Re: [newbie] Ipchains help

2002-08-02 Thread Xecut1on
thanks man i appriciate it

Re: [newbie] CivilEme petition.

2002-08-02 Thread _nasturtium
- Original Message - From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Newbie at MDK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 11:36 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] CivilEme petition. No, not right. Absolutely nothing can come of a petition, so crafting one would do nothing but pit

Re: [newbie] can't remember how to mount hda1

2002-08-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 02 Aug 2002 00:00:21 -0600, Brent Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i was wondering how to mount hda1 so i can access my win xp files even though i hate win xp. # mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c where /mnt/win_c is the directory where you want to make the mount. You may need to add the

[newbie] Kmail: how to not flag message as read

2002-08-02 Thread Stormjumper
is there any way of making kmail not automatically flag messages as read as soon as i click on them? ie. i'd like my messages to stay as unread until i manually flag them as read. using mdk8.2, default installation of kde. thanks.

[newbie] Kmail: how to not flag message as read

2002-08-02 Thread Stormjumper
is there any way of making kmail not automatically flag messages as read as soon as i click on them? ie. i'd like my messages to stay as unread until i manually flag them as read. using mdk8.2, default installation of kde. thanks.

Re: [newbie] Kmail: how to not flag message as read

2002-08-02 Thread civileme
Stormjumper wrote: is there any way of making kmail not automatically flag messages as read as soon as i click on them? ie. i'd like my messages to stay as unread until i manually flag them as read. using mdk8.2, default installation of kde. thanks. No, Kmail isn't set up

Re[2]: [newbie] CD RW

2002-08-02 Thread Roman Korcek
Hi Carlos, I am not obtaining, the CD I was formatted in windows, I only obtain to read the file of the UDF Reader. You need to mount it with UDF as filesystem. If you don't know what I am talking about then please look up your /etc/fstab file and post it here. I will then try and give you

Re: [newbie] Is there anybody out there.... internet sharing question

2002-08-02 Thread freeman
hr hr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just want to no how to enable a port threw mandrake internet sharing? the port is 3602. please let me know Best regards Mike Get your own free email account from http://www.popmail.com

[newbie] MDK Club RPMs freely available?

2002-08-02 Thread Roman Korcek
Hi guys, Just read this week's MDK newsletter and found this: -- MandrakeClub RPM-voting system: Test the applications! Deno writes: The moment we started the 'RPM-voting' system, I was afraid that we may run out of volunteers or get buried

Re: [newbie] Hardware compatability list - web cams

2002-08-02 Thread eric jackson
Joan Tur wrote: Es Dijous 01 Agost 2002 15:38, en eric jackson va escriure: Hi, I'm looking for a list of web cams that work with Linux. I didn't see any cameras in the list at Mandrake's site. Anyone have a link to a hardware compatability list? Have a look at

Re: [newbie] MDK Club RPMs freely available?

2002-08-02 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 02 Aug 2002 12:52 pm, Roman Korcek wrote: Hi guys, Just read this week's MDK newsletter and found this: -- MandrakeClub RPM-voting system: Test the applications! Deno writes: The moment we started the 'RPM-voting' system, I was

Re[2]: [newbie] MDK Club RPMs freely available?

2002-08-02 Thread Roman Korcek
Hi Derek, Just read this week's MDK newsletter and found this: -- MandrakeClub The most popular RPM requests (and their status) as of 29 July 2002: KDE 3.0.2 done Wine testing Mozilla 1.0 done Xine + dvdnav done GNOME 2.0 in

[newbie] Email List server

2002-08-02 Thread Aaron Winters
What is involved in setting up a email list server?I have a LM 8.2 machine that is a web/ftp server and I would like to start an email discussion list. I do not have anything for mail running and I don't think I even installed things like sendmail because I had no need for them and did not

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] MDK Club RPMs freely available?

2002-08-02 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 02 Aug 2002 1:54 pm, Roman Korcek wrote: Hi Derek, Just read this week's MDK newsletter and found this: -- MandrakeClub The most popular RPM requests (and their status) as of 29 July 2002: KDE 3.0.2 done Wine testing

Re[4]: [newbie] MDK Club RPMs freely available?

2002-08-02 Thread Roman Korcek
Hi, Could you please point me to an URL? Can't seem to find anything for mplayer. I checked ftp.cesnet.cz, fr2.rpmfind.net, ftp.ciril.fr, spirit.profinet.sk and hq.alert.sk. MPlayer is on PLF http://plf.zarb.org/ OK, thank you Derek, Anuerin and Bill. Didn't check PLF. And things like

Re[4]: [newbie] MDK Club RPMs freely available?

