[newbie-it] Immagini e metadata

2002-11-02 Thread Pollo
La mia fotocamera digitale produce file in formato jpg con metadata. Mi spiego. quando salva l'immagine salva anche le impostazioni operative della macchina (ad esempio se ho usato il flash oppure no, il tempo che l'oturatore è rimasto aperto, ecc.). Con windows, usando acdsee, riesco a vedere

Re: [newbie-it] Immagini e metadata

2002-11-02 Thread LukenShiro
Alle 12:02, sabato 2 novembre 2002, Pollo ha scritto: La mia fotocamera digitale produce file in formato jpg con metadata. Mi spiego. quando salva l'immagine salva anche le impostazioni operative della macchina (ad esempio se ho usato il flash oppure no, il tempo che l'oturatore è rimasto

Re: [newbie-it] Masterizzare Mp3

2002-11-02 Thread LukenShiro
Alle 20:00, giovedì 31 ottobre 2002, Benedetto Santarella ha scritto: quale programma posso usare per masterizzare degli Mp3 in modo da poterli ascoltare con un normale lettore CD Si puo' utilizzare cdrecord??? E se si mi potete fare un esempio Prendo a caso dei siti [NdR: e' sempre

[newbie-it] Configurazione scheda video

2002-11-02 Thread Lorenzo Facchinotti
Ciao a tuttu, sono un nuovissimo di mandrake. Ho la versione 8.1 che ho installato su un toshiba con satellite con schermo (penso) 4010sdc. L'installazione è riuscita salvo per la configurazione della scheda video. Infatti le immagini delle icone e delle finestre sono sempre grandi e sgranate.

Re: [newbie-it] Configurazione scheda video

2002-11-02 Thread LukenShiro
Alle 14:38, sabato 2 novembre 2002, Lorenzo Facchinotti ha scritto: Ho la versione 8.1 che ho installato su un toshiba con satellite con schermo (penso) 4010sdc. L'installazione è riuscita salvo per la configurazione della scheda video. Infatti le immagini delle icone e delle finestre sono

Re: [newbie-it] Acerscan

2002-11-02 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 02:03, sabato 2 novembre 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Salve a tutti leggendo alcuni documenti ho scoperto che il mio scanner è fra quelli non supportati si tratta di un acerscan prisa600 come posso fare? vedi se monta componenti in

Re: [newbie-it] impossibile accedere a \\nome_host - impossibile trovare il percorso di rete

2002-11-02 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 12:12, giovedì 31 ottobre 2002, Paolo Tomiato ha scritto: impossibile accedere a \\nome_host - impossibile trovare il percorso di rete questo e' il messaggio che ricevo se tento di accedere al mio server linux mdk 9.0 dalle 2 macchine

Re: [newbie-it] Acerscan

2002-11-02 Thread stormymonday
miKe wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 02:03, sabato 2 novembre 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Salve a tutti leggendo alcuni documenti ho scoperto che il mio scanner è fra quelli non supportati si tratta di un acerscan prisa600 come posso fare? vedi se

[newbie-it] Audio e misteri

2002-11-02 Thread Stefano Sebastiani
Sono ebete lo ametto però io non capisco il mio sistema che a volte cambia senza apparente motivo (caso strano con aggiornamenti o altre operazioni sui pacchetti! ;] ) Ordunque la scheda audio on Board era stata riconosciuta e configurata bene, tutto funziava (con esclusione del DVD e del

Re: [newbie-it] Masterizzare Mp3

2002-11-02 Thread Daniele Micci
Alle 14:28, sabato 2 novembre 2002, hai scritto: Alle 20:00, giovedì 31 ottobre 2002, Benedetto Santarella ha scritto: quale programma posso usare per masterizzare degli Mp3 in modo da poterli ascoltare con un normale lettore CD Si puo' utilizzare cdrecord??? E se si mi potete fare un

[newbie-it] X e vicinanze

2002-11-02 Thread tom
Salve a tutti premettendo che sto cercando di usare la machina in modalita testo. ogni volta che voglio far partire X gli devo dare un bel startx.e qui mi paret il WIndowmenager che è KDE!!! ma io nn voglio piu KDE (troppo pesante e lungo da caricare) vorrei far carivcare in

