[newbie-it] Da postscript ad html

2003-09-21 Thread Luigi Beltramini
salve, c'e' qualche utility che converta da .ps ad .html?

[newbie-it] transcode (era: conversione formati video )

2003-09-21 Thread Giorgio Griffon
Alle 08:03, mercoledì 17 settembre 2003, Rev.Ferris ha scritto: ... Quando impari ad usare transcode mi fai sapere? io intanto uso il mencoder ma vorrei provare anche quello. Ciao e fammi sapere com'è andata! Luigi Ho cavato qualche ragno dal buco con transcode, così ti aggiorno; mi ha

[newbie-it] 2 questions

2003-09-21 Thread zang
Nel mio vagare nel sistema in cerca di indizzi che mi facciano capire perchè l'audio (dal lontano giorno che ho mollato windoze) si rifiuta di funzionare (rifiutandomi cocciutamente di reinstallare) mi sono imbattuto in quest messaggio: Linux version 2.4.21-0.13mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc

Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer

2003-09-21 Thread Dale Huckeby
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, John Richard Smith wrote: Dale Huckeby wrote: . . . The time each takes to print one of a sample page, from the time I press the Okay button till the copy slides out, is 18 seconds for Economy Grayscale, 23 seconds for Economy, 28 seconds for Normal Grayscale, 62 seconds

[newbie] Rete e Samba

2003-09-21 Thread BEZIER Database e Web Service
UN saluto a tutti, mi chiamo Giuseppe e sono un nuovo arivato del mondo Mandrake. Nel mio piccolo studio ho tre pc collegati fra loro in rete. Tutti e tre sono dotati di sistema WIN ma vorrei che uno di loro venisse semplicemente utilizzato come server e perciò solamente per buttarci i backup di

Re: [newbie] Great Article on Trusted Computing

2003-09-21 Thread Thomas Williams
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 20:00:33 -0400 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the reality? What, if anything, do those of us who support computer/Internet privacy have to fear from the group and Trusted Computing Platforms? Plenty. First of all, the companies that constitute the Trusted

[newbie] Spam filtering revisited

2003-09-21 Thread Mark Annandale
Hi Guys I have been dabbling with mailfilter and spamassassin. Spamassassin filters a few spam messages received and I have managed to get filters sorted out with KMail to send the SPAM* messages to a spam folder. Trying out maililter the logs show that the messages on the pop3 server

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 3:53 am, yankl wrote: On Saturday 20 September 2003 10:39 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 22:31:14 -0400 yankl [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: whack ROTFLMAO! Ok, back to reality, you just wasted 5 minutes of your life you will never get back... ;-)

Re: [newbie] Damn newbie user!

2003-09-21 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 12:02, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Saturday 20 September 2003 08:15 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: The management part comes in when you get mobbed. ;) LX Lyvim: Good to hear that you survived Isabel. From what I could make out from the map in the News Disturber, she

Re: [newbie] test sms response

2003-09-21 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 12:55, yankl wrote: On Saturday 20 September 2003 10:49 pm, ed tharp wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 22:40, HaywireMac wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 22:39:43 -0400 yankl [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Test It is look like for each time I post I get an kaluga sms

Re: [newbie] Possibly OT - Returned Mail Messages of Unknown Origin

2003-09-21 Thread Graham Watkins
Dick Gevers wrote: Same here today. A couple early in the morning, and another string in the afternoon, all accompanied by fake Microsoft Security updates, and all the pairs had similar `return path` and/or `from` and/or `to`. My suspicion is that these are directly coming from virus

Re: [newbie] test sms response

2003-09-21 Thread Margot
Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Saturday 20 September 2003 10:39 pm, yankl wrote: Test It is look like for each time I post I get an kaluga sms replay to me personally. Yankl: Think of it as confirmation that your message has been received by Sympa and sent to the list. (Kaluga must be the Russian

Re: [newbie] Possibly OT - Returned Mail Messages of Unknown Origin

2003-09-21 Thread Margot
Graham Watkins wrote: Dick Gevers wrote: Same here today. A couple early in the morning, and another string in the afternoon, all accompanied by fake Microsoft Security updates, and all the pairs had similar `return path` and/or `from` and/or `to`. My suspicion is that these are directly coming

Re: [newbie] [Fwd: have I been hacked??]

