[newbie-it]

2002-11-28 Thread zucca francesco
BUONGIORNO A TUTTI MI SERVE UN PIACERE CHI SA COME CONFIGURARE IN LINUX MANDREKE 9.0 LE PERIFERICHE SCSI HO MI DA UN SITO DOVE SCARICARE LE FAQ. GRAZIE

[newbie-it] Gvim

2002-11-28 Thread Guido Milanese
Ho installato la Mandrake 9.0 e la sto usando con grande soddisfazione. Ho notato che manca la versione grafica di vim, che nella versione precedente aveva il nome di gvim. Qualcuno sa dove trovarla? Al massimo, la reinstallo dai vecchi CD... grazie, g. Guido Milanese

Re: [newbie-it] Gvim

2002-11-28 Thread Fabio Manunza
Alle 09:47, giovedì 28 novembre 2002, Guido Milanese ha scritto: Ho installato la Mandrake 9.0 e la sto usando con grande soddisfazione. Ho notato che manca la versione grafica di vim, che nella versione precedente aveva il nome di gvim. Qualcuno sa dove trovarla? Al massimo, la reinstallo dai

Re: [newbie-it]

2002-11-28 Thread Fabio Manunza
Alle 09:23, giovedì 28 novembre 2002, zucca francesco ha scritto: BUONGIORNO A TUTTI MI SERVE UN PIACERE CHI SA COME CONFIGURARE IN LINUX MANDREKE 9.0 LE PERIFERICHE SCSI HO MI DA UN SITO DOVE SCARICARE LE FAQ. GRAZIE In lilo.conf aggiungere in append hdx=scsi , dove x = lettera che

Re: [newbie-it] Re: applet java

2002-11-28 Thread Fabio Manunza
Alle 22:31, mercoledì 27 novembre 2002, gianni piazza ha scritto: Chi saprebbe dirmi come fare per abilitare le applet java in modo da poter vedere immagini animate con conqueror?grazie in anticipo!ciao! Presumendo che tu abbia java correttamente installato, per avere il tutto funzionante

[newbie-it] si cominicia...

2002-11-28 Thread mailing - effem
ciao a tutta la lista... recuperato un buon PIII 500, 128Mb...ed ora sono pronto per cominciare questa stupenda avventura linux! Specifico da subito che di tutto ciò non ci capisco un tubo...ma staremo a vedere! Primo piccolo problema... Ho installato mandrake 9 Installazione tutto ok (su

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] Modem adsl Nortek

2002-11-28 Thread tom
Alle 02:58, giovedì 28 novembre 2002, LukenShiro ha scritto: Sta per Concurrent Version System, in parole molto grezze e' un sistema di creazione e modifica di sorgenti in modo distribuito, cio' permette a piu' programmatori a distanza di collaborare allo stesso progetto ad un livello

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] Modem adsl Nortek

2002-11-28 Thread tom
Alle 12:35, giovedì 28 novembre 2002, tom ha scritto: Non so se hai visto la sezzione modems? c'è tra modems peut-ètre supportés il Nortek 2020.ecco questo ke vuol dire? che posso rischiare con i CVS? Ciao , Tom MAGIA!!! ho ricontrollato sul sito...giusto cosi per cercare di capire

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] Modem adsl Nortek

2002-11-28 Thread LukenShiro
Alle 12:35, giovedì 28 novembre 2002, tom ha scritto: (direi che e' una delle operazioni piu' rischiose ... dopo quella di riuscire ad avere un sistema win* stabile per mesi ; Come!! il mio win è stabilissimo ormai da mesi,è li a fianco al cd di unrial!! Azz ... strano :P c'è tra modems

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] Modem adsl Nortek

2002-11-28 Thread LukenShiro
Alle 12:45, giovedì 28 novembre 2002, tom ha scritto: ho ricontrollato sul sito...giusto cosi per cercare di capire un po di piu!! e magai delle magie..questa mattina il Nortek2020 è suportato!! quindi posso scaricare il driver!!! si ma quale?? anche ieri sera lo era :P Prendi la

[newbie-it] file wav

2002-11-28 Thread Pollo
Come posso unire più file *.wav in un unico file unico.wav? Pollo.

