Re: [newbie-it] X e vicinanze

2002-11-03 Thread LukenShiro
Alle 02:52, domenica 3 novembre 2002, tom ha scritto: perfetto.se pigio (sono gia in ambiente grafico con Win..Make..) su xinitrc mi parte in sovraposizione KDE...questo mi fa pensare che siamo sulla strada giusta! Ehm .. no, mi sa che abbiamo fatto un passo indietro :P; c'e' il

[newbie-it] installazione pacchetto gtk+-2.0.2

2002-11-03 Thread fulvio
Cerco di installare il pacchetto in oggetto ma con ./configure alla fine ottengo: checking for X11/Xft/XftFreetype.h... no configure: error: pangoxft Pango backend found, but Xft not found anche se: [rootlocalhost gtk+-2.0.2]# locate XftFreetype.h

Re: [newbie-it] X e vicinanze

2002-11-03 Thread tom
Alle 13:00, domenica 3 novembre 2002, LukenShiro ha scritto...sempre che abbia capito bene!: Ehm .. no, mi sa che abbiamo fatto un passo indietro :P; c'e' il rischio di rimanere ingabbiati nel circolo vizioso di scriptini (come dicevo) e qui come modifico lo script? Gli ho dato una

[newbie-it] Stampante

2002-11-03 Thread paolo
Salve a tutta la lista , ho installato oggi mandrake 9.0 , devo dire che è molto buona e quei fastidiosi bug che avevo sulla 8.1 non ci sono quindi devo dire che è molto buona . Però ho avuto un problema con la stampante , nel configurarla tramite drakconf mi ha dato molti problemi specialmente

[newbie-it] gogo

2002-11-03 Thread mario
ciao a tutti sapete indicarmi un programma per rippare e codificare dei file da cd.wav=mp3 visto che con ripper e grip non riesco a combinare niente nel senso che mi compare un icona con il titolo del brano ma inascoltabile ...0byte!! inoltre sento parlare di gogo

Re: [newbie-it] gogo

2002-11-03 Thread stormymonday
mario wrote: ciao a tutti sapete indicarmi un programma per rippare e codificare dei file da cd.wav=mp3 visto che con ripper e grip non riesco a combinare niente nel senso che mi compare un icona con il titolo del brano ma inascoltabile ...0byte!! inoltre sento

Re: [newbie-it] X e vicinanze

2002-11-03 Thread LukenShiro
Alle 20:27, domenica 3 novembre 2002, tom ha scritto: 1) recuperi in MDK control center il punto in cui viene scelto il WM facio la modifica ma non ha alcun efetto..cambio KDE con Wmake allo startx c'è sempre KDE!!! Allora molto probabilmente questo funziona solo per il login grafico,

Re: [newbie-it] Audio e misteri

2002-11-03 Thread Stefano Sebastiani
controlla che esistano /dev/dsp e /dev/mixer esistono proprietario mio utente gruppo audio (a cui mio utente appartiene) permessi 600 poi controlla che abbiano permessi 666 (o che tu appartenga ad un gruppo, es 'audio' che può scriverci, in questo caso vanno bene anche 660) [in

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

2002-11-03 Thread Paolo Tomiato
workgroup = MSHOME netbios name = LINUXBOX se i nomi sono maiuscoli, controlla bene di scriverli allo stesso modo in hosts e in fase di mount I nomi sono ok! se fai ping LINUXBOX da win$ cosa ottieni? nn lo pingo! ma c'e' di +: in questi giorni ho continuato a fare prove su prove e ho

[newbie-it] allarmi angosce

2002-11-03 Thread Arwan
Mi e' arrivata una mail, che riportero' tra asterischi, che mi indica che una mia lettera e' non e' arrivata a destinazione. Ma io non conosco il destinatario... e in allegato c'e' un file di tipo *.exe. E' possibile che qualche virus, per convincermi ad aprire l'allegato, possa mandarmi un

