Re: [newbie] Unreal Tourn. (original, GOTY) won't run after install

2004-04-04 Thread Philip Cronje
Have you tried running it with the Software renderer? Always a good failsafe to isolate problems. //philip pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [newbie] Automatically disconnecting

2004-04-04 Thread Keith Powell
Robin. I would like some more help, please! You say that the WVDIAL binary is on the mirrors for downloading. I run Mandrake9.2 and it's not on my contrib, eslrahc, mpol, NORLUG-9.2, or plf sources. Where is it, please? I have Googled for it and can only find tarballs, not any binaries for

Thank you, it works... Re: [newbie] KDM 3.2 still bites...

2004-04-04 Thread Anguo
On Monday 15 Mar 2004 9:01 pm, JoeHill wrote: cp /citibank/money/* /home/joehill/money Thank you so much! Why this kind of stuff is not better documented? It works for me! Blessings, Augustin -- www.masquilier.org Condorcet, Approval alternative voting. In order to prevent people from

Re: Thank you, it works... Re: [newbie] KDM 3.2 still bites...

2004-04-04 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 04 Apr 2004 10:57 am, Anguo wrote: Why this kind of stuff is not better documented? Because nobody has contributed that document yet. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: Thread view in OE, was Re: [newbie] Audio: Playing WMA (Windows Media Player) Files

2004-04-04 Thread Richard Urwin
On Saturday 03 Apr 2004 11:16 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 11:49:19PM +0200, Weiers Coetser wrote: Apologies for Hi-jacking. I did not know. Now the question is how I set my computer to receive the e-mails in a threaded form. But I suppose nobody would be interested to

Re: [newbie] rar compression software

2004-04-04 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 16:29:28 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's probably just par or par2 (see http://parchive.sourceforge.net/) I don't know about guis cause I just use em on CL, too. I found par2, and I also have unrar, but what to do in a situation where I have all the

Re: [newbie] Re: Follow-Up: About your Internet connection problems

2004-04-04 Thread David E. Fox
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 09:00:03 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: QUESTION = I took this email and others like it to be a scam Is that correct ??? It's a fair assumption. I'd call it a scam. That address at the end of the email is undoubtedly a Mailbox Etc. type

Re: [newbie] IT/workplace Linux orientated books

2004-04-04 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Saturday 03 April 2004 21:44, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 03 April 2004 05:43 pm, Charlie wrote: -What country or planet is that? Possibly Linux has not arrived there yet, but -please tell your friends it is on its way just as day after night. - -Charlie I know, I know, I've been

Re: [newbie] Double Posting

2004-04-04 Thread Graham Watkins
Keith Powell wrote: Yesterday, I posted a request for help with automatic disconnecting from the Internet. Some time later when I next connected and checked my e-mails, it hadn't appeared on the list, but there was a message saying that it had bounced. So I sent it again to see what happened

Re: [newbie] Double Posting

2004-04-04 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 07:36, Graham Watkins wrote: Strange that. I posted yesterday and got a bounce message. I couldn't be bothered to try posting again but later on the message appeared. Nobody replied so I can't be sure if anyone saw it but me. A glitch in the list software perhaps?

Re: [newbie] hosting my own web site

2004-04-04 Thread et
On Saturday 03 April 2004 10:46 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Saturday 03 April 2004 02:23 am, Lanman wrote: Aron Smith wrote: I have a static connection (DSL) and a spare computer any ideas what I can do to set up my on site? mostly need some place to park large files. Don't forget to

Re: [newbie] Instant Messaging with MSN

2004-04-04 Thread obu
Oli üks kena laupäev, 3. aprill 2004 22:40,kui Job Evers [EMAIL PROTECTED] kirjutas sellise kirja: On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 16:36:09 +0100 Katinka Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As most of my friends are using MSN Messenger, I`ve tried to use the libmsn.so plugin in Gaim and a hotmail account to

