Re: [newbie-it] prova per compilare

2002-05-23 Thread Nicholas Wieland
Molto più facile di quello che pensi. Dovrebbe esserci un readme o un INSTALL o cose simili, l'estensione è secondaria. Leggilo e segui le istruzioni :) Molto facilmente sarà qualcosa tipo ./configure make e da root make install e il gioco è fatto. Un buon inizio è la documentazione di make, una

Re: [newbie-it] prova per compilare

2002-05-23 Thread tom
Alle 13:30, lunedì 13 maggio 2002, hai scritto: Credo che su sourceforge.net e su freshmeat.net potrai trovare diversi pacchetti compressi utili sia a scopo didattico che da usare. Scompattali nella tua $HOME, magari in una subdirectory ad hoc e parti Salve a tutti Per motivi di studio e

Re: [newbie-it] Convertire file in pdf

2002-05-23 Thread ku68
Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Convertire file in pdf Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 14:41:54 +0200 From: ku68 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ciao miKe alle 19:46, martedì 21 maggio 2002, hai scritto: cut Ringrazio tutti delle risposte. In effetti non capivo perché in openoffice non comparisse la

Re: [newbie-it] HD che frulla!

2002-05-23 Thread Fabio Manunza
Alle 18:49, mercoledì 22 maggio 2002, hai scritto: Ho 256M di RAM e una partizione di swap di 500M che praticamente non viene mai usata (come si vede anche dall'immagine allegata al precedente msg). Lo pensavo anch'io, poi ho dato un'occhiata a top e mi sono dovuto ricredere.. --

[newbie-it] Supporto ACPI

2002-05-23 Thread IVO SPADONE
Ho installato usando come utente root Configurazione Kernel Linux il supporto ACPI (disattivando ovviamente APM). I moduli selezionati sono: Power Management Support ACPI Support ACPI Debug Statements ACPI Bus Manager System Processor Button AC Adapter Embedded Controller Control Method Battery

Re: [newbie-it] Supporto ACPI

2002-05-23 Thread LukenShiro
Il 23.05.02 alle 08:09, il notabile IVO SPADONE proferi' codeste parole: Ho installato usando come utente root Configurazione Kernel Linux il supporto ACPI (disattivando ovviamente APM). [..] Dopo aver premuto Applica ho eseguito da terminale (sempre come utente root) il comando make ... (mi

Re: [newbie-it] mandrake win9x

2002-05-23 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 23:52, martedì 21 maggio 2002, in merito a [newbie-it] mandrake win9x, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Vorrei condividere la connessione... ..tra un portatile con Mandrake 8.2 e un desktop con win XP Pro... devi solo configurare il portatile

Re: [newbie-it] Supporto ACPI

2002-05-23 Thread IVO SPADONE
Fatta come operazione, non da drakxservices perché sembra non esserci; ho usato LinuxConf, ho settato acpid in modo che si avvi automaticamente, spento il portatile e riavviato... non funge, in fase di start-up fra le tante graziose scritte OK in verde compare un not found relativo ad una

[newbie-it] Mandrake 8.2 e KDE 3

2002-05-23 Thread e/io
Ho alcuni problemi con KDE 3 installato su Mandrake 8.2 Applet- Con Mozilla vanno perfettamente, con Konqueror vanno poche volte e sono lentissime. Plugin- Con Mozilla funzionano con Konqueror no. Antialiasing- Con Mozilla non funziona Wizard di configurazione continua sempre ad apparire.

