Re: [newbie] Signature Scripts

2004-04-09 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 15:27:55 +1000 Stephen Kuhn disseminated the following: Change the part where it says 'New Zealand' to 'Australia' and it should work. ROFLMAO! -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ The US is our trading

Re: [newbie] Signature Scripts

2004-04-09 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004 01:21:29 -0400 RickS disseminated the following: Hey guys, I'm a newbie scriptor also, but shouldnt the first line be: #!/bin/bash with the path and the ! exclamation point so bash knows that its a script ? D'oh! Yup, I think you got that right, otherwise it would

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-09 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 15:25:14 +1000 Stephen Kuhn disseminated the following: And pr0n. Well, that goes without saying doesn't it? 'Sides, Linux, and Mandrake in particular, are highly optimized for pr0n, esp with the low latency kernel :-D Whatever happened to that Mandrake-based pr0n distro we

Re: [newbie] 10 or cooker?

2004-04-09 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 15:23:35 +1000 Stephen Kuhn disseminated the following: Gotta get the girliefriend's box up to speed first - so I can use her box as storage. Um, could you use a different word when referring to your girlfriends computer? I can't stop giggling at that sentence... --

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-09 Thread John Wilson
On April 8, 2004 05:17 pm, Owain Sutton wrote: Extreme newbie here.. I installed Mandrake 10 onto spare space on my main hard drive, which has XP in the first partition. Everything went fine on the Linux side - but choosing Windows from the boot options caused a freeze, with a flashing

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-09 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 16:14, JoeHill wrote: Whatever happened to that Mandrake-based pr0n distro we were going to put out, you know, the one that comes on like 4 DVD's (hmmm, poor choice of words there). I always thought that was a great idea, all you need is the kernel, XFree, video and

Re: [newbie] 10 or cooker?

2004-04-09 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 16:16, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 15:23:35 +1000 Stephen Kuhn disseminated the following: Gotta get the girliefriend's box up to speed first - so I can use her box as storage. Um, could you use a different word when referring to your girlfriends computer?

Re: [newbie] MD10 can't see stuff....

2004-04-09 Thread Erylon Hines
On Thursday 08 April 2004 01:17 pm, Olwë Melwasúl wrote: I would be very angly if my expensive USRob modem was not Linux compatible. I looked in the Mandrake Control Center/Hardware and it sees US Rob/3Com PCI 56k faxmodem Model 5610. I tried to run scanModem, but it errored-out /dev/modem

[newbie] Creating a DVD out of Mandrake 10.0 iso's

2004-04-09 Thread Loon Seong Yin
Hi, I have downloaded all 5 iso's for mandrake 10.0 community, but was wondering if there is anyway where i could actually have these compiled into one dvd. I tried copying all the files from the 3 iso's to a dvd, but am unable to get it to boot or autoplay properly. Any help on this issue

Re: [newbie] Signature Scripts

2004-04-09 Thread David
On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 15:27:55 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 14:20, David wrote: | | #bin bash | echo David Taylor | echo Taranaki, New Zealand | echo on a 100% Linux, Mandrake OS, computer | echo this mails gem: | echo `/usr/games/fortune` | | I've

Re: [newbie] Signature Scripts

2004-04-09 Thread David
On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 01:00:55 -0400 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Friday 09 April 2004 12:20 am, David wrote: | Guys, Gals | | Now that the problem of accessing secure pages is sorted out I've loaded | forture to my machine and wrote the following script: (a first for me, and |

Re: [newbie] Signature Scripts

2004-04-09 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 17:09, David wrote: you have got to be joking, hell I want my machine to work!!! Good point. Heaps of Aussies bludge alot. Ask Franki. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com

Re[2]: [newbie] M$ mail in linux

2004-04-09 Thread hugenots
my tnks to everyone who came with his advice! not speeking about my poor knowledge about instaling programms under linux but I found that Mandrake 10.0 will contain a full featured Kolab server (http://kroupware.org/faq/faq.html) as for now, it is not true, so I wonder WHEN???

