[newbie-it] Errore Sound Server

2003-09-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ciao a tutti, mi è capitata una cosa strana con l' installazione di Mandrake 9.1, su di un vecchio Pentium 133 , 64 Mb Ram ( che un vecchio amico mi ha pregato di preparagli perchè voleva esplorare il mondo Linux), ho configurato la scheda audio ( una Sound Blaster Pro 2) con sndcondig e fin lì

[newbie-it] upgrade mozilla 1.3.1

2003-09-23 Thread Rev.Ferris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciao a tutti! Ho necessita` di aggiornare il mozilla dalla 1.3.1(ho Mdk 9.1) alla 1.4 (almeno). Ho scaricato l'rpm per la mandrake ma usando urpmi mi dice che devo disinstallare il mondo, usando rpm -Uvh mi dice: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ferris]# rpm -Uvh

Re: [newbie-it] upgrade mozilla 1.3.1

2003-09-23 Thread Eraser Head
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciao a tutti! Ho necessita` di aggiornare il mozilla dalla 1.3.1(ho Mdk 9.1) alla 1.4 (almeno). Ciao! L'upgrade di mozilla alla 1.4 l'ho fatto un po' di tempo fa e siccome la mia memoria fa un po' cilecca potrei non ricordarmi tutto molto

Re: [newbie-it] upgrade mozilla 1.3.1

2003-09-23 Thread Piero Piutti
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 11:36, Rev.Ferris wrote: ma e` possibile che un pacchetto come mozilla non lo si possa upgradare? Infatti si può upgradare a 1.4 senza problemi e mal di pancia con urpmi. Basta aggiungere il repositorio degli rpm di Texstar alla lista di quelli conosciuti da

[newbie-it] decoder e schede dvb

2003-09-23 Thread guido
salve a tutti qualcuno che ha usato su linux il sw multidec (o simili) x schede satell (dvb) grazie

Re: [newbie-it] aiuto

2003-09-23 Thread paolo brusasco
chiedo anch'io umilmente scusa. mi permetto di consigliarti di cercare bene se li trovi come rpm facendo ricerche sui siti mandrake, su www.freshrpm.net, www.sourceforge.net e mille altri, eventualmente con una bella ricerca con un grande motore. se sei veramente un neofita forse fai prima, ti

Re: [newbie-it] upgrade mozilla 1.3.1

2003-09-23 Thread bombadur
*** on Tuesday 23 September 2003 12:21, Piero Piutti wrote: [cut] PS: qualcuno qui usa Gentoo? Esperienze? Consigli? Non io, ma quel tizio che ha il nome di un musicista barocco nell'account; la usa da un po', e ne è molto soddisfatto (devi avere l'accortezza di passare i parametri giusti

Re: [newbie-it] upgrade mozilla 1.3.1

2003-09-23 Thread Rev.Ferris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 12:21, martedì 23 settembre 2003, Piero Piutti ha scritto: On Tuesday 23 September 2003 11:36, Rev.Ferris wrote: ma e` possibile che un pacchetto come mozilla non lo si possa upgradare? Infatti si può upgradare a 1.4 senza problemi e mal

[newbie-it] disinstallazione

2003-09-23 Thread NIC
Ho installato un file tar.bz2. Ora vorrei sapere come si fa a disinstallarlo completamente dal sistema. Grazie a tutti NIC -- ...siate sempre capaci di sentire nel+profondo qualsiasi ingiustizia commessa contro chiunque,in qualsiasi parte del mondo.È la qualità+bella di un rivoluzionario

[newbie-it] I tedeschi ci hanno preso gusto

2003-09-23 Thread NIC
La decisione della città di Monaco, capitale della Bavaria, di spostare su Linux tutti i loro sistemi desktop, ha causato un sacco di discussione ed è stato valutato come un passo importante per l'affermazione di Linux su desktop. E anche se Microsoft ha provato in tutti i modi a rendere più

Re: [newbie-it] syslog e messages

2003-09-23 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 22:52, sabato 20 settembre 2003, in merito a [newbie-it] syslog e messages, piter ha scritto: Ciao ML, avrei bisogno di sapere se cè qualcuno che gentilmente mi puo indicare dove reperire qualche doc dove viene spiegato nel dettaglio

