Re: [newbie-it] Linux Pratico

2003-02-09 Thread Luigi
sapete qual'e l'ultimo numero uscito di Linux Pratico? Il numero 9. mi sai dire qual'e' il numero dell'ufficio abbonamenti? mi sono abbonato a dicembre scorso e non ho ancora ricevuto un numero della rivista = Luigi Beltramini [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie-it] Script per init 6 con aggiunte

2003-02-09 Thread IRON
Alle 18:02, sabato 25 gennaio 2003, Stefano Sebastiani ha scritto: Non c'è nessuno che mi possa aiutare a fare i due script di cui sopra? mah.. io di solito per fare quello che vuoi tu uso il comando: #rebootin windows dove 'windows' è la relativa voce di LILO... E' chiaramente possibile

Re: [newbie-it] Linux Pratico

2003-02-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mi sai dire qual'e' il numero dell'ufficio abbonamenti? mi sono abbonato a dicembre scorso e non ho ancora ricevuto un numero della rivista Strano... Boh, magari ti arriva nei prossimi giorni (il numero 9 deve essere uscito da poco)... Comunque ecco i dati dell'ufficio abbonamenti e

Re: [newbie-it] Linux Pratico

2003-02-09 Thread Corrado
Il dom, 2003-02-09 alle 15:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: mi sai dire qual'e' il numero dell'ufficio abbonamenti? mi sono abbonato a dicembre scorso e non ho ancora ricevuto un numero della rivista Strano... Boh, magari ti arriva nei prossimi giorni (il numero 9 deve essere uscito da

Re: [newbie-it] Mandrake 9.0 Problemi con lettore cdrom

2003-02-09 Thread Andrea Cecagallina
At 19.44 08/02/2003 +0100, you wrote: Come si fa??? ;-) Ad invertire? Apri il Pc, scambi i cavi IDE di masterizzatore e lettore ed ovviamente cambi anche i settaggi dei jumper. I settaggi giusti li trovi sui manuali (perchè tu li hai ancora, vero?) oppure potresti averli stampati anche sul

Re: [newbie-it] Suggerimenti: installazione e pacchetti

2003-02-09 Thread Andrea Cecagallina
At 17.00 08/02/2003 +0100, you wrote: Dove trovo una classifica che mi indici quali sono i window-manager più leggeri e quelli più pesanti per una determinata macchina? Ciao Prova a http://www.plig.org/xwinman/index.html è un ottimo sito. Cmq, da quel poco che ci capisco in 'sto nuovo

Re: [newbie-it] Mandrake 9.0 Problemi con lettore cdrom

2003-02-09 Thread Fabio Manunza
Alle 19:02, sabato 8 febbraio 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Allegato: Allegato Appunto...Gli allegati... 'ndo stanno?? Mi raccomando, mandali in formato .txt; pesano di meno. Vale. -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545

Re: [newbie-it] Mandrake Update - skip automatico

2003-02-09 Thread Fabio Manunza
Alle 03:22, domenica 9 febbraio 2003, Di Fresco Marco ha scritto: Non ho mai utilizzato il Mandrake Update,da quanto si sente in lista,non funziona/funzionava molto benel'unico consiglio che ti posso dare,è di scaricarti i paketti in ftp o http

Re: [newbie-it] Mandrake 9.0 Problemi con lettore cdrom

2003-02-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quali allegati? Ho ascritto solo il messaggio, non ho mandato allegati? Comunque ti rimando il messaggio. Fabio... mi sono accorto che neppure il floppy viene letto, infatti guarda un po' cosa c'è nel fstab!!! /dev/hda7 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda9 /home

Re: [newbie-it] Mandrake Update - skip automatico

2003-02-09 Thread Corrado
Il dom, 2003-02-09 alle 14:18, Fabio Manunza ha scritto: Per quanto riguarda Mandrake Update, posso confermare, per prove effettuate, che funziona bene. Idem, almeno dalla 8.2... I problemi possono tuttavia verificarsi a seconda del mirror scelto per il download; io scarico sempre da server

