Re: [newbie-it] mutt e proporzioni

2003-09-14 Thread syd
* anna wrote: Quando leggo la posta con mutt ho la finestra divisa in due parti. C'e' un modo per dire a mutt quanto spazio dedicare a una parte e quanto all'altra? $ grep pager_index_lines /usr/local/etc/mutt/Muttrc set pager_index_lines = 0 Preferisco avere il pager unico (non diviso in due

Re: [newbie-it] avvisi e spadizioni

2003-09-14 Thread syd
* anna wrote: Se l'invio reale avviene dopo le 4 ore, il sistema mi manda una mail che mi avvisa che c'erano mail in coda non spedite per piu' di quattro ora.. E' sendmail che ti avverte MA come posso evitare che mi mandi questi continui avvisi? Oppure c'e' un modo per modificare le

[newbie-it] prova_non_aprire

2003-09-14 Thread piter
ogni tanto sympa ai inceppa:-)

[newbie-it] render

2003-09-14 Thread piter
-- Messaggio originale -- Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 16:49:28 + From: piter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: render To: MandrakeMl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ciao ML, ieri dopo aver fatto gli aggiornamenti di xfree86 consigliati dalla M.Security, mi sono ritrovato nella home di root una cartella chiamata

RE: [newbie-it] urpmi

2003-09-14 Thread piter
-- Messaggio originale -- From: Rev.Ferris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 12:36:36 +0200 Subject: [newbie-it] urpmi -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lanciando il mcc da console e tentando di fare gli aggiornamenti ho

[newbie-it] Mandrake Update

2003-09-14 Thread andrea
Innanzi tutto buongiorno a tutta la ML! Mi presento,sono Andrea Sabbatini, un novizio, :-) ed avrei bisogno di un suggerimento; non riesco a fare l'update del sistema operativo, in quanto, ad ogni tentativo, dopo aver accettato di ricercare il mirror per l'update, ottengo questo: C'è stato un

Re: [newbie-it] Stampa man page

2003-09-14 Thread Luigi Beltramini
Si . Digita man -t nome comando file in cui memorizzare l'output. Es. man ls ls.txt. ho provato e mi da' il seguente messaggio di errore: /usr/share/groff/1.18.1/font/devps/M:6: error: missing code for `u0100..u' troff: warning: can't find font `M'

Re: [newbie-it] Scusate, e' permesso? NO! :-(

2003-09-14 Thread Giuseppe Ferruzzi
* Arwan ha scritto: Deve aver avuto molto sonno, perche' il sabato 13 settembre 2003, alle 11:48, Giuseppe Ferruzzi ha scritto: Personalmente preferisco tenermi gli script nella mia home, non sparsi nelle varie partizioni non montate, quando li avvio mi montano automaticamente le

Re: [newbie-it] mutt e proporzioni

2003-09-14 Thread Giuseppe Ferruzzi
* syd ha scritto: * anna wrote: Quando leggo la posta con mutt ho la finestra divisa in due parti. C'e' un modo per dire a mutt quanto spazio dedicare a una parte e quanto all'altra? $ grep pager_index_lines /usr/local/etc/mutt/Muttrc set pager_index_lines = 0 Preferisco avere il

Re: [newbie-it] Mandrake Update

2003-09-14 Thread Rev.Ferris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 12:07, domenica 14 settembre 2003, andrea ha scritto: [...] C'è stato un errore durante l'aggiunta del supporto per gli aggiornamenti con urpmi. Potrebbe essere dovuto ad un mirror temporaneamente non in linea, oppure la tua versione di

Re: [newbie-it] Stampa man page

2003-09-14 Thread Rev.Ferris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 12:32, domenica 14 settembre 2003, Luigi Beltramini ha scritto: ho provato e mi da' il seguente messaggio di errore: /usr/share/groff/1.18.1/font/devps/M:6: error: missing code for `u0100..u' troff: warning: can't find font `M'

