[newbie-it] Qualita' di stampa

Ciao ! Ecco con cosa mi trovo alle prese questa settimana: ho una stampante HP600, vecchiotta e con un po' di problemi di cartuccia. Per farla breve, sotto linux funziona benissimo (nel senso che parte e stampa), pero' soltanto con stampe che, sotto win$, vengono dette di qualita' ottima. Ora,

Re: [newbie-it] Continuando (ancora) con Lime Wire

Allora... avevo installato anche da un mio amico Mandrake 8.1... e lui nella directory usr/bin ha tutto!!! Abbiamo lanciato l'installazione di LimeWire con un file bin e non mi chiede più di installare VM quindi quello che aveva detto FreeFred andava bene! Penso che domani o stassera

Re: [newbie-it] Continuando (ancora) con Lime Wire

Alle 10:12, domenica 5 maggio 2002, hai scritto: Già che ci sono volevo chiedere se è possibile avere una rete casalinga dove il server è connesso a Internet con Win98 e condivide la connessione. Linux è in grado di vedere quella connessione e sfruttare la condivisione? Con linux posso

Re: [newbie-it] Continuando (ancora) con Lime Wire

Ciao che ci sono ti chiedo se sai qualche cosa su un misterioso problema che fa cancellare dal server gli utenti ADSL INFOSTRADA se su WIN XP hanno montato programmi come LIME WIRE, cioè per condivisione file... Grazie ANDREA Ciao Andrea, Io ho una rete di quel tipo solo ke il computer ke

Re: [newbie-it] Continuando (ancora) con Lime Wire

Alle 11:23, domenica 5 maggio 2002, hai scritto: Ciao che ci sono ti chiedo se sai qualche cosa su un misterioso problema che fa cancellare dal server gli utenti ADSL INFOSTRADA se su WIN XP hanno montato programmi come LIME WIRE, cioè per condivisione file... Grazie ANDREA Mi spiace ma nn

[newbie-it] configurazione masterizzatore

1) Ho cercato di configurare il mio pc in modo da poter masterizzare. Ho un masterizzatore Teac collegato come master sul primo canale ide (il comando cdrecord -scanbus lo rileva correttamente) Prima di configurare il pc, ricompilare il kernel e appendere hda=3Dide-scsi al file /etc/lilo.conf

[newbie-it] Font Windos non supportati

Linux Mandrake 8.2 è complessivamente meglio dalla precedente versione, ma i programmi relativi ad Internet non supportano i font di Windows. C'è un modo per rimediare al problema? max __ Con Yahoo! vinci viaggi per i

Re: [newbie-it] Continuando (ancora) con Lime Wire

On Sunday 05 May 2002 10:12, Andrea - Tamalandia wrote: Allora... avevo installato anche da un mio amico Mandrake 8.1... e lui nella directory usr/bin ha tutto!!! Abbiamo lanciato l'installazione di LimeWire con un file bin e non mi chiede più di installare VM quindi quello che aveva detto

Re: [newbie-it] configurazione masterizzatore

Un appunto: la riga in lilo.conf dev'essere cosi': append=... hda=ide-scsi ... (le virgolette devono esserci solo dopo l'uguale e alla fine). ehm era un errore di digitazione, la riga e', ohime', corretta ' Probabilmente il riferimento da mettere in fstab e' '/dev/sr0' (e

Re: [newbie-it] Continuando (ancora) con Lime Wire

E usi LimeWire con XP? Hanno detto che da problemi con programmi del genere. Solo 2000 e XP. 06/05/2002 11.34.54, Luca [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Alle 11:23, domenica 5 maggio 2002, hai scritto: Ciao che ci sono ti chiedo se sai qualche cosa su un misterioso problema che fa cancellare

Re: [newbie-it] configurazione masterizzatore

Ciao Gigi, prova a guardare nella directory /dev/cdroms dovresti trovare i cdroms presenti nel tuo computer, sia che essi siano scsi o ide! prova montare i device che trovi in /dev/cdroms. Questa directory c' solo se ha abilitato il devfs (controlla nel lilo.conf i parametri passati al

