RE: [newbie] Linux saves MS's butt.

2003-08-17 Thread Paul
On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 07:44, Frankie wrote: > >Bill Gates didn't make people idiots, God did. Hate the user, not the > >developer. > > > >Next... > > > >Brandon Vanderberg > >www.clueless.m$killedmydoggy.andi'mgonnacry.whaaa.com > > > >Linux User #34.5 | Linux machine > >123amicoolyet472notyet340no

Re: [newbie] browsing cache

2003-08-17 Thread John Wilson
On August 17, 2003 06:45 pm, Anarky wrote: > > SNIP! > > >this is 'open source' Mandrakes tools can know about other tools and > >vice versa. heck, this stuff works TOGETHER. what a concept,,, > > and where would I get this 'drakwizard' ? what's it's package name? You got it when you installed Ma

RE: [newbie] Linux saves MS's butt.

2003-08-17 Thread Frankie
>Bill Gates didn't make people idiots, God did. Hate the user, not the >developer. > >Next... > >Brandon Vanderberg >www.clueless.m$killedmydoggy.andi'mgonnacry.whaaa.com > >Linux User #34.5 | Linux machine >123amicoolyet472notyet340now?987NO!needlongersig05789 >Kernel 9.12.45customsupercoolAllYour

Re: [newbie] Mdk is cash flow positive!

2003-08-17 Thread Miark
On 17 Aug 2003 21:07:30 -0400, ed tharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hell,,, I would rather suffer in silence than give someone something > negative to print about MandrakeSoft. Ya, I'm inclined to agree. I think the store problems are a matter of time. Once Mandrake gets back in the black (rea

Re: [newbie] Mdk is cash flow positive!

2003-08-17 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 17 August 2003 09:46 pm, Frankie wrote: > >-Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ed tharp > >Sent: Monday, 18 August 2003 9:08 AM > >To: newbie > >Subject: Re: [newbie] Mdk is cash flow positive! > > > >On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 19:06,

Re: [newbie] Rars & PDF files

2003-08-17 Thread Heather/Femme
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 09:05, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > > Not exactly sure what you mean by "work with" the files, but if > > you've got a rar archive to unpack, you can do it with: > > > > unrar e file.rar > > unrar-3.20-1plf is on PLF. If there's multiple parts, then > 'unrar e file.part01.r

[newbie] Installing PostScript fonts from Windows partition

2003-08-17 Thread Hedley Finger
All: I have currently set up a Mandrake Linux partition on my Windows machine. In the Windows universe there are PostScript fonts licensed from Adobe for use as corporate fonts. I believe that, since the Windows partition is inactive while Linux is running, the corporate licence allows me to

Re: [newbie] website does not open in Konq

2003-08-17 Thread Josenildo Marques
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 17 August 2003 17:55, Margot wrote: > Josenildo Marques wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > http://www.livrariacultura.com.br > > > > > > It does open in Mozilla. > > > > - -- > > cyb > > Works OK in Konq for

Re: [newbie] Installing downloaded rpm packages

2003-08-17 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 17 August 2003 06:40 pm, owenb wrote: > OK. > What is a GPG signature and how do I get one.? > > Dennis Myers wrote: > >On Sunday 17 August 2003 05:39 pm, owenb wrote: > >>I downloaded Fax2Send Complete -2.1-13 RPM for i386 following the > >>Mandrake Clubs note that a free package was ava

RE: [newbie] Mdk is cash flow positive!

2003-08-17 Thread Frankie
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ed tharp >Sent: Monday, 18 August 2003 9:08 AM >To: newbie >Subject: Re: [newbie] Mdk is cash flow positive! > > >On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 19:06, owenb wrote: >> There may be some help at hand. When L&H the m

Re: [newbie] browsing cache

2003-08-17 Thread Anarky
ed tharp wrote: On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 15:11, Anarky wrote: Michael Lothian wrote: Yes it will work cool. And will this 'squid' have features like instant cache when going to a website and then refreshing .. or anything like that? this squid works like AOL. you don't know it'

Re: [newbie] Mdk is cash flow positive!