Re: [newbie] Changing file attributes

2004-04-09 Thread Andrew Archibald
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 23:19, John Richard Smith wrote: cd /mnt/win_c2/downloads2 downloads2]# ls -a ./ dnloads/ .Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download-CD1.i586.iso* ../ .Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download-CD1.i586.iso.segments* I've no idea why there is a '.' at the start of these file

[newbie] Anyone else get this ?

2004-04-09 Thread Poogle
Subject is [newbie] is that your wife? The image.zip attachment (removed) is identified by f-prot as W32/Netsky and is followed by the usual mandrake message footer. Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from smtp.mandrake.com ([212.85.147.176]) by mta05-svc.ntlworld.com

Re: [newbie] Anyone else get this ?

2004-04-09 Thread Troy T. Hall
yeah I got it too... something popped a virus but AVG caught it. That sender is now blocked.. Troy T. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Poogle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 04:59 Subject: [newbie] Anyone else get this ?

Re: [newbie] install windows without disturbing linux

2004-04-09 Thread Klemens Arro
On Thursday 08 April 2004 22:22, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Windows - rather, all MS OS's - require that they're on the first partition. So, if you make some free space on your HDA and install Windows, it will rewrite the MBR to point to IT as the first partition and likely hose up your entire

Re: [newbie] Anyone else get this ?

2004-04-09 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 19:59, Poogle wrote: Subject is [newbie] is that your wife? Yeah - but my procmailrc+clamav+spamassassin+nkvir-rc+html-trap.procmail and assorted perl modules trapped it, put it nicely away, told me it was there, and I happily deleted it AFTER, of course, saving the bug

Re: [newbie] Kernel Sources for MDK 9.2

2004-04-09 Thread John Richard Smith
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 08:37, John Richard Smith wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 07:42, Tom wrote: It shouild be on cd 3 in the rpms folder. Or you could pull new ones from www.kernel.org. Ok - dig - the KERNELS are there, but I want the kernel sources.

Re: [newbie] Anyone else get this ?

2004-04-09 Thread Graham Watkins
Poogle wrote: Subject is [newbie] is that your wife? (header info snipped) Got it, binned it, emptied bin. You've got to get up pretty early in the morning to catch me out with one of those. In fact it's best not to go to bed at all. Last Saturday, a friend of mine was checking his mail

Re: [newbie] Changing file attributes

2004-04-09 Thread John Richard Smith
Andrew Archibald wrote: On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 23:19, John Richard Smith wrote: lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on .Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download-CD1.i586.iso 'lsattr' is written to adjust the attributes of files on a Linux second extended file system (ext2),

Re: [newbie] Changing file attributes

2004-04-09 Thread Andrew Archibald
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 11:52, John Richard Smith wrote: if I transfered the file to an ext2 file system situation I could then reset the icon attributes of the iso file ? and if so what part to chattr would do that do you think ? or am I barking up the wrong tree I'm pretty sure chattr is

Re: [newbie] Kernel Sources for MDK 9.2

2004-04-09 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 20:37, John Richard Smith wrote: You are right Stephen, I didn't know you wanted to recompile, I thought you just wanted the kernel sources that installs into MCC and gives you preset options to enable/disable certain functions etc. If you send me off list the url's

Re: [newbie] Changing file attributes

2004-04-09 Thread John Richard Smith
Andrew Archibald wrote: On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 23:19, John Richard Smith wrote: cd /mnt/win_c2/downloads2 downloads2]# ls -a ./ dnloads/ .Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download-CD1.i586.iso* ../ .Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download-CD1.i586.iso.segments* I've no idea why there is a '.' at the

Re: [newbie] Creating a DVD out of Mandrake 10.0 iso's

2004-04-09 Thread John Richard Smith
Loon Seong Yin wrote: Hi, I have downloaded all 5 iso's for mandrake 10.0 community, but was wondering if there is anyway where i could actually have these compiled into one dvd. I tried copying all the files from the 3 iso's to a dvd, but am unable to get it to boot or autoplay properly.

