Re: [newbie] CD's have arrived!!

2003-02-11 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 23:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 2 questions: are the newest gnome and kde installed with the 9.1 > beta, and has anyone heard of the status of preparing rpms for > those for 9.0? > > KDE 3.1 and GNOME 2.2.0 are on the 9.1b Now I have even more reason to hate Gnome - it's

Re: [newbie] easy to use HTML editor?

2003-02-11 Thread Gil Katz
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 23:59, Graham Watkins wrote: > Angus Auld wrote: > >Greetings, I would like to ask the list for recommendations on an "easy to > > use" HTML editor. > > > >One that is designed for beginners and is user friendly. I have Bluefish, > > and also Screem and Quanta Plus, but

[newbie] misc-fixed font?

2003-02-11 Thread Jerry Barton
Hello again all :) Had a bit of a problem pop up. I just installed xarchon (a game) and went to try it out. The program LOADED ok, but when I'd go to start a new game it would just close. So, to see if I could gain any insight, I started it from a terminal instead of from the menu and it gav

Re: [newbie] compiling lame

2003-02-11 Thread David E. Fox
>http://plf.zarb.org/ has Mandrake rpms for lame enc. Look for > notlame-3.93-0.20021107.1plf.i586.rpm. There's versions for 8.x and Or go totally unencumbered (isn't that like nudism?) :) by embrasing ogg and using oggenc. Pity that many devices are stuck with mp3 though, and double pity

RE: [newbie] Some SAMBA Questions

2003-02-11 Thread Marlo Montanaro
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of _nasturtium Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 6:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mandrake Linux Newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Some SAMBA Questions On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:24 pm, Marlo Montanaro wrote: > On Monday

[newbie] Apache and PHP variables

2003-02-11 Thread Antonio Contreras
OK, so this is beyond the scope of a Mandrake forum, so forgive me for asking. I have transitioned my web server from Win2k to Linux. Everything seems to be working OK except I just noticed a page that is supposed to not show the banner, but does. In win2k, the PHP variable $URL was returning t

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

2003-02-11 Thread Chuck Stuettgen
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 17:40, Terry Smith wrote: > I'm the fellow that needs help :-). Or put another way, another unhappy > Adelphia customer (the only high speed access available in my > neigbborhood). > > This is a test msg, passing the email through an SMTP server at work. > > Terry Smith > Ca

Re: [newbie] [Newbie] Windowmaker is borked on 9.0????

2003-02-11 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 February 2003 06:23 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: > > Hey FF, try this. Add the following line to your ~/.bashrc file > > > > alias rpmq="rpm -qa | grep -i $1" > > Nice idea... why don't i have that on my box!? > I bet you do now ;-) - --

[newbie] Strange message when posting to newbie list

2003-02-11 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 20:34, David Reynolds wrote: > What the heck is this? I get it for the last couple weeks when > sending to this list. Sorry. Your message could not be delivered to: linux-mandrake newbie,emc (The name was not found at the remote site. Check that the name has been ente

Re: [newbie] manli TV

2003-02-11 Thread Larry Williams
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 06:52, p s wrote: > Sorry if this is stupid, I am completely new to linux. > > I have tv card manli tv with chip SAA7134. It is not > automaticaly recognized by mandrake (in the hardware > list I can see the chip, with module:unknown). I wrote > by hand 'modprobe saa7134

Re: [newbie] [Newbie] Windowmaker is borked on 9.0????

2003-02-11 Thread Damian Gatabria
> > Hey FF, try this. Add the following line to your ~/.bashrc file > > alias rpmq="rpm -qa | grep -i $1" > Nice idea... why don't i have that on my box!? Damian -- -- I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from all those security holes, virii, and cryptic c

Re: [newbie] easy to use HTML editor?

2003-02-11 Thread Angus Auld
Thanks to everyone that replied for the feedback. I guess short of sweet-talking someone else into doing the coding for me, I'll have to spend some time working my brain cells, and learn the basics of HTML. Kind of figured that was likely ;-). I have been told by others who do HTML work that a w

Re: [newbie] [Newbie] Windowmaker is borked on 9.0????

