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

2002-03-16 Thread vaiconlinux
Fabio Manunza wrote: Il concetto è diverso. Acquistando il pacchetto completo (lo trovi in molte librerie che si occupano anche di informatica) trovi più CD (quindi più applicazioni, di solito applicazioni extra ed applicazioni commerciali), ottieni i manuali stampati, ottieni un paio di

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

2002-03-16 Thread Daniele Micci
Il giorno 13:34, sabato 16 marzo 2002 hai scritto: Mi consenta Lei, prego. Io sono un hobbista, cioè non uso mandra per lavoro, comunque qualcosa posso spendere sopratutto per supportare il team mandra. Vorrei alcune info in più, mi consenta. 1) quando si dice pacchetto completo si intende i

R: [newbie-it] I: VIRUS ALERT - W32/Fbound.c@MM

2002-03-16 Thread Di Fresco Marco
Forse mi sono distratto... Ma questa non era la ML di *Linux* ??? E che girano nuovi virus su Windows (cosa che accade decine di volte ogni giorno) non è un po' OT ??? Scusate! E' vero! Nella fretta di inserire i nomi dei destinatari, ho inserito anche l'indirizzo di questa lista. Comunque

Re: [newbie-it] I: VIRUS ALERT - W32/Fbound.c@MM

2002-03-16 Thread Daniele Micci
Il giorno 14:56, sabato 16 marzo 2002 hai scritto: Forse mi sono distratto... Ma questa non era la ML di *Linux* ??? E che girano nuovi virus su Windows (cosa che accade decine di volte ogni giorno) non è un po' OT ??? Scusate! E' vero! Nella fretta di inserire i nomi dei destinatari, ho

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

2002-03-16 Thread Lorenzo Lombardi
Ciao, mi chiamo Lorenzo e sono da poco iscritto alla lista. Riguardo al problema relativo all'oggetto sono pienamente d'accordo con chi ritiene sia giusto aiutare il team di Mandrake con donazioni dirette oppure acquistando un pacchetto dei loro prodotti. E' indubbiamente un modo per

[newbie-it] alcatel speedTouch usb...

2002-03-16 Thread Nicola Spreafico
Salve a tutti e grazie in anticipo per l'attenzione, ho da poco installato Mandrake 8.1 sul mio pc di casa e vorrei riuscire a collegarmi ad internet. All'installazione ha riconosciuto subito il mio modem, come da titolo un Alcatel speedTouch usb adsl. Nonostante la grande quantità di HOWTO per

[newbie] Brief Unix-C History

2002-03-16 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
Shane, this is for you. :) On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 19:11, shane wrote: On Tuesday 12 March 2002 08:26, Myers, Dennis R NWO opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: LoL... ever hear of Pigdog? Being a Sanfranciscan and all. fraid not, but i have only been here 2

Re: [newbie] Webproject (Was: Feel like joining in?)

2002-03-16 Thread Marco Verheul
Sebastian, I wasn't what I was thinking about, but sourceforge can become a valuable reference for me. The whole idea is to learn how to do it by just doing it together instead of strugling all alone with a bunch of tutorials and what have you. But thanks for the suggestion. Marco On Fri,

Re: [newbie] Filesystems as of 8.2

2002-03-16 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
With all those in mind, I would say toss a coin between JFS and XFS. If I hadn't had the RAID0 scare, I would recommend XFS wholeheartedly because the SGI team has been so helpful in the implementation. Civileme What is the minimum partition size for XFS?

[newbie] Phone Dialer?

2002-03-16 Thread Graham Watkins
Does anyone know if there is a Linux equivalent to the Windoze phone dialer? -- Graham Watkins For me, morning begins when I realize that the soft warm body curled up next to me is a cat. (Kinky Friedman - Frequent Flyer) Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org

Re: [newbie] realplayer

2002-03-16 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 08:09, Arjan Petersen wrote: Hello, i have a problem with realplayer. When i open it. It's saying that my audiodevice is already in use. How can i fix this? arjan Go to View - Preferences - Performance - Audio Options. Play with those and see if you can make a

[newbie] Which File system?

