[newbie-it] font ttf e kde 2.2.2

2002-05-29 Thread Biss
Su un K7 con mdk 8.2 ho provato, essendo orfano di drakfont, a installare manualmente dei font ttf. Il risultato è che kde li vede solo da root. Da utente sono visti dai vari programmi indipendenti da kde. Per installarli ho fatto così: ho copiato i font nella cartella già esistente

[newbie-it] emacs ed ispell...

2002-05-29 Thread Emiliano La Licata
Questa volta prima di ricorrere alla lista ho letto il tutorial di emacs ed un file html sul suo funzionamento :-). Tra un po' mi arriverà un intero libro su emacs (programma mostrusamente bello, da fare impallidire ogni altra cosa che gira su altri sistemi) ma di preciso non so quando... Ma

[newbie-it] vmware e kernel mandrake

2002-05-29 Thread Beppe
buon giorno oh gloriosa mailinglist! ho deciso di installare il virtual machine ware (vmware) ma ho un problema col kernel: sia il programma di configurazione che il manuale scaricato dal loro sito si vantano delle capacità del programma nel fare tutto in automatico... beh, come al solito non

Re: [newbie-it] vmware e kernel mandrake

2002-05-29 Thread Stefano Salari
--- Beppe [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: buon giorno oh gloriosa mailinglist! ho deciso di installare il virtual machine ware (vmware) ma ho un problema col kernel: sia il programma di configurazione che il manuale scaricato dal loro sito si vantano delle capacità del programma nel fare

Re: [newbie-it] vmware e kernel mandrake

2002-05-29 Thread Marco Forti
[SNIP] What is the location of the directory of C header files that match you r running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] la directory che lui consiglia nemmeno esiste, in realtà quello che lu i vuole è in /usr/include immagino... No no, è un'altra cosa, la directory indicata

Re: [newbie-it] emacs ed ispell...

2002-05-29 Thread LukenShiro
Il 29.05.02 alle 13:27, il notabile Emiliano La Licata proferi' codeste parole: Nella scelta del dizionario di spell manca del tutto l'italiano, cè perfino il norvegese, e davvero non so come installare su emacs questa dizionario... Be' in teoria ti basterebbe installare il pacchetto ispell-it

Re: [newbie-it] lilo.conf

2002-05-29 Thread Giuseppe Ferruzzi
miKe wrote: Il 17:48, martedì 28 maggio 2002, in merito a [newbie-it] lilo.conf, Giuseppe Ferruzzi ha scritto: E' possibile visualizzare al boot di lilo nomi più dettagliati per ciascun sistema da avviare senza dover sottostare al limite delle label in lilo.config ? si basta cambiare

Re: [newbie-it] emacs ed ispell...

2002-05-29 Thread Emiliano La Licata
At 16.23 29/05/2002 +0200, you wrote: Il 29.05.02 alle 13:27, il notabile Emiliano La Licata proferi' codeste parole: Nella scelta del dizionario di spell manca del tutto l'italiano, cè perfino il norvegese, e davvero non so come installare su emacs questa dizionario... Be' in teoria ti

Re: [newbie-it] lilo.conf

2002-05-29 Thread freefred
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 10:47, Giuseppe Ferruzzi, talkin' about Re: [newbie-it] lilo.conf wrote: sistema al boot di lilo come per esempio Mandrake-Linux 8.2 che è sempre superiore a 15 caratteri e ha pure gli spazi ecc. Allora direi che quello sia il limite. Potresti usare gli underscore

[newbie-it] Cos che sfrutta tanta memoria (lunghetto)?

2002-05-29 Thread ku68
Ciao, ora faccio partire il memtest dall'avvio ma ci vorrà + di un'ora. Nel frattempo ho aperto da applicazioni - monitoraggio-informazioni sul sistema - informazioni dettagliate - informazioni sulla memoria ed ho notato che : total memory 255844 used memory 241340 free memory 14504 shared

Re: [newbie-it] emacs ed ispell...

