[newbie] SCO petition

2003-06-27 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
Hi Some of you might like to sign this petition. http://www.petitiononline.com/yama01/petition.html Who knows whether it will do any good or not but it only takes a few seconds to sign it! John -- Lead me not into temptation - I can find my own way thanks! MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 9279191

Re: [newbie] hyper threading

2003-06-27 Thread MWafkowski
You sound like a natural born Linux man to me! Myself, I'm more the "brute force" method of troubleshooter. Been making a living at it for almost 20 years now - Thank goodness for my friends, lists, etc. Heck, the more I think about it the more surprised I am that I'm not a homeless person. You'

Re[6]: [newbie] Linux passing the Mac on the Desktop?

2003-06-27 Thread rikona
Hello Aron, Friday, June 27, 2003, 8:25:39 AM, you wrote: >> Watch out - he may have friends too. Go wa back to >> Ooga-Ooga. He was the most evil, despicable cave man to ever walk >> the face of the earth up to that time. Archaeologists are still >> trying to find out more about him. One

Re: [newbie] hyper threading

2003-06-27 Thread Michael
On Saturday 28 June 2003 12:11 am, Charlie wrote: > > Making a mess that seems not fixable, and learning how not to make such > mistakes, is what this list is about. Believe it or not there will come a > time, probably very soon, when you'll even understand how to fix *those* > seemingly "unfixable

Re[4]: [newbie] Linux passing the Mac on the Desktop?

2003-06-27 Thread rikona
Hello Aron, Friday, June 27, 2003, 5:55:36 AM, you wrote: >> I guess it will have to be Ooga-Ooga. AS> Perhaps Ming the Merciless? Naw he's head of MicroSuxs Marketing. Watch out - he may have friends too. Go wa back to Ooga-Ooga. He was the most evil, despicable cave man to ever walk t

Re: [newbie] hyper threading

2003-06-27 Thread Charlie
quoting Michael; Friday 27 June 2003 08:43 pm: > On Friday 27 June 2003 05:39 pm, Charlie wrote: > > Windows 9X (95, 98, 98SE, and ME) series won't install at all, or run for > > that matter, when there's more than 512 MB memory TOTAL (too many people > > forgot that Windows counts memory on video

Re: [newbie] MS to investors: SCO is a good bet!

2003-06-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 21:46:06 -0400, JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/CNBCTV/Articles/StockPicks/P50807.asp > > LOL, they really have no shame. We've got a writeup about this at PCLinuxOnline: http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=art

Re: Re[4]: [newbie] Linux passing the Mac on the Desktop?

2003-06-27 Thread Aron Smith
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 20:03, rikona wrote: > Hello Aron, > > Friday, June 27, 2003, 5:55:36 AM, you wrote: > > >> I guess it will have to be Ooga-Ooga. > > AS> Perhaps Ming the Merciless? Naw he's head of MicroSuxs Marketing. > > Watch out - he may have friends too. Go wa back to Ooga-O

Re: [newbie] hyper threading

2003-06-27 Thread Michael
On Friday 27 June 2003 05:39 pm, Charlie wrote: > Windows 9X (95, 98, 98SE, and ME) series won't install at all, or run for > that matter, when there's more than 512 MB memory TOTAL (too many people > forgot that Windows counts memory on video cards in that total) available > without some severe s

[newbie] MS to investors: SCO is a good bet!

2003-06-27 Thread JoeHill
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/CNBCTV/Articles/StockPicks/P50807.asp LOL, they really have no shame. -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + ICQ# 279518458 + "Come the millennium month 12, in the home + of the greatest power, the village idiot will come + forth to

Re: [newbie] How do you do

2003-06-27 Thread Chris
> > Possibly easier way, highlight txt, then ctrl c to copy txt to buffer, > > open up txt file, ctrl v to paste txt into file or email or whatever you > > choose. At least it is for me. > > That won't work. The ctrl-C will be taken as a command to end the program > that was started. You will need

