Re: [newbie-it] Installazione mdk 8.2

2002-05-09 Thread freefred
On Thursday 09 May 2002 06:36 am, you wrote: Dopo aver scelto i prg da installare è partita l'installazione solo che il tempo stimato era di un'ora :-( ormai dovresti credo aver risolto. solo una cosa quindi: e' normale il tempo dell'aggiornamento. anzi, a seconda del pc, puo' essere

Re: [newbie-it] Plugin per win media player

2002-05-09 Thread Luca
Alle 01:55, venerdì 10 maggio 2002, freefred ha scritto: Crossover plugin a pagamento (25 dollari circa), e ti permette di aprire oltre che i files con WMP anche QuickTime e files per Office Microsoft. qualcuno l'ha provato? io l'ho scaricato ieri e ho provato ad installare il plugin per

[newbie-it] alcuni piccoli problemi

2002-05-09 Thread skyheart
Ciao a tutti, sulla mia mandrake 8.2 - gnome non mantiene le impostazioni relative allo sfondo del dektop dopo l'uscita o il riavvio. -xwc non parte e devo killare ogni volta il processo (usando top + kill) Grazie -- SkyHeart -- Linux user cognitive

Re: [newbie-it] Installazione mdk 8.2

2002-05-09 Thread Fabio
Alle 12:36, giovedì 9 maggio 2002, hai scritto: Se rifaccio l'installazione, come faccio a essere sicuro che vada nell'hd giusto? Non è che mdk trova da sola la strada? :-) Ciao ku68 No aspetta! DiskDrake ti permette di poter scegliere le partizioni dove installare la tua Mandrake, per

Re: [newbie-it] Staroffice 5.2. Per Ku 68

2002-05-09 Thread Fabio
Alle 14:56, giovedì 9 maggio 2002, hai scritto: vari Word co. ... il consiglio è di scaricare OO 1.0 in Italiano da internet, e di *non* installare invece l'OO presente nei CD di Mandrake. Ciao... Daniele Cosa intendi con in italiano? Quello che ho io, tranne che per il manuale (ma ti

Re: [newbie-it] Staroffice 5.2. Per Ku 68

2002-05-09 Thread Fabio
Alle 14:03, giovedì 9 maggio 2002, hai scritto: sbagliato. openoffice 1.0 è uscito il 6 maggio, 67 mega, ma ne vale la pena rispetto a staroffice non ha il doppio desktop ed è molto più veloce Ho appena installato OpenOffice dai dischetti di mdk8.2 e non posso che concordare.. Veloce,

Re: [newbie-it] connessione ad internet con MK 8.2

2002-05-09 Thread skyheart
Il Thu, 9 May 2002 00:27:45 +0200 (CEST) LukenShiro ha scritto: On Wed, 8 May 2002, skyheart wrote: May 8 01:23:45 localhost pppd[2377]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/modem May 8 01:24:16 localhost pppd[2377]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests May 8 01:24:16 localhost pppd[2377]: Connection

Re: [newbie-it] Staroffice 5.2. Per Ku 68

2002-05-09 Thread carmine de pasquale
prova presentazione, il compatibile powerpoint e confrontalo con quelli di microbugs... un altro pianeta - Original Message - From: Daniele Micci [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 2:56 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Staroffice 5.2. Per Ku 68 Alle

[newbie-it] Problema con il portatile

2002-05-09 Thread Edmondo Rumori
Cari amici mi chiamo Eddie e sto faticosamente cercando di prendere confidenza con linux. Ho installato più volte linux mandrake, prima in versione 8.1 poi 8.2, sul mio portatile Compaq presario 2701EA dotato di processore pentium III 1200, 512 MB di ram scheda video ATI mobility radeon 32 MB DDR

Re: [newbie-it] Problema con il portatile

2002-05-09 Thread LukenShiro
On Thu, 9 May 2002, Edmondo Rumori wrote: Il problema consiste nell'impossibilità di ottenere lo spegnimento della macchina dopo lo shutdown come invece avviene con windows. Qualcuno mi ha suggerito di attivare l'opzione APM nel kernel, ma ho scoperto che la macchina è al 100% ACPI. Come

Re: [newbie-it] 8.2 - KMail

2002-05-09 Thread LukenShiro
On Thu, 9 May 2002, Guido Milanese wrote: Ho appena installato la Mandrake 8.2. Tutto bene, direi, ma ho un problema con KMail. Ho configurato come ho sempre fatto, ma non legge la posta dal server. Qualcun altro ha avuto problemi di questo genere? Che cosa posso avere sbagliato? Ti da'

