[newbie-it] prova

2002-05-06 Thread Jacopo Mugnaini
ciao

Rif: Re: [newbie-it] driver modem

2002-05-06 Thread jv
Se il mio driver si presenta come 2.04-00_20mdk ,il 20mdk che significa?E' determinante? affermativo. Ehm, direi proprio di no ... ah... allora chiedo scusa... 20mdk significa solo che e' la ventesima ricompilazione di quel modulo nella stessa versione (di solito perche' sono

[newbie-it] driver

2002-05-06 Thread Augusto
Grazie per chi mi ha dato una risposta innanzitutto. Allora provo a prendere i sorgenti del driver del mio modem slmdm-2.04-00_20mdk.src.rpm e lo ricompilo nella mkk8.2. Dovrei ottenere dei pacchetti rpm tipo slmdm-2.4.18...? Ciao

Re: [newbie-it] configurazione hardware

2002-05-06 Thread carmine de pasquale
grazie per la risposta - Original Message - From: tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; x [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 6:07 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] configurazione hardware Alle 14:31, sabato 4 maggio 2002, x ha scritto: 1) non riesco a far riconoscre al

Re: [newbie-it] configurazione hardware (scusate per la lunghezza)

2002-05-06 Thread carmine de pasquale
grazie per la risposta - Original Message - From: miKe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 6:30 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] configurazione hardware -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 14:31, sabato 4 maggio 2002, in merito a [newbie-it]

Re: Rif: Re: [newbie-it] driver modem

2002-05-06 Thread LukenShiro
On Mon, 6 May 2002, jv wrote: Ehm, direi proprio di no ... ah... allora chiedo scusa... E di che? ;-) io ho litigato la settimana scorsa con iptables.. la versione 1.2.4-mdk andava perfetta su un 2.4.8-mdk, ma non funzionava su un 2.4.18... quindi ricompilando iptables-1.2.6a su un

[newbie-it] rete locale

2002-05-06 Thread Jacopo Mugnaini
ciao a tutti sono nuovo e mi sono appena iscritto in quanto o da poco istallato Mandrake linux 8.2 su di un pc all'interno di una grande rete composta da macchine che montano win 2000 o nt4il mio problema è il seguen te: tutte le macchine della rete riescono a vedere il mio pc con

Re: [newbie-it] rete locale

2002-05-06 Thread carmine de pasquale
- Original Message - From: Jacopo Mugnaini To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 12:13 PM Subject: [newbie-it] rete locale ciao a tutti sono nuovo e mi sono appena iscritto in quanto o da poco istallato Mandrake linux 8.2 su di un pc

Re: [newbie-it] driver

2002-05-06 Thread LukenShiro
On Mon, 6 May 2002, Augusto wrote: Allora provo a prendere i sorgenti del driver del mio modem slmdm-2.04-00_20mdk.src.rpm e lo ricompilo nella mkk8.2. Dovrei ottenere dei pacchetti rpm tipo slmdm-2.4.18...? Be', no, al massimo otterresti un slmdm-2.04-00_20mdk.iX86.rpm [con al posto della X

Re: [newbie-it] [OT] blocco ADSL [was: Continuando (ancora) con LimeWire]

2002-05-06 Thread LukenShiro
On Mon, 6 May 2002, Andrea - Tamalandia wrote: Non è una diceria: ADSL bloccata per una settimana!!! A me! Giurin giuretta! :-)) Si è bloccata esattamente 20 secondi dopo aver lanciato LimeWire. Sara' una pura coincidenza (vedi lavori in corso di telecomica o provider con banda

Re: [newbie-it] Fw: Results of your commands

2002-05-06 Thread Andrea Celli
Laura ^.* wrote: ciao quando mando la richiesta per togliere l'iscrizione, mi manda, si, la conferma da sympa ma poi ritorna con questo messaggio No command found in message non socosa devo fare?? prova a mettere nel testo del messaggio un comando analogo al subject.:

Re: [newbie-it] [OT] blocco ADSL [was: Continuando (ancora) con Lime Wire]

