[newbie-it] attendibilità di google...un po OT!

2003-08-30 Thread NIC
Al lug a cui sono iscritto poco tempo fa avevano indagato sull'attendibiltà di google per quanto riguarda ricerche sull'argomento pc e in particolare Linux. Nel link qui sotto c'è la prova che il motore di ricerca lavagli esiti delle ricerche anche per altri argomenti.

Re: [newbie] calendar

2003-08-30 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 30 August 2003 01:18, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 29 August 2003 02:09 pm, Anarky wrote: Can you tell me of a linux app which would show me a calendar? Besides all the GUI stuff, if you are in a terminal/console/CLI just type : cal. Wonderfull!!! Didn't know that

Re: [newbie] SCO reversal

2003-08-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 08:36, Sharrea Day wrote: So they've changed their minds then... surprise, surprise... http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/29/1062050642514.html Sharrea I think the point is more that they're finding out what little (if any) grounds they've got; this whole thing

Re: [newbie] dialup problem

2003-08-30 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 29 August 2003 04:33 pm, Anarky wrote: I'm asking this for a friend: she installed Mandrake 9.1, and dial-up worked ... well .. pretty much (I was suprsied because I have never seen a dialup modem working with linux) ... thing is: it connects to the isp ... but any website one

[newbie] Re: Odd network behavior

2003-08-30 Thread Yann Debois
Hi, I have the very same problem, only with a RedHat 9.0 and an Alcatel USB ADSL modem... If you find an answer or HowTo... please!

Re: [newbie] dialup problem

2003-08-30 Thread Anarky
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Friday 29 August 2003 22:33, Anarky wrote: I'm asking this for a friend: she installed Mandrake 9.1, and dial-up worked ... well .. pretty much (I was suprsied because I have never seen a dialup modem working with linux) Since the coming of kppp I've never known

Re: [newbie] Blank Screen

2003-08-30 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 29 August 2003 12:19 pm, Sendak, John wrote: I am running Mandrake 9.1. I left my machine on with Mandrake doing nothing. I came back after about 30 minutes to find that the screen was totally blank. Moving the mouse had no effect. Not getting any response at all, and not knowing

Re: [newbie] calendar

2003-08-30 Thread Anarky
Tony S. Sykes wrote: Evolution, Gnome-kal, Korganiser. gnomecal seems to be closest to my needs but I'm still looking ... the others start too slow .. I just need a very simple program that will tell me around where I am in the month/week .. as I always lose it :) ... and I'm using

Re: [newbie] Ethereal for Mandrake 9

2003-08-30 Thread LtCdData
ethereal... etherape.. iptraf etc ... try rpmfind )) On Friday 29 Aug 2003 17:03, Nurv wrote: Can someone tell me where I can find a copy of ethereal for Mandrake? I looked on the cooker site, which is where Ethereal tells you to go, but I can find the file(s). Any help would be great. Thx,

Re: [newbie] Ethereal for Mandrake 9

2003-08-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 02:03, Nurv wrote: Can someone tell me where I can find a copy of ethereal for Mandrake? I looked on the cooker site, which is where Ethereal tells you to go, but I can find the file(s). Any help would be great. Thx, Nurv.. Fire up RPMDRAKE and in the search box,

Re: [newbie] dialup problem

2003-08-30 Thread Anarky
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 29 August 2003 08:33 pm, Anarky wrote: I'm asking this for a friend: she installed Mandrake 9.1, and dial-up worked ... well .. pretty much (I was suprsied because I have never seen a dialup modem working with linux) ... thing is: it connects to the isp ... but

[newbie] The Logs for Mandrake

2003-08-30 Thread Michael Lothian
Hi I was wondering where the logs in mandrake were kept. As I have no idea. The one I'm lookin for spesificly is a hardware one, and also where would the startup of services be logged? Thanks Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] dialup problem

2003-08-30 Thread Anarky
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Friday 29 August 2003 04:33 pm, Anarky wrote: I'm asking this for a friend: she installed Mandrake 9.1, and dial-up worked ... well .. pretty much (I was suprsied because I have never seen a dialup modem working with linux) ... thing is: it connects to the isp ...