Re: [newbie-it] X e vicinanze

2002-11-02 Thread LukenShiro
Alle 21:35, sabato 2 novembre 2002, tom ha scritto: ogni volta che voglio far partire X gli devo dare un bel startx.e qui mi paret il WIndowmenager che è KDE!!! ma io nn voglio piu KDE (troppo pesante e lungo da caricare) vorrei far carivcare in automatico il WIndowMaker!! difatti sono

Re: [newbie-it] Audio e misteri

2002-11-02 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 19:28, sabato 2 novembre 2002, Stefano Sebastiani ha scritto: Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver: device: default can't be opened for playback (Unknown error) The sound server will continue, using

Re: [newbie-it] KDE no funziona

2002-11-02 Thread LukenShiro
Alle 18:36, giovedì 31 ottobre 2002, Mavricijo Babič ha scritto: Quando voglio acede a KDE vedo aparire questo mesagio: COULD NOT READ NETWORK CONNECTION LIST. /home/mavro/.DCOPserver_localhost.localdomanin_0 dice anche di controlare il programa dcopserver. Sembra che non sia ancora chiaro

Re: [newbie-it] X e vicinanze

2002-11-02 Thread tom
Alle 22:47, sabato 2 novembre 2002, LukenShiro ha scritto...sempre che abbia capito bene!: Nella mia distribuzione il file e' xinitrc che si trova in /etc/X11/xinit/, questo e' generalmente una copia del file xinitrc._NOME-WM-che-voglio-avviare_ perfetto.se pigio (sono gia in

[newbie] printer problem

2002-11-02 Thread Eric Richards
How come to set up your printer it does a test page perfect, But when you go to print a page it prints nothing but jumbled rubbish I tried all three print options still the same, Also I did a buffer clean out with lpq List jobs in the print queue. lprm [job number] Remove job from printer

[newbie] Properties, permissions

2002-11-02 Thread Eric Richards
Hi Also how would one change the Properties, permissions of a file in a KDE text window by logging on a root user with su From Eric NO ATTACHMENT WAS SENT WITH THIS EMAIL, IF THERE IS ONE, IT might be A UNDETECTED VIRUS, PLEASE LET ME KNOW.. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.

Re: [newbie] The attachments

2002-11-02 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 02 November 2002 01:25 am, Eric Richards wrote: Hi I joined the group today, why do all Emails have attachments? From Eric NO ATTACHMENT WAS SENT WITH THIS EMAIL, IF THERE IS ONE, IT IS A UNDETECTED VIRUS, PLEASE LET ME KNOW.. --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free.

sorry bjc2000sp printer RE: [newbie] printer problem

2002-11-02 Thread Eric Richards
How come when you set up your printer, it does a perfect test page, But when you go to print a page from a standard text page it prints nothing but jumbled rubbish I tried all three print options still the same, Also I did a buffer clean out with lpq List jobs in the print queue. lprm [job

Re: [newbie] The attachments

2002-11-02 Thread russell hobman
goodaye eric, you will probably find that the attachement is just a plain text promotion from mandrake soft. ie.. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com cheers, russell. * --- Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

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[newbie] Two questions:

2002-11-02 Thread Antonio R.
Hi again: OK, I’ve downloaded the ISO files from one of the mirrors of the Mandrake Linux site, and I checked the three files with the md5sum file and everything is OK. Then I burned the three files and restart my computer with the CD that has the first Mandrake Linux file and guess what?...

Re: sorry bjc2000sp printer RE: [newbie] printer problem

2002-11-02 Thread Dennis and Sue
I had similar problems with my Canon 610. When I could get it to work, all it would print is garbage. The problem lies with Canon. If you follow the link I've posted you can read about my experience, And how it was solved. It might help you as well.

Re: [newbie] rsync..

