Re: [newbie] Sharing Files, OT mail to list

FemmeFatale wrote: You're corrected. One word: SAMBA. -- Femme This is sick... i sent these replies 2 days ago. Cept for this SAMBA one. :| STupid isp. or is it the list again? -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that

Re: [newbie] Introduction

On Sunday 18 August 2002 10:36 pm, you wrote: Hello Members, I've done a few replies to some e-mails and did not realize that I haven't properly introduced myself to the list! The name's Jason Wilson and I hail from Pennsylvania. I am a computer geek (well, not THAT bad!) and discovered

Re: [newbie] Star Office question

On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Chris Pollock wrote: Relating to my Adabas Database question, should I have installed SO 6.0 as a stand alone or as network? How does/will this affect the operation of Adabas? Hi Chris, Either way would be fine. as a stand alone the only one then that can us SO on

Re: [newbie] Introduction

--- et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 18 August 2002 10:36 pm, you wrote: Hello Members, I've done a few replies to some e-mails and did not realize that I haven't properly introduced myself to the list! The name's Jason Wilson and I hail from Pennsylvania. I am a computer

Re: [newbie] Introduction

On Monday 19 August 2002 06:28 am, you wrote: On Sunday 18 August 2002 10:36 pm, you wrote: Hello Members, I've done a few replies to some e-mails and did not realize that I haven't properly introduced myself to the list! The name's Jason Wilson and I hail from Pennsylvania. I am a

Re: [newbie] Sharing Files, OT mail to list

On Monday 19 August 2002 04:56 am, you wrote: FemmeFatale wrote: You're corrected. One word: SAMBA. -- Femme This is sick... i sent these replies 2 days ago. Cept for this SAMBA one. :| STupid isp. or is it the list again? I have even found that Kmail will hold my outgoing mail for

Re: [newbie] Introduction,,, way OT

(old grizzly man sitting under bridge, rubbing hands together) ohhh guooody, new flesh. welcome young-one Hail to Linux! Don't mind Ed - he's mostly harmless as long as he takes his pills. You're still taking your pills, aren't you, Ed? . Ed?

Re: [newbie] Star Office question

On Monday 19 August 2002 06:47 am, you wrote: On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Chris Pollock wrote: Relating to my Adabas Database question, should I have installed SO 6.0 as a stand alone or as network? How does/will this affect the operation of Adabas? Hi Chris, Either way would be fine. as a

Re[2]: [newbie] GCombust permissions problem

Hi, Was the CD-ROM burnt using Rock Ridge extensions enabled? If so, then file permissions were recorded to the disc. This means that the files on the disc behave as if they're on your hard drive, in that you need the correct user permissions to access them. Thank you for your thoughts and

[newbie] palm programming tools for linux?

Greetings. I'm looking for programming tools for programming my PDA on my linux box ... In the Windows world, I've been using PocketC with great success, but would like to find a way to program my PDA on my linux box (preferrably in C, though I'm willing to look at other options). I came up dry

Re: [newbie] palm programming tools for linux?

should have made it clear that it's PALM OS that I'm working with --- Kenn Murrah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings. I'm looking for programming tools for programming my PDA on my linux box ... In the Windows world, I've been using PocketC with great success, but would like to

Re: [newbie] Star Office question

On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, et wrote: On Monday 19 August 2002 06:47 am, you wrote: On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Chris Pollock wrote: Relating to my Adabas Database question, should I have installed SO 6.0 as a stand alone or as network? How does/will this affect the operation of Adabas? Hi

[newbie] Setting Clock to 12 time

Can some one tell me how to set my clock to 12 time on Mandrake 8.2? I know this is an easy question I haven't had problems figuring it out in the past Thanks David

[newbie] MSEC is changing /hom permissions

MSEC is setting users's home dirs permission to 755 making them visible for other users. I want to have permission 700. As a temporary fix I stopped MSEC, but how to configure it properly? I was looking into the files installed and check the different levels but did not find the right solution.

