso? e quello di mettere /home su partizione fat), ma al momento per motivi pratici ho bloccato

Re: [newbie-it] Cos'è Journaling?

2002-03-13 Thread Leonardo Orazi
Ottima spiegazione, io però ritengo che, per l'utente medio, il journaled file system non è assolutamente necessario ne conveniente. Penso sia molto più importante avere un sistema operativo veloce e robusto in modo da scongiurare per quanto possibile i pericoli di crash. Direi che i file

Re: [newbie-it] Cos'è Journaling?

2002-03-13 Thread Marco Forti
io però ritengo che, per l'utente medio, il journaled file system non è assolutamente necessario ne conveniente. Beh, devo dirti che dopo un paio d'anni di ext2 ho provato l'ext3 con Mandrake 8.1 e i vantaggi sono evidenti anche per chi soffre di mancanza di corrente poche volte al

[newbie] Setting up the DVD

2002-03-13 Thread Walter Logeman
Hi, What is the way to set up the DVD in fstab (and/or wherever) I have no /dev/dvd which seems to be what my dvd player is looking for. At present I need to change it to dev/cdrom - that works. Walter -- Walter Logeman Psychotherapist http://www.psybernet.co.nz Want to buy your Pack

[newbie] Email Messages

2002-03-13 Thread Pauljames Dimitriu
Hi, I'm trying to send messages to my account on my Linux machine but it keeps bouncing. I have the ip address set up correctly, I have port forwarding for POP3 on my router, but I get the following: (reason: 554 email addr: Recipient address rejected: Relay access denied) What does

Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all AND Geek vs whatever

2002-03-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 13 March 2002 12:33 am, David wrote: In answer to your off topic ??'s 1,2,3,4 re-install David Bainbridge, GA I grew up in Buckhead, GA. Know where that is ? ;) . still don't care for bill elliott all that much ... I'm a Earnhardt fan you see, I live'n

Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all

2002-03-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 12 March 2002 09:30 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Geez it's winter in South Texas and it hit close 30°C here today that's more commonly known as about 85° in these parts. Almost warm enough to hit the beach, not quite tho, still a little too chilly ;) Thought y'all

Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all

2002-03-13 Thread mooseman
alright, i am in... telkwa, bc, canada. it was 30c here, minus 30c that is. but now a balmy -10c fine spring weather indeed! light snow this year. only have two feet right now. ;-D Quoting Henry B. Wangle Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Guy, Arkansas USA Presently 40F slightly cloudy,

Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all AND Geek vs whatever

2002-03-13 Thread Lee
On Tuesday 12 March 2002 10:32 pm, David wrote: OMG It's the dreaded List Police. Run, everyone TO ALL who have posted to this: This type of stuff has ABSOLUTLY NO, NONE , ZERO, NADA, ZILCH, place on this list. Please find a chat room. On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 22:18:22 -0800

Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all

2002-03-13 Thread g. sanders
(This is one'a the best threads we've had in a long time) It has been funeven with the volumes of email that have come in today (that I'm adding to at the moment! ;-)) mushy stuff I usually just sit back, lurk and learn, but I'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who

Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all AND Geek vswhatever

2002-03-13 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 01:33:14 -0500 David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trimmed somewhat Take a look at /etc/security/limits.conf As I recall there is a parameter in there with has something to do with the problem you describe. Mind you this is from the land which holds the Americas Cup -

[newbie] Geek vs the rest dilemma. NOW NUTZ BOLTZ

2002-03-13 Thread john rigby
Hi Damien, What distro was it? I still have a Full Box 8.0 which failed on my old machine and I am going to try it on another System which has a Ricoh CDRW. My plan now is try it and see - if it doesn't work on this one, I will try an 8.2 update I want to put the 8.0 on to get the IBM ViaVoice

[newbie] Geek vs the rest dilemma.: How to tell a Geek - simplified

2002-03-13 Thread john rigby
Hi Ed, Shane folks, For even further edification and the eluctation of any interloculators, may I present an even easier Geek test? Q1: Given the option of having a date with Britney or finagling a fix for that recalcitrant Soundcard, which would you choose? (a) Britney(b) The Box Q2:

[newbie] Email Service

2002-03-13 Thread Pauljames Dimitriu
Hi All, Forgive if this message appears twice, but I don't see it on the list. Question: How do I set up my computer as a POP3 account? When I try to send a message to my account on my Linux machine, I get the following bounce back: 554 email addr: Recipient address rejected: Relay

Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ?

