Re: [newbie] IDE Tape drive

2003-02-21 Thread g
Larry Williams wrote: > LOL. Nah. I'm not stoned, I'm old. yes. i new that when you said you have a jumbo 250. i guess i am older than you, if i have 4. some times, i am told i am both. other times, i am just stoned. %) peace out. tc,hago. g . -- think green... save a tree, save

Re: [newbie] dead pppd (was OT: M$: Bugs are cool)

2003-02-21 Thread Len Lawrence
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 23:49:46 +0200 robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Len Lawrence wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 23:58:11 -0800 > > > On the other hand, I shall eventually upgrade to Mandrake 9.* in the hope that > > the bug will be fixed that occasions the need to reboot 8.2 every couple of da

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2003-02-21 Thread Ilan Y.
Hi, I installed mandrakesecurity 9  "successfully" , when it boots up i get a screen (dualbooting) with a menu to choose either windows or linux, if i chose linux then the screen goes blank and never comes back. However, the startup process seems to be continuing as there is hdd activity

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2003-02-21 Thread Ilan Y.
Hi, I installed mandrakesecurity 9  "successfully" , when it boots up i get a screen (dualbooting) with a menu to choose either windows or linux, if i chose linux then the screen goes blank and never comes back. However, the startup process seems to be continuing as there is hdd activity no

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2003-02-21 Thread Ilan Y.
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RE: [newbie] RC1 and network problem.

2003-02-21 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 11:19, Robert Wideman wrote: > >> "I don't like installing programs from source" confuses me too. > > So how would you update a program if it was installed from source? I have > always wondered this. > > Rob > That's the trick. You are at the mercy of the install scr

Re: [newbie] pre-recorded cd and permissions

2003-02-21 Thread David E. Fox
> I put in a pre-recorded cd in my drive a bit ago, clicked on the cd icon and > got a box that said I don't have enough permissions to open /mnt/cdrom, tried Although there are ways around it, a prerecorded music CD is not mountable like a data CD, there's really no filesystem. You shoul be abl

Re: [newbie] Telnet

2003-02-21 Thread Larry Williams
On Friday 21 February 2003 03:35, Gil Katz wrote: > Hi > when ever i try to connect to telnet 127.0.0.1 port i get > Trying 127.0.0.1... > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused > in /etc/hosts.allow i wrote > telnet : 127.0.0.1 > what should i do? > Gil Hi Gil. I get the sa

Re: [newbie] What is "sourcing"?

2003-02-21 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Hello. On Fri 2003-02-21 at 16:58:47 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello > > I got some advise about a particular problem I have. > Since I work with the bash shell and the advise seems to apply to ksh or > csh, I would like to know how to translate the following: > > setenv IMAGINE_HOME /

Re: [newbie] IDE Tape drive

2003-02-21 Thread Larry Williams
On Thursday 20 February 2003 23:55, g wrote: > Larry Williams wrote: > > My memory is slowly returning. I had to load the > > ftape.o module to use the drive. > > do you and femme know each other? lol. LOL. Nah. I'm not stoned, I'm old. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Can't see files in nfs mounted dir

2003-02-21 Thread Stephen Jeppesen
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 20:00:16 -0800 (PST) Ibly Piblo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please forgive this post, but I can't > see my files from server side of nfs mounted > direcory. > > I use mkd 9 on one machine (client) and > 8.2 on server (9 won't install on old > pentium 200) > > Sorry if I lack

Re: [newbie] What is "sourcing"?

2003-02-21 Thread David E. Fox
> I got some advise about a particular problem I have. > Since I work with the bash shell and the advise seems to apply to ksh or > csh, I would like to know how to translate the following: In this conxtext, "sourcing" is like an #include file in C. Basically when you "source" a file you logically

[newbie] Can't see files in nfs mounted dir

2003-02-21 Thread Ibly Piblo
Please forgive this post, but I can't see my files from server side of nfs mounted direcory. I use mkd 9 on one machine (client) and 8.2 on server (9 won't install on old pentium 200) Sorry if I lack info, will post export files and fstab, but please tell if you need more info. Client is host2.o

[newbie] Quota? Sudenly??

