[newbie] acroread won't print

2003-07-01 Thread Eric Huff
Anyone know why i wouldn't be able to get acroread to print? Other programs print the same files with the same command. /usr/bin/lp, lpr, etc. The only reason i wanna print from acroread is i have a screwed up pdf that only it and xpdf can see. It's screwed up enough, though, that xpdf won't pr

[newbie] Acrobat printing error

2003-07-01 Thread Erylon Hines
On one of my machines (with a Voodoo card) I get this error when I print a pdf with Acrobat 5: Loading required Gl library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGl.so.1.2 Warning: Klocate: trying to look up in catalogue. Fix the program Then the print proceeds normally. I can't find much that helps me in the arch

Re: [newbie] /usr/postinstall-rpm

2003-07-01 Thread Björn Olsson
On 01 Jul 2003 Stephen Kuhn wrote:: > 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

Re: [newbie] Good Mailing List Software??

2003-07-01 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 05:43:03AM -0400, LeaAnne Kolp wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm looking for a good mailing list software for my MDK 9.1 > machine. I need something to where I can moderate it and have > the subscription emails go to me so I can approve them. Mailman should do the job. There are R

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?

2003-07-01 Thread dfox
Somebody scribbled about Re[2]: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool? >I checked out glimpse. It is a text indexer, and can do some >sophisticated searches. It requires a plugin to handle Word & Excel I see. I haven't explored this. If you look for 'indexing' on sourceforge.net there are a c

Re: [newbie] Backups

2003-07-01 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Chris wrote: On Tuesday 01 July 2003 09:04 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Chris wrote: Hmm, didn't get any help with my question on drakbackup so maybe I'll ask it in a different manner. Using drakbackup creates backup tar.gz files on my other drive in my /var partit

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

2003-07-01 Thread Eric Huff
> I tried "man che" and returned cheatmake, checkinstall, and checkXML. I > tried man checkinstall and it said no manual entry for checkinstall. So > this little trick isn't perfect! :/ Oddly, none of the three "che" files had man pages! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?

2003-07-01 Thread dfox
Somebody scribbled about Re[2]: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool? >Hello dfox >I found some info onthe web, but nothing foe Mandrake. Is there a >Mandrake versoina available? I haven't seen one. glimpse is a fairly old tool afaik. Sorry about the lateness of the reply. urpmi (i have

[newbie] lost login settings

2003-07-01 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi, I had to do a hard power reset and now when I boot into LM9 I get the graphical login screen with my user and all other (installed) users...like ftp, gopher, cdrecord etc. Also, I cannot access any window manager like kde, gnome, icewm etc. All that is available is 'default' and 'failsaf

Re: [newbie] No, I *don't* want to open it in Konqueror

2003-07-01 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Isaac Curtis wrote: >Anytime I'm in Mozilla (or any browser, for that matter) and I double click >the url box to change my site, I get a *very* annoying popup asking if I'd >like to open it in Konqueror, Netscape, Mozilla, edit it, do nothing, etc. >How can I make this not pop up? I looked al

Re: [newbie] Weirdness - playing a video

2003-07-01 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 09:04, Dennis Myers wrote: > Did you get this fixed? Which player are you using. I have the same troubles > with mplayer but aviplayer works fine. You can even sync to video and sound > in configuration file, if you need to . HTH Nah - still ain't got it straight yet. Ever

Re: [newbie] GNOME-Iconedit M9.1

2003-07-01 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
John Richard Smith wrote: > I'm stuck with an application of gnome-iconedit on desktop every time I > boot up. > > I tried deleting /.gnome/iconedit, but the darn thing keeps on > putting it back. > How can I repar the situation ? > > John > > > later > = > > > What programme is responsible

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

2003-07-01 Thread Miark
That sounds like there's simply no manual for checkinstall, in which case the is acting normally. (I know some have only --help/-h switches instead of actual man pages.) Miark On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 16:49:28 -0500, John Drouhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried "man che" and returned cheatmake

Re: [newbie] Filters in kmail

2003-07-01 Thread LtCdData
hi just dont do anything to kill your /home/account dir and all your settings will be there... atm i use a second hdd as /home i mount this after i have created my accounts again .. remame the /home in use as old and log into a kde session.. everything will be there waiting for you.. ) inc the km

