Re: [newbie-it] NTFS e permessi

2002-06-11 Thread Mario Lodi Rizzini
-- Initial Header --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc : Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 23:42:26 +0200 Subject : [newbie-it] NTFS e permessi Ciao a tutti e come di consueto già vi ringrazio Ho una partizione ntfs regolarmente

Re: [newbie-it] NTFS e permessi (fwd)

2002-06-11 Thread LukenShiro
In un altro luogo e in un altro tempo, luigi esclamo': Ho una partizione ntfs regolarmente letta da root ma non da utente, ho fatto di tutto per estendere il permesso agli utenti ma niente.. In /etc/fstab credo che ti basti aggiungere come opzioni umask=0. Se vuoi permessi diversi metti un

[newbie-it] xfree kde e fonts .. non riesco proprio a risolvere

2002-06-11 Thread webmailbox
Ciao a tutta la ml.. Ormai 10 giorni sono passati da quando ho deciso di aggiornare con XFree 4.2 la mia mandrake 8.1 I problemi sono stati molteplici, per il fatto che non ho usato i comodi rpm, ma ho voluto ricompilarlo. Un problema che proprio non riesco a risolvere e` questo: i caratteri che

Re: [newbie-it] NTFS e permessi

2002-06-11 Thread Andrea Celli
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 09:19:51 +0200 Mario Lodi Rizzini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciao a tutti e come di consueto già vi ringrazio Ho una partizione ntfs regolarmente letta da root ma non da utente, ho fatto di tutto per estendere il permesso agli utenti ma niente.. questa è una delle

Re: [newbie-it] xfree kde e fonts .. non riesco proprio a risolvere

2002-06-11 Thread LukenShiro
In un altro luogo e in un altro tempo, [EMAIL PROTECTED] esclamo': i caratteri che ho a disposizione nel menu di KDE sono solo i fonts fixed, pur avendo installato 57 Mega di fonts.. i fonts ci sono, perche` se ad esempio uso xfontsel vedo che in fmly ho un`infinita` di scelte.. il problema

Re: [newbie-it] NTFS e permessi (fwd)

2002-06-11 Thread LukenShiro
In un altro luogo e in un altro tempo, LukenShiro esclamo': In /etc/fstab credo che ti basti aggiungere come opzioni umask=0. Correggo la semi-cazzata scritta. Dato che il supporto NTFS in linux e' ancora sperimentale e la simpatica MS, come di consueto, si guarda bene dal diffondere le

Ri:Re: [newbie-it] xfree kde e fonts .. non riesco proprio a risolvere

2002-06-11 Thread webmailbox
Hai provato a cambiare WM ed usare p.es. gnome, per verificare che sia _solo_ un problema di kde? non ho nessun altro wm oltre al kde.. vedro` di organizzarmi.. grazie per la dritta.. :) Penso che non dipenda da kde ma piuttosto dall' X Font Server che non vede i set di caratteri

[newbie-it] aiuto

2002-06-11 Thread simone.agrestini
Ciao ricevo questa email e tante altre da diverse persone, perchè forse mi sono iscritto a qualche mailing list e non ricordo quale, mi puoi aiutare a sapere il nome? Grazie mille. Ciao. - Original Message - From: LukenShiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June

Re: [newbie-it] Links 2.0

2002-06-11 Thread simone.agrestini
Ciao ricevo questa email e tante altre da diverse persone, perchè forse mi sono iscritto a qualche mailing list e non ricordo quale, mi puoi aiutare a sapere il nome? Grazie mille. Ciao. - Original Message - From: freefred [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 11,

Re: [newbie-it] NTFS e permessi

2002-06-11 Thread Andrea Celli
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 11:16:23 +0200 Andrea Celli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hai provato con: mount -t ntfs umask=222 /dev/... umask 555 dà a tutti il permesso di lettura(4) e esecuzione(1) ma toglie la scrittura(2) Puoi metterlo anche tra le opzioni della stringa di /etc/fstab

