[newbie-it] lopster

2003-08-24 Thread NIC
dopo aver installato lopster ed essermi connesso sono andato nella sezione servers e ho cliccato destro con il mouse per dare il comando refresh list ma non sono riuscito a connettermi infatti mi ha ridato un messaggio con scritto:could not receive server list from Napigator Cosa devo settare

Re: [newbie-it] Fetchmail/Procmail+Balsa=Perfetto!

2003-08-24 Thread Giuseppe Ferruzzi
* kudega ha scritto: Giuseppe ho installato Balsa, e devo dire che fa proprio al caso mio! Interfaccia grafica, semplice da utilizzare ma soprattutto lo posso configurare facilmente con la posta in locale! ...Giuseppe avevi ragione sull'instabilità di balsa... adesso però l'ho aggiornato alla

[newbie-it] Come si fa x tornare user?

2003-08-24 Thread Giaipur
Salve a tutti. Il quesito di oggi è questo: Per avere i privilegi di root digito da terminale su+password. Una volta fatto cosa devo digitare per tornare un semplice user? Evitando così di chiudere ed aprire il terminale? Grazie a tutti Ciao 1+1=10

Re: [newbie-it] Come si fa x tornare user?

2003-08-24 Thread paolo brusasco
?? exit. dovresti tornare alla shell precedente. Giaipur wrote: Salve a tutti. Il quesito di oggi è questo: Per avere i privilegi di root digito da terminale su+password. Una volta fatto cosa devo digitare per tornare un semplice user? Evitando così di chiudere ed aprire il terminale? Grazie a

Re: [newbie-it] Come si fa x tornare user?

2003-08-24 Thread artasersec
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 19:30:09 +0200, Giaipur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Salve a tutti. Il quesito di oggi questo: Per avere i privilegi di root digito da terminale su+password. Una volta fatto cosa devo digitare per tornare un semplice user? Evitando cos di chiudere ed aprire il terminale? Grazie

Re: [newbie-it] Come si fa x tornare user?

2003-08-24 Thread artasersec
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 20:54:44 +0200, paolo brusasco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ?? exit. dovresti tornare alla shell precedente. Giaipur wrote: Salve a tutti. Il quesito di oggi questo: Per avere i privilegi di root digito da terminale su+password. Una volta fatto cosa devo digitare per tornare

[newbie-it] pgp e Balsa

2003-08-24 Thread kudega
Innanzitutto Grazie Giuseppe per vari i suggerimenti!! Ho inserito qualche filtro in .procmailrc e per ora funzica tutto alla perfezione. L'unica cosa che non riesco a configurare in balsa è pgp! Ho installato Pgp 6.5.8 e non riesco a criptare o aggiungere la firma in automatico ai messaggi...

Re: [newbie] SCO Site Down

2003-08-24 Thread yankl
Am I reading this right? SCO running linux and apache. http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.sco.com On Saturday 23 August 2003 16:25, Chris wrote: Was going to send a friend the link to the sco linux faq, however when trying to contact www.sco.com I keep getting operation timed out, gee

Re: [newbie] Re: kde 3.1.3

2003-08-24 Thread David E. Fox
Go to http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php to configure Texstar as a urpmi source (you'll see it down the page). Then urpmi kde and let the sparks fly. Hmm. If texstar went and did kde3.1.3 for 9.1 that is just great. It is of course in 9.2 cooker (with a few little problems) but upgrading

[newbie] laptop install problems

2003-08-24 Thread Claire Suttle
Hi, I've just downloaded the mandrake 9.1 ISO's, and I now want to install onto a compaq armarda laptop. I'm having problems because I can't boot from cd's, and the cd drive is interchangeable with the floppy drive. If I try to boot from the floppy, then switch drives, the cd drive isn't

Re: [newbie] OT Blocked ports

2003-08-24 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 10:33, HaywireMac wrote: Here's mine, go to town, bud: 64.231.121.215 Ok - so now yer advertising yer puny little box to hack/crack/crash...when shall we commence? -- Sun Aug 24 14:30:00 EST 2003 14:30:00 up 6 days, 16:56, 2 users, load average: 1.26, 1.61, 1.64

[newbie] laptop from Hell Part 2

2003-08-24 Thread Erylon Hines
O.K. Last week I installed 9.1 on a firends Compaq Presario 905us. After installing expert with the Linux noauto nomce noisapnp switches I actually got the install to complete, and everything worked but usb and the Realtek 8139 card. After getting random crashes I added to the lilo.conf's

Re: [newbie] laptop install problems

2003-08-24 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 23 Aug 2003 9:44 pm, Claire Suttle wrote: Hi, I've just downloaded the mandrake 9.1 ISO's, and I now want to install onto a compaq armarda laptop. I'm having problems because I can't boot from cd's, and the cd drive is interchangeable with the floppy drive. If I try to boot from

[newbie] kernel with priority

2003-08-24 Thread Anarky
I understand there is a newer linux kernel out there ... one which would know how to give higher priority ot processes I just started stuff like that .. any chance that will be included in 9.2? greets, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] kernel with priority

2003-08-24 Thread manolis
I didn't understand enough what you are trying to say but for changing the priority of processes just take a peek at the commands nice and renice. you can read the manual with: man nice man renice Koppermind. 24 2003 11:57, / Anarky : I understand there is a newer linux kernel

Re: [newbie] SCO outside the US

2003-08-24 Thread Richard Urwin
On Friday 22 Aug 2003 2:20 pm, HaywireMac wrote: Thanks, I just pissed myself. I hope you collected it in a ziplock bag. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Menu madness: apps stop launching; can't add apps

2003-08-24 Thread Hedley Finger
All: I installed Opera and a menu item appeared in the Networking W W W menu, which initially worked with the Gnome desktop. After some days it the menu item caused a launching button to appear in the taskbar (panel?) but this then vanished without the Opera browser appearing. I included

[newbie] wireless connection

2003-08-24 Thread MG
Hello all, was wondering if anybody has any ideas on this... I'm trying to get a wireless connection to another house near mine. I have a dial up account and my neighbor has a broadband business account and would allow me to use it. I currently use Smoothwall as a gateway-firewall but I'm going to

Re: [newbie] KDeveloper vs QT

2003-08-24 Thread John Layt
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 12:40, Mike Adolf wrote: I just read the guick starts for both KDeveloper and QT. KDeveloper has QT in its tool menu but QT seems to be a stand-alone IDE (with widgets). What is the intended relationship/usage between KDeveloper and QT. thanks mike You use KDevelop as

Re: [newbie] OT Blocked ports

2003-08-24 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:20:38 -0400 yankl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 23 August 2003 14:03, HaywireMac wrote: On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 12:02:17 -0400 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: How can I determine what ports my providing is blocking? try

[newbie] archive

2003-08-24 Thread Chris
Anyone know why the latest message at the newbie archive is 16 Aug? -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 4:11pm up 3 days, 22:46, 4 users, load average: 0.07, 0.09, 0.11 Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Sync Pilot with Evolution contacts

2003-08-24 Thread HaywireMac
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:04:18 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Hi there, I'm real newbie amd i have one problem. I can't sync my palm contacts with evolution contacts, i know i have to create a conduite but i don't know how? Anybody help me?? Okay, I just got my Handspring Visor to

Re: [newbie] parport problem

2003-08-24 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On Saturday 23 Aug 2003 11:21 am, Eric Huff wrote: Do you have acpi running? I found that with acpi running, my parport would not load. I worked on it before i new about modprobe parport, so don't know what happens if i do that, but i had no lps, etc in /dev. With acpi off, parport works

Re: [newbie] Gnomemeeting and webcamera

2003-08-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 23 Aug 2003 6:25 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 22 August 2003 08:42 pm, L.V.Gandhi wrote: I would like to get suggestions from those doing gnomemeeting/netmeeting in linux regarding model of web cameras and a few more info. I went through the netmeeting howto also. Anne

Re: [newbie] Dell TFT 17Flat Screen

2003-08-24 Thread Michael Juntunen
--- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, so this is an offer from a UK supplier and I asked them what resolution is it capable of. They replied, Its native resolution is 1280 x 1024. It'll go higher with interpolation but the image quality suffers. TFTs aren't like CRTs in

Re: [newbie] laptop from Hell Part 2

2003-08-24 Thread Scott
On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 22:21, Erylon Hines wrote: O.K. Last week I installed 9.1 on a firends Compaq Presario 905us. After installing expert with the Linux noauto nomce noisapnp switches I actually got the install to complete, and everything worked but usb and the Realtek 8139 card. After

Re: [newbie] OT Blocked ports

2003-08-24 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:20:38 -0400 yankl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 23 August 2003 14:03, HaywireMac wrote: On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 12:02:17 -0400 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: How can I determine what ports my providing is blocking? try

Re: [newbie] 9.2 Beta 2

2003-08-24 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday August 24 2003 07:04 am, Lanman wrote: Since the release of 9.2 Beta2 I haven't heard or seen anything about it from anyone on the list. Is this because it's so amazing that list members are speechless? I've run cooker only since 7.2. Current cooker is solid, no problems on a

Re: [newbie] You've got to love microsoft for some things... g

2003-08-24 Thread Lanman
Hey,...How come the links at the top of the page don't work??? What kind of website is this, anyhow? LOL! Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 8/24/2003 at 7:43 AM Glenn wrote: http://www.microsoft.com[EMAIL PROTECTED]/methuselah/rtfm/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] URPMI database update

2003-08-24 Thread David E. Fox
Attempting to run urpmi --auto-select, It told me that ..some files are missing. You may want to update your urpmi database Curt - yes, you are confusing the two databases. Updatedb is a command that runs every night (4:00am) and when finished it contains a database of all the files that you

Re: [newbie] where to find rpm packages

2003-08-24 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 05:48:33 -0700 (PDT), Kurniawan Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about [newbie] where to find rpm packages : I have one packages missing in my linux mandrake ie: lex package. Where can I download this individual package ?

Re: [newbie] 9.1 ISO problem

2003-08-24 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 04:16, Claire Suttle wrote: Hi, I'm trying to download the Mandrake 9.1 ISO's from the Mandrake site. I've now tried downloading from about 5 of the FTP mirrors, and the first ISO always comes across corrupted. I'm downloading w/ CuteFTP, in binary mode, and I

Re: [newbie] Dell TFT 17Flat Screen

2003-08-24 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 05:38, Tom Brinkman wrote: FWIW, I wouldn't buy one on specs. You need to see it in a store's showroom. Then get the model number an buy it online after checking for Linux compatibility and performance. The one's you see in a store are runnin Winsux. Same for

Re: [newbie] You've got to love microsoft for some things... g

2003-08-24 Thread manolis
Yea right ! I was in windows many years and as the site says: RTFM is the main concept in windows conserning the support (Read The Fucking Manual). Personally I don't get it. When I had a problem (some very difficult ones for advanced users) I could get answer from a public group in

Re: [newbie] 9.2 Beta 2

2003-08-24 Thread David E. Fox
I've run cooker only since 7.2. Current cooker is solid, no problems on a overclocked XP 3000+. 2266 Mhz on a KT400a chipset It's *pretty* solid. There are still some issues I'm experiencing. One is the timezone drift in kde's clock - my time zone is 5 hours off. I have retried the fix

Re: [newbie] where to find rpm packages

2003-08-24 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Kurniawan Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 05:48:33 -0700 (PDT) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] where to find rpm packages Hi, I have one packages missing in my linux mandrake ie: lex package. Where can I download this individual