Re: [newbie-it] syslog e messages

2003-09-23 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 23:44, sabato 20 settembre 2003, in merito a RE: [newbie-it] syslog e messages, piter ha scritto: Ok, risolto: Ho messo un bel DENY a tutto il traffico in ingresso dalla rete 127.0.0.0/8 che transita attraverso ppp0. vorrei fare lo

Re: [newbie-it] Samba

2003-09-23 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 10:13, lunedì 22 settembre 2003, in merito a [newbie-it] Samba, BEZIER Database e Web Service ha scritto: sbaglio, vuol dire scrivibile. Tutte le volte che dalle Risorse di Rete di windows clicco sulla cartella condivisa in Mandrake, mi

[newbie-it] mouse ottico

2003-09-23 Thread Giorgio Griffon
Salve a tutti. Questa sera chiedo informazioni a causa di un mouse ottico della Samsung che funziona solo se lo si muove a una certa velocità. Quando lo si sposta piano il cursore resta fermo. Questo ne rende fastidiosissimo l'uso in quanto anche i piccoli spostamenti vanno compiuti

Re: [newbie-it] Stato di spindown e backup

2003-09-23 Thread Giorgio Griffon
Grazie molte Giuseppe e Mike, le vostre spiegazioni sono eccezionali! Ciao Giorgio _ Rieccomi qui e nei miei veri panni: capitano Pinky Pack delle guardie reali di PINGUNIA! da Topolino e l'ultraghiaccio Topolino n. 597, 7 maggio 1967

Re: [newbie-it] mouse ottico

2003-09-23 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 23:22, martedì 23 settembre 2003, in merito a [newbie-it] mouse ottico, Giorgio Griffon ha scritto: Salve a tutti. Questa sera chiedo informazioni a causa di un mouse ottico della Samsung che funziona solo se lo si muove a una certa

Re: [newbie-it] mouse ottico

2003-09-23 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 22:21, martedì 23 settembre 2003, in merito a Re: [newbie-it] mouse ottico, miKe ha scritto: Alle 23:22, martedì 23 settembre 2003, in merito a [newbie-it] mouse ^^^ ottico, Giorgio Griffon ha scritto: c'è il fuso

[newbie-it] mouse ottico (SOLUZIONE)

2003-09-23 Thread kudega
On 23.09.2003 23:22, Giorgio Griffon wrote: Salve a tutti. Questa sera chiedo informazioni a causa di un mouse ottico della Samsung che funziona solo se lo si muove a una certa velocità. Quando lo si sposta piano il cursore resta fermo. Questo ne rende fastidiosissimo l'uso in quanto anche i

Re: [newbie-it] mouse ottico

2003-09-23 Thread Arwan
E' inutile che tu faccia finta di nulla e ti guardi intorno, caro Giorgio Griffon, perche' ho le prove, il martedì 23 settembre 2003, alle 21:22 hai scritto: Salve a tutti. Questa sera chiedo informazioni a causa di un mouse ottico Da quando in qua hai un topo sbircione? Arwan -- There's

Re: [newbie] CLI downloading

2003-09-23 Thread yankl
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 12:21 am, Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, I've just been using Prozilla, and I like it. It's very similar to DAP for windows. However, some sites seem to prevend the use of this kind of download managers

Re: [newbie] CLI downloading

2003-09-23 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 23 September 2003 01:06 pm, yankl wrote: try to put \ in front of ! so the address should read http://www.overclockedcafe.com/Sandra_standard/OCCsanMAX3\!.zip Thanks yankl, it works! ;p - -- Fajar http://linux.arinet.org Linux

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-23 Thread John Wilson
On September 22, 2003 07:40 pm, yankl wrote: vicously clear cuts a whole forest of words I do not think that we need to embrace every person who like to switch to linux. (I see the stones flying in my direction but bare with me for a second) The *NIX OS is designed for responsible people,

[newbie] KPACKAGE , remote host ?... and GNORPM too.

2003-09-23 Thread Bob
Hi, What's the format for a host URL in Kpack's config setup. I tried both the Use remote host option (which disables all other package formats except DEBIAN) and under the RPM-locations button. Either I get a ROOT LOGIN or error popup from the remote or everything goes well but nothing

Re: [newbie] Mozilla as default email - again

2003-09-23 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Russ wrote: Hi Brant, Thanks for the reply. The same email link in Mozilla browser opens an empty email with the To: field filled in. That same exact link when clicked in Konquerer opens a blank email with the focus on the To: field but not filled in. However, when I choose Kmail as the

Re: [newbie] urpmi --auto-select

2003-09-23 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
RichardA wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] Cheap color inkjet printer

2003-09-23 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
stormjumper wrote: - 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?

