Re: [newbie-it] mi e' morto Linux

2002-03-18 Thread Luigi De Pascale
On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Arwan wrote: Stavo smanettando e facendo esperimanti... e ho grippato tutto. Per vedere se riuscivo a ridimensionare un gruppo di jpg con un'unica operazione, ho lanciato il comando per aprirle (con Gimp). Ovviamente, non ho fatto la prova con due-tre file (mannaggia!)

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

2002-03-18 Thread Andrea Celli
Di Fresco Marco wrote: OK, per questa volta ti perdoniamo. La prossima volta, disinstallazione di Linux sulla pubblica piazza e condanna a due mesi di uso esclusivo di Windows 95! ;) Ehi, piano! Questo va contro i diritti civili di base di ogni essere umano! :-) Per il momento ti

[newbie-it] fuso...orario

2002-03-18 Thread tom
Da quando ho installato la MDK ho un curioso inconveniente ho orari differernti nei due OS (winz9x e MDK8.1) installati nel pc...corregendone uno al reboot con l'altro mi si sballa l'altrola differenza tra i due è di un ora esatta. Ho provato a modificare l'orario anche dal bios,ma non

Re: [newbie-it] permessi di r/w

2002-03-18 Thread Andrea Celli
SkyHeart wrote: Ciao a tutti, vorrei permettere ad un utente pippo di leggere e scrivere sulle partizioni occupate da windows (mentre ora solo root legge e scrive ed agli altri utenti è permesso solo leggere). Immagino di dover agire su /etc/fstab ma non saprei come. Grazie in

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

2002-03-18 Thread paolo brusasco
Ho scritto giorni fa alla Mand e dicono no, per ora non sono attrezzati per altre forme di pagamento. p.s. Io avevo trovato il powerpack 8.1 alla vobis. Non so se tutti i negozi della catena lo vendano. Asgro][ wrote: Io sono pienamente convinto di voler acquistare il power pack della

Re: [newbie-it] cd audio su mandrake 8.1

2002-03-18 Thread paolo brusasco
Ho avuto lo stesso problema. La prima cosa che dovresti verificare è se hai il cavetto analogioco audio che collega il lettore alla scheda audio o alla mother se hai audio built-in. Linux normalmente non legge i cd audio tramite l'interfaccia digitale. Oppure, sulla distribuzione

[newbie-it] konqueror-netscape-mozilla-galeon

2002-03-18 Thread tom
Scusate se posto su un argomento gia trattatoma nelle precedenti mail non avevo capito granche. In tutti i browsers elencati mancano i plugin per java e flash , giusto? a me interessa averne uno che funzioni pienamente , in modo da poter abbandonare definitivamente Winzow. Quale browser mi

Re: [newbie-it] cd audio su mandrake 8.1

2002-03-18 Thread Marco Forti
Ti manca un link simbolico al device corrispondente al lettore cdrom in /dev. Controlla in /etc/fstab a quale device punta la directory /mnt/cdrom Ammettendo che sia hdc (caso + comune) spostati in /dev e crea il link simbolico: cd /dev ln -s hdc cdrom e sei a posto Ciao Marco

Re: [newbie-it] konqueror-netscape-mozilla-galeon

2002-03-18 Thread paolo brusasco
Non so se può esserti utile, ma io mi sono regolato così e vado mooolto bene: 1) ho abbandonato konqueror come navigatore web perche'non riuscivo a configurare i plugin (non ditelo agli amici del kde) 2) ho scaricato netscape 6.2 versione piena con tutti i plugin java compreso. impieghi

Re: [newbie-it] konqueror-netscape-mozilla-galeon

2002-03-18 Thread Sandro
Alle 13:21, lunedì 18 marzo 2002, hai scritto: Scusate se posto su un argomento gia trattatoma nelle precedenti mail non avevo capito granche. In tutti i browsers elencati mancano i plugin per java e flash , giusto? a me interessa averne uno che funzioni pienamente , in modo da poter

