Re: [newbie-it] partition table danneggiata

2002-06-26 Thread max
Il 10:52, mercoledì 26 giugno 2002, hai scritto: ho un vecchio pc con hard disk formattato fat32 e win$95 fermo da tempo. avviato con i cd di mdk questa mi dice che non può creare le partizioni perchè la partition table è danneggiata. ho provato a formattarlo ma non ci riesco (neanche dos).

Re: [newbie-it] Linux o Win? was: partizioni NTFS - notebook

2002-06-26 Thread Roberto
Allora se leggete la mia e-mail ho sritto chiaramente che secondo me windows resta il miglior sistema operativo per l'utente medio. Personalmente non ho la minima intenzione di abbandonare windows ma semplicemente ho voluto aprire la mente e vedere un pò com'era il mondo oltre microsoft, al

Re: [newbie-it] partition table danneggiata

2002-06-26 Thread Roberto
Allora, purtroppo non conosco tutti bios a memoria anche se la voce adeguata dovrebbe essere qualcosa tipo low level format comunque ti do un occhiata in rete per vedere se trovo qualcosa. Prima però ti ripeto la procedura adeguata per la prima prova. Crea un disco di avvio della macchina con

Re: [newbie-it] partition table danneggiata

2002-06-26 Thread Roberto
Ok ok siamo a posto vai sul sito della ibm (www.ibm.com) più precisamente qui http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/support/download.htm e scaricati Drive Fitness Test (version 3.01) per windows o linux. Fai girare l'utility su una macchina funzionante e questa creerà un floppy di boot. Avvia la

Re: [newbie-it] Portatile: scelta

2002-06-26 Thread Stefano Sebastiani
Ho aspettato alcuni mesi e adesso debbo comprarlo... su CHL ho trovato il Progres Omega P4 DvD. Oviamente essendo nuovo non ho trovato nulla con google! Qualcuno mi può dare indicazioni prima di confermare l'acquisto?

[newbie-it] Acquisto assemblato

2002-06-26 Thread Stefano Sebastiani
Assieme ad un portatile comprerò un Desktop... Ecco il progetto chi mi può fare le pulci? (leggi criticare/consigliare) 1 Mano d'opera per l'assemblaggio e test dei componenti (No configurazione software) [cod. 10004] 24,90 E. 48.213 L. 1 Matrix DIMM DDR 256MB

Re: [newbie-it] Linux o Win? was: partizioni NTFS - notebook

2002-06-26 Thread piero boni
ho espresso i mio pensiero come risposta alla mail di emiliano, però non avevo letto questa che ne è la madre. Oltre a quanto detto prima vorrei aggiungere che di certo windows è un sistema operativo per l'utente medio, ma certamente non il migliore. Mi spiego è sicuramente semplice e user

Re: [newbie-it] Linux o Win? was: partizioni NTFS - notebook

2002-06-26 Thread Emiliano La Licata
At 18.43 26/06/2002 +0200, you wrote: Allora se leggete la mia e-mail ho sritto chiaramente che secondo me windows resta il miglior sistema operativo per l'utente medio. Perchè rendersi la vita difficile? In fondo l'evoluzione dei pc è stata anche l'evoluzione della facilità d'uso, sapete come

Re: [newbie-it] partizioni NTFS - notebook

2002-06-26 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 11:03, mercoledì 26 giugno 2002, in merito a Re: [newbie-it] partizioni NTFS - notebook, Roberto ha scritto: Microzozz xp? Ma porca miseria, possibile che l'utente medio di linux sia peggio di un talebano? grazie! da questo punto di vista

Re: [newbie-it] partition table danneggiata

2002-06-26 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 14:57, mercoledì 26 giugno 2002, in merito a Re: [newbie-it] partition table danneggiata, giamgax ha scritto: Roberto wrote: Prova, prima di tutto, ad avviare la macchina da dos, lanciare fdisk e rifare le partizioni. Non è complesso da

Re: [newbie-it] Linux o Win? was: partizioni NTFS - notebook

2002-06-26 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 18:43, mercoledì 26 giugno 2002, in merito a Re: [newbie-it] Linux o Win? was: partizioni NTFS - notebook, Roberto ha scritto: Allora se leggete la mia e-mail ho sritto chiaramente che secondo me windows resta il miglior sistema operativo per

