Re: [newbie] OT Typing program for linux

2004-07-05 Thread Greg
Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 04 July 2004 01:25, PM wrote: On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 09:08, Greg wrote: Hi evryone i hope evryone is having a nice weekendIs there typing program like mavis beacon teaches typing for linux or some thing like it I have not done any

[newbie] Configuring LAME

2004-07-05 Thread Aron Smith
any one know of a simple script that will allow me to encode a directory of .wav files at one swell floop? TIA smitty Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] OT Hardware reboot

2004-07-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 04 July 2004 11:44 pm, Marek Pawinski wrote: -Hi - -I had a problem where one of my machines would reboot every 8 days or so. -Now it reboots every few hours. The CPU fan seems to be working every time -i look. I tried knoppix on it as well so its not the OS looks like it. Not -being

[newbie] probs with firewire HDD in MDK 10.0

2004-07-05 Thread Kesav . Tadimeti
hi all, In 9.1 MDK linux, I had no probs mounting mu Firewire HDD. After plugging it in and starting it up, I would need to mount it from /dev/scsi/bus0/lun0/target0. Why is it different in MDK 10.0? It doesn't even recognize the device, unless, I power it on and reboot MDK, in which case there

Re: [newbie] Configuring LAME

2004-07-05 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 17:47, Aron Smith wrote: any one know of a simple script that will allow me to encode a directory of .wav files at one swell floop? You don't surf on freshmeat much, do you? stephen kuhn - proprietor __

Re: [newbie] Configuring LAME

2004-07-05 Thread Aron Smith
On Monday 05 July 2004 01:17 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 17:47, Aron Smith wrote: any one know of a simple script that will allow me to encode a directory of .wav files at one swell floop? You don't surf on freshmeat much, do you? not really i barely know what a script is

Re: [newbie] Can't find RealPlayer

2004-07-05 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 05 July 2004 15:00, Thomas Ewald wrote: Mandrake 10.0 had the smoothest installation of any distro of Linux I've used. I'm really happy with it. I tried installing RealPlayer, and the system says it's installed, but I can't find it anywhere, and the browser doesn't acknowledge it.

Re: [newbie] Configuring LAME

2004-07-05 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 05 July 2004 03:47 am, Aron Smith wrote: any one know of a simple script that will allow me to encode a directory of .wav files at one swell floop? TIA smitty for i in *.wav; do lame options $i; done -- /g Want to buy your Pack

[newbie] copying slides from PDF

2004-07-05 Thread Katinka Peter
Hi, could anyone tell me how to copy-paste entire slides/graphics from PDF to other documents, e.g. OpenOffice Writer? I`ve got Adobe, KPDF, XPDF and GhostView installed. When using the icon to select an entire slide in Adobe and selecting copy, I get the following message: There was an error

Re: [newbie] copying slides from PDF

2004-07-05 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 16:44:18 +0200 Katinka Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, could anyone tell me how to copy-paste entire slides/graphics from PDF to other documents, e.g. OpenOffice Writer? I`ve got Adobe, KPDF, XPDF and GhostView installed. When using the icon to select an entire slide

Fwd: Re: [newbie] Can't find RealPlayer

2004-07-05 Thread Thomas Ewald
Great! Thanks...worked just write. Then I was able to plug it into Konqueror. Doesn't work like Microsoft, of course, but looks like it is pretty intuitive, and will just take getting used to. Thanks, again. Tom --- Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] test

2004-07-05 Thread Steve Jeppesen
ignore -- Linux user #280097 Machines #162480 #191825 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] Floppy Problems

2004-07-05 Thread Rich
This problem has plagued me for over 2 months and I'm at my wits end. I've been in the process of moving for the past 3-4 months so haven't been able to do anything about it. The problem , in a nutshell, is that I can not write to my floppy or CD-R drives, even as root. The message is that

Re: [newbie] Can't find RealPlayer

2004-07-05 Thread Eric Huff
I tried installing RealPlayer, and the system says it's installed, but I can't find it anywhere, and the browser doesn't acknowledge it. Does anyone know where that puppy would be hiding? Here's mine: ~ $ which realplay /usr/bin/realplay eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More:

Re: [newbie] Can't find RealPlayer

2004-07-05 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 23:00, Thomas Ewald wrote: Mandrake 10.0 had the smoothest installation of any distro of Linux I've used. I'm really happy with it. I tried installing RealPlayer, and the system says it's installed, but I can't find it anywhere, and the browser doesn't acknowledge it.