[newbie-it] ICQ su Mandrake 8.1

2002-11-28 Thread Enrico Teotti
Ciao, volevo sapere se qualcuno sà se per usare ICQ (con utente già registrato) su Linux Mandrake 8.1 ci sono dei passi particolari da seguire. Grazie! Enrico _ Get 25MB, POP3, Spam Filtering with LYCOS MAIL PLUS for $19.95/year.

Re: [newbie-it] Re: applet java

2002-11-28 Thread gianni piazza
Alle 11:11, giovedì 28 novembre 2002, Fabio Manunza ha scritto: Alle 22:31, mercoledì 27 novembre 2002, gianni piazza ha scritto: Chi saprebbe dirmi come fare per abilitare le applet java in modo da poter vedere immagini animate con conqueror?grazie in anticipo!ciao! Presumendo che tu abbia

Re: [newbie-it] file wav

2002-11-28 Thread Mario Lodi Rizzini
-- Initial Header --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : newbie-mdk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc : Date: 28 Nov 2002 14:55:18 +0100 Subject : [newbie-it] file wav Come posso unire più file *.wav in un unico file unico.wav? Pollo. Hai provato con il

Re: [newbie-it] file wav

2002-11-28 Thread Pollo
Il gio, 2002-11-28 alle 17:23, Mario Lodi Rizzini ha scritto: -- Initial Header --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : newbie-mdk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc : Date: 28 Nov 2002 14:55:18 +0100 Subject : [newbie-it] file wav Come posso unire più file *.wav in un

Re: [newbie-it] file wav

2002-11-28 Thread Daniele Micci
Alle 14:55, giovedì 28 novembre 2002, Pollo ha scritto: Come posso unire più file *.wav in un unico file unico.wav? Pollo. Dovrebbe funzionare con un semplice: cat *.wav unico.wav Ciao! Daniele

Re: [newbie-it] Gvim

2002-11-28 Thread Emiliano La Licata
Alle 09:47, giovedì 28 novembre 2002, Guido Milanese ha scritto: Ho installato la Mandrake 9.0 e la sto usando con grande soddisfazione. Ho notato che manca la versione grafica di vim, che nella versione precedente aveva il nome di gvim. Qualcuno sa dove trovarla? Al massimo, la reinstallo

Re: [newbie-it] comando lpr

2002-11-28 Thread jv
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 10:16, mercoledì 27 novembre 2002, in merito a [newbie-it] comando lpr, mk ha scritto: Ciao! ciao! unable to print file: client-error-not-found anch'io ho avuto lo stesso problema, e dopo smanettamenti e smadonnamenti, ho scoperto che si

Re: [newbie-it] Gvim

2002-11-28 Thread freefred
On Thursday 28 November 2002 9:47 am, Guido Milanese wrote about [newbie-it] Gvim: Ho installato la Mandrake 9.0 e la sto usando con grande soddisfazione. Ho notato che manca la versione grafica di vim, che nella versione precedente aveva il nome di gvim. Qualcuno sa dove trovarla? Al massimo,

Re: [newbie-it] si cominicia...

2002-11-28 Thread Daniele Micci
Alle 12:28, giovedì 28 novembre 2002, mailing - effem ha scritto: ciao a tutta la lista... recuperato un buon PIII 500, 128Mb...ed ora sono pronto per cominciare questa stupenda avventura linux! Benvenuto! Sicuramente non te ne pentirai... io ho installato Linux (la Mandrake 7.2) un paio di

Re: [newbie-it] Gvim

2002-11-28 Thread Guido Milanese
Alle 11:06, giovedì 28 novembre 2002, Fabio Manunza ha scritto: ...Uh?? Anch'io ho la 9.0 ed il vim è lì, tra i vari editor, bello installato di default...Prova a controllare tra i pacchetti installati e quelli da installare... sì, vim c'è, ma non trovo gvim, una comoda interfaccia grafica che

Re: [newbie-it] si cominicia...

2002-11-28 Thread Fabio Manunza
Alle 12:28, giovedì 28 novembre 2002, mailing - effem ha scritto: Poi, quando ho iniziato a lavorare con il desktop gnome, ogni tanto...lo schermo diventa di colpo nero... qualche secondo...e poi...tutto ok di nuovo... Questa cosa la fa spesso... cosa potrebbe essere? Lo fa anche con kde?

