On Friday 27 August 2004 12:52, Stephen Kühn wrote:
On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 03:31, Vincent Voois wrote:
charlie wrote:
snip
It just got upset of Hoyt's remark about Kmail being too unstable.
Kmail unstable?
Outlook and Outlook Express are unstable; Kmail is just, er, quirky.
I dont recall
On Friday 27 August 2004 13:38, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
On Friday 27 August 2004 19:22, Vincent Voois wrote:
snip
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
On Friday 27 August 2004 16:15, 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
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)
On Friday 27 August 2004 16:22, 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.
Yes one 120GB.
Here is what I
On Saturday 28 August 2004 12:50, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
snip
That is one good reason there are others. Have you considered
Win4linux or Crossover Office?
/snip
Win4Linux runs Win98 only, not XP. Crossover doesn't list other
applications then the most common, such as Office. Derive is a
very
On Friday 27 August 2004 16:23, BJ Tracy wrote:
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 ).
Yes.
I have three large hard drives - I is perfect and
On Saturday 28 August 2004 00:38, John Wilson wrote:
On August 27, 2004 08:17 pm, Marc wrote:
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
On Friday 27 August 2004 16:26, 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
On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 15:26, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
Win4Linux runs Win98 only, not XP. Crossover doesn't list other
applications then the most common, such as Office. Derive is a
very special beast.
Never mind Hoyt, Lyvim, John and all you nice people. My daughters
Windows box stays off
Dear All
My computer has a dual boot (Mandrake 10 and Windows2000) and I would
like to enlarge Mandrake's partition at the expense of reducing
Windows2000 partition. So, I am here asking for advice about the safest
and the fastest way of doing this operation.
Thanks in advance,
Paul
I have just hit an old problem with mozilla, having networked my laptop
at last (10 months since receipt). The same version of mozilla (1.4)
runs on my desktop with Mandrake Prosuite 9.2 and on the Sony VAIO
laptop with Mandrake Download Edition 9.2. There is a problem with
saving pages or
On August 28, 2004 05:46 am, et wrote:
On Saturday 28 August 2004 00:38, John Wilson wrote:
On August 27, 2004 08:17 pm, Marc wrote:
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
Thanks Steve and Hoyt for your responses
There seemed to be a problem with the generic S3 video card that I had.
Even when the X Video test crashed the install (I left it for a half hour
and still nothing!) a reboot of the system came up with a working Linux
without the X Server. (since I
On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 23:12, Paul Smith wrote:
Dear All
My computer has a dual boot (Mandrake 10 and Windows2000) and I would
like to enlarge Mandrake's partition at the expense of reducing
Windows2000 partition. So, I am here asking for advice about the safest
and the fastest way of
Hi all,
I'm visiting relatives in Hong Kong and have access to 10Mbps internet for a
week or so.
I've just downloaded Mandrake 10 official.
Can anyone suggest where to get all the updates so I can burn them to cd
before going back home to my 56k dialup?
Also, have to get with MSWindows
Kaj Haulrich wrote:
replies within
On Saturday 28 August 2004 12:21, John Richard Smith wrote:
John, the HP box came with no CDs at all. Instead, the is an icon on
the desktop, labelled create HP restore disks or some such. Being
only human, I was curious and connected to the net first in
On Saturday 28 August 2004 10:56, John Wilson wrote:
On August 28, 2004 05:46 am, et wrote:
On Saturday 28 August 2004 00:38, John Wilson wrote:
On August 27, 2004 08:17 pm, Marc wrote:
I just tried to use a USB external drive in ML 10.0 My hopes were
that ML would detect it and add
On Saturday 28 August 2004 03:12, Thereidos wrote:
W licie z pi, 27-08-2004, godz. 17:24, Hoyt Bailey pisze:
snip
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]# mount /sys
mount: sysfs already mounted or /sys busy
mount: according to mtab, none is already mounted on /sys
snip
Yeah, I had the same problem
On Saturday 28 August 2004 08:12, Paul Smith wrote:
Dear All
My computer has a dual boot (Mandrake 10 and Windows2000) and
I would like to enlarge Mandrake's partition at the expense of
reducing Windows2000 partition. So, I am here asking for
advice about the safest and the fastest way of
On Saturday 28 August 2004 17:33, Unknown wrote:
Hi all,
I'm visiting relatives in Hong Kong and have access to 10Mbps
internet for a week or so.