Re: [newbie-it] Acquisto assemblato

2002-06-26 Thread Roberto
Ma i prezzi sono da ivare o sono già ivati? No perchè se sono da ivare e stai comprando su internet stai per prendere un pacco... E qual'è la casa produttrice del notebook? Non mi sembra proprio di conoscerla, ricorda che mentre i desktop vanno benone assemblati con un pò di tutto (purchè di

Re: [newbie-it] Linux o Win? was: partizioni NTFS - notebook

2002-06-26 Thread Roberto
Questa è una risposta decente... Comunque il poliritano a me risulta essere un discreto (seppur non ottimo) conduttore. Io ho un modem vero che però e usb e l'amico linux non lo vede, magari poi vi chiederò qualche consiglio... - Original Message - From: miKe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie-it] partition table danneggiata

2002-06-26 Thread Roberto
troll beh, aspettiamo win$ superixxpì con un bel fdisk a tendina e finestrelle in modo che l'utente debba solo fare CLIK su 'faccio tutto io'... /troll Che cazzata eh aver la vita + facile... Meglio perdere mezz'ora a scrivere ed impararsi a memoria 400 comandi... a parte gli scherzi se hai un

Re: [newbie-it] partition table danneggiata

2002-06-26 Thread Lele
giamgax wrote: ho un vecchio pc con hard disk formattato fat32 e win$95 fermo da tempo. avviato con i cd di mdk questa mi dice che non può creare le partizioni perchè la partition table è danneggiata. ho provato a formattarlo ma non ci riesco (neanche dos). c'è qualche sistema per

Re: [newbie] compact flash card usb reader

2002-06-26 Thread Chris Spackman
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 22:47:58 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [big snip] All would work I bet if I didn't get the following message: mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist anyone have an idea of how to create sda1. All the usb and scsi modules are loaded as far as I can

Re: [newbie] trouble installing bindutils

2002-06-26 Thread tom brinkman
On Tuesday 25 June 2002 10:41 pm, Bruce Zink wrote: I am trying to instal bindutils. Package Manger and rpm both tell me that I have failed dependencies,specifically; libbfd-2.11.92.0.12.so libopcodes-2.11.92.0.12.so I've tried to figure out where to get these files.Here, and at several

Re: [newbie] BIG trouble

2002-06-26 Thread C.Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 25 Jun 2002 6:22 pm, you wrote: In reply to C.Anne's mail, d.d. Tue, 25 Jun 2002 18:01:52 +0100: Meanwhile, how should one deal with a problem like this? I know 'kill' is supposed to get you out of trouble, but you need to know what you're going to kill, don't you? First see if

[newbie] aviplay error

2002-06-26 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I have avifilefiles downloaded from cooker as follows libavifile0.7-0.7.7-0.20020528.1mdk avifile-player-0.7.7-0.20020528.1mdk libavifile0.7-devel-0.7.7-0.20020528.1mdk but when I try to run aviplay I get the following error. [lvgandhi@localhost lvgandhi]$ aviplay aviplay: relocation error:

Re: [newbie] mozilla files

2002-06-26 Thread John Richard Smith
On Monday 24 June 2002 13:08, you wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: All 500 plus emails are manually added ones in my mozilla addressbook.,not from the daily automatically added addressbook. But I suspect charles is right , mozilla's putting mine else where cause I added them as one big

Re: [newbie] mozilla files

2002-06-26 Thread John Richard Smith
On Monday 24 June 2002 13:08, you wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: All 500 plus emails are manually added ones in my mozilla addressbook.,not from the daily automatically added addressbook. But I suspect charles is right , mozilla's putting mine else where cause I added them as one big

Re: [newbie] aviplay error

2002-06-26 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 18:18:38 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have avifilefiles downloaded from cooker as follows libavifile0.7-0.7.7-0.20020528.1mdk avifile-player-0.7.7-0.20020528.1mdk libavifile0.7-devel-0.7.7-0.20020528.1mdk but when I try to run aviplay I get the following

[newbie] OT: linux equivalent of WinProxy?