2002-03-13 Thread Lee
OK, I got it now. Anyone who has positive input to your thread is a geek or power user Darn. Guess I buy the next box at Kmart. When Mandrake works then, can I please just be a user? Lee P.S. My real nightmares are all MS experiences from my dark past. Hi Lee, Thanks for your info,

Re: [newbie] Mandrake's financial situation

2002-03-13 Thread peter
sda wrote: On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:45:45AM -, Barran, Richard wrote: Morning all, I've received a very interesting Mandrake Community Newsletter this morning. I'm including here the two most relevant paragraphs: That said I'd like to join the club, however each time I've tried it asks

Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ?

2002-03-13 Thread john rigby
Hi Lee and folks, - Original Message - From: Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 7:31 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ? OK, I got it now. Anyone who has positive input to your thread is a geek or power user

Re: [newbie] alias problem

2002-03-13 Thread skinky
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 05:16, alex wrote: Did you restart your computer after you saved the alias or at least reboot?. I use a lot of aliases and after saving them, I just reboot back into Linux. Incidently, I have never put the aliases into $HOME/.bashrc or $HOME/.bashrc_profileThe only

Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all

2002-03-13 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 02:38:53 -0600, Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 12 March 2002 09:30 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Geez it's winter in South Texas and it hit close 30°C here today that's more commonly known as about 85° in these parts. Almost warm enough to

Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ?

2002-03-13 Thread john rigby
Hi Todd, Thanks for the info. But you are right you are disqualified! :-) Home built box indeed! :-0 - Original Message - From: Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 1:04 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ? Everything

[OT] Re: [newbie] Answers to the Geek vs the rest dilemma.

2002-03-13 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 13 March 2002 02:45, john rigby wrote: Hi Michael, Then by definition they are ipso facto, NOT real Geeks. :-) NB: In the weird world of Computers, the hierachy is very strict. Techo's look down on the Marketeers, Programmers look down on both of them and REAL Designers

Re: [newbie] Minimizing the cult factor

2002-03-13 Thread ed tharp
I hate to debate. However you're sucking me in. *Sigh* shane wrote: the real point here is that you can have the full KDE or the CL only and about 20 flavors in between. how many can you get on most other operating systems? ok now how many of those come with it? Yes I'll agree

Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all

2002-03-13 Thread Metamorphysical
Augusta, Maine. - Original Message - From: Paul_Vortex [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 10:59 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes... Walnut Creek (bay area) California here and bar

RE: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ?

2002-03-13 Thread Barran, Richard
-Original Message- From: john rigby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 13 March 2002 10:34 To: Lee; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ? It can be done. Mandrake can do it. All that is necessary is to stop trying to be all things to all people.

Re: [newbie] Setting up the DVD

2002-03-13 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 10:11:52 +1300 Walter Logeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, What is the way to set up the DVD in fstab (and/or wherever) I have no /dev/dvd which seems to be what my dvd player is looking for. At present I need to change it to dev/cdrom - that works. You do not

Re: [newbie] Mandrake's financial situation

2002-03-13 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 13 March 2002 03:47, Tom Brinkman wrote: [snippet] Last, and probly the least contribution (Mandrake doesn't make much, the middle men do) is to buy Mandrake in a store like Wal*Mart or Best Buy, or other retail outlet. The one thing to be said in favour of this is that

Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ? NOW what for?

