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

2004-08-26 Thread Vincent Voois
Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Wednesday 25 August 2004 16:08, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 25 August 2004 18:55, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: snip Either I am the dumbest person who ever powered up a PC - or Microsoft should be expelled from the Internet until they come up with a real operating system. Thank

Re: [newbie] [HAB] Small Network at Home

2004-08-26 Thread MyEE
Dear Wally, I realy don't know, I am very confused and lost. Can you tell me how can I set up my local network i.e. what IP address should I use? BR Wally Brown wrote: Why is your DNS pointing to 192.168.2.1? Do you have a router handling the DNS? If so, why isn't everything in the same subnet

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

2004-08-26 Thread Vincent Voois
Kaj Haulrich wrote: My daughters PC and I have agreed on an armstice : It will remain disconnected from all and everything until I receive new CD's from HP. Then - maybe - I will try again, now armed with all your advice and one CD full of antispyware/antivirus/antiworm/firewall weapons

Re: [newbie] [HAB] Small Network at Home

2004-08-26 Thread Vincent Voois
MyEE wrote: Dears, I am trying to setup a small network at home consisting of MDK10 and Win98 connected together through by two Ethernet card and a cable using Samba. I setup my network as shown below. I wonder if I am missing anything. Can anyone help with IP addresses. Can anyone point me

RE: [newbie] [HAB] Small Network at Home

2004-08-26 Thread Wally Brown
Okay do you have a router / internet connection? If not point your DNS to the same address as the Linux box. The configure your SAMBA to match the Windows 98 settings. From the Windoze box you should then be able to see the Linux box. From here it is just a case of configuring SAMBA to

Re: [newbie] [HAB] Small Network at Home

2004-08-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 26 August 2004 05:00, MyEE wrote: Dears, I am trying to setup a small network at home consisting of MDK10 and Win98 connected together through by two Ethernet card and a cable using Samba. I setup my network as shown below. I wonder if I am missing anything. Can anyone help

[newbie] kde dead and gone

2004-08-26 Thread Frank
Right now I am unable to use kde or any of its apps. I appear to be getting the message that 'kdeinit' is either missing or dead. I am able to use xfce4 but not kppp nor it would seem, wvdial. So no connecting to the internet at present. (The wvdial thing is quitting with something to do with

[newbie] Laptop Easy one Silver

2004-08-26 Thread M.Schild
Hello, A friend just called. She was running Win XP on a Packard Bell Easy One Silver 2101 and it crashed totally. I have been trying to convert her to Linux but before installing it, I would like your opinion. From what I found out on the net, her laptop has: RAM 256Mo , 1GHz ,HD 20 Go. What

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

2004-08-26 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Wednesday 25 August 2004 17:53, Lanman wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Wednesday 25 August 2004 16:08, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 25 August 2004 18:55, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: snip Either I am the dumbest person who ever powered up a PC - or Microsoft should be expelled from the

Re: [newbie] Laptop Easy one Silver

2004-08-26 Thread PM
On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 11:33, M.Schild wrote: Hello, A friend just called. She was running Win XP on a Packard Bell Easy One Silver 2101 and it crashed totally. I have been trying to convert her to Linux but before installing it, I would like your opinion. From what I found out on the net,

Re: [newbie] kde dead and gone

2004-08-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 26 August 2004 09:11, Frank wrote: Right now I am unable to use kde or any of its apps. SNIP During my last session I installed QTCurve, a couple of session ago I installed nVidia for OpenGL. Also during the last session I did urpmi kdelibs and kdebase after seeing a security

Re: [newbie] [HAB] Small Network at Home

2004-08-26 Thread MyEE
Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 05:00, MyEE wrote: Dears, I am trying to setup a small network at home consisting of MDK10 and Win98 connected together through by two Ethernet card and a cable using Samba. I setup my network as shown below. I wonder if I am missing anything.