2003-08-17 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 19:06, owenb wrote: > There may be some help at hand. When L&H the makers of translation > software got in hot water and closed their US office I received > assistance from the "Action Editor of Smart Computing Magazine . If > several of us write maybe the public airing

Re: [newbie] Installing downloaded rpm packages

2003-08-17 Thread Eric Huff
> > "Signature Verification Error > > The signature of the package Fax2SendComplete -2.1-13.i386.rpm is > > not correct. > > No GPG signature in package" > > > It probably means that you do not have the GPG signature from that > site loaded on your machine or your machine was expecting a sig and >

Re: [newbie] Installing downloaded rpm packages

2003-08-17 Thread owenb
OK. What is a GPG signature and how do I get one.? Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 17 August 2003 05:39 pm, owenb wrote: I downloaded Fax2Send Complete -2.1-13 RPM for i386 following the Mandrake Clubs note that a free package was available. I checked and found that the required additional files

Re: [newbie] Installing downloaded rpm packages

2003-08-17 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 17 August 2003 05:39 pm, owenb wrote: > I downloaded Fax2Send Complete -2.1-13 RPM for i386 following the > Mandrake Clubs note that a free package was available. I checked and > found that the required additional files were already installed. > But when I attempted to install the packag

Re: [newbie] SCO Nigerian Spam

2003-08-17 Thread Josenildo Marques
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 17 August 2003 12:03, Glenn wrote: > Don't know whether this has already appeared here (I'm so far behind on my > reading ): > > http://arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/03q2/nigerian-sco.html Anne Wilson, where are you ? One more for your collect

Re: [newbie] Can't retrieve mail from /var/spool/mail

2003-08-17 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 15:08, Michael Lothian wrote: > Was that sarcasm? > nay, I think he was cereal. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] website does not open in Konq

2003-08-17 Thread Josenildo Marques
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.livrariacultura.com.br It does open in Mozilla. - -- cyb -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/P9hp4eVBtrgQWDsRAqG6AKCm2tWeVPgint3jE/0Lb8tPnNQtBwCgnXZV rt3pU5zZig8pB1YTgSgKAO8= =tNQF -END PG

Re: [newbie] browsing cache

2003-08-17 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 15:11, Anarky wrote: > Michael Lothian wrote: > > > Yes it will work > > cool. And will this 'squid' have features like instant cache when going > to a website and then refreshing .. or anything like that? > this squid works like AOL. you don't know it's there, but gee wil

Re: [newbie] SCO Nigerian Spam

2003-08-17 Thread Anders Lind
> > > http://arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/03q2/nigerian-sco.html > > > > Not too far off the mark, eh? > > > > he is a canuck... Eh? Mouhahahahaha...that one was cute *smiles* /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Trident Cyberblade i1 & MDK 9.1

2003-08-17 Thread ed tharp
are you passing the reduced amount of ram to the kernel? On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 11:59, RichardA wrote: > I'm trying to install MDK 9.1 on a VIA C3. I get an insmod error during > hardware detection when it reboots, but I don't think that's my problem > (I can't find anything in the logs about IO or

Re: [newbie] Can't retrieve mail from /var/spool/mail

2003-08-17 Thread HaywireMac
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 20:08:36 +0100 Michael Lothian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > Was that sarcasm? which? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] browsing cache

2003-08-17 Thread Anarky
Michael Lothian wrote: Yes it will work cool. And will this 'squid' have features like instant cache when going to a website and then refreshing .. or anything like that? Install and configure the squids server (your best to configure it with drakwizard) hmmm .. this sounds strange. drakwizard

Re: [newbie] Can't retrieve mail from /var/spool/mail

2003-08-17 Thread Michael Lothian
Was that sarcasm? HaywireMac wrote: On 17 Aug 2003 07:34:11 -0400 Lyvim Xaphir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: This would not happen if you were using Qmail configured for Maildir. This is a classic problem with the mbox format. Try Qmail; it's a slight learning curve, but you'll be glad you di

Re: [newbie] browsing cache

2003-08-17 Thread Michael Lothian
Yes it will work Install and configure the squids server (your best to configure it with drakwizard) The tell your browser to use localhost 3128 as your proxy Mike Anarky wrote: ed tharp wrote: squid might do what you are thinking about, and can do it well for everyone on your lan. that's