Re: [newbie-it] Links 2.0

2002-06-11 Thread Dragx
simone.agrestini wrote: Ciao ricevo questa email e tante altre da diverse persone, perchè forse mi sono iscritto a qualche mailing list e non ricordo quale, mi puoi aiutare a sapere il nome? Grazie mille. Ciao. alla mailing list di mandrake ??? sai leggere??? [EMAIL PROTECTED] eppure non è

Re: Ri:Re: [newbie-it] xfree kde e fonts .. non riesco proprio arisolvere

2002-06-11 Thread LukenShiro
In un altro luogo e in un altro tempo, [EMAIL PROTECTED] esclamo': Penso che non dipenda da kde ma piuttosto dall' X Font Server che non vede i set di caratteri installati. un chiarimento: ma il fatto che io con xfontsel veda tutti i caratteri installati, non implica un corretto

Re: [newbie-it] Programma Chat

2002-06-11 Thread Benedetto Santarella
Ho scaricato il messengers di yahoo, ma come si usa??? dove faccio la ricerca delle persone che sono in chat Ciao Alle 23:52, lunedì 10 giugno 2002, lei ha scritto: Alle 20:00, domenica 9 giugno 2002, hai scritto: Salve, cerco un programma per chat simile a c6 della tin, esiste??

Re: [newbie-it] filesharing

2002-06-11 Thread LukenShiro
In un altro luogo e in un altro tempo, Junkie esclamo': conoscete qualche buon programma di filesharing che possa essere usato anche da qualcuno alle primissime (ma proprio prime prime) armi? Se ti riferisci alla condivisione di file .mp3, se guardi nell'archivio della lista

Re: [newbie-it] xfree kde e fonts .. non riesco proprio a risolvere x Luk

2002-06-11 Thread jv
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 11:52, martedì 11 giugno 2002, in merito a Re: [newbie-it] xfree kde e fonts .. non riesco proprio a risolvere, LukenShiro ha scritto: Penso che non dipenda da kde ma piuttosto dall' X Font Server che non vede i set di caratteri installati.

Re: [newbie-it] Configurare un path (fwd)

2002-06-11 Thread LukenShiro
In un altro luogo e in un altro tempo, Benedetto Santarella esclamo': Come si configura il path sotto linux L'impostazione da un punto di vista logico e' la medesima di winfindus (anche se le directory di esecuzione qui vanno elencate separandole con un :), e passa dalla variabile $PATH,

Re: Ri:Re: [newbie-it] xfree kde e fonts .. non riesco proprio a risolvere

2002-06-11 Thread jv
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 16:59, martedì 11 giugno 2002, in merito a Re: Ri:Re: [newbie-it] xfree kde e fonts .. non riesco proprio a risolvere, LukenShiro ha scritto: In un altro luogo e in un altro tempo, [EMAIL PROTECTED] esclamo': Penso che non dipenda da kde

Re: [newbie-it] Links 2.0

2002-06-11 Thread Perfect Dark
Alle 07:45, martedì 11 giugno 2002, hai scritto: Forse ti basterebbe (se l'hai gia' fatto allora il problema e' un altro) installare i pacchetti devel dell'xfree. bye grazie, era quello il problema, sei stato di grandissimo aiuto Perfect Dark

[newbie-it] ancora su emacs...

2002-06-11 Thread Emiliano La Licata
Salve a tutti, Vorrei parlavi non di un vero problemone, ma di alcune piccole curiosità... Ho installato emacs 21.2, avevo la versione 20.7. Non ho ancora avuto molto tempo per scoprire le nuove caratteristiche, ma davvero è incredibile la bellezza e la funzionalità di questo programma. Ho

Re: [newbie-it] Download

2002-06-11 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 23:51, lunedì 10 giugno 2002, in merito a [newbie-it] Download, luigi ha scritto: Ciao a tutti e come di consueto già vi ringrazio... E possibile l'integrazione di un programma di dowload con un browser? Ossia e possibile che in netscape 6.2.3

Re: [newbie-it] NTFS e permessi

2002-06-11 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 23:42, lunedì 10 giugno 2002, in merito a [newbie-it] NTFS e permessi, luigi ha scritto: Ciao a tutti e come di consueto già vi ringrazio Ho una partizione ntfs regolarmente letta da root ma non da utente, IDEE? ciao gigi aggiungi