Re: [newbie] Laptop Easy one Silver

2004-08-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 26 August 2004 09:33, M.Schild wrote: Hello, A friend just called. She was running Win XP on a Packard Bell Easy One Silver 2101 and it crashed totally. I have been trying to convert her to Linux but before installing it, I would like your opinion. From what I found out on the

Re: [newbie] Laptop Easy one Silver

2004-08-26 Thread M.Schild
Hello, A friend just called. She was running Win XP on a Packard Bell Easy One Silver 2101 and it crashed totally. I have been trying to convert her to Linux but before installing it, I would like your opinion. From what I found out on the net, her laptop has: RAM 256Mo , 1GHz ,HD 20 Go.

Re: [newbie] Laptop Easy one Silver

2004-08-26 Thread PM
On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 12:10, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 09:33, M.Schild wrote: Hello, A friend just called. She was running Win XP on a Packard Bell Easy One Silver 2101 and it crashed totally. I have been trying to convert her to Linux but before installing it, I

Re: [newbie] Laptop Easy one Silver

2004-08-26 Thread M.Schild
On Thursday 26 August 2004 09:33, M.Schild wrote: Hello, A friend just called. She was running Win XP on a Packard Bell Easy One Silver 2101 and it crashed totally. I have been trying to convert her to Linux but before installing it, I would like your opinion. From what I found out on the

Re: [newbie] Evolution slow

2004-08-26 Thread Thereidos
W licie z czw, 26-08-2004, godz. 04:37, Peter Davis pisze: On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 20:03, Thereidos wrote: W licie z czw, 26-08-2004, godz. 00:51, Peter Davis pisze: I'm running Ximian/Novell Evolution 1.4.6 on Mandrake 10.0. The system is a 500 MHz Pentium with 256Mb of RAM. Evolutionn

Re: [newbie] Laptop Easy one Silver

2004-08-26 Thread Q.H. Wang
If only choosing from Mandrake 9.1 or 10, I prefer 10. It's very easy to install (my experience is about 20 minutes for clean installation, more than 1 hour for updating). Basically there is no configuration problem and it's very to use. Some guy said 10 is more like a windows. I just take a

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

2004-08-26 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Thursday 26 August 2004 01:00, Vincent Voois wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Wednesday 25 August 2004 16:08, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 25 August 2004 18:55, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: snip Either I am the dumbest person who ever powered up a PC - or Microsoft should be expelled from

Re: [newbie] Laptop Easy one Silver

2004-08-26 Thread PM
On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 12:26, M.Schild wrote: Thank you. It wasn´t on : http://www.linux-laptop.net/ but I found an article in frech on: http://linuxfr.org/~spada/8122.html saying Debian 3.0 installs well on it. The modem only works with the 2.4.23 kernel but the rest functions with

Re: [newbie] kde dead and gone

2004-08-26 Thread Frank
Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 09:11, Frank wrote: Right now I am unable to use kde or any of its apps. SNIP During my last session I installed QTCurve, a couple of session ago I installed nVidia for OpenGL. Also during the last session I did urpmi kdelibs and kdebase

Re: [newbie] Laptop Easy one Silver

2004-08-26 Thread M.Schild
but I found an article in frech on: http://linuxfr.org/~spada/8122.html saying Debian 3.0 installs well on it. The modem only works with the 2.4.23 kernel but the rest functions with 2.6 Problem: how do I get the modem driver if I cannot connect her laptop? Maryse

[newbie] URPMI

2004-08-26 Thread Wolfdreamer
Hi me again. Ok, Ive managed to break URPMI again. I've some how managed to get it to disable the links for: international CD (x86) (cdrom2) international CD (x86) (cdrom3) and when I try using the X configure sources thing it tells me Unable to update medium; it will be automatically

Re: [newbie] Laptop Easy one Silver

2004-08-26 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 26 August 2004 07:16 am, M.Schild wrote: I could have thought of it. Another dumb question: can one put an ext. modem on a laptop? Yes. Most laptops have serial ports in the back and most today have USB ports as well. So, you should be able to hook up an ext modem either to