[newbie] wxGTK6

Hi After installing wxGTK6 and wxGTK6-devel with rpmdrake I try to compile ( at least ) the sample-files in /usr/share/doc/wxGTK6-devel.../ but I get the message: ../../src/makeprog.env No such file or directory which unfortunately is true. Can someone help me bringing my wxGTK ( wxWindows ) to

Re: [newbie] Modem help

Hi there, some Lucent modems are supported under Linux. My friend has one, (I'm not sure what chipset) and it has worked well for him w/Mdk Linux 8.2. You can check out this site for drivers for Lucent modems, but you will have to know what chipset you have:

Re: [newbie] Setting Clock to 12 time

On Monday 19 August 2002 07:37 am, David Sexton wrote: Can some one tell me how to set my clock to 12 time on Mandrake 8.2? I know this is an easy question I haven't had problems figuring it out in the past Thanks David ~~ Right click

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Geometries

Sharrea wrote: I don't understand why BIOS, hdparm and fdisk all report different geometries. Also, as a result RedHat 7.3 can't read the partn table for hda so I can't install without wiping the drive clean. Any help would be much appreciated. I can't recite the details, but a disk

Re: [newbie] Sharing Files, OT mail to list

et wrote: I have even found that Kmail will hold my outgoing mail for some long time if my connection to the internet is busy, for example, I now have 3 mails in my outbox waiting (and telling me no host to be found) while I download beta3 iso1. since it's dialup, it take a cople of days to

Re[2]: [newbie] Hard Drive Geometries

Hi, Sharrea wrote: I don't understand why BIOS, hdparm and fdisk all report different geometries. Also, as a result RedHat 7.3 can't read the partn table for hda so I can't install without wiping the drive clean. Any help would be much appreciated. I can't recite the details, but a

Re: [newbie] Sharing Files, OT mail to list

On Monday 19 August 2002 10:47 am, you wrote: et wrote: I have even found that Kmail will hold my outgoing mail for some long time if my connection to the internet is busy, for example, I now have 3 mails in my outbox waiting (and telling me no host to be found) while I download beta3

[newbie] Postgres and AX.25

Can Postgres and AX.25 be installed on a mandrake 8.2 pro server? Is PERL installed by default? And finally is there RPM for Expect? I am thinking of moving a utility I run over to a mandrake box, but it requires those packages: 1. Perl 2. Postgres 3. AX.25 4. Expect Just

Re: [newbie] Sharing Files, OT mail to list

On Monday August 19 2002 09:47 am, Randy Kramer wrote: et wrote: I have even found that Kmail will hold my outgoing mail for some long time if my connection to the internet is busy, for example, I now have 3 mails in my outbox waiting (and telling me no host to be found) while I download

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Geometries

On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 13:08, et wrote: On Sunday 18 August 2002 07:26 pm, you wrote: snip After my sh*tty IBM Deskstar drive dying on me last week, I'm wondering whether it was thru my own doing so can someone please help me determine what the correct parameter for my hard drives are. I

Re: [newbie] Unreal problem solved

It was an anti-piracy thing, I think, but I don't recall if they ever told me specifically. Maybe they thought that if they checked for the presence of a CD drive that it would stop people from using Virtual CD and the like. Miark Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: On Saturday 17

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Geometries

On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 15:08, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: IBM drives made in the year or so have had major reliability problems. In fact, IBM are trying to get out of the business by selling most (70%) of their hard drive unit to Hitachi. Quantum Bigfoots have had reliability problems as well. I

Re: [newbie] Unreal problem solved

On Monday 19 August 2002 01:22 pm, you wrote: It was an anti-piracy thing, I think, but I don't recall if they ever told me specifically. Maybe they thought that if they checked for the presence of a CD drive that it would stop people from using Virtual CD and the like. Miark Okay, thanks

[newbie] test

just a test. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] swat/telnet not installed

hello, i was looking in the services section of the mandrake control center and both swat and telnet are set to automatically start when the machine boots. i went hmmm when i saw that the services were stopped. i clicked on the start button and it said it couldnt find swat. same for

Re: [newbie] iptables help

Hi Toddy, I used Software Manager to remove ipchains, and after I use use WizDrak (Firewall module), to configure iptables rgds, Rodrigo - Original Message - From: Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 10:29 PM Subject: [newbie]

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

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

[newbie] Test (ignore)

Sorry folks... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] cron or anacron