2002-05-29 Thread freefred
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 11:44, Emiliano La Licata, talkin' about Re: [newbie-it] emacs ed ispell... wrote: Scusami tanto ma ho dimenticato di dirti la cosa più importante, ispell-it è gia installato, tanto è vero che da console posso fare tanquillamente ispell... il rompicapo è appunto

Re: [newbie-it] vmware e kernel mandrake

2002-05-29 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 14:26, mercoledì 29 maggio 2002, in merito a [newbie-it] vmware e kernel mandrake, Beppe ha scritto: What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] devi installare gli headers

Re: [newbie-it] emacs ed ispell...

2002-05-29 Thread LukenShiro
Il 29.05.02 alle 19:27, il notabile freefred proferi' codeste parole: comunque, da me la voce c'e', e posso selezionarla. ma quando provo a fare un check spell mi dice non trova /usr/lib/ispell/italian.hash e in effetti non c'e' ci sono solo quello inglese e quello americano. Se in

Re: [newbie-it] Cos che sfrutta tanta memoria (lunghetto)?

2002-05-29 Thread Ste
Ciao, penso che tu non ti debba preoccupare piu' di tanto.Io di memoria ne ho un po' i piu' e mi trovo comunque nella stessa situazione. Il fatto e che linux ( credo di ricordare ) usa il piu' possibile la ram libera per fare una specie di cache del filesystem. Vi copia dentro dei dati che

Re: [newbie-it] Cos che sfrutta tanta memoria(lunghetto)?

2002-05-29 Thread LukenShiro
Il 29.05.02 alle 19:21, il notabile ku68 proferi' codeste parole: ora faccio partire il memtest dall'avvio ma ci vorrà + di un'ora. Ti consiglio di lasciarlo andare per ben piu' di un'ora (consiglierei una notte intera e anche qualcosa di piu' ... e' meglio fargli fare tutti i test analizzando

Re: [newbie-it] emacs ed ispell...

2002-05-29 Thread freefred
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 14:10, LukenShiro, talkin' about Re: [newbie-it] emacs ed ispell... wrote: Se in /usr/lib/ispell/ non ci sono italian.hash e italian.aff vuol dire che il pacchetto 'ispell-it' non e' installato. vero. infatti ora funziona. a questo punto, in effetti, non ne so

[newbie-it] Fwd: [linux] --- MODEM HCF ROCKWELL/CONEXANT FUNZIONANTE!!!

2002-05-29 Thread Fabio Manunza
Questo è per Arwan.. Forza e coraggio!! -- Messaggio inoltrato -- Subject: [linux] --- MODEM HCFROCKWELL/CONEXANTFUNZIONANTE!!! Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 17:31:09 +0200 From: Borm [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linuxc \(Mailing List\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finalmente è uscito un

Re: [newbie-it] Cos che sfrutta tanta memoria (lunghetto)?

2002-05-29 Thread Fabio Manunza
Alle 19:21, mercoledì 29 maggio 2002, hai scritto: Ciao, ora faccio partire il memtest dall'avvio ma ci vorrà + di un'ora. Nel frattempo ho aperto da applicazioni - monitoraggio-informazioni sul sistema - informazioni dettagliate - informazioni sulla memoria ed ho notato che : total memory

Re: [newbie-it] HD che frulla!

2002-05-29 Thread Giovanni Mazzamati
Alle 19:36, mercoledì 22 maggio 2002, Fabio Manunza ha scritto: 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

Re: [newbie-it] emacs ed ispell...

2002-05-29 Thread Emiliano La Licata
At 20.10 29/05/2002 +0200, you wrote: Il 29.05.02 alle 19:27, il notabile freefred proferi' codeste parole: comunque, da me la voce c'e', e posso selezionarla. ma quando provo a fare un check spell mi dice non trova /usr/lib/ispell/italian.hash e in effetti non c'e' ci sono solo

[newbie-it] PER ANDREA CELLI

2002-05-29 Thread Laura ^.*
CIAO IO VOLEVO CANCELLARMI USANDO L'INDIRIZZO DI SYMPAE INVECE SONO ANCORA QUI A RICEVERE..ORAMI NON SO PIù CHE FARE,L'HO FATTO DECINE DI VOLTE.NON RIESCO PIù A CAPIRE..MI SONO QUASI RASSEGNATA SOLO CHE SPESSO SONO VIA PER DEI GIORNI E HO UNA MAREA DI POSTA DA SCARICARE... SOB.CHE

Re: [newbie-it] emacs ed ispell...

