Re: [newbie] MS does something intelligent!

2004-05-11 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 11 May 2004 18:23:02 +0200 Ronald disseminated the following: Well, we can dream, can't we?! LOL! yes we can :-) http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5209896.html Well, I must say I'm used to contradictory, even pathologically, statements from MS, but... Excluding pirated copies

Re: [newbie] MS does something intelligent!

2004-05-11 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 11 May 2004 11:10:24 -0700 rikona disseminated the following: R yes we can :-) R http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5209896.html Yep - main benefit to M$ is probably tracking down more pirates. ...who will then download MDK :-D -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org

Re: [newbie] XFree86-DRI

2004-05-11 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 11 May 2004 10:35:45 -0600 Ron Hunter-Duvar disseminated the following: Does this mean I'm out of luck, that there's just no way to make this game work? I understand the problem with vendors that won't release driver source. But what good is a graphics technology that excludes the

Re: [newbie] Gnome 2.6?

2004-05-11 Thread Marco Verheul
On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 23:34, Todd Slater wrote: Anybody running Gnome 2.6? I tried it out on a livecd, gnoppix, and was greatly impressed by it--great ui, everything was where I expected it, great options for mime-types and such, the file manager was actually rather fast. The whole thing was

Re: [newbie] XFree86-DRI

2004-05-11 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 11 May 2004 23:33, JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 11 May 2004 10:35:45 -0600 Ron Hunter-Duvar disseminated the following: Does this mean I'm out of luck, that there's just no way to make this game work? I understand the problem with vendors that won't release driver source. But what

Re: [newbie] MS does something intelligent!

2004-05-11 Thread PM
On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 00:28, JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 11 May 2004 18:23:02 +0200 Ronald disseminated the following: Well, we can dream, can't we?! LOL! yes we can :-) http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5209896.html The register (as usual) reports with a few sensible (to my feeble

Re: [newbie] MS does something intelligent!

2004-05-11 Thread rikona
Hello JoeHill, Tuesday, May 11, 2004, 2:29:24 PM, you wrote: J On Tue, 11 May 2004 11:10:24 -0700 J rikona disseminated the following: R yes we can :-) R http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5209896.html Yep - main benefit to M$ is probably tracking down more pirates. J ...who will then

[newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2004-05-11 Thread newbie
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Re: [newbie] moving to kde mail under 10.0 Official

2004-05-11 Thread g2
On Sunday 09 May 2004 11:47 pm, g2 wrote: Hi folks. Not the bigest problem, but I have gotten myself into a bit of a pickle I don't know how to get out of. Before I wiped my hard drive to install MD 10.0, I backed up my Mail folder tat contained by KMail data. AFTER running Kmail under MD

Re: [newbie] X server crash

2004-05-11 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, 2 May 2004 22:57:49 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just out of curiosity: what desktop are you running with 2 MB of video RAM? Shirley not KDE or Guh-nome! The choice of window manager is irrelevant. It's the video resolution that determines whether it'll fit. A lightweight

Re: [newbie] One for JoeHill

2004-05-11 Thread David E. Fox
On Wed, 5 May 2004 12:49:34 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The biggest linux Thorn in my side is MP3 players Linux just can't handle the propriety file systems We need an OSS standard for this. Dunno what mp3 has to do with proprietary file systems (ITYM proprietary encoding

Re: [newbie] X server crash

2004-05-11 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 11 May 2004 21:12:53 -0700 David E. Fox disseminated the following: The choice of window manager is irrelevant. It's the video resolution that determines whether it'll fit. A lightweight window manager at the same screen resolution as KDE is going to use the same amount of video

Re: [newbie] One for JoeHill

2004-05-11 Thread David E. Fox
On Wed, 5 May 2004 17:40:13 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You bring up a good point. Xandros, Libranet, Mandrake, all the 'not free as in beer' distros, trumpet their ease of use, including their support for At least in the case of Mandrake, much of that stuff is in plf for obvious

Re: [newbie] moving to kde mail under 10.0 Official

2004-05-11 Thread John Layt
Well, a few suggestions. In KMail 3.2, your mail is no longer stored in ~/Mail/, but instead in ~/.Mail/ . On starting the new KMail for the first time, it looks to see if you have mail ~/Mail/, if so it copies them for you into ~/.Mail/, if not it creates a new, empty ~/.Mail/ . So what

Re: [newbie] One for JoeHill

2004-05-11 Thread David E. Fox
On Wed, 5 May 2004 12:49:04 +0100 Tony S. Sykes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think this might be the high standard system spec around in 2 years time anyway. Scary thought though that we will have 2 gig of memory and a terabyte of disk space in one machine. Just put in perspective, that's a

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

2004-05-11 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 03 May 2004 02:46:17 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 15:09, David E. Fox wrote: If you're going to browse for binaries, don't use PAN; use getbinnews instead. Not a hog at all. Very fast. Steve - great. I got it. Will give it a try. I just wish I

Re: [newbie] moving to kde mail under 10.0 Official

2004-05-11 Thread Roland Hughes
I can only tell you my experience. I only wiped out the other partitions but left home alone. When I started KMail for the first time it asked me if I wanted to move my old directories to the new. I said yes and never saw any of them again. My be a bug who knows. Roly On Tuesday 11 May 2004