Re: [newbie-it] file wav

2002-11-28 Thread miKe
Alle 18:03, giovedì 28 novembre 2002, Pollo ha scritto: Come posso unire più file *.wav in un unico file unico.wav? ... Hai provato con il comado cat? Esempio: cat file1.wav file2.wav file3.wav file99.wav Ho provato subito questa soluzione ma non funziona... I file effettivamente

[newbie-it] Fwd: [Security Announce] MDKSA-2002:083 - Updated sendmail packages fix smrsh insecurities

2002-11-28 Thread miKe
-- Messaggio inoltrato -- Subject: [Security Announce] MDKSA-2002:083 - Updated sendmail packagesfix smrsh insecurities Date: 28 Nov 2002 16:40:53 - From: Mandrake Linux Security Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie-it]

2002-11-28 Thread miKe
Alle 09:23, giovedì 28 novembre 2002, zucca francesco ha scritto: CHI SA COME CONFIGURARE IN LINUX MANDREKE 9.0 LE PERIFERICHE SCSI che tipo di periferiche? controller scanner dischi masterizzatori ... ?? mandaci l'output di cat /proc/pci e intanto su google cerca SCSI-Howto GRAZIE bye

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

2002-11-28 Thread miKe
Alle 23:03, mercoledì 27 novembre 2002, Emiliano La Licata ha scritto: Sto leggendo l'how-to sul kernel... Nel frattempo, escludendo la possibilità di ri-compilare il kernel esistente, che sarebbe la cosa migliore.. ;) potrei installare il nuovo kernel che pare risolvere il problema

R: [newbie-it] si cominicia...

2002-11-28 Thread mailing - effem
lo fa con entrambi... ma a volte anche durante la maschera di login grafica... schermo nero anche per parecchi secondi... da cosa dipenderà??? configurazione della scheda video, conflittiboh... una cosa è certa...un attimo straziante a lavorare :-) vabbé...vuol dire che imparerò da linea

Re: [newbie-it] Gvim

2002-11-28 Thread Emiliano La Licata
Alle 22:11, giovedì 28 novembre 2002, Guido Milanese ha scritto: Alle 11:06, giovedì 28 novembre 2002, Fabio Manunza ha scritto: ...Uh?? Anch'io ho la 9.0 ed il vim è lì, tra i vari editor, bello installato di default...Prova a controllare tra i pacchetti installati e quelli da

RE: [newbie] Missing PINE

2002-11-28 Thread Franki
wine isn't normal GPL license... so mandrake pulled it out.. use rpmfind.net to look for a mandrake RPM.. someone always builds it.. I have it on all my 9.0 boxes. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 28 November 2002 9:12

[newbie] Problems getting bzip2 to work......

2002-11-28 Thread Ronnie Boyd
Hello there. I am a long term Windows user/tech support person who has recently installed Mandrake Linux, partly out of curiosity, partly because I feel it's the coming thing. I managed to install it, get it on our training LAN, mount drives and what not without any bother, but I've run into a

Re: [newbie] Problems getting bzip2 to work......

2002-11-28 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Ronnie Boyd wrote: Hello there. I am a long term Windows user/tech support person who has recently installed Mandrake Linux, partly out of curiosity, partly because I feel it's the coming thing. I managed to install it, get it on our training LAN, mount drives and what not without any bother,

Re: [newbie] Problems getting bzip2 to work......

2002-11-28 Thread Michael Viron
The page details how to uncompress the files if they are in .tar.gz format -- going through the options for tar: x - extract z - unzip (via gzip / gunzip) v - verbose f - use file following this flag To unbzip2 a compressed file, you'll have to do: x - extract j - unbzip2 (for newer, 8.0 and

RE: [newbie] Problems getting bzip2 to work......

2002-11-28 Thread Kesav Tadimeti
Hi Ronnie, Your problem (I gather) is fairly simple. Just re-read your mail with my comments. Hope this helps... Tadimeti Kesav KEANE INDIA Ltd. E9 - E12, SDF NEPZ NOIDA - 201 305 U.P, INDIA Telefon: +91-120-456 8210 (211) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I found a web page detailing what must be done

Re: [newbie] Problems getting bzip2 to work......

