[newbie-it] Problemi col lettore Cd: la fine

2003-02-05 Thread Andrea Cecagallina
Finalmente ho risolto il poroblema col Cd per il quale vi ho stressati fino ad oggi. Ho scoperto quale fosse il problema: semplicemente il lettore è rotto... :( Chiedo scusa a tutti per la rottura di cosiddetti, ma me ne sono accorto solo questa mattina avendone bisogno sotto Windows :(

[newbie-it] Modem USB: altro capitolo

2003-02-05 Thread Andrea Cecagallina
Allora Ho scaricato i driver dal sito che mi era stato consigliato, ma si riferiscono ad un altro modem, per cui e info su come installarlo non vanno bene. Non posso decommentare nulla in rc.modules, dato che non ci sono moduli o cose simili da decommentare Ho provato ad utilizzare

Re: [newbie-it] Problemi col lettore Cd: la fine

2003-02-05 Thread carmine de pasquale
prima controlla che non sia rotto il cavo ide, scambiando il master con lo slave

Re: [newbie-it] Problemi col lettore Cd: la fine

2003-02-05 Thread Andrea Cecagallina
At 16.04 05/02/2003 +0100, you wrote: prima controlla che non sia rotto il cavo ide, scambiando il master con lo slave Si vede che ti sei perso le puntate precedenti... :) Operazione già fatta al momento dell'inversione master/slave. :) In ufficio tutti mi dicono che ho fatto un'acquisto

[newbie-it] il mio pc è un po' suonato

2003-02-05 Thread carmine de pasquale
salve alla lista. tra i pacchetti del mandrake o altrove c'e qualche programma per ricavare gli spartiti su pentagramma dai files midi e karaoke, qualche programma per creare midi da spartito e qualche lettore di karaoke sincrono (non un lettore che faccia solo sentire la musica e vedere tutto il

Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will be ignored

2003-02-05 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
On Tue 2003-02-04 at 21:21:06 -0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [... cool overview about available editors ...] If I am on a desktop and I need a quick edit, I usually grab for kedit, but any heavy work is emacs unless it is a sudoers file in which case a special variant of vi called visudo is

[newbie] Internet Connection Share problem

2003-02-05 Thread Kovcs Tams
Hi Sorry my english. I ve a Mandrake 9.0 and i ve an Internet Connection Share. I ve been configured in the Drakconf If i do something (samba, nfs, security) the Internet Connection Share is broken. The DNS address is wrong (but the DNS in the dhcpd.conf is well ) The

Re: [newbie] Javascript and browsers -NS7

2003-02-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 1:09 am, Mark Weaver wrote: Hi Anne, At this point I think I'd pick either Netscape or Mozilla, and uninstall the other. When thats done setup the program and user profile. Then after that being done get the plugins installed and everything running. I'm pretty sure

Re: [newbie] Fax to email box.

2003-02-05 Thread Malcolm Candlish
Anne, Thank you for your reply. I needed a separate fax number for incoming faxes. I thought only Demon.net did that, I have not considered Tiscali. I will. At the moment I am using fido.net with their pdf file format and this is working very well. I shall bear Tiscali in mind. While writing to

Re: Re: Re: [newbie] modprob

2003-02-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 1:40 am, Aurélio Diniz wrote: Before go for the plustek driver, I think i'll give vuescan a try. Filipe - go to Epson's website and get their version. It installed and worked first time for me. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or

RE: [newbie] OT Adobe

2003-02-05 Thread Kesav Tadimeti
Lee, You can e-mail the PDF file to Adobe who can convert it to txt or HTML. The results are not always what you would have wanted. You can find the e-mail addresses in the Adobe site. (I don't have an internet connection at work). WP = word processor or Word Perfect? This is one of the

Re: [newbie] GLX gears

2003-02-05 Thread John Rye
On Tue, 04 Feb 2003 18:38:31 -0500 et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a post a few days ago got me to thinking, I would like to see what scores different video cards and chipsets and mem give on glx gears Athlon-xp 1800, 256mb ram, Geforce2 Mx 400 32mb, Solteck SL-KT400-A4 (VIA KT333) Stock ML9.0,

Re: [newbie]

2003-02-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 11:36 pm, Len Lawrence wrote: OK, time to learn how to burn CDs. 40x 80 min CDRs. I have tried out gcombust, gtoaster, and looked at eroaster and settled for GNOME toaster. A clear, friendly interface, apart from the drag-and-drop feature for selecting directories.

Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will be ignored

2003-02-05 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 07:07:11 +0100 Anders Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: snippage Now young lady, you are in trouble LOL, Vi vs Emacs that is a provoking subject. Personally I prefer Vi of those two, but it is because it is smaller and faster then Emacs (I don't need another

Re: [newbie] Fax to email box.

2003-02-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 8:37 am, Malcolm Candlish wrote: Anne, While writing to you do you think Star Office 6.0 has any advantage over OO? I would like a little more stability. There seems to be a few more modules and more database support, but I hven't explored them much yet (more pressing

Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will be ignored

2003-02-05 Thread Ken Stevens
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:54:52PM -0700, FemmeFatale wrote: OK... so whats the real diff between those 2 editors which one is more newb friendly? If neither is newbie friendly, well name something that is and is more or less standard on most *nix's. For the moment I'm leaning to Emacs

Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will be ignored

2003-02-05 Thread Jan Wilson
* FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030205 01:27]: [snip] edit files on any system. I realized a while back those 2 editors are standard to Any *nix environment. I believe that emacs is not always installed, even though it is probably available for almost all OSes and distributions. It isn't

Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will be ignored

2003-02-05 Thread Jan Wilson
* civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030205 01:27]: vi has some extensions like vile that allow editing multiple files so emacs has no real advantage there any more. emacs though does split windows one or more times to allow several files to be on screen at once. vim and its graphic version gvim

[newbie] How to get MyODBC (to work) on Mandrake 9.0?

2003-02-05 Thread Raf Schietekat
Mandrake 9.0 comes with MySQL and with unixODBC, but I don't see a MyODBC driver anywhere? Did I overlook something, because this seems rather strange. When I install a MyODBC driver from www.MySQL.com (2.50.39-1, Linux x86 RPM), or even MyODBC-unixODBC-2.50.39-93 found through rpmseek.com,

Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will beignored

2003-02-05 Thread robin
Jan Wilson wrote: * FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030205 01:27]: [snip] edit files on any system. I realized a while back those 2 editors are standard to Any *nix environment. I believe that emacs is not always installed, even though it is probably available for almost all OSes and

Re: [newbie] OT Adobe

2003-02-05 Thread robin
Lee wrote: I have several utilities to convert to .pdf and use them with success when I'm not sure which wp the recipient is using. But. Is there any way to convert from .pdf to any wp standard file format? pdftetext will convert to a plain text file, but then of course you lose all your

Re: [newbie] OT Adobe

2003-02-05 Thread robin
Sorry about the typo - it should have been pdftotext not pdftetext. Sir Robin -- A Perl script is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you. - Larry Wall Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services

RE: [newbie] Searching 101

2003-02-05 Thread Robert Wideman
If you wish I can send you some URL's I've found in the last year or so that assume NO Prior knowledge. :) Heck i have like 200 of these bookmarks if you want. Just ask and ye shall recieve. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] all-in-one mb thread (kinda rant)

2003-02-05 Thread Robert Wideman
Get the name correct. It is ATHLON not ATH-A-LON. Sorry if this sounds bashing but its not. And to answer if other all-in-one boards have problemsyesthats why they are cheaper so you can deal with the drivers and issues. Plus your running LINUXprobably not tested on the HW your

RE: [newbie] NFS after MDK9 reinstall/update

2003-02-05 Thread Robert Wideman
You might have missed my previous posting stating i figured out that i had to add the computer in /etc/hosts. Good God man! you're doing it the hard way! I prefer the hard way. 1) on the server running NFS ( exporting the filesystems ) start Linux conf-Networking- Network- what else?

Re: [newbie] OT Adobe

2003-02-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 10:46 am, robin wrote: Sorry about the typo - it should have been pdftotext not pdftetext. Sir Robin A google on pdf2txt. pdf2html or pdf2rtf will bring up many links. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

[newbie] relearning installed packaves..