Re: [newbie] Automatically disconnecting

2004-04-04 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Sunday 04 April 2004 12:52, Keith Powell wrote: Robin. I would like some more help, please! You say that the WVDIAL binary is on the mirrors for downloading. I run Mandrake9.2 and it's not on my contrib, eslrahc, mpol, NORLUG-9.2, or plf sources. Where is it, please? I have Googled

Re: [newbie] Automatically disconnecting

2004-04-04 Thread robin
Keith Powell wrote: Robin. I would like some more help, please! You say that the WVDIAL binary is on the mirrors for downloading. I run Mandrake9.2 and it's not on my contrib, eslrahc, mpol, NORLUG-9.2, or plf sources. Where is it, please? I have Googled for it and can only find tarballs,

Re: [newbie] Connecting to a network with a static IP.

2004-04-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 03 April 2004 03:15 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: -I'll probably go and ask linksys about this too, but first I thought I'd -turn here. - -I want to connect to my network with a static IP. I changed my -ifcfg-wlan0 file, and made sure the ip addy wasn't within the dhcp -range. Then, I

Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared

2004-04-04 Thread eric jackson
- Original Message - From: Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 4:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared eric jackson wrote: Hi, Yesterday I used urpmi to update my 9.2 system. When I booted up I was unable to find a

Re: [newbie] Automatically disconnecting

2004-04-04 Thread et
On Saturday 03 April 2004 02:28 pm, Keith Powell wrote: I have been looking to see if it is possible to get KPPP to automatically disconnect a dial-up Internet connection after a certain amount of time (say, 3 minutes) of inactivity. Having searched all through the various Internet

Re: [newbie] New Mirror Structure coming soon

2004-04-04 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 03 April 2004 11:36 pm, Aron Smith wrote: errors when you try to istall something or update. This will simply be because the paths on the mirrors will have changed, and consequently, your urpmi sources will have to be changed to accomodate this. Does tis mean that we

Re: [newbie] hosting my own web site

2004-04-04 Thread LtCdData
you dont have to only use the spare computer for hosting your website i run run apache (port 80), proftpd (port 21), postfix, ...sometimes teamspeak server(port 8767 udp) and an irc.d (port 6667) and still use it as a desktop tho i do use samba to link the files on both computers so they are

Re: [newbie] Automatically disconnecting

2004-04-04 Thread et
On Sunday 04 April 2004 02:59 pm, robin wrote: Keith Powell wrote: Robin. I would like some more help, please! You say that the WVDIAL binary is on the mirrors for downloading. I run Mandrake9.2 and it's not on my contrib, eslrahc, mpol, NORLUG-9.2, or plf sources. Where is it,

Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared

2004-04-04 Thread eric jackson
- Original Message - From: Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 5:36 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared On Saturday 03 April 2004 14:04, eric jackson wrote: Hi, Yesterday I used urpmi to update my 9.2 system. When I

Re: [newbie] Double Posting

2004-04-04 Thread Keith Powell
On Sunday 04 Apr 2004 12:50 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 07:36, Graham Watkins wrote: Strange that. I posted yesterday and got a bounce message. I couldn't be bothered to try posting again but later on the message appeared. Nobody replied so I can't be sure if anyone saw

Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared

2004-04-04 Thread John Richard Smith
eric jackson wrote: - Original Message - From: Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 5:36 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared On Saturday 03 April 2004 14:04, eric jackson wrote: Hi, Yesterday I used urpmi to update my 9.2

[newbie] Re: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender

2004-04-04 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 04 April 2004 04:32 am, you wrote: This is the Postfix program at host smtp1.mandrax.org. I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned below could not be delivered to one or more destinations. For further assistance, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you do so,

[newbie] OT - Evolution Question

2004-04-04 Thread rluchor
I'm having a problem when forwarding email with embedded graphics: the graphics don't show in the forwarded copy of the email. This was not a problem in the past because the graphics DID get forwarded to the recipients even though they didn't show in my copy, however, recently I'm being told

Re: [newbie] Building a binary from a src RPM

2004-04-04 Thread Marc Resnick
Philip Cronje wrote: On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 01:06:28 -0500, Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It says the file /usr/lib/rpm/rpmb isn't there. So I tried a urpmi rpmb, it installed the rpmbuilder, but I still can't do it. You mean the 'rpm-build' package? What is the 'ls /usr/lib/rpm'

