Re: [newbie] usb external modems

2002-11-07 Thread John Richard Smith
L.V.Gandhi wrote: Whether all usb external modems work properly in Linux. Whether there is also winmodem? I tired a few usb modems which were sold to me as hardware controlled, I returned them, none of the usb dialup modems are hardware controlled they all need software.TI don't think the sit

Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.

2002-11-07 Thread Miark
http://www.plasmontech.com/downloads/pdf/mke7503_scsi.pdf: Reference Speed Field - encoded information indicating the recommended write speed for the media. Valid only for CD-RW media. It would appear to drop in the middle of the CD's high and low speed. CD-RWs I just bought have a low speed

Re: [newbie] housecleaning /tmp directories

2002-11-07 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 13:32:07 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] housecleaning /tmp directories > On Thursday 07 Nov 2002 1:07 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 15:15, Angus Auld wrote: >

Re: [newbie] Mount Point

2002-11-07 Thread Miark
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 20:00:28 -0500 Dennis & Sue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 07 November 2002 08:15 am, you wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 19:58, Dennis & Sue wrote: > > > Hello Folks. > > > Wanting more space, and having screwed something up sufficently to > > > warrant a reload, I d

Re: [newbie] housecleaning /tmp directories

2002-11-07 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 08 Nov 2002 00:07:08 +1100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] housecleaning /tmp directories > On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 15:15, Angus Auld wrote: > > I was wondering about /tmp directories and the directories an

RE: [newbie] .NET under Linux ?

2002-11-07 Thread Franki
ok, so I meant ximiam... oh well, knew it started with X rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner@;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Franki Sent: Friday, 8 November 2002 11:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] .NET under Linux ? I hea

[newbie] galeon search

2002-11-07 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Whenever I type a word in the address bar of my galeon browser, I expect it to go to [word].com. Instead I am taken to http://www.ultimatesearch.com/ not ultimate or much good at all. How do I change this? - Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrak

RE: [newbie] .NET under Linux ?

2002-11-07 Thread Franki
I heard xandros were doing it, you might check out their website.. I hope it doens't happen myself, just because M$ would never let the linux version be as good as the windows one.. (its their nature) So it will just make linux look bad... (remember when M$ made it so Netscape would crash window

Re: [newbie] Galeon unstable

2002-11-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 08 Nov 2002 12:35 am, Paul Rodriguez wrote: > > You can also delete the .galeon directory from your home directory which > > will cause Galeon to have to reconfigure itself for you... > > I wanted to try this from the beginning, but am not sure what file needs > to stay to keep the bookma

RE: [newbie] networking advice

2002-11-07 Thread Tim Werner
I will be doing home network with two-machine network pretty soon, but don't have real experience yet. However, I found this that looked promising: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Home-Network-mini-HOWTO.html HTH > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:newbie-owner@;linu

Re: [newbie] OT - bit of a laugh

2002-11-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 13:34, Sharrea wrote: > This, from a RH "Ask Shadowman" website > (http://www.redhat.com/advice/ask_shadowman.html), made me laugh: > > Senthil K hung out with some drunken sailors and heckled: > i thot linux was some [Expletive deleted] alternative to windows. but after >

Re: [newbie] Connecting to Internet

2002-11-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 14:21, Antonio R. wrote: > Hi everybody: > > I’ve just installed Mandrake Linux on my computer and it looks really cool, but I >don’t know how to connect to the internet, and my IP doesn’t give help to linux >users and the worst problem is that I use my computer as the serv

Re: [newbie] networking advice

2002-11-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 12:50, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > I have 4 PCs. > 3 on dual boot with linux and windows(98 or me)and one win98se. > one has built in 8139 lan card. How should I go for networking these? > 1)what is the optimum ways if I have to include a few more PCs. Dual boot ones > can be made on

[newbie] OT - bit of a laugh

2002-11-07 Thread Sharrea
This, from a RH "Ask Shadowman" website (http://www.redhat.com/advice/ask_shadowman.html), made me laugh: Senthil K hung out with some drunken sailors and heckled: i thot linux was some [Expletive deleted] alternative to windows. but after using it for more than a [Expletive deleted] year, linux