2002-11-02 Thread bascule
hmmm, off the top of my head (you have been warned!) rsync -av rsyncserver::module/path/to/filename /path/to/local/directory/ will put 'filename' in 'directory' make sure that the partial file you already have is named the same as that you are rsyncing from, remove any .part or whatever, if

Re: [newbie] Two questions:

2002-11-02 Thread Erik
Replies inline: On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 03:23, Antonio R. wrote: Hi again: OK, I’ve downloaded the ISO files from one of the mirrors of the Mandrake Linux site, and I checked the three files with the md5sum file and everything is OK. Then I burned the three files and restart my computer

Re: [newbie] Problems Installing Python2.2.2

2002-11-02 Thread John Richard Smith
yaya wrote: Hi all! I just downloaded the 'Python2.2.2.tar' file and as I am a new user I have no idea on how to install it. I have successfully extracted the compressed file. The Readme file that came along with states the following: To start building right away (on UNIX): type ./configure

Re: [newbie] Shorewall vs. Bastille

2002-11-02 Thread Frans Ketelaars
I have Bastille-1.3.0-3mdk.noarch.rpm and Bastille-Tk-module-1.3.0-1.0.i386.rpm installed in ML9.0 and uninstalled shorewall. It works OK. On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 07:48:55 -0800 Myers, Dennis R NWO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So far Paul I can not get Bastille to run in 9.0, not even the latest and

Re: [newbie] Two questions:

2002-11-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Antonio R. wrote: Hi again: OK, I’ve downloaded the ISO files from one of the mirrors of the Mandrake Linux site, and I checked the three files with the md5sum file and everything is OK. Then I burned the three files and restart my computer with the CD that has the first Mandrake Linux file and

Re: [newbie] M9.0 and Supermount

2002-11-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Miark wrote: Works fine for me :-) Do you have autofs running by any chance? Miark How do I check ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Problems Installing Python2.2.2

2002-11-02 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 02:45:38 + yaya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! I just downloaded the 'Python2.2.2.tar' file and as I am a new user I have no idea on how to install it. I have successfully extracted the compressed file. The Readme file that came along with states the following:

Re: [newbie] Unwanted modules

2002-11-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 01 Nov 2002 5:01 pm, you wrote: In reply to Anne's mail, d.d. Fri, 1 Nov 2002 16:37:42 +: You can find most logs in /var/log I thought I had checked this, but now I've found the relevant lines: Nov 1 10:13:12 anne-linux ups: upsmon shutdown succeeded Nov 1 10:13:12 anne-linux

Re: [newbie] Writing W2K NTFS partition?

2002-11-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 01 Nov 2002 10:11 pm, you wrote: At 03:49 PM 11/1/2002 +, you wrote: On Friday 01 Nov 2002 12:11 pm, you wrote: technically you can, but by all accounts you still might as well throw a d12 to determine if your files remain uncorrupted! mount read only and use a shared fat

Re: [newbie] clock help

2002-11-02 Thread ET
On Friday 01 November 2002 08:59 am, Bob Read wrote: Sounds like the system clock is set for 50Hz power line frequency, and you are using 60Hz power line. Bob if this were to happen,,, first time I ever saw a system clcok using line voltage, most every one I ever saw used mother board

[newbie] Sylpheed again

2002-11-02 Thread Len Lawrence
Getting used to Sylpheed now. It still seems a bit awkward compared with the facility of pine and there is one feature (from pine) which I really miss; the ability to double-click on a web link and spawn a browser to access it. In sylpheed the links come up in green, but nothing happens when you

Re: [newbie] Two questions:

2002-11-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 02 Nov 2002 9:17 am, you wrote: Replies inline: OK, I’ve downloaded the ISO files from one of the mirrors of the Mandrake Linux site, and I checked the three files with the md5sum file and everything is OK. Then I burned the three files and restart my computer with the CD

[newbie] M9.0

2002-11-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Mozilla 1.1 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 Anyone know how to get rid of that irksome red star that follows the cursor around in mozilla? KDE Does anyone know how to reduce the amount of times kde plays a jingle everytime you click on something ? -- John

[newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Wishlist

2002-11-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Top of my mandrake 9.1 wishlist would be a decent printer page alignment and offsetts programme like we used to have in qtcups, the thing we have now in M8.2 and M9.0 is a complete hit and miss waste, of ink cartridges + paper, programme and takes all day to get right. John -- John Richard Smith

Re: [newbie] Wireless

2002-11-02 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 13:06:50 +1100 Patrick Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Running mandrake 8.2 and I'm trying to install a plx wireless carrier with an Orinoco wireless card. Tried reading the how to's with no success. Can any one step me through how to add this module.