Re: [newbie-it] Supporto ACPI

2002-05-23 Thread LukenShiro
Il 23.05.02 alle 09:54, il notabile IVO SPADONE proferi' codeste parole: Fatta come operazione, non da drakxservices perché sembra non esserci; Perche' ci sia devi aver installato il pacchetto drakxtools-newt I messaggi, tanto per facilitare le cose, scorrono tanto velocemente da non

Re: [newbie-it] mandrake win9x

2002-05-23 Thread LukenShiro
Il 21.05.02 alle 23:52, il notabile [EMAIL PROTECTED] proferi' codeste parole: Vorrei condividere la connessione(cioè navigare contemporaneamente su internet)tra un portatile con Mandrake 8.2 e un desktop con win XP Pro-il primo dovrebbe fare da client e il secondo da server. Dato che il pc

Re: [newbie-it] 8.2 e xine e dvd del commercio

2002-05-23 Thread paolo brusasco
beh in effetti non c'e'un'entrata in fstab(attached) per /dev/dvd però se chiedo mount /dev/hdb e dopo lancio xine quando pigio il bottone dvd e poi play mi dice il solito there is no aval plugin to play //video_ts.vob la console da cui ho lanciato xine dice input_dvd: sorry, xine doesn't play

Re: [newbie-it] Ancora su xine

2002-05-23 Thread paolo brusasco
ho visitato il sito grazie questo potrebbe anche non essere il posto giusto per chiedere questo.. però quando clicco il link alle librerie da scaricare ne esce una valanga non ho capito se devo scaricare solo libdvdcssetc o qualche altra libreria poi quando installo libdvdcss mi dice

Re: [newbie-it] Map-Installer

2002-05-23 Thread Giuseppe Ferruzzi
LukenShiro wrote: [...] Ho bisogno di una conferma per una teoria che avrei: da root avvia fdisk /dev/hdb, poi dai p per visualizzare la tabella delle partizioni. Controlla in corrispondenza di /dev/hdb2: c'e' scritto (tra l'altro) 'nascosto' o 'hidden' ? Se e' cosi', e' uno scherzetto che

Re: [newbie-it] Map-Installer

2002-05-23 Thread LukenShiro
Il 23.05.02 alle 23:32, il notabile Giuseppe Ferruzzi proferi' codeste parole: questo comportamento anomalo centra con il fatto che hdb1 è formattato con NTFS e che l'hard disk per la FAT32 è da 60GB ? Hmm, no, nel primo caso perche' non avrebbe senso, nel secondo perche' nell'ipotesi piu'

[newbie-it] Problemi (grossi) con X

2002-05-23 Thread pdv
Salve a tutta la ML, sono un seguace della lista da parecchio tempo e la trovo utile per un bel po' di cosette ma stavolta proprio non so dove sbattere la testa. Ho una motherboard Abit Bp6 2 celeron 450Mhz con 512 Mb di RAM sulla quale ho montato una Radeon 7500 (lo ammetto non è una ATI ma un

Re: [newbie] Modem Installation Help

2002-05-23 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 09:58 pm, you wrote: I just got a copy of mandrake 8.2 and it says my modem is a winmodem (PCTel HSP56 Micromodem) and will not install it. I have the linux driver for my modem but I don't know how to install it. I'm very new to linux cans omeone please help me out?

Re: [newbie] Modem Installation Help

2002-05-23 Thread Joseph Braddock
Go to www.linmodems.org Then go to Jan's PCTEL Resource link (www.medres.ch/~jstifter/pctel) From Jan's site, download the pctel-0.9.2.tar.gz (I actually am using the pctel-0.8.6.tar.gz and the directions I gave are for it, but the newer version should be similar). Since it is a tar.gz file,

Re: [newbie] KDE loses sound...