[newbie-it] aggiornamento kde 2.2.2

Ciao a tutti, Ho finalmente scaricato kde 2.2.2 e LukenShiro e jv mi dicevano che per installarlo, mi suggerivano di farlo da init 3 o 1: jv: l'importante è che l'aggiornamento lo fai da init 3 (o 1) cioè con X giù... Lukenshiro: gli aggiornamenti falli dopo aver dato un init 3 o init 1, per

[newbie-it] driver modem

Qualcuno mi può dare una risposta definitiva? E' possibile che un driver di un modem usb(disponibile in pacchetti rpm e src.rpm) vada bene solo per una determinata versione del kernel e non funzioni per quelle successive?C'è un modo per ovviare alla situazione escludendo naturalmente

Re: [newbie-it] aggiornamento kde 2.2.2

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 20:20, domenica 5 maggio 2002, in merito a [newbie-it] aggiornamento kde 2.2.2, Emiliano La Licata ha scritto: Volevo chiedervi semplicemente per sicurezza come di fatto dovevo agire dalla consolle, se digitare init 3 e poi installare o ci

Re: [newbie-it] driver modem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 02:25, lunedì 6 maggio 2002, in merito a [newbie-it] driver modem, Augusto ha scritto: Qualcuno mi può dare una risposta definitiva? proviamo... ;) E' possibile che un driver di un modem usb(disponibile in pacchetti rpm e src.rpm) vada

Re: [newbie-it] aggiornamento kde 2.2.2

On Sun, 5 May 2002, Emiliano La Licata wrote: Ho finalmente scaricato kde 2.2.2 [..] Volevo chiedervi semplicemente per sicurezza come di fatto dovevo agire dalla consolle, se digitare init 3 e poi installare o ci sono altri passaggi che sconosco da compiere? Ti basta dare il comando init

Re: [newbie-it] driver modem

On Sun, 5 May 2002, jv wrote: Se io mantenessi sul pc la mdk 8.0 che mi permette di usare il modem e la mdk 8.2 con cui non vi riesco è possibile montare sul filesystem della 8.2 quello della 8.0 in modo che il modem funzioni?(Probabilmente avrò detto una st..a). uhm.. io credo di

Re: [newbie-it] Continuando (ancora) con Lime Wire

Alle 19:39, domenica 5 maggio 2002, hai scritto: E usi LimeWire con XP? Hanno detto che da problemi con programmi del genere. Solo 2000 e XP. No, ho usato anke win XP ke ho deciso di cambiare installandocci l'Me perchè si pianta di meno e, anke per il tipo di programmi che uso, mi da meno

Re: [newbie-it] Continuando (ancora) con Lime Wire

Non è una diceria: ADSL bloccata per una settimana!!! A me! Giurin giuretta! :-)) Si è bloccata esattamente 20 secondi dopo aver lanciato LimeWire. 06/05/2002 23.45.33, Luca [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Alle 19:39, domenica 5 maggio 2002, hai scritto: E usi LimeWire con XP? Hanno detto

Re: [newbie-it] configurazione hardware

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 14:31, sabato 4 maggio 2002, in merito a [newbie-it] configurazione hardware, x ha scritto: 1) non riesco a far riconoscre al sistema un modem isdn. su isa plug e pray mi dice stringa (lectron winet express isdn), ... credo che il problema

[newbie-it] kernel ricompilato e vfat: grazie

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0 prova a cambiarlo così: /dev/hda1 /mnt/c vfat defaults,users,noauto,showexec 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0 idem come sopra Questo ha risolto il problema! Grazie per avermi evitato

[newbie] help with ./configure

Im trying to install BitchX, i've downloaded it and un-tar'd it, and then the instructions say to run ./configure --with-plugins it says checking for gcc. no checking for cc. no checking for cl no configure: error: no acceptible C compiler found in $PATH so i guess my question is

Re: [newbie] making a script runnable

Thanks, that did the trick Todd Slater wrote: On Sat, 04 May 2002 20:27:53 -0500 Brian Koppe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you. Now that I've been able to get it to run, I get the error kinstalltheme: command not found I'm running Mandrake 8.2 and KDE 3. Anyone know what to do here?

