Re: [newbie] Printing a file list

2003-02-03 Thread Azrael
umm.. something like: ls * > file-list.txt then open that file in an editor and print? On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 01:56, Dennis Myers wrote: > Can someone tell me if there is a way to print the list of names in a > directory that holds about 70 .jpg pictures? I just want a list of the photo > names

[newbie] Printing a file list

2003-02-03 Thread Dennis Myers
Can someone tell me if there is a way to print the list of names in a directory that holds about 70 .jpg pictures? I just want a list of the photo names. TIA for any help. -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Unofficial January list stats

2003-02-03 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 04:59, Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: > On Mon 2003-02-03 at 21:36:15 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 15:25, Todd Slater wrote: > [...] > > > 403 Stephen Kuhn > [...] > > Egads - I can't be THAT talkative, now can I? > [...] > > Well, I considered to ask

Re: [newbie] imake fails when compiling KDE 3.1

2003-02-03 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 18:22, John Drouhard wrote: > I have been trying to compile and run KDE for a while now. I have successfully >installed arts, and kdelibs, but when I try to compile kdebase, it goes through most >of it and stops, saying that imake failed. Is this an xmkmf problem, or is it a

Re: [newbie] OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad!

2003-02-03 Thread FemmeFatale
At 12:42 AM 2/4/2003 +, you wrote: Femmefatale: If teaching him all those technical stuff doesn't work, just show him KDE with a nice acqua theme and saying: Look at all these free programs!!... (it worked for me!) If everything fails, consider changing boyfriend! :) beijos, Filipe Dinis H

Re: [newbie] OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad!

2003-02-03 Thread FemmeFatale
At 07:40 AM 2/3/2003 -0500, you wrote: I think (and am pretty sure) that allowing him to run as root will teach it's own lesson,,, kinda like how long it takes to figure out that rubbing your nose on the sidewalk will make your nose hurt aka it is a "self-evident universal truth" also calll

Re: [newbie] OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad!

2003-02-03 Thread FemmeFatale
At 11:20 AM 2/3/2003 +0200, you wrote: Leaving security stuff aside (its covered well without me) for me its 1. issue of privacy. I have four accounts on my home comp - me, wife, kids. I've got some games my wife hates, she would kill me if kids found them (Doom and friends :-)) So only I have p

Re: [newbie] OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad!

2003-02-03 Thread FemmeFatale
At 09:49 PM 2/2/2003 -0900, you wrote: Well, I do recall a case where someone was going to remove a directory with configuration files to allow it to rebuild itself The command was rm -rf /home/poorunfortunate/.kde since he was running as root and he got precisely this far: rm -rf / when th

Re: [newbie] best cd burning application

2003-02-03 Thread Aurélio Diniz
> cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab-old > > then try it you're maybe right tks filipe dinis Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad!

2003-02-03 Thread Aurélio Diniz
Femmefatale: If teaching him all those technical stuff doesn't work, just show him KDE with a nice acqua theme and saying: Look at all these free programs!!... (it worked for me!) If everything fails, consider changing boyfriend! :) beijos, Filipe Dinis Want to buy your Pack or Services from

RE: [newbie] best cd burning application

2003-02-03 Thread Robert Wideman
cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab-old then try it >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Aurélio Diniz >> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 6:03 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: [newbie] best cd burning application >> >> >> Ok, i'll give

RE: [newbie] Webcams

2003-02-03 Thread Robert Wideman
>> I do have a WinTV card, but I think if I told my wife that I was >> going to use >> the camcorder for the computer she'd shoot me. :-) Atleast you could get more bang for your buck with the combo... Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.co

RE: [newbie] Evolution 1.2 for MDK9, SRC/MDK RPM's

2003-02-03 Thread Robert Wideman
>> don't know about installing 1.2.1-2, but I seem to remember problems >> with 1.2.0 until I downloaded Red Carpet from Ximian and used it for Ev >> 1.2.0 - it went in fine. Thanks but no thanks. I tried Ximian when it first came out. loved it but i really wanted Gnome back. Now that Gnome 2

Re: [newbie] /etc/resolve.conf becomes empty.

