[newbie-it] scusa ...

2003-10-09 Thread enrico.alletto
Scusa se ti scrivo, ma mi sono appena iscritto dalla pagina di mandrakelinux. Io continuo a ricevere mail, ma non riesco a trovare la pagina in cui porre le mie, potresti spiegarmi come funziona? Grazie

[newbie-it] Grave problema di riconoscimento schermo

2003-10-09 Thread enrico.alletto
Dopo averla installata con soddisfazione su un pc un po datato, ho recentemente tentato di installare la Mandrake 9.1 su una macchina un pochino piu potente, ma all'avvio, ad un certo punto, quando tutto sembrava andare per il meglio lo schermo diventa nero e cosi rimane. Credendo di aver

Re: [newbie-it] scusa ...

2003-10-09 Thread Germano
il Thursday 09 October 2003 08:10, enrico.alletto ha scritto riguardo a [newbie-it] scusa ... Scusa se ti scrivo, ma mi sono appena iscritto dalla pagina di mandrakelinux. Io continuo a ricevere mail, ma non riesco a trovare la pagina in cui porre le mie, potresti spiegarmi come funziona? Grazie

Rif: [newbie-it] Grave problema di riconoscimento schermo

2003-10-09 Thread MBoito
Provato a controllare le impostazioni della scheda video? E' possibile che siano quelle.

Re: [newbie-it] no cd audio

2003-10-09 Thread Sandro
Alle 16:38, mercoledì 8 ottobre 2003, alfredo ha scritto: Salve, ho un altro piccolo problemuccio, la macchina è sempre Vaio PCG-FR 105, Amd Ath XP 2000, 256MB Ram, con un combo: QSI CDRW/DVD SBW-241, ed una scheda audio VIA AC'97. La distro è: MDK 9.1 Nella configurazione delle preiferiche

Re: Rif: [newbie-it] Grave problema di riconoscimento schermo

2003-10-09 Thread Sandro
Alle 09:03, giovedì 9 ottobre 2003, enrico.alletto ha scritto: Gia fatto (mi sono scordato di dirlo) il problema sta proprio nel monitor... sembra proprio che non sia supportato. P.S.: Con windows il monitor funziona benissimo Va bene, ma supportato o non supportato dice poco :-)) Hai provato

Re: Rif: [newbie-it] Grave problema di riconoscimento schermo

2003-10-09 Thread enrico.alletto
Si, uso la modalita grafica e durante l'installazione tutto funziona perfettamente, e quando avvio il sistema installato che mi da schermo nero. La modalita VESA (Standard) da dove la imposto? Sandro writes: Alle 09:03, giovedì 9 ottobre 2003, enrico.alletto ha scritto: Gia fatto (mi sono

Rif: Re: Rif: [newbie-it] Grave problema di riconoscimento schermo

2003-10-09 Thread MBoito
sai usare l'editor di testi vi? se si basta che editi il file XF86config nella cartella /etc/X11/ e correggi la riga relativa al driver della scheda video: nella sezione device (ne file si chiama section device), ti basta sostituire radeon con vesa salvi esci da vi e riavvii X. se non sai

Re: Rif: [newbie-it] Grave problema di riconoscimento schermo

2003-10-09 Thread Andrea Celli
Per favore, imposta il tuo mailer (Lotus ?) in modo che lasci gli header invariati. Altrimenti ci troviamo tutti con dei thread del tipo Re: Rif:Re: Rif:Re: Rif:Re: Rif: . .. :-(( Alle 08:48, giovedì 9 ottobre 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Provato a controllare le impostazioni della scheda

Re: Rif: [newbie-it] Grave problema di riconoscimento schermo

2003-10-09 Thread Sandro
Alle 09:34, giovedì 9 ottobre 2003, enrico.alletto ha scritto: Si, uso la modalita grafica e durante l'installazione tutto funziona perfettamente, e quando avvio il sistema installato che mi da schermo nero. La modalita VESA (Standard) da dove la imposto? Viene identificata come frame buffer

