Re: [newbie] How do I know what version I'm using?

2004-04-10 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 15:19, Marc Resnick wrote: > Phil Savoie wrote: > > >On April 10, 2004 16:33, Todd Slater wrote: > > > > > >>Boy do I feel dumb. I installed mdk on my mom's computer but I don't > >>remember if it was 9.1 or 9.2. How would I find out? I tried uname -a > >>but that doesn't t

Re: [newbie] Simple home network

2004-04-10 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 11 April 2004 12:17 am, John Wilson wrote: ->4. I've yet to run DLink equipment that doesn't work out of the box. For the record: Dlink DWL 650 pcmcia wireless card does not work, except for the very earliest release. Each new release brought different a chipset and they do not work.

Re: [newbie] How do I know what version I'm using?

2004-04-10 Thread Marc Resnick
Phil Savoie wrote: On April 10, 2004 16:33, Todd Slater wrote: Boy do I feel dumb. I installed mdk on my mom's computer but I don't remember if it was 9.1 or 9.2. How would I find out? I tried uname -a but that doesn't tell the release number as far as I can tell. Todd Hi Todd, Try

Re: [newbie] 10.0...shut down problems

2004-04-10 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 17:26, Laura Callier wrote: > Hi, > > OK, I'm going to reveal what a total computer novice I am...I don't know > what a you/etc/lilo.config file is or how to access it. I understand > completely if you don't want to take the time to explain it to me...I'll > find out what tha

Re: [newbie] 10.0...shut down problems

2004-04-10 Thread Laura Callier
Hi, Well, as problems go it's not a big problem...but this is the first linux distro I'm going to try to use..after trying out some others...I suppose I should have tried 9.2 first, but, oh well...this is free (for awhile) :) I guess I'll learn as I go. Laura - Original Message - From:

Re: [newbie] Image viewer

2004-04-10 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 10:16, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Saturday 10 April 2004 05:41 pm, Josenildo Marques wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 16:16, JoeHill wrote: > > > On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 12:35:31 -0500 > > > > > > Tom Brinkman disseminated the following: > > > > I use it as my desktop backgro

Re: [newbie] 10.0...shut down problems

2004-04-10 Thread Laura Callier
I'll try shutting it down several times. And, you're right, they'll most probably fix it with the official release...maybe I'll wait until then to do any tinkering. By the arrow I meant that when I clicked on shut off, the screen became black, but there was stillthe outline of my mouse's cursor,

Re: [newbie] How do I know what version I'm using?

2004-04-10 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 06:33, Todd Slater wrote: > Boy do I feel dumb. I installed mdk on my mom's computer but I don't > remember if it was 9.1 or 9.2. How would I find out? I tried uname -a > but that doesn't tell the release number as far as I can tell. > > Todd Y'are joking, right mate? cat

Re: [newbie] Image viewer

2004-04-10 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 06:23, Erylon Hines wrote: > On Saturday 10 April 2004 12:28 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 03:23, JoeHill wrote: > > > On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 16:55:32 +0100 > > > > > > LtCdData disseminated the following: > > > > am i the only one that uses gqview ... that co

Re: [newbie] Image viewer

2004-04-10 Thread Carl J. Bauman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: am i the only one that uses gqview ... that comes part of the mandrake install ?? No, I use it also. It a pretty good viewer. Fairly intuitive UI with some nice configurable options. Carl Want to buy your Pack o

Re: [newbie] Mldonkey

2004-04-10 Thread Miark
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 13:21:40 -0400, JoeHill wrote: > ...any possibility someone's got the RPM for the older version lying around? > > Meantime, thanks for the tip, I'll check out xMule. I think the protocol has changed enough since the last "good" version of mldonkey that its performance would s

Re: [newbie] bootloader reinstall prob.