Re: [newbie] Can't retrieve mail from /var/spool/mail

2003-08-17 Thread HaywireMac
On 17 Aug 2003 07:34:11 -0400 Lyvim Xaphir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > This would not happen if you were using Qmail configured for Maildir. > This is a classic problem with the mbox format. > > Try Qmail; it's a slight learning curve, but you'll be glad you did. > Vincent Danen has the r

Re: [newbie] splitting an avi

2003-08-17 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
> > is there any tool to split a bigger avi to fit into a cd? > Avidemux also works well -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 92791912 19:41:50 up 5 days, 10:29, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [newbie] Uploading files to web host with FTP? (Shoot me!)

2003-08-17 Thread Margot
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 04:52, Margot wrote: Miark wrote: On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 18:41:22 +0100, Margot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks Miark, glad I've got the right tool at least, but what I need to know now is how to use it - real beginner here! Where in gFTP do I input t

Re: [newbie] OT: Any HTML gurus out there?

2003-08-17 Thread Margot
Todd Slater wrote: On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 12:19:32PM +0100, Margot wrote: I'm helping a friend build her family history website, and we have a small problem. She has chosen the colours she wants for her pages - cream background, black text, headings in various browns and greens - but all the l

Re: [newbie] browsing cache

2003-08-17 Thread Anarky
ed tharp wrote: squid might do what you are thinking about, and can do it well for everyone on your lan. that's what I'm saying .. there's just one computer ... will it work in this scenario ... and is it hard to use? I'd love a tool meant especially for this ... 'cause i'd rather not configu

Re: [newbie] splitting an avi

2003-08-17 Thread David E. Fox
> is there any tool to split a bigger avi to fit into a cd? avisplit - part of transcode. transcode-0.6.9.1plf here :) David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] browsing cache

2003-08-17 Thread ed tharp
squid might do what you are thinking about, and can do it well for everyone on your lan. On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 12:55, Anarky wrote: > isn't there some true caching program ... well .. by true I mean: I > keep setting cache sizes in Firebird & stuff .. and yet I never feel > like I'm browsin

Re: [newbie] SCO Nigerian Spam

2003-08-17 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 11:11, HaywireMac wrote: > On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 10:03:09 -0500 > Glenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > > http://arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/03q2/nigerian-sco.html > > Not too far off the mark, eh? > he is a canuck... Eh? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [newbie] mp3 to wav to ogg to mp3 different bitrate conversion

2003-08-17 Thread David E. Fox
> r u serious? ogg actually compresses better than mp3? And it's also > free? r u serious? I mean I'm totally new to this ogg stuff. And what do Sure. Many people are saying that. I haven't done many tests to determine this for myself. For one test: -rw-r--r--1 root root 3394855 Au

[newbie] splitting an avi

2003-08-17 Thread Anarky
is there any tool to split a bigger avi to fit into a cd? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] mouse sensitivity

2003-08-17 Thread Eric Huff
> ya, every cvs since pekwm: version CVS Built on Wed Jun 25 01:06:31 > EDT 2003 has been seriously fuxored, harbour doesn't work, crashes, > etc. > > That's what happens when you are completely rewriting the basic > underpinnings of the WM, tho, so I don't blame Claes for that. He's > coding away

Re: [newbie] mouse sensitivity

2003-08-17 Thread HaywireMac
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 10:07:43 -0700 Eric Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > It's the starting / non-accellerated speed that's giving me trouble, > though. I can't figure out how it changed, either. It's not like > pekwm mucks with mouse settings, and i haven't cvs'd since the last > stable relea

Re: [newbie] mouse sensitivity

2003-08-17 Thread Eric Huff
> If you use startx, you can set mouse sensitivity like this: > > xset m 50/10 3 & > > see "man xset" or deadman.org for more info. that setting is mine and > it is *very high* (like m ;-) Actually, my starting point for xset came from the .xinitrc file you sent me wayy back! It's

Re: [newbie] mp3 to wav to ogg to mp3 different bitrate conversion

2003-08-17 Thread David E. Fox
> Know what the best thing about ogg vorbis is when compared against mp3 > format? It's freewith no licensing issues. 'Tis true. I wonder then why there isn't more support for it in the consumer electronics arena. Does ogg take up significantly more 'oomph' (for lack of a better word) to enc