Re: [newbie] usb external modems

2002-11-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 12:50, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > Whether all usb external modems work properly in Linux. Whether there is also > winmodem? > I've gotten several WinModems to work under linux - it's just a matter of finding out the chipset and finding the proper source code to compile (which can b

Re: [newbie] Galeon unstable

2002-11-07 Thread Sharrea
On Friday 08 Nov 2002 11:11 am, Paul Rodriguez wrote: > ANybody else notice that Galeon in 9.0 is very unstable? Happen to know > when an update will come out? Sounds like you _may_ have a package missing... but I wouldn't have a clue which one...? I use galeon ALL the time and haven't had a cr

[newbie] Connecting to Internet

2002-11-07 Thread Antonio R.
Hi everybody: I’ve just installed Mandrake Linux on my computer and it looks really cool, but I don’t know how to connect to the internet, and my IP doesn’t give help to linux users and the worst problem is that I use my computer as the server of my house and there are two other computers conne

[newbie] networking advice

2002-11-07 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I have 4 PCs. 3 on dual boot with linux and windows(98 or me)and one win98se. one has built in 8139 lan card. How should I go for networking these? 1)what is the optimum ways if I have to include a few more PCs. Dual boot ones can be made only linux ones. 2)what should I get in hardware? 3)How to

[newbie] usb external modems

2002-11-07 Thread L.V.Gandhi
Whether all usb external modems work properly in Linux. Whether there is also winmodem? -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSo

Re: [newbie] CD-Writing.

2002-11-07 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On Wednesday 06 Nov 2002 10:42 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > These are _real_ cheap generic CDR's from OfficeMax, $11 for a 50 > spindle. I can always write successfully to 'em a 8x (max for my > burner). I suspect 'Indicated writing power: 5' (below) doesn't refer > to max writing speed as (IRRC)

RE: [newbie] Installing 9.0

2002-11-07 Thread Tim Werner
I ran the dosutils/rawwrite.exe program to create my boot floppy under windows. When you run that program, you have to point to the images/cdrom.img file to create the floppy. Is that what you did? > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:newbie-owner@;linux-mandrake.com]

Re: [newbie] Installing 9.0

2002-11-07 Thread Vasiliy Boulytchev
I guess, I forget to think like a tech. Sorry. Anyways good luck with 9.0 I enjoy it at work as my desktop system very much. KDE 3 rocks On 07 Nov 2002 20:44:53 -0500 Anthony Abby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 20:40, Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote: shouldn't that cd be boota

Re: [newbie] Installing 9.0

2002-11-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 12:44, Anthony Abby wrote: > On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 20:40, Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote: > > > > shouldn't that cd be bootable itself? > > Yes, generally unless his hardware doesn't support it, or unless he > actually burned the .iso file to the cd itself. > > Anthony The CD MIG

Re: [newbie] USB mouse Config. On Mandrake 8.0

2002-11-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 10:43, Sharrea wrote: > I think mouseconfig is for RH, in MDK its called mousedrake and you need to > su to root which means in a terminal type: > su > > > now you can run mousedrake, just type > mousedrake > > Sharrea > -- > Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linu

Re: [newbie] Installing 9.0

2002-11-07 Thread Anthony Abby
On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 20:40, Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote: > > shouldn't that cd be bootable itself? Yes, generally unless his hardware doesn't support it, or unless he actually burned the .iso file to the cd itself. Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.m

Re: [newbie] Another breakthrough for Linux!

2002-11-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 11:20, Sharrea wrote: > Not exactly OT, Mandrake now comes pre-installed in New Zealand! > > Yet another breakthrough for Linux. From > http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/07/0611226&mode=thread : > > "Vik Olliver writes "Here in New Zealand, the area's major

RE: [newbie] sawfish configuration

2002-11-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 11:36, Paul Rodriguez wrote: > Any way to check which wm is running, though? > > - P What about opening up a term and typing: pstree -nal | more or ps -aux ...that should show you what's running...(or gtop - if you have that) -- Fri Nov 8 11:45:01 EST 2002 ---

[newbie] .NET under Linux ?

