[newbie] Missing files??

2003-09-19 Thread Aron Smith
have been trying to install Xmms-diskwriter thru URPMI no luck here is output of urpmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] aron]# urpmi xmms-diskwriter ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/mandrake/9.1/rpms/./xmms-diskwriter-1.2.8-2tex.i586.rpm Installation failed, some files are

[newbie] How to change desktops?

2003-09-19 Thread Steven Nelson
Hi, Would someone tell me how I change desktops? Thanks, Steven _ Compare Cable, DSL or Satellite plans: As low as $29.95. https://broadband.msn.com Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] I know this has been asked before... clock synching is off

2003-09-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 13:30, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Okay - you do have broadband, right? ;-) No. I do not. I'm stuck on dial-up because we're too far from the exchange, and 802.11b broadband ain't gotta tower on top of the hill yet...but once they do, I'll have 1.5mbps throughput...so I wait...

Re: [newbie] How to change desktops?

2003-09-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 16:26, Steven Nelson wrote: Hi, Would someone tell me how I change desktops? Thanks, Steven What do you want to change it to, mate? stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer

Re: [newbie] Missing files??

2003-09-19 Thread Phazeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 19 September 2003 08:25, Aron Smith wrote: have been trying to install Xmms-diskwriter thru URPMI no luck here is output of urpmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] aron]# urpmi xmms-diskwriter

Re: [newbie] How to change desktops?

2003-09-19 Thread Steven Nelson
From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] How to change desktops? Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 16:35:53 +1000 On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 16:26, Steven Nelson wrote: Hi, Would someone tell me how I change desktops?

[newbie] Article: New web worm warning

2003-09-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
Po wittle MicroSCOft... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3119316.stm stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was

[newbie] My clock is fast

2003-09-19 Thread Margot
My clock is set to the right timezone (London), and shows roughly the right time, but I have to remember to reset it once a week because it gains around 10 minutes a week. It is annoying, because I look at the clock on the screen, get the approximate time, then have to get up from my desk and

Re: [newbie] How to change desktops?

2003-09-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 16:44, Steven Nelson wrote: Hi, I am wanting to change it from kde to a couple of others (gnome, window maker, ice). 1.) Install Xtart 2.) Change the system runlevel from 5 to 3 so that you boot to a text based console 3.) Reboot, after login, type: Xtart Voila!

[newbie] Microsoft Junk Mail - Virus?

2003-09-19 Thread Margot
Downloading mt messages this morning I noticed a large number of messages appearing in my Mozilla Junk folder. Checked it because I'm still training the junk controls, and found eleven messages supposedly from various parts of Microsoft, all message bodies identical but with different .exe

Re: [newbie] My clock is fast

2003-09-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 17:13, Margot wrote: My clock is set to the right timezone (London), and shows roughly the right time, but I have to remember to reset it once a week because it gains around 10 minutes a week. It is annoying, because I look at the clock on the screen, get the

Re: [newbie] Microsoft Junk Mail - Virus?

2003-09-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 17:24, Margot wrote: Downloading mt messages this morning I noticed a large number of messages appearing in my Mozilla Junk folder. Checked it because I'm still training the junk controls, and found eleven messages supposedly from various parts of Microsoft, all

Re: [newbie] formatting a floppy

2003-09-19 Thread s
On Thursday 18 September 2003 08:30 pm, cervixcouch wrote: I've tried mke2fs /dev/fd0 AND fdformat /dev/fd0 both of which appear to have worked, i.e. no error messages. make sure supermount is disabled, and the the floppy isn't mounted. fdformat first, then mkdosfs. really vfat should be

[newbie] compile kernel

2003-09-19 Thread David A Simatupang
hello. my name is david simatupang. i'm new to this mailing list. i want to ask 2 question : 1. how to make a program to rpm. ex: program hello.c 2. how to compile linux kernel so it can recognize NTFS. Thank's for your help! -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

[newbie] VMWare

2003-09-19 Thread Lee Wiggers
Proprietary programs really suck. VMWare is the subject of this particular rant, but could be anybody. I bought the package at a reasonable price, but: Can't install what they sent because it only supports up to 9.0 mdk. When I try to allow setup to build a vmon module, it asks for the

Re: [newbie] Bibletime (revisited)

