Re: [newbie-it] ADSL

2003-02-15 Thread ghibli
Il Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:51:01 +0100 (CET) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ebbe a dire: ..meglio ETH senza dubbio.Io direi di preoccuparti invece della banda..cercane una con minimo garantito. Fulvio ottimo suggerimento, ne conoscete qualcuna non troppo costosa adatta ad un uso casalingo? finora

Re: [newbie-it] Ambiente Grafico

2003-02-15 Thread Andrea Cecagallina
At 20.25 14/02/2003 +0100, you wrote: 1. modificando /etc/inittab e mettendo initdefault:3 all'avvio entri in runlevel 3; quindi ti logghi in modo testo e con startx avvii l'interfaccia grafica. quando esci da x rientri in modo testo [in questo caso Crtl+Alt+Backspace chiudono x facendoti

[newbie-it] circa urpmi

2003-02-15 Thread Massimiliano
si verifica una cosa strana: voglio aggiungere un database locale di rpm, e quindi l'ho creato con urpmi.addmedia LocalesRPM file://path/LocalesRPM mdk lo crea, creando anche (scusate il gioco di parole...) tali file hdlist.LocalesRPM.cz e list.LocalesRPM, ma non il file

[newbie-it] Mail

2003-02-15 Thread Emiliano La Licata
Ciao a tutti, Dunque, se uso Kmail come client di posta, crea una dir mail in /home/user/, Qualcuno mi sa dire quale programma o comando fa in modo che la posta vada in /var/spool/mail? Grazie

Re: [newbie-it] ADSL

2003-02-15 Thread CyberPenguin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Io direi di preoccuparti invece della banda..cercane una con minimo garantito. AFAIK nessun attuale ISP garantisce un minimo di larghezza di banda :-( Ho sentito di gente che in adsl, in certi periodi, ha un downstream di circa 30K ... Una pena :-( Ah! Il canone

Re: [newbie-it] Ambiente Grafico

2003-02-15 Thread miKe
Alle 16:29, sabato 15 febbraio 2003, Andrea Cecagallina ha scritto: all'avvio entri in runlevel 3; quindi ti logghi in modo testo e con startx avvii l'interfaccia grafica. Questa deve essere la mia situazione attuale (a parte che lancio l'interfaccia grafica con KDE...) Se non che uscendo

[newbie] tcpwrapper not installed by default on MDK 9.0

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Wideman
I thought this would have been a required package to be installed by default but its not installed. I have been browsing through my RH security book Red Hat Linux Security and Optimization by Mohammed Kabir. I was actually going through the RH8 security section on NFS and it pointed to securing

Re: [newbie] tcpwrapper not installed by default on MDK 9.0

2003-02-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 19:20, Robert Wideman wrote: I thought this would have been a required package to be installed by default but its not installed. I have been browsing through my RH security book Red Hat Linux Security and Optimization by Mohammed Kabir. I was actually going through the

RE: [newbie] tcpwrapper not installed by default on MDK 9.0

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Wideman
I'd tend to reckon because MDK is being designed and marketed as a desktop distro instead of a server distro - hence the emphasis on desktop stuff and not on dev stuff or server security stuff...but that's on my eyeballs... True. But there are still some security measures that you would want

[newbie] sound in MDK9

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Wideman
I have finally installed a soundcard (Live Value) into my linux boxthere is a first for everything. I installed the XMMS rpm and it plays sound fine. The only problem is when i switch to my windows box the windows box plays sound LOUDER than my linux box. I know that when i had windows on

RE: [newbie] letting users use root commands

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Wideman
My issue is resolved. i had tried this before but didnt work at the time rpmdrake has 755 permissions on it by default. I had to change this to 775 AND add the user to wheel group. Also i checked the groups out by group username and made sure i was listed as correct Working fine.

