Re: [newbie] K3B

2004-05-01 Thread JRH
On Saturday 01 May 2004 09:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So Maybe it is a hardware problem with you? Dont think so.. It'll actually burn at 24x, the max speed of the burner. It's a Philips CDRW2400 series, and cost quite a bit a while back. I think I've solved it. Just remove Any letter K

Re: [newbie] write access to NTFS partitions

2004-05-01 Thread Paul Kaplan
According to the linux ntfs driver project (http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net), you can write to NTFS partitions as long as the filesize is 512b and you don't change the file size, but they caution it's experimental. There's another project, captive, that seeks a similar goal

[newbie] bus speed

2004-05-01 Thread Ian
Since updating, I have seen that my transfer rate between partions has dropped to roughly 2 - 3 Mb/s, I was getting over 10. On bootup, moving to verbose output ,it tells me that the bus speed is 33mhz...   I believe it was set at 100mhz. in Hardrake, it doesn't seem to allow me any

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-05-01 Thread Paul
Op Sat, 01 May 2004 10:53:46 +0300 schreef rhein: Thanks now I get it :-) But if I delate this .openoffice directory do I erase the software with it? Thanks Christphe Only if you installed the entire OO-software in .openoffice. I suppose you didn't. Paul -- Isn't it a pity that the french

Re: [newbie] more K3B problems

2004-05-01 Thread rhein
I have the following problems: 1. I can not use the audio project in K3B, I tried to burn 26 MP3 songs with it and the preview filed up the cd(about 500MB) and after it hanged for hours trying to burn. Then I took the same files and used file project and I got a clean 50 mb cd!

Re: [newbie] more K3B problems

2004-05-01 Thread Aron Smith
On Saturday 01 May 2004 02:46 am, rhein wrote: I have the following problems: 1. I can not use the audio project in K3B, I tried to burn 26 MP3 songs with it and the preview filed up the cd(about 500MB) and after it hanged for hours trying to burn. Then I took the same

Re: [newbie] KPPP - MD10.0 CE

2004-05-01 Thread John Richard Smith
Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Friday 30 April 2004 18:36, John Richard Smith wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Friday 30 April 2004 17:31, John Richard Smith wrote: KPPP - MD10.0 CE BUG The default install off the discs is KPPP2.1.4 Modem time out is unchangeable from 5 second depite what

[newbie] Mozilla v1.6

2004-05-01 Thread John Richard Smith
I cannot seem to find the settings to turn those silly smilling faces off, can someone remind me ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

Re: [newbie] Mozilla v1.6

2004-05-01 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 12:13 +0100, John Richard Smith wrote: I cannot seem to find the settings to turn those silly smilling faces off, can someone remind me ? Don't have 1.6 in front of me but, assuming it hasn't moved for 1.7x, try going to: Edit | Preferences | Mail Newsgroups |

[newbie] review of updating proceedures

2004-05-01 Thread Thinker
Hello all, I have been out of the loop for a bit. I just want to make sure that I have this correct before I update my Mandrake box... 1. From the Desktop type 'ctrl+alt+F1' 2. Login as root 3. Type 'urpmi.update -a'. then wait. 4. Type 'urpmi --auto-select' and follow the instructions. 5.

Re: [newbie] Mozilla v1.6

2004-05-01 Thread John Richard Smith
Chuck MATTSEN wrote: On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 12:13 +0100, John Richard Smith wrote: I cannot seem to find the settings to turn those silly smilling faces off, can someone remind me ? Don't have 1.6 in front of me but, assuming it hasn't moved for 1.7x, try going to: Edit | Preferences

Re: [newbie] KPPP - MD10.0 CE

2004-05-01 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Saturday 01 May 2004 06:01, John Richard Smith wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Friday 30 April 2004 18:36, John Richard Smith wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Friday 30 April 2004 17:31, John Richard Smith wrote: KPPP - MD10.0 CE BUG The default install off the discs is KPPP2.1.4 Modem time

