Re: [newbie-it] Partizoni FAT 32

2002-11-19 Thread Andrea Celli
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 13:56:31 +0100 La x serve per entrare nella directory. Daniele Micci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Alcune annotazioni: * la x indica il permesso di esecuzione, non di accesso alla directory. L'effetto è molto simile: $ mkdir prova $ ls -l totale 4 drwxr-xr-x2

Re: [newbie-it] Re: update mdk9

2002-11-19 Thread Franco
carmine de pasquale ha scritto: - Original Message - From: gianni piazza [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 4:45 PM Subject: [newbie-it] Re: update mdk9 Qualcuno mi sa spiegare come mai non riesco a scaricare gli aggiornamenticon mandrake update?

Re: [newbie-it] Re:cambiare directory

2002-11-19 Thread Andrea Celli
cominciano con #!/usr/bin/perl che è il percorso indicatomi da which perl nella shell bash.Come mai non li legge?Grazie in anticipo Andrea, spero tu sappia la soluzione al problema. Che errore ti dà? ciao, Andrea PS. Ovviamente, presumo che tu li abbia resi eseguibili prima di

Re: [newbie-it] Partizoni FAT 32

2002-11-19 Thread Daniele Micci
Alle 10:04, martedì 19 novembre 2002, Andrea Celli ha scritto: La differenza tra eseguire una directory e accederne al contenuto è molto sottile e senza x non entri. :-) ciao, Andrea OK... grazie per i chiarimenti. Pensavo fossero due cose diverse, e che l'accesso alla directory dipendesse

Re: [newbie-it] Partizoni FAT 32

2002-11-19 Thread Andrea Celli
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 11:35:55 +0100 Daniele Micci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alle 10:04, martedì 19 novembre 2002, Andrea Celli ha scritto: La differenza tra eseguire una directory e accederne al contenuto è molto sottile e senza x non entri. :-) ciao, Andrea OK... grazie per i

Re: [newbie-it] xine

2002-11-19 Thread Emiliano La Licata
Alle 22:56, lunedì 18 novembre 2002, paolo brusasco ha scritto: le librerie le trovi su http://plf.zarb.org/ libdvdnav-ecc libdvdread-ecc xine-d4d-plugin-ecc Grazie Paolo, adesso xine funziona, ho un solo problema non di poco conto.. il dvd parte il lingua originale e non so come settare

Re: [newbie-it] Re:cambiare directory

2002-11-19 Thread gianni piazza
Alle 11:16, martedì 19 novembre 2002, Andrea Celli ha scritto: cominciano con #!/usr/bin/perl che è il percorso indicatomi da which perl nella shell bash.Come mai non li legge?Grazie in anticipo Andrea, spero tu sappia la soluzione al problema. Che errore ti dà? ciao, Andrea PS.

[newbie-it] Scanner LG600U

2002-11-19 Thread Benedetto Santarella
Qualcuno e' riuscito a configurarlo \ | / (@ @) -o00-(_)-00o Benedetto Santarella

Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] Il server x e' morto

2002-11-19 Thread Benedetto Santarella
alle 23:18, domenica 10 novembre 2002, hai scritto: devi darci qualche messaggio di log var/log/syslog /var/log/messages magari anche i log di Xfree... il file /var/log/messages e' il seguente Nov 16 18:33:23 localhost syslogd 1.4.1: restart. Nov 16 18:33:23 localhost kernel: klogd 1.4.1,

[newbie-it] Kylix 3

2002-11-19 Thread Benedetto Santarella
Salve a tutti, ho scaricato il seguente file dal sito della borland kylix_install_source-3_0_tar.gz che dovrebbero essere i srogenti di Kyliz 3 (se non mi sbaglio), li ho decompressi, ma non ci ho capito niente sul come installarlo, c'e' qualche anima buona che mi vuole aiutare? \

Re: [newbie-it] xine

2002-11-19 Thread paolo brusasco
sulla seconda riga del pannello di xine c'e' una scritta AUD; provare a cliccare le freccioline su e giu davanti alla scritta (ed attendere un attimo); dovrebbe valere anche per i sottotitoli (SUB) se poi riesci a far funzionare anche altri plugin per favore dimmelo, potrebbe dipendere da