2003-09-19 Thread s
On Thursday 18 September 2003 10:28 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: I unzipped mine to ~/.sword. Thanks, that did it. Where did you find that info at? yama mentioned it on http://www.pclinuxonline.com :P Have no idea where he read it. shrugs -s Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] My clock is fast

2003-09-19 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 19 Sep 2003 8:13 am, Margot wrote: My clock is set to the right timezone (London), and shows roughly the right time, but I have to remember to reset it once a week because it gains around 10 minutes a week. It is annoying, because I look at the clock on the screen, get the

Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer

2003-09-19 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 23:58:42 -0400 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 23:10:59 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip As usual I'm amazed at the response here. Thanks all Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Microsoft Junk Mail - Virus?

2003-09-19 Thread John Wilson
On September 19, 2003 12:24 am, Margot wrote: Downloading mt messages this morning I noticed a large number of messages appearing in my Mozilla Junk folder. Checked it because I'm still training the junk controls, and found eleven messages supposedly from various parts of Microsoft, all

Re: [newbie] USB mass-storage: HELP!

2003-09-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 19 Sep 2003 1:50 am, Iwan Binanto wrote: --- HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 18:29:57 -0700 (PDT) Iwan Binanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I'm confuse. Somebody, please help me. Someone might, if you post a new thread. Do *not* hijack existing

Re: [newbie] VMWare

2003-09-19 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 04:02:02 -0400 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Proprietary programs really suck. In theory yes, in actual circumstances I'd say vmware does about the best job around for paid software on Linux. VMWare is the subject of this particular rant, but could be anybody. I

Re: [newbie] VMWare

2003-09-19 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 10:33:19 +0200 Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 04:02:02 -0400 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Proprietary programs really suck. In theory yes, in actual circumstances I'd say vmware does about the best job around for paid software on

Re: [newbie] VMWare

2003-09-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 18:02, Lee Wiggers wrote: Proprietary programs really suck. VMWare is the subject of this particular rant, but could be anybody. I bought the package at a reasonable price, but: Can't install what they sent because it only supports up to 9.0 mdk. When I try to

Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer

2003-09-19 Thread John Richard Smith
Dale Huckeby wrote: On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Lee Wiggers wrote: Need recommendations for a cheap inkjet that is: 9.1 friendly refillable Epson is very Linux friendly. They support Linux probably better than any other printer. I've got a Stylus C82 that I'm very happy with. In product

[newbie] remote console screen display

2003-09-19 Thread Kitchener, Steve
Hi, I Don't know if this is possible in software, but I am looking for a system by which I can boot from scratch a remote linux/unix box as if I was sitting at the real console attached to the remote box. I suspect that this would have to be done in hardware but I am not totally convinced. I need

Re: [newbie] VMWare

2003-09-19 Thread Phazeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 19 September 2003 12:20, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 18:02, Lee Wiggers wrote: Proprietary programs really suck. VMWare is the subject of this particular rant, but could be anybody. I bought the package at a

Re: [newbie] VMWare

2003-09-19 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 19:20:44 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I think I did... stephen kuhn - owner It's always good to know who to blame. I installed the kernel source and the win2k install is going as I hoped it would. Never saw a 4g format go in 2 sec before. I put it

Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer

2003-09-19 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 18 September 2003 10:48 pm, Eric Huff wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 20:11:28 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I used checkinstall to build the RPM when I compiled it myself. and password in private email, if anyone else wants it, they will have to contact me

Re: [newbie] Missing files??

2003-09-19 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 19 September 2003 01:25 am, Aron Smith wrote: have been trying to install Xmms-diskwriter thru URPMI no luck here is output of urpmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] aron]# urpmi xmms-diskwriter ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/mandrake/9.1/

Re: [newbie] My clock is fast

2003-09-19 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 19 September 2003 03:13 am, Margot wrote: My clock is set to the right timezone (London), and shows roughly the right time, but I have to remember to reset it once a week because it gains around 10 minutes a week. It is annoying, because I look at the clock on the screen, get the

Re: [newbie] formatting a floppy

2003-09-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 19 Sep 2003 8:58 am, s wrote: On Thursday 18 September 2003 08:30 pm, cervixcouch wrote: I've tried mke2fs /dev/fd0 AND fdformat /dev/fd0 both of which appear to have worked, i.e. no error messages. make sure supermount is disabled, and the the floppy isn't mounted. fdformat