[newbie-it] raccolte

2002-11-03 Thread Arwan
Innanzi tutto un grazie di cuore a Giorgio. Ho seguito il suo consiglio (non e' per fare pubblicita', ma merita davvero), ed ho comprato la raccolta dei primi quattro Linux Pratico: che dire, a parte il prezzo veramente modico (quattro riviste dell'anno scorso a 2,60 euro) gli argomenti

Re: [newbie-it] indici e appunti

2002-11-03 Thread Arwan
Alle 19:36, giovedì 31 ottobre 2002, contorcendoti la mente su Re: [newbie-it] indici e appunti, freefred hai scritto: On Wednesday 30 October 2002 9:41 pm, Arwan wrote about [newbie-it] indici e appunti: Per caso sapete se sugli appuntilinux c'e' un indice dei comandi, o uno analitico

Re: [newbie-it] allarmi angosce

2002-11-03 Thread sandro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 21:13, domenica 3 novembre 2002, hai scritto: Mi e' arrivata una mail, che riportero' tra asterischi, che mi indica che una mia lettera e' non e' arrivata a destinazione. Ma io non conosco il destinatario... e in allegato c'e' un file di tipo

Re: [newbie] M9.0 / NMB Services

2002-11-03 Thread Frank Mertens
On Sunday 03 November 2002 12:48 am, John Richard Smith wrote: 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 The startup /

[newbie]

2002-11-03 Thread Craig Lister
Hiya! Brand new to Linux, and trying to install Mandrake 8.0 on an old Compaq Proliant Server (1500) with P166 and 128. Also new to SCSI, and this machine has tonnes of it. I managed to boot off the installation diskette, and got to the install of Linux, but was stopped when Linux could not find

Re: [newbie] Sylpheed again

2002-11-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 02 Nov 2002 1:15 pm, you wrote: 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

[newbie] [Fwd: Internet connection time]

2002-11-03 Thread hgm
---BeginMessage--- In SuSE KDE I was used to monitor the internet connection status with an icon from kinternet. This was helpfull as I have no flatrate and was using Dial-on-demand. Is there something equivalent in Mandrake's distribution. I really want to know, how long I am connected. Can

Re: [newbie] Sylpheed again

2002-11-03 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 03 Nov 2002 9:26 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 02 Nov 2002 1:15 pm, you wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] Wireless

2002-11-03 Thread Derek Jennings
Patrick. Do you hear the 'beeps' when pcmcia service starts? Have a look in syslog (/var/log/syslog) for messages relating to pcmcia What do they say? Is this a laptop or a desktop with a pcmcia-pci adapter? What happens if you type pcic_probe in a root terminal window? derek On Sunday 03

RE: [newbie] [Fwd: Internet connection time]

2002-11-03 Thread Eric Richards
you forgot to put in your message From Eric NO ATTACHMENT WAS SENT WITH THIS EMAIL, IF THERE IS ONE, IT IS A UNDETECTED VIRUS, PLEASE LET ME KNOW.. Black text on white background HTML Emails and replied with white text on white. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Sylpheed again

2002-11-03 Thread Paul
In reply to Len's mail, d.d. Sun, 3 Nov 2002 06:10:06 +: I am using Galeon as my web browser, and have this; galeon '%s' galeon -n %s will open a URL in a new tab. :) Paul -- Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. -G. K. Chesterton http://nlpagan.net-Linux

RE: [newbie]

2002-11-03 Thread Aaron
could you be more specific. do you make partitions? did you call one of them swap / and what else did you do? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Craig Lister Sent: þà 03 ðåáîáø 2002 11:18þ To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Sylpheed again

2002-11-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 03 Nov 2002 10:49 am, you wrote: On Sunday 03 Nov 2002 9:26 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 02 Nov 2002 1:15 pm, you wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.

