Re: [newbie-it] connessione internet come utente comune

2002-10-14 Thread Andrea Celli
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 22:27:56 +0200 Rosario [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ho installato recentemente sul mio computer Linux Mandrake 8.2, da un disco allegato ad una rivista, e non sono riuscito a trovare il modo di collegarmi ad internet, tramite l'interfaccia grafica KDE, senza usare la password

Re: [newbie-it] Re: usb e digitali -[OT]

2002-10-14 Thread Andrea Celli
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 02:18:54 +0200 tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ti ringrazzio...ora vedo che riesco a capire ( ho fatto francese.grandissimo limite;) Il francese informatico è difficilmente comprensibile da chi ha lo studiato a scuola, perché traducono assolutamente tutto: fichier

[newbie-it] IP utilizzato

2002-10-14 Thread sebastiano arrigoni
salve a tutti, qualcuno di voi sa come vedere l'IP che sto utilizzando mentre sono collegato al mio ISP via modem? grazie sebastiano -- ... e cosi' me ne sto qui al sole a bere birra, leggere e riflettere, svolgendo cioe' i compiti doverosi che costituiscono il dovere per un uomo.

Re: [newbie-it]:Sat modem Netsystem

2002-10-14 Thread carmine de pasquale
- Original Message - From: carmine de pasquale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 10:39 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it]:Sat modem Netsystem Salve a tutti. Qualcuno conosce come utilizzare il Sat Modem della Netsystem, con la Mandrake 8.2 o 9.0?(questa

[newbie-it] openoffice e fonts

2002-10-14 Thread pigi
Sto incontrando un po' di problemi con i fonts importati da win: anche se openoffice 1.0 li visualizza correttamente (compreso il corsivo, grassetto, etc), quando stampo stampa tuuto in grassetto. Questo mi succede con i fonts importati (es arial o times new roman) ma non con il font tymes di

[newbie-it] copia e incolla da browser

2002-10-14 Thread pigi
Come si fa a copiare un testo/immagini da un browser (netscape communicator) e incollarli in un doc openoffice SENZA perdere la formattazione? grazie per l'aiuto a un inesperto totale! -- pigi === Versione LINUX installata:

Re: [newbie-it] nvidia geforce4

2002-10-14 Thread francesco.melo
gkep wrote: ciao da pinguino Mandrake 9.0, ho un problema con la scheda video Geforce4 MX 420 qualcuno e' riuscito ad installarla correttamente e poi a giocare a tuxracer o cose del genere? Sul sito nvidia.it ci sono oltre ai drivers anche le istruzioni, ma ricordo che i drivers per mdk avevano

Re: [newbie-it] nvidia geforce4

2002-10-14 Thread Andrea Celli
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 13:28:55 +0200 francesco.melo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . Allora , vediamo se riesco a scrivere tutto : Vai sul sito di Nvidia e scaricati i dirvers sorgenti SRC in formato rpm a questo punto dovrebbero , se tutto è andato per il verso giusto, essersi creati

Re: [newbie-it] nvidia geforce4

2002-10-14 Thread francesco.melo
Andrea Celli wrote: On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 13:28:55 +0200 francesco.melo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . Allora , vediamo se riesco a scrivere tutto : Vai sul sito di Nvidia e scaricati i dirvers sorgenti SRC in formato rpm a questo punto dovrebbero , se tutto è andato per il

Re: [newbie-it] nvidia geforce4

2002-10-14 Thread Andrea Celli
.. Qui mi sembra che hai complicato la vita: :-) Il reboot in Linux non è (quasi) mai necessario ;-) anche io faccio tutto a caldo senza riavviare, ma ho pensato fosse meglio scrivere la procedura più ortodossa senza forzare la chiusura di X . :

Re: [newbie-it] IP utilizzato

2002-10-14 Thread Marco Faenzi Vallés
Alle 10:11, lunedì 14 ottobre 2002, sebastiano arrigoni ha scritto: salve a tutti, qualcuno di voi sa come vedere l'IP che sto utilizzando mentre sono collegato al mio ISP via modem? grazie sebastiano usa (come utente root) il comando ifconfig... esempio: [root@univac marco]# ifconfig eth0

