[newbie] OT Basic C/MySQL error?

2004-09-19 Thread Eric Scott
I'm exploring basic C/C++ programming in accessing MySQL server. I'd prefer PostgreSQL in C++, but the only tutorial/example I found easily was MySQL in C. I know very little about C/C++ or SQL; just barely enough that I see a little more than jibberish... I see intelligent

[newbie] OT - stereo vs. puter cd players

2004-09-19 Thread Todd Slater
My daughter got hold of an audio cd and scratched it all up. Thinking it would be for the trash, I nevertheless gave it a shot and cleaned it and put it in my stereo's cd player; to my surprise, nary a skip! I thought I'd best back it up so I tried ripping it with cdparanoia to encode to flac,

Re: [newbie] OT - stereo vs. puter cd players

2004-09-19 Thread eric jackson
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 09:04:28 -0400, Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My daughter got hold of an audio cd and scratched it all up. Thinking it would be for the trash, I nevertheless gave it a shot and cleaned it and put it in my stereo's cd player; to my surprise, nary a skip! I thought I'd

Re: [newbie] OT - stereo vs. puter cd players

2004-09-19 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 19 September 2004 09:30 am, eric jackson wrote: On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 09:04:28 -0400, Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My daughter got hold of an audio cd and scratched it all up. Thinking it would be for the trash, I nevertheless gave it a shot and cleaned it and put it in my

Re: [newbie] Dual Booting

2004-09-19 Thread aron Smith
On Sunday 19 September 2004 06:15 am, John Richard Smith wrote: aron Smith wrote: Has anybody got any ideas on booting win 2000 with linux I tried installing winks first (hey it worked with 98) than installing Mdk 10.0 on the free space linux works Win$ux crashes Maybe you need to go into

[newbie] easy urpmi has urPO'd

2004-09-19 Thread Brian Parish
Did I miss something? Has easy urpmi turned up it's toes? Haven't been able to go there for a few days now - just when I had to rebuild my main box too. Murphy does it again! Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Can you resume a bittorrent download?

2004-09-19 Thread eric jackson
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 09:13:13 -0400, Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 19 September 2004 08:01 am, eric jackson wrote: Hi, I live right outside of Boston. Friday afternoon at about 3 PM I started downloading the first 3 CDs from the latest Mandrake release. After a few minutes, it was

Re: [newbie] easy urpmi has urPO'd

2004-09-19 Thread JRH
Something has changed. Go to http://urpmi.org first, then click the easyurpmi link.. I think it's something like easyurpmi.zarb.org or whatever now... Anyway, do it that way initially, and you will have no

Re: [newbie] easy urpmi has urPO'd

2004-09-19 Thread Avi Schwartz
Brian Parish wrote: Did I miss something? Has easy urpmi turned up it's toes? Haven't been able to go there for a few days now - just when I had to rebuild my main box too. Murphy does it again! It looks like the URL changed. Try http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ Avi

Re: [newbie] Dual Booting

2004-09-19 Thread et
On Sunday 19 September 2004 08:26, aron Smith wrote: Has anybody got any ideas on booting win 200 with linux I tried installing winks first (hey it worked with 98) than installing Mdk 10.0 on the free space linux works Win$ux crashes when you say 'winsux crashes', just where and how? may need

Re: [newbie] easy urpmi has urPO'd

2004-09-19 Thread Brian Parish
On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 00:17, Avi Schwartz wrote: Brian Parish wrote: Did I miss something? Has easy urpmi turned up it's toes? Haven't been able to go there for a few days now - just when I had to rebuild my main box too. Murphy does it again! It looks like the URL changed. Try

Re: [newbie] Can you resume a bittorrent download?

