RE: [newbie] cannot connect with modem.

2002-08-25 Thread savaidis
Well, I notice that Linux didn't send my Username and Password info to the login screen so I put terminal based and finally I login giving them by hand. (should I put somewhere the expect Username: to start the script?. I tryied some places but nothing) But now , again, it doesn't start the

[newbie] about Zapping at TV program

2002-08-25 Thread savaidis
The Zapping module on this TV card program with the difficult name (X...) it doesn't really makes the channels scanning and I see only one channel (I can't understand how it found it). I put Europeean channels but nothing happend. I can't go up or down to channels. And it looks it works better

[newbie] No sound, can't play music CDs.

2002-08-25 Thread Mark Berkwitt
It's been a while but I finally got 8.2 installed. I didn't have this problem before, but I used KDE before. Could it be that KDE sets up the sound better than Gnome? I've got a mainboard with a CMI8738 sound chip. Installation recognized it but it still doesn't play. Want to buy your

[newbie] What happened to Mandrakeexpert.com

2002-08-25 Thread Mark Berkwitt
What happened to Mandrakeexpert.com? The icon appears on my desktop, etc after installation. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Fast Ethernet Card (Realtek 8139) install

2002-08-25 Thread Juan Zubiaga
Hi It's the first time I 'm writing this list, I have triedforget about MS, but there's always something that doesn't work with linux, so I have to live with both. But the problem is that I have installed Mandrake 8.0 in my HP Omnibook 6000 Laptopand the 10/100 PCMCIA Fast Ethernet Card

[newbie] Realtek 8139 Ethernet card instalation

2002-08-25 Thread Juan Zubiaga
Hi It's the first time I 'm writing this list, I have triedforget about MS, but there's always something that doesn't work with linux, so I have to live with both. But the problem is that I have installed Mandrake 8.0 in my HP Omnibook 6000 Laptopand the 10/100 PCMCIA Fast Ethernet Card

[newbie] IP address

2002-08-25 Thread Frank McKenna
Hi All, In some previous posts I have noticed people refering to their IP address range as xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/xx. Just curious as to what the /xx refers to. Is it some type of range? TIA Frank McKenna True strength lies in gentleness Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Window position sizing

2002-08-25 Thread Joe User
On Sunday 25 August 2002 07:10 am, Ronald J. Hall typed: Right-click on the top (location) bar of each window and check Store Settings. That should do it. :-) Thank you. Looks like I need to reinstall my drake. My setting were not keeping - I thought the store settings was for something

[newbie] PCMCIA

2002-08-25 Thread Netrunner
Title: Message Hi I have a Digital Hinote laptop to that has two different PCMCIA card buses, the problem I have that is only one loads one of the card buses, I have to manually do the following to get the other one to load. service PCMCIA stop modprobe i82365 modprobe yenta_socket

Re: [newbie] IP address

2002-08-25 Thread UrLoverGuy13
People refer to xxx as a wildcard. Its like a range. If you say: 216.x.x.x that means any IP from 216. Its almost like "*" a wildcard used for most things. My ip address is usually a 172.x.x.x everytime i connect online I get the first 3 numbers, but the rest changes. Wildcard means anything in

[newbie] Installing latest Samba tar

2002-08-25 Thread Sudhashen Naicker
Hi there I have installed Mandrake 8.0 on a spare pc with an idea to create a data backup server. Did this with the Samba version that came with ie 2.0.7. However due to system administrators warning me that it is now a security risk, I decided to upgrade to latest version - 2.2.5(they said

Re: [newbie] Re: Please confirm your message

2002-08-25 Thread Charlie M.
On Saturday 24 August 2002 10:50 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: O hey!!! we've got a live one. I hate this things even more then those damnable out-of-office autoresponders. Geez! if you're gonna run a personal mailserver the LEAST ya could do is NOT subscribe to any mailing lists fer cyrin out loud.

Re: [newbie] IP address

2002-08-25 Thread Michael Viron
Actually, he was talking about the '/xx' after the ip, which is typically used to denote the subnet mask of the ip. Michael -- Michael Viron Project Manager / Primary Developer / Manager of Online Operations General Education Online At 10:23 AM 8/25/2002 EDT, you wrote: People refer to xxx as

Re: [newbie] Re: Please confirm your message

2002-08-25 Thread Alastair Scott
On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 16:15, Charlie M. wrote: People should either whitelist their subscribed mailing list addresses, or learn to set the damned things up before inflicting this crap on the rest of us. It makes almost as much sense as one of those imbecilic content footnotes. If you are