2002-11-07 Thread Jester DEV
I heard a while back that C# was going to be ported to linux. Or atleast the .NET framework. Anyone have some links with info? Searching brings up nothing... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] TOTAL MESS! [was: switching video cads (what do i need to do?)]

2002-11-07 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Yikes! I took out my ATI card and put in the nvidia card. Would not startx at all. Kudzu did not recognize the change. I then ran xfdrake, told it I was using a generic Nvidia Geforce4. Wouldn't startx. I downloaded the nvidia drivers, installed them, edited my XFree config file, and voilá!

Re: [newbie] Galeon unstable

2002-11-07 Thread Paul Rodriguez
> You can also delete the .galeon directory from your home directory which > will cause Galeon to have to reconfigure itself for you... I wanted to try this from the beginning, but am not sure what file needs to stay to keep the bookmarks. I'll try the other commands first. tHnaks. - paul W

RE: [newbie] sawfish configuration

2002-11-07 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Any way to check which wm is running, though? - P On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 19:20, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 11:03, Paul Rodriguez wrote: > > I hadn't thought of that, Sephen. I assumed since I upgraded from a > > system with sawfish, sawfish would remain. I see no option in any o

Re: [newbie] Galeon unstable

2002-11-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 11:22, Paul Rodriguez wrote: > Grr.. I've been selling stuff on ebay and it crashes ALL the time. > > - Paul Maybe that's a FEATURE and not a BUG? (grin) Have you tried the galeon-config-tool in the previous messages? -- Fri Nov 8 11:30:00 EST 2002 ---

Re: [newbie] Galeon unstable

2002-11-07 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Grr.. I've been selling stuff on ebay and it crashes ALL the time. - Paul On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 18:57, Paul Rodriguez wrote: > It crashes several times during use. (of the just disappears variety) > This happens when I am using the tabs and switching back and forth > between them. > > - Paul >

RE: [newbie] sawfish configuration

2002-11-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 11:03, Paul Rodriguez wrote: > I hadn't thought of that, Sephen. I assumed since I upgraded from a > system with sawfish, sawfish would remain. I see no option in any of > the gnome menus to change window manager, or anything that mentions > metacity. There is a sawfish fol

[newbie] Another breakthrough for Linux!

2002-11-07 Thread Sharrea
Not exactly OT, Mandrake now comes pre-installed in New Zealand! Yet another breakthrough for Linux. From http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/07/0611226&mode=thread : "Vik Olliver writes "Here in New Zealand, the area's major Australia/NZ electronics retailer Dick Smiths Electron

Re: [newbie] Galeon unstable

2002-11-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 10:57, Paul Rodriguez wrote: > It crashes several times during use. (of the just disappears variety) > This happens when I am using the tabs and switching back and forth > between them. > > - Paul Does the same thing happen when you're using Galeon in a different WM or desk

Re: [newbie] mdk 9 with tamil

2002-11-07 Thread Paul Rodriguez
A related question... (not an answer, unfortunately) Is it possible to switch "on-the-fly" from roman letters to devanagari when writing a file in openoffice (or any other word processor)? Is it just a question of switching fonts usually? - Paul On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 10:15, L.V.Gandhi wrote:

RE: [newbie] sawfish configuration

2002-11-07 Thread Paul Rodriguez
I hadn't thought of that, Sephen. I assumed since I upgraded from a system with sawfish, sawfish would remain. I see no option in any of the gnome menus to change window manager, or anything that mentions metacity. There is a sawfish folder, though. How do I find out which wm i am using? - Pau

Re: [newbie] Galeon unstable

2002-11-07 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Also, with the new version, it no longer will take me to the .com address of a site that I type in. For example, if I type in "mandrake" it does not take me to "mandrake.com". Know how to fix this? - Paul On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 17:23, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 09:11, Paul Rod

