Re: [newbie-it] Micromodem su Mdk8.2

2002-07-11 Thread LukenShiro
In un altro luogo e in un altro tempo, Barry Lindon esclamo': Ho installato Mandrake 8.2 su un notebook Compaq fornito di Micromodem Conexant HSP 56k: ovviamente lo riconosce ma non lo fa funzionare. C'è una possibilità di farlo funzionare? Bisognerebbe sapere che tipo di chipset usa,

Re: [newbie-it] Cancellazione accidentale di file

2002-07-11 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 15:55, giovedì 11 luglio 2002, ENx in merito a [newbie-it] Cancellazione accidentale di file ha scritto: SONO DISPERATO!!! Ho cancellato per sbaglio 10 GB di dati che non volevo ASSOLUTAMENTE perdere su un filsystem fat32. Qualcuno saprebbe

[newbie-it] mandrake 8.1 o 8.2?

2002-07-11 Thread Roberto
Ragazzi ma la mandrake 8.1 non fungeva meglio della 8.2? Certo mi pare che la 8.2 abbia un miglior supporto per le periferiche usb ma che funzioni generalmente un pò peggio. Cosa ne pensate?

Re: [newbie] Laptop question

2002-07-11 Thread Femme
On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 19:58, bascule wrote: before i forget, didn't there use to be a 'dosstart' boot method or somesuch where one could start the install from a dos prompt? perhaps if the laptop can be in dos with the cd drive recognised you could try this, i think there was/is a

Re: [newbie] Laptop question

2002-07-11 Thread ai4a
bascule wrote: before i forget, didn't there use to be a 'dosstart' boot method or somesuch where one could start the install from a dos prompt? perhaps if the laptop can be in dos with the cd drive recognised you could try this, i think there was/is a directory on cd1 with .bat file to

Re: [newbie] Laptop question

2002-07-11 Thread Bill Spatz
On Wednesday 10 July 2002 19:10, Femme wrote: Trust me Nick, thats the first thing I tried! It says it will boot off teh CD when I set it in the BIOS, but it doesn't work *scratching my head on that one!*. Heh, next suggestion? Femme Femme, Mine did the same thing to me, although I do

[newbie] komba2 for Mdk7.2

2002-07-11 Thread Franki
Hi guys.. Does anyone have komba2 installed on mdk7.2?? I need to install it in order to be able to remotely work on a win2000 box on my network. (and I don't want to use the command line.) but I can't find a komba2 rpm for mdk7.2,, so I downloaded the source tarball.. compiling it has

Re: [newbie] Laptop question

2002-07-11 Thread Steve Borrett
Hi Femme, What about a network install? I have done these a number of times, both from a LAN and from the internet and they worked fine, a bit slow, but fine. regards, Steve. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Konqueror 3.0.2 bookmark replacing weirdness

2002-07-11 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Before I go off to the KDE lists (groups.google.com hasn't turned up anything) ... has anyone come across this situation? When I reboot, the Konqueror bookmarks are always replaced by the LM default set. There was no obvious trigger for this (it

Re: [newbie] Perl

2002-07-11 Thread John Richard Smith
Jan Wilson wrote: * John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020710 16:49]: I often see reference in many situations to Pearl, but what eaxtly is it. John Assuming you mean Perl, as in the subject, and not Pearl, it is a programming language known for its ability to manipulate text

Re: [newbie] App like M$ Project

2002-07-11 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 11 July 2002 10:44 am, Jure Repinc wrote: I am looking for an app that is similar to Micro$oft Project. Is there any for Linux? It doesn't need to have all the options. This is a MS Project clone: http://mrproject.codefactory.se/

Re: [newbie] sound problems

2002-07-11 Thread et
On Wednesday 10 July 2002 11:54 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday 10 July 2002 07:26 pm, et wrote: but really Tom, how do you fell about winmodems (just joking) No worse or better than any other win-hardware, they don't even work very well with M$ winwoes. The shame of it is gettin the more

[newbie] directory sizes

2002-07-11 Thread Ross Pearson
I'm having difficulty finding a way to display the total size of a directory and all its contents while at a console. Can anyone give any pointers please. thx Ross Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] QT libs for mdk7.2

2002-07-11 Thread Franki
Hi guys.. I am close to being able to remotely compile komba2 on a 7.2 box.. I've had to load a ton of rpms.. where I am stuck is with the qt libs.. I don't want to break kde.. rpm -qa |grep qt gives me the following: qt2-2.2.1-3mdk qt-1.44-28mdk qt2-devel-2.2.1-3mdk but komba complains

