[newbie-it] Auguri!

2002-12-24 Thread Nicola
Buon Giorno a tutti! Oggi è il 24 e mi sembra giusto fare sinceri auguri di Buon Natale a Tutti! A quelli che come me sono sempre capaci di creare nuovi problemi da sottoporre ai veterani, ai veterani stessi che ci sopportano e non si arrabbiano di fronte ai nostri problemucci, a coloro che

[newbie-it] vecchio modem

2002-12-24 Thread Paolo Tomiato
Ciao a tutti, ho un vecchio modem thundercom 28.8 interno e vorrei usarlo x mandare e ricevere fax con hylafax ma nn riesco a capire come fare a farlo vedere alla mia distro (mdk9.0). Il chipset e' il rockwell r6682. PS: ovviamente nn si tratta di un winmodem ma di un vero e proprio modem con

Re: [newbie-it] vecchio modem

2002-12-24 Thread Andrea Celli
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 11:10:01 +0100 Paolo Tomiato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciao a tutti, ho un vecchio modem thundercom 28.8 interno e vorrei usarlo x mandare e ricevere fax con hylafax ma nn riesco a capire come fare a farlo vedere alla mia distro (mdk9.0). Il chipset e' il rockwell

Re: [newbie-it] Auguri!!

2002-12-24 Thread Andrea Celli
On 24 Dec 2002 14:15:57 +0100 Sandro Porrazzini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Auguri a tutti gli iscritti alla lista!! Auguri a tutti. Riciclo un disegno che ho appena ricevuto :-) Andrea attachment: auguri_con_KDE.jpg

Re: [newbie-it] Auguri!

2002-12-24 Thread francesco.melo
Germano wrote: Il 10:26, martedì 24 dicembre 2002, Fabio Manunza ha scritto: Alle 10:13, martedì 24 dicembre 2002, Nicola ha scritto: Buon Giorno a tutti! Oggi è il 24 e mi sembra giusto fare sinceri auguri di Buon Natale a Tutti! A quelli che come me sono sempre capaci di creare nuovi

Re: [newbie-it] Auguri!

2002-12-24 Thread tom
Alle 18:58, martedì 24 dicembre 2002, francesco.melo ha scritto: Germano wrote: Il 10:26, martedì 24 dicembre 2002, Fabio Manunza ha scritto: Alle 10:13, martedì 24 dicembre 2002, Nicola ha scritto: Buon Giorno a tutti! Oggi è il 24 e mi sembra giusto fare sinceri auguri di Buon Natale a

Re: [newbie-it] Auguri!

2002-12-24 Thread Daniele Micci
Alle 22:05, mercoledì 25 dicembre 2002, tom ha scritto: Alle 18:58, martedì 24 dicembre 2002, francesco.melo ha scritto: Germano wrote: Il 10:26, martedì 24 dicembre 2002, Fabio Manunza ha scritto: Alle 10:13, martedì 24 dicembre 2002, Nicola ha scritto: Buon Giorno a tutti! Oggi è

[newbie-it] mandrake update con la 9.0

2002-12-24 Thread gigi pinna
Innanzitutto Buon Natale a tutta la lista!Mentre ieri funzionava tutto bene (sono riuscito a lanciae l'aggiornamento dato che l'ho installata da un paio di giorni), mentre stasera volevo finire l'aggiornamento ma improvvisamente il mandrake update ha deciso che non riusciva a contattare il mirror(

Re: [newbie-it] Auguri!

2002-12-24 Thread gianni piazza
Alle 23:10, martedì 24 dicembre 2002, Gaetano ha scritto: A tutti Buon Natale! Ciao Nicola Si ricambia.. Ciao, Germano ricambio ed un augurio particolare alla mandrake perchè possa per se stessa, ma per noi anche, superare questo momento di difficoltà finanziaria. francesco

Re: [newbie-it] programma per web-cam

2002-12-24 Thread Corrado
Il mar, 2002-12-24 alle 23:44, gigi pinna ha scritto: Ora vorrei sruttarla in rete, che programmi esistono che mi permettono di chattare o comunque di usare la web-cam? Devo ammettere che non lo sapevo usare neanche col il finestrone... Suggerimenti? Esiste gnome-meeting (è già nei cd),

