Re: [newbie] Complete failure

2003-12-08 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 08 Dec 2003 10:26 am, Derek Jennings wrote: Actually I thought the UK and most all of Europe was 250v. The US probly would be too, but you need to remember we invented the light bulb :) And that was so long ago, and with competing AC and DC distributions in the beginning,

Re: [newbie] UPS's was Re: Complete failure

2003-12-08 Thread et
On Monday 08 December 2003 06:03 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Lanman wrote: On 12/7/2003 at 3:22 PM John Richard Smith wrote: Lanman wrote: John; The basic purpose of a UPS is to filter or condition the electrical power which your computer receives. Typically, your computer runs off

Re: [newbie] Complete failure

2003-12-08 Thread John Richard Smith
Derek Jennings wrote And no. We do not use 250V in Europe. The UK is nominally 240V 50Hz, while continental Europe is mostly nominally 220V 50Hz The reasonably short lengths of transmission lines, few electrical storms, and very tight regulation of the generating industry here means that the

Re: [newbie] UPS's was Re: Complete failure

2003-12-08 Thread et
On Monday 08 December 2003 10:15 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 08 Dec 2003 8:48 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Lanman wrote: Some UPS's work as lanman described ie always off the battery but do check if the UPS you buy does this or does the

Re: [newbie] Complete failure

2003-12-08 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 08 Dec 2003 10:30 am, John Richard Smith wrote: However I would agree that we in UK don't get much variable voltage, provided your domestic property isn't either in some remote country setting or perhaps sited next to some lonesome little industrial estate, your gonna get reliable

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

2003-12-08 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 04:31, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 8:59 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday 07 December 2003 07:00 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Besides, SATA will soon be deprecated by PCI Express. You wait for ages for a bus, then as always 2 come along together g

Re: [newbie] Complete failure

2003-12-08 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 11:35, John Richard Smith wrote: Lanman wrote: John; It's continous. But the components in the power supply onlyaccept what they can manageor what they're rated for. The battery keeps this feed stable, and as a basic nature of electricity, only supplies what is

Re: [newbie] Complete failure

2003-12-08 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 08 December 2003 10:26 am, Derek Jennings wrote: Ohh you got me going there. As with so many other of Edison's 'inventions' the light bulb was not invented by Edison at all. The city of Newcastle in England had public electric lighting before Edison 'invented' the lightbulb. What

Re: [newbie] UPS's was Re: Complete failure

2003-12-08 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 08 December 2003 10:15 am, Anne Wilson wrote: I've no experience of a printer being fried, on any of the systems that I have been involved with.  Modems, however, are a different story.  Last year there was a rather violent storm.  Most of my friends and family lost their modems.  

Re: [newbie] KWord Spelling

2003-12-08 Thread Alan Dunford
On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 4:52 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 12:46 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Keith Powell wro I live in Yorkshire, so kde-i18-en_GB-3.1.3-1mdk is installed. One thing I have noticed. All your packages are earlier than mine (for example, your

[newbie] Sendmail SMTP Auth in Mandrake

2003-12-08 Thread Corey
Hello! I've just switched over to Mandrake from Redhat 9. My Redhat box was running Sendmail with Authentication turned on (so I don't have to re-configure my laptops every time they leave the office and not to be an open relay). I have configured my sendmail.mc / sendmail.cf files exactly the

Re: [newbie] Sound and video

2003-12-08 Thread cdrack
Rick is rigth you can use aumix to adjust the volumen level. No mather if you use a simple speaker set or if you use a home treater audio sistem.. they will recive the same output from the pc. so install aumix then execute them and ajust the sound volumen levels and you are done. Cdrack.

Re: [newbie] Sendmail SMTP Auth in Mandrake

2003-12-08 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 10:49, Corey wrote: Hello! I've just switched over to Mandrake from Redhat 9. My Redhat box was running Sendmail with Authentication turned on (so I don't have to re-configure my laptops every time they leave the office and not to be an open relay). I have configured

Re: [newbie] Sound and video

2003-12-08 Thread Teilhard Knight
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday 07 December 2003 6:14 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: Sorry to reply so late. My server or the list are not behaving in a decent way for me. I appreciate your feedback. Only problem is that it seems there are no drivers for my Athlon. I

Re: [newbie] [TV-Card] No channels are found

2003-12-08 Thread Bert Meersma
Hi All, I still can't get it to work. Is there anything that needs root access or something? Sometimes I have one channel that I can't change, sometimes I don't have any channels at all. Even when I didn't change a thing. Just a reboot would do the trick. Bert Op zo 07-12-2003, om 14:31

Re: [newbie] Mozilla mail filters

2003-12-08 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Margot wrote: Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Mozilla 1.3 email filters I have Mozilla 1.4 (upgraded from 1.0 on Mandrake 9.0 then reinstalled on Mandrake 9.2) and have no problem with the filters. Is there any particular reason why you are running Mozilla 1.3? Could you upgrade to 1.4? I

Re: [newbie] Sound and video

2003-12-08 Thread Teilhard Knight
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday 07 December 2003 6:23 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: snip Sound server? I do not follow. Do I need a sound server to get sound? Open Source Sound (OSS), or Alsa. Which? How do I tell? Is artsd controlling properly, and is it set to

Re: [newbie] KWord in Mandrake9.2 won't spell check.

2003-12-08 Thread Keith Powell
On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 8:03 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday 07 December 2003 12:04 pm, Keith Powell wrote: Has anyone managed to get KWord spell checking working in Mandrake9.2? Whenever I try to spell check, KWord just crashes. I just

Re: [newbie] Mozilla mail filters

2003-12-08 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 08 December 2003 14:15, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: snip Ideas on the current STABLE release of Mozilla (1.5?) appreciated. Time to get learning and learn how to install an RPM or source from an external CD. /snip Hylton, Mozilla 1.5 doesn't come as a rpm, but as an installer

Re: [newbie] UPS's was Re: Complete failure

2003-12-08 Thread Teilhard Knight
On Monday 08 December 2003 06:03 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Lanman wrote: On 12/7/2003 at 3:22 PM John Richard Smith wrote: Lanman wrote: John; The basic purpose of a UPS is to filter or condition the electrical power which your computer receives. Typically, your computer

Re: [newbie] KWord in Mandrake9.2 won't spell check. (Explained)

2003-12-08 Thread Keith Powell
Hoping to reach a wider audience, I have asked on the KDE list if anyone has had problems with KWord spell checking. I have received this reply from Dik Takken: On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Keith Powell wrote: Is there a problem with spell checking in KWord1.2.92, please? Yes, there are serious

Re: [newbie] Sound and video

2003-12-08 Thread Teilhard Knight
Rick is rigth you can use aumix to adjust the volumen level. No mather if you use a simple speaker set or if you use a home treater audio sistem.. they will recive the same output from the pc. so install aumix then execute them and ajust the sound volumen levels and you are done. Thank

Re: [newbie] Complete failure (Now completely OT)

2003-12-08 Thread Richard Urwin
On Monday 08 Dec 2003 8:19 am, John Richard Smith wrote: UK domestic is 240v can vary between 230/250 v(meaning it's allowed) but I have never experienced in my lifetime much variation from 240v 50cycles/min. Yep, 240V, I just measured it (239V at this moment.) I strangely remembered that it

Re: [newbie] Bad Week for SCO

2003-12-08 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 11:50 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 07 December 2003 12:22 pm, dfox wrote: df Somebody scribbled about Re: [newbie] Bad Week for SCO df So Linus sees a connection between Darl and whoring. I'll go along df with that. -- cmg df df GPL SEX df Right. You can

Re: [newbie] Bad Week for SCO

2003-12-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 08 December 2003 01:45 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: RU df GPL SEX RU df RU RU Right. You can do it, change how you do it, read all the instructions about RU how to do it, and even give it away for free... RU RU By the Gods, I just love Linux! :-) RU RU In what sense? :-) RU

Re: [newbie] Bad Week for SCO

2003-12-08 Thread Richard Urwin
On Monday 08 Dec 2003 6:51 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 08 December 2003 01:45 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: RU df GPL SEX RU df RU RU Right. You can do it, change how you do it, read all the instructions about RU how to do it, and even give it away for free... RU RU By

Re: [newbie] Complete failure

2003-12-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 08 December 2003 05:26 am, Derek Jennings wrote: DJ Ohh you got me going there. DJ As with so many other of Edison's 'inventions' the light bulb was not invented DJ by Edison at all. DJ The city of Newcastle in England had public electric lighting before Edison DJ 'invented' the

Re: [newbie] Bad Week for SCO

2003-12-08 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 08 December 2003 01:55 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: RU Also reminds me of this: http://www.d.kth.se/~d95-aso/hackers.htm RU WARNING: may be offensive. RU lol Good one! -- /\

[newbie] Wine for Dummies Tutorial?

2003-12-08 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Before I boot back into Mandrake to do a bit more tweaking, I'd like to know if there's a *simple as possible* tutorial somewhere for setting up Wine and installing a program into (onto?) it? The tutorials I've found so far seem to assume that

RE: [newbie] Wine for Dummies Tutorial?

2003-12-08 Thread Scott St. John
Melissa- Have you checked the Wine list to see if that program is supported? -Scott -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Melissa Reese Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 2:02 PM To: MDK Newbie Subject: [newbie] Wine for Dummies Tutorial?

Re: [newbie] Complete failure (Now completely OT)

2003-12-08 Thread Alan Dunford
On Monday 08 Dec 2003 6:43 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Monday 08 Dec 2003 8:19 am, John Richard Smith wrote: UK domestic is 240v can vary between 230/250 v(meaning it's allowed) but I have never experienced in my lifetime much variation from 240v 50cycles/min. Cycles per second ? --

Re: [newbie] KWord Spelling

2003-12-08 Thread Keith Powell
On Monday 08 Dec 2003 3:34 pm, Alan Dunford wrote: On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 4:52 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 07 Dec 2003 12:46 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Keith Powell wro I live in Yorkshire, so kde-i18-en_GB-3.1.3-1mdk is installed. One thing I have noticed. All your

Re: [newbie] Wine for Dummies Tutorial?

2003-12-08 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Scott, On Monday, December 08, 2003, at 11:05:49 AM PST, you wrote: Have you checked the Wine list to see if that program is supported? I didn't see it listed there, but thought I'd give it a try anyway. How else will I know if it can work or

Re: [newbie] Mozilla mail filters

2003-12-08 Thread Margot
Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Margot wrote: Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: Mozilla 1.3 email filters I have Mozilla 1.4 (upgraded from 1.0 on Mandrake 9.0 then reinstalled on Mandrake 9.2) and have no problem with the filters. Is there any particular reason why you are running Mozilla

RE: [newbie] Wine for Dummies Tutorial?

2003-12-08 Thread Scott St. John
Hi Melissa- I didn't see it listed there, but thought I'd give it a try anyway. How else will I know if it can work or not? Or, must each program be specifically addressed by the writers of Wine before it even has a chance of working? What does MessageCleaner do? I am not familiar with it? In

Re: [newbie] Wine for Dummies Tutorial?

2003-12-08 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Scott, On Monday, December 08, 2003, at 11:38:51 AM PST, you wrote: What does MessageCleaner do? Here's the MC site, which describes the various things it does: http://www.roundhillsoftware.com/MessageCleaner/ My regular Windows email client

Re: [newbie] KWord in Mandrake9.2 won't spell check.

2003-12-08 Thread Keith Powell
In my last post, I said that I had got spell checking to work with KWord, but it wouldn't differentiate between British and American spellings. I have found a work-around which appears to work. When starting spell checking and the spell checking box with the alternative spellings/words first

Re: [newbie] Wine for Dummies Tutorial?

2003-12-08 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Monday 08 December 2003 02:01 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: Hi, Before I boot back into Mandrake to do a bit more tweaking, I'd like to know if there's a *simple as possible* tutorial somewhere for setting up Wine and installing a program into (onto?) it? The tutorials I've found so far seem

RE: [newbie] Wine for Dummies Tutorial?

2003-12-08 Thread Scott St. John
Melissa- I use PAN as my newsreader and I will check out what it can/can't do. Googling for pan message cleaner brings up all kinds of things for the kitchen :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Melissa Reese Sent: Monday, December 08,

[newbie] urpmi contrib

2003-12-08 Thread Johan
Hi, Thanks to those who responded. -- 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] Sound and video

2003-12-08 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday 08 December 2003 10:12 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: whack, snip and edit Open Source Sound (OSS), or Alsa. Which? How do I tell? Here goes another of those damned Charlie books. Sorry for length in other words. Your posting of the output

Re: [newbie] Wine for Dummies Tutorial?

2003-12-08 Thread Melissa Reese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 08 December 2003 12:09 pm, Scott St. John wrote: Googling for pan message cleaner brings up all kinds of things for the kitchen :) Hee hee! I already have a dishwasher, and I'm pretty sure it'll run under both Linux and Windows (maybe

Re: [newbie] Mozilla mail filters

2003-12-08 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday 08 December 2003 11:21 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: snip Ideas on the current STABLE release of Mozilla (1.5?) appreciated. Time to get learning and learn how to install an RPM or source from an external CD. Hylton, Mozilla 1.5 doesn't come

Re: [newbie] Wine for Dummies Tutorial?

2003-12-08 Thread Marco Verheul
On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 19:01, Melissa Reese wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Before I boot back into Mandrake to do a bit more tweaking, I'd like to know if there's a *simple as possible* tutorial somewhere for setting up Wine and installing a program into (onto?)

[newbie] Enlightenment

2003-12-08 Thread Charles A Edwards
As I am offering the xfce4 rpms it would be shamefully remiss of me not to pay equal homage to my favorite WM.Enlightenment. Now available for immediate delivery, and at no extra charge to you the consumer And with a full 90 day money back guarantee enlightenment-0.16.6-0.1mdk.i586.rpm

[newbie] Modem troubles

2003-12-08 Thread Carren Stuart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I am another Mandrake newbie (obviously or I wouldn't be here I guess!) and I need some help please. My modem is evidently a winmodem according to Mandrake, which is unsupported in Linux. It is Conexant HSF V92 56k PCI . I found a site which

Re[2]: [newbie] Modem troubles

2003-12-08 Thread Carren Stuart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Thanks for your help everyone. I ran the install and got a message saying everything installed, so I assume it worked, although I have no idea where it installed to. I never got asked to select where I wanted it installed as I would have in

Re: [newbie] k3b grief

2003-12-08 Thread Paul Kaplan
See my post and reply from a few days ago. I had the same problem (different CDR) under 9.2. After downgrading the cdrecord package to the one supplied with 9.1, I think this solved the underrun problem without having to also downgrade cdrdao. Needs more testing however. On Monday 08

Re: [newbie] VMWare problems! Please Help!

2003-12-08 Thread Paul Kaplan
Which OS is your host and which is your guest. Which version of VMW are you running? Which version of MDK are you running? How are you partitioning? I installed VMWare 4.02 4.05 onto a mdk 9.2 host in order to run W2K w/ no problems. P On Monday 08 December 2003 02:07 pm, Scott Naylor

[newbie] Qwest/MSN DSL combo

2003-12-08 Thread Glenn
Anybody running the subject combination under Mdk? I'm moving from West Texas to the Denver, CO area (finally some scenery) very soon, and am wondering if there are any gotchas I need to watch out for. Verizon DSL has been absolutely no problem and I'm hoping that this setup will work as

Re: [newbie] Complete failure

2003-12-08 Thread Eric Huff
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 12:29:10 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 08 Dec 2003 10:30 am, John Richard Smith wrote: However I would agree that we in UK don't get much variable voltage, provided your domestic property isn't either in some remote country setting or perhaps

RE: [newbie] Sendmail SMTP Auth in Mandrake

2003-12-08 Thread Corey
I tried disabling the firewall and iptables, but still no luck on AUTH. I CAN send mail from my local network currently. It's just outside the network I can't do anything now. I can't get authentication to work inside the network, either. If anyone can tell me what I'm missing, that would be

[newbie] test

2003-12-08 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 test ignore - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way. -- Pink Floyd -BEGIN PGP

Re: [newbie] k3b grief

2003-12-08 Thread Paul Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Kaplan wrote: | See my post and reply from a few days ago. Thanks for that Paul. I missed that post due to experiments with Thunderbird that went horribly wrong... | I had the same problem (different | CDR) under 9.2. After downgrading the

RE: [newbie] Sendmail SMTP Auth in Mandrake

2003-12-08 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 00:32, Corey wrote: I tried disabling the firewall and iptables, but still no luck on AUTH. I CAN send mail from my local network currently. It's just outside the network I can't do anything now. I can't get authentication to work inside the network, either. If anyone

Re: [newbie] Problem with SCSI Controller

2003-12-08 Thread Yvan Gutknecht
On Monday 01 Dec 2003 3:33 pm, Yvan wrote: Hello group, my PC has a SCSI-Controller Tekram DC390/AM53C974 V2.0f 2000-12-20. I use the controller only when booting Windows, I don't use it with Mandrake. But Mandrake doesn't boot because of this controller. Certainly 9.1 has no