Re: [newbie] Newsgroup binary extractor?

2003-09-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 23 Sep 2003 12:00 am, Chris wrote: On Monday 22 September 2003 03:57 am, Bela Markus wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a script to extract binaries from USNET newsgroups automatically. Regards... Bela Use BNR2, downloads and extracts. Linux as well as win version. www.bnr2.org

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 23 Sep 2003 7:43 am, John Wilson wrote: long snip This is how adults learn. And this is how I teach them and have done so for 15 years. Hook em first then throw the dense stuff at them. This is how you and I learn, too. At the moment I deeply regret not having the time to come

Re: [newbie] untarring a backup of windows partition - permission with fat32

2003-09-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 23 Sep 2003 6:16 am, revolt wrote: I want to backup my boss's fresh install of XP to a gzip (on a mandrake partition) on his dell, then be able to ghost his XP back onto the fat32 partition. I have been experimenting in preparation for this and have gotten some errors that I

Re: [newbie] First Steps Vertical Refresh (WAS: partitioning for Mandrake 9.1)

2003-09-23 Thread James Conner
Well, I found it on my MDK9.0 system. Yes, it's in a gui. Mandrake makes it a hidden part of the KDE Control Center. It's called kxconfig. If you type: kdesu -c kxconfig and supply your root password it will show up. Please backup /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 before you do this so you have a way

Re: [newbie] untarring a backup of windows partition - permission with fat32

2003-09-23 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You can use a program called Partimage. Find it in freshmeat.net, I can't remember its website. What great about it is that you can boot your PC using its CD (gentoo based) and then backup (and compressed using tar/gz) each partition you want,

Re: [newbie] Downloading files

2003-09-23 Thread John Richard Smith
Curt Tresenriter wrote: I'm trying to get some xmms skins but every time I hit the link to d/l, the browsers download dialog box doesn't open - a new page does and it begins filling with code. What needs configuring to get the file downloaded? TIA Curt Have you tried d4x downloader. John

Re: [newbie] untarring a backup of windows partition - permission with fat32

2003-09-23 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 16:10:09 +0700 Fajar Priyanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You can use a program called Partimage. Find it in freshmeat.net, I can't remember its website. What great about it is that you can boot your PC using its CD (gentoo

[newbie] refresh rate

2003-09-23 Thread Anarky
I'm in 1024*768 ... but in Linux I dont' know how to change the refresh rate to 85 :-( Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] untarring a backup of windows partition - permission with fat32

2003-09-23 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 23 Sep 2003 6:16 am, revolt wrote: I want to backup my boss's fresh install of XP to a gzip (on a mandrake partition) on his dell, then be able to ghost his XP back onto the fat32 partition. I have been experimenting in preparation for this and have gotten some errors that I

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-23 Thread HaywireMac
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 21:47:09 -0600 Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Smells like protecting the noobs from themselves and I find that slightly distasteful. It's their equipment, if they want to screw it up let them. I will disagree however that RTFM is ever a good stand alone

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-23 Thread HaywireMac
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 23:43:33 -0700 John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: In fact any OS should be designed for responsinle persons. The fact is that our favourite whipping boy is designed that way too, then sold as an OS for morons. You get what you market to. :-) big huge ditto. --

Re: [newbie] refresh rate

2003-09-23 Thread john
On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 10:55, Anarky wrote: I'm in 1024*768 ... but in Linux I dont' know how to change the refresh rate to 85 :-( Try in Mandrake Control Centre -- Nadger - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User No: 169184 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] First Steps Vertical Refresh (WAS: partitioning for Mandrake 9.1)

2003-09-23 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 23 Sep 2003 5:11 am, James Conner wrote: Well, I found it on my MDK9.0 system. Yes, it's in a gui. Mandrake makes it a hidden part of the KDE Control Center. It's called kxconfig. If you type: kdesu -c kxconfig and supply your root password it will show up. Please backup

Re: [newbie] First Steps Vertical Refresh (WAS: partitioning for Mandrake 9.1)

2003-09-23 Thread Lance Cummings
Hi Jim, Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 1:11:54 PM, you wrote: JC Well, I found it on my MDK9.0 system. Yes, it's in a gui. Mandrake makes it JC a hidden part of the KDE Control Center. It's called kxconfig. If you type: JC kdesu -c kxconfig JC and supply your root password it will show up.

