Re: [newbie] Scribus

2004-03-01 Thread Keith Powell
On Sunday 29 February 2004 21:58, Keith Powell wrote: Does anyone know if there is a Mandrake RPM for Scribus anywhere? Can't find one with Google, only tarballs. I will be with you all in a minute, I'm just in this forest looking for a bit of wood!!! Many thanks to all who replied,

[newbie] Security and upgradeability of MandrakeMove?

2004-03-01 Thread David Meacham
Good morning all, I've been distro-testing and had my eye caught by MandrakeMove, which by all accounts seems to be an excellent piece of work. I have some questions, however, that haven't been answered by anything I've read so far, so I'm hopeful that someone here will know the answers... 1.

Re: [newbie] Spamassassin..... (help!)

2004-03-01 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 01 Mar 2004 05:23, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: On Sunday 29 February 2004 16:55, Derek Jennings wrote: Tks, Derek! but ONE more question! (see below, pls) On Sunday 29 Feb 2004 19:40, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: Hi! I've been using

[newbie] Mandrake 10 RC2?

2004-03-01 Thread Sweeney, Stephen
Hi, Is there any news on when RC2 might be available or when the community release is happening? Cheers, Stevie :) -- This message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the designated recipient(s)

Re: [newbie] KDE restart

2004-03-01 Thread Dave Ashmore
Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 29 February 2004 08:05 pm, Dave Ashmore wrote: I restarted KDE one day while a few apps were running and now everytime I restart cpu/KDE these applications (totem Xmms) restart. How can I fix this it's not a real problem but it's sure is real anoying. I've

Re: [newbie] Strange sound problem

2004-03-01 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 29 Feb 2004 23:40, Mike Adolf wrote: When trying to play DVDs, video is fine but no audio on both Xine and mplayer. So I tried just a CD with Xine, but still no sound. Kscd, however, plays fine and responds to adjustments in both aumix and kmix. What do I look for? mike Audio

Re: [newbie] KDE restart

2004-03-01 Thread Job Evers
Is there a configuration file that controls what programs are run when KDE starts up? On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 21:37:35 -0600 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 29 February 2004 08:05 pm, Dave Ashmore wrote: I restarted KDE one day while a few apps were running and now everytime I

Re: [newbie] Keep losing LAN settings

2004-03-01 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 01 March 2004 01:00 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 01 March 2004 12:13 am, Johan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] internet]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network HOSTNAME=johannes NETWORKING=yes GATEWAY=192.168.1.1 I'm not sure about your setup, but here, using cable-modem service, there

Re: [newbie] Keep losing LAN settings

2004-03-01 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 01 March 2004 12:13 am, Johan wrote: If everything up to now seems as it should be...then...my OS must have one %%##@@ of a bug. Because fedora and suse 9.0 find no problem with same hardware. Please trust there is still something to correctthis would be no problem

Re: [newbie] Get Your License Now!

2004-03-01 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 20:34:58 -0600 jimdawson disseminated the following: From what I've seen of the SCO license, it's so vague that it appears that anyone who uses almost any type of computing equipment would need to purchase a license. How much for a license for my microwave oven?

Re: [newbie] Four Desktops

2004-03-01 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 19:50:52 -0500 Carroll Grigsby disseminated the following: Just keep this in mind: If you see an old bald headed guy with a beard hanging around the local schoolyard, it might just be me enforcing Will's IP rights. ROFL! Thanks Carroll, it being Monday and all, I needed

Re: [newbie] Four Desktops

2004-03-01 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 21:46:23 -0300 Josenildo Marques disseminated the following: Pretty funny, huh? This is ridiculous ! And as I don't know anything about patenting I ask: Is it possible or lawfully right to patent something already created ? Possible: of course. The US patent system is

Re: [newbie] Four Desktops

2004-03-01 Thread Paul
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 14:59, JoeHill wrote: ...and hey, listen, I'm laughing on the surface but crying inside. Unfortunately, the current political climate in Canada provides for two choices in terms of voting: Liberal: We're going to have a pointless and 'outcome-never-in-doubt' discussion