Re: [newbie] hyper threading

2003-06-27 Thread FemmeFatale
At 03:04 PM 6/27/2003 -0700, you wrote: I have two XP boxes, Two OSx boxes, one OS9 laptop, one OS 8 server, One win2000 laptop, a 4 machine linux cluster, and a playstation 2 on my home Lan, the only issue I've noticed is that my power bills can get pretty expensive. (Luckily half the computers ar

Re: [newbie] How do you do

2003-06-27 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Friday 27 June 2003 05:09 pm, Chris wrote: > On Friday 27 June 2003 06:37 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > On Friday 27 June 2003 02:57 am, Aron Smith wrote: > > > I know that this sounds pre newbie but how do I take a screen from a > > > root terminal session and print it for further study? > > > >

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Linux passing the Mac on the Desktop?

2003-06-27 Thread Aron Smith
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 15:55, rikona wrote: > Hello Robin, > > Friday, June 27, 2003, 1:53:54 PM, you wrote: > > RT> Watch what you say about the Taliban, mate. They might not take > RT> too kindly to being compared with Microsoft ;-) > > True. :-) Hitler maybe? After all, M$ is a master of Nazi

Re: [newbie] How do you do

2003-06-27 Thread Aron Smith
Thanks Gang On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 17:17, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Friday 27 June 2003 08:09 pm, Chris wrote: > > On Friday 27 June 2003 06:37 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > > On Friday 27 June 2003 02:57 am, Aron Smith wrote: > > > > I know that this sounds pre newbie but how do I take a screen from a

Re: [newbie] How do you do

2003-06-27 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 27 June 2003 08:09 pm, Chris wrote: > On Friday 27 June 2003 06:37 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > On Friday 27 June 2003 02:57 am, Aron Smith wrote: > > > I know that this sounds pre newbie but how do I take a screen from a > > > root terminal session and print it for further study? > > > >

Re: [newbie] How do you do

2003-06-27 Thread Chris
On Friday 27 June 2003 06:37 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > On Friday 27 June 2003 02:57 am, Aron Smith wrote: > > I know that this sounds pre newbie but how do I take a screen from a > > root terminal session and print it for further study? > > All you need to do is highlight the text with your mouse,

Re: [newbie] How do you do

2003-06-27 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Friday 27 June 2003 02:57 am, Aron Smith wrote: > I know that this sounds pre newbie but how do I take a screen from a > root terminal session and print it for further study? All you need to do is highlight the text with your mouse, then right click the screen to reveal a context window, and c

Re: [newbie] Dual Booting the same OS

2003-06-27 Thread FemmeFatale
At 07:43 PM 6/27/2003 +0100, you wrote: Did you try writing this to floppy instead? Thus satisying LILO & in essence "skipping" writing to your MBR? - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt No I didn't Femme, is that a way to prevent lilo being written then ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL P

Re[2]: [newbie] Linux passing the Mac on the Desktop?

2003-06-27 Thread rikona
Hello Robin, Friday, June 27, 2003, 1:53:54 PM, you wrote: RT> Watch what you say about the Taliban, mate. They might not take RT> too kindly to being compared with Microsoft ;-) True. :-) Hitler maybe? After all, M$ is a master of Nazi propaganda techniques. Naaahhh - there are still fans of t

Re: [newbie] checking that gtk+-2.0 (version >= 2.0.0) is installed... no

2003-06-27 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 27 Jun 2003 11:01 pm, Todd Slater wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 08:01:55 -0400 > > JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 08:37:50 +0100 > > > > Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > > You need pygtk2.0-devel but you would never guess from that error > > > me

Re: [newbie] checking that gtk+-2.0 (version >= 2.0.0) isinstalled... no

2003-06-27 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 08:01:55 -0400 JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 08:37:50 +0100 > Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > > You need pygtk2.0-devel but you would never guess from that error > > message. I only found out by installing almost everything containin

Re[2]: [newbie] hyper threading

2003-06-27 Thread rikona
Hello MWafkowski, Friday, June 27, 2003, 12:45:34 PM, you wrote: M> Do I have to worry about interbreeding across the LAN?! Anxiously M> awaiting your instrucions. Watch out for the Win machines. In adhering to M$'s basic principles, they will try to scroo everything in sight. -- rikona

