Re: [newbie] MS Wants The Skin Off Our Backs!!

2004-07-16 Thread Allan Peak
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 22:32:01 -0400, Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On July 15, 2004 12:51, Graham Watkins wrote: Literally http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1254911,00.html At least they haven't (yet) started trying to use our bodies to generate

[newbie] Uninstall fonts

2004-07-16 Thread EE
Dears, How can I unisntall fonts? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

RE: [newbie] Assistance with postifx

2004-07-16 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Chris, The host name you are sending from is not on the net. So if I for example was to try to connect to your server I would not be able to. The Earth link server checks to see if you exist on the net, if you don't exist they think it is a spam relay and dump it. Tony. -Original

Re: [newbie] visual linux

2004-07-16 Thread Josenildo Marques
Em Qui, 2004-07-15 às 22:48, Steve Jeppesen escreveu: On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 22:10:47 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just bear in mind that unless you can reconfigure the source code, you're not going to get it installed properly on MDK 10.0; I've done my trying for the alloted

Re: [newbie] Wireless driver

2004-07-16 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 15 July 2004 02:34 am, Kevin Ferguson wrote: Sounds like you need a wireless bridge to do that. However I've never used 3com on linux apart from a wired pcmcia card. That may require a bit of research on your behalf. However D-link

Re: [newbie] Wireless driver

2004-07-16 Thread Roland Hughes
I am using a linksys wireless bridge that works well. It's the Wet54g and links to a linksys base. Roly On Friday 16 July 2004 06:00 am, Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 15 July 2004 02:34 am, Kevin Ferguson wrote: Sounds like you need a

RE: [newbie] MS Wants The Skin Off Our Backs!!

2004-07-16 Thread Ken Walker
At least they haven't (yet) started trying to use our bodies to generate power ;^). When they're granted a patent on that, I'll start getting nervous. Mmmm, perhaps MS have been looking too closely at the Matrix films ! Is the Oracle actually Bill Gates in another form ! Ken -Original

[newbie] Interupt Lost

2004-07-16 Thread Rich
Yesterday my computer (Mdk10) wouldn't boot. The error message was hda interupt lost . It kept trying to boot but kept pausing with the same message over and over. I shut down and tried again and it booted normally. Today, the same thing only I had to power down and up 3 times before it

Re: [newbie] Interupt Lost

2004-07-16 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 16 July 2004 10:41 am, Rich wrote: Yesterday my computer (Mdk10) wouldn't boot. The error message was hda interupt lost . It kept trying to boot but kept pausing with the same message over and over. I shut down and tried again and it booted normally. Today, the same thing only I

Re: [newbie] Xmms crashes

2004-07-16 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Friday 09 July 2004 13:14, Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 08 July 2004 10:24 am, C. Tresenriter wrote: I have 10.0 Official installed and get sound with Realplay but xmms has problems. When I load a CD to play and click on a track it crashes. If I start a stream, it buffers and looks

[newbie] Postfix problem?

2004-07-16 Thread Jerry Cornelius
I've been getting one of these emails every hour for the last 2 days. It's not very descriptive. Can anyone tell me what's going on? =-=-= Status: R Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from me.porcupine.tld ([67.101.35.24]) by killdeer (EarthLink SMTP Server) with ESMTP id

Re: [newbie] Interupt Lost

2004-07-16 Thread Rich
Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 16 July 2004 10:41 am, Rich wrote: Yesterday my computer (Mdk10) wouldn't boot. The error message was hda interupt lost . It kept trying to boot but kept pausing with the same message over and over. I shut down and tried again and it booted normally. Today, the

[newbie] Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG

2004-07-16 Thread Henriette Holm
Hi. Has anyone here any experience getting a Intel pro/wireless 2200BG to work under (Mandrake 10) linux? Apparently it's only suppose to work with a 2.6.4+ kernel (see link below) and since I'm running a 2.6.3-something kernel I probably need to do something about this - help please.

