Re: [newbie] problems with 2.6.0

2004-01-12 Thread tuija t.
Tom Brinkman kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Sunnuntai 11. Tammikuuta 2004 17:20): On Sunday 11 January 2004 12:33 am, tuija t. wrote: I believe from reading cooker, he's got many of 2.6's module problems solved, proper ReiserFS support, and the latest supermount and other

[newbie] Re: MandrakeMove comparison (Box and download version)

2004-01-12 Thread Simon Oosthoek
Aron Smith wrote: On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 22:28, Wan Mohamad Azren Wan Mohamad Yusoff wrote: Hi, Is there any different between MandrakeMove box set and download version? Can the download version support saving profile to usb key? To the best of my knowledge it does not. read the archives

Re: [newbie] Another fonts question

2004-01-12 Thread John Richard Smith
Aron Smith wrote: On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 15:26, John Richard Smith wrote: Aron Smith wrote: On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 14:51, John Richard Smith wrote: Marco Verheul wrote: Hi all, Well, several questions actually... I received a cd I ordered containing 6800 true type

Re: [newbie] Another fonts question

2004-01-12 Thread John Richard Smith
Todd Slater wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 11:26:36PM +, John Richard Smith wrote: As a matter of interest you wouldn't know how to add white text to photo images would you, so far I haven't figured it out. I suppose I should ask this as another thread, still it is font related. Add

Re: [newbie] Installing Mandrake 9.1

2004-01-12 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 12 Jan 2004 6:46 am, vikrant joshi wrote: Hi , I am an absolute newbie to LInux. I want to install Mandrake9.1 on my windows 98 machine. How do I go about it ? This may sound a very very basic question . But if somebody can give me a step by step approach that will be great.

Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system

2004-01-12 Thread et
On Monday 12 January 2004 04:21 am, Peter Simko wrote: Right. That's because there are no Linux partitions on hda. There probably never will be, but I still want to be able to mount that drive from Linux in order to access the data that resides there. I also need to recognize it in order to

Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer

2004-01-12 Thread Charlie
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 03:22 pm, many eyes noted that Troy T. Hall wrote: Also CUPS is generally used for remotely connected printers. Troy CUPS works well on my local printers, parallel and USB, is this unusual? Gives me a heap of driver options also. Charlie -- I'm not young enough to know

Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer

2004-01-12 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Sunday 11 January 2004 08:33 pm, Frank Bax wrote: I think you are right, but my recollection (with MDK91) is that CUPS it is not installed until the first time you run PrinterDrake. But on this system I never ran PrinterDrake on MDK91 before upgrading the system to MDK92. Actually, I

[newbie] can i downgrade apache on mdk92?

2004-01-12 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, It seems that apache2 is having troubles with phpnuke. Can I downgrade my apache2 on mdk92 into apache 1.3.x? How do I do that? Thanks. - -- Fajar http://linux.arinet.org Linux mdk91.sistek.kom 2.4.21-0.13mdk GNU/Linux 18:43:33 up 11:14, 9

Re: [newbie] can i downgrade apache on mdk92?

2004-01-12 Thread jason pearl
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 18:44:35 +0700 Fajar Priyanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, It seems that apache2 is having troubles with phpnuke. Can I downgrade my apache2 on mdk92 into apache 1.3.x? How do I do that? Thanks. you can get rid of apache2

Re: [newbie] Another fonts question

2004-01-12 Thread John Richard Smith
As a matter of interest you wouldn't know how to add white text to photo images would you, so far I haven't figured it out. I suppose I should ask this as another thread, still it is font related. Not offhand if I can find Gokking the Gimp i might be able to find out. John I had

[newbie] Printers

2004-01-12 Thread Lee Wiggers
Hi all I have a funny thing going on with my two lexmark laser printers in the office. My mdk9.2 box always alternates output to the two printers. This has been fun for everyone looking for my print jobs up 'til now, but one of the machines is down for maint today, turned off, and the print

Re: [newbie] Printers

2004-01-12 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 12 January 2004 13:06, Lee Wiggers wrote: Hi all I have a funny thing going on with my two lexmark laser printers in the office. My mdk9.2 box always alternates output to the two printers. This has been fun for everyone looking for my print jobs up 'til now, but one of the

Re: [newbie] fstab and lilo

2004-01-12 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 09:56:45 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lee Wiggers wrote: I have my fstab and lilo pretty much fouled up. Would someone who has a working cdrw and dvd please post theirs so I can figure out where I overused my delete key? Lee This is mine,

Re: [newbie] Im excited hehe

2004-01-12 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 00:28:47 -0700 jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: all i have to say is that i am glad someone in here talked about sylpheed because i like it better than any other mail prog i have used ... even evolution. -- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++

Re: [newbie] Im excited hehe

2004-01-12 Thread jason pearl
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 08:19:11 -0500 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 00:28:47 -0700 jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: all i have to say is that i am glad someone in here talked about sylpheed because i like it better than any other mail prog i have used ... even

Re: [newbie] Im excited hehe

2004-01-12 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 06:24:15 -0700 jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there a difference because i read the descriptions and they seem to do the same thing.. Claws is the Mutt of the GUI mail clients. Anything you could possible wish, and many that you have not dreamed of can be done

Re: [newbie] Printers

2004-01-12 Thread Troy T. Hall
is this a result of pooling? Can you simply tell it NOT to pool the printers? Seems to me I've read/heard something about that pooling will send it to whichever is next. This reminds me of DNS servers. Which alternate which one gets the request. I have no idea how to fix this, but these are

Re: [newbie] Another fonts question

2004-01-12 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 10:45:59AM +, John Richard Smith wrote: Todd Slater wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 11:26:36PM +, John Richard Smith wrote: As a matter of interest you wouldn't know how to add white text to photo images would you, so far I haven't figured it out. I

Re: [newbie] Printers

2004-01-12 Thread Aron Smith
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 05:43, Troy T. Hall wrote: is this a result of pooling? Can you simply tell it NOT to pool the printers? Seems to me I've read/heard something about that pooling will send it to whichever is next. This reminds me of DNS servers. Which alternate which one gets the

[newbie] updating Gaim on MDK9.2

2004-01-12 Thread aidanh
Hi guys, Has anybody out there updated to the latest version of gaim? I have downloaded the lates RPM to suit MDK9.2 but I get an error when I try to run it. Installation failed: file /usr/lib/libgaim-remote.so.0.0.0 from install of gaim-0.75-0mdk9.2 conflicts with file from

Re: [newbie] Another fonts question

2004-01-12 Thread John Richard Smith
Todd Slater wrote: As a matter of interest you wouldn't know how to add white text to photo images would you, so far I haven't figured it out. I suppose I should ask this as another thread, still it is font related. Add a new layer (I use the Layers, Channels Paths Dialog), make it

Re: [newbie] Detecting WLAN Card

2004-01-12 Thread Marc Resnick
- Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 10:56 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Detecting WLAN Card On Monday 12 Jan 2004 1:57 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP Derek, I've located the Prism2_cs module, exactly

Re: [newbie] Fw: 9.2

2004-01-12 Thread P J Scott
Well Anne at least there is something good, lol. Still can`t install Linux though good or not Maybee I`m just born to be a Microsoft slave.. - Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 6:11 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Fw:

Re: [newbie] Detecting WLAN Card

2004-01-12 Thread Marc Resnick
- Original Message - From: Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 11:15 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Detecting WLAN Card - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 11,

Re: [newbie] updating Gaim on MDK9.2

2004-01-12 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 23:42:29 +0800 aidanh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody out there updated to the latest version of gaim? I have downloaded the lates RPM to suit MDK9.2 Dl the 9.2 gaim-0.75 rpms from my site and you will not have a problem. You will need to get

Re: [newbie] Detecting WLAN Card -- FIXED --Just one new problem

2004-01-12 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 12 Jan 2004 5:21 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: - Original Message - From: Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 11:15 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Detecting WLAN Card - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Detecting WLAN Card -- FIXED --Just one new problem

2004-01-12 Thread Derek Jennings
SNIP Derek and all that have been following, Linux now detects my WLAN card after who know's what I did as wlan0. The only step remaining is to configure it to my network. I entered the Mandrake Control Center, and went to the Network settings to configure it. It still does not appear on

Re: [newbie] Detecting WLAN Card -- FIXED --Just one new problem

2004-01-12 Thread Marc Resnick
- Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 12:49 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Detecting WLAN Card -- FIXED --Just one new problem On Monday 12 Jan 2004 5:21 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: - Original Message - From:

Re: [newbie] Kernel Upgrade (does order matter?)

2004-01-12 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 19:22:53 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will this make a difference? ie., do you literally have to install the bootloader-utils first? Apparently, it doesn't matter :-) -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org

Re: [newbie] linux install

2004-01-12 Thread P J Scott
Well the problem is this. I have a new computer and a new distro 9.2. When I try to install it all that happens is I get the message lost interupt over and over so have to abort installation . Anne thought it might be the pnp in my bios but like you say no way to turn it off. So basically im

Re: [newbie] linux install

2004-01-12 Thread Lanman
Phillip; Try moving some PCI devices into different PCI slots, and try assigning or un-assigning IRQ's to your AGP or Video, and/or USB devices. Also, try turning off anything that mentions USB. You can turn it back on later. Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 1/12/2004 at 6:23

Re: [newbie] What´s wrong with Mozilla?

2004-01-12 Thread Margot
Ramin wrote: On January 11, 2004 06:10 pm, Margot wrote: I use Mozilla myself and I haven't had any of these problems. Which version of Mozilla are you using? Which Mandrake? This is Mandrake 9.2, Mozilla 1.5. I was having the same problem with Mozilla 1.4 before upgrading! By the way, so

Re: [newbie] Detecting WLAN Card -- FIXED --Just one new problem

2004-01-12 Thread Derek Jennings
Well I think we both saw this coming, Derek. I got 5 errors after trying to restart the network. Error for wireless request Set Encode, Set ESSID, Set Mod, Set Bit Rate, Set ESSID. Then it say Determining IP information for wlan0...SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device. Here is the ifcfg-wlan0

[newbie] Mozilla 1.5 Fonts

2004-01-12 Thread J. Kelley Jernigan
To All, I've upgraded to Mozilla 1.5 and now my fonts are crap on to many web sites. For those of you who use 1.5 what fonts do you use? Thanks. J. Kelley Jernigan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] ** LIST ISSUES: PLEASE READ **

2004-01-12 Thread J. Kelley Jernigan
I was wondering why all my newbie messages just stopped, while I was still getting messages from the expert list. I've resubscribed so hopefully I will get messages again. JKJ Hello all, Sympa has all of a sudden decided that i do indeed need to see all email bounced back to newbie. Of the

Re: [newbie] Formating External Hard Drive

2004-01-12 Thread Owen Berio
Thanks Tony, I still have the problem. This is what I did. I changed /usr to Backup Mandrake and the second partition to Backup Win2000. There seems to be a problem because instead of partitions I found these two new items in my hda listed in /files along with the /usr that I had changed. On

[newbie] Journalised

2004-01-12 Thread Owen Berio
I have run across the term Journalised and Journalised FS.ext3. Would someone please tell me what they are and how they are used? Thanks, Owen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] graphical login - again

2004-01-12 Thread Patrick Coffey
Hi Bill, I believe the file you would be looking for is /etc/inittab, This is the file that specifies if you boot to the command prompt or a graphical login. The line your looking for is: id:X:initdefault: where X is the runlevel, 5 would be the graphical login so it should read

Re: [newbie] Journalised

2004-01-12 Thread John Drouhard
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:24:45 -0800 Owen Berio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have run across the term Journalised and Journalised FS.ext3. Would someone please tell me what they are and how they are used? Thanks, Owen Ok, FS means filesystem, which is the method that the linux

Re: [newbie] Another fonts question

2004-01-12 Thread Marco Verheul
On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 22:51, John Richard Smith wrote: snip I don't know the answer to your questions, but I would be interested where to obtain all these fonts. John John, I got the fonts from http://grsites.com/fonts/. On that site a preview is displayed of every font. The

Re: [newbie] What´s wrong with Mozilla?

2004-01-12 Thread Ramin
Hopefully this is corrected. I was getting two of your each email. However my original problem with Mozilla is not fixed yet :-( Ramin On January 12, 2004 02:44 pm, you wrote: Ramin wrote: On January 11, 2004 06:10 pm, Margot wrote: I use Mozilla myself and I haven't had any of these

Test; Re: [newbie] What´s wrong with Mozilla?

2004-01-12 Thread Ramin
On January 12, 2004 02:44 pm, Margot wrote: Ramin wrote: On January 11, 2004 06:10 pm, Margot wrote: I use Mozilla myself and I haven't had any of these problems. Which version of Mozilla are you using? Which Mandrake? This is Mandrake 9.2, Mozilla 1.5. I was having the same problem with

Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer

2004-01-12 Thread Frank Bax
At 07:09 AM 1/12/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Sunday 11 January 2004 08:33 pm, Frank Bax wrote: I think you are right, but my recollection (with MDK91) is that CUPS it is not installed until the first time you run PrinterDrake. But on this system I never ran PrinterDrake on MDK91 before

[newbie] Any Messages getting through?