2002-03-13 Thread john rigby
Shane, You are being very, very rude and are thus, probably very, very young. I will however answer you. The reason the *quiet moneymakers* use Frontpage and the early 98 version at that, is because THE WORLD uses I. E. and I.E. compatibility. Nobody in their right mind wouldn't design

Re: [newbie] fpversion

2002-03-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Gerald Waugh wrote: On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Ronald J. Hall wrote: + uname -a for several things. ;-) You can do cat /proc/something for instance try cat /proc/cpuinfo do an ls /proc to see all the infor available -- Gerald Waugh Geralds right. One of the more useful cat /proc

Re: [newbie] Mandrake's financial situation: PayPal

2002-03-13 Thread john rigby
Hi Femme, True? No! I think that is put around by the Banks. :-) It is especially useful to small traders trading internationally. It is on Fablor's recommended list. Has done wonders for some of their Academy members. The only real worry is that some operator will take them over. Cheers,

Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all

2002-03-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Paul_Vortex wrote: shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes... Walnut Creek (bay area) California here and bar hoping would _not_ be a good idea. can see a bunch of rowdy linux geeks in one bar? ;-) LoL... ever hear of Pigdog? Being a Sanfranciscan and all. PV. Was just with a bunch

Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all

2002-03-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
DanLori Buchanan wrote: Dan Buchanan Chicagoland (far north burbs) USA where it's been in the low 20s at 6:00 and might get to 50 today. Had that weather yesterday here in the hills of Eastern Kentucky (USA). Prestonsburg, to be exact...where I'm so far up in Conley Fork that our

Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all

2002-03-13 Thread Paul Vortex
Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes... (in two messages!) ...Was just with a bunch of rowdy geeks last October on the Linux Lunacy cruise in the Caribbean... ;-) We managed to not run aground, sink the ship (or any islands!) although we did founder a few times...! grin... Oh yes...

Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ?

2002-03-13 Thread Peter Watson
John I've followed this thread for a while and think I may be what you are looking for. I'm 58 yrs old and have a PII 266 with 64kb. Last year i bought mandrake 8.0 power pack, i stuck it in the cd and eveything went fine. I have KDE, Internet connection, web browsing, Star office, xmms,

[newbie] Digital TV PCI cards - suggestions, recommendations, working setups, problems...

2002-03-13 Thread magnet
System: Mandrake 8.0 running on a Gigabyte GA-71XE4 mobo, Athlon 1.2GHz, 256MB ram and a 20Gb HDD. Very stable atm :) I would like to know if there is a PCI card that would enable me to view terestrial television broadcasts like bbc1, bbc2, bbc4, bbc knowledge, itv1, itv2, channel 4 and channel

Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all AND Geek vs whatever

2002-03-13 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Wednesday 13 March 2002 12:08 am, David wrote: Yes this is a community, and it does have a very _welcome_ feel to it. But I have a point to make. My email a while ago received quite a number of replies. I have posted actual problems to this list more than a couple of times and the total

Re: [newbie] Mandrake's financial situation

2002-03-13 Thread Randy Kramer
sda wrote: Maybe they do, Maybe they don't, but the internet is NOT a safe place to be entrusting that kind of information to foreign third parties. I hope debit card acceptance proliferates soon. I think a debit card is worse than a credit card -- money is drawn directly from your bank

[newbie] connection sharing partly blocked

2002-03-13 Thread Stojs
I have my connection sharing working almost prefectly. The only problem is with a windows program called direct connect. It is a p2p program. When I run it with windows connected directly to the internet it runs perfectly, but connected through linux with firewall stopped it cannot reach out to

Re: [newbie] ARRRRRGH Big stinky MESS!!!! (was : Xwindows and RPMdrake problems}

2002-03-13 Thread Jussi Aalto
Hi Paul There is a way recovering lost/destroyed partition table. When you are done with your partitioning and installing necessary OS'es, do 'fdisk -l /dev/hdX' from command line.With Linux fdisk, not the DOS one (replace X with a for ide1, b ide2 etc.). Then write the output down or print

