Re: [newbie-it] back up dell mbr

2003-03-02 Thread Arwan
Alle Saturday 01 March 2003 17:06, a proposito di [newbie-it] back up dell mbr (e chissa' a cosa pensava veramente), Mirko ha scritto: cari amici linuxiani Mi pare che questo sia il tuo primo post in lista... se e' cosi', era ora! Benvenuto. -- Arwan

Re: [newbie-it] Cdrom interfaccia proprietaria

2003-03-02 Thread Fabio Manunza
Alle 18:44, sabato 1 marzo 2003, Alessandro Piaser ha scritto: Ciao a tutti, se qualcuno ha avuto l'occasione di installare un cdrom 2x Panasonic interfaccia proprietaria e/o su sound blaster 16 con mandrake mi potrebbe aiutare o indicarmi un sito appropriato? sono ad un punto morto e ho gi

[newbie-it] wget e urpmi

2003-03-02 Thread Luigi Pinna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dato che e` un argomento di questo periodo... Io vorrei settare urpmi perche' mi aggiorni i programmi passando solo da fonte locale e allo stesso tempo avere in pratica tutto il mirror aggiornato sulla fonte locale. Ora come settare urpmi e` stato

Re: [newbie-it] wget e urpmi

2003-03-02 Thread Corrado
Il dom, 2003-03-02 alle 21:00, Luigi Pinna ha scritto: Dato che e` un argomento di questo periodo... Io vorrei settare urpmi perche' mi aggiorni i programmi passando solo da fonte locale e allo stesso tempo avere in pratica tutto il mirror aggiornato sulla fonte locale. Ora come settare

[newbie-it] lirc

2003-03-02 Thread Luigi Pinna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 provando ad usare il telecomando con mplayer (usando lirc) ho ottenuto questo errore: Configurazione del supporto per lirc... mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: Connection refused Apertura del supporto per lirc fallita! Non potrai usare

[newbie] IPTABLES rules for Direct Connect ?

2003-03-02 Thread Bela Markus
Hi Stephen, you advice is not very constructive. Sounds like: dont use LINUX, do not use LINUX, etc. Doesn't matter is it SHOREWALL or else, the key is the IPTABLES, oll others just cosmetics. Now I see, original subject was misleading. The right would be " IPTABLES rules for Direct

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled

2003-03-02 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 7:19 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: For those that still have to use M$ Windows for some reason - any reason; just what do YOU think M$ knows when you connect to the Windows Update site? http://www.tecchannel.de/betriebssysteme/1126/index.html All very interesting in a look

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled

2003-03-02 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 20:06, Richard Urwin wrote: On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 7:19 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: For those that still have to use M$ Windows for some reason - any reason; just what do YOU think M$ knows when you connect to the Windows Update site?

[newbie] basic concept question

2003-03-02 Thread Merlin Zener
G'day, I've just begun reading man:wine insert glazed-eyes smiley and as far as I can see the idea is to run windoze programs within Mandrake. Never mind the fact that I can't make it start Excel yet [I'll continue looking for a while yet before asking here], I thought I'd ask for the overview

RE: [newbie] IPTABLES rules for Direct Connect ?

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
Actually Stephen is correct. Of all the iptables GUI or configurator applications Shorewall was the worst. It took me 30 mins after the first time of installing MDK9 was i able to figure out what the hell was going on with my box...not able to get out of the local box. I remember that

Re: [newbie] basic concept question

2003-03-02 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 00:28, Merlin Zener wrote: G'day, I've just begun reading man:wine insert glazed-eyes smiley and as far as I can see the idea is to run windoze programs within Mandrake. Never mind the fact that I can't make it start Excel yet [I'll continue looking for a while yet

[newbie] Upgrading GTK+

2003-03-02 Thread Richard Urwin
I was trying to install the latest sources of Glade, and found that it needed a newer version of GTK+ v2 than the mdk9.0 default install provides. This involves compiling glib, atk, pango and gtk+. I can compile and install glib, but one of the others detects that I have two copies of glib

RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
I agree with Stephen on this one as well. How often does MS change their EULA? EVERYDAY. How often does MS change the story on what they are doing? EVERY MINUTE. I cant stand MS anymore. I never have liked the company, only the software which is basic and easy to use (in most cases). To the

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled

2003-03-02 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 9:18 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Sorry to rant, but it's truly driving me further away from MS products. That's the main reason that this machine is now 100% Linux. I've paid for all my previous Windows installs, but XP was a step too far. I decided to get off the wagon and get

Re: [newbie] Epson printer warning!