Re: [newbie-it] cd audio su mandrake 8.1

2002-03-18 Thread SkyHeart
Il giornol Sun, 17 Mar 2002 18:32:45 +0100 Daniele Micci [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Ciao, il tuo problema dovrebbe dipendere da DEVFS. Devi disattivarlo (cerca nell'archivio della lista come fare) e creare il corretto collegamento simbolico al device CDROM (anche questo lo trovi

Re: [newbie-it] fuso...orario

2002-03-18 Thread Daniele Micci
Il giorno 11:19, domenica 17 marzo 2002 hai scritto: Da quando ho installato la MDK ho un curioso inconveniente ho orari differernti nei due OS (winz9x e MDK8.1) installati nel pc...corregendone uno al reboot con l'altro mi si sballa l'altrola differenza tra i due è di un ora esatta.

[newbie-it] scheda video savage ed X

2002-03-18 Thread paolo brusasco
Ciao. Sto tentando di installare 8.1 su un pc con scheda video savage e monitor lcd (quelli delle offerte nataslizie della vobis) ed ho problemi con X. Dalla mailing list inglese ho appreso che non c'e' il supporto per le schede savage nell'X 4.. di mandrake. peraltro anche

Re: [newbie] MP3 to WAV

2002-03-18 Thread Guilherme Cirne
On Monday 18 March 2002 4:28 am, you wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] tinyfirewall

2002-03-18 Thread civileme
Colin Jenkins wrote: 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

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

2002-03-18 Thread Robin Turner
For the time being at least, free speech has to be pretty much the same as free beer. If the code is free, then anyone who wants can make free binaries, including cloning your entire distribution (remember Mandrake itself was for many years thought of as a Red Hat clone). If the code

Re: [newbie] Connection sharing reconfiguration.

2002-03-18 Thread Brian Parish
Wei, The easiest way to fix this is to install a proper firewall setup, which is a good move anyway. I found that this went away after I installed Interactive Bastille. Somewhere in the default network setup on LM, IP forwarding gets turned off, probably by the default firewall. If you set up

Re: [newbie] Which firewall?

2002-03-18 Thread Brian Parish
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 19:04, civileme wrote: 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

Re[2]: [newbie] tinyfirewall

2002-03-18 Thread Colin Jenkins
Hello civileme, Monday, March 18, 2002, 7:32:52 PM, you wrote: ot much else. On c connection sharing it protects you from an iptables rules flush at boot c but you can also configure that by hand (ref c http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/81errata.php3). c Civileme h

Re: [newbie] OT - PC building help

2002-03-18 Thread Roger Sherman
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Roger Sherman wrote: Sorry to address this to the list, but I'm at my wits end, and it's either this, or find a service center or something to fix this problem for me, and after building this PC, I really don't have the money. I built a PC about two 1/2 months ago

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

2002-03-18 Thread Karine ZUERCHER
EXACTLY ME MIND ! Thanks a lot Sridhar Karine On Monday 18 March 2002 10:19, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: You seem to be applying closed-source pricing policies to something that is free (as in speech). Why would one pay $100 for a Mandrake server when the source is free? Someone can compile

Re: [newbie] Master slave drives

2002-03-18 Thread John Richard Smith
I have W2K NTFS and numerous Ext2 Linux OS's on the same hard drive(s) and have no trouble sharing data so why the VFAT partition ? John John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sunday 17 March 2002 12:30 am, you wrote: Joe, this is a no problem scenario. Just go ahead and install 8.1 on

Fwd: [newbie] Re: ARTS / Audio Codec97 / and VT8233 Audio Chip configuration

2002-03-18 Thread John Richard Smith
Monday ,18.03.2003,1300GMT Well, despite best efforts my sound system is less that stable. Provided that I shut down completely and reboot ,CD Player OK. Sometimes X-CD-Roast sound player OK, most of the time not. If I automatically reboot ,without pause, NOTHING. Taskbar ControlCenter -Sound

RE: [newbie] What is ICE and DCOP?