2004-04-10 Thread mworkman
On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 15:45, martin brandt wrote: > Quoting martin brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Quoting John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > martin brandt wrote: > > > > > > >Quoting et <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > >> > > > >> > > > >>>OK so /home is a seperate partitio

Re: [newbie] Image viewer

2004-04-10 Thread Marv Boyes
I like GQview, but I've been playing a bit lately with GThumb, as well. Very nicely done and well-polished-- but I favor GQview because its 'Edit with the GIMP' option doesn't fire up another instance of the GIMP, as GThumb seems to insist on doing (though I'm sure, if I were more capable, I co

Re: [newbie] Image viewer

2004-04-10 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Saturday 10 April 2004 05:41 pm, Josenildo Marques wrote: > On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 16:16, JoeHill wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 12:35:31 -0500 > > > > Tom Brinkman disseminated the following: > > > I use it as my desktop background, slide show, > > > > ...and we all can guess what that slide

Re: [newbie] Image viewer

2004-04-10 Thread Glenn
On Saturday 10 April 2004 08:35, Alan Dunford wrote: > Like others on this list running Mandrake 10.0, I had a few problems with > Kuickshow - there is a bug in Qt and I could not get Qt3.3 going. > > However I have come across a very similar picturefile viewer called > Gwenview which seems to do m

Re: [newbie] 10.0...shut down problems

2004-04-10 Thread robin
Marc Resnick wrote: Laura Callier wrote: Hello, New to Mandrake. Installed 10.0 from Cheap Bytes discs. So far all is well except there is no auto shut off. When I click shut off, things shut down except for an arrow. I am able to turn it off by using the power button, but would prefer an

Re: [newbie] vmware

2004-04-10 Thread Edgars Smits
I ended up doing the same to get my XP installed in VMware, using the ISO route, then discovered that I needed to set my CDrom in VMware to "Legacy Emulation", it worked like a charm. ED Klemens Arro wrote: I am installing win98. I made a ISO from win98 CD and told VMware to use this instead

Re: [newbie] How do I know what version I'm using?

2004-04-10 Thread Marc Resnick
robin wrote: Todd Slater wrote: Boy do I feel dumb. I installed mdk on my mom's computer but I don't remember if it was 9.1 or 9.2. How would I find out? I tried uname -a but that doesn't tell the release number as far as I can tell. Does anything come up on the splash screen at boot? You could

Re: [newbie] Crappy Sound, only on Linux

2004-04-10 Thread Marc Resnick
Rory wrote: What version of LAME are you running? It should be > 3.9X. What app are you using to encode? Rory On Saturday 10 April 2004 5:50 pm, John Wilson wrote: On April 9, 2004 10:35 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: I ripped some music off my CDs and encoded it with LAME at 160 kbps(gett

Re: [newbie] Dreamweaver for Linux?

2004-04-10 Thread John Drouhard
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 18:34:02 +0930 Stephen Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use Dreamweaver under windows to manage a number of Web sites. Is there a > similar application in the Linux world? > > SR I prefer Screem. works very good. -- Sat Apr 10 19:08:30 CDT 2004

Re: [newbie] 10.0...shut down problems

2004-04-10 Thread Marc Resnick
Laura Callier wrote: Hello, New to Mandrake. Installed 10.0 from Cheap Bytes discs. So far all is well except there is no auto shut off. When I click shut off, things shut down except for an arrow. I am able to turn it off by using the power button, but would prefer an auto shut off. Doe

Re: [newbie] Crappy Sound, only on Linux

2004-04-10 Thread Rory
What version of LAME are you running? It should be > 3.9X. What app are you using to encode? Rory On Saturday 10 April 2004 5:50 pm, John Wilson wrote: > On April 9, 2004 10:35 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: > > I ripped some music off my CDs and encoded it with LAME at 160 > > kbps(getting ready f

[newbie] Re: 10.0...shut down problems

2004-04-10 Thread Björn Lundin
Laura Callier wrote: > Hi, > > OK, I'm going to reveal what a total computer novice I am...I don't know > what a you/etc/lilo.config file is or how to access it. I understand > completely if you don't want to take the time to explain it to me...I'll > find out what that file is and how to check t

Re: [newbie] Crappy Sound, only on Linux

2004-04-10 Thread John Wilson
On April 9, 2004 10:35 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: > I ripped some music off my CDs and encoded 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

Re: [newbie] Image viewer

2004-04-10 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 16:16, JoeHill wrote: > On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 12:35:31 -0500 > Tom Brinkman disseminated the following: > > > I use it as my desktop background, slide show, > > ...and we all can guess what that slideshow is, you DOM! DOM: Unknown word What is that ? Forbidden language