2002-05-23 Thread Damian G
On Wed, 22 May 2002 12:07:00 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 21 May 2002 04:04, you wrote: Anyone else notice that from the Control Center - Look n Feel - System notifications, that if you preview an AU sound file that it not only doesn't play, but you lose

Re: [newbie] Flash plugin in Konq again

2002-05-23 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 23 May 2002 13:09, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Wednesday 22 May 2002 06:47 pm, you wrote: On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 17:25, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Brian: According to my notes, it's nspluginscan, not nsplugin. Then you'll have to close and reopen KDE. If all has gone well, the

[newbie] Ogle Problems

2002-05-23 Thread bkoppe
Hey, I'm helping a friend with his Linux installation and he's trying to get Ogle set upand running into some issues. I'm not sure what his errors mean so I've includedthem below in case any of you has any insight. Thanks! [paul@st04_057 paul]$ ogle Note[ogle_ctrl]: ogle 0.8.2

Re: [newbie] java runtime environment

2002-05-23 Thread Raffaele Belardi
That is strange, I am using currently using mozilla 0.99 with JRE 1.4 without problems. Did you link the correct files (i.e. those under jdk1.x.x\jre\plugin, if memory serves)? From mozilla, if you click on help-about plugins, do the plugins appear correctly instaled? raffaele [EMAIL

[newbie] att cable

2002-05-23 Thread jbarron201
I,m new to linux and have been trying to connect ATTBI without much luck internet shows UP the IP address isright got it off my MS windows system ,gateway not sure about the host we don,t have one in MS but do have service name but have tryed everthing and no connection,if you call ATT they

Re: OT: signatures WAS: [newbie] DivX Player - Solution found

2002-05-23 Thread Damian G
On Thu, 23 May 2002 01:48:10 -0400 David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Damian G said onto me: -- snip | |this 'resistance' that a given material offers when you try to make an electric current |run thru it depends on the

[newbie] audio program.

2002-05-23 Thread chuck
Can anyone point me to an audio looping program like acid for windows? TIA -Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] DivX Player - Solution found

2002-05-23 Thread John Richard Smith
On Monday 20 May 2002 21:42, you wrote: Sorry for all the e-mails guys, but I found the solution to the segfaults. remove the ~/.divxPlayer/DivXPlayer.dbf file restart divxPlayer right click on the screen, and go to options. click on the general tab and uncheck Check for new and

Re: [newbie] Modem Installation Help

2002-05-23 Thread Xecut1on
I finally got it installed. Thanks so much for your guys help i appriciate it alot. Derek

Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files

2002-05-23 Thread Brian Parish
On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 11:44, Dick Mazierski wrote: What I can't understand is, with all the complaints about Star Office 6.0, why Sun Microsystems or Mandrake have not stepped in and offered a solution to the problem. This attitude will be the downfall of Linux!!! I can only agree Dick.

Re: [newbie] audio program.

2002-05-23 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On 22 May 2002 23:08:52 -0600 chuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone point me to an audio looping program like acid for windows? TIA -Chuck Well, I can't :( But this link should be interesting: http://sound.condorow.net/ . The Linux Audio Users mailing list (link at the bottom of the

Re: [newbie] Ogle Problems

2002-05-23 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 02:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, I'm helping a friend with his Linux installation and he's trying to get Ogle set upand running into some issues. I'm not sure what his errors mean so I've includedthem below in case any of you has any insight. Thanks!

Re: [newbie] Flash plugin in Konq again

2002-05-23 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Brian: Open Konqueror. Select Settings and then Configure Konqueror. There should be a Netscape Plugins icon in the left hand column. Open it; there will be a sheet with two tabs. On the Scan tab, click Scan for Nsplugins. Then, under the Plugin tab, there will be a list -- mine shows that the

[newbie] My mouse is pointing to the wrong place.

2002-05-23 Thread Ricardo Marques
Hi, I'm having a very strange problem. This problem is occurring in all my computers. I turn on my machine and after a while the focus of pointer is shifted to right. When I want to click in a button, I have to look for a position (move to right side) to click. Sometimes I have to click outside

Re: [newbie] Flash plugin in Konq again

2002-05-23 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Thursday 23 May 2002 09:46 am, you wrote: On Thursday 23 May 2002 09:11 am, Brian Parish wrote: Hmmm. OK I ran nspluginscan - tried it both as root and as me. Excuse me, where did you find nspluginscan? Gerald: It's in /usr/bin. Or it will be after you install

