[newbie-it] ftp e konqueror

2002-05-02 Thread Claudio Duchi
nell'istallare la 8.2 ho cercato di fare una istallazione leggera ma crodo che ho esagerato che serve a konqueror per scaricare i files via ftp? grazie Claudio

[newbie-it] unsubscive

2002-05-02 Thread max . za
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[newbie-it] usare gcc 3.01 invece di 2.96

2002-05-02 Thread Biss
eh eh si', odia e' la parola giusta. devo dire pero' che con la mdk 8.2 l'ho installato e funziona benissimo. hai provato con l'opzione del .configure? --disable-gcc-check o qualcosa del genere, c'e' nella prima schermata dell'mplayer. Si ci ho provato: dopo due righe mi ha detto qualcosa

R: [newbie-it] warning - megapippa

2002-05-02 Thread PPF
per quel che ne so x far partire l'interfaccia grafica basta un startx da consol per i messaggi di memoria insufficiente penso che hai incasinato la tabella delle partizioni comunque linux non è propio intuitivo come win 98.( ho forse è perchè con win 98 ci lavoro da 3 anni e linux lo appena

Re: [newbie-it] Aggiornamento sito - risposta per Fabrizio

2002-05-02 Thread IL Tecnico
Ciao Daniele, Ti aggiorno e ti comunico che ho risolto il problema tanto ostico !!! Bisogna collegarsi con un qualsiasi programma FTP disabilitando la modalità passiva che sia GFTP che IglooFTP lasciano in Enabled. Inoltre sotto segnalazione di Tiscali mi è stato comunicato che per aggiornare i

[newbie-it] sempre su Mandrake [era: Perplessità]

2002-05-02 Thread Brunini Alessandro
Salve sono ancora io, siccome sono testardo ho: 1) Disinstallato StarOffice6.0 2) Ripristinato il menù originale 3) Re-installato StarOffice scegliendo la modaltà consigliata, quella cioè che non installa i files in locale, e che richiede solo 0,7 MB di spazio nella home. 4) Ora i menù

[newbie-it] Monitoraggio temperatura

2002-05-02 Thread Mino
Cari amici, quale programma mi consigliate per tenere sotto controllo la temperatura, velocità ventola etc. Della mia MDK8.2(ce forze qualcosa sui cd di inst.?). Grazie a presto Mino Mitrugno

Re: [newbie-it] ftp e konqueror

2002-05-02 Thread LukenShiro
Alle 08:40, giovedì 2 maggio 2002, Voi Claudio Duchi avete scritto: nell'istallare la 8.2 ho cercato di fare una istallazione leggera ma crodo che ho esagerato che serve a konqueror per scaricare i files via ftp? Non ne sono sicurissimo, ma dato che, scaricando file via ftp con konqueror,

Re: [newbie-it] Monitoraggio temperatura

2002-05-02 Thread LukenShiro
Alle 13:26, giovedì 2 maggio 2002, Voi Mino avete scritto: Cari amici, quale programma mi consigliate per tenere sotto controllo la temperatura, velocità ventola etc. Della mia MDK8.2(c’e’ forze qualcosa sui cd di inst.?). Be', c'e' il pacchetto lm_sensors, che 'dovrebbe' fungere allo scopo

[newbie-it] Konqueror Web

2002-05-02 Thread Pollo
Qualcuno di voi sa dirmi come poter visualizzare la cronologia dei siti visitati? Mi sembra impossibile che non è stata implementata per questo browser! Grazie, Pollo.

[newbie-it] Navigazione non in linea

2002-05-02 Thread Pollo
Vi ripropongo un vecchio messaggio. Anche io ho lo stesso problema... Qualcuno sa aiutarci? Saluti a tutti. Volendo navigare non in linea ho selezionato, nel centro di controllo di kde- proxy e cache, la relativa casellina. L'opzione funziona a dovere però quando assegno un'indirizzo

[newbie-it] staroffice

2002-05-02 Thread rosanna
Ciao a tutti. Volevo chiedervi informazioni sull'ultima versione di Staroffice. E' ancora freeware? E soprattutto è ancora pesante come quelle vecchie (io ho ancora una versione di un paio di anni fa)? ciao e grazie rosanna

Re: [newbie-it] staroffice

2002-05-02 Thread Brunini Alessandro
Alle 16:19, giovedì 2 maggio 2002, rosanna ha scritto: Ciao a tutti. Volevo chiedervi informazioni sull'ultima versione di Staroffice. E' ancora freeware? E soprattutto è ancora pesante come quelle vecchie (io ho ancora una versione di un paio di anni fa)? ciao e grazie rosanna Ciao,

[newbie-it] domandina...

