Re: [newbie-it] Aliasing e Fonts

2002-07-17 Thread Pollo
Il mar, 2002-07-16 alle 21:48, miKe ha scritto: Mi è successa una cosa strana! Premetto che uso Gnome su Mdk8.2. Un giorno quando ho avviato il sistema ho notato che tutti i caratteri usati nei vari word-processor (Abiword, Staroffice...), nei browser (Mozilla, Galeon...) e in altre

Re: [newbie-it] domanda...

2002-07-17 Thread Pollo
Il sab, 2002-04-13 alle 02:02, Brunini Alessandro ha scritto: Il sab, 2002-04-13 alle 01:53, Brunini Alessandro ha scritto: Salve alla lista. Vi pongo un nuovo quesito. Ho installato, grazie al Mandrake Control Center, i font True Type. Vorrei sapere come fare per dire al

[newbie-it] mdk e winXP su notebook...

2002-07-17 Thread Max Di Casola
vorrei ringraziare tutti per i contributi! mi sono fatto un quadro sufficientemente chiaro della situazione! ciao a tutti! -- * * * Fratelli, perchè c'è bisogno del leone nello spirito? Perchè non basta la bestia da soma che rinuncia e venera? Creare nuovi valori - ciò non può fare ancora

Re: [newbie-it] Installazione su pc non mio

2002-07-17 Thread tom
Alle 19:28, martedì 16 luglio 2002, hai scritto: mandrake non e' proprio parca in quanto a spazio richiesto, poi, usandola, crescera' sicuramente, ed il tuo amico molto presto potrebbe volere altro spazio, per cui.. [cut] gia' speriamo che lo converta definitivamente :P

Re: [newbie-it] Installazione su pc non mio

2002-07-17 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 17:27, mercoledì 17 luglio 2002, tom in merito a Re: [newbie-it] Installazione su pc non mio ha scritto: che tipo di partizionamente conviene scegliere? la solita / , swap , home ? Oppure solo / , swap? e come filesystem l' ext3? mi pare

[newbie-it] Portatile e Desktop, uniti nella sfiga

2002-07-17 Thread Stefano Sebastiani
Con il sudore di un anno di doppio lav (o quasi) ho comprato un portatile e un pc da casa nuovo!!! Ma ogni rosa ha le sue spine!! 1) Su entrambi i compiuter c'è una nvidia geforce 4, ho scaricato i due file dal sito invidia ma ho un problema libGLcore! non le trovo anche se sembra che esse

Re: [newbie-it] Aliasing e Fonts

2002-07-17 Thread LukenShiro
Il 17/07/02 alle 12:11, Mr Pollo borbotto': copi i ttf in una cartella, es /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF che impostrai come fontdir nel fontpath di XF86Config, Come faccio a modifica reil fontpath come mi hai suggerito? Mi scuso per l'inserimento abusivo nel thread ;P miKe ha

Re: [newbie-it] Portatile e Desktop, uniti nella sfiga

2002-07-17 Thread LukenShiro
Il 17/07/02 alle 20:10, Mr Stefano Sebastiani borbotto': 1) Su entrambi i compiuter c'è una nvidia geforce 4, ho scaricato i due file dal sito invidia ma ho un problema libGLcore! non le trovo anche se sembra che esse ci siano (forse col pacchetto mesa!?!) che fare? Devi leggere bene il

Re: [newbie-it] Dizionario

2002-07-17 Thread freefred
On Tuesday 16 July 2002 15:30, Emiliano, talkin' about [newbie-it] Dizionario wrote: Ciao a tutti, C'è un comando o un programma che mi permetta di tradurre parole dall'inglese all'italiano? c'e' un applet che ti si mette nel panel del kde (dovrebbe essere gia' installata) che ti richiama

Re: [newbie] How to get CD Player to work?