[newbie] Where is XFontSel?

2003-08-30 Thread HaywireMac
I can't seem to find XFontSel anywhere for mandrake. Apparently it comes with XFree86-tools, but I cannot find a Mandrake package anywhere. I know it's kinda out of date now, but I have this LFP fonts package and the only way to get the X Logical Font Description. more info here:

Re: [newbie] calendar

2003-08-30 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 30 Aug 2003 12:14 am, Anarky wrote: Tony S. Sykes wrote: Evolution, Gnome-kal, Korganiser. gnomecal seems to be closest to my needs but I'm still looking ... the others start too slow .. I just need a very simple program that will tell me around where I am in the month/week .. as

[newbie] hdparm and /etc/sysconfig/harddisks in mdk91

2003-08-30 Thread L.V.Gandhi
In my /etc/sysconfig/harddisks in mdk91, all lines are commented out. But [EMAIL PROTECTED] lvgandhi]# hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount= 16 (on) IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq= 0 (off) using_dma= 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off)

Re: [newbie] dialup problem

2003-08-30 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 18:32, Anarky wrote: H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Friday 29 August 2003 22:33, Anarky wrote: I'm asking this for a friend: she installed Mandrake 9.1, and dial-up worked ... well .. pretty much (I was suprsied because I have never seen a dialup modem working with

Re: [newbie] The Logs for Mandrake

2003-08-30 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 29 August 2003 11:21 pm, Michael Lothian wrote: Hi I was wondering where the logs in mandrake were kept. As I have no idea. The one I'm lookin for spesificly is a hardware one, and also where would the startup of services be logged? Thanks Mike /var/log Kaj Haulrich. --

Re: [newbie] dialup problem

2003-08-30 Thread Marc
On Friday 29 August 2003 03:33 pm, Anarky wrote: I'm asking this for a friend: she installed Mandrake 9.1, and dial-up worked ... well .. pretty much (I was suprsied because I have never seen a dialup modem working with linux) ... thing is: it connects to the isp ... but any website one

[newbie] Netscape / Mozilla

2003-08-30 Thread Russ
Hi All, This is probably a stupid question but here goes anyway. What is the difference between Netscape and Mozilla? I have downloaded and installed both (actually just getting my sea legs). I installed them in separate directories but they still seem to have merged. All my settings (email

Re: [newbie] dialup problem

2003-08-30 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 29 August 2003 11:16 pm, Anarky wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 29 August 2003 08:33 pm, Anarky wrote: I'm asking this for a friend: she installed Mandrake 9.1, and dial-up worked ... well .. pretty much (I was suprsied because I have never seen a dialup modem working

Re: [newbie] calendar

2003-08-30 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 29 August 2003 11:21 pm, Anarky wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 29 August 2003 02:09 pm, Anarky wrote: Can you tell me of a linux app which would show me a calendar? Besides all the GUI stuff, if you are in a terminal/console/CLI just type : cal. Here's the man page

Re: [newbie] calendar

2003-08-30 Thread Anarky
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 29 August 2003 02:09 pm, Anarky wrote: Can you tell me of a linux app which would show me a calendar? Besides all the GUI stuff, if you are in a terminal/console/CLI just type : cal. Here's the man page : cal - displays a calendar pretty good ...