2002-05-02 Thread Brunini Alessandro
Salve a tutti, ho una piccola domanda alla quale (per ora), da solo non ho trovato risposta. Dispongo di un DVD IDE ATAPI e di un masterizzatore IDE. LILO mette di default l'opzione per il masterizzatore come scsi (hdb=ide-scsi). Io aggiungo la linea per il DVD (hda=ide-scsi) e i programmi mi

Re: [newbie-it] Star Office 5.2

2002-05-02 Thread ku68
- Original Message - From: Emiliano La Licata [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 4:49 PM Subject: [newbie-it] Star Office 5.2 cut Va beh! faccio finta di nulla e continuo l'installazione. Appena conclusa, riapro Staroffice e mi dice che non riesce a

Re: [newbie-it] Star Office 5.2

2002-05-02 Thread ku68
- Original Message - From: Emiliano La Licata [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 4:49 PM Subject: [newbie-it] Star Office 5.2 cut Va beh! faccio finta di nulla e continuo l'installazione. Appena conclusa, riapro Staroffice e mi dice che non riesce a

Re: [newbie-it] Star Office 5.2

2002-05-02 Thread ku68
- Original Message - From: Emiliano La Licata [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 4:49 PM Subject: [newbie-it] Star Office 5.2 cut Va beh! faccio finta di nulla e continuo l'installazione. Appena conclusa, riapro Staroffice e mi dice che non riesce a

[newbie-it] Continuando con Lime Wire

2002-05-02 Thread Andrea - Tamalandia
Sono riuscito ad inbstallare Java4 grazie a dei pacchetti RPM. Sono sicuro che su questi pacchetti esiste la Virtual Machine perchè su pacchetti analoghi TAR nel documento c'è scritto che c'è. Il problema è che quando installo Lime Wire mi dice ancora che non può essere installato perchè

Re: [newbie-it] Navigazione non in linea

2002-05-02 Thread Fabio Manunza
Alle 15:48, giovedì 2 maggio 2002, hai scritto: Vi ripropongo un vecchio messaggio. Anche io ho lo stesso problema... Qualcuno sa aiutarci? Saluti a tutti. Volendo navigare non in linea ho selezionato, nel centro di controllo di kde- proxy e cache, la relativa casellina. L'opzione

[newbie-it] domanda su mandrakeonline.net

2002-05-02 Thread Brunini Alessandro
Salve, è la seconda vlta che me lo chiedo, ed è la seconda volta che non trovo risposta... Acquistando i powerpack e registrando il proprio prodotto presso Mandrake, si ottiene una mail del tipo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sui vari siti mandrake non c'è traccia della possibilità di poter controllare

Re: [newbie-it] domandina...

2002-05-02 Thread ENx
Dopo che hai aggiunto "hda=ide-scsi", il device del dvd cambiato. Non pi ide (quindi hdax) ma scsi. Quindi il file che collega il dvd nella directory /dev dovrebbe essere qualcosa come scd0. Al posto dello 0 ci pu essere un altro numero! Il programma "readcd" non lo trovi perch fa parte

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2002-05-02 Thread Laura ^.*
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Re: [newbie] Open Universe and nVidia drivers - FIXED

2002-05-02 Thread Miark
Mcleod, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: Good to hear. I sometimes edit text files as non-root and did not pay attention to the warning message - hence the file remained unchanged although I swear I changed it. It sounds like you had already changed it though? Ya, I was playing Tux games not

[newbie] complete newbie so hopefully easy questions

2002-05-02 Thread House
Hi all I bought Linux mandrake 8.1 a couple of months ago and have just recently installed it on my second system and so far like it so much that I think in the near future I may not even keep a windows machine and just run all Linux and Mac. I do have a couple of questions the first one

[newbie] XMMS - Fast Play - SOS - (funny must read)

2002-05-02 Thread Brian York
Linux is up to the same tricks as winders is 'mysteriously changing things' The senario: I wake up this morning and play some mp3s while i'm getting ready. (nothing harmful so far). Before i leave i lock my KDE screen. I get back tonight and fire up XMMS and push play and the chipmonks is

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove?

