Re: [newbie] KDM 3.2 still bites...

2004-02-26 Thread anton
But ya, Robin's suggestion is probably a good one, I'm not sure as I never mess with KDE/KDM (which may explain why I don't even have an /etc/X11/kdm dir on my system...) well I am in trouble then! I am using mdkkdm (and have been for some time) and I also have no /etc/X11/kdm directory!!! ;)

Re: [newbie] Configuring Gotmail

2004-02-26 Thread Paul Smith
> I would like to configure Gotmail to fetch automatically my Hotmail e-mail > every 5 minutes. Could someone here please help me, in case such a > configuration is possible? I use a cron job for this. Thank you very much indeed, Adolfo! Paul

Re: [newbie] buzip??

2004-02-26 Thread anton
I think Ark can handle files like that. Try a right-click and open with Ark I would advise against that... I would say it is much better to become comfortable with command line compression and decompression. I had a number of problems with ark (though it is generally good). Command Line Tar

[newbie] Flatbed Scanner

2004-02-26 Thread Owen Berio
I have a Canon 8000F scanner that utilizes a USB port and is TWAIN software driven. Is there any reasonable (make that simple) way of using this scanner with Mandrake 9.1 or 9.2 ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Flatbed Scanner

2004-02-26 Thread Owen Berio
Thanks everyone. That is what I was afraid of. I have a old HP Illc. If I can find a SCSI card that works I can use this one and leave the Cannon for my MS box. Owen On Thursday 26 February 2004 10:41 am, you wrote: > On Thursday 26 Feb 2004 18:39, Owen Berio wrote: > > I have a Canon 8000F sc

[newbie] Installation of 10.0rc1

2004-02-26 Thread Hoyt Bailey
Sorry this is going to be long. I begin by installing on a spare 30G disk, unplugged main disk and installed WC300. Installation went ok but somehow missed configuration for mouse. The mouse worked fine during install but would not work at all after booting into new system(wouldnt move or react in

Re: [newbie] Trying to install Maple 9

2004-02-26 Thread Paul Smith
Trouble is that "libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2" does not exist in /usr/lib. This shared object file is provided by the GCC Standard C++ Library, which in my system (MDK 9.2) is "libstdc++2.10-2.96-0.83mdk". To install it, "urpmi libstdc++2.10-2.96-0.83mdk" as root. Thanks, Pablo! Now, I get the folowing

Re: [newbie] Screensavers

2004-02-26 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 27 February 2004 01:48, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > I developed the screensavers using gimp under RH-7.2 and have used > them under several distros. The main directory /screensavers is > owned by root and group users. The files are owned by me a

[newbie] Trying to install Maple 9

2004-02-26 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I am trying to install Maple 9, but I get alwyas the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cdrom]# ./installMapleLinuxSU -i console Error: failed /mnt/cdrom/Linux/Linux/resource/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so, because libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or dire

Re: [newbie] How to read windows CD?

2004-02-26 Thread Mike Adolf
On Wednesday 25 February 2004 02:03 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: > El miÃ, 25-02-2004 a las 11:09, Mike Adolf escribiÃ: > > Is there some trick to reading a CD written in Windose. I have a Liteon > > DVD+/-R CD+/-RW. I wrote it with SONIC's produce MyDEV, I think! I did > > the > > What do you get

Re: [newbie] power pack 8

2004-02-26 Thread Paul
On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 00:14, aamehl wrote: > Is anyone still running Mandrake 8? > > Or if not does anyone have a copy of the powerpack for 8? > > I am looking for an rpm that is no longer available elsewhere. > > Thanks > Aaron > > Might help if you gave us a clue about what RPM you're afte

Re: [newbie] Flatbed Scanner

2004-02-26 Thread Paul
On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 20:39, Owen Berio wrote: > I have a Canon 8000F scanner that utilizes a USB port and is TWAIN software > driven. > Is there any reasonable (make that simple) way of using this scanner with > Mandrake 9.1 or 9.2 ? > Bad news - not even Vuescan supports the 8000F Paul M

[newbie] Wireless WPC11 (V3) out of the box?