Re: [newbie] Preventing Popups

2003-07-01 Thread Miark
Stephen, Mozilla: 1) Edit > Preferences, then 2) Privacy & Security > Popup Windows 3) Click "Suppress popups" then OK. Konqueror: 1) Settings > Configure Konqueror... 2) Java & Javascript, then JavaScript tab 3) Click Ask, Deny, on Smart at the bottom, the then OK. (Experimentation recommend

Re: [newbie] Backups

2003-07-01 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Chris wrote: >Hmm, didn't get any help with my question on drakbackup so maybe I'll ask it >in a different manner. Using drakbackup creates backup tar.gz files on my >other drive in my /var partition. Shouldn't I be able to look inside these >files using Konqueror in superuser mode? Or am I m

Re: [newbie] Fully Automatic Installation

2003-07-01 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
L.V.Gandhi wrote: >As for debian , apt-get install fai, anything exists for mandrake. > > urpmi fai -- 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] Preventing Popups

2003-07-01 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 01:23, Burrows, Scott wrote: > Stephen, > > How do u prevent the porno popups with Linux? In Netscape 7+ you have the option to prevent pop-ups. In Galeon, you can go to preferences, to filtering, and then untick the box that says "Allow Pop-ups" Fairly easy... -- Wed Ju

Re: [newbie] winbindd problems

2003-07-01 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 01:44, Richard Urwin wrote: > Thanks Stephen. > Damn. Had to reboot anyway. KDE wouldn't let me in. I did wonder about > getting this machine to do the Windows authentication, maybe some of > the setup is wrong. winbindd doesn't appear in top anymore, I'll keep > my eye ou

Re: [newbie] modem that is compatible with linux

2003-07-01 Thread Aron Smith
External modems are the best least hassle way with linux(at least for dialup) On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 15:36, Jason Greenwood wrote: > With modems, it is much better to have a hardware modem (e.g. external > serial/usb modem) than a so-called software modem (e.g. Winmodem) which > relies on the OS t

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

2003-07-01 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 22:05, mike wrote: > Hi stephen, > > I had a cannon camera scanned twice on a recent trip to the Netherlands, > and it didn't hurt anything. > > I have also known may people who have done the same. > > what happens, or what's the mechanics behind what you said? > > I'm cur

Re: [newbie] Accessing 'C:\Windows' ?

2003-07-01 Thread Peter Moscatt
G'Day Derek, Well you have answered that question:-) Yea I am running NTFS. Trust BillG to make things difficult for everyone - making friends again :-) Pete From: Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Accessing '

Re: [newbie] Weirdness - playing a video

2003-07-01 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 28 June 2003 08:32 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > I've just found something rather strange in my system - I've updated the > NVidia drivers about a week or so ago, and now, for whatever reason, > every time I play a movie (AVI or whatever), on the right side of the > "screen" of the movie, I

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

2003-07-01 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 30 June 2003 09:38 pm, Todd Slater wrote: > On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 11:28:43 +1000 > > Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 11:05, Todd Slater wrote: > > > A colleague has a g4 with cf card. She usually uses the usb > > > connection to get pics to her windoze mach

Re: [newbie] Gideon (KDevelop 3.0) alpha 4a and kdelibs documentation

2003-07-01 Thread John Layt
On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 04:04, Guilherme Cirne wrote: > Hi all, > > I downloaded the source tarball for Gideon (KDevelop 3.0) alpha 4a and > after running configure I get the following error: Can't help with the configure problems, but I did find some ready made packages that work on my 9.1 install:

Re: [newbie] Sylpheed Claws display problems

2003-07-01 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, 01 Jul 2003 16:59:05 -0700 Aron Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Claws worked OK untill last night now all I get is the MSG. header the > text is nothing but los of little blocks > any one know what's wrong? (ie:how did smitty screw it up this time) Did you change the fonts? Todd --

[newbie]MNF: adding programs/functionality

2003-07-01 Thread FemmeFatale
I want to run an MNF Server and add the ability to have it serve files by ftp or something similar. Has to be simple & easy to administer as well as setup. Can this be done with MNF & just adding an ftp server program to it? Or will I need to install a full MDK 9.1 & just set that up as my

Re: [newbie] Sylpheed Claws display problems

2003-07-01 Thread Charles A Edwards
On 01 Jul 2003 16:59:05 -0700 Aron Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Claws worked OK untill last night now all I get is the MSG. header the > text is nothing but los of little blocks > any one know what's wrong? (ie:how did smitty screw it up this time) You either changed your system fonts or

[newbie] test

2003-07-01 Thread Aron Smith
This is a test no need to panic .. unless I am sending in HTML if so notify me and I will panic. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] GNOME-Iconedit M9.1

2003-07-01 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
John Richard Smith wrote: > I'm stuck with an application of gnome-iconedit on desktop every time > I boot up. > > I tried deleting /.gnome/iconedit, but the darn thing keeps on > putting it back. > How can I repar the situation ? > > John What window manager are you using? -- Brant Fitzsimmo

[newbie] Sylpheed Claws display problems

2003-07-01 Thread Aron Smith
Claws worked OK untill last night now all I get is the MSG. header the text is nothing but los of little blocks any one know what's wrong? (ie:how did smitty screw it up this time) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] USB digital camera?

