Re: [newbie-it] Microsoft (per Roberto)

2002-07-06 Thread Filippo Riccio
Il sab, 2002-07-06 alle 00:06, Roberto ha scritto: Dovete sapere che il mio odio per gli hacker è perfino superiore a quello che nutro per i ciclisti e i camionisti ti prego di non fare confusione!!! HACKER non è quello che credi, forse ti riferisci ai CRACKER!! Ti consiglio la lettura del

Re: [newbie-it] Microsoft (per Roberto)

2002-07-06 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 08:20, sabato 6 luglio 2002, in merito a Re: [newbie-it] Microsoft (per Roberto), freefred ha scritto: On Friday 05 July 2002 18:06, Roberto, talkin' about Re: [newbie-it] Microsoft (per Roberto) wrote: Dovete sapere che il mio odio per gli

Re: [newbie-it] kde3

2002-07-06 Thread syd
* miKe wrote: [snip] ho riesumato qualcosa che potrebbe esserti utile, se hai la pazienza per scaricare tutto.. Beh mike, anche se non mi serve nulla di quello che hai indicato, ti dico GRAZIE! Grazie per la tua continua disponibilita' e per la tua gentilezza. Io ho conosciuto linux

[newbie-it] Ingrandire i caratteri di Quanta

2002-07-06 Thread Benedetto Santarella
Qualcuno mi spiega come ingrandire i caratteri dell'editor Quanta??? Ho provato a cercare in settings|Configure editor ma non ho trovato niente Grazie!!!  \ | /     (@ @) -o00-(_)-00o

Re: [newbie-it] Microsoft (per Roberto)

2002-07-06 Thread Roberto
Ok! Così va bene! Non era più semplice correggermi in questo modo senza leggermi la vita? E Talebano e sborone sono 2 termini chiaramente scherzosi. Cmq tutto a posto ciao e grazie. - Original Message - From: miKe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 6:49

Re: [newbie-it] kde3

2002-07-06 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 20:23, sabato 6 luglio 2002, in merito a Re: [newbie-it] kde3, syd ha scritto: * miKe wrote: [snip] ho riesumato qualcosa che potrebbe esserti utile, se hai la pazienza per scaricare tutto.. Beh mike, anche se non mi serve nulla di

Re: [newbie-it] Microsoft (per Roberto)

2002-07-06 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 21:41, sabato 6 luglio 2002, in merito a Re: [newbie-it] Microsoft (per Roberto), Roberto ha scritto: Ok! Così va bene! Non era più semplice correggermi in questo modo senza leggermi la vita? E Talebano e sborone sono 2 termini chiaramente

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-06 Thread D. Olson
On Saturday 06 July 2002 12:20 am, you wrote: As WineX develops, Transgaming will be able to make more deals and partnerships with other games companies to make their games compatible with WineX. That's EXACTLY what I DON'T want. We want NATIVE games. -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-06 Thread D. Olson
On Saturday 06 July 2002 12:48 am, you wrote: I know I'm going back on what I said earlier, but I can't help it... :-( D.Olson, can you tell me what you hardware setup is please? I'm just curious because I do not get the same performance from WineX that you do... Sure: AMD 1.2GHz Tbird 266

Re: [newbie] Can't get internet working

2002-07-06 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 02:50, civileme wrote: Miark wrote: Matt, Perhaps I misunderstand, but it sounds like you're missing the following line in /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1localhost.localdomain localhost Miark ...When I start linux, I get the following message: Could not

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-06 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2002-07-05 at 17:55, D. Olson wrote: I'm a little confused also, since anyone alive and not living under a rock has heard about Loki's demise. Transgaming is the bridge from the gaming world to the world of linux, and it's working. Nuff said. It's working? 30% of the Windows

Re: [newbie] Please can you Help

2002-07-06 Thread John Richard Smith
civileme wrote: frazer wrote: As you might guess im new to linux.How many times have you heard that My problem is with Mandrake 8.2 .Im trying to install onto a pentium 3. 450Mhz. 12 Gb Hard drive 128Mb ram.The drive was partitioned with Partition Magic.Windows 98 being on the drive

Re: [newbie] no sound w/ msi mo_bo/via 8233 intergrated sound

2002-07-06 Thread John Richard Smith
iggy wrote: hello, all! i looked in the msi website for any info in regards to configuration under linux with no success. looked in the mo_bo manual and noticed it said: Chip intergrated (2 channel S/W audio) - DIrect Sound AC97 Audio since i dual boot, i checked amongst the broken

Re: [newbie] encoding mp3s on mandrake ...