2003-02-11 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 February 2003 07:51 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: > That will do. Thx Damian. Not that I'll remember the command cause I > don't understand grep yet... :) > So I'll just save your mail as a txt file. Hey FF, try this. Add the following line

Re: [newbie] xfce in beta 3

2003-02-11 Thread Scott Thayer
Following up on civileme's post. I kept being really impressed w/ how well the 9.1 beta 3 installer looked and worked and was pleased to see that the MCC network setup had been fixed for those of us w/ out DNS or default gateways, *but* xfce is so borked in b3 - right mouse-button window-lis

Re: [newbie] [Newbie] Windowmaker is borked on 9.0????

2003-02-11 Thread FemmeFatale
At 10:20 PM 2/11/2003 +, you wrote: > > That will do. Thx Damian. Not that I'll remember the command cause I > don't understand grep yet... :) > So I'll just save your mail as a txt file. > - > FemmeFatale But for this kind of usage, grep is as simple as can be! the -i switch is

Re: [newbie] [Newbie] Windowmaker is borked on 9.0????

2003-02-11 Thread FemmeFatale
At 08:01 PM 2/11/2003 -0500, you wrote: > FemmeFatale > > Good Decisions You boss Made: > "We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that > character from Peanuts." > > - Source: Dilbert grep is just a way to use regular words to sort and see only certian info. in the abov

Re: [newbie] easy to use HTML editor?

2003-02-11 Thread robin
Robert Wideman wrote: I agree. Also there is NO "easy to use" html editor. If you need something to do the html stuff for you stick with windows programsdreamweaver or frontpage. Aaagh, not FrontPage! That program is responsible for more botched HTML than anything ever written. I go alo

Fwd: NDN: Re: [newbie] File Management

2003-02-11 Thread David Reynolds
What the heck is this? I get it for the last couple weeks when sending to this list. No weird email abbreviations are at fault - I'm typing the list address in raw. the message does get through after all, I just get this failure notice as well. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject

Re: [newbie] [Newbie] Windowmaker is borked on 9.0????

2003-02-11 Thread Terry Smith
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 20:01, et wrote: > On Tuesday 11 February 2003 07:51 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: > > At 09:14 PM 2/11/2003 +, you wrote: > > > > On a side note how can I tell which version of any window manager I'm > > > > using? Whats teh CLI cmd or Gui place to look? > > > > > > > > ---

Re: [newbie] [Newbie] Windowmaker is borked on 9.0????

2003-02-11 Thread Damian Gatabria
> > That will do. Thx Damian. Not that I'll remember the command cause I > don't understand grep yet... :) > So I'll just save your mail as a txt file. > - > FemmeFatale But for this kind of usage, grep is as simple as can be! the -i switch is simpy for case-INsensitivity. (so that a

Re: [newbie] [Newbie] Windowmaker is borked on 9.0????

2003-02-11 Thread et
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 07:51 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: > At 09:14 PM 2/11/2003 +, you wrote: > > > On a side note how can I tell which version of any window manager I'm > > > using? Whats teh CLI cmd or Gui place to look? > > > > > > - > > > FemmeFatale > > > >umm.. like this? >

Re: [newbie] [Newbie] Windowmaker is borked on 9.0????

2003-02-11 Thread FemmeFatale
At 09:14 PM 2/11/2003 +, you wrote: > > On a side note how can I tell which version of any window manager I'm > using? Whats teh CLI cmd or Gui place to look? > > - > FemmeFatale umm.. like this? [root@localhost user]# rpm -qa | grep -i Windowmaker WindowMaker-0.80.1-2.1mdk

Re: [newbie] File Management

2003-02-11 Thread David Reynolds
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 05:45 pm, FemmeFatale proclaimed: > At 10:41 AM 2/11/2003 -0400, you wrote: > >On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 20:23, FemmeFatale wrote: > > > On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 04:25, Adolfo Bello wrote: > > > >After 20 years using DOS/Windows I am rather used to the A;, C:, D: > >schema but

Re: [newbie] [Newbie] Windowmaker is borked on 9.0????