2004-01-12 Thread J. Kelley Jernigan
To All, I stopped receiving any messages from this group for the past several days. The Expert group works find. Could someone reply to me directly if my messages are getting through? Thanks. JKJ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Re: Messages to Newbie Linux Group

2004-01-12 Thread J. Kelley Jernigan
Jeff, Thanks. How to get the messages to go through though is an odd thing. For every message I send I get an email from SYMPA [EMAIL PROTECTED] asking me to approve my own messages. After I have approved them via reply then they go through to the list. J. Kelley Jernigan On Mon, 2004-01-12 at

Re: [newbie] Another fonts question

2004-01-12 Thread John Richard Smith
Marco Verheul wrote: On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 22:51, John Richard Smith wrote: snip I don't know the answer to your questions, but I would be interested where to obtain all these fonts. John John, I got the fonts from http://grsites.com/fonts/. On that site a previewis displayed

Re: Test; Re: [newbie] What´s wrong with Mozilla?

2004-01-12 Thread Margot
Ramin wrote: On January 12, 2004 02:44 pm, Margot wrote: Ramin wrote: On January 11, 2004 06:10 pm, Margot wrote: I use Mozilla myself and I haven't had any of these problems. Which version of Mozilla are you using? Which Mandrake? This is Mandrake 9.2, Mozilla 1.5. I was having the same

[newbie] urpmi/rpm error

2004-01-12 Thread Portal Chris
Hi All, I tried searching the archives for something relevant but didn't come up with anything useful. Trying to update the kernel with a recently obtained RPM, I get the following messages: # urpmi kernel rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Packages: unsupported hash version: 8 Can't call method traverse_tag

Re: [newbie] Kernel Upgrade (does order matter?)

2004-01-12 Thread Ricks
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 12 January 2004 01:10 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 19:22:53 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will this make a difference? ie., do you literally have to install the bootloader-utils first? Apparently, it doesn't

Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer

2004-01-12 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Monday 12 January 2004 10:10 pm, Frank Bax wrote: In MCC rpmDrake, I searched for 'cups' and noticed several packages were not installed, so installed them. The next time I ran PrinterDrake, a bunch more (6 or more?) packages were also installed. Now I am able to select my printer type,

Re: [newbie] Kernel Upgrade (does order matter?)

2004-01-12 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 19:45:21 -0500 Ricks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will this make a difference? ie., do you literally have to install the bootloader-utils first? Apparently, it doesn't matter :-) Hey Joe, there was a link to this page http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/magic.php (

[newbie] OT - CD repair kits-do they work?

2004-01-12 Thread Todd Slater
My daughter got to one of my CD's and scratched it all up. I've got it as a low-quality ogg, but I definitely want to preserve the CD. Has anybody tried those kits that are supposed to repair scratched CD's? Do they work? Thanks, Todd -- Name that tune #11: What if the artists ran the TV, all

Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer

2004-01-12 Thread Frank Bax
At 08:03 PM 1/12/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 12 January 2004 10:10 pm, Frank Bax wrote: In MCC rpmDrake, I searched for 'cups' and noticed several packages were not installed, so installed them. The next time I ran PrinterDrake, a bunch more (6 or more?) packages were also installed.

[newbie] triple boot with windows XP, 98 and mdk 9.2?

2004-01-12 Thread Joe
A friend has a laptop, which has XP in the first partition. When I installed mandrake, I created a small fat32 partition between XP and mandrake, with the intent of putting 98 in there for some legacy app he wants to use (something for working with an old version of windows CE that doesn't run

Re: [newbie] Master HDD won't mount in dual-boot system

2004-01-12 Thread E. Hines
On Sunday 11 January 2004 08:21 pm, Peter Simko wrote: Right. That's because there are no Linux partitions on hda. There probably never will be, but I still want to be able to mount that drive from Linux in order to access the data that resides there. I also need to recognize it in order to

[newbie] network inconsistency

2004-01-12 Thread Joe
I think I will repost this problem in hopes that someone will come to my rescue. Installed mdk 9.2 on a friends sony vaio pcg-fx340, networking worked at first. Then it didn't and wont anymore even after a re-install (I know bad habits die hard).Windows says it is an intel pro/100 ve chip

Re: [newbie] OT - CD repair kits-do they work?

2004-01-12 Thread Linus Drouhard
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 20:51:52 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My daughter got to one of my CD's and scratched it all up. I've got it as a low-quality ogg, but I definitely want to preserve the CD. Has anybody tried those kits that are supposed to repair scratched CD's? Do they work?

Re: [newbie] OT - CD repair kits-do they work?

2004-01-12 Thread Jerry Barton
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 20:51:52 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My daughter got to one of my CD's and scratched it all up. I've got it as a low-quality ogg, but I definitely want to preserve the CD. Has anybody tried those kits that are supposed to repair scratched CD's? Do they work?

Re: [newbie] ** LIST ISSUES: PLEASE READ **

2004-01-12 Thread Eric Huff
I was wondering why all my newbie messages just stopped, while I was still getting messages from the expert list. I've resubscribed so hopefully I will get messages again. JKJ If you don't, let me know. I don't know why they stopped. I stopped nuking people once the mandrake folks started

Re: [newbie] OT - CD repair kits-do they work?

2004-01-12 Thread Eric Huff
My daughter got to one of my CD's and scratched it all up. I've got it as a low-quality ogg, but I definitely want to preserve the CD. Has anybody tried those kits that are supposed to repair scratched CD's? Do they work? Never used a kit, but used plexiglass polish once and it worked fine...

[newbie] Linux to Windows porting

2004-01-12 Thread vikrant joshi
I have Windows and Linux on same machine . Is there a way I can acces the windows files eg word or excel file through Linux. Do we need to install any software for that . If yes then where do we get that software from vikrant - Still single? Click

Re: Test; Re: [newbie] What´s wrong with Mozilla?

2004-01-12 Thread Ramin
Thanks, i will try it. My installation has been through the mandrake standard package installing which i assume is essentially a gui for urpmi. Regards, Ramin On January 12, 2004 06:35 pm, Margot wrote: Well, you seem to have got the Reply-to sorted now - so, back to the real problem...

Re: [newbie] Linux to Windows porting

2004-01-12 Thread Eric Huff
I have Windows and Linux on same machine . Is there a way I can acces the windows files eg word or excel file through Linux. If you just want to read them, no problem. It'll be setup when you install. If you want to write to them also, you will want them on a seperate FAT32 partition. eric

Re: [newbie] triple boot with windows XP, 98 and mdk 9.2?

2004-01-12 Thread Ramin
Hiding from Windows98 should be fairly easy as it is rather an old windows. And i noticed during mandrake installation that it does have hidden FAT among the options for the file system. I have though not tried to see if how it performs. I am using XOSL as my boot loader which come with

[newbie] rename multiple folders

2004-01-12 Thread Charlie
I have a bunch of folders(several hundred) that I copied over from my Win2k partition that I want to rename. Windows names them using a capital letter and I want to rename them all to all lower case. Example: rename Documents to documents Is there an easy way to do this? I don't want to do all

Re: [newbie] triple boot with windows XP, 98 and mdk 9.2?

2004-01-12 Thread jason pearl
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 23:34:48 -0500 Ramin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hiding from Windows98 should be fairly easy as it is rather an old windows. And i noticed during mandrake installation that it does have hidden FAT among the options for the file system. I have though not tried to see if how

Re: [newbie] Another fonts question

2004-01-12 Thread Charlie
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 11:28 pm, many eyes noted that John Richard Smith wrote: As a matter of interest you wouldn't know how to add white text to photo images would you, so far I haven't figured it out. I suppose I should ask this as another thread, still it is font related. Not offhand

Re: [newbie] Linux to Windows porting

2004-01-12 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 03:25 pm, many eyes noted that Eric Huff wrote: I have Windows and Linux on same machine . Is there a way I can acces the windows files eg word or excel file through Linux. If you just want to read them, no problem. It'll be setup when you install. If you want to

Re: [newbie] rename multiple folders

2004-01-12 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 09:38:27PM -0700, Charlie wrote: I have a bunch of folders(several hundred) that I copied over from my Win2k partition that I want to rename. Windows names them using a capital letter and I want to rename them all to all lower case. Example: rename Documents to

Re: [newbie] rename multiple folders

2004-01-12 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 12 January 2004 11:38 pm, Charlie wrote: -I have a bunch of folders(several hundred) that I copied over from my Win2k -partition that I want to rename. Windows names them using a capital letter -and I want to rename them all to all lower case. - -Example: rename Documents to documents -

Re: [newbie] Re: Messages to Newbie Linux Group

2004-01-12 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 09:57 am, many eyes noted that J. Kelley Jernigan wrote: Jeff, Thanks. How to get the messages to go through though is an odd thing. For every message I send I get an email from SYMPA [EMAIL PROTECTED] asking me to approve my own messages. After I have approved them via

Re: [newbie] OT - CD repair kits-do they work?

2004-01-12 Thread Aron Smith
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 17:51, Todd Slater wrote: My daughter got to one of my CD's and scratched it all up. I've got it as a low-quality ogg, but I definitely want to preserve the CD. Has anybody tried those kits that are supposed to repair scratched CD's? Do they work? Yes they do work up to a