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

2004-04-11 Thread Charlie
On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 06:03 pm, many eyes viewed robin's words:- > > I'm not quite sure what you mean by "things shut down except for an > > arrow", but I'm having a similar problem. It doesn't bother me that > > much, because I rarely shut down, but when I click to shutdown in KDE, I > > usually hav

Re: [newbie] Image viewer

2004-04-11 Thread Charlie
On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 06:23 am, many eyes viewed Erylon Hines's words:- > > I'm surprised that y'all ain't using ImageMagick's "display" for quick > > viewing of images...sad sad sad...speed is everything here, mates... > > > > stephen kuhn - owner > > My choice also. And, it is also a simple-to-use

Re: [newbie] Simple home network

2004-04-11 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 11 April 2004 05:14 pm, John Wilson wrote: > On April 11, 2004 06:58 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > One caveat, Steve. We had a telephone wire going round the outside of > > the house like that. One day we had a thunderstorm, lightning found > > the cable, and the whole system (including a

Re: [newbie] Simple home network

2004-04-11 Thread Steve Kaurfman
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 11 April 2004 14:22, Steve Kaurfman wrote: Greg, What about having the cable run on the outside of the house for the office? They should be able to split it where it comes into the house on the outside. My

Re: [newbie] updates mdk 10

2004-04-11 Thread Rory
And so in the new tree, does this folder in the Community section become the equivalent of CD4? ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/mandrake/Mandrakelinux/devel/community/contrib/i586 It's basically the same as this folder in the Cooker section (without the bleeding-edge updates), righ

Re: [newbie] Simple home network

2004-04-11 Thread John Wilson
On April 11, 2004 11:37 am, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Sunday 11 April 2004 09:22 am, Steve Kaurfman wrote: > > What about having the cable run on the outside of the house for the > > office? They should be able to split it where it comes into the house on > > the outside. My home has a box on the outs

Re: [newbie] Simple home network

2004-04-11 Thread John Wilson
On April 11, 2004 06:58 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > One caveat, Steve. We had a telephone wire going round the outside of > the house like that. One day we had a thunderstorm, lightning found > the cable, and the whole system (including a mini-switchboard setup) > was fried. > > Anne My guess,

Re: [newbie] updates mdk 10

2004-04-11 Thread Rory
Okay, I just checked the following for updates: Official Branch: urpmi.addmedia main ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/mandrake/Mandrakelinux/official/current/i586/Mandrake/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz There was nothing to update on my computer, so I removed Main (which I think I'm

Re: [newbie] IP address converter?

2004-04-11 Thread rikona
Hello Greg, Wednesday, April 7, 2004, 5:22:41 PM, you wrote: GM> On Wednesday 07 April 2004 07:56 pm, rikona wrote: >> RU> The IP address refers to the address of the machine through a >> particular RU> network port. >> >> RU> The Ethernet address refers to a particular network card. >> >> I'm no

Re: [newbie] IP address converter?

2004-04-11 Thread rikona
Hello Richard, Thursday, April 8, 2004, 12:08:53 AM, you wrote: RU> There is no relationship between the two numbers. If you were to RU> change the NIC card in the computer the IP address would remain RU> the same and the MAC address would change. I see the difference now. RU> Why? using the M

Re: [newbie] updates mdk 10

2004-04-11 Thread Rory
Thanks, Ronald. On Sunday 11 April 2004 3:15 pm, Ronald wrote: > Op zondag 11 april 2004 19:28, schreef Rory: > > SInce easyurpmi doesn't have updated mirrors and I'm new to this urpmi > > thing, I just want to confirm: > > > > Would this be the path to the new Stable branch that I should be setti

[newbie] Midnight Commander Colours

2004-04-11 Thread Stephen Kuhn
Colors The Midnight Commander will try to detect if your terminal supports color using the terminal database and your terminal name. Sometimes it gets confused, so you may force color mode or disable color mode using the -c and -b flag respectively. If the

Re: [newbie] updates mdk 10

2004-04-11 Thread Ronald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Op zondag 11 april 2004 19:28, schreef Rory: > SInce easyurpmi doesn't have updated mirrors and I'm new to this urpmi > thing, I just want to confirm: > > Would this be the path to the new Stable branch that I should be setting up > as "Main"? I did

Re: [newbie] Image viewer

2004-04-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 11 April 2004 08:02 pm, robin wrote: ->> DOM == Dirty Old Man. Synonyms include reprobate, lecher, pervert. In Brazil, ->> they can be found strolling along the incredible beautiful beaches staring at ->> the even more incredible female occupants. Or so I've heard. -> ->And here was i

Re: [newbie] Midnight Commander

2004-04-11 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 23:32, Aron Smith wrote: > Anyone know how to change the default back ground color of midnight commander > away from that unreadable blue? You can fire it up with mc -b ...which will be a black/white shell... stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra

Re: [newbie] Simple home network

2004-04-11 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 11 April 2004 09:22 am, Steve Kaurfman wrote: > What about having the cable run on the outside of the house for the > office? They should be able to split it where it comes into the house on > the outside. My home has a box on the outside with 3 or 4 connections > for different runs. Coa

[newbie] Realtek ALC650 & NO DVD sound!!!

2004-04-11 Thread Tim
I'm real new to the Linux world. For the past month I've been playing around with MDK 10.0, trying to accomplish ALL the same tasks I can currently perform on my Win2K machine. I've been following this list for a little over a month and haven't seen a solution to my problem. PROBLEM: In Xine

[newbie] USB

2004-04-11 Thread David Williams
My USB ports used to work and then stopped. I get an error message on boot with something like INIT USB cont (usb.ohci) /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernal/drivers/usb/usb-ochi.0.gz incorrect mod param or invalid IO or IRQ Init_module: no such device dmesg log has this in it. usb.c: registered ne

[newbie] RAID setup

2004-04-11 Thread Cotton
I have 10CE on a smaller 13GB disk, and I'd like to move it over onto 2 80GB disks that I want to mirror... now, the 2 80GB disks are hda and hdb, they show up in diskdrake just great. Right now i have a 6gb / and a 9gb /home, I suppose I'd just like to make those partitions much larger and mo

[newbie] Challenge/Response Spam Black

2004-04-11 Thread Rory
Anyone know of a C/R-based Spam system on Linux, that is driven by White Lists/Blacks and Email verifications to demonstrate the sender is live? This approach has been far more successful for me than these "sophisticated" filter systems, which always generate false positives and which spammers

Re: [newbie] updates mdk 10

2004-04-11 Thread Rory
SInce easyurpmi doesn't have updated mirrors and I'm new to this urpmi thing, I just want to confirm: Would this be the path to the new Stable branch that I should be setting up as "Main"? ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/mandrake/Mandrakelinux/official/current/i586/Mandrake/RPMS

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

2004-04-11 Thread Laura Callier
OK, thanks for the very detailed instructions...never had to do this with windows before, so this is a little new to me. laura On 4/11/04 8:47 AM, "Margot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Charlie wrote: >> On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 01:48 pm, many eyes viewed Laura Callier's words:- >> >>> Hello, >>

[newbie] Sound System and System Bell issues

2004-04-11 Thread Paolo Tavazzani
Hi all, I'm having two problems with audio in my mandrake 10.0 community installation. First my configuration: I have a SB Audigy Platinum EX card (the SB Audigy standard card with the external connectors box). I've configured ALSA with "snd-emu10k1" driver (from Sound Configuration tool). The

[newbie] Spamassassin and Bayes: I must be missing something

2004-04-11 Thread Adolfo Bello
Hi: I am using Spamassassin version 2.63 (spamd and spamc invoked by procmail) installed from 10CE cd and it is only catching around 20% of spams, which in my case means that is missing between 60-70 spams a day. Since missing that large percent of spams is something that is only happening to me,

Re: [newbie] Image viewer

2004-04-11 Thread robin
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 background, slide show, ...and we all can guess what that slidesh

[newbie] Error messages from konqueror

2004-04-11 Thread Hoyt Bailey
The following error messages were received in a terminal while running konqueror as root and transfering MP3 files from CD to music. I am concerned with the authentication errors. What do they mean & what should I do about them? [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]# konqueror Session management error: Aut

[newbie] Ballmer: no regrets about security flaws

2004-04-11 Thread JoeHill
Oh, this guy is some piece of work: liar, thief, a whole whack of personality disorders goin' on here. Check this out: "After a few introductory questions about how security issues had affected Microsoft's bottom line and Ballmer personally (his family and friends don't like browser hijacking and

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

2004-04-11 Thread Margot
Charlie wrote: On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 01:48 pm, many eyes viewed Laura Callier's words:- 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 us

Re: [newbie] Simple home network

2004-04-11 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 11 April 2004 14:22, Steve Kaurfman wrote: > > Greg, > > What about having the cable run on the outside of the house for the > office? They should be able to split it where it comes into the house > on the outside. My home has a box on the ou