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 15 Feb 2003 2:51 am, et wrote: On Friday 14 February 2003 08:05 pm, robin wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore? If you're lucky, you never stop being a newbie. Sir Robin Notme

[newbie] Compact Flash Card in PCMCIA slot does not work in 9.0, it did work in Mdk 8.2

2003-02-15 Thread bones
Hi everyone, now I just upgraded to Kernel: #uname -a Linux me 2.4.19-24mdk #1 Thu Jan 30 13:13:07 MST 2003 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux Because I thought it might be a Kernel issue. As I said everthing worked fine in Mdk 8.2 but it is broken since 9.0. The issue is, that I cannot mount the

Re: [newbie] sound in MDK9

2003-02-15 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 03:37:30 -0600 Robert Wideman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have finally installed a soundcard (Live Value) into my linux boxthere is a first for everything. I installed the XMMS rpm and it plays sound fine. The only problem is when i switch to my windows box the windows

Re: [newbie] sound in MDK9

2003-02-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 15 Feb 2003 9:37 am, Robert Wideman wrote: I have finally installed a soundcard (Live Value) into my linux boxthere is a first for everything. I installed the XMMS rpm and it plays sound fine. The only problem is when i switch to my windows box the windows box plays sound

[newbie] kmail external editor

2003-02-15 Thread tuija
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I would like to use emacs at Kmail external editor, but what would be right path to do so? I have tried to write Kmail setup external editor line: emacs /home/user/Mail/inbox/cur or emacs /home/user/Mail/inbox/tmp but neither ones are not good

RE: [newbie] sound in MDK9

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Wideman
In KDE: K - multimedia - sound -kmix. Great, thanks. Working. Now its blowing MS out of the water. Also can be used in Gnome. Just type kmix in the CLI and an icon window opens. Right click it and select configure kmix. Also left click it shows the master volume. Thanks Rob Want to buy

RE: [newbie] tcpwrapper not installed by default on MDK 9.0

2003-02-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 20:32, Robert Wideman wrote: I'd tend to reckon because MDK is being designed and marketed as a desktop distro instead of a server distro - hence the emphasis on desktop stuff and not on dev stuff or server security stuff...but that's on my eyeballs... True. But

Re: [newbie] This is getting way out of hand

2003-02-15 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 23:30, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Stephen, aren't we getting off the trail (thread) here ? The original post was about privacy. My reply was just a frustrated remark about governments not respecting the civil rights of their own citizens. I live in a country where

RE: [newbie] If I have to have MSIE...

2003-02-15 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
Valuable information, Rob. Thanks! LX On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 11:08, Robert Wideman wrote: I have to have MSIE. I don't like the browser, but I do a little web design and I need to have MSIE handy (and multiple versions, no less) to test my work in -- as I learned the hard way last week.

Re: [newbie] Compact Flash Card in PCMCIA slot does not work in 9.0, it did work in Mdk 8.2

2003-02-15 Thread bones
Hi again, It seems to be a kernel issue, I just installed the old 8.2. Kernels (2.4.18 doesn't work with the modules for 2.4.19) but 2.4.19 from Mdk 8.2. works just fine. I copied the old Kernel sources for 2.4.19 to /usr/src/ together with the old initrd and vmlinuz (which go into /boot/)

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-15 Thread robin
Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 14 February 2003 04:09 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore? How about: When you get up enough guts to post on the Cooker list. Then you're just a newbie in a bigger pond! Maybe

Re: [newbie] Lovin' KDE 3.1

2003-02-15 Thread Daniel Anderson
On Friday 14 February 2003 02:09 pm, Gil Katz wrote: On Friday 14 February 2003 04:58, Miark wrote: Anne Jordan, I downloaded the RPMs from the following location to a single folder: http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/linux/dist ri

Re: [newbie] This is getting way out of hand

2003-02-15 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 15 February 2003 10:54 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: snip We're not in that line of heritage, are we? /snip Certainly not, Lyvim ! Kaj Haulrich. === Powered by Linux- Mandrake 9.0 Registered Linux user # 214073 at