Re: [newbie] Geek vs the rest dilemma. NOW NUTZ BOLTZ

2002-03-13 Thread Damian Gatabria
What distro was it? 8.1 Download Edition I still have a Full Box 8.0 which failed on my old machine and I am going to try it on another System which has a Ricoh CDRW. i downloaded 8.0 as well, but never tried it much. looked good anyway. My plan now is try it and see - if it doesn't

Re: [newbie] descent3 demo install

2002-03-13 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 18:03:51 +0100 Stojs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed the MESA, and I still get the same error message. Do I have to configure MESA or is there anything else to do? (Sorry for the incorrect subject on my last post in the thread) I hate to be the one to break this

Re: [newbie] Email Service

2002-03-13 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 02:17:39 -0800 (PST) Pauljames Dimitriu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Forgive if this message appears twice, but I don't see it on the list. Question: How do I set up my computer as a POP3 account? When I try to send a message to my account on my

Re: [newbie] Geek vs the rest dilemma. NOW NUTZ BOLTZ

2002-03-13 Thread Damian Gatabria
-- Mensaje reenviado -- Subject: Re: [newbie] Geek vs the rest dilemma. NOW NUTZ BOLTZ Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:46:00 -0300 From: Damian Gatabria [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What distro was it? 8.1 Download Edition I still have a Full Box 8.0 which failed

Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ? NOW what for?

2002-03-13 Thread Nelson Bartley
You know, I didn't want to say anything about this, however I should just for relevence. I currently do both PHP and ASP programming for various customers, as well as myself. I use Frontpage for quite a few things. Yes it does produce SOME bad code, however 2002 does produce acceptable code for

Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all

2002-03-13 Thread Fred Fraley
US - Great Lakes region Akron-Cleveland Ohio area Medina, Ohio, US to be specific But I miss the Eastern Kentucky mountains. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all

2002-03-13 Thread Fred Fraley
On Tuesday 12 March 2002 07:48, Hanan Shargi opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Walnut Creek (bay area) California here and bar hoping would _not_ be a good idea. can see a bunch of rowdy linux geeks in one bar? ;-) Gee, I recall a special Linux tour to Germany a couple

Re: [newbie] network

2002-03-13 Thread quaylar
At 18:59 12.03.2002 +, you wrote: Hello all, I have my network up and running great. I can access the Linux machine from the win box. Could some give me a point in the right direction on how to access the win box from Linux? Thanks --

Re: [newbie] Installing WordPerfect on Mandrake 8.1??????

2002-03-13 Thread shane
On Wednesday 13 March 2002 08:33, Wm. G. McGrath opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Has anyone had any success installing Word Perfect 8 on Mandrake 8.1? you will need libc-5.3.12-35mdk.i586.rpm and ld.so-1.9.5-13.i386.rpm both of which can be found at places like rpmfind.net or

RE: [newbie] Hex dump at startup

2002-03-13 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] Hex dump at startup -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Moye Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 10:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Hex dump at startup Greetings, I have a Gateway 200mhz 256 MB RAM,

[newbie] change ultrasparc bootup sequence

2002-03-13 Thread Derek
Title: RE: [newbie] Hex dump at startup Any one know how to change ultraspac bootup sequence so it boots from CD?

Re: [newbie] Mandrake's financial situation

2002-03-13 Thread PENA FAMILY
Every Linux distro I have and used has been bought. Primarily because downloading any of them is not feasible with my dial up connection and the users who want to go online. If I had a high speed connection then, honestly speaking, would download Linux for free. The donation part is a little

[newbie] System Getting Sluggish

2002-03-13 Thread cervix couch
I've been having a problem in Linux and I have no idea where to look for the culprit. My problem is that, periodically, while I'm online (and only when I'm online), the system will get extremely sluggish to the point where I usually have to power down and reboot. When this happens, there are

Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ?