Re: [newbie] Image viewer

2004-04-10 Thread Aron Smith
On Saturday 10 April 2004 12:28 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 03:23, JoeHill wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 16:55:32 +0100 > >sad sad sad...speed is everything here, mates... We know thats what your girlfriend said ;-) > > stephen kuhn - owner > == > il

Re: [newbie] [ARTICLE]: Scary Stuff: The Once and Future King

2004-04-10 Thread Aron Smith
On Saturday 10 April 2004 10:09 am, John Wilson wrote: > On April 10, 2004 06:00 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040408.html > > I happen to agree with him most of the way down the line, including his > timeline. Where I disagree, and it's only a minor quibbl

Re: [newbie] 10.0...shut down problems

2004-04-10 Thread Laura Callier
Hi Dennis, Thanks for offering your info. Well, this is a fairly new computer...Dell desktop 8300 purchased last fall. Intel P4 2.8 processor. 1 g RAM. 120 g hd, radeon pro 9800. I tried 10.0 on a much older gateway Intel 2 333mhz, 64 RAM...the same thing happened. I tried them with the same

Re: [newbie] Dreamweaver for Linux?

2004-04-10 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 10 April 2004 18:36, JoeHill wrote: > > ...anyone got some skinny on this? Kevin Lynch said during his keynote speech at the Flashforward 2004 conference that the recent addition of Flash support to CrossOver Office from CodeWeavers, un

Re: [newbie] 10.0...shut down problems

2004-04-10 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 11 April 2004 02:26 am, Laura Callier wrote: > Hi, > > OK, I'm going to reveal what a total computer novice I am...I don't know > what a you/etc/lilo.config file is or how to access it. I understand > completely if you don't want to take the time to explain it to me...I'll > find out what

Re: [newbie] How do I know what version I'm using?

2004-04-10 Thread robin
Todd Slater wrote: Boy do I feel dumb. I installed mdk on my mom's computer but I don't remember if it was 9.1 or 9.2. How would I find out? I tried uname -a but that doesn't tell the release number as far as I can tell. Does anything come up on the splash screen at boot? You could also check by l

Re: [newbie] How do I know what version I'm using?

2004-04-10 Thread Phil Savoie
On April 10, 2004 16:33, Todd Slater wrote: > Boy do I feel dumb. I installed mdk on my mom's computer but I don't > remember if it was 9.1 or 9.2. How would I find out? I tried uname -a > but that doesn't tell the release number as far as I can tell. >> Todd Hi Todd, Try cat /etc/redhat-releas

Re: [newbie] Belkin F5D6020 WLAN PCMCIA

2004-04-10 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 10 April 2004 16:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Has anyone had any success getting the Belkin F5D6020 v2 WLAN pcmcia card > to work with Mandrake 9x or 10? I got the card for $10 so I figured I'd > give it a try. > > I found the following page: > > http://www.houseofcraig.net/belkin_ho

Re: [newbie] How do I know what version I'm using?

2004-04-10 Thread Philip Cronje
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 16:33:42 -0400, Todd Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Boy do I feel dumb. I installed mdk on my mom's computer but I don't > remember if it was 9.1 or 9.2. How would I find out? I tried uname -a > but that doesn't tell the release number as far as I can tell. cat /etc/mandrak

Re: [newbie] Python Dependency Hell

2004-04-10 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 09:12:51PM +0100, J.I. Evers wrote: > On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Todd Slater wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 07:15:17AM +, Job Evers wrote: > > > I tried to build a package from source (since I could not find an rpms for > > > pypanel) and it said I needed python-Xlib.

[newbie] How do I know what version I'm using?