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

2004-08-26 Thread Lanman
Hoyt Bailey wrote: Now that you mention it spellcheck only works randomly. That is now its working in 5 or 10 seconds it will quit, or not, and it may start again within one reply. With my spelling ability it needs to work all the time and it would be nice if it made suggestions like google

Re: [newbie] Laptop Easy one Silver

2004-08-26 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 21:16, M.Schild wrote: I could have thought of it. Another dumb question: can one put an ext. modem on a laptop? Maryse Ya. If you have a serial port on the laptop (which most do have) you can plug a serial cable into the serial port and then to an external

Re: [newbie] URPMI

2004-08-26 Thread Thereidos
W licie z czw, 26-08-2004, godz. 13:17, Wolfdreamer pisze: Hi me again. Ok, Ive managed to break URPMI again. I've some how managed to get it to disable the links for: international CD (x86) (cdrom2) international CD (x86) (cdrom3) and when I try using the X configure sources thing

Re: [newbie] URPMI

2004-08-26 Thread PM
On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 14:17, Wolfdreamer wrote: Hi me again. Ok, Ive managed to break URPMI again. I've some how managed to get it to disable the links for: international CD (x86) (cdrom2) international CD (x86) (cdrom3) and when I try using the X configure sources thing it tells me

Re: [newbie] Laptop Easy one Silver

2004-08-26 Thread M.Schild
Ya. If you have a serial port on the laptop (which most do have) you can plug a serial cable into the serial port and then to an external modem...which, by all reckoning, is best. Thanks to all of you. Now it is a question if this friend will be brave enough to trust me or if she feels

[newbie] adobe-helvetica fonts

2004-08-26 Thread Piotr Antczak
Hi, I have upgraded few days ago to MDK10.0 from 9.1 (the new instalation). On old instalation I have set adobe-helvetica font as default font on all widgets (menu,title,desktop,...). On new instalation a can't choose font adobe-helvetica (i can see that font in xfontsel, I can use this font

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

2004-08-26 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 26 August 2004 08:11, Vincent Voois wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: My daughters PC and I have agreed on an armstice : It will remain disconnected from all and everything until I receive new CD's from HP. Then - maybe - I will try again, now armed with all your advice and one CD

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

2004-08-26 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 05:07:02 -0500 Hoyt Bailey disseminated the following: Just suppose that Windows was gone completely. The internet would speed up little virus activity would occur. Sure the usage would go down for a while but everyone would be happier. Hey! Something Hoyt and I are in

Re: [newbie] Windows/Linux file transfers

2004-08-26 Thread Piotr Antczak
Dnia czw 26. sierpnia 2004 14:45, Peter Davis napisa: I have a home network with two Windows XP systems and one Mandrake 10.0. (Wrong proportions, I know.) The Mandrake system is new, and I'm trying to figure out how I can get file sharing to work across systems. I can't seem to see a WinXP

Re: [newbie] Windows/Linux file transfers

2004-08-26 Thread Lanman
Peter, replies are inline with your text: Peter Davis wrote: I have a home network with two Windows XP systems and one Mandrake 10.0. (Wrong proportions, I know.) The Mandrake system is new, and I'm trying to figure out how I can get file sharing to work across systems. I can't seem to see a

Re: [newbie] Batch Resizing of icons.

2004-08-26 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Thursday 26 August 2004 07:38, Lanman wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 06:50, Lanman wrote: Does anyone know of a way to resize a batch of icons all at once? I've been looking at Imagemagick, but can't get the command-line to work properly. There seems to be some

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

2004-08-26 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Thursday 26 August 2004 07:51, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 05:07:02 -0500 Hoyt Bailey disseminated the following: Just suppose that Windows was gone completely. The internet would speed up little virus activity would occur. Sure the usage would go down for a while but everyone

Re: [newbie] Batch Resizing of icons.

