[newbie-it] ehm...

2003-06-18 Thread Arwan
Raga', scusate il tono della mail di ieri, ero sull'esasperato andante, non ce l'avevo con voi. -- Burp! Arwan

Re: [newbie-it] compatibilit#224; hardware

2003-06-18 Thread paolo brusasco
prego scusarmi per errore il messaggio è stato involontariamente inviato alla casella personale anzichè alla ml penso che in realtà trovi poche mb testate o certificate perchè poche ditte produttrici chiedono la certificazione. in generale quando vedi 'known hardware' hai buone speranze di andare

[newbie-it] kernel

2003-06-18 Thread piter
ciao ML, dopo essere riuscito a sostuire il vecchio kernel con il nuovo, mi è passato sotto il naso questo articolo: http://www.pcimprover.it/misc/vedidahome.asp?aid=104 solo che son bloccato subito all'inizio perchè quando dò il comando make xconfig oppure make menuconfig la risposta è

[newbie-it] spedire la posta

2003-06-18 Thread Arwan
Sono delusa e, soprattutto, molto, ma molto incazzata. Punto primo: mi sono spedita da mutt un po' di roba per vedere se arrivavano i messaggi. Sembrava che la spedizione fosse andata a buon fine (ma non so come verificarlo con certezza) Punto secondo: avendo scaricato la suddetta posta, ed

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

2003-06-18 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

2003-06-18 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 the drop

Re: [newbie] searching with special characters in google

2003-06-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 18 Jun 2003 3:39 am, eric huff wrote: Hi Folks, Does anybody know how to search with special characters in google (or any other engine, if you happen to know) ? Example: i want ~/Documents to only find ~/Documents not every page with the word documents in it. Google (and a

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

2003-06-18 Thread FemmeFatale
At 11:20 PM 6/17/2003 -0400, you wrote: 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,

Re: [newbie] searching with special characters in google

2003-06-18 Thread eric huff
Example: i want ~/Documents to only find ~/Documents not every page with the word documents in it. Google (and a couple others i tried) ignore all the non-letter characters. I tried using hex codes (like we sometimes put %20 into a path for a space) but that didn't help. Have you

[newbie] missing libraries, awkward fonts

2003-06-18 Thread Isaac Curtis
Hey all: I'm back on Mandrake after a one year hiatus (had no computer at all for that time). I feel like I'm back at square one and running into the same problems I did several years ago and I don't remember exactly how to deal with them all. At the top of the list right now are fonts and

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

2003-06-18 Thread Frank Bax
At 09:21 AM 6/15/03, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Time to load OpenOffice from point of click to actual start of program. It loads all it's necessary libraries at that time, unlike MS Office that has DLL's loaded at the actual system bootup for Windows (whatever version); that's how MS Office appears to

Re: [newbie] Another super newbie question

2003-06-18 Thread Richard Urwin
On Wednesday 18 Jun 2003 12:54 am, Ralph Bagwell wrote: I have a system connecting to the web (using the nonfb option) and the names of the four programs that didn't load. You stand a better chance of getting an answer if: 1. You tell us the names of the four programs. 2. You tell us the

Re: [newbie] just when you think it's safe

2003-06-18 Thread Steven Broos
On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 05:05, Aron Smith wrote: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/ap/20030617/ap_on_hi_te/downloading_music Just when you think that Politicians can't get any dumber What a BS! I asked SABAM more information about mp3's and downloading music. (SABAM is the Belgian

[newbie] Sylpheed

2003-06-18 Thread dlwiggers
Can't find the Sylpheed plugins I plugged in. TIA Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] kde 3.1 problem, no mouse

2003-06-18 Thread Robin
David E Fox wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] just when you think it's safe

2003-06-18 Thread Richard Urwin
On Wednesday 18 Jun 2003 4:05 am, Aron Smith wrote: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/ap/20030617/ap_on_hi_te/down loading_music Just when you think that Politicians can't get any dumber A small part of me says go ahead. Just think of all those Windows users out there without the

Re: [newbie] kde 3.1 problem, no mouse

2003-06-18 Thread Troy Davidson
This has happened to me before. I solve it by doing the following: 1. CTRL-ALT-F1 (Drop out of X) 2. Login as Root 3. Type 'mousedrake' 4. Click 'ok' 5. CTRL-ALT-F7 (Get back into X) Doing the Mousedrake reinitializes the mouse. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107

