[newbie-it] Mandrake e RAID/IDE

2003-09-24 Thread Rocco
Saluti a tutta la ML, tempo fa ho postato una richiesta di aiuto su come far riconoscere a Mandrake 9.1 il controller RAID/IDE integrato con la mia Sk madre. Devo dire che ho ricevuto solo qualche piccolo suggerimento che assieme alle mie continue ricerche in internet mi hanno permesso ad oggi

[newbie-it] Help sulla Mailing List

2003-09-24 Thread BEZIER Database e Web Service
Un saluto a tutti, sono da poco iscritto alla mailing list ed ho però qualche dubbio sul suo funzionamento. UNa volta iscritto, oensavo che, come in altre mailing list i messaggi arrivassero via mail a tutti quanti (me compreso che lo ho inviato), invece mi sembra di capire che non è così. Per

[newbie-it] Ricerca nelle fonti

2003-09-24 Thread Luigi Beltramini
salve, come si fa' col comando urpm a cercare tra le fonti disponibili un pacchetto rpm contenente una certa stringa nel proprio nome e poi ad averne la descrizione?

Re: [newbie-it] I tedeschi ci hanno preso gusto

2003-09-24 Thread Andrea Celli
Alle 19:47, martedì 23 settembre 2003, NIC ha scritto: La decisione della città di Monaco.. Altre 9 città nel palatinato della Renania, compresa la capitale Mainz, stanno seriamente considerando l'ipotesi di rimpiazzare con Linux la maggior parte se non tutti i software Microsoft in

[newbie-it] Test

2003-09-24 Thread BEZIER Database e Web Service
Scusate, è solo un test per vedere se ora ricevo i post della mailing list ---Giuseppe UrruDatabases DeveloperBEZIER Database e Web Servicevia S.Ignazio, 2409098 TERRALBA (Or)Web: www.bezier.itMail: [EMAIL

[newbie-it] Stampanti

2003-09-24 Thread BEZIER Database e Web Service
UN saluti a tutti, finalmente adesso invio e ricevo i post dalla mailing list. Volevo porvi da subito un quesito. Ho 3 pc in rete: 1 con w98, 1 con win XP ed uno con Mandrake 9.1 Power Pack. Sul pc con Mandrake ho installato una stampante a getto d'inchiostro Epson Stylus Photo 870 su porta

Re:[newbie-it] Help sulla Mailing List

2003-09-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Un saluto a tutti, sono da poco iscritto alla mailing list ed ho però qualche dubbio sul suo funzionamento. UNa volta iscritto, oensavo che, come in altre mailing list i messaggi arrivassero via mail a tutti quanti (me compreso che lo ho inviato), invece mi sembra di capire che non è così.

Re: [newbie-it] Mandrake e RAID/IDE

2003-09-24 Thread Giacomo
Alle 06:23, mercoledì 24 settembre 2003, Rocco ha scritto: Saluti a tutta la ML, tempo fa ho postato una richiesta di aiuto su come far riconoscere a Mandrake 9.1 il controller RAID/IDE integrato con la mia Sk madre. Devo dire che ho ricevuto solo qualche piccolo suggerimento che assieme

Re: [newbie-it] disinstallazione

2003-09-24 Thread Fabio Manunza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 18:49, martedì 23 settembre 2003, NIC ha scritto: Ho installato un file tar.bz2. Ora vorrei sapere come si fa a disinstallarlo completamente dal sistema. Grazie a tutti NIC A meno che non sia presente uno script di disinstallazione, lo fai a

Re: [newbie-it] disinstallazione

2003-09-24 Thread Giacomo
Alle 15:24, mercoledì 24 settembre 2003, Fabio Manunza ha scritto: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 18:49, martedì 23 settembre 2003, NIC ha scritto: Ho installato un file tar.bz2. Ora vorrei sapere come si fa a disinstallarlo completamente dal sistema. Grazie a tutti

[newbie-it] messaggi_sympa

2003-09-24 Thread Piter
Mi sono accorto che alcune volte non mi arrivano le mail della ML, così come a volte non arrivano in ML quelle che scrivo io, ad esempio alla mia e-mail con titolo syslog e messages del Sat, 20 Sep 2003 21:44:02 ha risposto Mike (grazie MIke), ma io ho letto la risposta oggi curiosando