2002-11-03 Thread Malcolm Candlish
Hello Charlie, I have listed my mtab fstab files below and think they look ok. Also tryed changing to speeds 1 2 3.or 4 and used the 'v' but still get the report:- cdrecord : Trying to use high speed medium on low speed writer. You were certainly right about re-booting and getting the cdrecord

[newbie] Boradcom Gigabit Netword card

2002-11-03 Thread Lanman
Has anyone succeeded in configuring a Broadcom 5700 Gigabit card before? I realize that it's a new piece of hardware, but the drivers are out there. Asus supplies them on their M/B CD, and their available from Broadcom's web-site, but they haven't helped. Any suggestions would be greatly

Re: [newbie] [OT?] Thanks M$ but no thanks.

2002-11-03 Thread ET
a Charlie, you are ever the optomist. it is my bet that the only thing not to change is entropy. ET On Friday 01 November 2002 05:06 pm, Charlie wrote: On Friday 01 November 2002 02:26 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 15:09, Charlie wrote: Hi all; This may

Re: [newbie] M9.0 / NMB Services

2002-11-03 Thread John Richard Smith
Frank Mertens wrote: On Sunday 03 November 2002 12:48 am, John Richard Smith wrote: 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.

Re: [newbie] M9.0 , two more problems

2002-11-03 Thread John Richard Smith
I have now had time to look around some more. I cannot see anything else that might require resetting that isn't already set to A4 page size, maybe I will come across something in passing. John Yes, everything I do, I print to A4 as it's standard throughout Europe and beyond but maybe one of

Re: [newbie] [OT?] Thanks M$ but no thanks.

2002-11-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 03 Nov 2002 1:39 pm, you wrote: a Charlie, you are ever the optomist. it is my bet that the only thing not to change is entropy. ET You're such a ray of sunshine :-) Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] The Gimp

2002-11-03 Thread Anne Wilson
I am feeling quite proficient now at the kind of adjustments I usually have to make to photos, but can't find a distort tool - you know, the sort where you can widen the top in relation to the bottom in order to correct perspective. I'm sure it must be there. Can anyone point me in the right

[newbie] KHdRecord

2002-11-03 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I am using mdk 9. I wanted to compile KHdRecord. First it couldn't find QTDIR. I gave export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3 Then while compiling I got this error -lpthread \ -L. -Llib/ -lhdrecord -lmp3lame -lvorbis -lvorbisenc -logg -lqt /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lqt collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make:

[newbie] Planning ahead

2002-11-03 Thread Anne Wilson
I'm expecting my pre-ordered disks any day now, and, in the light of problems others have had with hardware no longer working, at least out of the box, I have to make decisions. At the same time, I feel that I have a HDD catastrophe waiting to happen. Currently I have two 20Gb disks and a 4Gb

Re: [newbie] KHdRecord

2002-11-03 Thread John Richard Smith
L.V.Gandhi wrote: I am using mdk 9. I wanted to compile KHdRecord. First it couldn't find QTDIR. I gave export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3 Then while compiling I got this error -lpthread \ -L. -Llib/ -lhdrecord -lmp3lame -lvorbis -lvorbisenc -logg -lqt /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lqt collect2: ld returned

Re: [newbie] Planning ahead

2002-11-03 Thread Lanman
Anne; Interesting situation! Your 4Gb HDD is currently holding your /home partition? Brave! Very Brave! That hard drive has to be 2 or 3 years PAST it's MTBF (Mean Time Before Failure), and it's holding your personal data? I'd like to suggest that you skip the new hard drive idea, unless you

Re: [newbie] What do I do with the md5sums.90 file?

2002-11-03 Thread g
Dennis Myers wrote: The easiest way Then all you should have to do is type at the prompt md5sum Mandrake90* and it will spit out the comparison alpha numerics or say something like all sums are correct. I don't recall for sure. HTH dm, that is if he is working under linux. from message

Re: [newbie] The Gimp

2002-11-03 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, 3 Nov 2002 14:03:10 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am feeling quite proficient now at the kind of adjustments I usually have to make to photos, but can't find a distort tool - you know, the sort where you can widen the top in relation to the bottom in order to correct