I've just downloaded Mandrake 10 official.
Can anyone suggest where to get all the updates so I can burn
them to cd before going back home to
It's the newbness in me. lol have to check everything out to see what is
what, and during this process I had changed my menu from the MDK default
style to KDE style. How can I get the MDK menu style back. Because of
this it also had altered my taskbar and it's back to the default layout.
I had
On Saturday 28 August 2004 09:37, Len Lawrence wrote:
I have just hit an old problem with mozilla, having networked
my laptop at last (10 months since receipt). The same version
of mozilla (1.4) runs on my desktop with Mandrake Prosuite 9.2
and on the Sony VAIO laptop with Mandrake Download
Before I had redone my computer switching my MDK to my 160gb hdd I was
able to watch movies with totem, but now when a movie is in my DVD Rom I
can't click on Play Movie in the menu when it comes up. How can I fix
this problem?
Bobby
Want to
Hello,
in the site of Charles Edwars i found the Rekall (a database GUI for
MySQL, PosgreSQL, etc...) compiled for Mandrake 10, but when i urpmi, i
have this error:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] jusoz]# urpmi rekall
No se puede instalar algún paquete pedido:
librekall2-2.2.0-0.1mdk.i586 (debido a que no se
On Saturday 28 August 2004 10:33, Unknown wrote:
Hi all,
I'm visiting relatives in Hong Kong and have access to 10Mbps
internet for a week or so.
I've just downloaded Mandrake 10 official.
Can anyone suggest where to get all the updates so I can burn
them to cd before going back home to
On Sunday 29 August 2004 01:55 pm, Bobby wrote:
Before I had redone my computer switching my MDK to my 160gb hdd I was
able to watch movies with totem, but now when a movie is in my DVD Rom I
can't click on Play Movie in the menu when it comes up. How can I fix
this problem?
We probably need
I just loaded Mandrake 10 and want to add new
programs like the latest version of Open Office, AOL Instant Messenger and a
couple of others so I downloaded those files. They are tar'd and gzipped.
However, I do not seem to have a program in KDE to unzip them. When I right
click on them it
I just loaded Mandrake 10 and want to add new programs like the latest
version of Open Office, AOL Instant Messenger and a couple of others
so I downloaded those files. They are tar'd and gzipped. However, I do
not seem to have a program in KDE to unzip them. When I right click on
them it
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 02:31:40 +1000
Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Save the attachment to your drive; un-tar/un-gzip it; cd into the virus
directory; type sudo ./configure make make install; then run sudo
/usr/bin/virus - sit back and watch your system fry.
pedant viruses should
They are tar'd and gzipped.
However, I do not seem to have a program in KDE to unzip them.
At the command line you can tar -xvzf filname.tgz or whatever it is
called
I made an alias for it since i use it a lot:
alias untar='tar -xvzf'
eric
--
Mandrake HowTo's More:
On Saturday 28 August 2004 11:17 am, Steve wrote:
I just loaded Mandrake 10 and want to add new programs like the latest
version of Open Office, AOL Instant Messenger and a couple of others so I
downloaded those files. They are tar'd and gzipped. However, I do not seem
to have a program in KDE
On Saturday 28 August 2004 13:31, jose usoz wrote:
I just loaded Mandrake 10 and want to add new programs like
the latest version of Open Office, AOL Instant Messenger and
a couple of others so I downloaded those files. They are
tar'd and gzipped. However, I do not seem to have a program
Are UltraATA 100 IDE drives backward-compatible to conventional
IDE?
I'm running a dual Windows XP / Linux-Mandrake box with an Asus
A7V133 motherboard. I've decided to add a second HDD 1) to rip
my CD collection to and 2) as backup media for my primary HDD.
I'm finding some pretty good deals on
On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 15:31, John Wilson wrote:
On August 27, 2004 04:28 am, Lanman wrote:
seriously snipped!
viciously and heartlessly snipped
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
On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 18:48, Harald T ZIPKO wrote:
After upgrading webmin to the actual version via webmin.com the hosts
are not accessible via https anymore??