Re: [newbie-it] urpmi

2003-09-14 Thread Rev.Ferris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 11:28, domenica 14 settembre 2003, piter ha scritto: potresti provare da riga di comando. vai su questo sito; http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/; segui la procedura e aggiungi main,contrib e update scegliendo il sito della edisontel, cliccando

Re: [newbie-it] Stampa man page

2003-09-14 Thread toto
Rev.Ferris ha scritto: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 12:32, domenica 14 settembre 2003, Luigi Beltramini ha scritto: ho provato e mi da' il seguente messaggio di errore: /usr/share/groff/1.18.1/font/devps/M:6: error: missing code for `u0100..u' troff: warning: can't

Re: [newbie-it] Scusate, e' permesso? NO! :-(

2003-09-14 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 12:09, sabato 13 settembre 2003, in merito a [newbie-it] Scusate, e' permesso? NO! :-(, Arwan ha scritto: Orsu' orbene, ordunque. In questi ultimi tempi mi sono prodigata con gli script. Geralmente li salvo e li lancio dalla home, e fin

[newbie-it] connettersi da remoto a un'altra linuxbox

2003-09-14 Thread Antonluigi
Ciao a tutti, Avrei bisogno di sapere se è possibile connettersi da remoto, tramite internet, da un computer linux a un altro computer linux. Il mio problema è questo: in questo momento mi trovo negli Stati Uniti e mi collego con il mio portatile. A casa c'è la mia ragazza con il computer fisso

Re: [newbie-it] connettersi da remoto a un'altra linuxbox

2003-09-14 Thread Rev.Ferris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 19:34, domenica 14 settembre 2003, Antonluigi ha scritto: Ciao a tutti, Avrei bisogno di sapere se è possibile connettersi da remoto, tramite internet, da un computer linux a un altro computer linux. Il mio problema è questo: in questo

Re: [newbie-it] connettersi da remoto a un'altra linuxbox

2003-09-14 Thread Antonluigi
Grazie per ora! Mi documento meglio e poi provo. Se ci riesco vi faccio sapere Antonluigi Effettivamente devi usare semplicemente ssh! ti fai dare l'ip che ha al momento e ti connetti al computer facendo la login (meglio connettersi come utente e passare a root tramite su) L'unico

Re: [newbie-it] kmail Procmail

2003-09-14 Thread freefred
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 09 September 2003 14:49, kudega wrote: E' da un p che ho comprato una Abit che ha una sk di rete integrata Realtek 8201BL. Il problema che la mia RH9 non ha i driver di quest'ultima... x caso sapete dove li posso trovare? O come

Re: [newbie-it] mutt e proporzioni

2003-09-14 Thread Arwan
Deve aver avuto molto sonno, perche' il domenica 14 settembre 2003, alle 08:06, Syd ha scritto: Dopo sistemo le pagine, grazie. ps il mio file /usr/local/etc/mutt/Muttrc e' l'equivalente del tuo ~/.muttrc Se io cambio posizione al muttrc cosa devo andare a ritoccare perche' tutto funzioni?

Re: [newbie-it] Mandrake Update

2003-09-14 Thread andrea
Il dom, 2003-09-14 alle 15:00, Rev.Ferris ha scritto: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 12:07, domenica 14 settembre 2003, andrea ha scritto: [...] C'è stato un errore durante l'aggiunta del supporto per gli aggiornamenti con urpmi. Potrebbe essere dovuto ad un mirror

Re: [newbie-it] mutt e proporzioni

2003-09-14 Thread syd
* anna wrote: Se io cambio posizione al muttrc cosa devo andare a ritoccare perche' tutto funzioni? Mutt quando viene aperto cerca il suo rc file seguendo quest'ordine: 1- ~/.muttrc 2- ~/.mutt/muttrc 3- /etc/Muttrc Leggera' il primo che trova. L'ultimo file che ho indicato lo si usa come

Re: [newbie] Teach yourself unix in 24 hours

2003-09-14 Thread Ken Rhodes
Found this link for Linux: Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition can download html or pdf file: http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/index.html.gz - Original Message - From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 23:43:21 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Teach

Re: [newbie] 9.2 already out?

