Re: [newbie] SpinRite 6.0

2004-09-10 Thread Len Lawrence
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 04:09:28 -0400 Allan Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday 07 September 2004 01:29, Len Lawrence wrote: > > > This is a bit off-topic maybe. Somebody mentioned SpinRite the > > other day in the context of disk recov

[newbie] MNF Web Proxy + URL Filtering

2004-09-10 Thread Cristian Pascu
Hi, I am running MNF with Web Proxy in transparent mode. I tried to enable URL Filtering but is not working. Even if I added time restriction or banned URLs or even banned source IPs there was no result filtering was not working). If you have any idea... Many thanks in advance, CP Do you Yahoo!?

Re: [newbie] Sound card not working

2004-09-10 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 21:13:35 -0700 (PDT) Aldous Huxley disseminated the following: > When I first installed 10.0, the alsa driver worked, > but sounded like shit...very distorted, like a cheap > stereo system with the volume too high. I tinkered > with settings (stupidly) without tracking what I

[newbie] Sound card not working

2004-09-10 Thread Aldous Huxley
When I first installed 10.0, the alsa driver worked, but sounded like shit...very distorted, like a cheap stereo system with the volume too high. I tinkered with settings (stupidly) without tracking what I was doing in order to undo if problems occured (which did). Um...I'd like to have sound bac

Re: [newbie] Hard Drive Question

2004-09-10 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 17:23:11 -0400 BJ Tracy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm not sure of you mount scheme either. > Can you call a partition anything you want and assign it to part 1 thru 12 ? People's mount schemes are based on their personal needs & experience. I think these schemes have bee

Re: [newbie] 10.1 rc1 mini cd install

2004-09-10 Thread David E. Fox
On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 22:24:07 -0700 mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a place to enter the path to the hdlist.cz? > Like.. > > LOCATION: > ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrakelinux/official/10.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS > > PATH TO HDLIST: > ../base/hdlist.cz Typically: urpm

Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!

2004-09-10 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 18:46:43 -0700 Amy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, as much as I'd love to have someone else to fix it all for me, > I've got two things in the way of that. 1) I know no one local who uses where are you geographically? Secondly what type of hw do you have? Try www.linux

Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!

2004-09-10 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:56:47 -0700 Amy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not familiar with postscript files at all, Anything special about > them, or is it just basically a sort of text document or something? Postscript files are essentially programs. But they're (usually) programs dedicated to

Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!

2004-09-10 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:49:37 -0700 Amy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now do I have to use Konqueror for this to work, or can I use Firefox? > I'm really not growing attached to Konqueror, and I like being able to man:// seems just to be a konqueror-ism. It's still pretty good. For more GUI-like

Re: [newbie] OT: hijacking

2004-09-10 Thread Eric Huff
> > > Doubleclick on the address in kmail and sylpheed. > > > > Not only that, you can set it up so that if you are in a > > particular folder, new messages default to the list. > > ...*and* override people's 'reply-to' settings :-) True! We should add this to the etiquette page... eric --

Re: [newbie] Converting Partition from Ext2 to Ext3

2004-09-10 Thread Brian Parish
On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 12:16, The Other wrote: > 09/10/04 > > Hello All, > > Just want to check that I did this correctly. > > I converted a partition that was in Ext2 to Ext3 by going into the > Mandrake Control Center, Using DiskDrake to unmount the partion, > then change the type to Ext3,

[newbie] Converting Partition from Ext2 to Ext3

2004-09-10 Thread The Other
09/10/04 Hello All, Just want to check that I did this correctly. I converted a partition that was in Ext2 to Ext3 by going into the Mandrake Control Center, Using DiskDrake to unmount the partion, then change the type to Ext3, and then exited. I didn't format the partition after the change

Re: [newbie] Occasional email signature

2004-09-10 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 20:03:32 -0500 Chris disseminated the following: > > Ah, go for the gusto! It's really easy to create your own file of quotes > > to randomly choose from, I got the howto from Todd Slater's site, but his > > site has gone all *political*, all kinds of *commie stuff* (love it >

Re: [newbie] OT: hijacking

2004-09-10 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:59:39 -0700 Eric Huff disseminated the following: > > Doubleclick on the address in kmail and sylpheed. > > Not only that, you can set it up so that if you are in a particular > folder, new messages default to the list. ...*and* override people's 'reply-to' settings :-) -

Re: [newbie] Occasional email signature

2004-09-10 Thread Chris
On Friday 10 September 2004 07:48 pm, JoeHill wrote: > > Managed to run it manually though, and use the output (see below!) - > > which is probably all I need for now as I don't need to use the sig > > on all mails, just the occasional one! > > Ah, go for the gusto! It's really easy to create your

Re: [newbie] Mortgage Payment Calculation program?

