[newbie] Have you got your LM90 preorders?

2002-12-12 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
Is there anybody on this list that has NOT recieved their LM90 preorders? Besides me? I ordered three sets of technical manuals in October and I have not seen them yet. Anybody else going thru this? --LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk

Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live 5.1

2002-12-12 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Thursday 12 December 2002 23:26, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > Depending on how your system is setup, you might have to check the > aRTS controls and system mixers... Yes, in my case I had no sound in the rear speakers, but I found gamix, which solved my problem. I opened gamix and found the surround

Re: [newbie] OT Too funny.

2002-12-12 Thread Miark
On 12 Dec 2002 09:50:02 +1100 Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you going to watch it because > A.) You know that Nemesis was created on a render-farm of linux boxes? > B.) You know that most of the image design was done on linux boxes? > C.) You're hoping to see Kirk die again? > D.)

Re: [newbie] XCDroast primary read device.

2002-12-12 Thread g
John Richard Smith wrote: > append="quiet devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi" is just fine maybe, or almost, as to argument, append="quiet devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi" should it not read, append=" quiet devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi" ^ should a ^ 'space' not be present to make 'append=' pass an a

Re: [newbie] what is the open source answer to kazaa ?

2002-12-12 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 15:21, Thought Progress wrote: > OK, so now I am getting a little comfortable with Mandrake. I am looking > for ways to eliminate my need for my other Win2k machine. Here are my > current issues. > > 1. Kazaa: what can I use on Mandrake (linux) to swap files with the ease

[newbie] 9.0 installation problems resovled!

2002-12-12 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Got it. It was the "noapic" thing for me, as apparently it was for quite a few others. I hit F1 from the first menu that popped up after CD1 booted, got to the prompt, entered "linux noapic", it said an alternate was being used and bingo, installation and reboot went flawlessly. Thanks to Denn

Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live 5.1

2002-12-12 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 13:54, David Williams wrote: > I noticed that my sound card (Sound Blaster Live 5.1) wasn't playing > background to the back speakers and sub-woofer when I installed Mandrake 9.0. > > As near as I can figure, I need to install the EMUL10K1 driver. However, it > appears t

Re: [newbie] what is the open source answer to kazaa ?

2002-12-12 Thread Sascha Noyes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Probably the best filesharing network (at least for large files) that works 100% on linux is edonkey. Via the program mldonkey. that can be found at the penguin liberation front (they have all kinds of packages specifically for mandrake that are leg

Re: [newbie] recompiling your kernel? :-/

2002-12-12 Thread Angus Auld
Thanks so much to everyone who replied to my post with all the great info. I think I need to do a bunch of reading now and try to absorb that info. I'm pretty green when it comes to all this, so I better just go easy on this one for a bit. ;-) Thank you all very much. Best regards. --Angus

Re: [newbie] MS Intellimouse error

2002-12-12 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: FemmeFatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 15:32:46 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] MS Intellimouse error > At 01:38 AM 12/11/2002 -0300, you wrote: > > > > > > >- Original Message - > >From: FemmeFatale <[EMAIL PROTE

[newbie] Kazaa

2002-12-12 Thread K. Spress
The open source answer for Kazaa is called Gnutella. It is avaliable for Win32, Mac and Mandrake Kenneth E. Spress [EMAIL PROTECTED] (586) 945-3801 You Finally Have A Choice In Local Telephone Service Ask Me How. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] what is the open source answer to kazaa ?

2002-12-12 Thread Thought Progress
OK, so now I am getting a little comfortable with Mandrake. I am looking for ways to eliminate my need for my other Win2k machine. Here are my current issues. 1. Kazaa: what can I use on Mandrake (linux) to swap files with the ease of Morpheus, Kazaa, etc? 2. Photoshop/Illustrator: GIMP is leav

Re: [newbie] noarc & scr mdk rpms

2002-12-12 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 13:45, Andrei Raevsky wrote: > Hi, > > On the website rpmfind.net there are RPMs which are *.noarc.mdk or *src.mdk. > How are these different from other mandrake RPMs? > > And also - can I install Red Hat RPMs (non mdk.rpms) safely or not? > > Thanks, > > Andrei SRC RP

Re: [newbie] Xawtv install problems.