Re: [newbie-it] mplayer e la GUI (per ora)

2002-11-19 Thread syd
* tom wrote: [snip] da shell ho provato a dare un gmplaier command not found! [snip] Lo hai creato gmplayer? gmplayer e' un link che punta a mplayer: 2008 - ~ vladimir$ ll /usr/bin/gmplayer lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 16 ott 19 09:58 /usr/bin/gmplayer -

Re: [newbie-it] xine

2002-11-19 Thread Emiliano La Licata
Alle 19:53, martedì 19 novembre 2002, paolo brusasco ha scritto: sulla seconda riga del pannello di xine c'e' una scritta AUD; provare a cliccare le freccioline su e giu davanti alla scritta (ed attendere un attimo); dovrebbe valere anche per i sottotitoli (SUB) Tutto a posto! se poi

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] Che caldo!!

2002-11-19 Thread Emiliano La Licata
Alle 22:26, lunedì 18 novembre 2002, miKe ha scritto: è un problema comune anche ad altri portatili. credo dipenda proprio da un supporto imperfetto di apm/acpi Caro miKe, ogni tanto dimentichi chi hai davanti... ti ringrazio per la fiducia nelle mie conoscenze, però ti ricordo che ho

Re: [newbie-it] Kylix 3

2002-11-19 Thread Benedetto Santarella
Alle 19:25, martedì 19 novembre 2002, hai scritto: A costo di sembrare pedante, file tipo README, INSTALL e simili sono presenti? SI, ma poco comprensibili!!! Che dimensioni ha questo file? 3MB circa In linea teorica si deve passare per la trimurti ./configure ./make ./makeinstall

Re: [newbie-it] mplayer e la GUI (per ora)

2002-11-19 Thread freefred
On Tuesday 19 November 2002 5:29 pm, tom wrote about [newbie-it] mplayer e la GUI (per ora): Salve alla lista. Ho scaricato mplayer di cui si parla un gran bene, L'ho scompattato poi: ./config make (qui ci ha messo un eternita circa 10 min) make install da shell ho provato a dare un

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] Che caldo!!

2002-11-19 Thread miKe
Alle 20:44, martedì 19 novembre 2002, Emiliano La Licata ha scritto: ... per favore dimmi dove leggo qualcosa su apm/acpi... così studio un po' .. .. nei man di apm e apmd trovi un sacco di informazioni interessanti, che credo pure su mandrakkia siano tradotte in italiano.. per il resto,

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] Che caldo!!

2002-11-19 Thread Emiliano La Licata
Alle 23:42, martedì 19 novembre 2002, miKe ha scritto: APM BIOS 1.2 (Kernel driver 1.16) AC on-line no system battery nn vede proprio la batteria.. e magari la lascia sempre sotto carica infatti sul desktop c'è l'icona che segnala sempre e comunque il fatto che sono attaccato alla

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] Che caldo!!

2002-11-19 Thread francesco.melo
Emiliano La Licata wrote: Alle 23:42, martedì 19 novembre 2002, miKe ha scritto: APM BIOS 1.2 (Kernel driver 1.16) AC on-line no system battery nn vede proprio la batteria.. e magari la lascia sempre sotto carica infatti sul desktop c'è l'icona che segnala sempre e comunque

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] Che caldo!!

2002-11-19 Thread Emiliano La Licata
Alle 23:42, martedì 19 novembre 2002, miKe ha scritto: portatile sono state scritte cose relative al supporto apm o acpi puoi provare semlicemente digitando apm linux marcaportatile modello Allora, ho trovato cose mooolto interessanti sul mio modello di portatile... dunque pare che l'acpi

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] Che caldo!!

2002-11-19 Thread Emiliano La Licata
Alle 00:26, mercoledì 20 novembre 2002, francesco.melo ha scritto: sul forum si dice che il nuovo kernel dovrebbe risolvere il bug anche a me capita sul portatile ho sempre l'iconcina della corrente non ho provato ancora il nuovo kernel non ho avuto il coraggio... Ho appena visto!! Si parla

[newbie-it] OT (Fwd) Re: richiesta info linux

2002-11-19 Thread Claudio Duchi
Giro per conoscenza --- Forwarded message follows --- Send reply to: Informazione Clienti [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Informazione Clienti [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: richiesta info linux Date sent:

[newbie] stupid Kyro video card

2002-11-19 Thread david
Hi All I have a Kyro video card (more fool me). Under 8.2 everything was crappy then powervr released a Linux driver (they even had a rpm for Mandrake). Installed that and all was good. Then i upgraded to 9.0. 9 recognises my Kyro however it doesnt seem to have installed openGL. When I

Re: [newbie] Downloading packages.