Re: [newbie-it] mandrake update con la 9.0

2002-12-24 Thread stormy
Credo si tratti di un bug della mdk9 io ho avuto lo stesso problema e l'ho risolto via ftp co Gftp scaricando gli rpm in una directory e scegliendo gli aggiornamenti che mi interessano ciao On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 23:43:15 +0100 gigi pinna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Innanzitutto Buon Natale a tutta

Re: [newbie-it] mandrake update con la 9.0

2002-12-24 Thread mandrake
Alle 01:21, mercoledì 25 dicembre 2002, stormy ha scritto: Credo si tratti di un bug della mdk9 io ho avuto lo stesso problema e l'ho risolto via ftp co Gftp scaricando gli rpm in una directory e scegliendo gli aggiornamenti che mi interessano ciao il problema è che con un 56 k scaricare

Re: [newbie] RAID problems

2002-12-24 Thread Michael Paul
Ok everyone.. Please disregard.. Many HUGE thanks to Stephen Kuhn for helping me figure this out. Turns out I *almost* got it by myself damnit. Heh. Thanks again Stephen Michael - Original Message - From: Michael Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,

Re: [newbie] cvs client

2002-12-24 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Found it! Thanks to your hint I checked the Cervisa web page and found that it is included in the kdesdk package. That's why I did't find it with a simple search within rpmdrake. thanks again, raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 18:13, Raffaele Belardi wrote: If you can't

Re: [newbie] DVD+RW Support in Linux

2002-12-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 6:43 am, Franki wrote: There is a really nice Sony out that supports both standards.. (and dvd-ram I think) Also a pioneer from memory.. don't know if they support linux though.. but I'd go and check sony's site. There isn't a huge amount of difference between the

Re: [newbie] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft

2002-12-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 23 Dec 2002 11:11 pm, civileme wrote: Good to see you. Now I know it's Christmas Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Mozilla Mail on 9.0, where's it and HOWTO install?

2002-12-24 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hi Anne, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 22 Dec 2002 11:31 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: I have just installed LM 9.0 on a dualboot Win95/linux box. I would like to copy (and not move/cut!!) the Windows Netscape 4.77 mail and settings into Mozilla Mail. I am however unable to find it.

Re: [newbie] Mozilla Mail on 9.0, where's it and HOWTO install?

2002-12-24 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 22 Dec 2002 12:15 pm, David Robertson wrote: On Sunday 22 Dec 2002 11:31 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: I have just installed LM 9.0 on a dualboot Win95/linux box. I would like to copy (and not move/cut!!) the Windows Netscape 4.77 mail and

[newbie] problems with mount cdrom

2002-12-24 Thread Sergio F. Lima
Hello all!!! First, excuseme my badly english, I'm Brazilian user... I am using the mandrake 9.0 and I'm happy, but when I try use my cdrom(it's in supermount) it show the file,but after the files don't work, it desepear. Can anybody help me? My fstab is: /dev/hdd6 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none

Re: [newbie] Converting VHS tapes to VCD or DVD?

2002-12-24 Thread John Richard Smith
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 09:28, John Richard Smith wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 08:13, John Richard Smith wrote: Would geforce 3 be capable of doing that ? John zitgotta video/audio in? According to the book of

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Raising More Capital

2002-12-24 Thread Ingo Bauer
I can offer my help for Atlantic Canada Ingo On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 2:50 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 06:15, Poogle wrote: I believe the key here is that it was solely focused on testing new releases and reporting back to

Re: [newbie] DVD Ripping transcode?

2002-12-24 Thread Pilagá
El Lun 23 Dic 2002 23:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Did any of you guys have trouble installing transcode? It seems that this is a requirement for dvd::rip and many others but I'm finding that transcode has a lot of requirements that aren't on my system. I'm looking at installing like 20

Re: [newbie] gnome menu fonts.