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-23 Thread HaywireMac
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 09:24:19 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Thank you for a great exposition of adult learning. Why *should* it be more painful than this? Is it just to protect an elite? even bigger ditto. -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage:

[newbie] Strange Message

2003-09-23 Thread Nadger
Only just re-subbed to list of a long absence. Just got this sms message from sms.kaluga.mts There is no such user (newbie) Putting address into google suggests that this may have happened, in past, on this list. Anyone recall this? -- Nadger - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User No:

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-23 Thread Aron Smith
On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 03:47, HaywireMac wrote: On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 23:43:33 -0700 John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: In fact any OS should be designed for responsinle persons. The fact is that our favourite whipping boy is designed that way too, then sold as an OS for morons. You

Re: [newbie] Strange Message

2003-09-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 23 Sep 2003 12:22 pm, Nadger wrote: Only just re-subbed to list of a long absence. Just got this sms message from sms.kaluga.mts There is no such user (newbie) Putting address into google suggests that this may have happened, in past, on this list. Anyone recall this? Uh-huh!

Re: [newbie] Strange Message

2003-09-23 Thread Nadger
On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 12:26, Anne Wilson wrote: Uh-huh! Are you in for a flame about reading archives g Yup, we've had around 2000 posts about this. Someone in Russia has subscribed for messages to go to his cellphone. There doesn't seem to be any way we can get rid of the bounce

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-23 Thread JM5379
--- Original Message --- From: Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 03:47, HaywireMac wrote: On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 23:43:33 -0700 John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: In fact any OS should be designed for

Re: [newbie] Strange Message

2003-09-23 Thread JM5379
--- Original Message --- From: Nadger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Strange Message Only just re-subbed to list of a long absence. Just got this sms message from sms.kaluga.mts There is no such user (newbie) Putting address into google suggests that this may have

Re: [newbie] untarring a backup of windows partition - permission with fat32

2003-09-23 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 06:21 am, Derek Jennings wrote: If you add the option 'quiet' to the fstab entry for your fat32 partition you will no longer get any complaints about not being able to set permissions. Not sure if it will help your particular problem bit it makes manipulating

Re: [newbie] Strange Message

2003-09-23 Thread Curt Tresenriter
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 06:22 am, Nadger wrote: |Only just re-subbed to list of a long absence. | |Just got this sms message from sms.kaluga.mts | |There is no such user (newbie) | |Putting address into google suggests that this may have happened, in |past, on this list. | |Anyone recall

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-23 Thread dlwiggers
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 03:25:39 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 03:47, HaywireMac wrote: On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 23:43:33 -0700 John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: In fact any OS should be designed for responsinle persons. The fact is that our favourite

[newbie] Single passsword access

2003-09-23 Thread Burrows, Scott
Hi all, I work on a windows lan. I have a an MDK 9.1 box that I'd like to give access to all the windows rescoures like: printers, windows boxes, etc. I set up a printer using the cups system but had to supply that system with a userid and password to access the lan. If I mount a share

Re: [newbie] First Steps Vertical Refresh (WAS: partitioning for Mandrake 9.1)

2003-09-23 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 23 Sep 2003 12:55 pm, Lance Cummings wrote: Hi Derek, Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 7:49:58 PM, you wrote: DJ Hmm that module is not even included in 9.1 Must be why it wouldn't load for me. :) DJ The 'monitor' GUI in Mandrake Control PanelHardware allows you DJ to select a

Re: [newbie] urpmi --auto-select

2003-09-23 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 23, 2003 06:06 am, Ken Walker wrote: Hi Ken; Before anything else, open a super user mode terminal, or in a root console, type urpmi --help. You'll see the flags, syntax and what commands are available and what they do. All i get when

Re: [newbie] techsmith codec

2003-09-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 09:40 am, Anarky wrote: any idea if there is any way of playing back avis with techsmith codec in Linux? Does it have to be that codec? I mean, AVI playback is easily possible with Mplayer, Xine, etc, etc --

Re: [newbie] techsmith codec

2003-09-23 Thread Anarky
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 23 September 2003 09:40 am, Anarky wrote: any idea if there is any way of playing back avis with techsmith codec in Linux? Does it have to be that codec? I mean, AVI playback is easily possible with Mplayer, Xine, etc, etc I know .. generally

Re: [newbie] Downloading files

2003-09-23 Thread Stormjumper
- Original Message - From: Curt Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 02:06 Subject: Re: [newbie] Downloading files On Monday 22 September 2003 12:56 pm, Stormjumper wrote: |have you tried right clicking the link and doing a save as? |or

Re: [newbie] urpmi --auto-select

2003-09-23 Thread RichardA
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 04:01:19 -0400, Brant Fitzsimmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is --update. I apologize for the mistype in my example. I don't think it would do anything at all if you typed in --updates. I believe it would exit and tell you that --updates is not a valid option. As

[newbie] !!! Install problems on compaq server!!!

2003-09-23 Thread Terje Heen
Hi there all. I am a totally newbie folks, and I have tried to install Mandrake 9.1 on a old compac Pentium server (Prosignia 500) with 160 Mb ram. The problem is that Mandrake only detects 16Mb of ram for some reason all thou the system counts 160Mb on POST. The memory consists of 16 Mb onboard

Re: [newbie] First Steps Vertical Refresh (WAS: partitioning for Mandrake 9.1)

2003-09-23 Thread Heather/Femme
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 04:11:54 + James Conner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I found it on my MDK9.0 system. Yes, it's in a gui. Mandrake makes it a hidden part of the KDE Control Center. It's called kxconfig. If you type: kdesu -c kxconfig and supply your root password it will show up.

Re: [newbie] First Steps Vertical Refresh (WAS: partitioning for Mandrake 9.1)

2003-09-23 Thread Heather/Femme
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 19:56:18 +0900 Lance Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jim, OH SNIP! Well I went flying over there to see if this was the solution, but I didn't have much luck. Typed the command in an xterm window, and a GUI dialog comes up asking me for root's password. But after

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

2003-09-23 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 10:07, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Monday 22 September 2003 04:28 am, Frankie wrote: snip U don't hear about GM changing to linux do you??? /snip Yes, I did. Actually GM uses Linux all over. Regards Kaj Haulrich. Chevy's have always been superior to Ford's

[newbie] somehow someway somewhere...

2003-09-23 Thread Duron . Davis
I love y'all. I do. But I think it's time we start seeing other user groups. (How the hell do I get out of here?) It was easy enough to get into this relationship, but now that the newness has warn off, the love is starting to fade. I need more. I need to find my own space. It's not

Re: [newbie] somehow someway somewhere...

2003-09-23 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 23, 2003 12:32 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I love y'all. I do. But I think it's time we start seeing other user groups. (How the hell do I get out of here?) It was easy enough to get into this relationship, but now that the

RE: [newbie] somehow someway somewhere...

2003-09-23 Thread Burrows, Scott
ROFL -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 2:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] somehow someway somewhere... I love y'all. I do. But I think it's time we start seeing other user groups. (How the

Re: [newbie] somehow someway somewhere...

2003-09-23 Thread Cornerstone Community Farm
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 01:42 pm, Charlie M. wrote: It was easy enough to get into this relationship, but now that the newness has warn off, the love is starting to fade. I need more. I need to find my own space. It's not you; it's me. Really. What ever happened to

[newbie] test - ignore this

2003-09-23 Thread robin
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re[4]: [newbie] Great Article on Trusted Computing

2003-09-23 Thread rikona
Hello Richard, Monday, September 22, 2003, 12:11:17 AM, you wrote: RU On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 9:46 pm, rikona wrote: Sunday, September 21, 2003, 9:02:46 AM, Bryan wrote: With China on the horizon to soon adopt Linux, I expect to see major market splits very soon. China may save us after all,

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

2003-09-23 Thread rikona
Hello Anne, Monday, September 22, 2003, 12:31:31 AM, you wrote: AAW Don't want to rain on your parade, rikona, but 'natural language' AW searches never seemed to give me answers either. It is VERY likely that your natural language search was nothing at all like what I am proposing. Just because

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

2003-09-23 Thread rikona
Hello Anne, Monday, September 22, 2003, 12:33:06 AM, you wrote: AW On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 9:16 pm, rikona wrote: (up to the limit of 'good broadcasting'). AW Now that's a novel concept g Are you suggesting that it is as bad in the UK as it is in the ad-inundated US? :-) -- rikona

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

2003-09-23 Thread rikona
Hello yankl, Monday, September 22, 2003, 5:51:31 PM, you wrote: y I think my point was not taken properly. I am sorry it probably my y English (it not even my second language more like fourth). You are doing very well, then. y My point was that people should make a research first and then try

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

2003-09-23 Thread rikona
Hello yankl, Monday, September 22, 2003, 7:40:28 PM, you wrote: y The *NIX OS is designed for responsible people, are we agree on y this? One can be VERY responsible and know nothing about the jargon. Many want it as TOOL, not as a hobby/living/etc. The best tools work well, and are very easy

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

2003-09-23 Thread rikona
Hello John, Monday, September 22, 2003, 11:43:33 PM, you wrote: JW In the early NIX world where the folks hacking away on the system JW were C programmers talking to C programmers It is more like: Cpgmrs tlk w cp hkg awy @ t sym. I remember a magazine that used to publish a puzzle each month.

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

2003-09-23 Thread rikona
Hello Anne, Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 1:24:19 AM, you wrote: AW Any offers? How about a good 'help system'? I'd be willing to contribute. AW It's a challenge, really g Yes, it will certainly be a challenge. :-) How about a help-system list, maybe? -- rikona

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

2003-09-23 Thread rikona
Hello Aron, Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 3:25:39 AM, you wrote: AS RTFM OK but the real newbie is having trouble finding TFM Gee - I thought I was the only one with that problem. :-) -- rikonamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 23 Sep 2003 9:48 pm, rikona wrote: Hello Anne, Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 1:24:19 AM, you wrote: AW Any offers? How about a good 'help system'? I'd be willing to contribute. AW It's a challenge, really g Yes, it will certainly be a challenge. :-) How about a help-system

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 23 Sep 2003 9:19 pm, rikona wrote: Hello Anne, Monday, September 22, 2003, 12:31:31 AM, you wrote: AAW Don't want to rain on your parade, rikona, but 'natural language' AW searches never seemed to give me answers either. It is VERY likely that your natural language search was

Re: [newbie] Damn newbie user!

2003-09-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 23 Sep 2003 9:21 pm, rikona wrote: Hello Anne, Monday, September 22, 2003, 12:33:06 AM, you wrote: AW On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 9:16 pm, rikona wrote: (up to the limit of 'good broadcasting'). AW Now that's a novel concept g Are you suggesting that it is as bad in the UK as it

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-23 Thread Merlin Zener
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 13:31, Charlie M. wrote: [...snip] If you don't want to answer questions then don't. That's simple enough. Just don't try to discourage others from freely sharing what they've learned. Please. But before someone can realistically expect a total newbie to be able

Re: [newbie] refresh rate

2003-09-23 Thread Scott
The refresh rate is set in the Monitor section of /etc/X11/XF86Config. On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 09:46, Anarky wrote: john wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 10:55, Anarky wrote: I'm in 1024*768 ... but in Linux I dont' know how to change the refresh rate to 85 :-( Try in

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

2003-09-23 Thread Aron Smith
On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 13:49, rikona wrote: Hello Aron, Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 3:25:39 AM, you wrote: AS RTFM OK but the real newbie is having trouble finding TFM Gee - I thought I was the only one with that problem. :-) Took me six months to figure out that when a browser opened

Re: [newbie] somehow someway somewhere...

2003-09-23 Thread Aron Smith
On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 11:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I love y'all. I do. But I think it's time we start seeing other user groups. (How the hell do I get out of here?) It was easy enough to get into this relationship, but now that the newness has warn off, the love is starting to fade.

Re: [newbie] Damn newbie user!

2003-09-23 Thread Aron Smith
On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 14:44, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 23 Sep 2003 9:21 pm, rikona wrote: Hello Anne, Monday, September 22, 2003, 12:33:06 AM, you wrote: AW On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 9:16 pm, rikona wrote: (up to the limit of 'good broadcasting'). AW Now that's a novel concept

Re: [newbie] refresh rate

2003-09-23 Thread Scott
Actually it's probably /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 on your system. On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 18:35, Scott wrote: The refresh rate is set in the Monitor section of /etc/X11/XF86Config. On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 09:46, Anarky wrote: john wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 10:55, Anarky wrote:

Re: [newbie] somehow someway somewhere...

2003-09-23 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 01:32 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I love y'all. I do. But I think it's time we start seeing other user groups. (How the hell do I get out of here?) It was easy enough to get into this relationship, but now that the newness has warn off, the love is

Re: [newbie] refresh rate

2003-09-23 Thread Nadger
Actually it's probably /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 on your system. I normally find that putting in my monitor and card gives me 1024 x 768 x 85Hz automatically. John --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.521 / Virus

Re: [newbie] Damn newbie user!

2003-09-23 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 17:45, Aron Smith wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 14:44, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 23 Sep 2003 9:21 pm, rikona wrote: Hello Anne, Monday, September 22, 2003, 12:33:06 AM, you wrote: AW On Sunday 21 Sep 2003 9:16 pm, rikona wrote: (up to the limit of

Re: [newbie] Damn newbie user!

2003-09-23 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 07:45 pm, ed tharp wrote: I am still in love with 'Emma Peale' from the Avengers... Ed: Me too. And we've got some company: http://theavengers.tv/forever/bio-rigg.htm -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-23 Thread yankl
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 02:43 am, John Wilson wrote: snip John (who keeps hoping that by flogging this dead horse it will get up and win the Triple Crown) /snip John sorry by by your logic you set a person, with no previous knowledge, in a car and tell him to drive. Not only that, but

Re: [newbie] somehow someway somewhere...

2003-09-23 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 05:51 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Tuesday 23 September 2003 01:32 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I love y'all. I do. But I think it's time we start seeing other user groups. (How the hell do I get out of here?) It was easy enough to get into this

Re: [newbie] Mozilla as default email - again

2003-09-23 Thread Russ
It works!!! it works!!! Thanks Brant Russ Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Apparently I didn't even think before writing that email. No To: in the mailto: link no To: in the email? WTF? Of course there is a To: in the link. That's what the freaking link is. Try this one on for size. Bam!!!

Re: [newbie] untarring a backup of windows partition - permission with fat32

2003-09-23 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 23 September 2003 04:45 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: urpmi partimage. It's on contrib Lee No, it's a different program. What I mean is this: http://www.partimage.org and http://www.sysresccd.org It's a great backup/cloning tool. - -- Fajar

[newbie] network problem?

2003-09-23 Thread Paul Kaplan
I am trying to connect to a W2K network with Active Directory. I am using Mandrake 9.1 with the samba3rc4 contrib rpms. When I issue smbclient3 //server/directory I get a password prompt for the directory. After entering my password, I get the smb prompt. From there all sub-directories are

Re: [newbie] untarring a backup of windows partition - permission with fat32

2003-09-23 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 08:30:47 +0700 Fajar Priyanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 23 September 2003 04:45 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: urpmi partimage. It's on contrib Lee No, it's a different program. What I mean is this:

Re: [newbie] Damn newbie user!

2003-09-23 Thread Aron Smith
On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 16:45, ed tharp wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 17:45, Aron Smith wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 14:44, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 23 Sep 2003 9:21 pm, rikona wrote: Hello Anne, Monday, September 22, 2003, 12:33:06 AM, you wrote: AW On Sunday 21 Sep

Re: [newbie] untarring a backup of windows partition - permission with fat32

2003-09-23 Thread revolt
Lee Wiggers wrote: On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 08:30:47 +0700 Fajar Priyanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 23 September 2003 04:45 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: urpmi partimage. It's on contrib Lee No, it's a different program. What I mean is

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-23 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 23, 2003 04:30 pm, Merlin Zener wrote: Hi Charlie. I emailed you offlist to apologize but it bounced; I hope you don't mind me taking this opportunity to do it publicly. [for those that missed it, or came in late, I sent a rather hasty

[newbie] more refresh and modeline fun follies

2003-09-23 Thread Lance Cummings
First, a quick thank you to everyone that's chipped in on this. I've run across, and also been pointed toward, several modeline generators. I present to you three of them: 1. http://www.sh.nu/nvidia/gtf.php 2. http://www.dkfz-heidelberg.de/spec/linux/modeline/modeline2.cgi 3.

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

2003-09-23 Thread Aron Smith
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 19:56, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 11:25, 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 Yeah. Honda. They build them in Alabama stephen kuhn

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-23 Thread John Wilson
On September 23, 2003 06:07 pm, yankl wrote: On Tuesday 23 September 2003 02:43 am, John Wilson wrote: snip Oh my. :-) John sorry by by your logic you set a person, with no previous knowledge, in a car and tell him to drive. Not only that, but you put him in the middle of car rally. Before

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-23 Thread John Wilson
On September 23, 2003 01:24 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Thank you for a great exposition of adult learning. Why *should* it be more painful than this? Is it just to protect an elite? Way way back there was a computer priesthood. Computers were these strange things that took up whole floors and

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