Re: [newbie-it] [OT?] Screen shot

2003-05-27 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 00:09, martedì 27 maggio 2003, in merito a [newbie-it] [OT?] Screen shot, Eraser Head ha scritto: Ciao a tutti. Ho fatto un programma di grafica utilizzando la libreria OpenGL. Ora vorrei sapere se è possibile effettuare uno screen shot

Re: [newbie-it] [Lunghetto]Era schermo centrato ora : Perch X non riesce a partire con i settaggi che gli d?

2003-05-27 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 15:49, marted 27 maggio 2003, in merito a Re: [newbie-it] non ci vedo nessun'errore... Eppure con 2 pinco.pallo scrivo nel file pinco.pallo i log di errore! e allora mandaci pinco.pallo non XFree86.0.log ;)) Ecco il file XFconfig-4

Re: [newbie-it] uno scherzo da mutt

2003-05-27 Thread Arwan
Alle Tuesday 27 May 2003 01:04, a proposito di Re: [newbie-it] uno scherzo da mutt (e chissa' a cosa pensava veramente), Giuseppe Ferruzzi ha scritto: Rispondimi però che non mi rispondi mai ;) Vorrei sapere quello che fai. Davvero? Ho risposto solo a syd? Naaa... cmq anche le tue info sono

[newbie-it] modem lucent

2003-05-27 Thread Ginxi
non riesco a configurare il modem. chi mi da una dritta sono un vero novice conosco windows c' in linux un sistema simile.??

Re: [newbie-it] modem lucent

2003-05-27 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 23:03, marted 27 maggio 2003, in merito a [newbie-it] modem lucent, Ginxi ha scritto: non riesco a configurare il modem. chi mi da una dritta sono un vero novice conosco windows c' in linux un sistema simile.?? vai sul sito

R: [newbie-it] Modem USB 56K

2003-05-27 Thread Giaipur
At 00.10 21/05/2003 +0200, you wrote: In fine la ricerca sul sito della casa produttrice dei driver. Prima ho scaricato dei pacchetti rpm x mandrake Che hanno miseramente fallito Potresti darmi l'indirizzo? Io credo che il mio modem li mangerebbe... ^_^ ma non li trovo Grazie

Re: [newbie-it] uno scherzo da mutt

2003-05-27 Thread Giuseppe Ferruzzi
* Arwan wrote: cut ho fatto un casino boia e devo: cut trovare il tempo di rimettere tutto a posto cut e rimettermi a sperimentare :-) Ok ti capisco il tempo è tiranno e poi ogni tanto occorre una pausa per riordinare le idee. Quando avrai sistemato, se vuoi, facci sapere a che punto sei con

Re: [newbie-it] Radeon 7500 + monitor LG 520 Si

2003-05-27 Thread Dan
Interessante Partendo dal fatto che non possiedo un monitor LCD, mi viene da pensare che il programma di configurazione veda solamente l'uscita LCD della mia scheda e non quella CRT, alla quale è collegto il monitor, oppure faccia confusione tra le due, a questo punto (credo) a causa di un

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Sharing / SSH / FTP / Shorewall Probelms.

2003-05-27 Thread insane
Hiya, Thanks for the help on the previous supject, but my problems are still not solved :/ I changed to Drake 9.1 because it had a newer Kernal, and I as hoping that some of the conection sharing glitches where solved, but alas they are not. Derek, Yr Idea seemed the best, and I am presuming

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Sharing / SSH / FTP / Shorewall Probelms.

2003-05-27 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 4:48 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hiya, Thanks for the help on the previous supject, but my problems are still not solved :/ I changed to Drake 9.1 because it had a newer Kernal, and I as hoping that some of the conection sharing glitches where solved, but alas they

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Sharing / SSH / FTP / Shorewall Probelms.

2003-05-27 Thread insane
Derek you are a absolute lifesaver ;) - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 5:20 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Sharing / SSH / FTP / Shorewall Probelms. On Tuesday 27 May 2003 4:48 pm, [EMAIL

[newbie] How2 use enhanced CDs?

