Re: [newbie] Took the plunge - CUZ I HAD TO

2004-04-25 Thread Tina
and BTW, for whatever reason, I don't see any of my girlfriends posts - y'all seem to have seen them, but not me (er, that could be a good thing I reckon) (g) stephen kuhn - owner thats prolly cuz there are none I´m juz lurking around keeping an eye on yu

Re: [newbie] Took the plunge - CUZ I HAD TO

2004-04-25 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 25 Apr 2004 3:58 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Besides, I'm a traditionalist; sendmail has been part of *NIX for quite a long time and well, I don't see why it SHOULDN'T be used because of it's, well, age...(g) You don't bother with the M4 macros then, Stephen? -- Richard Urwin

Re: [newbie] Took the plunge - CUZ SHE MADE ME

2004-04-25 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 18:30, Tina wrote: and BTW, for whatever reason, I don't see any of my girlfriends posts - y'all seem to have seen them, but not me (er, that could be a good thing I reckon) (g) stephen kuhn - owner thats prolly cuz there are none I´m juz lurking around keeping

Re: [newbie] Another Xfce convert!

2004-04-25 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 25 Apr 2004 4:59 am, Marv Boyes wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 12:09, Marv Boyes wrote: My only gripe is that I can't figure out how to make a particular window always on top-- it's the one feature of KDE I really miss. Xfce's panel will do it; does anybody know

Re: [newbie] Took the plunge - CUZ I HAD TO

2004-04-25 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 19:04, Richard Urwin wrote: On Sunday 25 Apr 2004 3:58 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Besides, I'm a traditionalist; sendmail has been part of *NIX for quite a long time and well, I don't see why it SHOULDN'T be used because of it's, well, age...(g) You don't bother with

[newbie] default browser

2004-04-25 Thread Paul Kaplan
Where do I set the default browswer to use for embeded links for kmail in mdk 10? It is currently set as mozilla and I'd much prefer konqueror. TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] default browser

2004-04-25 Thread Amichai Rotman
On Sunday 25 April 2004 12:51, Paul Kaplan wrote: Where do I set the default browswer to use for embeded links for kmail in mdk 10? It is currently set as mozilla and I'd much prefer konqueror. TIA Paul Simple, in the K Menu: Configuration -- KDE -- Components -- File Associations enter

Re: [newbie] Took the plunge - CUZ I HAD TO

2004-04-25 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 25 Apr 2004 10:15 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 19:04, Richard Urwin wrote: On Sunday 25 Apr 2004 3:58 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Besides, I'm a traditionalist; sendmail has been part of *NIX for quite a long time and well, I don't see why it SHOULDN'T be used

Re: [newbie] default browser

2004-04-25 Thread Paul Kaplan
That certainly causes konqueror to open, but I then get an error message: The file or folder URL does not exist. However, if I clear the dialog box and then click on the Go button, I am taken to URL. Shouldn't I be able to get right through to the URL? P On Sunday 25 April 2004 05:54 am,

[newbie]

2004-04-25 Thread Benedetto Santarella

[newbie] Windows LiLo

2004-04-25 Thread JRH
Hi all. Until a week ago, Windows used to share my HDD alongside Linux. Then, last weekend, MS-DOS decided it was going to ruin my Linux install (with a little help from me inadvertently I guess!). I have tried to survive without a Windows partition, but In reality, I cant. I have loaded up

Re: [newbie] Took the plunge - CUZ I HAD TO

2004-04-25 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 19:57, Richard Urwin wrote: Good for you. I was doing that on SunOS4.1 I selected Postfix for Linux without a backward glance. Check out the first paragraph of chapter 18 of the Linux Network Admins Guide. (tldp or O'Reilly) When I upgrade this workstation/server to

Re: [newbie] Windows LiLo

2004-04-25 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 21:06, JRH wrote: Hi all. Until a week ago, Windows used to share my HDD alongside Linux. Then, last weekend, MS-DOS decided it was going to ruin my Linux install (with a little help from me inadvertently I guess!). I have tried to survive without a Windows

[newbie] ARTICLE: Does this bloke work for Microsoft FUD specialists?

