Re: [newbie] OT CHEER UP Femme :)

2002-03-25 Thread FemmeFatale
*smiles* Ty Hanan & may many hugs come your way :) Yes well I do try to keep the OT's short for that reason love. I will continue posting here, as I've had much love come my way recently due to some extraordinary individuals here. *You all know who you are and I thank you* Femme Hanan Shargi

Re: [newbie] OT quick note to Brian & Lyvim & the rest who care

2002-03-25 Thread John Lynch
Hey, I know this wasn't addressed to me, but I thought I'd reply anyway. I know how things can be bad, I've had a real rough 2 days. I'm sorry to hear ur rough time has gone for 7times longer then mine, I really am. If you need a complete stranger to talk to, I'm here, and I'm good at forgett

Re: [newbie] Can't get openoffice to install with 8.2

2002-03-25 Thread Robin Turner
On Monday 25 March 2002 22:10, Miark wrote: > Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spoke thusly: > > SNIP > > > > > BTW Derek, where did you find SO6 beta? i kinda miss it. stupidly > > > deleted it thinking i would be able to download it again two > > > days before Sun took it off their site... > >

Re: [newbie] Message posts

2002-03-25 Thread s
Or how about the ones that show up and are dated months ago? lol. -s On Monday 25 March 2002 06:26 pm, you wrote: > Damn right, I have. I've received them out of order, doubles, and > messages that appear a day after they were posted. > > Miark > > "James Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spoke thus

Re: [newbie] For the brazilian fellow looking for comp parts.

2002-03-25 Thread Nathan Pryor
I doubt you could go wrong with either board. I use the Asus A7V133 with onboard sound disabled (using an el cheapo ALS4000 PCI sound card which both Mandrake 8.1 and 8.2 had no problem detecting!) The onboard Asus sound should give you no worries. HTH, -nathan On Monday 25 March 2002 05:21

[newbie] Second post: trying to mount external firewire drive

2002-03-25 Thread Andy Miller
I'd like to attach an external firewire drive to a Dell laptop running Mandrake 8.1 and I'm not sure how I go about mounting the drive. I have a 1394 PCMCIA card that I'm reasonably confident work with the OS, and the drive is NTFS formatted, though I could change that as there is nothing of

Fwd: Re: [newbie] OT CHEER UP Femme, et. al.

2002-03-25 Thread ed tharp
forwarded as explained herein -- Forwarded Message -- Status: R Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from uchu.msi.net.ph ([203.87.141.105]) by emu (EarthLink SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 16PHie10Y3NZFnx0 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 19:06:38 -

[newbie] Second post: trying to mount external firewire drive

2002-03-25 Thread Andy Miller
I'd like to attach an 80 gig firewire drive to a Dell laptop running Mandrake 8.1 and I'm not sure how I go about mounting the drive.  I have a 1394 PCMCIA card that I'm reasonably confident work with the OS, and the drive is NTFS formatted, though I could change that as there is nothing of value

Re: [newbie] Message posts

2002-03-25 Thread James Thomas
>James: >It may depend on your e-mail client. I use KMail, and I tell it to sort by >subject; each posting appears oldest first, based upon when it was posted >expressed in my local time. IIRC, Netscape does pretty much the same, as do >most mail clients. Incidentally, one of the side effects is t

Re: [newbie] changing the bash prompt

2002-03-25 Thread civileme
Wally wrote: > >There's lots of choice in the Windows world as well, as there was in DOS. MS >have something of a stranglehold on OS and mainstream apps, but there's >plenty of freeware and shareware out there. > >To me, it's more about how the choices are presented. Like I say, dumping >2000 fi

Re: [newbie] Compiling/Starting application in 8.1

2002-03-25 Thread dfox
> then I do: gcc main.c -omain One normally places the executable file before the source files, but I guess that works too :). i.e. gcc -O -o main main.c > But when I start it, I get: bash: main: command not found > > A chmod 777 main isn't also working. Do I have (ELF???) library > problems?

Re: [newbie] ftp for file sharing

2002-03-25 Thread dfox
> I also noticed something else ( I noticed this a few days ago ) every time I > change the following line in /etc/hosts file : > 192.168.0.1 hanan.myisp.comhanan DHCP isn't supposed to affect that IP. That IP is by definition a private network IP. What you might be mising is that y

Re: [newbie] Printerdrake freezing??

