Re: [newbie-it] configurare un modem adsl

2003-04-04 Thread Andrea Celli
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 14:25:47 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ho bisogno di un consiglio di questo genere: sono con Alice da qualche giorno, ma non riesco a configurare il modem, che ? un IPM Datacom usb, in Mandrake 9.1. Allora vorrei chiedere alla Telecom di cambiare questo modem e di farmi

Re: [newbie-it] Ricezione posta

2003-04-04 Thread Lux
Eraser Head wrote: Ciao a tutti! Ho un problema nella ricezione della posta tramite fetchmail: talvolta capita che fetchmail blocchi la ricezione di alcune mail, dandomi errori di questo tipo: fetchmail: SMTP 553 5.1.8 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Domain of sender address [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not

Re: [newbie-it] configurare un modem adsl - update

2003-04-04 Thread ghibli
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 14:25:47 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ho bisogno di un consiglio di questo genere: sono con Alice da qualche giorno, ma non riesco a configurare il modem stesso problema,ma al momento non posso cambiare usb...inoltre i driver del modem errati mi hanno costretto a

Re: [newbie-it] configurare un modem adsl - update

2003-04-04 Thread Andrea Celli
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 14:10:45 +0200 (CEST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Come faccio a riconfigurare LILO (linux e win sono su due HD diversi)? tnx a chi riesce a risolvere l'arcano §.-(( Hai reinstallato win che ti ha tolto lilo da MBR? Riparti col CD di installazione di Mandrake, alla prima

[newbie-it] Mouse seriale e mdk 9.1

2003-04-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Salve a tutti, sono una nuova utente della Mandrake 9.1 che ho installato su un AMD K6 500 mHz, sch v. Vodoo 3000, sch audio S3 Allegro,hd quantum 10 GB partizionato (1a part. win98 SE)privo d'interfacce usb e ps/2, solo con porte seriali. In fase d'installazione di mdk il mouse funziona

Re: [newbie-it] configurare un modem adsl - update

2003-04-04 Thread ghibli
Come faccio a riconfigurare LILO (linux e win sono su due HD diversi)? tnx a chi riesce a risolvere l'arcano §.-(( Hai reinstallato win che ti ha tolto lilo da MBR? qui il problemadevo cambiare molto probabilmente da 98 a 2000 e non so se questo da problemi.la partizione è unica,ma non

[newbie-it] tar zippati su floppy

2003-04-04 Thread Fabio Manunza
Zip di winz permette la creazione su floppy, in caso di un unico file particolarmente corposo, di un .zip che va a splittarsi su vari dischetti, fino all'esaurimento del file. Sicuro che esistesse un comando del genere anche per tar, sono subito andato a controllare il manuale; sembra però che

Re: [newbie-it] configurare un modem adsl - update

2003-04-04 Thread beo
Il Fri, 4 Apr 2003 14:55:02 +0200 (CEST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ebbe a dire: Come faccio a riconfigurare LILO (linux e win sono su due HD diversi)? tnx a chi riesce a risolvere l'arcano §.-(( Hai reinstallato win che ti ha tolto lilo da MBR? qui il problemadevo cambiare molto

Re: [newbie-it] Mouse seriale e mdk 9.1

2003-04-04 Thread Daniele Micci
Alle 15:35, venerdì 4 aprile 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: [CUT] Qualcuno potrebbe aiutarmi? Grazie e scusate per la lunghezza Anna Ciao Anna, se si tratta solo di un problema di velocità di movimento del mouse, prova a riconfigurarlo da: MENU' K - CONFIGURAZIONE - KDE - PERIFERICHE -

Re: [newbie-it] Mouse seriale e mdk 9.1

2003-04-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
se si tratta solo di un problema di velocità di movimento del mouse, prova a riconfigurarlo da: MENU' K - CONFIGURAZIONE - KDE - PERIFERICHE - MOUSE Ciao Daniele e grazie per avermi risposto. Avevo già provato a riconfigurarlo così come tu hai descritto, ma niente da fare, purtroppo. Il cursore

Re: [newbie-it] Mouse seriale e mdk 9.1

2003-04-04 Thread Daniele Micci
Alle 15:35, venerdì 4 aprile 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: [CUT] Qualcuno potrebbe aiutarmi? Grazie e scusate per la lunghezza Anna Ciao Anna, se si tratta solo di un problema di velocità di movimento del mouse, prova a riconfigurarlo da: MENU' K - CONFIGURAZIONE - KDE - PERIFERICHE -

Re: [newbie-it] Mouse seriale e mdk 9.1

2003-04-04 Thread Fabio Manunza
Alle 20:32, venerdì 4 aprile 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: se si tratta solo di un problema di velocità di movimento del mouse, prova a riconfigurarlo da: MENU' K - CONFIGURAZIONE - KDE - PERIFERICHE - MOUSE Ciao Daniele e grazie per avermi risposto. Avevo già provato a

[newbie] 9.1 upgrade, eth0 FAILED at boot

2003-04-04 Thread Guy Rouillier
Upgraded 9.0 to 9.1, now every time I boot it says eth0 FAILED. Oddly, I still have a live Ethernet connection. Half the time, from looking at the LEDs on my Linksys DSL/Router, it appears that the adapter is coming up in half-duplex. I didn't have this problem in 9.0, though I do have it

Re: [newbie] Advanced Chipset Features/bios settings

2003-04-04 Thread John Richard Smith
Thanks Ryan , I wondered whether 4QW and 8QW might be something to do with memory.But, Ryan Moe wrote: If you have SDRAM don't worry about it. I have 512BM of DDR Ram. It doesn't make a difference. However if you have DDR then setting the burst rate to 4qw instead of 8qw will make your

Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning

2003-04-04 Thread John Richard Smith
Guy Rouillier wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Well I have plenty of ntfs partitions after the linux partitions and neither W98 nor W2K have any trouble recognising them. Maybe you cannot have a windblows OS after a linux partition, never tried that one but I would expect it to work. John

Fluxbox bbpager WAS [newbie] Fluxbox and background under 9.1

2003-04-04 Thread Derek Jennings
Good. Like Todd I find the gap between fluxbox and KDE has narrowed with Mandrake 9.1. KDE is faster and fluxbox seems a little slower. But KDE is still not fast enough to make it comfortable to use on my low end laptop. While we are on the subject of fluxbox, I have an RPM of bbpager on my

[newbie] depmod woes

2003-04-04 Thread robin.bcc
Can anyone tell me what I should do about this? [EMAIL PROTECTED] nalan]# depmod depmod: /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/drivers/bluetooth/hci_vhci.o.gz: Bad symbol index: 0176 = 003f depmod: /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/drivers/bluetooth/hci_vhci.o.gz: Bad symbol index:

Re: [newbie] xine dvd troubles

2003-04-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 11:15 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Thursday 03 April 2003 23:44, Brian Craft wrote: I'm running Mandrake 9.1 and just loaded all the rpm's for xine from the 3rd cd and then downloaded libdvdcss-1.2.6-2.network.i386.rpm from the link below. I've watched about 4 DVD's

Re: [newbie] Burning a bootable cd

2003-04-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Many thanks Anne, John and Pete. I'm pretty sure I tried burning straight to disk (and at speeds as low as 1x) without success. However, I'll have to check it out properly and.pick up this thread in a couple of months when I'm in front of the PC again. John, could you say more about the MB sum

Re: [newbie] Wanted: Clever email setup

2003-04-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 04 Apr 2003 8:35 am, RichardA wrote: I went off list a couple of months ago to move house. Didn't want to rejoin until I had my email set up just right, but I'm struggling. Here's some background: I want my server to pick up mail and dump it in /maildir format, because it's more

Re: [newbie] Deleted mail does not go to trash in kmail

2003-04-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 04 Apr 2003 12:41 am, Dennis Myers wrote: On Wednesday 02 April 2003 11:23 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 1:41 am, Dennis Myers wrote: On Wednesday 02 April 2003 12:58 pm, Poogle wrote: On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 H:57 am, Dennis Myers wrote: as the subject

Re: [newbie] xine dvd troubles

2003-04-04 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 04 April 2003 10:51, Anne Wilson wrote: HarM - just an off-chance. When I had a similar problem under 9.0 it was because I had a plugin directory in the path, but not the subdirectory of it which contained other plugins. Don't know if it will help you, but it's worth checking.

[newbie] How to use wine?

2003-04-04 Thread ZeroFighter1969
Hi, I would like to use wine to run MS word on MDK linux for my job. Can it be possible? If so, after installing wine, how sould I install MS word please? Regards, Kishi __ Try AOL and get 1045 hours FREE for 45 days!

Re: [newbie] How to use wine?

2003-04-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 04 Apr 2003 11:10 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like to use wine to run MS word on MDK linux for my job. Can it be possible? If so, after installing wine, how sould I install MS word please? Regards, Kishi

Re: [newbie] How to use wine?

2003-04-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 04 Apr 2003 11:10 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like to use wine to run MS word on MDK linux for my job. Can it be possible? If so, after installing wine, how sould I install MS word please? Regards, Kishi

Re: [newbie] xine dvd troubles

2003-04-04 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 04 April 2003 11:02 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: replying my own posts: Xine works fine, DVD player doesn't.just doesn't seem to want to read DVD's any more:o( Get plenty of errors there: Apr 3 20:54:54 triade1 kernel: hdb: packet command error: error=0x54 Apr 3 20:54:54 triade1

Re: [newbie] 9.1 upgrade, eth0 FAILED at boot

2003-04-04 Thread stormjumper
hi Guy, can you try this an see if it works? from console, run dhcpcd as root # dhcpcd if it does, it's probably due the new hotplug option in 9.1 you can turn it off by running mandrake control center - Network and Internet - Drakconnect run the wizard, select expert mode, and in one of

[newbie] Courier-imap

2003-04-04 Thread Mark Annandale
Hi Guys Am I being dim as usual, or is Courier-imap not included with 9.1 ? If not, does anyone know where there's a handy rpm for it. I've done a google for the package and can only find a.bz2 package. regards Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Courier-imap

2003-04-04 Thread stormjumper
hi Mark, courier-imap wasn't included with mandrake 8.2 and 9.0, dunno about before that, but some kind soul always makes mandrake specific rpms, you can find it in the contribs directory of most mandrake FTP mirrors or at rpmfind.net ps. remember to vote for it during voting season for the

[newbie] Closed in my own Box! (it was= Clever email setup)

2003-04-04 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
On Friday 04 April 2003 05:58, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 04 Apr 2003 8:35 am, RichardA wrote: Hi, Derek! I need your help! I can't email to the list! It doesn't accept me no more... this is why I am requesting your help! I' ve read your paper and that solved my future need, BUT for

[newbie] Hard disk repartitioning-II

2003-04-04 Thread Arthur Kng
Hey all, First up, thank you everyone for your prompt help. you've really made it easier for me. reading all your posts i've come up with a plan which goes like this: ( just to remind you, i have a 20GB disk, C drive:5GB having WinME(FAT32), D drive: 15GB having all my data(FAT32), 128MB

Re: [newbie] drakfloppy bug?

2003-04-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday April 3 2003 03:33 pm, cF wrote: No one seems to have noticed my post so i'll give it another try. More likely nobody had a similar experience, and/or had the problem ;) Hey. Don't get annoyed, it's me again. As told earlier, i downloaded and installed VmWare (The Win32

gpart Re: Diagnostic and recovery Re: [newbie] file system of unmounted partition

2003-04-04 Thread Anguo
Hmmm... gpart sounds promissing... I'll definitively have a look at it. Thanks a lot HarM. Blessings, Anguo On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 12:49 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: I just stumbled across a tool that might be of some help, it's called gpart. I messed up my mbr partition table (please don't

Re: [newbie] Why do you choose Linux ?

2003-04-04 Thread Marc Koenders
Damian Gatabria wrote: On Thursday 03 April 2003 18:36, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 06:12, Lanman wrote: It would suck-start a Harley, from 2 miles away, on a windy day, in snow this deep! Are we done now?? Can we kill this thread and get back to the other cool stuff? Lanman Uh -

Re: [newbie] mdkkdm and kdm not working

2003-04-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday April 3 2003 09:18 pm, Frank Cote wrote: On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 22:23, cF wrote: Do you realize how geeky this sound to a non-initiated linux user like me? Whoa. Sorry, I wasn't sure if I should email the newbie or experts list, so I figured I'd try the newbie list first see if

Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning-II

2003-04-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 04 Apr 2003 3:45 pm, Arthur Kng wrote: Hey all, First up, thank you everyone for your prompt help. you've really made it easier for me. reading all your posts i've come up with a plan which goes like this: ( just to remind you, i have a 20GB disk, C drive:5GB having

Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning-II

2003-04-04 Thread Netsonic
- Original Message - From: Arthur Kng [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 3:45 PM Subject: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning-II Hey all, First up, thank you everyone for your prompt help. you've really made it easier for me. reading all your

Re: [newbie] Printer not working in openoffice

2003-04-04 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 04:46, Dan Johnson wrote: Hi all I can't find the info I need to get my HP Deskjet 932C printer working in Openoffice 1.0 in MD 9.1 any help would be appreciated but please be very specific for I am a newbie of all newbies in linux. TIA Does the printer work for any

Re: [newbie] Printer not working in openoffice

2003-04-04 Thread robin.bcc
Dan Johnson wrote: Hi all I can't find the info I need to get my HP Deskjet 932C printer working in Openoffice 1.0 in MD 9.1 any help would be appreciated but please be very specific for I am a newbie of all newbies in linux. TIA I've also had problems, though not as bad. I've found it will

Re: [newbie] Closed in my own Box! (it was= Clever email setup)

2003-04-04 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
On Friday 04 April 2003 11:15, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: I really believe on Murphy! It's been more than a week the list (both newbie and expert!) were rejecting my posts!!! (because the problem mentioned below!) When I Cry out for help IT WORKS!! Is that the huntch? Still

[newbie] Kmail can't send to mailing list

2003-04-04 Thread Vinh N. Pham
Hi, For some reason, Kmail can't be used to send to this mailing list. I use the same email address here but every time I send, it return. I can send email to any individuals but not to mailing list. If you receive this message, it is sent from Evolution. I have used evolution for a

Re: [newbie] Burning a bootable cd - SOLVED

2003-04-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 04 Apr 2003 7:08 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 8:54 pm, Peter Watson wrote: On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 18:59, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 6:47 pm, Miark wrote: Anne In XCDRoast 1) you first set up a directory, in 'Settings''HD Settings'

Re: [newbie] Test message

2003-04-04 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 05:20, Vinh N. Pham wrote: Sorry this is a test message Sorry, the email didn't work; you'll have to try again! (g) -- Sat Apr 5 06:00:01 EST 2003 06:00:01 up 14 days, 17:47, 3 users, load average: 0.78, 0.57, 0.47

[newbie] NEW FILE: Knetmon-Applet

2003-04-04 Thread Stephen Kuhn
The gentleman who so kindly wrote this program has created and RPM that works with Mandrake 9.1 (and the rc's) - it's a great applet for monitoring your network throughput (ppp and ethernet); check it out! http://perso.club-internet.fr/hftom/knetmonapplet/ -- Sat Apr 5 07:05:00 EST 2003

Re: [newbie] Printer not working in openoffice

2003-04-04 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 05 April 2003 04:51 am, robin.bcc wrote: Dan Johnson wrote: Hi all I can't find the info I need to get my HP Deskjet 932C printer working in Openoffice 1.0 in MD 9.1 any help would be appreciated but please be very specific for I am a newbie of all newbies in linux. TIA I've

Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning

2003-04-04 Thread Richard Urwin
On Friday 04 Apr 2003 8:35 am, stormjumper wrote: sorry, somewhat off topic, but how did you get your win98 to see the ntfs partitions? www.sysinternals.com have NTFS drivers for Win9x and even DOS. It'll cost $299 for read/write, but read only is free. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning-II

2003-04-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 04 Apr 2003 8:08 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 00:47, Arthur Kng wrote: Hey all, First up, thank you everyone for your prompt help. you've really made it easier for me. reading all your posts i've come up with a plan which goes like this: ( just to

[newbie] Instructions Installing Linux Kernel

2003-04-04 Thread Computa User
Hi. I want to install the linux Kernel on my computer so I can experiment with it. I already have Mandrake 9.1 and I got the source code for the Kernel. I also got instructions from someone who told me if I follow their instructions I'd be able to install it perfectly. The thing is, when I log

Re: [newbie] Instructions Installing Linux Kernel

2003-04-04 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 08:06, Computa User wrote: Hi. Can anybody point me to another set of instructions that will tell me how to *correctly* add the Source Code version of the Kernel on my computer? Thanks. Raja If you've already installed MDK 9.1 on your system, it's only a matter of

Re: [newbie] Wanted: Clever email setup

2003-04-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 04 Apr 2003 6:07 pm, RichardA wrote: On Friday 04 Apr 2003 9:58 am, Derek Jennings wrote: I have a paper on Postfix/Fetchmail/Procmail/Courier-IMAP that covers what you are trying to do. http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/mailserver_config.html derek On installing Courier

[newbie] Kernal Panic

2003-04-04 Thread Chris
Came home from work to a real problem. System was locked up in a reboot and there was something about a CRC Error. I hit reset and got this: CPU 0 Machine check exception 0004 then Bank 2: f600217a at 0ec6c080. I also noticed that the bios reported the cpu temp as

Re: [newbie] Wanted: Clever email setup

2003-04-04 Thread RichardA
On Friday 04 Apr 2003 11:16 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: This is Mandrake 9.0 you are using here is it? I had no trouble at all with that RPM on 9.0 derek Oops. I misread your page. However, if I uninstall 1.5.1-1 and install 1.4.2-1 to go with mdk 8.2, I get this: Preparing...

[newbie] 9.1 - few laptop questions

2003-04-04 Thread Scott St. John
Hi Gang- I can't get over how solid Mandrake 9.1 is and I have been using it since 6.5 - not since the 7 series have I been this excited about it and can't wait for my Power Pack to arrive. I have a few questions - I am running 9.1 on a Sony Vaio GRX 560 Laptop with ACPI. I have sound, but

[newbie] Minimal Installations

2003-04-04 Thread Simon Roodt
Hi All Can anyone help me with doing a minimal linux installation. I have the 3CDs for the Mandrake Linux 8.2 distro. The Mandrake site and documentation state ..."New installation features include ... a "minimal install" mode to fit a Mandrake system into 65 MB of your hard-disk.". I

[newbie] Fwd: Kernal Panic

2003-04-04 Thread Chris
Sorry if this comes in twice, but I'm not sure if the first post made it out before a kernal panic set in. Anyone have any ideas. As an addition I've since raised the case even with a window, removed the side panel, ran memtest, reseated the memory, reseated the connections on the drives. I

Re: [newbie] Monitor Switching on/off

2003-04-04 Thread Miark
Is this at runlevel 3, 5, or both? Miark On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 21:43:46 -0600 Osiris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings Just installed 9.0 and it seems my monitor wants to click on/off every 3 seconds or so. I assume this is a driver issue, but I can not find any updates. I am using

Re: [newbie] My USB modem on 9.1

2003-04-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 04 Apr 2003 11:00 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: I tried to install the drivers for my external USB modem, and the Mandrake 9.1 installer reports they are the wrong signature. Does that mean I am doomed and the drivers are no good for me? Is there any way to get around this?. I installed

Re: [newbie] My USB modem on 9.1

2003-04-04 Thread Teilhard Knight
On Friday 04 April 2003 16:28, Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 04 Apr 2003 11:00 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: I tried to install the drivers for my external USB modem, and the Mandrake 9.1 installer reports they are the wrong signature. Does that mean I am doomed and the drivers are no good

Re: [newbie] slowing down burner to prevent overheating

2003-04-04 Thread Netsonic
- Original Message - From: joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mandrake newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 3:25 AM Subject: [newbie] slowing down burner to prevent overheating I have a LiteON 40x12x48 which seems to be crashing my comp after watching a movie for half an

Re: Fluxbox fbdesk WAS bbpager WAS [newbie] Fluxbox andbackground under 9.1

2003-04-04 Thread Terry Smith
Todd, I'm running ROX 1.3.3 (from Mandrake) seems about the same, performance wise but, if I recall you were running a somewhat older version of Rox a few months ago. Do you have 'thumbnails' turned off? Derek, I'll take a look at bbpager..sound good. Derek, Todd et al. Meanwhile, I grabbed

[newbie] slowing down burner to prevent overheating

2003-04-04 Thread joe
I have a LiteON 40x12x48 which seems to be crashing my comp after watching a movie for half an hour or so. Pretty sure this is a heat problem as it gets almost too hot to touch. Anyone know how to slow it down to a reasonable rate, or who could point me in the right direction for finding this

Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning-II

2003-04-04 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 00:47, Arthur Kng wrote: Hey all, First up, thank you everyone for your prompt help. you've really made it easier for me. reading all your posts i've come up with a plan which goes like this: ( just to remind you, i have a 20GB disk, C drive:5GB having

Re: [newbie] is this the last mandrake?

2003-04-04 Thread David E. Fox
I agree W2K is the best windblows distro, my friends who have XP rate it poorly, Waitjusadamnminute... :( calling w2k or anything windows a distro is going way too far. it's a homogeneous OS with *very* little in the way of additional software. it's like calling a 2 sided 45 rpm record an

Re: [newbie] Re: Wine or VM

2003-04-04 Thread Seedkum Aladeem
On Thursday 03 April 2003 07:53 am, Lucio_Costa wrote: Depends what U wanbt to run... Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. Think of Wine as a Windows compatibility layer. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely alternative

Re: [newbie] Anyone tried this? (intruder retaliation)

2003-04-04 Thread David E. Fox
There was an excellent one a few years back, with Linus ranting about the poor standards of personal hygiene of various Open Source luminaries. Dunno about that one but I've seen a few possible examples -- for instance lots of people at our LUG look like 70's hippies :). And I've met Richard

Re: [newbie] Where is KDE Edu?

2003-04-04 Thread David E. Fox
Where is KDE educational package in Mandrake 9.1? I have all 3 CDs but can't find it anywhere. Look for kdeedu-3.1-5mdk. And fwiw kstars still hogs the whole X session, dunno why. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] My USB modem on 9.1

2003-04-04 Thread Teilhard Knight
I tried to install the drivers for my external USB modem, and the Mandrake 9.1 installer reports they are the wrong signature. Does that mean I am doomed and the drivers are no good for me? Is there any way to get around this?. I installed anyway, and the modem doesn't work. Teilhard Knight

[newbie] Hard disk repartitioning-II

2003-04-04 Thread Arthur Kng
Hey all, First up, thank you everyone for your prompt help. you've really made it easier for me. reading all your posts i've come up with a plan which goes like this: ( just to remind you, i have a 20GB disk, C drive:5GB having WinME(FAT32), D drive: 15GB having all my data(FAT32), 128MB

[newbie] hey what happened to my icons

2003-04-04 Thread David E. Fox
here i am doing a bunch of stuff naturally and not sure what i did, but suddenly all my icons in kde 3.1 are gone. For a while just one icon was showing, now not even that - all there is is the background and my bottom pane bar. Eveerything else is running fine. Seems that a process of kde died

Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning

2003-04-04 Thread stormjumper
thanks. i'll look into it. to be honest, i was just curious as a seem to recall my win98 not being able to see the ntfs partitions on the same drive used by win2k. - Original Message - From: Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 06:17 Subject:

[newbie] KDE problems

2003-04-04 Thread Kristjan
Hi after upgrade to 9.1 I have two problems when I start KDE First error comes immediately after startup Kinit could not launch usr/bin/autostart truth is that there is no such file. Clicking on 'Removable Media' or 'Trash' it runs Cervisia and starts claiming that it is not a CVS catalog. I

Re: Fluxbox fbdesk WAS bbpager WAS [newbie] Fluxbox and backgroundunder 9.1

2003-04-04 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, 04 Apr 2003 22:15:12 -0500 Terry Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Todd, I'm running ROX 1.3.3 (from Mandrake) seems about the same, performance wise but, if I recall you were running a somewhat older version of Rox a few months ago. Do you have 'thumbnails' turned off? Yup, but it's

Re: [newbie] Re: Moving directories

2003-04-04 Thread David E. Fox
as the suggestted # tar -cvf - * | ( cd /mnt; tar -xpf - ) cp -a /home /mnt/home Not exactly. cp -a may do the job, but permissions need to be enforced. That's the job of the 'p' (preserve permissions) flag. Without that all the files may not have the right permissions and ownerships, and

Re: [newbie] Why do you choose Linux ?

2003-04-04 Thread Scott St. John
On Friday 04 April 2003 08:54 am, J. Kelley Jernigan wrote: It isn't about money for me. So for my foray in Linux has cost me more than WinXP would have. I've gone to Linux because I don't like the new M$ licensing scheme or the direction M$ is going. I also tend to monkey with the hardware

Re: [newbie] Wanted: Clever email setup

2003-04-04 Thread Paul
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 08:35:02 +0100, RichardA wrote: I want my server to pick up mail and dump it in /maildir format, because it's more reliable. Then I want to read it from either of two client PCs. Simple, yes? I got as far as setting up fetchmail and postfix, but courier-imap beat me. Have a

Re: [newbie] hey what happened to my icons

2003-04-04 Thread David E. Fox
Seems that a process of kde died unexpectedly, the question is which? Addendum: I ended up restarting KDE and all my icons are back. However there are seemingly a number of stuck kdeinit processes that I am finding difficult to get rid of. I tried manually killing some of them, even killall

[newbie] getting rid of ethernet card ?

2003-04-04 Thread Ancient Computers
I have a problem. I once had an ethernet card, recognised as a tulip device. (What is this tulip btw?). I then replaced it for another one, and the problem is that the OS still looks for the old one at startup (upgrading from 9.0 to 9.1 did not fix it). Also I get no internet connection, but

Re: [newbie] Burning a bootable cd

2003-04-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 8:54 pm, Peter Watson wrote: On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 18:59, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 6:47 pm, Miark wrote: Anne In XCDRoast 1) you first set up a directory, in 'Settings''HD Settings' which will contain your ISO image 2)click 'create CD',

RE: [newbie] Follow Up Mandrake9.1 and ADSL

2003-04-04 Thread Tony Branch
Thank you for responding my question concerning establishing an ADSL connection withMdk9.1. The suggestion of using the command adsl-setup worked. I was curious however why DrakConnect would not setup my DSL correctly and discovered that using DrakeConnect to setup ADSL inserts addition

Re: [newbie] depmod woes

2003-04-04 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 01:55, robin.bcc wrote: Can anyone tell me what I should do about this? [EMAIL PROTECTED] nalan]# depmod depmod: /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/drivers/bluetooth/hci_vhci.o.gz: Bad symbol index: 0176 = 003f Sir Robin, Have you installed the

Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning

2003-04-04 Thread Guy Rouillier
stormjumper wrote: thanks. i'll look into it. to be honest, i was just curious as a seem to recall my win98 not being able to see the ntfs partitions on the same drive used by win2k. Natively, it can't see NTFS partitions on any drive - Win9x only knows about FAT and FAT32. Want to buy your