Re: [newbie] Window$ free- woo hoo

2003-06-30 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
> > > Just like to announce to the list that my three computers are now > > completely free from the dreaded operating system from redmond. I have > > been running mdk without a single regret - I can do everything I have > > to do for work and play the way > > I want to do it! > > Cool. I am near

RE: [newbie] Suggestions for Mandrake 9.1 Disk Partitions for Music Workstation

2003-06-30 Thread Frankie
swapping partitions is not as hard as it would seem at the outset, I have done it many times. Some Tips.: - If you are not putting windows on the 100gb drive, you can benefit by putting the swap part at the start of the drive where things will be faster. if you want windows on the drive as wel

Re: [newbie] Suggestions for Mandrake 9.1 Disk Partitions forMusic Workstation

2003-06-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 15:55, Michael wrote: > On Monday 30 June 2003 09:48 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > > > > Just make sure that you give yourself a large enough SWAP partition - > > about equivalent to your existing RAM. > > while that subject has been brought up..how hard is it to go and mo

Re: [newbie] problem with sound

2003-06-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 14:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The only option that i have is alsamixergui, i don`t have any alsa, > alsamixer, alsamixertext, or any other (in command line) ! I don`t have a > man page for alsamixergui ! There is nothing ! So if someone understood my > problem, i would rea

RE: [newbie] IRC Server

2003-06-30 Thread Frankie
I am running my own irc server using the mandrake contrib ircd rpm.. actually, I downloaded the src rpm and recompiled it with a few changes allowing me to use /kill and enabling services (though I have not found any services available for that version of ircd, so that was kinda pointless.. but /k

Re: [newbie] Suggestions for Mandrake 9.1 Disk Partitions for Music Workstation

2003-06-30 Thread Michael
On Monday 30 June 2003 09:48 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > Just make sure that you give yourself a large enough SWAP partition - > about equivalent to your existing RAM. while that subject has been brought up..how hard is it to go and move my swap partition from one hard drive to another? i'v

Re: [newbie] Free of OE!

2003-06-30 Thread Anders Lind
> I've used Sylpheed forever for personal and list mail, but I've > been somewhat stuck to Outlook Express for all my business e-mail > because I could never find an easy _and_ effective way to convert. > (KMail's import utility, for example, is easy, but doesn't work > for crap.) I have a memory

Re: [newbie] IRC Server

2003-06-30 Thread Anders Lind
> I used: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi ircd > Please insert the medium named "disc 3 Supplementary Applications CD (x86) > (cdrom3)" on device [/dev/cdrom] > Press enter when it's done... > installing /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS3/ircd-2.10.3-7mdk.i586.rpm > unable to read rpm file > [/mnt/cdrom/

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

2003-06-30 Thread Eric Huff
Jeeze-oh-man! I did so many things, but i think this is what made it work (i will ask why at the end): 1. In my newbie-ness, i installed pygtk2.0-1.99.16-1mdk.src.rpm 2. compiled pygtk-1.99.16.tar.gz. Then failed to compile libwnck. Hmm... waitaminute, there's an rpm for it.

Re: [newbie] defragmentation

2003-06-30 Thread stormjumper
to clarify the point abit, relating to Sir Robin's post below and David E Fox's post with the link to the Suse explanation, is it fair to start of by saying that ext2/3 does not need file defragmentation, as the expense of disk fragmentation? due to the way it grabs free space, there will always b

Re: [newbie] problem with sound

2003-06-30 Thread newarts
The only option that i have is alsamixergui, i don`t have any alsa, alsamixer, alsamixertext, or any other (in command line) ! I don`t have a man page for alsamixergui ! There is nothing ! So if someone understood my problem, i would really need some help ! Regards from newArTs. - Original

Re: [newbie] sylpheed: max # recipients limited by isp

2003-06-30 Thread Eric Huff
> Just keep in mind that you don't necessarily have to make use of your > ISP's SMTP server (outbound email) - you can send the email directly > from your linux workstation as most linux distributions have either Cool. Thanks for the info Stephen. I didn't quite realize that. eric Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Filters in kmail