2002-03-18 Thread Burrows, Scott
Graham, I only use KDE as my window environment/manager. Thanks LX for the DCOP info. That cleared the fog. Scott -Original Message- From: Lyvim Xaphir [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 11:38 PM To: NewbieMandrake-List Subject: Re: [newbie] What is ICE and DCOP?

RE: [newbie] Higher priority for XMMS

2002-03-18 Thread FLYNN, Steve
I don't think so - any user can nice their own running tasks so nicer nice values (i.e. any user can say, this program I am running, it's low priority so don't spend too much effort on running it for me) but only root has the power to do the opposite (i.e. lower the nice value to make the

Re: [newbie] How to best support Mandrake

2002-03-18 Thread shane
On Monday 18 March 2002 04:36, Sridhar Dhanapalan opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: One thing I don't understand is how people have interpreted Mandrakesoft's request for people to join the Mandrake Club as a plea for charity to keep an ailing company afloat. It is no such thing.

[newbie] How to Install Alternative Kernel

2002-03-18 Thread John Richard Smith
I recently downloaded an updated kernel version 2.4.8-26mdk.rpm which is said to be suited to LM8.1 . How can I install this without overwriting my existing kernel version k2.4.8-19mdk in /boot partition. When I went to install it using RPM package manager I am sure it was going to overwrite

RE: [newbie] OT - PC building help

2002-03-18 Thread Roger Sherman
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Bill Spatz wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 6:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] OT - PC building help Sorry to address this to the list, but

[newbie] 8.2 Blackbox logout problem

2002-03-18 Thread Roger Sherman
I don't know if I should submit this as a bug report or not, but has anyone else noticed that on the menu on blackbox (where you right click to get a floating menu), it no longer has the Exit (logout) option at the bottom? Now to get out of it, I have to Cntl-Alt-Backspace. Is there a better

Re: [newbie] OT - PC building help

2002-03-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 18 March 2002 07:28 am, Roger Sherman wrote: Sorry to address this to the list, but I'm at my wits end, and it's either this, or find a service center or something to fix this problem for me, and after building this PC, I really don't have the money. First try re-seating

Re: [newbie] How to Install Alternative Kernel

2002-03-18 Thread shane
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/install/index.html#ku On Sunday 17 March 2002 13:04, John Richard Smith opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: I recently downloaded an updated kernel version 2.4.8-26mdk.rpm which is said to be suited to LM8.1 . How can I install this without

RE: [newbie] best news reader and ftp client

2002-03-18 Thread FLYNN, Steve
Rather than using Pan for binary newsgroups, try bnr (Binary News Reaper). There is a Win version and a Linux version available. It;s really is very very good for binary newsgroups. http://www.bnr.com (I think!) -Original Message- From: Tom Brinkman [SMTP:[EMAIL

RE: [newbie] OT - PC building help

2002-03-18 Thread Damian
El lun, 18-03-2002 a las 10:58, Roger Sherman escribió: On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Bill Spatz wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 6:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie]

Re: [newbie] How to Install Alternative Kernel

2002-03-18 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 17 March 2002 21:04, John Richard Smith wrote: I recently downloaded an updated kernel version 2.4.8-26mdk.rpm which is said to be suited to LM8.1 . Well don't use that kernel... It is the one that shipped with 8.1 and was replaced due to a security vulnerability. The current

[newbie] cdrecord in DAO

2002-03-18 Thread Guilherme Cirne
Hi, Is there a way to define the amount of silence between audio tracks when using cdrecord in DAO mode? TIA, -- Guilherme Cirne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Dvorak on Linux

2002-03-18 Thread Charles Muller
John Dvorak has an interesting piece entitled Is Linux Your Next OS? at http://www.pcmag.com/article/0,2997,s=1500a=23172,00.asp As usual, there are some things in there that border on the outrageous, but I thought that some might find it interesting. Regards, Chuck -- Charles Muller Toyo

Re: [newbie] How to Install Alternative Kernel

2002-03-18 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 21:04:32 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently downloaded an updated kernel version 2.4.8-26mdk.rpm which is said to be suited to LM8.1 . How can I install this without overwriting my existing kernel version k2.4.8-19mdk in /boot partition.

