Re[2]: [newbie] tinyfirewall

2002-03-17 Thread Colin Jenkins
Hello civileme, Monday, March 18, 2002, 5:20:01 PM, you wrote: >> c> /etc/Bastille/bastille-firewall.cfg c> And look at bastille-firewall.cfg.orig to see why it is next to useless c> unless hand-configured. c> Cannot print remotely using CUPS unless the cups server is on the uplink c> side, a

Re: [newbie] Which File system?

2002-03-17 Thread civileme
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: >On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 18:28, Robin Turner wrote: > >>On Sunday 17 March 2002 01:00, dfox wrote: >> Reiser doesn't work well with PostScript, and doesn't work well for for mailservers. >>>Whatever gave you that idea? >>> >>>How does postscript have anything to

Re: [newbie] Which firewall?

2002-03-17 Thread civileme
Aryan Ameri wrote: > Hi there: > > Well thanks all of you guys for your answers about the WINE thing. I > really didn't expect to learn about WINE so much in just one day. I > went to the codeweavers website and downloaded the Demo version. It > really works nice and it met my expectations. If

[newbie] Which firewall?

2002-03-17 Thread Aryan Ameri
Hi there: Well thanks all of you guys for your answers about the WINE thing. I really didn't expect to learn about WINE so much in just one day. I went to the codeweavers website and downloaded the Demo version. It really works nice and it met my expectations. If I'm am going to learn Linux

Re: [newbie] MP3 to WAV

2002-03-17 Thread Sevatio
Guilherme Cirne wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know an easy way to do a batch conversion of mp3 files to wav > files. For example, I want to easily convert all the mp3 files in one > directory to wav files, keeping the same filename (only changing the > extension from .mp3 to .wav). Using mpg123

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

2002-03-17 Thread Bo Rosén
mån 2002-03-18 klockan 01.14 skrev Michael: Personally, I'm quite fond of Glimmer a pretty advanced editor for Gnome with tabs and highligting and stuff.While its not quite in the same leauge as Emacs (or Vi I hasten to add) its easier to use. http://glimmer.sourceforge.net Cheers, Bo

Re: [newbie] Which File system?

2002-03-17 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 18:28, Robin Turner wrote: > On Sunday 17 March 2002 01:00, dfox wrote: > > > Reiser doesn't work well with PostScript, and doesn't > > > work well for for mailservers. > > > > Whatever gave you that idea? > > > > How does postscript have anything to do with the file syst

Re: [newbie] How to best support Mandrake - real world style

2002-03-17 Thread David
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 15:46:14 +1000 john rigby "john rigby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But, 20 million at just $10 each = $200 million - with no distribution > costs. 20 million x 680, 1360, or 2040Mb ( 1, 2, or 3 disks ) = a whole lot of money in bandwidt

[newbie] tinyfirewall

2002-03-17 Thread Colin Jenkins
Hi all, can anyone tell me what the config file is for tinyfirewall? -- regards, Colin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] How to best support Mandrake - real world style

2002-03-17 Thread john rigby
Hi Todd & folks, Explaining value: How much money do you think charities would receive if the big numbers weren't tax deductible? Many years ago a friend of mine who thought he knew marketing ( was a famous expert) went into professional fund-raising. Lasted 3 months. Yet, it is the little people

[newbie] Postfix error message

2002-03-17 Thread Daniel Chen
Hi, I have a question about Postfix. I set up my Mandrake Linux 8.1 with postfix as the SMTP server between my LAN and the Internet. It worked fine for the last two months. Today, when I checked the syslog, I was shock because I saw the error message like this: Mar 17 08:34:22 Debussy postfix/po

[newbie] FreeBSD

2002-03-17 Thread David
Can someone compare/contrast FreeBSD and Linux for me? -- °°° Mandrake Linux 8.1 Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk KDE 2.2.1 Sylpheed 0.7.2 David L. Steiner Registered Linux User #262493 Homepagewww