Not very safe, I guess... ;-)
--
(o- Best regards
//\ Harald T ZIPKO
V/_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No html-mails please
Having
On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 00:37, Len Lawrence wrote:
I have just hit an old problem with mozilla, having networked my laptop
at last (10 months since receipt). The same version of mozilla (1.4)
runs on my desktop with Mandrake Prosuite 9.2 and on the Sony VAIO
laptop with Mandrake Download
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
On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 04:35, David E. Fox wrote:
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 02:31:40 +1000
Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Save the attachment to your drive; un-tar/un-gzip it; cd into the virus
directory; type sudo ./configure make make install; then run sudo
/usr/bin/virus - sit
On Saturday 28 August 2004 03:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
Brian Parish wrote:
My computer has a dual boot (Mandrake 10 and Windows2000) and I would
like to enlarge Mandrake's partition at the expense of reducing
Windows2000 partition. So, I am here asking for advice about the safest
and the fastest way of doing this operation.
It depends on whether
I figure this one ought to keep the conversation going for a while.
I have been going through a Linux from Scratch build just for the learning
experience, and something has just dawned on me. If a Linux system needs to
be built from a host system, how did the first linux system get built?
In
On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 16:31, jmb10 wrote:
Sup folks.
i'd say i'm new to linux, other might not, but i'll post here anyway.
i have just installed Mandrake 10.0 and have not done any modification
at all. i'm in gnome using the totem player, streaming some audio and
here's my problem:
Dear All
I removed all the media and, afterwards, I added all of them.
Surprisingly, now, whenever I run MandrakeUpdate, all hdlists are
updated at startup, which is not very convenient, specially if they are
already updated. Any ideas to solve this?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 05:21, Paul Smith wrote:
Brian Parish wrote:
My computer has a dual boot (Mandrake 10 and Windows2000) and I would
like to enlarge Mandrake's partition at the expense of reducing
Windows2000 partition. So, I am here asking for advice about the safest
and the fastest
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On Saturday 28 August 2004 13:23:01, Greg Meyer wrote:
I figure this one ought to keep the conversation going for a while.
I have been going through a Linux from Scratch build just for the learning
experience, and something has just dawned on me.
Stephen Kühn wrote:
Thanks, Brian. The reason for enlarging my Linux partition is the fact
that I have installed so many things that I am fearing that I am
reaching the limit of my hard disk capacity. (My Linux partition has 8,5
GB.) I use MS Windows very, very, rarely and my MS Windows
On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 07:16, Paul Smith wrote:
Stephen Kühn wrote:
Look, you say your rarely use it; what DO you use it for? Best bet would
be to defrag it, then use either diskdrake or Partition Magic to resize
it; else you could whack another drive in there and balance out your
stuff...
On Saturday 28 August 2004 01:36 pm, Eric Huff wrote:
They are tar'd and gzipped.
However, I do not seem to have a program in KDE to unzip
them.
At the command line you can tar -xvzf filname.tgz or whatever
it is called
I made an alias for it since i use it a lot:
alias untar='tar
On Saturday 28 August 2004 19:17, Steve wrote:
I just loaded Mandrake 10 and want to add new programs like the latest
version of Open Office, AOL Instant Messenger and a couple of others so I
downloaded those files. They are tar'd and gzipped. However, I do not seem
to have a program in KDE to
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 19:56:57 +0200
jose usoz wrote:
It seems the libxbsql is not present. Do you know the RPM for this
file?
The specific missing depend, devel(libxbsql), is provided by
libxbsql0-devel-0.11-3mdk.i586.rpm.
You will also need libxbsql0-0.11-3mdk.i586.rpm.
Since you were using
Another improvement to computiing by those famous vendors of high quality
vapourware...Steve Gates and Bill Balmer...or is it Bill Gates and Steve
Balmer, I can never get that right :)
Can't blame you, they're both fat and ugly.
Want to buy
On Saturday 28 August 2004 05:11 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
On Saturday 28 August 2004 14:23, Greg Meyer wrote:
I figure this one ought to keep the conversation going for a
while.