Re: [newbie] Galeon unstable

2002-11-07 Thread Paul Rodriguez
It crashes several times during use. (of the just disappears variety) This happens when I am using the tabs and switching back and forth between them. - Paul On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 17:23, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 09:11, Paul Rodriguez wrote: > > ANybody else notice that Galeo

Re: [newbie] USB mouse Config. On Mandrake 8.0

2002-11-07 Thread Sharrea
On Friday 08 Nov 2002 12:26 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 09:56, Prasad, Ram (CAP, CORP Contractor) wrote: > > Hi Steve , > > > > how do i run mouseconfig from console..how do i see mouse hardware from > > browser.. > > > > Could you please tell me what steps i have to do.. > > >

[newbie] Radeon 9000, xwindows and Mandrake 9.0

2002-11-07 Thread Marty McFly
I just installed Mandrake 9.0 on my computer, which has a Radeon 9000 agp card in it. During the install, when the installer came to the point of configuring the video settings, that process failed with some error message, something like "invalid configuration". I tried to select "Radeon" seve

RE: [newbie] USB mouse Config. On Mandrake 8.0

2002-11-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 09:56, Prasad, Ram (CAP, CORP Contractor) wrote: > Hi Steve , > > how do i run mouseconfig from console..how do i see mouse hardware from browser.. > > Could you please tell me what steps i have to do.. > > Thanks in advance. > Ram Mate, here's something a quick solution: B

Re: [newbie] Accessing Win-My Documents

2002-11-07 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 07 November 2002 05:39 pm, Langsley T Russell wrote: > Is there some easy to access the my documents files from > within Star Office? Or to copy them to SO? I have all > these files on what windows calls the D drive. I believe > that Linux refers to it as hda5. I have only one > physic

Re: [newbie] restarting crashed programs

2002-11-07 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 07 November 2002 12:31 am, Bill Winegarden wrote: > Hi again, > I have experienced occasional crashes (freezes) in > KMail and OO from a new LM9 install. Everything went > cleanly on install. Anyway my question is. > > Is there a way to restart the programs after a freeze? >

RE: [newbie] USB mouse Config. On Mandrake 8.0

2002-11-07 Thread Prasad, Ram (CAP, CORP Contractor)
Hi Steve , how do i run mouseconfig from console..how do i see mouse hardware from browser.. Could you please tell me what steps i have to do.. Thanks in advance. Ram -Original Message- From: Stephen Kuhn [mailto:stephen.kuhn@;gmx.net] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 5:53 PM To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] USB mouse Config. On Mandrake 8.0

2002-11-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 09:19, Prasad, Ram (CAP, CORP Contractor) wrote: > Hi Linux Gurus, > I recently installed Linux Mandrake 8.0 on my laptop. I have a Logitech Corded >Optical Wheel Mouse attached to the laptop through USB port. The mouse is not at all >working. > I am absolutely clueless. P

Re: [newbie] How do you figure out what's out there?

2002-11-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 03:17, Gary Armstrong wrote: > Couple of questions from a true newbie: > > 1) How do you figure out the names of applications available to solve a > particular need? > If you KNOW your need, you can check through heaps of different linux archives... http://sourceforge.net htt

Re: [newbie] Accessing Win-My Documents

2002-11-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 04:39, Langsley T Russell wrote: > Is there some easy to access the my documents files from within Star > Office? Or to copy them to SO? I have all these files on what windows > calls the D drive. I believe that Linux refers to it as hda5. I have > only one physical drive in m

Re: [newbie] X shutting down when in console

2002-11-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 04:56, Christian Goldstein wrote: > Hiya! > > Strange things happen in my Linux installation No matter what > WindowManager I use, whenever I dare go to the console via Alt+Ctrl+F1 (or 2, > or 3...) my WM shuts down for some odd reason. > > Anyone have a clue whats go

Re: [newbie] Window halts loading...