2003-02-11 Thread Damian Gatabria
> > On a side note how can I tell which version of any window manager I'm > using? Whats teh CLI cmd or Gui place to look? > > - > FemmeFatale umm.. like this? [root@localhost user]# rpm -qa | grep -i Windowmaker WindowMaker-0.80.1-2.1mdk HTH Damian -- -- I don't want Windows t

[newbie] [Newbie] Windowmaker is borked on 9.0????

2003-02-11 Thread FemmeFatale
I tried to run WindowMaker on 9.0 the other day. It gave strange errors & wouldn't run properly. Whats up with that? I d/led a new(er) *I hope* WMaker from the contrib or one of MDK's mirror sites. I haven't installed it yet thinkig that if I can just make the one that comes with 9.0 works

Re: [newbie] Evolutions Fonts

2003-02-11 Thread FemmeFatale
At 11:56 AM 2/11/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 19:45, FemmeFatale wrote: > How do i set the fonts bigger in Evo? I looked through their help & > theres nothing in there about it. Any ideas??? > > > Femme Femme, if you have a wheel mouse, there is a little trick for enlarging or r

Re: [newbie] File Management

2003-02-11 Thread FemmeFatale
At 10:41 AM 2/11/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 20:23, FemmeFatale wrote: > On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 04:25, Adolfo Bello wrote: After 20 years using DOS/Windows I am rather used to the A;, C:, D: schema but after working with the file system way I recognized that the DOS schema is some

Re: [newbie] FW: UML, wanting to install a distro from cd's

2003-02-11 Thread FemmeFatale
At 07:36 AM 2/11/2003 -0600, you wrote: Resending just incase anyone can help. TIA Rob Why not use Vmware? Or something like it? - FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: "We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts." - Source: Dil

Re: [newbie] easy to use HTML editor?

2003-02-11 Thread Roger Sherman
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Angus Auld wrote: > Greetings, I would like to ask the list for recommendations on an "easy to use" HTML >editor. > > One that is designed for beginners and is user friendly. I have Bluefish, and also >Screem and Quanta Plus, but they don't appear to be oriented toward the

Re: [newbie] M9.1beta3 3rd install

2003-02-11 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 11 Feb 2003 5:35 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Well it's my 3rd attempt and I have a working desktop with a dialup internet connection. The installer doesn't much like a usb camera being plugged in, and the boot script doesn't like it either, I get "ldm_v

Re: [newbie] M9.1beta3 3rd install

2003-02-11 Thread John Richard Smith
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday February 11 2003 11:35 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Well it's my 3rd attempt and I have a working desktop with a dialup internet connection. The install is painfully slow, I wait an eon between installation windows, and I wonder whether anyone else has this pro

Re: [newbie] connection sharing using static ip

2003-02-11 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 13:19, fifner the dragon wrote: > Hi, > > I just configured my connection sharing using drakgw in the mandrake control center. >When it finished I got the message "you may now share internet connection with other >computers on your Local Area Network, using atomatic network

Re: [newbie] easy to use HTML editor?

2003-02-11 Thread Graham Watkins
Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I would like to ask the list for recommendations on an "easy to use" HTML editor. One that is designed for beginners and is user friendly. I have Bluefish, and also Screem and Quanta Plus, but they don't appear to be oriented toward the inexperienced user. TIA for

Re: [newbie] still hardware problems

2003-02-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday February 11 2003 01:37 pm, Yaakov wrote: > Hi > i wrote some time ago about the slow handling of mandrake (i mean > that it takes too much time until the programs start up). so i > downloaded the kernel 2.4.19-24mdk as someone suggested (thank you > greg!). with this update there are som

RE: [newbie] SAMBA help?