2002-07-06 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 06 Jul 2002 2:34 am, Rainer wrote: thanks for the reply. don't have this app., under 'what to do' i've got xmms and some wav recorder, possibly called kwav. You may not have the grip RPM installed. Just open Mandrake Software Manager, search for grip and install it from the CD's.

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-06 Thread Anthony Hopkin
C'mon you guys - I for one would like this forum to return to normal standards of courtesy. Let's stop the tirades - we are all supposed to be on the same - positive - side! Let's leave the flames to the Dark Lord and his Empire. (or better still - the Dark Lord and his Empire to the

Re: [newbie] flash6?

2002-07-06 Thread John Richard Smith
Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 05 Jul 2002 11:41 am, Tenchi wrote: Hi! I like watching comics at marvel' site (www.marvel.com) but now they need flash player 6 to be installed. Any idea when it will come to linux? BAT Codeweavers crossover plugin allows Flash6 for Windows to work

RE: [newbie] FTPing mondo files

2002-07-06 Thread Southbaysteve
sometimes its just easier to use rcp and scp. it works all the time and won't time out (unless you get the security parts wrong). Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Miark Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 6:03 PM To: Newbie at MDK Subject:

[newbie] tape drive

2002-07-06 Thread Colin Jenkins
Hi all, I have just installed lm8.2 on a HP netserver E50, with a surestore T20 tape drive. when I do mt -f /dev/st0/ status or retension or eod it works ok, but if I try 'erase' I get input/output error. I need to erase the tape (which was last used on winnt) any clues? also, has

[newbie] Apache DocumentRoot

2002-07-06 Thread Shannon
Hi There people, I just installed Mandrake 8.2 onto my new server and as part of that install I installed the default Apache Server Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer 1.3.23 I have tried changing the default DocumentRoot setting to something other than /var/www however whenever I do this I always

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 06 July 2002 02:36 am, you wrote: AMD 1.2GHz Tbird 266 bus EPoX 8KTA3L+ 512MB PC133 SDRAM ASUS V7700 DDR Deluxe (GeForce2 GTS) w/ 32MB Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 Maxtor 30GB 7200RPM UDMA100 HDD Thats so odd. Your system is more powerful than mine! I've got: AMD Athlon

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 06 July 2002 06:16 am, you wrote: Let's leave the flames to the Dark Lord and his Empire. (or better still - the Dark Lord and his Empire to the flames!) Eh? I hope that was a reference to Bill and his evil empire!!! grin --

Re: [newbie] Apache DocumentRoot

2002-07-06 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, 7 Jul 2002 00:12:26 +0930 Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi There people, I just installed Mandrake 8.2 onto my new server and as part of that install I installed the default Apache Server Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer 1.3.23 I have tried changing the default DocumentRoot

[newbie] encoding mp3s on mandrake 8.2 ...

2002-07-06 Thread Rainer
still at a loss here. no Grip in software manager, 'installed', 'installable', or 'updates'. either it's there or it isn't, right? maybe it fell off my cd-rom install package? so, could someone please direct me to a link where i can download this beast. 'pourquoi

Re: [newbie] OpenGL RPM Installation

2002-07-06 Thread List User
Thanks muchly that worked first time I am now addicted to Chromium :) On Saturday 06 July 2002 2:29 am, you wrote: That works too. (Usually.) On Friday 05 July 2002 09:15 pm, you wrote: Just install the RPMs, then edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 as follows: * Change the Driver nv to nvidia