Re: [newbie-it] no cd audio

2003-10-09 Thread tom
On Thursday 09 October 2003 02:59, alfredo wrote: tom wrote: con che programma lo carichi ?? ho provato con tutti i player usciti con mdk91 hai controllati il volume del cd dal mixer? si, è stata la prima cosa che ho fatto, ho controllato anche il canale, dovrebbe essere tutto ok... ma

Re: [newbie-it] Chiavetta USB

2003-10-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
assicurarti che con la RedHat 9.0 riesco a montare/smontare una chiavetta dell'Olidata da 128M. Ho messo in fstab /dev/sda1 /mnt/USBHD autonoauto,owner,user,rw 0 0 e poi monto con ho provato, ma sda1 non esiste proprio... mount mi dice che sda1 non è un dispositivo a blocchi

Re: [newbie-it] Chiavetta USB

2003-10-09 Thread Andrea Celli
Alle 13:28, giovedì 9 ottobre 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: assicurarti che con la RedHat 9.0 riesco a montare/smontare una chiavetta dell'Olidata da 128M. Ho messo in fstab /dev/sda1 /mnt/USBHD autonoauto,owner,user,rw 0 0 e poi monto con ho provato, ma sda1 non esiste

Re: [newbie-it] no cd audio

2003-10-09 Thread alfredo
il computer è un portatile, penso che la soluzione sia quella proposta da Sandro di musare i driver ALSA, ma con MDK 9.1 danno problemi, ho letto parecchie lamentele in questo senso e non so se il problema sia stato patchato, in ogni caso sono troppo newbie per tentare di risolverlo. Comunque

[newbie-it] modem conexant

2003-10-09 Thread alfredo
qualcuno conosce un'alternativa ai driver linuxant che servono a far funzionare i winmodem conexant su linux, ma che costano $14,50? grazie Alf

Re: [newbie-it] Chiavetta USB

2003-10-09 Thread Fabio
Per quanto attiene l'ambiente di root, la soluzione è semplice: dal Centro di Controllo (non centro di controllo mandrake) , vai nella voce Aspetto - Comportamento ed abilita l'opzione 'Abilita icone sul desktop' e riconfigura la voce 'Click sul desktop' per riattivare le varie opzioni con il

Re: [newbie-it] modem conexant

2003-10-09 Thread tom
On Thursday 09 October 2003 14:12, alfredo wrote: qualcuno conosce un'alternativa ai driver linuxant che servono a far funzionare i winmodem conexant su linux, ma che costano $14,50? se è un hsf ti passo i sorgenti dei beta funzionano a meravigiali avevo scaricati quando erano ancora

Re: [newbie-it] modem conexant

2003-10-09 Thread Fabio Manunza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 12:23, giovedì 9 ottobre 2003, tom ha scritto: On Thursday 09 October 2003 14:12, alfredo wrote: qualcuno conosce un'alternativa ai driver linuxant che servono a far funzionare i winmodem conexant su linux, ma che costano $14,50? se è un

[newbie-it] MTU co.

2003-10-09 Thread zang
Ciao a tutt*, sto' usando un zixel ISDN ma mi sembra leeento... mi chiedevo come si poteva ottimizzare i vari MTU ecc.. Col windoz c'era il proghino free che lo faceva (quasi) in automatico... e in LinuX ? Grazie, zang

[newbie-it] MySQL Problema avvio o installazione

2003-10-09 Thread kudega
Sto cercando di installare MySQL per poi interfacciarlo con i programmini che faccio con Kylix solo che quando da shell digito mysql mi appare... ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/ lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) allora provo ad andare a vedere che cavolo di

R: [newbie-it] MySQL Problema avvio o installazione

2003-10-09 Thread carlo_canepa
Purtroppo io non posso aiutarti, ma ho un problema simile, magari chi può aiutare te può aiutare anche me. E' due giorni che sto tentando di installare e avviare mysql su una mandrake linux, e nonostante abbia seguito dritte e consigli a destra e sinistra(manuali compresi), non riesco a farlo.

