Re: [newbie] realplayer and amazon.com

2004-01-07 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 06 January 2004 9:53 pm, Todd Slater droned on: On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 09:35:49PM -0800, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 04 January 2004 9:58 am, Todd Slater droned on: Every time I try to listen to song samples on amazon.com using realplayer (both 8 and realone), it aborts

[newbie] Graphics characters

2004-01-07 Thread Alan Ianson
I have installed mandrake linux a few times starting with 9.0 about a year ago. One problem I have had that I can't seem to figure out is how to display graphics characters. If any of you guys call any dial-up (if there are any left) or telnet BBSs you'll know what I mean. Can anyone give me

Re: [newbie] hanging box

2004-01-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 00:27, JoeHill wrote: It seems reasonable to me that corrupted files on the HDD could conceivably cause this behaviour. How do I check the drive for problems, or am I barking up the wrong tree? I noticed occasional reports of spurious IRQ on 8259a - IRQ 7 in

Re: [newbie] hanging box

2004-01-07 Thread Paul O'Rorke
On January 7, 2004 12:37 am, Anne Wilson wrote: SNIP What filesystem are you using? I understand that the fsck is only necessary for ext2 filesystems, as journalling takes care of the things that fsck would be looking for. The advice I was given was never to say 'yes' to it if you run a

Re: [newbie] evolution hanging X?

2004-01-07 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 00:31, jpearl24 wrote: It seems when i have evolution open for a long time. X freezes. I dont think its my video card because of the games i play stay on and i can watch a dvd with no problems... but when i got done with the dvd and unrolled Evo from its rolled up state x

Re: [newbie] Core dump

2004-01-07 Thread John Richard Smith
Richard Urwin wrote: Looks good. But I'm afraid I don't have time to look at it tonight. Sure, We all have to fit this inbetween everything else in our lives. Please let me know what you think when your've had time to think about it. thanks, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] evolution hanging X?

2004-01-07 Thread jpearl24
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 02:58, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 00:31, jpearl24 wrote: It seems when i have evolution open for a long time. X freezes. I dont think its my video card because of the games i play stay on and i can watch a dvd with no problems... but when i got done with

Re: [newbie] Canon i470D Printer Driver?

2004-01-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 06 Jan 2004 7:07 pm, Larry Varney wrote: I have just purchased the Canon i470D printer. Mandrake 9.1 has lots of drivers for Canon printers, but none specifically for this model. Is there one that is compatible? I have tried a couple, and the pages come out 1/4 the normal

Re: [newbie] Journalling (was: hanging box)

2004-01-07 Thread Paul O'Rorke
On January 7, 2004 04:44 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 07 January 2004 12:23, Paul wrote: On 01/07/2004 09:37 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: What filesystem are you using? I understand that the fsck is only necessary for ext2 filesystems, as journalling takes care of the things that fsck

Re: [newbie] Journalling (was: hanging box)

2004-01-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 13:16, Paul O'Rorke wrote: On January 7, 2004 04:44 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 07 January 2004 12:23, Paul wrote: On 01/07/2004 09:37 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: What filesystem are you using? I understand that the fsck is only necessary for ext2

RE: [newbie] Journalling (was: hanging box)

2004-01-07 Thread Tony S. Sykes
I said yes several weeks ago and have a corrupted filesystem. So I don't think I will be doing it again. -Original Message- From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 1:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Journalling (was: hanging box) On

Re: [newbie] realplayer and amazon.com

2004-01-07 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 23:15:24 -0800 Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Drag, then try the Mandrake ones: RealPlayer-Codecs-9.0-2mdk RealPlayer-8.0-6mdk, and they are working perfectly with mine. Jumpin' in here because I am having similar probs with RealPlayer. Are those Club RPM's? I can't

Re: [newbie] hanging box

2004-01-07 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 05:11:47 -0800 Paul O'Rorke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I went into BIOS as you suggested and set Rescources Controlled by: to Manual (as opposed to 'auto ESCD'), and hung up on that very reboot, so I returned it to 'auto'. Hmmm, I'm not sure that's the same thing as Plug

Re: [newbie] realplayer and amazon.com

2004-01-07 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 11:15:24PM -0800, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Tuesday 06 January 2004 9:53 pm, Todd Slater droned on: I've installed it using the RPM available from real.com, and using urpmi (uninstalling RPM first). The installed packages are: RealPlayer8-8.0.3-5tex.i586