2002-07-17 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 16 Jul 2002 11:57 pm, Josef Lowder wrote: How can I get CD Player to work? Got the following error message: CDROM read or access error (or no audio disc in drive). Please make sure you have access permissions to /dev/cdrom There is a music CD in the CD drive There is no

Re: [newbie] fstab (long post)

2002-07-17 Thread John Richard Smith
Frank McKenna wrote: Hi All, In two previous posts I submitted the following. I only saw the first appear so I am resending both messages as one. Sorry for the long post I decided to put an old Creative DVD 2 X in a Mandrake 8.1 box along with a 32 X CD-ROM. Unfortunately, only

RE: [newbie] Postfix listening on port 25

2002-07-17 Thread Ross Pearson
I think that you could take it off your external interface.. in /etc/postfix/main.cf I think you would look at inet_interfaces but don't do that unless you have your mail client to use your ISP's mail server.. then you can just turn postfix off. service postfix stop Thanks for that

[newbie] Mozilla

2002-07-17 Thread John Richard Smith
Two Questions:- a) Is there no spell checker available. b) How can I get my composer window to come up with fixed width as default, rather than variable width. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Mozilla

2002-07-17 Thread Jure Repinc
John Richard Smith wrote: Two Questions:- a) Is there no spell checker available. b) How can I get my composer window to come up with fixed width as default, rather than variable width. John a) There is none available yet. But they are developing an opensource spell checker. Take a

Re: [newbie] Mozilla

2002-07-17 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 17 Jul 2002 10:46 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Two Questions:- a) Is there no spell checker available. b) How can I get my composer window to come up with fixed width as default, rather than variable width. John Well I have not used it, but there is a mozilla add on here:-

Re: [newbie] virus filtering?

2002-07-17 Thread Roman Korcek
Hi, what software would you recommend for scanning for (microsoft) viruses on a linux mail server? I'd recommend NOD from Eset, http://www.nod32.com/products/unix.htm , you can check how it performed against other AV products at the Virus Bulletin page -

Re: [newbie] recommendation needed: graphic card w open source drivers

2002-07-17 Thread Stormjumper
sorry. so to go back to the original question, the best open source driver 3d card now is voodoo3? - Original Message - From: Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 3:37 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] recommendation needed: graphic card w open

Re: [newbie] 3Com USR Modem Installation

2002-07-17 Thread Joe Harkins
Derek, I appreciate the advice. Based upon the certainty with which you state it, it appears you know what I need to do. But I am not able to follow the instructions without more details. Please understand that I am humbled by all these new Linux terms and concepts. I started using a computer

Re: [newbie] 3Com USR Modem Installation

2002-07-17 Thread Terry Sheltra
Joe, I can help with the first part of what you need to do. At the bottom of the screen on the panel (ala Window$ taskbar), you should see an icon shaped like a house. This will open up a Konqueror window in your home directory (/home/username). In the Konqueror window, look for the View

Re: FW: [newbie] setting up a dnscache.

2002-07-17 Thread Randy Kramer
Zeynal, I have taken the liberty of quoting a significant portion or all of your email on WikiLearn. See http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/DnsResources and http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/QuotedEmailsLetter. If you have any comments, suggestions, or objections, please let me

Re: [newbie] Mozilla

2002-07-17 Thread John Richard Smith
Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 17 Jul 2002 10:46 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Two Questions:- a) Is there no spell checker available. b) How can I get my composer window to come up with fixed width as default, rather than variable width. John Well I have not used it, but there

Re: [newbie] 3Com USR Modem Installation

2002-07-17 Thread Derek Jennings
No problemo we are all newbies here. Its just a matter of degree.. On Wednesday 17 Jul 2002 2:09 pm, Joe Harkins wrote: Derek, I appreciate the advice. Based upon the certainty with which you state it, it appears you know what I need to do. But I am not able to follow the instructions

Re: [newbie] Mozilla

2002-07-17 Thread John Richard Smith
Jure Repinc wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Two Questions:- a) Is there no spell checker available. b) How can I get my composer window to come up with fixed width as default, rather than variable width. John a) There is none available yet. But they are developing an opensource

Re: [newbie] Mozilla

2002-07-17 Thread Jure Repinc
John Richard Smith wrote: Ok, have done, but what about html compose windows. John Well if you compose HTML mail then a proportional font is used, I guess. I suggest you use plain text for mail and news messages. HTML is best used for web pages and should be avoided in mail and especialy

Re: [newbie] What have I done?