Re: [newbie-it] MySQL Problema avvio o installazione

2003-10-09 Thread Eraser Head
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, kudega wrote: Sto cercando di installare MySQL per poi interfacciarlo con i programmini che faccio con Kylix solo che quando da shell digito mysql mi appare... ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/ lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) MySQL

Re: [newbie-it] modem conexant

2003-10-09 Thread tom
On Thursday 09 October 2003 17:16, Fabio Manunza wrote: Se sono quelli che permettono l'utilizzo del fax, mi faresti il favore di passarli anche a me? grazie. Ciao Fabio, non so se supportino il fax.non li ho mai provati,ma cmq se hai voglia di smanettarci su,te li passo... -- Ciao ,

Re: [newbie-it] modem conexant

2003-10-09 Thread tom
On Thursday 09 October 2003 17:35, alfredo wrote: si, mi farebbe piacere ricevere i driver, il modem è un HFS, un soft56 se ho ben capito, ad ogni modo la cosa è complicata perchè appare come CXT AC'97 Modem for Via i driver sono tutty conexant e microsoft ma il vendor risulta VIA ed il

Re: [newbie-it] MySQL Problema avvio o installazione

2003-10-09 Thread Fabio
Alle 21:01, giovedì 9 ottobre 2003, Eraser Head ha scritto: On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, kudega wrote: Sto cercando di installare MySQL per poi interfacciarlo con i programmini che faccio con Kylix solo che quando da shell digito mysql mi appare... ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server

Re: [newbie] have we killed the reason we are here?

2003-10-09 Thread HaywireMac
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 19:21:57 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Nobody will bite your head off ... that's nonsense and you know it. -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More:

Re: [newbie] pekwm graphical pager

2003-10-09 Thread HaywireMac
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 17:16:18 -0500 John Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: What is wrong with pekwm when I try to use a graphical pager with it? I am using xfce4-panel and pekwm. The desktop that you are currently on displays alot the smaller than the others. When you click on an area below

Re: [newbie] Thought MS was scary enough? Nope.

2003-10-09 Thread HaywireMac
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 14:24:47 -0700 rikona [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: H A deal with BIOS maker Phoenix Technologies would allow the H operating system to directly control hardware. Hardware control is the holy grail. The US gov't tried it back a bit by trying to get a chip in most everything

Re: [newbie] Thought MS was scary enough? Nope.

2003-10-09 Thread HaywireMac
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 14:24:47 -0700 rikona [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Try to spread the word: check carefully and NEVER buy any computer with a Phoenix BIOS. Unfortunately, this may be spreading beyond Phoenix: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/developer/0,39020387,2130826,00.htm Quote: Intel

Re: [newbie] have we killed the reason we are here?

2003-10-09 Thread Aron Smith
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 22:55, HaywireMac wrote: On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 19:21:57 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Nobody will bite your head off ... that's nonsense and you know it. awww just because... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Linux on a Thinkpad?

2003-10-09 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 09 October 2003 01:03, Merlin Zener wrote: Good idea? Excellent idea!!;) I've got 4 (older P166's) Tpads with Linux only... they all work fine. Good luck, HarM -- Mandrake HowTo's more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

[newbie] Windows vs. Virus'

2003-10-09 Thread HaywireMac
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article09-115 Is Windows a Virus? No, Windows is not a virus. Here's what viruses do: * They replicate quickly - okay, Windows does that. * Viruses use up valuable system resources, slowing down the system as they do so - okay, Windows does that.

Re: [newbie] Thought MS was scary enough? Nope.

2003-10-09 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 02:16, HaywireMac wrote: On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 14:24:47 -0700 rikona [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Try to spread the word: check carefully and NEVER buy any computer with a Phoenix BIOS. Unfortunately, this may be spreading beyond Phoenix:

Re: [newbie] grepping root?

2003-10-09 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 03:50, Liechti wrote: how to grep a root? http://www.codershome.org/Linux%20Mandrake%20Girl.jpg i have this one for a desktop http://ed-tharp.is-a-geek.org/rootme.jpg; Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Thought MS was scary enough? Nope.