Re: [newbie] Possibly dumb USB question

2003-02-15 Thread robin
Roger Sherman wrote: On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, g wrote: Roger Sherman wrote: I was digging around in my desk the other day, and found a cheesy little USB webcam that Earthlink sent me about 3 years ago. ok. now add a little intelligence to your post, such as system and which 'cheesy little usb

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-15 Thread Daniel Anderson
On Friday 14 February 2003 08:05 pm, robin wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore? When you know enough to realize that you don't know very much. MtnMan -- 9:01am up 3 days, 22:56, 2 users, load

Re: [newbie] changing wm with gnome2

2003-02-15 Thread Jerry Barton
Ok, she tried that and got: [rhonda@localhost rhonda]$ You may only run one window manager [1]+ Exit 1 exec sawfish (she did it via sudo from a user account) so i logged into gnome and tried it via sudo, as a regular user, and as root. [jerry@supertrouper jerry]$ killall -9

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-15 Thread mycal62
Greg Meyer wrote: I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore? All this humility is very nice. ;-) that aside, it's interesting how the responses have been. with anything and especially with opinion it's really a matter of

Re: [newbie] changing wm with gnome2

2003-02-15 Thread Jerry Barton
On 15 Feb 2003 18:55:23 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 18:43, Jerry Barton wrote: OK... one of my converts wants to use a different window manager in gnome like was available in 1.4. Is it possible with gnome 2? or are we stuck with metacity? TIA

Re: [newbie] changing wm with gnome2

2003-02-15 Thread Jerry Barton
OOPS... wasn't sure if my first message went through. fiddled with it a bit, took out the sleep command so it was just killall -9 metacity; exec sawfish and it worked. she reports the same. reason i did it: it'd kill metacity but i think it just started it right back up again (screen

[newbie] Update database

2003-02-15 Thread Anne Wilson
I thought I had set up a cron job (using webmin) to update the database every night. Indeed, I thought I had seen indication that it had run, but today I have seen slocate: warning: database /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db' is more than 8 days old How can I find what went wrong? Could it be

Re: [newbie] sendmail question person, look at this, OT Thread hijack... mail server @ home?

2003-02-15 Thread et
On Friday 14 February 2003 10:32 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: At 09:31 AM 2/14/2003 -0600, you wrote: And yes i deleted all my email and NO i didnt want to look up the subject on the archives...deal with it, :) I see some ppl n the list setup mail servers in their home... Whats the reason for

Re: [newbie] Fun discussion question for the list

2003-02-15 Thread et
On Friday 14 February 2003 09:31 pm, mycal62 wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore? All this humility is very nice. ;-) that aside, it's interesting how the responses have been. with anything and

Re: [newbie] Lovin' KDE 3.1----STOP USING MY LINK I KNOW IT DOESNT WORK

2003-02-15 Thread et
On Saturday 15 February 2003 01:19 am, Robert Wideman wrote: Did anyone read my emial a few hours ago??? STOP USING MY LINK WITH THE HTTP:// IN THERE, CHANGE IT TO FTP:// FIRST. Rob we are not going to read anything from RW that is using so many caps. so there. PPPPpppthst. and my child

Re: [newbie] Possibly dumb USB question

2003-02-15 Thread g
Roger Sherman wrote: Hey, add a little intelligence to your reading skills. I described my system later in the post, and would have been happy to tell what kind of webcam it was if it had any kind of identifying marks, other than just saying Earthlink on it. so you did. no need to get your

Re: [newbie] Possibly dumb USB question

2003-02-15 Thread g
Robin wrote: I had assummed that by intelligence he meant information (as in military intelligence) not IQ. this is true. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email... text/plain - disable

[newbie] Tkinter widget layout question

2003-02-15 Thread Paul
Hi all, Is there someone here who can point me to a resource that tells me how to lay out widgets in Tkinter (using this from python)? I have so far succeeded in getting 3 entry-widgets and a button in a window, but they are all next to each other where I need them one below the other (I need

[newbie] gkrellm on top

2003-02-15 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi, I have gkrellm set to monitor my email. However, it has an annoying habit of automatically opening the kmail window even if it finds no new mail. I think it opens the kmail window every time it checks. Anyone else have this problem? Also, I like to have gkrellm running and I

Re: [newbie] tcpwrapper not installed by default on MDK 9.0

2003-02-15 Thread et
On Saturday 15 February 2003 04:32 am, Robert Wideman wrote: I'd tend to reckon because MDK is being designed and marketed as a desktop distro instead of a server distro - hence the emphasis on desktop stuff and not on dev stuff or server security stuff...but that's on my eyeballs...