Re: [newbie] Netscape / Mozilla

2003-08-30 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 05:28:44PM -0700, Russ wrote: Hi All, This is probably a stupid question but here goes anyway. What is the difference between Netscape and Mozilla? Marketing. whack Also, does Mozilla have a spell checker? 1.5beta does. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Netscape / Mozilla

2003-08-30 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Todd Slater wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 05:28:44PM -0700, Russ wrote: Hi All, This is probably a stupid question but here goes anyway. What is the difference between Netscape and Mozilla? Marketing. whack Also, does Mozilla have a spell checker? 1.5beta does. Todd 1.3 and

[newbie] mplayer homepage

2003-08-30 Thread Julian
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/ I hope I dont see that for real Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Netscape / Mozilla

2003-08-30 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Russ wrote: Hi All, This is probably a stupid question but here goes anyway. What is the difference between Netscape and Mozilla? I have downloaded and installed both (actually just getting my sea legs). I installed them in separate directories but they still seem to have merged. All my

Re: [newbie] dialup problem

2003-08-30 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 22:41, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 29 August 2003 11:16 pm, Anarky wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 29 August 2003 08:33 pm, Anarky wrote: I'm asking this for a friend: she installed Mandrake 9.1, and dial-up worked ... well .. pretty much (I was suprsied

Re: [newbie] calendar

2003-08-30 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 23:03, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 29 August 2003 11:21 pm, Anarky wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 29 August 2003 02:09 pm, Anarky wrote: Can you tell me of a linux app which would show me a calendar? Besides all the GUI stuff, if you are in a

Re: [newbie] mplayer homepage

2003-08-30 Thread Dan Gordon
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 01:51:19 +0100 Julian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/ I hope I dont see that for real Its for real, I've been getting the same from rpmfind.net when i do a search for two days now. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Fri Aug 29 22:03:05 EDT 2003

Re: [newbie] Overclock!

2003-08-30 Thread Heather/Femme
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 06:43, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 28 August 2003 05:20 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: Ran your cpuburn...but couldn't for the life of me get gkrellm to show me any temps. Said it couldn't fnd any. Did you (as root) run sensors-detect and follow the instructions

Re: [newbie] mplayer homepage

2003-08-30 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 29 August 2003 08:48 pm, David E. Fox wrote: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/ I hope I dont see that for real I'm up for violating patents. :) You can still enter the site. But the EPA is trying to shut the page down. Pity. Just mvoe the site to .au or somewhere :). I doubt

Re: [newbie] OT, Where to find a SUSE ISO ?

2003-08-30 Thread James R. McKenzie
Good Enough. 8-{ - Original Message - From: Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 9:46 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] OT, Where to find a SUSE ISO ? On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 09:49, James R. McKenzie wrote: Fem, I have version 8.2

Re: [newbie] hdparm and /etc/sysconfig/harddisks in mdk91

2003-08-30 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 29 August 2003 08:35 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote: In my /etc/sysconfig/harddisks in mdk91, all lines are commented out. But [EMAIL PROTECTED] lvgandhi]# hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount= 16 (on) IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq= 0 (off) using_dma= 1

Re: [newbie] dialup problem

2003-08-30 Thread Bob Read
ed tharp wrote: in KPPP, click the setup tab, make sure the accounts tab is active, highlight the name of the dialup account you created and click edit, then click on the tab that says DNS and make sure auotmajic is got the dot. click OK, click OK, and try to dialup again If still having

RE: [newbie] dialup problem

2003-08-30 Thread John Hanagan
Go to http://www.wurd.com/instcon_linuxkppp.php It's for Worldnet users, but gives a good kppp tutorial on what sort of questions you may need to ask. --- On Fri 08/29, Anarky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Anarky [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003

Re: [newbie] Overclock!

2003-08-30 Thread Heather/Femme
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 21:49, Dennis Myers wrote: SNip Uh, how about typing YES instead of just y? Looks like that is what it is looking for. HTH seems it worked..wasn't hung but didn't find any sensors. :( sigh oh well i give up Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] OT, Where to find a SUSE ISO ? HIJACKED!

