[newbie-it] Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 (Appunti di informatica libera.pdf)

2003-08-06 Thread artasersec
ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/ftp.mandrakeusers.com/pub/Commercial- 9.1/acroread-5.0.6-2mdk.i586.rpm A questo link si pu scaricare Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0, risolve il problema dei collegamenti ipertestuali in Appunti di informatica libera.pdf L'RPM installa il programma in

[newbie-it] W2KP e Mandrake... piccolo problema con gli HD

2003-08-06 Thread Enrico Teotti
CIao! sempre io. Ho 2 HD sul PC. All'inizio l'HD era 1 (hda) e vi ho installato Windows 2000 Professional. Dopo ho staccato l'hd di win ed attaccato l'hd x mandr (con cavo master ma jumper da slave) e vi ho installato mandrake con il bootloader in MBR... che riflettendoci ora #232; il primo

Re: [newbie-it] I: sempre sulla scheda audio

2003-08-06 Thread tom
On Tuesday 05 August 2003 17:19, carlo_canepa wrote: isapnp: SB audio device quirk - increasing port rangeisapnp: Card 'Creative ViBRA16X PnP' ok! la scheda è questa!! vedi se ti puo essere utilenon l'ho letto! dagli uno sguardo,di sicuro ci sara la soluzzione

Re: [newbie-it] xmame: non trova alcuni file

2003-08-06 Thread kua79
Giuseppe Ferruzzi ha scritto: * kua79 ha scritto: Mentre il pacchetto di xmame l'ho trovato su un cd di una rivista, prima di installarlo ho provato a vedere nei cd RH se ci fosse una versione in rpm ma nada! Quindi ho deciso di utilizzare quello che è un tar.bz2 o ... non ricordo cmq ho eseguito

Re: [newbie-it] come configuro scheda audio??

2003-08-06 Thread freefred
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 05 August 2003 13:26, Enrico Teotti wrote: ciao, mi intrometto perch#232; anche io ho un problemino con la mia scheda audio. Qualcuno saprebbe indicarmi cosa fare? Grazie! Oltre a cambiare il subject? Dire che scheda audio (o

[newbie-it] lettori file PDF

2003-08-06 Thread Enrico Teotti
ciao, sapete se esiste un applicativo che legga file pdf in X e che abbia la possibilit#224; di cliccare sui tipici link portandoti alla relativa pagina? In Mandrake9.1 il lettore che apre di default i file pdf non me lo permette! :( Mi hanno consigliato di scaricare Adobe ma preferirei software

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Study: Linux nears Windows XP usability

2003-08-06 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 02:03, Josenildo Marques wrote: Definitely worth reading, Stephen. Thanks for the link. As a common user without any computing course or refined computing skills, I couldn't agree more with the article. One has only to be _open_ to learn more. I am not sure about this,

Re: [newbie] Speed test: Mandrake, Debian, Gentoo

2003-08-06 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 23:37:40 -0400 Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Funny. So all that talk about Gentoo optimized compiling is a load of crap. No, if it was optimised, you would easily see it, but several Gentoo gurus pointed out (in the forums on slashdot a week ago when this link was

Re: [newbie] Noob help 2 - was: SCSI card not recognised by 9.1

2003-08-06 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 07:35, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: Hi, This is a re-post - I hope someone has some ideas. In a PCI/ATAPI/IDE/USB system, how do I get a SCSI card recognised at boot-up? My PC has IDE HD and ATAPI CD-writer and a USB flat-bed scanner, all of which are recognised

Re: [newbie] Program for joining files together

2003-08-06 Thread David E. Fox
Are there any good programs for joining files together under linux? More specifically I want to join some .avi files into one big file. What is the easiest way to do this? mencoder should be able to easily handle this. Guilherme Cirne [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Program for joining files together

2003-08-06 Thread Jerry Barton
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 21:41:26 -0300 Guilherme Cirne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Are there any good programs for joining files together under linux? More specifically I want to join some .avi files into one big file. What is the easiest way to do this? If you're used to something

Re: [newbie] You guys all owe SCO $1399 for your Mandrake

2003-08-06 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 18:16, Lee Wiggers wrote: When you call to pay up, remember PST 8 to 5 or leave your credit card number on the tape. Don't worry, they'll only take what they deserve. Lee If someone's stupid enough to pay anything to anyone over this heap of FUD before the end of the

Re: [newbie] Program for joining files together

2003-08-06 Thread Guilherme Cirne
On Tuesday 05 August 2003 21:59, Avi Schwartz wrote: cat parts*.avi bigone.avi Avi On Tuesday, Aug 5, 2003, at 19:41 America/Chicago, Guilherme Cirne wrote: Hi all, Are there any good programs for joining files together under linux? More specifically I want to join some .avi

Re: [newbie] Noob help 2 - was: SCSI card not recognised by 9.1

2003-08-06 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 22:08, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: on re-booting I found the ...aha152x.. had been overwritten by usb-storage... What do you suggest? TIA DougB What about putting this stuff in the /etc/rc.d/rc.local so that when you reboot, it fires it up from there? -- Wed Aug

Re: [newbie] Noob help! - can't create a boot floppy in 9.1

2003-08-06 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 06 Aug 2003 1:08 pm, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 23:15, Derek Jennings wrote: snip Have you have disabled supermount? How do I do this? If supermount is disabled then your floppy has to be manually mounted and unmounted. If you remove the floppy without

Re: [newbie] Mozilla and my bank

2003-08-06 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 05 Aug 2003 4:58 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 13:41, David wrote: Not to belabor this point, but -- I sent a message to the BBT IT department and here is their reply --- what a hoot! Dear Mr. Williams: Thank you for writing to BBT OnLine