[newbie] MP3 to WAV

2002-03-17 Thread Guilherme Cirne
Hi, Does anyone know an easy way to do a batch conversion of mp3 files to wav files. For example, I want to easily convert all the mp3 files in one directory to wav files, keeping the same filename (only changing the extension from .mp3 to .wav). Using mpg123 -w ~/tmp/*.wav ~/tmp/*.mp3 doesn't

Re: [newbie] In a world of geeks......... :-)

2002-03-17 Thread Robin M.Weare
On Sunday 17 March 2002 07:00 pm, john rigby wrote: > Ha folks, > I went there and it looked like it covered EVERYTHING you really did and > didn't want to know about x. > Veni vidi vinci no I didn't :-) > > http://rute.sourceforge.net/rute.html > > The cute thing is enormous! Lo

Re: [newbie] How to best support Mandrake - real world style

2002-03-17 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 11:59:34 +1000 "john rigby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The very idea of charity is a repugnant thing when viewed intelligently. > Support aid is something else entirely. > But buying value!! Could you explain this a little more? > But, if Man

Re: [newbie] Screenshots, OT

2002-03-17 Thread FemmeFatale
you guys are weird. i swear... totally weird. geeky isn't the word i'd use either...thats too nice ;) Femme daRcmaTTeR wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 18:11:07 -0800 > shane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder: > > > On Sunday 17 March 2002 17:51, FemmeFatale opened a

Re: OT: was Re: [newbie] mem opinion please.

2002-03-17 Thread FemmeFatale
Shane wins. ;) Femme shane wrote: > > On Sunday 17 March 2002 17:12, Lyvim Xaphir opened a hailing frequency and > transmitted: > > > Don't worry about it. I've felt stupid also; I used to run Windows. ;) > > i have felt more stupid. i was certified to run windows. :-P > > -- > "To live i

Re: [newbie] Getting and installing packages

2002-03-17 Thread FemmeFatale
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: You understand my issues Lyvim. And honestly thats sorta what happened to me. :\ I just wanted some apps I knew were buggy to work Damnit. *Sigh* > Case in point: Evolution email client. The version of this app shipped > with LM81 was something like 0.13. Yahoo recentl

Re: [newbie] Getting and installing packages

2002-03-17 Thread FemmeFatale
well I was trying to just update things like Xfree86, security crap, better xchat...silly things all the things I use really... mostly system apps. daRcmaTTeR wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 13:33:49 -0700 > FemmeFatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to > ponder: > > Wan

OT: was Re: [newbie] mem opinion please.

2002-03-17 Thread shane
On Sunday 17 March 2002 17:12, Lyvim Xaphir opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: > Don't worry about it. I've felt stupid also; I used to run Windows. ;) i have felt more stupid. i was certified to run windows. :-P -- "To live is to war with trolls" -Isben shane Profile at: http://

[newbie] In a world of geeks......... :-)

2002-03-17 Thread john rigby
Ha folks, I went there and it looked like it covered EVERYTHING you really did and didn't want to know about x. Veni vidi vinci no I didn't :-) http://rute.sourceforge.net/rute.html The cute thing is enormous! Looks great! Needs an already installed WORKING Linux to even read the

Re: [newbie] Mysterious confirmation demands by SYMPA??

2002-03-17 Thread tester
On Thursday 14 March 2002 11:12 pm, J Rigby wrote: > Ha there folks, > > Despite having sent hundreds - well, several - messages to the list, my > last few produced this strange email in return: > > Can anyone tell me what it is? > Haven't gone direct to M - this will no doubt be quicker... :-)

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

2002-03-17 Thread Andrewd
Maybe someone could look at getting NoteTabPro to work with WINE > > >I have talked to Eric Fookes (NoteTabPro Creator) a few times about >writing a Linux version. It is now possiblebut that isn't >going to happen for linux until he feels it can produce a viable >income from it. wh

Re: [newbie] Screenshots, OT

2002-03-17 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 18:11:07 -0800 shane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder: > On Sunday 17 March 2002 17:51, FemmeFatale opened a hailing frequency and > transmitted: > > > thx guys. Didn't realize it was in the panel thingy. > > we try not to use techie terms like "

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

2002-03-17 Thread David Crouse
I have talked to Eric Fookes (NoteTabPro Creator) a few times about writing a Linux version. It is now possiblebut that isn't going to happen for linux until he feels it can produce a viable income from it. which at the current time he does not. I don't blame him at all as

[newbie] Mysterious confirmation demands by SYMPA??