2002-06-26 Thread Kenn Murrah
Greetings: For the last couple of years, I've used a product from Ostisis called WinProxy, which offered me site filtering (to keep employees from going where management did not want them to go) as well as virus detection to product the Windows users throughout the company. I want to find a

Re: [newbie] [OT?] Can anything be done about this?

2002-06-26 Thread Charlie
June 26, 2002 02:30 am, Damian G wrote: snip ..the word is all over the place. lately i've been getting palladium even in my soup. I get you Damian. I've read it in too many places myself. The article I linked just seemed to be one of the better analyses of what is proposed/intended.

Re: [newbie] Bios burning software question.

2002-06-26 Thread tom brinkman
On Wednesday 26 June 2002 03:50 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: I installed lm_sensors but I need help configuring. As root sensors -s returned no sensors found message. the man page told this but little more. /etc/sensors.conf need help deciphering what I need to do/not do in here.

[newbie] QT problem with kde3

2002-06-26 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I have kde3 with mdk 8.2. I wanted to compile an application which needs QT3. I did [root@localhost arson-0.9.6-kde3]# export QT_DIR=/usr/lib/qt3 [root@localhost arson-0.9.6-kde3]# ./configure --prefix=/opt/kde3 But I still I get error checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (= Qt 3.0.2)

Re: [newbie] OT: linux equivalent of WinProxy?

2002-06-26 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 June 2002 07:21 am, Kenn Murrah did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: For the last couple of years, I've used a product from Ostisis called WinProxy, which offered me site filtering (to keep employees from going where

Re: [newbie] MPlayer error

2002-06-26 Thread L.V.Gandhi
What to do for sound? When I first tried to play mplayer /mnt/wind/LailaOhLaila.avi AO: [oss] 44100Hz Stereo Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) ao2: 44100 Hz 2 chans Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) Can't open audio device /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy - no sound couldn't open/init audio device

Re: [newbie] mozilla files

2002-06-26 Thread john drouhard
On Wednesday 26 June 2002 09:43 am, you wrote: thanks jure, Yes I found that out quite recently, but neither of these mab files have even one email address in them ,though they do have what look like some sort of config data. Now this is the funny thing, POVIDED I don't actually have a

Re: [newbie] nvidia drivers

2002-06-26 Thread john drouhard
On Wednesday 26 June 2002 02:18 am, you wrote: Are you sure what your's motherbord support the AGPX4 cards? I am sure that my mobo does NOT support 4x AGP, but can use 2x. I am only able to use 16MB, but that's ok. Do you think that that would make a difference? John Drouhard Want to buy

Re: [newbie] MPlayer error

2002-06-26 Thread Damian G
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 18:56:09 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What to do for sound? When I first tried to play mplayer /mnt/wind/LailaOhLaila.avi AO: [oss] 44100Hz Stereo Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) ao2: 44100 Hz 2 chans Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) Can't open audio device

Re: [newbie] [OT?] Can anything be done about this?

2002-06-26 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 June 2002 07:28 am, Charlie did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: first of all, in order for their plan to work, they would need to force every single windoze user to upgrade to their paladium hardware, which i don't

[newbie] Linux on RS/6000

2002-06-26 Thread Alejandro Acosta Alamo
Hi all, This is my first email to the list. I will try to be very clear. I just bought the 2 CDs Mandrake for Power PC processors, I am trying to install them in RS/6000 B50 model and none of the CDs are bootable. I think they try to use some Mac Bios function that obviously does not work

Re: [newbie] problem with install Compaq 56k Modem

2002-06-26 Thread Sevatio
FARSHAD wrote: hi i'm using from Compaq 56k modem but mandrake 8.2 can't found that .. i think mandrake recognize this modem .. if everybody have experience with this type modem please help me .. should i install Linmodem driver or no ? Thanks dear .. bye It sounds like a winmodem.

[newbie] how to print screen?

2002-06-26 Thread Josef Lowder
I sent the following question several days ago, and never received any response? Did the message never arrive, previously? Does the keyboard Print Screen key work with Linux in the same way as it does with Windows? ... so a captured screen image automatically goes to a clipboard and can

Re: [newbie] how to print screen?