2002-05-06 Thread Andrea - Tamalandia
Allora... io l'ho sempre usato con win98. L'adsl ce l'ho da 1,5 anni. Ho cambiato pc. Intallato XP e ADSL e andava benissimo. Poi ho messo LimeWire e si è impiantato. Ai miei amici andava benissimo. Quindi presumo che sia un impallamento dovuto a LM. Tu dici di no?! 06/05/2002 13.08.45,

Re: Rif: Re: [newbie-it] driver modem

2002-05-06 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 14:38, lunedì 6 maggio 2002, in merito a Rif: Re: [newbie-it] driver modem, jv ha scritto: 20mdk significa solo che e' la ventesima ricompilazione di quel modulo nella stessa versione (di da qui la mia deduzione che quel 20mdk fosse

Re: [newbie-it] [OT] blocco ADSL [was: Continuando (ancora) con LimeWire]

2002-05-06 Thread LukenShiro
On Mon, 6 May 2002, Andrea - Tamalandia wrote: Ho cambiato pc. Intallato XP e ADSL e andava benissimo. Poi ho messo LimeWire e si è impiantato. Ai miei amici andava benissimo. Quindi presumo che sia un impallamento dovuto a LM. Tu dici di no?! Direi un impallamento dovuto a uindous, piu'

[newbie-it] komba

2002-05-06 Thread Jacopo Mugnaini
ho installato komba su la mandrake 8.2 ma come faccio a lanciarlo???

Re: [newbie-it] komba

2002-05-06 Thread Brunini Alessandro
Alle 15:06, lunedì 6 maggio 2002, Jacopo Mugnaini ha scritto: ho installato komba su la mandrake 8.2 ma come faccio a lanciarlo??? Hai due metodi: 1) Apri una console e digiti komba 2) clic su Go (la Kappa o il piede di Gnome) e poi su Esegui Comando. Digita comba al suo interno e poi premi

Re: [newbie-it] driver

2002-05-06 Thread LukenShiro
On Mon, 6 May 2002, freefred wrote: si', l'opzione esatta dovrebbe essere rpm --rebuild file.src.rpm Gia', e' vero! Cioe', nel caso tu abbia che so un pentium ti creera' un rpm i586 e cosi' via, ma se hai problemi di compatibilita' tra il modulo e il kernel quelli rimarranno.

[newbie-it] 8.2 in edicola

2002-05-06 Thread Arwan
Ciao! Per chi non se ne fosse accorto (spedisco questa mail prima di scaricare la posta, percio' la mia info potrebbe essere un doppione): con la rivista LinuxC ci sono i tre CD della Mamdrake 8.2. -- A presto, Arwan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Setting Keyboard Auto Repeat Delay

2002-05-06 Thread Pen Gwynne
Admiittedly this is trivial wwhen compared to problems some newbies have, but it has me stumped. The tuorepeat of my keyboard appears to be around 0.25 seconds with the repeat rate of about 30/sec or more. I tried setting them as follows: DelayRepeat BIOS

[newbie] Dcopserver

2002-05-06 Thread John Richard Smith
Linux Mandrake 8.2 , Every now and again, upon boot up, I get the message which goes something like, Unable to locate mail something, , please check that your DCOP-SERVER is running. This only happens occassionally, but I do not know what it means. I also notice that in home directory there is

[newbie] quake2

2002-05-06 Thread Heather Reed
OK folks - I've downloaded the tar file for quake2, unzipped it into a folder etc, but can't find how to get it to install or run :-(( The readme has lots of useful info, but nothing quite as simple as 'how to get it going'!! What do I do next? TIA and sorry for the silly question (asI am

[newbie] PDF Files

2002-05-06 Thread Lee
I have been using WordPerfect to compose business letters, and exported to pdf when I didn't know whether or not the recipient had WordPerfect. Is there a LInux wordprocesser that will export in .pdf? Corel WP does not so I am back in the Windows box for yet another reason. Right now this

Re: [newbie] Stocks

2002-05-06 Thread John Richard Smith
Well Marcia, I sympathize with you. I haven't found any good way of doing it so far, and amongst one such problem for instance is the lack of Point and figure charts, an absolute elementary basic form of financial charting. Those graph programmes that do exist are centered around the kind of

Re: [newbie] PDF Files

2002-05-06 Thread Rooms Frederic
Hi, One way is to print into a postscript file and the convert in pdf thanks to the pdf2ps command. Fred Lee wrote: I have been using WordPerfect to compose business letters, and exported to pdf when I didn't know whether or not the recipient had WordPerfect. Is there a LInux

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

2002-05-06 Thread Michael Adams
On Monday 06 May 2002 10:06 am, skinky wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] Early distro on older PC (was 2 distributions on 1 computer?????)