Re: [newbie] OT Blocked ports

2003-08-24 Thread Sharrea Day
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 07:10, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:20:38 -0400 yankl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some one need to run nmap against your IP address and then diff it with nmap aginst 127.0.0.1. Yankl Any volunteers? 66.176.44.125 I show this on 127.0.0.1 Port

Re: [newbie] OT Blocked ports

2003-08-24 Thread HaywireMac
On 24 Aug 2003 14:34:46 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Ok - so now yer advertising yer puny little box to hack/crack/crash...when shall we commence? Sure, although the IP changed during the night: 64.231.127.100 -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage:

Re: [newbie] where to find rpm packages

2003-08-24 Thread David E. Fox
I do not want to download the whole iso CD. Bookmark this link: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php#third Follow the prompts, and enjoy. This is the *first* web site I visit on a new install/upgrade. I suspect that this won't find rpm's for you but if you include other sources

Re: [newbie] 9.2 Beta 2

2003-08-24 Thread David E. Fox
Any suggestions or similar situations out there in Mandrake-Land? I realize= that it's a Beta, and that there may be bugs in it still, but perhaps ther= It happened to me... Lanman, see my other post to Tom on this. The upshot is that even with the missing rpm message, you can reboot and get

Re: [newbie] OT Blocked ports

2003-08-24 Thread HaywireMac
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 13:08:36 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: So why should I not be concerned that ips are visible in email headers? ROTFLMAO! Exactly, Anne, see my post below, I grabbed HIS from the headers... What's that saying about paranoia? Anyhoo... It's definitely

Re: [newbie] Menu madness: apps stop launching; can't add apps

2003-08-24 Thread Eric Huff
You could try running update-menus As for menudrake, if you run menudrake (can be done at cli) it is pretty straight forward to edit it. eric Why are app items in menus failing to launch apps? They launch okay from a terminal window. Should menus work the same in both KDE and Gnome?

Re: [newbie] archive

2003-08-24 Thread Eric Huff
It was a trick question, since there's three archives (that i know of ) for newbie alone! Anyone know why the latest message at the newbie archive is 16 Aug? In fact, now that I just looked, it's right up to date! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] where to find rpm packages

2003-08-24 Thread HaywireMac
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 11:46:38 -0300 Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: From what I understand from some searching, flex is the free version of lex. This is the extent of what I understand about it though. ;-) Go here and configure all your souces: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php

Re: [newbie] SCO Site Down

2003-08-24 Thread Eric Huff
Am I reading this right? SCO running linux and apache. http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.sco.com Of course they are. They *own* it! :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] 9.2 Beta 2

2003-08-24 Thread Mark Annandale
On Sunday 24 Aug 2003 1:04 pm, Lanman wrote: The only way I managed to install it was to first disconnect my printer completely. Cannot remember what else wasn't working but I decided to go back to 9.1. Fortunately my /home stuff was still there and I didn't even notice I'd reinstalled. HTH

Re: [newbie] 9.2 Beta 2

2003-08-24 Thread Lanman
Thanks Tom dfox. Since I was using a removable hard drive rack, it's not that critical. I'll wait for RC1. Tom, went to the website you mentioned, but I didn't see anything about how to get around the printer problem I was having. The install fails as soon as it tries to run printer-utils.rpm.

