Re: [newbie] M$ has beaten Linux?

2004-09-02 Thread Vincent Voois
John Wilson wrote: On August 31, 2004 11:22 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: http://www.forbes.com/enterprisetech/2004/08/31/cz_dl_0831msft.html First off one needs to seriously question whether Newham was at all interested in using Linux or was simly using Linux as a way of bashing a pricing deal

[newbie] sound and SiS7012

2004-09-02 Thread M.Schild
Does anyone have a SiS7012 chipset? If so, have you succeeded in getting any sound on Mdk10? how? TIA Maryse Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] Cups drivers online update

2004-09-02 Thread Martin Foster
I've tried to install the cups-drivers online update without success. After the download finishes and the installation begins, I get a message to the effect that there's a conflict with /usr/lib/cups/backend/mtink and the installation then aborts. Exactly the same thing happens when I try to

Re: [newbie] KDE - KPPP

2004-09-02 Thread David
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 23:04:36 +1200 SnapafunFrank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David wrote: I've just recently upgraded to MDK 10 Official and have upgraded all my kde files. The .100 in the version number suggests to me that you are using thacs.rpm. Is this true? If so then you may have to

[newbie] sound and SiS7012

2004-09-02 Thread flesh.99
On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 08:39:33 +0200, M.Schild [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a SiS7012 chipset? If so, have you succeeded in getting any sound on Mdk10? how? TIA Maryse Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Dual HDD

2004-09-02 Thread SnapafunFrank
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 03:04, SnapafunFrank wrote: OK. You are teaching me something here but I haven't quite nailed it yet. Re partitions:] /dev/hda1 * 1 125 1004031 83 Linux /dev/hda2 126293722587390 85 Linux extended

[newbie] mail command in shell script: how to attach a file?

2004-09-02 Thread Harald T ZIPKO
Manually it's possible to copy the text from the file via ~r /name/of/the/file.txt But: How do I force 'mail' in a shell script to send a file as attachment to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (at the end of the week I would like to know quotas on a remote server) -- (o Best regards //\Harald T ZIPKO

[newbie] Printer Orientation

2004-09-02 Thread Trevor Rhodes
Hello, I've been having a problem here for a while and haven't really been overly worried about it as I can usually just move to another machine and print. Now though, it is getting beyond time to find a fix. When I try to print, it prints, but always prints in landscape. That would be fine

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread Poogle
On Wednesday 01 Sep 2004 23:02, Margot wrote: I've managed to track down what looks to be an ethical and reasonably-priced Broadband provider - www.thephone.coop - they assure me that their service will work with Linux (and their tech support didn't scream in horror when I asked!). They

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 01 September 2004 06:02 pm, Margot wrote: According to their web page, they support the Speedtouch 330 USB DSL modem as well as the Netgear DM602 router/modem. Personally, I would go for the Netgear if I were you, it will hook up to your ethernet card and

Re: [newbie] sound and SiS7012

2004-09-02 Thread András Keszei
Hi Maryse, I have a laptop from AGN that's really a Clevo something, and it has a SiS7012 chipset. I'm using the snd-intel8x0 module, and I think that you have to enable ACPI to get sound to work. (You can do this when configuring lilo (Mandrake Control Center - Boot - Boot Loader) Now I haven't

Re: [newbie] KDE - KPPP

2004-09-02 Thread SnapafunFrank
David wrote: On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 23:04:36 +1200 SnapafunFrank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David wrote: I've just recently upgraded to MDK 10 Official and have upgraded all my kde files. The .100 in the version number suggests to me that you are using thacs.rpm. Is this true? If so then you

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread PM
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 02:22, Margot wrote: Richard Urwin wrote: On Wednesday 01 Sep 2004 11:55 pm, flesh.99 wrote: On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 18:40:17 -0400, Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 01 September 2004 06:02 pm, Margot wrote: They don't supply a modem. Can anyone

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread PM
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 11:46, John Richard Smith wrote: Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 01 September 2004 06:02 pm, Margot wrote: According to their web page, they support the Speedtouch 330 USB DSL modem as well as the Netgear DM602 router/modem. Personally, I would go for the

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread John Richard Smith
PM wrote: On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 11:46, John Richard Smith wrote: But that means you must have a fully configured ethernet card to go with your choice of the Netgear DM602 router/modem, doesn't it ? John I bought the first/cheapest and had no problems - turned out to have a RealTek