2003-08-30 Thread Erylon Hines
On Friday 29 August 2003 11:49 am, James R. McKenzie wrote: I'd like it more if it saw my modem but then again Mandrake can't either. Only Redhat (since RHL 7.2) can see it. I've basically tried all of the distros and even Free BSD. Can do spit with Free BSD. ;-{ Oh well, if you are

Re: [newbie] dialup problem

2003-08-30 Thread Erylon Hines
On Friday 29 August 2003 04:33 pm, Anarky wrote: I'm asking this for a friend: she installed Mandrake 9.1, and dial-up worked ... well .. pretty much (I was suprsied because I have never seen a dialup modem working with linux) ... thing is: it connects to the isp ... but any website one

Re: [newbie] Overclock!

2003-08-30 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 29 August 2003 10:04 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: No I did not... didn't know I had to... went to do it while stoned...gave up. sigh.. and the questions it asked me were confusing. Do i need GKrellm installed to use lm-sensors?? no?yes? help? No, with lm-sensors installed (correctly)

[newbie] Line-in problems?

2003-08-30 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Okay, I've now got a small cassette deck with true line out, and a cable with R/L RCA jacks on one end, and a 1/8th inch mini-jack (2 bands) on the other. I plug the mini-jack into the line-in on my Soyo Dragon Plus MB and get... Nothing. Gramofile, Rezound, no software I've tried gets any

Re: [newbie] SCO reversal

2003-08-30 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
Sounds to me like its the old directors, panicking that SCO can't cut it, do something to bump up the share price, sell at inflated price and then watch it all go under and hope nobody notices that they made a tidy little earner on the side. Trouble is they have upset to many people for that kind

Re: [newbie] Anyone know of an icq type app taht is decent?

2003-08-30 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
That's funny - I use the standard release (9.1) version without problems. I'm not a big chatter, but I've used it for msn and icq. Weird if I shut mine down by clicking on the icon in the System Tray the icon sits in the system tray and you then can't start Kopete up again. If you shut it

Re: [newbie] SCO reversal

2003-08-30 Thread John Richard Smith
Sharrea Day wrote: So they've changed their minds then... surprise, surprise... http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/29/1062050642514.html Sharrea operative words being, Today SCO also said it had no current plans to take a commercial Linux customer to court. So it's going to sue

Re: [newbie] another defragmentation question

2003-08-30 Thread Eric Huff
if the defrag or scan disk (most likely scan disk) screw with the last sector of the partition, it is possible, if the next logical partition starts right away, that the next partition start sector will be fubared, and not allow access to that partition. I was thinking that it might

Re: [newbie] mplayer homepage

2003-08-30 Thread John Richard Smith
Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 29 August 2003 08:48 pm, David E. Fox wrote: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/ I hope I dont see that for real I'm up for violating patents. :) You can still enter the site. But the EPA is trying to shut the page down. Pity. Just mvoe the site to .au or

Re: [newbie] Firewall Oddities

2003-08-30 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 29 Aug 2003 3:50 pm, Terry Sheltra wrote: I'm having some interesting happenings using the Firewall utility in MCC. I'm using a laptop that has both a wireless card, as well as a wired NIC. My wireless works just fine until I try to turn on the firewall. As soon as I do, the

RE: [newbie] dialup problem

2003-08-30 Thread Frankie
my favorite method of dialup is wvdial. Its an intelligent dialer that reads what the remote server says and responds appropraitely. urpmi wvdial (As root) cd /etc touch wvdial.conf wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf It will detect your modem, setup init strings and stuff and write some stuff to

Re: [newbie] dialup problem

2003-08-30 Thread Ron Stodden
Bryan Tyson wrote: On Friday 29 August 2003 22:41, Kaj Haulrich wrote: I've never heard of any machine intended to browse the web that didn't need to know at least one DNS server. You are correct that web browsing requires a DNS server. However, as I understand it, many ISPs

Re: [newbie] SCO reversal

2003-08-30 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 07:53:56 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sharrea Day wrote: So they've changed their minds then... surprise, surprise... http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/29/1062050642514.html Sharrea operative words being, Today SCO also said

Re: [newbie] dialup problem

2003-08-30 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 30 August 2003 00:32, Anarky wrote: ummm .. so what should she do exactly? and where? make sure that there are no other network configurations active like zeroconfig (though it shouldn't realy matter). To check if the connection is working; open a console window and type:

[newbie] first step: to connect to the internet, first find the modem... [newbie question]

2003-08-30 Thread Merlin Zener
Hi, I'm an almost newbie: I managed to get Mandrake installed and that's about it. I did post here a while back [I think about six months ago,] and I received some really helpful advice to get Mandrake and WIN2KPRO on the same HDD but past that I found it all a bit hard and I really don't have

Re: [newbie] Line-in problems?