2002-05-29 Thread LukenShiro
Il 29.05.02 alle 22:28, il notabile Emiliano La Licata proferi' codeste parole: bisognerebbe utilizzare change dictionary e poi scegliere italiano. Ho provato anche questo, solo che questa opzione riesce a selezionare i dizionari presenti nella lista di spell checking, e dunque mancando quello

Re: [newbie-it] HD che frulla!

2002-05-29 Thread LukenShiro
Il 29.05.02 alle 21:45, il notabile Giovanni Mazzamati proferi' codeste parole: Il colpevole è msec che è un link a securety.sh che a sua volta è configurato attraverso securety.conf [..] Secondo voi, quali sono i controlli che posso disabilitare, tenendo conto che uso questa macchina come

Re: [newbie-it] lilo.conf

2002-05-29 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 16:47, mercoledì 29 maggio 2002, in merito a Re: [newbie-it] lilo.conf, Giuseppe Ferruzzi ha scritto: E' possibile visualizzare al boot di lilo nomi più dettagliati per ciascun sistema da avviare senza dover sottostare al limite delle label

Re: [newbie] accesss shareing

2002-05-29 Thread Brian Parish
We have a slight misunderstanding here. I'll try to be clearer (wouldn't be difficult). 1. Write down on a piece on paper the IP address of the primary and secondary DNS servers provided by your cable operator. 2. Click on the console icon - if you are using KDE, that's the third icon from the

Re: [newbie] accesss shareing

2002-05-29 Thread James Thomas
I don't know about all cable providers but all I had to do was enter my computer's name that the cable company gave me and dhcpcd set the rest up for me - I didn't need to input nameservers or anything. James We have a slight misunderstanding here. I'll try to be clearer (wouldn't be

Re: [newbie] accesss shareing

2002-05-29 Thread Brian Parish
On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 16:56, James Thomas wrote: I don't know about all cable providers but all I had to do was enter my computer's name that the cable company gave me and dhcpcd set the rest up for me - I didn't need to input nameservers or anything. James Yes, but presumably you

Re: [newbie] Possibly OT? MDK Partitioning

2002-05-29 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 29 May 2002 13:58, FemmeFatale wrote: I've run 8.0, 8.1 now 8.2. Always I've accepted the default install partitions of root (/), swap home. the one time I tried on 8.0 to make a boot, root, swap, var other partitions, the boot partition was blank. As a result the root

RE: Re: [newbie] Bad floppy filecopy under KDE?

2002-05-29 Thread falcaraz
Also if you use krusader or nautilus you can do it without problems. Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) - Mensaje Original - Remitente: H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Martes, Mayo 28, 2002 11:36 pm Asunto: Re: [newbie] Bad floppy filecopy under KDE? On Tuesday 28 May 2002 23:02,

[newbie] Sound Mixer

2002-05-29 Thread Spyros Spyropoulos
Hi, The actual problem is this: Allthough The soundcard is configured correctly, there seems to be no sound mixer. When I try to play MP3's I get en error warning me to check if my soudcard is configured correctly (which is) or that my kernel might not have sound playback capabilities (??).

Re: [newbie] Digest version of Newbie available

2002-05-29 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 29 May 2002 14:33, dfox wrote: First question: I have a 6 gig disk internal and it is already partitioned. Can I just clean one of those partitions and install linux on it so it is not necessary to blow away the whole disk and all my wonderful contents? Should be able to do

[newbie] OT Journaling, gotta love it

2002-05-29 Thread Michael Adams
Had a power cut last night. I had bluefish, kwrite, Mozilla, and a terminal all open. The power went came back up for two seconds then died again. I switched the switch at the wall and chewed my nails until the power came back up an hour later. Mandrake started as if i had asked for a restart.