2002-12-24 Thread Pilagá
El Mar 24 Dic 2002 01:15, Noah A Hicks escribió: I don't know if anyone is still intrested in this topic but I have the same question as Gandhi. But my problem is slightly different. I change the fonts in GNOME with no trouble. But Galeon and some (most) other GNOME programs don't respond

Re: [newbie] problems with mount cdrom

2002-12-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 11:13 am, Sergio F. Lima wrote: Hello all!!! First, excuseme my badly english, I'm Brazilian user... No problem with your English :) I am using the mandrake 9.0 and I'm happy, but when I try use my cdrom(it's in supermount) it show the file,but after the files don't

Re: [newbie] Mozilla Mail on 9.0, where's it and HOWTO install?

2002-12-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 10:30 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Hi Anne, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 22 Dec 2002 11:31 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: I have just installed LM 9.0 on a dualboot Win95/linux box. I would like to copy (and not move/cut!!) the Windows Netscape 4.77

Re: [newbie] Mozilla Mail on 9.0, where's it and HOWTO install?

2002-12-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 10:40 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 22 Dec 2002 12:15 pm, David Robertson wrote: On Sunday 22 Dec 2002 11:31 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: I have just installed LM 9.0 on a dualboot Win95/linux box. I would like to

Re: [newbie] problems with mount cdrom

2002-12-24 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
Supermount it is giving too much problems in Mandrake 9.0; you can see the contents of a cd, but after a while the files couldn't be find anymore. Due to that I had to disable supermount; just as root do: supermount -i disable and then to activate the new fstab: mount -a After that you will

Re: [newbie] DVD Ripping transcode?

2002-12-24 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 2:55 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did any of you guys have trouble installing transcode? It seems that this is a requirement for dvd::rip and many others but I'm finding that transcode has a lot of requirements that aren't on my system. I'm looking at installing like

[newbie] resetting the console back to english

2002-12-24 Thread sg
Hi All, I just installed Mandrake 9, I picked two languages at the installation process, English/U.S and polish, now the console seems to be working in polish, but I would like it to be English as I am more used to that. I would like to ask for your help as I just don't know which files should

[newbie] what is exactly an inode?

2002-12-24 Thread Andrei Raevsky
Hi, I have found this defitition of the word inode on the net (http://www.linux-tutorial.info/cgi-bin/display.pl?99983423203): QUOTE inode: Index or Information Node. This is a structure containg the basic information about a file such as owner, type, access permissions and pointers to the

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Raising More Capital

2002-12-24 Thread Lee
Put me in coachUS Florida Lee On Tuesday 24 December 2002 06:51 am, you wrote: I can offer my help for Atlantic Canada Ingo On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 2:50 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 06:15, Poogle wrote: I believe the key

[newbie] DVD region killer

2002-12-24 Thread Sasongko Pribadi Djoko
Dear John McQuillen,Friends, Thank you for your mail on 19 Dec 2002. I did download the tar file (in www.linuxtv.org/download/dvd/dvd_disc_2215_css.tar.gz) and extract the files. When I try to do to make the file, below listed error occure:

Re: [newbie] resetting the console back to english

2002-12-24 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 23 December 2002 12:39 pm, sg wrote: Hi All, I just installed Mandrake 9, I picked two languages at the installation process, English/U.S and polish, now the console seems to be working in polish, but I would like it to be English as I am more used to that. I would like to ask for

[newbie] Upgrade?

2002-12-24 Thread Lee
Well this morning I did an urpmi --auto-select and the list is endless. Guess you're supposed to do this more that once a year. Is it time to bite the bullet and upgrade? to 9.0? and what's the concensus? Can I upgrade, and if new install is necessary, what besides home do I need to archive?

[newbie] Generic Security Levels

2002-12-24 Thread Anthony Abby
I'm delving into the realm of security and trying to understand the best process for securing my linux machines, not only for Internet access, but also in a LAN environment. I've looked for information regarding the generic security levels but can't find anything. What I'd like to know, is

[newbie] Too much like winblows? What?

2002-12-24 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 09:28, walt wrote: I plan on supporting Mandrake in every way that I can. I love this distro. I have tried others, including debian and have always come back to this one. Someone on another forum said they wouldn't use mandrake because it looked too much like windows for

[newbie] Crash Burners of the World Unite

2002-12-24 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
OK, so far there is an incredible number of volunteers. Most of the crew here seems to be US, and we don't have anybody for Australia yet. List: UNITED KINGDOM Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] CANADA Ingo Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNITED STATES Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Lower

[newbie] Totally OT: Merry Christmas

2002-12-24 Thread Anne Wilson
To those familiar with our folklore - enjoy To those not so familiar - apologies 'Twas The Night Before Christmas (as if written by a technical writer for a firm that does US government contracting) 'Twas the nocturnal segment of the diurnal period preceding the annual Yuletide celebration,

Re: [newbie] Crash Burners of the World Unite

2002-12-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 2:28 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: OK, so far there is an incredible number of volunteers. Most of the crew here seems to be US, and we don't have anybody for Australia yet. List: UNITED KINGDOM Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am too newbie to have been of the old

Re: [newbie] resetting the console back to english

2002-12-24 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 09:22, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Monday 23 December 2002 12:39 pm, sg wrote: Hi All, I just installed Mandrake 9, I picked two languages at the installation process, English/U.S and polish, now the console seems to be working in polish, but I would like it to be

Re: [newbie] Too much like winblows? What?

2002-12-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 2:17 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Since Linux requires you to understand what it's capabilities are before you can use them (duh, that applies to anything) the people that say it looks too much like winblows tend to annoy me. It seems that some people are so limited in

Re: [newbie] DVD region killer

2002-12-24 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
One word - firmware On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 09:43, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 24 December 2002 13:10, Sasongko Pribadi Djoko wrote: Dear John McQuillen,Friends, Thank you for your mail on 19 Dec 2002. I did download the tar file (in

[newbie] MNF Login

2002-12-24 Thread Perciaccante, Robert
I have install MNF from the default ISO (no modifications made whatsoever) and I am unable to login to the console, I get the following message: No session found : Cookies not found I am using the correct user and password (I know this for a fact, I reinstalled twice!). It is currently

Re: [newbie] Totally OT: Merry Christmas

2002-12-24 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
Anne...this was absolutely priceless. I can't wait to pass this around. (wiping eyes) On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 09:29, Anne Wilson wrote: To those familiar with our folklore - enjoy To those not so familiar - apologies 'Twas The Night Before Christmas (as if written by a technical writer for

Re: [newbie] Generic Security Levels

2002-12-24 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 02:08 pm, Anthony Abby wrote: I'm delving into the realm of security and trying to understand the best process for securing my linux machines, not only for Internet access, but also in a LAN environment. I've looked for information regarding the generic security

Re: [newbie] Generic Security Levels

2002-12-24 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 2:08 pm, Anthony Abby wrote: I'm delving into the realm of security and trying to understand the best process for securing my linux machines, not only for Internet access, but also in a LAN environment. I've looked for information regarding the generic security levels

Re: [newbie] Generic Security Levels

2002-12-24 Thread Anthony Abby
Anthony, please take a look at : http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/secure/smsec.html where you will find an in-depth explanation of msec. Thanks very much! Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Too much like winblows? What?

2002-12-24 Thread robin
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 09:28, walt wrote: I plan on supporting Mandrake in every way that I can. I love this distro. I have tried others, including debian and have always come back to this one. Someone on another forum said they wouldn't use mandrake because it looked too

Re: [newbie] MNF Login

2002-12-24 Thread Ingo Bauer
Would you please tell us which browser/OS you are using to connect to the MMF box. Ingo On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Perciaccante, Robert wrote: I have install MNF from the default ISO (no modifications made whatsoever) and I am unable to login to the console, I get the following message: No

Re: [newbie] Generic Security Levels

2002-12-24 Thread RichardA
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 14:08, Anthony Abby wrote: I'm delving into the realm of security and trying to understand the best process for securing my linux machines, not only for Internet access, but also in a LAN environment. I've looked for information regarding the generic security

Re: [newbie] problems with mount cdrom

2002-12-24 Thread Sergio F. Lima
Em Ter 24 Dez 2002 10:12, Anne Wilson escreveu: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 11:13 am, Sergio F. Lima wrote: Hello all!!! First, excuseme my badly english, I'm Brazilian user... No problem with your English :) Thanks ;-) I am using the mandrake 9.0 and I'm happy, but when I try use my

Re: [newbie] problems with mount cdrom

2002-12-24 Thread Sergio F. Lima
Em Ter 24 Dez 2002 10:24, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza escreveu: Supermount it is giving too much problems in Mandrake 9.0; you can see the contents of a cd, but after a while the files couldn't be find anymore. Due to that I had to disable supermount; just as root do: supermount -i disable and

RE: [newbie] MNF Login

2002-12-24 Thread Perciaccante, Robert
I am using IE 6.0. To make matters more interesting, when I look in my Temp Internet Files dir, there is a cookie there Go figure. Any help is appreciated, Bob -Original Message- From: Ingo Bauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 10:32 AM To: '[EMAIL

[newbie] More OO woes

2002-12-24 Thread robin
After migrating to another box, I found OO would open for all users but only root could print (see previous post). After trying various remedies unsuccessfully (deleting ~/.openoffice, rerunning setup, trying with a brand new user etc.) I uninstalled the OO rpms and reinstalled it. My reward

RE: [newbie] MNF Login

2002-12-24 Thread Ingo Bauer
That is your problem. If your only access is via a a windows box you need to downgrade to IE 5.5 or use a netscape based browser(Netscape 7 works fine for me. IE 6 is significatnly broken (like most M$ products). Ingo On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Perciaccante, Robert wrote: I am using IE 6.0. To

Re: [newbie] Linux-compatible ISP in US sought

2002-12-24 Thread ET
On Saturday 21 December 2002 12:18 am, jmarcom wrote: I had good luck with Earthlink when I was on dial-up, and still have it for broadband. Following are my notes for dial-up: connection name: Earthlink jmarcom authenticationPAP IP address (provided) Login

[newbie] Mozilla/Phoenix

2002-12-24 Thread David Williams
I use Mozilla and like it a lot. I have thought about trying out Phoenix. Is there any overwhelming reason for using one over the other? Or, is this a matter of personal preference? David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] The MD Alternative to W2K and MacOS9.2

2002-12-24 Thread Rob Lindsay
I have been experimenting trying to get away from M$ OS/Application control for sometime. I am behind the MD game a little using MD8.1, but was able to get a boxed MD7.2 here [SR129 = US$34] after starting to look at Linux with RH 5.2. The 8.1 came from linuxemporium.co.uk [mea culpa]. I am,

Re: [newbie] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft

2002-12-24 Thread Joeb
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus -- Civileme is back! On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 14:11:24 -0900 civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have some good news and some urgent news 1. I will be returning to the lists. I will have an email address that can handle list level traffic. 2. All of

RE: [newbie] MNF Login

2002-12-24 Thread Perciaccante, Robert
Ya know, I should have figured. :) As soon as you asked what browser, I switched to Mozilla, and blam, no issues. Thanks! Happy Holidays to all! Bob -Original Message- From: Ingo Bauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 10:56 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'

Re: [newbie] Crossover - Root Install

2002-12-24 Thread Charlie
On December 23, 2002 10:57 pm, Chris Edwards wrote: I tried to install Crossover as root as per the installation instructions in order to have it available system wide. I even pointed it to my /usr/local/mozilla_1.3/plugins/ directory so that all account could use the plugins. 1. menu

Re: [newbie] Mice Issues and comments (rant?)

2002-12-24 Thread ET
As a newbie trying linux for the first time, I find it very very frustrating. Nothing is intuitive, and even basic text editors like vi or emacs are difficult to use. I found myself wishing for good old MS-DOS edit. I suggest you install jed then, for your text editor As an experienced

Re: [newbie] The MD Alternative to W2K and MacOS9.2

2002-12-24 Thread Derek Jennings
SNIP Finally, how do I play music direct from CD with XMMS. Have only had success reading tracks in with X-CD-Roast and then selecting them through XMMS. Hope this doesn't have too many threads under the one cover! Rob in Riyadh wishing you a Joyeux Noel To answer just one of your

Re: [newbie] Mozilla/Phoenix

2002-12-24 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 3:57 pm, David Williams wrote: I use Mozilla and like it a lot. I have thought about trying out Phoenix. Is there any overwhelming reason for using one over the other? Or, is this a matter of personal preference? David Phoenix is smaller and faster than Mozilla.

Re: [newbie] Converting VHS tapes to VCD or DVD?

2002-12-24 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Monday 23 December 2002 18:07, Stephen Kuhn wrote: I use the TV card to capture the audio/video - to disk - then convert Would you mind describing how you do this? For some reason I can never get sound to record. All I get is silent video. I have a Haupauge WinTV by the way. The line-in

Re: [newbie] Too much like winblows? What?

2002-12-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 09:17 am, you wrote: What really confuses me is the fact that you cannot make windows look like anything but windows, Hehehehe, thats because there is only so much you can do with dog-ugly! lol --

Re: [newbie] Crash Burners of the World Unite

2002-12-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 09:28 am, you wrote: OK, so far there is an incredible number of volunteers. Just got home from work! Add Me! Me! Me!big grin -- /\

Re: [newbie] Crash Burners of the World Unite

2002-12-24 Thread Charlie
On December 24, 2002 07:28 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: OK, so far there is an incredible number of volunteers. Most of the crew here seems to be US, and we don't have anybody for Australia yet. Inter-lined comments. List: UNITED KINGDOM Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] CANADA Ingo Bauer [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] The MD Alternative to W2K and MacOS9.2

2002-12-24 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 03:56 pm, Rob Lindsay wrote: snip Finally, how do I play music direct from CD with XMMS. Have only had success reading tracks in with X-CD-Roast and then selecting them through XMMS. /snip Rob, supposing your CD is in the cupholder and it is mounted, right-click

Re: [newbie] gnome menu fonts.

2002-12-24 Thread Noah A Hicks
Thanks for the tip Pilaga. Something went wrong when I ran the command however. $ gtkhtml-properties-capplet ORBit-WARNING **: Request notify, ID -1073745264 was rejected by the authentication mechanism! ORBit-WARNING **: Request notify, ID -1073745264 was rejected by the authentication

Re: [newbie] Converting VHS tapes to VCD or DVD?

2002-12-24 Thread John Richard Smith
Bryan Tyson wrote: On Monday 23 December 2002 18:07, Stephen Kuhn wrote: I use the TV card to capture the audio/video - to disk - then convert Would you mind describing how you do this? For some reason I can never get sound to record. All I get is silent video. I have a Haupauge

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Raising More Capital

2002-12-24 Thread Poogle
On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 H:50 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 06:15, Poogle wrote: I believe the key here is that it was solely focused on testing new releases and reporting back to Mandrake in a concise and relevant way. While all feedback is important I see a problem in an

Re: RE: [newbie] DVD+RW Support in Linux

2002-12-24 Thread Jim Dawson
The problem is that CDRecord apparently only supports the DVD-R/-RW formats. While the drive would work under Linux, until CD+R/RW is supported by CDRecord (or an equivalent program) it would work only as a very expensive DVD-ROM. -Original Message- From: Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: Re: [newbie] Converting VHS tapes to VCD or DVD?

2002-12-24 Thread Jim Dawson
Can someone tell me where I may find a list of supported TV capture boards? TV capture cards seem to be missing from the Mandrake supported hardware web page. -Original Message- From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], NEWBIE 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 24 Dec

Re: [newbie] Crash Burners of the World Unite

2002-12-24 Thread Poogle
On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 H:28 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: OK, so far there is an incredible number of volunteers. Most of the crew here seems to be US, and we don't have anybody for Australia yet. List: UNITED KINGDOM Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] John[EMAIL PROTECTED] CANADA Ingo Bauer

[newbie] Installation Help for v7.1

2002-12-24 Thread Andre Stevens
Hi Gang: I'm trying to install Linux 7.1 on an old PC in my office, (128 M of RAM; don't remember how much hard drive space I have butI think it's at least 4G), but it keeps hanging at the point where it's supposed to be configuring the IDE. Any idea why this is happening? Is there a fix?

Re: Re: [newbie] Digital cameras

2002-12-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 20 Dec 2002 11:31 pm, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: Anne, My camera is a Fuji FinePIx S602Zoom. I have pluged the usb cable of the camera to the second usb port (I have in it attached an scanner, but I just use it time to time); in the USB UHCI Root Hub, using usbview it appears

Re: [newbie] DVD Ripping transcode?

2002-12-24 Thread christopher j bottaro
i tried to install dvd::rip 2 days ago on my redhat 8.0 system. if i remember correctly, i had to install gtk-perl, glade, gdk_pixbuf, libdv, libdvdcss, libdvdread, subtitleripper, lame, among other things before the transcode and dvd::rip rpms would install. and in the end, after installing

Re: [newbie] Installation Help for v7.1

2002-12-24 Thread Spencer
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 09:47:07 -0800 (PST) Andre Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Gang: I'm trying to install Linux 7.1 on an old PC in my office, (128 M of RAM; don't remember how much hard drive space I have butI think it's at least 4G), but it keeps hanging at the point where it's

Re: [newbie] The MD Alternative to W2K and MacOS9.2

2002-12-24 Thread Rob Lindsay
To answer just one of your questions. If you have an audio cable from your CD to your sound card then just Right click on Xmms OptionsPreferences Configure and enable the CD Audio Player plugin defining the device name and mount point Then to play the CD Right click on xmmsPlay Directory

Re: [newbie] The MD Alternative to W2K and MacOS9.2

2002-12-24 Thread Rob Lindsay
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 09:09 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 24 December 2002 03:56 pm, Rob Lindsay wrote: snip Finally, how do I play music direct from CD with XMMS. Have only had success reading tracks in with X-CD-Roast and then selecting them through XMMS. /snip Rob, supposing your

Re: [newbie] Mozilla/Phoenix

2002-12-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 4:28 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 3:57 pm, David Williams wrote: I use Mozilla and like it a lot. I have thought about trying out Phoenix. Is there any overwhelming reason for using one over the other? Or, is this a matter of personal preference?

Re: [newbie] problems with mount cdrom

2002-12-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 3:33 pm, Sergio F. Lima wrote: Em Ter 24 Dez 2002 10:12, Anne Wilson escreveu: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 11:13 am, Sergio F. Lima wrote: Hello all!!! First, excuseme my badly english, I'm Brazilian user... No problem with your English :) Thanks ;-) I am

Re: [newbie] The MD Alternative to W2K and MacOS9.2

2002-12-24 Thread Anne Wilson
I cope with the DTP on MD using InDesign on W4L. However, that's a cop-out! I'd like to move to a totally MD solution outputting files to PDF so that they are readable on the other platforms. What should I use? It depends how complex your dtp needs are. If they aren't very, try using KWord,

Re: [newbie] Mozilla/Phoenix

2002-12-24 Thread Poogle
On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 H:04 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 4:28 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 3:57 pm, David Williams wrote: I use Mozilla and like it a lot. I have thought about trying out Phoenix. Is there any overwhelming reason for using one over the

Re: [newbie] Mozilla/Phoenix

2002-12-24 Thread mike
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 02:04 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 4:28 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 3:57 pm, David Williams wrote: I use Mozilla and like it a lot. I have thought about trying out Phoenix. Is there any overwhelming reason for using one over the

[newbie] SBLive 5.1 Value

2002-12-24 Thread Serge
Hi I have a SB Live 5.1 value. During the install , the driver chosen was the alsa driver. Because of the bad quality of the driver, i changed to the OSS driver. First it went ok, had all my channels working except the center one. Then wanted to try again the alsa driver, everything went OK

Re: [newbie] Mozilla/Phoenix

2002-12-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 7:20 pm, mike wrote: On Tuesday 24 December 2002 02:04 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 4:28 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 3:57 pm, David Williams wrote: I use Mozilla and like it a lot. I have thought about trying out Phoenix. Is there

Re: [newbie] Mozilla/Phoenix

2002-12-24 Thread mike
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 02:20 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 7:20 pm, mike wrote: On Tuesday 24 December 2002 02:04 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 4:28 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 3:57 pm, David Williams wrote: I use Mozilla and like it a lot.

Re: [newbie] Mozilla/Phoenix

2002-12-24 Thread Sevatio
David Williams wrote: I use Mozilla and like it a lot. I have thought about trying out Phoenix. Is there any overwhelming reason for using one over the other? Or, is this a matter of personal preference? David Want to

[newbie] adding DVD player

2002-12-24 Thread Jim Snyder
Hi I just installed a new internal DVD player (Toshiba) and can see it in my Mandrake Control Center. It is on it's own cable and set as master. I do not know how to add the DVD to the /dev directory as it is not there and I cannot use my DVD players (Xine and Ogle). Ogle gives me an error

Re: [newbie] SBLive 5.1 Value

2002-12-24 Thread Serge
On mandrake 8.2, it worked well , very well I am on mandrake 9.0. i have only 2 channels working [the rear ones to be precise] , no matter what i am listenting to: mp3, cd, dvd. by the way the center does not work at all neither. On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 7:20 pm, Serge wrote: Hi I have a

Re: [newbie] More OO woes

2002-12-24 Thread Robin Turner
David Williams wrote: On Saturday 24 December 2022 09:40 am, robin wrote: After migrating to another box, I found OO would open for all users but only root could print (see previous post). After trying various remedies unsuccessfully (deleting ~/.openoffice, rerunning setup, trying with a

Re: [newbie] The MD Alternative to W2K and MacOS9.2

2002-12-24 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 02:56, Rob Lindsay wrote: MD8.1 does everything I do on W2K and MacOS except some DTP work and Net2Phone [important when you are thousands of miles away from family in Riyadh]. Thought that I might be able to do this with win4lin/Win98SE but W4L seems challenged when

Re: [newbie] Mozilla/Phoenix

2002-12-24 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 02:57, David Williams wrote: I use Mozilla and like it a lot. I have thought about trying out Phoenix. Is there any overwhelming reason for using one over the other? Or, is this a matter of personal preference? David Preferences. Some people like tea, some people like

Re: [newbie] DVD Ripping transcode?

2002-12-24 Thread Robin Turner
christopher j bottaro wrote: i tried to install dvd::rip 2 days ago on my redhat 8.0 system. if i remember correctly, i had to install gtk-perl, glade, gdk_pixbuf, libdv, libdvdcss, libdvdread, subtitleripper, lame, among other things before the transcode and dvd::rip rpms would install. and in

Re: [newbie] Mozilla/Phoenix

2002-12-24 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 03:28, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 3:57 pm, David Williams wrote: I use Mozilla and like it a lot. I have thought about trying out Phoenix. Is there any overwhelming reason for using one over the other? Or, is this a matter of personal preference?

Re: [newbie] problems with mount cdrom

2002-12-24 Thread Sergio F. Lima
Hello all The Francisco's sugestion is fine, now all is very good. Thank very much all and Happy Cristimas and happy new years for all [] Someone suggested that supermount may be your problem - it works brilliantly on some machines and not at all or with huge problems on others. Use

Re: [newbie] Mice Issues and comments (rant?)

2002-12-24 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 03:31, ET wrote: (Quick, what MS windows release number was out in 1990?) 1.0 (End of 8-in-1) ...then there was OS/2 and Desqview and Desqview/X and PcShell, and Quickmenu, Xtree, Norton Commander, DrDOS... -- Wed Dec 25 07:25:00 EST 2002 7:25am up 1:46, 4

Re: [newbie] gnome menu fonts.

2002-12-24 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 04:08, Noah A Hicks wrote: Thanks for the tip Pilaga. Something went wrong when I ran the command however. $ gtkhtml-properties-capplet ORBit-WARNING **: Request notify, ID -1073745264 was rejected by the authentication mechanism! ORBit-WARNING **: Request notify, ID

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