Re: [newbie] mail help: host not found

2003-10-29 Thread Eric Huff
> >It's not mail i send, it's mail sent from the newbie list server. > > I just > >get the error bounces. > > > >How can i check if it's a dns problem? If i whois the site, can > >it suffer from the same? > > > > > Very strange. You mentioned you could not ping the sites, and > usually that mean

Re: [newbie] mail help: host not found

2003-10-29 Thread Paul
On 10/29/2003 10:57 PM, Eric Huff wrote: It looks like a DNS problem with your ISP. Should be fixed now since mail is coming through. Paul It's not mail i send, it's mail sent from the newbie list server. I just get the error bounces. How can i check if it's a dns problem? If i whois the s

Re: [newbie] Moving Home partition

2003-10-29 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 1:33 pm, Kelly McCormick wrote: > Heather/Femme wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:16:50 -0500 > > Kelly McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Was afraid of that, thanks Femme. Can this be done within mandrake? > >> > >>Dax > > > > easiest way if you have an

[newbie] JAVA compile

2003-10-29 Thread emim limam
Hi all, I am trying to compile with java but when i try from shell" javac file.java" i am geting bash:javac:command not found > message. How could i fix this? my system is mdk9.1 thx emin __ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yaho

Re: [newbie] convert all my mp3s to oggs

2003-10-29 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 11:19 am, Anarky wrote: > I'd like to influence the to ogg transition of the world by > converting all my mp3s to oggs ... .. is there anybody here who's good > at scripting that could maybe give me a script that I could run on a > folder and it would traverse all i

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread Eric Huff
>Hopefully packet writing won't dry up just because of this >latest > deal. I can see where it would be very useful to some, specially > in an office environment. Wouldn't it be possible to enable packet writing for good devices, but prevent sending the bad-for-LG commands to the LG's, n

Re: Out of Office AutoReply: [newbie] How did 9.2 get here ?

2003-10-29 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 11:51 am, Eric Huff wrote: > > I haven't but most of the auto-replies only send out one message > > per day or even, in some cases, one per week to each sender. > > interesting. > > > I > > hope that he has either turned it off or turned off the mailing > > list for whi

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 10:05 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: >>> snip > The reason that standards exist is to eliminate the need for developers to > buy one of each different type of drive and test it. That is really the > only way to insure compatibility. On the other hand, it would have been >

Re: [newbie] broadband and stopping connection to internet at will

2003-10-29 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 7:58 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Tuesday 28 October 2003 11:05 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > On Tuesday 28 October 2003 08:58 pm, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > > Thanks Derek and Bryan. I think I have not made myself clear. I have > > > seen the above site of derek. Though I put

Re: [newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2003-10-29 Thread Harv Nelson
Margot wrote: HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:18:26 -0500 Carroll Grigsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: A suggestion: How about a topic-of-the-week? This week's topic: What would you do with Steve Ballmer if you could be alone with him for a half hour and no legal consequences? Hal

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 05:02 pm, robin wrote: > > The hardware doesn't blow up, just it's non standard bios > > is corrupted. The drive can be fixed by replacing the firmware. > Now that I didn't know. Well, that was my own conjecture. But, I just read, believe it was the cooker li

RE: [newbie] Password Expiration

2003-10-29 Thread Matt Winer
Is there any way to do it thought CLI? This machine has no working GUI and I don't ever care to get it to work. Thanks! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derek Jennings Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 5:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subje

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 19:47:48 -0500 Bryan Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > My point was, I don't care about MS's monopoly, This is where we part ways. MS's monopoly, and the propaganda and government machinery that supports it, must be actively opposed and countered at every turn. Making per

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 02:36 pm, robin wrote: > Since when is a stable release "bleeding edge"? Bleeding edge is > Cooker. Bleeding edge is running alpha apps. Bleeding edge is using a > development kernel. Mandrake Linux is considered much more cutting edge and state of the art than man

Re: [newbie] kernel-tmb-2.4.22.12.tmb.1mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm

2003-10-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 04:33 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > I bow to your fart superior knowledge of hardware. A typo John ? ;))) > Mine is of course not a laptop. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cat /proc/cpuinfo > processor : 0 > vendor_id : AuthenticAMD

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 04:05 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 8:17 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > Please excuse my own followup, I forgot to provide a very > > pertinent linkhttp://packet-cd.sourceforge.net/ > > I presume that the link on that page means that the more >

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread robin
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 29 October 2003 02:32 pm, robin wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: The patch in question wasn't 'Bleeding edge' or experimental (alpha). It simply enabled packet writing to CD drives. A feature now disabled in the 'fix' (kernel 2.4.22-21mdk) already available, and vari

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread aronsmith
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 02:01 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Anne Your'e welcome (your right much quicker to read ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 02:39 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > > Please excuse my own followup, I forgot to provide a very > >pertinent linkhttp://packet-cd.sourceforge.net/ > > > > > > Tom, that was a very interesting article. I had always wondered > why cdrecord and it's many gui fr

Re: [newbie] kernel-tmb-2.4.22.12.tmb.1mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm

2003-10-29 Thread John Richard Smith
Tom Brinkman wrote So if 'cat /proc/cpu/info' reports a 1200 Mhz cpu, instead of 1533 Mhz, you're system is mis-configured in bios, or you don't have an 1800+. I bow to your fart superior knowledge of hardware. Mine is of course not a laptop. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cat /proc/cpuinfo process

Re: [newbie] wine

2003-10-29 Thread deedee
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:52:04 +1300, Antonovich wrote: > has anyone managed to get the wine that comes with 9.2 to work yet? > Nothing seems to be able to be installed. It says that "WineSetupTK > does not exist" in the config panel... > Any suggestions? I have installed using the control centre an

Re: [newbie] convert all my mp3s to oggs

2003-10-29 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 16:44:59 -0500 Todd Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 09:19:45PM +0200, Anarky wrote: > >I'd like to influence the to ogg transition of the world by > > converting all my mp3s to oggs ... .. is there anybody here > > who's good at scripting that c

Re: [newbie] XADMIN

2003-10-29 Thread Jerry Barton
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 12:56:06 -0500 Heather/Femme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > wtf is Xadmin??? Is in the drakservices menu, but hit the info button > thers no info. Try "man xadmin" no such file...nothing under help or > info... I was just looking at that today as well, Femme. Lemme know if ya

Re: [newbie] Password Expiration

2003-10-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 2:19 pm, Matt Winer wrote: > I am running my Mandrake 9.1 in msec level 4. I want to keep it in > level 4 because I love all of the other security features. But how do I > prevent password expiration system wide without changing msec levels? > > Thanks! MandrakeControlCe

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 8:51 pm, HaywireMac wrote: > Hey, there's plenty of resources out there to educate yourself > before you make a purchase, and if more people used 'em, more mfgrs > would see the effects of producing crap hardware. Until this reared it's head, to me an ATAPI drive was an A

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 8:17 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > Please excuse my own followup, I forgot to provide a very > pertinent linkhttp://packet-cd.sourceforge.net/ I presume that the link on that page means that the more adventurous of us could recompile the kernel with that patch in, t

Re: [newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2003-10-29 Thread Eric Huff
> Eric Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: QUIT SPAMMING ME Funny that this is the 2nd email to come in on this thread, when this thread started with a post containing "How do i stop this" info. Originally, i tried to put in a line explicitly stating how to unsub, but simpa kept /dev/nu

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 02:32 pm, robin wrote: > Tom Brinkman wrote: > >The patch in question wasn't 'Bleeding edge' or experimental > > (alpha). It simply enabled packet writing to CD drives. A > > feature now disabled in the 'fix' (kernel 2.4.22-21mdk) already > > available, and various

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 9:05 pm, aronsmith wrote: > On Wednesday 29 October 2003 10:24 am, Heather/Femme wrote: > PLEASE snip > > Ok Thank you Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] msec (originally Gcombust Question)

