Re: [newbie] Can't change permissions of mounted partition.

2004-02-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 12 February 2004 22:43, Marc Resnick wrote: Derek, umask=0 is set in the options, but I still don't have access. What's weird is I also don't have write access in my /home(I can write in /home/marc though) or a bunch of other directories either. Shot in the dark - is this an

Re: [newbie] on distributions...

2004-02-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 13 February 2004 06:38, Dobrescu Mihai wrote: Thanks Anne! I'm really surprised that you read my letter entirely! It was provoked by the reaction of users to changes! I think also that the power of Linux consits in command line tools and we really need to have mc and memtest!

Re: [newbie] This is why I love this OS...

2004-02-13 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 00:38, Todd Slater wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 07:58:12PM -0500, JoeHill wrote: CPU's maxed out recoding a DivX as SVCD, GCombust just burned Aliens to CD and it's playing without a blip or skip, I'm composing an e-mail, downloading more movies (see eth0), and

Re: [newbie] on distributions...

2004-02-13 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 12 February 2004 15:34, Dobrescu Mihai wrote: for home use at least... I would like to support it if I'd afford this (I live in a country where the price of the average package - let's say 100euros - is the medium salary - and to buy it is some kind of alien experience -

[newbie] GIMP-1.3-PRE2.0 usage warning

2004-02-13 Thread Wojciech Podgrni
Hi everyone, I have just stepped into a rather serious problem with this version of GIMP in my Mandrake 9.2. When I try to open large files, the message appears: Couldn't open SWAP file. Bad things will happen. and GUI gets (almost) locked. I had go to CLI, killall gimp-1.3 processes and

Re: [newbie] This is why I love this OS...

2004-02-13 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 13 February 2004 09:35, Josenildo Marques wrote: Is it down or something ? I can't see anything :-( I'll try later on... Looks like it's downthe crappy 386 timed out after all, heh?;-D Or maybe the fuses just blewOR Joe fell asleep on his keyboard, it's late night over

Re: [newbie] GIMP-1.3-PRE2.0 usage warning

2004-02-13 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 13 February 2004 10:30, Wojciech Podgrni wrote: Hi everyone, I have just stepped into a rather serious problem with this version of GIMP in my Mandrake 9.2. When I try to open large files, the message appears: Couldn't open SWAP file. Bad things will happen. and GUI gets (almost)

Re: [newbie] on distributions...

2004-02-13 Thread Dobrescu Mihai
I couldn't find them, but I'm still looking in the packages! I mean in 10b2. --- Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 13 February 2004 06:38, Dobrescu Mihai wrote: Thanks Anne! I'm really surprised that you read my letter entirely! It was provoked by the reaction of users to

Re: [newbie] on distributions...

2004-02-13 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 13 February 2004 10:33, Dobrescu Mihai wrote: I couldn't find them, but I'm still looking in the packages! I mean in 10b2. I looked for mc too...it isn't there! Either download it from cooker or install the 9.2 version. Leaving mc out of a distrib feels like forgetting to put on

Re: [newbie] on distributions...

2004-02-13 Thread Dobrescu Mihai
Thanks ! In Romania, paying over Internet is a technical issue to be solved in the future... |:-( As a developer, I could afford to pay for a power distribution, but I don't know how. When I look in the list of the store, choosing Romania leads me to a page in USD, but no way to buy in Romania in

[newbie] Bios upgrades

2004-02-13 Thread John Richard Smith
Bios upgrades = First off, not the fearsome thing it is made out to be. I just learnt the hard way a few precautionary things that saves time and grief. 1) Go into BIOS and turn of all virus detection settings. 2) Buy a spare bios chip(they don't cost much - £5 UK PCCI) 3) Back up

Re: [newbie] on distributions...

2004-02-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 13 February 2004 09:40, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Friday 13 February 2004 10:33, Dobrescu Mihai wrote: I couldn't find them, but I'm still looking in the packages! I mean in 10b2. I looked for mc too...it isn't there! Either download it from cooker or install the 9.2 version.

Re: [newbie] on distributions...

2004-02-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 13 February 2004 09:43, Dobrescu Mihai wrote: Thanks ! In Romania, paying over Internet is a technical issue to be solved in the future... |:-( As a developer, I could afford to pay for a power distribution, but I don't know how. When I look in the list of the store, choosing

[newbie] help with setting time...

2004-02-13 Thread hugenots
Haiz newbie, strange! I do like this: Thu Feb 12 11:47:00 EST 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# date -s EET Wed Feb 11 17:00:00 EST 2004 as you can see time has changed, bt time zone is the same :( have I missunderstood something? I want to get time zone set to EET!

Re: [newbie] GIMP-1.3-PRE2.0 usage warning

2004-02-13 Thread Wojciech Podgrni
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Friday 13 February 2004 10:30, Wojciech Podgrni wrote: Hi everyone, I have just stepped into a rather serious problem with this version of GIMP in my Mandrake 9.2. When I try to open large files, the message appears: "Couldn't open SWAP file. Bad things will

Re: [newbie] on distributions...

2004-02-13 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 13 February 2004 10:54, Anne Wilson wrote: Take the free download edition for now, then, and don't feel bad about it. The time will come when you can buy. Meanwhile, do your repayment by spreading the word about Mandrake and by offering any of your experiences that may help others.

Re: [newbie] How to go about creating a new partition.

2004-02-13 Thread John Richard Smith
Marc Resnick wrote: On Thursday 12 February 2004 12:43 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: At the end of the day the decision whether to use PM has to be yours. All I can add is, that in my now fairly extensive experience I would not mix my partition tools on the same drive. If something went

Re: [newbie] on distributions...

2004-02-13 Thread Alastair Scott
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Friday 13 February 2004 10:54, Anne Wilson wrote: Take the free download edition for now, then, and don't feel bad about it. The time will come when you can buy. Meanwhile, do your repayment by spreading the word about Mandrake and by offering any of your experiences

[newbie] concatening pdf file

2004-02-13 Thread Olivier Esser
Anyone does know a tool which allow to concatenate two pdf files into a single file? Olivier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] on distributions...

2004-02-13 Thread Dobrescu Mihai
I am not sure what you are saying by Meanwhile, do your repayment by spreading the word about Mandrake and by offering any of your experiences that may help others. Anyway, I have choosen MDK by my needs: - to be easy to use and maintain - to start learning Linux - to fit on my view on OS in

Re: [newbie] on distributions...

2004-02-13 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 13 February 2004 12:01, Dobrescu Mihai wrote: For the moment I would like to help translate Linux - this might be a possible way to get in - a lot of Romanians moved to a more inteligible interfacewhich is the one in their mother language. But I didn't do this on Linux and I need

Re: [newbie] on distributions...

2004-02-13 Thread Dobrescu Mihai
--- H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 13 February 2004 12:01, Dobrescu Mihai wrote: For the moment I would like to help translate Linux - this might be a possible way to get in - a lot of Romanians moved to a more inteligible interfacewhich is the one in their mother

Re: [newbie] new to mandrake

2004-02-13 Thread lanman
On February 13, 2004 06:51 am, Harold E Vine III wrote: I'm downloading 9.2 I've become astranged from rh/fedora core. I'm planning to install this weekend, and I'm wondering if y'all could provide a couple links to read that would make the install go smoothly. I have a 2.3gig emachine,

Re: [newbie] This is why I love this OS...

2004-02-13 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 12:40:17 +0100 H.J.Bathoorn disseminated the following: Yay, well it's up now!:) Still no anti-aliasing, I see. Actually, that *is* AA, but with Verdana (my new favourite font), it's very subtle. GCombust is still, and likely always will be according to the developer,

[newbie] [OT] The BBC and Linux.

2004-02-13 Thread Keith Powell
I have just been watching a daily Monday-Friday BBC Television business/consumer program called Working Lunch. In it, there was an item about Microsoft's Windows source code being on the Internet. During the item, which concentrated on how this would affect we computer users, the following

Re: [newbie] MCC Network Internet

2004-02-13 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 13 February 2004 13:07, GV wrote: Hi, how can I achieve the MCC functionality concerning the setup of an Internet connection without going through the GUI? Which scripts/commands do I have to run? Thanks Depends on what you you're looking for: there's drakconnect that fires up

RE: Re: [newbie] new to mandrake

2004-02-13 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Does it on mine since 7. Tony. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Harold E Vine III Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 3:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: [newbie] new to mandrake question. lindows os detected and mounted my ntfs

Re: [newbie] [OT] The BBC and Linux.

2004-02-13 Thread Aron Smith
On Friday 13 February 2004 05:19 am, Keith Powell wrote: I have just been watching a daily Monday-Friday BBC Television business/consumer program called Working Lunch. In it, there was an item about Microsoft's Windows source code being on the Internet. During the item, which concentrated on

Re: [newbie] on distributions...

2004-02-13 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 13 February 2004 2:40 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Friday 13 February 2004 10:33, Dobrescu Mihai wrote: I couldn't find them, but I'm still looking in the packages! I mean in 10b2. I looked for mc too...it isn't there! Either download

Re: [newbie] on distributions...

2004-02-13 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 13 February 2004 2:52 am, Anne Wilson wrote: whack Perhaps not everything goes into a beta release? I'm sure mc has been in every release so far, but I don't run betas, so I couldn't answer for that. Anne I was wrong. I said both were

Re: [newbie] [OT] The BBC and Linux.

2004-02-13 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: Keith Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 07:19 Subject: [newbie] [OT] The BBC and Linux. I have just been watching a daily Monday-Friday BBC Television business/consumer program called Working Lunch. In it,

[newbie] typist-2.6.2-2mdk.i586.rpm wont run

2004-02-13 Thread Marc
I installed typist-2.6.2-2mdk.i586.rpm Everything seemed to install allright but I cant find it on on any menu and if I try to start it from console I get the message command not found. Does anyone have a idea of how to fix this? TIA Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Bios upgrades

2004-02-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 13 October 2002 07:34 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Bios upgrades = First off, not the fearsome thing it is made out to be. I just learnt the hard way a few precautionary things that saves time and grief. 1) Go into BIOS and turn of all virus detection settings.

Re: [newbie] [OT] The BBC and Linux.

2004-02-13 Thread robin
Keith Powell wrote: I have just been watching a daily Monday-Friday BBC Television business/consumer program called Working Lunch. In it, there was an item about Microsoft's Windows source code being on the Internet. During the item, which concentrated on how this would affect we computer

Re: [newbie] How to go about creating a new partition.

2004-02-13 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday 13 October 2002 7:11 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: whack Well if you do screw up don't panic, it's all recoverable , just don't do anything to mess your windblows OS. If you do have trouble just ask again here on this list. Plenty of people

Re: [newbie] [OT] The BBC and Linux.

2004-02-13 Thread lanman
On February 13, 2004 10:52 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 13 February 2004 05:19 am, Keith Powell wrote: I have just been watching a daily Monday-Friday BBC Television business/consumer program called Working Lunch. In it, there was an item about Microsoft's Windows source code being

Re: [newbie] Preparing (hopefully) to install

2004-02-13 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 13 February 2004 8:53 am, Chuck Mattsen wrote: Hi ... new to the list and, hopefully soon, new to Mandrake (and Linux in general, with the exception of some prior dinking around in WinLinux 2003 awhile back). What I'm looking for, I guess,

Re: [newbie] User can't switch off...but Root can!

2004-02-13 Thread robin
Margot wrote: I must have done something really stupid, but I don't know what...! Up until a couple of weeks ago, I used to be able to click on the Logout button, get a choice of 3 options (Login as different user; Turn off computer; Restart computer) select 'Turn off computer', and everything

Re: [newbie] on distributions...

2004-02-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 13 February 2004 05:01 am, Dobrescu Mihai wrote: For the moment I would like to help translate Linux - this might be a possible way to get in - a lot of Romanians moved to a more inteligible interfacewhich is the one in their mother language. But I didn't do this on Linux and I need

Re: [newbie] [OT] The BBC and Linux.

2004-02-13 Thread robin
Hoyt Bailey wrote: Consider the source. The BBC is NOT a credible source. It's as credible as any other mainstream media source: i.e. you need to take anything it says about computers with a pinch of salt. If, on the other hand, you're talking about the BBC in general, save that for the OT

Re: [newbie] [OT] The BBC and Linux.

2004-02-13 Thread Paul
Keith Powell wrote: With a large influential company (the BBC) making such pro-Microsoft and anti-Linux statements such as this, we have quite an opposition to overcome. It's no good writing to them and complaining, as they won't want to know. I sign myself A disgusted viewer.

[newbie] Access control violation /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start failed - help please

2004-02-13 Thread Marco Baiotto
Hi, I have installed a simple samba that uses a simple samba authentication database. It has worked fine until last week and I have not changed anything in my configuration files but suddenly I can't access my samba shares from my Windows Xp Professional machine. If I restart manually

Re: [newbie] typist-2.6.2-2mdk.i586.rpm wont run

2004-02-13 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 10:17 Subject: [newbie] typist-2.6.2-2mdk.i586.rpm wont run I installed typist-2.6.2-2mdk.i586.rpm Everything seemed to install allright but I cant find it on on any menu and if

[newbie] Adobe Acrobat install

2004-02-13 Thread mcoady
Has anyone using Mandrake 9.2 succeeded in installing Adobe Acrobat Reader. Somehow the linux-ar-405.tar.gz program has defeated everything I've tried. Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] [OT] The BBC and Linux.

2004-02-13 Thread John Richard Smith
Keith Powell wrote: I have just been watching a daily Monday-Friday BBC Television business/consumer program called Working Lunch. In it, there was an item about Microsoft's Windows source code being on the Internet. During the item, which concentrated on how this would affect we computer

RE: [newbie] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card

2004-02-13 Thread Philip J Scott
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: 10 February 2004 10:11 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card On Tuesday 10 February 2004 03:08, Littlefish Operator wrote:

Re: [newbie] concatening pdf file

2004-02-13 Thread Christoph Eckert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 13. Februar 2004 11:56 schrieb Olivier Esser: Anyone does know a tool which allow to concatenate two pdf files into a single file? Search sourceforge and you'll find such tools. I have used such a tool some months before, but I do not

Re: [newbie] How to go about creating a new partition.

2004-02-13 Thread Johan
Because everybody do have a free choice to decide what to use/buy/get for free...we are lucky that this choice do exist...maybe not always the correct one but still it there :-) Johan * On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 09:28:34 -0700 Charlie Mahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN

Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat install

2004-02-13 Thread Paul
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 07:14, mcoady wrote: Has anyone using Mandrake 9.2 succeeded in installing Adobe Acrobat Reader. Somehow the linux-ar-405.tar.gz program has defeated everything I've tried. Michael If you're a member there's an RPM in the Club commercial downloads section. If

Re: [newbie] Bios upgrades

2004-02-13 Thread John Richard Smith
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday 13 October 2002 07:34 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Bios upgrades = Well good John. Now next time you buy a motherboard, check around for one that has a second bios backup already onboard and doesn't need a DOS boot floppy, or Windoze

Re: [newbie] StarDict

2004-02-13 Thread ronald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 22:27:59 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm - that's 1.31-4, and the sourceforge one is 2.4.2. Now I've looked at it I do remember seeing it on the available software list, but it said 'English to Chinese

Re: [newbie] on distributions...

2004-02-13 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 13 February 2004 17:00, Charlie Mahan wrote: Space limitations and support issues don't you know. No, I don't i.M.O. there's lots than can be kicked in favour of mc. It used always be there and installed by default too. Since 9.2 that changed all of a sudden in Mandrake. No other

[newbie] no hdlists found error and now CD_R drive not installed !

2004-02-13 Thread Stéphane Pinel
Hello, Just bought Mandrake Linux PowerPack 9.2. 15 seconds after starting Installer, I got an no hdlists found error error while partitionning...The installation process couldn't continue. Then 15 seconds later, the CD-ROM drive was said as not installed in bios...then it doen't seems to

Re: [newbie] How to go about creating a new partition.

2004-02-13 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 13 February 2004 10:28 am, Charlie Mahan wrote: Sunday 13 October 2002 7:11 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: whack Well if you do screw up don't panic, it's all recoverable , just don't do anything to mess your windblows OS. If you do have trouble just ask again here on this list.

Re: [newbie] typist-2.6.2-2mdk.i586.rpm wont run

2004-02-13 Thread Paul
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 18:17, Marc wrote: I installed typist-2.6.2-2mdk.i586.rpm Everything seemed to install allright but I cant find it on on any menu and if I try to start it from console I get the message command not found. Does anyone have a idea of how to fix this? TIA

Re: [newbie] This is why I love this OS...

2004-02-13 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
Slackware in text mode makes a wonderful server on a 386 right up to 9.1! Slackware 9.1 runs on 486 and higher, but 9.0 and back will rn on a 386. If you needan install helper I wrote a complete tutorial on installing it step by step. -- __

Re: [newbie] Preparing (hopefully) to install

2004-02-13 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 09:54:40 -0700 Charlie Mahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip-8 Charlie You'll be asked about preferences, using free space entire drive etc., select Charlie free space, then allow the installer to do the work for you. It will resize Charlie the partitions and set up

Re: [newbie] on distributions...

2004-02-13 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 13 February 2004 10:34 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Friday 13 February 2004 17:00, Charlie Mahan wrote: Space limitations and support issues don't you know. No, I don't i.M.O. there's lots than can be kicked in favour of mc. It used

[newbie] Dual-booting

2004-02-13 Thread Eric Geater 1/27/03
Oh, this isn't a Mandrake question TOO much, though I am using Mandrake. On a new unpartitioned hard drive that I want to dual-boot between XP and 'Drake, which should I install first? Thanks Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Wireless Notebook Card

2004-02-13 Thread Mike Begin
Can anyone recommend a good wireless notebook card that has Linux support/drivers (Mandrake 9.2.1)? Thanks, Mike

[newbie] Restoring Gui login Mandrake9.2

2004-02-13 Thread mcoady
During the install I mistakenly clicked on the automatic login feature which takes me directly into KDE. Is there a file I could edit that would return the choice of window managers at bootup? Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] KDE 3.2 kde control center emptie.

2004-02-13 Thread Dan Gordon
After installing kde 3.2 when i open up kde control center the left hand side panel where all the settings categories should be is empty. If i navigate the start menu I can run all the different sections that are normally in there. When i run kcontrol from cli i get this error. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] User can't switch off...but Root can!

2004-02-13 Thread Margot
robin wrote: Margot wrote: I must have done something really stupid, but I don't know what...! Up until a couple of weeks ago, I used to be able to click on the Logout button, get a choice of 3 options (Login as different user; Turn off computer; Restart computer) select 'Turn off computer',

Re: [newbie] This is why I love this OS...

2004-02-13 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 09:39, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 06:35:50 -0200 Josenildo Marques disseminated the following: Is it down or something ? I can't see anything :-( I'll try later on... I have you to thank for the great Che outline! I been lookin' fer that fer eons... My

[newbie] Drivers, NIC, network...

2004-02-13 Thread piagetblix
Hello, I am a returning Linux user who is quite rusty and in need of help with the following: Installing the driver for my nvidia NIC on a shuttle an35Ultra nforce2 mobo and then configuring the network setup on my Motorola cable modem that is attached via ethernet. I downloaded the rpm for

Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat install

2004-02-13 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 00:14:18 -0500 mcoady disseminated the following: Has anyone using Mandrake 9.2 succeeded in installing Adobe Acrobat Reader. Somehow the linux-ar-405.tar.gz program has defeated everything I've tried. GPDF is pretty nice. Just: urpmi gpdf Free, and Open Source. --

Re: [newbie] Dual-booting

2004-02-13 Thread Johan
Hi, If at all possible always the windows OS first...then linux...then the linux bootloader install correctly and you will be able to boot both on choice. since allready using MDK you will be familiar with the bootloader etc. Johan *** On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 12:35:35 -0600 Eric

Re: [newbie] Dual-booting

2004-02-13 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: Eric Geater 1/27/03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 12:35 Subject: [newbie] Dual-booting Oh, this isn't a Mandrake question TOO much, though I am using Mandrake. On a new unpartitioned hard drive that I want to

Re: [newbie] Restoring Gui login Mandrake9.2

2004-02-13 Thread robin
mcoady wrote: During the install I mistakenly clicked on the automatic login feature which takes me directly into KDE. Is there a file I could edit that would return the choice of window managers at bootup? You don't need to edit the file, you can just go to the Mandrake Control Center and go

Re: [newbie] User can't switch off...but Root can!

2004-02-13 Thread Aron Smith
On Friday 13 February 2004 11:10 am, Margot wrote: robin wrote: Margot wrote: I must have done something really stupid, but I don't know what...! Up until a couple of weeks ago, I used to be able to click on the Logout button, get a choice of 3 options (Login as different user; Turn

Re: [newbie] How to go about creating a new partition.

2004-02-13 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 13 February 2004 10:40 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: whack I still don't know why anyone buys proprietary stuff to do something that can be done with free open source tools. Has anybody ever heard of parted?

Re: [newbie] Preparing (hopefully) to install (Compaq laptop, anybody?)

2004-02-13 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 13 February 2004 11:21 am, Chuck Mattsen wrote: On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 09:54:40 -0700 -snip-8 You'll be asked about preferences, using free space entire drive etc., select free space, then allow the installer to do the work for

Re: [newbie] User can't switch off...but Root can!

2004-02-13 Thread robin
Margot wrote: robin wrote: Margot wrote: I must have done something really stupid, but I don't know what...! Up until a couple of weeks ago, I used to be able to click on the Logout button, get a choice of 3 options (Login as different user; Turn off computer; Restart computer) select 'Turn

Re: [newbie] typist-2.6.2-2mdk.i586.rpm wont run

2004-02-13 Thread Aron Smith
On Friday 13 February 2004 09:49 am, Paul wrote: On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 18:17, Marc wrote: I installed typist-2.6.2-2mdk.i586.rpm Everything seemed to install allright but I cant find it on on any menu and if I try to start it from console I get the message command not found. Does

Re: [newbie] Dual-booting

2004-02-13 Thread piagetblix
You should install Windows XP first. Lilo will install the boot loader on the Master Boot Record. If you install Linux and then Windows, Xp will simply write over the MBR where lilo installed itself. hth From: Eric Geater 1/27/03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/02/13 Fri PM 01:35:35 EST To:

Re: [newbie] LCP timeout sending Config-Requests

2004-02-13 Thread Paul Smith
John Rye wrote: On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 17:13:16 + Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All I have everything configured on my computer to connect to the Internet through Mandrake 9.2. However, I always get the following message (in /var/log/messages): LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests

Re: [newbie] Preparing (hopefully) to install (Compaq laptop, anybody?)

2004-02-13 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:52:59 -0700 Charlie Mahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charlie I'll be totally out of my depth here in a minute. I've only installed recent Charlie Mandrake releases (9.1, 9.2, cooker) on Toshiba and IBM laptops. What model Charlie is yours? Nevertheless, your input is

Re: [newbie] Preparing (hopefully) to install (Compaq laptop, anybody?)

2004-02-13 Thread marc resnick
On Friday 13 February 2004 03:29 pm, Chuck Mattsen wrote: On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:52:59 -0700 Charlie Mahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charlie I'll be totally out of my depth here in a minute. I've only installed recent Charlie Mandrake releases (9.1, 9.2, cooker) on Toshiba and IBM laptops.

Re: [newbie] StarDict

2004-02-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 13 February 2004 17:28, ronald wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 22:27:59 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm - that's 1.31-4, and the sourceforge one is 2.4.2. Now I've looked at it I do remember seeing it on the available software list, but it said 'English to Chinese

Re: [newbie] [OT] The BBC and Linux.

2004-02-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 13 February 2004 13:19, Keith Powell wrote: I have just been watching a daily Monday-Friday BBC Television business/consumer program called Working Lunch. In it, there was an item about Microsoft's Windows source code being on the Internet. During the item, which concentrated on how

Re: [newbie] [OT] The BBC and Linux.

2004-02-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 13 February 2004 16:37, lanman wrote: Not to be a [EMAIL PROTECTED] disturber ( yeah, Right! ) but the correspondent ( Gillean Lacey-Solymar ) giving us this enlightened perspective on the BBC show has an email address! Go figure! I accidentally put it right here - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] [OT] The BBC and Linux.

2004-02-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 13 February 2004 16:29, robin wrote: It varies from programme to programme. Their IT programme, Click Online, tends to give Linux and OSS a good press, and far more coverage than you'd expect, given that it's designed very much with computer newbies in mind (a typical line might be

Re: [newbie] Preparing (hopefully) to install

2004-02-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 13 February 2004 16:54, Charlie Mahan wrote: lots of good advice One thing I would add - don't panic. Almost anything you select or don't select can be reversed later. Enjoy! Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy

[newbie] Spamassasin questions

2004-02-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Hmm, I use Kmail and was following another thread where Spamassassin was detailed (Derek J. I believe). I followed it as best as I could, but I've got a couple of questions. Speed. Wow. It slows my email download from cable speeds to dial up speeds. I'm talking 3-5 times longer here. Any way to

Re: [newbie] on distributions...

2004-02-13 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 13 February 2004 4:25 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Friday 13 February 2004 19:32, Charlie Mahan wrote: This pissing contest over mc vs emacs vs vi vs what the hell ever is never going to go away, nor does it seem that it will ever change the

Re: [newbie] Getting a certain IP every time.

2004-02-13 Thread Marc Resnick
On Friday 13 February 2004 06:43 pm, lanman wrote: On February 13, 2004 06:33 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: Does anyone know if there's a way to make sure you get a certain IP from the dhcp? My router won't assign IPs by MAC address, nor will it allow me to surf with a static IP set. I have a

Re: [newbie] Getting a certain IP every time.

2004-02-13 Thread Marc Resnick
On Friday 13 February 2004 06:56 pm, anton wrote: Does anyone know if there's a way to make sure you get a certain IP from the dhcp? My router won't assign IPs by MAC address, nor will it allow me to surf with a static IP set. I have a Linksys BEFW11S4 Router. Does anyone know a way around

Re: [newbie] dev/null

2004-02-13 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 18:15:36 -0800 Lee B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lee Wiggers wrote: Okay, here I am, ticked off enough at a list to dev/null the lot of'em and I don't know how. Look in the email header. The unsub link is in there. The keyword here is a list. This list is

Re: [newbie] Wireless Notebook Card

2004-02-13 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 14 February 2004 00:55, lanman wrote: HarM; Look over your shoulder Dude! No! The other shoulder! See ? That's me lining up behind you for that wireless card! If I find anything, I'll let you know, and hopefully, vice-versa ? Ahah that was you, the hot breath in my neck all the

Re: [newbie] dev/null

2004-02-13 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 21:40:09 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 08:55:36PM -0500, Lee Wiggers wrote: Okay, here I am, ticked off enough at a list to dev/null the lot of'em and I don't know how. Help? Do you have procmail set up? What client are you

[newbie] Good News

2004-02-13 Thread Greg Meyer
The nice reviews are still coming in. Mandrake on the Shuttle XPC. http://www.sudhian.com/showdocs.cfm?aid=491 -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Getting a certain IP every time.

2004-02-13 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 14 February 2004 01:18, Marc Resnick wrote: On Friday 13 February 2004 06:43 pm, lanman wrote: On February 13, 2004 06:33 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: Does anyone know if there's a way to make sure you get a certain IP from the dhcp? My router won't assign IPs by MAC address, nor

Re: [newbie] Getting a certain IP every time.

2004-02-13 Thread lanman
On February 13, 2004 07:20 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: On Friday 13 February 2004 06:56 pm, anton wrote: Does anyone know if there's a way to make sure you get a certain IP from the dhcp? My router won't assign IPs by MAC address, nor will it allow me to surf with a static IP set. I have a

Re: [newbie] Wireless Notebook Card

2004-02-13 Thread Marc Resnick
On Friday 13 February 2004 07:23 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 00:55, lanman wrote: HarM; Look over your shoulder Dude! No! The other shoulder! See ? That's me lining up behind you for that wireless card! If I find anything, I'll let you know, and hopefully,

Re: [newbie] on distributions...

2004-02-13 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 14 February 2004 01:11, Charlie Mahan wrote: If you haven't noticed I'll apologize to a stump if warranted. I have, and FWIW your replies are always coherent, friendly, helpful and provoke a smile..keep on trucking:) Good luck, HarM BTW. I'm skinny and tall...does that mean I

Re: [newbie] Wireless Notebook Card

2004-02-13 Thread lanman
On February 13, 2004 07:23 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 00:55, lanman wrote: HarM; Look over your shoulder Dude! No! The other shoulder! See ? That's me lining up behind you for that wireless card! If I find anything, I'll let you know, and hopefully, vice-versa ?

Re: [newbie] on distributions...

2004-02-13 Thread lanman
On February 13, 2004 07:39 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 01:11, Charlie Mahan wrote: If you haven't noticed I'll apologize to a stump if warranted. BTW. I'm skinny and tall...does that mean I have to crouch down next time we argue?:-D Good luck, HarM Either way you

Re: [newbie] on distributions...

2004-02-13 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 14 February 2004 01:12, Tom Brinkman wrote: Do you want Mandrake D/L on 4 CD's? (not directed at you HarM). See an particpate in cooker or the Club. I have done so in the past and found the discussions to be either over my head or stupifyingly low. I found no way in which I

Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat install

2004-02-13 Thread Erylon Hines
On Friday 13 February 2004 11:25 am, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 00:14:18 -0500 mcoady disseminated the following: Has anyone using Mandrake 9.2 succeeded in installing Adobe Acrobat Reader. Somehow the linux-ar-405.tar.gz program has defeated everything I've tried. GPDF is

Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat install

2004-02-13 Thread Marc Resnick
On Friday 13 February 2004 07:28 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: On Friday 13 February 2004 11:25 am, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 00:14:18 -0500 mcoady disseminated the following: Has anyone using Mandrake 9.2 succeeded in installing Adobe Acrobat Reader. Somehow the

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