2003-02-03 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 03 Feb 2003 2:07 pm, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > Some times /etc/resolve.conf becomes empty. After log rotate, I saw this > file becoming empty today. I am running Mandrake 9. Any solutions for > keeping this file in tact? If you are using DHCP protocol, then the default is to overwrite /etc/r

Re: [newbie] best cd burning application

2003-02-03 Thread s
On Monday 03 February 2003 6:03 pm, Aurélio Diniz wrote: > Ok, i'll give k3b a go. But if my fstab (or the hell that means) > goes postal, you'll know it! :) cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bak hth, -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] /etc/resolve.conf becomes empty.

2003-02-03 Thread L.V.Gandhi
Some times /etc/resolve.conf becomes empty. After log rotate, I saw this file becoming empty today. I am running Mandrake 9. Any solutions for keeping this file in tact? -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakh

Re: [newbie] best cd burning application

2003-02-03 Thread Aurélio Diniz
Ok, i'll give k3b a go. But if my fstab (or the hell that means) goes postal, you'll know it! :) cheers filipe - a linux user from time to time Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] imake fails when compiling KDE 3.1

2003-02-03 Thread John Drouhard
I have been trying to compile and run KDE for a while now. I have successfully installed arts, and kdelibs, but when I try to compile kdebase, it goes through most of it and stops, saying that imake failed. Is this an xmkmf problem, or is it an imake problem? I already reinstalled XFree86-devel

[newbie] imake fails when compiling KDE 3.1

2003-02-03 Thread jdrouhard
I have been trying to compile and run KDE for a while now. I have successfully installed arts, and kdelibs, but when I try to compile kdebase, it goes through most of it and stops, saying that imake failed. Is this an xmkmf problem, or is it an imake problem? I already reinstalled XFree86-devel an

[newbie] Internet conn. sharing = big screwup! :-(

2003-02-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Well, under v8.2 of Mandrake, I simply clicked on my main computers connection sharing icon, and everything was automagically setup. Both my other comps could reach the Internet. No problems whatsoever. Now...9.0...a whole 'nother story. I clicked on connection sharing, it asked for a few disks

Re: [newbie] OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad!

2003-02-03 Thread Chuck Burns
On Mon, February 3 2003 2:20 pm, Brandon Vanderberg wrote: *snip* : : ARGH, cats! : : rm -rf /dev/kitty : : ;) Uhm, wouldnt that actually be 'rm -f /usr/bin/cat' ? heh -- Chuck Burns, Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---===--- History repeats itself. That's one thing wrong with hi

Re: [newbie] Menudrake and kde 3.0.3

2003-02-03 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Monday 03 February 2003 21:43, Adam Ritchie wrote: > Hi guys, i updated to kde 3.0.3 on my 8.1 system and took the advice in > kde 3 primer on the mandrakeforum site and renamed my ~/.kde folder to > oldkde and then after relogging back into kde 3 - it runs even better but > now I can't get Men

[newbie] Menudrake and kde 3.0.3

2003-02-03 Thread Adam Ritchie
Hi guys, i updated to kde 3.0.3 on my 8.1 system and took the advice in kde 3 primer on the mandrakeforum site and renamed my ~/.kde folder to oldkde and then after relogging back into kde 3 - it runs even better but now I can't get Menudrake to update the menus - it shows the changes inside of

Re: [newbie] OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad!

2003-02-03 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 13:16, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Monday 03 February 2003 06:49 am, civileme wrote: > > > rm -rf / > > > > when the cat launched from the floor to the desktop and > > planted a paw squarely on the "enter" key > > > > Well---to put it mildly, there was a disturbance on the > > s

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

2003-02-03 Thread Jerry Barton
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 15:56:57 +1100 Trevor Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Minix (mini unix). I remember being taught that at college. Funny how I > somehow ended up with a copy. Too bad I still don't have it though. > -- > > > http://www.cs.vu.nl/pub/minix/ ;-) jerry Want to buy yo

Re: [newbie] OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad!