2003-03-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 01 Mar 2003 11:23 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At local computer fairs I see that a lot of refilled cartridges are available for Epson printers, but some vendors say that they are 'guaranteed chipped'. I've also read recently that the EU are trying to outlaw the

RE: [newbie] basic concept question

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
I've just begun reading man:wine insert glazed-eyes smiley and as far as I can see the idea is to run windoze programs within Mandrake. Not just MDK, all any linux distro out there. Never mind the fact that I can't make it start Excel yet [I'll continue looking for a while yet before

Re: [newbie] hellooooooooooooooo?

2003-03-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 12:05 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Free to Shakespeare (Will)=:o) Wonder if they fired at him, too? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
That's the main reason that this machine is now 100% Linux. I've paid for all my previous Windows installs, but XP was a step too far. I decided to get off the wagon and get onto one going in a direction I agreed with. For those of you who dual boot, for GOD sakes, buy a $60 computer off

FW: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
Forgot to say thanks for this info Stephen. Rob I agree with Stephen on this one as well. How often does MS change their EULA? EVERYDAY. How often does MS change the story on what they are doing? EVERY MINUTE. I cant stand MS anymore. I never have liked the company, only the software

Re: FW: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled

2003-03-02 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 21:28, Robert Wideman wrote: Forgot to say thanks for this info Stephen. Rob Ay - no worries mate...BTW, I haven't paid for an M$ product since the first day that Win95 came out - and got it on CD with a few extra boot disks - BECAUSE I wanted it THEN - and the beta

Re: [newbie] DIRECT CONNECT active mode and SHOREWALL

2003-03-02 Thread Bela Markus
Tied of course. Doesn't help. Richard Urwin wrote: On Saturday 01 Mar 2003 4:55 pm, Markus Bela wrote: I tried SuSE and REDHAT, spent sleepless nights with a crapy system. br Try the home page for DC++, it's off www.sourceforge.net Just seach for DC++ Want to

[newbie] What's up with this ?

2003-03-02 Thread Dennis Sue
Whenever I post, or reply to this list, My messages appear on this list ( atleast to me). But, When sending the list messages I get a failure notice from attbi : On Sunday 02 March 2003 07:27 am, you wrote: Sorry. Your message could not be delivered to: linux-mandrake newbie,emc (The name was

Re: [newbie] DIRECT CONNECT active mode and SHOREWALL

2003-03-02 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 12:53 pm, Bela Markus wrote: Tied of course. Doesn't help.br Yes it does. The DC++ FAQ says that the active mode port can be set, within DC++, to anything you want. I should hope that you don't need to know that passive mode uses HTTP/TCP on port 80, because you must have

Re: [newbie] basic concept question

2003-03-02 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 02 March 2003 05:23 am, Robert Wideman wrote: Can you run a windoze session *in* Linux? Yes, www.vmware.com If you only need version 9x/ME support Win4Lin works great and is much cheaper than vmware, and if you are a club member, you can get a discount by purchasing it through

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled

2003-03-02 Thread Jose
Dennis Sue wrote: On Sunday 02 March 2003 05:08 am, Robert Wideman wrote: . That is why i like MDK so much is that they are a true company that is still giving their OS for free and

Re: [newbie] Epson printer warning!

2003-03-02 Thread rluchor
On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 05:20, Anne Wilson wrote: That's what I thought you meant, but now I'm confused! HP printer carts are the ones chipped here in the states and I'm not aware of any Epson carts being chipped, and I own 4 of them at the moment. Can anyone else step in here and help

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled

2003-03-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 9:18 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 20:06, Richard Urwin wrote: On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 7:19 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: What I find so shocking about the whole bit is that M$ PROMISED that they're not spying on your system I may be niaive, but how can they

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled

2003-03-02 Thread Dennis Sue
What I find so shocking about the whole bit is that M$ PROMISED that they're not spying on your system I may be niaive, but how can they offer you updates for the software you have installed, without looking to see what is one your computer? That, I wouldn't have a problem with. Provided

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled

2003-03-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 02 March 2003 09:17 am, Anne Wilson wrote: I wonder if the Chinese - whom Big Bad Bill is going to visit, fully understand the gist of security issues by signing on the dotted line... I would guess so. There are some very savvy people out there. Anne If they don't know,

Re: [newbie] Epson printer warning!

2003-03-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 02 March 2003 09:06 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're probably right about the differences in markets. My HP 930C (Hey, maybe the C stands for Chipped) is sitting in a box right now because it's too much of a hassle to deal with the cartridges. The HP carts are too expensive and

Re: [newbie] Worried

2003-03-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 02 March 2003 07:01 am, Andrew Scotchmer wrote: Now don't get me wrong I love linux and have been with Mandrake since v6.0 though I must say in my opinion v9.0 is not one of it's best, perhaps, sorry, definately a bit hasty with this release! Well Andrew, I have a question for you:

[newbie] Re: I broke my desktop

2003-03-02 Thread Marc Oestreicher
Problem solved I shut the machine off last night, started it back up this morning and everything worked great again. I guess that sometimes even Linux needs a restart -- Marc KM5KW Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled

2003-03-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 02 March 2003 10:27 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: If they don't know, tell'em to talk to the Germans - they dropped Windows because they said that Microsoft had it setup to report stuff on their military back to our military. Sorry, forgot to add the link! :-)

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!)

2003-03-02 Thread Margot
Hello All Had to step back from this problem for a while, for health reasons. Back now, and have got a bit further, but not much! Have abandoned eurobell as ISP, and gone with freeserve anytime. Have set it all up in MCC/kppp and Mozilla (thanks to John Richard Smith for freeserve screenshots),

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled

2003-03-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday March 2 2003 06:21 am, Dennis Sue wrote: I wonder if the Chinese - whom Big Bad Bill is going to visit, fully understand the gist of security issues by signing on the dotted line... I'm sure they will have a special site just to themselves. Where M$ promises not to spy on them.

Re: [newbie] xinerama program on RPMS

2003-03-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Yoel P. Krigsman wrote: Hello... I am starting to play more with the M9.0 and I am enjoying every momement of it, I am asking if anyohne can show me where i can get this xinerama RPMS so I can get it downloaded? I am not able to find it on those M9.0 cd's. Thanks! YPK

Re: [newbie] Re: I broke my desktop

2003-03-02 Thread et
On Saturday 01 March 2003 10:38 am, Marc Oestreicher wrote: Problem solved I shut the machine off last night, started it back up this morning and everything worked great again. I guess that sometimes even Linux needs a restart or at least to restart some service after configuring... that

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled

2003-03-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 3:27 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 02 March 2003 09:17 am, Anne Wilson wrote: I wonder if the Chinese - whom Big Bad Bill is going to visit, fully understand the gist of security issues by signing on the dotted line... I would guess so. There are some very

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!)

2003-03-02 Thread et
what this is is either the default gateway or the DNS is wrongly configured. On Sunday 02 March 2003 10:37 am, Margot wrote: Hello All Had to step back from this problem for a while, for health reasons. Back now, and have got a bit further, but not much! Have abandoned eurobell as ISP, and

[newbie] libsmbclient info

2003-03-02 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi, I am trying to access a windows authenticated site to retrieve some files. I have no problem when using IE but I get this error on any linux browser. HTTP 401.3 - Access denied by ACL on resource Internet Information Services I did a google search and found others with the

Re: [newbie] Worried

2003-03-02 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 3:31 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 02 March 2003 07:01 am, Andrew Scotchmer wrote: Now don't get me wrong I love linux and have been with Mandrake since v6.0 though I must say in my opinion v9.0 is not one of it's best, perhaps, sorry, definately a bit hasty

[newbie] C header files

2003-03-02 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
Hi all Much conventional question this time (sorry about the last one I really didn't mean to offend or annoy). Anyway I'm trying to install VMware 3.1 and after installation I get this message when trying to run: VMware Workstation Error: VMware Workstation is installed, but it has not been

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!)

2003-03-02 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 3:37 pm, Margot wrote: I have tried to ping, and got strange results - when I did ping www.yahoo.com I got unknown host www.yahoo.com, but when I tried ping 66.218.71.83 (the numeric version of yahoo) I got PING 66.218.71.83 (66.218.71.83) from 217.134.91.169 : 56(84)

Re: [newbie] Star Office Or OO.org can't save /wrong parameter

2003-03-02 Thread Vahur Lokk
Ühel kenal päeval (pühapäev, 2. märts 2003 06:34) kirjutas Bob Read: I've been thru the books and searched back posts but no help. I can't seem to get Star Office or OO.org installed properly! Every time I try to save a file I get a message like can't save. Program started under wrong

Re: [newbie] IPTABLES rules for Direct Connect ?