Re: [newbie] directory sizes

2002-07-11 Thread Robt. Miller
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Ross Pearson wrote: I'm having difficulty finding a way to display the total size of a directory and all its contents while at a console. Can anyone give any pointers please. du -b -h -- (o //\ Powered by SuSE Linux V_/_ Virusproof. Crashproof. 7:52am up 4

Re: [newbie] directory sizes

2002-07-11 Thread Ross Pearson
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Robt. Miller wrote: On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Ross Pearson wrote: I'm having difficulty finding a way to display the total size of a directory and all its contents while at a console. Can anyone give any pointers please. du -b -h Thanks, thats exactly what I was

[newbie] shell script

2002-07-11 Thread Rosella Greco
hi everybody, I would like to write a simple script, but i need your help! what I would like to do is to execute a file 10, 100 times without opening 10, 100 differnet shells. the file I want to execute is 'sendapi' and accepts parameters as input. these parameters are a and b that are integer

Re: [newbie] stange install works and then doesn't

2002-07-11 Thread Randy Kramer
Joe, Thanks for a masterful job of editing (snipping) previous posts!! (I preserved most of the post below so others can remember what it looked like.) regards, Randy Kramer Joe Harkins wrote: At 08:19 PM 7/10/2002 -0400, you wrote: is the smaller drive a master or slave and which ide

RE: [newbie] Laptop question

2002-07-11 Thread Mike Settle
I had that same problem - What I finally had to do was get rid of the separate ...\CD1, ...\CD2, ...\CD3 directories. I made one ?:\MNDRK81 directory and copied all three CDs into that one. Made a boot floppy with the HD img, and installed from there -Original Message- From:

Re: [newbie] Modprobe Query

2002-07-11 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:27:09 +0100 Daryl Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Issuing the command- modprobe snd-card-ens1371 gives me a standard error message suggesting that incorrect parameter setting is at fault. I would be MORE than happy to supply the appropriate parameters (IRQ

Re: [newbie] Perl

2002-07-11 Thread Jan Wilson
* John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020711 07:31]: My family often say I'm too curious. I found the name interesting. I hadn't thought about man python, as it wasn't a specific programme, I hadn't thought about looking for perl there( yes I spelt it wrong) The man program looks for

[newbie] Signoff, but thanks

2002-07-11 Thread Charles Muller
I am going to sign off Linux Newbies now, but before I do so, I want to extend my sincere thanks to all of you very helpful people, especially Sridhar and Civileme, but to many others as well. After a bit of experimentation, I have decided to change to Red Hat. One of the main things I wanted

Re: [newbie] USB 250 Zip Drive and Linux?

2002-07-11 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey, I've read somewhere that USB 250MB Zip drives do not work with Linux. Is this true? If not, what do I need to do to get it working? It isn't true. I have one myself and it works well. You only need to mount it as /dev/sda4 , you can also create an icon in KDE (or Gnome), you have to

Re: [newbie] Gnome 2.0

2002-07-11 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:41:46 +0200, Roman Korcek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I'm back after exams (which I all passed miraculously...) and meanwhile Gnome 2.0 has been released. Now, the question would be, what do I need to download in order to upgrade Gnome to v2.0? Gnome.org points

Re: [newbie] link for 'notlame' ... (shane)

2002-07-11 Thread tom brinkman
On Thursday 11 July 2002 12:29 am, Rainer wrote: thanks for the info. looked through the previous link for rpms and couldn't find 'notlame'. checked google (not all of it) and could only see i586 stuff. so, if you would be so kind, i'd appreciate the rpm link - that should considerably

Re: [newbie] directory sizes

2002-07-11 Thread Robt. Miller
The -b gives me bytes, if no -b then the results are in k On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Miark wrote: Except if you use -h, then -b is implied, so you don't need it. Miark Robt. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Ross Pearson wrote: I'm having difficulty finding a way

Re: [newbie] Re: the political aspect, %'s

2002-07-11 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 11 July 2002 01:22 am, Alastair Scott did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I also wonder whether 'ask', to save effort, really means 'ask the CIO', who doesn't know what goes on at the coalface. Although mine is a 'Microsoft

Re: [newbie] sound problems (the political aspect)

2002-07-11 Thread tom brinkman
On Wednesday 10 July 2002 09:35 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Wednesday 10 July 2002 07:14 pm, tom brinkman wrote: That's not a guess, usin closed source SW/drivers IS. Your choice, but it has an effect on all of us, and not for the better Once again I ask the question, what video

Re: [newbie] directory sizes

2002-07-11 Thread tom brinkman
On Thursday 11 July 2002 10:51 am, Miark wrote: Except if you use -h, then -b is implied, so you don't need it. Miark Robt. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Ross Pearson wrote: I'm having difficulty finding a way to display the total size of a directory and all