2003-02-21 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
Hi there! >From nowhere (I hope!) as the single user of this machine (at home), I started to have a quota for d/l and that's not room availability problem Using wget my "quota" is now 1Mb and for Opera for example, about 97Mb! The only software I've installed recently was spamassassin... A

Re: [newbie] Xwindows Stability

2003-02-21 Thread g
John Richard Smith wrote: OK, so I left the setup on in ctrl-alt f5 to root shell mode for 3 hours, came backto a blank black screen, hit enter and root shell returned. what colour was 'power on' led when you first returned? what does your manual say about colour indications? Now I actually ha

Re: [newbie] Xwindows Stability

2003-02-21 Thread g
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday February 19 2003 11:26 am, John Richard Smith wrote: a bad connector somewhere in the monitor circuits. I really don't suspect UK power supply, that at least is one thing you can rely on, your gonna get 240v 50 Hz dead stable all the year round, and I live in a m

Re: [newbie] Xwindows Stability (Thungggg sound from the monitor)

2003-02-21 Thread g
et wrote: On Wednesday 19 February 2003 06:11 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: I have a 17" NEC Multisync FE700 did you get a manual with your monitor? peace out. tc,hago. g . -- think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email... text/plain - dis

Re: [newbie] Xwindows Stability (Thungggg sound from the monitor)

2003-02-21 Thread g
FemmeFatale wrote: At 07:07 AM 2/19/2003 -0500, you wrote: I have a 19" NEC Multisync FE 950+. Yes i hear it too. Don't know what multisync means ... inferior? Its an aperture grille tube too. I liek it. did you get a manual with your monitor? peace out. tc,hago. g . -- think green...

RE: [newbie] RC1 and network problem.

2003-02-21 Thread Robert Wideman
>> "I don't like installing programs from source" confuses me too. So how would you update a program if it was installed from source? I have always wondered this. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Change host/domain name

2003-02-21 Thread PT Digdaya Panelindo Sitem Instrument
find file in /var/named/* change the file like named.local, 192.168.1.db, shacknet.nu.db. or other file that the name is like that. edit those file with your favorite editing ( like vi, pico, mc and etc ) change ns kg9ga-l1.shacknet.nu ... ... ... and don't forget edit the /etc/hosts too.

Re: [newbie] Xwindows Stability

2003-02-21 Thread John Richard Smith
g wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: OK, so I left the setup on in ctrl-alt f5 to root shell mode for 3 hours, came backto a blank black screen, hit enter and root shell returned. this could also be mandrake blanking screen. i have all bios settings to disable any timing and i get video blankin

Re: [newbie] OT: M$: Bugs are cool

2003-02-21 Thread robin
Len Lawrence wrote: On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 23:58:11 -0800 "" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: at http://www.cantrip.org/nobugs.html you can read an interview with Bill Gates, in which he states that new software versions are not meant to fix bugs. On the other hand, I shall eventually upgrade to Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Xwindows Stability

2003-02-21 Thread g
John Richard Smith wrote: OK, so I left the setup on in ctrl-alt f5 to root shell mode for 3 hours, came backto a blank black screen, hit enter and root shell returned. this could also be mandrake blanking screen. i have all bios settings to disable any timing and i get video blanking at cli.

Re: [newbie] Xwindows Stability

2003-02-21 Thread g
John Richard Smith wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: I had no idea the coils in speakers would be powerful enough to influence a monitor screen. I do have them close, have now pushed them further away. I cannot say I notice any difference. ask your wife. you have already admitted you can not see. :

Re: [newbie] Xwindows Stability

2003-02-21 Thread g
Anne Wilson wrote: On the 'slight flicker' - have you made sure you don't have speakers too close? On one monitor I had the effect was to really degrade and flicker certain areas of screen. The problem went entirely when I moved them. Possibly newer speakers are better shielded, though?