2002-03-17 Thread J Rigby
Ha there folks, Despite having sent hundreds - well, several - messages to the list, my last few produced this strange email in return: Can anyone tell me what it is? Haven't gone direct to M - this will no doubt be quicker... :-) Cheers Him Again

Re: [newbie] Security hole?

2002-03-17 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 20:21:41 -0500 Chris Keelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dateline: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 17:04:53 -0800 (PST): laying low until the > bleeding stops, Ron Bouwhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> transmits: >

Re: [newbie] Numlock turns on by itself

2002-03-17 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Sunday 17 March 2002 17:15, Tom wrote: > I found Mandrake 6.0 ;) But, IIRC (and i often don't), with RH I > never found a way to turn numlock on either, even when it was set on > in bios. Since I reckon RH has progressed a little since 5.2 ;) > check your bios setting for numlock enable/disa

Re: [newbie] Screenshots, OT

2002-03-17 Thread shane
On Sunday 17 March 2002 17:51, FemmeFatale opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: > thx guys. Didn't realize it was in the panel thingy. we try not to use techie terms like "panel thingy" on this list. geek speek scares away the windows converts. :-D -- "Psychic Convention. If you

Re: [newbie] How to best support Mandrake - real world style

2002-03-17 Thread john rigby
- Original Message - From: Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 9:53 AM Subject: [newbie] How to best support Mandrake > I have read lots of threads about the club memberships etc on this list > and find it very understandable that

Re: [newbie] Getting and installing packages

2002-03-17 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 15:33, FemmeFatale wrote: > I know theres a thread on this already but... and I'm not sure if I > asked this, so bear with me. > > I've recently attempted to "Upgrade" all my sys apps on LM8.0. > DUB Move. > > *Sigh* Needless to say things are a mess. > > Is ther

Re: [newbie] Getting and installing packages

2002-03-17 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Sat, 16 Mar 2002 11:54:43 +0200 "Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder: > Paul wrote: > > > > On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 18:20:59 -0800 rob wrote: > > > > >Is there a semi-automated way to fetch packages? I used to use SuSe > > >Linux, and they had Y

Re: [newbie] Screenshots, OT

2002-03-17 Thread FemmeFatale
thx guys. Didn't realize it was in the panel thingy. Femme daRcmaTTeR wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 18:19:42 -0700 > FemmeFatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to > ponder: > > > how do I make a screenshot? > > > > Femme > > > > Well Femme, > > you can accomplish this by

Re: [newbie] Screenshots, OT

2002-03-17 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 18:19:42 -0700 FemmeFatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder: > how do I make a screenshot? > > Femme > Well Femme, you can accomplish this by one of two means. under the Multimedia->Graphics menu there is an item named Screen Capture, or you can

Re: [newbie] Screenshots, OT

2002-03-17 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 18:19:42 -0700 FemmeFatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > how do I make a screenshot? > > Femme > > I put the b in noob In KDE, there is a screen capture tool under Multimedia-Graphics. You can also use GIMP, by going to File-Acquire-Screen shot. Other ways? Todd -- Todd Sl

Re: [newbie] Screenshots, OT

2002-03-17 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 17 March 2002 19:19, you wrote: > how do I make a screenshot? > > Femme > > I put the b in noob > > sda wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 03:07:59PM -0500, Todd Slater wrote: > > > I have received 3 screenshots so far. Send one off-list if you like, > > > you can see them at http://clev

Re: [newbie] Security hole?