RE: [newbie-it] Mandrake Update - skip automatico

2003-02-09 Thread Di Fresco Marco
Per quanto riguarda Mandrake Update, posso confermare, per prove effettuate, che funziona bene. Idem, almeno dalla 8.2... I problemi possono tuttavia verificarsi a seconda del mirror scelto per il download; io scarico sempre da server austriaci, tedeschi o francesi, di norma, perchè, a

Re: [newbie-it] saned, parzialmente risolto

2003-02-09 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 02:27, martedì 4 febbraio 2003, carmine de pasquale ha scritto: grazie, ma comunque niente da fare. dopo il settaggio il file è diventato root root rw-rw-rw-, ma all'avvio di xscan da locale, user group rw-rw allora, mi sono informato

Re: [newbie-it] come conf. samba

2003-02-09 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 08:54, martedì 4 febbraio 2003, Enrico Piccinini ha scritto: - Aprendo HardDrake, dovrei vedere tra le periferiche la mia scheda di rete? Se sì, come mai che non vedo niente? (A proposito di questo, se devo installare una nuova scheda di

Re: [newbie-it] Problemi scheda audio

2003-02-09 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 12:02, venerdì 7 febbraio 2003, Eraser Head ha scritto: via82cxxx_audio18144 1 uart401 6336 0 [via82cxxx_audio] ac97_codec 9568 0 [via82cxxx_audio] sound 57292 0

[newbie] Connecting through wireless router to....

2003-02-09 Thread Robert
My question is being posted on three different groups. Linux-Mandrake, Mac, and XP. Can I connect from one machine to another through the wireless router? If so how do I go about it? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] HTML e-mail client

2003-02-09 Thread robin
FemmeFatale wrote: At 09:04 PM 2/8/2003 -0500, you wrote: snip You must have some artistic/creative/designer-type friends, because all of the HTML mail eye candy I get is spam. And from all the spam, most is not eye candy but really poorly designed (I know from seeing the wife's spam in

[newbie] ooopps lost X!!!

2003-02-09 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
Hi there, I don't know if this is something I've done or just md9 going screwy on me. Anyway I was in gnome as a user and to shutdown I gave the command shutdown -h now in the command line utility on the task bar. Now although in run level 5 whenever I reboot I get the console as if in rl3 and

Re: [newbie] HTML e-mail client

2003-02-09 Thread Charlie
On Sunday 09 February 2003 01:18 am, robin wrote: snip I've used it on a couple of occasions in the last few years. Sometimes I need to use non-ascii characters, and can't rely on the receiver having the ability to decode any other way. Once I had to circulate a document that wanted very

[newbie] eDonkey??????

2003-02-09 Thread Philip
Firstly a big HELLO to you all. This is my first post on the list and I hope that I can be of some assistance to you all, I said, I hope. I have a few problems my self and the first is: Does anyone know anything about this program?? I have installed it on my Mandrake 9.0 distro but seem to

RE: [newbie] Problem Installing Mandrake 9.0 on Asus A7V Motherboard

2003-02-09 Thread Robert Wideman
Troubleshoot, troubleshoot, troubleshoot. For starters, try taking out your scsi card and tape drive and 2nd HDget down to BARE MINIMUM. If it gets past the install then start adding parts till you find the piece it doesnt like. Also try updating your MB, i have same MB...A7V333. If that

Re: [newbie] new to list////gamming on linux

2003-02-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 08 February 2003 08:46 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: Nothing is wrong with wineX, I just don't use it. I stay away from the Evil Empire by not running anything that needs it. Rob Hey Rob. There has been a lot of debate for/against WineX. Its been a real Godsend for me and my boys

Re: [newbie] eDonkey??????