2003-02-05 Thread Franki
Hi all, on one of my boxes.. I had an rpm problem that could not be fixed with --rebuilddb I had to do --initdb then --rebuilddb to get it functional again.. unfortunately it has forgotten most of my installed packages and as such, MandrakeUpdate never offeres any updates and I can't make sure

RE: [newbie] OT Adobe

2003-02-05 Thread Robert Wideman
Try using newsgroups and/or www.serialz.to plus a demo version of Adobe 5. I am not stating that is what you should do but if you really need to. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kesav Tadimeti Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003

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

2003-02-05 Thread Jerry Barton
On Tue, 04 Feb 2003 15:31:58 -0700 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip OK going to ask a dumb question here. I've uninstalled stuff before that LM installs. Stuff like Oh... hm... Kwrite? Or some audio program I don't want/need? Always in the past it has occurred where as I am

Re: [newbie] NFS after MDK9 reinstall/update

2003-02-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 11:17 am, Robert Wideman wrote: You might have missed my previous posting stating i figured out that i had to add the computer in /etc/hosts. Good God man! you're doing it the hard way! I prefer the hard way. 1) on the server running NFS ( exporting the

RE: [newbie] NFS after MDK9 reinstall/update

2003-02-05 Thread Robert Wideman
This was NOT a holier-than-thou attitude. I just dont feel right doing it GUI style since i learned Linux CLI. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 6:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: [newbie] How to get MyODBC (to work) on Mandrake 9.0?

2003-02-05 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 06:28, Raf Schietekat wrote: Mandrake 9.0 comes with MySQL and with unixODBC, but I don't see a MyODBC driver anywhere? Did I overlook something, because this seems rather strange. When I install a MyODBC driver from www.MySQL.com (2.50.39-1, Linux x86 RPM), or even

Re: [newbie] NFS after MDK9 reinstall/update

2003-02-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 12:05 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: This was NOT a holier-than-thou attitude. I just dont feel right doing it GUI style since i learned Linux CLI. Fine, but a more polite way would have been to ask for a C/L solution. This is often described as a tolerant list, and

Re: [newbie] NFS after MDK9 reinstall/update

2003-02-05 Thread et
ehhh.. I am the only one allowed to be holier-than-thou,,, and if you don't believe me,,, just wait till my wife gets up and she will tell you the same thing. On Wednesday 05 February 2003 07:05 am, Robert Wideman wrote: This was NOT a holier-than-thou attitude. I just dont feel right doing

RE: [newbie] NFS after MDK9 reinstall/update

2003-02-05 Thread Robert Wideman
You seem to be the one that is pissed. Not me. Anne, If your using Outlook just do a shift-delete on this email and dont reply back. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 6:16 AM To: [EMAIL

[newbie] Anne, and others

2003-02-05 Thread Robert Wideman
Sorry for previous emails. I am just in a weird mood, not trying to make anyone pissed. I should have just shift-deleted the emails instead of replying.my bad Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] NFS after MDK9 reinstall/update

2003-02-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 12:21 pm, et wrote: ehhh.. I am the only one allowed to be holier-than-thou,,, and if you don't believe me,,, just wait till my wife gets up and she will tell you the same thing. LOL Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] NFS after MDK9 reinstall/update

2003-02-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 12:21 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: You seem to be the one that is pissed. Not me. Anne, If your using Outlook just do a shift-delete on this email and dont reply back. I don't need Outlook for that (and for the record I've never used it). I merely ask that you be

Re: [newbie] Anne, and others

2003-02-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 12:24 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: Sorry for previous emails. I am just in a weird mood, not trying to make anyone pissed. I should have just shift-deleted the emails instead of replying.my bad Fair enough - we all have bad days. Anne -- Registered Linux User

RE: [newbie] NFS after MDK9 reinstall/update

2003-02-05 Thread Robert Wideman
I don't need Outlook for that (and for the record I've never used it). I merely ask that you be considerate in your language. There isn't really anything else to say. Plus...today is a continuation of yesterdayi didnt go to sleep last nite...it is 6:30 AM CST here in Austin, TX. Rob

Re: [newbie] NFS after MDK9 reinstall/update

2003-02-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 12:30 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: I don't need Outlook for that (and for the record I've never used it). I merely ask that you be considerate in your language. There isn't really anything else to say. Plus...today is a continuation of yesterdayi didnt go to

Re: [newbie] Sound Card SB16

2003-02-05 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 22:06:41 -0800 (PST) omnimodeus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have sound blaster 16 isa and i dont know how to install it...please help Try running 'sndconfig' as root :) You must have the sndconfig RPM installed. HTH, -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Sound Card SB16

2003-02-05 Thread et
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 01:06 am, omnimodeus wrote: i have sound blaster 16 isa and i dont know how to install it...please help __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com I take it