2004-08-26 Thread Lanman
Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 07:38, Lanman wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 06:50, Lanman wrote: Does anyone know of a way to resize a batch of icons all at once? I've been looking at Imagemagick, but can't get the command-line to work properly. There seems to

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

2004-08-26 Thread frankieh
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 08:11, Vincent Voois wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: My daughters PC and I have agreed on an armstice : It will remain disconnected from all and everything until I receive new CD's from HP. Then - maybe - I will try again, now armed with all your advice

Re: [newbie] Batch Resizing of icons.

2004-08-26 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 07:50:24AM -0400, Lanman wrote: Does anyone know of a way to resize a batch of icons all at once? I've been looking at Imagemagick, but can't get the command-line to work properly. There seems to be some options or info missing from the Man-Page for it, and I can't

Re: [newbie] Batch Resizing of icons.

2004-08-26 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 10:37:43AM -0400, Lanman wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 07:38, Lanman wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 06:50, Lanman wrote: Does anyone know of a way to resize a batch of icons all at once? I've been looking at

[newbie] Radio Ham Question....

2004-08-26 Thread JRH
Hi, I know there are a few Radio Hams who lurk on here I'm looking for the Linux equivalent of CWGET, the soundcard morse decoding program. Anybody know of a linux equivalent? 73's, JRH -- Sent using Kmail, on Mandrake Linux 9.2... Kernel 2.6 Microsoft: Which Virus Would You

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

2004-08-26 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 25 August 2004 07:28 pm, Chris wrote: On Wednesday 25 August 2004 07:32 am, JoeHill wrote: Some aliases you can add to your .bashrc once you get the hang of it (these are courtesy of the great command line CD writing guru Mr. Tom Brinkman): alias bdcd='cdrecord -v -eject

Re: [newbie] Radio Ham Question....

2004-08-26 Thread PM
On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 18:43, JRH wrote: Hi, I know there are a few Radio Hams who lurk on here I'm looking for the Linux equivalent of CWGET, the soundcard morse decoding program. Anybody know of a linux equivalent? 73's, JRH Check the Linux Ham Radio Utilities page at

Re: [newbie] Radio Ham Question....

2004-08-26 Thread Avi Schwartz
On Aug 24, 2004, at 10:43, JRH wrote: I know there are a few Radio Hams who lurk on here I'm looking for the Linux equivalent of CWGET, the soundcard morse decoding program. Using Google I found at the following links you may want to investigate. There are more, I stopped after the

Re: [newbie] [OT] Dumbest question ever asked

2004-08-26 Thread BJ Tracy
Hello All, Quick question, I know someone has asked this before and I thought I saved it but do not seem to find it. I still have one (1) desktop running XP in my office, how do I turn off automatic updates on that pc? I hope do get around to making it a dual boot system but have not had

Re: [newbie] [OT] Dumbest question ever asked

2004-08-26 Thread frankieh
BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, Quick question, I know someone has asked this before and I thought I saved it but do not seem to find it. I still have one (1) desktop running XP in my office, how do I turn off automatic updates on that pc? I hope do get around to making it a dual boot system but

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

2004-08-26 Thread Josenildo Marques
Em Qui, 2004-08-26 às 12:54, Tom Brinkman escreveu: On Wednesday 25 August 2004 07:28 pm, Chris wrote: On Wednesday 25 August 2004 07:32 am, JoeHill wrote: Some aliases you can add to your .bashrc once you get the hang of it (these are courtesy of the great command line CD writing guru

Re: [newbie] [OT] Dumbest question ever asked

2004-08-26 Thread BJ Tracy
On Thursday 26 August 2004 03:36 pm, frankieh wrote: BJ Tracy wrote: I still have one (1) desktop running XP in my office, how do I turn off automatic updates on that pc? ps is there documentation for emacs in mdk10,if so where? Snip In the control panel, click on System and then

Re: [newbie] [OT] Dumbest question ever asked

2004-08-26 Thread Lanman
BJ Tracy wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 03:36 pm, frankieh wrote: BJ Tracy wrote: I still have one (1) desktop running XP in my office, how do I turn off automatic updates on that pc? ps is there documentation for emacs in mdk10,if so where? Snip In the control panel, click on System and