2002-03-16 Thread Aryan Ameri
Hi there: Maybe It's an old question and man of you have seen similar questions. But I read the archive and couldn't make up my mind. I am a newbie to Linux and am willing to buy Mandrake Linux 8.2. But I don't know what file system to use. I am willing to install my Linux on my desktop

Re: [newbie] Which File system?

2002-03-16 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 05:18, Aryan Ameri wrote: Hi there: Maybe It's an old question and man of you have seen similar questions. But I read the archive and couldn't make up my mind. I am a newbie to Linux and am willing to buy Mandrake Linux 8.2. But I don't know what file system to use.

Re: [newbie] Which File system?

2002-03-16 Thread Lee
About 5 months ago, XFS appeared to be the favorite, so when I crashed and burned the next time, I switched. Haven't lost anything since and system has gone off due to power outages several times since. I never do a clean shut down simply because there seems to be no good reason to turn the

RE: [newbie] Which File system?

2002-03-16 Thread FLYNN, Steve
So, you want a file-system which isn't secure, you don't want to back it up and you aren't bothered about it being stable... It all really depends on what you use your machine for... what's the machines' primary use? -Original Message- From: Aryan Ameri [SMTP:[EMAIL

Re: [newbie] [somewhat OT] Descent3 again

2002-03-16 Thread Robin Turner
On Saturday 16 March 2002 02:52, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 18:26:16 +0200 Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I've got Descent3 running now (my curiosity was piqued by earlier posts). It runs, but with no sound (this is using Mdk 8.0 and a Creative AWE64 card). The

[newbie] connection sharing and network with samba

2002-03-16 Thread Stojs
I had my internet sharing working perfectly. Then I wanted to set up the firewall using wizdrake. I ran the network wizzard like I had to before running the firewall wizard. And when I was finnished there was no more internet sharing. Can I have a connection sharing not using DHCP? I only have

Re: [newbie] connection sharing and network with samba

2002-03-16 Thread Dan LaBine
Hey Stojs; You're firewall software has disallowed your internal network card. It doesn't know that this card can be trusted. You'll have to go to /etc/Bastille and open the config file - bastille-firewall.conf and edit the Trusted Ifaces section. Give the whole config file a good read. It's

Re: [newbie] connection sharing and network with samba

2002-03-16 Thread Dan LaBine
Stojs; I just read the rest of your email. DHCP is installed and configured by ICS when you set it up. That's how ICS can provide your other PC's with an IP address. That's probably not your problem. Your problem sounds like the firewall NOT trusting the network card which connects to your other

Re: [newbie] connection sharing and network with samba

2002-03-16 Thread Dan LaBine
Soory about the typo's. Not enough coffee! Lanman - Original Message - From: Dan LaBine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 8:24 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] connection sharing and network with samba Hey Stojs; You're firewall software has disallowed

Re: [newbie] Which File system?

2002-03-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 16 March 2002 04:18 am, Aryan Ameri wrote: I don't know what file system to use. I am willing to install my Linux on my desktop computer. I don't want it to be secure. nor I want it to give me back up options, nor do I use RAID. I just want the fastest File system and I want it

Re: [newbie] Phone Dialer?

2002-03-16 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sat, 16 Mar 2002 09:30:46 + Graham Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if there is a Linux equivalent to the Windoze phone dialer? -- Graham Watkins For me, morning begins when I realize that the soft warm body curled up next to me is a cat. (Kinky Friedman -

[newbie] Reloading lists in Software Manager

2002-03-16 Thread Bill Davidson
Is there a way to set Software Manager to not reload all the lists when it opens up? I'd like them to reload only when I want them to and I'd also like to choose which lists to reload. Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] CVS

2002-03-16 Thread Dan Butler
There is an application that I am after (jpilot) the newest version and the web site says to use CVS. What do I have to do before using CVS? Do I have to have all the subdirectories I see on the web page with the files from each? And there was something about downloading a snapshot. Would

[newbie] a good jpeg veiwer

2002-03-16 Thread Donald E.Gulmire
What is a good Jpeg viewer, similar to ACDSee for use with Linux. I am not interested so much in manipulation as I am in ease of viewing. With ACDSee I can view in full screen and also use the space bar to go through pictures in a directory. I heard about JCDSee, but can't see to get it up