2004-04-10 Thread Todd Slater
Boy do I feel dumb. I installed mdk on my mom's computer but I don't remember if it was 9.1 or 9.2. How would I find out? I tried uname -a but that doesn't tell the release number as far as I can tell. Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services fro

Re: [newbie] Multimedia in 10.0

2004-04-10 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 11 April 2004 04:43, robin wrote: > > > but I bet the problem is more along the lines of aRts -vs- alsa > > -vs- OSS. have you set a timeout for aRts? > > Yes (68 seconds). Is this a good thing or a bad thing? > Robin, install kickarts, add a

Re: [newbie] 10.0...shut down problems

2004-04-10 Thread Laura Callier
Hi, OK, I'm going to reveal what a total computer novice I am...I don't know what a you/etc/lilo.config file is or how to access it. I understand completely if you don't want to take the time to explain it to me...I'll find out what that file is and how to check the content and get back to you. A

Re: [newbie] Image viewer

2004-04-10 Thread Erylon Hines
On Saturday 10 April 2004 12:28 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 03:23, JoeHill wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 16:55:32 +0100 > > > > LtCdData disseminated the following: > > > am i the only one that uses gqview ... that comes part of the mandrake > > > install ?? > > > > Nope, I lov

Re: [newbie] Dreamweaver for Linux?

2004-04-10 Thread Klemens Arro
On Saturday 10 April 2004 12:04, Stephen Reynolds wrote: > I use Dreamweaver under windows to manage a number of Web sites. Is there a > similar application in the Linux world? > > SR I don't know if this is what you are looking for but check this http://www.nvu.com (works for my designs, but I l

Re: [newbie] Dreamweaver for Linux?

2004-04-10 Thread Klemens Arro
On Saturday 10 April 2004 20:36, JoeHill wrote: > On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 18:34:02 +0930 > > Stephen Reynolds disseminated the following: > > I use Dreamweaver under windows to manage a number of Web sites. Is there > > a similar application in the Linux world? > > Maybe I was hallucinating, but I coul

Re: [newbie] how to verify that urpmi installed?

2004-04-10 Thread Philip Cronje
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004 22:06:30 -0400, Rory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 m

Re: [newbie] bootloader reinstall prob.

2004-04-10 Thread martin brandt
Quoting martin brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Quoting John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > 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

Re: [newbie] Multimedia in 10.0

2004-04-10 Thread robin
et wrote: On Saturday 10 April 2004 02:52 pm, robin wrote: et wrote: 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 g

Re: [newbie] 10.0...shut down problems

2004-04-10 Thread et
On Saturday 10 April 2004 03:23 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 13:48, Laura Callier wrote: > > Hello, > > > > New to Mandrake. Installed 10.0 from Cheap Bytes discs. So far all > > is well except there is no auto shut off. When I click shut off, > > things shut down except for a

Re: [newbie] 10CE Updates -- Broken?

2004-04-10 Thread Daniel Anderson
On Wednesday 07 April 2004 01:56 am, John Wilson wrote: > On April 6, 2004 07:53 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > > On Tuesday 06 April 2004 09:50 pm, Alaa The Great wrote: > > > 10 Community was overall a great experience and I think its a good > > > idea, but there was a big problem in communicating what

Re: [newbie] Image viewer

2004-04-10 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 03:23, JoeHill wrote: > On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 16:55:32 +0100 > LtCdData disseminated the following: > > > am i the only one that uses gqview ... that comes part of the mandrake > > install ?? > > Nope, I love it too! I'm surprised that y'all ain't using ImageMagick's "displ

Re: [newbie] 10.0...shut down problems

2004-04-10 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 13:48, Laura Callier wrote: > Hello, > > New to Mandrake. Installed 10.0 from Cheap Bytes discs. So far all > is well except there is no auto shut off. When I click shut off, > things shut down except for an arrow. I am able to turn it off by > using the power button, bu

Re: [newbie] Image viewer

2004-04-10 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 12:35:31 -0500 Tom Brinkman disseminated the following: > I use it as my desktop background, slide show, ...and we all can guess what that slideshow is, you DOM! -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ The Unit

Re: [newbie] Image viewer

2004-04-10 Thread Paul
Interesting - I hadn't noticed that. Nor did I know qiv, thanks. Now where is that on the TWiki? Hmm - Desktop Applications? You have such subtle ways... *grin* Paul -- A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour. http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.htm Have you visited ht

Re: [newbie] Image viewer

2004-04-10 Thread Paul
On 04/10/2004 06:18 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: am i the only one that uses gqview ... that comes part of the mandrake install ?? No, I use it as well, but then Kuickshow does the slide show, which is great for getting a good look at a collection of photos. It's to be hoped they get it sorted, beca

Re: [newbie] MDK 10 and Laptop Touch Pad

2004-04-10 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 10 April 2004 12:03 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for the help. I assume that you are refering to these lines: > > * Problem Tap-click does not work on Synaptics touchpad. > o Solution Install Synaptics driver from contrib. Follow the > instructions in the INSTAL

Re: [newbie] bootloader reinstall prob.