[newbie] Network Monitor Program Web Gui

2002-03-18 Thread Ira M. Bargon III
Do any of you know of a program that will display statistics on my home network that I could access via the web. Statistics such as most visited web sites and bytes transferred, network usage by the hour or by the day, some type of information in that nature. Thanks, Ira

Re: [newbie] how to create a logout message?

2002-03-18 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hi Todd, Todd Slater wrote: I have edited the file /etc/profile so that users get a message when logging in. What file would I edit so that all users receive a bye-bye message when they log out? I can do it per individual user, but is there a universal file like /etc/profile? Gracias,

[newbie] Ping

2002-03-18 Thread Marcia
Dear All, I cannot ping my vmware Windows95 guest from my LM8.1. I can ping my Linux from the Windows95, but I cannot reach the machine from Linux. Even so, the networking in Win95 is working well. I can see my machine and do anything with all of my Linux files within the vmware Windows.

[newbie] I need your suggestions

2002-03-18 Thread Mandrake Newbie
Hello Linux gurus, Is it okay to put up a firewall, router and proxy servers/packages, all in one computer? Can you give me your recommended packages and what's their individual use, for this kind of setup? Also, can you give your how-to's in setting up this kind of setup? Thank you in

Re: [newbie] How to best support Mandrake

2002-03-18 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 11:08, sda wrote: Note that Mandrakesoft does have a donations page, which can be reached at http://mandrakelinux.com/donations/. They have _not_ publicised this site in their press release (in fact, it's been almost a year since they last mentioned it), so it is

[newbie] Apache + PostgreSQL + qmail + djbdns + LDAP + CUPS

2002-03-18 Thread Mandrake Newbie
Hello Linux gurus, Is it okay to install Apache + PostgreSQL + qmail + djbdns + LDAP + CUPS in to one computer and this computer is connected through a dial-up connection? This is for my home network setup with a limited number of computers. Thank you very much in advance for giving your

[newbie] Kernel upgrade problem

2002-03-18 Thread Mandrake Newbie
Hello Linux gurus, I've been trying to upgrade my default kernel-2.4.8 of my Mandrake 8.1 to a newer version but with no luck. I don't know what's the matter that everytime I installed a newer kernel version, I can't boot from it. I am using XFS for my /usr, /home, /tmp, /opt, etc. and ext2

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

2002-03-18 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 10:56, sda wrote: On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 08:19:15PM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: You seem to be applying closed-source pricing policies to something that is free (as in speech). Why would one pay $100 for a Mandrake server when the source is free? Someone can

Re: [newbie] Audio CD in TAO mode

2002-03-18 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
On Monday 18 March 2002 04:21 am, you wrote: Hi, When I try to burn an audio CD in TAO I get an error (in DAO it works fine). The output of cdrecord is as follows: Calling: /usr/lib/xcdroast-0.98/bin/xcdrwrap CDRECORD dev= 0,0,0 fs=4096k driveropts=burnproof -v -useinfo speed=2 -dummy

Re: [newbie] OT - PC building help

2002-03-18 Thread civileme
Roger Sherman wrote: Sorry to address this to the list, but I'm at my wits end, and it's either this, or find a service center or something to fix this problem for me, and after building this PC, I really don't have the money. I built a PC about two 1/2 months ago (my first attempt at

[newbie] IDE CD Burner installation/use?

2002-03-18 Thread Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)
I've got a LiteOn LTR-12101B IDE CD BURNER installed, but I cannot burn to the CD... There was a CD reader installed before (and it worked fine). I want to use the excellent MONDO/MINDI (http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/) as a system backup tool from the command line. I'd also like the burner to

Re: [newbie] Dvorak on Linux

2002-03-18 Thread Pena Family
I agree with most of Dvorak's comments. I am concerned that if Linux were to follow such a direction it would lose that personality that attracts me to using and playing with it. I use XP too, but it is like picking up a shovel, driving the car to the store for milk. and similar. I don't get a

Re: [newbie] Audio CD in TAO mode

2002-03-18 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 08:04, Tom Brinkman wrote: The only GUI frontend to cdrecord I've found that's reliable is Gcombust. On the Mandrake news group most seem to favor Eroaster, but I tried burning a 700mb CD from files that I had just made a CD with Gcombust, and Eroaster failed.

