Re: [newbie] SanDisk Cruzer Mini USB Flash Drive

2004-07-18 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 18 July 2004 01:56 am, Carl J. Bauman wrote: -Okay, this is in the Boy, do I feel stupid category. I was plugging -it into a front-of-the-case USB slot and I guess I didn't hook it up -correctly when I installed the mobo in this case. After reading your -response, I tried one of the

Re: [newbie] Real Audio Player

2004-07-18 Thread Graham Watkins
Stephen Kuhn wrote: Are you trying to install it as root, or as yourself? My earlier reply appears not to have been delivered. Installing as root - as always. -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus

Re: [newbie] Xmms crashes

2004-07-18 Thread SME Server Admin
On Friday 09 Jul 2004 12:07, Bryan Phinney wrote: arts is the default sound system in KDE. You can, however, turn arts completely off and use OSS directly, you just won't get sounds in KDE or if you do get sounds, they won't coexist with other items such as xmms. To disable arts, disable it

[newbie] XawScreen

2004-07-18 Thread SME Server Admin
Hiya Is there a log file entry somewhere for XawScreen? I'm trying out a TV card and it keeps crashing. Or rather, all it does it starts to load then just vanishes??? Running Mandrake 10 Cheers Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from

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

2004-07-18 Thread rikona
Hello Lee and Paul, On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 21:36:47 +0200 Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed 9.1 and 10.0 on my Dell 4200 and it runs like a charm... I heard of many other Dells being fine with Mdk. Friday, July 16, 2004, 9:40:32 AM, Lee wrote: LW I here negative comments about Dell in

Re: [newbie] Getting online with DSL modem

2004-07-18 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Tuesday 06 July 2004 15:46, Amy wrote: Jeff Reid wrote: Hello, I downloaded Mandrake 10 recently, and it works fine except for sound issues and an inability to get on the Net with it. My primary concern right now is getting online. I have SBC Yahoo! DSL, and I am using a

Re: [newbie] Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG

2004-07-18 Thread Henriette Holm
Thanks a lot for all your help. I'll give it a try when I come back from my holiday. Thanks again. -Henriette <-Original Message-> >From: Kaj Haulrich >Sent: 7/16/2004 11:17:48 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [newbie] Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG > >On Friday 16 July 2004 21:56,

[newbie] BitTorrent

2004-07-18 Thread Marco Verheul
Hi all, I want to start exploring BitTorrent. What client and/or setup do you recommend for mdk 10.0? Cheers, Marco -- Registered Linux user #268279 -- * This message is composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * *

Re: [newbie] import ms fonts?

2004-07-18 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: John Layt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 10:32:40 +1200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] import ms fonts? On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 22:21, Angus Auld wrote: Hi everyone, I finally have installed Mdk10.0, and I'm in the process of getting

[newbie] cdrom4 woes

2004-07-18 Thread Angus Auld
Greetings all, I am stumped as to how to get around the insert cdrom4 message when I try to install some softwares with rpmdrake. I do not have cdrom4, and therefore cannot insert it. Is there some way to get around this?? Google hasn't been a lot of help. I tried disabling cdrom4 in software

Re: [newbie] cdrom4 woes

2004-07-18 Thread SME Server Admin
On Sunday 18 Jul 2004 14:32, Angus Auld wrote: Greetings all, I am stumped as to how to get around the insert cdrom4 message when I try to install some softwares with rpmdrake. There is a 4 CD pack for members of Mandrake's website... Otherwise everyone else has a 3 CD pack HTH Elwyn

[newbie] Link to Charles Edwards site please?

2004-07-18 Thread Lanman
I don't know how it happened, but I've managed to lose the URL for Charles Edwards's RPM site. Would someone be kind enough to send it along? TIA Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Link to Charles Edwards site please?

2004-07-18 Thread Lanman
Lanman wrote: I don't know how it happened, but I've managed to lose the URL for Charles Edwards's RPM site. Would someone be kind enough to send it along? TIA Lanman Thanks, I found it ! Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] apt-get for Mandrake 10 Official

2004-07-18 Thread Lanman
I'm trying an experiment on Mandrake 10.0 Official and I need an RPM for apt-get that will install on it. If anyone has found something, can you send me the link? TIA Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Link to Charles Edwards site please?

