Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 00:55, Technoslick wrote: What are the advantages of using dhcp for such small network of three computers. Kindly explain. I have fixed ips for my LAN of 5 PCs. Just my two cents: I've always considered DHCP to be the lazy way out of a situation; that is, unless

Re: [newbie] NVidia and TV out

2003-06-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 01:02, Mark Annandale wrote: G'day folks Anyone had any success with enabling TV out on a NVidia AGP graphics card. I had a quick look around the NVidia website but only found reference to winblows stuff. My card is a MX440 if its any help, and works fine under

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 01:13, Wm. G. Urquhart wrote: Hi Thanks for the quick reply. I've just tested my OpenOffice (Using Write) and it load in 14 seconds this is on a Dual Processor 200Mhz (yes! 200Mhz) running 9.1 with 1Gb RAM a 56Gb SCSI RAIDed disk subsystem, and a TNT2 M64 32MB Video.

Re: [newbie] gkrellm

2003-06-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 01:46, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 08:23:05 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: note the 3rd sensors is physically not there in the first place and so the programme makes it up. temp3:+209.0°C (limit = +60°C, hysteresis = +50°C)

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 02:08, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 19:02:44 +0300 manolis [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: how can I preload it ? I have mandrake 9.1 and I am using OO very often... thanks in advance Sorry, I don't go within 6 miles of Gnome or KDE. But if you check on the OO

Re: [newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamically opening ports in Linksys router]

2003-06-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 15 Jun 2003 10:08 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 00:31, Technoslick wrote: I've got LICQ configured on my MDK 9.1 workstation with my ICQ accounts. I tried to open the needed ports on my router for a full chat session, but it doesn't seem to be working. I cannot

Re: [newbie] harddrive activity every few seconds?

2003-06-15 Thread eric huff
Ok, got my computer runnin again... About every 4-5 seconds i get a small blip of harddrive activity. On gkrellm it shows up usu as 66K, sometimes 106K. I'm running ML 9.1, with ReiserFS, if that helps. It could be swap, could be even gKrellm itself reading the drives - have you

Re: [newbie] harddrive activity every few seconds?

2003-06-15 Thread eric huff
About every 4-5 seconds i get a small blip of harddrive activity. On gkrellm it shows up usu as 66K, sometimes 106K. I'm running ML 9.1, with ReiserFS, if that helps. It does help. Reiser accesses the drive about every 5 seconds to update it's journals. I had the same question when I

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 02:48, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 17:29:21 + (UTC) Wm. G. Urquhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: OT But what GUI do you use if you don't use KDE or Gnome since you're using a GUI mail client? Pekwm! The best! Beats Fluxbox, Blackbox, beats em all by a

Re: [newbie] NVidia and TV out

2003-06-15 Thread Jason Guidry
Mark Annandale wrote: Funnily enough, a quick search on google brought the following link up 'http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/29/2147241mode=thread'. Sorry if I wasted anyones time. Didn't waste mine, I will eventually need to know how to do this. Thanks! Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] random playlist generator

2003-06-15 Thread Steven Broos
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 22:30, Todd Slater wrote: I'm looking for a program/script that will generate a random playlist of all my oggs. Know of such a thing? Todd Can't you do this with xmms ? Steven Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Bad Installation Cd - Feel like an Idiot Now

2003-06-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 04:45, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 14:32:21 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Oh, and don't feel like an idiot, all of us went through this at some point, except maybe Stephen Kuhn and Tom Brinkman, who were born with ubergeek in them... I've done more stupid

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Sunday 15 June 2003 18:28, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 02:08, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 19:02:44 +0300 manolis [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: how can I preload it ? I have mandrake 9.1 and I am using OO very often... thanks in advance Sorry, I don't go

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-15 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 15 Jun 2003 7:23 pm, Ralph Bagwell wrote: Hi Joe, I have gaim up and working just fine with AOL,MSN and Yahoo messenger programs. I was never able to follow your instructions using urpmi - I tried : urpmi.addmedia texstar ftp://ftp.bahcesehir.edu.tr/pub/texstar/mandrake/9.1/rpms

Re: [newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamically openingports in Linksys router]

2003-06-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 07:34, Anne Wilson wrote: Linux isn't going to necessarily TELL you what program wants to use a port - just that a port is requesting to be opened. Just force open the ICQ ports and you should be right. How do you do that, Stephen? Anne With the understanding

Re: [newbie] random playlist generator

2003-06-15 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 23:51:56 +0200 Steven Broos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 22:30, Todd Slater wrote: I'm looking for a program/script that will generate a random playlist of all my oggs. Know of such a thing? Todd Can't you do this with xmms ? Steven It will

Re: [newbie] gkrellm

2003-06-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday June 15 2003 12:06 pm, Chris wrote: It works!!! The pc health shows cpu temp, mobo temp, fan speed and voltages. The power supply btw is an Enermax 330W max and says it meets P4 specs. I rewrote my rc.local and ran the script as root and voila, gkrellm reports everything. Thanks

Re: [newbie] harddrive activity every few seconds?