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread PM
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 13:29, John Richard Smith wrote: PM wrote: On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 11:46, John Richard Smith wrote: But that means you must have a fully configured ethernet card to go with your choice of the Netgear DM602 router/modem, doesn't it ? John I bought

[newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

2004-09-02 Thread warren
Hi all, I using Mandrake 10.0 and have just rebooted my computer to discover that i have no mandrake control center / open office or Mozilla firefox - and no way of installing rpms or removing the lastest rpm i installed before the reboot. All the packaging Options have been removed from the

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread Aron Smith
On Thursday 02 September 2004 01:46 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 01 September 2004 06:02 pm, Margot wrote: According to their web page, they support the Speedtouch 330 USB DSL modem as well as the Netgear DM602 router/modem. Personally, I would go

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

2004-09-02 Thread Aron Smith
On Thursday 02 September 2004 04:01 am, warren wrote: Hi all, I using Mandrake 10.0 and have just rebooted my computer to discover that i have no mandrake control center / open office or Mozilla firefox - and no way of installing rpms or removing the lastest rpm i installed before the

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

2004-09-02 Thread warren
Aron Smith wrote: open a terminal type as root mcc if you get mandrake control center then open another terminal an as root type updatedb update-menus Thanks for the suggestion back so fast - but i tried that and: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dog]# mcc bash: mcc: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED] dog]#

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

2004-09-02 Thread PM
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 14:20, warren wrote: Aron Smith wrote: open a terminal type as root mcc if you get mandrake control center then open another terminal an as root type updatedb update-menus Thanks for the suggestion back so fast - but i tried that and: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dog]#

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to installRPMs

2004-09-02 Thread warren
PM wrote: what does /usr/bin/menudrake (as root in a terminal windows) give you? the menu manager came up - but still no way of adding the missing bits ( firefox is no longer in /usr/bin and i am guessing neither is the Open Office or Mandrake control utilities) I tried to install firefox again

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

2004-09-02 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 02 September 2004 12:20, warren wrote: Aron Smith wrote: open a terminal type as root mcc if you get mandrake control center then open another terminal an as root type updatedb update-menus Thanks for the suggestion back so fast - but i tried that and: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dog]#

Re: [newbie] sound and SiS7012-works

2004-09-02 Thread M.Schild
Hi Maryse, I have a laptop from AGN that's really a Clevo something, and it has a SiS7012 chipset.  I'm using the snd-intel8x0 module, and I think that you have to enable ACPI to get sound to work. (You can do this when configuring lilo (Mandrake Control Center - Boot - Boot Loader) Now I

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to installRPMs

2004-09-02 Thread PM
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 14:43, warren wrote: PM wrote: what does /usr/bin/menudrake (as root in a terminal windows) give you? the menu manager came up - but still no way of adding the missing bits ( firefox is no longer in /usr/bin and i am guessing neither is the Open Office or

Re: [newbie] M$ has beaten Linux?

2004-09-02 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 02 September 2004 01:40 am, John Wilson wrote: FUD is FUD..even when published in Forbes. FUD is the only thing that Forbes DOES publish. No serious technical person reads Forbes, or even a serious non-technical person for that matter, it is written by, published for, and read by

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread PM
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 12:49, PM wrote: On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 02:22, Margot wrote: Richard Urwin wrote: On Wednesday 01 Sep 2004 11:55 pm, flesh.99 wrote: On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 18:40:17 -0400, Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 01 September 2004 06:02 pm, Margot

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 02 September 2004 06:29 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Do you mean to say that the system itself only had to recognise the ethonet card for the router/modem to work, you didn't have to spend hours and hours in badly documented procedural to get the ethonet card configured properly

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

2004-09-02 Thread warren
Derek Jennings wrote: Then reinstall drakconf In a root terminal urpmi drakconf If urpmi itself is missing then go to your install CD and find the urpmi RPM and install it with rpm -ivh urpmi.blah.blah.rpm Thanks Derek, I now have the MCC up again - but it only has 6 options in the main menu, i

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

2004-09-02 Thread PM
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 15:19, warren wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: Then reinstall drakconf In a root terminal urpmi drakconf If urpmi itself is missing then go to your install CD and find the urpmi RPM and install it with rpm -ivh urpmi.blah.blah.rpm Thanks Derek, I now