Re: [newbie] Video again

2002-05-29 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 28 May 2002 23:07, Nicolas VERITE wrote: Robin Turner wrote: On Tuesday 28 May 2002 02:37, Nicolas VERITE wrote: USB is for photos and the MPEG low quality videos, FireWire (or iLink) is made for DV video. Ah, all is now clear! So I can, in theory, get my camcorder to

Re: [newbie] accesss shareing

2002-05-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 4:13 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was trying to share my cable connection in win2000 sstem(which turns out I lost my help files acouple of week,s ago) with mandrake 8.2.I installed to 2 card in the 2000 system went thur the auto shareing dos promting the system I

Re: [newbie] Java install error

2002-05-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 3:30 am, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings to all I have tried to install j2re 1.4.0 from Sun on my 8.2 system. I got the j2re-1_4_0- linux-i386.rpm.bin and ran the install script giving me, j2re-1_4_0-fcs-linux- i386.rpm. I then ran the rpm command, rpm -iv

Re: [newbie] Possibly OT? MDK Partitioning

2002-05-29 Thread Mark Van Bruggen
On 29/05/2002, The following message was beamed across the Internet: Michael Adams wrote: On Wed, 29 May 2002 13:58, FemmeFatale wrote: I've run 8.0, 8.1 now 8.2. Always I've accepted the default install partitions of root (/), swap home. the one time I tried on 8.0 to make

Re: [newbie] Possibly OT? MDK Partitioning

2002-05-29 Thread John Richard Smith
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 09:52, you wrote: Michael Adams wrote: On Wed, 29 May 2002 13:58, FemmeFatale wrote: I've run 8.0, 8.1 now 8.2. Always I've accepted the default install partitions of root (/), swap home. the one time I tried on 8.0 to make a boot, root, swap, var

[newbie] OS BACKUPS

2002-05-29 Thread John Richard Smith
I have never managed to get to grips with the linux method of OS backups. It goes without saying they are big files, with the need to create compressed multi CD writes. So how do you backup Linux OS's , write them to CD, and restore. The only utility I know of is dump , it's command line,

Re: [newbie] OS BACKUPS

2002-05-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 1:18 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I have never managed to get to grips with the linux method of OS backups. It goes without saying they are big files, with the need to create compressed multi CD writes. So how do you backup Linux OS's , write them to CD, and

Re: [newbie] accesss shareing

2002-05-29 Thread jbarron201
I have the name but my cable company ATT was awful about the ideal don,t want it done for some reason - Original Message - From: Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 12:47 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] accesss shareing On Wed, 2002-05-29

Re: [newbie] Bad floppy filecopy under KDE?

2002-05-29 Thread darklord
On Tuesday 28 May 2002 05:36 pm, you wrote: I had the same experience but kept quiet as apparrantly , me and floppies don't mix well:o( :-) Anyhow, disabling automount for the floppy-device resolved all that. Had to do that by manually by editing /etc/fstab/ and rebooting cause even as

Re: [newbie] Bad floppy filecopy under KDE?

2002-05-29 Thread darklord
On Tuesday 28 May 2002 10:10 pm, you wrote: Yes there is. IT was on expert list it relates to copying froma Konqueror window to a floppy. It will hardlock the system tight :) Hmph. Seems like just another good reason to initiate a: supermount -i disable ;-) Thanks, Femme. --

Re: [newbie] accesss shareing

2002-05-29 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Wed, 29 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the name but my cable company ATT was awful about the ideal don,t want it done for some reason j, what you may want to do is setup the connection sharing and then be sure when you setup your firewall that you enable NAT so that all the

[newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock

2002-05-29 Thread Marc
This may be a bit off topic but most likley of intrist to a few folks here. The other day I pulled the last of the money that I had in the stock market out. Lucky for me that everything else I had in the market I had pulled out several years ago before the whole market went way down. I

Re: [newbie] OT Journaling, gotta love it

2002-05-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 03:22 am, Michael Adams wrote: Had a power cut last night. I had bluefish, kwrite, Mozilla, and a terminal all open. The power went came back up for two seconds then died again. I switched the switch at the wall and chewed my nails until the power came back up an hour

Re: [newbie] accesss shareing

2002-05-29 Thread shane
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 07:16 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: I have the name but my cable company ATT was awful about the ideal don,t want it done for some reason yeah they think you buy a connection for a machine, not a

Re: [newbie] OT Journaling, gotta love it

2002-05-29 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 29 May 2002 03:22 am, Michael Adams wrote: Had a power cut last night. I had bluefish, kwrite, Mozilla, and a terminal all open. The power went came back up for two seconds then died again. I switched the switch at the wall and chewed

RE: [newbie] g++ problems

2002-05-29 Thread MELEAN Yasmin
Thanks a lot for your help. I did again the gcc installation and know it works. I have long time working with linux, but now I'm the manager. In other words, I'm a beginner :) Yas -Message d'origine- De : Len Lawrence [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoyé : mardi 28 mai 2002 00:34 À :

[newbie] OT: you privacy nuts

2002-05-29 Thread shane
i know there are a few of you out there. some of you have said so (but won't admit it!) if only we could read your crypto. anyway, http://www.theregus.com/content/6/25083.html -- warning: this sig file has been found to be un-PC by the list nazis. it may contain ideas that are hazardous to

Re: [newbie] accesss shareing

2002-05-29 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Wed, 29 May 2002, shane wrote: On Wednesday 29 May 2002 07:16 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: I have the name but my cable company ATT was awful about the ideal don,t want it done for some reason yeah they think you

Re: [newbie] OT Journaling, gotta love it

2002-05-29 Thread Lee
How long is a rope? I have 4 boxes on one ups. 1200 watt supply Just the boxes. No monitors or anything else. I'm probably pushing my luck, though. We have many small outages this time of year and I haven't run out of volts yet. Lee On Wednesday 29 May 2002 10:17 am, daRcmaTTeR wrote:

Re: [newbie] OT Journaling, gotta love it

2002-05-29 Thread Randy Kramer
Just to provide another datapoint: I run three (older) boxes on one UPS rated at 300 VA, 180 Watts. The power supplies total 750 watts (IINM (If I'm Not Mistaken) -- 2 200s and 1 350)). 2 cpus are ~300 MHz, 3rd is 700 MHz, all AMD. I also am looking for protection from short outages (2-60

Re: [newbie] OS BACKUPS

2002-05-29 Thread John Richard Smith
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 12:48, you wrote: So how do you backup Linux OS's , write them to CD, and restore. Two solutions for you , John 1/ Mondo http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ It is on your CD's but I think the latest version is better. It will comoress and copy your image to

RE: [newbie] SNF 7.2 problems.

2002-05-29 Thread Chris Lynch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have looked at Smoothwall, but I am looking for a good custom firewall that has IDS, reporting, and preferably a Web interface, as I am not a Linux guru by an means. Has anyone heard of Wolverine? I found this one while searching for other

RE: [newbie] SNF 7.2 problems.

2002-05-29 Thread Chris Lynch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I agree with you on the name of the product. But, why include routed or gated if you don't intend the product to be used in a network that I have designed? The firewall just sits before my private edge router, and is the last hop before the

Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock

2002-05-29 Thread Dave Conroy
Hi Marc, Wednesday, May 29, 2002, 1:45:41 PM, you wrote: M It seemed to me that they have little to choose from but Linux and M Mac but mac machines seem overpriced and not very avalable. That M leaves very little in the way of options except linux. Consider how you're doing the analysis of

Re: [newbie] SNF 7.2 problems.

2002-05-29 Thread Dan LaBine
Try out the following. At worst, you'll need to do a search at http://www.google.com/linux to find them. SME server at www.e-smith.org http://www.astaro.org/cgi/ultimatebb.cgi http://www.ipcop.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/IPCop/WebHome Those out to do. Lanman - Original Message - From:

Re: [newbie] OS BACKUPS

2002-05-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 4:44 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: On Wednesday 29 May 2002 12:48, you wrote: So how do you backup Linux OS's , write them to CD, and restore. Two solutions for you , John 1/ Mondo http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ It is on your CD's but I think the latest

Re: [newbie] OT Journaling, gotta love it

2002-05-29 Thread et
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 10:51 am, you wrote: How long is a rope? snip roflmao,,, I was gonna offer a 35Kw standby gen as my secondary UPS, and I am sure an entire automobile dealership and a cargo airline can stay up for a reallly long time Hi Tom, Just out of curiosity, how many

Re: [newbie] Samba - Half there?

2002-05-29 Thread Anne Wilson
Sorry that I sent this to your address, instead of the list - I forgot to change the 'Reply to' address. Derek, I have been thinking hard and reading all I can, and I wonder if the problems are a lot deeper rooted. For instance: What I'm trying to achieve is that the filesharing and ICS

Re: [newbie] OT Journaling, gotta love it

2002-05-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 09:17 am, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Wed, 29 May 2002, Tom Brinkman wrote: Which file system? Anyhow, you really should have your system on an UPS if power outages are any more than a very rare occurrence. An UPS will also keep power steady and protect your

[newbie] HOw to make Mandrake 8.1 broadcast XDMCP protocol

2002-05-29 Thread Michael . Hughes
I would like my Mandrake box to broadcast the XDMCP Protocol, but I cannot seem to figure out how to make it do this. Can anyone provide me with a way to do this. Thanks MIke Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] XFS vs. ReiserFS (OT resurrected)

2002-05-29 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Tom Brinkman wrote: FWIW, since I asked, after 3 experiences with XFS, I'm back to good 'ol tried'n true ReiserFS for all my Linux partitions. Sort'a way OT, I got a 350W inverter for $47 from Wally World a few months ago. It'll run a 19 TV for 5 to 6 hours off

Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock

2002-05-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 11:13 am, Dave Conroy wrote: Mandrake may save me £500 short term, but the projected on going support and staff training costs would be too much for most small to mid sized enterprises. People don't know Linux. Windows is expensive up front, but has lowish support

Re: [newbie] Samba - Half there?

2002-05-29 Thread Derek Jennings
What I'm trying to achieve is that the filesharing and ICS should be transparent to the kids - they shouldn't need to know which OS I'm running. Quite right. A Samba server will look just like an NT server to the other computers. Currently, we run a MS peer-to-peer network, with my W2K

Re: [newbie] OT Journaling, gotta love it

2002-05-29 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 29 May 2002 09:17 am, daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Wed, 29 May 2002, Tom Brinkman wrote: Which file system? Anyhow, you really should have your system on an UPS if power outages are any more than a very rare occurrence. An UPS will

Re: [newbie] accesss shareing

2002-05-29 Thread Seraph
Hi, I'm new here, but one thing that I found that worked was to put my LAN on a seperate subnet. I put what should have been an internal class c subnet to a class b. It fixed the packet colissions I was having. My cable company had the same setup where they only allowed one ip that was to be

Re: [newbie] XFS vs. ReiserFS (OT resurrected)

2002-05-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 12:43 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote: Tom, Now you've got me wondering. I had been using Reiser and hadn't had any trouble at all, but a few months back I bought a brand new Dell and when I loaded Mandrake on it I chose XFS as opposed to Reiser. Mostly because of what I'd been

Re: [newbie] XFS vs. ReiserFS (OT resurrected)

2002-05-29 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 29 May 2002 13:32:37 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heck if I know!! ;) All I know is I experienced some little gremlins here'n there with XFS, and I don't with Reiser. Mostly file transfer problems to vfat partitions, and occasional FS error messages while

Re: [newbie] OT Journaling, gotta love it

2002-05-29 Thread Randy Kramer
daRcmaTTeR wrote: How about it Randy K.? you guys down your way getting any of these storms or are they petered out till then get to that end of the state? We had a good downpour a few nights ago, and some rain, but not all that much, and not enough to end the drought concern. Randy Kramer

Re: [newbie] OT Journaling, gotta love it

2002-05-29 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Wed, 29 May 2002, et wrote: On Wednesday 29 May 2002 10:51 am, you wrote: How long is a rope? snip roflmao,,, I was gonna offer a 35Kw standby gen as my secondary UPS, and I am sure an entire automobile dealership and a cargo airline can stay up for a reallly long time Ed!

[newbie] Samba Issue?

2002-05-29 Thread Pauljames Dimitriu
Here is a problem I'm having and I'm not sure if it's a Samba issue or a Linux issue: I have a bunch of users that connect to a shared folder and upload shared files. The problem here is the read / write permissions: Whenever anything gets put up on the server, the other users do not have

Re: Re: Re: [newbie] Tv Card

2002-05-29 Thread Misael M.
This is my hardware mobo=Intel Pentium 4 Tv card chipset=Brooktree Is a PCI TV card Im in Mexico we use NTSC. When I try to watch tv I get the noisy screen like if there was not transmition. XawTV doesnt found any channel in any frequency. I tried other apps and I get the same screen. This tv