2002-05-02 Thread FemmeFatale
civileme wrote: giant snip *Hugs ya* HI :) And Yes you do have power. Build your own systems. Let the manufacturers who ship Windows and support Microsoft so steadfastly twist in the wind. Buy from their competitiors if they offer pre-installed linux. I do. Believe me. Refuse to let

Re: [newbie] Open Universe and nVidia drivers

2002-05-02 Thread FemmeFatale
Miark wrote: Can anybody run openuniverse _after_ you install the nVidia drivers? I can't and I miss it to death. Miark If thats the one where you fly around like a person in a ship, Yes. -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always

RE: [newbie] Open Universe and nVidia drivers

2002-05-02 Thread Tony S. Sykes
I have installed the drivers, and it works like a dream. Have you changed your xf86 config file correctly? -Original Message- From: FemmeFatale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 02 May 2002 08:14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Open Universe and nVidia drivers Miark wrote:

Re: [newbie] KDE3 and a full partition

2002-05-02 Thread Michael
Mike Oliver wrote: Paul Vortex wrote: Please don't ask for receipts to be sent back to you via an email list. No offence, but it just seems intrusive. It does sort of seem like its own punishment, though, at least if people actually *send* the receipts. My guess is he did it by

RE: [newbie] KDE3 and a full partition

2002-05-02 Thread Tony S. Sykes
I have them turned on automatically for work stuff, sorry. -Original Message- From: Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 02 May 2002 08:15 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE3 and a full partition Mike Oliver wrote: Paul Vortex wrote: Please don't ask for

Re: [newbie] complete newbie so hopefully easy questions

2002-05-02 Thread FemmeFatale
House wrote: I do have a couple of questions the first one which I think is very simple and I am just missing it How do you install tar.gz files. HOUSE Sorry the other Q's I can't answer, but this one even *I* know ;) This is usually is a 2 step installation for Tar's.

Re: [newbie] How to cope with the volume of linux-mandrake mail?

2002-05-02 Thread Graham Watkins
Josef Lowder wrote: Any suggestions on how to efficiently cope with the volume of linux-mandrake mail? I just signed up to the newbie and expert mail lists and I am overwhelmed by the volume of email. I created a new folder named linux and set the post address as [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Open Universe and nVidia drivers

2002-05-02 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 01:11, Miark wrote: Can anybody run openuniverse _after_ you install the nVidia drivers? I can't and I miss it to death. Miark I just checked and it's running just fine on my system. BTW, I'm running 1.0-2802... LX --

Re: [newbie] cups problem in 8.2

2002-05-02 Thread Roland Hughes
I had the same problem with the same printer. What fixed it for me was doing a Mandrake update and selecting everything that mentioned cups. I believe there was a server update and filters and a couple of other related updates. I have a slow dialup so I kicked it off over night and the next

Re: [newbie] cups problem in 8.2

2002-05-02 Thread Andre Dubuc
On Thursday 02 May 2002 08:26 am, you wrote: Well 8.2 does almost everything better than 8.1, but not with regard to my printer. I have a Canon S450, which worked faultlessly under 8.1, but under 8.2 the test page and anything else I print comes out double width. i.e. I only get the left

[newbie] setting a 10/100 NIC 's speed

2002-05-02 Thread Hanan Shargi
Hello everyone, Is it possible to manually set the NIC's card speed like in Windows ? I have a 10/100 ethernet PCMCI card and I dont want it to connect withe the 100 speed, where can I set this ?? Regards. - Hanan AL-Shargi Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] X and nVidia under 8.2

2002-05-02 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On 2 May 2002, Brian Parish wrote: OK, success! Solution? Change the card. Stick in another nVidia Geforce 2 MX400 and bingo! Of course this card looks different, has a different manufacturer etc. etc., so it's not really surprising that some differences in compatibility are evident.