[newbie] browsing cache

2003-08-17 Thread Anarky
isn't there some true caching program ... well .. by true I mean: I keep setting cache sizes in Firebird & stuff .. and yet I never feel like I'm browsing like I did back when, though I was connecting via modem, because of this Windows program Netsonic2000 pages would load instantly while th

Re: [newbie] Virtual Hosts in Apache 2.0

2003-08-17 Thread Roland Cruse
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 09:02:57AM -0400, Todd Slater wrote: > On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 07:49:03AM +, Roland Cruse wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 09:04:23AM -0400, Todd Slater wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 11:17:34AM +, Roland Cruse wrote: > > > > On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 01:12:09A

Re: [newbie] Virtual Hosts in Apache 2.0

2003-08-17 Thread Roland Cruse
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 11:27:46AM -0400, HaywireMac wrote: > > Methinks this is what I am missing, then, because I followed the > suggestion to use the specific domain instead of * and no change in the > results, ie. nodex.orderinchaos.org and orderinchaos.org still load the > same page. Aarr

[newbie] Trident Cyberblade i1 & MDK 9.1

2003-08-17 Thread RichardA
I'm trying to install MDK 9.1 on a VIA C3. I get an insmod error during hardware detection when it reboots, but I don't think that's my problem (I can't find anything in the logs about IO or IRQ errors). If I use a 15" CRT monitor, the install seems stable. If I use my LCD screen, it crashes very

Re: [newbie] mouse sensitivity

2003-08-17 Thread Eric Huff
I should have mentioned in my 1st email that i have played with xset (which sets accelleration like in the kcontrol) but it's actually the initial (non-accelerated) speed that i am trying to change. I did fire up kcontrol (even though i am not in kde): it does have my xset setting in there... tha

Re: [newbie] mouse sensitivity

2003-08-17 Thread HaywireMac
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 08:28:36 -0700 Eric Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > I know about the resolutionn setting in XF86Config, but that has to be > done as root, and some WMs let you configure it (or at least use a > different one on their own), but i can't figure out what they set to > change it

Re: [newbie] mouse sensitivity

2003-08-17 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 17 August 2003 10:28 am, Eric Huff wrote: > Hi Folks, > Does anyone know how to change the mouse sensitivity as a user? > > I know about the resolutionn setting in XF86Config, but that has to be > done as root, and some WMs let you configure it (or at least use a > different one on their

RE: [newbie] how to uninstall php and reinstalled again?

2003-08-17 Thread 'Simo'
If you're using the GUI, in KDE: Why don't you use kpackage to uninstall, and go to rpmfind.net download the new version and install it with kpackage. Or use rpmdrake. U can just type the kpackage or rpmdrake in the command line and it will run the programme. -Original Message- From: [EM

[newbie] mouse sensitivity

2003-08-17 Thread Eric Huff
Hi Folks, Does anyone know how to change the mouse sensitivity as a user? I know about the resolutionn setting in XF86Config, but that has to be done as root, and some WMs let you configure it (or at least use a different one on their own), but i can't figure out what they set to change it. I h

Re: [newbie] Virtual Hosts in Apache 2.0

2003-08-17 Thread HaywireMac
On 16 Aug 2003 15:23:18 - Roland Cruse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > I use apache (2) for testing on my localhost. I've got a half a dozen > local virtual hosts defined in /etc/httpd/conf/vhosts/Vhosts.conf. > Each virtualhost is defined like so . Plus > there is a corresponding host entry in

Re: [newbie] kernel recompilation - is it worth it?

