RE: [newbie] Help!!!!!

2003-05-29 Thread walt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc Oestreicher Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 8:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wow it's almost like we live in different worlds but I suppose that in some regards we do. Marc People that use linu

Re: [newbie] OT: Letter from Novell to SCO

2003-05-29 Thread Technoslick
On Thursday 29 May 2003 08:27 am, Marc Oestreicher graced me with: >Are they committing commercial suicide or is that just the way > it appears when mocro$oft uses another company as a pawn? It would > be interisting to hear the conversations going on between closed > doors the last month but

[newbie] Free-Form Database -- Still Looking

2003-05-29 Thread Technoslick
I posted a request for opinions, experience and recommendations on this a while back. I can't remember where it went, but it seemed that I didn't find what I was looking for. So, I wish to ask again for any suggestions and advice on a general purpose free-form database that doesn't have the lea

Re: [newbie] motherboard recommendations

2003-05-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday May 29 2003 03:44 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > OK Tom, so you favour Via and AMD, but if money is not in itself > a particular problem, though everything has to be reasonably > equal, and relative, what would be the best combination of mobo > cpu and video card for good graphics, spe

Re: [newbie] No sound

2003-05-29 Thread Jason
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/cookerfaq.php3 Google is your friend!! =) Cheers Jason Adolf, Michael F wrote: Sorry, I have release 9.1. No idea what 'cooker' means. mike -Original Message- From: Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 6:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [newbie] OT: Letter from Novell to SCO

2003-05-29 Thread Marc Oestreicher
On Thursday 29 May 2003 07:37 am, Technoslick wrote: > On Thursday 29 May 2003 12:07 am, Miark graced me with: > > I'm very impressed with Novell's response, here. They're > > calling SCO's bluff and holding their feet to the fire to > > either prove their moronic claims or "recant"! > > > > High m

RE: [newbie] No sound

2003-05-29 Thread Adolf, Michael F
Sorry, I have release 9.1. No idea what 'cooker' means. mike -Original Message- From: Jason [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 6:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] No sound Cooker being the key word there...that is NOT a 9.2 release, that is a cooker

Re: [newbie] Help!!!!!

2003-05-29 Thread Marc Oestreicher
Maybe being around a lot of people involved in computer science gives you a different perspective than mine. Most of the people that I come into contact with have never heard of unix and if I speak of Linux often the first thing I hear is oh is that the same company that makes heating and air

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center 9.1 and URPMIs

2003-05-29 Thread Joe Hill
On Thu, 29 May 2003 07:58:01 -0500 The Other <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > Thanks for the assistance. One of the main reasons I came to Linux > was to be able to keep my OS current without spending an arm and a > leg every 2 years. I love having *capacity* and *no limits*, even if > I don

[newbie] Mandrake Control Center 9.1 and URPMIs

2003-05-29 Thread The Other
05/29/03 Hello All, I've been following the URPMI discussions with a great deal of interest, and would like to setup my MDK 9.1 system to take advantage of Internet updating. (Sorry, but coming from Windows and OS/2, this is such a strange and wonderful concept. I still can't get over the

Re: [newbie] copy to new hard drive

2003-05-29 Thread Richard Urwin
On Thursday 29 May 2003 7:05 am, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: > On Wednesday 28 May 2003 11:51 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 13:28, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: > > > What's the best way to copy the contents of my boot drive to another > > > drive so I get everything copied over? > > > > Bo

Re: [newbie] copy to new hard drive

2003-05-29 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 29 May 2003 08:36 am, Richard Urwin wrote: > On Thursday 29 May 2003 7:11 am, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: > > On Wednesday 28 May 2003 11:33 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > > > On Wednesday 28 May 2003 11:28 pm, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: > > > > What's the best way to copy the contents of my boot drive

Re: [newbie] Contrib sources and cooker RPMs

2003-05-29 Thread Joe Hill
On Thu, 29 May 2003 12:13:05 +0100 Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > Might be a piece of cake, but by definition must carry some risk. > Risk assessments, ya know? well, it depends. Something like Pekwm or Sylpheed or Darkplaces, these are people who've been coding since they were 1

Re: [newbie] copy to new hard drive

2003-05-29 Thread Richard Urwin
On Thursday 29 May 2003 7:11 am, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: > On Wednesday 28 May 2003 11:33 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > > On Wednesday 28 May 2003 11:28 pm, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: > > > What's the best way to copy the contents of my boot drive to another > > > drive so I get everything copied over? > > >

Re: [newbie] genealogy

2003-05-29 Thread Frank Bax
At 10:41 PM 5/28/03, Owen Berio wrote: >Does anyone know if there is any genealogy software available that works with Mandrake? I haven't tried them, but a search at http://sf.net shows these Linux offerings: - http://sourceforge.net/projects/gramps/ - http://sourceforge.net/projects/lifeline

Re: [newbie] Creating archive

2003-05-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday May 29 2003 04:56 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > That is what I'm beginning to wonder, I had assumed it was a > default system install. I don't even know what the name of the > packages are to install it ? > > John John, check an see if kdeaddons and kdeutils are installed. I'm

Re: [newbie] KDE doesn't start

2003-05-29 Thread David Bell
At 12:54 +0200 29/5/03, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 29 May 2003 12:37 pm, David Bell wrote: I have a new install of mandrake 9.1 The installation seems > to have been successful apart from two problems. ... > But the main problem is that when I try to start up the GUI all that's displaye

Re: [newbie] OPINION

2003-05-29 Thread Joe Hill
On 29 May 2003 13:32:07 +1000 Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > Why not even go so far as to help to organise pickets at stores that > specifically sell ONLY M$ bundled machines - stressing "choice"? do we get to sing "We Shall Overcome..."? -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046

Re: [newbie] Contrib sources and cooker RPMs

2003-05-29 Thread Joe Hill
On 29 May 2003 17:37:20 +1000 Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > Sorry, I forgot about your N.Hemisphere vocabulary! > Translation: > > Whine whine whine. well, if you lived so close to g duhbulyuh, you'd be whinging too! -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 See where I sit all

[newbie] Good news

2003-05-29 Thread Kaj Haulrich
Hello frinds, cheers : http://www.suse.co.uk/uk/company/press/press_releases/archive03/munich.html Kaj Haulrich. -- Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.1 - kernel 2.4.21 Brought to you from my 100 % Micro$oft-free computer. Want to buy yo

[newbie] KDE doesn't start

2003-05-29 Thread David Bell
I have a new install of mandrake 9.1 The installation seems to have been successful apart from two problems. The first one - which I think is now resolved - was that the install procedure was unable to find a video mode which worked. (My solution was to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and change the

Re: [newbie] Contrib sources and cooker RPMs

2003-05-29 Thread Joe Hill
On 29 May 2003 17:53:31 +1000 Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > Everything else is software to be used by the "Anne Wilson"'s and "Joe > Hill"'s of the world. er, compiling from CVS is child's play...My mail client, browser, WM, and favourite game (Darkplaces), are all from CVS. eets a

[newbie] Xircom Card module woes

2003-05-29 Thread Eduardo Silva
Hi all, New to Mandrake, running 9.1 kernel-2.4.21.0.13 on a Dell laptop. I've got a Xircom PCMCIA Ethernet+56K modem. Had it working with RedHat 9 using xircom_cb module. I don't exactly know why, but the card is detected by Mandrake is being two different cards: One ethernet 10/100 cardbus ,

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

2003-05-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 29 May 2003 10:50 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Wednesday 28 May 2003 10:40 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 May 2003 10:26 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > > On Tuesday 27 May 2003 10:55 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 27 May 2003 9:37 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: [newbie] Creating archive

2003-05-29 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 29 May 2003 9:53 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 18:33, John Richard Smith wrote: You know, you can just open a Konqueror window, right-click on the directory you want to archive and choose "tar" from it - it wil

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

2003-05-29 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 10:40 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 27 May 2003 10:26 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 May 2003 10:55 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > On Tuesday 27 May 2003 9:37 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > > > > > > > > > When installing SO you have to enable it's networking >

Re: [newbie] cd-burning on 9.1

2003-05-29 Thread John Richard Smith
Pat Geronimo wrote: i used md5sum to check the integrity of the downloaded copy, but after getting the codes, what's the next move? Put the md5sum file in the same directory as the ISO file. In terminal, CD to directory ISO file, and type, md5sum some little while later it returns a key that you

Re: [newbie] Checking for new Hardware

2003-05-29 Thread John Richard Smith
eric huff wrote: I would think that since the message is "Checking..." it is printing the message first, then doing the job. That's how i program messages... But, notice it never says, finished checking. The "checking" message is displayed when the checking begins. When "checking" is

Re: [newbie] Checking for new Hardware

2003-05-29 Thread John Richard Smith
Joeb wrote: On Wed, 28 May 2003 08:06:38 -0700 eric huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are you sure it's spending a long time checking for new hardware or the step that follows (and just hasn't displayed the text of that step, yet)? This is a good point: Which is it? I would think that sin

Re: [newbie] OPINION

2003-05-29 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 29 May 2003 11:41:14 +1000, Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seek out sites that have lists or petitions - do something - sign'em. > Get involved. Spread the word. Something - anything. Any type of action > is a hell of a lot better than no action at all. I have been coordinating the P

Re: [newbie] Creating archive

2003-05-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 29 May 2003 9:53 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > Stephen Kuhn wrote: > >On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 18:33, John Richard Smith wrote: > >>>You know, you can just open a Konqueror window, right-click on > >>> the directory you want to archive and choose "tar" from it - it > >>> will tar/gzip it

Re: [newbie] OT sorry

2003-05-29 Thread John Richard Smith
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 08:21, Benjamin Jeeves wrote: you're not going to get that kind of rapport and support from a closed source avenue. I'll get off my soap box now. Stephen is right , closed source software want a heck of a lot of money to advise, and I found much of

[newbie] Re: [expert] spamassassin & kmail

2003-05-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 29 May 2003 9:17 am, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: > Could someone either help me to get spamassassin working with kmail > or direct me to somewhere where I can find some direction? > > Thanks, Try www.jennings.homelinux.net Derek's setting don't seem exactly right for me, as it is missing

Re: [newbie] Creating archive

2003-05-29 Thread John Richard Smith
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 18:33, John Richard Smith wrote: You know, you can just open a Konqueror window, right-click on the directory you want to archive and choose "tar" from it - it will tar/gzip it for you...just FYI. Not in mine it would seem ? John Hmmm...st

Re: [newbie] motherboard recommendations

2003-05-29 Thread John Richard Smith
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday May 28 2003 01:10 pm, John Drouhard wrote: Actually, I didn't really want an nforce2 motherboard. I just went for this one because it had AGP 8x and got high reviews. Could anyone point me to a motherboard that works well with linux, is not too terribly expensiv

Re: [newbie] Contrib sources and cooker RPMs

2003-05-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 29 May 2003 8:53 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 17:33, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Right. Now I'm totally ignorant on this. IIRC you started with > > 'cvs'? What exactly is this? It seems to be something later > > than cooker versions but not yet supported - or am I on t

Re: [newbie] Checking for new Hardware

2003-05-29 Thread John Richard Smith
Dennis Myers wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 07:53 am, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Richard Smith Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 6:22 AM To: NEWBIE 1 Subject: [newbie] Checking for new Hardware Does anyone

Re: [newbie] IsTwo monitors possible?

2003-05-29 Thread Gareth Qually
cool thanks, i will check it out. Will some research myself as well. Ciao Gareth Qually www.slowlymakingsmoke.com - Original Message - From: "FemmeFatale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 12:55 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] IsTwo monitors possible?

Re: [newbie] Problem connecting ADSL modem to the net

2003-05-29 Thread Gareth Qually
Thanks for that Frans. Yes could you mail it to me, that would be great. Ciao Gareth Qually www.slowlymakingsmoke.com - Original Message - From: "Frans Ketelaars" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 8:59 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Problem connectin

Re: [newbie] Problem connecting ADSL modem to the net

2003-05-29 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Thursday 29 May 2003 01:30, Gareth Qually wrote: > I have almost got the net setup working, or so I think. When I set up my > ADSL modem, a Speedtouch 330, during set up, it seemed to go well. It just > asked me to put this file 'mgmt.o' in the /usr/share/speedtouch directory. > It gave me a web

Re: [newbie] Contrib sources and cooker RPMs

2003-05-29 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 17:41, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Sorry, I forgot about your N.Hemisphere vocabulary! > > Translation: > > > > Whine whine whine. > > Maybe you misunderstood, Stephen. He was just replying to a query, > not whinging. > > Anne Ah well, he's still a whinger. (grin) (I think it

Re: [newbie] Contrib sources and cooker RPMs

2003-05-29 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 17:33, Anne Wilson wrote: > Right. Now I'm totally ignorant on this. IIRC you started with > 'cvs'? What exactly is this? It seems to be something later than > cooker versions but not yet supported - or am I on the wrong track > altogether? > > Anne Let's clear this

Re: [newbie] Contrib sources and cooker RPMs

2003-05-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 29 May 2003 8:37 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 15:08, Joe Hill wrote: > > On 29 May 2003 12:56:47 +1000 > > > > Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > > Whinge whinge whinge. > > > > ? > > Sorry, I forgot about your N.Hemisphere vocabulary! > Translation: > > Wh

Re: [newbie] Contrib sources and cooker RPMs

2003-05-29 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 15:08, Joe Hill wrote: > On 29 May 2003 12:56:47 +1000 > Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > > Whinge whinge whinge. > ? Sorry, I forgot about your N.Hemisphere vocabulary! Translation: Whine whine whine. -- Thu May 29 17:35:01 EST 2003 17:35:01 up 30 min, 3 u

[newbie]

2003-05-29 Thread J. Murjayanto
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Contrib sources and cooker RPMs

2003-05-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 29 May 2003 3:42 am, Joe Hill wrote: > On Tue, 27 May 2003 08:12:10 +0100 > > Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > Joe - I'm not sure I understand this. Are you saying that > > running --test means that it would stop you installing if it was > > not a compatible version? If th

Re: [newbie] cd-burning on 9.1

2003-05-29 Thread Pat Geronimo
i used md5sum to check the integrity of the downloaded copy, but after getting the codes, what's the next move?Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 4:02 pm, eric huff wrote:> >> > I think that the problem was that I was trying to burn from an> > image stored in another da

Re: [newbie] Help!!!!!

2003-05-29 Thread Erylon Hines
You are joking, right? Download additions don't have serial numbers, and no registration is necessary. If you buy the boxed set, there is a support number, but download editions aren't supported by Mandrake, except by the help lists, such as this one. Mandrake Linux is a COMMUNITY, and while

Re: [newbie] copy to new hard drive

2003-05-29 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 11:33 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Wednesday 28 May 2003 11:28 pm, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: > > What's the best way to copy the contents of my boot drive to another > > drive so I get everything copied over? > > That depends on whether the drives are exactly the same or not. i

Re: [newbie] copy to new hard drive

2003-05-29 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 11:51 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 13:28, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: > > What's the best way to copy the contents of my boot drive to another > > drive so I get everything copied over? > > Boot DRIVE? Or /boot partition? > > cp -rf /boot/* /finaldestination/w

Re: [newbie] Booting mdk/w98/dos

2003-05-29 Thread ajx
Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > 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 > > p

Re: [newbie] Booting mdk/w98/dos

2003-05-29 Thread ajx
Hendrik Boom wrote: > > I think he wants different combinations of FAT partitions to be visible > in DOS and Windows. lilo will let the Microsoft systems, when booting, > make their own decisions as to what is visible, which is precisely what > he does not want. Now there is a utility called le

Re: [newbie] Contrib sources and cooker RPMs

2003-05-29 Thread Joe Hill
On 29 May 2003 12:56:47 +1000 Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > Whinge whinge whinge. ? -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 See where I sit all day: http://nodex.sytes.net 01:08:01 up 1 day, 14:30, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services f

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2003-05-29 Thread J. Murjayanto
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Open Source Web Analyzer?

2003-05-29 Thread Sevatio
Is there a good Open Source Web Analyzer? Thanks, Sevatio Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OT: Letter from Novell to SCO

2003-05-29 Thread Miark
I'm very impressed with Novell's response, here. They're calling SCO's bluff and holding their feet to the fire to either prove their moronic claims or "recant"! High marks for Messman on this one. Miark On Thu, 29 May 2003 13:28:15 + Marco Verheul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, >

Re: [newbie] Help!!!!!

2003-05-29 Thread Guy Rouillier
Marco Flumino wrote: Dear me, I have sent E-Mail's to nearly all the Mandrake helps and support but no one aswer me back!!! No wonder many people use (even if their software is bugged) Microsoft software, in a way or another the get an aswer!! Please help me, I am a Windows user, but I am tryi

Re: [newbie] copy to new hard drive

2003-05-29 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 13:28, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: > What's the best way to copy the contents of my boot drive to another drive so > I get everything copied over? Boot DRIVE? Or /boot partition? cp -rf /boot/* /finaldestination/whereitgoes/ -- Thu May 29 13:50:00 EST 2003 13:50:00 up 1 day,

Re: [newbie] Checking for new Hardware

2003-05-29 Thread eric huff
> > I would think that since the message is "Checking..." it is printing > > the message first, then doing the job. > > That's how i program messages... > > But, notice it never says, finished checking. The "checking" > message is displayed when the checking begins. When "checking" is done, >

Re: [newbie] OPINION

2003-05-29 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 13:16, Harv Nelson wrote: > Harv mounts the soapbox and clears his throat . > > Here are a couple suggestions you might like to try: > > 1) If you are thinking about buying a new machine, call one of the > sellers ... DELL comes to mind (cuz that's the one I called) ...

Re: [newbie] copy to new hard drive

2003-05-29 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 11:28 pm, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: > What's the best way to copy the contents of my boot drive to another drive > so I get everything copied over? > That depends on whether the drives are exactly the same or not. if they are the same dd if=/dev/driveyouwanttocopyfrom of=/d

Re: [newbie] genealogy

2003-05-29 Thread Tony Finnis
On Thu, 29 May 2003 12:11 pm, Owen Berio wrote: > Does anyone know if there is any genealogy software available that works > with Mandrake? > Thanks >Owen I use ´geneweb´ which I find to be excellent. TonyF Want to buy your Pack or Servi

Re: [newbie] Off Topic: Printing to on PDF

2003-05-29 Thread Aron Smith
On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 06:09, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 26 May 2003 1:26 am, Cody Harris wrote: > > Ok ok, i know someone's going to yell at me, but, i want to print > > multiple documents to a PDF to fax. The part people are going to > > yell at me for it that i need to know how to do it in wi

[newbie] copy to new hard drive

2003-05-29 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
What's the best way to copy the contents of my boot drive to another drive so I get everything copied over? Thanks, -- Jonathan Dlouhy Wednesday, May 28, 2003 11:26 PM "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." --

[newbie] OPINION

2003-05-29 Thread Stephen Kuhn
Ok...I've been trolling news stories for more than three weeks over all this crap with SCO and Microsoft and every other bit of thread that comes of it - and with the recent "statement" that Mr. "I'lll sue everyone!" Darl McBride might in turn sue Linus (yes, OUR Linus - the writer of the Sacred Co

Re: [newbie] Evolution for 9.1? SOLVED

2003-05-29 Thread Gerard Godin
On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 09:54, Marco Verheul wrote: > Gerard Godin wrote: > > >On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 09:38, Marco Verheul wrote: > > > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>I just installed 9.1 and i want to set up my system. I was using > >>Evolution in 9.0 but I can't seem to find the right version. Does > >>any

Re: [newbie] Evolution for 9.1?

2003-05-29 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 10:58, Yoel Krigsman wrote: > I did d/l red-carpet and didnt work for me. So I junked that program > > YPK RedCarpet v.2.0 is tricky for the MDK installation. Firstly, you have to install it along with the rcd stuff (a few bits and bobs of it); next, you have to just re

Re: [newbie] Creating archive

2003-05-29 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 19:22, John Richard Smith wrote: > No mention of Tar in my right-click menu. > > John Well that's just bloody odd... I can't seem to find anywhere to define this in the KDE Control Centre or anywhere else - in the Konq settings neither... John, have you checked the connect

Re: [newbie] Creating archive

2003-05-29 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 19:10, _nasturtium wrote: > I think I'll usurp his job and add my 2 cents... > > "Tar" simply puts all the files/directories into a single archive. "Zip" > actually compresses it. Used together you get a .tar.gz, where you get the > benefit of archiving an entire directory

Re: [newbie] Creating archive

2003-05-29 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 18:56, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 28 May 2003 9:33 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > > Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > >You know, you can just open a Konqueror window, right-click on the > > >directory you want to archive and choose "tar" from it - it will > > >tar/gzip it for yo

Re: [newbie] Evolution for 9.1?

2003-05-29 Thread Yoel Krigsman
I did d/l red-carpet and didnt work for me. So I junked that program YPK ___ Sent with SnapperMail www.snappermail.com .. Original Message ... On 28 May 2003 17:51:01 -0700 Aron Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >th9s worked for me : >1. download red carpet >2 subscribe to evolution c

Re: [newbie] OT sorry

2003-05-29 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 08:21, Benjamin Jeeves wrote: > Hi all > > I was drink a few beers and thinking about how bad the rail transport is in > the UK it was on the news and it takes me two hours to get to uni and two > hours back thats London for you. > > Now to the point is there a community

Re: [newbie] Evolution for 9.1?

2003-05-29 Thread Aron Smith
th9s worked for me : 1. download red carpet 2 subscribe to evolution channel 3 update chances are 50/50 it will work ;) On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 06:38, Marco Verheul wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed 9.1 and i want to set up my system. I was using > Evolution in 9.0 but I can't seem to find the righ

Re: [newbie] motherboard recommendations

2003-05-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday May 28 2003 06:45 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: > http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/socket478/p4c800-d/overview.htm > > i have that board. > > has more than I need + an upgrade path. > - > FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt I've read that the newest i875 chipset is decent. Please keep

Re: [newbie] Creating archive

2003-05-29 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 18:33, John Richard Smith wrote: > >You know, you can just open a Konqueror window, right-click on the > >directory you want to archive and choose "tar" from it - it will > >tar/gzip it for you...just FYI. > > > Not in mine it would seem ? > > John Hmmm...strange - I checke

Re: [newbie] Help!!!!!

2003-05-29 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 23:20, Marco Flumino wrote: > Dear me, I have sent E-Mail's to nearly all the Mandrake helps and support > but no one aswer me back!!! > No wonder many people use (even if their software is bugged) Microsoft > software, in a way or another the get an aswer!! > > Please help

Re: [newbie] motherboard recommendations

2003-05-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday May 28 2003 01:10 pm, John Drouhard wrote: > Actually, I didn't really want an nforce2 motherboard. I just > went for this one because it had AGP 8x and got high reviews. > Could anyone point me to a motherboard that works well with > linux, is not too terribly expensive, and has suppo

Re: [newbie] No sound

2003-05-29 Thread Jason
Cooker being the key word there...that is NOT a 9.2 release, that is a cooker release and cooker questions/problems should go to the cooker list. Cheers J Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday May 28 2003 06:59 pm, Robin Turner wrote: Adolf, Michael F wrote: Greetings, I just installed Mand

Re: [newbie] motherboard recommendations

2003-05-29 Thread kjc
I have used  only one brand of MB. ASUS. I highly recommend their product. I have used ASUS for Linux,Win garbage and Solaris X86. All with ZERO problems. John Drouhard wrote: On Wed, 28 May 2003 18:05:19 -0500 Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The nForce(2) chipsets are

[newbie] ARTICLE:Novell Challenges SCO Position, Reiterates Support forLinux

2003-05-29 Thread Stephen Kuhn
http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2003/05/pr03033.html -- Thu May 29 09:55:00 EST 2003 09:55:00 up 1 day, 12:28, 4 users, load average: 0.57, 0.27, 0.14 - |____ |kuhn media australia| |

Re: [newbie] Evolution for 9.1? SOLVED

2003-05-29 Thread Marco Verheul
Gerard Godin wrote: On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 09:38, Marco Verheul wrote: Hi, I just installed 9.1 and i want to set up my system. I was using Evolution in 9.0 but I can't seem to find the right version. Does anybody has Evolution running in 9.1? When I try to install the beta stuff I get all k

Re: [newbie] IsTwo monitors possible?

2003-05-29 Thread FemmeFatale
At 12:30 AM 5/29/2003 +0100, you wrote: I have a Chaintech G-force 4 TI4200 128mb Graphics card. Is it possible to run two monitors in Linux using this card? Thanks Ciao Gareth Qually I asked the same question about my radeon. no answer yet...if i get one you will receive my reply...or i may

Re: [newbie] Evolution for 9.1?

2003-05-29 Thread Gerard Godin
On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 09:38, Marco Verheul wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed 9.1 and i want to set up my system. I was using > Evolution in 9.0 but I can't seem to find the right version. Does > anybody has Evolution running in 9.1? When I try to install the beta > stuff I get all kinds of depe

Re: [newbie] motherboard recommendations

2003-05-29 Thread FemmeFatale
At 06:10 PM 5/28/2003 +, you wrote: Actually, I didn't really want an nforce2 motherboard. I just went for this one because it had AGP 8x and got high reviews. Could anyone point me to a motherboard that works well with linux, is not too terribly expensive, and has support for AGP 8x (I am go

[newbie] Evolution for 9.1?

2003-05-29 Thread Marco Verheul
Hi, I just installed 9.1 and i want to set up my system. I was using Evolution in 9.0 but I can't seem to find the right version. Does anybody has Evolution running in 9.1? When I try to install the beta stuff I get all kinds of dependency errors. Marco Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] motherboard recommendations

2003-05-29 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 02:10 pm, John Drouhard wrote: > On Wed, 28 May 2003 18:05:19 -0500 > > Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The nForce(2) chipsets are not well or completely supported by > > Linux kernel yet. Neither are Intel i. VIA chipsets > > boards are best supported, mainl

[newbie] Acqua-Graphite theme for 9.1?

2003-05-29 Thread Marco Verheul
Hi, Is the Acqua-Graphite theme available for 9.1? I tried to install the 9.0 theme but I get an error when I run install.sh. Marco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] IsTwo monitors possible?

2003-05-29 Thread Gareth Qually
I have a Chaintech G-force 4 TI4200 128mb Graphics card. Is it possible to run two monitors in Linux using this card? Thanks Ciao Gareth Qually www.slowlymakingsmoke.com www.fxgogo.com www.qually.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Problem connecting ADSL modem to the net

2003-05-29 Thread Gareth Qually
I have almost got the net setup working, or so I think. When I set up my ADSL modem, a Speedtouch 330, during set up, it seemed to go well. It just asked me to put this file 'mgmt.o' in the /usr/share/speedtouch directory. It gave me a web address to get this file, but the only linux drivers did no

[newbie] OT: Letter from Novell to SCO

2003-05-29 Thread Marco Verheul
Hi all, I just picked this up at a dutch Linux mailinglist. It makes some interesting reading!! http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2003/05/pr03033.html Marco Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] aethera for KDE

2003-05-29 Thread walt
Anyone ever try this Email client for KDE? If so, would love your opinion. Walt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] No sound

2003-05-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday May 28 2003 06:59 pm, Robin Turner wrote: > Adolf, Michael F wrote: > > Greetings, > > I just installed Mandrake 9.2 from a download. > > There's a 9.2? has been for quite some time tom$ cat /etc/mandrake-release Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (Cooker) for i586 > >It is on a dual boot

Re: [newbie] motherboard recommendations

2003-05-29 Thread FemmeFatale
At 07:00 PM 5/28/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 12:53 pm, John Drouhard wrote: > I was considering upgrading my computer with a new motherboard and > processor. I was highly considering the Asus A7N8X which uses the > nforce2 chip set. It does not, however, have on-board video, so

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

2003-05-29 Thread Gareth Qually
Thanks guys for that help. I tired yours first, Dennis, since it was simpler at it worked a charm. John I have kept yours on file aswell, just in case. Ciao Gareth Qually www.slowlymakingsmoke.com - Original Message - From: "Gareth Qually" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [newbie] motherboard recommendations

2003-05-29 Thread Benjamin Jeeves
I have the ASUS A7N8X MB and have no problems but did have to patch the kernel for the onbroad lan but that was easy as installing a driver in windows. On Wednesday 28 May 2003 4:53 pm, John Drouhard wrote: > I was considering upgrading my computer with a new motherboard and > processor. I was hi

Re: [newbie] OT - MS to lose Munich?

2003-05-29 Thread Aron Smith
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 15:49, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 14:56, Ladislav Bodnar wrote: > > On Wednesday 28 May 2003 12:46, walt wrote: > > > Now if sco gets its way, won't it be illegal for Munich to use > > > linux??? > > > > That's a very big "IF"! > > I think that right now is

Re: [newbie] motherboard recommendations

2003-05-29 Thread John Drouhard
On Wed, 28 May 2003 18:05:19 -0500 Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The nForce(2) chipsets are not well or completely supported by > Linux kernel yet. Neither are Intel i. VIA chipsets > boards are best supported, mainly due to their popularity and > cooperation with the Linux commun

Re: [newbie] OT sorry

2003-05-29 Thread Aron Smith
A little bit of both. Everyone likes to help someone. On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 15:21, Benjamin Jeeves wrote: > Hi all > > I was drink a few beers and thinking about how bad the rail transport is in > the UK it was on the news and it takes me two hours to get to uni and two > hours back thats London

Re: [newbie] Boy am I dumb

2003-05-29 Thread Aron Smith
Just typed in evolution as root , then exited then typed in evolution and it said that files had to be removed ,typed in yes and Evolution came up running.(DIIKnow ) but it worked. On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 13:43, Yoel Krigsman wrote: > What was the cli command to upgrade the evolution? > ___ > Sent wi

Re: [newbie] motherboard recommendations

2003-05-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday May 28 2003 11:53 am, John Drouhard wrote: > I was considering upgrading my computer with a new motherboard > and processor. I was highly considering the Asus A7N8X which uses > the nforce2 chip set. It does not, however, have on-board video, > so i was gonna get a radeon 9500 pro and

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