2003-02-09 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
Mldonkey runs fine and uses the eDonkey servers. You can download it from Penguin Liberation Front. Remember, if you have a firewall enabled you must open the tcp ports from 4660 to 4666 God luch! El Domingo, 9 de Febrero de 2003 09:33, Philip escribió: Firstly a big HELLO to you all. This

Re: [newbie] Spamassassin Mail to a folder

2003-02-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 5:12 am, Dennis Myers wrote: I want spamassassin to log or put mail that it thinks is spam in a folder in my kmail setup. I have given the command spamassassin --log-to-mbox=Spam in a console but it doesn't seem to be doing the job. Should I have used the -l switch first

Re: [newbie] eDonkey??????

2003-02-09 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 12:22:59 +0100 Francisco Alcaraz Ariza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mldonkey runs fine and uses the eDonkey servers. You can download it from Penguin Liberation Front. Remember, if you have a firewall enabled you must open the tcp ports from 4660 to 4666 God luch! And also

Re: [newbie] Making software raid filesystems

2003-02-09 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 08:23 am, Brian Parish wrote: Is this a feature to stop me doing something stupid, or am I missing something? Yes ;-) There should be a button on the gui to put yourself in expert mode, which should give you back the

Re: [newbie] SBC Yahoo DSL Problem

2003-02-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday February 8 2003 05:47 pm, MRE wrote: Has anyone on this list been successful getting Mandrake 9.0 or RH8.0 to work on SBC Yahoo DSL? I had been using DirectvInternet DSL for over a year on my AMD 500 system so I know there is no hardware problem. If you had luck using SBC DSL,

Re: [newbie] ooopps lost X!!!

2003-02-09 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 08:51 am, Andrew Scotchmer wrote: When you get to the command line and type startx, what is the error message It mentions having problems reading /etc/X11/XF86Config. Talks of Data Missing from this file Andrew

Re: [newbie] Samba and XP - Is there a way around it?

2003-02-09 Thread Lanman
Brian; In order to get Samba and XP playing nice together, there are several considerations to take into account. 1) What name does the XP box have? Not the username, the host name of the XP box? 2) Are the XP box and the Samba box in the same domain? ie; xp.localdomain or xp.briansdomain.com

Re: [newbie] HTML e-mail client

2003-02-09 Thread Warren Post
On Sat, 8 Feb 2003 10:58:30 +0200, Gil Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there any HTML e-mail client like outlook express? There are several. If you're familiar with Outlook Express you'll feel right at home with Evolution. It does everything Outlook does except propagate viruses. -- Warren

[newbie] how to cron?

2003-02-09 Thread magnet
I have set up my tv card and I can capture programs to HDD using streamer. I'm using v4lctrl setstation channel number to set the correct channel. and then streamer... options follow.blah blah to do the capturing. These commands have been put in a script but I'm not sure where this script

Re: [newbie] HTML e-mail client

2003-02-09 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 09:14:36AM +0200, Gil Katz wrote: Ok i didn??? express myself ouite clear enough i got several accounts in hotmail and the easiest way to handel them is by outlook express so that what i need. Gil I'm not sure I understand what you want to do. Do you want to access

Re: [newbie] eDonkey??????

2003-02-09 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Sunday 09 February 2003 12:25, Philip wrote: On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 12:03 pm, Ralph Slooten wrote: Thanks for the advice. See the only problem I have with eDonkey is that I am having a problem trying to get the GUI to be able to connect to the core. I can load load both manually but can't

Re: [newbie] how to cron?

2003-02-09 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 09:59 am, magnet wrote: I have set up my tv card and I can capture programs to HDD using streamer. I'm using v4lctrl setstation channel number to set the correct channel. and then streamer... options follow.blah blah

Re: [newbie] This fellow needs help. His mails are being rejected.

2003-02-09 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 01:00 am, civileme wrote: It is being rejected because reverse lookup doesn't work. His ISP has the dns misconfigured. Search results for: 64.72.132.17 OrgName:One Call Communications OrgID: OCCI

Re: [newbie] eDonkey??????