Re: [newbie] a good jpeg veiwer

2002-03-16 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 10:28, Donald E.Gulmire wrote: What is a good Jpeg viewer, similar to ACDSee for use with Linux. I am not interested so much in manipulation as I am in ease of viewing. With ACDSee I can view in full screen and also use the space bar to go through pictures in a

[newbie] Orinoco Wireless Card

2002-03-16 Thread Paul Rodríguez
Hi, I have a desktop and a laptop both running 8.1 and Orinoco Wavelan Wireless PCMCIA cards. I was able to get the wireless card working on my laptop fairly easily by downloading the driver from the OrinocoWireless.com web site, compiling it and editing the /etc/pcmcia/config.opts file. No

[newbie] nmb freezing system

2002-03-16 Thread tek1
i just installed mandrake8.1 and during startup, it freezes when loading nmb. however, when i start the system in failsafe mode and turn the nmb/samba service to start manually, i'm able to boot up without a problem. anyone know why this might be happening? thanks. Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] a good jpeg veiwer

2002-03-16 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 16 Mar 2002 10:28:07 -0500, Donald E.Gulmire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is a good Jpeg viewer, similar to ACDSee for use with Linux. I am not interested so much in manipulation as I am in ease of viewing. With ACDSee I can view in full screen and also use the space bar to go

Re: [newbie] Master slave drives

2002-03-16 Thread Joe Barron
Sorry ! Shane you told me what I wanted to know ,except were well lilo install master harddrive are slave .The system is for someone else but what he would like to do is have XP on the master and 8.1 on the 2nd H/D which I have slaved and he would like to have the 8.1 on that drive.Well this work

[newbie] Personal Security Manager (PSM)

2002-03-16 Thread Marco Verheul
Hello, When I want to visit a secure webpage I get the following message: This document cannot be displayed unless you install the Personal Security Manager (PSM). etc... What is it and where can I get it? Marco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] CVS

2002-03-16 Thread RichardA
Are you sure you absolutely have to have the _newest_ version? How about one which is compiled and packaged as an rpm, from your distribution disks or the net? It would make life a hell of a lot easier for you. I'm not saying don't learn about cvs, just first things first. Richard Dan

[newbie] PCMCIA NIC not recognised

2002-03-16 Thread RichardA
Hi all, I installed MDK 8.1 on my laptop with 'linux noauto' and then installed kernel-pcmcia-cs. If I do a 'cardctl -ident' and look the output up at mobilix.org it seems I have a Sitecom ethernet nic: product info: PCMCIA, FastEthernet, V, 1.0 manfid: 0x021b, ox0202 function: 6 (network)

Re: [newbie] realplayer

2002-03-16 Thread Sevatio
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 08:09, Arjan Petersen wrote: Hello, i have a problem with realplayer. When i open it. It's saying that my audiodevice is already in use. How can i fix this? arjan Go to View - Preferences - Performance - Audio Options. Play with those and see

[newbie] turkish character problem

2002-03-16 Thread Veysel Harun Sahin
hello, i am using mandrake 8.1. both at the console and x i can write with tr-q keyboard without any problems except not being able to see these turkish characters truly: , , and . thank you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Master slave drives

2002-03-16 Thread shane
maybe i don't understand, but, i just installed 8.2 release canidate 1 on a slave drive with win2000 on the master and i use lilo to boot. IIRC only part of lilo goes onto the MBR of the first disk, the rest is in your boot folder in linux (is that right guys?) and lilo handles booting for

Re: [newbie] a good jpeg veiwer

2002-03-16 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Saturday 16 March 2002 10:28, Donald wrote: What is a good Jpeg viewer, similar to ACDSee for use with Linux. I am not interested so much in manipulation as I am in ease of viewing. With ACDSee I can view in full screen and also use the space bar to go through pictures in a directory.