Re: [newbie] Journalling (was: hanging box)

2004-01-07 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 05:16:17 -0800 Paul O'Rorke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I certainly seem to be having more success skipping fsck than by trying to go through with it as it always hangs now if I try it. Perhaps I will see negative effects down the road...? I have had more negative effects

Re: [newbie] realplayer and amazon.com

2004-01-07 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 08:27:00 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you know where I can find these packages? I tried urpmi but all I get are the texstar packages. I also looked on rpmfind but could not find a mdk package. Same here. -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user

Re: [newbie] Journalling (was: hanging box)

2004-01-07 Thread Paul
Interesting to see these things contradictory to what I have found out. Luckily I have a new PC that does not crash anymore. In case it should, I will try to skip fsck. Hopefully I never have to! Paul Since the advice I was given came from people whose expertise I respect, I prefer to listen to

Re: [newbie] hanging box

2004-01-07 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 07:49:07 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, Anne made one good point, with a Journaling FS like Ext3, you really can skip the fsck. Sorry but this is a commonly held misconception. Both ext2 and ext3 use fsck. fsck.ext2 for ext2 fsck.ext3 for ext3 Even

[newbie] Help - I broke it!!! [was: unable to ping to/from windoze box]

2004-01-07 Thread Merlin Zener
Hi, First, I set both windoze boxes to static IP addresses, and verified they still talk to each other. The desktop refuses to shut down now, it just goes to blue screen and stays there. But I could care less about that atm, I can just hit the reset switch and boot into Linux and shut down

Re: [newbie] hanging box

2004-01-07 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 09:44:34 -0500 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, Anne made one good point, with a Journaling FS like Ext3, you really can skip the fsck. Sorry but this is a commonly held misconception. Both ext2 and ext3 use fsck. fsck.ext2 for ext2 fsck.ext3 for

Re: Re: [newbie] Canon i470D Printer Driver?

2004-01-07 Thread Larry Varney
From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/07 Wed AM 06:55:45 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Canon i470D Printer Driver? On Tuesday 06 Jan 2004 7:07 pm, Larry Varney wrote: I have just purchased the Canon i470D printer. Mandrake 9.1 has lots of drivers

[newbie] copy a cd

2004-01-07 Thread Johan
Hi, Thanks for all the input from list members... This seems to work for me...after all the suggestions... Pop cd into cdrom...then... [EMAIL PROTECTED] internet]$ md5sum /dev/hdb 9babc164ac9fe1426dcb00a5a75d945a /dev/hdb [EMAIL PROTECTED] iso-files]$ dd if=/dev/hdb of=cd1.iso 1289788+0 records

[newbie] cd with faulty md5sum

2004-01-07 Thread Johan
Hi, Now it seem that I have success to copy cd's with a good md5sum..what about those that gives input/output error.. I have about 30 of them received from a source that supply downloaded versions of linux. They work faultlessly without fail to date. The problem is when you want to copy

Re: [newbie] hanging box

2004-01-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 14:44, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 07:49:07 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, Anne made one good point, with a Journaling FS like Ext3, you really can skip the fsck. Sorry but this is a commonly held misconception. Both ext2

Re: [newbie] evolution hanging X?

2004-01-07 Thread Adolfo A. Bello B.
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:58:23AM -0700, jpearl24 wrote: On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 02:58, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 00:31, jpearl24 wrote: It seems when i have evolution open for a long time. X freezes. I dont think its my video card because of the games i play stay on and i

Re: [newbie] Help - I broke it!!! [was: unable to ping to/from windoze box]

2004-01-07 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 09:52 am, Merlin Zener wrote: I ran the drakeconnect wizard again, but it wouldn't let me NOT put in a DNS server or [the other one - I can't remember now] It complained that the DNS Server should be in the form n.n.n.n and suggested [IIRC] 186.192.0.3 and

Re: [newbie] hanging box

2004-01-07 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 10:04:26 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless I am minsunderstanding you, and fsck is used *in the recovery of the journal*? True for ext3, it is and should never be used for ReisferFS or XFS I am also assuming that the 'file system integrity check' offered

RE: [newbie] 9.2 good now?