2002-11-28 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Alan Shoemaker wrote: Ronnie Boyd wrote: Hello there. I am a long term Windows user/tech support person who has recently installed Mandrake Linux, partly out of curiosity, partly because I feel it's the coming thing. I managed to install it, get it on our training LAN, mount drives and

[newbie] Symbolic links

2002-11-28 Thread John Richard Smith
How do you remove a symbolic link. neither man ln, nor info ln , even mentions it. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Technical drawing tools

2002-11-28 Thread John Richard Smith
Miark wrote: dia On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 20:22:52 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of any good linux based technical drawing programmes. regards, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Miark, I will check it out, have downloaded a tat

Re: [newbie] Problems getting bzip2 to work......

2002-11-28 Thread Ronnie Boyd
Thanks! The j switch did the job and unzipped the bz2 file, creating the LinNeighborhood directory without problem. However, when I then try the following commands, I get error messages ./configure make make install [root@derfel LinNeighborhood-0.6.5]# ./configure checking for a BSD compatible

RE: [newbie] Locate utility problem on mndrke 9.0

2002-11-28 Thread Franki
locate should find them, but locate is updated via cron.. you need to do it manually first.. undatedb In a console should do it. then try locate again. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Nathan . Sent: Thursday, 28 November

Re: [newbie] Fonts

2002-11-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 27 Nov 2002 11:54 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Hi, all, I thought it would be a good idea to install the MS TTF fonts and give myself some more options. I was more than satisfied with the default fonts but being the perpetual tinkerer I had to do it. Now the problem is I don't have the

[newbie] Gnome menu's gone West... help:-(

2002-11-28 Thread Morgan Read
I installed a programme recently, and noticed that the GnoRPM tool asked me where to put a .desktop icon that turned out to put an icon in the main menu. Frustrated at the clumsyness of the menu editors and intrigued that their might be a process as straight forward as (and similar in simplicity

Re: [newbie] Symbolic links

2002-11-28 Thread robin
John Richard Smith wrote: How do you remove a symbolic link. neither man ln, nor info ln , even mentions it. I've always found rm works fine. What you can't do is directly replace one symbolic link with another. Sir Robin -- You almost never hear that word computer anymore, do you?

Re: [newbie] Totally scunnered with MetaCity

2002-11-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 5:32 am, Len Lawrence wrote: . As you point out other distributions would also adopt Gnome 2 so there would be no advantage in switching loyalties. Glad to see that those more knowledgeable are helping you to eradicate the problems. Good luck Anne Want to buy your

[newbie] Tar - Is there a 2Gb limit file size on NT4

2002-11-28 Thread Ken Walker
I'm trying to tar 8.4Gb to a NT4 machine. But tar stops at 2,097,153. Stating 'File size limit exceeded'. I know that the system partition for NT4 can't be bigger than 2G. I'm Tar'ing to a 36G Raid drive. I'm logging in as a superuser. I know i have the option of taring to specific file sizes,

RE: [newbie] Tar - Is there a 2Gb limit file size on NT4

2002-11-28 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Mr Smiley, There is file size limitations on Windows. I am not to sure about NT4 but as you have the problem I guess it is. fat32 will not let you do a file bigger then 2gb. Are you using fat32 on ntfs? I would hazard a guess you are using fat32, if not the earlier versions of ntfs might not have

[newbie] IDE OPTI not compiled in on installation floppy boot

2002-11-28 Thread Peter Stokes
Hi All I am trying to install 9 onto a HP Ominbook 5700CT. The floppy boots up to the point where it tries to talk to the disk and I get the following error message OPTI621: Detected chipset but driver not compiled in! It the proceeds to try to talk to the disk and hangs with the disk light

[newbie] connecting to the net?