Re: [newbie] rar compression software

2004-04-04 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Sunday 04 April 2004 06:37 am, David E. Fox wrote: I found par2, and I also have unrar, but what to do in a situation where I have all the *.partNN.rar files - like from part01.rar to part59.rar, but no main.rar file? I have pars, but doing par2 r something.par2 just goes through all the

Re: [newbie] rar compression software

2004-04-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 04 April 2004 05:37 am, David E. Fox wrote: On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 16:29:28 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's probably just par or par2 (see http://parchive.sourceforge.net/) I don't know about guis cause I just use em on CL, too. I found par2, and I also have

Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared

2004-04-04 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Sunday 04 April 2004 15:18, eric jackson wrote: snip Anybody know what I need to restore my menu back to the way it was before I updated? /snip 1. as root, run update-menus -v (watch the screen, the command doesn't exit by itself. When no more activity is seen, just press enter).

Re: [newbie] rar compression software

2004-04-04 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 03:37:34AM -0700, David E. Fox wrote: On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 16:29:28 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's probably just par or par2 (see http://parchive.sourceforge.net/) I don't know about guis cause I just use em on CL, too. I found par2, and I

Re: [newbie] IT/workplace Linux orientated books

2004-04-04 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 12:48:23AM -0500, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Saturday 03 April 2004 05:34 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 03 April 2004 11:17 am, Alexandre Dubois wrote: -Not sure what you are after, what is your current knowledge in IT in general -and Linux in particular.

Re: [newbie] foo, master foo

2004-04-04 Thread Andrew Archibald
On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 16:57, Thujan wrote: Can somebody explain what these terms means, foo, foo bar, You might want to check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable Archie. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Mandrake RPM for XPde?

2004-04-04 Thread Andrew Archibald
On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 17:36, The Other wrote: Does 'checkinstall' make actual RPMs? Yes, it does indeed. because I was under the impression 'checkinstall' will make an RPM entry into Mandrake's Software Manager section so everything can be removed from the Uninstall Packages menus. (I'm

Re: [newbie] Re: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender

2004-04-04 Thread Charles Ramsey
snip Is it possible that newbie is subscribed to itself? -- /g Maybe, I got the same message. :) Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] Can't get procmail to forward spam

2004-04-04 Thread Floyd Hagen
Procmail should be invoked automatically over the .forward file mecha- nism as soon as mail arrives. from man procmail. I'm set-up, so fetchmail grabs my email from the POP, passes it to postfix, which handles local deliveries, which sends it to procmail, which processes the mail. I

[newbie] DVD playback question

2004-04-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Okay, I usually can play just about any DVD I want to, between Kaffeine and Mplayer. I've got one now that is doing something I've not encountered before. I've got a KISS DVD, small size, containing about 5 or 6 of their videos. ($5.88 at Wal-mart). Video plays fine. Audio is fine thru the

Re: [newbie] Double Posting

2004-04-04 Thread Graham Watkins
Keith Powell wrote: On Sunday 04 Apr 2004 12:50 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 07:36, Graham Watkins wrote: Strange that. I posted yesterday and got a bounce message. I couldn't be bothered to try posting again but later on the message appeared. Nobody replied so I can't be sure

[newbie] thanks for the help :-)

2004-04-04 Thread Pete Doak
Hi again: I wanted to thank everyone on the list who offered some suggestions for my problem with the Mandrake Community 10 ISO's. I feel like an idiot now. It never occurred to me to try another of the CD's to see it it would boot from that. I put the CD 2 in and it booted up just fine. I

Re: [newbie] DVD playback question

2004-04-04 Thread Lanman
Ronald J. Hall wrote: Okay, I usually can play just about any DVD I want to, between Kaffeine and Mplayer. I've got one now that is doing something I've not encountered before. I've got a KISS DVD, small size, containing about 5 or 6 of their videos. ($5.88 at Wal-mart). Video plays fine.