Re: [newbie] Sylpheed again

2002-11-02 Thread Steve Jeppesen
I am using Galeon as my web browser, and have this; galeon '%s' in my config for launching an external web browser. From what I understand, galeon launches the web browser, and '%s' adds the link you click on. Hope this works! Myself, am using Sylpheed claws version 0.8.5 As for your address

Re: [newbie] Wireless

2002-11-02 Thread Derek Jennings
BTW: I should have also said. If your pcmcia card is not detected then look at the file /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia It should read PCMCIA=yes PCIC=yenta_socket derek On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 13:04:37 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 13:06:50 +1100 Patrick Griffin

Re: [newbie] Win98 / Mandrake8.2 dual boot question

2002-11-02 Thread ET
On Friday 01 November 2002 01:48 pm, Michael wrote: After 4 years of trying to get my wife to try Linux, I finally have the chance. Her Win98 box is hosed and she can't even get in in safe mode to fix it because of some security login feature she installed. I told her if she had Linux on

[newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Wishlist

2002-11-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Top of my mandrake 9.1 wishlist would be a decent printer page alignment and offsetts programme like we used to have in qtcups, the thing we have now in M8.2 and M9.0 is a complete hit and miss waste, of ink cartridges + paper, programme and takes all day to get right. John -- John Richard Smith

[newbie] CD-Player

2002-11-02 Thread hgm
Can somebody please help me. I just installed Mandrake 9.0 and nearly everything went ok. But now I detected that I can't hear any sound from the GNOME CD player. This is true also for Grip, which is by the way otherwise functioning properly.Sound with any other device like XMMS, Xine and xawtv

[newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Wishlist

2002-11-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Top of my mandrake 9.1 wishlist would be a decent printer page alignment and offsetts programme like we used to have in qtcups, the thing we have now in M8.2 and M9.0 is a complete hit and miss waste, of ink cartridges + paper, programme and takes all day to get right. John -- John Richard Smith

Re: [newbie] CD-Player

2002-11-02 Thread Derek Jennings
On 02 Nov 2002 14:27:08 +0100 hgm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can somebody please help me. I just installed Mandrake 9.0 and nearly everything went ok. But now I detected that I can't hear any sound from the GNOME CD player. This is true also for Grip, which is by the way otherwise

Re: [newbie] CD-Player

2002-11-02 Thread hgm
Thank you very much. With xmms everything works fine now. HGM Am Sam, 2002-11-02 um 14.54 schrieb Derek Jennings: On 02 Nov 2002 14:27:08 +0100 hgm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can somebody please help me. I just installed Mandrake 9.0 and nearly everything went ok. But now I detected

[newbie] Konsole Help

2002-11-02 Thread Kelley Jernigan
Help! For some reason Konsole has stop working. Both the regular and SU terminals. I get the following message: Could not fine service 'Terminals/knonsole.desktop'. I'm using MDK 9.0 and I did check under hidden files to see if the konsoles were still there, and they are. -- J. Kelley Jernigan

Re: [newbie] M9.0

2002-11-02 Thread Angus Auld
John Richard Smith wrote: Mozilla 1.1 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 Anyone know how to get rid of that irksome red star that follows the cursor around in mozilla? KDE Does anyone know how to reduce the amount of times kde plays a jingle everytime

Re: [newbie] Shorewall vs. Bastille

2002-11-02 Thread Dennis Myers
Ok, I was trying the newer 2.0 version, I'll give the older 1.3 a try, thanks for the info. On Saturday 02 November 2002 03:33 am, Frans Ketelaars wrote: I have Bastille-1.3.0-3mdk.noarch.rpm and Bastille-Tk-module-1.3.0-1.0.i386.rpm installed in ML9.0 and uninstalled shorewall. It works OK.

Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.

