Re: [newbie] Really great site for how-to's and a lot more

2003-08-26 Thread Harv Nelson
Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 26 Aug 2003 6:22 pm, Frankie wrote: Has anyone considered getting a $6 dollar domain name from godaddy like "mandake-newbies.com" and using godaddy's redirect facility to redirect to put it to the wiki?? that address is too hard to remember and I am not always at

Re: [newbie] Transferring songs from cassette

2003-08-26 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 04:04 am, Michael Adams wrote: > On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 16:44:44 -0500 > Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Cool. Is there a way to do this to albums also? > > > I could put the cassette deck on "record" and run the RCA plugs from > > > tape deck "monitor"

Re: [newbie] Re: WineX -- Update!

2003-08-26 Thread Heather/Femme
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 14:56, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > > Femme > > Thanks Femme, but somehow I feel disgust by having MicroSCOft to > live in the same *house* as Linux. Kinda having Osama in your > closet. Anyway - she has her own account on my CLEAN Linux box > now and can use it when things ge

Re: [newbie] How to get rid of old Windows Drive Mounts

2003-08-26 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Stephen Kuhn wrote: Does the noise in my head bother you? ROTFLMAO! I needed that. -- Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linux user #322847 | Linux machine #207465 | http://counter.li.org/ AMD Duron 1.3GHz | Mandrake 9.1 | K

[newbie] ARTICLE: Dissecting the SCO amended claim

2003-08-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
For clarity's sake, take a moment to read this. You'll begin to understand the "sleight of hand" that SCO is attempting to utilise in gaining a win in this battle...and hopefully, the judge(s) will be smart enough, "well researched" enough to chuck this out immediately. http://www.opensource.org/h

Re: [newbie] Holy Crap! (SMS Thing)

2003-08-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 26 Aug 2003 9:01 pm, HaywireMac wrote: > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 20:23:58 +0100 > > Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > It's worked on other > > things, but I simply can't get it to catch these. I'm still > > trying to refine it to catch them. > > Can't you just match it to the ad

Re: [newbie] Holy Crap! (SMS Thing)

2003-08-26 Thread HaywireMac
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 20:23:58 +0100 Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > It's worked on other > things, but I simply can't get it to catch these. I'm still trying > to refine it to catch them. Can't you just match it to the address? -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage:

Re: [newbie] [Fwd: defragmentation]

2003-08-26 Thread HaywireMac
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 14:40:30 -0500 Tomas Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > goes to sleep and never comes ROTFLMAO!! -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: nodex.sytes.net ++ So little time, so little to do. -- Oscar Levant Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] NNTP Clients?

2003-08-26 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 09:35:34AM -0700, Tango Echo wrote: > Hi all, > > Could any of you recommend a good NNTP client for MDK? slrn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Paraniod - start worrying

2003-08-26 Thread Michael Adams
Any paranoids out there? Start worrying! http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100558.htm The rest of us will read this, shrug, and carry on as per normal aware that slim threats do exist on linux. No flames for scare mongering please. I thought it was an acceptable oddity, no more! -- Michael W

[newbie] Re: NNTP Clients?

2003-08-26 Thread Björn Lundin
Tango Echo wrote: I like kNode /Björn > Hi all, > > Could any of you recommend a good NNTP client for MDK? > I just realized Mozilla has one, but would like to > know what my options are. I use Evolution and Kmail, > but neither seem to have that type of support. > > Thanks! > >

Re: [newbie] mandrake & patents

2003-08-26 Thread HaywireMac
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 14:48:47 -0500 Marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: >Not only that but where would it end? Everything has a control >center of > some sort. The breaker box in a home or workplace. Dashboard on your > car, How about the remote for your TV or VCR? Some of this stuff seems >

Re: [newbie] Holy Crap! (SMS Thing)

2003-08-26 Thread HaywireMac
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 20:52:57 +0100 Inhabitant of Zion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > I got one two days ago and that was it. > > I've looked through my logs on my server and have no mention of any > being sent since then. > > Not that I am moaning mind! yer gonna get another one in a few minute

