Re: [newbie] installing Star Office

2002-04-19 Thread shane
On Friday 19 April 2002 21:31, Sridhar Dhanapalan opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: > That's an older build, version 638c. Version 638d is in Contribs. Note > that the package name has been changed to "OpenOffice.org" (it was > formerly called "openoffice")

Re: [newbie] antivirus

2002-04-19 Thread Michael
Damian G wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 09:18:11 -0700 > shane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thursday 18 April 2002 22:48, Lyvim Xaphir opened a general hailing > > frequency and transmitted to all open stations: > > > > > The punchline is that Microshaft is responsible for all virus damag

Re: [newbie] modem

2002-04-19 Thread Michael
And i would add in condtradiction, and in support of Ed, that ninety plus percent of new desktops sold with modems have a software-modem fitted as the hardware is cheaper. The term winmodem is synonymous with software-modem. Thus i would state "Yes, nowadays lad, Internal modems ARE usually winmod

Re: [newbie] What would be the standard document format?

2002-04-19 Thread Michael
RTF does handle graphics. But to a certain extent it suffers the same problems that HTML has. It is presented differently by different programs. As an example, when my printer was out of action, i sent a RTF file to a local small print shop in an e-mail. They have handled DOC format for me in the

Re: [newbie] What would be the standard document format?

2002-04-19 Thread Michael
I thought double spacing was outdated anyway in modern business communications. Still personal preferences are what life thrives on. Just my ha'pennys worth. Michael Randy Kramer wrote: > > Robin Turner wrote: > > LaTeX does not, repeat, NOT put one space after the end of a sentence. It > > d

Re: [newbie] installing Star Office

2002-04-19 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 21:06:53 -0700, shane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 19 April 2002 20:33, Sridhar Dhanapalan opened a general hailing > frequency and transmitted to all open stations: > > > Why use StarOffice (I'm assuming you're reffering to version 5.2) when > > OpenOffice.org is

Re: [newbie] Firewall

2002-04-19 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 20 Apr 2002 04:16:00 +0200, "RM.Krijgsman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> After my problems, getting on the net with my USB modem, I now am interested in a good firewall... I know I know I should read some howto's or whatever, the fact is I don't have time for that, I just wan't a good firewa

Re: [newbie] installing Star Office

2002-04-19 Thread shane
On Friday 19 April 2002 20:33, Sridhar Dhanapalan opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: > Why use StarOffice (I'm assuming you're reffering to version 5.2) when > OpenOffice.org is so much better? You can find Mandrake RPMs for the > latest OpenOffice.org build

[newbie] 8.2 Install on a mobile 450 PIII

2002-04-19 Thread Michael
When I install *.2 on my notebook, it installs as a 113Mhz PIII with like 226 Bogomips and it is slow! How do I get to recognize it's a 450 machine? -- Michael Lewis Exasource Inc. Phone: 970.206.4556 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux - The final solution" Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] System requirements?

2002-04-19 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 21:54, Belgarius wrote: > Greetings... > >I've a relatively simple question, regarding system hardware requirements > for ML 8.2 and a few things I intend to put it to use for, and thought I > might save myself a few headaches by asking wiser and more experienced users >

Re: [newbie] Heretic 2 help...

2002-04-19 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 11:41, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Okay, as per my earlier msg, I'm having a few problems with this Loki game as > well. It does a complete install, says it was successful, but does not copy the > Heretic 2 executeable over from the CD. I cp'ed it by hand, and the game now > runs

Re: [newbie] kmail transports

2002-04-19 Thread bascule
click on 'new message', then choose view>mail transport, a 'mail transport' field will appear in the message composer under the identity field bascule On Friday 19 Apr 2002 9:13 pm, you wrote: > Hi, > I use a laptop at home and at work with 2 separate mail transport servers. > Is there a

[newbie] Password Patterns

2002-04-19 Thread Pauljames Dimitriu
I want to set up my computer to accept passwords in a certain format. I know I need to use regular expressions and this is not a problem, but my question is, where do I configure this globally? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing wi

[newbie] kmail transports

2002-04-19 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi, I use a laptop at home and at work with 2 separate mail transport servers. Is there a way to set up KMail to easily switch between the two? In the help file they mention an Add Transport... button under the identity tab. I can't seem to find it? What am I missing here? tia, Bill W.

Re: [newbie] Heretic 2 help...