2003-08-17 Thread HaywireMac
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 12:14:59 +0300 Anarky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > And is it worth it? >From what I have heard, the Mandrake kernel is already highly optimized for higher end machines, so the difference would not necessarily be noticeable. However, as others have already pointed out, it *i

[newbie] videoLAN users

2003-08-17 Thread Gavin
I'm trying to watch my dvd's on my box, does anyone use videoLAN? I heard it was good.. what programs do you ladies and Gents rec. something easy if possible. -- Gavin Register Linux user # 199685 Sent 2u on a M$ free system!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http:

Re: [newbie] SCO Nigerian Spam

2003-08-17 Thread HaywireMac
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 10:03:09 -0500 Glenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > http://arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/03q2/nigerian-sco.html Not too far off the mark, eh? ROTFLMAO! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Rars & PDF files

2003-08-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday August 16 2003 09:30 pm, Todd Slater wrote: > On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 05:02:57PM -0600, Heather/Femme wrote: > > can someone email me on or offlist how to work with these files > > in linux pls? RTFM, instructions, URLS ..whatever welcome. I > > just know it has been discussed on here

[newbie] SCO Nigerian Spam

2003-08-17 Thread Glenn
Don't know whether this has already appeared here (I'm so far behind on my reading ): http://arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/03q2/nigerian-sco.html -- 10:01:39 up 5 days, 18:03, running Mandrake Linux 9.1, kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk on an Intel P4 1.8 Registered Linux user #324360 Want to buy your Pa

Re: [newbie] how to uninstall php and reinstalled again?

2003-08-17 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 17 August 2003 09:29 am, Kurniawan Mitchell wrote: > > 1, how did you install php? rpm? tar? > > I have been included on Mandrake 9.0 installation. > rpm installation - I used rpm package installation. > tar installation - I have never used it before. > > > 2, why do you _need_ to un-inst

Re: [newbie] text to speech?

2003-08-17 Thread Anarky
A V Flinsch wrote: I just built a linux box to be used for reading texts to a blind friend using festival http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ Festival comes with a tool text2wave which can be used to create a .wav file and then you can just burn it to a cd. I tried fetsival once .. a

[newbie] Where does grpmi go w/o Update?

2003-08-17 Thread Fred Fraley
Running Mandrake Update, grabbing 29 megs or so over 56k modem. Got an error message box, now Update is gone according to the process list in ksysguard. The DL is chugin merrily along according to the grpmi progress bar, though. So, I'm trying to figure out how it will end up

Re: [newbie] how to uninstall php and reinstalled again?

2003-08-17 Thread Kurniawan Mitchell
> 1, how did you install php? rpm? tar? I have been included on Mandrake 9.0 installation. rpm installation - I used rpm package installation. tar installation - I have never used it before. > 2, why do you _need_ to un-install it? space? newer > version? I want to upgrade to the latest release.

[newbie] Fritz card usb

2003-08-17 Thread G.Papadoperakis
Hi to all the members. My, first, question is if the fritz card usb is working with the avm software for linux with the other distros except suse linux 8 and up that includes it. I mean an easy way with the installer e.t.c. Did anyone install it on mandrake 9? Thanks Giorgos Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] how to uninstall php and reinstalled again?

2003-08-17 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 08:33, Kurniawan Mitchell wrote: less HTML will get More (and more correct) answers. > Hi, everyone > I do not know how to uninstall php package on mandrake. I use "rpm -qa > | grep php" to find all package for php. I want to uninstall all those > package. But I am worry abo

Re: [newbie] OT: Any HTML gurus out there?

2003-08-17 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 08:45, Todd Slater wrote: > On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 02:39:09PM +0200, Kasper Thunoe wrote: > > søn, 2003-08-17 kl. 13:19 skrev Margot: > > > I'm helping a friend build her family history website, and we have a > > > small problem. > > > > > > She has chosen the colours she w

RE: [newbie] how to upgrade mandrake to 9.1 ?

2003-08-17 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 09:04, Kurniawan Mitchell wrote: sorry, those numbers i just posted were for the beta for version 9.2, but the convention is the same. you also may want to wait a month (or so) and get 9.2 when it comes out, or try the beta version, and give Mandrake's developers a taste of yo

RE: [newbie] how to upgrade mandrake to 9.1 ?

2003-08-17 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 09:04, Kurniawan Mitchell wrote: > Is that Mandrake 9.1/i586 ISO Image that I should > downloaded ? I will have 3 CD's ? Which one should I > downloaded ? each cd is numbered, all three are a good idea to burn. an ISO is an image and is not burned as a file but as an image. fi

Re: [newbie] how to upgrade mandrake to 9.1 ?