2003-10-09 Thread HaywireMac
On 09 Oct 2003 06:55:52 -0400 ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: GNU-Linux has for a long time been able to work around bios settings, and not even use the bios for a lot of things, including hard drive access and settings (ie; hdparm over riding what ever the bios says) Trusted Computing

Re: [newbie] grepping root?

2003-10-09 Thread Ralph Slooten
On 09 Oct 2003 07:28:42 -0400 ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have this one for a desktop http://ed-tharp.is-a-geek.org/rootme.jpg; Pitty your server sees to be down ;-) Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org/ ...the software said Win95 or better, so I installed Linux

Re: [newbie] have we killed the reason we are here?

2003-10-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday October 9 2003 01:50 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 22:55, HaywireMac wrote: On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 19:21:57 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Nobody will bite your head off ... that's nonsense and you know it. awww just because...

[newbie] Lightwave 3D

2003-10-09 Thread Tango Echo
Hi all, Was browsing digitalblasphemy earlier... I've seen references before but never actually entered the site. The artist claims he uses Lightwave 3D and World Builder for some projects. Ok, that's $3,000 I don't have right now. Does any know of a similar product for Linux? A high quality

Re: [newbie] have we killed the reason we are here?

2003-10-09 Thread Aron Smith
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 05:37, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday October 9 2003 01:50 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 22:55, HaywireMac wrote: On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 19:21:57 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: to the OT list now I can't post to MdkOT. All my posts

[newbie] Windows Must be Stopped

2003-10-09 Thread HaywireMac
The recent report by the CCIA gave us an academic viewpoint as to why Windows is a blight on the Internet. This article provides a concrete example as to why Windows machines should be disconnected from the Internet, quarantined, and otherwise shut out, wherever possible, until MS decides to

Re: [newbie] Hopefully a simple SAMBA question

2003-10-09 Thread Brian Parish
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 12:42, Trey Sizemore wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 22:06, Brian Parish wrote: This is undoubtedly the wrong way to do it, but it's easy and works every time. If you are happy to have no security on this at all, set guest only access and make the guest account root

Re: [newbie] Lightwave 3D

2003-10-09 Thread magnet
I've had a dable with povray and the results were fast although my skills as a serious modeller are close to non-existant but it is a very capable package if you have the time to sit down and learn it. It has a loyal following of users and there are numerous websites found on google for support

Re: [newbie] Lightwave 3D

2003-10-09 Thread Alan Carbutt
Tango Echo, If indeed that is your real name. :) Like magnet, I have been also using povray. I have the Windoze version up and running on my Mandrake box through WINE. I have been dabbling a little and I am working on adding in some of the plugins and companion software also using WINE. The

[newbie] Re:Patenting of Software Code - MEP replies

2003-10-09 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
Apologies to the list for the Sturdy and ukipeast MEP posts - I hope there won't be any more! I don't know where they got the newbie mailing address from - can't see it anywhere on my posts to them. DougB Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] have we killed the reason we are here?

2003-10-09 Thread JM5379
--- Original Message --- It's a damn shame the only DSL connection I can get is SBC- Yahoo. Yahoo sux, but they handle my mail and I'm stuck with that. I had been meaning to ask you about that SBC DSL connection I inquired at SBC about DSL and when I said Linux ... Well I'm not gonna

Re: [newbie] have we killed the reason we are here?

2003-10-09 Thread Aron Smith
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 08:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Original Message --- It's a damn shame the only DSL connection I can get is SBC- Yahoo. Yahoo sux, but they handle my mail and I'm stuck with that. I had been meaning to ask you about that SBC DSL connection I inquired at

Re: [newbie] Windows Must be Stopped

2003-10-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday October 9 2003 08:08 am, HaywireMac wrote: The recent report by the CCIA gave us an academic viewpoint as to why Windows is a blight on the Internet. This article provides a concrete example as to why Windows machines should be disconnected from the Internet, quarantined, and

Re: [newbie] Lightwave 3D

2003-10-09 Thread magnet
Blender is a very powerful modeller and renderer but it was all too much for me as it is complex, but if you are seriously into this kind of thing then maybe Blender is what you should look at. I installed it but you need a lot of time to find your way around all the icons, options, tools and

Re: [newbie] have we killed the reason we are here?