Re: [newbie] Four Desktops

2004-03-01 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 15:11:50 +0200 Paul disseminated the following: Conservative: We're going to do everything the Americans say to do. Isn't it Canada that has banned the sale of Parma ham (from Parma) because a Canadian firm has trademarked the name? Well, trademarks are a whole other

Re: [newbie] Four Desktops

2004-03-01 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 23:26:42 -0500 Lee Wiggers disseminated the following: Much more worrisome is how can someone get by with 4 desktops? Indeed. I've gone as high as 10. ...and of course with PEKWM (shameless plug), I just mousewheel through them lickety-split ;-) -- JoeHill Registered Linux

[newbie] Default Versus Flat Lists On Download CD's - Was Scribus

2004-03-01 Thread Lanman
The fact that at least one list-member is unable to find Scribus on the download CD's for Mandrake 9.1, 9.2, and 10.0, made me wonder how many folks on the list are aware that there are 2 lists of packages on the Download CD sets. Assuming that you normally do your installations using the

RE: [newbie] Get Your License Now!

2004-03-01 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Oh no Joe, you have just gave sco another false source of revenue. www.scowantyoutolicenseyourtoaster.com Look the site is up already. lol -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of JoeHill Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 12:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] MDK9.2 - Cannot access web pages and email

2004-03-01 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 29 February 2004 11:33 pm, Christophe Hannecart wrote: Someone in a newsgroup suggested that iptables was the culprit. I uninstalled it and voila ... it works. If removing iptables solved the problem, then I would submit the problem was shorewall. You didn't turn on the firewall in

Re: [newbie] Four Desktops

2004-03-01 Thread robin
JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 21:46:23 -0300 Josenildo Marques disseminated the following: Pretty funny, huh? This is ridiculous ! And as I don't know anything about patenting I ask: Is it possible or lawfully right to patent something already created ? Possible: of course. The US patent

Re: [newbie] Get Your License Now!

2004-03-01 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Monday 01 March 2004 07:51 am, JoeHill wrote: Actually, that brings up a good point. A lot of 'appliances' use embedded Linux as their 'OS', most notably those firewall/router doodads. Most people would not even be *aware* that the device they are using is based on Linux, and I'd seriously

[newbie] updated

2004-03-01 Thread Charles A Edwards
Updates for 9.2 bogofilter-0.17.2-0.1mdk.i586.rpm sylpheed-0.9.10-0.1mdk.i586.rpm Charles -- Peter's hungry, time to eat lunch. -- Mandrake Linux 9.2 Registered Linux user #182463 Machine: BigBoy #184142 *http://www.eslrahc.com* -- pgp0.pgp

[newbie] Heh. Poor MS. Now it's the Japanese...

2004-03-01 Thread JoeHill
Microsoft's global antitrust woes expanded to Asia on Thursday when officers of Japan's Fair Trade Commission raided the company's Tokyo office as part of an investigation into Microsoft's deals with computer makers. The world's largest software maker also is approaching a showdown with European

Re: [newbie] Default Versus Flat Lists On Download CD's - Was Scribus

2004-03-01 Thread Keith Powell
On Monday 01 Mar 2004 1:44 pm, Lanman wrote: The fact that at least one list-member is unable to find Scribus on the download CD's for Mandrake 9.1, 9.2, and 10.0, made me wonder how many folks on the list are aware that there are 2 lists of packages on the Download CD sets. Assuming that

[newbie] mounting windows hard drive

2004-03-01 Thread Pete Doak
Hello: I'm having a problem mounting a second Hard Drive as a file system accessable to my linux system. I can su to root, and use 'mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hd' and that works fine, except that only 'root' can access the files and folders on the drive. If I try to mount the file system as anyother