Re: [newbie] Seti on Mandrake 10

2004-05-01 Thread Trevor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dennis, Thank you Dennis. Have now done this and it is working fine here :) Cheers Ltwt Great, always nice to meet another searcher. : ) 3 machines, all running SetiStack with 25 units cached on each. Ksetiwatch just looks at me

Re: [newbie] KPPP - MD10.0 CE

2004-05-01 Thread John Richard Smith
Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Saturday 01 May 2004 06:01, John Richard Smith wrote: These are bought MD10 CE pressed discs. They may be faulty too but I doubt it, too many users would of complained if they were. No it's the the app itself on this occassion. Though you are right to suspect discs, it

Re: [newbie] review of updating proceedures

2004-05-01 Thread Richard Urwin
On Saturday 01 May 2004 12:39 pm, Thinker wrote: 5. After the update is complete, type 'alt+F1' then, reboot the machine. I think you mean F7. It is not necessary to reboot unless you have just installed a new Linux kernel. -- Richard Urwin

Re: [newbie] Screen Grabbing

2004-05-01 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 18:43, JoeHill wrote: Easiest of all is 'scrot'. It's not in Main or Contrib or PLF, but you can find an RPM here: http://linuxbrit.co.uk/scrot/ ...then just bind a key or create an icon with the command: scrot desktop.png (or whatever you want to call the file)

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-05-01 Thread B McKee
Thanks now I get it :-) But if I delate this .openoffice directory do I erase the software with it? Thanks Christphe No, it shouldn't touch the software itself. Files and folders in any home directory only affect that user. That's why they are there :-) A program installed in your home folder

Re: [newbie] Seti on Mandrake 10

2004-05-01 Thread Paul
Op Sat, 1 May 2004 22:11:26 +1000 schreef Trevor: Great, always nice to meet another searcher. : ) 3 machines, all running SetiStack with 25 units cached on each. Ksetiwatch just looks at me all confused. :^) I run Seti also. Background job, using a perl-script called multiseti.pl. It's

Re: [newbie] bus speed

2004-05-01 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 01 May 2004 10:09, Ian wrote: Since updating, I have seen that my transfer rate between partions has dropped to roughly 2 - 3 Mb/s, I was getting over 10. On bootup, moving to verbose output ,it tells me that the bus speed is 33mhz...   I believe it was set at 100mhz. in

Re: [newbie] review of updating proceedures

2004-05-01 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 01 May 2004 12:39, Thinker wrote: Hello all, I have been out of the loop for a bit. I just want to make sure that I have this correct before I update my Mandrake box... 1. From the Desktop type 'ctrl+alt+F1' 2. Login as root You could also just open a terminal on your desktop

[newbie] SETI

2004-05-01 Thread JRH
Hi all, I have seen people here and in other places taling about SETI. I'm well aware of who they are, and what they do etc. How can I come by the software to allow me to give some unused bandwidth? JRH -- Sent using Kmail, on Mandrake Linux 10 Community Exposing Microsoft products

Re: [newbie] SETI

2004-05-01 Thread Paul
Op Sat, 1 May 2004 17:14:48 +0100 schreef JRH: I have seen people here and in other places taling about SETI. ... How can I come by the software to allow me to give some unused bandwidth? Have a look at http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Paul

Re: [newbie] SETI

2004-05-01 Thread Frank Bax
At 12:14 PM 5/1/04, JRH wrote: I have seen people here and in other places taling about SETI. I'm well aware of who they are, and what they do etc. How can I come by the software to allow me to give some unused bandwidth? http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/unix.html I'm using

Re: [newbie] SETI

2004-05-01 Thread JRH
On Saturday 01 May 2004 17:23, Paul wrote: Have a look at http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Paul Thanks Paul. I was just having a trawl of the SETI site trying to find it! JRH -- Sent using Kmail, on Mandrake Linux 10 Community Exposing Microsoft products directly to the

[newbie] Happy May Day!