Re: [newbie] remote console screen display

2003-09-19 Thread HaywireMac
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 10:39:11 +0100 Kitchener, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I Don't know if this is possible in software, but I am looking for a system by which I can boot from scratch a remote linux/unix box as if I was sitting at the real console attached to the remote box. I suspect

Re: [newbie] VMWare

2003-09-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 20:37, Lee Wiggers wrote: Also, when I had install problems, I got the latest rpm from the VMWare site and installed that. Should I leave it now that I understand the install or start over with the disk? The real sn in place of the demo # appears to be fine as is and

Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer

2003-09-19 Thread bob parker
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 22:12, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 18 Sep 2003 12:29 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I know if I wait long enough, you all start to agree with me, HP printers are not well supported in linux and do not work that well, as compared to epson and lexmark all of which I have

Re: [newbie] Microsoft Junk Mail - Virus?

2003-09-19 Thread HaywireMac
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 17:44:23 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: There is a horrible rash of more bugs on it's way - consider yourself one of the first victims - not that it will cause YOU damage...but will damage MS based computers... this bit from the Toronto LUG list had me

Re: [newbie] VMWare

2003-09-19 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 21:47:21 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 20:37, Lee Wiggers wrote: Also, when I had install problems, I got the latest rpm from the VMWare site and installed that. Should I leave it now that I understand the install or start over

Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer

2003-09-19 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 10:25:36 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have my version from Texstar but I think that there are mdk RPM's available, if not on the CD, try rpmfind.net There are also fms which will do the same. The 1 of my choice is emelfm. BTW I object to being called a

Re: [newbie] Microsoft Junk Mail - Virus?

2003-09-19 Thread HaywireMac
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 00:13:13 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I thought I wasn't getting any (because they don't hit my normal email box) but in checking root's email, I find that I've had 11 hits so far- but they were nicely moved to the /dev/null bin where they can't spread or

Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer

2003-09-19 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 19 September 2003 10:49 am, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 10:25:36 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have my version from Texstar but I think that there are mdk RPM's available, if not on the CD, try rpmfind.net There are also fms which will do the

Re: [newbie] Microsoft Junk Mail - Virus?

2003-09-19 Thread Eric Huff
Huh? Windows was designed to keep the idiots away from Unix so we could hack in peace. Let's not break that. -- Tom Christiansen LOL! That's saved inmy one-liner list... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Open Letter from our friend Darl

2003-09-19 Thread HaywireMac
This is dated Sept. 9th, so sorry if it's been around already, but you gotta read this: Quote: Rather than fight for the right for free software, it's far more valuable to design a new business model that enhances the stability and trustworthiness of the Open Source community in the eyes of

Re: [newbie] Microsoft Junk Mail - Virus?

2003-09-19 Thread HaywireMac
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:13:58 +0100 Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Oh you poor sweetheart! Shall I forward some of mine? I've got plenty to spare...three more just arrived... :-( I must have upset Microsoft pretty badly for them to be sending me all these viruses... sorry, Bill - and I

Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer

2003-09-19 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 11:13:40 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could think of a few other terms, how about: A) potentially malicious B) uncertain C) possibly clueless D) virtual E) potentially drug-addled F) potentially reality-challenged H) cluelessly floating on the

Re: [newbie] Bibletime (revisited)

2003-09-19 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 19 September 2003 04:03 am, s wrote: On Thursday 18 September 2003 10:28 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: I unzipped mine to ~/.sword. Thanks, that did it. Where did you find that info at? yama mentioned it on http://www.pclinuxonline.com :P Have no idea where he read it. shrugs

Re: [newbie] I know this has been asked before... clock synching is off

2003-09-19 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 19 September 2003 02:32 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 13:30, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Okay - you do have broadband, right? ;-) No. I do not. I'm stuck on dial-up because we're too far from the exchange, and 802.11b broadband ain't gotta tower on top of the hill

Re: [newbie] compile kernel

2003-09-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 19 Sep 2003 4:35 pm, Eric Huff wrote: Welcome to the list David. Can't help on the kernel compile, but here's a friendly link to Mandrake Mailing List Etiquette. You (unknowingly) hijacked this thread, so check out the hijacking section in:

Re: [newbie] Microsoft Junk Mail - Virus?

