Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime

2004-11-13 Thread Dobrescu Mihai
Six months ago I've purchased a 5550 (pretty expensive) and the drivers on Windows still have problems with the color tones. On MDK worked much better... despite of HP *sponsoring*. ;-) --- Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 12 Nov 2004 13:32, Greg Meyer wrote: Ever try to

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime

2004-11-13 Thread Keith Powell
On Friday 12 Nov 2004 23:45, Dennis Myers wrote: On the other hand, a friend of mine at work was complaining about their home comp not giving access to the internet but the worm/virus that infected it would connect whenever it wanted. So I hand her a disk with MandrakeMove on it and tell her

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime

2004-11-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 13 Nov 2004 07:09, Dobrescu Mihai wrote: He's right! But don't expect that Linux or any Linux distro was meant for your needs and blame it if it doesn't have all the features you need. Linux covers -let say - 98% of users needs in general, but if you were unlucky to be in the 2%

Re: [newbie] mail problem

2004-11-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 12 Nov 2004 23:34, Cezary Morga wrote: I've got four mail accounts on polish free mail servers. Unfortunately I keep experiencing some problems when trying to send anything from three of them via SMTP. It takes a lot of time to just connect to them - the rest goes swell. Only one of

Re: [newbie] Do newest flat screen (non-LCD) monitors work on Mandrake?

2004-11-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 12 Nov 2004 23:40, Wojciech Podgórni wrote: Hello everyone! I have a hardware question for you. My aunt is buying a Plug'n'Play flat screen monitor for her Mandrake 10.0 computer and I am worried if it would work on that system. The rest of the hardware is quite old - GeForce 256

Re: Fwd: [newbie] A short notice to gmail users

2004-11-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 13 Nov 2004 03:37, David E. Fox wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:06:20 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a sig on the lines of 'I am a gmail user and cannot turn off reply-to. Please be aware of this.' It wouldn't be easier just to change clients? Possibly, but then

Re: [newbie] Do newest flat screen (non-LCD) monitors work on Mandrake?

2004-11-13 Thread Wojciech Podgrni
Uytkownik Anne Wilson napisa: On Friday 12 Nov 2004 23:40, Wojciech Podgrni wrote: Hello everyone! I have a hardware question for you. My aunt is buying a Plug'n'Play flat screen monitor for her Mandrake 10.0 computer and I am worried if it would work on that system. The rest of the hardware is

Re: [newbie] Do newest flat screen (non-LCD) monitors work on Mandrake?

2004-11-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 13 Nov 2004 10:58, Wojciech Podgrni wrote: Uytkownik Anne Wilson napisa: On Friday 12 Nov 2004 23:40, Wojciech Podgrni wrote: Hello everyone! I have a hardware question for you. My aunt is buying a Plug'n'Play flat screen monitor for her Mandrake 10.0 computer and I am worried if

Re: [newbie] Do newest flat screen (non-LCD) monitors work on Mandrake?

2004-11-13 Thread Richard Urwin
On Saturday 13 Nov 2004 10:58 am, Wojciech Podgrni wrote: Thank you for your anwers! But my question was about *non*-LCD monitors... Do all the newest Plug'n'Play non-LCD monitors work with Mandrake? No direct experience of them, but I see no reason the shouldn't. The important bits are the

Re: [newbie] mail problem

2004-11-13 Thread Cezary Morga
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 10:16:51 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 12 Nov 2004 23:34, Cezary Morga wrote: I've got four mail accounts on polish free mail servers. Unfortunately I keep experiencing some problems when trying to send anything from three of them via SMTP. It

Re: [newbie] Do newest flat screen (non-LCD) monitors work on Mandrake?

2004-11-13 Thread Wojciech Podgrni
Uytkownik Anne Wilson napisa: On Saturday 13 Nov 2004 10:58, Wojciech Podgrni wrote: snip Thank you for your anwers! But my question was about *non*-LCD monitors... Do all the newest Plug'n'Play non-LCD monitors work with Mandrake? Wojciech Podgrni PS. BTW, I am glad to read that LCD monitors

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime

2004-11-13 Thread Stew Benedict
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 22:55:46 -0500 Jack disseminated the following: Joe, you really need to read more carefully. I'll let you look at my initial post (at the top) again so you can figure it out for yourself... LOL! Okay, I shouldn't o' had that

Re: [newbie] Re: Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime

2004-11-13 Thread SnapafunFrank
Jack wrote: Björn Lundin wrote: Jack wrote: Okay, I've spent a couple of months playing with Mandrake Linux (10.1 community) and here are my (unsolicited) impressions: 3 - Couldn't upgrade to KDE 3.3, despite having the CD for it and despite help from experts like Randall. I spent

Re: [newbie] ssh port forwarding more then one port

2004-11-13 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 01:04, Lovell Mcilwain wrote: Hello all, I am trying to forward more then one port over ssh via command line on my linux box but I can't seem to get the syntax right. I have copied my script blow can anyone tell me if my / are right or if there is something that I

Re: [newbie] Newsforge Fightin' the FUD

2004-11-13 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 01:17, JoeHill wrote: Quote: Evan Blomquist, Linux instructor at The Training Camp, suppliers of on campus training, believes the debate on Linux security for the desktop is occurring only because of Microsoft's record. He believes Microsoft has become so blinkered by

Re: [newbie] Re: Is Abba safe?