Re: [newbie] Bookmarks in Galeon

2003-06-18 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
FWIW, when you add a bookmark from a Web page in Opera (7.11) the 'Add' takes you straight to the list of folders where you might want to put it. (Quite a nice, fast browser, IMHO). DougB On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 21:09, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Charlie wrote: snip A way of adding

Re: [newbie] Another super newbie question

2003-06-18 Thread Robin
Ralph Bagwell wrote: 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

[newbie] SCSI Em- Again

2003-06-18 Thread Langsley T Russell
Thanks to a great deal of help from people here, primarily the two Johns, Yesterday I actually managed to burn two CDs using Xxcdroast. Today when I logged on I got two failure lines in my mandrake boot info. They were both for scd1. They both said FAILED scd1 does not exist. I checked in MCC

Re: [newbie] Spontaneous desktop switching

2003-06-18 Thread Miark
Okay, I was wrong. I've removed 3ddesktop, but I _still_ switch desktops by double-pointing to either edge of my screen. Is that some KDE feature I don't know about and maybe turned on my accident? Miark On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 00:34:25 -0400 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 15 Jun 2003

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

2003-06-18 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 18 Jun 2003 5:04 am, rikona wrote: snip BF You could use rsync to do backups to a removable drive. Sounds interesting for the data backups. Thanks. I'm still snooping for a reliable way to do complete (and reliable) disk image backups of the ext3's I have. It seems some programs

Re: [newbie] Acqua-Graphite theme for KDE 3.1

2003-06-18 Thread Trevor Rhodes
Forget the theme manager and look under Window Decorations On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 08:20 am, Gerard Godin wrote: So I began today's adventure by typing what you suggested: urpmi package name. Everything already installed was the reply. Just to make sure I urpme'd the pacage and urpmi'd it

Re: [newbie] Bookmarks in Galeon

2003-06-18 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 19:02, Technoslick wrote: On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 13:52, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: snip NOTE: In Galeon 1.3.3 they are placed in 'New Bookmarks' instead Beg to differ, Doug. I'm running Galeon 1.3.3 and they surely go to the unassigned section of the list, under no

Re: [newbie] video editing

2003-06-18 Thread Linus Drouhard
On 18 Jun 2003 09:57:17 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

[newbie] test

2003-06-18 Thread Mark
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] my first linux post - ethernet drive

2003-06-18 Thread altraide
Hi guys: I just installed the Mandrake 9.1 after much sweat! I need to hook to the internet though. How do i install my ethernet driver from floppy, and where do i get the driver from? I know most of you passed this stage, please help. This is my first! ib Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Image Win partitions from linux floppy?

2003-06-18 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 19:36, Derek Jennings wrote: However if you snag yourself a copy of Knoppix http://www.knoppix.org/ You will get a fully bootable Linux system from CD with a large set of tools. It runs in memory and will not harm an existing Win installation. derek I dunno. I booted

Re: [newbie] Spontaneous desktop switching

2003-06-18 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 01:47, Miark wrote: Okay, I was wrong. I've removed 3ddesktop, but I _still_ switch desktops by double-pointing to either edge of my screen. Is that some KDE feature I don't know about and maybe turned on my accident? Miark Um, that's screen flipping mate. You can

Re: [newbie] Orrin Hatch: farging icehole!

2003-06-18 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 23:32, JoeHill wrote: this guy is a *nutjob*. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2999780.stm Er, Joe, don't talk about family members like that, mate. It's not nice. (grin) -- Thu Jun 19 14:40:00 EST 2003 14:40:00 up 5 days, 21:54, 3 users, load average: 0.52,

Re: [newbie] kde 3.1 problem, no mouse

2003-06-18 Thread Russ Kepler
On Tuesday 17 June 2003 10:32 pm, David E Fox wrote: I have stuff I need to keep running. Short of restarting KDE, is there a way to restore the mouse? I used to lose the mouse with my KVM, and always went to a session using CTRL-ALT-1, logged in as root and ran mousedrake. That'll reset the

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

2003-06-18 Thread g
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i did move the iso images around on my hard drive and i'm sure that didn't help matters, winblows probably re-arranged some things on i have to admit, i have yet found errors when copying files under ms. but being ms bs os, it could happen. although next time i will do

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

2003-06-18 Thread g
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Where do you find that? http://www.md5summer.org/ http://www.etree.org/md5com.html peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code

Re: [newbie] Insert Name Here

2003-06-18 Thread g
[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 have several friends here in mem, tn, that are ex jar heads. from there current

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

2003-06-18 Thread g
JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 19:53:18 +0100 g [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: let me know when you get over your personal problems. you can take offense to any and all that i say. that is you right and problem. obviously from crak600's, reply, he is aware that there was no intent as in your

Re: [newbie] OT, new game for linux ppl!