2002-11-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 07:27, James R. McKenzie wrote: > Have yoy tried doing an over-istall of Win98se. The Install routine > shouldn't mess with your X stuff and might fix the boot-hang-thing. I don't > know anything about laptops (don't have one) but in my desktop stuff that > usually fixed a h

Re: [newbie] Adding music in ERoaster

2002-11-07 Thread Robin Ballantine
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 5:02 am, Miark wrote: > I'm trying to burn an audio CD with ERoaster. When > I bring up the dialog to add ogg or mp3 files, they > just won't get get into the list. > > Any ideas? > > Miark Hi Miark, I had the same problem and fixed it by recompiling the source. Can't

Re: [newbie] Galeon unstable

2002-11-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 09:11, Paul Rodriguez wrote: > ANybody else notice that Galeon in 9.0 is very unstable? Happen to know > when an update will come out? > > - Paul What exactly do you mean by unstable? Does it crash often? Hang? -- Fri Nov 8 09:20:00 EST 2002 --

[newbie] USB mouse Config. On Mandrake 8.0

2002-11-07 Thread Prasad, Ram (CAP, CORP Contractor)
Hi Linux Gurus, I recently installed Linux Mandrake 8.0 on my laptop. I have a Logitech Corded Optical Wheel Mouse attached to the laptop through USB port. The mouse is not at all working. I am absolutely clueless. Please help me out how to configure the mouse. Thanks for your help in advan

[newbie] Galeon unstable

2002-11-07 Thread Paul Rodriguez
ANybody else notice that Galeon in 9.0 is very unstable? Happen to know when an update will come out? - Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Limewire installation

2002-11-07 Thread Miark
I have the following in my PATH: /usr/lib/jre-1.4.0_01/bin and the following env variable: JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jre-1.4.0_01 Miark On 08 Nov 2002 01:29:50 +0200 Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi I also have the problem but no Kaffe on my system to uninstall. Funny > thing is when I checked m

Re: [newbie] Limewire installation

2002-11-07 Thread Terry Sheltra
Aaron, The file that contains the path isn't the ~/.bashrc .. it's the ~/.bash_profile file. Add the path to the java executable, and you should be all set. Terry Aaron wrote: Hi I also have the problem but no Kaffe on my system to uninstall. Funny thing is when I checked my .bashrc it had n

Re: [newbie] extract audio tracts from .avi

2002-11-07 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 07 November 2002 12:52 pm, you wrote: > Hi > > can anybody advise a nice software to extract audio from avi (divx) files. > > thanks > Kristjan Mencoder, part of Mplayer will do a single pass to extract audio only. I believe the command line syntax is: mencoder -dvd 1 -aid 128 -oac m

Re: [newbie] Limewire installation

2002-11-07 Thread Aaron
Hi I also have the problem but no Kaffe on my system to uninstall. Funny thing is when I checked my .bashrc it had no path info. In MD 9.0 is this stored somewhere else or what??? what should I put in my .bashrc do I need a JAVAHOME or something like it, I vaguely remember with an earlier dist I ha

Re: [newbie] housecleaning /tmp directories

2002-11-07 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 11:15 pm, you wrote: > I was wondering about /tmp directories and the directories and files they > contain. Is it necessary or a good idea to delete these once in a while? > Any other stuff that needs deleting? > > I like to keep things clean ;-) > > TIA's for any thou

Re: [newbie] OSS install help

2002-11-07 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 11:51:44 -0600 Marcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > > I have been the one trying to get sound working with ALSA and it just has been > no go, so now I am trying to get my commercial OSS working. I have LM9. OSS > installs fine but whenever I try the soundtest it st

Re: [newbie] Window halts loading...

2002-11-07 Thread James R. McKenzie
Have yoy tried doing an over-istall of Win98se. The Install routine shouldn't mess with your X stuff and might fix the boot-hang-thing. I don't know anything about laptops (don't have one) but in my desktop stuff that usually fixed a host of problems. Anything from Outlook Express not working or

[newbie] [OT] Maple 5.0 on mandrake 9.0

2002-11-07 Thread g. sanders
Has anyone out there been able to get this working? --Gina Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Grip