Re: [newbie] Holy Crap! (SMS Thing)

2003-08-26 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
Totally weird and you guys reckon you are getting these messages from this list? I got one two days ago and that was it. I've looked through my logs on my server and have no mention of any being sent since then. Not that I am moaning mind! -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 MSN

Re: [newbie] mandrake & patents

2003-08-26 Thread Marc
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 01:43 pm, Frankie wrote: > > > >-Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brant Fitzsimmons > >Sent: Wednesday, 27 August 2003 2:18 AM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: [newbie] mandrake & patents > > > > > >Marc w

[newbie] [Fwd: defragmentation]

2003-08-26 Thread Tomas Taylor
Original Message Subject: defragmentation Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 14:25:39 -0500 From: Tomas Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi there, A few days ago I or

Re: [newbie] Reinstalling WinMe and Grub

2003-08-26 Thread HaywireMac
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 14:45:05 -0400 (EDT) "Mark Shaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > Can someone walk me through the safest way to proceed with this? Well, I would 1st off recommend doing both, ie. reinstall ME (yucko magnifico), and then do a clean install of MDK 9.1. If you want to keep your 7.

Re: [newbie] Holy Crap! (SMS Thing)

2003-08-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 26 Aug 2003 8:06 pm, HaywireMac wrote: > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 19:36:58 +0100 > > Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > The odd thing is that setting a pop filter to delete on the > > server doesn't seem to work on this address. > > You mean like with Mailfilter? It's workin fer me.

Re: [newbie] Americas' Army extraction problem

2003-08-26 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 12:24 pm, Tango Echo wrote: > =D =D > > Another high quality game available on Linux?? Yep! > Ron, how did it run on your Linux boxes after you > finally got it installed? Runs fine on all 3 comps here: all 3 have Nvidia cards, 2 with onboard sound and one with a SBLiv

Re: [newbie] Holy Crap! (SMS Thing)

2003-08-26 Thread HaywireMac
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 19:36:58 +0100 Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > The odd thing is that setting a pop filter to delete on the server > doesn't seem to work on this address. You mean like with Mailfilter? It's workin fer me...like I say, you should see my freakin' logs... -- Haywire

Re: [newbie] Re: WineX -- Update!

2003-08-26 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 06:30 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 10:15, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > > > Thank you very much, Joe. > > > > > . She want me to install Linux > > alongside this crap as a dual boot system, but I'm afraid it > > won't survive repartitioning etc And I do

RE: [newbie] mandrake & patents

2003-08-26 Thread Frankie
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brant Fitzsimmons >Sent: Wednesday, 27 August 2003 2:18 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [newbie] mandrake & patents > > >Marc wrote: > >>On Tuesday 26 August 2003 10:26 am, Anarky wrote: >> >> >>>

[newbie] Reinstalling WinMe and Grub

2003-08-26 Thread Mark Shaw
Hello, I have a dual-boot Windows Me / LM7.2 machine (Asus mobo, AMD uP). The Windows side has become unstable (imagine that!) and I'd like to reinstall it. My understanding is that the boot sector will be overwritten when I do this, meaning Grub will need to be reinstalled as well. Can someone

Re: [newbie] Holy Crap! (SMS Thing)

2003-08-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 26 Aug 2003 6:46 pm, HaywireMac wrote: > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 19:03:17 +0300 > > Anarky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > I keep getting them too .. I thought it was from one person .. > > but I'm getting them from several .. is this like a worm thing or > > what? > > No, more like an "out

Re: [newbie] Really great site for how-to's and a lot more

2003-08-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 26 Aug 2003 7:06 pm, HaywireMac wrote: > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 12:48:02 -0500 > > Michael Viron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > As I mention from time to time, we have > > http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org pointing there right now. (if you > > are wondering, I own > > mdklinuxfaq.org). > > Do