[newbie-it] MDK 8.2 problema installazione

2002-05-09 Thread robirossi
Ho un sistema con due Hd, uno con win2000, e nella'altro dove ho sempre avuto una distro linux, ultimamente mdk In fase di installazione, sia con la 7.2 sia con la 8.0, non ho mai avuto problemi. Ho deciso di installarmi da zero la 8.2, senza l'aggiornamente della 8.0, ma il computer durante

Re: [newbie-it] MDK 8.2 - Aggiornamenti

2002-05-09 Thread Daniele Micci
Alle 00:14, giovedì 9 maggio 2002, hai scritto: Alle 23:41, mercoledì 8 maggio 2002, hai scritto: Ho fatto un po' di prove e due volte funzionava bene (aggiungendo la nuova fonte) poi sistematicamente dava l'errore, senza una ragione particolare [credo che _anche_ in questa versione sia

Re: [newbie-it] Trasferire file

2002-05-09 Thread Arwan
Scrive ku68: (Thursday, May 09, 2002, ore 8:29:02 AM, a proposito di [newbie-it] Trasferire file) k Ciao, ho questo problema. Vorrei trasferire alcuni file scaricati via k mail da linux a win. k Ho provato a trasferirli nella dir /mnt/win_c/windows/desktop/nome del k file ma mi segnala che è

Re[2]: [newbie-it] Trasferire file

2002-05-09 Thread Arwan
Scrive carmine: (Thursday, May 09, 2002, ore 2:07:26 PM, a proposito di [newbie-it] Trasferire file) cdp su windows istalla explore2fs, che puoi scaricare all'indirizzo cdp http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/ cdp così leggi i files di linux Ecco... per una volta ceh anch'io posso

[newbie-it] mplayer e permessi /dev/mga_vid

2002-05-09 Thread Biss
Se mplayer deve interagire con questo dispositivo ha bisogno che chi lo esegue abbia i permessi di _lettura_ ed eventualmente di _scrittura_, prova a darglieli. Una curiosita': da root quindi funziona? Si, da root funzionava finché non ho giocato troppo con i permessi. Ora proverò a darglo

[newbie] Format Floppy

2002-05-09 Thread Brian Koppe
Hey everyone, how do you format a floppy in Linux? :-[ Thanks Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Format Floppy

2002-05-09 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 09 May 2002 8:00 pm, Brian Koppe wrote: Hey everyone, how do you format a floppy in Linux? :-[ - From the command line, it's not trivial. If you're not using Gnome or KDE, it's a two-stage process (wipe everything then make a new

Re: [newbie] Keeping Private and Simpel

2002-05-09 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 09 May 2002 09:26 am, Robin Turner wrote: On Tuesday 07 May 2002 00:40, 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

Re: [newbie] Format Floppy

2002-05-09 Thread civileme
Brian Koppe wrote: Hey everyone, how do you format a floppy in Linux? :-[ Thanks Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com fdformat /dev/fd0u1440 After that you

Re: [newbie] Noisy Processor Fans

2002-05-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 09 May 2002 11:03 am, Steve Borrett wrote: I like the Dragon OrbIII by Thermaltake. It is not whisper quiet but it does a damn good cooling job on an XP 1900+ I am more of a fan (grin) of thermaltake's Volcano 7+ Pretty cool (double grin) Steve. I sort'a like the sound

Re: [newbie] Quake3 in Linux - hot damn!

2002-05-09 Thread Joan Tur
Es Dijous 09 Maig 2002 07:41, en Miark va escriure: If any of you play Quake 3 in Windows, but not Linux, you GOTTA try it. I get virtually the same frame rate in 1280x1024 in Linux as I get playing 800x600 in Windows, and maps load at least twice as fast, maybe even three times as fast.

Re: [newbie] another 2 distro boot (Help please Civileme!)

2002-05-09 Thread Michael Adams
On Thursday 09 May 2002 11:28 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: On Thursday 09 May 2002 08:56, you wrote: Thanks for the help Bascule. I have all the time in the world to do this properly. So please read my lilo.conf (below) and see if it looks ok to you first. I copied vmlinuz-2.2.15-4mdk

Re: [newbie] Noisy Processor Fans

2002-05-09 Thread shane
On Thursday 09 May 2002 09:03, Steve Borrett opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: I am more of a fan (grin) of thermaltake's Volcano 7+ Pretty cool (double grin) *groan* people done been thrown offa lists for less. :) -- 1 if by land, 2 if by sea, 3 if

Re: [newbie] Format Floppy

2002-05-09 Thread Barry Premeaux
On Thursday 09 May 2002 12:00 pm, you wrote: Hey everyone, how do you format a floppy in Linux? :-[ Thanks Brian From KDE, its a two step process: open a terminal and do 'su' so you can 'umount /mnt/floppy' Go to Configuration-Hardware-Floppy Formatter When I'm done, I go back to my

