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

2004-09-05 Thread Vincent Voois
Carroll Grigsby wrote: I thought they where a good serve as a cup-placemat. snip Using Win CDs for target practice is not good destroys the environment (the M$ crap not the target practice) ;-) What's wrong with the traditional practice of popping old CDs in the microwave? -- cmg I don't

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

2004-09-05 Thread Vincent Voois
Hoyt Bailey wrote: Now, a launcher that would fire old CD's at 1000 FPS and 300 rounds per minute would be a *gas*. If CD's have any metal in them, couldn't you even build like a CD railgun? Heh. Look out Bill, yer about to feel the pain you've inflicted on others oh these many years...

Re: [newbie] Completely out of space - major problem!

2004-09-05 Thread SnapafunFrank
Eric Huff wrote: Install 'fsv' from a contrib mirror and you will be able to visualise where all your drive space is being consumed. (Fsv is like the scene in Jurassic Park where the little girl says This is Unix. I can use this! and then flies through a 3D visualisation of a file system.)

Re: [newbie] Can only run mozilla as root

2004-09-05 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Friday 03 September 2004 04:18 pm, Scott Wagner wrote: Hi I downloaded mozilla RPMs on my daughter's computer into her /home directory and installed them with rpmdrake. libnspr4-1.6-12mdk.i586 libnss3-1.6-12mdk.i586 mailcap-2.0.4-12mdk.noarch mozilla-1.6-12mdk.i586 I can only start the

[newbie] re-initialise drive

2004-09-05 Thread Johan Sch
Hi, Troubleshooter.exe in dos have this function that alows to re-initialise a harddisk that can no longer be touched by partition magic and fisk in dos as well as fdisk in linux. If I understand it correctly it zero's out partition table and the whole disk. On a 80Gig drive this takes whole

Re: [newbie] re-initialise drive

2004-09-05 Thread Johan Sch
On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 18:08:44 +0200 Vincent Voois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Johan Sch wrote: Hi, Troubleshooter.exe in dos have this function that alows to re-initialise a harddisk that can no longer be touched by partition magic and fisk in dos as well as fdisk in linux. If I

Re: [newbie] [OT] sylpheed-claws gtk2 cvs

2004-09-05 Thread Trey Sizemore
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 19:50:19 -0400 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 18:13:12 -0500 John Drouhard wrote: The *only* thing wrong with it at this point is that it doesn't compile with pgpmime or gnupg correctly. You need to use libgpgme03_6-devel Charles

Re: [newbie] update installation

2004-09-05 Thread Martin Foster
Saturday 04 Sep 2004 21:53, Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Foster wrote: On Saturday 04 Sep 2004 12:25, john wrote: Hello I am updating md10 and keep getting a conflict message for the cups printer file and the printer utilites file. When trying to install together or indivually,

[newbie] [OT] what should I do about this?

2004-09-05 Thread Frans Ketelaars
I wrote symantec: - www.symantic.com possibly malicious site From: Frans Ketelaars [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Today 19:04:15 This is not spam related, I just made a typo: typing an 'i'

Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 Update to GTK 2.4

2004-09-05 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 21:19:37 -0700 Eric Huff disseminated the following: Mildly related: 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, IIRC, one of the reasons I wanted to switch

Re: [newbie] [OT] what should I do about this?

2004-09-05 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Sunday 05 September 2004 19:53, Frans Ketelaars wrote: I wrote symantec: - www.symantic.com possibly malicious site From: Frans Ketelaars [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Today

Re: [newbie] [OT] sylpheed-claws gtk2 cvs

2004-09-05 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 12:49:21 -0400 Trey Sizemore wrote: I have recently installed yacc and flex per earlier error messages, but I'm confused here as to what the issue might be. You need to install bison Charles -- Got a complaint about the Internal Revenue Service? Call the

Re: [newbie] [OT] what should I do about this?

2004-09-05 Thread Vincent Voois
Frans Ketelaars wrote: I wrote symantec: - www.symantic.com possibly malicious site It's just a brand hijack, trying to lift upon the success of a large name. They'll probably deal with a law-suit sooner or later. It's similar to

Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 Update to GTK 2.4

2004-09-05 Thread Eric Huff
IIRC, one of the reasons I wanted to switch to Claws was that it was *easier* to drag files to a compose window to attach...but then I discovered I could just create a script to do that for me (ie. the ROX Send To menu). I do the same with send to. but in regular sylpheed, you could put

Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 Update to GTK 2.4

2004-09-05 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 14:32:38 -0700 Eric Huff disseminated the following: It's really getting attachments *out* of sylpheed that i want. In regular it worked with xftree, but not rox. In claws it doesn't work with xftree, either. Well, I filed a bug report on the Sylpheed-GTK2 Sourceforge

[newbie] Does Mandrake 10.1 RC1 have Kopete 0.8.4?