2002-07-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 16 Jul 2002 9:55 pm, you wrote: anne 4391 0.0 0.1 1792 596 pts/1R10:06 0:00 grep jabber A single grep output like that indicates no jabber running. I didn't think this was there - I don't use an instant messenger. And as I pointed out, I'm not sure it's

Re: [newbie] Mozilla

2002-07-17 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 17 Jul 2002 3:06 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 17 Jul 2002 10:46 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Two Questions:- a) Is there no spell checker available. b) How can I get my composer window to come up with fixed width as default, rather than

[newbie] Network fun!

2002-07-17 Thread Belkie, Dan
Hey Guys! a little background on my problem. I have a Mandrake box 8.0 acting as a kinda DSL router. It has 2 NIC cards. One with a Real IP and one with a non-routable (192.168.1.1) I have a web server on the inside on the following IP: 192.168.0.110 I have forwarding set up to send any

Re: [newbie] Email for root crons

2002-07-17 Thread Paul
In reply to Alan's mail, d.d. Wed, 17 Jul 2002 09:58:32 -0600: Does anyone know how to enable email response for crons that run under root? I get responses for other users, but not for root. Currently I an running LM 8.2. Just add MAILTO=your e-mail address to the top of root's crontab

Re: [newbie] Printing help pages

2002-07-17 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 17 Jul 2002 4:23 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Is there any way to print KDE help pages? The print icon is greyed out and Ctl-P doesn't work. I know I could copy text into a WP, but then I would have to snapshot pictures, etc, and it would be very long-winded. Anne I think this

Re: [newbie] New Hobby

2002-07-17 Thread et
On Thursday 18 July 2002 12:29 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 16 July 2002 9:04 pm, Carroll Grigsby did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Large bodies of water don't seem to make any difference -- most of them here are idiots, too. Say Linux and they get the panicked look of a deer

Re: [newbie] What have I done?

2002-07-17 Thread Derek Jennings
SNIP I'll keep trying whatever anyone can think of. There has to be a cause, as it was fine for weeks, and I'm determined to get it back to responsive. Anne Anne if I can jump back in on this thread. Can we go back to basics and check a few things. 1/ Your swap partition is mounted isnt

Re: [newbie] Mozilla

2002-07-17 Thread John Richard Smith
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday July 17 2002 09:09 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Jure Repinc wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Two Questions:- a) Is there no spell checker available. I just saw on cooker changelog list that mozilla...-8mdk rpm now includes a

[newbie] Helpful Hints

2002-07-17 Thread Mike Settle
This is an awesome link for help when installing a new distro! http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat/s/linux.setup.html Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Email for root crons

2002-07-17 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 09:58:32AM -0600, Alan Carbutt wrote: Does anyone know how to enable email response for crons that run under root? I get responses for other users, but not for root. Currently I an running LM 8.2. TIA -- Alan Carbutt You can set up an alias in /etc/aliases,

Re: [newbie] Mozilla

2002-07-17 Thread Marcia
Dear All, I am using Mozilla quite abit and I think I like it more than other browsers now. The only problem I have with it is that on my new Athlon XP +1600 system it seems to crash very easily after using it for 20 minutes or more. Infact after that amount of time then I cannot open my

[newbie] Fonts

2002-07-17 Thread Dale Huckeby
Hope this is a simple question (sometimes seems nothing in Linux ever is)? How do you change and/or resize the fonts used on the Gnome desktop? I'm running Mandrake 8.2. I tried drakfont and it talked about installing fonts, but it's not clear to me if *installing* a font is the same as

[newbie] First posted question.

2002-07-17 Thread Derek Byram
Hi all, My first question (of a few pending) to this super list is, Mandrake 8.2 clean install on an XP dual boot machine, specification below listed with as much detail as seems relavant. I have two machines with the same problem so suspect it may be related to the downloaded disks being

[newbie] Suggestion for Mozilla for next Mandrake distribution

2002-07-17 Thread Joseph Braddock
I figure this isn't the proper place for this, but maybe the right people will see it or forward it to Mandrake. I have a suggestion for Mandrake on a change to the Mozilla they ship with Mandrake. It would be really nice if a link for www.mandrakelinux.com was included in the personal

[newbie] Nightmare with 2 things .. help!