Re: [newbie] archive

2003-08-24 Thread HaywireMac
On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 16:11:44 -0500 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Anyone know why the latest message at the newbie archive is 16 Aug? Isn't it usually a bit behind anyway? And with all the internet shenanigans, slow traffic, power outages, dropped posts, etc., I wouldn't worry much. In fact,

Re: [newbie] 9.2 Beta 2

2003-08-24 Thread HaywireMac
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 08:04:38 -0400 Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Any suggestions in Mandrake-Land? Ya, don't hijack threads. -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: nodex.sytes.net ++ If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are

[newbie] Modules loading error

2003-08-24 Thread Julien Sobrier
Hello I have some problems to load the FireWire modules during the boot. What is strange is that it used to work well. Here are the error messages from syslog: kernel: devfs_register(raw1394): could not append to parent, err: -17 kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Error logging into SBP-2 device - login

Re: [newbie] SCO Site Down

2003-08-24 Thread Curt Tresenriter
On 24 Aug 2003 11:38:27 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 06:25, Chris wrote: | Was going to send a friend the link to the sco linux faq, however when trying | to contact www.sco.com I keep getting operation timed out, gee could the | site be down :) | |Dang -

Re: [newbie] 9.2 Beta 2

2003-08-24 Thread David E. Fox
Thanks. Maybe I read the release incorrectly. They must have been saying th= at it would be included in the next version, and I took it to mean Beta2, n= Just checking sunsite.uio.no ATM -- beta 2 is still there. No RC1 yet. But there's been a flurry of activity. I just finished a urpmi

Re: [newbie] OT Blocked ports

2003-08-24 Thread Eric Huff
This is somewhat of a hijack, but could be useful for all of us who are suddenly nmapping: ~ $ nmap 127.0.0.1 snip 8081/tcp openblackice-icecap Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 1 second [2]+ Exit 107perl popfile.pl .popfile.out

[newbie] Thanks to all

2003-08-24 Thread Lee Wiggers
Well you did it again. I barely know enough to tie my shoelaces and I got an apache server up. Between lurking and asking a vague question now and then, all of a sudden it came together. The last bit of understanding was my hardware firewall (duh). I feel like deleting everything and starting

Re: [newbie] 9.2 Beta 2

2003-08-24 Thread Lanman
Excuse me? I thought this was a thread about Mandrake 9.2 Beta2? What did I hijack? Please define a hijack for me, so I can avoid it. Besides, isn't this a List about Mandrake Linux? It has been since I joined 4 years ago ! Please explain how I could've hijacked a thread when I believe I was

Re: [newbie] laptop install problems

2003-08-24 Thread HaywireMac
On 24 Aug 2003 14:55:52 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Aren't you able to specify in the BIOS what the default booting device is? Beatcha to it again mate... -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: nodex.sytes.net ++ An idea is not responsible

Re: [newbie] laptop install problems

2003-08-24 Thread HaywireMac
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 12:36:52 +0200 Frans Ketelaars [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Can't you just (auto)run the first CD from windows? Damn, d00d, that's not complicated enough! LOL! ;-) -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: nodex.sytes.net ++ There are no

Re: [newbie] OT Blocked ports

2003-08-24 Thread HaywireMac
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 08:32:45 -0700 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: no sure what the name blackice is...) Wasn't Blackice some POS, heavily warezed, firewall that a lot of people were using on Windows way back when? Didn't even block outgoing connections, IIRC. -- HaywireMac Registered

Re: [newbie] laptop install problems

2003-08-24 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 11:15:24AM -0400, HaywireMac wrote: On 24 Aug 2003 14:55:52 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Aren't you able to specify in the BIOS what the default booting device is? Beatcha to it again mate... Some of us with older hardware might not be able to

Re: [newbie] 9.2 Beta 2

2003-08-24 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday August 24 2003 10:27 am, David E. Fox wrote: Lanman, see my other post to Tom on this. The upshot is that even with the missing rpm message, you can reboot and get a working install. It's nearly at the end of the install. RC1 (rumor unsubstantiated) is out. You could burn new

Re: [newbie] You've got to love microsoft for some things... g

2003-08-24 Thread HaywireMac
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 17:46:19 +0300 manolis [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Now in linux I think there is NO difference except: RTFM became RTFHTO (Read The Fucking How TO), Is this any change? From linuxgroups I got less answers in my question and a lot more answers outside the scope of my