2004-02-26 Thread Joel
Hello I have installed Mandrake 9.2 on a Dell Inspiron 8200, using a Linksys WPC11 Version 3 wireless card. <1% of the time that I bring the system up, the wireless connection works. I can ping other machines. I can surf the net. >99% of the time I bring the system up, the wireless connection does

Re: [newbie] avi to svcd programs?

2004-02-26 Thread John Richard Smith
David E. Fox wrote: On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 11:21:59 + Peter Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I haven't used mencvcd but when I make VCD's using transcode I end up with 2 files, one video -.mpv, and one audio -.mp2, the next step for me is to Could you post a sample transcode line? Once

Re: [newbie] Kmail weirdness

2004-02-26 Thread Owen Berio
On Thursday 26 February 2004 11:39 am, aron Smith wrote: > Every now and then kmail refuses to send untill I go back and set it up > again using the _Same_ settings . any ideas why? > thanks > smitty (who is puzzled more than usual) Smitty, Mine started doing the samething 2 days ago. It has so

Re: [newbie] Dell Inspiron 100

2004-02-26 Thread Lanman
On February 26, 2004 10:44 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Hmm, installation went fine, fast and smooth. > > First obvious thing is the display. I tried 640x480, 800x600, and 1024x768 > resolutions with combinations of the screen sizes but I've still got this > tiny KDE window on a much larger screen.

Re: [newbie] avi to svcd programs?

2004-02-26 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 19:44:51 -0800 David E. Fox disseminated the following: > > I haven't used mencvcd but when I make VCD's using transcode I end up > > with 2 files, one video -.mpv, and one audio -.mp2, the next step for > > me is to > > Could you post a sample transcode line? > > Once in a

[newbie] power pack 8

2004-02-26 Thread aamehl
Is anyone still running Mandrake 8? Or if not does anyone have a copy of the powerpack for 8? I am looking for an rpm that is no longer available elsewhere. Thanks Aaron Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] sudo sorrows

2004-02-26 Thread aamehl
Hi I am trying to install viavoice and xvoice. I am using a script vvinstall. When I run it I get the following error: Checking contents of VIAVOICERPMDIR (/disks/hda2/bakup/tars/redhat)... OK Checking usability of sudo... FAILURE There is a problem with the configuration of sudo: read 'man su

[newbie] Still problems with firefox

2004-02-26 Thread rhein
Good evening, I installed Thunderbird and when I click on link in mail. Konqueror opens it. I changed my mane browser in the file associations tab in the desktop config to Firefox. I installed also the file launch_firefox in usr/bin directory to force the link to open in firefox... No change! Wh

Re: [newbie] To New Yorkers (slightly OT)

2004-02-26 Thread Dave Ashmore
Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 26 February 2004 09:35 am, Poogle wrote: My partner is visiting N.Y over the weekend and I am considering asking her to try to find me a Sharp Zaurus SL 5600 as I think they are likely to be cheaper in the U.S. She will be staying at a hotel on West 94

Re: [newbie] buzip??

2004-02-26 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 26 February 2004 14:20, Christophe Rhein wrote: > Hello, > I've got this message when I try to install thunderbird: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] rhein]# ls thunderbird > thunderbird-0.5-i686-pc-linux-gtk2-gnu.tar.bz2 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] rhein]# buzi

Re: [newbie] KDM 3.2 still bites...

2004-02-26 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 21:51:46 +1300 anton disseminated the following: > >> This is just a kludge til you get it figured out, but what I would > >> recommend is > >> not having X start at boot, > yeah... the wife wouldn't be very impressed though. She won't let me > install linux for her (as a li

Re: [newbie] KDM 3.2 still bites...

2004-02-26 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 25 February 2004 11:12 am, robin wrote: > > There should be a dir in /etc/X11 called 'kdm', IIRC, check in there for > > config files that may be the culprit. There are usually options in there > > to tell the Login Manager what WM's to list. Vague, I know, but I haven't > > used KDE o

Re: [newbie] Another creative spam technique to get by the filters

2004-02-26 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 26 February 2004 12:46, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Thursday 26 February 2004 03:46 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Thursday 26 February 2004 05:22, Greg Meyer wrote: > > > I won't tell you what the message really said, you'll have to > > > get ou

Re: [newbie] Dell Inspiron 100

2004-02-26 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 26 February 2004 04:57 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: ->On Thursday 26 February 2004 11:02 am, Lanman wrote: -> ->->What size, brand and model of screen? Try adjusting the monitor settings ->->buttons on the monitor itself. You probably had it configured for ->->Winders., or Dell did. ->

Re: [newbie] formating Kmail

2004-02-26 Thread bascule
actually i don't think you can without writing the html directly into the email, i've read that html functionality is something that future kmail might have - can't remember where, it was in passing to be honest this is an interesting subject, the whole html/bad, text/good thing is based on the

Re: [newbie] Dell Inspiron 1100

2004-02-26 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 10:19:22 -0500 "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 26 February 2004 09:38 am, Lanman wrote: > > ->Can you get a refund? Grin! > > Well, they've got that total customer satisfaction policy, so I > guess... :-) > > -- > >

[newbie] formating Kmail

2004-02-26 Thread Owen Berio
Am I missing something with Kmail ? It seems that Kmail does not offer formating such as hi-light, bold, underline or other facets of modifying text. Should I change to different e-mail software if I want those functions? Owen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://

[newbie] Dell Inspiron 100

2004-02-26 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Hmm, installation went fine, fast and smooth. First obvious thing is the display. I tried 640x480, 800x600, and 1024x768 resolutions with combinations of the screen sizes but I've still got this tiny KDE window on a much larger screen. Looks like only about a third to half of the screen is actu

Re: [newbie] How to read windows CD?

2004-02-26 Thread Mike Adolf
On Wednesday 25 February 2004 02:41 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > I'd wait until you have a distro that uses 2.6 without you > having to worry about libraries, etc.. Thanks, I'll probably wait, nothing critical, just testing. mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://w

Re: [newbie] KDM 3.2 still bites...

2004-02-26 Thread robin
JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 21:51:46 +1300 anton disseminated the following: This is just a kludge til you get it figured out, but what I would recommend is not having X start at boot, yeah... the wife wouldn't be very impressed though. She won't let me install linux for her (as a linux

Re: [newbie] KDM 3.2 still bites...

2004-02-26 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 18:47:33 +1300 anton disseminated the following: > wow! > talk about weird response! nobody took much notice of the message and > now lots of people reply. That's not the weird thing though - The source > says this (my original one) was sent on the 30/08/2008. WTF?!? That is

Re: [newbie] Screensavers

2004-02-26 Thread Glenn
On Thursday 26 February 2004 13:01, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > Thanks David,  I must have installed kdearts because I now have a lot of > screensavers and they work.  except for the one I wanted 'slide show'.  See > my later post I am unable to select the file that contains the > screensavers, there is j

Re: [newbie] Dell Inspiron 100

2004-02-26 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 26 February 2004 11:02 am, Lanman wrote: ->What size, brand and model of screen? Try adjusting the monitor settings ->buttons on the monitor itself. You probably had it configured for ->Winders., or Dell did. Dell Inspiron 1100. I can't find any monitor buttons...unless I'm just n

Re: [newbie] formating Kmail

2004-02-26 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 06:07 pm, many eyes viewed Owen Berio's words:- > Am I missing something with Kmail ? > It seems that Kmail does not offer formating such as hi-light, bold, > underline or other facets of modifying text. > Should I change to different e-mail software if I want those functions

Re: [newbie] Configuring Gotmail

2004-02-26 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 05:47, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > I would like to configure Gotmail to fetch automatically my Hotmail e-mail > every 5 minutes. Could someone here please help me, in case such a > configuration is possible? > > Thank you a lot in advance! > > Paul I use a cron job

[newbie] Kmail weirdness

2004-02-26 Thread aron Smith
Every now and then kmail refuses to send untill I go back and set it up again using the _Same_ settings . any ideas why? thanks smitty (who is puzzled more than usual) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Screensavers

2004-02-26 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Anne Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 13:06 Subject: Re: [newbie] Screensavers -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 26 February 2004 20:01, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > Thanks David, I must

Re: [newbie] Mandrake linux DEAD??