Re: [newbie] DVD Writers (Was Creating a DVD out of Mandrake 10.0 iso's)

2004-04-09 Thread Paul
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 14:27, John Richard Smith wrote: I cannot anwser your question , but I am curious to know how well your DVD writer works under linux. DVD writer are becoming cheap enough here in the UK now. John I've been using AN lg 4040 for about 6-7 months (just before

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-09 Thread Owain Sutton
JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 10:56:30 +1000 Stephen Kuhn disseminated the following: I installed Mandrake 10 onto spare space on my main hard drive, which has XP in the first partition. Everything went fine on the Linux side - but choosing Windows from the boot options caused a

Re: [newbie] DVD Writers (Was Creating a DVD out of Mandrake 10.0 iso's)

2004-04-09 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 09 April 2004 12:34, Paul wrote: I've been using AN lg 4040 for about 6-7 months (just before Mandrake 9.2 came out 8-) had no problems at all. Just after I bought it there was a write up in one of the UK Linux comics it came out top

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-09 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 12:42:52 +0100 Owain Sutton disseminated the following: That's pretty much what I did, although I didn't describe it well. I had four partitions, with Windows in the first and windows programs and stuff in the second. The third and fourth were empty FAT32s. I booted

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-09 Thread et
On Friday 09 April 2004 02:14 am, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 15:25:14 +1000 Stephen Kuhn disseminated the following: And pr0n. Well, that goes without saying doesn't it? 'Sides, Linux, and Mandrake in particular, are highly optimized for pr0n, esp with the low latency kernel :-D

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-09 Thread et
On Friday 09 April 2004 02:42 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 16:14, JoeHill wrote: Whatever happened to that Mandrake-based pr0n distro we were going to put out, you know, the one that comes on like 4 DVD's (hmmm, poor choice of words there). I always thought that was a

Re: [newbie] bootloader reinstall prob.

2004-04-09 Thread martin brandt
Quoting et [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Friday 09 April 2004 09:01 am, John Richard Smith wrote: martin brandt wrote: Quoting Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 08:54, martin brandt wrote: After installing a windows boot, i then wanted to reinstall my linux bootloader,

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-09 Thread Owain Sutton
JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 12:42:52 +0100 Owain Sutton disseminated the following: That's pretty much what I did, although I didn't describe it well. I had four partitions, with Windows in the first and windows programs and stuff in the second. The third and fourth were empty

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-09 Thread Owain Sutton
Owain Sutton wrote: JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 12:42:52 +0100 Owain Sutton disseminated the following: That's pretty much what I did, although I didn't describe it well. I had four partitions, with Windows in the first and windows programs and stuff in the second. The third and

Re: [newbie] Changing file attributes

2004-04-09 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Friday 09 April 2004 06:23, John Richard Smith wrote: Andrew Archibald wrote: On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 23:19, John Richard Smith wrote: cd /mnt/win_c2/downloads2 downloads2]# ls -a ./ dnloads/ .Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download-CD1.i586.iso* ../

Re: [newbie] DVD Writers (Was Creating a DVD out of Mandrake 10.0 iso's)

2004-04-09 Thread Paul
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 15:44, John Richard Smith wrote: Paul wrote: I've been using AN lg 4040 for about 6-7 months (just before Mandrake 9.2 came out 8-) had no problems at all. Just after I bought it there was a write up in one of the UK Linux comics it came out top - if I recall it was

Re: [newbie] DVD Writers (Was Creating a DVD out of Mandrake 10.0 iso's)

2004-04-09 Thread et
On Friday 09 April 2004 10:26 am, Paul wrote: On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 15:44, John Richard Smith wrote: Paul wrote: I've been using AN lg 4040 for about 6-7 months (just before Mandrake 9.2 came out 8-) had no problems at all. Just after I bought it there was a write up in one of the UK

Re: [newbie] MP3 players

2004-04-09 Thread Amichai Rotman
On Friday 09 April 2004 00:30, Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 08 April 2004 02:08 pm, Rory wrote: Which MP3 player? I have extensive experience with a number of Rio MP3 players. The Rio Karma has a dock with an ethernet cable to hook up to your network to operate under Linux with issue.