Does anyone know if its possible to have anacron run tasks for individual users, in a similar way to how each user can be allowed their own crontab? I have a script that involves an ftp operation and must access .netrc in the users home directory, so it seems that it can only be run by that

[newbie] oops sent wrong msg...how bout: telnet/swat installation

ignore my last msg about wizdrake...it was sent in error...what i meant to ask was: i can't figure out how to install telnet or swat. i look in the services section of the mandrake control center and it says telnet and swat are to start at boot. lo and behold they are stopped. i try to

[newbie] DVD subtitles

I need some help here: I just have extracted somes vobs to HD (vobcopy) , but I can't figure how to extract subtitles. Thanks -- el charlie Linux MDK 8.2, KDE 3.0.1, Kmail 1.4.1 6:55pm up 1:01, 1 user, load average: 0.78, 0.79, 0.61 Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Sharing Files, OT mail to list

On Monday 19 August 2002 11:46 am, you wrote: On Monday August 19 2002 09:47 am, Randy Kramer wrote: et wrote: I have even found that Kmail will hold my outgoing mail for some long time if my connection to the internet is busy, for example, I now have 3 mails in my outbox waiting (and

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

On Monday 19 August 2002 03:57 pm, you wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] Sharing Files, OT mail to list

et wrote: On Monday 19 August 2002 04:56 am, you wrote: FemmeFatale wrote: You're corrected. One word: SAMBA. -- Femme This is sick... i sent these replies 2 days ago. Cept for this SAMBA one. :| STupid isp. or is it the list again? I have even found that Kmail will hold

[newbie] How to stay in non-graphical mode ?

I was wandering how I could stop X-window to kick in before I logging. After a system crash I quickly run the Mdk setup to repair my installation now X-windows is starting straigth away... TIA, Thomas, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Sharing Files, OT mail to list

Thanks! Randy Kramer et wrote: I believe what Ed is referring to is that so much of his current bandwidth is being used by the d/l, that the connection to his ISP's mail server times out (eg, no host...), and Kmail just keeps the post(s) stored in the Outbox folder. I run into this

Re: [newbie] DVD subtitles

On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 19:00:01 -0300, Carlos Arigos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need some help here: I just have extracted somes vobs to HD (vobcopy) , but I can't figure how to extract subtitles. Go to http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/ and learn to use Mencoder, the

[newbie] running a mud

Hi, Got a question for you all, anyone have any idea how to open another port, say port 4000 for a mud? My telnet server is up and running and everything is working fine on it. But it won't allow a connection to port 4000 ;( any suggestions would be very helpful Arron Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Burn an iso to disk

On Sat, 2002-08-17 at 14:12, Dennis Myers wrote: I don't see where it says to burn as an image. Followed the XCDroast instructions and still got a bunch of text and no files. No joy. : ( -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Make sure that you have a good ISO file. Did you download the ISO

[newbie] Help with home network selection

Hello List, I have two machines one is my workstation running 8.1 on an Athlon 2100 + 256mb of ram and two maxtor hard disks a 40gm and a 12gb. My other machine is a K6 300mhz box running 95 rel 2. I would like to netwok these two where sharing a network connection 'might' be possible and the

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Geometries

Sharrea wrote: Hi all Large snip, equivalent to a surgical procedure i'm sure. Sorry couldn't resist :) I don't understand why BIOS, hdparm and fdisk all report different geometries. Also, as a result RedHat 7.3 can't read the partn table for hda so I can't install without

Re: [newbie] Modem help

There was IIRC a hacked AOL installer for Linux. Do a google search for it. It may still be out there. Recent too afaik. -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert

Re: [newbie] cron or anacron

In reply to Ross's mail, d.d. Mon, 19 Aug 2002 22:27:21 +0100: AFAIK Anacron will pick and run any jobs that have not been executed by cron in time. So when you set up the FTP in the user crontab and the machine is down, anacron will perform the task after booting the machine. That is what

[newbie] Software database?

I've been eyeing Debian a little bit lately, and came across this page (http://packages.debian.org/stable/) which was really enticing. It is EXACTLY the kind of page I have been looking for forever for Mandrake-Linux and just in general. I even went to the efforts of drawing out on paper the