[newbie] Re: Mandrake Club

2004-08-24 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Derek Jennings wrote: Do not be under any illusion. Mandrake Club membership does not give you many 'monetary' advantages. It is really just a way for people who would otherwise buy boxed sets to use the download edition and still contribute back. Wouldn't be better if Mandrake Club offered

Re: [newbie] Emails are being sent with my username but I didn't send them :(

2004-08-24 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
--- JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 02:33:58 +0200 Kaj Haulrich disseminated the following: Bofore doing any further USA-bashing, I'd like you to consider : I did not intend any 'bashing', as I said, I only meant to point out that this phenomena is present and

[newbie] Re: Microsoft patents sudo.

2004-08-24 Thread John Zoetebier
franki wrote: Have you guys seen this yet? http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1Sect2=HITOFFd=PALLp=1u=/netahtml/srchnum.htmr=1f=Gl=50s1=6,775,781.WKU.OS=PN/6,775,781RS=PN/6,775,781 Microsoft has patented the technology behind sudo. Wonder if they will have any issues

Re: [newbie] i2c pooblems w/lm_sensors.

2004-08-24 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Monday 23 August 2004 23:58, mike wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: I installed lm_sensors-2.8.5.tar.gz and everything went ok (no errors). But when I run sensors-detect the following happens: [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]# sensors-detect No i2c device files found. Use prog/mkdev/mkdev.sh to create

Re: [newbie] Re: Microsoft patents sudo.

2004-08-24 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 17:25, John Zoetebier wrote: As the SCO case is proving, this is probably an illusion. John Zoetebier Probably is NOT reality. Reality is that it IS an illusion. The SCO case against IBM is the same; but they're hoping to hit idiot courtrooms with marketing tactics; in

Re: [newbie] start up script for mandrake

2004-08-24 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Monday 23 August 2004 09:44 pm, lmcilwain wrote: I can't seem to find any rpms so I am stuck with what I have which I know are the latest version. I looked at the rpms that I have on my cd but I didn't see a vnc server on it. Which is why I believe that I downloaded thee source before.

Re: [newbie] Emails are being sent with my username but I didn't send them :(

2004-08-24 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 03:08, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: --- JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 02:33:58 +0200 Kaj Haulrich disseminated the following: Bofore doing any further USA-bashing, I'd like you to consider : I did not intend any 'bashing', as I said, I only

Re: [newbie] i2c pooblems w/lm_sensors.

2004-08-24 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 03:22, Thereidos wrote: W li?cie z wto, 24-08-2004, godz. 07:07, Rob Blomquist pisze: On Monday 23 August 2004 2:55 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I installed lm_sensors-2.8.5.tar.gz and everything went ok (no errors). But when I run sensors-detect the following happens:

Re: [newbie] i2c pooblems w/lm_sensors.

2004-08-24 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 00:07, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Monday 23 August 2004 2:55 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I installed lm_sensors-2.8.5.tar.gz and everything went ok (no errors). But when I run sensors-detect the following happens: [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]# sensors-detect No i2c device

[newbie] OT Back on 2k

2004-08-24 Thread Lee Wiggers
Well, over the weekend I put the office boxes back on win2k. It was a tough decision, but I had no choice. Friday afternoon one of the boxes dropped out of the network. Usually a service smb restart sorted everything out but not this time. Never could get it to see the network printer again,

Re: [newbie] Re: Mandrake Club

2004-08-24 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 22 August 2004 01:50 pm, Miroslav Skoric wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: Do not be under any illusion. Mandrake Club membership does not give you many 'monetary' advantages. It is really just a way for people who would otherwise buy boxed sets to use the download edition and still

[newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-24 Thread Kaj Haulrich
Dear list... I am sorry for bothering you with this, but knowing that some of you have Windows on your box, I rely on your forgiveness : A week ago I had to buy a new PC for one of my daughters (14 years old). She absolutely needed Windows in order to run some special, school-related apps.

Re: [newbie] i2c pooblems w/lm_sensors.