Re: [newbie] setting a 10/100 NIC 's speed

2002-05-02 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 02 May 2002 2:19 pm, Hanan Shargi wrote: Hello everyone, Is it possible to manually set the NIC's card speed like in Windows ? I have a 10/100 ethernet PCMCI card and I dont want it to connect withe the 100 speed, where can I set this ?? Regards. - Hanan

[newbie] LEXMARK Z52,Z53Pinter Page Margins / LM8.2

2002-05-02 Thread John Richard Smith
For some reason Qtcups no longer has a Printer page margins tab / GUI interface. However there is a Kstart/configure/printing/Adjust margins , provides a semi-commandline interface, which prints out a testpage from which you are supposed to gleen vital settings to type in and which are

Re: [newbie] XFree 4.2 and SiS 620

2002-05-02 Thread Bob Read
In my case, I solved it by switching to 1024 x 768. for both Mandrake 8.1 and SuSe 7.2 7.3. Both Red Hat and Corel handled SiS 620 easily, But I dan't like working with either of them. Bob Flavio Figueiredo Cardoso wrote: XFree 4.2 doesn't run correctly on my system. The

[newbie] Help on importing Ms Outlok Personal folders to Evolution ?

2002-05-02 Thread Kristjan Klementi
Hi Newbies question Is there some way I can convert mail items from MS Outlook personal folder files. I prefere to import them to Evolution if that ever would be possible. Any ideas and help would be apprechiated. --- just another Second Day Linux User

AW: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove?

2002-05-02 Thread - hybrid -
WHY NOT !?! don't you kow 'Tron' ... the laser on the beginning that scans that guy into the system ? :) i wish i'd have such a thingy ... arr :) scann the whole m$ biz into my linuxbox :) harhar ... --- ... XP , while X stands for cra -Ursprüngliche

Re: [newbie] X and nVidia under 8.2

2002-05-02 Thread Brian Parish
If only! I think the answer is that if you buy generic, you takes your chance. In this case I bought two cards advertised as the same thing a few months apart from the same supplier, but of course all they have in common is the nVidia chipset. Maybe this is the justification for paying for the

Re: [newbie] Help on importing Ms Outlok Personal folders to Evolution ?

2002-05-02 Thread David
I use Claws now. But IIRC, that is covered in Evolutions helpYou must first import your PST file(s) into a program that utilizes the mbox format. From there you can import the mbox files directly into Evolution, under file import. HTH Dave Kristjan Klementi said onto me:

Re: [newbie] LAN with 2 IP's from DSL povider ?

2002-05-02 Thread Brian Parish
Hanan, No - they are not on a LAN, they are sharing a path to the internet. But this can be changed very easily. Just set up the linux machine to share its internet connection and the W2K box uses this as a gateway. The connection to the DSL would then come from a 2nd NIC installed in the

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove?

2002-05-02 Thread daRcmaTTeR
Here is a thought. Why don't people uninstall Windows, then email the whole package in little files back to M$. That should screw up their mail-servers for a few months, and suggest that they should spend the next 3 or more years quietly working on a way to email their hardware back to them

Re: [newbie] cups problem in 8.2

2002-05-02 Thread Brian Parish
OK - downloading now - also on a slow dialup. Should have tried that first I guess - not used to the updates actually fixing things ;-) Thanks and regards Brian On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 22:48, Roland Hughes wrote: I had the same problem with the same printer. What fixed it for me was doing a

[newbie] Downloads

2002-05-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Sometimes , while attempting to download a file , after clicking on the chosen file,instead of a download windowlet , the files seems to end up as programme code displayed on the website window, why is this and what do I do about it. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove?

2002-05-02 Thread Damian G
On Thu, 2 May 2002 12:57:13 +0300 Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 02 May 2002 10:13, FemmeFatale wrote: civileme wrote: giant snip *Hugs ya* HI :) And Yes you do have power. Build your own systems. Let the manufacturers who ship Windows and support

RE: [newbie] Re: KDE 3.0 - question on installation

2002-05-02 Thread Eric Estes -=RCN Mail=-
Worked perfect. Thanks! Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Joseph Braddock Sent: April 30, 2002 5:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: KDE 3.0 - question on installation You haven't installed KDE3 yet! The

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove?