2002-11-07 Thread John Richard Smith
Derek Jennings wrote: >On Thursday 07 Nov 2002 2:52 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > > >>Derek Jennings wrote: >> >> >>>On Thursday 07 Nov 2002 11:28 am, John Richard Smith wrote: >>> >>> Where does Grip store it's disc data base. I don't mean /home/.grip , which is a hidden config file. >>

Re: [newbie] OSS install help

2002-11-07 Thread John Richard Smith
Marcia wrote: Dear All, I have been the one trying to get sound working with ALSA and it just has been no go, so now I am trying to get my commercial OSS working. I have LM9. OSS installs fine but whenever I try the soundtest it starts up for a few seconds and I hear it but then abrubtly stop

Re: [newbie] Upgrading KDE

2002-11-07 Thread Anthony Abby
>Dear ALL, > >I have LM 9 with the KDE3 and would like to upgrade to 3.04. I have not done >this before, so how does one do this in Mandrake? > >Thanks for the help. > >Sincerely, It's really simple. One way is to download all the rpms that you want to upgrade (minus the *-devel-* stuff, unle

Re: [newbie] restarting crashed programs

2002-11-07 Thread Sharrea
On Thursday 07 Nov 2002 1:31 pm, Bill Winegarden wrote: > Hi again, > I have experienced occasional crashes (freezes) in KMail and OO from a > new LM9 install. Everything went cleanly on install. > Anyway my question is. > > Is there a way to restart the programs after a freeze? It

Re: [newbie] OT - Is Linux breaking Microsoft's grip?

2002-11-07 Thread meteor
To replace one monopoly by another isn't a solution. Best about Microsoft is perhaps, that it keeps up the dream to create a whole new OS to replace MS Windows by playing there own special role. Have you ever realized that there is a waste amount of OS out? E.g. BeOS, FreeBSD, AtheOS, to name only

Re: [newbie] Permissions Problems?

2002-11-07 Thread Sharrea
On Thursday 07 Nov 2002 5:36 pm, H. Carter Harris wrote: > I would like to tell you that I'm > smart and I figured those lines out all by myself but I didn't; I copied > them from one of the tutorials I have been reading (smile). Under the If you don't mind my asking, do you have a link for th

Re: [newbie] How do you figure out what's out there?

2002-11-07 Thread Damian
El Jue 07 Nov 2002 13:17, Gary Armstrong escribió: > Couple of questions from a true newbie: > > 1) How do you figure out the names of applications available to solve a > particular need? > Well, you can always search google, and if that fails.. you ask here ;o) > 2) In particular, I'm looking

Re: [newbie] Accessing Win-My Documents

2002-11-07 Thread JM5379
i believe the easiest way will be (as root) to cp all the files from the windows mount to the desired directory, then chown . in the new location. you may have to also modify the file permissions since they may all be "r" only, and only for the user. --- Original Message --- From: Langsley T

Re: [newbie] How do you figure out what's out there?

2002-11-07 Thread Charlie
On Thursday 07 November 2002 09:17 am, Gary Armstrong wrote: > Couple of questions from a true newbie: > > 1) How do you figure out the names of applications available to solve a > particular need? Depends on the need Gary. While you really don't need to know the names of applications in order to

Re: [newbie] Accessing Win-My Documents

2002-11-07 Thread meteor
Actually if it's a FAT partition you can even use your documents on the partition. I remember when I still had MS Windows Linux Mandrake always mounted the windows partition automatically at /mnt/windows. Frank. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakest

Re: [newbie] postfix problem? or something else?

2002-11-07 Thread Kenn Murrah
tried that ... no entries for syslog there i have mail, lastlog, messages, sudo, wtmp, etc. ... but no syslog .. --- Marty Wedepohl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try /var/log/syslog for imapd messages > > > thanks, derek ... > > > > it occurs several times a day at seemingly random > > times

[newbie] OT - Is Linux breaking Microsoft's grip?

2002-11-07 Thread Sharrea
Is Linux breaking Microsoft's grip? http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-964310.html The European Union awarded on Thursday a $249,000 (250,000 euro) contract to U.K.-based system-integrator Netproject to study the feasibility of moving the information systems of several member countries' governments

Re: [newbie] postfix problem? or something else?