Re: [newbie] [OT] Dumbest question ever asked

2004-08-26 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Thursday 26 August 2004 13:45, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, Quick question, I know someone has asked this before and I thought I saved it but do not seem to find it. I still have one (1) desktop running XP in my office, how do I turn off automatic updates on that pc? An M80 duct taped to

Re: [newbie] URPMI

2004-08-26 Thread Frank
PM wrote: On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 14:17, Wolfdreamer wrote: Hi me again. Ok, Ive managed to break URPMI again. I've some how managed to get it to disable the links for: international CD (x86) (cdrom2) international CD (x86) (cdrom3) and when I try using the X configure sources thing it tells me

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

2004-08-26 Thread charlie
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 10:11 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 06:23, Lanman wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: Now that you mention it spellcheck only works randomly. That is now its working in 5 or 10 seconds it will quit, or not, and it may start again within one reply. With

[newbie] Hard Drive Question

2004-08-26 Thread BJ Tracy
Hello All, Well I finally had to reboot my system because of something I did in the console and it froze up. On the reboot I was watching the screen and there was a bunch of hd errors so I went into Mandrake Mount Points and here is what I found. My desktop has three hard drives and I can

Re: [newbie] [OT] Dumbest question ever asked

2004-08-26 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 26 August 2004 02:45 pm, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, Quick question, I know someone has asked this before and I thought I saved it but do not seem to find it. I still have one (1) desktop running XP in my office, how do I turn off automatic updates on that pc? I hope do get

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

2004-08-26 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Thursday 26 August 2004 16:35, charlie wrote: On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 10:11 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 06:23, Lanman wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: snip Something strange happened to me this morning as I was downloading mail into Kmail. I deleted one of Lanman's mails and

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

2004-08-26 Thread Lanman
Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 16:35, charlie wrote: On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 10:11 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 06:23, Lanman wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: snip Something strange happened to me this morning as I was downloading mail into Kmail. I deleted one of Lanman's

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Question

2004-08-26 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Thursday 26 August 2004 16:45, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, Well I finally had to reboot my system because of something I did in the console and it froze up. On the reboot I was watching the screen and there was a bunch of hd errors so I went into Mandrake Mount Points and here is what I

Re: [newbie] [OT] Dumbest question ever asked

2004-08-26 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 04:45, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, Quick question, I know someone has asked this before and I thought I saved it but do not seem to find it. I still have one (1) desktop running XP in my office, how do I turn off automatic updates on that pc? Right click My

[newbie] Printing

2004-08-26 Thread Steve
I have two linux PCs connected to a wireless router. One of the PCs has a printer, the other does not. Is it difficult to get the one PC to send print jobs to the other PC? It would make printing homework alot easier Thank you, Steve

Re: [newbie] [OT] Dumbest question ever asked

2004-08-26 Thread BJ Tracy
On Thursday 26 August 2004 04:51 pm, Lanman wrote: BJ Tracy wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 03:36 pm, frankieh wrote: BJ Tracy wrote: I still have one (1) desktop running XP in my office, how do I turn off automatic updates on that pc? ps is there documentation for emacs in mdk10,if

[newbie] Mandrake/WIndows file sharing, etc.

2004-08-26 Thread Peter Davis
I thought I sent this message this morning, but it doesn't seem to have shown up. I have a home network with two Windows XP systems and one Mandrake 10.0. (Wrong proportions, I know.) The Mandrake system is new, and I'm trying to figure out how I can get file sharing to work across systems. I

Re: [newbie] Printing

2004-08-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 27 August 2004 00:23, Steve wrote: I have two linux PCs connected to a wireless router. One of the PCs has a printer, the other does not. Is it difficult to get the one PC to send print jobs to the other PC? It would make printing homework alot easier Thank you, Steve It is

Re: [newbie] Mandrake/WIndows file sharing, etc.