2003-09-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday September 13 2003 11:25 pm, David E. Fox wrote: Last I heard... September 20th, probly the announcement on the 22nd. AFAIC, it's already ready. Install RC2, update to current I've been upgrading via urpmi to cooker contiinually since I upgraded from RC1, so I figure I

Re: [newbie] Teach yourself unix in 24 hours

2003-09-14 Thread Aron Smith
On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 21:04, Ken Rhodes wrote: This link didn't work for me: http://www.programming-hub.com/Linux_Rute_Users_Tutorial_and_Exposition __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] how to find files and look everywhere except /mnt?

2003-09-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 13 September 2003 12:00 pm, Miark wrote: On 13 Sep 2003 03:50:36 +0700, Merlin Zener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I wonder if it's possible to make the find files look everywhere *except* in the /mnt directory? You can use slocate (which you can invoke with locate) and grep

Re: [newbie] how to low level format a hard disk?

2003-09-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 14 September 2003 01:36 am, David E. Fox wrote: I know it's dangerous. But I do need it now. How to? Why? Is the disk full of bad or questionable sectors? AFAIK it's not possible with IDE -- that's what some engineers have told me. The last time I tried to do it was back in 1993

Re: [newbie] This is just the most heinous idea...

2003-09-14 Thread HaywireMac
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 21:32:05 -0400 Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Well, you certainly f**ked up my Saturday. Makes you feel happy, doesn't it? Far be it from me to get peeps riled... :-) -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org

Re: [newbie] 9.2 RC2

2003-09-14 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday September 13 2003 05:59 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Sunday 14 September 2003 00:26, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: I should clarify that --allow-force and --allow-nodeps does not automatically install without checking dependencies

Re: [newbie] 9.2 RC2

2003-09-14 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday September 13 2003 04:41 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: HaywireMac wrote: On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 16:09:59 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I know cause I just did it using Tom B.s instructions. basically it would be urpmi --update

Re: [newbie] Weird Web pages..Rant

2003-09-14 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 13, 2003 05:32 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 17:02, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday September 13 2003 10:46 am, Aron Smith wrote: Why do so many people in the Linux community think that it is cool to use a black or

Re: [newbie] 9.2 RC2

2003-09-14 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday September 13 2003 04:41 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: HaywireMac wrote: On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 16:09:59 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I know cause I just did it using Tom B.s instructions. basically it

Re: [newbie] Weird Web pages..Rant

2003-09-14 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Charlie M. wrote: September 13, 2003 05:32 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 17:02, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday September 13 2003 10:46 am, Aron Smith wrote: Why do so many people in the Linux community think that it is cool to use a black or purple or dark blue background on

Re: [newbie] 9.2 RC2

2003-09-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 09:44, Aron Smith wrote: ever hear of an air conditioner (just for the 'puters of course ;-) Did I mention that I live in Australia? We try very hard to do what's called conserve energy here...as in drying our clothing on a line outside; as in having two different ways to

[newbie] hints on mp3 CD!

2003-09-14 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
I need to transform several CD's recorded on wav format to mp3! But I haven´t got to the point yet! Can anybody show me the direction? The situation: These CD´s are for languages classes and on their original format (wav) I can go forward and backward nice and fast, but I thought of putting

Re: [newbie] how to low level format a hard disk?

2003-09-14 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 14, 2003 12:32 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: whack I'd have to 2nd this - I've always been told to reformat an IDE drive, not low-level though, leave that to SCSI drives. I'm told it can actually destroy and IDE drive and render it useless.

