Re: [newbie] [OT] Yet another MS threat

2004-09-20 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 12:19, JoeHill wrote: > On 20 Sep 2004 14:34:45 -0500 > Eric Scott disseminated the following: > > > Lol, ranks right up there with freeyourmachine.org, only this stuff's > > logical instead of the ramblings of an overemphasizing MS-hater. This > > link is... um... the lo

Re: [newbie] [OT] Yet another MS threat

2004-09-20 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 08:18, Eric Scott wrote: > On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 21:19, JoeHill wrote: > > On 20 Sep 2004 14:34:45 -0500 > > Eric Scott disseminated the following: > > > > > Lol, ranks right up there with freeyourmachine.org, only this stuff's > > > logical instead of the ramblings of an o

Re: [newbie] 9.1 mouse lockup

2004-09-20 Thread Tom & Karen Pino
Hoyt, He is sure that he configured the mouse.  He is good at following directions.  I assume that he gets this trait from his mother.  Tom Hoyt Bailey wrote: Sounds like a mistake I made. When I installed the system I forgot to configure the mouse during the configure phase in the install

Re: [newbie] 9.1 mouse lockup

2004-09-20 Thread Tom & Karen Pino
Marc, Called him this evening and he tried this - no luck.  We were hoping it would work as it is simple but this way it will be more educational. Tom Marc wrote: I had similar problems with 10.0 and I think the problem may have also been there on 9.1 and 9.2, can't remember for shure

Re: [newbie] 9.1 mouse lockup

2004-09-20 Thread Tom & Karen Pino
Brian, Called Lorin and he gave this a try.  He got to the menu and could not get any of it to work with the enter key or a number of other key strokes (linux commands, I assume). I assume that this means that the install of his 9.1 is screwy in some way and he should reinstall.  If this assum

Re: [newbie] Mozilla crashing sometimes...

2004-09-20 Thread Merlin Zener
On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 20:18, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Monday 20 September 2004 14:47, Merlin Zener wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 16:29, Stephen Kühn wrote: > > > On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 17:55, RAT wrote: > > > > :( I've got similar problem when accessing some https:// > > > > : sites (Seems > > >

Re: [newbie] [OT] Yet another MS threat

2004-09-20 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 02:34:45PM -0500, Eric Scott wrote: > On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 19:04, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > For all of us anti-MS folks, here's Bob Cringely's latest: > > http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040916.html > > -- cmg > > > > > Lol, ranks right up there with fre

Re: [newbie] Sigmatel 4200 IRDA to USB]

2004-09-20 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 04:54, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Tuesday 21 September 2004 04:47, Lanman wrote: > > Quick update for you Derek. The stir4200 driver module is now installed > > after a quick reboot, but I still don't know which usb device-port it's > > connected to. Right now, usbview

Re: [newbie] Sigmatel 4200 IRDA to USB]

2004-09-20 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 04:47, Lanman wrote: > Quick update for you Derek. The stir4200 driver module is now installed > after a quick reboot, but I still don't know which usb device-port it's > connected to. Right now, usbview says that it's connected to > /proc/bus/usb/devices which I believ

Re: [newbie] Sigmatel 4200 IRDA to USB]

2004-09-20 Thread Lanman
Quick update for you Derek. The stir4200 driver module is now installed after a quick reboot, but I still don't know which usb device-port it's connected to. Right now, usbview says that it's connected to /proc/bus/usb/devices which I believe is just a reference and not an actual port. -- Lanm

Re: [newbie] Sigmatel 4200 IRDA to USB

2004-09-20 Thread Lanman
Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 21 September 2004 03:41, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 21 September 2004 00:08, Lanman wrote: Dear List, As the subject mentions, I have an IRDA dongle which connects to my USB port. The Infra-Red unit is used to transfer pictures from a Casio digital camera to t

Re: [newbie] Sigmatel 4200 IRDA to USB

2004-09-20 Thread Lanman
Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 21 September 2004 00:08, Lanman wrote: Dear List, As the subject mentions, I have an IRDA dongle which connects to my USB port. The Infra-Red unit is used to transfer pictures from a Casio digital camera to the PC. The dongle is recognized on my USB port properly, a

Re: [newbie] [OT] Yet another MS threat

2004-09-20 Thread Eric Scott
On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 21:19, JoeHill wrote: > On 20 Sep 2004 14:34:45 -0500 > Eric Scott disseminated the following: > > > Lol, ranks right up there with freeyourmachine.org, only this stuff's > > logical instead of the ramblings of an overemphasizing MS-hater. This > > link is... um... the lo