2002-08-02 Thread Roman Korcek
Hi Sridhar, Mandrake Unsupported (made by volunteers) and Contribs (made by Mandrake employees but unsupported) packages can be found at any Mandrake FTP mirror. A list of such mirrors can be found at http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/cookerdevel.php3 Hooray, thanks, must have missed a dir

Re: [newbie] Thunderstorms/Powersurges/Powerfailures

2002-08-02 Thread Randy Kramer
g wrote: to determine power requirements, check labels on back of equipment for voltage and amps ratings. multiply volts x amps = va load to determine require ups. That works, but it is conservative. I may have a special case in that I am mostly concerned with riding through very short

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] MDK Club RPMs freely available?

2002-08-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002 14:54:02 +0200, Roman Korcek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, I wonder, can non-club members download those RPMs, too? Absolutely. During the 'testing' period they are on the club server, and afterwards they go in 'Unsupported' on the ftp mirrors. In any case the

Re: [newbie] Thunderstorms/Powersurges/Powerfailures

2002-08-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Randy Kramer wrote: g wrote: to determine power requirements, check labels on back of equipment for voltage and amps ratings. multiply volts x amps = va load to determine require ups. That works, but it is conservative. I may have a special case in that I am mostly concerned with

Re: [newbie] Email List server

2002-08-02 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, 02 Aug 2002 07:55:26 -0500 Aaron Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is involved in setting up a email list server? I have a LM 8.2 machine that is a web/ftp server and I would like to start an email discussion list. I do not have anything for mail running and I don't think I even

Re: [newbie] Manually editing a file

2002-08-02 Thread Brendan
On Thursday 01 August 2002 11:22 am, Howard Stredwick wrote: Type emacs in the console. The MOST important thing when invoking an arcane editor (vi or emacs are good examples) is remembering how to get out of it. CNTL-X CNTL-C for emacs colon q exclamation point for vi :q! Brendan Want to

Re: [newbie] Thunderstorms/Powersurges/Powerfailures

2002-08-02 Thread Randy Kramer
g wrote: as a suggestion, put sasd suppressor at mains electrical panel. this will protect _all_ electrical afer panel. Oops, forgot to ask in the last post: What is a typical price for an sasd suppressor that you might put at the main electrical panel? (Also, what ratings should I look

[newbie] SSH graphical apps

2002-08-02 Thread Joan Tur
Hallo! I'm trying to open kmail (for instance) using a remote login via ssh -X user@computer, but I get a message saying that it cannot connect to :10 server 8-? Here's my /etc/ssh/ssh_config file: Host * ForwardX11 yes Protocol 2,1 StrictHostKeyChecking no

Re: [newbie] Thunderstorms/Powersurges/Powerfailures

2002-08-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Randy Kramer wrote: g wrote: to determine power requirements, check labels on back of equipment for voltage and amps ratings. multiply volts x amps = va load to determine require ups. That works, but it is conservative. I may have a special case in that I am mostly concerned

Re: Re[4]: [newbie] MDK Club RPMs freely available?

2002-08-02 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 02 Aug 2002 2:29 pm, Roman Korcek wrote: Hi, Could you please point me to an URL? Can't seem to find anything for mplayer. I checked ftp.cesnet.cz, fr2.rpmfind.net, ftp.ciril.fr, spirit.profinet.sk and hq.alert.sk. MPlayer is on PLF http://plf.zarb.org/ OK, thank you

Re: [newbie] Thunderstorms/Powersurges/Powerfailures

2002-08-02 Thread Randy Kramer
John Richard Smith wrote: I don't know whether this is right, but I have on this ring main 4 computers, off hand I think they are mainly averaging 300w power supply each, which means when all 4 are on I have to protect 1200w , but most of the time I would say 2 computers run on more or less

[newbie] Newbie question

2002-08-02 Thread Wilson, Jack
I dl'd 8.2 and installed it. I created another user acct besides root to play with it. I ran the Mandrake update right after I installed it, updated everything it said to and logged out. The KDE login comes up, I can log in with my normal user and everything is fine, but when I try to log in

Re: [newbie] CivilEme petition.