2002-11-19 Thread Keith Powell
On Monday 18 November 2002 6:51 pm, Michel Clasquin wrote: On Monday 18 November 2002 14:34, Keith Powell wrote: Should I have been connected to the Internet when I first entered the sources in the command line? Yes, and running console or xterm as root. Thanks Michel. I thought that the

Re: [newbie] Lilo problems - almost there

2002-11-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 19 Nov 2002 1:41 am, Terry Smith wrote: Excellent Anne! Good job. Why don't you post your new lilo.conf file and we'll see if folks can deduce what's wrong with the 8.2 stanza. boot=/dev/hde map=/boot/map vga=normal default=Mandrake_8.2 keytable=/boot/uk.klt prompt nowarn timeout=100

[newbie] SIS 300

2002-11-19 Thread ivette brusselmans
Have a SIS 300 graphic device. Mandrake 9.0. While installing screen freezes after testing image. Have to reboot and can't get into graphic mode, even when I use FXdrake or drakxconf. Any ideas? _ Surf voor nieuws,

[newbie] Min spec

2002-11-19 Thread Anne Wilson
I hope to rebuild an elderly pc with my grandson, who is now showing interest iin migrating. He knows that at best it will be dog-slow, but is happy to use it as a learning situation. I would like to install 9.0, but what, in terms of cpu and ram would you consider absolute minimum - remember

[newbie] M$ and 85%

2002-11-19 Thread John Richard Smith
According to yesterdays FT, Operating system division supports other arms which show heavy losses Windows OS enjoys 85% profit margins, while remaining business enjoy losses. The client division made a profit of $2.48bn on revenue $2.89bn amoungst M$ 's other businesses , Home

Re: [newbie] Lilo problems - almost there

2002-11-19 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 19 Nov 2002 1:41 am, Terry Smith wrote: Excellent Anne! Good job. Why don't you post your new lilo.conf file and we'll see if folks can deduce what's wrong with the 8.2 stanza. boot=/dev/hde map=/boot/map vga=normal default=Mandrake_8.2

Re: [newbie] stupid Kyro video card

2002-11-19 Thread Jose
On Sunday 10 November 2002 04:52 pm, david wrote: Hi All I have a Kyro video card (more fool me). Under 8.2 everything was crappy then powervr released a Linux driver (they even had a rpm for Mandrake). Installed that and all was good. Then i upgraded to 9.0. 9 recognises my Kyro however it

Re: [newbie] spell check in open office

2002-11-19 Thread John Richard Smith
joe wrote: On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 16:00, Matt Harrison wrote: I do have aspell running and my OO still has crappy spell check. Mine is so bad it is even missing words I misspell on purpose to test it. -Matt I also have aspell and 3 kinds of English dictionaries installed. I also

Re: [newbie] spell check in open office

2002-11-19 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 21:03:36 -0700 joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 16:00, Matt Harrison wrote: I do have aspell running and my OO still has crappy spell check. Mine is so bad it is even missing words I misspell on purpose to test it. -Matt I also have

Re: [newbie] Min spec

2002-11-19 Thread Technoslick
Anne, I have a box running 8.2 for my daughters when they are home to visit, and for any guest that would want to get on-line. It's a Intel P133 MHz, 128 MB RAM running two 3 GB HDs. I can't recall the video card, off-hand. KDE starts up slow as molassas in January, but once up, is adequate for

Re: [newbie] spell check in open office

2002-11-19 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On Tuesday 19 Nov 2002 9:33 am, joe wrote: On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 16:00, Matt Harrison wrote: I do have aspell running and my OO still has crappy spell check. Mine is so bad it is even missing words I misspell on purpose to test it. -Matt I also have aspell and 3 kinds of English