Re: [newbie] OT Blocked ports

2003-08-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 24 Aug 2003 4:32 pm, Eric Huff wrote: This is somewhat of a hijack, but could be useful for all of us who are suddenly nmapping: ~ $ nmap 127.0.0.1 snip 8081/tcp openblackice-icecap Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 1 second [2]+ Exit 107

Re: [newbie] Att: Lyvim Xaphir

2003-08-24 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 06:45, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Lyvim, the last 3/4 e-mails that I've sent to you offlist have bounced (undeliverable mail). Just thought I'd let you know that I'm not ignoring you or anything like that. :-) I'm not sure why they are bouncing - seems like I can't hardly

Re: [newbie] You've got to love microsoft for some things... g

2003-08-24 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 11:34:42 -0400 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 17:46:19 +0300 manolis [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Now in linux I think there is NO difference except: RTFM became RTFHTO (Read The Fucking How TO), Is this any change? From linuxgroups I got less

[newbie] Unreal Tournament GOTY Install

2003-08-24 Thread HaywireMac
Ok, so I finally went out and dropped a whopping 15 dollars Canadian on this bugger, because I figured if I was a Good Boy and didn't try to install my old warezed copy, I would be smiled upon by the Lord and blessed with being able to play this wonderful game. Nope. God evidently still hates

Re: [newbie] SCO Site Down

2003-08-24 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
Of course they are. They *own* it! :) Er don't you mean they *claim* to own it? -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 92791912 17:49:51 up 3 days, 5:04, 2 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00 -- John Willby Registered Linux user number

RE: [newbie] You've got to love microsoft for some things... g

2003-08-24 Thread Frankie
Case in point, I asked a question about winNT server here the other day and got several answers.. So there you go, even windows support is good on this list.. :-) rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of HaywireMac Sent: Sunday, 24

Re: [newbie] 9.2 Beta 2

2003-08-24 Thread David E. Fox
Do you have your time set correctly in bios? Do you run ntpd ? I have no time issues with 9.2 over two differnet sets of hardware (motherboard clock RTC chipsets). http://www.ntp.org/ has a list of That's all done and running properly. 'date', xclock, what have you, all show the correct

Re: [newbie] Att: Lyvim Xaphir

2003-08-24 Thread HaywireMac
On 24 Aug 2003 15:11:13 -0400 Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: This is strange. I got this one. Evidently I can get the stuff from California but not from Kentucky. ;) It's that Liberal-Socialist-Anarchist-Elitist-Media conspiracy *for sure* ;-) -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user

Re: [newbie] You've got to love microsoft for some things... g

2003-08-24 Thread Eric Huff
Might I add that this was not always true. I still remember being flamed on this list three years ago for top posting. Is top posting when you write the new stuff on top, or leave the old messageon top? I get sick of scrolling down thru pages of unedited stuff to read a one line answer. But,

Re: [newbie] You've got to love microsoft for some things... g

2003-08-24 Thread HaywireMac
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 15:19:36 -0400 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Might I add that this was not always true. I still remember being flamed on this list three years ago for top posting. Now you vould be *shot*. Things have changed dramatically since then. Yesss, zey haff, herr

[newbie] Funny responses from linux commands

2003-08-24 Thread manolis
Hi, I think on this group someone posted a list of commands for linux that give funny answers... I don't seem to locate it on the forum archive. Can anyone help me find it? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Hostname

2003-08-24 Thread Lee Wiggers
First, I did rtfm. I couldn't ftfa. How do I change the hostname, with or without webmin. It's the little things that get you. All 8 boxes on my lan are properly named except for my pride and joy. She is listed as . Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Unreal Tournament GOTY Install

2003-08-24 Thread HaywireMac
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 16:21:33 -0400 Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: God doesn't hate you; He loves you. Supermount hates you. Does God hate Supermount? ;-) http://pgshopping.com/mdkxp/?c=ttrls/utinstall Now, he says to disable supermount (this BTW explains why the install