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-09 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 15:15:34 +0100 Owain Sutton disseminated the following: Ho-humnow Mandrake claims that the FAT is corrupted, and won't do any partitioning without wiping the lot. Windows is still OK, though. Any more ideas? Did you get rid of the FAT32 partitions (3 and 4) in XP?

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-09 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 15:15:34 +0100 Owain Sutton disseminated the following: Ho-humnow Mandrake claims that the FAT is corrupted, and won't do any partitioning without wiping the lot. Windows is still OK, though. Any more ideas? as an absolute *last resort*, and this in not the

Re: [newbie] M$ mail in linux

2004-04-09 Thread Ronald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Op vrijdag 9 april 2004 10:52, schreef hugenots: but I found that Mandrake 10.0 will contain a full featured Kolab this is from the mcc on my system (MDK 10) Name: kolab-server Version: 1.0-0.16mdk Grootte: 694 KB Medium: update_source HTH. ronald

[newbie] vmware

2004-04-09 Thread Klemens Arro
Hi, I installed VMware and tried to install windows but VMware didn't find windows CD. I even tried to boot from startup disk, it booted but MS-DOS didn't access to CD-ROM either. -- Klemens Arro My software never has bugs; it just develops random features. Using: Mandrake Linux 10

Re: [newbie] vmware

2004-04-09 Thread Paul
On 04/09/2004 05:28 PM, Klemens Arro wrote: I installed VMware and tried to install windows but VMware didn't find windows CD. I even tried to boot from startup disk, it booted but MS-DOS didn't access to CD-ROM either. Did you remember to put a device driver on the floppy for the cdrom, and

[newbie] Any update site that works?

2004-04-09 Thread Schwartz Avi
Since the switch to the new mirrors hierarchy I am unable to find any sites that actually carry the MDK 10 Community updates. Anyone had any luck? Which site? Thanks, Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] vmware

2004-04-09 Thread Klemens Arro
On Friday 09 April 2004 18:35, Paul wrote: Did you remember to put a device driver on the floppy for the cdrom, and load mscdex.exe for it? I know, back to very basics, but necessary for MessyDos. Paul It was already loaded, if I type A:\setup it tels me that CD isn't ready. I think it is

[newbie] Wal-Mart music downloads

2004-04-09 Thread Miark
Wal-Mart is selling songs at 88 cents a pop, which is a great price, and advertising the songs as being CD-quality. But when I asked a rep, he said they're at 128 kbps. Is it me, or is that CD quality wording a total crock of Shiite? I've used ogg for so long, I dunno how good the MP3Pro format

Re: [newbie] vmware

2004-04-09 Thread Marco Verheul
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 15:28, Klemens Arro wrote: Hi, I installed VMware and tried to install windows but VMware didn't find windows CD. I even tried to boot from startup disk, it booted but MS-DOS didn't access to CD-ROM either. Which Windows version are you trying to install? I installed

Re: [newbie] Some system messages [OT]

2004-04-09 Thread Richard Urwin
On Friday 09 Apr 2004 2:36 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Just was doing some playing around - had a chuckle, thought I'd pass this along to y'all. ... [08:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ man woman No manual entry for woman [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] vmware

2004-04-09 Thread Klemens Arro
On Friday 09 April 2004 21:20, Marco Verheul wrote: On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 15:28, Klemens Arro wrote: Hi, I installed VMware and tried to install windows but VMware didn't find windows CD. I even tried to boot from startup disk, it booted but MS-DOS didn't access to CD-ROM either.

