RE: Fwd: [newbie] Re: Your PAP smear

2003-09-05 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 15:09, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > OK, Steve. Who pissed in your cornflakes? "Cornflakes" implies that I purchase Kellogg's products; hence implying that I would patronise the corporate tastes cultivated in the US by commercialism and capitalistic media mongering; I do not. Weet

Re: [newbie] 9.1 X server startup/shutdown slow - ReiserFS?

2003-09-05 Thread Guy Rouillier
Guy Rouillier wrote: (Not quoting anyone so I can pull the discussion back where I need it...) Ok, so I *should* be okay with ReiserFS on my root partition and ext2 on /boot. So how do I go about figuring out why KDE takes forever to start up X (and never puts up the desktop icons) and gnome ca

[newbie] Mandrake 9.1 installation problem - Geforce4 recognised but doesn't work....

2003-09-05 Thread Pete Stean
Hi folks, my first experience with linux isnt going very well... Installing Mandrake from CD-ROM - it detects all my hardware ok (apart from my usb Epson C42 printer but let's worry about that later) including my Geforce4 card and here's the problem. Hitting the test button on the graphics card

Re: [newbie] Graphical Log-in Problem

2003-09-05 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
crak600 wrote: ok, i should be shot. i will try to defend myself later after i discribe what i did. i still don't know why. i re-installed, i didn't delete out anything, i told it to 'upgrade' to essentially what i already had, MDK9.1. why i did this, well, i was playing around in MCC aft

RE: Fwd: [newbie] Re: Your PAP smear

2003-09-05 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 23:55, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 13:36, Frankie wrote: > > > >Beating a dead horse has heaps of benefits > > > > > >* Great exercise for the upper arms > > >* Stress relief > > >* Assists in the breakdown of the decaying matter > > >* Great accompaniment for

RE: [newbie] Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop and linux..

2003-09-05 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 14:16, Frankie wrote: > You can't really do that over here, you buy them from Dell direct, and you > get it shipped to you, there is no way to test the machine at all before > getting in. You could always have gone to "Hardly Normal" and stuck a Knoppix CD into one of the ma

Re: [newbie] Did I lose my NTFS partition?

2003-09-05 Thread crak600
On Friday 05 September 2003 11:50 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: > > Which means dog fucking slow... > i really didn't need that mental image lmao Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Graphical Log-in Problem

2003-09-05 Thread crak600
ok, i should be shot. i will try to defend myself later after i discribe what i did. i still don't know why. i re-installed, i didn't delete out anything, i told it to 'upgrade' to essentially what i already had, MDK9.1. why i did this, well, i was playing around in MCC after i sent the la

RE: Fwd: [newbie] Re: Your PAP smear

2003-09-05 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 14:04, Frankie wrote: > Bring your humour and join the mandrake games list: > htmlfixit.com/mailman/listinfo/mandrake-games > > The list is 2 days old and has 17 odd members so far I've not been on a list that DIDN'T have "odd" members... stephen kuhn - owner =

RE: [newbie] Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop and linux..

2003-09-05 Thread Frankie
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Aron Smith >Sent: Saturday, 6 September 2003 11:05 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [newbie] Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop and linux.. > > >Frankie wrote: > >>Hi guys, >> >>I have just ordered the following

Re: Fwd: [newbie] Re: Your PAP smear

2003-09-05 Thread Aron Smith
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 13:36, Frankie wrote: Beating a dead horse has heaps of benefits * Great exercise for the upper arms * Stress relief * Assists in the breakdown of the decaying matter * Great accompaniment for a percussion composition FRANKI: shouldn't that be

RE: Fwd: [newbie] Re: Your PAP smear

2003-09-05 Thread Frankie
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn >Sent: Saturday, 6 September 2003 11:56 AM >To: Mandrake Newbie >Subject: RE: Fwd: [newbie] Re: Your PAP smear > > >On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 13:36, Frankie wrote: > >> >Beating a dead horse has heaps

Re: [newbie] Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop and linux..