Re: [newbie] Multiboot on same drive

2003-06-27 Thread John Richard Smith
Johan Scheepers wrote: Hi John The drive you are using is it live or clean? Not sure what you mean. I have a 40gig maxtor . just the one. I am reasonably sure that if your first istall will write its detections to MBR sure. and the second install will overwrite MBR with its own detections. s

Re: [newbie] hyper threading

2003-06-27 Thread Phares
I have two XP boxes, Two OSx boxes, one OS9 laptop, one OS 8 server, One win2000 laptop, a 4 machine linux cluster, and a playstation 2 on my home Lan, the only issue I've noticed is that my power bills can get pretty expensive. (Luckily half the computers are my roomies) No interbreeding yet. Th

[newbie] How do you do

2003-06-27 Thread Aron Smith
I know that this sounds pre newbie but how do I take a screen from a root terminal session and print it for further study? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] make install

2003-06-27 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 27 Jun 2003 11:05 pm, Tsyko wrote: > probably a very stupid question but if i don´t ask i won´t learn > > > If i type ´make install´ to install a application is there a way to > uninstall that program? > > thanks make uninstall Trouble is authors do not always define make uninstall, and

Re: [newbie] hyper threading

2003-06-27 Thread Charlie
quoting Michael; Friday 27 June 2003 02:06 pm: > > i threatened win98 with complete removal and 100% switch to linux when it > started giving me problems the other day. guess what it did > > completely 100% encouraged me beyond a shadow of a doubt to make the > switch. as of right now, win me

[newbie] Fwd: Re: [nbusers] [OT] Java and font problem on Mandrake Linux 9.1 (SOLVED)

2003-06-27 Thread Guilherme Cirne
Hi all, I managed to find the answer on another mailing-list. I tried the second solution and it works. Couldn't be bothered with the first one. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [nbusers] [OT] Java and font problem on Mandrake Linux 9.1 Date: Friday 27 June 2003 17:42 From

Re: [newbie] Dual Booting the same OS

2003-06-27 Thread FemmeFatale
At 10:45 AM 6/27/2003 +0100, you wrote: Well all I can say is that I took particular care on my last M9.1 install to try and find a skip lilo install facility, and if it's there I couldn't find it. Part of the problem lies with the changed layout and method of install of DrakeX itself. We did h

Re: [newbie] checking that gtk+-2.0 (version >= 2.0.0) is installed... no

2003-06-27 Thread FemmeFatale
At 08:31 AM 6/27/2003 -0700, you wrote: I just asked it to --list-all, and it gives me an error. Maybe it's pkg-config that needs the pygtk2.0-devel package? Anyway, thanks for all the help. I'll try it out tonite after work and report back. Then i'll add it to my growing list of "Things you

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

2003-06-27 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 13:16:17 -0600 FemmeFatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > adding bots i never even thought to check that out...! that would be cool. I'll look at it as soon as this cd finishes burning... -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + ICQ

Re: [newbie] Dual Booting the same OS

2003-06-27 Thread John Richard Smith
FemmeFatale wrote: At 10:45 AM 6/27/2003 +0100, you wrote: Well all I can say is that I took particular care on my last M9.1 install to try and find a skip lilo install facility, and if it's there I couldn't find it. Part of the problem lies with the changed layout and method of install of Dr

Re: [newbie] hyper threading

2003-06-27 Thread FemmeFatale
At 01:26 PM 6/27/2003 -0400, you wrote: On 26 Jun 2003 21:11:11 -0700 Aron Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > Well you could threaten it with winXP. NO! It could suicide on you...I've seen it happen. -- + Joe Hill ROFL ! the nuts strikes again. thx for the giggles Joe. :) - FemmeF

Re: [newbie] hyper threading

2003-06-27 Thread JoeHill
On 26 Jun 2003 21:11:11 -0700 Aron Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > Well you could threaten it with winXP. NO! It could suicide on you...I've seen it happen. -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + ICQ# 279518458 + Do what thou wil

Re: [newbie] Enemy Territory problems

2003-06-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 27 June 2003 12:44 pm, Tony S. Sykes wrote: > You have checked the permissions I take it? > > Tony. Hi Tony. Yes, I made it exec. by all. On 2 out of 3 comps, it quit out with the same error. It installed correctly on the oldest one (900mhz Athlon) using Mandrake d/l edition v9.0. It

RE: [newbie] Enemy Territory problems

2003-06-27 Thread Tony S. Sykes
You have checked the permissions I take it? Tony. -Original Message- From: Ronald J. Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 5:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Enemy Territory problems On Friday 27 June 2003 08:09 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Fri, 200

Re: [newbie] Orrin Hatch: farging icehole!

2003-06-27 Thread Aron Smith
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 05:04, JoeHill wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 15:39:13 +1000 > Trevor Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > > Is there a problem with your mailer? I seem to get a 'lot' of email > > here on this list from you that doesn't actually have anything from > > you in it. It's as i

Re: [newbie] Sound working! How to load at boot up?

2003-06-27 Thread Paul
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 17:32, Grant wrote: > I got the ESS Maestro sound card working on my Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop > last night. All I have to enter now to make it work is: > > modprobe snd-es1968;modprobe snd-pcm-oss;modprobe snd-mixer-oss;modprobe > snd-seq-oss > > and then raise the aumix v

Re: [newbie] Sound working! How to load at boot up?

2003-06-27 Thread Rebecca Willby
> > and then raise the aumix volume. If you are using KDE have you tried removing aumix and adding the stuff to modules.conf? I would consider ditching aumix and using kmix instead. > - Grant > Becks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.

Re: [newbie] hyper threading

2003-06-27 Thread Aron Smith
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 05:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 13:23:03 +0200 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: > > > > > can any one tell me how i know if mandrake is using my hyper-threaded > > > machine? > > > > Ask it politely? > > I tried

Re: [newbie] mail list

2003-06-27 Thread dlwiggers
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 10:58:23 -0400 "Paul M. Bucalo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks Paul Lee Wiggers Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Enemy Territory problems

2003-06-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 27 June 2003 10:11 am, Troy Davidson wrote: > What computer did you download the game to? If it was the one that > installed correctly, maybe when you transferred the file to the other > computers it became corrupt. > > Troy Davidson > Linux User #311107 I wish. It installed fine on the

Re: [newbie] Vote for Mandrake!

2003-06-27 Thread Aron Smith
Use the Chicago method Vote early and often On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 05:20, Tango Echo wrote: > Also, I could be wrong here, but the polling method > MAY be faulty. I'm suspicious of Gentooers - maybe > this is what they do: Go to the site, place the vote, > clear the cookies, refresh the page, place

Re: [newbie] Enemy Territory problems

2003-06-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 27 June 2003 08:09 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 14:35, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > I just d/l'ed this game, 258 megs, and I can't get it to install on 2 out > > of 3 machines. > > Have you checked the connection between the chair and the keyboard? As I told you before, I

Re: [newbie] checking that gtk+-2.0 (version >= 2.0.0) isinstalled... no

2003-06-27 Thread Eric Huff
Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You need pygtk2.0-devel but you would never guess from that error message. > I only found out by installing almost everything containing 'gtk' This pkg-config is a strange program indeed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] huff]$ pkg-config --list-all gdk

[newbie] Sound working! How to load at boot up?

2003-06-27 Thread Grant
I got the ESS Maestro sound card working on my Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop last night. All I have to enter now to make it work is: modprobe snd-es1968;modprobe snd-pcm-oss;modprobe snd-mixer-oss;modprobe snd-seq-oss and then raise the aumix volume. What can I do to have the above "take place" at

Re: [newbie] Enemy Territory problems

2003-06-27 Thread Troy Davidson
What computer did you download the game to? If it was the one that installed correctly, maybe when you transferred the file to the other computers it became corrupt. Troy Davidson Linux User #311107 ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Quoting "Ronald J. Hall" <[

Re[2]: [newbie] Linux passing the Mac on the Desktop?

