SV: [newbie] Network problem

2004-11-15 Thread Ralph Utbult
So you have a router at 192.168.1.1? Post the output of: ifconfig arp -n iptables -L -n Bill Problem solved (long time ago...) /Ralph Min e-post skyddas av SPAMfighter 607 spam har blivit blockerade hittills. Hämta gratis på

[newbie] XFce4.2 RC1

2004-11-15 Thread Stephen Kühn
Ok - y'all heard me rave on and on about XFce4 time and time again, but now, well, I'm blown. It's gotten to 4.2 release candidate 1 - and of course, I had to download it and install it up over the top of what I already had (er, well, the previous version) - and I can only say: I'M BLOODY

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

2004-11-15 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 14 November 2004 14:18, David Feldman wrote: Despite the strong recommendations I've received for Mandrake as a good novice-friendly distro, I've been unable even to get it to install. I'm working with 10.1 Discovery on CD, on a Dell Dimension 2400 with a 2.6GHz P4 and a Samsung

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

2004-11-15 Thread M.Schild
: I'm still searching for that perfect distro to recommend, but this isn't an experience I would want to impose on a novice user. While it's possible I have an unusual configuration, one key thing in an distro for novices has to be excellent hardware support out of the box. Am I missing

Re: [newbie] XFce4.2 RC1

2004-11-15 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 09:46:29PM +1100, Stephen Kühn wrote: Ok - y'all heard me rave on and on about XFce4 time and time again, but now, well, I'm blown. It's gotten to 4.2 release candidate 1 - and of course, I had to download it and install it up over the top of what I already had (er,

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

2004-11-15 Thread David Feldman
Am I correct in understanding, then, that Linuxes in general don't like internal modems? I have not done any modem testing at all. On Nov 15, 2004, at 7:34, M.Schild wrote: : I'm still searching for that perfect distro to recommend, but this isn't an experience I would want to impose on a novice

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

2004-11-15 Thread David Feldman
Gee, my Linux installations work right out of the box. Even when some tweaking is required, I've been able to get onto the web and go looking for help. And I've never had to dive around in drawers looking for old CDs and floppies. By and large my experience has been the same. Perhaps not, but

Re: [newbie] Problem with Firefox Kmail

2004-11-15 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Tuesday 02 November 2004 07:20 am, Mike wrote: www.google.com and this is what opens in Firefox: file:///var/tmp/kdecache-user/krun/2159.0.google I don't get the website, I get a locally stored version of the site and no links from the site work. Any help resolving this problem is

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

2004-11-15 Thread J
Am I correct in understanding, then, that Linuxes in general don't like internal modems? I have not done any modem testing at all. Depends what type of modem it is! If it's the Hardware type, that has it's own Processor etc, I have had no problems. But, if it's a winmodem (sometimes labelled a

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

2004-11-15 Thread mikkel
Am I correct in understanding, then, that Linuxes in general don't like internal modems? I have not done any modem testing at all. On Nov 15, 2004, at 7:34, M.Schild wrote: For the most part, internal modems tend to be win modems that use software to do the work of hardware. Because they

Re: [newbie] XFce4.2 RC1

2004-11-15 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 15 November 2004 11:46, Stephen Kühn wrote: SO, if anyone wants to give it a go, you can find it at: http://www.xfce.org On my own stuff (like me personal laptop) I wouldn't run anything else;) I haven't upgraded in a while (being very satisfied) so I'll take your word ---Yep, you

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

2004-11-15 Thread Aron Smith
On Monday 15 November 2004 08:07 am, J wrote: Am I correct in understanding, then, that Linuxes in general don't like internal modems? I have not done any modem testing at all. Depends what type of modem it is! If it's the Hardware type, that has it's own Processor etc, I have had no