Re: [newbie] Wal-Mart music downloads

2004-04-09 Thread Rory
A LAME encoded 128 cbr song will sound far better than the radio. However, it will also be clearly distinguishable from a lossless .wav file of the same song, so advertising it as CD Quality is nothing short of misleading. I would think that Wal-Mart is selling WMA DRM, not MP3 format (the

Re: [newbie] Wal-Mart music downloads

2004-04-09 Thread LtCdData
On Friday 09 Apr 2004 H:56, Miark wrote: yea 128kbps sux ok for background noise.. no use for real hi-fi sound if thats what they are plugging Wal-Mart is selling songs at 88 cents a pop, which is a great price, and advertising the songs as being CD-quality. But when I asked a rep, he said

Re: [newbie] Changing file attributes

2004-04-09 Thread John Richard Smith
Andrew Archibald wrote: On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 14:13, John Richard Smith wrote: So essentially , as far as icon display is concerned it is almost certainly going to be a viewer setting problem. Yep, suppose that's the long short of it! It all boils down to two lines! I think there is such a

Re: [newbie] DVD Writers (Was Creating a DVD out of Mandrake 10.0 iso's)

2004-04-09 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 09 April 2004 15:26, Paul wrote: Regarding the Twiki - there's nothing to write -works straight out of the box. Good - but if people like John could see that written on the TWiki it would help them make the decision. The TWiki is not

Re: [newbie] Creating a DVD out of Mandrake 10.0 iso's

2004-04-09 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 09 April 2004 14:05, LtCdData wrote: just to let you know... i went out and got a pioneer 107d dvd writer the other day... did my first burn with k3b -with all the extras it looks for - (first time i used k3b) worked fine ))) as ppl are

Re: [newbie] bootloader reinstall prob.

2004-04-09 Thread John Richard Smith
martin brandt wrote: Quoting et [EMAIL PROTECTED]: OK so /home is a seperate partition /dev/hda3 and something is wrong with the lilo.conf entry that prohibits reinstalling it in the usual manner What you have to do now is go back into rescue mode as before and choose consule and when

Re: [newbie] Wal-Mart music downloads

2004-04-09 Thread Aron Smith
On Friday 09 April 2004 04:56 am, Miark wrote: Wal-Mart is selling songs at 88 cents a pop, which is a great price, and advertising the songs as being CD-quality. But when I asked a rep, he said they're at 128 kbps. Is it me, or is that CD quality wording a total crock of Shiite? I've used

Re: [newbie] vmware

2004-04-09 Thread Geoffrey Deasey
I have a laptop that has Winxp and Linux and I would like to use vmware in linux to get to my xp on the other partition, is their a way to do this instead of installing a copy of windows on my linux partition. Thanks Geoffrey -- Geoffrey Deasey VP Systems Netpath, Inc. 2260 South Church

Re: [newbie] Changing file attributes

2004-04-09 Thread John Richard Smith
Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Friday 09 April 2004 06:23, John Richard Smith wrote: Andrew Archibald wrote: On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 23:19, John Richard Smith wrote: cd /mnt/win_c2/downloads2 downloads2]# ls -a ./ dnloads/ .Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download-CD1.i586.iso* ../

Re: [newbie] DVD Writers (Was Creating a DVD out of Mandrake 10.0 iso's)

2004-04-09 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 09 April 2004 15:26, Paul wrote: Regarding the Twiki - there's nothing to write -works straight out of the box. Good - but if people like John could see that written on the TWiki it would help them make the decision.

[newbie] Starting on Boot

2004-04-09 Thread J.I. Evers
How do I start a program when i reboot my computer? I have a computer that I don't physically have access to (but I can ssh into it) and it gets restarted quite often by the people whom I entrusted it too. I would like YASC (Yet Another SETI Client) to run when the computer gets rebooted, but

Re: [newbie] Starting on Boot

2004-04-09 Thread et
On Friday 09 April 2004 01:55 pm, J.I. Evers wrote: How do I start a program when i reboot my computer? I have a computer that I don't physically have access to (but I can ssh into it) and it gets restarted quite often by the people whom I entrusted it too. I would like YASC (Yet Another

Re: [newbie] 10 or cooker?