2003-02-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 13:03:21 +0100, Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 12:22:59 +0100 Francisco Alcaraz Ariza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mldonkey runs fine and uses the eDonkey servers. You can download it from Penguin Liberation Front. Remember, if you have a firewall

Re: [newbie] eDonkey??????

2003-02-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Are both the client and GUI set to use the same port? IIRC, the default port is 4001. If the GUI is running on another system, might there be a firewall blocking communication? If they are both on the same system, do you have loopback networking running? To check, type '/sbin/ifconfig lo' in a

Re: [newbie] how to cron?

2003-02-09 Thread magnet
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 3:10 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 2:59 pm, magnet wrote: I have set up my tv card and I can capture programs to HDD using streamer. I'm using v4lctrl setstation channel number to set the correct channel. and then streamer... options

Re: [newbie] how to cron?

2003-02-09 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 10:28 am, magnet wrote: Hi Derek, Ok, that's a good start. Means I can keep all the vcr scripts in one place. I have/use webmin all the time for various other stuff across all 6 machines but am a little confused with

Re: [newbie] Spamassassin Mail to a folder

2003-02-09 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 09 February 2003 05:39 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 5:12 am, Dennis Myers wrote: I want spamassassin to log or put mail that it thinks is spam in a folder in my kmail setup. I have given the command spamassassin --log-to-mbox=Spam in a console but it doesn't

[newbie] Sound problem

2003-02-09 Thread Keith Powell
I have downloaded and installed a program from the internet, which needs to access the soundcard. When I try to run it, I get the error message: Cannot open Audio Device /dev/sound/dsp: Device or resource busy. I have checked permissions and they are correct. Any ideas to overcome this error,

[newbie] Trouble with Hardware

2003-02-09 Thread Yaakov
Hello, i'm hannes and i have got some trouble running mandrake 9.0 on my system. after the installation and starting kde i tried to run several programs like kwrite, some games, etc. but everything program took a long time loading. so i was checking the hardware on the mandrake control center

[newbie] Installing Java...

2003-02-09 Thread Julian Templeman
OK... now I've got 9.0 working, time to do something with it! I need Java on here, so I've downloaded the .bin distribution from Sun. Since I'm still a Clueless Newbie at this stage, I want advice on the best place to install it... On a Windows machine I'd just install it any-dam-where and add

[newbie] security update corrupted package

2003-02-09 Thread ivette brusselmans
Hello, when security updating on ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/updates/9.0/RPMS/ I keep getting the message: package samba-client-2.2.7-2.1mdk.i568.rpm is corrupted. I tried serveral other mirrors, same message. cannot install any security updates thanx

Re: [newbie] how to cron?

2003-02-09 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 11:12 am, magnet wrote: Hmm, so why isn't it working??? I've chmod the script to 755 just to confirm there were not exec restrictions in force. Here is my shell output [magnet@linux1 magnet]$

Re: [newbie] Sound problem

2003-02-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 3:49 pm, Keith Powell wrote: I have downloaded and installed a program from the internet, which needs to access the soundcard. When I try to run it, I get the error message: Cannot open Audio Device /dev/sound/dsp: Device or resource busy. I have checked permissions

Re: [newbie] how to cron?

2003-02-09 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 05:12, magnet wrote: On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 3:47 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 10:28 am, magnet wrote: Hi Derek, Ok, that's a good start. Means I can keep all the vcr scripts in one place. I

Re: [newbie] how to cron?

2003-02-09 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 11:39 am, magnet wrote: The script is located here: /drive1/magnet/vcrtest.sh Than eliminate that the . in front. ./ is the directory entry for the current directory, which is why you have to use it when you are

Re: [newbie] how to cron?