[newbie] Printing.. lpr or cups

2002-03-16 Thread damian
hello everyone.. i've got one that is making me a little mad when it comes to printing. all kde applications that have a print option use CUPS + Gimp-print, which works well, however, all Gnome apps, staroffice, etc ( all non-KDE-specific apps ) use lpr, so i want them to use CUPS. how

Re: [newbie] Master slave drives

2002-03-16 Thread Joe Barron
Thank,s .Shane you understand what I,m wanting to do it,s me that is scared of this thing .I built a AMD 1900 for a friend the other day he had acouple of drives neither very big so I used one for the master and put XP on it (what he wanted not my ideal) the slave has something on it 98 I think

[newbie] 3-button mouse

2002-03-16 Thread Guilherme Cirne
Hi, The middle button of my mouse isn't working. It is properly setup as Generic 3 Button Mouse in Mandrake Control Center. But it simply doesn't work. I remember it working correctly under LM 8.0. Does anybody know what could be wrong? TIA, -- Guilherme Cirne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to

Re: [newbie] CVS

2002-03-16 Thread Dan Butler
Unfortunately. I want to be able to use my Palm M505 with my computer in Linux mode. The only known support for PDA's using the USB hotsync is jpilot V1.0 (which is in beta) and the rpm is only at .9. So... Dan B - Original Message - From: RichardA [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] 3-button mouse

2002-03-16 Thread Tim Holmes
Try running mouseconfig again. **As root mouseconfig Go through that, and then try testing it again. Of course if you've not done that already. But I think that's where I'd start. I think that will ask you to test the mouse and let you know if it's going to work. I have a

Re: [newbie] Which File system?

2002-03-16 Thread Miark
Aryan, I asked this question a few days ago. Here is what Civileme, (he _The_ Man in these parts) responded. Your choices are Ext3, Reiser, JFS, and XFS. Ext3 is dog slow, and good only for compatibility with Ext2. Reiser doesn't work well with PostScript, and doesn't work well for

Re: [newbie] Cgi Scripts Don't Work

2002-03-16 Thread Miark
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 14:17:25 -0700, SoloCDM [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: With Apache 1.3.22 on Linux with kernel 2.2.19 is the cgi scripts suppose to work at installation time in the cgi-bin (/var/www/cgi-bin)? I went through the settings for ExecCGI, AddHandler, and Directory.

Re: [newbie] nmb freezing system

2002-03-16 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Saturday 16 March 2002 11:15 am, tek1 wrote: i just installed mandrake8.1 and during startup, it freezes when loading nmb. however, when i start the system in failsafe mode and turn the nmb/samba service to start manually, i'm able to boot up without a problem. anyone know why this might

Re: [newbie] nmb freezing system

2002-03-16 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Saturday 16 March 2002 03:11 pm, Gerald Waugh wrote: On Saturday 16 March 2002 11:15 am, tek1 wrote: i just installed mandrake8.1 and during startup, it freezes when loading nmb. however, when i start the system in failsafe mode and turn the nmb/samba service to start manually, i'm

Re: [newbie] turkish character problem

2002-03-16 Thread Robin Turner
On Saturday 16 March 2002 18:56, Veysel Harun Sahin wrote: hello, i am using mandrake 8.1. both at the console and x i can write with tr-q keyboard without any problems except not being able to see these turkish characters truly: ð, Ý, ý ý and þ. First, make sure you have the following

Re: [newbie] Printing.. lpr or cups

2002-03-16 Thread Joseph Braddock
I am only printing with Cups and it works under both KDE and Gnome. Under Gnome, usually the print dialog comes up with generic printer or something like that. I simply select the name of my printer from the dropdown list. I do happen to have both KDE and Gnome loaded, so I don't know if

Re: [newbie] CVS

2002-03-16 Thread shane
.9 works pretty well though. remember, 0. releases run about the same as MS version 1.0's. ;-) On Saturday 16 March 2002 11:03, Dan Butler opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Unfortunately. I want to be able to use my Palm M505 with my computer in Linux mode. The only

Re: [newbie] a good jpeg veiwer

2002-03-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 16 March 2002 09:28 am, Donald E.Gulmire wrote: What is a good Jpeg viewer, similar to ACDSee for use with Linux. I am not interested so much in manipulation as I am in ease of viewing. With ACDSee I can view in full screen and also use the space bar to go through pictures in a