2004-09-19 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 19 September 2004 10:13 am, eric jackson wrote: On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 09:13:13 -0400, Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 19 September 2004 08:01 am, eric jackson wrote: I just got up a few minutes ago at about 7 AM. It was 54% complete but it is still saying 34 hours

Re: [newbie] Scanning from the GIMP

2004-09-19 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Sunday 19 September 2004 15:11, John Richard Smith wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: I'm in the process of scanning a lot of old B/W negatives. Until now, I could just open GIMP, click File -- Acquire -- Device dialog and then xsane would open and work just fine. But after a file system

Re: [newbie] Dual Booting

2004-09-19 Thread aron Smith
On Sunday 19 September 2004 07:18 am, et wrote: On Sunday 19 September 2004 08:26, aron Smith wrote: Has anybody got any ideas on booting win 200 with linux I tried installing winks first (hey it worked with 98) than installing Mdk 10.0 on the free space linux works Win$ux crashes when

Re: [newbie] java problem

2004-09-19 Thread Russ Kepler
On Sunday 19 September 2004 02:57 am, Thereidos wrote: Unfortunately that code doesn't have the same meaning. JAVA_HOME isn't defined or exported (I'm assuming that you meant JAVA_HOME in the first line), and the JAVA_HOME bin directory is now at the end of PATH. Yes, I meant JAVA_HOME.

Re: [newbie] easy urpmi has urPO'd

2004-09-19 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 19 September 2004 10:15 am, JRH wrote: whack JRH: Do us a favor. Turn off the HTML, and lose the attached jpeg. Neither is appropriate for posting to a mail list. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] easy urpmi has urPO'd

2004-09-19 Thread JRH
Sorry I wont bother posting again then You mean this list doesent strip HTML attachments anyway? Oh well, I'll go back to lurking... ---Original Message--- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] OT - stereo vs. puter cd players

2004-09-19 Thread PM
On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 16:04, Todd Slater wrote: My daughter got hold of an audio cd and scratched it all up. Thinking it would be for the trash, I nevertheless gave it a shot and cleaned it and put it in my stereo's cd player; to my surprise, nary a skip! I thought I'd best back it up so I

Re: [newbie] easy urpmi has urPO'd

2004-09-19 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 19 September 2004 12:00 pm, JRH wrote: Sorry I wont bother posting again then You mean this list doesent strip HTML attachments anyway? Oh well, I'll go back to lurking... Now that's the wrong attitude. We need everyone's participation to make this a great list. The

[newbie] Mandrake 9.1 and Sony camcorders ?

2004-09-19 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Gentle folks, I have Sony DCR-HC85E camcorder that came with Picture Package software for Windows. It makes me wonder if there is a software capable to run on Mandrake 9.1 with similar capabilities (to 'see' a camera as an external disk or memory device - that I could mount, to have an

Re: [newbie] easy urpmi has urPO'd

2004-09-19 Thread Bobby
Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 19 September 2004 12:00 pm, JRH wrote: Sorry I wont bother posting again then You mean this list doesent strip HTML attachments anyway? Oh well, I'll go back to lurking... Now that's the wrong attitude. We need everyone's participation to make this a

Re: [newbie] Scanning from the GIMP

2004-09-19 Thread John Richard Smith
Kaj Once again you saved my blood pressure from winding up into the paint cards, John. Of course the matter was that I didn't install xsane-gimp when I did the re-install. After doing just that everything runs the way I want. The reason I prefer to start xsane from the gimp is that I can add

[newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)

2004-09-19 Thread JoeHill
Hey all, Tryin' to do an install of MDK 10.0 Official on an old box I got my mitts on, and it won't boot from the CD. I created a boot floppy with the cdrom.img, but when I try to start the install I get 'No CDROM device found', and when I hit 'Ok', it tells me to insert the 'Additional Drivers

Re: [newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)

2004-09-19 Thread PM
On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 22:00, JoeHill wrote: Hey all, Tryin' to do an install of MDK 10.0 Official on an old box I got my mitts on, and it won't boot from the CD. I created a boot floppy with the cdrom.img, but when I try to start the install I get 'No CDROM device found', and when I hit

Re: [newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)

2004-09-19 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Sunday 19 September 2004 14:00, JoeHill wrote: Hey all, Tryin' to do an install of MDK 10.0 Official on an old box I got my mitts on, and it won't boot from the CD. I created a boot floppy with the cdrom.img, but when I try to start the install I get 'No CDROM device found', and when I