Re: [newbie-it] IP utilizzato

2002-10-14 Thread Fabio Manunza
Alle 10:11, lunedì 14 ottobre 2002, hai scritto: salve a tutti, qualcuno di voi sa come vedere l'IP che sto utilizzando mentre sono collegato al mio ISP via modem? grazie sebastiano Da console prova il comando netstat (man netstat), se la memoria non m'inganna; altrimenti a colpo sicuro (

Re: [newbie-it] IP utilizzato

2002-10-14 Thread freefred
On Monday 14 October 2002 10:11 am, sebastiano arrigoni wrote about S%: salve a tutti, qualcuno di voi sa come vedere l'IP che sto utilizzando mentre sono collegato al mio ISP via modem? grazie come root dai ifconfig e guarda il ppp bye -- Devil Inside Experiment - C'era un bambino che

[newbie-it] Installazione Software

2002-10-14 Thread Andrea Nasso
Scusate ma sono abbastanza novizio di questo mondo... Qualcuno sarebbe cosi gentile da aiutarmi a entrare in questa mentalità linux e mi guiderebbe nel semplice setup di un qualsiasi applicativo. So che la domanda è generica ma dopo aver installato il S.O. mi trovo un po bloccato quando scarico

Re: [newbie-it] Installazione Software

2002-10-14 Thread Andrea Celli
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 17:33:58 +0200 Andrea Nasso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scusate ma sono abbastanza novizio di questo mondo... Qualcuno sarebbe cosi gentile da aiutarmi a entrare in questa mentalità linux e mi guiderebbe nel semplice setup di un qualsiasi applicativo Cercalo in formato rpm

Re: [newbie-it] IP utilizzato

2002-10-14 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 10:11, lunedì 14 ottobre 2002, sebastiano arrigoni ha scritto: salve a tutti, qualcuno di voi sa come vedere l'IP che sto utilizzando mentre sono collegato al mio ISP via modem? # ifconfig | grep -1 ppp0 | tail -1 | sed 's/.*r://' | sed 's/

Re: [newbie-it] Installazione Software

2002-10-14 Thread Fabio Manunza
Alle 17:33, lunedì 14 ottobre 2002, hai scritto: Scusate ma sono abbastanza novizio di questo mondo... Qualcuno sarebbe cosi gentile da aiutarmi a entrare in questa mentalità linux e mi guiderebbe nel semplice setup di un qualsiasi applicativo. So che la domanda è generica ma dopo aver

Re: [newbie] mdk9 rpm problems.

2002-10-14 Thread A V Flinsch
On Sunday 13 October 2002 11:19 pm, Franki wrote: Hi guys, After proclaiming my mdk9 install to be a success, I find myself kinda embarrased. I tried to install an app with urpmi appname and it didn't work. Then I tried to fire up MandrakeUpdate,,, same result.. it displays please wait

Re: [newbie] Printer stopped working [solved!] {NOT!} {YES!}

2002-10-14 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: My usb printer is often falling out of USB hub view, so reluctantly I have to reboot for mandrake to find it again which annoys me. There ought to be a command that would tell the OS to redetect it again, to save time and effort. John Just as a matter of

Re: [newbie] LM9 sound

2002-10-14 Thread Brendan
On Sunday 13 October 2002 07:10 pm, Damian wrote: I may be wrong, but AFAIK: This is because Linux uses the little cable that goes from CDROM to soundcard to play audio CD's. (this means no messing with drivers or anything. the CD is played in a standalone mode on the CDROM, and the sound

Re: [newbie] mdk9 rpm problems.