2003-06-30 Thread Eric Huff
> > I'am about to do a clean install of 9.1 (had a few problems with upgrading) > > and would like to know how to preserve filters in kmail. Anyboby able to > > help? > > That and all of the other settings if I recall correctly, are contained in the > hidden kde directory in each user's home dire

Re: [newbie] coupla web sites

2003-06-30 Thread Eric Huff
> http://clevername.homeip.net Love the windows screenshots! eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] question for mozilla users

2003-06-30 Thread Michael
On Monday 30 June 2003 03:54 pm, Björn Olsson wrote: > Open a Mozilla window and right click the title bar. Un-check the > Maximize option. Then resize the window to your liking and check the > Save window configuration option. > > /Björn thank you. mozilla is better now. Mike Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] How to search for greatest # of incidences?

2003-06-30 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 30 June 2003 04:08 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: > try > > tr ' ' '\n' < powerball.txt | sort | uniq -c | sort -r > > There's a space between the first pair of quotes. > > cat powerball.txt > Here's the numbers I tested it with > > 11 12 13 14 16 > 12 13 14 15 16 > 13 14 15 16 17 > 14 15 16 1

Re: [newbie]MNF: adding programs/functionality

2003-06-30 Thread FemmeFatale
At 10:06 AM 7/1/2003 +1000, you wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 06:46, FemmeFatale wrote: > >You can't. > > Bleah (tosses shiny new MNF CD in the trash). > > guess i'm installing 9.1 as a server. :\ > > thx > - > FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Hey, how's about installing WindowsNT 3.51 as a s

Re: [newbie] Dual Booting the same OS

2003-06-30 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 30 June 2003 06:07 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: > Well i can dance with my bells on but that won't help you with this issue > will it? :D DVD I know nothing about. sorry. > - > FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Wish I could see that! :-) --

Re: [newbie] speaking of canon cameras. . .

2003-06-30 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 22:59:59 -0400 Brant Fitzsimmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nice email signatures Todd. > > How are you randomizing them? Thanks, I got in a mood :) I just write a text file, separating each quote/saying/whatever with a percent sign on its own line. Then, as root, I issue

Re: [newbie] reading MP3s and CDDB searching

2003-06-30 Thread Jason Greenwood
Sorry, perhaps I did misundertsand. RipperX will take a CD, make a tracke listing, connect to the freeDB and rip the tracks, giving them the track titles from the freedb. If you want to do it after the files have already been ripped, then I am out of ideas sorry. Cheers Jason Thomas Williams

Re: [newbie] reading MP3s and CDDB searching

2003-06-30 Thread Thomas Williams
On Monday 30 June 2003 10:08 pm, Jason Greenwood wrote: > Use RipperX, it will do what you want. =) It connects to the freedb. > I found a version 2.5 and I had it up but it doesn't look like it will open an MP3 and allow me to update the tags. Perhaps a newer version will? Or perhaps you misun

Re: [newbie] speaking of canon cameras. . .

2003-06-30 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Nice email signatures Todd. How are you randomizing them? -- 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." -Arthur Schopenhauer (1

Re: [newbie] Free of OE!

2003-06-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 12:24, Todd Slater wrote: > But she looked so clean--lots of purty makeup! Had it for over a year > and can't seem to shake it! Have you stopped patronizing whores yet? > > > Todd I'm married. Of course I haven't stopped! -- Tue Jul 1 12:45:00 EST 2003 12:45:00 up 6 da

Re: [newbie] [HIJACKED]Window$ free- woo hoo => Virus scanningWinBoxen

2003-06-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 12:23, Dennis Myers wrote: > Stephen, how do you scan a windows box for bugs? I would like to scan my > wifes' comp from my linux system and show her what shows up for virii and > wormies. Can you point me in the right direction for knowledge base. I > don't even know th

Re: [newbie] Window$ free- woo hoo

2003-06-30 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 30 June 2003 08:13 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 10:28, Graham Banks wrote: > > Just like to announce to the list that my three computers are now > > completely free from the dreaded operating system from redmond. I have > > been running mdk without a single regret - I c

Re: [newbie] Free of OE!