Re: [newbie] The Gimp

2002-11-03 Thread Jan Wilson
* Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [021103 08:11]: I am feeling quite proficient now at the kind of adjustments I usually have to make to photos, but can't find a distort tool - you know, the sort where you can widen the top in relation to the bottom in order to correct perspective. I'm sure

[newbie] a little evangelism

2002-11-03 Thread Richard Babcock
Just had to post this from my 19 year old son. He is fed up with WindowsMe and I have been walking him through the process of burning Mandrake cd's. -snip- p.s. please respond soon. I WANT A NEW OPERATING SYSTEM. (sorry but i get excited about this stuff too) -end snip One person

Re: [newbie] [OT?] Thanks M$ but no thanks.

2002-11-03 Thread Charlie
On Sunday 03 November 2002 06:59 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 03 Nov 2002 1:39 pm, you wrote: a Charlie, you are ever the optomist. it is my bet that the only thing not to change is entropy. ET You're such a ray of sunshine :-) Anne Anne; He is that, isn't he? g

Re: [newbie] Newbie Orientation

2002-11-03 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 03 Nov 2002 6:47 pm, H. Carter Harris wrote: I have an almost virgin install of ML8.2 running and I am trying to bring up some sever applications. So far the only one I have in a usable state is TightVNC and though I haven't tuned it the way I want it ... it is running nicely. I

Re: [newbie] Planning ahead

2002-11-03 Thread Lanman
Anne; Never thought you were Daft, but I didn't know your experience level, so I thought I'd be specific, just to make sure that no important steps were missed. Lanman On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 12:57, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 03 Nov 2002 3:03 pm, you wrote: Anne; Interesting situation! Your

[newbie] Bluefish Now Working Properly!!

2002-11-03 Thread Langsley T Russell
I Think!! Thanks for the help. Seeing as I got two different suggestions for what should be in the Browser Command field, I figured I'd try one and if it didn't work I'd try the other. It was a tossup which to try first. So I used the printout that ended up on the top of the stack. That turned

Re: [newbie] Dog-slow networking

2002-11-03 Thread Miark
what is the network card in the desktop? Allied Telesyn AT-2500TX (RTL-8139/8139C). and have you tried swapping ports on your hub/switch??? Yes--no change. Thanks, Frank. Miark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of

Re: [newbie] Dog-slow networking

2002-11-03 Thread ET
have you swapped the cables around? On Sunday 03 November 2002 01:37 pm, Miark wrote: what is the network card in the desktop? Allied Telesyn AT-2500TX (RTL-8139/8139C). and have you tried swapping ports on your hub/switch??? Yes--no change. Thanks, Frank. Miark -Original

Re: [newbie] two different Linux distributions

2002-11-03 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 03 November 2002 18:20, john drouhard wrote: I currently have Mandrake 9.0. It is installed on a 40 GB hard drive. I want to mess around with RedHat 8.0 a little. I was wondering how to set up my machine so I can boot into either Mandrake or Redhat. I also need to know how to install

Re: [newbie] Planning ahead

2002-11-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 03 Nov 2002 6:37 pm, you wrote: Anne; Never thought you were Daft, but I didn't know your experience level, so I thought I'd be specific, just to make sure that no important steps were missed. Lanman No 'ffence taken, but I am guilty of having a machine that has grown like Topsy,

Re: [newbie] Bluefish Now Working Properly!!

2002-11-03 Thread Bill Spatz
On Sunday 03 November 2002 11:37, Langsley T Russell wrote: I Think!! Thanks for the help. Seeing as I got two different suggestions for what should be in the Browser Command field, I figured I'd try one and if it didn't work I'd try the other. It was a tossup which to try first. So I used

Re: [newbie] [OT?] Thanks M$ but no thanks.