2002-10-14 Thread Miark
Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: So I restarted, and it seems to be rebuilding the db fine now.. (lots of HD activity now, as opposed to none before..and also showing up in top.) ... go figure.. I don't like restarting a box for reasons I can't explain. Ditto here. All RPM-related progs just

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2002-10-14 Thread Brian Parish
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 08:55, Robin Turner wrote: Sorry if this question has already been answered, but a browse through the archives for the past month hasn't revealed anything. The Nvidia website has no drivers for 9.0. Threads in the archives only refer to drivers in the Mandrake Club

RE: [newbie] Mandrake 9 installation hangs after partition selections -- more info

2002-10-14 Thread Tony S. Sykes
I thought the video card was the killer clue. -Original Message- From: Michael Notforyou [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 12:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9 installation hangs after partition selections -- more info On Mon,

RE: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2002-10-14 Thread jamie . kerwick
How would I go about making the drivers from source ?? -- is there an on-line guide anywhere, or are there any instructions that come with the source which actually work (I've found in the past nvidia instructions to not be 100% accurate)?? Thanks Jamie -Original Message- From: Brian

[newbie] Access problems to CDROM and FAT32 partitions

2002-10-14 Thread Ferris
I'm running Mandrake 9.0 and KDE. When I first install and log in for the first time and click the removable media icon I can access my CD-ROM to browse files. However when I close the file manager window and wish to log in later the CD-ROM icon now has a padlock sign on it and when I click

[newbie] Mounting a filesystem ...

2002-10-14 Thread Rainer
hello, i've got mandrake set up on hdb1 and i would like to access a debian partition on hda8. looked at the control center and was somewhat perplexed by th options for mountpoint, i was under the impression it should be /mnt ... . tried to edit fstab by adding the info and that didn't work.

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2002-10-14 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 14 October 2002 11:03 am, you wrote: How would I go about making the drivers from source ?? -- is there an on-line guide anywhere, or are there any instructions that come with the source which actually work (I've found in the past nvidia instructions to not be 100% accurate)??

RE: [newbie] Mounting a filesystem ...

2002-10-14 Thread David Stevenson
mkdir /mnt/meaningful_name mount -t nfs or ext2 etc /dev/hda8 /mnt/meaningful_name your data should be in /mnt/meaningful_name from memory... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rainer Sent: 14 October 2002 15:48 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2002-10-14 Thread Kristjan
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 11:14:04 -0400 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 14 October 2002 11:03 am, you wrote: How would I go about making the drivers from source ?? -- is there an on-line guide anywhere, or are there any instructions that come with the source which actually work

[newbie] Contribs

2002-10-14 Thread Kristjan
Hi There are 2 sources that I have found for contibuted rpms one under the 9.0 contrib and one under Coocer As there are apps under coocer contrib that are not in the official 9.0 contrib directories then I needed to ask what is the main logick between those. Why some end up in the main

Re: [newbie] Contribs

2002-10-14 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 20:18:29 +0300 Kristjan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As there are apps under coocer contrib that are not in the official 9.0 contrib directories then I needed to ask what is the main logick between those. Why some end up in the main contrib directories and some not? At the

Re: [newbie] Gtk/gtk.h: No such file or directory

2002-10-14 Thread Todd Flinders
I was saying to make a symbolic link in /usr/include so it could find the gtk.h file. You said you did that but got like 20 errrors. So, I wondered if maybe you made your sympolic link point at the gtk.h of the wrong gtk version. Mandrake 9.0 has both. I don't know which you need. On

[newbie] No logout/halt/reboot in Dolphin

2002-10-14 Thread Flux
I don't know if its just my level of security or what, but the options to logout, halt, and reboot don't show up when I logout of KDE in Mandrake Linux 9.0. I previously had RedHat Linux 7.3 installed, and the options were there. What am I missing? Is there a security level that will

Re: [newbie] kernel configuration

2002-10-14 Thread Todd Flinders
linux is just a symbolic link that should point to the most current installed kernel. This makes more sense if you imagine yourself having multiple kernels installed (testing? Maybe different kernels for different purposes?) On Saturday 12 October 2002 12:44 pm, Noah Hicks wrote: Thanks a

Re: [newbie] Ogg encoder/decoder

2002-10-14 Thread George Baker
I presume this is true for Mandrake later than MDK 7.0 but as I am still living in the dark age is it possible to download the ogg encoder/decoder and implement them in Xmms and Grip? George Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] I feel we are all islands -- in a common sea. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, writer

Re: [newbie] tar files

2002-10-14 Thread Todd Flinders
Have you told Konqueror via its settings to display hidden files? On Sunday 13 October 2002 11:23 pm, Michael Adams wrote: Just curious, does this work for hidden files and directories as well. Konq will go into a tar but not see the . files. On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 17:49, Franki wrote: simple

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9 installation hangs after partition selections-- more info

2002-10-14 Thread Robert Björn
Hi Mike, No, it isn't a notebook. Just a typical PC. Regards, Robert Mike Burgener wrote: is that a notebook??? from compaq? At 08:55 13.10.2002 -0400, you wrote: I am not sure about all the problems, but the last one; (EE): No device found is not from the monitor, it is from the

[newbie] Rebuild kernel 2.4.19-16mdk to get ACPI support!!What am I doing wrong??