Re: [newbie] help with ./configure

You only need gcc and it is on your Mandrake discs. Just open Mandrake software Manager and seach for it. In 8.2 two versions of gcc are supplied 2.96 and 3.0 2.96 is the one your system is compiled with, so you should generally use that one. HTH derek On Sunday 05 May 2002 9:41 am, Head

Re: [newbie] I recently installed Mandrake 8.1. (for the 3rd time! :) ) My machine is on a university network. I frequently get a popup KWrited document on my desktop that is labeled listening on device /dev/pts/0 and the makes a long list of audio and font files

On Sunday 05 May 2002 5:47 am, db wrote: I recently installed Mandrake 8.1. (for the 3rd time! :) ) My machine is on a university network. I frequently get a popup KWrited document on my desktop that is labeled listening on device /dev/pts/0 and the makes a long list of audio and font

Re: [newbie] Modem

On Sunday 05 May 2002 4:11 am, Pupeno wrote: I'm planing on buying Multitech MT5634ZPX-PCI-NV-V92 (they have a problem chosing model names), it's internal, PCI, fax, V.92, voice, any comments ? This is the info of the modem: http://www.multitech.com/PRODUCTS/MultiModemZPX/ Thank you - --

Re: [newbie] Help I Can't log in!!!

Thanks, but this hasn't fixed it I'm afraid. I've discovered that I can log in if I startup in 'failsafe' mode (that's something I suppose!) but not if I startup normally. I can't log in as *any* user, not even root! Any more suggestions from anyone? Mark - Original Message -

[newbie] Window Manager Configurations

I've recently started checking out the lighter window managers - especially Blackbox and IceWM. On the whole pretty impressive but I am having one or two difficulties that I hope someone out there will be able to help me with: 1. When I change the theme in IceWM, the change is not retained

Re: [newbie] KDE3 and Konqueror

On Sunday 05 May 2002 12:06 am, you wrote: On Saturday 04 May 2002 20:13, you wrote: Dennis , I had the same problem and found that I could not kill my modem also but I kind of stumbled by accident on to a little trick. if you have a wheel mouse try center clicking the wheel . I found by

Re: [newbie] Help I Can't log in!!!

Mark; I don;t suppose you've considered re-installing? You could save your config files to a floppy, and leave your /home partition alone during the install, and that would solve the problem for sure! You'd have to name the home partition (create mount point for /home), and you'd have to make

Re: [newbie] Netscape 4.73 address book

On Sunday 05 May 2002 09:26, you wrote: First i gotta find it, then i can import it into KMail. What is the address book file called in Netscape. One way to do it is:- Netscape Communicator - Addressbook - file - export - anywhere you like to put it Then in Kmail, file - import -

Re: [newbie] Window Manager Configurations

On Sun, 05 May 2002 13:06:36 +0100 Graham Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've recently started checking out the lighter window managers - especially Blackbox and IceWM. On the whole pretty impressive but I am having one or two difficulties that I hope someone out there will be able to

[newbie] Open Office V1.0 / Mandrake 8.2

I though I would take a look at what all the fuss was about and decided to download OOo_1.0.0_linuxintel_install.tar.gz which installed easily enough in my chosen directoy /usr/bin/001/ The only hitch during installation was some message about no Java and Javascript found, which I took to mean

[newbie] free perl IDE

anyone know of a free perl IDE for linux or windows? Also come good documentation would be nice to get started.

