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

2002-06-27 Thread ku68
- Original Message - From: Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 6:43 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Linux o Win? was: partizioni NTFS - notebook Allora se leggete la mia e-mail ho sritto chiaramente che secondo me windows resta il miglior

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

2002-06-27 Thread sandro
Alle 02:43, giovedì 27 giugno 2002, hai scritto: E' vero ma ti assicuro che è una cosa che alla maggior parte degli utenti di pc importa poco e si sa che di solito nel commercio vince il più grande e il più scaltro. Vorrei sentirmi dare delle spiegazioni tecniche sulla validità di linux e

Re: [newbie-it] Linux o Win

2002-06-27 Thread giamgax
fino a ieri sera volevo chiedervi di piantarla con ste cazzate filosofiche ma stamattina... ho accompagnato mio figlio in una scuola superiore per iscriverlo, tra le tante cose ci hanno detto che gli faranno prendere il patentino europeo per l'uso del pc (ecp). Ho chiesto in cosa

Re: [newbie-it] Linux o Win

2002-06-27 Thread tom
Alle 09:54, giovedì 27 giugno 2002, hai scritto: HHH finalmente qualcosa che ha movimentato la ml Ciao.anche io come ku68 sono un utente medio anzi agiungerei medio basso! quindi penso ti possa interessare il mio punto vista! L'uso del pc che faccio io e asimilabile ad una machiana

Re: [newbie-it] Linux o Win

2002-06-27 Thread sandro
Alle 09:54, giovedì 27 giugno 2002, hai scritto: ( a parte le faccende su etica, monopolio e filosofia perbenista del commercio che in questo campo secondo me hanno davvero valore 0) Ma credi che il mondo dell'informatica sia un mondo a parte? Che non faccia parte dell'insieme dei rapporti

[newbie-it] Breve su: Linux o Win

2002-06-27 Thread Luigi De Pascale
Insomma tra esperti del settore, studenti di informatica e appassionati vari: Confrontate la gestione dei processi tra linux e win e scoprirete perche' i matematici (qui nel nostro dipartimento win e' estinto) usano linux. Ciao Luigi -- Not all who wander are lost

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

2002-06-27 Thread Giuseppe Ferruzzi
Caro Roberto ti rispondo perchè la cortesia è una prerogativa umana, ma le tue argomentazioni sono fuori luogo in questa lista e impertinenti per lo spirito che l'anima. Roberto wrote: Allora se leggete la mia e-mail ho sritto chiaramente che secondo me windows resta il miglior sistema

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

2002-06-27 Thread Roberto
Caro Roberto ti rispondo perchè la cortesia è una prerogativa umana, ma le tue argomentazioni sono fuori luogo in questa lista e impertinenti per lo spirito che l'anima. Linux è un sistema operativo libero e te la prendi perchè dico quello che penso e movimento un pò la lista? mah... Ognuno

[newbie-it] Fwd: MDKSA-2002:040 - openssh update

2002-06-27 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -- Messaggio inoltrato -- Subject: MDKSA-2002:040 - openssh update Date: 25 Jun 2002 02:41:17 - From: Mandrake Linux Security Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1

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

2002-06-27 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 02:50, giovedì 27 giugno 2002, in merito a Re: [newbie-it] Linux o Win? was: partizioni NTFS - notebook, Roberto ha scritto: Questa è una risposta decente... aspetto un reply ai vari punti... Comunque il poliritano a me risulta essere un

Re: [newbie-it] Linux o Win

2002-06-27 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 09:54, giovedì 27 giugno 2002, in merito a Re: [newbie-it] Linux o Win, Roberto ha scritto: Insomma ragazzi mi rendo conto che le mie idee pro windows e microsoft debbano aver creato una piccola tempesta all'interno del gruppo, sicuro di

Re: [newbie-it] partition table danneggiata

2002-06-27 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 03:05, giovedì 27 giugno 2002, in merito a Re: [newbie-it] partition table danneggiata, Roberto ha scritto: troll ... /troll Che cazzata eh aver la vita + facile... Meglio perdere mezz'ora a scrivere ed impararsi a memoria 400 comandi...