2003-02-03 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 03 February 2003 06:49 am, civileme wrote: > Well, I do recall a case where someone was going to > remove a directory with configuration files to allow it > to rebuild itself > > The command was > > rm -rf /home/poorunfortunate/.kde > > since he was running as root > > and he got precise

Re: [newbie] Webcams

2003-02-03 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 03:33, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Monday 03 February 2003 08:57 am, et wrote: > > > I don't use a "webcam" but if you have a winTV card, you can use it and a > > regular video camera, has by far the best color and picture of any webcam, > > and uses stuff you might already ha

Re: [newbie] fetchmail & mutt & postfix

2003-02-03 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 03:32, tuija wrote: > Hi, > > And thank you all the help I have got so far :) > I send myself a mail and find out that > fetchmail pulls mail just right and flushes server, > but cause I don't have /var/spool/mail/username > Postfix throws them back to sender? > If I write pr

Re: [newbie] Unofficial January list stats

2003-02-03 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 00:24, Todd Slater wrote: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 09:36:15PM +1100, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 15:25, Todd Slater wrote: > > > > > Top 10 Posters > > > === > > > 403 Stephen Kuhn > > > 228 Anne Wilson > > > 98 Todd Slater > > > 85

Re: [newbie] Unofficial January list stats

2003-02-03 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 23:33, Adolfo Bello wrote: > On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 00:25, Todd Slater wrote: > > > Top 10 Posters > > === > > 403 Stephen Kuhn > > 228 Anne Wilson > > 98 Todd Slater > > 85 et > > 80 Adolfo Bello > > 62 Derek Jennings > > 61 Dennis

Re: [newbie] text editing function required.

2003-02-03 Thread magnet
On Monday 03 Feb 2003 6:10 am, civileme wrote: > On Sunday 02 February 2003 12:46 am, magnet wrote: > > I have a large text file containing thousands of url's, one per line, and > > am trying to find a suitable utility that will strip out identical lines > > and leave a condensed file. Can anyone s

Re: [newbie] mutt & fetchmail

2003-02-03 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 03 Feb 2003 6:55 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 00:08, tuija wrote: > > > Run "fetchmailconf" and double check where it's slurping your emails to > > > - and then you'll be able to discern as to what is going on with the > > > rest of the scene. > > > > **

Re: [newbie] HELPPP! - URGENT

2003-02-03 Thread Douglas B.
et, Many thanks for sorting out my confused state! Great relief! Doug On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 14:13, et wrote: > the 30 day support is "usually" just for install problems, and your membership > to this list is free and never runs out (you have to un$ub$cribe to get off > this list), now as far as

RE: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] Evolution 1.2 for MDK9, SRC/MDK RPM's]

2003-02-03 Thread Douglas B.
Dennis, Apologies - it happened because I was having trouble sending with my new subscription. I'll avoid it in future. Thanks, Doug On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 14:26, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: > Doug, your posts are coming through as attachments. Most folks don't > like to open attachments on the

Re: [newbie] mutt & fetchmail

2003-02-03 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 00:08, tuija wrote: > > Run "fetchmailconf" and double check where it's slurping your emails to > > - and then you'll be able to discern as to what is going on with the > > rest of the scene. > ** > I did

Re: [newbie] Unofficial January list stats

2003-02-03 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
On Mon 2003-02-03 at 21:36:15 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 15:25, Todd Slater wrote: [...] > > 403 Stephen Kuhn [...] > Egads - I can't be THAT talkative, now can I? [...] Well, I considered to ask you that earlier, but regarding these numbers I cannot hold off myself a

Re: [newbie] Webcams

2003-02-03 Thread et
On Monday 03 February 2003 12:11 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Monday 03 February 2003 12:02 pm, et wrote: > > really, your cam doing a lot of other stuff? it does not require the > > tape, nor does it require a lot of setup, depending on what sort of > > connections it has, if you "down load the

Re: [newbie] OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad!