2004-07-18 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 18 July 2004 11:38 am, Lanman wrote: -Lanman wrote: - I don't know how it happened, but I've managed to lose the URL for - Charles Edwards's RPM site. Would someone be kind enough to send it along? - - TIA - - Lanman - -Thanks, I found it ! - -Lanman and just for the archives, a quick

[newbie] Updates

2004-07-18 Thread Charles A Edwards
Newly updated for Mdk 10.0 bogofilter-0.92.2-0.1mdk.i586.rpm freelords-0.3.3-0.1mdk.i586.rpm gaim-0.80-0.1mdk.cae.i586.rpm gaim-festival-0.80-0.1mdk.cae.i586.rpm gaim-perl-0.80-0.1mdk.cae.i586.rpm gaim-tcl-0.80-0.1mdk.cae.i586.rpm gimp2_0-2.0.3-0.1mdk.cae.i586.rpm

Re: [newbie] cdrom4 woes

2004-07-18 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 18 July 2004 08:25 am, Todd Slater wrote: snip Josenildo, are you talking about installing Mandrake in general or Balsa in particular? I installed 10.0 without a hitch, but there were many apps i wanted to install that were on cd 4, so

Re: [newbie] Link to Charles Edwards site please?

2004-07-18 Thread Lanman
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 18 July 2004 11:38 am, Lanman wrote: -Lanman wrote: - I don't know how it happened, but I've managed to lose the URL for - Charles Edwards's RPM site. Would someone be kind enough to send it along? - - TIA - - Lanman - -Thanks, I found it ! - -Lanman and just for

Re: [newbie] apt-get for Mandrake 10 Official

2004-07-18 Thread Eric Jackson
On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 11:43:00 -0400, Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying an experiment on Mandrake 10.0 Official and I need an RPM for apt-get that will install on it. If anyone has found something, can you send me the link? TIA Lanman Try this. Mandrake 10.X

Re: [newbie] Link to Charles Edwards site please?

2004-07-18 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 18 July 2004 12:01 pm, Lanman wrote: -Thanks Ron. That's how I found it. Should have thought of that before -sending the post. DoH! - -Lanman Don't even mention it Lanman, if I had a dollar for every doh moment I've pulled...well...I wouldn't be on this list talking to you - I'd be on

Re: [newbie] little OT gimp question

2004-07-18 Thread Aron Smith
On Sunday 18 July 2004 06:50 am, Thereidos wrote: Silly to ask but have anyone tried to move a layer around the canvas in gimp? I cannot find the way to do that... help :) There is a Gimp muser Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] apt-get for Mandrake 10 Official

2004-07-18 Thread Avi Schwartz
On Jul 18, 2004, at 10:54, Eric Jackson wrote: On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 11:43:00 -0400, Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying an experiment on Mandrake 10.0 Official and I need an RPM for apt-get that will install on it. If anyone has found something, can you send me the link? TIA Lanman

Re: [newbie] apt-get for Mandrake 10 Official

2004-07-18 Thread Lanman
Avi Schwartz wrote: On Jul 18, 2004, at 10:54, Eric Jackson wrote: On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 11:43:00 -0400, Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying an experiment on Mandrake 10.0 Official and I need an RPM for apt-get that will install on it. If anyone has found something, can you send me the

[newbie] Grip on Mandrake 10

2004-07-18 Thread SME Server Admin
Hi Folks Whats the setup to get Grip to rip CDs to MP3? At the moment I've got the encoding setup to oggenc because all the others wont work :( Others tried are: gogo, mp3encode, xingmp3enc, l3enc, lame, bladeenc For mp3encode for example I've got the following settings Encoder Command Line:

Re: [newbie] Grip on Mandrake 10

2004-07-18 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 06:10:20PM +0100, SME Server Admin wrote: Hi Folks Whats the setup to get Grip to rip CDs to MP3? At the moment I've got the encoding setup to oggenc because all the others wont work :( Others tried are: gogo, mp3encode, xingmp3enc, l3enc, lame, bladeenc For

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

2004-07-18 Thread frankieh
John Wilson wrote: On July 17, 2004 06:24 am, Richard Urwin wrote: On Thursday 15 Jul 2004 8:03 pm, 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

Re: [newbie] little OT gimp question

2004-07-18 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-07-18 at 23:50, Thereidos wrote: Silly to ask but have anyone tried to move a layer around the canvas in gimp? I cannot find the way to do that... help :) I choose the layer in the navigation window and then can hover the mouse over the bit you want to move around (say, for

Re: [newbie] OT? Running compiled kicker applets?