2003-02-11 Thread info
It worked! Franki - thanks thanks thanks! Regards, PM On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, "Franki" wrote: > > have you created samba users to match the win2000 > login??? > > in your console screen (terminal su to root) try this.. > > smbpasswd -a franki > > > it will prompt for a password and create a n

Re: [newbie] M9.1beta3 3rd install

2003-02-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday February 11 2003 11:35 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > Well it's my 3rd attempt and I have a working desktop with a dialup > internet connection. > > The install is painfully slow, I wait an eon between installation > windows, and I wonder whether anyone else has this problem.I > certain

Re: [newbie] SAMBA help?

2003-02-11 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 07:46 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have Samba running, and I can actually get a > user/password prompt when I attempt to map the share > from my Win2K box. When I enter my credentials, I get > nowhwere... > > Any suggestions? > PM > PM, are your username/password

RE: [newbie] SAMBA help?

2003-02-11 Thread Franki
have you created samba users to match the win2000 login??? in your console screen (terminal su to root) try this.. smbpasswd -a franki it will prompt for a password and create a new samba user.. you should be able to get in now... rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [newbie] SAMBA help?

2003-02-11 Thread info
I have Samba running, and I can actually get a user/password prompt when I attempt to map the share from my Win2K box. When I enter my credentials, I get nowhwere... Any suggestions? PM On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 February 2003 06:20 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrot

[newbie] still hardware problems

2003-02-11 Thread Yaakov
Hi i wrote some time ago about the slow handling of mandrake (i mean that it takes too much time until the programs start up). so i downloaded the kernel 2.4.19-24mdk as someone suggested (thank you greg!). with this update there are some improvements!! but konquero and the games are still slow.

Re: [newbie] Why is a x.1 bleeding edge?

2003-02-11 Thread civileme
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 04:42 am, Marc Oestreicher wrote: > On Tuesday 11 February 2003 00:13, civileme wrote: > > Large snip > > > > > > But if you have used 9.1 Beta3, you may have already discovered that > > bleeding edge can send a wind from your terminal screen to blow your hair > > back.

Re: [newbie] easy to use HTML editor?

2003-02-11 Thread Aaron
Well, The problem is that the more gui the slower is the coding. I tried screem, quanta, bluefish and one from IBM. The point is that a beginner should understand that html is not programming. A good beginning is to look at some tutorials for html. I would recommend jbarta's tutorials but they do

Re: [newbie] SAMBA help?

2003-02-11 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 06:20 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've never used Mandrake Update before... what is the > command, or where is it in the GUI? > > Thx, > PM > Mandrake update : K --> Configuration --> Mandrake Update. However, I think your problem is your sources ( the places to g

RE: [newbie] SAMBA help?

2003-02-11 Thread info
I got the webmin update from www.webmin.com... I'll try the recommendations - wish me luck. Thx, PM On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, "Franki" wrote: > > Where did you get the webmin rpm from?? > > its looking in the wrong place for smb.conf > > it should be looking in /etc/samba/smb.conf > > did you i

RE: [newbie] easy to use HTML editor?

2003-02-11 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 03:11, Robert Wideman wrote: > I agree. Also there is NO "easy to use" html editor. If you need something > to do the html stuff for you stick with windows programsdreamweaver or > frontpage. > In Linux there is nothing easy, as per your version of easy. > Rob > ...and

Re: [newbie] easy to use HTML editor?

2003-02-11 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 02:31, Angus Auld wrote: > Greetings, I would like to ask the list for recommendations on an "easy to use" HTML >editor. > > One that is designed for beginners and is user friendly. I have Bluefish, and also >Screem and Quanta Plus, but they don't appear to be oriented towa

RE: [newbie] SAMBA help?

2003-02-11 Thread Franki
Its in mandrake control center... You can start mandrake control center by opening an su console and typing: mcc or you can just open mandrake update by typing: MandrakeUpdate (notice the caps, they are important.) rgds frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [newbie] SAMBA help?