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

2004-04-11 Thread Olwë Melwasúl
Hoyt Bailey wrote: I have a USR 5610B works great. If you have wvdial.conf use it otherwise run setserial (CLI). The U.S. Robotics 5610 is compatable with Linux. I went through all 8 choices on the Mandrake Control Center/New Connection. It hesitates before presenting me the 8 choices proba

[newbie] Midnight Commander

2004-04-11 Thread Aron Smith
Anyone know how to change the default back ground color of midnight commander away from that unreadable blue? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Simple home network

2004-04-11 Thread Steve Kaurfman
Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 10 April 2004 09:47 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Questions: 1. Has anyone used any of this hardware? I tend to use Netgear stuff, but it seems to me that it is all pretty good, exspecially if you don't mix and match brands between the router a

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

2004-04-11 Thread Phil Savoie
On April 11, 2004 02:20, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > 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 ou

Re: [newbie] Installing from a RW

2004-04-11 Thread Stephen Reynolds
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004 02:05 pm, Paul Smith wrote: > Greg is right! I have just installed Mdk 10 with cdrws and, in fact, cd1 > does not boot (well, at least on my computer...). There a trick to > overcome the problem: Boot from disc #2, then follow the prompts. Steve _

Re: [newbie] bootloader reinstall prob.

2004-04-11 Thread Frank
Hi My mail seems to be getting returned a lot lately though it also appears to get through, not sure where the problem is. As to editing lilo, be sure you are convinced of what you are doing, try the following: At a command konsole, sign in as su: $su Password Then: #vim /etc/lilo.conf Ke

Re: [newbie] Installing from a RW

2004-04-11 Thread Paul Smith
Nothing worked with the mdk10 isos, but when i tried burning my old mdk 9.2 iso onto one of the same discs i used for mdk 10, it booted from it.. Perhaps my iso is bad? I dled it from ftp, they cant all be bad..? The first disk of 10.0 doesn't boot on some drives. It looks like you have one of th

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

2004-04-11 Thread Stephen Reynolds
On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 08:50 am, Marc Resnick wrote: > $ cat /etc/mandrake-release [EMAIL PROTECTED] steve]$ cat /etc/mandrake-release Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Cooker) for i586 Oops... How did that happen? I wanted a reasonably stable installation, how did I end up with a Cooker installation?

[newbie] updates mdk 10

2004-04-11 Thread Ronald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey all, FWIW, just had 64 megs updates for MDK 10 using the proxad server ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/ looks like this server is in good condition, its on easy urpmi to regards ronald - -- Registered Linux User 163597 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

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

2004-04-11 Thread Charlie
On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 01:48 pm, many eyes viewed Laura Callier's words:- > 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

Re: [newbie] Image viewer

2004-04-11 Thread Philip Cronje
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 20:32:49 -0400, Marv Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I _really_ want to try, though, and have been trying to for months, > is PixiePlus. I can't get it to run on my system, either compiled form > source or installed from dedicated Mandrake 9.2 RPMs, because it insists

Re: [newbie] Image viewer

2004-04-11 Thread John Wilson
On April 11, 2004 02:33 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 18:36, John Wilson wrote: > YES I'M A PERV AND CAN'T RESIST GOOD PORN. > I'm a man. Can't help it. > There, there, there. Don't you feel better now that you have that off your chest? Or whatever other part of your anatomy i

Re: [newbie] Image viewer

2004-04-11 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 18:36, John Wilson wrote: > On April 10, 2004 09:24 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > > Good point. Not like I'd actually admit to being a perv. > > > Just hint at it, eh Mate? :) > > ttfn > > John YES I'M A PERV AND CAN'T RESIST GOOD PORN. I'm a man. Can't help it. stephen kuh

Re: [newbie] Image viewer

2004-04-11 Thread M.Schild
> > DOM == Dirty Old Man. Synonyms include reprobate, lecher, pervert. In > > Brazil, they can be found strolling along the incredible beautiful > > beaches staring at the even more incredible female occupants. Or so I've > > heard. I have seen the male occupants and yes, they are incredible too

Re: [newbie] Image viewer

2004-04-11 Thread John Wilson
On April 10, 2004 09:24 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > Good point. Not like I'd actually admit to being a perv. > Just hint at it, eh Mate? :) ttfn John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

Re: [newbie] Simple home network

2004-04-11 Thread John Wilson
On April 10, 2004 10:49 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > 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