2002-03-25 Thread Linus Drouhard
On Monday 25 March 2002 01:16 am, you wrote: > Linus Drouhard wrote: > >Hi everyone, > > To open, I really like Mandrake 8.2. I've been a Mandrake user since > > 8.0. It's the best out there. 8.2 installation was a breeze but for one > > point. > > > >To start, I have an AMD K6-II running at

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0

2002-03-25 Thread David
shane said onto me: shane> On Tuesday 26 March 2002 04:47 am, Lúcio Costa de Almeida opened a hailing shane> frequency and transmitted: shane> shane> > I'm looking for information about StarOffice 6.0 final shane> > version. shane> shane> opening that can-o-worms. shane> shane> i don't th

Re: [newbie] OT quick note to Brian & Lyvim & the rest who care

2002-03-25 Thread Marc Oestreicher
Yep Lets lighten up, After all a lot of people hate to read manuals because they are so dry and boreing that thry make som people almost catatonic. IMHO the best text book or manual that I have ever used is THE COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE OF HOW TO KEEP A VOLKSWAGON ALIVE FOR EVER Very enter

Re: [newbie] OT CHEER UP Femme :)

2002-03-25 Thread ed tharp
this is an international list, as such some folks connect via a per min charge on the ppp dialup and a per min telco charge. we could respect that and take the discussions over to mandrakeuser.org. On Monday 25 March 2002 20:40, you wrote: > Hey Femme, > > keep your spirits and your lovely nutt

Re: [newbie] Message posts

2002-03-25 Thread Roy Murray
- Original Message - From: "Miark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 7:26 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Message posts > Damn right, I have. I've received them out of order, doubles, and > messages that appear a day after they were posted. > > Miark > >

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0

2002-03-25 Thread Miark
Mike, StarOffice 6.0 ready and downloadable from MandrakeClub _now_. Miark > I don't believe it's quite ready yet. 6.0 beta is as rock solid > a beta as I've ever come across though. I'd say late April early > May and likely well worth the wait. > IMHO, > Mike Want to buy your Pack or Se

Re: [newbie] changing the bash prompt

2002-03-25 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Monday 25 March 2002 02:36 pm, civileme wrote: > >>>My main problem with man is that I have to know the name of the command > >>>in order to access the man file. Well, there's a bunch of commands with > >>>not-always-intuitive names and I don't have the sharpest memory. > > Ummm, > > try > > ap

Re: [newbie] Message posts

2002-03-25 Thread Miark
Damn right, I have. I've received them out of order, doubles, and messages that appear a day after they were posted. Miark "James Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spoke thusly: > I am just wondering if anyone else noticed problems with messages appearing > in bizarre order, the original message

[newbie] crontab -e for root in 8.2

2002-03-25 Thread Miark
Hi all, In 8.2, I can "crontab cron_list_file" as root, and all is well. But whenever I "crontab -e" as root, any changes I make don't stick. When I exit out of the editor, it says pcrontab: no changes made to crontab Why isn't it sticking? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services fro

[newbie] Employment opportunities

2002-03-25 Thread Sujeet Akula
I am looking for three things people: 1) Someone on a static ip broadband who can host HTML's only!!! 2) C++ programmers who have free time for openSource 3) Grfx designers http://www.exd-sys.com/ _ Send and receive Hotmail on your

[newbie] real player

2002-03-25 Thread shane
right. how ca i save a real player video if it only wants to play the link? for the curious, i want these: http://www.novellbrainshare.com/portal/content/home_video.jsp -- We are Linux. Resistance is measured in Ohms. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ e

Re: [newbie] changing the bash prompt

2002-03-25 Thread Wally
- Original Message - From: "civileme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For systemwide stuff, edit /etc/rc.local. Just pulled this up for a look-see... > For local, try ~/.bashrc ...and have already fiddled with this. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0

2002-03-25 Thread Charlie
On March 25, 2002 01:47 pm, Lucio spake thusly: Hello All, Can Anyone help me ??? I'm looking for information about StarOffice 6.0 final version. Is this version avaliable to Download ? Do you have a link? Tks Lucio __ I think you'll nee

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0

2002-03-25 Thread Brian Parish
Not released until May and it may not be free. Brian On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 07:47, Lúcio Costa de Almeida wrote: > Hello All, > > Can Anyone help me ??? > I'm looking for information about StarOffice 6.0 final > version. > > Is this version avaliable to Download ? > Do you have a link? > > Tks

Fwd: Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0 Ooops!