2004-07-18 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-07-18 at 23:58, hackhound wrote: I just downloaded a applet called Webklip (http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=13241), compiled it, and installed it. I assume that after restarting X-windows it should show up in the 'Add Applet menu' when I right-click on Kicker,

Re: [newbie] cdrom4 woes

2004-07-18 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Charlie Mahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 09:45:21 -0600 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] cdrom4 woes -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 18 July 2004 08:25 am, Todd Slater wrote: snip Josenildo, are you

Re: [newbie] cdrom4 woes

2004-07-18 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 18 July 2004 12:23 pm, Angus Auld wrote: chomp Sorry to butt in. Whatever apps are available from CD4, plus a lot more. are still available from the mirror sites and other locations. The exception is Club packages, you're on your own

Re: [newbie] Grip on Mandrake 10

2004-07-18 Thread SME Server Admin
On Sunday 18 Jul 2004 18:47, Todd Slater wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 06:10:20PM +0100, SME Server Admin wrote: Hi Folks Whats the setup to get Grip to rip CDs to MP3? MandrakeSoft can't package mp3 encoders due to licensing restrictions, so you'll have to download and install an

Re: [newbie] little OT gimp question

2004-07-18 Thread Thereidos
Dnia nie 18. lipca 2004 20:13, Stephen Kuhn napisa: On Sun, 2004-07-18 at 23:50, Thereidos wrote: Silly to ask but have anyone tried to move a layer around the canvas in gimp? I cannot find the way to do that... help :) I choose the layer in the navigation window and then can hover the

Re: [newbie] Can't find RealPlayer

2004-07-18 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Monday 05 July 2004 12:14, Stephen Kuhn wrote: 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

[newbie] Re: Xmms crashes

2004-07-18 Thread John Zoetebier
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 08 July 2004 01:24 pm, C. Tresenriter wrote: I'd thought it had something to do with the Arts soundwrapper - which I remember solved another problem in the past but removing it from the xmms info in the menu tool didn't help. Seems like I resolved this in

Re: [newbie] Grip on Mandrake 10

2004-07-18 Thread Aron Smith
On Sunday 18 July 2004 10:10 am, SME Server Admin wrote: Hi Folks Whats the setup to get Grip to rip CDs to MP3? At the moment I've got the encoding setup to oggenc because all the others wont work :( Others tried are: gogo, mp3encode, xingmp3enc, l3enc, lame, bladeenc For mp3encode for

[newbie] Big troubles after re-partitioning

2004-07-18 Thread Marv Boyes
I did a bad, bad thing, and I'm hoping that someone can help me with it. I used Partition Commander to wipe out the Mandrake 9.1 partition on my secondary's machine's hard drive, then gave all of the free space to Windows [not to worry; it's a gaming machine. My primary box is still blissfully

Re: [newbie] OT? Running compiled kicker applets?

2004-07-18 Thread hackhound
I've fixed the problem with the --prefix=/usr option in configuration. If I remember correctly, the binary ended up in /usr/local/share or something. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

Re: [newbie] Big troubles after re-partitioning

2004-07-18 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Marv Boyes wrote: I did a bad, bad thing, and I'm hoping that someone can help me with it. I used Partition Commander to wipe out the Mandrake 9.1 partition on my secondary's machine's hard drive, then gave all of the free space to Windows [not to worry; it's a gaming machine. My primary box is

Re: [newbie] Big troubles after re-partitioning

2004-07-18 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Sunday 18 July 2004 23:53, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Marv Boyes wrote: I did a bad, bad thing, and I'm hoping that someone can help me with it. I used Partition Commander to wipe out the Mandrake 9.1 partition on my secondary's machine's hard drive, then gave all of the free space

Re: [newbie] x-mplayer2

2004-07-18 Thread Paul Smith
_nasturtium wrote: Thanks, _nasturtium. I have just installed KMPlayer, but the problem persists at the problematic site: http://www.tsf.sapo.pt/online/primeira/default.asp I cannot hear anything at the site above. Does KMPlayer work on any other sites (if not, do you see the embedded player)?

Re: [newbie] Big troubles after re-partitioning

2004-07-18 Thread Erylon Hines
On Sunday 18 July 2004 03:29 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: | On Sunday 18 July 2004 23:53, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: | Marv Boyes wrote: | I did a bad, bad thing, and I'm hoping that someone can help me | with it. | | I used Partition Commander to wipe out the Mandrake 9.1 | partition on my

Re: [newbie] Big troubles after re-partitioning

2004-07-18 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Sunday 18 July 2004 05:44 pm, Marv Boyes wrote: Is there any hope of fixing this, so that I can boot Windows-- as installed --on that drive? Or am I facing a reinstall here? Any help would be greatly appreciated; thanks very much in advance. You didn't mention which version of windows you

Re: [newbie] Big troubles after re-partitioning: SOLVED

2004-07-18 Thread Marv Boyes
Everything's cool. ;) You see, the _real_ reason I panicked is that I was certain I didn't have a WinMe (the version, BTW-- sorry I didn't specify) boot floppy anywhere. Or if I did, there was no telling in which cardboard box of other woefully obsolete stuff it ended up in. As it turns out,

Re: [newbie] Big troubles after re-partitioning

2004-07-18 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 18 July 2004 05:53 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: snip Try booting to DOS, and run fdisk /mbr and see if that fixes it. (Undocumented option in DOS fdisk to restore the Master Boot Record.) Mikkel Mikkel: I believe that in the newer versions of Windows the command is now fixmbr.

[newbie] Fw: Fw: Abbott Costello buy a computer

2004-07-18 Thread JoeHill
Begin forwarded message: A clever parody of Abbott and Costello's famous sketch Who's on first? Costello calls to buy a computer from Abbott .. ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you? COSTELLO: Thanks. I'm setting up an office in my den and I'm thinking about buying

Re: [newbie] apt-get for Mandrake 10 Official

2004-07-18 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 18 July 2004 12:13 pm, Avi Schwartz wrote: What is the advantage apt-get has over urpm*? I used it only for a short amount of time on Debian and as far as I can tell, the urpm* suite of programs seem to be equivalent to apt-get. But as I said, I am not fluent when it comes to

Re: [newbie] Noob question of the day

2004-07-18 Thread Eric Huff
EH So, if i have xinetd and sshd running, is that duplicating EH services? Only if your xinetd configuration has sshd enabled under xinetd. If not, you can run xinetd and sshd simultaneously (since, like I said, xinetd is basically just a wrapper for services, and if sshd isn't enabled, it

Re: [newbie] Big troubles after re-partitioning: SOLVED

2004-07-18 Thread Phil Savoie
Hey Marv, I haven't followed the thread so don't know what help you have been given. However the follwing website may help for the future: http://www.shaneo.com/bootdisks Regards, Phil On July 18, 2004 20:02, Marv Boyes wrote: Everything's cool. ;) You see, the _real_ reason I panicked

[newbie] same problem in mdk 10

2004-07-18 Thread Song
Hi All, Just install Mandrake-10.0. Everything went OK without any kind of problem. Lots of improvement in graphic. Love it for that! KDE is going candy style IMHO. I've been always been a good GNOME Desktop guy. Except only that it have the same problem as in Mandrake-9.2. This problem is that I

Re[2]: [newbie] Noob question of the day

2004-07-18 Thread Justin Grote
HB Ok I don't pretend to understand but mine are different can you explain HB the relevance: HB [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ nmap localhost -p 0-65535 HB WARNING: Scanning port 0 is supported, but unusual. HB Starting nmap 3.50 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2004-07-17 08:26 HB CDT HB

Re: [newbie] SanDisk Cruzer Mini USB Flash Drive

2004-07-18 Thread Carl J. Bauman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 18 July 2004 01:56 am, Carl J. Bauman wrote: -Okay, this is in the Boy, do I feel stupid category. I was plugging -it into a front-of-the-case USB slot and I guess I didn't hook it up -correctly when I installed the mobo in this case. After reading your

Re: [newbie] Setting up CPAN

2004-07-18 Thread Carl J. Bauman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For instance, the site tells me that I should do this: cpan makepl_arg: LIB=/path/to/my/site_perl but I don't know what Mandrake 10's /path/to/my/site_perl should be. You should be able to determine the path to your installations site_perl directory by issuing the

[newbie] Blank LogDrake Mail Alerts

2004-07-18 Thread Jerry Cornelius
I asked about this 3 days ago and got one response which didn't help. Every hour, about 24 times a day (though some are skipped), I'm getting an email which says it's a logDrake Mail Alert in the subject. The body of the email has the date and time. There is no other information. Is it