Re: [newbie-it] problemi modem

2003-07-30 Thread miKe
Alle Wednesday 30 July 2003 07:40, in merito a Re: [newbie-it] problemi modem, Giuseppe Ferruzzi ha scritto: La modalità indipendente si attiva in automatico Ma non cambia in sostanza la questione, siccome la modalità indipendente ti inizializza il modem in modo diverso potresti poi

Re: [newbie-it] problemi modem

2003-07-30 Thread Giuseppe Noce
adesso sto con il portatile, il desktop l'ho dovuto riformattare (prima c'era solo window98) ora ci sono sia win che linus ma non credo (devo controllare) se abbia ristallato winPhone Giuseppe Noce - Original Message - From: miKe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [newbie] php software

2003-07-30 Thread linux
Zitat von Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi i'm looking for an php editor. followinf features would be nice: ftp-support - online editing of files small explorer to open files syntax highligthing it would be nice if the editor also supports java,

Re: [newbie] MP3 Sound Problems

2003-07-30 Thread Aron Smith
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 10:39 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Monday 28 July 2003 08:51 am, Aron Smith wrote: CD player works fine Alunix enabled Kaboodle will give me No sound Boo Hoo wanted to hear Moose Turd Pie :-( I don't know what you mean by Alunix enabled. If this is for a new

[newbie] Soundblaster Audigy 5.1 Surround

2003-07-30 Thread linux
Hi i use a sounblaster audigy. i dont have surround in linux :( in windows i do (but who likes weindows?*smile*) are there any ways to get surround? r.liechti Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] aumix not working

2003-07-30 Thread Anne Wilson
Yes, as long as it is a *real* SBLive. As I said, one that I bought as such was actually an Ensoniq, so it's necessary to see exactly what HardDrake believes it to be. If it does see SBLive, then emu10k1 is the driver Anne On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 5:39 am, Erylon Hines wrote: The SBLive is

Re: [newbie] OT M$ Loses again

2003-07-30 Thread Haywiremac
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 02:14:27 -0400 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-07-14-linux-tech_x.htm zat happened quite awhile ago, herr Viggers, it is olt news but nonetheless quite a hopeful sign for your little...band of rebels. Heh. We shall see... --

Re: [newbie] Soundblaster Audigy 5.1 Surround

2003-07-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 7:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi i use a sounblaster audigy. i dont have surround in linux :( in windows i do (but who likes weindows?*smile*) are there any ways to get surround? r.liechti I have had SBLive surround and now Audigy surround working. I was never

Re: [newbie] OT M$ Loses again

2003-07-30 Thread Haywiremac
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 16:35:08 +0800 Frankie [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Its this bit that gets me: an illusion of support and accountability and exactly how much support does one get from Microsoft, and what does it cost? Heh. It was a simple decision for Munich: money talks, bullshit walks.

Re: [newbie] gtk-gnutella

2003-07-30 Thread Haywiremac
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 06:59:40 +0200 Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: There is a DC plugin for MLDonkey, and I heard whispers on their homepage that a new version of mldonkey will allow you to download seperate chunks of a file from *different networks*! WOOT! Umm, yes, there is a

Re: [newbie] DVD writing software

2003-07-30 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 01:39:00 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just an observation to this thread. From whats been said, you can't do a 1 to 1 copy of commercial DVDs but with 4.x gigs of data, you sure could use Mencoder with very -high- settings to make a darn near perfect

Re: [newbie] DVD writing software

2003-07-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 29 Jul 2003 11:19 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Tuesday 29 Jul 2003 8:52 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: My box is pretty full, so I'd have to forego something if I wanted another card in. I'm beginning to think that one computer just isn't enough for all the things I want to do g Time

Re: [newbie] OT M$ Loses again

2003-07-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 16:14, Lee Wiggers wrote: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-07-14-linux-tech_x.htm Rome wasn't built in a day, and certainly didn't fall in a day; but we can hope for a quicker demise to the monopoly of dem guys! -- Wed Jul 30 20:25:01 EST 2003 20:25:01 up 23:17, 2

