Re: [newbie-it] immagini

2002-07-12 Thread Roberto
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 1:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] immagini ormai utilizzo win sempre meno e per cose sempre meno importanti, fondamentali... per me win sta diventando una specie di videogioco... Su, su

[newbie-it] ctrl+alt+canc versione linux

2002-07-12 Thread Roberto
Esiste una combinazione di tasti in linux che svolga il lavoro del ctrl+alt+canc di win?

Re: [newbie-it] ctrl+alt+canc versione linux

2002-07-12 Thread Marco Forti
Esiste una combinazione di tasti in linux che svolga il lavoro del ctr l+alt+canc di win? man ps ciao Marco

Re: [newbie-it] ctrl+alt+canc versione linux

2002-07-12 Thread Fabio Manunza
Alle 15:08, venerdì 12 luglio 2002, hai scritto: Esiste una combinazione di tasti in linux che svolga il lavoro del ctrl+alt+canc di win? Kill Questa funzione ti permette di terminare, in maniera più o meno violenta, il processo indesiderato. Ti rimando, ovviamente, a man kill (e visto che ci

[newbie-it] passaggio da win a linux

2002-07-12 Thread caspar
vorrei togliere definitivamente win, c'e' un modo per portate i messaggi di poste OE ad un gestore di posta sotto linux? cià Caspar Bisogna avere in sé il caos per partorire una stella che danzi. Home Page http://caspar.interfree.it/caspar.htm

[newbie-it] Avvio da dischetto e risoluzione vga

2002-07-12 Thread Giuseppe Ferruzzi
Premetto che con lilo sapevo modificare la risoluzione della sessione modalità testo in lilo.conf dando un valore appropriato alla riga vga, per esempio vga= 0x0318. Ora in una fase d'installazione avendo scelto di installare il s.o. Linux con avvio da dischetto senza nessun bootloader non

Re: [newbie-it] passaggio da win a linux

2002-07-12 Thread LukenShiro
In un altro luogo e in un altro tempo, caspar esclamo': vorrei togliere definitivamente win, c'e' un modo per portate i messaggi di poste OE ad un gestore di posta sotto linux? Con Kmail c'e' un apposito programma convertitore che importa le mail dal formato utilizzato da OE -- L.U. #210970

Re: [newbie-it] Win modem motorola sm56pci (fwd)

2002-07-12 Thread LukenShiro
In un altro luogo e in un altro tempo, tom esclamo': Building driver... `/usr/local/sm56/sm56.o' - `/lib/modules/2.4.18-6mdk/kernel/drivers/char/sm56.o' Creating device /dev/sm56... Pointing /dev/modem to /dev/sm56... Adding SM56 to /etc/modules.conf... Ecco, perfetto: ti ha creato il

Re: [newbie-it] Win modem motorola sm56pci (fwd)

2002-07-12 Thread tom
Alle 20:44, venerdì 12 luglio 2002, hai scritto: Fai in modo che prima di connetterti col modem quel driver venga caricato (p.es. con modprobe sm56, dopo aver dato un depmod -a) Ho fatto come mi hai detto, ma la shell mi da delle risposte poco rassicuranti per quel che ne capisco io!

[newbie-it] come difendersi dai barbari

2002-07-12 Thread arwan
Sabato e domenica... i giorni da dedicare a linux (per mettere a posto problemucci vari) Orbene: il problema della settimana e': se io volessi condividere il mio PC con una seconda persona, che *non deve* usare linux e, soprattutto, *non deve* avere alcuna minima possibilita' di mettere le

[newbie-it] Finestre a spasso simili

2002-07-12 Thread arwan
Ogni volta che riaccendo KDE e lancio konqueror, la finestra mi appare in alto sulla destra (e la vorrei in centro). Stessa cosa quando dico nuova mail da mkail: come posso dire a kde che voglio le nuove finestre in centro allo schermo? E poi (questa e' una cosa che mi fa andare veramente in