[newbie] perl cgi problem

2002-11-19 Thread L.V.Gandhi
Tripod site doesn't allow send mail. Instead they have module TripodMail using which mails can be sent. As they have explained I used the module and wrote the script. Script is as follows. # Mail Option require TripodMail; $MAIL = new TripodMail; if ($mail eq '1') { #mail to self

Re: [newbie] cdr/rw no longer reading

2002-11-19 Thread Technoslick
Joe, Back when supermount was really a topic of discussion, I played around a bit to see what the fuss was all about. I came up with a whole list of results based on trying different ways to look at a diskette, CD disc or Zip disk. What I found was that as long as I backed out of the volume I was

Re: [newbie] How to test new PC?

2002-11-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday November 18 2002 06:04 pm, RichardA wrote: Hi all, I've just bought some new hardware. Plugged it all together, installed MDK 8.2, booted and it locked up. I added 'mem=nopentium' to lilo.conf, it booted to KDE, I opened a terminal and ran 'top' overnight. So that's fine, yes?

[newbie] PHP on mdk9

2002-11-19 Thread Fabrice Mous
Hello all, I'm having trouble to get PHP-file read by my browser on Mandrake 9.0. Installed: - PHP4 - Apache - Mysql in /etc/httpd/conf/commonhttpd.conf I comment out: AddType application/x-httpd-php .php AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps restarted httpd but konqueror or

Re[2]: [newbie] GKRELLM and LM_SENSORS

2002-11-19 Thread Pilagá
The same here. Mine is a K7VTA PRO + XP 1700. Pilagá Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] font size in konqueror

2002-11-19 Thread bascule
is the minimum font size set in konqueror overidable by individual web sites? i've set my minimum to be 11 with a 17 crt, my eyesight can't really cope with less, however often i have to use the 'increase font size' button to be able to read! fonts and stuff always went over my head, is it just

[newbie] Postfix problems with Mandrake Newbie Listserv

2002-11-19 Thread Technoslick
Every once in a while, I get a bounced email from the Mandrake Newbie listserv telling me that a post could not make it to its destination. The funny part is that the post made it alright...about two days before I get this notification! Here's what is coming to me: This is the Postfix program at

RE: [newbie] M$ and 85%

2002-11-19 Thread Franki
Hell, if the government really finds out how shody their paperwork was... that would do the trick... here's hoping.. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Richard Smith Sent: Tuesday, 19 November 2002 6:24 PM To: NEWBIE 1 Subject:

RE: [newbie] M$ and 85%

2002-11-19 Thread Eric L
I think the loss in XBox for MS will be a strategic gain in the long run... it is just my opinion... because they are lossing so much money in the hardware ... all that for $200, but the games they sell each cost nearly $60!!! ... just like PS2 or GameCube... it probably will not take long to

Re: [newbie] Postfix problems with Mandrake Newbie Listserv

2002-11-19 Thread Jordan R. Thompson
I just got exactly the same thing makes you wonder if they can't figure out how to configure postfix, how are we supposed to? All of a sudden I feel a lot smarter! ;-) Jordan - Original Message - From: Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 19,

Re: [newbie] Postfix problems with Mandrake Newbie Listserv

2002-11-19 Thread John Richard Smith
Technoslick wrote: Every once in a while, I get a bounced email from the Mandrake Newbie listserv telling me that a post could not make it to its destination. The funny part is that the post made it alright...about two days before I get this notification! Here's what is coming to me: This is

[newbie] Autostart for VNC

2002-11-19 Thread Carter Harris
I downloaded and installed the TightVNC rpm for VNC. It's up and running but there are a few things I want to fix. I wanted TightVNC to start when the system reboots. So I added lines to /etc/sysconfig/vncservers, following the example given in that file and the great information I got here.

RE: [newbie] Postfix problems with Mandrake Newbie Listserv

2002-11-19 Thread Franki
umm, before you suggest its easy to setup a massive listserv and several MTA's to support it.. Try doing it yourself.. all the mandrake lists put together probably equals 50,000 or more members.. All it takes is some DNS resolving lag, and you get problems like this.. especially since mandrake

[newbie] running linux from a windows box via cygwin/XFree86

2002-11-19 Thread Kenn Murrah
Greetings. I want to access my linux box from my windows computer using X ... I've installed cynwin/XFree86 but i'm unclear how to actually start a session of X from my windows computer ... what am i missing? can anyone point me in the right direction? thanks.