Re: [newbie] gtk-gnutella

2003-07-30 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 02:19:12 -0400 Haywiremac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, the way I understood it was that with a new version, MLDonkey would be getting aroung that, sharing amongst all networks. I'll read it again. Sharing on most networks, not all. On DC, these clients have a static share

Re: [newbie] Laaaag time in mail reaching List

2003-07-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 19:18, Haywiremac wrote: Heh, and fortune once again spits out a suitable sig! ...and you've been smoking WHAT again? -- Wed Jul 30 20:30:00 EST 2003 20:30:00 up 23:22, 2 users, load average: 0.11, 0.15, 0.10

[newbie] OT: Peaceful Coexistence

2003-07-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
This is slightly OT, but I wanted to show something about how consumers think (non-geek consumers that are looking for SOLUTIONS and not OS wars). I have a customer - they're a building/architecture firm here in Wollongong, New South Wales (Australia!); they spend very large amounts of money on

Re: [newbie] gtk-gnutella

2003-07-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 14:59, Ralph Slooten wrote: I still say DC all the way, but not via mldonkey ;-) Greetings Ralph What a Ralph thing to say! (g) -- Wed Jul 30 20:20:01 EST 2003 20:20:01 up 23:12, 2 users, load average: 0.07, 0.12, 0.07

Re: [newbie] Soundblaster Audigy 5.1 Surround

2003-07-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 20:18, Anne Wilson wrote: I have had SBLive surround and now Audigy surround working. I was never able to get surround on, for instance, the default cd player, but xmms manages everything fine for me. Have you tried it? Anne Uh - Anne, how did you get the surround

Re: [newbie] Soundblaster Audigy 5.1 Surround

2003-07-30 Thread linux
i need the surround while watching a dvd ;) this can only be done with xine. you defenatly dont have surround with the cd player, cause a music cd only have stereo sound. in this way, you have the same sound at all speakers(left and right are different) Zitat von Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: [newbie] Soundblaster Audigy 5.1 Surround

2003-07-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 11:35 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i need the surround while watching a dvd ;) this can only be done with xine. I also have surround sound with xine. Get it working in xmms and it will probably work in xine - I suspect that they both need the same plugin. you

Re: [newbie] OT: ad blocking

2003-07-30 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 22:22:04 -0700 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There s a simple solution to adverts actually from known sites. This will not block everything concerning adverts, but it will block everything from these advert sites. Edit your /etc/hosts file as root, and add

Re: [newbie] Soundblaster Audigy 5.1 Surround

2003-07-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 11:34 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 20:18, Anne Wilson wrote: I have had SBLive surround and now Audigy surround working. I was never able to get surround on, for instance, the default cd player, but xmms manages everything fine for me. Have you

Re: [newbie] Epson C62

2003-07-30 Thread rluchor
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 04:41, Anne Wilson wrote: PS maybe it was just a bad Amazon cart and the next one would have worked fine? Just a thought. You know how random the Universe is! lol That's not impossible. I have used replacement carts for my DJ990 without problems, but I did get

Re: [newbie] OT: Peaceful Coexistence

2003-07-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 12:04 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Here's some things he liked right off the bat: * No need to learn any new applications * No need to understand anything new * No change of visual infrastructure * No training necessary for the workers * No thinking about doing backups

Re: [newbie] Laaaag time in mail reaching List

2003-07-30 Thread Haywiremac
On 30 Jul 2003 20:31:34 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: ...and you've been smoking WHAT again? ffft... wha? anyway, I've started experimenting with Postfix and now I am relaying mail to this list through my ISP, seems to be quicker that way, tho kinda redundant...