2004-04-10 Thread martin brandt
Quoting John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 manne

[newbie] 10.0...shut down problems

2004-04-10 Thread Laura Callier
Hello,   New to Mandrake.  Installed 10.0 from Cheap Bytes discs.  So far all is well except there is no auto shut off.  When I click shut off, things shut down except for an arrow.  I am able to turn it off by using the power button, but would prefer an auto shut off.  Does anyone know if 1

Re: [newbie] Image viewer

2004-04-10 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 10 April 2004 16:55, LtCdData wrote: > am i the only one that uses gqview ... that comes part of the > mandrake install ?? > No, I use it as well, but then Kuickshow does the slide show, which is great for getting a good look at a collect

Re: [newbie] MDK 10 and Laptop Touch Pad

2004-04-10 Thread ibibhef
Thanks for the help. I assume that you are refering to these lines: * Problem Tap-click does not work on Synaptics touchpad. o Solution Install Synaptics driver from contrib. Follow the instructions in the INSTALL file for configuring the XF86Config-4 file. You may also need to loa

Re: [newbie] Wal-Mart music downloads

2004-04-10 Thread Rory
>> I'm exploring the comment early on about > > Jetaudio being able to strip the drm protection. Problem is, it's a > > windows prog and I'm trying to stay out of that side of my computer. > > Can JetAudio run in wine? Ah, I had a momentary lapse in OSs. :) Yes, I should have pointed out the Jet

Re: [newbie] Wal-Mart music downloads

2004-04-10 Thread frankieh
Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, I have followed this thread and found that mplayer will play wma files. mplayer --novideo file.wma Now I don't know if it will play all .wma files but the free one on Walmart site plays nicely. I'm exploring the comment early on about Jetaudio being able to strip the

Re: [newbie] urpmi strategies

2004-04-10 Thread Rory
Rory wrote: > > > Secondly, I'm still deciding if I'm going to stay with Stable or > > > Community when the mirrors are back up next week. In the short term, > > > is it prudent just to update everything from "stable/official" first? > > > > > > Or, will going straight to CE (I'm not going to do

Re: [newbie] Image viewer

2004-04-10 Thread LtCdData
am i the only one that uses gqview ... that comes part of the mandrake install ?? On Saturday 10 Apr 2004 H:35, Alan Dunford wrote: > Like others on this list running Mandrake 10.0, I had a few problems with > Kuickshow - there is a bug in Qt and I could not get Qt3.3 going. > > However I have c

Re: [newbie] Mldonkey

2004-04-10 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 10 April 2004 07:45 am, Miark wrote: ->On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 09:16:41 -0400, JoeHill wrote: -> ->> That's the ticket. They've gone and changed the whole setup for this app. I have ->> to say, I liked the old version a lot better, all those Tux icons and ->> 'eye-candy' are fscking annoyi

Re: [newbie] Unpleasant stigma on Mandrake users

2004-04-10 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 10 April 2004 07:40 am, Miark wrote: ->On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 07:05:07 +0700, Fajar wrote: -> ->> "Because you run Mandrake, you didn't invest the 20-30 minutes that most ->> Shorewall users do in learning about Shorewall during the installation ->> process." ->> ->> Boy, I hate this. -> ->

Re: [newbie] Wal-Mart music downloads

2004-04-10 Thread Miark
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 08:42:51 +0100, Bill wrote: > I have followed this thread and found that mplayer will play wma files. > Now I don't know if it will play all .wma files but the free one on Walmart > site plays nicely. I'm exploring the comment early on about Jetaudio being > able to strip the

Re: [newbie] Mldonkey

2004-04-10 Thread Miark
On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 09:16:41 -0400, JoeHill wrote: > That's the ticket. They've gone and changed the whole setup for this app. I have > to say, I liked the old version a lot better, all those Tux icons and > 'eye-candy' are fscking annoying. I agree--I liked the old more. Actually, since thy pulle