Re: [newbie-it] Linux o Win?

2002-06-27 Thread carmine de pasquale
sai qual è il problema? windows fa schifo nonostante l'appoggio delle hardware houses, linux fa schifo proprio per il contrasto subito dalle hardware houses che non fanno i drivers di periferica. spero che un giorno il mio pc funzionerà correttamente e completamente ad ogni avvio - Original

[newbie-it] File.ppt

2002-06-27 Thread Matteo
Ciao a tutti Chi mi sa dire con quale programma posso leggere i file ppt con linux?

Re: [newbie-it] File.ppt

2002-06-27 Thread Alessandro Rontani
Il ven, 2002-06-28 alle 07:59, Matteo ha scritto: Ciao a tutti Chi mi sa dire con quale programma posso leggere i file ppt con linux? e' un file powerpoint, se non ricordo male... dovresti poterlo leggere con OpenOffice. Ciao. Alessandro -- La matematica e' cio' che consente di contare fino

[newbie-it] diskdruid

2002-06-27 Thread Giuseppe Ferruzzi
Ho installato tempo fa RedHat 7.3 allegata alla rivista internetnews e cosi anche OpenOffice (ringrazio chi ha diffuso la notizia su questa mailinglist). Il tool di partizionamento che mi permetteva la gestione degli hardisk in fase di installazione, lo sono andato a cercare dopo

Re: [newbie] TAR problems

2002-06-27 Thread Bill Davidson
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 01:03:26 -0400 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] child-protection for Linux?

2002-06-27 Thread C.Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 25 Jun 2002 10:08 pm, you wrote: Anne, It would be the JavaScript option for Navigator. You could also use Opera for Windows. It has an option specifically for pop-up windows. Thanks, Mark. I'll try that as soon as I can get to it :-) Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Missing posts

2002-06-27 Thread C.Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 26 Jun 2002 1:29 am, you wrote: On Monday 24 June 2002 08:26 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Michael Adams wrote: On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 22:23, Ralph Slooten wrote: On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Jure Repinc wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: snip My KMail Reply to is left blank to ensure no probs

Re: [newbie] BIG trouble

2002-06-27 Thread C.Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 26 Jun 2002 12:26 am, you wrote: C.Anne Wilson wrote: I have been exploring, trying to find out what is happening (or not) with these devices that I can't get working. Twice today I have got into the Control Panel, Information, and asked for information about usb devices,

Re: [newbie] Re: Surround Sound

2002-06-27 Thread C.Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 25 Jun 2002 10:40 pm, you wrote: On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 15:04:20 -0600 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anne, I could be wrong, but I think only digital sound can be processed into surround sound. CD audio doesn't because the sound card just passes along a 2-channel analog

RE: [newbie] Do these work?

2002-06-27 Thread Baka Attila Tams
Thanx Roly! I hope I'll be able to do so -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roland Hughes Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 2:37 PM To: Mandrake Help List Server Subject: Re: [newbie] Do these work? I have a linux box running at work and

Re: [newbie] Missing posts

2002-06-27 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 June 2002 07:00 pm, Carroll Grigsby did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I've got no beef with telling someone that they can't propagate any more Microsoft worms/virii until they get their act together. I wish more ISP's

Re: [newbie] Netscape plugins

2002-06-27 Thread Terry Sheltra
Do you have your path to Netscape 6 set up properly? From what I remember, Netscape 6 installs into a different location than Netscape 4.x did. I would double check on where it is located, then run the Crossover setup program, and under the General tab, change the location to where the Netscape