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

On Saturday 04 May 2002 12:38 pm, RichardA wrote: What a load of crap. I don't subscribe to this list to see pro gun zealots foaming at the mouth about murdering petty criminals. I dare say some of my political views would upset you. You'll notice I don't subject you to them. RichardA Oh,

[newbie] Stocks

Dear All, Does anyone trade stocks and track them using Linux? If so, how are you doing this? Is there a totally free way to do this or at least inexpensive? Thank you. Sincerely, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Open Office V1.0 / Mandrake 8.2

On Sunday 05 May 2002 5:03 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I though I would take a look at what all the fuss was about and decided to download OOo_1.0.0_linuxintel_install.tar.gz which installed easily enough in my chosen directoy /usr/bin/001/ The only hitch during installation was some

Re: [newbie] free perl IDE

On Sunday 05 May 2002 4:25 pm, Michael Kovary wrote: anyone know of a free perl IDE for linux or windows? Also come good documentation would be nice to get started. When I used Windows (!) the best was Open Source: http://open-perl-ide.sourceforge.net/ It has excellent documentation built

[newbie] celestia

There's been some discussion on OpenUniverse (I tried it, but had difficulties compiling in that many standard paths for headers were not put in the source) and by accident I was checking out a recent issue on the focus on linux website last night, and it mentioned a prog called 'celestia' which

Re: [newbie] Window Manager Configurations

On Sun, 5 May 2002 10:32:41 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled intuitively: snippage In Blackbox, you have to edit the Menu file. This is located in ~/.blackbox. It is very simple to edit, just looking at the file you will = Shouldn't that be

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

On Saturdayen den 4 May 2002 05.41, you wrote: On Sat, 4 May 2002 03:46:15 +0200, Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Makes me sad, Lyvim. What happened to the land of the free ? We europeans (well, most of us) have great admiration for the United States of America. Mostly because you

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

On Saturdayen den 4 May 2002 09.21, you wrote: daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Sat, 4 May 2002, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Makes me sad, Lyvim. What happened to the land of the free ? We europeans (well, most of us) have great admiration for the United States of America. Mostly because you kicked

Re: [newbie] I can't get stupid nimda off of my server

I have ipchains firewall offending adresses. There is one address, I don't understand, HOW it can still hit my server. The address is 65.192.156.2 This is *impossible*!!! No address can hit your server if you have them ipchained out! Is there something wrong with ipchains?

Re: [newbie] I can't get stupid nimda off of my server

On Sundayen den 5 May 2002 20.33, you wrote: I have ipchains firewall offending adresses. There is one address, I don't understand, HOW it can still hit my server. The address is 65.192.156.2 This is *impossible*!!! No address can hit your server if you have them ipchained out! Is

[newbie] MandrakeUpdate, say what?

Hello, would anyone know why MandrakeUpdate cannot work at this time? I am running 8.2 Thanks you to all who answer. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] I can't get stupid nimda off of my server

On Sunday 05 May 2002 02:33 pm, Ibly Piblo wrote: I have ipchains firewall offending adresses. There is one address, I don't understand, HOW it can still hit my server. The address is 65.192.156.2 This is *impossible*!!! No address can hit your server if you have them ipchained out!

[newbie] 2 distributions on 1 computer?????

Hello, I have mandrake 8.2 installed on my computer and i wanted to try redhat so i installed it to on a difrent partition ( same harddrive ) . After the installation i rebooted my computer and up came the mandrake lilo thingie and red hat was not in any of the options, so i went into

[newbie] E-term problems under 8.2?

Has anyone else had problems with E-term under 8.2? I'm getting this (non-fatal) error when I start E-term: bash: TMOUT: readonly variable [darklord@darkforce darklord]$ I looked at .bash_profile, .bashrc, and .bash_history in my /home director but saw nothing that pointed to this... Thanks!