Re: [newbie] Postfix problems with Mandrake Newbie Listserv

2002-11-19 Thread Technoslick
umm, you are right. However..all the listservs that I subscribe to do not give me the same results. T - Original Message - From: Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 10:52 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Postfix problems with Mandrake Newbie Listserv

RE: [newbie] running linux from a windows box via cygwin/XFree86

2002-11-19 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Kenn, Do you really want to go to all this trouble, tightvnc is a lot simpler. Tony. -Original Message- From: Kenn Murrah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 4:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] running linux from a windows box via cygwin/XFree86

Re: [newbie] is this list appropriate for settingup amailserveron9.0?

2002-11-19 Thread Jordan R. Thompson
- Original Message - From: John McQuillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 3:30 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] is this list appropriate for settingup amailserveron9.0? SNIP Try this (attached) OK, I installed the perl moduls (this was especially cool as

RE: [newbie] running linux from a windows box via cygwin/XFree86

2002-11-19 Thread Kenn Murrah
trust me ... i want the simplest solution i can find :-) i presume i need to install tightvnc server on my linux box ... will multiple people be able to login that way simultaneously? as though they were linux users (which they are?) ??? thanks, kenn --- Tony S. Sykes [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [newbie] Postfix problems with Mandrake Newbie Listserv

2002-11-19 Thread Franki
Most of them likely don't do dns lookups on all posting mailservers... I don't agree with mandrakes decision to do that.. but you must admit, there is not alot of spam on the list... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Technoslick Sent:

Re: [newbie] is this list appropriate for settingup amailserveron9.0?

2002-11-19 Thread Jordan R. Thompson
OK, so maybe its /var/log/mail/info (I'm guessing.) Next it says to set the $pat variable: Take a look at the $pat definitions in the pop-before-smtp-conf.pl file and uncomment the one for the mail server that you're running - if you're running Linux it's probably going to be the $pat denoted

RE: [newbie] running linux from a windows box via cygwin/XFree86

2002-11-19 Thread Franki
yep... vncserver rules.. I have a window open on my win2000 box, that window is my linux server.. logged in as my normal user.. works great, I am gonna start fiddling soon and see if i can't get it to tunnel via ssh... then i can use it on remote servers.. rgds Frank -Original

Re: [newbie] stupid Kyro video card

2002-11-19 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 08:52:38 +1100 david [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All I have a Kyro video card (more fool me). Under 8.2 everything was crappy then powervr released a Linux driver (they even had a rpm for Mandrake). Installed that and all was good. Then i upgraded to 9.0. 9 recognises

Re: [newbie] spell check in open office

2002-11-19 Thread Erik Farnsworth
with MySpell dictionary and hyphenation dictionary installed (en_US) [mdk 9.0 CD 3], in OO.o, open: Tools Options Language Settings Writing Aids and then check the first box in the top section (turning on MySpell spell checker). In other sections of that window, you can set the options,

[newbie] 8.0 to 9.0 upgrade

2002-11-19 Thread Norman
I would like to update a Squid Server which has Mandrake Linux 8.0 and with Squid-2.3.STABLE4-5mdk on it. I have also been asked to put updated versions of php and apache on the machine. As this is being used by a school and it is some 50 miles from my home I feel I need to be sure I do have

[newbie] laptop cd drive mount

2002-11-19 Thread Noah Hicks
Today after not using it for several months I attempted to plug my cd drive in my laptop. I could hear the drive spin up but the it wasn't mounted. So I rebooted thinking that would automatically mount it but still no joy. Is there any way to do get my computer to know that it has a cd

Re: [newbie] Lilo problems - almost there

2002-11-19 Thread Sharrea
On Tuesday 19 Nov 2002 10:20 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: snip label=Mandrake_8.2 root=/dev/hde6 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=nobiospmp devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi should be: append=nobiospnp devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux

Re: [newbie] Lilo problems - almost there

2002-11-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 19 Nov 2002 8:12 pm, Sharrea wrote: On Tuesday 19 Nov 2002 10:20 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: snip label=Mandrake_8.2 root=/dev/hde6 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=nobiospmp devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi should be: append=nobiospnp devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi Sharrea