2002-08-02 Thread Randy Kramer
et wrote: I would like to add, that buying from the mandrake-store online is a greater benefit to MandrakeSoft, since the distributor in the USA gets his cut, (McMillan). .02$ BTW, I sure do hope McMillan begins to realize what a gold mine Mandrake is for them and decides to step up to the

Re: [newbie] Re: Manually editing a file

2002-08-02 Thread Randy Kramer
Derek Jennings wrote: The same way to copy/paste anything else in Linux Highlight with mouse left button to copy. Press Mouse wheel (or centre button) to paste (If you have a 2 button mouse, press both buttons at once) (I like to give this tip at least once a week since it is such a

[newbie] Disabling PCMCIA support

2002-08-02 Thread Raphael Summers
VERSIONS: Mandrake 8.2, Kernel 2.4 Hi, I am trying to install linux-wlan-ng in order to get my ActionTec wireless PCMCIA card to work. After a lot of research over the last few days, I have been warned that this may not be possible due to the fact that the PCMCIA source is integrated with the

[newbie] Quicken and Linux

2002-08-02 Thread Xsturm
Has anyone every gotten quicken to run under Linux? I have used gnucash but I really do like quicken for windoze. Does anyone know of any other alternative then? xsturm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] automatic printing of email?

2002-08-02 Thread Kenn Murrah
i know this is gonna sound odd, but ... for one application, i need emails to automatically print immediately upon receipt, with no human intervention. any ideas how this could be accomplished? is there a program that will do that? can it be scripted? thanks in advance for the help. kennM

Re: [newbie] 9.0beta iso's -- too big!

2002-08-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday August 2 2002 10:26 am, daRcmaTTeR wrote: hi list, has anyone else noticed that the iso's for Mandrake 9.0beta release are too big to fit on regular size CDRW media? This had been so for several months. 700mb cdr's are needed now. CD1 is 701, CD2 is 700, CD3 is 498mb. I don't

Re: [newbie] Thunderstorms/Powersurges/Powerfailures

2002-08-02 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Randy Kramer wrote: g wrote: to determine power requirements, check labels on back of equipment for voltage and amps ratings. multiply volts x amps = va load to determine require ups. That works, but it is conservative. I may have a special case in that I am

Re: [newbie] Thunderstorms/Powersurges/Powerfailures

2002-08-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday August 2 2002 09:56 am, John Richard Smith wrote: I don't know whether this is right, but I have on this ring main 4 computers, off hand I think they are mainly averaging 300w power supply each, which means when all 4 are on I have to protect 1200w , but most of the time I would

Re: [newbie] Kmail: how to not flag message as read

2002-08-02 Thread Randy Kramer
civileme wrote: Stormjumper wrote: is there any way of making kmail not automatically flag messages as read as soon as i click on them? ie. i'd like my messages to stay as unread until i manually flag them as read. No, Kmail isn't set up that way, but right-clicking the message and

Re: [newbie] Newbie question

2002-08-02 Thread Randy Kramer
Wilson, Jack wrote: I dl'd 8.2 and installed it. I created another user acct besides root to play with it. I ran the Mandrake update right after I installed it, updated everything it said to and logged out. The KDE login comes up, I can log in with my normal user and everything is fine,

Re: [newbie] Quicken and Linux

2002-08-02 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 02 Aug 2002 1:00 pm, Xsturm wrote: Has anyone every gotten quicken to run under Linux? I have used gnucash but I really do like quicken for windoze. Does anyone know of any other alternative then? xsturm Gnucash Kapital and Moneydance seem to be the best alternatives. (gnucash

Re: [newbie] automatic printing of email?

2002-08-02 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 02 Aug 2002 6:40 pm, Kenn Murrah wrote: i know this is gonna sound odd, but ... for one application, i need emails to automatically print immediately upon receipt, with no human intervention. any ideas how this could be

[newbie] Kernel Panic

2002-08-02 Thread N E N I S T E R
Hello there...I'm having a real problem hereMy linux system went down, I tried to telnet it, and nothing happens, so I'd put myself on console and nothing happends to, the screen was all black, so I'd reset manually the machine, and when it boot on, on the screen was the next alerts:

[newbie] urpmi.addmedia recommendations?

2002-08-02 Thread Miark
I nuked the Red Carpet xmms and tried to use urpmi to install it again, but it can't find all the files it needs. Can someone recommend some good sites or mirrors that I can add with urpmi.addmedia? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

RE: [newbie] TV out, Pal version in Australia.