2002-03-25 Thread Charlie
I guess you need the link? http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-03-25-011-26-NW-DT-MD Sorry!!! _ On March 25, 2002 01:47 pm, Lucio spake thusly: Hello All, Can Anyone help me ??? I'm looking for information about

Re: [newbie] OT quick note to Brian & Lyvim & the rest who care

2002-03-25 Thread FemmeFatale
Thx Brian & Lyvim. I appreciate the sentiments. I've had a rough 2 weeks, and won't get into it here as to why. If you really want to know you can email me offlist. I shall consider your words carefully, and see what I can come up with. Yes I've tried to lighten this particular subject with s

Fw: Re: [newbie] pilot-link

2002-03-25 Thread Frans Ketelaars
It seems this post didn't make it to the list, sorry if you received it twice. Begin forwarded message: Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 01:30:59 +0100 From: Frans Ketelaars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] pilot-link On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 12:06:19 -0500 Dan B <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [newbie] Compiling/Starting application in 8.1

2002-03-25 Thread Michael
Further to these other two postings; there is a good reson why the current directory is not included in the PATH variable- security. There were postings about a month ago on the subject on this list. Cheers. Michael Nathan Pryor wrote: > > This is a path issue. cd to the directory where the ex

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6.0

2002-03-25 Thread shane
On Tuesday 26 March 2002 04:47 am, Lúcio Costa de Almeida opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: > I'm looking for information about StarOffice 6.0 final > version. opening that can-o-worms. i don't think it is yet out from sun, so you won't find it. if you wish to join as a silver memb

[newbie] StarOffice 6.0

2002-03-25 Thread Lúcio Costa de Almeida
Hello All, Can Anyone help me ??? I'm looking for information about StarOffice 6.0 final version. Is this version avaliable to Download ? Do you have a link? Tks Lucio. ___ Yahoo! Empregos O trabalho

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 Minimum install

2002-03-25 Thread shane
On Tuesday 26 March 2002 04:13 am, civileme opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: > Just eliminate all the groups in the screen that shows the purposes, > then you will get a minimal install. ok that is way to simple, please correct that so it some obscure commandline at boot thing. tha

Re: COMMUNITY: Re: [newbie] Support? - a Solution ?

2002-03-25 Thread RichardA
Absolutely. I'm sick and tired of this guy. He doesn't have technical questions, and he sure as hell doesn't have answers. Instead of using the resources of the company he professes to think so little of, and our bandwidth, why doesn't he put together a website containing the insights gained fr

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 Minimum install

2002-03-25 Thread shane
On Tuesday 26 March 2002 02:28 am, Mendez Martín opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: > Hi ! > Last weekend i performed an installation of the new Mandrake 8.2 Linux > (download version in expert mode), but i can not find the option for the > minimal 65 MB installation. > Some one know ho

Re: [newbie] AGP

2002-03-25 Thread Sujeet Akula
I'll try to attach the log file which has the error when i go home >From: Damian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [newbie] AGP >Date: 23 Mar 2002 04:11:29 -0300 > >El sáb, 23-03-2002 a las 03:36, mooseman escribió: > > i have run kde on 4mb ca

RE: [newbie] Maybe of interest to dialup users

2002-03-25 Thread Dalton
Thanks ...that is of help to me...peace "Robin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This may not be news to some, but it is to me. I am posting for the >benefit of other newbies. > >About a month or two ago, there was a thread about getting html mail and >selectively downloading mail. I just found a

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 Minimum install

2002-03-25 Thread civileme
Mendez Martín wrote: > Hi ! > Last weekend i performed an installation of the new Mandrake 8.2 Linux > (download version in expert mode), but i can not find the option for > the minimal 65 MB installation. > > Some one know how perform it ? > Regards. > Just eliminate all the groups in the scre

Re: [newbie] Can't get openoffice to install with 8.2

2002-03-25 Thread Miark
Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spoke thusly: > SNIP > > > > BTW Derek, where did you find SO6 beta? i kinda miss it. stupidly > > deleted it thinking i would be able to download it again two > > days before Sun took it off their site... > > > > Damian >From Sun: "Beta products are designed t

Re: [newbie] I'm Locked Out!