Re: [newbie] BIG trouble

2002-06-27 Thread Derek Jennings
SNIP Well, whenever you cannot get to a console with ctrl-alt-F2 and login as root and 'ps ax | grep DrakConf' and kill it with a 'kill -9 (id of the program)' When you cannot do that, then ALT-SYSRQ (screen print key)-R puts the keyboard in RAW mode ALT-SYSRQ-S syncs the disks

Re: [newbie] Missing posts

2002-06-27 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thu 27 Jun 2002 04:00, Carroll Grigsby wrote: 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

[newbie] eth0 - eth1 problems

2002-06-27 Thread Steve Mendizabal
Hello listers, just joined, just installed and hopefully won't get too many RTFM responses: On init these show as failed and its taking a long time to boot up. 1-2 min eth0 eth1 Now I believe these to be my ethernet cards. Any reason why they would be failing? Also I cant get my DSL to work

Re: [newbie] Missing posts

2002-06-27 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 June 2002 08:14 am, H.J.Bathoorn did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Only thing disturbs me though, is that they offer these people antivirus software (at a very modest price) but don't give a crash-course how to prevent it

Re: [newbie] Missing posts

2002-06-27 Thread dfox
i am for banning windows users from ISPs. first offence. ;) why not? there are plenty of single line 1200 baud atari/commodore/etc bbses around... :) shane Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] BIG trouble

2002-06-27 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 June 2002 07:08 am, C.Anne Wilson did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: ALT-SYSRQ (screen print key)-R puts the keyboard in RAW mode ALT-SYSRQ-S syncs the disks ALT-SYSRQ-B reboots Not sure I entirely understand. Are

RE: [newbie] Upgrading memory [getting OT]

2002-06-27 Thread Mark Stewart
ASUS A7N266-VM84 512M DDR 165 Two hard disks160 CDRW/DVD109 Case (InWin 500D)54 Keyboard/mouse /speakers 12 Floppy drive 12 1G Duron 58 Fan/heatsink 30 Networking card12

RE: [newbie] eth0 - eth1 problems

2002-06-27 Thread Andrew Sweetman
Being a new Linux user with +1 day's experience, one thing I did see on the net is that the KNE111TX card can get a bit funny with Linux. Someone else I'm sure will know a hell of a lot more about this than I. Andy Sweetman (Off to a strip club in 30mins, and has got Friday off =) )

Re: [newbie] QT problem with kde3

2002-06-27 Thread Damian G
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 07:29:13 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0.1

2002-06-27 Thread Carlos Arigos
El Jue 27 Jun 2002 11:47, Terry Sheltra escribió: Hi all, I've just installed KDE 3.x on my LM 8.2 machine, and am coming across a minor annoyance I wish to try and correct. Every time I login in to my machine in KDM and start KDE, it always goes through the configuration wizard for KDE,

[newbie] QuickTime - mplayer ;)

2002-06-27 Thread tom brinkman
wouldn't ya know it, just after Xine comes out with QT support (all but Sorenson v3), mplayer's got it. Work's great ! I've got tons of recent QT .mov's, and only a very few are Sorenson3 MPlayer CVS-020626-23:00-3.1.1 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS!) Latest CVS version,

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

2002-06-27 Thread Charlie
June 27, 2002 02:16 am, Alastair Scott wrote: snip This - from a well-known academic specialist in security issues - is not uninteresting, although written with much asseveration (I would like to see proof of the points about mobile phone batteries and toner cartridges; such people, in a

RE: [newbie] eth0 - eth1 problems

2002-06-27 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] eth0 - eth1 problems -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steve Mendizabal Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 10:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] eth0 - eth1 problems Hello listers, just joined, just

Re: [newbie] Netscape plugins

2002-06-27 Thread Marcia
On Thursday 27 June 2002 10:45 am, you wrote: Do you have your path to Netscape 6 set up properly? From what I remember, Netscape 6 installs into a different location than Netscape 4.x did. I would double check on where it is located, then run the Crossover setup program, and under the

Re: [newbie] BIG trouble - (a reference for the legally blind?)