2002-05-02 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Wed, 1 May 2002, civileme wrote: That's right. You do not own your computer if you use windows because you can do only what is permitted by the EULA. Some versions of the EULA that you click to agree to allow Microsoft to modify the EULA without notice. This happened to many folks who

Re: [newbie] Downloads

2002-05-02 Thread Miark
John, Your browser thinks it's text, so it's displaying it in the browser window. Instead of just clicking on it, right-click it and select Save Linx As Miark John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: Sometimes , while attempting to download a file , after clicking on the chosen

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove?

2002-05-02 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 05:57, Robin Turner wrote: Here in Turkey you normally get a computer installed with a pirate copy of Windows! Sir Robin Here in the US, there's a version of XP running around that has all M internet contact ability ripped out of the core. It installs without

Re: [newbie] Missing Printer Icon

2002-05-02 Thread Jussi Aalto
One thing you might try if you want to know what is or isn't on your hard drive is: 'whereis' . Locates the binary, source, and manual page files for a command. Or if you like the GUI way, Kpackage has the find file option. But if the file you're searching for is installed from tarball

[newbie] LF: Excerpt from XF86Config-4

2002-05-02 Thread Nelson Bartley
Heyo, I'm wondering if someone could post an excerpt from the XF86Config-4 File which shows the code for a regular PS/2 mouse (IE: The InputDevice Section) Aswell, if anyone has any experience getting both a USB and PS/2 Mouse working under XFree86 I'd love any tips/hints. NB Want to buy

Re: [newbie] complete newbie so hopefully easy questions

2002-05-02 Thread Jussi Aalto
I don't have experience on HP printers so I can only redirect you to: http://www.linuxprinting.org If there are special tricks to get your printer working, linuxprinting.org usually knows about them. Cheers, J. -- In the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

Re: [newbie] LAN with 2 IP's from DSL povider ?

2002-05-02 Thread Hanan Shargi
Thank you Brian, but the point is I already had this connection sharing, and I was able to set it up with the help of some list members ( infact you were the one who helped me out alot back then :) ) but the problem is that while having this sharing, and Linux was used as a firewall, and

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove?

2002-05-02 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Wed, 1 May 2002, FemmeFatale wrote: What M$ wants isn't fair still IMO. That means that you don't own that OS. Your example is *considering this is M$'s logic if it is true* flawed. Basically taht means my Pre-loaded OS isn't mine to sell, keep or give away with my hardware or w/out

Re: [newbie] Open Universe and nVidia drivers

2002-05-02 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 02 May 2002 12:11 am, you wrote: Can anybody run openuniverse _after_ you install the nVidia drivers? I can't and I miss it to death. Miark It runs for me, I just can't leave it on, once the screen saver comes on it appears to lock up my machine. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842

Re: [newbie] LF: Excerpt from XF86Config-4

2002-05-02 Thread Robert Whitney
At 12:55 PM 5/2/2002 -0400, you wrote: Heyo, I'm wondering if someone could post an excerpt from the XF86Config-4 File which shows the code for a regular PS/2 mouse (IE: The InputDevice Section) Aswell, if anyone has any experience getting both a USB and PS/2 Mouse working under XFree86 I'd

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove?

2002-05-02 Thread --hybrid
not only in yurkey my friend , not only there :) !!! swiss aren't the legalest too ... and you can install every version of XP you want , there are thousands of good tools out there , to keep your XP in your box and don't let it send anything out you don't want to be sent ... ! at least i hate

[newbie] VNC on MDK 8.2 - keyboard problem

2002-05-02 Thread RichardA
Is anyone else using the VNC which came with MDK 8.2? I can start the server, start the viewer on my laptop and everything looks great, except that key presses don't get through to the remote desktop. They seem to go to the shell I launched the viewer from. The mouse works fine. RichardA

[newbie] Ta foda

2002-05-02 Thread J. Castro Jr.
será q alguém de bom senso desta lista pode me dizetr como sair? não posso mais ficar apagando 200 mails por dia e não tenho tempo pra isto. vou começar a apelar com msgs indesejadas se não me tirarem daki. fui. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Downloads

2002-05-02 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 02 May 2002 4:32 pm, you wrote: Sometimes , while attempting to download a file , after clicking on the chosen file,instead of a download windowlet , the files seems to end up as programme code displayed on the website window, why is this and what do I do about it. John Well

Re: [newbie] complete newbie so hopefully easy questions

2002-05-02 Thread Derek Jennings
There is an update available to drakprint which helps multi function printers. Check out http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKA-2002-004.php?dis=8.2 derek Subject: Re: [newbie] complete newbie so hopefully easy questions Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 18:37:28 +0300 From: Jussi Aalto

Yahoo idea was:Re: [newbie] XMMS - Fast Play...