2002-03-25 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 22:28, FemmeFatale wrote: > *shrugs* Whatever guy. > > Ya i'll tone it down just was excited & having fun > > in the event you still don't like my posts, don't read em. > > I'm just enjoying myself & if I sound 14, oh well...Sorry that bugs you. > > Femme As far as I'm

Re: [newbie] changing the bash prompt

2002-03-25 Thread civileme
>>>My main problem with man is that I have to know the name of the command >>>in order to access the man file. Well, there's a bunch of commands with >>>not-always-intuitive names and I don't have the sharpest memory. >>> Ummm, try apropos where keyword is a brief description... Of what yo

Re: [newbie] Can't get openoffice to install with 8.2

2002-03-25 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 18:18:14 + Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > SNIP > > > > BTW Derek, where did you find SO6 beta? i kinda miss it. stupidly > > deleted it thinking i would be able to download it again two > > days before Sun took it off their site... > > > > Damian > > Well...

Re: [newbie] "Quicken" clone

2002-03-25 Thread Lee
Dick You might try MyBooks from appgen.com. I set it up on 8.1 to consider for my business package, was impressed with the features, and still haven't switched from quickbooks pro. Looks good though. Lee On Monday 25 March 2002 09:50 am, Dick Mazierski wrote: > I am trying to find a clone

[newbie] Mandrake 8.2 Minimum install

2002-03-25 Thread Mendez Martín
Title: Mandrake 8.2 Minimum install Hi ! Last weekend i performed an installation of the new Mandrake 8.2 Linux (download version in expert mode), but i can not find the option for the minimal 65 MB installation. Some one know how perform it ? Regards.

Re: [newbie] Can't get openoffice to install with 8.2

2002-03-25 Thread Derek Jennings
SNIP > > BTW Derek, where did you find SO6 beta? i kinda miss it. stupidly > deleted it thinking i would be able to download it again two > days before Sun took it off their site... > > Damian Well... I just did not delete it.. I do remember reading that it is still around in some places, but t

Re: [newbie] changing the bash prompt

2002-03-25 Thread Derek Jennings
> > My main problem with man is that I have to know the name of the command > > in order to access the man file. Well, there's a bunch of commands with > > not-always-intuitive names and I don't have the sharpest memory. > ;-) That why I use the GUIs > What I'd like to see is a browsable front e

[newbie] Maybe of interest to dialup users

2002-03-25 Thread Robin
This may not be news to some, but it is to me. I am posting for the benefit of other newbies. About a month or two ago, there was a thread about getting html mail and selectively downloading mail. I just found a program called kshowmail today. It downloads mail headers and let's user select which

Re: [newbie] Home directory

2002-03-25 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 10:21:06 -0600 Marcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > > I have Linux Mandrake 8.1 and all of a sudden after working fine for > months my home directory will not open when I push the panel icon. It > tries but fails. I can open it if I go to the file manager and open

[newbie] Home directory

2002-03-25 Thread Marcia
Dear All, I have Linux Mandrake 8.1 and all of a sudden after working fine for months my home directory will not open when I push the panel icon. It tries but fails. I can open it if I go to the file manager and open the directory but not from either the panel or desktop icon. It worked fine u

Re: [newbie] Quicken clone

2002-03-25 Thread shane
On Monday 25 March 2002 11:05 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: > I spotted a package called something like KMoney on one of the UK Linux > magazines a couple of weeks ago. from the user club page: Kapital (demo) Description: A full-featured personal finance

Re: [newbie] Eroaster

2002-03-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Tom Brinkman wrote: > That spin up/down you're citing is indicative of the marketing > hype Civileme mentioned about the belief that faster is better, eg, > 52x Cdroms vs. 8x. All Cdroms, burners, and HDD's, whether SCSI or > IDE run on the 33 Mhz PCI bus. Well...my DVD is a 40x and my CDRW

[newbie] ML 8.2 and CDRW disc clearing

2002-03-25 Thread Dennis Myers
Hi all, I have 8.2 installed and it is running very smoothly. Detected all hardware and set up my LAN and Email during install. It is the best yet. I have one question though, when I do a disc clear in gtoaster it runs for a minute or two and then my desk top locks up. Well it doesn't really lo

Re: [newbie] changing the bash prompt

2002-03-25 Thread Wally
- Original Message - From: "Carroll Grigsby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I apologize for the curt response. No problem. > Fortunately a number of others gave you > more informative answers, and now you're tweaking away to your heart's > content. Haven't actually booted the linux box today -

