Re: [newbie-it] File Temporanei

2003-02-27 Thread syd
* Gabriele Prinelli wrote: Ciao a tutti. Qualcuno sa dirmi se e dove si depositano i file temporanei internet e come eventualmente eliminarli? Nella tua home trovi una sottodirectory nascosta che contiene tutto cio' che riguarda l'uso del browser inetrnet. Li' dentro trovi una sottodirectory

Re: [newbie-it] BenQ DC1300

2003-02-27 Thread Andrea Celli
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 19:29:04 +0100 Salvatore Califano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/item/BEN99900?elinux=f45de1a2d519d71e38532 c98e48c5b19 Per curiosità, sono andato a vederla. Però costa $126.50 e pesa Weight: 1.300kg/s :-0 più di un kilo!! di cos'è fatta, di

Re: [newbie-it] BenQ DC1300

2003-02-27 Thread Luigi Pinna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 February 2003 10:05, you wrote: Non ho ancora una macchinetta digitale, però, se funziona in usb-storage, dovrebbe bastare attaccarla alla porta usb e montare il device /usb/sda1 (se è l'unico usb che hai) su una tua directory

Re: [newbie-it] D-link dfe 538tx

2003-02-27 Thread Andrea Celli
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 19:25:27 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok ragazzi, devo ricorrere alla vostra gentilezza ed alle vostre esperienze: ho montato una scheda di rete D-link dfe538tx e siccome non ho mai avuto a che fare con reti e adattori di rete non so completamante come

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

2003-02-27 Thread Andrea Celli
Penso di si anche perchè ho modificato solo quello di cui abbiamo parlato # supermount -i disable se ne è discusso a lungo in lista e su tutti i NG Dove dovrei andare a vedere? una lettura utile può essere http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/admin/amount2.html ciao, Andrea

R: [newbie-it] BenQ DC1300

2003-02-27 Thread Salvatore Califano
-Messaggio Originale- Da: Andrea Celli [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data invio: giovedì 27 febbraio 2003 10.05 Oggetto: Re: [newbie-it] BenQ DC1300 On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 19:29:04 +0100 Salvatore Califano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

R: [newbie-it] BenQ DC1300

2003-02-27 Thread Salvatore Califano
Confermo! QUesto e` il riga da aggiungere all'fstab che mi ha passato Arwan a fine Dicembre (si riferisce per la mia Nikon Coolpix775 ma solo per il nome della directory): /mnt/nikon /mnt/nikon supermount dev=/dev/sda1,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0 -

[newbie-it] cambio di filesystem - fdisk

2003-02-27 Thread beo
Salve gente, ho una partizione vuota formattata ext2. Vorrei cambiare il fs in reiser. Ho provato a usare fdisk ma non trovo l'opzione corrispodente. Sono il solito cecato o devo usare qualche altro programma? grazie in anticipo. GPaolo

[newbie-it] Informazione

2003-02-27 Thread Vincenzo Scaccia
Cari Ragazzi, avevo bisogno di una informazione. Ho creato un dual boot sul mio portatile tra Windows XP e Linux la partizione di boot è gestita da Linux Siccome ho windows Xp che è arrivato e necessita di essere reinstallato, cosa mi consigliate di fare per evitare di dover reinstallare

Re: R: [newbie-it] BenQ DC1300

2003-02-27 Thread Sandro Porrazzini
Il gio, 2003-02-27 alle 10:46, Salvatore Califano ha scritto: Il bello è che non trovo un device sda1, sdb1 o simili! RinoX Ciao, hai provato con un semplice: mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/tuacartella ? Ovviamente da root. Ciao Sandro -- Dr. Sandro Porrazzini - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

R: [newbie-it] BenQ DC1300

2003-02-27 Thread Salvatore Califano
-Messaggio Originale- Da: Salvatore Califano [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data invio: giovedì 27 febbraio 2003 10.48 Oggetto: R: [newbie-it] BenQ DC1300 Confermo! QUesto e` il riga da aggiungere all'fstab che mi ha passato Arwan a fine Dicembre (si riferisce per la mia

R: R: [newbie-it] BenQ DC1300

2003-02-27 Thread Salvatore Califano
-Messaggio Originale- Da: Sandro Porrazzini [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data invio: giovedì 27 febbraio 2003 12.17 Oggetto: Re: R: [newbie-it] BenQ DC1300 Il gio, 2003-02-27 alle 10:46, Salvatore Califano ha scritto: Il bello è che non trovo un device sda1, sdb1 o simili!

