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

2002-12-24 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 04:27, Jim Dawson wrote: 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. Upgrade

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

2002-12-24 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 04:34, Jim Dawson wrote: 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. http://www.linuxtv.org/ Dig that! -- Wed Dec 25 07:35:00 EST 2002 7:35am up

Re: [newbie] Installation Help for v7.1

2002-12-24 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 04:47, Andre Stevens 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 supposed to be configuring the IDE.

Re: [newbie] SBLive 5.1 Value

2002-12-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 24 Dec 2002 8:11 pm, Serge wrote: 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. I had the

Re: [newbie] Mozilla/Phoenix

2002-12-24 Thread Adrien Verlee
Op dinsdag 24 december 2002 20:31, schreef mike: I tried the Dillo website but the links weren't working for me.The description sounds very interesting.I would like to try it. On ther downloadpage: Although Dillo is great, it's not really useable for everyday browsing yet. Two notable features

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

2002-12-24 Thread Robin Turner
ET wrote: 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 Or use

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

2002-12-24 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
On Ter 24 Dez 2002 15:34, Jim Dawson wrote: 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. Prolink Pixelview Pro! (mine is a 878+w/FM) 848 and 878 family! Since they are Conexant!

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

2002-12-24 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lyvim Xaphir Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 6:17 AM To: NewbieMandrake-List Subject: [newbie] Too much like winblows? What? On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 09:28, walt wrote: I plan on supporting Mandrake in

Re: [newbie] Crash Burners of the World Unite

2002-12-24 Thread Brian Parish
On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 06:58, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 01:28, 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: I've only got a 56k connection, and have

RE: [newbie] Crash Burners of the World Unite

2002-12-24 Thread walt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Lyvim Xaphir Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 9:28 AM To: NewbieMandrake-List Subject: [newbie] Crash Burners of the World Unite You can count me in for burning cd's. I have a cable connection. I live in

Re: [newbie] Mozilla/Phoenix

2002-12-24 Thread Ralph Slooten
On 25 Dec 2002 07:27:47 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nothing is smaller or faster than lynx. (g) links, w3m, and I would bet that even dillo comes very close, even considering it is graphical and downloads the images ;-) But I still wonder, do you actually use lynx for _all_

Re: [newbie] Digital cameras

2002-12-24 Thread Steve Jeppesen
Anne, Sorry if you had posted this and/or noticed something like this but did you try and plug the camera into a usb slot and reboot? I had set up my fstab according to the instructions I believe Todd posted (create a fstab entry with /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera vfat noauto,owner,ro,user 0 0) and

Re: [newbie] Can anyone use XMMS and select a dir to play in the playlist?

2002-12-24 Thread George Baker
Not sure if this helps. Before I reinstalled MDK 7.0 if I ripped a Cd using Grip and then copied the whole directory of mp3's to my fat32 partition I would find that I could not access the copied directory without a hang. Booted into Win98 went to the directory and discovered a file called

Re: [newbie] DVD+RW Support in Linux

2002-12-24 Thread John Richard Smith
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 04:27, Jim Dawson wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] Sound gone again

2002-12-24 Thread David Williams
On Monday 23 December 2002 10:52 pm, David Williams wrote: On Monday 23 December 2002 05:38 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 00:57, David Williams wrote: Ok, I am reaching the point that I am not having fun any more. I installed SAMBA and had it working. I installed

Re: [newbie] Crash Burners of the World Unite

2002-12-24 Thread Erik Farnsworth
I don't have much in financial resources and I work from a 33.6 connection (gotta love Verizon's rural phone lines)...however, I'd love to be part of the testing. So... I just happen to have about 25GB+ that I could use for testing (been looking for a reason to dump XP Pro now that I don't use

Re: [newbie] Installation Help for v7.1

2002-12-24 Thread FemmeFatale
At 09:47 AM 12/24/2002 -0800, you 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 supposed to be configuring the IDE. Any idea why

Re: [newbie] Lindows

2002-12-24 Thread jmarcom
Wal-Mart was required to sell the system as LindowsOS to get around M$ complaints. It provides a basic Linux distro (don't recall what it is named) which will run a few popular Window$ apps. It wouldn't be a bad way to introduce the general public to Linux, except there is some sort of annual

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

2002-12-24 Thread FemmeFatale
At 10:12 PM 12/24/2002 +0200, you wrote: ET wrote: 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

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

2002-12-24 Thread Erik Farnsworth
On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 14:12, Robin Turner wrote: snip As an experienced Windows user with 12 years under my belt, (Quick, what MS windows release number was out in 1990?) Hey, I guessed right - 3.0! ( http://members.fortunecity.com/pcmuseum/windows.htm - the rest of the site is

Re: [newbie] Can anyone use XMMS and select a dir to play in the playlist?