2002-06-26 Thread Randy Kramer
Josef Lowder wrote: I sent the following question several days ago, and never received any response? Did the message never arrive, previously? I saw your message several days ago, so it did arrive. I don't know whether the Print Screen key works in Linux -- I sort of doubt it -- I just tried

[newbie] unable to save kaddressbook

2002-06-26 Thread martin
Hello. I have mandrake 8.2 I installed the kde 3.0.1 RPM's. Everything was fine. I have Three 'normal' (not root) users. One of them has a problem in that when you are in kmail 1.4, it will not save entries to the addressbook. It just complains unable to save addressbook. The other Two

[newbie] Netscape plugins

2002-06-26 Thread Marcia
Dear All, I downloaded and installed Crossover demo plugin and installed Quicktime, iPIX and a few other helpers, but my Netscape6 does not know they are there. They are properly installed and activated and I tried to add them to the helper application menu in Netscape preferences as

[newbie] Gnome 2.0 released

2002-06-26 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.gnome.org/start/2.0/ I'm interested and await the Mandrake 8.2 RPMs; the bloat of Nautilus, and other faults, put me off Gnome 1.4, and it seems that much has been improved ... Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom)

[newbie] mail server recommendations, please

2002-06-26 Thread Kenn Murrah
Greetings. I need to set up a mail server on a Mandrake Linux box ... hopefully something relatively simple to set up, seeing as I'm not the most knowledgeable Linux guy around (i'm not the LEAST knowledgeable, either, and i do have some experience with linux, but not with mail servers) ... Any

Re: [newbie] Harddisk copy to harddisk

2002-06-26 Thread Sevatio
Dennis Myers wrote: Does anyone know of the best way to copy my harddrive hda to a new harddrive, like you would use ghost? I have ghost but don't know if it will work with linux. Or is there a function in diskdrake that would work? Any suggestions or advice is appreciated. I am using

Re: [newbie] unable to save kaddressbook

2002-06-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 26 June 2002 19:34, martin wrote: Hello. I have mandrake 8.2 I installed the kde 3.0.1 RPM's. Everything was fine. I have Three 'normal' (not root) users. One of them has a problem in that when you are in kmail 1.4, it will not save entries to the addressbook. It just

Re: [newbie] how to print screen?

2002-06-26 Thread Derek Jennings
I do recall there was a response to your mail suggesting creating a key binding. The post should be in the archives. derek On Wednesday 26 June 2002 20:04, Josef Lowder wrote: Thanks for responding, Damian ... Print Screen is a very handy feature and one which I hope someone in the Linux

Re: [newbie] how to print screen?

2002-06-26 Thread civileme
Randy Kramer wrote: Josef Lowder wrote: I sent the following question several days ago, and never received any response? Did the message never arrive, previously? I saw your message several days ago, so it did arrive. I don't know whether the Print Screen key works in Linux -- I sort of

Re: [newbie] how to print screen?

2002-06-26 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 06:20, Randy Kramer wrote: Josef Lowder wrote: I sent the following question several days ago, and never received any response? Did the message never arrive, previously? I saw your message several days ago, so it did arrive. I don't know whether the Print Screen key

Re: [newbie] [OT?] Can anything be done about this?

2002-06-26 Thread Jay
Don't know if this makes sense cause I don't know much about hardware encryption, but can't the community come together with a distributed .net type project to crack it? -=Jay=- Hello all; If I'm forced to use anything labelled Microsoft in the future to be able to use a computer I guess

Re: [newbie] how to print screen?

2002-06-26 Thread Randy Kramer
Michael Adams wrote: In windows, print screen prints to the clipboard not the printer, from which the pic can be pasted into an application. It is a function most often used by manual writers and program reveiwers, not to say that other uses dont exist. Thanks, I forgot about that! I

Re: [newbie] Netscape plugins

2002-06-26 Thread tom brinkman
On Wednesday 26 June 2002 02:01 pm, Marcia wrote: Dear All, I downloaded and installed Crossover demo plugin and installed Quicktime, iPIX and a few other helpers, but my Netscape6 does not know they are there. They are properly installed and activated and I tried to add them to the helper

[newbie] Help with a specialized fan.