[newbie] Funny responses from linux commands

2003-08-24 Thread manolis
Hi, I think on this group someone posted a list of commands for linux that give funny answers... I don't seem to locate it on the forum archive. Can anyone help me find it? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] laptop install problems

2003-08-24 Thread Peter Meyns
Hello Todd, on Sun, 24 Aug 2003 12:41:42 -0400GMT (24.08.03, 18:41 +0200GMT here), you wrote in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : Some of us with older hardware might not be able to boot from cd. I don't know if it's a function of BIOS or cd drive or both, but I know mine won't boot from cd. Neither

Re: [newbie] 9.2 Beta 2

2003-08-24 Thread Lanman
Thanks. Maybe I read the release incorrectly. They must have been saying that it would be included in the next version, and I took it to mean Beta2, not 9.3. I'm going to wait for RC1 before doing a real upgrade. Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] You've got to love microsoft for some things... g

2003-08-24 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 01:07:03PM -0700, Eric Huff wrote: Might I add that this was not always true. I still remember being flamed on this list three years ago for top posting. Is top posting when you write the new stuff on top, or leave the old messageon top? Top posting is when you

Re: [newbie] Att: Lyvim Xaphir

2003-08-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 24 August 2003 03:11 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: snip Which contains the ip address for charter.net. According to that lookup, as of now there was a blacklist on charter.net 5.3 days ago. This may have been what was stopping your mail as I know that yahoo.com uses rtbl blocking. Also

Re: [newbie] Funny responses from linux commands

2003-08-24 Thread Curt Tresenriter
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 00:29:03 +0300 manolis [EMAIL PROTECTED](by way of manolis [EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: |Hi, | |I think on this group someone posted a list of commands for linux that give |funny answers... |I don't seem to locate it on the forum archive. | |Can anyone help me find it? | | |

Re: [newbie] 9.2 Beta 2

2003-08-24 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday August 24 2003 09:59 am, David E. Fox wrote: I've run cooker only since 7.2. Current cooker is solid, no problems on a overclocked XP 3000+. 2266 Mhz on a KT400a chipset It's *pretty* solid. There are still some issues I'm experiencing. One is the timezone drift in kde's

Re: [newbie] List Probs

2003-08-24 Thread HaywireMac
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 22:10:22 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: + posts being dropped ya, I know my posts tho are getting thru in many cases, because people are replying to them, but I never actually *see* my post weird... -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage:

[newbie] qmail, sendmail, etc.

2003-08-24 Thread Lee Wiggers
1. Any preferences? 2. A few months ago, I couldn't get through sympa to the list. I was led to believe there was a problem at my host with DNS. I am about to tackle a mail server but my ip is subject to change by comcast at will. No-ip.com will handle the resolution within a few minutes,

Re: [newbie] You've got to love microsoft for some things... g

2003-08-24 Thread HaywireMac
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 17:57:42 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Me too--pruning is getting to be a lost art. Exactly, proper pruning negates the desire and/or need to top post. -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: nodex.sytes.net ++ Whatever

Re: [newbie] Funny responses from linux commands

2003-08-24 Thread Curt Tresenriter
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 00:29:03 +0300 manolis [EMAIL PROTECTED](by way of manolis [EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: |Hi, | |I think on this group someone posted a list of commands for linux that give |funny answers... |I don't seem to locate it on the forum archive. | |Can anyone help me find it? | | |

[newbie] Transferring songs from cassette

2003-08-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
I've got some older cassettes that I'd love to transfer into OGG. Does anyone know of a good how to that literally walks thru the process step by step? (we're talking handholding here!) I grabbed an old cassette player, plugged a mini-jack to mini-jack cable from the headphone out to line-in