2002-05-06 Thread Michael Adams
While I'm here, can anyone tell me if Mandrake 7.2 runs on the older pcs and if it is much different to 8.0/8.1? skinky I have 7.1 running on a p1 circa 95-96 second PC and it is graphically very different. Mandrake won't run on a 486 or 386 as it is compiled for pentiums. I beleive

[newbie] Dcopserver

2002-05-06 Thread John Richard Smith
Linux Mandrake 8.2 , Every now and again, upon boot up, I get the message which goes something like, Unable to locate mail something, , please check that your DCOP-SERVER is running. This only happens occassionally, but I do not know what it means. I also notice that in home directory there is

Re: [newbie] Stocks

2002-05-06 Thread John Richard Smith
Well Marcia, I sympathize with you. I haven't found any good way of doing it so far, and amongst one such problem for instance is the lack of Point and figure charts, an absolute elementary basic form of financial charting. Those graph programmes that do exist are centered around the kind of

[newbie] Dad hates MS!! Now what?

2002-05-06 Thread Tommy Eaton
Hi all, I was chatting with my dad the other night about his adventures with Windows XP. He starts out with "Man, I hate Microsoft!" :-D Ok, so now what? I mentioned Mandrake to him and he seems interested... However, I don't know where to point him. What applications should I

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

2002-05-06 Thread Michael . Hughes
Other states have better gun laws than this state (read: less restrictive on law abiding tax paying citizens), such as Texas, Tennessee, and a few others I can't remember. Here in Georgia, in the city I live in Kennesaw, GA there is a city ordinance that you cannot live inside the city

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

2002-05-06 Thread Brian Parish
How about we save the pro-gun shit for the IamaHickWhoLikesToKill mail list. This list is about linux - or it was. On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 22:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Other states have better gun laws than this state (read: less restrictive on law abiding tax paying citizens), such as

RE: [newbie] OT over reacting

2002-05-06 Thread Michael . Hughes
Well it actually came on the installation CD's, then again since I am new to linux that may not be what I am looking for and could explain why it doesn't work. When I did my install (clean). I choose expert mode and selected the option to install individual packages and one of them was wine.

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

2002-05-06 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Mon, 6 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Other states have better gun laws than this state (read: less restrictive on law abiding tax paying citizens), such as Texas, Tennessee, and a few others I can't remember. Here in Georgia, in the city I live in Kennesaw, GA there is a city

Re: [newbie] Dad hates MS!! Now what?

2002-05-06 Thread ed Tharp
my sugestion, purchase a powerpack from the mandrake store, to be delivered to his house, explain how to get the computer to boot from a CD, and point him to this list. thats about all... and don't forget, 50 ain't that old (shesh). On Monday 06 May 2002 08:17 am, you wrote: Hi all,

Re: [newbie] Dad hates MS!! Now what?

2002-05-06 Thread Randy Kramer
Tommy Eaton wrote: I was chatting with my dad the other night about his adventures with Windows XP. He starts out with Man, I hate Microsoft! Ok, so now what? I mentioned Mandrake to him and he seems interested... However, I don't know where to point him. What applications should I

RE: [newbie] Dad hates MS!! Now what?

2002-05-06 Thread Hanan Shargi
Well Tommy, If he's dangereous (as you said) I guess he's exactly the right person to try Linux, beside with distributions like Mandrake you dont need to be an expert to play around with Linux, and even betrer you dont have to suggest any applications, Mandrake is full of em, you just tell

Re: [newbie] Dad hates MS!! Now what?