Re: [newbie] Wal-Mart music downloads

2004-04-10 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi, I have followed this thread and found that mplayer will play wma files. mplayer --novideo file.wma Now I don't know if it will play all .wma files but the free one on Walmart site plays nicely. I'm exploring the comment early on about Jetaudio being able to strip the drm protection. Proble

Re: [newbie] Multimedia in 10.0

2004-04-10 Thread Rory
> > > which kernel do you boot to? > > > > I don't know if you were asking Rory or me. I'm using 2.6 - 2.6.3 ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclu

Re: [newbie] Unpleasant stigma on Mandrake users

2004-04-10 Thread Miark
On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 07:05:07 +0700, Fajar wrote: > "Because you run Mandrake, you didn't invest the 20-30 minutes that most > Shorewall users do in learning about Shorewall during the installation > process." > > Boy, I hate this. Just point out that they're elitist-pig bastards who are impedin

[newbie] k3b

2004-04-10 Thread Drew Martin
Hi All, How do I sort this? No support for ATAPI with cdrdao You will not be able to use all your reading devices as copy sources since there is at least one not configured to use SCSI emulation and your system does not support ATAPI with cdrdao. Solution: The best and recommended solution

Re: [newbie] MDK 10 and Laptop Touch Pad

2004-04-10 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 10 April 2004 10:33 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How can I configure MDK 10 to see a tap on the touch pad as a left mouse > click?  I have looked in the MCC, but don't see anything. you have to install the synaptic driver from contrib. See instructions here http://qa.mandrakesoft.c

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

2004-04-10 Thread Philip Cronje
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004 00:17:12 -0400, JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, like, we gotta wait til 2008 before this disappears from the top of the > mailing list? Lucky me: I never even got the e-mail in the first place :P pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [newbie] xD card reader

2004-04-10 Thread Owen Berio
Thanks, I did navigate to /mnt/removable which was defined as a locked directory. When I attempted to open it I got this message, "file:/mnt/removable doesn't seem to exist anymore" Any suggestions on how I should proceed? Thanks, Owen *

[newbie] Belkin F5D6020 WLAN PCMCIA

2004-04-10 Thread ibibhef
Has anyone had any success getting the Belkin F5D6020 v2 WLAN pcmcia card to work with Mandrake 9x or 10? I got the card for $10 so I figured I'd give it a try. I found the following page: http://www.houseofcraig.net/belkin_howto.php But the above link doesn't seem to have all the information I

[newbie] MDK 10 and Laptop Touch Pad

2004-04-10 Thread ibibhef
I just got a new Presario 2100. I read online a lot of success putting Linux on this type of laptop. I first put MDK 9.1 because I didn't know that 10 was released to non members. With MDK 9.1, I can tap the touch pad and it sees that as a left mouse click. When I put MDK 10 on the laptop, the

[newbie] Image viewer

2004-04-10 Thread Alan Dunford
Like others on this list running Mandrake 10.0, I had a few problems with Kuickshow - there is a bug in Qt and I could not get Qt3.3 going. However I have come across a very similar picturefile viewer called Gwenview which seems to do most of the things that Kuickshow does and although it appe

[newbie] [ARTICLE]: Scary Stuff: The Once and Future King

2004-04-10 Thread Stephen Kuhn
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040408.html stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Mi

Re: [newbie] Multimedia in 10.0

2004-04-10 Thread et
On Saturday 10 April 2004 08:46 am, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Saturday 10 April 2004 08:28 am, et wrote: > > hmmm, cause what I read,,,/etc/modprobe.conf is for a 2.4 kernel... > > and /etc/modprobe.preload is the config for the 2.6 kernel > > modules (2.4) == modprobe.preload (2.6) > modules.conf (2.

Re: [newbie] urpmi strategies

2004-04-10 Thread et
On Saturday 10 April 2004 04:08 am, Aron Smith wrote: > On Friday 09 April 2004 11:49 pm, Rory wrote: > > So, I'm just starting to set up urpmi for the first time. Good timing > > with all the mirrors down, eh? :) > > > > I've set up the Updates, as active mirrors seem to exist for them. Is it > >

Re: [newbie] Multimedia in 10.0

2004-04-10 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 10 April 2004 08:28 am, et wrote: > hmmm, cause what I read,,,/etc/modprobe.conf is for a 2.4 kernel... > and /etc/modprobe.preload is the config for the 2.6 kernel > modules (2.4) == modprobe.preload (2.6) modules.conf (2.4) == modprobe.conf (2.6) Be careful in 10.0, because to accomo

Re: [newbie] Dreamweaver for Linux?

2004-04-10 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 19:04, Stephen Reynolds wrote: > I use Dreamweaver under windows to manage a number of Web sites. Is there a > similar application in the Linux world? Personally, I run DreamweaverMX in WindowsXP with VMWare when I *HAVE* to; otherwise, I use Netscape Composer/Mozilla Compos

Re: [newbie] Shorewall & VMware

2004-04-10 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 17:23, Graham Watkins wrote: > Anyone know how to configure Shorewall so as to enable access to the > Linux host by the W98 guest? > > As things stand, I can only see the host from the guest if I shut > Shorewall down. You should be able to "share" the internet connection

Re: [newbie] Multimedia in 10.0

2004-04-10 Thread et
On Saturday 10 April 2004 02:52 pm, robin wrote: > et wrote: > > 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

Re: [newbie] Multimedia in 10.0

2004-04-10 Thread robin
et wrote: 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 reco

Re: [newbie] realtek 8139 con mandrake 9.2

2004-04-10 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 20:26, Gonzalo L. Villarreal wrote: > Hi. Tengo instalado Mandrake 9.2 en una pc con un mother ASUS a7-n266-VM > (obviamente, el que tiene problemas). Tb tengo una placa PCI conectada (aparte > de la realtek) y funcionando en eth0. El tema es que la realtek es reconocida, > ex

Re: [newbie] Dreamweaver for Linux?

2004-04-10 Thread Stephen Reynolds
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 06:44 pm, Charlie wrote: > Only a better one I think:- Quanta Thanks Charlie I'll check it out. SR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandr

Re: [newbie] Dreamweaver for Linux?

2004-04-10 Thread Charlie
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 07:04 pm, many eyes viewed Stephen Reynolds's words:- > I use Dreamweaver under windows to manage a number of Web sites. Is there a > similar application in the Linux world? > > SR Only a better one I think:- Quanta Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524

Re: [newbie] Shorewall & VMware

2004-04-10 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 10 April 2004 08:23, Graham Watkins wrote: > Anyone know how to configure Shorewall so as to enable access to the > Linux host by the W98 guest? > > As things stand, I can only see the host from the guest if I shut > Shorewall down. In rul

[newbie] Dreamweaver for Linux?

2004-04-10 Thread Stephen Reynolds
I use Dreamweaver under windows to manage a number of Web sites. Is there a similar application in the Linux world? SR Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrake

Re: [newbie] realtek 8139 con mandrake 9.2

2004-04-10 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 10 April 2004 01:26, Gonzalo L. Villarreal wrote: > Hi. Tengo instalado Mandrake 9.2 en una pc con un mother ASUS > a7-n266-VM (obviamente, el que tiene problemas). Tb tengo una placa > PCI conectada (aparte de la realtek) y funcionando en

Re: [newbie] Wal-Mart music downloads

2004-04-10 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 10 April 2004 02:10, 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. > > http://musicdow

Re: [newbie] urpmi strategies

2004-04-10 Thread Aron Smith
On Friday 09 April 2004 11:49 pm, Rory wrote: > So, I'm just starting to set up urpmi for the first time. Good timing with > all the mirrors down, eh? :) > > I've set up the Updates, as active mirrors seem to exist for them. Is it > okay to set up multiple FTP sites for one source? In this case,

[newbie] Shorewall & VMware

2004-04-10 Thread Graham Watkins
Anyone know how to configure Shorewall so as to enable access to the Linux host by the W98 guest? As things stand, I can only see the host from the guest if I shut Shorewall down. -- Graham Watkins On the whole, I preferred cats to women because cats seldom if ever used the word "relationship"