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-06 Thread D. Olson
What is *it* ? Which games? What framerates? Come on, out with it! ;) On Saturday 06 July 2002 10:43 am, you wrote: On Saturday 06 July 2002 02:36 am, you wrote: AMD 1.2GHz Tbird 266 bus EPoX 8KTA3L+ 512MB PC133 SDRAM ASUS V7700 DDR Deluxe (GeForce2 GTS) w/ 32MB Creative Sound

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-06 Thread D. Olson
Okay, here's a summary of my past postings here, since you are too damn lazy (or stupid, take your pick) to actually read past posts: Firstly, I tried the whole WineX thing. And let me tell you, it sucks. I was using the CVS (read: FREE) version, of which you can find a tutorial on my

Re: [newbie] encoding mp3s on mandrake 8.2 ...

2002-07-06 Thread John Richard Smith
Rainer wrote: still at a loss here. no Grip in software manager, 'installed', 'installable', or 'updates'. either it's there or it isn't, right? maybe it fell off my cd-rom install package? so, could someone please direct me to a link where i can download this beast.

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-06 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 July 2002 07:57 pm, D. Olson did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: How's about some benchmarks then? I'd like to see which games you are running, as well as the fps, if you can get it (some don't let you). quake ii and quake

Re: [newbie] System.map

2002-07-06 Thread dfox
System.map2.4.28mine and change that link to make it point to my file. Right... how am i supposed to keep both kernels? i've checked lilo.conf and the boot sections seem to have no reference to these files... There's a vmlinuz symlink that points to somethimg like vmlinuz-2.4.xx-1.mdk.

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 06 July 2002 12:08 pm, you wrote: What is *it* ? Which games? What framerates? Come on, out with it! ;) Umm, thats with: Starcraft SC: Brood Wars Diablo 2 D2: Lord of Destruction Jedi Knight 2: Outcast I've not figured out how to get frame rates on these just yet, as soon as I do

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-06 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2002-07-05 at 21:27, shane wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 July 2002 02:55 pm, D. Olson did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: It's working? 30% of the Windows framerate is not what I call working. 5 out of 70 games is not what I call

Re: [newbie] encoding mp3s on mandrake 8.2 ...

2002-07-06 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 06 Jul 2002 4:36 pm, Rainer wrote: still at a loss here. no Grip in software manager, 'installed', 'installable', or 'updates'. either it's there or it isn't, right? maybe it fell off my cd-rom install package? so, could someone please direct me to a link where i can

Re: [newbie] Lilo

2002-07-06 Thread Serge
On Sunday 07 July 2002 00:21, Michael Adams wrote: On Thu, 04 Jul 2002 09:24, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 03 Jul 2002 8:48 pm, Brian R Koppe wrote: I still have not been able to get LILO working - someone mentioned using the Mandrake install CD as a boot disc and typing repair at

Re: [newbie] [OT] more BS from RIAA (was longer)

2002-07-06 Thread dfox
Good point, except that the price pretty much stabilised in the 1970's. What changed was production costs - it is now laughably cheap to produce Amen to that. 50 cents (or less) per blank CD and a few minutes' time is all that is required to produce a CD. Blank/recordable CD's for music are

Re: [newbie] kde 3 first time config screens

2002-07-06 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 06 Jul 2002 8:53 pm, John Bodden wrote: What is the file to edit to keep the first time config screens form showing up in kde3? http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=1797 You might also like to take a look at Texstars startkde file which has a couple

[newbie] Dual Vid card question, this msg was bounced :(

2002-07-06 Thread FemmeFatale
Jose M. Sanchez wrote: Normally all you have to do, with Mandrake 8.2 is install another graphics card and run DrakX configurator. However Nvidia cards put a heavy load on the system bus and power supply. Achieving stability takes a bit of luck. I've tried putting two GeForce2 cards into a

[newbie] 8.2, Samba and Webmin

2002-07-06 Thread Stefano POGLIANI
I installed 8.2 and I found it great. Samba was configured in a minute and was working perfectly (shares and printers). I do not know why I wanted to have a look to Webmin I just had a tour without changing anything in the "Samba" section From that point, the printer got an "Access

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-06 Thread D. Olson
On Saturday 06 July 2002 05:30 pm, you wrote: My experience is the same, shane. Diablo 2 works just fine, and crashes just don't happen anymore. On the other hand, under Winblows I continually had problems. Plus from what I've seen, Diablo 2 runs faster and smoother under Linux. Is that

Re: [newbie] Virii WAS I thought Wal Mart had a deal with L-MDK?