Re: [newbie] OT - stereo vs. puter cd players

2004-09-19 Thread John Richard Smith
Todd Slater wrote: My daughter got hold of an audio cd and scratched it all up. Thinking it would be for the trash, I nevertheless gave it a shot and cleaned it and put it in my stereo's cd player; to my surprise, nary a skip! I thought I'd best back it up so I tried ripping it with cdparanoia to

Re: [newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)

2004-09-19 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:04:04 +0300 PM disseminated the following: Hey all, Tryin' to do an install of MDK 10.0 Official on an old box I got my mitts on, and it won't boot from the CD. I created a boot floppy with the cdrom.img, but when I try to start the install I get 'No

Re: [newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)

2004-09-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 19 September 2004 21:49, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:04:04 +0300 Well, it's pretty old, but it's from another box which I had installed MDK on before, though that was 9.2 (IIRC). This machine, however, does not allow for booting from the CD :-(. One thing I should have

Re: [newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)

2004-09-19 Thread PM
On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 22:49, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:04:04 +0300 PM disseminated the following: Hey all, Tryin' to do an install of MDK 10.0 Official on an old box I got my mitts on, and it won't boot from the CD. I created a boot floppy with the cdrom.img,

[newbie] DVD-ROM

2004-09-19 Thread Noel McG.
Does anyone have any experience with getting an Asus DVD-ROM E616 working with Mandrake 10 please. The system has found it and apparently configured it but it does not show on KDE desktop. DVD placed in the drawer activate it and the led is live. Any ideas please. N. --- This outgoing mail

Re: [newbie] Re: 9.1 PPC configure sound ??

2004-09-19 Thread michael higgins
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 12:23, michael higgins wrote: Thanks for your replies. Still, no luck. The oddest thing is that every test, but for actually using the sound, shows that everything is loaded and ready to go. Mandrake Control Center under Hardware doesn't show any sound

Re: [newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)

2004-09-19 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 23:18:05 +0300 PM disseminated the following: Any idea what this 'Additional Drivers floppy' is, and/or where I can get it? have you tried making a boot disk from the /images/alternatives directory, rather than the cdrom.img? Yep, I was just about to post a [solved],

Re: [newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)

2004-09-19 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:09:27 +0200 H.J.Bathoorn disseminated the following: Joe, Did you ever try a floppy with smartbootmanager? It comes on the slackware install CD's and works on the most improbable of boot devices. I've had some good experiences with it. If I'm understanding you

Re: [newbie] gone OT now: easy urpmi has urPO'd

2004-09-19 Thread Thereidos
W licie z nie, 19-09-2004, godz. 18:47, Greg Meyer pisze: Including a jpg as part of a signature is just not being sensitive to others bandwisth limitations. We have a lot of people on dial-up in parts of the world where Internet access is expensive, and doing things that reduce the

Re: [newbie] gone OT now: easy urpmi has urPO'd

2004-09-19 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 19 September 2004 04:49 pm, Thereidos wrote: W licie z nie, 19-09-2004, godz. 18:47, Greg Meyer pisze: Including a jpg as part of a signature is just not being sensitive to others bandwisth limitations. We have a lot of people on dial-up in parts of the world where Internet access

Re: [newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)

2004-09-19 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 19 September 2004 22:40, JoeHill wrote: Joe, Did you ever try a floppy with smartbootmanager? It comes on the slackware install CD's and works on the most improbable of boot devices. I've had some good experiences with it. If I'm understanding you correctly, I don't know if

Re: [newbie] java problem

2004-09-19 Thread Thereidos
W licie z nie, 19-09-2004, godz. 17:21, Russ Kepler pisze: I hope I explained my reasoning better in this reply. Yeah, I believe we've got a little bit misunderstood. Everything differs on experience gained through the work with it. Let's end this thread. OK? -- Cezary 'Thereidos' Morga