2004-04-09 Thread Dan Gordon
On April 8, 2004 08:26 pm, et wrote: On Tuesday 06 April 2004 03:18 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 23:12, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday 05 April 2004 12:25 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: I installed 10 yesterday and did 975MB of updates just after i installed. Its working

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-09 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 23:55, et wrote: so is this a fork, or just the new name for the 2.6.x kernel version of the drity old MANdrake version? Nah - it's a phourk. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company

Re: [newbie] Some system messages [OT]

2004-04-09 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 02:23, Richard Urwin wrote: On Friday 09 Apr 2004 2:36 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Just was doing some playing around - had a chuckle, thought I'd pass this along to y'all. ... [08:[EMAIL

Re: [newbie] vmware

2004-04-09 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 01:28, Klemens Arro wrote: Hi, I installed VMware and tried to install windows but VMware didn't find windows CD. I even tried to boot from startup disk, it booted but MS-DOS didn't access to CD-ROM either. Did you add a CDROM device in the configuration editor for

Re: [newbie] Starting on Boot

2004-04-09 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 03:55, J.I. Evers wrote: How do I start a program when i reboot my computer? I have a computer that I don't physically have access to (but I can ssh into it) and it gets restarted quite often by the people whom I entrusted it too. I would like YASC (Yet Another SETI

Re: [newbie] 10 or cooker?

2004-04-09 Thread et
On Friday 09 April 2004 03:37 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: On April 8, 2004 08:26 pm, et wrote: On Tuesday 06 April 2004 03:18 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 23:12, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday 05 April 2004 12:25 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: I installed 10 yesterday and did 975MB

Re: [newbie] Changing file attributes

2004-04-09 Thread Richard Urwin
On Friday 09 Apr 2004 5:43 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Andrew Archibald wrote: On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 14:13, John Richard Smith wrote: So essentially , as far as icon display is concerned it is almost certainly going to be a viewer setting problem. Yep, suppose that's the long short of

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 64-bit Beta 1 SATA questions

2004-04-09 Thread Cotton
Anyone?? Cotton wrote: I have an AMD64 box with a MSI *K8T Neo-FIS2R* http://www.msicomputer.com/product/detail_spec/product_detail.asp?model=K8T_Neo-FIS2R* that has 2 SATA / SATA RAID controllers, the VIA on the 8237 southbridge, as well as the Promise 20378. I have 2 80GB SATA drives

Re: [newbie] Wal-Mart music downloads

2004-04-09 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 21:56, Miark wrote: Wal-Mart is selling songs at 88 cents a pop, which is a great price, and advertising the songs as being CD-quality. But when I asked a rep, he said they're at 128 kbps. Is it me, or is that CD quality wording a total crock of Shiite? I've used ogg

Re: [newbie] Changing file attributes

2004-04-09 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Friday 09 April 2004 12:23, John Richard Smith wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Friday 09 April 2004 06:23, John Richard Smith wrote: Andrew Archibald wrote: On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 23:19, John Richard Smith wrote: cd /mnt/win_c2/downloads2 downloads2]# ls -a ./ dnloads/

Re: [newbie] 10 or cooker?

2004-04-09 Thread Dan Gordon
On April 9, 2004 04:01 pm, et wrote: look at your urpmi sources,,, are they cooker sources??? (do they say 'devel' or 'cooker' in the source tree? Well i went to change my sources the other day to different mirror and it was right about the time of the tree restructuring so right now i have

Re: [newbie] Any update site that works?

2004-04-09 Thread John Wilson
On April 9, 2004 08:44 am, Schwartz Avi wrote: Since the switch to the new mirrors hierarchy I am unable to find any sites that actually carry the MDK 10 Community updates. Anyone had any luck? Which site? Thanks, Avi Try looking at this Avi

Re: [newbie] vmware

2004-04-09 Thread Klemens Arro
On Friday 09 April 2004 22:46, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Did you add a CDROM device in the configuration editor for VMware? What version are you using? What device is your CDROM drive in linux? Yes, I did that. It started working, I don't know how ;) Thanks anyway! -- Klemens Arro My software

Re: [newbie] Wal-Mart music downloads

2004-04-09 Thread Rory
The poor guy working at WalMart for next to no money simply is just mouthing was the sales pitch is and just doesn't know any better. He's not trying to mislead anyone, WalMart is.

Re: [newbie] Any update site that works?