2003-02-09 Thread magnet
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 4:57 pm, Michael Adams wrote: Hmm, so why isn't it working??? I've chmod the script to 755 just to confirm there were not exec restrictions in force. Here is my shell output [magnet@linux1 magnet]$ ./drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh bash: ./drive1/magnet/vcr/test.sh:

Re: [newbie] This fellow needs help. His mails are being rejected.

2003-02-09 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 12:52, Greg Meyer wrote: The same exact problem that adelphia has. Thank you very much for clarifying, I now have the info that I need to speak with the ISP again. - -- Greg Greg, could you send me an email directly to my account? Just out of curiosity and to get

Re: [newbie] how to cron?

2003-02-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 3:28 pm, magnet wrote: On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 3:10 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 2:59 pm, magnet wrote: I have set up my tv card and I can capture programs to HDD using streamer. I'm using v4lctrl setstation channel number to set the correct

Re: [newbie] xserver??

2003-02-09 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 01:33 pm, Aaron wrote: I need to know how to upgrade my xserver. I am using MDK 9.0 Thanks To what? for what purpose? - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux)

[newbie] Saving wallpaper to a folder

2003-02-09 Thread Russ
Hi All, I am trying to save different wallpaper images in a folder that everyone can get to so I do not want it in my home folders. I tried creating a folder called more in /usr/share/wallpapers/ but I cannot save any images there. Anyone wish to shed some light on the hoops I have to jump

Re: [newbie] how to cron?

2003-02-09 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 04:08, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 09 February 2003 09:59 am, magnet wrote: I have set up my tv card and I can capture programs to HDD using streamer. I'm using v4lctrl setstation channel number to set the correct channel. and then streamer... options follow.blah

Re: [newbie] how to cron? - working now

2003-02-09 Thread magnet
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 5:14 pm, Michael Adams wrote: On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 04:08, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 09 February 2003 09:59 am, magnet wrote: I have set up my tv card and I can capture programs to HDD using streamer. I'm using v4lctrl setstation channel number to set the

Re: [newbie] Spamassassin Mail to a folder

2003-02-09 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 09 February 2003 10:58 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 3:59 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 09 February 2003 05:39 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 5:12 am, Dennis Myers wrote: I want spamassassin to log or put mail that it thinks is spam in a

Re: [newbie] xserver??

2003-02-09 Thread Aaron
Well I was having system problem and some one said to try using an older version of X 3.xx. But it made no difference and I pretty much narrowed my problem down to hardware. I now want to upgrade to 4.01 to take advantage of wineX. Aaron On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 18:55, Greg Meyer wrote: -BEGIN

Re: [newbie] Mandrake9.1bwta3

2003-02-09 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good to see people testing. On Sunday 09 February 2003 12:10 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: 1) Diskdrake failed to colour classify correctly one ext2 partition /dev/hda10 which it insisted was NTFS and it therefore colour coded it blue in

Re: [newbie] Saving wallpaper to a folder

2003-02-09 Thread et
On Sunday 09 February 2003 12:04 pm, Russ wrote: Hi All, I am trying to save different wallpaper images in a folder that everyone can get to so I do not want it in my home folders. I tried creating a folder called more in /usr/share/wallpapers/ but I cannot save any images there. Anyone wish

Re: [newbie] Saving wallpaper to a folder

2003-02-09 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 12:04 pm, Russ wrote: Hi All, I am trying to save different wallpaper images in a folder that everyone can get to so I do not want it in my home folders. I tried creating a folder called more in /usr/share/wallpapers/

Re: [newbie] Trouble with Hardware

2003-02-09 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 11:01 am, Yaakov wrote: Hello, i'm hannes and i have got some trouble running mandrake 9.0 on my system. after the installation and starting kde i tried to run several programs like kwrite, some games, etc. but

Re: [newbie] Sound problem

2003-02-09 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 10:49 am, Keith Powell wrote: I have downloaded and installed a program from the internet, which needs to access the soundcard. When I try to run it, I get the error message: Cannot open Audio Device /dev/sound/dsp:

Re: [newbie] xserver??