Re: [newbie] directory sizes

2002-07-11 Thread Randy Kramer
Robt. Miller wrote: On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Ross Pearson wrote: I'm having difficulty finding a way to display the total size of a directory and all its contents while at a console. Can anyone give any pointers please. du -b -h On my system this seems to show only subdirectories within a

Re: [newbie] Reconfiguring X

2002-07-11 Thread Travis Crook
Travis Crook wrote: Hi all, I recently changed video cards in my machine. How do I reconfigure X to work with the new card? Didn't it find the card when you rebooted? Yes, but didn't configure it properly. If not maybe kudzu isn't set to run at startup. or the card

[newbie] Grip ... gain adjustment

2002-07-11 Thread Rainer
hello, thanks for the help with the lame encoder, it worked fine and twice as fast as ogg. the sound levels are low though and i read through the help manual for grip and they talked about gain adjustment in the config/rip window. i find this a bit confusing, setting gain with the outlined

[newbie] How to install Open Office?

2002-07-11 Thread Josef Lowder
I just obtained an Open Office CD from cheapbytes, but I cannot find any installation instructions on the CD. How does one install Open Office from this CD? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] directory sizes

2002-07-11 Thread Miark
The last du list is ./ which is the same as the total. Or do my eyes deceive me? Miark tom brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: I've always used 'du -ch' Seems to give the same output as -bh, but also gives a grand total. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Attachments

2002-07-11 Thread civileme
Taras Panio wrote: It does not look like Open Office problem. Even MSWord itself (!) can not read .doc attachments, saved under Linux, and gives a message unidentified format. All other Linux text editors (KWord, etc.) open attached *.doc's like plain text also. - Original Message -

Re: [newbie] How to install Open Office?

2002-07-11 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Josef Lowder wrote: I just obtained an Open Office CD from cheapbytes, but I cannot find any installation instructions on the CD. How does one install Open Office from this CD? Josef, can list for me the contents of the CD? -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever

Re: [newbie] IBM Hard Drives?

2002-07-11 Thread Stephen Britton
Western Digital drives are by far the worst you can get. Thanks for the heads-up on Western Digital. I have been using WD hard drives for the past five years and have never had any problems. I had once WD 8 gig IDE drive run a file and print server for more than 100 straight days without a

Re: [newbie] directory sizes

2002-07-11 Thread tom brinkman
On Thursday 11 July 2002 12:42 pm, Miark wrote: The last du list is ./ which is the same as the total. Or do my eyes deceive me? Miark tom brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: I've always used 'du -ch' Seems to give the same output as -bh, but also gives a grand total. Yeah,

Re: [newbie] Perl

2002-07-11 Thread Stephen Britton
So, It's not exclusively a linux programmers language ? The others use it too. It's better for some things like internet use perhaps ? One of the many great things about Perl is it can run just about anywhere. Perl is used on Windoze NT, Win2000, Linux. Solaris, etc. It has even been ported

Re: [newbie] How to install Open Office?

2002-07-11 Thread Josef Lowder
On Thursday 11 July 2002 10:52, you wrote: On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Josef Lowder wrote: I just obtained an Open Office CD from cheapbytes, but I cannot find any installation instructions on the CD. How does one install Open Office from this CD? Josef, can list for me the contents of the

Re: [newbie] How to install Open Office?

2002-07-11 Thread Josef Lowder
Thanks for the tips. I'm sticking with 8.1 for now because I've heard/read of so many problems with 8.2 and kde 3 and I can't take the risk of messing up my stable install. ;)) On Thursday 11 July 2002 11:33, you wrote: Extract the files from this tarball and you'll likely find a file

RE: [newbie] Web Page

2002-07-11 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Quanta, and bluefish are both included, and are decent html editors, is that's what you're looking for. Also, openoffice staroffice both have builtin html editors. Hope that helps. -Original Message- From: robert macdonald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 2:59

Re: [newbie] How to install Open Office?

2002-07-11 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Josef Lowder wrote: On Thursday 11 July 2002 10:52, you wrote: On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Josef Lowder wrote: I just obtained an Open Office CD from cheapbytes, but I cannot find any installation instructions on the CD. How does one install Open Office from this CD?