2002-03-17 Thread Chris Keelan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dateline: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 17:04:53 -0800 (PST): laying low until the bleeding stops, Ron Bouwhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> transmits: > Poor password choice - especially for key UIDs such as > root - are the true Archilles Heel of *all* systems, > regard

Re: [newbie] Screenshots, OT

2002-03-17 Thread FemmeFatale
how do I make a screenshot? Femme I put the b in noob sda wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 03:07:59PM -0500, Todd Slater wrote: > > I have received 3 screenshots so far. Send one off-list if you like, you > > can see them at http://clevername.homeip.net/gallery/ > > Not a bad idea, sent my

Re: [newbie] mem opinion please.

2002-03-17 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 03:23, FemmeFatale wrote: > *smiles* thx. I felt stupid enough as it was though. > > I do my best, thats my excuse > > Femme Don't worry about it. I've felt stupid also; I used to run Windows. ;) L8R, LX _ Do

Re: [newbie] How to best support Mandrake

2002-03-17 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 18:53, Brian Parish wrote: > I have read lots of threads about the club memberships etc on this list > and find it very understandable that there are some diverse opinions on > this. Given that, isn't the best way to support the distro we like to > BUY it DIRECT from Mandrak

Re: [newbie] Security hole?

2002-03-17 Thread Ron Bouwhuis
Richard, Key words in the article, IMO are: "To exploit the vulnerability an attacker would still need to guess the correct X-Windows password, but given the lame passwords many users pick this is hardly a high enough barrier." Poor password choice - especially for key UIDs such as root - are

Re: [newbie] How to best support Mandrake

2002-03-17 Thread shane
On Sunday 17 March 2002 15:53, Brian Parish opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: > I have read lots of threads about the club memberships etc on this list > and find it very understandable that there are some diverse opinions on > this. Given that, isn't the best way to support the distr

Re: [newbie] System Getting Sluggish

2002-03-17 Thread Randy Kramer
Tom Brinkman wrote: > Often I already know tho ;) It's normal to see high cpu usage > during somethin like a kernel && modules compile. It's not normal > tho even when you have dozens of open and running apps, 'cept maybe > for a few seconds here'n there. I've got a dozen running apps right

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

2002-03-17 Thread john rigby
Hi Robin & folks, Two small adjustments and this is an axiom: - Original Message - From: Robin Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 9:50 PM Subject: [OT] Re: [newbie] Answers to the Geek vs the rest dilemma. > > Operators think they're soft

Re: [newbie] System Getting Sluggish

2002-03-17 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 17 March 2002 14:39, you wrote: > Not sure about cacheing name server, but I am beleive DNS is taken care of > through my ISP. > > My box is a AMD 1.33 Ghz > 512MB DDR > Mandrake 8.1 running on a 4GB drive with > 2GB / > 200MB swap > rest /home > > > - Original Message - > From:

Re: [newbie] Phone Dialer?

2002-03-17 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 17 March 2002 17:29, you wrote: > Graham Watkins wrote: > > Dennis Myers wrote: > >> On Sunday 17 March 2002 05:23, you wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >> Just did a quick search, and there seem to be some programs, > >> http://www.lila.com/nautilus/ http://www.linuxtelephony.org > >> ht

Re: [newbie] System Getting Sluggish

2002-03-17 Thread Michael
In addition to Toms excellent advise. Try the - - F2 key combination to bring up a different Term. Login there then run "top". It may be quicker if X is sluggish. Alternatively, if things are not that sluggish, you may want to use a GUI version like kpm (under KDE). Open it and have a look whil

[newbie] How to best support Mandrake

2002-03-17 Thread Brian Parish
I have read lots of threads about the club memberships etc on this list and find it very understandable that there are some diverse opinions on this. Given that, isn't the best way to support the distro we like to BUY it DIRECT from Mandrake. 8.2 pre-orders are now available. I suggest that if