2003-09-19 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 19 Sep 2003 3:01 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Friday 19 Sep 2003 2:30 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 14:18:40 +0100 Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Flood seems a bit of an understatement - I've just received another eight of them! I'm beginning to feel a bit

Re: [newbie] My clock is fast

2003-09-19 Thread Max . Benitz
Sorry Margot, I can't help you, but I suffered from a similar problem (my laptop would gradually lose about 10 minutes a week) under Win95, Win98 WinMe, and it bugged me pretty serious, but I just installed a clock-syncher and figured it was a problem with the laptop's motherboard. But since

Re: [newbie] My clock is fast

2003-09-19 Thread Max . Benitz
In the special relativistic frame of reference you describe time would appear to slow as you *approach* the speed of light. Exceeding it would not be necessary and, iirc, time would seem to reverse if you somehow did manage to do it. Doesn't much matter since there's all sorts of asymptotic

Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer

2003-09-19 Thread John Richard Smith
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Friday 19 September 2003 10:22 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 18 September 2003 10:48 pm, Eric Huff wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 20:11:28 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I used checkinstall to build

Re: [newbie] formatting a floppy

2003-09-19 Thread cervixcouch
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 02:58:49 -0500, s [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thursday 18 September 2003 08:30 pm, cervixcouch wrote: I've tried mke2fs /dev/fd0 AND fdformat /dev/fd0 both of which appear to have worked, i.e. no error messages. make sure supermount is disabled, and the the floppy

Re: [newbie] urpmi --auto-select

2003-09-19 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
RichardA wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 23:05:46 +0300, Phazeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are talking about Mandrake 9.1 then the answer is simple - your rpm db just broke up. It's pretty simple to fix it though. First you have to delete the old rpm db: # rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/__db.* then just

Re: [newbie] formatting a floppy

2003-09-19 Thread Azrael
cervixcouch wrote: On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 02:58:49 -0500, s [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thursday 18 September 2003 08:30 pm, cervixcouch wrote: I've tried mke2fs /dev/fd0 AND fdformat /dev/fd0 both of which appear to have worked, i.e. no error messages. make sure supermount is disabled, and the

Re: [newbie] formatting a floppy

2003-09-19 Thread John Richard Smith
cervixcouch wrote: This seems like it should be so simple, but it just won't work. Using 'Gnome Floppy' and 'Floppy Formater' completely hangs my system, so I've been trying to format a linux floppy so I can save some files. I've tried mke2fs /dev/fd0 AND fdformat /dev/fd0 both of which appear

Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer

2003-09-19 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
John Richard Smith wrote: Dale Huckeby wrote: On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Lee Wiggers wrote: Need recommendations for a cheap inkjet that is: 9.1 friendly refillable Epson is very Linux friendly. They support Linux probably better than any other printer. I've got a Stylus C82 that I'm very

[newbie] Hooking into Windows

2003-09-19 Thread Burrows, Scott
Hi all, Were on a Windoze netework on Win2k boxes here. I have a 2nd box that is MKD 9.1 that I connected to the Windows LAN with no problems. I wanted to access some the Windows resources like printers or other computers so I, using LinNeighborhood, created some mapped or mounted network

Re: [newbie] formatting a floppy

2003-09-19 Thread cervixcouch
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 18:23:05 +0100, Azrael [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: cervixcouch wrote: On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 02:58:49 -0500, s [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thursday 18 September 2003 08:30 pm, cervixcouch wrote: I've tried mke2fs /dev/fd0 AND fdformat /dev/fd0 both of which appear to have

Re: [newbie] urpmi --auto-select

2003-09-19 Thread Stormjumper
- Original Message - From: RichardA [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 23:40 Subject: Re: [newbie] urpmi --auto-select I don't understand the last part of your message. What is significant about the --update switch? The urpmi mini-howto says Once

Re: [newbie] Hooking into Windows

2003-09-19 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 19 September 2003 01:34 pm, Burrows, Scott wrote: Hi all, The only reason they know this is because it requires a password to access the LAN and the one I used at the time has since expired, so its raising security flags on our network admins monitor. I've shut off LinNeighborhood,

Re: [newbie] Request Motherboard and CPU suggestions

2003-09-19 Thread Stormjumper
- Original Message - From: The Other [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 23:48 Subject: [newbie] Request Motherboard and CPU suggestions 09/06/03 Hello All, Perhaps the problems I was having installing MDK 9.1 was due to my hardware being

Re: [newbie] VMWare

2003-09-19 Thread Lee Wiggers
What a nice bonus. Thanks Tony You just saved a big pain in the tail. Lee On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 14:20:08 +0100 Tony S. Sykes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a side note you know you can copy the image of win2k onto the other PC's so you don't have to install it on all. Just install vmware.

Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer

2003-09-19 Thread Stormjumper
- Original Message - From: Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 01:33 Subject: Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer I have one and am very happy with it. Here's a link to it's page on epson.com.

[newbie] Hooking into Windows

2003-09-19 Thread Burrows, Scott
Hi all, Were on a Windoze netework on Win2k boxes here. I have a 2nd box that is MKD 9.1 that I connected to the Windows LAN with no problems. I wanted to access some the Windows resources like printers or other computers so I, using LinNeighborhood, created some mapped or mounted network

[newbie] Radio contest

2003-09-19 Thread drake
A friend of mine is in the final 2 in a radio contest. His name is Kurt and he's from Terrell. If you guys have time please cast a vote to vote out Debbie and if you really want to help pass this email on to some of your friends. Here's the webpage:

Re: [newbie] Hooking into Windows

2003-09-19 Thread kbbabb
I have the same problem with my mdk9.1 system. Each time I access a Window$ machine (all W2K) on our network, it sends that particular machine into a tizzy of CPU madness (100% - 0% -100%, etc., etc.) that won't stop unless you power down the machine and restart after a few minutes. The hard

Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer

2003-09-19 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Stormjumper wrote: - Original Message - From: Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 01:33 Subject: Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer I have one and am very happy with it. Here's a link to it's page on epson.com.

Re: [newbie] Hooking into Windows

2003-09-19 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 19 Sep 2003 6:34 pm, Burrows, Scott wrote: Hi all, Were on a Windoze netework on Win2k boxes here. I have a 2nd box that is MKD 9.1 that I connected to the Windows LAN with no problems. I wanted to access some the Windows resources like printers or other computers so I, using

[newbie] Sylpheed and sylpheed-claws

2003-09-19 Thread Charles A Edwards
Mdk 9.1 rpms for sylpheed-0.9.6 and sylpheed-0.9.5claws are now avaiable from my site. In all likelihood these will be the last of the updates I do for 9.1 as the release date for 9.2 is closely approaching. Once released I will, of course, continue to provide updates for at least these pkgs

[newbie] PC to PC Connect -- Xover serial Or USB/USB ??

2003-09-19 Thread Bob Read
Can someone point me to Information for connecting two PC's by either crossover serial cable -- or USB cable? Mainly for File transfer/backup. One is running Mdk 9.1, the other Mdk 8.2. Much thanks, Bob -- -- Bob Read // Registered Linux user #287118

Re: [newbie] My clock is fast

2003-09-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 00:16, Margot wrote: Tried this... ended up two days ago... something wrong somewhere... should I retry as root? Or just cut down on the drugs? Margot A root is always good to retry. Don't cut down on the drugs. Reality can't keep up. stephen kuhn - owner

Re: [newbie] Microsoft Junk Mail - Virus?

2003-09-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 00:51, HaywireMac wrote: I even grepped for that in my procmail log, no /dev/nulls at all, or anything in ~/mail/virus. I almost wish there was so I could see this nkvir recipe in action. Actually, would it catch the most recent variants? I checked the site and

Re: [newbie] Open Letter from our friend Darl

2003-09-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 01:33, HaywireMac wrote: This is dated Sept. 9th, so sorry if it's been around already, but you gotta read this: Quote: WHACK Er, WaymireHac, ya ain't been stuck in the Twilight Zone again, have ye? stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra

Re: [newbie] I know this has been asked before... clock synching is off

2003-09-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 01:49, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 19 September 2003 02:32 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 13:30, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Okay - you do have broadband, right? ;-) No. I do not. I'm stuck on dial-up because we're too far from the exchange, and

Re: [newbie] My clock is fast

2003-09-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 02:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry Margot, I can't help you, but I suffered from a similar problem (my laptop would gradually lose about 10 minutes a week) under Win95, Win98 WinMe, and it bugged me pretty serious, but I just installed a clock-syncher and figured it

Re: [newbie] PC to PC Connect -- Xover serial Or USB/USB ??