Re: [newbie] Making Linux Converts

2003-08-26 Thread Michael Scottaline
On 26 Aug 2003 06:25:58 -0400 ed tharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled furiously: > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 04:52, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Tuesday 26 Aug 2003 2:54 am, Harv Nelson wrote: > > > Watch an animation of the "conversion" process of a new Linux user > > > > > > http://ai9nl.shacknet.nu/ima

RE: [newbie] Really great site for how-to's and a lot more

2003-08-26 Thread Michael Viron
Franki, As I mention from time to time, we have http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org pointing there right now. (if you are wondering, I own mdklinuxfaq.org). Michael -- Michael Viron Core Systems Group Simple End User Linux At 01:22 AM 8/27/2003 +0800, you wrote: > >>-Original Message- >>From:

Re: [newbie] Really great site for how-to's and a lot more

2003-08-26 Thread HaywireMac
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 09:00:49 -0700 Eric Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > PS i plan to start helping, too, soon.. I know, I keep fergettin' the damned Twiki... Remember the Twiki, Remember the Twiki, Remember the Twiki, Remember the Twiki, Remember the Twiki, Remember the Twiki, Remember the T

[newbie] NNTP Clients?

2003-08-26 Thread Tango Echo
Hi all, Could any of you recommend a good NNTP client for MDK? I just realized Mozilla has one, but would like to know what my options are. I use Evolution and Kmail, but neither seem to have that type of support. Thanks! __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - F

Re: [newbie] Really great site for how-to's and a lot more

2003-08-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 26 Aug 2003 5:00 pm, Eric Huff wrote: > > > http://www.linuxlookup.com/ > > > > Now added to > > > > http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeReferences > > > > Anne > > Anne, thank you for being so diligent and adding stuff like this to > the twiki. > > eric > > PS i plan to sta

RE: [newbie] Really great site for how-to's and a lot more

2003-08-26 Thread Frankie
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eric Huff >Sent: Wednesday, 27 August 2003 12:01 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [newbie] Really great site for how-to's and a lot more > > >> > http://www.linuxlookup.com/ >> >> Now added to >> >> ht

Re: [newbie] Making Linux Converts

2003-08-26 Thread HaywireMac
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:31:38 -0700 Aron Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > lol which one is Robin and the other must be Haywire Mac. Well, Robin is *obviously* the one being pushed into the icehole (no jokes please, too predictable...), since *I* am the one with the seriously nasty mean streak

RE: [newbie] Americas' Army extraction problem

2003-08-26 Thread Tango Echo
=D =D Another high quality game available on Linux?? Ron, how did it run on your Linux boxes after you finally got it installed? I should try to install it on my MDK 9.1 system. Interested in the results if/when I get around to it? --- "Tony S. Sykes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I downloaded

[newbie] ati vid card support policy

2003-08-26 Thread Anarky
any idea if ATI is going to become more like nVidia with their support for Linux ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] How to get rid of old Windows Drive Mounts

2003-08-26 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 12:49 am, HaywireMac wrote: > Although I no longer have any Windows partitions or drives, they still > show up under /mnt. > > I have checked /etc/fstab, and they do not appear. > > Is there somewhere else I need to go to make them stop appearing? Just go in as root and d

Re: [newbie] wishing for mandrake 2.6 test3 kernel

2003-08-26 Thread Anarky
Michael Lothian wrote: If you were wanting to play arround with kernels try the tmb ones what's 'tmb' Just update your kernel-utils and possibelyou init scrips from the cooker rpms (from memory that is - on my win doze box atm) could you please give me more detailed instructions or point me to

Re: [newbie] Holy Crap! (SMS Thing)

2003-08-26 Thread Anarky
Eric Huff wrote: I just took a look at my filter logs, it is *filled* with these bloody SMS bounces! This has got to be stopped, but how? I have tried in the past to email the address listed in the welcome message, but get no response. Does anyone know a valid address to get in contact with a