[newbie] KDE 3.1 alpha1

2002-07-11 Thread Azrael
Anyone know of a url for binaries of KDE 3.1 alpha1? many thanks -- Azrael (\''/).___..--'''-._ `0_ O ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' .' ((i).-'' ((i).' (((.-' Of all

Re: [newbie] Perl

2002-07-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 11 Jul 2002 3:02 am, you wrote: This months issue of Linux Magazine talks about Perl and scripting languages in general. Apologies for the hijack. Is Linux Magazine available here in the U.K.? Or is there a web site or the possibility of subscribing? Linus Format is the

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.1 alpha1

2002-07-11 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 11 July 2002 8:49 pm, Azrael wrote: Anyone know of a url for binaries of KDE 3.1 alpha1? There are none for Mandrake yet - the URL http://www.kde.org/info/3.1.html points to SuSE binaries only. (It will doubtless be mirrored early

[newbie] Fwd: What is NTP?

2002-07-11 Thread Chris Pollock
Last night I somehow lost my printer setup. I booted off the install cd to reinstall it. When the install got to the summary showing the keyboard, moust, printer, and time setting, I clicked ok. I then got an error: output in file /mnt/etc/ntp/step-tickers failed. no such file are directory.

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

2002-07-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 11 Jul 2002 2:27 am, you wrote: July 6, 2002 03:56 am, Anne Wilson wrote: snip As an aside - I was a teenager in the late '50s. An article I read recently highlighted the lifestyle cost in comparative terms. I found that the simple record player I bought then cost the

Re: [newbie] Reconfiguring X

2002-07-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 11 July 2002 02:52 pm, you wrote: This is what Civileme said: The hardware detector is NO GOOD on new video cards. You need new software for the new card. Drop in your 8.1 install CD#1 and boot selecting expert Update Skip everything with a cancel except for the X

Re: [newbie] Web Page

2002-07-11 Thread robin
Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: Can someone give me some info? Wondering what other webpage creating software there is for linux other than cgi? Thanks much _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger:

Re: [newbie] sound problems (the political aspect)

2002-07-11 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 11 July 2002 08:03 am, Mark Stewart did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: If all you need is good 2D then Matrox or ATi have open source drivers and their older models can be found for under $100 easily. I haven't heard of any

Re: [newbie] shell script

2002-07-11 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 15:16:03 + Rosella Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi everybody, I would like to write a simple script, but i need your help! what I would like to do is to execute a file 10, 100 times without opening 10, 100 differnet shells. the file I want to execute is 'sendapi'

Re: [newbie] App like M$ Project

2002-07-11 Thread Dion Jensen
I have to second that one. MrProject is quite close to the real thing (sorry, but MS had made a good tool there) - but with a little effort and some input from Project Managers, mrproject should be a good option. Regards Dion Jensen Alastair Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

[newbie] How to ask questions the smart way.

2002-07-11 Thread Mike Larson
I found this link on another mailing list. It should be required reading for all... http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#AEN353 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Laptop question

2002-07-11 Thread FemmeFatale
Bill Spatz wrote: On Wednesday 10 July 2002 19:10, Femme wrote: Trust me Nick, thats the first thing I tried! It says it will boot off teh CD when I set it in the BIOS, but it doesn't work *scratching my head on that one!*. Heh, next suggestion? Femme Femme, Mine did the same thing

Re: [newbie] Laptop question

2002-07-11 Thread FemmeFatale
Steve Borrett wrote: Hi Femme, What about a network install? I have done these a number of times, both from a LAN and from the internet and they worked fine, a bit slow, but fine. regards, Steve. If I can get teh right cable, I'd be happy to do it! :) I'll poke around for one,

Re: [newbie] Perl

2002-07-11 Thread FemmeFatale
Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 11 Jul 2002 3:02 am, you wrote: This months issue of Linux Magazine talks about Perl and scripting languages in general. Apologies for the hijack. Is Linux Magazine available here in the U.K.? Or is there a web site or the possibility of

[newbie] Can we make a legal charge against Creative Labs. ?

2002-07-11 Thread Riestyarta Adinugraha
Hi people This morning i just thinking and guest and wondering if Creative didn't closed down The Aureal it will be a such wonderful day For us Aureal user isn't it. So i just thinking why cant why make a charge for Creative because, when he ( Labs. ) take a part on Aureal so did he

[newbie] installation

2002-07-11 Thread Alexandre
Bonjour, Comment installer une Mandrake 8.2 ? Je n'ai pas de graveur de cd, suis-je obligé de télécharger tout le répertoire /mandrake et /install qui pour volume fait 2 giga et non pas 1 giga comme décrit sur le site ou puis je tout de même télécharger les images iso et lancer une

RE: [newbie] Can we make a legal charge against Creative Labs. ?

2002-07-11 Thread Franki
were any of you paying customers? if not, then legal action is unlikely to be successful.. since what they were doing is more akin to charity then paid work. Were other companies funding the work? if so, then is possible that something could be done, but all it would take is for Creative to show