Re: [newbie] Weird Web pages..Rant

2003-09-14 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 14, 2003 01:15 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: I'm happy to know I ain't the Old Timer on this list. 46 a week ago today is young compared to you and Tom. g Just kidding! I do agree about the colour on those web site though. Not

Re: [newbie] modem installation

2003-09-14 Thread Charles-Roberts
d2ci1fj g1nf24 wrote: Hi, I'm using a U.S Robotics 56k modem and I can't get it to work. I set it up and rebooted then I ran the query and it found it. I tried to connect to the internet and it stays on initializing modem. From,

[newbie] how to install php-mysql extension?

2003-09-14 Thread ar
mdk9.1 How is the php-mysql extension installed? I have mysql and php installed, both working properly. phpinfo() shows the configure command which does not include --with-mysql. I ran urpmi php-mysql as per the phpinfo() instructions. phpinfo() now lists /etc/php/34_mysql.ini as an additional

Re: [newbie] 9.2 RC2

2003-09-14 Thread Aron Smith
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 00:29, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 09:44, Aron Smith wrote: ever hear of an air conditioner (just for the 'puters of course ;-) Did I mention that I live in Australia? We try very hard to do what's called conserve energy here...as in drying our

Re: [newbie] 9.2 already out?

2003-09-14 Thread Aron Smith
On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 23:15, Tom Brinkman wrote: Big Snip At this point I wouldn't bother with gettin RC2. OTOH, I'll be late gettin the final iso's myself. Got'a go to Talladega an watch 'em run real loud'n fast next weekend. Hang out with my brother in Alabama's temporary second

Re: [newbie] Weird Web pages..Rant

2003-09-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 10:02, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday September 13 2003 10:46 am, Aron Smith wrote: Why do so many people in the Linux community think that it is cool to use a black or purple or dark blue background on their web sites? My 60 year old eyes can't take it. Jeez, I

Re: [newbie] FWD; by Ed Tharp; Dear EFF Supporter:...

2003-09-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 10:03, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Friday 12 September 2003 10:38 pm, ed tharp wrote: Dear EFF Supporter: http://www.eff.org/share/petition/ We'll deliver the petition to Congress once we've hit 10,000 signatures. This is a grassroots campaign - please take the time

Re: [newbie] modem installation

2003-09-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 10:51, d2ci1fj g1nf24 wrote: Hi, I'm using a U.S Robotics 56k modem and I can't get it to work. I set it up and rebooted then I ran the query and it found it. I tried to connect to the internet and it stays on initializing modem.

[newbie] Changing window managers

2003-09-14 Thread Tsyko
I have set KDE to be my default during install. I boot up in init 3 and type startx to load kde. My question is.. How do I change to say Gnome, or any of the other managers ? Thanks -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Teach yourself unix in 24 hours

2003-09-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 11:01, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Saturday 13 September 2003 10:25 am, Curt Tresenriter wrote: I've started to read this book and I'm wondering whether or not it's worth the time since what I'm really interested in is Linux. Is enough of it relevant to make it

Re: [newbie] Weird Web pages..Rant

2003-09-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 12:23, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 14 September 2003 12:02 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: snip Jeez, I didn't know you were THAT OLD Aron. Heck, I'm a youngin' at 55 ;ppp /snip Jeez, I didn't know you were THAT OLD Tom. Always imagined you about 27, living

Re: [newbie] how to low level format a hard disk?

2003-09-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 12:43, Xuer wrote: I know it's dangerous. But I do need it now. How to? Thanks. What kind of llf (low level format) do you need to do - and on what kinda drive? What's the problem that you've got to resort to those measures? stephen kuhn - owner

Re: [newbie] Weird Web pages..Rant

2003-09-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 17:00, Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 13, 2003 05:32 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 17:02, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday September 13 2003 10:46 am, Aron Smith wrote: Why do so many people in the Linux

[newbie] Scanning Images

2003-09-14 Thread Marco Verheul
Hi all, I'm strugling with scanning images. I'd like to scan a CD cover, so that i can save it with the same dimension as the real thing. What i tried is to scan a cover with Kooka at a resolution of 600. Then i loaded the picture in Kover where the images is resized again. I figured since i

