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

2004-08-27 Thread Dale Kosan
Power Supply? On Aug 27, 2004, at 1:46 AM, charlie wrote: 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

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

2004-08-27 Thread charlie
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 04:22 pm, Dale Kosan wrote: Power Supply? On Aug 27, 2004, at 1:46 AM, charlie wrote: 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

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

2004-08-27 Thread John Richard Smith
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 could see. So went into a

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

2004-08-27 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 26 August 2004 11:13, John Richard Smith wrote: 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

[newbie] sp2 may have done something good

2004-08-27 Thread Amy
Hey everyone! My dad's always asking for help with his computer, and I try to give it to him the best I can. The trouble is, he's running a windows XP box. At least, despite his lack of a virus scanner, he hasn't been killed yet. Probably because he's had it just long enough that he could still

Re: [newbie] sp2 may have done something good

2004-08-27 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 05:58, Amy wrote: Hey everyone! Anyhow, thanks for all the help you've given me thus far, and thanks in advance for putting up with me as I start off on this adventure of bringing my technologically inept father out of the evil embrace of windows. ^_^ Amy

Re: [newbie] sp2 may have done something good

2004-08-27 Thread Lanman
seriously snipped! Stephen Kühn wrote: more snippage I think Amy's dad will learn from all this that there is much more to the world of computers than just Microsoft; and actually is a safer, more secure world - where you can enjoy your computing and surfing time in relative safety and comfort.

Re: [newbie] sp2 may have done something good

2004-08-27 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 07:28, Lanman wrote: Now for my 2 cents,... Folks, if you think SP2 is gonna sway a lot of Microsoft users over to Linux, just wait until Microsoft releases LongHorn! There's gonna be a huge groundswell of people switching to linux when that happens! Lanman Yah

Re: [newbie] sp2 may have done something good

2004-08-27 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 21:28, Lanman wrote: Now for my 2 cents,... Folks, if you think SP2 is gonna sway a lot of Microsoft users over to Linux, just wait until Microsoft releases LongHorn! There's gonna be a huge groundswell of people switching to linux when that happens! Lanman As

Re: [newbie] sp2 may have done something good

2004-08-27 Thread Lanman
LX, You bet I would! They've just been getting better and better at it, while raising the price of getting Horned! Even so, I have to agree with Stephen too. Microsoft is quickly becoming their own worst enema too! Or was that a typo? Hmm,...maybe not! Lanman

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

2004-08-27 Thread John Richard Smith
Kaj Haulrich wrote: Is Kmail going flaky or are Lanman's mail becoming sacred or precious? Charlie. Happened to me in Mozilla . Don't remember whose mail it was, but on this list. I was deleting one message, and it was loading the next, when it locked up tight. John Happens to me quite

Re: [newbie] i2c pooblems w/lm_sensors.

2004-08-27 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Friday 27 August 2004 00:27, Rob Blomquist wrote: snip BTW, I believe that the path /mkdev/mkdev.sh is meant to be within the source code folder, so that a program that usually runs during make or make-install is run. I finally found /mkdev.sh burried in lm_sensors-2.8.5 directory.

Re: [newbie] sp2 may have done something good

2004-08-27 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Friday 27 August 2004 04:58, Amy wrote: Just one suggestion dont tell yor father or brother what the root password is. -- Regards: Hoyt Registered Linux User # 363264 http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] sp2 may have done something good

2004-08-27 Thread BJ Tracy
On Friday 27 August 2004 07:28 am, Lanman wrote: snip Folks, if you think SP2 is gonna sway a lot of Microsoft users over to Linux, just wait until Microsoft releases LongHorn! There's gonna be a huge groundswell of people switching to linux when that happens! Lanman Question: Being from

Re: [newbie] kontact problem

2004-08-27 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Friday 27 August 2004 06:17, Lanman wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: I have just had an interesting session, last night when I shut down I noticed that I had 3 emails in the outbox. Normal procedure has been to save .Mail to Mail uninstall kontact reinstall kontact then I can send the emails.

Re: [newbie] i2c pooblems w/lm_sensors.