[newbie] OT ssl certs

2004-11-15 Thread Todd Slater
I recently bought an ssl certificate for a domain and everything is cool with browsing the site with https://. Now I'm reading up on Courier IMAP and using SSL with it--can I use the same certificate for web and IMAP, or do I have to buy another one? Todd -- Name that tune #14: There's a room

Re: SV: [newbie] Network problem

2004-11-15 Thread Aron Smith
On Monday 15 November 2004 12:51 am, Ralph Utbult wrote: So you have a router at 192.168.1.1? Post the output of: ifconfig arp -n iptables -L -n Bill Problem solved (long time ago...) [EMAIL PROTECTED] aron]# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:18:E6:C2:CD

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

2004-11-15 Thread Eric Scott
On Sunday 14 November 2004 22:22, Carroll Grigsby wrote: BUT, (a) few users install Windows themselves, Perhaps not, but sooner or later they do reformat and reinstall -- sometimes frequently -- often at the suggestion of MS tech support. Perhaps 2000 and XP are better in this regard, but it

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

2004-11-15 Thread M.Schild
If it's the Hardware type, that has it's own Processor etc, I have had no problems. But, if it's a winmodem (sometimes labelled a software modem), that relies on using some of the Windows system resources to run, then it can be trickier. I also have an internal modem. The sellers of my

[newbie] KMail

2004-11-15 Thread Ian
I've searched through the configure kontact options, but when I select to forward a mail with an attachment, the attachment isn't included. What am I doing wrongly? Or have I just ignored an option? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

2004-11-15 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 00:59, David Feldman wrote: Am I correct in understanding, then, that Linuxes in general don't like internal modems? I have not done any modem testing at all. 90% of internal modems have chipsets/instructions sets that are written in a proprietary manner for MS Windows

[newbie] Scientific Citation Manager software?

2004-11-15 Thread John linux-user
I am wondering if there is a Scientific Citation Manager software, like EndNote, Reference Manager, for Linux. Thanks. John __ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

2004-11-15 Thread Paul
Op Tue, 16 Nov 2004 08:13:54 +1100 schreef Stephen Kühn: There are some that can work - and work very well with GNU/linux, but sadly, quite a few cannot. I once made a winmodem with a Lucent chipset work in Linux. That was quite easy. Paul

Re: [newbie] XFce4.2 RC1

2004-11-15 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 00:31, Todd Slater wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 09:46:29PM +1100, Stephen Kühn wrote: Ok - y'all heard me rave on and on about XFce4 time and time again, but now, well, I'm blown. It's gotten to 4.2 release candidate 1 - and of course, I had to download it and

Re: [newbie] XFce4.2 RC1

2004-11-15 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 03:33, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Monday 15 November 2004 11:46, Stephen Kühn wrote: SO, if anyone wants to give it a go, you can find it at: http://www.xfce.org On my own stuff (like me personal laptop) I wouldn't run anything else;) I haven't upgraded in a while

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

2004-11-15 Thread mooney
On Monday 15 November 2004 23:27, Paul wrote: Op Tue, 16 Nov 2004 08:13:54 +1100 schreef Stephen Kühn: There are some that can work - and work very well with GNU/linux, but sadly, quite a few cannot. I once made a winmodem with a Lucent chipset work in Linux. That was quite easy. I had a

Re: [newbie] Scientific Citation Manager software?

2004-11-15 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 08:22, John linux-user wrote: I am wondering if there is a Scientific Citation Manager software, like EndNote, Reference Manager, for Linux. Thanks. John I would suggest checking out the sites for Star Office, Open Office, and some of the larger repositories of

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

2004-11-15 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 15 November 2004 23:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Strangely, he went back to using windows - he didn't like having to enter a password when booting up! You don't have to if you don't want to..I suddenly realized how horribly wrong that could go after I thought my laptop had been

Re: [newbie] XFce4.2 RC1

2004-11-15 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 15 November 2004 22:38, Stephen Kühn wrote: (What - ya ground yer boat again?)(g) Yep, nail on the head;) This time at a wharf and catching up on maintainance i.e. I've had a hell of a good year and won't be lifting a finger until 2005:) Welll, maybe take on a trip around Xmas to