2003-09-21 Thread Graham Watkins
Stephen Kuhn wrote: Grab iptraf from one of the contrib mirrors - tells you everything you want to know about the network traffic on your system and network...really...it's a great tool, mate... Grabbed it, installed it - nice display. But how do I interpret the info it provides? Or to put

Re: [newbie] Damn newbie user!

2003-09-21 Thread Sharrea Day
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 20:04, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Three weeks ago the south-eastern coast of Australia was hit with winds that blasted us in excess of 140kph - causing damage and panic, loss of power and utilities, homes, a few lives - how come y'all don't hear a damn thing about that back in

Re: [newbie] xcdroast error

2003-09-21 Thread Sharrea Day
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 12:21, Bryan Phinney wrote: If you are trying to play these in a standalone CD player, you should be aware that CD Audio is slightly different from data or playing disks in a computer. Standlalone players are sometimes less forgiving of slight irregularities in the disk

Re: [newbie] ATRAC CD Walkman

2003-09-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 10:34 am, you wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 20 Sep 2003 7:08 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I'd like to add an image file of the spiel on the back of the box, only it'd come to more than 100kb., then you could all see what you make of it. Would you send it to

Re: [newbie] Possibly OT - Returned Mail Messages of Unknown Origin

2003-09-21 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 18:34, Margot wrote: Got to go and pack my suitcase for Florida now - I hope they don't examine it too carefully when I enter the USA - I don't want them finding the nuclear warheads I've hidden under my spare bikini! Bring the bikini and the body here for proper

Re: [newbie] [Fwd: have I been hacked??]

2003-09-21 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 18:28, Graham Watkins wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: Grab iptraf from one of the contrib mirrors - tells you everything you want to know about the network traffic on your system and network...really...it's a great tool, mate... Grabbed it, installed it - nice

Re: [newbie] Damn newbie user!

2003-09-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 9:04 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 12:02, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Saturday 20 September 2003 08:15 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: The management part comes in when you get mobbed. ;) LX Lyvim: Good to hear that you survived Isabel. From what I

Re: [newbie] Possibly OT - Returned Mail Messages of Unknown Origin

2003-09-21 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Graham, On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 09:06:45 +0100, Graham Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [newbie] Possibly OT - Returned Mail Messages of Unknown Origin: Dick Gevers wrote: Same here today. A couple early in the morning, and another string

Re: [newbie] Damn newbie user!

2003-09-21 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 18:48, Anne Wilson wrote: Even stranger - I didn't see anything here, and most of the UK press is owned by an Ozzie Anne Mostly cuz Aussies don't whinge too much about anything. We don't freak out when the blowies come...just sit tight and take it. Ditto with the

Re: [newbie] Great Article on Trusted Computing

2003-09-21 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 8:04 am, Thomas Williams wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 20:00:33 -0400 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... First of all, the companies that constitute the Trusted Computing Group include many of the heavyweights of the personal computer industry -- Microsoft, IBM,

Re: [newbie] Great Article on Trusted Computing

2003-09-21 Thread HaywireMac
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 03:04:11 -0400 Thomas Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Of course you realize what this really means? Should this get implemented, everyone here in the US will start going over the border to get their computers and/or only run Linux on it. grin The SNAFU Principle:

Re: [newbie] Damn newbie user!

2003-09-21 Thread HaywireMac
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:04:25 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Yet - the entire world has to know about a storm that hits the US...strange that is, don't ya reckon? ya, I reckon. but not so strange when you take into account the... uh, I don't want to get started on that

Re: [newbie] hdd speed problem

2003-09-21 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 20 Sep 2003 8:16 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote: I am having still problem with hdd speed. SNIP /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.37 seconds =345.95 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 4.17 seconds = 15.35 MB/sec [EMAIL PROTECTED] lvgandhi]# hdparm -i /dev/hda

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-21 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 8:49 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Yank, man pages are great once you have a bit of experience under the belt. For a true newbie, many ar totally inpenetrable. Agreed, but I'm not a newbie and IME, man pages are almost useless for how do I do x. apropos doesn't work because the

Re: [newbie] Damn newbie user!