2003-06-27 Thread rikona
Hello Miark, Thursday, June 26, 2003, 2:55:26 PM, you wrote: M> but they try to steal ideas and technology from *nix all the time. M$ calls it 'innovation'. M> Hypocritical two-faced lying bastards. Of course. This is M$, remember? They are the Taliban of the software world, and will do whatev

Re: [newbie] Dual Booting the same OS

2003-06-27 Thread John Richard Smith
Joeb wrote: On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 10:45:45 +0100 John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm thinking that you might need to use the expert mode to install MDK and not install LILO, but I'm not sure about that. Joeb, I always use expert mode, only way to get choices. Just in case, that

Re[2]: [newbie] Printer virus problem

2003-06-27 Thread rikona
Hello Stephen, Friday, June 27, 2003, 5:18:45 AM, you wrote: SK> On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 19:17, Robin Turner wrote: >> Since the only machines with permissions to print to the Samba server >> are in our offices, I suspect the "collateral damage" would prove >> unpopular. The other problem is th

Re: [newbie] Printer virus problem

2003-06-27 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 19:17, Robin Turner wrote: > Since the only machines with permissions to print to the Samba server > are in our offices, I suspect the "collateral damage" would prove > unpopular. The other problem is that these bogus print jobs only come > about once a day, so switching

Re: [newbie] hyper threading

2003-06-27 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 21:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > can any one tell me how i know if mandrake is using my hyper-threaded > machine? > Thanks in advance > Tsyko > LINUX ROCKS Sadly, it probably isn't. Are you running kernel 2.5.X ? -- Fri Jun 27 22:15:01 EST 2003 22:15:01 up 2 days, 22:

Re: [newbie] Enemy Territory problems

2003-06-27 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 14:35, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > I just d/l'ed this game, 258 megs, and I can't get it to install on 2 out of 3 > machines. Have you checked the connection between the chair and the keyboard? -- Fri Jun 27 22:05:00 EST 2003 22:05:00 up 2 days, 21:51, 3 users, load average

RE: [newbie] Linux passing the Mac on the Desktop?

2003-06-27 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 21:27, Frankie wrote: > yeh, that always amazes me... M$ claim that linux is a clone of a 20 year > old operating system. For all intents and purposes, Windows basic layout ain't changed since 1993; and they're re-using code that's even older - from 1991...hmm...go figure...

Re: [newbie] hyper threading

2003-06-27 Thread tsyko
JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 13:23:03 +0200 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: > > > can any one tell me how i know if mandrake is using my hyper-threaded > > machine? > > Ask it politely? I tried but id didn't listen. Maybe I spoke into the wrong port? Want to buy yo

Re: [newbie] Linux passing the Mac on the Desktop?

2003-06-27 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 19:27:54 +0800 "Frankie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > whats next? winux??? Thanks. I'm gonna have nightmares tonight... -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + ICQ# 279518458 + Do what thou wilt, this shall be the

Re: [newbie] Orrin Hatch: farging icehole!

2003-06-27 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 15:39:13 +1000 Trevor Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > Is there a problem with your mailer? I seem to get a 'lot' of email > here on this list from you that doesn't actually have anything from > you in it. It's as if you reply to an email and just click 'send' > without

Re: [newbie] hyper threading

2003-06-27 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 22:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I tried but id didn't listen. Maybe I spoke into the wrong port? Speak DIRECTLY into the mouse. Then it will listen. -- Fri Jun 27 22:25:00 EST 2003 22:25:01 up 2 days, 22:11, 3 users, load average: 1.12, 1.17, 1.24

Re: [newbie] Vote for Mandrake!

2003-06-27 Thread Tango Echo
Also, I could be wrong here, but the polling method MAY be faulty. I'm suspicious of Gentooers - maybe this is what they do: Go to the site, place the vote, clear the cookies, refresh the page, place the vote, rinse and repeat...? If you sit there and refresh the page you'll notice at least 3 vot

Re: [newbie] checking that gtk+-2.0 (version >= 2.0.0) isinstalled... no

2003-06-27 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 17:02, Eric Huff wrote: > Ok, i am stumped, though i know it must be an easy answer. > i am running a configure script and i get the following: > > > Compiling /stuff/rpms_local/other/rox/Pager... please wait... > creating cache ./config.cache > checking that pkg-config runs

Re: [newbie] hyper threading

2003-06-27 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 13:23:03 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: > can any one tell me how i know if mandrake is using my hyper-threaded > machine? Ask it politely? -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + ICQ# 279518458 + Do what thou wil

Re: [newbie] checking that gtk+-2.0 (version >= 2.0.0) isinstalled... no

2003-06-27 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 08:37:50 +0100 Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > You need pygtk2.0-devel but you would never guess from that error > message. I only found out by installing almost everything containing > 'gtk' Install pygtk from source, because otherwise it will force you to unin

RE: [newbie] Linux passing the Mac on the Desktop?