[newbie] mounting windows hard drive

2004-03-01 Thread Pete Doak
Hello: I have a windows 98 system on a hard drive that I would like to make avaliable to my linux system. I have installed the drive in the box as the slave drive on the primary ide interface, and would like to mount the file system to gain access to it. I'm having a problem mounting this

RE: [newbie] HP Scanner 4400C

2004-03-01 Thread Adrian Earnshaw
Thanks for all the tips, I shall have a look at Sane first and then if that does not work I will try your suggestion Scott. Regards Adrian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Default Versus Flat Lists On Download CD's - Was Scribus

2004-03-01 Thread Lanman
No Problem Keith. Glad I was able to offer some useful info. Just another suggestion, but you might want to talk to a friend or neighbor who has high-speed and download the CD's for yourself thru them. I didn't realize that you had purchased your set. Must be a set with a shrunk-down list of

Re: [newbie] Keep losing LAN settings

2004-03-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 01 March 2004 07:03 am, Greg Meyer wrote: -On Monday 01 March 2004 01:00 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: - On Monday 01 March 2004 12:13 am, Johan wrote: - [EMAIL PROTECTED] internet]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network - HOSTNAME=johannes - NETWORKING=yes - GATEWAY=192.168.1.1 - - I'm not sure

Re: [newbie] mounting windows hard drive

2004-03-01 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 01 March 2004 20:22, you wrote: On Monday 23 February 2004 16:49, Pete Doak wrote: Hello: I'm having a problem mounting a second Hard Drive as a file system accessable to my linux system. I can su to root, and use 'mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hd' and that works fine, except

Re: [newbie] Default Versus Flat Lists On Download CD's - Was Scribus

2004-03-01 Thread John Richard Smith
Keith Powell wrote: Many thanks, Lanman, for the very useful information. I have printed it out for future reference. Scribus is definitely not on my download CDs. I have looked at the actual rpm's on all of them (not just the lists), and it's nowhere in sight. I must have bought an

Re: [newbie] Keep losing LAN settings

2004-03-01 Thread Johan
On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 07:04:40 -0500 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 01 March 2004 12:13 am, Johan wrote: If everything up to now seems as it should be...then...my OS must have one %%##@@ of a bug. Because fedora and suse 9.0 find no problem with same hardware. Please

Re: [newbie] Keep losing LAN settings

2004-03-01 Thread Johan
On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 01:00:19 -0500 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 01 March 2004 12:13 am, Johan wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] internet]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network HOSTNAME=johannes NETWORKING=yes GATEWAY=192.168.1.1 I'm not sure about your setup, but here, using

Re: [newbie] Default Versus Flat Lists On Download CD's - Was Scribus

2004-03-01 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 01 March 2004 13:44, Lanman wrote: The fact that at least one list-member is unable to find Scribus on the download CD's for Mandrake 9.1, 9.2, and 10.0, made me wonder how many folks on the list are aware that there are 2 lists of

Re: [newbie] HP Scanner 4400C

2004-03-01 Thread Graham Watkins
Adrian Earnshaw wrote: Hi to all, I have just started to use Linux and have chosen Mandrake as my first real foray into the Linux world. I was wondering if anyone has come across any drivers for the HP Scanner 4400C as it is the only hardware I can't get to work. It says that it is supported

Re: [newbie] Logitech Trackman Wheel OK

2004-03-01 Thread Littlefish Operator
On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 15:32:29 -0600, Littlefish Operator wrote This is a stationary mouse with the big red thumb ball. Officially a USB device, it comes with the plug in PS2 adapter. Has anyone gotten this device working under Mandrake? I've been trying to get it configured (as a PS2

Re: [newbie] Default Versus Flat Lists On Download CD's - Was Scribus

2004-03-01 Thread Keith Powell
On Monday 01 Mar 2004 8:01 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Keith Powell wrote: Many thanks, Lanman, for the very useful information. I have printed it out for future reference. Scribus is definitely not on my download CDs. I have looked at the actual rpm's on all of them (not just the

Re: [newbie] Reduce size of Windows partition

2004-03-01 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 01 March 2004 01:54, Marc wrote: YES Anne it does provide a separate home partition. The default install may or may not put everything on one large partition I cannot say from first hand experience, but if you do as I instructed and

[newbie] 10.0RC2 ? anyone?

2004-03-01 Thread Thinker
Hello All, Does anyone have any ideas as to when RC2 will be released to the public? Thanks, -=Thinker Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] 10.0RC2 ? anyone?

2004-03-01 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 15:37, Thinker wrote: Does anyone have any ideas as to when RC2 will be released to the public? I /think/ I remember seeing the Club rumor mill buzzing about March 1st ... hey!, that's today. Wouldn't be surprised to see it show up soon, anyway. -- Chuck Mattsen ...

Re: [newbie] Keep losing LAN settings

2004-03-01 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 01 March 2004 10:14 am, Johan wrote: No this is the workstation with the problem. The gateway is using suse 9.0 I would like to thank you very much for trying to solve this problem. No problem, that's why I hang out here. Unfortunately, I think I am out of ideas. Could this be a

Re: [newbie] Default Versus Flat Lists On Download CD's - Was Scribus

2004-03-01 Thread John Richard Smith
Keith Powell wrote: On Monday 01 Mar 2004 8:01 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Keith Powell wrote: Many thanks, Lanman, for the very useful information. I have printed it out for future reference. Scribus is definitely not on my download CDs. I have looked at the actual rpm's on all of them

[newbie] Logitech optical wheel mouse works!

2004-03-01 Thread Dennis Myers
A past post or two had indicated a problem with 10.0rc1 and or 9.2 having a problem with the referenced mouse. I tried the erratta solution of placing noauto in the boot up using lilo and voila, the mouse works. It is a usb mouse with a ps/2 adaptor plugged into a kvm switch. the noauto has it

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

2004-03-01 Thread David E. Fox
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 19:26:14 -0500 Ray Hogaboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will most likely go with a new combo drive. It will not be a Samsung. It looks like they not support there drive for more that a Toshiba SD-1312 here. DVD/CDrw combo. $130 or less depending on where you go. Ray

Re: [newbie] Scribus

2004-03-01 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 00:07:15 + Marco Verheul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you go to http://www.rpmfind.net/ and search for scribus, you get 21 rpm's. Using urpmi is easier though, because it takes care of all dependencies. Not only that, but with a tarball, you don't get automatic

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-03-01 Thread David E. Fox
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:04:12 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See snapshot386.png I cut it in half to reduce the image size, but the result as you can see is what I got in my browser from your above url. Mozilla should have spotted that as a binary file, and offered you the

[newbie] MDK 9.1 and HP Netserver LH+

2004-03-01 Thread Miroslav Skoric
It makes me wonder if somebody tried to install Mandrake 9.1 on those old HP servers LH+ (Pentium 1 133/166 MHz, 64 MB RAM)? I have a couple of them, at the moment running Windows NT4 Server, serving as PDC/BDC, DNS, WINS, file server etc. In fact, I'd like to use them for the same purpose as

Re: [newbie] Sound Server Fatal Error

2004-03-01 Thread Mike Fehse
Some liberial snipping done below On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 21:18:10 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't exactly see a problem with a newbie using a beta or rc version of Linux. After all, I am here for the experience. I don't really ineed/i Linux. I'm 13 years old and this

[newbie] OpenOffice + K3b

2004-03-01 Thread Dobrescu Mihai
Can you tell me where sre the latest OpenOffice and K3b packages for MDK 10? Thanks! __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you’re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] MDK 9.1 and HP Netserver LH+

2004-03-01 Thread Mike Fehse
--- Miroslav Skoric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It makes me wonder if somebody tried to install Mandrake 9.1 on those old HP servers LH+ (Pentium 1 133/166 MHz, 64 MB RAM)? I have a couple of them, at the moment running Windows NT4 Server, serving as PDC/BDC, DNS, WINS, file server etc.