[newbie-it] latex e *.jpeg

2003-02-24 Thread Enrico Piccinini
Ciao a tutti: eccomi nuovamente qui! Per quanto rigurda Latex, sto scrivendo un manuale di una macchina, e lo sto facendo con Latex: qualcuno sa dirmi se ci sono controindicazioni nell'uso di immagini *.jpeg (ho letto che sembra che ci siano dei problemi con il convertitore dvi e pdf): è vero? Se

Re: [newbie-it] latex e *.jpeg

2003-02-24 Thread Luigi Pinna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 February 2003 09:15, you wrote: Ciao a tutti: eccomi nuovamente qui! Per quanto rigurda Latex, sto scrivendo un manuale di una macchina, e lo sto facendo con Latex: qualcuno sa dirmi se ci sono controindicazioni nell'uso di immagini

[newbie-it] openoffice via via piu' lento

2003-02-24 Thread pigi
ciao a tutti ormai sono diversi mesi che ho abbandonato win e uso openoffice per lavorare ho notato che è diventato piu' lento a partire (non era mai stato un fulmine ...), mentre nell'account di mia figlia parte come prima che puo' essere? un saluto pigi

Re: [newbie-it] openoffice via via piu' lento

2003-02-24 Thread Andrea Celli
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 12:49:47 +0100 pigi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ciao a tutti ormai sono diversi mesi che ho abbandonato win e uso openoffice per lavorare ho notato che è diventato piu' lento a partire (non era mai stato un fulmine ...), mentre nell'account di mia figlia parte come prima

Re: [newbie-it] Variabili di ambiente

2003-02-24 Thread Germano
Il 17:48, domenica 23 febbraio 2003, Pollo ha scritto: Mi sembrava di aver capito che per modificare una variabile di ambinente a livello globale (cioè al boot del sistema e per ogni utente) bisognasse modificare il file /etc/profile. Ho cercato di farlo con la Mandrake9.0 ma tale file non

Re: [newbie-it] Mouse Ottico e Senza Fili

2003-02-24 Thread Germano
Il 18:25, domenica 23 febbraio 2003, Corrado ha scritto: Direte: nient'altro?! ^_^ Allora, è possibile debba cambiare mouse, se qualcuno sa darmi buone dritte su mouse ottici e/o senza fili che funzionino senza problemi con Mandrake e siano comunque di buona qualità, mi farebbe un favore! ^_^

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

2003-02-24 Thread Andrea Celli
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 01:16:35 +0100 Alessandro Piaser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Non c'è un'opzione da inserire dando rpm in modo che chieda se installare o meno anche le dipendenze? si rpm --nodeps (vedi man rpm) ma poi non è detto che il pacchetto ti funzioni, potrebbe mancargli qualche

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

2003-02-24 Thread Germano
Scusate ma questa volta scrivo sopra il citato. Un piccolo consiglio (più che altro per te) : Se si scrivono messaggi così lunghi e con domande così diverse tra loro succede che 1) Chi legge dopo un pò si stufa e non risponde (il che è male per te) 2) Chi volesse avere aiuti sugli stessi

Re: [newbie-it] problema driver scanner HP2200c - UPDATE

2003-02-24 Thread paolo brusasco
no devi remmare anche la parallel port section. ti allego il mio file di configurazione. però nonostante funzioni ho ancora 2 problemi: 1) anche a lampada calda prima di ogni scansione attende il tempo di warming up (30 secs) 2) per motivi misteriosi, appena avviato, le prime due o tre o quattro

Re: [newbie-it] Sun One Studio 4 CE

2003-02-24 Thread LukenShiro
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Enrico Teotti wrote: IDE Sun One Studio 4 CE. [..] ./nomefile Il fatto è che la seconda istruzione genera un errore. Non saprei, prova a dare un'occhiata a: http://forte.sun.com/ffj/knowledgebase.html P.S. colgo l'occasione per ricordare che piu' particolari si danno,