2003-02-09 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 02:25 pm, Aaron wrote: Well I was having system problem and some one said to try using an older version of X 3.xx. But it made no difference and I pretty much narrowed my problem down to hardware. I now want to upgrade

Re: [newbie] This fellow needs help. His mails are being rejected.

2003-02-09 Thread et
the answer is that Adolfo uses his ISP mail serrver to route his outbound mail thru, and Greg is tring to have his mail server send it right out to the internet On Sunday 09 February 2003 11:24 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 11:17, Greg Meyer wrote: Thanks for jumping in here

Re: [newbie] This fellow needs help. His mails are being rejected.

2003-02-09 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 12:51 pm, et wrote: the answer is that Adolfo uses his ISP mail serrver to route his outbound mail thru, and Greg is tring to have his mail server send it right out to the internet Could you clarify what you mean? - --

Re: [newbie] This fellow needs help. His mails are being rejected.

2003-02-09 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 13:51, et wrote: the answer is that Adolfo uses his ISP mail serrver to route his outbound mail thru, and Greg is tring to have his mail server send it right out to the internet No, it is not that way. They are sending their mails through their hosting service smtp

Re: [newbie] Spamassassin Mail to a folder

2003-02-09 Thread Derek Jennings
SNIP Thanks Derek, that was exactly what I needed. Who knew that . was a regular expression? I don't seem to get much spam from any source, maybe once a month, but I know that sooner or later it will come. Your help is appreciated. So much to learn, so little time. : ) 1 a month! I get

Re: [newbie] xserver??

2003-02-09 Thread Aaron
I have a dual processor pentium III 550MHz with 128 meg ram, A Matrox G400 dual head. I have had lots of problems so far with system lock ups this has been connected with pro audio applications. I was told that it could be my mother board and when I I searched for info on system lockups and my

Re: [newbie] kmail 1.5

2003-02-09 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 09 February 2003 12:20 am, Paul Kaplan wrote: I upgraded to kde3.1 and have found one minor, but annoying glitch. In kmail, the folder list is visible, but the folder names are not. The number of unread messages in each folder is legibe (in bold black text, or a - if there are no

Re: [newbie] Making software raid filesystems

2003-02-09 Thread civileme
On Sunday 09 February 2003 04:23 am, Brian Parish wrote: Hmmm. When diskdrake runs during an install, I can create partitions of type linux raid (I think that was it) and then add them to a raid set. Now on a working 9.0 system, when I run diskdrake I only get a small subset of the options

Re: [newbie] SBC Yahoo DSL Problem

2003-02-09 Thread MRE
- Original Message - From: Scott Thayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 8:33 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] SBC Yahoo DSL Problem I have been running SBC DSL on Mandrake for a couple of years, although I can't speak to what effect the recent

Re: [newbie] This fellow needs help. His mails are being rejected.

2003-02-09 Thread et
On Sunday 09 February 2003 01:01 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 12:51 pm, et wrote: the answer is that Adolfo uses his ISP mail serrver to route his outbound mail thru, and Greg is tring to have his mail server send it right

Re: [newbie] How long to download 9.0

2003-02-09 Thread David E. Fox
I get about 500 to 550 MB's/hour from decent sites with a 1.5Megabit adsl line (~150K/sec). DSL connections also vary quite a bit, from half my speed to almost twice as fast. The mirror you use, My DSL is 384k-1.5 megabyte variable, nat fixed. All that's guaranteed is the 384k and I

Re: [newbie] Sound problem

2003-02-09 Thread Keith Powell
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 4:46 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 3:49 pm, Keith Powell wrote: I have downloaded and installed a program from the internet, which needs to access the soundcard. When I try to run it, I get the error message: Cannot open Audio Device

Re: [newbie] Making software raid filesystems

2003-02-09 Thread Brian Parish
Oops. This was meant to go to the list. On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 06:44, civileme wrote: On Sunday 09 February 2003 04:23 am, Brian Parish wrote: Hmmm. When diskdrake runs during an install, I can create partitions of type linux raid (I think that was it) and then add them to a raid set.