[newbie] Konqueror Java question

2003-02-15 Thread Kristjan
Hi I have still a minor problem in Konqueror as I dont see javascript in it I have KDE 3.1 MDK 9.0 one example www.mamboserver.com (a nice CMS) They have menu on top of the page (under the logo) made with javascript I see it without any problems in Mozilla (1.1), but do not in Konqueror. I

Re: [newbie] tcpwrapper not installed by default on MDK 9.0

2003-02-15 Thread et
On Saturday 15 February 2003 04:32 am, Robert Wideman wrote: I'd tend to reckon because MDK is being designed and marketed as a desktop distro instead of a server distro - hence the emphasis on desktop stuff and not on dev stuff or server security stuff...but that's on my eyeballs...

Re: [newbie] OT Opera v. M$

2003-02-15 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Saturday 15 February 2003 06:32, Robert Wideman wrote: Don't you love it? No lawsuits, no bitching, this is what i call doing things gracefully. This is how the industry should work. It's a petty that not a lot of companies can afford this kind of luxury against MS. No lawsuits

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 PNY GeForce4 MX 440-SE

2003-02-15 Thread John Michael Drouhard
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 01:38 pm, John S. Chalice wrote: Hey there.. I just upgraded my video card to a new PNY PCI GeForce4 MX 440-SE, from my previous of a Radeon 7000. Unfortunately, I am still having a problem getting XWindows to work for Mandrake 9.0. I tried installing the I32

Re: [newbie] Another fluxbox/ROX convert: [was] This is personal!

2003-02-15 Thread Ralph Slooten
On 14 Feb 2003 21:24:37 -0500 Terry Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #!/bin/bash xscreensaver -no-splash bsetbg -f /home/terry/Photos/uploads/IMG_0464.JPG rox --left=PANEL --pinboard=PIN This will startup xscreensaver, set a desktop background and invoke the ROX-filer. The options for

Re: [newbie] Konqueror Java question

2003-02-15 Thread Kristjan
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 10:26:11 -0600 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 15 February 2003 09:51 am, Kristjan wrote: Hi I have still a minor problem in Konqueror as I dont see javascript in it I have KDE 3.1 MDK 9.0 one example www.mamboserver.com (a nice CMS)

[newbie] Konqueror crashes on exit

2003-02-15 Thread Dennis Myers
Below is the debugging log when I exit out of konqueror. I am guessing that there is a bad lib somewhere and or a bad link or call, can anyone with more savvy than I have, tell which files I should maybe reinstall or edit? snip the no debugging symbols found (no debugging symbols found)...(no

Re: [newbie] Looking for good Mandrake SENDMAIL HOWTO

2003-02-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 12:32:31AM -0600, Robert Wideman wrote: Good. But it does mean I'm going to have to reconfigure. Reconfigureyour in Linux dude. I know that! I've been in Linux for years now, statrting sith Slackware; have drifted through Turbo, Redhat, SuSE, now Mandrake. I'd

[newbie] Another possibly dumb USB question

2003-02-15 Thread robin
I'm trying to mount a Sony TRV340E video camera via USB. I'm not worried about video (my hardware isn't realy up to anyway) but I would like to be able to get at the stills in the memory chip. The USB modules seem to be working fine: lsmod gives usb-uhci 21676 0 (unused)

Re: [newbie] Lovin' KDE 3.1

2003-02-15 Thread Gil Katz
On Saturday 15 February 2003 15:44, Daniel Anderson wrote: On Friday 14 February 2003 02:09 pm, Gil Katz wrote: On Friday 14 February 2003 04:58, Miark wrote: Anne Jordan, I downloaded the RPMs from the following location to a single folder:

Re: [newbie] Another possibly dumb USB question

2003-02-15 Thread John Richard Smith
robin wrote: I'm trying to mount a Sony TRV340E video camera via USB. I'm not worried about video (my hardware isn't realy up to anyway) but I would like to be able to get at the stills in the memory chip. The USB modules seem to be working fine: lsmod gives usb-uhci 21676 0

Re: [newbie] Another possibly dumb USB question

2003-02-15 Thread Jerry Barton
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 19:41:26 +0200 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to mount a Sony TRV340E video camera via USB. I'm not worried about video (my hardware isn't realy up to anyway) but I would like to be able to get at the stills in the memory chip. The USB modules seem to be

Re: [newbie] Tkinter widget layout question

2003-02-15 Thread Paul
In reply to Paul's mail, d.d. Sat, 15 Feb 2003 16:37:07 +0100: Is there someone here who can point me to a resource that tells me how to lay out widgets in Tkinter (using this from python)? It's me again. Let it be, I stumbled over something called the .grid() function which sort of does wat I

[newbie] Chat a la Roger Wilco

2003-02-15 Thread Miark
Is there a voice chat prog for Linux like unto Roger Wilco? I don't care about public hosting and all that jazz. I just want to chat with one person over the Net. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Another possibly dumb USB question

2003-02-15 Thread robin
Jerry Barton wrote: On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 19:41:26 +0200 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to mount a Sony TRV340E video camera via USB. I'm not worried about video (my hardware isn't realy up to anyway) but I would like to be able to get at the stills in the memory chip. The USB

Re: [newbie] kmail external editor

2003-02-15 Thread tuija
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Viestissä Lauantai 15. Helmikuuta 2003 18:21, et kirjoitti: On Saturday 15 February 2003 05:48 am, tuija wrote: I would like to use emacs at Kmail external editor, but what would be right path to do so? I have tried to write Kmail setup

Re: [newbie] compiling lame

2003-02-15 Thread David E. Fox
Gosh! I thought I spoke English hmmm, he's from Texas that might=20 explain THAT! ;-) Actually, Tom's from Texas, I'm in Sunnyvale, CA. :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Chat a la Roger Wilco

2003-02-15 Thread Jerry Barton
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 13:59:43 -0500 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a voice chat prog for Linux like unto Roger Wilco? I don't care about public hosting and all that jazz. I just want to chat with one person over the Net. Miark gnomemeeting http://www.gnomemeeting.org/ --

Re: [newbie] This is getting way out of hand

2003-02-15 Thread Russ
Hi All, Due to the high volume of mail, I rarely read every post. I pick the ones I think might interest me and go from there. I happened to stumble onto this post as well as some of the earlier ones dealing with Iraq. Although I do not support everything the Government does (I doubt anyone can

Re: [newbie] Another possibly dumb USB question

2003-02-15 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 15 February 2003 11:41 am, robin wrote: I'm trying to mount a Sony TRV340E video camera via USB. I'm not worried about video (my hardware isn't realy up to anyway) but I would like to be able to get at the stills in the memory chip. The USB modules seem to be working fine: lsmod

RE: [newbie] Update database

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Wideman
I thought I had set up a cron job (using webmin) to update the database every night. Indeed, I thought I had seen indication that it had run, but today I have seen slocate: warning: database /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db' is more than 8 days old How can I find what went wrong? Could it

RE: [newbie] KDE3.1 for MD = 8.1?