Re: [newbie] Stocks

On Sunday 05 May 2002 12:50 pm, you wrote: Dear All, Does anyone trade stocks and track them using Linux? If so, how are you doing this? Is there a totally free way to do this or at least inexpensive? Thank you. Sincerely, Marcia Marcia: I've been tracking them at The Motley Fool

Re: [newbie] 2 distributions on 1 computer?????

adrian wrote: Hello, I have mandrake 8.2 installed on my computer and i wanted to try redhat so i installed it to on a difrent partition ( same harddrive ) . After the installation i rebooted my computer and up came the mandrake lilo thingie and red hat was not in any of the options, so

Re: [newbie] Stocks

On Sunday 05 May 2002 5:50 pm, Marcia wrote: Does anyone trade stocks and track them using Linux? If so, how are you doing this? Is there a totally free way to do this or at least inexpensive? My British site advice is irrelevant ... but http://www.selftrade.com/uk/ works well with

Re: [newbie] 2 distributions on 1 computer?????

On Sunday 05 May 2002 04:48 pm, you wrote: Hello, I have mandrake 8.2 installed on my computer and i wanted to try redhat so i installed it to on a difrent partition ( same harddrive ) . After the installation i rebooted my computer and up came the mandrake lilo thingie and red hat was not

Re: [newbie] Stocks

On Sunday 05 May 2002 5:50 pm, Marcia wrote: Dear All, Does anyone trade stocks and track them using Linux? If so, how are you doing this? Is there a totally free way to do this or at least inexpensive? Thank you. Sincerely, Marcia The Lycos finance site http://finance.lycos.com/

[newbie] Gimp

Hi No one has posted a stupid question a long. How can I save in Gimp? I cannot find any save or save as or anything else referring to saving anywhere (not in file menu, and not anywhere else). Have I missed something... I am using 8.2, and it is the original install, Thanks for hints

Re: [newbie] Re: WineX was: OT over reacting

shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: i used to play quake II with the name i tend to die a lot but i haven't played III yet.. ;) I named myself in a similar fashion. I realized, quite abruptly, that while I do well in single player mode, I get creamed when going up against humans. I didn't

Re: [newbie] Gimp

right click on the image - it's in the menus there Klemm wrote: Hi No one has posted a stupid question a long. How can I save in Gimp? I cannot find any save or save as or anything else referring to saving anywhere (not in file menu, and not anywhere else). Have I missed something... I am

Re: [newbie] Gimp

On 05 May 2002 23:31:44 +0200 Klemm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi No one has posted a stupid question a long. How can I save in Gimp? I cannot find any save or save as or anything else referring to saving anywhere (not in file menu, and not anywhere else). Have I missed something...

Re: [newbie] Window Manager Configurations

On Sun, 5 May 2002 14:26:13 -0400 Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 5 May 2002 10:32:41 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled intuitively: snippage In Blackbox, you have to edit the Menu file. This is located in ~/.blackbox. It is very simple to edit, just

Re: [newbie] I can't get stupid nimda off of my server

On Sun, 5 May 2002, adrian wrote: Can anyone help me configure Ipchains? i read the man pages but i still cant understand how to do it please Adrian, What might help you is to get an understanding first of what ipchains are and what a firewall is. There is a HOWTO on your system, well

Re: [newbie] Gimp

On Sunday 05 May 2002 11:31 pm, Klemm wrote: Hi No one has posted a stupid question a long. There isn't such a thing as a stupid question on this list, ya know. How can I save in Gimp? I cannot find any save or save as or anything else referring to saving anywhere (not in file menu, and

Re: [newbie] CDR

My oldish Sony 8x/4x/32x works fine using X-CD-Roast on a new 8.2 install. I did no extra configuration setup, other than getting into root and running X-CD-Roast to give my userid permission to burn CDs. I do find the interface very confusing and have to struggle a bit each time trying to

Re: [newbie] Gimp

anyone knows the polarisation filter in photoshop ? is there anything like that in gimp ? i realy like the gimp , it's just great !!! Am Son, 2002-05-05 um 22.50 schrieb Kaj Haulrich: On Sunday 05 May 2002 11:31 pm, Klemm wrote: Hi No one has posted a stupid question a long. There