Re: [newbie] Saving wallpaper to a folder

2003-02-09 Thread David E. Fox
be root to write the files to /usr/share/anyfolder, or change folder=20 permissions. A possibly better way would be to symbolically link a directory to /home/whereever/wallpapers. That way the other users can read (but not alter, presumably) the contents of your wallpaper directory. However,

Re: [newbie] Sound problem

2003-02-09 Thread Keith Powell
On Sunday 09 Feb 2003 5:48 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 09 February 2003 10:49 am, Keith Powell wrote: I have downloaded and installed a program from the internet, which needs to access the soundcard. When I try to run it, I get the error message: Cannot open Audio Device

[newbie] Mandrake 8.1 update wrecked my system.

2003-02-09 Thread Josef Lowder
Recently, my monitor died and the process of finding a suitable replacement led to a series of new problems. Someone at Mandrake told me that I really needed to update my 8.1 system (which had been working just fine), and the process of installing the updates royally messed everything up.

Re: [newbie] Saving wallpaper to a folder

2003-02-09 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 05:18 pm, David E. Fox wrote: as symbolic links can't be created across partitions, Minor correction. symlinks can be made across partitions, hardlinks cannot. - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

[newbie] ADSL Modem/Router

2003-02-09 Thread Stephen Kuhn
I have a customer that has a Dynalink ALE070 ADSL USB modem; has ANYONE either experienced this animal - either in getting it to work or not? (Feels nice to ask y'all a question for a change, ya reckon?) -- Mon, 10 Feb 2003 09:40:00 +1100 9:40am up 3 days, 1:58, 4 users, load average:

Re: [newbie] Installing Java...

2003-02-09 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 09 February 2003 01:59 pm, wrnash wrote: For mandrake 9.0 you can do the following After install of the bin you will need to link it to the java bin ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.4.1_01/bin/java /usr/bin/java Change j2re1.4.1_01 to what java you have installed. You can also just move the

Re: [newbie] Installing Java...

2003-02-09 Thread John McQuillen
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 10:20, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 09 February 2003 01:59 pm, wrnash wrote: For mandrake 9.0 you can do the following After install of the bin you will need to link it to the java bin ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.4.1_01/bin/java /usr/bin/java Change j2re1.4.1_01 to

Re: [newbie] xserver??

2003-02-09 Thread Mark
On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Aaron wrote: I have a dual processor pentium III 550MHz with 128 meg ram, A Matrox G400 dual head. I have had lots of problems so far with system lock ups this has been connected with pro audio applications. I was told that it could be my mother board and when I I

Re: [newbie] Saving wallpaper to a folder

2003-02-09 Thread Russ
Okay, I created this folder in my directory file:/home/russ/wallpaper. Now how to I create a symbolic link to it from say file:/usr/share/wallpapers which is where all the others are. Thanks Russ On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 14:18, David E. Fox wrote: A possibly better way would be to symbolically

[newbie] Boot disk (floppy)

2003-02-09 Thread Russ
Where do I go to make a boot disk for this configuration in case something goes haywire? Thanks Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Boot disk (floppy)

2003-02-09 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 08:35 pm, Russ wrote: Where do I go to make a boot disk for this configuration in case something goes haywire? Mandrake Control Center = boot = bootdisk - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7

Re: [newbie] Saving wallpaper to a folder

2003-02-09 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 08:29 pm, Russ wrote: Okay, I created this folder in my directory file:/home/russ/wallpaper. Now how to I create a symbolic link to it from say file:/usr/share/wallpapers which is where all the others are. use ln -s

Re: [newbie] kmail 1.5

2003-02-09 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 09 February 2003 12:48 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 09 February 2003 12:20 am, Paul Kaplan wrote: I upgraded to kde3.1 and have found one minor, but annoying glitch. In kmail, the folder list is visible, but the folder names are not. The number of unread messages in each