2003-09-19 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 19 September 2003 04:14 pm, Bob Read wrote: Can someone point me to Information for connecting two PC's by either crossover serial cable -- or USB cable? Mainly for File transfer/backup. One is running Mdk 9.1, the other Mdk 8.2. Much thanks, Bob seems like the most likely way

Re: [newbie] My clock is fast

2003-09-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 03:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the special relativistic frame of reference you describe time would appear to slow as you *approach* the speed of light. Exceeding it would not be necessary and, iirc, time would seem to reverse if you somehow did manage to do it.

Re: [newbie] Microsoft Junk Mail - Virus?

2003-09-19 Thread HaywireMac
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 08:52:22 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: (did you set yours up with all the variables and the likes, correctly?); actually, now that I look at it, there's one thing I'm doing wrong. here where it identifies the virus dir: #where you want viruses to go..

Re: [newbie] Hooking into Windows

2003-09-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 03:34, Burrows, Scott wrote: Hi all, Were on a Windoze netework on Win2k boxes here. I have a 2nd box that is MKD 9.1 that I connected to the Windows LAN with no problems. I wanted to access some the Windows resources like printers or other computers so I, using

Re: [newbie] Hooking into Windows

2003-09-19 Thread Heather/Femme
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 12:34:36 -0500 Burrows, Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Were on a Windoze netework on Win2k boxes here. I have a 2nd box that is MKD 9.1 that I connected to the Windows LAN with no problems. blah blah snippety snip I have nothing in my /mnt user folder.

Re: [newbie] Article: New web worm warning

2003-09-19 Thread Chris
On Friday 19 September 2003 02:07 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Po wittle MicroSCOft... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3119316.stm stephen kuhn - owner Yea, and I go 43 of the damm things in the last two days. Ya can actually look at the worm with a hex editor and see where it tries to

Re: [newbie] Article: New web worm warning

2003-09-19 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 19 September 2003 08:11 pm, Chris wrote: On Friday 19 September 2003 02:07 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Po wittle MicroSCOft... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3119316.stm stephen kuhn - owner Yea, and I go 43 of the damm things in the last two days. Ya can actually look

Re: [newbie] Microsoft Junk Mail - Virus?

2003-09-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 09:46, HaywireMac wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 08:52:22 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: (did you set yours up with all the variables and the likes, correctly?); actually, now that I look at it, there's one thing I'm doing wrong. here where it

Re: [newbie] Article: New web worm warning

2003-09-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 10:11, Chris wrote: On Friday 19 September 2003 02:07 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Po wittle MicroSCOft... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3119316.stm stephen kuhn - owner Yea, and I go 43 of the damm things in the last two days. Ya can actually look at the

[newbie] VMWare question

2003-09-19 Thread Lee Wiggers
I'm slowly installing 9.1 on the office boxes this evening. heh heh Question struck playing with my VMWare install on the laptop. Do I have to defrag a VMWare fat32 disk? Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] formatting a floppy

2003-09-19 Thread s
On Friday 19 September 2003 12:47 pm, cervixcouch wrote: I've tried mke2fs /dev/fd0 AND fdformat /dev/fd0 both of which appear to have worked, i.e. no error messages. mounted. fdformat first, then mkdosfs. really vfat should be used on floppies, even if it's for linux files. I

Re: [newbie] Article: New web worm warning

2003-09-19 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 19 September 2003 09:49 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: OTOH, it wouldn't be too hard to phrase it into their existing contracts that they can TRY to eliminate viruses tranferred as EXE, PIF, COM and SCR files - that wouldn't be too hard to do given the philosophy that you do not send people

Re: [newbie] Microsoft Junk Mail - Virus?