2002-11-28 Thread Richard J.
I finally managed to get my modem to work, but when i click to connect to the internet, all I get is the dial tone, without it dialing my isp's phone number or anything, any ideas? I have checked the settings for my isp and they are all correct. thanks

Re: [newbie] modem question

2002-11-28 Thread Graham
I convinced a friend of mine to try out mdk9 but she had an HSF modem and couldn't afford to replace it. Googled the link to Marc Boucher's driver for the HSF moden I installed the driver and ran hsfconfig to set the country code etc but kpp could not find the device . simple

RE: [linux] [newbie] Tar - Is there a 2Gb limit file size on NT4

2002-11-28 Thread Richard Urwin
I'm trying to tar 8.4Gb to a NT4 machine. But tar stops at 2,097,153. Stating 'File size limit exceeded'. 2,097,153k is a signed long (32 bits) on an NT platform, so it's the limit of lseek() which is the API a multi-platform tar would probably use. The win32 API SetFilePointerEx() uses 64

[newbie] Sourceforge download sites

2002-11-28 Thread John Richard Smith
Is it correct, or my misassumption, that source forge sites do not support resume of the download, from where you were cut off, or is it M9.0 new download manager that fails to keep a record of the download progess and instists on starting all over again. I tried long time ago using NT, or as it

Re: [newbie] Linux and pre-schoolers

2002-11-28 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 13:59, Todd Slater wrote: I have a 3 1/2 year old daughter who likes to type in OpenOffice, play with Tuxpaint and Stickers, and listen to some .wav's I captured from one of her favorite cartoons. I created an account for her, but never found a desktop/window manager I

Re: [newbie] hdparm?

2002-11-28 Thread Daniel Anderson
On Wednesday 27 November 2002 16:31, Charlie wrote: On November 27, 2002 01:26 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I tried to remember how to use hdparm to examine drive settings. I opened a root console, then typed hdparm - command not found. I tried man hdparm - no manual entry for hdparm. Am I

Re: [newbie] hdparm?

2002-11-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 2:04 pm, Daniel Anderson wrote: On Wednesday 27 November 2002 16:31, Charlie wrote: On November 27, 2002 01:26 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I tried to remember how to use hdparm to examine drive settings. I opened a root console, then typed hdparm - command not found.

Re: [newbie] Technical drawing tools

2002-11-28 Thread John Richard Smith
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 07:22, John Richard Smith wrote: Does anyone know of any good linux based technical drawing programmes. regards, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Are you talking about diagramming, or what actually? Yes , Stephen,

[newbie]

2002-11-28 Thread Ronnie Boyd
Have run into a dead end with LinNeighborhood and don't know what I'm doing wrong. Did the...tar -xjvf LinNeighborhood-0.6.5.tar.bz2 It creates the LinNeighborhood directory ok, but nothing else. I'm not sure if executable should be installed at this time in /usr/local/bin/ I try

RE: [newbie]

2002-11-28 Thread Peter Stokes
Hi Ronnie The configure program cannot find a compiler in your PATH variable, so you need to add to your PATH where the compiler is. You may not have gcc installed, in which case you will have to install it. Peter -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On

Re: [newbie]

2002-11-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 2:46 pm, Ronnie Boyd wrote: Have run into a dead end with LinNeighborhood and don't know what I'm doing wrong. Did you get Alan Shoemaker's post? I think you would be well to try it. In case you didn't, here is the important bit: /quote instead, why not download

Re: Re: [newbie] M8.2 with WinXP

2002-11-28 Thread seanygoh
Hi Erik, Ok, i tried what u said. Downloaded AutoClave and ran it. Did 1 pass since i tot that's enough. Reinstalled xp (NTFS). Later, resized it using PQMagic, having Fat32 and ext2. Booted into Mandrake setup.and Got the same problem!!! I feel it's not the harddisk then. Bios

Re: [newbie]

2002-11-28 Thread Ronnie Boyd
Downloaded from there before, same problem unfortunately. _ Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]@linux-mandrake.com on 28/11/2002 14:51:12 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: [newbie] On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 2:46 pm,

Re: [newbie]

2002-11-28 Thread wouter pos
Dear people of mandrake mailinglist, I have a problem with the installation of mandrake 9.0, I used to have a slackware distribution installed but it took too much of linux experience (which i don't really have yet). I was recommended to install mandrake. So i made an install of mandrake:

Re: [newbie] Problems getting bzip2 to work......