2002-08-02 Thread frankie
thankyou muchly.. Its strange that they list Australia in the Country field of their registration screen, but not as an option in the settings screen, I had to chose Germany PalB.. thanks again.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On

Re: [newbie] Re: Manually editing a file

2002-08-02 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 02 Aug 2002 5:06 pm, Randy Kramer wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: The same way to copy/paste anything else in Linux Highlight with mouse left button to copy. Press Mouse wheel (or centre button) to paste (If you have a 2 button mouse, press both buttons at once) (I like to

[newbie] Runing Mozilla on remote display

2002-08-02 Thread Jure Repinc
Hi, Could you please tell me how to run Mozilla on a display on another computer on my network? Is there another app required to do that appart from XFree86, which if I understand correctly enables you to run it over network? TIA -- Live long and prosper! Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] 9.0beta iso's -- too big!

2002-08-02 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 02 August 2002 12:53 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday August 2 2002 10:26 am, daRcmaTTeR wrote: hi list, has anyone else noticed that the iso's for Mandrake 9.0beta release are too big to fit on regular size CDRW media? This had been so for several months. 700mb cdr's

Re: [newbie] Quicken and Linux

2002-08-02 Thread Lane P. Lester
On Friday 02 August 2002 03:01 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: Gnucash Kapital and Moneydance seem to be the best alternatives. I made the mistake of buying Kapital before I tried Gnucash. I have never been able to get Kapital to work on my system, a complete waste of money. I'm very pleased with

Re: [newbie] Re: Manually editing a file

2002-08-02 Thread Randy Kramer
Derek, Thanks for the response! Derek Jennings wrote: Good question. I do not know... I guess you have to highlight the text to be deleted. Hit Del key Highlight text to be inserted - Click mouse wheel. It still seems to take an extra step: * goto where you want to paste, delete the

RE: [newbie] Newbie question

2002-08-02 Thread Wilson, Jack
Thanks. I will check on that. I did set highest level security since this was going to be a server. DUH Jack -Original Message- From: Randy Kramer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 1:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Newbie question Wilson,

Re: [newbie] Newbie question

2002-08-02 Thread Randy Kramer
Wilson, Jack wrote: Thanks. I will check on that. I did set highest level security since this was going to be a server. DUH Hope it helps! Let us (the list) know. BTW, for my learning, I have a server (off the Internet) that I've set to the lowest level of security, just to make my learning

Re: [newbie] Quicken and Linux

2002-08-02 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 02 Aug 2002 9:28 pm, Lane P. Lester wrote: On Friday 02 August 2002 03:01 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: Gnucash Kapital and Moneydance seem to be the best alternatives. I made the mistake of buying Kapital before I tried Gnucash. I have

[newbie] re:xinerama

2002-08-02 Thread Brent Warren
I was wondering if anyone has got xinerama working for mandrake 9.0 beta to work for dvd veiwing? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Antivirus software

2002-08-02 Thread Anne Wilson
From time to time people have asked about antivirus, and I would like to offer the following as my experience that may be relevant. In Windows I have used Kaspersky, first as a stand-alone, then, with help from their tech support, set up in such a way that I downloaded the regular updates and

Re: [newbie] Help with screen area resolution and ethernet adapter

2002-08-02 Thread Anne Wilson
Don't want to hijack your thread, but - Interested in this, I tried it and after Ctrl-Alt-Minus got the message '85 Hz Refresh Not Recommended', which I saw when I tried to run Tux Racer. Could someone explain what is happening, please. Anne On Thursday 01 Aug 2002 6:31 pm, you wrote: When

[newbie] 9.0beta iso's -- too big!

2002-08-02 Thread daRcmaTTeR
hi list, has anyone else noticed that the iso's for Mandrake 9.0beta release are too big to fit on regular size CDRW media? -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, Vengence is mine saith the Lord. My prayer is, ...here am I Lord...send me! Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] automatic printing of email?

2002-08-02 Thread Ralph Slooten
Yeah, it's not that odd I guess ;-) I knew it could be done, and I just tested it and it works. It requires you use procmail though with fetchmail or so. In the users account (to whome the e-mail is sent to) add this to the .procmailrc : :0: # Print from e-mail ~ Direct * ^From:.*

[newbie] how do i install wizdrake, or see if it is installed?

2002-08-02 Thread tim lentowitz
i have just done what i thought was a successful installation...but i can't tell if Wizdrake is installed. the documentation, Mandrake Linux 8.1: Reference manual, says it you have Wizdrake installed then you can use the wizards to help configure the Network, Samba, DNS, DHCP, etc. snipThe

Re: [newbie] Antivirus software

2002-08-02 Thread et
On Friday 02 August 2002 12:56 pm, you wrote: From time to time people have asked about antivirus, and I would like to offer the following as my experience that may be relevant. In Windows I have used Kaspersky, first as a stand-alone, then, with help from their tech support, set up in such

Re: [newbie] Help with screen area resolution and ethernet adapter

2002-08-02 Thread et
On Friday 02 August 2002 11:37 am, you wrote: Don't want to hijack your thread, but - Interested in this, I tried it and after Ctrl-Alt-Minus got the message '85 Hz Refresh Not Recommended', which I saw when I tried to run Tux Racer. Could someone explain what is happening, please. Anne

Re: Fwd: [newbie] Problem with LM 9.0

2002-08-02 Thread Peter Watson
- Original Message - From: frankie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 6:29 AM Subject: RE: Fwd: [newbie] Problem with LM 9.0 yeah, I'd join for the same reason... :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [newbie] Installing Netscape 6.2 from CD

2002-08-02 Thread Schwenk, Jeanie
You might want to consider the mozilla browser 1.0 http://www.mozilla.org/releases/stable.html I'm running it on linux, windows 2000 and windows 98. I removed Netscape 6.2 from the windows machines and quit using Konqueror on linux once I had played with mozilla for a few weeks. It is, IMHO,

[newbie] downloading updates

2002-08-02 Thread Chris Pollock
I seem to suddenly have a problem downloading security updates. When using the source I have currently setup, no files are shown, when trying to add a new source, Mandrake comes back with error adding this source. I've tried all the sources on the list of mirrirs. I've also noticed when

[newbie] OT.. petition or letter writtting campaign

2002-08-02 Thread et
On Friday 02 August 2002 06:31 pm, you wrote: - Original Message - From: frankie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 6:29 AM Subject: RE: Fwd: [newbie] Problem with LM 9.0 yeah, I'd join for the same reason... :-) -Original

Re: [newbie] Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel.

2002-08-02 Thread civileme
D. Olson wrote: On Friday 02 August 2002 07:38 pm, you wrote: 896MB is the cap with the standard kernel. You need to use the enterprise kernel. What is the point of capping? Does it make the kernel smaller/faster or something? Also, I was wondering about CPU support. How many CPUs can a

Re: [newbie] 9.0beta iso's -- too big!

2002-08-02 Thread John Richard Smith
daRcmaTTeR wrote: hi list, has anyone else noticed that the iso's for Mandrake 9.0beta release are too big to fit on regular size CDRW media? They fit easilyon 80min 700mb discs which are more or less the

Re: [newbie] OT.. petition or letter writtting campaign

2002-08-02 Thread et
On Friday 02 August 2002 09:10 pm, you wrote: On Friday 02 August 2002 07:00 pm, et wrote: On Friday 02 August 2002 06:31 pm, you wrote: - Original Message - From: frankie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 6:29 AM Subject: RE: Fwd:

Re: [newbie] Manually editing a file

2002-08-02 Thread Chuck Stuettgen
On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 18:57, et wrote: I know I am strange, but I like and always install jed for newbies, or folks that might have used edit in dos Thanks for the info. I'm one of those old DOS 'edit' users. Much appreciated. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] 9.0 beta 2

2002-08-02 Thread jbarron201
I noticed beta 2 is hitting the moirrors I hope the control center is fixed . Joe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] TV Tunner Cards

2002-08-02 Thread Phillip scott
Is it posible to use a tunner card made for Windoze 98 in MD 8.2?Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better

Re: [newbie] TV Tunner Cards

2002-08-02 Thread et
On Friday 02 August 2002 10:58 pm, you wrote: Is it posible to use a tunner card made for Windoze 98 in MD 8.2? - Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better Oh yes, and if it is installed when you install Mandrake, it should be setup for you,

[newbie] Virtual Host

2002-08-02 Thread William R. Nash
Hello, I'm trying to learn to how to do name-based Virtual Host Support. With apache HTTP server Version 1.3.22 I went to the /etc/httpd/conf/vhosts directory I edit the Vhosts.conf file and added the following lines NameVirtualHost * VirtualHost * ServerName www.paulding-linux.com

Re: [newbie] TV Tunner Cards

2002-08-02 Thread K. Spress Jr
Yes it is.. I have the ATI TV Tuner Card in PCI and it works just fine Kenneth Spress[EMAIL PROTECTED]==This is not a spam! Your are receiving this email either because,you have sent me an email in the past, or you are on a list of

[newbie] anacron: is this error critical

2002-08-02 Thread Stormjumper
i tried to run this command from bash service -s and the first line gave me this error on anacron anacron dead but subsys locked is this harmless? or is there something i should do about it? thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] OT?? Linux or Unix?