2004-08-27 Thread Thereidos
W licie z pi, 27-08-2004, godz. 14:44, Hoyt Bailey pisze: On Friday 27 August 2004 00:27, Rob Blomquist wrote: snip BTW, I believe that the path /mkdev/mkdev.sh is meant to be within the source code folder, so that a program that usually runs during make or make-install is run. I

Re: [newbie] sp2 may have done something good

2004-08-27 Thread Lanman
BJ Tracy wrote: On Friday 27 August 2004 07:28 am, Lanman wrote: snip Folks, if you think SP2 is gonna sway a lot of Microsoft users over to Linux, just wait until Microsoft releases LongHorn! There's gonna be a huge groundswell of people switching to linux when that happens! Lanman Question:

Re: [newbie] sp2 may have done something good

2004-08-27 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 27 August 2004 07:13 am, Lanman wrote: Amy, Tell your father that we welcome him back from the Dark Side Grin! And, our sympathies about the delousing;-} -- Bryan Phinney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] sp2 may have done something good

2004-08-27 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 27 August 2004 09:29 am, BJ Tracy wrote: Question: Being from Texas I know what a Long Horn is, what is it in the MS world? Longhorn is to software what a jackelope is to Texas, IIRC. -- Bryan Phinney Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] i2c pooblems w/lm_sensors.

2004-08-27 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Friday 27 August 2004 08:58, Thereidos wrote: W licie z pi, 27-08-2004, godz. 14:44, Hoyt Bailey pisze: On Friday 27 August 2004 00:27, Rob Blomquist wrote: snip BTW, I believe that the path /mkdev/mkdev.sh is meant to be within the source code folder, so that a program that

Re: [newbie] sp2 may have done something good

2004-08-27 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 23:29, BJ Tracy wrote: On Friday 27 August 2004 07:28 am, Lanman wrote: snip Folks, if you think SP2 is gonna sway a lot of Microsoft users over to Linux, just wait until Microsoft releases LongHorn! There's gonna be a huge groundswell of people switching to linux

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

2004-08-27 Thread Vincent Voois
charlie wrote: I took a look at mozilla mail but didnt like it I'll check out Thunderbird I must admit kmail is too unstable, on my system, to serve well. I would prefer to address the instability but dont have a clue it may be somewhere else. Something strange happened to me this morning as I

Re: [newbie] sp2 may have done something good

2004-08-27 Thread BJ
Lanman wrote: BJ, Can you say next version of Windows? It's expected to be a 3 CD installation! Lanman Well I have heard of the Long Horn project of M$ ever since Windows98 along with the other differetn project name that the past and current M$ OS before they had their actual names. They

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

2004-08-27 Thread Vincent Voois
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? Start - Control Panel - Administrative tools - Services -

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

2004-08-27 Thread Vincent Voois
Hoyt Bailey wrote: 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

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

2004-08-27 Thread Vincent Voois
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 whenever I try to transfer large files

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

2004-08-27 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 03:31, Vincent Voois wrote: charlie wrote: I took a look at mozilla mail but didnt like it I'll check out Thunderbird I must admit kmail is too unstable, on my system, to serve well. I would prefer to address the instability but dont have a clue it may be somewhere

[newbie] mouse and keyboard problems

2004-08-27 Thread ostap110
Hi i have an old keyboard gateway2000 (the one that has 12 'f' buttons onn the far left), and a relatively new simple laser logitech mouse. It's USB, but I use the P/S 2 adapter that it came with. Whenever I boot mandrake, the keyboard stops working. I tried fixing that by, going thourgh the

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

2004-08-27 Thread Vincent Voois
Kaj Haulrich wrote: Why would you hook up her machine directly to the net when can arrange your Linux box to do all the NAT and firewalling stuff? All required are two ethernet cards and a crosscable (or a hub/switch and two utp cables). It's not an expensive configuration anymore nowadays.

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

2004-08-27 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 27 August 2004 19:22, Vincent Voois wrote: snip The application she requires under windows, does it work in Wine? If it does, why bother keeping her box up with windows? /snip The application in question is Derive from Texas Instruments. Her math teacher insists on it and all her

[newbie] X-86 Will not load

2004-08-27 Thread Steve
I made the mistake of reloading Mandrake 10.0 and forgot that last time I loaded it X86 would not start. Linux tries to start it but, there is a video resolution problem so it dropsto the command line. I fixed it the first time by editing a file that showed the different video resolutions

Re: [newbie] X-86 Will not load

2004-08-27 Thread Paul
Op Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:53:49 -0700 schreef Steve: a video resolution problem so it drops to the command line. I fixed it the first time by editing a file that showed the different video resolutions for the monitor. However, I cannot remember what file it was. Do you know what file that info is

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

2004-08-27 Thread Vincent Voois
Kaj Haulrich wrote: Until I receive a new set of installation CDs from HP, her Windows XP stays disconnected. With the new installation disks at hand, I will install XP, Then Open Office, Mozilla, 5 antivirus, 3 trojan/worm/spyware/ad-ware killers and 2 firewalsl (all downloaded and burned

Re: [newbie] sp2 may have done something good

2004-08-27 Thread Amy
Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Friday 27 August 2004 04:58, Amy wrote: Just one suggestion dont tell yor father or brother what the root password is. Oh you can bet they won't know that 'til I've moved out and given up giving them tech support. ^_^ I know better than to let them install stuff. Who

Re: [newbie] sp2 may have done something good

2004-08-27 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 06:48, Amy wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Friday 27 August 2004 04:58, Amy wrote: Just one suggestion dont tell yor father or brother what the root password is. Oh you can bet they won't know that 'til I've moved out and given up giving them tech support. ^_^ I

[newbie] Book recommendations?

2004-08-27 Thread Peter Davis
I know this is heresy, but I'd love to get recommendations for a book on becoming a Linux power user. It's heresy because I'm supposed to get everything I need from man pages, Google, or reading source code. However, frankly, I don't have the patience for that anymore. I like the orderly

Re: [newbie] sp2 may have done something good

2004-08-27 Thread Amy
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 06:48, Amy wrote: Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Friday 27 August 2004 04:58, Amy wrote: Just one suggestion dont tell yor father or brother what the root password is. Oh you can bet they won't know that 'til I've moved out and given up giving them tech

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Question

2004-08-27 Thread BJ Tracy
On Thursday 26 August 2004 05:58 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Snip Thanks Hoyt, I'm still a little confused. By reading your partitions you have one large hard drive. I have Three (3) and one is working great. Here is what I have then I will ask for advice / help. My new hard drive has /

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Question

2004-08-27 Thread BJ Tracy
On Thursday 26 August 2004 05:58 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: SNIP Thanks Hoyt but I'm still a little confused. From your response you have one large hard drive ( I think that is what I see ). I have three large hard drives - I is perfect and the other two well not sure. My question is: If I go

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Question

2004-08-27 Thread BJ Tracy
Hello All, Thanks Hoyt for responding to my questions. Not sure if you are going to see my responses, I tried to respond and Kmail went nuts and crashed the first time and rebooted itself the second time. What is up with that ?? I have never had any problems with Kmail. Can anyone

[newbie] Redirect video output

2004-08-27 Thread Cdrack
Hi to all. Im wondering if there is a way to redirect the output that goes to the monitor to another device like /dev/video0 (that is my video recording card) to create a stream or something like that. Tnx. Cdrack.

Re: [newbie] sp2 may have done something good

2004-08-27 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 07:17, Amy wrote: Well, I'm hoping I'll get my dad trained properly when I switch him. It only took some pressure before he gave in and gave up TV A/V hookup duty to me for all of his TVs. ^_^ It's amazing that the TV related stuff has worked much better since he

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Question

2004-08-27 Thread cdrack
Hi BJ. In my opinion the size of each partition are given acord the use you intent to give and of course the size of youre disk. i.e. if you have let's say a 80 Gb Hdd. then if youre computer is just for personal usage... the Mandrake Linux Normal instalation will use a partition named / wich

Re: [newbie] Book recommendations?

2004-08-27 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 27 August 2004 23:15, Peter Davis wrote: I know this is heresy, but I'd love to get recommendations for a book on becoming a Linux power user. It's heresy because I'm supposed to get everything I need from man pages, Google, or reading source code. However, frankly, I don't have the

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Question

2004-08-27 Thread charlie
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 07:26 am, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, Thanks Hoyt for responding to my questions. Not sure if you are going to see my responses, I tried to respond and Kmail went nuts and crashed the first time and rebooted itself the second time. What is up with that ?? I have

Re: [newbie] Redirect video output

2004-08-27 Thread obu
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 15:28:27 +, Cdrack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi to all. Im wondering if there is a way to redirect the output that goes to the monitor to another device like /dev/video0 (that is my video recording card) to create a stream or something like that. Tnx. Cdrack. Have You tried

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Question

2004-08-27 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 27 August 2004 04:22 pm, BJ Tracy wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 05:58 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Snip Thanks Hoyt, I'm still a little confused. By reading your partitions you have one large hard drive. I have Three (3) and one is working great. Here is what I have then I will

[newbie] urpmi gone!

2004-08-27 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I ran the command urpmi --auto-select and, afterwards, urpmi itself disappeared. I have already tried installing urpmi via rpm -i, but with no success. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] urpmi gone!