RE: [newbie] IDE CD Burner installation/use?

2002-03-18 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] IDE CD Burner installation/use? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP) Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 12:51 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [newbie] IDE CD Burner

Re: [newbie] OT - PC building help

2002-03-18 Thread mooseman
just thought i would add my two cents... i run an abit bp6 dual machine. it is very stable now that i removed my piece of #$$% HP cd burner. but, while i was fighting with it, i had some similar weird symptoms you mention, like if i edited the bios settings, generally the machine would hang

Re: [newbie] Kernel upgrade problem

2002-03-18 Thread civileme
Mandrake Newbie wrote: Hello Linux gurus, I've been trying to upgrade my default kernel-2.4.8 of my Mandrake 8.1 to a newer version but with no luck. I don't know what's the matter that everytime I installed a newer kernel version, I can't boot from it. I am using XFS for my /usr, /home,

Re: [newbie] best news reader and ftp client

2002-03-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 18 March 2002 07:42 am, FLYNN, Steve wrote: Rather than using Pan for binary newsgroups, try bnr (Binary News Reaper). There is a Win version and a Linux version available. It;s really is very very good for binary newsgroups. http://www.bnr.com (I think!)

Re: [newbie] I need your suggestions

2002-03-18 Thread civileme
Mandrake Newbie wrote: Hello Linux gurus, Is it okay to put up a firewall, router and proxy servers/packages, all in one computer? Can you give me your recommended packages and what's their individual use, for this kind of setup? Also, can you give your how-to's in setting up this kind of

[newbie] stopped jobs

2002-03-18 Thread David
Greetings When I attempt to run a kill %PID on a stopped job, nothing happens. I get no error, but a ps x |more shows the job still there. What can I do about this? How can I restart the job again? -- °°° Mandrake Linux 8.1

Re: [newbie] How to Install Alternative Kernel

2002-03-18 Thread Brian Parish
On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 03:00, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 21:04:32 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently downloaded an updated kernel version 2.4.8-26mdk.rpm which is said to be suited to LM8.1 . How can I install this without overwriting my

Re: [newbie] And their OFF!!!!! 8.2 is now out!!

2002-03-18 Thread Damian
El lun, 18-03-2002 a las 18:53, David .. escribió: Go and get them _ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] IDE CD Burner installation/use?

2002-03-18 Thread Kaj Haulrich
Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP) wrote: snip I've got a LiteOn LTR-12101B IDE CD BURNER installed, but I cannot burn Can someone help by telling me if my /etc/fstab entry is correct, and the command line parameters to use to make the CD burner operate from the command line? /snip Thanks in

[newbie] File size limit exceeded

2002-03-18 Thread Dr Joe Brand
Hi, I mucked something up when trying to setup Bastille firewall. I used InteractiveBastille, there were a lot of questions. I answered all the best I could. Here's whats happening: Now when I try to su - and enter the passwd, I get the File size limit exceeded. How can I fix this?

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

2002-03-18 Thread FemmeFatale
I have ADD, please keep your posts to 2 paragraphs or less. Sheesh. Anyway, just being a dork. Thought I'd say I can't be bothered to read all that. And I'm sure there are others here who agree. Femme john rigby wrote: Hi Todd folks, Explaining value: How much money do you think

Re: [newbie] Which firewall?, small OT

2002-03-18 Thread FemmeFatale
As an aside, I know the site says SNF will NOT run on a 486. However its an 486sx * i think * compaq. Now I have 78mb of ram in it, might be able to put 128 in ... not sure. Will the ram help or am I still fubared ? :) Just thought I'd ask. Femme civileme wrote: Well, for standalones,

Re: [newbie] 8.2 Blackbox logout problem

2002-03-18 Thread Miark
Session WindowManagers Exit Miark On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 09:01:32 -0500 (EST), Roger Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: I don't know if I should submit this as a bug report or not, but has anyone else noticed that on the menu on blackbox (where you right click to get a floating

Re: [newbie] Connection sharing reconfiguration.