2002-06-26 Thread Terence J. Golightly
List, I just bought a Hardcano 3 Combo hd cooler cpu fan controller and temp sensor. It has a digital display for the temp a fan and a switch for 3 speed settings. Has anybody set something like this up? I have a Soyo K7VXA-2BA2 MoBo running an XP 2000 + chip. Most of the setup is from there

Re: [newbie] [OT?] Can anything be done about this?

2002-06-26 Thread robin
Jay wrote: Don't know if this makes sense cause I don't know much about hardware encryption, but can't the community come together with a distributed .net type project to crack it? There is already an alternative to .net in the form of the liberty alliance. Funny how quickly MS tire of

Re: [newbie] ImageMagick: trying to compile ImageMagick

2002-06-26 Thread Patrik Marxer
I installed gcc-cpp and then the program, worked fine. Thank you Patrik You wrote on Wednesday 26 June 2002 01:00: On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 03:32:59 +0200 Patrik Marxer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am having a problem compiling ImageMagick. When I autoconf -- ./configure it then I get:

Re: [newbie] [OT?] Can anything be done about this?

2002-06-26 Thread Charlie
June 26, 2002 08:20 pm, robin wrote: Jay wrote: Don't know if this makes sense cause I don't know much about hardware encryption, but can't the community come together with a distributed .net type project to crack it? There is already an alternative to .net in the form of the liberty

Re: [newbie] aviplay error

2002-06-26 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On Wednesday 26 June 2002 07:20 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 18:18:38 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have avifilefiles downloaded from cooker as follows libavifile0.7-0.7.7-0.20020528.1mdk avifile-player-0.7.7-0.20020528.1mdk

Re: [newbie] MPlayer error

2002-06-26 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On Wednesday 26 June 2002 10:00 pm, Damian G wrote: On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 18:56:09 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What to do for sound? When I first tried to play mplayer /mnt/wind/LailaOhLaila.avi AO: [oss] 44100Hz Stereo Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian) ao2: 44100 Hz 2 chans

Re: [newbie] QT problem with kde3

2002-06-26 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On Thursday 27 June 2002 03:34 am, robin wrote: L.V.Gandhi wrote: I have kde3 with mdk 8.2. I wanted to compile an application which needs QT3. I did [root@localhost arson-0.9.6-kde3]# export QT_DIR=/usr/lib/qt3 [root@localhost arson-0.9.6-kde3]# ./configure --prefix=/opt/kde3 But I still

Re: [newbie] Missing posts

2002-06-26 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Wednesday 26 June 2002 03:18 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Wed 26 Jun 2002 04:29, John Rigby wrote: The main problem is not your Linux setup or anything else, it is the not-allowed-to-be-discussed-sanely, Cybernazi anti-spammers. These idiots ( a careful use of the word) can interrupt the

Re: [newbie] MPlayer error

2002-06-26 Thread Damian G
I am using kde 3. with disbling sound server I could get sound with mplayer. But xmms works with soundwrapper and it could show and give audio output for .mpg files with server on. but mplayer same trick didn't work. Any workaround? soundwrapper is some sort of a pipe that an application

[newbie] xcdroast alpha10 and multisession

2002-06-26 Thread Carlos Arigos
I have burnned my first multisession CD with xcdroast 0.98alpha10. Now, I want to add a second session, but I can't figure how. Which are the steps to follow? Gracias. -- el charlie Concordia, Argentina Linux MDK 8.2 --Hay una prueba irrefutable de que existe vida

Re: [newbie] Gnome 2.0 released

2002-06-26 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 21:49:13 +0100, Alastair Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.gnome.org/start/2.0/ I'm interested and await the Mandrake 8.2 RPMs; the bloat of Nautilus, and other faults, put me off Gnome 1.4, and it seems that much

[newbie] TAR problems

2002-06-26 Thread Matt Dalen
I've been having some problems running tar. I type something like tar -x foo.tar and it just hangs there for a long time. I've tried using -x -v and -t, but it still hangs indefinitely, doing nothing. Anyone have any suggestions? Matt Dalen Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] TAR problems

2002-06-26 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 27 June 2002 12:21 am, you wrote: I've been having some problems running tar. I type something like tar -x foo.tar and it just hangs there for a long time. I've tried using -x -v and -t, but it still hangs indefinitely, doing nothing. Anyone have any suggestions? Matt Dalen