2002-07-17 Thread Terry Sheltra
ok, Mandrake is starting to give me nightmares. I am having 2 problems that I can not seem to fix. 1.) Mandrake absolutely refuses to keep the clock sync'd with the hardware clock. It always loses 4 hours, and when I shut the machine down, it THEN syncs with the hardware clock, forcing

[newbie] Printer calibration

2002-07-17 Thread Anne Wilson
Is there any way to colour calibrate a printer using the CUPS drivers? I'm using the HP-supplied driver, with CUPS. Is it safe (or even possible) to use the Gimp-Print+CUPS calibration? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Nightmare with 2 things .. help!

2002-07-17 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 17 Jul 2002 9:08 pm, Terry Sheltra wrote: ok, Mandrake is starting to give me nightmares. I am having 2 problems that I can not seem to fix. 1.) Mandrake absolutely refuses to keep the clock sync'd with the hardware clock. It always loses 4 hours, and when I shut the machine

[newbie] Booting problem with Mandrake 8.2 Win XP

2002-07-17 Thread Tor Harald Thorland
I have a huge problem with booting my pc My configuration was: Primary Master: Win XP Prof. Primary Slave: Mandrake Linux 8.2 Sec. Master: HD with MP3s Sec. Slave: CD-Rom I installed mandrake linux 8.2 with Lilo graphical boot loader and everything worked fine... Then my Primary slave

Re: [newbie] Booting problem with Mandrake 8.2 Win XP

2002-07-17 Thread Damian G
On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:01:41 +0200 Tor Harald Thorland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a huge problem with booting my pc My configuration was: Primary Master: Win XP Prof. Primary Slave: Mandrake Linux 8.2 Sec. Master: HD with MP3¨s Sec. Slave: CD-Rom I installed mandrake linux

Re: [newbie] running terminal apps from menu

2002-07-17 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 16 July 2002 3:26 pm, Bill Winegarden did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: and I have installed Wordperfect on it. It's from an old Maximum Linux cd. Anyway, I tried to add it to the menu under Office and under 'command' I use

Re: [newbie] Booting problem with Mandrake 8.2 Win XP

2002-07-17 Thread Brian Craft
On Thursday 18 July 2002 05:01 am, Tor Harald Thorland wrote: I have a huge problem with booting my pc My configuration was: Primary Master: Win XP Prof. Primary Slave: Mandrake Linux 8.2 Sec. Master: HD with MP3¨s Sec. Slave: CD-Rom I installed mandrake linux 8.2 with Lilo graphical

Re: [newbie] Printing help pages

2002-07-17 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 17 July 2002 12:17 pm, Derek Jennings did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I think this question should really be Why is my printer icon greyed out Mine isn't, and I can print Help pages. Can you print in other KDE apps?

[newbie] file transfer utility?

2002-07-17 Thread db
I'm a newbie and wish to transfer files from my networked Mandrake 8.2 machine to my home account on the university server. I'm sure mandrake comes with such a command line or xwindows utilty. Can anyone tell me what it's name is? If I know I am sure I can look up the man pages for using it.

Re: [newbie] file transfer utility?

2002-07-17 Thread et
even Konq (the default web browser and KDE file handler) can ftp and can connect to the folders on any other machine that allows you to. try it. the world is in your XFree86 file mangers, just like at your desktop On Wednesday 17 July 2002 06:13 pm, you wrote: I'm a newbie and wish to

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice

2002-07-17 Thread Paul Kaplan
Thanks for this and other replies...only problem is there does not appear to be a -net, --net, --net, --network, /net, or /network option for either /tmp/install/install, /tmp/install/setup, or /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0/setup. Are we all talking about OO1.0? Running /tmp/install/install

Re: [newbie] file transfer utility?

2002-07-17 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi, If I want to transfer files from my laptop to my home directory on the college server (win2k) I have to mount it as a drive. First create a directory in linux to 'show' your home directory in.something like 'school'.I created mine in the mnt directory where the rest

Re: [newbie] file transfer utility?