2004-04-25 Thread Stephen Kuhn
JoePill, I know you'll dig this one...ahem... http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/235 stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- *

Re: [newbie] Windows LiLo

2004-04-25 Thread JRH
On Sunday 25 Apr 2004 12:28, Stephen Kuhn wrote: JRH After you edited the /etc/lilo.conf - did you re-run lilo? Ahh hold up Stephen. I used the GUI tool to alter things. looks like it hasnt saved it! I've noticed it has a habit of doing stuff like that, for example, when I copy

Re: [newbie] Took the plunge - CUZ SHE MADE ME

2004-04-25 Thread Anders Lind
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 19:06:11 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Woman: Can't live with'em - and - can't live with'em Can't live with'em - and - can't kill'em Can't live with'em - and - can't sell'em man women segmentation fault (core dumped)

[newbie] APT for Mandrake

2004-04-25 Thread Keith Powell
I have downloaded APT from Mandrake10 Contrib, and have tried to get it working. It attempts to access the APT repository at Sunet, but says it can't. Does anyone know if APT is now back with Mandrake? It used to be and then disappeared. If so, where is the repository, please? Even if it does

Re: [newbie] Took the plunge - CUZ SHE MADE ME

2004-04-25 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 21:50, Anders Lind wrote: On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 19:06:11 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Woman: Can't live with'em - and - can't live with'em Can't live with'em - and - can't kill'em Can't live with'em - and - can't sell'em man women segmentation

[newbie] Windows and LiLo

2004-04-25 Thread JRH
Stephen, Did as you suggested, and still no joy! I select windows at the lilo screen, and it just hangs there now have to use the reset switch to get it back again. I have pasted my lilo.conf file contents below. Doubtless to say, I'm doing something wrong here... but what?? :-)

[newbie] (OT) Brother MFC-8500

2004-04-25 Thread Lee Wiggers
Anyone have experience with this multi-function printer/fax, etc with 9.2 or 10. My fax died Friday and I can pick this one up cheap. Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] MS: We know we suck, and we don't really care.

2004-04-25 Thread frankieh
Lanman wrote: Frankie; Heads Up! frankieh wrote: Lanman wrote: FrankieH; Don't forget that Linux is gaining a lot of popularity and momentum. That alone, will push a lot of software companies to seriously consider coming out with re-worked versions of their apps, and many are already doing

Re: [newbie] Windows and LiLo

2004-04-25 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 22:21, JRH wrote: Stephen, Did as you suggested, and still no joy! I select windows at the lilo screen, and it just hangs there now have to use the reset switch to get it back again. I have pasted my lilo.conf file contents below. Doubtless to say, I'm

Re: [newbie] Took the plunge - CUZ I HAD TO

2004-04-25 Thread frankieh
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 00:10, frankieh wrote: I was a big redhat fan from 4.x to 6.2, then I changed to mandake and haven't looked back. 1.) This is an ancient ancient post sorry, dude, sympa apparently sucks. 2.) I started with Slackware 1, then RH Haloween I started

Re: [newbie] Access Denied

2004-04-25 Thread Frank Bax
At 11:26 PM 4/24/04, Aron Smith wrote: On Saturday 24 April 2004 08:09 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Saturday 24 April 2004 07:45 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 10:12, Aron Smith wrote: Wheel sudo? User the MCC User Manager to put yourself into the group called wheel and

Re: [newbie] Took the plunge - CUZ SHE MADE ME

2004-04-25 Thread franki
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 21:50, Anders Lind wrote: On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 19:06:11 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Woman: Can't live with'em - and - can't live with'em Can't live with'em - and - can't kill'em Can't live with'em - and - can't sell'em man women

Re: [newbie] Took the plunge - CUZ I HAD TO

2004-04-25 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 22:38, frankieh wrote: 5.) I LIKE my sendmail. Nyah! No accounting for Taste or Logic apparently :-) Ahem - er, Frankie, remember to what country I moved...eh? ...care to restate that? (g) stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer

Re: [newbie] (OT) Brother MFC-8500

2004-04-25 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 18:33, Lee Wiggers wrote: Anyone have experience with this multi-function printer/fax, etc with 9.2 or 10. My fax died Friday and I can pick this one up cheap. Lee sarcasm biNO/b/i /sarcasm stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra

Re: [newbie] Took the plunge - CUZ SHE MADE ME

2004-04-25 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 22:44, franki wrote: [05:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ man butt No manual entry for butt stephen kuhn - owner Your a sick puppy Stephen, I'm proud of you Thought about that on the last visit to King's Cross in Sydney...on the train...tried to hide the chuckling

[newbie] Re: Mozilla fonts

2004-04-25 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Stephen Kuhn wrote: Anyway, thanks for suggestions. Case there is a solution for other similar installations (like Netscape or like) for KDE, any pointer would be apreciated. Misko Why not just use MozillaFirebird instead? Looks beautiful mate. stephen kuhn - owner Stephen, because I need both

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Does this bloke work for Microsoft FUD specialists?

2004-04-25 Thread Richard Urwin
On Sunday 25 Apr 2004 12:38 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: JoePill, I know you'll dig this one...ahem... http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/235 Very biased and FUD but he does make a few good points. Most of which have already been covered by our favourite distro. For Joe Public automated

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Does this bloke work for Microsoft FUD specialists?