2002-10-14 Thread Dimitris Ioannou
Hello Folks! Mandrake 9.0 Dolphin I've recently got an Compaq Pressario 705EA-notebook that is-, 256 RAM, 20GB hard-disk Phoenix-bloody_bios, Conexant Softmodem(I finally got it to work), and Via On Board Sound chip-it works out of the box. Only thing that drives me nuts is that system gets

Re: [newbie] Ogg encoder/decoder

2002-10-14 Thread Derek Jennings
I don't see why not. Here is the download page http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/download.html You might get away with rebuilding the src RPMs derek On Monday 14 Oct 2002 6:57 pm, George Baker wrote: I presume this is true for Mandrake later than MDK 7.0 but as I am still living in the dark

[newbie] Security alert

2002-10-14 Thread Marco Verheul
Hello, I was just surfing the internet when I got a security alert, stating that I am broadcasting an IP address and that my PC could be getting unwanted visitors. I was directed to the following link: http://images.bonzi.com/fastclick/ia9b2.asp Is this a clever way to sell some product or is

Re: [newbie] Security alert

2002-10-14 Thread Jim Fazio
Marco, I'm not positive what you saw, but it sounds like you got a pop-up message from some web site trying to sell you something. An advertisement or something. 1) I would not worry about it. 2) I would turn off pop-up windows. In mozilla go to Edit - Preferences, then under

Re: [newbie] Security alert

2002-10-14 Thread Eric S. Dye
Hello Marco, Your message came from the www.bonzi.com site. They sell a program called Internet Alert which is a great firewall program, however i don't know if it would work with Linux. I have the Bonzi program myself, but i use it on XP. if you want a free firewall program, you can go to

Re: [newbie] Security alert

2002-10-14 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 14 Oct 2002 22:46:04 +0200 Marco Verheul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this a clever way to sell some product or is this for real. If you buy this let me know, I've got a pile of stuff that I've been trying to get rid of. It just like the bogus security sites that say they can see the

Re: [newbie] Security alert

2002-10-14 Thread Eric S. Dye
the site is not bogus. they do have a good firewall called Internet Alert which does in fact work. however, i doubt that it would work with Linux. not sure though. there are places where you can test your security online. if anyone wants to know the address, let me know. Eric S. Dye At

RE: [newbie] Security alert

2002-10-14 Thread Franki
last time I checked, bonzi and fastclick stuff are winders only software.. its likely that you caught some javascript in html pages to popup a message... nothing to worry about if you are running linux.. setup a firewall.. (In linux all firewall apps are just interfaces for the built in

Re: [newbie] Security alert [thanks everybody]

2002-10-14 Thread Marco Verheul
Thanks all, I got the picture. I'll stick with Jim's suggestion to uncheck that option in Mozilla for unwanted popups and let the matter rest. Regards, Marco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] No logout/halt/reboot in Dolphin

2002-10-14 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 14 October 2002 11:55 am, Flux did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I don't know if its just my level of security or what, but the options to that is indeed the reason if i recall correctly. - -- The box said 'Requires Windows

Re: [newbie] Security alert

2002-10-14 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 14 October 2002 1:46 pm, Marco Verheul did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I was just surfing the internet when I got a security alert, stating that I am broadcasting an IP address and that my PC could be getting unwanted

Re: [newbie] Security alert

2002-10-14 Thread Barry Premeaux
On Monday 14 October 2002 01:46 pm, you wrote: Hello, I was just surfing the internet when I got a security alert, stating that I am broadcasting an IP address and that my PC could be getting unwanted visitors. I was directed to the following link:

