[newbie-it] DB e Linux

2003-02-01 Thread Stefano Sebastiani
Per lavoro utilizzo ogni tanto dei Data Base. Ho iniziato con DB3 poi Paradox per DOS poi attualmente Access. Vorrei fare qualcosa con Linux ma non conosco i prodotti che ci sono, chi mi manda un link pewr un buon tutorial in italiano e lò'indicazione di una interfaccia per gestire un DB con

Re: [newbie-it] Notebook for linux

2003-02-01 Thread Marco Balzarini
Il ven, 2003-01-31 alle 12:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Ohilà bella gioventù, prima che vi tormenti con mail tipo ( modem help, etc.) mi potreste dire se c'è un portatile su cui posso installare mdk9 senza alcun problema? Voi ne avete qualcuno? Io vorrei avere qualche vostro

[newbie-it] help zope

2003-02-01 Thread Yddu
Qualcuno di voi potrebbe aiutarmi ad installare zope sotto una mdk 9?? Ho provato in tutti i modi seguendo le istruzioni, ma mi tira fuori sempre una marea di errori (che al momento non sto ad indicare) Un grazie a tutti! Yddu

Re: [newbie-it] DB e Linux

2003-02-01 Thread toto
Stefano Sebastiani ha scritto: Per lavoro utilizzo ogni tanto dei Data Base. Ho iniziato con DB3 poi Paradox per DOS poi attualmente Access. Vorrei fare qualcosa con Linux ma non conosco i prodotti che ci sono, chi mi manda un link pewr un buon tutorial in italiano e lò'indicazione di una

[newbie-it] interrompere i processi di stampa

2003-02-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
salve raga, ho interrotto in maniera brutale un processo di stampa ( ho spento la stampannte) ora ogni volta che la riaccendo mi riparte la stampa di 80 fogli pdf, se cerco di fermarla comincia a stampare dei caratteri ascii. So che sarà banale ma non riesco a fermare la stampante in

Re: [newbie-it] interrompere i processi di stampa

2003-02-01 Thread francesco.melo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: salve raga, ho interrotto in maniera brutale un processo di stampa ( ho spento la stampannte) ora ogni volta che la riaccendo mi riparte la stampa di 80 fogli pdf, se cerco di fermarla comincia a stampare dei caratteri ascii. So che sarà banale ma non riesco a fermare

[newbie-it] la beta3 out :)

2003-02-01 Thread francesco.melo
ciao francesco

[newbie-it] [OT] schede video

2003-02-01 Thread Daniele Micci
Ciao a tutti, ho una domanda un po' OT, ma provo a farvela lo stesso... devo rimescolare i pezzi di due PC in modo di trarne fuori uno con tutti i pezzi migliori ed uno con le componenti meno veloci e brillanti. L'unico dubbio che ho è nella scelta tra le schede video: su un pc è montata una

Re: [newbie-it] [OT] schede video

2003-02-01 Thread tom
Alle 16:24, sabato 1 febbraio 2003, Daniele Micci ha scritto: Ciao a tutti, ho una domanda un po' OT, ma provo a farvela lo stesso... devo rimescolare i pezzi di due PC in modo di trarne fuori uno con tutti i pezzi migliori ed uno con le componenti meno veloci e brillanti. L'unico dubbio che

Re: [newbie-it] DB e Linux

2003-02-01 Thread Andrea Nasato
Il sab, 2003-02-01 alle 10:22, Stefano Sebastiani ha scritto: Per lavoro utilizzo ogni tanto dei Data Base. Ho iniziato con DB3 poi Paradox per DOS poi attualmente Access. Vorrei fare qualcosa con Linux ma non conosco i prodotti che ci sono, chi mi manda un link pewr un buon tutorial in

Re: [newbie-it] Crashhh Browser

2003-02-01 Thread Germano
Alle 16:12, venerdì 31 gennaio 2003, hai scritto: Il ven, 2003-01-31 alle 13:26, Andrea Nasato ha scritto: azz..sembra lunghetto,ma almeno è una soluzione.Io ho bisogno di un browser che mi faccia vedere le finestre in java (chat etc ect)quindi pensavo o a scaricare il plug anche

Re: [newbie-it] shorewall?

2003-02-01 Thread miKe
Alle 20:50, venerdì 31 gennaio 2003, Giorgio Griffon ha scritto: Scusate (dal basso della mia ignoranza), non è lo stesso usare l'impostazione di Mozilla limit maximum lifetime of cookies to current section? Naturalmente a patto di usare Mozilla. si per lo script che ho postato per primo non

Re: [newbie-it] DB e Linux

2003-02-01 Thread Arwan
Alle Saturday 01 February 2003 15:13, a proposito di Re: [newbie-it] DB e Linux (e chissa' a cosa pensava veramente), Giovanni ha scritto: io uso MySQL , e' un favoloso DBMS opensource che trovi in molte distro od eventualmente su www.mysql.com Uso anch'io MySql, pero' per ora non l'ho

Re: [newbie-it] interrompere i processi di stampa

2003-02-01 Thread paolo brusasco
non so se funziona ma sotto kde menu principale applicazioni monitoraggio lavori di stampa dovrebbe farti partire kjobviewer che ti può servire altrimenti anche menu principale centro di controllo sistema gestore stampa operazioni (che sarebbe poi

Re: [newbie-it] saned, parzialmente risolto

2003-02-01 Thread carmine de pasquale
- Original Message - From: miKe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 9:41 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] saned, parzialmente risolto -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 23:17, giovedì 30 gennaio 2003, carmine de pasquale ha scritto:

Re: [newbie-it] interrompere i processi di stampa

2003-02-01 Thread Arwan
Alle Saturday 01 February 2003 17:00, a proposito di [newbie-it] interrompere i processi di stampa (e chissa' a cosa pensava veramente), [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: So che sarà banale ma non riesco a fermare la stampante in maniera corretta non è ho completamente idea di cosa gli succeda

Re: [newbie-it] interrompere i processi di stampa

2003-02-01 Thread stormy
per visualizzare la coda di stampa si usa il comando lpq e per eliminare la cosa di stampa lpqrm

Re: [newbie-it] Capability list

2003-02-01 Thread Santarella Benedetto
Alle 21:53, martedì 28 gennaio 2003, Eraser Head ha scritto: Interessante sarebbe però conoscere il contesto della domanda... Scusate il ritardo, la domanda e' presa da un compito d'esame di Sistemi operativi, che dice semplicemente spiegare le capability list, e dovrebbe essere un meccanismo

[newbie-it] Word, OO e stampe (lungo e forse OT)

2003-02-01 Thread Arwan
Credo di essere in fase di produzione di un altro OT, visto che la mia domanda non riguarda la MDK. Ma so che sarete comprensivi... Il problema e' questo: ho due computer, il mio, dotato solo di programmi a licenza libera (e quindi con il pacchetto OO), e quello di mia mamma, che invece ha un

Re: [newbie] HD

2003-02-01 Thread civileme
On Friday 31 January 2003 06:12 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 31 January 2003 02:33 pm, Gil Katz wrote: On Friday 31 January 2003 20:20, civileme wrote: On Friday 31 January 2003 02:47 am, Gil Katz wrote: On Thursday 30 January 2003 10:45, Gil Katz wrote: Hi I bought a new

[newbie] pspell-devel problem

2003-02-01 Thread Rifza Adriansyah
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I would like to compile balsa-2.0.5-1.src.rpm but Mandrake 9.0 shows file depencies. The error message : pspell-devel is needed by balsa-2.0.5-1. How to solve this problem ?. Because, I have searched pspell-devel (rpm for mandrake, tar

[newbie] New Asus A7N8X board, help!

2003-02-01 Thread Rob Blomquist
I just got a new machine up and running. A AMD 2100+ on a Asus A7N8X board, but I am having problems with the soundcard and the LAN connection. The LAN connection is NVIDIA MAC+ Realtek 8201BL PHY chipset, and I understand that I should use it with the NVIDIA driver, which I assume is the nvnet

[newbie] Replacement for MS ACCESS ?

2003-02-01 Thread Bela Markus
Hi, I am looking for a tool to manipulate SQL databases, generate reports, etc. like MS ACCESS. ACCESS compatibility (.mdb files) is not needed, just a fast, user friendly GUI. Regards... Bela Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Creating symbolic links

2003-02-01 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 14:29, Charles A Edwards wrote: Forgot to add that if you are using my script you do not need a link to /usr/games/fortune The script itself invokes fortune and updates /home/heather/.signature Charles Uh, I think we might have a licensing issue here, folks.

Re: [newbie] beta 3, 9.1

2003-02-01 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 17:11, Tom Brinkman wrote: ... was on the mirrors this evening. So much for the doomsayers about Mandrake's future. Those that withheld current or further monetary support till they thought Mandrake would float, or thought it would be a waste of money going to

Re: [newbie] pspell-devel problem

2003-02-01 Thread Pilagá
El Sáb 01 Feb 2003 06:25, Rifza Adriansyah escribió: Hi all, I would like to compile balsa-2.0.5-1.src.rpm but Mandrake 9.0 shows file depencies. The error message : pspell-devel is needed by balsa-2.0.5-1. How to solve this problem ?. Because, I have searched pspell-devel (rpm for mandrake,

Re: [newbie] Creating symbolic links

2003-02-01 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 01 Feb 2003 21:49:14 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Uh, I think we might have a licensing issue here, folks. Charles, did you write the signature script under and OSS license, or a GPL license or a GNU license? You're going to have to clarify for proper and legal copyright

Re: [newbie] Cheap, Sensible UK ISP?

2003-02-01 Thread Douglas B.
P.S. If you make little use of the internet - dealing with e-mail mostly off-line and only browsing occasionally, PAYG can be very cheap, e.g. £5-£8 per quarter (excluding BT line rental of course). PAYG gets very expensive if you spend a lot of time surfing or downloading stuff - then take

[newbie] strange X-windows behaviour

2003-02-01 Thread Douglas B.
Hi All, Could anyone give me some help with this? (1) From time to time it has happened that the panel on the login screen changes to a much smaller size with minute fonts that are nearly impossible to read. It then stays like that, even after shutting down and waiting a while, to allow CMOS

[newbie] sluggish dial-up

2003-02-01 Thread Douglas B.
Hi All, A while back someone, I think Stephen Kuhn, listed a set of Hayes commands to hurry up the process of dialling-in to an ISP. I can't track down where it was. Would you mind repeating them for me? A second request from a very ignorant newbie - how do I search the Newbie Mailing List

[newbie] Postfix and ICMP

2003-02-01 Thread Ross Slade
Some background... I use a Netcomm modem/router/hub/firewall which runs embedded Linux for my connection to the internet...on my LAN I have one Mandrake 8.1 box and two WinME boxes. The Mandrake box is a simple server running Apache, Postfix and Squid mainly. The Netcomm uses port forwarding

RE: [newbie] Replacement for MS ACCESS ?

2003-02-01 Thread Allan Gillis
You could try this company: http://www.SciBit.com They make something called Mascon that works great. It is a commercial product, so it costs (I think it was around US$70), but they have a free trial. I recently looked through a number of these programs and there are some free ones as

Re: [newbie] Replacement for MS ACCESS ?

2003-02-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 01 Feb 2003 10:54:23 +0100, Bela Markus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am looking for a tool to manipulate SQL databases, generate reports, etc. like MS ACCESS. ACCESS compatibility (.mdb files) is not needed, just a fast, user friendly GUI. Regards... Bela StarOffice comes with a

Re: [newbie] Coasters, Coasters, Coasters

2003-02-01 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 01 February 2003 06:31 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday January 31 2003 08:50 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: snip List, I have a problem : Conclusion : How the *H can I make this CD bootable ? You don't. The iso is bootable. BTW, I believe the 'cdrecord -v -eject speed=4

Re: [newbie] Coasters, Coasters, Coasters

2003-02-01 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 10:34, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Tom : Yes, it was your advice, please forgive me. To Dennis : Yes, my BIOS is set to bootable ( I usually install Mandrake from CD's - no problem). To Adolfo : Yes, the .iso should be bootable. At least the documentation says so. To

[newbie] Microsoft Linux Distro, thoughts on...

2003-02-01 Thread Robert Wideman
Has anyone heard of http://www.mslinux.org/ I have known about this site for about 2 years now and the date keeps changing. I havent looked at it for over a year and i remember that it did not have a date on it to tell you the truth. Anyone know or heard anything about it? Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Coasters, Coasters, Coasters

2003-02-01 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 01 February 2003 01:50 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: snip Assuming that you have burned other bootable iso without problem, that you are issuing the same command with this iso file, that your BIOS can boot up from CD and given that the only thing you are not positively sure is that the

Re: [newbie] Microsoft Linux Distro, thoughts on...

2003-02-01 Thread Anders Lind
Has anyone heard of http://www.mslinux.org/ I have known about this site for about 2 years now and the date keeps changing. I havent looked at it for over a year and i remember that it did not have a date on it to tell you the truth. Anyone know or heard anything about it?

Re: [newbie] sluggish dial-up

2003-02-01 Thread Steve Jeppesen
On 01 Feb 2003 12:30:29 + Douglas B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A second request from a very ignorant newbie - how do I search the Newbie Mailing List Archives for author, or subject, or message content? Then I won't have to bother you with a lot of silly questions that I know have been

Re: [newbie] Microsoft Linux Distro, thoughts on...

2003-02-01 Thread Azrael
On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 14:03, Anders Lind wrote: Has anyone heard of http://www.mslinux.org/ I have known about this site for about 2 years now and the date keeps changing. I havent looked at it for over a year and i remember that it did not have a date on it to tell you the truth.

Re: [newbie] Microsoft Linux Distro, thoughts on...O.T.?

2003-02-01 Thread Steve Jeppesen
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 07:55:47 -0600 Robert Wideman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone heard of http://www.mslinux.org/ I have known about this site for about 2 years now and the date keeps changing. I havent looked at it for over a year and i remember that it did not have a date on it to

Re: [newbie] Replacement for MS ACCESS ?

2003-02-01 Thread et
ohhh... i like this... On Saturday 01 February 2003 07:30 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On 01 Feb 2003 10:54:23 +0100, Bela Markus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am looking for a tool to manipulate SQL databases, generate reports, etc. like MS ACCESS. ACCESS compatibility (.mdb files) is

Re: [newbie] Postfix and ICMP

2003-02-01 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 01 Feb 2003 12:53 pm, Ross Slade wrote: Some background... I use a Netcomm modem/router/hub/firewall which runs embedded Linux for my connection to the internet...on my LAN I have one Mandrake 8.1 box and two WinME boxes. The Mandrake box is a simple server running Apache,

[newbie] KDE 3.1: different behaviour

2003-02-01 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! After having upgraded to KDE 3.1 I've noticed 2 things: 1. It's behaviour is no longer controlled through #kcontrol; for instance password's echo... where can I set it's parameters now? 2. After having keyed in the password, Enter won't let

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.1's KDM: different behaviour

2003-02-01 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was talking about KDM's behaviour. Sorry about this 8-X Es Dissabte 01 Febrer 2003 15:42, en Joan Tur va escriure: Hallo! After having upgraded to KDE 3.1 I've noticed 2 things: 1. It's behaviour is no longer controlled through #kcontrol;

Re: [newbie] mysql

2003-02-01 Thread Zane Minninger
I know I didn't ask for the help, but I did want to say thank you Adolfo, you just resolved one of my many issues. I hope it works for you Benjamin. After a quick re-boot phpnuke was able to setup its database. :) Zane Minninger At 04:16 PM 1/31/2003, Adolfo Bello wrote: On

[newbie] A question of image display

2003-02-01 Thread John Richard Smith
I am currently scanning many old colour photo's on my new epsom scanner These produce .pnm files which I covert in gimp to .jpeg files and write to cd. Everything works fine except that these converted jpeg files will not display in konqueror , the sliderbar gets about 65% of the way through

[newbie] C/L question

2003-02-01 Thread Anne Wilson
I see the following: chown [-R] [user][.][group] files from which I gather that a space goes after the -R, but not between the other components? What does the [.] stand for? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] A question of image display

2003-02-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 01 Feb 2003 3:05 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I am currently scanning many old colour photo's on my new epsom scanner These produce .pnm files which I covert in gimp to .jpeg files and write to cd. Everything works fine except that these converted jpeg files will not display in

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

2003-02-01 Thread Michael Adams
I am no network whizz so i may be blowing smoke here. But in my understanding if you have a running windows connection a linux connection is usually achievable. This may sound a little crazy but it just seems strange to me that you are attempting to connect to the mail server. Surely you

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

2003-02-01 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 22:41, Margot wrote: - Original Message - From: Chuck Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 12:33 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!) On Wed, January 29 2003 5:19 pm, FemmeFatale wrote:

Re: [newbie] C/L question

2003-02-01 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 16:46:31 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 01 Feb 2003 3:50 pm, Todd Slater wrote: From man chown: x Thanks Todd. I have to confess I much prefer paper manuals, so I tend to check books before reading man pages. And really, this above is a prime

Re: [newbie] A question of image display

2003-02-01 Thread John Richard Smith
Todd Slater wrote: On Sat, 01 Feb 2003 15:05:54 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am currently scanning many old colour photo's on my new epsom scanner These produce .pnm files which I covert in gimp to .jpeg files and write to cd. Everything works fine except that these

Re: [newbie] Comparison question

2003-02-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 31 January 2003 03:57 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: snip As usual, thanks for all the advice, Tom! I've got a Gef2-64mb (Abit), 167mhz memory, 200mhz core (oc's to 185/225 with ease). Altho I use it with the Xfree driver that has some 3d hardware acceleration (minus direct rendering),

Re: [newbie] C/L question

2003-02-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 01 February 2003 11:46 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Thanks Todd. I have to confess I much prefer paper manuals, so I tend to check books before reading man pages. And really, this above is a prime example of why newbies often don't read them. The info is all there, but when you read

Re: [newbie] Comparison question

2003-02-01 Thread et
On Saturday 01 February 2003 12:47 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 31 January 2003 03:57 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: snip As usual, thanks for all the advice, Tom! I've got a Gef2-64mb (Abit), 167mhz memory, 200mhz core (oc's to 185/225 with ease). Altho I use it with the Xfree driver

Re: [newbie] slow after 9.0 install

2003-02-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 31 January 2003 04:41 pm, et wrote: I am glad we don't have the hardware specs any more too... so now I can chime in add more memory Er, didn't notice what anyone had posted about that - was it low? I just assumed (shame on me!) that with Ram so cheap now-a-days, that everybody

Re: [newbie] Anyone using a Soltek mobo?

2003-02-01 Thread Charlie
On Friday 31 January 2003 10:11 pm, John Rye wrote: On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 12:23:45 -0700 Charlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do what I do when considering hardware for a GNU/Linux box. Walk into the vendor's place of business with a Knoppix disk; ask for a floor display model with that

Re: [newbie] HD

2003-02-01 Thread Gil Katz
On Saturday 01 February 2003 10:09, civileme wrote: On Friday 31 January 2003 06:12 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 31 January 2003 02:33 pm, Gil Katz wrote: On Friday 31 January 2003 20:20, civileme wrote: On Friday 31 January 2003 02:47 am, Gil Katz wrote: On Thursday 30 January

[newbie] RE: MS linux

2003-02-01 Thread civileme
With reference to this: MS is not in the business of making linux distros. There is not enough profit there for them and certainly there is nothing they can do to restrict the use of the product, except such proprietary software as they might provide with such a distro. So don't expect to

Re: [newbie] A question of image display

2003-02-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 01 Feb 2003 5:35 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: It certainly does. That must be it then. I scan maybe a 15-20mb pnm file which after conversion is perhaps 500to750kb, but often just over 1.0mb , and anything over .5mb takes some time for konq to display it. By the way, Isn't sane

[newbie] small linux (might? of lost $10.)

2003-02-01 Thread MG
Hello all, I picked up an old toshiba notebook at a goodwill store 12mhz cpu, 1mb ram, 32mb or 40? harddrive. Actually works screen has some small vertical lines and I think cmos batt weak. Has dos 3.x on it and it has a floppy drive3.5. Anyways I was looking around for a small linix to put on

Re: [newbie] HD

2003-02-01 Thread et
my opinion is you can use this drive OK as long as you are not all that concerned with hard drive speed, fine as a print server and a backup server, but if you are building this box to do video or sound capture, forget it. (but I would most often suggest uwscsi2 at the least for video or sound

Re: [newbie] A question of image display

2003-02-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 01 February 2003 10:05 am, John Richard Smith wrote: I am currently scanning many old colour photo's on my new epsom scanner These produce .pnm files which I covert in gimp to .jpeg files and write to cd. Everything works fine except that these converted jpeg files will not

Re: [newbie] A question of image display

2003-02-01 Thread John Richard Smith
John Richard Smith wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 01 Feb 2003 3:05 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I am currently scanning many old colour photo's on my new epsom scanner These produce .pnm files which I covert in gimp to .jpeg files and write to cd. Everything works fine except that

Re: [newbie] Comparison question

2003-02-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday February 1 2003 11:47 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 31 January 2003 03:57 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: snip As usual, thanks for all the advice, Tom! I've got a Gef2-64mb (Abit), 167mhz memory, 200mhz core (oc's to 185/225 with ease). Altho I use it with the Xfree driver

Re: [newbie] Comparison question

2003-02-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 31 January 2003 04:02 pm, civileme wrote: glxgears is DEPENDENT on size of screen for performance. Make sure both screens have the same resolution and color depth, then run glxgears from an Eterm and full size the glxgears screen, wait 3 minutes then kill it and you should have a

Re: [newbie] Comparison question

2003-02-01 Thread et
On Saturday 01 February 2003 12:50 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 31 January 2003 04:02 pm, civileme wrote: glxgears is DEPENDENT on size of screen for performance. Make sure both screens have the same resolution and color depth, then run glxgears from an Eterm and full size the

Re: [newbie] Comparison question

2003-02-01 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 12:21:15 -0600 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles swears it's always needed for AMD systems. I've only found it to be needed in the rare occaisons when I have the nvidia driver installed. It's not needed with the XFree driver. I use it on all but 1 of my

Re: [newbie] connection sharing for selected computers only

2003-02-01 Thread Larry Williams
On Friday 31 January 2003 23:43, fifner the dragon wrote: How do I set up my connection sharing to share the connection with one computer (192.168.0.3) but not with another (192.168.0.2)? Thanks in advance, Fifner The way I would do it would be with iptables. If you are able to share your

Re: [newbie] HD

2003-02-01 Thread civileme
udma2 is safe--it is only 33Mhz which is in the range of 32-byte CRCs which the drives can do. The 57-byte CRCs required by udma3 and up 66-133MHz are beyond the capabilities of the 102 and maybe beyond the 80Mb as well; I have not kept up on the product through its most recent

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

2003-02-01 Thread Margot
- Original Message - From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 6:05 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!) Civileme, Thanks for offering help. I think I've done all you suggested (see below), but I still get

Re: [newbie] small linux (might? of lost $10.)

2003-02-01 Thread civileme
On Saturday 01 February 2003 08:58 am, MG wrote: Hello all, I picked up an old toshiba notebook at a goodwill store 12mhz cpu, 1mb ram, 32mb or 40? harddrive. Actually works screen has some small vertical lines and I think cmos batt weak. Has dos 3.x on it and it has a floppy drive3.5.

Re: [newbie] small linux (might? of lost $10.)

2003-02-01 Thread civileme
On Saturday 01 February 2003 08:58 am, MG wrote: Hello all, I picked up an old toshiba notebook at a goodwill store 12mhz cpu, 1mb ram, 32mb or 40? harddrive. Actually works screen has some small vertical lines and I think cmos batt weak. Has dos 3.x on it and it has a floppy drive3.5.

[newbie] Argh-Software manager is killing me!

2003-02-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Okay, like a lot of people, I liked install and remove integrated together but I can live with them being split up...BUT Many, many times I go to install a package and it says: Everything already installed (is it supposed to be like that?) As su, I issued a rpm --rebuilddb, but it didn't

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

2003-02-01 Thread Margot
- Original Message - From: Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 4:49 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!) snip Don't know if this helps : I suppose *eurobell* is some kind of a *baby-bell* i.e. ATT.

Re: [newbie] connection sharing for selected computers only

2003-02-01 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 03:43, fifner the dragon wrote: How do I set up my connection sharing to share the connection with one computer (192.168.0.3) but not with another (192.168.0.2)? Thanks in advance, Fifner There are some good reading pages about it in http://lartc.org HTH -- __

Re: [newbie] small linux (might? of lost $10.)

2003-02-01 Thread Simon Prosser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 01 Feb 2003 5:58 pm, MG wrote: Hello all, I picked up an old toshiba notebook at a goodwill store 12mhz cpu, 1mb ram, 32mb or 40? harddrive. Actually works screen has some small vertical lines and I think cmos batt weak. Has dos 3.x

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: US Cyber-security resignation? Coincidence, or what?

2003-02-01 Thread civileme
On Friday 31 January 2003 04:29 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: After all the fecal matter that impacted the environmental control units last weekend - now this? Rather strange I'd reckon... http://www.msnbc.com/news/866962.asp?0si=- Hmmm... As you know I am unemployed since Mandrake laid me off

Re: [newbie] Argh-Software manager is killing me!

2003-02-01 Thread Paul Kaplan
urpmi or it's graphical front end mandrake update On Saturday 01 February 2003 07:38 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Okay, like a lot of people, I liked install and remove integrated together but I can live with them being split up...BUT Many, many times I go to install a package and it says:

Re: [newbie] Replacement for MS ACCESS ?

2003-02-01 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 20:54, Bela Markus wrote: Hi, I am looking for a tool to manipulate SQL databases, generate reports, etc. like MS ACCESS. ACCESS compatibility (.mdb files) is not needed, just a fast, user friendly GUI. Regards... Bela There's a set of tools called MDBTools that I

Re: [newbie] sluggish dial-up

2003-02-01 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 23:30, Douglas B. wrote: Hi All, A while back someone, I think Stephen Kuhn, listed a set of Hayes commands to hurry up the process of dialling-in to an ISP. I can't track down where it was. Would you mind repeating them for me? A second request from a very ignorant

Re: [newbie] Argh-Software manager is killing me!

2003-02-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday February 1 2003 01:38 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Okay, like a lot of people, I liked install and remove integrated together but I can live with them being split up...BUT Many, many times I go to install a package and it says: Everything already installed (is it supposed to be

Re: [newbie] Microsoft Linux Distro, thoughts on...

2003-02-01 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 00:55, Robert Wideman wrote: Has anyone heard of http://www.mslinux.org/ I have known about this site for about 2 years now and the date keeps changing. I havent looked at it for over a year and i remember that it did not have a date on it to tell you the truth.

Re: [newbie] A question of image display

2003-02-01 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 02:05, John Richard Smith wrote: I am currently scanning many old colour photo's on my new epsom scanner These produce .pnm files which I covert in gimp to .jpeg files and write to cd. Everything works fine except that these converted jpeg files will not display in

Re: [newbie] C/L question

2003-02-01 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 02:15, Anne Wilson wrote: I see the following: chown [-R] [user][.][group] files from which I gather that a space goes after the -R, but not between the other components? What does the [.] stand for? Anne Here's a for instance chown -Rf nobody:netusers

Re: [newbie] Mozilla News Reader

2003-02-01 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 03:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying out Mozilla News Reader 1.1 for the first time and am wondering how one goes about deleting accumulated messages. When the window first comes up there is a grayed out Delete button, but that button is replaced by a Mark button

Re: [newbie] A question of image display

2003-02-01 Thread John Richard Smith
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 01 February 2003 10:05 am, John Richard Smith wrote: I am currently scanning many old colour photo's on my new epsom scanner These produce .pnm files which I covert in gimp to .jpeg files and write to cd. Everything works fine except that these converted

Re: [newbie] Email Sig Fortune question

2003-02-01 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 03:32, Adolfo Bello wrote: Wait, you're Canadian - you don't want a sig! (g) Stephen, I noticed that you use Evolution and I am having a problem with the script generated signature: even when the output of the script is nicely formatted, the signature seems to be taking

Re: [newbie] small linux (might? of lost $10.)

2003-02-01 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 04:58, MG wrote: Hello all, I picked up an old toshiba notebook at a goodwill store 12mhz cpu, 1mb ram, 32mb or 40? harddrive. Actually works screen has some small vertical lines and I think cmos batt weak. Has dos 3.x on it and it has a floppy drive3.5. Anyways I was

[newbie] samba-sharing w/out password

2003-02-01 Thread ivo jorris
I want to make my /usr/share/mp3 folder can be accessed by every user at my local network without using password. How should I configure smb.conf? thanks in advance Ivo. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now.

Re: [newbie] Email Sig Fortune question

2003-02-01 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 16:36, Stephen Kuhn wrote: There have been some issues with the Evo generated sigs - so the resolution to that is to either dig deeper into how it works, or create your own script OUTSIDE of Evo to do it. I tried mucking around with it over and over again and even

Re: [newbie] Email Sig Fortune question

2003-02-01 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 07:47, Adolfo Bello wrote: My final script is: date -R /tmp/fecha.txt uptime /tmp/corriendo.txt /usr/games/fortune /tmp/dicho.txt echo --br cat ~/scripts/firma.txt /tmp/fecha.txt /tmp/corriendo.txt /tmp/dicho.txt | sed -e s/ /\nbsp;/g | sed -e s/$/br/g As you

Re: [newbie] Email Sig Fortune question

2003-02-01 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 17:10, Stephen Kuhn wrote: OK...now you have to copyright it, and setup and EULA for it and sell yearly subscriptions! I will contact M$ for advise. Only things that scare me a bit is being left without copyright, EULA and being forced to pay a yearly subscription. --

Re: [newbie] Creating symbolic links

2003-02-01 Thread FemmeFatale
At 09:39 PM 1/31/2003 -0500, you wrote: help? You can't link two files like this; they both exist. Create a link when you want to make it easier for you to get a file. Like instead of typing vi /var/log/httpd/access_log, I might make a link in my home: ln -s /var/log/xferlog ~/ftplog That

Re: [newbie] Creating symbolic links

2003-02-01 Thread FemmeFatale
At 07:41 AM 2/1/2003 +0100, you wrote: Hi. On Fri 2003-01-31 at 22:11:45 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] It confused me for a long time. ln -s destination file source file enter Aehem. Wrong, except you have some weird understanding of source (or maybe I have - I am not a native

[newbie] Is there an easier way (perl script)?

2003-02-01 Thread Bryce
I programmed a perl script to mail the current river flow for a certain river every hour if the flow is over 10,000 (feet per second). Here is my script: #!/usr/bin/env perl if (system(ls -l /etc/mailsnoq.txt) eq 256) { print Getting web page (file nonexistent)...\n; system wget

Re: [newbie] Creating symbolic links

2003-02-01 Thread FemmeFatale
At 07:39 AM 2/1/2003 +, you wrote: PPS: Note that in order to create a soft link, the existing file does not need to exist in real, but usually it does, and it helps anyhow, if you think about how you *would* copy that non-existing file. ;) Which is why the Man file for

[newbie] securing postfix

2003-02-01 Thread Bryce
I'm using postfix to relay mail to my cable host. Right now, security isn't a problem since I'm behind a firewall. However, that may change soon, with this box being the Firewall, and I'm worried I'll have an open relay. What is the procedure for securing Postfix so only the LAN (eth1) can send

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: US Cyber-security resignation? Coincidence, or what?, OT sorta wondering how to tell if a router has stateful packeting?

2003-02-01 Thread FemmeFatale
At 11:04 AM 2/1/2003 -0900, you wrote: On Friday 31 January 2003 04:29 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: After all the fecal matter that impacted the environmental control units last weekend - now this? Rather strange I'd reckon... http://www.msnbc.com/news/866962.asp?0si=- Hmmm... As you know I am

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