2002-04-19 Thread Ronald J. Hall
FemmeFatale wrote: > FWIW, Heretic is based on the Q2 engine. If you can get that game > going, then Heretic should run in a similar fashion. > > Femme Hmm, never played Q2, Quake3 just seemed so awesome in comparison. Guess I'll try to find Q2 related problems, then try to match them up with

Re: [newbie] antivirus

2002-04-19 Thread Damian G
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 09:18:11 -0700 shane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 18 April 2002 22:48, Lyvim Xaphir opened a general hailing > frequency and transmitted to all open stations: > > > The punchline is that Microshaft is responsible for all virus damages. > > > > OK, now that you ar

[newbie] Problem loading X

2002-04-19 Thread Michael . Hughes
I just installed Mandrake 8.1 last night, again after deciding that I wanted to dual boot again. I have set it up to boot to LILO and from there I can go into Windows, Linux, Floppy, etc. When I choose to go into Linux it boots up to the shell prompt. This is what I want it to do. From there I

Re: [newbie] /images/usb.imb -> ISO? [solved]

2002-04-19 Thread Phil R Lawrence
I had asked: > I have a Thinkpad X20 with USB CD-ROM and *no* floppy drive. Mandrake > 8.2 ISO CD 1 boots fine, but doesn't come with drivers for continuing > with the USB CD-ROM drive. > > On my desktop machine I used the included rawwritewin.exe to create a > floppy with the usb.img file. No

Re: [newbie] gaim went silent ?!

2002-04-19 Thread FemmeFatale
Joan Tur wrote: > > there are other programs that are using the sound system or anything ... > > > > I also upgraded to gaim 0.56 today ... ! > > > > any clues ? > > > > Regards, > > > > - > > Hanan AL-Shargi > Are you using the Alsa sound driver? Femme -- Good Decisions Y

Re: [newbie] Heretic 2 help...

2002-04-19 Thread FemmeFatale
"Ronald J. Hall" wrote: > Anyone else have this problem? Its not critical, I can play it in a window > without too much difficulty, but full-screen with openGL is better. ;-) > > Thanks much! > > -- > >/\ >

Re: [newbie] What would be the standard document format?

2002-04-19 Thread Randy Kramer
Robin Turner wrote: > LaTeX does not, repeat, NOT put one space after the end of a sentence. It > doesn't put two spaces either. It works out exactly how much space is > necessary between words, sentences, clauses, whatever. This kind of feature > has been around for ages - it's only dumb wordp

[newbie] RE: gaim went silent ?!

2002-04-19 Thread Hanan Shargi
Hi again, I fixed this problem, I thought I'd post the solution so that the person who said he/she share the same problem would fix it too and enjoy sounds again :) go to: Tools | preferences | Sounds then in the options box | Sound Method ==> choose : Command and when the box below Comman

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

2002-04-19 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 23:38:10 +0100 John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 18 April 2002 20:47, you wrote: > Thanks, > I have a MSI K7T266 Pro2 Mobo which has via 8233 AC97 soundchip built into > the board. > Upon install LM8.2 seems to configure an OSS driver which works,

Re: [newbie] What would be the standard document format?

2002-04-19 Thread shane
On Friday 19 April 2002 09:37, Robin Turner opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: > For the last time > > LaTeX does not, repeat, NOT put one space after the end of a sentence. > It doesn't put two spaces either. It works out exactly how much space is i

Re: [newbie] antivirus

2002-04-19 Thread shane
On Thursday 18 April 2002 22:48, Lyvim Xaphir opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: > The punchline is that Microshaft is responsible for all virus damages. > > OK, now that you are fully prepared, go read this: > > http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/busines

[newbie] Heretic 2 help...

2002-04-19 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Okay, as per my earlier msg, I'm having a few problems with this Loki game as well. It does a complete install, says it was successful, but does not copy the Heretic 2 executeable over from the CD. I cp'ed it by hand, and the game now runs, using the software renderer, in a window. I tried using t

[newbie] Myth II help...

2002-04-19 Thread Ronald J. Hall
When Loki Software went under I grabbed several of their game titles. I've just gotten around to trying to install them and I've ran across a problem with 2 of them (separate msg thread for other game). When I run the installer for Myth II: SoulBlighter, it gets about 90% thru the install, then e

Re: [newbie] Bad kernel configuration ?

2002-04-19 Thread Carlos Arigós
El Jue 18 Abr 2002 21:28, escribió: > I’m sure someone must have seen this, and might know if it’s the > result of a bad kernel installation of 8.2... > I loaded the RPM for a Conexant HSF winmodem - all went ok until > running the configuration. That was looking for /usr/src/Linux, > which isn’t

Re: [newbie] What would be the standard document format?