Re: [newbie] java runtime environment

2002-05-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 23 May 2002 08:51 am, Michael Kovary wrote: Would I have to pay to join mandrake club? If so, is there anywhere else I can get it? Or maybe you can upload it to server for downloading if that's possible. Well, it's not real possible. First there's good reason that Mandrake

RE: [newbie] java runtime environment

2002-05-23 Thread Franki
you can also download the JRE as a bin file, (self executable bzip file) from the java.sun.com site.. I just did it myself.. regards Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Brinkman Sent: Thursday, 23 May 2002 11:33 PM To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] java runtime environment

2002-05-23 Thread Bill Davidson
On Thu, 23 May 2002 07:51:42 -0600 Michael Kovary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would I have to pay to join mandrake club? If so, is there anywhere else I can get it? Or maybe you can upload it to server for downloading if that's possible. Go here: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/download.html

Re: [newbie] Ogle Problems

2002-05-23 Thread Miark
Do you have a sym link for /dev/dvd ? Ogle normally looks for that. You can specify a different path if you don't, though. (I've never had to point ogle to any specific file.) Miark On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 02:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, I'm helping a friend with his Linux

Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files

2002-05-23 Thread Miark
Tom, KOrganizer tells me that today is Corpus Christi day. You didn't sneak into my computer and put it there, did you?! ;-) Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] A Qestion of Memory

2002-05-23 Thread Miark
Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: As an aside, a spreadsheet is not usually the best choice for dealing with really large amounts of data -- you may want to begin to think about a migration to a database, like MySQL, Postgres, Access, Microsoft SQL, or whatever. You seem to forget,

Re: [newbie] java runtime environment

2002-05-23 Thread Charlie
May 23, 2002 07:53 am,Michael Kovary wrote: They appear installed when I have the files copied to the plugins folder, but not with links. ~~ You may want to read the last part of this link:

[newbie] Postfix POP

2002-05-23 Thread Tuan tran
I'm trying to setup my own mail server by using Postfix and have few questions need to ask. 1. By using Postfix I can send and receive email via my mail server machine, isn't it? 2. I have setup a MX record (my_mailhost.mydomain.com) at the place which I choose to pack my domain name; do I

[newbie] Kernel 2.4.0 help.

2002-05-23 Thread Xecut1on
I'm having some trouble. Does mandrake 8.2 come with the 2.4.0 kernel? If so where should I look for it and how do I install it? Thanks

Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.4.0 help.

2002-05-23 Thread shane
On Thursday 23 May 2002 10:50 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: I'm having some trouble. Does mandrake 8.2 come with the 2.4.0 kernel? If so where should I look for it and how do I install it? well mine came with 2.4.18-6mdk, but i

Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.4.0 help.

2002-05-23 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Thursday 23 May 2002 01:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having some trouble. Does mandrake 8.2 come with the 2.4.0 kernel? If so where should I look for it and how do I install it? In a shell enter $ uname -r this will print out the kernal version -- Gerald Waugh

[newbie] OT: News article, Washington Post...

2002-05-23 Thread Charlie
Microsoft must be utterly terrified. At least it reads that way from their published reaction to this and other articles. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html Or are they just as dumb as they often appear? People are starting to learn what FUD means through

Re: [newbie] Postfix POP

2002-05-23 Thread Miark
Tuan tran [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: 1. By using Postfix I can send and receive email via my mail server machine, isn't it? Yes. 2. I have setup a MX record (my_mailhost.mydomain.com) at the place which I choose to pack my domain name; do I need to write any line at main.cf file? Yes. Go

Re: [newbie] OT: News article, Washington Post...

2002-05-23 Thread shane
On Thursday 23 May 2002 11:55 am, Charlie opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Or are they just as dumb as they often appear? People are starting to learn what FUD means through mainstream media sources now. This can't bode well for the future of

Re: [newbie] My mouse is pointing to the wrong place.