[newbie] PPPoE and Modem in tandem

2002-11-19 Thread Anne Wilson
I used MCC to set up the modem, since I occasionally need to send a fax. In fact I don't want it connected most of the time - just the ability to get it working quickly when I do need it. At the end of the process I was told that both the lan connection and the modem connection were

Re: [newbie] Instruction needed (was: Lilo problems - almost there)

2002-11-19 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: John is telling me that I need to specifically tell the bootup which img and initrd versions I'm using. I understand his point, but before I do that I would like to understand a little better just what is happening here. In the directory that has the 8.2 boot, subdirectory

RE: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.

2002-11-19 Thread Craig Williamson (ENZ)
Title: RE: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker. Hi There, I asked that question before. Not many people were forthcoming with suggestions. It seems like the spellchecker in Mandrake9.0 is corrupted. There is no possible way that I know to get it working. Redhat8.0's OpenOffice spellchecker

Re: [newbie] spell check in open office - solution

2002-11-19 Thread Miark
When I first checked out OOwriter, I found that a default language had yet to be set. Curious. So I set it US English. Spell checking still wasn't working. I checked if MySpell was installed. Sure enough, but Canadian English. WTF?! I didn't do that. So I installed US en package. Still didn't

Re: [newbie] running linux from a windows box via cygwin/XFree86

2002-11-19 Thread Barry Michels
On Tuesday 19 Nov 2002 5:06 pm, Franki wrote: yep... vncserver rules.. I have a window open on my win2000 box, that window is my linux server.. logged in as my normal user.. works great, I am gonna start fiddling soon and see if i can't get it to tunnel via ssh... then i can use it on

SV: [newbie] 8.0 to 9.0 upgrade

2002-11-19 Thread Anders Lind
Can I safely choose to do an update rather than an install? Even though I have not updated from 8.0, only 8.2 I would say go for it, the plusside is that you will keep all old and updated programs the same way as before, configurationwise Or can I use Mandrake Update over the internet? I have

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.

2002-11-19 Thread Miark
Craig, you can't be serious. Miark Mandrake's repair tool does not fix the problem. Just off topic, the Mandrake guys may have done this on purpose (as a ploy) to put you onto StarOffice (i.e. buy the PowerPack). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] is this list appropriate forsettingup amailserveron9.0?

2002-11-19 Thread John McQuillen
On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 03:32, Jordan R. Thompson wrote: Now, I am reading the installation instructions: 2. Edit the pop-before-smtp-conf.pl file to customize it for your system. *** I assume it the one in /etc. *** Look for this: # Set the log file we will watch for pop3d/imapd

RE: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.

2002-11-19 Thread Craig Williamson (ENZ)
Title: RE: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker. Hi There, I can't be 100% certain about this. I know that the mandrake guys are really clued up about what they do, maybe they did disable the spell checker on purpose, maybe it was a genuine mistake. If they did it on purpose, they would

[newbie] remote access to mail for m$ users???

2002-11-19 Thread Kenn Murrah
Okay, gang ... I've won most of the battles here ... Thanks in no small part to the help I've received from this list, I have a Postfix/IMAP mail server up and running and all is well with the world ... The rub comes in trying to set up my Windows computers to access their mail ... Outlook

[newbie] Cloning Stuff

2002-11-19 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi all, I am just curious as to the existance of PC deployment software that will run in Linux such as ImageCast of Ghost. I am looking to convert my workstation to 100% linux based but I need to be able to clone windows machines (yes I know it would be easier to switch them to linux, but

[newbie] OT? Tech Support Letter - A good laugh

2002-11-19 Thread George Baker
Dear Tech Support: This year I upgraded from Girlfriend 7.0 to Wife 1.0. I soon noticed that the new program began unexpected child processing that took up a lot of space and valuable resources. No mention of this was included with the product information. In addition, Wife 1.0 installed itself

Re: [newbie] cdr/rw no longer reading

2002-11-19 Thread Kaj Haulrich
Joe, when I look at the fstab below it strikes me that there are commas just in front of the fs-statement. I think you should try to replace those commas with an empty space. Furthermore, I've replaced the fs=auto with fs=iso9660. Works for me. HTH Kaj Haulrich On Tuesday 19 November 2002

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.