Re: [newbie] Numlock turns on by itself

2002-03-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 16 March 2002 12:12 pm, rob wrote: I have a Sony Viao FX290, and Mandrake constantly turns on the Numlock which borks my typing. I am wondering how to fix this? I picked the US keyboard. thanks, Rob. su to root in a terminal and type 'mcc' Enter. Then click on the System

Re: [newbie] Printing.. lpr or cups

2002-03-16 Thread Robin Turner
On Saturday 16 March 2002 20:07, damian wrote: hello everyone.. i've got one that is making me a little mad when it comes to printing. all kde applications that have a print option use CUPS + Gimp-print, which works well, however, all Gnome apps, staroffice, etc ( all non-KDE-specific apps

Re: [newbie] mem opinion please.

2002-03-16 Thread FemmeFatale
OK OK I'm wrong. Shoot me ;p Sorry for the inaccuracy Femme Gerald Waugh wrote: On Friday 15 March 2002 06:34 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: DDR *dedicated direct ram* IIRC is the acronym. Says it all However, SDRam is poised to take over, and is speccing faster, IIRC. Don't take my word

Re: [newbie] Which File system?

2002-03-16 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 16 Mar 2002 12:09:32 -0700, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ext3 is dog slow, and good only for compatibility with Ext2. Ext3 is also the safest filesystem, because you have the option of journalling data as well as metadata (the other journalling FSs only journal metadata). --

Re: [newbie] Getting and installing packages

2002-03-16 Thread Walter Logeman
rob, Is there a semi-automated way to fetch packages? I used to use SuSe Linux, and they had Yast which would go out and get the rpm's. I'm told there is something similar in Mandrake, but I didn't find it after fooling around for an hour or so. Thanks, Rob, I m a month or so into

Re: [newbie] Getting and installing packages

2002-03-16 Thread Walter Logeman
Paul, It is called urpmi. How does one use it then to say, upgrade Mozilla? I noticed another program rpmdrake which perhaps uses urpmi? It usefully updated some programs and went to the net to resolve the dependencies - great. However they were not the programs i particularly needed!

Re: [newbie] What programs are you looking for?

2002-03-16 Thread FemmeFatale
scripts definitely... and an EZ tutorial on how to write them... I've read a book, seen some tutorials...but they assume you *have knowledge* that as a newbie, we lack by virtue of our apple greeness. ;) Please if you do go ahead, I know I'd appreciate something like that... Or hell, a URL to

Re: [newbie] Which File system?

2002-03-16 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
On Saturday 16 March 2002 20:01, you wrote: On Sat, 16 Mar 2002 12:09:32 -0700, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ext3 is dog slow, and good only for compatibility with Ext2. Ext3 is also the safest filesystem, because you have the option of journalling data as well as metadata (the

Re: [newbie] Willing to run Dragon Plus MB

2002-03-16 Thread Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas
Lots of emails about this and finally I've decided to go for a brand new Dragon Plus MB ***BUT*** something hit my head We all know the temperature issue on AMD, I'm considering an Ath1.4 or a XP1.9. Ok, I live in Brazil and recently we've got real hot temperatures (30 ~ 36C), high

Re: [newbie] mem opinion please.

2002-03-16 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 17:51, FemmeFatale wrote: OK OK I'm wrong. Shoot me ;p Sorry for the inaccuracy Femme, You get an E for effort. Don't sweat it, keep on helping. :) LX _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free yahoo.com address

RE: [newbie] Willing to run Dragon Plus MB

2002-03-16 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Providing the fans hold up, then yes. Ensure you route cabling correctly. Don't use massively high-spin speed hard drives - they run a lot hotter than slower stuff. Be sensible about the configuration of the machine... 24*7*365 isn't a problem. The important thing is the load on the box.

Re: [newbie] Getting and installing packages

2002-03-16 Thread Charles Muller
I've been using Red Carpet to get my Mandrake upgrades, and all of the other goodies that they provide (basically every Linux package out there--including, of course Mozilla). I even decided to pay my $7.95 a month to get access to their high speed services. I suspect that the time may come when