2002-05-06 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 06 May 2002 1:17 pm, Tommy Eaton wrote: Hi all, I was chatting with my dad the other night about his adventures with Windows XP. He starts out with Man, I hate Microsoft! :-D Ok, so now what? I mentioned Mandrake to him and he seems interested... However, I don't know where

RE: [newbie] Dad hates MS!! Now what?

2002-05-06 Thread Tommy Eaton
Who said 50 something was old? :) -Original Message- From: ed Tharp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 9:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Dad hates MS!! Now what? my sugestion, purchase a powerpack from the mandrake store, to be delivered to

Re: [newbie] PDF Files

2002-05-06 Thread shane
On Monday 06 May 2002 02:43, Lee opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: I have been using WordPerfect to compose business letters, and exported to pdf when I didn't know whether or not the recipient had WordPerfect. Is there a LInux wordprocesser that will

Re: [newbie] Dad hates MS!! Now what?

2002-05-06 Thread John Richard Smith
On Monday 06 May 2002 13:17, you wrote: Hi all, I was chatting with my dad the other night about his adventures with Windows XP. He starts out with Man, I hate Microsoft! :-D Ok, so now what? I mentioned Mandrake to him and he seems interested... However, I don't know where to point

Re: [newbie] Dad hates MS!! Now what?

2002-05-06 Thread shane
On Monday 06 May 2002 05:17, Tommy Eaton opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Hi all, I was chatting with my dad the other night about his adventures with Windows XP. He starts out with Man, I hate Microsoft! :-D Ok, so now what? I mentioned

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

2002-05-06 Thread Tommy Eaton
Sounds like someone has a bad case of the Mondays... -Source: Office Space -Original Message- From: Brian Parish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 8:47 AM To: newbie Subject: RE: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ? How about we

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

2002-05-06 Thread darklord
On Sunday 05 May 2002 09:49 pm, you wrote: 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

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

2002-05-06 Thread darklord
On Monday 06 May 2002 09:07 am, you wrote: On 6 May 2002, Brian Parish wrote: How about we save the pro-gun shit for the IamaHickWhoLikesToKill mail list. This list is about linux - or it was. wow! someone isn't very happy this morning .hope your day gets better as it goes along Brian.

[newbie] Very bad review of Mandrake 8.2 boxed set

2002-05-06 Thread Alastair Scott
Although it's written in the characteristic The Register style (halfway between a magazine and a weblog ... not much of a filter between the journalist and bytes on screen), there are pretty obviously correct points being made here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25160.html Alastair

Re: [newbie] gkrellm volume plugin make error

2002-05-06 Thread Joan Tur
I'm using gkrellm's plugins from: [quini@quinipt quini]$ rpm -qa|grep gkrellm gkrellm-themes-0.2-1mdk gkrellm-1.2.8-2mdk gkrellm-plugins-1.2.8-1mdk [quini@quinipt quini]$ And sound plugin is working for me... hope that helps ;) Es Dilluns 06 Maig 2002 02:18, en Todd Slater va escriure: I'm

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

2002-05-06 Thread Brian Parish
On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 23:48, darklord wrote: Really. I own a gun... I've never killed anyone with it yet... ;-) Look, I know that the attitude to guns is a little different in the USA and I make no comment as to whether that's right, wrong, or whatever. I just can't understand why it's

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

2002-05-06 Thread shane
On Monday 06 May 2002 08:35, Brian Parish opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: I guess being forced to own a weapon to live in a certain town just made me so incredulous that...well I'm just blown away that any society could think that was normal or OK.

Re: [newbie] Very bad review of Mandrake 8.2 boxed set

2002-05-06 Thread shane
On Monday 06 May 2002 07:21, Alastair Scott opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Although it's written in the characteristic The Register style (halfway between a magazine and a weblog ... not much of a filter between the journalist and bytes on screen),

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

2002-05-06 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2002-05-05 at 12:54, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Oh, come on Richard ! - On my screen I see no foam at all. Lyvim was merely answering a naive question concerning the fact that I'm now a criminal, because I eradicated windows from my laptop. Furthermore, it seems that I'm a communist,

Re: [newbie] PDF Files

2002-05-06 Thread Lee
Shane, You've done it again. The font appears different than the kword doc, but fonts seem be a perennial issue hereabouts. Guess I pick one that looks good in the final pdf doc and go. Thanks Lee On Monday 06 May 2002 09:28 am, shane wrote: On Monday 06 May 2002 02:43, Lee opened a