Re: [newbie] Format Floppy

2002-05-09 Thread Derek Jennings
The straight answer is KmenuConfigurationhardwareFloppy formatter The other answer is 'Aren't the floppys you buy already DOS formatted?' Linux can read/write to DOS floppys no problem. derek On Thursday 09 May 2002 8:00 pm, you wrote: Hey everyone, how do you format a floppy in Linux? :-[

[newbie] Flash in Konqueror

2002-05-09 Thread Roger Sherman
I know...it's been beaten to death, and was discussed just the other day. I just went and looked in the archives, and couldn't find that thread from the other day, which bites, cause it had exactly what I needed to know. So here I am. Anyhoo. I finally got around to installing 8.2 on this

Re: [newbie] Noisy Processor Fans

2002-05-09 Thread James Thomas
I am more of a fan (grin) of thermaltake's Volcano 7+ Pretty cool (double grin) Heh, I use this fan too and I have no problems with it. It is cooling my XP 1900+ and it's quieter than the fan I have on my 1.1ghz Athlon - perhaps I need to get this fan for that one too. I even have more

Re: [newbie] Quake3 in Linux - hot damn!

2002-05-09 Thread FemmeFatale
Miark wrote: You can *i'm on a MOD's dev team so we get asked this alot* try this: rest snipped Where do we enter these? In a config file or in the console? Miark the cmds themselves are to be entered on the console. Sorry wasn't very well written by moi. :) so this stuff: sh

Re: [newbie] Quake3 in Linux - hot damn!

2002-05-09 Thread FemmeFatale
Brian Koppe wrote: Whoa whoa whoa whoa, slow down there :) Where do I do all this? Thanks! Brian FemmeFatale wrote: You can *i'm on a MOD's dev team so we get asked this alot* try this: //RAM usage 256+ Megabytes seta com_hunkmegs 128 seta com_soundmegs 32 seta com_zonemegs

Re: [newbie] Quake3 in Linux - hot damn!

2002-05-09 Thread FemmeFatale
Steve Borrett wrote: You can *i'm on a MOD's dev team so we get asked this alot* try this: rest snipped Which MOD Femme? Weapons Factory Arena. or WFA for short, the sequel to Q2WF. http://www.captured.com/weaponsfactory/quake3/ -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll

Re: [newbie] Quake 3 stuff added....

2002-05-09 Thread FemmeFatale
Brian Koppe wrote: So it did run for you with the no sound option? If so, according to the FAQ I was looking at, then its the sound drivers. They mention using ALSA instead, but AFAIK, I have ALSA installed here so I don't know... If you or anyone else would like to see the FAQ page

Re: [newbie] Quake3 in Linux - hot damn!

2002-05-09 Thread FemmeFatale
Joan Tur wrote: Es Dijous 09 Maig 2002 07:41, en Miark va escriure: If any of you play Quake 3 in Windows, but not Linux, you GOTTA try it. I get virtually the same frame rate in 1280x1024 in Linux as I get playing 800x600 in Windows, and maps load at least twice as fast, maybe even

Re: [newbie] Flash in Konqueror

2002-05-09 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Thursday 09 May 2002 06:17 pm, you wrote: I know...it's been beaten to death, and was discussed just the other day. I just went and looked in the archives, and couldn't find that thread from the other day, which bites, cause it had exactly what I needed to know. So here I am. Anyhoo. I

[newbie] file.PUB in LM8.1 ??

2002-05-09 Thread Bob Read
Does anyone know how to open/read a file with a .pub extension while using LM8.1 ?? I just received this file and need to work on it. but can't open it. TIA, Bob -- Bob Read http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/b/e/bestill.htm Soli Deo Gloria-Solus Christus-Sola Gratia-Sola Fide-Sola Scriptura

Re: [newbie] Flash in Konqueror

2002-05-09 Thread Roger Sherman
On Thu, 9 May 2002, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Thursday 09 May 2002 06:17 pm, you wrote: I know...it's been beaten to death, and was discussed just the other day. I just went and looked in the archives, and couldn't find that thread from the other day, which bites, cause it had exactly

Re: [newbie] Flash in Konqueror

2002-05-09 Thread Andrewd
I have discovered some sites have not configured Flash on their servers correctly, If you go to the Macromedia site it outlines the actual problem. OK! That seemed to work (fortunately, I have the 8.1 PP, so I was able to get the Flash rpm), and now most sites work for me. Some still don't -

Re: [newbie] file.PUB in LM8.1 ??

2002-05-09 Thread julie
Not absolutely positive, but I think you may have a MS Publisher file on your hands. -- Julie On Thursday 09 May 2002 06:21 pm, you wrote: Does anyone know how to open/read a file with a .pub extension while using LM8.1 ?? I just received this file and need to work on it. but can't open

Re: [newbie] file.PUB in LM8.1 ??