2004-04-09 Thread Rory
On Friday 09 April 2004 5:47 pm, Ronald wrote: Op vrijdag 9 april 2004 23:31, schreef John Wilson: On April 9, 2004 08:44 am, Schwartz Avi wrote: Since the switch to the new mirrors hierarchy I am unable to find any sites that actually carry the MDK 10 Community updates. Anyone had any

Re: [newbie] Multimedia in 10.0

2004-04-09 Thread Rory
I'm having similar problems. The MDK LiveCD recognized my soundcard without an issue (as did two other LiveCDs), but MDK 10.0CE won't recognize it and I just haven't had any luck getting it to work, despite that fact that MDK appears to recognize it. On Saturday 10 April 2004 3:30 am, robin

Re: [newbie] Multimedia in 10.0

2004-04-09 Thread et
On Friday 09 April 2004 09:34 pm, Rory wrote: I'm having similar problems. The MDK LiveCD recognized my soundcard without an issue (as did two other LiveCDs), but MDK 10.0CE won't recognize it and I just haven't had any luck getting it to work, despite that fact that MDK appears to recognize

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-09 Thread Owain Sutton
JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 15:15:34 +0100 Owain Sutton disseminated the following: Ho-humnow Mandrake claims that the FAT is corrupted, and won't do any partitioning without wiping the lot. Windows is still OK, though. Any more ideas? Did you get rid of the FAT32 partitions (3

[newbie] how to verify that urpmi installed?

2004-04-09 Thread Rory
I'm trying to establish if urpmi actually installed the updates that it downloaded. I've checked the urpmi.log, which appears to have every other detail but no confirmation of actual install. Can anyone point me to the right log/file/area? Thanks, ~Rory

[newbie] xD card reader

2004-04-09 Thread Owen Berio
I just bought a Olympus C-740 camera and a card reader. Mandrake 9.2 didn't recognize the camera when connected to a USB port. When the xD chip was installed in the card reader and installed a icon labled /mnt/removable. Properties revealed that it is nonemntremovable Type Mounted Hard Disc

Re: [newbie] Multimedia in 10.0

2004-04-09 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 09 April 2004 07:33 pm, John Wilson wrote: On April 10, 2004 12:30 am, robin wrote: I sit just me, or is multimedia totally screwed up in 10.0? I can't even listen to an audio CD. I sorted out my soundcard after a lot of tweaking some time ago, but now I try to listen to a CD and

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-09 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 09 April 2004 08:57 pm, Owain Sutton wrote: JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 15:15:34 +0100 Owain Sutton disseminated the following: Ho-humnow Mandrake claims that the FAT is corrupted, and won't do any partitioning without wiping the lot. Windows is still OK, though.

Re: [newbie] Wal-Mart music downloads

2004-04-09 Thread frankieh
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 21:56, Miark wrote: Wal-Mart is selling songs at 88 cents a pop, which is a great price, and advertising the songs as being CD-quality. But when I asked a rep, he said they're at 128 kbps. Is it me, or is that CD quality wording a total crock of Shiite?

Re: [newbie] Wal-Mart music downloads

2004-04-09 Thread frankieh
Rory wrote: The poor guy working at WalMart for next to no money simply is just mouthing was the sales pitch is and just doesn't know any better. He's not trying to mislead anyone, WalMart is.

Re: [newbie] Starting on Boot

2004-04-09 Thread Glenn
On Friday 09 April 2004 11:55, J.I. Evers wrote: How do I start a program when i reboot my computer? I have a computer that I don't physically have access to (but I can ssh into it) and it gets restarted quite often by the people whom I entrusted it too. I would like YASC (Yet Another SETI

[newbie] Crappy Sound, only on Linux

2004-04-09 Thread Marc Resnick
I ripped some music off my CDs andencoded it with LAME at 160 kbps(getting ready for when my iPod comes). When I play it on my MDK 10.0 system, it sounds fuzzy and like it was encoded at 16 kbps. When I booted in Windows and played it, it was fine...almost CD Quality? Can anyone lend me