Re: [newbie] Very bad review of Mandrake 8.2 boxed set

2002-05-06 Thread Paul
In reply to shane's mail, d.d. Mon, 6 May 2002 08:52:56 -0700: um, maybe i am just lucky enough to not have his bad luck, but what points are correct? i had none of the trouble he describes. what did i do wrong? (right?) I read the review too. I think he had a flakey config to start

Re: [newbie] Very bad review of Mandrake 8.2 boxed set

2002-05-06 Thread Lee
He only used the f word once. He really liked it. Lee On Monday 06 May 2002 10:21 am, Alastair Scott wrote: Although it's written in the characteristic The Register style (halfway between a magazine and a weblog ... not much of a filter between the journalist and bytes on screen), there are

Re: [newbie] PDF Files

2002-05-06 Thread shane
On Monday 06 May 2002 09:32, Lee opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Shane, You've done it again. The font appears different than the kword doc, but fonts seem be a perennial issue hereabouts. Guess I pick one that looks good in the final pdf doc and

Re: [newbie] Very bad review of Mandrake 8.2 boxed set

2002-05-06 Thread Alastair Scott
On Monday 06 May 2002 5:23 pm, Paul wrote: In reply to shane's mail, d.d. Mon, 6 May 2002 08:52:56 -0700: um, maybe i am just lucky enough to not have his bad luck, but what points are correct? i had none of the trouble he describes. what did i do wrong? (right?) I read the review

Re: [newbie] Stocks

2002-05-06 Thread Mike Larson
For free chart services, try http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/ http://fast.quote.com/fq/briefing/group?mode=IwatchMenu1group=IndustryWatch/indexid=page=IwatchMenu1 http://stockcharts.com/index.html (this one will do Point Figure for you) For portfolio tracking there are numerous free

[newbie] Converting Mozilla Bookmarks

2002-05-06 Thread Brian Koppe
Hi everyone, I have used Mozilla quite extensively in WinXP (I know, I know - I gotta play my games SOMEWHERE) and I have a TON of bookmarks in it. However, I just reinstalled 8.2 and KDE3 so I have no bookmarks in Linux. I was wondering if and how I could import my WinXP Mozilla bookmarks

Re: [newbie] Very bad review of Mandrake 8.2 boxed set

2002-05-06 Thread Derek Jennings
SNIP Also, problems with StarOffice/OpenOffice fonts, although not MandrakeSoft's fault, are becoming staple fare for the [openoffice] discussion lists :/ Alastair PS What is (supposedly) missing from KDE in the boxed set? The version of OpenOffice supplied with 8.2 has its startup

[newbie] Installing KDE 3

2002-05-06 Thread Fred Schroeder
I followed the instructions on installing KDE 3 from the Mandrake website, but when I do the urpmi *, I get all of these errors about qt3 devel files conflicting with the qt2 devel files. How do I get around this? is is alright to have it install without checking dependencies? Thanks, Fred

RE: [newbie] OT over reacting

2002-05-06 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Mon, 6 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well it actually came on the installation CD's, then again since I am new to linux that may not be what I am looking for and could explain why it doesn't work. When I did my install (clean). I choose expert mode and selected the option to

Re: [newbie] Converting Mozilla Bookmarks

2002-05-06 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Mon, 6 May 2002, Brian Koppe wrote: Hi everyone, I have used Mozilla quite extensively in WinXP (I know, I know - I gotta play my games SOMEWHERE) and I have a TON of bookmarks in it. However, I just reinstalled 8.2 and KDE3 so I have no bookmarks in Linux. I was wondering if and how I

Re: [newbie] gkrellm volume plugin make error

2002-05-06 Thread Guy Zelck
Todd Slater wrote: I'm trying to get the volume plugin for gkrellm, but get this error when I run make: In file included from volume.c:26: volume.h:20:30: gkrellm/gkrellm.h: No such file or directory make: *** [volume.o] Error 1 The readme said to make sure to have installed the gkrellm header