Re: [newbie] Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG

2004-07-16 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 16 July 2004 17:08, Henriette Holm wrote: Hi. Has anyone here any experience getting a Intel pro/wireless 2200BG to work under (Mandrake 10) linux? Apparently it's only suppose to work with a 2.6.4+ kernel (see link below) and since I'm running a 2.6.3-something kernel I probably

Re: [newbie] Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG

2004-07-16 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 16 July 2004 17:49, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 16 July 2004 17:08, Henriette Holm wrote: Hi. Has anyone here any experience getting a Intel pro/wireless 2200BG to work under (Mandrake 10) linux? Apparently it's only suppose to work with a 2.6.4+ kernel (see link below) and

Re: [newbie] How to decypher dialupscript

2004-07-16 Thread John Richard Smith
The Other wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:45:10 +0100, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, before I do that, I could install an earlier version of kppp and see how that performs(My MD8.1 is running on some very ancient version)as I don't think any dependencies in say the MD9.1's

Re: [newbie] Postfix problem?

2004-07-16 Thread LtCdData
LOL... i was sending my cron mails to my isp every 4 hours (after a reinstall ) some time back untill they mailed me as told me OOPS )) anyway i changed my aliases for root to my own account ... the end.. )) there is a line in /etc/postfix/aliases root: root -- change it to you On Friday

Re: [newbie] Interupt Lost

2004-07-16 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 16 July 2004 11:09 am, Rich wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 16 July 2004 10:41 am, Rich wrote:   Yesterday my computer (Mdk10) wouldn't boot.  The error message was hda interupt lost .  It kept trying to boot but kept pausing with the same message over and over.  I shut down

Re: [newbie] Uninstall fonts

2004-07-16 Thread Marco Verheul
On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 10:49, EE wrote: Dears, How can I unisntall fonts? Go to Mandrake Control Center - System - Fonts, select a font and press Uninstall. Cheers, Marco -- Registered Linux user #268279 -- * This

Re: [newbie] MP3U files (stupid newbie question-so shoot me

2004-07-16 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Friday 09 July 2004 00:44, Aron Smith wrote: 1. what is a MP3u file ? I know it is necessary for the mp3 player in my truck to read the disk How do I generate the file as i have a couple of gigs of mp3s with no mp3u files? I dont know what a mp3u file is but I have 27G of mp3 files and they

Re: [newbie] How to decypher dialupscript

2004-07-16 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Friday 16 July 2004 12:01 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: The Other wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:45:10 +0100, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, before I do that, I could install an earlier version of kppp and see how that performs(My MD8.1 is running on some very

Re: [newbie] Uninstall fonts

2004-07-16 Thread EE
On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 20:19, Marco Verheul wrote: On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 10:49, EE wrote: Dears, How can I unisntall fonts? Go to Mandrake Control Center - System - Fonts, select a font and press Uninstall. Cheers, Marco Marco, I can't get Mandrake Control CEnter to run. I

Re: [newbie] MP3U files (stupid newbie question-so shoot me

2004-07-16 Thread Lanman
Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Friday 09 July 2004 00:44, Aron Smith wrote: 1. what is a MP3u file ? I know it is necessary for the mp3 player in my truck to read the disk How do I generate the file as i have a couple of gigs of mp3s with no mp3u files? I dont know what a mp3u file is but I have 27G of mp3

[newbie] Dell Dimension 3250 ok for Mandrake?

2004-07-16 Thread rikona
Hello newbie, A friend is extremely upset with his Win XP box and is thinking of using Mandrake. Anyone know if this box will install Mandrake easily? Do Dells give problems, in general? I checked the twiki. Another Dell is there and I'm hoping for the best. -- Thanks, rikona

Re: [newbie] Dell Dimension 3250 ok for Mandrake?

2004-07-16 Thread Paul
Op Fri, 16 Jul 2004 12:28:49 -0700 schreef rikona: A friend is extremely upset with his Win XP box and is thinking of using Mandrake. Anyone know if this box will install Mandrake easily? Do Dells give problems, in general? I checked the twiki. Another Dell is there and I'm hoping for

Re: [newbie] Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG

2004-07-16 Thread Henriette Holm
Now here comes the silly question (since I've never touched the kernel before). Do I just installed the rpm file and hope for the best, or? Step-by-step instructions, please :o) Thanks -Henriette <-Original Message-> >From: Kaj Haulrich >Sent: 7/16/2004 6:06:45 PM >To: [EMAIL

[newbie] html tags help

2004-07-16 Thread EE
Dears, What can I say, I got a short memory. I forgot my html tags attributes. Is there am html help/documentation with LM10? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] html tags help

2004-07-16 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 16 July 2004 04:07 pm, EE wrote: Dears, What can I say, I got a short memory. I forgot my html tags attributes. Is there am html help/documentation with LM10? http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/ -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Dell Dimension 3250 ok for Mandrake?

2004-07-16 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 21:36:47 +0200 Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Op Fri, 16 Jul 2004 12:28:49 -0700 schreef rikona: A friend is extremely upset with his Win XP box and is thinking of using Mandrake. Anyone know if this box will install Mandrake easily? Do Dells give problems, in

Re: [newbie] html tags help

2004-07-16 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 23:07:20 +0300 EE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dears, What can I say, I got a short memory. I forgot my html tags attributes. Is there am html help/documentation with LM10? http://html-tags.info/ will help Lee Want

Re: [newbie] Uninstall fonts

2004-07-16 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 16 July 2004 21:09, EE wrote: On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 20:19, Marco Verheul wrote: On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 10:49, EE wrote: Dears, How can I unisntall fonts? Go to Mandrake Control Center - System - Fonts, select a font and press Uninstall. Cheers, Marco Marco, I

Re: [newbie] Ethernet problem on ASUS motherboards

2004-07-16 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
On July 15, 2004 20:06, Lanman wrote: Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: I've seen some people on this list having trouble getting their network interfaces working. This may be unrelated, but FYI: http://www.mozillaquest.com/Linux04/Asus_Sucks_Story-01.html The moral of the story is don't

[newbie] OT on mobos and chipsets

2004-07-16 Thread Todd Slater
Seems like I only post ot questions lately :( I'm thinking about building a new computer. My needs are pretty typical home user stuff. I want to network it (haven't decided on wired or wireless yet), be able to watch TV on it, and possibly make dvd's from recorded TV. Basically I've decided I

Re: [newbie] Ethernet problem on ASUS motherboards

2004-07-16 Thread Lanman
Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On July 15, 2004 20:06, Lanman wrote: Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: I've seen some people on this list having trouble getting their network interfaces working. This may be unrelated, but FYI: http://www.mozillaquest.com/Linux04/Asus_Sucks_Story-01.html The moral of the

Re: [newbie] Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG

2004-07-16 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 16 July 2004 21:56, Henriette Holm wrote: Now here comes the silly question (since I've never touched the kernel before). Do I just installed the rpm file and hope for the best, or? Step-by-step instructions, please :o) Thanks -Henriette -Original Message- From: Kaj

Re: [newbie] 10.0 hostname problem

2004-07-16 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Thursday 08 July 2004 22:01, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 09 July 2004 07:12 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: -On Thursday 08 July 2004 02:45 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: - - Anyone have any ideas whats going on here? Thanks! - -Hate to suggest something so ungeeky, but have you tried opening up

[newbie] screen scrolls (desktop bigger than screen)

2004-07-16 Thread Christopher J. Bottaro
hello, when i set my screen resolution to anything higher than 1024x768 in the MCC, then my desktop becomes bigger than the screen and when i move the mouse off the end of the screen, it scrolls the screen. how can i avoid this? i just want my entire desktop to fit on my screen at a high

Re: [newbie] New Spam Solution on the way

2004-07-16 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Thursday 08 July 2004 18:04, Bryan Phinney wrote: For anyone that owns their own domain and runs their own Mail server. Have you ever been the victim of a joe-job where some slimy spambucket forges your domain name in his from during a spam run and you suddenly get inundated with

Fwd: Re: [newbie] Acerfirm installed OK

2004-07-16 Thread et
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] Acerfirm installed OK Date: Thursday 15 July 2004 06:11 am From: Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: et [EMAIL PROTECTED] Updating the real cause for those that follow: The problem was with confusing 'acerfirm' and 'u96v121.bin'. In the

[newbie] Configuring Klipper to launch Firefox?

2004-07-16 Thread hackhound
I have configured Klipper with the following line to launch Firefox when a link in a text file is highlighted, and it works if Firefox is not open. The problem is when I try it while Firefox is already open. It's supposed to open in a new window, but instead It opens the profile manager asking

[newbie] Doom

2004-07-16 Thread Josenildo Marques
Hi. I have just installed Doom, but it doesn't work. $ prboom prboom v2.2.4 (http://prboom.sourceforge.net/) Z_Init : Allocated 8064Kb zone memory IdentifyVersion: IWAD not found I'd like to know where I can find more rpm's of cool games (I think there is a game list, isn't there ?) TIA --

Re: [newbie] Configuring Klipper to launch Firefox?

2004-07-16 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 05:49:35PM -0500, hackhound wrote: I have configured Klipper with the following line to launch Firefox when a link in a text file is highlighted, and it works if Firefox is not open. The problem is when I try it while Firefox is already open. It's supposed to open in

RE: [newbie] OT on mobos and chipsets

2004-07-16 Thread Budhi Astiyadi
You should buy mobo with NForce2 Ultra 400 Chipset. If You sound maniac, choose that come with MCP-T Southbridge, the price is little higher. If You have more money, buy two identicel memory that can run dual channel, or Dual Channel Kit. Maybe 256 MB x 2 is very good. But, you should not

[newbie] Help with Grub

2004-07-16 Thread Sohail Mamdani
Hello, My primary OS is Fedora Core 2, which I installed on my laptop using the following partitioning scheme. /dev/hda1 : /boot /dev/hda2: / (root partition) /dev/hda3: swap. I just installed Mandrake 10.0 on some free space that I had (about 10 gb, I think) and during the installation, I told

Re: [newbie] How to decypher dialupscript

2004-07-16 Thread John Richard Smith
Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Friday 16 July 2004 12:01 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: The Other wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:45:10 +0100, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, before I do that, I could install an earlier version of kppp and see how that performs(My MD8.1

Re: [newbie] changing eth0 module

2004-07-16 Thread Bill W.
Hi, I finally checked and it appears that I am running the 2.6 kernel. Can you remember the appropriate file that needs to be edited? Thanks and regards, Bill W. - Original Message - From: Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 1:00 PM

Re: [newbie] Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG

2004-07-16 Thread Frank
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 16 July 2004 21:56, Henriette Holm wrote: Now here comes the silly question (since I've never touched the kernel before). Do I just installed the rpm file and hope for the best, or? Step-by-step instructions, please :o) Thanks -Henriette -Original Message-

Re: [newbie] New drive install

2004-07-16 Thread Frank
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 10:49, Andrewd wrote: Is there anywhere on the web that someone could point me to for installing new HD. Current set up 1 HD 8g Windoz ME 12g Mandrake 10 want to install a second hd (80gig) and put Mandrake on it. Basically using this for music and

[newbie] new monitor, starting X causes no signal

2004-07-16 Thread Christopher J. Bottaro
btw, i'm the one who started that thread switching from fedora core, need advice. decided to give mandrake a try. i have to admit urpmi is pretty nice...=) fonts look different than fedora, but thats just something i'll get used to. 3 programs crashed within an hour of using it, but

Re: [newbie] Help with Grub

2004-07-16 Thread Guy Rouillier
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 21:26:32 -0400 Sohail Mamdani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, My primary OS is Fedora Core 2, which I installed on my laptop using the following partitioning scheme. /dev/hda1 : /boot /dev/hda2: / (root partition) /dev/hda3: swap. I just installed Mandrake 10.0 on

Re: [newbie] OT on mobos and chipsets

2004-07-16 Thread Clint Harshaw
Todd Slater wrote: Seems like I only post ot questions lately :( I'm thinking about building a new computer. My needs are pretty typical home user stuff. I want to network it (haven't decided on wired or wireless yet), be able to watch TV on it, and possibly make dvd's from recorded TV. Basically

Re: [newbie] new monitor, starting X causes no signal

2004-07-16 Thread Charlie Mahan
On Friday 16 July 2004 09:54 pm, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote: btw, i'm the one who started that thread switching from fedora core, need advice. decided to give mandrake a try. i have to admit urpmi is pretty nice...=) fonts look different than fedora, but thats just something i'll get used

[newbie] Tiscali Uk Help

2004-07-16 Thread Richard Mace Tiscali
Hi, A little background to myself: I have been using Mandrake for over two years now (7.3 onwards), and am experienced in setting up awkward hardware (eg winmodems, parrallel port scanners). I am not a newbie, but not an expert either. I have recently switched from dial up to Tiscali

Re: [newbie] MP3U files (stupid newbie question-so shoot me

2004-07-16 Thread Aron Smith
On Friday 16 July 2004 12:17 pm, Lanman wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Friday 09 July 2004 00:44, Aron Smith wrote: 1. what is a MP3u file ? I know it is necessary for the mp3 player in my truck to read the disk How do I generate the file as i have a couple of gigs of mp3s with no mp3u files?