2003-06-18 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 15:57:00 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: http://www.linuxworld.com/2003/0612.barr.html can't find a link to download it... -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + ICQ# 279518458 + Don't believe the

Re: [newbie] Orrin Hatch: farging icehole!

2003-06-18 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 14:58, Aron Smith wrote: this guy is a *nutjob*. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2999780.stm Er, Joe, don't talk about family members like that, mate. It's not nice. And he is considered one of the Sane Senators (grin) SANE SENATOR. That's an

[newbie] Lost toolbar quicklaunch buttons - 9.1

2003-06-18 Thread Peter Stokes
Hi All Having fun setting up 9.1 on my system, main idea is to replace my Win2K system eventually. Todays problem -- I had the standard toolbar which had the various quick launch buttons for Control Centre, help files, Konqueror, Kwrite etc and then tried to install some scanner

Re: [newbie] snoopdos ??

2003-06-18 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 08:17, LtCdData wrote: hi.. way back in the good old days when i used an amiga there was a cool program called snoopdos that put to screen or text everything the computer was doing behind the scenes.. great for traking probz etc.. anyway does anyone know if there is

Re: [newbie] Orrin Hatch: farging icehole!

2003-06-18 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 15:03, MWafkowski wrote: Welcome to amerika! Da! Comrade! -- Thu Jun 19 15:20:00 EST 2003 15:20:00 up 5 days, 22:34, 3 users, load average: 0.56, 0.54, 0.42 - |____ |kuhn media

Re: [newbie] OT, new game for linux ppl!

2003-06-18 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 15:02, JoeHill wrote: On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 15:57:00 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: http://www.linuxworld.com/2003/0612.barr.html can't find a link to download it... Femme's doing it to dick tease us about this game...I'm still dying to get the linux

Re: [newbie] Image Win partitions from linux floppy?

2003-06-18 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Thursday 19 June 2003 12:38 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 19:36, Derek Jennings wrote: However if you snag yourself a copy of Knoppix http://www.knoppix.org/ You will get a fully bootable Linux system from CD with a large set of tools. It runs in memory and will not

Re: [newbie] OT, new game for linux ppl!

2003-06-18 Thread JoeHill
On 19 Jun 2003 15:21:44 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I'm still dying to get the linux installer for RTCW that should be available from ftp.idsoftware.com i think you still need to install it on a win box and copy the pak files over tho. -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user

Re: [newbie] Orrin Hatch: farging icehole!

2003-06-18 Thread JoeHill
On 19 Jun 2003 15:17:57 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Good American Beer ROFLMAO! why are American beer and sex in a canoe similar? they're both fscking close to water. -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + ICQ# 279518458

Re: [newbie] Image Win partitions from linux floppy?

2003-06-18 Thread JoeHill
On 19 Jun 2003 14:38:57 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I dunno. I booted with a Knoppix CD, opened a terminal, typed fdisk -d/dev/hda1 it it hurt the Windows installation... smartass... -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + ICQ#

Re: [newbie] hot swap

2003-06-18 Thread g
David Sexton wrote: Can any one tell me how to setup how swap on my Linux laptop? 'hot swap' never used it, but, until someone else with experience replies; change ftab to no dvd, 'mount -a', swap in floppy, change ftab to show floppy, 'mount -a'. easier, have 3 files, ftab-d with dvd shown,

Re: [newbie]

2003-06-18 Thread g
David Sexton wrote: Can any one tell me how to setup how swap on my Linux laptop? i did in post with 'subject:' line filled in. ;) please do not take offense. i am kidding with you and is a part of a 'subject:' that is being discussed. if you do take offense, then please do not read my other

Re: [newbie] snoopdos ??

2003-06-18 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 23:17:30 +0100 LtCdData [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: way back in the good old days when i used an amiga there was a cool program called snoopdos that put to screen or text everything the computer was doing behind the scenes.. great for traking probz etc.. anyway does anyone