2002-03-18 Thread FemmeFatale
OK I have bastille installed... now how to I use this interactive setup ;) Haven't looked for it, not knowing where to look...so just point i'll click. Femme Brian Parish wrote: Wei, The easiest way to fix this is to install a proper firewall setup, which is a good move anyway. I

Re: [newbie] How to best support Mandrake

2002-03-18 Thread Jose Mirles
On Monday 18 March 2002 07:36, you wrote: One thing I don't understand is how people have interpreted Mandrakesoft's request for people to join the Mandrake Club as a plea for charity to keep an ailing company afloat. It is no such thing. The Mandrakesoft web page clearly shows Mandrake's

Re: [newbie] File size limit exceeded

2002-03-18 Thread civileme
Dr Joe Brand wrote: Hi, I mucked something up when trying to setup Bastille firewall. I used InteractiveBastille, there were a lot of questions. I answered all the best I could. Here's whats happening: Now when I try to su - and enter the passwd, I get the File size limit exceeded.

Re: [newbie] Postfix error message

2002-03-18 Thread Daniel Chen
Thank you for your help. I did check the diskspace and it has plenty of space available. However, I figured out the problem and I would like to share with everybody here. Two days ago I install a guestbook cgi in my Apache web server. One thing I did not know is that every time when someone

Re: [newbie] Willing to run Dragon Plus MB

2002-03-18 Thread FemmeFatale
Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas wrote: FWIW === This I don't know yet! What does it mean? For What Its Worth. Sort of like saying, In my opinion it may not be worth much... My concern on cooling is not only on the cpu itself but, as we've just got thru a compulsory energy saving period

Re: [newbie] Postfix error message

2002-03-18 Thread Miark
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 19:59:48 -0500, Daniel Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: Two days ago I install a guestbook cgi in my Apache web server. One thing I did not know is that every time when someone signed the guestbook, it will sent a notice email to the web master I set up in the Apache

Re: [newbie] OT - PC building help

2002-03-18 Thread FemmeFatale
Roger Sherman wrote: well IMO I've built several PC's you have a definite problem. If I may ask, is that the old case Powersupply that came with it? I know you said you swapped PW's, but...how big is that PW? 250 watts won't cut it. Get the biggest you can afford this is one area in PC's

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

2002-03-18 Thread Olly P
On Sunday 17 March 2002 22:00, John R typed: http://rute.sourceforge.net/rute.html The cute thing is enormous! Looks great! Needs an already installed WORKING Linux to even read the Manual !!! Ha Ha Ha Ha..sigh- --- Monday 18 March 2002 -- 18:15hrs cst Look

[newbie] SCSI dialog box problem Linux-Mandrake 7.2

2002-03-18 Thread Joel G. Viney
Hi There, I'm installing Linux Mandrake 7.2 from CD. I get to the Setup Filesystems section. A dialog box pops up asking Do you have any SCSI Interface? I do not so I click No. The dialog box keeps popping up and I can't get past it. I'm installing it on a P-II 233mhz machine w/ 295MB of

Re: [newbie] stopped jobs

2002-03-18 Thread Damian
El lun, 18-03-2002 a las 18:27, David escribió: Greetings When I attempt to run a kill %PID on a stopped job, nothing happens. I get no error, but a ps x |more shows the job still there. What can I do about this? How can I restart the job again? usually this means that you have no

Re: [newbie] Which firewall?, small OT

2002-03-18 Thread civileme
FemmeFatale wrote: As an aside, I know the site says SNF will NOT run on a 486. However its an 486sx * i think * compaq. Now I have 78mb of ram in it, might be able to put 128 in ... not sure. Will the ram help or am I still fubared ? :) Just thought I'd ask. Femme civileme wrote: Well,

Re: [newbie] System Getting Sluggish

2002-03-18 Thread Damian
El dom, 17-03-2002 a las 13:45, jquandt3 escribió: 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

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

2002-03-18 Thread john rigby
Hi Sridhar and folks again, You are actually selling my case, again, my friend. Everybody and his dog have already tried to make this unworkable thing go and there has been a 100% failure. Look around. Now look at Microsoft. A company flogging a set of products that even the front-end user has

Re: [newbie] How to best support Mandrake

2002-03-18 Thread civileme
john rigby wrote: Hi Sridhar folks, Unfortunately this whole thing is enough for me to almost rest my case! Mandrake seems to be composed of nice people - Geeks one and all. There are certainly no people from the hard world there. This Company doesn't even have the excuse that its owners shot

Re: [newbie] Higher priority for XMMS

2002-03-18 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
The nice scale consists of all the integers running between -20 and 20, inclusive. Lower numbers have a higher priority in the system scheduler. By default, all applications run with a nice value of 0. An ordinary user is able to 'nice' to any value = 0. Anything below zero is only accessible by

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

2002-03-18 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:41:03 -0700 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have ADD, please keep your posts to 2 paragraphs or less. Sheesh. Anyway, just being a dork. Thought I'd say I can't be bothered to read all that. And I'm sure there are others here who agree. Femme I agree!

Re: [newbie] how to create a logout message?

2002-03-18 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 12:17:01 +0200 Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Todd, Todd Slater wrote: I have edited the file /etc/profile so that users get a message when logging in. What file would I edit so that all users receive a bye-bye message when they log out? I

Re: [newbie] I need your suggestions

2002-03-18 Thread civileme
Mandrake Newbie wrote: Hello Linux gurus, Is it okay to put up a firewall, router and proxy servers/packages, all in one computer? Can you give me your recommended packages and what's their individual use, for this kind of setup? Also, can you give your how-to's in setting up this kind of

[newbie] XSANE UMAX Astra 2000p

2002-03-18 Thread Carlos Arigós
I need some help here. After upgrading the kernel to 2.4.18-5mdk, my UMAX Astra 2000p don't work at all. I only get the following message: [root@localhost root]# scanimage --list -devices [umax_pp_low] Found 0x18 expected 0x00 (umax_pp_low.c:4374) [umax_pp_low] Unexpected value for for

Re: [newbie] How to best support Mandrake

2002-03-18 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 18 March 2002 20:54, you wrote: john rigby wrote: Hi Sridhar folks, Unfortunately this whole thing is enough for me to almost rest my case! Mandrake seems to be composed of nice people - Geeks one and all. There are certainly no people from the hard world there. This Company

Re: [newbie] How to best support Mandrake

2002-03-18 Thread shane
On Monday 18 March 2002 19:50, Dennis Myers opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: john rigby wrote: way too much Never mind about the pontification Civileme. Mr. Rigby appears to be in marketing. That says it all. lets just face that fact he 1) has no questions about mandrake or

Re: [newbie] How to best support Mandrake

2002-03-18 Thread Pascal
Hello! john rigby wrote: [...] BTW; FOR REAL NEWBIES: NEITHER OF THE LINKS WORK IN SRIDHARS MESSAGE - JUST DROP OFF THE "( )"s That must depend on what browser you use. Everything works fine here (with Netscape on Mandrak 8.1 and on MacOS 9 X). Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services

[newbie] back orofice for unix flaw discovered in solaris and mandrake 8.0/8.1

2002-03-18 Thread mike cola
there is apparently a back orifice flaw in the way mandrake deals with remote X sessions.. the report is here http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/24447.html the flaw and its solution are detailed here http://www.procheckup.com/security_info/vuln_pr0208.html apologies if this has already

Re: [newbie] How to best support Mandrake

2002-03-18 Thread shane
On Monday 18 March 2002 20:15, Pascal opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: That must depend on what browser you use. Everything works fine here (with Netscape on Mandrak 8.1 and on MacOS 9 X). and konq, and opera from kmail. maybe it is just low quality MS programs that screw it

Re: [newbie] How to best support Mandrake

2002-03-18 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 11:08, sda wrote: On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 11:36:50PM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: One thing I don't understand is how people have interpreted Mandrakesoft's request for people to join the Mandrake Club as a plea for charity to keep an ailing company afloat. It is

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

2002-03-18 Thread shane
On Sunday 17 March 2002 19:53, Todd Slater opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: But, if Mandrake called in PayPals services and said: $10 for the lot by download in bits. NO FREEBIES, it would work. I would never have downloaded and tried Mandrake if I had had to pay. I was not

Re: [newbie] OT - PC building help

2002-03-18 Thread Roger Sherman
Hey Terry... Yep, just did that. Stripped it down to the bare motherboard, reseated the CPU, RAM, vid card...reconnected the power switch, reset switch, etc. Then I tried starting it up, with basically nothing but the vid card attatched, and it still exhibited the same boot problem, so I

Re: [newbie] 8.2 Blackbox logout problem

2002-03-18 Thread Roger Sherman
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Miark wrote: Session WindowManagers Exit Aha! Those slippery bastards...;-) Thanks, Miark. Miark On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 09:01:32 -0500 (EST), Roger Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: I don't know if I should submit this as a bug report or not, but has

Re: [newbie] How to best support Mandrake

2002-03-18 Thread Pascal
Hello! shane wrote: On Monday 18 March 2002 20:15, Pascal opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: That must depend on what browser you use. Everything works fine here (with Netscape on Mandrak 8.1 and on MacOS 9 X). and konq, and opera from kmail. maybe it is just low quality

[newbie] Mandrake Update

2002-03-18 Thread Lee
When I try to add any source from the list of mirrors, I get an error An error occured when adding this source. I have tried each source listed, Cooker and Security (anticipating comments) and got the same reply. Is this an intended feature to keep me from screwing up my box again with

[newbie] supporting Mandrake

2002-03-18 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
I don't understand all the fuss. Either give them a whopping $5 a month, or don't. I chose to. I've used Mandrake for a good while and I can spare the $5. It's like one less trip to McDonalds each month. I think I can handle it. Peace, -- Jonathan Dlouhy Tuesday, March 19, 2002

RE: [newbie] OT - PC building help

2002-03-18 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 08:58, Roger Sherman wrote: I had a similar problem with my laptop after upgrading the RAM. Be sure that your RAM is fully and securely seated in their slots. Bill Thanks Bill...I actually had to take a great deal of care with the RAM...this board seems

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update

2002-03-18 Thread civileme
Lee wrote: When I try to add any source from the list of mirrors, I get an error An error occured when adding this source. I have tried each source listed, Cooker and Security (anticipating comments) and got the same reply. Is this an intended feature to keep me from screwing up my box again

RE: [newbie] Which firewall?

2002-03-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In windows you need a firewall software, in Linux you don't. Linux has IPTables which is built into the system/kernel if you have it installed. 'rpm -q iptables' will tell you if you have it installed. The firewall is different to Windows as much as the firewall is defined by a set of rules.

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update

2002-03-18 Thread Lee
On Tuesday 19 March 2002 01:32 am, you wrote: Lee wrote: When I try to add any source from the list of mirrors, I get an error An error occured when adding this source. I have tried each source listed, Cooker and Security (anticipating comments) and got the same reply. Is this an intended

Re: [newbie] supporting Mandrake

2002-03-18 Thread Lee
On Tuesday 19 March 2002 01:06 am, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: I don't understand all the fuss. Either give them a whopping $5 a month, or don't. I chose to. I've used Mandrake for a good while and I can spare the $5. It's like one less trip to McDonalds each month. I think I can handle it.

Re: [newbie] Which File system?

2002-03-18 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 21:12, civileme wrote: Ext2 I ran three times under each mode and came up with the same results (nearly). The one thsat others suggested to me as the fastest turned out to be the slowest. Yes, i have run sledgehammer on IDE, on SCSI and on seven different

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