Re: [newbie] Microsoft Intellimouse disfunctional wheel

2003-01-30 Thread robin
Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 30 January 2003 08:44 pm, Jason Greenwood wrote: AFAIK, install a program called imwheel and run it via the cli (imwheel) to start the program. That should start the wheel working. Cheers Jason Dennis Myers wrote: Having been to the archives and checking

Re: [newbie] Microsoft Intellimouse disfunctional wheel

2003-01-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 14:23, Dennis Myers wrote: > Nope, still nothing, guess Charlies' suggestion will have to be considered. I > don't even have the third button function with the wheel let alone scrolling. > Bummer! Thanks for the suggestions any others? What happens if you choose a complete

Re: [newbie] Correction to "More on Alas and Alack'

2003-01-30 Thread civileme
On Thursday 30 January 2003 03:52 pm, Richard Babcock wrote: > Of course I have to jump on this! > > I would rather have my warts for free than pay slick Willie for them! > > -snip- > > > But some (actually many) among the Linux user base can't > > admit this: Anything that suggests that Li

Re: [newbie] Microsoft Intellimouse disfunctional wheel

2003-01-30 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 30 January 2003 08:44 pm, Jason Greenwood wrote: > AFAIK, install a program called imwheel and run it via the cli (imwheel) > to start the program. That should start the wheel working. > > Cheers > > Jason > > Dennis Myers wrote: > >Having been to the archives and checking my /etc files

Re: [newbie] Microsoft Intellimouse disfunctional wheel

2003-01-30 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 20:30:51 -0600 Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > any suggestions. Trade it in for a logitech (-: Never had 1 that didn't work out of the box, p/s2, usb, cordless and even the MX700 Charles We all like praise, but a hike in our pay is the best ki

Re: [newbie] Microsoft Intellimouse disfunctional wheel

2003-01-30 Thread Jason Greenwood
AFAIK, install a program called imwheel and run it via the cli (imwheel) to start the program. That should start the wheel working. Cheers Jason Dennis Myers wrote: Having been to the archives and checking my /etc files for the proper configuration on the mouse, I am still unable to use

Re: [newbie] Microsoft Intellimouse disfunctional wheel

2003-01-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 13:30, Dennis Myers wrote: > Having been to the archives and checking my /etc files for the proper > configuration on the mouse, I am still unable to use the wheel as a wheel or > third button. Has anyone an idea of what makes the little bugger work? TIA > for any suggesti

[newbie] Microsoft Intellimouse disfunctional wheel

2003-01-30 Thread Dennis Myers
Having been to the archives and checking my /etc files for the proper configuration on the mouse, I am still unable to use the wheel as a wheel or third button. Has anyone an idea of what makes the little bugger work? TIA for any suggestions. -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 Want to buy you

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!)

2003-01-30 Thread Larry Williams
On Thursday 30 January 2003 14:24, Anne Wilson wrote: > As root edit /etc/sysconfig/network and manually remove the GATEWAY entry. > Reboot the machine and the DNS resolution should start working ok. Actually, as I'm quickly learning, there shouldn't be a need to reboot. You will have to restart

Re: [newbie] Anyone using a Soltek mobo?

2003-01-30 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 13:54:18 + Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have read that there have been problems installing RH on Soltek > mobos. Is anyone using one with Mandrake? > Anne I'm running Mandrake 9.0 on a Soltek SL-KT400-A4/7 Socket A board, Via KT133 series, running an Athlo

Re: [newbie] Email Sig & Fortune question

2003-01-30 Thread FemmeFatale
On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 18:25, Todd Slater wrote: > On 30 Jan 2003 15:38:01 -0700 > heather <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I see lots of ppl have the Fortune program make them a sig for email. > > Usually random. How do I do this or where can I go for information on > > how to do this neat trick

RE: [newbie] PPPoE-client for Linux

2003-01-30 Thread Franki
with pppoe, DON'T use the Mandrake tool, it makes to many assumptions about your network settings.. in my case a good many of those assumptions were incorrect... install rp-pppoe, then open an console and type: adsl-setup answer the questions and thats it.. you are all set. rgds Frank -Or

