Re: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-09 Thread FemmeFatale
At 07:05 PM 6/9/2003 +0300, you wrote: snip I install Linux a lot because: 1. I like to break things. 2. It's often quicker to reinstall the system than work out how to fix it. When our department bought us a CD-Writer, I spent a while trying to configure it, then thought This is boring and did a

Re: [newbie] Apache question

2003-06-09 Thread Steven Broos
What exactly do you want to come up, when you type in what IP ? Maybe you can give an example or so ? Steven On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 20:27, Yves Arsenault wrote: Hello again, I'm pleased to report that my site now comes up, Bind works well, Apache works well. Now when I type in the IP

Re: [newbie] Dear Steve: Time for Microsoft Linux?

2003-06-09 Thread Charlie
quoting Alan Dunford's missive of Monday 09 June 2003 09:23 am: A friend sent this to me - thought it might be of some interest!!! None, zero, nada, zilch, don't waste the bandwidth. WHACK rant I said it a couple of years ago on the ZDNet Talk back net forum and I'll say it this one last

Re[6]: [newbie] Privacy in linux?

2003-06-09 Thread rikona
Hello Frankie, Sunday, June 8, 2003, 11:54:45 PM, you wrote: F I made a point of not using cookies on our gateway.. For the simple F reason that you can't guarantee that the user will accept them or F that the client is capable of accepting them.. Agreed. I block most cookies, but know to allow

Re[4]: [newbie] Spammers

2003-06-09 Thread rikona
Hello Derek, Monday, June 9, 2003, 12:00:57 AM, you wrote: DJ Spamassassin does need to be updated periodically since spammers DJ specifically set out to try to get low spamassassin scores, but DJ updating consists simply of 'urpmi spamassassin' Very informative, as usual. :-) -- Thank you,

[newbie] Test

2003-06-09 Thread Johan
Test Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Optimizing my system

2003-06-09 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 09 June 2003 12:47 pm, Steven Broos wrote: Install the nvidia drivers. You can find them @ www.nvidia.com there should be info about how to install... If you start X, you first get a NVIDIA splash-screen. If you don't see that, the correct drivers are not installed. Another way

Re: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-09 Thread N. B. Day
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 13:56, Cody Harris wrote: Hack away all the HTML crap Cody, if you're going to quote _all_ of several messages and include a one sentence reply, please stop the HTML or get another mailer or start using linux or at least snip some of it. On the weekends I'm on pay by the

[newbie] root password expired.

2003-06-09 Thread Ze Ji Li
Hi there, My root password expired. I can't su and login from the terminals. Is there anyway I can reset it? Thank you. Ze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] XFCE4....er....starting?

2003-06-09 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 22:13, todd wrote: On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 10:03:17PM +1000, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Damn...thought I'd end my day with a new WM to play with - BUT THERE AIN'T NO DAMN STARTXFCE4 in the RPM's Ah well, ah hell...guess I have to muck around with it tomorrow... Yeah,

Re: [newbie] XFCE4....er....starting?

2003-06-09 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 22:59, JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 08:13:54 -0400 todd [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Yeah, did you see the startup script on my d/l page? If you just save that as .xsession and make it executable it'll start when you startx. If you're using kdm or gdm, select

Re[2]: [newbie] 2nd time around

2003-06-09 Thread rikona
Hello Anne, Monday, June 9, 2003, 2:39:53 AM, you wrote: AW file:/home/anne/.mozilla/anne/adny06ea.slt/bookmarks.html - change AW to suit yours. Thanks you very much for the file! It was VERY helpful. It turns out that, in the process of moving around and/or adding bookmarks, the actual

Re: [newbie] root password expired.

2003-06-09 Thread Troy Davidson
Ze, Restart the computer and put it into single user mode. At either LILO or GRUB, type 'linux 1' at the prompt. Then, once the computer has started, go into a terminal and type in 'su'. You won't need to enter in a password. Type in 'userconf' and change the root password. Reboot the

[newbie] Test

2003-06-09 Thread Johan
Toets Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] FTP Access

2003-06-09 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 04:44:25PM -0300, Cody Harris wrote: Could someone give me off list assistance with ProFTPD? I know this is the wrong place but... -Cody Harris I've used it before, whatcha need? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] X crashing problem

2003-06-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday June 9 2003 02:44 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: i don't know if it applies to linux but in windows 128 is normal...not matter what size your video ram is. Tho 64 is safe if you feel 128 is pushing it too hard. It'll probly never go to 64 even if it set higher. Set aperature to 4mb

Re: [newbie] Solving needed packages

2003-06-09 Thread Trey Sizemore
Still no go...also, I've noticed last night and today that when I urpmi.udate -a that some or the sources (main, contrib, updates) are failing. Has anyone else experienced this lately? On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 06:49, JoeHill wrote: On 09 Jun 2003 00:37:49 -0400 Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Copy/paste question

2003-06-09 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 23:47, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Works fine from say, web sights to kedit, or kedit to kedit... Or Klipper to kedit. Odd eh? Have you checked the connection between the chair and the keyboard? -- Tue Jun 10 07:15:00 EST 2003 07:15:00 up 2 days, 17:06, 3 users, load

Re[4]: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-09 Thread rikona
Hello Cody, Monday, June 9, 2003, 3:24:51 AM, you wrote: Linux is clearly better in installing new apps. CH I don't restart after every install. Most of the time it runs anyways CH without a problem and restarting is unneeded. But if i do have to restart, CH i only restart AFTER i'm done.

Re: [newbie] HIJACKED: Linux viruses

2003-06-09 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 00:15, RichardA wrote: I think that's a wild exaggeration. I surfed for years using Win98 and never once had a problem. Admittedly I was cautious, and later started using Eudora, Opera and ZoneAlarm, but I started out with IE, OE etc. Look at XP. It was released with a

Re[4]: [newbie] Privacy in linux?

2003-06-09 Thread rikona
Hello Aron, Monday, June 9, 2003, 4:50:42 AM, you wrote: AS But most of the time (and this is one of the reasons that I will AS not buy on line) they want a lot of information before you can AS even price check an item True - I also find this very irritating! Never buy from such places - there

Re: [newbie] FTP Access

2003-06-09 Thread Cody Harris
I need a second annoymous FTP account called r-and-e. I need it to be in folder /mnt/network/r-and-e. The conf file and documentation kinda confuses me. Oh, this folder can't be witeable either. At 05:03 PM 6/9/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 04:44:25PM -0300, Cody Harris wrote:

Re: [newbie] Dear Steve: Time for Microsoft Linux?

2003-06-09 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 01:23, Alan Dunford wrote: A friend sent this to me - thought it might be of some interest!!! Classic. Very Classic. -- Tue Jun 10 07:30:00 EST 2003 07:30:00 up 2 days, 17:21, 3 users, load average: 0.04, 0.09, 0.08

Re[2]: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-09 Thread Cody Harris
At 03:04 PM 6/9/2003 -0700, you wrote: Hello N., Monday, June 9, 2003, 1:51:38 PM, you wrote: NBD Cody, if you're going to quote _all_ of several messages and NBD include a one sentence reply, please stop the HTML It would seem as though he does not know how to do this, and what non-M$ email

Re: [newbie] HIJACKED: FTP Access

2003-06-09 Thread Stephen Kuhn
I have to concur with several others about the consistency of getting HTML/RTF mail from you, Cody. If you can't either abide by the rules of the mailing list, or give consideration to others as per numerous request, you should seriously consider where exactly you stand as an honourable member of

Re: [newbie] SCSI Emulation ??

2003-06-09 Thread JoeHill
On 09 Jun 2003 16:48:20 -0500 Langsley T Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: A couple of weeks ago I installed a new CDRW drive on my LM 8.2 machine with the intention of backing up many home directory files in preparation for installing 9.1. Since that time I've been trying to set up ide-scsi

Re[2]: [newbie] HIJACKED: Linux viruses

2003-06-09 Thread rikona
Hello Stephen, Monday, June 9, 2003, 2:28:40 PM, you wrote: SK I'll not make any further allusions to that comment about wild SK exaggeration, Richard. Truth be told, you have absolutely no idea SK what is going on with a Windows machine when it's on the net. It's SK getting to be much worse

Re: [newbie] HIJACKED: FTP Access

2003-06-09 Thread Cody Harris
Ok, i'll try plain text. At 08:06 AM 6/10/2003 +1000, you wrote: I have to concur with several others about the consistency of getting HTML/RTF mail from you, Cody. If you can't either abide by the rules of the mailing list, or give consideration to others as per numerous request, you should

Re[2]: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-09 Thread rikona
Hello Cody, Monday, June 9, 2003, 2:33:41 PM, you wrote: CH Hows this? Better. Thanks. It is sent as plain text. rikona - not an HTML Ranter, but an appreciator of good email etiquette. -- Thank you, rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Where should I go first?

2003-06-09 Thread bascule
hi, i've attached my modules.conf, i have an sblive card too, ignore the scsi,usb and eth0 lines :) backup up your current one, and use these lines instead of whatever you have for sound module references, see what happens, if all is working properly you should get something similar to the

Re: [newbie] HTML

2003-06-09 Thread rikona
Hello Cody, Monday, June 9, 2003, 2:34:52 PM, you wrote: some HTML Yep - it's HTML. NO text in the message at all! Very bad for some email clients (TheBat doesn't care though). -- Thank you, rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re[2]: [newbie] HTML

2003-06-09 Thread rikona
Hello Cody, Monday, June 9, 2003, 2:54:29 PM, you wrote: CH It seems if i change the encoding to UU and not Mime, it doesn't change it. True - this only says how it is sent. It's HTML either way. CH I opened up my text mail client and i didn't see any HTML. Look at the raw message with a

Re: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-09 Thread ed tharp
g Installing Linux. The biggest % was installing the packages. It took A LONG time. 200 MHz 32 MB. I used the CDs. so Cody, on that same box, how long did it take to install windows XP? (and include office XP) I would bet... lets see.,...,,, 4ever? as XP, ME, and 2kpro ain't installing

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-09 Thread ed tharp
I can set it to plain. Why do people not use HTML stuff anyways? What would websites look like without HTML? Crap. html belong on websites text belongs on mail lists Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] How contained are crashes?

2003-06-09 Thread Jason
They sometimes leave core dumped files lying around. Those files do no harm but take up LOTS of space. A core dump is data from that program that was in RAM at the time of the crash. Just ocassionally have a look around for .core files and delete them. Other than that, beacuse apps run in

Re: [newbie] How contained are crashes?

2003-06-09 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 16:15:09 -0700 rikona [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I've had a few apps stop running/crash. It does not seem as though there are subsequent consequences - I can seemingly reopen the app and continue. In Win, this is sometimes a problem. Can apps foul up the OS such that it has

Re: [newbie] HIJACKED: FTP Access

2003-06-09 Thread Cody Harris
That's because it is. At 05:17 PM 6/9/2003 -0600, you wrote: At 07:12 PM 6/9/2003 -0300, you wrote: Ok, i'll try plain text. Joy! Don't make it sound so painful though... sheesh. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux.

Re[3]: [newbie] Reasons for Linux

2003-06-09 Thread FemmeFatale
At 03:49 PM 6/9/2003 -0700, you wrote: Hello Cody, snip There are quite a few people who can't read very well, though. Pictures are better for these people. And, some just like the flashing ads, endless popups, etc. Style over substance, I guess. -- Thank you, rikona

Re: [newbie] How contained are crashes?

2003-06-09 Thread Jason
For graphical TOP type ctrl+esc for...and then select the proces to kill =) JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 16:15:09 -0700 rikona [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I've had a few apps stop running/crash. It does not seem as though there are subsequent consequences - I can seemingly reopen the

[newbie] Real Player and Aumix

2003-06-09 Thread J Adam Latham
Hello, Today I installed the Real Player plugin so that I can listen to various radio programs on the web, including Car Talk. Plugin works fine. But there is a problem (it seems) with Aumix. The hour long Car Talk program is broken into 10 or so segments of a few minutes each ... Everytime

Re: [newbie] HIJACKED: FTP Access

2003-06-09 Thread Aron Smith
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 16:23, Cody Harris wrote: That's because it is. WHY? At 05:17 PM 6/9/2003 -0600, you wrote: At 07:12 PM 6/9/2003 -0300, you wrote: Ok, i'll try plain text. Joy! Don't make it sound so painful though... sheesh. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good

Re: [newbie] Test

2003-06-09 Thread Aron Smith
Vas der blinkin light litten ze On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 14:42, Steven Broos wrote: Je moet niet twee keer toetsen niet :-) Steven On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 23:04, Johan wrote: Toets __ Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] DSL

2003-06-09 Thread Aron Smith
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 10:03, RichardA wrote: On 08 Jun 2003 17:53:26 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone Know of a DSL provider here in the Bay Area that if not supporting Linux is at least linux Friendly? eg. easy to set up under Mandrake -- Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Zombie computer

2003-06-09 Thread Aron Smith
I was trying to get the flash player for mozilla and found the RPMs at http://sluglug.usc.edu Whil browsing the readme file I noticed that the box was slow , So I ran top kdeadmin was taking 97% of cpu time what happened? -- Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] FTP Access

2003-06-09 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, 09 Jun 2003 18:29:31 -0300 Cody Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need a second annoymous FTP account called r-and-e. I need it to be in folder /mnt/network/r-and-e. The conf file and documentation kinda confuses me. Oh, this folder can't be witeable either. Well, first you'll need to

Re[2]: [newbie] How contained are crashes?

2003-06-09 Thread rikona
Hello JoeHill, Monday, June 9, 2003, 4:18:32 PM, you wrote: J by running top An interesting utility. J (ya, I know, you prolly already knew that) No, I didn't - I'm a newbie, remember? :-) I've learned about lots of goodies here. -- Thank you, rikona

Re[2]: [newbie] How contained are crashes?

2003-06-09 Thread rikona
Hello Jason, Monday, June 9, 2003, 4:20:48 PM, you wrote: J Just ocassionally have a look around for .core files and delete J them. I did, and didn't find any. J A core dump is data from that program that was in RAM at the time J of the crash. I've had what seemed to be crashes - the pgm

Re: [newbie] SCSI Emulation ??

2003-06-09 Thread John Drouhard
On 09 Jun 2003 16:48:20 -0500 Langsley T Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A couple of weeks ago I installed a new CDRW drive on my LM 8.2 machine with the intention of backing up many home directory files in preparation for installing 9.1. Since that time I've been trying to set up ide-scsi

Re: [newbie] DSL

2003-06-09 Thread Troy Davidson
I hate to sound stupid, but why couldn't you just go with any DSL provider, and get a DSL router-hub? Then, the router can do NAT and firewall and you can put any number of machines behind the router. Just a thought. Not sure if you have already thought of that or not. Troy Davidson Linux

Re: [newbie] HIJACKED: FTP Access

2003-06-09 Thread FemmeFatale
At 08:23 PM 6/9/2003 -0300, you wrote: That's because it is. officially dev/nulled. sigh i give up - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy

Re: [newbie] DSL

2003-06-09 Thread Aron Smith
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 19:47, Troy Davidson wrote: I hate to sound stupid, but why couldn't you just go with any DSL provider, and get a DSL router-hub? Then, the router can do NAT and firewall and you can put any number of machines behind the router. Just a thought. Not sure if you have

Re: [newbie] DSL

2003-06-09 Thread Troy Davidson
Hmmm It might just be the FUD that they are trying to get you to believe. It might just be a salesman who doesn't know what he is talking about. Worst case scenario, you can order the DSL and when they come out to install it, let them do all the work and then spring on them you use Linux.

Re: [newbie] DSL

2003-06-09 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Aron Smith wrote: Anyone Know of a DSL provider here in the Bay Area that if not supporting Linux is at least linux Friendly? eg. easy to set up under Mandrake http://www.speakeasy.net/ these folks actually favor linux users. -- Alan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Ogg/Vorbis and Mandrake 9.1 * SOLVED the Player *

2003-06-09 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, 09 Jun 2003 13:49:18 +1200 Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, they had a hardware (personal walman type) in mind. I just set up a site: www.flashcards.co.nz (shameless free plug) where we also sell these types of players but in all of our attempts, we have not had success in

Re: [newbie] Scanner problem on mdk 9.1

2003-06-09 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 12:51, Poogle wrote: On Sunday 08 Jun 2003 H:24 pm, Marco Verheul wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 10:11, Poogle wrote: snip When I do cat /proc/bus/usb/devices I get exactly that, except for the ProdID that is different from yours e26. My ProdID 0x208f is similar

Re: [newbie] DSL

2003-06-09 Thread Aron Smith
I'm checking them out as right now thanks and a tip of Tuxs flipper to you On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 20:18, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Aron Smith wrote: Anyone Know of a DSL provider here in the Bay Area that if not supporting Linux is at least linux Friendly? eg. easy to set up under Mandrake

Re: [newbie] DSL

2003-06-09 Thread Aron Smith
On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 19:59, Troy Davidson wrote: Hmmm It might just be the FUD that they are trying to get you to believe. It might just be a salesman who doesn't know what he is talking about. Worst case scenario, you can order the DSL and when they come out to install it, let them do

[newbie] Halfway home w/ Galeon and mailto:

2003-06-09 Thread James Henry Maiewski
Hello, I am trying to coax the Galeon browser to use the Kmail composer when I click a mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] thingy. Thanks to this list I got to the gnome control center; thence: advanced-file types and programs-internet services-add file type. I then typed mailto into the

Re: [newbie] Ogg/Vorbis and Mandrake 9.1 * SOLVED the Player *

2003-06-09 Thread Jason
Yes, good value for that type of thing eh =) Nice work!! Cheers Jason Todd Slater wrote: On Mon, 09 Jun 2003 13:49:18 +1200 Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, they had a hardware (personal walman type) in mind. I just set up a site: www.flashcards.co.nz (shameless free plug) where we

[newbie] Fonts - again

2003-06-09 Thread Rafe
O.K. so I guess this is still an issue. I have been reading about fonts in Linux from several web sites, but still need help with this. Mandrake 9.1 -KDE (3.1) running in the 1024x768 @60 Hz with 24bpd graphics mode. I have downloaded and installed all the updates for this system. Athlon

[newbie] DSL?

2003-06-09 Thread Thomas Williams
OK, so here's the deal. Come Monday I will be getting DSL from sprint installed. When I mentioned running linux it didn't seem to be a problem for them. I'm still running 8.1 and will be until after I get the DSL up and working. I want to continue the connection sharing that I've been running

Re: [newbie] DSL?

2003-06-09 Thread Aron Smith
Hey gang we definitely need a newbie How2 on this also a list of questions to ask the DSL provider On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 22:39, Thomas Williams wrote: OK, so here's the deal. Come Monday I will be getting DSL from sprint installed. When I mentioned running linux it didn't seem to be a problem

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