2003-06-30 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 12:10:22 +1000 Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 11:09, Cody Harris wrote: > > What's Sylpheed? > > It's a venereal disease that you catch from playing with very grungy, > dirty women - generally prostitutes and whores. But she looked so clean--l

Re: [newbie] IRC Server

2003-06-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 11:47, Cody Harris wrote: > Could you be a little more specific? > > I used: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi ircd > Please insert the medium named "disc 3 Supplementary Applications CD (x86) > (cdrom3)" on device [/dev/cdrom] You're going to need to update the CD sourc

Re: [newbie] speaking of canon cameras. . .

2003-06-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 11:38, Todd Slater wrote: > I was afraid of a flaky/corrupted fs. I suppose we can reformat, but > she's got 300+ pictures from her vacation! > > Todd She didn't, by chance, have the CF card xray'ed when she was travelling, ya reckon? Meanwhile, if you can't get'em off wit

Re: [newbie] speaking of canon cameras. . .

2003-06-30 Thread g
Todd Slater wrote: A colleague has a g4 with cf card. She usually uses the usb connection >< one had something else. I'm not exactly excited about trying this again--does canon do something weird to format cf cards, or was this if linux looks at cf card as a '/dev/cfc1' or what ever, have you tri

[newbie] coupla web sites

2003-06-30 Thread Todd Slater
Don't know if this has been posted before, but it's an "Is there a program like for linux?" list. http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft-en/ Also, I finally got around to setting up my site again. It's Mandrake-ish in nature, got the xfce4 rpm's there, starting on a howto section etc. that'

Re: [newbie] IRC Server

2003-06-30 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 22:47:55 -0300 Cody Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could you be a little more specific? > > I used: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi ircd > Please insert the medium named "disc 3 Supplementary Applications CD > (x86) (cdrom3)" on device [/dev/cdrom] > Press enter when

Re: [newbie] Suggestions for Mandrake 9.1 Disk Partitions forMusic Workstation

2003-06-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 11:32, The Other wrote: > 06/30/03 > > Hello All, > > In a few days (I hope), I'll have a replacment for the Maxtor > 30GB drive. I'll be dedicating the entire drive to Mandrake 9.1 > Bamboo. > > I plan to use the Bamboo system for music hard drive recording, > editing,

Re: [newbie] reading MP3s and CDDB searching

2003-06-30 Thread Jason Greenwood
Thomas Williams wrote: Is there any sort of tool that will take an MP3 and do a CDDB lookup? What I'm looking for has been done in another application that is available for windows called MusicMatch. I was hoping there was at least a tool like MP3Info that would read the tags and/or do a CDDB l

Re: [newbie] Free of OE!

2003-06-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 11:09, Cody Harris wrote: > What's Sylpheed? It's a venereal disease that you catch from playing with very grungy, dirty women - generally prostitutes and whores. -- Tue Jul 1 12:05:00 EST 2003 12:05:00 up 6 days, 11:51, 3 users, load average: 0.91, 0.94, 0.97

Re: [newbie] reading MP3s and CDDB searching

2003-06-30 Thread Thomas Williams
On Monday 30 June 2003 07:34 pm, Todd Slater wrote: > Far as I know, cddb is just for cd's. Tha'ts what I thought too, but my wife has MusicMatch and she's demonstrated it taking an MP3 and getting CDDB information on it. I suspect its just reading the file name and doing a search on that. > >

[newbie] Suggestions for Mandrake 9.1 Disk Partitions for Music Workstation

2003-06-30 Thread The Other
06/30/03 Hello All, In a few days (I hope), I'll have a replacment for the Maxtor 30GB drive. I'll be dedicating the entire drive to Mandrake 9.1 Bamboo. I plan to use the Bamboo system for music hard drive recording, editing, and score printing. Any suggestions on how I should partition th

Re: [newbie] Graphics Problem

2003-06-30 Thread Dan Gordon
On June 30, 2003 07:29 pm, Renier Horne wrote: > Hi there > I am having serious problems with my pc's graphics performance. All > works fine untill you need some 3D. All the games that have 3D and > even the GL screensavers experience serious bottlenecks, so bad you > can't play the game or in th

Re: [newbie] reading MP3s and CDDB searching

2003-06-30 Thread Thomas Williams
On Monday 30 June 2003 08:18 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > GRIP does it, XMMS can do it (with the proper plugin) - there are heaps > other MP3/Ogg players that will do basically the same thing... > Yes, I have both GRIP and XMMS. I like them a lot. This is something just slightly different. Its read

Re: [newbie] Swapping Hard drives

2003-06-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 02:19, Marc Oestreicher wrote: >I just got a IBM thinkpad 600 400 MHZ and I am useing it to > replace my old Thinkpad 770E that is only 333MHZ but has a 20 GB > HDD. >If I understand correctly I should be able to install the old HDD > in the new laptop and do a cus

[newbie] Graphics Problem

2003-06-30 Thread Renier Horne
Hi there I am having serious problems with my pc's graphics performance. All works fine untill you need some 3D. All the games that have 3D and even the GL screensavers experience serious bottlenecks, so bad you can't play the game or in the screensaver's case enter the password to unlock the des

Re: [newbie] Kde-Kate, selector - big icons

2003-06-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 03:05, Björn Lundin wrote: > Hello! > Every time I start Kate, the docked selector (which shows the open files) > is displayed with big icons. I right-click and choose View | small icons. > OK, but how do I get Kate to remember this setting at next startup? > I'm getting a bit

Re: [newbie] Window$ free- woo hoo

2003-06-30 Thread Miark
Awesome, Graham! I'm not quite there yet, but I got a step closer today myself! Miark On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 10:28:48 +1000, Graham Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just like to announce to the list that my three computers are now completely > free from the dreaded operating system from redmond.

Re: [newbie] How to search for greatest # of incidences? Now OT

2003-06-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday June 30 2003 04:10 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: > On Monday 30 Jun 2003 8:13 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > On Monday June 30 2003 11:04 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > >Well, I saw you got an answer, now don't bet on it like I > > infer you're fixin too ;) A knowledge, even intuitively, of > >

[newbie] Free of OE!

2003-06-30 Thread Miark
I've used Sylpheed forever for personal and list mail, but I've been somewhat stuck to Outlook Express for all my business e-mail because I could never find an easy _and_ effective way to convert. (KMail's import utility, for example, is easy, but doesn't work for crap.) But (!) today I found DBXC

Re: [newbie] Dual Booting the same OS

2003-06-30 Thread Graham Banks
John wrote: I'm not really sure , but we have been told here on newbie that once one install of M9.1 is completed on the second more options are available John On one of my systems I have mdk9.1 with kernel 2.4.21-0.18 which I have played around with for a couple of months getting things righ

Re: [newbie] sylpheed: max # recipients limited by isp

2003-06-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 01:55, Eric Huff wrote: > > > If i have an isp that has a limit on the number of mails sent, is there a way to > > > get sylpheed to break it up into seperat mails automatically? > > > > I'm sure the reason the isp has the rule is for purposes of spam. I promise > > > that

Re: [newbie]MNF: adding programs/functionality

2003-06-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 06:46, FemmeFatale wrote: > >You can't. > > Bleah (tosses shiny new MNF CD in the trash). > > guess i'm installing 9.1 as a server. :\ > > thx > - > FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Hey, how's about installing WindowsNT 3.51 as a server? (g) -- Tue Jul 1 10:05:01

Re: [newbie] IRC Server

2003-06-30 Thread Dan Gordon
On June 30, 2003 06:31 pm, Cody Harris wrote: > Is there an IRC server that anyone knows of? There are many just visit the home pages of some of the larger irc networks or a google search, but you might want to check you isp,s AUP before running one. I know that most of my local isp,s will shu

Re: [newbie] How to search for greatest # of incidences? Now OT

2003-06-30 Thread Jan Wilson
* Richard Urwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030630 17:09]: > The only way to win at games of pure chance is to run the game. > A strange game; the only winning move is not to play. When we lived in Florida we religiously bought one ticket each week. About half of that dollar went toward prizes, so we fi

Re: [newbie] reading MP3s and CDDB searching

2003-06-30 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 18:43:44 -0400 Thomas Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any sort of tool that will take an MP3 and do a CDDB lookup? > What I'm looking for has been done in another application that is > available for windows called MusicMatch. I was hoping there was at > least a t

Re: [newbie] /usr/postinstall-rpm

2003-06-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 08:22, Björn Olsson wrote: > I just stumbled over the directiory /usr/postinstall-rpm. It is full of > rpms, some of which may have been installed once and others > that I don't recognize at all. Thay all have a modification time of > april 7, and I suppose that's when I insta

Re: [newbie] USB digital camera?

2003-06-30 Thread John Layt
On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 09:26, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > > > Friend of mine came by with his Sony Cybershot 2.1 megapixel > > DSC-S50; I plugged it into the USB hub, turned the camera on, > > fired up "kdf", saw the camera as a mountable device, mounted > > it, navigated to the /mnt/camera directory, and

Re: [newbie] Printing man pages

2003-06-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 06:43, Johan Scheepers wrote: > Hi, > At the moment I use this command to print man pages... > man lilo | col -b | lpr > This is fine if it is only one or two pages. > I do not seem to be able to redirect it to ordinary file > Why - then I may be able to use a editor and be ab

Re: [newbie] reading MP3s and CDDB searching

2003-06-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 08:43, Thomas Williams wrote: > Is there any sort of tool that will take an MP3 and do a CDDB lookup? What I'm > looking for has been done in another application that is available for > windows called MusicMatch. I was hoping there was at least a tool like > MP3Info that wo

[newbie] IRC Server

2003-06-30 Thread Cody Harris
Is there an IRC server that anyone knows of? -Cody Harris ++ | This Signature is best in plain text! | ++--+ | Linux Rox My Sox! | | Check out HCHS!| | http://vectec.net | +

[newbie] reading MP3s and CDDB searching

2003-06-30 Thread Thomas Williams
Is there any sort of tool that will take an MP3 and do a CDDB lookup? What I'm looking for has been done in another application that is available for windows called MusicMatch. I was hoping there was at least a tool like MP3Info that would read the tags and/or do a CDDB lookup. Tom Williams W

Re: [newbie] sylpheed/checkinstall

2003-06-30 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 13:54:19 -0500 C T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Got the /.configure step done but I'm stuck again! > > I ran checkinstall and chose R (rpm), now it's asking: > > Please write a description for the package. > End your description with an empty line or EOF. > >> > > So I tried

Re: [newbie] Filters in kmail

2003-06-30 Thread Charlie
quoting Mick Featherstone; Monday 30 June 2003 03:39 pm: > I'am about to do a clean install of 9.1 (had a few problems with upgrading) > and would like to know how to preserve filters in kmail. Anyboby able to > help? > > Regards > Mick F Mick; That and all of the other settings if I recall corre

Re: [newbie] RPM for X11 cursors?

2003-06-30 Thread Charlie
quoting Brant Fitzsimmons; Monday 30 June 2003 04:41 pm: > Charlie wrote: > >quoting Terry Sheltra; Monday 30 June 2003 02:25 pm: > >>Hi list, > >> > >>I remember reading somewhere about an RPM for Mandrake that included > >>several different X11 cursor themes, but I can't remember where I read > >

[newbie] drakbackup

2003-06-30 Thread Chris
Ok, just did another backup of my /home dir to a seperate drive holding my /var partition. The first backup I did on the 21st of june, ***.tar.gz when trying to open with ark as root with konqueror shows no files. The same with the one I just did. The first being a backup base and the second

Re: [newbie] Dual Booting the same OS

2003-06-30 Thread John Richard Smith
FemmeFatale wrote: At 11:07 AM 6/30/2003 +0100, you wrote: I'll give it a try, on my next install. However I'm thinking it was between M9.0 and M9.1 when all the options started changing, so I'm not really sure , but we have been told here on newbie that once one install of M9.1 is completed

[newbie] lost login configuration

2003-06-30 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi All, I had to do a hard reset and now when I boot into LM9 my login options are whacked. I used to have one user now there are many. ftp, udp, games etc. are all on the login screen. Also, my user can't login to any window managerall that is left is default and failsafe (both the same of

Re: [newbie] RPM for X11 cursors?

2003-06-30 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Charlie wrote: quoting Terry Sheltra; Monday 30 June 2003 02:25 pm: Hi list, I remember reading somewhere about an RPM for Mandrake that included several different X11 cursor themes, but I can't remember where I read it, or where they were located. Can anyone help me out here? T

Re: [newbie] Dual Booting the same OS

2003-06-30 Thread FemmeFatale
At 09:48 PM 6/30/2003 +0100, you wrote: well if ya need help i'm sure we'll all be here with bells on waiting to pitch in :) - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Currently my mplayer picture and sound are out of sync on DVD play. John Well i can dance with my bells on but that won't help

Re: [newbie] RPM for X11 cursors?