Re: [newbie] OT Journaling, gotta love it

2002-05-29 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Randy Kramer wrote: Just to provide another datapoint: I run three (older) boxes on one UPS rated at 300 VA, 180 Watts. The power supplies total 750 watts (IINM (If I'm Not Mistaken) -- 2 200s and 1 350)). 2 cpus are ~300 MHz, 3rd is 700 MHz, all AMD. I also

Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock

2002-05-29 Thread shane
friendly flames? like friendly fire? :) On Wednesday 29 May 2002 09:13 am, Dave Conroy opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Mandrake may save me £500 short term, but the projected on going support and staff training costs would be too much for most small

Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock

2002-05-29 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 18:13, you wrote: Mandrake may save me £500 short term, but the projected on going support and staff training costs would be too much for most small to mid sized enterprises. People don't know Linux. Windows is expensive up front, but has lowish support costs as most

Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock

2002-05-29 Thread David
shane said onto me: -- snip |one person actually commented that his biggest problem was |teaching ppl to click once rather than double click to start things from |the desktop. if that is your biggest problem.

[newbie] Rfbdrake

2002-05-29 Thread ashley.bowyer
Can someone please point me in the right direction to find this program on my version of 8.2? Thank You kind regards, Ashley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Samba - Half there?

2002-05-29 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Anne Wilson wrote: Sorry that I sent this to your address, instead of the list - I forgot to change the 'Reply to' address. Derek, I have been thinking hard and reading all I can, and I wonder if the problems are a lot deeper rooted. For instance: What I'm

Re: [newbie] Bad floppy filecopy under KDE?

2002-05-29 Thread FemmeFatale
darklord wrote: On Tuesday 28 May 2002 10:10 pm, you wrote: Yes there is. IT was on expert list it relates to copying froma Konqueror window to a floppy. It will hardlock the system tight :) Hmph. Seems like just another good reason to initiate a: supermount -i disable

Re: [newbie] Rfbdrake

2002-05-29 Thread Vincent Colombo
In the menu, go to Networking - Remote Access - Virtual Network Connection Here you'll be able to control someone's system or allow someone to control yours. Vince On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 15:59, ashley.bowyer wrote: Can someone please point me in the right direction to find this program on

[newbie] winex install fail

2002-05-29 Thread Jerry
got my handy dandy copy of WineX and went to install it, using both methods (1--./configure make depends make make install 2--./tools/wineinstall) both give the following errors: make[2]: *** [caps.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/yup/wine/dlls/d3dgl' make[1]: ***

[newbie] windows2000 shareing access

2002-05-29 Thread jbarron201
Tryed this thing last night and never got it just started fooling with it today and saw remote access configuration .What is rdesktop? install it with urpmi rdesktop?ip address,config should be right by the help acouple of guys gave me last night could this be my problem?

Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock

2002-05-29 Thread FemmeFatale
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 29 May 2002 11:13 am, Dave Conroy wrote: It's only a matter of time before lot'sa people will need to unlearn Windows, and learn somethin else. Specially with M$'s new fangled SA programs (price gouging scams), and the horrific security holes that all

Re: [newbie] SNF 7.2 problems.

2002-05-29 Thread Mark Van Bruggen
On 30/05/2002, The following message was beamed across the Internet: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have looked at Smoothwall, but I am looking for a good custom firewall that has IDS, reporting, and preferably a Web interface, as I am not a Linux guru by an means.

Re: [newbie] OS BACKUPS

2002-05-29 Thread Derek Jennings
Are you running the Beta version of drakbackup Jerry? I'm running version 1.0 from drakxtools-1.1.7-98.1mdk and it does not offer CD backup, but I notice the changelog says some 'unstable features' were removed in January to satisfy Mandrake QA Sorry no idea about toto. derek On Wednesday

Re: [newbie] Possibly OT? MDK Partitioning

2002-05-29 Thread Roger Sherman
On Tue, 28 May 2002, FemmeFatale wrote: I've run 8.0, 8.1 now 8.2. Always I've accepted the default install partitions of root (/), swap home. the one time I tried on 8.0 to make a boot, root, swap, var other partitions, the boot partition was blank. As a result the root directory