Re: [newbie] Really great site for how-to's and a lot more

2003-08-26 Thread Eric Huff
> > http://www.linuxlookup.com/ > > Now added to > > http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeReferences > > Anne Anne, thank you for being so diligent and adding stuff like this to the twiki. eric PS i plan to start helping, too, soon.. Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandrak

Re: [newbie] How to get rid of old Windows Drive Mounts

2003-08-26 Thread Eric Huff
> On Tuesday 26 August 2003 07:35 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > > this is Haywiremac (alias SchmoFill) Man, how many aliases does this guy have? :) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] How to get rid of old Windows Drive Mounts

2003-08-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 14:49, HaywireMac wrote: > Although I no longer have any Windows partitions or drives, they still > show up under /mnt. > > I have checked /etc/fstab, and they do not appear. > > Is there somewhere else I need to go to make them stop appearing? They're probably just residua

Re: [newbie] Making Linux Converts

2003-08-26 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 04:52, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 26 Aug 2003 2:54 am, Harv Nelson wrote: > > Watch an animation of the "conversion" process of a new Linux user > > > > http://ai9nl.shacknet.nu/images/linux_convert.gif > > > > Harv > > What did you view it with? I just got a low-res st

Re: [newbie] How to get rid of old Windows Drive Mounts

2003-08-26 Thread HaywireMac
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 23:46:35 -0700 Eric Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > When you say appearing, does that mean you deleted them and they came > back?!? > > Bill G*tes is getting better at being evil... OMFG, I am such an idiot. I just deleted them. Didn't come back. Sorry to have sullied th

Re: [newbie] Transferring songs from cassette

2003-08-26 Thread David E. Fox
> Couldn't you legally download the songs (if you can find them) as you Yes, but the record executives used to balk at the idea of someone making recordings of LP for the car player -- they expect you to buy a separate version. At least it's not as bad as per seat licensing - RIAA isn't yet demand

Re: [newbie] Holy Crap! (SMS Thing)

2003-08-26 Thread Eric Huff
> I just took a look at my filter logs, it is *filled* with these bloody > SMS bounces! > > This has got to be stopped, but how? I have tried in the past to email the address listed in the welcome message, but get no response. Does anyone know a valid address to get in contact with a list admin

[newbie] mandrake & patents

2003-08-26 Thread Anarky
I got these links from a friend today: Online Demonstration Against Software Patents: http://swpat.ffii.org/group/demo/index.en.html Software Patents: who pays and who plays? http://jonagold.elis.ugent.be:8080/~jonas/why.html http://www.ffii.org/ffii-cgi/eintrag?f=eubsa&l=en http://www.noepaten

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

2003-08-26 Thread HaywireMac
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 23:54:23 -0700 Eric Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > Oh, wait, that's what you said... ROTFLMAO! -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: nodex.sytes.net ++ There are no winners in life, only survivors. Want to buy your Pack or Services f

[newbie] Really great site for how-to's and a lot more

2003-08-26 Thread HaywireMac
http://www.linuxlookup.com/ -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: nodex.sytes.net ++ A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance. -- Stanislaw Lem Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www

[newbie] Holy Crap! (SMS Thing)

2003-08-26 Thread HaywireMac
I just took a look at my filter logs, it is *filled* with these bloody SMS bounces! This has got to be stopped, but how? All those peeps on 14K dialup must be goin' nutty-nut! -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: nodex.sytes.net ++ Ninety percent of everyth

[newbie] Re: WineX -- Update!