Re: [newbie] Security alert

2002-10-14 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 14:23:44 -0700 Eric S. Dye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the site is not bogus. they do have a good firewall called Internet Alert I do not care what the product is or how good it is. Anyone who markets their product in this manner, which is at the very least is deceptive and

[newbie] Extra Hard Drive

2002-10-14 Thread Travis Crook
Hi all, I have an extra 10GB hard drive and wondered what would be the best use for it. Would it make file access faster if it was used as a file drive (i.e. I install games, mp3s, etc. on it instead of the system drive)? What else could I do with it? Thanks Travis Crook Visions Beyond

Re: [newbie] Security alert [thanks everybody]

2002-10-14 Thread Chris Spackman
Marco Verheul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks all, I got the picture. I'll stick with Jim's suggestion to uncheck that option in Mozilla for unwanted popups and let the matter rest. If you are curious, try running nmapfe. nmap is a scanning tool - it will tell you what ports on your machine

Re: [newbie] Extra Hard Drive

2002-10-14 Thread E T
On Monday 14 October 2002 06:23 pm, Travis Crook wrote: Hi all, I have an extra 10GB hard drive and wondered what would be the best use for it. start smart ass redneck with two teeth remarks send it to me, by far the best use for it. / smart ass redneck with two teeth remarks end Would

Re: [newbie] Security alert

2002-10-14 Thread E T
ever seen the bonzi buddie as parrot like the paperclip in m$oriface, that was free, but better spyware than doubleclick could buy. same folks, I would wonder about the firewall and weither it was spyware too. On Monday 14 October 2002 05:30 am, shane wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: [newbie] Rebuild kernel 2.4.19-16mdk to get ACPI support!!Whatam I doing wrong??

2002-10-14 Thread Michael Notforyou
Mandrake Linux on a Presario 700 series: http://www.quack-net.com/presario/ I have a 730US. Don't bother reconfiguring the Mandrake kernel. Get a vanilla kernel (if you can live without supermount) and patch it. Once again, the Website will guide you. If you have any questions on how, feel

Re: [newbie] Downloading and installing mandrake

2002-10-14 Thread alex
First things first.do you have high speed internet like DSL? If not, don't even think of of downloading Mandrake. It takes many many hours at ordinary modem speeds. Mike Eastaugh wrote: Hi'ya Am completly new to this, so could someone help me here. I'm just looking to download a

Re: [newbie] NOT NICE OF ALL OF U!!!

2002-10-14 Thread alex
Didn't you wonder why your first mail didn't appear on this list right after you sent it? If you didn't see it on the list, then how could anyone else see it? Is it still in your 'Sent' file? If yes, then send it again. Markus Klocker wrote: Nobody answerd a mail from me! Thats sad!

Re: [newbie] Printer stopped working [solved!] {NOT!} {YES!}

2002-10-14 Thread Marcia
Brian Parish wrote: On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 10:22, Marcia wrote: By the way, during reinstall of LM9 I accidently lost my choice of win95 which I had already installed. I forgot how to get it back without erasing LM. What did one do again to get lilo to boot windows again? Thanks, Marcia

Re: [newbie] Extra Hard Drive

2002-10-14 Thread Derek Jennings
If you want to speed up your system you could mount your extra HD as a software RAID drive. RAID0 will stripe data between two hard drives, so some blocks are read from one drive, and some from the other effectively halving the seek time. Software RAID is real easy to set up using

Re: [newbie] MDK 9.0 crashes at boot

2002-10-14 Thread E T
what does your lilo.conf say? have you tried passing nopentium noAPIC to the kernel at boot with the append statement in lilo? On Sunday 13 October 2002 03:05 pm, Bogdan Stancescu wrote: Hello everybody! I have an AMD Athlon XP 2000+ CPU on a K7S5A motherboard with AMIBIOS, if that makes

Re: [newbie] NOT NICE OF ALL OF U!!!