Re: [newbie] Ripping Music with grip(Just Shoot ME)

2003-07-30 Thread Jason
That's not strictly true, there are Mandrake specific pre-compiled binaries for notlame (an mp3 encoder) over at PLF (http://plf.zarb.org/). Simply head on over to http://www.zarb.org/~nanardon/ and choose an URPMI plf source, add it and then urpmi ripperx and urpmi notlame and you are all

[newbie] Draw a simple line with Gimp

2003-07-30 Thread Marco Verheul
Hi all, I want to design a logo with Gimp and I need to insert a simple straight horizontal line. How do I do this? Marco -- Registered Linux user #268279 * This message is composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] OT: ad blocking

2003-07-30 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
Hi I tried this and found that a lot of web sites now won't load... Anybody else experience this? -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 92791912 13:32:40 up 16 days, 3:11, 3 users, load average: 0.02, 0.01, 0.00 Disease can be cured; fate is

Re: [newbie] Draw a simple line with Gimp

2003-07-30 Thread Haywiremac
On 30 Jul 2003 14:32:10 + Marco Verheul [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I want to design a logo with Gimp and I need to insert a simple straight horizontal line. How do I do this? marquee tool, drag a selection one or two pixels thick and fill with your choice of 32 billion colours... --

Re: [newbie] Draw a simple line with Gimp

2003-07-30 Thread Michael Adams
On 30 Jul 2003 14:32:10 + Marco Verheul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I want to design a logo with Gimp and I need to insert a simple straight horizontal line. How do I do this? Marco -- Registered Linux user #268279 * This message is composed on a 100% Microsoft free

[newbie] Temperatures

2003-07-30 Thread Iván V.G.
From what software does that information comes? Linux's spreading all around my computers, ;-) including a portable AMD Athlon who gets hot as hell! I'm newbie and although I've downloaded LM-Sensors an I2CBlahBlah, it scared me when it suggested making some kernel tests... It also suggested

Re: [newbie] DVD writing software

2003-07-30 Thread John Richard Smith
Haywiremac wrote: On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 01:39:00 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: you can't do a 1 to 1 copy of commercial DVDs but with 4.x gigs of data, Even if you could, a blank DVD costs almost as much as the one you want to copy, no? In UK , currently, I can buy them

Re: [newbie] two Mandrakes on two harddrives

2003-07-30 Thread John Richard Smith
Dennis Myers wrote: On Tuesday 29 July 2003 07:32 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: On Tuesday 29 July 2003 02:57 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 29 Jul 2003 5:29 am, Dennis Myers wrote: On Monday 28 July 2003 10:46 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On

Re: [newbie] two Mandrakes on two harddrives

2003-07-30 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 03:39 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 5:35 am, Dennis Myers wrote: On Monday 28 July 2003 10:46 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 13:24, Dennis Myers wrote: Has anyone installed two MLinux on two seperate HDs on the same comp and

Re: [newbie] Ripping Music with grip(Just Shoot ME)

2003-07-30 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 05:25 am, Jason wrote: That's not strictly true, there are Mandrake specific pre-compiled binaries for notlame (an mp3 encoder) over at PLF (http://plf.zarb.org/). Simply head on over to http://www.zarb.org/~nanardon/ and choose an URPMI plf source, add it and then

RE: [newbie] DVD writing software

2003-07-30 Thread Frankie
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anne Wilson On Tuesday 29 Jul 2003 11:19 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Tuesday 29 Jul 2003 8:52 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: My box is pretty full, so I'd have to forego something if I wanted another card in. I'm

Re: [newbie] Laaaag time in mail reaching List

2003-07-30 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 02:18 am, Haywiremac wrote: I have tested this with mails to other lists and back to my ISP, but it seems that because I am posting from my own domain, this list takes awhile to show/receive them. It *only* happens with this list. Is there some delay due to lookups

RE: [newbie] DVD writing software

2003-07-30 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Here in England you can get blank DVD's for less than ?1. Re-writeable's are under ?2. -Original Message- From: Ralph Slooten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 11:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] DVD writing software On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 01:39:00