[newbie] Installing

2003-02-05 Thread Anders
Hello folks, I have a bit of a dilemma, I want to install Mandrake on a box where I have a UFS-filesystem from an old BSD-system, does anyone know of a way around this without having to use FIPS or so. Cheers Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] NFS after MDK9 reinstall/update

2003-02-05 Thread Lanman
Um, Just wanted to jump in here, before everyone starts exchanging hugs and kisses (I hate it when things get mushy!), but has anyone ever considered using Samba instead of NFS? Up until a few months ago, I was using both Samba ans NFS because of a few dual-boot systems I had in my network. I

Re: [newbie] Sound Card SB16

2003-02-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 12:40 pm, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 22:06:41 -0800 (PST) omnimodeus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have sound blaster 16 isa and i dont know how to install it...please help Try running 'sndconfig' as root :) You must have the sndconfig RPM installed.

Re: [newbie] Anne, and others

2003-02-05 Thread Lanman
Not me Anne! I prefer to have bad weeks! Seems to work, too! At least I can schedule it now! LOL! Lanman On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 07:26, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 12:24 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: Sorry for previous emails. I am just in a weird mood, not trying to make anyone

Re: [newbie] How to get MyODBC (to work) on Mandrake 9.0?

2003-02-05 Thread Raf Schietekat
Hmm, found it (I hope), apparently it's called /usr/lib/libodbcmyS.so. Why isn't it something like libmyodbc.so (as in another RPM I tried, to motivate why I didn't find / -name \*myodbc\*, or \*MyODBC\*), why does gODBCConfig already know about PostgreSQL but not about MyODBC (suggestion),

RE: [newbie] NFS after MDK9 reinstall/update

2003-02-05 Thread Robert Wideman
Um, Just wanted to jump in here, before everyone starts exchanging hugs and kisses (I hate it when things get mushy!), but has anyone ever considered using Samba instead of NFS? Yes, been there done that. Switching to totally *NIX systems thought and dont want to run SMB only for one system.

Re: [newbie] Anne, and others

2003-02-05 Thread et
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 07:59 am, Lanman wrote: Not me Anne! I prefer to have bad weeks! Seems to work, too! At least I can schedule it now! LOL! Lanman weeks,,, heck I just thought this was a bad lifetime, and the next one should be better On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 07:26, Anne Wilson

Re: [newbie] Installing

2003-02-05 Thread et
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 07:53 am, Anders wrote: Hello folks, I have a bit of a dilemma, I want to install Mandrake on a box where I have a UFS-filesystem from an old BSD-system, does anyone know of a way around this without having to use FIPS or so. Cheers Anders start (boot) from the

Re: [newbie] Anne, and others

2003-02-05 Thread Lanman
Can't be all that bad, you're using Linux, aren't you? That and a good cup of coffee, and bang! Instant great life! Of course, there's always a few hiccups in that theory! Later et! Let us know when you get the rest of the letters of your handle figured out! LOL! Lanman On Wed, 2003-02-05 at

RE: Re: [newbie] Installing

2003-02-05 Thread Anders
start (boot) from the cd the install (as expert) will bring up diskdrake, a nd you can screw with the filesystems all you like... I think you might even b e able to install on a UFS file system, but you would like reiser or other Journaling file system more, I bet. I don't have a CD in this

[newbie] A small doubt about MDK9.0

2003-02-05 Thread Lucio_Costa
Greeting All, I bought a new computer and I need your suggestion to install MDK 9.0. This PC: 2x Athlon MP 2000+; Asus MB A7m266-d, This MB uses an onboard C-Media 8738 audio controller; 512 Ram DDR; Nvidea GeForce4 MX 400 whith TV; 2x HD 60Gb 7.200 RPM - in a near future I intend buy one

Re: [newbie] NFS after MDK9 reinstall/update

2003-02-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 12:57 pm, Lanman wrote: t has anyone ever considered using Samba instead of NFS? Thanks for that, Lanman. I was expecting to get another linux box on the net sometime in the next week or two (this is the only one at present) and thought I would have to go down the

Re: [newbie] Bugzilla (bitch session)

2003-02-05 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday February 4 2003 11:04 pm, Miark wrote: rant I'm installed beta3 on a test machine, but when I go to the Mandrake bugzilla site, the site screams, We're doing everything we can to make feedback frustrating. Leave now. So I go to the documentation, and it's a mile long. Mandrake