2002-11-02 Thread Malcolm Candlish
Dear Charlie, It's getting worse! 'cdrecord -scanbus' seems to have lost the plot. I have copied the results as follows:- [rootlocalhost malcolm]# cdrecord -V speed=0 dev=0,3,0 -eject /home/malcolm/mtdir-25oct02.raw Cdrecord 1.11a32 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg

Re: [newbie] Sylpheed again

2002-11-02 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 12:28:15 + (GMT) Len Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Getting used to Sylpheed now. It still seems a bit awkward compared with the facility of pine and there is one feature (from pine) which I really miss; the ability to double-click on a web link and spawn a browser

Re: [newbie] rsync..

2002-11-02 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 01 November 2002 07:42 pm, Damian wrote: hi. uhm.. kinda embarassed here, but i think i don't quite get the man page and dunno what i'm supposed to do here. ( i lost my mail archive recently so i have no choice but to ask.. ) what parameters do i use to rsync a file? i mean, i

Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.

2002-11-02 Thread Charlie
On Saturday 02 November 2002 08:49 am, Malcolm Candlish wrote: Dear Charlie, Hello Malcolm; (interspersed) It's getting worse! 'cdrecord -scanbus' seems to have lost the plot. I have copied the results as follows:- [rootlocalhost malcolm]# cdrecord -V speed=0 dev=0,3,0 -eject

Re: [newbie] 3D Graphics card for 9.0? (3 questions)

2002-11-02 Thread Robert Beach
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 05:03 pm, budest wrote: Same here GeForce 4. Just make sure you follow the Readme to the letter. I am operating in Mandrake with a GeForce4 and all is well. On Tuesday 29 Oct 2002 9:05 pm, Paul Rodriguez wrote: Hi, I purchased an ATI Radeon 8500 for my dad's

RE: [newbie] M9.0

2002-11-02 Thread Eric Richards
How strange I have Mozilla 1.0.1 on Mandrake 9 and can not see anything wrong, From Eric NO ATTACHMENT WAS SENT WITH THIS EMAIL, IF THERE IS ONE, IT might not be A UNDETECTED VIRUS, PLEASE LET ME KNOW.. Black text on white background HTML Emails and replied with white text on white.

RE: [newbie] wine

2002-11-02 Thread Eric Richards
I tried to install wine with rpm -ivh wine-20021007.i386.rpm error: cannot open package index using db3 - operation not permitted (1) error: cannot open package database in /var/lib/rpm then logged on as root user and got message similar From Eric NO ATTACHMENT WAS SENT WITH THIS EMAIL, IF

[newbie] tar again

2002-11-02 Thread root
ok I tried to run the command to a tar file mldonkey in particular and I got this error. It makes no sense to me tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors this is the

Re: [newbie] tar again

2002-11-02 Thread Paul
In reply to root's mail, d.d. Sat, 2 Nov 2002 13:57:59 -0500: this is the name of the tar file exactly that I'm trying to do mldonkey-2.00.shared.i586-Linux.tar.bz2.tar tar xfvj mldo* The j will handle the bz2 part Paul -- Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents

Re: [newbie] M9.0 and Supermount

2002-11-02 Thread Miark
As root, run drakxservices. If it's on, you'll see it on the list with an asterisk by it. Miark On Sat, 02 Nov 2002 10:04:30 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Miark wrote: Works fine for me :-) Do you have autofs running by any chance? Miark How do I check ?

Re: [newbie] M9.0

2002-11-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Angus Auld wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Mozilla 1.1 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 Anyone know how to get rid of that irksome red star that follows the cursor around in mozilla? KDE Does anyone know how to reduce the amount of times kde plays a jingle

[newbie] M9.0 , two more problems

2002-11-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Mandrake 9.0 I've been configuring printers all day. There are 4 possible drivers, I have 2 working quite well, 1 works but has a serious problem, the 4th not at all. The driver that works but has problems is:- Lexmark Z53 CUPS+GIMP-print-v4.2.2 using that difficult to use Adjust

[newbie] M9.0 / NMB Services

2002-11-02 Thread John Richard Smith
I keep getting error messages in the shutdown script for NMB Serices. I cannot find any references to NMB services, so unable to tackle the problem. What are NMB Serices and any ideas as to what I should do. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Scanner probs

2002-11-02 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On Saturday 02 Nov 2002 7:01 am, Derek Jennings wrote: Well if it is not able to install all the SANE RPMs then of course it will not capture images. You may have a bad update source defined. Take a look at the sources in Mandrake ControlCentreSoftwareSoftwareSources Try replacing your update