2002-05-23 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 23 May 2002 05:05 pm, Ricardo Marques wrote: Hi, I'm having a very strange problem. This problem is occurring in all my computers. I turn on my machine and after a while the focus of pointer is shifted to right. When I want to click in a button, I have to look for a position

Re: [newbie] kde3 taskbar wont work

2002-05-23 Thread poogle
On Thursday 23 May 2002 14:45 pm, Joseph Braddock wrote: I don't know if this will help, I found a similar problem although I am using 8.2 and kooka works with my scanner. I found that if I opened konsole from the toolbar and then with that konsole still open I tried to access other icons

[newbie] OT, was: My mouse is pointing to the wrong place.

2002-05-23 Thread shane
http://boycott.internerds.ca/other/microfinger.jpg :) On Thursday 23 May 2002 12:38 pm, Kaj Haulrich opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Ricardo Marques Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com BTW - I find that

Re: [newbie] Ogle Problems

2002-05-23 Thread civileme
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, I'm helping a friend with his Linux installation and he's trying to get Ogle set upand running into some issues. I'm not sure what his errors mean so I've includedthem below in case any of you has any insight. Thanks! [paul@st04_057 paul]$ ogle Note[ogle_ctrl]:

Re: [newbie] OT: News article, Washington Post...

2002-05-23 Thread Charlie
May 23, 2002 01:35 pm,shane wrote: i think we all look at recent events. in the last little while, MS has been found guilty of abuse of a monopoly, is in court again with taiwan, and the EU, and has been convicted of piracy. they lost their lindows suit, and their most secure OS ever has

Re: [newbie] OT: News article, Washington Post...

2002-05-23 Thread Miark
shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: it has been a rough year for MS. i feel bad. i might remove my anti-MS sig files... and i might start using XP too. if they hold a gun to my head. -- ...so Mr. Gates, in short, the reason I am not using your software is that I have upped my

Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.4.0 help.

2002-05-23 Thread civileme
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having some trouble. Does mandrake 8.2 come with the 2.4.0 kernel? If so where should I look for it and how do I install it? Thanks No it comes with 2.4.18 which finally offers a good virtual memory manager unlike its predecessors. It installs by default

[newbie] lan browsing /samba

2002-05-23 Thread LtCdData
Hi Ive set up Samba on here (MD8.2) on KDE to (2k) pc. Access from windo$e to Linux is fine, however getting lan browsing the other way is being a pain to get working, are there any good HowTo for the LISa ResLISa config. as all i seem to get is could not connect to host localhost cheerz

[newbie] Installing KDE 3.0.1 onto Mandrake 8.2

2002-05-23 Thread Stephen Kitchener
Hi, I have downloaded the new KDE3.0.1 and going on the instructions on Mankdrake's site for 8.2 written for KDE3.0.0 (as the instructions haven't been changed yet) I thought that I would upgrade by issuing the command urpmi * in the directory where I had all the downloade files. All looks

Re: [newbie] Installing KDE 3.0.1 onto Mandrake 8.2

2002-05-23 Thread Derek Jennings
Did you do the urpmi.addmedia command? Also note that version of 3.01 will REPLACE your KDE2.2.2 If you do not want to lose your old KDE then wait a few days and a new version will be posted that installs into /opt instead of /usr See www.pclinuxonline.com for a discussion on this. derek On

Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.4.0 help.

2002-05-23 Thread mycal62
civileme wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having some trouble. Does mandrake 8.2 come with the 2.4.0 kernel? If so where should I look for it and how do I install it? Thanks No it comes with 2.4.18 which finally offers a good virtual memory manager unlike its predecessors. It

Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.4.0 help.

2002-05-23 Thread Xecut1on
The modem driver im installing says i need 2.4.0 and it wont install with any other kernels or at least not 2.4.18-6mdk =\

Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.4.0 help.