Re: [newbie] two Mandrakes on two harddrives

2003-07-30 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 08:55 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: On Tuesday 29 July 2003 07:32 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: On Tuesday 29 July 2003 02:57 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 29 Jul 2003 5:29 am, Dennis Myers wrote: On Monday 28 July 2003

Re: [newbie] OT: Peaceful Coexistence

2003-07-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 21:56, Anne Wilson wrote: Well argued, Stephen. A construction company wants to construct, a manufacturing company wants to manufacture. They want a computer to be a tool, not a master. What you are offering them is a dream solution. Anne Not a dream - a

Re: [newbie] Laaaag time in mail reaching List

2003-07-30 Thread Haywiremac
On 31 Jul 2003 00:10:55 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: What's redundant? What's redundant? What's redundant? The Department of Redundancy Department, of course! -- HaywireMac Say twenty-three-skiddoo to logout. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Laaaag time in mail reaching List

2003-07-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 22:09, Haywiremac wrote: On 30 Jul 2003 20:31:34 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: ...and you've been smoking WHAT again? ffft... wha? anyway, I've started experimenting with Postfix and now I am relaying mail to this list through my

Re: [newbie] OT: ad blocking

2003-07-30 Thread Paul
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 12:33, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Hi I tried this and found that a lot of web sites now won't load... Anybody else experience this? Hi John, did you try the /etc/hosts or the Mozilla block suggestions? Paul M. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] 2.6-test kernel rpms available?

2003-07-30 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday July 29 2003 11:52 am, Jerry Barton wrote: Bottom line: 2.6 will be ready to use sometime early next year. I'd suggest you search and read the '2.6' discussion on the cooker ML archive. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Thanks Tom, I'll read up on

[newbie] Mandrake 9.1 on Dell Inspiron 5150

2003-07-30 Thread Eric Fesler
Hi, I just installed Mandrake 9.1 on a Dell Inspiron 9.1 and I've got several issues: I'm using the kernel linux-2.4.21-0.13mdkenterprise 1°) The harddisk is really slow : hdparm shows a transfer rate of 3.5Mb/s I tried to activate the dma using the command: hdparm -c1d1 /dev/hdc and I got

Re: [newbie] OT: Peaceful Coexistence

2003-07-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 3:09 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 21:56, Anne Wilson wrote: Well argued, Stephen. A construction company wants to construct, a manufacturing company wants to manufacture. They want a computer to be a tool, not a master. What you are offering them

RE: [newbie] OT: Peaceful Coexistence

2003-07-30 Thread Frankie
Hi Stephen, I do exactly the same thing here in Western Australia, I have several clients over here that are running linux.. and they proudly tell everyone that they are hip enough to be running a linux server.. (though ususally they don't even know how to log into it..) I use several as

[newbie] Mozilla and my bank

2003-07-30 Thread David
I use Mozilla for my personal accounts with one bank. I have recently started a business account with another bank. When I enter the account number and password with the new bank and press go, nothing happens (using Mozilla). I can use my wife's (retch) Win98 and Explorer and it works fine. I

Re: [newbie]Konqueror Crashes on changing Viewing Mode

2003-07-30 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 12:44 am, Heather/Femme wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 21:18, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Heather/Femme wrote: Subject says it all. Pick any mode, tree, multi-column...whatever. It thinks about it, then crashes. Updated KDE MDK in

[newbie] Screens

2003-07-30 Thread John Richard Smith
Is ARIANET a good make of screens ? ManufacturerARIANET Model Number Supported Operating Systems NA Min Recommended CPU N/A Size19 Screen Type CRT Viewable Area 18 Optimal Resolution 1280x1024 @ 85Hz Dot Pitch 0.26 Supported Resolutions 1600x1200 @ 75Hz

Re: [newbie] Mozilla and my bank

2003-07-30 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 09:11 am, David wrote: I use Mozilla for my personal accounts with one bank. I have recently started a business account with another bank. When I enter the account number and password with the new bank and press go, nothing happens (using Mozilla). I can use my wife's