2003-08-26 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 12:37 pm, HaywireMac wrote: > On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 19:56:44 + > > Kaj Haulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > Thanks a lot, Joe - I really appreciate your effort. Like > > you said, I would consider it a defeat to use Windows. I > > only hope you'll enjoy the research

Re: [newbie] How to get rid of old Windows Drive Mounts

2003-08-26 Thread HaywireMac
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 10:12:09 -0400 "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > On Tuesday 26 August 2003 07:35 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > > Dang - easier than that - c'mon - this is Haywiremac (alias > > SchmoFill) - just do an "rm -rf /*" and all will be fixed. > > That joke is so old, l

Re: [newbie] Handspring Visor Deluxe

2003-08-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 26 Aug 2003 2:11 pm, HaywireMac wrote: > I've found some good info out there for Visor users on Linux, I > thought I would share it with you and ask if anyone else uses this > device to post some lists or forums or links that they have found > useful or just plain kewl. > > http://coldsy

Re: [newbie] How to get rid of old Windows Drive Mounts

2003-08-26 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 07:35 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > Dang - easier than that - c'mon - this is Haywiremac (alias SchmoFill) - > just do an "rm -rf /*" and all will be fixed. --

Re: [newbie] Transferring songs from cassette

2003-08-26 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 06:05 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: > Couldn't you legally download the songs (if you can find them) as you > have the original so you have bought it already and save yourself the > problems and hopefully improve the quality of the recording? > > Tony. Thats the catch Tony. I'

Re: [newbie] Really great site for how-to's and a lot more

2003-08-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 26 Aug 2003 12:37 pm, HaywireMac wrote: > http://www.linuxlookup.com/ Now added to http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeReferences Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] HP Inkjets(HELP I AM Increadably stupid SHOOT ME)

2003-08-26 Thread Aron Smith
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 07:22:02 -0400 Bryan Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 25 August 2003 04:05 pm, Aron Smith wrote: > > does any one have any experience getting a HP-1210 multifunction printer to > > work? I have RTFM and RTFHTM and all it has done so far is confuse me > > according

[newbie] Bi-lingual Ms Word docs

2003-08-26 Thread Paul
G'day. Open Office, Abiword, etc are able to read/write docs in Ms Word format, but I have a form issued by the Cyprus Govt online that I need to complete. It's in both Greek & English, but I can't find a way of getting both sets of characters displayed. Any suggestions? TIA Paul M Want to

Re: [newbie] Dell TFT 17"Flat Screen

2003-08-26 Thread John Richard Smith
I see, so in regards to TFT's it's not a case then of a beam of electrons scanning the screen top left to botton right so many times a second ( CRT of 85Mhz = 85 refershed scans per second) but a question of how many times a pixel is electronically swithced on and off electronically, that is by

[newbie] parport and devfs

2003-08-26 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I am working with mdk 9.1 I have following lines in respective files. in /etc/modules.devfs # Parallel port printers alias /dev/printers*lp alias /dev/lp* /dev/printers [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# cd /etc/devfs/conf.d [EMAIL PROTECTED] conf.d]# cat dynamic.conf REG

Re: [newbie] TEST

2003-08-26 Thread James R. McKenzie
I don't drink so the the beer is your's man. Now with so many linux stickers, where vcan put those sticky stars. 8-{> - Original Message - From: "Carroll Grigsby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 8:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] TEST > John: > Than

RE: [newbie] Hostname

2003-08-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 21:02, Frankie wrote: > I don't think we are slow either, I was just being modest. :-) This is the MANDRAKE list - no use in being modest here, mate. -- Tue Aug 26 23:15:01 EST 2003 23:15:01 up 1 day, 13:01, 1 user, load average: 0.92, 0.89, 0.88 ---

Re: [newbie] HP Inkjets(HELP I AM Increadably stupid SHOOT ME)

2003-08-26 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Monday 25 August 2003 04:05 pm, Aron Smith wrote: > does any one have any experience getting a HP-1210 multifunction printer to > work? I have RTFM and RTFHTM and all it has done so far is confuse me > according to the docs I have managed to configure and install it MCC sees > it BUT the @#$&*%$

[newbie] Handspring Visor Deluxe

2003-08-26 Thread HaywireMac
I've found some good info out there for Visor users on Linux, I thought I would share it with you and ask if anyone else uses this device to post some lists or forums or links that they have found useful or just plain kewl. http://coldsync.org/ http://www.pilot-link.org/ (this one can be instal