2003-02-11 Thread Franki
Where did you get the webmin rpm from?? its looking in the wrong place for smb.conf it should be looking in /etc/samba/smb.conf did you install samba from your mandrake disks or did you get it elsewhere??? you have two choices: 1. edit the config files for webmin in /etc/webmin 2. uninstall th

RE: [newbie] SAMBA help?

2003-02-11 Thread info
I've never used Mandrake Update before... what is the command, or where is it in the GUI? Thx, PM On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, "Franki" wrote: > > have you used MandrakeUpdate before??? > > I think there was an updated webmin released.. > > Start MandrakeUpdate (again from su console) and > upgrade

Re: [newbie] SAMBA help?

2003-02-11 Thread info
OK... I have downloaded the most recent .rpm from www.webmin.com and installed it. I can connect to https://localhost:1 as root. Now when I choose the "Servers" area and go to the "Samba Share Manager", it gives me the following error... "The configuration file /etc/smb.conf was not found.

RE: [newbie] SAMBA help?

2003-02-11 Thread Franki
have you used MandrakeUpdate before??? I think there was an updated webmin released.. Start MandrakeUpdate (again from su console) and upgrade your packages... (mostly kernel and rpm packages and stuff.. ) (also if you have not used Mandrake Update before, it will prompt for a updates site and y

Re: [newbie] SAMBA help?

2003-02-11 Thread info
Upon su-ing and entering "urpmi webmin" I get the following errors... 1) unable to take medium "Updates for Mandrake Linux 0.9(ftp1u)" into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.Updates for Mandrake Linux 9.0 (ftp1u)] exists to satisfy dependencies, the following packages are goint to be in

Re: [newbie] M9.1beta3 3rd install

2003-02-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 11 Feb 2003 5:35 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > Well it's my 3rd attempt and I have a working desktop with a dialup > internet connection. > The installer doesn't much like a usb camera being plugged in, and the boot > script doesn't like it either, I get "ldm_valiate_partition_table (

[newbie] M9.1beta3 3rd install

2003-02-11 Thread John Richard Smith
Well it's my 3rd attempt and I have a working desktop with a dialup internet connection. The install is painfully slow, I wait an eon between installation windows, and I wonder whether anyone else has this problem.I certainly did not experience this with beta1 and 2. The install time is somethi

[newbie] connection sharing using static ip

2003-02-11 Thread fifner the dragon
Hi, I just configured my connection sharing using drakgw in the mandrake control center. When it finished I got the message "you may now share internet connection with other computers on your Local Area Network, using atomatic network configuration (DHCP)." Hoow do I set it up to have the inte

Re: [newbie] UT2003 help

2003-02-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 07:05 am, Greg Meyer wrote: > This does not solve your problem, but it runs flawlessly here on a GeForce3 > and 3123 drivers. What is the platform of the machine that is segfaulting, > AMD or Intel? If AMD, it could be a agp issue. All 3 of the machines are AMD - run

RE: [newbie] SAMBA help?

2003-02-11 Thread info
That should make life a little easier, no? I'll try that and get back.. Thx! PM On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, "Franki" wrote: > > huh?? you are gonna reinsall to get samba and webmin??? > > don't do that.. > > open a terminal (like a linux dos prompt.. and in the > menu) > > type the following: > >

Re: [newbie] SAMBA help?

2003-02-11 Thread et
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 11:19 am, Franki wrote: > huh?? you are gonna reinsall to get samba and webmin??? > > don't do that.. > > open a terminal (like a linux dos prompt.. and in the menu) > > type the following: might wanna "su" and login with the root password about right here.. > urpmi we

RE: [newbie] easy to use HTML editor?

2003-02-11 Thread Robert Wideman
I agree. Also there is NO "easy to use" html editor. If you need something to do the html stuff for you stick with windows programsdreamweaver or frontpage. In Linux there is nothing easy, as per your version of easy. Rob >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[E

[newbie] SAMBA help?

2003-02-11 Thread info
I don't think I have Samba services or Webmin installed. I'll run through the re-install and make sure they are enabled... Thx, PM Patrick Miller "I'd rather be upside down in my kayak than right side up at my desk" - bumper sticker, 72 Volvo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeS

Re: [newbie] easy to use HTML editor?

