Re: [newbie] Complete failure

2003-12-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 05 Dec 2003 8:46 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Seems to be the power supply , so I'm after a new one, hopefully more reliable one, but maybe I'm going to have to think more seriously about surge protectors if they are any good.Either that or buy a spare. John, Argos do a really

[newbie] Sound and video

2003-12-06 Thread Teilhard Knight
Actually my questions are dumb questions. First: is there a master volume control in Mandrake 9.2? I can only hear sound when the amplifier of my home theatre is at its maximum. Second, I want to install the NVIDIA drivers, and there are the IA32, and the AMD64, both supporting my Geoforce3

Re: [newbie] Complete failure

2003-12-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 06 Dec 2003 1:57 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Friday 05 December 2003 03:37 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: whack Turns out that my powersupply has failed. I substituted a know to work powersupply and she booted. Put the old one back and she fails. My guess is that the 3.3v

Re: [newbie] Sound and video

2003-12-06 Thread RickS
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 06 December 2003 02:38 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: Actually my questions are dumb questions. First: is there a master volume control in Mandrake 9.2? I can only hear sound when the amplifier of my home theatre is at its maximum.

Re: [newbie] Asus Motherboards and Mandrake - will it work 100% ?

2003-12-06 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Saturday 06 December 2003 03:46, Dan LaBine wrote: Janus; I'm running many Asus boards without problems. The new (?) Asus P4S533-MX is 110% Ok for Mandrake 9.2. If it doesn't work for you, I'll buy it from you. Thank you. That's good news! Does anybody know about how well the Asus

Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!

2003-12-06 Thread Lanman
Hey Lee ! How goes it? Whaddya mean Solve something ? Hell,..I already solved the square root of PI ! What else do you want? Grin! Oh, yeah, and I also figured out the meaning of Life ! It didn't take quite as long as PI, but I can now cross that off my list of things to do ! Grin! Lanman

Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!

2003-12-06 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 08:12:51 -0500 Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't see this as a problem though, since both email addresses are in fact mine. The reply-to address is simply an alias which is capable of bypassing the filters. In other words, I can't use it as my primary account, only

Re: [newbie] Font spacing in kword in M9.1

2003-12-06 Thread John Richard Smith
Charlie wrote: I usually adopt helvetica, but it doesn't seem to make any difference. It looks reasonable on screen, I say reasonable,though perhaps still a little close, but in print preview, and actual print off, it is all too close set to be easily readable. I never had this problem before.

Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!

2003-12-06 Thread Lanman
Not a problem Joe! I stocked up on Tylenol before rejoining the list ! I expect that within a week or so most of my contacts will have the new address and all will be solved. In the meantime, I'll just make sure that when someone does it to me, I'll use a previous post in the thread to

Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!

2003-12-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 06 December 2003 07:55 am, JoeHill wrote: Jo ...and as far as Lyvim, that would be *growing down*... ;-) Jo You're just mad 'cause you lost too many arguments to him! grin -- /\

Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!

2003-12-06 Thread Lanman
LOL! LOL! Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 12/6/2003 at 8:58 AM Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 06 December 2003 07:55 am, JoeHill wrote: Jo ...and as far as Lyvim, that would be *growing down*... ;-) Jo You're just mad 'cause you lost too many arguments to him! grin --

Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!

2003-12-06 Thread Lanman
Done and Done! Man, you are t funny! I'm putting you into my will ! LOL! Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 12/6/2003 at 9:00 AM Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 06 December 2003 08:18 am, Lanman wrote: La Hey Lee ! How goes it? Whaddya mean Solve something ? Hell,..I

Re: [newbie] Re:

2003-12-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 05 December 2003 07:05 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: DJ groklaw has become compulsive reading for me. It is open collaboration DJ at its best. Amen - and did you see the judges ruling? SCO has 30 days to prove up - no extensions! Yipeee! --