Re: [newbie] Configuring LAME

2004-07-05 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 19:24, Aron Smith wrote: On Monday 05 July 2004 01:17 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 17:47, Aron Smith wrote: any one know of a simple script that will allow me to encode a directory of .wav files at one swell floop? You don't surf on freshmeat

[newbie] Problem login in mandrake Linux 10.0 Official Power Pack edition

2004-07-05 Thread Joseph Gregory Croes
Hallo, Dear sirs, After the bootscreen I get a blackscreen, and with no option to start x of for what so ever. Can someone know what's happing with KDE? I have look on the internet about this problem but with no result. Gregory _

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Can't find RealPlayer

2004-07-05 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 01:25, Thomas Ewald wrote: Great! Thanks...worked just write. Then I was able to plug it into Konqueror. Doesn't work like Microsoft, of course, but looks like it is pretty intuitive, and will just take getting used to. Thanks, again. Tom Ewald Detroit area

Re: [newbie] rosegarden - no sound

2004-07-05 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Friday 02 July 2004 06:08, David E. Fox wrote: On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 21:49:30 +0200 Frans Ketelaars [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does 'aconnect -o' say? And have you unmuted and raised the volume of something like synth in alsamixer? [EMAIL PROTECTED] dfox]$ aconnect -o client 64:

Re: [newbie] Problem login in mandrake Linux 10.0 Official Power Pack edition

2004-07-05 Thread et
On Monday 05 July 2004 01:16 pm, Joseph Gregory Croes wrote: Hallo, Dear sirs, After the bootscreen I get a blackscreen, and with no option to start x of for what so ever. Can someone know what's happing with KDE? I have look on the internet about this problem but with no result. Gregory

Re: [newbie] 10.0 performance tweaks?

2004-07-05 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 04 July 2004 06:42 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Just wondering, are there any general tweaks that can be done to 10.0 (Powerpack, official boxed set) to up the performance a bit? Especially with games. I've got it installed on my sons computer and games are definitely much slower than

Re: [newbie] 10.0 performance tweaks?

2004-07-05 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 08:42, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Just wondering, are there any general tweaks that can be done to 10.0 (Powerpack, official boxed set) to up the performance a bit? Especially with games. I've got it installed on my sons computer and games are definitely much slower than

[newbie] interesting feature with sym links and progs

2004-07-05 Thread Eric Huff
Here's something i didn't know. Apparently, a program can find out what sym link was called to run it: soffice - /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice* spadmin - /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice* If i run soffice, i get soffice. If i run spadmin, i get the printer setup box. eric --

Re: [newbie] K3b eslrahc

2004-07-05 Thread Marek Pawinski
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 19:08:56 +0200 Marek Pawinski wrote: Anyone have this ? No problem here. Can you launch it from a terminal and paste the error out-put when it crashes. Charles Here it is k3b: WARNING: KGenericFactory: instance requested but no instance name

Re: [newbie] only about 1/2 my hard drive is recognised

2004-07-05 Thread John Richard Smith
eric jackson wrote: - Original Message - From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 6:07 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] only about 1/2 my hard drive is recognised eric jackson wrote: Hi, I just had a Maxtor Ultra Series 250 GB hard

Re: [newbie] Configuring LAME

2004-07-05 Thread Aron Smith
On Monday 05 July 2004 09:56 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 19:24, Aron Smith wrote: On Monday 05 July 2004 01:17 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 17:47, Aron Smith wrote: any one know of a simple script that will allow me to encode a directory of .wav

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie] Can't find RealPlayer

2004-07-05 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 05 July 2004 17:25, Thomas Ewald wrote: Great! Thanks...worked just write. Then I was able to plug it into Konqueror. Doesn't work like Microsoft, of course, but looks like it is pretty intuitive, and will just take getting used to. Thanks, again. Tom You are welcome, Tom.

Re: [newbie] Configuring LAME

2004-07-05 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 03:59, Aron Smith wrote: On Monday 05 July 2004 09:56 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 19:24, Aron Smith wrote: On Monday 05 July 2004 01:17 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 17:47, Aron Smith wrote: any one know of a simple script that

[newbie] cgi programs won't work

2004-07-05 Thread Floyd Hagen
Howdy, I can't figure out how to get apache to run programs in /var/www/cgi. The permissions are right, and I added: ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/cgi-bin/ to httpd.conf. Am I calling it correctly? This is what the html page looks like: !-- exec cgi=/cgi-bin/test.cgi -- BTW, Apache version

Re: [newbie] cgi programs won't work

2004-07-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Floyd Hagen wrote: Howdy, I can't figure out how to get apache to run programs in /var/www/cgi. The permissions are right, and I added: ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/cgi-bin/ to httpd.conf. Am I calling it correctly? This is what the html page looks like: !-- exec cgi=/cgi-bin/test.cgi -- BTW,

Re: [newbie] cgi programs won't work

2004-07-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Floyd Hagen wrote: Howdy, I can't figure out how to get apache to run programs in /var/www/cgi. The permissions are right, and I added: ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/cgi-bin/ to httpd.conf. Am I calling it correctly? This is what the html page looks like: !-- exec cgi=/cgi-bin/test.cgi -- BTW,

[newbie] x-mplayer2

2004-07-05 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All On some news sites, to listen to the news, it is necessary x-mplayer2. Where can one find it? Does it really work on Linux platforms? Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] interesting feature with sym links and progs

2004-07-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Eric Huff wrote: Here's something i didn't know. Apparently, a program can find out what sym link was called to run it: soffice - /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice* spadmin - /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice* If i run soffice, i get soffice. If i run spadmin, i get the printer setup box.