2003-02-11 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 03:50 pm, et wrote: > On Tuesday 11 February 2003 10:31 am, Angus Auld wrote: > > Greetings, I would like to ask the list for > > recommendations on an "easy to use" HTML editor. > > > > One that is designed for beginners and is user > > friendly. I have Bluefish, and al

Re: [newbie] Evolutions Fonts

2003-02-11 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 19:45, FemmeFatale wrote: > How do i set the fonts bigger in Evo? I looked through their help & > theres nothing in there about it. Any ideas??? > > > Femme Femme, if you have a wheel mouse, there is a little trick for enlarging or reducing the font size temporarily. Whil

Re: [newbie] Evolutions Fonts

2003-02-11 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 19:45, FemmeFatale wrote: > How do i set the fonts bigger in Evo? I looked through their help & > theres nothing in there about it. Any ideas??? > > > Femme Femme, if you have a wheel mouse, there is a little trick for enlarging or reducing the font size temporarily. Whil

Re: [newbie] easy to use HTML editor?

2003-02-11 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 12:31:19PM -0300, Angus Auld wrote: > Greetings, I would like to ask the list for recommendations on an "easy to use" HTML >editor. > > One that is designed for beginners and is user friendly. I have Bluefish, and also >Screem and Quanta Plus, but they don't appear to be

Re: [newbie] easy to use HTML editor?

2003-02-11 Thread et
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 10:31 am, Angus Auld wrote: > Greetings, I would like to ask the list for recommendations on an "easy to > use" HTML editor. > > One that is designed for beginners and is user friendly. I have Bluefish, > and also Screem and Quanta Plus, but they don't appear to be orien

Re: [newbie] SAMBA help?

2003-02-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 11 Feb 2003 4:03 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Tuesday 11 February 2003 02:48 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > A good place to start is here : > > http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/mdoc/server/service-file-sharing.html > > Enjoy. And when you've done some reading and had a stab at setting it

[newbie] easy to use HTML editor?

2003-02-11 Thread Angus Auld
Greetings, I would like to ask the list for recommendations on an "easy to use" HTML editor. One that is designed for beginners and is user friendly. I have Bluefish, and also Screem and Quanta Plus, but they don't appear to be oriented toward the inexperienced user. TIA for any feedback on th

Re: [newbie] Why is a x.1 bleeding edge?

2003-02-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday February 11 2003 07:42 am, Marc Oestreicher wrote: > On Tuesday 11 February 2003 00:13, civileme wrote: > > Large snip > > > > > > But if you have used 9.1 Beta3, you may have already discovered > > that bleeding edge can send a wind from your terminal screen to > > blow your hair back.

Re: [newbie] SAMBA help?

2003-02-11 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 02:48 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'll start by stating that I'm a newly converted > Windows user. I know.. flame me if you must. > Flame you ??? - No way. You are welcome here. I think you'll find this list very friendly. > Anyway, I am trying to get SAMBA runn

Re: [newbie] SAMBA help?

2003-02-11 Thread et
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 09:48 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'll start by stating that I'm a newly converted > Windows user. I know.. flame me if you must. no flames for that here,,, you are in the correct place. > > Anyway, I am trying to get SAMBA running and I need a > little help. Wher

[newbie] manli TV

2003-02-11 Thread p s
Sorry if this is stupid, I am completely new to linux. I have tv card manli tv with chip SAA7134. It is not automaticaly recognized by mandrake (in the hardware list I can see the chip, with module:unknown). I wrote by hand 'modprobe saa7134' and 'modprobe tuner' and installed xawtv. It seems to r

[newbie] SAMBA help?