[newbie] 9.1 mouse lockup

2004-09-19 Thread Tom Karen Pino
Hello, I am Tom Pino, a ranchhand in S.E. Montana. I just joined this list as I have been interested in Linux for several years but just don't have the balls. My son on the other hand bought a new computer that is supposed to be Linux friendly. Had no OS installed. Was tested with XP and

Re: [newbie] 9.1 mouse lockup

2004-09-19 Thread Brian Parish
On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 09:42, Tom Karen Pino wrote: Hello, I am Tom Pino, a ranchhand in S.E. Montana. I just joined this list as I have been interested in Linux for several years but just don't have the balls. My son on the other hand bought a new computer that is supposed to be Linux

Re: [newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)

2004-09-19 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Sunday 19 September 2004 14:49, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:04:04 +0300 PM disseminated the following: Hey all, Tryin' to do an install of MDK 10.0 Official on an old box I got my mitts on, and it won't boot from the CD. I created a boot floppy with the

Re: [newbie] 9.1 mouse lockup

2004-09-19 Thread Marc
On Sunday 19 September 2004 06:42 pm, Tom Karen Pino wrote: Hello, I am Tom Pino, a ranchhand in S.E. Montana. I just joined this list as I have been interested in Linux for several years but just don't have the balls. My son on the other hand bought a new computer that is supposed to be

Re: [newbie] 10.1 and DSL

2004-09-19 Thread Marc
On Saturday 18 September 2004 09:32 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 11:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody here been able to get a DSL modem working with 10.1. I have done all the usual stuff in MCC that always worked in 9.2 and 10.0 but still no joy. Thanks in

Re: [newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)

2004-09-19 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Sunday 19 September 2004 16:21, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Sunday 19 September 2004 22:40, JoeHill wrote: snip get it here: http://btmgr.sourceforge.net it's not much more than 50k dload. snip I show 6.1 M -- Regards; Hoyt Registered Linux User #363264 http://counter.li.org

Re: [newbie] 9.1 mouse lockup

2004-09-19 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Sunday 19 September 2004 18:42, Tom Karen Pino wrote: Hello, I am Tom Pino, a ranchhand in S.E. Montana. I just joined this list as I have been interested in Linux for several years but just don't have the balls. My son on the other hand bought a new computer that is supposed to be

Re: [newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)

2004-09-19 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 19:55:08 -0500 Hoyt Bailey disseminated the following: Any idea what this 'Additional Drivers floppy' is, and/or where I can get it? The additional drivers floppy is a FD that contains drivers for hardware that is not on the dist it was pretty common in RH-7 days likely

[newbie] Accessing computer from samba

2004-09-19 Thread lthomas
running Mandrake linux 10 have installed Samba Can see the other computers on the lan, this is a windows network , but cannot access them. when going to Samba mount points and click on the computer I want to access a box comes up asking for user name and password I input the user name ,

Re: [newbie] Dual Booting

2004-09-19 Thread D W Purwanto
salam i also use dual boot (xp Mdrake 9.2) but luckily i didnt met with those problem. what i did is : - i installed win 1st and left some hd space unpartitioned (8 gb) - installed linux in the unpartitioned space with 4 partition ( / , /home, /boot , swap) - then just followed the

Re: [newbie] Dual Booting

2004-09-19 Thread aron Smith
On Sunday 19 September 2004 07:09 pm, D W Purwanto wrote: salam i also use dual boot (xp Mdrake 9.2) but luckily i didnt met with those problem. what i did is : - i installed win 1st and left some hd space unpartitioned (8 gb) - installed linux in the unpartitioned space with 4 partition (

Re: [newbie] Additional Drivers Floppy? (MDK floppy cdrom.img install)

2004-09-19 Thread aron Smith
On Sunday 19 September 2004 06:27 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 19:55:08 -0500 Hoyt Bailey disseminated the following: Any idea what this 'Additional Drivers floppy' is, and/or where I can get it? The additional drivers floppy is a FD that contains drivers for hardware that