Re: Ri:Re: [newbie-it] xfree kde e fonts .. non riesco proprio a risolvere

2002-06-11 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 13:31, martedì 11 giugno 2002, in merito a Ri:Re: [newbie-it] xfree kde e fonts .. non riesco proprio a risolvere, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: ciao Gian un chiarimento: ma il fatto che io con xfontsel veda tutti i caratteri installati, non

Re: [newbie-it] problemi modem e connessione

2002-06-11 Thread giamgax
Junkie wrote: Dopo vari tentativi sono riuscita a far riconoscere il mio modem hsf conexant a linux mandrake 8.2 e a connettermi finalmente... solo che ho ancora un problema: il 99% circa delle volte la connessione fallisce e il log di connessione riporta un bellissimo NO DIALTONE Allora ho

[newbie] Low fps.

2002-06-11 Thread Jendos
I have a Savage4 Pro chip on my video card. On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Jendos wrote: Somebody teach me, please! I have a very low frame rate in my Mandrake 7.2, when I try to playing all video files. Configuratinon is: K6-2 450, 128M. What can I do? Sorry for my English! Jendos, your

RE: [newbie] Lindows (Windows + Linux)OT now

2002-06-11 Thread Franki
Yeah, well I'm a Leo.. and that makes me suggest the following..: Find a Virgo to do the work for you.. :-) Scorpio's are ok for that too, but they will bitch about it to much. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Todd Slater

[newbie] sound record and playback

2002-06-11 Thread Raffaele Belardi
I am trying to use my MDK8.2/Gnome to learn foreign language (French). To do this I need to: 1. hear a pre-recorded voice (from CD or from a .wav) 2. record my voice 3. listen to my voice recording I tried yesterday with XMM + Grecord, I am able to listen to the CD/wav, but I am having

Re: [newbie] sound record and playback

2002-06-11 Thread Vincent Colombo
Have you tried Sound Recorder? It's in the Multimedia - Sound menu (obviously). The actual name of the program that it launches is grecord, so if you don't have it there already just do a urpmi grecord and you should be all set. By the way, I've never used this application. I imagine it'll do

Re: [newbie] Clarification on Pine Install.

2002-06-11 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 10 June 2002 9:05 pm, Bulloved wrote: When I mentioned that I thought that Pine was causing problems on my computer I failed to mention that I did the install into Windows, not Linux. I know this is anything but a Windows forum and I am

Re: [newbie] starting process in background

2002-06-11 Thread Moshe Kaminsky
Hi, I don't what is this program, but I know some programs just can't run in the background (for instance, if they need to interact through the terminal). Did you try starting the program in the foreground and then putting it in the background? (by pressing ctrl-z and then bg) Moshe *

Re: [newbie] cdrom drive problem in 8.1

2002-06-11 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Monday 10 June 2002 11:19 pm, Scott wrote: Hello I just installed 8.1 and stuck in a backup cd I had made in 8.0 before I installed 8.1. I clicked on the cd icon and the file manager opened but I got the error message unsupported action: list/directory or something like that. Also when

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-11 Thread John Richard Smith
On Tuesday 11 June 2002 00:34, you wrote: On Monday 10 June 2002 04:39 pm, s wrote: On Monday 10 June 2002 03:37 pm, Gerald Waugh wrote: On Monday 10 June 2002 11:28 am, Bulloved wrote: snip What Linux email clients do people on the list prefer? I perfer netscape, but cannot

Re: [newbie] searchbot

2002-06-11 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 22:07:12 -0700, drwhat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: howdy all... I am looking for the linux equiv. to the windows program Copernic its a searchbot, that searches thru google, altavista, yahoo, webcrawler, etc.. from one easy to use 'frontend.' ??? How does Copernic work?

Re: [newbie] loki went bust???

2002-06-11 Thread Bill Davidson
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 18:27:40 +0800 Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys... when did this happen?? http://www.lokigames.com/news/ will this affect openAL and the opensource creative drivers??? looks bad. rgds Frank The date on that page says January 31. Want to

Re: [newbie] loki went bust???