2003-02-03 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
On Sun 2003-02-02 at 21:03:25 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Heh, thx Benjamin. On the bright side we've got a router up & > running. Well, a router doesn't protect against downloaded, trojaned applications. > I'll work on him & hopefully get him to see the error of his > way. Tho that is

Re: [newbie] OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad!

2003-02-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 03 Feb 2003 5:13 pm, robin wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Monday 03 Feb 2003 3:14 am, Robert Wideman wrote: > >> On Linux > >>systems i create a user and logon using that user but i "su -" to do 90% > >> of my work/playing around. > > > > So tell me why you aren't in just as much dang

Re: [newbie] Webcams

2003-02-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 03 February 2003 12:02 pm, et wrote: > really, your cam doing a lot of other stuff? it does not require the tape, > nor does it require a lot of setup, depending on what sort of connections > it has, if you "down load the tape into your vhs player", you could just > download it to the HD

Re: [newbie] OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad!

2003-02-03 Thread robin
Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 03 Feb 2003 3:14 am, Robert Wideman wrote: On Linux systems i create a user and logon using that user but i "su -" to do 90% of my work/playing around. So tell me why you aren't in just as much danger as he is for 90% of your time? When you use "su", only those

Re: [newbie] having problems with video players....?!?!

2003-02-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 03 February 2003 08:54 am, Damian Gatabria wrote: > It's true that 90% of the video players available for Linux are crap, > but he didn't give MPlayer a fair shot. That said, if he gets frustrated > that fast, he should not be using the kind of OS that requires some > actual learning. Ma

Re: [newbie] Webcams

2003-02-03 Thread et
On Monday 03 February 2003 11:33 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Monday 03 February 2003 08:57 am, et wrote: > > I don't use a "webcam" but if you have a winTV card, you can use it and a > > regular video camera, has by far the best color and picture of any > > webcam, and uses stuff you might alrea

Re: [newbie] having problems with video players....?!?!

2003-02-03 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Monday 03 February 2003 08:25, Robert Wideman wrote: > http://www.jwz.org/doc/linuxvideo.html > HAHAHA, so true. > > > Rob It's true that 90% of the video players available for Linux are crap, but he didn't give MPlayer a fair shot. That said, if he gets frustrated that fast, he should not be u

Re: [newbie] OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad!

2003-02-03 Thread robin
Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: Like you think you're in /mnt/windows/My\ Documents\Downloads and you want to delete a bunch of junk directories with names like ???sefdljvn5+5, ???fdsre8344 etc., so you type "rm -Rf ./?*" Just after you hit Enter you realise that (a) you were in /usr and (b) "?"

Re: [newbie] Webcams

2003-02-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 03 February 2003 08:57 am, et wrote: > I don't use a "webcam" but if you have a winTV card, you can use it and a > regular video camera, has by far the best color and picture of any webcam, > and uses stuff you might already have. I do have a WinTV card, but I think if I told my wife th

[newbie] fetchmail & mutt & postfix

2003-02-03 Thread tuija
Hi, And thank you all the help I have got so far :) I send myself a mail and find out that fetchmail pulls mail just right and flushes server, but cause I don't have /var/spool/mail/username Postfix throws them back to sender? If I write procmail -v , it said system mail goes /var/spool/mail/usern

Re: [newbie] against the war!

2003-02-03 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 03 February 2003 04:30 am, Malcolm Candlish wrote: > Ronald, > > Why not send it to your very nice dear friend Saddam, to see if he can > offer you a little help. I sure he would be very pleased. Saddam is not my friend, nor a friend to anyone in the civilized world... > On the other ha

Re: [newbie] Laptop external modem problems

2003-02-03 Thread et
On Monday 03 February 2003 09:35 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I tried the extra string and it man no > > > > difference. > > > > > >Marc > > > > I knew that, since that perticular string is for v92 > > modems, but the point was, on the USRobotics website > > they might have a lot of

Re: [newbie] OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad!

2003-02-03 Thread et
On Monday 03 February 2003 08:52 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 03 Feb 2003 1:40 pm, Todd Slater wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 07:40:05AM -0500, et wrote: > > > I think (and am pretty sure) that allowing him to run as root will > > > teach it's own lesson,,, kinda like how long it takes t

Re: [newbie] Laptop external modem problems

2003-02-03 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 03 Feb 2003 2:35 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > And this model always seems to play niceley with any > and every ISP. I have seen some brands and models of > modem work like crap with some ISPs and work well with > others but never a us robotics sportster. The > sportster seems to be alm

Re: [newbie] best cd burning application

2003-02-03 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 03 Feb 2003 2:23 pm, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jason > Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 1:09 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] best cd burning application > > > I use k3b exclu

Re: [newbie] Laptop external modem problems

2003-02-03 Thread machine
> > > I tried the extra string and it man no > > > difference. > > > >Marc > I knew that, since that perticular string is for v92 > modems, but the point was, on the USRobotics website > they might have a lot of info about the model number of > that modem and if it requires any "special" in

RE: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] Evolution 1.2 for MDK9, SRC/MDK RPM's]

2003-02-03 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] Evolution 1.2 for MDK9, SRC/MDK RPM's] Doug, your posts are coming through as attachments. Most folks don't like to open attachments on the list. At least I never do unless I am expecting it and know who it is from. Just a suggestion to help you get a wider range

RE: [newbie] best cd burning application

2003-02-03 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] best cd burning application -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jason Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 1:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] best cd burning application I use k3b exclusively, never toas

Re: [newbie] installing software and sound

2003-02-03 Thread et
one of the "neatest" things I happen to love about GNU-linux is auto-complete at the command line, so if I wanted to start any program I am allowed to start, I can just type the first couple of letters and let "autocomplete" finnish by hitting the tab key, so if I wanted to start Opera, at the c

Re: [newbie] Is there a way to Powerdown/Off the computer a la Winsucks with a cmd on the CLI or Gui?

2003-02-03 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday February 3 2003 05:22 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 02 Feb 2003 11:33 pm, Jason Greenwood wrote: > > Shutdown requires root permission, with halt AFAIK a user does > > not??? > > Depends on a configuration setting. I've never used halt, so I > couldn't say for that, but I would

Re: [newbie] Unofficial January list stats

2003-02-03 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 09:36:15PM +1100, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 15:25, Todd Slater wrote: > > > Top 10 Posters > > === > > 403 Stephen Kuhn > > 228 Anne Wilson > > 98 Todd Slater > > 85 et > > 80 Adolfo Bello > > 62 Derek Jennings > >

Re: [newbie] Laptop external modem problems

2003-02-03 Thread et
> > I tried the extra string and it man no difference. > >Marc I knew that, since that perticular string is for v92 modems, but the point was, on the USRobotics website they might have a lot of info about the model number of that modem and if it requires any "special" init settings. have yo

Re: [newbie] mutt & fetchmail

2003-02-03 Thread tuija
Viestissä Maanantai 3. Helmikuuta 2003 03:10, Benjamin Pflugmann kirjoitti: > Hi. > > On Sun 2003-02-02 at 21:09:20 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How to set mutt to find mails that > > fetchmail pulls and puts somewhere I don't > > know where, I lost 30 mails allready :) > > System is Mdk9.0

Re: [newbie] OT?, help convince my b/f running as root is bad!

2003-02-03 Thread et
I think (and am pretty sure) that allowing him to run as root will teach it's own lesson,,, kinda like how long it takes to figure out that rubbing your nose on the sidewalk will make your nose hurt aka it is a "self-evident universal truth" also calll "sink or swim" learn to swim before y

[newbie] having problems with video players....?!?!

2003-02-03 Thread Robert Wideman
http://www.jwz.org/doc/linuxvideo.html HAHAHA, so true. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Lost about swap

2003-02-03 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 03 Feb 2003 20:27:51 +1300, Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nope, don't have a link but have read it in several places > before...though with lots of RAM being the norm nowadays, getting away > with less is a real possibility. I double it because HD space is cheap > and running out of