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Wideman
Will there ever be a KDE3.1 version released for 8.x? Get the src files and rebuild them. Rob Even guys that started of with 9.0 now have to be club members to get kde3.1. This is a sad development. I see Mandrake more and more slip away from being a free os distributor. I understand they

Re: [newbie] sendmail question person, look at this, OT Thread

2003-02-15 Thread David E. Fox
I see some ppl n the list setup mail servers in their home... Whats the reason for that? Mostly convenience, at least for me. I have DSL and I like the idea of mail coming directly to (and from) my box, as well as news, although maintaining the latter is a bit iffy from time to time. Even

RE: [newbie] Lovin' KDE 3.1

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Wideman
we are not going to read anything from RW that is using so many caps. so there. PPPPpppthst. I am just trying to get others to understand that the link that i send should not be used. Which it seems noone, maybe a very few, are not actually using it. Rob Want to buy your Pack or

RE: [newbie] Tkinter widget layout question

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Wideman
I have ordered books about this, but they take a while before they get here and I would like to get along a little in the mean time. (I know, patience is a virtue. ;) Instead of waiting on them i usually go to BN store or something and read them till i get them. Rob Want to buy your Pack

RE: [newbie] tcpwrapper not installed by default on MDK 9.0

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Wideman
Win2k/XP/etc has IIS installed on them to be serversdo you consider this a good thing? or a secure thing? M$ knows nothing about security. I dont even think its in their dictionary. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Konqueror crashes on exit

2003-02-15 Thread Sharrea
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 06:31, Dennis Myers wrote: Below is the debugging log when I exit out of konqueror. I am guessing that there is a bad lib somewhere and or a bad link or call, can anyone with more savvy than I have, tell which files I should maybe reinstall or edit? snip the no debugging

Re: [newbie] This is getting way out of hand

2003-02-15 Thread David E. Fox
are many other parts to consider, Terrorism being the top (Slavery was only part of the issues in the Revolutionary war yet I learned in school that Slavery an issue of the Revolutionary War? Where did *you* go to school? :) Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

RE: [newbie] choosing a new hostname

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Wideman
I'm just a desktop user running MDK 9 but I would like to change the hostname that appears by default. [cyberhades@localhost cyberhades]$ Is it possible and easy ? hostname new-hostname will do it until you reboot. If youw ant to change it for good edit /etc/sysconfig/network. Then just

RE: [newbie] Looking for good Mandrake SENDMAIL HOWTO

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Wideman
I just wish the route was shorter. Totally understand that one. I used to be happy with smail, until it started relaying other people's spam. Wow, that sux. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] This is getting way out of hand

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Wideman
If Iraq refuses to comply, then Bush will give him a helping hand. As with many Americans, he has my support. Nuc IRAQ, NUC Iraq, Nuc IRAQ. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Chat a la Roger Wilco

2003-02-15 Thread Miark
Okay, I found exactly what I was looking for: gphone. Two people specify each other's IP address, and your then connected by voice, with controls for mic and speaker levels. Perfect. Miark On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 13:59:43 -0500 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a voice chat prog for Linux

Re: [newbie] choosing a new hostname

2003-02-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 13:18, Josenildo Marques wrote: Hi List ! I'm just a desktop user running MDK 9 but I would like to change the hostname that appears by default. [cyberhades@localhost cyberhades]$ Is it possible and easy ? Thanks in advance. Easiest way is done by hand. Edit

Re: [newbie] changing wm with gnome2

2003-02-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 01:47, Jerry Barton wrote: OOPS... wasn't sure if my first message went through. fiddled with it a bit, took out the sleep command so it was just killall -9 metacity; exec sawfish and it worked. she reports the same. reason i did it: it'd kill metacity but

Re: [newbie] gkrellm on top

2003-02-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 02:37, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, I have gkrellm set to monitor my email. However, it has an annoying habit of automatically opening the kmail window even if it finds no new mail. I think it opens the kmail window every time it checks. Anyone else have this

Re: [newbie] tcpwrapper not installed by default on MDK 9.0

2003-02-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 02:53, et wrote: On Saturday 15 February 2003 04:32 am, Robert Wideman wrote: I'd tend to reckon because MDK is being designed and marketed as a desktop distro instead of a server distro - hence the emphasis on desktop stuff and not on dev stuff or server security