Re: [newbie] Mandrakesecure.net

2003-08-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 06 Aug 2003 2:06 pm, madwand wrote: Good morning (or afternoon) all, Afternoon, madwand. To my questions: 1. does anyone know what's up with Mandrakesecure.net? I've tried to access it for the past few days to catch up on security advisories and related installation tips,

Re: [newbie] how do i release the ipnumber with dhcp

2003-08-06 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 19:10, ed tharp wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 18:34, Ben wrote: On Tuesday 05 August 2003 18:15, ed tharp wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 17:00, Thomas Rudolfsson wrote: My internet provider has changed to DHCP unfortunatley. When I want to switch to my

Re: [newbie] Noob help! - can't create a boot floppy in 9.1

2003-08-06 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 07:35, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: Hi all, Am I just being thick? OK, OK - now tell me what to do, rude suggestions not permitted :-) Expert installation created a boot floppy. I want to create a second one (to incorporate a particular SCSI module at boot up). Can't

Re: [newbie] subscribe

2003-08-06 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Monday 04 August 2003 11:31 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 11:55, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Dennis: Good question. My guess would be that Sympa makes non-subscribers go through the confirmation step before accepting a post as a spam preventative. -- cmg

Re: [newbie] Glaxium

2003-08-06 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 21:16, Dennis Myers wrote: On Monday 04 August 2003 02:36 pm, Toran Korshnah wrote: MM, Denis, It is on the Mandrake disks as glaxium. Version 0.4. Toran Ok, I give up, is it in the boxed set of Mandrake? and which version, cause I get nothing doing a search on

Re: [newbie] urpmi/update problems

2003-08-06 Thread Paul
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 13:34, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 06 Aug 2003 12:28 am, Paul wrote: I cannot use urpmi to update. When I use the software management in MCC I get an error message there is an error while adding the update medium via urpmi, may be due to a broken or

Re: [newbie] how do i release the ipnumber with dhcp

2003-08-06 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 05 Aug 2003 10:00 pm, Thomas Rudolfsson wrote: My internet provider has changed to DHCP unfortunatley. When I want to switch to my windowscomputer(for games) I have to wait maybe 2 ours before I can get the connection to work. I cant get my ip from dhcp because It's locked to the

Re: [newbie] how do i release the ipnumber with dhcp

2003-08-06 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 17:00, Thomas Rudolfsson wrote: My internet provider has changed to DHCP unfortunatley. When I want to switch to my windowscomputer(for games) I have to wait maybe 2 ours before I can get the connection to work. I cant get my ip from dhcp because It's locked to the

Re: [newbie] Speed test: Mandrake, Debian, Gentoo

2003-08-06 Thread Miark
Funny. So all that talk about Gentoo optimized compiling is a load of crap. Miark On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 00:30:07 +0100, RichardA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The executive summary: They're about as fast as each other.

Re: [newbie] firestarter and open ports

2003-08-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 06 Aug 2003 3:07 pm, Ben wrote: I JUST remembered something Anne, Do you know if you have a Lucent PSAX (PacketStar Access gateway) anywhere in your connectivity route? Possibly serving as your router? I don't think so. It's an SMC Barricade 7401 BRA, and nothing in the

[newbie] XML coding

2003-08-06 Thread Miark
I was under the impression that one of the benefits of the XML file format is that your data is human-readable. But when I open a OOo text doc that I just made in a text editor, I see only a little human readable stuff, and none of it is my document. Most of it is binary. What's the deal? Miark

Re: [newbie] You guys all owe SCO $1399 for your Mandrake

2003-08-06 Thread Harv Nelson
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 22:33, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 06 Aug 2003 1:22 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: I'll give them some money when they pay me for submitting bug reports back in 1990 for SCO XENIX...or if Darl McBride flies out here and cuts my lawn...other than

[newbie] Beer [was: You guys all owe SCO $1399 for your Mandrake]

2003-08-06 Thread Anders Lind
I'll drink to that! MmmmHoegaarden Blue Moon isn't bad either. The commercials SHOULD say, Fosters, Australian for crap! Hoegaarden is awsome Blue Moon I have never tried, but I would never say no to a Leffe, Duvel or Chimay either, or an Erdinger for that matter either. Maybe we

Re: [newbie] how do i release the ipnumber with dhcp

2003-08-06 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 07:00, Thomas Rudolfsson wrote: My internet provider has changed to DHCP unfortunatley. When I want to switch to my windowscomputer(for games) I have to wait maybe 2 ours before I can get the connection to work. I cant get my ip from dhcp because It's locked to the

RE: [newbie] ARTICLE: Study: Linux nears Windows XP usability

2003-08-06 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 04:32, Frankie wrote: Even if you do get winmodems working, your still better off with an external serial anyway. regards Franki I've had unbelievable luck with winmodems - using one as we speak, and sell them to most customers; if you KNOW how to set it up, it's really

Re: [newbie] firestarter and open ports

2003-08-06 Thread Chris
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 06:41 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: Ports 21, 23, and 80 show open, rest show closed. What now? Just like Anne you are connecting via a device, and that device has a web server and an FTP server running. Getting out my Crystal ball I suspect you have a Zyxel P645ME+

Re: [newbie] Mandrakesecure.net

2003-08-06 Thread madwand
Original Message - From: Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: madwand [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 9:48 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrakesecure.net On Wednesday 06 August 2003 09:06, madwand wrote: Good morning (or afternoon) all, Please forgive my

[newbie] Log entry

2003-08-06 Thread Ben
From my /var/log/auth.log Aug 4 05:01:01 localhost msec: changed mode of /var/log/security/open_port.today from 644 to 640 Aug 4 05:01:01 localhost msec: changed mode of /var/log/security/rpm-va-config.today from 644 to 640 Aug 4 05:01:01 localhost msec: changed mode of