2004-08-24 Thread Thereidos
W licie z wto, 24-08-2004, godz. 12:45, Hoyt Bailey pisze: Ah theres the rub, I had lm_sensors-2.8.4 installed from the rpm and the cpu temp was1616F which seemed a little high, I was advised that I needed lm_sensors-2.8.5 and the source was all I could find for that version. The problem

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-24 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 09:33 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Dear list... I am sorry for bothering you with this, but knowing that some of you have Windows on your box, I rely on your forgiveness : A week ago I had to buy a new PC for one of my daughters (14 years old). She absolutely needed

[newbie] Keyboard Problem

2004-08-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I have a Notebook on which is installed Linux Mandrake, now i have a problem using the keyboard. I can't type these 2 digits '{' and '}', so i think i have problems with the keypad, i tryed to set the keyboard using the KDE configuaration tool and even by the shelldoes any anyone can

Re: [newbie] i2c pooblems w/lm_sensors.

2004-08-24 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 09:43 am, Thereidos wrote: W licie z wto, 24-08-2004, godz. 12:45, Hoyt Bailey pisze: Ah theres the rub, I had lm_sensors-2.8.4 installed from the rpm and the cpu temp was1616F which seemed a little high, I was advised that I needed lm_sensors-2.8.5 and the source

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-24 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 10:33 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: 1. A good, reliable firewall for Windows (preferably OSS and free) ? Zonealarm is free for personal use and is supposed to be as good as personal firewall solutions go. Keep in mind that trojans, worms and the like often shut those off

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-24 Thread frankieh
Kaj Haulrich wrote: Dear list... I am sorry for bothering you with this, but knowing that some of you have Windows on your box, I rely on your forgiveness : A week ago I had to buy a new PC for one of my daughters (14 years old). She absolutely needed Windows in order to run some special,

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-24 Thread frankieh
Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Tuesday 24 August 2004 09:33 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Dear list... I am sorry for bothering you with this, but knowing that some of you have Windows on your box, I rely on your forgiveness : A week ago I had to buy a new PC for one of my daughters (14 years old). She

Re: [newbie] Keyboard Problem

2004-08-24 Thread Q.H. Wang
During installation you should have to choose the keyboard configuration. Can you go to MCC to check whether it's correct or not (what kind of keyboard do you have, Italian?)? I set English over a Portuguese keyboard. It works quite well.

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-24 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
--- frankieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: downloading the database that was when I got all kinds of infection once the database was installed it was AOK. They do have on their website removers for most infections, IIRC you have to be a paid up member to get them ($15

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-24 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 11:13:05PM +0800, frankieh wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: Dear list... ... Suddenly, when she tries to send an e-mail (from within Mozilla, of course, I'm not THAT stupid), up pops a message from our ISP saying that the box is compromized, accordingly the smtp-server

[newbie] Kmail quit sending messages

2004-08-24 Thread Hoyt Bailey
This is the second or third time this has happened to me and I cant find any way to recover except to uninstall kontact and reinstall. There just has to be a better way, will someone tell me what it is? -- Regards: Hoyt Registered Linux User # 363264 http://counter.li.org

Re: [newbie] Keyboard Problem

2004-08-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The system recognized the keyboard automaticallyi also tried to change the keyboard layout from italian to english but it doesn't work! I'm using a Notebookand i think the problem is thank the (FN key, function key to use the keypad) is not recognozed by the systemis there a general

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-24 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
--- Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear list... I am sorry for bothering you with this, but knowing that some of you have Windows on your box, I rely on your forgiveness : A week ago I had to buy a new PC for one of my daughters (14 years old). She absolutely needed Windows in

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-24 Thread Lanman
Kaj Haulrich wrote: Dear list... I am sorry for bothering you with this, but knowing that some of you have Windows on your box, I rely on your forgiveness : A week ago I had to buy a new PC for one of my daughters (14 years old). She absolutely needed Windows in order to run some special,

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-24 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 10:16 am, frankieh wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Tuesday 24 August 2004 09:33 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Dear list... I am sorry for bothering you with this, but knowing that some of you have Windows on your box, I rely on your forgiveness : A week ago I had to

Re: [newbie] Kmail quit sending messages

2004-08-24 Thread Aron Smith
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 08:53 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: This is the second or third time this has happened to me and I cant find any way to recover except to uninstall kontact and reinstall. There just has to be a better way, will someone tell me what it is? check you out box you might have a

Re: [newbie] OT Back on 2k

2004-08-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 05:40 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: Meanwhile, I'm comfy with my three mdk boxes on my desk and everyone else breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the old familiar desktop. Sad, I know. Lee Lee, at least you gave it a shot - lots wouldn't have even tried. So take

Re: [newbie] Re: Mandrake Club

2004-08-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 22 August 2004 01:50 pm, Miroslav Skoric wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: Do not be under any illusion. Mandrake Club membership does not give you many 'monetary' advantages. It is really just a way for people who would otherwise buy boxed sets to use the download edition and still

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-24 Thread PM
On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 17:33, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Dear list... I am sorry for bothering you with this, but knowing that some of you have Windows on your box, I rely on your forgiveness : A week ago I had to buy a new PC for one of my daughters (14 years old). She absolutely needed

Re: [newbie] Re: Mandrake Club

2004-08-24 Thread PM
On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 16:54, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Sunday 22 August 2004 01:50 pm, Miroslav Skoric wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: Do not be under any illusion. Mandrake Club membership does not give you many 'monetary' advantages. It is really just a way for people who would

Re: [newbie] Kmail quit sending messages

2004-08-24 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 11:19 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Tuesday 24 August 2004 08:53 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: This is the second or third time this has happened to me and I cant find any way to recover except to uninstall kontact and reinstall. There just has to be a better way, will

Re: [newbie] Keyboard Problem

2004-08-24 Thread Q.H. Wang
I also use a laptop (Compaq Presario 2815). What do you get in the section InputDevice of your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4? Do you have there pc104 or pc105 keyboard? Mine is pc105. HTH. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] i2c pooblems w/lm_sensors.

2004-08-24 Thread Thereidos
W licie z wto, 24-08-2004, godz. 17:03, Hoyt Bailey pisze: [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ sensors Can't access procfs/sysfs file Unable to find i2c bus information; For 2.6 kernels, make sure you have mounted sysfs and done 'modprobe i2c_sensor'! For older kernels, make sure you have done

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-24 Thread Thereidos
W licie z wto, 24-08-2004, godz. 16:33, Kaj Haulrich pisze: snip 1. A good, reliable firewall for Windows (preferably OSS and free) ? 2. A spyware/trojan/worm cleaner capable of removing all malware ? 3. Shutting down the whole kaboodle and wait for SP2 ? Many thanks and apologies in

RE: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-24 Thread Wally Brown
You can try Adware. It detects and removes a lot of spyware. Some other scanners will detect it as spyware itself, but it is harmless and safe. It gets detected as such in that it may from time to time report back any new spyware it finds to the software company that writes it. Zone alarm is

Re: [newbie] Keyboard Problem

2004-08-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mine too...the layout is ITif this can help you when i try this sequence under the shell FN+ALT+(keypad nums to make ascii signs) the shell tell me all linux commands ! thanks -- Initial Header --- From : [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc :

[newbie] Enabling XML module in Apache 2.0

2004-08-24 Thread Vincent Voois
Is there any way to enable the xml module without reinstalling apache sources and using the ./configure --with-xml option? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-24 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 18:21, PM wrote: big whack Hi Kaj, I see you've received plenty of replies re adaware, Zone Alarm etc. You say that you need XP for school related apps, but does this include internet access? If not, I would suggest you dual-boot, set up a FAT 32 partition to

[newbie] Updates

2004-08-24 Thread Charles A Edwards
A couple updates for Mdk 10.0 bogofilter-0.92.6-0.1mdk.i586.rpm bookcase-0.10-0.1mdk.i586.rpm sylpheed-claws-0.9.12a-1.2mdk.i586.rpm sylpheed-claws-clamav-plugin-0.9.12a-1.2mdk.i586.rpm sylpheed-claws-devel-0.9.12a-1.2mdk.i586.rpm sylpheed-claws-dillo_viewer-plugin-0.9.12a-1.2mdk.i586.rpm

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-24 Thread Anthony Cull
Replys within... Kaj Haulrich wrote: A week ago I had to buy a new PC for one of my daughters (14 years old). She absolutely needed Windows in order to run some special, school-related apps. The PC came with WinXP pre-installed. So this was a school pc? Yer I know the sort of apps you are

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-24 Thread N. B. Day
On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 14:23, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Whack If everything fails, I will buy a router or let her connect through my Linux box, eventually, but I'm too lazy and frustrated to set it up right now. I cannot for my souls sake get into my head, that some people voluntarily runs

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-24 Thread SiNiStEr Nation
Lanman wrote: Lyvim Xaphir wrote: --- Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 24 August 2004 10:33 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: 1. A good, reliable firewall for Windows (preferably OSS and free) ? Zonealarm is free for personal use and is supposed to be as good as personal firewall

RE: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-24 Thread Wally Brown
The best way to fix all of this is to format your drive, install Linux and install wine. I am really surprise to find how many schools have gone the Windows route when there are so many free Linux distributions available and many of the office packages are as good if not better than Microsoft's

Re: [newbie] Burning files to a cd from the console

2004-08-24 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 06:39:59PM -0400, SiNiStEr Nation wrote: I've installed Mandrake about week to two weeks ago and slowly learning the system. My question is I have several files that I have downloaded, and was wondering what's the process of burning these file to a cd? I know I could

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-24 Thread Aron Smith
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 12:23 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 24 August 2004 18:21, PM wrote: big whack Hi Kaj, I see you've received plenty of replies re adaware, Zone Alarm etc. You say that you need XP for school related apps, but does this include internet access? If

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-24 Thread Aron Smith
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 03:12 pm, Wally Brown wrote: I'm disappointed that Mandrake doesn't seem to include a copy of xkill with it's distribution, it was the best part of the old release. Wally It is do a left control alt escape move the mouse to the progrm and hit enter

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-24 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 18:26, Aron Smith wrote: On Tuesday 24 August 2004 12:23 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 24 August 2004 18:21, PM wrote: snip Thanks again, folks My Neighbor claims (with a straight face no less that his win boxhas never been hacked ..i didn't tell him ;-) )

Re: [newbie] Burning files to a cd from the console

2004-08-24 Thread Thereidos
W licie z ro, 25-08-2004, godz. 00:59, Todd Slater pisze: On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 06:39:59PM -0400, SiNiStEr Nation wrote: I've installed Mandrake about week to two weeks ago and slowly learning the system. My question is I have several files that I have downloaded, and was wondering

Re: [newbie] Burning files to a cd from the console

2004-08-24 Thread yankl
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 18:59, Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 06:39:59PM -0400, SiNiStEr Nation wrote: I've installed Mandrake about week to two weeks ago and slowly learning the system. My question is I have several files that I have downloaded, and was wondering what's the

Re: [newbie] start up script for mandrake

2004-08-24 Thread lmcilwain
Now for for the exit is that a separate script? If I want to do a /etc/init.d /vncserver start is that just #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/X11/vncserver -user -depth 16 -geometry 1280x1024 :1 and for /etc/init.d/vncserver stop is that just To exit, killall Xvnc and both of these are just executable scripts

RE: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-24 Thread Wally Brown
Great! Thanks I've been trying to find it... I might not have lost all my menus if I knew where it was. I was installing the Mandrake documentation and it crashed. After trying everything, I rebooted the box (properly). When I logged back in, the installation re-started and completed

[newbie] dvdshrink and wine

2004-08-24 Thread evolt
Having some troubles running dvdshrink under wine. Installed the latest wine rpm because I read changes had been made to make dvdshrink work better. Anyone have success running dvdshrink with wine and mdk 10? Joe Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] i2c pooblems w/lm_sensors.

2004-08-24 Thread mike
Hoyt Bailey wrote: I saw that and did as instructed the installation went well, no errors, the problem is after installation while running sensors-detect. The program cant find i2c and its there in the right place I think. Running 2.6.3.15mdk. I didnt find an rpm for lm_sensors-2.8.5.

Re: [newbie] dvdshrink and wine

2004-08-24 Thread Vincent Voois
What kind of troubles do you have with DVDShrink? I usually use DVDDecrypter if DVDShrink does not succeed, when i got the decrypted vob files on HD i then use DVDshrink to reauthor or compress elements of the DVD. This is a good test to see if it operates properly at all. And burning with