2003-06-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 07:46, eric huff wrote: About every 4-5 seconds i get a small blip of harddrive activity. On gkrellm it shows up usu as 66K, sometimes 106K. I'm running ML 9.1, with ReiserFS, if that helps. It does help. Reiser accesses the drive about every 5 seconds to

Re: [newbie] random playlist generator

2003-06-15 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 17:55:05 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 23:51:56 +0200 Steven Broos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 22:30, Todd Slater wrote: I'm looking for a program/script that will generate a random playlist of all my oggs. Know

Re: [newbie] Bad Installation Cd - Feel like an Idiot Now

2003-06-15 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 15 Jun 2003 7:32 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, i found the problem. i'm not burning the Cd as an ISO image, and i just found in my CD burn program that i can select to burn data in ISO. one quick question do all 3 CDs need to be ISO? i would think they do, but want to

Re: [newbie] I feel so stupid

2003-06-15 Thread revolt
Ralph Bagwell wrote: Hi Joe, I have gaim up and working just fine with AOL,MSN and Yahoo messenger programs. Glad to hear it. Hope it works well for you, it has for me on the few occassions i wanted to use it. I was never able to follow your instructions using urpmi - I tried : urpmi.addmedia

Re: [newbie] random playlist generator

2003-06-15 Thread Steven Broos
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 23:55, Todd Slater wrote: I want it to generate a random playlist from all of my music (where I can specify a directory and have it recurse). Open the playlist in xmms, hold mousebutton down on the button '+file', you get a popup menu. choose +dir, choose your directory,

Re: [newbie] Bad Installation Cd

2003-06-15 Thread eric huff
On Sunday 15 June 2003 11:28 am, JoeHill wrote: That's the prob. You need to download an ISO and burn it to CD, then it should boot and install fine. But as noted, definitely grab all three CDs, or at least the first 2. On the Mandrake site you will see specific download locations for ISO

Re: [newbie] Still No SCSI Emulation ??

2003-06-15 Thread Langsley T Russell
Hi again John. You said: What exactly does it do when you try to edit the file as root? It should work. Here is a copy and paste from my terminal of exactly what I entered and the response it got. [EMAIL PROTECTED] langsley]# /etc/lilo.conf bash: /etc/lilo.conf: Permission

Re: [newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamically openingports in Linksys router]

2003-06-15 Thread Technoslick
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 17:08, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 00:31, Technoslick wrote: I've got LICQ configured on my MDK 9.1 workstation with my ICQ accounts. I tried to open the needed ports on my router for a full chat session, but it doesn't seem to be working. I cannot

Re: [newbie] harddrive activity every few seconds?

2003-06-15 Thread eric huff
My light flashes about every 10 seconds - but I've also disabled FAM as a service, and tweaked my EIDE drives with hdparm - but it's a quick blink and nothing major - nothing ever skips a beat - even when doing something disk intensive. Both EIDE's are ReiserFS, both SCSI's are ReiserFS. And

Re: [newbie] NVidia and TV out

2003-06-15 Thread Mark Annandale
For those people looking for the same solution as me, this message solved it. Output is perfext and strangely enough, using kmplayer in full screen mode is even better then ' the other OS'. Thanks again guys for the quick solution. Mark A On Sunday 15 Jun 2003 6:43 pm, Francisco Alcaraz

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-15 Thread FemmeFatale
At 11:24 AM 6/14/2003 +0100, you wrote: snip It is showing eth0 as having a virtual interface eth0:9 associated with it which has been assigned the ip address 169.252.233.128. But didn't you say your Router assigns addresses in the 10.10.10.0 range? Is the 169.252.x.x network anything to do with

Re: [newbie] gkrellm

2003-06-15 Thread Chris
On Sunday 15 June 2003 04:59 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: Enermax is currently one'a the best, sounds great! Does it also have the special P4 connector? Sure does, But, not sure from your success (BTW, congratulations ;) what fixed it? Please tell us just what you did, so others on the list

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-15 Thread g
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, someone needs to explain to me WTF i'm supposed to do here, i have been following this thread thru your various 'subject:' lines and can well imagine state of mind you may be in. if you would, please answer a couple of questions; 1 - where are you trying to

Re: [newbie] The Mysterious Vanishing Title Bar

2003-06-15 Thread Glenn
Well, the wording of this reply goes to show you what a couple of Rum 'n' Cokes will do for clarity. I meant that having used Windows makes you think the available options are fewer than there really are g. Glenn On Sunday 15 June 2003 03:35 pm, Glenn wrote: Well, duh. Thanks, Steven.

Re: [newbie] Help with gnome default browser

2003-06-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 10:15, Terence J. Golightly wrote: Greetings fellow Newbies, My name is Terry Golightly and I have been a member of the list for some time now, but I don't post often, so if this has been discussed please excuse and point me to the url where I can best get my problem

Re: [newbie] Help with gnome default browser

2003-06-15 Thread Steven Broos
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 02:15, Terence J. Golightly wrote: if this has been discussed please excuse and point me ... Indeed, this is discussed before :-) I have changed my default browser from Mozilla to Opera from the Gnome configuration app. and edited Gconf directly no go. What can be done

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-15 Thread Chuck Stuettgen
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 16:14, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 00:55, Technoslick wrote: What are the advantages of using dhcp for such small network of three computers. Kindly explain. I have fixed ips for my LAN of 5 PCs. Just my two cents: I've always considered DHCP

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread JoeHill
On 16 Jun 2003 09:43:18 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Picky picky picky. I shouldn't say really, I have yet to try XFCE4. I'm just not a big fan of icons and taskbars. -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net 20:55:47 up 21:35, 1 user,

[newbie] Piss-ant web site

2003-06-15 Thread Charles A Edwards
Well, I finally put up a half-ass web site at http://www.eslrahc.com/ There you can dl Mandrake-9.1 rpms for sylpheed-0.9.0claws And just for John Richard d4x-2.4.1-2mdk I will periodical upload other rpms, normally those I rebuild to use on my 9.1 system, but I may occasionally build/rebuild

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 20:56:33 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 16 Jun 2003 09:43:18 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Picky picky picky. I shouldn't say really, I have yet to try XFCE4. I'm just not a big fan of icons and taskbars. I like a taskbar but I do not

[newbie] Linux equivalent of PaperPort

2003-06-15 Thread Miark
I need something like PaperPort. Kooka is along the right lines, but it's too clunky and unsophisticated. Any suggestions? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-15 Thread walt
[ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 7:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] i'm resisting buying a copy of the software as well, as i don't feel i should have to pay even 2 cents for an operating

Re: [newbie] Driver for Canon i320 printer for linux mandrake 9.1

2003-06-15 Thread Teddy Widhi Laksono
Thank you for your sugestion. Teddy From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Driver for Canon i320 printer for linux mandrake 9.1 Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 19:00:54 +0100 On Sunday 15 Jun 2003 3:58 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On

Re: [newbie] Piss-ant web site

2003-06-15 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 21:11:37 -0400 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Well, I finally put up a half-ass web site What does that make mine?! 1/8th ass? -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net 21:39:21 up 22:19, 1 user, load average: 0.00,

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to mycomputer

2003-06-15 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 21:26:09 -0400 walt [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: i'm resisting buying a copy of the software as well, as i don't feel i should have to pay even 2 cents for an operating system, even if it's paying for shipping (and i feel the same way about virus programs). thanks

Re: [newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamically openingports in Linksys router]

2003-06-15 Thread Technoslick
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 19:40, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 08:23, Technoslick wrote: So, what do you think? If 'licq' is running, is *it* requesting the ports or some other supporting program? If the latter, any idea what that/they might be? I would have thought someone using

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 16:13:16 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 16:05:19 -0400 Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: But I don't think it beats ratpoison by a country mile in terms of speed. Not certain it beats it at all, in that department.

Re: [newbie] Piss-ant web site

2003-06-15 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 21:39:54 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does that make mine?! 1/8th ass? I was speaking of 'quality' not 'quantity' Charles -- A fail-safe circuit will destroy others. -- Klipstein - Mandrake Linux 9.2 on

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Michael Scottaline
On 16 Jun 2003 07:46:43 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 02:48, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 17:29:21 + (UTC) Wm. G. Urquhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: OT But what GUI do you use if you don't use KDE or Gnome since you're using a

Re: [newbie] [Fwd: [Mandrake Off Topic] LICQ/Dynamically openingports in Linksys router]

2003-06-15 Thread Technoslick
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 19:45, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 08:46, Technoslick wrote: Untrue, Stephen. Every application that communicates through a port, or series of ports, has a signature, for lack of a better term. It's best to explain through the Windows end just

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 20:56:33 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: On 16 Jun 2003 09:43:18 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Picky picky picky. I shouldn't say really, I have yet to try XFCE4. I'm just not a big fan of icons and taskbars.

Re: [newbie] Bad Installation Cd - Feel like an Idiot Now

2003-06-15 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 15 June 2003 04:54 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 04:45, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 14:32:21 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Oh, and don't feel like an idiot, all of us went through this at some point, except maybe Stephen Kuhn and Tom Brinkman, who

Re: [newbie] Still No SCSI Emulation ??

2003-06-15 Thread John Drouhard
On 15 Jun 2003 17:17:45 -0500 Langsley T Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again John. You said: What exactly does it do when you try to edit the file as root? It should work. Here is a copy and paste from my terminal of exactly what I entered and the response it got.

Re: [newbie] Piss-ant web site

2003-06-15 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 22:07:26 -0400 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I was speaking of 'quality' not 'quantity' h, I don't know whether that makes me feel any better, at least you've got some well-built and useful rpms up there. If you want to steal some of the code from my

Re: [newbie] Bad Installation Cd - Feel like an Idiot Now

2003-06-15 Thread JoeHill
On 16 Jun 2003 07:54:13 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I've done more stupid things in the past 25 years than anyone can imagine...(God, this month marks 25 frigging years of geeking for me! Shite! And I'm only 40!!!) Yowzah. My sweet lord, you've only got 4 years on me. What

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 22:06:28 -0400 Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: `course, we could all just use emacs as our OS/wm and be done with it, no? ;) Time for a Homer quote: Donuts...is there *anything* they can't do...? -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage:

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 22:04:25 -0400 Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Don't ya just LOVE having *choice*! Long Live Linux!! That is why I fall in love every day that I use it. I remember a quote from long ago (man is this thread hijacked): When using Windows, 30 minutes feels

[newbie] Let's jump this arsewipe!

2003-06-15 Thread JoeHill
From Brainless, sorry, I mean Nameless Foo on PCLinuxOnline: Mandrake is a mess with huge depend problems and mixed toolkits. Not a very good desktop distro solution. Thats my take. Make your voice heard! http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=6933 -- Joehill

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long...

2003-06-15 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 15 June 2003 05:20 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 01:13, Wm. G. Urquhart wrote: Hi Thanks for the quick reply. I've just tested my OpenOffice (Using Write) and it load in 14 seconds this is on a Dual Processor 200Mhz (yes! 200Mhz) running 9.1 with 1Gb RAM a 56Gb

Re: [newbie] Install - i'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer

2003-06-15 Thread crak600
Yeah, i've been frustrated. i've got one computer (the PC) that for some reason i can't get linux to load on, and my laptop is DOA for an unknown reason (has something to do with an accidental drop a while back, but it worked afterwards). I've been extremely frustrated with both all day, as

Re: [newbie] Piss-ant web site

2003-06-15 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 15 June 2003 09:11 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: Well, I finally put up a half-ass web site at http://www.eslrahc.com/ There you can dl Mandrake-9.1 rpms for sylpheed-0.9.0claws And just for John Richard d4x-2.4.1-2mdk I will periodical upload other rpms, normally those I rebuild

[newbie] Dlink USB Radio

2003-06-15 Thread Nathan Coad
Hi. I've got a usb radio that I'd like to use with mandrake 9.1 Running lsusb gives: Bus 003 Device 001: ID : Bus 002 Device 001: ID : Bus 001 Device 001: ID : Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04b4:1002 Cypress Semiconductor CY7C63001 R100 FM Radio So I know its detected. What I

Re: [newbie] Mail program for Linux and windows?

2003-06-15 Thread Wm. G. Urquhart
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Saturday 14 June 2003 16:33, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 3:31 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 2:13 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 14 June 2003 08:25 am, Gareth Qually wrote: I need an e-mail program

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