2003-09-05 Thread Aron Smith
Frankie wrote: Hi guys, I have just ordered the following laptop. Dell Inspiron 5150. 3.06 gig mobile Pentium 4. (The new intel replacement for laptops that used to have desktop processors.) 384MB DDR ram. 60gig Hard disk. 64Mb DDR GeforceFX Go 5200 DVD+RW combo drive. 15.1 XGA screen. 56k winmo

RE: Fwd: [newbie] Re: Your PAP smear

2003-09-05 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 13:36, Frankie wrote: > >Beating a dead horse has heaps of benefits > > > >* Great exercise for the upper arms > >* Stress relief > >* Assists in the breakdown of the decaying matter > >* Great accompaniment for a percussion composition > > FRANKI: > > shouldn't that be: >

Re: [newbie] Did I lose my NTFS partition?

2003-09-05 Thread Heather/Femme
On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 16:18:31 -0400 Mathieu Frenette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Femme, > > > PM takes a while cause it has an active filesystem to deal with & > > can't work with it loaded very quickly. > > Is that true even if I booted with the PM floppy and directly into PM, > without loading

RE: Fwd: [newbie] Re: Your application

2003-09-05 Thread Frankie
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn > > >On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 03:50, Bryan Phinney wrote: > >> The same reason you beat a dead horse, purely for the thrill of it. ;-} > >Beating a dead horse has heaps of benefits > >* Great exercis

[newbie] Graphical Log-in Problem

2003-09-05 Thread crak600
i opened up the comp to take the NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 card out and replace it with an NVIDIA GeFORCE2 MX200. now that i'm in linux, i can see a noticible difference in the clarity and crispness of things on the screen, and i havn't even tried playing DVDs yet. but the key words in the above sent

Re: [newbie] Is there a CLI Editor that colours your code?

2003-09-05 Thread Eric Huff
> > Oh, well, if you want simple, try emacs. :) > > > Considered it briefly, in a dazed & very stoned moment of insanity... > fortunately the 2 neurons left that were still firing correctly > alerted me to my impending doom & idiocy. I backed away from teh > cliff post-haste & haven't looked bac

Re: [newbie] Did I lose my NTFS partition?

2003-09-05 Thread Damian Gatabria
> Fix MBR. Don't remember/know exactly what fixboot is. Fixboot is another one of MS's great achievements... when you have several boot options in Windows' boot loader (c:\boot.ini) fixboot can delete "invalid" boot entries (or at least what IT THINKS are invalid) and restore as default the ne

Re: [newbie] 4 speakers & linux

2003-09-05 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Friday 05 September 2003 15:26, Anarky wrote: > kmixer couldn't crack it at all ... alsamixer knew more ... > but none of them gave voice to the rear speakers I recommend gamix. The "playback" slider controls the front, "surround" controls the back. **

Re: [newbie] alarm

2003-09-05 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 04:12, Aron Smith wrote: > > The Calendar in Evolution will do this. > > Thump you? We're supposed to be creative people here, mate. It ain't like it's hard to go down yonder to Dick Smith's or Tandy or RadioShack or whatever and find a programmable serial board that you c

Re: [newbie] Did I lose my NTFS partition?

2003-09-05 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 19:31, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Friday 05 September 2003 06:47 pm, ed tharp wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 13:47, Bryan Phinney wrote: > > > On Friday 05 September 2003 01:26 pm, ed tharp wrote: > > > > when I installed w2k the (only) last 3 times, it did not mess with > >

Re: [newbie] Did I lose my NTFS partition?

2003-09-05 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 19:35, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Friday 05 September 2003 07:31 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: > ...snip > WinME OTOH, uses command.com, > > not NT bootloader because it is just another flavor of Win98. > > Sorry, I didn't fully qualify. WinME uses Io.sys and msdos.sys as boot

Re: [newbie] Netscape / Mozilla - spell checker

2003-09-05 Thread Russ
Hi Margot, You hit the nail on the head here. I am running 1.4 on 9.1 and I installed the spell checker too. However, it didn't show up in 1.4. On a hunch (due to what you wrote here) I decided to check the older version of Mozilla (1.1) that came with MD 9.1 (I installed 1.4 in a different d

Re: [newbie] alarm

2003-09-05 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 14:12, Aron Smith wrote: > Thump you? > > > > > Thump you too... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] alarm