Re: [newbie] Compiling/Starting application in 8.1

2002-03-25 Thread Nathan Pryor
This is a path issue. cd to the directory where the executable is and try "./main". The dot represents your current directory. HTH, -nathan On Monday 25 March 2002 09:55 am, you wrote: > Hi! > > I am trying to create a very small application in Mandrake Linux 8.1, > compiling isn't the proble

Re: [newbie] Compiling/Starting application in 8.1

2002-03-25 Thread Damian
El lun, 25-03-2002 a las 12:55, Marco escribió: > Hi! > > I am trying to create a very small application in Mandrake Linux 8.1, > compiling isn't the problem at this moment, I can't start the > application :-( > > This is the source: > > #include > > int main(void) > { > printf("Hello w

[newbie] NVIDIA X Windows doesn't start for ROOT (long)

2002-03-25 Thread Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)
One last problem (since Dennis & Charles helped me to fix both my CD Burner and ATAPI ZIP drive problems (THANKS!)) with my Linux-Mandrake 8.1 PowerPack system, which is running on a Celeron 533 with 256 megs of memory. My system boots into TEXT mode (since it is primarily a server), but occasion

Re: [newbie] Can't get openoffice to install with 8.2

2002-03-25 Thread Damian
El dom, 24-03-2002 a las 16:58, Derek Jennings escribió: > On Sunday 24 March 2002 18:00, daRcmaTTeR wrote: > > On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 00:21:54 + > > Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to > > > > ponder: > > > There is an RPM for OpenOffice on the 8.2 discs. That sho

[newbie] Compiling/Starting application in 8.1

2002-03-25 Thread Marco
Hi! I am trying to create a very small application in Mandrake Linux 8.1, compiling isn't the problem at this moment, I can't start the application :-( This is the source: #include int main(void) { printf("Hello world!\n"); return 0; } then I do: gcc main.c -omain This works

Re: [newbie] How do you Install Mandrake 8.2

2002-03-25 Thread John Richard Smith
On Sunday 24 March 2002 07:11, you wrote: > John Richard Smith wrote: > >On Saturday 23 March 2002 17:02, you wrote: > >>John Richard Smith wrote: > >>>How do you install Mandrake 8.2. I get only as far as stage 2 install > >>> and the install hangs at where it would say next , "please wait while

Re: [newbie] Re: New info from cdrecord -scanbus.....

2002-03-25 Thread Kaj Haulrich
Derek Jennings wrote: > > cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page. > Derek, I have exactly that message too, only from my HP 9100 Writer. Doesn't mean a thing, it burns happily away nevertheless. Some burner-frontends just display a message while burning, someth

Re: COMMUNITY: Re: [newbie] Support? - a Solution ?

2002-03-25 Thread Kaj Haulrich
Carroll Grigsby wrote: > >(2) I begin to shake and tremble whenever I hear words like "paradigm". > That's funny Carroll, I've got exactly the same shakes. Here in Denmark we have a special word for that kind of language : "flosculature" (slightly english-ified). I think it translates to so

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem

2002-03-25 Thread Brian Parish
Andy, Have you tried pinging the ISP's DNS from a consoles? i.e. ping ip-address-of-primary-dns Brian On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 21:36, Andy Napier wrote: > > Hi. > > I'm using a Conexant HSF internal modem to connect to the net, the drivers > installed OK and I'm not receiving any error messages

Re: Re:[newbie] ftp for file sharing

2002-03-25 Thread Brian Parish
Oops - forgot to address the DHCP question. I should imagine that your eth1 interface would be set to get its address via DHCP unless you are paying for a permanent address. So this being the case, yes it will mess with your host name. Brian On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 00:13, Hanan Shargi wrote: > S

Re: Re:[newbie] ftp for file sharing

2002-03-25 Thread Brian Parish
OK - a few point I can clarify, although I can't answer all of them. Obviously I can't read iptables settings 'cause I couldn't see any reason why local packets would be rejected. But yes, stopping the firewall will stop your connection sharing. This is not just a firewall to keep things out -

Re:[newbie] ftp for file sharing

2002-03-25 Thread Hanan Shargi
Sorry, the bastille firewall IS ON, I tried service bastille-firewall stop and some rules scrolled on the screen => it was working ():-) but after i stopped it, I noticed the following: 1- I lost the connection sharing , the win machine cannot see the internet anymore. 2- I CAN ping 192.168.0.1

Re: Re:[newbie] ftp to share files

2002-03-25 Thread Brian Parish
H. Certainly can't see why the W2K machine couldn't ping 192.168.0.1 Anyone else understand how this could be - I guess you've tried swapping cables etc? Brian On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 23:19, Hanan Shargi wrote: > Thank you Brian > > I tried service bastille-firewall status , and it displaye

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem-sorry typo!