[newbie] Fw: installation

2002-07-12 Thread Alexandre
- Original Message - From: Alexandre To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 7:51 AM Subject: installation 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

[newbie] systime running slow

2002-07-12 Thread Holger Neven
Hi, I am running Mandrake 8.2 with Gnome on my Laptop for about a week now and everything is working just right. Well, everything but the systime, it is running slow, about 10 Minutes an hour. The hwclock though is working fine, but on reboot, the system seems to set the hwclock by systime,

Re: [newbie] installation

2002-07-12 Thread pascal
Bonjour! D'abourd, pourriez-vous eviter d'ecrire en HTML. Merci. > 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

Re: [newbie] Laptop question

2002-07-12 Thread Ron Bouwhuis
Femme, Might not be a burner problem. An old Toshiba laptop of mine refused to read CDs I had burnt (ML 8.0 download). I had used CD-RWs, which had worked fine on my newer computers. I then tried using plain CD-Rs and the Tosh was fine. Just a thought, Ron. --- FemmeFatale [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Laptop question

2002-07-12 Thread FemmeFatale
Ron Bouwhuis wrote: Femme, Might not be a burner problem. An old Toshiba laptop of mine refused to read CDs I had burnt (ML 8.0 download). I had used CD-RWs, which had worked fine on my newer computers. I then tried using plain CD-Rs and the Tosh was fine. Just a thought, Ron.

Re: [newbie] systime running slow

2002-07-12 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 12 July 2002 7:41 am, Holger Neven wrote: Hi, I am running Mandrake 8.2 with Gnome on my Laptop for about a week now and everything is working just right. Well, everything but the systime, it is running slow, about 10 Minutes an hour.

Re: [newbie] kdm configure not working.

2002-07-12 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 12 Jul 2002 7:50 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote: Thanks for the rersponse. When I did this kde3 kdm starts. butit doesn't have the kde option. Hence kde2 is started. Because of this I reverted to old condition and added in loginconfig/sessions kde3. Then I did the above to get kde3 kdm.

Re: Re: [newbie] systime running slow

2002-07-12 Thread fhwi93ne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 12.07.02 09:59:45: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 12 July 2002 7:41 am, Holger Neven wrote: Hi, I am running Mandrake 8.2 with Gnome on my Laptop for about a week now and everything is working just right. Well, everything but the

Re: [newbie] Fw: installation

2002-07-12 Thread _nasturtium
On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 16:14, Alexandre wrote: 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

[newbie] Sound Is Impossible

2002-07-12 Thread Daryl Johnson
It's taken me 4 weeks of fairly constant tinkering, adjustment and experimentation to arrive at the conclusion that it is impossible to configure my sound card - which seems remarkable as in most ways it is getting recognised. Forgive the long post but if anyone has anything constructive to

[newbie] Sound Is Impossible

2002-07-12 Thread Daryl Johnson
It's taken me 4 weeks of fairly constant tinkering, adjustment and experimentation to arrive at the conclusion that it is impossible to configure my sound card - which seems remarkable as in most ways it is getting recognised. Forgive the long post but if anyone has anything constructive to

Re: Re: [newbie] systime running slow

2002-07-12 Thread Derek Jennings
Note ntpdate is in the ntp RPM on your install CD It works fine in a cron job derek On Friday 12 Jul 2002 9:46 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 12.07.02 09:59:45: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 12 July 2002 7:41 am, Holger Neven

Re: [newbie] Laptop question

2002-07-12 Thread Bill Spatz
Well Bill I'm baffled. Truly...because the CD's I stuck into that lapdogs CDRom are the same ones I used to load MDK on my desktop machine. HOwever, in the interest of scientific curiousity, I shall try loading MDK 8.0 which is a store bought copy. If it works I know its a burner

Re[2]: [newbie] Gnome 2.0

2002-07-12 Thread Roman Korcek
Hi Sridhar, Now, the question would be, what do I need to download in order to upgrade Gnome to v2.0? Gnome.org points to Cooker which contains many gnome-* files, however, which ones are 2.0 ones? Some of them are new, some are from March. Which ones do I need? With KDE3 one knew he had to

Re: [newbie] Fwd: What is NTP?