Re: [newbie] Newbie seeks Mandrake install advice

2002-03-17 Thread Derek Jennings
You should have downloaded the 'iso' images which can then be burned directly onto Cd's which will automatically be bootable. here is a list of FTP servers you can get the iso images from http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ftptmp/1016406720.d2f1033d19306e7e8903fa1e3eaee8a0.php#iso Here are instruc

Re: [newbie] Can't login to SunOS from Mandrake via telnet

2002-03-17 Thread Stephen Kitchener
On Friday 15 March 2002 01:23, you wrote: Have you applied the security patches to your installation - I had this and and after I had these applied all was ok, Sorry that I can't tell you which as I did the upgrade all at once. > Thanks for your reply, but I am still not able to get this worki

Re: [newbie] Phone Dialer?

2002-03-17 Thread Guy Zelck
Graham Watkins wrote: > Dennis Myers wrote: > >> On Sunday 17 March 2002 05:23, you wrote: >> > > >> Just did a quick search, and there seem to be some programs, >> http://www.lila.com/nautilus/ http://www.linuxtelephony.org >> http://www.linuxtelephony.org >> >> Just a start maybe. > > >

Re: [newbie] System Getting Sluggish

2002-03-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 17 March 2002 10:45 am, jquandt3 wrote: > Well, I have the same problem on occasion. I cannot say if it is > related to being online since I have a cable connection, but RAM is > not my problem. I have 512 MB DDR and my system never touches the > swap file. I intentionally tried to ma

Re: [newbie] What is WINE?

2002-03-17 Thread Derek Jennings
SNIP > I also compiled Transgaming Wine from source, but didn't have good results. > Maybe I configured it wrong, but it wouldn't run Max Payne as advertised > (there again, neither does Windows really, heh heh) and did really weird > things with very simple Win applications like Wordpad. > Not s

Re: [newbie] Screenshots

2002-03-17 Thread Todd Slater
Hi Steve, Do you want your pic in the gallery (the yours truly)? Thought I'd double-check! Todd On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 16:57:45 -0500 sda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 03:07:59PM -0500, Todd Slater wrote: > > I have received 3 screenshots so far. Send one off-list if you li

Re: [newbie] Security hole?

2002-03-17 Thread shane
On Sunday 17 March 2002 14:55, RichardA opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: > The Register says MDK 8 & 8.1 will let anyone who can guess the root > password log in to any online box: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/24447.html > The relevant text in the linked to page is : yet

Re: [newbie] What is WINE?

2002-03-17 Thread shane
code weavers has an RPM for mandrake 8.2 on their site? they are _fast_! ok, so i forgot to point that out, shot me.. but join first. ;-) On Sunday 17 March 2002 15:14, Robin Turner opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: > On Monday 18 March 2002 00:52, shane wrote: > > it appears t

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

2002-03-17 Thread Michael
David: emacs or Xemacs would have more than the power you wish. Just dont expect it to be intuitive and don't expect to be able to harness that power this week. On the plus side, the Xemacs/emacs version that comes with Mandrake has a full newbie tutorial and an elisp HTML editor (i had to downloa

Re: [newbie] What is WINE?

2002-03-17 Thread Robin Turner
On Monday 18 March 2002 00:52, shane wrote: > it appears that the codeweavers version is on the mandrake users club site, > just one more reason to join if you are waffling. ;-) Yes, but it's also on the codeweavers site, unsurprisingly. Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandrake

[newbie] Security hole?

2002-03-17 Thread RichardA
The Register says MDK 8 & 8.1 will let anyone who can guess the root password log in to any online box: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/24447.html The relevant text in the linked to page is : LINUX 1. Login as root. 2. Open /etc/X11/kdm/Xaccess in editor. 3. Comment out the following two

Re: [newbie] Anti-spam measures

2002-03-17 Thread shane
not that it would matter in this case, but does anyone know if the FTC still takes emails at [EMAIL PROTECTED] to track spammers? i have been forwarding all the email from a _long_ list of spammers with my address for over a year now. i hope it is doing something. -- Going from DOS to Linux

Re: [newbie] What is WINE?