2002-06-27 Thread Josef Lowder
On Thursday 27 June 2002 08:09, you wrote: SNIP Not sure I entirely understand. Are you saying that these three commands will, between them, cause a timely and controlled shutdown? This tells you all about it http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/doc/82/en/ref.html/ts-system-freeze.html Whoa!

Re: [newbie] eth0 - eth1 problems

2002-06-27 Thread Steve Mendizabal
I want to know why i'm getting failed eth0, failed eth1 messages at boot. I tried looking through the docs but found nothing. Any help or gentle push would be greatly appreciated. Being a new Linux user with +1 day's experience, one thing I did see on the net is that the KNE111TX card can

Re: [newbie] BIG trouble

2002-06-27 Thread C.Anne Wilson
But I definitely get sound from 4 speakers (not sure about the centre one) when I play mp3 files. This with an analogue cable. It may be stereo duplicated, of course, but it sounds good to me. Anne On Wednesday 26 Jun 2002 4:05 am, you wrote: Jose, All I know is when I used the analog

[newbie] Whoopeee

2002-06-27 Thread C.Anne Wilson
Major breakthrough - I have to share. My life is bound up in my Lotus Organizer, and this has been a major stumbling block. It seemed that Evolution would be the way forward, but I could find no way of importing my Organizer info. Disappointed, I turned to WINE, hoping that would solve the

Re: [newbie] eth0 - eth1 problems

2002-06-27 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thu 27 Jun 2002 20:03, Steve Mendizabal wrote: I want to know why i'm getting failed eth0, failed eth1 messages at boot. I tried looking through the docs but found nothing. Any help or gentle push would be greatly appreciated. well here's some gentle pushing: Go to a commandline by

Re: [newbie] eth0 - eth1 problems

2002-06-27 Thread Steve Mendizabal
That all I wanted was a little push. Will try these commands and go forth on my march through LinuxLand. Thanks - Original Message - From: H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 2:56 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] eth0 - eth1 problems On Thu 27

Re: [newbie] how to print screen?

2002-06-27 Thread mike mardlin
sorry im totally new to linux , i keep getting hundreds of e-mails from people but i cant figure out where to go to to remove my e-mail address...PLEASE HELP ME!!! you obviously know my mail address so where did u get it from im at a loss HELP thanks Mike From:

Re: [newbie] Whoopeee

2002-06-27 Thread Randy Kramer
Great -- congratulations! Randy Kramer C.Anne Wilson wrote: Major breakthrough - I have to share. My life is bound up in my Lotus Organizer, and this has been a major stumbling block. It seemed that Evolution would be the way forward, but I could find no way of importing my Organizer

Re: [newbie] eth0 - eth1 problems

2002-06-27 Thread civileme
Steve Mendizabal wrote: Hello listers, just joined, just installed and hopefully won't get too many RTFM responses: On init these show as failed and its taking a long time to boot up. 1-2 min eth0 eth1 Now I believe these to be my ethernet cards. Any reason why they would be failing? Also I

[newbie] Switching GeForce cards

2002-06-27 Thread Miark
Just received my new GeForce 4 which will replace my GeForce 2. Other than replacing the card, do I need to re-install the nVidia RPMs, or can I just swap and play. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Upgrading memory [getting OT]

2002-06-27 Thread civileme
Mark Stewart wrote: ASUS A7N266-VM84 512M DDR 165 Two hard disks160 CDRW/DVD109 Case (InWin 500D)54 Keyboard/mouse /speakers 12 Floppy drive 12 1G Duron 58 Fan/heatsink 30 Networking card12

Re: [newbie] Switching GeForce cards

2002-06-27 Thread s
On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 15:27, Miark wrote: Just received my new GeForce 4 which will replace my GeForce 2. Other than replacing the card, do I need to re-install the nVidia RPMs, or can I just swap and play. Miark When I did this, I just replaced the card and changed the videoram

Re: [newbie] Thrown off the list ?