2002-05-02 Thread s
On Thursday 02 May 2002 01:53 am, Brian York wrote: On a side note: Does anyone know of a free email that gives free pop/smtp? I hate web interfaces, g. Thanks Brian Lookie what I discovered today. Apparently it's been around a while, but it's neato and it works. :D

Re: [newbie] Ta foda

2002-05-02 Thread Damian G
On Thu, 02 May 2002 15:16:54 -0300 J. Castro Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: será q alguém de bom senso desta lista pode me dizetr como sair? não posso mais ficar apagando 200 mails por dia e não tenho tempo pra isto. vou começar a apelar com msgs indesejadas se não me tirarem daki. fui.

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove?

2002-05-02 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Thu, 2 May 2002, Robin Turner wrote: Here in Turkey you normally get a computer installed with a pirate copy of Windows! Sir Robin ROFLMAO... ha! i hope they're listening...Robin, that was great! -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User 182496 Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] How does one get a joystic to work ?

2002-05-02 Thread s
On Thursday 02 May 2002 03:13 am, Rob Lofland wrote: Using a Logitech 3d Extreme on LM 8.2 USB port. Control panel says the joystick is unknown. Thanks, Rob modprobe usb-uhci modprobe input modprobe joydev modprobe adi or put in /etc/modules.conf: alias char-major-13 input joydev adi -s

Re: Yahoo idea was:Re: [newbie] XMMS - Fast Play...

2002-05-02 Thread Brian York
On Thursday 02 May 2002 2:44 pm, s wrote: On Thursday 02 May 2002 01:53 am, Brian York wrote: On a side note: Does anyone know of a free email that gives free pop/smtp? I hate web interfaces, g. Thanks Brian Lookie what I discovered today. Apparently it's been around a while,

Re: [newbie] Mandrake randomly locks me out of /home

2002-05-02 Thread Mike Oliver
Mike Oliver wrote: Mike Oliver wrote: [Mandrake 8.2, kernel 2.4.18] Every now and then, without warning and a propos of nothing, the permissions on my /home directory suddenly change to drwx--. Upgrading msec to 0.21 fixed the problem. Spoke too soon, sorry. The problem is still

Re: [newbie] Missing Printer Icon

2002-05-02 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 02 May 2002 06:42 pm, Jussi Aalto wrote: One thing you might try if you want to know what is or isn't on your hard drive is: 'whereis' . Locates the binary, source, and manual page files for a command. Or if you like the GUI way, Kpackage has the find file option. But if the file

Re: Yahoo idea was:Re: [newbie] XMMS - Fast Play...

2002-05-02 Thread s
On Thursday 02 May 2002 03:06 pm, Brian York wrote: http://web.mit.edu/ravir/fetchyahoo/index.html -s So that will still let you get yahoo mail for free through pop?? not sure really. when is that supposed to happen? it works now tho I never signed up for pop mail service. I'd keep an

Re: [newbie] An error occurred basesystem package not selected

2002-05-02 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 02 May 2002 03:13 am, Lou Ronnau wrote: I'm attempting a first time installation of the 8.2 PowerPack on a Toshiba Tecra 520CDT. Although it's not on the supported list of laptops, the 500 and 530 are there. After the partition format the install manual shows a selection of Choose

Re: [newbie] LF: Excerpt from XF86Config-4

2002-05-02 Thread Femme
On 02 May 2002 12:55:50 -0400 Nelson Bartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heyo, I'm wondering if someone could post an excerpt from the XF86Config-4 File which shows the code for a regular PS/2 mouse (IE: The InputDevice Section) Aswell, if anyone has any experience getting both a USB and

Re: [newbie] LF: Excerpt from XF86Config-4

2002-05-02 Thread Femme
For the person who asked for my XF86Config-4 vid card section here it is: * Section Device Identifier Generic VGA Driver vga EndSection Section Device Identifier NVIDIA GeForce2 DDR (generic) VendorName Unknown BoardName Unknown Driver nvidia #VideoRam

Re: [newbie] How to cope with the volume of linux-mandrake mail?

2002-05-02 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 02 May 2002 01:53 am, Mcleod, Ian wrote: BTW - 10 points for anyone that can guess the Old English origin of 'whelmed' Ian McLeod Well Ian, here's my guess : English : overwhelmed, Danish : overvældet. In danish (and the other nordic dialects) vælde means power force mighty.

Re: Yahoo idea was:Re: [newbie] XMMS - Fast Play...

2002-05-02 Thread s
On Thursday 02 May 2002 03:06 pm, Brian York wrote: http://web.mit.edu/ravir/fetchyahoo/index.html -s So that will still let you get yahoo mail for free through pop?? Well, I emailed the author and he states, Yahoo has already changed their free pop mail policy and no longer allows use

[newbie] RPM Build

2002-05-02 Thread cc tsim
Is there any way to continiue an interrupted rpm-build session.I was rebuilding XFree86-4.2 using: $rpm -bb XFree.spec but I closed the konsole by accident short before the end of a long compiling session. Thanks in advance for any help

[newbie] Re:OT

2002-05-02 Thread Lee
Lighten up, Nick..He's only addressing the fools using MS. Some non-fools use MS too, i think.(I do) It's all in fun, anyway. Welcome aboard. Lee On Thursday 02 May 2002 09:21 pm, Nick Andriash wrote: On Thursday, May 02 2002 at 05:17 PM PDT, you wrote: A fool and his money are

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-02 Thread Mike Larson
Hi Nick, I used Windows from 3.1 to 98. I now use Linux. I do not take offense to Shane's signature and I feel you are overreacting. Lighten up Linux is about having fun. Mike Nick Andriash wrote: On Thursday, May 02 2002 at 05:17 PM PDT, you wrote: A fool and his money are soon

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-02 Thread Nelson Bartley
I agree whole heartedly with you on this subject. The unfortunate part is that there appear to be no moderators on this list. I wish people would stop taking such a negative attitude to windows, we were all windows users at one point. NB On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 21:21, Nick Andriash wrote: On

[newbie] Simple Programming application

2002-05-02 Thread Marcia
Dear All, Some months ago I asked about a programming app for Linux that was simple and easy to learn and some of you gave me a name of one that I just cannot remember. It was something like Enterprise? but I am sure it was not the Java Enterprise. Maybe it was a different name than that. It

Re: [newbie] Re:OT

2002-05-02 Thread Jon Doe
On Thursday 02 May 2002 09:21 pm, Nick Andriash wrote: On Thursday, May 02 2002 at 05:17 PM PDT, you wrote: A fool and his money are soon using Windows. I am/was beginning to experiment with Linux using Mandrake 8.2 but am disheartened to see signatures such as yours. How typical of

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-02 Thread Damian G
On 03 May 2002 09:56:09 +1000 Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a quick note on SO6. I have seen claims here that it opens everything faultlessly and that it crashes and is totally useless. It turns out that both are true :-) Try to open a word doc file received as an attachment

[newbie] disk partition copied using tar and now 50% larger

2002-05-02 Thread Mike Caron
I am using Mandrake Linux 8.0 with two IDE hard drives in my system. I created a partition on the second hard drive and then copied a partition from the first drive over to the second drive and it significantly increased in size. More details: I use ext2 for my hard drive partitions. I used

Re: Yahoo idea was:Re: [newbie] XMMS - Fast Play...