2003-09-21 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 18:10, Sharrea Day wrote: On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 20:04, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Three weeks ago the south-eastern coast of Australia was hit with winds that blasted us in excess of 140kph - causing damage and panic, loss of power and utilities, homes, a few lives - how come

Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer

2003-09-21 Thread mooney
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 09:07, Dale Huckeby wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, John Richard Smith wrote: Dale Huckeby wrote: I created a 600dpi scanned A4 colour page .jpg file of 3.4Mb, in gimp, which took just over 3 minutes to print from the moment the page loaded to final ejection from

Re: [newbie] Great Article on Trusted Computing

2003-09-21 Thread HaywireMac
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 10:45:29 +0100 Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Even more worrying is that it would effectively outlaw Linux. Exactement, and in doing so, would drive us underground, fulfilling the principle I noted, and effectively disarm the powers-that-be utterly. Look what the

Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer

2003-09-21 Thread Aron Smith
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 23:07, Dale Huckeby wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, John Richard Smith wrote: Dale Huckeby wrote: . . . The time each takes to print one of a sample page, from the time I press the Okay button till the copy slides out, is 18 seconds for Economy Grayscale, 23 seconds for

[newbie] DOWNLOAD: Solaris 10 x86 is back!

2003-09-21 Thread Stephen Kuhn
For those that are sick, twisted, geeky beyond Wesley Crusher standards, the Sun Solaris x86 version 10 OS is back to be downloaded (and supported if you really really want it)...just FYI... http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/solaris-express/sol_index.html Yeehaw! stephen kuhn - owner

Re: [newbie] Re: problem installing mplayer

2003-09-21 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 21:20:22 -0600 Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my defense, I did notice the one that was going to be set on this message and killed it. Believe it or not it was worse. If you are using a script with fortune to do your sig you might consider doing it as fortune -a -s

Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer

2003-09-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 10:34 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 23:07, Dale Huckeby wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, John Richard Smith wrote: Dale Huckeby wrote: . . . The time each takes to print one of a sample page, from the time I press the Okay button till the copy slides out,

[newbie] agpgart error

2003-09-21 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I get hardware error while booting process. checking for new hardware failed Can it be due to this? This is from /var/log/messages. Sep 21 08:16:42 lvghomepc kernel: 0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 nvidia.o Kernel Module 1.0-4496 Wed Jul 16 19:03:09 PDT 2003 Sep 21 08:16:44

Re: [newbie] Scanning Images [SOLVED]

2003-09-21 Thread Marco Verheul
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 15:20, 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

Re: [newbie] Removing lilo

2003-09-21 Thread Scott
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 07:50, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 22:17:01 -0400 yankl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: from man lilo snip - u [device-name] Uninstall lilo by copying the saved boot sector back. The '-s' and '-C' switches may be used with this option. The device-name

Re: [newbie] partitioning for Mandrake 9.1

2003-09-21 Thread Lance Cummings
Hi Derek, Sunday, September 21, 2003, 9:33:47 PM, you wrote: trimmed DJ You have masses of space for your Linux partitions. It does not DJ really matter how you partition it up. Just make sure you have a DJ separate /home partition. That is where your user data goes. So DJ if you ever reinstall

[newbie] Problems formatting cp mount on a floppy

2003-09-21 Thread Johan
Hi, Sometime ago a member had some problems with formatting - msdos - ext2 - mounting and copying files on a floppy. After some tests the following... IF you will use the floppy only on LINUX then there is a advantage using EXT2 over msdos - LONG file names is available. Try the following..if

[newbie] Make a GRUB boot floppy

2003-09-21 Thread Johan
Hi, Sometime ago a member wanted to know how to make a GRUB boot floppy. This is what I do on MDK9.1 and it works every time - and of course I use GRUB as my bootloader on floppy and HD. #su Put floppy in drive #umount /mnt/floppy (just be sure not mounted) #mke2fs /dev/fd0 #mount -t ext2

Re: [newbie] partitioning for Mandrake 9.1

2003-09-21 Thread mike
Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 12:43 pm, Lance Cummings wrote: I am going to give Mandrake 9.1 a look, coming from the MS world. Until I get real comfortable with the idea the Linux can work for me, XP will remain the primary OS on the box, so we start by needing to work around

Re: [newbie] Damn newbie user!