2003-02-11 Thread info
I'll start by stating that I'm a newly converted Windows user. I know.. flame me if you must. Anyway, I am trying to get SAMBA running and I need a little help. Where do I start? Real basic stuff - remember, I lived in the Windows world until about a week ago... I'm running Mandrake 9.0 on a

Re: [newbie] File Management

2003-02-11 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 20:23, FemmeFatale wrote: > On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 04:25, Adolfo Bello wrote: > Now now dear, that windows crap (as you call it) is still useful. > Everyone needs to learn one way or another & no way is wrong. Not even > Windows methods. They're just different, albeit some

Re: [newbie] compiling lame

2003-02-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday February 10 2003 09:12 am, Josenildo Marques wrote: > On Tuesday 11 February 2003 01:45 am, Greg Meyer wrote: > > What went wrong. it looks like the build process finished fine. > > exit 0 means the the process finished cleanly. Did you look for > > the resulting RPM (see my arrows abo

Re: [newbie] CD's have arrived!!

2003-02-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday February 11 2003 06:10 am, et wrote: > hopefully you all will post problems via bugzilla AFTER checking to > see the if the bug is been reported. the reason being as while you > now have beta3, rc1 is either due out any time now, or is out by > now Yes! and that was one of the

Re: [newbie] Why is a x.1 bleeding edge?

2003-02-11 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 February 2003 08:42 am, Marc Oestreicher wrote: > I am having trouble understanding this statement. Are you saying that > final releases are generely not as good as the final betas and that the > final release of 9.1 will not be as good

Re: [newbie] Why is a x.1 bleeding edge?

2003-02-11 Thread et
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 08:42 am, Marc Oestreicher wrote: > On Tuesday 11 February 2003 00:13, civileme wrote: > > Large snip > > > > > > But if you have used 9.1 Beta3, you may have already discovered that > > bleeding edge can send a wind from your terminal screen to blow your hair > > back.

Re: [newbie] Why is a x.1 bleeding edge?

2003-02-11 Thread walt
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 08:42, Marc Oestreicher wrote: > On Tuesday 11 February 2003 00:13, civileme wrote: > > > > Large snip > > > > > > But if you have used 9.1 Beta3, you may have already discovered that > > bleeding edge can send a wind from your terminal screen to blow your hair > > back. I w

Re: [newbie] Why is a x.1 bleeding edge?

2003-02-11 Thread Marc Oestreicher
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 00:13, civileme wrote: > > Large snip > > > But if you have used 9.1 Beta3, you may have already discovered that > bleeding edge can send a wind from your terminal screen to blow your hair > back. I wish releases were as nice as that beta. > > Civileme I am having

[newbie] FW: UML, wanting to install a distro from cd's

2003-02-11 Thread Robert Wideman
Resending just incase anyone can help. TIA Rob >> -Original Message- >> From: Robert Wideman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 8:23 AM >> To: Newbie >> Subject: UML, wanting to install a distro from cd's >> >> >> I have DLed and installed user_mode_linux-2.4.1

RE: [newbie] Dual boot: pre-setup question

2003-02-11 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 10:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > G'day, > Thanks to those who answered. I followed the instructions from > Lanman and Adolpho above, and got this far: > * I disconnected my 80G HDD - better safe than sorry LOL > * I fired up Partition Magic and resized the existing NTFS p

Re: [newbie] CD's have arrived!!

2003-02-11 Thread JM5379
2 questions: are the newest gnome and kde installed with the 9.1 beta, and has anyone heard of the status of preparing rpms for those for 9.0? --- Original Message --- From: et <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CD's have arrived!! >On Tuesday 11 February 2003 01:18

RE: [newbie] quick and dirty local mail server

2003-02-11 Thread Brian Parish
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 00:01, Franki wrote: > Mandrake set postfix up on mdk9 to run in a chroot jail... > > have a look in /var/spool/postfix/etc > > the files in there should match those in your /etc > > also look in /var/spool/postfix/lib > > There should be nine lib files in there... *.so >

[newbie] will ESS's ES1888 easily be configured for making sounds?

2003-02-11 Thread micro-people
Hi am making footprints at the entrance of mandrake world cause my plan 4 linux @ gateway2000-solo2100(pemtium mmx150mhz 48mb-ram) is to build it as a promt mode only musical instrument as a default i chose slackware to keep things simple but am stuggling at configuring sound aspects solo2100 ha

Re: [newbie] CD's have arrived!!