2002-12-12 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 12:45, Brian Trainor wrote: > Hello, > I'm trying to get XawTV 3.81 installed here so I can have the webcam app. I > run ./configure with no problem, but when I run make, it goes ok for a little > and then I get this: > > LD console/v41-conf > /usr/bin/ld: Cannot

Re: [newbie] Modem Installation

2002-12-12 Thread Warren Post
El mié, 11-12-2002 a las 12:30, Mr. VLE79E escribió: > Does 8.2 support winmodems. I have HCF (conaxent or something). How can I > install it? See http://www.winmodem.org/ and look up your modem. Some work quite well, some are flakey, and some don't work at all. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copá

Re: [newbie] LILO

2002-12-12 Thread Warren Post
El jue, 12-12-2002 a las 04:55, Mr. VLE79E escribió: > How to configure LILO so it does not automatically run Linux. You can edit the configuration file manually (/etc/lilo.conf) as root or use the GUI tool in the Mandrake Control Center, under boot. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras h

Re: [newbie] PHP Editor

2002-12-12 Thread Warren Post
El jue, 12-12-2002 a las 04:55, Mr. VLE79E escribió: > Anyway knows a good PHP Code Editor that support indentation and text > highlighting Bluefish. It's on your installation disks. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Ma

Re: [newbie] Xawtv install problems.

2002-12-12 Thread Nikunj Bansal
-lXpm means its trying to look for a library named libXpm.so Here is what I found on the rpmfind.net for that file: http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libXpm&submit=Search+... Install the rpm for libXpm and try to run configure again. Just to be doubly sure, I always remove th

[newbie] Sound Blaster Live 5.1

2002-12-12 Thread David Williams
I noticed that my sound card (Sound Blaster Live 5.1) wasn't playing background to the back speakers and sub-woofer when I installed Mandrake 9.0. As near as I can figure, I need to install the EMUL10K1 driver. However, it appears that I need to recompile, etc. etc. etc. Before I did all of

[newbie] noarc & scr mdk rpms

2002-12-12 Thread Andrei Raevsky
Hi, On the website rpmfind.net there are RPMs which are *.noarc.mdk or *src.mdk. How are these different from other mandrake RPMs? And also - can I install Red Hat RPMs (non mdk.rpms) safely or not? Thanks, Andrei _ Add photos t

Re: [newbie] How to make 8.2 run faster

2002-12-12 Thread David Sexton
Thanks stephen On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 22:57, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 13:35, David Sexton wrote: > > I am running Mandrake 8.2 on my Dell Laptop with 850 PII 128mb of ram. > > I was wondering if any one had any sugestions on how to speed it up. I > > am in the process of getti

[newbie] Question: how to get rid of ridiculously large font on the non-KDEapplications?

2002-12-12 Thread Vinh N. Pham
Hi, I have a problem with system fonts on the non-KDE applications. All in a sudden, all the non-KDE application appear with very large fonts on the menu and on the buttons. The button, text box are also expanded. I'm not quite sure what happen to them but when I look at the FAQ in the K

[newbie] Xawtv install problems.

2002-12-12 Thread Brian Trainor
Hello, I'm trying to get XawTV 3.81 installed here so I can have the webcam app. I run ./configure with no problem, but when I run make, it goes ok for a little and then I get this: LD console/v41-conf /usr/bin/ld: Cannot find -lXpm collect2: ld returned 1 ext status make: *** [consol

Re: [newbie] importing galeon personal toolbar in mozilla

2002-12-12 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 05:25:35 +0530 "L.V.Gandhi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have collected lot of bookmarks and categorised in galeon. How to > import it in mozilla. When I tried import in mozilla from > ~/.galeon/mozilla/galeon, i got only old mozilla bookmarks I imported > from mozilla. If y

Re: [newbie] login script modification

2002-12-12 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 19:21:35 +0530 "L.V.Gandhi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using KDM for login in mdk 9. I want a script to be executed as > root whenever somebody do login so that it can modify permission of some > files that can be changed only by root. How to do it? How about creating a

Re: [newbie] particition magic etc.