2004-09-05 Thread Shurajit Gopal
Hi,Does Mandrake Linux 10.1 RC1 have Kopete 0.8.4? Please let me know.Thanks and regards,Shurajit

Re: [newbie] Does Mandrake 10.1 RC1 have Kopete 0.8.4?

2004-09-05 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 05 September 2004 05:32 pm, Shurajit Gopal wrote: Hi, Does Mandrake Linux 10.1 RC1 have Kopete 0.8.4? Please let me know. Thanks and regards, Shurajit Yes, Kopete is in there. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your

[newbie] Re: Modem needed for UK Broadband

2004-09-05 Thread Russell Butler
Margot wrote: Tony. Sweet of you to offer, Tony - unfortunately, I'm in Kent! I'm going to try the Adult Education centre courses - with any luck, I'll be able to learn how to install the ethernet card myself, perhaps with a little help by remote control from the kind people on this list ;-)

[newbie] Apache and mod_php

2004-09-05 Thread Ryan Steffes
I had to recently rebuild my system as a result of my own stupidity and now I can't get php to work with apache. I don't remember doing anything other than urpmi before, so I have no clue why it wouldn't work. [07:19:31 rpms]$ rpm -qa|grep php mod_php-4.3.4-1mdk php-ini-4.3.4-1mdk

Re: [newbie] Apache and mod_php

2004-09-05 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 19:26:27 -0400 Ryan Steffes disseminated the following: I had to recently rebuild my system as a result of my own stupidity and now I can't get php to work with apache. I don't remember doing anything other than urpmi before, so I have no clue why it wouldn't work. urpmi

Re: [newbie] Apache and mod_php

2004-09-05 Thread Ryan Steffes
On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 19:38:51 -0400, JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 19:26:27 -0400 Ryan Steffes disseminated the following: I had to recently rebuild my system as a result of my own stupidity and now I can't get php to work with apache. I don't remember doing anything

Re: [newbie] Apache and mod_php

2004-09-05 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 20:02:09 -0400 Ryan Steffes disseminated the following: [07:55:13 rbsteffes]$ urpmi apache-mod_php no package named apache-mod_php [07:55:38 rbsteffes]$ urpmi apache-mod-php no package named apache-mod-php There's one for apache2, but not for apache. I said what the

Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 Update to GTK 2.4

2004-09-05 Thread Eric Huff
It's really getting attachments *out* of sylpheed that i want. Well, I filed a bug report on the Sylpheed-GTK2 Sourceforge page, we'll see what happens with that. Hey, thanks for being proactive. I was going to get to it at some point. Have you tried it with the latest CVS of Sylpheed?

Re: [newbie] Apache and mod_php

2004-09-05 Thread Ryan Steffes
On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 20:28:39 -0400, JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 20:02:09 -0400 Ryan Steffes disseminated the following: [07:55:13 rbsteffes]$ urpmi apache-mod_php no package named apache-mod_php [07:55:38 rbsteffes]$ urpmi apache-mod-php no package named

Re: [newbie] Apache and mod_php

2004-09-05 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 22:02:10 -0400 Ryan Steffes disseminated the following: Well, it's solved, but I'm not entirely sure. I uninstalled everything apache and php related that I could see, and went back from scratch and it worked just as automagically as before. I like automagical installs,

Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 Update to GTK 2.4

2004-09-05 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 18:44:09 -0700 Eric Huff wrote: I haven't. I figured that as often as Charles updates Claws, there's wouldn't be much lag. I will check into it, though. Sorry to be so lame, but it might be a bit before i do real work on it instead of just ask for answers. I ended

Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 Update to GTK 2.4

2004-09-05 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 22:55:28 -0400 Charles A Edwards disseminated the following: Personally I do not see the need, I right-click either the icon or MIME type and either 'save as' or 'open with' Too much 'clicking', as opposed to Mod4-r-d (opens ~/docs), drag file to filer window. Done. I'm