2002-07-06 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 06 Jul 2002 03:41, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Fri, 05 Jul 2002 18:20:37 +, robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Thu, 4 Jul 2002 19:56:16 -0400, D. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Oh, and it's not in my dictionaries either...

RE: [newbie] Removing mandrake 8.2 ...

2002-07-06 Thread Jose Ventura
It's easy... with a win boot disk do fdisk /mbr that will erase lilo if it is on master boot record, then go into windows and with partition magic erase the linux partitions... that's the way I'm use to do... If something wrong here, someone tell me... but this with me works... -Original

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-06 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 06 July 2002 11:58 am, D. Olson did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Umm... Why the hell are you playing these in Wine(X)? There are native ports for all the Quake games, and they run better than they ever will in Wine(X). umm

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-06 Thread D. Olson
Umm... Why the hell are you playing these in Wine(X)? There are native ports for all the Quake games, and they run better than they ever will in Wine(X). umm i the hell did because at one time i didn't know, i the hell don't now. Okay, well, it's a valid question... Most people do know

Re: [newbie] Running stuff at startup

2002-07-06 Thread Warren Post
I had a similar issue with my scanner's module. I referenced it in /etc/modules and all is well. HTH, Warren On vie, 2002-07-05 at 14:34, Jordan Elver wrote: Hi, I need to load a kernal module in order to get my webcam working properly, but doing this each time can be tedious. If I want to

[newbie] Sound themes

2002-07-06 Thread Barry Michels
Ok, I've finally gotten my system setup the way I want it visually, but the sounds suck. I've searched online, but all I can find so far is visual themes. Anyone know of a library of sound scheme? If it matters, I'm running KDE3. Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Removing mandrake 8.2 ...

2002-07-06 Thread Dave Conroy
Hi Jose, Saturday, July 6, 2002, 11:22:45 PM, you wrote: JV It's easy... with a win boot disk do fdisk /mbr that will erase lilo if JV it is on master boot record, then go into windows and with partition JV magic erase the linux partitions... that's the way I'm use to do... JV If something

Re: [newbie] Removing mandrake 8.2 ...

2002-07-06 Thread John Richard Smith
Dave Conroy wrote: I have 8.2 on one HD and Win2000 on another and duel boot via LiLo. I now want to remove 8.2 and LiLo and boot straight from the single Win2000 HD. How do I do that with no/low risk to the Win2000 HD data? With best wishes, Dave

Re: [newbie] Virii WAS I thought Wal Mart had a deal with L-MDK?

2002-07-06 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Saturday 06 July 2002 06:02 pm, Michael Adams wrote: On Sat, 06 Jul 2002 03:41, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Fri, 05 Jul 2002 18:20:37 +, robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Thu, 4 Jul 2002 19:56:16 -0400, D. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Oh, and it's

Re: [newbie] Strange crashes when idle

2002-07-06 Thread dfox
maybe add a few more megs to be on the safe side, I have noticed some boxes with 2, 256 meg strips may count as 510megs ram or 516 megs ram. not sure I noticed that (with 256 megs RAM) that I really have only 248 usable -- 8M is showing up as 'reserved' by the kernel. That's with mandrake

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0.2 out

2002-07-06 Thread dfox
Most of the fixes appear to be library-based; at least in my case=20 Konqueror is more stable (no more 'bomb' popups) :) I've only been running it for about a day -- downloaded and installed it this morning, in fact. KDE3 is pretty easy to upgrade/install - the tech- nique I use basically

Re: [newbie] System.map

2002-07-06 Thread ai4a
Damian G wrote: Hi... well, i've just finished building my very first custom kernel ( well, actually not my first build, but it's my first SERIOUS one and i might like not tearing my OS apart this time ;oP ) and i'm a little confused about that System.map file. the kernel i'm

Re: [newbie] Books suggestion.

