Re: [newbie-it] x Paolo Brusasco e non solo

2003-10-02 Thread gigi pinna
n Wednesday 01 October 2003 21:14, you wrote: p.s. il maledetto mplayer mi fa sentire il signore degli anelli solo in inglese. se guardo la lingua selezionata del dvd mi dice italiano. se cerco di selezionare un'altra lingua o riseleziono italiano si inchioda il sistema e devo resettare. non

[newbie-it] Segmentation fault

2003-10-02 Thread AF
Salve. Ho installato un pacchetto rpm (krename per la cronaca) e all'avvio il programma produce questo laconico messaggio: Segmentation fault. Come aggirare il problema? Il pacchetto l'ho scaricato, non l'ho fatto io partendo dai sorgenti. Grazie. Ant -- Per fortuna talvolta gli sviluppatori

Re: [newbie-it] x Paolo Brusasco e non solo

2003-10-02 Thread paolo brusasco
avevo provato qualche mese fa con 9.1 le versioni plf di xine ed ogle e non funzionavano. peraltro con 8.2 e 9.0 mi funzionava xine e non ogle nè mplayer. probabilmente, con la 9.2 mi funzionerà ogle e non xine nè mplayer. magari se ho tempo riprovo ogle che forse è il più gettonato secondo le

Re: [newbie-it] Segmentation fault

2003-10-02 Thread emmepielle
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 14:20:49 +0200 AF [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Salve. Ho installato un pacchetto rpm (krename per la cronaca) e all'avvio il programma produce questo laconico messaggio: Segmentation fault. Come aggirare il problema? Niente di più probabile che hai aggirato qualche

Re: [newbie-it] Segmentation fault

2003-10-02 Thread emmepielle
Allora ora ora ho èprovato la tua stesa senzaione di Segmentation fault con il pacchetto krename-2.8.2-1mdk.i586.rpm sono andato sulla homepage di krename ed ho visto che danno la versione 2.8.0 come stabile quindi superiore a questa da poca stabilità come in quella provata prima da te. Io ho

Re: [newbie-it] Segmentation fault

2003-10-02 Thread AF
Alle 16:21, giovedì 2 ottobre 2003, Michele (emmepielle) ha scritto: Allora ora ora ho èprovato la tua stesa senzaione di Segmentation fault con il pacchetto krename-2.8.2-1mdk.i586.rpm sono andato sulla homepage di krename ed ho visto che danno la versione 2.8.0 come stabile quindi superiore

Re: [newbie-it] Segmentation fault

2003-10-02 Thread AF
Alle 16:21, giovedì 2 ottobre 2003, Michele (emmepielle) ha scritto: Allora ora ora ho èprovato la tua stesa senzaione di Segmentation fault con il pacchetto krename-2.8.2-1mdk.i586.rpm sono andato sulla homepage di krename ed ho visto che danno la versione 2.8.0 come stabile quindi superiore

Re: [newbie-it] x Paolo Brusasco e non solo

2003-10-02 Thread NIC
E con ogle? Hai provato? Io su mplyer e su xine non sono mai riuscito a guardare i dvd. Provalo e vedi se riesci a risolvere i tuoi problemi! Per caso hai acquistato il numero 7 di Linux Pro? NIC -- ...siate sempre capaci di sentire nel+profondo qualsiasi ingiustizia commessa contro

Re: [newbie-it] Segmentation fault

2003-10-02 Thread emmepielle
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 19:10:18 +0200 AF [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alle 16:21, giovedì 2 ottobre 2003, Michele (emmepielle) ha scritto: Allora ora ora ho èprovato la tua stesa senzaione di Segmentation fault con il pacchetto krename-2.8.2-1mdk.i586.rpm sono andato sulla homepage di krename ed

Re: [newbie-it] x Paolo Brusasco e non solo

2003-10-02 Thread freefred
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 01 October 2003 21:14, paolo brusasco wrote: p.s. il maledetto mplayer mi fa sentire il signore degli anelli solo in inglese. se guardo la lingua selezionata del dvd mi dice italiano. mh, lo lanci da console? ma ti capita con tutti i

Re: [newbie-it] Upgrade Kde

2003-10-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
E' capitato anche a me, anche se su un'altra distro. Non avevo aggiornato il kdeartwork, che non e' fondamentale infatti. Potrebbe essere quello. In realtà il kdeartwork l'avevo aggiornato e gli screensaver ci sono nella directory /usr/bin, ma non compaiono in lista, quando vado a

Re: [newbie-it] dvd ed amore della polemica

2003-10-02 Thread paolo brusasco
grazie, sì avevo provato ogle ma senza successo. ho preso linuxpro di maggio, non so se era il n.7 (dove è scritto il numero?), ma non ho installato la 9.1 della rivista bensì il powerpack 9.1 di 7 cd comperati da mandrake. riproverò con ogle quando avrò ricostruito la scorta di pazienza e

Re: [newbie-it] x Paolo Brusasco e non solo

2003-10-02 Thread NIC
E con ogle? Hai provato? Io su mplyer e su xine non sono mai riuscito a guardare i dvd. Provalo e vedi se riesci a risolvere i tuoi problemi! Proverò.Comunque io sono riusito ad installare da sorgenti mplayer(quelli contenuti sul terzo cd di Linux Pro)solo che non riesco a lanciarlo.Sapete

Re: [newbie-it] dvd ed amore della polemica

2003-10-02 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 23:45, giovedì 2 ottobre 2003, paolo brusasco ha scritto a [EMAIL PROTECTED] in merito a Re: [newbie-it] dvd ed amore della polemica : grazie, sì avevo provato ogle ma senza successo ... ...riproverò con ogle quando avrò ricostruito

Re: [newbie-it] dvd ed amore della polemica

2003-10-02 Thread francesco.melo
Alle 23:39, giovedì 2 ottobre 2003, miKe ha scritto: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 23:45, giovedì 2 ottobre 2003, paolo brusasco ha scritto a [EMAIL PROTECTED] in merito a Re: [newbie-it] dvd ed amore della polemica : grazie, sì avevo provato ogle ma senza

[newbie-it] problema con bluefish

2003-10-02 Thread AF
Ciao a tutti. Ho da tempo un problema con bluefish: basta scorrere i menu con il mouse perché improvvisamente si chiuda e sparisca. Ho da poco installato la versione più recente in circolazione nella speranza che il problema fosse stato risolto, ma le mie speranze sono state deluse... Qualcuno

Re: [newbie-it] problema con bluefish

2003-10-02 Thread artasersec
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 01:48:41 +0200, AF [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciao a tutti. Ho da tempo un problema con bluefish: basta scorrere i menu con il mouse perch improvvisamente si chiuda e sparisca. Ho da poco installato la versione pi recente in circolazione nella speranza che il problema fosse

Re: [newbie] imwheel button mapping

2003-10-02 Thread Kelly McCormick
Kelly McCormick wrote: Kelly McCormick wrote: Kelly McCormick wrote: Does anybody know the correct way to get side thumb buttons on a microsoft intellimouse explorer working as back and forward in mozilla under 9.1? clip Does anyone know why this doesn't work? imwheel rpm from 9.1 discs is

Re: [newbie] Why so many reboots ?

2003-10-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 02 Oct 2003 1:44 am, Damian Gatabria wrote: Whenever a desktop user sees a problem in his screen, he/she goes uf, grabs the phone and calls you. This is why they seem so stubborn and closed-minded about change. It's, quite simply, not their concern. You (we) are the ones

Re: [newbie] Urgent !!!!! Error after installation reboot. Urgent!!!!!!!!

2003-10-02 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 15:59, Anne Wilson wrote: tsk tsk..Anne learn to clip pls ;) Apprentice List Moderator *won't say nazi..sorry* Femme LOL - Sorry. You're absolutely right Anne Hey wait - ain't that what you're supposed to say to a shaky Rabbi? stephen kuhn - owner

Re: [newbie] Waiting for X Server to shutdown - help?

2003-10-02 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 02 October 2003 12:27 pm, Thomas Williams wrote: So what do I do to find the problem? Where do I start? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Tom Williams Hi Tom, What is your graphics adapter? If it is S3 Trio, Mdk91's KDE31 has a

Re: [newbie] Using K3B making an ISO (OT!!!!)

2003-10-02 Thread Heather/Femme
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 00:09:34 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 01 October 2003 06:47 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: Way 0fftopic - someone will shoot me but: Ceiling Art, Femme Femme, how about frescoFemme for Michelangelos fresco art on the ceiling of the Sistene

Re: [newbie] Me thinks I got a virus

2003-10-02 Thread Sharrea Day
On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 18:48, Raffaele Belardi wrote: I think e2fschk is a front end that invokes the correct fsck.* program. If you type man fsck.ext3 you are shown the e2fschk man page. On my MDK9.1 there is no fsck.reiserfs command, only fsck.ext3. Could it be an alias? How 'bout

[newbie] tip for sound using KDE ArtsD

2003-10-02 Thread Heather/Femme
I've had instances of XMMS crashing off on. No big deal. Problem: it crashes and you Skull Xbones the bugger. (Kill it with CTRL-ESC), then try killing all the sound processes. fine. restart xmms, but it doesn't play or there is no sound yet its playing. K so now what? Well one of my lovers

Re: [newbie] Why so many reboots ?

2003-10-02 Thread Damian Gatabria
El jue, 02-10-2003 a las 03:03, Anne Wilson escribió: On Thursday 02 Oct 2003 1:44 am, Damian Gatabria wrote: Whenever a desktop user sees a problem in his screen, he/she goes uf, grabs the phone and calls you. This is why they seem so stubborn and closed-minded about change.

Re: [newbie] Waiting for X Server to shutdown - help?

2003-10-02 Thread Thomas Williams
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 13:34:12 +0700 Fajar Priyanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is your graphics adapter? If it is S3 Trio, Mdk91's KDE31 has a known problem with it, you should upgrade qt3 and qt3-base. Its an ATi something. I forget offhand exactly what. I'm pretty sure its not an S3 Trio

Re: [newbie] tip for sound using KDE ArtsD

2003-10-02 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 14:51, Heather/Femme wrote: I've had instances of XMMS crashing off on. No big deal. Problem: it crashes and you Skull Xbones the bugger. (Kill it with CTRL-ESC), then try killing all the sound processes. fine. restart xmms, but it doesn't play or there is no

Re: [newbie] Given Up (was Who uses AC97?)

2003-10-02 Thread Margot
Damian Gatabria wrote: I've got another one of my useless ideas. Maybe some day one will be of use. First, to get the obvious out of the way, do this: killall -9 artsd killall -9 esd Then, try these, as root: service alsa stop service sound stop then do: lsmod and rmmod anything that starts

Re: [newbie] Using K3B making an ISO

2003-10-02 Thread Franki
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 08:47, Heather/Femme wrote: Hi Trying to make an ISO with K3B... its not working though...I tell it to burn the image (ISO) to K3B's temp dir...and the dir isn't full but it just sits there..no cd activity or anything... I looked in the manual..which doesn't exist btw...

Re: [newbie] Given Up (was Who uses AC97?)

2003-10-02 Thread Damian Gatabria
here's the output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]# insmod snd-via8233 Using /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/sound/pci/snd-via8233.o.gz /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/sound/pci/snd-via8233.o.gz: unresolved symbol snd_ac97_set_rate /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/sound/pci/snd-via8233.o.gz:

Re: [newbie] Given Up (was Who uses AC97?)

2003-10-02 Thread Damian Gatabria
El jue, 02-10-2003 a las 04:48, Damian Gatabria escribió: here's the output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]# insmod snd-via8233 Using /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/sound/pci/snd-via8233.o.gz /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/sound/pci/snd-via8233.o.gz: unresolved symbol snd_ac97_set_rate

Re: [newbie] Given Up (was Who uses AC97?)

2003-10-02 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 17:32, Margot wrote: Is this as bad as it looks? I didn't dare go any further! Oy. Ok...let's do this from the top. Margot, ya want sound? 1.) Remove any and all references to anything to do with a sound card or a sound module from your /etc/modules.conf 2.) In

Re: [newbie] tip for sound using KDE ArtsD

2003-10-02 Thread Heather/Femme
On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 17:10:15 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nip tuck Er...and what if you're NOT running KDE as your desktop/window mangler? stephen kuhn - owner TBH (to be honest) I do not know but I would presume if there are ways to config sound in other WMs not using

Re: [newbie] Using K3B making an ISO

2003-10-02 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 17:41, Franki wrote: How about: mkisofs -o cdrom.iso /mnt/cdrom that should do the trick. Mate - that's asking her to do something NOT in GUI format - that could be dangerous...remember - SHE'S DRUGGED UP - and, well, she's a she...(g) stephen kuhn - owner

Re: [newbie] Given Up (was Who uses AC97?)

2003-10-02 Thread Heather/Femme
On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 08:32:50 +0100 Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Damian Gatabria wrote: Giant amputation Is this as bad as it looks? I didn't dare go any further! Margot Margot, see a thread I started Re: a tip for buggered up sound. I had exactly the same error (Device

Re: [newbie] Using K3B making an ISO

2003-10-02 Thread Heather/Femme
On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 18:32:12 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 17:41, Franki wrote: How about: mkisofs -o cdrom.iso /mnt/cdrom that should do the trick. Mate - that's asking her to do something NOT in GUI format - that could be dangerous...remember

Re: [newbie] Using K3B making an ISO

2003-10-02 Thread Heather/Femme
On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 15:41:26 +0800 Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mkisofs -o cdrom.iso /mnt/cdrom ty. That works very well How do I tell it where to create teh ISO File? IE I want it to be put into ~/distros. hwo may I specify this? Green Skinned Femme *green=nauseous as all get out

Re: [newbie] PDF files

2003-10-02 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 09:23:01 -0700 Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: Hi All, My default pdf viewer is Xpdf but I cannot get it to print anything (I click print and it goes off into lala land). = No it doesn't. It creates a .ps file, most likely in /tmp.

Re: [newbie] tip for sound using KDE ArtsD

2003-10-02 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 16:31, Heather/Femme wrote: I don't need to hand config alot of things So that's it in a nutshell. No hand jobs. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com

Re: [newbie] Using K3B making an ISO

2003-10-02 Thread Franki
Heather/Femme wrote: On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 15:41:26 +0800 Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mkisofs -o cdrom.iso /mnt/cdrom ty. That works very well How do I tell it where to create teh ISO File? IE I want it to be put into ~/distros. hwo may I specify this? Green Skinned Femme

Re: [newbie] tip for sound using KDE ArtsD

2003-10-02 Thread Heather/Femme
On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 18:59:42 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 16:31, Heather/Femme wrote: I don't need to hand config alot of things So that's it in a nutshell. No hand jobs. stephen kuhn - owner *giggles* Oh ya Stephen...right... sure... think about

Re: [newbie] Software Patents

2003-10-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Margot wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: So does this leave us with a satisfactory position ? I'm not at all sure. No, it is not satisfactory - look again at the last 2 paragraphs of Caroline Lucas's message: However, the draft Directive remains ambiguous and contradictory (articles 2 4

Re: [newbie] Using K3B making an ISO

2003-10-02 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 19:30, Franki wrote: To be honest, I can't be entirely sure, I've never specified a dir.. I'd say its very possible that : mkisofs -o /home/heatheri/distros/cdrom.iso /mnt/cdrom Would be a good place to start.. There are a heap of options for mkisofs to change

Re: [newbie] Why so many reboots ?

2003-10-02 Thread ed tharp
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 21:33, Carroll Grigsby wrote: And now you know why I haven't gotten the nerve to try to resuscitate my old Win98SE installation since I rebuilt my system four months ago. I don't need no aggravation. -- cmg this statement makes me wonder,,, I have/had a triple

[newbie] ESC in bash to clear the line

2003-10-02 Thread Tomas Rett
Hi listers ! I need the ESC key in bash session to clear the input line, i.e. the command. Could you tell me, how to set up the ~/.inputrc file ? Tom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Lin Neighbourhood WinXP

2003-10-02 Thread ed tharp
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 20:58, Heather/Femme wrote: On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 12:44:37 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snickery doo! Check that the shares on the laptop are actually existent - that could be the issue - as well, make sure you've got the proper permissions showing

Re: [newbie] Waiting for X Server to shutdown - help?

2003-10-02 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 02:51, Thomas Williams wrote: On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 13:34:12 +0700 Fajar Priyanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is your graphics adapter? If it is S3 Trio, Mdk91's KDE31 has a known problem with it, you should upgrade qt3 and qt3-base. Its an ATi something. I

Re: [newbie] ESC in bash to clear the line

2003-10-02 Thread Raffaele Belardi
I don't know the answer to your question, but why not using CTRL-C? raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi listers ! I need the ESC key in bash session to clear the input line, i.e. the command. Could you tell me, how to set up the ~/.inputrc file ? Tom Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] ESC in bash to clear the line

2003-10-02 Thread Tomas Rett
Thank you, it works for me. Tom On Thursday 02 October 2003 01:43 pm, Raffaele Belardi wrote: I don't know the answer to your question, but why not using CTRL-C? raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi listers ! I need the ESC key in bash session to clear the input line, i.e. the

Re: [newbie] Why so many reboots ?

2003-10-02 Thread mike
ed tharp wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 21:33, Carroll Grigsby wrote: And now you know why I haven't gotten the nerve to try to resuscitate my old Win98SE installation since I rebuilt my system four months ago. I don't need no aggravation. -- cmg this statement makes me wonder,,, I

[newbie] Updating to Mdk9.1 and OLD needed software!

2003-10-02 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
Hi! I was going to upgrade my mdk9.0 Linux box, when I realized that I cannot installed Netscape v4.76 (required from my bank!) on mdk9.1! It is *only* a library problem or what? I've d/l the new soft from Netscape, tried version 2.2 and 2.0 (kernels). TIA Ricardo Castanho --

Re: [newbie] Article on SCO: An open-source letter

2003-10-02 Thread HaywireMac
On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 14:05:56 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Just FYI...how shallow this all really is... http://news.com.com/2010-7344-5083904.html Great article, thanks. Darl McBride is going to have no friends left when this is over, if he has any now. I *do not in any way

[newbie] SMS message

2003-10-02 Thread ed tharp
So I decided to end my filters long enough to get one of these to save enough to check the headers and run a whois Received: from mandy.mts.ru ([81.211.47.3]) by sparrow (EarthLink SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 1a51pw3m03NZFjV0 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 04:14:18 -0700

Re: [newbie] Using K3B making an ISO

2003-10-02 Thread HaywireMac
On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 12:45:11 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Because in less than three clicks I can build and ISO...that's why... From a set of files or the contents of a dir? That *would* be handy... I lost my Quake CD some time ago, I just have the files stored in various

Re: [newbie] PDF files

2003-10-02 Thread charo
My default pdf viewer is Xpdf but I cannot get it to print anything (I click print and it goes off into lala land). Try to print using command lp. Click print, in the print window there are two printing options, select printing using a command and type: lp, in the edit box. If you have a

Re: [newbie] Why so many reboots ?

2003-10-02 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 20:43, ed tharp wrote: this statement makes me wonder,,, I have/had a triple boot, winME, Win2k, and MDK9.1. after a few problems (me screwing around) hosed first winME and then 2k, and I know I 'can' fix them, it just takes time, and reboots, and I don't need to bother

Re: [newbie] Software Patents

2003-10-02 Thread HaywireMac
On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 11:04:39 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I guess that this needs a project team from the EU law dept to come down to grass roots level and discuss what needs to be done to strengthen the right of GPL products users rights in law. ROTFLMAO! Oh, wait,

Re: [newbie] SMS message

2003-10-02 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Thanks, I thought I was the only one to receive these... I (re-)subscribed recently, how long has it been going on? raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I decided to end my filters long enough to get one of these to save enough to check the headers and run a whois Received: from mandy.mts.ru

Re: [newbie] SMS message

2003-10-02 Thread HaywireMac
On 02 Oct 2003 08:15:28 -0400 ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: ... anyone want to call Victor? Nyet! -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org

Re: [newbie] Software Patents

2003-10-02 Thread John Richard Smith
HaywireMac wrote: On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 11:04:39 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I guess that this needs a project team from the EU law dept to come down to grass roots level and discuss what needs to be done to strengthen the right of GPL products users rights in law.

Re: [newbie] Article on SCO: An open-source letter

2003-10-02 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 22:09, HaywireMac wrote: It is sad that Novell did what it did. I can't believe they caved to the marketing hijinks of MS so easily. I worked with Novell stuff before, and I kinda liked it, not a lot of fun to configure, esp Groupwise (aarrgghhh!) but once you got it

Re: [newbie] Using K3B making an ISO

2003-10-02 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 22:19, HaywireMac wrote: Actually, what is the advantage to creating an ISO image as opposed to simply burning the data files to CD? If you want to make a copy of something bootable - say for instance - A PIRATED MICROSOFT WINDOWS XP PRO CORPORATE EDITION - you can't just

Re: [newbie] SMS message

2003-10-02 Thread HaywireMac
On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 14:42:01 +0200 Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Thanks, I thought I was the only one to receive these... I (re-)subscribed recently, how long has it been going on? seemingly forever, but they are easily dealt with via procmail or any other type of filter, like,

Re: [newbie] Article on SCO: An open-source letter

2003-10-02 Thread HaywireMac
On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 22:50:47 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Just on a side note for those that AREN'T of the American Persuasion; the US just told Australia that they ain't going to accept our products/livestock/grain and the likes - which really sucks for the economy here -

[newbie] Instant application shut down.

2003-10-02 Thread Smith Joe
Hi All, I have noticed an oddity. When I start any of the OpenOffice applications as soon as the program is loaded it immediately shuts down again. What am I doing wrong? = Lysergius says, Stay light, but trust gravity! __ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo!

Re: [newbie] Using K3B making an ISO

2003-10-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 22:19, HaywireMac wrote: Actually, what is the advantage to creating an ISO image as opposed to simply burning the data files to CD? If you want to make a copy of something bootable - say for instance - A PIRATED MICROSOFT WINDOWS XP PRO

[newbie] Fw: help please, hard disk lost!

2003-10-02 Thread qhwang
Is my first post of this message lost? I didn't receive it myself. - Original Message - From: qhwang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 12:59 PM Subject: help please, hard disk lost! Hi there, A Fujistu Siemens laptop (lifebook B series) only

RE: [newbie] Fw: help please, hard disk lost!

2003-10-02 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Sounds like hardware failure. Best way is to backup to another drive if you have one. Simple procedure and don't laugh. Take out disk and put in plastic bag and seal. Put in freezer for several hours (at least 2) then put back in system and backup. Tony. -Original Message- From: qhwang

Re: [newbie] Using K3B making an ISO

2003-10-02 Thread HaywireMac
On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 15:40:05 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Can you cut that M$ registration crap out as well . Actually, the Corporate version he refers to (the now infamous Devil's Own pirated copy that was installed on thousands of desktops months before XP's official

Re: [newbie] Fw: help please, hard disk lost!

2003-10-02 Thread mike
the sound you hear is the sound of a bad drive that is bouncing the reader arm back and forth. I have had several of these. qhwang wrote: Is my first post of this message lost? I didn't receive it myself. - Original Message - From: qhwang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [newbie] Software Patents

2003-10-02 Thread John Richard Smith
HaywireMac wrote: On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 13:46:59 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Well I don't see how I'm going to be able to put the case to my local MEP. I mean I'm no expert, and he/she is no expert and they have to put some sort of a case to the legislators to get them to

Re: [newbie] Fw: help please, hard disk lost!

2003-10-02 Thread Raffaele Belardi
As others have already stated, looks like an hw failure. Depending on the severity of the problem, there are some things you could try to recover data on the disk - provided you can boot from CDROM, otherwise I'm out of ideas. Not an easy job. Let us know if you want to try. raffaele [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Fw: help please, hard disk lost!

2003-10-02 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 02 October 2003 09:52 am, qhwang wrote: Is my first post of this message lost? I didn't receive it myself. - Original Message - From: qhwang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 12:59 PM Subject: help please, hard disk lost! Hi

[newbie] Compacting folders in Mozilla

2003-10-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Every so often mozilla ask me to compact folders which of course I do. Why ? I mean if you have deleted your messages are they not dead there and then, why the need to seemingly finally delete them ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Fw: help please, hard disk lost!

2003-10-02 Thread qhwang
Simple procedure and don't laugh. Take out disk and put in plastic bag and seal. Put in freezer for several hours (at least 2) then put back in system and backup. Many thanks for your solution, Tony. I hope it can be used as the last magic stone. Bests, Qinghua Want to buy your Pack or

[newbie] vfat file systems only accessible by root in MDK9.2

2003-10-02 Thread Justin Ricks
Greetings I just recently installed MDK 9.2 and I am only able to access my vfat partitions with my root account. I use to have 9.1 and I never had any problems with this. I tried chmod, chown, chgrp and they seem to have no effect on mounted drives. Does any one have any suggestions.

Re: [newbie] Fw: help please, hard disk lost!

2003-10-02 Thread qhwang
I have had several of these. That's also what I think. But, how do you solve it? Bests, Qinghua Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Fw: help please, hard disk lost!

2003-10-02 Thread qhwang
Unfortunately, there is no CDROM. This is a special configured laptop having touch screen. It seems we have to sent it back to the tailer. Bests, QingHua Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Fw: help please, hard disk lost!

2003-10-02 Thread Aron Smith
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 08:21, qhwang wrote: Simple procedure and don't laugh. Take out disk and put in plastic bag and seal. Put in freezer for several hours (at least 2) then put back in system and backup. Many thanks for your solution, Tony. I hope it can be used as the last magic

Re: [newbie] Compacting folders in Mozilla

2003-10-02 Thread Paul
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 18:14, John Richard Smith wrote: Every so often mozilla ask me to compact folders which of course I do. Why ? I mean if you have deleted your messages are they not dead there and then, why the need to seemingly finally delete them ? It is because Mozilla uses a kind

Re: [newbie] Software Patents

2003-10-02 Thread Aron Smith
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 09:04, John Richard Smith wrote: HaywireMac wrote: On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 13:46:59 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Well I don't see how I'm going to be able to put the case to my local MEP. I mean I'm no expert, and he/she is no expert and they

Re: [newbie] Using K3B making an ISO

2003-10-02 Thread Aron Smith
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 07:22, HaywireMac wrote: On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 09:19:49 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Put all the files in some_dir/, keeping an eye on not exceeding the size of the CDr blanks you use. Then, in my home dir, I do 'mkcdimg some_dir/' (alias

Re: [newbie] Software Patents

2003-10-02 Thread HaywireMac
On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 16:04:21 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: So the ethos of that argument is that that you cannot patent code it's something akin to a writer publishing a piece of liturature, it is his work, but it's not a novel invention . Have I understood it correctly?

Re: [newbie] Software Patents

2003-10-02 Thread robin
John Richard Smith wrote: HaywireMac wrote: On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 13:46:59 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Well I don't see how I'm going to be able to put the case to my local MEP. I mean I'm no expert, and he/she is no expert and they have to put some sort of a case to the

Re: [newbie] Using K3B making an ISO

2003-10-02 Thread Jerry Barton
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 18:47:11 -0400 Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Trying to make an ISO with K3B... its not working though...I tell it to burn the image (ISO) to K3B's temp dir...and the dir isn't full but it just sits there..no cd activity or anything... I looked in the

Re: [newbie] ESC in bash to clear the line

2003-10-02 Thread robin
Raffaele Belardi wrote: I don't know the answer to your question, but why not using CTRL-C? raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi listers ! I need the ESC key in bash session to clear the input line, i.e. the command. Could you tell me, how to set up the ~/.inputrc file ? Tom Ctrl-C

RE: [newbie] vfat file systems only accessible by root in MDK9.2

2003-10-02 Thread Tony S. Sykes
What security settings did you choose when you installed? -Original Message- From: Justin Ricks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 4:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] vfat file systems only accessible by root in MDK9.2 Greetings I just recently

[newbie] command for rebooting in win

2003-10-02 Thread Anarky
is there any way I could give a command to reboot in windows directly from a console? Right now to do that I have to logout of the windowmanager, return to the mandrake login screen and select reboot, win ... I'd like to be able to give some kind of shell command like reboot win and be

RE: [newbie] Fw: help please, hard disk lost!

2003-10-02 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Not 100% as I can't remember my source but the cold does something to the bearings and you can get a couple of extra hours out of them. You have to seal in a plastic bag to stop condensation. I have heard of one or two people getting months of extra life after doing this but it is very rare.

Re: [newbie] Compacting folders in Mozilla

2003-10-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Paul wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 18:14, John Richard Smith wrote: Every so often mozilla ask me to compact folders which of course I do. Why ? I mean if you have deleted your messages are they not dead there and then, why the need to seemingly finally delete them ? It is because

Re: [newbie] Software Patents

2003-10-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Aron Smith wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 09:04, John Richard Smith wrote: HaywireMac wrote: On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 13:46:59 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Well I don't see how I'm going to be able to put the case to my local MEP. I mean I'm no expert, and he/she

Re: [newbie] Compacting folders in Mozilla

2003-10-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Paul wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 18:14, John Richard Smith wrote: Every so often mozilla ask me to compact folders which of course I do. Why ? I mean if you have deleted your messages are they not dead there and then, why the need to seemingly finally delete them ? It is because Mozilla uses

Re: [newbie] Instant application shut down.

2003-10-02 Thread Smith Joe
Thanks. I will try that. --- Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Smith Joe wrote: Hi All, I have noticed an oddity. When I start any of the OpenOffice applications as soon as the program is loaded it immediately shuts down again. What am I doing wrong? = Lysergius

Re: [newbie] Waiting for X Server to shutdown - help?

2003-10-02 Thread Thomas Williams
On 02 Oct 2003 07:21:56 -0400 ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can you fix the word wrap? and next time, just my opinion, but instead of 'delete' maybe it might be wiser to move a file (rename it) to something with a number at the end, so instead of 'rm .Xauthority', try 'mv .Xauthority

Re: [newbie] command for rebooting in win

2003-10-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anarky wrote: is there any way I could give a command to reboot in windows directly from a console? Right now to do that I have to logout of the windowmanager, return to the mandrake login screen and select reboot, win ... I'd like to be able to give some kind of shell command like

Re: [newbie] Article on SCO: An open-source letter

2003-10-02 Thread Glenn
Gee, Aron, did you have to quote the whole danged thing to add one line g? On Thu October 2 2003 08:33, Aron Smith wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 06:24, HaywireMac wrote: On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 22:50:47 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Just on a side note for those that AREN'T

Re: [newbie] Compacting folders in Mozilla

2003-10-02 Thread Paul
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 19:01, John Richard Smith wrote: So the reason is simple the visual delete is just that , it's not physically removed until the compaction is complete. So the obvious next question, in that case suppose you accidentally visually delete a message can you get it back

RE: [newbie] command for rebooting in win

2003-10-02 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Command works fine for me. 8.0 8.1 9.0 9.1 9.2 rc2 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 5:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] command for rebooting in win Anarky wrote: is there any way I could give a

Re: [newbie] Compacting folders in Mozilla

2003-10-02 Thread Paul
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 18:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is because Mozilla uses a kind of Mbox format where all mails are in one big file. When you delete a message, it is somehow marked as deleted. Compacting the folder will reorganise (copy and rewrite) the file and physically remove

Re: [newbie] Given Up (was Who uses AC97?)

2003-10-02 Thread Damian Gatabria
El jue, 02-10-2003 a las 10:58, Margot escribió: Damian Gatabria wrote: El jue, 02-10-2003 a las 04:48, Damian Gatabria escribió: here's the output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]# insmod snd-via8233 Using /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/sound/pci/snd-via8233.o.gz

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