Re: R: R: [newbie-it] BenQ DC1300

2003-02-27 Thread Sandro Porrazzini
Il gio, 2003-02-27 alle 12:16, Salvatore Califano ha scritto: -Messaggio Originale- Da: Sandro Porrazzini [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data invio: giovedì 27 febbraio 2003 12.17 Oggetto: Re: R: [newbie-it] BenQ DC1300 Il gio, 2003-02-27 alle 10:46, Salvatore Califano

[newbie-it] Connessione satellitare

2003-02-27 Thread Enrico Piccinini
Ciao a tutti, Sto analizzandola possibilità di connettere ad internet un computer veramente remoto(in una missione in Africa) e di installargli Linux Mandrake. La missione attualmente è dotata di una connessione dial-up lentissima (c'è un solo server in tutta l'Etiopia ed è a 1200Km

R: R: R: [newbie-it] BenQ DC1300

2003-02-27 Thread Salvatore Califano
-Messaggio Originale- Da: Sandro Porrazzini [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data invio: giovedì 27 febbraio 2003 12.28 Oggetto: Re: R: R: [newbie-it] BenQ DC1300 Il gio, 2003-02-27 alle 12:16, Salvatore Califano ha scritto: -Messaggio Originale- Da: Sandro Porrazzini

Re: [newbie-it] Inmancabile semi [ot]

2003-02-27 Thread mauro
Alle 11:29, domenica 23 febbraio 2003, Arwan ha scritto: Ebbene... la situazione e' questa: disco fisso da 2gb, formattato in Fat32 con su Win$95; regolarmente visto dal bios di un P60. Unico disco fisso del suddetto PC. Avvio e... disco non di avvio, sostituire e premere un tasto. Il bios

Re: [newbie-it] Informazione

2003-02-27 Thread Andrea Celli
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 11:37:40 +0100 Vincenzo Scaccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cari Ragazzi, avevo bisogno di una informazione. Ho creato un dual boot sul mio portatile tra Windows XP e Linux la partizione di boot è gestita da Linux Siccome ho windows Xp che è arrivato e necessita di essere

Re: [newbie-it] Connessione satellitare

2003-02-27 Thread Andrea Celli
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 12:27:45 +0100 Enrico Piccinini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Da tempo sento parlare di connessioni con modem satellitari, ma non ho mai avuto grosse info. Vi volevo chiedere alcune cose: - Chi produce questi sistemi - Compatibilità con Linux - Costi sia dei modem che

Re: [newbie-it] File Temporanei

2003-02-27 Thread Fabio Manunza
Alle 09:57, giovedì 27 febbraio 2003, syd ha scritto: E come comportarsi con i vari tmp? man logrotate -- - -- Fabio Manunza -- ## n° macchina 140545 ## Fair is foul, and foul is fair -

Re: [newbie-it] D-link dfe 538tx

2003-02-27 Thread Alessandro Piaser
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ok ragazzi, devo ricorrere alla vostra gentilezza ed alle vostre esperienze: ho montato una scheda di rete D-link dfe538tx e siccome non ho mai avuto a che fare con reti e adattori di rete non so completamante come fare a farla accettare

Re: [newbie-it] Avvio automatico Seti@Home

2003-02-27 Thread Alessandro Piaser
- Original Message - Utilizzi anche SetiLog e KSetispy per caso? Attualmente no. Avevo provato SetiLog per Win, ma Ultima domanda, sai per caso quanto ci metti mediamente a completare una workunit con Win e quanto con Linux? Bye Alessandro

RE: [newbie-it] Avvio automatico Seti@Home

2003-02-27 Thread Di Fresco Marco
Ultima domanda, sai per caso quanto ci metti mediamente a completare una workunit con Win e quanto con Linux? Con Linux devo ancora testare (e devo ancora applicare i consigli che mi avete suggerito; a propositp grazie ancora). Con Windows ci metto dalle 11 ore e mezza a 12 (complessive, poi

[newbie-it] MDK rpm update

2003-02-27 Thread Paolo Tomiato
Dato che controllo quotidianamente il rilascio di aggiornamenti per la sicurezza ed altro dai mirror di mdk mi chedevo se esistono comandi da lanciare da console x effettuare questa operazione in modo da nn dover lanciare l'ambiente grafico.

Re: [newbie-it] Problema pppd

2003-02-27 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 22:38, mercoledì 26 febbraio 2003, kua79 ha scritto: Ciao a tutti, sono un nuovo iscritto della lista. Ho un problemone con il demone ppp. prima di lanciare la connessione dai #ifconfig eth0 down bye miKe - --

Re: [newbie-it] cambio di filesystem - fdisk

2003-02-27 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 11:05, giovedì 27 febbraio 2003, beo ha scritto: Salve gente, ho una partizione vuota formattata ext2. Vorrei cambiare il fs in reiser. Ho provato a usare fdisk ma non trovo l'opzione corrispodente. il tipo indicato da fdisk è '83' sia per

[newbie-it] FW: Pulizie di primavera al MandrakeStore!

2003-02-27 Thread Di Fresco Marco
Magari e' un po' OT, ma e' una possibilita' per aiutare l'azienda. Nelle istruzioni su come ottenere lo sconto, c'e' scritto SEGUIRE QUESTO LINK, ma non viene indicato nessun link (a meno che non fosse quello nella firma, che pero' ho dovuto rimuovere perche' linkava direttamente al mio

R: R: [newbie-it] CX3200 Epson [was: latex e *.jpeg]

2003-02-27 Thread Enrico Piccinini
Come dicevo (e ora posso confermare) la stampante non funziona (come dicevo ieri con Mike), io ho la stampante connessa ad un PC win$ in rete. vedi se win$ ha in coda il file di spool passato dal client il problema potrebbe essere nel nome col quale hai esportato da win$ e/o nella coda che hai

Re: [newbie] Cervisia

2003-02-27 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Cervisia is a graphical front end to CVS, a software versioning system. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you Sharrea for your help on my kdeinint problem, it works beautifully now. I also have something in my Preference Order called Cervisia. Just wondering if anyone knows what this is? R

Re: [newbie] Backup to CD-R/RW

2003-02-27 Thread Piero Piutti
On Thursday 27 February 2003 07:12, Harv Nelson wrote: Is there some sort of backup/restore utility that I can use to make backups using the CD-R on my machines? CD-R's cost about a dime each these days. That price makes that media much more attractive than investing in a big tape drive and

[newbie] urpmi problems

2003-02-27 Thread Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed)
I thought all the install problems with packages under mandrake 9.0 would be behind me by following this procedure: 1. Delete all entries in directory /var/lib/urpmi 2. Create file /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg with zero length 3. Delete all files /var/cache/urpmi/headers 4. Copy all RPMS amd SRMPS from

Re: [newbie] OT- Mandrake OT list

2003-02-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 27 Feb 2003 2:43 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: And I've read that some of the UK LUG's have their meetings in pubs. -- cmg Where did you hear such scurrilous gossip? Even if it *is* true g We meet in the 'Head of Steam' pub. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy

[newbie] Being a nice guy

2003-02-27 Thread Charles A Edwards
I was just trying to be a nice guy this morning and gave my keyboard 1/2 a cup of coffee with plenty of sugar. Would you believe that not only did it not thank me, but it began cursing at me in some foreign language cause I could not understand a word it wrote. It just don't pay to be nice to

Re: [newbie] Being a nice guy

2003-02-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 27 February 2003 08:14 am, Charles A Edwards wrote: I was just trying to be a nice guy this morning and gave my keyboard 1/2 a cup of coffee with plenty of sugar. Would you believe that not only did it not thank me, but it began cursing at me in some foreign language cause I could

Re: [newbie] boot messages

2003-02-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 10:04 am, Josenildo Marques wrote: How can I see the boot messages? There seems to be something wrong and I want to check it. Thanks. JM You can type in dmesg dmesg.txt and you'll have a file in your home directory that you can look at. --

Re: [newbie] Being a nice guy

2003-02-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 27 Feb 2003 1:19 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 27 February 2003 08:14 am, Charles A Edwards wrote: I was just trying to be a nice guy this morning and gave my keyboard 1/2 a cup of coffee with plenty of sugar. Would you believe that not only did it not thank me, but it

Re: [newbie] OT- Mandrake OT list

2003-02-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 09:43 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Tom: Easy for you broadband types to say, but how effective is it on plain old dialup? (I guess we're talking pph -- pints per hour -- rather than kbs). And since when is free beer OT? Maybe for those wine sipping Mac types, but

Re: [newbie] Being a nice guy

2003-02-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 27 February 2003 08:22 am, Anne Wilson wrote: My introduction to diy pc hardware was a lecture in which we were advised to clean keyboards in a dishwasher - no heat, no detergent and short wash. I never tried it. Anne evil look on face I have a dishwasher here...do you suppose,

Re: [newbie] Being a nice guy

2003-02-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 27 Feb 2003 1:28 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 27 February 2003 08:22 am, Anne Wilson wrote: My introduction to diy pc hardware was a lecture in which we were advised to clean keyboards in a dishwasher - no heat, no detergent and short wash. I never tried it. Anne

Re: [newbie] OT- Mandrake OT list

2003-02-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 27 Feb 2003 1:25 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 26 February 2003 09:43 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Tom: Easy for you broadband types to say, but how effective is it on plain old dialup? (I guess we're talking pph -- pints per hour -- rather than kbs). And since when is

Re: [newbie] Being a nice guy

2003-02-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 27 February 2003 08:33 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Go on, then! - you will have the webcam set up won't you? g Anne Hehehehe, I might want to wait a bit - I'm using one of the older IBM model keyboards (clickety-clack!). Weighs about 5 pounds by itself. Methinks that could become a

[newbie] kde rewrites .desktop files

2003-02-27 Thread Jozef Riha
i always manually edit the Icon item (add my path to my icons) in some .desktop files (in ~/.kde/share..). the problem is that sometimes kde just goes mad and rewrites all the .desktop files to their original state.. this really sets me up. why should i always backup ~/.kde?? do you think

Re: [newbie] OT- Mandrake OT list

2003-02-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 27 February 2003 08:34 am, Anne Wilson wrote: If you make it to the Huddersfield area, that's a promise Anne Thanks Anne - if we ever do make it across the big pond - deal! :-) --

Re: [newbie] Being a nice guy

2003-02-27 Thread et
On Thursday 27 February 2003 08:28 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 27 February 2003 08:22 am, Anne Wilson wrote: My introduction to diy pc hardware was a lecture in which we were advised to clean keyboards in a dishwasher - no heat, no detergent and short wash. I never tried it.

Re: [newbie] Being a nice guy

2003-02-27 Thread et
On Thursday 27 February 2003 08:39 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 27 February 2003 08:33 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Go on, then! - you will have the webcam set up won't you? g Anne Hehehehe, I might want to wait a bit - I'm using one of the older IBM model keyboards (clickety-clack!).

[newbie] Disk problem

2003-02-27 Thread Robert Golovniov
Hello Mandrake group, I have a problem with my harddrive. First of all, I cannot now boot into Linux. I get an error message that kernel tries to kill init (or something similar). When I try to reinstall the system, Mandrake warns me of a wrong disk geometry (240 physical heads?) So, at

Re: [newbie] Backup to CD-R/RW

2003-02-27 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 27 February 2003 16:17, John Richard Smith wrote: Harv Nelson wrote: Hi Is there some sort of backup/restore utility that I can use to make backups using the CD-R on my machines? CD-R's cost about a dime each these days. That price makes that media much more attractive than

Re: [newbie] Being a nice guy

2003-02-27 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 27 February 2003 17:38, Ralph Slooten wrote: On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:53:12 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My son in law spilt a cup of coffee of his keyboard. He told me he took it apart and washed in in clean cool water from the tap, and dried it out

Re: [newbie] Backup to CD-R/RW

2003-02-27 Thread John Richard Smith
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Thursday 27 February 2003 16:17, John Richard Smith wrote: Harv Nelson wrote: Hi Is there some sort of backup/restore utility that I can use to make backups using the CD-R on my machines? CD-R's cost about a dime each these days. That price makes that media much

Re: [newbie] Backup to CD-R/RW

2003-02-27 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 27 February 2003 19:05, John Richard Smith wrote: OK , I attatch the file for everone John Thanks.looks clear enough:o) HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Telnet problem

2003-02-27 Thread Gil Katz
Hi when i try to connect to telnet 127.0.0.1 23 i get Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused in /var/log/messages i get socket creation failed (Address family not supported by protocol (errno = 97)). service = telnet What is the problem ? --

Re: [newbie] Telnet problem

2003-02-27 Thread Anders Lind
Hi when i try to connect to telnet 127.0.0.1 23 i get Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused in /var/log/messages i get socket creation failed (Address family not supported by protocol (errno = 97)). service = telnet What is the problem ? Is

Re: [newbie] Being a nice guy

2003-02-27 Thread civileme
On Thursday 27 February 2003 04:14 am, Charles A Edwards wrote: I was just trying to be a nice guy this morning and gave my keyboard 1/2 a cup of coffee with plenty of sugar. Would you believe that not only did it not thank me, but it began cursing at me in some foreign language cause I could

Re: [newbie] Being a nice guy

2003-02-27 Thread civileme
On Thursday 27 February 2003 04:28 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 27 February 2003 08:22 am, Anne Wilson wrote: My introduction to diy pc hardware was a lecture in which we were advised to clean keyboards in a dishwasher - no heat, no detergent and short wash. I never tried it.

Re: [newbie] Audigy drivers

2003-02-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 12:12 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: Wrong search method, use rpm -ql emu10k1-tools It will give you a listing of a whole slew of entries. If you want to do it by hand you can edit /etc/emu10k1 There are instruction included in the file. Charles Charles, I still

[newbie] Disable internal firewall

2003-02-27 Thread Ruben Sajnovetzky
Hi, Sorry for the wide disturb. I have a remote machine installed by someone else. It is Mandrake 9.0 standard installation (all packages but not games). He installed with higher security level and now I can't get in even by ssh. I have connectivity (he can ping my machine from the linux box) and

[newbie] error while loading shared libraries: libqt-mt.so.3: cannot

2003-02-27 Thread Juhasz David
Hi! I installed KDE 3.1 (from Texstar's rpm) on my system. I use Mandrake 9.0. With the installation went everything fine, but when I am trying to start kde with the startkde command it gives me the following error massages: cp: cannot stat `/usr/share/mdk/kde/root-interface/kdeglobals': No

Re: [newbie] Disk problem

2003-02-27 Thread civileme
On Thursday 27 February 2003 08:14 am, Robert Golovniov wrote: Hello Mandrake group, I have a problem with my harddrive. First of all, I cannot now boot into Linux. I get an error message that kernel tries to kill init (or something similar). When I try to reinstall the system, Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Audigy drivers

2003-02-27 Thread Peter Watson
On Thursday 27 Feb 2003 20:11, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 12:12 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: Wrong search method, use rpm -ql emu10k1-tools It will give you a listing of a whole slew of entries. If you want to do it by hand you can edit /etc/emu10k1 There are

Re: [newbie] Being a nice guy

2003-02-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 27 February 2003 10:29 am, John Rye wrote: (although in my case I use the one the X still complains she never did find when she unpacked ;-{ ). Cheers John lol thats funny! --

Re: [newbie] Being a nice guy

2003-02-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 27 February 2003 10:37 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: speaking of keyboards... does anyone know if there are any manufactureres who still make keyboards with the characters embedded through the entire depth of the keypads ike the older models did? i'm getting tired of watching my

Re: [newbie] Disable internal firewall

2003-02-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 27 February 2003 03:19 pm, Ruben Sajnovetzky wrote: Hi, Sorry for the wide disturb. I have a remote machine installed by someone else. It is Mandrake 9.0 standard installation (all packages but not games). He installed with higher security level and now I can't get in even by

RE: [newbie] Being a nice guy

2003-02-27 Thread Sabin, Matthew
Title: RE: [newbie] Being a nice guy They're also good in a snow storm (shovel with one, or use two for snow-shoes) --Matthew (sorry my last post wasn't in plaintext) -Original Message- From: Ronald J. Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 4:45 PM To:

Re: [newbie] Being a nice guy

2003-02-27 Thread robin
civileme wrote: If you need to remove crumbs, then a small battery-powered vacuum works or if you pop off the keycaps and invert the board Just make sure the nozzle of the vacuum cleaner is smaller than a key. I find the etch-a-sketch reboot method works well enough. When cleaning the

Re: [newbie] Audigy drivers

2003-02-27 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 20:11:09 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles, I still have not got anywhere with this. Clearly Mandrake does not put things where the documentation says they will be, but I found the .conf file and edited it. The instructions then to on to say that I

[newbie] hooray for rescue

2003-02-27 Thread Richard Babcock
I just (foolishly) installed something called ArkLinux which overwrote my boot loader. Thanks to ML 9.0 and the rescue option I was back up in no time. I really love this os! R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower Training, We Bring the Classroom to You! www.towertraining.net

[newbie] Newbie users question

2003-02-27 Thread Chris
I'm running Mdk 9.0. Question I have is when system is freshly booted there is one user, me. If I open a console and type users there are now two users, both me (chris). If I log out and back in there are now three users (chris). Any idea why or is this just a falicy or bug in 9.0? --

Re: [newbie] Disable internal firewall

2003-02-27 Thread Ruben Sajnovetzky
Well, I stopped the iptables and still not working. I think I have to change the msec, I made: Changed to 0 the security_level at /etc/sysconfig/msec Rebooted But still the same :-( At 04:49 PM 2/27/2003 -0500, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 27 February 2003 03:19 pm, Ruben

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

2003-02-27 Thread bascule
it's my understanding that it's originally a services term, probably air force bascule On Wednesday 26 Feb 2003 4:15 am, Warren Post wrote: El lun, 24-02-2003 a las 04:59, Josenildo Marques escribió: And why is it used so much in examples ? The story as I've heard it is this: Long ago,

Re: [newbie] urpmi problems

2003-02-27 Thread Marc Oestreicher
On Thursday 27 February 2003 03:10, Vaessen, E.M.J. (Ed) wrote: I thought all the install problems with packages under mandrake 9.0 would be behind me by following this procedure: 1. Delete all entries in directory /var/lib/urpmi 2. Create file /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg with zero length 3. Delete

Re: [newbie] kde rewrites .desktop files

2003-02-27 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Thursday 27 de February 2003 11:45, Jozef Riha wrote: i always manually edit the Icon item (add my path to my icons) in some .desktop files (in ~/.kde/share..). the problem is that sometimes kde just goes mad and rewrites all the .desktop files to their original state.. this really sets

[newbie] Fwd: Newbie users question

2003-02-27 Thread Chris
Appologies if this shows up twice but I sent it over two hours ago and it still hasn't shown up on the list. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Newbie users question Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 17:30:39 -0600 From: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm running Mdk 9.0.

[newbie] problem in installing php on mandrake

2003-02-27 Thread Kurniawan Mitchell
I tried to install php on linux mandrake. However I do have an error message while do ./configure. The error message said that lex . (something) can not be found. Is that mean I do need to install some other packages or I should reconfigure ./configure file(I hope not) Thank's

Re: [newbie] problem in installing php on mandrake

2003-02-27 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 27 February 2003 09:39 pm, Kurniawan Mitchell wrote: I tried to install php on linux mandrake. However I do have an error message while do ./configure. The error message said that lex . (something) can not be found. Is that mean I do need to install some other packages or

[newbie] users question

2003-02-27 Thread Chris
Subject: Newbie users question Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 17:30:39 -0600 From: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm running Mdk 9.0. Question I have is when system is freshly booted there is one user, me. If I open a console and type users there are now two users, both me (chris). If

Re: [newbie] problem in installing php on mandrake

2003-02-27 Thread David McGlone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 February 2003 09:39 pm, Kurniawan Mitchell wrote: I tried to install php on linux mandrake. However I do have an error message while do ./configure. The error message said that lex . (something) can not be found. Is that

Re: [newbie] problem in installing php on mandrake

2003-02-27 Thread David McGlone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 February 2003 09:39 pm, Kurniawan Mitchell wrote: I tried to install php on linux mandrake. However I do have an error message while do ./configure. The error message said that lex . (something) can not be found. Is that

Re: [newbie] Being a nice guy

2003-02-27 Thread Linus Drouhard
I have a couple of the great old IBM keyboards that my brother in-law picked up for me for $5 apiece at a thrift shop. They had boxes of them. Linus On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 15:44, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 27 February 2003 10:37 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: speaking of keyboards...

[newbie] kde 3.1 installation and config

2003-02-27 Thread sean jacobs
i was wondering if perhaps someone could let me know where the config files for the kde start menu are at...i just compiled and installed 3.1 last night but can't figure out how exactly to add all the applications that were in my old kde menu to my new one. it would be much easier if i could

Re: [newbie] kde 3.1 installation and config

2003-02-27 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 27 February 2003 10:21 pm, sean jacobs wrote: i was wondering if perhaps someone could let me know where the config files for the kde start menu are at...i just compiled and installed 3.1 last night but can't figure out how exactly to add all the applications that were in my old

Re: [newbie] Backup to CD-R/RW

2003-02-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 12:12:58AM -0600, Harv Nelson wrote: Hi Is there some sort of backup/restore utility that I can use to make backups using the CD-R on my machines? CD-R's cost about a dime each these days. That price makes that media much more attractive than investing in a big

[newbie] MandrakeClub Renewal

2003-02-27 Thread James Dawson
I have a couple of questions regarding renewing my MandrakeClub membership. My finances are rather tight right now so I don't know if I can afford to renew at Silver level but I can't find an option online to renew at Bronze level. Second, is it possible to renew paying on a month-to-month

Re: [newbie] Hams on the list

2003-02-27 Thread Larry Williams
And another 73 DE N1POP Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] MandrakeClub Renewal

2003-02-27 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 27 February 2003 11:07 pm, James Dawson wrote: I have a couple of questions regarding renewing my MandrakeClub membership. My finances are rather tight right now so I don't know if I can afford to renew at Silver level but I can't find an option online to renew at Bronze level.

Re: [newbie] OT- Mandrake OT list

2003-02-27 Thread g
Anne Wilson wrote: If you make it to the Huddersfield area, that's a promise know any other orbital establishments? peace out. tc,hago. g . -- think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email... text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code

Re: [newbie] Being a nice guy

2003-02-27 Thread g
Anne Wilson wrote: My introduction to diy pc hardware was a lecture in which we were advised to clean keyboards in a dishwasher - no heat, no detergent and short wash. I never tried it. not!!! best type of cleaner i have found, is are all purpose cleaner / degreaser. first juice is called

[newbie] dmg file in ~/ directory

2003-02-27 Thread Robert Wideman
Was wondering what these files are for and do. They are in my home directory (/home/rwideman) -rw---1 rwideman rwideman 13M Feb 19 09:09 gtk2.dmg -rw---1 rwideman rwideman 6.8M Feb 19 09:09 qt3.dmg Thanks Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re[2]: [newbie] Disk problem

2003-02-27 Thread Robert Golovniov
On Thursday, February 27, 2003, 11:10:46 PM, civileme wrote: c Sounds like you are using 7.2 or earlier on a Western Digital Disk. Not exactly. I am running 8.2 on Fujitsu. c If you are having the problem on a modern kernel and disk drive, we need a lot c more information about the drive, the

Re: [newbie] Being a nice guy

2003-02-27 Thread Mark
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 27 February 2003 08:14 am, Charles A Edwards wrote: I was just trying to be a nice guy this morning and gave my keyboard 1/2 a cup of coffee with plenty of sugar. Would you believe that not only did it not thank me, but it began

Re: [newbie] Being a nice guy

2003-02-27 Thread Mark
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 27 February 2003 08:33 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Go on, then! - you will have the webcam set up won't you? g Anne Hehehehe, I might want to wait a bit - I'm using one of the older IBM model keyboards (clickety-clack!). Weighs about

Re: [newbie] Being a nice guy

2003-02-27 Thread Mark
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, et wrote: On Thursday 27 February 2003 08:28 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 27 February 2003 08:22 am, Anne Wilson wrote: My introduction to diy pc hardware was a lecture in which we were advised to clean keyboards in a dishwasher - no heat, no detergent and

Re: [newbie] Kmail and any others?

2003-02-27 Thread Mark
On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Yoel P. Krigsman wrote: Hello.. I am another newbie on Linux system and I am running Markdrake 9.0 and I am really enjoying learning something new. I am currently using KMail and I am wondering if there is any other HTML mail client that I can use? that I am not