2004-02-26 Thread Aron Smith
On Monday 23 February 2004 06:21 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: > As they say we are no competing with them as they do comic's, why don't > they use Mandrake as free advertising? They could put in an advert in the > installation screen which Mandrake is using for adverts anyway. Why do > companies have t

[newbie]

2004-02-26 Thread Widarto
 

Re: [newbie] Another creative spam technique to get by the filters

2004-02-26 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 26 February 2004 03:46 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 26 February 2004 05:22, Greg Meyer wrote: > > I won't tell you what the message really said, you'll have to get > > out your decoder rings for that. > > So did it get past your filters? > Yes. I have recently turned my html fi

Re: [newbie] stupid newbie question

2004-02-26 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 25 February 2004 07:10 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Aron Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Newbie Mandrake List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 9:47 PM > Subject: [newbie] stupid newbie question > > > I know we covered this a

Re: [newbie] Dell Inspiron 1100

2004-02-26 Thread Lanman
On February 26, 2004 10:19 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Thursday 26 February 2004 09:38 am, Lanman wrote: > > ->Can you get a refund? Grin! > > Well, they've got that total customer satisfaction policy, so I guess... > :-) Just kidding Ronald. Actually, Dell's are probably the best built OEM PC

[newbie] download won't start

2004-02-26 Thread hugenots
Haiz newbie, I've installed MD 9.2 and everying runs just fine problem start when I write in konqueror (sorry if misspelt it) smb://10.0.0.3/ I get shares of this windows machine, bt I cannot get any file from it. download just sticks to 0%... the best is that if I use LinNeigh

Re: [newbie] To New Yorkers (slightly OT)

2004-02-26 Thread Aron Smith
On Thursday 26 February 2004 09:35 am, Poogle wrote: > My partner is visiting N.Y over the weekend and I am considering asking her > to try to find me a Sharp Zaurus SL 5600 as I think they are likely to be > cheaper in the U.S. > She will be staying at a hotel on West 94th St between Broadway & >

Re: [newbie] Trying to install Maple 9

2004-02-26 Thread Pablo Vitoria
Hi, Trouble is that "libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2" does not exist in /usr/lib. This shared object file is provided by the GCC Standard C++ Library, which in my system (MDK 9.2) is "libstdc++2.10-2.96-0.83mdk". To install it, "urpmi libstdc++2.10-2.96-0.83mdk" as root. Pablo --

Re: [newbie] Screensavers

2004-02-26 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "David E. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 23:53 Subject: Re: [newbie] Screensavers > On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 23:11:16 -0600 > "Hoyt Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I dont know what happened to the rest

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.2 RPMs for MDK 9.2

2004-02-26 Thread Amichai Rotman
Thanks On Thursday 26 February 2004 09:02, Paul Kaplan wrote: > ftp://mandrake.redbox.cz/people/bluehawk/kde32-92 > Paul > > On Thursday 26 February 2004 11:36 am, Amichai Rotman wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Can someone direct me to a download source for KDE 3.2 pre-packaged > > for MDK 9.2? > > >

Re: [newbie] Same CD problem all over again!

2004-02-26 Thread Ray Hogaboom
On Thu February 26 2004 12:29 am, David E. Fox wrote: > On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 21:48:49 -0500 > > Lanman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I suggest a Pioneer, or Plextor drive as a long-term > > replacement. That 8100+ is about 2 or 3 years old, isn't it? > > Depending on how much you use the drive, it

[newbie] Mousepad tapping not working with Mdk10RC1

2004-02-26 Thread Marc Resnick
The tapping of the pad on my laptop no longer functions as a left click with linux. It did with Mdk9.2. Anyone know anything I need to install? --Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Dell Inspiron 100

2004-02-26 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 26 February 2004 23:09, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Basically, I've got a 640x480 window on the laptops screen. I can adjust > the monitor and res settings to anything higher, and it works, but its > behind the 640x480 window so that I have to scroll to see all the desktop. > > WinXP did ha

Re: [newbie] Re: Using i486s with Linux

2004-02-26 Thread Allen/SlackWareWolf/GORE
- Original Message - From: "Robert Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ray Hogaboom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 7:23 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: Using i486s with Linux > Wednesday, February 25, 2004, 6:47:52 PM, you wrote: > > Example > > My P3 450 mhz with 120

Re: [newbie] Re: Using i486s with Linux

2004-02-26 Thread Allen/SlackWareWolf/GORE
- Original Message - > My bad! I meant to say 16MB buffer! I gotta learn to keep my coffe cup away > from the keyboard! Damn thing's all sticky! Grin! > > -- > Lanman > Registered Linux user #190712 > Running Mandrake 10.0 RC1 > > You sure that's coffee? I'v miss fired while playing sla

Re: [newbie] Dell Inspiron 1100

2004-02-26 Thread Lanman
On February 26, 2004 09:38 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Okay, I just picked up one of these for $699. Any pointers, advice, sage > words of wisdom, before I go to install Mandrake v9.2 and wipe XP off the > HD forever!? > > Thanks! :-) Can you get a refund? Grin! -- Lanman Registered Linux user #1

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.2 RPMs for MDK 9.2

2004-02-26 Thread Paul Kaplan
ftp://mandrake.redbox.cz/people/bluehawk/kde32-92 Paul On Thursday 26 February 2004 11:36 am, Amichai Rotman wrote: > Hi All, > > Can someone direct me to a download source for KDE 3.2 pre-packaged for > MDK 9.2? > > Thanks, > > .::. > > Amichai R

Re: [newbie] Flatbed Scanner

2004-02-26 Thread John Richard Smith
Owen Berio wrote: I have a Canon 8000F scanner that utilizes a USB port and is TWAIN software driven. Is there any reasonable (make that simple) way of using this scanner with Mandrake 9.1 or 9.2 ? http://www.sane-project.org/ http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html Looks lik

[newbie] joke

2004-02-26 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~shane/stasj/pics/humor/div/329.html -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: vicarofwibley Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux is like a wigwam - No Gates, no Windows, Apache inside. 21:06:59 up 8 days, 6:12, 1

Re: [newbie] Screensavers

2004-02-26 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 26 February 2004 20:01, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > Thanks David, I must have installed kdearts because I now have a > lot of screensavers and they work. except for the one I wanted > 'slide show'. See my later post I am unable to select the

Re: [newbie] Re: Using i486s with Linux

2004-02-26 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
On Thursday 26 February 2004 04:28 pm, Lanman wrote: > On February 26, 2004 03:56 pm, Allen/SlackWareWolf/GORE wrote: > > - Original Message - > > You sure that's coffee? I'v miss fired while playing > > slappy solitare before too ;) > > Yes Allen! I'm sure it was coffee! Do I even want to

Re: [newbie] Quiet Tonight

2004-02-26 Thread Lanman
On February 26, 2004 08:52 pm, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: > Lanman wrote: > >On February 25, 2004 10:44 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: > >>El jue, 26-02-2004 a las 00:40, Greg Meyer escribió: > >>>It's kind of quiet tonight. Everyone must be over at Groklaw watching > >>>Eben Moglen's speech at Harvard.

[newbie] Bad superblock

2004-02-26 Thread Hoyt Bailey
Could someone please tell me in detail how to repair a superblock with a rescue disk in Mandrake 9.2. I tried to run fsck with the rescue disk but that didnt work (command not found). Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Quiet Tonight

2004-02-26 Thread Allen/SlackWareWolf/GORE
- Original Message - From: "Lanman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 6:41 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Quiet Tonight On February 26, 2004 06:03 am, Damian Gatabria wrote: > El jue, 26-02-2004 a las 06:41, Lanman escribió: > > On February 25, 2004

[newbie] Totem not reading

2004-02-26 Thread rhein
Hello, I tried to watch a DVD with Totem and I get this error message: The movie '/dev/cdroms/cdrom0' could not be read. I tried also with other DVDs and I get the same answer. Music cds are playing but DVDs. I tried also to drag and drop, under root, files to a RW cd and it doesn't work. I tried

[newbie] install 9.2 now: upgrade to 10.0 later?

2004-02-26 Thread Thinker
Sorry if this has already been addressed. I have downloaded and installed 10.0rc1 but several things seem to be wrong with it and I am not having any success installing some of the software I would like to use. This makes me want to install the stable 9.2 now and upgrade to the latest and gre

[newbie] Dell Inspiron 1100

2004-02-26 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Okay, I just picked up one of these for $699. Any pointers, advice, sage words of wisdom, before I go to install Mandrake v9.2 and wipe XP off the HD forever!? Thanks! :-) -- /\

Re: [newbie] Dell Inspiron 100

2004-02-26 Thread Lanman
On February 26, 2004 05:09 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Yes. -- Lanman Registered Linux user #190712 Running Mandrake 10.0 RC1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] KDE 3.2 RPMs for MDK 9.2

2004-02-26 Thread Amichai Rotman
Hi All, Can someone direct me to a download source for KDE 3.2 pre-packaged for MDK 9.2? Thanks, .::. Amichai Rotman, The Jerusalem Linux Club - Founder. "Smart IT people are starin

Re: [newbie] How to read windows CD?

2004-02-26 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 01:07 pm, many eyes viewed Mike Adolf's words:- > Can't enter directory /mnt/cdrom > > fstab entry is: > none /mnt/cdrom supermount > dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 Without supermount, mine has these added:- /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,nosu

Re: [newbie] Another creative spam technique to get by the filters

2004-02-26 Thread Erylon Hines
On Wednesday 25 February 2004 09:22 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > Check out this new spam technique, use the ascii escape sequences in the > html body, within a bunch of innocuous quotations. These guys are > certainly clever, it's too bad they can't apply themselves to more useful > endeavors. > I test

Linux vs Windos WAS : [newbie] Re: Using i486s with Linux

2004-02-26 Thread Troy Thomas Hall
I think you've really hit the nail on the head. Allen/SlackWareWolf/GORE wrote: - Original Message - From: "Robert Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ray Hogaboom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 7:23 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: Using i486s with Linux

Re: [newbie] power pack 8

2004-02-26 Thread et
On Thursday 26 February 2004 05:14 pm, aamehl wrote: > Is anyone still running Mandrake 8? > > Or if not does anyone have a copy of the powerpack for 8? > > I am looking for an rpm that is no longer available elsewhere. > > Thanks > Aaron what rpm??? (remeber the powerpack is not always all GPL so

Re: [newbie] Quiet Tonight

2004-02-26 Thread Lanman
On February 26, 2004 06:03 am, Damian Gatabria wrote: > El jue, 26-02-2004 a las 06:41, Lanman escribió: > > On February 25, 2004 10:44 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: > > > El jue, 26-02-2004 a las 00:40, Greg Meyer escribió: > > > > It's kind of quiet tonight. Everyone must be over at Groklaw > > > >

Re: [newbie] Mouse back in a strage way...

2004-02-26 Thread John Richard Smith
Christophe Rhein wrote: Hello, That's what I get at the USB devices display: USB Mouse Manufacturer: Darfon Unusual manufacture, is this correct ? Class 0 (Interface) Subclass 0 Protocol 0 USB Version 1.16 Vendor ID 0xd62 Product ID 0xa100 Revision 1.0 Speed 1.5 Mbit/s Channels 0 Max. Packet Si

Re: [newbie] Quiet Tonight

2004-02-26 Thread Damian Gatabria
El jue, 26-02-2004 a las 06:41, Lanman escribiÃ: > On February 25, 2004 10:44 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: > > El jue, 26-02-2004 a las 00:40, Greg Meyer escribiÃ: > > > It's kind of quiet tonight. Everyone must be over at Groklaw watching > > > Eben Moglen's speech at Harvard. > > > > Finally, the

Re: [newbie] buzip??

2004-02-26 Thread Paul
On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 16:20, Christophe Rhein wrote: > Hello, > I've got this message when I try to install thunderbird: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] rhein]# ls thunderbird > thunderbird-0.5-i686-pc-linux-gtk2-gnu.tar.bz2 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] rhein]# buzip2 thunderbird-0.5-i686-pc-linux-gtk2-gnu.tar.bz2 > ba

[newbie] Configuring Gotmail

2004-02-26 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I would like to configure Gotmail to fetch automatically my Hotmail e-mail every 5 minutes. Could someone here please help me, in case such a configuration is possible? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul _ It's fast, it's

Re: [newbie] Quiet Tonight

2004-02-26 Thread Lanman
On February 25, 2004 10:44 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: > El jue, 26-02-2004 a las 00:40, Greg Meyer escribió: > > It's kind of quiet tonight. Everyone must be over at Groklaw watching > > Eben Moglen's speech at Harvard. > > Finally, the list has answered all remaining > questions and no one has a

[newbie] buzip??

2004-02-26 Thread Christophe Rhein
Hello, I've got this message when I try to install thunderbird: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rhein]# ls thunderbird thunderbird-0.5-i686-pc-linux-gtk2-gnu.tar.bz2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] rhein]# buzip2 thunderbird-0.5-i686-pc-linux-gtk2-gnu.tar.bz2 bash: buzip2: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED] rhein]# what did

Re: [newbie] Cirque Glidepoint Cruise Cat touch pad

2004-02-26 Thread Christophe Rhein
Hello, I'm using the touchpad on my notebook (compaq nx9005) without any additional driver. Mandrake9.2 installed the touchpad as a standard PS2 mouse. It works great. The only thing missing is the scrolling (I thing it's like the wheel on a regular mouse) that I have with XP. I don't know if it

Re: [newbie] Mouse back in a strage way...

2004-02-26 Thread Christophe Rhein
Hello, That's what I get at the USB devices display: USB Mouse Manufacturer: Darfon Class 0 (Interface) Subclass 0 Protocol 0 USB Version 1.16 Vendor ID 0xd62 Product ID 0xa100 Revision 1.0 Speed 1.5 Mbit/s Channels 0 Max. Packet Size 0 Does it help? Bye Christophe Le Mardi 24 Février 2004 1

Re: [newbie] Mouse back in a strage way...

2004-02-26 Thread Christophe Rhein
Hello, I have this script allready in the XF86config-4 file. When you plug your USB mouse in the usb port ones KDE is running is it suppose to work strait away? Thanks CHristophe Le Mardi 24 Février 2004 11:17, Olivier Esser a écrit : > Christophe Rhein wrote: > > Hello, > > I did what you sad a

Re: [newbie] KDM 3.2 still bites...

2004-02-26 Thread anton
This is just a kludge til you get it figured out, but what I would recommend is not having X start at boot, yeah... the wife wouldn't be very impressed though. She won't let me install linux for her (as a linux only box) yet and I think a text login for my box (which she needs to turn on to co

Re: [newbie] Another creative spam technique to get by the filters

2004-02-26 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 26 February 2004 05:22, Greg Meyer wrote: > > I won't tell you what the message really said, you'll have to get > out your decoder rings for that. So did it get past your filters? Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visite