Re: [newbie] kmail 1.5

2003-02-09 Thread Paul Kaplan
Batta bing! Just as your e-mail came through I noticed the same thing and fixed the problem. Paul On Monday 10 February 2003 02:18 am, Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 09 February 2003 12:48 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 09 February 2003 12:20 am, Paul Kaplan wrote: I upgraded to kde3.1

Re: [newbie] Boot disk (floppy)

2003-02-09 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 09 February 2003 05:41 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 08:35 pm, Russ wrote: Where do I go to make a boot disk for this configuration in case something goes haywire? Mandrake Control Center = boot = bootdisk I have

Re: [newbie] Saving wallpaper to a folder

2003-02-09 Thread Russ
Hi Greg, Did it and it worked great (after I logged into the console as su). Isn't there a way to do this in KDE or Gnome? Thanks Russ On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 17:45, Greg Meyer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 08:29 pm, Russ wrote: Okay, I

RE: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 on Intel Hardware

2003-02-09 Thread Richard Babcock
Actually, I think it would run on this toaster just fine: http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/toasterpc/ ;-) R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

[newbie] Some SAMBA Questions

2003-02-09 Thread Marlo Montanaro
Hi, I've kind of got Samba working and I've got a couple of questions before I go further. My network is 3 computers: - Windows ME with my HP DeskJet 694C printer - Windows XP on a laptop - Mandrake Linux 9.0 The two Windows machines see each other fine, sharing hard drives and the one printer.

[newbie] File Management

2003-02-09 Thread Russ
Hi All, I have been trying to learn how Linux's file system works and what goes where. I am gaining ground. Here is my pet peeve though. When navigating the various files and folders, you do not know which actual partition it is on. In windows explorer it separates the drives and shows you what

RE: [newbie] File Management

2003-02-09 Thread Robert Wideman
You are too used to Winblowz. Stay on Linux/UNIX for another year and you will totally disagree with your current self. Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Russ Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 9:56 PM To: Newbie Subject: [newbie]

Re: [newbie] File Management

2003-02-09 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 14:56, Russ wrote: Hi All, I have been trying to learn how Linux's file system works and what goes where. I am gaining ground. Here is my pet peeve though. When navigating the various files and folders, you do not know which actual partition it is on. In windows

Re: [newbie] Boot disk (floppy)

2003-02-09 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 10:11 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: I have to say that I did not get a bootable bootdisk from there. I was lucky however to have the other boot levels in LILO. Anytime I created a boot floppy here it was because the floppy

Re: [newbie] Saving wallpaper to a folder

2003-02-09 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 09 February 2003 10:46 pm, Russ wrote: Isn't there a way to do this in KDE or Gnome? I think when you drag a file to a new location in Konqueror and release, it will ask you if you want to move, copy or create a link in the new location.

Re: [newbie] File Management

2003-02-09 Thread Damian Gatabria
Hi All, I have been trying to learn how Linux's file system works and what goes where. I am gaining ground. Here is my pet peeve though. When navigating the various files and folders, you do not know which actual partition it is on. In windows explorer it separates the drives and shows you

RE: [newbie] Complete newbie, trouble trying to install mandrake 8.2 on a Mac G-4

2003-02-09 Thread Richard Babcock
Dan, I ordered the disks from cheapbytes and they work fine on my iMac. As I recall, you need a mac boot partition to begin with (I made mine as small as possible) and then you start the install program from your MacOS (8.2 in my case). I didn't keep ML 8.2 on my iMac, however, because I never got

Re: [newbie] File Management

2003-02-09 Thread Todd Slater
On 09 Feb 2003 19:56:05 -0800 Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have been trying to learn how Linux's file system works and what goes where. I am gaining ground. Here is my pet peeve though. When navigating the various files and folders, you do not know which actual partition it is

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