[newbie-it] Installazione su 486 denza lettore cdrom

2003-02-24 Thread Pollo
Sto cercando di installare la mandrake su un vecchio 486 che è sprovvisto di lettore cdrom per cui ho deciso di optare per una installazione via rete tramite NFS. Gli ho montato una scheda di rete 3Com 3c905B e hocreato il disketto di boot opportuno. Appena dopo il boot mi riconosce la scheda di

Re: [newbie-it] Installazione su 486 denza lettore cdrom

2003-02-24 Thread gluc
Pollo ha scritto: Sto cercando di installare la mandrake su un vecchio 486 che è sprovvisto di lettore cdrom per cui ho deciso di optare per una installazione via rete tramite NFS. Gli ho montato una scheda di rete 3Com 3c905B e hocreato il disketto di boot opportuno. Appena dopo il boot mi

Re: [newbie-it] Mouse Ottico e Senza Fili

2003-02-24 Thread Corrado
Il lun, 2003-02-24 alle 07:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: se vuoi un prodotto buono Logitech di sicuro...io cercavo una tastiera senza filo,ma le danno solo con il mouse allegato e non ho intenzione di seperarmi dal mio trackball :-) Non ho dubbio che i prodotti Logitech siano validi,

[newbie-it] Scanner Epson 1250

2003-02-24 Thread lele
Ho provato a configurare il mio scanner epson 1250 photo come da istruzioni sul sito mandrake, cioè inserendo usb/dev/usb/scanner in /etc/sane.d/epson.conf scanner in /etc/modules options scanner vendor=0x4b8 e product=0x10f in /etc/modules.conf Sul desktop ho l'icona di xsane, nell'elenco

[newbie-it] Scheda audio

2003-02-24 Thread Lele
Dopo l'installazione di mdk9 nonriesco a sentire i suoni di sistema nè i cd musicali. Ho una scheda audio integrata e una soundblaster e vorrei usare solo quest'ultima, come posso disabilitare l'altra? Grazie per le eventuali risposte --

Re: [newbie] Another one...

2003-02-24 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 21:02, LeaAnne Kolp wrote: You can get the java here: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/ Once you download it, follow the instructions in the ReadMe. Everytime I had a question about Linux my husband would tell me to read the manual. Seemed harsh at the time, but now

Re: [newbie] Kmail and any others?

2003-02-24 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 24 February 2003 01:31, Todd Slater wrote: On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 18:13:07 -0500 s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 23 February 2003 08:01 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: I like the crisp and open feel of kmail and last but certainly not least: Sylpheed is wonderful on lower spec

Re: [newbie] WAY OT and further - Problem with threads

2003-02-24 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 24 February 2003 06:33, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 16:32, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Sunday 23 de February 2003 22:46, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 12:10, Adolfo Bello wrote: Why am I getting totally different subjects within a thread? Or is

Re: [newbie] Telnet

2003-02-24 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Assuming that you have the telnet server installed, you need to start it (Mandrake Control Center, System tab, Services icon). Also, I had a similar problem on the MDK PC I use at home, where I have a modem Internet connection. I looks like if you don't connect to internet, loopback port is

Re: [newbie] Xwindows Stability

2003-02-24 Thread John Richard Smith
g wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Now, as I read this, we passed a command to set to 0 the time interval to nought, the powersave and powerdown to disable.. If I'm correct , it refused on the powersave issue. you are correct. [see below] Now some 10-20 minutes later , another blank black

Re: [newbie] Xwindows Stability

2003-02-24 Thread John Richard Smith
g wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Now, as I read this, we passed a command to set to 0 the time interval to nought, the powersave and powerdown to disable.. If I'm correct , it refused on the powersave issue. you are correct. [see below] Now some 10-20 minutes later , another blank black

[newbie] Graphics formats

2003-02-24 Thread Anne Wilson
I thought that png was a lossless compression - am I wrong? If I start from a jpg file from my camera, 397 KB, why does saving it as a png come out at 2.4MB? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Graphics formats

2003-02-24 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 23:41, Anne Wilson wrote: I thought that png was a lossless compression - am I wrong? If I start from a jpg file from my camera, 397 KB, why does saving it as a png come out at 2.4MB? Anne For all intents and purposes, it's probably best to keep them in JPG format -

Re: [newbie] Another one...

2003-02-24 Thread Daniel Anderson
On Sunday 23 February 2003 10:17 pm, Marc Oestreicher wrote: On Sunday 23 February 2003 15:05, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 23 Feb 2003 7:04 pm, Daniel Anderson wrote: I tried Opera today, and the only problem I have is the page fonts display very small and distorted, tried

Re: [newbie] Graphics formats

2003-02-24 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Monday 24 de February 2003 09:41, Anne Wilson wrote: I thought that png was a lossless compression - am I wrong? If I start from a jpg file from my camera, 397 KB, why does saving it as a png come out at 2.4MB? Anne Because JPG is lossy compression, based on some weird smoked algorithms

Re: [newbie] Graphics formats

2003-02-24 Thread Jan Wilson
* Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030224 07:00]: I thought that png was a lossless compression - am I wrong? No, you are right. If I start from a jpg file from my camera, 397 KB, why does saving it as a png come out at 2.4MB? Because .png IS a lossless compression. Your camera is using a

Re: [newbie] Graphics formats

2003-02-24 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 12:41:29PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: I thought that png was a lossless compression - am I wrong? If I start from a jpg file from my camera, 397 KB, why does saving it as a png come out at 2.4MB? Anne As a general rule of thumb, .jpg for photos, .png for

Re: [newbie] Another one...

2003-02-24 Thread Marc Oestreicher
On Sunday 23 Feb 2003 7:04 pm, Daniel Anderson wrote: I tried Opera today, and the only problem I have is the page fonts display very small and distorted, tried several different pages, and all the different settings, I can improve it somewhat by using my own fonts, but

Re: [newbie] Graphics formats

2003-02-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 24 Feb 2003 1:22 pm, Jan Wilson wrote: * Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030224 07:00]: I thought that png was a lossless compression - am I wrong? No, you are right. If I start from a jpg file from my camera, 397 KB, why does saving it as a png come out at 2.4MB? Because .png

Re: [newbie] Graphics formats

2003-02-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 24 Feb 2003 1:43 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 12:41:29PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: I thought that png was a lossless compression - am I wrong? If I start from a jpg file from my camera, 397 KB, why does saving it as a png come out at 2.4MB? Anne As a

Re: [newbie] Graphics formats

2003-02-24 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 02:30:10PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 24 Feb 2003 1:43 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 12:41:29PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: I thought that png was a lossless compression - am I wrong? If I start from a jpg file from my camera, 397 KB, why

[newbie] choosing a HDD

2003-02-24 Thread Anne Wilson
I'm thinking of replacing my current pair of 20 GB HDDs by a pair of 40 GB drives. Maxtor offer the Fireball @5400rpm and the Diamondax Plus 8 @7200rpm. Are there any problems associated with these faster drives? This Asus board is one equipped with 2 udma connectors in addition to the

Re: [newbie] Another one...

2003-02-24 Thread Rob Lindsay
snip I've been around the block with browsers, and I can tell you that Opera is the best one I've ever seen. Plus the fastest. It beats all the others hands down. Latest version for Linux and the QT libraries is 6.11. The java and flash rpm's are available on mandrakeclub for download.

Re: [newbie] OT - Problem with threads

2003-02-24 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 20:10, Adolfo Bello wrote: Why am I getting totally different subjects within a thread? Or is it that some people instead of launching a new thread just reply to a mail and change the subject? Is it my MUA? Or is it some people laziness? Probably because some people

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

2003-02-24 Thread et
On Saturday 22 February 2003 10:49 am, robin wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: 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

[newbie] rpmfind doesn't fill in package list

2003-02-24 Thread Guy Rouillier
I've used RedHat casually for a couple years, but would like to try to make Mandrake 9.0 my regular OS. Under RedHat, I got used to using gnorpm to do a webfind to see if any of my currently installed packages had newer versions. What is the equivalent function with the Mandrake packaging tools?