2003-08-30 Thread Aron Smith
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 01:51:07 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I've now got a small cassette deck with true line out, and a cable with R/L RCA jacks on one end, and a 1/8th inch mini-jack (2 bands) on the other. I plug the mini-jack into the line-in on my Soyo Dragon Plus MB

[newbie] Apache: where to begin?

2003-08-30 Thread Marco Verheul
Hi all, I just installed Apache2 and when I enter http://localhost in my browser it shows me the apache page, so installation was succesfull. To which directory does http://localhost point? In other words, where do I load my webpages so i can use PHP locally on my PC? I installed with the

Re: [newbie] dialup problem

2003-08-30 Thread Anarky
Bryan Tyson wrote: On Friday 29 August 2003 22:41, Kaj Haulrich wrote: I've never heard of any machine intended to browse the web that didn't need to know at least one DNS server. You are correct that web browsing requires a DNS server. However, as I understand it, many ISPs

Re: [newbie] dialup problem

2003-08-30 Thread Anarky
Ron Stodden wrote: If you connect via the DHCP protocol the DNS servers will be set up automatically by your ISP's DHCP server.. but this is a windows service .. I don't know what DHCP is .. but I doubt they'll have it. IF DHCP is not used, you must enter them manually into kppp setup

[newbie] wvdial

2003-08-30 Thread Anarky
Frankie wrote: my favorite method of dialup is wvdial. Its an intelligent dialer that reads what the remote server says and responds appropraitely. doesn't kppp do that too? what should I expect differently? urpmi wvdial (As root) cd /etc touch wvdial.conf wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf It

Re: [newbie] Apache: where to begin?

2003-08-30 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 30 Aug 2003 12:40 pm, Marco Verheul wrote: Hi all, I just installed Apache2 and when I enter http://localhost in my browser it shows me the apache page, so installation was succesfull. To which directory does http://localhost point? In other words, where do I load my webpages so

Re: [newbie] Apache: where to begin?

2003-08-30 Thread Lee Wiggers
webroot is var/www/html. su then go get your files. Lee On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 11:40:00 + Marco Verheul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I just installed Apache2 and when I enter http://localhost in my browser it shows me the apache page, so installation was succesfull. To which

Re: [newbie] Anyone know of an icq type app taht is decent?

2003-08-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 30 Aug 2003 6:55 am, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: That's funny - I use the standard release (9.1) version without problems. I'm not a big chatter, but I've used it for msn and icq. Weird if I shut mine down by clicking on the icon in the System Tray the icon sits in the system

Re: [newbie] SCO reversal

2003-08-30 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 03:53, John Richard Smith wrote: Sharrea Day wrote: So they've changed their minds then... surprise, surprise... http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/29/1062050642514.html Sharrea operative words being, Today SCO also said it had no current plans

Re: [newbie] SCO reversal

2003-08-30 Thread HaywireMac
On 30 Aug 2003 08:11:58 -0400 ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: come to think of it, isn't herrings what penguins eat? Holy Mary Mother of God, that's what this has all been about??!! Now SCO is going to demand that the Linux community find the largest tree in the forest and chop it down

[newbie] Postfix

2003-08-30 Thread Lee Wiggers
Hi all Assume I'm as dumb as I feel when I get into this stuff. I have rtfm'ed my eyes out. I want to install postfix on my apache2 server, aeis.tv for use like my host on americanelevatorinspection.com has set up qmail. Next year I expect to drop the host and do all from my happy little mdk

Re: [newbie] SCO reversal

2003-08-30 Thread John Richard Smith
Michael Adams wrote: On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 07:53:56 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sharrea Day wrote: So they've changed their minds then... surprise, surprise... http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/29/1062050642514.html Sharrea operative words being,

[newbie] How do I install from the hard drive?