2004-04-25 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 23:11, Richard Urwin wrote: Now is not the time to rest on our laurels. Hence maintaining constant vigilance and constantly looking for holes in our own boxes... stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company

Re: [newbie] Re: Mozilla fonts

2004-04-25 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 23:09, Miroslav Skoric wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: Anyway, thanks for suggestions. Case there is a solution for other similar installations (like Netscape or like) for KDE, any pointer would be apreciated. Misko Why not just use MozillaFirebird instead?

Re: [newbie] Took the plunge - CUZ I HAD TO

2004-04-25 Thread frankieh
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 22:38, frankieh wrote: 5.) I LIKE my sendmail. Nyah! No accounting for Taste or Logic apparently :-) Ahem - er, Frankie, remember to what country I moved...eh? ...care to restate that? (g) stephen kuhn - owner Not at all, if anything that

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

2004-04-25 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Mike Fehse wrote (long ago): If you are able to run a Windows operating system on a computer, you should be able to use Linux on it. And you may not tax the system as much, as you can install a Linux distro, and then re-compile the kernel to support only the feature you need. Do you know of some

Re: [newbie] (OT) Brother MFC-8500

2004-04-25 Thread frankieh
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 18:33, Lee Wiggers wrote: Anyone have experience with this multi-function printer/fax, etc with 9.2 or 10. My fax died Friday and I can pick this one up cheap. Lee sarcasm biNO/b/i /sarcasm stephen kuhn - owner That is not valid HTML/XHTML

Re: [newbie] Took the plunge - CUZ I HAD TO

2004-04-25 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 23:40, frankieh wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 22:38, frankieh wrote: 5.) I LIKE my sendmail. Nyah! No accounting for Taste or Logic apparently :-) Ahem - er, Frankie, remember to what country I moved...eh? ...care to restate that?

[newbie] ARTICLE: Linux on the Desktop Is Good For Redmond, Argues Microsoftee

2004-04-25 Thread Stephen Kuhn
http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/04/23/1957200 stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a

Re: [newbie] Took the plunge - CUZ SHE MADE ME

2004-04-25 Thread franki
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 22:44, franki wrote: [05:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ man butt No manual entry for butt stephen kuhn - owner Your a sick puppy Stephen, I'm proud of you Thought about that on the last visit to King's Cross in Sydney...on the train...tried to hide the

Re: [newbie] (OT) Brother MFC-8500

2004-04-25 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 23:48, frankieh wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 18:33, Lee Wiggers wrote: Anyone have experience with this multi-function printer/fax, etc with 9.2 or 10. My fax died Friday and I can pick this one up cheap. Lee sarcasm

Re: [newbie] Took the plunge - CUZ SHE MADE ME

2004-04-25 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 23:49, franki wrote: Does your lady know you were on the train to Kings Cross ??? Why were you goign there??? last time heard, it was only good for finding whores and drugs.. has it changed since then?? Shite - you caught me out again, mate. stephen kuhn - owner

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Does this bloke work for Microsoft FUD specialists?

2004-04-25 Thread John Wilson
On April 25, 2004 04:38 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: JoePill, I know you'll dig this one...ahem... http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/235 stephen kuhn - owner I'm gonna play devil's advocate and agree with the columnnist on this one. You need to remember that Lindows/Linspir

Re: [newbie] Took the plunge - CUZ I HAD TO

2004-04-25 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Saturday 24 April 2004 18:11, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 00:10, frankieh wrote: I was a big redhat fan from 4.x to 6.2, then I changed to mandake and haven't looked back. 1.) This is an ancient ancient post 2.) I started with Slackware 1, then RH Haloween 3.) This is an

Re: [newbie] Took the plunge - CUZ I HAD TO

2004-04-25 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 00:15, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I am curious why you didn't upgrade to 9.2. I am running 9.2 and am having great difficulties It seems that I either have a bad set of disks or a bad computer since it self destructs just after the upgrade is finished and no two installs are

Re: [newbie] Windows and LiLo

2004-04-25 Thread Marco Terzuoli
Alle 14:35, domenica 25 aprile 2004, Stephen Kuhn ha scritto: try this as well: other=/dev/hdd1 label=windows On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 22:21, JRH wrote: Stephen, Did as you suggested, and still no joy! I select windows at the lilo screen, and it just hangs there now

Re: [newbie] (OT) Brother MFC-8500

2004-04-25 Thread Lanman
Lee Wiggers wrote: Anyone have experience with this multi-function printer/fax, etc with 9.2 or 10. My fax died Friday and I can pick this one up cheap. Lee Lee; I don't recommend it. I have the MFC-4800 and it doesn't even blink in Linux. Recognized by CUPS, but nothing ever happens with it.

Re: [newbie] MS: We know we suck, and we don't really care.

2004-04-25 Thread Lanman
Frankie; I'll get back to you on this later today, Dude! Gotta go watch a flick, shave my legs, change my dre,...Damn! Did I say that out loud? Uh, forget that last part! Talk to you later on this. You're still not out of the woods yet! g Lanman

Re: [newbie] APT for Mandrake

2004-04-25 Thread Rory
I, too, would love to hear more about this. I've been off playing with Debian Sarge for a couple of days and although there are a number of things I prefer about MDK, I must say that I was completely seduced by Apt, along with the GUI, Synaptic. Much better than urpmi and MDK's GUI tools.

Re: [newbie] Took the plunge - CUZ I HAD TO

2004-04-25 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Sunday 25 April 2004 09:39, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 00:15, Hoyt Bailey wrote: snip I didn't do the 9.2 upgrade path because, well, my system was stable and I wanted to focus more on taking care of my customers and making use of a very stable system - along with spending a

Re: [newbie] Took the plunge - CUZ I HAD TO

2004-04-25 Thread Aron Smith
On Sunday 25 April 2004 06:40 am, frankieh wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 22:38, frankieh wrote: 5.) I LIKE my sendmail. Nyah! No accounting for Taste or Logic apparently :-) Ahem - er, Frankie, remember to what country I moved...eh? ...care to restate that? (g)

Re: [newbie] MS: We know we suck, and we don't really care.

2004-04-25 Thread frankieh
Lanman wrote: Frankie; I'll get back to you on this later today, Dude! Gotta go watch a flick, shave my legs, change my dre,...Damn! Did I say that out loud? Uh, forget that last part! Talk to you later on this. You're still not out of the woods yet! g Lanman yeah yeah... and next year you

[newbie] urpmi Problem

2004-04-25 Thread lake-wind
I'm having a problem with a media entry in urpmi. I keep getting this error when running urpmi: unable to take medium Z2main into account as no list file [/var/lib/urpmi/list.Z2main] exists I did have a medium at one time named Z2main, however I removed it with urpmi.removemedia. I checked

Re: [newbie] Another Xfce convert!

2004-04-25 Thread robin
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 12:09, Marv Boyes wrote: Is it a sign of increasing Linux maturity when you start to favor functionality over eye-candy? ;) Eye Candy is nice if that's all you're doing - watching pretty windows... Well what else am I supposed to do when I'm pretending

Re: [newbie] (OT) Any printer/fax (laser) suggestions? (was Brother MFC-8500)

2004-04-25 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 11:08:14 -0400 Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lee Wiggers wrote: Anyone have experience with this multi-function printer/fax, etc with 9.2 or 10. My fax died Friday and I can pick this one up cheap. Lee Lee; I don't recommend it. I have the MFC-4800 and it

[newbie] Brother MFC-8500

2004-04-25 Thread Lee Wiggers
Dawned on me that the Brother driver link might be of value to someone else: http://solutions.brother.com/Library/sol/printer/linux/lpr_drivers.html#red Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Decent Audio Track Ripper?

2004-04-25 Thread David E. Fox
On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 20:21:06 +0300 rhein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you use grip under KDE without having gnome installed? Sure. Another thing to try is KDE's audiocd;// mode in Konqueror. It'll let you explore the CD as a filesystem, and you can encode or rip on the fly. But speaking from

Re: [newbie] Took the plunge - CUZ I HAD TO

2004-04-25 Thread Aron Smith
On Sunday 25 April 2004 11:43 am, Glenn wrote: On Sunday 25 April 2004 09:36, Aron Smith wrote: i think driving thru Alabama in a pink volvo had something to do with it ;-) That's part of the proposed scenario for Survivor: L.A. (Lower Alabama), isn't it? yeppers

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Does this bloke work for Microsoft FUD specialists?

2004-04-25 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 14:52:34 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 07:25:59 -0700 John Wilson disseminated the following: Sorry but Walmart boxes are security problems waiting to happen. And this is something that the entire Linux community needs to address.

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Does this bloke work for Microsoft FUD specialists?

2004-04-25 Thread Aron Smith
On Sunday 25 April 2004 11:52 am, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 07:25:59 -0700 John Wilson disseminated the following: Sorry but Walmart boxes are security problems waiting to happen. And this is something that the entire Linux community needs to address. Security problem? Yes.

Re: [newbie] ARTICLE: Linux on the Desktop Is Good For Redmond, Argues Microsoftee

2004-04-25 Thread Carl J. Bauman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/04/23/1957200 So, what MS is saying is that they can't think of innovations unless someone else thinks of them first? didn't we already know that? Carl Want to buy