Re: [newbie] Re: Please confirm your message

2002-08-25 Thread Charlie M.
On Sunday 25 August 2002 9:57 am, Alastair Scott wrote: snip 99 times out of 100 the sender of the email has no way of avoiding the disclaimer as it is tacked on by a mail server, usually the property of a company trying to protect its back. (Such as my company; as, for several months, its

Re: [newbie] URPMI database locked

2002-08-25 Thread Alastair Scott
On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 18:01, David Johnson wrote: I was forced to kill MandrakeUpdate because nothing happened after a long time of it scanning for updates. Now when I try to run it, I get URPMI database locked and can do nothing else with the program. a scan of man urpmi gave no

[newbie] URPMI database locked

2002-08-25 Thread David Johnson
I was forced to kill MandrakeUpdate because nothing happened after a long time of it scanning for updates. Now when I try to run it, I get URPMI database locked and can do nothing else with the program. a scan of man urpmi gave no clues. Does anyone have any idea how to remove the lock from

RE: [newbie] No sound, can't play music CDs.

2002-08-25 Thread Mark Berkwitt
Actually, I don't have any sound. I know it all works cause I have a dual boot system. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jure Repinc Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 1:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] No sound, can't

Re: [newbie] What happened to Mandrakeexpert.com

2002-08-25 Thread Alastair Scott
On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 08:36, Mark Berkwitt wrote: What happened to Mandrakeexpert.com? The icon appears on my desktop, etc after installation. It, and a number of other mandrake*.com sites such as mandrakecampus.com, were 'rationalised' some time ago. At least so far there are no such

Re: [newbie] Re: Please confirm your message

2002-08-25 Thread Mark Weaver
Charlie M. wrote: On Saturday 24 August 2002 10:50 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: O hey!!! we've got a live one. I hate this things even more then those damnable out-of-office autoresponders. Geez! if you're gonna run a personal mailserver the LEAST ya could do is NOT subscribe to any mailing lists

Re: [newbie] URPMI database locked

2002-08-25 Thread tim
Here is what I do: open a konsole, type 'ps -A' and look for a process with 'urpmi' in its name. note the PID. then type(you might have to be root for this) 'kill -9 PID', replacing PID with the appropreate number. Hope this helps, tim TFTD(thought for the day):It is always the best policy

Re: [newbie] Re: Please confirm your message

2002-08-25 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, 25 Aug 2002 09:15:55 -0600 Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip At least whoever 'xtra' at wherever the hell it was seems not to be bouncing messages from the list any more. /rant I may have accidentally removed 'xtra' from the list via the subscription page. I don't know if it

Re: [newbie] IP address

2002-08-25 Thread Mark Weaver
Frank McKenna wrote: Hi All, In some previous posts I have noticed people refering to their IP address range as xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/xx. Just curious as to what the /xx refers to. Is it some type of range? TIA Frank McKenna True strength lies in gentleness for some it may a weak

Re: [newbie] Re: Please confirm your message

2002-08-25 Thread Charlie M.
On Sunday 25 August 2002 11:45 am, Mark Weaver wrote: snip rant-agreement My sediments exactly! /rant-agreement Mark Sediments? Sandy so-and-so aren't you? ;) I'll spend the next {time indeterminate} trying to figure out what this fortune cookie means in this context. Can't be a

[newbie] Mandrake Update won't find sites..

2002-08-25 Thread Mehra, Sachiv
Hi I chose not to update mandrake during the install. Now when I go to mandrake update it won't let me search for the mirror. It just asks me what cd's I have. (which are cd 1-3 download edition i think). Is there a work around for this? or a way to reset the update program to go look for ftp

Re: [newbie] Nasty OT question. NTFS

2002-08-25 Thread Warren Post
These are my favorite partition manipulation tools. They complement one another, so collect 'em all: * Parted, available through freshmeat. You want to download the floppy disk image and run it from a floppy. It's Linux based, open source, and so well documented even I understand it. I'm not

[newbie] How do I add a signature to Mozilla: Compose?

2002-08-25 Thread Mark Berkwitt
How do I add a signature to Mozilla: Compose? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Newbie file structure question.

2002-08-25 Thread Mark Berkwitt
Using Konqueror I go to file:/root/Desktop/Home . If I then click on the Home icon I'm transported back to file:/root Why does this happen? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Newbie file structure question.

2002-08-25 Thread Mark Berkwitt
Mark Berkwitt wrote: Using Konqueror I go to file:/root/Desktop/Home . If I then click on the Home icon I'm transported back to file:/root Why does this happen? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

RE: [newbie] Nasty OT question. NTFS

2002-08-25 Thread Franki
Hi Warren, I'll look into those for future reference, but this box is used for testing perl cgi scripts (so I can make sure the ones I write on my linux box work in winblows as well.) Since the system is running IIS (fully patched of course and not running on the default port) I have little

[newbie] Konqueror displaying flash_linux.tar.gz filee question.

2002-08-25 Thread Mark Berkwitt
I downloaded the file flash_linux.tar.gz from Macromedia's site to the desktop as su. Using konqueror at location file:root/Desktop/ I see the file in the right panel. When I click on it the windows displays location file:/root/Desktop/flash_linux.tar.gz/ I see a folder in the right panel

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] vnc

2002-08-25 Thread Stormjumper
as i said, i'm pretty much a newbie *grin* so my value as a source of help is pretty much limited. but offhand, i've 2 suggestions regarding the font path problem. 1. if you think you've messed up certain vnc scripts, remove vnc and vncserver (with rpm/rpmdrake/software manager), and install it

Re: [newbie] IP address

2002-08-25 Thread Miark
Frank, I think this is CIDR notation for subnet masks. A subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 is really the 10-base notation of a binary masking system: .... (Notice equals 255, and equals 0.) The 1s indicate which part of the number is the network,

Re: [newbie] web server and domain name

2002-08-25 Thread SystemAdmin ABC Mini Storage LLC
SystemAdmin ABC Mini Storage LLC wrote: look at these links that provide DNS services for your website http://www.dyndns.org/ http://www.no-ip.com/ http://www.minidns.net/download-links.php for a personal DNS server for W2K and up see http://www.ntcanuck.com/ for DNS alt domains see

Re: [newbie] Konqueror displaying flash_linux.tar.gz filee question.

2002-08-25 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 25 August 2002 02:33 pm, Mark Berkwitt wrote: I downloaded the file flash_linux.tar.gz from Macromedia's site to the desktop as su. Using konqueror at location file:root/Desktop/ I see the file in the right panel. When I click on it the windows displays location

Re: [newbie] How dio I get out of this?

2002-08-25 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 24 Aug 2002 8:53 pm, you wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: I still have entries on the menu that I don't want, but can't find out how to remove them. Anne Simple enough, Mandrake Control Center - System - menu - System confiure(or user) Trace menu tree to app - click delete and

[newbie] Home Network Problems

2002-08-25 Thread Richard Ingram
Hi, OK my home net, at the moment is as below: CableModem-XP PC--Linux PC Now I have some questions: 1. I have Internet Connection Sharing on the XP box, this doles out an IP to the Linux box via DHCP. I can browse from the Linux box, read news, email and ftp no problems. However

[newbie] Can't find fpc compiler

2002-08-25 Thread Warren Post
I've installed the Free Pascal Compiler, fpc, included on the 8.1 installation disks, but the compiler doesn't seem to be installed. Man fpc tells me that the command syntax is fpc [options] [sourcefile], but even something as simple as fpc -h produces fpc: command not found. Indeed, the Mandrake

Re: [OT] Re: [newbie] (no subject)

2002-08-25 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 25 Aug 2002 2:34 am, you wrote: I'd change your mail address if I were you - I was just about to use Mozilla's Create filter from message function! And, while you're at it, please switch off the html for mail - I need a magnifying glass to read your posts :-) Anne Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Off Topic (post to list)

2002-08-25 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 25 Aug 2002 2:56 am, you wrote: Michael Adams wrote: On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 00:09, Anne Wilson wrote: Fact 1: A quote exists Variety is the spice of life. Fact 2: Some people get passionate about silly things. Fact 3: You will not be able to stop bottom posters posting at the

Re: [newbie] Off Topic (post to list)

2002-08-25 Thread FemmeFatale
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 25 Aug 2002 2:56 am, you wrote: I found it hard to believe, but I left one usenet group because the flaming got so bad - and it was mainly about this topic! Sad to say, the main flamers were those who made extremely rude remarks about anyone who through

Re: [newbie] Konqueror displaying flash_linux.tar.gz filee question.

2002-08-25 Thread FemmeFatale
Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 25 August 2002 02:33 pm, Mark Berkwitt wrote: Blah blah SNIP you saved the file as stated above, in a console you will have to do su and then give the root password. Then type in cd Desktop and that should get you into the correct directory. Then type tar

Re: [newbie] Multiple Questions keyboard/mouse and vid card

2002-08-25 Thread FemmeFatale
Phillip scott wrote: Keyboard: ok I have MDL 8.2 is there a RPM/program to use the extra keys above the regular keys and side mouse buttons? If you find out about the xtra mouse buttons lemme know. God knows i spent 3 months doing research on this very issue. The final verdict on

Re: [newbie] Off Topic (post to list)

2002-08-25 Thread et
yea know, some things are too good to resist start wisedumbAss remarks On Saturday 24 August 2002 06:38 pm, you wrote: On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 00:09, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 22 Aug 2002 12:30 pm, you wrote: I must apologise to everyone on this list. a, don't bother and really

Re: [newbie] IP address

2002-08-25 Thread et
On Sunday 25 August 2002 10:23 am, you wrote: People refer to xxx as a wildcard. Its like a range. If you say: 216.x.x.x that means any IP from 216. Its almost like * a wildcard used for most things. My ip address is usually a 172.x.x.x everytime i connect online I get the first 3 numbers,

Re: [newbie] IP address

2002-08-25 Thread et
On Sunday 25 August 2002 03:56 pm, you wrote: Frank, I think this is CIDR notation for subnet masks. A subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 is really the 10-base notation of a binary masking system: .... (Notice equals 255, and equals 0.) The 1s

Re: [newbie] Re: Please confirm your message

2002-08-25 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 25 August 2002 02:23 pm, Charlie M. wrote: big snip Can't be a reference to ex-wives. Who worries about them? I've observed that guys who have gotten behind on their alimony can be very, very jumpy. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] cannot connect with modem.

2002-08-25 Thread et
since *nix systems are case sensitve, and can handle it I find that in my script, if I use expect : password then I get a fail once in a while and have to change it to Password but if I use assword it works. I also don't use username it is expect Login, but I use ogin, send username changeing

Re: [newbie] Off Topic (post to list)

2002-08-25 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 25 August 2002 03:46 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 25 Aug 2002 2:56 am, you wrote: I found it hard to believe, but I left one usenet group because the flaming got so bad - and it was mainly about this topic! Sad to say, the main flamers were those who

Re: [newbie] Can't find fpc compiler

2002-08-25 Thread dfox
I've read the man page, the readme, the faq, and the freepascal.org site, but everything takes for granted that the compiler will work after installing the rpm. Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong? One would expect that 'fpc' is indeed installed somewhere, perhaps /usr/bin, with the

[newbie] How can I run an email filter in Mozilla after it's defined?

2002-08-25 Thread Mark Berkwitt
How can I run an email filter in Mozilla after it's defined? Ok, I've created the filter, now I'd like to run it to sort out my Inbox. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Root terminal stuck on desktop Mandrake9.0 beta2

2002-08-25 Thread John Richard Smith
I cannot close a root terminal in M9.0 beta2 do matter what I do. How can I kill it. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] getpix (again)

2002-08-25 Thread Todd Slater
I combined part of another script I used for image processing into getpix. With the revised getpix script, you can now resize and zip the images after you copy them to your hard drive. This is handy for me because it makes it really easy to get pix into my online gallery. I put the script at

Re: [newbie] IP address

2002-08-25 Thread Seth Zirin
On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 12:56, Miark wrote: In some previous posts I have noticed people refering to their IP address range as xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/xx. Just curious as to what the /xx refers to. Is it some type of range? CIDR notation takes advantage of this numbering trick to represent the

Re: [newbie] Can't find fpc compiler

2002-08-25 Thread Warren Post
El dom, 25-08-2002 a las 16:45, dfox escribió: I've read the man page, the readme, the faq, and the freepascal.org site, but everything takes for granted that the compiler will work after installing the rpm. Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong? One would expect that 'fpc' is indeed

[newbie] port 8080 not available

2002-08-25 Thread Scott
II just installed Zope from rpms on 8.2. The docs say that Zope should be available at http://localhost:8080/; but when I try to connect I keep getting the error something like can't connect to port 8080. Does anyone know what the problem is? Thanks, Scott Want to buy your Pack or Services

[newbie] 120Gb Maxtor 4G120J6 - Mandrake hangs on boot

2002-08-25 Thread Jon
Hi everyone, What is it they say on all the talk shows? Long time listener, first time caller :-) Anyway, I have a file server on my home network running out-of-the-box Mandrake 8.2 I'm trying to upgrade the drives put a 120Gb Maxtor in there. I initially tried putting it in alongside the

Re: [newbie] Upgrading from 7.1 to 8.2

2002-08-25 Thread Operator
Andre, That's a nice jump your thinking about making, I would suggest 1st. backing up your IMPORTANT FILES, next do a fresh install..(do NOT delete your home directory (if important info is there) during the install!!) I've tried to do an update before from 7.2 to 8.0 and I ran into some file

[newbie] Locked Folders

2002-08-25 Thread Michael
G'day, I've installed V9.0 Beta 2 (cooker), and my 2 CD Drives and Floppy Folders in /mnt are locked and I cannot access them. How do I unlock these ? -- Michael Doyle Busselton, Western Australia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to