Re: [newbie] Problem login in mandrake Linux 10.0 Official Power Pack edition

2004-07-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
et wrote: On Monday 05 July 2004 01:16 pm, Joseph Gregory Croes wrote: Hallo, Dear sirs, After the bootscreen I get a blackscreen, and with no option to start x of for what so ever. Can someone know what's happing with KDE? I have look on the internet about this problem but with no result. Gregory

Re: [newbie] K3b eslrahc

2004-07-05 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 19:41:28 +0200 Marek Pawinski wrote: Here it is The 'warnings' can be ignored, they are just that warnings and do not affect the app operation. I was hoping that there would be an error stanza indicating why KCrash: Application 'k3b' crashing... Delete

Re: [newbie] 10.0 performance tweaks?

2004-07-05 Thread Cezary Morga
Dnia pon 5. lipca 2004 19:29, Greg Meyer napisa: On Sunday 04 July 2004 06:42 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Just wondering, are there any general tweaks that can be done to 10.0 (Powerpack, official boxed set) to up the performance a bit? Especially with games. I've got it installed on my sons

Re: [newbie] Floppy Problems

2004-07-05 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 05 July 2004 19:04, Rich wrote: This problem has plagued me for over 2 months and I'm at my wits end. I've been in the process of moving for the past 3-4 months so haven't been able to do anything about it. The problem , in a nutshell, is that I can not write to my floppy or CD-R

Re: [newbie] Can't find RealPlayer

2004-07-05 Thread John Drouhard
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Monday 05 July 2004 15:00, Thomas Ewald wrote: Mandrake 10.0 had the smoothest installation of any distro of Linux I've used. I'm really happy with it. I tried installing RealPlayer, and the system says it's installed, but I can't find it anywhere, and the browser doesn't

[newbie] Export Mozillah Messenger Mail Settings to Thunderbird

2004-07-05 Thread EE
Export Mozilla Messenger Mail Settings to Thunderbird How to do so? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] 10.0 performance tweaks?

2004-07-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 05 July 2004 07:07 am, Lanman wrote: -Ronald; You've probably thought of these possibilities, but just in -case, try this; - -1) hdparm - -http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialOptimization.html Been there, DMA is turned on and he's getting pretty decent transfer rates.

Re: [newbie] 10.0 performance tweaks?

2004-07-05 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 04:55, Cezary Morga wrote: How to do that? Though I believe I'm running nvidia (the nvidia splash appears at my X startup)... If you're seeing the Nvidia splash, you're all right mate. stephen kuhn - proprietor

Re: [newbie] 10.0 performance tweaks?

2004-07-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 05 July 2004 01:29 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: -Are you sure your running the nvidia, not the nv video driver. Check -your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. 10.0 had a script that would modify the -file to use the nv driver if the nvidia driver was not present, so you may be -running nv and not

Re: [newbie] 10.0 performance tweaks?

2004-07-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 05 July 2004 12:38 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: -Have you trimmed down the running services, tweaked the -/etc/sysconfig/harddisks file and tested the hdparm settings? - -stephen kuhn - proprietor Yep, DMA is turned on for /dev/hda, hdc, hdd etc, etc, and transfer rates are fine for his

Re: [newbie] Floppy Problems

2004-07-05 Thread Rich
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Monday 05 July 2004 19:04, Rich wrote: This problem has plagued me for over 2 months and I'm at my wits end. I've been in the process of moving for the past 3-4 months so haven't been able to do anything about it. The problem , in a nutshell, is that I can not write to my

Re: [newbie] Floppy Problems

2004-07-05 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 05 July 2004 22:53, Rich wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Monday 05 July 2004 19:04, Rich wrote: This problem has plagued me for over 2 months and I'm at my wits end. I've been in the process of moving for the past 3-4 months so haven't been able to do anything about it. The

Re: [newbie] 10.0 performance tweaks?

2004-07-05 Thread Lanman
Ronald J. Hall wrote: Thanks for the reply, Lanman. (good to see you on the list). Yup. Still here, except when I'm lurking on the Commodore64 lists for some advanced programming tips. Today, we're working on getting a mouse to work! Yeah! Life is good! (smirk) Lanman

Re: [newbie] Export Mozillah Messenger Mail Settings to Thunderbird

2004-07-05 Thread Lanman
EE wrote: Export Mozilla Messenger Mail Settings to Thunderbird How to do so? EE; Call me crazy and impetuous, but the help page at Thunderbird's web-site might help a teeny weeny bit! http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/faq.html#q2.2 Knock yourself out! Lanman

Re: [newbie] rosegarden - no sound

2004-07-05 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 19:11:44 +0200 Frans Ketelaars [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe it's named WaveTable? I think the problem is that rosegarden isn't connected to the WaveTable synthesizer with aconnect. I don't Well, it's supposed to have a wavetable sequencer, but timidity++ seems to be able

Re: [newbie] Can't find RealPlayer

2004-07-05 Thread Eric Huff
In a console, type : which realplay instead of using the command 'which', you could use the command 'type'. Using type also tells you if it is an embedded bash program or not. It finds more programs if you use it. Try 'type time', and then 'which time', and you'll see the difference. ~

Re: [newbie] interesting feature with sym links and progs

2004-07-05 Thread Eric Huff
Here's something i didn't know. Apparently, a program can find out what sym link was called to run it: soffice - /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice* spadmin - /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice* If i run soffice, i get soffice. If i run spadmin, i get the printer setup

Re: [newbie] rosegarden - no sound

2004-07-05 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 19:11:44 +0200 Frans Ketelaars [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And 65:0 is a WaveTable port to which the output of Rosegarden should be connected. OK. So I try connecting it and something isn't working right. Rosegarden is port 128, and port 65 is the kernel connection to the

Re: [newbie] Floppy Problems

2004-07-05 Thread Rich
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Monday 05 July 2004 19:04, Rich wrote: This problem has plagued me for over 2 months and I'm at my wits end. I've been in the process of moving for the past 3-4 months so haven't been able to do anything about it. The problem , in a nutshell, is that I can not write to my

Re: [newbie] Can't find RealPlayer

2004-07-05 Thread John Drouhard
Eric Huff wrote: In a console, type : which realplay instead of using the command 'which', you could use the command 'type'. Using type also tells you if it is an embedded bash program or not. It finds more programs if you use it. Try 'type time', and then 'which time', and you'll see the

Re: [newbie] Linux fails to read CD rom

2004-07-05 Thread Marek Pawinski
Sujit Apte wrote: Hi every body, I am new linux user with some solaris background. Recently I installed mandrake linux 10 on my home pc. The problem I am facing is as follows :- Linux system did identify and read contents of installation CDs. However if I insert other CD containing some PDF and

Re: [newbie] Linux fails to read CD rom

2004-07-05 Thread Sujit Apte
Hi Marek, Thanks a lot for your inputs here !! :-) I will try the same.. ~Sujit.. Marek Pawinski wrote: Sujit Apte wrote: Hi every body, I am new linux user with some solaris background. Recently I installed mandrake linux 10 on my home pc. The problem I am facing is as follows

Re[3]: [newbie] Boot Splash RPMS?

2004-07-05 Thread Justin Grote
On 7/5/2004 at 10:27 PM, Justin Grote ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: JG Thanks, I'll check it out. I was looking more for information JG about what RPM actually implements the theme, but I'll probably JG find it from looking into the bootsplash-themes RPM docs. Just a follow-up as per etiquitte.

Re: [newbie] Can't find RealPlayer

2004-07-05 Thread Eric Huff
Try 'type time', and then 'which time', and you'll see the difference. Well I guess that wouldn't be a good example would it? lol, didn't realize there really was an executable called time. Try 'type type' and 'which type'. Then you'll see Ahhh, there we go: ~ $ type type type is a

Re: [newbie] CD4

2004-07-05 Thread Kanwar Lal Guriro
Yes I got the system up and running by cancelling CD4. But that is just basic configuration. Now that I want to install more packaged, system asks me for CD4. Like it installed Open Office by default. But now I want to install KOffice. I know it is in these CDs but still it asks for 4th CD. I

[newbie] ipv6 implementation with freenet6 ?

2004-07-05 Thread Marc Hultquist
Just out of curiosity has anyone gotten a connection working between a mdk10ce and freenet6.net ? I am just looking at it and have done it many times in the past with debian and unix based systems like OpenBSD and the likes, just out of bordem I am thinking of getting a IPv6 address for my mdk

Re: [newbie] Console command to format a usb pendrive?

2004-07-05 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 16 June 2004 11:18 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: Can anyone feed me the console command for bash to reformat a usb pen drive? It is fat 32 now and somehow write protected but has no manual write protection switch. Any ideas are appreciated. I think I have