2002-07-12 Thread bascule
ntp is to do with syncing time, there are two ways to use it, everynow and then you can run: $ntpdate timeserver which will connect to the specified timeserver and sync your system time with that of the timeserver, the other way is to run ntp or its earlier incarnation xntp as a daemon, this

[newbie] Samba logs

2002-07-12 Thread Anne Wilson
I hav just found the Samba logs. They seem to indicate that everyone is trying to log on as nobody (I think that's the guest a/c, isn't it). Here are the last few lines of each: log.smbd [2002/07/09 21:02:24, 0] smbd/server.c:main(698) smbd version 2.2.3a started.

[newbie] Success of a sort!

2002-07-12 Thread Anne Wilson
I now have two printers and three directories shared sucessfully, after a fashion. The problem is that clearly they are logging in as nobody, so that they do not have the correct permissions. I have checked that Micky can read from Anne_Public, write to it, but she can't delete - I think it

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

2002-07-12 Thread John Richard Smith
Joe Harkins wrote: So, if someone has some practical advice that can get an installed and functioning and stable Mandrake, I will be truly grateful and ready to give it one more try. But if not, at least (God forgive me saying this) I have a stable and functioning WIN XP on the primary

[newbie] Mandrake 8.2 on Compaq Armada 7800 (sound problem)

2002-07-12 Thread Buzek, Tom R.
I have done the install on this laptop already, my question is how do I go back and configure the soundcard without reinstalling the OS again. TIA Tom Tom Buzek Reliant Resources, Inc. IT Corporate Systems FileNet Administrator Office 713.934.5260 Mobile 713.582.1165 Want to buy your

RE: [newbie] 102.4 Mb limit with ftp?

2002-07-12 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Marc Sorry it took me a while to answer this one. You need to fix /etc/security/limits.conf There is a setting in there that sets the file size limit to 100mb. just change that to something more acceptable to your situation, and all will be fine. Ric -Original Message- From: Marc

RE: [newbie] Now the fun part: Ric's tid-bits

2002-07-12 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
et; Took me a while to see this. I've been busy, and the e-Mail got backed up. No offence taken. ;) Seen it before, in many variations. FWIW: Posting seems to be working better these days. Ric -Original Message- From: et [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 12:35

RE: [newbie] Backgrounds for Gnome on LM8.2??

2002-07-12 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
www.themes.org Best resource out there. Ric -Original Message- From: LeaAnne Kolp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 8:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Backgrounds for Gnome on LM8.2?? Hello, I'm new to the board, in fact, just joined a few

[newbie] problems with /etc/fstab

2002-07-12 Thread Terry Sheltra
Thanks to everyone that helped me with my USB 250MB zip drive. Unfortunately, it didn't work automagically as I had hoped, so I had to make a manual entry in my /etc/fstab file. Which leads me to my small problem. I have 3 entries that I manually added to /etc/fstab to mount 2 NFS

Re: [newbie] Perl

2002-07-12 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 12 Jul 2002 6:43 am, you wrote: 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

RE: [newbie] Sound

2002-07-12 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN
In Xmms options, look at output plugin. If using KDE set for Arts. I can use OSS even though I use KDE. Change the setting and try it. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Marcia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 6:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Sound

2002-07-12 Thread Marcia
On Friday 12 July 2002 11:45 am, you wrote: In Xmms options, look at output plugin. If using KDE set for Arts. I can use OSS even though I use KDE. Change the setting and try it. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB Dear Brian, Thank you for your help. I have not been able to get my arts

RE: [newbie] Sound

2002-07-12 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN
In the KDE Control center, under sound i believe. There is the option to start arts on startup. Other than that I am out of help. I have a SBLive and it works great. Good Luck Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Marcia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July