2003-08-17 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 08:54, Kurniawan Mitchell wrote: > I apologize to annoy you guy, I just send 2 msn > before. Next time all msn will be on plain text. > No problem, I think I saw the other 2 first, and really (to _me_) html mail is not all that bad, but I try to respect the others (who really

Re: [newbie] Virtual Hosts in Apache 2.0

2003-08-17 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 07:49:03AM +, Roland Cruse wrote: > On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 09:04:23AM -0400, Todd Slater wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 11:17:34AM +, Roland Cruse wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 01:12:09AM -0400, HaywireMac wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > BTW, what's with y

RE: [newbie] how to upgrade mandrake to 9.1 ?

2003-08-17 Thread Kurniawan Mitchell
Is that Mandrake 9.1/i586 ISO Image that I should downloaded ? I will have 3 CD's ? Which one should I downloaded ? is there anyone have experience a problem when try to upgrade from 9.0 to 9.1 ? Any back up should I prepare ? Just to let you know I have dual O/S on my system. Window 2000 and Linu

Re: [newbie] how to upgrade mandrake to 9.1 ?

2003-08-17 Thread Kurniawan Mitchell
I apologize to annoy you guy, I just send 2 msn before. Next time all msn will be on plain text. ed tharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:ARG,,, kill the html, please. On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 08:41, Kurniawan Mitchell wrote: > Where I can find service pack to upgrade madrake 9.0 to 9.1 ? > > Is th

Re: [newbie] OT: Any HTML gurus out there?

2003-08-17 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 02:39:09PM +0200, Kasper Thunoe wrote: > søn, 2003-08-17 kl. 13:19 skrev Margot: > > I'm helping a friend build her family history website, and we have a > > small problem. > > > > She has chosen the colours she wants for her pages - cream background, > > black text, head

Re: [newbie] how to upgrade mandrake to 9.1 ?

2003-08-17 Thread ed tharp
ARG,,, kill the html, please. On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 08:41, Kurniawan Mitchell wrote: > Where I can find service pack to upgrade madrake 9.0 to 9.1 ? > > Is that possible to not reinstall the whole mandrake 9.1 to my > mandrake 9.0 ? I just to upgrade it. Where can I find the service pack > a

RE: [newbie] how to upgrade mandrake to 9.1 ?

2003-08-17 Thread walt
One way is to just download the mandrake 9.1 iso’s and burn them to disk, reboot and you have the option to install or upgrade   Walt   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kurniawan Mitchell Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 8:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] S

Re: [newbie] OT: Any HTML gurus out there?

2003-08-17 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 12:19:32PM +0100, Margot wrote: > I'm helping a friend build her family history website, and we have a > small problem. > > She has chosen the colours she wants for her pages - cream background, > black text, headings in various browns and greens - but all the links > ke

Re: [newbie] kernel recompilation - is it worth it?

2003-08-17 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
> hard/impossible for Mandrake ... where could I find a walkthrough on > this? ... oh, and in case soemthing goes bad ... is there a way to > recover from such a low level deed? > A good place to look at this is the Gentoo site. I built a Gentoo box from scratch and I don't consider myself to b

Re: [newbie] Uploading files to web host with FTP? (Shoot me!)

2003-08-17 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 04:52, Margot wrote: > Miark wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 18:41:22 +0100, Margot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Thanks Miark, glad I've got the right tool at least, but what I need to > >>know now is how to use it - real beginner here! > >> > >>Where in gFTP do I

Re: [newbie] Grip or RipperX

2003-08-17 Thread Lanman
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Re: [newbie] OT: Any HTML gurus out there?