2004-11-13 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 13 November 2004 02:30 am, frankieh wrote: I'm not much for digital music at the moment anyway..  and with the ridiculous DRM antics the RRIA are playing with, I'm unlikely to start. I also refuse to buy music CD's anymore either, my way of protest. (used to buy at least one a

Re: [newbie] Is Abba safe?

2004-11-13 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 03:06, JoeHill wrote: My 4 yr old daughter wants me to download some Abba songs, like 'Dancing Queen' and the like. Is this safe? Has anyone successfully copied some Abba to their HD without hosing their system? Are there special precautions I can take in advance?

Re: [newbie] Re: Is Abba safe?

2004-11-13 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 10:03, Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 12 November 2004 01:51 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 07:47:13 +1100 Andrewd disseminated the following: Of course down here in Australia it is illegal to make any copies no matter what the reason. So basically all those

Re: [newbie] Re: Is Abba safe?

2004-11-13 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 06:33, Lee Wiggers wrote: Lips? I have no lips. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free and no viruses Registered Linux

Re: [newbie] Re: Is Abba safe?

2004-11-13 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 08:51, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 07:47:13 +1100 Andrewd disseminated the following: Of course down here in Australia it is illegal to make any copies no matter what the reason. So basically all those people running around with ipods cannot legally use them

Re: [newbie] Re: Is Abba safe?

2004-11-13 Thread mooney
On Saturday 13 November 2004 17:38, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 13 November 2004 02:30 am, frankieh wrote: I'm not much for digital music at the moment anyway..  and with the ridiculous DRM antics the RRIA are playing with, I'm unlikely to start. I also refuse to buy music CD's anymore

Re: [newbie] Re: Is Abba safe?

2004-11-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 13 Nov 2004 15:44, Stephen Kühn wrote: Respect for authority? WHY DO YOU THINK I MOVED HERE? A certain female authority, IIRC? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime

2004-11-13 Thread rikona
Hello Jack, Friday, November 12, 2004, 8:07:40 PM, Jack wrote: J Funny you should mention this... a few years back, I had a small J problem with Win98. I was still within the support period so I J called their tech support. Before you knew it, the fella wanted me J to re-install Windows.

Re: [newbie] Re: Is Abba safe?

2004-11-13 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Saturday 13 November 2004 11:45 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 13 November 2004 17:38, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 13 November 2004 02:30 am, frankieh wrote: I'm not much for digital music at the moment anyway.. and with the ridiculous DRM antics the RRIA are playing with,

[newbie] Re: Re: Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime

2004-11-13 Thread Björn Lundin
Will this same command work in 10.1 community? And what is thacs repository? And should the last command read urpme hickup-packAge? (The A capitalized so that you would notice it.) - Jack First, the answer to your reply - Part1 is within the help offered. GO TO

Re: [newbie] Re: Is Abba safe?

2004-11-13 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 04:22, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 13 Nov 2004 15:44, Stephen Kühn wrote: Respect for authority? WHY DO YOU THINK I MOVED HERE? A certain female authority, IIRC? Anne That was PART of it... -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new

Re: [newbie] mail problem

2004-11-13 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Saturday 13 November 2004 06:24, Cezary Morga wrote: No. My ISP doesn't even give me any e-mail account, so I doubt they would like to block it. And as I have mentioned the problem occurred some time ago - two weeks? I ain't sure. I have problems connecting to mail servers via SMTP (yes

[newbie] Simultaneous media record and play - was: Is Abba safe?

2004-11-13 Thread rikona
Friday, November 12, 2004, 11:30:46 PM, frankieh wrote: f One thing that never really made sense to me, is all the effort f that the record companies are going to in order to stop copying. f The reason it makes no sense, is because no matter what they do, it f has to output to headphones.. so

Re: [newbie] Re: Is Abba safe?

2004-11-13 Thread mooney
On Saturday 13 November 2004 20:05, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Saturday 13 November 2004 11:45 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 13 November 2004 17:38, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 13 November 2004 02:30 am, frankieh wrote: I'm not much for digital music at the moment anyway..

[newbie] Bash Prompt

2004-11-13 Thread Elliot S.
I am of course new to linux, I'm taking a class in which one thing we learned was to change the environmental variable of the prompt using the line PS1= I want my prompt to display my current working directory, and the way I did that in the class was add PS1=`pwd` Now the class was an

Re: [newbie] Kppp settings problem?

2004-11-13 Thread Lorin Jenny Pino
- Original Message - From: Marek Pawinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 10:27 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Kppp settings problem? Lorin Jenny Pino wrote: Kppp will dial in and establish a connection. However, I can't access any web sites.