2003-08-30 Thread d2ci1fj
I have mandrake 9.1 on cds and need to install it from the hard drive andI do not know how to. Will someone tell me how, thanks.

Re: [newbie] Apache: where to begin?

2003-08-30 Thread HaywireMac
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 11:40:00 + Marco Verheul [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I just installed Apache2 and when I enter http://localhost in my browser it shows me the apache page, so installation was succesfull. To which directory does http://localhost point? In other words, where do I load my

Re: [newbie] another defragmentation question

2003-08-30 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 02:51, Eric Huff wrote: if the defrag or scan disk (most likely scan disk) screw with the last sector of the partition, it is possible, if the next logical partition starts right away, that the next partition start sector will be fubared, and not allow access to

Re: [newbie] dialup problem

2003-08-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 30 Aug 2003 11:18 am, Anarky wrote: I'm afraid we live in a darker side of the universe. Calling the isp for us is pretty much 0% chance. Can you not get the info from your isp's website? Or can you not email from your machine on her behalf? ISPs are generally quite laid back

Re: [newbie] first step: to connect to the internet, first findthe modem... [newbie question]

2003-08-30 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 20:07, Merlin Zener wrote: Hi, I'm an almost newbie: I managed to get Mandrake installed and that's about it. I did post here a while back [I think about six months ago,] and I received some really helpful advice to get Mandrake and WIN2KPRO on the same HDD but past

Re: [newbie] Netscape / Mozilla

2003-08-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 30 Aug 2003 1:28 am, Russ wrote: Hi All, This is probably a stupid question but here goes anyway. What is the difference between Netscape and Mozilla? I have downloaded and installed both (actually just getting my sea legs). I installed them in separate directories but they

Re: [newbie] hdparm and /etc/sysconfig/harddisks in mdk91

2003-08-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 29 Aug 2003 2:35 pm, L.V.Gandhi wrote: In my /etc/sysconfig/harddisks in mdk91, all lines are commented out. But [EMAIL PROTECTED] lvgandhi]# hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount= 16 (on) IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq= 0 (off) using_dma= 1 (on)

Re: [newbie] How do I install from the hard drive?

2003-08-30 Thread HaywireMac
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 08:17:38 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I have mandrake 9.1 on cds and need to install it from the hard drive and I do not know how to. Will someone tell me how, thanks. If you cannot boot from the CD's (you should be able to, go into your BIOS and change the boot order),

Re: [newbie] SCO reversal

2003-08-30 Thread HaywireMac
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 21:02:44 +1200 Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I think the reply was from someone in Sydney that has drunk too much Fosters. It doesn't gel with the rest of the PR. I think its a c-ck-up! A retraction / reversal wouldn't be handled this way. I'm the list Nazi

Re: [newbie] SCO reversal

2003-08-30 Thread John Richard Smith
ed tharp wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 03:53, John Richard Smith wrote: Sharrea Day wrote: So they've changed their minds then... surprise, surprise... http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/29/1062050642514.html Sharrea operative words being, Today SCO also said it had no

Re: [newbie] dialup problem

2003-08-30 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 29 August 2003 07:17 pm, Anarky wrote: sounds like you know what you're talking about ... but I don't really understand .. what/where exactly should she do? Go ahead and dial in as you normally do. Once in, check the /etc/resolv.conf file for name servers. You should see the

Re: [newbie] gtk2

2003-08-30 Thread Richard Urwin
On Saturday 30 Aug 2003 2:40 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: where to find gtk2? rpmseek.com has a lot but nothing works. does anybody have a mdk rpm? i need gtk2 2.0.0, used by gaim. thx, remo I found GTK2 already installed, probably for GNOME, I had to load the -devel, but urpmi found it no