Re: [newbie]

2003-02-05 Thread et
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 06:36 pm, Len Lawrence wrote: OK, time to learn how to burn CDs. 40x 80 min CDRs. I have tried out gcombust, gtoaster, and looked at eroaster and settled for GNOME toaster. A clear, friendly interface, apart from the drag-and-drop feature for selecting

Re: [newbie]

2003-02-05 Thread Lanman
On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 08:50, et wrote: On Tuesday 04 February 2003 06:36 pm, Len Lawrence wrote: OK, time to learn how to burn CDs. 40x 80 min CDRs. I have tried out gcombust, gtoaster, and looked at eroaster and settled for GNOME toaster. A clear, friendly interface, apart from the

Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will be ignored

2003-02-05 Thread cervixcouch
I've tried learning vi but dealing with the modes and such really put me off and the tutorials I found weren't written very well. Maybe I'll try again at some point, since vi seems so universal, but for now I mostly stick with kedit or emacs to do file editing. The main thing I like about emacs

Re: [newbie] GLX gears (wanna see BAD?)

2003-02-05 Thread et
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 10:06 am, Sabin, Matthew wrote: I have an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink motherboard and can't always tell if my video issues are hardware, software or operator problems. This test is hardly telling, but it will give me another data point. glxgears won't run

Re: [newbie] GLX gears

2003-02-05 Thread Lanman
et? Is $94.00 Canadian high-dollar? Call me crazy, but I think it's pretty low for current video cards. But I think the results are somewhat skewed from my glxgears test, since this motherboards also has 8X AGP. Oh, by the way, I'm running at 1280x1024 at 24 bit color in a full screen mode. P.S.

[newbie] I am braindead

2003-02-05 Thread Anders
My problem is solved and I am gonna let you laugh a bit at my expense, I took the wrong bootdisk, no wonder it complained about not finding An Ext2-partition. I wish I could go to bed and just go between the sheets and sleep Cheers Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] Installing,, also Re: [newbie] I am braindead

2003-02-05 Thread et
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 08:30 am, et wrote: On Wednesday 05 February 2003 07:53 am, Anders wrote: Hello folks, I have a bit of a dilemma, I want to install Mandrake on a box where I have a UFS-filesystem from an old BSD-system, does anyone know of a way around this without having

Re: [newbie] I am braindead

2003-02-05 Thread et
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 10:42 am, Anders wrote: My problem is solved and I am gonna let you laugh a bit at my expense, I took the wrong bootdisk, no wonder it complained about not finding An Ext2-partition. I wish I could go to bed and just go between the sheets and sleep Cheers

Re: [newbie] I am braindead

2003-02-05 Thread Anne Wilson
Join the club LOL Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OptimalJ a Java IDE

2003-02-05 Thread David Seuferer
All it said was that the license failed to install even though it never asked me for a license file. I have a log file that says: (Feb 4, 2003 7:52:58 AM), Setup.product.install, com.installshield.product.service.product.PureJavaProductServiceImpl$DiskSpaceCheck, wrn, Checking required disk

Re: [newbie] OptimalJ a Java IDE

2003-02-05 Thread et
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 11:12 am, David Seuferer wrote: /home/seuferer/OptimalJ-PE/install.log is that the file you are quoteing from? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will be ignored

2003-02-05 Thread Robert Wideman
Personally, I love VI. I used PICO first but found VI easier to deal with sometimes. Also, quit trying every text editor out there. Just use one and one only. Thats what i did with VI, and i only know about 10 commands in the program.very small compared to what it actually does. You just

RE: [newbie]

2003-02-05 Thread Robert Wideman
Nero is all i have used since v3 came out, like when 1x burners came outand now it works with my DVD+RW, waho. Nero is one of the first programs to utilize the HW features of the burners from what i have seen, anyway, this is OT. I hated Adaptecs software and everyone elses. Just my 2

Re: [newbie]

2003-02-05 Thread civileme
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 02:36 pm, Len Lawrence wrote: OK, time to learn how to burn CDs. 40x 80 min CDRs. I have tried out gcombust, gtoaster, and looked at eroaster and settled for GNOME toaster. A clear, friendly interface, apart from the drag-and-drop feature for selecting

Re: [newbie] OT Adobe

2003-02-05 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 11:02, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 10:46 am, robin wrote: Sorry about the typo - it should have been pdftotext not pdftetext. Sir Robin A google on pdf2txt. pdf2html or pdf2rtf will bring up many links. Anne I heard somewhere that the next

RE: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will be ignored

2003-02-05 Thread cervixcouch
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 10:32:49 -0600, Robert Wideman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Personally, I love VI. I used PICO first but found VI easier to deal with sometimes. Also, quit trying every text editor out there. Just use one and one only. Thats what i did with VI, and i only know about 10

RE: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will be ignored

2003-02-05 Thread Robert Wideman
Dood, your taking it the wrong way. I wasnt telling you what to do. I know how everyone else is and i am the same way. I dont learn something unless i stick with one way to do it. If i try 5 different ways to do something then i can do a basic, if i stick with one way then i understand it a

RE: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will be ignored

2003-02-05 Thread Robert Wideman
Don't tell me quit trying every text editor out there. I'll try out as many text editors as I care to and there's NOTHING wrong with that. Never said there was. You tried one and stuck with it? well bully for you! Bully for me? WTF does that mean? Must be a European saying!?!? Now why

Re: [newbie] Can't find moc

2003-02-05 Thread robin
Tom Brinkman wrote: Just in case anyone else here wants to compile Qt apps, installing kde-devel seems to do the trick. I was thrown by the name - in other distros it seems to correspond to qt-devel. Sir Robin tom# urpmi kde-devel no package named kde-devel That's from a 9.1 mirror

[newbie] OT--the problem i have with email

2003-02-05 Thread Robert Wideman
1-you cant see the expressions on the persons face when they type. 2-everyone misunderstands you b/c you cant see how they express themselves 3-you cant see the exaggeration the person gives while saying anything 4-your just not in front of them 5-most ppl think your a dumbass after send an email

RE: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will be ignored

2003-02-05 Thread cervixcouch
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 11:18:59 -0600, Robert Wideman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Dood, your taking it the wrong way. I wasnt telling you what to do. I know how everyone else is and i am the same way. I dont learn something unless i stick with one way to do it. If i try 5 different ways to do

Re: [newbie] OT--the problem i have with email

2003-02-05 Thread s
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 11:25 am, Robert Wideman wrote: 1-you cant see the expressions on the persons face when they type. 2-everyone misunderstands you b/c you cant see how they express themselves 3-you cant see the exaggeration the person gives while saying anything 4-your just not in

RE: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will be ignored

2003-02-05 Thread Robert Wideman
Ok. The way i should have put it is: start If you are like me then you should quit trying every text editor out there. end And/or taken what i stated earlier as a suggestion, not as something i am DEMANDING you to do which is NOT its purpose. Cant we all just get along instead of misinterpreting

RE: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will be ignored

2003-02-05 Thread cervixcouch
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 11:49:35 -0600, Robert Wideman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Cant we all just get along instead of misinterpreting suggestions? Rob Fine. An avalanche of un-birthday Linux-kisses for everyone! smmmooc!!! -- cervixcouch

Re: [newbie] URPMI: ONLY update installed packages?

2003-02-05 Thread T E
I tried using the command you suggested but it was still asking to install dependacies and items such as samba. Did I do something wrong? Do I need to remove the other sources so it doesn't check for updates on those as well? I found a cron HOWTO and think I have the basic idea... but I dont'

Re: [newbie] OT--the problem i have with email

2003-02-05 Thread Damian Gatabria
1-you cant see the expressions on the persons face when they type. Before you start typing e-mails, you have to be completely aware that e-mail is a purely 'literal' form of communication. It sounds obvious, but the problems arrive when you make a joke or remark with a meaning that only makes

Re: [newbie] OT--the problem i have with email

2003-02-05 Thread Benjamin Jeeves
Sorry but I think then maybe you need to try and read and re-read that person Q b/c there might be like me Dyslexic or like you say not good at english. I my not having a go but thing like that make me think 2 times about wrtiing to groups like these On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 3:44 pm, Damian

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

2003-02-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 04 February 2003 05:31 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: OK going to ask a dumb question here. I've uninstalled stuff before that LM installs. Stuff like Oh... hm... Kwrite? Or some audio program I don't want/need? Always in the past it has occurred where as I am uninstalling, a load of