Re: [newbie] Transferring songs from cassette

2003-08-26 Thread The Other
08/26/03 Ronald, See if you can find a cassette boom box or other cassette player that has left and right PHONO or RCA outputs. Then buy the appropriate cable to connect the cassette player to the Line In of your sound card. That cable might be a Left and Right RCA (or PHONO) to 1/8" mini Stere

Re: [newbie] How to get rid of old Windows Drive Mounts

2003-08-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 20:16, ed tharp wrote: > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 00:49, HaywireMac wrote: > > Although I no longer have any Windows partitions or drives, they still > > show up under /mnt. > > > > I have checked /etc/fstab, and they do not appear. > > > > Is there somewhere else I need to go

RE: [newbie] Hostname

2003-08-26 Thread Frankie
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn >Sent: Tuesday, 26 August 2003 5:53 AM >To: Mandrake Newbie >Subject: RE: [newbie] Hostname > > >On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 02:05, Frankie wrote: > >> Well what can I say, we Aussies don't have a lot

RE: [newbie] Transferring songs from cassette

2003-08-26 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Couldn't you legally download the songs (if you can find them) as you have the original so you have bought it already and save yourself the problems and hopefully improve the quality of the recording? Tony. -Original Message- From: Ronald J. Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, Au

RE: [newbie] Americas' Army extraction problem

2003-08-26 Thread Tony S. Sykes
I downloaded it at the weekend and it installed on 9.1 download no probs. Install as root so all users can use it. I assume you md5'ed it? Tony. -Original Message- From: Ronald J. Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 10:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [new

Re: [newbie] How to get rid of old Windows Drive Mounts

2003-08-26 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 00:49, HaywireMac wrote: > Although I no longer have any Windows partitions or drives, they still > show up under /mnt. > > I have checked /etc/fstab, and they do not appear. > > Is there somewhere else I need to go to make them stop appearing? fstab= file system table mtab

RE: [newbie] Dell TFT 17"Flat Screen

2003-08-26 Thread Tony S. Sykes
John, I am sure Dell sell rebranded monitors anyway (correct me if I am wrong). So you need to try and find out who the original manufacturer is. I've got a Hitachi 17" 1280x1024 with a 16ms refresh rate. It is a lot sharper than crt's. Mine cost a little more about £400 but it was the top of the

Re: [newbie] Transferring songs from cassette

2003-08-26 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 16:44:44 -0500 Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Cool. Is there a way to do this to albums also? > > I could put the cassette deck on "record" and run the RCA plugs from tape > > deck "monitor" to the "line-in" on the sound card, just wonder if there is > > a bette

Re: [newbie] Making Linux Converts

2003-08-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 26 Aug 2003 2:54 am, Harv Nelson wrote: > Watch an animation of the "conversion" process of a new Linux user > > http://ai9nl.shacknet.nu/images/linux_convert.gif > > Harv What did you view it with? I just got a low-res static pic. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Help on postfix

2003-08-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 26 Aug 2003 8:51 am, Kim Brandt wrote: > Hi everyone > > I got some problems when i tried to install qmail (i already got postfix > 20010228-p103 working well) And the installation didn´t work, so i > uninstalled qmail. > > I run a webserver on a Mandrake 8.1 machine, and usually get som

Re: [newbie] Funny responses from linux commands

2003-08-26 Thread David E. Fox
> > You need to concatenate text exported from "fortune" into a static text > > file to be used by your mailer agent. > > > > HUH??? Grasshopper: $ export foo=$fortune} # puts a 'fortune' into a variable foo. in case we want it later echo $foo >fortune_file What he meant is that you should

Re: [newbie] Odd email in list

2003-08-26 Thread Aron Smith
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 21:28:46 -0400 Todd Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 09:07:03AM -0700, Aron Smith wrote: > > On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 18:57:47 -0400 > > HaywireMac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On 26 Aug 2003 08:08:29 +1000 > > > Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> u

Re: [newbie] Making Linux Converts

2003-08-26 Thread Aron Smith
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 20:54:44 -0500 Harv Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Watch an animation of the "conversion" process of a new Linux user > > http://ai9nl.shacknet.nu/images/linux_convert.gif > > Harv lol which one is Robin and the other must be Haywire Mac. > > > > Want to buy your P

[newbie] Canucks Fight Back!