2003-07-01 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Saturday 28 June 2003 03:37 pm, Grant wrote: > > I'm going to go take some photos right now. Is it going to be able to > > upload to Mandrake? Any tips? > > > > - Grant > > Wow, in Windows I have to install a driver for it, but in Mandrake it > popped right up as soon as it was plugged in. Sw

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

2003-07-01 Thread Aron Smith
On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 15:41, Todd Slater wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 15:11:19 -0700 > Eric Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

Re: [newbie] Is MDK 9.0 Updates prepared to Intel P4 2.8?

2003-07-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday July 1 2003 09:59 am, Lucio_Costa wrote: > Can anyone help me? > I received 4 Dell Opt1plex 260GX box, P4 2.8Ghz, 1.0Gb > Ram, and I tried to install MDK 9.0 on it. I didn't > have problem in installation process, but I couldn't > update It; I received information about processor > inco

[newbie] How do I use all buttons on MS Explorer mouse?

2003-07-01 Thread Trey Sizemore
I have a MS Intellimouse Explorer wireless USB mouse and want to be able to use the side buttons as well (previous web page, forward page, etc.). Has anyone successfully gotten this to work? What are the changes to make in XFree86 (I assume)? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mand

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

2003-07-01 Thread Robin Turner
rikona wrote: Hello Robin, Saturday, June 28, 2003, 7:54:35 AM, you wrote: RT> A lot of them are very well-educated (and I'm not talking about RT> all that training they got in Pakistan thanks to the CIA). The RT> word "taliban" derives from "talep", meaning "student". Very interesting. We prob

[newbie] quicktime

2003-07-01 Thread Tsyko
How do i play quicktime mov files? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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

2003-07-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday July 1 2003 10:03 am, N. B. Day wrote: > On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 19:42, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > > Tom Brinkman: > >In Texas it use to be about 1:16million. Lately they've > > changed the lotto from pick 6 out of 50, match all 6 ... to > > pick 5 out'a 50, match all, plus pick the righ

Re: [newbie] hyper threading

2003-07-01 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 02:49, MWafkowski wrote: > Stephen -- Hey, hey, I'm the one who has to close his eyes at night with the > boxes humming and staring at me as I sleep...let's not get them two riled up > here...shesh. > > Mike Wafkowski Close one's eyes at night? Hmmm...strange concept. Is

[newbie] asf player?

2003-07-01 Thread Isaac Curtis
Is there a media player for L-M that can play .asf files? My sister's HS graduation is in .asf format and I'm trying to figure out a way to view it on this box. Worst case scenario I think I can get someone to convert it, but if it's viewable that would rule. Isaac Want to buy your Pack or S

[newbie] we are down again

2003-07-01 Thread Dennis Myers
Looks like the server is down. But being the impatient type (sometimes) I thought I would send this to see if it goes. I'm sure others will too. We are a testy lot. LOL -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Fully Automatic Installation

2003-07-01 Thread L.V.Gandhi
As for debian , apt-get install fai, anything exists for mandrake. -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrake

[newbie] Backups

2003-07-01 Thread Chris
Hmm, didn't get any help with my question on drakbackup so maybe I'll ask it in a different manner. Using drakbackup creates backup tar.gz files on my other drive in my /var partition. Shouldn't I be able to look inside these files using Konqueror in superuser mode? Or am I missing something h

Re: [newbie] apt question

2003-07-01 Thread Xuer
Thers is a file /etc/apt/vendors.list, you just backup and remove it so apt can work properly. But I can't use apt to install from src.rpm,for the rpm-src source sux. If anyone know how to make it work, let me know, thanks. :) Hi When I try to use apt I get this: $ apt-cache search wmweather

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

2003-07-01 Thread Eric Huff
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] huff]$ man pk < here i hit ESC ! > > pk2bm pkg-config pkill pktogf pktopbm pktype > > > > and it gave all the solutions. > > > > This is straight out of the ML 9.0 Command line manual (p19). > > > > eric > > Hey Eric. Just curious, I have to hit twice

Re: [newbie] defragmentation

2003-07-01 Thread Robin Turner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, but it would be very usefull if the most experienced ppl on this mail list would give us an explanation or some usefull links on this matter, why ext doesn`t need defragmentation ... Thanks in advance for your understanding. It's very simple, and not exclusive to Linux

[newbie] uprmi messed up all my sources.

2003-07-01 Thread Dan Gordon
I was playing wirh uprmi last night and now my cd sources are no longer showing any packages. As a mater a fact there are no sources to be found on any of the sites either. Not shur what i did wrong but i would at least like to have acces to the cd's. Any help will be apreatiated. Regards, Da

Re: [newbie] modem that is compatible with linux

2003-07-01 Thread Jason Greenwood
With modems, it is much better to have a hardware modem (e.g. external serial/usb modem) than a so-called software modem (e.g. Winmodem) which relies on the OS to do some of its work, thus the slightly lower cost. Buy a hardware modem and all your problems will dissappear. There are really chea

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

2003-07-01 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 30 June 2003 09:37 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > 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 r

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

2003-07-01 Thread N. B. Day
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 19:42, Tom Brinkman wrote: Tom Brinkman: >In Texas it use to be about 1:16million. Lately they've changed > the lotto from pick 6 out of 50, match all 6 ... to pick 5 out'a > 50, match all, plus pick the right bonus ball pic (another 1 of the > same 50 possibles). To m

Re: [newbie] Good Mailing List Software??

2003-07-01 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 05:43:03AM -0400, LeaAnne Kolp wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm looking for a good mailing list software for my MDK 9.1 > machine. I need something to where I can moderate it and have > the subscription emails go to me so I can approve them. Take 2 - didn't make it the first time

Re: [newbie] Is MDK 9.0 Updates prepared to Intel P4 2.8?

2003-07-01 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 01 Jul 2003 3:59 pm, Lucio_Costa wrote: > Greetings All. > > Can anyone help me? > I received 4 Dell Opt1plex 260GX box, P4 2.8Ghz, 1.0Gb > Ram, and I tried to install MDK 9.0 on it. I didn't > have problem in installation process, but I couldn't > update It; I received information abou

Re: [newbie] modem that is compatible with linux

2003-07-01 Thread John Wilson
On July 1, 2003 01:30 am, Eko Budiharto wrote: > Hi, > I bought a new modem, PROLINK 1456 PVC (it is detected in 9.1 as > winmodem). I install it, it is said that cannot be installed. Please > someone can tell me which modem that is compatible with 9.1 or I go to a > certain site that I can see a l

Re: [newbie] modem that is compatible with linux

2003-07-01 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 01 July 2003 04:21 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > Eko Budiharto wrote: > > Hi, > > I bought a new modem, PROLINK 1456 PVC (it is detected in 9.1 as > > winmodem). I install it, it is said that cannot be installed. Please > > someone can tell me which modem that is compatible with 9.1 or

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

2003-07-01 Thread John Drouhard
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 09:58:03 -0700 Eric Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Haven't seen it before, but very useful: > > To use word completion with man, hit ESC !. > > IE: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] huff]$ man pk < here i hit ESC ! > pk2bm pkg-config pkill pktogf pktopbm pktype

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

2003-07-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday June 30 2003 06:48 pm, Miark wrote: > Tab doesn't work when the app follows "man". Try 'man > cdrec' and nuthin' will happen. > > Miark H it does here. Maybe because I'm runnin 9.2 > > > On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 10:47:51 -0500 > > Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > O

Re: [newbie] hey?

2003-07-01 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 22:22, Damian Gatabria wrote: > Can anyone read this? If so, please > respond privately, i've not received any mail > from the lists since friday night... > > > Damian > > gotten any reply yet? > > __ >

[newbie] GNOME-Iconedit M9.1

2003-07-01 Thread John Richard Smith
I'm stuck with an application of gnome-iconedit on desktop every time I boot up. I tried deleting /.gnome/iconedit, but the darn thing keeps on putting it back. How can I repar the situation ? John later = What programme is responsible for initiating apps on arrival on desktop ? John -- Jo

[newbie] Is MDK 9.0 Updates prepared to Intel P4 2.8?