Re: [newbie] two Mandrakes on two harddrives

2003-07-30 Thread John Richard Smith
Dennis Myers wrote: Thanks John, I appreciate the input and think that from now on I will have /boot partitions on all installs. Does it matter where you put it, as in the first or second partition? I always put mine on the first harddrive.Never had it on a second drive, I think it might

Re: [newbie] OT: Peaceful Coexistence

2003-07-30 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 07:09 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 21:56, Anne Wilson wrote: Well argued, Stephen. A construction company wants to construct, a manufacturing company wants to manufacture. They want a computer to be a tool, not a master. What you are offering

Re: [newbie] Mozilla and my bank

2003-07-30 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 5:11 pm, David wrote: I use Mozilla for my personal accounts with one bank. I have recently started a business account with another bank. When I enter the account number and password with the new bank and press go, nothing happens (using Mozilla). I can use my wife's

Re: [newbie] OT M$ Loses again

2003-07-30 Thread Robin Turner
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 16:14, Lee Wiggers wrote: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-07-14-linux-tech_x.htm Rome wasn't built in a day, and certainly didn't fall in a day; but we can hope for a quicker demise to the monopoly of dem guys! Bring on the Visigoths! Sir Robin

Re: [newbie] Draw a simple line with Gimp

2003-07-30 Thread Robin Turner
Marco Verheul wrote: Hi all, I want to design a logo with Gimp and I need to insert a simple straight horizontal line. How do I do this? In my experience, the GIMP is best for what its name implies: image _manipulation_. For designing from scratch I find xfig works better, despite its yucky

Re: [newbie] Need SWAP before FTP install of Madrake 9.1 on oldsystem (1 more try)

2003-07-30 Thread ThinKer
Posting this to the list in case anyone can help ... thanks for the info Miark, 1. When I attempted to install SuSE 8.2, the installation alerted me that I did not have enough system memory and prompted me to activate my swap partition, which I did, and I was able to proceed with the

[newbie] Is it time to talk scanners again?

2003-07-30 Thread Richard Urwin
At some point in the near future I'll be buying a scanner. I have browsed the last thread on this subject, including http://www.buzzard.org.uk/jonathan/scanners-usb.html, the TWiKi and the SANE site. From these it looks like the Epson 1260 photo is a good choice. The thing is a good part of

Re: [newbie] How do I start the GUI from a command line?

2003-07-30 Thread Eric Fesler
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 19:38, Aaron Burke wrote: After I initially installed Mandrake 8.2 (it's the only version I have access to), I must have chose somewhere along the line to automatically start with the KDE Interface with my personal login. However, I thought I found the place to disable

Re: [newbie] alsa driver compile problem

2003-07-30 Thread Richard Urwin
On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 8:07 pm, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Wanted to compile the alsa driver from source but am getting this error: checking for kernel version... The file /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h does not exist. Please, install the package with full kernel sources for your

Re: [newbie] OT: Peaceful Coexistence

2003-07-30 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:21:09PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: Now, what I'm trying to get at here is this simple fact: Linux and Microsoft can get along - and get along quite well together. I went snip Absolutely. In my university most of the servers run Linux. They

Re: [newbie] alsa driver compile problem

2003-07-30 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 02:07 pm, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Hi Trying to get the sound card to work on the wifes Dell optiplex. Wanted to compile the alsa driver from source but am getting this error: checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no checking for current directory...