Re: [newbie] Another possibly dumb USB question

2003-02-15 Thread John Richard Smith
robin wrote: Jerry Barton wrote: On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 19:41:26 +0200 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to mount a Sony TRV340E video camera via USB. I'm not worried about video (my hardware isn't realy up to anyway) but I would like to be able to get at the stills in the memory

Re: [newbie] compiling lame

2003-02-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday February 15 2003 01:22 pm, David E. Fox wrote: Gosh! I thought I spoke English hmmm, he's from Texas that might=20 explain THAT! ;-) Actually, Tom's from Texas, I'm in Sunnyvale, CA. :) Actually I was raised in Atlanta, GA. I've just lived in TX for 30 years. Came

RE: [newbie] tcpwrapper not installed by default on MDK 9.0

2003-02-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 07:12, Robert Wideman wrote: Win2k/XP/etc has IIS installed on them to be serversdo you consider this a good thing? or a secure thing? M$ knows nothing about security. I dont even think its in their dictionary. Rob When NT was first in beta it was very closely

RE: [newbie] This is getting way out of hand

2003-02-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 07:22, Robert Wideman wrote: If Iraq refuses to comply, then Bush will give him a helping hand. As with many Americans, he has my support. Nuc IRAQ, NUC Iraq, Nuc IRAQ. Rob If the world weren't so dependent on fossil fuels, then we'd not have terrorism,

Re: [newbie] This is getting way out of hand

2003-02-15 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
If Iraq refuses to comply, then Bush will give him a helping hand. As with many Americans, he has my support. Russ It has been said by politicians on both sides of the atlantic that bush and blair will go to war even without UN supportHang On, one reason we are having to use military might

RE: [newbie] This is getting way out of hand

2003-02-15 Thread Glenn
Please fill me in. What support did the U.S. government provide to the IRA? Not disputing it, but this is the first I've heard of government support to the IRA. Individual Irish ex-patriates in the U.S., yes, but not government support. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [newbie] This is getting way out of hand

2003-02-15 Thread Glenn
Did you mean the Civil War, by any chance? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Russ Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2003 13:43hrs To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] This is getting way out of hand Hi All, Due to the high volume of

Re: [newbie] Update database

2003-02-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 15 Feb 2003 8:02 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: I thought I had set up a cron job (using webmin) to update the database every night. Indeed, I thought I had seen indication that it had run, but today I have seen slocate: warning: database /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db' is more

RE: [newbie] compiling lame

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Wideman
Actually I was raised in Atlanta, GA. I've just lived in TX for 30 years. Came here in my mid 20's after a coupl'a years in Alaska, I doubt I'll ever leave. Ya got'a have soul to live in The Republic of Texas ;) GO GO GO the Lone Star State. Rob Austin, TX Want to buy your Pack or

[newbie] ARTICLE: Parting letter from resigning MS hood

2003-02-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
Interesting - shows a bit of what M$ is about, where they came from and where they're going...(might stir up some feelings) http://www.synthesist.net/writing/onleavingms.html -- Sun, 16 Feb 2003 09:20:00 +1100 9:20am up 16:10, 3 users, load average: 0.41, 0.14, 0.10

RE: [newbie] This is getting way out of hand

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Wideman
Another thing, when is america going to compensate the families of those who died in the terrorist attacks in england at the hands of the IRA which america supported, funded and supplied military weapons to for decades??? When is Germany and the Axis powers from WWII going to compensate the

RE: [newbie] Update database

2003-02-15 Thread Robert Wideman
I'm running updatedb - is this not right? What are you trying to update? RPM or the locate command DB? From the man page of updatedb: updatedb - update the slocate database The slocate DB is not the same. They have entirely 2 different jobs and functions. locate uses the DB created by

Re: [newbie] Konqueror crashes on exit

2003-02-15 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 15 February 2003 03:28 pm, Sharrea wrote: On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 06:31, Dennis Myers wrote: Below is the debugging log when I exit out of konqueror. I am guessing that there is a bad lib somewhere and or a bad link or call, can anyone with more savvy than I have, tell which files

Re: [newbie] This is getting way out of hand

2003-02-15 Thread et
On Saturday 15 February 2003 04:50 pm, Glenn wrote: Please fill me in. What support did the U.S. government provide to the IRA? Not disputing it, but this is the first I've heard of government support to the IRA. Individual Irish ex-patriates in the U.S., yes, but not government support.