2002-11-03 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 17:06, Charlie wrote: Lyvim; Any occasion for a spanking (even verbally) of a drone from Microsoft is funny IMHO. :-) On a 'related note': The anti-trust trial drones on apparently. Judge CKK's full detailed decision will be announced 'after markets close

[newbie] Properties, permissions

2002-11-03 Thread Eric Richards
how would one change the Properties, permissions of a file in a KDE text window by changing from a home user to root user by logging on a root user with su password. From Eric NO ATTACHMENT WAS SENT WITH THIS EMAIL, IF THERE IS ONE, IT might be A UNDETECTED VIRUS, PLEASE LET ME KNOW..

Re: [newbie] [OT?] Thanks M$ but no thanks.

2002-11-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 03 Nov 2002 6:16 pm, you wrote: On Sunday 03 November 2002 06:59 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 03 Nov 2002 1:39 pm, you wrote: a Charlie, you are ever the optomist. it is my bet that the only thing not to change is entropy. ET You're such a ray of

Re: [newbie] Dog-slow networking

2002-11-03 Thread Miark
Before I go on with my answers, I'd like to point out that DVD performance totally sucks under 9.0, and so does CD burning. I wonder if the pathetic network performance is related. Also, I have tried adding noapic to the appropriate place in lilo. On 03 Nov 2002 00:12:03 -0600 Erik [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] Newbie Orientation

2002-11-03 Thread H. Carter Harris
Derek: Thanks again for your reply and your encouragement! I'm now using Webmin under the VPN and it seems to work fine. I'm going to try to get some things going there this afternoon. I will be in the office again tomorrow and I'll load up the CD and install the rpms you recommend. Sounds

Re: [newbie] Properties, permissions

2002-11-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 03 Nov 2002 6:56 pm, you wrote: how would one change the Properties, permissions of a file in a KDE text window by changing from a home user to root user by logging on a root user with su password. The easy way is by using the graphics front-end. K(startup menu) . Applications

Re: [newbie] M9.0 / NMB Services

2002-11-03 Thread John Richard Smith
Chuck Stuettgen wrote: On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 02:24, Frank Mertens wrote: On Sunday 03 November 2002 12:48 am, John Richard Smith wrote: 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.

Re: [newbie] two different Linux distributions

2002-11-03 Thread John Richard Smith
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Sunday 03 November 2002 18:20, john drouhard wrote: I currently have Mandrake 9.0. It is installed on a 40 GB hard drive. I want to mess around with RedHat 8.0 a little. I was wondering how to set up my machine so I can boot into either Mandrake or Redhat. I also need

Re: [newbie] M9.0 / NMB Services

2002-11-03 Thread Derek Jennings
SNIP As you can see I'm still guessing what NMB is all about John nmb is part of SAMBA. That smb process you have running is samba server. Failures in nmb when shutting down samba is common (I think when there are no windows machines connected to samba) It is nothing to worry about. derek

Re: [newbie] two different Linux distributions

2002-11-03 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 03 November 2002 20:52, John Richard Smith wrote: H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Sunday 03 November 2002 18:20, john drouhard wrote: I currently have Mandrake 9.0. It is installed on a 40 GB hard drive. I want to mess around with RedHat 8.0 a little. I was wondering how to set up my

Re: [newbie] The Gimp

2002-11-03 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, 3 Nov 2002 17:47:56 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Todd Jan. I had been using the right click, so didn't find it. OK, so what I need now is the ability to print reference sheets (equiv. contact prints). Do you know any software that easily does this? I'm

Re: [newbie] clock help

2002-11-03 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 15:31, Frans Ketelaars wrote: Uhm, I don't think the power line frequency has anything to do with timing in computers like PC's that use crystals for timing :) That is correct. 60 cycle ac is rectified and filtered to 12 and 5 volt DC current in the power supply; that is

[newbie] install repair help

2002-11-03 Thread Rick Bailey
I have an Internet Appliance (I-Opener) that I have hacked to work with an external hard drive. I'd like to dual boot Win98SE and Linux Mandrake on it. I installed the hard drive in another machine, and copied win98 setup files, and ran the mandrake installation up to the first reboot, and then