2003-09-21 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 04:10, Sharrea Day wrote: On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 20:04, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Three weeks ago the south-eastern coast of Australia was hit with winds that blasted us in excess of 140kph - causing damage and panic, loss of power and utilities, homes, a few lives - how come

Re: [newbie] Great Article on Trusted Computing

2003-09-21 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 05:47, HaywireMac wrote: On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 03:04:11 -0400 Thomas Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Of course you realize what this really means? Should this get implemented, everyone here in the US will start going over the border to get their computers and/or

Re: [newbie] Great Article on Trusted Computing

2003-09-21 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 05:47, HaywireMac wrote: On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 03:04:11 -0400 Thomas Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Of course you realize what this really means? Should this get implemented, everyone here in the US will start going over the border to get their computers and/or

Re: [newbie] partitioning for Mandrake 9.1

2003-09-21 Thread Marc
On Sunday 21 September 2003 06:43 am, Lance Cummings wrote: I am going to give Mandrake 9.1 a look, coming from the MS world. Until I get real comfortable with the idea the Linux can work for me, XP will remain the primary OS on the box, so we start by needing to work around that a little

Re: [newbie] Great Article on Trusted Computing

2003-09-21 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 06:19:55 -0400 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 10:45:29 +0100 Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Even more worrying is that it would effectively outlaw Linux. Exactement, and in doing so, would drive us underground, fulfilling the

Re: [newbie] partitioning for Mandrake 9.1

2003-09-21 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 10:03, Marc wrote: On Sunday 21 September 2003 06:43 am, Lance Cummings wrote: I am going to give Mandrake 9.1 a look, coming from the MS world. Until I get real comfortable with the idea the Linux can work for me, XP will remain the primary OS on the box, so we

Re: [newbie] Possibly OT - Returned Mail Messages of Unknown Origin

2003-09-21 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 22:40:19 +1000, Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [newbie] Possibly OT - Returned Mail Messages of Unknown Origin: There's a rule for that? Dang... Just when I was going to fire a round of banter at Femme...dang dang

Re: [newbie] Damn newbie user!

2003-09-21 Thread Eric Huff
Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Three weeks ago the south-eastern coast of Australia was hit with winds that blasted us in excess of 140kph - causing damage and panic, loss of power and utilities, homes, a few lives - how come y'all don't hear a damn thing about that back in Yankland?

[newbie] test

2003-09-21 Thread BEZIER Database e Web Service
test --- Giuseppe Urru Databases Developer BEZIER Database e Web Service via S.Ignazio, 24 09098 TERRALBA (Or) Web: www.bezier.it Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Want to buy your Pack or Services

[newbie] Re: partitioning for Mandrake 9.1

2003-09-21 Thread Björn Lundin
Lance Cummings wrote: Hi Derek, Sunday, September 21, 2003, 9:33:47 PM, you wrote: trimmed DJ You have masses of space for your Linux partitions. It does not DJ really matter how you partition it up. Just make sure you have a DJ separate /home partition. That is where your user data

Re: [newbie] Removing lilo

2003-09-21 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Saturday 20 September 2003 10:16 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 20 September 2003 07:41 pm, Scott wrote: Hello I want to take a slave hard drive out of a box that I gave to my daughter and install it my box. The primary drive in her box has XP on it. How do I remove lilo from

Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer

2003-09-21 Thread Dale Huckeby
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 10:34 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 23:07, Dale Huckeby wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, John Richard Smith wrote: snip So how about taking a 600dpi scanned file in either .pnm or .jpg of an A4 colour page(it can be

Re: [newbie] Possibly OT - Returned Mail Messages of Unknown Origin

2003-09-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 3:43 pm, Dick Gevers wrote: On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 22:40:19 +1000, Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [newbie] Possibly OT - Returned Mail Messages of Unknown Origin: There's a rule for that? Dang... Just when I was going to fire a round of banter at

Re: [newbie] partitioning for Mandrake 9.1

2003-09-21 Thread Eric Huff
Lance Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DJ You have masses of space for your Linux partitions. It does I do have masses of space (I didn't even mention the scsi subsystemg), but a lot of it is currently spoken for. If I understand the install docs correctly, the Mandrake installer will

Re: [newbie] partitioning for Mandrake 9.1

2003-09-21 Thread Aron Smith
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 07:23, ed tharp wrote: On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 10:03, Marc wrote: On Sunday 21 September 2003 06:43 am, Lance Cummings wrote: I am going to give Mandrake 9.1 a look, coming from the MS world. Until I get real comfortable with the idea the Linux can work for me,

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-21 Thread Aron Smith
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 06:00, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 21 September 2003 03:49 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Yank, man pages are great once you have a bit of experience under the belt. For a true newbie, many ar totally inpenetrable. Anne Exactly. What was it that somebody said once?