2003-09-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 10:49, HaywireMac wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 10:35:51 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: How can you NOT have a $MAILDIR? Either with SENDMAIL or POSTFIX, you have that already... exactly, so why do I need to define it? it already knows where to put the

RE: [newbie] Upgrading KDE 3.0.5a to 3.1

2003-09-19 Thread Aron Smith
On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 18:14, Boulytchev, Vasiliy wrote: Ladies and Gents, I have some mp3s I need to burn to audio cds. Which package is recommended? Grip use lame as encoder Vasiliy Boulytchev Colorado Information Technologies, Inc. http://www.coinfotech.com

Re: [newbie] Microsoft Junk Mail - Virus?

2003-09-19 Thread HaywireMac
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 08:52:22 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I grabbed the latest one last week and put it in place ah, yes I could've checked the version number...duhthanks. Putting it in place now... (as if that's rocket science) and my SysOp's email is showing what it's

[newbie] Boot GUI

2003-09-19 Thread Russ
Hi All, When I boot the comp it boots to a GUI screen that displays the users. You choose one then enter the password. okay, last time I installed Linux (md9.1) I stumbled onto something that allowed me to change the gui style (not just the color). One was a Gnome style, one was a KDE style

Re: [newbie] USB mass-storage: HELP!

2003-09-19 Thread Iwan Binanto
Oooo .. Thank's for your explanation. Now I know what that's mean. Thank's. --- Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 19 Sep 2003 1:50 am, Iwan Binanto wrote: --- HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 18:29:57 -0700 (PDT) Iwan Binanto [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Boot GUI

2003-09-19 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 19 September 2003 10:04 am, Russ wrote: Hi All, When I boot the comp it boots to a GUI screen that displays the users. You choose one then enter the password. okay, last time I installed Linux (md9.1) I stumbled onto something that allowed me to change the gui style (not just the

Re: [newbie] USB mass-storage: HELP!

2003-09-19 Thread Iwan Binanto
You right, I have a /dev/sda. I was creating an fstab entry, and I did a step by step howto mounting a mass-storage. But I still cannot download and mounting this camera as a mass-storage. My machine say (on monitor) that it cannot detecting a valid fs (--FAT ??). I tried to use

Re: [newbie] Microsoft Junk Mail - Virus?

2003-09-19 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
On Friday 19 September 2003 04:24, Margot wrote: Hi! I've had a couple of these before in the last couple of weeks, but eleven at once? That's excessive! Anyone else had these? Margot I've got 12 so far! All of them with the: Worm/Gibe.C.1 virus My antivirus working just fine! rgs

Re: [newbie] Boot GUI

2003-09-19 Thread Russ
Hi Dennis, No that is not it. The deal I remember gives you 4 options. I have been tinkering with the setting you mentioned but all it does is change the color and texture. Now it is entirely possible that I am not doing something right, but it worked for me before and I am about pulling my

[newbie] xcdroast error

2003-09-19 Thread Scott
Hello, I was burning ISOs of redhat 8.0 to a cd using xcdroast and got this error: cdrecord: WARNING: Drive returns wrong startsec (0)(using -150 Writing pregap for track 1 at -150 Starting new track at sector: 0 The burn completed but I'm wondering if the cd's are corrupted somehow. So far

[newbie] Damn newbie user!

2003-09-19 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
What's up? Whenever I send an email to Mandrake newbie list I get this: Short Message delivery report From: Sms Message [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Today 00:52:17 There is no such user (newbie). ===

Re: [newbie] Boot GUI

2003-09-19 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 19 September 2003 10:50 am, Russ wrote: Hi Dennis, No that is not it. The deal I remember gives you 4 options. I have been tinkering with the setting you mentioned but all it does is change the color and texture. Now it is entirely possible that I am not doing something right, but

Re: [newbie] xcdroast error

2003-09-19 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 19 September 2003 11:05 pm, Scott wrote: Hello, I was burning ISOs of redhat 8.0 to a cd using xcdroast and got this error: cdrecord: WARNING: Drive returns wrong startsec (0)(using -150 Writing pregap for track 1 at -150 Starting new track at sector: 0 The burn completed but

Re: [newbie] xcdroast error

2003-09-19 Thread Eric Huff
I was burning ISOs of redhat 8.0 to a cd using xcdroast and got this error: cdrecord: WARNING: Drive returns wrong startsec (0)(using -150 Writing pregap for track 1 at -150 Starting new track at sector: 0 The burn completed but I'm wondering if the cd's are corrupted somehow. So far

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