2003-07-01 Thread Lucio_Costa
Greetings All. Can anyone help me? I received 4 Dell Opt1plex 260GX box, P4 2.8Ghz, 1.0Gb Ram, and I tried to install MDK 9.0 on it. I didn't have problem in installation process, but I couldn't update It; I received information about processor incompatibilities. Do You have any information abou

[newbie] Preventing Popups

2003-07-01 Thread Burrows, Scott
Stephen, How do u prevent the porno popups with Linux? "Wife loves it because THERE AIN'T NO MORE PORNO POP-UPS when she's seriously surfing..." Thanks > Scott Burrows > GSBE/EDIView/BSBE OSM Support > perotsystems(tm) > Office: 407 804-3208 > Pager: 407-400-0197 > Fax:407-804-3340

Re: [newbie] RPM for X11 cursors?

2003-07-01 Thread Terry Sheltra
Thanks for the help all. Terry Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: 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 w

Re: [newbie] IRC Server

2003-07-01 Thread John Wilson
On June 30, 2003 10:55 pm, Frankie wrote: > 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 ve

[newbie] Gideon (KDevelop 3.0) alpha 4a and kdelibs documentation

2003-07-01 Thread Guilherme Cirne
Hi all, I downloaded the source tarball for Gideon (KDevelop 3.0) alpha 4a and after running configure I get the following error: You have no kdelibs documentation generated by Doxygen installed. You should install Doxygen from www.doxygen.org, reconfigure and rebuild the kdelibs sources. You sh

Re: [newbie] winbindd problems

2003-07-01 Thread Richard Urwin
On Tuesday 01 Jul 2003 12:54 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > WINBIND is a daemon that works in conjunction with SMB/NMB to make > use of the Windows authentication for network logins/access and the > likes - if you're not using it (which I highly doubt) then disable > it. If you're already making use of

Re: [newbie] lost login configuration

2003-07-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday June 30 2003 05:40 pm, Bill Winegarden wrote: > 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 man

[newbie] Mozilla 1.4

2003-07-01 Thread Jason Guidry
Anyone else experiencing problems with installing the new mozilla (1.4) on mdk9.1? I'm getting all sorts of .xpm errors, and it won't let me specify an install directory. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Accessing 'C:\Windows' ?

2003-07-01 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 01 Jul 2003 12:53 pm, Peter Moscatt wrote: > I have a dual-boot system which comprises of Mandrake 9.1 [default] and MS > WindowsXP. > When viewing the file system with Konqeror I can see Windows in the '/mnt' > area. I can browse it's file system but when I want to copy a file from > t

[newbie] Accessing 'C:\Windows' ?

2003-07-01 Thread Peter Moscatt
I have a dual-boot system which comprises of Mandrake 9.1 [default] and MS WindowsXP. When viewing the file system with Konqeror I can see Windows in the '/mnt' area. I can browse it's file system but when I want to copy a file from the Linux system to the '/mnt/windows' - I get an error that I

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

2003-07-01 Thread mike
I have a cannon camera with a cf card and it works fine under linux. in mandrake you have to mount it of course, but it's no big deal. I tried to format it in linux and rendered it useless in the camera. it has to be formatted with the canon tools under windowz sad to say. once it's formatted, it h

Re: [newbie] winbindd problems

2003-07-01 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 21:23, Richard Urwin wrote: > I have 23 days uptime, and winbindd was taking 58% of memory. (I have > 320MB) 100% swap space used, everything on a go-slow. The Windows > machine is switched off most of the time, including all the time when I > noticed the problem. service -

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

2003-07-01 Thread mike
Hi stephen, I had a cannon camera scanned twice on a recent trip to the Netherlands, and it didn't hurt anything. I have also known may people who have done the same. what happens, or what's the mechanics behind what you said? I'm curious :-) Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 11:38, Tod

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

2003-07-01 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Tuesday 01 July 2003 03:32, 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, and

[newbie] Accessing 'C:\Windows' ?

2003-07-01 Thread Peter Moscatt
I have a dual-boot system which comprises of Mandrake 9.1 [default] and MS WindowsXP. When viewing the file system with Konqeror I can see Windows in the '/mnt' area. I can browse it's file system but when I want to copy a file from the Linux system to the '/mnt/windows' - I get an error that I

Re: [newbie] Dual Booting the same OS

2003-07-01 Thread John Richard Smith
ed tharp wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 04:02, John Richard Smith wrote: FemmeFatale wrote: 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

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

2003-07-01 Thread Robin Turner
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 most often. Hopefully output to a text file,

[newbie] winbindd problems

2003-07-01 Thread Richard Urwin
I have 23 days uptime, and winbindd was taking 58% of memory. (I have 320MB) 100% swap space used, everything on a go-slow. The Windows machine is switched off most of the time, including all the time when I noticed the problem. service -f smb made no difference so I sent it a HUP and it died,

Re: [newbie] Free of OE!