Re: [newbie] MS: It's the *users* fault

2004-05-11 Thread Carl J. Bauman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 10 May 2004 23:45:09 -0400 Todd Slater disseminated the following: If you had any guts, you'd post this to the expert list to see what Chris Fox has to say. Please avoid any political sigs; the right wingers seem to have taken control over there. -- cmg

Re: [newbie] MS: It's the *users* fault

2004-05-11 Thread Anders Lind
On Wed, 12 May 2004 00:32:09 -0500 Carl J. Bauman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess I'm not clear on why anyone would have any political sigs, right, left, or middle wing, on an OS mailing list. Is Mandrake, or Linux in general, inherently political? I didn't realize I was making a

[newbie] My screen and Modem

2004-05-11 Thread hertas
Hello Friends, I have a new notebook. 1) Its monitor resolution is 1280 * 800 ( 15,4 inch wide screen ). But when I configure X while installing Mandrake 10,0 , There was no such a resolution choice. So I chose 1024 * 768 . It works , but how can I configure the original resolution. 2) Modem

Re: [newbie] Reverse of diff

2004-05-11 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 02:44:13 +0300 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This looks promising, but it only works on lines; I need words (sorry, I should have been more specific when I said strings). What I'm trying What you're probably looking for could be done using either awk or perl, using one

Re: [newbie] MS does something intelligent!

2004-05-11 Thread rikona
Hello JoeHill, Monday, May 10, 2004, 10:22:33 AM, you wrote: J Microsoft's increasing concern over information security has J translated into its decision to bite the bullet and make its J upcoming SP2 (Service Pack 2) security patch available to all users J - including those using pirated

Re: [newbie] MS does something intelligent!

2004-05-11 Thread frankieh
rikona wrote: Hello JoeHill, Monday, May 10, 2004, 10:22:33 AM, you wrote: J Microsoft's increasing concern over information security has J translated into its decision to bite the bullet and make its J upcoming SP2 (Service Pack 2) security patch available to all users J - including those

[newbie] Zip drive trouble (or am I a moron?)

2004-05-11 Thread Mattias Thorslund
Hello, good folks, I have been googling for a whole night trying to find the solution to this problem. Seems others have had it but I can't find the solution... I have a 100 MB Zip drive, on the parallel port. I got it working under RedHat 9, after some configuration. Now I'm trying out - or

Re: [newbie] MS does something intelligent!

2004-05-11 Thread frankieh
frankieh wrote: FYI, SCO's stock price has dropped below the $6 dollar price. SCO have also closed their Poland office. See: http://www.sco.pl/ for am insight to the future. Sorry, I meant to say that SCO stock has dropped below the $5 dollar mark, not $6.. http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=SCOX its

RE: [newbie] apache making me batty

2004-05-11 Thread Bill Shirley
chmod o+x /home/* is all you need for the users. It allows the world to enter the directories but not list them. I would recommend: find /home -type d -name public_html -exec chmod 2750 {} \; find /home -type d -name public_html -exec chown -R .apache {} \; which sets the group sticky bit on

Re: [newbie] no /dev/dsp in 10.0

2004-05-11 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 10 May 2004 10:56, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: I installed 10.0 official. I have a azt2320 ISA soundcard I added to /etc/modprobe.preload the snd-azt2320 line. Sound modules are loaded correctly at boot, but /dev/dsp is not created so xmms and mplayer don't generate

Re: [newbie] no /dev/dsp in 10.0

2004-05-11 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: Check /var/log/messages for any messages from the kernel concerning your sound card. If there's anything in there recommending a different driver, try that driver. If not, then, well, see if you can find out somewhere else what driver might work (try google of course).

[newbie] Trying to fix bad 9.1 by do upgrade.

2004-05-11 Thread Gert Koefoed Andersen
Hello. I have tried to fix my Mandrake 9.1 on my 1 of 2 pc by do som cdrom 9.1 and 92. cdrom install using upgrade but when the install has reach to the mouse driver install and has load the driver (standard/ps2) in for install does the install screen freeze and nothing more happens, and showing

Re: [newbie] Re: writing sms

2004-05-11 Thread Thujan
Björn Lundin kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika maanantai, 10. toukokuuta 2004 20:14): Thujan wrote: Hi, Is there a program to write sms to gsm phone? Phone is old ericsson t-65 with serial cable to serial port. It would be easier to write those with decent keyboard rather than

[newbie] *HELP* Do MandrakeUpdate without graphic use.

2004-05-11 Thread Gert Koefoed Andersen
Hello. Is there a way on run MandrakeUpdate (Live_update) from the prompt after login as root, like doing command ./MandrakeUpdate or sh MandrakeUpdate, so there can be checked for updates? Then let me know the real command for it. ---

Re: [newbie] 10 Official and Speedtouch ADSL......

2004-05-11 Thread JRH
snipThis is only for 10CEbut the only way that I found worked was with mgmt.o on floppy, letting Drak copy it to wherever it wanted./snip With 10CE, it would read it from the floppy, but wouldnt save it anywhere at all. I used to have to manually copy it across to /usr/share/speedtouch/

Re: [newbie] Setting up a 2nd user - Getting there

2004-05-11 Thread Peter
bascule Thanks, This all works now like a dream. Peter On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 00:45, bascule wrote: to change permissions you can use 'chmod' on the command line, as root: cd /dev/sound chmod g+rw the g stands for group (which is audio) and the +rw should be self explanatory, if the owner

[newbie] DNS questions

2004-05-11 Thread Frank Bax
I have three Linux machines on the same network with a bunch of windows machines. The ip address of the server hosting corporate email changed last week, but the old ip address was only unplugged yesterday. Two of the linux machines are unable to download email and ping attempts to connect

Re: [newbie] DNS questions

2004-05-11 Thread Anders Lind
On Tue, 11 May 2004 09:51:18 -0400 Frank Bax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have three Linux machines on the same network with a bunch of windows machines. The ip address of the server hosting corporate email changed last week, but the old ip address was only unplugged yesterday. Two of the

Re: [newbie] DNS questions

2004-05-11 Thread Brian Parish
/etc/resolv.conf should tell you the story unless you are running your own nameserver on the linux machines. On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 23:51, Frank Bax wrote: I have three Linux machines on the same network with a bunch of windows machines. The ip address of the server hosting corporate email

Re: [newbie] DNS questions

2004-05-11 Thread Frank Bax
At 09:56 AM 5/11/04, Anders Lind wrote: On Tue, 11 May 2004 09:51:18 -0400 Frank Bax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have three Linux machines on the same network with a bunch of windows machines. The ip address of the server hosting corporate email changed last week, but the old ip address was

[newbie] How to get indexed help to work in KDevelop?

2004-05-11 Thread David A. Ferguson
How to get indexed help to work in KDevelop? I have brand new installation of KDevelop (from the Mandrake 10 offical distro). The help search doesn't work. I have installed the htdig rpm, but no joy. Has anyone gotten the help to work? Thanks...David

Re: [newbie] I'm losting my samba's shares after some time... permission denied... help plz.

2004-05-11 Thread Flávio Henrique
Bill, I'm happy to say you that works... I create my directories shares out of my /home and works... But now I got another problem... All my win98 clients see their neighborhood area empty... no itens but the network is there and works fine... all users is working... if they hit \\server, e.g.,

Re: [newbie] MDK 10 Nvidia problems

2004-05-11 Thread g2
On Wednesday 05 May 2004 08:57 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: All, My system is an Asus a7n8x-deluxe with 1gb ram, 2x 120gb sata drives and Nvidia 5700u with 17 tft. I am installing with noapic nolapic acpi=off and everything seems to install correctly. I can configure xdrake during and after

Re: [newbie] MS does something intelligent!

2004-05-11 Thread Ronald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Op maandag 10 mei 2004 19:22, schreef JoeHill: Well, we can dream, can't we?! LOL! yes we can :-) http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5209896.html ronald - -- Registered Linux User 163597 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4

[newbie] XFree86-DRI

2004-05-11 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
I'm trying to install the KDE game mahjongg 3D (http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=12553PHPSESSID=23d79a4e780029a6433767155a41f066) As root, I downloaded and extracted the tarball (mahjongg3d.tar.bz2). Then I did: make PREFIX=/opt/games make PREFIX=/opt/games install The build

Re: [newbie] vmware-config.pl

2004-05-11 Thread Edgars Smits
I ran into a slightly different problem with VMware, I had 4 installed and working with 10CE (using the any script), did a couple of kernel updates, then updated VMware to 4.5. When I ran VMware after the update for the first time it informed me that I had to run the config script again, no

[newbie] Novell releases Evolution exchange connector as GPL

2004-05-11 Thread frankieh
Wooohooo, novell are serious about open source now... They have just released the Ximian connector that allows evolution to connect to MS exchange servers under the GPL. It will also be released as part of evolution when it comes out... Evolution 2 will also work perfectly with Groupwise and

[newbie] Re: Re: writing sms

2004-05-11 Thread Björn Lundin
Thujan wrote: Björn Lundin kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika maanantai, 10. toukokuuta 2004 20:14): Thujan wrote: Hi, Is there a program to write sms to gsm phone? Phone is old ericsson t-65 with serial cable to serial port. It would be easier to write those with decent keyboard

Re: [newbie] MS does something intelligent!

2004-05-11 Thread rikona
Hello Ronald, Tuesday, May 11, 2004, 9:23:02 AM, you wrote: R -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- R Hash: SHA1 R Op maandag 10 mei 2004 19:22, schreef JoeHill: Well, we can dream, can't we?! LOL! R yes we can :-) R http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5209896.html Yep - main benefit to M$ is

Re: [newbie] MDK 10 Nvidia problems

2004-05-11 Thread Travis Crook
On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 10:08, g2 wrote: On Wednesday 05 May 2004 08:57 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: All, My system is an Asus a7n8x-deluxe with 1gb ram, 2x 120gb sata drives and Nvidia 5700u with 17 tft. I am installing with noapic nolapic acpi=off and everything seems to install correctly.