2003-08-17 Thread _nasturtium
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 09:19 pm, Margot wrote: > She has chosen the colours she wants for her pages - cream background, > black text, headings in various browns and greens - but all the links > keep coming out bright blue! It looks terrible! > > I've discovered that I can change the viewing preference

Re: [newbie] mp3 to wav to ogg to mp3 different bitrate conversiontool

2003-08-17 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 02:14, Anarky wrote: > Ralph Slooten wrote: > > >On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 08:17:05 +1200 > >Michael Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >>Wouldn't this be accumulating losses exponentially? > >>Like 5% loss in original mp3. Convert to wav then 5% loss from wav to ogg

Re: [newbie] Can't retrieve mail from /var/spool/mail

2003-08-17 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 02:01, HaywireMac wrote: > On 16 Aug 2003 15:23:12 +1000 > Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > > What about trying to run "elm" or "pine"? > > Already resolved, it was a corrupt spool file... > > This would not happen if you were using Qmail configured for Maild

Re: [newbie] mp3 to wav to ogg to mp3 different bitrate conversiontool

2003-08-17 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 09:14:03 +0300 Anarky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > r u serious? ogg actually compresses better than mp3? And it's also > free? r u serious? I mean I'm totally new to this ogg stuff. And what do > you convert with? Rezound? Or is there some batch conversion tool/script. Ogg c

[newbie] OT: Any HTML gurus out there?

2003-08-17 Thread Margot
I'm helping a friend build her family history website, and we have a small problem. She has chosen the colours she wants for her pages - cream background, black text, headings in various browns and greens - but all the links keep coming out bright blue! It looks terrible! I've discovered that

Re: [newbie] text to speech?

2003-08-17 Thread Paul
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 13:39, Anarky wrote: > is there any way to convert text to speech in linux? Also, I've got > a AT&T Natural voice instalable for windows ... any linux program that > would be able to use that technology? Any good sounding text to speach > system? In windows I would conv

Re: [newbie] Grip or RipperX

2003-08-17 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 23:16, David E. Fox wrote: > > Bladeenc being used and I am seeing some progress but very slow. Shows 0.47% > > after about 15 minutes. and Enc: Idle > > Isn't bladeenc old? > > lame comes highly recommended in case you are not using it, it's over at > any plf mirror. ;)

[newbie] text to speech?

2003-08-17 Thread Anarky
is there any way to convert text to speech in linux? Also, I've got a AT&T Natural voice instalable for windows ... any linux program that would be able to use that technology? Any good sounding text to speach system? In windows I would convert whole articles, burn them on cds & then listen

[newbie] kernel recompilation - is it worth it?

2003-08-17 Thread Anarky
a lot of people, friends using more 'hardcore' distros like Slackware advertise kernel recompilation. I myself chose Mandrake because I don't want to get into low level stuff a lot ... I just want a cool linux box. However ... I'm wondering; is such a thing hard? Maybe it's like maybe 5 comm

Re: [newbie] this mailing list is soooo cool!

2003-08-17 Thread Margot
Anarky wrote: I just wanted to thank everybody on this list for all the replies & sugestions & help. This mailing list is so cool! It's become my one stop solve to linux problems .. and I get replies ... and different views. Thanks everybody, and especially the gurus helping out the littl

Re: [newbie] sshd

2003-08-17 Thread Anarky
Kasper Thunoe wrote: søn, 2003-08-17 kl. 08:22 skrev Anarky: I've got 9.1 ... and can't find out if I have/how to install sshd. 'sshd' command gives nothing (doesn't find it) even as root. The 'Remove Software' doesn't find any sshd string. The 'Install Software' only finds ssh-monitor ..

Re: [newbie] Uploading files to web host with FTP? (Shoot me!)

2003-08-17 Thread Margot
Miark wrote: On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 18:41:22 +0100, Margot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks Miark, glad I've got the right tool at least, but what I need to know now is how to use it - real beginner here! Where in gFTP do I input the domain name, username and password? How do I tell it what file

Re: [newbie] Virtual Hosts in Apache 2.0

2003-08-17 Thread Roland Cruse
On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 09:04:23AM -0400, Todd Slater wrote: > On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 11:17:34AM +, Roland Cruse wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 01:12:09AM -0400, HaywireMac wrote: > > > > > > > > BTW, what's with yer blank "reply-to", that's kinda weird... > > > > > I never paid attenti

Re: [newbie] sshd

2003-08-17 Thread Kasper Thunoe
søn, 2003-08-17 kl. 08:22 skrev Anarky: > I've got 9.1 ... and can't find out if I have/how to install sshd. > 'sshd' command gives nothing (doesn't find it) even as root. The 'Remove > Software' doesn't find any sshd string. The 'Install Software' only > finds ssh-monitor ...sooo? what does