2002-06-27 Thread today
On Sun, 02 Jun 2002 01:18, Brian Parish wrote: I think you may have experienced the same scenario as me Kaj. I have sent the message below twice now, with different subjects and it has failed to show in either version, while other posts I sent before and after were showing up as usual. Can

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

2002-06-27 Thread civileme
Charlie wrote: June 27, 2002 02:16 am, Alastair Scott wrote: snip This - from a well-known academic specialist in security issues - is not uninteresting, although written with much asseveration (I would like to see proof of the points about mobile phone batteries and toner cartridges; such

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

2002-06-27 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 June 2002 02:15 pm, civileme did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Look over history. Every watershed empire was eventually knocked over by an outside force of less technically supplied, less organized barbarians. i am a

Re: [newbie] Whoopeee

2002-06-27 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 June 2002 11:41 am, C.Anne Wilson did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Major breakthrough - I have to share. My life is bound up in my Lotus Organizer, and this has been a major stumbling block. It seemed that A small

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

2002-06-27 Thread Charlie
June 27, 2002 03:15 pm, civileme wrote: large snip Well, it is obvious that it is a real threat to consumers. It does treat the user as the enemy, and it does undermine the GPL. But soldiers and bullets will likely need to be used to enforce it. TCPA non-compliant processors will be made

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

2002-06-27 Thread Charlie
June 27, 2002 03:35 pm, shane wrote: On Thursday 27 June 2002 02:15 pm, civileme did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Look over history. Every watershed empire was eventually knocked over by an outside force of less technically supplied, less organized barbarians. i am a

Re: [newbie] Harddisk copy to harddisk

2002-06-27 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 26 June 2002 01:52 am, you wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: On Tuesday 25 June 2002 06:47 pm, you 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

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0.1

2002-06-27 Thread Paul Kaplan
On Thursday 27 June 2002 10:47 am, Terry Sheltra wrote: Hi all, I've just installed KDE 3.x on my LM 8.2 machine, and am coming across a minor annoyance I wish to try and correct. Every time I login in to my machine in KDM and start KDE, it always goes through the configuration wizard for

[newbie] Switching from Voodoo to GeForce2

2002-06-27 Thread Barry Michels
All this talk about swapping video cards has reminded me to ask, is there anything that should be done before swapping my Voodoo3 3500TV for a GeForce2 400MX? I'm swapping hardware between 2 computers in an attempt to get 1 really nice one for linux and make a winblows machine with the

Re: [newbie] compact flash card usb reader

2002-06-27 Thread Joseph Braddock
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 22:47:58 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 tell. Hope

[newbie] postgres postmaster.opts - where to specify -i option?

2002-06-27 Thread tek1
i tried specifying -i in the /var/lib/pgsql/data/postmaster.opts file, but everytime i restart the machine, for some reason, the contents of the postmaster.opts reverts back to the original contents and the -i that i specified is lost. i also tried specifying the -i option in the

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

2002-06-27 Thread darklord
On Thursday 27 June 2002 05:35 pm, you wrote: On Thursday 27 June 2002 02:15 pm, civileme did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Look over history. Every watershed empire was eventually knocked over by an outside force of less technically supplied, less organized barbarians. i am

Re: [newbie] aviplay error

2002-06-27 Thread darklord
On Thursday 27 June 2002 06:17 pm, you wrote: Thanks for the info, Charles! I needed that. I thought it was just me... Time for YACD. (yet another CVS download) WC (with Checkinstall. Thanks Sridhar..) LX Lyvim, I was just curious...do you prefer Aviplay over others? I've been

Re: [newbie] Switching from Voodoo to GeForce2

2002-06-27 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 21:25, Barry Michels wrote: All this talk about swapping video cards has reminded me to ask, is there anything that should be done before swapping my Voodoo3 3500TV for a GeForce2 400MX? I'm swapping hardware between 2 computers in an attempt to get 1 really nice one