Re: [newbie] Email Sig & Fortune question

2003-01-30 Thread Heather
On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 16:50, Chuck Burns wrote: > On Thu, January 30 2003 5:48 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: > *snipped stuff about making a siggy executable script* > You forgot the important part, Stephen.. telling kmail, or your other programs > from using the output of a script or file to gener

Re: [newbie] Email Sig & Fortune question

2003-01-30 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 17:50:20 -0600 Chuck Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, January 30 2003 5:48 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: > *snipped stuff about making a siggy executable script* > You forgot the important part, Stephen.. telling kmail, or your other > programs from using the output of

Re: [newbie] Email Sig & Fortune question

2003-01-30 Thread Todd Slater
On 30 Jan 2003 15:38:01 -0700 heather <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see lots of ppl have the Fortune program make them a sig for email. > Usually random. How do I do this or where can I go for information on > how to do this neat trick? :) > > Ty > Femme Here's mine: #!/bin/bash echo "-- "

Re: [newbie] fluxbox configuration

2003-01-30 Thread Jerry Barton
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 00:28:54 + Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: thanks, Mark, Derek! I'll take a look at the fluxbox site and at the files Derek suggested. Editing files is no problem, I don't need the fancy schmancy gui config tools (actually that kind of bloat is exactly what i'

Re: [newbie] fluxbox configuration

2003-01-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 11:00, Jerry Barton wrote: > I'm going to switch from using KDE to using Fluxbox but I have a few questions on >configuration... > Could someone refer me to a site (or if you're patient, email me off-list) that will >show me how to configure: > menus > startup progams > back

Re: [newbie] Email Sig & Fortune question

2003-01-30 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 31 Jan 2003 09:52:00 +1100 Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Attached is my signature generator. You're going to need to do a link > on/usr/games/fortune to your /usr/bin directory, but after that, it's > downhill... I stuck mine in /usr/bin and made it executable. fortune -a -s /us

Re: [newbie] kmail default browser

2003-01-30 Thread drake
Since I'm using Gnome can I assume that I just need to restart x and go into KDE to change the settings? On a side note the major reason I didn't use KDE long was that annoying startup sound. How do you turn that crapper off? On Thursday 30 January 2003 04:32 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursd

Re: [newbie] PPPoE-client for Linux

2003-01-30 Thread civileme
On Thursday 30 January 2003 12:30 pm, Anders Lind wrote: > Hello, > > I finally have got ADSL at home so now I am looking for a PPPoE-client > for Linux, somebody that can recommend one? > > Best Regards, > Anders rp-pppoe and it should be right on your mandrake install CDs Civileme Want to buy

Re: [newbie] BIGDRIVES (>128G) and MDK 9.0

2003-01-30 Thread civileme
On Thursday 30 January 2003 07:19 am, Brad Grissom wrote: > I don't belive that is true. I have mounted a 2 terabyte scsi disk with > MDK 9.0 no problem. It was an external scsi self-contained hardware based > RAID, but still only appeared as one logical drive to the system. > > ~~Brad > > On Thu

Re: [newbie] Email Sig & Fortune question

2003-01-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 09:38, heather wrote: > I see lots of ppl have the Fortune program make them a sig for email. > Usually random. How do I do this or where can I go for information on > how to do this neat trick? :) > > Ty > Femme Attached is my signature generator. You're going to need to

Re: [newbie] poor performance on software raid setup

2003-01-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 09:40, Greg wrote: > Hi Benjamin, > you were right. I should have thought of it from that point > of view. But even when I do a hdparm test on the > individual drives, I still get very low readings. The > drives are both set with basically everything turned off, > includi

Re: [newbie] poor performance on software raid setup

2003-01-30 Thread Greg
Hi Benjamin, you were right. I should have thought of it from that point of view. But even when I do a hdparm test on the individual drives, I still get very low readings. The drives are both set with basically everything turned off, including DMA. When I try to turn it on, it still tells me

[newbie] Email Sig & Fortune question

2003-01-30 Thread heather
I see lots of ppl have the Fortune program make them a sig for email. Usually random. How do I do this or where can I go for information on how to do this neat trick? :) Ty Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] kmail default browser

2003-01-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 10:00 pm, Derek wrote: > On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 7:38 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > When I click on links in kmail they don't come up with mozilla. How do I > > change this? > > KDE Control Centre>File Browsing>File Associations > search for the fie type html > > Move th

Re: [newbie] PPPoE-client for Linux

2003-01-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 10:17 pm, Anders Lind wrote: > > PPPoE is basically already built into the system, else you can use the > > PPPoE client from say, Roaring Penguin (RPM based so no thinking > > required) - I personally would try to stay within the actual parameters > > of the operating syst

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!)

2003-01-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 10:03 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Margot, I've been discussing your problem off-list with a knowledgeable friend. Here are his comments which should prove useful: It's probably the gateway setting. This is a recognised problem in Mdk 9 when you auto install and have a lan c

Re: [newbie] Xawtv

2003-01-30 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 30 January 2003 09:58 am, Pajó (N7) wrote: > I need help with my Flyvideo98 TV card Ronald (great name there! ), I had something like this happen to me with my WinTV card. (hauppage based). Everytime I used it while on the 'Net, it would lock my whole system up hard. It turned out to

Re: [newbie] PPPoE-client for Linux

2003-01-30 Thread Anders Lind
> Ok, so it seems that humour is lost on the group today, so I shall > remain humourless for the duration of the day. I am not feeling all that humourfull after fighting with my new PC, just how to get into the computer to attach my CD-burner and harddrive from the old one nearly got me an hearta

Re: [newbie] PPPoE-client for Linux

2003-01-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 08:48, Anders Lind wrote: > > Yes. Linux. > > Ehh...emm...now I am not sure I follow, could I just set it up via > dhcpcd or pump and it will run? > > /Anders Ok, so it seems that humour is lost on the group today, so I shall remain humourless for the duration of the day.

Re: [newbie] Repost: MandrakeOnline?

2003-01-30 Thread Derek
On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 8:31 pm, Terry Sheltra wrote: > Strange behavior .. nothing showed up in my last response. This is what > it said: > > Hey Anne, > > I did post a question after that. It dealt with MandrakeOnline, and read: > > Is there a way to schedule a computer that's registered with >

Re: [newbie] kmail default browser

2003-01-30 Thread Derek
On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 7:38 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When I click on links in kmail they don't come up with mozilla. How do I > change this? KDE Control Centre>File Browsing>File Associations search for the fie type html Move the application of your choice to the top of the list. derek

Re: [newbie] Starting apps on GNOME start?

2003-01-30 Thread David Robertson
On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 9:30 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > I'm rather surprised that it's not doing it automagically - if you leave > an applicaton running when you exit Gnome2, it should, said SHOULD start > running when ya start it back up again... > > ...or maybe that was a bit of functionality th

Re: [newbie] PPPoE-client for Linux

2003-01-30 Thread Anders Lind
> Yes. Linux. Ehh...emm...now I am not sure I follow, could I just set it up via dhcpcd or pump and it will run? /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] PPPoE-client for Linux

2003-01-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 08:30, Anders Lind wrote: > Hello, > > I finally have got ADSL at home so now I am looking for a PPPoE-client > for Linux, somebody that can recommend one? > > Best Regards, > Anders Yes. Linux. -- Fri, 31 Jan 2003 08:40:00 +1100 8:40am up 11:37, 4 users, load averag

[newbie] PPPoE-client for Linux

2003-01-30 Thread Anders Lind
Hello, I finally have got ADSL at home so now I am looking for a PPPoE-client for Linux, somebody that can recommend one? Best Regards, Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Starting apps on GNOME start?

2003-01-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 06:23, Jerry Barton wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 11:26:33 -0500 > Terry Sheltra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How can I configure an app to run when I login to GNOME? I want to be > > able to run gkrellm when I login, without having to manually run it > > everytime. > >

Re: [newbie] Correction to "More on Alas and Alack'

2003-01-30 Thread Dennis & Sue
Here is a copy of my reply to Fred Langa. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [langalist] LangaList Standard Edition 2003-01-27 Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 04:53:03 -0500 From: Dennis & Sue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Fred, Been a reader for years, I like your news

Re: [newbie] poor performance on software raid setup

2003-01-30 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Thu 2003-01-30 at 21:47:11 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > raid, I would get results around > 387mb cache, and 45mb read. The settings I would use on > these systems would be hdparm -X68 -c3 -d1 -u1 -m16. > Now, when I ran hdparm in md9 (had to install, the distro > didn't have it

Re: [newbie] Anyone using a Soltek mobo?

2003-01-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 8:42 pm, Sharrea wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 02:54, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I have read that there have been problems installing RH on Soltek mobos. > > Is anyone using one with Mandrake? > > > > Anne > > I have the SL-75KAV. There were hardware issues with the 686B Southbr

Re: [newbie] Javascript and browsers -NS7

2003-01-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 8:31 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: > Actually you don't have to do that at all. Start Netscape with the > "-ProfileManager" argument and create just the profile for Netscape. > That should take care of Netscape. > > As for Mozilla, since the two are sharing a home dir, (.mozilla)

Re: [newbie] Anyone using a Soltek mobo?

2003-01-30 Thread Sharrea
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 02:54, Anne Wilson wrote: > I have read that there have been problems installing RH on Soltek mobos. > Is anyone using one with Mandrake? > > Anne I have the SL-75KAV. There were hardware issues with the 686B Southbridge and the KT133A Northbridge in MDK8.0. A workaround wa

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Wheel mouse and laptop?

2003-01-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 8:38 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 15:14:11 -0500 > > Terry Sheltra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > This is what was received. > What did you send? > There are some odd things going on at the moment. You w

[newbie] Repost: MandrakeOnline?

2003-01-30 Thread Terry Sheltra
Strange behavior .. nothing showed up in my last response. This is what it said: Hey Anne, I did post a question after that. It dealt with MandrakeOnline, and read: Is there a way to schedule a computer that's registered with MandrakeOnline to do updates earlier in the day than around midnig

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Wheel mouse and laptop?

2003-01-30 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 15:14:11 -0500 Terry Sheltra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. This is what was received. What did you send? Charles The universe is an island, surrounded by whatever it is that surrounds universes. --

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Wheel mouse and laptop?

2003-01-30 Thread Terry Sheltra
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] kmail default browser

2003-01-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
When I click on links in kmail they don't come up with mozilla. How do I change this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] mencoder: some questions

2003-01-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I was using it but then I started using dvdrip and transcode. Unfortunately it's graphical and you cant script it to run overnight. But it does a nice job of cropping and scaling... http://plf.zarb.org/ On Wednesday 29 January 2003 02:17 pm, Joan Tur wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE

Re: [newbie] Correction to "More on Alas and Alack'

2003-01-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 7:09 pm, alex wrote: > My "crime," in the eyes of some Linuxen, is in the article > at http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20030124S0013 . > You see, I counted the number of patches, bug fixes and > updates released for Red Hat Linux 7.2, and compared that to > the numbe

Re: [newbie] Starting apps on GNOME start?

2003-01-30 Thread Terry Sheltra
Thanks Jerry. Was starting to wonder if my posts were making it to the list. Hadn't had any responses to my last question. That did the trick! Terry Jerry Barton wrote: If you open the gnome control center (mandrake menu/configuration/gnome control center) then go to "Advanced" and the to "S

Re: [newbie] Correction to "More on Alas and Alack'

2003-01-30 Thread Charlie
On Thursday 30 January 2003 12:09 pm, alex wrote: Filtered. -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 http://counter.li.org Life is too short to stuff a mushroom. -- Storm Jameson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.c

Re: [newbie] Starting apps on GNOME start?

2003-01-30 Thread Jerry Barton
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 11:26:33 -0500 Terry Sheltra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I configure an app to run when I login to GNOME? I want to be > able to run gkrellm when I login, without having to manually run it > everytime. > > Thanks! > > -- > Terry Sheltra If you open the gnome cont

[newbie] Correction to "More on Alas and Alack'

2003-01-30 Thread alex
Sorry about sending the wrong URL in my previous 'More on Alas and Alack'. Rather than sending a new URL, I am sending a copy of Mr. Langa's response to what he says was a Firestorm of responses from Linux devotees.-alex -- (Quote) 1) Firestorm! OK

Re: [newbie] slow after 9.0 install

2003-01-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 6:30 pm, et wrote: > > > > > I would suggest you turn of DNS, caching name server, named, routed and > > > yp services and other YP services (unless you need them and understand > > > how to correctly configure them > > > > seems that named (a DNS) would be the only one i n

Re: [newbie] slow after 9.0 install

2003-01-30 Thread et
> > > > I would suggest you turn of DNS, caching name server, named, routed and > > yp services and other YP services (unless you need them and understand > > how to correctly configure them > > seems that named (a DNS) would be the only one i need of the ones you > mentioned as i am attempting to

Re: [newbie] slow after 9.0 install

2003-01-30 Thread iggy
On Thursday 30 January 2003 12:56 pm, et wrote: > On Thursday 30 January 2003 11:42 am, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of iggy > > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 10:08 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > S

Re: [newbie] slow after 9.0 install

2003-01-30 Thread iggy
On Thursday 30 January 2003 11:42 am, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of iggy > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 10:08 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] slow after 9.0 install > > On Thursday 30

Re: [newbie] locked floppy and cdrom2 drives

2003-01-30 Thread iggy
On Thursday 30 January 2003 05:22 am, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 2:24 am, iggy wrote: > > i've searched through the archives looking for past threads and have been > > unsuccessful, so here goes... > > > > if i log in as "iggy" or "root", either way the floppy drive (fd0, i onl

Re: [newbie] locked floppy and cdrom2 drives (resolved)

2003-01-30 Thread iggy
that did it. after i deleted the files i was able go into userdrake and add cdrom2 and floppy to user "iggy". afterwards, i was able to browse both. thank you and Anne W.. (same suggestion) very much. -iggy On Thursday 30 January 2003 07:44 am, Douglas B. wrote: > don't know about the drives

Re: [newbie] locked floppy and cdrom2 drives (resolved)

2003-01-30 Thread iggy
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 10:29 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > On Wednesday 29 January 2003 08:24 pm, iggy wrote: > > i've searched through the archives looking for past threads and have been > > unsuccessful, so here goes... > > > > if i log in as "iggy" or "root", either way the floppy drive (fd0,

Re: [newbie] locked floppy and cdrom2 drives (resolved)

2003-01-30 Thread iggy
On Thursday 30 January 2003 02:46 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 2:24 am, iggy wrote: > > i've searched through the archives looking for past threads and have been > > unsuccessful, so here goes... > > > > if i log in as "iggy" or "root", either way the floppy drive (fd0, i only >

Re: [newbie] slow after 9.0 install

2003-01-30 Thread et
On Thursday 30 January 2003 11:42 am, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of iggy > Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 10:08 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] slow after 9.0 install > > On Thursday 30

Re: [newbie] Javascript and browsers -NS7

2003-01-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 5:02 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > >>>What things can I check? Moz shows > > >>>libjavaplugin_oji.so > > >>>libnullplugin.so > > >>>nppdf.so > > >>>libflashplayer.so > > >>>rpnp.so > > >>> > > >>>What's missing? > > >>> > > >>>Anne > > >> > > >>I don't know if its anything to

Re: [newbie] BIGDRIVES (>128G) and MDK 9.0

2003-01-30 Thread Michael Viron
I was talking about IDE hard drives, not SCSI or RAID arrays -- sorry that I didn't make that clearer. Michael At 09:19 AM 1/30/2003 -0700, you wrote: >I don't belive that is true. I have mounted a 2 terabyte scsi disk with MDK >9.0 no problem. It was an external scsi self-contained hardware ba

Re: [newbie] More on "Alas and Alack"

2003-01-30 Thread Charlie
On Thursday 30 January 2003 07:23 am, alex wrote: > http://www.langa.com/sendit2.htm Stay under the MS umbrella Radsky. I personally don't need to read this crap here and have zero interest in what Microsoft mavens think of open source. I use what I want and these opinions are just so much noise

RE: [newbie] slow after 9.0 install

2003-01-30 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] slow after 9.0 install -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of iggy Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 10:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] slow after 9.0 install On Thursday 30 January 2003 07:53 am, robi

Re: [newbie] Javascript and browsers

2003-01-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 2:00 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 12:54 pm, Peter Watson wrote: > >>On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 12:11, Anne Wilson wrote: > >>>I'm still having a lot of problems with javascript in browsers - all > >>>browsers, Moz, NSCP7, Galleon, Konq

Re: [newbie] Microsoft User Group

2003-01-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 1:12 pm, Rifza Adriansyah wrote: > In Indonesia, it is difficult to eliminate software piracy because the > lecturers at University/College use Windows and Software under > Windows to teach their Computer Science students. Microsoft Indonesia > bound the campus with "Campus

Re: [newbie] BIGDRIVES (>128G) and MDK 9.0

2003-01-30 Thread Brad Grissom
I don't belive that is true. I have mounted a 2 terabyte scsi disk with MDK 9.0 no problem. It was an external scsi self-contained hardware based RAID, but still only appeared as one logical drive to the system. ~~Brad On Thursday 30 January 2003 06:31 am, you wrote: > At this point, hard dri

[newbie] Starting apps on GNOME start?

2003-01-30 Thread Terry Sheltra
How can I configure an app to run when I login to GNOME? I want to be able to run gkrellm when I login, without having to manually run it everytime. Thanks! -- Terry Sheltra PC Technician/Asst. Network Administrator University of Virginia School of Architecture 434.982.3047 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: [newbie] slow after 9.0 install

2003-01-30 Thread iggy
On Thursday 30 January 2003 07:53 am, robin wrote: > iggy wrote: > >dear all, > > > >***symptoms*** i recently installed 9.0 and have noticed that it is > > painfully slow. i'm very surprised as 8.2 ran like a bat out of hell. > > > >***pertinate info*** msi mobo(i don't remember the model offha

Re: [newbie] Very slow loading KDE and gnome

2003-01-30 Thread Fred Fraley
Many, many thanks to all for the sugestions. My thoughts as I sort through them... I am using a Duron 850 with 512 megs. The system boots fine. KDE through Debian loads <> faster on a slower machine with less memory, so to me that rules out memory/CPU and points to configuration, eit

Re: [newbie] Microsoft User Group

2003-01-30 Thread Rifza Adriansyah
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 30 January 2003 11:25 am, Kesav Tadimeti wrote: > Hi all, > It makes sense to use some sensible linux distro instead of using > pirated MS s/w. > Consider - Windows OS ($8/-) + MS Office ($8/-) + MSVC ($8/-) + > SqlServer ($8/-) + Adobe sui

[newbie] More on "Alas and Alack"

2003-01-30 Thread alex
http://www.langa.com/sendit2.htm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Shorewall and Slammer

2003-01-30 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 11:15 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: > Oh btw, Kaj, you lost your bet :P March 3 it isn't! Did we bet ? - Anyway, I'm very glad you are back and well, Femme ! Kaj Haulrich. P.S. The portscanning of my box doesn't seem to affect anything, so I suppose Shorewall is doing

Re: [newbie] Javascript and browsers

2003-01-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 12:54 pm, Peter Watson wrote: > On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 12:11, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I'm still having a lot of problems with javascript in browsers - all > > browsers, Moz, NSCP7, Galleon, Konq. In each case I have javascript > > enabled for browsing (not mail & ng in Moz)

Re: [newbie] how to automatically upgrade mandrake

2003-01-30 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 7:29 am, Angus Auld wrote: > - Original Message - > From: Steve Jeppesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 10:58:26 + > > > > Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you want to make it automatic putting these commands in a cron job > > > w

Re: [newbie] slow after 9.0 install

2003-01-30 Thread robin
iggy wrote: dear all, ***symptoms*** i recently installed 9.0 and have noticed that it is painfully slow. i'm very surprised as 8.2 ran like a bat out of hell. ***pertinate info*** msi mobo(i don't remember the model offhand), amd 1700+ cpu, 256 mb ram (unknown manufacturer), wd 40gb hard

Re: [newbie] locked floppy and cdrom2 drives

2003-01-30 Thread Douglas B.
don't know about the drives but regarding configuring users - just deleting /etc/ptmp and /etc/gtmp (as su) seems to have no ill effects and frees up useradd, configuring groups and users, etc. Doug On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 02:24, iggy wrote: > i've searched through the archives looking for pas

Re: [newbie] HELLLLPPP!!

2003-01-30 Thread _nasturtium
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 11:46 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 29 Jan 2003 10:49 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > > I have no idea of what is the problem you are experiencing. Corrupted > > boot partition, maybe? > > I've just realised that the reply sent earlier via webmail will not come > through.

Re: [newbie] Javascript and browsers

2003-01-30 Thread Peter Watson
On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 12:11, Anne Wilson wrote: > I'm still having a lot of problems with javascript in browsers - all > browsers, Moz, NSCP7, Galleon, Konq. In each case I have javascript > enabled for browsing (not mail & ng in Moz). Yet javascript doesn't > seem to work in any except Konq.

Re: [newbie] Sharing printers via SAMBA

2003-01-30 Thread et
on win box, change the "print Processor" from "emf" to "raw" (on mine , start,> settings,> printer,> Samba printer,> Advanced,> print Processor,> dropdown menu selected raw. might be different since different print drivers get different setups On Thursday 30 January 2003 05:03 am, [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [newbie] Sharing printers via SAMBA + pdf writing printer

2003-01-30 Thread Anne Wilson
Great news - Cheers Anne On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 12:04 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Excellent, I've change the path to /var/spool/samba. It now works fine !! > > I even managed to get my pseudo pdf printer to work properly ! > -Original Message- > From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

RE: [newbie] Microsoft User Group

2003-01-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 09:52, Robert Wideman wrote: > In Asia he (Gates) is trying to crack down on piracy...its where 75% of > piracy comes from in the world. Dont know how well it is working for him. > About 3 months ago i heard about a ship in international waters off the > coast of the Philipin

Re: [newbie] Logitech MX500 Mouse Support

2003-01-30 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 08:08:35 +0100 Jure Repinc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have this mouse and is using it under Mandrake? How does > it work? Are all of the buttons functional? Depends on what you mean by do all the buttons work. The wheel works and the top speed scroll buttons ope

[newbie] Javascript and browsers

2003-01-30 Thread Anne Wilson
I'm still having a lot of problems with javascript in browsers - all browsers, Moz, NSCP7, Galleon, Konq. In each case I have javascript enabled for browsing (not mail & ng in Moz). Yet javascript doesn't seem to work in any except Konq. Even in Konq, if I go to, for instance, the bookmarklet

RE: [newbie] Sharing printers via SAMBA + pdf writing printer

2003-01-30 Thread Jamie . Kerwick
Excellent, I've change the path to /var/spool/samba. It now works fine !! I even managed to get my pseudo pdf printer to work properly ! Thanks, Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ITS Internal Extension : 5806 Direct Dial: 0870 754 5806 --

Re: [newbie] apt4rpm

2003-01-30 Thread David Robertson
On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 19:41, Todd Slater wrote: > Is anybody out there using apt4rpm? If so, what are your impressions of > it? > In the absence of any other replies: I have used apr4rpm with SuSE 8.0 and 8.1, but not with Mandrake. With SuSE it was very useful because there is no online software

Re: [newbie] Sharing printers via SAMBA

2003-01-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 10:37 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've had a look in the log file, it appears to be a permissions problem. > > The log entry is: > > [2003/01/30 09:50:23, 0] printing/printing.c:print_job_start(951) > print_job_start: insufficient permissions to open spool file > /var/spo

[newbie] poor performance on software raid setup

2003-01-30 Thread Greg
Hi list, just installed md yesterday. When setting up partitions I decided to use software raid on the recomendations of some that it can give a good increase in performance. Previously on my other linux installs, taking the hdparm readings as a performance measure, when not using software raid,

RE: [newbie] Sharing printers via SAMBA

2003-01-30 Thread Jamie . Kerwick
I've had a look in the log file, it appears to be a permissions problem. The log entry is: [2003/01/30 09:50:23, 0] printing/printing.c:print_job_start(951) print_job_start: insufficient permissions to open spool file /var/spool/cups/tmp/smbprn.27.SRAafA. What do I need to change in smb.con

Re: [newbie] HELLLLPPP!!

2003-01-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 10:31 am, you wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 09:21 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 10:10 am, you wrote: > > > Came through for me. > > > > > > Superior email address? :-) > > > > > > _nasturtium > > > > Sorry for sending it to you all twice. I have at times

[newbie] Printing from browsers

2003-01-30 Thread Anne Wilson
I meet all sorts of oddities when I try to print web pages direct from a browser. The biggest problem appears to me to come from web pages where everything is set to proportional. Since none of the linux browsers that I have met allow me to print only a selected frame (Galleon says it does - b

Re: [newbie] locked floppy and cdrom2 drives

2003-01-30 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 2:24 am, iggy wrote: > i've searched through the archives looking for past threads and have been > unsuccessful, so here goes... > > if i log in as "iggy" or "root", either way the floppy drive (fd0, i only > have one) and cdrom2 have a locked icon in konqueror. > > in the c

Re: [newbie] Abiword in 9.0

2003-01-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 10:10 am, _nasturtium wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 05:38 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > OK, I am new to Mandrake, but not Linux, I ran RH 6.2-8.0 where it > > died for me. > > > > So now I am reasonably happy with Mandrake, but missing my abiword. I > > can't seem to find a rp

Re: [newbie] Sharing printers via SAMBA

2003-01-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 10:03 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It has almost got me going. Windows now reports the printer as 'ready' > however whenever I try and print 'explorer.exe has encountered a problem', > or I get 'unable to create print job' any suggestions ?? (The printer is a > HP LaserJet

Re: [newbie] Abiword in 9.0

2003-01-30 Thread _nasturtium
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 05:38 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > OK, I am new to Mandrake, but not Linux, I ran RH 6.2-8.0 where it > died for me. > > So now I am reasonably happy with Mandrake, but missing my abiword. I > can't seem to find a rpm for it that will run. I purchased the > download edition, and w

RE: [newbie] Sharing printers via SAMBA

2003-01-30 Thread Jamie . Kerwick
It has almost got me going. Windows now reports the printer as 'ready' however whenever I try and print 'explorer.exe has encountered a problem', or I get 'unable to create print job' any suggestions ?? (The printer is a HP LaserJet 4 using the driver that comes with windows. The printer is also sh

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!)

2003-01-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 29 Jan 2003 7:53 pm, Margot wrote: > TCP/IP settings from windoze machine: > All the following are checked: > Server assigned IP address > Server assigned name server address > Use IP header compression > Use default gateway on remote network > > The servers are: > POP server: pop.eur

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