[newbie] Ten Things Wrong with Linux

2002-07-12 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Doubtless this will provoke some discussion! http://people.trustcommerce.com/~adam/top10/wrong.html Unfortunately, there are several things wrong with the article: i. I don't agree with the argument in 1, which carries the danger of falling into

[newbie] xmms for CD

2002-07-12 Thread Anne Wilson
I want to make xmms mydefault player for CDs as well as mp3s. How can I do that? Failing that, is there an easy way to tell it to play the CD after it has been playing mp3s? I've gone twice round the houses trying to do this. I managed it, but I'm not sure how! Anne Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] xmms for CD

2002-07-12 Thread Miark
Choose Play location and enter /mnt/cdrom or wherever you put your CDs. Miark Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: I want to make xmms mydefault player for CDs as well as mp3s. How can I do that? Failing that, is there an easy way to tell it to play the CD after it has been playing

[newbie] Solaris Driver to Linux Driver Portation

2002-07-12 Thread Jatin Sharma
Does anyone know some kinda guide to port Solaris devicedriver to Linux device driver? I have so many question related to it.One of them is:How do I find which is a slave slot in Linux which is solaris could be found by ddi_slaveonly(). Please help me. Thanks, Jatin

[newbie] DVD in 8.2

2002-07-12 Thread Roger Sherman
Is Xine the preferred DVD viewing app? I just tried watching a DVD in 8.2 for the first time (actually, I've never viewed a DVD in any previous Mandrake, or linux, for that matter...), and watching it in Xine crashed X. Is there an updated Xine that I should be using, or a different program?

RE: [newbie] DVD in 8.2

2002-07-12 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN
For DVD playback, I prefer Ogle instead of Xine. Xine can read a lot of different formats, but Ogle for me plays DVD's better. You may want to look at Mplayer even, though I find it a real pain. Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB -Original Message- From: Roger Sherman [mailto:[EMAIL

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

2002-07-12 Thread Joe Harkins
Thanks for the good questions that offer some promise of a possible solution. I really am not down on Mandrake. Just frustrated. But I'll get over it. I may not be able to pull the response together until tomorrow but I'll post the info as soon as I can. I'm on my way out the door to attend

Re: [newbie] directory sizes

2002-07-12 Thread Moshe Kaminsky
Add -a as an option to du. Moshe * Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020711 20:01]: 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

Re: [newbie] DVD in 8.2

2002-07-12 Thread Miark
Well, it's not _my_ preferred app. I like Ogle: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/ Miark Roger Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: Is Xine the preferred DVD viewing app? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] Ten Things Wrong with Linux

2002-07-12 Thread Hughes, Michael
I am fairly new to linux, I have only been using it for 2 months now and that is not even an everyday thing. It's more like a weekend thing. Anyway I find this article a bunch of crap. There are tons of web browers that work great with linux, even Konq does a good job #2 is not an issue. I

[newbie] new install success .... But 2 simple question

2002-07-12 Thread freeman
I have been running mandrake 8.0 until recently and have had fairly good success with it. I recently formated and did a fresh install of the newest version 8.2 (I think:)and everthing went well except for 2 things perhaps someone could help me out for I am new at this! - I have been hosting

[newbie] DHCP Revisited

2002-07-12 Thread Frank McKenna
Hi All, I found a great link for setting up DHCP at http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP/ I ran ifconfig -a as root and received the following message: eth0 Link encap:Ethernett HWaddr 00:A0:24:E9:1F;9C inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast 192.168.0.255 Mask 255.255.255.0

Re: [newbie] launching apps from terminal

2002-07-12 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 19:09:26 -0400 Bill Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 18:15:50 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to launch a gui program from a terminal, then have the same terminal available to do other stuff? Sure. Just put a '' after