2003-08-26 Thread HaywireMac
"A coalition of Canadian computer professionals dedicated to open-source software is planning to oppose legal efforts to extract licence fees from Linux users. The Canadian Linux Interests Coalition, organized by members of Canada's network of Linux Users Groups, says it plans to fight the SCO Gr

[newbie] Making Linux Converts

2003-08-26 Thread Harv Nelson
Watch an animation of the "conversion" process of a new Linux user http://ai9nl.shacknet.nu/images/linux_convert.gif Harv Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Funny responses from linux commands

2003-08-26 Thread rob
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 04:47, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 18:28, Mark Annandale wrote: > > On Sunday 24 Aug 2003 10:16 pm, HaywireMac wrote: > > > > > > > > type "man fortune" for more. > > > > > > there are a lot more than just funny ones, that's how I and many others > > > generat

Re: [newbie] 9.2 Beta 2

2003-08-26 Thread Lanman
Wow! Ed! You're obviously a man of few words! That was really deep! Thanks for the info! ?? LOL! Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 8/25/2003 at 9:25 PM ed tharp wrote: >>Maybe that's where I'm going wrong? >yep >> Or maybe the server just handles it that way. >Or (yep) BOTH...

Re: [newbie] Odd email in list

2003-08-26 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 09:07:03AM -0700, Aron Smith wrote: > On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 18:57:47 -0400 > HaywireMac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 26 Aug 2003 08:08:29 +1000 > > Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > > > > > > > Just ignore'em. They'll eventually go away. > > > > Just lik

Re: [newbie] 9.2 Beta 2

2003-08-26 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 13:02, Lanman wrote: > HaywireMac; No knickers to worry about! You might be right about the hijack, under > the conditions you specified. > I didn't see a hijack happening, because my thread was under a different name. Just > so you know, I've never even > seen any list of r

Re: [newbie] [OT] DVD Player for *all* formats

2003-08-26 Thread Bob Read
Carroll Grigsby wrote: Aren't we supposed to blame everything on SCO now? -- cmg Isn't that now ==> MicroSCOft ? (Now no SCOffing at MS.) Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Odd email in list

2003-08-26 Thread Aron Smith
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 21:05:39 -0400 Carroll Grigsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 25 August 2003 07:43 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 02:07, Aron Smith wrote: > > > My teeth left a long time ago (Courtsy of a biker with a pool cue) > > > > Hell, who needs teeth anyways?

Re: [newbie] Odd email in list

2003-08-26 Thread Aron Smith
On 26 Aug 2003 09:43:23 +1000 Stephen Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 02:07, Aron Smith wrote: > > > My teeth left a long time ago (Courtsy of a biker with a pool cue) > > Hell, who needs teeth anyways? You don't need'em to drink beer - that > is, unless it's chunky beer.

Re: [newbie] Odd email in list

2003-08-26 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Monday 25 August 2003 07:43 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 02:07, Aron Smith wrote: > > My teeth left a long time ago (Courtsy of a biker with a pool cue) > > Hell, who needs teeth anyways? You don't need'em to drink beer - that > is, unless it's chunky beer... How do you get t

Re: [newbie] Is the Linux for PDA's

2003-08-26 Thread Gareth Qually
thanks for the info guys. I am going with the Treo 180, since it is a cell phone aswell as a pda and the palm os seemsto integrate with most Os's well. Thanks Ciao Gareth Qually manolis wrote: try www.handhelds.org ??? 13 ??? 2003 05:29, ?/? yankl ??: On Tuesday 12 August 20

