[newbie-it] temi desktop

2002-07-18 Thread luigi
ciao a tutti e grazie in anticipo.. io ho scaricato da kde.com un tema desktop per il mio kde2... e una mdk8.2 il mio problema è generale perchè non ho ancora capito come cavolo si installano.. ad esempio: ho scaricato il file mosfet-liquid0.9.5.tar.gz l'ho estratto e poi: [gigi@localhost

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

2002-07-18 Thread LukenShiro
Il 18/07/02 alle 10:09, Mr Stefano Sebastiani borbotto': Devi leggere bene il file delle istruzioni che trovi sul sito di NVIDIA per le modifiche da apportare a (presumo) /etc/XF86Config-4 Ho seguito le istruzioni apparse su Linux C 4/25 pagina 34 e seguenti, ma non fa riferimento a che

Re: [newbie-it] divx

2002-07-18 Thread LukenShiro
Il 16/07/02 alle 13:59, Mr Brunini Alessandro borbotto': qualcuno sa dirmi quale sia un bel programmino, magari con una gui che mi converta i files vob (già decriptati) in divx? I vob sono file di formato DVD, no? Non ho esperienza diretta, ma c'e' un articolo a proposito su Linux Magazine di

Re: [newbie-it] scheda audio Guillemot

2002-07-18 Thread LukenShiro
Il 16/07/02 alle 13:01, Mr Giorgio Griffon borbotto': Vorrei un aiuto per far funzionare una scheda audio: si tratta di una Guillemot Maxi Sound Muse, piuttosto recente (2000), plugplay Dovresti provare ad installare i driver sonori ALSA (oltre alle librerie e alle utility), dopo aver

Re: [newbie-it] divx

2002-07-18 Thread Brunini Alessandro
Alle 14:20, giovedì 18 luglio 2002, hai scritto: Il 16/07/02 alle 13:59, Mr Brunini Alessandro borbotto': qualcuno sa dirmi quale sia un bel programmino, magari con una gui che mi converta i files vob (già decriptati) in divx? I vob sono file di formato DVD, no? Non ho esperienza diretta,

Re: [newbie-it] Dizionario

2002-07-18 Thread Emiliano La Licata
Alle 03:35, giovedì 18 luglio 2002, freefred ha scritto: Ci sono poi anche Qtrans per il kde e wordtrans. Ho installato Qtrans e per funzionare cerca nella directory /usr/share/ , il file nella directory /trans/babylon/English.dic di fatto la dir /trans e tutto resto non esiste e dunque

[newbie-it] nt

2002-07-18 Thread malagnini michele
ciao Sto cercando di configurare nt per avviare la connessione ed iniziare il download in automaticoad un orario prestabilito. Nel menu opzioni tempo posso lanciare i comando che voglio al tempo prestabilito. domanda 1 quale comando devo digitare per avviare la connessione alla rete col

Re: [newbie-it] Dizionario

2002-07-18 Thread Emiliano La Licata
Alle 18:19, giovedì 18 luglio 2002, Emiliano scritto: Ho installato Qtrans e per funzionare cerca nella directory /usr/share/ , il file nella directory /trans/babylon/English.dic di fatto la dir /trans e tutto resto non esiste e dunque devo crearla... sono andato su babylon.com e i

[newbie-it] CVS

2002-07-18 Thread luigi
ciao a tutti e grazie in anticipo io non ho ancora capito come cavolo bisogna comportarsi con le installazioni CVS se non avete voglia di spiegare...(ovvio..)... mi consigliate una guida per il popolo e magari anche il link? grazie GIGI

Re: [newbie-it] CVS

2002-07-18 Thread freefred
On Thursday 18 July 2002 15:29, luigi, talkin' about [newbie-it] CVS wrote: ciao a tutti e grazie in anticipo io non ho ancora capito come cavolo bisogna comportarsi con le installazioni CVS si' ma allora tutto quello che si dice a proposito del cross-posting (anche mascherato), e' vento.

[newbie-it] non so cos'e sto cross-posting! scusate se sono mortale e umile

2002-07-18 Thread luigi
Se ho fatto incazzare qualcuno me ne scuso non l'ho fatto di proposito e comunque le cose basta dirle visto che non so che cosa ho fatto di sbagliato per fare incazzare cosi la gente... io sto cross.. non so cos'e se qualcuno a voglia di scendere su questa terra e spiegarmelo gliene sarò

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

2002-07-18 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 22:13, mercoledì 17 luglio 2002, Fabio Manunza in merito a Re: [newbie-it] Installazione su pc non mio ha scritto: Alle 18:29, mercoledì 17 luglio 2002, hai scritto: se il tuo amico non conosce per niente GNU/Linux, magari kde è più

Re: [newbie-it] Aliasing e Fonts

2002-07-18 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 21:01, mercoledì 17 luglio 2002, LukenShiro in merito a Re: [newbie-it] Aliasing e Fonts ha scritto: Mi scuso per l'inserimento abusivo nel thread ;P si figuri!! ;-) .. vedo che la mail nella quale parlavo anche di xfs non e' arrivata...

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

2002-07-18 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 22:52, mercoledì 17 luglio 2002, LukenShiro in merito a Re: [newbie-it] Installazione su pc non mio ha scritto: Il 17/07/02 alle 22:13, Mr Fabio Manunza borbotto': Io ero prontissimo a dare in pasto alla mandrakkia il cd con kde 3.0, e

Re: [newbie-it] temi desktop

2002-07-18 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 10:22, giovedì 18 luglio 2002, luigi in merito a [newbie-it] temi desktop ha scritto: ciao a tutti e grazie in anticipo.. io ho scaricato da kde.com un tema desktop per il mio kde2... e una mdk8.2 il mio problema è generale perchè non ho

Re: [newbie] Re: CENSORSHIP: 1984-reduced.......? Now OT

2002-07-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 16 Jul 2002 10:34 pm, you wrote: July 16, 2002 12:51 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: snip My 2p worth - I was in China last October - well after the dates in the article. We found the Chinese people talking much more freely than we expected about past and present difficulties.

[newbie] Software Manager

2002-07-18 Thread Lee
I have noticed that I have no descriptions in the side panel when I select programs (LM 8.2). Even with the descriptions I wonder sometimes what they do. Is there a way to turn descriptions on and off or is this a new feature to keep my computer lean and mean? Or should I install everything

Re: [newbie] Socketwatch/Network time protocol

2002-07-18 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 18 Jul 2002 4:15 am, Bob Read wrote: Does Mandrake have a program similar to RoboMagic Software Corp's Socketwatch for Windows to maintain correct computor time? Bob Well I know nothing of Socketwatch, but for Linux I use ntpdate in a cron job run twice a day to synchronise my

Re[2]: [newbie] What have I done?

2002-07-18 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey Anne, 4/ Did you try a different KDE account or Gnome? I only loaded KDE. What do you mean by 'a different KDE account'? A different user account. Log out of KDE and select a different user and login as he/she. You could also try logging in as root if there is no other user you can log

Re[2]: [newbie] How to append files to a CD-R?

2002-07-18 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey, How can I add or append additional files to a CD-R onto which I have already recorded or burned just a few files? Can't help here. IMO, cd-rewriteables's (cd-rw's) are not so good an idea. They cost too much, and are unreliable (ie, harder to read than cd-r's by most all

Re: [newbie] md5sum

2002-07-18 Thread Roman Korcek
Hi, Would someone tell how they are useing md5sum.Thee last iso I missed a file that cost me a headache.Thank,s Joe IIRC you place the ISOs and the file containing the MD5 sums of the ISOs in one dir and run md5sum -c file_with_sums . HTH Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] What have I done?

2002-07-18 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 18 Jul 2002 6:09 am, Anne Wilson wrote: 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 SNIP Could you please look over the files and tell me if any of these lines are likely to be the cause? I don't want to

[newbie] Where can i find kandalf?

2002-07-18 Thread _nasturtium
Hello, I would like the picture of Kandalf, that *silly* wizard that appeared in Kandalf's UsefulTips (ktip) KDE2.0 or so. Since then, in 3.0 he's been replaced by some gears, and now a wizard's hat with cards... (If it helps, i've got a nice CVS version of KDE, 3.0.6. is kandalf

[newbie] Missing configuration file /etc/devsfsd.config Mandrake 8.2

2002-07-18 Thread Renato Langersek
When I exit netconfig I get a message: Missing configuration file /etc/devsfsd.config for service devfsd Executing: /etc/rc5.d/S99devfsd stop There is a file /etc/devsfsd.conf but it doesn't matter if I rename devsfsd.conf to devsfsd.config It also can't find localhost in Konqueror but has no

[newbie] compile arson

2002-07-18 Thread Amandio Cordeiro
Boas i'm trying compile the program arson but i get the following error message ux-gnu/2.96/../../.. /usr/lib/libkdesu.so -lutil /usr/lib/libkssl.so /usr/lib/li bkdeui.so /usr/lib/libkdecore.so -ldl /usr/lib/libDCOP.so -lqt -lpng /usr/lib/li bjpeg.so -lXext -lX11 -lSM -lICE -lresolv

Re: [newbie] compile arson

2002-07-18 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 16 Jul 2002 5:05 pm, Amandio Cordeiro wrote: Boas i'm trying compile the program arson but i get the following error message ux-gnu/2.96/../../.. /usr/lib/libkdesu.so -lutil /usr/lib/libkssl.so /usr/lib/li bkdeui.so /usr/lib/libkdecore.so -ldl /usr/lib/libDCOP.so -lqt -lpng

[newbie] Users can't logon under X

2002-07-18 Thread Warren Post
My home box was working fine, so of course I had to mess with it. I went through the Software Manager and removed all the packages I (thought I) didn't need. I freed up a lot of disk space, but now users can't log on under X. If a user attempts to log on from the graphical logon window, X appears

[newbie] [Q] Kernel compilation

2002-07-18 Thread Stephane
Hello, I'm trying to learn how to build a new kernel. I'm a little afraid by all the questions I have to answer. As my system does work properly for now, I think it would be easier to have the current kernel options modules in a list, then remove or add what I want then compile it. Is there

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

2002-07-18 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 17 July 2002 1:08 pm, Terry Sheltra did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: 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

Re: [newbie] What have I done?

2002-07-18 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 18 July 2002 01:19 am, you wrote: I only loaded KDE. What do you mean by 'a different KDE account'? Anne I think he means that if you are logged in as root, then logon as a regular user. If you are logged on as your regular user, then logon as root. See if the problem affects

Re: [newbie] sudden logouts

2002-07-18 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 17 July 2002 10:02 pm, g2 did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: 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.

Re: [newbie] [Q] Kernel compilation

2002-07-18 Thread dfox
I'm a little afraid by all the questions I have to answer. As my system does work properly for now, I think it would be easier to have the The current configuration is stored in a file /usr/src/linux/.config. You might want to copy that to another file before you make a new kernel. And, there

Re: [newbie] file transfer utility?

2002-07-18 Thread dfox
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 ftp? Well, ftp will do the job and there are plenty of variants of it around, my favorite (non-graphical) is 'ncftp'. An RPM is included in the

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice

2002-07-18 Thread dfox
Running /tmp/install/install --help returns only five options: Maybe, but you're not running install. You should be running setup, and it does have a -net option. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Do I need PartitionMagic in addition to DiskDrake?

2002-07-18 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 19:55:34 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Go ahead and save yourself the money, even though I have never had the slightest problem with either, you certainly don't need to shell out cash unless you want to. Though there are some differences.

Re: [newbie] Do I need PartitionMagic in addition to DiskDrake?

2002-07-18 Thread FemmeFatale
Charles A Edwards wrote: Personally I also like PM. I always begin with a bare drive and boot the system with the PM boot disk. I then create however many partitions that I want, normally I will create all as fat32. Install 2k, you can select to which partition you wish it to install

Re: [newbie] file transfer utility?

2002-07-18 Thread Roger Sherman
On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, 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

[newbie] (OT) first gif..........

2002-07-18 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 all future web sites have to be .png? http://www.theregus.com/content/4/25658.html - -- This is Linux country. On a quiet night, you can hear NT re-boot. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98

Re: [newbie] (OT) first gif..........

2002-07-18 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 18 July 2002 06:19 pm, shane wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 all future web sites have to be .png? http://www.theregus.com/content/4/25658.html - -- This is Linux country. On a quiet night, you can hear NT re-boot. shane Profile at:

Re: [newbie] (OT) first gif..........

2002-07-18 Thread Damian G
On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 16:19:00 -0700 shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 all future web sites have to be .png? http://www.theregus.com/content/4/25658.html the claim seems to adress programs having the ability to display JPG, not the ones

Re: [newbie] sudden logouts

2002-07-18 Thread g2
snip well that really is an open question, but just for fun, what desktop (and version) are you useing? i noticed the same thing in the first release of kde 3.0.2 but they updated it on the 10th, and using that i see no problems. yet. :) I just found out this sudden logouts only

[newbie] Alert Error again

2002-07-18 Thread Leonard W. Miller
Me being the pinhead that I am, I forgot I installed mon. It hit me right after I sent the first post. I connected to mon cgi page on the server and it showed me all the messages it had sent. Time to read the mon docs. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Printing error

2002-07-18 Thread Carlos Arigos
Hola a todos. I'm trying to print some labels with kover without luck. This is the message: Fail to execute cupsdoprint -P 'Impresora' -J '' -H 'localhost:631' -o ' copies=1 media=A4,Normal,Upper multiple-document-handling=separate-documents-collated-copies

[newbie] SAMBA

2002-07-18 Thread Paul Kaplan
Does anyone know of some practical documentation on setting up a W2K box for SAMBA? My principal objective is to be able to access the W2K file system (for which I have administrator rights) from a Lin (ML8.2) box. TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Printing error

2002-07-18 Thread carigos
Hola a todos. I'm trying to print some labels with kover without luck. This is the message: Fail to execute cupsdoprint -P 'Impresora' -J '' -H 'localhost:631' -o ' copies=1 media=A4,Normal,Upper multiple-document-handling=separate-documents-collated-copies

Re: [newbie] Printing help pages

2002-07-18 Thread dfox
I can't remember any other apps that I can't print. My printer has two set-ups defined. Some apps let me choose, and some use what I presume is a My feeling is that if you can print from one kde app you should be able to print from any other, as they all use the same printing subsystem.

Re: [newbie] What have I done?

2002-07-18 Thread dfox
Keyboard input is no problem. Moving around with a word processor, for instance, is no problem. It's anything that requires loading time. Even more interestign. I hope your PATH is set to something simple and you're not scanning all those mount points looking for stuff during a load - that

Re: [newbie] (OT) first gif..........

2002-07-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday July 18 2002 05:27 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: That's ok, we can use .png and ignore the companies that require royalties. It's a bit late in the game to play the royalty card. My web pages will serve up just as well in png, thank you very much. Take any .gif file and just rename

Re: [newbie] (OT) first gif..........

2002-07-18 Thread et
On Thursday 18 July 2002 09:50 pm, you wrote: On Thursday July 18 2002 05:27 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: That's ok, we can use .png and ignore the companies that require royalties. It's a bit late in the game to play the royalty card. My web pages will serve up just as well in png, thank you

Re: [newbie] xmms for CD

2002-07-18 Thread Filipe
My suggestion: Open Xmms and go to: Options Preference Audio Cdreader Configure Output and mark Read Digital CD Audio. Good lucky Filipe Dutra [EMAIL PROTECTED] I,ve gone thur the same thing and I do have the xmms-cdreader in fact sounds and cd,s work

Re: [newbie] (OT) first gif..........

2002-07-18 Thread Joe Riel
The patent was issued in October 1987, so, unless there are addendums, it should be expiring in 2004, right? Not much time to collect on it... Joe Riel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] What have I done?

2002-07-18 Thread dfox
attempt to mount the usb smartcardreader, for instance. I can't see any that look like remote mounts, though. Anne - have you tried 'mount' by itself in a console? It'll list every- thing that is currently mounted. My guess is that if there is a remote NFS partition mounted somewhere, there

[newbie] Fwd: Sound(continues)

2002-07-18 Thread Marcia
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Sound(continues) Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 20:56:19 -0500 From: Marcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear All, I am still struggling with my sound on LM8.2 on Athlon XP +1600 with the via82xxxaudio driver installed and it works to

Re: [newbie] Do I need PartitionMagic in addition to DiskDrake?

2002-07-18 Thread civileme
Charlie wrote: July 18, 2002 11:37 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At home, I am about to build a new computer, and I will be installing both mandrake linux and win 2000 on a single hard drive. At work, I have already installed mandrake linux on a computer that already had win 98. Everything went

Re: [newbie] SAMBA

2002-07-18 Thread daRcmaTTeR
Paul Kaplan wrote: Does anyone know of some practical documentation on setting up a W2K box for SAMBA? My principal objective is to be able to access the W2K file system (for which I have administrator rights) from a Lin (ML8.2) box. TIA Paul Paul, to do what you're asking about you

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] What have I done?

2002-07-18 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 18 July 2002 11:40 am, Anne Wilson did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: What happens if you Ctrl-Alt-F1 and open a dir with MC? And if you shut down X ie go to runlevel I think 3 (someone please coorect me if I am wrong)?

Re: [newbie] (OT) first gif..........

2002-07-18 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 18 July 2002 6:50 pm, Tom Brinkman did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Take any .gif file and just rename it as a .png, you'll get the same image when you open it (or v'versa). You can also take M$ .ico's and convert them

[newbie] Hey Paul...

2002-07-18 Thread Roger Sherman
By any chance, do you have a SAMBA question? ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com