Re: [newbie] rpmfind doesn't fill in package list

2003-02-24 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 24 Feb 2003 5:20 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: I've used RedHat casually for a couple years, but would like to try to make Mandrake 9.0 my regular OS. Under RedHat, I got used to using gnorpm to do a webfind to see if any of my currently installed packages had newer versions. What is

Re: [newbie] Another one...

2003-02-24 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 10:18, Rob Lindsay wrote: I have been a long term user of Opera too, both with Win2K and Mandrake. I find it really fast and easy to live with. It has a good set of keyboard shortcuts and some great mouse gestures. Rob Haven't really looked into the mouse

Re: [newbie] Kmail and any others?

2003-02-24 Thread s
On Monday 24 February 2003 03:23 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: certainly not least: Sylpheed is wonderful on lower spec oh cool. I was needing a suggestion for a p75/40mb laptop and Unless you know of a light gui news client that can talk to Sylpheed again! I can't vouch for its

Re: [newbie] Xwindows Stability

2003-02-24 Thread g
John Richard Smith wrote: As an identicle comparative test it will not do much, since the screen res and vid card are different, ie less demanding. may be identical. but, is an assurance that there is no problem with 1st monitor. but using system that is working correct, you will prove that

Re: [newbie] Kmail and any others?

2003-02-24 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 24 February 2003 18:23, s wrote: yeah, I had slack 8.1 running on it too. I didn't try to set X up on it tho, thinking it was gonna be a cli only box. Then I wanted to try mandrake adn during the text install I thought what the heck, see what it'll do. So after reboot, when X

[newbie] Remote printer question

2003-02-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Hey guys. I've never played much with remote printing under Linux, but my 2 boys were wanting to print out a few pictures from their comps to my Epson C62 printer on my main comp, so I tried it. I setup remote printing on their comps via the printer wizard (Cups) and it worked fine. For

Re: [newbie] Remote printer question

2003-02-24 Thread mycal62
What kind of Os do the boys run ? windows? Maybe they are not still connected on their end. Sometimes my wifes win 98 box will lose it's connection to the network and she forgets to re-logon. and sometimes even has to reboot to re-establish the connection. ( never tried to figure out why

Re: [newbie] Another one...

2003-02-24 Thread Daniel Anderson
On Monday 24 February 2003 03:16 pm, Marc Oestreicher wrote: On Sunday 23 Feb 2003 7:04 pm, Daniel Anderson wrote: I tried Opera today, and the only problem I have is the page fonts display very small and distorted, tried several different pages, and all the different

Re: [newbie] Another one...

2003-02-24 Thread Marc Oestreicher
On Monday 24 February 2003 13:46, Daniel Anderson wrote: Marc Now that You have Opera to the point where a page displays nice take the time to dig around and find all the other nice features in Opera You will probably become hooked on Opera. The z zmd x buttons are super

Re: [newbie] Xwindows Stability

2003-02-24 Thread John Richard Smith
g wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: As an identicle comparative test it will not do much, since the screen res and vid card are different, ie less demanding. may be identical. but, is an assurance that there is no problem with 1st monitor. but using system that is working correct, you will

[newbie] What happened to APMI Support?

2003-02-24 Thread Anthony Abby
I loaded up 9.1RC1 over the weekend and noticed that APMI support seems to have dissapeared. I've loaded 9.1RC on my laptop, so now when I poweroff my laptop no longer powers off. I had 2.4.20-2mdk loaded under 9.0 previously and APMI worked just fine under that Cooker kernel. Now I just

[newbie] printing and kdmrc

2003-02-24 Thread sean jacobs
I have been having a couple of problems with kdm and printing i was hoping someone could help me out with. first off..whenever i reboot linux, i have to readd the printer every time. i have yet to figure out why. my printer is detected properly and prints the test page during mandrake

Re: [newbie] printing and kdmrc

2003-02-24 Thread Greg Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 February 2003 04:48 pm, sean jacobs wrote: I have been having a couple of problems with kdm and printing i was hoping someone could help me out with. first off..whenever i reboot linux, i have to readd the printer every time. i have

[newbie] Linneighbourhood installation dead end

2003-02-24 Thread ivette brusselmans
Tried to install Linneighbourhood rpm, but got the message that it needed Gettext. Tried to install Gettext rpm, but got the following message: rpm -U --replacepkgs //home/luc/Downloads/gettext.rpm;echo RESULT=$? error: failed dependencies: ld64.so.1()(64bit) is needed by gettext-0.10.36-61

Re: [newbie] Linneighbourhood installation dead end

2003-02-24 Thread robin
ivette brusselmans wrote: Tried to install Linneighbourhood rpm, but got the message that it needed Gettext. Tried to install Gettext rpm, but got the following message: rpm -U --replacepkgs //home/luc/Downloads/gettext.rpm;echo RESULT=$? error: failed dependencies: ld64.so.1()(64bit) is

[newbie] d-link dwl-520 wireless card problem

2003-02-24 Thread Scott
I'm trying to get a d-link DWL-520 PCI wireless card (2.5 prism chipset) working in 9.0. I have installed kernel-wlan-ng-pci-0.1.15-6.i586.rpm and kernel-wlan-ng-0.1.15-6.i586.rpm. On boot errors went by something like modprobe cannot find fb0 module and insmod: invalid I0 or IRQ There was

Re: [newbie] Remote printer question

2003-02-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 24 February 2003 02:41 am, mycal62 wrote: What kind of Os do the boys run ? windows? Maybe they are not still connected on their end. No, this is straight Linux to Linux. Thanks. --

Re: [newbie] What the sHell is foo ? ;-)

2003-02-24 Thread David E. Fox
e,, don't you mean fubar? as in Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition? some time called Fucked Up Beyond All Repair? maybe Foo being the cleaned = That's part of the etymology. For the horse's mouth (jargon dictionary) definition, try http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/f/foo.html. It says in

Re: [newbie] I've lost disk writer plugin for xmms

2003-02-24 Thread David E. Fox
I planned to wait until I upgraded to 9.1 to learn urpmi, that's why I'm saving all those messages. I'm on 8.2 now. And yes, been using Windows too much (at work, mind you). :^o You might want to :). I'm using 9.0 (with added cooker upgrades) and have found much better success using urpmi with

Re: [newbie] crontab in 9.0

2003-02-24 Thread Stormjumper
i'm jumping into this a little late, but these are my observations. hope they help cron (in 9.0 specifically. dunno about the rest) seems to run itself every hour, or rather, check for new tasks every hour. i was going nuts trying to find out why my script which was supposed to run every minute

Re: [newbie] choosing a HDD

2003-02-24 Thread g
Anne Wilson wrote: I'm thinking of replacing my current pair of 20 GB HDDs by a pair of 40 GB just for a point of understanding on my end, what is oem model number of your asus mainboard? what are oem model numbers of drives? security is more important than speed. security as in security of

Re: [newbie] Xwindows Stability

2003-02-24 Thread g
John Richard Smith wrote: Take your point. i was hoping you would see where i was going. This is interesting. One, both monitors , monitor on M9.0is now on M8.1 for 6 hours, no 2 second glitch event monitor2 on M8.1is now on M9.0 for 6 hours, no 2 second glitch event.

Re: [newbie] Telnet

2003-02-24 Thread Raffaele Belardi
I would: 1. make sure interface is up (ping 127.0.0.1) 2. make sure you have the telnet server package installed (Mandrake Control Center) 3. make sure telenet server is up and running (ps -axl) 4. check /etc/xinetd.conf for any ONLY_FROM lines 5. check that /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny