[newbie] Sorry this is a test

2002-09-09 Thread Lyndon Lininger
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Re: [newbie] Sorry this is a test

2002-09-09 Thread Lee
Would anyone who is not here please raise their hand. On Sunday 08 September 2002 03:24 pm, you wrote: Is anyone else not receiving any mail from here? -- Registered Linux user #223705 Give me ambiguity or give me something else. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] offsite backup

2002-09-09 Thread William R. Nash
Does any one have information on how to do offsite backup. I would like to backup windows and linux machines. I have a large SQL and exchange data base i would like to store off site. any infomation. Thanks Bill Nash Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] offsite backup

2002-09-09 Thread John McQuillen
On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 21:40, William R. Nash wrote: Does any one have information on how to do offsite backup. I would like to backup windows and linux machines. I have a large SQL and exchange data base i would like to store off site. any infomation. Thanks Bill Nash Take the tape home

[newbie] Cisco and Sound

2002-09-09 Thread teddy wl
Hi.. I'm newbie in Linux... I'm from Indonesia. I've some question 1. i've cisco router 2600 and cisco catalyst switch 1900series. usualy I setup my cisco device with Hyperterminal under M$ Window$. My computer just installed Linux Mandrake 8.2 KDE 3.0.2. I want to setup my cisco device with my

Re: [newbie] offsite backup

2002-09-09 Thread William R. Nash
On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 21:40, William R. Nash wrote: Does any one have information on how to do offsite backup. I would like to backup windows and linux machines. I have a large SQL and exchange data base i would like to store off site. any infomation. Thanks Bill Nash Take the tape home

Re: [newbie] Sorry this is a test

2002-09-09 Thread John Richard Smith
Lee wrote: Would anyone who is not here please raise their hand. On Sunday 08 September 2002 03:24 pm, you wrote: Is anyone else not receiving any mail from here The case of the disappearing Hom Who asked, I asked, said the man in the corner, Who's that then , me said he, why, Who said

Re: [newbie] offsite backup

2002-09-09 Thread Alastair Scott
William R. Nash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (09/09/2002 12:40) Does any one have information on how to do offsite backup. I would like to backup windows and linux machines. I have a large SQL and exchange data base i would like to store off site. any infomation. Thanks Bill Nash I think this

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper

2002-09-09 Thread Sevatio
Marco Verheul wrote: Hello, I'm looking for a tool to convert my own audio cd's into mp3 files. All suggestions/recommendations are welcome... Regards, Marco Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] Cicso IOS simulator for linux

2002-09-09 Thread teddy wl
I'm Teddy again I want have Cisco IOS Simulator for linux, i just have Cisco eSIM for windows, and i browse this file just for under windows and this eSIM made by MacromediaFlas. All of you maybe to know, what apps is like cisco IOS simulator for linux. Thank you... Teddy

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper

2002-09-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 09 Sep 2002 2:18 pm, Marco Verheul wrote: Hello, I'm looking for a tool to convert my own audio cd's into mp3 files. All suggestions/recommendations are welcome... Regards, Marco Grip It is on your CDs Out of the box it will rip into ogg format which is better quality with

Re: [newbie]WalMart Box - was ISA Ethernet Card

2002-09-09 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Saturday 07 September 2002 09:36, Peregrinf wrote: As I say, I haven't used Gimp much yet, but unless it offers a browse that gives me a catalogue of thumbnails in a directory for me to choose from, sort, move, delete, etc., it won't be of much use to me. Try gqview.

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper

2002-09-09 Thread Raffaele Belardi
grip is good for ripping (it uses cdparanoia) and compressing (I use lame). Not as good as EAC for windows IMHO, unfortunately. The feature I miss in grip is that it does not signal exactly where it eventually encounters an error during the rip process, so you can judge if it is fine or you

[newbie] Harddisk questions

2002-09-09 Thread L.V.Gandhi
A few harddisk questions. How to know whether enabling dma is OK for a harddisk? I have two harddisks one Seagate 20 gb ata 100 other Samsung 40 gb ata 33 What will the effect ata value on data transfer? I have PIII 866 machine with 256 MB sdram. -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments,

Re: [newbie] Cisco and Sound

2002-09-09 Thread bpx
You may want to take a look at minicom or kermit for Linux I wouldn't consider either to be a Hypterterminal clone, but they should give you the necessary tools to do the job. Barry Hi.. I'm newbie in Linux... I'm from Indonesia. I've some question 1. i've cisco router 2600 and cisco

[newbie] Where i can find archive of {newbie} mailing list?

2002-09-09 Thread inbox
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Re: [newbie] avi.

2002-09-09 Thread _nasturtium
On Sun, 8 Sep 2002 00:57, Miark wrote: mplayer Hello everyone im having trouble playing a Avi. movie within my Mandrake linux can anyone suggest a good program that plays them. Hello, Not quite relevant to this, but would anyone know of a package for Mandrake that creates

[newbie] How to Delete message footer automaticaly ?

2002-09-09 Thread inbox
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Re: [newbie] Where i can find archive of {newbie} mailing list?

2002-09-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 09 Sep 2002 6:23 pm, inbox wrote: Thanks http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Cisco and Sound

2002-09-09 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Mon, 9 Sep 2002 05:53:40 -0700 (PDT) teddy wl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi.. I'm newbie in Linux... I'm from Indonesia. I've some question 1. i've cisco router 2600 and cisco catalyst switch 1900series. usualy I setup my cisco device with Hyperterminal under M$ Window$. My computer just

[newbie] What do that russian name of the files could it is correct be displayed on windows patrition in mc and under X?

2002-09-09 Thread Maksim
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[newbie] qtopia - zaurus /usb-lan connection - it works!

2002-09-09 Thread Patrik Marxer
Hi everybody, this mail started out as a call for help, but since I was finally able to do it myself, I changed it to a 'yeahh-it-works' kind of mail. Trolltech released the qt-desktop for linux: ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/qtopia/qtopia-desktop-1.6.0beta1-1.i386.rpm after the installation, the

[newbie] Spam Assassin / M8.2

2002-09-09 Thread John Richard Smith
I downloaded spamassassin-2.31-2mdk.src.rpm and attempted to rebuild:- # cd /pk # rpm --rebuild spamassassin-2.31-2mdk.src.rpm Installing spamassassin-2.31-2mdk.src.rpm Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.6485 big snip Executing(%install): /bin/sh -e

Re: [newbie] Voodoo3 3500 (Built in TV tuner)

2002-09-09 Thread Miark
Not exactly the advice you were looking for, but I recommend you never test X during installation for this very reason: if it crashes, you have to re-install from scratch. Just skip the test and continue with the install. Once it's installed, then you can boot and mess with drakxconf. Then if it

Re: [newbie] offsite backup

2002-09-09 Thread John Richard Smith
Randy Kramer wrote: http://www.twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/LinuxBackupAndRestore regards, Randy Kramer I downloaded partimage-shared-0.6.1-1-mdk81.i586.rpm, and for once it installed without fuss on my M8.2, I had to resort to command line only since the first gui windows just

Re: [newbie] avi.

2002-09-09 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, _nasturtium wrote: Hello, Not quite relevant to this, but would anyone know of a package for Mandrake that creates avis/mpegs/mov/[insert file type here]? Creates, you mean like encodes to? Again, try MPlayer. Mplayer contains a program called mencoder, which can be

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper

2002-09-09 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Derek Jennings wrote: Mandrake do not supply the library needed for mp3 encoding because it is subject to a patent, but if you download and install the lame-encoder RPM from here ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/Mandrake-8.2/RPMS Has anyone had

Re: [newbie] Spam Assassin / M8.2

2002-09-09 Thread Derek Jennings
John I assume you got this off cooker? I do not know what is wrong with your rebuild, but spamassassin-2.31-1mdk.rpm is on Mandrake Club for 8.2 and it installs perfectly. If you are not a club member let me know and I will send you the rpm as an attachment. BTW: In order for spamassassin to

Re: [newbie] find my way out of the darkness/If you can find your way to `SAX

2002-09-09 Thread Errol Stagg
Try this.. Type su and then your root password. Now type sax which should bring up an XF86 window to make the entries you require. On Friday 06 September 2002 8:31 pm, you wrote: I am informed that you can then select the KDE desktop settings. How may I find my way

Re: [newbie] Harddisk questions

2002-09-09 Thread Mike Graham
On Monday 09 September 2002 11:30 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday September 7 2002 08:26 pm, L.V.Gandhi wrote: A few harddisk questions. How to know whether enabling dma is OK for a harddisk? I have two harddisks one Seagate 20 gb ata 100 other Samsung 40 gb ata 33 What will the

[newbie] Quark Express

2002-09-09 Thread Roger Sherman
Is there a linux equivalent of this program? -- peace, Rog Come, let me gnaw your fingernails that I may absorb and lose myself in the wise and gritty detritus that is you. http://www.madsci.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/~lynn/jardin/SCG 56469198 Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] ATAPI Illegal request errors

2002-09-09 Thread David Johnson
Every so often (at regular intervals), my LM8.2 server spits out the following error message on the console: ATAPI device hda: Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05) Invalid field in command packet -- (asc=0x24, ascq=0x00) The failed Start/Stop Unit packet command

Re: [newbie]WalMart Box - was ISA Ethernet Card

2002-09-09 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 03:23, Peregrinf wrote: On 7 Sep 2002, at 19:53, Michael Adams wrote: I agree, GIMP may not be fully intuitive to a confirmed PSP user. GIMP can do 95%+ of what PSP can, but PSP can only do 80-90% of what GIMP can. -- Michael The fact that Gimp can do more than

Re: [newbie] Harddisk questions

2002-09-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday September 9 2002 05:05 pm, Mike Graham wrote: On Monday 09 September 2002 11:30 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: See 'info hdparm'. If your drive wasn't automagically setup by Mandrake to use it's full udma potential, it could signify hardware or other issues. You can forcibly set the

Re: [newbie] Using a USB hub?