Re: [newbie] Scanner probs

2002-11-02 Thread Pilagá
El Sáb 02 Nov 2002 12:55, L.V.Gandhi escribió: On Saturday 02 Nov 2002 7:01 am, Derek Jennings wrote: Well if it is not able to install all the SANE RPMs then of course it will not capture images. You may have a bad update source defined. Take a look at the sources in Mandrake

Re: [newbie] M9.0

2002-11-02 Thread John Drouhard
On Friday 01 November 2002 05:38 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Mozilla 1.1 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 Anyone know how to get rid of that irksome red star that follows the cursor around in mozilla? KDE Control Centre LookNFeel Launch Feedback Uncheck

Re: [newbie] Wireless

2002-11-02 Thread Patrick Griffin
Thanks derek for that have all installed as far as i can tell. Cardmanager reports No pcmcia driver in Proc/devices on start. What did I do wrong - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 12:20 AM Subject: Re:

[newbie] MP3 Mini Disc Plays which ones work with Mandrake

2002-11-02 Thread Mark
I am thinking of buying a portable MD player Sony MZN707 and was wondering if it will work in mandrake 9? I had a look at the Iriver IFP-180 128 MP3 player but it seems it will not work under linux and the company does not intend to support linux. So that rules it out. Are there any info

[newbie] Pentium 133 mhz laptop installation

2002-11-02 Thread harry
hi, I want to get ride of Windows 3.1 from my laptop and replace with Mandrake running X-Windows should I go with Mandrake 9.0? or should I go with earlier versions of Mandrake? I bought Mandrake 7.0 and still love it! how do we install it without CD-ROM nor Network capabilities? I have a

[newbie] Dog-slow networking

2002-11-02 Thread Miark
I have four machines on my home network: a routing machine, and three boxes. When I download from the Internet to my laptop, it's as fast as my cable service: 180KB/sec. When I download to my desktop, it's 4.5KB/sec, and stalls frequently. I thought it was a fluke. So when I FTPed from the laptop

RE: [newbie] Pentium 133 mhz laptop installation

2002-11-02 Thread Franki
you don't mention how much ram you have... if you have 32 mb, try mdk7.2, it was long a fav of mine.. if less then 32, try 7.0 or something even earlier, (civilme said something about a 5.x version that was available for download online, (check the archives), it was made to run on 486's, so it

RE: [newbie] Dog-slow networking

2002-11-02 Thread Franki
what is the network card in the desktop? and have you tried swapping ports on your hub/switch??? rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Miark Sent: Sunday, 3 November 2002 12:03 PM To: Newbie Subject: [newbie] Dog-slow

[newbie] test

2002-11-02 Thread Len Lawrence
Tab - taht's it! -- Len Lawrence Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Sylpheed again

2002-11-02 Thread Len Lawrence
On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 07:15:04 -0600 Steve Jeppesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using Galeon as my web browser, and have this; galeon '%s' snip - Getting used to Sylpheed now. It still seems a bit awkward compared Thanks Steve. Did not know about

Re: [newbie] Dog-slow networking

2002-11-02 Thread Erik
Miark, On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 22:02, Miark wrote: I have four machines on my home network: a routing machine, and three boxes. When I download from the Internet to my laptop, it's as fast as my cable service: 180KB/sec. When I download to my desktop, it's 4.5KB/sec, and stalls frequently. I

[newbie] how to copy a svcd?

2002-11-02 Thread joe
I haven't had any luck using X-cdroast to copy a svcd. I get some kind of read error.Here is all the feedback it gives me. Capacity: 357081 Blocks = 714162 kBytes = 697 MBytes = 731 prMB Sectorsize: 2048 Bytes Copy from SCSI (0,2,0) disk to file '/home/joe/incoming/svcdimagecd3-01.img' Time

Re: [newbie] rsync..

2002-11-02 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 01 November 2002 07:42 pm, Damian wrote: hi. uhm.. kinda embarassed here, but i think i don't quite get the man page and dunno what i'm supposed to do here. ( i lost my mail archive recently so i have no choice but to ask.. ) what parameters do i use to rsync a file? i mean, i