2002-12-12 Thread Erik Farnsworth
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 16:57, FemmeFatale wrote: > At 08:43 AM 12/11/2002 -0800, you wrote: > >Hi, one more time the computer has crashed. I am beginning to think that > >the drive has been damaged, from before when I had a virus etc. My husband > >has an older computer, Pentium 2 that he has said

Re: [OT] Re: [newbie] just a comment

2002-12-12 Thread Robin Turner
FemmeFatale wrote: [snip] Sir Robin (who, incidentally, took on that title as a way of taking the piss out of people who had questioned his motivation for defending a "damsel in distress" on this list) I have to snicker luv, cause I must admit you taking that title was quite the surprise at

Re: [newbie] XCDroast primary read device.

2002-12-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday December 12 2002 12:57 pm, Malcolm Candlish wrote: > Charles, > > Thank you for your reply.I had no idea that both the hdc reader and > hdd writer rom were to be in scsi emulation mode. This I fear may > disrupt my reader rom in other duties? It will > > At the end of my reply I a

[newbie] Mozilla xft-1.2.1

2002-12-12 Thread Gary Montalbine
Installed Texstar Mozilla -xft-1.2.1. Browser works fine. E-mail has problems. Does not line wrap in composer and no spell checker although Aspell is part of the install. Does not show attached incoming files. Not sure to tell this to so I came her. Anybody else experiencing these problems? G

Re: [newbie] particition magic etc.

2002-12-12 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 11:52, Aurélio Diniz wrote: > I used partition magic to make some room for my linux. All was done nice and > easy. > > cheers, > > Filipe > > Using linux for about a week. > I used to use PM to resize my Windows partition - that is, until the partition was so smal

Re: [newbie] MS Intellimouse error

2002-12-12 Thread FemmeFatale
At 01:38 AM 12/11/2002 -0300, you wrote: - Original Message - From: FemmeFatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 17:51:47 -0700 Thanks for for your insights and explanation FemmeFatale (fatal woman...hmmm). I'm not having any IRQ conflicts or anything like that, and I'm not

Re: [newbie] Simple (???) email question

2002-12-12 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 09:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have two linux boxes connected to an Ethernet hub. In the /etc/hosts file > on each computer I have the IP address, fully qualified name (for the local > domain) and alias of the other machine. I can ping and FTP the other box > without

Re: [newbie] just a comment

2002-12-12 Thread Robin Turner
Meliton wrote: I have a debt of gratitude to these folks. But they do it because they want to, they are Mother Theresas to me, but then she went to the lepers 'cos SHE wanted to, also. Money is not the only thing that moves people, but "altruism" is at least as ambiguous as my use of "egoism". I

Re: [newbie] just a comment [WAY OT now]

2002-12-12 Thread Charlie
On December 12, 2002 01:12 pm, Meliton wrote: Should this be taken off list? Probably matters not since I'm done with this reply. Sorry for wasting the bandwidth. > > Does this fit your mold of egoism and it's resultant behaviors? > > Yes it does. Are you sure? reference: http://dictionary.ref

[newbie] Simple (???) email question

2002-12-12 Thread cervixcouch
I have two linux boxes connected to an Ethernet hub. In the /etc/hosts file on each computer I have the IP address, fully qualified name (for the local domain) and alias of the other machine. I can ping and FTP the other box without a problem. But if I try to email the other box, the email s

[OT] Re: [newbie] just a comment

2002-12-12 Thread Robin Turner
Franki wrote: pardon me, but what has this to do about linux?? Well, to the extent that it's relevant to the Open Source community, it's relevant to Linux, and to the extent that it's relevant to people's motivations for posting to lists, it's relevant to any list. But essentially you are ri