2004-09-10 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 10 September 2004 06:05 pm, Bob Read wrote: > Can anyone suggest a good Linux program for calculating > mortgage payments with breakdown? > > TIA > > Bob Not sure what you need here, but Gnucash has a mortgage calculator. I don't know if it will make an amortization table, but it looks l

Re: [newbie] OT: hijacking

2004-09-10 Thread Eric Huff
> > In mozilla all I need to do is right click on the > > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' address and select "compose email > > to'. > > > > Surely there is something similar in kmail? > Doubleclick on the address in kmail and sylpheed. Not only that, you can set it up so that if you are in a particular fo

Re: [newbie] Occasional email signature

2004-09-10 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 00:53:14 +0100 Margot disseminated the following: > > crontab -e > > > > which gets you into your user's cron config, hit 'i' to insert text, then: > > > > 0 * * * * /path/to/script > /path/to/outputfile > > > > I got this far...but couldn't work out how to save what I'd >

Re: [newbie] Adding New Stuff

2004-09-10 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Friday 10 September 2004 16:32, BJ Tracy wrote: > Hello All, > > If a newbie to Mandrake Linux wants to look for software for linux, > what is the best way? Google? > > Thanks, > bj After checking mcc install yes. -- Regards; Hoyt Registered Linux User #363264 http://counter.li.org __

Re: [newbie] Occasional email signature

2004-09-10 Thread Margot
JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 23:14:54 +0100 Margot disseminated the following: Then Moz is not seeing the file as a script, but just a file to be read. I'm not sure about Moz, but in Sylpheed you can choose between a static file (to be read), or a command to be run which generates the sig. D

Re: [newbie] Occasional email signature

2004-09-10 Thread Margot
Russ Kepler wrote: On Friday 10 September 2004 04:14 pm, Margot wrote: I haven't done much with scripts yet, so this is a "whole new learning experience" - but it's for a worthy cause, & I'm sure it will come in useful for other things too! Try putting a "| " in front of the scripts name, Mozilla

[newbie] Mortgage Payment Calculation program?

2004-09-10 Thread Bob Read
Can anyone suggest a good Linux program for calculating mortgage payments with breakdown? TIA Bob Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com __

Re: [newbie] Occasional email signature

2004-09-10 Thread Russ Kepler
On Friday 10 September 2004 04:14 pm, Margot wrote: > I haven't done much with scripts yet, so this is a "whole new > learning experience" - but it's for a worthy cause, & I'm sure it > will come in useful for other things too! Try putting a "| " in front of the scripts name, Mozilla might recogn

Re: [newbie] OT: hijacking

2004-09-10 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 10:27:04 +1200 SnapafunFrank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Todd Slater wrote: > > >On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 10:54:24AM -0400, Ryan Steffes wrote: > > > > > >>On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 07:36:18 -0700, julie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >wrote:> > >> > >>>On Thu, 09 Sep 2004, Todd Slater

Re: [newbie] Occasional email signature

2004-09-10 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:31:21 -0500 Chris disseminated the following: > > I haven't done much with scripts yet, so this is a "whole new > > learning experience" - but it's for a worthy cause, & I'm sure it > > will come in useful for other things too! > > I've been trying to get the script to work

Re: [newbie] Occasional email signature

2004-09-10 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 23:14:54 +0100 Margot disseminated the following: > > Then Moz is not seeing the file as a script, but just a file to be read. I'm > > not > > sure about Moz, but in Sylpheed you can choose between a static file (to be > > read), or a command to be run which generates the sig.

Re: [newbie] no sound mandr 10 dell laptop inspiron 8600

2004-09-10 Thread Q.H. Wang
Can you find alsa (in services) running out there? It seems not (or it's corrupted by oss). Try to install alsa-utils package from CD1 then run alsaconf to configure it. HTH. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://w

Re: [newbie] Occasional email signature

2004-09-10 Thread Chris
On Friday 10 September 2004 05:14 pm, Margot wrote: > I know how to set up the 2nd file, but I can't work out to run the > script or get it to put the output into the 2nd file! > > I haven't done much with scripts yet, so this is a "whole new > learning experience" - but it's for a worthy cause, &

Re: [newbie] Adding New Stuff

2004-09-10 Thread Margot
BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, If a newbie to Mandrake Linux wants to look for software for linux, what is the best way? Google? Thanks, bj Ryan has already mentioned *how* to install new stuff on Mandrake, so I won't bother to repeat it. If what you're looking for is suggestions on *what* softwar