Re: [newbie] launching apps from terminal

2002-07-12 Thread Carlos Arigos
El Vie 12 Jul 2002 19:15, Todd Slater escribió: Is it possible to launch a gui program from a terminal, then have the same terminal available to do other stuff? I think yes. Open a terminal and. by example, type: 'kover ' then type 'xmms' or 'ls' (without quotes). Suerte --

[newbie] three questions

2002-07-12 Thread Stephen Britton
Hi Folks, I have three questions that I can't seem to figure out with Mandrake 8.2. 1.) How do I change the name of my machine? While I was installing Mandrake, I didn't put in a name, and the default was dhcppc5. I would like to change it to something more suitable. 2.) How do I edit

Re: [newbie] Ten Things Wrong with Linux

2002-07-12 Thread tom brinkman
On Friday 12 July 2002 12:52 pm, Alastair Scott wrote: Doubtless this will provoke some discussion! http://people.trustcommerce.com/~adam/top10/wrong.html Unfortunately, there are several things wrong with the article: The article takes most things from a 'the situation is an OS

Re: [newbie] Fwd: What is NTP?

2002-07-12 Thread Chris Pollock
On Friday 12 July 2002 06:42 am, you wrote: ntp is to do with syncing time, there are two ways to use it, everynow and then you can run: Thanks very much, I'll give your suggestions a try and see what happens. Applogies that I posted this same question another time or two, it didn't show up

Re: [newbie] kdm configure not working.

2002-07-12 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I think user problem can be solved by running configuration/KDE/System/login manager as root and selecting user tab. In this tab copy users from remaining users to selected user only users that are going to login. Then in show users select radio button selected users. This works for me. Even I

Re: [newbie] xmms for CD

2002-07-12 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 12 July 2002 06:20 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I,ve tryed the same thing I was told to use ART driver then told use OSS driver my CD player work,s ,I have sound but nothing work,s in Xmms if you get it please let me know. I tried that, but it didn't work. At least it didn't

Re: [newbie] three questions

2002-07-12 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 12 July 2002 09:08 pm, Stephen Britton wrote: Hi Folks, I have three questions that I can't seem to figure out with Mandrake 8.2. 1.) How do I change the name of my machine? While I was installing Mandrake, I didn't put in a name, and the default was dhcppc5. I would like to

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

2002-07-12 Thread tom brinkman
On Friday 12 July 2002 04:20 pm, Mark Stewart wrote: Hi Tom, Howdy yourself ethical? as in Micro$soft ? Gosh, no. Their complete lack of ethics is the reason I abhor Microsoft. There ya go [ Optional, but requested, is quit buyin Dells. Then they wouldn't have so damn

Re: [newbie] Ten Things Wrong with Linux

2002-07-12 Thread dfox
i. I don't agree with the argument in 1, which carries the danger of=20 falling into the the 'designed for Internet Explorer' trap; the more=20 Neither do I. konwqueror is pretty good, and so is mozilla. Basically I use either one, depending on what I need to do. And IE can't browse cvs like

Re: [newbie] Sound

2002-07-12 Thread dfox
and onboard video. Everything worked right away including the the network card, except for some sound. I can play a music CD with no problem and here Marcia - hey great that you got a new computer :). It's faster than mine :(. Anyway, if xmms doesn't work maybe the kde media player, or

Re: [newbie] launching apps from terminal

2002-07-12 Thread Len Lawrence
On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Bill Davidson wrote: On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 18:15:50 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to launch a gui program from a terminal, then have the same terminal available to do other stuff? Sure. Just put a '' after the command to send it to the

[newbie] NVidia 4 video card and XF86

2002-07-12 Thread DreemWizard
Has anyone had any probs trying to get an Nvidia card working under Drake 8.2? Andrew

Re: [newbie] NVidia 4 video card and XF86

2002-07-12 Thread Jay
Nope, i have run a GeForce 2 GTS and GeForce 3 Ti200 without any problems.. Nvidia's drivers work great Has anyone had any probs trying to get an Nvidia card working under Drake 8.2? Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com