Re: [newbie] just a comment

2002-12-12 Thread ET
On Thursday 12 December 2002 04:12 pm, Franki wrote: > pardon me, but what has this to do about linux?? > > Its sad, the same reason we help people is often the same reason that we > end up in intellectual pissing matches like this... > > a feeling of superiority > > so we end up in discussions

Re: [newbie] just a comment

2002-12-12 Thread ET
> But absolutely every act > of every human being in History, including all the moving ones of > self-sacrifice, are for the actor's benefit. I'm not being cynical here. > this is THE MOST cynical statement possible. you are _clearly_ in denial. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [newbie] Two Boxes (Linux and Win)

2002-12-12 Thread Vasiliy Boulytchev
We, Hm, where should we all start. I am sure the list will reply with piles of information, or disregard everything, in any case, I enjoy helping people so I will start from the basics. 1.) It does not matter where your win box sits and where your linux box sits. You dont want to

Re: [newbie] just a comment

2002-12-12 Thread Meliton
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 20:51, Robin Turner wrote: > How can you irrationally act in your own interests? Well, I smoke, for example. That is certainly NOT in my material interests. It is totally irrational. But in a totally irrational way, the cancer is better than the stress of quitting. Notice t

Re: [newbie] just a comment

2002-12-12 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 08:33, Todd Slater wrote: > This is your opinion and that is fine, but please don't insult others by > suggesting that they are living a lie and that you are a saviour that > can reveal the truth to them. > > Imagine two soldiers who are ordered to carry out cruel and viciou

Re: [newbie] Mozilla and realplayer

2002-12-12 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 09:30:05PM +, John Richard Smith wrote: > thanks todd, > But isn't this real.com a paying version ? > > John No. They want you to sign up for their crappy music service, but you don't have to. You really have to hunt to find the free player for Windows, and the new *n

Re: [newbie] just a comment

2002-12-12 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 09:12:15PM +0100, Meliton wrote: > "Egoism" is just a word, I use it a lot because it shocks some people > into not lying to themselves. Too few people. And I do believe that we > all act strictly according to our interests, though not as rational > beings (which we are NOT

Re: [newbie] just a comment

2002-12-12 Thread Keith
Ego??? Some times in some ways for SOME people, MAYBE. I've learned that being a teacher (good teacher) one learns far more the the "student" Joy comes in serving others. Helping others is a commandment for some of us (Biblical speaking). I may be new at Linux, but have spent much of my life he

Re: [newbie] Mozilla and realplayer

2002-12-12 Thread John Richard Smith
Todd Slater wrote: On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 05:23:25PM +, John Richard Smith wrote: Installed, realplayer-8.0-2tex.i586.rpm mozilla-realplayer-8.0-1tex.i586.rpm no problems, but, mozilla-xft-realplayer-1.2.1-2tex.i586.rpm Found 0 source and 1 binary packages Dependency Problem: mozilla-xf

Re: [newbie] XCDroast primary read device.

2002-12-12 Thread John Richard Smith
Malcolm Candlish wrote: Richard, Thank you for your kind reply. Is your Pioneer DVD a writer with scsi emulation. No it's my dvd and I have it under scsi-emulation as well as my mitsumi writer it has certain advantages, not compulsory, it's entirely your choice. Only my writer mitsumi hdd is

Re: [newbie] just a comment

2002-12-12 Thread Vasiliy Boulytchev
I used to use linux back in the day to piss everyone off that wanted to use my pc. now its just a ing job... On Thursday 12 December 2002 01:12 pm, Meliton wrote: > On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 20:31, Charlie wrote: > > On December 12, 2002 01:02 am, Meliton wrote: > > > > > > > Open m

Re: [newbie] recompiling your kernel? :-/

2002-12-12 Thread Vasiliy Boulytchev
Kernel is not a hard thing to recompile, if you RTFM all the manuals provided. A great thing to look at is freeswan.org where it will link you to uptodate FAQs on kernels, and, ofcourse ipsec. On Thursday 12 December 2002 07:31 am, Angus Auld wrote: > Greetings, > I would like to get some feedb