2002-11-19 Thread Spencer
On November 19, 2002 01:47 pm, Craig Williamson (ENZ) wrote Before anyone makes wild assumptions about what Mandrake did or did not do, please ensure that you have the appropriate OO help rpm installed, such as; file:/Cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/OpenOffice.org-help-en-1.0.1-9mdk.i586.rpm All

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.

2002-11-19 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
But runing properly the spell checker is as easy as to have the appropriate files in the wordbook directory and with the dictionary.lst well configured!; if you need some help about how to do it manually, ask me. Also the OOo-dicinstaller could do that automatically. I have OOo 1.0.1 runing

Re: [newbie] PPPoE and Modem in tandem

2002-11-19 Thread Robin Turner
Anne Wilson wrote: I used MCC to set up the modem, since I occasionally need to send a fax. In fact I don't want it connected most of the time - just the ability to get it working quickly when I do need it. Does anyone know if there's a way to send faxes via an ethernet connection? At the

Re: [newbie] is this list appropriate forsettingup amailserveron9.0?

2002-11-19 Thread John McQuillen
On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 04:04, Jordan R. Thompson wrote: OK, so maybe its /var/log/mail/info (I'm guessing.) Next it says to set the $pat variable: OK, I'm lost. I am using Postfix, and have no idea what the custom DB style or dbpath is. I also don't get what I am supposed to do with the

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.

2002-11-19 Thread Miark
I think we are infinitely more likely to fix such a problem than we are to upgrade ourselves out of it. And I think Mandrakesoft knows it. So if this were a tactic on MDK's part, it's a poor one. Also, a set-up like this would give fodder to anti open source factions, and propel the myth that

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.

2002-11-19 Thread Robin Turner
Miark wrote: Craig, you can't be serious. Miark Mandrake's repair tool does not fix the problem. Just off topic, the Mandrake guys may have done this on purpose (as a ploy) to put you onto StarOffice (i.e. buy the PowerPack). They also force OO to use Canadian English by default. Why?

[newbie] flash

2002-11-19 Thread Alexa Pongracz
Hi, It's me with the functioning, on line system. I am curious as to if there is a plug in for flash that I could download? Does flash work on linux? Alexa Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.

2002-11-19 Thread Technoslick
Thanks for the 'heads-up, Robin! For the longest time, I have been trying to fugure out why whenever I misspelled 'he' as 'eh', the spell checker never picked it up as a mistake! T :-) - Original Message - From: Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [newbie] Cloning Stuff

2002-11-19 Thread Brian Parish
On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 09:07, Matt Harrison wrote: Hi all, I am just curious as to the existance of PC deployment software that will run in Linux such as ImageCast of Ghost. I am looking to convert my workstation to 100% linux based but I need to be able to clone windows machines (yes

Re: [newbie] flash

2002-11-19 Thread Brian Parish
On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 11:08, Alexa Pongracz wrote: Hi, It's me with the functioning, on line system. I am curious as to if there is a plug in for flash that I could download? Does flash work on linux? Alexa Right here:

Re: [newbie] ECS K7S5A mobo

2002-11-19 Thread Norman
Sevatio wrote: Have any of you used the ECS K7S5A mobo with Mandrake? Are there any known problems? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I have one with a 900MHz

Re: [newbie] PPPoE and Modem in tandem

2002-11-19 Thread Peter Spotts
Anne, I share your pain. I was running MDK8.1 with ASDL as my default on a Compaq laptop. But I take my show on the road quite a bit and needed to use the dialer. Problem was, while the dialer would connect, the browser, email program or whatever wouldn't see the connection. I later ran into the

Re: [newbie] flash

2002-11-19 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Alexa Pongracz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:08:29 -0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] flash Hi, It's me with the functioning, on line system. I am curious as to if there is a plug in for flash that I could

[newbie] No battery message with Gkrellm/wmapm/wmapci

2002-11-19 Thread Peter Spotts
Folks, I've just installed Mdk8.1 on a Toshiba 1905-S303 laptop and find that battery monitors don't seem to see the battery-charge status. I've tried Gkrellm's monitor, as well as two windowmaker doc apps -- wmapm and wmacpi. They all seem to compile properly. And yes, I do have a battery in the

[newbie] Openoffice and .doc files

2002-11-19 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi, Quick question...LM 9.0 and OO were a fresh install. I received an email with a .doc extension but OO won't open it under any MS (or other) extension label. I get pages of codes but at the top is the statement'This file must be converted using Binhex 4.0' Any thoughts? There is

Re: [newbie] Instruction needed (was: Lilo problems - almost there)

2002-11-19 Thread Terry Smith
Anne, To your last question...yes. The vmlinuz file is the kernel. You now have two specific kernel files vmlinuz-2.4.18-6mdk on the hde6 /boot partition and vmlinuz-2.4.19-16mdk on the hdf1 /boot partition. Vmlinuz is a generic link that will work with the existing lilo.conf file. That's why

RE: [newbie] Autostart for VNC

2002-11-19 Thread H. Carter Harris
Not cooking yet but at least a slow poaching. I looked in the /etc/rc.d/rc5.d directory and found a pointer file (K35vncserver@) pointing to ../init.d/vncservers. I assume that the rc5 refers to a boot-level 5 maybe? This looked sorta promising so I checked out ../init.d/vncservers and inside

Re: [newbie] Autostart for VNC

2002-11-19 Thread Derek Jennings
In that case do it from the command line service vncserver start (and service vncserver status) derek On Wednesday 20 Nov 2002 2:55 am, you wrote: Thanks for the reply, Derek. I'm working on the machine using VNC and for some reason I can't get the Mandrake Control Center to execute ...

Re: [newbie] Cloning Stuff

2002-11-19 Thread Joseph Braddock
I've been using InstantRecovery from Novastor with good success. It's actually a bootable linux distro that then reads the drive partitions and lets you write them to CD, CDRW, tape or other partitions (than the one being backed up). I personally write to CDRWs and it automatically spans them and

RE: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.

2002-11-19 Thread Joseph Braddock
What dictionary did you install? My OO spell checks quite well. Is it possible that you didn't install myspell and the dictionary for your language? They don't install by default. Joeb On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 15:47, Craig Williamson (ENZ) wrote: Hi There, I can't be 100% certain

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice Spell Checker.

2002-11-19 Thread Joseph Braddock
You need to go back and install myspell and the appropriate dictionary for you language. Joeb On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 13:55, Malcolm Candlish wrote: Hello, Can any one suggest a method of getting OO Spell Checker in Mandrake 9.0 working. I have looked around without finding information,

Re: [newbie] remote access to mail for m$ users???

2002-11-19 Thread jayme
Why not a port of a linux client, say a sylpheed windows based application. try here http://claws-w32.sourceforge.net/ Jayme On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:49:39 -0800 (PST) Kenn Murrah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, gang ... I've won most of the battles here ... Thanks in no small

[newbie] StarOffice vs. openoffice

2002-11-19 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
My apologies if this topic has been covered recently. I like openoffice basically, but it is very slow to lauch and the fonts in the program itself, like on menus etc., are not nearly as sharp as it seems they ought to be. That being said, is it worth the few extra $$ to get StarOffice, or can I

[newbie] kppp help required

2002-11-19 Thread Michael Adams
We are now the proud owners of three Mandrake-Linux computers in a two person house. My trusty P3-500 on 8.2, the old p1-100 on 7.1, and now a new cheap preloaded beast (well kitty) from DSE here in New Zealand running 9.0 download. Tried connecting the new one to the net and am having results

[newbie] installation help PLEASE

2002-11-19 Thread josh
I have recently downloaded mandrake 9.0 from an ftp site. I am having some problem getting my machine to install the software. I have made 3 cd's but none seem to boot? I am trying to install it on a machine that has no previous os and I am using a boot floppy, but when I put the floppy in

Re: [newbie] kppp help required

2002-11-19 Thread John McQuillen
On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 15:21, Michael Adams wrote: We are now the proud owners of three Mandrake-Linux computers in a two person house. My trusty P3-500 on 8.2, the old p1-100 on 7.1, and now a new cheap preloaded beast (well kitty) from DSE here in New Zealand running 9.0 download. Tried

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