[newbie] Orbit question

2003-12-06 Thread Ronald J. Hall
and I don't mean around planetary sized objects either... :-) Orbit (CORBA?) software on my 9.2 setup keeps sticking things in /home/darklord/tmp, like the directory Orbit-Darklord. Is this software necessary/advantageous or can I just dump it? I looked for it in the MCC under services but its

[newbie] urpmi contrib

2003-12-06 Thread Johan
Hi, Ok I have updating with urpmi under the belt. Kindly some pointers how does contrib figure in this please. Maybe an example of using this please. Thanks Johan -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 - still learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Asus Motherboards and Mandrake - will it work 100% ?

2003-12-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 06 December 2003 02:29 am, Janus Sandsgaard wrote: I am buying a new PC and can choose between these two motherboards: - Asus P4BGL-MX/533 (standard) http://uk.asus.com/products/mb/socket478/p4bgl-mx-533/overview .htm - Asus P4P800-VM (with AGP)

[newbie] Epson Stylus C84 Colour Inkjet printer

2003-12-06 Thread John Richard Smith
Anyone had any experience with Epson Stylus C84 Colour Inkjet printer under Mandrake ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Complete failure

2003-12-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 05 December 2003 08:46 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Seems to be the power supply , so I'm after a new one, hopefully more reliable one, but maybe I'm going to have to think more seriously about surge protectors if they are any good.Either that or buy a spare. John Get an

Re: [newbie] Epson Stylus C84 Colour Inkjet printer

2003-12-06 Thread Trey Sizemore
On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 09:06, John Richard Smith wrote: Anyone had any experience with Epson Stylus C84 Colour Inkjet printer under Mandrake ? John Can't answer specifically about the C84, but if it helps I'm using the C82 model and it works great. Great print quality using CUPS Gimp-Print

Re: [newbie] Font spacing in kword in M9.1

2003-12-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 06 Dec 2003 12:21 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Charlie wrote: I usually adopt helvetica, but it doesn't seem to make any difference. It looks reasonable on screen, I say reasonable,though perhaps still a little close, but in print preview, and actual print off, it is all too

Re: [newbie] Complete failure

2003-12-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 06 Dec 2003 12:07 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 06 Dec 2003 1:57 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: John: It might be a good time to consider a good UPS, too. Agreed - I use one on my box. However, the only ones that do a tidy shutdown, as far as I can

Re: [newbie] Lilo start entries

2003-12-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 06 December 2003 12:01 pm, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Adolfo Bello wrote: I would asume that failsafe is very similar to the Windows Safe Mode but the linux-nonfb meaning escapes me. No framebuffer. Where can i find a discription of this and why I might need to

Re: [newbie] Font spacing in kword in M9.1

2003-12-06 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 06 Dec 2003 12:21 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: It seems like I will be joining you with OO if I cannot fix my kword print problem. I have a choice of 4 drivers for my Z53 printers(of which we have 3) and I make a practice of setting up all 4 every time. 3 of

Re: [newbie] Epson Stylus C84 Colour Inkjet printer

2003-12-06 Thread John Richard Smith
Trey Sizemore wrote: On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 09:06, John Richard Smith wrote: Anyone had any experience with Epson Stylus C84 Colour Inkjet printer under Mandrake ? John Can't answer specifically about the C84, but if it helps I'm using the C82 model and it works great. Great print

Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!