Re: [newbie] Removing lilo

2003-09-21 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 21 September 2003 10:01 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Saturday 20 September 2003 10:16 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 20 September 2003 07:41 pm, Scott wrote: Hello I want to take a slave hard drive out of a box that I gave to my daughter and install it my box. The

Re: [newbie] Update to Cooker how-to?

2003-09-21 Thread Trey Sizemore
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 19:35, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 20 September 2003 03:56 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: Anyone successfully running a box exclusively from Cooker sources? What is the command to update a machine to Cooker? Tom B. had a good script for this urpmi.update -a -f --wget

Re: [newbie] Possibly OT - Returned Mail Messages of Unknown Origin

2003-09-21 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Sunday 21 September 2003 04:06 am, Graham Watkins wrote: These aren't what I'm concerned about (although I have been getting them - those are almost certainly virii). What I've been getting are delivery failure messages with no attachments which make me wonder if I'm being used as a

Re: [newbie] xcdroast error

2003-09-21 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Sunday 21 September 2003 04:45 am, Sharrea Day wrote: Because I copied and pasted the command into konsole I forgot to change the speed from 4x. Will try that on the next one. Getting somewhere now anyways... Thanks for your help Bryan. Try at the lowest speed 1x, and then see if it

Re: [newbie] Great Article on Trusted Computing

2003-09-21 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Sunday 21 September 2003 05:45 am, Richard Urwin wrote: On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 8:04 am, Thomas Williams wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 20:00:33 -0400 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... First of all, the companies that constitute the Trusted Computing Group include many of the

Re: [newbie] Removing lilo

2003-09-21 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Sunday 21 September 2003 11:25 am, Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 21 September 2003 10:01 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Saturday 20 September 2003 10:16 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 20 September 2003 07:41 pm, Scott wrote: Hello I want to take a slave hard drive out of a

RE: [newbie] Ford Motor Co. opens arms to Linux!

2003-09-21 Thread Frankie
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brant Fitzsimmons Sent: Tuesday, 16 September 2003 2:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Ford Motor Co. opens arms to Linux! Ronald J. Hall wrote: Thought everyone might be interested in seeing

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-21 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 3:22 pm, Aron Smith wrote: ** The one thing that Programmers are NOT good at is Documentation. That's why Tech Writers exist (unfortunately the good ones find out that writing Science Fiction pays better :-( ). As a programmer: Documenting a program is a good and

[newbie] iptraf

2003-09-21 Thread Chris
Probably a dumb newbie question here on iptraf. Nice app, question though since it has to be run as root from the CL, is it safe to have it running all the time? -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 12:03pm up 18:11, 5

Re: [newbie] Re: problem installing mplayer

2003-09-21 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 21, 2003 05:45 am, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 21:20:22 -0600 Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my defense, I did notice the one that was going to be set on this message and killed it. Believe it or not it was

Re: [newbie] iptraf

2003-09-21 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 6:05 pm, Chris wrote: Probably a dumb newbie question here on iptraf. Nice app, question though since it has to be run as root from the CL, is it safe to have it running all the time? Fairly safe if you do it right. If you make it owned by root and setuid root in a

Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer

2003-09-21 Thread stormjumper
- Original Message - From: Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stormjumper wrote: i presume u're using the Epson C82, since that was model referred to previously in this thread. you compared the speed of printout for windoze and linux, but how's the quality? is there a

Re: [newbie] iptraf

2003-09-21 Thread Chris
On Sunday 21 September 2003 12:35 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 6:05 pm, Chris wrote: Probably a dumb newbie question here on iptraf. Nice app, question though since it has to be run as root from the CL, is it safe to have it running all the time? Fairly safe if you do

Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer

2003-09-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 4:05 pm, Dale Huckeby wrote: Thanks all. Guess it would have been clearer if I had said I don't know what a _color page_ is (still!), or how to create it at ANY given size (not just A4), or dpi resolution, or Mb size. In short, I'm a complete naif when it comes to

Re: [newbie] Update to Cooker how-to?

2003-09-21 Thread Trey Sizemore
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 11:29, Trey Sizemore wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 19:35, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 20 September 2003 03:56 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: Anyone successfully running a box exclusively from Cooker sources? What is the command to update a machine to Cooker? Tom B.