2002-09-09 Thread Aaron Peters
Remember sda1 and sda4 aren't DIFFERENT devices (in theory anyway), but different partitions on the same device (first and fourth partitions on the first SCSI disk). Seems like supermount is trying to mount the first partition on the zip disk, which doesn't exist (for some reason zip disks

Re: [newbie] Harddisk questions

2002-09-09 Thread L.V.Gandhi
Thanks for the detailed reply. I will explain a little more about my HDD confiuration. Seagate is 5400rpm only. From model no I checked it in Seagate site. Samsung is 7200 rpm as per the box with model no given to me. Seagate is connected as Primary master(hda). and Samsung is connected as

[newbie] 2 displays (X-Servers), one monitor, how do I switch?

2002-09-09 Thread Michael Notforyou
I just decided to play with gdm to see if it had improved. (Back at MDK7, I tried it, and I couldn't figure out how to log in.) So: $ gdm Only root wants to run gdm $ su Password: # gdm Up pops a curses-style window, telling me that gdm couldn't connect to the X-server on :0, did I want to

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper

2002-09-09 Thread dfox
Has anyone had any luck with compiling and using mencoder (MPlayer) with this lame-encoder RPM? It's not a question of whether you think it will or It appears people have :). I have never tried mencoder - I don't have any dvd hardware on the computer - otherwise I would give it a try :).

Re: [newbie] how May I install X-WINDOWS to use KDE

2002-09-09 Thread Mark Weaver
rhp.mac wrote: hi, I install mandrake 8.2 and I can't open KDE interface. how May I install X-WINDOWS to use KDE. thanks for all help. rhp What kind of install of Mandrake did you do? for most types of installs X-windows installs as part of the installation. When you boot to

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 to 8.1 update ?

2002-09-09 Thread Mark Weaver
Bernard Victor wrote: I had Mandrake 7.2 running and working pretty well, but got a copy of 8.2 and decided to update. However I found I had lost a lot of my settings. I no longer had read/write access to my Windows partition except as root. Wine would not work, and the Wine conf file seemed

Re: [newbie] Kernel of MDK 9 compiled for i686

2002-09-09 Thread Mark Weaver
Olaf Marzocchi wrote: Is there a kernel compiled for i686 in the MDK9? I heard that RH includes 3 kernel compiles in his distro: i486 (useless for MDK), i686 and athlon. I think a good idea would be to ship 3 kernels and let only the expert user choose (during install): i586, i686,

Re: [newbie] offsite backup

2002-09-09 Thread dfox
Does any one have information on how to do offsite backup. I would like to backup windows and linux machines. I have a large SQL and exchange If you just want a 'raw' backup of the dirs, then you probably want rsync over an ssh connection, at least for the Linux system. That way the data

Re: [newbie] Harddisk questions

2002-09-09 Thread dfox
Run (as root) 'hdparm -i /dev/hdx' on it (also try 'hdparm -I' to=20 read the drive info directly from the drive's firmware), for example OK. I'll bite - I have my /dev/hda and /dev/hdb set with 32-bit on and dma on. I do an 'hdparm -i /dev/hdb' and see that my drive (IBM deskstar 30

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper

2002-09-09 Thread Damian G
On Mon, 9 Sep 2002 21:12:40 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dfox) wrote: Has anyone had any luck with compiling and using mencoder (MPlayer) with this lame-encoder RPM? It's not a question of whether you think it will or It appears people have :). I have never tried mencoder - I don't

[newbie] Anybody there? no traffic on the list....

2002-09-09 Thread Ricardo Castanho de O. Freitas
Since the list-server crash, 10 days ago I haven't seen almost any msg for [newbie] group! [expert] seems to be OK! I mean the list! ;-) Ricardo -- == Linux user # 102240 = Machine # 96125 = Seti@home user

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 to 8.1 update ?

2002-09-09 Thread Michael Viron
Even better would be to place the /home partition on a completely separate drive from the system drive (on the off chance that your system drive goes bad). Of course, if you don't have a second drive available, then the suggestion below is perfectly fine in most cases. Most servers I've set up

Re: [newbie] Harddisk questions

2002-09-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday September 9 2002 09:30 pm, L.V.Gandhi wrote: Thanks for the detailed reply. I will explain a little more about my HDD confiuration. Seagate is 5400rpm only. From model no I checked it in Seagate site. Samsung is 7200 rpm as per the box with model no given to me. Seagate is

Re: [newbie] MP3 ripper - OGG eats MP3

2002-09-09 Thread Ron Bouwhuis
I spent time this weekend ripping my CDs to OGG format. Sound quality is extraordinary and files are smaller than MP3. Just need those tiny pocket players to support the format and MP3 would be dead. Ron. --- Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: grip is good for ripping (it uses