Re: [newbie] Sigmatel 4200 IRDA to USB

2004-09-20 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 03:41, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Tuesday 21 September 2004 00:08, Lanman wrote: > > Dear List, > > > > As the subject mentions, I have an IRDA dongle which connects to my USB > > port. The Infra-Red unit is used to transfer pictures from a Casio > > digital camera to t

Re: [newbie] [OT] Yet another MS threat

2004-09-20 Thread Lanman
JoeHill wrote: On 20 Sep 2004 14:34:45 -0500 Eric Scott disseminated the following: Lol, ranks right up there with freeyourmachine.org, only this stuff's logical instead of the ramblings of an overemphasizing MS-hater. This link is... um... the logical, reasonable, believable ramblings of

Re: [newbie] Sigmatel 4200 IRDA to USB

2004-09-20 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 00:08, Lanman wrote: > Dear List, > > As the subject mentions, I have an IRDA dongle which connects to my USB > port. The Infra-Red unit is used to transfer pictures from a Casio > digital camera to the PC. > > The dongle is recognized on my USB port properly, although

Re: [newbie] 10.1 community on bittorrent = slow

2004-09-20 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Monday 20 September 2004 18:05, Scott Mazur wrote: > On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 16:15:53 -0600, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote > > > On September 18, 2004 15:18, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > > On Saturday 18 September 2004 14:02, Dennis Myers wrote: > > > > On Saturday 18 September 2004 12:57 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote:

Re: [newbie] [OT] Yet another MS threat

2004-09-20 Thread JoeHill
On 20 Sep 2004 14:34:45 -0500 Eric Scott disseminated the following: > Lol, ranks right up there with freeyourmachine.org, only this stuff's > logical instead of the ramblings of an overemphasizing MS-hater. This > link is... um... the logical, reasonable, believable ramblings of an > overem

Re: [newbie] 10.1 community on bittorrent = slow

2004-09-20 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 20 September 2004 07:05 pm, Scott Mazur wrote: > The ISOs could be distributed to many more reliable mirrors where highband > width is a planned feature easily accomodated. and extremely expensive. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Serv

Re: [newbie] [OT] Yet another MS threat

2004-09-20 Thread Sevatio
Those slimeballs at Microsoft would have kept us in the dark ages using typewriters if it meant money in their pockets. Carroll Grigsby wrote: For all of us anti-MS folks, here's Bob Cringely's latest: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040916.html -- cmg

[newbie] TightVNC Server... wassup??

2004-09-20 Thread Eric Scott
Yo; I have TightVNC running on a Mandrake 9.1 box on a network with several Windows NT based computers. I've figured out how to get vncserver running... and have it running on display 2. When I access it from the remote computer, however, it starts to load the KDE desktop... then the taksbar d

Re: [newbie] [OT] Yet another MS threat

2004-09-20 Thread Eric Scott
On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 19:04, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > For all of us anti-MS folks, here's Bob Cringely's latest: > http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040916.html > -- cmg > > Lol, ranks right up there with freeyourmachine.org, only this stuff's logical instead of the ramblings of

[newbie] [OT] Yet another MS threat

2004-09-20 Thread Carroll Grigsby
For all of us anti-MS folks, here's Bob Cringely's latest: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040916.html -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrak

[newbie] Sigmatel 4200 IRDA to USB

2004-09-20 Thread Lanman
Dear List, As the subject mentions, I have an IRDA dongle which connects to my USB port. The Infra-Red unit is used to transfer pictures from a Casio digital camera to the PC. The dongle is recognized on my USB port properly, although it doesn't allow me to determine which port it's connected t

Re: [newbie] 10.1 community on bittorrent = slow

2004-09-20 Thread Scott Mazur
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 16:15:53 -0600, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote > On September 18, 2004 15:18, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > On Saturday 18 September 2004 14:02, Dennis Myers wrote: > > > On Saturday 18 September 2004 12:57 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > > > On Saturday 18 September 2004 12:35, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:

Re: [newbie] xorg & xfree

2004-09-20 Thread Johan Sch
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 10:51:29 +0200 Thereidos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > W li_cie z nie, 19-09-2004, godz. 08:11, Johan Sch pisze: > > Hi, > > > > While updating this weekend this... > > ** > > To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed (66 MB): > > XFree86-4.3-32