Re: [newbie] OT over reacting

2002-05-06 Thread darklord
On Monday 06 May 2002 02:24 pm, you wrote: Ok Mike...ya talked me into it. to get you started you may want to take a look at Codeweavers wine. that seems to be the best one to start with if you're very new to using wine. you can get a copy of Codeweavers wine at this address. Let me know

[newbie] Installing as Newbie

2002-05-06 Thread Klemm
Short and simpel If I have 3 users that use the computer How can I make * one install of some program (lets say Star (open)Office because that what i tried to do ) * Where I should install it ? What locations * How I can make the programs appear in menu and for all 3 users * Should I do all

[newbie] problem remembering program states?

2002-05-06 Thread Paul Rodriguez
For some reason, I have begun having a problem on most of my programs where they will not remember the last state. For example, Galeon repeatedly asks for confirmation regarding information sending of unencrypted data, and will only remember my answer for the current session. Xchat opens very

[newbie] Keeping Private and Simpel

2002-05-06 Thread Klemm
Some more I want to make the life easier and still have some privacy We have 3 users (me, my wife and my mom) I use computer for a lot of several purposes, the rest use for internet and e-mail Can I do so that the computer automatically logs in as one user, but still can keep the private

Re: [newbie] Installing as Newbie

2002-05-06 Thread Damian G
On 06 May 2002 23:17:26 +0200 Klemm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Short and simpel If I have 3 users that use the computer How can I make * one install of some program (lets say Star (open)Office because that what i tried to do ) * Where I should install it ? What locations * How I can

Re: [newbie] BBC Streaming OGG - FYI

2002-05-06 Thread Charlie
On Wednesday 24 April 2002 10:31 am, Sevatio offered this for consideration: Here's an email I received from the BBC: We've managed to get another encoder up and running, so you can get your daily fix of teeny boppy all-sound-the-same tunes coming from Radio 1 in sparkly ogg format at

Re: [newbie] Very bad review of Mandrake 8.2 boxed set

2002-05-06 Thread Seedkum Aladeem
On Monday 06 May 2002 12:50 pm, you wrote: On Monday 06 May 2002 11:51, Anne Wilson opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: I have often wondered why people hold The Register in such regard. because the other choices are what... zdnet? cnet? when the

Re: [newbie] Compatible Video Cards

2002-05-06 Thread db
I don't think you can get more bang for the buck from a local builder. They have to pay WAY,WAY more for their parts than Dell so to be competitive they always half to make concessions on the quality of components. (Did you know there is a huge market out there on manufactured seconds?) If you

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

2002-05-06 Thread skinky
On 06 May 2002 08:48, skinky wrote: I just installed redhat and had lilo/boot problems also. You only need the one swap partition. I have a separate /boot partition which I share between the distros - be sure NOT to format the /boot partition if you have the same setup. During the

Re: [newbie] Dad hates MS!! Now what?

2002-05-06 Thread civileme
Tommy Eaton wrote: Hi all, I was chatting with my dad the other night about his adventures with Windows XP. He starts out with Man, I hate Microsoft! :-D Ok, so now what? I mentioned Mandrake to him and he seems interested... However, I don't know where to point

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

2002-05-06 Thread civileme
Tommy Eaton wrote: Sounds like someone has a bad case of the Mondays... -Source: Office Space -Original Message- From: Brian Parish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 8:47 AM To: newbie Subject: RE: [newbie] The Register: Preinstalled Windows Illegal to Remove ?

[newbie] Follow-up question about bookmarks...

2002-05-06 Thread Brian Koppe
First off, thank you for the help copying my Mozilla bookmarks - I didn't realize it was so easy. Two other things: 1) How do I import my Mozilla bookmarks in Konqueror and 2) I have a friend who use(d) IE and I just got him to try Linux - how would he import the IE bookmarks into either

Re: [newbie] Very bad review of Mandrake 8.2 boxed set

2002-05-06 Thread civileme
Alastair Scott wrote: On Monday 06 May 2002 5:23 pm, Paul wrote: In reply to shane's mail, d.d. Mon, 6 May 2002 08:52:56 -0700: um, maybe i am just lucky enough to not have his bad luck, but what points are correct? i had none of the trouble he describes. what did i do wrong? (right?) I

Re: [newbie] Keeping Private and Simpel

2002-05-06 Thread Michael Adams
On Tuesday 07 May 2002 9:40 am, Klemm wrote: Some more I want to make the life easier and still have some privacy We have 3 users (me, my wife and my mom) I use computer for a lot of several purposes, the rest use for internet and e-mail Can I do so that the computer automatically logs

Re: [newbie] Early distro on older PC (was 2 distributions on 1 computer?????)