Re: [newbie-it] messaggi_sympa

2003-09-24 Thread Piero Piutti
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 19:02, Piter wrote: succede anche a voi? si. io ho postato una risposta x Rev. Ferris circa l'aggiornamento di Mozilla 1.4, risposta che non è mai arrivata in ML. meno male che gli ho postato lo stesso messaggio in CC, spero che almeno così i miei consigli gli

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-24 Thread RichardA
On 24 Sep 2003 05:30:42 +0700, Merlin Zener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe the helpful answerers expect things too. Someone suggested [I'm sorry, I don't know who - Evolution is acting up again: emails open up with blank windows - but that's a topic for another thread] that I try locate, but

[newbie] Where to set PATH

2003-09-24 Thread Jure Repinc
Hi, In which file do I set system wide path and in which file do I set path only for specific user? Thanks in advance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Where to set PATH

2003-09-24 Thread Raffaele Belardi
system-wide: /etc/profile.d/local.sh (if it does not exist, create it) user: ~/.bashrc (if you use bash) raf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, In which file do I set system wide path and in which file do I set path only for specific user? Thanks in advance. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] more refresh and modeline fun follies

2003-09-24 Thread Richard Urwin
On Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 4:39 am, Lance Cummings wrote: 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.

Re: [newbie] refresh rate

2003-09-24 Thread Anarky
Scott wrote: Actually it's probably /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 on your system. this is what I have in there .. what / where do I have to add to set it to 85? (I don't know my monitor type .. so I selected soemthing generic) --- Section Monitor Identifier monitor1

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 1:37 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 13:18:10 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OTOH, I had been dutifully opening a console and using su to do maintenance jobs, but closing it to return to user. It was a year later before anyone

[newbie] installing anacron - newbie question...

2003-09-24 Thread Merlin Zener
In the thread: Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 14:35, RichardA wrote: [...snip] While you're at it, install anacron, too, unless you leave your computer on 24/7. When you boot, it starts the tasks that cron didn't do whilst the PC was off. This includes an updatedb every

Re: [newbie] more refresh and modeline fun follies

2003-09-24 Thread Lance Cummings
Hi Richard, Wednesday, September 24, 2003, 6:01:57 PM, you wrote: trimmed where appropriate RU On Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 4:39 am, Lance Cummings wrote: It's possible they are all wrong. RU Not at all. They are all using different dot clock frequencies to give RU you the same display. Well

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-24 Thread Merlin Zener
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 10:04, Charlie M. wrote: [...snip snip] I'll accept the apology if you'll accept mine, then we'll call it even and start over. OK? (-: Even. Sounds good to me. Thanks, Charlie. Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups --

[newbie] mailwasher style filter/spam stopper for Evolution?

2003-09-24 Thread Merlin Zener
Hi, I had a look at Spamassassin but AFAICT it filters on messages already downloaded. I just finished downloading today's email, and aside from list mail which I have going to their individual folders, my inbox had 82 messages in it, and only 4 of them were not spam and/or viruses. When I was

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-24 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 13:18, Anne Wilson wrote: snip OTOH, I had been dutifully opening a console and using su to do maintenance jobs, but closing it to return to user. It was a year later before anyone actually mentioned that if you type 'exit' you don't need to close it :-) Anne Or

[newbie] Availability of 9.2 Final ISOs

2003-09-24 Thread Charles A Edwards
To keep list-members updated, unless a 'show-stopper' is found, the 9.2 Final ISOs should be available to Club members and contributors by the end of this week. These same ISOs will be made available to the general public at approx the end of Oct, at same time the box set becomes avaiable.

RE: [newbie] network problem?

2003-09-24 Thread Burrows, Scott
Forgive my ignorance Paul, insn't Samba used to allow Windows users to connect to and use Linux stuff? Scott -Original Message- From: Paul Kaplan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 9:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] network problem? I am

Re: [newbie] network problem?

2003-09-24 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Scott, it is used both ways, i.e to see linux disk from windows and viceversa. In the former case you need the samba server, in the latter the client. Paul, I did this rather a long time ago so I'm not sure I really didn't have to do any configuration for the client. Currently I only need to

[newbie] Can't open Mozilla while Thunderbird is running?

2003-09-24 Thread Terry Sheltra
I've just installed Thunderbird 0.2. One problem I have is that while I'm using it, I can't run Mozilla (even if I try to start it without clicking on some link in an email message). I read around Bugzilla about this problem, but have absolutely no idea what people are talking about (I'm not

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-24 Thread John Wilson
On September 23, 2003 10:41 pm, dlwiggers wrote: On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:17:58 -0700 John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] mailwasher style filter/spam stopper for Evolution?

2003-09-24 Thread rikona
Hello Merlin, Wednesday, September 24, 2003, 6:33:44 AM, you wrote: MZ my inbox had 82 messages in it, and only 4 of them were not spam MZ and/or viruses. Spamassassin can place the score either in the headers or as text in the body. You might use this in your email client to filter the spam to

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-24 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 08:03:12 -0700 John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On September 23, 2003 10:41 pm, dlwiggers wrote: On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:17:58 -0700 John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On September 23, 2003 01:24 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Thank you for a great exposition of

Re: [newbie] Best update website??

2003-09-24 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 10:02 am, Johan wrote: Hi, MDK 9.1 1) Have done updating via MCC 2) Urpmi - sites from EASY urpmi 3) Downloaded the lot from site including /base/hdlist.cz - written to CD. This saved me a lot of grief - drive crashed and had reinstall - update now easy to that

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 2:45 pm, Douglas Bainbridge wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 13:18, Anne Wilson wrote: snip OTOH, I had been dutifully opening a console and using su to do maintenance jobs, but closing it to return to user. It was a year later before anyone actually mentioned that

Re: [newbie] mailwasher style filter/spam stopper for Evolution?

2003-09-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 4:10 pm, rikona wrote: Hello Merlin, Wednesday, September 24, 2003, 6:33:44 AM, you wrote: MZ my inbox had 82 messages in it, and only 4 of them were not spam MZ and/or viruses. Spamassassin can place the score either in the headers or as text in the body. You

[newbie] Loosing Chinese users?

2003-09-24 Thread Anguo
This was posted by jeff at MandrakeClub. Does anyone knows more about it??? If this is the last one before 9.2 final, I am sure Mandrake will lose most users from Taiwan and Hong Kong. They will switch to RedHat for much better Chinese support. 9.2rc1 and

Re: [newbie] more refresh and modeline fun follies

2003-09-24 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 4:39 am, Lance Cummings wrote: One thing that might help me decide if I want to take a chance on one of these modelines: Can anyone reading this input your own numbers to any of the three generators and get a modeline that matches the one that you are using in

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

2003-09-24 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 10:26, Carroll Grigsby wrote: And don't forget your white business socks. -- cmg In years of dealing with corporate environmental standards, I've found that there are really nice, thick, comfortable COLOURED socks that fit the bill of the standard white tube socks.

Re: [newbie] load average

2003-09-24 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 15:46, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: On Monday 22 September 2003 13:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's the result of some commands, as top! And I got the idea from some aussie (ex-yankie dude). :-) And it changes at every 5 minutes! Ricardo

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

2003-09-24 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 12:56, Aron Smith wrote: Yeah. Honda. They build them in Alabama Being that the factory is literally run by computer and robots, they had to locate the plant in a place where people's minds and intelligence was not an important factor. So Alabama was the best choice.

Re: [newbie] CD-writer fails with CD-R but not CD-RW

2003-09-24 Thread John Richard Smith
Douglas Bainbridge wrote: Hi, Can anyone help? I have been struggling with this problem for ages, RTFM etc. hasn't resolved it for me. MDK9.1. Using cdrecord on the CLI. My Sony CD-writer writes happily to a Toshiba CD-RW, multi-session ,etc. no problem; but I cannot write anything to a CD-R

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-24 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 03:27 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: snip Note that if you do your nix learning on the newbie list it may take a few years, and you may bump in to an Aussie or two, but sooner or later it all comes here. Lee Auusies aren't so bad. They're just

Re: [newbie] Loosing Chinese users?

2003-09-24 Thread Miark
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 00:10:43 +0800, Anguo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This was posted by jeff at MandrakeClub. Does anyone knows more about it??? The English version of Red Flag sucked--we're even. ;-) Miark If this is the last one before 9.2 final, I

Re: [newbie] Loosing Chinese users?

2003-09-24 Thread Anguo
I had a look at bugzilla: this and similar bugs have been reported and hopefully someone is working on it... -- In the news: Display Works Inc. Interview: A company explains how and why they have used kDE on their office desktops for over a year. We evaluated a number of desktops

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-24 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 24, 2003 07:00 am, Merlin Zener wrote: [..] I'll accept the apology if you'll accept mine, then we'll call it even and start over. OK? (-: Even. Sounds good to me. Thanks, Charlie. Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all

Re: [newbie] Loosing Chinese users?

2003-09-24 Thread Anguo
The English version of Red Flag sucked--we're even. ;-) Miark Even with whom FYI, Red Flag is a communist chinese distribution. The commies use simplified chinese, which I read work well in 9.2rc2. So you may have got an broken-English Red Flag from them, but they get a good simplified

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-24 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 19:50:41 + Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 24 September 2003 03:27 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: snip Note that if you do your nix learning on the newbie list it may take a few years, and you may bump in to an Aussie or two, but sooner or

Re: [newbie] Where to set PATH

2003-09-24 Thread Johan
After saving the file 1- Did you restart OR 2- source filename If you have not done one of the above it will not show in echo $PATH Enjoy Johan - Original Message - From: Jure Repinc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 11:36 AM Subject: Re: [newbie]

Re: [newbie] Best update website??

2003-09-24 Thread Johan
Hi Derek, Kindly the full link for club internet if possible please Johan - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 5:35 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Best update website?? On Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 10:02 am, Johan

[newbie] European Parliament votes for software patents.

2003-09-24 Thread Kaj Haulrich
As expected, the EP voted for the proposal with a huge majority. But just to calm you down a bit : Those of you who live in democratic and free countries may think that it's a real parliament. It certainly is not. The members are not elected, they are appointed by national political parties.

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

2003-09-24 Thread Aron Smith
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 09:48, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 12:56, Aron Smith wrote: Yeah. Honda. They build them in Alabama Being that the factory is literally run by computer and robots, they had to locate the plant in a place where people's minds and intelligence was

Re: [newbie] Can't open Mozilla while Thunderbird is running?

2003-09-24 Thread Sharrea Day
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 02:31, Terry Sheltra wrote: I've just installed Thunderbird 0.2. One problem I have is that while I'm using it, I can't run Mozilla (even if I try to start it without clicking on some link in an email message). I read around Bugzilla about this problem, but have

Re: [newbie] Best update website??

2003-09-24 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 8:14 pm, Johan wrote: Hi Derek, Kindly the full link for club internet if possible please Johan ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/plf/9.1/./i586/ SNIP -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Loosing Chinese users?

2003-09-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 8:54 pm, Miark wrote: On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 02:25:45 +0800, Anguo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The English version of Red Flag sucked--we're even. ;-) Miark Even with whom FYI, Red Flag is a communist chinese distribution. The commies use simplified

[newbie] How to stop script thats running on shutdown

2003-09-24 Thread Johan
Hi, I have this script thats runningto stop it the command ..avguard stopis required. If I forget to stop it the system hangs forever on shutdown. What I like to know is... 1-Where in a global way to stop it 2-Where in a user way to stop it. 3-Anything else I should know please.

Re: [newbie] How to stop script thats running on shutdown

2003-09-24 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 02:45 pm, Johan wrote: Hi, I have this script thats runningto stop it the command ..avguard stopis required. If I forget to stop it the system hangs forever on shutdown. What I like to know is... 1-Where in a global way to stop it 2-Where in a user

[newbie] ADDING useful urpmi commands

2003-09-24 Thread Johan
Hi, There seem to be a lot of questions about using urpmi - I myself need a lots of info.. Kindly find an attachment with useful urpmi.. etc..commands that I use. Please add some of your own that you use and maybe of some use to list-members. Using/adding to the attachment will make it easy to

Re: [newbie] Loosing Chinese users?

2003-09-24 Thread Miark
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 02:25:45 +0800, Anguo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The English version of Red Flag sucked--we're even. ;-) Miark Even with whom FYI, Red Flag is a communist chinese distribution. The commies use simplified chinese, which I read work well in 9.2rc2. So you may

Re: [newbie] CD-writer fails with CD-R but not CD-RW

2003-09-24 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 18:26, John Richard Smith wrote: Douglas Bainbridge wrote: snip cdrecord: OPC failed I believe it is saying that the drive has failed. That could mean anything. Maybe the drive isn't set up right for cdrecord to work with it. or maybe the driver doesn't work with

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-24 Thread Aron Smith
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 12:50, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 24 September 2003 03:27 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: snip Note that if you do your nix learning on the newbie list it may take a few years, and you may bump in to an Aussie or two, but sooner or later it all comes here.

Re: [newbie] CD-writer fails with CD-R but not CD-RW

2003-09-24 Thread John Richard Smith
Douglas Bainbridge wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 18:26, John Richard Smith wrote: Douglas Bainbridge wrote: snip cdrecord: OPC failed I believe it is saying that the drive has failed. That could mean anything. Maybe the drive isn't set up right for cdrecord to work with it. or maybe

Re: [newbie] network problem?

2003-09-24 Thread Paul Kaplan
Raffaele, Thank you for pointing out what I so foolishly omitted. The command should be smbmount3 //server/directory /mountpoint so smbmount knows what to mount and where to mount it. Doh! Paul On Wednesday 24 September 2003 10:28 am, Raffaele Belardi wrote: Scott, it is used both ways, i.e

Re: [newbie] installing anacron - newbie question...

2003-09-24 Thread RichardA
On 24 Sep 2003 20:00:52 +0700, Merlin Zener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I don't know where to go next from here... I got slocate installed ok but not anacron: [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# urpmi anacron no package named anacron You should be able to install it. Do you have a 'main'

[newbie] USB PALM Sync woes continue

2003-09-24 Thread Max . Benitz
Thanks very much for the helpful links with instructions on how to set up a Palm USB Mandrake sync, but I'm still unable to do it. Here is the error message I get when I press the hotsync button first and follow all the other directions: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dev]# pilot-xfer -p /dev/ttyUSB1 -b

Re: [newbie] USB PALM Sync woes continue

2003-09-24 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 17:50:38 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I doubt that visor usb-uhc1 should be unused. I've spent over 10 hours trying to get this to work, scouring google, and I've come to the conclusion that something's good and broken. The palm is set to use USB for sync, every

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages, slight OT hijack..sorry!

2003-09-24 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 24, 2003 07:06 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: [..] OK In the RUTE manual it says if you're in cli mode, best wya to powerdown is use three finger salut. Why not use shutdown or reboot -now? Is that wise (rutes suggestion..) or out of

Re: [newbie] European Parliament votes for software patents.

2003-09-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 04:54 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: As expected, the EP voted for the proposal with a huge majority. But just to calm you down a bit : But that wasn't all was it? I heard that amendments were made that might actually offer hope for us...and that its still not the

[newbie] Another MIcro$ux triump

2003-09-24 Thread Aron Smith
From: Speakeasy Network Bulletin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Speakeasy Members [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ Speakeasy ] Security Update: MS Operating System Vulnerabilities Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 15:27:55 -0700 (PDT) Dear Speakeasy Members, The following notice is provided as

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages, slight OT hijack..sorry!

2003-09-24 Thread Heather/Femme
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 13:09:20 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like paper. I print out man pages, HOW-TOs, TWiki pages g and everything else that seems to help. I buy books, too. I posted a question about symlinks some time ago because I had followed the instructions in the

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages, slight OT hijack..sorry!

2003-09-24 Thread Heather/Femme
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 22:08:00 -0600 Charlie M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Heather if you're at the command line interface the best way to shut down is type: halt enter If you just want a reboot type: reboot enter It may all be outdated but it still works. It's what I use the rare

Re: [newbie] Rant: The man pages

2003-09-24 Thread yankl
On Wednesday 24 September 2003 08:09 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 11:02 am, HaywireMac wrote: On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:13:07 -0700 John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: By the same logic you seem to suggest tossing a nonswimmer into the 20 foot end of a pool and say

[newbie] CD-writer fails with CD-R but not CD-RW

2003-09-24 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
Hi, Can anyone help? I have been struggling with this problem for ages, RTFM etc. hasn't resolved it for me. MDK9.1. Using cdrecord on the CLI. My Sony CD-writer writes happily to a Toshiba CD-RW, multi-session ,etc. no problem; but I cannot write anything to a CD-R (I've tried Sony Supremas,