[newbie] Installation of Linux for Windows 6.5

Hi I am a fairly knowledgeable MS Windows user who has become interested in Linux. I have successfully installed Mandrake onto my PC and it is dual booting fine and working well. The problem is, I am having trouble installing Linux Mandrake for Windows 6.5 onto my laptop. I specifically want

Re: [newbie] help with ./configure

Head wrote: Im trying to install BitchX, i've downloaded it and un-tar'd it, and then the instructions say to run ./configure --with-plugins it says checking for gcc. no checking for cc. no checking for cl no configure: error: no acceptible C compiler found in $PATH so i guess my

Re: [newbie] Window Manager Configurations

Todd Slater wrote: On Sun, 05 May 2002 13:06:36 +0100 Graham Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've recently started checking out the lighter window managers - especially Blackbox and IceWM. On the whole pretty impressive but I am having one or two difficulties that I hope someone out there

Re: [newbie] I can't get stupid nimda off of my server

adrian wrote: On Sundayen den 5 May 2002 20.33, you wrote: I have ipchains firewall offending adresses. There is one address, I don't understand, HOW it can still hit my server. The address is 65.192.156.2 This is *impossible*!!! No address can hit your server if you have them ipchained

Re: [newbie] 2 distributions on 1 computer?????

On 06 May 2002 08:48, adrian wrote: Hello, I have mandrake 8.2 installed on my computer and i wanted to try redhat so i installed it to on a difrent partition ( same harddrive ) . After the installation i rebooted my computer and up came the mandrake lilo thingie and red hat was not in any

[newbie] How to Increase Keyboard Auto Repeat Delay

Ok... I'm whupped on this one. I've set my BIOS keyboard autorepeat delay to 3 seconds. I've set my XF86Config and XF86Config-4 Autorepeat option to 3000 10 But still, when I hit a key it starts autorepeating in well under a second. I would have to guess between 250 to 500 milliSeconds. Any

Re: [newbie] Downloads

On Fri, 3 May 2002 00:32:50 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 02 May 2002 19:32, you wrote: 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

[newbie] Application launches from command line but not from menu

If I open a terminal and type display, Image Magick opens fine. But if I try to open Image Magick from the menu item, nothing happens. This is true in every window manager I have (KDE, IceWM, etc.), so it's not a window manager specific problem. MenuDrake shows me that the menu item for Image

Re: [newbie] OT over reacting

Where can i Get Winex 2.0 ? - Original Message - From: Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 7:40 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] OT over reacting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally I don't agree with anyone flaming someone because of the email

Re: [newbie] OT over reacting

Where can i Get Winex 2.0 ? http://www.transgaming.com/download.php - Original Message - From: Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 7:40 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] OT over reacting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally I don't agree

Re: [newbie] Stocks

A former client of mine is a day trader. I set him up with 3dstockcharts.com for tracking (US$9.95/month) and ameritrade.com for trading. He recommends them both. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ On Sun, 5 May 2002 12:50:53 -0400 Marcia [EMAIL

[newbie] X problems

Hello, I have Mandrake 8.0 on my laptop (Compaq 1200) and have had no problems for months. After a clean shutdown, I tried to log back in, but my X server will not start. It has problems trying to set the FontPath to unix/:-1. Has anyone experienced a problem like this before? What was the

Re: [newbie] Gimp

Right click anywhere on canvas of the image window (not the tools window, the image window). A menu will appear. Select File | Save or File | Save as... It's so easy, and yet it took me a while to find it, too. ;-) -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ On

RE: [newbie] Gimp

Does anyone know how to save a picture as a BW bump map (2 colours)? Ian McLeod Customer Service Office (CSO) EDS (Australia) Pty Ltd Level 9, 108 North Tce, Adelaide, SA, 5000 Phone: (08) 8464 1304 Fax: (08) 8464 2141 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EDS... The recognised global leader in