Re: [newbie] XFce4.2 RC1

2004-11-15 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 21:46:29 +1100 Stephen Kühn wrote: SO, if anyone wants to give it a go, you can find it at: http://www.xfce.org ...and of course, go to the download page... Rpms for Mdk 10.1 and Mdk 10.0 are available from my site Charles -- JHM Somehow I have more respect

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

2004-11-15 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 09:19, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Monday 15 November 2004 23:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Strangely, he went back to using windows - he didn't like having to enter a password when booting up! You don't have to if you don't want to..I suddenly realized how horribly

Re: [newbie] XFce4.2 RC1

2004-11-15 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 09:40, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 21:46:29 +1100 Stephen Kühn wrote: SO, if anyone wants to give it a go, you can find it at: http://www.xfce.org ...and of course, go to the download page... Rpms for Mdk 10.1 and Mdk 10.0 are available

Re: [newbie] KMail

2004-11-15 Thread Daniel Anderson
On Monday 15 November 2004 16:07, Ian wrote: I've searched through the configure kontact options, but when I select to forward a mail with an attachment, the attachment isn't included. What am I doing wrongly? Or have I just ignored an option? I have the same problem. I'm wondering if it is a

[newbie] missing usb module?

2004-11-15 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi Everyone, I have been exploring my LM10 installation on my Dell Inspiron 9100 and when I went to check usb devices in KDE Control Centre, it returned the following message... The diagnostics is: Library files for libkcm_usb.la not found in paths Possible reasons: An error occurred during

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for novice users?

2004-11-15 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 15 November 2004 23:27, Paul wrote: Op Tue, 16 Nov 2004 08:13:54 +1100 schreef Stephen Kühn: There are some that can work - and work very well with GNU/linux, but sadly, quite a few cannot. I once made a winmodem with a Lucent chipset work in Linux. That was

[newbie] Stop Kaffeine from autostarting

2004-11-15 Thread Jack
Lately, Kaffeine has been autostarting every time I boot into Mandrake 10.1 official. Where can I look to turn this annoying process off? (The Mandrake equivalent to DOS's autoexec.bat, and Windows Startup folder)... - Jack Want to buy

[newbie] How do you get rid of enigmail from thunderbird?

2004-11-15 Thread Jack
I don't use it and the damn thing pops up everytime I open an email in Thunderbird. Does anyone know how to get rid of it? - Jack Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] How do you get rid of enigmail from thunderbird?

2004-11-15 Thread Rick Kunath
On Monday 15 November 2004 07:22 pm, Jack wrote: I don't use it and the damn thing pops up everytime I open an email in Thunderbird. Does anyone know how to get rid of it? - Jack Download the enigmail and enigmime files and re-install them as root (on top of the existing files). Shut down

[newbie] Kernal not booting in 10.1

2004-11-15 Thread Eric Scott
Yo; I've got 10.1 PPC, and am trying to install it on a PowerMac 7300/180. I'm trying to boot up w/ BootX to the kernal, which then launches the installer off CD, but with no luck. The mandrake icon appears in the upper left-hand corner, but everything else stalls and stays black, with none

[newbie] Apache or Mandrake permissions problems?

2004-11-15 Thread Jaime Magiera
I'm stumped on this problem. I've created a virtual host in my apache vhosts config (pointing to a home directory). However, I'm still getting permission denied errors. I've read and re-read the Apache docs, which leads me to believe this is something I don't understand about Mandrake 10. If I

[newbie] The Bat - Mozilla ?

2004-11-15 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Gentle folks, I think of migrating from The Bat! to Mozilla (under Windoze) in order to use it as I use Mozilla under Linux. Does anybody know how to migrate from The Bat to Mozilla (what to export or backup, restore and how)? I have lots of mail and address book within The Bat! and would like