2003-02-11 Thread et
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 01:18 am, Trevor Rhodes wrote: > Tom, > > Got mine as well. Thanks. Dual boot time coming up. hehe > > > The beta CD's have arrived - and anyone in NZ or Australia that needs > > copies of the 3 x CD's - gimme yer details and I'll post'em off to ya > > mates! > > Steph

Re: [newbie] File Management

2003-02-11 Thread robin
FemmeFatale wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 04:25, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 23:56, Russ wrote: Hi All, IF what you want is to have quick access to data in a drive, you can symlink to the mount point, like: ln -s /mnt/disk /a ln -s /mnt/windows /d ln -s /mnt/cdrom /e Howeve

Re: [newbie] UT2003 help

2003-02-11 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 February 2003 01:03 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Anyone else having problems with this game under v9.0? I can play it just > -so- long then, always...it segfaults out. Whats puzzling is that this > game, running under 9.0 on my 2 sons comp

Re: [newbie] Some SAMBA Questions

2003-02-11 Thread _nasturtium
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 12:24 pm, Marlo Montanaro wrote: > On Monday 10 Feb 2003 3:47 am, Marlo Montanaro wrote: > > 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

[linux] [linux] Re: [newbie] Modeline for AOC720A anyone?

2003-02-11 Thread Richard Urwin
Aargh! I took care this time! I know I did! Gates knows what the subject line of this one will be. It should be the same as the last, but... Normal service will be resumed as soon as I delete POPFile. It'll get better once I get my broadband connection and can read this list at home u

[linux] Re: [newbie] Modeline for AOC720A anyone?

2003-02-11 Thread Richard Urwin
> Well... care to restate the problem for me? On or off list I reposted with a subject of "[linux] RE: [linux] [newbie] Modeline for AOC720A anyone?". POPFile and the list conspire to keep extending the subject line if I'm not on the ball. If you didn't get the post let me know and I'll repost

Re: [newbie] Some SAMBA Questions

2003-02-11 Thread Anne Wilson
Sorry - I forgot to put the [global] in. On Tuesday 11 Feb 2003 1:24 am, Marlo Montanaro wrote: > On Monday 10 Feb 2003 3:47 am, Marlo Montanaro wrote: > > My network is 3 computers: > > - Windows ME with my HP DeskJet 694C printer > > - Windows XP on a laptop > > - Mandrake Linux 9.0 > > > > The

Re: [newbie] Why is a x.1 bleeding edge?

2003-02-11 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 21:03:48 -0600 "Robert Wideman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insightfully noted: >MDK goes in release steps like ALL of linux distros follow. There is >generally no x.3 version of any distro. RH follows this, MDK, Slackware, >Suse, etc. = Wasn't there a Man

Re: [newbie] RE: Problem Running 9.0...

2003-02-11 Thread Richard Urwin
> > Afaik it is a new standard set by the X-Free86 consortium > > for the new XWindow 4.2.x > that's about right if you have a -4 it uses that, if not it > knows you are in Xfree86 ver3x Ahh. All is clear. Thanks, both. -- Richard Urwin, Private "No 9000 series computer has ever made a mit

Re: [newbie] CD's have arrived!!

2003-02-11 Thread Trevor Rhodes
Michael, > > (NOTE to NZ'ers) - I can't send beer or better footy players. > > Look what you Ockers have been sending our way. Smoke > http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/mbadams/sunrise/sunrise.htm It's called smoke signals. It's supposed to read as follows: Pphhtt

Re: [newbie] CD's have arrived!!

2003-02-11 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 13:10, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > Mr. Tom Brinkman - THANKS MATE > > The beta CD's have arrived - and anyone in NZ or Australia that needs > copies of the 3 x CD's - gimme yer details and I'll post'em off to ya > mates! > > (NOTE to NZ'ers) - I can't send beer or better footy pla