2002-06-11 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 June 2002 03:27 am, Franki did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: when did this happen?? http://www.lokigames.com/news/ will this affect openAL and the opensource creative drivers??? it did indeed go belly up. was hurting

Re: [newbie] CD Recording with no sound??

2002-06-11 Thread Paul
In reply to Tom's mail, d.d. Mon, 10 Jun 2002 08:19:06 -0500: cdparanoia -vB 1- ~/tmp/name cdrecord -v speed=1 dev=0,0,0 -pad ~/tmp/track Back in April I posted my method for copying audio CD's on the CL http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/msg93867.html Somewhat

Re: [newbie] (Drivers, open sourced or not.) was :Connexant HSF and HCF modems

2002-06-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 10 June 2002 04:42 pm, Franki wrote: Companies like conexant and nvidia spend a ton of money devoloping their drivers.. they are actually half the product they sell, proof is how much better an nvidia performs when the first out nvidia driver is replaced by an optimised one, the

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-11 Thread Lee
Using html email is somewhat like asking to borrow my phone and calling Afhganistan. Rude at best. (I learned that right here last year) Lee On Tuesday 11 June 2002 10:17 am, you wrote: On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 15:16:00 +0100, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 11

Re: [newbie] Hahaha, did you see?

2002-06-11 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 10:41:21 -0400, Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 05 June 2002 05:30 pm, Charlie wrote: June 5, 2002 02:04 pm, Gerald Waugh wrote: On Wednesday 05 June 2002 12:03 pm, darklord wrote: Linux Today is carrying an article on the much discussed think

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-11 Thread John Richard Smith
On Tuesday 11 June 2002 15:17, you wrote: Besides, what can't be said in plain text e-mail? Do you lack the necessary communication skills to use simple words? Did Tolkien write using fancy fonts and colours? My point is that HTML mail is simply unnecessary. Do you want /italics/,

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-11 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 18:46:08 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 11 June 2002 15:17, you wrote: Besides, what can't be said in plain text e-mail? Do you lack the necessary communication skills to use simple words? Did Tolkien write using fancy fonts and

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-11 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 June 2002 6:46 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Plain text is all right as far as it goes, I don't mind using it for say Newbie, or just sending an order to some sales person, but 99% of the world traffic in emails is HTML. Yes it is.

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-11 Thread Vincent Colombo
Hey all, I just installed Ximian Gnome last night and noticed that the installer now has an option to install only Evolution. Therefore, if you're interested in using Evolution and want the most recent version without having to install all of Ximian Gnome and without waiting for Mandrake to

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-11 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 18:46:08 +0100, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 11 June 2002 15:17, you wrote: Besides, what can't be said in plain text e-mail? Do you lack the necessary communication skills to use simple words? Did Tolkien write using fancy fonts and

Re: [newbie] cdrom drive problem in 8.1

2002-06-11 Thread Jerry
Upgrading to 8.2 also fixes it ;-) Not necessarily, I have the same problem quite often. I am, however, using 2 cd drives and I'm going to try out a suggestion of a previous email, removing one of the drives. I'll report the results if anyone's interested; just send me an email (to my address

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-11 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 11 June 2002 01:49 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 18:46:08 +0100, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 11 June 2002 15:17, you wrote: Besides, what can't be said in plain text e-mail? Do you lack the necessary communication skills to use

Re: [newbie] Surround Sound

2002-06-11 Thread FemmeFatale
et wrote: On Monday 10 June 2002 09:22 pm, you wrote: et wrote: snip hmmm. my audigy loads an audigy module that shows as audigy in lsmod, and I am sitting here, just to check, I put ion afew MP3s and listened, played the same mp3s in winders, and no difference in here

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-11 Thread FemmeFatale
Warren Post wrote: I'm not familiar with Calypso, so I can't compare, but I use Evolution 1.0.2, and it certainly is full featured. It's also a bit buggy, so if there's a more recent version grab it. Another full featured client is Aethera, although I haven't tried it. Warren On Mon,

Re: [newbie] Hahaha, did you see?