Re: [newbie] OT: hijacking

2004-09-10 Thread SnapafunFrank
Todd Slater wrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 10:54:24AM -0400, Ryan Steffes wrote: On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 07:36:18 -0700, julie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 09 Sep 2004, Todd Slater wrote: Also, please send a new mail to the list if you want to start a new topic; replying to a mail

Re: [newbie] Adding New Stuff

2004-09-10 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 10 September 2004 22:32, BJ Tracy wrote: > Hello All, > > If a newbie to Mandrake Linux wants to look for software for linux, what is > the best way? Google? > > Thanks, > bj You can search for Linux projects at http://freshmeat.net/ and http://sourceforge.net/ and Google has a dedicat

Re: [newbie] Occasional email signature

2004-09-10 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 14:10:39 +0100 Margot disseminated the following: > The file that Chris sent me is a script. So far, using your > instructions, I have managed to get Mozilla to use the file - but it > is using the *contents* of the file (showing the commands that > produce the Mandrake vers

Re: [newbie] LAN Question

2004-09-10 Thread BJ Tracy
On Thursday 09 September 2004 11:05 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: > On Thursday 09 September 2004 06:49 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: > > ALL : 192.168.0.101 192.168.0.102 192.168.0.103 192.168.104 > > Sorry, I left out that the above line should be in your > > /etc/hosts.allow Thanks for your help. Still no

Re: [newbie] LAN Question

2004-09-10 Thread BJ Tracy
On Friday 10 September 2004 09:24 am, Ryan Steffes wrote: > On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 20:05:31 -0700, Erylon Hines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 09 September 2004 06:49 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: > > > > ALL : 192.168.0.101 192.168.0.102 192.168.0.103 192.168.104 > > > > Sorry, I left out that

Re: [newbie] LAN Question

2004-09-10 Thread Ryan Steffes
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 20:05:31 -0700, Erylon Hines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 09 September 2004 06:49 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: > > ALL : 192.168.0.101 192.168.0.102 192.168.0.103 192.168.104 > > Sorry, I left out that the above line should be in your > > /etc/hosts.allow > > > > __

Re: [newbie] Occasional email signature

2004-09-10 Thread Margot
SnapafunFrank wrote: M.Schild wrote: Someone kindly contacted me off-list (thanks, Chris!) and sent me a sig file I can adapt for my own use. He also gave me instructions for using it in Kmail: "To use is, under Kmail settings, Identity, enable signature, obtain signature from (select output of com

Re: [newbie] Apache

2004-09-10 Thread cervixcouch
> On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 21:57:48 -0400 (EDT) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> there is an file "index.html" at http://www.mysite.org/mypage and it >> loads fine without the trailing "/" >> >> There is also an "index.php" file under /mypage. > > >> When I type in http://www.mysite.org, the browser appen

RE: [newbie] Apache

2004-09-10 Thread Jamie Kerwick
I suspect that the reason these images aren't appearing on http://www.mysite.org/mypage/ is because they are linked to "images/..." if you changed this to "/images/..." then they would work. The reason they work for http://www.mysite.org/mypage is because "images/" is actually the same as "/images

Re: [newbie] Occasional email signature

2004-09-10 Thread SnapafunFrank
M.Schild wrote: Someone kindly contacted me off-list (thanks, Chris!) and sent me a sig file I can adapt for my own use. He also gave me instructions for using it in Kmail: "To use is, under Kmail settings, Identity, enable signature, obtain signature from (select output of command) Specify command

Re: [newbie] Apache

2004-09-10 Thread Steve Jeppesen
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 21:57:48 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > there is an file "index.html" at http://www.mysite.org/mypage and it > loads fine without the trailing "/" > > There is also an "index.php" file under /mypage. > When I type in http://www.mysite.org, the browser appends a "/" in

RE: [newbie] RE: Re: Sending AT commands programmatically

2004-09-10 Thread Jamie Kerwick
Thanks for this, it now works perfectly !!! Cheers, Jamie -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Björn Lundin Sent: 09 September 2004 18:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] RE: Re: Sending AT commands programmatically Jamie Kerwick wrote: > Thanks

Re: [newbie] SpinRite 6.0

2004-09-10 Thread Allan Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 07 September 2004 01:29, Len Lawrence wrote: > This is a bit off-topic maybe. Somebody mentioned SpinRite the > other day in the context of disk recovery so I investigated the > grc.com site. Apparently SpinRite 6.0 supports Linux filesys