2002-05-06 Thread Michael Adams
On Tuesday 07 May 2002 9:15 am, skinky wrote: On 06 May 2002 22:57, Michael Adams wrote: While I'm here, can anyone tell me if Mandrake 7.2 runs on the older pcs and if it is much different to 8.0/8.1? skinky I have 7.1 running on a p1 circa 95-96 second PC and it is graphically

RE: [newbie] Follow-up question about bookmarks...

2002-05-06 Thread Schwenk, Jeanie
I had a problem getting my Netscape bookmarks into Konqueror last week. If you place your Netscape bookmarks, bookmarks.html not bookmarks.htm, into the ./mozilla directory. Then from Konqueror's menu bar, select Bookmarks Edit Bookmarks... This brings up a popup

Re: [newbie] Dad hates MS!! Now what?

2002-05-06 Thread Michael Adams
On Tuesday 07 May 2002 1:05 am, ed Tharp wrote: my sugestion, purchase a powerpack from the mandrake store, to be delivered to his house, explain how to get the computer to boot from a CD, and point him to this list. thats about all... and don't forget, 50 ain't that old (shesh). On

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

2002-05-06 Thread Brian Parish
On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 01:49, shane wrote: On Monday 06 May 2002 08:35, Brian Parish opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: I guess being forced to own a weapon to live in a certain town just made me so incredulous that...well I'm just blown away that any

Re: [newbie] gkrellm volume plugin make error

2002-05-06 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, 06 May 2002 22:02:17 +0200 Guy Zelck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Todd Slater wrote: I'm trying to get the volume plugin for gkrellm, but get this error when I run make: In file included from volume.c:26: volume.h:20:30: gkrellm/gkrellm.h: No such file or directory make: ***

Re: [newbie] Early distro on older PC (was 2 distributions on 1 computer?????)

2002-05-06 Thread skinky
On 06 May 2002 22:57, Michael Adams wrote: While I'm here, can anyone tell me if Mandrake 7.2 runs on the older pcs and if it is much different to 8.0/8.1? skinky I have 7.1 running on a p1 circa 95-96 second PC and it is graphically very different. Mandrake won't run on a 486 or 386

Re: [newbie] Follow-up question about bookmarks...

2002-05-06 Thread Brian Koppe
Thank you so much, that really helped :-D Now, does anyone know how to import IE bookmarks? Thanks Brian Schwenk, Jeanie wrote: I had a problem getting my Netscape bookmarks into Konqueror last week. If you place your Netscape bookmarks, bookmarks.html not bookmarks.htm, into the ./mozilla

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

2002-05-06 Thread Marc
5/6/02 5:29:49 PM, Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 01:49, shane wrote: On Monday 06 May 2002 08:35, Brian Parish opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: I guess being forced to own a weapon to live in a certain town just made

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

2002-05-06 Thread FemmeFatale
Brian Parish wrote: How about we save the pro-gun shit for the IamaHickWhoLikesToKill mail list. This list is about linux - or it was. So agree Brian. :) I'm all for freedom of speech but the politicizing on this issue can go on forever. Quit now while you're all behind. :) -- Femme

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

2002-05-06 Thread FemmeFatale
darklord wrote: Don't feel bad Miark! I routinely play 3 (2 comps and myself) vs 5 comps (top vs bottom) in Starcraft: Broodwars and win...and yet, when I play humans I usually lose... I think its because ultimately, the comps, no matter how good the AI, are predictable after a fashion.