Re: [newbie] LILO

2002-12-12 Thread Vasiliy Boulytchev
plz check /etc/lilo.conf On Thursday 12 December 2002 03:55 am, Mr. VLE79E wrote: > How to configure LILO so it does not automatically run Linux. > > _ > Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. > http://join.msn.co

RE: [newbie] just a comment

2002-12-12 Thread Franki
pardon me, but what has this to do about linux?? Its sad, the same reason we help people is often the same reason that we end up in intellectual pissing matches like this... a feeling of superiority so we end up in discussions using bigger and bigger words.. and achiving nothing... Its poin

Re: [newbie] Apache htdocs

2002-12-12 Thread Vasiliy Boulytchev
uh, depends where you have it set up did you just RPM your install? just use the find command if you are really lost. On Thursday 12 December 2002 01:37 am, Mr. VLE79E wrote: > Anyway, where can I find the htdocs of Apache what is the absolute path for > it? > > > > > From: Stephen Kuhn

Re: [newbie] Log all tcp and udp attempts

2002-12-12 Thread Vasiliy Boulytchev
its not a huge thing to install, research tcpdump. On Wednesday 11 December 2002 08:22 pm, Rohit wrote: > Hi, > I have a very old laptop up and running with linux on it. I'm using this > as my test maching. I was wondering (without having to setup any sort of > firewall), how do i log all tcp and

Re: [newbie] syslogd

2002-12-12 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 07:28, George Baker wrote: > Last night a process called "syslogd -m" started and my hard drive went mad > for over 7 hours until I killed the process. What is it doing and how > often - will it always carry on for so long or was it just a once off due to > me moving MDK to a

Re: [newbie] Find Command hangs on search

2002-12-12 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 05:28, Scott wrote: > Hello list > > I am new to Mandrake and have come on a problem that I > can't solve (sure it won't be the first). I have a > fresh install of Mandrake 9.0 on a Dell CPI laptop > with 256 meg ram. Everything is running great except > when I execute a find

Re: [newbie] Two Boxes (Linux and Win)

2002-12-12 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 04:48, Mr. VLE79E wrote: > I am planning to run two boxes. A Linux box to be my http server and a win > box for developing web sites. This will be only in my home for testing > purposes. Does anyone know how do this. I want the Linux box to be the > server and the win box t

Re: [newbie] rm and the -i option

2002-12-12 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 03:36, Ken Walker wrote: > In LM9 when i try and do a rm -rv *, i keep being asked if i want to delete > this, for all and every file. > > How do i turn the -i option off. > > > Is it in the bash script in my home directory or somewhere else. > > Mr Smiley > You can crea

Re: [newbie] recompiling your kernel? :-/

2002-12-12 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 01:31, Angus Auld wrote: > Greetings, > I would like to get some feedback on kernel recompiling. > Is it something that is recommended? Is it difficult to do? > I've installed a kernel on my previous 8.2 system, but > never recompiled an existing one. > > I'm a newbie, a

Re: [newbie] just a comment

2002-12-12 Thread Robin Turner
Meliton wrote: On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 20:31, Charlie wrote: [snip] Or is egoism as an answer appearing as to flip, to simplistic to fit the record? "Egoism" is just a word, I use it a lot because it shocks some people into not lying to themselves. Too few people. And I do believe that we all

Re: [newbie] Mandrake update site

2002-12-12 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 00:34, Sasongko Pribadi Djoko wrote: > Dear Friend. > > I need to update my Mandrake Linux. > Anyone know the mirror site for update in Asia ? > > Thank you in advance. > Ongkie > Planet Mirror in Australia. ftp.planetmirror.com www.planetmirror.com -- Fri Dec 13 07:35:

Re: [newbie] Kalarmd/Korganizer question

2002-12-12 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 00:14, Angus Auld wrote: > Greetings to all, > I have a question about Kalarmd. I don't use Korganizer, > and I am wondering if I can safely shut down it and it's companion > daemon, Kalarmd? > Is there some other processes that use Kalarmd that would > cause me to need it