2003-12-06 Thread Eric Huff
For starters, could you get rid of the reply-to? http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 08:23:55 -0500 Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] top posted: That's all well and good that *you* don't see it as a problem, unfortunately it causes headaches

Re: [newbie] Font spacing in kword in M9.1

2003-12-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 06 Dec 2003 3:21 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Having got the printer to work in MD9.1, I am thinking of wiping M9.0 for MD9.2 install, but if I cannot use kword in MD9.1, then , I have to reconsider my options. It's a pain to switch word processor. It just seems daft that kword

[newbie] Recording problem with streamer

2003-12-06 Thread Linus Drouhard
I cannot record with streamer since I upgraded my mobo and processor. I now have an ASUS A7V8X-X with an Athlon XP 2500+ (runs nice). I have Mandrake 9.2 on it. Here's the problem, I run the following command streamer -f mjpeg -t 120 -s 720x480 -r 29.97 -o movie.avi -F stereo -n ntsc lav2wav +p

Re: [newbie] k3b

2003-12-06 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 06 December 2003 5:29 am, Paul Kaplan wrote: I'm running 9.2 on a IBM thinkpad T40. k3b doesn't work. When I try to burn an iso image it starts and then chokes with no error messages. Careful inspection of the CDR shows that something

Re: [newbie] Complete failure

2003-12-06 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: http://www.cclcomputers.biz/acatalog/ They range from *300W ATX TUV Power Supply* Ref: PSU0001 **Online Price £14.38*£16.90 Including VAT at 17.5%* To, *Liebert 2.2Kva Powersure Interactive Mini Tower* Ref: UPS0006 World Class Power Protection And Communications For

Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!

2003-12-06 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 06 December 2003 5:43 am, Lanman wrote: Well Gang ! After a short hiatus while I dumped a crappy ISP, I'm back and ready to,..um, ...er,.. read emails, answer emails, cause and solve problems, and all the other things I normally do !

Re: [newbie] Epson Stylus C84 Colour Inkjet printer

2003-12-06 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 06 December 2003 08:06 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Anyone had any experience with Epson Stylus C84 Colour Inkjet printer under Mandrake ? John John, look here, it says it works mostly. HTH http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Epson-Stylus_C84 -- Dennis M.

[newbie] Setting the Time

2003-12-06 Thread The Other
12/06/03 What program can I use to go to an atomic clock website and have my computer clock set? Also, would I have to be logged in as 'root' to change the computer's clock? In Windows I used the TARDIS program to modem to a site and have the computer's clock set. Suggestions for a comparable

Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!

2003-12-06 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 08:26:48 -0800 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But, in all seriousness, the reply-to screws up people on mailingg lists. If your isp makes you fill it in, is there anyway you could set it to whatever list you are posting to? I just communicated with another IStop user,

Re: [newbie] Epson Stylus C84 Colour Inkjet printer

2003-12-06 Thread John Richard Smith
Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 06 December 2003 08:06 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Anyone had any experience with Epson Stylus C84 Colour Inkjet printer under Mandrake ? John John, look here, it says it works mostly. HTH

Re: [newbie] Setting the Time

2003-12-06 Thread et
On Saturday 06 December 2003 05:10 pm, The Other wrote: 12/06/03 What program can I use to go to an atomic clock website and have my computer clock set? Also, would I have to be logged in as 'root' to change the computer's clock? In Windows I used the TARDIS program to modem to a site and

Re: [newbie] Setting the Time

2003-12-06 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 06 Dec 2003 5:10 pm, The Other wrote: 12/06/03 What program can I use to go to an atomic clock website and have my computer clock set? Also, would I have to be logged in as 'root' to change the computer's clock? In Windows I used the TARDIS program to modem to a site and have

[newbie] Sound Problems on 9.2 Install

2003-12-06 Thread Graham Watkins
Hi Y'all, Finally plucked up the courage to install 9.2 this afternoon, and already I'm regretting it. The sound is next to useless being extremely quiet, poor quality and almost drowned out by hiss. I've checked the mixer settings and it is set to full volume and not muted. My sound card is

Re: [newbie] Sound Problems on 9.2 Install

2003-12-06 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 06 Dec 2003 6:10 pm, Graham Watkins wrote: Hi Y'all, Finally plucked up the courage to install 9.2 this afternoon, and already I'm regretting it. The sound is next to useless being extremely quiet, poor quality and almost drowned out by hiss. I've checked the mixer settings and

[newbie] contrib site

2003-12-06 Thread Johan
Hi, Anybody care to provide a good contrib site please. Thanks -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 - still learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Epson Stylus C84 Colour Inkjet printer

2003-12-06 Thread Richard Urwin
On Saturday 06 Dec 2003 4:22 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: This printer cannot be tested by sending plain text to it, as the printer may or may not respond to the text. The recommended way to test the connection is by checking the ink level with the escputil command as follows: Does that

Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!

2003-12-06 Thread Brandon Erik Bertelsen
Whoa... your doing homework... 'some' people are really anal about the reply-to settings. Deal, I look before I post so should you ;) If the guy says he can't do it, HE CAN'T DO IT stop harrasing the poor man. JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 08:26:48 -0800 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [newbie] k3b

2003-12-06 Thread Paul Kaplan
On Saturday 06 December 2003 11:45 am, Charlie Mahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 06 December 2003 5:29 am, Paul Kaplan wrote: I'm running 9.2 on a IBM thinkpad T40. k3b doesn't work. When I try to burn an iso image it starts and then chokes with no error

Re: [newbie] contrib site

2003-12-06 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 06 December 2003 11:38 am, Johan wrote: Hi, Anybody care to provide a good contrib site please. Thanks All of the required information has been posted numerous times and in almost every week/month/year since these lists were started. A

Re: [newbie] Sound Problems on 9.2 Install

2003-12-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 06 December 2003 06:10 pm, Graham Watkins wrote: Hi Y'all, Finally plucked up the courage to install 9.2 this afternoon, and already I'm regretting it. The sound is next to useless being extremely quiet, poor quality and almost drowned out by hiss. I've checked the mixer settings

[newbie] Resetting media sources to the original ISO's mdk9.2

2003-12-06 Thread Brandon Erik Bertelsen
How would one go about setting up the urpmi sources as that of what was originally offered through the mandrake ISO's, you see, I'm having issues with the Easy URPM site, and of course after little reading I blasted the original media that I had on my distro. By typing in the wonderful

Re: [newbie] Complete failure

2003-12-06 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Saturday 06 December 2003 10:48 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: http://www.cclcomputers.biz/acatalog/ They range from *300W ATX TUV Power Supply* Ref: PSU0001 **Online Price £14.38*£16.90 Including VAT at 17.5%* To, *Liebert 2.2Kva Powersure Interactive Mini Tower*

[newbie] contrib site

2003-12-06 Thread Johan
Hi Charlie, True...but thanks for your time and the info provided. -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 - still learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Epson Stylus C84 Colour Inkjet printer

2003-12-06 Thread John Richard Smith
Richard Urwin wrote: On Saturday 06 Dec 2003 4:22 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: This printer cannot be tested by sending plain text to it, as the printer may or may not respond to the text. The recommended way to test the connection is by checking the ink level with the escputil command as

Re: [newbie] Complete failure

2003-12-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 06 Dec 2003 3:48 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: http://www.cclcomputers.biz/acatalog/ They range from *300W ATX TUV Power Supply* Ref: PSU0001 **Online Price £14.38*£16.90 Including VAT at 17.5%* To, *Liebert 2.2Kva Powersure Interactive Mini Tower* Ref:

Re: [newbie] Asus Motherboards and Mandrake - will it work 100% ?

2003-12-06 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Saturday 06 December 2003 09:47, Tom Brinkman wrote: Neither would make for a multimedia machine, so the decision comes down to their suitability for office type apps, email and surfing for which they should be adequate. So AGP capabilities are sort'a moot. Integrated graphics should

Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!

2003-12-06 Thread Lanman
Well it's nice to know that some things haven't changed in the short time I've been away. There's a whole bunch of great people on this list, and then there's Joe Hill. There's a bunch of people who know what they're talking about, and then there's Joe Hill. There a LOT of people who know

Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!

2003-12-06 Thread Lanman
Hey Eric; Thanks for the suggestions, instead of trying to disprove what's what. I honestly hadn't thought of that. Seems I was Pre-Occupied with the Joe-man! I'm only waiting for my new static IP to be propogated to the main DNS servers, and I think it's almost there. I'll remove the Reply-To

Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!

2003-12-06 Thread Lanman
Hey Carroll; Once again a list member comes thru with an idea, instead of trying to debase someone. Good idea. I'll certainly take it under advisement! Thanks Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 12/6/2003 at 7:19 PM Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Saturday 06 December 2003 01:54 pm,

Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!

2003-12-06 Thread robin
On 12/6/2003 at 7:19 PM Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Saturday 06 December 2003 01:54 pm, Brandon Erik Bertelsen wrote: Whoa... your doing homework... 'some' people are really anal about the reply-to settings. Deal, I look before I post so should you ;) If the guy says he can't do it, HE CAN'T DO

Re: [newbie] Re:

2003-12-06 Thread dfox
Somebody scribbled about Re: [newbie] Re: And for Monty Python fans, here's a summary of yesterday's hearing set in the legendary Cheese Shop: http://www.yorgalily.org/~yorgasor/ScoCourtroomSkit.html ROTFL! :) This is good WARNING THIS POST CONTAINS TAINTED SCO CODE main() { int

Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!

2003-12-06 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 07:21:10PM -0500, Lanman wrote: Well it's nice to know that some things haven't changed in the short time I've been away. Yes, you're still as annoying as ever. I plonked you once, but you got a new addy! Z Z Z Z Z Z Z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z

[newbie] K3B in 9.2

2003-12-06 Thread Marc
I was having some trouble burning ISOs with K3B in mandrake 9.2 however it used to work fine in 9.1. I decided to uninstall K3B and install the old K3B off the old 9.1 CDs Now when K3B opens I only have the toolbar at the top the rest of the K#B screen where the drag and drop area should be

Re: [newbie] Resetting media sources to the original ISO's mdk9.2

2003-12-06 Thread Brandon Erik Bertelsen
Worked like a charm thanks! Johan wrote: On Saturday 06 December 2003 21:43, Brandon Erik Bertelsen wrote: How would one go about setting up the urpmi sources as that of what was originally offered through the mandrake ISO's, you see, I'm having issues with the Easy URPM site, and of course

Re: [newbie] KWord Spelling

2003-12-06 Thread Charlie
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 11:45 pm, many eyes noted that John Richard Smith wrote: Keith Powell wrote: Hello Charlie. Sorry, but your suggestion does not work. KWord ignores the Control Center/Components/Spell Checker settings, and just starts each time with the English Dictionary, US-ASCII

Re: [newbie] KWord Spelling

2003-12-06 Thread Charlie
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 11:06 pm, many eyes noted that Keith Powell wrote: Hello Charlie. Sorry, but your suggestion does not work. I am the one that is sorry Keith, because I know how frustrating something not working can be. I also can't think of anything more that might work at the moment.

Re: [newbie] Missing Screensavers

2003-12-06 Thread Brandon Erik Bertelsen
Patrick Coffey wrote: Hello, I just installed a fresh copy Mandrake 9.2 with KDE, when I go to Configure Desktop and go under screensavers there are none listed. I've installed just about every KDE rpm I could find and I couldn't find a solution that worked in the archives. Does anybody have

[newbie] Bad Week for SCO

2003-12-06 Thread JoeHill
http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/12/05/2136248 Best quote from Linus: If Darl McBride was in charge, he'd probably make marriage unconstitutional too, since clearly it de-emphasizes the commercial nature of normal human interaction, and probably is a major impediment to the commercial

Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!

2003-12-06 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
Welcome back Lanman! And a hearty Merry Christmas to you! So good to see you back on the lists. I do a scan from time to time to see what's going on, even if RL keeps me away alot here recently. This is one of those times. :) Your wit and humor is irreplaceable and always entertaining. Glad

Re: [newbie] Bad Week for SCO

2003-12-06 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Saturday 06 December 2003 09:47 pm, JoeHill wrote: http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/12/05/2136248 Best quote from Linus: If Darl McBride was in charge, he'd probably make marriage unconstitutional too, since clearly it de-emphasizes the commercial nature of normal human

Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!

2003-12-06 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 13:54, Brandon Erik Bertelsen wrote: Whoa... your doing homework... 'some' people are really anal about the reply-to settings. Deal, I look before I post so should you ;) If the guy says he can't do it, HE CAN'T DO IT stop harrasing the poor man. Exactly. However

Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!

2003-12-06 Thread Chargers
Too bad proper etiquitte couldn't be ' if you don't have any thing positive or helpful to say, DONT SAY ANYTHING' Ignorant responses is the reason I am only a viewer anfd not a participant 99.9 % of the time. :-( Eric Huff said the following, On 06/12/2003 11:26 AM: For starters, could you

Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!

2003-12-06 Thread JoeHill
On 06 Dec 2003 22:59:07 -0500 Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't worry about joedill/haywiremac, he's a newb that wants everyone to think he's an old timer, which he's not; he's just some recently-arrived troll that has been looking for a home and has managed to keep his fat mouth

Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!

2003-12-06 Thread JoeHill
On 06 Dec 2003 22:59:07 -0500 Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm fed up with your crap Joe. The next time you challenge me, you'd better be ready to dance BITCH! For your sake your name and number better not be in the phone book Pal. Once again you made a bad choice. I don't sit

Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!

2003-12-06 Thread Lanman
Big Deal! I'm shaking in my boots! So much for putting your money where your mouth is. Put your control fetish back in the closet, and let's get back to what this list is all about. I'll send you the phone number for the local authorities in a little while, and we'll see where this leads to.

Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!

2003-12-06 Thread KS
So if you don't contribute get of of the newsgroup? If this is an elite group, let me know and I'm gone. There is no reason for people respond to messages with 'prick' ish replys. If you don't want to answer somebody's question, don't.. Somebody who is sympathetic to the individual's

Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!

2003-12-06 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 07:43, Lanman wrote: Well Gang ! After a short hiatus while I dumped a crappy ISP, I'm back and ready to,..um, ...er,.. read emails, answer emails, cause and solve problems, and all the other things I normally do ! Grin! ! Grin ! Miss me? Hah ! Thought not! But

Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!

2003-12-06 Thread KS
Bravo Joe, You do what you have to do. I, personnally am sick of people that think thay have the right rto decide what is a good question and what is not. They obviously believe that they know the base knowledge level is, for a person to be able to switch from say, wondows linux. Ther eare a lot

Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!

2003-12-06 Thread Lanman
Another Canadian on the list eh? Welcome to the fray! Of course, if you've been here a long time already please disregard this emai. But still nice to see another Canuck on board ! Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 12/6/2003 at 11:23 PM KS wrote: So if you don't contribute

[newbie] Samba help please?

2003-12-06 Thread Al Destiny
Hi all, I have MDK 9.1 setup on an old box to link with my XP box. Samba seems to work great as a server...I can browse my home dir from the XP box. But I cannot see any files on the XP box from Linux. I can browse the network. I can find the XP box. I can see the share name ddrive (I know,

Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!

2003-12-06 Thread KS
Been watching for a few years, but have never been willing to subject myself to a public stoning. I've been checking out Debian and its lists, it seems to be more friendly. Mandrake, while being a good distro has started to turn me off with their actions before I was willing to get a CLUB

Re: [newbie] gtk debugging libraries

2003-12-06 Thread Jerry Barton
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 12:59:06 -0800 Dimitar Haralanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Still no luck finding anything on this. I would be nice if Mandrake had these libraries somewhere... Any help? glibc-debug -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux

Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!

2003-12-06 Thread Lanman
Not to worry KS ! Guys like you and I are always welcome. Well, you are anyways! Grin! No elitists would dare show their mugs on this list for fear of getting flamed by the Roust-abouts and Scallywags like myself, of which I suspect there are quite a few. Still, it is a list of passionate people,

Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!

2003-12-06 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 23:08, JoeHill wrote: On 06 Dec 2003 22:59:07 -0500 Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm fed up with your crap Joe. The next time you challenge me, you'd better be ready to dance BITCH! For your sake your name and number better not be in the phone book Pal.

Re: [newbie] Samba help please?

2003-12-06 Thread Lanman
On 12/7/2003 at 5:51 PM Al Destiny wrote: Hi all, I have MDK 9.1 setup on an old box to link with my XP box. Samba seems to work great as a server...I can browse my home dir from the XP box. But I cannot see any files on the XP box from Linux. I can browse the network. I can find the XP box.

Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!

2003-12-06 Thread Jerry Barton
Plonk. Plonk. Fizz. Fizz. O! What a relief it is. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!

2003-12-06 Thread Lanman
On 12/6/2003 at 11:54 PM KS wrote: Been watching for a few years, but have never been willing to subject myself to a public stoning. I've been checking out Debian and its lists, it seems to be more friendly. Mandrake, while being a good distro has started to turn me off with their actions before

Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!

2003-12-06 Thread Lanman
Cute! Poetic too ! May I suggest that you Plonk [EMAIL PROTECTED] as well ? It would make your life a lot simpler. Just a thought. Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 12/6/2003 at 10:11 PM Jerry Barton wrote: Plonk. Plonk. Fizz. Fizz. O! What a relief it is. -- _||_

Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!

2003-12-06 Thread Lanman
On 12/7/2003 at 12:01 AM Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 23:08, JoeHill wrote: On 06 Dec 2003 22:59:07 -0500 Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm fed up with your crap Joe. The next time you challenge me, you'd better be ready to dance BITCH! For your sake your name and

Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!

2003-12-06 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 00:10, Lanman wrote: On 12/6/2003 at 11:54 PM KS wrote: Been watching for a few years, but have never been willing to subject myself to a public stoning. I've been checking out Debian and its lists, it seems to be more friendly. Mandrake, while being a good distro has

Re: [newbie] Samba help please?

2003-12-06 Thread Jerry Barton
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 17:51:28 +1300 Al Destiny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have MDK 9.1 setup on an old box to link with my XP box. Samba seems to work great as a server...I can browse my home dir from the XP box. But I cannot see any files on the XP box from Linux. I can

Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!

2003-12-06 Thread Greg
Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/7/2003 at 12:01 AM Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 23:08, JoeHill wrote: On 06 Dec 2003 22:59:07 -0500 Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm fed up with your crap Joe. The next time you challenge me, you'd better be ready to dance

Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!

2003-12-06 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 00:27, Lanman wrote: Lyvim; Sounds like Christmas is coming early this year! Anyway, before this turns into another mess, I'd like to suggest that we just ignore him Lyvim. As fed up as I am, and as much as I'd love to take this guy down a peg or two, you know what?

Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!

2003-12-06 Thread Lanman
On 12/7/2003 at 12:32 AM Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I agree, Lanman. I have had problems with the decisions that were made with rpmdrake, but I've put those differences aside in view of the whole distro. I think Mandrake is the best desktop solution available for Linux. What's more, Red Hat seems to

Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!

2003-12-06 Thread Lanman
One thing that might be interesting is a larger variety of single CD versions of Mandrake built for specific type of installations. For example, a single CD of Mandrake Server with no more than two desktop environments, and the most popular services on it - ie; FTP, Apache, Postfix, Bind, Samba,

[newbie] updatedb

2003-12-06 Thread Lee Wiggers
How do I include specific network shares when I update the locate db? I thought they were automagically included if mounted when I updatedb. Lee -- User #223705 Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com