2002-11-28 Thread Michael Viron
You need to install automake, autoconf, and gcc. Michael At 09:48 AM 11/28/2002 +, you wrote: Thanks! The j switch did the job and unzipped the bz2 file, creating the LinNeighborhood directory without problem. However, when I then try the following commands, I get error messages ./configure

Re: [newbie] Fonts

2002-11-28 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 28 November 2002 04:11 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 27 Nov 2002 11:54 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Hi, all, I thought it would be a good idea to install the MS TTF fonts and give myself some more options. I was more than satisfied with the default fonts but being the perpetual

Re: [newbie] Fonts

2002-11-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 4:06 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 28 November 2002 04:11 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 27 Nov 2002 11:54 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Hi, all, I thought it would be a good idea to install the MS TTF fonts and give myself some more options. I was more than

Re: [newbie] Fonts

2002-11-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 4:06 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 28 November 2002 04:11 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 27 Nov 2002 11:54 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Hi, all, I thought it would be a good idea to install the MS TTF fonts and give myself some more options. I was more than

Re: [newbie] Fonts

2002-11-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 4:06 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Anne, the app they disappeared from was actually kmail and konqueror for sure, the only fonts I could bring up there was the MS fonts that I installed. I must have gotten only part of the MS fonts also cause the ones I did have were really

Re: [newbie] Problems getting bzip2 to work......

2002-11-28 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 28 November 2002 03:48 am, Ronnie Boyd wrote: Thanks! The j switch did the job and unzipped the bz2 file, creating the LinNeighborhood directory without problem. However, when I then try the following commands, I get error messages ./configure make make install [root@derfel

Re: [newbie] Fonts

2002-11-28 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 28 November 2002 10:08 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 4:06 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Anne, the app they disappeared from was actually kmail and konqueror for sure, the only fonts I could bring up there was the MS fonts that I installed. I must have gotten only part

Re: [newbie] Fonts

2002-11-28 Thread RCD
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 10:24:41 -0600 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Don't know but I think the main problem was between the keyboard and the scalp. snip -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 At work we call that an ID10T ticket hehe Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services

RE: Re: [newbie] M8.2 with WinXP

2002-11-28 Thread Eileen Lopp
Question here -- is your XP install disk OEM or retail? Some of the OEM disks are incompatible with any sort of dual-boot setup due to adding hidden partitions. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday,

Re: [newbie]

2002-11-28 Thread erylon hines
On Thursday 28 November 2002 06:46 am, you wrote: Have run into a dead end with LinNeighborhood and don't know what I'm doing wrong. Did the...tar -xjvf LinNeighborhood-0.6.5.tar.bz2 It creates the LinNeighborhood directory ok, but nothing else. I'm not sure if executable

[newbie] Has anyone had trouble

2002-11-28 Thread Anthony Abby
Finding out the status of their order for a boxed set of Mandrake 9.0? I have tried contacting them four times via email now, and even placed a phone call yesterday and left a message. Never received a response, nor have I received my boxed set even though they charged my credit card several

Re: [newbie] Sending email with Cable Connection

2002-11-28 Thread Chris Edwards
1. We're both military and we'll both move within a year so this arrangement is not permanent. 2. I've had my prodigy account for so long that to change for the short term would be an inconvienience. 3. I didn't understand the mechanics of smtp servers until seeing Mr. Jennings' post. Jordan

Re: [newbie] Symbolic links

2002-11-28 Thread John Richard Smith
Erik Farnsworth wrote: rm name-of-linked-file libxyz-0 - libxyz-0.1 rm libxyz-0 On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 03:13, John Richard Smith wrote: How do you remove a symbolic link. neither man ln, nor info ln , even mentions it. John I did it this way, I cd into directory then , #rm

[newbie] Smartmedia Reader

2002-11-28 Thread Anne Wilson
Out of curiosity I decided to try the card reader again, now 9.0 is settled in. To my surprise MCC recognises it as follows: - Bus: SCSI Location on the bus: 0:0 Channel: 00 New devfs device: scsi/host3/bus0/target0/lun0/disc Old device file: /dev/sdb host: 3 info: Datafab USB to CF +

Re: [newbie]