2003-07-01 Thread Richard Urwin
On Tuesday 01 Jul 2003 3:10 am, Stephen Kuhn 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. LOL, gross enough, but look at the fortune cookie!

Re: [newbie] IRC Server

2003-07-01 Thread Cody Harris
At 12:21 PM 7/1/2003 +1000, you wrote: 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 go

Re: [newbie] modem that is compatible with linux

2003-07-01 Thread C T
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 03:30, Eko Budiharto wrote: > Hi, > I bought a new modem, PROLINK 1456 PVC (it is detected in 9.1 as > winmodem). I install it, it is said that cannot be installed. Please > someone can tell me which modem that is compatible with 9.1 or I go to a > certain site that I can s

Re: [newbie] Dual Booting the same OS

2003-07-01 Thread John Richard Smith
g wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Currently my mplayer picture and sound are out of sync on DVD play. have you tried shortening or lengthening audio cables? peace out. tc,hago. g . My wife suggested that , but I told her I couldn't find the cable and the scissors wont cut. John -- Jo

Re: [newbie] Dual Booting the same OS

2003-07-01 Thread John Richard Smith
FemmeFatale wrote: 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 o

Re: [newbie] driver for canon S520 (inkjet)

2003-07-01 Thread Eko Budiharto
You might want to see if Webmin has a different driver to assist in the setup of the printer - I find that if MCC and everything else fails, try Webmin - if Webmin fails, then you've got to start searching... Sorry Steve, It seems that you misunderstand. I tried it with control center and MCC, b

Re: [newbie] modem that is compatible with linux

2003-07-01 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 18:30, Eko Budiharto wrote: > Hi, > I bought a new modem, PROLINK 1456 PVC (it is detected in 9.1 as > winmodem). I install it, it is said that cannot be installed. Please > someone can tell me which modem that is compatible with 9.1 or I go to a > certain site that I can s

[newbie] Sound poor in Mandrake; Good in Redhat

2003-07-01 Thread Allan
Hello all, I'm using Mandrake 9.1 and I'm very happy with it, except that my sound quality is poor. I have sound, but it's soft and crackly. I just installed Redhat 9 on another partition and the sound works great. Is there a way that I can use the sound driver from Redhat while running Mandr

[newbie] modem that is compatible with linux

2003-07-01 Thread Eko Budiharto
Hi, I bought a new modem, PROLINK 1456 PVC (it is detected in 9.1 as winmodem). I install it, it is said that cannot be installed. Please someone can tell me which modem that is compatible with 9.1 or I go to a certain site that I can see a list of hardware that is compatible with 9.1. I am look

Re: [newbie] driver for canon S520 (inkjet)

2003-07-01 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 17:46, Eko Budiharto wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to set up a printer (canon S520) with mandrake 9.1. I tried > canon S 500, it does not print anything, except the LED is blinking. It > also happens with S400. > Can someone tell me what is the proper driver? > I am looking for

Re: [newbie] urpmi... once more

2003-07-01 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 28 Jun 2003 7:37 pm, Curt Tresenriter wrote: > Just as I was about to go to town on this sylpheed tarball, I read > Eric's post on 'make install' - then Derek's page on checkinstall. > Decided that was a good idea 9building an RPM from a tarball) so I did > urpmi checkinstall - it repor

Re: [newbie]MNF: adding programs/functionality

2003-07-01 Thread Aron Smith
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 17:06, Stephen Kuhn 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'

Re: [newbie] problem compiling

2003-07-01 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 28 June 2003 04:48 pm, Tsyko wrote: > when i try to compile a game called kpacman i get the following error > > checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 2.2.2) (headers and > libraries) not found. Please check your installation! > > I have no idea what package needs to be updated.

Re: [newbie] Dual Booting the same OS

2003-07-01 Thread FemmeFatale
At 12:04 PM 6/28/2003 +0100, you wrote: Femme, you may of hit on the solution. I'm not sure whether it will not only write to floppy but also insist on writing to MBR as well. My experience is that once in install lilo you aren't left with a choice, so that even if you elect to create boot flop