2002-05-23 Thread Robin
On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 23:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The modem driver im installing says i need 2.4.0 and it wont install with any other kernels or at least not 2.4.18-6mdk =\ This is probably related to the problem I had with X freezing whenever I did something online. Install an earlier

Re: [newbie] Installing KDE 3.0.1 onto Mandrake 8.2

2002-05-23 Thread shane
On Thursday 23 May 2002 01:20 pm, Stephen Kitchener opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: I have downloaded the new KDE3.0.1 and going on the instructions on Mankdrake's site for 8.2 written for KDE3.0.0 (as the instructions haven't been changed yet) I

Re: [newbie] lan browsing /samba

2002-05-23 Thread shane
On Thursday 23 May 2002 01:22 pm, LtCdData opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Ive set up Samba on here (MD8.2) on KDE to (2k) pc. Access from windo$e to Linux is fine, however getting lan browsing the other way is being a pain to get working, are there

[newbie] MDK8.2: compile hello.cpp: cannot exec 'cpp0': No such...

2002-05-23 Thread Steven Boothe
Hello everyone: I seem to have a problem compiling a simple hello.cpp program: #include iostream.h int main() { cout Hello, world. endl; return 0; } The error I get is: [sboothe@poretz sboothe]$ gcc hello.cpp gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cpp0': No such file or directory

Re: [newbie] lan browsing /samba

2002-05-23 Thread LtCdData
On Thursday 23 May 2002 10:13 pm, you wrote: On Thursday 23 May 2002 01:22 pm, LtCdData opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Ive set up Samba on here (MD8.2) on KDE to (2k) pc. Access from windo$e to Linux is fine, however getting lan browsing the other

Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files

2002-05-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 09:21 pm, shane wrote: On Wednesday 22 May 2002 06:44 pm, Dick Mazierski opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: What I can't understand is, with all the complaints about Star Office 6.0, why Sun Microsystems or Mandrake have not

Re: [newbie] Installing KDE 3.0.1 onto Mandrake 8.2

2002-05-23 Thread Stephen Kitchener
On Thursday 23 May 2002 21:38, Derek Jennings wrote: Hi Derek, Thanks for the info - I wasn't aware that it replaced 2.2.2. Did you do the urpmi.addmedia command? no I didn't, but then I didn't when I installed the first KDE3 packages onto this machine. Also note that version of 3.01 will

Re: [newbie] Installing KDE 3.0.1 onto Mandrake 8.2

2002-05-23 Thread Stephen Kitchener
On Thursday 23 May 2002 22:12, shane wrote: On Thursday 23 May 2002 01:20 pm, Stephen Kitchener opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: I have downloaded the new KDE3.0.1 and going on the instructions on Mankdrake's site for 8.2 written for KDE3.0.0 (as

Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files

2002-05-23 Thread shane
On Thursday 23 May 2002 05:41 am, Tom Brinkman opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Or you can get a newer 8.2 version here http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/mandrake8.2/OpenOffice.org-1.0-3mdk.i 586.rpm while you're there, get the

Re: [newbie] OT: News article, Washington Post...

2002-05-23 Thread shane
On Thursday 23 May 2002 01:15 pm, Charlie opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: That has to be one of the funniest signature tags yet Shane. You are a total bad influence, incorrigible, irrepressible and relentless with your cheap shots at poor innocent

[newbie] assign alias ip

2002-05-23 Thread Norman Zhang
Hi, I can't seem to be able to add additional ip alias to my eth0. Would someone please give me the right command for it? I tried, ifconfig eth0 add x.x.x.x netmask y.y.y.y but after /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart nothing happens. Regards, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Modem Installation Help

2002-05-23 Thread Warren Post
See the PCTel HSP howto at: http://www.medres.ch/~jstifter/linux/pctel.html The process is a little involved, but take it step by step and you'll be fine. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copan, Honduras http://www.srcopan.vze.com/ On Wed, 22 May 2002 21:58:07 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