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

2004-09-02 Thread warren
PM wrote: Thanks Derek, I now have the MCC up again - but it only has 6 options in the main menu, i am guesing i need to urpmi the name of the mandrake rpm package installer to add the software group of options to the menu. would you know what the name of that is? urpmi IS the mandrake rpm

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

2004-09-02 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 02 September 2004 13:19, warren wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: Then reinstall drakconf In a root terminal urpmi drakconf If urpmi itself is missing then go to your install CD and find the urpmi RPM and install it with rpm -ivh urpmi.blah.blah.rpm Thanks Derek, I now

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 02 September 2004 01:46 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 01 September 2004 06:02 pm, Margot wrote: According to their web page, they support the Speedtouch 330 USB DSL modem as well as the Netgear DM602 router/modem. Personally,

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

2004-09-02 Thread warren
Derek Jennings wrote: urpmi rpmdrake If anything else is missing the command urpmq drak should give you some clues. Software Management option is BACK!! Thanks Derek, Aron and PM. :-) Goodnight gentlemen (it´s 1am New Zealand time). Warren Want

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread PM
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 15:54, John Richard Smith wrote: Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 02 September 2004 01:46 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 01 September 2004 06:02 pm, Margot wrote: According to their web page, they support the Speedtouch

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

2004-09-02 Thread PM
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 15:32, warren wrote: PM wrote: Thanks Derek, I now have the MCC up again - but it only has 6 options in the main menu, i am guesing i need to urpmi the name of the mandrake rpm package installer to add the software group of options to the menu. would you know what

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread John Richard Smith
PM wrote: On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 15:54, John Richard Smith wrote: Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 02 September 2004 01:46 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 01 September 2004 06:02 pm, Margot wrote: According to their web page, they support

[newbie] ATerm + Borders etc ?

2004-09-02 Thread Marc Hultquist
I am looking for a way to run aterm, but without borders, and with a transparent Background.. ? Can someone maybe point me in the right direction or maybe tell me how to do this? I have read the aterm documentation, but whenever I try to run my command I still get the white BG :p Which

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread Aron Smith
On Thursday 02 September 2004 05:54 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 02 September 2004 01:46 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 01 September 2004 06:02 pm, Margot wrote: According to their web page, they support the Speedtouch 330

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread Aron Smith
On Thursday 02 September 2004 06:27 am, John Richard Smith wrote: PM wrote: On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 15:54, John Richard Smith wrote: Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 02 September 2004 01:46 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 01 September 2004 06:02 pm, Margot wrote:

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

2004-09-02 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Thursday 02 September 2004 07:46, PM wrote: On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 15:32, warren wrote: PM wrote: snip now before I ballsed things up, I used to have a menu iten for software installation in this MCC menu. How do i get this back? When I check (using ls /usr/bin/drak* ) I get the

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 02 September 2004 09:27 am, John Richard Smith wrote: OK then I bow to experience. Only I found in the device easy enough, but the with the network MCC still asks a lot of questions you don't know the answers to, and without those answers it don't work. Of course that is trying to

Terrorist Alert! Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

2004-09-02 Thread Todd Slater
Since Eric and Joe seem to be asleep ;) http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:01:02PM +1200, warren wrote: Hi all, I using Mandrake 10.0 and have just rebooted my computer to discover that i have no mandrake control center / open

Re: [newbie] mail command in shell script: how to attach a file?

2004-09-02 Thread Paul
Op Thu, 2 Sep 2004 09:38:05 +0200 schreef Harald T ZIPKO: Manually it's possible to copy the text from the file via ~r /name/of/the/file.txt But: How do I force 'mail' in a shell script to send a file as attachment to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (at the end of the week I would like to know quotas on a

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 02 September 2004 09:27 am, John Richard Smith wrote: OK then I bow to experience. Only I found in the device easy enough, but the with the network MCC still asks a lot of questions you don't know the answers to, and without those answers it don't work. Of

RE: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread Tony S. Sykes
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Richard Smith Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 4:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband Bryan Phinney wrote: On Thursday 02 September 2004 09:27

Re: [newbie] KDE: problem with sorting icons on the desktop

2004-09-02 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 22:23, Paul Smith wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: Every time I start a new session, the icons on my desktop do not keep the same sorting; they appear quite unsorted, indeed, although correctly horizontally aligned. I have looked, in the menus, for an option to

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 02 September 2004 11:01 am, John Richard Smith wrote: I see , dynamic host control protocol DHCP, is actually built into the router/modem itself and as such knows how to set istelf up dynamically. I didn't understand that, and couldn't see how it was gonna be done by MCC, without

Re: [newbie] System locks up every 10days

2004-09-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 01 September 2004 07:59 pm, Chris wrote: out. SYS Temp:  +45.5°C  (limit =  +50°C, hysteresis =  +40°C) CPU Temp:  +38.0°C  (limit =  +60°C, hysteresis =  +55°C) In 'F' Gkrellm reports these to be around 113 and 100, which to me appear to be ok, although I may be wrong here.

