Re: [newbie] Evolution update help

2003-01-15 Thread Adolfo Bello
I have a couple of questions here: 1. Where is Evolution now?? /usr/bin 2. How do I add it back to my menu and icon bar (as well as Red Carpet)?? No idea Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Mozilla locks my machine during downloads

2003-01-15 Thread Adolfo Bello
Let me describe briefly my home network set up: The XP machine has two NICs, one hooked to the ADSL modem/router and the other one, which ICS configure automatically as 192.168.0.1, connected to a 10 Mbps hub (I hope I'll get soon a cheap 100Mbps switch). The other two machines in the

Re: [newbie] keyboard internationalization extended ASCII issues

2003-01-15 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 23:24, Warren Post wrote: El sáb, 11-01-2003 a las 19:16, Andrei Raevsky escribió: 1) I have a US keyboard on my laptop. I would like to type in French letters with accents (such as é or à).. Use the Mandrake Control Center to change your keyboard to U.S.

Re: [newbie] Its official.... :-(

2003-01-15 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 20:59, Miark wrote: On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 09:41:39 -0800 Myers, Dennis R NWO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The article says Chapter 11, so maybe they will be able to pull themselves out of this mess Damn right. I don't see this as bad news at all. In fact, it's

Re: [newbie] problems with new install

2003-01-15 Thread Colin Jenkins
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 21:01:51 -0500 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Colin, For your printing have you tried installing Cups for that. Cups does a real nice job of taking care of printing needs and has the drivers for most, if not all, of the major brands of printers you can get these

Re: [newbie] problems with new install

2003-01-15 Thread Mark Weaver
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 03:17 am, Colin Jenkins scribbled nervously: On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 21:01:51 -0500 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Colin, For your printing have you tried installing Cups for that. Cups does a real nice job of taking care of printing needs and has the

Re: [newbie] Its official.... :-(

2003-01-15 Thread Miark
Same here. I just renewed this afternoon. Go Mandrake! Miark On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 12:37:31 -0600 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: _We_ can help. Join the Club, or if you're already a member, renew early. I did a few weeks ago, I'm confident Mandrake will continue. -- Tom

Re: [newbie] keyboard internationalization extended ASCII issues

2003-01-15 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 13 January 2003 04:19, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 23:24, Warren Post wrote: El sáb, 11-01-2003 a las 19:16, Andrei Raevsky escribió: 1) I have a US keyboard on my laptop. I would like to type in French letters with accents (such as é or à).. Use the Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Thanx :-)

2003-01-15 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 16 Jan 2003 4:13 am, Birger wrote: Hi everyone I never got my Mandrake 9.0 to work, but i downloaded Mandrake 8.2 love at first sight. in it installed perfect im writing at this moment using Evolution 1.0.2 And hey i can still chat with my friends with amsn Yes. I use an

Re: [newbie] mplayer gui

2003-01-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 03:15, Terry Sheltra wrote: Len, Thanks for all of your help. I now have mplayer working (sort of), AND keeping my settings! :-) What isn't quite working yet is the audio. I put in a DVD that we have lying around here at the office (Crouching Tiger, Hidden

Re: [newbie] DHCP release/renewal

2003-01-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 04:40, Noquar wrote: Hi all, this is my first time posting to this list. The question I had was this... I run two computers off a hub/switch in my house on a cable modem, my ISP will assign a separate IP to both so it doesn't require a router. My Windows machine has

Re: [newbie] Gnome Search

2003-01-15 Thread RichardA
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 03:43, Michael Adams wrote: On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 09:25, RichardA wrote: On Tuesday 14 January 2003 08:53, Tom Brinkman wrote: [snip] or by anacron when you boot (if that's installed, I don't believe it is by default). If anacron isn't installed by

RE: [newbie] graphic utility

2003-01-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 05:34, Schwenk, Jeanie wrote: I'm sure there must be a utility to do this but I don't know what it's called on linux. I need to be able to take a screenshot and save it to a file and have it be viewable by someone who lives on the Windows platform. Anybody know the name

Re: [newbie] Which file system?

2003-01-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 12:37, Adolfo Bello wrote: I have seen some posting regarding file system support on upcoming 9.1. What is the best file system for the root partition? Ext2, Ext3, ReinserFS, XFS? Adolfo EXT3 for the root, then you can use whatever you like after that - ReiserFS is

Re: [newbie] Evolution update help

2003-01-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 10:09, Adolfo Bello wrote: I have a couple of questions here: 1. Where is Evolution now?? /usr/bin 2. How do I add it back to my menu and icon bar (as well as Red Carpet)?? No idea Adolfo You can very easily add Evolution and Red Carpet both to your menu - but

Re: [newbie] install modem

2003-01-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 01:04, Gil Katz wrote: Hi i got new modem rockwell HSF i downloaded the driver from the site and install it after wards i run the configuration program and in the end i got a message that the modem is ok and i can access it via /dev/ttySHSF0 but when i try to configure

Re: [newbie] ? Looking for modem driver

2003-01-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 08:04, mbot wrote: Hello newbie, Is there anyone here know where to find the driver for my modem as follows: Prolink Twister Series V.92 VID: x14F1 Conexant System Inc. DID: x2F00 cx11252-11 HSF 56k HSFi SubVID: x14F1 Conexant SubID: x2002 no-name rev: x01

Re: [newbie] Mozilla locks my machine during downloads

2003-01-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 15:11, Adolfo Bello wrote: Stephen, This saga keeps going. Today, when receiving my emails (only Evolution was connected), the connection to the LAN was lost. For a couple of minutes I couldn't even ping the gateway. I tried a few times with the same outcome: I

Re: [newbie] Its official.... :-(

2003-01-15 Thread walt
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 18:45, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 14 January 2003 20:59, Miark wrote: On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 09:41:39 -0800 Any which way, this is not born out of luxury! It certainly doesn't attract investors. I've renewed my club silver-membership so often lately I don't even

Re: [newbie] Its official.... :-(

2003-01-15 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 23:20, walt wrote: One problem is that if you do not have a debit or credit card, you can not join the Mandrake club. I am looking forward to the 9.1 release and plan on buying the power pack when it is released. I am also going to look into buying OTC stock in

Re: [newbie] graphic utility

2003-01-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why doesn't this work with dvds played through xine? On Wednesday 15 January 2003 09:53 am, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Wednesday 15 January 2003 18:34, Schwenk, Jeanie wrote: I'm sure there must be a utility to do this but I don't know what it's called on linux. I need to be able to take a

Re: [newbie] Recognition of Todd Lyons

2003-01-15 Thread Peter Watson
On Wednesday 15 Jan 2003 16:51, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I want to make an official appeal to the Mandrake management to keep Todd Lyons securely in the company, in the recent light of current events regarding the Chapter 11. Todd Lyons has been an incredible asset to the Expert list, helping

[newbie] A Marketing Method

2003-01-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
As I stated once before, Mandrake could learn a bit from it's competitors - and a for instance is to come. I don't doubt that Mandrake will get better, or do better as a Desktop distro - I think they're on the road to it - just a matter of time and working out all the bugs here and there - and

Re: [newbie] Its official.... :-(

2003-01-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 11:28, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Wednesday 15 January 2003 23:20, walt wrote: One problem is that if you do not have a debit or credit card, you can not join the Mandrake club. I am looking forward to the 9.1 release and plan on buying the power pack when it is

Re: [newbie] [OT] Mandrake Financial Problems

2003-01-15 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 07:28, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 07:52, Brandon Vanderberg wrote: But, obviously, HTML should be avoided. Yes, and I want to download 9.1 with Xmodem. Anybody got mandrake's modem number? I generally take this in the light spirit that it

Re: [newbie] Which file system?

2003-01-15 Thread Charlie
On January 15, 2003 03:52 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 12:37, Adolfo Bello wrote: I have seen some posting regarding file system support on upcoming 9.1. What is the best file system for the root partition? Ext2, Ext3, ReinserFS, XFS? Adolfo EXT3 for the root, then

Re: [newbie] Its official.... :-(

2003-01-15 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 23:44, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 11:28, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Wednesday 15 January 2003 23:20, walt wrote: One problem is that if you do not have a debit or credit card, you can not join the Mandrake club. I am looking forward to the 9.1

RE: [newbie] graphic utility

2003-01-15 Thread Schwenk, Jeanie
Thank you. I'll try that. I happen to prefer KDE. Jeanie -Original Message- From: Damian Gatabria [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 7:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] graphic utility On Wednesday 15 January 2003 18:34, Schwenk, Jeanie

Re: [newbie] Its official.... :-(

2003-01-15 Thread Sascha Noyes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would suggest that everyone read the following comment by long-time contributer Ben Reser on Mandrakes financial situation: ¨Why the Mandrake Community should move on...¨ http://ben.reser.org/rants/invisible.cgi?month=01day=15year=2003t=00 Sascha

[newbie] OT - MS going open source

2003-01-15 Thread Sharrea
Came across this article today at http://www.fool.com/News/Take/2003/take030115.htm With governments from various countries switching to Linux, Micro$haft is obviously getting more than a little worried. hehe... Too late, they've missed the potential market in China... too bad... Here's an

[newbie] postfix problems

2003-01-15 Thread - netmaniac -
I've two mail servers on my network: a w2kserver and a linux one. The w2k box is the PDC which is connected to the internet and the mail server is working fine. But, when I try to send any e-mail to the linux box (postfix) I can't read them. I mean, I don't know where they went to. There's nothing

[newbie] Netscape Email print problem

2003-01-15 Thread Bob Read
I have been using Netscape for email for years (currently 4.78) and haven't had problems. Recently when trying to print an email where the body is HTML, only the header is printed. Anyone have an idea why, and how to print the whole email? This is happening both on 8an 8.1 updated to 8.2 and

[newbie] postfix problems

2003-01-15 Thread - netmaniac -
I've two mail servers on my network: a w2kserver and a linux one. The w2k box is the PDC which is connected to the internet and its mail server is working fine. But, when I try to send any e-mail to the linux box (postfix) I can't read them. I mean, I don't know where they went to. There's nothing

[newbie] samba - not writeable

2003-01-15 Thread Allan Andersen
Hi everyone, I've 2 problems with my samba. 1. When I look at the share from my Windows all the none US chars are showed wired or sometimes not even showed at all. 2. I would like my user to have write permissions (when I log in from the Windows PC) at the share but somehow I get denied. My

Re: [newbie] Netscape Email print problem

2003-01-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 15:22, Bob Read wrote: I have been using Netscape for email for years (currently 4.78) and haven't had problems. Recently when trying to print an email where the body is HTML, only the header is printed. Anyone have an idea why, and how to print the whole email?

Re: [newbie] postfix problems

2003-01-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 15:22, - netmaniac - wrote: I've two mail servers on my network: a w2kserver and a linux one. The w2k box is the PDC which is connected to the internet and the mail server is working fine. But, when I try to send any e-mail to the linux box (postfix) I can't read them. I

Re: [newbie] graphic utility

2003-01-15 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 23:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why doesn't this work with dvds played through xine? you mean ksnapshot or the import command? anyway, it might be a feature of the driver xine is using to display the movie -- seen it happen in Windows using WMP.. you try to grab a

Re: [newbie] samba - not writeable

2003-01-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 15:33, Allan Andersen wrote: Hi everyone, I've 2 problems with my samba. 1. When I look at the share from my Windows all the none US chars are showed wired or sometimes not even showed at all. 2. I would like my user to have write permissions (when I log in from

[newbie] postfix problems

2003-01-15 Thread - netmaniac -
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Re: [newbie] problems with new install

2003-01-15 Thread Colin Jenkins
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 12:01:14 -0500 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have you tried making the changes to resolv.conf and the chmod'ing the file to 600 so that its readOnly? I'd give that a try and see if your changes stick after a reboot. dont really understand this, but switching to

[newbie] vi settings

2003-01-15 Thread Zane Minninger
I am using vi at the command prompt. I'm not that proficient at it yet but MDK 8.2 had the right directory for the help file. The installation for 9.0 that I just installed gives me an error, can't find help.txt in /home/tv/ETC/help.txt. Where can I change where the program looks for

Re: [newbie] Recognition of Todd Lyons

2003-01-15 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 18:36, Peter Watson wrote: I wrote to Jaques le Marois when I heard that Civileme was to be booted and received a snotty reply for my trouble. I certainly agree with you about the contribution that Todd makes, but I'm not sure that Mandrake are sophisticated enough

Re: [newbie] DHCP release/renewal

2003-01-15 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 18:14, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Linux or UNIX are inherently shitting with being DHCP clients - if anything, static IP is preferred to anything else. Sorry - there are heaps of work-arounds, but in reality, nothing beats the stability of static. I used to say something

Re: [newbie] Gotta new scanner...

2003-01-15 Thread s
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 7:39 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Gotta new scanner - Canon N670U - otherwise known as an LIDE 20 - so before I start trying to get this thang hooked up, anyone else running it? (It's USB...) Cheers! Now see, you done went and done it backwards... you're supposed to

Re: [newbie] A Marketing Method

2003-01-15 Thread Graham
Stephen Kuhn wrote: snip But overall, one thing that they should consider is the pricing plan. Economies in different countries are different - so when someone in say, Australia, has to contend with paying $40USD for something, it's more like $80AUD - and that's a bit of a steep price to pay. If

Re: [newbie] Its official.... :-(

2003-01-15 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 21:39, Miark wrote: Despite today's date, he doesn't know what's going on with Mandrake's bankruptcy. He complains about the low value of boxed Linux-Mandrake, and say that Mandrake Club is useless and that votes mean nothing. He's suggesting mutiny against Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Its official.... :-(

2003-01-15 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 23:05, Dennis Myers wrote: I find that an opposing point of view always helps me focus on my own perceptions and reasoning behind my point of view. This is one of those articles that helped me focus. I agree that the so called value of Mandrake Club is minimal for

Re: [newbie] graphic utility

2003-01-15 Thread Rob Lindsay
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 09:34 pm, you wrote: I'm sure there must be a utility to do this but I don't know what it's called on linux. I need to be able to take a screenshot and save it to a file and have it be viewable by someone who lives on the Windows platform. Anybody know the name of

Re: [newbie] samba - not writeable

2003-01-15 Thread Sharrea
Oops... sorry Allan, meant to send this to the list. Also note that I added my old settings for my 'sharrea' share at the bottom - the settings that were read-only. On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 17:33, Allan Andersen wrote: 1. When I look at the share from my Windows all the none US chars are showed

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