Re: [newbie] Mandrake shutting down.

2004-09-25 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 14:36:25 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake shutting down. For the past few days, Mandrake has been shutting down with no action from me. This can happen at any time , at any duration of

Re: [newbie] Odd Internet problem...

2004-09-25 Thread John Wilson
On September 25, 2004 07:27 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 25 September 2004 01:52 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: MAC addresses are at hardware level; if the MAC address has changed, consider disabling the card in BIOS and driving out to Greenville or Pikeville for a new 10/100 card...

[newbie] HP PSC 750

2004-09-25 Thread Lanman
has anyone tried using an HP PSC 750 Multi-Function mopier unit? It's a combination of a scanner, printer and copier (I think). If there's anything I need to watch out setting one up, I'd appreciate a bit of info. TIA -- Lanman Registered Linux User #190712

Re: [newbie] Odd Internet problem...

2004-09-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 25 September 2004 11:29 am, John Wilson wrote: Out of nothing, at this point and keeping fingers crossed, did you check to see if the phantom MAC address on your son's card was duplicated in one of the other cards on your LAN? snip Thanks for the reply, John. Actually, I did - I

[newbie] PLEASE READ: etiquette and Welcome messages: was [OT] Yet another MS threat

2004-09-25 Thread Eric Huff
Eric might also be interested to know that your candy ass was spanked so bad on the OT list that you ran back over here. I have been staying out of these threads but i have seen my name mentioned a couple times and i want to clear a few things up: I do not by any means moderate this list or

Re: [newbie] HP PSC 750

2004-09-25 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Saturday 25 September 2004 11:44, Lanman wrote: has anyone tried using an HP PSC 750 Multi-Function mopier unit? It's a combination of a scanner, printer and copier (I think). If there's anything I need to watch out setting one up, I'd appreciate a bit of info. I have an HP PSC 950. Always

Re: [newbie] HP PSC 750

2004-09-25 Thread aron Smith
On Saturday 25 September 2004 08:44 am, Lanman wrote: has anyone tried using an HP PSC 750 Multi-Function mopier unit? It's a combination of a scanner, printer and copier (I think). If there's anything I need to watch out setting one up, I'd appreciate a bit of info. TIA I use the HP-PSC 1205

Re: [newbie] Nautilus problem after upgrade to Gnome 2.6

2004-09-25 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 23:26, Edgars Smits wrote: Getting closer to solving the problem - did a search for GTK in DrakeConf - Software Install, installed all that had old versions. Now the GTK error is gone, but it still won't start: nautilus: symbol lookup error: nautilus: undefined

[newbie] .xsession-errors

2004-09-25 Thread Chris
This file is bugging me! I have yet to figure out anything its telling me and it seems to grow some every 10minutes or so. I've checked the archives and there is one entry on it but it really doesn't explain anything at all. Is it something to be concerned about, or should I just ignore it

Re: [newbie] archiving to multi volumes

2004-09-25 Thread Eric Huff
can someone sugest nice script for making tar arcives with given size from given folder, presuming that data in folder is more than given volume size; that volumes must be independet form each other(no file spliting); that volume name is smart (e.g. vol1.tar; vol2.tar vol3.tar;

Re: [newbie] HP PSC 750

2004-09-25 Thread Lanman
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Saturday 25 September 2004 11:44, Lanman wrote: has anyone tried using an HP PSC 750 Multi-Function mopier unit? It's a combination of a scanner, printer and copier (I think). If there's anything I need to watch out setting one up, I'd appreciate a bit of info. I have an

Re: [newbie] .xsession-errors

2004-09-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 25 September 2004 12:54 pm, Chris wrote: This file is bugging me! I have yet to figure out anything its telling me and it seems to grow some every 10minutes or so. I've checked the archives and there is one entry on it but it really doesn't explain anything at all. Is it

Re: [newbie] Odd Internet problem...

2004-09-25 Thread Erylon Hines
On Saturday 25 September 2004 07:33 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: | | But for all the *newbies* here reading this, statically wounded circuits | can show weird symptoms months after installation. Sometimes weird | stuff like what Ron is seeing. That includes (especially) | motherboards. It's best to

Re: [newbie] Odd Internet problem...

2004-09-25 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 25 September 2004 17:55, Erylon Hines wrote: attach yourself to the metal part of the case, and you are good to go. I had some wonderful shocking experiences doing so whilst forgetting to disconnect the plugged-in monitor. The world's a dangerous place full of unexpected pitfalls,

Re: [newbie] .xsession-errors

2004-09-25 Thread Chris
On Saturday 25 September 2004 12:32 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 25 September 2004 12:54 pm, Chris wrote: This file is bugging me! I have yet to figure out anything its telling me and it seems to grow some every 10minutes or so. I've checked the archives and there is one entry on

Re: [newbie] Odd Internet problem...

2004-09-25 Thread Richard Urwin
On Saturday 25 Sep 2004 4:55 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: On Saturday 25 September 2004 07:33 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: | But for all the *newbies* here reading this, statically wounded | circuits can show weird symptoms months after installation. | Sometimes weird stuff like what Ron is seeing.

Re: [newbie] Odd Internet problem...

2004-09-25 Thread Erylon Hines
On Saturday 25 September 2004 03:37 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: | I think Which was told off and had to publish a retraction not so long | ago for publicly giving that bit of advice. | | Some things to bear in mind: | 1. If there's an earth fault the live wire is connected to you. | 2. The switch is

Re: [newbie] .xsession-errors

2004-09-25 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 25 September 2004 05:23 pm, Chris wrote: Not that I know of, although when trying to look at the 16mb+ .xsession-errors file last night Konqueror locked up the system, of course that was probably because I was reading the file at the same time it was probably being written to.