Terrorist Alert! Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

2004-09-02 Thread flesh.99
On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 10:13:27 -0400, Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since Eric and Joe seem to be asleep ;) http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:01:02PM +1200, warren wrote: Hi all, I using Mandrake 10.0 and have just

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Bryan Phinney wrote: Since the router/modem is equivalent to any other type of ethernet connection, you would hook it up and configure it exactly the same way you would to any other router, right? Assuming that you are using the Dlink device now, hooking it up to the broadband modem as opposed

[newbie] users accounts on man10.0

2004-09-02 Thread Kassem Nasser
HI guys, after I installed man10.0 and I created the users account including the root and two others,I couldn't see the contents of the FAT partitions from the first user after the root (which is supposed the at least see the contents of the Fat partitions) saying 'access denied',I tried to use

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 02 September 2004 01:24 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I see, so the D-ling is the switch that just about everything gets plugged into. Now that I've taken a second look at the diagramme on the back of the D-Link box it shows that the modem, in your suggested case, the router/modem

Re: Terrorist Alert! Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

2004-09-02 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:19:30AM -0500, flesh.99 wrote: On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 10:13:27 -0400, Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since Eric and Joe seem to be asleep ;) http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:01:02PM +1200,

Re: [newbie] users accounts on man10.0

2004-09-02 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 02 September 2004 19:43, Kassem Nasser wrote: HI guys, after I installed man10.0 and I created the users account including the root and two others,I couldn't see the contents of the FAT partitions from the first user after the root (which is supposed the at least see the contents

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread PM
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 22:19, Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 02 September 2004 10:24 am, John Richard Smith wrote: I don't have this actually working yet , been waiting until affordable decent quality broadband comes into use in UK. Everything takes for ever in UK. They never market for the

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread PM
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 22:31, Margot wrote: Right now, I can afford the broadband service plus the USB modem. I'd have to save up for another 2-3 months to go for the other option. I'd appreciate your opinion on this - will the ease of use of the ethernet option be worth the wait and the

Re: [newbie] mail command in shell script: how to attach a file?

2004-09-02 Thread Todd Slater
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 09:38:05AM +0200, Harald T ZIPKO wrote: Manually it's possible to copy the text from the file via ~r /name/of/the/file.txt But: How do I force 'mail' in a shell script to send a file as attachment to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (at the end of the week I would like to know

[newbie] linux utility to fix partition table

2004-09-02 Thread Johan Sch
Hi, While rsyncing data to my second drive for backup it went into forever . the disk light stayed on and the box hanged. The only recourse was to press the reset switch. So to be on the safe side I booted with the cdrom rescue system. Fdsik -l . told me that disk hdg1 , hdg2, hdg3, hdg4 the

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread Derek Jennings
SNIP As I said in my original message, I need a solution that doesn't involve screwdrivers - not just because I'm a girl (!) but I have ME - the combination of brainfog plus physical limitations means that installing anything that involves taking the case off the box is beyond my

Re: [newbie] linux utility to fix partition table

2004-09-02 Thread PM
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 23:56, Johan Sch wrote: Hi, While rsyncing data to my second drive for backup it went into forever . the disk light stayed on and the box hanged. The only recourse was to press the reset switch. So to be on the safe side I booted with the cdrom rescue system.

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread PM
On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 00:05, Derek Jennings wrote: Margot I can confirm the Alcatel Speedtouch does work with Mandrake. I do not have one myself, but I have set one up for a friend. It IS more complicated to get a USB Speedtouch working than a DSL router, but it is certainly possible to

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread Richard Urwin
On Thursday 02 Sep 2004 9:33 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: ... Paul and Bryan are givin you the best advice. Which is why I've stayed out of this till now. https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/ I try not to do this, but me too. Get an ethernet ADSL router that is firewall configured out of the box, (unless

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread Richard Urwin
On Thursday 02 Sep 2004 3:07 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 02 September 2004 05:54 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Aron Smith wrote: MCC will configure your card real nice When you say configured, that is as a card recognised by the systen and a device to be used by the system,

Re: [newbie] mail command in shell script: how to attach a file?