2003-10-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 5:57 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: > On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:41:55 -0500 > > HaywireMac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:17:46 + > > > > Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > > Could you not use DrakServices to stop it and turn off the > > > start-

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 12:45:03 -0800 "Mark Kirschner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > Cuz it cost <= 20 dollars ;-) > > Since when was price indicative of quality? > Compare price and quality in the software market (specifically desktop > OS) Please not the ;-) -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 2795184

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:40:34 -0600 Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > Ah, but they are not going to know that if the drive comes installed > in a dell or compaq etc, All they know is that the drive worked before > and now it doesn't. I on the other hand have little or no excuse cause > I

RE: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread Mark Kirschner
HaywireMac said: > how were they to know it was junk hardware? Cuz it cost <= 20 dollars ;-) Since when was price indicative of quality? Compare price and quality in the software market (specifically desktop OS) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakest

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 12:30 pm, robin wrote: > An analogy is > website design. I write, or at least try to write, > standards-compliant HTML/CSS. If it comes out fine in Mozilla, > I can be pretty damn sure it'll look OK in Opera or Konqueror. > I also know that there is a risk that Inte

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 02:30 pm, HaywireMac wrote: > On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:32:07 +0200 > > robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > I think you're being a little unfair to the people who bought LG - how > > > > were they to know it was junk hardware? > > Cuz it cost <= 20 dollars ;-) Ah, but t

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread John Richard Smith
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 29 October 2003 02:02 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: The patch in question wasn't 'Bleeding edge' or experimental (alpha). It simply enabled packet writing to CD drives. A feature now disabled in the 'fix' (kernel 2.4.22-21mdk) already available, and various floppy i

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:32:07 +0200 robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > I think you're being a little unfair to the people who bought LG - how > > were they to know it was junk hardware? Cuz it cost <= 20 dollars ;-) -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread Heather/Femme
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 16:48:17 + Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 4:36 pm, aronsmith wrote: > > > > Look at it like you buy a yugo pickup then when you load it up the > > tires pop Who's fault is it > > Friend, if I were paying by the minute to download, you w

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread robin
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 29 October 2003 01:36 pm, robin wrote: Bryan Phinney wrote: If the user is not prepared to accept the responsibility, they should wait for those who are. Trying to stay on the bleeding edge and expecting no problems is simply asinine and stupid and there is no on

Re: [newbie] moving mandrake to another HD

2003-10-29 Thread Johan
Watch it - moving linux drive position - you will get KERNEL PANIC - and that is the end of it, thats my experience. (only windows does not care if you move drive positions). When I had this problem and posted to list nobody replied. I am looking forward to your feedback or anybody else. Johan **

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 02:02 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Wednesday 29 October 2003 01:36 pm, robin wrote: > > Bryan Phinney wrote: > > If the user is not prepared to accept the responsibility, > > > > > they should wait for those who are. Trying to stay on the > > > bleeding edge and expec

Re: [newbie] kernel-tmb-2.4.22.12.tmb.1mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm

2003-10-29 Thread John Richard Smith
Tom Brinkman wrote: That would be a safe bet. I checked those packages on my system. My intscripts is newer, bootloader is the same version. I'm running 9.2+cooker updates. Why, what need do you have to change kernels John? To build up the media side of my main OS, get better perf

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 01:36 pm, robin wrote: > Bryan Phinney wrote: > If the user is not prepared to accept the responsibility, > > > they should wait for those who are. Trying to stay on the > > bleeding edge and expecting no problems is simply asinine and > > stupid and there is no one c

[newbie] ssh key generation

2003-10-29 Thread brian
Title: Message i am trying to use scp to transfer incremental updates in some files using rsync but i want it to go over an ssh connection for the encryption and some compression, but i can't remember for the life of me how to generate a key for ssh.  help!!! brian **

Re: [newbie] msec (originally Gcombust Question)

2003-10-29 Thread Heather/Femme
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 09:41:55 -0500 HaywireMac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:17:46 + > Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > > Could you not use DrakServices to stop it and turn off the > > start-at-boot, so that you can check out any possibility of problems > >

[newbie] XADMIN

2003-10-29 Thread Heather/Femme
wtf is Xadmin??? Is in the drakservices menu, but hit the info button thers no info. Try "man xadmin" no such file...nothing under help or info... ya ya googles My friend but I also wanna know why its listed if its not on the system?!? Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2003-10-29 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 19:41:07 + Margot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > Half an hour? You think it would take me that long to do with him what > > he's done with the rest of the computing world? ;-) No, but who's to say you would only do it once? -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered

Re: [newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2003-10-29 Thread aronsmith
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 10:48 am, HaywireMac wrote: > On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:09:45 -0800 (PST) > > Sam Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > FAGGOT SPAMMER QUIT SPAMMING ME > > WTF?! Got one from him too must be a win$ux user Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2003-10-29 Thread Margot
HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:18:26 -0500 Carroll Grigsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: A suggestion: How about a topic-of-the-week? This week's topic: What would you do with Steve Ballmer if you could be alone with him for a half hour and no legal consequences? Half an hour? You thi

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 21:36:10 +0200 robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > And if someone doesn't want a user-friendly Linux, I say, let them use > Debian. But as I said, this isn't the issue here. http://lwn.net/Articles/49967/ I think you should have used a better example ;-) -- HaywireMac +

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread robin
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 29 October 2003 12:53 pm, robin wrote: [snip] I already mentioned that LG are culpable. As for the responsibility of the user, it is not fair to the user to expect him or her to retest hardware that has worked successfully with previous versions of Linux. ?

[newbie] convert all my mp3s to oggs

2003-10-29 Thread Anarky
I'd like to influence the to ogg transition of the world by converting all my mp3s to oggs ... .. is there anybody here who's good at scripting that could maybe give me a script that I could run on a folder and it would traverse all it's subfolders and transform them into oggs if they are mp

Re: [newbie] mouse speed

2003-10-29 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 01:47 pm, HaywireMac wrote: > On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 20:41:53 +0200 > > Anarky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > how do I set my mouse movement speed? I didn't find it at the > > mouse > > ocnfiguration in mcc :-( > > what desktop you runnin'? Er, I assumed KDE in

Re: [newbie] mouse speed

2003-10-29 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 01:41 pm, Anarky wrote: > how do I set my mouse movement speed? I didn't find it at the mouse > ocnfiguration in mcc :-( KDE Control Center -> Peripherals -> Mouse -> Advanced should give you what you want. HTHs! --

Re: [newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2003-10-29 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:09:45 -0800 (PST) Sam Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > FAGGOT SPAMMER QUIT SPAMMING ME WTF?! -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's & More:

Re: [newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2003-10-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 6:09 pm, Sam Rogers wrote: For heavens' sake blow away this ill-mannered infant, Eric Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] mouse speed

2003-10-29 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 20:41:53 +0200 Anarky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > how do I set my mouse movement speed? I didn't find it at the > mouse > ocnfiguration in mcc :-( what desktop you runnin'? -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.

[newbie] mouse speed

2003-10-29 Thread Anarky
how do I set my mouse movement speed? I didn't find it at the mouse ocnfiguration in mcc :-( Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] df command output

2003-10-29 Thread Richard Urwin
On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 4:57 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Wednesday 29 October 2003 10:05 am, Eric Huff wrote: > > [snip] > > tom $ df -h -x supermount > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 > 8.5G 1.7G 6.9G 20% /

Re: [newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2003-10-29 Thread Sam Rogers
Eric Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > People don't know what Twiki is? :)> > I don't think I heard that term outside of these lists.Oh, i was just kidding. Until i joined this list Twiki was just thelittle robot on Buck Rogers that said "Biddie biddie biddie".eric-- Mandrake HowTo's & More: htt

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 12:53 pm, robin wrote: > > Of course, in your view, you test on software that is available for free. > > So, when IE becomes non-standalone with the next version and the only > > way to obtain the newest version is to purchase the entire Windows OS for > > $$$, is you

Re: [newbie] Nice surfing

2003-10-29 Thread robin
Kristjan wrote: Hi I know it is possible, Only question remains. How? I have a slow connection to the internet so I want to use it to the maximum. But also so that when I want to download the new isos it will not disturb surfing for my wife at the same time. I use usually wget to fech the files.

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread robin
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 29 October 2003 07:30 am, robin wrote: An analogy is website design. I write, or at least try to write, standards-compliant HTML/CSS. If it comes out fine in Mozilla, I can be pretty damn sure it'll look OK in Opera or Konqueror. I also know that there is a risk

[newbie] Nice surfing

2003-10-29 Thread Kristjan
Hi I know it is possible, Only question remains. How? I have a slow connection to the internet so I want to use it to the maximum. But also so that when I want to download the new isos it will not disturb surfing for my wife at the same time. I use usually wget to fech the files. I know I can se

Re: [newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2003-10-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 5:13 pm, Anderson Bestetti wrote: > How to get out from this list? > The welcome letter that started this thread pointed you to http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette where you will find instructions Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302

Re: [newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2003-10-29 Thread Anderson Bestetti
How to get out from this list? Eric Huff wrote: > > > > But yeah, i am just barely that old (31). I was probably ~8 > > > when Buck Rogers was out. I do remember Wilma, though... > > > > Hell. > > > > I can remember when Buster Crabbe Was Buck Rogers. > > (from Sat morn TV, not from the big

Re: [newbie] mail help: host not found

2003-10-29 Thread Paul
On 10/29/2003 05:49 PM, Eric Huff wrote: Eric, It looks like a DNS problem with your ISP. Should be fixed now since mail is coming through. Paul I have an errors header in my email so that i get errors from newbie posts. All of a sudden i get a bunch of hosts not found from users on the list. ho

Re: [newbie] df command output

2003-10-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 10:05 am, Eric Huff wrote: > alias df='df -h -x supermount' > > the -x needs to know what to exclude. > > Paul, does this fix your file name problem? > > When i unaliased it, the -h just affected size of files. Didn't > seem to affect the way dirs were listed... (i'm s

Re: [newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2003-10-29 Thread Jerry Barton
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 23:41:34 -0800 Eric Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . > > People don't know what Twiki is? :) Yep... I didn't know what a Twiki was until recently. Once I figured out what everyone was talking about I found it quite useful and have even contributed to it. :-) I think an

Re: Out of Office AutoReply: [newbie] How did 9.2 get here ?

2003-10-29 Thread Eric Huff
> I haven't but most of the auto-replies only send out one message > per day or even, in some cases, one per week to each sender. interesting. > I > hope that he has either turned it off or turned off the mailing > list for while he is gone. He hasn't turned the list off, but probably did turn

Re: [newbie] kernel-tmb-2.4.22.12.tmb.1mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm

2003-10-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 10:05 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > OK Tom, > But I'm guessing this is a kernel for M9.2 which I do not really > have yet. because when I try to install, the dependency problem > raises it head, > > bootloader-utils >= 1.6 is needed by > kernel-tmb-2.4.22.12.tmb.1mdk-

Re: [newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2003-10-29 Thread John Richard Smith
HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 08:11:47 -0800 Eric Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: I do remember Wilma, though... Oh, ya, I was gettin' to 13 then, so you can imagine the response to those satin tights... ;-) Who can remember dragnet John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROT

[newbie] mail help: host not found

2003-10-29 Thread Eric Huff
I have an errors header in my email so that i get errors from newbie posts. All of a sudden i get a bunch of hosts not found from users on the list. home.com is one (and sure enough, it is not pingable). Another example is below. Is it just a coincidence, or was there some sort of ip address "c

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 4:36 pm, aronsmith wrote: > Look at it like you buy a yugo pickup then when you load it up the > tires pop Who's fault is it Friend, if I were paying by the minute to download, you would be right up there with Steve Ballmer. PLEASE snip Anne -- Registered Linux User

Re: [newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2003-10-29 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 08:40:23 -0800 aronsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > It would involve a catheter a blender and the Cds from Win$ux 2000 > and a soundproof room ROTFLMAO! Oh, what you and I have in common, it's a very BAD THING. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282

Re: Out of Office AutoReply: [newbie] How did 9.2 get here ?

2003-10-29 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 11:29 am, Eric Huff wrote: > > Since we would otherwise have to suffer him until 3rd November, I > > vote for temporary NOMAIL, email with problem and link to list > > etiquette page. > > I did send him a note yesterday, and i am not getting them now, so i > think he mu

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread aronsmith
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 07:05 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Wednesday 29 October 2003 07:30 am, robin wrote: > >An analogy is website design. I write, or at > > least try to write, standards-compliant HTML/CSS. If it comes out > > fine in Mozilla, I can be pretty damn sure it'll look OK in Op

Re: [newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2003-10-29 Thread Eric Huff
> > This is an automated weekly message mainly intended > > for people new to Mandrake's Newbie List. > > Eric: > Looking good, buddy. Thanks. > A suggestion: How about a topic-of-the-week? Interesting idea. I'm open to it. How would we pick the topic? If we discuss it on the list, it'll becom

Re: Out of Office AutoReply: [newbie] How did 9.2 get here ?

2003-10-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 4:29 pm, Eric Huff wrote: > > Since we would otherwise have to suffer him until 3rd November, I > > vote for temporary NOMAIL, email with problem and link to list > > etiquette page. > > I did send him a note yesterday, and i am not getting them now, so > i think he must've

Re: [newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2003-10-29 Thread aronsmith
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 08:23 am, HaywireMac wrote: > On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:18:26 -0500 > > Carroll Grigsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > A suggestion: How about a topic-of-the-week? > > This week's topic: > > What would you do with Steve Ballmer if you could be alone with him > for a half

Re: [newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2003-10-29 Thread Eric Huff
> > But yeah, i am just barely that old (31). I was probably ~8 > > when Buck Rogers was out. I do remember Wilma, though... > > Hell. > > I can remember when Buster Crabbe Was Buck Rogers. > (from Sat morn TV, not from the big screen) > > But I still like Flesh Gordon the best Well, i pu

Re: Out of Office AutoReply: [newbie] How did 9.2 get here ?

2003-10-29 Thread Eric Huff
> Since we would otherwise have to suffer him until 3rd November, I > vote for temporary NOMAIL, email with problem and link to list > etiquette page. I did send him a note yesterday, and i am not getting them now, so i think he must've turned off the autoreply. Or are others still getting them?

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:07:40 +0200 robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > I guess now they'll > have to add a little bomb icon for hardware that blows up when used > with Mandrake ;-) Hows this: http://www.orderinchaos.org/bomb.png -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046

Re: [newbie] broadband and stopping connection to internet at will

2003-10-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 08:28 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Tuesday 28 October 2003 11:05 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > On Tuesday 28 October 2003 08:58 pm, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > > Thanks Derek and Bryan. I think I have not made myself clear. > > > I have seen the above site of derek. Though I

Re: [newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2003-10-29 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 08:11:47 -0800 Eric Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But yeah, i am just barely that old (31). I was probably ~8 when > Buck Rogers was out. I do remember Wilma, though... Hell. I can remember when Buster Crabbe Was Buck Rogers. (from Sat morn TV, not from the big scr

Re: [newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2003-10-29 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:18:26 -0500 Carroll Grigsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > A suggestion: How about a topic-of-the-week? This week's topic: What would you do with Steve Ballmer if you could be alone with him for a half hour and no legal consequences? -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Reg

Re: [newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2003-10-29 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 08:11:47 -0800 Eric Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > I do remember Wilma, though... Oh, ya, I was gettin' to 13 then, so you can imagine the response to those satin tights... ;-) -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchao

Re: [newbie] broadband and stopping connection to internet at will

2003-10-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 1:58 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > On Tuesday 28 Oct 2003 7:54 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > > On Tuesday 28 Oct 2003 1:21 pm, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > > I have dial up account with an ISP. I am also going to get broadband > > > cable connection from another. Is it possible to switch

Re: [newbie] kernel-tmb-2.4.22.12.tmb.1mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm

2003-10-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 29 October 2003 03:30 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > Just for a giggle I rolled this kernel last night, > kernel-tmb-2.4.22.12.tmb.1mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm > > this is what I had in the morning, I'm surprised you didn't have more. Mandrake kernel 'src.rpm' would'a built about a half

Re: [newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2003-10-29 Thread David E. Fox
> People don't know what Twiki is? :) I don't think I heard that term outside of these lists. Besides, I'm kind of vague as to its origins. > eric David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROT

Re: [newbie] broadband and stopping connection to internet at will

2003-10-29 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 11:05 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Tuesday 28 October 2003 08:58 pm, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > Thanks Derek and Bryan. I think I have not made myself clear. I have seen > > the above site of derek. Though I put it in subject, I didn't clarify in > > text. I want not only sw

Re: [newbie] msec (originally Gcombust Question)

2003-10-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 2:06 pm, HaywireMac wrote: > On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 21:24:17 -0800 > > "E. Hines" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > How would you uninstall msec? There are a lot of packages that > > will go right along with it--drakconf, drakxtools,rpmdrake, etc.? > > I dislike msec with an

Re: Out of Office AutoReply: [newbie] How did 9.2 get here ?

2003-10-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 29 Oct 2003 7:31 am, Eric Huff wrote: > On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 01:49:20 -0500 > > Todd Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 08:15:09PM -0800, Eric Huff wrote: > > > Well, what do people think? Is this offense enough for a > > > temporary"set newbie nomail" comman

Re: [newbie] msec (originally Gcombust Question)

2003-10-29 Thread HaywireMac
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 21:24:17 -0800 "E. Hines" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > How would you uninstall msec? There are a lot of packages that will > go right along with it--drakconf, drakxtools,rpmdrake, etc.? I > dislike msec with an absolute passion (HATE is really how I feel about > it). I kno

Re: Out of Office AutoReply: [newbie] How did 9.2 get here ?

2003-10-29 Thread Kevin B. O'Brien
At 11:15 PM 10/28/2003, Eric Huff said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 22:57:30 -0500 Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 28 October 2003 11:52 am, Kitchener, Steve wrote: > > I am on holiday, I am back in the office on 3rd November

Re: [newbie] help with bash command

2003-10-29 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 11:38:03PM -0800, Eric Huff wrote: > > Quote $command > > > > mhmail to -subject "$command" ... > > Todd, somehow i figured you would have the answer. You are > definitely the bash-man! > > I swear i even had that typed in once, but was sure it would make > the subject b

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread robin
Franki wrote: [snip] And your analogy of the school, if the IT guy didn't test it on a few systems before rollout, the he SHOULD be looking for a new job. A valid point. Sir Robin -- "I declare this sentence a performative!" Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilken

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread Franki
robin wrote: Franki wrote: [snip] The fault is LG's, they used a command that is sposed to clear the drives buffer on burners to instead be interpreted by their CD rom as "upload firmware", thereby wiping the drives firmware. Their drives are NOT ATAPI drives as they do not support he ATAPI

Re: [newbie] LG CDRoms

2003-10-29 Thread robin
Franki wrote: [snip] The fault is LG's, they used a command that is sposed to clear the drives buffer on burners to instead be interpreted by their CD rom as "upload firmware", thereby wiping the drives firmware. Their drives are NOT ATAPI drives as they do not support he ATAPI standard, the

Re: [newbie] df command output

2003-10-29 Thread Tomas Rett
df -h -x Tom Dne st 29. října 2003 13:07 Paul Kaplan napsal(a): > it isn't obvious to me what switch changes the way fs's are listed. > Any ideas? > P > > On Wednesday 29 October 2003 06:33 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Paul Kaplan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >

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