Re: [newbie] ping Steven Kuhn: Gnome 2.6

2004-06-29 Thread zamri
It's nice actually to have a distro that is lean and mean targeted for older computers. Can u imagine if we run it on newer computers ? but it is optimized for newer CPUs. That's where Mandrake excels .Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just an FYI-I downloaded Slackware 10 to try since it comes

[newbie] Quota support

2004-06-29 Thread zamri
I have email server and I want to set up quota for every account on the box. Can anyone explain it step by step ? Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage!

Re: [newbie] Lexmark Z33

2004-06-29 Thread John Richard Smith
Marc Lijour wrote: Hi Any of you had some luck with the Lexmark Z33. I tried to install it with the driver provided to the Lexmark site. 1) I disabled CUPS and installed LPRng 2) I run the driver from lexmark Problem: it does not print when it says it should The jobs show on the queue, but

[newbie] Resolver random results.

2004-06-29 Thread Hoyt Bailey
I have random resolver problems sometimes it works fine and others it times out unable to find the site I'm sitting on IE 'google.com'. Here is my '/etc/resolv.conf': [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ cat /etc/resolv.conf search domain_not_set.invalid nameserver 192.168.0.1 nameserver 192.168.0.1 I had

[newbie] Nikon LS-1000 or LS-2000

2004-06-29 Thread Hoyt Bailey
Does anyone know how well these two film scanners work on linux 10.0. -- Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Resolver random results.

2004-06-29 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 29 June 2004 05:47 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I have random resolver problems sometimes it works fine and others it times out unable to find the site I'm sitting on IE 'google.com'. Here is my '/etc/resolv.conf': [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$

Re: [newbie] Lexmark Z33

2004-06-29 Thread Poogle
On Tuesday 29 Jun 2004 06:34, Marc Lijour wrote: Hi Any of you had some luck with the Lexmark Z33. I tried to install it with the driver provided to the Lexmark site. 1) I disabled CUPS and installed LPRng 2) I run the driver from lexmark Problem: it does not print when it says it should

Re: [newbie] Resolver random results.

2004-06-29 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Tuesday 29 June 2004 06:44, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Tuesday 29 June 2004 05:47 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I have random resolver problems sometimes it works fine and others it times out unable to find the site I'm sitting on IE 'google.com'. Here is my '/etc/resolv.conf': [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Resolver random results.

2004-06-29 Thread John Rye
On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 07:03:10 -0500 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 29 June 2004 06:44, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Tuesday 29 June 2004 05:47 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I have random resolver problems sometimes it works fine and others it times out unable to find the site I'm

Re: [newbie] Resolver random results.

2004-06-29 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Tuesday 29 June 2004 08:11, John Rye wrote: On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 07:03:10 -0500 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 29 June 2004 06:44, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Tuesday 29 June 2004 05:47 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I have random resolver problems sometimes it works fine and

[newbie] DVD decoder

2004-06-29 Thread Yves Arsenault
Hello, I was wondering if there is a DVD decoder for Mandrake 10. Is there such a beast? Thanks, Yves Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Resolver random results.

2004-06-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 29 June 2004 07:03 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Tuesday 29 June 2004 06:44, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Your problem seems to be in the name server 192.168.0.1 Ok any ideas what I can do about it. Apparantly that was installed by 'sbcglobal.com' at least I suppose it was. run 'dig

[newbie] mount usb with granting access

2004-06-29 Thread EE
how can mount my usb drive with access privilege. When I wrote as a root mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/usb, I was able to access it the usb but I cannot read or write even though the /mnt/usb has drwxrwxrwx permission. Can anyone help mounting the drive as a root and grant the other users the write

[newbie] Konqueror history

2004-06-29 Thread David Robertson
I may be missing something here, but one of the things that irritates me with Konqueror as a web browser is the fact that it doesn't seem to maintain a drop-down list of recently visited sites from the address bar, nor can I find a history list. Am I just being stupid and missing these

[newbie] updating the installed RPM DB!

2004-06-29 Thread GV
Hi, when installing new s/w by compiling the source in a 9.2 box, how is it possible to update the installed RPM DB and making the installed libraries viewable in the RpmDrake listing? Thanks for your help GV Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] updating the installed RPM DB!

2004-06-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
GV wrote: Hi, when installing new s/w by compiling the source in a 9.2 box, how is it possible to update the installed RPM DB and making the installed libraries viewable in the RpmDrake listing? Thanks for your help GV The correct way to do it is to create a spec file, and build an RPM from the

[newbie] Wine 20040213

2004-06-29 Thread ibibhef
I need Wine to run a handful of programs. I installed the Wine 20040213 from urpmi and it went fine. I try to run wine c:\\windows\\notepad.exe and it says it can't find notepad.exe. I cd into the directory holding this file and it still can't find notepad.exe. I checked the .wine/config

[newbie] SCSI MO Disk not configured by Mandrake 10.0

2004-06-29 Thread Malcom Schnabel
I have downloaded and installed Mandrake Linux 10.0 on my extra computer. Everything appears to be working perfectly with the exception of my MO Drive. HardDrake had no problem recognizing the drive (Olympus MOS540) or the SCSI host adapter (Adaptec AHA-7850). Unfortunately, when I try to access

[newbie] SCSI MO Drive not configured by Mandrake 10.0

2004-06-29 Thread Malcom Schnabel
I have downloaded and installed Mandrake Linux 10.0 on my extra computer. Everything appears to be working perfectly with the exception of my MO Drive. HardDrake had no problem recognizing the drive (Olympus MOS540) or the SCSI host adapter (Adaptec AHA-7850). Unfortunately, when I try to access

[newbie] KDE 3.3 (still alpha)

2004-06-29 Thread Cezary Morga
I've just instaled KDE 3.2.90 alpha1 (also known as KDE 3.3 head) and... well, it looks nice! I'll say even very nice. All the kde settings are more accesible. I simply cannot wait till August 18th (I hope) to get my hands on it's final realese... -- Cezary Morga ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) GG# 169903

Re: Re: [newbie] Laptop pcmcia ethernet card not recognized every other boot up

2004-06-29 Thread dennis
From: Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/06/28 Mon PM 11:44:19 EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Laptop pcmcia ethernet card not recognized every other boot up Dennis Myers wrote: Subject says the basic problem, if I have ethernet connection and shut

Re: Re: [newbie] Xorg on a Compaq

2004-06-29 Thread dennis
From: Cezary Morga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/06/29 Tue AM 02:55:20 EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Xorg on a Compaq Dnia wto 29. czerwca 2004 01:55, Dennis Myers napisa?: Charles, thank you for the Xorg rpms, my laptop does look cleaner than with xfree86, and it

Re: Re: [newbie] Paris and Linux

2004-06-29 Thread dennis
From: M.Schild [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/06/29 Tue AM 03:07:21 EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Paris and Linux On the news today they said Microsoft offered the town of Paris a 60% rebate. The story doesn´t say whether Paris is going to drop the idea of switching to

[newbie] Xorg and XFree was: Xorg on a Compaq

2004-06-29 Thread Cezary Morga
Dnia wto 29. czerwca 2004 19:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisa: I did nothing more, everything works as usual. The expert discussion indicated that you did not have to uninstall xfree86 so I did not. HTH Dennis M. Glad to hear that. More questions: will I have to reinstall my nvidia driver to run

Re: [newbie] Wine 20040213

2004-06-29 Thread Chuck Lutz
Hi, I'm still getting up to speed with Wine, so I can't help with the first one, but I had this error too (static glibc req'd). I went to the Configuration Package Manager thing (I think that is what it is called) and chose Install software. From there I typed glibc in the search line and also I

Re: [newbie] Xorg and XFree was: Xorg on a Compaq

2004-06-29 Thread John Drouhard
Cezary Morga wrote: Dnia wto 29. czerwca 2004 19:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisa: I did nothing more, everything works as usual. The expert discussion indicated that you did not have to uninstall xfree86 so I did not. HTH Dennis M. Glad to hear that. More questions: will I have to reinstall my

Re: [newbie] Attention: Mdk9.2 installs Apache as open proxy defaultly

2004-06-29 Thread frankieh
Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear fellow, I've just had a bad experience (but, very worthy). It turns out that Mdk9.2 installs Apache as open proxy in default installation. My server got listed in dsbl.org as a result. So, If you have it, pls modify the

Re: [newbie] Resolver random results.

2004-06-29 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Tuesday 29 June 2004 08:33, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Tuesday 29 June 2004 08:11, John Rye wrote: On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 07:03:10 -0500 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 29 June 2004 06:44, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Tuesday 29 June 2004 05:47 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I

Re: [newbie] Lexmark Z33

2004-06-29 Thread Marc Lijour
Le June 29, 2004 06:36 am, John Richard Smith a écrit : Marc Lijour wrote: Hi Any of you had some luck with the Lexmark Z33. I tried to install it with the driver provided to the Lexmark site. 1) I disabled CUPS and installed LPRng 2) I run the driver from lexmark Problem: it does not

Re: Re: [newbie] Paris and Linux

2004-06-29 Thread EE
On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 20:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: M.Schild [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/06/29 Tue AM 03:07:21 EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Paris and Linux On the news today they said Microsoft offered the town of Paris a 60% rebate. The story

[newbie] SMB and NMB

2004-06-29 Thread EE
What are SMB and NMB services. Do I need them if I just want linux and a personal computer or can I remove them? How can I remove them? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] SMB and NMB

2004-06-29 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 29 June 2004 03:41 pm, EE wrote: What are SMB and NMB services. Do I need them if I just want linux and a personal computer or can I remove them? How can I remove them? SMB is the protocol for providing windows type shares to the network on a Linux machine. The smb service is not

Re: [newbie] DVD decoder

2004-06-29 Thread Josenildo Marques
Em Ter, 2004-06-29 às 11:05, Yves Arsenault escreveu: Hello, I was wondering if there is a DVD decoder for Mandrake 10. Is there such a beast? Thanks, Yves I'm not sure if I understand what you mean by 'decoder', but if you want to copy a DVD, use vobcopy. $ vobcopy -m will make an

Re: [newbie] Paris and Linux

2004-06-29 Thread M.Schild
That was tongue in cheek right? Just in case it was not MS has a 80% + margin on Windows and Office so yeah, they are a bit over priced. At 60% kickback MS still makes money. They get away with itso far Maryse Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Xorg and XFree was: Xorg on a Compaq

2004-06-29 Thread Cezary Morga
Dnia wto 29. czerwca 2004 20:34, John Drouhard napisa: When you install Xorg, it automatically replaces XFree, so you will only have Xorg installed anyway. The nvidia driver does not need to be rebuild. Everything should work out of the box, so when you type startx, it will do just fine. As

[newbie] Log-In Screen

2004-06-29 Thread Steve
I created 3 logins for our Mandrake 10.0computer ( 2 users and root) but, only one of them is now showing on the login screen? How do I get the other two back (including the root user)? Thanks, Steve

Re: [newbie] Log-In Screen

2004-06-29 Thread Marc
On Tuesday 29 June 2004 05:31 pm, Steve wrote: I created 3 logins for our Mandrake 10.0 computer ( 2 users and root) but, only one of them is now showing on the login screen? How do I get the other two back (including the root user)? Thanks, Steve If you are using KDE go to configure my

Re: [newbie] Resolver random results.

2004-06-29 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Hoyt Bailey wrote: No luck whois not installed. Isnt that for only local use. That is it would tell me who was logged on to my domaine, well I know that its me. I did find a whois web site but didnt get any results since I dont know what my ISP's name is unless its 'sbcglobal.net' which it

[newbie] telnet delays before login prompt

2004-06-29 Thread Levent Aksu
Hi everyone, When I telnet or ssh my Linux box, residing on the same LAN, it delays like 10 seconds before it sends me the first login prompt. It's a Mandrake 10 and that problem occurs since the upgrade from 9.x Probably it is some security setting somewhere. Please help me, I am trying to

Re: [newbie] Log-In Screen

2004-06-29 Thread Steve
Thanks Marc, I'll give it a try. Steve - Original Message - From: Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 4:37 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Log-In Screen On Tuesday 29 June 2004 05:31 pm, Steve wrote: I created 3 logins for our Mandrake 10.0 computer

Re: [newbie] Lexmark Z33

2004-06-29 Thread John Richard Smith
Marc Lijour wrote: Le June 29, 2004 06:36 am, John Richard Smith a écrit : Marc Lijour wrote: Hi Any of you had some luck with the Lexmark Z33. I tried to install it with the driver provided to the Lexmark site. 1) I disabled CUPS and installed LPRng 2) I run the driver from lexmark

Re: [newbie] Xorg and XFree was: Xorg on a Compaq

2004-06-29 Thread John Drouhard
Cezary Morga wrote: Dnia wto 29. czerwca 2004 20:34, John Drouhard napisa: When you install Xorg, it automatically replaces XFree, so you will only have Xorg installed anyway. The nvidia driver does not need to be rebuild. Everything should work out of the box, so when you type startx, it will do

Re: [newbie] The Mysteries of xfce4

2004-06-29 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 23:02:19 +0100 Margot disseminated the following: might be worth opening up the software installer on MCC and just searching for anything with xfce4 in the name... Just don't install the 'xfce4-drowning-in-lava' package. -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.orderinchaos.org

Re: [newbie] Attention: Mdk9.2 installs Apache as open proxy defaultly

2004-06-29 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 30 June 2004 02:07 am, frankieh wrote: Interesting, I use mdk9.2 apache2 on my webserver, and I actually use the proxy features to link to my mail servers mailman archive. I ran that script and it found nothing at all, clean and clear.

[newbie] Elipse 3.0 code completion does not show selected item.

2004-06-29 Thread John Zoetebier
I have recently intalled mandrale 10.0 and Eclipse 3.0 GTK. Code completion (Ctrl+Space) works properly, except I cannot see which item is highlighted. Probably because both selected item and backgroud are white. I have tried several KDE themes, but this does not seem to affact the color of a

Re: [newbie] The Mysteries of xfce4

2004-06-29 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 23:02:19 +0100 Margot wrote: I seem to remember that the main bit came from Charles Edwards' source, with some additional bits from either plf or contrib...might be worth opening up the software installer on MCC and just searching for anything with xfce4 in the name...

Re: [newbie] Elipse 3.0 code completion does not show selected item.

2004-06-29 Thread Avi Schwartz
On Jun 29, 2004, at 19:32, John Zoetebier wrote: I have recently intalled mandrale 10.0 and Eclipse 3.0 GTK. Code completion (Ctrl+Space) works properly, except I cannot see which item is highlighted. Probably because both selected item and backgroud are white. I have tried several KDE themes,

[newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2004-06-29 Thread newbie
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