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-21 Thread David Filion
Richard Urwin wrote: On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 3:22 pm, Aron Smith wrote: ** The one thing that Programmers are NOT good at is Documentation. That's why Tech Writers exist (unfortunately the good ones find out that writing Science Fiction pays better :-( ). As a programmer: Documenting a program

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-21 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 7:37 pm, David Filion wrote: Richard Urwin wrote: On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 3:22 pm, Aron Smith wrote: ** The one thing that Programmers are NOT good at is Documentation. That's why Tech Writers exist (unfortunately the good ones find out that writing Science Fiction pays

Re: [newbie] Update to Cooker how-to?

2003-09-21 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 21 September 2003 01:40 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 11:29, Trey Sizemore wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 19:35, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 20 September 2003 03:56 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: Anyone successfully running a box exclusively from Cooker sources?

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-21 Thread David Filion
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 7:37 pm, David Filion wrote: Richard Urwin wrote: On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 3:22 pm, Aron Smith wrote: ** The one thing that Programmers are NOT good at is Documentation. That's why Tech Writers exist (unfortunately the good ones find out that writing

Re[2]: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-21 Thread rikona
Hello Richard, Sunday, September 21, 2003, 3:03:45 AM, you wrote: RU On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 8:49 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Yank, man pages are great once you have a bit of experience under the belt. For a true newbie, many ar totally inpenetrable. RU Agreed, but I'm not a newbie and IME, man

Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer

2003-09-21 Thread Aron Smith
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 08:05, Dale Huckeby wrote: On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 10:34 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 23:07, Dale Huckeby wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, John Richard Smith wrote: snip So how about taking a 600dpi scanned file in

Re[2]: [newbie] Damn newbie user!

2003-09-21 Thread rikona
Hello Eric, Sunday, September 21, 2003, 7:47:15 AM, you wrote: Yet - the entire world has to know about a storm that hits the US...strange that is, don't ya reckon? EH Why is that? Is that because of a lot of US owned newscasts? Why EH does the rest of the world care so much about a hurrican

Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer

2003-09-21 Thread Mark
I'll share with you what I determined from recent research on printers that work well on Linux. Two manufacturers are very supportive of Linux drivers and opensource in general: Epson and HP. Epson printers tend to be very good picture quality, but the printhead is not replaceable. They

[newbie] Downloading skins

2003-09-21 Thread Curt Tresenriter
Why does my browser open a page and begin filling with code when I attempt to download a skin for xmms? -- Imagination is more important than knowledge. ~ Einstein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re[2]: [newbie] Great Article on Trusted Computing

2003-09-21 Thread rikona
Hello Bryan, Sunday, September 21, 2003, 9:02:46 AM, you wrote: BP it will be on/off enabled, Only if this is forced by us. This is not the desires of those pushing the idea. BP The result will be that people will still buy the same computers BP but you will have two choices, either you run

Re: [newbie] xcdroast error

2003-09-21 Thread John Richard Smith
Sharrea Day wrote: On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 00:28, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Saturday 20 September 2003 01:39 am, Sharrea Day wrote: Well I'm real glad to hear I'm not the only one. I had 7 coasters and thought it had something to do with that error when trying to copy a music CD. So can

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-21 Thread Heather/Femme
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 22:39:22 -0400 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 22:31:14 -0400 yankl [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: whack ROTFLMAO! Ok, back to reality, you just wasted 5 minutes of your life you will never get back... ;-) -- HaywireMac Agreed. Plus Man

Re: [newbie] urpmi --auto-select

2003-09-21 Thread RichardA
On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 13:20:49 -0400, Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The --update switch tells urpmi to update the system from the *update urpmi source only*. Examples: urpmi --updates --auto-select will update everything from the *updates* urpmi source. urpmi --auto-select

Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer

2003-09-21 Thread John Richard Smith
Dale Huckeby wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, John Richard Smith wrote: Dale Huckeby wrote: . . . The time each takes to print one of a sample page, from the time I press the Okay button till the copy slides out, is 18 seconds for Economy Grayscale, 23 seconds for Economy, 28 seconds for

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-21 Thread yankl
On Sunday 21 September 2003 06:03 am, Richard Urwin wrote: On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 8:49 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Yank, man pages are great once you have a bit of experience under the belt. For a true newbie, many ar totally inpenetrable. Agreed, but I'm not a newbie and IME, man pages are

Re: [newbie] Possibly OT - Returned Mail Messages of Unknown Origin

2003-09-21 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 08:09, Heather/Femme wrote: a and I was so looking forward to it! FF ...and I just grew some tits...dang... stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com

Re: [newbie] Ford Motor Co. opens arms to Linux!