2003-06-30 Thread FemmeFatale
At 04:25 PM 6/30/2003 -0400, you wrote: Hi list, I remember reading somewhere about an RPM for Mandrake that included several different X11 cursor themes, but I can't remember where I read it, or where they were located. Can anyone help me out here? Thanks in advance, Found an article on Linu

Re: [newbie] How to search for greatest # of incidences?

2003-06-30 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 16:01, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Monday 30 June 2003 03:13 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > >Well, I saw you got an answer, now don't bet on it like I infer > > you're fixin too ;) A knowledge, even intuitively, of random > > mathematics, theory of chaos, would suggest that p

Re: [newbie]MNF: adding programs/functionality

2003-06-30 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 16:46, FemmeFatale wrote: > At 09:46 PM 6/30/2003 +1000, you wrote: > >On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 09:19, FemmeFatale wrote: > > > I want to run an MNF Server and add the ability to have it serve files by > > > ftp or something similar. > > > >You can't. > > Bleah (tosses shiny new

Re: [newbie] sylpheed/checkinstall

2003-06-30 Thread C T
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 14:36, Charles A Edwards wrote: > On 30 Jun 2003 13:54:19 -0500 > C T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > So I tried: > > >> sylpheedrpm EOF and >> sylpheedrpmEOF > > > > > >> sylpheed [enter] > >> EOF [enter] > > or instead of using EOF you may just use [

Re: [newbie]MNF: adding programs/functionality

2003-06-30 Thread FemmeFatale
At 09:46 PM 6/30/2003 +1000, you wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 09:19, FemmeFatale wrote: > I want to run an MNF Server and add the ability to have it serve files by > ftp or something similar. You can't. Bleah (tosses shiny new MNF CD in the trash). guess i'm installing 9.1 as a server. :\ thx --

Re: [newbie] Dual Booting the same OS

2003-06-30 Thread FemmeFatale
At 11:07 AM 6/30/2003 +0100, you wrote: I'll give it a try, on my next install. However I'm thinking it was between M9.0 and M9.1 when all the options started changing, so I'm not really sure , but we have been told here on newbie that once one install of M9.1 is completed on the second more op

[newbie] Filters in kmail

2003-06-30 Thread Mick Featherstone
I'am about to do a clean install of 9.1 (had a few problems with upgrading) and would like to know how to preserve filters in kmail. Anyboby able to help? Regards Mick F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Printing man pages

2003-06-30 Thread Johan Scheepers
Hi, At the moment I use this command to print man pages... man lilo | col -b | lpr This is fine if it is only one or two pages. I do not seem to be able to redirect it to ordinary file Why - then I may be able to use a editor and be able to print first odd -reverse -then even - this will then use b

Re: [newbie] RPM for X11 cursors?

2003-06-30 Thread Charlie
quoting Terry Sheltra; Monday 30 June 2003 02:25 pm: > Hi list, > > I remember reading somewhere about an RPM for Mandrake that included > several different X11 cursor themes, but I can't remember where I read > it, or where they were located. Can anyone help me out here? > > Thanks in advance, H

Re: [newbie] How to search for greatest # of incidences? Now OT

2003-06-30 Thread Richard Urwin
On Monday 30 Jun 2003 8:13 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Monday June 30 2003 11:04 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > If I had a text file that contained the winning Powerball numbers > > in our state for the last 10 years, what would be the easiest way > > to search it for the numbers that occurred the

Re: [newbie] How to search for greatest # of incidences?

2003-06-30 Thread Richard Urwin
On Monday 30 Jun 2003 6:52 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Monday 30 June 2003 01:04 pm, Todd Slater wrote: > > Yes, it depends on what the text file looks like; in general, > > you're going to probably use sort and then pipe it through uniq, > > such as > > > > cat file.txt|sort|uniq -c > > > > You

Re: [newbie] sylpheed/checkinstall

2003-06-30 Thread C T
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 14:34, Paul wrote: > On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 20:54, C T wrote: > > What does it really want here? or how do I end it with an "empty line"? > > > > Hit enter. Without typing anything. Then the line is... empty... :-) > Paul :-o ... Guess that should have been obvious. Thanks P

[newbie] /usr/postinstall-rpm

2003-06-30 Thread Björn Olsson
I just stumbled over the directiory /usr/postinstall-rpm. It is full of rpms, some of which may have been installed once and others that I don't recognize at all. Thay all have a modification time of april 7, and I suppose that's when I installed 9.1. Is it needed for anything or is it safe to dele

Re: [newbie] Splitting a file across floppies

2003-06-30 Thread g
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had a need to do this some years ago in the DOS/Windows world and found > a utility called SplitZ. I still have it here if anyone would like me to > attach it to an e-mail. It's 239K. Pretty intuitive. 'file splitter' v1.0, by p t ranjit, is a nice file splitter, con

Re: [newbie] root filesystem problems

2003-06-30 Thread Andrei Raevsky
Hi Tom, Thanks for the very thourough answer. I did not have a power failure and my hardware is an old laptop. Next time I will choose ReiserFS. Thanks a lot! Andrei > On Sunday June 29 2003 05:29 pm, Andrei Raevsky wrote: >> I am running ext3 journalling filesystem which I thought would >>

[newbie] RPM for X11 cursors?

2003-06-30 Thread Terry Sheltra
Hi list, I remember reading somewhere about an RPM for Mandrake that included several different X11 cursor themes, but I can't remember where I read it, or where they were located. Can anyone help me out here? Thanks in advance, -- Terry Sheltra PC Technician/Asst. Network Administrator Unive

Re: [newbie] snapshot

2003-06-30 Thread Robin Turner
Josenildo Marques wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I can't get snapshots of movies either using Ksnapshot or The Gimp. The Mplayer window goes blue. I'm running Mandrake Linux 9.1. I don't know how to fix this, but Xine has its own snapshot feature. Sir Robin -- "A strategy i

Re: [newbie] How to search for greatest # of incidences?

2003-06-30 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 30 June 2003 03:13 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: >Well, I saw you got an answer, now don't bet on it like I infer > you're fixin too ;) A knowledge, even intuitively, of random > mathematics, theory of chaos, would suggest that past numbers would > be more unlikely to turn up than those in

[newbie] Error Compiling Kernel Modules

2003-06-30 Thread Huw Blackwell
Hi Guys. Got problems on my first rebuild of the kernel... Kernel 2.4.21 that comes with mandrake 9.1 Optflags: march=athlon-tbird -pipe -fomitframepoiter -O2 Kernel compiles fine but when #make modules Is entered at the command line I Get the following error message from the compiler. make

Re: [newbie] USB digital camera?

2003-06-30 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 30 June 2003 11:38 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 09:23, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > On Saturday 28 June 2003 03:37 pm, Grant wrote: > > >From what I've seen on this list, some folks have had > > > problems with USB > > > > cameras. Information about your camera would be

[newbie] sylpheed/checkinstall

2003-06-30 Thread C T
Got the /.configure step done but I'm stuck again! I ran checkinstall and chose R (rpm), now it's asking: Please write a description for the package. End your description with an empty line or EOF. >> So I tried: >> sylpheedrpm EOF and >> sylpheedrpmEOF but it just returns: >> What does it rea

Re: [newbie] sylpheed/checkinstall

2003-06-30 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 30 Jun 2003 13:54:19 -0500 C T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So I tried: > >> sylpheedrpm EOF and >> sylpheedrpmEOF > >> sylpheed [enter] >> EOF [enter] or instead of using EOF you may just use [enter] >> sylpheed [enter] >> [enter] Charles -- Enough rese

Re: [newbie] how to make dial up global

2003-06-30 Thread Robin Turner
Chris Knewstubb wrote: Hi, I am running Mandrake 9.1. I am in the process of setting up accounts for my family. I have set up KPPP dial up tool in my account. How do I set it up so that it appears in all accounts and not just mine? You could copy the kppp configuration files from your account to a

Re: [newbie] snapshot

2003-06-30 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Josenildo Marques wrote: > I can't get snapshots of movies either using Ksnapshot or The Gimp. The > Mplayer window goes blue. > I'm running Mandrake Linux 9.1. > > Thank you in advance for any tip. > > JM I encountered the same problem and was able to capture a screenshot by changing the video d

Re: [newbie] sylpheed/checkinstall

2003-06-30 Thread Paul
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 20:54, C T wrote: > What does it really want here? or how do I end it with an "empty line"? > Hit enter. Without typing anything. Then the line is... empty... :-) Paul -- Thou shalt not impersonate Liberace or eat watermelon while sitting at the console keyboard. http:/

Re: [newbie] How to search for greatest # of incidences?