Re: [newbie] OT: Peaceful Coexistence

2003-07-30 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 12:06 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:21:09PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: Now, what I'm trying to get at here is this simple fact: Linux and Microsoft can get along - and get along quite well together. I went snip

Re: [newbie] OT M$ Loses again

2003-07-30 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 11:27 am, Robin Turner wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 16:14, Lee Wiggers wrote: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-07-14-linux-tech_x.htm Rome wasn't built in a day, and certainly didn't fall in a day; but we can hope for a quicker demise

RE: [newbie] OT: Peaceful Coexistence

2003-07-30 Thread Sabin, Matthew
Title: RE: [newbie] OT: Peaceful Coexistence The bes arguments I've seen use the monoculture analogy from farming: If every farmer plants the same variety as every other farmer in a region, they all get spectacular results, and the benefit of mass purchases to lower the cost of seed and

Re: [newbie] DVD writing software

2003-07-30 Thread James Henry Maiewski
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 04:30 am, Haywiremac wrote: On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 01:39:00 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: you can't do a 1 to 1 copy of commercial DVDs but with 4.x gigs of data, Even if you could, a blank DVD costs almost as much as the one you want to copy, no?

Re: [newbie] OT: Peaceful Coexistence

2003-07-30 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 01:46 pm, Sabin, Matthew wrote: The bes arguments I've seen use the monoculture analogy from farming: If every farmer plants the same variety as every other farmer in a region, they all get spectacular results, and the benefit of mass purchases to lower the cost of

Re: [newbie] KDE Weirdness, logout button without the dragon

2003-07-30 Thread James Henry Maiewski
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 06:45 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: Other small problem... I like that little dragon that pops up gives me options on how i want to logout when I hit the Logout button on the kicker. It seems to not be there anymore...yet was there when I first loaded 9.0/.1. Where is he

[newbie] Runaway pcmcia services

2003-07-30 Thread Peter Pankonin
Hi all. I recently got a wireless NIC (Linksys WPC11) card. When starting pcmcia, my system (Mandy 9.1) goes nuts... For about 3 to 4 minutes I get this in the terminal: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA services: Starting PCMCIA

Re: [newbie] aumix not working

2003-07-30 Thread James Henry Maiewski
Hello, There have been numerous warnings concerning SBLive cards that say that have the emu10k1 chip but, in point of fact, do not. The mere fact that this is possible, makes the SBLive an unatractive option for Linux. Jim On Tuesday 29 July 2003 10:05 pm, Mike Adolf wrote:

Re: [newbie] OT: Peaceful Coexistence

2003-07-30 Thread Paul
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 19:29, Aron Smith wrote: On Wednesday 30 July 2003 07:09 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 21:56, Anne Wilson wrote: Well argued, Stephen. A construction company wants to construct, a manufacturing company wants to manufacture. They want a computer to

Re: [newbie] KDE Weirdness, logout button without the dragon

2003-07-30 Thread Heather/Femme
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 03:15, James Henry Maiewski wrote: On Tuesday 29 July 2003 06:45 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: Other small problem... I like that little dragon that pops up gives me options on how i want to logout when I hit the Logout button on the kicker. It seems to not be there

Re: [newbie] Mozilla and my bank

2003-07-30 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
David wrote: I use Mozilla for my personal accounts with one bank. I have recently started a business account with another bank. When I enter the account number and password with the new bank and press go, nothing happens (using Mozilla). I can use my wife's (retch) Win98 and Explorer and it

Re: [newbie] OT M$ Loses again

2003-07-30 Thread Haywiremac
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 21:27:26 +0300 Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Bring on the Visigoths! Was it the Visigoths that brought Rome down? I thought they lived in France...got wiped out by the Church in Medieval times... Either way, I like being on the side that's gonna kick some arrogant

Re: [newbie] semi-pro sound card for Linux

2003-07-30 Thread Curt Tresenriter
Check out Turtle Beach's Santa Cruz by Voyetra On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 13:05:09 -0500 fifner the dragon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I need a new sound card. I got a new set of headphones and now I hear all the noise from my soundblaster. Does anyone know of a card with very low noise.

[newbie] KDE desktop cruft

2003-07-30 Thread Russ Kepler
I've got a couple of icons on my desktop that I can't get rid of (and don't appear in the Desktop directory). I suspect that they're artifacts from an automount or something, but I can't remove the /mnt entries, either. The icons appear as CD-ROM mounted at /mnt/cdrom2 and CD-ROM mounted at

Re: [newbie] aumix not working

2003-07-30 Thread Anne Wilson
I tend to agree, but since we often have to work with what we've got Meanwhile, I would run HardDrake from the mcc. Select the card, and see what it says it is. I can't remember the names on the two buttons on the right, but try them. One of them will show suggested alternative

Re: [newbie] OT: Peaceful Coexistence

2003-07-30 Thread Sharrea
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 23:04, Stephen Kuhn wrote: This is slightly OT, but I wanted to show something about how consumers think (non-geek consumers that are looking for SOLUTIONS and not OS wars). big snip Excuse my ignorance, but what kind of machine do you use in these situations? I suppose

Re: [newbie] KDE desktop cruft

2003-07-30 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 10:57 pm, Russ Kepler wrote: I've got a couple of icons on my desktop that I can't get rid of (and don't appear in the Desktop directory). I suspect that they're artifacts from an automount or something, but I can't remove the /mnt entries, either. The icons appear

Re: [newbie] My winmodem used to work!

2003-07-30 Thread John Layt
I've noticed that my /dev/modem link dissapperas/reappears at random as well, probably something to do with devfs, which I think dynamically cretates the link on boot. Instead, point your dialler directly to the /dev/ttySx device number for your modem. John. On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 09:45, Grant

[newbie] Instant Messaging Recommendation?

2003-07-30 Thread John Layt
Not being an IM type myself, can anyone recommend a nice Instant Messaging program (preferably KDE) that can auto-detect when you go on-line with kppp and auto-login to a messaging service? In case you're wondering, I've recently converted my father to Linux, and he has the habit of being

RE: [newbie] Instant Messaging Recommendation?

2003-07-30 Thread walt
I use GAIM with no problems for my IM needs walt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Layt Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 7:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Instant Messaging Recommendation? Not being an IM type myself, can

RE: [newbie] Instant Messaging Recommendation?

2003-07-30 Thread Lanman
Kopete and amsn work just fine as well. Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 7/30/2003 at 8:13 PM walt wrote: I use GAIM with no problems for my IM needs walt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Layt Sent: Wednesday,

[newbie] Adding update sources via urpmi.addmedia?

2003-07-30 Thread Glenn
Entering the following per results of running through the plf.zarb.org/~nanardon site (as recommended by Charlie, nanookatlarge, a couple of months ago): urpmi.addmedia --update updates ftp://ftp.nmt.edu/pub/linux/mandrake/updates/9.1/RPMS/ with ../base/hdlist.cz gives me the following: added

RE: [newbie] OT: Peaceful Coexistence

2003-07-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 23:39, Frankie wrote: Hi Stephen, I do exactly the same thing here in Western Australia, I'm still surprised y'all even have computers out thar! -- Thu Jul 31 11:10:00 EST 2003 11:10:00 up 17 min, 1 user, load average: 1.12, 1.03, 0.69

Re: [newbie] Instant Messaging Recommendation?

2003-07-30 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 07:54 pm, John Layt wrote: Not being an IM type myself, can anyone recommend a nice Instant Messaging program (preferably KDE) that can auto-detect when you go on-line with kppp and auto-login to a messaging service? In case you're wondering, I've recently converted

Re: [newbie] Adding update sources via urpmi.addmedia?

2003-07-30 Thread Haywiremac
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 19:52:11 -0500 Glenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Anybody see what's going wrong here? This is a result of running it for the third time in the last two months, with the same result. Stupid newbie tricks that I'm not catching on to? Thanks in advance for any assistance

Re: [newbie] How do I start the GUI from a command line?

2003-07-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 03:38, Aaron Burke wrote: After I initially installed Mandrake 8.2 (it's the only version I have access to), I must have chose somewhere along the line to automatically start with the KDE Interface with my personal login. However, I thought I found the place to disable

Re: [newbie] My winmodem used to work!