Re: [newbie] Teach yourself unix in 24 hours

2003-09-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 21:48, C Tresenriter wrote: At 07:31 PM 9/14/03 +1000, y'all wrote: I've only given the 24 hour books a brief look. Don't forget The Rute Users Guide You should learn about inodes. That's really important. rm -rf /mnt/win_c/*.* Don't try this

Re: [newbie] Weird Web pages..Rant

2003-09-14 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 03:00, Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 13, 2003 05:32 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 17:02, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday September 13 2003 10:46 am, Aron Smith wrote: Why do so many people in the Linux

Re: [newbie] Weird Web pages..Rant

2003-09-14 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 03:41, Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 14, 2003 01:15 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: I'm happy to know I ain't the Old Timer on this list. 46 a week ago today is young compared to you and Tom. g Just kidding! I do

Re: [newbie] how to low level format a hard disk?

2003-09-14 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 05:36, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 12:43, Xuer wrote: I know it's dangerous. But I do need it now. How to? Thanks. What kind of llf (low level format) do you need to do - and on what kinda drive? What's the problem that you've got to resort to those

Re: [newbie] The Wonderful World of Linux 2.6

2003-09-14 Thread Anarky
Richard Urwin wrote: I've just come across this, and I don't remember seeing it on here before. The new features in Linux 2.6: http://www.kniggit.net/wwol26.html (HeywireMac, note that filesystem capability support is in there. My bad.) IIRC someone recently noted that 2.6test2 was in MDK

Re: [newbie] The Wonderful World of Linux 2.6

2003-09-14 Thread Anarky
Richard Urwin wrote: I've just come across this, and I don't remember seeing it on here before. The new features in Linux 2.6: http://www.kniggit.net/wwol26.html (HeywireMac, note that filesystem capability support is in there. My bad.) IIRC someone recently noted that 2.6test2 was in MDK

Re: [newbie] how to low level format a hard disk?

2003-09-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 22:35, ed tharp wrote: I have to agree with Stephen here (damn it all)... I look high and low and I still didn't see the headline that stated Hell froze over! - wow... Must not have gotten down here to us yet...(and we're a day ahead of the rest of the world - go figure)

Re: [newbie] Teach yourself unix in 24 hours

2003-09-14 Thread Curt Tresenriter
On Sunday 14 September 2003 07:19 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: |Not a joke - being serious here. | |stephen kuhn - owner I'm going to get myself a salt lick for my desk just for your posts! Curt the gullible -- Imagination is more important than knowledge. ~ Einstein Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] The Wonderful World of Linux 2.6

2003-09-14 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 08:47, Anarky wrote: Richard Urwin wrote: I've just come across this, and I don't remember seeing it on here before. The new features in Linux 2.6: http://www.kniggit.net/wwol26.html (HeywireMac, note that filesystem capability support is in there. My bad.)

Re: [newbie] Scanning Images

2003-09-14 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 09:58, John Richard Smith wrote: Marco Verheul wrote: Hi all, I'm strugling with scanning images. I'd like to scan a CD cover, so that i can save it with the same dimension as the real thing. What i tried is to scan a cover with Kooka at a resolution of 600. Then

Re: [newbie] Changing window managers (OT)

2003-09-14 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Changing window managers On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 20:53, Angus Auld wrote: Right you are Stephen, and that is Xtart, with a capital X. My humble apologies. ;-) --Angus No need to apologise, Angus

Re: [newbie] The Wonderful World of Linux 2.6

2003-09-14 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 14 Sep 2003 1:50 pm, Anarky wrote: Richard Urwin wrote: I've just come across this, and I don't remember seeing it on here before. The new features in Linux 2.6: http://www.kniggit.net/wwol26.html (HeywireMac, note that filesystem capability support is in there. My bad.)