Re: [newbie] two different Linux distributions

2002-11-03 Thread Sharrea
On Monday 04 Nov 2002 8:52 am, John Richard Smith wrote: So what you are saying then is that if you install redhat on one partition then redhat installer will not automatically put it's init.rd file in a shared /boot partition , you will have to do that afterwards, because when I ever get

Re: [newbie] Newbie Orientation

2002-11-03 Thread Erik
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 12:47, H. Carter Harris wrote: I have an almost virgin install of ML8.2 running and I am trying to bring up some sever applications. So far the only one I have in a usable state is TightVNC and though I haven't tuned it the way I want it ... it is running nicely. I have

[newbie] font problem in wine

2002-11-03 Thread chuck
I'm trying to run a couple of programs under wine but the fonts are screwed up. All characters just show up as squares. Anybody seen this before or know how to fix it? -Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Quicktime in Netscape - OT?

2002-11-03 Thread Carl J. Bauman
Hi All, I'm using Netscape 7.0 with Mandrake 9.0 and was wondering if there's plugin that I can use to handle the video/quicktime MIME type. If so, how would I implement that plugin? I apologize if this is OT for the list. Hopefully, I can be forgiven for such a slight transgression...

[newbie] Screensavers in 9.0 vs. 8.2?

2002-11-03 Thread Carl J. Bauman
I just upgraded from 8.2 to 9.0 about a week ago and am really loving the new version. Kudos to all who contributed to it. I didn't have any of the issues that I've seen from others on the list. I had to re-install my Nvidia drivers but other than that the only issues are relatively

RE: [newbie] Quicktime in Netscape - OT?

2002-11-03 Thread Craig Williamson (ENZ)
Title: RE: [newbie] Quicktime in Netscape - OT? Try Codeweavers' Crossover-plugin. It has direct support for quicktime. -Original Message- From: Carl J. Bauman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 04 November, 2002 10:39 AM To: Mandrake Newbie List Subject: [newbie] Quicktime in

Re: [newbie] install repair help

2002-11-03 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 03 November 2002 22:10, Rick Bailey wrote: I have an Internet Appliance (I-Opener) that I have hacked to work with an external hard drive. I'd like to dual boot Win98SE and Linux Mandrake on it. I installed the hard drive in another machine, and copied win98 setup files, and ran

Re: [newbie] Quicktime in Netscape - OT?

2002-11-03 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 03 November 2002 22:38, Carl J. Bauman wrote: Hi All, I'm using Netscape 7.0 with Mandrake 9.0 and was wondering if there's plugin that I can use to handle the video/quicktime MIME type. If so, how would I implement that plugin? I apologize if this is OT for the list. Hopefully,

Re: [newbie] Properties, permissions

2002-11-03 Thread Robin Ballantine
On Sunday 03 November 2002 6:56 pm, Eric Richards wrote: how would one change the Properties, permissions of a file in a KDE text window by changing from a home user to root user by logging on a root user with su password. From Eric Each file has 3 sets of properties, owner,group and

Re: [newbie] Screensavers in 9.0 vs. 8.2?

2002-11-03 Thread Robin Ballantine
On Sunday 03 November 2002 9:52 pm, Carl J. Bauman wrote: I just upgraded from 8.2 to 9.0 about a week ago and am really loving the new version. Kudos to all who contributed to it. I didn't have any of the issues that I've seen from others on the list. I had to re-install my Nvidia drivers

[newbie] best way to find things out

2002-11-03 Thread Tim Werner
Someone posted a documentation question earlier and got a pretty good answer, but I'm still trying to figure out the best way to find things out. I guess I'm a little spoiled by MSDN. For instance, if I want to know about file permissions, it would be Really Neat if there were a tool I could run

Re: [newbie] best way to find things out

2002-11-03 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Tim Werner wrote: Someone posted a documentation question earlier and got a pretty good answer, but I'm still trying to figure out the best way to find things out. I guess I'm a little spoiled by MSDN. For instance, if I want to know about file permissions, it would be Really Neat if there