2002-04-19 Thread Robin Turner
On Friday 19 April 2002 16:25, Randy Kramer wrote: > 2. IIRC, HTML does the same thing that, e.g., LaTeX does with respect to > punctuation at the end of a sentence -- it puts one space after it > instead of two. I find that annoying, and would especially find that > annoying in business corresp

Re: [newbie] cdrecord on LM 8.0

2002-04-19 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Marc Audard wrote: > > Raffaele, > > This should be no problem, since I intentionally used the dummy > flag to check whether cdrecord could go through. If it worked out, > I would have removed the --dummy flag. > > But do you mean that by removing this flag cdrecord will not fail? > I do not wa

Re: [newbie] cdrecord on LM 8.0

2002-04-19 Thread Raffaele Belardi
No, you should not get an error during dummy write. I did not read carefully your message, I saw the first error below, which seemed corrected, but not the second one. There is some other problem, but out of my scope. Sorry! (but don't give up to widows yet!) raffaele >Track 01: 21 of 650 M

Re: [newbie] What would be the standard document format?

2002-04-19 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 09:25:46 -0400, Randy Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A question and a comment/question: > > 1. Does .rtf handle graphics? Yes, it does. In fact, Microsoft used it as the standard page format for its original MSN (which was designed to _replace_ the Internet, not work wit

Re: [newbie] cdrecord on LM 8.0

2002-04-19 Thread Marc Audard
Raffaele, This should be no problem, since I intentionally used the dummy flag to check whether cdrecord could go through. If it worked out, I would have removed the --dummy flag. But do you mean that by removing this flag cdrecord will not fail? I do not want to loose a CD. Marc Want to bu

Re: [newbie] cdrecord on LM 8.0

2002-04-19 Thread Raffaele Belardi
The only problem I see in your log is that you used 'dummy' mode flag. That way cdrecord does a 'test' write, without turning the laser on: no actual recording takes place. If you are using a GUI front-end, check that the 'dummy' flag isn't set. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I c

[newbie] cdrecord on LM 8.0

2002-04-19 Thread Marc Audard
Hi, I can't record a CD-R on my laptop. Any idea before I go to Windows to record the CD? I tried with several speeds. Thanks, Marc PS: please reply to my address too, since I am not registered to the mailing list. # cdrecord -v -dummy speed=4 dev=0,0 Mandrake82-cd1-inst.i586.iso Cd

RE: [newbie] What would be the standard document format?

2002-04-19 Thread Baka Attila Tamás
I believe rtf does handle graphics -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Randy Kramer Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 3:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] What would be the standard document format? A question and a comment/que

Re: [newbie] What would be the standard document format?

2002-04-19 Thread Randy Kramer
A question and a comment/question: 1. Does .rtf handle graphics? 2. IIRC, HTML does the same thing that, e.g., LaTeX does with respect to punctuation at the end of a sentence -- it puts one space after it instead of two. I find that annoying, and would especially find that annoying in business

[newbie] LinNeighborhood For apple?

2002-04-19 Thread Jason Pearce
Hi newbies, I run MDK8.0 on my laptop , I am looking for a app like LinNeighborhood ,Gnomba, Komba, for a mac network? is there such an app ,I just want to be able to see the shares on the network not share files from my machine ,any clues would be great . cheers jason Want to buy your Pack o

[newbie] .login problems.

2002-04-19 Thread drosera
Hi! I read somewhere that you can put commands in the .login file in a user home dir. When a user logs in those commands will be executed. Whatever I try, when I login the .login file isn't processed :-( HELP ;-) Greets, Drosera! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go t

Re: [newbie] Switching Desktops

2002-04-19 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 19 April 2002 11:21 am, Charles Muller wrote: > On Friday 19 April 2002 05:28 PM, Derek Jennings wrote: > > I assume you are booting straight into your user or else it would be > > obvious. To set it up to choose between KDE and Gnome do this :- > > Thanks Derek. > > I have run into one

[newbie] Users and Group theory

2002-04-19 Thread Ciprian Trofin
> Confucius Says: Man who pull out too fast leave rubber. I find quite hard to understand the concept of users and groups, applied to programs. Take for instance the Apache Web Server. I found out it is recommended to CHOWN the program to apache.apache and the same, recursive, to

Re: [newbie] What would be the standard document format?