2002-07-17 Thread db
I don't think the KDE browser(s) has the security mechanisms required to connect accoss the university network to a /home account on the University mail server. It would obviously have to be able to ask for the account password for one thing ... can it do that? even Konq (the default web

Re: [newbie] First posted question.

2002-07-17 Thread civileme
Derek Byram wrote: Hi all, My first question (of a few pending) to this super list is, Mandrake 8.2 clean install on an XP dual boot machine, specification below listed with as much detail as seems relavant. I have two machines with the same problem so suspect it may be related to the

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice

2002-07-17 Thread Damian G
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 22:19:03 -0400 Paul Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for this and other replies...only problem is there does not appear to be a -net, --net, --net, --network, /net, or /network option for either /tmp/install/install, /tmp/install/setup, or

Re: [newbie] file transfer utility?

2002-07-17 Thread FemmeFatale
db wrote: I'm a newbie and wish to transfer files from my networked Mandrake 8.2 machine to my home account on the university server. I'm sure mandrake comes with such a command line or xwindows utilty. Can anyone tell me what it's name is? If I know I am sure I can look up the man

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice

2002-07-17 Thread Paul Kaplan
Thanks one and all for your help. I discovered the root ;-) of my problems. Turns out that a previous installation of OO build 641 had left .sversionrc in the user's home directory. (Strange that it wasn't in an OO subdirectory, however.) Anyway...deleted it and ran ./setup from the

[newbie] Alert error

2002-07-17 Thread Leonard W. Miller
Can somebody tell me what this means. I have the telnet server disabled and am using SSH. Thanks Leonard Summary output: localhost Group : servers Service : telnet Time noticed : Wed Jul 17 20:02:00 2002 Secs until next alert : Members

Re: [newbie] file transfer utility?

2002-07-17 Thread Bill Davidson
You didn't mention how you need to connect, but I'll assume you want to use ftp. In konquerer, enter [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you'll be prompted for a password. For a good command line utility, see man lftp. Bill On Wed, 17 Jul 2002 16:40:34 -0700 db [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think the

[newbie] Socketwatch/Network time protocol

2002-07-17 Thread Bob Read
Does Mandrake have a program similar to RoboMagic Software Corp's Socketwatch for Windows to maintain correct computor time? Bob -- Bob Read Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] IDE/SCSI CD

2002-07-17 Thread Linus Drouhard
On Tuesday 16 July 2002 12:16 pm, you wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Linus Drouhard wrote: Hi all, I really enjoy all the posts. I have a question that has stumped me. I have an old CD drive (40x) and a CD-RW (Ricoh MP7040A). Anyway, I set up both drives as SCSI devices.

[newbie] md5sum

2002-07-17 Thread jbarron201
Would someone tell how they are useing md5sum.Thee last iso I missed a file that cost me a headache.Thank,s Joe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] sudden logouts

2002-07-17 Thread g2
hi, can you give an idea on what to deal with because Im having this strange logouts whenever my xwindow is idle specially when Im in the virtual terminal console. whats got to do with this? my resolution config? my power saving? my screensaver? I did tried changing these but it didnt fixed

Re: [newbie] What have I done?

2002-07-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 18 Jul 2002 5:24 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday 17 July 2002 8:15 am, Anne Wilson did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I do need samba. Thanks fothe suggestions. I'll keep trying whatever anyone can think of. There has to be a cause, as it was fine for weeks, and I'm

Re: [newbie] Printing help pages

2002-07-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 17 Jul 2002 6:14 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday 17 Jul 2002 4:23 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Is there any way to print KDE help pages? The print icon is greyed out and Ctl-P doesn't work. I know I could copy text into a WP, but then I would have to snapshot pictures, etc, and it

Re: [newbie] What have I done?

2002-07-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 17 Jul 2002 5:04 pm, you wrote: SNIP I'll keep trying whatever anyone can think of. There has to be a cause, as it was fine for weeks, and I'm determined to get it back to responsive. Anne Anne if I can jump back in on this thread. Can we go back to basics and check a