2002-03-17 Thread shane
On Sunday 17 March 2002 14:37, Robin Turner opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: > Femme Fatale is probably right. Codeweavers is certainly the most > user-friendly Wine, as they have a GUI configuration tool, and it's also > more stable than hot-off-the-CVS-tree versions. If it doesn't

Re: [newbie] Anti-spam measures

2002-03-17 Thread Damian
El dom, 17-03-2002 a las 10:15, Robin Turner escribió: > On Friday 15 March 2002 04:07, damian wrote: > > > > > hmm... you could use the "if contains..." filter. if you can copy > > the korean characters use them to filter enything containing > > them... > > Hah - got it to work! It wouldn't wo

Re: [newbie] Screenshots

2002-03-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 17 March 2002 02:07 pm, Todd Slater wrote: > I have received 3 screenshots so far. Send one off-list if you > like, you can see them at http://clevername.homeip.net/gallery/ > > Todd You don't need my screenshot. Just take a picture of a blank screen (color as you wish, two tone

Re: [newbie] What is WINE?

2002-03-17 Thread Damian
El dom, 17-03-2002 a las 14:19, Aryan Ameri escribió: > Hi there: > Thanks for the answers on File system. Now as a Linux newbie, I have another basic >question > I really want to know what is WINE? I know that it is a technology that run Windows >apps under Linux. But I really don't know how to

Re: [newbie] What is WINE?

2002-03-17 Thread Robin Turner
On Sunday 17 March 2002 22:49, FemmeFatale wrote: > Try www.codeweavers.com & use their WINE. If you must, at least read > about it there. Femme Fatale is probably right. Codeweavers is certainly the most user-friendly Wine, as they have a GUI configuration tool, and it's also more stable tha

Re: [newbie] Numlock turns on by itself

2002-03-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 17 March 2002 01:15 pm, Terry Smith wrote: > Tom et al., > I have the opposite problem...my numlock is *not* turned on > automatically. > Problem is I'm running RH7.2 on the box at the moment. 'numlock' is > not among the services/daemons that RH uses and I can't find one > that handles

Re: [newbie] best news reader and ftp client

2002-03-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 17 March 2002 02:44 pm, Jose Mirles wrote: > For a newsreader, most have recommended PAN or KNODE. I still use > Forte Agent in a Win4Lin session. > > For FTP, I love gftp. I think it beats anything in the windows > world. IMNSHO, News: Knode for discussion groups (also way ahe

Re: [newbie] What is WINE?

2002-03-17 Thread FemmeFatale
Try www.codeweavers.com & use their WINE. If you must, at least read about it there. HTH Femme > Aryan Ameri wrote: > > Hi there: > Thanks for the answers on File system. Now as a Linux newbie, I have > another basic question > I really want to know what is WINE? I know that it is a technolog

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

2002-03-17 Thread FemmeFatale
Dear Nelson, No I don't need to "learn to program". Sorry to be so blunt, but frankly I have zero interest in programming beyond a very basic level. I edit scripts for games (used to anyway nearly everyday) and it IS very close to programming in a sense. The difference is if I want an alias

Re: [newbie] best news reader and ftp client

2002-03-17 Thread ed tharp
if you wanted a hotter version of a news reader, you sure should try out pan. the commands are a little different, but I loves it... I believe that by itself, it is reason enough to leave windows, for the time you are using a news reader anyway. On Sunday 17 March 2002 09:24, you wrote: > Ag

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

2002-03-17 Thread David Crouse
It may seem silly --since there are so many linux editors out there but I am looking for an editor (text/html) with similar features to NoteTabPro (www.notetab.com) ... I have tried Quanta and Bluefish (Bluefish is the closest to it but lacks a few features...but is the best

RE: [newbie] Higher priority for XMMS

2002-03-17 Thread Nelson Bartley
so there is no way to "give" a higher priority to the program from within a non-root account? On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 10:36, FLYNN, Steve wrote: > You can 'nice' the task, to a lower value to give it more cpu cycles. > > However, to do so, you will have to be root anyway. It's easy enough to do >

[newbie] What is WINE?