2002-04-19 Thread Charles Muller
On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 19:54, Roman Korcek wrote: > So my question is, what format should I use? I have been writing all my documents in XML and generating them into HTML for some time now. There is no word processing software on any platform that can't do HTML. And style sheets in combination wi

[newbie] M§ still sucks , and even more

2002-04-19 Thread - hybrid -
http://news.com.com/2010-1075-882846.html please read that and kick some M§-butts ... give your best to increase the penguin population ! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 'We do what we can We give what we have Our doubt is our passion And our passion is our task

Re: [newbie] Permissions on directory change for no reason

2002-04-19 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 19 April 2002 2:05 pm, Steven Watt wrote: > Hello > > I'm running Mandrake 8.2 on a desktop Pentium III system. > > I've created a /home/music (user root, group root) directory to be > accessible to different users. I set the permissions to 777. Although > everything works fine right aft

RE: [newbie] What would be the standard document format?

2002-04-19 Thread Baka Attila Tamás
rtf? My family used office 97, but now i want them to use Koffice BAT -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roman Korcek Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 12:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] What would be the standard document format?

[newbie] Permissions on directory change for no reason

2002-04-19 Thread Steven Watt
Hello I'm running Mandrake 8.2 on a desktop Pentium III system. I've created a /home/music (user root, group root) directory to be accessible to different users. I set the permissions to 777. Although everything works fine right after I set the permissions, it eventually always changes to 711, m

Re: [newbie] What would be the standard document format?

2002-04-19 Thread Robin Turner
On Friday 19 April 2002 13:54, Roman Korcek wrote: > Hi guys, > I see everyone recommend not to save/share documents as .DOC since > it's a closed format. > So my question is, what format should I use? > Requirements: > 1. Must be able to at least contain tables and pictures (preferably > embedded

Re: [newbie] modem

2002-04-19 Thread ed Tharp
On Thursday 18 April 2002 03:47 pm, you wrote: > Internal modems are not usually winmodems. maybe not, but HCF, HSP, HFC. are signs it is a winmodem, or at least if not a modem (not in MY book it ain't) then a Host Signal Processor. the "H" (meaning host, or the computer MOBO and CPU) means it a

[newbie] Bad kernel configuration ?

2002-04-19 Thread service
I’m sure someone must have seen this, and might know if it’s the result of a bad kernel installation of 8.2... I loaded the RPM for a Conexant HSF winmodem - all went ok until running the configuration. That was looking for /usr/src/Linux, which isn’t there. What is there is /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/..

[newbie] What would be the standard document format?

2002-04-19 Thread Roman Korcek
Hi guys, I see everyone recommend not to save/share documents as .DOC since it's a closed format. So my question is, what format should I use? Requirements: 1. Must be able to at least contain tables and pictures (preferably embedded) apart from the usual formating. 2. All the major apps (OpenOffi

Re: [newbie] Switching Desktops

2002-04-19 Thread Charles Muller
On Friday 19 April 2002 05:28 PM, Derek Jennings wrote: > I assume you are booting straight into your user or else it would be > obvious. To set it up to choose between KDE and Gnome do this :- Thanks Derek. I have run into one snag. I did change the setting in BootConfig to KDE, but if I boot

Re: [newbie] gaim went silent ?!

2002-04-19 Thread Joan Tur
That happens to me sometimes, but I don't know why so I cannot help you there 8-? Es Divendres 19 Abril 2002 04:57, en Hanan Shargi va escriure: > Hi All, > > this is not exactly a Mandrake question, but I dont know where to ask it .. > so bare with me please :) > > all of the sudden my gaim we

Re: [newbie] antivirus

2002-04-19 Thread Robin Turner
On Friday 19 April 2002 08:48, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > Estimated number of computer viruses in 1990: > > 200-500 > > Estimated minimum number of computer viruses in 2000: > > 50, > > Total number of reported Linux viruses: > > 1 Was that a real virus, or a worm in virus clothing? Sir Robin

Re: [newbie] Anybody used Scribus?

2002-04-19 Thread Robin Turner
On Thursday 18 April 2002 23:59, Roland Hughes wrote: > When I try to do the "make" it say's there is no such file or > directory. Below is the output of the "./configure". I am not sure > as to what the problem is. My astronomy club wants me to do the > news letter and I thought this would be goo

Re: [newbie] Switching Desktops

2002-04-19 Thread Derek Jennings
I assume you are booting straight into your user or else it would be obvious. To set it up to choose between KDE and Gnome do this :- 1/ Install the KDE RPMS from Software Manager (obviously) 2/ Open Mandrake Control Centre>Boot>BootConfig 3/ Click 'Yes' to Launch X window at start, Click 'No' to