Re: [newbie] 10.1 community on bittorrent = slow

2004-09-20 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
On September 18, 2004 15:18, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > On Saturday 18 September 2004 14:02, Dennis Myers wrote: > > On Saturday 18 September 2004 12:57 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > > On Saturday 18 September 2004 12:35, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 13:16, Dennis Myers wrote: > > > > >

Re: [newbie] [OT] More info to scare Windows users

2004-09-20 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 00:15, JoeHill wrote: > Want more facts to convince your friends and family to switch? > > Try this on: > > "In addition 95 per cent of the 1,237 new vulnerabilities discovered between > January and June were rated 'highly severe'. > > The report claimed that 4,496 new Wind

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

2004-09-20 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Monday 20 September 2004 11:32, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > On Monday 20 September 2004 16:47, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > I doubt I'll get to it for a while, other considerations. > > C'mon, can't let a 6Mb download go to waste:) > > -- > Good luck, > HarM I had no intention of letting it go to waste, bu

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

2004-09-20 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 20 September 2004 16:47, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > I doubt I'll get to it for a while, other considerations. C'mon, can't let a 6Mb download go to waste:) -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

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

2004-09-20 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Monday 20 September 2004 09:39, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > On Monday 20 September 2004 16:30, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > 156 files @ 7.1 MB.  Lots of screenshots. Lots of Docs and > > btmgr-3.7.1 in rpm, src.rpm, & tar.gz. > > So, say in a day or so, you'll be our expert on btmgr heh;) > Iirc there's a w

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

2004-09-20 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 20 September 2004 16:30, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > 156 files @ 7.1 MB.  Lots of screenshots. Lots of Docs and btmgr-3.7.1 > in rpm, src.rpm, & tar.gz. So, say in a day or so, you'll be our expert on btmgr heh;) Iirc there's a way of just writing/coppying "btmgr" to mbr i.e. that's actually a

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

2004-09-20 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Monday 20 September 2004 08:35, JoeHill wrote: > On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 06:45:25 -0500 > > Hoyt Bailey disseminated the following: > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 hoyt hoyt 6355292 Sep 19 20:16 btmgr-web.tar.gz > > Thats what I got where am I going wrong. > > Looks like you *did* download the whole site...gzi

[newbie] [OT] More info to scare Windows users

2004-09-20 Thread JoeHill
Want more facts to convince your friends and family to switch? Try this on: "In addition 95 per cent of the 1,237 new vulnerabilities discovered between January and June were rated 'highly severe'. The report claimed that 4,496 new Windows viruses and worms were detected during the same period,

Re: [newbie] TV/FM tunner

2004-09-20 Thread Sevatio
What brand and model is the tuner card? Kassem Nasser wrote: Hi all I have a tv&fm tuner card and I am not able to configure neither the fm nor the TV. ca someone help me to stop using windows to listen to FM I did not write further details because I was not sure that the message will succeed, Best

[newbie] TV/FM tunner

2004-09-20 Thread Kassem Nasser
Hi all I have a tv&fm tuner card and I am not able to configure neither the fm nor the TV. ca someone help me to stop using windows to listen to FM I did not write further details because I was not sure that the message will succeed, Best Regards. -- --Kassem Nasser--

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

2004-09-20 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 06:45:25 -0500 Hoyt Bailey disseminated the following: > -rw-rw-r-- 1 hoyt hoyt 6355292 Sep 19 20:16 btmgr-web.tar.gz > Thats what I got where am I going wrong. Looks like you *did* download the whole site...gzipped. What's inside? -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourm

Re: [newbie] Mozilla crashing sometimes...

2004-09-20 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 20 September 2004 14:47, Merlin Zener wrote: > On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 16:29, Stephen Kühn wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 17:55, RAT wrote: > > > :( I've got similar problem when accessing some https:// > > > : sites (Seems > > > > > > like when there's some JavaScript or even Java) Mozil

Re: [newbie] Mozilla crashing sometimes...

2004-09-20 Thread Merlin Zener
On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 16:29, Stephen Kühn wrote: > On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 17:55, RAT wrote: > > :( I've got similar problem when accessing some https:// sites (Seems > > like when there's some JavaScript or even Java) Mozilla dies with > > segfault. I've installed Mozilla compiled with GTK1 and it w