RE: [newbie] Rfbdrake

2002-05-29 Thread ashley.bowyer
I don't seem to have this option. Do I need to install an additional rpm? Ashley -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vincent Colombo Sent: Thursday, 30 May 2002 7:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Rfbdrake In the menu, go

Re: [newbie] DosEmulator

2002-05-29 Thread Chris Ames
Thank you both. I don't have a Win system anymore. I got tired of it crashing on me several times a day. I may need to get a new processor. Ah well. I'm going to play around with it and see what happens. I'd like to familliarize myself with as much of Linux as I can, kinda the same way I did

Re: Re: Re: [newbie] Tv Card

2002-05-29 Thread et
have you tried turn capture to off? I get no picture (in MDK 8.2) until I change the capture setting from overlay to grabdisplay or off... I guess it has to do with my video card and drivers On Wednesday 29 May 2002 04:11 pm, you wrote: This is my hardware mobo=Intel Pentium 4 Tv card

[newbie] dangerous computers

2002-05-29 Thread et
I have been in very dangerous places before, but I never expected to loose an apendage to a computer before,,, but last night, the big server just up and bit off one of my toes.. thats right, I had the cover off and spun around in my chair to pick up a tweezer, and that sharp edge got me

Re: [newbie] dangerous computers

2002-05-29 Thread Bill Winegarden
make sure you disinfect the wound.you wouldn't want to catch a 'virus' On Wednesday 29 May 2002 05:43 pm, you wrote: I have been in very dangerous places before, but I never expected to loose an apendage to a computer before,,, but last night, the big server just up and bit off one of my

Re: [newbie] dangerous computers

2002-05-29 Thread Miark
Bill Winegarden [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: make sure you disinfect the wound.you wouldn't want to catch a 'virus' He didn't say he was working on a M$ server ;-) Miark On Wednesday 29 May 2002 05:43 pm, you wrote: I have been in very dangerous places before, but I never expected to

[newbie] Greetings everyone

2002-05-29 Thread Igor Scerbina
Hi , My name is Igor Scerbina, I recently installed Mandrake linux OS and am interested in learning as much as i can. I am currently having trouble setting up my cmi8338 sound card. It plays the error sounds but doesn't want to play any of my audio Cd's. I would greatly appreciate any help.

Re: [newbie] Bad floppy filecopy under KDE?

2002-05-29 Thread Carlos Arigós
El Mié 29 May 2002 09:25, escribió: On Tuesday 28 May 2002 10:10 pm, you wrote: Yes there is. IT was on expert list it relates to copying froma Konqueror window to a floppy. It will hardlock the system tight :) Hmph. Seems like just another good reason to initiate a: supermount -i

Re: [newbie] dangerous computers

2002-05-29 Thread et
na,,, it was so dead it was stirile... but don't say I was having sex with a dead thing, just cause the computer had already fsk'd me, by toasting an old scsi (540meg, with a adaptec 1542C Isa scsi card) hard drive that had my wife's most current resume on it. On Wednesday 29 May 2002 08:56

Re: [newbie] Greetings everyone / CD volume

2002-05-29 Thread Miark
Hi Igor, I am currently having trouble setting up my cmi8338 sound card. It plays the error sounds but doesn't want to play any of my audio Cd's. Have you checked Sound Mixer or aumix to see if the CD volume is up high enough to hear? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Slightly OT Mandrake stock

2002-05-29 Thread Michael Viron
Femme, As you said Linux has come a long way, but I do not think that it is that far away from being an option for the desktop. Keep in mind that Corel Linux OS (before Corel spun it off as Xandros (http://www.xandros.net/)), hid virtually all configuration behind the scenes (including

Re: [newbie] Bad floppy filecopy under KDE?

2002-05-29 Thread darklord
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 05:18 pm, you wrote: Well IIRC it had nothing to do with Supermount in that instance. It was purely a coincidence that was brought up in the thread. Its a Konq. bug in itself apparently. Disable supermount, try it anyway. If i'm wrong, let us know. And another

Re: [newbie] Greetings everyone

2002-05-29 Thread Rodrigo
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 22:04, you wrote: Hello Igor, Is your sound card an onboard sound card ? Which application do you use to play your audio cds ? Can you play mp3 or wav files ? Regards, Rodrigo Hi , My name is Igor Scerbina, I recently installed Mandrake linux OS and am interested in

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