2003-07-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 04:52, Grant Guttero wrote: Here's my modules.conf file: probeall usb-interface usb-uhci alias sound-slot-0 snd-0 # lt_drivers: autoloading and insertion parameter usage alias char-major-62 lt_serial alias /dev/tts/LT0 lt_serial alias /dev/modem lt_serial # The

Re: [newbie] Adding update sources via urpmi.addmedia?

2003-07-30 Thread Heather/Femme
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 20:52, Glenn wrote: Entering the following per results of running through the plf.zarb.org/~nanardon site (as recommended by Charlie, nanookatlarge, a couple of months ago): urpmi.addmedia --update updates ftp://ftp.nmt.edu/pub/linux/mandrake/updates/9.1/RPMS/ with

Re: [newbie] OT: Peaceful Coexistence

2003-07-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 05:06, Todd Slater wrote: Sorry for hijacking this thread but . . . I need suggestions for selling folks at work (a technical college) that Linux should be part of our IT curriculum (especially the web development/e-commerce part). They want to keep everything Windows,

Re: [newbie]Konqueror Crashes on changing Viewing Mode

2003-07-30 Thread Heather/Femme
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 12:35, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: snip Hi, Femme. I regularly switch between icon and tree view, without problems. Just to see, I tried every view version offered, and all were ok. However, just occasionally Konq does crash for no apparent reason.

Re: [newbie] Instant Messaging Recommendation?

2003-07-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 09:54, John Layt wrote: Not being an IM type myself, can anyone recommend a nice Instant Messaging program (preferably KDE) that can auto-detect when you go on-line with kppp and auto-login to a messaging service? In case you're wondering, I've recently converted my

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 on Dell Inspiron 5150

2003-07-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 00:18, Eric Fesler wrote: I tried to activate the dma using the command: hdparm -c1d1 /dev/hdc Do the commands ONE AT A TIME for best results. Really. Try: hdparm -d1 -c1 -u1 -m16 -A1 -W1 -X69 /dev/hdc ...and see what you get when you type: hdparm -tT /dev/hdc --

Re: [newbie] OT: Peaceful Coexistence

2003-07-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 06:31, Sharrea wrote: On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 23:04, Stephen Kuhn wrote: This is slightly OT, but I wanted to show something about how consumers think (non-geek consumers that are looking for SOLUTIONS and not OS wars). big snip Excuse my ignorance, but what kind of

Re: [newbie] Mozilla and my bank

2003-07-30 Thread David
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 12:11 pm, David wrote: I use Mozilla for my personal accounts with one bank. I have recently started a business account with another bank. When I enter the account number and password with the new bank and press go, nothing happens (using Mozilla). I can use my wife's

Re: [newbie] audio software

2003-07-30 Thread David E Fox
I am interested in trying out some sound editing software and I am hoping to get opinions on 2 of them: Rosegarden and Ardour. Since I am I played around a bit with Rosegarden. I haven't really tried ardour, but imho these two are more suited as composition tools rather than sound editing.

Re: [newbie] Adding update sources via urpmi.addmedia?

2003-07-30 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 07:52 pm, Glenn wrote: Entering the following per results of running through the plf.zarb.org/~nanardon site (as recommended by Charlie, nanookatlarge, a couple of months ago): urpmi.addmedia --update updates ftp://ftp.nmt.edu/pub/linux/mandrake/updates/9.1/RPMS/

Re: [newbie] Is it time to talk scanners again?

2003-07-30 Thread Erylon Hines
I have to say, film and slide scanning with Sane is pretty much useless. And, I don't know of any Linux app that will actually do it. Anyone else??? I have used the 1260 for slide scanning in Windows, and it does a very passable job. Wednesday 30 July 2003 12:23 pm, Richard Urwin wrote:

Re: [newbie] cd-rw error

2003-07-30 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On Tuesday 29 Jul 2003 7:24 pm, K Montgomery wrote: When I've received errors like this, I have been able to write the CD if I reduce the write speed (from, say, 8x to 4x, for example). I used even cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0,0 -data /mnt/wind/arch-0.4.iso Still I get errors Starting to write

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