2002-11-07 Thread Kenn Murrah
heck, engardelinux doesn't even install "man" ... ("bash: man: command not found) ... but i have taken your suggestion that it might be related to logging and changed a couple of settings in logrotate.conf ... i'll wait a day or so and see if that makes a difference thanks again for the help

Re: [newbie] Upgrading KDE

2002-11-07 Thread Robin Ballantine
On Thursday 07 November 2002 5:44 pm, Marcia wrote: > Dear ALL, > > I have LM 9 with the KDE3 and would like to upgrade to 3.04. I have not > done this before, so how does one do this in Mandrake? > > Thanks for the help. > > Sincerely, > > Marcia The easiest way would be to use the precompiled r

Re: [newbie] Anyone else tried Texstar's improved KDE fonts?

2002-11-07 Thread Kristjan
What version of kde does that need. An I did run into a lot of problems trying to install that. I dont find the need to go updating my KDE. Kristjan On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 20:26:51 + Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 6:00 pm, PBone wrote: > > The last time I tr

[newbie] X shutting down when in console

2002-11-07 Thread Christian Goldstein
Hiya! Strange things happen in my Linux installation No matter what WindowManager I use, whenever I dare go to the console via Alt+Ctrl+F1 (or 2, or 3...) my WM shuts down for some odd reason. Anyone have a clue whats going on? - Christian Want to buy your Pack or Ser

[newbie] extract audio tracts from .avi

2002-11-07 Thread Kristjan
Hi can anybody advise a nice software to extract audio from avi (divx) files. thanks Kristjan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] OSS install help

2002-11-07 Thread Marcia
Dear All, I have been the one trying to get sound working with ALSA and it just has been no go, so now I am trying to get my commercial OSS working. I have LM9. OSS installs fine but whenever I try the soundtest it starts up for a few seconds and I hear it but then abrubtly stops and hangs ther

[newbie] Accessing Win-My Documents

2002-11-07 Thread Langsley T Russell
Is there some easy to access the my documents files from within Star Office? Or to copy them to SO? I have all these files on what windows calls the D drive. I believe that Linux refers to it as hda5. I have only one physical drive in my current system. I have many documents there I would like to

[newbie] Upgrading KDE

2002-11-07 Thread Marcia
Dear ALL, I have LM 9 with the KDE3 and would like to upgrade to 3.04. I have not done this before, so how does one do this in Mandrake? Thanks for the help. Sincerely, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] postfix problem? or something else?

2002-11-07 Thread Derek Jennings
man imapd ought to tell you which imap you have installed. (Assuming imapd is the name of your daemon) Whichever one it is, it is pretty easy to change to a different one. I use Courier-imap which works pretty well for me. Another alternative is University of Washington imap, and there are a cou

Re: [newbie] How do you figure out what's out there?

2002-11-07 Thread Spencer
On November 7, 2002 08:17 am, Gary Armstrong wrote: > Couple of questions from a true newbie: > > 1) How do you figure out the names of applications available to solve a > particular need? Google and rpmfind.net are your best friends. > > 2) In particular, I'm looking for the best FREE case tool. I

Re: [newbie] postfix problem? or something else?

2002-11-07 Thread Marty Wedepohl
Try /var/log/syslog for imapd messages > thanks, derek ... > > it occurs several times a day at seemingly random > times ... > > i've looked in /var/log/ and i can't figure out where > imap is writing ... is it messages? or mail? or > somewhere else? > > also, i don't know how to determine which i

Re: [newbie] How do you figure out what's out there?