Re: [newbie] Can't find moc

2003-02-05 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday February 5 2003 11:26 am, robin wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: Just in case anyone else here wants to compile Qt apps, installing kde-devel seems to do the trick. I was thrown by the name - in other distros it seems to correspond to qt-devel. Sir Robin tom# urpmi kde-devel

Re: [newbie] OT--the problem i have with email

2003-02-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 7:16 pm, Benjamin Jeeves wrote: Sorry but I think then maybe you need to try and read and re-read that person Q b/c there might be like me Dyslexic or like you say not good at english. I my not having a go but thing like that make me think 2 times about wrtiing to

Re: [newbie] GLX gears

2003-02-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 09:51 am, et wrote: I mailed her off list with the same basic answer, since i did not think explaining a pissing contest was quite the approprite thing for a list where the moderator (Todd Lyons I guess now) was attempting to keep it on topic, and was pretty sure

[newbie] Update the kernel ?

2003-02-05 Thread Kaj Haulrich
Hello list. I just went to the Mandrake-Secure website. They offer an UPDATE to the kernel to fix various issues. That's strange, because I've always been told to INSTALL any new kernel. Opinions ? Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux-

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

2003-02-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 10:07 am, magnet wrote: Glad you got it sorted Ronald. :) But I didn't. Well, I mean I returned my system to its prior status, I can ping between comps, NFS works again, etc, etc, but connection sharing is NOT working. SOwhat do I do to get connection

Re: [newbie] NFS after MDK9 reinstall/update

2003-02-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 07:21 am, et wrote: ehhh.. I am the only one allowed to be holier-than-thou,,, and if you don't believe me,,, just wait till my wife gets up and she will tell you the same thing. time for some humor in this thread So who is this thou and what makes him/her so

Re: [newbie] OT--the problem i have with email

2003-02-05 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 19:16, Benjamin Jeeves wrote: Sorry but I think then maybe you need to try and read and re-read that person Q I did. b/c there might be like me Dyslexic or like you say not good at english. I'm aware of it. I'm not saying i'm any better, either. My native

Re: [newbie] Update the kernel ?

2003-02-05 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 20:24:58 + Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just went to the Mandrake-Secure website. They offer an UPDATE to the kernel to fix various issues. That's strange, because I've always been told to INSTALL any new kernel. There is really nothing strange about it.

Re: [newbie] I am braindead

2003-02-05 Thread Anders Lind
Join the club LOL *sits down with Anne and makes smalltalk* Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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

2003-02-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 6:57 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 05 February 2003 10:07 am, magnet wrote: Glad you got it sorted Ronald. :) But I didn't. Well, I mean I returned my system to its prior status, I can ping between comps, NFS works again, etc, etc, but connection sharing is

Re: [newbie] Update the kernel ?

2003-02-05 Thread Charlie
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 01:24 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Hello list. I just went to the Mandrake-Secure website. They offer an UPDATE to the kernel to fix various issues. That's strange, because I've always been told to INSTALL any new kernel. Opinions ? Kaj Haulrich.

[newbie] userdrake error : ptmp gtmp exists

2003-02-05 Thread ivette brusselmans
when I try to open userdrake in MCC System to add a new user, I get an error message cannot lock user lib, file etc/ptmp or etc/gtmp exist what is happening? thanks _ Ontvang je Hotmail Messenger berichten op je mobiele telefoon

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

2003-02-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 03:18 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: DarkLord - which version of the distro do you have? Does it have much documentation with it? I have the PowerPack and there are several .pdf manuals. If you haven't got them I'll try to find time to browse and see if there's

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

2003-02-05 Thread Jerry Barton
On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 13:57:42 -0500 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 05 February 2003 10:07 am, magnet wrote: Glad you got it sorted Ronald. :) But I didn't. Well, I mean I returned my system to its prior status, I can ping between comps, NFS works again, etc, etc, but

Re: [newbie] userdrake error : ptmp gtmp exists

2003-02-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 8:28 pm, ivette brusselmans wrote: when I try to open userdrake in MCC System to add a new user, I get an error message cannot lock user lib, file etc/ptmp or etc/gtmp exist what is happening? They are temp files that sometimes get left behind when MCC closes down.

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

2003-02-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 05 February 2003 03:36 pm, Jerry Barton wrote: The only way i could get mine to work was to uninstall shorewall and use an rc.firewall from the IPTABLES HOWTO. I can post the basic script if you'd like. Jerry. Again and again I see the same answer - Shorewall! It appears that

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