Re: [newbie] compiling lame now going OT

2003-02-15 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 15 February 2003 03:20 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday February 15 2003 01:22 pm, David E. Fox wrote: Gosh! I thought I spoke English hmmm, he's from Texas that might=20 explain THAT! ;-) Actually, Tom's from Texas, I'm in Sunnyvale, CA. :) Actually I was

Re: [newbie] Another possibly dumb USB question

2003-02-15 Thread robin
John Richard Smith wrote: robin wrote: Jerry Barton wrote: On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 19:41:26 +0200 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to mount a Sony TRV340E video camera via USB. I'm not worried about video (my hardware isn't realy up to anyway) but I would like to be able to get at

[newbie] New OS new problems

2003-02-15 Thread Harv Nelson
Help Downloaded ISO's and burned the disks for MDK 9.0. Installed the system. Applied all the Mandrake supplied updates and security patches. Currently running KDE 3.05a on the desktop. It all seems to work. A little poking even got it to find my old printer and my old scanner. My new

Re: [newbie] Another possibly dumb USB question

2003-02-15 Thread g
Sharrea wrote: I would think that to use vfat you would have to make the mountpoint on a partition that is formatted vfat. not true. one of many beauties of linux and unix is that you can mount just anything any where, as long as you have drivers set up for what you are mounting. unlike oos,

Re: [newbie] Konqueror crashes on exit

2003-02-15 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 15 February 2003 03:28 pm, Sharrea wrote: On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 06:31, Dennis Myers wrote: Below is the debugging log when I exit out of konqueror. I am guessing that there is a bad lib somewhere and or a bad link or call, can anyone with more savvy than I have, tell which files

Re: [newbie] New OS new problems

2003-02-15 Thread Damian Gatabria
Problems: 1. How does one get the aRTs sound server and Realplayer to live together in the same room? Realplayer won't play until I shut down the aRTs server. Then, Realplayer coughs out the BBC and Radio Netherlands quite nicely. Except ... Launch RealPlayer with the soundwrapper,

[newbie] KDE3.1 totally messed up

2003-02-15 Thread Dennis Myers
Looks like I managed to mess up the system good. With the texstar KDE rpms I can shut down konqueror ok, but I can no longer access my cdrom devices. The system freezes if I try to bring up /mnt. So looks like it's time to do a california wipe out. I will look first and make sure that I don't

[newbie] Logitech 3000 questions?

2003-02-15 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Okay, I got a Logitech 3000 webcam now and I'd like to use it. :-) USBview shows it, as soons as I plug it in. Its listed in /proc/bus/usb/devices. KDE Center shows it in info, and here is my loaded modules: Module Size Used byTainted: P c-qcam 8056

Re: [newbie] KDE3.1 totally messed up

2003-02-15 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Sunday 16 February 2003 05:23, Dennis Myers wrote: Looks like I managed to mess up the system good. With the texstar KDE rpms I can shut down konqueror ok, but I can no longer access my cdrom devices. The system freezes if I try to bring up /mnt. So looks like it's time to do a california

Re: [newbie] This is getting way out of hand

2003-02-15 Thread Russ
Hi All, Just got back from out of town. I was in a hurry when I wrote my first email this morning and yes I did mean Civil War (boy is my face red). More comments below: - Original Message - there are many other parts to consider, Terrorism being the top (Slavery was only part of the

Re: [newbie] This is getting way out of hand

2003-02-15 Thread Aaron
I missed most of this thread but read it with interest. The interest is because of the lack of point. The point is whether there is ultimately absolute right and wrong or just different opinions. Islam especially radical Islam holds that killing others is an obligation if they refuse to accept

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