2002-03-17 Thread Aryan Ameri
Hi there: Thanks for the answers on File system. Now as a Linux newbie, I have another basic question I really want to know what is WINE? I know that it is a technology that run Windows apps under Linux. But I really don't know how to do so. I mean can I just insert my Office XP CD Rom and in

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

2002-03-17 Thread David Crouse
If you have time look at myphpnuke.com I use this and Mandrakesoft uses this or phpnuke... if you can upload to a web server and make a few changes to a few lines of code you can run myphpnuke.. (php and mysql database support must be enabled on your web server). You

Re: [newbie] Willing to run Dragon Plus MB

2002-03-17 Thread Lee
On Sunday 17 March 2002 11:19 am, Gerald Waugh wrote: > On Sunday 17 March 2002 12:44 am, Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas wrote: > > 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 is

Re: [newbie] System Getting Sluggish

2002-03-17 Thread jquandt3
Well, I have the same problem on occasion. I cannot say if it is related to being online since I have a cable connection, but RAM is not my problem. I have 512 MB DDR and my system never touches the swap file. I intentionally tried to make it hit the swap file and had a hard time getting it bel

Re: [newbie] Willing to run Dragon Plus MB

2002-03-17 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Sunday 17 March 2002 12:44 am, Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas wrote: > 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 li

[newbie] getting agpgart to load automatically

2002-03-17 Thread rob
I installed 8.2RC1 yesterday. Does that graduate me to expert? :) Anyway, I can't get agpgart to load automagically. Its in modules.devfs. I tried putting in an alias in modules.conf. But I can only get it to load manually via insload. I need it as I have a Sony Viao FX290 with the Intel 81

RE: [newbie] Higher priority for XMMS

2002-03-17 Thread FLYNN, Steve
You can 'nice' the task, to a lower value to give it more cpu cycles. However, to do so, you will have to be root anyway. It's easy enough to do with the sudo command though... -Original Message- From: Nelson Bartley [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, Mar

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

2002-03-17 Thread rob
FemmeFatale wrote: > > 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

Re: [newbie] Numlock turns on by itself

2002-03-17 Thread rob
Tom Brinkman wrote: > > 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

Re: [newbie] Willing to run Dragon Plus MB

2002-03-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 16 March 2002 11:44 pm, Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas wrote: > 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. The 1

[newbie] Higher priority for XMMS

2002-03-17 Thread Nelson Bartley
I've got a question.. I've been finding that XMMS is skipping a lot on my system. Not because my system isn't fast, but rather because I've got ALOT of things going on on it. (folding, evolution, gaim, gkrellm, mozilla, kdevelop, gnomeicu, etc...) I was wondering if it were posible to give XMMS a

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

2002-03-17 Thread Nelson Bartley
as a general rule, if you are going to be doing any form of scripting you have to have a basic understanding of how programing works. Understanding concepts such as flow control, the basic operators, what types of data you can store, these are all required to do scripting (in any real sense). Bu

Re: [newbie] best news reader and ftp client

2002-03-17 Thread Roger Sherman
On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Donald E.Gulmire wrote: > Thanks for the help with the jpeg viewer question. I ended up with Gqview. > I am trying to replace my Windows based programs with Linux stuff. Could I > get some feedback on what News Readers and FTP Clients are good. I use Forte > Agent and

Re: [newbie] Phone Dialer?