Re: [newbie] Gimp

On Mon, 6 May 2002 09:50:29 +1000 Mcleod, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to save a picture as a BW bump map (2 colours)? Right-click, Image, Mode, Indexed, Use Black/White palette. -- Todd Slater 7:54pm up 7 min, 1 user, load average: 0.36, 0.30, 0.17 2.4.8-26mdk Too

[newbie] Multi Booting

I had the problem of buying a HP Pavilion with XP pre-installed. I wanted to install 98SE to solve some compatibility issues, and I also wanted to install Mandrake. So I added a second HD to accommodate all this. The ideal way to solve the XP/98 issue would be to uninstall XP install 98 and

Re: [newbie] 2 distributions on 1 computer?????

Adrian, I'm running RH 7.2, Mandrake 8.2 and Win98. Email me privately and we'll see what configuration files you need to tinker with. Terry Smith On Sun, 2002-05-05 at 16:48, adrian wrote: Hello, I have mandrake 8.2 installed on my computer and i wanted to try redhat so i installed it to

Re: [newbie] E-term problems under 8.2?

darklord wrote: Has anyone else had problems with E-term under 8.2? I'm getting this (non-fatal) error when I start E-term: bash: TMOUT: readonly variable [darklord@darkforce darklord]$ I looked at .bash_profile, .bashrc, and .bash_history in my /home director but saw nothing that

Re: [newbie] Stocks

Marcia, Seeing Carroll's and Alastair's replies about the internet.I also use the portfolio tracker on Quicken.com. And I have used The Motley Fool's tracker as well. I can recommend both. I was referring to an onboard portfolio manager...and still find that useful. Terry Smith On Sun,

[newbie] Compatible Video Cards

Hi all, Work has decided to buy me a new desktop box. They're pushing a Dell OptiPlex GX240 w/Pentium 4 1.7 ghz, etc., etc. I may try to talk them into a custom box from Monarch or Micronux where I think I can get a little more linux bang for the buck.. but my question relates to the Dell

Re: [newbie] making a script runnable

On Saturday 04 May 2002 21:08, Brian wrote: Hi, I have a .sh script that I ned to run to install a theme, but it doesn't run when I type ./ before it Last time this happened I had to type some command to make it so ./ worked. Any suggestion? chmod +x filename

[newbie] mail

I am running a small isp. For mail, I am using postfix and gnu-pop3d. I am unable to find the info I need to fix a problem. If a user comes on to pickup his mail and for some reason hangs up before he is done, there is a lock file left behind. I don't know how long it takes for this file to be

Re: [newbie] Gimp

On Sunday 05 May 2002 17:31, Klemm wrote: How can I save in Gimp? I cannot find any save or save as or anything else referring to saving anywhere (not in file menu, and not anywhere else). Right click on the image itself. You will get a menu that lets you save.

Re: [newbie] X problems

On Sunday 05 May 2002 16:30, Keith Lynn opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Hello, I have Mandrake 8.0 on my laptop (Compaq 1200) and have had no problems for months. After a clean shutdown, I tried to log back in, but my X server will not start. It

Re: [newbie] KDE3 and Konqueror

You might want to try renaming any .kde .kde2 .kde3 (etc) and qt directories in your home directory to something else (i.e. mv .kde .kde-old). Do this while you are not in KDE. After doing this, start KDE3 and it should rebuild all the directories and settings it needs. Joe On Sat, 4 May

Re: [newbie] Window Manager Configurations

Correct. The easiest way is to use the configuration tool icepref, which ought to be on your menu or can be launched from the command line. Select your favorite theme in icepref, press save and then press restart. If you like trying out different themes for IceWM, you might want to check out

Re: [newbie] Gimp

Sometimes the answer is the most obvious one. Generally, speaking people usually don't see or ignore the obvious. It took me a while before figuring that out. I won't say how long since I am still embarrassed by it. - Original Message - From: Warren Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL