Re: [newbie] Bookmarks in Galeon

2003-06-17 Thread eric huff
> >Bookmark _saving_ is one area where, i hate to say it, none of > > the browsers i have tried in linux works as well as internet > > explorer. Editing, that's a diff story, but the bookmark > > filing in IE is pretty good. > > > I agree. At least Konqueror arranges them in alphabetical oder in >

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

2003-06-17 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Damian Gatabria wrote: On Tuesday 17 June 2003 01:33, eric huff wrote: So, in the end, it did have something to do with networking... -A INPUT -s 127.0.0.1 -d 127.0.0.1 -p tcp -j ACCEPT Sorry if i missed it: where does this go? That's an iptables

Re: [newbie] Bookmarks in Galeon

2003-06-17 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
eric huff wrote: -press F9 to open the sidebar -select the "Bookmarks" tab (will then be selected the next time you open the sidebar) -arrange the bookmarks by alpabetical orer by clicking "Name" until I can't believe I didn't see that I misspelled alphabetical.  Man!!! Order as wel

Re: [newbie] Spontaneous desktop switching

2003-06-17 Thread Miark
On 15 Jun 2003 08:42:40 +1000 Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 08:16, Miark wrote: > > I'm using Texstar's KDE 3.1.2. Every once in a while, the desktop > > will switch to another desktop by itself. I can't see any pattern > > to it either, so I don't know what's tri

[newbie] kde 3.1 problem, no mouse

2003-06-17 Thread David E Fox
I seem to have lost my mouse... It was working fine, and I switched to some stuff on the second desktop. For whatever reason I haven't been able to get the mouse to move again. I'm a bit crippled, trying to select between windows via alt-tab, using keyboard maneuvering (no kbd shortcut to change

[newbie] pr0n

2003-06-17 Thread eric huff
> I love putty. > > (That's a pretty racy statement taken out of context, eh?) LOL! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] USB Flashdrive

2003-06-17 Thread Aron Smith
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 08:43, James Henry Maiewski wrote: > Hello, > > Try...I can't seem to find it in the archives, but it may be that you need to > add multi-lun capability. > > enter: echo "scsi add-single-device R C T L">/proc/scsi/scsi > where:R=scsi control number (see /proc

[newbie] take out the trash

2003-06-17 Thread Todd Slater
I hadn't emptied the trash in my email (Sylpheed Claws) for some time. I had 10,575 messages there, about 3,400 unread. I selected them all (took a couple of minutes) and deleted them (took about 5 minutes). Man, what a difference it makes in speed! Starting Sylpheed is so much faster now. Who'd a

Re: [newbie] favorite ssh for windows?

2003-06-17 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 16 June 2003 11:42 pm, Miark wrote: > I love putty. > Me too, I use it to tunnel vnc and it works great. I carry the PuTTy client and the TightVNC viewer around on a USB Pen Drive and it allows me to connect to my machine from any other machine I am at. You can set it up in this fash

Re[2]: [newbie] Max HD size & backup?

2003-06-17 Thread rikona
Hello Brant, Tuesday, June 17, 2003, 12:52:50 PM, you wrote: BF> Here is a page comparing the different journaling file systems. Thanks - these are indeed impressive numbers. My worries are gone. BF> If you are running a file server ext3 might not be a good idea BF> because it is relatively slo

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

2003-06-17 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Tuesday 17 June 2003 01:33, eric huff wrote: > > So, in the end, it did have something to do with networking... > > > > -A INPUT -s 127.0.0.1 -d 127.0.0.1 -p tcp -j ACCEPT > > Sorry if i missed it: where does this go? That's an iptables rule (a firewall rule). It goes in whatever file you use t

[newbie] Image Win partitions from linux floppy?

2003-06-17 Thread rikona
Hello, I've been snooping around to find backup/imaging solutions. Partimage supposedly can image FAT & NT partitions. Would it be possible to boot Mandrake from a floppy (on a Win Machine), and use partimage to image a primary disk to a removable secondary disk? If so, my Ghost could fade into ob

Re: [newbie] USB Flashdrive

2003-06-17 Thread James Henry Maiewski
Hello, Try...I can't seem to find it in the archives, but it may be that you need to add multi-lun capability. enter: echo "scsi add-single-device R C T L">/proc/scsi/scsi where: R=scsi control number (see /proc/scsi/scsi) C=channel number (always 0) T=ta

Re: [newbie] aRTS-less question.

2003-06-17 Thread James Henry Maiewski
Hello, I've read that there should be one and only one artsd running. I have two right off the bat, and playing a file gives me more (with more than one saying that they're using the processor. Can this be good news? In any event, "/sbin/fuser -v /dev/dsp" gives nothing even when a f

Re: [newbie] favorite ssh for windows?

2003-06-17 Thread Miark
I love putty. Miark (That's a pretty racy statement taken out of context, eh?) On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 08:46:44 -0700 eric huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > Anyone have a favorite ssh program for win2000? I need to get it on my > machine at work. > > I googled, but there seemed t

Re: [newbie] favorite ssh for windows?

2003-06-17 Thread eric huff
Thanks for the info, folks. Our IT guy at work is intrigued, as well. (was using a paid for version with lotsa installing...) > > Putty is small and fantastic: > > > > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html > i second that > reasons (amongst others): > 1. single exe fi

Re: [newbie] USB Flashdrive

2003-06-17 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 18:40:39 -0700 Aron Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 05:09, Todd Slater wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 02:08:59AM -0700, Aron Smith wrote: > > > I Finaly got the USB Flashdrive working in a R/W mode but where my > > > WinDoze box sees it as 2 32mb dr

Re: [newbie] Networking

2003-06-17 Thread Miark
Run drakxservices and turn off zeroconf. Miark On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 22:20:05 -0400 Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bryan Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > > but mandrake's configuration has bootp, dhcp and zeroconf on the same > > > line. > > > Is there anyway to remove the zero

Re: [newbie] Cleanup a failed install

2003-06-17 Thread eric huff
> Please, if you could do two things, do not post in HTML and limit the > line wrap in your mail client to 72 chars. Many people on here use All true, of course. Where does the 72 come from? I keep bumping mine down everytime someone recs a # lower than mine :) (i was at 75 til just now). I

Re: [newbie] Bookmarks in Galeon

2003-06-17 Thread eric huff
> -press F9 to open the sidebar > -select the "Bookmarks" tab (will then be selected the next time you > open the sidebar) > -arrange the bookmarks by alpabetical orer by clicking "Name" until > satisfied (this only needs to be done the first time you manage your > bookmarks in this manner) > -scro

Re: [newbie] Installed...part 2..what can i do now......

2003-06-17 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 17 June 2003 09:56 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 17 Jun 2003 at 1:50, FemmeFatale wrote: > > agreed... i suspect i hold the record for "most reinstalls in one day" > > & "fastest OS crasher" in the western hemisphere...lol... and all i do > > is surf, email, IM & um... fubar the syst

Re: [newbie] Install - iit's working...almost

2003-06-17 Thread FemmeFatale
At 08:01 PM 6/17/2003 -0400, you wrote: FemmeFatale wrote: > > grab MDSummer for windows. works great & it allows you to MD5 stuff > from an environment you're familiar with. > Where do you find that? -- Brant Fitzsimmons google for it is the simplest thing..if you come up blank just email me off

Re: [newbie] Networking

2003-06-17 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 19:31:23 -0400 Bryan Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > but mandrake's configuration has bootp, dhcp and zeroconf on the same > line. where are you seeing this? > Is there anyway to remove the zeroconf while still leaving the > rest of the networking intact? Or anyway to

[newbie] SCOING, SCOING, SCONE!

2003-06-17 Thread JoeHill
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/16/1728253 -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + People say Linux is ugly. How does that make you feel? + Torvalds: They'll be the first against the wall when the revolution + comes.

Re: [newbie] aRTS-less question.

2003-06-17 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 3:25 pm, James Henry Maiewski wrote: > Hello, > > After some more blind (and deaf [let's leave dumb out of this]) fumbling > with the sound system [SB Live! 5.1, ML 9.1, KDE], I've discovered that, > unlike 9.0, the command "/sbin/fuser -v /dev/dsp" gives no responce at

Re: [newbie] upgrading to XFree86 4.3.0

2003-06-17 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 17 June 2003 07:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I am looking to upgrade to 4.3.0 on my Dell laptop running LM9. I > downloaded all the rpms from the cooker but I'm not sure if it will install > correctly on Mandrake 9. The reason for this is that I upgraded to a M9 > Radeon card

Re: [newbie] NTFS ?

2003-06-17 Thread John Richard Smith
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 15:30:43 -0600 FemmeFatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Smart but it makes windows think later (if you try their GUIed partitioner) that something is wrong. Just a comment/warning here. I have, without problem, on various systems used PM, S

Re: [newbie] Install - iit's working...almost

2003-06-17 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
FemmeFatale wrote: > > grab MDSummer for windows. works great & it allows you to MD5 stuff > from an environment you're familiar with. > Where do you find that? -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently oppose

Re: [newbie] video editing

2003-06-17 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 04:46, fifner the dragon wrote: > Hi, > > is there anyone who can recomend a good video editing program like final cut or > premiere? > > Thanks in advance, > Fifner Cinelerra and "Linux Video Studio" ...although Cinelerra rocks... -- Wed Jun 18 09:55:01 EST 2003 09:55

Re: [newbie] Bookmarks in Galeon

2003-06-17 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 01:49, Maurice O'Connor wrote: > I have tried to put a current page into bookmarks. I can't find a > solution although I looked at every option provided by the menu system. > I am new to Galeon and maybe I messed up somewhere or I don't know what > to look for. Is there a w

[newbie] Another super newbie question

2003-06-17 Thread Ralph Bagwell
My 9.1 install went "so-so" on my "left" machine ( I simply replaced the drive - installed XP - left half of the 40 GB available - ) Four "things" failed to install - two from the first disk and two from the second disk. When Linux failed to boot , I selected "Linux - nonfb" and it booted .

[newbie] upgrading to XFree86 4.3.0

2003-06-17 Thread basic
Hi, I am looking to upgrade to 4.3.0 on my Dell laptop running LM9. I downloaded all the rpms from the cooker but I'm not sure if it will install correctly on Mandrake 9. The reason for this is that I upgraded to a M9 Radeon card and 4.2.0 doesn't have support for it. Apparently drivers are bui

Re: [newbie] Is it starting to fall apart for SCO?

2003-06-17 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 20:03, FemmeFatale wrote: > At 07:40 PM 6/16/2003 -0400, you wrote: > >On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 15:32:07 -0500 > >Marc Oestreicher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > > > >Maybe we could redraw it , change the eagle to a buzzard wearing > > > glasses with a bill gates kinda face,

RE: [newbie] Failed runing acrobat reader 5 for linux?

2003-06-17 Thread gikoreno
Hi Teddy, As far as I understood, the problem arises because Mandrake 9.1 uses the newer character set using UTF8 instead of the old en_US one... I think it's a "locale" problem. Older programs have some problems with UTF, and Acrobat is one of them. You could either change the system's locale

[newbie] Networking

2003-06-17 Thread Bryan Phinney
Can anyone here tell me how to turn off the fscking zeroconf crap. I have a DSL router that functions as a DHCP server but mandrake's configuration has bootp, dhcp and zeroconf on the same line. Regardless of what I do, the zeroconf crap always starts first so no IP address gets assigned by th

Re: [newbie] .ath.rpm

2003-06-17 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 17 June 2003 02:51 pm, fifner the dragon wrote: > I looked at sourceforge and found a program called Heroine Virtual. > > On the download page there was three different filetypes, .tar.bz2, > .i386.rpm and .ath.rpm. > > What is a .ath.rpm? > Is it for Athlon processors? > It would seem s

[newbie] ARTICLE: SCO Revokes IBM's UNIX License, Requests Injunction

2003-06-17 Thread Stephen Kuhn
How now brown cow? http://www.wininformant.com/articles/index.cfm?articleid=39319 -- Wed Jun 18 08:45:00 EST 2003 08:45:01 up 4 days, 15:59, 4 users, load average: 1.25, 0.48, 0.21 - |____ |kuhn media aus

Re: [newbie] Installed...part 2..what can i do now......

2003-06-17 Thread FemmeFatale
At 06:05 PM 6/17/2003 -0400, you wrote: On 17 Jun 2003 at 15:41, FemmeFatale wrote: > *giggles* let the battle begin! > > he who can fook his comp up as much as possible wins! now the fun > part is unfooking w/out reinstalling... > if the rules involve that (fixing w/out re-installing) then you w

[newbie] Installing tar.gz packages

2003-06-17 Thread Louise Monteiro
Hi all,           I am trying to install a package - ppp version 2.4.2. After unpacking the package and typing "./configure", I received the following lines:   "ln: creating simbolic link `Makefile' to `linux/Makefile.top': Operation not permitted  Makefile -> linux/Makefile.topln: creating

Re: [newbie] NTFS ?

2003-06-17 Thread FemmeFatale
At 05:55 PM 6/17/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 15:30:43 -0600 FemmeFatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Smart but it makes windows think later (if you try > their GUIed partitioner) that something is wrong. Just a comment/warning here. I have, without problem, on various systems used

Re: [newbie] Multiple boot

2003-06-17 Thread Derek Jennings
I am no expert on this so someone may correct me here, but my understanding is that Lilo simply writes the cylinder number/sector where the boot image of each operating system resides into the MBR. So the easiest way to boot say Redhat, is to mount the RedHat boot partition somewhere in Mandrak

Re: [newbie] Insert Name Here

2003-06-17 Thread Technoslick
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 18:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > so just a little FYI for everyone so you know who you're dealing with! > (by the way, all the "angry marine" aggression is out of my system > after being out for 2 years...wellMAYBE!) I should have known...a "Leather-Neck"! :0) T

[newbie] Insert Name Here

2003-06-17 Thread crak600
so after the informal introduction (and me getting utterly ticked off doing an install). Hi. I'm Mike, and i'm a new linux user. I'd tell you what i do for a living, but i really don't do anything. lost my job in January to a back injury and havn't worked since. After getting a nice

Re: [newbie] Multiple boot

2003-06-17 Thread FemmeFatale
At 11:27 PM 6/17/2003 +0200, you wrote: Hi, All this is experimenting and on a spare drive so if I have to reinstall everything OK fine - I have the time and thats how I learn. Thanks Johan . May this be a good day for learning This is older but its still relevant... i've attached 3 text files (

Re: [newbie] Install - iit's working...almost

2003-06-17 Thread FemmeFatale
At 09:59 AM 6/17/2003 -0400, you wrote: On 17 Jun 2003 at 7:36, g wrote: > > i am curious, you never mentioned, did you ever run md5 on 1st dl's. > no, never ran MD5. i looked into the program and got that "uhhh" feeling, as in one of those...what do i do with THAT?! i think most of the orig

Re: [newbie] Installed...part 2..what can i do now......

2003-06-17 Thread crak600
On 17 Jun 2003 at 15:41, FemmeFatale wrote: > *giggles* let the battle begin! > > he who can fook his comp up as much as possible wins! now the fun > part is unfooking w/out reinstalling... > if the rules involve that (fixing w/out re-installing) then you win. i'm not going to compete lol

Re: [newbie] Install - iit's working...almost

2003-06-17 Thread Technoslick
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 16:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As frustrated as you have been, I hope you can come to see that you have some place to go when things just aren't going your way. Everybody needs a place like that, you know? :0) Earlier on you were having problems with the Windows association

Re: [newbie] NTFS ?

2003-06-17 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 15:30:43 -0600 FemmeFatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Smart but it makes windows think later (if you try > their GUIed partitioner) that something is wrong. Just a comment/warning here. I have, without problem, on various systems used PM, SysCom, or diskdrake to parti

Re: [newbie] Installed...part 2..what can i do now......

2003-06-17 Thread FemmeFatale
At 09:56 AM 6/17/2003 -0400, you wrote: On 17 Jun 2003 at 1:50, FemmeFatale wrote: > agreed... i suspect i hold the record for "most reinstalls in one day" > & "fastest OS crasher" in the western hemisphere...lol... and all i do > is surf, email, IM & um... fubar the system as much as possible. :

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation problems

2003-06-17 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 12:26:33 -0400 (GMT) "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > Sorry, there is not. I am using a webmail client > currently since my Mandrake installation is down > while I try to figure out the problem with X. > > According to the Nvidia forums, I am not the > only

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Microsoft wants admin privileges on your PC(old, but relevant)

2003-06-17 Thread Dale Huckeby
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, JoeHill wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 18:27:03 -0500 (CDT) > Dale Huckeby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > > Nothing's going to change (at the government level) until _that_ > > changes. > > Soo, what are you suggesting exactly? Killing is *wrong*, I repeat, > *wrong*, I

Re: [newbie] NTFS ?

2003-06-17 Thread FemmeFatale
At 09:57 AM 6/17/2003 +0100, you wrote: I would have thought using M$ partitioning tools was the safest way of shrinking a ntfs partition? As for the rest, the free space could be left as such for linux, or, more usefully, a fat32 partition made for data exchange, which is what I was recommending

[newbie] Multiple boot

2003-06-17 Thread Johan Scheepers
Hi, I have 3 OS on 1 drive /dev/hde 1 = Dos /dev/hde1 2 = Redhat 9.0/dev/hde5 3 = Mandrake 9.1/dev/hde7 swap = /dev/hde6 Why /dev/hde and not hda - I use ultra dma ide card Installed - dos -then -redhat- then -mandrake Usually Mandrake pickup everythin

Re: [newbie] Is it starting to fall apart for SCO?

2003-06-17 Thread Dale Huckeby
On 16 Jun 2003, Aron Smith wrote: > On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 07:22, JoeHill wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:01:48 -0500 > > Marc Oestreicher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > > > >This all reminds me of a t shirt that my wife has with a picture > > > of a huge eagle swooping down at a mouse.

Re: [newbie] OT, gaming... Screw SCO. :D

2003-06-17 Thread FemmeFatale
At 09:27 AM 6/17/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 01:56:16 -0600 FemmeFatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > hm...oh yes FireArms for Half Life. If you like UT (U. Terror) Try FA. > It > rocks hard w/out the spamminess of UT & the "You MUST have team > tactics" to win on pubs mentality..

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

2003-06-17 Thread FemmeFatale
At 08:05 AM 6/17/2003 -0500, you wrote: On Monday June 16 2003 05:21 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: > At 07:41 AM 6/16/2003 -0500, you wrote: > > > > > > If you're really d/l'g Mandrake91-cd1-inst.i586.iso it > > isn't a rar archive and winrar won't extract it. It just needs > > to be burnt to a cd

Re: [newbie] Help with gnome & default browser

2003-06-17 Thread Terence J. Golightly
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 20:44, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > Directly edit the ~/home/yournamehere/.gnome/Gnome file: > > [URL Handlers] > default-show=opera "%s" > info-show=nautilus --no-desktop "%s" > man-show=nautilus --no-desktop "%s" > ghelp-show=nautilus --no-desktop "%s" > > > ...is how yours

Re: [newbie] RADEON 9500 OK on MDK 9.1?

2003-06-17 Thread FemmeFatale
At 11:00 AM 6/17/2003 +0200, you wrote: FemmeFatale wrote: I can't read ... german...? Nor do I see anything there for his card. Does that site give you 9700 drivers too??? I also don't know how to read german but it is not hard to find the correct driver. Well I forgot to mention these are the

Re: [newbie] Mini-Internet Provider

2003-06-17 Thread Tobias Gunawan
-- - Original Message - DATE: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:42:07 From: João Candido Araujo Milasch Filho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Hi, I sent the following message to expert list, but i think its a newbie question, so, i'm sending here. thanks for all.   " Hell

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

2003-06-17 Thread Technoslick
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 08:41, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Monday June 16 2003 01:44 am, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: > > > Winrar is a form of zip program. Ohh and its mostly a windows > > program as far as I am aware. I don't know of a Linux alternative > > but I bet there is one. > > unrar-3.20-0.be

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: ...and SCO Owns Your Computer

2003-06-17 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 23:10:12 -0400 "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: http://www.byte.com/documents/s=8276/byt1055784622054/0616_marshall.html There is a special place in hell for this guy, very hot, very stinky, and packed with sex-starved Hyenas. -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux us

Re: [newbie] Install - iit's working...almost

2003-06-17 Thread crak600
On 17 Jun 2003 at 19:53, g wrote: > > should have asked what to do with it. we would have even told you >'where to stick it'. Well, honestly, what happened the first few times was i was just burning everything as a straight data Cd like i would for a windows program. that caused me 2 days

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

2003-06-17 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 19:35:07 +0100 g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > to mark them for polack ee's, trouble is, > their hands too big to grip metal handle. watch it. -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + People say Linux is ugly. How does that make you

Re: [newbie] video editing

2003-06-17 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 17 June 2003 02:46 pm, fifner the dragon wrote: > Hi, > > is there anyone who can recomend a good video editing program like final > cut or premiere? > > Thanks in advance, > Fifner I'm not sure because I am just starting to learn the rudiments of video editing, but you might want to h

Re: [newbie] Install - iit's working...almost

2003-06-17 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 19:53:18 +0100 g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > should have asked what to do with it. we would have even told you >'where to stick it'. > there are no stupid questions, only dumb mistakes by not asking. You've been advised about the smug arrogant attitude before. We're

Re: [newbie] Max HD size & backup?

2003-06-17 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Here is the page I neglected to post in my last response: http://www.linux-mag.com/2002-10/jfs_05.html -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

Re: [newbie] Bookmarks in Galeon

2003-06-17 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Charlie wrote: quoting Technoslick; Tuesday 17 June 2003 12:02 pm: Beg to differ, Doug. I'm running Galeon 1.3.3 and they surely go to the unassigned section of the list, under no folders. Have you make an adjustment in the settings to cause yours to do this? It's been like this

Re: [newbie] Install - iit's working...almost

2003-06-17 Thread g
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17 Jun 2003 at 7:36, g wrote: no, never ran MD5. i looked into the program and got that "uhhh" feeling, as in one of those...what do i do with THAT?! i think most of the origonal problems were just user error though. should have asked what to do with it. we wo

Re: [newbie] Mini-Internet Provider

2003-06-17 Thread João Candido Araujo Milasch Filho
Thanx All for the help! Getting home, ill try to do those things. : And ill not let my sister use something so expensive to me for free. if she at least deserve it, i could think! Hehehehe Thanks again! :P - Original Message - From: "Derek Jennings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PRO

[newbie] video editing

2003-06-17 Thread fifner the dragon
Hi, is there anyone who can recomend a good video editing program like final cut or premiere? Thanks in advance, Fifner -- __ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup CareerBuilder.com has o

Re: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation problems

2003-06-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tom Brinkman wrote: >Short. Suggestion tho, if you have an email composer others >object to, make a sig with the last character in it at < 72 >chars. >Then you've got a guide to use CR's while typing. I appreciate the tip. I would rather get my MDK working and go back to a real email clie

Re: [newbie] The Mysterious Vanishing Title Bar

2003-06-17 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 17 Jun 2003 6:12 pm, Glenn wrote: > On Sunday 15 June 2003 08:29 am, Steven Broos wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 00:11, Glenn wrote: > > > Can anybody tell me whether there's an easy way to recover the title > > > bars for my apps in MDK 9.1? I got into a fix where I had a couple of >

Re[2]: [newbie] Max HD size & backup?

2003-06-17 Thread rikona
Hello Brant, Tuesday, June 17, 2003, 11:10:22 AM, you wrote: BF> They don't make a single drive larger than what Mandrake can BF> handle as far as I know. Very nice! BF> Are you planning on using RAID to group a bunch of drives BF> together? If you are planning on using RAID it's also unlikel

Re: [newbie] Changing Camera Media

2003-06-17 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 17 Jun 2003 5:22 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Todd Slater wrote: Smart Media, Compact Flash, and now I'm seeing a lot of SD (secure digital) and MMC (multimedia card). I don't know much about SD except that they cost more and are slower than CF. I know nothi

Re: [newbie] Max HD size & backup?

2003-06-17 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
rikona wrote: >Hello, > >I'm considering using MD as a file server for the local net. What >determines the largest hard disk size that I can use with MD - file >system, BIOS, or > They don't make a single drive larger than what Mandrake can handle as far as I know. Are you planning on using

Re: [newbie] Bookmarks in Galeon

2003-06-17 Thread Technoslick
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 13:52, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: > On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 17:04, Technoslick wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 11:49, Maurice O'Connor wrote: > > > I have tried to put a current page into bookmarks. I can't find a > > > solution although I looked at every option provided by the

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation problems

2003-06-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 17 Jun 2003 5:26 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Joe Hill wrote: > >Please set your line wrap at 72 characters or less, many people's > > mail clients cannot handle such huge paragraphs. In your mail > > apps prefs, there should be something to set this. > > Sorry, there is not. I am usi

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation problems

2003-06-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 17 Jun 2003 2:23 pm, JoeHill wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:17:13 -0400 (GMT) > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > > > Please set your line wrap at 72 characters or less, many people's > mail clients cannot handle such huge paragraphs. In your mail apps > prefs, there

Re: [newbie] Changing Camera Media

2003-06-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 17 Jun 2003 5:22 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > Todd Slater wrote: > >Smart Media, Compact Flash, and now I'm seeing a lot of SD > > (secure digital) and MMC (multimedia card). I don't know much > > about SD except that they cost more and are slower than CF. I > > know nothing about th

Re: [newbie] Installed...part 2..what can i do now......

2003-06-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 17 Jun 2003 2:56 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 17 Jun 2003 at 1:50, FemmeFatale wrote: > > agreed... i suspect i hold the record for "most reinstalls in one > > day" & "fastest OS crasher" in the western hemisphere...lol... > > and all i do is surf, email, IM & um... fubar the system

[newbie] Mini-Internet Provider

2003-06-17 Thread João Candido Araujo Milasch Filho
Hi, I sent the following message to expert list, but i think its a newbie question, so, i'm sending here. thanks for all.   " Hello,        I'm currently sharing my ADSL internet with my sister. But she uses much less internet than I do, and she dont want to pay half of the ADSL costs for t

Re: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation problems

2003-06-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Joe Hill wrote: >Please set your line wrap at 72 characters or less, many people's mail >clients cannot handle such huge paragraphs. In your mail apps prefs, >there should be something to set this. Sorry, there is not. I am using a webmail client currently since my Mandrake installation is down

Re: [newbie] Changing Camera Media

2003-06-17 Thread John Richard Smith
Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 04:07:27PM +0100, John Richard Smith wrote: Out there in the land of the free, they tell me all digital cameras now use something other than smart cards , is that true, and if so what type of media ? John Smart Media, Compact Flash, and now I'

Re: [newbie] favorite ssh for windows?

2003-06-17 Thread stormjumper
i second that reasons (amongst others): 1. single exe file 2. no messy install/uninstall 3. advanced configuration options - Original Message - From: "Tim Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 23:54 Subject: Re: [newbie] favorite ssh for windows?

RE: [newbie] favorite ssh for windows?

2003-06-17 Thread Frankie
WinSCP.. looks and works just like an FTP client. http://winscp.vse.cz/eng/ TerraTerm pro Looks like a Telnet client.. (is a telnet client) http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html TTSSH The SSH plugin for TerraTerm that enables it to work with SSH. http://www.zip.com.au/~roca/t

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation problems

2003-06-17 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:17:13 -0400 (GMT) "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: Please set your line wrap at 72 characters or less, many people's mail clients cannot handle such huge paragraphs. In your mail apps prefs, there should be something to set this. -- + Joe Hill + Register

Re: [newbie] Bookmarks in Galeon

2003-06-17 Thread Technoslick
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 11:49, Maurice O'Connor wrote: > I have tried to put a current page into bookmarks. I can't find a > solution although I looked at every option provided by the menu system. > I am new to Galeon and maybe I messed up somewhere or I don't know what > to look for. Is there a w

Re: [newbie] favorite ssh for windows?

2003-06-17 Thread Tim Clark
Hi Eric, Putty is small and fantastic: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html Tim - Original Message - From: "eric huff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 4:46 PM Subject: [newbie] favorite ssh for windows? > Hi folks, >

[newbie] Failed runing acrobat reader 5 for linux?

2003-06-17 Thread Teddy Widhi Laksono
Hi, i have installed acroread5 (Acrobat Reader 5) for linux. after i installed and i runing it, i failed to show up the acroread on mandrake 9.1. and the warning is ""Charset "UTF-8" not supported, using "ISO8859-1". Aborted"". Why? something wrong with my installation or some package i have to

[newbie] Bookmarks in Galeon

2003-06-17 Thread Maurice O'Connor
I have tried to put a current page into bookmarks. I can't find a solution although I looked at every option provided by the menu system. I am new to Galeon and maybe I messed up somewhere or I don't know what to look for. Is there a way? TIA. -- Maurice O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Want to

[newbie] favorite ssh for windows?

2003-06-17 Thread eric huff
Hi folks, Anyone have a favorite ssh program for win2000? I need to get it on my machine at work. I googled, but there seemed to be too many choices. Thanks! eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] NTFS ?

2003-06-17 Thread eric huff
> I had the same problems as you did,Discdrake will not let > you shrink the NTFS drive,this not a Linux problem.It's caused by XP > building non-existent swap files on your Hard Drive,it does not matter > how many times you run Defrag of Scandisk,it will not play. The first time i in

Re: [newbie] Changing Camera Media

2003-06-17 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 04:07:27PM +0100, John Richard Smith wrote: > Out there in the land of the free, they tell me all digital cameras now > use something other than smart cards , is that true, and if so what type > of media ? > > > John Smart Media, Compact Flash, and now I'm seeing a lot

Re: [newbie] Cleanup a failed install

2003-06-17 Thread João Candido Araujo Milasch Filho
I'm sorry, i didnt saw the beggining of the discussion. But ill put my points here. when i do something that i mess up my system, and i want to reinstall it, i just put my installation cd, boot from it, use the same partitions for the new install, but i check the "format" option. so, before

[newbie] Changing Camera Media

2003-06-17 Thread John Richard Smith
Out there in the land of the free, they tell me all digital cameras now use something other than smart cards , is that true, and if so what type of media ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Cleanup a failed install

2003-06-17 Thread Ralph Bagwell
I have now several suggestions and "howtos" on cleaning up my failed install from you kind people -many thanks - Seems that removing partitions for the Linux install is the answer - I am now doing what all said do - backing up to another drive on my LAN -   I notice that Partition Magic offe

Re: Re[4]: [newbie] Samba wizard to help installation?

2003-06-17 Thread Trevor Rhodes
Stephen, > I'd reckon that Johnnie-boy could beat up, er, that Canuck guy! And > maybe, er, uh, Chris Rock? (Ya ever notice that for a 63 year old he > ain't got very many wrinkles?) You too could look like that if you were covered with a 'liberal' coating of cold cheese whiz. :^) Regards

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

2003-06-17 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Monday 16 June 2003 11:20 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 16 Jun 2003 at 21:09, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > Think we should tell crak600 that the appropriate screws to retain a > > Philips CD drive would have Phillips heads? Therefore, he'll need what > > some electrical engineers refer to as "

Re: [newbie] CLAM AV

2003-06-17 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:01:59AM -0400, Michael Scottaline wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:42:47 -0400 > Todd Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled furiously: > > > Is anybody using CLAM antivirus? I have a couple of questions about it. > > > > Todd > > > > > > Hi Todd

Re: [newbie] help

2003-06-17 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 17 June 2003 12:54 am, Nathan Coad wrote: Thanks for providing an excellent example as to why HTML should not be used on mail lists. The original empty message took up 5 KB! Your previous posts were with Mozilla under Mandrake, but this time you're using MS Outlook. Did you blow some

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