2002-10-14 Thread E T
On Monday 14 October 2002 07:47 pm, alex wrote: Didn't you wonder why your first mail didn't appear on this list right after you sent it? If you didn't see it on the list, then how could anyone else see it? Is it still in your 'Sent' file? If yes, then send it again. Markus Klocker wrote:

Re: [newbie] Extra Hard Drive

2002-10-14 Thread John Drouhard
hi, I have a ten GB partition devoted to miscellaneous things. I use it for: 1) saving downloaded rpm's and tarballs 2) a place to rip dvd's and music 3) a place to download music to 4) backing up my computer whenever I need to The only reason it would make it faster is if the games and mp3's

[newbie] Sound in LM9

2002-10-14 Thread Marcia
Dear All, Does anyone know how the /etc/modules.conf should read if one has LM9? When mine worked in 8.2 it had a different looking /etc/modules.conf than in LM9. I have the viachipset onboard sound. Does anyone have LM9 with the viachipset onboard sound and has it working with alsa? If so,

Re: [newbie] Is lnx4win a FAKE?

2002-10-14 Thread alex
Markus Klocker wrote: I find no way to install mandrake into a windows folder!! Mandrake is not installed into a windows folder. It is installed in a hard drive partition of its own.Windows has nothing to do with Mandrake. They are two completely separate systems. | How could this

Re: [newbie] Is lnx4win a FAKE?

2002-10-14 Thread Damian
El Mar 15 Oct 2002 00:03, alex escribió: Markus Klocker wrote: I find no way to install mandrake into a windows folder!! Mandrake is not installed into a windows folder. It is installed in a hard drive partition of its own.Windows has nothing to do with Mandrake. They are two

Re: [newbie] Sound in LM9

2002-10-14 Thread Brendan
On Monday 14 October 2002 08:08 pm, Marcia wrote: Dear All, Does anyone know how the /etc/modules.conf should read if one has LM9? When mine worked in 8.2 it had a different looking /etc/modules.conf than in LM9. I have the viachipset onboard sound. Does anyone have LM9 with the viachipset

Re: [newbie] Is lnx4win a FAKE?

2002-10-14 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Monday 14 October 2002 05:43 pm, Damian wrote: El Mar 15 Oct 2002 00:03, alex escribió: Markus Klocker wrote: I find no way to install mandrake into a windows folder!! Mandrake is not installed into a windows folder. It is installed in a hard drive partition of its own.Windows

[newbie] mail format

2002-10-14 Thread Paul Kaplan
I receive e-mails from at least three sources that I think (emphasize think) are in html format and are not displayed correctly in KMail. One of those sources also delivers attachments in a non-attached format. What I see is a text message. For simple e-mails, the messages start with the

Re: [newbie] Is lnx4win a FAKE?

2002-10-14 Thread E T
Alex, these are pretty old mails you are responding to, I do believe. On Monday 14 October 2002 08:03 pm, alex wrote: Markus Klocker wrote: I find no way to install mandrake into a windows folder!! Mandrake is not installed into a windows folder. It is installed in a hard drive partition

Re: [newbie] mail format

2002-10-14 Thread J. Adam Latham
On Monday 14 October 2002 11:45 am, Paul Kaplan wrote: I receive e-mails from at least three sources that I think (emphasize think) are in html format and are not displayed correctly in KMail. One of those sources also delivers attachments in a non-attached format. What I see is a text

Re: [newbie] Security alert

2002-10-14 Thread FemmeFatale
At 02:08 PM 10/14/2002 -0700, you wrote: Hello Marco, Your message came from the www.bonzi.com site. They sell a program called Internet Alert which is a great firewall program, however i don't know if it would work with Linux. I have the Bonzi program myself, but i use it on XP. if you want

[newbie] an unexpected icon and a forgotten password

2002-10-14 Thread Joe Harkins
I'm running Mandrake8.2 and using KDE. At the bottom of my screen I noticed an icon has apeared in the form of a small lock. When I clicked on it the screen went black and a prompt appeared that wanted my user password. Since I don't recall what the user pw is (and don't get to see it on

Re: [newbie] Security alert

2002-10-14 Thread Damian
For windows both norton blackice bite the bikey. Plain simple. If you want proof I Can direct you off or on list to a website. Ooops! please do, Femme! i'm interested! thanks IA. Damian -- Damian -- Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.(The Dalai Lama) Want to