2002-03-17 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 17 March 2002 05:23, you wrote: > Guy Zelck wrote: > > Dennis Myers wrote: > >> 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, what do u use

Re: [newbie] Personal Security Manager (PSM)

2002-03-17 Thread Walter Logeman
Tom, > I went to Mozilla.org and looked at the changelogs for both > 9.8 and 9.9, and both say (pasted right from the notes): > "Windows, Mac and Linux: Personal Security Manager (PSM) > provides security (cryptographic) features for Mozilla ." I have just used Red-Carpet to reinstall Mozi

Re: [newbie] best news reader and ftp client

2002-03-17 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 17 March 2002 08:15, you wrote: > Thanks for the help with the jpeg viewer question. I ended up with Gqview. > I am trying to replace my Windows based programs with Linux stuff. Could I > get some feedback on what News Readers and FTP Clients are good. I use > Forte Agent and CuteFTP

Re: [newbie] Phone Dialer?

2002-03-17 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 17 March 2002 05:23, you wrote: > Guy Zelck wrote: > > Dennis Myers wrote: > >> 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, what do u use

Re: [newbie] best news reader and ftp client

2002-03-17 Thread Walter Logeman
Donald > I use Forte Agent and CuteFTP with > Windows. Try pan for news - closest to Agent i have found. I use a thing called deadftp (of all things) works well. As for installing files - see the excellent current thread on "Getting and Installing packages" Walter -- Walter Logeman Psy

Re: [newbie] Personal Security Manager (PSM)

2002-03-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 17 March 2002 07:38 am, Walter Logeman wrote: > Tom > > I'd suggest you > > get Mozilla 9.x going. At least it'll also auto-complete > > login/password info for you. There's Mandrake rpms for > > mozilla-0.9.9 for 8.1 from Texstar's http://www.pclinuxonline.com > > and for 8.2 from

RE: [newbie] best news reader and ftp client

2002-03-17 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Agent runs quite happily under WINE, so if you are happy with it, just keep using it! Other than that, I like tin and mutt for news. -Original Message- From: Donald E.Gulmire [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 2:16 PM To: [EMAIL

[newbie] best news reader and ftp client

2002-03-17 Thread Donald E.Gulmire
Thanks for the help with the jpeg viewer question. I ended up with Gqview. I am trying to replace my Windows based programs with Linux stuff. Could I get some feedback on what News Readers and FTP Clients are good. I use Forte Agent and CuteFTP with Windows. I am trying to learn to do all

Re: [newbie] Getting and installing packages

2002-03-17 Thread Walter Logeman
Rick, > I find their upto 2 months behind current versions for > somethings, (except for security updates) So what do you do instead Rick? Walter -- Walter Logeman Psychotherapist http://www.psybernet.co.nz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestor

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

2002-03-17 Thread Robin Turner
On Sunday 17 March 2002 05:50, FemmeFatale wrote: > 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 k

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

2002-03-17 Thread Michael
Femme: Have a look at this online book/tutorial. See if it helps. http://rute.sourceforge.net/rute.html Michael FemmeFatale wrote: > > 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

Re: [newbie] Anti-spam measures

2002-03-17 Thread Robin Turner
On Friday 15 March 2002 04:07, damian wrote: > > hmm... you could use the "if contains..." filter. if you can copy > the korean characters use them to filter enything containing > them... Hah - got it to work! It wouldn't work on the first attempt, because it was translating most of the weird

Re: [newbie] Getting and installing packages

2002-03-17 Thread Derek Jennings
>SNIP > There are too many of these things for me at present - and I have > also installed binaries which means the rpm database no longer > knows what is what. >SNIP You can easily lose track of binaries you have installed by compiling since they do not go into the rpm database. It is also di

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

2002-03-17 Thread Marc Oestreicher
Great to know there is an other Arkie on the list. Marc Calico Rock AR. 3/12/02 11:43:49 PM, "Henry B. Wangle Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Guy, Arkansas USA >Presently 40F slightly cloudy, >Tomorrow just wait it will change > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSof

Re: [newbie] Getting and installing packages

2002-03-17 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
> Usually when someone recommends me to download such-and-such a package, > with such-and-such a version number, I go to Red Carpet and not only > find that it is there, but in a newer version. So far, I have not had a > single problem with anything that I have installed through this service. I f

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