2003-09-05 Thread Aron Smith
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 04 September 2003 08:40 am, Todd Slater wrote: On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 02:57:02PM +0300, Anarky wrote: is there an alarm program I coud use to tell me to do something in an hour, every 5 days or at a certain time (and maybe warn me

Re: [newbie] SBLive! driver won't change permanently

2003-09-05 Thread Aaron G. Mangoroban
stephen, thanks, i finally was able to configured it permanently. maybe the reason it won't change permanently is bec i just changed it in my console using su and not really logging as root. i solve it...thanks mangz On Friday 05 September 2003 01:48 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Fri, 2003-09

Re: [newbie] 'Protests derail software patents vote'

2003-09-05 Thread Aron Smith
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 12:28, Paul wrote: > On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 02:25, robin wrote: > > Paul wrote: > > > > >The vote on software patents in Europe has been deferred until 22nd > > >September following the protests over the past week. It had already been > > >put back from June because of MEPs' d

Re: [newbie] alarm

2003-09-05 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 04 September 2003 08:40 am, Todd Slater wrote: On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 02:57:02PM +0300, Anarky wrote: is there an alarm program I coud use to tell me to do something in an hour, every 5 days or at a certain time (and maybe warn me by playing an mp3) ?

Re: [newbie] 3 simple questions

2003-09-05 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 09:21, David Filion wrote: > Why reboot? Logging out and back in should be enough. In runleve 5 you > may have to restart X (but I doubt it). Just trying to kill his uptime stats... stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn med

Re: [newbie] Is there a CLI Editor that colours your code?

2003-09-05 Thread Aron Smith
No its an editor on your distro or you can download t cooledit oris it kooledit On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 11:00, mike wrote: > Midnite commanders editor?? > > Aron Smith wrote: > > >On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 08:10, Eric Huff wrote: > > > > > >nothing complex either pls! I have enough probs learnin

Re: [newbie] 3 simple questions

2003-09-05 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 05 Sep 2003 5:38 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP > I can't seem to switch away from Gnome to KDE. I've selected KDE in > Mandrake Config:System:Interface (or similar), I've played with the > Mandrake Config: Boot section, I've played with all the configs I can find > and set all to KDE

[newbie] Samba configuration

2003-09-05 Thread flavinhohenrique
Hi all! Please, we have a network running with a Win2kServer and Win98 as stationwork... I was install Mandrake 9.1 today and I need a little help to configurate the Samba to "simulate" the win2k domain and the others options like files share... I know this is not ordinary but, please, so

Re: [newbie] Did I lose my NTFS partition?

2003-09-05 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 05 September 2003 07:31 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: ...snip WinME OTOH, uses command.com, > not NT bootloader because it is just another flavor of Win98. Sorry, I didn't fully qualify. WinME uses Io.sys and msdos.sys as boot loaders, not command.com which is the kernel. Boy, I should r

Re: [newbie] Did I lose my NTFS partition?

2003-09-05 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 05 September 2003 06:47 pm, ed tharp wrote: > On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 13:47, Bryan Phinney wrote: > > On Friday 05 September 2003 01:26 pm, ed tharp wrote: > > > when I installed w2k the (only) last 3 times, it did not mess with > > > lilo, just added it's boot loader to the windows selecti

Re: [newbie] 3 simple questions

2003-09-05 Thread David Filion
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 02:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a PII 366 Mhz Fujitsu Lifebook L-470 with 192M RAM and a 30G Hitachi harddrive, Neomagic X128 video, ESS soundcard, and Mandrake 9.1 (dual booting w/W2K Server): There is a file called .desktop in your ~/home/yourn

Re: [newbie] browser save all

2003-09-05 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 05 September 2003 05:20 pm, Anarky wrote: >the only cool thing that I was able to do with MS Internet Explorer > but I have not been able to do with any other (free) browser is save a > web page as a whole in one neat file ... IE had the .mht format ... and > it was very cool that it

Re: [newbie] Netscape / Mozilla - spell checker

2003-09-05 Thread John Richard Smith
Margot wrote: Charles A Edwards wrote: On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 21:02:40 +0100 Margot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Although it is mentioned in "Help", I don't have this option! OK, I'm running cooker and mozilla-1.4 and that option is present. Check my 9.1 system with mozilla-1.3.1 and as you say tha