2002-03-25 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 25 March 2002 13:28, you wrote: Typo! that should've been "service network stop" -- -- Harm Bathoorn. "One has authority, until it's called on" Corto Maltese..Sign of the Capricorn;) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem

2002-03-25 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 25 March 2002 11:36, you wrote: > Hi. > > I'm using a Conexant HSF internal modem to connect to the net, the drivers > installed OK and I'm not receiving any error messages but I cant access any > sites on the WWW at all. > > It connects fine then just sits there doing nothing DHCP seems

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem

2002-03-25 Thread Andy Napier
Sorted it, my default routing table was set to eth0. Andy - Original Message - From: "Andy Napier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 10:36 AM Subject: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem > > Hi. > > I'm using a Conexant HSF internal modem to conne

Re: [newbie] changing the bash prompt

2002-03-25 Thread Wally
- Original Message - From: "Carroll Grigsby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sunday 24 March 2002 09:35 pm, Wally wrote: > > So, what's the equivalent of autoexec.bat? Where can I do tweaky stuff? > I don't mean to RTFM you, but bash is big. A good start would be man bash > from a terminal. TB

[newbie] Internet Connection Problem

2002-03-25 Thread Andy Napier
Hi. I'm using a Conexant HSF internal modem to connect to the net, the drivers installed OK and I'm not receiving any error messages but I cant access any sites on the WWW at all. It connects fine then just sits there doing nothing DHCP seems to work as Kppp shows the IP range for my ISP. I th

Re: [newbie] I'm Locked Out!

2002-03-25 Thread John Lynch
Here Here. I agree with Brian 110%! Femme was BOTH helpful and amusing for me. When I was yelling at my computer cause it was being screwy on me cause I didn't understand something, and I'd be pissed and I would try to sound neutral in my e-mails. It was Femme's replies that helped wi

Re: COMMUNITY: Re: [newbie] Support? - a Solution ?

2002-03-25 Thread paolo brusasco
I like this idea. Many times I can't read with attention all the mail, so in that case I could need to cut away things I can't follow. bye. Paolo Brusasco john rigby wrote: > Hi Damian, > A reasonable comment: > BUT if the people do not speak up - out of fear of reprisal - how is change

Re: [newbie] I'm Locked Out!

2002-03-25 Thread Brian Parish
Well I can't help thinking that's a bit unfair. Let's not undertake a Heather hunt here. Femme to my memory has been both frivolous and genuinely helpful in about equal measure. That's not a bad hit rate when the frivolous postings are short and sweet. My 2c - that's Australian cents so worth

Re: [newbie] Publishing in Linux

2002-03-25 Thread Miark
Before OS X, Adobe would likely have sold Linux versions of FrameMaker, but they wouldn't have made any money because the development costs would have far outweighed the revenues. With the advent of OS X, though, Adobe is finally forced to develop software in a unix-type environment. Granted, it'

COMMUNITY: Re: [newbie] Support? - a Solution ?

2002-03-25 Thread john rigby
Hi Damian, A reasonable comment: BUT if the people do not speak up - out of fear of reprisal - how is change ever going to happen? The Newbie list *IS* the only place to have reasonable discourse on the product. It is NOT supposed to be a Geekfest. Maybe a good solution would be to have an intern

Re: [newbie] Interesting FAQ

2002-03-25 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 16:21, civileme wrote: > This is now outdated slightly, but still contains information that was > true in late 2000 though it has been superceded by information generally > more favorable to GNU/linux and the Open Source business models today. > The one area is business m

[newbie] Re: New info from cdrecord -scanbus.....

2002-03-25 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 25 March 2002 02:24, Mick wrote: > Hi Derek, > > Hmmm.I typed in what you suggested (cdrecord -scanbus) and this is what > I got: > [mick@localhost mick]$ cdrecord -scanbus > Cdrecord 1.10 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg > Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1