2002-11-07 Thread Michael
What I generally do is search Google groups. You can find just about anything you want there. You can also download the JRE package, there is a link for it on http://mozilla.org you can use http://www.rpmfind.net to find rpm's But then again, a quick search of Google groups would have found

Re: [newbie] Limewire installation

2002-11-07 Thread Miark
Aaron, I used 1.4 and it works fine. Miark On 07 Nov 2002 15:18:33 +0200 Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No but I got the same error maybe it can't use jre 1.4O. I haven't > checked my path to see if jre has been added but that may also be worth > investigating. Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Limewire installation - FIXED

2002-11-07 Thread Miark
Ah, yes it was Kaffe. I got rid of it and now it's running like a champ. Thanks, Terry! Miark On Thu, 07 Nov 2002 08:42:37 -0500 Terry Sheltra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Miark, > > Have you checked to make sure that Kaffe wasn't installed as well, and > that in your ~/.bash_profile, you ha

Re: [newbie] postfix problem? or something else?

2002-11-07 Thread Kenn Murrah
thanks, derek ... it occurs several times a day at seemingly random times ... i've looked in /var/log/ and i can't figure out where imap is writing ... is it messages? or mail? or somewhere else? also, i don't know how to determine which imap is running ... it installed by default with engardel

Re: [newbie] Apache on Mandrake 8

2002-11-07 Thread Michael
i'm not sure about .26 but .23, .24 and .25 also have cookie handling bugs. I'm running 1.3.22 and I downloaded the source tarball from Apache.org and the install went fine. You can also go to Apachetoolbox and it will automatically load it all for you, although you do need to specify which p

[newbie] How do you figure out what's out there?

2002-11-07 Thread Gary Armstrong
Couple of questions from a true newbie: 1) How do you figure out the names of applications available to solve a particular need? 2) In particular, I'm looking for the best FREE case tool. I'm trying to demo argo(is there a better one?). The home page didn't appear to have an rpm. How do I know if

Re: [newbie] postfix problem? or something else?

2002-11-07 Thread Derek Jennings
If you are losing connection to an IMAP client it is your IMAP server which has the issue not Postfix. Which IMAP server are you using? Does this happen at the same time every day? If so your IMAP server may have a cron job, or an entry in /etc/logrotate.d which is 'tidying up' every day and r

[newbie] Window halts loading...

2002-11-07 Thread .oO -Francisco S. -Oo.
Hi guys, I recently installed Linux Mandrake 9.0 in my system, as a dual OS with Windows 98 SE, in the same hard drive, different partitions. The problem I'm having is that after I reboot my system directly from Mandrake and into Windows, it stops loading at the logo. I have to power off my compute

Re: [newbie] Grip

2002-11-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 07 Nov 2002 2:52 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > Derek Jennings wrote: > >On Thursday 07 Nov 2002 11:28 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > >>Where does Grip store it's disc data base. > >>I don't mean /home/.grip , which is a hidden config file. > >> > >>John > > > >~/.cddb > > Thanks, > Q

Re: [newbie] Grip

2002-11-07 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:07:17AM -0500, Todd Slater wrote: > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:52:51PM +, John Richard Smith wrote: > > > Thanks, > > Question, Is it possible that grip goes on the net passively, > > that is in the background , while you are on the net for some > > other reason, r

Re: [newbie] Grip

2002-11-07 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:52:51PM +, John Richard Smith wrote: > Thanks, > Question, Is it possible that grip goes on the net passively, > that is in the background , while you are on the net for some > other reason, retrieves db and stores it, because until today, > I don't consciously re

Re: [newbie] Grip

2002-11-07 Thread John Richard Smith
Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 07 Nov 2002 11:28 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Where does Grip store it's disc data base. I don't mean /home/.grip , which is a hidden config file. John ~/.cddb Thanks, Question, Is it possible that grip goes on the net passively, that is in the

Re: [newbie] portsentry2

2002-11-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday November 7 2002 04:11 am, Franki wrote: > Anyone seen a mandrake rpm of portsentry around for mdk9 > > > rgds > > Frank I've been able to use portsentry-1.1-3mdk.src.rpm on 9.0 and even 9.1 (current cooker). -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want

[newbie] Mount Point

2002-11-07 Thread Dennis & Sue
Hello Folks. Wanting more space, and having screwed something up sufficently to warrant a reload, I decided to repartition my harddrive. It all went well, Except. I had a storage drive that I created at /storage. When I repartitioned, I didn't realize that I would have to create a mount point

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