Re: [newbie] infected list posting

2003-09-05 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 05 September 2003 05:38 pm, rikona wrote: > Hello Bryan (alias rikona supposedly at 66.32.127.184), :-) > > Friday, September 5, 2003, 2:14:53 PM, you wrote: > >> If you get one from 'you', I'd like to see all the headers to shed > >> some light on how it spoofs 'you'. > > r> Like this. >

Re: [newbie] PING John Richard Smith

2003-09-05 Thread John Richard Smith
Todd Slater wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 07:02:19PM +, John Richard Smith wrote: I guess my camera doesn't give the correct info to achieve the end result, ah well, never mind , at least now I can change the prefix at will without having to manually do it all. thanks. You don't hav

Re: [newbie] 9.2 rc1 experience

2003-09-05 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 05 September 2003 05:45 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 08:28, Dennis Myers wrote: > > Remember, this is still a test system. rc1 means "release candidate 1" > > and there may be a 2 before all of the bugs are worked out. This is not > > yet a stable OS. Stay with 9.1 and

Re: [newbie] 'Protests derail software patents vote'

2003-09-05 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 10:51, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Friday 05 September 2003 10:41 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote : > > > > > > I live outside the time/space continuum. For those of you > > constrained by the time/space continuum, you live only a mere > > lifetime, whereas I live in several lifetimes -

Re: [newbie] 'Protests derail software patents vote'

2003-09-05 Thread ed tharp
http://www.american-webshop.com/book/b5r1z2 On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 18:41, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 10:26, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > On Friday 05 September 2003 10:08 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > > > > > A-hem - in my last life (re-incarnation, remember that?) - > > > which wa

Re: [newbie] 'Protests derail software patents vote'

2003-09-05 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 20:26, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Friday 05 September 2003 10:08 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > > A-hem - in my last life (re-incarnation, remember that?) - > > which was from 45,980 bc to 46,034 bc, ... > > > I knew you were fast, Stephen. But that fast ??? > Exceding the spe

Re: [newbie] 'Protests derail software patents vote'

2003-09-05 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 05 September 2003 10:41 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote : > > I live outside the time/space continuum. For those of you > constrained by the time/space continuum, you live only a mere > lifetime, whereas I live in several lifetimes - and can see an > entire life in the same manner that you would

Re: [newbie] 9.2 rc1 experience

2003-09-05 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 08:28, Dennis Myers wrote: > Remember, this is still a test system. rc1 means "release candidate 1" and > there may be a 2 before all of the bugs are worked out. This is not yet a > stable OS. Stay with 9.1 and do an upgrade when 9.2 is final. HTH ...don't ya mean "Mandra

Re: [newbie] Did I lose my NTFS partition?

2003-09-05 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 13:47, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Friday 05 September 2003 01:26 pm, ed tharp wrote: > > > when I installed w2k the (only) last 3 times, it did not mess with lilo, > > just added it's boot loader to the windows selection of lilo. I was > > hoping for the same result again. >

Re: [newbie] 'Protests derail software patents vote'

2003-09-05 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 10:26, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Friday 05 September 2003 10:08 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > > A-hem - in my last life (re-incarnation, remember that?) - > > which was from 45,980 bc to 46,034 bc, ... > > > I knew you were fast, Stephen. But that fast ??? > Exceding the spe

Re: [newbie] alarm

2003-09-05 Thread Merlin Zener
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 08:25, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > [...snip] > ...wife, on the other hand, can be found/acquired literally anywhere - > but shy away from the ones you meet at the pub... > ...and if the "pub" you met "her" in was in Thailand, be sure to check the "properties" before installing!!!

Re: [newbie] 9.2 rc1 experience

2003-09-05 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 05 September 2003 02:36 pm, Anarky wrote: > just did an excited install of 9.2 rc1 ... but not on my computer, > but somebody else' : > > my opinions: > >some interface changes: > - liked the blue startup new > - hated the fact that they insisted on a fade white to blue when they

Re: [newbie] 'Protests derail software patents vote'

2003-09-05 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 05 September 2003 10:08 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: A-hem - in my last life (re-incarnation, remember that?) - > which was from 45,980 bc to 46,034 bc, ... I knew you were fast, Stephen. But that fast ??? Exceding the speed of light may move you backword in time-space, and thats why you

Re: [newbie] Installation problem.

2003-09-05 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 05 September 2003 01:24 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Tony, > > I used that link. Many packages gave me the message: > > "The signature of the package xxx is not correct > No GPG signature package > Do you want to install it anyway?" > > Is there a way to fix

Re: [newbie] browser save all

2003-09-05 Thread Anarky
kat wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 07:20, Anarky wrote: the only cool thing that I was able to do with MS Internet Explorer but I have not been able to do with any other (free) browser is save a web page as a whole in one neat file ... IE had the .mht format ... and it w

[newbie] Finally IBM got it right

2003-09-05 Thread Kaj Haulrich
Remember the horrible ads IBM made for OS/2 ? Take a look here, folks : http://www-3.ibm.com/e-business/doc/content/lp/prodigy.html Scroll down a bit and see the ad in RealPlayer. Kaj Haulrich. -- Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.1 kernel

Re: [newbie] 'Protests derail software patents vote'

2003-09-05 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 09:39, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > You "somehow" forgot that I patented carving runes in granite > when you were nothing but a twinkle in your mom's eye, Stephen. > So please respect my IP by refunding me 99% of your royalties > ASAP. - Or, shall we meet in court ? > > Kaj Haul

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Autopsy or I killed my favourite mdk install

2003-09-05 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 06:23, rikona wrote: > Are the oz taxes at all similar? If there are some similarities, the > above spreadsheet might be a starting point. After doing biz for years back home in the US, I tend to reckon that Oz taxes are now even easier to deal with than they've ever been in

Re: [newbie] browser save all

2003-09-05 Thread kat
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 07:20, Anarky wrote: the only cool thing that I was able to do with MS Internet Explorer but I have not been able to do with any other (free) browser is save a web page as a whole in one neat file ... IE had the .mht format ... and it was very cool

Re: [newbie] browser save all

2003-09-05 Thread Anarky
rikona wrote: Hello Anarky, Friday, September 5, 2003, 2:20:02 PM, you wrote: A>the only cool thing that I was able to do with MS Internet Explorer A> but I have not been able to do with any other (free) browser is save a A> web page as a whole in one neat file ... IE had the .mht format .

Re: [newbie] browser save all

2003-09-05 Thread rikona
Hello Anarky, Friday, September 5, 2003, 2:20:02 PM, you wrote: A>the only cool thing that I was able to do with MS Internet Explorer A> but I have not been able to do with any other (free) browser is save a A> web page as a whole in one neat file ... IE had the .mht format ... and A> it w

Re: [newbie] browser save all

2003-09-05 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 05 September 2003 09:20 pm, Anarky wrote: >the only cool thing that I was able to do with MS Internet > Explorer but I have not been able to do with any other (free) > browser is save a web page as a whole in one neat file ... IE > had the .mht format ... and it was very cool that it

Re: Fwd: [newbie] Re: Your application

2003-09-05 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 03:50, Bryan Phinney wrote: > The same reason you beat a dead horse, purely for the thrill of it. ;-} Beating a dead horse has heaps of benefits * Great exercise for the upper arms * Stress relief * Assists in the breakdown of the decaying matter * Great accompaniment for a

Re: [newbie] 'Protests derail software patents vote'

2003-09-05 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 05 September 2003 09:18 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 05:28, Paul wrote: > > Was that before or after I patented writing? > > Oy - I just patented "the hand", the "stick", then "paint", > then "ink", then "lead", then "graphite" - being that > "writing" is derived from a

Re: [newbie] browser save all

2003-09-05 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 07:20, Anarky wrote: >the only cool thing that I was able to do with MS Internet Explorer > but I have not been able to do with any other (free) browser is save a > web page as a whole in one neat file ... IE had the .mht format ... and > it was very cool that it was al

Re: [newbie] Nigerian Free Money Scam Please

2003-09-05 Thread HaywireMac
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 16:26:54 -0400 Miark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > Sounds more like Naked Gun to me. Nope, it was airplane...at least the first to use that classic Leslie Nielson line. -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: nodex.sytes.net

Re[2]: [newbie] infected list posting

2003-09-05 Thread rikona
Hello Bryan (alias rikona supposedly at 66.32.127.184), :-) Friday, September 5, 2003, 2:14:53 PM, you wrote: >> If you get one from 'you', I'd like to see all the headers to shed >> some light on how it spoofs 'you'. r> Like this. Sorry - I guess I wasn't clear on this. I understand how to spo

Re: [newbie] Nigerian Free Money Scam Please

2003-09-05 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 06:26, Miark wrote: > Sounds more like Naked Gun to me. > > Miark The line has been used over and over and over again - it's actually from Groucho Marx - everyone else wants to lay claim to it. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services

Re: [newbie] alarm

2003-09-05 Thread Anarky
Heather/Femme wrote: On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 21:29:55 -0400 Todd Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 04:03:02AM +0300, Anarky wrote: Todd Slater wrote: On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 02:57:02PM +0300, Anarky wrote: is there an alarm program I coud use to tell me

Re: [newbie] 'Protests derail software patents vote'

2003-09-05 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 05:28, Paul wrote: > Was that before or after I patented writing? Oy - I just patented "the hand", the "stick", then "paint", then "ink", then "lead", then "graphite" - being that "writing" is derived from a combination of all of those, I shall have to start charging a royal

[newbie] browser save all

2003-09-05 Thread Anarky
the only cool thing that I was able to do with MS Internet Explorer but I have not been able to do with any other (free) browser is save a web page as a whole in one neat file ... IE had the .mht format ... and it was very cool that it was all bundled in one file (html, the pics ...) ... isn'

Re: [newbie] infected list posting

2003-09-05 Thread rikona
On Friday 05 September 2003 04:50 pm, rikona wrote: > Hello robin, > > Thursday, September 4, 2003, 5:02:06 AM, you wrote: > > r> I'm receiving lots of sobig viruses which claim to come from me - > > If you get one from 'you', I'd like to see all the headers to shed > some light on how it spoofs 'y

Re: [newbie] Kicker menu, apps on Kicker not starting

2003-09-05 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 04:42, Heather/Femme wrote: > So why don't pico & mutt start in aterm window when I click on them from > teh menus? > > FF Cuz you're going to have to set up a TERMINAL environment variable so that they DO use ATerm (or whatever term you like)... stephen kuhn - owner =

Re: [newbie] Netscape / Mozilla - spell checker

2003-09-05 Thread Margot
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 05 Sep 2003 9:02 pm, Margot wrote: Charles A Edwards wrote: On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 20:33:59 +0100 Margot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Did anybody solve this? Because I now have the same problem Been getting to grips with urpmi, added all my sources from Easy Urpmi,

Re: [newbie] 4 speakers & linux

2003-09-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 05 September 2003 03:26 pm, Anarky wrote: > ... I'm really frustrated :-( I can't remember if it was alsamixergui or what, but one of those frontends allows my 10 yr olds SBlive equipped comp to play sounds out of 4 speakers. --

Re: [newbie] Netscape / Mozilla - spell checker

2003-09-05 Thread Margot
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 21:02:40 +0100 Margot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Although it is mentioned in "Help", I don't have this option! OK, I'm running cooker and mozilla-1.4 and that option is present. Check my 9.1 system with mozilla-1.3.1 and as you say that option is not

Re[2]: Fwd: [newbie] Re: Your application

2003-09-05 Thread rikona
Hello Anne, Friday, September 5, 2003, 7:24:28 AM, you wrote: AW> And above all I would like to know how to filter out to safety AW> (before they get to the machine) all attachments ending in .pif, AW> .exe, .bat and .com. Why not just let them in? If your email program does NOTHING with them (

Re: [newbie] Nigerian Free Money Scam Please

2003-09-05 Thread Miark
Sounds more like Naked Gun to me. Miark On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 08:18:38 -0700, Eric Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "No, and don't call me Shirley..." > > > > Name that movie! > > Airplane! > > -- > Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org > > Join the content organiz

Re[2]: [newbie] Nigerian Free Money Scam Please

2003-09-05 Thread rikona
Hello HaywireMac, Friday, September 5, 2003, 5:08:44 AM, you wrote: H> The only reason I'm leaving Spamassassin out for now is that I want H> to learn Procmail, and how it works. You might take a look at the procmail list [EMAIL PROTECTED] . It is rather busy, and has many good examples, in addi

Re: [newbie] Is there a CLI Editor that colours your code?