2004-01-07 Thread Tango Echo
I think you'll find that if you do a fresh install of 9.2 and immediately apply all the bugfixes and updates before doing anything else, that you will find it to be a very sweet distro. Indeed! The basic overview has been very impressive so far. However, I have yet to really put it to the

Re: [newbie] Help - I broke it!!! [was: unable to ping to/from windoze box]

2004-01-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 15:37, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 07 January 2004 09:52 am, Merlin Zener wrote: I ran the drakeconnect wizard again, but it wouldn't let me NOT put in a DNS server or [the other one - I can't remember now] It complained that the DNS Server should be in

[newbie] Upgrading, backing up, and restoring data - moving from 9.1 to 9.2

2004-01-07 Thread Tango Echo
Hi all, I've recently decided to take the plunge and use 9.2 as my base OS. I'm performing a clean install on a brand new hard drive. My old mdk 9.1 install still resides on two old hard disks. My question is this: Is there a simple way to restore my data from 9.1? The main apps that need to

Re: [newbie] hanging box

2004-01-07 Thread Paul O'Rorke
On January 7, 2004 07:51 am, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 10:04:26 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless I am minsunderstanding you, and fsck is used *in the recovery of the journal*? True for ext3, it is and should never be used for ReisferFS or XFS I am also

Re: [newbie] hanging box

2004-01-07 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 10:51:49 -0500 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hardware and software errors that corrupt random blocks in the filesystem are not generally recoverable with the transaction log and necessitate the usage of fsck. After a crash or hard reset is when these hardware

[newbie] Epson C44 arrived: /dev/usb/lp0 does not exist?

2004-01-07 Thread Paul
Hello all, I got my new printer in. Epson C44 USB. Hooked it up, and I can see in the logs that it is recognised as a USB bidirectional device: Jan 7 16:44:16 nwyfre kernel: usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x4b8/0x5) is not claimed by any active driver. Jan 7 16:44:19 nwyfre

Re: [newbie] 9.2 good now?

2004-01-07 Thread Eric Huff
Is there something wrong with the USA 9.2 contrib mirrors? I can't seem to get them to work =/ Did you remove the bad ones before adding a different one? eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Upgrading, backing up, and restoring data - moving from 9.1 to 9.2

2004-01-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 07 Jan 2004 4:13 pm, Tango Echo wrote: Hi all, I've recently decided to take the plunge and use 9.2 as my base OS. I'm performing a clean install on a brand new hard drive. My old mdk 9.1 install still resides on two old hard disks. My question is this: Is there a simple

Re: [newbie] Epson C44 arrived: /dev/usb/lp0 does not exist?

2004-01-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 07 Jan 2004 4:12 pm, Paul wrote: Hello all, I got my new printer in. Epson C44 USB. Hooked it up, and I can see in the logs that it is recognised as a USB bidirectional device: Jan 7 16:44:16 nwyfre kernel: usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x4b8/0x5) is not claimed by any

Re: [newbie] hanging box

2004-01-07 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 08:27:52 -0800 Paul O'Rorke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I am still unsure what is best to do. Should I say yes to the check offered in the boot process after an improper shutdown (hang)? This can mean many attempts at recovery before I get back to a running system. I

RE: [newbie] 9.2 good now?

2004-01-07 Thread Tango Echo
-Original Message- From: Eric Huff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 11:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 9.2 good now? Is there something wrong with the USA 9.2 contrib mirrors? I can't seem to get them to work =/ Did you remove the bad

Re: [newbie] hanging box

2004-01-07 Thread Paul O'Rorke
On January 7, 2004 08:48 am, JoeHill wrote: On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 08:27:52 -0800 Paul O'Rorke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I am still unsure what is best to do. Should I say yes to the check offered in the boot process after an improper shutdown (hang)? This can mean many attempts at

Re: [newbie] Epson C44 arrived: /dev/usb/lp0 does not exist?

2004-01-07 Thread Paul
Hi Derek, Thanks for the tip. It did not work out, though. The driver is usb-uhci, but changing that to uhci, the restart complains that there is 'no such device' and that insmod failed. Paul On 01/07/2004 05:49 PM, Derek Jennings wrote: The solution I found was to change my USB driver. In

Re: [newbie] Epson C44 arrived: /dev/usb/lp0 does not exist?

2004-01-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 17:26, Paul wrote: Hi Derek, Thanks for the tip. It did not work out, though. The driver is usb-uhci, but changing that to uhci, the restart complains that there is 'no such device' and that insmod failed. Paul On 01/07/2004 05:49 PM, Derek Jennings wrote: The

Re: [newbie] Epson C44 arrived: /dev/usb/lp0 does not exist?

2004-01-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 07 Jan 2004 5:26 pm, Paul wrote: Hi Derek, Thanks for the tip. It did not work out, though. The driver is usb-uhci, but changing that to uhci, the restart complains that there is 'no such device' and that insmod failed. Paul On 01/07/2004 05:49 PM, Derek Jennings wrote: The

RE: [newbie] Upgrading, backing up, and restoring data - moving from 9.1 to 9.2

2004-01-07 Thread Tango Echo
-Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 11:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Upgrading, backing up, and restoring data - moving from 9.1 to 9.2 On Wednesday 07 Jan 2004 4:13 pm, Tango Echo wrote: Hi all, I've

Re: [newbie] hanging box

2004-01-07 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 09:24:37 -0800 Paul O'Rorke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did get a comment earlier that the 2.4.22-10mdkenterprise kernel I was using (and can still boot to) can utilise 1024MB, but I also noticed in the boot.log that the correct physical memory was detected and then set to

Re: [newbie] Help - I broke it!!! [was: unable to ping to/from windoze box]

2004-01-07 Thread E. Hines
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 06:52 am, Merlin Zener wrote: Hi, First, I set both windoze boxes to static IP addresses, and verified they still talk to each other. The desktop refuses to shut down now, it just goes to blue screen and stays there. But I could care less about that atm, I can

Re: [newbie] hanging box

2004-01-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 07:32 am, JoeHill wrote: On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 05:11:47 -0800 Paul O'Rorke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I went into BIOS as you suggested and set Rescources Controlled by: to Manual (as opposed to 'auto ESCD'), and hung up on that very reboot, so I returned it to

Re: [newbie] installing a CDRW

2004-01-07 Thread John Richard Smith
Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I am waiting for the arrival of my CDRW drive, which I am going to install in my Dell computer to replace the LG CD-ROM (one of the affected models for 9.2). I am dual-booting Mandrake 9.1 with Windows on this box, and I would like to ask what is the best way for

[newbie] Installing ftp server

2004-01-07 Thread Steven Vacca
I have using Mandrake 7.2, but that hard drive crashed completely. I have now installed Mandrake 9.2 onto a new hard drive. I have been downloading and uploading files between my Win PC and the Mandrake 7.2 PC via FTP using FTP Explorer on my Win PC and gFTP on the Mandrake PC. But now with the

Re: [newbie] Epson C44 arrived: /dev/usb/lp0 does not exist?

2004-01-07 Thread Michael Holt
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 08:12, Paul wrote: Hello all, I got my new printer in. Epson C44 USB. Hooked it up, and I can see in the logs that it is recognised as a USB bidirectional device: Jan 7 16:44:16 nwyfre kernel: usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x4b8/0x5) is not claimed by any active

Re: [newbie] Core dump

2004-01-07 Thread Richard Urwin
What is the value of LIBAVCODEC_BUILD ? You will find it in libavcodec/avcodec.h on about line 20. It will look something like: #define LIBAVCODEC_BUILD (If it's not there then grep the whole libavcodec directory for it.) Thanks, -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Installing ftp server

2004-01-07 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 13:50:21 -0500 Steven Vacca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have using Mandrake 7.2, but that hard drive crashed completely. I have now installed Mandrake 9.2 onto a new hard drive. I have been downloading and uploading files between my Win PC and the Mandrake 7.2 PC via FTP

Re: [newbie] hanging box

2004-01-07 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 12:16:57 -0600 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tol'ya I didn't have anything good to say ;) I woulda been happy with a suggestion as to what the Tom Brinkman Signal should look like ;-) -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage:

Re: [newbie] hanging box

2004-01-07 Thread Paul O'Rorke
Nothin good to say. I was stayin out of this for just that reason. And 'cause I don't know why anyone would want an nforce* chipset system for running Linux. They get good reviews on Windoze systems hardware review sites, nowhere else. There I've said it ;) Oh dear! Unfortunately

Re: [newbie]

2004-01-07 Thread Sharrea Day
On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 18:37, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 04 January 2004 5:09 pm, José Carlos Cortizo Pérez droned on: Hi: I have a dual opteron 246 system with 4G of ram recognized by the Bios (4096M). But when executing cat /proc/meminfo, i see the system says there is a memTotal