2003-10-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday October 9 2003 08:07 am, Aron Smith wrote: It's a damn shame the only DSL connection I can get is SBC- Yahoo. Yahoo sux, but they handle my mail and I'm stuck with that. I had been meaning to ask you about that SBC DSL connection I inquired at SBC about DSL and when I

Re: [newbie] Windows Must be Stopped

2003-10-09 Thread Eric Huff
Specially since a lot of Windoze users refuse to believe they're infected, or do anything about it even if they are. Usual response is I'm not havin any problems. Besides I have a virus checker and use Zone Alarm. If microsoft was smart, they would, upon discovering these security holes,

Re: [newbie] looking for this program

2003-10-09 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
Liechti wrote: It's called Karamba. Thank you! :) And whats this tool called? :) http://www.kde-look.org/content/preview.php?file=6170-1.jpg The one with the mostly claudly and so on :) very nice :) i love funny tools :D r. That's Karamba as well. If you have the Texstar source defined for

[newbie] Listing of Companies that Use Linux

2003-10-09 Thread HaywireMac
Just for the sake of debate, has someone come upon a list of companies that employ Linux desktops in the enterprise? I have done some Googling, but so far just come up with the usual stories about Ford going with Linux for server apps and such, but I'm looking for hardcore evidence of Linux

[newbie] mdk9.1 on notebook

2003-10-09 Thread ramon
Hi. Just installed Mdk9.1 on a HP Pavilion ZE4430US notebook (mainly because of ACPI and ATI Radeon support). Spec follows below. The installation was smooth. Congratulations! However, the boot was unsuccessful. I've disabled pcmcia once it freezes the system. Switch off/on then systems

Re: [newbie] have we killed the reason we are here?

2003-10-09 Thread JM5379
i've been using sbc dsl for 3-4 years now (since before pppoe) and have never had any trouble other than the infrequent hardware problems in their network. i've been using linux with it since day 1. i'm not sure what problems tom is having with his and i don't know what they told you about

Re: [newbie] Windows Must be Stopped

2003-10-09 Thread HaywireMac
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 10:37:48 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Still if I showed up to them as a false positive, I can only wonder how many infected Winblows users they miss detecting. OTOH, disconnecting many Winsuz users, even just the infected ones, would put any ISP out

[newbie] Nvidia and Xinerama on MDK 9.1

2003-10-09 Thread Yoel P. Krigsman
Hello... Wonder if someone can help me with this? I am trying to get my 2nd monitor work with this Video card. Nvidia GeoForce FX 5200 with a VGA cable that has a split to two VGA monitors. I am able to use BOTH monitor with this cable. when I am running X server, the 2nd monitor goes to

[newbie] Who changes permissions on /var/mail/spool?

2003-10-09 Thread Paul
Hi all, I want to switch to a different mail-program. Thunderbird from mozilla.org. This requires a permission set to 0177 on /var/mail/spool (write bit on for users). But when I change that, something seems to change that back (write bit off for users). Does anyone know which thingy in Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Listing of Companies that Use Linux

2003-10-09 Thread HaywireMac
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 12:16:31 -0400 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Thanks, and I will post anything I *do* find here. Found this page: http://www.tomchance.uklinux.net/rdb.pl?op=viewcatcatid=4 -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org

Re: [newbie] Listing of Companies that Use Linux

2003-10-09 Thread Lanman
Is this what you're looking for Joe? http://mtechit.com/linux-biz/ I was also at the Open Source Weekend in Ottawa last October ( IIRC ), and found out that 160 different departments of the Federal Government are already using Linux, but many of them don't even know it! Also, if you have a

Re: [newbie] Listing of Companies that Use Linux

2003-10-09 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 12:16, HaywireMac wrote: Just for the sake of debate, has someone come upon a list of companies that employ Linux desktops in the enterprise? I have done some Googling, but so far just come up with the usual stories about Ford going with Linux for server apps and such,

Re: [newbie] Lightwave 3D

2003-10-09 Thread Anarky
Tango Echo wrote: Hi all, Was browsing digitalblasphemy earlier... I've seen references before but never actually entered the site. The artist claims he uses Lightwave 3D and World Builder for some projects. Ok, that's $3,000 I don't have right now. Does any know of a similar product for

RE: [newbie] Listing of Companies that Use Linux

2003-10-09 Thread Dennis . R . Myers
Title: RE: [newbie] Listing of Companies that Use Linux -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of HaywireMac Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 11:17 AM To: Mandrake Newbs Subject: [newbie] Listing of Companies that Use Linux Just for the

[newbie] reading windows .hlp files

2003-10-09 Thread fifner the dragon
Hi all, I would like to read windows .hlp files under linux. Is there a way I can do that for free? Thanks in acvance, Fifner -- __ Sign-up for your own personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup CareerBuilder.com

Re: [newbie] reading windows .hlp files

2003-10-09 Thread Liechti
I would like to read windows .hlp files under linux. Is there a way I can do that for free? i didnt try yet, but may be it will work with wine? you only have to install the help viewer of windows or something like that. if you've got it work, let me know :) remo Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??

2003-10-09 Thread bascule
flavio, if you have done fdisk /dev/hdd and confirmed that windows is indeed on the first parttition on that disk and that it does have the number 1 - not necessarily the same thing! then i suggest that lilo is choking ion your other entries, perhaps those other entries regarding /dev/hdd1?

Re[2]: [newbie] Thought MS was scary enough? Nope.

2003-10-09 Thread rikona
Hello HaywireMac, Thursday, October 9, 2003, 4:58:29 AM, you wrote: H Good to know, thanks. Still, it is important to keep a wary eye on H MS, Big Media, and hardware vendors. If they see Linux as a threat H to their hegemony, there's no telling what they might attempt. True. Suppose there is

Re: [newbie] Windows Must be Stopped

2003-10-09 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:08:15 -0400 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The recent report by the CCIA gave us an academic viewpoint as to why Windows is a blight on the Internet. This article provides a concrete example as to why Windows machines should be disconnected from the Internet,

Re[2]: [newbie] Windows Must be Stopped

2003-10-09 Thread rikona
Hello Tom, Thursday, October 9, 2003, 8:37:48 AM, you wrote: TB I can only wonder if I might have showed up in SBC's logs as TB receiving infected email from Winsux users. Perhaps someone spoofed your address and SBC doesn't know/care who really sent it. -- rikona

Re: [newbie] Re:Patenting of Software Code - MEP replies

2003-10-09 Thread Margot
Douglas Bainbridge wrote: Apologies to the list for the Sturdy and ukipeast MEP posts - I hope there won't be any more! I don't know where they got the newbie mailing address from - can't see it anywhere on my posts to them. DougB Errr... didn't get them here Doug - are you sure they went to the

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Windows Must be Stopped

2003-10-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday October 9 2003 01:41 pm, rikona wrote: Hello Tom, Thursday, October 9, 2003, 8:37:48 AM, you wrote: TB I can only wonder if I might have showed up in SBC's logs as TB receiving infected email from Winsux users. Perhaps someone spoofed your address and SBC doesn't know/care

Re: [newbie] have we killed the reason we are here?

2003-10-09 Thread Heather/Femme
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 06:07:41 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 05:37, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday October 9 2003 01:50 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 22:55, HaywireMac wrote: On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 19:21:57 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Windows Must be Stopped

2003-10-09 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 14:41, rikona wrote: Hello Tom, Thursday, October 9, 2003, 8:37:48 AM, you wrote: TB I can only wonder if I might have showed up in SBC's logs as TB receiving infected email from Winsux users. Perhaps someone spoofed your address and SBC doesn't know/care who

Re: [newbie] grepping root?

2003-10-09 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 08:26, Ralph Slooten wrote: On 09 Oct 2003 07:28:42 -0400 ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have this one for a desktop http://ed-tharp.is-a-geek.org/rootme.jpg; Pitty your server sees to be down ;-) Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org/

Re: [newbie] Listing of Companies that Use Linux

2003-10-09 Thread HaywireMac
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 13:20:50 -0400 Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Is this what you're looking for Joe? http://mtechit.com/linux-biz/ I was also at the Open Source Weekend in Ottawa last October ( IIRC ), and found out that 160 different departments of the Federal Government are

Re: [newbie] Lightwave 3D

2003-10-09 Thread Heather/Femme
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 05:56:24 -0700 (PDT) Tango Echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Was browsing digitalblasphemy earlier... I've seen references before but never actually entered the site. The artist claims he uses Lightwave 3D and World Builder for some projects. Ok, that's $3,000 I

Re: [newbie] have we killed the reason we are here?

2003-10-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday October 9 2003 01:01 pm, ed tharp wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 08:37, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday October 9 2003 01:50 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 22:55, HaywireMac wrote: On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 19:21:57 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered:

[newbie] MP3 to OGG converter

2003-10-09 Thread Michael Lothian
What's the best way to make my MP3s into OGG files? Thanks Mike PS I really like GUIs Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] have we killed the reason we are here?

2003-10-09 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 15:18, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday October 9 2003 01:01 pm, ed tharp wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 08:37, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday October 9 2003 01:50 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 22:55, HaywireMac wrote: On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 19:21:57

Re: [newbie] Listing of Companies that Use Linux

2003-10-09 Thread Heather/Femme
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 12:16:31 -0400 HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just for the sake of debate, has someone come upon a list of companies that employ Linux desktops in the enterprise? I have done some Googling, but so far just come up with the usual stories about Ford going with Linux

[newbie] something like autoexec.bat??

2003-10-09 Thread Johan
Hi, Does linux use the same type of file as autoexec.bat in dos/win to perform some operations on startup. I would appreciate some input here please. Maybe some example? Thanks Johan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] grepping root?

2003-10-09 Thread Eric Huff
i have this one for a desktop http://ed-tharp.is-a-geek.org/rootme.jpg; Pitty your server sees to be down ;-) Really?? I see no sign it went down. what message do you get? is it still down? thanks for the info I get a popup saying The connection was refused when attempting to

Re: [newbie] something like autoexec.bat??

2003-10-09 Thread Paul
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 22:05, Johan wrote: Hi, Does linux use the same type of file as autoexec.bat in dos/win to perform some operations on startup. I would appreciate some input here please. Maybe some example? Look into /etc/rc.local. That is where you can add startup-stuff. Paul -- You

[newbie] path in mkisofs

2003-10-09 Thread Johan
Hi, In mkisofs... the -G option has no problem if the path of the boot.img is directly specified. the -b option requires that the boot.img path must be relative to the source path. This has given a lot of grief (challenge??). Kindly demonstrate with a example how this must work. Thanks Johan

[newbie] something like autoexec.bat

2003-10-09 Thread Johan
Hi, Many thanks to the respondents in this matter. Many ways to kill a cat?? Johan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] grepping root?

2003-10-09 Thread Margot
Eric Huff wrote: i have this one for a desktop http://ed-tharp.is-a-geek.org/rootme.jpg; Pitty your server sees to be down ;-) Really?? I see no sign it went down. what message do you get? is it still down? thanks for the info I get a popup saying The connection was refused when

Re: [newbie] MP3 to OGG converter

2003-10-09 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:50:44PM +, Michael Lothian wrote: What's the best way to make my MP3s into OGG files? Thanks With the caveat that you're going from one lossy format to another--can you live with that? One way would be to use XMMS with the diskwriter plugin. That'll write the

Re: [newbie] something like autoexec.bat

2003-10-09 Thread Eric Huff
Many thanks to the respondents in this matter. Many ways to kill a cat?? Yep, and a whole lotta cats ... -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] have we killed the reason we are here?

2003-10-09 Thread Aron Smith
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 09:21, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday October 9 2003 08:07 am, Aron Smith wrote: It's a damn shame the only DSL connection I can get is SBC- Yahoo. Yahoo sux, but they handle my mail and I'm stuck with that. I had been meaning to ask you about that SBC DSL

Re: [newbie] have we killed the reason we are here?

2003-10-09 Thread Aron Smith
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 10:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've been using sbc dsl for 3-4 years now (since before pppoe) and have never had any trouble other than the infrequent hardware problems in their network. i've been using linux with it since day 1. i'm not sure what problems tom is

Re: [newbie] Listing of Companies that Use Linux

2003-10-09 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 09 October 2003 11:16 am, HaywireMac wrote: Just for the sake of debate, has someone come upon a list of companies that employ Linux desktops in the enterprise? I have done some Googling, but so far just come up with the usual stories about Ford going with Linux for server apps

[newbie] User Drake

2003-10-09 Thread John
I tried to add a new user to md 9.1 home computer. I used an upper case letter which md said I couldn't use. When I clicked ok on the notice, user drake locked up. I ending up rebooting. When trying to open user drake up after reboot, I get the message cannot lock user lib, file/etc/ptmp or

Re: [newbie] User Drake

2003-10-09 Thread Eric Huff
I tried to add a new user to md 9.1 home computer. I used an upper case letter which md said I couldn't use. When I clicked ok on the notice, user drake locked up. I ending up rebooting. When trying to open user drake up after reboot, I get the message cannot lock user lib, file/etc/ptmp or

Re: [newbie] User Drake

2003-10-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 09 Oct 2003 11:50 pm, John wrote: I tried to add a new user to md 9.1 home computer. I used an upper case letter which md said I couldn't use. When I clicked ok on the notice, user drake locked up. I ending up rebooting. When trying to open user drake up after reboot, I get the

Re: [newbie] have we killed the reason we are here?

2003-10-09 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 08:37, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday October 9 2003 01:50 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 22:55, HaywireMac wrote: On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 19:21:57 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Nobody will bite your head off ... that's nonsense

Re: [newbie] Listing of Companies that Use Linux

2003-10-09 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 17:54, Miark wrote: These are the ones I've noticed lately: Munich government in Germany Chinese government is switches tens of thousands of boxes to Linux Department of Homeland Security runs Oracle on Linux Oracle themselves converted their whole infrastructure to

Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??

2003-10-09 Thread Flávio Henrique
flavio, if you have done fdisk /dev/hdd and confirmed that windows is indeed on the first parttition on that disk and that it does have the number 1 - not necessarily the same thing! then i suggest that lilo is choking ion your other entries, perhaps those other entries regarding /dev/hdd1?

Re: [newbie] something like autoexec.bat??

2003-10-09 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 16:37, Paul wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 22:05, Johan wrote: Hi, Does linux use the same type of file as autoexec.bat in dos/win to perform some operations on startup. I would appreciate some input here please. Maybe some example? Look into /etc/rc.local. That

Re: [newbie] grepping root?

2003-10-09 Thread ed tharp
crazy top poster! thanks try it now, had a power surge this morn, and got a new IP from dhcp, that was not allowed thru the router... should be right now... thanks again i have this one for a desktop http://ed-tharp.is-a-geek.org/rootme.jpg; Pitty your server sees to

Re: [newbie] MP3 to OGG converter

2003-10-09 Thread Michael Lothian
Todd Slater wrote: On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:50:44PM +, Michael Lothian wrote: What's the best way to make my MP3s into OGG files? Thanks With the caveat that you're going from one lossy format to another--can you live with that? One way would be to use XMMS with the diskwriter

[newbie] Red Carpet Quit

2003-10-09 Thread Russ
Hi All, I was using RC to keep things up to date but sddenly it won't start. I run it and it asks me for my password (I give it) then nothing happens. When I rn it from a terminal window, this is what I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] russ]$ red-carpet Traceback (most recent call last): File string,

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