2002-11-28 Thread John Richard Smith
wouter pos wrote: Dear people of mandrake mailinglist, I have a problem with the installation of mandrake 9.0, I used to have a slackware distribution installed but it took too much of linux experience (which i don't really have yet). I was recommended to install mandrake. So i made an

Re: [newbie] TV Out X Window Problem

2002-11-28 Thread Bart Salien
Op Tuesday 26 November 2002 16:50, schreef u: HI I have just managed to get the tv out working on my NV card (does not support twinview). I altered my XF86Config-4 file and then typed in the command startx -- :1 -screen screen_TVout600 screen-TVout600 is what i called the screen in

Re: [newbie] Problems getting bzip2 to work......

2002-11-28 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Alan Shoemaker wrote: Alan Shoemaker wrote: Ronnie Boyd wrote: Hello there. I am a long term Windows user/tech support person who has recently installed Mandrake Linux, partly out of curiosity, partly because I feel it's the coming thing. I managed to install it, get it on our

Re: [newbie] Symbolic links

2002-11-28 Thread Robin Ballantine
On Thursday 28 November 2002 10:35 am, robin wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: How do you remove a symbolic link. neither man ln, nor info ln , even mentions it. I've always found rm works fine. What you can't do is directly replace one symbolic link with another. Sir Robin rm -f

[newbie] Compare Disks

2002-11-28 Thread Jordan Elver
Hi, Is there a command to compare the contents of two cds? So, I put one cd in my cdburner, one in my dvd drive. Can I compare that they contain exactly the same files? TIA, Cheers, Jord -- Jordan Elver http://www.jordanelver.co.uk Unix? What's that? Is that like Linux? Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Smartmedia Reader

2002-11-28 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 28 November 2002 11:57 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Out of curiosity I decided to try the card reader again, now 9.0 is settled in. To my surprise MCC recognises it as follows: - Bus: SCSI Location on the bus: 0:0 Channel: 00 New devfs device: scsi/host3/bus0/target0/lun0/disc

Re: [newbie] Smartmedia Reader

2002-11-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 5:57 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Out of curiosity I decided to try the card reader again, now 9.0 is settled in. To my surprise MCC recognises it as follows: I tried a re-boot, and found that my sda was now sdb, and the card was recognised as sda. Then I tried to mount it:

Re: [newbie] Compare Disks

2002-11-28 Thread John Richard Smith
Jordan Elver wrote: Hi, Is there a command to compare the contents of two cds? So, I put one cd in my cdburner, one in my dvd drive. Can I compare that they contain exactly the same files? TIA, Cheers, Jord Xcdroast will verify a disc write for you, of cause that assumes that the

Re: [newbie] Smartmedia Reader

2002-11-28 Thread erylon hines
On Thursday 28 November 2002 09:57 am, you wrote: Out of curiosity I decided to try the card reader again, now 9.0 is settled in. To my surprise MCC recognises it as follows: - Bus: SCSI Location on the bus: 0:0 Channel: 00 New devfs device: scsi/host3/bus0/target0/lun0/disc Old

Re: [newbie] Smartmedia Reader

2002-11-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 8:05 pm, erylon hines wrote: On Thursday 28 November 2002 09:57 am, you wrote: Out of curiosity I decided to try the card reader again, now 9.0 is settled in. To my surprise MCC recognises it as follows: - Bus: SCSI Location on the bus: 0:0 Channel: 00

[newbie] changing the dial tone

2002-11-28 Thread Richard J.
could someone please tell me how to change the settings with the modem, from pulse to tone? thanks _ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Want to buy your

[newbie] How can i config firewall to allow the client to send file through outside when use msn or icq

2002-11-28 Thread Pratchaya Chatuphian
How can i config firewall to allow the client to send file through outside when use msn or icq ? My network have 5 computer clients and 1 mandrake linux server That the mandrake linux server act as the GW and many service server . Now all of my client can use internet normal such

Re: [newbie] changing the dial tone

2002-11-28 Thread Barry Premeaux
On Thursday 28 November 2002 12:46 pm, you wrote: could someone please tell me how to change the settings with the modem, from pulse to tone? thanks _ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE*

Re: [newbie] How to use use XIM input method

2002-11-28 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 1:53 am, Wei Wang wrote: I just installed chinput and don't know how to use it. I ran /usr/bin/chinput but nothing happened. Having used windows for years, I was naively looking for a little icon in the corner of panel but didn't find one. ;-) Anyone give me a hand?