2002-06-11 Thread Charlie
June 11, 2002 09:04 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 10:41:21 -0400, Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 05 June 2002 05:30 pm, Charlie wrote: June 5, 2002 02:04 pm, Gerald Waugh wrote: On Wednesday 05 June 2002 12:03 pm, darklord wrote: Linux

[newbie] Redirect, pipe and syntax

2002-06-11 Thread Miark
I want to do this the following in one command, but I can't figure out the proper syntax: $ ps2ascii file.pdf file $ unix2dos file file.txt How do I do that? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Redirect, pipe and syntax

2002-06-11 Thread Miark
Ah! I figured it out: ps2ascii file.pdf | unix2dos file.txt Sorry to waste yer time. Miark Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: I want to do this the following in one command, but I can't figure out the proper syntax: $ ps2ascii file.pdf file $ unix2dos file file.txt How do I do

Re: [newbie] Redirect, pipe and syntax

2002-06-11 Thread fsn
- Original Message - From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie at MDK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 4:13 PM Subject: [newbie] Redirect, pipe and syntax I want to do this the following in one command, but I can't figure out the proper syntax: $ ps2ascii file.pdf

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-11 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, John Richard Smith wrote: On Tuesday 11 June 2002 15:17, you wrote: Besides, what can't be said in plain text e-mail? Do you lack the necessary communication skills to use simple words? Did Tolkien write using fancy fonts and colours? My point is that HTML mail is

[newbie] XDMCP KDE and

2002-06-11 Thread Patricio Cassain
Hi Two issues: 1) I'm opening an XDMCP remote KDE session, everything work ok. The only application I can not open remotely is 'Control Center' Any Clue? 2) xdm is not loaded automatically after reboot, i have to write the following command after every reboot to get xdm running: 'xdm

Re: [newbie] loki went bust???

2002-06-11 Thread robin
Bill Davidson wrote: On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 18:27:40 +0800 Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys... when did this happen?? Long time ago. Loki had a good idea, and put out some good products (I have their Railroad Tycoon still) but the market wasn't ready. As a software developer I

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-11 Thread Bill Spatz
On Tuesday 11 June 2002 11:10, you wrote: On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 18:46:08 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 11 June 2002 15:17, you wrote: Besides, what can't be said in plain text e-mail? Do you lack the necessary communication skills to use simple words? Did

[newbie] Aopen RW 32x12x48 ?

2002-06-11 Thread Joan Tur
Hallo! Anyone out there using this one? Is it working fine under linux?? 8-? Thanks in advance!! ;) -- Joan Tur. Eivissa-Balears AOL quini2k ICQ 11407395 www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] ?

2002-06-11 Thread Damian G
Somebody teach me, please! I have a very low frame rate in my Mandrake 7.2, when I try to playing all video files. Configuratinon is: K6-2 450, 128M. What can I do? What video card do you have? What version of X are you running? Charles playing video files? what videos? what

Re: [newbie] Hahaha, did you see?

2002-06-11 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 June 2002 12:27 pm, Charlie did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: A Microsoft spokesman confirmed that Microsoft provides funding to the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution. Well whaddaya know? What a

Re: [newbie] loki went bust???

2002-06-11 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Fri 12 Jun 2009 02:41, robin wrote: This is more pertinent in a lot of countries where you can buy any Windows game for $3 on the street (I sometimes think penguinistas should support moves to stamp out software piracy, as this would kill the Windows monopoly in most of the world). Yeah,

Re: [newbie] Hahaha, did you see?

2002-06-11 Thread robin
Carroll Grigsby wrote: Well, the long-awaited report was released yesterday... for a while. It was originally posted at www.adti.net/html-files/defense/opensource_whitepaper.pdf, but was taken down after a few hours. I'm told that it can still be found on their server at

Well OT: Re: [newbie] Hahaha, did you see?

2002-06-11 Thread robin
Qupte from the linked article: Just as the AdTI showed that people who've actually worked with MCSE's have a higher opinion of them than people who haven't What? There are actually people out there who have a high opinion of MSCEs? ;-) Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from

RE: Well OT: Re: [newbie] Hahaha, did you see? MYGOD!!! READ THIS !!!

2002-06-11 Thread Franki
http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D701%2526a%253D26875,00.asp MS admits under oath that if it revealed parts of its source, it would seriously compromise national security because the code is severally flawed. now thats good reading, don't know why it doesn't get more publicity.. now why

Re: Well OT: Re: [newbie] Hahaha, did you see?