2004-09-02 Thread Avi Schwartz
Todd Slater wrote: On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 09:38:05AM +0200, Harald T ZIPKO wrote: Manually it's possible to copy the text from the file via ~r /name/of/the/file.txt But: How do I force 'mail' in a shell script to send a file as attachment to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (at the end of the week I would like

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread Richard Urwin
On Thursday 02 Sep 2004 10:10 pm, PM wrote: On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 00:05, Derek Jennings wrote: Margot I can confirm the Alcatel Speedtouch does work with Mandrake. I do not have one myself, but I have set one up for a friend. It IS more complicated to get a USB Speedtouch working than a

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 02 September 2004 22:10, PM wrote: On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 00:05, Derek Jennings wrote: Margot I can confirm the Alcatel Speedtouch does work with Mandrake. I do not have one myself, but I have set one up for a friend. It IS more complicated to get a USB Speedtouch working

Re: [newbie] linux utility to fix partition table

2004-09-02 Thread Asa Rossoff
PM wrote: On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 23:56, Johan Sch wrote: Hi, While rsyncing data to my second drive for backup it went into forever . the disk light stayed on and the box hanged. The only recourse was to press the reset switch. So to be on the safe side I booted with the cdrom rescue system. Fdsik

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center Missing and unable to install RPMs

2004-09-02 Thread warren
PM wrote: When I check (using ls /usr/bin/drak* ) I get the results: /usr/bin/drakbug* /usr/bin/draklocale@ /usr/bin/drakrpm-remove@ /usr/bin/drakconf*/usr/bin/drakrpm@ /usr/bin/drakrpm-update@ /usr/bin/drakhelp*/usr/bin/drakrpm-edit-media@

Re: [newbie] System locks up every 10days

2004-09-02 Thread Chris
On Thursday 02 September 2004 10:49 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 01 September 2004 07:59 pm, Chris wrote: out. SYS Temp: +45.5°C (limit = +50°C, hysteresis = +40°C) CPU Temp: +38.0°C (limit = +60°C, hysteresis = +55°C) In 'F' Gkrellm reports these to be around 113 and

Re: [newbie] Upgrading

2004-09-02 Thread Nigel Wilkinson
--On Tuesday, August 31, 2004 20:05:51 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 19:50:14 -0400 Charles A Edwards disseminated the following: They've put you back on the meds, haven't they? You betcha, massive doses of Thorazine. Is spam that targeted now, I only get spam for

Re: [newbie] KDE: problem with sorting icons on the desktop

2004-09-02 Thread Paul Smith
Kaj Haulrich wrote: But occasionally I screw up my KDE and rather then fiddling around editing .rc files I just delete my entire .kde directory, and restart the X server. That way everything KDE is back to defaults. Kaj, I adopted the same approach and everything is now fine. Thanks. Paul

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 02 September 2004 03:31 pm, Margot wrote: We seem to be drifting a bit here... As I said in my original message, I need a solution that doesn't involve screwdrivers - not just because I'm a girl (!) but I have ME - the combination of brainfog plus physical limitations means that

Re: [newbie] Upgrading

2004-09-02 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 23:23:32 +0100 Nigel Wilkinson disseminated the following: They've put you back on the meds, haven't they? You betcha, massive doses of Thorazine. Is spam that targeted now, I only get spam for viagra, perhaps I should make an appointment with my doctor. Now that

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread SME Server Admin
On Wednesday 01 Sep 2004 23:02, Margot wrote: I've managed to track down what looks to be an ethical and reasonably-priced Broadband provider - www.thephone.coop - they assure me that their service will work with Linux (and their tech support didn't scream in horror when I asked!). They

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Margot wrote: Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm currently with Wanadoo for my dialup and I'm keen to leave them as soon as possible because I'm in the middle of a major row with them - they recently introduced spam filtering, and it is complete chaos - legitimate mail is not only being marked

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Aron Smith wrote: . So then I need to network my other computers via this 8-pot 10/100Mbps switch DES-1008D, the so called D-Link, that is not so easy ? from each computer run the D-Link software ez as pi John Aron you got me there , whats with, D-Link software ez as pi ? John

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Margot wrote: We seem to be drifting a bit here... As I said in my original message, I need a solution that doesn't involve screwdrivers - not just because I'm a girl (!) but I have ME - the combination of brainfog plus physical limitations means that installing anything that involves taking

Re: [newbie] Printer Orientation

2004-09-02 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 02 September 2004 02:58 am, Trevor Rhodes wrote: Hello, I've been having a problem here for a while and haven't really been overly worried about it as I can usually just move to another machine and print. Now though, it is getting beyond time to find a fix. When I try to print,

Re: [newbie] M$ has beaten Linux?