2003-09-05 Thread Heather/Femme
On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 13:00:07 -0500 mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Midnite commanders editor?? > Didn't know it'd work for this... Thx! :) I've never used MC much cept for navigating directories. Merci Femmerlays Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrak

Re: [newbie] have a good laugh

2003-09-05 Thread Anarky
Andrei Raevsky wrote: ... and read this: http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/09/05/1414247.shtml?tid=16 good one :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re[2]: [newbie] Autopsy or I killed my favourite mdk install

2003-09-05 Thread rikona
Hello Stephen, Thursday, September 4, 2003, 10:52:45 PM, you wrote: SK> On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 12:54, Harv Nelson wrote: >> H.J.Bathoorn wrote: >> >> My only reason for keeping a Windows machine is that here in the US, it >> seems that Tax software is written to run only on the Evil Empire's >>

Re: [newbie] PING John Richard Smith

2003-09-05 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 07:02:19PM +, John Richard Smith wrote: > > I guess my camera doesn't give the correct info to achieve the end result, > ah well, never mind , at least now I can change the prefix at will > without having to manually do it all. thanks. You don't have exif installed.

Re: [newbie] Did I lose my NTFS partition?

2003-09-05 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 05 September 2003 03:17 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: > On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:47:46 -0400 > Bryan Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I have not done this myself as Lilo is more convenient and supports > > Win, but others have. In fact, at least on one machine that I have > > tried th

Re: [newbie] Netscape / Mozilla - spell checker

2003-09-05 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 21:02:40 +0100 Margot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Although it is mentioned in "Help", I don't have this option! OK, I'm running cooker and mozilla-1.4 and that option is present. Check my 9.1 system with mozilla-1.3.1 and as you say that option is not present. I do not use mo

Re: [newbie] Did I lose my NTFS partition?

2003-09-05 Thread Mathieu Frenette
Femme, > PM takes a while cause it has an active filesystem to deal with & can't > work with it loaded very quickly. Is that true even if I booted with the PM floppy and directly into PM, without loading the OS? Or is it that, even with the boot disk, PM is actually running under DOS, and that t

Re: [newbie] Re: [newbie] Re: [newbie] I can´t install Mandrake 9.1 in CD

2003-09-05 Thread Heather/Femme
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:02:22 -0300 Flávio Henrique <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anne, thanx... > I have the mdk5sums files... but or I understood wrong or I need a > linux command to check the iso files... and I don't have any linux > installed yet... > I'm wrong ? > > thanx again... Google for "

Re: [newbie] Re: [newbie] Re: [newbie] I can´t install Mandrake 9.1 in CD

2003-09-05 Thread Heather/Femme
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 12:02:22 -0400 HaywireMac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 12:54:14 -0300 > Flávio Henrique <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > > Yes... yes... > > I know where is this option (burn it like image)... > > My question is if I just point the Nero to *.iso file and Nero

Re[4]: [newbie] infected list posting

2003-09-05 Thread rikona
Hello Derek, Thursday, September 4, 2003, 10:03:13 PM, you wrote: >> If the virus sets up a stack that is *completely* independent, >> could it use a different, spoofed IP address? Say, for example, one >> that was in the headers of the infected machine email files - real, >> verifiable, but not

Re: [newbie] Did I lose my NTFS partition?

2003-09-05 Thread Heather/Femme
On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 09:54:12 -0400 Mathieu Frenette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 6. At the partition step, I selected the "resize" option. I was a bit > concerned about only FAT being mentioned, and not NTFS. I selected > something like 23.9 GB for Windows, in order to allocate approx. 4 GB > to

Re: [newbie] Netscape / Mozilla - spell checker

2003-09-05 Thread Margot
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 20:33:59 +0100 Margot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Did anybody solve this? Because I now have the same problem Been getting to grips with urpmi, added all my sources from Easy Urpmi, in su console did "urpmi mozilla-spellchecker", it said it download

Re: [newbie] cool games?

2003-09-05 Thread Anarky
robin wrote: Anarky wrote: Hi .. I'm trying to gather as many cool games as I can under Linux .. I know we can't really compete with comercial windows games .. but still I'd like to have as many games as possible that I can be proud of in Linux. thus far the Linux games I am proud to have a

Re: [newbie] Compact Flash Card in PCMCIA slot does not work in 9.0, it did work in Mdk 8.2

2003-09-05 Thread drake
This is also broken in 2.4.21-0.13mdk as best I can tell. I had it working in 8.2 no problem. Hopefully someone working on 9.2 will catch on to this. It's so nice when things work. On Saturday 15 February 2003 06:26 am, bones wrote: > Hi everyone, > > now I just upgraded to Kernel: > > #uname

Re: [newbie] Netscape / Mozilla - spell checker

2003-09-05 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 20:33:59 +0100 Margot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did anybody solve this? Because I now have the same problem > > Been getting to grips with urpmi, added all my sources from Easy > Urpmi, in su console did "urpmi mozilla-spellchecker", it said it > downloaded it, but ther

Re: [newbie] Is there a CLI Editor that colours your code?

2003-09-05 Thread Heather/Femme
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:34:01 +0200 "H.J.Bathoorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now If that's too hard: forget perl. > > --heheh, they already shot me in the back here last night, too late! > I'm even starting to smell funny:o) > > Good luck, > HarM > > damn & I missed it!? K thx Harm :) FF

[newbie] 9.2 rc1 experience

2003-09-05 Thread Anarky
just did an excited install of 9.2 rc1 ... but not on my computer, but somebody else' : my opinions: some interface changes: - liked the blue startup new - hated the fact that they insisted on a fade white to blue when they set it on so few colours that it doesn't look nice - freezed every

Re: [newbie] Netscape / Mozilla - spell checker

2003-09-05 Thread Margot
Russ wrote: OK, did that, asked for 3rd CD, it seemed to do something but I still have no spell checker in Mozilla mail. I do have it in Netscape but that was there from when I installed it. Thanks Russ Like Brant indicated just type in a su console "urpmi mozilla-spellchecker" no version numbe

Re: [newbie] 'Protests derail software patents vote'

2003-09-05 Thread Paul
On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 02:25, robin wrote: > Paul wrote: > > >The vote on software patents in Europe has been deferred until 22nd > >September following the protests over the past week. It had already been > >put back from June because of MEPs' doubts. > > > >http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/legal/

[newbie] 4 speakers & linux

2003-09-05 Thread Anarky
... I'm really frustrated :-( high tendency to be angry at linux & stuff ... no, don't kill me .. I'm chilling ... but I was really hoping hard that with Mandrake 9.2 4 speakers Sb Live would work right ... unfortunatelly it's a big no ... by big I mean also that the sound is weird ... proba

Re: [newbie] Did I lose my NTFS partition?

2003-09-05 Thread Heather/Femme
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:47:46 -0400 Bryan Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have not done this myself as Lilo is more convenient and supports > Win, but others have. In fact, at least on one machine that I have > tried this with, if you rig the BIOS to boot from the hd first and put > the Mand

Re: [newbie] Did I lose my NTFS partition?

2003-09-05 Thread Mathieu Frenette
> yes it mounts as "win_cX" where X is a number of the partition. In my > case: However, in my case when I do a "ls /mnt", I get: cdrom/ floppy/ windows/ That is strange... Mathieu. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Did I lose my NTFS partition?

2003-09-05 Thread Heather/Femme
On 05 Sep 2003 07:49:32 -0400 ed tharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Provided the partition is still intact, getting WinXp back is > > trivial. Boot from the WinXp cd and choose recovery console. Once > > at the command line, issue the command "fixmbr" and hit enter. > > Reboot. Voila, W

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