Re: [newbie] gtk2

2003-08-30 Thread HaywireMac
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 15:40:37 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: where to find gtk2? rpmseek.com has a lot but nothing works. does anybody have a mdk rpm? i need gtk2 2.0.0, used by gaim. thx, remo Go here and configure all your souces: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php then you should be

Re: [newbie] SCO reversal

2003-08-30 Thread HaywireMac
On 30 Aug 2003 09:38:00 -0400 ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: no, you do fine,,,(it seems to me) Stephen Kuhns numbers are down this month, from his normally expansive and impressive digits. Hopefully it is just while he earns some cash to pay for his case mod habit g Blaster and Sobig

Re: [newbie] Tight VNC

2003-08-30 Thread linux
thanks for your help! but it didnt work... conection refused. i dont know whats wrong yet. but i'll celebrate my birthday now ;) cu2morrow, remo Quoting HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 15:04:09 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: anybody know what to do? whoops! see? I

Re: [newbie] gtk2

2003-08-30 Thread linux
mhhh strange... it is installed on my mdk too! but why the heck is gaim unable to install? do you can install gaim? (http://gaim.sf.net) i tried version 0. 67-1, cause i'm a noob on linx and cant compile another version. theres no mandrake rpm... :( remo Quoting Richard Urwin [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] first step: to connect to the internet, first findthemodem... [newbie question]

2003-08-30 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 09:49, Merlin Zener wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ed tharp Sent: Saturday, 30 August 2003 19:47 To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] first step: to connect to the internet, first findthe modem...

Re: [newbie] Tight VNC

2003-08-30 Thread HaywireMac
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 16:08:48 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: thanks for your help! but it didnt work... conection refused. i dont know whats wrong yet. but i'll celebrate my birthday now ;) cu2morrow, remo oh, and Happy Birthday...mine was 3 days ago, greets to a fellow Virgo! --

Re: [newbie] Tight VNC

2003-08-30 Thread HaywireMac
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 16:08:48 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: thanks for your help! but it didnt work... conection refused. i dont know whats wrong yet. but i'll celebrate my birthday now ;) cu2morrow, remo kewl, I'll be here off and on tomorrow...I'm always here...always... -- HaywireMac

[newbie] OT: Hardware Guru Please - advice needed

2003-08-30 Thread Anne Wilson
A Soltek board, just bought, says that using a 2x graphics board will fry the mobo (wrong voltage). The G-Force2 MX-400 is a 2x/4x board. Is it safe to assume that it will have the right voltage, merely falling back to 2x if the mobo doesn't have the later standard agp? Anne -- Registered

[newbie] browsing while downloading

2003-08-30 Thread Anarky
I hear of this program 'wondermaker' ... which would enable one to interectivelly browse the web stuff .. while still downloading at max speed possible (eg. the download speed would lower to leave space for browsing when one needed it) ... do you know any other such tools? I've installed

Re: [newbie] gtk2

2003-08-30 Thread HaywireMac
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 14:56:18 +0100 Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I found GTK2 already installed, probably for GNOME, I had to load the -devel, but urpmi found it no problem. So it's probably on the CDs or contrib. Why do you need 2.0.0? The version I have is higher, and

Re: [newbie] dialup problem

2003-08-30 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 30 August 2003 01:05 pm, Anarky wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 30 Aug 2003 11:18 am, Anarky wrote: I'm afraid we live in a darker side of the universe. Calling the isp for us is pretty much 0% chance. Can you not get the info from your isp's website? Or can you not

Re: [newbie] browsing while downloading

2003-08-30 Thread Marc
On Saturday 30 August 2003 09:28 am, Anarky wrote: I hear of this program 'wondermaker' ... which would enable one to interectivelly browse the web stuff .. while still downloading at max speed possible (eg. the download speed would lower to leave space for browsing when one needed it)

Re: [newbie] OT, Where to find a SUSE ISO ? HIJACKED!

2003-08-30 Thread James R. McKenzie
USR 2976 supposed to be a hardware modem. Got it from abilitywholse.com, they only carry 3 modems, two are software modems, the other one's not. - Original Message - From: Erylon Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 10:01 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] OT,

Re: [newbie] Postfix

2003-08-30 Thread Bart Salien
Op Saturday 30 August 2003 14:25, schreef Lee Wiggers: Lee , have you looked at the basic how to on the postfix site ? http://www.postfix.org/basic.html Bart. Hi all Assume I'm as dumb as I feel when I get into this stuff. I have rtfm'ed my eyes out. I want to install postfix on my

Re: [newbie] OT: Hardware Guru Please - advice needed

2003-08-30 Thread Marc
On Saturday 30 August 2003 09:47 am, Anne Wilson wrote: A Soltek board, just bought, says that using a 2x graphics board will fry the mobo (wrong voltage). The G-Force2 MX-400 is a 2x/4x board. Is it safe to assume that it will have the right voltage, merely falling back to 2x if the mobo

[newbie] DVD/ROM drive Regional settings

2003-08-30 Thread John Richard Smith
Is it possible to get around DVD/ROM drive regional setting to play any ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OT: Hardware Guru Please - advice needed

2003-08-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 30 Aug 2003 4:18 pm, Bart Salien wrote: Op Saturday 30 August 2003 16:47, schreef Anne Wilson: Anne , Normaly all AGP 4x should be backwards compatible with a AGP 2x . Unless they ran out of money to properly implement the AGP bus on your mobo ? Hi, Bart. No, that's not the

Re: [newbie] SCO reversal

2003-08-30 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Saturday 30 August 2003 09:24 am, John Richard Smith wrote: I think the reply was from someone in Sydney that has drunk too much Fosters. It doesn't gel with the rest of the PR. I think its a c-ck-up! A retraction / reversal wouldn't be handled this way. I agree, it's too off the cuff

Re: [newbie] OT: Hardware Guru Please - advice needed

2003-08-30 Thread Bart Salien
Op Saturday 30 August 2003 16:47, schreef Anne Wilson: Anne , Normaly all AGP 4x should be backwards compatible with a AGP 2x . Unless they ran out of money to properly implement the AGP bus on your mobo ? Bart. A Soltek board, just bought, says that using a 2x graphics board will fry the

Re: [newbie] gtk2

2003-08-30 Thread Derek Jennings
gaim-0.59 in on your Mandrake CD gaim-0.66 is on Texstars download site. You have already been told how to add urpmi sources. Add one for Texstar and you can install it with with your Mandrake Software Manager. (He also has an RPM for gaim-smileys) derek On Saturday 30 Aug 2003 3:10 pm,

[newbie] opera

2003-08-30 Thread Anarky
Marc wrote: I do this all the time using Opera as a browser, the download seems to temperaly slow while web pages are loading. I think that there are some other browsers that do the same but I cant say for sure, it has been a long time since I used anything other than Opera. You can get

Re: [newbie] SCO reversal

2003-08-30 Thread Aron Smith
On 30 Aug 2003 09:38:00 -0400 ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 09:25, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 30 Aug 2003 2:03 pm, ed tharp wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 08:47, HaywireMac wrote: On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 21:02:44 +1200 Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Apache: where to begin?

2003-08-30 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 11:40:00AM +, Marco Verheul wrote: Hi all, I just installed Apache2 and when I enter http://localhost in my browser it shows me the apache page, so installation was succesfull. To which directory does http://localhost point? In other words, where do I load my

Re: [newbie] OT: Hardware Guru Please - advice needed

2003-08-30 Thread Bart Salien
Op Saturday 30 August 2003 17:24, schreef Anne Wilson: Anne , Normaly all AGP 4x should be backwards compatible with a AGP 2x . Unless they ran out of money to properly implement the AGP bus on your mobo ? Hi, Bart. No, that's not the problem. I'm really just asking whether it's

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