2003-06-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday June 30 2003 11:04 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > If I had a text file that contained the winning Powerball numbers > in our state for the last 10 years, what would be the easiest way > to search it for the numbers that occurred the most often. > Hopefully output to a text file, in descendin

Re: [newbie] question for mozilla users

2003-06-30 Thread Björn Olsson
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 Michael wrote: > i don't know if i messed up a setting somewhere, but every time i open > mozilla or i click on a link from a web page and it opens another > page, it's FULL SCREEN. it's kind of annoying actually and i don't > need it full screen, especially with a 19" moniter

Re: [newbie] defragmentation

2003-06-30 Thread newarts
Sir Robin, Excelent explanation, me and the other newbies (i`m sure of it) we thank you for it, i finally understood fragmentation process in windows and unix/linux file system. Thank you again ! Regards from newArTs. - Original Message - From: "Robin Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[

Re: [newbie] sylpheed: max # recipients limited by isp

2003-06-30 Thread Eric Huff
> > If i have an isp that has a limit on the number of mails sent, is there a way to > > get sylpheed to break it up into seperat mails automatically? > > I'm sure the reason the isp has the rule is for purposes of spam. I promise > > that's not what i am doing! > > We're havin a 5th of july pa

[newbie] Kde-Kate, selector - big icons

2003-06-30 Thread Björn Lundin
Hello! Every time I start Kate, the docked selector (which shows the open files) is displayed with big icons. I right-click and choose View | small icons. OK, but how do I get Kate to remember this setting at next startup? I'm getting a bit anoyyed by it now, since I change it everytime I start Kat

[newbie] Swapping Hard drives

2003-06-30 Thread Marc Oestreicher
I just got a IBM thinkpad 600 400 MHZ and I am useing it to replace my old Thinkpad 770E that is only 333MHZ but has a 20 GB HDD. If I understand correctly I should be able to install the old HDD in the new laptop and do a custom install leaving my home partitision unformated. but reform

Re: [newbie] root filesystem problems

2003-06-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday June 29 2003 05:29 pm, Andrei Raevsky wrote: > I am running ext3 journalling filesystem which I thought would > record the location of all my files every 5 sec. However, data > was lost. Why?! > > Can you explain what happened? And should I take any special > action? ext3 is really

Re: [newbie] How to search for greatest # of incidences?

2003-06-30 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 12:04:52PM -0400, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > If I had a text file that contained the winning Powerball numbers in our state > for the last 10 years, what would be the easiest way to search it for the > numbers that occurred the most often. Hopefully output to a text file, in

Re: [newbie] URPMI.... once more, again.. Charlie

2003-06-30 Thread Charlie
quoting Curt Tresenriter; Sunday 29 June 2003 08:25 am: > > Hi Charlie, > > Yes I did add a source for contrib before issuing the command. > Thanks for the tip about the build dir. I'll do that. > Curt Sorry about that Curt, busy weekend. It seems the message did get through, but the ol' sympa s

Re: [newbie] neat trick: "man" completion

2003-06-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday June 29 2003 02:06 pm, Miark wrote: > By ESC !, Eric mean . :-) > > Miark > On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 13:39:19 -0400 > > "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey Eric. Just curious, I have to hit twice here, and it > > asks if I want to display all 102 possibilities :-0 O

[newbie] How to search for greatest # of incidences?

2003-06-30 Thread Ronald J. Hall
If I had a text file that contained the winning Powerball numbers in our state for the last 10 years, what would be the easiest way to search it for the numbers that occurred the most often. Hopefully output to a text file, in descending order by rank? Can I do that from bash? Thanks! --

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