Re: [newbie] best way to find things out

2002-11-03 Thread Erik
Google Linux Documentation Project (with quotes)lots of entries On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 17:17, Tim Werner wrote: Someone posted a documentation question earlier and got a pretty good answer, but I'm still trying to figure out the best way to find things out. I guess I'm a little

[newbie] Monitor standby, suspend and power off

2002-11-03 Thread Peter Watson
I am using KDE 3.0 on LM 9.0. The monitor power saving features (standby, suspend and power off ) were working fine except that they interfered with ripping a DVD which went on for a long period and so I disabled them from ConfigureKDEPower ControlEnergy. After succesfully ripping the DVD I

Re: [newbie] [OT?] Thanks M$ but no thanks.

2002-11-03 Thread Terry Smith
Interesting note, Anne. Thanks. Two comments, both I suppose related to Linux Format magazine.. First, of the linux serial publications (although there are a number of 'Linux for Dummies' type books around), Linux Format is pretty accessible to the new user. Second, this month's issue

Re: [newbie] Screensavers in 9.0 vs. 8.2?

2002-11-03 Thread Terry Smith
Try xscreensaver (ver 4.0.5 is current I believe). I believe it's part of the gnome desktop. It's also part of the Xfce windowing environment or you can get it from www.jwz.org/xscreensaver. A great set of totally creative screensavers. Terry Smith Cape Cod USA On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 16:52, Carl

RE: [newbie] best way to find things out

2002-11-03 Thread Tim Werner
You know, just as I was hitting the send button I thought of that myself. :-) Must admit http://www.tldp.org/ looks pretty good. I think I might buy the CD. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Erik Sent: Sunday, November

Re: [newbie] Monitor standby, suspend and power off

2002-11-03 Thread Angus Auld
Peter Watson wrote: I am using KDE 3.0 on LM 9.0. The monitor power saving features (standby, suspend and power off ) were working fine except that they interfered with ripping a DVD which went on for a long period and so I disabled them from ConfigureKDEPower ControlEnergy. After

RE: [newbie] best way to find things out

2002-11-03 Thread Tim Werner
I like this. Thanks. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Alan Shoemaker Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 6:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] best way to find things out [...] http://www.google.com/linux

[newbie] Fwd: Dual Boot?

2002-11-03 Thread yaya
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Dual Boot? Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 08:05:10 + From: yaya [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] How do I set up dual booting between Mandrake 9.0 and Windows XP? --- Want to buy your

[newbie] Xscreensaver

2002-11-03 Thread Chris
After reading the suggestion to run xscreensaver, I remembered I had installed it quite awhile ago. I brought it up and went to configure it again (I like Nose Guy) anyway, when restarting after the configuration I had the below show up. Not sure what it means so any help would be

Re: [newbie] What do I do with the md5sums.90 file?

2002-11-03 Thread Angus Auld
Dennis Myers wrote: The easiest way Then all you should have to do is type at the prompt md5sum Mandrake90* and it will spit out the comparison alpha numerics or say something like all sums are correct. I don't recall for sure. HTH dm, that is if he is working under linux.

[newbie] Linux book in normal english

2002-11-03 Thread Marc
A friend and I have been discussing linux in general and Mandrake in particular. below is part of a email that I received from him. Can anyone suggest some good reading material for this guy? Thanks all Marc Personaly I have always found that working with it while I am

[newbie] /mnt problem

2002-11-03 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi, Just installed LM9 on a Dell Inspiron 8000. Nice and easy but a few little annoyances. I'll deal with them one at a time. In Konqueror, whenever I click on /mnt in the sidebar, Konq freezes and has to be 'killed'. Anyone with this problem? Any suggestions? Thanks,

[newbie] installation with laplink...

2002-11-03 Thread harry
thanks to Franki, I will install 7.0 version on my laptop!! it only has 16mb RAM. could anyone help me figure out how to transfer the installation file onto the laptop hard drive via laplink? that is all I have, aside from 1.2 gb hardrive installed with windows 3.1 and Dos and 7.0 Mandrake