Re: [newbie] Modem Installation Help

2002-05-23 Thread Joseph Braddock
running ./configure will create/edit the makefile for you. You could use vi to edit the makefile, but you probably want to read up on it first, because it's not very intuitive (although very good once you get used to it). On Wed, 22 May 2002 23:33:28 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its in .c

[newbie] DHCP, DNS, Dialing out

2002-05-23 Thread F. McKenna
Hi All, Sorry for the somewhat long post. I have recently installed 8.1 on an AMD K6 2 450 w/256 MB RAM and an Eight GB HDD The BIOS actaully shows the CPU as a K6 3D 400. I believe that I have set the jumpers on the board correctly so I don't really understand this. Anyway, I want to set

Re: [newbie] kde3 taskbar wont work

2002-05-23 Thread Joseph Braddock
That would be correct, the problem is some conflict between KDE 2.2.2 and KDE 3.0. I don't recall the specifics, but deleting the konsole icon and recreating will fix it. If you don't have 2.2.2 installed, then you won't have the problem. Check Mandrake's web site for more info. Joe I

Re: [newbie] OT: News article, Washington Post...

2002-05-23 Thread FemmeFatale
shane wrote: On Thursday 23 May 2002 11:55 am, Charlie opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Or are they just as dumb as they often appear? People are starting to learn what FUD means through mainstream media sources now. This can't bode well for the

[newbie] Fussy Panel...

2002-05-23 Thread Brian Koppe
I'm trying to set my panel up with a background image, but for some reason the background doesn't show up and instead I can't get the color to go away. It is the same color setting I have for push buttons, but for some reason I can't get it to be the color for puch buttons and not the panel.

Re: [newbie] java runtime environment

2002-05-23 Thread Michael Kovary
Sure, I didn't mean to upload if it WAS something I'd have to pay for noramally. I'll consider joining if it's worth it. - Original Message - From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 9:32 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] java runtime environment

Re: [newbie] Postfix POP

2002-05-23 Thread Jay
I have IMAP and Postfix running for my webmail. Works like a charm... There are many webmail clients out there. I recommend squirrelmail (squirrelmail.org)... it it full of functionality (filters, calendar, weather, etc) ...dozens of plugins, and is easy to install. Of course you will have

Re: [newbie] A Qestion of Memory

2002-05-23 Thread Jay
I would refrain from Microsoft SQL (http://slashdot.org/articles/02/05/22/1312211.shtml?tid=109) or any Microsoft products for that matter (http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D26875,00.asp) A senior Microsoft Corp. executive told a federal court last week that sharing

Re: [newbie] Modem Installation Help

2002-05-23 Thread Xecut1on
i got the modem driver pctel-0.9.2 and i followed the steps but after i type make it says to give a hal so i gave it i810 and then it goes on and stops at "linux kernel:too many arguments" and then says i must install kernel version 2.4.0 so i downloaded 2.4.0 and its like 23.3mb and i cant fit it

Re: [newbie] java runtime environment

2002-05-23 Thread shane
On Thursday 23 May 2002 05:09 pm, Michael Kovary opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Sure, I didn't mean to upload if it WAS something I'd have to pay for noramally. I'll consider joining if it's worth it. well it is worth it in my opinion, but in my

Re: [newbie] Konqueror rolling up its windows?

2002-05-23 Thread David Reynolds
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 12:59 pm, shane proclaimed: the title bar. Fiddling with their sizes did nothing but aggrevate the problem, and now the Toolbar has completely disappeared and the Address bar is only 3/5 visible so I can barely see what site I am at. I am told by a friend that

Re: [newbie] Flash plugin in Konq again

2002-05-23 Thread Brian Parish
Sorry to have appeared dim here, but after another careful look I think maybe it's not me - something is screwy. I have visited the path you describe before (also available from the KDE config menu). After clicking on the Scan for nsplugins button I see under the plugins tab: Mozilla's real

[newbie] Installing 7.2 (!) - X window system does not load

2002-05-23 Thread Mike Ewer
It took us a year to get around to it (partially due to not having a 2nd machine to put it on) but we installed Mandrake 7.2 today. We bought it last year and just sat on it until now ;o) We put it on a box that really has no other uses in life - a 100mhz Pentium with a recently upgraded 64MB

Re: [newbie] OT: News article, Washington Post...