2002-03-13 Thread civileme
john rigby wrote: Hi Lee and folks, - Original Message - From: Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 7:31 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ? OK, I got it now. Anyone who has positive input to your thread is a geek or power

Re: [newbie] network

2002-03-13 Thread rick
Have a look at vnc. It come with md8.1. It lets you take control of the desktop of one from the other. Great tool. And it is free. You will have to download the version for the win machine. Rick On Wed, 13 March 2002, quaylar wrote: At 18:59 12.03.2002 +, you wrote: Hello all,

RE: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all

2002-03-13 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul_Vortex Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 9:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all

Re: [newbie] Setting up the DVD

2002-03-13 Thread Miark
On Thu, 14 Mar Walter Logeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: What is the way to set up the DVD in fstab (and/or wherever) I have no /dev/dvd which seems to be what my dvd player is looking for. At present I need to change it to dev/cdrom - that works. What are you trying to do? Mount a

Re: [newbie] Hex dump at startup

2002-03-13 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:49:22 -0500 Tom Moye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I have a Gateway 200mhz 256 MB RAM, with 2 hard drives. The master ide drive is with Win 2000. The slave drive has Mandrake 8.1. The CD ROM is an ide. Setup ran fine. (several times in fact). Lilo dual

Re: [newbie] Setting up the DVD

2002-03-13 Thread Walter Logeman
Charles, You do not need to change fstab. If your listing for your dvd is /dev/cdrom then su to root and enter: ln -s cdrom /dev/dvd What I did (I found the answer just browsing the ogle list) was: ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/dvd To the same place by another route. The cdrom is a DVD/CD-RW

Re: [newbie] System Getting Sluggish

2002-03-13 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, cervix couch wrote: %_ I've been having a problem in Linux and I have no idea where to look for the culprit. My problem is that, periodically, while I'm online (and only when I'm online), the system will get extremely sluggish to the point where I usually have to power

Re: [newbie] Mandrake's financial situation

2002-03-13 Thread Pena Family
You make a very interesting point and I think I can follow up with an example. I live near a huge electronic store called Fry's Electronic. I have purchased everything from my laptop, the parts for my own gigahertz tower, two monitors, iMac, Linux-Mandrake 7.0-7.1 and 8.0, WindowsME and XP,

[newbie] Lycoris or Mandrake?

2002-03-13 Thread Aryan Ameri
Hi there: I am an old windows user that is tired and sick of Microsoft's policies. So I turned to Linux and I now Love this OS and the open source community. I only have one problem with Linux and that's the ease of use. I used to use Red Hat 7.1 for a couple of months and then I found

Re: [newbie] System Getting Sluggish

2002-03-13 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 13 March 2002 22:31, Gerald Waugh wrote: On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, cervix couch wrote: %_ I've been having a problem in Linux and I have no idea where to look for the culprit. My problem is that, periodically, while I'm online (and only when I'm online), the system will get

Re: [newbie] System Getting Sluggish

2002-03-13 Thread civileme
Gerald Waugh wrote: On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, cervix couch wrote: %_ I've been having a problem in Linux and I have no idea where to look for the culprit. My problem is that, periodically, while I'm online (and only when I'm online), the system will get extremely sluggish to the point where I

Re: [newbie] Setting up sound - help

2002-03-13 Thread Miark
Scott, If the laptop is a company computer, I'm guessing there are others in your company--others running Winblows. Take a look at System Properties on one of those Winsux machines to determine what card it has, what IRQ it likes, etc. Then configure the card in your Linux box manually. Miark

[newbie] rsync over ssh

2002-03-13 Thread Joan Tur
Hallo! I'd like to use draksync to sync my laptop and pc, and i'd prefer to use rsync over ssh instead of insecure ftp... I've used ssh-keygen to create public and private key but now i don't know what to do... can you help me? 8-? Thanks! -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain AOL quini2k ICQ