Re: [newbie] Converting Mozilla Bookmarks

2002-05-06 Thread FemmeFatale
Charlie wrote: Brian; doesn't Mozilla for Windows save/export the bookmarks as an html file? It also (should) actually save the bookmarks as a file called (surprise!) bookmarks.html. If so; and if you can read the NTFS, you should be able to just copy the file to the MDK installation of

[newbie] i586 v i686

2002-05-06 Thread Brian Koppe
I'm looking to download some Texstar RPM's but I don't know the difference between i586 and i686. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance. Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] i586 v i686

2002-05-06 Thread Kirtis B
On Monday 06 May 2002 08:08 pm, you wrote: I'm looking to download some Texstar RPM's but I don't know the difference between i586 and i686. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance. Brian If you have a Pentium II or higher then get the i686 one. If not then get the i586 one. -- Where'd you

Re: [newbie] Converting Mozilla Bookmarks

2002-05-06 Thread Charlie
On Monday 06 May 2002 05:53 pm, FemmeFatale offered this for consideration: Just do an Export bookmarks To a floppy boot linux, in mozilla do a IMport bookmarks Point to the floppy drive. Done deal. Worked for me fine. And its less complex ;)

Re: [newbie] i586 v i686

2002-05-06 Thread Brian Koppe
Well, I have an Athlon T-Bird - am I correct in assuming that means to equeate it to over a PII? Also, what if there is only one option i.e. it comes in i586 but not i686 - will the i586 work for me? Thanks a lot! :) Brian Kirtis B wrote: On Monday 06 May 2002 08:08 pm, you wrote: I'm

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

2002-05-06 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On 7 May 2002, Brian Parish wrote: On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 01:49, shane wrote: On Monday 06 May 2002 08:35, Brian Parish opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: I guess being forced to own a weapon to live in a certain town just made me so incredulous

Re: [newbie] i586 v i686

2002-05-06 Thread Kirtis B
On Monday 06 May 2002 08:19 pm, you wrote: Well, I have an Athlon T-Bird - am I correct in assuming that means to equeate it to over a PII? Also, what if there is only one option i.e. it comes in i586 but not i686 - will the i586 work for me? Thanks a lot! Yes, and yes. That's why there

Re: [newbie] OT over reacting

2002-05-06 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Mon, 6 May 2002, darklord wrote: On Monday 06 May 2002 02:24 pm, you wrote: Ok Mike...ya talked me into it. to get you started you may want to take a look at Codeweavers wine. that seems to be the best one to start with if you're very new to using wine. you can get a copy of

Re: [newbie] i586 v i686

2002-05-06 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 06 May 2002 07:19 pm, you wrote: Well, I have an Athlon T-Bird - am I correct in assuming that means to equeate it to over a PII? Also, what if there is only one option i.e. it comes in i586 but not i686 - will the i586 work for me? Thanks a lot! :) Brian Kirtis B wrote: On

Re: [newbie] Early distro on older PC (was 2 distributions on 1 computer?????)

2002-05-06 Thread shane
On Monday 06 May 2002 14:55, Michael Adams opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Mandrake won't run on a 486 or 386 as it is compiled for pentiums. I beleive there is a 486 distro downloadable (from memory). Thanks for the info, much appreciated.

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

2002-05-06 Thread shane
On Monday 06 May 2002 17:35, daRcmaTTeR opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: As long as you reserve one of them for use on Bill Gates, who could argue? ;-) I must say I don't follow the logic of guns buying freedom of sexual expression - not the way

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

2002-05-06 Thread FemmeFatale
civileme wrote: Femme, are you running a K6-2? If so, try this Install 8.2 with F1 at splash screen and expert nopentium and then at bootloader time, Modify the append line to include nopentium. You should then be able to save. This is an undocumented difference between

[newbie] Dock and tray

2002-05-06 Thread Warren Post
I've been fooling around with different windows managers, particularly IceWM. One thing I can't figure out is the use of the tray, and dockable apps. Does someone have a URL or a manual to point me to? I couldn't find anything on Google and icewm.org. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copan,

Re: [newbie] Dock and tray

2002-05-06 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, 6 May 2002 18:23:35 -0600 Warren Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been fooling around with different windows managers, particularly IceWM. One thing I can't figure out is the use of the tray, and dockable apps. Does someone have a URL or a manual to point me to? I couldn't find

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