I have been going through a Linux from Scratch build just for
the learning experience, and something has just
On Saturday 28 August 2004 07:14 pm, Greg Meyer wrote:
On Saturday 28 August 2004 05:11 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
On Saturday 28 August 2004 14:23, Greg Meyer wrote:
I figure this one ought to keep the conversation going for a
while.
I have been going through a Linux from Scratch build
On Saturday 28 August 2004 05:14 pm, Greg Meyer wrote:
But then how was the first UNIX system created?
On a PDP-11, likely using RSTS or RSX-11.
It's really a 'bootstrapping' process (called so because you're lifting
yourself by your bootstraps). From bare iron you write a loader that loads
Hello
After reinstalling md10, several folders now show locked. Security
settings are standard and I 'm not sure what happened to change these
folders. Any advice on how to change them to normal settings would be
appreciated.
Thanks
John
On Saturday 28 August 2004 06:25 pm, Russ Kepler wrote:
On Saturday 28 August 2004 05:14 pm, Greg Meyer wrote:
But then how was the first UNIX system created?
On a PDP-11, likely using RSTS or RSX-11.
Damn - missed the model by this: much.
On Sunday 29 August 2004 01:32, john wrote:
Hello
After reinstalling md10, several folders now show locked. Security
settings are standard and I 'm not sure what happened to change these
folders. Any advice on how to change them to normal settings would be
appreciated.
Thanks
John
When
Stephen Kühn wrote:
Look, you say your rarely use it; what DO you use it for? Best bet would
be to defrag it, then use either diskdrake or Partition Magic to resize
it; else you could whack another drive in there and balance out your
stuff...
Unfortunately, I have to use MS Windows for
Dear All
I have done some updates on my computer and now, at start-up, the script
rc.sysinit tries to access to several tty, but the permission is denied.
Afterwards, still during booting, IPMI fails. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
Want
On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 06:03, Paul Smith wrote:
Stephen Kühn wrote:
Thanks, Brian. The reason for enlarging my Linux partition is the fact
that I have installed so many things that I am fearing that I am
reaching the limit of my hard disk capacity. (My Linux partition has 8,5
GB.) I use MS
On Saturday 28 August 2004 18:14, Greg Meyer wrote:
On Saturday 28 August 2004 05:11 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
On Saturday 28 August 2004 14:23, Greg Meyer wrote:
I figure this one ought to keep the conversation going for
a while.
I have been going through a Linux from Scratch build
On Saturday 28 August 2004 09:55 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
On Saturday 28 August 2004 18:14, Greg Meyer wrote:
On Saturday 28 August 2004 05:11 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
On Saturday 28 August 2004 14:23, Greg Meyer wrote:
I figure this one ought to keep the conversation going for
a while.
Kwifimanager (on kde 3.2.2/MDK10) defaults to monitoring the eth1
connection. How can I get it to monitor a different connection (ath0)?
TIA
Paul
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Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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On Saturday 28 August 2004 09:03 pm, Paul Smith wrote:
Dear All
I have done some updates on my computer and now, at start-up, the script
rc.sysinit tries to access to several tty, but the permission is denied.
Afterwards, still during booting, IPMI fails. Any ideas?
That error was coming up
On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 10:21, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
According to Dennis Ritchie (and he should know), it began on a PDP7 using
assembly language. (See http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html). A
very interesting read, particularly for those who have ever labored in the
fields of RD
On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 10:52, Paul Smith wrote:
Stephen Kühn wrote:
Look, you say your rarely use it; what DO you use it for? Best bet would
be to defrag it, then use either diskdrake or Partition Magic to resize
it; else you could whack another drive in there and balance out your
stuff...
On Saturday 28 August 2004 10:55 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote:
Kwifimanager (on kde 3.2.2/MDK10) defaults to monitoring the eth1
connection. How can I get it to monitor a different connection (ath0)?
TIA
Paul
Paul, this is from the web site:
Autodetecting your device
KWiFiManager needs to know
On Sunday 29 August 2004 12:12 am, Stephen Khn wrote:
On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 10:21, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
According to Dennis Ritchie (and he should know), it began on a PDP7
using assembly language. (See
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html). A very interesting
read,
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