2002-12-24 Thread FemmeFatale
At 12:05 AM 12/25/2002 +0200, you wrote: Not sure if this helps. Before I reinstalled MDK 7.0 if I ripped a Cd using Grip and then copied the whole directory of mp3's to my fat32 partition I would find that I could not access the copied directory without a hang. Booted into Win98 went to the

Re: [newbie] Crash Burners of the World Unite

2002-12-24 Thread FemmeFatale
At 09:28 AM 12/24/2002 -0500, you 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] CANADA Ingo Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNITED STATES Lee [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Lindows

2002-12-24 Thread Robin Turner
jmarcom wrote: Wal-Mart was required to sell the system as LindowsOS to get around M$ complaints. It provides a basic Linux distro (don't recall what it is named) which will run a few popular Window$ apps. It wouldn't be a bad way to introduce the general public to Linux, except there is some

Re: [newbie] adding DVD player

2002-12-24 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 06:46, Jim Snyder wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] Crash Burners of the World Unite

2002-12-24 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 08:50, Brian Parish wrote: I have broadband (512 ADSL), but only a 1GB / month quota. What we need is someone preferably with cable and a bigger quota. I'll put this on the luv list (Linux Users Victoria) and see if we can extract a volunteer with the appropriate

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

2002-12-24 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 10:39, Erik Farnsworth wrote: And anyone remembering Windows 3.0, should also remember GPFs. They were the main feature of the new desktop BG ripped off from Apple's Macintosh. Too bad his developers didn't write the code for Windows 3.0 as well as they did the code

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

2002-12-24 Thread Robin Turner
Erik Farnsworth wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 14:12, Robin Turner wrote: snip http://members.fortunecity.com/pcmuseum/windows.htm - the rest of the site is pretty interesting too.) Though I noticed there is a shameless plug for Lindows at the bottom of the page! And anyone remembering

RE: [newbie] Lindows

2002-12-24 Thread walt
Not all linux software is free, nor should it be. We live in a capitalist society and the almighty dollar is what makes the world go round. I have seen lindows and I prefer Mandrake. I initially downloaded 9.0 but went out and bought the boxed set. I did so because Mandrake needs money to survive.

Re: [newbie] Lindows - Mandrake Editions

2002-12-24 Thread Russ
There is nothing wrong with being compensated for ones work. Like you I have downloaded the 9.0 version and I am about to give it another try. If I can get it going I have nothing against purchasing a boxed version. Could someone give a quick comparison on the differences between the download,

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

2002-12-24 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 11:04, ET wrote: BTW, they changed the login from a ELN/username to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I still login fine with ELN/username. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free

[newbie] Way off topic Gospel of tux

2002-12-24 Thread Marc
I just thought some of you folks would enjoy this. Sorry if I am wasting bandwith for others Marc Every generation has a mythology. Every millenium has a doomsday cult. Every legend gets the distortion knob wound up until the speaker melts. Archeologists at the University of Helsinki

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

2002-12-24 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 12:15, John wrote: May I ask whether your Haupauge Win tv card can handle digital tv ? Is it analogue only / It is analog. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free

Re: [newbie] Crash Burners of the World Unite

2002-12-24 Thread Spencer Anderson
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 16:46:04 -0700 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:28 AM 12/24/2002 -0500, you 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

Re: [newbie] Way off topic Gospel of tux

2002-12-24 Thread mike
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 08:28 pm, you wrote: I just thought some of you folks would enjoy this. Sorry if I am wasting bandwith for others Marc Awesome! Mike -- Mandrake 8.2 2.4.18-8.1mdk http://micronuke.tripod.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Crash Burners of the World Unite

2002-12-24 Thread mycal62
How do I offer myself as a tester? -- Mike McNeese Springdale, Arkansas USA ° Currently triple booting 98lite; MDK 8.0 kernel 2.4.3-20; MDK 9.0 kernel 2.4.19-16 Registered Linux User #248955

Re: [newbie] Lindows

2002-12-24 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Monday 23 December 2002 08:10 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 23 Dec 2022 1:09 pm, robin wrote: Richard Babcock wrote: Greetings, I was just surfing the Wal-Mart site and found them hawking an OS called Lindows. Anyone know anything about this? It seems they are working hard to

Re: [newbie] Lindows

2002-12-24 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 18:03, Robin Turner wrote: What??! You have to pay a subscription fee to use Free Software? This is an insult to the people who wrote the stuff. It's not a subscription fee to use it. The subscription is for what they call a download warehouse that is set up to

Re: [newbie] Way off topic Gospel of tux

2002-12-24 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 24 December 2002 08:28 pm, Marc wrote: I just thought some of you folks would enjoy this. Sorry if I am wasting bandwith for others Marc Marc: Thanks for the very nice gift. Merry Christmas to you and yours. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

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