2002-06-11 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Thursday 11 June 2009 09:23 pm, robin wrote: Qupte from the linked article: Just as the AdTI showed that people who've actually worked with MCSE's have a higher opinion of them than people who haven't What? There are actually people out there who have a high opinion of MSCEs? ;-)

Re: [newbie] making new launch-icons on desktop in gnome

2002-06-11 Thread Vincent Colombo
Yeah, you can just drag the icon from the menu to the desktop. Vince On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 18:19, Azrael wrote: I just need to check... how am I supposed to place icons on the gnome (nautilus) desktop to launch programs? The only way I can find it to create them on the panel... and then

Re: Well OT: Re: [newbie] Hahaha, did you see?

2002-06-11 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 11 June 2009 06:23 pm, robin did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: MCSE's have a higher opinion of them than people who haven't What? There are actually people out there who have a high opinion of MSCEs? ;-) hey i have an

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 8.1 on 486 with 32Mb RAM

2002-06-11 Thread Alan Shoemaker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mandrake 8.1 is supposed to be installable with 32Mb RAM, in text mode. I have a 486, and upgraded its memory to 32Mb specifically so I could install Mandrake.  (The computer can't handle more than 32Mb.) You'll need a version compiled for the i486. The last

Re: [newbie] loki went bust???

2002-06-11 Thread D. Olson
Long time ago. Loki had a good idea, and put out some good products (I have their Railroad Tycoon still) but the market wasn't ready. As a software developer I once contacted (in the hope that he might consider porting to Linux) said, Linux users are generally pretty stingy about software.

Re: [newbie] loki went bust???

2002-06-11 Thread D. Olson
On Tuesday 11 June 2002 06:01 pm, you wrote: Yeah, I hear you! Why do you think it's so easy to make a pirate copy of winblow$ whereas a stupid copy-protected audiocd from Sony knocks everybody over? Good hunting, Harm Well... If no one said this already, then you should know that you can

Re: [newbie] Hahaha, did you see?

2002-06-11 Thread D. Olson
http://www.roaringpenguin.com/adti2.php3 AdTI uses the story of Netscape killing the open-source Mosaic. Well, Mosaic was never GPL'd. If it had been, Netscape would have been unable to kill it. Umm... So that made it right for AdTI, er, sorry, I mean Microsoft to go and kill (or attempt

RE: [newbie] loki went bust???

2002-06-11 Thread Franki
I don't know what copy protected audio cd from sony you refer to, but I'm curious.. what are we talking about and fill in what band with a pen...??? I bought the PC game Harry potter and that stone thing for my neice.. she scratches CD's, (she is young) I wanted to make a backup CD and give her

[newbie] internet shareing

2002-06-11 Thread jbarron201
I,m shareing my internet connection with a windows2000 system .i had a real hard time getting connected but even now if for any reason I shut down either system the Mandrake 8.2 system is tough to get reconnected my ISP is a dhcp someone told me it would been better if it was static.My

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-11 Thread s
On Monday 10 June 2002 06:34 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Monday 10 June 2002 04:39 pm, s wrote: Yeah, I vote for kmail too, tho after 30 or 40 thousand messages, it starts to choke. :)(had to rename my Mail folder today). :( -s My version has a delete function. Very useful.

[newbie] Upgrading memory

2002-06-11 Thread Marcia
Dear All, I mentioned lately that I have upgraded with simms EDO 72 pin memory to 128 megs of ram. To my surprise when I opened my box I found 2 empty dimm 168 pin slots. Does this mean that I could upgrade to 512 megs of ram using the 168 pin dimm sdram memory modules? I certainly would

Re: [newbie] Upgrading memory

2002-06-11 Thread dfox
I mentioned lately that I have upgraded with simms EDO 72 pin memory to 128 megs of ram. To my surprise when I opened my box I found 2 empty dimm 168 pin slots. Does this mean that I could upgrade to 512 megs of ram using the 168 You might be able to add more RAM. It depends on your