[newbie] syslogd

2002-12-12 Thread George Baker
Last night a process called "syslogd -m" started and my hard drive went mad for over 7 hours until I killed the process. What is it doing and how often - will it always carry on for so long or was it just a once off due to me moving MDK to a new drive?? Please advise George Want to buy your Pa

Re: [newbie] Mandrake update site

2002-12-12 Thread Charlie
On December 12, 2002 06:34 am, Sasongko Pribadi Djoko wrote: > Dear Friend. > > I need to update my Mandrake Linux. > Anyone know the mirror site for update in Asia ? > > Thank you in advance. > Ongkie Yeah OK, what version of Mandrake? Update or Upgrade? The reason I ask is the link below is for

Re: [newbie] just a comment

2002-12-12 Thread Meliton
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 20:31, Charlie wrote: > On December 12, 2002 01:02 am, Meliton wrote: > > > > > Open minds, perhaps. But in my opinion the driving force behind the > > amazing support one gets on Linux is fundamentally egoistic: it feels > > good to help someone out, specially when they as

Re: [newbie] Mozilla and realplayer

2002-12-12 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 05:23:25PM +, John Richard Smith wrote: > Installed, > realplayer-8.0-2tex.i586.rpm > mozilla-realplayer-8.0-1tex.i586.rpm > > no problems, but, > > mozilla-xft-realplayer-1.2.1-2tex.i586.rpm > Found 0 source and 1 binary packages > Dependency Problem: > mozilla-xft is

Re: [newbie] Eroaster (was CDR)

2002-12-12 Thread Charlie
On December 12, 2002 02:08 pm, Trevor Rhodes wrote: > Miark, > > > 1) Open /etc/lilo.conf in your editor of choice. > > 2) Find the line that reads append="blah blah" > > 3) Insert into that line hdc=ide-scsi so that it looks something like > >append="quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi

Re: [newbie] just a comment

2002-12-12 Thread Charlie
On December 12, 2002 01:02 am, Meliton wrote: > > Open minds, perhaps. But in my opinion the driving force behind the > amazing support one gets on Linux is fundamentally egoistic: it feels > good to help someone out, specially when they ask nicely. It also > implies a touch of vanity, not as in

RE: [newbie] XCDroast primary read device.

2002-12-12 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] XCDroast primary read device. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Malcolm Candlish Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 12:57 PM To: Mandrake List Subject: Re: [newbie] XCDroast primary read device. Alex, I had no idea

Re: [newbie] XCDroast primary read device.

2002-12-12 Thread Malcolm Candlish
Daniel, Thank you for your reply. I have now seen your thread and have tried to alter my /etc/lilo.conf file with little effect so far! Have you tried kb3. Seasons greetings, Malcolm Candlish. On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 21:06, Daniel Buchanan wrote: > John Richard Smith wrote: > > > Malcolm Can

Re: [newbie] XCDroast primary read device.

2002-12-12 Thread Malcolm Candlish
Charles, Thank you for your reply.I had no idea that both the hdc reader and hdd writer rom were to be in scsi emulation mode. This I fear may disrupt my reader rom in other duties? At the end of my reply I am adding my significant files should you wish to look at them. I am grateful for your tim

Re: [newbie] XCDroast primary read device.

2002-12-12 Thread Malcolm Candlish
Alex, I had no idea that the reader cdrom which is my hdc should be emulating a scsi device as does my cdrwrom on hdd. However, I tried to repeat line 12 but quoting hdc in my /etc/lilo.conf and in running it claimed 'line 13 unsupported by lilo'. I knocked out append and other encumbrance's, but

Re: [newbie] Find Command hangs on search

2002-12-12 Thread Gary Armstrong
Scott wrote: > Hello list > > I am new to Mandrake and have come on a problem that I > can't solve (sure it won't be the first). I have a > fresh install of Mandrake 9.0 on a Dell CPI laptop > with 256 meg ram. Everything is running great except > when I execute a find command. I use this syntax:

[newbie] Find Command hangs on search

2002-12-12 Thread Scott
Hello list I am new to Mandrake and have come on a problem that I can't solve (sure it won't be the first). I have a fresh install of Mandrake 9.0 on a Dell CPI laptop with 256 meg ram. Everything is running great except when I execute a find command. I use this syntax: find / -name foo* When ru

[newbie] Two Boxes (Linux and Win)

2002-12-12 Thread Mr. VLE79E
I am planning to run two boxes. A Linux box to be my http server and a win box for developing web sites. This will be only in my home for testing purposes. Does anyone know how do this. I want the Linux box to be the server and the win box to be client-- ie when I write www.anything.com on my w

Re: [newbie] LILO

2002-12-12 Thread Mr. VLE79E
h no wonder it didn't work. I will give it a shot later.. From: Anders Lind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] LILO Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:07:50 +0100 On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:32:05 +0100 Raffaele Belardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[newbie] Mozilla and realplayer

2002-12-12 Thread John Richard Smith
Installed, realplayer-8.0-2tex.i586.rpm mozilla-realplayer-8.0-1tex.i586.rpm no problems, but, mozilla-xft-realplayer-1.2.1-2tex.i586.rpm Found 0 source and 1 binary packages Dependency Problem: mozilla-xft is needed by mozilla-xft-realplayer-1.2.1-2tex and, mozilla-xft-1.2.1-2tex.i586.rpm Found

Re: [newbie] recompiling your kernel? :-/

2002-12-12 Thread Robin Ballantine
On Thursday 12 December 2002 2:31 pm, Angus Auld wrote: > Greetings, > I would like to get some feedback on kernel recompiling. > Is it something that is recommended? Is it difficult to do? > I've installed a kernel on my previous 8.2 system, but > never recompiled an existing one. > > I'm a newbie

Re: [newbie] Mozilla and it's plugins

2002-12-12 Thread John Richard Smith
Actually I have been rummaging around in my spare partition and found mozilla-flash-6.0beta1-1tex.i586.rpm, haven't a clue where I got it from. It installed smoothly and now the problem is solved So that only leaves my realplayer problem, but will write another thread. John Anuerin Diaz wrote:

Re: [newbie] PHP Editor

2002-12-12 Thread Stefano Pogliani
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[newbie] Mandrake update site

2002-12-12 Thread Sasongko Pribadi Djoko
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[newbie] Kalarmd/Korganizer question

2002-12-12 Thread Angus Auld
Greetings to all, I have a question about Kalarmd. I don't use Korganizer, and I am wondering if I can safely shut down it and it's companion daemon, Kalarmd? Is there some other processes that use Kalarmd that would cause me to need it running? I don't want to waste resources on things I don't

[newbie] auorora help! I can't find

2002-12-12 Thread Edwin Valencia
hello I forget it I need make this but without recompilar to the kernel.. my distro sopport framebuffer... thank you for your attention lent.. _ preHackers.com (Seguridad Informática e Internet) http://www.prehackers.com __

Re: [newbie] LILO

2002-12-12 Thread Anders Lind
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:32:05 +0100 Raffaele Belardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...and issue > #lilo > on the command line , otherwise changes do not take effect. > > raffaele Oooppsss...of course, I forgot that, thanks for correcting me... although /sbin/lilo might be necissary if it says comm

Re: [newbie] PHP Editor

2002-12-12 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 22:21, Ralph Slooten wrote: > I use bluefish, but I don't know if it's exactly what you are looking > for. Try it (it's on your cd's)... > > Ralph What's wrong with vim? (g) -- Thu Dec 12 22:30:01 EST 2002 10:30pm up 1 day, 14:52, 7 users, load average: 0.47, 0.56, 0.8

Re: [newbie] LILO

2002-12-12 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 21:55, Mr. VLE79E wrote: > > > How to configure LILO so it does not automatically run Linux. If you look below at my /etc/lilo.conf - you'll see the default=Linux - you can change how the default boot is setup in yours by editing basically the same way, then run "lilo" from

Re: [newbie] LILO

2002-12-12 Thread Raffaele Belardi
...and issue #lilo on the command line , otherwise changes do not take effect. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 04:55:07 -0600 "Mr. VLE79E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How to configure LILO so it does not automatically run Linux. Open up /etc/lilo.conf as root with your

Re: [newbie] PHP Editor

2002-12-12 Thread Ralph Slooten
I use bluefish, but I don't know if it's exactly what you are looking for. Try it (it's on your cd's)... Ralph On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 04:55:34 -0600 "Mr. VLE79E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway knows a good PHP Code Editor that support indentation and text > highlighting -- Homepage: h

[newbie] aurora help!..

2002-12-12 Thread Edwin Valencia
Hi.. I want to know what's up with aurora project? because I need a aplication that make the same things that aurora did. I want to modify samethings at source code for during SO booting, don't apear the following messages: . [OK] . [OK] . [OK] .

Re: [newbie] LILO

2002-12-12 Thread Anders Lind
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 04:55:07 -0600 "Mr. VLE79E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > How to configure LILO so it does not automatically run Linux. > Open up /etc/lilo.conf as root with your favorite editor, there should be a line where it probably says default=linux now, change that line so

[newbie] LILO

2002-12-12 Thread Mr. VLE79E
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[newbie] PHP Editor

2002-12-12 Thread Mr. VLE79E
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Re: [newbie] max file size

2002-12-12 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 21:29, Colin Jenkins wrote: > Hi all, > Finally worked out a script to tar windows users (win2000) on to a > mdk9 backup server. > The only problem is that it bails out when the file gets over 2Gb. > I have done a search, and from what I understand, ext3 had a 2Gb >

[newbie] max file size

2002-12-12 Thread Colin Jenkins
Hi all, Finally worked out a script to tar windows users (win2000) on to a mdk9 backup server. The only problem is that it bails out when the file gets over 2Gb. I have done a search, and from what I understand, ext3 had a 2Gb limit, but was supposed to be fixed. Is there a work-around

RE: [newbie] just a comment

2002-12-12 Thread Tony S. Sykes
My own personal reason is picking up a hell of a lot of knowledge just by reading the posts in area's I have never explored before or even knew about as well as helping out others. I am sure there are others out there doing the same. :) -Original Message- From: Meliton [mailto:[EMAIL PROT

Re: [newbie] Eroaster (was CDR)

2002-12-12 Thread Trevor Rhodes
Miark, > 1) Open /etc/lilo.conf in your editor of choice. > 2) Find the line that reads append="blah blah" > 3) Insert into that line hdc=ide-scsi so that it looks something like >append="quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi" > 4) Save and quit. > 5) As root, type >lilo >and Bo

Re: [newbie] Unsupported Camera Update

2002-12-12 Thread Dennis & Sue
On Wednesday 11 December 2002 04:25 pm, you wrote: > On Wednesday 11 December 2002 06:12 pm, Dennis & Sue wrote: > > Ok, I looked around a bit, screwed around some, And added these lines to > > fstab and mtab. > > Adding these lines caused the camera to appear in /mnt as camera > > directory. And o

RE: [newbie] Eroaster (was CDR)

2002-12-12 Thread Gil Katz
Thanks that helped Gil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Charlie Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 8:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] Eroaster (was CDR) << File: message.footer >> On December 11, 2002 05:

Re: [newbie] Apache htdocs

2002-12-12 Thread Mr. VLE79E
Anyway, where can I find the htdocs of Apache what is the absolute path for it? From: Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Apache htdocs Date: 12 Dec 2002 10:22:03 +1100 On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 10:14, Vasi

Re: [newbie] clipboard question

2002-12-12 Thread Meliton
Talking of clipboards, I've noticed that there seem to be two different ones. Can't say right now if it happens on all programs, but at least in Bluefish the clipboard seems to contain two sets of things, one acessed through the middle button (text I've selected), the other through right-click past

Re: [newbie] just a comment

2002-12-12 Thread Meliton
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 22:58, Dennis Myers wrote: > On Wednesday 11 December 2002 09:38 pm, Ray Henry wrote: > > > I think it's grate that every on can help other Linux user. Unlike > > > Windows users Linux users stick to grate > > > > I have a theory on that... :) > > > > My great theory is that