2003-05-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Thats the subject alrightI've got a CD from tATu (All The Things She Said) thats supposed to have the music video, format unknown, on track 12 of the CD. I can use Konq to see that track 12 is there, but you can't drag it like a WAV. I also tried to play it straight from the CD using

Re: [newbie] Re: Pekwm (Wohoo!)

2003-05-27 Thread eric huff
Grabbed the CVS and had it compiled and up in like 2 minutes, LOL, this is sharp coding if you ask me... Yeah. I'll second that! Got any keychains set up yet? I did just a little. There is an error in the send to desktop #'s that i fixxed (they were all set to F1 instead of F1, F2, F3, etc)

[newbie] [OT sorta] Does this explain the SCO/MS stress levels?

2003-05-27 Thread Charlie
Just curious. Does anyone think the fact that IBM has done more than one billion (1,000,000,000,) dollars in sales in the past year have anything to do with the SCO lawsuit; and Microsoft's apparent backing of it? http://www.it-analysis.com/article.php?articleid=10874 Just thought it an

[newbie] gFTP

2003-05-27 Thread RichardA
On Tue, 27 May 2003 15:26:18 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: g I meant I haven't tried uploading to that site. I use gFtp myself, and it's easy. Let us know how you go on. Anne Anne, quick gFTP question: I put my user name and password in the fields at the top, pressed the

Re: [newbie] Booting mdk/w98/dos

2003-05-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:25:51AM +0100, John Richard Smith wrote: ajx wrote: Graham Banks wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Anybody got a boot setup allowing different combinations of disks/partitions to be accessible in windows linux? I've got two hard disks, the

Re: [newbie] cd-burning on 9.1

2003-05-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday May 27 2003 06:45 am, Technoslick wrote: Just my experience, but the normalize app I cited won't change quality in any way except for the better... and to equalize volume levels. The more the merrier. I often run 'normlize -m *' on a hundred or so wavs at a time. Then divy

Re: Re: [newbie] OT, Is Windows a Virus?

2003-05-27 Thread Jim Dawson
Well, The Fizzer virus consists of over 200K of convoluted speghetti code and had a built-in web server embedded into it. This my not help with the 'Is Windows a virus' discussion, but the viruses apparently are beginning to appear more like Windows ;-) -Original Message- From: Ian

Re: [newbie] cd-burning on 9.1

2003-05-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday May 27 2003 06:45 am, Technoslick wrote: We'd probly havt'a meet at a race track. Due to health that's gettin harder'n harder for me to do over the years. BUT, I swear I'll be at Talladega, Alabama again in Oct for the 500. Earnhardt fan I am an all. We go thru beer by the

Re: [newbie] gFTP

2003-05-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 6:32 pm, RichardA wrote: On Tue, 27 May 2003 15:26:18 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: g I meant I haven't tried uploading to that site. I use gFtp myself, and it's easy. Let us know how you go on. Anne Anne, quick gFTP question: I put my user name

Re: [newbie] Mozilla Mail

2003-05-27 Thread g
Anne Wilson wrote: Thanks for the offer, g. no problem. after sending last post to this thread, i check my thinking of what is needed to manually import win ns 7 files into mozilla 1.1, and it worked. took about 20 minutes to set up. if you have need, let me know and i will pass along

Re: [newbie] How2 use enhanced CDs?

2003-05-27 Thread John Richard Smith
Ronald J. Hall wrote: Thats the subject alrightI've got a CD from tATu (All The Things She Said) thats supposed to have the music video, format unknown, on track 12 of the CD. I can use Konq to see that track 12 is there, but you can't drag it like a WAV. I also tried to play it straight

Re: [newbie] Booting mdk/w98/dos

2003-05-27 Thread John Richard Smith
Hendrik Boom wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:25:51AM +0100, John Richard Smith wrote: ajx wrote: Graham Banks wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Anybody got a boot setup allowing different combinations of disks/partitions to be accessible in windows linux? I've

Re: [newbie] Mozilla Mail

2003-05-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 5:30 am, g wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Thanks for the offer, g. no problem. after sending last post to this thread, i check my thinking of what is needed to manually import win ns 7 files into mozilla 1.1, and it worked. took about 20 minutes to set up. if you have

Re: [newbie] [OT sorta] Does this explain the SCO/MS stress levels?

2003-05-27 Thread John Richard Smith
Charlie wrote: Just curious. Does anyone think the fact that IBM has done more than one billion (1,000,000,000,) dollars in sales in the past year have anything to do with the SCO lawsuit; and Microsoft's apparent backing of it? http://www.it-analysis.com/article.php?articleid=10874 Just

Re: [newbie] gFTP

2003-05-27 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 08:09 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 6:32 pm, RichardA wrote: On Tue, 27 May 2003 15:26:18 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: g I meant I haven't tried uploading to that site. I use gFtp myself, and it's easy. Let us know how you go

Re: [newbie] Re: Sylpheed-0.9.0claws.tar.gz - anybody having anyluck?

2003-05-27 Thread Kristjan
It may be that the cooker rpms for 0.9.0claws will perform and cause no problems when used on 9.1, but no guarantee. Charles I have the Cooker version installed and have not found any problems so far. Kristjan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] gFTP

2003-05-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 8:05 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 08:09 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 6:32 pm, RichardA wrote: On Tue, 27 May 2003 15:26:18 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: g I meant I haven't tried uploading to that site. I

Re: [newbie] Booting mdk/w98/dos

2003-05-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 7:38 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Hendrik Boom wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:25:51AM +0100, John Richard Smith wrote: ajx wrote: Graham Banks wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Anybody got a boot setup allowing different combinations of disks/partitions to

Re: [newbie] Booting mdk/w98/dos

2003-05-27 Thread Frank Bax
At 03:13 PM 5/27/03, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 7:38 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Hendrik Boom wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:25:51AM +0100, John Richard Smith wrote: ajx wrote: Graham Banks wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Anybody got a boot setup allowing

Re: [newbie] cd-burning on 9.1

2003-05-27 Thread Guy Rouillier
Tom Brinkman wrote: Short answer, hardware limitations. Long answer, no matter how you have drives arranged on the ide (or scsi) ports they all go thru the one and only 33mhz PCI bus. Which reinforces that there is more to a well-performing system than CPU MHz. If you do this regularly, you

Re: [newbie] gFTP

2003-05-27 Thread RichardA
On Tue, 27 May 2003 19:09:52 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Richard. Disclaimer - I'm no expert :-) I would guess that it was doing the right thing, though I'm not certain of this. The username and password are the ones that you need to access that particular site.

Re: [newbie] Booting mdk/w98/dos

2003-05-27 Thread bascule
actually lilo allows you to hide/unhide partitions as part of its config, you add a stanza to lilo.conf to change the partition type id to the hidden/unhidden version of whatever it is, as an example take an old lilo.conf of mine: ---snip--- other=/dev/hda2 label=winxp change

Re: [newbie] gFTP

2003-05-27 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 09:11 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 8:05 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 08:09 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 6:32 pm, RichardA wrote: On Tue, 27 May 2003 15:26:18 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[newbie] What did I do wrong with StarOffice 6

2003-05-27 Thread Olli Mäntyranta
Hi! I have a Mdk9.0 installed, and while installing the system I also installed the StarOffice6 . When I try to launch, let's say 'swriter' in /usr/lib/staroffice/programs , otherwise than root, it just doesn't start. If I write the command in shell, I am told about asegmentation fault. What

[newbie] Kernel-headers 2.4.19-16mdk

2003-05-27 Thread Carlos
Hi to all, I'm at a loss as to where to find the matching kernel-headers 2.4.19-16mdk. I am running 9.0 power pack and in all the CD's that came with it, I still can't seem to find it. Can anyone help. Needless to say I'm very new linux and therefor not sure if this file can be downloaded from any

Re: [newbie] What did I do wrong with StarOffice 6 - solved

2003-05-27 Thread Olli Mäntyranta
Found the trick! I saw DrewMartin's got a similiar problem with oo. I added line unset SESSION_MANAGER in swriter-script, and voilá: it wuks grate! Life is wunderbar! (pity I didn't read it in the first place...) OllimaX! Hi! I have a Mdk9.0 installed, and while installing the system I

Re: [newbie] What did I do wrong with StarOffice 6 - solved

2003-05-27 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 10:27 pm, Olli Mäntyranta wrote: Found the trick! I saw DrewMartin's got a similiar problem with oo. I added line unset SESSION_MANAGER in swriter-script, and voilá: it wuks grate! Life is wunderbar! (pity I didn't read it in the first place...) OllimaX!

Re: [newbie] What did I do wrong with StarOffice 6

2003-05-27 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 10:02 pm, Olli Mäntyranta wrote: Hi! I have a Mdk9.0 installed, and while installing the system I also installed the StarOffice6 . When I try to launch, let's say 'swriter' in /usr/lib/staroffice/programs , otherwise than root, it just doesn't start. If I write the

Re: [newbie] What did I do wrong with StarOffice 6

2003-05-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 9:37 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 10:02 pm, Olli Mäntyranta wrote: Hi! I have a Mdk9.0 installed, and while installing the system I also installed the StarOffice6 . When I try to launch, let's say 'swriter' in /usr/lib/staroffice/programs ,

Re: [newbie] Booting mdk/w98/dos

2003-05-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 8:17 pm, Frank Bax wrote: At 03:13 PM 5/27/03, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 7:38 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Hendrik Boom wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:25:51AM +0100, John Richard Smith wrote: ajx wrote: Graham Banks wrote: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] gFTP

2003-05-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 8:40 pm, RichardA wrote: On Tue, 27 May 2003 19:09:52 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Richard. Disclaimer - I'm no expert :-) I would guess that it was doing the right thing, though I'm not certain of this. The username and password are the ones

Re: [newbie] Booting mdk/w98/dos

2003-05-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday May 27 2003 02:17 pm, Frank Bax wrote: FAT32 Introduced in Win95 OSR actually. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.mic rosoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/q154/9/97.aspNoWebContent=1 And yes people still use DOS. I have a couple of DOS systems being used

Re: [newbie] gFTP

2003-05-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 9:00 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 09:11 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 8:05 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 08:09 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 6:32 pm, RichardA wrote: On Tue, 27 May 2003

Re: [newbie] Kernel-headers 2.4.19-16mdk

2003-05-27 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 04:22 pm, Carlos wrote: Hi to all, I'm at a loss as to where to find the matching kernel-headers 2.4.19-16mdk. I am running 9.0 power pack and in all the CD's that came with it, I still can't seem to find it. Can anyone help. Needless to say I'm very new linux and

Re: [newbie] cd-burning on 9.1

2003-05-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday May 27 2003 02:25 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: Short answer, hardware limitations. Long answer, no matter how you have drives arranged on the ide (or scsi) ports they all go thru the one and only 33mhz PCI bus. Which reinforces that there is more to a

Re: [newbie] Open Office

2003-05-27 Thread DrewMartin
Hi all, Would it be possible for some to tell me how to do this step by step?I'm a complete newbie,and did not expect to be using consoles and command lines quite yet. Thank you all for your time and patience,with some one who one brain cell is still recovering from the chaos that

Re: [newbie] What did I do wrong with StarOffice 6

2003-05-27 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 10:55 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 9:37 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: snip When installing SO you have to enable it's networking capability to allow all users acces. To do so, become root, go to the directory where you have all the binaries ( its located

Re: [newbie] Booting mdk/w98/dos

2003-05-27 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 05:33, ajx wrote: Yes, all I did was choose partition, not disk, boot record. (Like Graham's setup, if I've understood right). And the acid test is that it works, at least for booting once. Why, after booting, it leaves its own partition inactive is a mystery. That

Re: [newbie] Re: Pekwm (Gkrellm is cool)

2003-05-27 Thread Joe Hill
On Tue, 27 May 2003 10:43:39 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like this! Why not try uploading to http://gallery.vmlinuz.ca/ ? Vincent said that no login is necessary, so if you have ftp set up it should be straightforward (haven't tried it) It *is* very straightforward, you

Re: [newbie] cd-burning on 9.1

2003-05-27 Thread Joe Hill
On Tue, 27 May 2003 16:06:47 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good point Guy, when the desktop hardware matures for it, I probly will go 64 bit cpu/cache/ram. In the meantime, marketing gimicks of 66mhz (AGP) 2x, 4x and now 8x... and the real jokes, 66, 100, and 133, and

Re: [newbie] Open Office

2003-05-27 Thread Marc Oestreicher
I have never used Open Office but here are some basics that it sounds like you need First I am going to assume that you are using KDE due to the fact that it is very newbie friendly. On the bottom of the screen near the left corner you should see a icon that looks like a monitor with

Re: [newbie] Booting mdk/w98/dos

2003-05-27 Thread Frank Bax
At 04:51 PM 5/27/03, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 8:17 pm, Frank Bax wrote: At 03:13 PM 5/27/03, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 7:38 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Hendrik Boom wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:25:51AM +0100, John Richard Smith wrote: ajx wrote:

Re: [newbie] cd-burning on 9.1

2003-05-27 Thread kjc
So. Do I undertstand you to say that. Even 400MHZ FSB MB's only go up to 66MHZ. I'm curious. Can you elaborate on this. Joe Hill wrote: On Tue, 27 May 2003 16:06:47 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good point Guy, when the desktop hardware matures for it, I

Re: [newbie] cd-burning on 9.1

2003-05-27 Thread Guy Rouillier
Joe Hill wrote: On Tue, 27 May 2003 16:06:47 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good point Guy, when the desktop hardware matures for it, I probly will go 64 bit cpu/cache/ram. In the meantime, marketing gimicks of 66mhz (AGP) 2x, 4x and now 8x... and the real jokes, 66, 100, and

Re: [newbie] Kernel-headers 2.4.19-16mdk

2003-05-27 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Tue, 27 May 2003 16:48:43 -0400 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note the kernel-headers package is no longer created seperately in 9.1 and later because it just creates confusion. Pretty much correct except it is/was glibc a not gcc from which the kernel-headers rpm was derived and

Re: [newbie] cd-burning on 9.1

2003-05-27 Thread Joe Hill
On Tue, 27 May 2003 18:08:39 -0400 Guy Rouillier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He was addressing throughput limitations due to the 33 MHz PCI bus, which is independent of memory configuration. gotcha! thanks! That's what I thought, but I got scared there for a minute, I am s looking

[newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?

2003-05-27 Thread rikona
Hello, In Win I use a search tool (dtSearch) to find info in a very large number of files (50,000+). This program indexes the files, and can find all results in a second or two with about 4-6Gb of files. It can also do quite complex boolean searches, including word proximity. It can display all

Re: [newbie] cd-burning on 9.1 this one DEFINITELY OT

2003-05-27 Thread Technoslick
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 02:03 pm, Tom Brinkman graced me with: On Tuesday May 27 2003 06:45 am, Technoslick wrote: snip You realize it will be hard to talk about 'puters and Linux over the din? ;-) Not after the race, back at the travel trailer parked just outside the track :) 'Course

Re: [newbie] cd-burning on 9.1

2003-05-27 Thread Technoslick
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 01:29 pm, Tom Brinkman graced me with: On Tuesday May 27 2003 06:45 am, Technoslick wrote: This is good stuff, Tom. Have you ever posted your own HOW-TO on mixing, normalizing and burning anywhere that I can get my hands on it? snip Actually I've posted much the

Re: [newbie] Kernel-headers 2.4.19-16mdk

2003-05-27 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 06:34 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Tue, 27 May 2003 16:48:43 -0400 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note the kernel-headers package is no longer created seperately in 9.1 and later because it just creates confusion. Pretty much correct except it is/was glibc

Re: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?

2003-05-27 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 11:45 pm, rikona wrote: Hello, In Win I use a search tool (dtSearch) to find info in a very large number of files (50,000+). This program indexes the files, and can find all results in a second or two with about 4-6Gb of files. It can also do quite complex boolean

[newbie] Can't get a GUI boot

2003-05-27 Thread Gareth Qually
This sounds really silly, but when I start Linux, it boots to a text login not the Gnome environment I origionally had. How do i get it to boot to Gnome environment again? I am using Mandrake 9.1 on a i86 machine. Thanks Ciao Gareth Qually www.slowlymakingsmoke.com Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Creating archive

2003-05-27 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 17:57, Marco Verheul wrote: Hi all, I want to create a tarball from my home directory, but I'm confused about one thing. When I do: # tar -zcvf homearchive.tar /home/marco or # tar -zcvf homearchive.tar.gz /home/marco seems to have the same result. Both are

Re: [newbie] OT, Is Windows a Virus?

2003-05-27 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 22:08, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Well, I figure Stephen got inspired and is writing an Aussie-Linux-GUI as we speak, 'cause we haven't got anything from him the last few hours ... ;-) Kaj Haulrich. Nah - just doing a few PC builds and installations...gotta make money.

Re[2]: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?

2003-05-27 Thread rikona
Hello Derek, Tuesday, May 27, 2003, 4:14:52 PM, you wrote: Is there a comparable tool for Mandrake? DJ Install the slocate package and then in a root terminal type DJ 'updatedb' It will index every file on your computer and you can DJ perform a quick search with the command 'slocate string'

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?

2003-05-27 Thread bascule
#slocate --help shows that '-r regexp' is probably what you want bascule On Wednesday 28 May 2003 12:49 am, rikona wrote: I just tried this - works OK, and is fast, but gives me too much. Is there a way to use more complex search expressions (or regex?) to nail down exactly what I'm after?

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?

2003-05-27 Thread Derek Jennings
Yes you can use regular expressions http://www.linuxpcug.org/lessons/rute/node8.html As for advanced searches I am sure you could combine slocate ,awk and grep together to do advanced stuff, but you would have to spend ages composing the command. (well I would) I am surprised no one seems

Re: [newbie] Can't get a GUI boot

2003-05-27 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 06:22 pm, Gareth Qually wrote: This sounds really silly, but when I start Linux, it boots to a text login not the Gnome environment I origionally had. How do i get it to boot to Gnome environment again? I am using Mandrake 9.1 on a i86 machine. Thanks Ciao

[newbie] Support questions

2003-05-27 Thread rikona
Hello, I just signed up for support for the 9.0 Powerpack I bought. I thought I might be able to access another set of info about setting up Mandrake, but that does not seem to be the case. It seems to be asking me to open an 'incident'. Is this 'support' really effective? Can one see all the

Re: [newbie] Can't get a GUI boot

2003-05-27 Thread John Drouhard
At the login screen, login in to a user, then su to root. After that, go to /etc and edit the file inittab. Change the default runlevel to 5 instead of 3 like this: # Default runlevel. The runlevels used by Mandrake Linux are: # 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this) # 1 - Single user

Re: [newbie] Support questions

2003-05-27 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 08:16 pm, rikona wrote: What's the best way for newbies to get complete packages and/or support? Perhaps someone could enlighten me as to how these pieces go together. As I understand it, there are many ways to get *support* for Mandrake Linux Mailing Lists hosted by

[newbie] Perl Script in Background

2003-05-27 Thread Cody Harris
How do i tell a script (perl script) to start in the background and stay running? -Cody Harris ++ | Linux Rox My Sox! | | Check out HCHS! | | http://vectec.net | ++--+ | Proud to use Mandrake Linux 8.1 as a server. | | Not

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?

2003-05-27 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, 28 May 2003 01:09:26 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes you can use regular expressions http://www.linuxpcug.org/lessons/rute/node8.html As for advanced searches I am sure you could combine slocate ,awk and grep together to do advanced stuff, but you would have to

Re[4]: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?

2003-05-27 Thread rikona
Hello Derek, Tuesday, May 27, 2003, 5:09:26 PM, you wrote: DJ Yes you can use regular expressions Thanks to you and to bascule for pointing this out. I guess I need to think in the 'linux' way about these things, and try --help first. :-) DJ I am surprised no one seems have to made use of

[newbie] Surprized At Updates

2003-05-27 Thread Cody Harris
I think mandrake need a script will it will automatically update the whole system, top to bottom automatically. It would make download dependences easier and software installs would work better. It would also improve security by downloading and installing the newest version of software like

Re: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?

2003-05-27 Thread Technoslick
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 07:14 pm, Derek Jennings graced me with: snip Install the slocate package and then in a root terminal type 'updatedb' It will index every file on your computer and you can perform a quick search with the command 'slocate string' The database will update itself weekly,

Re: [newbie] Surprized At Updates

2003-05-27 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 08:44 pm, Cody Harris wrote: I think mandrake need a script will it will automatically update the whole system, top to bottom automatically. It would make download dependences easier and software installs would work better. It would also improve security by downloading

[newbie] tip: random background on log in

2003-05-27 Thread Todd Slater
My wife's been on me to set up a random background picture for her fluxbox setup like I did our daughters ROX-Session setup with the Wallpaper app. I finally took the time to peruse `man chbg` and came up with this solution. This might be of use to those of you who don't use KDE or Gnome. Since I

Re: [newbie] cd-burning on 9.1

2003-05-27 Thread Pilagá
El Lun 26 May 2003 09:32, Anne Wilson escribió: I refused to let k3b alter my fstab - I did the same under 9.0 and all was fine - but it doesn't work at all well for me (9.1). I've given up on it and gone back to XCDRoast, which has always served me well. Now it can see my cd-dvd (no scsi-em)

Re: [newbie] Can't get a GUI boot

2003-05-27 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 02:19 pm, John Drouhard wrote: At the login screen, login in to a user, then su to root. After that, go to /etc and edit the file inittab. Change the default runlevel to 5 instead of 3 like this: # Default runlevel. The runlevels used by Mandrake Linux are: # 0 -

Re: [newbie] Perl Script in Background

2003-05-27 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 10:40, Cody Harris wrote: How do i tell a script (perl script) to start in the background and stay running? -Cody Harris For instance: perl /usr/local/bin/rdf.pl -- Wed May 28 11:20:01 EST 2003 11:20:01 up 13:53, 3 users, load average: 0.32, 0.29, 0.29

[newbie] Oops - what happened?

2003-05-27 Thread rikona
Hello, As I was reading email on another comp, Mandrake 'went to sleep' as it does after a short time. It has been doing this quite often, without incident. When I just moved the mouse to 'awaken' MD, all the many things I had open are gone, including the 'process' bar (or whatever it's called)

Re: [newbie] Oops - what happened?

2003-05-27 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 08:30 pm, rikona wrote: Hello, As I was reading email on another comp, Mandrake 'went to sleep' as it does after a short time. It has been doing this quite often, without incident. When I just moved the mouse to 'awaken' MD, all the many things I had open are gone,

[newbie] unknown bridge resource?

2003-05-27 Thread Thomas Williams
I'm running 8.1 and I updated the kernel. Before I updated it I was getting one error message every time I boot up: Unknown bridge resource 2: assuming transparent. After updating I'm still gettting that plus a bunch of other messages. Here's the error log file in its entirety: May 25 00:36:53

Re: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?

2003-05-27 Thread stormjumper
cron and anacron are similar in that they run scheduled tasks in the background, but different in that cron runs them at their scheduled time(s) while anacron checks for missed jobs (at boot time), and run them after a specified delay. - Original Message - From: Technoslick [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Perl Script in Background

2003-05-27 Thread Jan Wilson
* Cody Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030527 19:15]: How do i tell a script (perl script) to start in the background and stay running? If you are running it from the command line, put a space and an ampersand after the name of the Perl script, like: myscript -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin

Re: [newbie] Oops - what happened?

2003-05-27 Thread Joeb
On Tue, 27 May 2003 20:36:31 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 08:30 pm, rikona wrote: Hello, As I was reading email on another comp, Mandrake 'went to sleep' as it does after a short time. It has been doing this quite often, without incident. When I

Re: [newbie] Surprized At Updates

2003-05-27 Thread stormjumper
if you have urpmi properly set up and working, setting a cron job to run, say, every morning at 3am urpmi.update -a urpmi --update --auto-select --auto should keep your system properly updated with security updates - Original Message - From: Cody Harris To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [newbie] Can't get a GUI boot

2003-05-27 Thread John Drouhard
On Tue, 27 May 2003 20:20:52 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ya know, when it gets right down to it, a lot of actions are actually faster if you do them on cli and not on a gui. Course you have to know the commands and what files to edit. but even so it looks faster than opening

Re[2]: [newbie] Oops - what happened?

2003-05-27 Thread rikona
Hello Dennis, Tuesday, May 27, 2003, 6:36:31 PM, you wrote: DM I'm not sure what happened but you can try hittine ctl-alt-F6 and DM that should take you to a console screen where you can type DM reboot. There is probably a more elegant way to recover, so DM anyone who knows jump right in here.

Re[2]: [newbie] Oops - what happened?

2003-05-27 Thread rikona
Hello Joeb, Tuesday, May 27, 2003, 6:58:13 PM, you wrote: J ctl-alt-backspace will restart the window manager. That might be J all that is needed instead of a complete reboot. Thanks very much for the tip. Maybe should have waited, but already rebooted. Both replies used key strokes. Is there

Re: [newbie] Mozilla Mail

2003-05-27 Thread g
Anne Wilson wrote: You could be right, there. Thinking about it, I've mainly been importing Netscape mail into different Netscape versions, and to some extent Mozilla mail into new Mozilla installs. Netscape did seamlessly take up my Mozilla mail setup when it trashed the Mozilla one -

Re: [newbie] WM's in general

2003-05-27 Thread MG
Not sure if this is what you are talking about but, I boot to run level3 and use this little session selector. I like it better than kdm or gdm. Its on the MDK8.2 cd's not sure about later versions. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mike]$ Xtart WELCOME to Sessions Selector 1 KDE 2 gnome 3

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Oops - what happened?

2003-05-27 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 09:05 pm, rikona wrote: Hello Joeb, Tuesday, May 27, 2003, 6:58:13 PM, you wrote: J ctl-alt-backspace will restart the window manager. That might be J all that is needed instead of a complete reboot. Thanks very much for the tip. Maybe should have waited, but

Re: [newbie] WM's in general

2003-05-27 Thread Technoslick
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 10:34 pm, MG graced me with: Not sure if this is what you are talking about but, I boot to run level3 and use this little session selector. I like it better than kdm or gdm. Its on the MDK8.2 cd's not sure about later versions. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mike]$ Xtart

Re: [newbie] Re: Pekwm (Wohoo!)

2003-05-27 Thread eric huff
actually, in ROX, go to options -- compatibility, and IIRC you can pass mouse actions to the root instead of the pinboard. There's a whole thread on that on the ROX lists. Yeah, i set that. I get the menu properly, but no scroll wheel. Maybe rox isn't programmed to pass mouse buttons 4 and 5?

Re: [newbie] Re: Pekwm (Gkrellm is cool)

2003-05-27 Thread Brian Parish
On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 04:08, Joe Hill wrote: On Mon, 26 May 2003 22:12:20 + John Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been googling around for the transparent skin, but cannot seem to find it. Could you point me in the right direction? Thanks! http://www.muhri.net/ I dl'ed the

Re[4]: [newbie] Oops - what happened?

2003-05-27 Thread rikona
Hello Dennis, Tuesday, May 27, 2003, 7:36:50 PM, you wrote: DM I'm not sure where to look, I tried a couple of man pages and no DM luck. Try a google search on linux keyboard shortcuts or DM variations thereof. I rummaged around a bit, but couldn't find a very complete list. On one page there

Re: [newbie] Re: Pekwm (Gkrellm is cool)

2003-05-27 Thread mycal62
here is a transparent gkrellm skin : ( see attached ) Brian Parish wrote: On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 04:08, Joe Hill wrote: On Mon, 26 May 2003 22:12:20 + John Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been googling around for the transparent skin, but cannot seem to find it. Could you

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