Re: [newbie] Help - I broke it!!! [was: unable to ping to/from windoze box]

2004-01-07 Thread Merlin Zener
[...snip] That would be Gateway. You can always use 127.0.0.1 which is the IP address for localhost as the DNS. Gateways should NOT be required, IIRC. I have never used zeroconf to try to network machines together so I don't know how zeroconf sets a default DNS or Gateway since there

[newbie] Spammer using my email in from

2004-01-07 Thread E. Hines
Yesterday, I started getting hundreds of bounced messages--all spam for this site: www.yuihjk.biz I set my SpamAssassin to be sure that these are recognized and sent to the Spam folder, but I am worried that my mailbox is going to fill and then bounce real messages. Looking at the headers, it

Re: [newbie] Spammer using my email in from

2004-01-07 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 09:00 pm, E. Hines wrote: Yesterday, I started getting hundreds of bounced messages--all spam for this site: www.yuihjk.biz I set my SpamAssassin to be sure that these are recognized and sent to the Spam folder, but I am worried that my mailbox is going to fill

Re: [newbie]

2004-01-07 Thread et
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 07:45 pm, Sharrea Day wrote: On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 18:37, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 04 January 2004 5:09 pm, José Carlos Cortizo Pérez droned on: Hi: I have a dual opteron 246 system with 4G of ram recognized by the Bios (4096M). But when executing

[newbie] Success with JetFlash 256M removable media

2004-01-07 Thread Littlefish Operator
Maybe this has come up in newbies before, so I appologize in advance. I've FINALLY got my JetFlash removable media working reliably in 9.2. The device was being recognized automatically, and reading files just fine, but when ever I tried to save, data files would get corrupted (yes I did unmount

[newbie] archives

2004-01-07 Thread Bill W.
Hi, I don't know what happened to the list over the last little while but I'm glad to see it is very active. Will there be an update of the archives? Has that been discussed? Thanks, Bill W. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Can't ping linux host (9.1) VM win98se guest

2004-01-07 Thread deedee
I've been following the thread Merlin started about not being able to ping between his boxes. I've not broken anything, but I still can't ping. This is a single portable computer with Mandrake 9.1 host and VMWare Workstation 3.2 guest win98se VM. Both agree that the guest is 192.168.72.128 and

Re: [newbie] installing a CDRW

2004-01-07 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Charlie Mahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] installing a CDRW Wednesday 07 January 2004 5:40 am, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings, I am waiting for the arrival of my CDRW drive, which I am going to install in my Dell computer to replace the LG

[newbie] list etiquette - please, this is a question, so don't get any ideas about flames...:-)

2004-01-07 Thread anton
Does anybody know how to do this in mozilla 1.5. I just thought that it had to be done manually... # *Keep the Reply-To setting empty* * Please keep you Reply-To field empty when emailing any email list. Somewhere in your mailer's settings there is probably the option to fill in

Re: [newbie] Epson C44 arrived: /dev/usb/lp0 does not exist?

2004-01-07 Thread Paul
On 01/07/2004 06:36 PM, Derek Jennings wrote: Thanks for the tip. It did not work out, though. The driver is usb-uhci, but changing that to uhci, the restart complains that there is 'no such device' and that insmod failed. Ah It may simply be because the old driver was still loaded. A reboot

Re: [newbie] Epson C44 arrived: /dev/usb/lp0 does not exist?

2004-01-07 Thread Paul
Hi Mike, I know, I remember your post. But since Turboprint looked so promising, I decided to order the printer. One should expect that it works when support through software/driver is there. There is something weird with the USB hookup... I tried to get a printer less new, but for some strange

Re: [newbie] Epson C44 arrived: /dev/usb/lp0 does not exist?

2004-01-07 Thread Michael Holt
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 21:55, Paul wrote: Hi Mike, I know, I remember your post. But since Turboprint looked so promising, I decided to order the printer. One should expect that it works when support through software/driver is there. There is something weird with the USB hookup... I tried

Re: [newbie] Spammer using my email in from

2004-01-07 Thread E. Hines
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 06:30 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: However, were I you, I would try to file a complaint with the FTC under the new Can-Spam ACT. Might be it will push them to move to shut him down, at the least, it may provide yet more evidence that can be used against a spammer