Re: [newbie] Changing window managers (OT)

2003-09-14 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 23:19, Angus Auld wrote: No need to apologise, Angus - just send money for beer. stephen kuhn - owner == Yer on yer own there mate. ;-) lol Couldn't afford to buy my own...if I was a drinker, that is. Used to imbibe...gave it up

Re: [newbie] Shered VS Delete

2003-09-14 Thread Chris
On Saturday 13 September 2003 11:22 pm, David E. Fox wrote: Why 20 times? How is it possible to recover a file that has been overwritten once? Forensics :). I don't understand that well how this works at the lower (physical) level, but even so, I'd imagine it could be a moot point for

Re: [newbie] The Wonderful World of Linux 2.6

2003-09-14 Thread Anarky
ed tharp wrote: On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 08:47, Anarky wrote: Richard Urwin wrote: I've just come across this, and I don't remember seeing it on here before. The new features in Linux 2.6: http://www.kniggit.net/wwol26.html (HeywireMac, note that filesystem capability support is in

Re: [newbie] The Wonderful World of Linux 2.6

2003-09-14 Thread Anarky
Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 14 Sep 2003 1:50 pm, Anarky wrote: Richard Urwin wrote: I've just come across this, and I don't remember seeing it on here before. The new features in Linux 2.6: http://www.kniggit.net/wwol26.html (HeywireMac, note that filesystem capability support is in

Re: [newbie] how to low level format a hard disk?

2003-09-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 14 September 2003 03:30 am, Charlie M. wrote: Depends on the drive and the circumstances. A year ago a friend acquired a 13 GB Maxtor drive that was about a year old. It had been data storage for someone she knew, the data files were all encrypted and couldn't be wiped. Format

Re: [newbie] Changing window managers (OT)

2003-09-14 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Changing window managers (OT) On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 23:19, Angus Auld wrote: No need to apologise, Angus - just send money for beer. stephen kuhn - owner == Yer

Re: [newbie] Weird Web pages..Rant

2003-09-14 Thread Aron Smith
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 02:08, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 10:02, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday September 13 2003 10:46 am, Aron Smith wrote: Why do so many people in the Linux community think that it is cool to use a black or purple or dark blue background on their web

[newbie] KSCD problem

2003-09-14 Thread John Richard Smith
I cann't figure out what's running in the background and preventing me running kscd , [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# kscd kscd is already running! [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# It makes no difference if I have a music disc in the drive or not. Grip has no problem accessing the drive and playing the disc,

Re: [newbie] Weird Web pages..Rant

2003-09-14 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 14 September 2003 02:00 am, Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 13, 2003 05:32 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 17:02, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday September 13 2003 10:46 am, Aron Smith wrote: Why do so many people in the

[newbie] Evolution Question

2003-09-14 Thread rluchor
I use Evolution on my main box and just updated my laptop to the latest version. For some reason the laptop Evo refuses to recognize the files that are backed up from the main machine. How to I get them synchronized? Rich -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] Installing BibleTime from source

2003-09-14 Thread Russ
Hi All, I attempted to install BibleTime from an rpm designed for mdk9.1 because they had none for 9.0 (which I am running). I recieved several failed dependancies. I was able to get an answer from them and was told I would probably need to compile it from a source code. I have never done

Re: [newbie] how to low level format a hard disk?