[newbie] need to re-install OS

2002-03-13 Thread David
I need to re-install OS. Can I do so without having to re-install all my apps? Is it possible to save some of my setting? If it matters my partitions table is as follows: Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda8 489992299049

[newbie] An apology and a round of virtual beer

2002-03-13 Thread Kaj Haulrich
Being the guy who initiated the Minimizing the cult-factor-thread, I've learned a few things : 1. Never raise a general question unless you are prepared to get carried away big-time. 2. Dvorak was wrong : Nobody (well, almost) here wants to keep linux for themselves (the Ferrari versus the Ford

Re: [newbie] connection sharing partly blocked

2002-03-13 Thread civileme
Stojs wrote: I have my connection sharing working almost prefectly. The only problem is with a windows program called direct connect. It is a p2p program. When I run it with windows connected directly to the internet it runs perfectly, but connected through linux with firewall stopped it cannot

[OT] HTML editors. [Was: Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ? NOW what for?]

2002-03-13 Thread Robin Turner
On Wednesday 13 March 2002 20:25, Nelson Bartley wrote: [snippets] I currently do both PHP and ASP programming for various customers, as well as myself. I use Frontpage for quite a few things. Yes it does produce SOME bad code, however 2002 does produce acceptable code for the basic layout.

[newbie] I love you guys.

2002-03-13 Thread Nelson Bartley
I love you guys. With the palm syncing working correctly on rc1 (I hadn't tried since december), I now have no more reason to use win other then to play my silly games. If I wasn't broke (or rather in debt), I would sign up for a 20$/month club package. You guys are great. Time for a virtual

Re: [newbie] An apology and a round of virtual beer

2002-03-13 Thread shane
well said! On Wednesday 13 March 2002 14:40, Kaj Haulrich opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: 2. Dvorak was wrong : Nobody (well, almost) here wants to keep linux for themselves (the Ferrari versus the Ford - syndrome). ver y true, linux users are highly evolved beings you see ;-P

Re: [newbie] need to re-install OS

2002-03-13 Thread Robin Turner
On Thursday 14 March 2002 00:25, David wrote: I need to re-install OS. Can I do so without having to re-install all my apps? Is it possible to save some of my setting? If it matters my partitions table is as follows: Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on

[somewhat OT] Re: [newbie] An apology and a round of virtual beer

2002-03-13 Thread Robin Turner
On Thursday 14 March 2002 00:40, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Being the guy who initiated the Minimizing the cult-factor-thread, I've learned a few things : 1. Never raise a general question unless you are prepared to get carried away big-time. True, but that's what makes it fun! 2. Dvorak was

[newbie] OTM$ to stop shipping windoze?

2002-03-13 Thread Bill Davidson
Anyone think they would do it? http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/24278.html Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Geek vs the rest dilemma. NOW NUTZ BOLTZ

2002-03-13 Thread ed tharp
well if you would ever ask a question, instead of acting so damn know it all, you might get an answer that will at least get you started in the direction of getting your box to run the way you want. if all you are willing to part with is I still have a Full Box 8.0 which failed on my old

Re: [newbie] Lycoris or Mandrake?

2002-03-13 Thread shane
i should also have pointed out you can download mandrake for a test run so to speak, if you have doubts, in case you didn't know. having said it, if you do like it, please buy it. support real software.. -- We are Linux. Resistance is measured in Ohms. shane

[newbie] OFF Topic: Unix TTY Config Question

2002-03-13 Thread Paul Kraus
I know this is off topic but most ppl with linux exp have some unix.(openserver 5.06). Are server runs a distribution package that prints to both spooled and direct(/dev/ttyx). I am migrating the information from the old server to a new. How do I configure a tty port to the correct settings to

Re: [newbie] Digital TV PCI cards - suggestions, recommendations, working setups, problems...