Re: [newbie] Smartmedia Reader

2002-11-28 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 28 November 2002 01:02 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 5:57 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Out of curiosity I decided to try the card reader again, now 9.0 is settled in. To my surprise MCC recognises it as follows: I tried a re-boot, and found that my sda was now sdb,

Re: [newbie] Smartmedia Reader

2002-11-28 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 28 November 2002 01:02 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 5:57 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Out of curiosity I decided to try the card reader again, now 9.0 is settled in. To my surprise MCC recognises it as follows: I tried a re-boot, and found that my sda was now sdb,

Re: [newbie] Mouse problems at boot

2002-11-28 Thread Gordon Bradbury
Steve, Are you saying I should try disabling the PNP in the BIOS? I'll try it and see how it goes. Yes the mouse is plugged into a PS2 port. Thanks! Gordon Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] 28/11/02 14:01:54 On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 09:46, Gordon Bradbury wrote: G'day all, I've just got a

Re: [newbie] Technical drawing tools

2002-11-28 Thread John Richard Smith
Brian Parish wrote: On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 01:48, John Richard Smith wrote: Yes , Stephen, Technical drawing on computer, you know round widgets and things. I'm currently looking at gcad, which I take to mean Computer Aided Design. and Dia, both look promissing, I found a help file for qcad

Re: [newbie] Smartmedia Reader

2002-11-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 9:22 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 28 November 2002 01:02 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 5:57 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Out of curiosity I decided to try the card reader again, now 9.0 is settled in. To my surprise MCC recognises it as follows:

Re: [newbie] Smartmedia Reader

2002-11-28 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 28 November 2002 04:19 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 9:22 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 28 November 2002 01:02 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 5:57 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Out of curiosity I decided to try the card reader again, now 9.0 is

Re: [newbie] Mouse problems at boot

2002-11-28 Thread John Richard Smith
No, not necessarily, that depends on your windblows/bios relationship, you may need it. No, I'm saying mandrake does not need to look at your bios settings for pnp instruction, and the method I have described is the way to stop it doing it. John Gordon Bradbury wrote: Steve, Are you

Re: [newbie] Smartmedia Reader

2002-11-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 9:34 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 28 November 2002 01:02 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 5:57 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Out of curiosity I decided to try the card reader again, now 9.0 is settled in. To my surprise MCC recognises it as follows:

Re: [newbie] Smartmedia Reader

2002-11-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 9:34 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Oh, one other thing, look in you file browser, at the /mnt partition and see if it shows something there. Mine shows memory_card. I did not make that file, the system did when it saw I had a card reader attached. So if yours shows

Re: [newbie] Technical drawing tools

2002-11-28 Thread John Richard Smith
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 01:48, John Richard Smith wrote: Yes , Stephen, Technical drawing on computer, you know round widgets and things. I'm currently looking at gcad, which I take to mean Computer Aided Design. and Dia, both look promissing, I found a help file for qcad

Re: [newbie] Compare Disks

2002-11-28 Thread Jordan Elver
On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 7:42 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Jordan Elver wrote: Hi, Is there a command to compare the contents of two cds? So, I put one cd in my cdburner, one in my dvd drive. Can I compare that they contain exactly the same files? TIA, Cheers, Jord Xcdroast will

[newbie] any ideas?

2002-11-28 Thread Richard J.
I have no idea how to get my modem to connect to the internet. All I am getting is my computer picking up the, the dial tone, then it wont dial. This is the script or whatever that happens when I try to connect ATZ OK ATS11=22 OK ATM1L1 OK ATDT087303030 Then it does nothing more than that. If

Re: [newbie] any ideas?

2002-11-28 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 11:20, Richard J. wrote: I have no idea how to get my modem to connect to the internet. All I am getting is my computer picking up the, the dial tone, then it wont dial. This is the script or whatever that happens when I try to connect ATZ OK ATS11=22 OK ATM1L1

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