[newbie] Fw: Short Message delivery report

2003-08-24 Thread Curt Tresenriter
I just received this, as a result, I guess, of sending a reply to Funnyresponses to linux commands. Got two of 'em actually. After the first, I resent the post. Anyone know what's happening? Begin forwarded message: Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 02:10:31 +0400 From: Sms Message [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [newbie] laptop install problems

2003-08-24 Thread Claire Suttle
Ok, I've been trying to do a network install (using both the network.img and the pcmcia.img) and after it asks me what installation method I want to use (nfs, ftp,. http) I then get an error message stating: no NET device found. I have a wireless card for my laptop, but I've tried to do a

Re: [newbie] SCO Site Down

2003-08-24 Thread Eric Huff
Of course they are. They *own* it! :) Er don't you mean they *claim* to own it? Yeah, i forgot the (sarcasm) type cast... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Funny responses from linux commands

2003-08-24 Thread HaywireMac
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 23:26:04 +0300 manolis [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I think on this group someone posted a list of commands for linux that give funny answers... I don't seem to locate it on the forum archive. Can anyone help me find it? fortune type man fortune for more. there are a

Re: [newbie] archive

2003-08-24 Thread Chris
On Sunday 24 August 2003 10:30 am, HaywireMac wrote: On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 16:11:44 -0500 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Anyone know why the latest message at the newbie archive is 16 Aug? Isn't it usually a bit behind anyway? And with all the internet shenanigans, slow traffic, power

[newbie] Fwd: Short Message delivery report

2003-08-24 Thread Chris
Damm, I just got the same thing, are our posts now going through Russia? I believe thats what the .ru is. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Short Message delivery report Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 02:21:51 +0400 From: Sms Message [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is

Re: [newbie] Fw: Short Message delivery report

2003-08-24 Thread Eric Huff
I just received this, as a result, I guess, of sending snip Begin forwarded message: Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 02:10:31 +0400 From: Sms Message [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Short Message delivery report There is no such user (newbie). I have been getting the same

Re: [newbie] OT hijacked: nmap and port crashing/id'ing Blockedports

2003-08-24 Thread Eric Huff
8081/tcp openblackice-icecap sure nuf, nmap again shows no 8081. (8081 is used with popfile, no sure what the name blackice is...) Any i dea why nmap kills popfile? Does it? Not on my box, it doesn't. Popfile uses 8080, btw. Googling on blackice-icecap came up with

Re: [newbie] Fwd: Short Message delivery report

2003-08-24 Thread Eric Huff
Damm, I just got the same thing, are our posts now going through Russia? I believe thats what the .ru is. From: Sms Message [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is no such user (newbie). Maybe someone in russia that is a member of the list messed up a spam filter or something... Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] 9.2 Beta 2

2003-08-24 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
David E. Fox wrote: I've run cooker only since 7.2. Current cooker is solid, no problems on a overclocked XP 3000+. 2266 Mhz on a KT400a chipset It's *pretty* solid. There are still some issues I'm experiencing. One is the timezone drift in kde's clock - my time zone is 5 hours off. I

[newbie] dropped emails

2003-08-24 Thread Eric Huff
Wow, it is really bad today. Since people were talking about it, i have been watching one of the archives. Messages i did get don't show up there, even though newer ones do. One message i sent three times hasn't made it to the archive or to me. I think there may have been one that i saw on

Re: [newbie] Fw: Short Message delivery report

2003-08-24 Thread HaywireMac
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 17:16:13 -0500 Curt Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I just received this, as a result, I guess, of sending a reply to Funnyresponses to linux commands. Got two of 'em actually. After the first, I resent the post. Anyone know what's happening? I'm gettin' em too,

Re: [newbie] Fw: Short Message delivery report

2003-08-24 Thread Chris
On Sunday 24 August 2003 05:16 pm, Curt Tresenriter wrote: I just received this, as a result, I guess, of sending a reply to Funnyresponses to linux commands. Got two of 'em actually. After the first, I resent the post. Anyone know what's happening? Its definately Russian, heres the site