2002-05-23 Thread FemmeFatale
Charlie wrote: Microsoft must be utterly terrified. At least it reads that way from their published reaction to this and other articles. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60050-2002May22.html Or are they just as dumb as they often appear? People are starting to learn what

Re: [newbie] My mouse is pointing to the wrong place.

2002-05-23 Thread Brian Parish
On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 05:38, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 23 May 2002 05:05 pm, Ricardo Marques wrote: Hi, I'm having a very strange problem. This problem is occurring in all my computers. I turn on my machine and after a while the focus of pointer is shifted to right. When I want to

Re: [newbie] OT, for those using/wanting to use my ftp

2002-05-23 Thread FemmeFatale
with luck over the next few days I will be putting up a PPP/DSL/Internet guide on how to install configure internet access. I see a lot of posts on this, and hope I may be able to alleviate some problems...I know I found How-tos MAN pages difficult to understand. I hope the information I will

Re: [newbie] Postfix POP

2002-05-23 Thread Tuan tran
Thanks all for the input. My next question is how can I test port 25. I can use Telnet from other computer to check port 110 but can't check port25. how can I check to make sure port25 on my computer server (linux) is working? Thanks Tuan --- Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tuan tran

Re: [newbie] Installing 7.2 (!) - X window system does not load

2002-05-23 Thread Mike Ewer
Thanks to everyone for the ideas so far. We're trying the 8.2 download now, not sure if IE6's FTP is downloading this thing in binary format, at 2hrs+ it had better be! Tried the XFdrake, messed with the settings a bit and that did not work. Was not aware of the 640x480 problem, I am going to

Re: [newbie] Installing 7.2 (!) - X window system does not load

2002-05-23 Thread Damian G
The only obvious one I have thought of is the video card being on the fritz, but it displayed the installation GUI ok, and displays the bootup sequence in GUI format with no problems. Anyone got any ideas? .me. how was the installation? was your installation process GUI? if so, did

Re: [newbie] Postfix POP

2002-05-23 Thread FemmeFatale
Tuan tran wrote: Thanks all for the input. My next question is how can I test port 25. I can use Telnet from other computer to check port 110 but can't check port25. how can I check to make sure port25 on my computer server (linux) is working? Thanks Tuan --- Miark [EMAIL

[newbie] Console Emulators

2002-05-23 Thread Chris Ames
Is there any way I can find gaming console emulators for Linux? I found a couple for Game Boy on Tucows.com but I don't have any ROMs for it. I have some for NES, SNES, and Genesis. If anyone can tell me where I can find a console emulator for Linux, I'd be more than happy to share the few

Re: [newbie]OT for ftp users on my machine

2002-05-23 Thread Femme
For those using the ftp, it will be down for a few days I think. :( Someone has been trying to rootkit me/hackme for the last 3 days now. *sigh* It knocks me offline if it continues I can't keep the ftp up. Sorry but for now, until this is resolved or I find its my ISP, i will have to leave

Re: [newbie] OT: National security and M$

2002-05-23 Thread Brian Koppe
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: snip Ummm, Miark, in august 1999, cryptonym corporation was examining a Service pack release of NT4 from which microsoft had inadvertantly forgotten to strip the data tags. Civileme snip Since the NSA is able to spy on citizens by virtue of the NSA backdoor so

Re: Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files

2002-05-23 Thread Brian Parish
As there seem to be a lot of people interested in this issue and there has been another thread running on expert which is relevant, here is the info posted there. I have tried it this way and it seems to work! Sorry for the duplication for those who lurk on both lists. HTH Brian 1. Uninstall