[newbie] FYI - OPEN SSL touble

2003-02-21 Thread Andrei Raevsky
Swiss Crack E-Mail Code, but Minimal Impact Seen Thu February 20, 2003 08:45 PM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - Researchers at a Swiss university have cracked the technology used to keep people from eavesdropping on e-mail sent over the Web, but U.S. experts said on Thursday that the impact would likely b

Re: [newbie] How do I kill a non responding Crtl+Alt+F1 Console

2003-02-21 Thread Damian Gatabria
> So I went into a virtual console ( Ctrl+Alt+F1) and did a umount. But got > no response and the prompt line hasn't come back to me. I think it's not the console that is hanged, just the mount command. Try, as root, "killall -9 umount"... or maybe you can do a: ps -ax | grep mount and see the p

Re: [newbie] licq getting old contact list ?

2003-02-21 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Friday 21 de February 2003 13:47, fifner the dragon wrote: > That´s not the problem. It´s no problem getting the list with icq lite at > work and KOPETE had no problem at all. > > But I was sent a file from another icq user. I couldn´t get the file. And I > don´t seem to be able to send files. >

Re: [newbie] Xwindows Stability

2003-02-21 Thread John Richard Smith
g wrote: > > > John Richard Smith wrote: > >> I will do this next , I have to go out for a while, so I'll set the OS >> to a root shell and leave it a few hours, come back and watch it a >> bit more >> to see if there are any momentary lapses. > > > this should prove out if you are draw

Re: [newbie] OT but amusing (I think)

2003-02-21 Thread mycal62
Very cute - Thanks ;-) Poogle wrote: http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/linux/fun/evolution.html?ca=dgr-lnxw10ev olution http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/linux/fun/meditation.html?ca=dgr-lnxw10 meditation http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/linux/fun/penguinstein.html?ca=dgr-lnxw 10pengui

[newbie] OT but amusing (I think)

2003-02-21 Thread Poogle
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/linux/fun/evolution.html?ca=dgr-lnxw10ev olution http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/linux/fun/meditation.html?ca=dgr-lnxw10 meditation http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/linux/fun/penguinstein.html?ca=dgr-lnxw 10penguinestien http://www-1.ibm.com/servers

[newbie] Print problems persist

2003-02-21 Thread Anne Wilson
I have one printer setup that prints 2 up, duplexed. I use it a good deal in many situations, but I'm having problems printing to it from KWord. This afternoon I sent 4 documents to print Item 1 - 11 pages - printed pages 3-4, 7-8, 10-11 Item 2 - 4 pages - printed 3-4 Item 3 - 3 pages - printe

Re: [newbie] Change host/domain name

2003-02-21 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 09:52:13 -0600 "Robert Wideman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HOWTO-Change the HOSTNAME of your box in Mandrake: > It will be done in /etc/sysconfig/network file, section called > "hostname=...". Once that is edited/changed then "service network > restart" and find out what is

Re: [newbie] Stuck with PCTel Modem Driver

2003-02-21 Thread Joe Braddock
You should not need to download anything to compile the PCTel driver. Everything is on your installation CDs for Mandrake (I know, because I recompile this all the time). You definately do not need to compile a new kernel, nor do you want to download a different kernel source as some have sugg

Re: [newbie] slightly OT Random Lockup

2003-02-21 Thread Poogle
On Friday 21 Feb 2003 H:31 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Friday February 21 2003 04:06 am, Poogle wrote: > > Now to the point, yesterday while typing an e mail the screen froze > > on the standalone MD system but the recently installed network > > which runs through a new UPS was unaffected. About 1

Re: [newbie] Xwindows Stability

2003-02-21 Thread John Richard Smith
g wrote: > > > John Richard Smith wrote: > >> I will do this next , I have to go out for a while, so I'll set the OS >> to a root shell and leave it a few hours, come back and watch it a >> bit more >> to see if there are any momentary lapses. > > > this should prove out if you are drawing excess

Re: [newbie] latest SANE

2003-02-21 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 21 February 2003 10:36 am, Kristjan wrote: > At least I ended succsessfully and have my scanner working fine now. > Excellent to hear. While helping you, I noticed that the Cooker version of Sane added support for my HP4300c, sio I'l be re

RE: [newbie] Change host/domain name

2003-02-21 Thread Robert Wideman
HOWTO-Change the HOSTNAME of your box in Mandrake: It will be done in /etc/sysconfig/network file, section called "hostname=...". Once that is edited/changed then "service network restart" and find out what is the output from the command "hostname". Rob >> -Original Message- >> From: [E

Re: [newbie] Change host/domain name

2003-02-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 21 Feb 2003 3:28 pm, Harv Nelson wrote: > My mandrake 9.0 machine currently sports a domain name of > > kg9ga.shacknet.nu > > I'm adding two more machines to the local network, another linux box, and a > windows machine. Where can I change the domain name on this box to > > kg9ga-l1.shac

Re: [newbie] What is .mpga

2003-02-21 Thread Damian Gatabria
> No typo. My wife sings in a choir. One of the members downloaded bunch of > music samples from the net and I promised to make a music cd out of them. > XMMS or Noatun play them allright but when I tried to convert them to wav > like usual mpg it failed. What is your usual way to convert mpg fil

Re: [newbie] latest SANE

2003-02-21 Thread Kristjan
<<< On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 14:09:51 -0500 Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 20 February 2003 12:12 pm, Kristjan wrote: > > > > > But as I see I realli don't have the file /usr/lib/libexif.la > > > > In usr/lib I have 4

[newbie] Change host/domain name

2003-02-21 Thread Harv Nelson
My mandrake 9.0 machine currently sports a domain name of kg9ga.shacknet.nu I'm adding two more machines to the local network, another linux box, and a windows machine. Where can I change the domain name on this box to kg9ga-l1.shacknet.nu Thanks Harv Want to buy your Pack or Services fro

Re: [newbie] Print problems

2003-02-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 21 Feb 2003 2:24 am, Malcolm Candlish wrote: > Anne, > > Thank you for your reply. I am quite frankly unsure of what Tiscali > provide as a fax service. > > However, I do find www.fido.net an absolute gem, in so far as by free > registration with them, you get a separate fax number to whi

Re: [newbie] right click

2003-02-21 Thread simo
Yes that will work but it's not professional, and I don't want to open 16 mice ;) *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 2/20/2003 at 12:54 PM Lanman wrote: >What if you were to physically disable the right mouse button? > >Lanman > >On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 12:19, simo wrote: >> I already che

Re: [newbie] Kill under LM9.1 beta 2

2003-02-21 Thread Jerry Barton
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 08:43:26 -0500 "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 21 February 2003 07:41 am, Rob Lindsay wrote: > > Don't seem to be able to find the Kill icon that I'm used to having copied > > to the panel so that I can easily zap frozen applications. > > > > How do I se

Re: [newbie] Kill under LM9.1 beta 2

2003-02-21 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 21 February 2003 13:41, Rob Lindsay wrote: > Don't seem to be able to find the Kill icon that I'm used to having copied > to the panel so that I can easily zap frozen applications. > > How do I set this up under 9.1? > > I know that I can CTL/ALT?F1-6 logon and ps -aux 'pipe' less/more an

Re: [newbie] IBM install from HELL !!!!

2003-02-21 Thread Marc Oestreicher
Thanks I will give it a try over the weekend. Marc On Thursday 20 February 2003 22:54, Harv Nelson wrote: > Hi > > When I have encountered problems like this, one program that has helped me > is a little utility called "aefdisk". It is available from the usual > sources or > > www.aefdi

[newbie] M$ vs Linux

2003-02-21 Thread Marc Oestreicher
I am a relitive newcomer to computers at this point, about 4 years since I first started. After I had been useing windoze 98 for a little less than a year I attempted a installation of Redhat. What a PITA, I never did get it right and gave up on linux for a while thinking that after I had more

Re: [newbie] Print problems

2003-02-21 Thread Malcolm Candlish
Anne, Thank you for your reply. I am quite frankly unsure of what Tiscali provide as a fax service. However, I do find www.fido.net an absolute gem, in so far as by free registration with them, you get a separate fax number to which messages may be faxed by all and sundry. These are then forwarde

RE: [newbie] Kill under LM9.1 beta 2

2003-02-21 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] Kill under LM9.1 beta 2 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ronald J. Hall Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 7:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Kill under LM9.1 beta 2 On Friday 21 February 2003 07:41

Re: [newbie] Kill under LM9.1 beta 2

2003-02-21 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 21 February 2003 07:41 am, Rob Lindsay wrote: > Don't seem to be able to find the Kill icon that I'm used to having copied > to the panel so that I can easily zap frozen applications. > > How do I set this up under 9.1? > > I know that I can CTL/ALT?F1-6 logon and ps -aux 'pipe' less/more

Re: [newbie] PCMCIA wireless card

2003-02-21 Thread Noah Hicks
OK, it's good to know what the issue is. It seems that I have a peculiar BIOS. I can't see any section on it regarding IRQ settings. I'm running a Dell Latitude LS400. Does anyone know how to find the settings? I'm sorry this isn't exactly a MDK related question and I know most BIOSes are diff

Re: [newbie] Internet connection on 9.1rc1 fails

2003-02-21 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 21:50:58 -0600 Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I used Charles solution and it worked. I think it was Charles. Yes. It was I. > I installed the > dhcpcd package and had a internet connection on first boot of a clean > install. This looks like something that will h

Re: [newbie] Xwindows Stability

2003-02-21 Thread g
John Richard Smith wrote: I will do this next , I have to go out for a while, so I'll set the OS to a root shell and leave it a few hours, come back and watch it a bit more to see if there are any momentary lapses. this should prove out if you are drawing excess current from ps and cause it t

[newbie] Kill under LM9.1 beta 2

2003-02-21 Thread Rob Lindsay
Don't seem to be able to find the Kill icon that I'm used to having copied to the panel so that I can easily zap frozen applications. How do I set this up under 9.1? I know that I can CTL/ALT?F1-6 logon and ps -aux 'pipe' less/more and then kill by trial and error. This seems too complex! TIA,

Re: [newbie] Xwindows Stability

2003-02-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 21 Feb 2003 11:54 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > g wrote: > > John Richard Smith wrote: > > i hope you were neat about it. :) > > Yes, not only neat but changed all the multiplugs etc etc I suspect > one may of been less than ideal, one just gets carried away at times > adding pieces of

Re: [newbie] solaris...why not

2003-02-21 Thread Andrei Raevsky
Hi, There are many possible answers to your question and most of them will fall into two groups: technology and philosophy. To summarize, Linux gives you much more for the buck (if you can read French look at http://benefice-net.branchez-vous.com/nouvelles/03-02/07-153502.html and see that even S

Re: [newbie] Xwindows Stability

2003-02-21 Thread John Richard Smith
g wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: thunk = relay thunggg = degauss coil thunk is relay turning on or off. thunggg is degaussing when power is first applied and should only occur when power is first applied and it should follow thunk when relay turns power on. when power turns off, there

Re: [newbie] Telnet

2003-02-21 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 22:35, Gil Katz wrote: > Hi > when ever i try to connect to telnet 127.0.0.1 port i get > Trying 127.0.0.1... > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused > in /etc/hosts.allow i wrote > telnet : 127.0.0.1 > what should i do? > Gil 127.0.0.1 is the loopback

[newbie] Telnet

2003-02-21 Thread Gil Katz
Hi when ever i try to connect to telnet 127.0.0.1 port i get Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused in /etc/hosts.allow i wrote telnet : 127.0.0.1 what should i do? Gil -- = So long, And thanks for all the fish. ===

Re: [newbie] solaris...why not

2003-02-21 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 21:37, Kesav Tadimeti wrote: > Hi all, > Just curious, why don't you people try out Sun Solaris 9 for Intel. SOlaris > 9 costs $20 for download and USD 99/- for the boxed set. Sol 8 costs 45/- > for the boxed set. You get a more stable & reliable OS. > > What makes you stay

Re: [newbie] Wine and Win licensing

2003-02-21 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 19:41, Vahur Lokk wrote: > Hi, IANAL-s :-) > > There is an old Win95 comp in my network. Legal setup. Now I want to run a > Windows program (certain bookkeeping soft) in a Linux box in the same network > using Wine. Is it legal to point Wine Windows folder to this Win95 box

Re: [newbie] Test

2003-02-21 Thread John Richard Smith
Trevor Rhodes wrote: John, bootup, but now I'm actually got this urpmi udate on a cooker going, all be it painfully slow, as I don't seem able to get the wget part of it to reconnect after my lousy isp has cut me off for the umpteenth time, so I have to restart manually with urpmi --auto-sele

Re: [newbie] Xwindows Stability

2003-02-21 Thread John Richard Smith
John Richard Smith wrote: Jerry Barton wrote: I haven't mentioned one other thing. Just recently, on shutdown, the monitor powers off and then turns itself back on again with "no signal" while the rest of the computer is dead. It does this in all OS's in cluding windblows. It ought to power of

[newbie] solaris...why not

2003-02-21 Thread Kesav Tadimeti
Hi all, Just curious, why don't you people try out Sun Solaris 9 for Intel. SOlaris 9 costs $20 for download and USD 99/- for the boxed set. Sol 8 costs 45/- for the boxed set. You get a more stable & reliable OS. What makes you stay loyal to MDK? You probably don't know about it. Cheers... +--

Re: [newbie] slightly OT Random Lockup

2003-02-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 21 Feb 2003 10:06 am, Poogle wrote: > For some time my partner's company were experiencing system crashes using > Win98/2000, I persuaded them to install MD 8.0 on one lesser used PC to > hopefully eliminate the problem. > It didn't work as I expected, the MD PC didn't crash but sufferred

Re: [newbie] Wine and Win licensing

2003-02-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 21 Feb 2003 8:41 am, Vahur Lokk wrote: > Hi, IANAL-s :-) > > There is an old Win95 comp in my network. Legal setup. Now I want to run a > Windows program (certain bookkeeping soft) in a Linux box in the same > network using Wine. Is it legal to point Wine Windows folder to this Win95 > bo

Re: [newbie] pre-recorded cd and permissions

2003-02-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 21 Feb 2003 1:54 am, Chris wrote: > The audio cd will > load up and play with KsCD but not XMMS or Mplayer, any reason why neither > work? For xmms you need AudioCD Reader installed, which isn't as default. You can read about it on Derek's site at http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/ D

[newbie] slightly OT Random Lockup

2003-02-21 Thread Poogle
For some time my partner's company were experiencing system crashes using Win98/2000, I persuaded them to install MD 8.0 on one lesser used PC to hopefully eliminate the problem. It didn't work as I expected, the MD PC didn't crash but sufferred from random screen freezes. As the building takes

Re: [newbie] Xwindows Stability

2003-02-21 Thread g
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Re: [newbie] IDE Tape drive

2003-02-21 Thread g
Larry Williams wrote: My memory is slowly returning. I had to load the ftape.o module to use the drive. do you and femme know each other? lol. peace out. tc,hago. g . -- think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email... text/plain

Re: [newbie] Leaving the list for a while

2003-02-21 Thread g
et wrote: On Thursday 20 February 2003 07:57 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: > Mostly because I am stoned 24/7 & I don't have the strength > to read & answer them. 'attack of the clones' will get you every time. try using 's.d.modiano rice'. damn your stoned stuff was making folks give up on TV just

[newbie] Wine and Win licensing

2003-02-21 Thread Vahur Lokk
Hi, IANAL-s :-) There is an old Win95 comp in my network. Legal setup. Now I want to run a Windows program (certain bookkeeping soft) in a Linux box in the same network using Wine. Is it legal to point Wine Windows folder to this Win95 box using Samba? Or is it compulsory to use only Wine versi

RE: [newbie] Internet connection on 9.1rc1 fails

2003-02-21 Thread Tony S. Sykes
All, installing dhcpcd and changing from fixed to dynamic ip address worked for me. Thanks, Tony. -Original Message- From: Dennis Myers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 3:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet connection on 9.1rc1 fails On

RE: [newbie] RC1 and network problem.

2003-02-21 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Tom, Okay lets start again. I download iso's normally with d4x, but I did not have it installed in beta 3. I had to use mozilla download manager. I was asking about d4x for urpmi as I don't like installing programs from source (lazy I know). Sorry for the confusion. Tony. -Original Message--