2004-08-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 27 August 2004 00:59, Peter Davis wrote: I thought I sent this message this morning, but it doesn't seem to have shown up. I have a home network with two Windows XP systems and one Mandrake 10.0. (Wrong proportions, I know.) The Mandrake system is new, and I'm trying to figure out

Re: [newbie] Printing

2004-08-26 Thread Steve
Thanks, I'll give it a try!!! Steve - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 5:05 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Printing On Friday 27 August 2004 00:23, Steve wrote: I have two linux PCs connected to a wireless

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

2004-08-26 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 17:35, charlie wrote: Something strange happened to me this morning as I was downloading mail into Kmail. I deleted one of Lanman's mails and the Kmail desktop locked up solid, my CPU usage went into the 100% and stayed there. But nothing was happening in Kmail that I

Re: [newbie] Screenshots

2004-08-26 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 03:25, frankieh wrote: Ok, well I'll just have to settle for blaming you for everything that is wrong in Australia. Your a yank, so you should be used to that sort of thing. :-) Nice. I like that. g LX

Re: [newbie] Screenshots

2004-08-26 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 02:59, frankieh wrote: First off, let me say that not everything MS does is bad. Windows does do some stuff well, usually with regards to usability. (before anyone calls me an MS shill, check the list of my stories on: http://htmlfixit.com/article_index.php ) I slag

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

2004-08-26 Thread Eric Huff
Also, for anything but audio cd's an image must be made first, You can do it with a pipe (and not save to disk) if you want to: mkisofs -r $FILE_TO_BURN | cdrecord -v -eject fs=6m speed=4 dev=ATA:1,0,0 - Came in handy when i had filled my drive to where a 600 MB iso wouldn't fit... By the

[newbie] Hardware problem. Keeps rebooting/freezing.

2004-08-26 Thread Paul Rodriguez
A couple of months ago, we had a power surge at our house that harmed the computer. Although the computer was on a surge protector, the cable modem was not, and it fried the eth0 on the motherboard. I have since have had a difficulty whenever I try to transfer large files on the hard drive.

Re: [newbie] Can't get out of X Video Test in Installation

2004-08-26 Thread Steve Jeppesen
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:26:49 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody have the problem of the X Graphical Server test freezing in the installation. This used to happen to me every time I would install a new version of MD. Live and learn after x number of times (probably 10 for me) and

Re: [newbie] looking for print server distro that runs off floppy

2004-08-26 Thread Steve Jeppesen
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 21:52:17 -0600 evolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to run it from a floppy on an old pentium. I need to share a printer with a bunch of windows boxes (samba I suppose). Is this possible? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I am determined to use OSS in some

[newbie] Updates

2004-08-26 Thread Charles A Edwards
New updated rpms for Mdk 10.0 enlightenment-0.16.7.1-0.1mdk.i586.rpm enlightenment-conf-0.15-22.5mdk.cae.i586.rpm gaim-0.82-0.2mdk.cae.i586.rpm gaim-encrypt-0.82-0.2mdk.cae.i586.rpm gaim-festival-0.82-0.2mdk.cae.i586.rpm gaim-perl-0.82-0.2mdk.cae.i586.rpm gaim-tcl-0.82-0.2mdk.cae.i586.rpm

Re: [newbie] Screenshots

2004-08-26 Thread frankieh
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 02:59, frankieh wrote: First off, let me say that not everything MS does is bad. Windows does do some stuff well, usually with regards to usability. (before anyone calls me an MS shill, check the list of my stories on:

Re: [newbie] i2c pooblems w/lm_sensors.

2004-08-26 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 8:03 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: [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 'modprobe

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

2004-08-26 Thread charlie
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 07:58 am, Lanman wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 16:35, charlie wrote: On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 10:11 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 06:23, Lanman wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: snip Something strange happened to me this morning as I

Re: [newbie] Hardware problem. Keeps rebooting/freezing.

2004-08-26 Thread charlie
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 12:55 pm, Paul Rodriguez wrote: A couple of months ago, we had a power surge at our house that harmed the computer. Although the computer was on a surge protector, the cable modem was not, and it fried the eth0 on the motherboard. I have since have had a difficulty