2002-05-09 Thread civileme
Bob Read wrote: Does anyone know how to open/read a file with a .pub extension while using LM8.1 ?? I just received this file and need to work on it. but can't open it. TIA, Bob -- Bob Read http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/b/e/bestill.htm Soli Deo Gloria-Solus Christus-Sola

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

2002-05-09 Thread Brian Parish
On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 01:09, shane wrote: On Wednesday 08 May 2002 00:42, Miark opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Hey, (in-the-)Dark, if you are going to rely on the NRA for unbiased info on guns and the law in Australia, why not go all the way

Re: [newbie] VNC

2002-05-09 Thread Terry Smith
Thanks Shane. I think I understand the basics now. I thought about my particular problem a bit more. First I don't have room (with my current desk setup) for another monitor and keyboard. Basically the old windows/linux box sits in a server bay in my desk with the new linux server box. So I

Re: [newbie] file.PUB in LM8.1 ??

2002-05-09 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 09 May 2002 18:52:32 -0800 civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Read wrote: Does anyone know how to open/read a file with a .pub extension while using LM8.1 ?? I just received this file and need to work on it. but can't open it. TIA, Bob -- Bob Read

RE: [newbie] file.PUB in LM8.1 ??

2002-05-09 Thread Dawid Suski
A microsft Publisher file? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of civileme Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 10:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] file.PUB in LM8.1 ?? Bob Read wrote: Does anyone know how to open/read a file with

[newbie] Macintosh Networking (was vNC)

2002-05-09 Thread Terry Smith
Shane and I have been corresponding about VNC. I would like to network three computers - the linux 'server', a windows machine and a Macintosh. I plan to run Samba on the linux and windows boxes and share files/printers. I'm not sure how to proceed with the Mac. I've heard of a program called

Re: [newbie] Quake3 in Linux - hot damn!

2002-05-09 Thread Xaero
I'd be interested in just knowing how to install Quake3 under Mandrake 8.2. What do I need to download? Do I need the Quake for Linux CD or is my Quake for that other OS CD good enough? Maybe someone could point me in the direction of a web site detailing Quake3 / Linux installs? -- Glenn

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

2002-05-09 Thread civileme
Brian Parish wrote: OK - apologies for casting aspersions in my dark colleague's direction. My blood temperature tends to rise too fast for my brain to cope with sometimes. But what can I say - I'm Australian - we live to piss people off! ;-) I'll try to play nice from here on - but don't

Re: [newbie] Application launches from command line but not from menu - SOLVED

2002-05-09 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 06 May 2002 09:22 pm, you wrote: That fixed it; thanks! Ok, I give up where is the menu properties you are talking about, located? I would like to fix this problem also, but can't find a menu properties. TIA -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from

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

2002-05-09 Thread Brian Parish
On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 02:13, darklord wrote: On Wednesday 08 May 2002 02:25 am, you wrote: Hey, (in-the-)Dark, if you are going to rely on the NRA for unbiased info on guns and the law in Australia, why not go all the way and go read the Microsoft site for unbiased data on Windows. You

Re: [newbie] RPM's missing of Powerpacks?

2002-05-09 Thread Brian Parish
Agreed Charles! Let's put the are they really there or not? question to bed. If ls -R cd-mnt-point | grep package-name can't see them, they are not there. The question now is: What does Mandrake do about it? Whatever they decide is probably OK with me. I am most annoyed right now by the

[newbie] getting a pop server going

2002-05-09 Thread Brian Parish
I need to set up a simple mail system using fetchmail, procmail and pop. Fetchmail is fetching happily. I've installed imap. I can see pop on my list of services under Control Center, but it's an xinetd service. Where do I go to configure and start it? I'll keep reading, but if anyone can

Re: [newbie] getting a pop server going

2002-05-09 Thread Jay
The easiest mail server to set up (from my experience) is smtp(postfix)/imap using some type of webmail (squirrelmail.org) is nice and easy to install. Install ntsysv package from the 3rd mandrake cd or rpmfind.net and xinted. From the command line type ntsysv and from the menu select imap and

Re: [newbie] getting a pop server going

2002-05-09 Thread Jay
oh yeah, squirrelmail can replace fetchmail with a plugin from the squirrelmail website. -Jay Brian Parish said: I need to set up a simple mail system using fetchmail, procmail and pop. Fetchmail is fetching happily. I've installed imap. I can see pop on my list of services under Control

[newbie] Problems Installing commercial ver. 8.2

2002-05-09 Thread Greg Pettiford
Hi Folks, I'm having a problem installing 8.2, right out of the box with the first CD. I was running 8.0 on a pc, dual boot with WinMe, and was going to install 8.2. I get thru to where I choose the packages to install, and the graphics only show a partial list of packages, like it doesn't want