2002-03-13 Thread ed tharp
yes, any wintv pci card should work great, as long as the card supports PAL the software will too, the brooktree drivers (BTTV84X chips) work fine in my mandrake setup, and have in every version since 7.0, right out of the box. On Wednesday 13 March 2002 12:10, you wrote: System: Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all

2002-03-13 Thread Warren Post
Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ 23 celsius, warm and sunny On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 09:45, Paul_Vortex wrote: Hanan Shargi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... Name: Hanan Country: Fairfax, VA United States IP: .. nah ;-) Greenock, Scotland here. PV.

Re: Re :[newbie] I got the 2nd NIC start another round ?

2002-03-13 Thread Brian Parish
Hanan, I'm jumping in without having read the previous stuff in this thread, but have you installed a firewall on the linux box? This would seem to be the most likely reason you can't ping it - if the rules have been set to drop pings on the local LAN interface. If you have installed a

Re: [newbie] need to re-install OS

2002-03-13 Thread Miark
Dave, I need to re-install OS. Can I do so without having to re-install all my apps? Is it possible to save some of my setting? Probably, but if you want a stable system, you should really start afresh. If it matters my partitions table is as follows... I personally use two

Re: [newbie] Hex dump at startup

2002-03-13 Thread FemmeFatale
This may or may not answer you correctly *Forgive me if I'm wrong*. The F1 answer I don't understand either. However I do understand the part about editing lilo.conf. Just find that file on your harddrive, load it into an editor edit it so it reads: linux=vmlinuz (default):nobiospnp.

Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ? NOW what for?

2002-03-13 Thread Nelson Bartley
No.. Dreamweaver Can work w/ wine, however it does not work as quickly, nor is it as functional as on windows. (I personally coulnd't get it to install.) NB On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 20:13, FemmeFatale wrote: snip sda wrote: On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 10:28:50PM +1000, john rigby wrote:

[newbie] apache mod_dav install

2002-03-13 Thread Gerald Waugh
Has anyone installed the mod_dav module for apache? http://www.webdav.org/mod_dav/ I get an error Cannot load to server: /usr/lib/apache/libdav.so: undefined symbol: XML_SetElementHandler /usr/sbin/httpd how do I get / find XML_SetElementHandler -- Gerald Waugh http://frontstreetnetworks.com

[newbie] NVIDIA driver w/ rc1 KDE

2002-03-13 Thread Nelson Bartley
Heyo. I've just installed my nvidia driver (hadn't bothered until now) and all of a sudden all of my kde fonts have changed. It doesn't appear to affect any programs other then those that run off of KDE. Is there a way to set my fonts back to the way they were before I installed my nvidia

Re: [newbie] Lycoris or Mandrake?

2002-03-13 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Wednesday 13 March 2002 04:53 pm, Aryan Ameri wrote: Hi there: I am an old windows user that is tired and sick of Microsoft's policies. So I turned to Linux and I now Love this OS and the open source community. I only have one problem with Linux and that's the ease of use. I used to use

[newbie] kmail attachments

2002-03-13 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi, I am unable to receive attachments from co-workers. I have three separate email accounts. I am able to receive attachments on two of the accounts but on the third, all I receive are the message headers. No attachment. Unfortunately, I must be able to use this account; it is my work

Re: [newbie] kmail attachments

2002-03-13 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Wednesday 13 March 2002 10:03 pm, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, I am unable to receive attachments from co-workers. I have three separate email accounts. I am able to receive attachments on two of the accounts but on the third, all I receive are the message headers. No attachment.

Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ?

2002-03-13 Thread Pascal
john rigby wrote: Hi Shane, Sorry you are disqualified, too! :-) You are obviously very techo if not Geek! What I'm chasing is whether any non-tech/geek people have ever succeeded. These are Users. People who simply want to make/improve their earning capacity via increased productivity.

Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ?

2002-03-13 Thread David
What was the original question to this posting? On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:29:51 +0900 Pascal Pascal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: john rigby wrote: Hi Shane, Sorry you are disqualified, too! :-) You are obviously very techo if not Geek! What I'm chasing is whether any non-tech/geek

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