Re: [newbie] Nvidia 'no screens found' error

2003-08-26 Thread Gareth Qually
Well I sorted it out today, by doing the most simple thing. I reinstalled the drivers and it worked. When I was looking at the error message I noticed another error mentioning a kernal error, so I thought let me re-install the drivers first to see if that will do the job and it did. Thanks anyw

Re: [newbie] TEST

2003-08-26 Thread Carroll Grigsby
John: Thank you very much. I'll take the beer, but you can skip the sticky stars. -- cmg On Monday 25 August 2003 07:58 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > Two sticky stars and a free beer. > > John > > James R. McKenzie wrote: > >Did I pass the test? What doo I get. I want the gold star. > > > >

Re: [newbie] [OT] DVD Player for *all* formats

2003-08-26 Thread HaywireMac
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:52:34 -0400 Carroll Grigsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > Aren't we supposed to blame everything on SCO now? SCO, in cahoots with Microsoft, the Rand Corporation, the American Medical Association, and the Girl Guides as near as I can figure it. -- HaywireMac Registered L

[newbie] SpellCheck in OOo 1.0.2

2003-08-26 Thread Bob Read
I am running LM 9,1 with OOo 1.0.2 as well as SO 6.0. SpellCheck works fine on SO but apparently has no dictionary on OOo, since it never finds an error. Is it reasonable to copy the SO dictionary to OOo (or link to it.) ? If so, can someone ell me where to find it? Much thanks, Bob Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Lilo config & Lilo boot

2003-08-26 Thread Russ
Hi All, I am really, really, really sorry about the multiple posts. I didn't think any of them got through. My email address was changed some time ago and I just never re-subscribed (I wasn't doing much on the computer at all). My windows drive crashed recently so I was setting it up for a linux

[newbie] nvidia chipset in ASUS A7N8X deluxe motherboard- sound nvidia.o

2003-08-26 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I have the above motherboard. mdk stock kernel drivers were working ok. However I installed NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.mdk91up_2.4.21_0.13.athlon.rpm obtained from nvidia site. Aug 25 06:37:17 lvghomepc kernel: Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.24, 15:29:58 Mar 14 2003 Aug 25 06:37:17 lvghomepc kern

Re: [newbie] Problems posting to Newbie List

2003-08-26 Thread ed tharp
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 14:08, John Richard Smith wrote: > Started having problems getting through, > > here is the latest return message , > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > There is no such user (newbie). > > > > isn't something ending .ru a rusian address ? > > > John > > crap from some ru

Re: [newbie] Odd email in list

2003-08-26 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 02:07, Aron Smith wrote: > My teeth left a long time ago (Courtsy of a biker with a pool cue) Hell, who needs teeth anyways? You don't need'em to drink beer - that is, unless it's chunky beer... -- Tue Aug 26 09:40:01 EST 2003 09:40:01 up 23:26, 1 user, load average: 1.

Re: [newbie] [OT] DVD Player for *all* formats

2003-08-26 Thread HaywireMac
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 23:54:37 + John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > I hope this comes out , I lifted it from a website. > > John > > > - > ---*DivX compatible DVD player with Ethernet connection > * > The DP-50

Re: [newbie] wishing for mandrake 2.6 test3 kernel

2003-08-26 Thread Michael Lothian
If you were wanting to play arround with kernels try the tmb ones Just update your kernel-utils and possibelyou init scrips from the cooker rpms (from memory that is - on my win doze box atm) Then get the latest tmb kernel from http://www.netikka.net/tmb/Cooker/ or it may even be on the contri

Re: [newbie] [OT] DVD Player for *all* formats

2003-08-26 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Monday 25 August 2003 02:52 pm, Todd Slater wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 02:49:47PM -0400, HaywireMac wrote: > > See, now here's the thing. I sent this hours ago, and I still don't see > > it coming through, but I see your reply... > > > > This has somehow got to be the fault of Microsoft. >