2002-05-02 Thread Brian York
Did anyone get the first part of this message about xmms playing songs fast and how to fix it? On Thursday 02 May 2002 4:21 pm, s wrote: On Thursday 02 May 2002 03:06 pm, Brian York wrote: http://web.mit.edu/ravir/fetchyahoo/index.html -s So that will still let you get yahoo mail

Re: [newbie] SuSe 8 Good/Bad

2002-05-02 Thread Brian York
I remember you saying that but once other distros may have been way better than mandrake and then mandrake got better and beat them with a new version of suse they could have gotten better thats why i want feed back from 8 not a colmanation of suse versions. :-) Thanks Brian On Thursday 02

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-02 Thread Charlie
On Thursday 02 May 2002 07:21 pm, Nick Andriash offered this for consideration: On Thursday, May 02 2002 at 05:17 PM PDT, you wrote: A fool and his money are soon using Windows. I am/was beginning to experiment with Linux using Mandrake 8.2 but am disheartened to see signatures such as

Re: [newbie] Mandrake randomly locks me out of /home

2002-05-02 Thread Michael
Mike Oliver wrote: Mike Oliver wrote: Mike Oliver wrote: [Mandrake 8.2, kernel 2.4.18] Every now and then, without warning and a propos of nothing, the permissions on my /home directory suddenly change to drwx--. Upgrading msec to 0.21 fixed the problem. Spoke too

[newbie] OT over reacting

2002-05-02 Thread shane
On Thursday 02 May 2002 18:21, Nick Andriash opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: I am/was beginning to experiment with Linux using Mandrake 8.2 but am disheartened to see signatures such as yours. How typical of Linux Users... and almost enough to make me

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 6 - the different perceptions explained

2002-05-02 Thread Seedkum Aladeem
On Thursday 02 May 2002 04:56 pm, Brian Parish wrote: Just a quick note on SO6. I have seen claims here that it opens everything faultlessly and that it crashes and is totally useless. It turns out that both are true :-) Try to open a word doc file received as an attachment with the Open

[newbie] Kmail problems

2002-05-02 Thread Mike Larson
In Kmail under LM 8.2, when attempting to fill in the To:, CC:, or BCC fields, I get an error message the moment I begin to type an email address. The error box header is File Error and says Could not load the file. Clicking OK gives another box saying Kmail crashed and caused the signal 11

Re: [newbie] How to cope with the volume of linux-mandrake mail?

2002-05-02 Thread shane
On Thursday 02 May 2002 20:24, Brian Koppe opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: How do you sort by thread? That'd be really cool what is your mail client? wait looks like mozilla, yes? try going to view sort by thread. may be wrong, don't

Re: [newbie] Simple Programming application

2002-05-02 Thread Michael
Marcia wrote: Dear All, Some months ago I asked about a programming app for Linux that was simple and easy to learn and some of you gave me a name of one that I just cannot remember. It was something like Enterprise? but I am sure it was not the Java Enterprise. Maybe it was a different

Re: [newbie] How to cope with the volume of linux-mandrake mail?

2002-05-02 Thread Brian Koppe
Wow - how'd you know it was Mozilla? Thanks btw, it works shane wrote: On Thursday 02 May 2002 20:24, Brian Koppe opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: How do you sort by thread? That'd be really cool what is your mail client? wait looks

Re: [newbie] Installare pacchetti TGZ - Java VM

2002-05-02 Thread civileme
Tamalandia3 wrote: Premetto che sono nuovo della mailist. Ho appena installato Mandrake 8.1 perchè l'8.2 mi dava problemi con la connessione adsl. Ho scaricato un programma e mi richede VM. Ho scaricato un altro pacchetto che credo che sia VM. E' un TGZ. Provo a installarlo con Gestione

Re: [newbie] To list admin (Denis Havlik?)

2002-05-02 Thread civileme
Roman Korcek wrote: Hi Mark, I lost my old email address an thus can't unsub. (because it needs a confirmation which I can't confirm since the request is sent to my old address). The old address was [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Could you please unsub. me? Or if I am asking at the wrong place, could

[newbie] Fluxbox and Mandrake 8.1

2002-05-02 Thread Kirtis Bakalarczyk
I have a small problem that hopefully will have a small answer... I'm currently using fluxbox and i'd like to be able to use all those nifty dockable apps that go into the slit and as far as i can tell, the way to do that is to add a line into my .xinitrc file, but unfortunately mandrake sets

Re: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?

2002-05-02 Thread civileme
daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Thu, 2 May 2002, Robin Turner wrote: On Wednesday 01 May 2002 21:45, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: [snip] I too agree. If I buy a car and drive it till it is rust, I can remove engine transmission, seats and what ever else is salvageable and sell them individually. They were

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