2003-09-21 Thread Aron Smith
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 02:42, Frankie wrote: God I love Ford, I have been a ford fan for many years, and this is another reason why who knows, one day the falcons might have an embeeded linux running the engine too.. that would be cool, being able to tell people my car

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

2003-09-21 Thread Iwan Binanto
My camera is Mercury. I think it is a new camera product. I'm not using a Memory Card; just using the default's camera. In M$ Win98, I try to connect to my camera; I must install it's driver, and it is work. In M$ Win98's Windows Explorer, I've get a new drive; that is my camera's FAT. From this

Re: [newbie] Ford Motor Co. opens arms to Linux!

2003-09-21 Thread Mark
He's not sick, he's educated. Having worked in BOTH Ford and GM engineering, I can tell you which company has it's act together. Mark - FORD driver. Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 02:42, Frankie wrote: God I love Ford, I have been a ford fan for many years, and this is another

[newbie] Comp shutdown looses / and /var

2003-09-21 Thread Dennis Myers
I seem to have a heat problem with a 750mhz Duron. It may be the power supply or the cpu not sure, but believe it to be the cpu. Anyway the lm_sensors shows a 60c in the case I think and when I am gone and it sits for a while it will reboot. I then can rescue, it seems to have lost the /

Re: [newbie] Ford Motor Co. opens arms to Linux!

2003-09-21 Thread Greg
Dont even get me started Greg Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 02:42, Frankie wrote: God I love Ford, I have been a ford fan for many years, and this is another reason why who knows, one day the falcons might have an embeeded linux running

Re: [newbie] iptraf

2003-09-21 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 21 September 2003 07:23 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 03:05, Chris wrote: Probably a dumb newbie question here on iptraf. Nice app, question though since it has to be run as root from the CL, is it safe to have it running all the time? Yes and No. Yes when

[newbie] Looking for Linux system libs

2003-09-21 Thread Mike Adolf
Greetings All. I am working through the instructions for building a lexmark z55 sample print driver. I was asked to check for the presence of two system libraries (sigc++ and gtkmm) using 'pkg-config --list-all | grep sigc++'. pkg-config failed with the message:

Re: [newbie] Ford Motor Co. opens arms to Linux!

2003-09-21 Thread Aron Smith
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 18:25, Mark wrote: He's not sick, he's educated. Having worked in BOTH Ford and GM engineering, I can tell you which company has it's act together. Mark - FORD driver.Found on Roadside Dead Fix OR Replace Daily ;-) Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-22 at

Re: [newbie] My clock is fast

2003-09-21 Thread Aron Smith
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 17:51, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 07:48, Pete Stean wrote: Being that time is relative, you might be in a situation where you're actually travelling faster than light, which would cause time to appear to slow down. If that is, in fact, the case, then

Re: [newbie] Ford Motor Co. opens arms to Linux!

2003-09-21 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 09:57, Aron Smith wrote: God knows Holden/Chevy is a Real Blokes vehicle... Chevorlet = Cracked Heads Every Valve Rattles Engine Trash Sorry - I forgot about the po'folk - down yonder in the land of the gene puddle - where the family tree has one branch...(g) Y'all got

Re: [newbie] Comp shutdown looses / and /var

2003-09-21 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 21:29, Dennis Myers wrote: I seem to have a heat problem with a 750mhz Duron. It may be the power supply or the cpu not sure, but believe it to be the cpu. Anyway the lm_sensors shows a 60c in the case I think and when I am gone and it sits for a while it will reboot.

Re: [newbie] Ford Motor Co. opens arms to Linux!

2003-09-21 Thread Greg
I would rather buy a Chevrolet then get a ford for fee HeHe Greg Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 09:57, Aron Smith wrote: God knows Holden/Chevy is a Real Blokes vehicle... Chevorlet = Cracked Heads Every Valve Rattles Engine Trash Sorry - I forgot about the

  1   2   >