Re: [newbie] Double Posting

2004-04-04 Thread Lanman
Graham Watkins wrote: Keith Powell wrote: On Sunday 04 Apr 2004 12:50 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 07:36, Graham Watkins wrote: Strange that. I posted yesterday and got a bounce message. I couldn't be bothered to try posting again but later on the message appeared. Nobody

Re: [newbie] Double Posting

2004-04-04 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 17:02:15 +0100 Graham Watkins disseminated the following: Nobody replied so I can't be sure if anyone saw it but me. A glitch in the list software perhaps? Be interesting to see if I get a bounce on this one. I've been receiving these messages recently even when my

Re: [newbie] Can't get procmail to forward spam

2004-04-04 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 15:48:32 -0600 Chris disseminated the following: Yes, I'm a procmail newbie trying to setup procmail to forward my spam to Earthlinks junkmail address. I've setup a $HOME .procmailrc file (below) Heh, saw your post on the Procmail list too! Anyhow, I would take the

Re: [newbie] IT/workplace Linux orientated books

2004-04-04 Thread Ronald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Op zaterdag 3 april 2004 18:44, schreef Ronald J. Hall: Any? Some friends of mine in IT here in this county say there are no Linux refs/books for IT - in other words, how to use Linux in the workplace. Any thing I can point them at? maybe this is

Re: [newbie] rar compression software

2004-04-04 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 10:24:20 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the latter, unrar with unrar e file.part01.rar Todd - thank you. It was that simple. Really it threw me for a loop. Todd -- David E. Fox

Re: [newbie] IT/workplace Linux orientated books

2004-04-04 Thread John Wilson
On April 4, 2004 07:33 am, Todd Slater wrote: snip At the tech college where I work, we have one person that dominates a portion of the IT curriculum. So, if you want to learn about Web publishing, you won't learn any free database or scripting languages, you'll be forced to learn IIS, java,

Re: [newbie] Double Posting

2004-04-04 Thread Graham Watkins
JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 17:02:15 +0100 Graham Watkins disseminated the following: Nobody replied so I can't be sure if anyone saw it but me. A glitch in the list software perhaps? Be interesting to see if I get a bounce on this one. I've been receiving these messages recently even when

Re: [newbie] .mpv + .mpa to .bin + .cue

2004-04-04 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 18:49:59 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've looked at 'man mplex', but I'm not grokkin' it. In fact I'm not even absolutely sure it's mplex I should be using on the .mpv and .mpa. I've had the same thing happen to me when using the mencvcd script. I'm trying now

Re: [newbie] rar compression software

2004-04-04 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 10:24:20 -0400 Todd Slater disseminated the following: file.rar file.r00 file.r01 jeez, I haven't seen that since my warez days... -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ The gambling known as business looks with

[newbie] Spamassassin acting funny

2004-04-04 Thread Hoyt Bailey
When I request kmail to check in messages it may run a while or hang almost instantly. I traced the problem to spamassassin using 94.7 % of the cpu using top. When I kill the PID assigned to spamassassin with signal 15 things work well until done with spamassassin using from 0.3 to 25.7 % of

Re: [newbie] rar compression software

2004-04-04 Thread Job Evers
On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 14:14:07 -0400 JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 10:24:20 -0400 Todd Slater disseminated the following: file.rar file.r00 file.r01 jeez, I haven't seen that since my warez days... My warez days stopped about the same time I installed linux. CoincidenceI think

Re: [newbie] Broken Shift Key

2004-04-04 Thread David E. Fox
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 11:08:29 -0800 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: New keyboard time but first turn it upside down and give it a vigorus shaking you won' believe the crap that's gonna fall out. I usually get about a year out of a keyboard.( thank God they are cheap) I used to have

Re: [newbie] Broken Shift Key

2004-04-04 Thread David E. Fox
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 23:55:33 -0500 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Makes me think of that one PC magazine editor that used to take his keyboard into the shower with him to clean it out (or so he said - I don't think we There's this guy at my local LUG a few years ago - he said he

Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared

2004-04-04 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Sunday 04 April 2004 08:18, eric jackson wrote: - Original Message - From: Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 5:36 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared On Saturday 03 April 2004 14:04, eric jackson wrote: Hi,

Re: [newbie] DVD playback question

2004-04-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 04 April 2004 12:11 pm, Lanman wrote: snip - of it ( No pun intended ). I'm assuming that you don't have problems -playing back other DVD's, so my guess is either a missing codec or -protection technology. Correct - its the first one I've had problems with. -This doesn't help much ,

Re: [newbie] IT/workplace Linux orientated books

2004-04-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 04 April 2004 12:42 pm, Ronald wrote: -maybe this is useful? - -http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-roadmap.html - -regards ronald Thanks, I'll use that! :-) -- /\

Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared

2004-04-04 Thread eric jackson
- Original Message - From: Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 1:58 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared On Sunday 04 April 2004 08:18, eric jackson wrote: - Original Message - From: Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared

2004-04-04 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Sunday 04 April 2004 14:14, eric jackson wrote: - Original Message - From: Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 1:58 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared I had already tried typing mcc before I posted my problem.Bash gives

[newbie] Boot hangs with a usb Hard Drive

2004-04-04 Thread Dennis Myers
I have a ACOMDATA 120gig usb external harddrive attached to this computer. When I boot up that drive has to be turned off until I get lilo action. In other words it hangs right after the bios check and the check of the two CDRom devices. I am missing something here. It should boot up with no

Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared

2004-04-04 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 04 April 2004 03:14 pm, eric jackson wrote: I had already tried typing mcc before I posted my problem.Bash gives me an error that says it doesn't know anything about a command named MCC. how about drakconf. Are you root when you type it? -- /g

Re: [newbie] rar compression software

2004-04-04 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 19:24:18 + Job Evers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My warez days stopped about the same time I installed linux. CoincidenceI think not. Well nowadays, we download moviez :) Job Evers --

[newbie] Attempting to install mplayerplugin for mozilla.

2004-04-04 Thread Hoyt Bailey
I have unpacked: mplayerplug-in-2.50.tar.gz into /usr/src/RPM?SOURCES then ran the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mplayerplug-in]# ./configure checking for g++... g++ checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes checking whether we are

Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared

2004-04-04 Thread obu
Oli üks kena pühapäev, 4. aprill 2004 22:18,kui eric jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] kirjutas sellise kirja: - Original Message - From: Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 10:31 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared On Sunday 04 April

Re: [newbie] Taskbar in Pekwm

2004-04-04 Thread Alaa The Great
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 20:41:10 + Job Evers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed and am using pekwm. I really like the grouped windows feature; a big smile came over my face when I grouped my first windows together. I would like to have a

[newbie] Recording from a microphone in MDK -- Help!!!!

2004-04-04 Thread John Wilson
Hi folks, I seem to have hit a brick wall here. I've managed to get a mike up and working, sound coming out of the speaker and all that. The problem is that whenever I try to record from that mike in Audacity or in Rezonds I get nothing..flatline..nada. In Audacity the input is set to

Re: [newbie] Accessing Secure Webpages: PROBLEM UPDATE

2004-04-04 Thread David
Adding to my original post re possible loss of 2 files: on Fri, 02 Apr 2004 05:28:56 -0400 Adolfo Bello wrote Taylord, could you please post the entire output of /sbin/ifconfig and route -n/ These readings were taken whilst trying to access the login page of my webmail account.

Re: [newbie] Taskbar in Pekwm

2004-04-04 Thread Job Evers
On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 01:06:10 +0200 Alaa The Great [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 20:41:10 + Job Evers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed and am using pekwm. I really like the grouped windows feature; a big smile came

Re: [newbie] menu items disappeared

2004-04-04 Thread Erylon Hines
On Sunday 04 April 2004 07:31 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 04 April 2004 15:18, eric jackson wrote: snip Anybody know what I need to restore my menu back to the way it was before I updated? /snip 1. as root, run update-menus -v (watch the screen, the command doesn't exit by