2004-05-01 Thread JoeHill
Solidarnosc! (wife's Polish...) -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist. -- Archbishop Helder Camara

[newbie] modem recommendations

2004-05-01 Thread mjt42
Installed Mandrake 10 yesterday. Everything seems fine except for the fact that I cannot get the modem to work. It's a Diamond SupraMax 56i Voice PCI V.92. It is an HCF modem and I have found driver help at www.linuxant.com. But, no success. Decided it's time to cut my losses...too much time

Re: [newbie] K3B

2004-05-01 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 19:59:40 +0100 JRH disseminated the following: I'm gonna give XCDRoast a whack and see what happens Try GCombust. Drag the .wav files into the Audio Files tab, arrange in the order you want, burn. I'm with Todd, anything with a 'K' is going to involve way more than is

Re: [newbie] Happy May Day!

2004-05-01 Thread PM
On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 21:15, JoeHill wrote: Solidarnosc! (wife's Polish...) Thanks Joe, Poland Cyprus no members of E.U. too (wow). -- Paul M. _ In the beginning, man created god. Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Bus speed

2004-05-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 01 May 2004 01:16 am, Ian wrote: Since updating, I have seen that my transfer rate between partions has dropped to roughly 2 - 3 Mb/s, I was getting over 10. On bootup, moving to verbose output ,it tells me that the bus speed is 33mhz... I believe it was set at 100mhz. in

Re: [newbie] modem recommendations

2004-05-01 Thread John Richard Smith
mjt42 wrote: Installed Mandrake 10 yesterday. Everything seems fine except for the fact that I cannot get the modem to work. It's a Diamond SupraMax 56i Voice PCI V.92. It is an HCF modem and I have found driver help at www.linuxant.com. But, no success. Decided it's time to cut my

Re: [newbie] Happy May Day!

2004-05-01 Thread John Richard Smith
PM wrote: On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 21:15, JoeHill wrote: Solidarnosc! (wife's Polish...) Thanks Joe, Poland Cyprus no members of E.U. too (wow) Yep and Europe is now a market and loosely polically unified area of 460 million now. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-05-01 Thread rhein
B McKee wrote: Thanks now I get it :-) But if I delate this .openoffice directory do I erase the software with it? Thanks Christphe No, it shouldn't touch the software itself. Files and folders in any home directory only affect that user. That's why they are there :-) A program installed in

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

2004-05-01 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:58:56 -0400 Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the beer stays cold, and the House of the Crescent Moon is nearby, and we get little Johnny to hold up coat-hangers for a TV antenna! lol. Anyhow, however did the crescent moon get associated with an outhouse anyway? Is it an

[newbie] fuji finepix 2400

2004-05-01 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi, I was going to try getting the fuji finepix 2400 going again in LM10. A search through the archives indicated a few threads, all seeming to indicate that 9.2 was almost an automatic install whereas 10 somewhat broke it. An inexpensive mp3 (usb) player is also not recognized. Has this usb

Re: [newbie] fuji finepix 2400

2004-05-01 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 07:04, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, I was going to try getting the fuji finepix 2400 going again in LM10. A search through the archives indicated a few threads, all seeming to indicate that 9.2 was almost an automatic install whereas 10 somewhat broke it. An inexpensive

[newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-05-01 Thread David B. Williams
Will the 9.1 Nvidia drivers work with 10.0? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Happy May Day!

2004-05-01 Thread Miark
On Sat, 1 May 2004 14:15:23 -0400, JoeHill wrote: Solidarnosc! (wife's Polish...) Hmmm, there's a Polish joke in there somewhere. Stephen? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Network Monitor Going Crazy!

2004-05-01 Thread Marc Resnick
I've just decided to switch from an Adaptec WLAN Card which was slowly deteriorating from its old self, to a Belkin Wireless USB card. The good news is that this fixed my long going DHCP problem of having to power down my router once a day to get online with Linux. But, my KDE Network Monitor

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

2004-05-01 Thread Lanman
David E. Fox wrote: On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:58:56 -0400 Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the beer stays cold, and the House of the Crescent Moon is nearby, and we get little Johnny to hold up coat-hangers for a TV antenna! lol. Anyhow, however did the crescent moon get associated with an outhouse

Re: [newbie] modem recommendations

2004-05-01 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Saturday 01 May 2004 13:13, mjt42 wrote: Installed Mandrake 10 yesterday. Everything seems fine except for the fact that I cannot get the modem to work. It's a Diamond SupraMax 56i Voice PCI V.92. It is an HCF modem and I have found driver help at www.linuxant.com. But, no success.

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

2004-05-01 Thread Aron Smith
On Saturday 01 May 2004 11:47 am, David E. Fox wrote: On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:58:56 -0400 Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the beer stays cold, and the House of the Crescent Moon is nearby, and we get little Johnny to hold up coat-hangers for a TV antenna! lol. Anyhow, however did the

Re: [newbie] synaptics

2004-05-01 Thread Marc Lijour
Le April 30, 2004 10:00 am, vous avez écrit : On Friday 30 April 2004 01:56 am, Marc Lijour wrote: My synaptics touchpad does not work anymore in Mandrake10.0. The problem comes early: no sign of it with dmesg and in /proc. What can I do to have the kernel pick it up (it was working in

Re: [newbie] Happy May Day!

2004-05-01 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 02:15:23PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: Solidarnosc! (wife's Polish...) Thanks, to you and yours! And for my brainwashed compadres: http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/mayday.html http://www.powertech.no/anarchy/mayday.html

Re: [newbie] Happy May Day!

2004-05-01 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 07:07, Todd Slater wrote: On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 02:15:23PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: Solidarnosc! (wife's Polish...) Thanks, to you and yours! And for my brainwashed compadres: http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/mayday.html

Re: [newbie] Happy May Day!

2004-05-01 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 01:33, Miark wrote: On Sat, 1 May 2004 14:15:23 -0400, JoeHill wrote: Solidarnosc! (wife's Polish...) Hmmm, there's a Polish joke in there somewhere. Stephen? Miark How can you tell a Polish first grader from the rest? He's the one with the rusty zipper

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2004-05-01 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 05:24, David B. Williams wrote: Will the 9.1 Nvidia drivers work with 10.0? Short answer: Yes. stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com

Re: [newbie] SETI

2004-05-01 Thread David E. Fox
On Sat, 1 May 2004 17:14:48 +0100 JRH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have seen people here and in other places taling about SETI. I'm well aware of who they are, and what they do etc. How can I come by the software to allow me to give some unused bandwidth?

Re: [newbie] Seti on Mandrake 10

2004-05-01 Thread David E. Fox
On Sat, 1 May 2004 17:36:16 +0200 Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I run Seti also. Background job, using a perl-script called multiseti.pl. It's very good. :) I just run the cl client. 2622 results so far returned, I've just checked. I've run it well mostly continually 24/7 for nearly three

Re: [newbie] Happy May Day!

2004-05-01 Thread Aron Smith
On Saturday 01 May 2004 04:04 pm, Josenildo Marques wrote: On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 18:07, Todd Slater wrote: On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 02:15:23PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: Solidarnosc! (wife's Polish...) Thanks, to you and yours! And for my brainwashed compadres:

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org reacquires ownership on file format

2004-05-01 Thread David E. Fox
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:09:06 + Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4 seconds? Cripes, in KDE in 9.2.1 it takes me about a minute and a half! I have a 1.1 GHz Athlon, and a gig of RAM. I monitored it I just (re)installed it in 10.0. I have an Athlon 1000 mhz box, with 768 megs of RAM (I

[newbie] lm-sensors/gkrellm with a laptop?

2004-05-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
I've got the Dell Inspiron 1100 and I've always used lm-sensors successfully to monitor my desktop systems but it just reports back no recognized chipsets on this model when I run (as root) sensors-detect. How and what is everyone using on their laptops? Thanks! --

Re: [newbie] Happy May Day!

2004-05-01 Thread David E. Fox
On Sat, 1 May 2004 14:15:23 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Solidarnosc! (wife's Polish...) Gesundheit. :) Happy May Day to you as well. Here in Northern California there was a report of a gathering of Christians going about their daily defense of marriage protest, something about