2003-03-02 Thread stormjumper
shorewall has taken a bashing on this list, with many suggesting alternatives, eg gshield, guarddog, firestarter, etc. i just wanna relate my own good experience. i was trying to configure my mdk 9.0 box to share my internet connection with a small home network consisting of 3 win9x pcs and 2

Re: [newbie] /net and /misc

2003-03-02 Thread Derek Jennings
I think there is some confusion. LinNeighborhood is nothing to do with autofs. If autofs were a dependency of LinNeighborhood, then you would be warned when you tried to 'urpme autofs'. But it isn't... So you won't.. If you want to know what dependencies a package has. Just look it up in

RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Civilme is POPULAR! Yeesh! (grin)

2003-03-02 Thread james Mellema
On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 14:17, Robert Wideman wrote: I'll agree on that point. Too bad the bastard lives in Alaska. Else I'd ask him to come on down here to Aussie for a tour...(g) Alaska? WTF is up there other than dry cold weather? Rob Asked like someone from a small state:-) Alaska is

Re: [newbie] basic concept question

2003-03-02 Thread civileme
On Friday 28 February 2003 04:28 am, Merlin Zener wrote: G'day, I've just begun reading man:wine insert glazed-eyes smiley and as far as I can see the idea is to run windoze programs within Mandrake. Never mind the fact that I can't make it start Excel yet [I'll continue looking for a while

[newbie] ECS K7S6A motherboard problem with NIC

2003-03-02 Thread Jean-Pierre Real
I spent now so much time on trying to have this board to work that I'm at the point of giving up. First a little bit of back ground, I installed mandrake 9.0 in my box: ECS K7S6A Athlon xp 1800 256 MB ram NIC 3com 905 TX and everything was working except the NIC. I emailed the newbie mailing

Re: [newbie] Worried

2003-03-02 Thread Jesse \G-Tez\ Houston
In my opinion - If you are going to say Mandrake SUX (Which it doesn't) back up your statement with clear and concise reasons then perhaps you may get an inteligent responce This is a forum for discussing problems and getting resolutions. Best of luck in the future On this note: Has anyone

Re: [newbie] ECS K7S6A motherboard problem with NIC

2003-03-02 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 02 March 2003 08:47 pm, Jean-Pierre Real wrote: I searched the mailing list to see if somebody had any similar trouble and found some problems with that board but nothing that could help me. Do I waste my time with this board and should I consider getting another one? What else

re:[newbie]ARTICLE:Windows Security Update Revealed

2003-03-02 Thread civileme
Stephen thanks for the heads-up... IN reality this is nothing new, just the continuation of a sad set of policies that no one seems to be aware of. At one pre-linux time I was going to run a web site and I had NT 4.0 Workstation and the Netscape Enterprise server. Then in the blink of a

[newbie] PortSentry2

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
as well as using PortSentry2 for further monitoring. I know this company that used to make Port Sentry is here in Austin TX. The company psionic.com. Is it bought out by cisco now? Thats all that the website has on it. Also the searches on google pull up mailing list items and directs it to

RE: [newbie] Star Office Or OO.org can't save /wrong parameter

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
First, as root: setup -net Then hit setup again as user. Also DL the latest updates from Sun for SO6. http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=patches/xprod-StarOfficenav= pub-patches Is the site to DL the updates. Roc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Samba File Permissions

2003-03-02 Thread Jesse \G-Tez\ Houston
Hi All, I have a samba server running a few shares here and there, now I have a folder that is shared to everyone on my network (requiring a username/password) This works great except for one teeny weeny little issue. Is there a way of setting the default permissions when a file is created

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!)

2003-03-02 Thread civileme
On Sunday 02 March 2003 06:37 am, Margot wrote: Hello All Had to step back from this problem for a while, for health reasons. Back now, and have got a bit further, but not much! Have abandoned eurobell as ISP, and gone with freeserve anytime. Have set it all up in MCC/kppp and Mozilla

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Civilme is POPULAR! Yeesh! (grin)

2003-03-02 Thread et
On Sunday 02 March 2003 12:24 pm, james Mellema wrote: On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 14:17, Robert Wideman wrote: I'll agree on that point. Too bad the bastard lives in Alaska. Else I'd ask him to come on down here to Aussie for a tour...(g) Alaska? WTF is up there other than dry cold weather?

Re: [newbie] Hello How can i unzip my files upgrades in TAR?

2003-03-02 Thread Yoel P. Krigsman
On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 07:50, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 23:27, Yoel P. Krigsman wrote: hello... once again, how can I unzip a file that I can upgrade my system? its already in TAR and I am not sure how I should go ahead with? Thanks! YPK You should be

RE: [newbie] Re: I broke my desktop

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
I shut the machine off last night, started it back up this morning and everything worked great again. I guess that sometimes even Linux needs a restart If you use your system everyday then DO NOT TURN OFF THE COMPUTER. Literally. I have 10 computers (4 are my roomates, and this is half

Re: [newbie] ECS K7S6A motherboard problem with NIC

2003-03-02 Thread et
On Sunday 02 March 2003 08:47 pm, Jean-Pierre Real wrote: I spent now so much time on trying to have this board to work that I'm at the point of giving up. First a little bit of back ground, I installed mandrake 9.0 in my box: ECS K7S6A Athlon xp 1800 256 MB ram NIC 3com 905 TX and

Re: [newbie] Worried

2003-03-02 Thread David E. Fox
Now before I get flamed let me explain. I run a small 500mhz Athlon with 64mg memory but for speed and effeiciency XP is by far the fastest. Hmm. On the other hand, XP is the desktop and everything else. There's no real way (to my knowledge) to boot XP with a minimal environment as there is

RE: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!)

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
When you ping by name your machine first has to convert the name to numbers. In your case that step is failing. Check your DNS server setting. Or just edit /etc/hosts. Lots quicker and is the first place that is checked for name-IP conversion. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from

RE: [newbie] IPTABLES rules for Direct Connect ?

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
shorewall has taken a bashing on this list, with many suggesting alternatives, eg gshield, guarddog, firestarter, etc. i just wanna relate my own good experience. i was trying to configure my mdk 9.0 box to share my internet connection with a small home network consisting of 3 win9x pcs

Re: [newbie] Upgrading GTK+

2003-03-02 Thread Richard Urwin
Any comments on my original query? I ask because, on my KMail at least, the thread has been hijacked by another subject... or two. Thanks, and sorry to eat bandwidth it it isn't necessary. On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 10:08 am, Richard Urwin wrote: I was trying to install the latest sources of Glade,

RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
This isn't meant as an insult ,so don't take it that way. You sound like others I have heard. Almost apologetic about the fact that some distros made a profit, or intend to. As though they have somehow soiled the O.S. movement with money. Profit is not a dirty word. It is a necessary thing

RE: [newbie] /net and /misc

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
I think there is some confusion. LinNeighborhood is nothing to do with autofs. If autofs were a dependency of LinNeighborhood, then you would be warned when you tried to 'urpme autofs'. But it isn't... So you won't.. If you want to know what dependencies a package has. Just look it up in

RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Civilme is POPULAR! Yeesh! (grin)

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
Asked like someone from a small state:-) HAHA. I live in the largest state there is (atleast in the continuous 48 states)...Texas. Alaska is too far away from anything for me. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Worried

2003-03-02 Thread et
On Sunday 02 March 2003 12:53 pm, Jesse \G-Tez\ Houston wrote: In my opinion - If you are going to say Mandrake SUX (Which it doesn't) back up your statement with clear and concise reasons then perhaps you may get an inteligent responce This is a forum for discussing problems and getting

Re: [newbie] C header files

2003-03-02 Thread David E. Fox
Argument gcc (GCC) 3 isn't numeric in numeric ge (=3D) at=20 /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl line 1476, STDIN line 1. What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your=20 running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]=20 Looks like you forgot to install the kernel-headers rpm.

RE: [newbie] ECS K7S6A motherboard problem with NIC

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
I spent now so much time on trying to have this board to work that I'm at the point of giving up. First a little bit of back ground, I installed mandrake 9.0 in my box: ECS K7S6A Athlon xp 1800 256 MB ram NIC 3com 905 TX Personally i will not buy ESC b/c they have jumpers to screw with. I

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

2003-03-02 Thread David E. Fox
physical disaster (fire, flood, massive power spike, al-Qaeda attack, Avril Lavigne video) can wipe it out along with the rest. Otherwise Your insurance carrier regards Avril Levigne videos as acts of God too ? :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] C header files

2003-03-02 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 02 March 2003 01:45 pm, David E. Fox wrote: Argument gcc (GCC) 3 isn't numeric in numeric ge (=3D) at=20 /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl line 1476, STDIN line 1. What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your=20 running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]=20

Re: [newbie] Upgrading GTK+

2003-03-02 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 2 Mar 2003 18:30:24 + Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any comments on my original query? I ask because, on my KMail at least, the thread has been hijacked by another subject... or two. The 2 are not natively compatible. If you upgrade to GTK2++ then none of your current

[newbie] First connection w/ 9.1rc1

2003-03-02 Thread Dennis Myers
Ok!, I am on the LAN and connected to the internet with a BioStar M7VIG Pro motherboard and a duron 750mhz processor. The onboard NIC works, The onboard video works, the onboard sound has no driver. It is a via chip using the ac97 codec and reports no driver available. I could not get a internet

[newbie] tar questions, ta

2003-03-02 Thread Michael Adams
1. I backed up an old system and i made the mistake of using absolute paths. I now want to extract from this tar ball into my newer system. I want to extract individual files and want to place them in an 'extraction' directory. Can i do it? How? (if i get it wrong i could write over existing

RE: [newbie] Worried

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
I haven't booted in 4 months. And this is even AFTER system/software updates. I don't think boot or load time is a fair comparison. S true. Again look at the # of times we boot in 4 months. Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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

2003-03-02 Thread David E. Fox
After all that, it wanted to make a compressed copy of my hda1 partition on= =20 hda6. Which copy, I would then have to burn to CD, manually. This is=20 Agredd - why compress it into another partition? Is your hda1 larger than a CD's capacity? I have a rather large /home (5 gb partition)

Re: [newbie] First connection w/ 9.1rc1

2003-03-02 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 02 March 2003 02:06 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Ok!, I am on the LAN and connected to the internet with a BioStar M7VIG Pro motherboard and a duron 750mhz processor. The onboard NIC works, The onboard video works, the onboard sound has no driver. It is a via chip using the ac97 codec and

RE: [newbie] Upgrading GTK+

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
Any comments on my original query? I ask because, on my KMail at least, the thread has been hijacked by another subject... or two. Thanks, and sorry to eat bandwidth it it isn't necessary. On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 10:08 am, Richard Urwin wrote: I was trying to install the latest sources of

Re: [newbie] ECS K7S6A motherboard problem with NIC

2003-03-02 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 03 March 2003 02:47 am, Jean-Pierre Real wrote: snip Do I waste my time with this board and should I consider getting another one? What else could I do to have the NIC having his own irq JP /snip If you consider another mainboard, here are some news : A week ago I bought a

Re: [newbie] tar questions, ta

2003-03-02 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 02 March 2003 02:16 pm, Michael Adams wrote: What number of 1k blocks will fit on a 1.44Mb DOS floppy? (I dont know where to read the available space. I can see usage with 'df' or in konq, but not free space.) 1440 I guess -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Re: I broke my desktop

2003-03-02 Thread Marc Oestreicher
On Sunday 02 March 2003 06:23 pm, Robert Wideman wrote: I shut the machine off last night, started it back up this morning and everything worked great again. I guess that sometimes even Linux needs a restart If you use your system everyday then DO NOT TURN OFF THE COMPUTER.

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!)

2003-03-02 Thread Margot
- Original Message - From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 6:17 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!) snipped details of problem Ummm sounds like a cookie/nameserver problem (two problems with similar

Re: [newbie] Worried

2003-03-02 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
Hi all Can I please state for the record that I am a complete Linux supporter. I have been with Mandrake since version 6 and although having left the arena, so to speak, for sometime now I still believe that linux is the best OS system around and Mandrake the best version. What my original

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

2003-03-02 Thread Andy Davidson
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 11:11:33AM -0800, David E. Fox wrote: I don't think compression in backups is such a good idea. If there are media problems a bad spot could hose most of the backup. Not really true if you're using something like afio to pack up and compress the files. The archive

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!)

2003-03-02 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 02 March 2003 01:54 pm, Margot wrote: - Original Message - From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 6:17 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!) snipped details of problem Ummm sounds like a

Re: [newbie] First connection w/ 9.1rc1

2003-03-02 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 02 March 2003 01:11 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 02 March 2003 02:06 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Ok!, I am on the LAN and connected to the internet with a BioStar M7VIG Pro motherboard and a duron 750mhz processor. The onboard NIC works, The onboard video works, the onboard sound

Re: [newbie] Worried

2003-03-02 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 02 March 2003 06:27 am, Andrew Scotchmer wrote: Hi all Can I please state for the record that I am a complete Linux supporter. I have been with Mandrake since version 6 and although having left the arena, so to speak, for sometime now I still believe that linux is the best OS

Re: [newbie] Worried

2003-03-02 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 02 March 2003 07:27 am, Andrew Scotchmer wrote: is the average end user perspective. I think your point is understood, although what gets me, is that many times, and I'm not saying you did this, when comparing the two from a Windows user or average user perspective, we forget about

Re: [newbie] tar questions, ta

2003-03-02 Thread David E. Fox
What number of 1k blocks will fit on a 1.44Mb DOS floppy? (I dont know where to read the available space. I can see usage with 'df' or in konq, but not free space.) Like another poster said, 1440 1K blocks. On the other hand, that assumes you don't put a filesystem on it, which would take up

Re: [newbie] C header files

2003-03-02 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 19:17, Andrew Scotchmer wrote: Hi all Much conventional question this time (sorry about the last one I really didn't mean to offend or annoy). Anyway I'm trying to install VMware 3.1 and after installation I get this message when trying to run: VMware

Re: [newbie] Epson printer warning!

2003-03-02 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 02:29, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Hmm, probably wrong but I always thought the C was for color... Maybe we're wrong and the C stands for CONTRAST - the black against the white, perchance? -- Mon, 3 Mar 2003 09:40:00 +1100 9:40am up 4 days, 23:43, 5 users, load average:

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Problem (long, sorry!)

2003-03-02 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 02:37, Margot wrote: Hello All Had to step back from this problem for a while, for health reasons. Back now, and have got a bit further, but not much! Have abandoned eurobell as ISP, and gone with freeserve anytime. Have set it all up in MCC/kppp and Mozilla (thanks

RE: [newbie] Unofficial February stats

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
look at the bright side Anne. At least you're not still fighting with Java and Mozy. :P She has a ways to catch up with me this month if i keep on like i am. ROFL Rob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Civilme is POPULAR! Yeesh! (grin)

2003-03-02 Thread David E. Fox
song and ditty that elaborates on how big and bad Texas is would have to be changed. singing... Oh the yellow rose of Kentucky la la la la la la hmm. Doesn't have the same ring. :( Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] no sound in 9.0

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
AMD Mainboard that uses SiS 740 chipset. It also has a built in AC97 Codec. I am not sure what other information you might need out of the book. I am very new to Mandrake Linux. There is so much I don't understand. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Brenda What motherboard do

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled

2003-03-02 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 02 March 2003 10:40 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday March 2 2003 06:21 am, Dennis Sue wrote: I wonder if the Chinese - whom Big Bad Bill is going to visit, fully understand the gist of security issues by signing on the dotted line... I'm sure they will have a special

[newbie] Change mouse pointers ?

2003-03-02 Thread Rifza Adriansyah
Hi everyone, Can I change the arrow mouse pointer with something else like in M$ Windows ?. My friend told me that it is a disadvantage of XFree. I hope I can change an arrow pointer with a fish pointer or anything else. Thanks for any help. -- Can Linux defeat Windows in desktop ?. Want to

RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Windows Update security unveiled

2003-03-02 Thread Robert Wideman
Tom: You bring up a good point. The only valid conclusion is that either they are perjurers and monopolists, or traitors and monopolists. Don't hold your breath waiting for John Ashcroft to announce that anyone has been indicted, though. I would say they are Traitors and Monopolists.

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Civilme is POPULAR! Yeesh! (grin)

2003-03-02 Thread civileme
On Sunday 02 March 2003 09:39 am, Robert Wideman wrote: Asked like someone from a small state:-) HAHA. I live in the largest state there is (atleast in the continuous 48 states)...Texas. Alaska is too far away from anything for me. Rob Hush, rob, or we'll cut Alaska in two and make Texas

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