[newbie] CD burner problems

2004-11-13 Thread Keith Powell
Two days ago, my Yamaha CD burner decided it wasn't going to burn! It will play data CDs normally, but when I insert a CD and try to burn with it, I get a message that there is an input/output error. The tray then opens and I get a message to insert a blank CD. Push the tray back in and the

Re: [newbie] Re: Is Abba safe?

2004-11-13 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Saturday 13 November 2004 14:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pick up a book and read the copyright notice. I've always felt it was ambiguous. Wouldn't it also depend on whether you bought the item or a license to use the item, a la MS? Yes, but then they wouldn't be able to use copyright

Re: [newbie] Bash Prompt

2004-11-13 Thread mike
Elliot S. wrote: I am of course new to linux, I'm taking a class in which one thing we learned was to change the environmental variable of the prompt using the line PS1= I want my prompt to display my current working directory, and the way I did that in the class was add PS1=`pwd` Now

Re: Fwd: [newbie] A short notice to gmail users

2004-11-13 Thread Amy
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 10:23:28 +, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 13 Nov 2004 03:37, David E. Fox wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:06:20 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a sig on the lines of 'I am a gmail user and cannot turn off reply-to. Please be aware

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime

2004-11-13 Thread Jack
Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 12 November 2004 11:10 pm, Jack wrote: Good point Greg but I dislike "upgrading." I always prefer to do a clean install. My experience has been (up to now) that there are less problems this way. I tend to agree,

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime

2004-11-13 Thread Jack
Jack wrote: Attempting to solve another problem that I reported in this thread (upgrading to KDE 3.3), I retried Randall's suggestion with Konquest and still got the C compiler error. I also tried the "urpmi.update -a -f --wget urpmi --wget --auto --auto-select --no-verify-rpm" that

[newbie] TWiki - Plea for help!

2004-11-13 Thread Anne Wilson
Message to Expert list from James Sparenberg: All, The Community TWiki got cracked. The person running it is busy trying to find a viable backup to restore what he can. However this may not be possible as the backup (current) is of the cracked version. Basically someone found a new

Re: [newbie] [ØT] Re: Is Abba safe?

2004-11-13 Thread frengoGorgia
Seems that THIS thread is TOTALLY OFF-TOPIC Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime

2004-11-13 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 13 November 2004 05:17 pm, Jack wrote: Jack wrote: Attempting to solve another problem that I reported in this thread (upgrading to KDE 3.3), I retried Randall's suggestion with Konquest and still got the C compiler error. I also tried the urpmi.update -a -f --wget urpmi

Re: [newbie] [ØT] Re: Is Abba safe?

2004-11-13 Thread JoeHill
On 13 Nov 2004 23:34:21 +0100 frengoGorgia disseminated the following: Seems that THIS thread is TOTALLY OFF-TOPIC No! Oh my God! Stop the presses! Offtopic thread on Newbie! -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 18:13:21 up 101 days, 19:05, 7 users, load average: 0.33, 0.14,

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime

2004-11-13 Thread Jack
Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 13 November 2004 05:17 pm, Jack wrote: Jack wrote: Attempting to solve another problem that I reported in this thread (upgrading to KDE 3.3), I retried Randall's suggestion with Konquest and still got the C compiler error. I also

Re: [newbie] CD burner problems

2004-11-13 Thread mikkel
Two days ago, my Yamaha CD burner decided it wasn't going to burn! It will play data CDs normally, but when I insert a CD and try to burn with it, I get a message that there is an input/output error. The tray then opens and I get a message to insert a blank CD. Push the tray back in and the

Re: [newbie] CD burner problems

2004-11-13 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 13 November 2004 02:31 pm, Keith Powell wrote: From these symptoms, is it likely that the drive has gone duff, or can someone please suggest what else may suddenly be causing the drive to play but not record? There are two lasers in the drive, one for playing and one for recording.

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime

2004-11-13 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 13 November 2004 07:31 pm, Jack wrote: It apparently has a way to allow changing the default browser *that works*!  Changing the htm file association in 3.23 does not work...   That's the main reason, but there are other minor ones... Changing the file association only works to

Re: [newbie] TWiki - Plea for help!

2004-11-13 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Sunday 14 November 2004 05:19 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Message to Expert list from James Sparenberg: All, The Community TWiki got cracked. The person running it is busy trying to find a viable backup to restore what he can. However this may not be possible as the backup (current) is of

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime

2004-11-13 Thread Jack
Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 13 November 2004 07:31 pm, Jack wrote: It apparently has a way to allow changing the default browser *that works*! Changing the htm file association in 3.23 does not work... That's the main reason, but there are other minor ones...

Re: [newbie] Is Abba safe?

2004-11-13 Thread Graham Watkins
Richard Urwin wrote: Actually ABBA music is technically highly complex. Which only goes to prove it ain't real Rock'n'Roll. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :