On Monday 15 Dec 2003 3:35 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
Yes, I can elaborate. I have a Zyxel router here that has features much
the same as what you described, however I am still unable to match the
flexibility of a firewall running iptables/shorewall to the point where
I can route incoming
On Sunday 14 December 2003 03:04 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
I just got an Asus A7V600. It works nicely with 9.2,
though only three of my five speakers work with onboard
sound. What the hell, my sound card should be arriving on
Wednesday, so I can have fun wrestling with that instead
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 17:20:39 +1300
Carren Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Bryan,
Funnily enough, I actually agree with most of what you are saying
:-)
What it really comes down to for me though is this. I use my
computer as a home
Hi,
I have seen some traffic about firewalls on the list...made me worry.
This is a standalone box. Using mdk 9.2 with personal firewall activated
via MCC.
Is it working?... I do not know.
The system was updated 14/12/03.
The last screen is marked...
FTP...probably for downloads and surfing?
Hi, I am new to the list and to Linux.
Does anyone know whether Linux drivers exist for this wifi nic ? I am running a new
installation of Mandrake 9.1 on an MSI mobo with an Athlon XP2400+
I don't even know how to install hardware drivers manually so help there would be
appreciated as well!
Guy Rouillier wrote:
John Richard Smith wrote:
I still cannot figure out how to get rid of the gui boot screen and
return to my normal vga=791 black and white boot screen.
It must be something simple, but what?
John, I'm unclear if you are referring to the initial boot menu screen
(I saw in
mike wrote:
I boot to run level 3 and use Xtart to get to my window managers.
I use lilo in text mode which is a small blue window with the choices.
If your talking about the big blue splash screen kinda like a monitor
inside of a monitor that shows boot messages, I tried once before to
find a
Adolfo Bello wrote:
On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 09:48, John Richard Smith wrote:
I still cannot figure out how to get rid of the gui boot screen and
return to my normal vga=791 black and white boot screen.
It must be something simple, but what?
John
I uninstalled bootsplash
urpme bootsplash
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 09:25:47 +
John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's just recently after replacing the deleted kernel that it has gone
back to that sqashed into a small white window on blue background
boot screen , and I don't like the presentation it's too small , too
cramped
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 03:41:07 +
Jerry Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm a bit late on this thread but... have you tried running mcc, going
to boot/Drakboot then advanced and in the dropdown menu selecting
lilo with text menu instead of lilo with graphical menu? I don't
pay a whole lot
On Monday 15 Dec 2003 9:48 am, Johan wrote:
Hi,
I have seen some traffic about firewalls on the list...made me worry.
This is a standalone box. Using mdk 9.2 with personal firewall activated
via MCC.
Is it working?... I do not know.
The system was updated 14/12/03.
The last screen is
Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 08:48, John Richard Smith wrote:
I still cannot figure out how to get rid of the gui boot screen and
return to my normal vga=791 black and white boot screen.
It must be something simple, but what?
John
I've read the rest of this thread, and
I'd like to install MPlayer+MEncoder 1.0 pre3 for MDK9.2 from PLF. I
have already installed MPlayer 0.91 on the same machine, should I
uninstall it before proceeding?
thanks,
raffaele
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Jerry Barton wrote:
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 03:41:07 +
Jerry Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm a bit late on this thread but... have you tried running mcc, going
to boot/Drakboot then advanced and in the dropdown menu selecting
lilo with text menu instead of lilo with graphical menu? I
On 12/15/2003 at 2:06 PM Anne Wilson wrote:
snip
So does it switch to the usb mouse when you plug it in?
Anne
*** REPLY SEPARATOR ***
Anne; What? Are you crazy? Try a USB mouse when I just got
the touchpad working? (Grin!)
Actually, I'm planning on writing a second
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 18:18:06 +1300
Carren Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It looks great but it's really designed for people using a network,
which I am not doing. I'm just one lonely little mother of four, who
happens to be addicted to her computer, and likes to find interesting
things to
for a couple of versions, and with other distros tooo every time I
install a new mandrake I then start chromium or tuxracer in a hope that
someday the system will have 3d acceleration installed out of the box.
In never worked ... with no nvidia cards I ever tried .. nor with an
older ati
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 17:11:39 +0200
Void lon iXaarii [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
well .. these are my feelings right now. Waiting and dreaming for a
beginner friendly (and gamer friendly) Mandrake.
These issues would be mitigated, for the most part, if you had plonked down a
few bones for
On Sunday 14 December 2003 11:20 pm, Carren Stuart wrote:
Internet security is important to me, and I have my Windows system
locked down as tightly as possible. I have a dial up connection, which
is pretty much connected 24 hours a day. I use a respected AV and
Kerio with a very stringently
On Monday 15 Dec 2003 3:11 pm, Void lon iXaarii wrote:
for a couple of versions, and with other distros tooo every time I
install a new mandrake I then start chromium or tuxracer in a hope that
someday the system will have 3d acceleration installed out of the box.
In never worked ... with
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Monday 15 December 2003 8:24 am, JoeHill wrote:
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 17:11:39 +0200
Void lon iXaarii [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
well .. these are my feelings right now. Waiting and dreaming for a
beginner friendly (and gamer friendly)
Batten down the hatches, folks:
http://tinyurl.com/zbr1
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Want to buy your Pack or Services from
On Sunday 14 December 2003 07:18 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote:
Bryan, please keep in mind this is a newbie list. I realized when I
composed my initial message that I ran the risk of offending those who
might perceive me as attacking their child, and I tried the best I could
to keep subjective
Richard Urwin wrote:
This isn't a problem with Mozilla, it's a problem with your mail client.
The point being that Mozilla is the mail client.
Without built-in intelligent handling of common business document types,
there simply can't be any kind of desktop Linux migration.I'm rather
confused
On Sunday 14 December 2003 11:49 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
Well this stuff was mostly stuff on the way to be trashed; whereupon it
was intercepted by yours truly. So I've got maybe, wellNOTHING,
actually, in this box. If you look around, old stuff is not hard to
find. Schools,
On Monday 15 Dec 2003 5:27 pm, Adrian Kuepker wrote:
Richard Urwin wrote:
This isn't a problem with Mozilla, it's a problem with your mail
client.
The point being that Mozilla is the mail client.
Without built-in intelligent handling of common business document
types, there simply can't
On Monday 15 Dec 2003 5:27 pm, Adrian Kuepker wrote:
Richard Urwin wrote:
This isn't a problem with Mozilla, it's a problem with your mail client.
The point being that Mozilla is the mail client.
Without built-in intelligent handling of common business document types,
there simply can't be
On Monday 15 Dec 2003 5:25 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote:
On Sunday 14 December 2003 07:18 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote:
Bryan, please keep in mind this is a newbie list. I realized
when I composed my initial message that I ran the risk of
offending those who might perceive me as attacking their
Charles A Edwards wrote:
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 09:52:24 +
John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has every single one of us on the list forgotten how to do this
properly ?
John, I have not been closely following this thread but if you are
running 9.2 the configuration option you
On Sunday 14 December 2003 11:14 pm, JoeHill wrote:
Actually, no one recommended an appliance. I recommended that the OP
invest about 50 - 100 bucks in a used machine, and for sheer ease of use
and features, you simply cannot beat something like Smoothwall. Built in
features such as Snort
On 12/15/2003 06:05 PM, John Richard Smith wrote:
Charlie,
Isn't that to remove the gui splash screen if so that is not what
I'm trying to do.
I want to get back to the B/W full screen width boot script.
I want a good screen resolution vga=791 is what I always choose.
Did you have a look at
On Monday 15 December 2003 01:02 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
Bryan, I always respect your views, but I'm not entirely happy with
parts of your reply. It seems to me that his line was generally that
there are still many things that make linux newbie-unfriendly, and I
have to agree.
Well, I have a
On Monday 15 December 2003 01:20 pm, JoeHill wrote:
I do think you could come pretty close, though, to the price of one of
those Linksys things in doing some shopping around for old hardware and
using one of the Linux firewall solutions. More work, maybe a few extra
bucks, but in the end a
On Monday 15 Dec 2003 6:21 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote:
I can be disagreeable when I think that someone
is suggesting that Linux should conform to the expectation of
Window's users especially because I feel that those expectations
are impossible to meet, having been corrupted under the marketing
John Richard Smith wrote:
amending the line that sets the scanner port,
like this,
#usb /dev/usbscanner0
usb /dev/usb/scanner0
thanks,
unfortunately doesn't work on mine.
On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 06:05, Graham Watkins wrote:
Hi Y'all,
I had the same problem when I first
On Monday 15 Dec 2003 6:06 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote:
To answer Lyvim's original point, either a Linksys, Dlink, or
Netgear appliance will all allow opening up ranges of ports rather
than just single ports.
OTOH be very wary of SMC products. My SMC 7401BBRA can't do that
I know this
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 17:05:57 +
John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Isn't that to remove the gui splash screen if so that is not what
I'm trying to do.
The bootsplash and theme are all tied in together.
If you boot with splash=no all you will get is a b/w screen with the
text
John Richard Smith wrote:
OK I've attatched dscioo21.jpg which is not a particularly sharp image
but does to demonstate what I DO NOT WANT.
How do I get back to what I want ?
John, thanks for posting the image - I *never* would have understood
that was what you were seeing. I just spent an hour
On Monday 15 December 2003 01:56 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
M$ marketing apart, it is a fact of life that most programmers have
put their effort into M$ compatible apps, because that's where the
sales and the money is. Simple economics. Let's hope that before
long the message will get through
On Monday 15 December 2003 02:06 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
Glad to know I got something right - but I'm not sure what it was g
You helped me test that I got the port assignments rights on the passive
transfers. When you were trying to get the HP IJS RPM file.
--
Bryan Phinney
Software Test
On Monday 15 Dec 2003 7:45 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote:
I may well talk to you later on that one, Bryan. I do miss my
Lotus Approach databases. I used them for so many things. For
the main part I'm living without them, but just occasionally I
have to dip into windows to use one. It may
On Monday 15 Dec 2003 7:46 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote:
On Monday 15 December 2003 02:06 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
Glad to know I got something right - but I'm not sure what it was
g
You helped me test that I got the port assignments rights on the
passive transfers. When you were trying to get
Charles A Edwards wrote:
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 17:05:57 +
John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Isn't that to remove the gui splash screen if so that is not what
I'm trying to do.
The bootsplash and theme are all tied in together.
If you boot with splash=no all you will get is a
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Monday 15 December 2003 12:39 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote:
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 17:05:57 +
John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Isn't that to remove the gui splash screen if so that is not what
I'm trying to do.
The bootsplash and
Guy Rouillier wrote:
John Richard Smith wrote:
OK I've attatched dscioo21.jpg which is not a particularly sharp image
but does to demonstate what I DO NOT WANT.
How do I get back to what I want ?
John, thanks for posting the image - I *never* would have understood
that was what you were
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Monday 15 December 2003 12:43 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote:
John Richard Smith wrote:
OK I've attatched dscioo21.jpg which is not a particularly sharp image
but does to demonstate what I DO NOT WANT.
How do I get back to what I want ?
John,
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 21:16:01 +
Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Charles, here is what I think John wants :
That is what I also thought and that is what he will get with splash=no
Charles
--
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Hi Derek,
Thanks for a detailed explanation.
Johan
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Personally I use clamdmail ( in contrib) which I call from procmail.
Clamdmail is a neat little utility which will call clamav virus
scanner, and spamassassin spam checker.
derek
--
Johan
May this be a good day for
On Monday 15 Dec 2003 7:45 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote:
Kind of interesting you mention this. I recently printed out Xmas
mailing labels to stock label media using OpenOffice with an
interface into a Gnome Card address database using mail merge
features that pull name, street address, city,
On Monday 15 December 2003 02:54 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
BTW, an Irish friend of ours used to recite a longish poem, in which
the punch lines were
for the knife was made of Sheffield steel
but the cloth was Irish linen or words to that effect. Do you know
it? I'd love to see it if you do.
Kaj Haulrich wrote:
On Monday 15 December 2003 19:39, Charles A Edwards wrote:
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That is what you want is it not?
/snip
Charles, here is what I think John wants :
Attached image.
Kaj Haulrich.
That is the very thing I want, but not in some low resolution screen
setting.
I use
On Monday 15 December 2003 03:42 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Monday 15 Dec 2003 7:45 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote:
Kind of interesting you mention this. I recently printed out Xmas
mailing labels to stock label media using OpenOffice with an
interface into a Gnome Card address database using mail
On Monday 15 December 2003 02:43 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote:
GR John, thanks for posting the image - I *never* would have understood
GR that was what you were seeing. I just spent an hour trying to make that
GR happen under 9.2, and no matter what combinations I tried, I couldn't
GR get the OK
On Monday 15 December 2003 02:01 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
JR Yes, well I'm stuck with it for the moment.
JR I have seen it before, and delt with it before, but for the life of me I
JR cannot remember what I did to change it back to what I want. It's some
JR text editor job as far can
On Monday 15 December 2003 10:11 am, Void lon iXaarii wrote:
Vl well .. these are my feelings right now. Waiting and dreaming for a
Vl beginner friendly (and gamer friendly) Mandrake.
Vl
Vl
Yep, I think that everyone agrees that was a bit of a mistake. Hopefully it
will be addressed in
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 18:40:41 +, RichardA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
If I middle-clicked on a URL in Sylpheed with Mandrake 9.0/Gnome 2.2,
it would open in a new tab in the background, and Sylpheed would keep
focus.
With Mandrake 9.2/Gnome 2.4 the link opens in a new tab, but Galeon
gets
On Monday 15 December 2003 04:52 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
Has every single one of us on the list forgotten how to do this properly ?
John, I just jumped in on this thread, but it *is* the bootsplash that is
giving you the blue background. I am not talking about the LILO bootsplash
On Monday 15 December 2003 01:58 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
Indeed I still boot M9.0 which I still have on, today , in this guise,
it's just M9.1
I am having trouble with, ever since I replaced that the kernel I
deleted, and I just cannot get back to the way it was. If you think
Ronald J. Hall wrote:
On Monday 15 December 2003 02:01 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
JR Yes, well I'm stuck with it for the moment.
JR I have seen it before, and delt with it before, but for the life of me I
JR cannot remember what I did to change it back to what I want. It's some
JR text
On Monday 15 Dec 2003 7:46 pm, Johan wrote:
Hi Derek,
Thanks for a detailed explanation.
Johan
**
snip
Personally I use clamdmail ( in contrib) which I call from procmail.
Clamdmail is a neat little utility which will call clamav virus
scanner, and spamassassin spam
Greg Meyer wrote:
On Monday 15 December 2003 04:52 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
Has every single one of us on the list forgotten how to do this properly ?
John, I just jumped in on this thread, but it *is* the bootsplash that is
giving you the blue background. I am not talking about
Does anyone know of a linux package that will allow me to
see a web-based chart which indicates
how much data or traffic ( in Gigabytes ) has passed
through my Internet connection? I think
Webalizer will give me what I want, but I need to install
it on Smoothwall, and I'm looking for some
options
Does anyone know of a linux package that will allow me to
see a web-based chart which indicates
how much data or traffic ( in Gigabytes ) has passed
through my Internet connection? I think
Webalizer will give me what I want, but I need to install
it on Smoothwall, and I'm looking for some
options
On Monday 15 December 2003 09:05 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Monday 15 Dec 2003 10:18 am, amine grun wrote:
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De: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 22:22:01 +
Sujet: Re: [newbie] cdrom/floppy drives
On Sunday 14 Dec 2003 10:14 pm,
Ronald J. Hall wrote:
On Monday 15 December 2003 02:43 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote:
GR John, thanks for posting the image - I *never* would have understood
GR that was what you were seeing. I just spent an hour trying to make that
GR happen under 9.2, and no matter what combinations I tried, I
Charlie Mahan wrote:
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Monday 15 December 2003 12:43 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote:
John Richard Smith wrote:
OK I've attatched dscioo21.jpg which is not a particularly sharp image
but does to demonstate what I DO NOT WANT.
How do I get back to what I want
HI all.
First of all, many thanks for all your help in getting Samba to work.
I have it working now, maybe not perfectly, but it does enough. :):)
Now, I've managed to figure out how to make KDE start a program for me.
My question is, How can I make the program go to another desktop?
Hi Derek,
Misunderstanding...I thanked you for what I thought was a detailed
explanation...now it is beyond detailed for me...at the moment some of
it is a foreign language.
OK, some backfeed...shorewall was *not* installed...I went to webmin and
it told me not installed and the linux firewall
Charlie Mahan wrote:
In specific; NVidia, as well as ATI and quite a number of hardware
manufacturers; don't necessarily own all of the technology and/or methods
used to make their latest toys. What they own in the main is their own
technology, and a license and/or contract with the owners of
I have wvdial set up to connect automatically at boot. The only problem
is that if something like a powercut happens to kill my connection dead,
when I restart it it complains that /dev/tty0 is busy, and all I can do
is reboot the computer. Does anyone know of a way I can kill whatever
is
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