2003-09-14 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 10:31, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 14 September 2003 03:30 am, Charlie M. wrote: Depends on the drive and the circumstances. A year ago a friend acquired a 13 GB Maxtor drive that was about a year old. It had been data storage for someone she knew, the data files

Re: [newbie] Scanning Images

2003-09-14 Thread John Richard Smith
ed tharp wrote: you know you 'can' scan from within gimp... if you have all the packages installed if you have the xsane-gimp and xsane installed it should anyway. That is quite true, you can scan withing gimp , but right now the problem is to get sane to scan correctly at all. The original

Re: [newbie] Scanning Images

2003-09-14 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 12:04, John Richard Smith wrote: ed tharp wrote: you know you 'can' scan from within gimp... if you have all the packages installed if you have the xsane-gimp and xsane installed it should anyway. That is quite true, you can scan withing gimp , but right now

Re: [newbie] 9.2 RC2

2003-09-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday September 14 2003 01:32 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: Anyway, ya just gotta ask yourself why t'hell you would want, or would need to regularly update everything with force an nodeps in the first place (?) Specially cooker Is anyone reading my posts? Yes, I

[newbie] USB memory stick/ Gnome2.4 install?

2003-09-14 Thread Brooks3J
Hello all For those of you who helped me with my memory stick problem, I think it's a non-issue for now. I think my usb ports are dead. Which is not a bad thing since I can justify buying a new pc now to my wife. :) This one is fairly old. But thanks for your help, anyway. My new task

Re: [newbie] Installing BibleTime from source

2003-09-14 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Sunday 14 September 2003 03:04 pm, Russ wrote: Hi All, I attempted to install BibleTime from an rpm designed for mdk9.1 because they had none for 9.0 (which I am running). I recieved several failed dependancies. I was able to get an answer from them and was told I would probably need to

Re: [newbie] The Wonderful World of Linux 2.6

2003-09-14 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 14 Sep 2003 2:29 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: 9.2 will come with all these kernels http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MdkKernel92 They will either be on the install CD or in the 'Contrib' folder if an online mirror ( How to add a Contrib source to urpmi has been posted many

Re: [newbie] Installing BibleTime from source

2003-09-14 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 14 Sep 2003 6:41 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 14 September 2003 03:04 pm, Russ wrote: Hi All, I attempted to install BibleTime from an rpm designed for mdk9.1 because they had none for 9.0 (which I am running). I recieved several failed dependancies. I was able to get an

Re: [newbie] USB memory stick/ Gnome2.4 install?

2003-09-14 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 11:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all For those of you who helped me with my memory stick problem, I think it's a non-issue for now. I think my usb ports are dead. not to sound stupider than usual, but how do you know the ports are dead? Which is not a bad

Re: [newbie] Installing BibleTime from source

2003-09-14 Thread Russ
Although I do not know exactly what an src.rpm file is, I do know that that was in the KDE2.0 list and not the KDE3. However, the directions given to install this from the source do not seem to be all that difficult so I am going to give it a go sometime this evening. I'll let you know how it

Re: [newbie] Installing BibleTime from source

2003-09-14 Thread Russ
One glitch here, how can I tell if this is installed? It may not be since I may have figure this had something to do with writing software when I installed MD and I may have chosen not to. I'm not sure though since it was so long ago that I did it. Thanks Russ Kaj Haulrich wrote: Now, first

Re: [newbie] Installing BibleTime from source

2003-09-14 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Sunday 14 September 2003 03:49 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Sunday 14 Sep 2003 6:41 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 14 September 2003 03:04 pm, Russ wrote: Hi All, I attempted to install BibleTime from an rpm designed for mdk9.1 because they had none for 9.0 (which I am

Re: [newbie] Scanning Images

2003-09-14 Thread John Richard Smith
ed tharp wrote: On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 12:04, John Richard Smith wrote: ed tharp wrote: you know you 'can' scan from within gimp... if you have all the packages installed if you have the xsane-gimp and xsane installed it should anyway. That is quite true, you can scan withing

Re: [newbie] Installing BibleTime from source

2003-09-14 Thread HaywireMac
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 08:04:29 -0700 Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I attempted to install BibleTime from an rpm designed for mdk9.1 because they had none for 9.0 (which I am running). I recieved several failed dependancies. I was able to get an answer from them and was told I would probably

Re: [newbie] Installing BibleTime from source

2003-09-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday September 14 2003 10:04 am, Russ wrote: Hi All, I attempted to install BibleTime from an rpm designed for mdk9.1 because they had none for 9.0 (which I am running). I recieved several failed dependancies. I was able to get an answer from them and was told I would probably need to

Re: [newbie] Weird Web pages..Rant

2003-09-14 Thread John Richard Smith
Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 14 September 2003 02:00 am, Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 13, 2003 05:32 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 17:02, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday September 13 2003 10:46 am, Aron Smith wrote:

Re: [newbie] Installing BibleTime from source

2003-09-14 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Sunday 14 September 2003 04:07 pm, Russ wrote: One glitch here, how can I tell if this is installed? It may not be since I may have figure this had something to do with writing software when I installed MD and I may have chosen not to. I'm not sure though since it was so long ago that I did

Re: [newbie] Weird Web pages..Rant

2003-09-14 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 14, 2003 06:24 am, ed tharp wrote: On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 03:41, Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 14, 2003 01:15 am, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: I'm happy to know I ain't the Old Timer on

Re: [newbie] Weird Web pages..Rant

2003-09-14 Thread Aron Smith
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 10:52, Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 14, 2003 06:24 am, ed tharp wrote: On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 03:41, Charlie M. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 14, 2003 01:15 am, Brant Fitzsimmons

Re: [newbie] OT, was 9.2 RC2

2003-09-14 Thread Eric Huff
Did I mention that I live in Australia? We try very hard to do what's called conserve energy here...as in drying our clothing on a line outside; as in having two different ways to flush a toilet Wow, a buddy of mine and i have always said we should have that. No need for a #2 amount of water

Re: [newbie] Teach yourself unix in 24 hours

2003-09-14 Thread Eric Huff
tom $ loci rute C'mon, tell us the alias! :) -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] how to low level format a hard disk?

2003-09-14 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 14, 2003 08:31 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 14 September 2003 03:30 am, Charlie M. wrote: Depends on the drive and the circumstances. A year ago a friend acquired a 13 GB Maxtor drive that was about a year old. It had been data

[newbie] 2.6 kernel

2003-09-14 Thread John Drouhard
How can I get ALSA to work with the new 2.6 kernel. Or any sound at all would be okay. When I first fired up the new kernel it had some sound errors. I cant remember any of the others, but there were some. I hope to completely migrate over to it if I can get everything to run nicely. I use Cooker

Re: [newbie] Scanning Images

2003-09-14 Thread Marco Verheul
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 13:58, John Richard Smith wrote: Marco Verheul wrote: Hi all, I'm strugling with scanning images. I'd like to scan a CD cover, so that i can save it with the same dimension as the real thing. What i tried is to scan a cover with Kooka at a resolution of 600. Then

[newbie] KDE Systray Icons

2003-09-14 Thread yankl
Hi All I have a Noia icon them as my default. However in my KDE system tray the icons are not Noia. I just notice that since Noia 1.0 have new kget icon. Since, Noia does not have 24pix icons, according to spec 24x24 is the size of systray icons, this what causing it, so how can I change

Re: [newbie] 2.6 kernel

2003-09-14 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 13:28:00 -0500 John Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I get ALSA to work with the new 2.6 kernel. Or any sound at all would be okay. When I first fired up the new kernel it had some sound errors. I cant remember any of the others, but there were some. I hope to

Re: [newbie] Installing BibleTime from source

2003-09-14 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 14 Sep 2003 4:04 pm, Russ wrote: Hi All, I attempted to install BibleTime from an rpm designed for mdk9.1 because they had none for 9.0 (which I am running). I recieved several failed dependancies. I was able to get an answer from them and was told I would probably need to compile

Re: [newbie] Scanning Images

2003-09-14 Thread John Richard Smith
Marco Verheul wrote: On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 13:58, John Richard Smith wrote: I got all the right sane packages installed. I got both Gnome and KDE installed and i'm runing Gnome right know. My problem is this: when i used to scan an image on a Windows machine I had real crappy scanning

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