2002-07-06 Thread Filipe
Thanks Dennis M, Bill, Michael and Randy Kramer for your valuable suggestions about books and links for newbies. ( list is summarised below). Fortunatelly, we can count on this list. Best regards. Filipe Dutra [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===

[newbie] Controling monitor power management

2002-07-06 Thread Warren Post
My monitor goes into power saving mode after 15 minutes of inactivity. This is not a window manager specific issue; it happens in all the wm's I'm playing with. I'd like to change that, but can't find the relevant command or tool. KDE has a control for this, but I'm not using KDE. TIA, Warren

Re: [newbie] Virii WAS I thought Wal Mart had a deal with L-MDK?

2002-07-06 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 20:46:24 -0400, Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a side note, has anyone ever calculated the cumulative cost of time, ink and paper that is wasted on all of of those extra u's used in British spelling? They're not wasted. The 'u' moderates the sound of the 'o'

Re: [newbie] System.map

2002-07-06 Thread Damian G
'uname -r' will list the kernel version. Maybe something from here could be used in the script. Maybe I will look into this further tomorrow?? At least this is a start at explaining the usage of System.map. HTH Charles thanx a lot, Charles. i'm going to check that link after

[newbie]

2002-07-06 Thread Tania Morell
Hi, I bought a new laptop this week (myfirst) and installed mandrake 8.2 on it. My netgear 401 wireless card is hot swappable so when I unplug/plug it in, I get a couple messages from cardmgr on console listing the manufacturer and model of the card.. but when I cat

Re: [newbie] Strange crashes when idle

2002-07-06 Thread Belgarius
I noticed that (with 256 megs RAM) that I really have only 248 usable -- 8M is showing up as 'reserved' by the kernel. That's with mandrake 8.1, and I haven't noticed that before -- usually it should 'reserve' about 384 K - because of the unusable region in pc low memory. My best guess its

[newbie] Posting Help

2002-07-06 Thread Chuck Stuettgen
I am posting this from my office e-mail system to see if anyone can help me. I am in need of any suggestions to fix my posting problem. I subscribed to the mandrake lists in early May and all was well. In the middle of May my ISP brought their systems in house rather than being outsourced

Re: [newbie] Virii WAS I thought Wal Mart had a deal with L-MDK?

2002-07-06 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Saturday 06 July 2002 10:04 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 20:46:24 -0400, Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a side note, has anyone ever calculated the cumulative cost of time, ink and paper that is wasted on all of of those extra u's used in British

Re: [newbie] Windows Games

2002-07-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 06 July 2002 04:22 pm, you wrote: Of course, spot on! No offense meant - I hope that none was taken. You must explain *your* nickname sometime! Best, AH. None taken at all! grin Ah well...its childish, I know. I used to run an Atari based BBS that was quite popular in the

Re: [newbie] Posting Help

2002-07-06 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Saturday 06 July 2002 11:04 pm, Chuck Stuettgen wrote: I am posting this from my office e-mail system to see if anyone can help me. I am in need of any suggestions to fix my posting problem. I subscribed to the mandrake lists in early May and all was well. In the middle of May my ISP

Re: [newbie] Virii WAS I thought Wal Mart had a deal with L-MDK?

2002-07-06 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 23:19:59 -0400, Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 06 July 2002 10:04 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 20:46:24 -0400, Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a side note, has anyone ever calculated the cumulative cost of time,

Re: [newbie] encoding mp3s on mandrake ...

2002-07-06 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 July 2002 07:14 pm, dfox did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Also, if you use the newer KDE (3.0+) the audiocd: in konqueror is another way to browse and encode songs on CD's -- as if the CD (i.e., music) were a drive. It's

Re: [newbie] HP Surestore 5000

2002-07-06 Thread dfox
ok...now you've really got my curiosity peeked. once you get the files on the tape, how in the world does one browse, find, and then get the Well, tar will do it for you: tar xvf /dev/st0 filespec filespec can be a wildcard selection, or a directory name, just like extracting files from a