RE: [newbie] Upgrading memory

2002-06-11 Thread Franki
usually on motherboards that had edo slots and sdram slots, you have to use one or the other.. what I mean is that banks 0 and 1 (or 1 and 2 depending on how they are numbered) of the edo corraspond to slot 0 (or 1) of the sdram, ditto for the others... you can't usually fill all the slots, and

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-11 Thread dfox
Another point, John: If you really want to see something ugly, take a look at an html e-mail with html disabled. You'll see that the message becomes It also is a good visual indication of how wasteful HTML email can be. I have seen numerous examples of dozens of nbsp; nbsp; nbsp etc. ;(

[newbie] disable devfs

2002-06-11 Thread Scott
How do I disable devfs in 8.1? Thanks, SW Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

cd copy was: Re: [newbie] loki went bust???

2002-06-11 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 i believe that is a work around for audio cds he is refering to. what did you use to make the copy? it is possible (i am told) to copy it errors and all and make it work. On Tuesday 11 June 2002 05:19 pm, Franki did speak unto the huddled masses,

Re: [newbie] Intro and E-Mail client??

2002-06-11 Thread dfox
Besides, what can't be said in plain text e-mail? Do you lack the necessary communication skills to use simple words? Did Tolkien write using fancy fonts Well, discounting Elvish perhaps, no. and colours? My point is that HTML mail is simply unnecessary. Do you want /italics/,

Re: [newbie] internet shareing

2002-06-11 Thread Miark
Is this a repeat of a recent message? If not, then judging from your e-mail address, the answer is no. You can't have a static IP address using the ATT broadband service. Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: I,m shareing my internet connection with a windows2000 system .i had a real hard time

Re: [newbie] internet shareing

2002-06-11 Thread jbarron201
I,m sorry it may have been a repeat because I have ask it before but missed it if it was.I,ve had it conected a few times but I loose connection for any reason I can,t reconnect. - Original Message - From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 8:46 PM

[newbie] searchbot

2002-06-11 Thread drwhat
howdy all... I am looking for the linux equiv. to the windows program Copernic its a searchbot, that searches thru google, altavista, yahoo, webcrawler, etc.. from one easy to use 'frontend.' ??? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Tips or Shortcut key in Gnome or KDE ...

2002-06-11 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Actually I may be wrong, but I think this is set up in your window manager, not the desktop environment (i.e. sawfish, instead of gnome). These sorts of key bindings are usually configurable and you should be able to make your own no matter what keybindings you use. I don't have too much

Re: [newbie] Tips or Shortcut key in Gnome or KDE ...

2002-06-11 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
The example Paul gave below is for Sawfish, the default GNOME window manager. There, you can associate combinations of keys and mouse clicks to actions. To make a keybinding for any GTK+ (not only GNOME) app, simply highlight a menu option and enter a key combo to assign to it. The newly assigned

Re: [newbie] Tips or Shortcut key in Gnome or KDE ...

2002-06-11 Thread Paul Rodriguez
I should mention as well, that you in the Gnome/Sawfish setup it seems you are using you can configure these in: Gnome Control Panel:Sawfish Window Manager:Shortcuts - Paul Rodriguez New York Linux Scene On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 02:18, FARSHAD wrote: hi any body have a list of usefuly shortcut

Re: [newbie] disable devfs

2002-06-11 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 23:19, Scott wrote: How do I disable devfs in 8.1? Thanks, SW Change devfs=mount to devfs=nomount in lilo.conf. LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] cdrom drive problem in 8.1

2002-06-11 Thread Brian Parish
OK! You asked for it ;-) 1. As root, edit /etc/lilo.conf with your favorite text editor. Wherever you see devfs=mount, make it devfs=nomount. As you do this, notice whether you have hd?=ide-scsi on the same lines. 2. Still as root, type the command lilo (without the quotes) 3. Type the

Re: [newbie] cdrom drive problem in 8.1

2002-06-11 Thread Scott
Please reveal it. Thanks, SW On Tuesday 11 June 2002 09:49 am, you wrote: On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 19:21, Gerald Waugh wrote: On Monday 10 June 2002 11:19 pm, Scott wrote: Hello I just installed 8.1 and stuck in a backup cd I had made in 8.0 before I installed 8.1. I clicked on