2004-09-02 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 07:57:02 -0400 Bryan Phinney disseminated the following: FUD is FUD..even when published in Forbes. FUD is the only thing that Forbes DOES publish. No serious technical person reads Forbes, or even a serious non-technical person for that matter, it is written by,

[newbie] Okay, one more on SP2...

2004-09-02 Thread JoeHill
I promise, my last post on this subject, but this is just hilarious. Not only does SP2 *break* functionality, to varying degrees, on many XP machines, but it does absolutely nothing, according to this review, to improve security: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/02/winxpsp2_security_review/

[newbie] Get the word out!

2004-09-02 Thread JoeHill
This has been discussed at great length previously, but I think the point this article is missing is that Mandrake really relies on its users to spread the word on this great distro. Besides, what Mandrake has accomplished without the marketing bucks of Suse/Novell or Red Hat is not to be

Re: [newbie] Mandrake-Linux Beta 2

2004-09-02 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 23 August 2004 01:18 pm, Lanman wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday 23 August 2004 06:52 am, Lanman wrote: zamri wrote: I thought that your isos are corrupt. Have u check with md5sum ? Yup! ISO's were verified and passed OK. Any other ideas? Has anyone been able to download

Re: [newbie] FTP Download issues...

2004-09-02 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 31 August 2004 02:10 pm, Travis Crook wrote: Hi all, I experience some strange behavior when I try to download files, etc. from an ftp site. For example, when I click the following (to download UltraEdit) it times out.

Re: [newbie] Okay, one more on SP2...

2004-09-02 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 20:23, JoeHill wrote: I promise, my last post on this subject, but this is just hilarious. Not only does SP2 *break* functionality, to varying degrees, on many XP machines, but it does absolutely nothing, according to this review, to improve security:

Re: [newbie] Printer Orientation

2004-09-02 Thread Trevor Rhodes
Dennis, What's the matter with my bloody machine? Ummm- what machine are you using? Printer wise that is. HP948c, but never mind. It's fixed now. Thanks Anne. Regards Trevor Rhodes === Powered by Linux-Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread Aron Smith
On Thursday 02 September 2004 02:19 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Thursday 02 Sep 2004 3:07 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 02 September 2004 05:54 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Aron Smith wrote: MCC will configure your card real nice When you say configured, that is as a card

Re: [newbie] Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-02 Thread Aron Smith
On Thursday 02 September 2004 04:39 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Aron Smith wrote: . So then I need to network my other computers via this 8-pot 10/100Mbps switch DES-1008D, the so called D-Link, that is not so easy ? from each computer run the D-Link software ez as pi John Aron

Re: [newbie] Okay, one more on SP2...

2004-09-02 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 22:05:05 -0400 Lyvim Xaphir disseminated the following: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/02/winxpsp2_security_review/ Oh, this is just so sweet, to watch them twist in the wind :-) Tommorrow I've got a reinstall scheduled to fix a box that was hosed by SP2. Ya,

Re: [newbie] Okay, one more on SP2...

2004-09-02 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Thursday 02 September 2004 08:23 pm, JoeHill wrote: I promise, my last post on this subject, but this is just hilarious. Not only does SP2 *break* functionality, to varying degrees, on many XP machines, but it does absolutely nothing, according to this review, to improve security:

Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 Update to GTK 2.4

2004-09-02 Thread Eric Huff
Just in case anyone *has* missed the last 3 years: http://rox.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/ However, *best* way to install it is as a regular user (ie. download tarball, untar, run it, compiles itself) so's you have easier access to all the software goodies that go along with it.

Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 Update to GTK 2.4

2004-09-02 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 21:19:37 -0700 Eric Huff wrote: I have been meaning forever to see where to go to figure out how to get files to drag and drop out of sylpheed. For some reason, claws doesn't work in or out, but in regular sylpheed, you could put files in as an attachment, but still not