2003-06-27 Thread Frankie
yeh, that always amazes me... M$ claim that linux is a clone of a 20 year old operating system. what it doesn't mention is that they are copying what they see as all the best bits of same 20 year OS.. no wonder they bought a SCO license. I am amazed at the list of commands in windows that are almo

Re: [newbie] Kernel configuration

2003-06-27 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
Noah, Please don't hijack threads to post a query - it makes things very confusing.The threads end up quite useless, as a random collection of messages . Thanks, DougB On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 06:44, Noah A Hicks wrote: > When someone says to use the following parameters to configure a kernel, >

Re: [newbie] Dual Booting the same OS

2003-06-27 Thread Joeb
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 10:45:45 +0100 John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well all I can say is that I took particular care on my last M9.1 > install to try and find a skip lilo install facility, and if it's there > I couldn't find it. > > Part of the problem lies with the changed layo

[newbie] hyper threading

2003-06-27 Thread tsyko
can any one tell me how i know if mandrake is using my hyper-threaded machine? Thanks in advance Tsyko LINUX ROCKS Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Dual Booting the same OS

2003-06-27 Thread John Richard Smith
Well all I can say is that I took particular care on my last M9.1 install to try and find a skip lilo install facility, and if it's there I couldn't find it. Part of the problem lies with the changed layout and method of install of DrakeX itself. We did have a series of active tabs down the lef

Re: [newbie] Printer virus problem

2003-06-27 Thread Robin Turner
Derek Jennings wrote: On Friday 27 Jun 2003 10:17 am, Robin Turner wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 00:36, Robin Turner wrote: No, of course I haven't got a virus, but someone on our LAN has, and it's printing garbage (probably its own code) to my Samba printer. One line, one pag

Re: [newbie] Printer virus problem

2003-06-27 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 27 Jun 2003 10:17 am, Robin Turner wrote: > Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 00:36, Robin Turner wrote: > >>No, of course I haven't got a virus, but someone on our LAN has, and > >>it's printing garbage (probably its own code) to my Samba printer. One > >>line, one page, so w

Re: [newbie] Printer virus problem

2003-06-27 Thread Robin Turner
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 00:36, Robin Turner wrote: No, of course I haven't got a virus, but someone on our LAN has, and it's printing garbage (probably its own code) to my Samba printer. One line, one page, so we've got through two reams of paper this week. Short of updating v

Re: [newbie] checking that gtk+-2.0 (version >= 2.0.0) is installed... no

2003-06-27 Thread Derek Jennings
You need pygtk2.0-devel but you would never guess from that error message. I only found out by installing almost everything containing 'gtk' derek On Friday 27 Jun 2003 8:02 am, Eric Huff wrote: > Ok, i am stumped, though i know it must be an easy answer. > i am running a configure script and i

Re: [newbie] checking that gtk+-2.0 (version >= 2.0.0) isinstalled... no

2003-06-27 Thread Anders Lind
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 00:02:09 -0700 Eric Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, i am stumped, though i know it must be an easy answer. > i am running a configure script and i get the following: > > > Compiling /stuff/rpms_local/other/rox/Pager... please wait... > creating cache ./config.cache > ch

[newbie] checking that gtk+-2.0 (version >= 2.0.0) is installed... no

2003-06-27 Thread Eric Huff
Ok, i am stumped, though i know it must be an easy answer. i am running a configure script and i get the following: Compiling /stuff/rpms_local/other/rox/Pager... please wait... creating cache ./config.cache checking that pkg-config runs... yes checking that gtk+-2.0 (version >= 2.0.0) is install