2004-08-27 Thread Paul Smith
Paul Smith wrote: I ran the command urpmi --auto-select and, afterwards, urpmi itself disappeared. I have already tried installing urpmi via rpm -i, but with no success. Rebooting did the trick, but hdlists have disappeared, but I am updating them. Paul

Re: [newbie] urpmi gone!

2004-08-27 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 10:03, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I ran the command urpmi --auto-select and, afterwards, urpmi itself disappeared. I have already tried installing urpmi via rpm -i, but with no success. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul ...and I'll assume you've

[newbie] Kmail going Nuts

2004-08-27 Thread BJ Tracy
On Friday 27 August 2004 05:26 pm, BJ Tracy wrote: Not sure if you are going to see my responses, I tried to respond and Kmail went nuts and crashed the first time and rebooted itself the second time. What is up with that ?? I have never had any problems with Kmail. Can anyone

Re: [newbie] Kmail going Nuts

2004-08-27 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 11:00, BJ Tracy wrote: On Friday 27 August 2004 05:26 pm, BJ Tracy wrote: Not sure if you are going to see my responses, I tried to respond and Kmail went nuts and crashed the first time and rebooted itself the second time. What is up with that ?? I have

Re: [newbie] urpmi gone!

2004-08-27 Thread Paul Smith
Stephen Kühn wrote: ...and I'll assume you've rebooted and double checked in the /usr/sbin directory for any remnants of urpmi and associated programs? Thanks, Stephen. Now, I am trying to do the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] paulus]# urpmi.update Installation CD 1 (x86) (cdrom1)

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Question

2004-08-27 Thread Erylon Hines
On Friday 27 August 2004 03:45 pm, charlie wrote: | On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 07:26 am, BJ Tracy wrote: | Hello All, | | Thanks Hoyt for responding to my questions. | | Not sure if you are going to see my responses, I tried to respond and | Kmail went nuts and crashed the first time and rebooted

Re: [newbie] Kmail going Nuts

2004-08-27 Thread Erylon Hines
| On Friday 27 August 2004 05:26 pm, BJ Tracy wrote: | | | Hello All, | | While answering Hoyt's email, kmail went nuts. The first email response | just crashed my desktop and I had to reboot. The second time I tried to | respond to Hoyt's email (and of course the whole mailing list ) Kmail |

Re: [newbie] urpmi gone!

2004-08-27 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 11:27, Paul Smith wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: ...and I'll assume you've rebooted and double checked in the /usr/sbin directory for any remnants of urpmi and associated programs? Thanks, Stephen. Now, I am trying to do the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] paulus]#

[newbie] Book recommendations?

2004-08-27 Thread Peter Davis
I know this is heresy, but I'd love to get recommendations for a book on becoming a Linux power user. It's heresy because I'm supposed to get everything I need from man pages, Google, or reading source code. However, frankly, I don't have the patience for that anymore. I like the orderly

Re: [newbie] Book recommendations?

2004-08-27 Thread BJ Tracy
On Friday 27 August 2004 09:57 pm, Peter Davis wrote: I know this is heresy, but I'd love to get recommendations for a book on becoming a Linux power user. It's heresy because I'm supposed to get everything I need from man pages, Google, or reading source code. However, frankly, I don't have

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Question

2004-08-27 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 27 August 2004 15:44:03, cdrack wrote: Nice answer. Not entirely accurate but nice. Hi BJ. In my opinion the size of each partition are given acord the use you intent to give and of course the size of youre disk. i.e. Close enough

[newbie] External Drive

2004-08-27 Thread Marc
I just tried to use a USB external drive in ML 10.0 My hopes were that ML would detect it and add a icon to my desktop like my card reader did. I was wrong, it was not that simple. Anyone have any ideas about how to get a External HDD workinh in ML 10.0? TIA Marc -- Composed on a 100%

Re: [newbie] Book recommendations?

2004-08-27 Thread cervixcouch
On Friday 27 August 2004 23:15, Peter Davis wrote: I know this is heresy, but I'd love to get recommendations for a book on becoming a Linux power user. It's heresy because I'm supposed to get everything I need from man pages, Google, or reading source code. However, frankly, I don't have

Re: [newbie] Book recommendations?

2004-08-27 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Friday 27 August 2004 06:39 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 27 August 2004 23:15, Peter Davis wrote: I know this is heresy, but I'd love to get recommendations for a book on becoming a Linux power user. It's heresy because I'm supposed to get everything I need from man pages, Google,