2002-08-02 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 02 August 2002 12:02 pm, Richard did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I have a spare PC, with Win 98 on it. I would like to replace this with Linux, but it's only got 850mb HDD. It's a Pentium with 96mb RAM and an NVidia TNT2

Re: [newbie] Quicken and Linux

2002-08-02 Thread russell hobman
goodaye, i have quicken deluxe 2001 and run this and other windows based programs in mandrake 8 under win4lin. you may be able to run under wine as well, except i have never used wine. HTH, regards, russell. --- Xsturm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone every gotten quicken to run under Linux?

Re: [newbie] TV out, Pal version in Australia.

2002-08-02 Thread russell hobman
goodaye, thankyou for clarifying the tv out setup. i have had my geforce2mx400 for over a year now and have not been able to set it up properly for tv out. i have had the twinview monitors setup since i got the card but the tv out was not satisfactory. i will try again with the correct setting.

RE: [newbie] TV out, Pal version in Australia.

2002-08-02 Thread frankie
in that line, is there a good way of getting around macrovision?? I want to watch dvd on my Telly.. but it flickers cos of macrovision, its driving me nuts.. any tips?? rgds Frank. Lite-On region Free DVD-ROM (16x) GeoforceII MX400 with TV out. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] downloading updates

2002-08-02 Thread Brendan
On Friday 02 August 2002 06:56 pm, Chris Pollock wrote: I seem to suddenly have a problem downloading security updates. When using the source I have currently setup, no files are shown, when trying to add a new source, Mandrake comes back with error adding this source. I've tried all the

Re: Re[4]: [newbie] MDK Club RPMs freely available?

2002-08-02 Thread Brendan
On Friday 02 August 2002 10:00 am, Roman Korcek wrote: Also, go to http://www.pclinuxonline.com and scroll down towards the bottom of the page. In the left column there should be a section called RPMS Debs. Yes, well, and the most important ones of them are the Texstar ones? Or is there

Re: [newbie] Newbie question

2002-08-02 Thread Brendan
On Friday 02 August 2002 03:48 pm, Wilson, Jack wrote: Until somebody writes in with more information or a better idea, my first suspect would be msec -- what security level did you choose when you Yes. I believe the level he chose only allows you to log in as root using `su`. I ran into

Re: [newbie] 9.0beta iso's -- too big!

2002-08-02 Thread Damian G
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002 10:41:27 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 02 August 2002 10:26 am, daRcmaTTeR wrote: hi list, has anyone else noticed that the iso's for Mandrake 9.0beta release are too big to fit on regular size CDRW media? Yeah, the forum had a comment on that

Re: [newbie] Re: Manually editing a file

2002-08-02 Thread Brendan
On Friday 02 August 2002 04:16 pm, Randy Kramer wrote: It still seems to take an extra step: * goto where you want to paste, delete the stuff that's in your way * goto where you want to copy from, highlight what you want to copy * goto where you want to paste, and click the middle

Re: [newbie] Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel.

2002-08-02 Thread Brendan
On Friday 02 August 2002 09:58 pm, civileme wrote: Well, most motherboards offer two or perhaps four. It is a motherboard limitation. Mandrakesoft helped construct a supercomputing cluster with Seems to be the general consensus on the lkml and at my job (a linux cluster manufacturer) that

Re: [newbie] OT?? Linux or Unix?

2002-08-02 Thread civileme
Richard wrote: Hi, sorry if this appears to be OT. I've been lurking a while. I would like your help, if possible... I have a spare PC, with Win 98 on it. I would like to replace this with Linux, but it's only got 850mb HDD. It's a Pentium with 96mb RAM and an NVidia TNT2 32mb

Re: [newbie] Kernel Panic

2002-08-02 Thread civileme
N E N I S T E R wrote: Hello there...I'm having a real problem hereMy linux system went down, I tried to telnet it, and nothing happens, so I'd put myself on console and nothing happends to, the screen was all black, so I'd reset manually the machine, and when it boot on, on the screen